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you. All right, guys. Well,
if you miss day one and day two,
we are here to fill you in
starting with day one ship. I
mean, we saw kind of the debut
for a lot of these teams, some
of them knocking off the rust.
Others coming right into the new
form of what roster mania is
day one has come and gone. Day
two, though you were the
caster of it, man. What did you
see? What were some words to
describe it? Sure. I'll keep it
that we saw them actually
their shoes a little bit and
shake off some of those
nerves. A lot of the series
going to game three and they
were much more intense than I
thought from day one. Well
listen, man, let's go to kick
it off with nightmare versus
yeah, we lost and this was a
close one. I mean, the word to
describe the first match was
probably the closest match
right there with it that we've
seen and ignite yet, or at
least this year, too. Both
these teams kind of flex that
they are the dive ones. But
what did you see breaking it
down? Because there's a lot to
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot to discuss. I mean, like you said, very close 99 to 99 and Dom on on map three off the rip. And even then there was
Ultimates coming in at the end that almost looks like it was going to sway it back in the favor of yeah, we lost nightmare did look super solid.
A lot of these similar comps. Jeff was seeing a ton of play. We didn't saw Spider-Man Venom all the stuff you would expect.
Silak was in there to their double went available. I mean, these teams are just very aggro, but they're incredibly fun to watch.
Yeah, for me, I mean, it looks like vision. Just he did not miss a step from last year and vision was just popping off and I felt like nightmare had a very good control of that going forward. And then yeah, we lost.
It just came back into form and I have to give them credit because they didn't struggle in the MRC and sometimes when that's your practice and then you go into something like this, like you're kind of not used to being down.
you know, we're going to have
a lot of people that are
going to be in the game. Also
Jitward. We got to see the
Deadpool, which is always fun.
And you know, we'll see how
long that kind of lasts as
things have been patched and
you know, approached a little
bit. But do you think they have
a good step moving forward? A
lot of people have him high in
their rankings. Yeah,
absolutely. I think that they
are confident right now, too.
We had the interview with
Cartlover and like I said in
the interview, you know, he
talked to in the prior. We did
kind of like a pre interview
test. He said, I'll see you in
a little bit and he did. He
came right back into for the
interviews. That was really
cool to see. So they are
they're playing some new songs
and you're like, come on, play
the classics. Like it's like
that time felt was sent those
they were doing some new stuff
day one and you like get, you
know, get the right amazing on
the Iron Man. Let's see cap on
Crimson. It felt like we returned
to old form. Yeah, Crimson
is a great player. He's a
great player. He's a great
player. He's a great player.
He's a great player. He's a
great player. He's a great
the old form. Yeah. Crimson stepped up. Rye stepped up, but also mirror came in instead
of Corova, which is a huge change, right? And running that backline work more of a consistent
backbone backline, right? Running that in this and looking really, really solid doing
it. But yeah, the entire team just kind of woke up. We talked to Ryan, the interview
and he essentially said, you know, we just needed to change our band phase. Our band
phase was not good day one and we really paid the price for it. We figured out what we wanted
to do and now we're going to be clean and you know what they looked really clean today
that. Yeah. I mean, I'm not
sure if that is the right
answer. Yeah, I mean, I'm not
sure they are yesterday as
for sure. Yeah, I gotta say
mean, Corova, what a talented
player. But one thing with
mirrors. I kind of makes the
bands more confusing for the
opponent, and they're able to
interchange these two studs.
That is going to be absolutely
massive for them because then
you have. What do you band the
Adam's you go this approach?
It doesn't make it as clear
cut your battle plant against
set knows flyquists, though.
Let's talk about him for me.
It's kind of the same as day
you know, I think that's a
really good thing. I think that
is going to be a great thing,
in my opinion. Yeah, truth be
told. I want them to perform.
I like a lot of those players.
I think they're all really
talented like you're saying,
you know, it's a newer team.
They do have some players from
over the pond, which is going
to make things a little dicey
in terms of communication and
you know, even paying, for
example, but yeah, I just want
them to find their footing.
These aren't quite there yet.
All right, so that's the two
matches from the early slate.
We have three other ones that
you might have missed from day
two, but that's all for us for
now. We'll catch you guys on
the next one. All right, so
that. We have three more
matches that were absolute heat.
We start off with TSM and
Lune X. Now TSM struggled a
little bit in day one to find
their footing. Lune X did look
strong. But for me, it really
all came back together and you
saw that teamwork come to play
with TSM that fought back, lost
one game and then one to narrow
ship. What did you see? Yeah,
Lunex look consistently strong,
and I think TSM struggled on
Dom, but then they just found
their footing with this new
you know essentially one duelist on the Star Lord. We looked really good, obviously, but
yeah, it was unstoppable. As soon as that switch came in, it was like the cart stop
moving. Everything was stationary and they locked in for the next two maps.
Yeah, we've seen a lot of triple Vanguard and I think it was cool that back in the division,
they showed actually how well triple Vanguard works at the highest level, but you have to
have an anchor duelist. A little bit in SSG, we saw that whenever you had Nectar as the
Star Lord. And in this case, in today, day two bedtime story, had to do a lot of the
that's going to be a tough
team. It's going to be a
tough team. It's going to be
a heavy lifting there. That's
because Gale, who's an amazing
player was on the gulk. Alright
was playing the whole and is
definitely going to give that
team a little bit of a different
look, and we'll see if that's
just part of their flexibility
or you know one of the team
packages that they want to run
moving forward. Linux, though
they definitely proven
themselves as a team. That's
going to be tough to be. Sure.
Yeah, I mean, shout out again.
Readist looked really good in
the back line, especially on
map three. There looks like he
did not miss a single bullet
that they made it. I don't
think that lunax could find a
solution. They're definitely
going to have to look into that
in the future. You too. If
there's anything we've learned
is that the MRC teams are not
going to be easy beats.
Luna prove that and we're going
to continue to head into that
with swamp gaming versus
cafe rose, who obviously had the
upset of the tournament, at
least expectation wise, you get
fly quest a quick two oh and
day one now playing what was
now I would deem some people's
America's favorite right swamp
gaming what they've shown. And
the number one thing I've seen
the team. And what I'm
looking for from this team is
that they have so many ways to
beat you, right? It's not just
from one role or player. It's
I personally if I had them
circled on my calendar or
schedule, this is a team you
have to do a lot of prep for.
It was awesome hearing coach
Fox essentially break down how
they discussed their bands
strategies per team and then
also how they're not afraid to
switch in things like days out
and bring in a median who
played incredible there as a
that's going to be a big
thing. It's going to be a
big thing. It's going to be
powerful. It's tough for
teams to scrim against, which
is what he was mentioning. I'm
going to be honest. Actually,
if you look at that also with
Sentinels, is this the year we
see more subs come to play,
right? It doesn't mean like a
player's bad. It's like, Okay,
this is just a different
flexible package we can play.
The more heroes you bring into
the game, it's going to be kind
of more common that you have
these specialists in different,
you know, team comps that you
want to run, and I think
that's going to be honestly
super interesting on both of
viewer and caster position
for that. But yeah, man, the
that. I mean, it was not an
easy win for them at all. I
mean, you may have looked at
that game and thought it was
going to be a quick one, but
swamp gaming they even put on
social media like OK, Hey,
tip of the cap respect over
there to Cafe Rose. Yeah,
Cafe Rose has been stepping up.
I think like you're saying with
the MRC teams, we kind of
assumed that they were going to
struggle a bit up at this
elo, but they have nothing to
lose and they're proving it.
They look dominant out there
and they're not afraid to step
up in these moments, taking
things like domination and
map three off the rip and look
super confident. There was a
point where I was like, OK,
this team might be able to pull
this home, but just, you know,
you know, I'm able to do so.
Swap gaming locked in and just was really strong.
Absolutely.
And then it takes us to our last match of the day.
If you missed it, it was TLC, Liquid Gaming versus SSG, right?
And both these teams looked pretty strong.
I would say coming out of day one,
now you've got a battle of some big time
tight ends especially in the eSport.
For me, Liquid, they looked like they were just kind of back
to form.
I think like day one game one is like,
oh, OK, a little bit of rust maybe.
But man, this has proven to be the team to beat.
They looked tough.
Yeah, they tweeted something out like, Hey, we're going to shake the cobwebs off and our games are going to be easier for us.
And yeah, they really did just that. I mean, SSG is no joke. Obviously, Nectar is discussing, but they tried to match comp and domination and TLC.
Team Liquid said it looked just so good instead. I mean, I don't know that you can try to copy comp into a team like that.
I think you got to try to find a way around it. So they really struggled there.
And then they kept running those unique compositions. The bunker busters as it went to Midtown, Team Liquid, man. They are the team to beat right now.
game. We're going to jump right
in. Yeah, without question.
Day three is me full of
matches as well. There's going
to be a heater on your plate
to watch a lot of bangers out
there. Get ready for some
action. We're going to jump
right in already. Day three is
underway, and we have our
predictions ready for yet. I
mean, obviously this is really
tough to get predictions and
we've only seen these teams on
a very small sample size. But
today we have some matches
that will definitely show a lot
energy. Talk about starting with an absolute heated banger ship. I'm going to give you the
floor first. Who do you got? Cause these are the favorites amongst, you know, group A.
I'm going to go with energy here. I think energy looked really solid in the 100 T. And
I think they can keep that ball rolling. I think they have a confidence right now. Swamp
gaming is obviously really talented, but energy keeping it moving. I think buddy, how
about yourself?
Oh yeah. So I had to go against velocity all what they've got. And to keep it interesting,
though, I'll go on the other side. I think swamp gaming has proved, you know, two days
that they are just looking all
the part. And so I think they
continue that train and you
look to be America's favorite,
but we'll see because this one
is going to come down to
micro decisions. And I think
when you look at just the
coaching behind it and kind of
the battle plan energy
excels in that a ton. So this
is going to be a good one, but
I'll have swap gaming there
first. Second matchup. We have
yeah, we lost versus
Lunex gaming. This is a bit of
a repeat of the MRC. I think
we both got the same. Yeah, I
you know, you know, you know,
you know, you know, yeah, I
think we have to stay the same
here. Just just, you know,
history repeats itself is the
way you've got to think of it,
especially when you're doing
predictions like this. It's
got to be yet we lost. I mean,
you know, if you look at it,
hey, it was the fastest ever. We
saw a best of seven and what
yeah, we lost it. So maybe
lunax. It kind of sparked a
fire under them and they look
better. But yeah, that's gonna
be a tough one to come back
from just the way that they
play dive is so hard to play
against when you're trying to
do the anti dive defensive
the first two games. I think
it's going to be a pretty
exciting game. I think it's
going to be more the preseason.
It would be one sided, but I
think it's a more difficult
match than you might think,
and I think cafe Rose. They're
going to be ready for the part.
Who do you've got here? Because
I think I'm still going to give
the edge to Sentinels. Yeah, I
think I do the same. Sentinels
have looked exponential in their
growth where cafe roses looked
consistently strong. But I
think what we saw yesterday from
Sentinels is a little better
than what I've seen from cafe
Rose. Yeah, I'm going to give
it a I'm going to make it
interesting. I'm going to go
cafe Rose wins the first one
that's going to be a two one
set and those end up winning
it. Kind of what we saw from
KSN yesterday. Nightmare versus
SSG. This might be the other
toughest game to call today.
Both teams sure look all the
part SSG is obviously played
both days. Nightmare only one
showing against. Yeah, we lost
which is a great team. I'll
give you the floor first who
you got. Yeah, for this one I
in this one I'm curious what
your take is to I could go
either way. I'm going to stay
with nightmare because I loved
what I saw from them on the
first two maps against you. We
lost a struggle. Definitely on
that. Yeah, we lost a struggle
definitely on map three, but I
think they were just kind of
on their heels at that point
and fell, you know, fell apart,
but I think they can lock back
in. Yeah, for me, it's like I
can't see either of these teams
dropping two L's in a row, but
one of them have to write, and
that's going to be the tough
part for me. I feel like SSG at
the hands of nectar. Should be
able to get this done. I'm going
to give them the slight edge
again. I think this is go to
three. I think if you want a
long day today, that's what
you're going to get because this
is going to go the distance,
but nightmare definitely has, I
a scary cop. If you were to
say, compared to a more
traditional, better neutral,
maybe from SSG. So that's
what we might see there to
get close to in the day. And
then we have a fly versus a
hundred thieves, which a day
the year one, this is like a
heater, magic year two. I
mean, I know you have fly,
right? No, I got to go
under these on this one, bro.
I have to. I think a hundred
thieves looks, you know, they
looked really good. Obviously
day one didn't play yesterday.
I think they're all talented.
We keep reiterating it, but I
just want to see them perform
once to get their confidence
up, and I think everyone else
is competent to know for sure.
If 100 thieves didn't lose day
one, I might have said, Okay,
they might be like this upset.
You had the fire to spark fly
quest, but 100 thieves also have
that fire like they can't go
Oh, and there's just no way I
can see that happening with
that org with remix and all the
players behind it. But
sure I quest going on three.
There's also a lot of stuff
going on in the game, but I
don't know if I'm going to be
the team. I think that's
the way to go. But what's
like what's going on? Three
there's also a lot of stick
for them there. So even though
you have two teams that are
winless, I think there's so
much mental to be played here,
but overall, I think 100 these
ends up taking it. So what I
can't wait for is for me and
you to probably be wrong about
most of these, but that's how
it goes. Yeah. That's always
how it is. And that's why
sometimes you know, gotta
split down the other side.
One of us has got to be right,
buddy. Exactly edge our bets
drop the predictions that
below for the matches. When
they start, we want to know
right now, the current standings of all the teams in the America region. Now there's plenty of days
to have the preseason shake up. But as it stands, Group A, Group B, where do the teams land? And
then ship. I want to talk about who you think might maybe get more wins under their belts and
some of these shift a bit, especially those with the predictions out there. You want to know exactly
how they're going to do. Well, Group A, the group of death, let's start there. Swamp gaming is going
that's going to be in first
place as of now in RG followed
by that sentinels than cafe
Rose followed by 100 thieves
and fly quest now to be fair
some of these teams have not
played two matches some have
and so that's going to affect
someone like 100 these who you
know they took a loss and
that's going to take them all
the way down. Even a flight
quest play twice in there at
the bottom, but that's how it's
you know, you know, you know,
who do you think it's going to
move from here? Obviously, I
think 100 these should
definitely be able to move on
up. We'll see how far they can
move up with energy beating
them, right? That's going to
be one team that they're going
to have to look to either hope
to drop a game or, you know,
move past energy place. Perfect
and they will be in control
their own destiny, as we'd like
to say, as well as swamp
gaming. Yeah, I think we
definitely see thieves move it
up. Sentinels has potential
to they started locking into
yesterday, and that was
100 Thieves and energy. They were so closely matched and you obviously were there for that.
That was one of those games that we've, you know, in terms of early season, like it was
just mind blowing to watch a ton of fun. So they're up there even. So no matter what,
I think they're going to get closer on the leaderboard.
But yeah, I mean, it's so tricky because I want to say cap it roses a chance to move
forward because they look good. But right now there's so much talent in a, I think it's
any given day right now. It's got to be roughly similar. I'd say for sure. I think a lot of
fans out there have two things highlighted. It's swamp gaming versus energy. What's used
today, day three, so that's going to answer a lot of questions. And then
gaming versus a hundred these, I think those are some of the matchups to see
some of these kind of even out. And then I would say set those to punch up above
those top three as well and kind of see how they measure up to them. Obviously,
we saw a little bit of that on day one, but we want to see the classic hundred
these sentinels like sometimes teams play other teams just better on how it
works. It's not always one for one. So that's going to be group A and how
that's going to shake up. And again, cafe rose was a lot of people's last team
team. They're looking like
they're definitely not going
to be towards that last spot,
at least of right now, but over
to group B. This is where I
think we see a lot more
shake up most likely as these
teams need to get rust off them
or they just continue to play
others and things kind of work
out their way right now. Team
Liquid is leading the pack at
the top, followed by Yeah, we
lost which a prediction wise.
That's where I had the one of
the two, but we did have SSG
to follow that followed by TSM
game. I think they're going to
be a little bit of a loss.
Next gaming anything jump out
to you. Major things to call
out. Nightmare was right up
there with yet we lost.
Obviously going to map three
struggle to bid on the third
map. So I think they'll likely
move up. They only have one
match under their belt right
now. So not the best
distribution. Obviously once
they play again today, we
might see where that shakes
up. But that's a similar
story for yet we lost to one
their very first matchup.
Obviously against nightmare.
So they have the potential to
stay right in that spot or in
contention with team liquid.
that. Yeah. No, for sure. I think that they right now have a pretty anchored start to it.
I mean, if you look at them already taking down someone like SSG, that's a great win.
If they beat, yeah, we lost. I think they kind of just cement themselves at the top
today. It's going to be nightmare versus SSG and that is going to shake up. I think a lot
in the middle there because yeah, we lost is only played one as well. They played Lunax,
which I would say probably they look favored to win because of how they played them against
the MRC. Like we've seen that story play out a little bit. However, anything can happen
you have a couple of weeks to
prepare. So that's my
expectation there, but this
one's much more wide open in
my opinion. But here's the
thing. This is split up into a
couple weeks, right? So you're
going to have these teams have
much more time to tape the
film and everything in between
to kind of lock in. Yeah, and
we've seen just in gate to
alone teams have already fixed
their banding strategies and
looked a lot better. Like we
were just talking about with
sentinels that same thing is
applied to all of these teams
and not only that their team
to see what happens today
because I think it's going to set the tone
for what we're going to see in the future.
Absolutely.
Well, we'll find out more in day three.
Don't go anywhere.
We're going to be back after this break
to some more action.
We just had a quick patch.
Deadpool.
Very marginal, but slight nerf-ish
to at least the heel pull and Deadpool himself,
not take pull.
And then we've got a slight in my nerf-25 health
and a ton of white fox changes,
namely with the tail resource,
keeping the self-sustained alive.
Across the kit, honestly,
the game. So, uh, we're
going to see more survivability.
What do you think, fellas in
general? How does this affect
the middle? Oh man. I think the
big thing is that towards the
like floor of players who are
trying to explore with white
Fox. It really elevates that
makes it easier to get into. And
I think that's something that
they were missing when this
hero launched, right? We saw
with gamble. We saw with Elsa
that a little bit over tuned
right and that made it so
people were more excited to
play them and got a lot more
hours on it. White Fox, I think
had a little bit of the opposite
so much skill expression, but maybe some of the casual ranked players wouldn't really be picking
them up as much. So I think this really puts it more in line with the more recent hero changes
that we've seen for the recent releases, at least the last couple of seasons.
I think we're just going to enable a brand new like off-angling style for White Fox as well.
I like what you put up overwatch earlier. Kiriko has a similar style where they can kind of go
with a flanker and try and lay down some pain on the back line and being able to quickly dip from
that. So I mean, you know,
I'm not going to get away with
that from that engagement. If
say you're going with with an
iron fist is going to kick out
or something or a spider who's
going to swing away. Think of
the TP out to your other
strategist at the moment's
notice doesn't mean that you
can have some consequence three
like two men in the back line,
which can really open up an
angle and so that's a symbolic
service. Yeah I mean, I'm on
the on board with both of you.
I think the first thing that
we should even address is
foxes already being played at
the top for those who maybe
you're going to be able to
do that. You're going to be
able to do that dives with
dive and has an escape and now
you have plenty more avenues
of escape. You're like, yeah,
yeah, now you have a lot of
answers. So I think I think
she's going to be absolutely
meta meta after these changes
to the point where she might
be a bandable target coming up
in these early preseason stuff.
Yeah, I see a lot of stuff
that's like we asked for just
the resource of the tales. Like
you did too much and now she's
even with blade I just like face tank it a lot inside like you could just like go at it, but man even crazier when the cc changes come in season 7.5 obviously a lot of tanks are gonna rise up but that fox is gonna get better too depending on how she won't change as much my gosh yeah
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Doing good. So we're doing great. It's going to be a great day today. Obviously
you guys have been watching over the past couple days and we're finally here
on Sunday. It's not championship Sunday, obviously just yet, but I mean, the
stakes are still incredibly higher, right? I mean, Vicki, you've been casting
this whole weekend with Zoe and it's been a blast, right? Yeah, you know, some
people's pickups may be in the trash dog, man, but I'm so happy to be
alongside you to watch all the chaos go down. I guess like the cat dog you know
going on here so you're gonna have to be keeping us in the circus. Oh no I'm
gonna let it unfold and I'm here for this drama as it comes that way. The
teams have been delivering the drama as well. It's been really really exciting.
I love that our predictions were just kind of tossed out of the window. Day one
match one literally. We got a really good idea after just two days of plays of
kind of what each team is going to bring to the table.
Most of them have shown a quite straightforward identity,
but there's still some question marks
that might get answered after today.
Let's take a look at the schedule
or rather the roadmap for our pre-season
as we're currently in the group stage.
It will be over before you know it
because it's just really two weeks of play in a group stage
and then the top four teams will be moving into the playoffs.
That is the top four teams of each group.
of course have two groups each with six teams. It's best of three so dogmen like these these
individual matches are high stakes. They are I mean in the tough part is for a lot of these really
good teams and even partner teams Zoe they're already starting themselves off in a 2-0 deficit
you know they've already lost two games in the case of FlyQuest and you know for Lunex on the
opposite side and Group B they're also starting off 0-2 now I would say that Lunex actually
looked pretty good you know a lot of people were talking about how Group A is the group of that
But maybe it's group B like group B is hyper competitive and I've loon X is impressed me in that group even dull
They're down 0 and 2 and then on the you know off the side like we said
Fly class you don't need to start winning a couple games getting these wins
And they don't have an easy challenge today in the last game of the day Zoe against the hundred thieves as we're gonna go over later
It's gonna be a brutal potential start for them in this preseason for sure
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but I think 16 K as the first place finisher should get you a lot of marbles. That's what
our champions for the preseason will be walking home with. It's an overall of 50 K and that's
just the preseason price for kitty. Yeah, I never called you kitty and it felt wrong.
I didn't know that.
To the shadow with you.
Maybe it's just because dog man's here too.
And I know dog man, but you know that you have to consider
you what else is a zoo because not only are these teams like fighting for bragging rights.
If you really consider that first place spot and second place spot,
that's like an eight thousand dollar money match.
OK, and then it goes down to some new inclusions of the maps that we've seen
specifically Shinshu Bia being included in our map.
Well, despite being, you know, one of those maps
that have been with them or
I was in the beginning. Yeah,
we've seen some glimpses of
it already. Dog man. Is that a
year for you? Are you a fan of
the map? Yeah, I like it. I
mean, it's always been a good
map. I think it's, um, you
know, I seen people talking
about on Twitter yesterday. I
was like, you know, you don't
want to take teams like, Yeah,
we lost to that map and stuff
and you know, like, Oh, why
would we pick that one good
dive map for this team on
convergence? But you know, it
teams make some interesting
decisions and a lot of people
love that map. She's agree.
It's glad to be back and I'm
glad to be back at night, too.
that's where the band is
being banned. So it's like
getting night to so it were
the band system is back to
where it's, uh, you know,
been before. Yeah, speaking
of decisions to be made ban
and lock that face is intense.
Very different look, of course,
in the MRC where the bands are
universally here. Our system is
asymmetrical. That means you
can ban a hero for the
opposition, but you yourself
can still played unless, of
course, it's being banned out by
kind of a snake drop but not really a snake drop that shouldn't make sporting references because I really don't know anything about sports
Policky
It's why we're here on casting e-sports Zoe
That's what we like to see and and also the pick-and-ban phase being so important in determining how a lot of these series go down
Because as dogman already mentioned at the very beginning
We only have these two weeks right and it's already been decided with a lot of these teams struggling fly quest lunax gaming
Where when you only have these two weeks to play through it's only two top four teams
teams that get to advance through those playoffs with these best of three matches.
Yeah, I mean, I'm kind of just glad that looking at the team rankings to you SG at the top swamp
gaming. Did anybody expect that? Like, was that anybody's bingo card swamp gaming to be
the top team in this group? Like, Zoe, did you hear right. We heard it. The word on the
street was that they are like a scrim God team. But you don't know, right? Like how much
stocks to put into those those scrim rumors turns out they're all true and we should have
I should have invested early into the scrim box.
I should have put them in there.
Yeah, you're right.
This is the one season, but also the patch change
before I messed everything up.
And even Team Liquid, I don't even know about you guys,
but it does feel like after the games I've watched,
Team Liquid slowly figuring themselves out.
But even they don't feel like they're reigning at the top
of Group B. It feels like this is anybody's group
despite the situation they're in.
Because Lunax had a really good series with them on day one.
Yeah, that's kind of tragic that they are currently at the bottom there at the standings because they did look so competitive as you already said.
And now this is today's match schedule.
Vicky, Katie, what's the match of the day and why?
All right.
Because so we just saw what swap gaming has been doing this far within group A when everybody's pickums were, you know, put in the trash bin.
But also some teams haven't been able to play as many games as to their counterparts.
So to open up the day, guys, this is going to be a banger.
Why?
the first day of the preseason
of America's took out 100
thieves with energy also
sliding in a bunch of new
players. They're facing off
against Swamp Gaming, the
Scrimbuck's team. That's so it
was mentioning that you have to
put all your socks into, but
we decided to hodl and then
came number two for the day
we matched to. We got Yeah, we
lost versus Lunax. That's the
runback opportunity for Lunax
to really determine if these
changes could benefit them
going into the MRI after
Yeah, we lost was dancing on
on the opponent's heads just yesterday.
Jitward was having way too much fun,
but it looks very entertaining,
so that's going to be a banger.
Then for match number three,
we got sentinels versus cafe rose.
That's going to be a determining factor
to see how sentinels is feeling,
you know, against, you know,
maybe not some of the strongest,
but nonetheless, it's been very tight
in terms of competition.
Even if we've seen some two O's,
it's gone the distance.
And then match number four,
we got nightmare versus space station.
That's going to be another good one
after nightmare fell short
in their series just yesterday.
and then we go over to FlyQuest versus 100 Thieves to end the day. That's tough.
Yeah, it might be a rough end to the day, but a great opportunity for 100 Thieves to come back
stronger than ever after unfortunately taking a loss in their opening match here of this season.
Let's dig into our first match though. It might be the Giga Banger of the day. 100 Thieves and
Energy. I'm expecting just a dive off. I want to see high aggression here. Energy of course,
coming in with a slight advantage I would even call it because they got a day off yesterday right
so they got to sit back get some extra prep time and that can come in huge especially in a situation
where the meta is not quite figured out yet when we talk to energy in their first match just two
days ago one day ago two days ago I know what your velocity shared some really great insight here
dogman I don't know if you watch that but he basically did say that when we asked about the
the team identity in this matter. He did say that they used to be a brawl team. Brawl
is terrible now. So they had to swap things up and they have just been spamming dive for
a month. And they feel like the scrim bugs are in their favor now. What you saw, like,
do they look confident enough to go up against Swamp Gaming, which we know is just like such
a phenomenal dive team.
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely going to be a dive off, like you mentioned. Like it's these
two teams in velocity to we could talk about them in a second. Like they've always, he's
always done well I think on dive squads like we didn't see it at the last ignite at the champs
kind of because direct rain finals because he was you know they they changed it up like so often
right with patch changes it can make things confusing swamp gaming though this spot always
somehow remains on top it's just like their old nemesis squad now from swamp gaming which it's
it's weird that my former teammate actually owns this roster and michael that's guy that's a different
and they've been doing a great
job. They've done a great job
and it's a different story for
sure. But for swamp gaming,
this squad's been around and
they've kind of stuck together.
Maybe that's like the biggest
reason they're so consistent.
So is because they just, you
know, continuously play together
and are still a formidable
squad and only upgraded the
strategist line with 40 dog and
Valentino, who are highly
regarded by everybody in the
scene. Yeah, I mean, they've
been seeing them praises
whoever we asked, and they've
been phenomenally performing in
that back line, and we got
and Vicky Kitty asked him about it. Now, the energy shock lineup, we also know what to expect.
They also have pre-existing synergy. Obviously, having played for Dreamland prior to that.
And Vicky Kitty, like in that first match, we just saw so many things that stood out.
So many bright spots for that energy roster. Like Madara and Venom was phenomenal. Velocity is low-key
really. And how did you call it? Cirque de Chime? With extra batics. It was Cirque de Soleil,
the way that they were like but basically walking on a tightrope and the way that they were dancing
around everybody else but those portal plays on the museum of contemplation from Madara was such
big energy until then you swap over to the bed and you get two more pigs after that. I want to see
more cinematic plays like that. I mean I'm expecting it. Madara has been popping off on the Doctor
Strange when we usually have seen Madara on the Emma. Obviously Emma taking a much bigger step back
depending on the compositions you should usually see other teams pull out with but then it also
depends on what game type you're playing on right dogman because you have still the triple vanguard line up coming through to fruition
Yeah, I think you're right
I think like Madara like on characters that is comfortable on like dr. Strange
I'd love to see that right like for sure
But you know when we go to other characters when he goes like to the venom and like maybe even some other stuff like he's got a
Kind of slow it down. It's tough because a lot of these dive characters are the focus of these of these teams, right?
So what kind of cell they play?
I mean, I'm curious how this goes and I would hope the energy has what
and you know, has taken that off date to recoup and like rest up, you know?
Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure it's one game and put in a lot of homework here as well.
They have the footage from the first match from Energy against 100 Thieves.
And I think if there's one thing that really stood out is that,
don't want to let that vanguard Deadpool get through the band phase.
I think they've reminded 100 Thieves.
So, I'll, vanpool should definitely be banned in the hands of window.
That costs so many issues.
is there another like priority band you feel like is a must for either team really?
For me, I think, I don't know about you, Vicky, I feel like it's the three sort of,
it's like the three headed hyzer.
Headless horsemen.
The headless horsemen, yeah, they should be headless, honestly. They can't be though,
because you can't ban all of them sadly, right? Like you protect, you know, Elsa if Gambit gets
banned. So for me, it's Gambit, Elsa, and yeah, like you mentioned Zoe Vanpool. So those three
are always at the top. I don't know about you. What do you think?
I think personally also like Daredevil has been like an asterisk to certain teams.
Yeah, Daredevil, yeah.
With conditions as well. It's been like, you only have so many bands though guys.
Like you could only work off of so much. It depends on how we dig into everything.
Guys, it's going to be exciting. So I'm excited to see our first series to kick off the day.
That's right. Energy show going up against Swamp Gaming. We expect high octane gameplay.
Let's see what the teams deliver.
All right, thank you, Zoe.
And straight to the band phase we go.
So it's just off to the races, right?
Immediately, I don't know, what do you think, Vicki?
To go for the Elsa band on the opposite side
to get the one-sided matchup with Mello,
and then for NRG, get rid of the gambit.
Oh, they're so locked in.
I love how we're always able to kind of get more insight
whenever we have an interview with a coach.
And Swamp Gaming did something yesterday
that we had to pinpoint, which was have melophobia,
actually, into their lineup this time.
It's going to be days on the startup.
And they've preached about it,
the game. We've seen a lot of
players who have been
playing in the game. They're
writing interviews about how
crazy days is on the dare
devil, then protecting the
Elsa while having days
alongside mellow together.
It's going to be great to see
because then you have to try
to match that with the fact
that amazing is the one
actually stepping out of this
lineup. So they've been
constantly rotating through
these dualist as the Loki is
the next band because they
see the gambit force up the
Loki. You don't want a double
rage and royal flush. We've
seen how that goes for a lot
of teams when it transcends
the picking band phase, and
you're also talking about
that. Yeah, there's a lot of
sort of back and forth here
based on that. It's like, like
you mentioned that they're
very blessed to have the
shred the duelist lineup that
they have with days, Mellow
and a median because they can
kind of play everything and,
you know, days maybe go over
that Wolverine potentially is
always an option. They get the
rogue in Gambit team up as
well as that back line. So you
know they're going to be
playing hyper aggressive with
the star Lord and that's why
swamp has to go for the band
against it. So if we're talking
about that specific matchup,
it's it's I don't know the
I think as the. Elsa does, but right now me both teams like
you mentioned getting rid of the van pool. I think it's a big
deal. So you don't get that one side of the fair that matchup,
but the man just protect this kind of interesting because at
least North America. I don't think the mantis is look that
strong just yet, but you know, I guess with the group and stuff
and the low potential you have to kind of worry about it, but
it'll be interesting to see kind of who comes up on comes out
on top with that because the last band was low key to prevent
to prevent that potential backline set up on the high grounds and stuff.
So this will be interesting is energy, I imagine they just kind of want to run down
Swamp Gaming's backline, but we talked about it, Vicky, their backline is one of the best
in the game at living, right?
Yeah, it is.
And I actually think the protect on the Mantis was almost a bait too.
Because even if you do swap over to the Mantis, you can get the damage boost on some mellow
and then mellow could just go crazy.
But it forced out that ban on Stiloki.
So Swamp Gaming have a little bit more freedom to get comfortable with their backline that
they stated.
It's probably the best baseline right now than any other team.
They feel very comfortable with Valentina and 4G.
And together, even through our interviews,
they know that this is a lineup that really has no issue
in a very dive heavy meta where they're
likely to be oppressed, which also
goes hand in hand with their point too, with the Gambit
Meadows too, because I feel like your Gambit
isn't getting enabled.
That's your win con off the table.
Oh yeah, 100%.
This is going to be also a matchup thing
to determine the group, right?
Like, if we look at the overall standing,
The fact that energy beat 100 thieves,
the team that everybody thought was just gonna,
you know, yeah, it's crazy.
Like the fact that everybody thought
they were gonna be top of the group
already sent down to that potential elimination spot.
And then between swamp gaming energy,
these are the two undefeated squads.
So far, portal play on the right side, yes, quit.
Oh, and with the fastball special,
wait, they came and they chose violence,
they're looking around.
Where is everybody?
And they go and they contest
with a portal play of their own.
From energy as days get sent out like a Pokemon,
finds Mordrem, isolates him, gets said all the way up.
Somebody called the Amber Alert.
He tries to stay alive, puts up the shields,
and that's a big first pick in favor of swamp gaming.
Yeah, this would be an interesting map to see
if like Shock doesn't actually manage to get,
you know, illuminations against that, right?
Because this Wolverine with the holes
just gets thrown in there all the time.
They're getting one by one, the daredevil gone.
That's a ton of damage removed in your against.
Mellow on the outside is poking you down.
Right now with this Wolverine,
he's kind of been so free with the invisible
match up as well. Finally they're able to take care of them. But this map is just so open that you
kind of have to make advantage of that. The first point is given to NRG so great work out of them
and they need to keep this pressure up and make sure they can maybe go bolts and not let Swamp
Gaming get any KOs on the opposite side. Crazy to see how already that dominated factor here
for NRG. They're still tape over the point over Swamp Gaming despite Swamp getting that first
big here. They level now, going over to the side while Monorak gets stunned. The road getting caught.
40 dogs following up to get that next pick but it's still in favor for energy shock who are nearing
that 25 percent mark days is looking for the next victim before finding the venom he isolates him
he already popped the armor which means he has no health only so much the white fox could do from
chime who is very close to having that ultimate before backing up and now you have grass is going
to be able to get that reset yeah he somehow lived long enough in roof banner form but don't
want to be dealing with the fox open the opposite side with a mess that math playing I think it's
He's meant to make the loss to him with the Gambit all immediately in the chime as well,
but can't do it after this fight because Mello, who's got the Glar Trot ready to go,
is out into the back side to get rid of Madara again by the way.
It's third fight in a row that he's been first picked.
Window does trade at least one, so Mello only buying two is something that the Wolf will leave.
Just smokes everybody else out of here, you know, you can't really win anything else
if you can stall the point.
But regardless, I think for Energy Shot's side, like they're off and they're still delaying by the way,
but Madara's gotta slow it down a little bit, like he just keeps being the target of focus
per swamp gaming every single fight they built sixty three percent which is nice
but you use bullshotted as well as the last five fight Vicky and I think I'm a
little worried for them moving forward now yeah even though we can see Mara like
on the road it was very difficult every single time order try to go into one of
those strokes and try to harass the backline he just kept getting shut down
although the stall was beautiful form energy truck and now you get to turn into
a buster hold the trade-off though and just trying to delay here from the road
before the retake comes in from the back end of energy trying to clip it right
back in their favor.
Horses' crats have backed away and split his attention
over to the devil of stinkers.
Wiggle also comes flying and trying to get the follow-up,
but Meadow has been shutting them down,
getting so many of these pigs
already from the very beginning to swap.
Yeah, this has been an interesting map, I think,
for like stinkers too,
because stinkers hasn't been able to do much
on Daredevil considering this is like such
an open piece of land kind of like where it's hard
to kind of get in, but now the Dara finally goes out
with the ultimate against Valentino though, right?
So he's gonna keep, or they're gonna keep everybody
health in the back side Madara is gonna slow down their ultimate charge hopefully for him but has to back out of there with their lives.
Otherwise, this would be potentially brutal, but they do have the gambit all coming into it truly read by slot game.
And it's not catching.
No, the fact that he missed right there to you saw the white fogs will push all the way up and that would have been a huge first pick.
Considering the time is at 91% on to the ultimate teachers, waking up a little bit, finding Valentina, the backlight getting torn apart from swap gaming.
of the rules is highlighting a good
instance for them to try to hide away.
And now energy shock, they take the point back.
Yeah, they've actually, they've really done a good job of just like living,
even though they're down one in these cases.
And yeah, like you mentioned, Chime not getting stuck in that ultimate was huge.
And on the white box and the triple comp has looked great.
Also, the charm is something you have to kind of worry about too.
And now you have to come into this, have a big large launch.
It's going to be tough against these strats.
You know, maybe you can get it in the middle of it.
We'll see if it gets deleted though, as you can see, they're quite patient.
They're playing slow for it, but does Energy Shock get caught out?
Looks like yes, Windows goes down.
Oh, huge here with the invisible boundary allowing Forky Dog and the rest of the
form gaming to get a little more aggressive, but they have to try to
reflow this here, because 99% is anyone here for the overtime.
It does. And with two picks in favor of Forkwomp Gaming, they move in for the
pre-realist, and Energy Shock just trying to back away trying to delay what could
have been the only one left. It's just a matter of time before the flip comes
through and the reset for Energy Shock, and I really like the way that they've
They've been trying to play a lot more split.
Mellow's just trying to take an off angle here.
And if you take a look at these ultimates,
soft gaming don't have a sustain where energy shock
really don't have it either to really match,
but the velocity is the closest one to that rage
or royal flush in this triple strat lineup.
Yeah, at least they get rid of Mellow's ultimate.
And you know, I like how they play this in this sort of triple
hit squad with all their straps at the same position.
Stinkers get pulled away, but it'll back up the full HP.
Slowing down, window is huge.
If they can find window early, at least get some cooldowns out.
That's nice for mellows to build up for this ultimate.
Crasse is going off as well as Wendo gets removed early on.
And that was because the cooldowns they used earlier,
now a poke going off.
This is going to slow down anything on the opposite.
Snickers pops the ultimate.
They're missing your backline.
Crasse is destroying everybody.
That's pretty in this fight.
Snickers, what can you do by yourself?
The portal, it might be too late for Wendo now
as they're down one by one by one.
We'll head to the next round, Vicky,
as Swamp takes the first one.
Crasse opening the door real quick.
the game. We're going to be
playing the game. Hopefully
socks are still up after the
action we were just seeing
yesterday. And now, Cress is
here to put on a display.
Beautiful retake here from
swap gaming and a great way to
start our first round within
our first series of the day,
dog man. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
We'll have to see how to keep
playing it because. For energy
like the tough part is they
have to they have all these
ultimates that are like, you
know, it's group up play
together, right? But then the
it from that right like everybody kind of groups up together all great we're
connected by a giant wolf oh awesome we're connected by mellow with the
bar trucks you know and I don't think it's gonna be any different because they
could go for a fast play here that he like we've seen portal TP plays happen
right yeah a bunch of time is right I mean we literally saw the TP plays from
both sides at the very beginning of our first round we even saw a doctor
strange man go out just yesterday was kind of crazy trying to deny our first
series, the opportunity to recontest yet to no avail as we come out of the gates.
It was actually one of the swap gaming series just yesterday too. So with
Wendo now rolling out, Maudra having a heartbreaker. You're talking about 4K doggy,
the sustainability that both 4K and Voliwiki will have for this first fight.
You know we're living in early, ultimately 4K with days, but Dave actually got
kicked. He got charmed out of it, I believe. So his old kid's set down.
Wow.
4K with the K.O on the velocity, smaller, rather not charmed. It was slowed down by
by Madara's ultimate because of it.
It was sent down lower.
Daze does get one on the trade though.
So they're actually coming out on top.
Swamp is one by one by one.
Also going with the team up in the hole
that gets thrown in there.
Valentina's slowing down this push
after Velocity's rage-move once once.
Now everybody's out of the middle again.
That was leaving the last map in scatter.
For this time, it's slowed down
because of Velocity's ultimate.
They're able to go up and Madara
finally getting those KO's from window.
And with that, they're getting into revenge, right?
That's the big thing.
Daze was slowed down in that fight
due to Madara's ultimate.
And honestly, that's the kind of take away I'm having here,
as Vicky, is that, Madora.
It's playing so much better now on this next map.
It's a lot easier on this round
in comparison to the first round, I feel like, too, right?
Getting all brawly once you come out of the tunnels,
it gets a lot easier into trying to take over that first fight.
And now they have the momentum and the point first as well.
Chime, even on Energy Chug's side, also has,
that coming-on unleash where I swap gaming,
you have to be careful because you know,
Mellow is gonna get a little sneaky
and try to get that Glartroc over to the side
the point to get everybody off to get environmental chaos.
and off of the Glartroc's KO on Sachim who was in the middle of a premium on Lee's unlucky and now Stagner if he finds his venom would be even bigger but window managed to get away just in time.
Sinkers could let the devil out follow up the moderate who has the heartbreaker and they've been timing it too because look at Porcupine dog close to that invisible boundary that would go big because while gaming will not have the sustainability if they do not call it out until the heartbreaker comes in.
Oh my goodness. That was the whole throw in the shift, but no, nice job. That's back to the team, Vicky.
That was smart play, huge mode proven by the side of time, but eventually it's taken out.
I mean, too many cool rounds to use in that case. Unfortunately, four times,
Taker trying to trade it back, but oh, just gets negated again.
The PL2 heavy for the side of Melophobia and Swampgaming now up two in this fight.
Eventually, they're going to deal with the objective as well, unless they maybe clutch up the straddles,
but they're going to have to try to wait for a player advantage again.
mellows is built different like cons consistently that was insane here you see
let the devil unleash gets doomed to the head real quick while mellow oh nice
little sandoe have to be careful looking on the inside of it with window and days
actually isolates him window will be able to come back with these of the
events but look at velocity he's got the rage of royal flush and together with
charm they keep you a lot of that damage output together with window if you
want to get the anti-heal down this is top dealing with basic hero flow I mean
you can play Wolverine you can play the daredevil and it doesn't really matter
of what you banned besides that right you get rid of the gambit but you still have to deal with him
doing so much they go in regular blood but can they find it it means sneakers find the KO yes
finally even picked on 40 that's a huge amount of money though and they get on the three but
singers was not one of those right everybody else run down sadly it was a huge olfie scatter but
nobody was there to follow up because of this man just running rampant nice plays by sneakers to go
in aggressively with a regular flush just gets those cooldown resets and i mean swamp gaming
I'm getting scared of just I can't live against that.
It's a one of those moments where if you're scatterganging,
you look behind you after getting three in the eye of Agamotto,
and then there's no follow up potential.
Unlucky because Stinkers is just having his way
with that back line.
And look at this.
He's about to let the devil out with already 58%
in terms of his ultimate.
And Rekko is right there and is still holding onto
the individual boundary here.
And they are able to put the board back in their favor
as Swamp Gaming were nearing the 86%
before Stinkers goes back up again.
And Gage is not having a good time here
with 12 getting forcing out this fastball session.
Yeah, nice read by Renko there.
The switch to this woman off of the last map
has been massive for them.
Also, the glory talks to the back side
and gets field off, field off.
Some great work out of the strap play.
And then honestly, yeah,
40 switching this in this has been massive.
In this, sorry, the force needed to bring the door back
in mellows there with the follow-up.
And really this entire fight feels like
it was kind of buried by 40 dog,
grass lands down to the ground,
sneakers too, days on the upside
to get countered by Renko.
but it didn't matter because of as well the presence of everybody else in the squad 94% to they have to get a quick tp off play in the spot. Otherwise it's over the way that they're playing. Once you get to dive in group stuff together with nobody able to touch they cannot with them trickling in energy shocker out and swap gaming in a dominating fashion get to take the first map.
Yeah, huge map went out of them. I mean, it was so back and forth like it just felt like whoever the daredevil is being focused a little bit more on that map and the same thing with with these on the Wolverine. Yeah, but he just got too much value in this guy as well.
was the consistent factor of swamp gaming.
Just a constant backbone of the squad with 17 final hits
was able to do whatever he wanted with working in Valentina.
And then on the opposite side for NRG,
they just got sort of picked apart.
They had their moments, Vicki, right?
But I don't know about you.
It just felt like at the right moments,
at the crucial timing windows,
swamp gaming just always found it like a force physics
or just set up days in some way.
It was just the fact that Mello was just constantly
able to follow up and ball everybody from energy wanted to go back and reset.
He would catch them on the lane in his line of sight.
23.8 thousand damage right here with 17 final hits as you mentioned.
He went down three times while Krazz was also a stalled demon on the Hulk.
Hulk Dogbad has been making their rounds within the MRI and I am here for it.
Scattered two even if you didn't get that follow up off of those iobagomotos
was so able to help back up the back line that is for the dog and Valentina.
And then you look on the other side, you know, was the triple strat really the play
with that ultimate charger? We're gonna have to see as we switch things up and we go on to
another map on the other side of this break. We got game number two.
My face is getting lay out of control
Locking, locking, it won't stop it
Flying like a surveysity, but you're flying stars
You're a blessing, a power, a victory
With a dazzling dream, I'll hold your heart
And fly higher
They can't catch my body in my life
Oh, I, I, I
Percent on the moonlight
I throw my hands away, burning with the heat
Look at it in bed and home
We're such a lovely group
Lifting up the craze
Love all the ones who know
All we're doing
Now start to chase this fight
More
Get your mind and your feet up
Booster not ready now
The flaming bonzaga
Even if you go up
Without hesitation
I want to see you fly
More
Be brave, shine, flying higher
In the spark of life
But
We're not a beat on the rise up
Another base
Now game of life
Gonna burn the night out
Every time my heart's quiet
Because I am ice white
Right through the summer ice
The cold rain will be the wax
Right now, I'm a starlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Turn off the lights
Light up the night
Every night, I'm a starlight
I'm a starlight
Hello and welcome back to Marvel Rivals.
We knight pre season America.
This is day three of week one is over here joined by Darkman and Vicki Kitty.
We're about to break down mat one and set you up from mat two and our expectations heading
into it.
First of all, of course, I'm happy to see the Hulk stunks continue to be on the rise
Vicki Kitty.
to see how can action like quite a lot actually yesterday and it found a lot of success and we
see that continuing. Do you expect that to be just like very team specific or is hope like
definitely back in the middle now with the most recent patch? I think it's team specific too because
I don't think a lot of teams at least in americas are as comfortable running the fastball special
like when I talked to the swamp gaming coach they said that they're pretty confident that they're one
of the only teams that have been able to utilize it at the best of their ability. So I think you
You know, maybe depending on the map that we go to is also another thing to try to deal with expecting a dive vanguard to try to go into your backline.
Right now we do see Shin Shibuya is being picked by Energy Shock. Of course the loser is picking the upcoming map.
Dogman, how do you feel about this? Also do you think like they will be running that triple strategy's backline again?
Energy Shock, it looked volatile for them in map 1.
I know they like this map and it's just yeah, I think it depends on like I guess the end of the band phase, but
Yeah, it just it does feel like at least in North America. I don't know team
Just don't really play the like the Mantis triple stuff very well
You know whether that be like just the kill the KO potential
Whatever it is. It just doesn't feel like we've seen a good Mantis team in North America this yet
I don't know but like it the comp is sort of last patch
I feel like it was really good because of the ultimate charge rate and stuff
you know now that we're reducing it by 20% in the last patch is a big deal and I think that the
strategists are actually like the ebb and flow of the strongest heroes in the game. It's going back
kind of over towards those gulest and towards even vanguard like you said with you and vicky said about
the like hulks like hulk players are just kind of running rampant right now and we saw like Madora
popping off on the road too like I just feel like it's not that good in North America specifically.
I want to highlight here as well, looking at swamp gaming, obviously like a very dominant
performance here on map 1, yes, energy did fight back, but they did lose momentum in
swamp gaming, then just kind of overwhelmed them.
It was so interesting to see days back in the mix here, alongside mellow, yesterday
Amadean was in, but it feels like no matter who day is swapping in and out, like they're
not missing a beat, like they just step in step, it just seems so seamless.
Yeah, I also like when you take a look at the opposition you look at chime
It's like okay chime started on white fox and obviously the triple strat like you mentioned so he didn't work out
You know anything swamp gaming were ready to see with their pick advanced systems
How that was gonna play out for them when you're forced to run a triple strat and spread out that energy in terms of that
Old charge, but that was just game number one guys. Let's get this started. So
Absolutely swamp gaming currently unmatched point can energy shock bring it back. Let's find out
that. And we're going to be
back. Turn off back to the
band phase again. Game number
two right in like we mentioned
like this is could this could
be the potential number one
C of the group, Nikki like
this could be the determining
team just based off the early
matches and we'll see if 100
teams can bounce back. But for
swamp gaming. They're immediately
going for that same thing
before where they go for the
you know when the best of three it could be dicey because you only have so much time to make that adaptation with energy still prying the gambit and swamp gaming prying the Elsa why not right because if you're not going to bat out the Elsa immediately you want to make sure you don't deal with the gambit instead you're still just go to a lie swamp gaming to pop off with that Elsa.
I think that's probably the
biggest band so far.
Like I just think the whole
tournament.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm crazy.
You'd probably agree, Vicki,
but it does feel like, I mean,
unless they have a really bad
ELSA player, which most teams
don't, it feels like, yeah,
really, yeah, you become so
like Gambit can enable the team
sure and you get the daredevil
and stuff.
But it just, it really feels
like ELSA is kind of just like
a step above everybody else
almost, right?
Like, yeah.
You try to do the triple
You try to do the triple strat too and then you take that away from the rage and royal flush timing that it's a actually gets to come up
So hopefully they're able to try to combo this because with the protection over on the star lord on Shinchebuya
I do like this combo. You have a lot of verticality a lot of building to work off of and
You and I you know we played a lot and I feel like you could definitely see it with the choke right there on Shinchebuya
It gets a really tricky for energy
They're starting on the attack
You want to be able to burst down that damage in the building over to the left side so that way you could clear at least more space
that way you have more open sightlines and then try to split attention from that
back line that's trying to keep up this offensive team in this case one
teaming from being able to actually resustain. Renko going over to the Jeff
we saw a lot of Jeff playing into the first two series of our day just
yesterday and I think it was really interesting because it also goes hand-in-hand
with how map dependent that could be with the piercing healing and damage that
Jeff provides. Oh yeah for sure yeah and yeah you have to play it with it with the
Venom or at least with Triple and stuff but I don't know this doesn't feel
like enough of a change to me. I like the starboard protect like you could see their idea was okay.
You know the rogue team up wasn't that powerful as you know when Dara was kind of shut down by
swamp so we have to go back over the snowboard and you know I guess in their head it's like okay
every time we do the rage we roll flush with velocity on again but every time we press the
ultimate it's not a free fight wind button like it used to be in the previous patch and the only
way to make it a free fight wind button is to you know combine it with John and big headed Jeff
We'll see if we could pop off this map alongside swamp gaming
We were doing the very similar thing Vicky that they did in the previous map running up the hole yet again team up with date. Oh
It's hopping off here of the jet
So you won't have the jet and venom team up real quick time just making sure to check and nobody is dwelling around here from
Swamp gaming and just changing things up before ranko
Swaps right back over to the jet and it's funny too because every time I look at Jeff with a big
guys man can't help but think about my dog kind of replicating those eyes but
it's a little deadly too with the way that Jack could get into these different
off-angles if you really see Gaze getting shut down with a great bubble
coming out from moderate who's on the magneto, sinkers on the daredevil is
already prowling around and Kraza's ready to try to help heal and stop either
of the diving vanguards from trying to harass them.
Ultra aggressive but able to kind of get out with their lives, what about those
yous then you know they're trying to counter this hard engage by the vanguards
as long as the window can live.
And he's actually done a really good job at that.
I'm just kind of curious how Madara plays this too,
because they do have the Invis,
essentially, counter that wolf and stuff.
But it doesn't matter.
Snickers just gets deleted on the inside angle.
They go for their dive.
And what doesn't really happen,
because you just come back to peel the wolf,
you go for those team up pulls, then pushes again.
We're just gonna try to farm Ultimate now at this point, right?
Like just get that Star Ward, get that Gambit Ultimate.
But you know, you already lost the first team fight
and you're down a minute, Vicky.
That's kind of rough.
And now Chime is kind of in the back line too.
They've noted where he's at,
and Day's getting called up by stinkers
after they were able to isolate him over to that side
and Chime says, I am out of there.
He dipped so quickly over the top of that roof,
while the velocity still works beside.
Take a look at that rage of royal floods.
Wolfdog is ready with the invisible boundary
to try to match that,
but it's so difficult too for an invisible woman
to survive when you are also at threat of these aunties.
By the way, Chime is not contested
and Rindo gets stuck in the room of death,
it looks like, because everybody's forehead
touching the roof. Yeah, this just ain't it so far, man. Like, they just keep doing the same thing over and over again.
There's two fights now, and Mello's just been doing whatever he wants on top of 4K, getting those pulls.
There's just not enough damage. Like, I don't even think we forced out Daze's passive once.
He still has the over health if he goes to 1 HP, as you can see by that little shield icon next to his HP pool.
And Daze is even just going more proactive, looking for time in the back line.
I mean, this has been brutal. I really looking back at it, don't like the ban phase and how it's gone so far
just because we're trying to play this gambit stuff.
It seems like, I mean, so far,
you can kind of ignore playing gambit comp.
We'll see in this upcoming fight though,
as we do finally have that stolen
alongside the regional club.
I agree, some teams are better with it
as a slam down on the last day,
fighting the struts!
Days, it's hit its mark with the bullseye,
and now it's another stagger fast coming out
on the hands of Swap Gaming onto NRG and the Transports.
The fact that Swap Gaming have allowed this full comp
to work to help to deal with any sort of dive oppression has been chef's kids.
Yeah, it has.
So they have to make this fight too.
They have to make it work rather than make it here either.
You know, big media rem at the end of this, but at least get that game.
But ultimately at least get the solar roll in the sky.
You know, maybe we can get KOG, but we'll shadow the spotlight.
No, the velocity, you can't get picked up early.
You're the only one.
We played, they played for just this combo.
Just the solar, just the game, but the entire game.
And they haven't even gotten it up once.
We're at 50 seconds left to go, man.
We gotta just knock it's pick the Stagger KO's have been brutal
It's so hard when Mello is looking in the lane able to find some of these trickling in strats are trying to back away
And then you have that one really big stutter between days and chimes stinkers
It's now going on to the Wolverine. They have their ultimate online
Swamp King are holding up severe as days is close to another final stand and with a winning hand
Can it be a winning it or a losing it with the stick with the invisible boundary window does find Valentina
That's a big pick because he won't have the night sales to keep you alive
Moddera tries to send mellowboats on again juicy and with an eye like a moto
it misses his marcher over to the side but at least five Franco Moddera gets
stunned Meteor M to try to help him reset it goes up it slams down onto
Forky Dog big pickoff as well until it does make their way back though the
state could come in for a delay energy though have now already pledged to be on
this point and it's back to the drawing board a swamp gaming may want to
recontest here with Forky Dog having a portal yeah the smart place Gata was
last one to die on the doctor's brain so forky has to switch over to it off the
support in the meantime so that saves them this point we could test in days
or rather sneakers has the ultimate now back on Wolverine also Valentino's
old ones out we have really nothing to sustain but I got the retouch I
imagined that it's gonna build as much time rather a little bit for the next
fight it was a valiant effort it was tough because I think scatter going down
it's always tough to see your doctor's brain is the point is camped by energy
go down last just because you're like they and that's the one guy we need to
dive first if we want to lose anybody, right? Like, stuff. But regardless,
Energy's in the second point because of that combo, Vicky. And maybe even get that much out of it.
It was a little dicey at points, right? They had to commit a ton to that fight.
But as long as they can keep that up, just don't get stagger KOed and build your gambit
starboard, right? Like, that's their only freaking composition
purpose. As long as they can do that, they're probably fine. But we'll see if they can get to
at least the end of the map, because that was a long hold for slump gaming.
Yeah, it's like the already set go button, right?
That's the wind condition that you want as another kid
that comes in this time from the hands of energy
and the client will stand, tries to come up with steam cares.
At least Chime follows up to find Scatter in the process.
Kras, though, has that same self-assisting that we keep seeing.
Galactic Legend is online, and guess what?
The Rage and Royal Flush is short to follow
with the Son of the Moderate with them losing window.
They could go back to the drawing board.
So I'm getting, trying to get into position
and here comes the Rage and Royal Flush.
All that's on Reddit, looks like,
as Chime is flying around, Melo's looking up.
a great protection, but they need to shut down the Starwood in the sky.
It really is just press Q when you win the game button with those two, right?
It's tough, but I like the switch for stinkers over to the Wolverine as well.
Like, how Scatter Genki's playing this Dr. Schringer's hyper-aggressive,
so as long as he can maybe pick them off and, you know,
they can play to counter Scatter's aggressive play style as well,
maybe get bubble to stinkers, he could have the advantage,
but then he just comes in the sky with the Wolverine,
or with the hope for now, but they have to go to space.
Oh my god, what do you need him to do that connected? It's a wall and now he's brought back
What a brutal situation for window as that's a reset back to spawn
That's the finalist there right there that we were the last day that we were used to seeing here from days and now energy
I have to reset great stall now coming out from crass after being able to go old mega
Worldbreaker Hulk and I'm just again a
beautiful display of the whole plays that we've been able to see fast on special
still in hand and swap gaming have these ultimate's online for exactly after you
just saw them just use up to get them out the crew is the victim on the other
side they try to pull them back but he's slicing with 99 wood cutting windows
that are run away teacher signed scatter and full people's in back so it's a
trade-up from the vanguards yeah that that war cross connecting the two
allowed them to get those KO's but somehow they haven't lost too many people.
They have only five seconds to touch though and somebody's got to get on.
They're brought back by the World Green in the sky with the meteor out!
Madara! What a dunk! That could be saved. That could save them on this map because
they're going to get his standard KO's on the point too. Scatter is going to come
back with that Dr. Strangel but it's a little awkward now. We want to probably
reset, get back to six and then come back into the fight but that dunk onto
under Melo has been massive upcoming fight. I think this could be huge with
this Wolverine Ultimate. That could stuff everything but Stinkers as well has
the very same opportunity. Has to shut down Scatter with this with with this
Iwagamoto. In fact that Melo saw that in slow motion too. Here comes time though
floating in from the high ground. Nobody to contest them. See Valentino up on the
high ground too. And with no final stand here in the hands of day, Stinkers has
it as deadness on Scatter consistently. I mean for the BRB and the Rockets level
They could come back and go in for a quick recent and a recon test over time taking away energy cannot get off this point
Just got a brought back in
But it can't do anything
Alongside the wolf. Yes, but are the kids here the 80 comes out and they do cash out and overtime
It looks like they tried to do something, but yes, that is going to switch off the doctor trains
He's being countered a little bit too hard
I think you know off the daredevil and onto the Wolverine has been a unique swap and it's kind of worked for them so far
Vicky as sneakers was able to close it out with NRG there moving to third base.
I agree. I like the fact that they were able to make that swap up with little you know they have
very little time on that first point but at least they were able to get that follow-up
between the Starler when they did have any of the competition with the Rachel Ruehl flush and
now Lutrime being on the Phoenix. I like this swap up here too before that third checkpoint
because you have a lot more of these longer gone sight lines and you can get on top of the bridge
harass them. A big anti-Alasso follow-up from moderate to five days first.
Yeah, great job. I mean, nice snipe from Madara as well.
Instead of on the road, you still get a team up onto that Magneto,
but Madara eventually gets tracked out by a Larchrock.
Not much to do about that, and then Krazz is just absolutely going Hulk mode
on the back line with Renko going down.
Eventually, they come back for him, though, and they get him out of Hulk form.
So, honestly, with how many ults are committed, I mean, velocities get to fall back.
They use the Larchrock. They also don't have the Wolverine ult.
You've got to feel somewhat decent about it as you come to this next fight
with a 30 seconds left, it's last fight territory.
But considering how things looked on first point,
this is a solid situation to be in for energy.
It is, at least though for Valentino and Forky Dog,
these are the two straps of top gaming
that need to stay alive.
They're gonna have to rotate the ultimate
with the dance that Forky Dog has online as well as Valentino.
And the Kumio unleashed before the kidnep comes in
and it finds the window, big pick off.
You go on the wobble combo with the Strangling Prison,
he never falls, they move up trying to have that extra damage.
And so is Madara, he is bursting through it all.
and with a fiddler ball trying to have the dance up,
you have to be here in the weight,
who has no follow-up, the hit does not come in,
the meatball is back in the prior,
and with the invisible boundary from Reiko,
every one of these teams are trying to stay alive,
even getting booted out of the nine-tales forms
of the Kumio Unleashed.
It has to remain healthy.
They're coming back onto full staggered composition
of scatter going on to the Angela as well,
just to kind of slow around.
Forky's gonna come back onto that rocket raccoon
to make sure his team has the BRB.
the back end of the baby Bruce in the top and oh my goodness nice ultimate this
welcome window connects on the few days and the anti are here you don't have
any more front line this will go big and it might be no not really because the
healing is too much there with our gets the pocket time there with the follow-up
able to take down two immediately after that ultimate from window nice job to
follow up there moderate has been playing on fire the bank are seven
really been enabled from a slot gaming era with God are getting kidnapped again
and now from stinkers even after making the Angela swap nobody is safe on the
other side of these claws kitty kitty comes here to try to get another dive
and we're moderating stuff this time at the hands of days so gaming they don't
have that sustained look at Valentina and forky dog even with a BRB it's just a
linger it's just a matter of time before energy shot get this pale to finish
off oh my god what a play by them with no time left in the bank full cap out
the map Vicky. I mean that's that's not something I think we expected after
first point right like that was insane. They were just so telegraphed I think on
the first point building up towards that regional flush with Gambit and Star
Lord but the real switch was just thinkers going over to the Wolverine
and then Madara sticking on that Magneto and Vicky you saw like their plays
were so telegraphed or sorry so well played you know thinkers would fly into
the sky go aggressive they bubble him and he'd get a pick right on the
opposite side for swamp gaming they don't have that bubble advantage with
the Magneto since they're running the whole, they're running the Dr. Strange and
these, you know, he's relying on that team up with Kras, but then he still has
to go against the back line who is invisible and peeling him off well. Like
energy strats, we haven't talked about them enough. I think Renko, even though
they lost the first map, was playing great. And, you know, we could talk about
this back line maybe a little bit more moving forward because I feel like
Renko was popping off alongside Velocity's. Now, obviously, they're gonna
you know, once or twice, maybe, but you know, they turned it back around and they stayed vigilant and also rebounded.
That's the big thing is not tilting in these moments and energy, you know, remains strong and looked to tie up the series.
And you know what helped out with that, though, and even though Veloso did get picked up a few times, it was to swap over to the Wolverine.
The Wolverine was a state insurance policy that they needed to help cover that backline to make sure that these vanguards aren't a problem,
specifically Cras, who has been getting shut down consistently.
consistently. You get some of that extra health too with the show fact before making a little
flop up here, getting the extra speed boost all over to the Jeff Bubbles for if you got a flop over
to that invisible one that you were mentioning. It's that push and pull game that you have
with a different load, Valentina going over to the Lunas. No, Chime already up on the high ground
is going to be able to do a good amount of burst damage already from the high ground here on the
building. It's very interesting. You want to play the Phoenix as well. You know, just wants to play
it slow with the strats, just kind of play to counter the vanguards a little bit more instead
of playing the Star Lord combo. So it's a bit more neutral fight I think to get and also throw
another tap by Snickers nice pull for physics negates it for now but he's still at the passive
because the kills here from the back side angle cool bounce out used by full squash but nobody's
down Valentina knowing that he's not really doble pawn by much right just goes to that booty
healing on the back side right this nose front back style has to play that first the thing
really swap over to that we'll see if it pans out for him though as this fight is just a brutal
draw on the point with the thing in the hole. Oh the bubble! The timing to that. This is gonna be so
difficult for days to make plays happen running Wolverine. Again, thing! When they're already
to death in here, it's the only one of the pain brothers and they find it with the hole jumping
in, they see the invisible boundary laid out by Porky Dog. You were just mentioning the importance
of the invisible when you're running into conflicts like this and this is a loud swamp game.
They take the point first. Could expect here a portal play from Energy Shock just that way
way they could try to reconcess this right now because I have his own invisible boundaries.
Counter portal. Did he get the portal off though? I think he did. So the portal is still there but
they're still in the spawn kind of because of this Wolverine so it's getting messy.
Velocities goes down and they take the first point because of that counter portal from Scatter.
Thank you. So that was sick by Scatter. Good read. Well timed as well. Like you have to just take the
point, go for that portal play and they do it well. I think that also Vicky like they just had such a
more well-practiced first point like you could see energy was a bit more I don't know awkward you know getting picked off not playing for the
Wink addition is hard as swap was like they knew they played slow they've had for support first rattles and energy couldn't do anything against that now
They get a play aggressive in the second phase
Because the one big thing that they really want to focus on with the invisible boundary played very aggressively also putting out their line of sight
A kidnap though passes them some trouble could get a reset here shortly with the world breaker of a gambit never folding
you're going to have to dance up and set it up both worlds and meter and comes up
dinner time as the Apec predator is hungry coming out to play I have a photo of the
sun I have nothing as the time down comes in it fights Scatter day for Aliyah
at least for Krazz he's not the world breaker if he didn't he would have met
himself back in the spawn room gate with Scatter but that's too out for swap
gating. Yeah they're still kind of working themselves forward how is it huge
all by stinkers but it didn't end up mattering because of well this guy getting
through the bandface right like mellow is still alive wasn't the one impacted the
large rocks as well was big but you know because they didn't have the star
lord and stuff they don't really get a skill can you wanted their floor of
momentum like the phoenix just I don't know hasn't done that much compared to
the server admin that you talked about vicki like mellow's that guy that's why
a time force to be on the phoenix right soon because they're the ones that can't
play the else a little band against the level of the prio gear his window does
how that trembling frozen. He goes up the house, stays, gets the kidnaps, and
Biddleboundary allows Swap Gaming to keep running it down. Here comes a
fastball special, unfortunately, moderate the next victim on the Amber
Alert, and Swap Gaming get the second checkpoint. Yeah, this is, uh, we probably
gotta switch off the Phoenix now at this point. I don't know, like, it maybe go
back to us already, but just because, I mean, the real reason you're playing
the Gambit Comp is to just build both, get free fight wins. But if we can't
to get like a free fight win with Reginald Rush. Why are we practicing the game it so much? Right? Like, because you see, yeah, like Mello in the neutral is doing way more than Chime right now. And I think it's just maybe Hero Gap, like straight up, like Stinger's on the backside angle has also been doing a ton on Wolverine, but this time gets right on his off angle.
Four minutes and seven seconds left on Turb Point is crazy time, thanks for working with me.
That looked like a horror movie too, like they came out of left field right there, and they were ready for it
You saw the bubble coming up from class last night some scratching down off to nothing
But goes back to their team fras you tell gays looks for an opportunity nice movement to get you through to the bad
Plane into the safety of the rest of the track swap gave its backline
I love the motto only by stinker and it was a solo old back is a nail in the coffin
And I do know do how that reader and about the end of time
is it really worth it to go all the way up as it slams on the other side of that shield?
I think that was the first time they were able to take down Mello. Nice job over to the
Emma too to walk forward from one um, Madara, but still plays a patient, takes Twidnell back
and will fight. That was the first time they actually were able to do something about it.
Could the back line have been saved so far? We'll see if they can keep it up in this little
boundary here. Met by a better ultimate, I believe, from swamp gaming dance floor,
But the emerald slows everything down on the back angle here comes the Phoenix ultimate and try to find Mikhail
He's in it, but he's not now comes on the back side
They have nothing besides speakers open the back angle
But it doesn't matter because Valentina has found first or second pick multiple times in a row now. Oh, no velocity stuck
He has nowhere to go no protection and
No way he's getting there. Oh, no, he's got something else either getting ready for it
Yeah, that was a really good stun on a scatter to stop that because that could have ended
We call out there, Vicky, and now he's coming into that mag.
You know, trying to touch, but we don't really have a ton of time.
And again, Wolverine's claw is going ham.
He comes from the skybox, but can he find it?
And he did with time on the backside, who is on the Phoenix still does get the hit.
The spark onto Valentina.
Does he want to go for the ult necessarily or rather a follow through?
But they slowed it down at the very last second.
Nice job to stun that portal block and come through with the KO.
Big here as Scatter is at least close to the Aya Vagamotto to redeem themselves in days.
He's getting ready because look at this, that last hand is right around the corner.
He's going to eat them in their direction, tries to move in, nice little stall here,
just bait him to move back instead.
Chime is still stuck on the high ground while Window does not have that meter.
And to at least try to deal with Scatter and Mello with his Glartrot.
Look over to the side as he tried to pull, slivered down from the other side of the payload.
We get it from Velocity.
Scatter goes all the way up and a beautiful push off from Ranko.
Samson climbing over on the other side of the bridge.
They try to play this aggressively with the fate of both worlds.
They close in the gap.
Last-yan ready.
He slams in.
It is overboundary though.
He's out of the line of sight.
All the last-yan allowing them to get the follow-up
and Mello is able to find stinkers.
They've used so many cooldowns to save everybody
from the large rocks or vanguard.
They come back into the fight.
Windows Ultimate not going to be easier.
40 with another KO.
Invisible Boundary in aggressive position
because they want to close it out
and they're going to do so, it looks like.
It's staggered in, windows ultimate for next round, sadly,
because it's fully capped out for Swamp Gaming.
We're tied up now one to one, two minutes to 15 in the clock,
so energy gonna go back up to a minute
because of time added.
They're gonna start on two attack,
which is a little scary, Vicky,
considering how it went last time.
We'll see if they can finally figure things out
and maybe get a tick or two.
With how long it took to, yeah.
I mean, now you have Swamp Gaming with that extra minute
and 15 seconds to work off of.
I like Valentina seeing her back again on the Luna popping off getting a lot of these follow-ups and to use the fate of both worlds to actually play this aggressively closing that gap and capitalize it too right you saw the invisible boundary from the side of Renko was a slightly like a pixel short because that last
with able to stand that outside of the invisible boundary get that first pick and then everything
just started snowballing for energy shock after that yeah this will be this will be curious to see
what the side of energy want to do like you could tell i mean valentina is playing the white fox for
like the counter dive sort of style right like you're trying to come back and trying to help heal
but didn't need to because i mean there's no real divers besides like speakers onto the Wolverine you
know if he was on daredevil maybe be different but because of that i mean valentina you talked about
just so free able to get so much damage and healing at the same time and energy is not going to do much.
We'll see on their attack though, it's as you said, Vicky, can they figure out this first point?
Can Chime do something with the ultimate?
And maybe Madara going over to that Emma France could be the game changer as well
with him just kind of taking all that damage coming in and able to walk up.
But we'll see if they could do it, right?
Also allowing at least Madara, Kazooosie Madara so many times.
The OG when it comes to Emma, I was thinking like Madara and TTK when it comes to just that hero
and moderate being able to get that choke slam onto Gaze.
It also has to be with just dating out these bubbles
from the trash, it's very on top of trying to help
out that backline and helping enable Mello,
who saved the Wolverine, tries to find more of these shots
at the window.
They want to cap her alive.
There's only so much Windows can do
when he's stuck on the backline of Swap Gaming.
And it's almost like a replication of what we had seen
before, he knew with some of these Swap Dogmen.
Yeah, they both did it.
Both Wolverines took the other vanguards
on an absolute ride, but try a nice shot
on the Valentina. Another one on the days. Okay, John. In the neutral, that's what you
want to see. That's the point of this Phoenix. So, you know, nice work to take out Valentina,
who is over to the White Fox. You know, even on first point, I still would be okay with
Valentina going over to the Lunar instead, because you don't have all for this all upcoming
fight. You've given up two ticks. Energy. They cap out the point, Vick. You know what?
We're in the second phase of that.
Oh, yeah. Over to Tessie Way means that they cannot get off this point. It's time to try
already look ahead to make sure that nobody's going to try to recontest them.
It's a good opportunity though for Swamp Gaming to build the fulls ultimate's mellows close
to that apex predator. You look at Energy Shock though with Lossity being on the cloak and Dagger.
The Eternal Bomb will absolutely help out because one game you do not have a Magneto.
The Slamdown though, it's the Diamond Form. Thanks to Madra, they've scattered one,
but he gets to survive. Charm doesn't find the finishing mark.
And with the Glautras coming in, you're ready with the Invisual Boundary. It forces it out.
Yeah, that was that was clean play from energy so far that we skip that out
But you know they do have straddles double-straddles coming up for he has to save class who got close
But same the day is getting time nice work. We have the ultimate. He has to come back from the swamp
Lots of people didn't have all yet. They're getting actually laying down towards this cart and unfortunately taking this of Emma Frost
Even that diamond form is not enough to stay in the cart
But they still made it 36 meters in the second phase Vicky as energy with that cap has made this a very
really interesting next attack for swamp game. Yeah, is that minute of 15 seconds
going to be enough to get through this very tight choke that we all have learned
to love in shichibuya is the question mark. And I just seen these Wolverines
play out even from the very beginning. It's cinematic, right? Like get me off
this ride, please. But days and sinkers making these adjustments and dealing
with these vanguards as well as energy shock being able to also change their
vanguard lineup. Window has been doing a good job with these bubbles. Is it
going to be enough though to deal with the damage output that we're also
seen from Kras and Scatter as well as Madera being on the Emma Frost being able to get the
choke slam on today's when they can. It's just hard too right when you have to deal with the
back line still from swap gaming that's helping with so much sustainability onto both of these
vanguards. Yeah this is a very well coached team. I think you called it out with uh it was the
Glar Chocks for that Invisible Boundary like that was the turning point in the second phase.
Like Swamp read that they knew that okay we don't get anything with the Glar Chocks but we get
get out their invisible boundary and we just back up, we just engage, then you get that
pick on the chime.
So like chime give a thing to take it, right?
Like first point chime found two and in second point chime was the one that got found sadly.
So we'll see both of these Wolverines have been impactful to these first points, right?
Like both of them flying in the sky, they both have characters that could throw them.
Thing in Hulk who has the stronger arm, I think it's probably the bull product of the
same actually considering they can get those picks.
But I think Krazz last time was the one to get traded out who was the one that threw
Jaze.
As it goes, like both vanguard is definitely the focus as, you know, potentially the real downside is a Wolverine gonna not get a pickers, but that's really gonna look at how does this rat play counter to the aggressive Wolverine.
The point of view of vanguard is like looking up and it's the william the full meme of the Wolverine flying right above your head and trying to get the kidnap real quick and days is ready.
From the back, trying to get into the opportunity, maybe bait them out to make them think they're going over to the right side to get more attention before going back to the shield.
I like this positioning of nice freeze though or the seekers to get exiled but no follow potential
It's about trying to waste out more of those ability pull-up grabs
Literally push on yes, do you hold over to the Bruce banner?
They first pitch tries to delete the oppression that's all gaming had on their advantage in terms of the time bank
Yeah, that was sick
I think like the bullfangards with CC immunity playing towards that front line and you know
There's no choice that days can make that's correct
Right, you do have at least one on the on the high ground and this is where swamp gaming has the advantage to some degree
Although a kidnap comes through in the back angle. They have to trade it as energy
You know they have this storm on the side of his name is Melophobia into the sky though with the whole thing today's and fight one time
Going down again. That's only picked off no
Shrattles to save their own line sadly as between you three little bounders released on swamp gaming side
Maybe energy will have a shot because they have both straddles coming up
But this is gonna be a very interesting play to see if chime gets picked again
It depends on how much space you can build up really quickly.
That's how you're seeing three members of Schwamp Gaming push all the way up
while they still have their other remaining members hold on to the point here.
They're trying to create more of this space because they know that these ultimates are coming up online.
If they can get one of those firsts and this will take, it goes even bigger, but it's dead!
It's Stankers who find Valentina delaying that str-
Oh, as the finish line is so close!
Yeah, but they have 30 seconds left, so they'll have the close spawn.
They could actually build double support or straddle again, maybe, but it's going to be really close.
They know they have to find a pick here because energy is in position, right?
Days have to go into the sky, maybe fours have to straddle somehow, but it's going to be dicey, right?
Mellow maybe has to go in aggressively, Wave of Darsel was dead, but they don't use straddle.
Oh my goodness, that's a really patient, so Velocity is never going to come back through with one.
With four seconds left, we have to cut. Here comes the dollar goal to CC on the cart,
but we still don't have straddles.
Scatter or Cras or Mellow have to make a play here or stall out.
Dark Rocks in the back line is hitting off the initial boundaries there with Darryl Fine Scatter.
So he's going to be gone out of the fight.
No way I'm welcome to here.
Renko doesn't have little at running out in this fight.
Maybe we can fight him with Cras as a whole placement, but he gets taken down really low.
The thing also here towards that point, the keepers seem to steer.
But can they find a KO before 4-E, built up another invisible boundary?
And we have nothing to counter this.
days gets one, the thing slams through the ground,
met by the claws of Valentina.
And that's gonna be it.
Like you mentioned, Vicky, one after another,
Forky was able to build that up
because it breaks so slowly and days just capitalizes
and slowly walks over their remaining corpses.
As now, Swap Gaming are gonna 2-0 NRG.
Head on the stake, the moment I saw that invisible boundary
up from Forky Dog, I knew that Valentina
will have the kumio unleashed.
And I also knew that that doctor
to be able to portal right back in since Doctor of Strangles.
One of the first ones out.
Huge performance in a very close Shinshu Buya game number two
with our first series to open up our last day of the first week
of the Mara rivals Ignite three season here in the Americas
region.
That was an absolute banger Vicki swamp getting well deserved
with like there's such a well coached team.
Like Fox does a great job with the squad.
Yeah, and you could see like even though they had moments
were trying got picks and stuff.
They like they didn't panic, right?
They set up, they took the advantages they had.
They didn't press them too far forward.
And, you know, look at that,
just a phenomenal game across the board.
And you could see, you know,
you could talk about that Mellow getting Elsa pick,
being a big boo, and it kind of was, right?
But what a game out of swamp game.
The fact that Mellow was 57 in five,
like every time we would pan out from Mellow,
you would see the KO feed
and you would see like three, four more
meet their maker, and it was on the other side of mellow.
Even if these guardrakes weren't huge,
it's about displacement and being able to call it out
together with days who was so disruptive,
pulling a lot of the members of energy
outside of these drought holds too,
helped them out, both from the attack and defense, honestly.
Valentina Vorkidog coming into fruition
with Vorkidog being the MVP with 65K healing.
We were highlighting velocity and right-quests at points too.
Yes, that trap backline was getting harassed.
The question mark for me was, dogman,
was the cloak and dagger necessary here?
The cloak ended up with the 47.1k in terms of healing.
And maybe not so many as finals that you could get
when it comes to that Terakint too.
So maybe a lot more of these damage windows coming in.
Not enough of these follow-ups from Chimey,
even though Chambos, you know,
popping off with 11 final hits.
Madara with 17, by the way,
after making that soft one to the Emma, was a big highlight.
But if anything, this series alone at least told me
that these are two of probably the best teams
that we've seen thus far, at least in terms of all the games
that we've had in the last few days.
Yeah, absolutely, Vicky.
And I'm curious what Zoe's thoughts are on everything,
because that was a panger matchup, right?
It really was.
And quite frankly, it did not look
like it would be at the very beginning of this map.
Energy Sharks game plan has just been completely dismantled,
right?
They had a very clear idea of wanting
to focus on that Star Lord and Gambit combo.
And Swamp Gaming just made them stagger.
They just didn't let them actually ever gain that momentum.
So the entire attack push from Energy Shock was a grueling grind, like it was not pretty, it was not smooth, it was so staggered, they really just had to like, brawl it out there to even finish the map with absolutely no time.
For them to be able to come back again and put up such a good defense, bringing it into OT, and then even in OT, like making it come down to the wire, yeah, that goes to show, like, what high caliber T's we're looking at here, which are definitely going to fight for those top spots in the group.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I mean like like realistically, I don't know if I mean there's there's not a lot of teams that have this synergy that like swamp gaming have like you can see because I mean that their strategists were building so many
and then also didn't use them at inopportune times.
Like they just played to their game plan well.
And I didn't think they would build Stratus Ults
in that last fight.
They were so far away.
I think Valentin was 40%.
Forky was like 20% at like 20 seconds left.
So Forky built up 80% old charge in like 10 seconds.
So that was crazy well played by them.
Yeah.
It really was.
Yeah.
Ricky, like what were your thoughts?
Like generally looking at the fan face
seemed to just favor Swamp Gaming.
like how how did energy show
what did they actually do in order to keep themselves alive here like can you pinpoint it
stop letting this Elsa go through we got to stop having yellow get Elsa like a swap gaming now
have ended week one this first week of preseason trio currently and they have been on fire I mean
we heard it from the coach they think that I mean not only have they cashed in their
scrimbugs and proven a point for this first week but they've even detailed where everyone says
that they're the best ex-dualists in the region.
They put it on display right now
because they're the team currently saying 3-0,
whereas, you know, Energy also had a great performance too,
but they did lose out on that one map versus 100 themes
when that did go to game three.
And when we go down to the wire
and we count map differentials,
that could matter at the very end,
depending on how that seeding process goes.
Yeah, that's so true.
I'm very, very excited to talk to our winners here
today about just how they kept their calm at the very end of this series because quite frankly
not many players are able to actually show that amount of patience as he said dogman like
the fact that they were able to actually build those alts back in because the final fight or what
seemed to us like the final fight the old advantage was very clearly an energy shocks favor oh yeah
absolutely i think they had all the the cards to win for sure like you mentioned zoe like it's
It's tough. It's tough. It's a really hard game to play strategist and it's not because of the mechanics, right?
Like, I think a lot of the strategists in this game aren't the highest mechanically skilled in terms of, like, actively making plays a lot of the time,
but that's not necessarily where you make your money as a strategist, right? Like, you have to have well-timed ultimates and you have to play well and smart and intelligent.
I couldn't do that, so huge shout out to the back line for sure of that squad.
That's why you're washed another pro player anymore, dear doctor.
You know, we raised a pro player ago?
And he will be joining us for a quick chat.
The Hulk of the day, for sure, it's been an absolute pleasure to watch him in action.
So let's bring Krasmang in to the mix to chat about what we just got to see as they're getting
yet another victory on the board.
What a phenomenal, you know, first week for this team, right?
It's a great start into the season.
Krasmang, welcome to the show.
Congratulations on another victory.
Thank you.
I want to chat about Shin Shibuya here. This one came down to the wire. You guys played so patient, so passive, and then you managed to edge out the victory.
Can you walk me through the team comps? Like, who kept the team comp and steady and collected in order to get through those final moments?
There's a lot of energy today, and I think actually, it was surprising. Forky kind of got the comps more together today, which is different.
But every time something like that at 4K,
you fall that out to just go down pretty good.
If 4K seems like a great pickup for you guys,
Crez, can you talk about your back line?
I think it was pretty damn good before when you guys were
nemesis and now coming through on swamp gaming.
Like, I feel like they've done a great job adapting
with Valentina and 4K.
What's it like to have this back line where it feels
like a lot of people are really hyping them up
to be one of the best?
Obviously, you guys on vanguard are doing a great job soaking
a lot of the aggro without dying and stuff.
But like, what does that mean with these two pickups
compared to where you were in the past?
Oh, I love playing with our new vanguards.
I love working in Valor.
They're both great.
They both played great.
And they're a blast to play with.
I have no problems with them.
All right, Kras.
So now we get to see that Swamp Gaming,
they put their money where their mouth was
after your Scrimbugs cast in.
And now you guys are currently sitting at 3-0
compared to all the other teams
currently in your group.
Now you got to look on ahead to next week.
You're going to be dealing with 100 thieves.
And I've been hearing through the grapevine
that you guys have been a belt to the booty
when it comes to how scrims have been going.
Is there anything specifically you guys
are afraid of being revealed after the first week of game
play and maybe showing a little bit of weaknesses here
for the other teams have been trying to figure things out?
Or do you guys think that you have a lot of versatility
and you're not really stressed out?
Yeah, I mean, if we have a weakness,
I don't know what it is yet.
So hopefully, if you could find out what that is before the enemy team is, it would be nice.
But hopefully, we just don't have a weakness.
But I'm super happy about that last match, because I think Energy is the second best team in the bracket.
So I'm very pleased.
Yeah, we were very excited to see how this one is going to unfold.
You guys cashing in on another dub, which is fantastic to see.
We were very excited to see what you have in store for us next week.
I'm going to let you go for now.
Thank you so much for taking the time for a quick chat.
The best of luck next week.
I'm gonna be like, Oh, I'm
really excited about this.
Thank you. All right. Thanks
for having me. Thanks, Chris.
Thanks for coming. And that's
a pleasure. Love the hats as
well. Had and don't are a
choice, but I'm you know, I'm
here. At least it's not. At
least it's not sunglasses, Zoe.
You know, at least it could be
worse. It could be worse. I
feel like. What do you mean?
Could be worth? I just
complimented. No, I know why.
Okay. You're right. Yeah,
they're mine. But like you said,
it's a compliment as you said it was a wash pro right before it went to that
conversation I can't believe then I gotta I'll definitely hold on to that
maybe Craswell too maybe next time he'll interview with like sunglasses on or
something you know that was it because they are listening we know now for a
fact they are listening now they're also watching of course and I'm sure
everyone watching is excited to see this next match unfold on the server because
it's a rematch of the MRC finals. Yeah, we lost. Going up again, going up against
Linux Gaming. I'm getting so excited just talking about it.
I know my host can't talk anymore. She's watched. I know. I'm malfunctioning. That's how excited
I am about this one. It's going to be a grudge match. I think we're looking at two very different
teams from what we've seen from them at MRC. Let's see. Let's set the stage after a quick
break so don't go anywhere we will be right back
that. I mean, obviously, this
is really tough to get
predictions in. We've only
see these teams on a very
small sample size. But today
we have some matches that
will definitely show a lot
more of the path to the
finish line in the preseason
that we start with swamp
gaming versus energy. Talk
about starting with an
absolute heated banger
ship. I'm going to give you
the floor first. Who do you
got? Because these are the
favorites amongst, you know,
you got because these are the
favorites amongst you know
group A. I'm going to go with
energy here. I think energy
looked really solid in 100 T
and I think they can keep that
ball rolling. I think they have
the confidence right now.
Swamp gaming is obviously
really talented, but energy
keeping it moving. I think
buddy, how about yourself?
Oh yeah, it's hard to go
against velocity at all. What
they've got and to keep it
interesting, they'll all go on
the other side. I think swamp
gaming has proved, you know,
two days in a row that they
are just looking all the part.
And so I think they continue
that train and you look to be
we'll see because this one is going to come down to micro decisions. And I think when
you look at just the coaching behind it and kind of the battle plan energy excels in that
a ton. So this is going to be a good one, but I'll have swap gaming there first. Second
matchup we have yeah, we lost versus lunax gaming. This is a bit of a repeat of the MRC.
I think we both got the same. Yeah, I think we have to stay the same here. Just just,
you know, history repeats itself is the way you've got to think of it, especially when
you're doing predictions like
this, it's gotta be. Yeah, we
lost. I mean, you know, if you
look at it, hey, it was the
fastest ever. We saw the best
of seven and what yeah, we
lost it. So maybe Lunax, it
kind of sparked a fire under
them and. But yeah, that's
gonna be a tough one to come
back from just the way that
they play dive is so hard to
play against when you're
trying to do the anti dive
defense approach, right?
Sentinels versus Cafe Rose.
Obviously, if you looked at
this thing before the pre
season, it would be one sided,
but I think it's a more
difficult match than you might
think. And I think Cafe Rose,
I think I'm still going to
give the edge to Sentinels.
Yeah, I think I do the same.
Sentinels have looked
exponential in their growth
where Kathy Rose is looked
consistently strong, but I
think what we saw yesterday
from Sentinels is a little
better than what I've seen
from Cafe Rose.
Yeah, I'm going to give it a,
I'm going to make it interesting.
I'm going to go, Cafe Rose
wins the first one.
Sentinels win the next two.
So it's going to be a two, one.
Sentinels end up winning it,
kind of what we saw from TSN
yesterday.
Nightmare versus SSG.
game to call today, but team
sure with all the part SSG is
obviously played both days.
Nightmare only one showing
against Yeah, we lost, which is
a great team. I'll give you the
floor first who you got. Yeah
for this one I in this one I'm
curious what your take is to I
could go either way. I'm going
to stay with nightmare because I
loved what I saw from them on
the first two maps against Yeah,
we lost a struggle. Definitely
on map three, but I think they
were just kind of on their heels
at that point and fell, you
know, fell apart, but I think
they can lock back in. Yeah,
for me, it's like I can't see
either of these teams dropping
to be able to get this done.
I'm going to give them the
slight edge again. I think
this is go to three. I think
if you want a long day today,
that's what you're going to get
because this is going to go the
distance, but nightmare
definitely has. I think a bit
more of a scary cop. If you were
to say compared to more
traditional, better neutral,
maybe from SSG. So that's what
we might see there. They get
close to in the day. And I
think that's going to be a
little bit of a little bit of
a little bit of a little bit
of a little bit of a little
bit of a little bit of a little
bit of a little bit of a
in the day. And then we have a fly versus a hundred thieves, which a day, the year one,
this is like a heater, mad ship year two. I mean, come on. I know you have fly, right?
No, I gotta go on a thieves on this one, bro. I have to. I think a hundred thieves looks,
you know, they looked really good. Obviously day one didn't play yesterday. So we didn't
have eyes on if anything were to crumble for them fly personally for me. I love the players
on the team. I think they're all talented. We keep reiterating it, but I just want to
the game. I think it's a
win. I think they're going to
see them perform once to get
their confidence up, and I
think everyone else is
confident in them. For sure.
If 100 thieves didn't lose day
one, I might have said, Okay,
they might be like this upset.
You had the fire to spark fly
quest, but 100 thieves also have
that fire like they can't go
over to. There's just no way I
can see that happening with
that or with remix and all the
players behind it, but like
quest going on three. There's
also a lot of stick for them
there. So even though you have
two teams that are winless, I
I can't wait for is for me
to probably be wrong about
most of these, but that's
always how it is. And that's
why sometimes you know, gotta
split down the other side.
One of us has got to be right,
buddy. Exactly. Our pets drop
the predictions up below for
the matches when they start,
we want to know what you guys
have to say and we'll see you
guys on the next one.
Welcome back friends and
post potentially. I don't know.
Match two is going to be a big
one. I'm super excited as we
already stated, heading into the
break. This is going to be a
match. It's going to be a grudge match. This has drama. It has everything. Now let's hope the quality of the match will also mirror all of that because the last time those two teams faced off against each other was a one sided affair. Yeah, we lost took that one convincingly in the MRC finals against
It was a 4 0. It was a quick affair as well.
It was like when we watched that match back like it's it was a fun game, which it's by the way, it's crazy that the one and two seed of MRC are just in the same group like that's poor lunax like Jesus man, but like for lunax it is tough because yeah, we lost like you mentioned, so we've had the better hand of every single game and it's not really been close like it really wasn't and that's not due to any fault of lunax aside like they put up as good of a fight as anybody would.
But like yeah, we lost are them. There's a reason why you know, it's an MRC team that is undefeated so far
Like that's crazy. No, like that shouldn't be possible. How is yeah, we lost beating nightmare who was seen as a top tier team
It's insane. So lunax they looked good versus team liquid even though they did lose in a 2-0 fashion
I don't think it's gonna be as one-sided. I want to call prediction too early, but I don't think it's be as one-sided as the MRC
Yeah, Zoe
Yeah, I think I think it's a different kind of lunax this time around as well
But it's also a different meta right there were changes ever since then and that can change everything in the way these two teams are
Approaching the game now speaking of how a team approaches the game. Yeah, we lost our on the more unorthodox side of the spectrum
Yeah, they were because then you take a look at like the fact that they've been popping off
I feel like everybody though in the predictions knew that this team was gonna go a distance dog man
Like we were talking about it earlier, too
we're just talking about
prediction to general, like
dual list pool, van pool,
like the fact that this team
has introduced so many also
very unorthodox compositions.
We saw it in the opening day
of just yesterday with
nightmare. It went all the
way to a map three and a
jit word rolling out on the
Spider-Man. That was a chef's
kiss and how we were trying to
experience that ditto over on
the nightmare side of things.
And then you have Zaytex
popping off to Kendrick.
There's a lot of flexibility
on this team, but I also feel
like it's a momentum,
obviously, like popping off
as well. But I think it's obviously like just teams that are not expecting those comps when it
comes to dealing with Yaoi lost. Absolutely. I think you're right. Like, I don't know, man.
If, listen, if nobody pays these guys, by the way, so we real quick of Yaoi lost, like, I am gonna,
like, spend a fortune to bring back the old brand. Jim was used to be a coach of ego death.
Like they were, they had the ego death roster and he was the coach of it. Now he's a player,
Spider-Man player for the squad. Like, if nobody pays this Yaoi loss team, I'm bringing back the
that was a fire brand and it
needs to be in Marvel Rivals e
Sports again. Speaking of
coaches, though, like I just
want to quickly mention that as
someone who's new to the Marvel
Rivals scene, right? I had to do
a lot of prep work getting into
it over the last couple of weeks
like getting into the scene.
Obviously. A lot to catch up on.
I was baffled at the amount of
players who have also had
coaching experience. You don't
really find that in other
competitive scenes. I think that
So much more depth to those
who have those players who don't
just have competitive experience
in other titles, but then they
also have the coaching
experience nothing in it in a
game just like Marvel Rivals
where it's so strategic with the
way the ban and lock system
works and with the way the game
itself unfolds.
That is such a boon for a team
if they have that in their
roster. Yeah, I think you have
obviously the research you've done leading into this, it's 100% the truth, right?
Like because Jitward is a coach, he's great about game planning and
intelligence about the game.
And then, you know, we'll see, like Hogs, who was on Sentinels,
the original roster who won was also a coach too, like you mentioned.
Talking about Lunex though on their side, I mean, you guys saw how insane
Reedus was yesterday, right?
Like that guy was crazy.
It's that combination, maybe.
Like, so you mentioned the coach is coming in the roster, but
also like these young kids coming in and being willing to listen, right?
Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I don't know.
Reedus on the daredevil, I believe it was yesterday.
And also, of course, we know what Reedus can do on that.
Elsa, like, that's a win condition for Lunix.
So that's definitely something that the opposition has to prioritize,
banning out or shutting down in some way, shape, or form.
It's crazy, too, because it's also a lot of flexibility.
I feel like I've seen Reedus, like, on the Mr. Fantastic.
Oh, I'm never going to see that.
But Tiko, like, popping off as well, like, with Namor and Elsa.
So Elsa still remains a server admin if Elsa gets through we have to really look back at the pick and ban phase because also as
So we already mentioned compared to that 24 minute grand finals in the MRC between lunax and yeah
We lost there is a different meta in place, right?
So now we have had different changes coming into a lot of different heroes
And it's about how the back line survives in this very diving dominated meta currently
are they ready for the different type of compositions that yeah we lost could run.
I think this is a team that is very flexible and I think they really kind of surprised
a lot of the other teams that knew that they were really good because again people could
only take so much to heart when it comes to scrim bugs.
But it's about where you could put your money where your mouth is when it comes to a lot
of these MRI months.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Lunax of course they played one more match than yeah we lost who got the first look
yesterday.
There's a little bit more tape on Lunex than there is on the Yeah, we lost.
I don't know how much that's going to come into play.
It could. It could.
I mean, we'll see.
Like it's tough because I mean, a slight dig from from Vicki there saying it was 24
minute match like it was it was a speed run.
It was a little bit of MRC speed run out of Yeah, we lost to get another MRC
championship that they missed out on in the previous patch.
But this team was a different team.
It was it was. You're right.
And that does matter.
That does matter.
but I'm curious to see if Lunax have adapted, like you said,
maybe less preparation you could do on them.
Yeah, the MRC showdown is upon us here.
And Marvel rivals ignite the first and the second seed
coming out of the Path to Pro pipeline.
Let's see what they have in store for us.
All right, starting off, Vicky, neither of these teams
focusing on Elsa off the rip.
It's going to be the opposite, in fact.
Lunax go for the Daredevil first ban.
OK, all right.
Well, they've already written it down considering that Lunax do not want to deal with the daredevil from yeah, we lost
We've been seeing again so many different compositions
They ban out the mantis once they see that the else has been protected from lunax gaming side
And that's no surprise because we just highlighted how strong of a player Tico is as he is over on that captain America
Talk about by the way dogman the different levels of
Compositions that we've seen roll out over the course of the last three days
I feel like with the ultimate nurse we've had in the game,
it's applied so many different comps
that you otherwise would not have seen beforehand.
Yeah, absolutely. You're right.
It's allowed diversity into the hero pool
and then also the teams from MRC
that we're very grateful to have with like Yevvie Lost
are willing to run the weird stuff.
And then because they're actually an official team,
everybody's learning from that.
So it's like, it's sort of like opened up the playbooks, right?
Like you can kind of do whatever you want.
And then like Sentinels, I know we're playing like Ironman stuff
stuff potentially that we could see in the future. Although, I mean, I kind of like what
Lunex are doing so far without the Elsa band. I don't know, like it would be curious because
I think it's smart to kind of band based on what teams are good at. But not only that,
also, I don't know if it's actually worthwhile to like band the strongest hero, like just
because it's the strongest hero, because if yet we lost arm practicing the Elsa stuff,
you know, it's like, I would be curious to see how good they are at that composition.
That would be a sort of unique take on it. But Lunex, obviously the Gambit stuff going
So far, you know, do they want to ban out that starlet that we saw earlier and that wasn't honestly as impactful as we thought, Vicky, right?
Yeah, or are you going to be able to at least ban out maybe Vanpool because Vanpool was a huge problem or rather do us pull because I feel like Jetward is able to just slot in and so flexibly as the Jeff comes out as the final ban.
We're going to see how this goes because this is also Celestial Husk, right, dogman. So you have a lot more of those open sightlines you can play vertically to up on the high ground over to the side of the point.
point. And depending on what this final protect is going to look like, they want to try to
enable the ELSA if Lunax could play this strongly like we have seen them do in the past. And
again, even with the scoreline dictating that Lunax is currently in that last spot in Group
B, a lot of their games have come close, right? Like they even weren't able to take a map,
I believe, just earlier on just yesterday and just being able to try to keep that consistency
is the name of the game. As we move on, it's going to be the protect onto the invisible
trying to predict that actually from yeah we lost a side as they protect the
Rogue which means you're gonna have the Gambit Rogue team up. Yeah that's gonna
be definitely something to watch out for and they're trying to ban out like
potential dive stuff right setup that Jeff that you mentioned could be a
situation that we have to worry about as well as the Mantis even though like I
said with America I don't know if we've seen the best Mantis play I guess
this is just yet but it's well that we know there are these teams know each
other what they like to play. So you know we'll kind of see how it pans out in
the overarching scheme of things. This is probably like you mentioned earlier sort
of like a traditional slash artificial sort of composition that both teams like
to go. So we'll kind of see you know what happens between both teams because
honestly as an overarching like bluest player he talked about him but Ritas
and Tico have been kind of leveling up and then simping up besides Zatex has
been just kind of crazy and low key underrated how good that guy has been for
Yeah, we lost so there should be a banger and you know definitely targeted bands towards each specific team in the band phase so far
Yeah, I don't know. I'm not gonna get baited here. I see jit word over on BP
But yeah, I'm gonna say we're gonna definitely see that that will come out instead as we get set up guys mask being on the road
Yeah, we lost has been a dominating team here coming out of the MRC
They had to face once again against lunax back in the grand finals in the best of seven
but it's a different iteration of Lunex,
and they've also been able to make some adjustments themselves.
So much Hulk.
Let's get more Hulk.
Let's get back to the circus.
I'm ready for it.
If you're rolling out two on the Magneto,
well, Logan's going to be stuck here on that Lunar Snow.
But I think the big highlight for me, though, Dogman,
is the inclusion of how much you've been seeing Ultron.
Yeah, no, Ultron's crazy.
I mean, people even in ranked just
have crazy women on the hero just because they
could play in the sky.
If you know that, yeah, we lost her.
Running more of that brawl dive comp
with the snowflake in the sky alongside Drow next to him.
He just doesn't die with the shields.
Like, look at this, Redis getting hard pocketed.
Eventually, they're able to trade him, though.
Heart goes down.
Redis did fall, so that was actually a decent dive from them.
Zasek's also able to kind of run free.
They're having to play back, but actually, not a lot of space
gained by Lunex at the current moment.
And down, Redis, that's so much damage.
Kart can come back more quick, and Xanthos removed two already.
The quick little 2K off of now.
All the strats that are off the table from Lunex.
So yeah, we lost.
I only get the point first, but they also
force out of stagger onto if the great fight here already won out by yeah we
lost and jitward already has that vanpool ready to go with the ultimate on the
van hammer.
Almost quick and as you mentioned deadpool absolutely disgusting whether he's looking for
backline or the Elsa see who he got on the back side it looks like it's one of the
strants but regus falls at carton again they trade at one for one can we find the
trade on tico's side they're going for raw damage and it's enough mass gonna go
down they actually did a decent job living through it though masks brought back by
where the BRB, at least the cooldown is removed,
but that's still an early ultimate
and picked by Yelvi lost
and Lunex still has to play slow.
Little different look when you have Kendrick
and Snipe by Tiko on the high ground.
You talk about verticality even with the Jeff.
I mean, we have to also mention the Phoenix.
You could go in for a lot of these quick positioning
opportunities, same thing with the LL cell top bomb.
Damage between the doulless lineup of Lunex.
Logan is out for blood, has had enough
and finds another one with Zatex,
meeting maker going down skier two into the spawn room gates.
Finally, Lunax do manage to put this point in Yabbi loss.
At least they're still stalling though, nearing 65%.
That was an excellent read by Tico to go aggressive.
And that's what you want to see out of your Phoenix players,
just going forward, looking for one
shot with that E combo in the left flick,
or just getting a two tap like Tico did.
So excellent play out of them.
We'll see if they can keep it up.
They have duelist ultimates that can play aggressive.
But incoming gambit, Raging Low Rush,
alongside the Star Little in a moment,
is surely going to come for the gowee loss.
Every never folds though, with the rage and royal flush here,
Silent Blades does.
I'll say it's Jeff, but it's going
to be Logan to keep everybody sustained
and just waiting it out here.
Kendrick also has that C up for the extra damage output
once his rage and royal flush is done.
They dive down, but Jeff doesn't get the follow up.
Y'all are certainly a piece of the abyss,
and the anti-team contrasting dive down
to get the follow up together as well.
And Karr falls low.
He's still off beautiful work from the straight line
of a gowee loss and now massaged everything
with the heartbreaker and moves up,
tries to drain away a little bit of that ultimate
and they isolated Logan.
Tones and cart go trade for trade though on the strat
and Tones comes out on top
because that's two strats off the table.
I'll forget that tonight.
This is just so smart.
Like I feel like Yeah, we lost played that pretty well
and it wasn't good enough
because Lunex just looked good, right?
They still have the point.
They come through with a disengage.
They understand, okay, we dance floor
because they use original flush
and they know that they don't want to commit
to stall an ultimate because of the style of heal
with that bobble and stuff.
so they're just gonna play it slow,
but Lunax just out big brain them, right?
Like they have the Phoenix ultimate
for that rocket raccoon ult,
it gets countered and then the meteor M
to help sort of peel, slash get a KO
on that solar in the sky.
So it shuts that down, nice play out of them.
Great changes too that they made immediately
after they had lost out on those two-person initial fights,
which were rather quick too.
Now they're already hearing 85%.
Yeah, we lost.
Kart being on the hold,
trying to find a diving opportunity
as it's happy holidays made it a little too early,
but not early enough for Reedus
As he's gonna have to celebrate back to the Spawn Room gate,
Daytech now clearing the space, nowhere to go.
Jones is unfortunately spun up on the other side,
as well as Logan.
And now Yahweh lost,
get to flip the point right back into favor.
The excellent plays overall from the squad,
you know, just pop the solar wall to go aggressive
and Lunex have no straddles against it
because they used them in the previous fight.
Now, upcoming, I'm curious to see how Redis
hits this open, it's tough, I think for ELSA players
to connect onto like a big target,
because Yahweh lost our playing such mobile characters
there's not really an easy person to connect to onto everybody's like flying on solid for example they go for the portal play
They try to make yeah, we lost think what is yeah
We lost want to do you want to play aggressive with the band hammer on towards this Phoenix remove speaker
Wow and Rita's at least has a bar trucks. Time is of the essence. They go right through the portal
Rita's still jumping around though with overtime at least
The portal closed in his face. He wants a blockbox just for a few more seconds and Logan needs help
somebody, but they back away and Logan gets isolated in the caves.
Toast tries to go in and help, and instead he's getting slammed down like he's in the WWE.
Green is at least back here together to find Kendrick, and that's big.
But is it enough to deal with the Rage of the World Plus as the itch jump comes in right afterwards to try to isolate the gambit?
Yo, they try to get too cute with it. It looks like Lunax.
I mean, they tried to portal play to touch, and then yeah, we lost.
They thought they had a play on them, but yeah, we lost just Reddit.
They have the first point, Celestia Volts theirs, and I mean, I don't think, I don't think Ritas had a single else all that entire time, right?
Like that was, I don't know, like you can't really blame it also necessarily because like, like who's he supposed to connect onto?
The map is so open, there's not really as many angles to connect onto it.
That was well played, but yeah, we lost. They never gave him an opportunity because that old, I think he just held onto with the entire map.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
Yeah, that's what I was wondering, like if he wasn't going to be able to jump right back into the portal and maybe find an opportunity right there.
but then your opportunity to look around and everyone is like floating around.
Jitward is jumping on heads, Kendrick is up on the high ground,
Santos is trying to play through the backs, that way the rager over flush comes through.
Cart, by the way, is also ready and that's why we're seeing the Hulki Hulki matchup originally
as it looks like Yawilas do want to open things up with a portal play on their own.
Yeah, it'll be interesting. That's the worst feeling dude. Like you're like, oh I could,
I could, I can go back and forth between the portal, you know, I could, I could play cute here,
but then the cooldown runs out and you're like, oh, crap.
Now I've got to take a long walk of shame
and watch my team disappear in front of me.
So brutal situation, but here's that early portal play
they talked about, thank you.
Oh, they haven't gone through it yet.
They're waiting.
They kind of sense that something was a danger
before finding them.
I love the Kite away from Lunex.
They were ready before they were able to get up to the point
first, and now that portal does block out at least
that middle entrance to the right side.
And now Lunex managed to navigate right there to the low ground.
But he talked about the door to a lid slammed.
No, it gets on the side of the wall,
and the bridge closed down too.
The sling dead here, the map.
Eye of Agamotto, at least found him in the process here.
But with the sea up from Kendrick, a great reset here.
Sanctum does not have the rage of World of Flush,
but Lunax have also already used up
these strategist ultimates.
Happy Holiday means that they don't have anything
to defend themselves with,
and Chika will be able to at least try to reset that too.
The sad part for Zatex, everybody's just on the inside.
That's the tough part with this map,
is yeah you mentioned Tico gets to come out with his in this fight. I mean they're able to res back in it but
Lunax take the point back and this is a way better map I think for the Elsa.
You know it's tough in that first fight because like you said it got stuck on that top angle.
Gilbert's by the way over to DPS deadpool by the way. Dual pool coming out instead of the angle.
It'll kind of steal it goes but he peeled off one last fight. Tones get stagger KO'd but
Redis on the off angle in that tier 3 form. They're just able to get multiple
KOs by himself because of how strong this character is the neutral once you level up that uh with that charge
Yeah, I love how you bring that up too. Even though linux is winning fight after fight in these very messy fights by the way from
Yeah, we lost their staggering through they need to go for a reset
You mentioned it we're going over to the duelist pool and the longer these games go the higher he scales and the scarier
He becomes mask going with a great way from readus to actually get that stagger onto him
and now backing up this is the open line side that you were talking about before here to dogman where it's gonna be a
Little bit difficult to try to navigate over to the side of Reese trying to cut them off
Yeah, that's kind of you see what you want to do
Especially with the loose no pocket on on Reedus once you're tier three and on your instinct
You can just kind of play as aggressive as you want with those cooldowns get high damage off
But obviously that means when you go down when you get KO it feels even worse, right?
So let me show in the last map where he's getting targeted coaches here come back large talks early does get one
but get freighted back to the spawn door so that's something you can take away with this
rageable flush. Chase down Tico too, out of position, is definitely understated now as the
rest of Lunas get ran on. Vanguards are duking it out in the ring and that's a select target here too,
as yeah we lost with the point back in their favor and that reason, royal flush man,
they get ready to go, green light button for yeah we lost to take over that fight and they'll
have to see you in the next one. Luckily for Redis we're in the patch where you only lose one
instinct instead of two, so it would go down even more in the current edition of Elsa,
but she's still quite strong even coming back out of spawn. They're able to clap play back
off of that, but, oh, mask going down too. Nice shots from Logan who is on Luda Snow,
but very backward. Oh, here we go! Let's go, everyone! Look at Jibber real quick as he's trying
to land the jackpot. The It's Jeff forces everyone to back away, trying to help up the
rest of the unit they haven't seen because they don't have a Doctor Strange, no Ava Gomoto,
Beautiful shield forces you were to move back and no highlight real unfortunately, but at least that one pig
It's a lazy inevitable as now lunics are looking to try to claw their way right outside of this joke
And they have a lot of answers while they're at it, too
Yeah, cool and comparison to van full has a lot more
You know value out of the sword right with that with those levels up and stuff
He just gets a lot more out of that but people comes back removes car after that form a nice shot out of him
Heart does get brought back with the BRB, but nice shot to remove two incredibly valuable characters as Tico has not missed their shot so far
Although this dance floor is not gonna get a ton of value
They can sort of play towards main find these Snaggers potentially as Linux also flipped that point
And a nice little sun here to Tico does have that reset. They're nearing 85 percent. This is looking incredibly close and what?
He just took out the Rocket Raccoon, so firmly fired humane when it comes to the end of Colossian
backline and in tones and having his way with Xanthos, these one-fakes going off in these
trade-offs are benefiting Lunix and it's forcing how he lost to Porto and Recon-Test.
Yeah, I mean, the Porto has to come right now, overtime, fixed down, they're gonna be
down two members also with the overtime spawns, I don't even know if Mastin makes it through
that Porto.
have to find out if he wants down the game.
But Rachel O'Flusch too late to save Baytzeck,
and Kendrick falls.
And at this point, Jackie, I mean,
what can you really expect?
There's no ultimates after this, Rachel O'Flusch.
And you're against tons of the poke ultimates
you really want to.
Jitward does commit.
That Van Hammer at the very least.
But I mean, he's not going to get too much out of it, right?
Like, he's just with math.
Maths is gigzop.
Better go on the next round.
He was still alive, though.
Jitward is crazy.
I want to see more from Jitward's what-of-you-here,
whenever he activates that big test, too.
because he's always surviving.
He's always pulling so much of that attention
away from the rest of the team.
Yes, it was unfortunate.
He did use it at the very end
before we went to the next round,
but even better looks for Lunix,
who weren't baited in using their own ult
when they saw that J-Or was trying to recontest.
They knew that with those staggers,
Yahweh lost and already tried to go in and recontest.
There was no opportunity there for them.
And now Lunix have the advantage in this very first fight
if you look across the board with these ultimate charges.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
You know, Loki, I actually kind of would, I hate to say it, but like, the only downside with dual pool is like the damage is a little bit lacking, like he lives, for sure, and he does have good damage, but it's like, I don't know, I actually would prefer if Jyttec was on Spider-Man oddly enough, and then like, maybe we put Jyttec's onto Vanpool or something, like, that would be sick to have a triple Van-Guard line with Jyttec on the Spidey, like, I get it.
I guess Aztec maybe was maybe he's thinking he's the problem a little bit
You know because he couldn't do much on Star Lord
But honestly a lot of it is that Tico readers are just putting so much damage down range in this 2 2 2 style
And then like you mentioned silent place in the flank takes down Kendrick. They're switching it up
Kendrick goes for the portal play mask is now over to that white box. So this team they don't care about roles Vicky. They're playing
They all have the responsibility over my, not the Glartrop, if he intones then become the nail in the cup and they finish off with the Glartrop that's left behind for some leftovers.
And now Lunex after taking over with just that one ultimate not expensive at all for them to have advantage on the point first.
This is a new Lunex. Like they looked, saw yesterday even in the loss versus TSM and then same thing today versus yeah we lost.
both these teams I would say and specifically Lunex I think are always
pretty slow on domination type maps and stuff so most of the MRC teams I think
are like that but we'll see as this continues as they have ultimate charge
advantage and yeah we lost for the first time in a while look at their on the
back straight. Now with Kendrick 2 making us up to the doctor strange and falling
incredibly low to 1 Kendrick is out of here in the eye of a motorbike fault
strategist even with mass being on the Ultron he gets stunned the Hulk is
hungry and Reedus is cleaning up the rest from the loon next year as they keep their control
over this point. Get one with another ultimate so it's gonna be the big test here if you can
actually make that things happen. I don't know he's gonna have to swap I think is what's gonna
happen because he can't get the KO's that like he's so close you could see like dual pool I think
maybe with a few buffs is gonna be crazy but right now like it's tough like he can't get those
KOs by himself he used it late I mean I understand you have to use it anyway because it gets reset
regardless. And he's not. Why is he gonna stick with it? It's gonna be very interesting, Vicky. Like,
solo, duelist, Deadpool. I don't think I've seen work, necessarily. And I know that it's Jitward,
for sure. But like, I think he just needs a little bit extra help or something. In this fight,
they do have ultimates. They didn't have any last fight besides Jitward. So maybe that was the
difference maker, as Lunex finally, or down, leads the few in this upcoming fight.
He didn't even help that he didn't have the damage we see, right? Because both Zaytex and
and dance with word of focus too,
before that fight even started.
I have a Komodo as Toad jumps in
and puts the Bopo on,
and shuts down Eye of No Mama Koko today.
And that's two down again from Yaoi Lost Tones.
He's at the circus.
Who's the next victim?
The Hulk, 1v1, unfortunately for Cart.
He's left all alone.
He's back to Bruce Banner,
and Toad has something else to say
before that happens, those Z-Tags.
With the save, he's actually able
to bring him back to health.
A freeze, though, as he looks down the gun rear
with the Phoenix trying to have the 1v1 and with a beautiful sleep, Zatex puts him to rest.
Lunax are looking to try to re-contest, but yeah, we lost for Avenor also, Porter to get
right back.
As he thinks he's got hands for sure.
And I mean, in that last fight, you would assume Lunax had like a pretty big edge if
he was a little bit too far forward, grounded by Xantho and stuff.
So I mean, excellent play to work themselves back into it.
And in the meanwhile, Lunax just kind of collapsed, right, after losing a few of the members
on the front line.
So they may allow time for the staff to build ultimates,
and Yabbi-Loss could build up even more yet again,
and they're close to that Ultron's rage yet again.
And for Lunax, we'll see what happens,
is that immediate ultimates jillers
could floor something out,
but they fully disengage it, slow play out the test,
and Lunax also has somebody touching that point,
so they can at least make Yabbi-Loss
think about the background.
He says it's time to go back to school,
both because you failed the test,
and now he's still dancing on them,
just learn jumping on their forehead,
trying to get the jackpot, high above the modal,
blocked out, not finding a spot from Iffy.
Currently, Yawileus are winning in this neutral.
They're currently still on this point.
They're nearing 55% and this is necessary.
Although you look on the other side,
aside from Logan, who used that Lunasnow ultimate,
even though Yawileus didn't have to also burn up
Xanthoth in that invisible boundary,
at least Scyling Blaze still has that travel,
but Yawileus have kind of more that sustainability,
having mask in that extermination
as well as Zates has close to that slower surgeons.
Hey, Ryan, I mean, it's a full advantage of the man
because he talked about it earlier.
Now that major damage boost is really
what's making the dead pool so violent.
Silent place has the ball back so he doesn't get countered
by the Ultron.
When the Ultron's really rage,
so he's like he knows that's gonna happen.
You have to send somebody to the point
that can test the very least.
Into the Hulk 4, Carton definitely gets slowed down for now,
but can they live it?
Kendrick does have the eye, ready to go,
tries to not get bounced around,
doesn't even get anybody, don't know.
Well, yes, actually, talent did get hit
and then taken out into the Sky Tico lands,
down over to Jitward, sitting in the back of the spawn
at least for Cart, but the Ult could go Q.
He could end it for Yawee lost, then Tiko gets removed.
Oh no, 99%!
If anyone here can test, yes they do.
They force it over time in the Clark trucks.
Sorry, Escar is forced back,
but then he gets a stun on Tiritus.
He's had enough.
He's got three people of lunics.
Focus in the back line as Carp fights silent plays next.
Silent plays Kenny, not even exit.
The spawn room gates, and Yawee lost.
They come back and they never gave up the point
once they grabbed it on Celestial Hus.
Oh my God, that was huge.
What a reverse sweep there at the end to figure out the maintenance comps was was the way to go
And you know what this is the first time I think that I've seen the team
Play it to such a high level right you like you mentioned with jitward
Just able to kind of annoyed the back line play forward and you can see lunatics are trying to do the same thing
Thank you like they're they're also sending people you know towards Kendrick and stuff or rather towards the other back line
But now the Kendrick is on the vanguard instead of playing that rocket raccoon and stuff
I feel like he's a lot more free to make plays and then on the opposite side like you just have mask doing
and then Zatex has hands on the Mantis.
12 final hits that round by himself.
But I think Kendrick just looked a lot more comfortable playing that Dr. Strange.
And you could say like the 9 KO's on him is brutal.
They also had more deaths than the other team in a win.
Nikki, if that is not the most, yeah, we lost stat line.
I don't know what is dude.
Like that is crazy.
Oh man, again, this was like the cherry on top when we had both these teams
and the grand finals of the MRC.
And this is for a reason because not only with some adjustments,
Seeing yeah, we lost roll out with jitward on the duelist pool getting enabled sure there weren't some crime moments
But Zaytex being on the mantis was able to pop off the damage boost was more than enough
And that was just game number one for our second series guys
We'll take a look at what our next map is on the other side of this break for game number two
Welcome back everyone, Zoey here, John by Dogman and Vicky Kikty and Kikty Kikty
there.
All of those names.
I can read letters.
I'm reading them, just saying them, I'm memorizing them, just like the map we just watched, which
did go to distance all the way to round three.
We got treated to a very close map.
I hope we can continue in that trajectory.
I do think this is a very different look already from what we've seen very recently
in the MRC.
again, new meta, different looks.
Something I want to hit on straight out of the gate here
is I feel like we discussed that at the top of the show,
Darkman, correct me if I'm wrong,
but we talked about Mantis and how she's not being utilized
in the best way so far in America's,
but now we saw a great example from, yeah, we lost,
to really get maximum value out of that Mantis pick.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, like based on what we've seen so far,
Yeah, I was like underrating Memphis and now after that I'm back on board in the right hands. Like you mentioned just sold right away because yeah, I mean I'm I'm sending a new tongue twister to considering how yeah, we lost. We're kind of losing at multiple cases, multiple, multiple instances. And then we saw like them work themselves back into fights. And honestly, that's kind of an indictment, I think on Lunax like I feel like they could be playing it a little bit better considering they have these advantages and need to press forward. But you know, maybe there's the mental thing there too, right? Because these this team did lose the outcome.
lost in MRC even though Lunax looked much improved. Yeah also like you have to
question mark it was it the Jeff worth it from Silent Blaze we saw him getting
harassed back to back in the last two team fights he was stuck in spawn at one
point the Hulks I have to repeat I'm gonna sound like a broken record like we
are getting Hulk Fiddles now we're getting spawn camped by Hulk we're getting
double stuns we're getting jumped and we're getting tossed out of the ring
basically here and I think that's been a huge focus depending on which map type
we get to especially when you're stuck in these closer four doors not including your spawn room doors
but then you get to take a look at the stat line across the board dog man you talked about it before
like just the fact that they didn't even have that many ko's and they just play that neutral better
into recontesting with a portal play was just because because they also distracted what three
players of lunax where you're splitting half the team when it's over time in favor for the opposition
yeah you're right vicki like i don't like that's always wearing green because like now
anybody besides those whole players are just like thinking of Hulk in their dreams, you know, we don't have she hope get in the game obviously, but
It's still a disgusting broken character. You could it could be you. Yeah, just model so we in the game
Just get a little bit more rock rock, you know stairways potentially
But you know, I think that you're right. Oh, he's disgusting people underrated this character coming to the season and he's just still brutal
Yeah, I think if you looked at the hero tier list right after the patch a lot of people said like there is a lot of value now in
and Hulk is going to fit so well into those dive compositions.
Like it's probably going to make a bigger resurgence.
And I feel like day two and day three,
at least here in America has been a clear indicator
that that is exactly the case.
A question regarding the bands here,
we did see the Jeff being banned out for, yeah, we lost.
This is something that they prioritized yesterday.
So clearly homework has been done.
Kendrick has been playing that Jeff to great success yesterday.
They I believe they even locked Jeff for themselves two maps in a row
Yeah, he's he's this whole team is like just ultra flexible based on well
Literally everything we've seen and ever seen him arrive. So you're right. So we like this team
Just can play it all like I don't even know how they do it
Like Vicky and I's brains would explode in your brain explode
Everybody's brain explode trying to master as many heroes these guys have and that's messy. We don't want we don't want any of that to happen
No, that would be gross.
We're going to do some brain gymnastics now and think about our upcoming band face.
Looking ahead at what's to come.
Okay, Convoy is being chosen if I see that correctly.
What do you want to see from each of those teams?
Do you feel like there was any big switch-ups you want to see in terms of style or approach,
or do you feel like if they're both just going to stick to their comfort zones, they
should be good?
Ooh, I feel like, yeah, we lost to a cannot play the also.
like you're gonna have to still prio band that and I'm wondering if yawie loss is gonna do the same thing because Rita's obviously was
popping off. I mean the whole team again was doing a really good job. I think it just really went down to the macro play of why yawie loss was
able to take that. There's three zipples right. Jitward can play both vanpool as we've already seen before. We saw him once at
trap pool at one point to try to break through a choke on the museum of contemplation before he swapped over to dual school. I have to look
back on that. I may have I'd have been day one or day yesterday, but Jitward then could
also play dual school. So it's not just the van poids also the dual school. That's a problem.
And I think jitward has been kind of like that bold highlight for a lot of teams to focus
on.
Let's see. Let's see. Blueness can tie up the serious or if yeah, we lost is going to run
away with it once again.
And they definitely could. So they definitely could because yeah, we lost going into the
band phase. You talked about it. That's it's going to be interesting because you know,
We go to convoy, we're going to get to the path.
It's smart, I think, first of all,
to not take them to somewhere like Shin Shibuya
and those types of maps that are a little bit more focused
towards dive, but we'll kind of see how they play it, right?
Like, can Lunex have Tico still pop off like he did?
They're going for very similar band phase
that you mentioned, Vicky.
And you said that this is kind of like the right place
still, regardless of the result last map, right?
Yeah, and that's why I'm wondering, like, okay,
What is this pick and ban phase going to look in the slightly different form?
And it looks like Lunax do get to protect on that Elsa, whereas Yahweh loss are
going to ban out the Mantis expecting that to come out already.
So already predicting the Elsa protect that also comes into play where.
Will they ban out the Mantis?
Will that, oh, no, they get to protect the Elsa themselves.
That's right.
Because they actually ended up prioring banning out the daredevil.
Another one of those heroes that we've seen Yahweh loss roll out with.
But this is another so hard to really pinpoint on how flexible both these
teams can be, but yeah, we lost specifically. No more Vantus, though. Zatex was a huge problem.
We saw how hard he went. What was it like? 12 final hits specifically. It was like 21k
damage, even though he did flex over to that Mantis. And then we get to see maybe the Gambit
band coming out of Linux as they do not want the rage and royal flush together, maybe with
the else of the Gartrux and also what Kart could do when he's on like a Hulk.
Well, they're going to go to the van pool, but yeah, that's kind of smart. And Zatex
does have a very good Elsa, and especially the matchup versus Redis, that's going to
be interesting. There's that Jeff, they talked about popping off before, for Kendrick's side.
But yeah, both teams focusing on that Mantis is quite interesting. And for sure, you don't
want to play against Triple Strat with the freaking Elsa just having to damage me the
whole time. That's just disgusting. So it makes sense for sure. But like, for the side
of Lunex, I think you did a good job mentioning how good Kiko has been, right? And also this
frontline and the Hulk play. I mean, what does that look like now that we move over
to Convoy, where I feel like this is a little bit more linear, right? Like, how do these
same Vanguard players that did very well with the space they were given, you know, transition
to this map type?
That's why I'm seeing the fact that no Vamph will, I mean, because they could see that
he could just go dualist pull too. Is it going to really scale off? So maybe Jortor
can even make a swap over to the bill's board if they do want to lean into that but I think just
more so being a little traditional with the double Jeff protect oh I should have been wearing my
jeff shirt today but it's okay because this also means lunax banning out the venom kind of predicting
and seeing that the fact that they protect that the jeff do not want that team up to come through
because part also plays a mean metham yeah that's gonna be funny I mean we might see is it the exact
same band they or no no except for the daredevil so the daredevil removed instead of the uh the
like you mentioned. So that is interesting, you know, like you said, I wonder if the Deadpool would be as good without the Mantis buff. You know, do we get to see that Spider-Man potentially come out even like that's always a possibility with the squad. This should be a fun one. I know that
the van pool. People talk about being pretty much perma pink if he's available. Um, but
for yeah, we lost. They tend to avoid that sometimes. That's kind of interesting. Like
they'll play it with Jitward, but it seems like Jitward has definitely like you mentioned
a preference towards the van pool, which are sorry, which is very unique. I agree. So kind
of giving that that authority of the damage boost to that could come in clutch. And it's
also kind of like the iteration of what we've been seeing with more of these ultra incomes.
Right. You get the double drone too. Now with the old drug changes and you're going to be
able to kind of help out your back line a lot more often, try to enable more of
these open sidelines, which is why Elsa was prioritized by the way in years
still because you know you have a lot more of that open angle that you could
play off of. Mine's really like that third point where your forward could touch
the roof so you have to try to get a little tricky with it if you want to
play off the high ground over to the right side of where that final point is.
But let's get this started guys. Currently, yeah, we lost in this best of
three. Our sitting at match point in our second series of the day. Tones and
Tico though already plotting Tico going towards Wolverine expecting you know
this Vanguard hold up here from yeah we lost as they are rolling out on the
triple strat with mask being on that trap pool. Yeah this is gonna be kind of
scary too because well trap pool for mask yeah like mentioned playing that
the Jitward the one playing the Ultron you can just build that all so fast so
detection play hyper aggressive and they're just playing for the dead pool
early to look for backline but Karkin's poked out super low the peel there from
the squad. You mentioned that Wolflight is looking for him. No Rez by the way,
because no BRB from Rocket Raccoon in this instance to bring it back. So that's
going to be very interesting even though they have Deadpool's hold. He's missing
two of his teammates. Oh no, and now Lunex having control over the fight here and
Matt's just trying to stall for as long as possible. That's the goal, right? Wasting
even more time for the rest of Gawie Lost who did lose out to come right back
and Cart being on the Doctor Strange, having to try to reserve and see how
they're gonna try to recontest and maybe hold on. Yeah, so let's say hold on in
back with that portal play waiting to see if they could try to find somebody
split up the team at the same time so they that way they could get a jump.
Well the stick in line two is the pull down from the strap pull they're gonna play aggressive
you know look for something maybe built bolts but this Jeff is still sitting there
and also Chico had just been running freely like free form Wolverine play this whole time
just takes down card again and he's looking for the kidnap now in his 8x who has been a focal
point now here comes that Jeff the player by the way takes two in his mouth maybe he's
up in that because there's a flyer in it too and there they go back to the spot no portal for
this fight Kendrick again grabbed by Tika. That's our play sister player right there gonna be able
to follow up after fighting those two strats is insane by the way. Lunax are still holding on by
the way to also these three holds as Tika still goes crazy as the kid up with the way Hulk is
walking in the air. He met his demise he knew it was coming and Cart is the next victim you asked
for it though dogman and you wanted to see jitward spider-man and you quickly
don't see it anymore because it's back in spawner gates and then we're gonna have
to see if he's sticking to the spider-man.
You know people get confused between Deadpool and spider-man because of the
red character and stuff but you know for jitward maybe he's okay maybe that's
not maybe that's not appropriate for this case but we'll see if they continue
because cart now is over the van pool they're also over to the floor so honestly
loon eggs are making yeah we lost look a little lost like in their play style
which is very unique, but they've always rebounded in these cases.
Masked, nice job.
Snipe and Reedus crossed the map with some good target focus.
And they had older bandages too, so that's a, that's a cool pick,
but they get to work themselves into it with a close spot.
You know, while I'm collecting all the caster infinity stones here
in the Americas region, dog, man, this is the one thing I was really excited to see
in the series, knowing that you were going to join me here on the mic
because Matt's been on the floor.
I was excited to see your thoughts here because guess what?
We're actually getting this match from Toad's.
Welcome to America's, within the MRI,
as Zanto fights out of his place.
He's gonna revenge here.
As Zanto claps back after what happened earlier
in the very beginning of that first round.
And this boundary right in the gates,
I mean, yeah, we lost, but...
You know what, people in ranked games being like,
yo, I'm flanked, low key flanked,
and this woman's not good.
You know, what's good when you have freaking jitward
on Spider-Man diving with you?
Like, that's shit.
Nice plays from Zanto and him.
And then the throw, like you mentioned,
I don't know, it's doing work for sure.
I personally hate playing with real players in ranked games
because it's not a real tank,
it's more than he looks personally,
but you know, there's spawn camping right now.
Jettler's doing whatever he wants on Spiderman.
Rheus has to look pretty much everywhere, 360.
The quickness on Jettler's saying,
I've had enough, no more Ultron,
goes over immediately to the Spider-Man,
has said those, being able to get aggressive
with this invisible, and Kendrick does have that,
it's Jeff Reedus too, with that Glartrox,
ready to go as he uses it,
I'm on the high ground, talk about with that mobility,
tries to send it back to them,
the it's Jettler trying to help them out,
as Reedus constructs this real quick over to the back end,
tries to see if they can try to help out and enable the spec land itself because the glock
treks are sent out now from the other side from Zeta.
Well, he didn't bring it back, but it's tough because of the wall there, it's hard to bring
it back, yeah.
But they're still off in this fight, you know, and I'm surprised they didn't get the KO mainly
because the sport there is Anto trying to go for a play by the way on this spawn.
Yo, what the hell is my invisible woman doing in their spawn abilities, but in this case
Anto's been doing most of the work with Jinkward and they're able to find the KO off of that
Spider-Man hole.
Can't they find any more though?
that's the whole point of this top is to play counter dive and they're losing people but they are trading on the offense Cartho had just been also you talked about Elsa being server admin they have two server admin in the lobby right now with Van Kool being here too.
You let Zaytex have Elsa like the fact that we just saw Zaytex pop off on the mantis what do you expect when you're going to have Zaytex now have control over the Elsa.
to give him the back of over the silent blaze over to the diving invisible man of
Santhos in the spawn room gates not gonna see that happen again because
Jones has that communication he will have that freedom charge as well as we
take a look at if he who's going in for a flag because he's got that hammer
ready to slam down the ground.
He knocked them on the head.
As you can see it in Hispanic culture here when it comes to punishing your
little ones and the lunax are just scattered they need to reset this is
more time wasted away from them in the next minute and less than 30 seconds to
the amount of times I've seen Ganto go down in their back line is hilarious.
This guy is doing all he can to support the play style and it's working
kind of right like they're down a couple of this fight and nice picks from
Rita's bringing the holes back into it for 30 minutes left.
Captain America can maybe slow down the pace of things and if he's still
holding on to the world too, by the way, they had his walk to their own
towards the middle of all of this. We don't have anything except say text
With his ult in the second, maybe he's gonna create some space for it, set them up in the front line together, and if he can zone him out, right?
But, it's gonna be tough, because they have to look at this L for the entire time, both L's us meanwhile, sitting with their ult.
And it's paving too, right? If you're reading this, you're looking at Kendrick, who's able to just get Jitward back up to health.
Sage-Tex now releases a Glar Trash, brings it back before it's sent to the wall, and finds Ippie.
It's iffy, big because iffy won't be able to get a reset and then it hits a sexy on the other side both doors
Out of play because they have found themselves on the bottom end of the food chain against the impact predator
Yeah, that old is so good
But also so hard to connect on sometimes because it's so valuable, but oh my goodness dive coming in early
Towards Tico again
It's tough to live on the day more when you use all your cooldowns and there's a spider-man just flying around the map like he is
And now there's no more name or too hard counter jip work
Will they be able to live this
fight at all and just KO him?
They do so.
If he in the world does go down,
but did he create some space?
Is he going to switch over?
Potentially, Xantos going to go
down in the middle of this fight too.
I mean, Redis is going super far into
the back line, but we'll make his
way back to the team.
We are now in overtime, and
the Vanguards have to focus on
keeping the objective up.
Meanwhile, Zatex does trade out
Redis, and without him in this
fight, that's a huge edge.
However, the strat at both
advantage is in Ludex's fader.
If Logan can come back with
overtime taking down, he's
missing two.
This individual boundary is going
to be missing a lot of the
It is and that's why you see Logan holding on to it for a play also was forced out the invisible boundary now comes in
McKendrick was ready with the it's Jeff and while Reeves is dancing around here on the daredevil something that lunis could play while
Yeah, we lost had Gavin mid-band out from the very beginning
They're able to recontest us as quickly but they cannot get up this part look at the overtime via pixel
It was trying to get rid of jibber but you look comes back into the squad and then they just take him out
So huge lead by the team to help support Jitward, who comes over to Spider-Man Ultimate, tries to close it out, gets to Dr. Strange, but will they find it anymore?
I mean, there's no more straddles, can they even hold on in terms of Ludex?
The answer is no, no more Mr. Nice Guy for Jitward, because yeah, we lost, just held them at 92 meters.
I think you've just been able to also try to give them some support here from the other side. I mean
Cart was able to split three members of lunis ascension when they were stuck in the hallway where the hell back was
Meanwhile jitward had their way with the vanguard's of lunax
That was a great way of taking control fight after fight
You still can get a little tricky on that second checkpoint if you're able to get set up very early
But obviously Doug man the number one change up there was jit were going on to the pride and true spider-man
Yeah, yeah, he was if you do want to do it. They could do it
I mean you can run the BP alongside the hole for the gamma shield
I mean those are crazy right like it's possible to run the full dive as well
But you can maybe only do it for like a fight look for the back line of the Blake Triple Schiphol
But like like you mentioned. Yeah, like that was some nice plays out of the side of yeah
We lost and the reeds towards the height to help get words in that place. I mean getting help in second phase
That's also not very common, I think for a lot of teams, Vicky.
Yeah.
And I'm just thinking about this crazy composition that we can see.
Throughout the course of the weekend, man, this is insane.
Like, this is, yeah, we lost, man.
This is also like crazy.
Because we get to see our MRC teams, like not only compete with some of the best teams in the region,
but get creative with it.
Are we really rolling out with this?
And it looks like this is what we're sticking to.
It's going to put on a show for us to see how long it lasts here on the BP your eyes do not deceive you
We have this here. Santos is on the jet. Well Kendrick is on the magic
Yeah, this is something out of a few seasons ago. I kind of want to just like give this comp like room to breathe just see how it
Plays okay. He goes gotten Carl ready never mind. It doesn't matter
It's completely the game because he goes playing the
Elf and now more proactive here that I think the name will earlier goes to the recess. Okay. There's one
That was so worth it though as Ludic now are forced to back away Reese fell a little low here does get healed back up
But it's the fact that did we're now gets a rollout on the spider-man
So then going to recontest to join up with yeah, we lost who are on the attack Kendrick still sticking to this magic, too
Yeah, I mean the Kendrick is one of the OG's alongside like by amazing of being a really fantastic
Magic player mass getting picked though on the right side nice shot to read that
I mean this is like watching deathmatch it really is at this point Vicky like it's just if you've never seen these two teams before
You're like where they play mr. Heroes. What's going on?
But like this is sort of typical for these two teams right make tech able to fly in tones trades him
He go now on to that Elsa also have to do quite well compared to the Namor
I think it's been tough for him on that hero and to put reads over to that daredevil like you mentioned earlier
That's finally gonna be some stabilization for Lunax
And Logan clapping back here, too giving a round of applause after a nice little freeze and follow from silent plays
that's going to be another clear up from Lunax on this deep bent and toes and rolled out on the Angela.
Look what's on your screen them. It's always the mask try to match that with Lunax instead of if this time it's going to be against Jones.
Yeah, it's the classic strategy, you know, Sun's Woo. If we don't know what we're doing, they don't know what they're doing.
You know, they're hitting what we're doing, right? It's intelligent. Logan, you talk about how he's clapping back, he's clapping back so far.
are set back to the spawn due to some excellent aim.
Logan is not enough as he gets focused once again.
He backs away, survives for now, but Reed is unfortunately
has to pay for it.
The court trust, though, looks huge.
As they go into their line of sight,
they find a 3K, beautiful ball from Kendrick, too.
And with the itch, Jeff, from the silent place,
it's back to reset because they have to.
It's not like there's a lot of time or space
that Yawilah seem to push this cart, too.
Yeah, that's tough.
I mean, they're all set up in an alley,
like a flick of like a bowling alley honestly like they're just rolling over
right yep strike on to the entire team send it back to the spawn four minutes
now vicky in the second phase and ultimates are still coming up for
yeah we lost they can play even more aggressive again we saw xantho do it
before with in the middle boundary you think it happens again you try to body
block them from the hallway look how many are stacked up on this back and if
they text is hungry to took some notes into those able to try to get the follow
but it was deeper who falls right afterwards they took and said says
Released the nothing and cart is gonna be able to go Omega
Hold to be able to also stall out and beat up the other whole fear from the side and that leaves this try alone
Zayte capitalizes wraps up in a yaw we lost sandwich and lunatics are trying to brute force their way out because guess what?
The cart is still getting put by two
Please they take this kind of call me at this point man. Like it's he go
I think he's been so good ever since going back over to name boy here comes everybody
the end, look into the jet,
that's four, no way, you can't touch him.
You have one person to touch is just the daredevil
and everybody's sent to third phase
where they can't touch the cart.
And yeah, we lost the two load.
Final score, two, two.
That's crazy.
That was insane.
Yeah, we lost her, look at like one of the best teams
in the entire tournament and that is not a joke.
This is, they play everything and anything under the sun,
except the meta and they made it at this point
because Zaytex is the MVP for a good reason.
Again.
Again, yeah.
Dude, Zaytex had Elsa after what you just saw.
What he did with the Mantis earlier on.
Now, yeah, he lost.
They rolled out.
Remember when we talked about unorthodox compositions?
Well, take a look at this stat line.
Shit word out here with eight finals,
but it is the Zaytex show with 13 final hits.
And with the way that they were trying to roll out originally,
Kendrick going over to the Magic over first,
said before stopping over to the Jeff slot way there wasn't a solo supports for them to work with
they were able to take control over the point I also feel like just raw mechanic wise dogman
they didn't get to exit out of the spot on the gates right both of those entrances were being
blocked out by yaoi loss if it was zatex on one side then you had to deal with cart on the other
you would get whip lash having to force your way to at least recontest but I have to also
give credit words do look at lunix and look at their stat line readus with 13 finals 26 and 6
like I like the iteration that we are currently seeing from lunix this was
absolutely closer and way more competitive than what we saw in the grand finals within the MRC
in our best of seven yeah absolutely I just need to see something I guess out of Tico it's hard
because like I read this has to go play on the daredevil and then Tico can't really do anything
on the the Elsa so they have some things to figure out and I think that we lost and we looked super
comfortable in their hero pool but again I mean lunix a good showing but still in a loss 50 I mean
I mean, that may not matter if they get eliminated from the roof in relegated.
Yeah, yeah, because remember, we only have these two weeks, right, of the preseason.
You have to look on ahead to see what your matches are looking like for the
following weekend. Yeah, we lost now, sitting pretty with another dog.
They sit at the top of Group B alongside Liquid Citadel.
I believe their next series is going to be against TSM and Space Station.
Space Station being first on day number one for next weekend, and then rather
TSM on the second day, so that's going to be two other matches that yeah, we lost to prepare for and it's honestly kind of crazy
That you're looking at those upcoming matchups
And it is the MRC qualified team that you probably favor
It's just based on the absolute dominance that we've seen from them. You said it there at the very end dogman
Are they playing mystery heroes like we don't know what exactly they're playing
They're playing it so well that it literally doesn't matter. They're trans they're transcending the meta it seems
If you look at back as well as yesterday's match right nightmare versus yeah, we lost and yeah
We lost against lunic. It's like these teams are bringing out the best or depending how you see the worst
Of each other like they're just baiting each other into off meta picks. I absolutely love that
This is what they do man like for lunax
I think I think they've been kind of like leaning into that side a little bit more recently
But yeah, we lost there just like this. They are built differently for sure and you know, I think you guys talked about it
I mean that matchup by the way will be at the end of the next week between the team liquid
Yeah, we lost so that could be for the first seed that would be an insane match to see
That is so crazy. We all knew that yeah
We lost is gonna thrive in this meta like just based on what we've seen from them in MRC though
They were so very dominant on the dive and now the dive is so so so strong like we did play some pretty high
But yeah, fighting for the first love, that's kind of crazy.
That's honestly wild.
I think it's a statement when you see that, like,
Light wasn't going to try to ditto the Spider-Man matchup against Jitward.
You mean, well, like, Jitward is rolling out on the Spider-Man,
and he's still trying to make it work on certain maps is...
I mean, yeah, we lost, yeah, we won.
We know it's a playoff of words, but they're never go, like, with the meta.
They create their own meta in every single series you see.
Yeah, and they're honest, as we said, they're making it work, right?
Jitward rolling out on Spider-Man,
but then also they played the dualist Deadpool.
I don't think we've really seen any other team utilizing that.
I think they even had the strategist pool.
Was that yesterday?
The day before yesterday?
No, they just know, yeah, they did it.
Oh, they did it again.
Just like, okay, there was so much going on.
They played it, you're right.
I missed that one.
Yeah, but there are so many swaps.
I do want to give credit to both of these teams
because they are not afraid to make those changes.
right on like the timer on OT and they're still making swaps just to try to get the compositional advantage like to have the guts to do that. That says a lot about the faith you have in your teammates.
Yeah, they go all in right like you can see like they had a strap player spawn camping like they are not going to play it you know it's not about making I mean for a lot of teams that they don't realize it in Marvel rivals I think it's especially in this
especially in this dive meta where like every melee character can be viable.
It does feel like you know any strategy is a good strategy as long as we do it together,
right? Like as long as you're going in as a cohesive unit, it's a good strat, right? Like
it's not a dumb play if everybody does it. That's right. If you're wrong, you just got to be wrong
together and then is anyone really wrong? That's all for the SAT together. I mean, you just have
to be on the same page or at least read the same book. Like some teams are literally like...
So you're saying I could I could collude with my teammates in my my IRL classmates if I'm in college if they're like doing a level-graded system
You know imagine my imagine we all get a zero is that mean we all ace the test?
Yes, because then as a collective you can gaslight your teachers into thinking that
This is not
Believe that there are fists back. So clearly it's working
I think yeah strength to the people
I'm really excited to see more of them, such as in the preseason, but then also heading into regular season.
There's always like one team in like every year. Like I feel like there's always like one team in like every year, like I feel like there's always like one team in like every year, like every year, like every year, like every year.
I'm I'm really excited to see more of them, such as in the preseason, but then also heading into the regular season
There's always like one team in like every year like I feel like we can I don't know
We're not biased obviously none of us are biased but like I mean yeah
We lost or definitely a team that we can all agree or it's like it's just so much fun to watch every time they play
You don't even know what to expect like hello
We did see like the black panther two seconds with that black panther took out two strats
So you know what you go through those the axis you go crazy
And then you also run out with a very unorthodox opposition and make it work
And then you also throw a lot of people studying out the window when they look back at these vods to prepare for next week
And they're like okay like what they had Jeff on solo eos for like two minutes and they still won
Yeah, I mean literally impossible to prepare against team that has like every ace and then some different card games in their sleeves
So like what you gonna do about that?
We do have cards joining us now for a quick chat, so let's bring a card in.
Card hello and welcome and congratulations, another dub on the board for you guys.
And men, are we entertained by what we're seeing. Walk me through this though.
What was your approach to this match preparation-wise but also mindset-wise,
given that you just recently won against them in a very convincing fashion, granted on a different patch?
We beat the mid MRC, 4-0, so we were just looking at the ban lines we used and just talking about that for like our entire warm up time.
Because the game is on the old patch and the live server, the team that was working us up, doesn't have access to the old patch, so we just spend all the time focusing on the ban line.
Well, I mean, in that regard, you guys just made it like unscathed this week, which is a little crazy, right?
Like for you guys, I know that you know you're a great team, and I know that you guys have been practicing a lot with these comps for ever, basically.
But did you expect, I think, this week to go as well as it did?
I mean, for you guys to make it through week one undefeated so far, now you get to practice against teams on the next patch.
I mean, that's got to obviously feel good, first of all.
But like how are you preparing going into next week maybe for that that patch change that you just mentioned?
It feels really good obviously
I wish I didn't drop a map tonight, man. I think we just played terribly and then I see nine on the
Last point over time, but I think your name is cart lover man. You didn't love the cart there. What the hell?
Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is
It's kind of in the name so kind of unfortunate that happened, but to prepare I
I think we're just gonna like experiment with letting Elsa throw a lot because she lost 25 health
And then playing a lot more white fox because she is really good
Makes a lot of sense because now with those of us I feel like it really benefits on some teams versus like other teams
I may not feel very comfortable walking out white box
I mean with you guys you create your own meta you create your own compositions
I feel like it gives everybody like we're blessed. They're not really sure what to expect like can you explain a little?
a little bit about your approach specifically
against Team Liquid Citadel as that final match
within the preseason to determine who is actually
going to take that first seat, because obviously you guys
are the crowd's favorites.
They are very entertained watching you guys
without revealing all the plans up your sleeve.
How are you specifically feeling about that specific matchup
versus Liquid Citadel?
Do you guys think that you would be number one coming
out of Group B?
I think it's very possible.
It'll be hard.
If we play well, we should be able to beat them.
We lost to the core of Liquid in the Mega Monthly under the name Grace Carr, and at the time
we didn't have a gun, so they were playing Ultron, and we were on all melee heroes, but
now we have Zatex who plays guns, so it'd be really nice to have another shot with somebody
who shoots the Ultron that's in the air.
Generally, if you're looking at your group, obviously, you've got to be coming in confident
saying that you expect to be on top.
Who's after that?
Who do you think is going to be the four teams that are making it to the playoffs?
It could go either way.
I think any team other than us and Liquid has a chance of not making it.
I think it can go anywhere.
It's really tight for you, Finn.
Yeah, yeah.
I think Lunex probably won't, but the other three TSM, SSG and Nightmare, I don't really
know what can happen there.
But I think the Nightmare, SSG mentioned, I decided, that's happening pretty soon.
As a fellow MRC team, do you cheer Lunex on though, are you kind of rooting for fellow
MRC teams or not at all?
Yeah, I used to be on a team with TGO, so I love them.
I think Indian tones are really good as well, but I think they still have a lot to figure out
I think they can be really good in the future
But I'd like to see them when I like to see them perform
They I thought they were gonna be TSA whenever I saw they got a map
Yeah, I honestly saw you by the way, I just have to make a comment because I was laughing myself
Stop making sense is that how you get your power up like the side of your hair is like the longer your hair gets the
Crazier you get on hold for something
So what's what do you mean stop making sense is that does that go hand-in-hand with your comps?
It's a yeah pretty much and then I have the YWL up there as well, but it's a cool for me then both talking heads
And I just think they're really cool
Yeah, that's part of it's pretty connected that we lost
Gotcha
Right on well Kurt. Thank you so much for joining us for the chat. Thanks for sharing the insight and best of luck next week
Thank you so much. I'll probably see you guys again.
Oh, see you soon.
Probably the only one who is willing to talk to us in the post-patch interview.
So, I've got to hear a lot from Card, which I love great to get to pick their brains and hear from the teams.
Yeah, it is such a heartbreak, though. Like, Luleks do play so well, right?
For them to be 0-3 after the performance they had, because I'm looking at them and like, I'm feeling confident about that roster.
Yeah, I'm with you. I'm sure Vicky is as well like this. This team doesn't feel like it like an only only three team
It really doesn't and it will see maybe like they have a chance like he said
They're old they're down to no in three hole
But you know fly quest could be in that earlier or later on to maybe we'll see their match up to
Well for now we are gonna head into a quick break, but don't go anywhere
We're far from done here match three is coming up
It's going to be Sentinels taking on yet another MRC team,
Café Rose, you don't want to miss it.
to talk about right now. The
current standings of all the
teams in the America region.
Now there's plenty of days to
have the preseason shake up. But
as it stands, Group A Group B
where did the teams land and
then ship I want to talk about
and some of these shift a bit, especially those with the predictions out there, you want to know exactly how they're going to do. Well, group A, the group of dead. Let's start there. Swamp gaming is going to be in first place as of now in RG followed by that.
that. Sentinels, then cafe rows followed by 100 thieves and fly
quest. Now to be fair, some of these teams have not played two
matches, some haven't. So that's going to affect someone like
100 thieves who, you know, they took a loss and that's going to
take them all the way down. Even though fly quest play twice and
they're at the bottom, but that's how it's working right now.
Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, in energy up in
second place, they have another opportunity to keep moving
forward if they win their next match. I've only played one day
as well. If you look at group A, who do you think is going to
move from here. Obviously, I
think 100 Thieves should
definitely be able to move on
up. We'll see how far they can
move up with NRG beating them.
Right? That's going to be one
team that they're going to have
to look to either hope to drop
a game or, you know, move past
if NRG plays perfect and they
will be in control of their own
destiny, as we like to say, as
well as swamp gaming. Yeah, I
think we definitely see Thieves
moving up. Sentinel's has
potential to they started
locking into yesterday and that
was exciting. But again, I mean,
it's like it with these teams,
it's like any given day. I will
say that when we looked at 100
Thieves and NRG, they were so
They were so closely matched and you obviously were there for that.
That was one of those games that we, you know, in terms of early season, like it was just mind blowing to watch a ton of fun.
So they're up there even so no matter what, I think they're going to get closer on the leaderboard.
But yeah, I mean, it's so tricky because I want to say Cafe Rose is a chance to move forward because they look good.
But right now there's so much talent today.
It's any given day right now.
It's got to be roughly similar, I'd say for sure.
I think a lot of fans out there have two things highlighted.
It's swamp gaming versus energy.
What's just today, day three.
day three. So that's going to
answer a lot of questions. And
then gaming versus 100. These
I think those are some of the
matchups to see some of these
kind of even out and then I
would say set those to punch
up above those top three as
well and kind of see how they
measure up to them. Obviously,
we saw a little bit of that on
day one, but we want to see the
classic hundred these set
knows like sometimes teams
play other teams just better on
how it works. It's not always
one for one. So that's going to
be group A and how that's going
to shake up and again Cafe
Rose was a lot of people's last
team and they're looking like
team. They're definitely not
going to be for us. That last
spot, at least of right now,
but over the group B. This is
where I think we see a lot more
shake up most likely as these
teams need to get rust off them,
or they just continue to play
others and things kind of work
out their way right now. Team
Liquid is leading the pack at
the top, followed by Yeah, we
lost which a prediction wise.
That's where I had the one of
the two, but we did have SSG to
Major things to call out nightmare was right up there with yet we lost obviously going to map three struggle a bit on the third map so I think they'll likely move up they only have one match under their belt right now so not the best distribution obviously once they play again today we might see where that shakes up but that's a similar story for yet we lost to one their very first matchup obviously against nightmare so they have the potential to stay right in that spot or in contention with team liquid Citadel but I will say team liquid Citadel I don't see them moving at all I don't know about your take on that.
Yeah, I know for sure. I think that they right now have a pretty anchored start to it. I mean, if you look at them already taking down someone like SSG, that's a great win. If they beat, yeah, we lost. I think they kind of just cement themselves at the top today. It's going to be Netmar versus SSG and that is going to shake up, I think, a lot in the middle there because yeah, we lost as well.
that's what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about the team
that's going to be playing as
well. They play Lou next, which
I would say probably they look
favorite to win because of how
they played them against the
MRC like we've seen that story
play out a little bit. However,
anything can happen when you have
a couple weeks to prepare. So
that's my expectation there. But
this one's much more wide open
in my opinion. But here's the
the team. We've already fixed
their banning strategies and
looked a lot better like we
were just talking about with
sentinels that same thing is
applied to all of these teams
and not only that their team
compositions and their
studying of their opposition.
Some teams just played better
into others so very much
looking forward to seeing what
happens today because I think
it's going to set the tone for
what we're going to see in the
future. Absolutely well we'll
find out more in day three.
Don't go anywhere we're going
to be back after this break to
some more action. Welcome back
everyone at March three as
upon us is going to be
that's what I'm talking about.
Sentinels taking on a cafe or
rose and now sentinels
performed a lot better
yesterday when we saw the
Monday one. I think a lot of
people were really worried
like, do they have the right
idea? Do they have the right
pieces to play in the current
meta? And they did make the
necessary switches. So
there much yesterday looked a
lot better. However, there is
So the real question is, have they been tested?
Now, on the other side, they will be going up against Cafe Rose,
a team that no one really had on their radar
until they popped off in their first match of the season,
which was also against FlyQuest, who is struggling.
So, transitive properties.
Who beat FlyQuest harder?
Is that the better team?
Maybe, maybe.
I mean, like at this point, both teams have gone
through a side quest, sadly, in FlyQuest.
We'll see if they can rebound.
I mean, everybody else would say it's been,
it's been like actually overused,
like everyone's like, oh my God, FlyQuest,
more like SideQuest, you know, let me get it.
Oh, it's personal hearing, it's, I'm still, I'm still.
No, you're doing, oh good, good.
You're getting excited for the next year
when that's all people say on Twitter,
because that's the only thing people say about FlyQuest.
And it will be the first time I'm ahead of a trend.
So, thank you for filling me in, now I know better.
Let's talk about those two teams that we have at hand, though,
and leave FlyQuest out of it.
They will be, it will be their turn later today.
Sentinels and Cafe Rose.
Sentinels made a lot of adjustments.
They even treated us to an Ironman
with Rai-Mazing yesterday.
They utilized the Ultram.
It was great to see Rai-Mazing on those flyers.
And really doing so much for the team on those as well.
She always wants to go Ironman.
I said it in the interview too.
It's like, I've never forget his piece of combo
We're probably in the back over at champs dog.
And he was like, man, just let me do it.
Like, trust me.
And then we had to do it.
I'm like, all right.
So did your team trust you?
He's like, yeah, obviously.
I already knew we were going over.
That was the perfect map to run it.
It was all Jolia.
And then they were able to really pop off with it.
And while it worked this time around,
I mean, we've even seen, like, what was it?
Like, Torch and Amia in Central Park.
So these more vertical maps have been bringing
very interesting comps.
I'm not expecting that to go down.
because Torch has kind of had their wings clipped
when it comes to America's getting ready with it,
with the amount of Elsa that you allow through
in these picking band phases,
why we keep the Elsa coming through,
is my question mark,
but we have to take a look at Cafe Rose,
because I feel like Dog Man,
so we said this perfectly.
If Swamp Gaming was able to take out Setinals,
and then Cafe Rose beat FlyQuest,
but Swamp Gaming beat Cafe Rose,
and Al of Setinals beat FlyQuest,
we have flipped the script, right?
Now I feel like this is the determining factor
on where these teams stay because it's kind of like that third to fourth place in the overall
standings for group A where these two teams are still kind of figuring out where they sit,
but Sentinels have been still forcing out this triple strat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You lost me a little bit because I'm just like...
Oh, rather than five and four.
No, you only lost me because the freaking map of this group is getting crazy. It's like actually,
like I was I was like getting you at the first part and then like just the story of group A
has been insane like it actually is clinically insane and that's why it's perfect for you Vicki
because like I do feel like swamp gaming at the top was unexpected and you mentioned how like your
your predictions are looking a lot better now for a good reason because it's kind of just been wild
in somehow you and Zoe have both read this that group A was just gonna be swamp gaming at the top
And now Sentinels and Cafe Rose are fighting to be in the group.
Nobody even expected, like you said, Cafe Rose.
They weren't anybody's radar.
Cue the X-Files music, too.
And I said like four or five, technically,
because that's kind of like what we've been seeing
with energy popping off.
That's how we say that, one thing, too.
Energy has absolutely taken this group by a chokehold, too.
Yes.
No, it's fantastic.
I love that it is so very competitive in both of our groups.
Like, you literally can say it's anyone's game.
It actually is.
Now, if you're watching and you're new here and you don't know why people had Cafe Rose at the very bottom of the Sandings,
not only were there, they were the last team to qualify through MRC,
but then they also came here and they had to replace two big pieces of their roster, right?
So they are playing on very short notice with two different players,
which they do have pre-existing synergy with each other, Sanji, as well as Pro Builder,
they play together on extinction, but still like slotting two new pieces into this team
in a new meta as well and coming into this very competitive group, we did not really
see that going down too well for them.
Alas, they did deliver, they looked very, very cohesive, very aggressive, and the synergy
is just there.
Yeah, they kind of just built it, right?
I think Vicki also mentioned it, like this Cafe Rose team is just getting, you know,
kind of stronger, but that's the tough part and that's why I think this matchup is so compelling to me, Zoe, is because like Sentinels, we can all agree, day one, they kind of fluffed, right?
Like, they did not look like the Sentinels, but Sentinels of old, they did something very poor in their draft process and maybe after the game versus FlyQuest looked to rebound and it's tough.
That's why this is such a hard prediction because both teams kind of stomped FlyQuest, which was unexpected and now we're going to really see them go ahead and head on the first map, which is going to be burned with Jell.
and that's going to be the answer to all of our questions.
Yeah, I am excited for this one.
Sentinel's taking on Cafe Rose in our third match of the day.
All right, thank you, Zoe.
Heading into the band phase.
All right, Vicki, what do you think they banned out,
first of all?
Like, I don't know if you agree with me,
but like it seems to me that, you know, last time
Sentinel's kind of messed up the band phase, right?
You mentioned how important Elsa is,
and they're already going straight for Gambit instead.
Yeah, and with Cafe Rose immediately taking out the Elsa,
we've seen you sure like pop off.
We know that we're amazing as like a professional ditto,
but I think another important thing to note was that
Corova wasn't like in the starting lineup
that we saw from Settinels before.
Like they've been slotting in a different look
for Settinels in general.
And I think that's important to highlight
because when we have ProBuilder
and you have Corova in the same lobby
and Mirror is now being slotted out for Settinels
and now Corova's back,
We're going to see the Adam
Orlox, like what year is it?
I don't think so.
I'm not too sure.
It depends on what this picking
bad face is looking like, but
with the Gambit being protected,
you see the Elsa on the other
side.
That means you don't want the
damage boost from the Mantis,
so it kind of forced out that
band away from Sentinels.
And they've also had to review
which different compositions
that Sentinels like Surring out
because we talked about, yeah,
we lost being a very unorthodox.
Sentinels are kind of still
sticking to like the old two
strategy, despite the ultimate
nerves that we've had.
Yeah, I think it's an excellent
I think they've been kind of mixing things up and I don't know like
Percentinals, this is this is the time that you have to take advantage of them if your cafe rose, right?
Like because the Bay like the patch was only like the new season even was only like what 15 days ago or less now at this point
I don't like last Friday or Thursday or whatever
Like it's not been that long even with the new patch that we'll get next week with the white fox changes everybody's talking about
But like usually it takes teams like an entire month to figure out a patch in my opinion
And so this is going to be interesting to kind of get the overarching theme of things.
But as you mentioned, Vicki, we're going to see both Invisible Woman and Gambit
and Protect It for Team Sentinel.
So again, we're focused towards the strategist line.
And for Cafe Rose, they're kind of mixing things up as well, making sure
that the van pool doesn't get in alongside the Star Lord and Elsa.
So I don't know about you, but I'm leaning towards Cafe Rose.
What are you thinking in the band phase?
I agree too, actually.
The fact that they could protect the Venom and the Elsa, you have the Auntie.
But they do have to deal with the fact that they don't have a gambit in this and mantis
That's fine because we've seen pixel play off of the Luna respect you with these BRB's when you have pro builder on the moon night
I'm not too sure if that's what we're really gonna start with. Yeah
You have a lot of close quarter fights when you're getting onto the other side of the hallway
But this is pro builder when we saw go over to moon night. I believe it was over in New York
So it's a little bit easier to break through those chokeholds and you're expecting like a triple vanguard of old
but this is domination. This is map number one. And now with Sentinels on
their side with Braemacine Queen on Ultron, this is kind of like that first
team just yesterday where we started seeing more utilization of Ultron
proceeding in throughout that day. Yeah, it can work and I think you know I
guess the things that we've seen differed maybe for like the side of the
Yabu Cross. Like maybe earlier they did the Mantis stuff with like the DPS pool and stuff.
Like that's always something that they can switch to but maybe not Sentinels, right?
like they have to think a little bit inside the box slightly right like this iron or with this uh
ultron like pocket composition is it's quite different than what we would see out of maybe more
fast-paced squad. It also means that uh cafe rose the fact that they're not running the magneto
there's not going to be a bubble on pixel when he's going to be using the eternal bond which is
something that documents are going to be looking for with the meteor and they were expecting the
portal though as it tries to cut them off from the other side setinals getting ahead of them cafe
Rose now wrapped up from behind and it's all up here for pro builders to try to
follow up not only between no fight but also with the CIA and nobody's ready for
to pop that armor. I mean they're running this competition is kind of deal as well
with that rock and raccoon that's gonna come in nice freeze to slow down the
venom but we're like oh no caught towards the point doesn't have the team's
help I mean you sure just kind of walking forward though the BRB does
bring him back in terms of ultimate charge Sentil should be able to get this
Ultron's rage up but it might be at the same time probably taking a ton of damage
who's just playing hard and peel style.
Slows down the venom, in the meantime with the stun,
able to fly back to the team,
those nice shields from Leroy too.
So, Syndals with this first point though,
are kind of just able to play towards the back
until they have ultimates.
They're sitting at the edge.
Crypto was literally a pixel of health
and looked at the extermination, both respect
and remains to get in the best, but Shangy!
From the skies, Clip's right amazing swing,
which invalidates the extermination
and allows Cafe Rose to walk up
and also rekindle the point
I think there was one stall from Sentinel.
We literally heard in the interview,
Kurt Lover's like we didn't have the gun character player
in our team to deal with all the time in the sky.
And you know when the gun character is in the lobby
with the energy, he's just able to take down Ultron,
Rymazing's ult, gone to waste, nothing else to follow up.
And I would have thought maybe they'd go for the Ultranals
in the time, but it has been, right?
So now they only have 25% of the board,
which is not a lot honestly considering the advantage they
had, and now you're going against this,
Lord Tron or Lord Tron which should be discussed.
Like the Galtron, it's almost like a hybrid of place.
Maybe if you have the rage of Royal Fletcher,
at least you could deal with it
because you get the pure part right through
over from the other side and we try to back away.
The Iron Phoenix, as the reset comes into use here,
but unfortunately could not land its mark.
There was no follow-up damage.
Pixel saves a life for now.
And also saves a life through a meteor.
And it looks like from Dogman,
Kurova's riding with the Invisaliboundry
and now the lyric comes in with an eye of Agamotto
is hitting ghosts. The pro builder wants to go in for these follow-ups, but unfortunately
the distracting the beast at the moment is still benefits cafe rose because they still control
over the point, but they've lost out on pro builder right mazing's upset and he finds nobody to the
process. That's too out and set those get the reclaim this point shortly. Yeah, sadly, I mean
pro builder was committed. Nobody was there to really help him and now respects ultimate has
to be held and the Phoenix might build Phoenix Sultan time to counter it. So, rough fight I think
for cafe rose. Both teams appear to be a little bit messy, honestly. Like there's a lot of
a lot of mistakes were on the board.
These fights are lasting a lot longer.
I think that we would see it about the squads.
But maybe things change within forward, right?
Sentinels, they need to build up this Phoenix Ultimate.
I think the counter-respect may not happen,
but it depends on how much space they give them.
All I ask you on ProBuilder,
and trying to get impact here with this galactic legend,
especially with Rai-Mazing,
having the extermination,
rallying up the troops zone with the Freedom Charge,
is gonna be Crimson who had made that swap off of Venom
into that Captain America and usher pulls up and takes the full opportunity to find a 3k that brv
Unfortunate for pixel is gonna be to no avail they take him out back to back yet
No other choice and set those gets a wrap up around cafe rows in terms of their progress on the point
I mean, I guess like the idea is to get ults out they get capped out
But that's a little brutal because I mean they didn't have the Phoenix will just get I think on user side
They probably built it so it makes sense why you want to hold on to it
But they're still getting countered in that regard, so I really wonder what Cafe Rose do here.
I mean, they have to find a kick in the neutral, but they're still against a lot of Shreddles.
And with this opening things up with the C, you try to send him out of the guard but you're reaching the lead from the other side.
But Shreddy fights Coropa!
No way he was about to have the invisible boundary!
This has right amazing, at least with the extermination to help Recess stay while they wait out on Coropa.
But there's also a last sentinel.
So at least kind of move back, give some space to Cafe Rose.
There we'll say that.
And Cafe Rose has the point!
Dude!
Dude, what? And they had taken up Corova too, which we scroll will have invisible boundary for the next round
But they could have literally contested they almost like they were afraid or feeling very pressured out because they could have walked beyond that choke
It was the extermination from Rai amazing that they were trying to respect
But there was no time they had to recontest and nobody's had all
Oh
That's that's just brutal that is
But like oh god, that's rookie mistake, man. That just is that there's a lot of often dude
That's like one of the worst I've seen Vicky. That's brutal
I mean honestly in that last fight it looked like no binds actually doesn't have his
Like bound like what is he doing? Like why can't we touch like what why's nobody touching like I'm actually to get like what are we doing?
They're playing too scared in it with the advantage like you said like carola overextended got picked he fed
Cap heroes needs to take advantage of it. Nobine setting up his play, I get that.
But someone's got touch to the end point man, that's embarrassing.
Especially when they were doing so well, right? They had advantage in that fight.
And even if Karova came back with a visual boundary, it was still winnable here, but
we got to move on to the round number two here. Can't look back now,
only move forward. They're a piece of the abyss here. Meanwhile, no one's looking at Pixel.
Fear, Magneto, Meteor, M trying to crash down though and Karova was ready with that
invisible boundary. Now it's going to be match with Lyric having Meteor, M looking for one of
the other side shooting blind to
Coroba being on the other back
end, all that invisible boundary
and still getting dosed by this
venom. Pixel is going to be able
to move everybody from Cafe
Rose to keep harassing Sentinels
because they have the number
advantage and the point
advantage.
Sentinels keep presenting
opportunities to Cafe Rose to
take advantage. They're still
touching. Yes, they're down a
member of the squad, so they have
to still play explain using
every corner in the touch. No
opening just yet either for
Sentinels. So this would be
actually very hard to hold on
to, but Cafe Rose have been
But can't they both have been slow so slow to take advantage of their ultimate advantage like they're going in with this like
Spin to win with the ultimates before anything since presentable to them built they're letting sentinels get back into this fight now
We're committing star lord and to see you later in the middle of the fight
Maybe we can get advantage finally they do so and they take people out
But they're a little bit too slow to react sometimes over sentinels when sentinels is giving them an edge
But sentinels trying to find some things they actually do so across the map from bongman's team up with the gambit
So they're kind of still in it oddly no sentinels are oh, yeah, they have way more damage output to I mean
It's the fact that you have the sea it's gonna be the discount raging world flush
And it doesn't get the same impact that the region where flush does afterwards and set knows with crimson who had stalled from the very beginning
Finally now set knows flip the point for the first time in the series. That was a very long initial fight
Yeah, this is this is wild
But it's what I'm saying like this is cafe roses opportunity to take down sentinels and they they just floundered every single time like
Sentinels in these cases, you know, whether it be Rai-Mazing overextending or Korova or Ushur, you know,
this team is obviously still working on the coordination a little bit.
We'll see if they can finally put things together.
There will be a game, Zanji and a ton of ults, but with this Ultron Drake, they're going on the aggression.
This is what you would want to see out of the... the opposite side of Cafe Rose.
Oh my god, what's up with that?
Oh my god!
Oh, wait!
I mean, even... did you see the also turnaround from Rai-Mazing, who also started shooting the end part of the extermination towards a just-in-case,
But it looked like it was blocked out from the other side as now broke those are move up fine right basing
I mean there's only so many directions
I made you could look at as they try to dive up to the strats beer Matthew
Oh, be here and shaggy though has found both of the strategies from sentinels leaving that medium hitting nothing
But blank his dog made is the next one to go out and only leaving Crimson as right amazing come the out of the spawn room gates
Yeah, like it so far
Honestly this switch up the daredevil play has been nice out of Zon she nice ultimate as well
the high, you know, couldn't save him, couldn't keep him alive. Now it's
upcoming fight. We also use Phoenix Ultimate so we know Cafe Rose's respect
has that free rocket raccoon ultimate to fight in this upcoming fight. Depends
on how he places it, depends on how safe it is, right? Like, Cafe Rose, we know
they've been a little bit slow to react on. She now caught out by the Captain
America who's keeping these flanks in check, but we'll see if you can find a
pick in the neutral before they use the rocket open. You know, respect pops it.
You tell it to me, I think even though they're not gonna find KO's, it's probably
worthwhile just make sure you can at least get a fight wins. It does but now
Sentinels by the way are trying to back cap and the Cafe Enros realize it they
go right back to the point while Sentinels try to walk up for free up on
the high ground they give space to them it was all thanks to Crimzo on the cap
you're wondering too we've been seeing a lot more cap fans unfortunate for Polly
but it's also been targeted towards Crimzo too here and this is the reason
why the stall potential is on another level you want to get the mosquito
squatter and slap that cap away from the point and he's got the freedom charge
to help out with the stall as well as pro builder who can get into an angle to utilize the apex predator
And all over the point everybody trying to play her inside these
Rones pro builder going down to usher nice job respect obviously dodging around making sure they maintain height sentinels
Trying to get that flip it and they'll do so like you said just able to walk in the point invisible boundary
And capitol to enough to deal with cafe rose and then back to spawn now for cafe rose
They give up that point you have meteor em to counter that ultron's rage, but really be peeled for
yet again on the side of Sentinels like they did in the last fight from Zongan.
I know, if you're sure, having the follow-up potential and the reset.
Here you go with the extermination is ready.
Raising oil flush is going to be the ready-set go.
Printo does get frozen.
Me, your M-pressor, focus down on the scams and you sure find respect.
No C available for this next upcoming fight.
No fights as expected.
Low pixels having to dance off, trying to back away too.
back away to but said I was here in already 85% with the extermination
they're down these two members and Crimson is harassing Change he managed
to get away in time thinks the pixel being in an off angle to help them out
and Cafe Rose they still haven't flipped the point just yet but with the
information they'd call that on right amazing in the air every time she's
able to run three row with the back line close to that ultimate as well
to mean central do have the point to very least respect still sitting with
ultimate they know there's no Phoenix ultimate to so he could pop this
whenever but I don't know if they need to because they have that tier double going hand the pocket
nice job of the clap keeping pretty live as long as possible around spedicate but it's not enough
sadly consider you don't have any ultimates now they go back to spawn vicki 66 percent of the board
they'll flip it but this is getting dicey I mean the last fight maybe sentinels couldn't take an
advantage with a little bit more ultimates outside of that they're gonna stagger by amazing who has
to slowly walk off the map the cafe arose an interesting spot now vicki they have to still
play a little reactive but Sentinels don't have ultimates at all they have to
build Corovus ultimate and I mean for him for his case I'm wondering you know
if he's gonna get picked by Pro Builder again who went off with the Warthrox in the previous fight.
And information from Shandy who's gonna be able to retell that to Cafe Rose they
have a C and they have no binds close to that feast of the Abyss they have to
retouch here if you're sentinels Cafe Rose close to that 9-and-1% you sure
having that one who you want to get so by specifically remember he does not
reach out to the armor as well as the extra health from the Feast of the Abyss
overtime now activated and Frimzo is looking to strike. He has the self potential with that freedom
charge and they're going to be rotating that together with Glova once he uses that visual
boundary but right now Kefe rose up a BRB that's also a difference maker as nobis comes in and
usual won't be able to come in with a reset up a vehicle. The nobis just seem to live nice and
easy as well ultimate on to the back line but here comes that large rocks it should be big it
could be off the map there goes one is it enough he might die in the middle of this oh yes finally
is able to take down Pro Builder, who's been playing hyper aggressive drafts for over days to get found by Lyric at the very least.
So that's something Rachel Ruebblast and Playmate is here, but can they find a KO under Rikaji, who is trying to dodge away wait time, wait time out of Sentinels.
And he does so. I mean, he's still off the point as well with this. He was still ultimate. I mean, you don't have anything.
You have White Fox ultimate coming back to the point, and the Media Rev, but they have to find some KO's here with this Media Rev.
has to commit on something. He's got every old in the book, can't he get rid of this rocket
raccoon or the back line. They're at 5-1, trades out playmate. So it's a one for one of strats.
Do we find the chaos after this? We have strat ultimates. Surely we hit the shot user. Come
on, man. There it is. Another one down. Sentinels do get the point flipped, but the full is
surely going to come.
And is it going to be enough time? It's by a pixel, and how sentinels, they do flip it
in their favor. Looking back at cap heroes, it's going to be pixels. We're not trying
to put down that portal. It's sticking down for them, and they're currently a pro-builder.
in the game. We're going to
have to wait for them to get
their own spider benders not
enough time to set it down and
set Knowles. They take map
number one. Holy crap. I'm
just in awe, Vicky like
stellar space work could have
been their map. And then that
one, too. I mean, at the end
too many ultimates for sure.
The large rocks in the big I
think that like that there
you know, their Elsa plans
playing a little bit too
aggressive like Dongwins had
multiple opportunities where
fights but just keep losing grass because of Sentinels you know I guess
higher-calorie play I think that they've overall played better. Usher had
most final hits in the lobby was kind of free but still kind of a tough round
from cafe rules to lose considering man they were just seconds away from winning.
And was also consistently contesting Pro Builder every single time you saw
Pro Builder up on the high ground who was waiting to blast them off is gonna
be you sure. So I think you sure having that target priority sure no also no problem don't
worry we'll be able to roll out you sure just fine on the phoenix and it was dealing a good
amount of impact to you on the back line that was trying to hide side by side together.
No binds wasn't able to get the follow up. You saw respect getting targeted to Crimson
despite what you see right there with him getting eight KOs going down three times.
It was the stall potential that also allowed sentinels in the first place to get that point
in their favor.
Yeah, I think you're absolutely right, but you hit the nail on the head right there.
I mean, just the call out of Crenzo, you got a great read on it because, I mean, he was
just doing everything in the lobby in terms of just impacting the game.
And yeah, you're right.
He's a big reason they won, even though MVP does go to U-shirt.
Now, for Sentinels, Vicki, can they maintain that going forward, right?
Because we go to the next maps, and honestly, Cafe Rose should be best on domination.
So this is going to be scary, I think, for Cafe Rose as we go either to Convoy or Conversion.
But we're gonna go to short break. We'll see you guys after it for map number two
Thanks for watching!
you
I think that's a good point.
Look, at least is the way I'm
trying to transcend this into
because I they're still sticking
to the triple strap, and I
wanted to get your thoughts on
that to dogman because a lot of
eyes on sentinels and how maybe
this comp may not work for them
against other higher ranking
We've seen like really solid teams play it and they've been good at the past on these compositions
But it's as you mentioned I mean Crimson still here on this roster
They split up for a little bit to go to like multiple different teams
But with Karoba Crimson and we're amazing back alongside Dongmin who has also been all over the place right playing for a ton of teams
After intergalactic, I think he's been a big winch pin to this team also improving
Then you sure has been playing he was like in the APAC region I believe for a little bit in the back
Yeah, it's it's a lot of it's as you mentioned, they're all really good mechanically skilled players
I'm just wondering if they can keep up like improving their team cohesion
I guess is the thing and it's a back to your original point about triple strategist
I think they can run it. It just has to be maybe a little bit like more effective and efficient
We're aggressive like we can all agree like when we saw yabbi lost play triple strategist
That wasn't just them playing back right there. We're always making plays and going forward. It's a little bit different
I think when you run the old Sean instead of the mantis
Yeah, I think we're still just waiting to see how much dimension there is how much depth there is to what sentinels are playing because they just made those switches yesterday right and even in those switches they initially came out on that triple strategist again this time having Ramazing on that
Ultron and in the next map when Ultron was banned, Rimesen did share that with us in the post-maginti.
He said like, what are we going to do when they ban out the Ultron? And that's where Rimesen came in and was like,
I can play Iron Man, you know, like if you let me, if Ultron is out of the mix. So that was kind of their go-to
in case Ultron is taken out of the mix. But will that work every time or is it too one-dimensional?
It might be. I mean, it's like, it's tough because in the past when we did see Iron Man,
different meta though obviously but like it did feel like it was good against these dives like you
can play counter dive with ultron or with iron man rather um and it can work so he's right but as
vicky said this guy's like a freaking ravenous dog try to play ultron or sorry iron man at all
instances so you never know i guess well we're about to find out what happened store for us as
we're heading into map two it's match point for sentinels all right vicky what do you what do
the game of getting band down
so it's looking very similar
dog man because we did see
like the also ban out to from
set nose first as well from the
other side rather with cafe
Rose making sure that you sure
cannot get popped off on that
role considering that he was
just going crazy off of a
Phoenix alone. So maybe seeing
a similar source to that you
have more open sight lines
here too, but it's about getting
through that initial choke
for set nose when they come out
of the attack. Do they get away
with their dear devil? I'm
wondering here because we know
that the game is getting
I'm wondering here because we know that this team, they may like the triple strap, but it's also very flexible if they do need to make some of these shifts.
Are we going to see the Ultron again? Because we still have that verticality. It's something else that I can expect here too.
Yeah, I think there's a lot that you could think. I think maybe we're overthinking even maybe.
Like the fact that we've protected VanPoen. I like VanPoen. They're going to be wrong. I think he's really strong.
But I think going over from domination on to convergence this Elsa should be even stronger
It should be even easier to get large oxes. I believe in these like super, you know linear pathways
So that's a kind of like an overreaction maybe but they go for the protection for the out of warlock
Which is interesting. So we might have ourselves a potential triple composition, but it's matched by that mantis band
so sentinels kind of reacting slowly to what Kathy Rose are doing and
and they're able to still get this full Gambit team-up stuff that they've been playing.
Wait, strap in, Dogman, because this is what I want to look forward to.
If we get the Rymys, or rather the, what we saw from Karova versus Nobines,
or rather Pro Builder, Adam, it could be a ditto matchup.
We got to see, it may happen, it may roll out with it,
but is Karova stuck and not being able to play Adam World?
Like, Jail, we're going to have to find out here, because, Blame,
at least as that Gambit, Dongbin, will be able to follow up with the Rager,
I remember before Ignite started, we just haven't had it in the hero pool, which is a little crazy, you know, maybe Prey that we see World Palace again, maybe, who knows, but you know, I like it for Cafe Rose, it's still odd, I don't even know if like these are the most proactive triple shred of these teams we've seen so far, like, I know they both play it, Vicky, but I mean, surely, surely we've seen a little bit more like proactivity out of like these mantras stuff, like the same things that they've given up on Mantras by the way, considering it's not banned for them, but they don't even want to play it most of the time.
No, if anything, it's just because Rymei-Zing is letting himself unleash up in the skies.
This guy is always up in the air in some way, and if he's gonna be able to pop up with the Ultron,
it's about getting that extermination.
To have much more of that impact, and together with the rage of Royal Flush,
you'll be able to actually melt them down from the air, maybe bring a tear to their eyes.
We're gonna see because already, it doesn't seem like they're not having an issue,
going in through the show, Cafe Rose, playing very spread out.
This is also another map where we have to make the point where this is a fantastic map for Loki.
Yeah, you're talking about being in the sky.
Everybody's trying to play in height, but oh my goodness,
nobines just get stuffed by Dungman.
Nice shot from him, able to walk towards that point.
And this is kind of a winch,
and I think four sentimentals of succeeding
is Dungman taking advantage of the space he provided,
and that's two in the fight for him.
Just walks up, hits the shots on Magneto,
Pro Builder back in the fight,
but I mean, Vicky, they haven't even gotten red.
This is the first time they've used this solo bond,
and they're not even together right now.
They lose Zongi away from their Adam Rulon.
Yeah, now look at what damage they're taking too.
You currently have amazing coming right back over two years.
We're back uncontested in that side room where the health
package.
But with a reconsent from no finds,
I like this board of play.
Still trying to build in space, but also the stall
potential for Cafe Rose.
While Crimson comes in on the bed in great timing
and communication to find that dive and pick up onto Lyric,
that's both the paper house of the table for Cafe Rose.
Between sentinels have the number advantage
and they clear out Cafe Rose in the next.
I just kind of wish in hindsight that we didn't protect
I hate it to say this, but like to protect the van pole instead of the Velsa because I'm just gonna be over to that Phoenix
You already banned like rocket raccoon so you're not really getting like a soft counter there a little bit with the Phoenix
Pro builders over the sidewalks, so they're playing that to do style and that's nice
But I don't know like we work on that first point
I guess it was tougher and we get much to it going and maybe for them
They need to play this to do style just kind of get more aggression on the back like a sentinels
You mentioned it rhyme is he in the sky has been free
And I also think that's the pressure from Crimson right being on the Venom waiting to get the diving opportunity and here in the comes
Okay, there's one dive in get that pick off and you also stall out more than all potential
The extermination is coming out for a set knows as we're amazing
We've been a fresh out cafe bros from this side building look at this take you through the free real estate in this
Oh, we'll absolutely take those as Sanji learns to clap back and shuts down right amazing
Sentinels still have five of these ultimates as a rating world flush, try some match, and it's going to be the win condition for users to have the Galactic Legend.
They tried to match the balloon in the advanced floor, and it's enough to keep everybody alive besides the low Q and comeback, so that's actually not too bad.
And you have to throw up a hit with that band hammer, meanwhile Probler still goes down though, a little bit too far forward.
You know, maybe they can sort of slowly work themselves into it with that Phoenix ult afterwards, but they do find what at least you should go down to Pixel and trade.
This is not that bad for the offense though, because these are KO's after KO's and they're
using ults to not even win the entire teamfight, so it's kind of still awkward like we saw
in previous maps from the side of Kathy Rose.
It's all about having those ults which are touching the Galactic Legend and a Rage of
Rural Flush that helps with these follow-ups, right?
You get the copy though, and now Respect gets the copy off of the Rage of Rural Flush.
It looks like a nice anti-antion to Karova, meter M, comes up from Dogman, and at the
very end of the slice and dice, yes, Robilder fights Karova, but Dogman gets a little bit
of events they just have to over here to help with that sustainability for man
right amazing still up and healthy is on these a little caught out now dashed
back to the team though nice job to hold on to those movement abilities and
also against triple he's a little bit more free so he kind of understands that
he has to play a little more aggressive nice job at the fourth physics on the
Crimson but it's as you talked about I mean he's the he's the way they win these
team fights is getting Crimson removing him like that's we saw a lot of good
teams too right like he mentioned taking up these really hyper aggressive cap and
and then players are the way forward.
Maybe they can slowly work themselves back into the series
by doing, as you said, taking out Crimson,
although he's going to Groot,
so they've maybe thought of that.
They also ended up getting off the atom really early, too.
With Pro Builder being on that side lock
and making some swabs, Lyric gets the cut, though,
with the Deadpool Ultimate of the Corroba
with a beautiful Baguitto bubble,
protecting him in the meantime,
thanks to also the Ultron bot to bring him back up to health.
So they just look at that, they walk away,
They were kind of seeing if they didn't get the impact that they needed.
Sanji doesn't have a reset, but Usur fights nobiles as he tries to fly away.
I'm wondering if this is like we need another person there with us on that dodge
because they do the same hand and the purple goes in, but then after that they have no other follow-up.
Maybe like we saw with the enemy loss, they were like hyper-aggressive with the strategist.
They have to use an invisible boundary, it's such a weird place.
This is an interesting location to get to fight, but it's kind of working
because Usur, this guy doesn't have any support, he goes down.
They have to come back to the culprits out of him now.
That's a lot of damage removed.
Donman still has the meteor out as everybody touches,
so that might help them.
He could connect onto somebody.
Unless there's just a tank that the feast comes in
that helps stall, nobine's still gone.
And one after another, losing the vanguard.
And this is brutal now when we look back at the band phase
because both of the very important duelists are gone,
and both of the duelists have struggled so far.
Zonny goes down to the brutal summit.
Everybody else just kind of ran on
in the middle of the single boundary.
Do we have any damage after this?
Maybe nobine's gonna get a big ultimate.
We lose pro builder again.
And these group laws are being a problem too.
the anti onto three, at least in the back line,
but there is no follow potential
just like you were talking about, Doc Van.
So they're not really afraid if you're set in those.
They blocked out the line of sight once again.
They've isolated no binds.
It's a matter of time before he's literally one shot
and Rai Mazing is a nail in the coffin.
Lyric is going to be the next victim.
And actually even with Lyric moving back
and Yusur finding that pick,
he hasn't been able to have that same amount of impact
because there is no follow potential.
Yeah.
I mean, it's like something needs to change
about Cafe Roast because they realized the best comp
is like the dive comps and stuff.
But nobody's really following up on any of these dives from Pro Builder and Lyra.
Like, where's no binds in these fights?
I'm wondering, kind of, they're just like a little off-sync.
And, you know, dive is always difficult to get a hold of.
So how'd you go to Wolverine?
We saw that pop off before, right?
I think he on this map, so this could be a good change.
Actually like this, because I can catch my amazing up in the sky.
And you sure, actually, the extermination is the first thing to go out
to try to combat that of the Dance of the Cutterfly,
to help and negating what the
dance of the butterfly was
supposed to get for Cafe Rose.
And once again, getting shut down,
you sure in the 1v2 against the
duelist of Cafe Rose, they try to
get the kidnap, they get the anti
and no finds is going to be the next
one to fall set.
Those are literally just steam
rolling through this third point
right now from Cafe Rose.
Yeah, honestly, it feels almost
like this shouldn't be dominating
as much as it is, but the four
point comes out now.
Now the Dominant 10 seconds now
stuck in baby jail and see you
and see you later as that cart moves forward everybody's just chilling here
getting three on it to make it as fast as possible too, Bikki this is brutal
yeah just a matter of time before that portal goes down but there's nothing
they consume because of the portal block you hate to see it because it's also
waste time to build into these ultimates for Cafe Rose
look at the changing they're staring there they're waiting they have to meet a
group wall from the other side as they're finally let out of baby jail the Ranger
Royal Plus is ready to be met on the other side could be the locking key to
keep them trapped.
My God, Krober gets no bind to do, and the Aragamoto.
I mean, that could be the Neil McLaughlin off of that one.
Brutal play from that eye.
And everybody else just running towards it,
50 seconds left, and they capped it out of Mickey.
Full cap.
Yeah, when you protect the Loki,
and you want Pro Builder to originally roll out
with the Atom Warlock, just for that to change
within the first team fight,
because you never get your footing
to actually recontest onto that point
when you're on the defense.
That's brutal because they protected the vanpool
and they shut down Lyric consistently.
There was no fall up to any of the dive.
And then you protect the atom
and you can't even run the atom
because respect is getting harassed.
Usure is getting away with everything.
Rymeising's up in the sky.
I like the idea of changing over to the Wolverine,
but it's a little bit better
when you try to go forward into like deeper into this map.
I feel like because you could try to catch them off guard
in a more narrow street line.
The thing is Rymeising's obviously a problem
and nobody's really contesting up in the sky aside from like the starboard.
Yeah, yeah, I think I think if you if you lose both the else in the dead
pool and then also the mantis that might just be like it's over.
Because like you kind of need the mantis a little bit.
But this is this is what's up.
Yeah, yeah, maybe Phoenix.
I mean, that's definitely something that they I think they tried it was on to.
But like this is what I was talking about where like it's just such a team game.
You know, people will call it individual players like Pro Builder, for example,
was dying a lot like he was getting KOed.
But I don't think it's like his fault because like you could tell the team go he and just not there like no
Bines not going for dives like sure we could talk about death count KO count final hit count whatever
But if your team is not on the same page like you're just gonna get absolutely dookie done no matter what like Mickey
It's brutal for cap a rose considering they just look out of sync at so many different points that it feels like
They're not a very good dive team right now, and maybe that's why they go back over
It's a freaking moon night and name war alongside the coping bagger. Just try to play a little bit more back style
the way that we're amazing to slowly look up the on could delete it in one
burst and now coming out of the portal I like the creative ability to try to
split the focus because the rest of the time to go down the middle this also
means that no binds has no sustainability and I'll fix you with
this left alone you're going to close his jetpack and true sure is now
following up from chanji I mean cafe rose looks like their last year dogman it
feels like instead of them serving them up a storm as barista's it's set knows
that are cooking up in the kitchen.
Why would you like what exactly this is this is brutal.
I mean, foaming at the mouth right now is my barista.
Apparently, I don't know if that's a good thing.
Because it's a little green in the lobby.
But like, I think that the sky pool is also like not too
calm in these days, unless they're going to kidnap
because like, no minds had nowhere to go after that.
He was trying to go back through it.
Everybody's pulled in a tee by the way.
It's just absolutely free roving high ground right now
for the side essentials.
They get to do whatever they want
because Cafe Rose are getting dove upon maybe we can get
some cheese shotgun plays out as Anji. Maybe you can counter Crimzo. He's that kind of annoying player that he talked about has been destroying Cafe Rose.
Well, they're fixated on Crimzo. Guess who's harassing them from the sky.
Amazing end user who's spinning to win and then dogman's out here bubbling him too at the same time.
Lyric is trying to get to the back, but that was the opportunity.
He missed out on that final shot and now the Galactic Legend comes in.
The CEO's going to be the next thing to keep Cafe Rose up together and healthy because they're still going to be able to navigate through the back entrance
and no buy gets that snap on to me big pick up, but at least Coroban right amazing
We'll have those sustainability with the strata old
Yeah, nice shot from no binds and I grabbed though on all right, so brings him back pro builder
Switching over to that will bring and getting immediate value nice job from him
I'm as he try and turn it still with that old friends great
But lyric is you know still
They pull on the point well, but gets removed against the southeast wall
So getting more team up or rather more upgrades built up by Mason's gonna have to slowly walk away after you pull down
can't escape vanpool. This guy is just sticky. Overrun amazing shout out to
really sticky by the way unfortunately not in a tournament but in this boundary
committed by Cafe Rose they think they can still close out considering
sentiment down one. Oh Sanjay too activates a final judgment. Well currently
see the vanpools just seeing that it's double XP weekend the rage and real
flush from Flamay tries to sneak in through the cracks seeing if it landed
here from the other side of the medium goes up. Flamay is like I'm not here you
won't be able to find the unfortunate for you sir though he's not as lucky. He
He gets domed in the head by the Meteor M, and now you get the follow-up with Rymazing, who made the swap over to the white spot.
Unfortunately, it falls short after Tripple had tried to portal in to allow everybody to contend and to recontest, and Kafe rose with some time to spare and making these swaps to the Wolverine, allowing himself to get the benefit.
Yep, full swap, full delay.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, huge pull there at the very end, but I mean, it is smart.
I think that the Wolverine we've seen so far be incredibly useful.
And then it also helps shut down Crimson like you mentioned and then Donglin maybe has these more bubbles in like a safer position
No binds by the way besides finding these pics like every fight under Karoba onto another
He's there to bubble his Wolverine to the counter potential in this ball of encounters. So this is great
I mean, it's a little bit less like hyperactive
But with what cap heroes are doing and what we've seen on the Wolverine so far today it makes sense for them
So excellent swap up for them will save them to continue moving forward
also get the benefit off the primal plane right you have
Tangee on the Phoenix Cold Builder on the Wolverine Respect
not having an opportunity to breathe but it's okay he will come right back he's got the BRB from
Pixel as well as that Sia that Pixel put down they're looking onto the other side of Sentinels and
it's not like they really have a combat towards that so they're just kind of forced a back away
wait for a time just so that way Cafe Rose could get more clearance before Sentinels try to re-engage
well comes up onto the cart and that's what he said about this Phoenix as well being lobby
He's kind of in great hold, nice shot from Zongi.
We've seen him in previous days as well.
I mean, Zongi is definitely somebody who can aim
at a very high level.
Also, Crimson goes down to Lyric.
So one by one, they're falling.
This is actually looking like Cafe Rose did on defense.
And you know, I had a lot of people like ask me,
they're like, why are so many teams
so much better on attacks than defense?
Just kind of how the meta works, I guess, right now.
You just kind of keep pushing forward.
Every pick you find is so bad for these defensive spawns.
And until third phase, it just feels like Cafe Rose
able to take every aggressive angle.
Also, the way that he tried to play front to back here,
as the gambit never folds with a rage and royal flush,
try to get the next follow-up, the invisible boundary,
and it's going to be Samgy with the end song infernal,
meteor M to try to allow Dogman to reset,
because Crimson had gone down, and he
had that freedom charge coming up.
So he won't be there to help with the sustainability
as well as the stall, but at least through the invisible
boundary, Karoba, it blocks them sight,
Novine slams it down, and this time,
misses out on trying to find the invisible woman.
I feel like I need to play the MLG,
like soundhorns that have to see rocket-wrapped in the gameplay.
Buh-buh-buh-buh!
It's a whole break, like, back in the half.
He's doing nothing. That's so funny.
So, like, regardless, Cafe Rose gets walked on
because of what I made things whole.
They use one. Nice. Nobime's traced it though.
Yeah, nice job from him.
BRB was used earlier, I believe, on Zanji, though,
so they're not gonna have that.
But nobime! Let's go!
Two in this fight.
Also has the help from Zanji, too,
who has been resurrected from earlier.
And, yeah, working with people to start again
with a minute and 12 seconds.
Cafe Rose playing this way better than they did earlier.
You know, it's crazy to see that Cafe Rose, no gambit, no problem, and nobody's just playing like he's got the gambit power up because he has been sniping out set knows consistently Lyric here, just trying to build up together.
That's pixel clicks on the sea after the freedom charges activated from Crimson. Just a lot of way they could prevent the chat.
They can check in, but Lyric with the head shot onto user, Genji popping off.
This is what we wanted to see in terms of the swap from Cafe Rose.
Yeah, listen, if we're gonna play it like this, I mean, I'm fine with that band phase.
If you're just gonna pop off like near a kid, he's just getting so much more work done on offense rather than defense
But that's what we talked about. It just felt like how Kathy Rose was playing that didn't really have like their fallback angles
But an offense you could see like if they have to fall back they're going somewhere the Wolverine can take advantage of inside
Right, like it just feels like Kathy Rose on offense looked like a well-willed machine
But Vicky, they still only have a minute 50 seconds left to go
They have ultimates, but we need to not use too many to definitely fight because Sentinels do have that star level
That's what they're gonna want, I wait for it too, with Flamé having that rage of royal
flesh and with Cafe Roe specifically pro builder, I'm gonna be a little worried, Crimson's
coming in from the back line as he frays down on Pixel, he manages to get away, they need
some help, they push him back, nine shields before he manages to get away, but it's almost
like, man Captain America, the cockroach that just never goes down, right?
He's always gonna come right back no matter what, and when you take him out there's gonna
be even more from the rest of the set, and those, they were ready though, who's a galactic
legend being met by respect who tried to stay alive but it's so hard when you get pushed out of
your invisibility that was set in those winning it over an invisible boundary who did not have an
invisible woman to double jump and get away. That clean job from Sentinels using that one two punch
combo with Flamme and Usher. Then also the AC coming through from him but can Sentinels hold on.
50 seconds left to go. Caffe Rose do half. There oh my god it's killing nobody's closing with the
the media ram I mean they're to lose what doesn't suck up all that and no
finds only able to find Donman here comes that Phoenix on the backside they
might have gone too far. Oh finds you sure though at the very least with
respect going down Pixel's coming right back with that sea up you can get the
follow-up together but it did force out Pixel to at least see if he could hold
on to this sea it was challenging who had already used that N song in turnal
looking at Pro Builder and Lyric specifically look how Lyric is gonna try
to play this as you sure shaking up the disguise here Pro of it does have a
Boundary as well as a freedom charge will settle has all the self-potential
Yeah, they do 15 seconds left to go pull then you should go through with the bubble
Spin to win on the back side of the blasters no fine sent down very low already has to the bubble on itself
Here comes that is what I really said by oh
Go down the lyric the clock Mac to nice job with the band hammer to get rid of him and that media Ram
Yeah, where was it?
We're gonna go for Dongman nice job from lyric in that fight you able to track down Dongman to remove that bubble
He does have to support because of those shields in the sky also you have crimson America crimson America
Oh, Crimson America like that freedom charge by the stall
But probably they're gonna go down you're gonna be brought back by that beer be a pixel who has just kind of been a nuisance living back here
On to that rock at raccoon since everybody's focused on trims or so much the loud pixel a little more space every time
I feel but don't mind
And he's been a star player in this offense so far can he keep it up though?
They need to find even more to cut into the sky here comes Usher with Rai Masen, Ultron, Traged, and the Grand Declegion.
Will they find a KO off? They do, but Usher gets traded over time.
Six down Rai Masen finds another one, no blinds goes down, and that means Trims is clocking it on the point.
Now we have to find KO's in a very dizzy situation because Zonze is going to have all the pressure and a world on him with no healers.
90% towards that Phoenix ult, but he can't get it in time.
He needs to back up over time.
So we take down. Where's that portal? It's not going to be here in time for respect.
No!
And Sentil's win 2-0.
I felt like she was putting it down for so long, too.
I was looking at that Dr. Strange swap off,
but it wasn't enough time.
Set knows they count their breath.
They held them back and the extermination
was more than enough after they saw
Corolla get to be one by the way by Alastair and Lyrd
who had activated the band hammer.
It wasn't enough.
It may have taken him out, but it didn't take the rest
of set knows out with him.
Excellent.
More deserved than we get.
These mag players definitely don't get enough credit
in this patch.
But yeah, they played well
around it. You sure sure went down.
But you know, a job done, I guess,
by him and this guy to create a little bit
of space and find those strategists
in terms of their follow-up.
So a little bit better to Cafe Rose,
but a little bit better is not good enough
to win versus Sentinels.
And that was a very close series, I think,
even though it was a 2-0.
But we've said that at a lot of these MRC teams,
they'll put up a good fight and still lose.
Unfortunate for Cafe Rose today.
That's the trade-off when you have Vesa 3s, right?
And unfortunately, time is of the essence.
That's why that first map on Dong,
which could be so volatile is so important.
Imagine the retouches that we could have possibly seen
from Caffe Rose.
Even at the very end, they're in fortunate respect,
not putting down the portal in time,
but Lyric did wake up at the very end there.
On the attack, Lyric was popping off.
It highlighted why they wanted to protect the band pool.
Unfortunately, even though they wasted up that save
on the Adam Warlock, they couldn't roll out with it,
but it worked out with Pixel being on the rocket.
Nobine's just trying to get the copy onto Plomae a few times.
Whenever we saw Nobine trying to get the Rager Royal
plus for themselves and then right amazing still sticking to the size you
cannot clip this guy's wings together with Usher and his 15 final hits I
agree though dogman these man from both of these teams were going crazy and it
was dogman who kept finding a lot of these hits as well as nobody trying their
best here too from the other side absolutely nobody deserves a huge shout
and I'm curious what Zoe has to say about all this because Sentinels it was
still like a kind of messy to oh like we saw earlier right so we like that was
very very close close game to losing Sentinels it on the first half in second
Yeah, I feel both teams weren't necessarily playing the cleanest
more widely we've seen from them. They do definitely think that their first showings are rather a sentinel second showing and
Cafe Roses first and second showing
That looked a lot more well oiled a lot more coordinated
You have to give them credit that they make adjustments obviously in adaptations in order to like kind of get back into the series
Where our sentinels allowed them to get into the series
So I feel like both teams have to go back looking at this match and there are some cleaning up that needs to be done still
Yeah, absolutely. And you know, that's why they're given a week, right?
Like I mean, this was the chance for cafe rose to get the win over sentinels
this was the their their best opportunity and it's just brutal to see them lose it to oh but
they're at least they'll have that win from earlier on versus fly quest it you know hopefully for
fly quest we'll see if they can bounce back today because otherwise it just seems like every other
team in this group is just taking their turn beating them up like this is brutal for fly quest
not that they're even involved yet today we'll see if they can come back kind of random straight
I know, but like, yeah, this is definitely the opportunity for, I think, uh, cafe Rose to, like, get another dub on the board for this group that is very sucked.
So, uh, yeah, it might be kicking themselves a little bit. That said, though, I do think Sentinel's had a really good game plan here that just worked out for the fight.
out for the fight, the constant pressure and harassment onto that backline from Captain America.
And then you have those flyers coming in and just like picking off the pieces, right? So it was kind
of like Caffir Rose, they just couldn't quite figure out where to shift their focus to in order to stay alive.
Yeah, I agree. Because now what their next opponents are going to be for the day two and three for next
week specifically. So for Saturday and Sunday, and I believe it's against 100 thieves and NRDs.
So it's what dogman that's so funny. They actually have exactly the same skin. Yeah
Yeah, it's like in both weeks because this week they have fly quest and
Swamp gaming and next week both of these teams will be facing off against energy shock and hundred thieves. That's wild
Yeah, it is
And that it makes you think like if you were gonna have the opportunity to get some extra credit
So that way we could turn that a zero score view to maybe at least maybe a 50 then it would have been easier there for them
But unfortunately in a post work
That's right. Uh, yeah, I do believe we do have an interview ready. It should be crimson. Yeah
Long time no see different universe different different times
But crimson is back. You're also back on captain America and men what a look that's been
You guys like completely like
Overhauled your approach after that first match this week. Can you walk me through?
What kind of game plan you had going up against Cafe Rose, which did surprise everyone in their opening matches?
I think honestly our prep for today was very similar to FlyQuest. I think we kind of just did the same things.
Going back to Swamp, I think we maybe didn't have the best read on the meta and what was correct.
So we were still kind of like in the process of figuring things out, but I feel much more confident now that we're in a very good place to continue moving forward and hopefully qualify for the playoffs.
Yeah, fair enough. And, you know, I think for you guys, Trimso, and to like, I feel like I've rambled with a little bit about it before. I know Rye was talking about it, but I mean, how challenging is it for, I think for you guys and for pro players to have to adapt to like a brand new patch, right?
because we were talking about power rankings weeks ago and you know all that stuff and then the new patch comes in you're like you have to rework everything so I mean what's that like for you as a player I know that's taking a lot of responsibility the fan phase to have to adapt to a new patch after it comes out only a couple weeks ago.
Yeah, it's really hard. It's very I feel like honestly a lot of teams are kind of scrambling in my opinion
I feel like some teams definitely have found like their style that they've kind of decided is like what they're gonna do
But I think some teams as well. I still kind of scrambling to find that kind of like identity
And I think that you know, we're adjusting well to the transition, you know white fox all of a sudden is like really powerful and then
you know, you know, it's
definitely pretty difficult to
adjust, you know, as fast as
you can. But, um, I mean,
that's just part of the. He
supports experience. I guess
you have to kind of be ready to
adapt them to fly. Basically.
Okay. Well said, with
Sin City on top, I need to ask
you, Crimson with all the
haters and I was calling you
guys that triple support one
trick, you know, I want you to
know, I want you to know, I
want you to know, I want you
to know, I want you to know
triple support one trick you know I want you to explain a little bit looking at
the ultimate nerves and how that's affected you guys are you practicing
other compositions and maybe making sure that you guys could be flexible when
other teams may not expect it because they keep thinking that you guys are
this one title yeah I mean the triple support narrative is I mean there's
definitely something to it we do have a little bit of magic on triple support
for whatever reason I do think that our team does very well in triple support
the team. We're going to be
playing a lot more than we
generally. But obviously, yes,
we are trying to work on our
like, you know, 222 type of
comps and not rely too much on
the triple support. However,
sometimes you just have to do
what your team is good at and
kind of work towards that and
focus on that. So yeah, we're
going to probably be playing
out more triple suburb, but we
will be flexible enough to pop
I mean, actually, sorry, so you're just saying that like mirror was there yesterday and now we see
Korova back. I think that's interesting that you say that because you guys also have that other
player who's incredibly flexible to slot in. So you have that in mind as well, right?
Yeah, yeah, J-Mac, our coach does a good job of kind of figuring out what we need to do in the
moments. And we're still obviously figuring out, you know, sometimes we're going to put in mirrors,
sometimes we're going to put in Korova. And like, you know, each player has their own strengths,
and we have the flexibility to
basically decide what to do and move forward from there,
but I'm very confident in all the players on my team
to be able to perform when the time is needed.
So it's really nice to have an extra bit of flexibility there.
So you do have a little bit of downtime before your next matches.
Next week is looking difficult though.
You will be going up against 100 thieves as well as energy shock.
How do you feel in your current state?
You will be stacking up against both of those teams.
I think based on kind of where the meta is going and where like we kind of predict it to go. I think we're looking to be
Pretty good in my opinion. I think it'll be close games. I'm excited to play against 100 T's
I always like playing against them and and
Giving people a reason to buy the Sun bundle and not the 100 T's bundle
So I'm excited for that energy is also very very good team lots of really nice people on that team
I'm six I had to play against them all
I hope you have some good rest time and prep time leading into next week. It's been a pleasure seeing you again and chatting to you. Best of luck in your upcoming matches.
Thank you.
I mean, I think that's the
best way to do it. You know,
you can see her from crims,
though. I definitely agree.
You know, like we see that
with other teams, even if
something is not necessarily
considered like the best
metastrat or meta come. If it
is you playing to your strength
that sometimes beats out playing
the meta because what's the
point if the players are
comfortable in it? Yeah,
absolutely. You're right. It's
tough because it's always like
you have to beat yourselves
unless you're including, you know, I guess, arm stuff.
I mean, carpal tunnel is a real thing.
It's a real problem, but yeah, I don't know.
Like it's, there's a lot of mental aspect of it
and it is overcoming the potential, you know,
oh no, we didn't play the meta, is that what we lost?
That sort of mental side of things for sure, so.
Absolutely, and then it turned around that quick
with only two weeks of play until we heading to the play
of sometimes you just have to kind of rely
on the team's strength rather than picking up something new
and hoping that it works.
Well, this was a fairly quick series
and that means that we get to move on to the next one.
Three matches done, two more to go,
so make sure to bring some water, everyone,
as we're headed into a quick break
before we set the stage for Nightmare and SSG.
Hiding souls, buddy, yeah
Across the world, I see you standing in my way
I remember the time, the place
We used to fight, like sun and moon
And I wonder
If ever there was a time that we were friends
And I have a solid shadow of snow in my nose
That's it has come from me, I think you're out
We all stand out for our last reunion
But this is not your way, come fight me
I mean we saw kind of the debut for a lot of these teams some of them knocking off the rust others coming right into the new form of what roster mania is day one has come and gone day two though you would cast here of it man what does that mean
you guys. Well, if you missed
day one and day two, we are
here to fill you in starting
with day one ship. I mean, we
saw kind of the debut for a
lot of these teams. Some of
them knocking off the rust
others coming right into the
new form of what roster Mania
is day one has come and gone
day two, though you would
cast your man. What did you
see? What were some words to
describe it? Sure I'll keep it
three and they were much more intense than I thought from day one.
Well, listen, man, let's go to kick it off with nightmare versus.
Yeah, we lost and this was a close one.
I mean, the word to describe the first match was probably the closest
match right there with it that we've seen and ignite yet or at least this year
to both these teams kind of flex that they are the dive ones.
What did you see breaking it down?
Cause there's a lot to highlight.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot to discuss.
I mean, like you said, very close to 99 to 99 and Dom on map three off the
rip. And even then there was
ultimates coming in at the end
that almost looked like it was
going to sway it back in the
favor of yeah we lost.
Nightmare did look super solid.
A lot of these similar comps.
Jeff was seeing a ton of play.
We even saw Spider-Man Venom.
All the stuff you would expect.
Siloq was in there too.
Daredevil went available.
I mean these teams are just
very aggro but they are
incredibly fun to watch.
Yeah for me I mean it looks
like vision just he did not
miss a step from last year.
Vision was just popping off.
And I felt like nightmare had a
very good control of that
going forward.
And then yeah we lost.
They just came back into form and I have to give them credit because they didn't struggle
the MRC and sometimes when that's your practice and then you go into something like this like
you're kind of not used to being down. Also, Jitward, we got to see the dead pool which is
always fun and you know we'll see how long that kind of lasts as things have been patched and
you know approached a little bit but do you think they have a good step moving forward? A lot of
people have them high in their rankings. Yeah, absolutely. I think that they are confident right
now too. We had the interview with Cart Lover and like I said in the interview you know he talked
like a pre interview test.
He said, I'll see you in a little bit and he did.
He came right back into for the interview.
So it was really cool to see.
So they are feeling good, which is a good sign.
Yeah, and as for nightmare, I think they definitely still
like getting their roster together and they look strong
out there.
I think they have a great chance today.
Excited to see them in the day three action.
But our other match we've been talking about in this highlight
is fly versus set nose.
And we talked about this is the redemption of what happened
on day one.
Match into me, buddy, you know, like you go and see a band
and they're playing some new songs and you're like, come on, play the classics.
Like it's like that time felt was set. No, they were doing some new stuff day one
and you're like, get, you know, get the right amazing on the Iron Man.
Let's see cap on Crimson. It felt like we returned to old form.
Yeah, Crimson stepped up, Ry stepped up, but also Mirror came in instead of
Corovo, which is a huge change, right? And running that backline work,
more of a consistent backbone backline, right?
Running that in this and looking really, really solid doing it.
But yeah, the entire team just kind of woke up.
We talked to Ryan, the interview and he essentially said, you know,
we just needed to change our
band phase. Our band phase was
not good day one and we really
paid the price for it. We figured
out what we wanted to do and now
we're going to be clean and you
know what they looked really clean
today or yesterday is for sure.
Yeah, I got to send me Kurova.
What a talented player, but one
thing with mirror is I kind of
makes the bands more confusing
for the opponent and they're
able to interchange these two
studs that is going to be
absolutely massive for them
because then you have like you
I think they're all really talented like you're saying, you know, it's a newer team. They do have some players from over the pond, which is going to make things a little dicey in terms of communication and you know, even paying for example, but yeah, I just want them to find their footing.
They just aren't quite there yet.
players from over the pond, which is going to make things a little dicey in terms of communication and, you know, even paying, for example.
But yeah, I just want them to find their footing. They just aren't quite there yet.
All right, so that's the two matches from the early slate.
We have three other ones that you might have missed from day two, but that's all for us for now.
We'll catch you guys on the next one.
Welcome back, everyone.
And match four is about to go down between Nightmare and Space Station Gaming.
I think this one, in particular, will answer some questions regarding the standings in Group B.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, like it seems like group B is is definitely we talked about the beginning at the top of show
It's turning out to be an incredibly competitive group. So is group A. Don't get me wrong
But I don't know Vicki like this group just seems like nuts in your right. So this is going to determine a ton moving forward nightmare and SSG
Yeah, I agree because what was it like they had to play against a yeah
We lost where we just heard in the interview with yeah
We lost us earlier after our second series where they shouldn't have dropped the map versus nightmare
and when it comes down to the wire after the end of next week, it could come down to like maybe
draws where the map diff will make that difference. And although nightmare has yeah, we lost and now
versus space station gaming next week, they can't really be lax. The run really big team that they
have to worry about is team liquid Citadel, but then they will have to deal with the next
then they have to deal with TSM, which we've already kind of seen play out and their lack of
maybe flexibility. Nightmare though is a team where they have a lot of trick up their sleeve.
And after talking to Mace, Mace himself has said, yeah, don't question or pick and ban phase.
There's a lot of thought into it. I promise it doesn't look as troll as it may seem.
But honestly, when we saw them yesterday, Zoe, it didn't look troll like that for me at least
as we take a look at the nightmare lineup. Yeah, they definitely had some more conservative picks
in the mix as well, right? But overall, it's just one of those teams that is hard to prepare
against or for because they just do weird stuff off meta stuff, which is definitely very difficult
for your opponents to like, what do you take away from a match like that? Especially yesterday
against the, yeah, we lost. That's two teams who do weird things. So really like, scrap that.
Yeah, they got it. They got to go back to the drawing board at least a little bit because
we're at least go back to maybe the basics. You're right, because yeah, we lost in such a
different team from everybody else. But I mean, I'm here also like that a little bit, right? This
entire group kind of has that sort of situation. But for space gaming or space station gaming,
I feel like we've seen a pretty solid team like this feels like a team that relies heavily on nectar. Like I think we expected but they've had a lot of help I think across the board like the fact that they even have actually a W on the bench is crazy considering this guy is one of like the best raw aimers I've ever seen like just straight up.
when you have somebody like Nectar's wing to flex and when you have everybody kind of synergizing this team
Has a really good chance. I believe to be next level
So it's gonna be really fun matchup
But I'm excited to see it because space station gaming have like maybe they're all their players are kind of coming to their
Own finally after coming from all different sorts of the different varieties in this space
Yeah, Vicky, I would love to hear your thoughts and a little bit of a follow-up there on the Nectar because initially
they were playing the duelist in their first match, extremely competent, extremely oppressive,
like it was just lights out performance from Nectar. And yesterday we saw them initially in
like a triple strategist composition when they went up against Liquid Citadel. It looked like,
as if she didn't really want to match what we saw from Liquid Citadel, right? So like they kind
of pivoted. Which look did you prefer? Did you like Nectar on that Ultron more or just like
like, give them Elsa back and all as well?
Let Nectar unleash on Elsa, because we want to see more of that,
but I also feel like it depends on the pick and ban phase, right?
And what map we go to, of course, because if you let Nectar get away with Elsa,
which we see some teams try to pryle ban the Gambit instead,
it also trickles down to pick your poison.
Do you want to deal with Gambit, where you're going to be forced to also waste a
ban on a Loki so that way they don't get double rage or royal flush?
Or do you allow Nectar to get away with Elsa,
And maybe you could try to pry out the Elsa with Krakowa being in the fray.
You have a lot of different sightlines.
So the Elsa could be a definite problem if you get that guard trucks off to the
side of one of those health packs over to the side of Krakowa.
And you could get to an environmental KO there too.
Yeah, I think also nightmare, there are just so many individuals, I think for
both of us, which is like, what do you really want to prioritize in this band
phase, right?
Because you can only take out so much.
So are you like targeting the front line, the back line, like where we
head it here if you're looking at nightmare because again like a lot of
really competent pieces I'm looking at their vanguards specifically I think
they were really standing out monsters Captain America was an absolute carry
so was his droot so was his Hulk like a homie can play anything apparently
it's what I'm saying vanguards are all penis games though you know nobody says
it but it's true okay listen they say gwongwon doesn't play thank this way
they say gwongwon is not playing vanguard they're wrong because the only
time I've seen a vanguard play bad is when he doesn't do anything like that's
that's the worst the worst thing you do a vanguard is nothing right and none of
these I swear we've not seen a single bad vanguard player. I have not seen your games yet so we'll need to
bother you after this stream problem. Perfect. We can do a coaching session. It won't go well but you might
feel you might cry a little bit it'll be okay though. We'll make it. I think you'll be the one crying when you see my game.
I've seen that. I've seen bad things.
SSG and I barrel definitely performed for us.
Do you expect a close match here, or do you think this is just going to snowball out of control?
Because that's kind of what happened to space station gaming yesterday, right?
Like, while they did push back, it kind of slipped through their fingers.
They lost momentum, and they really struggled to regain it.
This is what we're talking about when we talk about these, like, sort of teams that are just coming together now.
like I feel like with so many players like across the board.
They've kind of just needed to get a little more time together.
I think really, you know, and I think this is a really big,
you know, sort of talking point for SSG as they move forward.
I mean, I feel like we've seen doomed Fidel and month be around the block,
right? And for doom specifically, I don't know if it's been as much criticism,
but I think for Fidel and month a little bit like their backline is really good.
But some people like I know that they've mentioned other teams like just getting
just getting better in terms of the back line, you know, they'll say like all
these teams have better back line and then they conveniently just moved off
the back line that's on SSG, right? So I feel like there's like subtle digs
towards these guys, towards these back line and I feel like they don't entirely
deserve it but they still have to prove that, right? They still have to prove in
the live matches that they are top strat as players in North America and I
think if they win this game today, like you guys said, it's a very close game. They
could be the difference maker and really put their team over the top. Yeah, we
We also have to talk about like the fact that space station like I believe it was like midtown
We saw them so we and they didn't like recontest on to the point
It was actually a lot closer than like it seemed and space station was starting to find their footing and then yeah
Look at nightmare. It was almost kind of like a similar case and that was with nightmare not having dr. Strange
I think that was banned against them yet. They still want a domination on hell seven
Yeah, like I think generally a lot of scorelines have been misleading if you're just looking at the match scores after this week
I think there were a lot of moments that they just barely lost out on a point on a map. So definitely
I have to go back into the bot dungeon and look at all those matches again. Let's see if they're
going to play a close one today. Nightmare going up against space station game.
It should be a fun one Vicky as the first map will be on Fricoa, right? So a common map that I
think we've seen a lot of the times between both squads that it's been a lot of fun too. I think
space station, you know, kind of more so like a newer partner team along the scene and the nightmare as an invited squad, you know, they've been around for such a long time, such a story to work as well. So immediately off the rip, they're showing a ton of respect towards Nectar. It's as you said, Vicky, we're trying to keep the Elsa, never mind, no respect, but we're trying to keep it in shape.
right? Just keep it for us as
nectar hovers over the Ironman.
That's definitely not going to see that roll out.
Sorry, that's not going to be amazing,
but the Mantis fan comes out right afterwards
because they actually get away with protecting the Elsa.
So with that back and forth, both teams piling
that they don't want to deal with the gambit,
which means we will have the Elsa
dual off the one week one to one
between both of these teams.
And I did see like the passion from light,
you know, he went onto Twitter. He's like, sorry,
you know, I could do better. And now this is the second chance opportunity.
only a limited amount of games here. If you're a nightmare and you play it against, yeah,
we lost. Like one of the most unorthodox teams right now within that group. And with
double ultra protect, now it's like, okay, well, we have the opportunity to have the
Elsa and the ultra that Zoe was mentioning.
Hi. Yeah, that is interesting. We're getting rid of invisible on the opposite side because
we know that's going to be a big target, you know, to maybe to maybe mess up these dives.
But that might actually change a ton, right? In that in that individual matchup, they talked
about the white fox and stuff getting stronger and stronger through the patches and you know maybe
like these teams are trying to scrape by in the last day before next week before we change and see
even more strength in white fox the fact that she gets heals now off of the portal oh that character
is crazy how are they buffing even more but people on red are like oh these characters so so so
balanced it's just a balanced character oh that crap it's broken broken dicky i'm telling you but
Anyway, Nightmare, you know, like you said, they do run very unorthodox stuff as well sometimes.
Speak to them! Say it out loud, Dogman!
Is it what we like? Is it what we like to hear?
No, Blonde doesn't like me. Blonde doesn't like me after I've had the land I was like...
I don't believe that.
Can we get... Can we eat Streak Shake? Like, we turn it off.
And he said, no, that's like a balanced thing. So, no, it's something I like to own.
And then ever then, I've been blacklisted from Blonde Blonde Dialog, so that's never happened again.
The Dialog is crazy. All right, Dogman, don't worry. We'll let you out of the cage real quick,
because we're about to go into an Omega banger.
I actually do think that this is going to go on to a game
of three, but I don't want to cast a person.
Just not that word real quick.
Before we get out, though, Monster, the whole place
have been crazy.
And like Zoe said, too, Monster was on fire.
So we have to see how this works with the triple strat lineup,
Maze going into the bright and true usual Magneto,
as well as light rolling out on the Ultron.
It is interesting, too, that they
mirror match on the Luna snow, by the way.
So I mean, it makes sense to give the snowflake
but it is interesting.
They would go for that ban instead of the Luna
knowing that this is a matchup that you're trying to get,
regardless.
You don't really get like an edge directly in that ban phase,
I suppose, but nice pull on the right side with the Angela.
Brings Mace into his own demise from Nectar.
Follow up.
Actually jumped on his head.
Like he was coming out of a book.
Nectar does get trapped real quick,
but with Mace no longer in the frame.
Maybe a little border play we're going
to have to see because now Mocca gets de-hubbed,
and now there's not going to be a reconsention.
Space stations, we've got so slow.
and so disruptive because you have that prize coming in with a one-winged angel.
There's also that way they can get the fall together with Blur.
Yeah, that's it's so smart.
I mean, in this sort of super slow style that Nymear's playing,
you have the one hero that can have a ton of HP, get support from those on the sky and disrupt.
So really, that's on Mace in terms of positioning,
but also they have a very proactive Vanguard on the squad compared to,
I think the other squad that has to slowly walk in to an extra shot
that a monster is already dead again.
dude dude oh my if he got that last shot
and then he has the claw truck and everybody stuck inside he brings them
back he gets stinks nobody is safe in the line of sight of nectar now you
understand your dog when we were talking about okay you want really want to try
to prioritize the game bit or do you want to prioritize the elsa even with
both elsa's it's just right now the hold from nightmare hasn't even been able to
survive not even breathe the same air around space station
yeah he's banned from it it's just brutal neck rise to such a great job
pick up for the squad so far and it's kind of rough to see light on the Ultron in this case because
you know that they could easily go for like a more proactive comp in terms of like Spider-Man and
stuff but you know obviously in this case you can't do much like comes in with the Ultron's rage
gets double pawn already but they're back to the point they have so much space to work with they're
going to need to fight this if they don't want to you know a nightmare doesn't.
Nah that's even awful the follow-up here that we saw from Blurrecker he used up a piece of the
the adversity extermination that we keep hearing ring out from both sides while vision this time
at least clips the wing off of neck rise skier also has a reset here while spacing to try to
go into the re-engage look at this damage output we're stuck on the nectar zone because nectar
is having so much impact monsters had enough but monster also has a lot of sustain with a reset
here with a world breaker and he's gonna have to go off like to the peel it though in the meantime
to go aggressive with this blue to dance with the very least station trying to look for something
maybe going to connect on an old but in the meantime doesn't nice job by monster at least
creates some space but no chaos I mean the disengage was perfect when we find a KO next
we're finally get on the one it's the hook but it gets to lead on the outside so I mean honestly
not a bad play but month with the charm on the high ground oh no dinks getting picked that's brutal
especially when nightmare finally i managed to like flip the point and now they're going to be
trickled down look at vision though the bar trops in their pocket well doom yeets out here from the
the other side where you're with the extermination,
you saw the meteorite from Mace hanging out
and landing on some ghosts,
unfortunately missing their mark.
And then you look over to the other side
and they still haven't given up the point,
which I loved his stalker from Nightmare,
but it's just a matter of time.
Vision, once again, is his way to the opportunity
to group up space station,
and with one down, he could even hold onto it
as we're falling incredibly low.
Vision looking for Monta able to do so, removes him.
Great work from that Nightmare to defend the point,
not panic, even though they lost one.
Although Vision's going a bit far,
needs a lot of support does get it, but still I mean I'm your whole control the
point even though they've got picked early they've been slowly actually taking care
of necronize this time so whereas necronize was ultra free earlier it
feels like there's a lot more priority looking at this Angela it's enabling
nightmare to finally surpass them in terms of whole percentage but now in
something fight you know how does light users ultron's rage is gonna use it to
sustain team versus war who can get a big E.T. with his venom ultimate. And I feel
like we kind of saw that too with Spaceship Gaming last series but we are
Nothing because blur is out and so his neck rise of vanguards are in shambles and space station are in trouble
And so is the strat here we have with the monster that it forces out the gloar truck it pushes him back
But it's fine
He landed the ground in the floor trucks hit their head on the wall and nightmare with the retake and
Preventing space station from claiming the ground for this first round
What a turnaround. I mean that was beautiful like I think on the off like maybe you could say for for the side of
of Nightmare, you know, they looked a little lost at points,
but it really is just how it works.
Cause like, you know, you saw Space Station also,
like they just got reverse swept on that point
because the Blur is trying to force like,
look through this Venomult in the very back
and then everybody's looking for him.
I, it might've even been either a freeze.
I need to look at Bank of the Vod,
but I believe it was either a freeze or a charm out of skier,
or he just died in the middle of his Venomult.
I don't think so though.
It must've been a freeze or a charm or something
to stasis him maybe with Monster.
Yeah, cause he got his whole canceled.
And after that, the fight was over.
like it feels like look for the venom look for the angel you win but in this
case nightmare just had a death care from the point of view and it's also like
nectar not being able to follow up again right because monster just couldn't
play the game for like the first two to three fights and then after that nectar
and the rest of space station once they had trickled out and they had taken over
that fight that there was not able to really be that oppressive unit against
monster and now if you take a look at the board ultimate wise nightmare have
the ability to come up on top it's about the Dell though holding on to that
of both worlds surviving as you're going for a portal play and jump right in.
Oh my god, goodbye.
No way.
That's his old teammates by the way.
That's vision's old teammates both and Dubed and Fidel.
Back when they played on Shroud X resting piece, shout out Shroud, you know, not here
anymore.
He's unfortunately in the heavens of Arc, but regardless, huge plays.
Nice job and yeah, that's insane plays out of him.
I mean, vision's absolutely one of the best of Wilson's game.
He's written is crazy going back here and having that large talks ready
Not mere once again take control of the point this time around. It's the first time and
This round number two before diving right back in Dink's has the fate of the world
So you have this dance self versus the Dell and take a look at vision who moves up?
Have the part such just go hold on to it because do with the extermination
Exterminate themselves back to the spawner gate here comes a dance up because patients are trying to go
full of that crap, and with the Glar Trunks, it is huge!
Shistabalb, everybody's eating in this buffet
from vision and light, and that is another wipeout from Nightmare.
Yeah, and I don't even know if Nectar got that many shots off. Jesus Christ, he's just flying over the board, man.
He's playing fricking server-raven again, like we saw at Nectar.
But that's the tough part, whenever you die, whenever you get KOed on this character, on Elsa,
you'll lose all that instinct, you'll lose all those resets on your, or rather,
lower cooldowns on your dashes and stuff so it kind of just turns slowly into your worst character the more you go down.
Tough fight for Nectar in that case because he has to work back into it.
Yeah, it's all the way at no instinct man. Like so they need KO's and because it's way fast you get one entire bar of instinct every time you get a KO.
So the damage doesn't actually build up that quickly. So this entire fight unless they get a KO out of somewhere, like he's just not a real character basically but on the opposite side vision is just absolute God.
It doesn't have enough coolant to get the pale, but still, that's a tough situation for them.
I have a lot of holes, but it's not going to land.
It's Mark has an ectotresic anchor back, and so is Mont Blur.
Just get frozen in the meantime, and Doom finds light up in the sky.
Being a both worlds is going to be activated as now.
You see them moving all the way up towards the choke.
Mace is going to hold it back. We look at the back drip path.
That's phase station. Try to get sneaky with it, because Mont Blur is holding up and blur.
We are once again nothing except they didn't get cancelled and said he gets shut down
That was cry he hit that mid transition even the ground through that was sick
Yeah, he's gross, but man do another point though at the point
Maybe you can shut everything down regardless of that from them because you know space created like that
He did your job. Mace came back on Dr. Strange is gonna go down
99% of the board and finally they've reclaimed it
and Nector is back to three instincts.
So this could be the turnaround,
but it has to be full 99 or rather 200%,
which has happened before almost to them
considering the last around Vicky.
Yeah, and I did see light on Spider-Man
just real quick before he said,
all right, nevermind goes back over to the old trod.
Oh, that does like hit it, right?
Yeah, this is like when you see a movie,
you're like a star actor is in it,
and you're like, oh my God, he's in the movie.
And he's like for like one scene with like one dialogue,
you know, poor light just shows up for a second.
So we're excited to see if maybe we would have like the only two teams that we're going to go with FighterBand just yesterday.
But you know what, we didn't see it and light hinted at it, goes back over to the Ultron.
I mean, I prefer this instead too, especially with Space Station.
They're also running that triple strat and Fidel's about to have the fate of both worlds.
Buraz Skier will have Akumino on leash before diving down.
Oh, the Hulk stops the Venom in the middle of the air, keeps him trapped,
and Nectar moves up and finds Scare, which is big here because Scare was the one with
that ultimate to help with the sustainability.
Yeah, I wonder if Scare didn't even expect that.
That's like crazy because that ultimate was going to be in this fight.
White Fox moved and now, I mean, if there's any Sagger Kails, you can't go down here.
Luckily for them, they have absolute gods on their team and vision who just wins regardless
of the disadvantage.
Because they have the Extermination, no, they do not have the Extermination.
He got Exterminated in self.
Okay, monster then finds month.
So it's a trade off here of a space station.
Do so off control over this point
and with Nightmare now,
just trying to flip it back in their favor.
Meteor M, except Mace can't land it on Doom.
Good coverage here, blurred gets stunned.
The Glartrop is hungry and Scare gets booted
out of the nine tails.
Oh my goodness, it's just back and forth because of it.
I mean, these old thrones in the sky
is trying to find something.
Doom missing the team now.
You know, Nightmare lost control to Flip.
But oh, Tinshut down!
It's the whole author.
Again, I mean, he's done that about three times so far.
Now gets the ultralot, or the ultralot.
Monster Hulk is a back lie in this case,
but they have to point back.
Knight, you're lost in for a split second,
and they might have done it, Vicki.
Potentially, 0 to 99.
Still in control, too.
And you've got nothing for Space Station,
so they're going full stall now with Nectar.
Blur is coming back, too.
And with Nectar coming in, with Light also on the Doctor
Strange, it's going to be a portable portal with two
getting taken out from the opening of the window.
vision. He's got the vision. The third eye is open. Skier comes in and nobody left on
the point. They were on the edge and they were forced out. Number disadvantage nightmare.
Dominity takeover for map number one. That's brutal for space station two. Considering they
had a huge lead both times, Vicky. I mean, how many times do we talk about a team that
caps point first? I mean, there's awesome favorite to win most of the time, right? Like,
it's insane how often that happens, but vision give you MVP with only one KO, by the way.
We talked about how good Nectar was playing that hero as well, playing Elsa to such a
high level, but Vision is just reclaiming that crown.
It's just 22-1, 12 KO's, nearly 30k damage.
It's always a team situation.
Don't get me wrong, there's more to it than just the Elsa, but Vision's always one of
the best headscam players in the game.
I would be maybe wetting myself a little bit if I had to play against him because he's
He's just gross.
Get the Elsa out of here!
We're prioring Gambit, but the Elsa's a problem.
I mean, in the hands of either of these people,
but it's vision specifically, like the survivability,
like you already mentioned, dogman,
and the 12 final hits, it's looking brutal
and even better as Nightmare.
They take match points and it is best of three.
We'll find out what map number two is gonna look like
on the other side of this break.
We used to fight when sun and moon and time wandered
Step in the woods and tell them we were friends
And as the sun laid shadows on me and its light
I was hoping to see you out
We are sent now for a last reunion
Break the chains, find your way
Come save me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
Click it and I'll mount your cross, we need one, this is left in the sun.
Hold the risk, we turn to the end.
The asphyxial's in the end, what is that?
And then your mind's holding the powers left.
Dance our lives, we arrive to the end.
You'll crash, you're wide awake, you'll bite.
Wishing across times, that you'd come to what I'd like
Take that day to the end
Did you see the dawn, the flame burning brightly
Shining one nose and the reason yes
Across all time I see you turning red sides
Welcome back everyone SSG and Nightmare are up right now and it was Nightmare running away
with this first map. They were playing it so close but somehow some way SSG was not able
to shut them out like even though they were in firm control on both of these points like
what happened what allowed the nightmare to come back into this they had the
vision they had the vision but that's the thing like neither team is willing to
like ban Elsa because both teams want to play them it's for both of the team
it's a win condition right because nectar's Elsa is filthy as well so when
they get to play Elsa like it immediately puts the team in a good spot
now of course visions Elsa also like just crispy and clean yeah that's the
thing right in the duelist just they have to every Elsa player has to think
that they are him or they are them like you have to come in with so much
confidence so either of them is happy to take the duel yeah that I just so I
mean like when I don't like we're going to midtown next to very team oriented
map type you know we're going over to Convoy again like I feel like it's very
front to back style and yes like 100% visions crazy like but visions like a
one of one Amur, you know, like I said, maybe actually it's interesting on the bench of SSG,
they have S.J.W., which is another like hit scan kind of guide. You know, they showed up on Phoenix
before, but I wouldn't be surprised that they play well in this meta. I would like to see S.J.W.
play alongside Nectar, maybe, you know, not that I have anything wrong with Doom, but still that
could be fun. Maybe that's always something to tease because Nectar always plays a little bit
Daredevil and stuff. Regardless, Nectar's a top five, I believe, Elsa player right now in North
it's just that vision has a very coordinated team and I think it wasn't just about the also play. However, maybe it is just about the also play. You know, it's it's like I'm a hypocrite on both sides.
Yeah, I feel like the team just kind of got into their heads at some point, like looking at S and G there, so maybe they were starting to overthink it a little bit and somehow allowing nightmare to get back into this.
It was also like, initially, Monster wasn't really able to get value out of that Hulk, right?
But then suddenly somehow once they were in control Hulk seemed untouchable like what an issue wants to cause I
Know that's favorite. That's dogman's favorite actually
We're just not a god dang it Vicky god dang it every time as you try to bait something out of me now
Now I don't understand you know shit plays the shrapnel
Vicky Vicky plays the agent of chaos, you know scarlet which really is you I don't know what to say about that like that character is
Disgusting and when it's in the hands of monster, there's a reason why this guy's a ladder demon
exactly and you know I actually really like this pick here too so well we go
over to midtown all right so he's taking a step back here while we get into the
action because midtown is where space station also took team liquid Citadel
dogman and they it was actually close it was close to spite the stat line it
went to one so space station you know we're able to at least get it to the
finish line and now we're taking a look at the picking bands and the Elsa is
still the server admin in the lobby and you're the you're the server admin of
the cast of the group right now because you just like you actually start with
which halted her out of the line. I assume call. She's been, she's no longer in
the call. So we can't feel anything. We're gonna have Zoe's kid on the line. I
think to talk about the band phase because Vanguard will ban both times.
And you don't make sense, I think, because what we've seen, but both of
these teams love that also do like you talked about Vicky. And it's for a good
reason. I mean, they both have really good also players. But this time,
invisible woman is protected on the side of my mirror. You know, maybe I'm
to see. I mean, I mean, it's
been a while since I've seen
the nightmarish board of view,
specifically the combo ahead
with Maze on their picking
band phase and why they get
down to it. Apparently there's
a lot of layers to the onion.
So seeing the invisible woman
protect after seeing the
Mantis and Gambit ban out
means that they also won't be
able to have the Ultron. So
trying to force something out
here from nightmare before
they linger over to that last
band specific space station
also go in and protect the
invisible woman trying to
So they want to like invisible woman push away or pull in, I guess a lot of players
So they want to give a little bit more agency to their strap players besides just doing straight-up damage
But honestly how they said last map I think that both strat lines played played very well
Maybe you could probably give the edge to to skier. I think in dinks and how they play that sort of peel job on the blur
But this is gonna be fun because we're going to a completely different map type on the convoy instead
So, you know, maybe we get to see what you talked about how Mace was alluding to in those band phases Vicky
Because it's like the same band phase, but it almost feels like we're gonna see different comps because we're going to not domination
Yeah, exactly. It's midtown, right into you get to scale a little bit differently here as a light is on the dare
Double the dare double is no longer in jail
Maybe see a little swap up if it doesn't off to stick to it because they are on the defense
Which is something else to know we usually see like the triple vanguard line up here in spaces
could be expecting that and nightmare are just sticking to just having monster in basic the
frontline vision is going to be going over to the also while things this year do stick to this
white fox and Luna I mean even with the pre-patch white fox buffs dogman this means that with so
many teams walking to white fox and playing it to its full potential traveling through a lot of
these jokes I can't even imagine what next weekend's gonna look like no it's it's gonna be crazy I
I mean, like, yeah, you're on the money.
Like, White Fox, just as a character,
the fact that she gets a shield on the teleport
is so annoying.
It's like, it's a visible woman's shield,
but like instantaneous in a giant circle.
So you have to shoot and break it.
It's just, it's annoying for sure.
But, you know, off the rip space,
they say she's gonna go for that
Wolverine stuff that we've seen on previous maps
and for White to go gear double
has to back away with the Captain America.
It's always like the slow pan out.
It's a bird is playing now.
It's the Wolverine trying to get me and kidnap me.
nice little weariness there as well as the bubble that was used up.
Maze lingering over to the back before the Wolverine comes right back up on the high ground.
Doomed.
I mentioned this EW before. It's still doomed here in the lineup and I like this with Doomed having
a pretty nice Wolverine. It does get frozen. They wake him up and with the Emma still trying
to take the frontline to the next rise, they get the fast fall special, get it out in their
direction, nice little term on top, blur, and month as claws has had enough as the cap falls low
and he manages to stay alive a monster.
This is why I've been you seen tweets from people like armory talking about how white fox is more of like a counter diet type hero
You can see it like you monster have to deal with this white fox coming back to peel and white to monsters stuck by that trap
But the fact that monster hasn't gone down yet is very impressive regardless. There's so much space being created now and finally
They go through this joke
Yeah, and blur is duking it out that the gloves on and finding a 2k before that price matches him
Vanguard lineup, looking awake and happy from space station, but the reconcept from the magnet could come out with Mace being on the Doctor Strange with a portal.
It feels like you always want a character to kind of do something, make a play, and do what you've been that guy.
Now they're on the thing coming back, you didn't probably expect that. It's slowed down by the ancient treat.
Wartrux here in the middle of the invisible boundary takes them out of it, into the core, but it's on a tank.
It doesn't get them. Those two passives gone counter. Wartrux comes through, riding a train on the opposite side,
it would take down skier and mace off of that.
So Nectar's later large rocks ended up more powerful.
And we're headed to second things.
I'm just seeing that from left field,
at least from like light point of view.
It's like, where is this Uber driver
taking both of our teams right now?
We can't do anything about it.
And now nightmare is back to the drawing board
because Space Station, it's all acceleration, no brakes.
Nectar tries to get a nice little snipe there over to the side,
but isn't trying to overextend.
Yeah, smart. Keep going. Keep moving forward.
Just control the space.
space. Let me get a little early. That's kind of the play as well. Set up your, you know, tanky
characters at this choke point. Maybe like force them to use something to get through it because
you don't have a lot. You have doom coming back with that Wolverine. And you can stop doomed again.
That's this Wolverine just feels so proactive just because of the fact that you can CC and take
somebody into your team where it's their double usually is very good. But it just feels like
he's offering just sort of damage you this fight. We'll see what happened. Move forward though.
I'm liking Wolverine at the current moment same and he's got that final stand here as well as blurred with the clobbering time nectar
lingers back as you currently see we all need to stop for a time and what
get started off the side and then you have blurred here over to the backlight because they're gonna be able to harass the
split up strat line of nightmare this is crazy it's like every time they try to make a play they even go with skiers ultimate
just negated and then like you mentioned that that's cc on to monster whether
that be through month or you know blur on his side that was excellent to shut
that down now they have to walk in and it just feels like space station you
call that is walking slowly forward at them and you know vision was the problem
last map now it feels like it's on the other the season of the foot you know
nectar is able to do whatever he wants because they want because of this
overall teams snowball and death ball potential and you need out there will
bring again with the double invisible boundaries of n diagram and you call
in the large trot is time for the buffet they're hungry you get another kidnap you get a last in
and you find monster in the process that's going to be the thing out to play and next there's
going to be the next one to follow month that's a sustainability though for space stations because
nightmare don't have any of the vanguard's out unfortunately for vision two isolated from the
fact of his team and now j station have literally not lost a fight since they got this payload moving
I feel like the way Niger won the last map is through pocket vision, you know, let him
do work, monster goes in, creates space, he's not going to do that, like now Light is going
over to Adam Warlock to help with the pocket, but I'm curious if this is like how they're
going to play the game between four, and I'm a little worried if we go over to Convergence,
because I don't know if we can just play like this hard pocket one player type of style,
maybe you can like Sentinels if you have the Ultron, but because they don't I'm a little
worried for them.
What was that, Barbara?
Uh, what?
I don't know.
That's what that is.
Maybe it wants to switch.
Yeah.
That's what you always have to do whenever you fail at an ultimate, right?
You got to make it look like it was all intentional so that way you could switch.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
And then, like, at least pose up a passive, but it does it right in front of Nectar's
face.
So it's just a free picking for Nectar.
And doomed, and the rest of the space station, right now they're playing a different game.
They're looking to speedrun instead of getting the sailor to the finish ground, and Dinks
is making the swap up.
the end of the woman's ear still here in the back line rather and it's lights
still sticking actually to the atom I was wondering if they're gonna fall.
Yeah I was wondering too, but you see Vicky this is what happens when you put a
fourth player on anything that's not full you know it's just not good you know
we'll see if you can pick it up though you know after this it's been tough to
have an ult canceled and then just whiff let's do you know and the crew trying
to walk up on them the fact they switched Mace back over to that Emma is nice
and you know maybe they can walk up but it's just bar talks they're having to
They have almost everything to and something fight in that price. Nice job. Oh, I feel like I just first this man to buy three four months
Wait a minute though both I'm informed of both side of
Collaboration out from blur released the cough drops though as everyone was trying to get before they could try to reach contest on this point
And if they be mad on the other side
Nethir finds Mace brought back in his direction the born again at least comes out from the light to try to get this fight going
going but I mean at the same time at least only bringing mace up the cameo
unleash is activated for month get stunned and immediately booted out
I stopped by vision told me crap I mean he gets that soul bond and then just flies
forward Jesus yeah that's about the cleanest feel you'll see an entire ignite
series huge clean up job by them with that soul bond walks in but they did
have to like huge old bank they did use the res so we'll see as this moves
forward right we need to see maybe a big ol's out of monsters doesn't fight they
They still have a lot of time on offense.
That's the tough part.
Bay Station switching it up though, Vicky.
They're going over dude onto the Namor.
Actually, Visions just do the Namor on their old team.
So it's gonna be fun.
He's actually going back over to the Phoenix.
I think that makes sense first and specifically the thing.
Trying to counter monster right now.
Shut him down early.
I was wondering, because if they wanted to go over
then I'm not gonna be sure if that was gonna be
the vision really instead.
The sign of seduction comes in now from Mace.
Bringing up on their line of sight
is going to be matched by that price.
I feel like this is truly that Zitto match,
except the catchest monster, beautiful timing,
though, on the invisible boundary from Deast,
allows him to hold forward.
Blur has made a 12-up over to the group instead,
blocking out any of the sustained from the strats
to have the line of sight of both Monster and Mage.
But they weren't ready.
Looking behind them, giving them whiplash
is the Gloar Drops, and it's clobbering time from Monster
as it's his turn to shine with the 3K.
Excellent job.
You know what you just have.
You really raw first points, comes and turns it around.
with the big ultimate but now space station evils right that's the worrisome part is they just used basically everything we use invisible boundary use
glock trucks we use much that monsters all maces all now we come through the portal fast play with ultimate advantage
Look at all look at the present lights in by the way
He's been no will ever know I'll be able to be here because he's so close to that karmic revival
And it's gonna be really important in terms of the wind condition if you look at what space station have it's a strangling prison beautiful reset
We are not through but with the board again you can be light now brings everybody from never to get even more aggressive to flip it around
Facetation because they flip positions never being on the defense have wrapped behind facetation
Network doesn't have a car truck look for it though before the career on this comes in and it catches it
But they got brought brought back to their own spawn and now they flip side
This is just wild. He's down. So it's kind of worked out for him thinks healing nobody's like where is my team?
I need to build a single boundary, but nobody's here pops it goes down in the middle of it in an over time
So they didn't have got a thud they flipped maps Vicky they've looked the entire side and it worked out
They win the full cap
The born again bringing everyone behind space station
And then before they flipped it around to do the invisible boundary
And I'm your visible boundary in time
This is all very similar to what the way that space station wanted to try to bring nightmares of midtown versus like in their last
they had it with Team Liquid Citadel, it worked out for them.
They literally were not something until really that third checkpoint.
And I feel like they made swaps pretty quickly, right?
We saw the Wolverine swap off, we saw the Groot come out too.
Blur was able to really get, I mean, that first try in the prison was not the best,
but the way that they were able to come back and then flip the script to then put
those Groot walls down, block out even more vision away from the straps,
it did come in clutch.
Yeah, absolutely, you're right.
I mean, I think we both agree, like the main reason why Nightmare were in that
was because of the excellent plays by Vision.
And there were some nice ults by Monster
towards the very end too.
But once those were gone, once we used that soul bond,
it just felt like their game plan sort of dwindled away.
It's like they were a bit one-dimensional.
We know what's going to happen.
We're going to die.
We're going to rez with that huge Admiral Ocrez.
And then what?
We have to, Bob Revis is a game where you have
to be uncomfortable in the uncomfortable.
And Space Station looked incredibly comfortable
towards the end of that point, flipping the entire map
towards their own spawn.
That's definitely interesting because like they can hop back and spawn for heels if they want
But it didn't end up mattering because space station got the job done now for the attack of nightmare lights
We're gonna double bring because they like that
Idea that space station had earlier and makes sense based on what we've seen throughout the tournament
We see a lot more often to try to break through the choke hole as light is looking to make the swap after seeing what the
Composition from the other side is looking like doing that fries and blur running that triple Vanguard lineup that we usually expect to see
when it comes to the defensive side on midtown.
We mentioned this earlier on in the broadcast.
And it's about contesting vision though.
The vision now getting closer to that large truck
and light trying to break through this chokehold.
He slumped over to the moon night
as conscious whispers in his ear.
And it's triple Vanguard without the triple strategist.
So it's kind of interesting.
Yeah.
They want to play their style,
but I mean, they want to build up those alpha charges.
They want to get that instinct very high.
So he has cooldowns where they have cooldowns like crazy.
Right, pushing him off away from now.
So actually giving up on a space, trying to build up towards those ultimates that they'll have, maybe first but oh, oh, monster goes down early.
That's the one tough thing too when it comes to dealing with the emuls on the other side, right?
They'll be able to get that damage on the beam so much faster by just using it on the group walls,
but then you have to also worry about getting the chokeslam and use it for your own advantages.
The moon hunts nobody though, it clears at least some space, but the way that spaces you get to just hide away,
wait for it, the invisible boundary into those poppies.
Yeah, they used everything to keep Light of Light there too, so
they have to get those cool guys back up.
One thing to do with Glorotrox from Vigin, he's just big.
It got him to blow, but he's got the hard pocket.
Eventually goes down.
Get the Groot off of where he dies, but if anybody can ever follow up,
the Glorotrox comes through a bit late, but it's caught Vigin's
and another, but they get rid of it.
They can lead it.
Nice job with the counter CC with that diamond form from Mace
to make sure that the Glorotrox does not eat him.
However, their events of ult are late by month,
so they're still in this fight.
However, they're missing their Groot and Monster has a Shroud in the present.
Well, Dinks and Month looking at each other with another double invisible boundary in the form of the God of Mischief 2.
Dinks, uncontested in the back, brings Scare back to health,
sign of seduction now from Mace, trying to aim down at Doom, has the bubble, has the Emma Shield as well.
Net Fright falls incredibly low, meaning your arm comes up from Doom, getting by the smart and the frankly prison now.
Comes in and they shoot down the group from Nightmare, and if can't shoot, comes in right afterwards,
and at least light is right there to try to cover the basic but is it going to be enough with doom finding another victim?
Oh no the push in!
Yeah the tough part is that there's like vanguard doing so deep to get these plays off then what everybody is
this is like a crazy amount of damage that the side of nightmare are taking to get these ultimates off
they lose necrice at very least to come through with the portal play nice job but the invisible boundary is here
how the portal play happens and this fight should extend for another few minutes but it's still not capped out
for the set of nightmares so a minute left on the clock holds happening so far.
A portal sandwich year two as lights just try to break through this show trying to utilize the
damage output from the low key clones too and they have to recognize this is a problem.
They're trying to take care of light here from the left side before another hand of constant
substance and we get another rotation of invisible boundaries between the god of mission but except
it's skier. Dinks then get the coffee slightly earlier just in that way they can be ready and
through this invisible boundary that was a good call-out because they knew the little
with a lot to come down, but with the cough drops coming in,
can they take care of the guard trucks?
Yes, they do.
And that's two outs as face stations.
They hold on to this defense because the Vanguard lineup
is just doing too much with Necriss having that 100% beam
damage.
Yeah, I kind of just feel bad for Night Mirror's tracks,
because I just feel like I'm seeing Night Mirror just
overextend to make the play they want to work work,
and it's just causing them to cough in their lives.
The only reason they're in a lot of spikes
is because they're just their heart clocked in by their strats,
like they're straddling so much, but it's not enough.
20 seconds left to go, Vicky.
Last fight territory.
They're against the Dr. Strangel, too.
See how he's going to be floating up in the air,
hanging up behind them.
If you could pull off this eye of Agamotto,
but it's the moon that comes in, and it's not
with a wombo combo of a strangling prison.
Unfortunately, it doesn't land its first
for vision being on the left field.
It does fight neck rise.
Dune has a mirror, and it goes up.
Blurred gets stunned.
The eye of Agamotto.
Neck raised, slumped over to the Angela, and went doped.
and the follow up and the eye of Acomodo.
It's found two and it's clearing out nightmare.
Nothing nightmare can do when they have no sustainability
or none of us stay in old spirit space station.
They went on the defense.
Oh my God, we're tied up one to one.
We got a, I don't know, a lot of review that
because we had people hit by the eye and the media rem
and it just feels bad because you look at that end shot
with the corpse in the ground of the, of the,
of the, uh, the grove and the moon night
and the greens are right there.
The crystals are right next to you.
You know, it's like you're right next to the water.
You've been dehydrated in this barren desert for years
and you were right there and you couldn't make it.
So that's brutal.
But Nightmare, I think on Cobbler,
this is brutal because I think
what's the move over to Conversion's Vicky?
This looks like a way better team.
I think that they do better job on taking damage.
You can just see, like look at the freaking death count.
Look at the damage block, dude.
Like Mason Monster are just taking absurd amounts of damage.
You know, like light, I guess you could
maybe also agree a little bit there too, but like damage blocks. That's a good way to kind of take that same thing with damage taken.
I mean, I love what Monster and Nace were doing when they slowed it down, but it felt like they would over extend a little bit too much to make a play work and their strats were desperately trying to keep him alive, Vicky, but they just couldn't.
So yeah.
And that's it. It costs Jinx and Scare to go down a lot more often because they also have to get a little bit more aggressive and they want to allow their duelist to try to get these follow ups, especially light right with the hand of Contra.
But we never got to see the wombo combo of a strangling
prison in a van conch.
I feel like we kind of saw it maybe once,
but Monster also kept getting shut down.
We got a game three on our hands.
We knew that this was going to go the distance.
Space station keep themselves alive.
And we'll see where game number three is on which map
we'll be going onto on the other side of this break.
Welcome back one and all, we are going the distance, we see SHG tying up the
the series and a lot of that has just been, I don't want to call it scrappy, but this
series has definitely been more of a brawl, if you will.
Yeah, absolutely. We're entering the brawl meta, you know, a little bit, at least with
these two squads for sure. Like, I don't know. I mean, when we saw Monster earlier on
whole, Vicky was right, he was popping off, but then after they switched up a little bit
this front to back style, not as pretty for sure, right?
Yeah, it definitely felt cleaner. Like the performance of both teams in the previous
much as felt cleaner, even though the much has happened hectic, I guess mission is a nightmare like
there much yesterday was crazy, but the execution just seemed a little bit cleaner. Maybe they're
just forced to make more swaps. Maybe they're also forced into compositions that are just
maybe not that strong suit. I think there's a lot of picks midway through the series that may or
may not be raising some questions. Yeah, that's doing like if you're going to be running like the
the Moon Knight and you get one final on the attack.
Like it means that these ultimates probably were like not
comboed correctly, right?
There was really no follow-ups that you could see.
Usually you see it like with the Strangling Prison,
like I mentioned right before we went to break.
And trying to see, you know, what we're going to be able to do
now that we're moving on to our game number three on Hall of
Jolio.
Yeah, what do you want to see here?
I mean, I want to see them.
I mean, it's tough because it seems to me,
I could be reading in through it too much,
but we were talking about this in the green room at the break
a little bit.
I mean, I feel like this squad of Nightmare just love to play the Ultron stuff and then when they can't, like, I don't know if they have necessarily a game, like a game plan, like, to me, if I was Light, um, I don't know, maybe I'd be thinking like, okay, I need to pocket this vision guy, because he's so freaking cracked, right?
But Light is a great player in his own regard, right? Like, he needs to be thinking about making plays for himself. Maybe he can go on to that Wolverine stuff, because I think he could play a very good Wolverine and even Daredevil and stuff.
stuff like I just feel like the squad maybe is a bit hard stuck in like their mentality and that's
what we're talking about earlier a little bit where um you know you got to break out of your
comfort zone sometimes and it's really tough when you have to change meta so often because we're
going to another new patch next week it's a little bit it's still similar don't gonna be wrong for
this one but the fact that also is getting 25 HP nerf is gonna impact next week and stuff so
maybe these guys are desperately waiting for that patch to come through and this we're talking about
that these teams are trying to like leave until next week, right?
So losing this series would be would be brutal for either squad.
Yeah, I mean, we did see Light rolling out on the Daredevil on their defense,
which obviously Light being like the Daredevil, like we know Light loves
playing that very hero, quickly swapping off into the Adam Warlock.
It just didn't quite click.
Like I just, yeah, I just want to see a little bit.
I'm not entirely sure because like if a team, if both teams actually continue to let the other team back in the game when they have a massive advantage, like something internally is going wrong. I don't know if it's the cons, the game plan, if they're just not on the same page.
it's so back and forth and scrappy too like I feel like that's kind of been
like the theme that we've had throughout the course today so you worded it
perfectly when we're all talking and it feels too messy you can't really get
away with this as not only is it best of three right so you only have so many
chances and it doesn't really go really far that distance when it comes to the
map differentials but you have to figure things out quickly and now that
we're moving on to convergence dogman you were saying that you know you're a
little worried to see which of these teams will come out on top depending on
and how they have that advantage
where they feel more comfortable.
You guys set it up well.
I think it's going to be kind of interesting to see
how these two teams come out of those last two matches
and what takeaways they had.
So you guys are right.
I mean, they need to definitely focus up on a lot
of the basics and we'll see if they could do it.
Yeah, we're about to find out the series is tied up one one.
Which team will come out on top?
Let's dig in.
Dig in where we will because Nightmare versus SSG
is probably been the closest matchup of the day.
I mean like the last map maybe didn't prove that but it does seem or maybe did prove that's what with with the hell it went
What do you think vicki like I think on this upcoming map?
Um for nightmare. I mean you're right. They have to figure out a couple things right?
It does seem like they're a dive squad
But after we left domination it just their their fundamentals have kind of slowed down to a halt
Uh, yeah, definitely agree. Well, we also get our feedback up here too and seeing how these teams are going to be going in through the
the pick and ban phase.
Little pixelated from my end here,
but if the Elsa gets through,
which is what I'm seeing some of these
teams linger on to,
that means that the Elsa could still
be that server and OK,
we are back and so being able to see
how that pick and ban phase is looking,
it looks like the Elsa does get saved
and you were mentioning the Ultron.
I like how you brought this up,
except it's going to be in the hands
of space station this time.
OK, yeah, I mean,
I think both teams like to play it.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm crazy,
but it does feel like the Ultron
played to me is like a comfort pick
because we saw that out of the same thing from Sentinels.
I think like these teams, this week specifically,
and I know triple try to this is good, don't get me wrong,
but the best teams we've seen so far
are playing that QQ style, or if they're not,
they're playing the mantis stuff with it.
And the fact that it's banned,
they're going over to the Ultron stuff.
I mean, I like it, it's good in certain play styles,
but it also feels like, okay, we don't really know
what to do fully, let's just go Ultron stuff
and see if it works.
I could have a bad read on it, don't get me wrong,
but to me, that's what it reads like.
And I think both teams love to play that dive right so if they're on that triple
they can keep those vanguards healthy that are all true aggressive like you
saw out of monster and mace these guys are very hyper aggressive vanguards
almost borderline tourists so we'll see if they can keep them healthy now that they're on the ocean
and feeling more comfortable in that element right because we even saw like
lights off over to the out of warlock there was like no Loki on that side
whereas like month uh who had free reign over that Loki that was really able to
off off you know it comes down so if they can keep that going as we get started on all of them.
This is a common map to see the penny bar for cheats a little bit but nobody's going for it
this time around given this game I understand maybe give us some old charge to a bank bar and
stuff you know I would be happy to see if the monster back on is both considering
if you have that old tron potentially the back pockets and you know the fact that we still have
yeah it is interesting actually that Jeff and the venom still not through but they're going for the
the speed boost out of spawn originally. But we're starting out here, Vicky. This is for
the entire series because we're just in the best out of reasons group stages. So, we'll
come forward.
Oh, kind of portal. Wait a minute. Where are they going? Where are they going? Off the map!
Sorry, Dings! At least one of them gets to be saved. I think it was actually from the
Dawson Strange from Mace. He actually comes right back together because he gets a float
up. But that's a big pick-up and a good statement maker for space station on this defense. The
It falls incredibly low and Nectar is right there to back them up before finding themselves
here up on this choke smoke.
Okay, that's why you add a little cherry on top to our last game of the series.
Well, we did there too.
They like stagger themselves, so now Monster gets frozen in Bruce Banner form.
No!
Baby Bruce, poor guy.
Oh, no.
Goodbye, Monster.
I'll see you later.
Lights all the way back onto Ultron 2, so to give it a little bit of Ultron, they try
to do like a Mr. Fantastic play, I guess, outside of it.
on somebody maybe get a KO quickly did not work out unfortunately light is not
Kendrick in this case and now we're already 50% towards that Ultron 3.
A little different though if you compare that to doomed who is already close to that 50%
nectar is just gonna have free reign on the high ground uncontested and it's
gonna continuously harass light by the way before monsters are swinging around
but they'll helping and keeping everybody else stabilized with doomed also
kind of lingering back expecting to die from monster and maize get shut down
Nectar is on a terror.
I mean, they traded at least, the more it goes down.
This is kind of the wing addition where both teams is taking out the Vanguard.
But, yeah, Nectar did it earlier, and goodbye.
Doom's like, where did my team go? They just got eviscerated.
And they're back to the spawn.
So, two minutes left to go, like it staggered two.
And honestly, like, in this Ultron matchup, I feel decent about Nightmare.
But you could tell, like, their tank line, their Vanguard line, is hyper aggressive
aggressive and reliant so many deals even in the diamond form even with the
damage reduction it's not enough to keep mace alive that's brutal sight to see I
think for nightmare as they don't have all the day with the piece of the abyss
just to open things up the extermination but on the other side but it's not met
from not here because light is still trying to build up that extermination
it forces them at least to waste it out because they get the kind of way inside
that building out of the line of sight
it's not easy to put it in gardener's case here because it's large trunks it gets deleted but it's gonna crash oh my
Oh my goodness, Nectar perfectly placed trap into that.
Oh, okay.
We're going to get a highlight reel.
Oh, poor dude's still okay.
Oh, rude, but beautiful play to Nectar.
And yep, that's a four piece.
Yeah, that would have been the four piece, you know,
if he didn't steal that real quick,
but that was insane.
Nectar, the back to back keeping heads on a stake.
Light at least will have the extermination,
but look at the time bank right now, Dogman.
Nightmare are at a minute less than 20 seconds on the clock.
Blur still has a piece of the abyss for reset.
And Necriss is close to the Aya Vagamotto.
Sitting on it.
You see it blurting to Charm does not in this case, nice job to avoid it at least.
Omul's got it in mid animation.
Here comes Ulton break to the high ground.
Fidel counters it with the Luda's dance floor.
He's gonna have a big large block, so connects onto one, but it gets deleted in the middle of it.
Nice.
And can you find a thing after it?
The answer is no, nice job with Fidel, but keep everything healthy in the middle of it.
Aya Vagamotto comes to the high ground though and fights three!
He cannot survive and vision meets their maker that is another white this time. It's neck right who wanted the spotlight
Yeah, we keep
Years old some it all God the staggers brutal 35 seconds left to go
You'll have portal, but maybe do they even want to do it 30 seconds?
They do have those all it's mace now going over to the angel it wants to stop playing frontline
So that's gonna be interesting, you know, can they take advantage of this foxhole now nectar does have
have large rocks available to and could stiff everything.
And now with the dive down at the very least,
split some more of that attention,
be disruptive on this back line.
Monsters doing their best already pop that armor
close to the base of the abyss.
With overtime away in five seconds,
the extermination comes in first from doom.
Skiier comes in two in the form of a nine-fielder.
Nectar has not been stopped, has not been contested.
And with the large rocks, they are
hungry to find a 2K, make it a 3K.
four in the pocket of nectar as they're creating their highlight reel bring that that's brutal that was
crushing of of nightmare like that was i mean i at this point space mission gaming is going to be
yeah that wasn't it nightmare nightmare that was insane because well realistically nightmare was
really good in domination like we could both agree on that and then convoy convergence man they just
fell off a cliff like i don't know man like they got to figure something out on domination on convoy
and this was the worry like we saw in the last map is that I feel like their vanguards always want to make plays and then they're trying to force things like you don't need to force things you need to let plays develop and I understand that's kind of it's kind of hard to play vanguards patch and in general in
general rivals because of the CC, right? Like you go in on Venom, for example, you get charmed,
you get frozen, you know, you're kind of like, you're like, you look in the mirror and you're
like, God, what is my purpose? What am I doing on this planet? And you're like, in God's like,
your purpose is to take CC. Your purpose is to get frozen and charmed, okay? But you still have
to slow it down a little bit. It's a hard ask. And that year has to go to the drawing board,
I believe, in this next week, because if they lose the space station here and don't even get a draw,
That puts them in that 2-1 deficit moving forward.
That's so funny because you have so much time to ponder all these thoughts when you're just stuck in a chain CC event.
But I think this is a big reason as to why it's important to look like Dom and look how volatile it is.
Because Nightmare, they won on their Dom map.
It's very obvious to see that they're struggling a lot though, moving forward into these other game times.
And Nightmare with Vision still on the Elsa and having to deal with Nectar on the other side.
I do not want to be a flyer here dealing with the output damage of nexus
Yeah, I mean if I if I'm visions. I'm like man
How like what am I supposed to do on Elsa like people talk about Elsa gap
But like what do you want me to do it on 5v6 right like that's probably what he's thinking a little bit
And I know Mason monster great players
They're just the team that needs to work on their the synchronization for sure like it's individually mechanically skilled
This is the top team, but right now they don't look like it
With so many talented individuals making up this team, Blur gonna be able to
continuously hold back the nightmare. I'm trying to actually wrapping up on the
other side of this choke right now and with Space Station trying to oppress
them, Fidel up on the high ground Blur already popping the armor and Vision
waking up a bit getting them. That first pig we're talking about if he else of the
Ultron match him, but look at the way that Space Station are playing this in
this side corridor. It's all easy pickings once that Glaratrox is up, but
They're gonna be forced to back away if they can't even get away.
Met fries is the next one.
Monster gets frozen and nightmare is still holding up because this is a great spot for Elsa to hold.
I'm not gonna lie that this would be the funniest scenario.
If we saw a draw with not even $35,000 or the more different.
What a jinxed rating.
This point is also, you know, I'm sure if she was here,
it'd be Mr. Switcher gonna be like,
oh my goodness, you know, it's a very hard first point to take for attack.
It always hits, right?
Like, don't get me wrong.
This is a very hard point. Hey, as you see do try to make somebody have to do something with maces. What is he doing?
He got charmed basically a face actually and with the glock truck coming in and the extermination from light
It looks like it's a better situation for not here to be in forcing space station to resell although the pain of controls is
Online. I like the restabilization Fidel in a good position and now with no extermination
They have to look for deeks who does have that dance off or freeze into a charm
They're trying their best on the Venom with not only the Armouries at the face of the Abyss, there is no follow-up ability from Space Station.
Yeah, maybe with the David Boost in that ult from Monster, it's enough. Nice job.
And the portal comes back, so they're not gonna have that cooldown at the very end, but at least, you know, Mace is here.
Oh, nice.
Here comes the long toss from next to those Sondermace, and he's not gonna portal come back.
Is he still alive, though? He is not. Goodbye, Meteor M. Nice dodge from Scare.
He's going to come back though, at least on the Angela, setting that ultimate to 50% and
Scare.
Could also help out with the resustainability of Nightmare.
They're holding up the quarter for right now, while you see Blur coming back in with
the Venom, that there in the 1v1 Elsa duel, finds vision in the trade off.
Defter needs to be contested here because they have just been unstoppable.
They see Light, who is literally one shot, cannot hold them back.
They're dipping and dunking and they are smoothing and breaking ankles and they're all getting
focus on netter who has nothing contested.
The netter is kind of discreet at the current moment.
Well, nice to lay, honestly, from Nightmare's Vanguard,
just kind of holding on.
I like that so far, but you know,
they have to go ultimate.
Now, Light comes back on Spider-Man.
It's desperation, and it's gonna be for naught.
It's over.
Nightmare gets stuffed on the map in Space Station,
win two to one.
Can we talk about the flip around
from a domination on Krakow to the way
that space issue just played Midtown and Hall of Jolio.
Oh yeah.
It was next level.
I think this team is looking like they did
in the first date, right?
Like they look good.
Nectar, the MVP is no surprise
because Nectar was unstoppable space station gaming.
They come out on top in our first game three of the day.
I mean, look, look at this.
Yeah, vision, I like across the board,
like, yeah, he was popping off or they were popping off.
Victor was going insane, but like they just got to figure out
their convergence in in combo in maps because realistically,
like visions, you know, you can see the talent is there and
him and the rest of the crew.
But like, you got to let him be him and how is vision is going
to be visions with my Vanguard players two and eight?
Like, I hate to say it, but like, and I love mace.
Like, I've talked to that guy a lot and I feel bad because I
know him personally and I know he's going to be like, oh,
got to hit this dog man castor guy is he's taking you up down in the worst
moment you know it's like it was a jerk it like but that's the thing is that
mason monster are great players it's just when we move to convo in
convergence they there's something not right either about them or their game
plans you know whatever it may be picking band maybe it's it's not
favoring them that's a good point I think with the old front stuff so you
know we'll see how they do moving forward I think they have a chance to
bounce back and they're still definitely top team in this group but we were
talking about them. I think that they were one of those top teams as of the last patch before this like White Fox and stuff came in and the Elsa. So you know I'm interested to see how they do moving forward considering I mean they're starting off in a deficit. Now I believe they've lost both their starting games.
Because yeah we lost and SSG. My biggest question mark to is like where does I spot into this right because if this is like them at their prime in domination with the Ultron match up like you know kind of shifting around what happens when the Ultron's off the table. What is the game plan here.
What is the different layers of the onion?
Zoe, in a game three scenario, space station,
they'll clutch it out in a huge dominating fashion.
You would not even believe like how close
that first domination map was, really.
Yeah, I don't know if that's just like first map shaders
or maybe it is a game mode that just nightmare, excel in.
Maybe it's that kind of domination chaos.
Some teams are just good on those kind of modes.
Like it's just what it is.
Because when it comes down to those kind of modes,
it's a lot just mechanical skill that it's just,
And if the mechanical skill is there, right,
then you have a chance of edging at victory,
even though the game plan or the coordination
isn't so on point.
That's when on Convergence and on Convoy,
like, that's where you guys need to be on the same page.
And that's kind of what was lacking today for Nightmare.
What was the Glartrocks do from Vision?
Like, we saw Vision swap up.
Like, we really didn't see that impact, too.
Like, if you're going to protect the Elsa,
we keep calling Elsa the server rabbit,
but when you get dip on Elsa, like, you could feel it.
your entire team's health bars disappear before your very eyes,
faster than the invisible woman and invisible boundary.
That's what I'm going to push back a little bit against you, Vicky, here,
just because I don't know.
Like, I feel like he wasn't getting diffed.
Like, I feel like not going to lie, this is a hot take,
but Visions is a better Elsa player than Nectar.
It's just Nectar has a better team.
Like, maybe that's a bad take from my part.
Maybe I'm just being a glazer of Mr. Vision over here, you know?
But like, I just...
It's kind of like the final hits, too, right?
Like, because we also didn't see any final hits,
I believe from light when he was on the Ultron, so there was not really no set up. I agree.
Yeah, it's tough. And I think for the squad moving forward, I don't know, they've got
a lot more to work on, I think, than just the Elsa stuff. I think that's a part of it.
You're right, Vicki. But man, that just was a brutal showing. I think we've not seen such
a bad showing out of a team in a while.
Yeah, it's not... it's gotta be hard to have that basically be the end of your opening
week nightmare now oh one oh and two is that correct yeah that is correct this
and say only too much is yeah take a map and obviously we talked about how
close these groups are really how close the midfield is how it's really not
certain who's gonna get those top four spots or at least like the middle part
like the three and four like that's a hotly contested so if you can just get
a map like nightmare did yesterday as well and then today once again might
come in handy for a map differential scenario at the very end of the group stage before we're
heading into the play playoffs. Now we are still waiting for our winners interview so we will
waffle away and let's talk a little bit about the compositions we saw in general thus far because
we do see a lot of white fox obviously that rate is just going to increase once we're playing on
the most recent patch. When do we have to start thinking about banning white fox?
that's interesting actually so because I feel like do you do you like leave the
gun and you go ahead and use up a band on white box or do you still want to
cry oh like what would the dog man say at the very beginning like the three
hell is horsemen you know like what you see usually like from daredevils for
teams that like to rock the daredevil the gambit the Elsa it all comes down to
like what those first bands look like because in the following save kind of
determines everything else you see the protecting the Elsa you then you have
forcefully banned Mantis. Then you see the protect on the gambit, you have to forcefully
ban out Loki. So I think those are going to be the priorities depending on which of these
teams have that to their best strengths because we've also had teams protect the gambit and get
immediately demolished like it doesn't work out for them too. Yeah I'm kind of I'm kind of with
you on that I think it's uh you have to kind of that you're taking account a lot of these teams
that are sort of unbanable, right?
Like, I think in that series we saw it towards the end,
there were no swaps.
Like, we were just playing the same thing the entire map
and didn't go into anything else.
Whereas if we were watching, like, yeah, we lost,
we would have seen them switch
to like three or four different comps by now, right?
Like, this is like, just unacceptable
to not be able to flex the super high level.
Now, it's easy to say, obviously,
from the outside looking in, like, this game is not easy.
And the fact that there's a band phase
and the fact that there's so many different heroes
that play so differently from each other,
it's not easy to do that all, but there's like teams with just hits game
players on the roster like you gotta flex the melee characters and then you
gotta flex to the gun character like part lover said earlier for the team like
for play like a Zaytex you can play that so you have to teams are in North
America I think across the board not realizing that you could be more
flexible than you are because we have a lot of these squads that do flex at the
when it's needed. I mean that's the thing with these kind of games where I mean
strategy is just a massive part, right? You can't really afford to be a one-trick pony.
You can't be a one composition team. Like, that will be taken out so very quickly. So,
there needs to be so much hero pool death for each individual player. And then you also need to have
enough time, uh, scrim time on those different compositions. Now, of course, with the new patch
coming in so shortly, uh, or so short before the season started, I think a lot of teams were just
kind of scrambling to figure out like what the best look is for them and then
also you kind of get into your head right with the first two days of play
you're looking at what other teams are doing so then maybe you start questioning
your own picks right even though you came in with a plan now suddenly you're
like oh you're the other people are doing a different thing maybe we need to do
that too so it's really easy to get into your head with those kind of things I do
I believe we have our interview ready.
Explanation mark or question mark?
Nope, it's the exclamation.
Let's go for it.
Negra is joining us for a quick chat.
Hello and welcome and most of all,
congratulations to this victory
to close out your first week.
I wanna ask straight out of the bat,
you guys lost the first map, it was a back and forth
and not the cleanest showing we've seen from SSG.
Cleaned it up and moving into map two and three.
What do you think went wrong on your first map here?
And what exactly did you switch up for map two and three?
I mean, to be honest, the first map just on me.
Like, we haven't been playing too much with the triple.
I would like Ultron.
But recently we started playing for the last few days
and we've been like pretty decent on it.
Because like one of the characters that plays like Angela
and it's having a picture, I was like pretty nice.
But like, after the first fight, we had like 80%
and we were like 90 to both of our support ults.
I like overreached and died to the whole.
And like every fight after that, I kind of like kept,
I guess like I'm like antsy or whatever
and like just kept overreaching and dying too early.
So that first map we saw maybe
because as soon as I like went back after the game,
it's easier, but the second round was like,
like we were already at like an old deficit.
So it was harder to come back from
so I just like pick it up in the other games.
Well, we love accountability here by the way, Necrize.
I really appreciate that hell of a respect here,
But you know, you guys got the dub, right?
It may have gone to a game number three,
but let me tell you the conflict convergence.
Chef's kiss, you guys obviously had it in the bag
and felt a lot more comfortable,
especially starting off on the defense in that last map.
And I mean, you're Elsa going crazy.
I just need to ask you though,
your next opponents right now are gonna be Yawee Lost.
You've already had a few days to look back
at their game plan and see how they've been able
to play things out.
And it's very interesting to say the least.
and the way that they've rolled out with certain compositions,
it's all out there for you guys to follow review.
How do you feel about preparing for Yawie Lawson team
that really is playing kind of their own meta?
I mean, they're like a really good team
because they played to their comfort,
which is like really good to do.
But I think like the best thing is not to overthink it.
And like there's metas for a reason.
And if we're practicing like what's quote unquote meta
and like we'll work comfortable on,
I don't think there's like too much of a reason to be too scared of like what they're playing as long as we're like playing our game, but they are like pretty good.
You have to respect them for like what they play, but I think she's like not over thinking and just playing our game.
Do you think that was the issue by the way for Nightmare because they're kind of forcing the composition that they're not comfortable with and you kind of mentioning like the teams who could play into their comfort gets a really shine more.
Yeah, I do. I think a big player on their team is light on D.D. and going into it, I was kind of saying that even though we haven't been playing too much like Ultron,
but recently we kind of feel like if something will be good at it, if we prod Ultron because I think the meta is going to shift more into a triple support meta,
especially with Fox being really good right now, D.D. is really hard to play into a triple support like Ultron, so I feel like having light on Ultron really begins their team.
I think for you too, man, like how does it feel like finally moving up from like a Lonnie wind and that sort of stuff like moving over to SSG a full on, you know, part of organization to to get them, you know, win today, like, obviously, you guys got the bundle and stuff in the shop, but, you know, is there, I know there's a lot of pressure on you and stuff, it didn't seem like it, besides not number one, considering on those other ones, like we didn't see you in the KO feed at all on the other side, it was like all mace in them, right?
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. It's like I love competing so it's like I knew I was only like good enough to play it like this level
I just wanted like a chance and I just want to like prove that I can
Because I'm playing with two players like nectar like even month
I just want to like show that like I can stand out just like them, you know
The fun part of competing
Well, we've been chatting about you a lot here on our broadcast so you definitely are standing out and so is the rest of the team
What a fantastic opening week for SSG.
Necrime's gonna let you rest up.
Thank you so much for taking the time for a quick chat.
And best of luck next week.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Good night.
Thanks and a good night to you.
That was Necrime from SSG, they're getting their third.
No, their second victory on the board.
So that puts them at two-one,
which puts them in a really, really, really good position.
Cause again, we just have two weeks of group stage play.
It's a round-robin format.
So you just play against each team once.
Yeah, this is not the best start for Nightmare
on the other side and the best start, like you said, for SSG.
I mean, they've had really tough challenges so far
in Team Liquid versus in Nightmare,
but really it's on the other teams to just fall, right?
Like all they have to do is just play
to match like the normally, how they normally would, right?
And let the sort of, you know, pieces lie where they lie
because it seems like TSM are on the way out at this point.
It seems like potentially Lunex are.
Like TSM had a good match versus Lunex,
but it was a two-to-one game
and Lunex is improving sure,
but that's the only team to take a map off of,
off of, or start to get a map with another is Lunex.
So, you know, we'll see how this goes,
but Space Station, like you said,
so they look like they're going to be
a top four team in this group.
Pretty much been the consensus
in our post-mage interviews today.
Like playing to your strength,
there's a lot to be said for that kind of approach here, especially with the format
being what it is. Now, we have one more match to close out an exciting first week of play
here in the Americans preseason. It's going to be flight crest going up against 100
thieves. And that's going to happen after a short break. So don't go anywhere.
and then they started off with
TSM and Lune X now TSM struggled
a little bit in day one to find
their footing. Lune X did look
strong, but for me it really all
came back together and you saw
that teamwork come to play with
TSM that thought back lost one
game and then one two in a row
ship. Would you see? Yeah,
Lune X look consistently strong
and I think TSM struggled on
Dom, but then they just found
their footing with this new
triple composition. They started
running this more broadly be
frontline triple on the front
and then allowing their you know
essentially one duelist on the
really good obviously, but yeah, it was unstoppable. As soon as that switch came in, it was like
the cart stopped moving, everything was stationary and they locked in for the next two maps.
Yeah, we've seen a lot of triple Vanguard and I think it was cool that back in the
division they showed actually how well triple Vanguard works at the highest level, but you
have to have an anchor duelist. A little bit in SSG, we saw that whenever you had Nectar
as the Star Lord and in this case, in today in day two, bedtime story had to do a lot
of the heavy lifting there.
Yeah.
And that's because Gale, who's an amazing player, was on the gulk, all right, was playing
the whole and is definitely gonna give that team a little bit of a different
look and we'll see if that's just part of their flexibility or you know one of
the team packages that they want to run moving forward.
Lunex though they definitely proven themselves as a team that's gonna be
tough to beat. Sure yeah I mean shout out again Reedus looked really good in the
back line especially on map three there looks like he did not miss a single
bullet on that punisher and that's always high pride so the teams say
consistent but again TSM the compositional change that they made I don't
think that Lunex could find a solution they're definitely gonna have to look
that in the future. Year two. If
there's anything we've learned is
that the MRC teams are not going
to be easy beats. Luna that
and we're going to continue to
head into that with swamp
gaming versus Cafe Rose who
obviously had the upset of the
tournament at least expectation
wise to get fly quests a quick
two oh and day one now playing
what was now I would deem some
people's America's favorite
right swamp gaming what they've
shown and the number one thing
I've seen from this team is that
they have so many ways to beat
you right it's not just from
that. I mean, I think that
it's a great team. It's a
great team. It's a great team.
One one role or player. It's
personally, if I had been
circled on my calendar or
schedule, this is a team you
have to do a lot of prep
for. It was awesome hearing
coach Fox essentially
breakdown how they discussed
their bands their adages per
team. And then also how
they're not afraid to switch
in things like days out and
bring in a median who played
incredible there as a doula
swap and being able to do
that with different priorities
of heroes that they play.
It's really powerful. It's
tough for teams to scrim
against, which is what he
the game. And so, you know,
we're going to be here. We see
more subs come to play right
and doesn't mean like a player
is bad. It's like, Okay, this
is just a different flexible
package we can play. The more
heroes you bring into the game.
It's going to be kind of more
common that you have these
specialists and different you
know, team comps that you want
to run, and I think that's
going to be honestly super
interesting on both of viewer
and caster position for that.
But yeah, man, the back line
for swamp gaming. They looked
tough to be, but it was not an
easy win for them at all. I
like, okay, hey, tip to the
Catholic stack over there to
Cafe Rose. Yeah, Cafe Rose has
been stepping up. I think like
you're saying with the MRC teams,
we kind of assumed that they
were going to struggle a bit up
at this, you know, but they have
nothing to lose and they're
proving it. They look dominant
out there and they're not
afraid to step up in these
moments, taking things like
domination and map three off the
rip and look super confident.
And there was a point where I
was like, okay, this thing might
be able to pull this home, but
just, you know, unable to do so
swap gaming locked in and just
look really strong.
Absolutely. And then it takes
us to our last match of the day.
If you missed it, it was TLC
I think they were just kind of back to form. I think like a day one game one is like, okay, a little bit of rust, maybe, but man, this is proving to be the team to be. They looked tough.
Yeah, they tweeted something out like, Hey, we're going to shake the cobwebs off and our games are going to be easier for us. And yeah, they really did just that. I mean, SSG is no joke.
obviously nectar is discussing, but they tried to match comp and domination and T TLC team liquid and said it looked just so good instead.
I mean, you didn't I don't know that you can try to copy cop into a team like that.
If you got to try to find a way around it, so they really struggled there.
And then they kept running those unique compositions.
You bunker busters and they went to midtown team liquid man.
They are the team to beat right now.
Yeah, without question.
Day three is going to be full of matches as well.
There's going to be a heater on y'all's plate to watch a lot of bangers out there.
Get ready for some action.
We're going to jump right in.
And we're back for our final series of day three. It's gonna be FlyQuest taking on a hundred thieves.
Now unfortunately for FlyQuest, Energy Shop pokes the bearer on day one and handed hundred thieves an L.
So they will come back looking for revenge, looking to make a statement against a team that is clearly in Struggle Town.
FlyQuest, like, we are fans of those individual pieces, but from day one it just looked disconnected.
It looks like a single-player adventure, I think we talked about that, like great lengths already in the first two matches we saw from them.
Will they be able to string it together today with one more day or one more night, I guess, of practice?
You know what? I wanted to hear from Dogma originally here, Dogma, because you got some time to look at the games, but it's pretty difficult here for that team.
team. Yeah, I think so. I mean, like on paper, this this
should be a good squad. I think people are calling it the
retirement home for an eSports team right now. Oh, that's
like in the early 20s. Well, you know, sadly, being 25 means
you're washed up. As you know, that means that you have
experience to guide the rest of your team. So this is you got
it all wrong. What's that? You said this team has a lot of
experienced wash players and I think that they're not a joke that was too far
this is a very good team and I think that they just need to figure out the
mental a little bit like I if we enter that triple strategy meta they have
incredibly flexible players like Melio was that guy that sort of took the
mantle for a lot of duelist players that were kind of one tricking he was like
the one that's like no I want to be that flexible player who could play
basically everything you know obviously wins the chip I think in the mid
season when we went to China for rad eSports but then after that has kind of
kind of moved around, you know, left that team would trust me and Navi over to
FlyQuest here today. And I think they definitely still have it. I think Ken
is also one of the best backlines in the game too alongside Zellos who never
gets a ton of praise on old FlyQuest that was always Cooper that was getting
that praise. So I think this team does have what it takes and then that jolly
guy coming through who's to play on, you know, old teams like jobless Bums. I
mean, I think they do have what it takes and they have that white mix that
So I think as long as they can put up a competitive match versus where you said 100 feet trying to come back and you know, show up have a good showing. That's going to be rough. So as long as they look half decent, I wouldn't feel too bad about them as a flightless fan.
I wouldn't feel too bad about them as a flightless fan.
Yeah, but they do have to go off against quite a giant, honestly.
I mean, Honda had such an incredible run last season
coming out in the upper echelon of pretty much every stage.
So, yeah, it's a tough match to prove yourself
for flightless to prove that, hey, look, we made adjustments, we're back.
But as long as they can make it competitive, as you just said,
I think they're going to put themselves in a much better spot heading into the truth.
Yeah, but also 100 thieves only got to play once, right?
It was at one time when they ended up losing out against NRG.
And imagine if you're fly quest right now and you got to look at the gauntlet of teams that you have to go through to at least put a point on the board.
If it isn't 100 thieves that are the Titans waiting for this series, next week it's got to be NRG, the team that literally beat 100 thieves.
Then it's got to be Swamp Gaming, the team that is currently beating the pack in Group A.
It's kind of like the hey, can we get some time to breathe because the next is then at the last year
The last team that they would have to be in that last series for the last day of next week
So I mean looking are actually they already played them out
So not actually having to put that's on the group B set of things, but it's still that Gauntlet run, right?
You still have to deal with 100 thieves
You still got to deal with energy and then you have to deal with swamp gaming the three big tight into our leading group A is
Gonna be really difficult like there's only so much you could do to on ping
I think that's something else that we have to mention because a lot of these talented individuals and fly quest are unfortunately at that slight deficit
So that's doing their best somebody say that's like, you know
Trying to keep me the foundation for a flight quest because if you're best right now
You're looking on for as the team and you're trying to keep the morale right for a flight quest
You have to also remind them. Okay. Well now after this series of gets on the trees
We then have to beat the team that also took out a hundred days
So it's going to be a mountain decline.
Yeah, absolutely.
Now, on the teams, they're coming into this season with very little changes, right?
The only replacement is Terra.
Now, you could argue Terra was their star player,
so that's obviously a massive change for them.
But self, I think, held their own, right?
Like, as the replacement, what's the first impression here from you, Darkman?
Does the glass slipper fit?
I think it fits, yes.
Absolutely.
I mean, self is a self made player who has been able to grind out on Black Panther.
I know I'm sorry, and human torsion stuff, but he's, you know, if he can flex and build up that hitscan pool, I'm very
much looking forward to this guy's future.
I mean, he is kind of like a mini Terra to a degree like, you know, Terra is not a player
you can come across very often only because we talk about those star players a lot of the times
they're not the most flexible right like there's you know, I hate to throw Rai Maze you under the bus a little bit
But he's like playing a ton of that man just Ultron
You know playing a lot of the hits can stuff nectar came in on old sentinels and was like the flex player kind of and
That's been really good for nectar because now there's our player elsewhere and stuff
But a lot of times if you have to come in and kind of fill the other characters that the experienced player doesn't play
That can sometimes be a detriment to your individual stats
But if you can step up and level up like Tara has, like we've seen other squads,
I think that they have a very bright future ahead of them.
Now, they still lost their first match, right?
Which at first is NRG, and I think Remix, I don't know if he wants me to talk about it,
but I was like, man, you know, how good, like, how are you guys doing right now in scrims and stuff?
And he's like, man, we should have, we should have two owed energy, man.
Like, he's like, we've been 15owing them in scrims.
How do we lose to them on day one?
So, you know, I'm sure, like you said, so they have a point group today.
Yeah, they won jitters over and that's a real thing. Even though you're an accomplished player, even though you have all those accolades from last year, it's still a thing because in the end you don't know what to expect from the opposition.
those are high stakes game we games like we can't stress that enough so it
happens just one game a remix calm down everything's okay he's gonna come back
stronger than ever it's just them very lucky of course that they only had to
play one match this week and then I also got to sit back and just kind of take a
look at what the opposition is doing literally they had to go back to the
drawing board and see like all right there's only so much Dylan it could do
right we have to talk about like a star player that really stood out to me
within that last series. I think little game 3 of course with energy shocking
literally everybody for that first day. It was a banger of a way to end the first
day but they've had time. They didn't play too much right there yesterday. They
only had that one series. There wasn't a lot so really based off of my is that one
series. So you go into today you see flight quest if you want to test out
anything if you're 100 thieves you can go ahead and try to do that now if you
want to talk about the individual differences that each of these players
could provide on this roster.
I feel like, you know what, like you mentioned,
with Delena being an absolute god so far on Elsa and stuff.
I think it's Jim and Visions that are the two best
Elsa's right now.
But everybody else is still pretty close.
I feel like Nectar still had a really good performance.
It's still a top five Elsa.
It's kind of like the famous Brian Scalabrini quote
from the NBA.
He's closer to LeBron than you are to him.
OK, it's basketball reference.
It's basically the average flat player.
Thank you.
He's exists in the world, but I think I know him.
But the point is, your average player is super far away from any of these pros.
For example, I saw on Twitter, I was like browsing, and I think I saw people were critiquing
Flats' tier list on Heroes, and people were like, man, Flats, you're stupid.
And then he comes back, and he's like, well, most of these pros have the personality of
a wet rock or whatever. He said something stupid. And he was basically saying that he's
closer to the top 1% and the closer to the every man, so he understands him and I get
that point. But like, honestly, like, somebody like Flats who's in the top 1% of the game
is still very far away from the .1%, from the pro players of our scene. And I respect
that guy as a content creator. But if I have to respect somebody as a content creator, then
I think I have to respect the pro players as well that put all this time into the game
and put as much effort as these guys do.
And I think, like we were talking about earlier, Vicky,
you know, Nectar had a phenomenal game,
was really close, I think, to Delena and Invisions.
We're gonna see.
I agree.
This is a struggle as all those times, right?
Yeah.
You have to do like every kind of sports there.
It's easy to judge when you're on the outside looking in.
So like, it's so easy if you have the third side view
of what is happening,
and then you have all the sources at hand as well.
That doesn't mean you can replicate it.
No, it's hard.
It's true.
And especially when you have only a limited amount of information
to base it off of, right?
So you go back on it, and you also
take a look at 100 thieves, and you look at T.T.K., who's
always been a very star standout player himself,
and wonder, OK, were some of the vanguards
that he rolled out with the decision that should have been
leaned on?
Because I believe these are some votes
for the Museum of Contemplation.
And a map that people are still trying to get a handle of
because being on the attack could be so detrimental.
So figuring out, okay, well, if this is not
what worked out for us, it did work out,
at least in their favor, that's where they won the dub.
But it was incredibly close.
That whole series was close.
The first Dom was too one favor for NRG.
They came back, if you're 100 thieves, five, four.
And that was with Madara making a crazy portal play
before they ended up closing up.
Yeah, I lost my mind.
I lost my mind.
It happened like back to back
because it then proceeded to
happen on the last map on Shinshipuya.
So if you're struggling on maybe these two maps,
you go back to the drawing board.
Why did we struggle?
Was it because there was not enough protection
when we're entering such a dive-centric meta?
What are the adjustments we have to make
when we go onto the tournament client
with the new patch with the buffs over to White Fox 2?
Now, we're sorting out some stuff in the server,
so I promise you our yapping is not holding the game hostage.
not yet promise promise can we start fuelers that's always the assumption is like and they have to
start button no we do not trust um otherwise we wouldn't start with sports references because
that's not our forte not your forte don't give me i'm the host oh dang it that's all that works
Today the bell is on, that's awesome.
I'll get the bell back.
We're going to head into a quick break, how about that.
So we let everyone get some refreshments to set us up for our last years of the day.
So stick around, we're going to see you on the other side of this.
All around us, constantly, constantly, high, high, fly away
This stage is our game, dark
Even if you keep falling, don't cry, just wake up
The place is a roundabout, it's on zero
Fly, move, red dance on the moon
Eyes on the sky, oh, yeah
Warp like the heat, look at it, get it, oh
We're such a good people
Looking at the crystal, oh, we want to know how to win
Now it's time to take the flight home
When the night comes, we go, take the flight home
This time she's going to fly home
Fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly
This time she's going to fly home
They can't kiss my vibe in my life
Oh oh oh oh oh
They're sensed on the moon
I can't stop looking at you
Firling up the heat
I can't get in that hole
I'm slashing off the lip
I'm slashing off the Christmas
All the ones you know
Now it's time to twist the spine
I can't get out of that orbit
But we turn our backs
And a bit but, we're still not ready now
I'm nervous, I'm nervous, I'm going up to the top
I'm dying without hesitation
The black sea is flying more
Bit pressurized, shining, flying higher
In the spark of flight mode
We're going up to the horizon
That's a big, big moonlight
Gonna burn the night out
Every time my heart's white
We go higher, I'm so white
We're through the summer eyes
Welcome back friends! So we are getting ready for our last series of the day.
100 Thieves will be taking on a fly quest. We already talked a great length about how this might play out.
100 Thieves, obviously, being the heavy favorites coming into not just this match, but also in general into this season, into this pre-season.
I think a lot of people have them at the very top of the standings in their group, which is a very stacked group.
currently they are not where we expected them to be as energy shock did
hand them their first loss in our opening day. Yeah I think week one has
been very surprising and that's why like if we're comparing the series like the
last one we saw with Nightmare and SSG, Flagwests doesn't have a lot of
expectations right like based on the first couple days I think people maybe
why put the pretty high because I was you know not thinking about the long term
of it before we were talking about like the predictions in games and units but
But nowadays, I think people kind of realize where FlyQuest is, and maybe that's why it's
easier to go soft on them a little bit because they've just not shown up to performance,
whereas like 100 Thieves, they've had a good series with NRG, whereas FlyQuest has had
a tough showing every single time they've played.
And that's kind of like for Nightmare on SSG, the reason why, for example, I was so hard
on Nightmares is because they have expectations.
Because this team, a lot of people think they're going to get top four.
So you kind of set different expectations, I guess,
and likewise need to up our expectations
after this series of things.
Yeah, I mean, they're coming in as a partner team, right?
They're also coming in as an org
that has done well last year,
but they are coming in with just two returning members
with this and Celas.
So there is a lot of new pieces that need to be worked in.
There is a new meta that needs to be figured out
and new opponents that need to be figured out too,
because I think a lot of the teams
have changed their identity and their approaches.
So you have to take that into consideration
each and every single match. So perhaps they turned things around. We did see Sen being able to do
just that as well here in our opening week, so now it's an opportunity for FlyQuest to really push
back and fight back and see what they got. Now the teams look to be ready very soon, so rest
assured we're diving into our last series of the day in just a little bit. Yeah guys, thank you so
much for your patience. We just want to make sure all the players are left and loaded ready to go,
especially when flyquests have their backs against the walls.
I like how dogman brings up like how each individual player is so talented on their own.
We know what they can perform. We've seen it in the back end,
but it's about performing against the best teams in the region.
That is a hundred thieves and they will be taking on flyquest in their last match of opening week.
Thank you Zoe, heading into it. Flyquest, you know, like you mentioned, like I think
actually Zoe put it pretty good pretty well. Like it was, they don't need to be,
you know, the best team in the world here, they just need to be like, you know, sentinels, like,
scrape by this week, try to get to next week, but you don't want to go in that O and O and three
deficit like the side of Lune Xs in Group B, you know, because that just makes it such a hard next
week and difficult opportunity for you. But, you know, it's not an easy test against the 100th
ease for sure, but you have to start it out in the band phase and we're going to immediately
ban out the DD in Mantis for the side of FlyQuest, which is, I think, a unique start, Vicky.
Yeah, when we just saw like 100 Thieves just go crazy with Delena on Elsa, so now Delena gets to
get the server admin unlocked, so we have to see how that's going to play out for FlyQuest, but
they have a game plan. They take out the gambit. They wanted to prior protect the Mantis. You were
talking about the Mantis earlier today and the side lock, and that's interesting because that's
probably going to force out the gambit band from the other side for 100 thieves onto fly quest.
See how that's going to work out hand in hand. But I know a lot of players are also excited to see
more of 100 thieves with this iteration of the you know self being slotted in. You talked a lot
about self prior. Talk about the flexibility to between the dual list of Delena and self.
And what they could bring to because honestly 100 thieves also have no issue if they have to
to run the triple strap. Yeah, this is this is pretty crazy. And I think this will determine
At least, at least my perspective on the shipple strategy, this composition with the mantis and stuff like it feels like fly quest are almost preparing for next week when the Elsa nerfs come through and she's minus 50 HP.
Maybe that's the reason why they're doing this because for 100 thieves. I mean, they've just gotten everything like they've got actually everything like this is, except again, but the fact that you get Vanpool, the fact you get Elsa.
I mean, maybe that's just like a this week type of situation going on, but that's that's brutal.
See those two in the lobby and let us inside. I'm really curious how flyquests play against it.
It's going to be hard and TTK is already hovering over that. Angela, let's get this going. Everybody,
our last series of the day to close out the first week of the preseason here in the Ignite
Americas region diving right into the actual flyquests trying to prioritize the Mantis.
you have to consider the fact that they're also dealing with like the Loki band, the Gambit band,
Zellos, peeing on the cloaking deck to see if that's going to work out for them. But I think
one thing that we can take away from today, Doc Pan, is the amount of Ultron that has been utilized
on Dong specifically. Yeah, that's an excellent point. I think that the Ultron itself is just,
you know, very hard to KO on top of the fact that he does insane damage. And he's kind of like
easy to play like for people that can aim it's just a hero that kind of gets
value by existing almost right the only thing that's kind of tough is like
figuring out when to use your ultimate you know if there's a magneto the
opposite side of you see to farm up that or whatever but immediately we're gonna
go for this extreme fast teepee play we'll see if Vess wants to maybe go
towards the point if they're all grouped together for on our thieves side and
maybe we get some one shot so the game with you trying to get a kid up here to
splitting the attention but a hundred these are already ahead of them as a
point and watch the next six seconds.
Susie already gets trapped.
Death over from the other side.
This time in the hands of Ken,
after we saw Winnie go over to the white box.
I love what I've seen thus far too
with a lot of our white box players.
And that's before the Bulk II, as TTK
lingers about to get more information
and to harass this back line.
The Angelise hungry looking to swoop in on its next phrase.
Absolutely just trying to like playing around,
waiting in the wings.
But you know, for in general,
Time comes for that dive or we have to back away to help try to come play around.
Oh, taking so much damage.
Melio answers back and finds TTK.
Great peel to help Melio get up to health thanks to zealousy 10.
And now with that first pick, Black West do have the advantage for now
before they try to reengage because Vinny does have that vanpool.
Going in now to with going back here, dog.
while you get your setup here situated.
Delena's still now on this L, so I can close that guard truck.
Yeah, but he's kind of close to it.
Building up on the inside, sorry, Vic.
It's just a very little pixel-y online for me right now.
No worries, though, because then we can kind of clean off our glasses
just to see that Melio finally does get taken out,
and the extermination comes in from self.
Delena's close to that guard truck, too,
but it's gonna be Delo's first with the invisible boundary.
Flightless looking a little bit more straightened up,
but with Zellos getting caught with the Glarotrack,
they can leave it quickly, but it's not fast enough
before Delana gets to finish and blow out the Zellos.
Another dance in the center flight comes in,
Charlie finds two off of a hundred keys,
and Tusi goes crazy, at least with the Sylocke,
with them getting the control over the point first.
Excellent work there to cap the point,
and also my internet to finally sort it stuff out.
But for Flightless, you know,
Seattle's up playing fight kind of goes
as they've already set themselves up for a bit
You know they can kind of play
You know towards that objective played towards the point and allow maybe a little bit more space to come through as you have some solid
Ultimate you act itself in the previous fight also to avoid a lot of that damage to the bar truck
So this evening keep it up looking for maybe hit it could hit a huge Jethel
This self does not have the o-tron or he decay doesn't have his meteor in
Think when you have that environmental KO potential if he gets protected
Looking onto a hundred thieves now with Winnie and Millenia getting to cycle through these strats
Olten, look for yourself in that extermination that rings through your ears
They're trying to boot FlyQuest off his points and Jolly has a lot of sustainability too with the Freedom Charge
Melio wraps everybody up together though and it's going to be the Mantis Olten bringing them into this point
Because they have not gotten off just yet, Olten trying to force them off
And with the it's chef from Cannes, Meteor at this time down
But a good protection to help enable Cannes
Yeah, nice shot by Ves to block that meteor.
I'm coming down to save the Jeff.
In the meanwhile, they're trying to go to the back line,
force out that Lunal Ultimate.
Melania wants to go forward by taking Banshee's busted eyes
coming through, maybe to bait it out to Lennon
with the launch rocks off the map.
No, it hit the wall.
Actually, no, it doesn't.
He brings it back, but it still gets deleted.
So everybody's still healthy.
And guess what?
Fly plus at the point.
No ultimates versus the four ults on the other side.
They're hit by Jolly and Tuzi with the dances of butterflies.
And they're cleaned up.
FlyQuest, they're at 90%.
This is a different FlyQuest and a different 2C on this sidewalk.
Now you see why they wanted to briode this.
FlyQuest showcasing that they have more secrets up their sleeve,
and 100 keys are going to have to recontest with the portal.
Oh, my goodness, can they get there in time?
The answer is yes.
At the very least, they get that overtime tick down,
but they have no ultimates.
They have to play slow, and Ken is coming up on another Jephle.
Maybe you can get a pick off on Delano or something.
Maybe somebody has to go off,
but you have to play on the inside angle.
Everybody's disengaging that dive coming through.
Jolly understands that needs to live the job
playing his life.
For now, Vinny comes out, has that ban hammer.
Jeff on this well comes through.
Maybe they can live and Vinny can get some more damage
off down range, but into the sky,
Jeff goes, what does it want to get?
Meteor, Delano shuts him out.
Nice job from Delano to read that.
That was the player that needed to step up
in that previous fight without the ultimate advantage,
but they still need to find more.
the war track something up see and with overtime ticking down and Vez having the
eye of Agamotto look at TTK calling incredibly low winning also close for a reset
I have Agamotto comes in but it only finds TTK. Delano fighting Emelio right as Zellers calls
indian visual boundary with TTK getting the shish kebab making sure that the
glock drop truly eats tonight and a hundred eats make the point but talk about
a dominating first few fights from flight questers to get themselves a 99
and that was messy. I wonder if like so Ken I know I think didn't want to get
meteor and or maybe even one shot slash charmed so that is interesting that
didn't go for that Jeff ultimate in the previous fight that maybe could have
turned things but the decision-making regardless has them at 99% right so
they're going to snack fight if they can force out Winnie's ultimate now self is
on Dr. Stranger Bull things right now longer on the Ultron so they don't have
that crazy healing output but you can't allow the Lena this guy right here to get
pick off like he did in the previous fight.
side. It did buy enough time, right? The silo destined to die in that situation and oh hyper aggressive to let it go.
That's hell. No way! Self-locked. It's a little too late to save him, but they still get 2K to counter Iavagamoto.
Blocked by Sheldon, by the vanguard. They're still alive. Self-locked it alongside DDK.
Impressed. He now finds himself with his pants down. He's gotten two in the fight,
still controlling the point two as a hundred thieves. Self with the Iavagamoto onto Zelos and Melio.
They cannot catch a break at scenes and Ken is coming in with the it's Jeff because a hundred thieves have flipped this from 0 to 99 in our nearing 90%
This has gotten incredibly close Vicky and you know we have to see now like what this can do with this ultimate
He's kind of the only one with it right a lot of times. He's been dodging. They need to play slow
Maybe for that meteor and it's poked a little bit early
But every time you know the playing slow allowing that you to build up for those little things
The large rocks is still available. We saw what you want to get before
The last looking for those cough drops though, shortly before wrapping over to the left side
and then immediately using the clock drop, sketching one, the follow-up, on to Vez, big
pink, that seems like this could come into a re-contest, as Zell calls on for the Invigor
Boundary, 2C, waking up, finds two, can they find a quick 3K, jumps up, gets stunned, beautiful
safety as the Invigor Boundary comes in and the dance up from underneath the sustain.
Wait, he's going to have the dance floor after this, they have to KO this eye lock, everybody
has to look at and make sure he can't get it off otherwise we're all dead into the sky.
One, portals there, my is OT, comes through, he's accidentally through, he wastes half of it
because Ves' portal brings it back to his own spawn. No way, the double portal now recontest
from a hundred keys of TCK taking quick nap. Meteor M is ready, the freedom charge is coming in,
to try to flare around the portal to get out of the line of sight, but it's a back and forth.
Meteor M up, they have to recontest on the point, they can't get off as it is a hundred
point right now and with Jolly Fun and Millenia that's how you open things up for FlyQuest.
Yeah, that's a huge pick. Portal out, full bounds out of the light box. Kindalina, get
traded! Oh my goodness, cellos get hit in the 1v1. Now there's just a Doctor Strange
with a backline meanwhile, Vinny. What do you have for us on the van pool? Can you stall
it? No portal. The answer is no. The damage moves too much from Tuzi in FlyQuest who win
round one. What is... are you kidding me? Tuzi? I want to have whatever breakfast Tuzi
yet because to see is popping off the immediate focus the recon test even at
the end of that dance of the cutter flight kind of getting cut off early
still found those prior picks this silo is on fire and this is the flag
question those individual talented players that we know to come in love
absolutely maybe it's that European sort of mentality in terms of the fact that
they were on the mantis at a pretty high level Melio playing a flex role gives
the damage boosts allow Tuzzi to you know pop off like he did and it's funny because I think
we've seen Melio do well in sidewalk as well so you know it's a very interesting team you know
taking parts of the MEA coming through you know and based on how everybody's talking about them
stuff we lower their expectations but you know maybe Vicki we need to increase them again because
if they were to beat 100 Thieves today I mean 100 Thieves can start off the season 0 and 2
after all of the expectations that they have.
Imagine being like from the AMIA region and like watching this right now,
America's is quite literally a masterclass of interesting outcomes.
It seems like flight quests have beds at least with the eye of Agamotto,
but keep your eyes on Vinny, who's ready to take into an off angle
and specifically Delano, who can't have like large rocks to take everybody off the map.
They walk to the point early. Like you said, you know, they're really early into the season.
Now really nobody knows the best comps that play until about like the end of this week
But Jolly on the backside they already give up the point 100 thieves already in control Jolly frozen after being charmed
All that CCU's got him, but they still have to deal with the bar talks coming up from the letter
You know it too the letters getting a lot more aggressive and everybody's in a lot of sight
They were at least a bar talks they put down the invisible boundary
but it's not going to be enough to say the three members of Fly Quest, so that's
unfortunately an invisible boundary gone to waste. The excellent job from Vinny,
who is kind of free on the van pool because he gets that mismatch and you
know drops ban hammer, gets a lot more damage down range than it be Zellos
expected, but also there was too many people I think hit by the glory trucks
to actually delete it. So growth should be well timed by the Lena in 100
thieves. We'll see if they can keep it up right down that ultimate. They still have
damage boost in these like neutral fights where the silo does a lot more damage than you would think
but 100thies family have the point first unlike the previous rounds.
We've been playing off of that slight lag here having that difference can make a huge difference
where fly quests have made the comeback when you're taking the fight over to Ken.
Oh unfortunately gets Dovon that's one strat out from fly quests really leaving Zellos and Melio
and they do not want to stagger like this with Melio having that ultimate direct try to recontest.
Yeah, this actually reminds me of earlier when we watched, you know, Nightmare kind of falter.
Like, there's losing in these weird neutrals where they probably shouldn't.
10 in that case on the off angle, got chased down by Galena.
100 thieves, well-practiced, read it.
And, you know, it's tough because you don't want to lose fights without ultimates if you're a fly quest.
So, you know, got caught out in that situation.
We'll see what happens again because now they finally have their straddles.
Like, if you had it in some butterflies in the last fight, that could have been big.
look at 2C damage boosted 2C and he does have a dance with butterflies as you mentioned
dog man self playing around the pillar getting out of the line of sight does have the extermination
keeps everybody up as Vinny jumps up from behind and Delana is on the demon that was
2C before shutting this down nobody left him 5 plus to recontest 99% as it's forced
into overtime and they delete the cast.
Yeah this is the 100th theme we know right?
I mean, there's gets the map collapses very and didn't even need to break it at the beginning hundred. Oh
200 thieves and we go to the next round
Where you know, I'm curious if the sidewalk works out because we're going to Imperial Institute of Science, which is a little bit more of an open
Map and you know, I wouldn't necessarily favor the ultron there. This is like a big deal
Like it's right at a large effect
But I would favor glen on this Elsa who will just kind of be able to run free and I mean
Like, FlyQuest didn't put up a fight in the last round.
Yeah, they lost every fight.
Domination. Literally, like when it comes to this game mode here, Dog Bear, like, domination,
that first fight can determine so much in terms of, like, old economy and, like, 100
using that first round.
Couldn't really find that footing.
Meanwhile, on the second round, look at the way that they were able to recontest FlyQuest.
They were staggering them.
They even jumped Ken, turned him into Sushi, and we're going on here to the round three,
where you got more lap for Cali that you were talking about.
Excellent reads by Hunter Thieves
and very poor placement of just like what they
did in the previous fight with FlyQuest.
They kind of went down one after another.
But we'll see if that changes around.
The first round went their way.
They had somewhere, I think, for the Tridentus
to really bump her up and play off of that.
But it's going to be a lot harder in this round
as it does get a little bit more open in terms of space.
So how does the Hunter Thieves play this?
more importantly, where's Black West gonna put their invisible boundary coming up and this Ken
Also trying to play for his own life. This TK is off that mag that he was playing earlier and on the Emma has looked flawless
And as we go the distance here, you have to imagine what this does for the vanpool, right?
He's got those upgrades already ready to go as he's one of the characters I like to build up and Dylanna has released a
Cloak top and you have this on the receiving end of that weapon TK
And it's a Dutchie bringing them all into their line of sight and flatbust are
still holding onto these ultramids.
Zalio, look they kind of called in that solar surge in and Zalio comes in with that
invisible boundary.
Little bit better this time around, but Vinny tries to isolate them with the bubble.
I mean they're trying to sustain the trying to live, but they're still down a
member of their team.
So the capital, don't touch the point again.
This happened before in the previous round and now Tuzi is going to get picked off.
Charcoal, a little bit too late from Ken, there's anything there to counter with the
Ultron's rage is there.
So they get nothing in.
at this point they got to change things up Vicky this is not looking good.
Elena is having a wave right now literally sending them back to the
spawn room gate and is still holding up before back in a way because not only do
they have the point first but Elena is just being able to take so much of this
momentum and run with it. Yeah he's been doing everything he wants to right and I
think off of that TDK swapped to the Emma Frost is just sort of stuff like
West's game plan like it's just given to so much space to Elena to pop off
and do whatever he wants so they've had to mix things up maybe change something
but they don't have shuttles so maybe you can set up 2Z however it's white
the distance but go far back they're playing you have to use every cool down
the area close. And with 2Z using the dance of the
cutter flies look at the protector from a hundred years. Unstaged and getting no
value if you're 2Z. Melly was also getting focused by the way as Vinny now
comes over to this side. Meteor M goes up as best goes down up to Delana the
Biggest target priority, following up with GTK.
That's making big moves.
As Flightless, we're able to put the point back in their favor.
Yeah, you talked about Vest being that star player that he
has to be for this team, or that he has to always is,
but the team still somehow loses.
Nice job from Vest, because that was kind of hopeless, right?
Like they were sent all the way far back.
That's the problem with not earning the space
that you are given, right?
Like he had to use every pool to get in,
and 100 teams obviously expected it.
Patty kicked it, lived it.
Now there's something fight felt, right?
You go on the ultimate advantage.
Yes, Desk got those KO's, but it cost them the meteor out.
It cost them the dainty butterflies.
Let's see if they can live with the travelers now.
That's the crucial factor, as Delana's been brutal
every single time with the Warthogs.
In the disruption, too, onto the back line from Jolly,
who's trying their best to try to split that up
from 100 D's Delana.
The Warthogs, and they see that Zellas
is already called in that indigo boundary.
It's up to Melio to see how they're
going to be able to try to utilize the soul resurgence
on the other receiving end as best full soul
They're going probably low, brings them back up to health, finds another snipe, this time
out to Finney as self-having extermination has been held on to it, so the other teams
are going to hold off to the players in general to go in for a reset, because fly quests are
nearing 70%.
Yeah, and they're going to stagger, right?
They need this.
They absolutely need to stagger.
And 100 Thieves, their game plan was immediately, okay, they used, they used Mantis, okay,
we have the ultimate advantage next fight, but we've seen out of teams, Vicky, earlier,
You know, you can throw that advantage away,
slowly but surely like Nightmare earlier,
you know, for FlyQuest's side.
Sure, they don't have a lot of ultimates,
but look, I've been into the butterflies
with a hundredthies, over commit,
or don't find anything with the gloar trots.
I might get worried if I'm a hundredthies fan.
It's looking grand, but at 95%,
they're looking to recontest,
and FlyQuest really only have 10 to make a big,
it's Jeff move.
S2C also is looking to try to utilize
the chances of counter-fly.
Smelly is trying to go for a flight, and it's a flight to Lennon!
Tuzi, it's revenge, fight Tuzi!
Gets the death of a butterfly, but he's answered by the fate of both fours from Melania, who was holding on to it.
They get the dance floor out, so it's not going to be here, and with that Ultron's rage, that's big, Ken's ultimate.
He's going to use it to live, and he's trying to avoid all that damage.
Alana's still here on the objective over there, missing self.
Oh my god, and it's Tuzi gets deleted.
by that right foot from Delana who hunts him down with the Deadpool team up
jolly just trying to stall things out and oh my goodness it's a reset.
Hundred thieves have control. Now everybody seeing this understands what we mean when
it comes to making sure that the server admin Elsa currently doesn't gap free
rain because Delana is having so much impact and getting these raw pigs it's
even scarier in comparison to some scenes that want to force out the gambit
which was the first that was solved and out. Zero double two from the other side
actually that was a trial fake as a hundred things are working with they have
Winnie does have that ultimate ready to go on the white box nice little bubble
us that's just a push-up and has a meteor in it fully walk out means a lot of
pressure on them has to anchor the point has to find a big ultimate it's also
counter the old funds rage coming up in a second jelly from a force that out he
does but does he live no oh no he had to live meteor and a little bit late and
doesn't connect either oh oh wait trade though they get rid of the lineup sure
We're not fighting with the Meteor M, but that ultimate's too late, and that Fox, the White Fox ultimate,
gonna get taken out, and this boundary is perfect.
Malemia gets all the pawns, but does have the troll.
Eventually goes down.
Did he not damage Rooster? Got it done. Melio's there with the follow-up in no way.
Slowly, my trolleys are getting it done. Here comes the dead pool.
Trying to bounce, trying to get those upgrades, and the portal's here.
Leaving a bar of carrots on the way, trying to jump around and trying to pro-long.
Wins to the Esmeralda, but to see, it's going crazy!
That Dr. Straitsporter comes in next.
They're finding all these plial pigs, Overtime taking away his fly quest about to take a map up of a hundred thieves!
TCK, setup, seduction, they've picked the point, back in their favor, and Tootsie still has a dance of the butterfly.
Are you kidding me? Overtime's taking down.
They lose to Ollie, no way, Zalena, who came back from the doctor's strange,
close to that ultimate, has now tried to take the sword of the shoulder, but over there he's gonna eat my cat!
He's gonna eat my cat, he's pulled away, can they find him?
He's slipping away!
Run, kid!
He takes on three!
And two of them are there with an extra butterfly!
It's celebration!
Because FlyQuest!
Oh my goodness!
There's just one left!
There's an invisible woman!
And she's gone back into the pit!
Oh no!
I'm out!
FlyQuest wins map one!
FlyQuest, more like main quest!
They heard us!
They heard everybody at home!
And said, a hundred thieves!
They're the ones stealing the win here!
FlyQuest, take map number one!
Are you kidding me?
Well, last game of the day, who needs a Red Bull also
on top of that?
Let's give you some fiber energy.
Let's give you all of the caffeine in the world.
Have you give you a heart attack,
because that's what we just got in essence.
Two Zs to MVP, and wow, fly quest.
Put whatever form it's there.
Strong mentals, iron mentals.
Now, Vicky, does that shatter the mentals of 100 thieves?
Because what an unexpected map won.
My brain is shattered right now.
What did we just witness?
Two C, 19 finals.
Delena had 19 finals too,
but it was the impact of the rest of FlyQuest
to come back in Ken with an MVP play.
What cinematic first game to open this series?
I'm sitting on the edge of my seat dog, man.
I cannot believe it.
Honestly, I was thinking myself, all right,
do I get some coffee?
You know, we're going the distance, maybe.
You know, it's this last series.
Well, guess what?
I'm gonna get that coffee when we come out of the group coming up shortly because 2C right now, 34 and 7, look at this.
Following up with Vez 2 who got the 9 final hits dog man.
Yeah, what a chat man, oh my goodness, what a play and overall like I straight up, I'm starting to be a believer in like, well I mean I've already kind of been anti triple.
I know they said that's the meta potentially for next week, a lot of the pros did, but I feel like it's just not proactive.
like I really don't like it feels like the Ultron you have to play back and
so we know him as a player that likes to play aggressive likes to set a place like
we saw Tuzi do and just when you play the Ultron it feels like you're stagnant
and the main disband going back at it seems to be the catalyst because it's
as you mentioned I mean Tuzi was just farming them with that damage boost I
am like a polder now I was there we were there fly quest tape the math versus
a hundred thieves. This is insane to see as we get set up here. Wait to see what the second map
is going to be looking like. But before we throw it over to Brick to make sure everybody is ready,
we have to see what a hundred thieves is thinking. Because also like Dogman,
as a former player yourself, like what does this do to your mental? We're going to have to find out.
You know, you can answer us when we come out of this break. We got to get calm and collected.
We'll come back for game number two on the other side.
I wanna speak to you in the blue
I dream of you
I fly higher than the sky
They can't kiss my body, get my life
Oh, I, I, I
There's sense of the moon
Lights won't look in the fall
You're dirty, I'm the heat
I'm not getting in the cold
We're such a mess, I live
Glory with you
The Christmas of one tonight
Oh, don't be
Now, now, it's just a nightmare
Yeah, I'm taller than a bit
I've proofed on I'm ready
Now, I'm nervous, I'm nervous, I'm up on this night
Without hesitation, I'm going to fly
Now, be fresh, be shining, flying higher
And the spark of my mind
We're going up in the sky, rise up
Let's disappear, baby, we move high
Gonna burn the night out
Every time my eyes fly
We go higher, I fly
We do the starlight
The light that shines on us, your real life
Welcome back everyone, I really hope to see you again soon.
He has a good physical therapist and speed dial because he is going to need it after that carry man that damage boost is silent was clinical
FlyQuest taking this first map
Yes, you heard me. I'm not mixing up the team names. It is in fact FlyQuest taking that first map of a hundred thieves
And I think a lot of that just came down to like insane individual performances like those were heroic moments
I mean honestly sorry I'd like sorry to interrupt you again or you wanted to say something
I don't know.
It's like, I feel like you know that meme where we're seeing like the coffin dance, you know,
like we were like bringing it out for FlyQuest already.
We were like, okay, we'll do the coffin dance ready for FlyQuest's demise.
But it was the Ooloo Reverso other meme, you know, calling ambulance, but not for me because
a hundred thieves look like they're the washed up team right now.
Dude, Tusi and Delena 1v1 was great.
You know what it gives me like flashbacks of?
I don't think we're going to see it.
It depends on like what the picking band phase is.
But why is it like a part of me want to see like the SyLog 1v1 like, you know, the Eagle
check real quick like to see going crazy to let it can't do more. What is going on here?
Fly quest actually managing to take a map off of a hundred these we've only seen a hundred
these like once right and then you take a look at like fly quit. I don't think they want to map
like a single time like a single time in the last two series that we've seen them not against the
MRC team Cafe Rose. They didn't take a map against Sentinels yesterday and now we see them take the
first map their first map win against a hundred these what is going on and it's crazy because
because round two was so one sided in 100 thieves favourites.
So after round two I was like, oh, okay, never mind.
Like, round one was a fluke, it's okay.
Like, 100 thieves are in control,
but even in round three for a lot of it,
100 thieves look really, really strong there.
Obviously with like, Delena doing like the Lord's work
on that Elsa, getting away with like literally everything,
getting so many great pickups and neutral,
just like constantly pushing the opposition back there.
of a man flying quest.
They're stringing things together.
I also just really feel like this composition
worked really well for them.
It did.
It really did.
And I think that's what Vicky said.
I mean, it's because they have 2Z.
And you can play around them, right?
It's excellent play out of the whole team.
And we'll see how it goes moving forward.
I feel like this kind of is an overarching macro situation.
It feels like nobody knows the meta, right?
And that's why this weekend was crazy, right?
Nobody understands it.
And then everybody thinks they understand it.
So then they're all having like massive egos on Twitter talking about how oh, I know the meta
You're crazy for not knowing the meta, but nobody knows the meta everybody is stupid. Okay, you don't
Everyone's a liar. Okay. We're all dumb
You can join us in the dumb pool of people because I mean listen the things that everything's gonna change up next week
We'll probably see you complete different comp next week with the white white box changes
That's true. I agree because then you like okay, then where do you go into when it comes to our second map, right?
like you did this on Dom. We was mentioned on Volatile Domines. Obviously we're on the
pre-patch of the White Fox Changes and the Elson Nerves, but we're moving ahead here
with a hundred thieves like really only having that one series to like look back on which
went to a game five. Can FlyQuest even replicate this domination onto a different K mode? Is
the biggest question mark right? Or will this be another nightmare 2.0 situation?
Okay, they're taking us to midtown here. That is of course hundred thieves map choice and
flight quest did win this first one. How do you feel about Midtown?
I think this is a very good 100 Thieves map. You know, I think in the past we've seen them
excel on it. But that's also all the 100 Thieves. The interesting part, I think, of Ignite Now
is that this is the perfect time, I think, for our viewers to be tuning in because, you know,
we've had a lot of roster shake-ups, you know, a lot of storylines, I think, going into the year.
But everything is flipped on their heads when, like you've mentioned earlier, Zoe, with freaking
Vest being the last one on FlyQuest after that mid-season and then everything shaking up
This is the perfect time to get invested
I think for our viewers and Midtown was a known map for a hundred thieves
But it's new 100 thieves and they just lost map number one. So do we really even understand this team right now?
I don't know
He's like I don't
Because like you lost me like you I like you lost me earlier
100 Thieves also played things a little different than what we saw against the Energy Shock, so they definitely tried some different stuff out, I don't think they had Ultron in the mix, that seems to be the flavor of the day today.
Do you expect them to kind of run it back? What compositions do you want to see them on?
I
Kind of want to see if your fly quest at least in this case
I want to see like to see continuously being enabled right because it could get a little difficult once again
Like we saw I mean we could see like what they're playing on maybe being able to find like a better server for them to find that middle ground
But if you could try to enable to see in that 1v1 that we're gonna keep seeing between to see versus the Lena
Where's this impact? How is the back line gonna survive Ken?
By the way, it get that really crazy it's Jeff
but how far can you get away with this, right?
If we're moving on to midtown,
you usually see that triple Vanguard holdup
on the defensive side.
We've been seeing a different iteration
where sometimes it's that triple strat instead.
How comfortable do you feel playing on that triple strat
if we do see that coming out,
depending if it's gonna be on these versus Black West?
Where is that flexibility, right?
Kind of goes back to the topic
that we keep highlighting throughout the course today,
which is playing hero mania,
being able to be able to pull basically a hero
out of these bag of tricks
to make sure that you can showcase that flexibility.
It also always goes well, right?
When you have one particular hero that really stood out,
that really caused trouble in that first map,
then you kind of turn the enemy's bandstrap upside down,
because then suddenly they feel like,
oh, we do have to prioritize that.
Do we really want them to get away with a Mantis pick?
Maybe not, because then they're enabling
a Tuzi on a different level, right?
So now you might have to adjust your bandstrap.
you initially had kind of like mapped out already for the series.
Yeah, you can't go in with a plan. I think is what we're kind of
coming to terms with.
The plan is not to have a plan.
Yeah, kind of a little bit like you have to be flexible, like
you mentioned, but it's is an incredibly difficult task for
all these squads. But a lot of them are sort of gravitating, I
feel like towards that triple composition, like we've seen,
whether it be triple Mantis, whether it be triple of Ultron,
sometimes at the Adam Warlock, like we saw. But you know, maybe
maybe the shoe doesn't fit sometimes though.
We like sometimes you don't,
you can't play triple shredded us all the time
because oh well, we just,
we fell off from Mantis with the damage boost.
Like Vicky was mentioning giving it to Tuzi,
but we don't have that anymore.
Once we lose the Mantis,
I don't think we can just transition that same playstyle
over to the Ultron.
Yeah, I agree.
That's, it's gonna be a whole lot harder, right?
Cause even though you have that extra damage impact,
you're going to have to rely on the extermination too
and seeing how quickly you can get that.
And let's go back to the pick and ban phase,
A change up, even though Fleck was, did win that first map, of course, again, domination.
It went down to the wire in that round three, but a change up would be, are we going to
keep Pryo banning the Daredevil slash Gambit?
Can we look at what Dylanna's impact is and maybe take care of the Elsa instead?
You know, maybe they feel like it's still a threat with the ring to Royal Flush, but
obviously with Dylanna getting so much impact, what was it like slightly, like 19 final hits
that we saw did almost like 38k damage on the Elson alone was obviously a problem in
comparison to like everybody else. Vinnie was doing a good job on the Vampool but
comparatively to everybody else on a hundred thieves that was the number one
problem because it also forced a lot of saggers. Yeah that was pretty much the case
already in their Magic Insta energy shock right like the learner on the Elson
was like the bright spot it was like the issue on the table so I'd be surprised to
And also us living for especially because fight quest not really seen them utilizing the also so there's no reason for them to like
You know ignore it. So they they could have that in a band priority pretty high up probably
This goes to show I think to all of our players that are like man
We got Elsa gap there, whatever sometimes it doesn't matter right like I feel like you know for as good as Delana was in the last map
They still took the L right like that's kind of crazy
So you can't really carry with one character and I think going to that maybe maybe the right about the macro of it
But I'm kind of kind of leaning still towards Vicky where it's like we're going over to a map where Elsa dominates
Like I think midtown is not a great dive map. It's super long range and
Dylanna's popped off there before I'm a little worried for flight quest
So, we get everything set, ready to...
The ELSA server in admin still is a problem here, sorry.
Yeah, I see we are heading to Midtown as you said, Convoymap next.
And, yeah, we're of course still waiting for what the teams have in store.
I'm also just like, actually baffled at the fact that a flight was...
Three of their players are playing on P.
They managed to like make this look so good.
If FlyQuest is taking a series,
like how does our idea of this group shift,
because then we're looking at 100 thieves
at an O and two in week one?
Oh no.
It's scary to bring that up
because it could very well happen.
They don't mean to scare you.
Well, I'm only scared because I got into a tosser
with a hundred these fans before, for no reason,
because they thought I was too biased against their team.
That seems like a you thing to do in Nakamura.
OK, that is, but I like them.
I like Under Thieves' chances, except if they go down
0-2 this week, not a good luck, obviously.
But I still believe on Midtown, they're
a very good team on that map based on how they played.
It depends on what FlyQuest does in that sort of band phase,
for sure.
But I think we can agree that the band phases are kind of
similar to what we've seen throughout the whole tournament
in that also like you said Vicky is server at.
Yeah, now our teams do need an extra minute.
So we of course are happy to give that to them
and we're heading into a break.
And when we're back,
we're hopefully going to have map number two
ready for all of you.
I'm trying to help
suffering the darkness
let's pack up under their noses
I mean, we saw kind of a debut for a lot of these teams. Some of them knocking off the rust others coming right into the new form of what roster mania is.
Day one has come and gone day two though. You were the caster of it man. What did you see? What were some words to describe it?
Sure. I'll keep it quick. I think team started waking up. We saw them actually perform and step into their shoes a little bit and shake off some of those nerves.
A lot of the series going to game three and they were much more intense than I thought from day one.
Well, listen man, let's go and kick it off with nightmare versus. Yeah, we lost and this was a close one. I mean the word to describe the first match was probably the closest match right there with it that we've seen and ignite yet or at least this year to both these teams kind of flex that they are the dive ones.
But what did you see breaking it down because there's a lot to highlight.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot to discuss. I mean, like you said, very close 99 to 99 and Dom on map three off the rip. And even then, there was
Ultimates coming in at the end that almost looks like it was going to sway it back in the favor of yellow. He lost nightmare.
They look super solid. A lot of these similar comps. Jeff was seeing a ton of play. We even saw Spider-Man venom. All the stuff you would expect.
Silak was in there too. Their double went available. I mean, these teams are just very aggro, but they are incredibly fun to watch.
I mean, it looked like vision.
Just he did not miss a step from last year.
Vision was just popping off.
And I felt like nightmare had a very good control of that going forward.
And then yeah, we lost.
It just came back into form.
And I have to give them credit because they didn't struggle the MRC.
And sometimes when that's your practice and then you go into something like this,
like you're kind of not used to being down.
Also, Jitward, we got to see the dead pool, which is always fun.
And, you know, we'll see how long that kind of lasts as things have been patched
and, you know, approached a little bit.
But do you think they have a good step moving forward?
A lot of people had them high in their rankings.
Yeah, absolutely.
I think that they are confident right now.
Welcome back, one and all.
We are still awaiting the beginnings of Math 2 after Fly
Quest took that first one away from 100 Thieves.
A phenomenal performance across the board
from that team with lots of individual heroics
and highlight reels.
I am very, very excited to see what
both of these teams are going to adjust to on that second map.
We already talked a little bit about our expectations for the band face here.
Generally, obviously, like having a longer break here as a player,
is that an opportunity to overcook here, dogman?
It might be. It might be for sure.
Like, I mean, like, you know, that you could potentially be tilted
about a potential server selection.
Like there's all that situation going into your heads.
But, yeah, you just can't overthink it, you know?
You just gotta pick the right heroes that work for you.
And based on what we saw on the last map,
we probably wanna try to prioritize keeping the Mantis again.
It is tough because that would mean
that we're gonna see that Elsa go through.
And then, yeah, it's like, you're just like trying
to argue about whether you wanna get
a different type of pizza or whatever.
Like, it's like, you know what you really want
at the end of the day.
Why are we having this discussion, you know?
Yeah, it's simply super deep strategic plays here. We get to witness in each of those matches as the teams are figuring out their own game style or play style rather as well as of course their opponents. So things have to be very fluid, very open.
Yeah, you think about too like getting iced out right because momentum is everything
I like to call it out as it is because it's a long delay and you want to be able to get fired up and get right back
Into the action but to be completely transparent to everybody wondering what's taking so long
It's just about selecting the server that they're gonna be playing on we keep mentioning it with three players on fly quest playing on ping
It's about finding that middle ground between these two teams to make that decision to come to an ending point here to figure out
what this next map is going to look like because currently fly quests in this
vessel three are sitting at match point done man. A match point in fly quests you
know they've looked good in the past on these map types you know but they have
to really come to terms with the fact that you know like you mentioned there's
three people on ping and it's always going to be a discussion over what
server you have to play you know because playing on ping and mobile rivals is not
easy you know like you'll have especially for the projectile characters
your aim is going to be even more delayed and it could really throw off a lot of
you synchronization in terms of like your aim and all that sort of stuff.
And of course we do hope that none of these delays are impacting the momentum of the team here.
Both teams are still looking to get their first victory on the board here in our opening week.
FlyQuest currently leading the charge 1-0. Can now the thieves tie it up or will FlyQuest run away with it?
it.
Vicki, what do you think?
I'm thinking this is going to be an extended series and we're actually going to have to
stay past 12 o'clock.
It's going to be past midnight and the series is finally going to end 9 to 8.
So what am I going to say?
Well, it's a good thing that I'm on complete DGEN schedule because it goes hand in hand
with the way that I'm beginning too late.
You already know how it is, dogman.
We've been out there also.
We've learned her lesson and we also obviously come to an agreement in the what server we're
going into because I actually heard through the grapevine that I believe 100
thieves wanted the Dallas server over the Virginia server that we just played
on in that last game and we're gonna have to see how that is influenced into
fly quests and the way that they approach this because it does make it
easier for Tuesday to pop off and as he's hovering over that bed and we do get
to protect over that vanpool so no Elsa no gambit for 100 thieves whereas 100
these wanted to pry out the Loki protect and because they prowled at first
that means that they won't have the gambit because it allowed fly quests to
get that second band next.
Yeah, I think we've seen a lot of teams take us to like Shin
Shibuya and stuff where you see that type of hero,
but the Mantis getting removed based on what we saw in the last
series, I think adds up.
But for FlyQuest, what do they want to do, right?
Because they've already gone for that Elsa band and the gambit.
Does that change up their play style now?
What do they want to go next?
Do we want to go towards that van pool?
Nope, going to be towards that Mantis.
So they don't want to necessarily get that one-sided matchup
where they're likely we'll see 100 thieves go for that protect.
towards the very end unless they want to change it up.
But this is more in line, I think,
what we saw today out of our previous matches
based on how they've performed.
Yeah, the call-out, though, on getting the Loki protect,
though, when they saw that 100 thieves had banned out
the gambit, which means you will not get the double rage
of Royal Flush.
I'm excited to see how this is going to play out.
Of course, since we are moving on to Convoy,
the Invisible Woman hover, it's going to be the next band.
So you will not have the double invisible boundary
coming out online if you get that God of mischief copy.
Yeah, I guess this is what we've seen at the end too.
Invis into Wolverine Protect.
So we can play the Wolverine
and we don't want that invisibility on the side.
Does that mean FlyQuest go for the invis band too?
Like maybe just like, based on what we've seen earlier,
we could see that the group band would kind of make sense
actually with the Loki and stuff.
And also based on the fact that you want to play group
probably, but that still leaves Wolverine open
for both sides, however, a group not available
for 100 Thieves, meanwhile, Black West
can't play the Invisible Woman,
so they would have to rely on, you know,
that Fade for Zellos or Magneto Bubbles.
So this should be unique.
I think it's a very interesting end
to this like band phase, but 100 Thieves,
the fact that they're gonna play Wolverine
is nice based on what we've seen earlier
and a lot of really good Wolverine players take the stage.
And VanPool, right?
Because we know how VanPool likes to scale
throughout the course of these games.
since we are on convoy you know that we can go the distance he makes it even
better for vanpool to get those upgrades over the long term and seeing how
this is going to work out right fly quest just getting set up melio can be
able to load in shortly that's looking like they're going to be the ones
hovering over that vanpool jolly rolling out on the magneto you talk about the
magneto getting those bubbles it's gonna be important for zealots to be able to
get away with this but at least they wouldn't really have to worry too much
aside from self that could get a kidnap out of the eternal bond onto that
They're thinking R2, if you like to go in there and Mellio to the neighbor where he was hovering Bucky at a point.
I'm curious how Tuzi does without the Mantis damage boost, you know, a reliant Maul in the Terracade from Zellos for that damage boost.
But they know they're going to be playing that thing composition to try to counter any potential dives or fly quests,
but regardless they still had to think heavily about it.
Starting off though, 100 Thieves is on the attack with that Phoenix alongside their Loki
blue up and his backline.
Oh, Tussi though gets called out immediately by Dolena says it's fine.
I don't need the Elsa.
I could do just as explosive in dealing with so much of this damage impact, Milenia then
finds best.
Two out originally from the side of Flyquest with Tussi coming back.
It's a lot of damage up here but they have to look behind and the Squidger also there
and Melio is the next victim.
100 thieves, they're upset and they're clearing the point while painting up half of themselves to that next checkpoint.
I'm curious what they're running after this because
I don't know, I just don't, I'm personally I'm not a big fan of playing Scylox and do 100 thieves comp and then they have Invis, they have Loki to Peel.
Toothies is gonna hard shoot tanks, I suppose, but he's gonna get picked off like that previous fight.
It's always tough against a full counter dive composition from 100 thieves and they're already fucking,
fronting the back their way towards the very end with three minutes left.
Malio making a swap up to the Punisher with Jolly taking so much damage to kidnap somebody save him
But nobody could outheal a damage impact Vinny booting him out too and fighting that next pick here as the
Ultimate comes in and to see ice late 20 to see getting a really big pickoff here to put the strip and to see it
Fortunately gets called out by TTK because a TTK Emma is out and with the silence deduction and millennial with the individual boundary
It's too much sustain. They're looking to try to re-contest, but with right now 100, he's just being able to get the point. There is no stall.
Yeah, and can also use the Loki copy too. Oh god. Oh that's pretty bad.
He's going over to the Jeff at the very least. They're going to switch to full dive, and I think that makes sense.
Like, first point, it's tough. I don't know man, like just playing Syloch. I don't even know how he got Winnie.
Like, Winnie's movement must have been terrible there. Like, he had all cooldowns up, and Winnie just doesn't teleport away, or use shift, or right click.
like he's got everything and just gets two tapped by Tuzi without damage moves.
That's pretty embarrassing, but for 100 thieves they at least don't have ultimates
used in the previous fight like Ken did and they're also still pushing forward
such at such a blistering pace that I guess I would autopilot too in that
situation. It was four minutes ago they're gonna be able to hold forward because the
length of the one that's dictating a lot and self-being on this Wolverine is
gonna be so destructive. Look at Zell is taking an off-angle position already
used up that BRB it looked like here too. Gonna have to boost up into that CS
shortly to follow up with Tusi and the Dance of the Butterflies. Melio is a
la Dear Devil though, that's another pin point as the God of Mischief comes out
in the form of the Invisal Woman. You have the Invisal Boundary ready to go
just waiting out shortly because right now FlyQuest is in a contest on this point.
They're so close to that second checkpoint but he brings him back, kind of
forces out the Re-Contest and with the Fuzz Jolly that three out for FlyQuest.
A hundred thieves. They're mad, they're looking at speedrun and look at this
time bank you still have five minutes on the clock. Yeah this is what we talk
about you know teams being dive focused dive centric that's that's what
fly quest is right at the moment they're trying to play dive and there's
nobody touch the payload right there's nobody touch the objective moving
forward and you know if you go there you're dead just like we've seen Jolly
feed multiple times over and over again it's not as late as fault playing dive
on convoy or convergence is always gonna be struggle unless you're on like that
first point where things are very centralized it's not been easy because
self just gets that shock from Vinny and then can just kind of grab anybody who
wants also they just sort of secure the payload the whole time so look at this
it's just been moving non-stop barely anybody's cut finally we use all yeah
this is one of those really tricky chokes too where once you get held here it
could be difficult to make a comeback and I like the way that black us were at
least able to recontest the first time they hold back 100 thieves because with
this four-minute time bank it is dwindling down but look at the lineup
does have a reset as well as TDK with a solid seduction.
A cell is waiting from the side,
looking to see if they could try to get the kidnap.
But with the dance of the card, it flies.
Tootsie's trying to isolate them,
and it's still by millennia.
Yeah, that was well timed.
I mean, perfectly timed that in terms of the ultimate,
the follow-up was there.
Used to see it later earlier.
They didn't use anything.
Right self just wanted to get some positioning,
maybe try to get the kidnap or something.
But you use that ultimate, you send them back to spawn,
and you just gotta keep setting up these dives
without getting picked off, right?
Melio who is now on the Phoenix can try to match on the opposite side of the map Delena
But regardless you're still trying to play die. Oh my goodness Delena just has to beat that by Melio
What the hell was that?
Oh my okay, well Delena back to the drawing board. Okay Delena every time they go around that left side corner
It's just been absolute execution putting them in the microwave quite literally and with a hundred fees at least coming right back around
To follow up Jolly has a survivability with survivability with the freedom charge
It really feels like 100 Thieves are like kind of on a lot of pilots, right?
Like, oh, going down a weird situation.
And there's an opponent to counter the Phoenix ult on the opposite side.
So they're using anything else.
They look at the best they can use.
The deadpool will commit.
So there's one, or actually two for two in that last fight, and they still want to stop.
Wycliffe's trying to get more out, but Lennon's going to commit the Phoenix ult,
commit the counter to the cap in a weird situation.
But luckily that burn kind of goes through the wall regardless.
I do have to give a shout out to MVP to Millenials who had a great reaction time
time knowing that they wanted to completely dive on on the it's Jeff can
they stop them as the protection comes in the kid not get the kid nap here and
the it's Jeff is running away can kind of sending them over to the left side of
Delene getting some revenge on the 2C the BRB will bring 2C back at the very
least that dance of the cutter flight is very close to being online but they
will have to deal with winning getting the copy on some millennia with an
invisible boundary this is getting this is getting really messy one be one of the
hindering me while between Melody Delene Melody Delene he had to fall back
towards the main side, Jolly trying to distract. Here comes that whole burrito that's been made.
They didn't even connect on anybody. Might have been Vess, but he's got that hard pocket. So that
goes to way sadly, because he does fall through the luna, though. He's been hunted down on the high
ground by the luna. Oh, they're calling out Melius, trying to get away. They're trying to use the
cobs to call out where Melius is, but with a boop, see y'all? Sellers, we actually bring them back
to health. So is Vinny, though, rallying up the troops of a hundred beings to try to steal
this victory and get this payload to the finish ground. With the freedom charge, though, leading
everybody forward. Cell fights Vez, but BRB is getting so much impact and to dance the cutter fly,
can they find it smart? No, Zellas is getting harassed and nobody's looking at Delana.
The fact that he lived so long kind of crazy, Delana finally taken out by Tuzi, so there was
at least one person passive used. Cell also needs to keep going off Vez, poor guy, keeps having to
anchor the cart and nobody's gonna anchor versus T.T.K. That's done, a minute and 25 seconds left,
100 heaves camp out. You know it's serious when the T.T.K. Emma comes out on board and starts
that. You can see the
spondyl chokes slamming and
getting so much damage done off
that beam, which is at 100 almost
consistently through that right
side. Once they broke through
that spondyl choke. This is the
100th. These that were used to
saying, right? You could take away
the Elsa from the lineup. But
that's fine. We've seen the
lineup pop off so many times
already in the past dog man and
also pinpointing the threat that
has been to see preventing to see
from getting actually set up and
I think it is interesting too, because we saw so much prioritization towards the Ultron earlier, but they're just not wanting to play it anymore.
They're just not confident in how either self-plays it or whatever, but they're playing through triple-triple defense.
And considering it's like you mentioned, like KTK on the Emma was sort of that just counter to whatever Flycats were doing dive-wise.
And it's always gonna be tough. Like we said, dive-on, convergence, and convoy, there's only a few maps you can do it on the Deadpool map and stuff,
stuff but realistically this is not the map to do it and you can see exactly why Hunter Thieves
just walked down fly quests really without falter.
The way that this series has been going already though dogman no one really predicted this I
hope everybody's awake ready to pay attention because fly quests have a mountain to climb
at least 100 thieves have that minute in 25 seconds will it be enough here if fly quest
trying to get the sailor to that finish line to zealous on that clipping dagger
just trying to make sure that they get enough of that extra feeling to and
gonna see if they could try to paint that path with the eternal bond Jolly
as well on that group it's great to because they don't relate the word
about CTK having that M of beam at the 100 on top of the group wall and they
can play full front to back style it's on to the case not go down or self on the
height but he wants to keep that pressure up obviously and they want him
2 by hard pocketing, maybe he's sure he uses cooldowns to stay up there.
Vinny's even coming to help out, Karthus still pushing forward by the way, still in charge
of flyquests command, but they still kind of have to press on forward.
These strats are building ultimates in the meanwhile, Vinny gets pressured but has to
back up and itself still control the height, going to do a ton of damage here.
Ultimates going to be built up maybe shortly for the defensive side or offensive because
Ken's at 80% towards that copy, so maybe they play slow, try to build it and go in, but
maybe it's red because, oh, Tuzzi goes down.
Oh, that's important.
Tuzzi was trying to take an off angle.
Huge on Vinny, though, to be able to get
into the position right there.
Winnie, too, being able to have so many off angles
with the clones.
Delena, finding Ken before he could get into the safety
of the spawnery case.
And 100 thieves are holding back flyquests
all the way to the doors.
Yeah, good for Delena, man, considering how, you know,
in the past, 100 thieves, I think it's always
been the dialogue around Tara.
But now, you know, after Tara left,
It's definitely been more focused about the Lena in this case.
They're still down 0-1-1 so far for the tournament.
We'll see if they can turn that around.
Copy's still available for the offense.
Will they make a play?
Everybody's stunned temporarily by 100Bs on the high ground
due to TTK.
Carbon Survival was also almost online for the Lena.
TTK has been a menace, but they swat the mosquito
with Melio and those claws, and they bring them right back.
Carbon Survival going to be able to have Delena move
into a different off angle.
You see the Lancer reports out.
Malio, though, gets the kidnap, finds
and Lena has to prevent this pass from coming off.
It's a very slow team on offense versus this triple,
triple composition, interesting enough
that Red does come out into his boundary.
They walk right into it.
Vest goes low and falls.
This is what we saw in the defense as well.
She said he was going to break his ankles, too,
and get the supper by before getting the head after head.
This time on Zellos, no cooking dagger, no internal bond,
and with a coffee, Winnie also gets
to get ready, set, go button, because rise again, my friends.
100 thieves get to play extra aggressive.
Now you're down to a minute and less than 35 seconds
on the clock.
Although Flagquest, they do have some ultimates online,
dogman.
But I feel like they just haven't really
been able to capitalize off of these strata ults
that they also weren't using these.
Yeah, they have to.
I mean, I understand the cooldowns are incredibly strong
for 100 thieves side.
But I don't know, I'm just wondering how Flagquest
choked this, right?
Like, it just seems like they have the entire,
you know, all the advantages.
And they need to not lose it.
Here comes that Emma Frost ultimate,
best to make heat best alive for more than two seconds. No, this is looking a lot like mace from
earlier in my life. How are we up this many people, ultimates and everything, and we're going
down. Melio's landbugs are in the background though. Finally, they've gotten something going.
Ten goes down, no res here either, so finally this might be the end, but we're committing also
to these ultimates, so now it's occurring from an underinvestment ultimate to potentially over
investment. And that was with self still getting the meteor M onto the eternal bond too, it looked
like so being able to try to slam it down fly quest get to excel and they
painted the path here even after it was in on the got a mission but the TTK
stall comes in and they finally brute force their way at least through this
lane but there is gonna be a recontention from a hundred feet with
ultimates to I mean we have to do something about really invisible in a
band for fly quest so he should be able to get this offer free especially with
no magneto for fly quest side meanwhile jolly with Melio this has to be big
Jolly as well as the ultimate could go huge.
She tries to follow up.
Haze Wolverine in the sky connects
on the Winnie or Vinnie who has the ultimate.
They get saved by the invisible boundary.
The Lundestown Fess already.
Clobbering time is huge, but they're in the invisible boundary
and heal up.
He got melted down after the Clobbering time
and with the eye of a Moto, a hundred thieves.
They are clearing the points.
They are telling FlyQuest,
don't worry, you could have this dumb,
but we're coming with the come-back.
No portal play, no reconsension from Vez
and a hundred thieves, they stopped Black West for even getting one checkpoint on the down.
Yeah, it sounds about right. I think based on what we saw from Black West on the defense,
I mean, you're trying to play dive, you're trying to do something, and then they go to that front
to back style, not even with the Moon Knight, not even with the Storm. You know, you can't find
anything on the high ground because they're hard pocketed. Sure, there were some slight
mistakes out of a hundred thieves. I think there was some auto-piloting going on, obviously,
like the one that got three tapped third point,
when he got comboed by a silo without the damage boost,
like that did happen.
But I mean, that's maybe the fault of 100 Thieves, right?
Maybe that's their main weakness is themselves, right?
Like it feels like every time 100 Thieves
were to lose a team fight,
it was primarily because of themselves.
They did something stupid.
Meanwhile, for FlyQuest,
they just kept losing Vess after every single fight.
And if we're gonna dish out the same amount of dialogue
we had over Mace, it's kind of the same thing here, right?
Like Vess is without the team,
that feels like a lot of the time,
whether that's on vest or the squad,
that's kind of on them to figure out.
That's why I dwelled back on like that nine
year topic point, because it's kind of repeating itself
just in a different form where this is the 100th
these instead of like the space station games
that we saw earlier on today.
To see, unfortunately, you know, cannot do more
even making that swap over to the Bucky,
making also wonder like, is this gonna be the dual signup
that you want to rely on in comparison to what we saw
from TTK and Finney when they also had self swap up
real quick to Lena, 17 final hits, the consistency is there even if to Lena had
lost that with the rest of 100 thieves in that first map dogman but then you
have to consider that the next map will be up to fly quest where we'll be going
what server will be playing on we're gonna have to find out on the other side
of this break
us against the world
my time to shine
you
You
I mean, we saw kind of the debut for a lot of these teams, some of them knocking off the rust others coming right into the new form of what roster mania is.
Day one has come and gone.
Day two, though, you were the cast of it, man.
What did you see?
What were some words to describe it?
Sure, I'll keep it quick.
I think team started waking up.
We saw them actually perform and step into their shoes a little bit and shake off some of those nerves.
A lot of the series going to game three and they were much more intense than I thought from day one.
the first match. Well, listen,
man, let's go to kick it off
with nightmare versus. Yeah,
we lost and this was a close
one. I mean, the word to
describe the first match was
probably the closest match
right there with it that we've
seen an ignite yet or at least
this year to both these teams
kind of flex that they are the
dive ones. What did you see
breaking it down? Because
there's a lot to highlight.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot to
discuss. I mean, like you said,
very close 99 to 99 and Dom
like it was going to sway it back in the favor of. Yeah, we lost nightmare did look super solid.
A lot of these similar cops. Jeff was seeing a ton of play. We didn't saw a Spider-Man Venom.
All the stuff you would expect. Siloq was in there too. They're double went available.
I mean, these teams are just very aggro, but they are incredibly fun to watch.
Yeah, for me, I mean, it looks like vision just he did not miss a step from last year.
Vision was just popping off and I felt like nightmare had a very good control of that going forward.
And then yeah, we lost. They just came back into form and I have to give them credit because they didn't struggle in the
you know, you're not going to
be able to get into the MRC and
sometimes when that's your
practice and then you go into
something like this, like you're
kind of not used to being down.
Also, Jitward, we've got to see
the dead pool, which is always
fun and you know, we'll see how
long that kind of lasts as
things have been patched and
you know, approached a little
bit, but do you think they have
a good step moving forward along
people had him high on their
rankings? Yeah, absolutely. I
think that they are confident
right now, too. We had the
interview with Cartlubber and
like I said in the interview,
you know, he talked in the
prior. We did kind of like a
pre interview test. He said,
I'll see you in a little bit
that's really cool to see. So
they are feeling good, which is
a good sign. Yeah. And that's
for a nightmare. I think they
definitely still like getting
their roster together and they
look strong out there. I think
they have a great chance today.
Excited to see them in the day
three action. But our other
match we've been talking about
in this highlight is fly versus
set knows and we talked about
this is the redemption of what
happened on day one match. And
to me, buddy, you know, like you
go and see a band and they're
playing some new songs and you
like, come on, play the classics.
Like it's like that's how it felt
with set knows they were doing
some new stuff day one and you
stuff day one and you like get, you know, get the right amazing on the iron man. Let's
see cap on crimson. It felt like we returned to old form.
Yeah. Crimson stepped up. Rye stepped up, but also mirror came in instead of Corovo, which
is a huge change, right? And running that backline work, more of a consistent backbone
backline, right? Running that in this and looking really, really solid doing it. But
yeah, the entire team just kind of woke up. We talked to Ryan, the interview and he essentially
said, you know, we just needed to change our band phase. Our band phase was not good day
one and we really paid the price for it. We figured out what we wanted to do and now we're
going to be clean and you know what they looked really clean that are yesterday is for sure.
Yeah, I've got to say I mean Kurova what a talented player but one thing with mirror
is I kind of makes the bands more confusing for the opponent and if they're able to interchange
these two studs that is going to be absolutely massive for them because then you have like
you band the Adam you go this approach and it doesn't make it as clear cut your battle
plant against set mills. Fly quiz though let's talk about them for me it's kind of the same
as day one talent all over they're all doing something well but it just hasn't come together
that you're going to be able
to do that together as one in
my opinion. Yeah truth be told,
I want them to perform. I like
a lot of those players. I think
they're all really talented
like you're saying, you know,
it's a newer team. They do have
some players from over the pond,
which is going to make things
a little dicey in terms of
communication and you know,
even paying, for example, but
yeah, I just want them to find
their footing. These aren't quite
there yet. All right, so that's
the two matches from the early
slate. We have three other ones
that you might have missed from
day two, but that's all for us
for now. We'll catch you guys
on the next one. All right, so
you heard about the couple of
matches in day two to start us
We have three more matches
that were absolute heat.
We start off with TSM and
Lune X. Now TSM struggled a
little bit in day one to find
their footing. Lune X did look
strong. But for me, it really
all came back together and you
saw that team work come to
play with TSM that fought back,
lost one game and then one to
narrow ship. What you see.
Yeah, Lune X look consistently
strong and I think TSM
struggled on Dom, but then they
just found their footing with
this new triple composition.
They started running this more
brawly beef front line.
They started to play with
They started running this more brawly beef front line triple on the front and then allowing their you know
Essentially one duelist on the star lord. We looked really good obviously, but yeah
It was unstoppable as soon as that switch came in it was like the cart stop moving everything was stationary
And they locked in for the next two maps
Yeah, we've seen a lot of triple Vanguard and I think it was cool that back in the dead vision
They showed actually how well triple Vanguard works at the highest level, but you have to have an anchor duelist a little bit in
the game. We're going to go
back to the game. We're going
to have this G. We saw that
whenever you had nectar as the
Star Lord. And in this case,
and today in day two bedtime
story had to do a lot of heavy
lifting there. That's because
Gale, who's an amazing player
was on the gulk. All right was
playing the whole and is
definitely going to give that
team a little bit of a different
look, and we'll see if that's
just part of their flexibility
or you know one of the team
packages that they want to run
moving forward. Who next
though? They've definitely
proven themselves as a team
on map three that it looks like he did not miss a single bullet on that punisher and that's always
high price with the team save consistent but again TSM the compositional change that they made it I
don't think that lunax could find a solution so they're definitely going to have to look into that
in the future year two if there's anything we've learned is that the MRC teams are not going to
be easy beats lunax prove that and we're going to continue to head into that with swamp gaming
versus cafe rose who obviously had the upset of the tournament at least expectation wise to get fly
I'm going to go ahead and
go ahead and do my quest. A
quick two oh and day one now
playing what was now I would
deem some people's America's
favorite right swamp gaming
what they've shown and the
number one thing I've seen from
this team is that they have so
many ways to beat you right
it's not just from one role or
player. I personally if I had
them circled on my calendar or
schedule. This is a team you
have to do a lot of print for.
It was awesome hearing coach
Fox essentially break down how
they discussed their bancer out
like, you know, I mean, it's
like, you know, it's like, you
know, it's like, you know,
it's like, you know, it's like
days out and bring in a median
who played incredible there as
a duelist swap and being able
to do that with different
priorities of heroes that they
play is really powerful. It's
tough for teams to scrim against,
which is what he was
mentioning. I'm going to be
honest, actually, if you look
at that also with sentinels, is
this the year we see more
subs come to play, right? And
doesn't mean like a player is
bad. It's like, okay, this is
just a different flexible
package we can play. The more
heroes you bring into the game.
It's going to be kind of more
common that you have these
to run. And I think that's gonna be honestly super interesting on both a viewer and cast
here, you know, position for that. But yeah, man, the back line for swamp gaming, they
looked tough to be, but it was not an easy win for them at all. I mean, you may have
looked at that game and thought it was gonna be a quick one, but swamp gaming, they even
put on social media like, okay, hey, tip of the cap respect over there to Cafe Rose.
Yeah, Cafe Rose has been stepping up. I think like you're saying with the MRC teams, we
kind of assumed that they were going to struggle a bit up at this illog, but they have nothing
to lose and they're proving it. They look dominant out there and they're not afraid
step up in these moments, taking things like domination to map three off the rip and look
super confident. And there was a point where I was like, okay, this team might be able to pull
this home, but just, uh, you know, unable to do so. Swap gaming locked in and just looked really
strong. Absolutely. And then it takes us to our last match of the day. If you missed it, it was TLC
liquid gaming versus SSG, right? And both these teams looked pretty strong. I would say coming
out of day one, now you got a battle of some big time at Titans, especially in the Esport.
for me, Liquid, they looked like they were just kind of back to form. I think like day one game
one is like, Oh, okay. A little bit of rust, maybe, but man, this is proving to be the team to be.
They looked tough. Yeah, they tweeted something out like, Hey, we're going to shake the cobwebs
off and our games are going to be easier for us. And yeah, they really did just that. I mean, SSG
is no joke. Obviously, Nectar is discussing, but they tried to match comp and domination
and TLC Team Liquid and said it looked just so good instead. I mean, I don't know that you can
you can try to copy cop into a team like that.
If you got to try to find a way around it,
so they really struggled there.
And then they kept running those unique compositions.
The bunker busters as they went to Midtown,
Team Liquid, man, they are the team to beat right now.
Yeah, without question.
Day three is gonna be full of matches as well.
There's gonna be a heater on y'all's plate
to watch a lot of bangers out there.
Get ready for some action.
We're gonna jump right in.
Already day three is underway
and we have our predictions ready for you.
I mean, obviously this is really tough to get predictions in.
We've only seen these teams on a very small sample size, but today we have some matches
that will definitely show a lot more of the path to the finish line in the preseason.
Now we start with swamp gaming versus NRG.
Talk about starting with an absolute heated banger ship.
I'm going to give you the floor first.
Who do you got?
Because these are the favorites amongst, you know, group A.
I'm going to go with NRG here.
I think NRG looks really solid and 100 T and I think they can keep that ball rolling.
I think they have the confidence right now.
you know, you know, I think
that's what I'm saying. I think
that's what I'm saying. Swamp
gaming is obviously really
talented. But energy keeping it
moving. I think, buddy. How
about yourself? Yeah, it's hard
to go against velocity all what
they've got and to keep it
interesting, though, I'll go on
the other side. I think swamp
gaming has proved, you know, two
days in a row that they are just
looking all the part. And so I
think they continue that train
and you look to be America's
favorite, but we'll see because
this one is going to come down
to micro decisions. And I think
when you look at just the
good one, but I'll swap gaming there first. Second matchup. We have yeah, we lost versus
Lunex gaming. This is a bit of a repeat of the MRC. I think we both got the same. Yeah,
I think we have to stay the same here. Just just, you know, history repeats itself is
the way you've got to think of it, especially when you're doing predictions like this. It's
got to be yeah, we lost. I mean, you know, if you look at it, hey, it was the fastest
ever. We saw the best of seven and what yeah, we lost it. So maybe Lunex, it kind of sparked
to fire under them and it looked better.
But yeah, that's gonna be a tough one to come back from.
Just the way that they play dive is so hard to play against
when you're trying to do the anti-dive defense approach,
right?
Setinals versus Cafe Rose, obviously,
if you looked at this thing before the preseason,
it would be one-sided.
But I think it's a more difficult match
than you might think.
And I think Cafe Rose, they're gonna be ready for the part.
Who do you got here?
Because I think I'm still gonna give the edge to Setinals.
Yeah, I think I'd do the same.
Setinals have looked exponential in their growth,
I'm going to give it a I'm going
to make it interesting. I'm
going to go Cafe Rose wins the
first one set knows when the
next two so it's going to be
one set knows end up winning
it kind of what we saw from
TSM yesterday. Nightmare versus
SSG. This might be the other
toughest game to call today.
Both teams are with all the
part SSG is obviously played
both days nightmare only one
showing against Yeah, we lost
which is a great team. I'll give
you the floor first. Here's
I'm going to stay with Nightmare
because I loved what I saw from
them on the first two maps
against the we lost. They
struggled definitely on map
three, but I think they were
just kind of on their heels at
that point and fell, you know,
fell apart, but I think they can
lock back in. Yeah, for me, it's
like I can't see either of these
teams dropping two L's in a row,
but one of them have to write
and that's going to be the tough
part for me. I feel like SSG at
the hands of Nectar. Much of
the team is going to be
going to be a tough team.
I'm going to be a tough team
team. I'm going to be a tough
I'm going to give them the
slight edge again. I think this
is go to three. I think if you
want a long day today, that's
what you're going to get
because this is going to go the
distance, but nightmare
definitely has I think a bit
more of a scary cop. If you were
to say compared to more
traditional, better neutral,
maybe from SSG. So that's what
we might see there to get close
to in the day. And then we have
a fly versus 100 these which
a day the year one. This is
like a heater magic year two.
year two. I mean, I know you have fly, right? No, I got to go on these on this one, bro.
I have to. I think 100 Thieves looks, you know, they look really good. Obviously, day
one didn't play yesterday. So we didn't have eyes on if anything were to crumble for them.
Fly personally for me. I love the players on the team. I think they're all talented.
We keep reiterating it, but I just want to see them perform once to get their confidence
up. And I think everyone else is confident in them for sure. If 100 Thieves didn't lose
day one, I might have said, okay, they might be like this upset and you had the fire to
the team. I think they're
going to have to. There's a
spark fly quest, but 100
thieves also have that fire
like they can't go on to.
There's just no way I can see
that happening. But that or
with remix and all the players
behind it, but like what's going
on three. There's also a lot of
stick for them there. So even
though you have two teams that
are windless, I think there's
so much mental to be played
here, but overall, I think a
hundred these ends up taking
it. So what I can't wait for
is for me new to probably be
wrong about most of these, but
that's how it goes. Yeah.
That's always how it is, and
to be right, buddy.
Drop the predictions down below for the matches. When they start, we want to know what you
guys have to say and we'll see you guys on the next one.
What's up guys? Welcome. We're going to talk about right now the current standings of all
the teams in the America region. Now there's plenty of days to have the preseason shake
up and as it stands, Group A, Group B, where did the teams land and then ship? I want to
talk about who you think might maybe get more wins under their belts and some of these shift
a bit, especially those with the predictions out there. You want to know exactly how they're
going to do. Well, group A, the group of dead. Let's start there. Swamp gaming is going to
be in first place as of now in RG followed by that. Sentinels then cafe rose followed
by 100 thieves and fly quests. Now to be fair, some of these teams have not played two matches,
some haven't. So that's going to affect someone like 100 fees who, you know, they took a loss
and that's going to take them all the way down. Even a flight quest play twice and they're
at the bottom, but that's how it's working right now. Yeah.
that's going to be one of the
things that we're going to be
doing. Yeah, that's exactly
right. I mean, in energy up in
second place, they have another
opportunity to keep moving
forward. If they win the next
match, I've only played one day
as well. If you look at group
A, who do you think is going to
move from here? Obviously, I
think 100 these should definitely
go to move on up. We'll see how
far they can move up with energy
beating them, right? That's
going to be one team that
they're going to have to look
to either hope to drop a game
or, you know, move past energy
place. Perfect. And they will
be in control of their own
potential to they started locking into yesterday and that was exciting but again I mean it's like
with these teams it's like any given day I will say that when we looked at 100 Thieves in NRG
they were so closely matched and you obviously were there for that that was one of those games
that we you know in terms of early season like it was just mind-blowing to watch a ton of fun so
they're up there even so no matter what I think they're going to get closer on the leaderboard
but yeah I mean it's so tricky because I want to stay cafe roses a chance to move forward because
they look good but right now there's so much talent in a I think it's any given day right now
what are the other teams
that are playing this season
and that's a little bit of
a different. It's gotta be
roughly similar. I'd say for
sure. I think a lot of fans
out there have two things
highlighted in swamp gaming
versus energy, which is
today, Day three, so that's
going to answer a lot of
questions and then gaming
versus 100. These I think
those are some of the
matchups to see some of
these kind of even out. And
then I would say set knows
to punch up above those top
three as well and kind of
see how they measure up to
them. Obviously we saw a
little bit of that on day
one, but we want to see the
classic hundred these
set knows like sometimes
teams play other teams just
So that's going to be group A and how that's going to shake up.
And again, Cafe Rose was a lot of people's last team,
and they're looking like they're definitely not
going to be towards that last spot, at least of right now.
But over to group B, this is where
I think we see a lot more shake up, most likely as these teams
need to get rest off them, or they just
continue to play others, and things kind of work out their way.
Right now, Team Liquid is leading the pack at the top,
followed by Yeah, We Lost, which I prediction-wise,
that's where I had the one and the two.
But we did have SSG to follow that.
followed by TSM, Nightmare, and then we have Lune X Gaming.
Anything jump out to you?
Major things to call out,
Nightmare was right up there with Yeah We Lost.
Obviously going to map three.
So I'll go to bid on the third map.
So I think they'll likely move up.
They only have one match under their belt right now.
So not the best distribution, obviously,
once they play again today.
We might see where that shakes up.
But it's a similar story for Yeah We Lost
who won their very first matchup, obviously,
against Nightmare.
So they have the potential to stay right in that spot
or in contention with Team Liquid.
I don't see them moving at all.
I don't know about your take on
that. Yeah, no, for sure. I
think that they right now have
a pretty anchored start to it.
I mean, if you look at them
already taking down someone like
SSG, that's a great win.
Yeah, we lost. I think they kind
of just cement themselves at
the top today. It's going to be
nightmare versus SSG and that
is going to shake up. I think
a lot in the middle there
because yeah, we lost is all I
played one as well. They play
Lunex, which I would say
probably they look favorite to
win because of how they played
them against the MRC. Like we've
seen that so far.
I mean, I think they're going to
have a great start.
the team. We've played them
against the MRC like we've seen
that story play out a little
bit. However, anything can
happen when you have a couple
weeks to prepare. So that's my
expectation there, but this
one's much more wide open in my
opinion. But here's the thing.
This is split up into a couple
weeks, right? So you're going to
have these teams have much more
time to take the film and
everything in between to kind
of lock in. Yeah, and we've
seen just in date to alone.
Teams have already fixed their
banding strategies and looked
a lot better like we were just
talking about with Sentinels
that same thing is applied to
their opposition. Some teams
just played better into others,
so very much looking forward
to seeing what happens today
because I think it's going to
set the tone for what we're
going to see in the future.
Absolutely. Well, we'll find
out more in day three. Don't
go anywhere. We're going to be
back after this break to some
more action.
against the wild
We saw kind of the debut for a lot of these teams, some of them knocking off the Russ others coming right into the new form of what roster mania is day one has come and gone day two, though you would cast your man. What did you see? What were some words to describe it?
Sure, I'll keep it quick. I think team started waking up. We saw them actually perform and step into their shoes a little bit and shake off some of those nerves. A lot of the series going to game three and they were much more intense than I thought from day one.
Well, listen, man, let's go and kick it off with nightmare versus. Yeah, we lost and this was a close one. I mean, the word to describe the first match was probably the closest match right there with it that we've seen and ignite yet or at least this year to both these teams kind of flex that they are the dive ones.
But what did you see breaking it down because there's a lot to highlight.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot to discuss. I mean, like you said, very close 99 to 99 a dom on map three off the rip. And even then there was
Ultimates coming in at the end that almost looked like it was going to sway it back in the favor of yellow. We lost nightmare did look super solid.
A lot of these similar comps. Jeff was seeing a ton of play. We even saw Spider-Man Venom all the stuff you would expect. Silak was in there to their devil went available.
I mean, these teams are just very aggro, but they are incredibly fun to watch. Yeah, for me, I mean, it looks like vision just he did not miss a step from last year.
that. I mean, it's like, you
know, it's like, you know,
it's like, it's like, you know,
the vision was just popping off
and I felt like nightmare had a
very good control of that going
forward. And then, yeah, we
lost. It just came back into
form and I have to give them
credit because they didn't
struggle the MRC and sometimes
when that's your practice and
then you go into something like
this, like you're kind of not
used to being down. Also
jitward. We got to see the
dead pool, which is always
fun. And you know, we'll see
along that kind of last as
things have been patched and
you know, approach a little
bit. But do you think they have
that they are confident right now too.
We had the interview with Cart Lover
and like I said in the interview,
he talked in the prior,
we did kind of like a pre-interview test.
He said, I'll see you in a little bit and he did.
He came right back into for the interview
so that was really cool to see.
So they are feeling good, which is a good sign.
Yeah, and as for the nightmare,
I think they're definitely still like
getting their roster together and they look strong out there.
I think they have a great chance today,
excited to see them in the day three action.
But our other match we've been talking about
in this highlight is Fly versus Setnals.
And we talked about this is the redemption
of what happened on day one match.
And to me, buddy, you know, like you go and see a band
and they're playing some new songs
and you're like, come on, play the classics.
Like it's like that's how it felt was set.
No, they were doing some new stuff day one
and you're like, get, you know,
get the right amazing on the Iron Man.
Let's see cap on Crimson.
It felt like we returned to old form.
Yeah. Crimson stepped up, Rye stepped up,
but also Mirror came in instead of Carova,
which is a huge change, right?
And running that backline work,
more of a consistent backbone backline, right?
really, really, really, really
good. We're running that
in this and looking really
really solid doing it. But
yeah, the entire team just
kind of woke up. We talked to
Ryan the interview and he
essentially said, you know, we
just needed to change our
band phase. Our band phase was
not good day one and we really
paid the price for it. We
figured out what we wanted to
do, and now we're going to be
clean and you know what they
looked really clean today or
yesterday for sure. Yeah, I've
got to say, I mean, Kurova,
what a talented player, but one
thing with mirror is I kind of
makes the bands more confusing
for the opponent and they're
able to interchange these two
you're going to have to
play a lot of different
players. You're going to
have to be massive for them
because then you have like
you ban the Adam's you go
this approach and it doesn't
make it as clear cut your
battle plan against sentinels
like was though let's talk
about him for me. It's kind
of the same as day one
talent all over. They're all
doing something well, but it
just hasn't come together as
one in my opinion.
Yeah, truth be told, I want
them to perform. I like a lot
of those players. I think
they're all really talented
like you're saying, you know,
it's a newer team. They do
have some players from over
the pond, which is going to
make things a little dicey
in terms of communication
you know, we're not going to
be able to do that. We're
not going to be able to do that.
We're not going to be able to
do that for example, but yeah,
I just want them to find their
footing this aren't quite there
yet. All right, so that's the
two matches from the early
slate. We have three other
ones that you might have missed
from day two, but that's all
for us for now. We'll catch
you guys on the next one.
All right, so you heard about
the couple of matches in day
two to start us off. But if you
missed a two, we have three
more matches that were
absolute heat and we start off
with TSM and Lune X now TSM
struggled a little bit in day
one to find their footing.
Loonex did look strong, but for
together and you saw that teamwork come to play with TSM that fought back lost one game
and then one two in a row ship would you see?
Yeah, Lunex look consistently strong and I think TSM struggled on Dom but then they
just found their footing with this new triple composition. They started running this more
brawly beef frontline triple on the front and then allowing their you know essentially one
duelist on the Star Lord looked really good obviously but yeah it was unstoppable as soon
as that switch came in it was like the cart stop moving everything was stationary and
they locked in for the next two maps.
that we've seen a lot of triple Vanguard. And I think it was cool that back in the division
they showed actually how well triple Vanguard works at the highest level, but you have to
have an anchor duelist a little bit in SSG. We saw that whenever you had nectar as the
Star Lord. And in this case, in today, day two bedtime story had to do a lot of the heavy
lifting there. That's because Gail, who's an amazing player was on the gulk. All right,
was playing the whole and is definitely going to give that team a little bit of a different
look. And we'll see if that's just part of their flexibility or, you know, one of the
the team packages that they want to run moving forward.
Lunex though, they definitely proven themselves as a team
that's going to be tough to beat.
Sure.
Yeah, I mean, shout out again,
Reedus looked really good in the back line,
especially on map three.
There looks like he did not miss a single bullet
on that punisher.
And that's always high price.
So the team say consistent, but again, TSM,
the compositional change that they made it,
I don't think that Lunex could find a solution.
So they're definitely going to have to look
into that in the future.
You too, if there's anything we've learned
is that the MRC teams are not going to be easy beats.
Lunex prove that and we're going to continue
that was the first time I
had a chance to get into that
with swamp gaming versus Cafe
Rose, who obviously had the
upset of the tournament, at
least expectation wise to get
FlyQuest a quick two oh and
day one now playing what was
now I would deem some people's
America's favorite right swamp
gaming what they've shown and
the number one thing I've seen
from this team is that they have
so many ways to beat you right
you know, it's awesome hearing coach Fox essentially break down how they discuss their band strategies per team. And then also how they're not afraid to switch in things like these out and bring in a median who played incredible there as a duelist swap and being able to do that with different priorities of heroes that they play.
It's really powerful. It's tough for teams to scrim against, which is what he was mentioning.
I'm going to be honest, actually, if you look at that also with sentinels, is this the year we see more subs come to play, right?
It doesn't mean like a player's bad. It's like, okay, this is just a different flexible package we can play.
The more heroes you bring into the game, it's going to be kind of more common that you have these specialists in different, you know, team comps that you want to run.
And I think that's going to be honestly super interesting on both the viewer and caster, you know, position for that.
But yeah, man, the back line, force swamp gaming, they looked tough to beat, but it was not an easy win for them at all.
I mean, you may have looked at that game and thought it was going to be a quick one, but
Swamp Gaming, they even put on social media like, okay, hey, tip of the cap of the stack
over there to Cafe Rose.
Yeah.
Cafe Rose has been stepping up.
I think like you're saying with the MRC teams, we kind of assumed that they were going to
struggle a bit up at this ELO, but they have nothing to lose and they're proving it.
They look dominant out there and they're not afraid to step up in these moments, taking
things like domination to map three off the rip and look super confident.
And there's a point where I was like, okay, this team might be able to pull this home,
but just, you know, unable to do so Swamp Gaming locked in and just looked really strong.
absolutely. And then it takes us to our last match of the day. If you missed it, it was TLC liquid gaming versus SSG, right? And both these teams look pretty strong, I would say coming out of day one. Now you got a battle of some big time at Titans, especially in the eSport. For me, liquid, they looked like they were just kind of back to form. I think like day one, game one is like, oh, okay, a little bit of rust maybe, but man, this is proving to be the team to beat. They look tough.
Yeah, they tweeted something out like, hey, we're going to shake the cobwebs off and our games are going to be easier for us.
And yeah, they really did just that. I mean, SSG is no joke. Obviously, Nectar is discussing, but they tried to match comp and domination.
And TLC, Team Liquid, they said it looked just so good instead. I mean, I don't know that you can try to copy comp into a team like that.
You got to try to find a way around it. So they really struggled there. And then they kept running those unique compositions.
Bunkerbusters, they went to Midtown, Team Liquid, man. They are the team to beat right now.
team to beat right now. Yeah. Without question. Day three is going to be full of matches as
well. There's going to be a heater on y'all's plate to watch a lot of bangers out there.
Get ready for some action. We're going to jump right in already. Day three is underway
and we have our predictions ready for you. I mean obviously this is really tough to get
predictions in. We've only seen these teams on a very small sample size. But today we
have some matches that will definitely show a lot more of the path to the finish line
in the preseason. Now we start with swamp gaming versus NRG talk about starting with an absolute
idiot banger ship. I'm going to give you the floor first. Who do you got because these are
the favorites amongst you know group A. I'm going to go with NRG here. I think NRG looked
really solid and 100 T and I think they can keep that ball rolling. I think they have
a confidence right now. Swamp gaming is obviously really talented but NRG keeping it moving.
I think buddy how about yourself. Oh yeah. So I had to go against velocity and all what
They've got to keep it interesting though. I'll go on the other side. I think swamp gaming has proved, you know, two days in a row that they are just looking all the part. And so I think they continue that train and, you know, look to be America's favorite. But we'll see because this one is going to come down to micro decisions. And I think when you look at just the coaching behind it and kind of the battle plan energy excels in that a ton. So this is going to be a good one. But I'll have swap gaming there first.
the second matchup we have. Yeah, we lost versus Lunex gaming. This is a bit of a repeat
of the MRC. I think we both have the same. Yeah, I think we have to stay the same here.
Just just you know history repeats itself is the way you've got to think of it, especially
when you're doing predictions like this. It's got to be yeah, we lost. I mean, you know,
if you look at it, hey, it was the fastest ever. We saw the best of seven and yeah,
we lost it. So maybe Lunex it kind of sparked a fire under them and it's gonna be a tough
to come back from just the way that they play dive is so hard to play against when you're trying to
do the anti-dive defense approach, right? Settinals versus Cafe Rose, obviously if you looked at this
thing before the preseason it would be one-sided but I think it's a more difficult match than you
might think and I think Cafe Rose they're going to be ready for the part. Who do you've got here
because I think I'm still going to give the edge to Settinals. Yeah I think I do the same. Settinals
have looked exponential in their growth where Cafe Rose has looked consistently strong but I think
I think what we saw yesterday from Sentinels is a little better than what I've seen from Cafe Rose.
Yeah, I'm going to give it a, I'm going to make it interesting.
I'm going to go Cafe Rose wins the first one.
Sentinels win the next two.
So it's going to be a two one.
Sentinels end up winning it. Kind of what we saw from TSM yesterday.
Nightmare versus SSG.
This might be the other toughest game to call today.
Both teams sure look all the part.
SSG has obviously played both days.
Nightmare only one showing against.
Yeah, we lost, which is a great team.
I'll give you the floor first who you got.
Yeah, for this one, I in this one, I'm curious what your take is to I could go either way. I'm going to stay with nightmare because I loved what I saw from them on the first two maps against you. We lost. They struggled definitely on map three, but I think they were just kind of on their heels at that point and fell, you know, fell apart.
I think they can lock back in.
Yeah, for me, it's like, I can't see either of these teams dropping two L's in a row, but one of them have to right and that's going to be the tough part for me. I feel like SSG at the hands of Nectar, my should be able to get this done.
I'm going to give them the slight edge again. I think this is go to three
I think if you want a long day today
That's what you're gonna get because this is gonna go the distance but neither definitely has I think a bit more of a
Scary cup if you were to say or compared to more traditional better neutral maybe from SSG
So that's what we might see there to get close to in the day and then we have a
Fly versus a hundred thieves which a day the year one. This is like I hear magic you two. I mean come I know you have fly right?
No, I got to go on to these on this one, bro. I have to. I think a hundred thieves looks, you know, they look really good. Obviously day one didn't play yesterday. So we didn't have eyes on if anything were to crumble for them. Fly personally for me. I love the players on the team. I think they're all talented. We keep reiterating it, but I just want to see them perform once to get their confidence up. And I think everyone else is confident in them.
sure if a hundred thieves didn't lose day one I might have said okay there might be like this
upset you have the fire to spark fly quest but a hundred thieves also have that fire like they
can't go over to there's just no way I can see that happening with that orb with remix and all
the players behind it but sure I quest going on three there's also a lot of stick for them there
so even though you have two teams that are winless I think there's so much mental to be played here
but overall I think a hundred thieves ends up taking it so what I can't wait for is for me and
you to probably be wrong about most of these but that's how it goes yeah that's always how it is
and that's why sometimes you know I gotta split down the other side one of us has got to be right
buddy exactly edge our bets drop the predictions down below for the matches when they start we
want to know what you guys have to say and we'll see you guys on the next one what's up guys welcome
we're going to talk about right now the current standings of all the teams in the america region
now there's plenty of days to have the pre-season shake up and as it stands group a group b where
the team's land and then ship I want to talk about who you think my yeah maybe get more wins under
their belts and some of these shift a bit especially those with the predictions out there you want
to know exactly how they're going to do well. Group A the group of 10 let's start there swamp
gaming is going to be in first place as of now in RG followed by that sentinels then cafe rows
followed by 100 thieves and fly quests now to be fair some of these teams have not played
two matches some have and so that's going to affect someone like a hundred these who you know they took a loss and that's going to take them all the way down.
Even the flight quest play twice and they're at the bottom but that's how it's working right now yeah.
Yeah that's exactly right I mean in energy up in second place they have another opportunity to keep moving forward if they win their next match I've only played one day as well.
If you look at group A who do you think is going to move from here obviously I think a hundred these should definitely be able to move on up we'll see how far they can move up with energy beating them right that's going to be one team that they're going to have to look to either hope to
either hope to drop a game or, you know, move past if energy plays perfect and they will be in control their own destiny as we'd like to say as well as swamp gaming.
Yeah, I think we definitely see thieves moving up. Sentinels has potential to they started locking into yesterday and that was exciting. But again, I mean, it's like with these teams, it's like any given day. I will say that when we looked at 100 thieves and energy, they were so closely matched and you obviously were there for that.
was one of those games that we've, you know, in terms of early season, like it was just
mind blowing to watch a ton of fun. So they're up there even. So no matter what, I think
they're going to get closer on the leaderboard. But yeah, I mean, it's
Oh, hi there. Thanks for sticking around. We are getting ready for our last match, our
last map of our last match in this series between 100 thieves and fly quest. Currently,
the score is one one took a while to get there, but I'm sure the map will
deliver to make up for it. Yeah, absolutely. I think this this will be a fun
series. You know, once we get to it, that's the fun. We love fun. We love fun
here and well, I imagine over three will be fun. Let me tell you guys something
by the way. Okay, it's past midnight. My time and it's not my fault. So it's Vicky
after dark and they must suffer with what they reap and we get to decide on a
server and we are moving on to game number three Zoe. We are indeed. Let's
really cap what happened on map one and two since you know some people might
have lost the thread as we headed into our quick break one of those. Let's talk
about the first map. Obviously FlyQuest took that one, it snatched it away. Lots
of fantastic individual performance. The Mantis went through, Tuzi was super
enabled on the Asylum and just went rampage. Yeah Tuzi was popping off. I
I mean, like the Manfist, the pocket for him,
and everything was kind of working
because of the composition they ran.
And it was close.
Like, I feel like that was still a pretty close matter,
number one, regardless on domination,
in that, you know, game number two,
not the same kind of situation, right?
100th each kind of stumped any sort of situation
that FlyFly's had in the positive sense.
Yeah, and that led us to map number three,
one-one this score, which team is gonna get the first victory
of the opening week. Let's find out.
Thank you, Zoe, because we have to decide it now.
This is where it all comes down to the wire.
Did we just saw it on the server?
Obviously, because we are moving on
to the heart of Heaven Dogman.
And it's a big credit crazy with the back and forth
that we've had between both of these teams.
But it's important, right?
Because this is the opening for both these teams
to really start getting ahead of themselves.
This is the second series that 100 teams actually
get to play out on after they lost in their first series
versus NRG, flyquests who have finally taken their very first map,
want to make this fair, and we see the double ELSA ban from both sides.
Yeah, that's definitely what we want to see out of flyquests,
I think, in terms of getting rid of the ELSA.
But yeah, for 100 thieves, they always find themselves in situations like this.
I remember they're like always a team that's a part of these delays.
It just attracts 100 thieves for some reason, I don't know.
But the daredevil protect comes to the opposite side,
and then they go for that low-key band,
that we saw on the last map.
See as I believe the server that they also decided to be on now is going to be
North Virginia, so having that agreement at the very least while the daredevil
is protected for 100 thieves fly quest. They were able to protect the gambit,
but now that means that they get to ban out the gambit from the other side
because they ban out the Loki, so they would rather still deal with the gambit
from them, get the rage of royal flush into the wind condition.
we know what Melio could do just with that. The Mantis though, do you want to give the
damage boost over to the daredevil is the question and with that Psylocke being hovered,
that's the respect that we were expecting going into this final map here, Doc Mantus.
He has just gotten so much value with this Psylocke.
Yeah, yeah, I mean it makes sense. I think considering what they've liked to run so far,
now does that, I wonder, you know, does that on the opposite angle let them go for that
that Mantis protect potentially to counter it, right?
Because we know that's available.
Maybe they still want to run it even without that silo.
But like you mentioned,
it's a lot of respect towards that one player,
towards giving him that character,
considering we are on part of heaven.
So I would be interested to see what Flaglust can run
on this map.
Maybe you do more divey stuff yet again.
We'll kind of see as it moves forward.
That first point I think is a little bit more open,
obviously, but 100 things going for that Angel
to protect for TKK.
Meanwhile still had that van pool kind of go through thus far. I mean, it's not really been touched on this map specifically throughout the entire
Bandface until now for fly quest going for that protect
Okay
Take a little look right because we did see on the side of fly quest that they wanted a prio
That van pool for themselves kind of swapping things off here with jolly to when he was forced over to think and here we go
This is not a drill guys. We are getting into our final game of the day
Dog man, you know, I felt sitting on the edge of my seat seeing these two kids get out, but this is where it actually ends
Yeah, you've been itching for this for this final back
Finally, we get to see what happens between these two squads and I know we've been waiting for a while
So I apologize for that but you know like worst case scenario you farm a little bit more drops and stuff, right? You can get
that beautiful
and skidding on the hand in the drops area under the wish tree.
But for watching us on YouTube or on Coach Streamers,
thank you for tuning in and thanks for watching.
Huge shout out to our Coach Streamers for also sticking with us
and watching throughout today.
So you guys are awesome for watching all of this.
But for Team FlyQuest, Vicky, what do they
do to try to come back from that map?
Because it was a really hard first point,
I feel like, for them.
And I think it goes down to which game
would you feel like you're suffering on, right?
We were talking a little bit about it earlier today with some teams that may not be able to find their strike and now with fly quest
Kind of going into a different look with to see being on the van
Well, we have to see if they get that sort of impact with the side lock of course
They will be able to have access to that gambit and that could benefit Melio who is on the dear double jolly on the Angela 2
Fly quest start things off on the attack and a hundred ease because we also have to mention to dog
I'm feeling a little bit just so that way you guys who are just tuning in to know
It's gonna be fly quest is not that they decide on as well as the side here
They're slowly walking it up.
You see traditionally this height needs to be controlled by this defensive squad.
And so he's kind of looking for, you know, that height to try to control it.
In the meanwhile, kind of full surround, both Angelos flying over is a bit aesthetically pleasing.
But, you know, in the moment, you know, this entire point needs to sort of get surrounded upon by the offense
and really have a shot at diving this backline of Melio and all the other triple-sided or something like that.
We'll rather, um, Melania and Winnie, I'm a hider.
We're gonna talk about the Rampool skin represents Melio now,
then we'll be able to wrap around with Delena.
He's the one on the silo to showcase what the Delena silo could do.
Sadly, we won't get the mirror match because the silo's a fan on the fly quest,
and this forces Kanta back away.
Nice little reset here, if he can, but he cannot.
Now, I was thinking that there was gonna be maybe some back-up through Jolly,
but this is the Delena show.
If it's not on the Elsa, it's looking like it's gonna be on the silo.
Yeah, Dylan has always had that side lock in his back pocket comes out nice little two-piece in that fight and then also
Staves off the aggression from flightless now
We're already down a minute up the clock right flightless have at least both the ultimate to put vests on that road
So they were aggressive potentially with a triple cop die
But to see it's stunned in the middle of assault I believe but same thing with decayed meanwhile with those
Dead pulls out not a lot of actual action happens on the inside may be some cool down forced out
but Tuzzi goes down on the other side so Vinny gets the better of him caught out in that engagement.
Calling him in here before closing in the gap Vinny is going to be able to control this right
side, splitting the attention of fly question. You see Melio going up on top of the roof,
they're trying to pinpoint where Melio is thanks to DK being on that Angela and I'm going to say
right now Zogman with the range of order flush they need to get things going but there's really
not a follow up potential here because currently Melio cannot let them devil out currently it's
the ultimate is not online,
sell us low fights,
Atlanta, millennia,
the full look right here
as 100 Thieves are dropping.
Winnie will not be able to use the itch yet for now,
but with the dance of the butterfly,
hands are let up, bring this back,
that's two outs,
and with Atlanta being the last little survivor here
for 100 Thieves,
there's only so much you could do.
Vinnie don't drive back around,
keep the stall going,
but they wanted to waste more time away from Flike West.
The next little push,
next little gaze on the outside,
they try to come back to the Jeffle from Winnie,
maybe stall out time for this board to come through,
but it's not going to be their time.
Point Cat by FlyQuest, it took a bit,
but you know with 100 thieves and how they played it,
it kind of makes sense, I believe FlyQuest,
you know, slowly sort of surrounded 100 thieves,
got some important ults out,
and were able to kind of work it in
to like mix with Melio going off in the back line
and then having some pretty good game of ultimate timings.
Now we're going to the second phase of the map though,
as FlyQuest, you know, still sees all ults
to work with, they'll be against this rocket wreck.
You know, open 100 thieves, how do they want to play this?
You want to dive on the can early for Zelo to try to force out that initial boundary in the fight.
Especially like with Melio here, having the, letting the Devil out, compared that to self,
it's trying to follow that open to Melania and self to get that damage output to Lena too,
in trying to build up that dance of the butterfly, trying to move off.
There goes the CD of the initial boundary from Zelo's as the Harpenter comes in,
it tries to take it away but maybe bump the loose who's late and it's fine because Melio unleashes the Devil
and Jolly follows up and that is flight quest taking over a hundred thieves.
Yeah they're starting to string together a few fights and well placed with that missile
boundary. Now Mulaney goes back over to the invisible woven tries to get off that rocket
raccoon that we used on that first point and you know maybe they're finding that be a little
bit easier to take care of. They're also switching full of that front back off that we saw in the
previous map. Tuzzi caught backwards his own or back to their spawn. We were then just switching
this full thing composition. Again, playing this trying to counter the dive style and it's working.
Melio goes down too. Talk about the push and pull right now. Five quests looking like they're in
some trouble. They were able to bring it right back to talk about the sprint to back composition
and they were able to also split a lot of that attention both from the left side of the bridge
to the right. And now Ken does have that rage and royal flush but really no follow-up to go
with it. Only really that sustainability to try to go 3-2-1 on one of the strats here of
of 100 thieves Winnie taking a different off angle on the low
boot.
They just sort of a little worried about now for fly
quest, you know, how can they deal with his backline?
Is it too cold?
You know, they already going early.
Nice job with the DTO thunder the backline,
so they're going to be trying to pocket each other.
Meanwhile, Vinny separates them from everybody else
and self is there to follow through.
Invisitability goes down.
Is that what's 10 there?
What's the follow up to?
Set back to spawn?
I mean, well, then cool.
Made it by Vinny on the opposite of the map.
There's strategies.
They're kind of stuck in spawn.
So I wonder if actually to find anything in this case,
it's plenty to go down.
Nice job, you two.
And when the dance of the cutter flies now coming out,
the dash out to Delena, just dealing
a good amount of that pressure, but not
being able to find their mark.
Jolly does go down to slay before.
And with the God of mischief, a winning hand
comes out this time from Winnie.
Gambit band, no problem.
You get the copy instead on Slickhand,
and TTK goes crazy.
The TTK clobbering time is among us.
It's been great kind of flexing over to you know the heroes that are needed for the squad
I think that he's done
You know great job just kind of stuffing out fly quest dive and now we're switching full to it right no more
Angel over onto that camp to America
So trying to go for that surround with a triple vanguard comp, but you know there's been so much to getting one of these fights
Like to see if they could continue that momentum moving forward against self who has open
Jolly to try to paint the path for the rest of fly quest zealous has had a musical boundary that you were just mentioning
and with TTK going down, there is no wobbling time.
Self does have let the devil out before Vinny comes in
and tries to harass this backline fan hammer.
Delena with a 1-2 and the Scooby-Doo wants a Melio
to get that first pick off.
They try to get the grab, throw now,
trying to provide some of that help on the peel line
from the strats, and with Gambit never folding,
they're gonna be able to try to match up on each side here.
Vinny 2 gonna be able to get everybody's attention,
same thing here for Tusi, and Delena is on phase
after finding Ken, and that was out of the region
And he talked about the one that plays with this map so far, however, he's missing part
of the team now.
Can he avoid Jogged?
The answer is no.
Captain America tracks him down, and they don't really have any old speeder to the side
of the defense.
You know, Self gets to go forward with his ultimate, but I'm having a little help, I think,
just from Winnie.
I mean, can he live long enough?
Nice job of avoiding all of the damage, but the answer?
No.
Gola comes back out of spawn.
They're going to touch the second door, and maybe thought he could get into that portal.
No!
the side no no way there's no way there alright well the fact that we were on
Dylan I'm sorry you got cotton 4k then right through the portal off to the side
that's unfortunate and but it's fortunate at least for flight quest because
look what they have coming up online they can let the devil out they have the
freedom charge of stall and they got that second checkpoint yeah I mean I
think it's gonna be a hard fight to win no matter what just because it was like
Winnie holding down the fort until Millenia got back, but
it caught in 4k for sure. Now we go to third phase. I mean it left the gulf.
Wycliffe's actually getting this thing kind of pretty far forward, right?
And I think dive actually does pretty solid on this next point and third point.
Where the flank angles, if they're controlled by Jolly, right?
Shutting down to let an aggressive ultimate for Millenio to go deeper.
The backline force those greens out.
But will he get Nikko's through to Nikko, who is just stopping the dive by himself?
What are you waiting for though? The man never comes on online.
trying to look at the back line.
Assembling the troops, though, from fly flushes
to meet Jolly with the freedom charge.
The visual boundary called in from Winnie
in the form of the God of mischief.
And with millennia and the safety over to the side,
it's going to be able to find Vez.
Vinny Choles in the gap two with the bubble.
And it's going to be a hundred thieves taking over this point.
The fly flush playing very spread out.
But they do have the razor royal flush
to recontent in the next 17 seconds.
Who's running if they would have any more standard KOs?
But you're right.
It's as you mentioned, Vicky, like double stradults,
They just used the Loki in that fight, but TK's been big with some pretty large floddering times, right?
Even the middle of the shadows, they didn't aggressively deadpool.
Oh no! Zillow starts the hold during the K.A.V.I.N.T.O.L.E.
That's brutal.
That was such a big first pick off No-Keyer.
A hundred D's recognizing that millennia with the indivisible boundary
with two people out, no.
Provering 10 comes in only finds best, but it's just enough.
With the 1v1 over to the side again trying to fight for their life originally,
he comes back around.
The hell? He gets three together to let it to DK.
We're the only ones originally on the point as the Lennon now comes out from Spaldingham Gate
and with overtime taken down, they cannot get off.
I guess they didn't need it in that fight or Zellos, just because Ken already got the ult out.
At least the rest of the squad can get value and then Ken just decides to give everything else by him.
But now, in the subsequent fight, you physical boundary to counter potential ultimates from 100 fees.
Then you get that out, maybe get some KO's.
best but also slow down the ultimate charge from Delena as he goes to the right time of
chance already there.
Going down at least Zellos was ready with the invisible boundary that's just one victim
on the other side and with FlyQuest pushing into the 100th spot it is all for Noss with
Delena looking at the dance of the cutterfly only having that and nobody else from 100th
he's let the devil back in because FlyQuest have actually pushed this payload to the finish
when dog then they had little to no time on that second checkpoint when they
recontested with that portal play. Yeah that's crazy. I mean I want to push by
then towards the very end and you know realistically it's because like well
dilemma did his part of the job I believe because he's going for his
old early also found the KO but I mean maybe after the invisible boundary they
wanted to go with self-soul or even combo those two but he couldn't because
Vess had his ultimate on rogue and just removed self like like self was at his
but his old charge dissipated in front of his very own eyes and just didn't have any follow-up after the missile boundary plus
The aggressive play afterwards was just clean. So, you know, there's a lot of things culminating right now, Vicki
I think at a macro level, you know time of day, maybe these players are getting tired and stuff
But that was still a very clean end towards the towards the very end of the map for flyfly
Promise you though that miss on the cutter fly before that second point and had nothing to do with the ping up there
It's okay. You got to reset 100 thieves now on the attack have to get this payload to the finish line
This is an insane final series dogman
We weren't expecting this but I will say for those of you guys watching at home
This is a great way to finish off our first week within the ignite series in the Americas region
Welcome because a hundred thieves of Titans within their group respectively are here clawing for their life and fly quest have jolly on the hole
There should be a good change-up I think to see Jolly play that hole
And again in for fly quest, you know, that honestly a good spot to be in after what happened earlier
You know go to this map where you maybe hit the one off like the Phoenix and some of those sort of
You know hit stand heroes that he's incredibly strong at same thing with the siloq but
Well points like what's up. Then a great job at least in the mirror
See if they can keep it up. I think that Jolly's already out of hold form never bite in Bruce Banner form
just got taken out by the rest as well, but with these, it's tracked down the whole player.
Oh, let's say like Deledad is pinpointing exactly where he is from the other side of the waterfall,
it looks like he was all the way far and left field, as Jolly's giving him to get back into
World Form, come back out of the Song of Engage, the Night Reflect here as Selves finds Zellos and
chew out for a flight quest, a flight quest. Now, looking on to see if they can get the poor
role play to at least get back onto the point, but there's currently a hundred thieves for three
minutes on the clock, they're looking for more of these daggers. Yeah, this is kind of brutal
because like what we saw for from 100 feet and like what also pull will hold on use probably
not going to matter in the grand scheme of things because they should have it up by second phase
or by the next checkpoint if they need it if they get a few holds but regardless like you can see
like like what's on the defensive holds just sometimes they get caught out in the setups like
jolly's on the right side angle has to try to jump back to the squad you know goes through that back
angle of the waterfall side without a strategist and he goes down so tough situation for jolly
specifically, but great track down by 100 Thieves. We'll see if they can keep it up on their attack
whereas FlyQuest on defense I think aren't the best team playing reactionary. I love seeing that
side-by-side too. To get off my strats real quick it's the bouncer making sure that you'll exit your
way if you are the daredevil from the receiving end. Delana does have the dance of the butterflies though.
Look at where Delana's gonna come from as Zellos and Kent are very close to the straddles. To
de-cage and to isolate them nice and above the carrot. Self jumps in, finds a dive onto Zellos,
and Melio then gets a trade off.
But Flagclist are down two members,
and even with the Rage of War plus coming in online,
you want to hold on to that for the re-fight
that you're going to try to push into onto the point.
Yeah, those are beautiful engage,
and I think every time they've had, like,
dead poor ultimate from the side of 100 Thieves,
they've just taken full advantage of it.
And then also, they go in immediately with,
like you mentioned, the Dance of the Butterflies,
towards the back line,
throwing TCKs, bubble out there to block off
some of the healing for anybody getting hit by it
so they can't pat a cake, or just absorb the damage.
Yeah, yeah, job done. Nice work from 100 thieves. We'll see if they can continue it though. They have double-shot ults,
but it is the locked at Raccoon alongside the Invis instead of double gambit in Invis.
So realistically, Flypuss can't take advantage with these combination of ultimates,
and maybe slow down their backline too after the Invis down this top.
Oh, but with the Hunters, that's actually enough to take away the Sia from Winnie.
That was big, from best. This allows Flypuss to at least regain control over this point because you do not want this people here with you.
three minutes you have the vanpool ultimate just to look at them two at the
same time zealous is the one taken out but zealous will come right back around
with the invisible boundary yeah it was a clean engage by them but now a hundred
things kind of walking into it I mean when he's gonna have built now after
like mentioned the heartbreakers gone I mean how did they lift this they had
invisible boundary they lose jolly early he has to come back out of spawn still
waiting for the inbiz kind of awkward corner to retouch but they have to right
now left it up a lot towards the point to inbiz boundaries here now from the
those who was invisible to outlive it, but with the damage you see later, can they get the KO's through it? They can't.
Oh man, but letting the devil out, it looks like purgatory as the cabs are going out.
Both from Jolly and Vinny, the freedom charge, losing up into these ultimates too.
Look at Ken, a rage and a little flush. Today of the protection, as his round-down out jumps into the backline.
They try to shut them down, sells and finds Ken. It's a trade from both sides, but no shadow is available for a flag quest to help with the sustainability.
We're kind of just going to dive it around the point in the meanwhile trying to stall
out as long as possible.
Melania does try out one, but is it enough to lose your captain this fight also against
the taunt from T2K?
Portal is here, so they did get that cool-down back by the way, does have a BRB.
If likewise delay has kind of panned out because of Zellos' TP back from Dr. Strange, but they
don't have any straddles, right?
Melania is close to them to the boundary.
We'll talk about that sustain here.
Melania is going to be the one to help everybody for 100 feats.
CTKs would get into position as he activates it immediately and finds Jolly.
Melio cannot run away as they've had their private 1v1 over to the side.
As the letter comes out on top, that's 100 feats wiping out Fly Quest Vest.
The last little lie, Jolly's going to come right back.
But this is 100 feats finally getting the second checkpoint.
They did waste a good amount of time here though, Dogvan.
There is three minutes at least extra on the clock for the 100 feats to work with.
So they need to get up and see if they could build up the space
Yeah, honestly, if you're fly quest there's a laser looking pretty solid, you know when it can play dive
It looks pretty good
You know can they keep up that pressure in the third point because honestly a hundred thieves
You'll have a pretty good time bank three minutes in the third point. There was a lot of stall for sure
But will it be enough? You know, they can be strained together at least a few fights together
You know, maybe find like will chaos like this against self without any ultimates up
It's exactly what you want to see as 100 feet, they're trying to force out like an early straddle somewhere.
You can too with the itch Jeff trying to get everybody off the point.
Melio closer letting that devil out but it's up to Winnie.
With that see-up to help enable Delena to gain look into the back,
your heartbreak, there's the first one activated.
Diving into the backlight of 100 feet.
Winnie, tell us, Winnie getting that ultimate taken away and Melenia no sustained from the strats of 100 feet.
If you sell this Intusive Capitalized off of this, you have 2 minutes less than 25, way more than enough time for you if you're 100 thieves, especially with these Ultimates coming on line still.
You have 2 minutes left to go. Excellent flight for Flight West to win.
And they actually have a great, you know, win record, I believe, whenever Vest does pop that Ultimate with the Heartbreaker, just kind of going in 300% win rate so far.
But 100T, we're building up that bank of holes
like you mentioned, you have.
Easy to make, you can open the back line,
or we'll be dived, too.
It pays a little bit later.
But we'll be fine with KOs after this.
Winnie's Red does bring himself back,
but they actually force the Inzles and Boundaries out
from Zealots, too.
So no more straddles on the defensive angle,
except the Captain American hole.
And will that be enough to shave anybody here
from the chance of bullfights?
No.
It's not.
And I see what Ken's trying to do here with the itch,
Jeff.
You could get these environmental KOs,
if you could manage to pull it off,
but they're getting shut down.
and now 100 thieves minute and less than 35 seconds
of the clock still have self and letting that devil out
as well as Vinny that could boost up millennia's ultimate
into getting that invisible boundary
because we want to make sure with this,
getting so much impact with this heartbreaker dog man.
It's been dangerous here, especially when it comes
to dealing with it from the strat lineup of 100 thieves.
The established reflect was not only lost that fight,
but I mean, they committed both of those straddles.
So now Vinny going with the capital
and they have visible boundary too afterwards,
but they would preferably win this fight without it.
With all the starts still pushing, pull bait is 2-Z.
Nice job by Millennia and the squad to lead that.
Come back through finding that snag
or in-biz boundaries still sitting here.
Really no ult, only half to the lay afterwards
because they've lost Melio.
They have nothing else to really touch
and they have to commit the ultimate.
Jephul's gonna be a little bit late,
at least the invisible boundaries used,
but after this their level should go off on Zell.
And Zell and TGK have so much to harass them
dealing a good amount of damage
before diving in. The left is a finishing blow to find Tusi.
Tusi was unable to pop that ban hammer themselves
and bends his neck to go down.
Melio making the soft flip over to the Bucky.
Can he even get that ultimate online with the crash
and impact the it's chef comes in next from 10.
Can this be a play? Can they stop him?
And they get it to the finish line.
We are going the distance 100 feet
with a limited time bank.
Slightly have more though than FlyQuest.
Yeah, we're heading back one minute on both sides.
And for FlyQuest, they'll be going attack first,
which is actually almost like a good thing for them.
Both of these squads have looked great on offense so far.
And honestly, FlyQuest delay,
and you talk about it,
like the third phase of the beginning looked good,
but then they have to use Zellos' ult a little bit too early.
You know, and Ken on the Jeff as well,
it's hard for him to really connect, I think,
with the squad.
But like, it just felt like
whenever they didn't have Zellos' invisible boundary,
it was kind of hard to win those fights, right?
So like, we'll see what happens for FlyQuest
their attack maybe they can mix it up they still have that gambit advantage
but just didn't use it in the last defense regardless we'll see if like
West can snowball it moving forward losing jolly on the defense and then
maybe flight was not the best for their defensive side but on the attack they
did a very similar thing in picking apart 100 feet. Cracking up leg day
talking about Zellos KOing himself with a tear-taple reflect let's not shoot out
the invisible man primary out here when you get that reflect going in front of
face you get a little tricky to when you're also trying to fuel up your
vanguard's and then you get caught with the reflect right in your line of sight
but getting started here dogman you highlighted it perfectly hundred
thieves now up on the roof getting ready it was a little bit harder for
flyquists to try to take this first point initially here and now it's gonna
be a reset on the sides now let's see who can actually strike first blood right
with both of these teams during their double shows you know you can see through
the walls and stuff set up the dodge a little bit easier to look for that
targets who is caught out. Both of these dead pulls though just kind of looking each other towards the main side trying to take specific angles.
It's Melio for the set of his time. It's a bubble party though as you girly say Jolley trying to get the shish kebab seeing if they could go for something cheeky.
Over to the right side of the map Ves is ready though to come down from the rooftops breaking the whole house down though.
It's going to be Melio just trying to focus down on that calf with the van pulls now active and Zellos and Ken being the first to go
Yes, we're seeing flight quest though specific Melio wake up says I don't even need some of the ceiling
But a hundred things still have more that sustained they lost on Vinny lost on self Vinny going over to the doctor strange
See if they get that portal play with this recontest allowing flight was to come back from the following days
Looking for the daredevil they came back for the peel meanwhile, so they have the BRB and like you mentioned the portal still available on the defensive side
No, I'm gonna find out really nice job
And that also moves at the
ERP to self and keep you
able to trade back more though.
And that should be enough
potentially as there's no
coolant time and overtime.
Justin's Jolly stall.
Unfortunately for FlyQuest,
it's overtime fixed down with
not even a tick given.
100 thieves hold.
That was beautiful.
The fact that they were able
to focus on that strap
backline of FlyQuest allowed
it were even though they
lost out on what two or so
before that second to last
fight, they still were able
to clear the point.
It wasn't enough time to
to allow the gambit to come back together with Zellos too.
So we got to see some swappable because it's
going to look a little difficult here for FlyQuest.
Sure, they were able to at least get it to the finish line.
But it was on their attack where they struggled a little bit
to flip it originally as 100 thieves kind of didn't
struggle either in that same time when they were the ones
on the attack.
Yeah, I think all of this kind of stems back to 100 thieves
with Vinny building up that ultimate so quickly.
Or I think it wasn't Vinny.
No, it was Vinny Oswight.
He was the one on the, uh, the Deadpool, but like he built up that ultimate incredibly quickly.
They dove in the back line first and they ended up, you know, having to back up,
but that read also onto Melio's flank ended up painting out for them.
Vicky, but imagine this could be a potential draw still because a hundred thieves.
They need to get only a single tick, 33% of the board, and they're going to cap out and win the series,
but they only have a minute to do it.
That's so true.
You're absolutely right.
We're going to have to see if this is worth the wait.
at least for now it is and I'm also just really thinking about how important having that rager
royal flesh would have been imagine for flypuss if they were able to get that reset but they did
it and that's the main part of the series here as a hundred thieves coming out to lena popping off
on this sidewalk what do you think though dogman of zealous being on the cloaking dagger that
means he's showing it before he knows what they're trying to do so they're trying to go for that dive
You know, sort of play as well.
So, you know, he's trying to, like, potentially fade it.
You know, maybe play back with Ken as well.
Maybe try to build towards that cloak and dagger ultimate,
because, like you said, you know, maybe if you could build it
in the middle of the fight, it could be actually fight-winning
versus 100 thieves who are, again, trying to set up
these dives with Delena and the rest of the crew.
But, again, fighting for those angles right now,
pretty much across the whole map.
Both of them both are Vamples 2-2 seed.
That's a slightly first-to-2 case.
They're going to be able to match him eventually,
but it's about feeling for this backlight first.
They try to harass both millennia and winnie and with the follow-up from Vez. They do find millennia
TTK now looks at them back fly crisis some trouble as they're gonna be able to set her tied away with that's getting another one
They said they actually reset they stopped them from trying to push over to the left side
This is gonna be a hundred teams looking to get a reset because they have less than 25 second
Leo is waking up. He's full two and self gets to see
Where's the portals coming out there's that phase in the closing dagger you mentioned earlier already 80% needs to build the middle fight
That's trying to fight towards that point. They lose Melio
That was a lot of the damage coming through to Tuesday's now switching over to the game because it's one of the strategists in Ken going for the portal play
Sowing out now is the tanks the vanguard of a fly quest back to the pulver get back towards that spawn cellos 95 96
99% he built it and he's back towards the point where the broken dagger will commit
But can they find the KO's before all the straddles are built?
Hunter V's not even close to theirs.
Vitty falls.
Can anybody else go down too?
Here comes the dead, pull close to the point, and maybe, just maybe,
Selena needs to find more kills.
She goes to the same spot, butterflies the BRV, brings back TDK.
They can find the KO's, new needs, LOS is dead,
but so is winning the office side.
TDK trades back one, it's messy.
It's back and forth, and TDK finds another oneself!
Are you kidding me?
And it oversies!
Millennia falls itself with another one,
but I'm more than he does!
He does it himself!
Hunter V's win!
4, 2, 3, 2, the BRB diff, TTK coming back, the follow-ups, that was so worth it, that
was so worth it.
Wow, what a final series, like with versus 100thies, we're with 100thies, no peeing,
no problem, don't worry about it, we'll play on whatever server you want, maybe at the
end of the day, because self is your MVP and 100thies, take the series.
What a fun one. What a fun end.
I mean, just with the implication on the line that we could potentially be going to another map for the first time the whole tournament and in the draw would have been crazy.
So, yeah, I'm just happy for your sake, for your soul, you know, could have burned out at that one.
And your voice. Yeah, that was a really fun end, though, and well deserved win.
I think self had his pop off moment towards the end.
And it's as you mentioned, the BRB being the real MVP.
Wow, man. The fact that TTK was able to get back, it looked grim, Jolly was waking up.
Vez, by the way, popped off at the very end.
Honestly, there was nothing else Vez could really do in that situation.
Can you imagine if 100 Thieves didn't ban out the Silek, and we could have had like the Silek 1v1 duel?
But you know what? Maybe we could say that for another day.
Because 100 Thieves are your winners.
Self has 26 final hits on the Daredevil.
That also comes to show you why maybe the Daredevil was prioritized in the pick and ban phase.
So it's kind of like that. Pick your poison thing. Do you want to deal with Delana Elsa? Or do you want to deal with the self-dear devil?
There's a lot of discussion that you have to do in that regard because I mean self earlier on the Ultron
It wasn't his most comfortable hero
I think in terms of you know what he could do for the squad, but it's like you said going over the daredevil and
Man, what a fun way to end the day
I'm curious how so he wraps us up because that was a fun to one
I feel like you guys have said everything there is to say what an incredible end to this series.
I mean, I almost feel like being held hostage was worth it at this point.
I love that stuff. The newest member of that team, you know, the one that slots in for their former star player.
That's the one who's like closing at the series with a 3k, getting 100th, the first victory on the board.
That's some good script writing right there.
absolutely is. It's got to be so disheartening to lose in that fashion for
FlyQuest. I can't imagine how the feeling right now in a lost series today.
I'm sure you know it's definitely gonna be tough to bounce back from a O3
weekend but it was still a very performing or sorry impressive end I
think in that 2-1 loss to 100 BS. That's what we said like setting up this
serious, right? We did not expect FlyQuest to come out on top of this one. We really did not at all.
The fact that it was so close, I don't think anyone saw that coming. What we really just wanted to see
is FlyQuest making adjustments, FlyQuest looking just more in sync. And I feel it was exactly what we
got. Like they really identified what their winning conditions are, what works for them in terms of
composition. Like when they got to play that dive and it's not being shut down and completely
like it was in the past, they're looking really good.
They're looking really confident.
So I do feel like they turn things around at the end of week
two, week one, sorry, it's been a long day.
Yeah, it has been.
And also it shows the importance of having literally
some of the best tool is that we've seen perform in the past,
be able to have a little bit more room to work with right
in a different server.
And that has to be a highlight because a lot of these players
are probably going to talk about it.
So I think focusing on that and focusing on what
can do next week, it's not going to be the side quest guys. I have to say it again at the very end that everyone was talking about in the last two days. It's going to be a different look. We know that these are such talented players. We see it out here against one of the best teams in the entire region and look at how far it went. You look forward to now.
versus energy when we're like, oh man,
like it's quite a gauntlet run.
And now it's kind of a different story
after this performance,
because there's a lot to dissect with them
in this upcoming week.
Absolutely, I do love that, because initially,
I mean, again, we all had expectations on fly fish,
just based on the individuals,
and of course also the bias of what the org itself
was able to do last season.
So for them to kind of find their stride
to the very end here,
then we put some back into the conversation,
back into the conversation in the midfield. It is a short turn turn around. It's not the
right sentence. It's a it's a short group stage. That's what I meant to say because
with going 0 and 3 in the first week, essentially just means that you low key high key have
to win every match next week. So it's an uphill battle for them is they want to stay out of
the bottom two. Yeah, that's a good point. Like it's just, you know, no matter how you
you slice it, it's tough, right?
Like even if you were to, you know,
give any of these teams that are going,
that have gone over three, some props,
because they definitely, all of these teams
that are in that potential elimination spot,
do deserve them.
But, you know, we can give as many, you know,
flowers as you want, because it doesn't matter
how many of those flowers you have
when they are whittled away in your hands,
because every single opportunity you had, you've lost.
You've lost, what's happening?
Sorry, if what happens, Pat, never mind.
It is our.
there against those two teams.
Yeah, absolutely you're right.
I think that there is a chance and I
think we can offer that same
opportunity to the Group B side too,
right? Like Group B is is just
fighting tooth and nail to get
qualified, right? So a match that I'd
be checking off. I think for a lot of
our fans out there is going to be
Nightmare versus Lou next to because
night or Lou next also are 0
and 3, but have had close to O's
too. So you know that will be a
game I think end of the day next Monday or next Friday. Yeah, it's also just
something to say it was like those are quality losses right like the pieces
are there like it just all came down to either they kind of fumbled and couldn't
close it out at the very last second or the opposition just popped up left and
right and like every once in a while another team is just on fire and then
that's that's it that's a GG nothing you can do about that you just have on days
enough days like that but yeah it's it's been an extremely interesting first week of play here I think
we've learned a lot mostly about the fact that we may have all had pretty wrong read on some of those
teams which I do love I love that they come in and prove us wrong yeah me too because then you get
to kind of figure out okay what's going in America's imagine those who ended up going to sleep right
right before that final map like played out and saw how close it ended up being it was definitely
worth the way. And now people get to really dissect what happened. And then looking forward,
I think it's the best birthday gift for myself to be able to see how everyone's pickups are
not only in the trash bin, but it's like unpredictable, right? This region has come
out from the MRC teams making adjustments in the two weeks that they had on a new patch
and a new season, seeing what they could push into that into the MRI. It's been nonstop
close competition like despite the 2-0s it's been very back and forth and we've
heard it from so many different players across multiple regions here between
Amiya and their name where they talk about alright well some of us are still
figuring out the meta we're even hearing other players in our past interviews
talk about how they excel when they play what they're comfortable with except
next weekend we're playing on a different patch in the tournament
server we will have the white box buff actually come through we will have those
ulcer nerves come in and we have to see how that's going to affect anything even for the teams that are comfortable running the triple strat
Because after today too, we've been seeing a lot of triple strat
And we keep seeing we're talking about the ultimate nerves and with that done in terms of splitting up those ultimate charges across those strategies
And is it better? Is it worse? Well, guess what? It actually works out in different types of gameboats the ultron coming out too on domination
There's a lot. There's a lot to break down here and with those white box buffs
we're going to have to see how that's going to influence some of the teams that excel, especially
on the triple strat. So my eyes are also on set. Yeah, we did get a good look at quite a few
white foxes already this week. The question is how much of it will we actually see next week?
Valentina's white fox, for example, was absolutely a light out. So I am super excited to see which
teams will benefit from playing on the most recent patch and which teams might start struggling
there is there any team that comes to mind that could be an eye to side of the spectrum?
I mean I think every team this week in terms of like maybe I think a lot of teams are the
group B following that category Zoe like I feel like you know or maybe even group A2 like the
Sentinels but you know I feel like TSM still figuring out the same thing with Nightmare,
Lunex like a lot of these squads are still trying to kind of determine you know what their best at
but you know coming back to group A like it's the same thing for Sentinels in those squads you
you know, like for like West, I feel like they were already preparing almost for the patch next week, right?
So considering the fact that they were letting Elsa through sometimes and trying to play to that mantis triple
strategist composition that, you know, we heard in the interview earlier from Crimso that a lot of teams are focusing triple
strategists.
You actually find it so interesting this week that Elsa caught a lot less fans than I would have expected to see her catching.
But yeah, we don't know. We don't know what the team's track books look like.
we do have an opportunity to talk to one of the coaches who might be sharing some insight
it's iRemix joining us for a quick chat after this victory so let's bring him in
iRemix long time no see and congratulations thank you great it's great to chat to you again
okay listen we've got to be real about this one though i mean a win is a win but
Fyker has definitely made his sweat for it today.
Can you identify the biggest hurdles that they put in your way and why was it so difficult
to close things out as clean as he would have liked?
To be honest, first map we just made a composition error.
Like I think if we played some different characters instead of tempo,
it would have been easier to mark that comp because they're like flanking everywhere.
So having a better Morikab would be more useful.
and but I also think like if we were playing a fair game I do believe like
I'm gonna call out some people I think there's coaches that are getting leaked
codes we never did that we had a plan and somehow they bent DD first when we
had never played DD so I'm just I'm just putting that out there
All right.
It's your turn.
I love Dog Band's face.
That's the tea we need at this hour by the way.
I'm here for this.
You know what, Abe?
You know them.
You could go on and on.
Slowly other teams may know because who knows what all the stress are being leaked.
But I respect it.
I respect it.
You guys came out on top.
Oh, oh, you know, you don't have to, you don't have to at the same time.
We're just saying.
But I do respect the way that, you know, you're standing on ground with stuff like that.
That is crazy.
And we were talking about it in the pick and ban phase because that's something else.
We only saw you guys play once, right?
We're talking about well obviously Delana's like server admin on Elsa
We see the prio bands though on the daredevil
It's a pick your poison type of situation in this meta dog
Man called it like the headless horseman comps that have been rolling out while you finish the job
Flyquests obviously look great. You guys take your dub
You did lose out on that map just like at least you took that one map versus energy shock looking ahead now though
You guys are versus swamp gaming and swap gaming. I've been catching in on their screams
They've been talking a lot.
They've seen themselves as probably the best team within the region.
Anything you have to say about that as that is going to be your next series starting next
week?
Yeah, I mean, Swamp is a really good team.
They're mainly a diver team.
But I mean, we've been going back and forth on scrims.
But I do believe that my team will beat them when it comes to the matchday.
My team is a completely different team between like match and scrims.
the first series leap away from us.
I do believe we lost to energy to just ourselves.
We could easily beat that team.
So I do believe moving forward,
we're just gonna beat every single team.
As long as like, I mean, we'll beat them regardless,
even if they're trying to cheat and leak codes
and everything.
Hello, dude, that's great.
Dude, remix real quick, one question on this.
Like this is something that I've been like kind of
burning out in your big brain guy over there
at 100 Thieves.
For you, like where do you think this meta's going?
been through a few different patches now as a coach and I know that you've seen a lot of things
in terms of like this first week this first couple weeks of a new patch like do you think we're
headed back over to that triple strategist meta or are things it's things gonna like slow down
and maybe like there was divey sort of like two comps come make kind of make return next week.
Yeah I mean I do believe it's gonna go back to Gambit BAM because also he's thinking another
nerf so it's gonna be more of that unless the team is really strong at Ellison and someone
someone doesn't want to face it. And also the new support is getting buffed, so there's
going to be infinite, like every triple support comp is just going to be way stronger. So
I do believe probably it would be Gambit, but I would have to test it out and see. That's
my best guess.
Oh, we'll see soon enough. Yeah. Well, Arinix, I got no later. I stopped this series, took
a few minutes longer than anyone expected. So I'm sure you are as exhausted as the players
Thank you so much for sharing the insight and best of luck in your matches next week.
Yeah, I mean, I want to give shout out to my family, to all the players, I think.
All of the new players, everyone carried that match.
Self was going crazy on DD, he's one of the new additions to the team.
So I mean, I give him the MVP of that match and also Winnie was great on support.
And yeah, we are ready to beat everybody and also shout out to Space and Jay,
and Jay, who are my friends that supported me this whole time.
Thank you.
Yeah, much love to everyone out there.
Much love to you, I remixed.
Great to see you again.
Rest up, have a good rest of your night.
Thank you, you too.
Thank you, Remix.
Did you see it?
Came in with the tea as well.
I'm here for it.
It's that hour of the evening.
This is some great insight, though.
And yeah, definitely he's echoing what we're saying
and where echoing was.
What he is saying here as well, right?
you kind of called it there?
Yeah, it's it's hard to write
because if you feel like your
strats have been leaked and you're
already going into the match,
seeing it playable for your eyes.
There you go.
You're going to have to actually
go back to the Darmburg as quickly
as possible, right?
You're going to have to figure out.
OK, well, if they already know
what to expect, what haven't they seen?
And it's really difficult to come up
with that actually on the fly against
a team that has a lot of pressure on their backs.
Let's not forget a lot of people had
100 these as number one.
I feel like after the first week.
Yeah, it's kind of usual though.
So it kind of follows us everywhere we go.
Pickems just end up, you know, sitting on fire
and that's the beauty though,
when it comes to starting off a new season now
within Marvel Rivals Ignite.
Yeah, that's right, but pickems are like flowers.
They're not meant to last forever.
You just enjoy them for the five minutes
of you posting them and then you have two people
agreeing with you and then the other people get blocked.
You know how it goes.
But yeah, it's a good time for everyone involved.
I think it really helps a hundred thieves there as well
because they obviously have like a lot of,
they have very experienced players,
but then you also have Iremix,
who's just such an experienced competitor.
So stuff like that happens, like what he shared,
like he is quick on his toes.
He does have the depth to like think outside of the box,
come up with something new.
I mean, top teams, they come up more than one page
in their strap book, usually.
So you guys just gotta find the right one to edge out
victory. They managed to get that done today. So that has worked in their favor overall.
Dogman, what's your biggest takeaway from this first week?
My takeaway from this first week is that I am incredibly excited for next week. That's
literally my only takeaway. Now I just want to see how everything sort of like kind of culminates.
Like really at the end of the day, we saw all these matchups, but this is building into week
number two, right? This is just the beginning of a new patch. And then into another one,
We're now going to see these teams that are at the bottom try to not get eliminated not get relegated
Right because even if you're an invited team if you're not a partner squad
There's a chance you get sent back down and have to work your way back up
But today's games were just definitely insane and they got even more insane as the day went on
They're literally thank you. What's what's your height as much here?
I mean it has to be it has to be the last one
You know, it's like making sure everyone was truly excited for that last game
the game, keeping everyone on
the edge of their seats, and it
went the distance when we were
highlighting the series to be a
difficult mountain, but David
versus good life type of series,
right? And fly quest really
showed up. Nine members of
Space Station two went all the
distance, so we had those two
games go to a game three, but I
feel like a team that I'm excited
to see keep pressing on is Yeah,
we lost because this is a team
that has gone against the grain
with the different compositions
that they've rolled out with.
It's very entertaining.
typing up the Jitward squibbler, the Jitward squibbler.
The Jitward Spider-Man.
It's late guys, it's late.
But he's coming out on that Spider-Man.
They're making it work with different comps that you don't expect.
And then you heard it from my remakes, right?
The respect that he has for swamp gaming.
Even though the Screambugs may save one thing,
it meets something else when it actually matters
and there's money on the line in the tournament phase.
So we got to see how that's going to play out for next week.
Yeah, and it's gonna be another look here at our team rankings, or rather the groove
rankings of our team.
We have seen all of them play now.
We have a better idea of how you measure up against one another heading into a week to
here dogman.
Yeah, I think games are always way closer than you would assume going into it.
And I mean, that that is another maybe takeaway back to the original question.
So it was like a takeaway is that this week you talked about a pick-up sir
Vicky talking about pick-ups being in the trash, you know, like maybe people are gonna be begging guanguang like 500 units
You know, let me reset my pick-ups or something, you know, maybe but for this this week
I think everybody had expectations and then those were just throwing out the window
So, you know anything is still possible like life West could still come back, you know
You mentioned it Zoe. They're in a deficit o3 but could still work themselves back into being qualified into the next round
And then for the, you know, other side with Cafe Rose, they already have a game to work with and consider a considerable kind of upset game over fly quest considering fly quest.
I think looked a lot better versus 100 thieves today.
And then that could be interesting to see if 100 thieves are then on the potential exit out of the group stage.
That's right.
Yeah. Once again, a reminder to everyone watching the format here in the group stage is around Robin two weeks of play each team is playing each team once.
And then it might also come down to map differential as we're trying to figure out who the four top teams in each group are that will be moving on to a double elimination bracket playoff in their region.
Of course, there is money on the line. We have an overall of $50,000. The line share of $16,000 will be going to the winner of it.
So it's not just for the money though, right?
We also talked in the pre-show about the seating for the stage one is on the line here.
So you do really want to place as high as you possibly can.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, take a look at this too, like upcoming next week.
I mean, that's really looking forward to you, Vicky.
You talked about it, the matchup that you want to see SSG and how he lost.
What can you say about that one?
Oh, man, that's one is going to be a banger to open up the day with guys.
I'm so excited to see how these matches unfold.
100 Bs are just swamp gaming.
You have the back-to-back figures, actually.
I mean, with Team Liquid Citadel, you have to look at TSM.
When we had them in the interview, they said,
you know, they're just kind of figuring things out,
just going in and just trying to have a good time, too.
So hopefully, you know, they have that game plan
kind of drawn up because Team Liquid Citadel,
that's going to definitely be a hard series for TSM
to work off of.
And they're going to need to at least try to see
what they can get done to get some momentum rolling
throughout the rest of the course of the weekend
if they do not want to find themselves in that bottom two elimination of threats and now you get
to see fly quest versus NRG after what we just saw from fly quest this could be a very different
fly quest compared to the first two days of the preseason and then you end the day with nightmare
versus a lunax dog man. Yeah I mean that's going to be a banger at the very end right like I think
that lunax has looked good nightmare has also looked good at different moments so I mean there's a
good shot that they that either of these teams are going to have to you know get into the next round
I think they're definitely have to put up their a games right like we have to figure out the meta by next week
And it takes a while to do that
But I think all the teams are definitely prepared to do so if they don't get their Vod's leak preparing according to remix
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Yes, the tour started already, so get Groovy and take center stage.
I want to move in for that one, Zoe, because I'm about to make some noise for ESU's very own sports
legend with Brett Hendrick. Whether he's scoring on the field or just walking on the campus,
He's always the center of attention.
The game is on and the score points are coming in hot
for Captain America's Brett Hendrick.
The star costume first appearing back by the way
at season seven's release.
So that dropped just like these other skins a few days ago
on the 26th.
So make sure to cop them during the store right now.
That's right.
And with that look at all those goodies,
it is a time for us to close out today.
What an incredible exclamation point
on an opening weekend this last match was guys has been such a pleasure we have
we've had shocking upsets mid-match identity crisis is absolute display of dominance as well as a little bit of everything
script writers really have done a good job for this opening 2026 season and now there's of course a lot to digest
as the teams head into the lap for the second and final week of group play
It's there, a last shot to break into the top four and secure a spot in the double elimination playoff bracket we just discussed.
But that is it from us, Vicky Dogman. It's been an absolute pleasure.
Also, super happy early birthday to Vicky. Make sure to hit her up on all the socials you can find her on and wish her a happy early birthday.
Thank you all for watching and sticking with us through some of those longer breaks.
We'll see you right back next week for the conclusion of the Marvel Rivals Ignite pre-season group stage.
Have a good night.