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Hey everyone, welcome to day two of the Overwatch Collegiate Spring Open up playoffs.
We had some amazing matches yesterday, but in case you weren't there, hey again, it's
me Lemmy Kiwi.
I'm here with my best bud Kenobi and yesterday was insane Kenobi.
I know and it was awesome because it was like we talked about it before the broadcast
Yesterday, it was like the first time we were getting into really the nitty gritty of the five new heroes that we had that were released since the last time we cast together.
And we saw, Kabalim, we saw some Emre, saw a little bit of that Vendetta still really, really rising to prominence.
Domina coming to the forefront and a little bit of some memes with Jetpack Cat.
Not sure if that one's real or if that one's just a St. Clair thing, but we can get to that in a little bit.
But it was a great day of collegiate overwatch.
And now we're in that top eight where it's double a limb and really we can start getting into that meat and potatoes.
Absolutely and yeah, just it is sad to eliminate so many good teams, especially shout out to the bobcats over at brian and shrine that a lot of people expected them to get deep into the bracket but man has it ever cut throat on that day one but don't worry for any fans of the colleges and universities that are left here today like can be said it's a double elimination and best of five and we still have tomorrow to cover a lot of the matches but can't show you the bracket but there was a couple of upsets to talk about right.
I mean the Bobcats going out and then what also Cleveland State over Briarcliff was an unexpected result
Yeah, and I think one of the things that's interesting about the kind of state of overwatch
It was something that we talked to or collegiate overwatch
Something that we heard actually in the interview with Noxious at the very end of the broadcast where it's like
there's no ISU anymore and ISU was kind of this this raining cloud over the entirety of collegiate overwatch where it's like
Hey, ISU's in the tee. ISU's in the bracket. They're probably gonna win now
Now it's there's no ICU so now it's totally wide open and anything can happen and we've
seen teams you know that we expected to maybe get to top eight like the bobcats unfortunately
not get in but St. Clair you know playing at such a high level right now can they beat
Winthrop University in our first matchup.
It's going to be really interesting to see who takes that mantle away from ISU because
they had held it for so long.
Well the throat is open and we have two top teams facing off in our first match
today y'all.
This is no joke.
St. Clair versus Winthrop, two varsity teams that are also competing in the open bracket
in Kenobi.
These two are stacked.
Let's go over at least the one that we saw yesterday, St. Clair College, because we got
to talk to Noxus and just how confident they were about facing Winthrop today.
Yeah, and you know, I think a lot of people would kind of see this as an upset, because
a lot of these players don't really need to be introduced, as we saw the mystery
on broadcast, but they're also very well known in like the Tier 2 and the collegiate scene.
I think with St. Clair Saints there's a very funny quote from Michael Irvin about like
upsets and stuff like this where St. Clair Saints, you know, God didn't send Goliath down
or didn't sense David to beat Goliath.
He sent Goliath to prove to David that within him was a giant slayer, right?
And that's what I feel like with the St. Clair team.
When we look at Winthrop University's roster, which we're going to see in like a few
seconds, that's Goliath.
I mean those players are out of their mind even Noxious in the interview was able to kind of give credence to how strong of a unit that was
As we can I take a look at the Winthrop University and see all of those names
You kind of like be like oh man, this is a team that could definitely win this tournament
I mean Zira yeah, I'm infected ultra-violent rack of tech like and that's just the players that are on the screen right now
They have other players like substitutes kalooj is on this roster liars on this roster
Yeah, oh boy. This is one of the best teams and
Winthrop I mean even people like rack attack were already trying to reinvent it like I remember that guy bringing out life
Weaver when no one else would touch the guy
So it's like these are some of the best North American players when it comes to o wcs
And they're here dominating in the collegiate scene and then you have affected it even collusion like top tanks
The fact you have choices too is so insane
You can't ask for a better roster than this, especially just the amount of the insane amount of years that they have in the game
Like you and I like started casting with ultra violent was like in contenders for example
We're old heads and so are these guys in St. Clair though. They came into that interview like yeah
They have they are playing at their best and you guys at home can get the best
I know you guys were waiting for the stream to go live.
It's just a reminder you can get sprays, nameplates, icons.
There's just so much.
And I love all of the, I'm just a sucker for cherry blossoms anyway.
So I really love the nameplate over there with the iris and with the zanyada.
Throw out that Pete sign.
But everything looks so nice and so chill right here and flowers just seem to be
the prevailing things.
And we are in spring.
So very much makes sense that we are using that aesthetic of it.
I'm so excited to get into these matches because, you know, we're talking about the drops available.
I'm expecting that a lot of these matches are going to be going the distance.
So there's going to be no need for people at the end of the stream, unless, you know, you're not here right now.
And then like, what are you doing? Because everyone should be getting in here. It's Saturday.
We got some college overwatch to watch.
But I think that this matchup could definitely go the distance five maps.
A lot of these teams that are in the top eight very close have very close records against each other.
I mean, I think the third seed, St. Clairs, the sixth seed coming into this.
So we are now in that part of the bracket where we are going to see these
teams start to coalesce and be very, very strong up against each other.
And we're covering four best of fives today, guys.
So going, obviously we're starting here at the quarterfinal.
We're going to take a trip down to the lower bracket.
And I think eventually end up in the upper final.
And then we got so many matches tomorrow to cover four best of fives
on our championship Sunday.
So thanks for tuning in y'all and supporting the collegiate scene because it's been so fun to see all the pros remote WCS
Like either try to like regain some stardom here and collegiate or to also expand their future options
Beyond overwatch because you know college is important and then you get paid to play over watching college
So that's pretty sick. That's pretty sick deal. It really isn't we talk
I mean, I think noxious said that this is three of their players last semester
So really it is like the last time they're going to be on land together playing together as a team in that environment.
And you really want to go out on top and we'll see how it's going to be ending up because again,
this first matchup is on that higher side of the bracket.
So that means when we go to that lower side, they still get an extra chance, right?
It's not like yesterday where it was very cutthroat and do or die.
Still is to some extent, but maybe just a little bit less of that pressure on these teams in there.
They're maybe like feeling each other out to start things off.
Yeah, and there is so many good quarterfinal matches
Northwood blue versus Bellevue Cumberland
Phoenix versus Fisher Navy. You have the Fisher main squad against Cleveland State
And we're watching Winthrop versus St. Clair because we just had to grab that match after what Noxus
I did in the interview yesterday like they feel so good about this match today
And both these teams are having dropped a map in this bracket
They did both lose to Northwood in Swiss and then St. Clair kind of had that unexpected
B03 loss to the Cumberland Phoenix.
So you know some slight stains on the record, but here we're settling beef and regardless
we may even get a rematch because they have to go to the lower bracket regardless.
Yeah, I think Noxious, what did Noxious say?
I hope you guys are watching Winter because I think it's going to be you basically.
I took a little bit, I took a few words out of that because they were not, not
safe for work and not safe for broadcast, but I mean I think that this was very
much a team that is is running on such a high momentum in terms of just their
ability to understand the meta. They bring some new things to the table that
maybe we haven't seen or that Winthrop hasn't seen before because I think that
a lot of these players on Winthrop you know you see some of them that have been
in those USA trials recently and that they're really screaming a lot trying
to figure out what exactly is that best meta because the meta gen hasn't it
seems pretty open right we do see a lot of in data we see some Zarya but
for the most part it's not like there's that just like one super
indestructible composition that's taking over. Yeah and we were kind of talking to the DPS players
in our interviews of like what's better right now? Emre or Sojourn or Freya like what's the
hitskin du jour if you will and it's really so preference based and I love when Emre gives you
choices like that because especially with the hero bands because that is going to force you
to play different things so OTPs you are not as free anymore okay we're in a new era of
overwatch and I love that especially when you introduce so many new heroes, we
have new support, new DPS, new tank and Domina is seeing a really good amount of
play and she's not even dominating right now because we saw like some Sigma
players she is totally aggro in Domina's face. Yeah and I mean I think that
also lends to credence that there's some versatility in terms of the types
of compositions like the archetypes right where you see some teams really
want to play that very aggressive diva style with the dive but then there are
teams that are totally fine playing more of that poke and prod very slow you
know standing behind a Sigma shield standing behind a dominant shield that's
also an option Winston unfortunately found dead in a ditch where not really
being played too much diva seems like the tank visual mostly but I think the one
thing that stood pretty stalwart in terms of just like the meta quote-unquote
is that it's Lucio Kiri it's just been that way since the dawn of time it
feels like when Kirito came out Lucio Kiri is just so incredibly strong and
And really the only time we've seen any variation away from that was when Lucia or Kuriko copped the band.
Yeah, I think there was like a small sprinkle of fairy dust of what we had, uh, Brig and...
We had Brig Juno.
Brig Juno, and then we had an Ilyari on, uh, Havana, because I remember this captive
son was so insane, so there was like, I like when niche comps can come out on certain
maps because that really shows the work that teams do to kind of show some depth in their strategy
is especially on their special choice of maps because yes when you do lose a map you get the
advantage of picking the next one so that's when you can bring out those pocket strats and we got
some really close series yesterday because of that like we had our first best of three go to
map three and last point of flashpoint. Yeah it was also funny because that that first series
was like it was very much a pick ban phase based matchup where it was like okay the first
map was a stop, second map was a stop, and then the third map was just an absolute nail-biter going
the distance, like you mentioned. And I think with these two teams that we have between St. Clair
and between Winthrop, the versatility of the hero pools for a lot of these players, I mean,
I think you and I have been casting a lot of them for a long time, and they used to have what I
would call hero puddles, right, where it was very much like these are, I infected as a great
example of this as someone who I remember when infected was like in high school and was just,
I think it was what you know trick room or phase one where he was just a ball player and nothing else
And now he's grown into one of the best tanks in NA
Maybe an overwatching general and just the competitive scene because of the fact that he has been able to get a lot more in that hero pool
And I think a lot of the players that are around him in that win-thru team
But also on st. Claire are also indicators of that
Yeah
And it's kind of looking at the rosters of a win-thru but st. Claire who are still picking their first map right now
now, is that I compare someone like Razor and Sam to incredible leaders on their teams
that I feel like have very similar hero pools, like hero oceans if you will, especially someone
like Razor where we got to actually see on broadcasts, where Razor is a flex DPS who can
also have a really good tracer and that is such a rarity because so much is demanded
of a DPS player these days, play Vendetta, play May, play Tracer, maybe have a hitscane
in your back pocket of just literally literally do anything. Oh my god even
Reaper. Yeah and they all have such different play styles and for people like
Razor and Sam that can bring that up and then when we were casting them when
they first broke into the scene they were such incredible Genji players and
that's already a skill set in itself. Yeah I definitely cannot operate Genji
nearly as well as any of these players. I mean Razor is someone I think Sam as
well are both players that I really you know when I was seeing them come up in
the scene it was a lot of that Genji play. Genji's kind of taken a little bit of a backseat because
Vendetta just seems like it's like that meme of the guy in the photo book where it's like the guy
it's like Albert and it's like the cooler Albert and it's just the guy with the same person but
the other guy's sunglasses that's what Vendetta feels like right now where it's like Vendetta
seems to be the thing that really makes or breaks a lot of these compositions and it also
makes or breaks the tanks I think because we've seen sometimes Zarya being played and
Zarya is something that just like covers Vendetta really well but then you have to adapt
and if you know if they're bringing the bubbles too quickly or you're not getting if you're getting run down
You have to change and adapt how your playstyle is within the map and that's also something to look out for
Great segue could it be because we have our maps for our first series
It is a first to three y'all so pretty neutral map
We've got elios of course and we have our first bands. Wu Yang wasn't expecting that one
But since it could be an extended series, right you want to you can't ban the same hero twice
So you want to keep maybe other support bands in the back pocket, but diva
Feeling pretty targeted towards tread. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think that's I think that's definitely something that you want to take
Especially with what we saw tread do yesterday on the diva
I would just carry potential on that player and I think that winter abuse diversity taking it away
It also makes sense if infected is going to be in the game because I think infected is not someone as much as infected
Is grown their hero pool from just being a ball OTP
I think that's something that I think that infected is not as like wouldn't have as much
grease on as something like Tread who is very very adept at that here.
I think you're absolutely right about the Blue Yang thing where it's like it's a support
you know you have to pick a support band just kind of give a throwaway band a little
bit and leave yourself open for the rest of the minute.
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I'm really excited.
Great support out there.
Thanks for joining us so bright and early.
We have a packed day of matches starting with,
I think, I'm already gonna call this
to be my match of the day.
These two teams had a lot to say about each other
and they got us settled to score it out.
Yeah, I'm really excited.
And the fact is gonna be on their patented ham
and that we've seen previously,
and this is something that I talked about
with ham and players, if you're a ball player,
you've gotta be a ball player.
Like this is not a hero you can just pick up
randomly and infected has been playing this for years at an incredibly high level.
So Saint Clair is going to have to respect that potential of
infected just completely taking over.
And Hazard is such a good substitute for that D.Va having those small amounts of
dives but also a great wall to try and block off someone's exit and you
combine the hammer now on the other side with an echo you throw those
sticky bombs in and put out a lot of burst damage. This is a free cap though
And I looked for someone like Razor who has to have that spread zip!
And the full cap did not go through yet, and Sam did take down Tread as he was isolated in a wind truck,
had their full team committed, but wait, Noxus gets surprised, and Zera is on the job.
And I'm really liking this composition already, how it's being run by Linkrup University.
They're playing very patiently, palaying around the engagements from Injected,
and the spam potential from Zera is just so good, because realistically with St. Clair's comp,
I mean, yeah, you have a soldier and you have a tracer.
What is realistically going to be able to get at range of this echo not much as you're going to have a great time right now?
St. Clair got to get their comms and order. Just that half almost went through in front of them.
Razor needed to maybe help heal for Tread and just fight along with them.
But St. Clair, the longer this fight goes, the worse it gets, especially when you lose your Lucio.
and Razor already is probably forced to use the recall there, Alex is to HP, gets hunted down by Zera,
and now you have no heals if you're safe player, and the point's already halfway capped.
Oh yeah, let's try to get him down in the bush.
Take clear unfortunately, I mean the kill feed is training back and forth right now,
but I don't think it's going to be enough, and even if they end up winning this fight,
technically as Redx could take out a Bi-infected, if you have the tank and the other team
doesn't have the tank, usually I'm not very good at math, but that usually makes a
Win for that team and Winthrop University. I think one of the things that we saw is Noxious
You could see their head is on the swiveliest of swivels because you have to be worried about the tracer
If you weren't in the echo, you'd have been infected. Pile driving. Oh my god. It's so difficult
And I was surprised if I didn't go for mines there and Winthrop even lost both their supports in that first fight
Hence why that St. Clair didn't go for the full reset
But Sony Rush, Advantage by 10% for Ultra Pilots. This could be the nail in the coffin
It starts with Tyra getting the aura duplicate on Noxus, the sound barrier, 4v5 for St. Clair, it's up to Elvano, it's like Mount Everest, Ultra Violet, sacrifice themselves to put the Katsune brush down, and Winthrow, huddle up, bunker up, and kick St. Clair in the teeth, already 100-0 for round one.
Yeah, I mean with this Winther Composition it's like dinner at Grandma's house everyone eats because like everyone is playing so incredibly well
The way that they're coordinated is just immaculate from this Winther team
They're so patient knowing that infected is going to be kind of the tip of the spear when they want to go in and
I mean you can see already infected is up very high in those damage numbers
But again Zera is the thing that I'm looking at right now
7-0-1 because the thing about St. Clair's composition, they did not have a natural counter to that Echo Zuzera
Who was a very adept player in his own right. He's just left a free farm on Echo and you cannot
That went through a trip them up and St. Clair could not get back on their feet and there's so much like
Contesting a potential with Winthrop having the ball and also the tracer which hey bring
Bring Sam into the main Sam versus Razor.
I'm excited for this.
And Noxus, I like to swap to the Cast Sleep, try and deal with this Ham and a Bit better
because these gamepiles are crazy.
Well-timed Suzu from Alex just to be secure and he got some Jetpack Cat that can try
to get St. Clair some high ground advantage.
Let's see if this will matter.
The point is about to unlock and Ridex is falling first.
Yeah, and I'm also understanding that I'm seeing that Roadhog on my screen right
now.
That has not just been...
Well, Razor seems to just be this teamfight-oriented tracer instead of one that's preoccupied with
stalling out the point, because these fights here on World can take a long time, I don't
know if Tread talks like that.
So yeah, we do have to address the elephant in the room or maybe the pig in the room because yeah
You know remember the last time you seen a roadhog like this
And it just is that direct counter to a winst in as long as you can get close enough and in fact
It may just think twice about playing just wins
Oh
I knew it from on high, it's true!
Oh, and that's a good show.
They had to see a Wester 30 in battle for Noxious!
Oh my God!
I thought it was just for content.
No, this is the real deal.
Did he ask Noxious if this was real
and that Noxious was like,
Renekton said he wanted to play it
and that's what it feels like some of the times
with those commas you can make
with this little jetpack cat,
really well played for the same player
who was looking much better on it.
I think Claire was just still playing this forward position
just because they can have the Shepat Cat, bring them back to safety.
But Winthrop need this opening now, they're the ones finding themselves in a severe deficit.
Infecting now on the hamming, this could be helping disrupt this, already at 50 HP, not to save by as soon as you Alex will be on babysitting duty.
And also maybe could Sony Rush here available soon, Ultra Violet getting harassed though by Razor.
40 pot he recalls looking for a pulse bomb not throwing it into the Stam's lap quite yet
consuming rush first for St. Clair. Now Ultra Violet pops his and this whole hog is as lethal as
ever. Tread is accurate with the hooks and impactful with the ultimates. Now this is the
composition folks. Yeah I mean composition is doing such a good job at negating what
Winkirk was doing so successfully with the Haman, with the Echo. Now that you have this
kind of CC of the Cassidy of the Roadhog. It's working out so much better than I thought it would be.
Oh, Xera finds himself on the edge, now six feet under. Soundbearer 4B, actually 4B4.
His Winthropes still need to flip. Don't be successful, despite St. Clair being on the perimeter.
Now you need a full clean team wipe to try and get the objective back. But Tread is an absolute
Menace, he seems unkillable, especially with the Suzu after Samtara's pulse bombs, so St. Clair just have to secure the fight, but they've lost their support and their tracer, so a full reset from St. Clair is needed.
They do get into that 95% which is basically your last fight territory waiting for them.
It was expensive for them to try and hold that but they got a lot of the key ultimates out of windthorpe as well.
But this is really where windthorpe's composition is going to shine.
Having now Zera setup, having infected setup, being able to continuously spam and bolt over those enemies.
But here we have another AC-130 potential.
You can see...
Oh my gosh.
They're gonna do it again, aren't they?
This is so...
Okay, the slowest helicopter ever!
Who's gonna be a victim looking for the Hammond player and the rest?
Stay hidden, but this zoning did allow St. Clair to flip.
Now Winthrop will be forced to fight in overtime with no ultimate.
They gotta get ultraviolet as much ultra as possible, and 158p in a dream.
Shred will fall back, take a breather, take a seat, the supports are under fire.
St. Clair can't handle the pressure, he can't handle the heat.
They may just have to get out of the well.
Winthrop have only lost once so far and infected the easy MVP for me on Winthrop
We'll be cleaning things up for this fight and get Winthrop another chance
But they're actually like so lucky same player that they were with a flip because if they didn't flip this map is already over right now
Because they would die for that 95% and with Winthrop, they would have easily taken walking into a Katsune rush right now
I think it was easier for Infected to play with an Echo who could have the same amount
of verticality as him, but a lot different and no Razor hits a post bomb, and Sam wants
to do that same impression, but he's a lot more patient with his approach and forces
Alex into a heated decision to now pop the Katsune rush just to try and take a proactive fight
and with the whole hog no one is standing in Trent's way this is the red carpet of victory
and so it seems so in enemy blood but St. Clair is 99 to 99 and it must win for them but Sam
finally finds the pulse bomb that hits true and St. Clair have no healers left with Draper
in the driver's seat and they're heading for a map one win and there's nothing
noxious or anyone else from St. Clair could say about it even raster cannot
contest for any longer it's a two-hole sweep on map one for Winfrey. Winfrey looked really
good on that first map being able to clutch out where it looked like that
composition from St. Clair on the second map in particular was gonna be
working so well but I love the decision-making of switching up their
priority in terms of who they were focusing down because when it got
towards those last couple of fights you can see us,
Ice and the Verde is going to be playing the game,
no doubt about it, those last couple of fights
what we really saw was every time there was an engagement
it was just on the trend because eventually
you are going to fall over.
Yes, you have a lot of resources in terms of your healing
and also the support line, but it's just not going
to be enough when you have an echo
beaming you down, slamming you down,
a tracer as well and then a Hammond.
It's just going to be so difficult for you
to survive no matter what you are
if you aren't getting those picks with the hooks early.
and the Sam vs Razor Tracer matchup,
I could watch that all day.
And I liked the versatility that Zera brought,
whether it was the echo of combining the sticky bonds
with the pile drives from infected,
infected swapped off the Winston here on round two
to try and deal with the Roadhog,
and at least go to something
that is gonna have a lot more health
and mobility like the Hammond.
Doesn't have as much staying power,
and that was the only, I think,
real window for St. Clair to work around
was when that Hammond disengages,
that is the moment to go in.
And Redex, although it really provided some fun utility
to transport this Cassidy around
and that provided a win condition,
I did notice that Redex was getting picked
by the hitscans than many of them that Winthrop had.
So it was really tough for St. Clair's backline to live
and that's an important part
when these fights go on for like five minutes on control.
Yeah, I think the Jetpack Cat is fine on that map
in particular because you have a lot of geometry to work around.
I also like the fact that it is kind of like a pseudo, not counter,
but the fact that you can actually dual echoes in the air
if you are playing effectively and if the cooldowns are out from the echo.
I think it's like, OK, if there was a team that I would be OK running,
it was probably Saint Clair right there.
But I think a lot of it did come down to the fact
that once the focusing changed from where they were going on
Winthrop's team, the healing output of the jetpack at maybe on release
could have been able to keep Tread alive, not anymore.
It's just not going to be the same amount of healing output
that you would have had from something like maybe,
I think there was a Kiriko, but also like,
if you had had a Lucio,
sound barrier would have been really nice there, I think.
So I think that if you're thinking about it
from St. Clair side, you had a lot to work with there
that could, I mean, first map,
I think you just take it as a wash.
And that map is also Ilios,
which is going to be the best Hammond map
that we're going to see probably throughout the entirety
of the series so far.
So you can kind of chalk that up
and now take yourself to somewhere
that's not going to be available for,
in fact, to just roll out that Hammond
take over a lobby. And you can only ban a hero once in a series, right? So when does
that Hammond ban come out? It's really going to be a map dependent, which speaking of that,
it'll be St. Clair's choice of map and we'll wait to see what their decision will be because
Tread got his diva ban and now that'll be back on the table. So, but we also saw Tread
be so incredible with the Zarya and combined with Razor's Vendetta. That was the,
I think, part of the secret sauce of the recipe to success for St. Clair yesterday.
Yeah interesting that we didn't see that I mean I guess I guess against Hammon
It's probably really not the most fun to run
I would say the vendetta so now that we go over to some other things where maybe Hammond isn't going to be played in those compositions
Then data starts to see a little bit more prominence
I think that if you know is noxious going to be playing a little bit more of that hate-scan role
Do you want to go to some maps that have those numbers?
Sightlines or are we just gonna continue to maybe brawl it out a little bit more because now
The dynamic of the map kind of series kind of changes now that Hammond's best map has kind of been taken away like I mentioned and
You can you know if you're picking that map on the other side for
Winthrop now you have to be worried about that Hammond band always going to be at the forefront and I think as well
We do need to start seeing
Potentially Echo band if Zura is going to playing it that well
And against something of those swisher tanks that we'd like to see like if it's a diva like I don't want to see
I don't want to see Zerahs focusing being as a diva, I don't want to see Zerahs focusing
being as a Zarya, that would be very scary for me.
It's so hard to know what the, I don't think there is an answer for the band phase because
these are the two most flexible teams that we probably have in the bracket besides like
a Northwood or some other team.
Like these players have been around for as long as Overwatch has been around themselves.
So they just know every hero like the back of their hand and going up against
infected one of the best Hammons. They stopped the best Hammond in North America. That is no easy
task for St. Clair. And I think the big answer could have been maybe tread on the diva, which got
banned out. So this was just a good shout from Winthrop. But how much can you really abuse the
Hammond going into the other maps? I think that is a big consideration for St. Clair going forward.
And I'd love to see them fall back to likely you talked about the Vendetta. But maybe there's
so much more to St. Clair than meets the eye. Of course, the deeper into the bracket you go,
maybe you want to start revealing some more cards like the jetpack cat card got played.
Yeah we got to get some aces up the sleeve especially when we're now like getting towards
like okay it is the top of the bracket so they get that one extra life but they seem very confident
going into this series and that first map didn't do I think justice in how confident they felt but
I think that as we go into this map in particular I think I would like to see a little bit more
like like I would love to see them drop like a watchpoint Gibraltar right now because that
that would force Infected probably has to play,
you can play D.Va because now it's like,
it's never going to be a problem
because it's been banned already,
but you also get Noxious on a very,
on a very good map for a long range hit scan.
You also get to play D.Va Infected probably,
Infected love Infected.
I think I would take Tread in the D.Va matchup
and Infected probably even just decides to play Winston
I would think in that regard.
So I think that that's,
if already you're looking at the pick ban,
I think going there would be somewhere
where I'd be looking to.
I'm like I'll show my bias because we could do that in the Overwatch World Cup era
But like you got a lot of the St. Clair people that are trying out for team Canada st
Clair also partnering with team Canada, but then on Winthropside you got a lot of that team USA
Tryout players so this could give you some flavors of what?
Overwatch World Cup will be like a near the end of the year
I'm so excited for that time of year and I like that the this collegiate platform exists because it's just so much
more time in Overwatch playing as a team and developing your hero puddle into a hero pool
and we're also developing our series as a map who has finally been chosen here by St. Clair.
We're going to Shambali. Shambali is going to be the first map. So Dominus is going to be taking
the ban which means which tells me that we're either looking at Sigma or Ramatra because
I feel like Ramatra has like lived on Shambali monastery I think forever. I mean in the lore
I think that's also accurate but Ramatra loves this map because you have those
those corners to play around. The shielding is very good. Vortexes can kind of hit Pater
no matter where you are. But Sigma rose to prominence very significantly yesterday, I
think, generally saw a lot of it come through. And I believe that second band is going to
be the band from Winthrop. So I think taking that away from Noxious, very good idea.
The Cassie was doing a great job of mitigating the Hammond. If they want to bring out
the Hammond, if there was someone who I would trust to do it, it's probably infected
on this map but I think I would be very scared about like second third I think in
first you can like probably get away with it second I'd be like okay
probably got to switch off here to something yeah so I I hate the dive on
here but you know the Hammons they know where they could grapple on any map
but also if you know what that weird AC 130 stretch ever come out again
because how do you gather that besides scream and cry and find a roof because
I would be freaking out like I did not log in to Overwatch when I saw that clip
I just did not want to do a jetpack cap. It seems like well Winthrop found the counter
Not only on Elios, but also through the bands. So we'll go to Shambali
I guess in the midst of the day
In the day, what I've actually never seen this map in the day
That's awesome though. I love it. It's so it's so sunny and nice
It runs me a little bit about Paul, but looks like we are going to be seeing on the defensive
end at least to start things off.
Razor is going to be back on that patented Vendetta, which is just the better Genji right
now at the current moment.
Noxious still gets to play the Sojourn, and interesting that we're going to be seeing
Sam run the Emery.
So we talked about Noxious a little bit about this yesterday.
It just seems like a preference thing between the Emery and the Sojourn.
It looks like Noxious.
So we do get a pause just to- Oh my God.
Powered out?
I'm going super straight over here, I'm going super straight over here.
The hair is about to start floating and stuff.
Yeah, we saw St. Clair yesterday's sport raiser on the Vendetta and man, did they look good
on Li Zhang tower eliminating the bobcats, which themselves were sporting some MRA.
So maybe Sam taken a page out of Manu Li's book and Winthrop are going to have to restart
the lobby here so we may have some differences in compositions but really excited to see some
Vendetta versus Emre. Yeah Vendetta versus Emre and I think Vendetta versus or Emre versus Sojourn
is also so interesting to me because I think again that burst potential it's very like
Sojourn feels like very much feast or famine as a hero where it's like you need to get the
rail shots to get value whereas Emre you can kind of just spam for as long as you want.
Yes you're going to get value and damage output but you just don't have the same
one shot potential. The pressure you're going to exude during like the neutral fight is a little bit
stronger and you have that ability to flank in a little bit more of the self-sustained. So I think
that it's a great matchup to look out for and be aware of. I'm also wondering where, since we have
the Zarya mirror now, I'm wondering where those Bubblers are going to be. I'm assuming they're
going to be on the vendettas more so than anything else, just to get that value and
get the charge of make sure vendetta gets to play a little bit more aggressively. But beyond,
I wonder, you know, who's we talk about Overwatch a lot in terms of taking turns and those turns are going to be very very important
Yeah, and how you're able to support that vendetta and a huge part of why Winthrop one art
Sorry, St. Clair when they're match yesterday against the Bobcats was the amount of support and how much enabling came out of tread
Opting for the Zarya versus I think Dion at the time preferred more of the rematch
It's really cool that all these different teams have all their styles on what they think is feasible and how much the Vendetta needs in terms of resources.
But someone also has to be responsible for anchoring the cart.
St. Clair are going to be on the defense, so someone still has to be in charge of that.
But maybe they could try and get the kills before the cart sees any progression.
Kazaria is a good anchor depending on the balancing of resources very cool
down dependent it's not like rematch or you can just bring out a shield and be
tanky forever yeah you can't just cross your arms and be angry and not die
yeah okay now we're back in the now we're back in the normal Shambali here
as I'd like to go it just looks so pretty during the night time yeah I think
that the resource management of the Zarya almost is going to be the key very
Also, Suzu is probably the most important cooldown I'd say right now because it's just an indicator.
If you like use a Suzu too early or you use it first, it's a huge indicator for that opposing team to then hit their goba.
And so we'll see where those Suzus are going to be coming out from because that will make the difference in a lot of these teamfights.
these teamfights and screenhacks to be forced up first.
Alright, we'll be Wind Thrupp up in the series here in this first to three.
You're gonna see exactly what's up against them now, so this is very important to be
while counting your bubbles, really only on one hand, so the first one now already
full of razors, trying to generate some initial charge, and the more you can kill
the Zarya the more you're forcing her energy to go back to zero, so a very
momentum-based tank line as an engagement starts for Zera. As Sam finds an angle behind,
already puts the pressure down because the most vulnerable people on St. Clair have been these
supports and went through up knowing what Zera just gets abandoned. And now St. Clair managed
to stall the progress on the cart and get some serious kills going, including one onto the
Zarya, resetting infected back to zero. Yeah, really patiently played from St. Clair,
and that flight from Sam just unfortunately didn't find Pater, but the really good
good target selection, and then taking Zera down early, and that means that Razer can play pretty much with the Reckless Abandoned, not having to worry about another Vendetta in their face, and sorry if the great defense is starting to be off.
I'm not a prostring right now, but Windtrap needed to Scythe to fly, but they also don't
want to rush it, because you don't want to waste time, but you want to be productive,
and now you've got a clash of swords on the card.
The Rays are going to take a backseat, Windtrap, you want to try and get some access to this
high ground, and they creep up towards the back alley, and Gobbles deliver to Zyra,
trying to slice through the final shot at Phaustus, and does confirm that elimination.
Winthrop even using the suzer, or maybe that was St. Clair. Either way, they're really backing up.
Without Ultra Violet, though, that was huge for Razor to stabilize this defense. Without
Ultra Violet's healing, Winthrop had to slow down.
So when they rush available pretty much for both teams so who's gonna be pulling
the trigger first? Same player can even play this back-second corner but they're
gonna get active early because soon he rushes and change at about the same time
Try to get a good 10% advantage for the Graviton surge that may make the
difference especially when the sound barriers come out but we may not even
get an extended fight the grab still comes out and went through our trap with
No support ultimates and no raft to bail them out.
A big fight win for St. Clair.
And that's just a 5% difference whether you can see it infected 96% towards that ultimate.
Tread getting it just a little bit sooner, playing a little bit more greedy on the Zarya,
but it ends up paying out in dividends for them because they get that Graviton Surge.
It's massive, it takes down all those members and now you can see Nautus on the flank.
After ready, here comes one.
Oh my god!
And then you've got the Lucio escorting you with the fade away, the way it's goodbye to Sam as Winthrop,
or get shut down on another fight, less than 60 seconds.
And this is St. Clair's play round, this is their map pig, Winthrop gotta show up and it's off of the Scrab.
The Scrab has to be featured from the fight for me, I mean, you just taking down a little bit,
if anyone was good enough. Here comes the Vendetta also, it's level!
All the light gets affected down to half the grab the emergency one comes out and St. Clair's scatter
The flock dissipates and went from under desperation
They thrive and they get to move on but will it be a cap there may be a contest from St. Clair
But it's got to be quick. I mean that was such a heads up grab on search from effective if that ultimate from the dead
It was able to go through that fight is a complete wash and now Zura has the ultimate of their own
Able to just leave him to probably just show him off the car and get that one shot.
Ooooooh! And no touch! The cap goes through! St. Clair's pathing was not through the top window,
but through main and it had to be Razor that touched! But he didn't just want to feed more
old charges, he's starting to be an avalanche! And Winthrop are halted from building any
momentum from this boy. Patience pays off for St. Clair, even if it cost them a point
And now we're going to come back to where we were and look at the credit.
We have to split up and it's going to be a big deal.
This game by Alex has discontinuous.
Just a little bit ahead of Ultraman, but Ultraman should be able to find it.
And now we're actually getting off of Bizarre and Mirror, which I think makes sense.
Because Trit has been playing incredibly well on it.
So if I bring out the Remontry, it's just a little bit easier to run.
And you also have Zera going over to that Echo, so the spam potential is going to be huge from this win for a composition.
Winter of just going to bring the mits out and try to out brawl them and come out of
the Kitsune Rush, but the Suits didn't come out in time!
Redex down for the count, Winfra 5v4, St. Clair going to drop from the high ground on
the flank with the Kitsune Rush, popped at the same time by the offense, and it's a
stalemate, St. Clair pretty in unhealthy positions, all at half health and Alex can't do it
all until Redex gets back, and the soundbear is not popped in an emergency case situation.
St. Clair will have to do so at the end of point B and you just see just see the amount of pressure being put out right now
By infected and also by Zera just the amount of spam is something that it's really hard to deal with if you are a
Jericho Lucio yes, they have a lot of healing output, but not enough for all of this spam
As we see Sam this time gonna try and get a cheeky overclocked flank of their own
Sam
Unleashing against Oxygen, Redex, really great sound barrier.
Tread throws out the Graviton Surge to stop the push.
And Wind Threp may have to rely on Zira's copy.
What does he want to go for?
Maybe Azaria to get a grab, and that is what's on the menu.
Needs to generate that charge, that old charge.
And uh, 10% he has the grab.
St. Clair has the watch.
They scatter, they flounder.
And Wind Threp have them exactly where they want them.
But the Cat 3 meters away, St. Clair still have 3 alive!
But Nautch was infected in their face!
St. Clair, 6 feet under.
These are all backbreaking losses, though, for St. Clair
when they're losing these fights.
I mean, they're getting so close to words,
being able to finally end the map on these defenses.
But just at the very end, it falls apart.
And I love that Tread is going over to the D.Va here.
It's going to make Zura's life miserable.
But Zura now sees that, and it's
going to completely forego this echo.
This is the chest that we're talking about.
now is to go over to the Vendetta and make miserable life for the backfire.
Tread going back to what he knows best, but already at half health, Winfra, this is the go sign.
Time to get the gloves out. Infected, she's focusing on that progress, but Zinclair have a
platform to play on, this is where Razor can drop down. He just started charging up
his ultimate here very soon, and have some cover to play around. But infected,
As you wait for the soundbearer for the annihilation or just a good group up, infected may have
to pop it here soon, the Suzy was used here for St. Clair, and that is an indication for
Windrub to maybe take a favorable fight.
They are being gifted some progress here, so Windrub are getting celery with the Katsune
Rush!
Alex doesn't have pins yet!
This is a big difference!
Razor Dress slowed down the momentum with his own ultimate, and now Alex, with the
late Katsune Rush, will stabilize St. Clair.
The heads are above water, but for how long infected with the Eilation, waits for the sound barrier!
And Ridex gets the knife from using his to maybe save the team, and he may not get to use it at all,
because SwiftDrip are going with a full cap here very soon!
Although Tread is gonna touch here at the last second, Ridex with the last second sound barrier to just shave off a few seconds, but is it over already?
already! St. Clair have a pick already on defense, GZero getting too aggressive, and now that
the tank is falling, Winfrey may not get to cap at all!
Yeah, I don't know if they're gonna be able to get back onto this point, it just has to
be a desperate run to the point of pocket overtime where Akatak's gonna try and go,
but I don't think they're gonna get there!
Oh my god, this should have been a cap! Insane clutch for Tread to touch in time,
and for Redex to give them the extra resources better late than never.
Yeah, yeah, 100% better than never because if it was never at that point is capped 100%
it's another back breaking loss for this St. Clair team who had really good defenses. I think
they like held for about three and a half minutes before they eventually lost that first point.
Then they had a decent defense, got the time bank whittled down pretty effectively,
lost again, and then at the very end, they're able to finally start to stop the bleeding
and clutch it out. And this is a very winnable scenario for St. Clair with how they were
playing now they get to be on the offense they get to kind of dictate what they want to do with
their hero matchups I like that we saw a little bit of change and adaptability from both of these
teams not just you know ramming their head against the wall and just deciding that we got to play
the different things because I think the switch to the rematch and the switch to the echo
really just completely obliterated what St. Clair wanted to do with their uh sorry
I think this is the best case scenario for Winthrop considering point A was as
stressful as it was. You had a panic grab. You got flanked by St. Clair with the Vendetta
ult. Like, didn't feel like Winthrop had good fights on their terms, but they pulled through
when St. Clair just didn't contest in time where they very much could have, where St.
Clair just, okay, let them cap point A, and then tried to go for more of a spawn hold,
and Winthrop eventually broke that, like you said, with the hero changes they did.
So the win condition is set for St. Clair, go to the end of the map to tie the series,
or Winthrop will go to series point, and just got the initial widow shots coming out, and
St. Clair gonna go back to what works best with Azaria.
Yeah, I would really like to see the widow nether, especially if it has noxious, but
I think the soldier is gonna end up working well, especially because you have that one
shot potential.
Ooh, already taken down Sam, very low, has to get healed back up, but there's
There's going to be a lot of posturing right now looking for those rails to see who's going to run the race.
And Tread swapped last second to D.Va, realizing that there's a tracer and a sojourn.
You want to be able to soft dive these and also peel for the tracer.
Just the presence of a defense matrix is going to make you reconsider your approach on these pulse bombs.
That means also less support for Razor, but this could be a combined effort going forward
as St. Clair are just taking damage to try and generate the support ult charge.
But the progress is still pretty decent, you're almost at around the corner, but here's the engage off to speed, Razor low, Tread will leave the frontline charge, there's a win to Plank with Azira as well, and Noxus just turns and burns on anyone that poses the threat, and St. Clair will set sail.
And I think one of the worst things about that fight is that Raktak dies so early and that means that St. Clair is going to have a little bit of an advantage right now in that support ultimate charge.
Unfortunately, Redx did trade one back, but Alex Stingalize means that the Katsune will be there a little bit earlier between the best of the Obamac.
Last fight here for point A. Alex with a considerable advantage over the Katsune rush and every second matters when that ultimate is popped through.
Alex the head shot kinda stared me.
Sierra's gotta watch out, post a recall.
We'll have to be more passive with that cooldown out.
Infected, just way too far forward.
You need to be able to anchor
and really just stall out the card at this point,
but Windtrip cannot get their bearings in order,
so we'll have to do so for the next point.
Yeah, and I think that D.Va's just been
a real pressure being put down is so important right now.
And really just taking Infected out of these anglers
where you're walking and holding,
The tracking kind of on D.Va can just remove or around that and you can't just kind of stand on ceremony as this
Aspen's renautra can just stand and stand while you want to rework up to D.Va.
Okay. Sam, fallen early, St. Clair, this would be the time to consume a rush.
Just being really passive here to fought by D.Va.
Maybe they lost someone in one fells. I don't know, but St. Clair, just being really passive here,
Maybe trying to assess what's around the corner, especially when Winthrops are known for those flanks.
Survey rushes will be what's on the menu next, and also marking where this tracer is.
Suzu already being used, that's gotta be called, baby zero pulse bomb! Right, introduction!
And right, like the crystal ball has dictated, Winthrops both stabilize and keep St. Clair at bay.
And I mean that was very much a measure twice, cut one type of team fight for Winterfell.
They were being a little bit passive.
They saw that St. Clair was being passive themselves and they were just like waiting,
waiting, waiting for them to turn that corner and then they said fine,
we're gonna hit that engagement, ultraviolet hits the ultimate, just a little bit ahead of Alex.
And you could see Alex in POV that we were on, just couldn't find those angles and clutches
to keep the rest of the team alive.
Suzu didn't manage to hit, Razor wasn't able to be kept up and the fight just
I'm just gonna completely do the best thing.
Like this pathing for St. Clair to avoid the hurdle of fighting against the defense on the high ground.
Sam is gonna have him affected, have he the bodyguard at the door, and Noxus is on a flight coming up and behind Whistler.
But there was a debauchery shield, so we stepped forward into the arena and infected.
Very patient with the annihilation. Wanted to see if Razor got kills with his, with his vendettles.
but now it's caught too little, too late, the win for hesitation,
Falters and St. Clairs flank was quite successful.
This fight went through a ton of but it stopped to win.
Yeah, and really good understanding, like you mentioned at the start of that fight
where they wanted to completely circumvent and not just get continuously
spammed out and I don't... I mean, there's potential for them to try
and get a Recon tester. They have to commit a lot of resources and with the
Hamid actually, Winthrop is gonna try and get back to this contest.
One last second, emergency hammer, but when it's infected it seems like plan A.
And this is the spin to win St. Clair Tread. Also as a second night for the self-destruct,
Win Thruptmete, Pink St. Vera, delivers a big one before Alex could have the three-brush
and St. Clair just cap for free. So, um, well, that could have been worse.
That's actually gonna probably make the difference in them winning and losing if they lose.
I mean that is ridiculously unfortunate.
If they would have had that match, so that fight would show in their favor,
that if they held there, they probably would have whittled that time bank down
all the way to about probably a minute or 30 seconds.
That is a heartbreaking loss for Winther, but especially with how well Zero was winning around them in the fight.
Yeah, because the job is between Zero and infected, and buyers used to go across after Zero got the kick-off out legs,
but Considine Rush's exchange for Rack Attack is not there.
So with Soundbear, only one will be on this field,
and it's on the offensive side,
and Razor, that's all the resources he needs.
Take the fight into his own hands.
There still will be a final fight for the win,
and there's tons of time for St. Clair.
A ton of ultimates as well for Winthrop.
That's going to be the thing that I'm a little bit worried about.
Soundbear is going to be something
that Winthrop knows they have an advantage for right now.
If you're St. Clair, I think if you don't win this fight,
you need to pull ultimates out of Winthrop
Sound barrier engage. Razor has to be priority number one.
And he will fall back very low. Tread has now been discovered, separated from the team.
And St. Clair will have to reset. And that's pretty fine to do, considering you were facing a sound barrier team.
So St. Clair with two minutes left, we'll have time to think.
But it's really good patience from Winthrop being able to hold on to a lot of key ultimates coming into this next fight.
fight ones that St. Clair aren't going to be able to match.
Conceive Infective is waiting patiently.
This minefield is going to get a lot of value in that time
time that looked at three minutes.
Looks so good.
Now it's been drilled down to only a minute 40.
I've been calling here for St. Clair.
Let Tread do this discovery.
But Sam is discovering some warm bodies that turn them
into cold.
And the Razor killed me to flex so much.
Tread is trying to peel against Emre.
But he owns the skies.
Sam finally take it down.
But Xero also the star of the show. By the way, getting a 3k off the screen, Winthrop can always rely on him to pull through for Winthrop.
And that's a fact, I mean that's also a fight where Noxus unfortunately just didn't manage to find value.
And now if you're St. Clair, you're a little bit worried here because if you look at just the macro, yes Razor is going to have ultimates,
which is the biggest thing in this next teamfight because you have that ability to get that one shot potential.
But Xero has been so good on these flanks. Now is the pulse from the combo along with it.
Definitely one of those players that gets easily easily clutched this far
We do and a half minutes to now less than 60 seconds St. Clair
We got to get it together
Consuming rush gonna be the big one the sea of razor can chunk down infected if he's in an
Really stationary position. He has razor hat healed from a zero's already been forced to recall
So that's right of the pulse bomb may be mitigated for now the st. Clair
We're gonna up the ante razor engages focuses on
infected with the consuming rush healing and all the resources poured into their
tank players went through make a final stand for Shafali the St. Clair wanted to
hide the series they may have just done so with the renexed out barrier and
oxys and razor in tandem suffocating the Winthrop boys to death and that will
be the nail in the coffin we're making a sword as St. Clair claimed Shafali
entire series one-to-one. And how much time did they end with 9.3 seconds, Jen? Imagine if they
didn't see 9. Imagine if Winner didn't see 9 that fight. This is easily a 2-0 right now. Really,
really heartbreaking loss, I think, for Winther, especially because of the map where you pulled
out the hammers. And now what you've done, I feel like, is you've given that momentum way
back over to St. Clair. That was your map where they beat the Hammond composition,
which is something they had to be able to do prior.
They now are in that driver's seat.
I think, yes, it's going to be Matt pick for Winthrop,
but if you're Winthrop, you're kind of thinking to yourself,
we let them get away with one.
They should be a 2-0.
We should be on match point if it wasn't for that C9,
a fight that we were winning.
Now you got to go back to the drawing board.
Just been really good calling from St. Clair to Mark
where infected was when he was on the Hammond.
To Mark, Zira's recalls,
and that's when St. Clair got aggressive.
and just how clinical is Razor?
He's insane at this vendetta,
guaranteeing you at least two picks every fight
and really playing as well as he can
when he's got an echo,
he's got a ham and pile drive to deal with,
another vendetta running him down,
or maybe it's Razor on a tracer,
or sorry, Azir on a tracer.
There was so much,
so many threats on the Winthrop side
that Razor was able to circumvent
And then you have Noxus who's able to be able to free flow
and get into that flow state on Sodor and deliver
all these crucial picks.
So I'm just so impressed by the resilience of St. Clair
because like you pointed out the C9,
it was still insane of them to have still that payload
presence despite not having their Kiriko.
Yeah, and I think the other thing about Razor
is that the word I would use to describe Razor
is like Evergreen, where he's been
Like kind of the same player for like the entirety of his career, but it's always just been someone who's that Swiss army knife
You can play pretty much anything. He's always going to give you a good performance and we're seeing it now with this vendetta
Yes, it's not the flashiest. We've seen some other
Flashier vendetta is like peace for example as someone who I would say was like that and that but you have razor
Who's always just kind of stalwart always their great player for the team and we got a series on our hands
Which is what I'm really happy about I'm kind of I don't I don't want to upset this the linter fans
I'm kind of happy they see our hand because we're going to get more overwatch and I bet some of the people that are watching are happy
We're going to get more drops in that regard. So I'm pretty excited
Oh, we have from the series so far because now now like the gloves are off because St. Clair's beaten that Hammond team and Hammond composition
And now they're thinking okay. We we got some momentum we can hang with these guys
Yeah, and that was St. Clair winning on Winthrop's or on their own map pick, right?
Yeah, because Winthrop won map 1, so St. Clair winning their map pick and now the ball is in Winthrop's court
And they got a ball player too. So guess what? We may just go to a ball map
And I mean my favorite ball map would probably be Blizzard World
But well like if I had to just ponder the crystal orb because I was kind of hitting that crystal ball
I don't know during Shobali. I'm gonna say Blizzard World. I'm getting vibes of Blizzard World
But also I just want to go to a theme park
So we'll see what Winterb's actual choice of that will be because I'm not a coach
Yeah, I the only thing I'm worried about about picking like a map that's like super
Hammon, I mean, I think one of the things again about in fact that that's good as you can play anything
But if you pick like a map that's like super Hammond dependent
You still have the Hammond ban if you are true
Yeah, and you can just take that away immediately
Which is kind of one of those things where it's like that chest match in between where it's like, okay
If we pick a map that's good for Hammond because that ban is still available in the Hammond
we have to have a secondary plan unless it's being taken away.
So I think that that's going to again be the difference in coaching between these
two teams and the difference between how they're going to be thinking about where
they want to go, what they want to do with those bands.
Because as we get further into the series, a lot, the lack of bands becomes
pretty prevalent where it's like you're kind of fishing for things that
you weren't necessarily fishing for earlier in the series.
And speaking of, well, if I'm not a coach, someone's got to be on the
Wintrep side and they have none other than coach Weitz who very well known for
Team USA and all I mean all the OWCS teams that he has coached so Wintrep got
the best brains that money can buy or the best brains in the operation trying to
side what their strengths are because there's still a lot of overwatch he had
to play in that letter series is tied one-to-one and you guys get to farm
all the drops with us which is so exciting and that map couldn't have
I was worried when Ilios was 2-0, although it was like 199 on well, maybe it gave you shades of the series could be closed, but the 100 is 0 kind of scared me at the beginning.
Yeah, I was also scared. I was like, oh, please don't be a 3-0.
Say Claire you did all you told me that you guys were so ready for this series
You wanted to win so bad and then you come out and it's a hot you get goose egged on the first point
I was like, oh no, this is not ideal
But hey strong mental fortuit from this team to continue to fight and continue to get or you continue to push forward
And I think that we're gonna be seeing
I
Think I'm really interested in what we see with the map pick because again the dichotomy of having a Hammond pipe map
But the ban is still available is super interesting
It is along with man. There's so many maps to choose from and Winthrop they seem to got a lot
They got a lot of choices because they're taking a hot second to pig
But that just kind of ups the tension for us in the excitement
So stay on the edge of your seat. Okay, we're gonna be ready any second now
But cool to see also the variations. It's not just vendetta central
It kind of felt like that a bit when I was casting a face it recently is that it's so vendetta build lately
But I like that it like a team like Winthrop is not afraid to go somewhere else whether it's zero on the echo
You got the tracer matchup going strong and really teams are only playing tracer if they have a tracer player
Kind of like how you said how Hammond players you need to be a Hammond a player
Yeah, I feel like it's saving with tracer. You don't just whip it out for vibes
Yeah, I think it's definitely one of those heroes where it's like
You can't just pick up it's not like Reaper where you can't just pick up like Reaper
you can just pick up and just be like oh I feed I shadow step in I shoot my
shotguns I love the Reaper guy there were a lot of copypastas in chat yesterday
from Twitch so I hope like maybe this time we're gonna have the Reaper guy
copypasta going over right now but I think that like it's interesting to see
kind of where Tracer fits a little bit in this meta as well because like flanking
maps are so important and I think that she's also worthy of bands a lot of
the time I think now what I'm worried about for a win-thru up is that
Okay, Tread gets to play D.Va pretty much for the rest of the series if he wants and I'm like that D.Va's looking really good
I don't know if we found the thing to counter it just yet
And especially with what we saw yesterday where you know the longer the series went on Tread kind of just like
It got even better and better throughout
So I think that the tank matchup still is gonna be the thing that is going to be the decider in not just map and
Pick man, but also in the series and it's a
Yeah, and it's cool that you have someone like Infected who is so known for the dive,
be able to show us some potential on the brawl and really withstand St. Clair who I think
are such a good brawl team behind Tread.
I would say Tread is more like stylistically a brawl tank with his Ramatra, the Zarya,
the Diva, if you will.
It's a soft dive.
It's kind of like hybrid-y a bit.
But Winthrop, I mean so much behind the Hammond, even Infected brought out the
Winston.
guy was dead. It did look dead. It did look good. In fact it brought out for two seconds.
It was like I'm coming back to him and screw this hero. I don't want to be on this anymore.
Ended up switching it up. But I think that as we continue to yelp because unfortunately one of
the players had to run to the restroom. Hey, you know what? Get it all out now. Don't want
to have that happen in the middle of the map. And then it's a pause. And then we like, you know.
Yeah, it's even worse in that regard.
But I think that again, this is a very close series between the two
teams. It's understandable that this is the third and sixth best team that we have going from, you know,
if we were just to look at them judging by seeding, it definitely makes sense.
And I definitely think that you were right when you called it.
This has potential to be the best map we have or the best series we have all day.
And certainly with those first two maps and shaping up that way.
And we finally have our picks. We're going to new at junk city with no rematch
No, Vin Deda, but if there's one team that I think that can do really well without those
It's of Winthrop. I mean they were already showing us so much a tracer echo or
Embray like whatever it was
Yeah, and I think the other thing about
You know no Vin Deda makes sense because I think razor is having a great performance on it
Rematra band is interesting because that seems targeted specifically at infected. So now I'm like, okay, what is infected play here?
Desaria matchup is something that I'm thinking of maybe there's also the Domina that you can see because we've the Domina was banned in our last map
It I also don't want to put this out into the universe junker queen
I don't know if that hero is real or the kind of like
But this is the map where you know we could see it potentially happen
But this feels to me that maybe we're gonna be going to something a little bit more brawly or it's gonna be as Arya matchup
This map is just straight up brawl. I don't think it's very viable for dive. Hammon you'd be
You'd be having to put the hours to figure out how Hammon works on this map
So it's what is your backup plan for brawl?
Is it the Sigma? Is it the Domina?
A lot of the teams are trying to bring up some new meta strats around the Domina and others
But rather just fall back to what they know best also depends on how much time you have to
Elaborate and expand on those strats. So but all these players they've been around for overwatch for so so long
You've got some new gen pros old gen pros
so
Arissa would be
Hella hype for me, but I even know this is kind of also another dead brawl tank
Infected though. How often you get to see infected on Sigmund. This is gonna be exciting
Yeah, this is gonna be something interesting to look out for and we'll see if it's gonna stick because I think one of the things about this map in particular
You there are points where you can play to Hammond
And it does end up working out, but it's like kind of playing Russian we left
But it looks like we are gonna be seeing more so of this change back to war to standard matchup
Which makes sense because I think that of all the
And also, but you know tread loves Eva so it's
Looking at this, it's just a natural counter to that.
We'll be able to matrix those right clicks, but not as much of the primary fire is infected.
Trying to generate that charge while not exposing himself too much.
Noxious already at half health has to fall back, and same players are trying to anchor their best
while managing the resources of a defense matrix.
The effect is quite low. That is the gold sign for St. Claire.
Razor's back on the main.
I think you can maybe deal with any divers, but at least you can let Winfrups have the necessary sort of something good,
but St. Clair allowed it to go through while it's kind of the danger of not running a tracer on this map.
You don't have this much good point present, but when Razor's present, you got kills.
Winfrups are on an island completely surrounded, so that patience completely pays off here for St. Clair.
And I think one of the things you're going to be saying that there's wind prep window proposition a lot is you're going to be seeing Sam kind of teleport into the back line and just get bubbled by infected.
But they need to get value from those. If you're not getting picks or if you're not getting infected charged up heavily, these fights are just going to be way too slow.
And you can see Sankler just has such an advantage with how much they have.
It feels like Dread kind of pushed Winthrop into cover though, when you want to maybe shovel
them out of that into the Ant Matrix.
I like the idea though from Alex, Winthrop fully out in the open though, but hey, you always
buy time.
There's a silver lining, there's some code like you get for ya, Winthrop, they got
the Consune Rush, and that's gonna be the beauty of running the Kiriko over the
Baptiste.
The Blizzard also came out from Rainyzer and Winterfiend pretty unaffected, but they're going to be pretty affected by damage with Ultra Violet not here.
With both EPS ultimates, Zero's on the prowl, and he's humping, and St. Clara looking like prey, but they're still on top of this .188% now that Winterfiend has flipped.
I mean Zera showed up in the kill feed a lot more there, but Rack had like one of the best teamfights I've ever seen.
Bring me able to use that soundbite with no fear in front of the blizzard, and then speed everyone out of the blizzard so it didn't please anyone up.
And then it was able to get a couple of picks just to put the cherry on top. Really well played from this use of players that we know.
And now St. Clair is going to have to walk back into this one, try and spam their man with D.va very hard, but they can potentially get some picks, it'll be the best way in.
This is the final fight for the first point. It doesn't get any closer than this and Winthrop have no ults
But they're trying to get infected to a high charge so he can become the raid boss
He was meant to be the mortality was used here for St. Claire and that's when Winthrop start to rush with some more
What effect it says somebody will target and became a victim himself
St. Claire have a heavy punish and now go towards the point cap for the final time
Yeah, we're gonna be able to do so I don't think the support is there unless there
Is able to clutch out so insanely well make anything happen. This is gonna be that first point
Like you mentioned stalling tactics right now
In fact, it is back on the hammers, so they want to try and win this one, but ultra violet just gets absolutely
Disaster
Yeah, he was so good at against isolated targets like this the reefers gonna force out a good amount of matrix
But tread has it all so
Now 99% percent Claire confirming these skills
I think it's also pretty important because it got razor almost to another wizard
Self-destruct is like a nice other life, but the Stambeer advantage is also what I'm looking forward to in point 2.
Yeah, I'm looking at that stall and I'm thinking like you just gave like a bunch of all charge over to the St. Clair.
Like I don't know if that's worth it just to stall that much.
I mean a nice juicy tank target you get red exit towards December and now St. Clair are gonna know that they have such an advantage when it comes to them.
And St. Clair already have the advantageous position of actually still being on the point, but Noxus got caught.
And Sam just was way in his space already like St. Clair was just not paying attention.
They were maybe trying to be aggressive and wires got completely crossed when Winthrop snuck up from another angle.
And you just have to be more aware when you're facing a Reaper team like this.
Yeah, it's a bit of a comedy of errors right now.
And that can't happen, especially when you have a D.Va who's able to just basically should be checking the Reaper at any point with that defense venture.
and now that you've done it, if you're St. Clair, you've let them cap on Lintrub's side,
but you also let them get back to you in terms of that support ultimate charge.
So it's just a really disastrous start to this point, St. Clair.
I don't even know if Sam is...
It almost might be a liability to go for a Death Blossom unless you're...
You've confirmed that D.Va being out of Meg with the Ant Matrix
with the Overclock against the Sound Bear wouldn't prevent, mitigated that
And I've taken their space!
And Sam, all the death blossom right into the D.Va's face, knocks his boots and ends to that,
and Winthrop is feeling like the end of this fight, although it's 4 vs 4, and 70% is growing.
But without Ultra Violet, there's not gonna be much left in the tank.
The Blizzard come down infected at the bubble to get him out, he'll be cleansed!
But not cleansed of this evil, St. Clair!
Oh, they're looking like villains, but Zero just hit a two for one and three!
But his back was against the wall, Zero bit back.
I mean, I don't know how Winthrop was able to clutch that.
It was on the back of Infected being insanely charged after that entire teamfight.
Yes, Sam gave his life necessarily to not really do much,
but what it did do and what all Reapers should be doing in this situation
is give your Zarya 40 charge.
That's what the Reapers were for.
That's exactly what it would be able to do.
And now Winthrop is very retired.
That's a nutty shot from Zero.
Oh my god, and somehow Sam got the crate. I don't even know, but wait throughout the-
Oh, they have Sam teleporting in with Bubbles. Vendetta, whoo! This is like old guard Vendetta now!
Like, yeah, Reaper, it's totally a dive hero. Well, Sam's gonna prove it.
He just has to be more careful with the Death Blossom. That's, like, not even a real ultimate anymore.
Yeah, I think again, that Death Blossom is just there to give Zarya a 40 guard.
And that's about it at this point. I don't think there's anything else and Waste a little Matrix.
That's about how it's going to be going. You can see always these bubbles going on to that reaper and then taking is so juice, right?
Sam's okay. He's got the wraith even though he was walled off. They have matrix from Alex trying pressure back a duel against Zerahoo.
Didn't manage to get too much value off of the overclock because of Alex.
So they're really matching blow for blow and band for band, but it's been clear of trying to flip and Shred can't do it against a
100 Energy Zarya by the way. Gotta be careful not to just go get the Soundbeard, Winthrop will
pass their second Blizzard throne from Razor. In fact, it has bubbles and I'm not really
seeing anyone frozen. Winthrop have all of their ducks in order and they're at 70%.
This may just be another 100 to 0.
And I'm really loving what the Reaper is kinda doing, even if I'm just like memeing
about how it's just there to give 40 charges. It's being played almost like a pseudo
Off-tank right now where Sam can just literally sit in the corner hold space and because those bubbles are just always going on to him
You can't aggressive you're saying clear. There's no way in there's no way for them to get back onto this point
And now it's on flash point right now for this Winthrop side at 2-1
They're gonna be going to a much more open area here, but still if you're St. Clair
How do you get past this?
He tried to wall him off
But Sam has learned his lesson and keeps the raid for that emergency case, but oh, Zera was isolated here!
St. Clair got up, and the deathbloss went crazy!
Went through, taking clean fight very fast, and also had two 100 to zero points.
Them capping first has to spell fear in St. Clair camp.
Yeah, now you're walking into a Graviton Surge right here, right now.
If you're St. Clair, Razor's actually going to be going, foregoing to make completely go over to Chris.
I like this being able to kind of check the reaper, putting in more damage down on that backline.
Really going to be looking out for these defense bases will tread.
You need to be able to probably keep ascribed to a surge if you want a chance to win.
Jordan and Winthrop did squeeze out 44 percent. So this is this is gonna go the distance
And I said tread needed to really pop off but there
It was I mean just the fact that noxious was able to clutch out really hard on this soldier
It feels like the first real pop off potential money
We've seen from noxious so far that they do have to be worried about winter coming back in the ground
Come search still in the back pocket zero also very nasty with these overclocked have to be worried about the tread's head
We need to be honest with you
We've got to get value out of the St. Matrix too, so you've got to justify the diva, the
Baptiste, that isn't getting as much value or it's mitigated against Winthrop, and the
overclock has now expired here for Xera, not able to get as many picks as they would
hope for, and this has to be a retake for Winthrop, where we're going to 8.5 and St.
Clair hanging on to the nail, and now the sound barrier is used while their tank is
right to the Graviton, right to the Grasp, all infected!
A bear hug will send three to the graves.
Confirming that I'll now hold to Alex after the immortality.
We'll prevent that for a moment, but Winthrop, back on the point.
And I mean, I like the decision-making of using the Sombra there,
just to force out the Graviton Surge from Winthrop,
because you're saying at that point, maybe we'll get two extra fights,
but this next fight, the Graviton Surge,
or the Sombra from Winthrop, should just be able to overwhelm Saint Clair
in this next game, unless Razor can somehow find a miracle pulse bomb because now it's match point and it's lost play.
It's gonna be good that Alex back on the Kiriko.
Soundjayer tempo engage. Only three from Winfrey have actually benefited from it, but it does not matter because St. Clair,
they're losing profits. This Reaper is in your face and St. Clair couldn't really set up a good fight.
Now they're already down two, and perhaps they're most poor person, no eels and no hold, as Winthrop will be taking New Junk City and going to Stereys Point.
Winthrop and the Reaper make it work kind of the pseudo off-tank playstyle, and there that last fight perfectly played from them.
The way that they saw that the flank was coming in from the tracer, immediately after that tracer is forced out of that team fight, hit the sound barrier, run at the rest of the team, there's nothing we have to be worried about.
there I think gambled very heavily using that sound barrier and just ended up paying off.
This feels like a gladiator match though like any good ultimate that were to come out in the
right decision the right time just gets countered by something else like whether it's ant matrix
versus overclock you got the death blossom against a diva matrix both sojorns popped off it this
was a really hard match I thought for sure we were going to 0.5 and went from pull a rabbit
it out of their hat. Yeah, especially with how the start of this went. I think if I'm
being like super nitpicky for St. Clair, maybe they stuck on the May just a little bit too
long. I think it didn't really end up finding a lot of the value, especially with how well
Rack Attack was maneuvering the team in a lot of these team fights with the speed and
being able to get out of Blizzard and not have Z value. But again, this team is just
such a well-oiled mission. They know exactly what to do. They know the limits of their
composition as well. And I think one of the things that we see a lot of with this
is their aggression really paid off a lot of the time
where they would make just snap decisions
like in one of those replays, you know, it's just like,
hey, the Zarya and the Sojourn,
we're just gonna dive the Baptiste in the back line.
There's no way he's going to be able to live.
I think this is like worthy of being a grand final.
I can't believe we're sending one of these teams
to the lower bracket,
but these colleges have invested
into some of the best players that Overwatch have had
and we are treated with another banger of a first match,
just like yesterday when we had like a BAP 3.5 on Flashpoint,
like we're being treated with another good one today.
And we're gonna have to take a quick break
so our players can also catch their breath,
because I'm sure that was more stressful for them.
So we'll see you on the other side of this break.
We're still in the middle of our quarterfinal between Winthrop and St. Clair, it does not
get better than this, folks, but it couldn't get any worse for St. Clair
because Winthrop are on series point, but at least St. Clair got our choice of app.
Yeah, and I think one of the things about this is like, we talked about how it's a little bit
reminiscent of yesterday where we went the distance. And I think this one, much like Hercules,
can go the distance because of how well these two teams have been playing. That last map did
feel like a little bit stompy after the first flashpoint that we saw and how well that
they were maneuvering around that Reaper. I don't think the Reaper is like worth a ban or anything
because I think that now we're going to start seeing Vendetta again. But infected to his credit,
I mean played the Zarya extremely well even though a lot of it was just kind of a throw bubble on Sam,
get 40 energy, then just like really really take it to the defensive end. But we do see
some different bands. It's the Brigitte ban and a Tracer ban which makes sense. I mean the
The Tracer Band definitely makes sense on each veranza,
because the fact that it's so good for flankers,
Tracer's probably one of her best maps on this.
I imagine this Brigitte Band is specifically
to negate a support band on the other side.
I think it's a kind of support band.
And it's Winthrop that decides to do the band on Tracer,
because I just immediately had to zoom in
on who banned the Tracer.
Because that means you don't want a Tracer Mirror,
so who's scared of the Tracer Mirror, huh?
Because, man, I couldn't tell you
who is better than Zera and Razor when they went out on Ilios and some parts of Shambali,
but it's Winthrop that want to avoid the Tracer Mirror, so maybe Zera and Sam are gonna have
to do something else where Zera can flex literally everything, and he was incredible
on the Echo to try to counter out any Bandetta.
Yeah, this is also a very good Echo map, so I think it's definitely something we
have to keep an eye on here.
The Brigitte band again just feels a little bit more throwaway.
I think this is a map where we probably see,
you know, D.Va's definitely very good on a map like this.
It's a little bit more enclosed.
Zarya can still be very, very...
And Hammond?
I think Hammond could be solid here.
Hammond, 100%.
It's in, if infected is in, I think Hammond is viable.
I'm pretty much any map, unless like...
They will find a way.
Is there a map that I would really hate to...
King's Rock.
Even if it's infected?
King's Rock.
Yeah, yeah probably.
Finally, it's just Steve.
I don't know. Well, actually wrong game show, but like, yeah, I would probably see you.
Colosseum! Colosseum! I would never want to see a game show called Colosseum.
Oh, true.
Never want to see a game show called Colosseum.
I don't know which one I hate more, King's Row or that, but I don't hate it on here.
Just that central pillar, it's very Dorado-esque, where you can kind of swing around that
central pillar and be super annoying, but Wintra did work well around the Reaper,
but that was only because Bandetta was banned, so are we cooking?
Sam is like, let me do it again. We won, let me do it again.
You can't really uh, but a brother yeah, maybe they can they can always change at some point
But I think that like I mean I think the way that they were playing around this is it's scared
Say clearly because the Reaper does offer a lot of that damage and he's
Extremely safe and basically guarantees you again that position
Well somehow Sam was already a boot stuff and out of this fight
So I'd like that Redex is playing a more appeal style, but then Mrazer got neglected and now there's just no deals at all for the windprop side
It's gonna be quite painful. So we'll have to just play on the bridge side, but okay infected
About a bit cheeky there, but pretty disconnected here on the windprop side. I mean some solid progress building for St. Clair
Yeah, if they're gonna be able to check the Reaper like they did in that last team fight
I would eventually expect that Reaper to end up swapping because I think that in a matchup like this
The Reaper is just gonna offer you a little bit like you can offer that staller position of being like that pseudo-optic
But it doesn't matter because Razor can just say I cheap the neutral and I can just go by and do it doesn't matter
I throw my sword and I go at much speed toward your back at back line and Reaper can't really do it from the big stuff
Razor just fluctuating the choke point here. So Winter don't emerge
Oh my god, he just ended the life of Zera.
Someone called a family.
That was insane.
Razor is unstoppable.
Anyone who's standing in his way, I don't know how to spell death.
That is insane.
St. Clair are now up to over 50 meters and Windtrip need to match that.
Yeah, I was like, there's no way Sam walks into another teamfight like this on Reaper.
Unless Sam really wants those drops and wants to go to map 5 because that was the only way
I could think of that possibly happening, but right now Razor and St. Clair are moving in such a tight fit.
They're playing so well. Ultimate charge and Mako is so in their favor, it's gonna be hard for them.
Oh my god, Sam evaporated.
I burst the shot for Noxus, and now he's coming for your backline.
Lack of attack, he got speed, but you know, got safety.
And the rest of Winthrop fall like Domino's and losing Noxus is not too bad.
You can still carry momentum here.
And now it's like it's one of those things where it's like, okay, like I would say no map is un-comebackable
Especially on this, but like you have to work so hard now if you're Winthrop
And you still have seven and a half minutes to play with, and St. Clair goes like they're too big and too big
Yeah, and it's- it's nothing!
And it's so cheap for St. Clair, they won that last fight off of the- no, just the single overclock
And now it's a Kitsune Rush versus nothing!
Winthrop, I mean maybe attempted to overclock, Xeer is dead, so you- in the blink of an eye
The wind conditions are gone for Wind Thrupp.
125! This is an avalanche and this is a hemorrhage!
St. Clair are throwing a four hail berries at them!
A Graviton Surge as Sound Barrier!
Just to play mental warfare against Sam!
Who is this whole survivor it feels like on the Wind Thrupp side?
Could Sony Rush Multra Violet be still into effect?
So, does it still have a stronger advantage on Wind Thrupp?
Even while the spawns are just that close?
Razor got grabbed he does not care the one sword to rule them all a double soundbearer
That's when Winthrop or that's great and you have not stopped st. Clair
They're going for a full cap in one of the fastest fashions. I have ever seen an overwatch
Winthrop what happens well, it won't be a full cap
I think winter for showing some signs of life, but is it too late?
Yeah, I mean 137 meters to zero is quite the difference again casters are not good at math usually
But that I can you know, I can pretty confidently say is a very tall mountain to climb and with six minutes
I mean you legitimately probably at this point from winter have to win every single fight and play perfectly here
I know like in beyond that. This is a really really difficult comeback to make happen
They don't really have a few to call me to work with, but they do now have a Vendetta, so that makes it a little bit easier to take these teamfights than it was really before.
All Winthrop have to climb through Mount Everest and Sam could disengage in time, treks tracking his next level.
And now you try to guide that into a neutral position, and St. Clair will have to make Winthrop work for every inch, while they also have to go for miles.
They have to go to pretty much the end of the map, and that seems impossible for Winthrop, so they're going to have to explore the stratbook.
Oh my god, Xera and Sam actually just swapped, because it's just not working. They're trying to find any flip-hold, any way back into this to see if they can Winthrop and stop the feeding.
It just doesn't even be working.
Oh, and not just with the overgap.
It's just, it's, it's, it's...
Well, Sam just started playing Soldier, guys.
Let him shoot back.
Like, come on, man.
Come on.
Think there are a big tank down there.
Three meters, one, one last contest.
No tank over, with rough spawn circles.
But so is the grave.
St. Clair are beating them to death.
And somehow, I guess we're going to game five
in the craziest ways possible.
I don't know what just happened.
I feel like I've been hit in the head
by like a truck or something.
Like, I don't, that was one of the most convincing wins
I've seen in collegiate maybe ever.
Yeah.
Just, it's speed run.
A complete speed run from the minute this started
was just on, Razor was playing out
with its absolute skull piece on this hero.
I mean, the way that they were moving around,
the Reaper, yes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It's broken now.
it's do not ever play this i have to check my glasses just
right that did that i saw what i saw because this was just an absolute
on the annihilation from saint clay
and think they're are already era winter up already had to change like they
brought out the reaper that was not was going to be on the menu to spread
is going to be on the sorry at the diva's not and since then i'm already
at the change you have an ultimate disadvantage saint claire were winning
very cheap fights off of one ultimate or if not zero because they won off the first fight off of zero and then
Winthrop were engaging without all their supports and it was kind of messed up
But there was so much good punishing power from st. Clair when they caught Sam
Disengaging and we're killing him without him getting to safety in time
So really heads up plays for st. Clair and we we go to game five to decide who so much of the semi-final
I feel like we just came back from break and now we're gonna came five like two minutes later again
I just absolutely speed room and now I'm like, okay
If I'm if I'm winter up enough, you know
I would never I would never say that I'm a coach the caliber of wheats wheats is probably you know
You could consider him the goat of collegiate coaches
Many many NA coaches at this point like we're getting to work that with how successful he's been
I don't want to see Zarya in my lobby at all
I just take that hero away take it away from tread
Don't let it I mean infect has been like fine on it
But infected like the difference we saw in terms of like when infected was playing the Zarya on
Junker was it junk's a new junk city where it was kind of just like as a bubble the Reaper
It's fine
You know what we'll do it this way and then how it was on that map where it's like you have to have that be a little bit
More dynamic with the vendetta. It's night and day and tread looks
Insane with the bubble timings and the way that the tracking is like you were talking about during just the way that I remember just like
Sam's going up on the vendetta and just there's a
Yeah.
Particle just like following the entire time.
Yeah, I totally agree.
Winthrop have to ban the Zarya or we'll see who will get to ban first.
And next map, the choice is in Winthrop's core of how they want to end this series.
It's gonna end no matter what unless we go to hybrid and there's some crazy tie.
Don't want to speak that into an existence, but it's cool.
Yeah, the sky's the limit on where Winthrop want to go to next.
my crystal ball was clearly cracked when I shot it out blizzard world and it wasn't even going to be a Hammond map like a wind
trip
Tried to force Esperanza off of trying to bring out some Reaper strats again
They they thought it would work and it didn't and they pivoted even being as humble as giving up your hero to the other
DPS player because they've been this is not the first rodeo. They've been around the block
This is not a team that's gonna get frustrated
They will try to change everything they can and won't and won't give up. Hey, my crystal ball is just a little delayed guys
No, we do go to blizzard world
I'm not the I think I this area is not in this year because I was like I was like surely
There's no way we load into this map screen and I see a czar I don't see a Zarya picture in that band phase
There's no way Emory is gonna be taken off the table on the other side, which I think is
Makes sense on a map like this or it's very long range
I think sojourn also would have been a pretty impactful ban as well, but it seems like potato potato in that regard
I am a little bit worried now
This is a very good Hammond map that which is what I'm which is what you know
Your crystal ball was talking about yeah earlier and now they're the thing that winter of gets in their advantage
Is that they could ban first which means that?
The sorry it just isn't going to be on the table at all and they means you can't ban the tank on the other side
So I think that was really yeah, you protect the Hammond because of that Zarya then I really like that
Also, Sam was the one playing Emery on Shumballi, so we saw a little bit of it, although it ended up being a sojourn duel towards the end.
But guys, this is to decide who is going to the semi-finals.
Was Noxus cooking in his interview? Is St. Clair able to beat Winthrop, one of the best teams in collegiate?
Well, based on what he saw in Esparanza, I think St. Clair could do it, like the Winters in their sales.
sales. Oh yeah they they looked really good and like not even just like that that's like
that might be one of the worst ways to lose because you just got punched in the mouth for
like four minutes straight. I don't, what it, Winter Pwn like a single teamfight maybe like
if at all I think they won the one that was by their spawn. Yeah it got out of spawn.
That was it, it got out of spawn and it's like that's all we did and like you're switching
your DPS heroes between each other which usually doesn't indicate that things are going really
well in the comms right where it's like give me that we got to switch things up and now as we go
into this map I'm one of the things that I would be thinking about is like okay the Hammond's going
to be a part of the equation right most likely on Blizzard World on the other side long range
hitscan is going to be part of it the Cassidy is going to be part of it one of the things that
St. Clair did really well the last time we saw them play against the Hammond was they were
able to significantly make that add the jetpack cat too with the Cassidy so I could
Look at these.
Yeah, Noxus bring out the Cassidy right away, but Zero, there's vibes of an Echo here just
with how open the skies are, but not as tall of cover compared to a Dorado, a Esperanza,
stuff like that.
So Tracer matchup, very viable.
I think it's solid, very important on the attack to path towards the Mega Pack.
Starts in pressure in the back line, because sometimes it's so difficult to access the
long range hitscan on the defense.
They have that back platform.
They have a front platform.
and Sojourn can hop between the two.
So sometimes you need backline pressure
that includes a tracer.
Sometimes even a Sombra, if you wanna go double flanker.
So I wonder if Razor would wanna match that
because there's no Soria for Razor
and that could be really scary.
And one of the interesting things as well
is that you can see this defensive composition
starting out from with a nice rock
to start things off perfectly.
But one of the interesting things
is that we're going very, very poke heavy.
You may have the Sigma, you have also right now
Winthrop, you have also Raktak on the Wuyang, the poke is going to be incredibly important for them
and Sinclair need to be able to weather the storm before they make any gauges.
Who's going to engage with Wuyang's bomb?
Will you just give that to Zeara or infect it, I guess, could walk into them?
It's going to be fun, I love Wuyang so much.
And Sinclair, not a big fan so far because Tread already had his armor cracked
and now they're trying to take angles around.
Winthrop, really depending on these picks from Sam, has Raktak kinda missed his glide and that's the moment where Gage's Razor locks down on Sam.
Takes a second to regenerate. There is the D.Va in his shadow! Razor does not care!
Unfortunately for him though, the double kill was nice, but Winthrop ran down the rest of Razor's team, so Razor's impact fell for a second.
Tread has also lurked around taking health packs, but this is still not a one fight for St. Clair.
Response are going to be a little bit closer for St. Clair, especially now that they have the Lucio to get back quickly, so they will have a little bit of an advantage for a moment.
That's it. Good of an anchor as ever, but you gotta ignore the Sigma. With the type of composition, St. Clair are running.
This is not a front to back comp. They've gone really a naval razor and dived with him, which so far I'm seen that out of tread,
but Alex may have to teleport in. Like, this has to be an all-in St. Clair squad, and they have effective cornered.
tried to play around the post to award the accretion,
Razor gets the so-so and confirms the kill.
But Zero brings out the full-spam,
has managed to eliminate Razor,
so Sinclair losing a lot of that lethality.
The fights start well for Sinclair,
but they don't end well.
Yeah, it just feels like they're really the mental ram
and just the chaos is favoring really
in these compositions.
I like what Sinclair is trying to do
and balancing around between who they want to target,
like trying to keep down effective really low,
low, but the healing output from Linkriff supports is really good, especially with the
Wuyang and the Kiriko, and look at their ultimate economy, looking very strong coming into this
next play. Kravity Flux relatively soon, Redx not that sound better, you're just gonna
be fine.
Sune Rush, that's gonna be what the game is like, but how close are you gonna use
it? Now there's a Wuyang, oh it's hot, to a tracer! Floor's Redx, before the
sound bearer comes out, could Sune Rush? Does not matter, St. Clair, I've lost
I've lost the mech, I've lost the plot, and I've lost so much time.
90 seconds is what remains for St. Clair.
They are very lucky though that it was an expensive fight for Winter, because now you have a soundbearer of your own to kind of just go in and be aggressive.
Unless Zyra can somehow find something in the backline, or Sam finds something with an overclock, there should be a very winnable fight for St. Clair, and they should be able to take your point.
While Sierra finds an execution, oh my god, almost one-clip Gnosis and red ice feels under fire.
Soundbear engaged, St. Clair brings the fight to Winthrop, and this is one of the best ones St. Clair I've loved!
And to take down infected, just break down the whole structure of Winthrop.
The gears are still in motion, Xerath throws a pulse, it's avoided by St. Clair, and now you just need to full cat.
There could be a re-engage for Winthrop or without Ultra Violet, I think you just play for the defensive choke and you play for next.
Yeah, I think they're gonna bring up the enemy as well up there.
Try and recontest it again, they're gonna give them a lot of ulti and Charger, they need to win this fight if they're gonna be able to do it.
Yeah, this is how Sinclair won the first point of New Junk City, and I think Winthrop learned that lesson, not very winnable without Zera, so...
Quick regroup stabilization. Sinclair has so much time to cast the boys away, they're trying to build some momentum.
Tread's gonna self destruct, not a good one, but it is one that preserves his life.
And St. Clair, they lose Razor, so this is not how they wanted to start Point D.
Yeah, I mean a lot of the Carpairleys moved at all at this point right now,
and it's getting a great position for me, especially because he's so dynamic with the
handroom. In this area of the map in particular, and this is exactly what we want to see from
ever after, now that we've gone to this map, that Crystal Ball is what called it an
Such a good map for Winthrop, the sky's the limit for someone like Infected, you got the
lethality of a Wu Yang old on a Tracer, I just love how the meta has been in St. Clair.
I like it being at about 25% ahead on the Katsune brush charge, okay, a bomb to be wary
of.
Zero floors, the backline's St. Clair in trouble, they just can't have a safe
Backbone to this team and Razor was trying to peel and he finds himself dead too, so this is going to be a great point to wrap her
but you have to keep defending on.
Yeah, and I would really like to see maybe a Cassie come to the table right now because I think Noxiously, like I think Sojourn is really strong
and it does match up well against the other side, but realistically you need to get something to start dealing with Zera and infected and Cassie's needs could do exactly that.
St. Clair, they like to have us at the end of our seats, with how long it took them to
get to the point.
We went from a speedrun Esperanza to an absolute stalemate.
St. Clair, now with the overclocked, well, with no razor up about how old, but she went
overclocked right now, and no matter if Tread needs to swap to something like a brawl,
because what are you diving?
You're diving the grave right now, and could see when I rush into desperation, St. Clair
have full spawns so anything to get this hamster off their back think Larry will
see some daylight will actually get some progress but Zera's lurking with a
full spawn that actually sticks not just so he slides into it without fear this is disastrous
yeah they need they need to be off the server like they need they need off the
surface it's doing nothing right now you need a cast and you need a somber you
need something to deal with the hammer and with the flanchor because right
right now is doing absolutely nothing right now in terms of just being able to hold your
position. Yeah, you have a sound barrier to work with to run forward, but still, you're
getting spawn camped right now.
This is why Winthrop are just one of the best teams in our bracket. You have the best
famine in North America spawn trapping you. St. Clair feel like the mobility of the
Sojourn is enough of safety, but they will hunt and they will chase you down and St.
St. Clair IV v. V in desperation against the Salvier II?
Oh, guys, St. Clair has everything but damage.
And Sam, he just gets to sit back and play Duck Hunt against you.
St. Clair barely get past the point.
It's not a full hold, but it's not a good attack at all.
I mean, it's just, that's, it feels like to me stubbornness from St. Clair realistically.
Like I don't I get I understand like what the soldier is for us and like it does make sense versus you have that burst potential
Yes, you can farm it effectively
But when you're just getting booped around and bowled around by infected at some point something has to give right a lot of the
Time we're on Noxious's POV. He's getting knocked up into the air
He's getting it. He's not really finding ability to find value with rail shots because there's a tracer on you
There's a woo-yang on you. There's a ham and on you
There's just not enough peel on the team to be able to stand stalwart as a soldier and get value
And that's exactly what we saw and now we're seeing not just go over to that Cassidy
Which I think probably would have been something I would have liked to have seen earlier
Especially if Winthrop is gonna continue right?
I think whatever you played you were good
Like Winthrop have hit the stride hit this peak that I don't think any hero in the game
even part of the Avengers could stop.
I mean you have to try though, you like you can't get past that.
Yeah but Sojourn has mobility to get away from God.
So she has viability against dive and they're so guaranteed to hit the Cassidy utility there.
Oh well if we can't hit Cassidy utility then it's good for them.
That's what I mean is like when purple are all over that there's I don't think
anything that you can do to stop them and I would have liked to see a change
in the tank.
I'm thinking is the most stubborn because you need to crawl your way out of spawn, but it's not over
You could still full hold and this has been a quite a commonality on this map
Wind Thrupp are not gonna even be on the hammock now that's strange
You're gonna try and beat St. Clair at their own game with the diva
Well, I think it's actually really smart because now they understand that the castee is going to be on the table
And now that you have that ability to get a little more aggressive
So Cassie was like just getting into his space and diving onto them and they know that the Cassie may be so good at dealing with those Hammons
So they carry with the Chainsaw combination. Like what they're doing, Nox is already taking down low. Perfect.
Oh, yeah, it's taking way too long for Alex to attend to Nox. This is not the first time I've seen this
And maybe he was getting though by Zyra
I know there's many points of attack when it comes to Winthrop
And that's why I really wanted to see a tracer when it came to St. Clair and they have such a good one
So now Wintra can harass the backline while diving, the Cassidy is already gonna be a change from axis to try and
mirror the tracer. Wintra will almost full cat, but Razor is making this comeback.
He's confirmed a couple of kills. You have Redex on the cat. St. Clair, this is a pushback indeed.
I don't know how stable it is though.
The cackets are a little bit too over-aggressive, and they fly much too close to the sun they're doing.
So this should be a windthrump capping here, and with how little time it took to do it, besides them just wanting to farm.
We'll charge right now, and I think this is like an aura fight, so I'm sure the cap by now.
This is going to be a time bank advantage for windthrump going forward.
going forward with that box of victory with the semi-finals ticket just around the corner these late
staggers are not going to help St. Clair's case but they're still they're still going to have all
five from this next one. Yeah if this is like if not every single one you're talking about in our
last map or it was just that speedrun this is also another ever four and a half minutes you
actually have a spawn disadvantage now if you're st. Clair you have to play pretty much
perfectly from here on out like Redbrook work and whether to sitting on a five stack
This is going to have to be St. Clair's biggest and best win possible with these teamfights for else they're going to be heading down the road right now.
St. Clair are managing to mitigate some of these flankers. I saw Alex get a pick on Zera and that's exactly what she needs to do.
That's a lot to demand of Akiri Kozo and Zera looking for a pulse bomb. There's a lot of distractions on the front side.
And Zera waits for his moment with the pulse bomb. And I think it's really been warded away because of the D.Va.
So that's been difficult. Noxus meanwhile is a sasque to the back line of Windrub and will force them back to square one
Okay, I mean this is the first few steps up Everest. They've been playing this really well so far Noxus on that tracer really getting a good amount of value
They still have to be worried about the ultimate treasure trove that Windrub has in this next fight
Great the overclock for Sam and there's only so much matrix left in this hand here for Tread and Sinclair will have to play around this corner and against a
A mountain of players with a sound barrier to boot.
Alex will have his own Cusune Raj, but playing the cab means no sound barrier, and I may mean a win for Winthrop, Azira, and Nile Lake St. Clair, and it's become a carnage.
This is the tracer to watch, as Winthrop sets sail to the semi-finals.
Winthrop, I mean, they was convincing for St. Clair on map 4.
this was very convincing for a win for themselves being able to take us to this map play over with that Hammond make the changes that they needed
really, really clutch up play from winter which is what we expect from players on their team with what they have in their coaching
with what they have in their staff with the players how experienced they are there was any team that could come back from an absolute
shillacking like you saw on map four and then blitz their way into a map five win it's win through.
That was that's gonna be so hard for any other match to to measure up to this. This was peak overwatch
This was peak between these two teams
We had one-sided maps against one-sided maps the series went all the way to five after a full cap from St.
Clair on Esperanza
Winthrop punch back and man punch down it felt like on Blizzard world
But they kept this map in the bank
They saved the best for last and man was this one of Winthrop's best maps
Yeah, I mean the the band phase as well getting rid of the Zarya knowing that it saves the Hammond pick is just I mean
Understandably really good job from the staff and from the coaching of this Winthrop side where it looked like it was obvious that teams
We've been now gonna have to be worried about this Hammond going through the bracket
Which makes sense with how good
Infected has been playing and how good infected has been as a ball player. There's not really anyone like him
I'd say in collegiate right now maybe an NA in terms of a tank player who can play Hammond that well
So all the other teams that have been watching this one. You got to be ready to play against some Hammond
Yeah, yeah
I hope Winthrop are ready to play against Fisher because that is their next challenger in the semifinals and Northwood blue
Just swept Bellevue and Cumberland swept Fisher navies or semifinals are set
We have Northwood blue versus Cumberland and Fisher versus Winthrop
But our next match will actually be taking a trip down to the lower bracket
Where it'll be Cleveland versus St. Clair
But the one we're gonna watch is we want to give some airtime to Bellevue and Fisher Navy to see who will survive in this collegiate
Bracket so before we actually get to that match
We'll also have an interview with someone from Winfrups, so that's gonna be really exciting. You won't want to miss it
You
Welcome back everyone to Overwatch Collegiate Playoffs.
I'm so excited to be joined with none other than the man the myth the legend the real rack attack who is here for this post match
Interview, thank you so much for joining us
Congratulations on the win man that game five was insane or your thoughts coming into this match because man St.
Clair had a lot to say and they were hyped to face you
I mean it was fun. I didn't see until last night
I was I was flying all yesterday and I saw that we did get seated up against them
And I knew they were a good team. So I was prepared but with the I actually moved on in my girlfriend's house right now
So I switched like time zones and stuff and
It was like I'm not gonna lie the lobby was opening and nobody else on my team was the lobby. I'm just happy. We made it into the game
Well, we're happy too because it was a it was a great series and you know talk to me a little bit about what it's like
Because it feels like your team
just because of the players that you have feel a little bit different than a lot of the others especially with
Infected and being able to play that ham and you know talk me a little bit about
What it's like for you as a support player to play with a ham and as opposed to some of those other tanks that you sometimes see
It's definitely like interesting. I actually
I love it. I love and hate playing like with doom and ball like characters like that
But I've played with infected for like years and I know how he plays so
So, everyone is old enough as players, like veteran enough that we know what we're doing
with a comp like that, and it just, all it does is confuse the enemy team even more, so it works for us.
And speaking around heroes to play around, I mean, there's so many new ones to try and scrim around.
I like that we saw, like, Sam play a little bit of M-Ray.
I'm surprised, you know, you didn't even bring out the cat, because I remember you were one of the first ones on Life Weaver when that was a thing.
So what's your take on the meta right now, Rack, and what seems the strongest?
So I really want to try the cat. I just know as the person who's the coach for Liquid, instead of the actual player, I know I can't really force my way into doing things.
So I'm happy with just, I guess, playing Lucio Kiri for the next five years maybe.
You've been doing it for a long time anyways, so who might as well just keep grinding the
stove.
So you think the cat's viable then?
You're just stuck in jail?
I think, well I play most of Ranked.
So it works in Ranked really well and I think it's like a new playstyle because they switch
up all the perks and stuff like that.
Maybe he's got a spot but right now it is really just looking like Lucio, Kiri,
maybe some Juno, maybe some Ana, maybe some Brig, they played BAP and we were so confused
on New York City, like whether, I don't know, we just expected them to be on Cury and we
got through a minute of the fight and we were like wait they're on BAP, just TP on them.
TP on them right there.
TP on them.
And it works.
That was fun.
So walk me through a little bit about this series because it starts out, you guys
are kind of like trading blows and then there was the C9 on Shambali, you guys
got select pretty hard map for and then like you come back in math five and it
feels like this team is like so experienced you've all been through so
much you have very good coaching staff you have a lot of good support that it's
almost like impossible to shake you guy how do you guys like how do you guys feel
about that because it's like some after about four like those would like most
like those would really really hinder a lot of other teams but for you it just
feels like you guys can just go next very easily yeah I mean as I said I
think we're very veteran players so we've we've been we've been through
the ups and downs after that map because Sam really wanted to try Reaper again, but you
know, it's a, it's a little harder map and we were like, all right, let's go for it.
And then he went Vendetta and we instantly lost like 140 meters. You know, we, we knew
it was like hard. We still wanted to like try. You know, you've done it. You've done
140 meters. It's really hard. And then right after that, we're like, all right, like
whatever UV of course he's like, he's like, just go next map. Like it doesn't really
matter. It was like put in the past. And also Kaluj randomly joined VC because he's
also on a roster he just showed up he's like dude how'd you guys lose 140 meters
instantly. We all know it's fine and we just we can we can put everything behind
us and just keep going. Oh we Kaluz joins the cause when you know it's cooked.
Kaluz is not happy. He's coaching hat on and you guys locked in for game 5 and that's
all that matters because man what a map that was for you and your next match is
going to be a doozy too. You're up against the main Fisher squad. So what are your thoughts
on how that semi-final is going to go?
I think it should be a fun match. We've actually never been able to, I don't think we've played
the main Fisher roster since like last semester. And you know, they have, you know, some people
back on the game like Hydra and he was playing Marvel for a long time, but now he's back
on Overwatch. It should be a little bit tougher, but I still, it's still going
to be like fun. Like we're friendly with most of the people. So it's just like
more of a friendly, fun match. Hopefully we can win.
Yeah, I hope I mean hopefully you know we could be biased cuz we're here with you. Hopefully you guys
Thank you so much for the interview and best of luck. Thank you
I hope his mom's here too. Hi rocks mom
She's trying to be a team USA team mom so I'm on board with that and I'm looking forward to the team USA
Tryouts after what I saw today and team Canada's tryouts to because St. Clare are a beast to push with truck all the way to
Map five and it's not over for St. Clare yet. They're going up against Cleveland State in the lower bracket
But we're gonna jump to the other lower bracket match next Bellevue versus Fisher Navy the alternate squad for
squad for Fisher and see if they will survive along with their brethren of the main Fisher
college squad against a wind threat soon but don't go anywhere folks we got a hit a break
and we'll see you for the next match.
Welcome back everyone to the Collegiate Open Playoffs.
It's gonna be hard to match how exciting that first match was all the way to game five,
but when the stakes get as high as this, maybe it could measure up because we're going
into the lower bracket with Bellevue versus Fisher Navy.
And Kenobi, when we have a school that has many teams,
oh, you know they're investing.
Yeah, I mean, I remember when Fisher had so many teams
and so many colors.
It was like a rainbow of Fisher teams
that I would see sometimes, different types of blues,
I believe, was that they would go by.
But now you have Fisher Navy here, and you're right.
I mean, I think you said it, that first map,
or that first series was going to be potentially
the series of the day, and we got all five maps
It was a barn burner. So now there's a lot to live up to in the rest of the bracket
But I think these are two teams that can definitely take that state. Yeah, let's take a look at that Fisher Navy squad
Unfortunately for them. They just lost a 3-1 series against Cleveland State
Don't know the maps and all that that happened off stream
But features these people and you know big fan of Mari and what she's been able to do in calling all heroes
And she's expanded so much of her hero pool and so known for that diva and has now become like a superstar
Starter being able to play all these other tanks to you. Yeah, I'm thinking diva might cop a ban gen
What do you see? Yeah, I think so for the first time I think with Marys diva and how well she is at that hero
Oh boy
Do I think that there is going to be a diva ban with how prevalent we've seen it kind of in a lot of the other series so far
But the rest of the players nothing to you know, she could stick out either
So I think that this roster you know coming into that lower bracket gets that reset gets that extra life
And now gets to go for try and go forward to make that salty run back in the lower side
And it has now can't forget about him and the dildocks
But you can't forget about their opponent next we have a Bellevue who did just get swept
But it was by Northwood blue which everyone's catching Northwood blue hands
But I mean how many times you fall down?
It's how many times you get up and a lot of known names from ivory's incredible hit scan to avery on the sigma
Yeah
I also love stone and the DPS that he brings to the table a lot of time
It this this team is like interesting with how they play in terms of their DPS
Because they have like a little bit of mix of like the heavy hit scan and like the heavy flex and they like
With the new shiros that have been brought to the table
I think it's gonna be offering some interesting looks in what we see in the DPS and you know
Who's going to play them in data?
Who's going to play more of those other strong headskins with this?
Bellevue University team is another one of those teams that I really like has been able
to, you know, started out a little bit lower in the standings.
Now has been brought up and they were what the eighth seed coming into this one.
So getting into that top 10 is a great accomplishment for a university like this.
Yeah, Bellevue, a definite underdog, but with some serious potential coming into
this series.
And this is the lower bracket.
At least you got top 8, but does the road end here or how far does it go?
Because now you got to make the ultimate lower bracket run and go all the way to the final
to try and get a chance at the grand final.
Maybe even a rematch against the northwards, the wind threps, the fissure, and then somebody
from fissure and wind threp also has to drop to the lower bracket because only one could
go to the upper final.
So we're going to have some serious competition in the lower bracket.
So it does not get any easier.
Yeah, what if we got a Fisher vs Fisher matchup? Wouldn't that be high down?
Fisher wins the fight! Fisher loses the fight!
That would be awful for us, but I'm going to degrade her to the audience if he awful.
We'd have to call him Navy or something, and it'd just be like a nightmare.
We're getting ahead of ourselves a little bit. We still have some ways to go, especially in this series.
I think if I had to guess, because we've been there like every starting map, it's probably going to be Ilios,
I think Orley, Jankauer, one of those two, and it'll be good litmus test to kind of see where we go.
The ban is going to be on to May to start things off and the Hammond ban. Interesting.
Yeah, Lee Jong Tower, Neutral Map, Fisher Navy, deciding to ban the Wrecking Ball and Bellevue with the May.
And just based on, well I thought Stone was the one hovering the May, so Bellevue being the ones banning their own May is interesting.
But they're the teams who have done all the homework on each other.
They had a whole 24 hours to download their opponent and to set these
Hero bands in motion. So I'm expecting a lot of brawl on Lijian tower
Gardens is the one that can open things up and give you maybe some dive plans. Maybe some diva there, but
It all depends. Lijian towers
Fluctuates depending on what comp can be played because all three points are very different
Yeah, I think we saw what we see fairy yesterday on this one
Yeah, like gardens it was like you know you can be played
It's kind of been like her home for like the entirety of the existence of Overwatch
But I do love this map in particular
I like Ilios is the same reason there's like a great starting up because all the maps are a little bit different
And you can change things and you're right
It is a little bit interesting that we are going to be seeing that may take it off the table by Bellevue in particular
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Fisher, maybe joking around with this pig surely right because you said the Joker Queen was really dead. Can I be is this real?
I would love to see it, but I feel like if you play Joker Queen at the Zarya, you're just not asking for a good time
And that's actually going to be the Domino that comes through so interesting you haven't seen this matchup in particular yet
So we'll see how this area is going to be able to farm up that charge
It's really going to be on the onus of giving those balls over to
Stone while he can't play right now
He's got to just back off, but there is many cracks in this Domino shield
It's going to be such a good anchor point for Fisher as they take that server control
Bellevue, all the eggs are in the stoned up basket, and how he engages off this vendetta,
while Fisher have all the space to take shots, and poke and fraud at Bellevue, who hope to support that vendetta.
But man, Bellevue did just let that cap go through, he may have needed to pivot that fight,
because now the longer this goes, the more Fisher benefit.
Yeah, and I think one of the things that's really important about these characters though,
you haven't seen too much of them, that's more of getting a little bit too over-aggressive,
not respecting the damage from Stone, who pops off.
Oh my god, slimmed down.
A good razor impression there.
It's going to be one of the best vendettas to try in a match,
and Stone is doing a fantastic job.
And the patience is paying off just
by getting up that cap early.
Maybe they don't need the may.
That's what I'm thinking.
Stone is just totally fine playing this vendetta
as just doing some skating right now,
as we're going to be seeing soon relative to that ultimate,
which is one of those, just use it,
and you're going to be able to get that one shot
attention with a real gun.
Man, they're just disrespecting this Dominus shield though.
I respect the guts out of L-Due, but way in ice.
Play the target!
Great awareness from Stones.
Nal has been removed and pushed her to have a good leg up,
because now there's a sword in their face,
and no shield will protect you against the blade of Stone.
Nal is seriously to start in the form here for Vell-Due.
And now I'm kind of understanding why the Mei is taking off the table
because it's how aggressive Stone has been playing,
especially with Zarya.
One of the best things about this is that
If you have a May in this map, you can just throw up the wall and it negates a lot of the value that will be in any company in this game.
Okay, good move. Stone.
I'm trying to find some good cover to try and charge up that ultimate with, and that is the correct abdominal barrier.
And Iphari shoots right through it.
Gets a collad onto Fisher Gavey, I think. I don't know how that happened, but back to square one.
Yeah, this is not looking great now for Fisher Gavey.
It was so good at the start, but it seems like they've just lost a lot of their rentals.
And Belvie coming up on five ultimates, it is sometimes a curse, but maybe not here.
Oh, good proactive fight for Belvieu, and as Ivory shows states, six feet under,
but it's all led by Ivory at a hundred at charge. Good bubbles to help Stone escape,
and it's a 4v4. Swaz are closer for Fisher Navy, so Belvieu can still hold the choke here
with the Graviton, and they want to maybe bait Fisher out, or at least try to catch
Who could be trying to force that overtime last fight here for Control Center?
And all the fish are stuck in and falling!
She gets the cell barrier just in time, just to get cutthroat by Stone and the Vendetta Oles.
And that, folks, is gonna be all she ever wrote for Control Center.
That grab was so good from Avery, just putting it onto that one little pillar,
pulling out everyone into that fight, even if they would have gotten out of the Graviton
without dying it just would have taken so many resources to get them to that point to proc that
overtime. Really fantastic start from Bellevue. I think we might as well just keep POV on stone
for the entire time with how well this vendetta has been proven and proven because it looks like
one of the best vendettas I think I've seen so far. It's tough to match. Stone has been
unstoppable. I'll call it that. Fisher, if you even want to try and mirror this because the
dominant shield. You would think it's very sturdy but Bellevue did not care. He just encroached
on that real estate so fast and with the semester barrier you're going to have an advantageous
position for Bellevue and how about this position? Looking over the bounce tops, smell,
watches above on the sniper's perch and almost gets deposited into the backlight.
I agree we'll have to find a different spot. Now is now on the flank. We'll have
the mega pack, but I don't know how safe this is for Snell, Paulie may have to help escort
this person out, but Belvedere is going to full commit on to Snell and whatever sneakers
you got Snell, they're not fast enough.
Yeah, those are not Adidas ones, those are not Jordans, but I really like the ideas
starting things off, just to surprise them with that Soldier 76, unfortunately the Suzu
was just perfectly placed by Hush and it gave so much damage, and now it's just
matter of time before these films trickle down and it's going to be a point cap and digging up
those. And the reason why Soldier isn't meta, uh, people, I guess, for low gold is that, um, it's
just not enough burst damage. It's just not enough utility. Various selfish type of hero.
The ultimate is quite strong, especially if you don't have a diva that's going to matrix a lot
of it, but you've got to find fish, or a Bellevue out of cover and fishers ain't going to swap
to the plan. It's another AC-130 player from Fisher and Delvee are completely disrespecting it,
but they are out in the open. So they're taking a lot of damage. Delvee have already lost one.
They've lost now Volker, DTS, and Fisher are about to cap the point.
I gotta say it's gonna hit really awesome when you see the cat hold up that soldier.
That's good because that is 100% happening in one of these next two fights. It's just
This is going to be Fisher Navy cleaning this one up, and now you have the Zarya on top of that, so you can bubble the Soldier 76 when you're using that TAC Pfizer in the air.
If you're Bellevue in this very open map, how are you going to be able to deal with it? It has to be by virtue of the sound barrier.
It's now farming up towards the TAC Pfizer very soon. Out of all the hitscan options, it's hilarious that Soldier is now back in the meta.
Fisher Navy let them cook, but they're gonna be in cover. The pac-pies are not gonna have a lot of vision.
Kitsune, Raj, all the flies are right through the barrier. Terrible timing, but good luck for Bellevue as they invest both support ultimates.
They still have the cat in their favor and the execution on Tamari beheaded by the sword of stone.
And Fisher Navy are dead in the water.
I mean this this sword doesn't look like it's made of stone. It's made by like vibranium or titanium or something
How well stone has been cutting through these members graviton surge available for Bellevue and they just need to kind of
Dot their eyes and cross their T's and this should be a very winnable scenario for them
Sure, maybe well the dead eye would be a stronger ultimate to try and fly around the way
and Paul leaves trying to stay out of damage.
You know what clapped back from Atlas to punish Avery after the round.
Fisher and Navy are free from their shackles.
They are missing out on some damage without stout.
So all eyes are on Atlas and you can paint the map to victory.
Bellevue, overtime in effect and in their favor,
but they don't have the warm bodies to sustain the cat much longer.
Fisher and Navy almost C9 there,
But I'll go back in the picture.
Yeah, so they needed to, you know, dot their eyes and cross their T's,
and there they might have crossed their eyes and dotted their T's
with how that fight went.
Really good heads-up play from Atlas to be able to take away
the Grouton Surge, Avery, the follow-up damage.
Didn't manage to find anything because it was a really well-placed grab.
Just the instant takedown was so well-in-made.
Look at that! Stiles on that Cassie, just like you wanted.
Oh my god, Stone of Tho is already cooked, full-engage, bubble-pop,
physically and metaphorically.
Belvio it is a quick reset though and because of how much they dominated the start of this, they got time to work with. Namely, that Katsune Rush. But does Fisher want to take a proactive fight? Fighting on that bridge is hell though.
Yeah, it's not fun, especially when you're going to be walking into the Katsune Rush and when you have these Arya Farrish, you're so iconic. SHOOT, GROVES HUNTERS!
All of Bellevue are trapped in regime got the sound barrier at the last second
Not possible against the grab so it decides to fight for Fisher, and now it's the final
fight for
Gardens to decide if we're going to round three look at the top right the high news available the AC 130 is available
Will they pull the trigger on it? You can already see potentially they're gonna bring it up. Oh, please
I like the Velvier trying to be as much cover as possible. I don't know if this
AC-130 is gonna see some air, but that'll be you.
They're smelling victory. Sound barrier, Katsune rush, but did I right above?
Through the heart of Avery, no take, no problem, don't for Velv you, because
they're leading in kills, but they don't have heals!
Stel is turning up when he needed him to the most.
Better late than never! A double kill that saves Fisher Navy from the break of defeat!
Fisher Navy will seal this in and we go to round three.
That was absurd from Snell. So clutched. The AC 130, perfect patience. They made that rotation.
It was great like you talked about from Bellevue. But the patience on the other side to hold
and wait for that perfect moment to use that high noon in the air. And then Snell
Cleaned up with the rest of it on this capacity feels like both of these maps so far that we had gen have just been
Who can clutch out the hardest one time it was stone this time?
It was now and now on this per this map three
I guess we're gonna continue seeing Fisher Navy run this if it ain't broke and if it won you that round don't fix it
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What a turn up for Fisher Navy, having to nearly do a 0-100 comeback.
Now, the mirror of the Zarya Vendetta, but it's Cassidy vs. Sojourn, and there's a cat in the mix too, Fisher Navy.
If the fight takes place on the point though, you're gonna have to play around the perimeter if you're gonna be escorting this Cassidy around.
Stone all identified where that Cassidy is! The bubble for Mari did not come in time!
time that was delivered to Atlas who wants to trade. It just can't seem to be able to.
The support of play from Bellevue is so good.
Really really good heads of play like you mentioned where Stone identified that there
was that Cassidy in the lower area. Get to that dive, no bubble like you mentioned and
it's a complete wrath. And now all of the positioning here is available for Bellevue
that's going to be great for Ivory and great for Ivory to be able to continuously
Spam down, digitally find that person.
Stone is doing their best, trying to 1v5 does generate a lot of energy though for Avery.
They fall back towards the point. There's some safety.
Fisher Navy can maybe try to control the perimeter and create many points of attack,
but Stone will be the bodyguard. The main door to get through and Fisher
Navy are testing the waters. They're looking, looking, quite murky though,
As Maury's already half health, and Fisher Navy don't have strong ults to work with quite yet
unless the consumery brush comes up soon,
Sal has the dead eyes though when it gets immediately popped, walks in like an alpha,
and Bellevue just allow it to happen.
That's how Fisher Navy are going to claim the point back.
And I'm really loving the pressure that they're starting to push down,
put down on stone from Fisher Navy's perspective where you see
every time that they're making these aggressive pushes,
they're trying to force out those bubbles, put them on to stone,
And then you're left without resources if you're Bellevue.
Yes, you're going to have a sound barrier, which is going to be great because you can kind of just overwhelm Fisher Navy.
They don't have one of their own, and that's really going to be your option to get into this team fight.
The lead is going to change very soon.
Bellevue could soon a rush higher.
It uses his second, but it didn't go fast enough.
Morrow gets choked out immediately, and Stone is lightning fast and as sharp as ever.
Fisher don't even have time to think before a vendetta's in their face.
And that's gonna be disastrous because it's just a single ultimate win from Bellevue. Very good understanding of the macro.
They're the one who are the initiators and Fisher Navy play on the back foot a little bit with that ultimate from Pyre.
It doesn't manage to bring them back in. And now look at that. The sound barrier is available for Regine with whatever Fisher Navy wants to bring to the table.
And most likely that Graviton surge from Mari.
I believe some of my fish may be gotta realize maybe to bring out the sound barrier using
this that was gonna be combined, make sure that vendetta does not go anywhere, and the
regime gets to conserve that cause it was basically a solo grab onto stone for a 20-2 impact.
Now the grab comes out.
Now the sound barrier counters and Bellevue were at a loss on what is next in a science
breed that I'll tell you who's next.
and scrapping all their names into the Death Note and even taking an angle, going inside
of Fisher Navy's cover, and this is 90% plus, Fisher Navy could not afford to fumble this
bag.
In Bellevue, a profit is enough, and that one in their favor, Fisher Navy, squeezing out
every second that they can, and Pauline Ulze takes note off the map, but Fisher
navy need more than that. Snell is now on the field and Fisher Navy are pulling off a comeback.
I mean Snell completely turns that fight around with three Pauline as well with a very clutch
outfit from her and that's going to be a fight that looked like it was completely in Bellevue's
favorite. The macro is in their favorite too and now it's flipped on its head completely and oh
oh wait are we doing this again are we doing another ac 130 is it happening again?
And sure enough, Bellevue can fall back to cover, but Stone is trying to get active, and
Avery has to assist, the dead I'm on the way out of the other end, and flying high, sending
Bellevue deep underground, Fisher Navy, is this another comeback?
That's so awesome man, I was a hater, jetpack cat, I've been converted, this map in particular
has been awesome to see some great shots with Snell and already taken down so low, Storm
and Ivory needed to heal up.
Now the Katsune Rush will define who wins this first map in this first to three.
Trigger pulled there from Hunch, guides them towards the point, currently claimed by Fisher
Navy who will match band for band.
But Delvi are not making too much space, they're so worried about Atlas, they're
So worried about getting shot at by Snell, they go in now with 4HP, Bellevue.
They're hordes on their sleeves, throwing everything they can. They have her sheen Soundbeer.
That could be what saves the day! But the neat presence on the point.
Stone emerges just in time. Four men's Soundbeer for Bellevue. A big boop!
We'll get the carry-up, but that may be Hutch will be back soon, or Pirate will be back soon.
And Avery leaves the front lines. Snell barely gets away with a dead eye.
And there's almost no health to play with for a Fisher Navy. They're so low. There's only so much pirate can do.
Bellevue helped the Scales and they take that number one.
Okay, we talked about how this series would have a lot to live up to between that first one.
Oh my God, have they lived up to it, Jen. This was a knockdown, drag-out brawl.
Both of these teams had so many fantastic pop-up moments between Sniall, between Stone,
And just at the very end, it's $199, I thought that Fisher Navy had it, especially with the fact that they had taken off the Zarya completely, but again, the clutch from the DPS is the difference maker.
I can't believe that. We're going to be treated to another incredible match. Just based on this going to round three and how close that last fight was, it doesn't get any more chaotic than that.
to have to constantly play at the edge of Lijiang night market doesn't get any more stressful.
And thank god it's the carry that gets booted by the Lucio because at least she could teleport
and climb back up but that could have been disastrous. I can't believe Snell's team
ended up coming back into this one. Congratulations, Erebelview I should say. I'm getting mixed
up on who even won because that's how back and forth that last round was.
That's how close it was. That's how on the knife's edge it is, where it's just such a thin line between those two.
I loved the usage of the high noon. And that last fight actually, I think one of the things that hurt them was that they didn't actually use the AC 130.
So they couldn't guarantee the kills from the high noon, and it was just a zoning ultimate more than anything else.
So, I mean, to be fair, this is just awesome. I love that. That is so fun to see.
to see. So I mean the meta keeps getting reinvented like we've seen all the new heroes and um I mean
almost all of them I guess but at least the good ones and I mean the dominant got really
disrespected on control center glad that Mari and Fisher Navy swapped off of that trying to go with
the Zarya mirror and it really could have gone higher teams away and Pyre did have the jetpack
cat in the roster lineup. So I'm glad that that was real. It's now show this all the
different looks had had me doubting in the first half though with the soldier
pig but we ended up on the thing that works. Yeah I mean you said like I
would really love the Cassidy and I guess they heard you through the
ether and they got the Cassidy and it was working really really well
especially with how good Snell had been playing on it just a one or two more
of those headshots hit and I think that map looks completely different but
like I said these two teams definitely very close in terms of their
power level and it's such a pressure situation as well because they are in that lower bracket
and they don't have an extra life anymore.
I just love the meta that we're in right now because sometimes when new heroes comes out,
new hero comes out, it's like you have to pick this.
You are in jail of ex-hero and now there's so many different hitscans to play.
The fact that even Witness Soldier in the Year of our Lord is insane to me.
So I guess we'll have to play more of Mystery Heroes coming up on the next map.
Yeah, and I think it's interesting to me now because I'm like, okay, where did the
band phases go?
Because we saw so much and I'm like worried.
I'm like, man, like, where do you even target?
Do you like take out the, do you take out the jet pack cat?
Are we starting to take out cast of these?
Like the tank matchup was very different between how we saw the Zarya's play.
Stone, I think is probably definitely worth banning Vendetta at least at some point
during this series.
So I mean we have a long series yet to go and with how close these teams are I definitely
think it could go the distance again and all of you at home get to be happy because you
get drops and that's really awesome.
You guys can farm drops because I smell another game five in the air.
What is it?
Yeah it's giving game five so I don't know if I'm cast of blessing or cast of cursing
it.
So yeah, fish or Navy will get to pick our next map and I think I'm centering
the bands on the tanks and that's absolutely no disrespect to anybody but it's just so much
on a tank to learn everything right now and I think you can maybe start to expose the
cracks in the hero pool, hero puddle, depending on who you're looking at and that's where
you can really force a team to change their strategy because a vendetta looks so much
different without azaria and a brawl looks very different without a rematra and etc.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, and I think also the cool thing about the tanks that we do have in this series in particular is that both of them
Do have very vast hero pulls which makes it more interesting because it's like okay
Yeah, if you do take away like you're mentioning you take away Zarya make it different for Vendetta
I would expect that both of them have that ability to pick up the slack in something else
I don't think I would expect like Hammond's gonna be like the one thing that I'd be a bit like
Oh, is that actually going to be happening because the you know a again to be to play ball?
got to be a ball player infected was one of those you know do we have that in
this series we'll just have to see and it looks like our other lower bracket
match is being updated as well st. Clair did take the first map against
Cleveland State so st. Clair got a couple more maps to go but that's a good
start to make a lower bracket run but I don't envy having to face either
Bellevue or Fisher Navy after what we saw because there whoever comes out of
This series is also going to be hella warmed up.
Yeah. And then you got to be thinking about like, oh, who's on the upper side of the bracket?
And then you're like, oh, don't look there.
Don't look at the upper bracket.
That's the, what is it?
What is it called?
The graveyard or the bone graveyard or something?
Oh yeah, shadow realm.
No, I don't think that was in the line.
We're currently in the shadow realm.
Well, the upper brackets feel like the shadow realms.
It feels like anybody's going to fanno snap you up there.
Man, Collegiate competition is no joke.
There's not just one or two super teams.
Like there's a good handful now,
especially with all the pros playing here.
Collegiate doesn't get any more exciting than this.
And I think the thing I love about Collegiate
is that it reminds me of FaceIt in a little bit
where it's like there's a mix of like every,
like every place of Overwatch comes into Collegiate, right?
You know, your OWCS pros,
you have calling all heroes, players,
you have FaceIt league players.
Like it's just a great melange
all of these different walks of life that people from Overwatch come into and then it all congregates
here in collegiate, which I think is really awesome to see as we do go to our next map. I think that
was a Lucio ban? Yes it was. Widowmaker Havana, I mean, kind of makes sense.
Bellevue decided to ban Widowmaker as they're targeting Snell or Atlas and Fisher Navy,
trying to slow things down for Bellevue. And I don't blame them because they were
Running it Fisher Navy down so much that you can't even feel safe behind a Domina
And if you don't feel safe and happy with Domina besides you, I don't know what will make you happy
Your heart's not working or something like I know chicken pulse
I'm always happy next to a Domina so for many reasons
But now you got to slow it down and maybe that's where a Domina can come out because without elucio
Where are you going?
Do you know about the budget speed?
We're definitely not going to the school of Zarya, because Zarya without Lucio is like
watching molasses.
Like it does not work, because Zarya wants that speed, you want to be able to move fast.
Did you know?
Just does not cut it, so I think Zarya is going to be off the table.
I'm expecting probably we're going to be seeing much of this Sigma versus Dama matchup.
Maybe Sigma versus Sigma, if they ever allows for it.
Onuron is someone...
Is it character that?
I don't think we've...
We haven't seen ever, right?
Yeah, Fisher would like to just play with it in spawn and then swap so as much as I want to get baited unfortunately
I think but hey Domina
I'm
Pogging off to see Avery on some Domina because they were really impressing me on the Sigma and then now I'm gonna see something different
Stone kind of baited us with the May the May ban initially and now we get to see
infamous stone of May and how they hope to trap Fisher Navy in their grasp
Actually playing right no, okay
They're just trying to get it to get out of my spawn rat. Yeah, I did a cheeky little maybe triple grenade and see what happens
And then go back over to that so it's just gonna be interesting that they're holding close as much as going down
That's a lot of healing loss
But I was gonna say it's interesting that they're holding so close here because the fact that we usually see teams hold that corner
On the other side, but I guess they might get as much time off the clock as possible just a single flight
Yeah, that's the thing is there's two different approaches to Havana playing at the spawn room doors
Like you said to shave off time but be better fight and a lot of teams up for that corner fight
Because it's so much better for the defenders because of sight lines
Like the attack doesn't know what's waiting for them until they're shot in the face and without that widow
There's well, let's throw it at that Fisher. Yeah, that's right
But I think one of the other things about this is that now now that you've lost that team fight so heavily
You've you've lost this corner and the geometry is a little bit trickier to play around
So it's really going to be about shield management and where you're going on
Well, Snell gifted them that fight after a pick onto a support, so...
Snell easy MVP for me in map 1, can he replicate that kind of start-up in Pirates that would
victim the uno-reverse from Bellevue to pick off the Kiri, but when you have to double-flex,
Diana, Pauline, she can do a lot.
Is your navy building up with some very good offensive-oriented ultimates?
Cause that's really what the Kyrie and Ana are providing you, well maybe that's like it
all, because that may have well put you in jail.
Mr. Navy, definitely got a reset now.
Yeah, I mean Ana, those old legs don't work as well as they used to, and we just see her
just trying to eke around that wall that was perfectly placed by stone, understanding why
that was banned out, and also understanding why they had it covering over their hero
portrait.
I'm interested to see where Regime is going to be going with this weeing outfit, sometimes
you usually throw it onto tracers, but potentially it could just use it defensively
is what I'm assuming is going to happen.
He's thrown on a main, have to walk it down, ice block.
Okay, well, she's going to, uh, so it's going to walk Atlas down.
Uh, very dark path of no return.
Fisher Navy are so stuck.
At least, at least Blaketon that just immediately blinked through a headshot from an icicle and fell over.
That was a great POV from the producers, thank you.
But now, I'm a little worried with how Fisher Navy is going to aggress into this point.
I mean, I think the main over-plopper and the main tracer is gonna do it.
I'm liking the killmaker strat here of having a maim, so to put that away, and it's getting a ton of picks.
It's now possibly that, but hey, this Sigma delivering the Wu Yang bomb is pretty nice.
Got the solo flux onto a Sigma, and that is sort of how all the dominoes fall behind Fisher Navy.
Without that Sigma, your DPS can't take really aggressive sightlines,
and Atlas definitely can't tuffle up as the tracer.
Fisher Navy, once again, halted.
Yeah, and Fisher Navy had to use all of their Ultras in that teamfight and gotten NADA for it,
and you're walking into a Blizzard from stone.
Realistically, the thing that's going to help you get out of this teamfight
is going to be either the speedering from Pauline, a Suzy, or it has to be Ian from Mari.
There is no other option here, or else this fight's going to look disastrous for Fisher Navy.
And it's the last fight that they got.
30 seconds it's do or die or this could be Bellevue having a solid chance to go to
series point. Lizard available for stone. You're gonna have to focus this into the
sigma. You gotta be careful of the flux. Let's not care. Bari frozen, walled off from
support. Fisher Navy can only stand and watch in awe as Bellevue pull off a
a perfect defense here on Havana and humble Fisher Navy.
insane level right now. And I think Bellevue is just thinking, you know, self-ban the May.
If we win control, that's great. If we don't, that's fine. We still have May for the rest
of the series. And it's paying dividends for completely for them right now.
Well, the box of victory sits around the corner. It's not over for Fisher Navy. This
is going to be the best chance you get. Now you definitely can't go for a spawnhold
like Bellevue did. It's got to be a corner play or nothing because of the response
would just be way too far. So, um, Bellevue, I'm thinking this May really enabled Avery
to win a lot of the tank matchups. And I don't blame Mari. When you're walled from your supports
and flocks and blizzarded and frozen and tagged and rooted, snared, stunned, slept, like,
I'm kidding about most of those. But Mari took all of that. It's tried and Fisher
Navy could really help.
And not only that, but like you're getting walled and these compositions aren't the
most mobile right you don't have the speed so it's like Anna is just like let me get over
past the wall.
It's just like you know what can you do sometimes unfortunately it just ends up going that way
but I like this cheeky little hole here.
Looks like Argon to try to pull the post holders to try and get as much time off the block
that wall is already I mean Skode is.
Oh no no no no no no it's a disaster hey quick loss though quick loss you'll force
another fight but not too many like big uh not too many big uh old charge uh given there um
it's Bellevue got so close so fast and I don't think it was well organized but hey Bellevue
boxed a victory in their sight I think the idea the idea was good it's just like you know plans
only work so well as soon as a main wall comes it hits you in the face and then everything just
falls apart and it feels like that's really been the the story of this map so far.
Now I'm able to force another five three minutes left for Bellevue. You're gonna see
ults if this doesn't work out, so can Bellevue do it without it? Got the ice block already from
stone that's something Mari's trying to block on and oh the accretion right to the face! The
The punishing power of Stone walling up Mari from her supports.
And it's clean and clinical as ever.
Especially when you're watching Bellevue.
They go to series point.
Yeah, it's simple and clean.
They're on their Kingdom Hearts era right now for this Bellevue side, especially after that map.
And I mean, Stone was just fantastic.
I really like the May play has just been so good.
And you're right that it was just making it so difficult for that tank matchup for Mari.
is the credibly different player, but you know, Wall just kind of gets to cheat the neutral
a little bit because you can just throw it up and everything changes. So I mean, really
heads at play from Bellevue University, heads at play for them banning it from themselves
in their first map. So now they get to have it for the rest of the series.
And I know RAP was like making fun of BAP and all that in the interview and like
really surprised to see that. I think a BAP would have been nice to try and get
jump up over the May wall. I mean also it's May tends to falter in pro play
because you usually have speed to get away with it. You have Zarya bubbles to
cleanse you through it, a kiiri that could have cleansed you through it, but
also you need to be coordinated on taking down the May wall as soon as
possible or getting around it or over. Hence why I mentioned the Bap and in
immortality which I think would have helped Mari get out, but I feel crazy
easy just mentioning the bat, but since we saw so much double flex, I thought maybe back
up and in that picture. But either way, that wasn't a pretty picture that we saw, but we
are pretty for Bellevue. They're up to oh,
yeah, I was gonna say, if it's Bellevue, it looks great. If it's the other side, it
just looks like, you know, five year old crayon drawing. That's something, you know,
unfortunately doesn't end up holding up there. But I think I mean, again, the
way that they played around the main particular just the wall usage was fantastic. Maybe
I think, you know, kind of thinking about your other when you were talking about
like things that could have been able to deal with it.
Maybe it may have your own, you know,
throw up a wall to get over the other wall
and then just like you have-
Fire with fire.
Fire with fire. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just like the, you know, the devil can only
beat and buy the devil.
And that's it. That's how it is.
That's how it could have been there.
But I mean, really it felt like just that was a map
where they had full control on Belvedere University's end.
And now looking at the bear, down the barrel of a 2-0,
looking down the barrel of elimination,
Fisher Navy really need to come up with something here
on the next map.
You know, it should have been SNAL.
because is it snow or snow L and then snow gives may and like I'm trying to
cook here but
missionary maybe better be cooking on this map paper for everyone at a bad joke
so okay
because the balls in their court on where the series could go or where the
series could end because this is the lower bracket folks this is a last life
or fisher navy
it's so weird because also like that
if you're if you're looking at like what did the last map tell us what
the last map told us that stone is really good in may
but you can't ban the May anymore.
So now it's like, okay, where do you go in that regard?
Like where do you, you know,
do we really have to be map dependent?
It feels like a map like that is unfortunate
not only because of the loss,
but because of the fact that you didn't really gain
a ton of information that's helpful
going into the next band phase.
So maybe you just kind of throw it into a map
where it's like completely different.
You go to something a vertical like a Gibraltar
or something, you know,
change completely the style and archetype of the game.
Ah, it's definitely not a Sigma map
because you got to throw a May into the mix
or band of my i don't know
definitely not a big matter of
yeah i think that he's called sweet okay i don't know ball maybe
here
but i thought i thought i thought it's adult
don't listen to my gospel but
yet they had there's gotta be you gotta address the the the elephant in the room
the icicle in the room and it's in the may bring your own or counter it and
or just don't go to a map that would be very brawl heavy suit
no king's row
uh...
I can only name one map, no King's Row, no Colosseum, no Colosseum, I think it's another
one that you can't go to May with.
I mean, May would be really good on Colosseum.
I think they're, yeah, I think you're completely right though that there's a lot of those maps
where it's like you, you probably want a longer ranged map or something like that,
more vertical where the May can't get a lot of value.
I mean, yes, May doesn't have, you know, high schools don't have fall off, but
there's still, you know, heroes that are better at longer ranges and you don't
really want to be in the teeth, you know, May compositions, how I say, I usually
say they have like little t-rex arms you know and you don't want to be in the
t-rex arms you want to get away as fast as possible from them because once they
get you you're gonna chop down and you're gonna end up going out I don't
even know because things are I don't even think is in the map pool so never
right so no well I don't even think you can go to escort again cuz I was
gonna say no shambali that would suck Gibraltar is okay for Diva but it's
It's not great for divas, more of a longer range dive map.
The push maps aren't cute, oh geez, you really could play Mei on so many things and we're
going to blizzard!
Okay, this is good.
That's a good one.
I like this.
That's a good one.
I like that one.
I think it's very long, so the megas loses a ton of the value.
The Jetpack Cat ban is interesting for me.
I mean, okay.
It's like the first ban, so.
Yeah.
Given what happened at Lijiang Tower, though, I would be also scared a little bit of
the AC 130 high noon is hitting me in the back. I don't know, map like this, where you have
a lot of skybox to play around.
Oh, it's like a hot air balloon. It's a balloon. No, it's a guy with a gun. And who flies now?
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a cowboy.
It's a cowboy. You know what? I'll be very based for the cat ban and fish should get
rid of sojourn there for ivory. So I don't love the May on Defense. It is playable. I'm
not going to write a sternly worded letter to anyone who wants to May on Defense here,
though, but I wonder.
Dear team that ran May on Defense, you've ruined my life.
I'm very angry.
I will be enforcing you.
I'll be sending a second strongly-worded letter if it happens again, but I think you're I think you're right that it's like
It's a map that is just not enclosed enough and it's too ver it's too long to like really get value out of anything with the May
Specifically with the wall which was kind of the linchpin of how successful Bellevue had been in the previous map
Well the return of the Avery Domina
And it's maybe a bit more difficult to engage with the Domina, so we'll see what Mari opts for, but I always love a tracer on this map because there's so many good paths to take and mega-packs towards the left side if you're looking at the defense.
I guess right side if you're looking at the off-roads now.
And we'll be the D.Va roll out, one of Mari's specialties.
Yeah, so it's one of the things that D.Va's gonna have is gonna be over something like Domina's.
You have that ability with verticality. You control these high drops of the ground.
You have to play it a little bit slow, but really they're gonna try and swarm around
and really pigeon in the entirety of Bellbee.
We'll get to see the duel between Stone and Atlas on the tracer.
So far, Fisher are really following up with each other, falling!
Uh, the Tony Hawk Impression not working out.
Great shot, though, for Bellbee.
and you need every second you can get to fish your Navy.
You gotta respect them until they're fully dead,
because their comeback mechanics here on Ligeon Tower
really surprised me when it came to fish your Navy.
I mean, even the troops are still around in the back here,
so they can find a way to maybe secure some picks or get out of time,
but Avery's taken down Snell, and now it's still some more damage lost.
And already a minute taken off the clock,
and we haven't really had a team fight.
It's just been the span and the pick potential
coming in from Bellevue that's changed the dynamic.
I'd like to see Fisher Navy like follow up with Mari who seems to have started
papping towards that right side was the most forward one. It's that initial
platform going. Ooh, Snell though up to go. Good ivory down the defense starting
to see cracks in that armor. Avery's very aggressively forward wanting to take
that fight against Mari who's also dangerously low and it ends in favor
of Fisher Navy. We'll now start to pressure the point, huh? Charity at a
quarter and how old then all these
eliminations are confirmed along with the
point cap. Yeah I mean that's just I
think a little bit of overaggression
there. Just have one pick that completely
turns things around and then like you
mentioned you'd like to have seen the
team go with Mari and that time they
did. They did when Mari made that
space they followed up they had
spam of their own and they were able to
break that defense and now again with
the verticality that they're going to be able to have an ability to
control the fights with the tracer
it should be a really good moment to
Fischer Navy is starting to get some progress.
It's a lot of 1v1 duels, like Snell vs Ivory, Avery vs Snell vs Ivory, Avery vs Mari.
Wow, I just noticed that's confusing.
Well, Bellevue can't consume a rush, or maybe they have.
Hunch died as he used it, so that is very surprising.
Fischer Navy kind of went blow for blow here.
Their spawns are closer, and they will see progress when Stone leaves.
Yeah, did we call that like a consumer jacks?
Can you die in the middle of it?
I mean, it's gonna be ultimate that they...
Oh, I do like it. I like that. I like that. I like that.
I would like to see also fish...
I would also like to see Bellevue University kind of stand stalwart at one point
and not have this defense breaking,
but also that's predetficient even in how well they're playing around these fights
and again, corraling Bellevue into their own fish.
Stone falls. Bellevue are low.
and Ivory wants to kick back against this Fisher Navy squad before they get too confident.
Ivory, gotta feel good after taking down your opponent like now.
They've been dueling at it this whole Blizzard world, but Fisher Navy are almost at the end of point B.
So that's what we gotta look towards.
The good thing though is that if you are Fisher Navy or if you're Bellevue University,
you do have a semblance of a respawn advantage.
So Fisher Navy have to take a lot of time to move forward, especially with Adila,
but here they go aggressive with the sound barrier.
Uh, only the support started? Maybe Mari? I don't know, Fisher Navy...
That's good for a fight, and now Life Free is still trying to take a 1v1 against now. This time loses it.
These guys got some beef, they gotta subtle another day. Fisher, Navy though, they wanna subtle with a catberry soon.
Mari is deep in the backline, smelling Christmas presents.
Regine hesitates, goes for the sound barrier, and tries to reinvigorate Bellevue and to push back against this Fisher Navy squad.
So many advantages early, self-destruct!
Fisher Navy back into mech, back into control.
Now Mari...now just getting back into mech, unsure if that fight had concluded.
As Fisher Navy, trying to get their bearings.
Yeah, now again, again, the restart of it is such a good job of being able to get Bellevue back into this teamfight.
But you do have Avery with this ultimate, but with a diva on the other side very need to be very very careful for enough
Two minutes Fisher Navy
Holds up so much progress before reaching this point
It feels like they've hit a stone wall and Maury's already lost neck thanks to stone
So it does not get any easier for Fisher Navy when you don't have a tank that can lead your charge
And I think now you have to, this next fight almost becomes must win because with the minute
and 30 seconds by the time you get to this next fight, it's probably only going to be
a minute off the clock and you need to win that team fight.
You don't really have a lot of ultimates.
I mean, yes, they do have the Emory ultimate.
That's going to be the thing that makes the difference, but you're walking into
a consumer rush, which makes it even more difficult for Emory to actually get value
out of it.
And the D.Va just lacks in range when it comes to Dive, so the further back
that Bellevue played the more difficult it is for Mari to find impact before
getting de-mecked. And now you have Stone. You kind of just saw shades of
flanks there with Fisher and Evie wanting to take charge of their own fate
here's the smell ultimate while Mari tries to get these rats out of cover
and Bellevue are perfectly safe and now has no warm bodies to get after.
Bellevue emerge now back in control of the payload and they've got a
a consumer rush if the stealth hits the fans. Fisher Navy now just have to avoid the
reverse card here from Ivory, but Fisher Navy are not as safe in cover as
now got dangerously low, but Fisher Navy survived. I mean they forced it some key
options, but Ivory taking down Snell, that's a disaster it's picked for this offense that
means he's not losing so much damage. Pauline goes down too and it seems like
it's just fallen apart for him right now, John. Fisher Navy are getting
demolished on the approach and the stagger is not going to help. That helps uh, I hope
but-
I mean, 20 seconds you do have, you do have to, Junior Rush, you do have a tracer to get
back there and probably clock that overtime, but it's going to be very, very difficult.
They need to win this fight crisp and clean and they need Pauline to get the sound barrier.
It's still a decent push for Fisher Navy and the grand scheme of Blizzard World,
but we know they can do so much more. Pauline will force overtime. You're going
need that sound barrier so the rollouts have to be swift and stoners with the
pulse bomb smell removed barely any damage left for Fisher Navy
Atlas throws the Hail Mary and the pulse bomb does not connect so Bellevue will
just get to sit and stare and even beat for aura against Fisher Navy that's
when you know you're in trouble Bellevue they're heating up and they're
starting to hit their peak. Yeah there's desperation here just using
other outfits to try and stall it and take a miracle and miracles don't really happen here on blizzard world any more
It's Bellview University. I mean you talked about it for Fisher neighbors still a pretty decent push for them
The Bellview University really tuned things up on the defensive side once they were able to kind of get some positioning
Get some footing and then we're really able to make that spam work for them with the dominant
Yeah, blizzard will be kind of reminds me of Gibraltar where you need to attack with so much momentum and keep the ball rolling
always because then it just turns to molasses. It's just so impossible to keep retaking into
point B. Blizzard World the same way as Gibraltar. The defenders have such good positions but the
difference is that Blizzard World is more based on spacing. Like the defense can play basically
on Mars and you're still on Earth and you need kind of the right hero compositions that can
path around it or that can dive that far or that can just stay alive long enough so that
that you could actually close the cap against a defense that plays that far back.
So, Fisher Navy tried their best, but the box of victory is at the end of point B.
And I mean, it's not a difficult box of victory.
We saw how difficult it was for, you know, Fisher Navy to cap it basically with like
four and a half minutes, I think, and it's definitely doable on a map that's this long
where the response are so far apart, like you're mentioning Earth and Mars.
I think that this is definitely possible for Fisher Navy to come back from, especially,
You know a good old blizzard full hold is never out of the question
Fisher Navy also at the pull off a reverse sweep
Defending is
Always less pressure than attacking
Just gotta react in react to that ivory
Not connect there, but it definitely shook Fisher Navy a little bit
That mythic is really sick, I love the spider. Actually I hate it because I hate spiders, never mind.
Oh, okay, well, at least they tried.
Bellevue will try to be scary on their offensive front, but Avery on the Domina, and man, take it so much damage,
waits to place the shield down when they're at critical health, so there's a good balancing of resources for Avery.
Pressing pay attention to everyone has to Suzu Avery just to keep them up, and Fisher and Avery it's okay to take these passive fights
of fights and build up towards some ults.
I'm playing this one, that's how it starts coming in, some pressure being done, but they're
being so respectful.
Snau gets taken down very early by Avery, and Mari's soon to follow.
It's falling apart right now with Fischer Navery.
Wait, Snau, that's not allowed.
Snau can only die to Avery.
Okay, not Avery, Avery.
That's the one V1 that's going on.
Everyone's disrespecting that.
But also Belvier disrespecting Fischer Navery, my brain heart, I know, me too.
N-Souls also collided here for Bellevue to get the point cap almost instantly, so this
time bank advantage is pretty serious.
Five and a half minutes for them and they're going to start taking away this high ground
right now from Fisher Navy trying to put the pressure down, see if they can find stealthy.
They're very low luck to survive.
Fisher Navy, I like this high ground approach ready to absorb as much pressure as I can
off the dominant shield, and Mari stands tall, Bellevue could maybe try to counteract this
aggression with a Katsune rush, Mari has to be careful, Avery will disrespect it and try
to chop down the squishy next to the fake, and it's successful! Bellevue, how they get
punished on the approach, I thought they may have got some picks off Tissue or Navy,
but this defense is flawless.
It's been pretty good right now, and I mean again they're gonna have to be
doing this, I like that they're taking actually the close hold rather than just
like waiting for them to go and have that high ground because now just getting out
it's like a World War I trend so just like every inch you have to take to get
out of spawn is just more time wasted off that clock in without such a high
time bank every second is just so valuable for defense of this.
Sure maybe, but I really balance their aggression as well. You don't want to give an in for
Veldu and Ivory will just kick the door down and make an in of his own.
I'll be back alight in triple and killing pirate is huge the continued fresh had just been dropped so fish or navy
Don't have that wing condition now and don't have any healing at all
And now it's gonna be all that space is gonna be created for Bellevue, which is the biggest thing
They're also gonna have control of this high ground because Mari is not in this game play
But you have a sound barrier to try and get back in there and reconcast on that high ground
Which you might need to do because the spam
Oh god, it's now once their revenge and all hush-cock out in the open!
No we're going!
Regina still believes!
The sound barrier popped, Pauline pulls hers out, seconds, and that's all Fisher needs
to tilt the scales.
There's a lot of office using this fight but it ends up being a complete win for Fisher
Navy who again, we keep talking about that time bank, started at 5.5 minutes, now has
been dwindled down to about 3 and there's no semblance of a respawn advantage if
If anything, the respawn advantage is for Fischer Navy on the defensive where the cart is right now.
So they're looking pretty decent. It feels like we're a little bit of deja vu with where the positions are.
But that big difference right now are those continued Russians.
Huched just a little bit ahead and that might be the go-kart.
Big hero plays are coming out of the snow livery just like that.
The snow pulls ahead for Fischer Navy.
But the path continues for Bellevue trying to lead their way to the right side to safety.
but now she's trying to progress the cart towards the box of victory and staying behind the Avery shield.
Fisher Navy, try to challenge the tank and Mari,
put fear into the eyes of Bellevue, will take a step back to gain control back as Avery steps into the arena.
And now Stone creates another offensive front, almost one cleavage pirate confirms the kill!
Fisher Navy, don't have a tank, don't have peels, and Bellevue are right at the finish line!
This could be the end of the Fisher Navy squad in the slower bracket and Bellevue
have created a nightmare and advanced deeper into the lower bracket. Bellevue
continued that lower bracket run the salty run back with a very convincing
3-0 that first map was probably the closest it got but since then it felt
like Bellevue had complete control of this series and never let it go
unfortunately we have to say goodbye to Fisher Navy who did put up a great fight
especially at the end just too many resources for Bellevue made it impossible for them to keep it.
So sad to say goodbye to this team. This was a really good series. I think Blizzard World is
such a doozy to get through because of the strong defenders advantage, but we got to see kind of
of the most hype Emery mirror between Ivory and Snell, where it honestly went back and
forth. I'd have to actually see the stats. I don't want to throw out a clear winner until
the numbers tell that story, but who did you think won that 1v1?
I think it was really close actually. I don't know if there was a distinct winner,
because it felt like it was a heavyweight boxing match where Snell would sometime
have the upper hand, then it was the other side with Ivory. I do like a lot that
what I saw from Fisher Navy and what I'm sad to see didn't go. The jet pack cat
Cassie's stuff was really fun, really really fun, but unfortunately at the very
end that was just not enough to bring them past a very very good Bellevue side.
So yeah, big congratulations to Bellevue with this sweep. They move on to the
lower bracket quarter finals and we're still waiting to hear updates from the
other matches that maybe took a bit longer than this one, but hey that's
That's where we throw to a commercial break because after this we're going to have an
interview with Bellevue before we jump up to the upper bracket semifinals.
So that's going to be really fun.
Hope to see you there.
Don't go anywhere.
Welcome back everyone to the Overwatch Collegiate Playoffs.
We have none other than the Goat on Tank, Avery from Bellevue University joining us for an
interview.
Congratulations Bud, what a series and in a sweep.
How was it for you though?
Oh my god, you were so aggressive out the gates on control center against that domina.
I love that.
I mean it was great.
I just sit back, I let stone carry me, but with my carry and I just let my team win.
There you go.
Okay, that's fair.
It definitely worked out.
And one of the things I'm kind of interested in to get your perspective of is the cat
because we saw some funny things about the cat
and it feels like it can sometimes throw wrenches
into what teams are wanting to do,
you know, by putting the high noon in the air
or something like that.
Is that something that you're seeing a lot of?
Is it kind of like cheese?
Like where are we at with your views on the cat?
I mean, honestly, I think Jetpack, that's good,
but I think the vast majority of teams
that we scram and play against don't play it
just because it's a little more gimmicky.
And we've all been playing Kiri Lucio
for like five years now or whatever.
So I think for us, it's like we didn't want to invest the time into learning how to play
Jetpack Cat because we just knew we could play Curio Lucio, but I think it is good.
I don't think it's like a bad character at all and it can definitely catch a soft card.
It caught a soft card a little bit on Lee Zhang for sure.
And speaking of new heroes, y'all seem to be pretty big fans of the Emre.
Where do you think he sits in the meta?
Because it was really fun to watch Ivory versus Snell, especially on Blizzard World.
Yeah, I mean I think Emre is, I was honestly an Emre believer before the buffs, but after
the buffs he's definitely pretty good, so it still has her place if you're trying to
be more mobile and more survivable as a backline, but Emre on maps where you're not moving
your core a whole lot, I think it's very powerful.
So talking about kind of like going through the rest of this bracket here, because you
know you're on the top side, now you're going through the lower side you get a lot
of momentum here, you know is there, how are the comps like and how's the structure
like between your team and the dynamic, you know, now that you're in that lower bracket,
getting nice 3-0, get to start that momentum, like who's kind of keeping the cooler heads
in your team? Oh, I mean, I think we've had, we've had a really rocky season overall, lots of
losses that were pretty emotional for us. So I think we kind of came into this weekend, like
we've been through the ringer, we've had a lot of tough moments, but we are mostly just,
We want to have fun. We want to just have a good time, especially me, because it's my
last term here. So I just want to go out and have fun no matter what our lose. If we lost
today's match, I think the way we played, it was something that I want to have regrets
about. So that's the big thing.
And it doesn't get any easier in the slower bracket, because I think you faced the loser
of Fisher versus Winthrop. Let's put our producers in one of the cartons right now.
You know, Jordan's on the desk for a hot second.
Who do you think's going to lose that match?
And how are you feeling about that upcoming match,
if it is them?
I mean, honestly, I'm not sure.
I think Winthrop is definitely feels beatable.
By, like, St. Clair, obviously pushing them really close.
We had a game last week in the final, in the Super Weekend
that was pretty close.
So I don't know.
Honestly, I haven't seen a lot of fissure play.
We haven't, like, played them at all the season.
So I wouldn't mind seeing them in Losers' Bracket,
just because it was kind of, we always want to play Fisher.
So, but I'm not too afraid of either of them.
I think we can put up a good fight.
Awesome. Well, I'm excited with the sweep that y'all got here.
It was very convincing.
I think you're ready to take on some big dogs
and become a top dog yourself.
So congratulations, Avery.
It was awesome seeing you play today
and good luck in the next round.
Thank you very much. Have a good one.
Thank you.
Well, that was Avery from Bellevue.
of that sweep over Fisher Navy. So we say goodbye to Fisher Navy, but there's still one Fisher
squad left. So Fisher fans, don't lose hope. Yeah, I mean, that's one of the nice things about
having some multiple teams that, Hey, you know, sometimes one of my teams just doesn't make it,
but I got someone else waiting in the wings. I like that. I like that every said that every
or I'm right was a thing that has been believed in for a very long time, which makes my, you
know, it makes my Turkish heart a little bit happy. I'm fluttering a little bit with
with national pride there.
I mean, so many schools.
They got something to be proud of,
and it's having the best talent in Overwatch.
Carry their banners.
And up next, we're going to take a trip to the upper bracket,
I think, we'll be checking out Northwood, Cumberland.
There's so many good matches too.
Yeah, yes.
OK, I don't know where I am apparently.
But you guys know where you are.
You're on Twitch.tv slash Overwatch underscore eSports
here to farm drops, and you're
going to farm more of them after this break.
We're ready to get right back into the action here for the Overwatch Collegiate Playoffs.
We're jumping up to the big matches, the semi-finals.
So many good ones to pick, we have to flip a coin, and we're with Northwood Blue versus
Cumberland.
And this Northwood team is the one to beat this bracket.
Yeah, our number one seed coming into this one, they have been playing fantastic, full of a lot of players that I think a lot of people have been are familiar with, especially you and I casting contenders in Path of Pro as we did before.
A lot of these players kind of came up through there, some of my favorite players of all time like Rocket for Northwood, really, really loving.
We can take a look at their roster because there's just so much to talk about with both of these teams, especially that Northwood roster.
You look over everyone here, just some of the greatest I think that you've ever seen come out of collegiate end of the Tier 2 system
Yeah, I get shades of infected when I see painkiller that next generation of
Panks coming in taking over the scene and then you got kind of this old
I want to say Old Guard but Rocket was so young when he first started casting up
He's probably just like normal age now
But this guy could do it all and I remember his tracer just exploded onto the seed and he just became
like the player to side and then he ends up in the number one school when it comes to collegiate
overwatch stuff. They got some of the best talent here. Yeah and I mean their record so far has been
impeccable but Cumberland, no slouches either have some names that people are aware of in the next
one as we can take a look at their roster here relatively so we're going to give you a little
bit of a moment to ponder the Northwood roster specifically probably because Domina is there.
Haven very cultured I would say by picking Domina as a DPS player that's what I like to
But Rocket, I mean, you talked about the tracer being like one of the things that was
That kind of brought him up to fruition. The venture has been something that since venture came out
Has been something that Rocket has really adapted to I think they fall out of favor in the meta
Just a little bit with all the other heroes that we've had but maybe hey, don't don't
Don't be surprised if you see a little bit of that rocket venture coming to the forefront and
And Cumberland, I mean, took some upset victories against some good teams before, and they just
came off of a sweep against Fisher Navy, who unfortunately just ended their run.
But Cumberland, they've been flawless throughout this bracket, and I look at this roster.
I look at K, but very well known name in this scene when it comes to hitscans.
So gotta be careful for him.
Yeah, I actually met Cabe in a stadium game once.
Cabe recognized who I was and I was like, oh, he carried the absolute ass out of me.
Oh, it was just Naughty.
I didn't have to do anything.
I think I was playing Ash and he was on Junker Queen and the maps were just over before
I could do anything.
Cabe is the truth, but you know, the other players that we have on here, Naughty,
Kern, Versual and Chef, also really good, and I've been around in that tier two,
three team collegiate scene for a while. And this is another first three but now that we're on the
upper side of the bracket you get that cushion that second life of being able to go to the lower
bracket if things don't turn out your way but I think Cumberland I don't even know if I want to
call them an underdog because they're a very capable team but I think they're a team that
can punch up and it's fair to say that you're going to have to punch up against Northwood
who have been every other top team in Swiss at least.
Yeah, Northwood has been fantastic and realistically, I mean, if you're Cumberland,
you've had some really good wins against like top 20 teams.
They've actually were able to beat Sinclair a little bit earlier.
So I think that this team definitely has the chops to match up against Northwood,
but Northwood kind of like one of the last remaining bastions of this
like of like the the classical overwatch collegiate back in like early 2000 or 2020s.
He's still here and looks like the best team in the tournament.
Northwood, Winthrop looks a little bit vulnerable, but Northwood seems to be that team to beat
right now, and I'm excited that we get to see them for the first time on broadcast,
do you?
I could easily see a painkiller returning to the hazard for Elio's.
That has definitely been the flavor of D.Va has been banned, unless you have like, your
specialists, well, you know, we don't say OTPs anymore, guys.
We say specialists, or masters of, okay, we gotta be nice to the OTPs because they're
low key running tier two now.
But anyway, there's no OTPs here that I know of, and that's where like Hammons and stuff
can come out.
But now everything is pretty much on the table except no Lucio Kiri.
So what's the backup plan here?
It's so interesting and so funny that you talk about like, you know, like the OTPs
and specialist things.
So many of these players that you and I like grew up casting used to be OTPs.
Like, you know, Rocket was just like very much a trace of OTP, grew that hero pool
so effectively.
Same thing with Cave, I believe.
So I really like that we kind of like grown as it like as the as the players have grown their hero pool
They've gotten more hero play
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We're in the upper bracket semi-finals. Okay, no more kidding around and we're gonna be starting here
on who guessed that map well yeah or don't like house no I was on
unfortunate it's like you fail the Geo guess what the three what the three chance
yeah pretty good for such chance oh rock is gonna be on the Genji so this is
one of the things that rocket used to have a little bit of a hard time play
but it's going so much in terms of being able to operate oh my god CJ playing
on it like yes CJ the flex support so great for him but as an automain
Playing it on this map is so sad. Like, Sightline, Dives, but hey, Kerm got a good
file drive and had to leave and everyone from Cumberland got cooked. So, okay.
Are we seeing a real Mizuki actually? I just noticed that we just went, that just
walked out of spawn. Yeah, the chance of change. Alright, actually moving the Mizuki,
which is super interesting because it's one of those aura healers like you have with
the Lucio, but offers a little bit of that flank potential, especially with that ability to
use that ship and get in get out very quickly but you are really reliant on
doing damage. Northwooder certainly doing the damage and CJ maybe trying to
deny some heals to on out the biotic grenades which is a really nice neutral
fight wing condition around that Ana but it's certainly falling out of favor
just with how strong the dive is but thank you there's the one I guess to
do all this diving right now because where is Kerr gotta be going after this
This auto while being wary of the sleep darts, that's what's going to ruin Cerm here, but
Cerm is getting ruined right now, off into the distance at 1 HP, and Northwood are pretty
chill right now.
Yeah, they're just feeling good right now, CJ, almost towards this nano, Wooster's going
to be great throw on painkiller or rocket, finally Cerm is going to start putting down
some pressure on CJ, but it's not going to be too much.
The sleep is absolutely perfect and Cerm is going to end up going down.
The way we could be just casting a nano blade in the near future in the big 26, uh, our players
keep surprising us.
Then the soldier, yeah, and the Mizuki soldier, nano blade, that's gonna be on the menu here
very soon as the cave's ultimate did not get a pick at Northwood, hunt them down,
so this is a very stress-free hundred to zero coming up and painkillers is gonna
It's trapping this form as Zookie virtual fades into pixels and so do the rest of Cumberland who have one last shot at this lighthouse
Yeah, I mean they're waiting for this nano blade and I don't know if there's anything that's gonna be able to deal with it
Maybe chef is able to get towards this rally you can stun the nano blade, but beyond that
It's gonna be a Herculean effort for this Cumberland cycle
Right Miss Zookie ult off into the distance Kern will force over time, but just barely in
No dattle blade! I feel so sad when Haven gets to send Cumberland to Heaven, so we're
being treated with entertainment. And it's gonna end quite swiftly though, because it's
100 to 0 for an Orthoic.
I'm pretty mad that CJ didn't nanorock it there. I don't think, I don't think that
Emory needs any help. The Genji ult definitely needs help. Genji ult needs all the help
it can get, because if you're not nanode, you're just swinging around a broomstick
pretty much in the year of our Lord 2026.
Well, Northwood actually aren't even flawless in this bracket.
They technically lost a game.
But who's counting?
If you're still in the upper bracket, it doesn't matter how you get it done.
But is this throne going to be up for grabs by Northwood?
Who will be their biggest challenger?
And who will be Northwood's final opponent?
Well, Cumberland better wake up and smell victory, okay?
Is that hundred to zero with ugly?
I wonder if we're gonna see any changes from this Northwood side. I don't think so, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
They're kind of the ones who've also been bringing in the Ana more so than anything, so...
A little bit of different versions of what Northwood...
Kind of from what the other teams have been playing, Northwood, straying a little bit from what we've seen as, like, the meta.
Humberland...
Trying to take some safety as painkillers vaulting over to try and kill your DPS.
Painkiller goes almost unpunished, what a wall at 40 HP.
CJ finally notices there's some trouble and Painkiller will regenerate.
Anders gonna be up top thanks to the Haven kills that came around.
Vega keeps us at the edge of our seat for that one and Comberlin now will give up the cap to Northlight.
Comberlin is gonna try and come back in.
It's bigger than WakerCave to get in, they need that damage done as you can see just how squirrely Vega is right now.
hardest he track and feels like Cumberland just a little bit disjointed in their play
right now. They need to wait for all 6 to 5 members to go in before they start these
reputations. Now Cumberland have like abandoned the Hammon
dive so there's nothing that's gonna hinder CJ too much. Cumberland trying to
address this from front to back. They got 99 problems and Vega escapes and
tries to not be one as well. Cumberland don't have Nody in this and
They have no body really to have a strong fight. They're getting wiped out back to back
It feels like we haven't really had fights
We've just had like mini fights throughout all this because the way that pain killer is just holding this face being aggressive alongside Vega
These dives are working out so well and Cumberland really don't have any footnotes to play around and now you've got a nano
Ah, jeez, Cumberland.
Are they just outmatched?
Are they outgunned?
Do they just need the ults?
It's tough, especially when North would take any fights they want and they got Rocky just
mailing with Nano.
They're not even bringing out their full power, but North would will get punished
trying to smell the spawn room gores of Cumberland, but this one is 2v2v3v3 at
and take care of resulting towards your spot.
He doesn't care how many teammates he has.
Yeah, that pig killer is getting very aggressive there,
but it's created enough space.
I think probably eventually Cumberland will get back in here
with their tag and will be able to take the space away,
but they're still walking into a sound barrier,
walking into an embryo.
There's a dupe onto an hono.
That's interesting.
That's not inspirational,
but sometimes you just need plot on it.
You need any on it.
You need Jesus.
Somebody, for Cumberland, help them.
They got the cap, but for how long Northwood has three Olds?
They're not gonna have to door-pank killer extracts!
You're dominoes!
And current fights for their life?
They got the rally, both metaphorical and literally the ultimate,
to try to get them towards the point,
but Cumberland don't have a tank.
So they are exposed and a rocket heads to pressure just that.
The flip about to go through for Northwood,
and this is spelling a map one victory
unless Comberlin can get their revenge and rocket dancing and is on the brink of death himself!
But Kane gets flustered and looks towards the tank! The one thing Anchoring Northwood's doing this
fight and Painkiller gets all the resources including a nano! You just can't kill this
fourth one team! And, well, now you definitely can't because they just left you on Ilios!
Ooh, Northwood are looking good! Yeah, Northwood are definitely showing why they are that number
one seed that we saw coming in from Swith, they just look so crisp and clean even when
they like have these like low health bars and they're in these positions where it feels
like they should be getting taken down and getting killed. It doesn't matter, you're
plays like this from Vega, booping people out. You just have that ability to clutch
up and that's what Northwood has been so adept at throughout basically what feels like
the entirety of the bracket so far.
Well Cumberland, we'll get to choose our next map and if I had to deliver some
cast your coat for you guys. Is that control is whatever Mickey Mouse map? I don't know.
I don't know what to say. Maybe it's just too chaotic and it's really hard to get a good
game plan going, especially when Northwood fight as fast as they do. So you look towards
any kind of payload map that can give you a more planned approach. And if Cumberland
don't take this next map, I fear it's, it's we're going into sweep territory because
I don't think any team can perverse sweep Northwood.
Yeah, I think it's going to be very difficult. Cumberland though, I mean they are the
4th C coming into this so they definitely have the chops do so but I think that one of the things
that's like going to be so interesting is that we've seen we saw like the hazard comp and like the
Genji comp that I haven't seen in like a very long time and so does Northwood even like now it's like
okay Northwood are they gonna play more towards what we have defined as the meta with the rest
of this bracket or like are they just going to keep playing what they're best at because if
they played that composition pretty perfectly against a very good composition on the other end
and it worked out very convincingly.
So I'd be worried if I'm Cumberland that, like you mentioned,
they lose this next map.
It's probably a very snowballable potential
that they get swept.
Yeah, and I don't think they're stemming that bleeding.
And it felt like Northwood weren't even at their full peak.
Like, they felt like they were playing around with their food.
The fact that you didn't see a nanoblade once,
like Rocket got nanod ones, and he didn't even have a blade,
and he's bailing through a break shield.
Like for Christ's sake, like Northwood are not at their full potential yet.
But they could reach that 9,000 energy on our next map here chosen by Cumberland.
We're going to Midtown.
Yeah, Midtown is it. I don't think we've seen a Midtown throughout the series so far
or throughout the broadcast days.
Interesting that it's going to be this one because I think it does actually...
It's going to be hard for them to pilot this Genji Anna composition,
especially because Anna likes to have maps there to live more open,
and it's very easy to just dive onto an Ana and get her little, you know, her old knees
aren't what they used to be, so she doesn't have that mobility anymore.
But to be fair to the credit of CJ, CJ hit a lot of very clutch sleep.
So even if they do manage to get onto that Ana, it is not a guaranteed kill with some
of the caliber of CJ.
And it's, yeah, if you have eyes, you can hit a sleep on a, on a Hammond, but
to force a Hammond to actually swap, that's, now that's Aura from an Ana.
So, Kerb, I think, just struggled to have a follow-up to some of his dives, because they
were quite juicy, but didn't lead to that turn, and that was that 100-0 that they suffered
through on the first map.
But hey, this is the Cumberland playground, and we're getting rid of some important stuff.
Cumberland don't like the Lucio.
They're definitely trying to slow things down, because man, Northwood were constantly
in their face last map.
Yeah, I wonder now if it's going to...
We saw the Domina and I wonder does that kind of bring things into more of being like the Sigma with the Lucio gone
I think as one of the bands. I think Zarya is taking off the table completely because again Zarya
kind of needs
Needs Lucio to have any semblance of being able to walk faster than molasses
So I think that that takes that away and I would I wouldn't be surprised if it's not like a Domina mirror or a Sigma mirror
But then again because of how well North would have been playing they could just continue to run that hazard
And I think this is going to be the last shot for Cumberland, like we said.
You can't win it here on your map pick.
I don't know if you could reverse sweep.
And now it's about the mentors, how experience comes into play, how you're able to bounce
back from a loss like that, and how Northwood amplify what they've already shown us.
Because what I loved about Northwood is that they don't really let you come up with a backup plan or to go to plan B or plan C.
We didn't really get to see any plans at all from Cumberland because Northwood started to push spot.
Yeah, I mean they just push the pedal to the metal and they don't really let go and I think that's one of the high octane play of Northwood is something that I've really been enjoying.
Also interesting, they're going to be continuing to stick on to this double flex support look from Northwood, which is interesting because it's CJ Vega.
I mean CJ it makes sense that there is going to be this play of the Ana, but Vega being
on the Ruyang is interesting to me to start things off because it is going to offer a
little bit of help for Rocket when Rocket is in the air on these flames.
Yeah, these two of Vega and CJ have really liked the double-flat, so, Bumberland, can
I use the Symmetra?
This could be scary to try and teleport to the top left window.
They're going to choose the bottom side and right up my on it from CJ right at
the lap of Cumberland. This is not good, and they lost the break on entry and Juno Solo
heals. Do a bowl, but not going to be pretty. Maybe instead of teleporting to Symmetra to
get Chef back in, because the chef needs to cook in Cumberland. We'll still try to set
up a point cap, start the pressure on, Northwood are surrounding them, and CJ's walled off
from the rest of the team, but it does not matter, because Haven hasn't lost any
HP and if anything he's subtracting the HP of Cumberland who have lost all hope for this first tick
That was one of the dirtiest nades I think I've ever seen
CJ there that was absurd already
65% towards that nano boost and we're really fraught for options here
You can throw it out of the diva cave ends up going down. I should have been more time wasted off the clock
They got a reset here if you're Cumberland again
We talked about how high octane Northwood wants to be and how much pressure they put down
You've got to get these resets out and get them clean. Oh my god, we're bombing spawn?
Where the whoo-yag? Northwood are doing mental warfare. We're diving. Okay, painkiller
Can't keep getting away with this. Upper lane. Do something. Shoot back. At least the spawn is there
So that's always a safety net, but this is this is scary
Very scary in there. I mean they're even gonna be able to get painkiller out of here
The man was still a bit off, the painkiller's got to use that self-destruct, should be able to stay alive.
Made it to the flying note!
That's just, that's just not, that's not possible.
The most mobile character in the game, that's so sa-
Ooh look at, how does he hit that sweep?
CJ! You're that guy!
It is CJ, got a little big character, but...
Um, I guess you get the style on them if your name is worth- uh, Northwich?
He is delivering pain. He is tossing a Juno into the firing squad.
Someone do something! Cumberland! Phoenix! You have to rise from the ashes!
And Cumberland starts by 90 seconds and the defile of the Domino all north of it!
Oh, they just denied any comeback from the Cumberland Phoenix.
Now, with less than 90 seconds, there's some presence on the point, but it's a bit disjointed with Northwood flanking,
attacking from the front, the sides, from the sky. I don't blame Cumberland for being lost here.
Yeah, Blink is gonna end up going down. I'm kinda feeling this luck with CJ's doing, trying to be a little bit of a DPS player right now.
Can they wait in time?
That was an ambitious make. Can they wait in time to proc that overtime?
I mean, there's only one person that's on the fire now. It's not to get that fast.
Yeah.
And CJ was just looking for that moment to set up a team for a re-engage,
and now it's looking cooked, and Ruyang bob in!
Okay, Northwood haven't given up yet! It's not fully capped,
and it's already won down for Cumberland, but it's a 4 versus 4,
And then the attack has been awarded away, Rocket is on the prowl, and that's when you've got to worry.
Self-destruct out, and it causes Cumberland to scatter, and there's really no stable spot to play out if you're Cumberland.
I like Naughty trying to cut off some of the heals, and that state is nasty.
Confirms the kill, but unfortunately for Northwood, the point is already been capped.
Yeah, the dampest it looked nice though right there.
Really heads up to Cumberland because it looked like it was very scary
on that re-engage from Rocket, but really heads up play from Cumberland to kind of keep their head on its rhythm
knowing that that was a possibility, not letting CJ get any fixes.
CJ is behind enemy lines at true health and surely dies here, thank goodness.
Well, Cumberland, they're still trying to punch up and Northwood aren't...
I think showing us their best and at what point does Cumberland make you want to lock it because right now
This is some serious momentum building this attack
After you know, it's really nice that the dream of the headshot
Because you can have a little bit more dynamic play as if you know, it's just like only shooting your DPS
Ankiller Winston Winston does live guys. Oh
Oh, oh, big shot does not live.
Heading, getting that pulse bomb behind the breach shield,
that is not an easy thing to do.
And pulling off a whips to dive, neither is that.
But CJ's got the Nando,
so you know exactly who's gonna get it.
Probably not painkiller,
because CJ just kind of gives it to whoever he wants.
I hope it's painkiller though,
because I would, I would, I would like some Nando.
I would love some Nando,
maybe like Haven or Rocket too,
or like the other options, but.
Listen, you know, people,
if we were just poo pooing how Winston
isn't really a hero anymore. Let's give him an air. He's already been through so much.
He's already been through so much. They'd attack, watchpoint your brawler and the lore and like,
oh, he's just been through a lot. I feel like we've had Winston on him for so many years,
or maybe it's just, oh my god! CJ, you get to kneel on that one. You get to take a few kneels
on that body. That's a second time. One time you could say it's a fluke a second time.
CJ really is just the goat Anna. I mean I was like wondering like hey
Why are there not all but other teams like that are like playing Anna and they're just not it's good. They don't have CJ
Oh, right
You did just seems to be so locked in unfortunately paint killer gets hit by a pulse bomb
So that's not gonna be good for it. That's it still blow trying to test her. Oh
My god eight characters delivering the most swift bomb and touch the squad room doors
So Cumberland have lost a bit of aura and mainly wind in their sails because they have less than 30 seconds
And the court is sitting around the bridge side
Oh
How dare he go for the win Cumberland. Oh the wind is
Not looking feasible for them. I mean it have to be in the second round
but not much more progress we'll see here as painkiller bullies virtual to death and
some nice uh
Primal mechanics there as cumberland the dealer has someone on the cart someone noticed
And vega is 1v2 a oh actually haven't affected you but cumberland won't get much further than this
Yeah, yeah, this is this is this is why northwood is number one
It feels like I mean it feels like a little bit of like them playing with their food
We saw Winston, which again, when you have an honor, I think it works really good and full credit to Cumberland for trying to break out
I like the you know utilization of the break to have that stunt potential and make it a little bit more difficult for the
Dives to come through but when you got a team that's like firing on all cylinders like this and as good as Northwood is with all their players
Very very difficult for anyone to beat them on their day
Well Cumberland at least set a win condition. They got past the point which can be the toughest
hurdle to get through and with how this map started they got better and they started to
punish Northwood like getting after CJ and Nody did a good job on the tracer there. Although
trying to challenge CJ when he actually noticed you coming, man those sleeps were hidden.
So, Gumberlin, gotta respect this backline.
Oh, okay, I like the Torbjorn.
I do genuinely really like this Torbjorn pick,
especially with how Prolethik Rocket was being
on that tracer and the amount of spam potential
that it can bring.
I think it's good, not a fan of the skin
since, you know, it's March.
It didn't, you know, the Christmas season is over.
It's like those people who like right after Thanksgiving
start playing, Mariah, like, what is it?
I mean, Mariah Carey.
I want her to play Christmas with you.
Yeah, Mariah Carey.
You gotta wait till the members at least over you gotta
Well, if this map is not over for Cumberland
We'll be on defense and we're seeing all the
Reinhardt to run a domina down with a cat has been working out. Okay, how did you just
Pay killer is charging towards the next point now. We're capping rocket won't be joining pink
but you know he's kind of an absolute unit he's now gonna disengage cool gimmick northwood but it did not work
Yeah, that is the cheese unfortunately was a little bit moldy there from northwood didn't end up managing to work out very good
I like to switch on to the fair this is gonna be really good against something like that Torbjorn where you can just spam
The turrets not really gonna get a ton of value
Paint killer is now going to go over to the more honorable and more useful hero
I would say
He's going to be Remontra
Surprisingly rockets are
Usually it's your good at the far or the tracer because they usually
There and rocket can literally play it off projectiles tracer
That's why he's on this team and Northwood
Gotta bring the shields up and chef is trying to protect himself from the fire while north would step towards the point
And a shot in the face not able to find an angle against this defense
And Cumberland let it rain from all sides. This is hectic
Yeah, I think I think at this point I mean they don't have a lot of damage right now
Do you know if your pain killer is just standing here with the supports incredible that they're gonna be able to get out
But actually they're not gonna be able to do so the hot cheetos from the Ford morn put in a lot of work right now in Northwood
This is where I think they they kind of start in the lock in you a little bit
You know you're seeing the Embray you're seeing the rematch where you're seeing the Juno
We're off the a little bit more of those sillier heroes ever seen
And I like how far back Cumberland are playing, because then it's harder for North with entry, as I say that Rocket is setting up camp in the enemy backline, and this is dangerous.
Katsune Rush at decent advantage here for Cumberland, because Vega is about 18% away from his, and that's enough for Northwood to have a soft reset. I like that.
Yeah, I'm so glad. I'm so interested in what we're going to see with this molten pork, because I think just putting it directly onto that Katsune Rush is going to be coming out from Vega will be a good enough job.
Soon a rush from Vega in a Briggs face. What the hell?
It's like if all Kiri just put the bird at you and while that is the type of aura that Northland brings to the table, but it's not been pain-free because they've lost the bodies of their own.
Pain killer has some support left, but the DPS will be on their way.
Almost the second tick now has been gathered, and Cumberland wait for their re-engage off the calls from Curve,
who now steps into the arena for one last contest.
The minute left is because we have Cumberland, and he steals the win from Northwood!
And the orbital ray from CJ, because the reign's held out on Cumberland,
just didn't have any ult to match that, so Northwood, get away with it.
I don't think we're able to get another lease on life, three and a half minutes.
I mean the way that Cumberland has been defending has been pretty good
But now it does feel like North would have gone back over to their try and true with a lot of these picks that we're seeing right now
Painkillers also gonna have this ultimate and if they fight like in that lower area as enclosed as it is with Cumberland
This annihilation is gonna get so much value. Painkiller is very very popular right now.
He's scouting. Oh, they just watched Akiri and now the jig is up and you have Rocket and Tandem
Cumberland's surprised and pain killer the annihilation does not last long Northwood didn't know how to bail on how in such a small room
So the Hail Mary player from Northwood hit stifle
You know what you know pain killers probably saying right there space created that's me. That's all
Space created the cars under the under here, so it's not too bad for
Nice to use you actually immediately for the bigger to stop the study, but it doesn't have a matter
I'll occur in stepping into the spotlight. Got the mitts out here to throw hands with supports.
You know, typically Adobo should not be able to get that close to your supports.
But Northwood are more focused on the high ground while Cumberland, the blocks of victory, is right there.
So they almost gotta fight right here and right now. Northwood getting close to their Katsune rush,
but virtual has theirs first. Now maybe they're feeling like they've got to just react to what Northwood
have in store and Cumberland have a lot on their plate from balancing a fight on
the high ground so that Northwood don't drop on them to also anchoring the car.
Kitsune rush second now from virtual, hold exchange, Cabe unleashes through,
everything through Northwood and no matrix and nothing will stand in
Cumberland's way. Cabe is alive and well! It would absolutely nuts in that
teamfight is gonna be able to completely take out everyone and now I'm a little bit worried if I'm
Northwood here because you're gonna be walking into this teamfight in this enclosed area
and this time there's a molten core so nobody can just drop that down in the teamfight and make it
so difficult for Northwood to catch. This is not a lot of time for Northwood and feel like
you hit a brick wall. Gabe, Athletus Star to watch and a molten core lays down the ground
work for a Cumberland tie series, maybe? But Rocket slashes through the heart of one
with the orbital ray. Northwood feel like they could zone up Cumberland, but the molten
core makes Northwood hesitate. The self-destruct, haven hunting, it's all over for Cumberland
when it comes to Midtown. And perhaps this series, Northwood dancing on corpses as
they take Midtown.
Northwood looking really good on that map pick of Cumberland. Cumberland put up
a good fight made northwood work for it but when northwood really started to turn it on it completely
shifted games gonna get played a game for a really nice play on the ember it would matter too much
in the grand scheme on that score line but man it's nice to see them we're seeing northwood kind of
switch up some things a little bit in terms of their accomplishment you know we saw some cheeky
wind heart play which i don't think is actually ever going to be real i think you only do that
if you think you can guarantee something like a pin and then beyond that it's just like oh i'm
stuck behind any lines, I guess I'm dead.
Yeah, the the gimmicks were hilarious from Northwood,
but you got Northwood to actually lock it.
So I gotta appreciate that level of performance from Cumberland
to force this down to what the last 30 seconds of the game or something like
that and uh really a resilient Cumberland team
that just never gave up, never surrendered, even though the spawn was
getting ulted by a Wu Yang bomb. You had a charging Reinhardt and you're looking up like
William Dafoe. Like, I felt like some of the BM stuff that Northwood were doing would
make me log off. But Cumberland, they stayed as strong as they could until the very end.
And it's not the end technically. It's a 2-0 now for Northwood. Cumberland will have
one last choice.
Yeah, I will say that they have better mentals than you or I when we play something
like Ragnos or something like that. After a game like that where I just see a team
That's like playing a little bit played mystery heroes on me and then they still would I'd be like, okay
You know, maybe I take a little bit of break go walk outside or something like that
Yeah, touch grass still Cumberland are fighting and trying to get back into this one as best as they can
They still have another map pick in their back pocket here as we go into this map 3
But it's gonna be a very tall climb for them to try and get back into the series because we talked about it before map 1
You know with how convincing that was this looked very sweepable for Northwood and they're trying
I think to continue that theory and I don't know a strength from Cumberland
That can't be also matched from Northwood because Curve
I think a lot of the the map choices that you go to on a team are really centered around the comfortability of your tank
And what is the style that you're building around your tank because there's the brawl specialists?
There's dive specialists. There's the jack-of-all-trades and Kermis showed us some Hammond some really different stuff the Domina
So, I feel like the Domino was the best look, unless they want to go to a Hammon map where
Blizzard World we just saw was amazing for Hammon.
But I feel like Comfortland looked the most stable when they had some kind of a shield
like a Domino.
Yeah, I think the interesting word that you use there is stable because I think one
of the things that Northwood is doing so well is even when you are stable, they're
just completely ruining you with the way that they're playing in terms of just
the difference in their compositions, their ability to swap.
We talked about how you I think you said it perfectly where it's like
I don't know if there's an advantage that can be matched on the other side
And it's because Cumberland or north would have all of these very adept players very experienced players and very
Skillful players so where exactly is that advantage going to come from it comes from sometimes where they have these clutch plays from like
Cape for instance and I think if you can enable cable a little bit more that is what can make these
this series a little bit closer and
And I guess we can report on the rest of the bracket. So St. Clair did sweep Cleveland State
They move on in the bracket and
Belvia is already waiting to face the loser of Fisher-Wintrep while the loser of this match faces St. Clair
So you better be ready to bounce back regardless of how this series goes
Because if you thought this was the final boss wait for the one of the other final bosses
that's in the lower bracket.
That's one of the great things about DoubleM where it's like,
oh, okay, we get an extra life and we get to play,
you know, we get to go down to the lower bracket and play someone.
And then you're like up against a giant and you're like,
oh, no, what has happened?
Like this is a bit spooky for us and we just got beat down by someone
who was also a giant in the upper side of the bracket.
Yeah, there is so many juggernauts in it.
I just want to say how much I appreciate all the colleges
and universities that have invested into their e-sports programs because this is the open bracket and the varsity program also features seems like Fisher and Winthrop and Northwood amongst others so.
It's cool to see how much talent has been brought into collegiate because of these colleges and how they're developing also the next generation of talent.
amazing platform to play while OWCS is on break or while face you're not
playing in face-it matches because I know these players they're putting so much
out there play it from OWCS to face it to also collegiate like it's 24-7
Overwatch. Yeah and I mean I think we talked about a little bit earlier where
it's like I love the amalgamation that you have of the players you know from
different walks of life in Overwatch where it's like you have your you have a
touch of OWCS pros you have some calling all heroes pros you have
some players from facetly like all just like kind of coming in to collegiate and making it as
interesting as a product I think for Overwatch eSports as you have as we do have our next map it
is going to be Ishparanza, Kiriko taken off the field and Domina taken away so that means that we
aren't going to be seeing that like little advantage of a wrinkle you said from this side of Cumberland.
Yeah the Northwood ban makes a lot of sense I'm just surprised they did it because
I would have been like, yeah, we could beat you on anything, even your best heroes.
So this will force a pivot from Kerm on to what I was hoping he would play.
And no carry, a lot of support bands by the way, like no Lucio carry, it's been a lot
of double flags where I feel like that's CJ and Vega's wheelhouse.
So, bread and butter, I love bread and butter, but how very French of you to
love bread and butter.
I know, right?
Hey, you too, man.
Wait, we told St. Clair if we get another interview, well we'll ask them their real thoughts, but only in French.
Oh yeah, so only the French speaking people in chat, I think there would be people who would be very unhappy with us to do that.
I'm getting the truth out, okay?
Yeah, we could just get a few words in in French and they don't have to know.
I think, when I think of Northwood and I think of like Pickban phase, I'm like, where do you
really go with like Pickban?
Like, can you ban this team out?
Because I've seen them play like a bunch of different things.
Like I've seen them play like, I mean, even from Painkiller alone it's been like what,
five different heroes?
Yeah, way too many.
That's what I said.
reiterate that Cumberland, unless they have some hidden jujutsu up their sleeve, I don't know what
they could surprise Northwood with that they're not going to be capable to mirror or match. And
it's cool to just see more double flex support because like Rack was saying in his interview,
feels like we've been playing like five years of Lucio Kiri and now we get to see
different back lines. But on Esperanza, if you lack that speed, it's kind of tough to
lead that race to the end of the road. And we've seen Juno and even some Mizuki, so
there's some other options of utility. I think that, like, again, we did see a Mizuki, that's
right. I think this has been, I feel like this has been the map where we've seen the most,
like different things like the most variety and breadth of like hero
selection compared to like all the other maps because we haven't even seen
vendetta yet I don't think right oh oh yeah that's weird right like I feel like
I've seen today to every series in this series it's just been like no like not
even for them to be this good and not overly relying on vendetta
Sometimes you could be like, oh, meta slaves, whatever, like winning off of Vendetta, whatever.
But Northwood are able to beat you on some really old school stuff, like Genji, like
double flex support.
Reinhardt for five seconds?
I don't know.
It would be so funny to me if Northwood brought out this composition.
I remember casting this comp in contenders way back in the day with a bunch of these
players that were on this.
The Jettler Queen, the Sojourn and the Genji.
This is a, this is, we are going back in time a little bit with this meta.
Lucio Juno, the orbital ray, there's always a good substitution.
It's like a budget, can you do a rush, kind of, if you're squint hard enough?
But I'm liking what Cumberland brings to the table, but how about an axe to the face?
Who cares what your plan is?
Cumberland had their backs against the wall and seemed pretty healthy from the first encounter,
as Nody's already forced to recall, and you gotta be as conservative as you can with it,
because Rocky- Rocky is gonna be ready to tithe you at the moment you see weak.
Oh, this pretty good. It's in a bad position right now.
The axe comes in, and it's an annihilation already.
So much healing has been lost.
Oh, Nody with that kills both supports?
Wait a minute, I'm underestimating Nody.
He knows BALL when it comes to Tracer.
That is an insane pick, and Cumberland will get some progress going,
although Northwood stole some initial.
Yeah, and I think it's actually going to go over to the M-Ray,
and I think Northwood is going to see what this composition is.
I actually think this composition is really interesting,
because of the fact that Junker Queen doesn't really, like,
have an ultimate when Kiriko is on the board.
But now there is no Kiriko,
so Suzu isn't there,
Clems isn't there,
and Rampage actually is an ultimate
that has value in some of these team fights.
Cumberland stuck at the choke, stalled out, rock it, and his Lucio Vega there on the bridge trying to bring a fast fight to Cumberland, though losing your tracer doesn't inspire you to want to face that Genji head-on, so Kerm takes shelter and barely stays alive.
Ray is forced for virtual to bring the tank back up to snuff and Northwood is completely back away from it and
Maybe not completely Northwood will still hang it around but Cumberland don't have the picks off of that orbital ray
Nobody has to have the recall force so that means that there's not gonna be a very aggressive tracer in this team
I like that Cumberland aren't overly antsy. Like, if you don't have a good fight, don't take it, don't rush into things.
But now the ball is in Northwood's court, and we know what they can do. They could hit this for an absolute hold.
Ron and CJ's got you over the way, you got Rocket with a blade, heading to the back line, and Cave is mid-flight,
and cut down by the wings, and Cumberland, a post bomb hits into Haven,
even, but Cumberland don't have anyone left to pull through, so Northwood, get in the lead.
And I mean that was really aggressive from Northwood, but I'm also extremely patient,
like I love the way that this team can just flip a switch and just understand like now
it's our turn, now we can go, chef unfortunately is not able to pull out that Bravita rally
to get any of the over healing done, and now Northwood gonna just pull back, Northwood
gotten this captain just gonna go back to the high ground continue to poke down as
best as they can and make Humberland be the new brushes.
57 meters, Humberland playing around the corner Northwood taking the power
position of the high ground to see what pigs haven't could generate but rocket
was not saved in time. Kermit with a big punish but oh the rampage right
through the tank. Kermit will float like a butterfly, thing like a bee, but the
and you've got to scramble. You've got to squabble up against it, and the teamwork from Northwood is simply too strong.
Then come for them, solo the bot, so Northwood has some, some Lightroom to make up for.
Yeah, I mean, if there is one, you know, ray of sunshine and this eternal storm, it's that Cam is able to get CJ right there, and win that one.
But also, it was able that they were able to take the bot, because that would have been so much more progress right here for Northwood.
They would have made the lead almost insurmountable. I feel like at that time
But hey, they still has the ability to get this ultimate hat right here in the 16th fight and there's nothing to deal with it
Yeah, this is easy for cumberland to get back up. That's my back. That's my bad for cast recursing it
They've been shot through the trees. Okay, I didn't even see virtual
I don't know how I even did maybe just look the trees. They're in the tree
are doubling the score now and remember Humberling still have to reverse sweep
this is bad news
I mean I'm really loving what I've seen from Northwood where they are checking
Nody significantly on these evasions that is a lot of damage put on the turn
and Nody just trying to do the best that they can but it's just not enough
look at the swarm they're like mosquitoes or bees and wasps just
taking down this lonely tracer. I hate all of those and I'm sure virtual
hates dying in a little bit of orbital ray that's supposed to be the thing that helps you win and how
can you win when Haven is watching you from the heaven and shooting down at you and even a pole
oh my god oh my god haven't you can't do it to the behalf of families off that aim is just
filthy from north was there on the ottoman chief that is emre and a fight that looked like it
was going to be cumberland's to have just does not end up working out at all you look at the
support options right now for northward so much more in their favor this is
easily getting to the hundred meters is the red zone for overwatch and CJ or
more a cumberland don't have support old and they're facing a salivary leg
north water investing the blade to their sick of cumberland two kills come in
and cumberland disengaged they run like the wind and except except Kate
He's not getting out of this one right here.
Yeah, he was just gonna be, he's not along for this road, I think as they say.
Oh, come on CJ, CJ, you didn't have to do all that, okay?
You know, it's already 2-0, you're probably gonna 3-0 with the full cap, okay?
That's a little bit much there, a little bit extra, the spice thing is a little bit.
The feedback came in so late, because I would have started doing it sleeping the
tracer, okay?
He's better than me.
I want to see that go earlier.
But Cumberland, they gotta bring it back, or the bag will be fumbled.
There is a lower bracket to explore, but that is a tough road, rampage, out of the tough road,
as Cumberland, Heverage, and break apart at the seams, and there's just no standing up
with no such Joker Queen in the backline.
Cumberland, just stall what they can on the cart before spawns come in, but...
I don't know what a comeback... I don't know if a comeback is seen...
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Wait, what?
Fortale hold on wait. That's the way back in it's the way back in it's the only way it feels like back in
It's not looking back, but cumberland are coming out of spawn so that's the advantage they have so it's not a full cap
They might not be back, but they might not be dead
Question mark. I mean that's like the the the best I can give them right now
They still have a long way to go and that time bank is dwindling significantly for them
They have only that two and a half minutes
So they have to basically be perfect from here on up
But they do have double support ultimate which is gonna be nice and it's significantly ahead of what Northwood has
Cumberland they got a rise from the ashes and haven't is trying to burn them to a crisp
I like the response of the sound barrier though
That's huge from chef and noise would ha completely off far in the midst of that fight outgunned and outweigh source
In Cumberland get to advance some progress
And they might have to get a checkpoint too which would be huge for them and winning that fight relatively quickly only 30 seconds off
The block they did have to force up the sound barrier which is gonna be a little bit spooky here
But again now that virtual has got this
Juno orbital ray way before CJ doesn't mean they can use that as tempo get more aggressive and see if you can
The ultimate comeback for Cumberland.
They were really trying to keep us on the edge of our seats.
And it's gotta be flawless, less than two minutes.
Herm is scrambling, Orbital Ray has to support him.
Rocket has to fight in the middle of that rain with a blade.
I don't know what he's cooking.
And Northwood has burned up to a crisp.
A rampage does get two's.
So Northwood are still barely hanging on and Painkiller becomes a raid boss to salvage this for Northwood. I can't believe it
Yeah, that is absolutely so insanely clutching. That's what I think I'd love about the joke
The game is that if you can hit a big rampage like that any fight is wonderful
as Nody ends up taking a shrapnel to the face right there and
Northwood, I mean, this is this is such a wallet diff this next team fight that they're gonna have
They're both support all through us to work with they have the lead
It's gonna be a miracle for Cumberland to come back into this one. They do have Cabe who's on that sojourn with the overclock, but that's asking so much
of Cabe to do to bring him into the fight.
Yeah, nobody can't double-pull Cumberland to supports. Well, you can do anything when they got a sound barrier too, so Cabe will overclock once that sound barrier
dissipates, but the pressure rocket is
strangling you to death and it's ever so
self-cating to be against Northwood the best collegiate team that we have in
our bracket 30 seconds left until it's the end of Cumberland in the upper
bracket. You're even walking into a Juno ultimate so like is there even a
way back into this one I don't think so Jen I think Northwood is gonna storm
their way into that upper final they look so cool calm and collected so
crisp and clean. They are poised. Let's take it all the way to the next round.
Cumberland gets jumpscared by an attacking CJ, one that wants to make you kneel one final
time. The open array will just consume Cumberland. This they just thought they could touch the
bot and keep the party going. The party ends here, 133 to 61. That's not just
the statement that is domination and Northwood head to the upper bracket final.
They're looking like the best team in collegiate they look like the number one
seed I mean this Cumberland's are no slouch either I mean Cumberland is what? The fourth
seed. The fourth seed of the tournament and Northwood just completely completely
took over with Pankler on the structure and the crazy thing about
Gen is that Northwood is winning without playing what you would describe as like the meta right
there's winning with different compositions completely we saw no vendetta from them at all this series
gotta respect the non-vendetta win and especially a genji win because it is so hard to gap close
on genji and oh yeah there was lucia there was just no carry that map so it had a bit of speed
But mainly it was like what you know, and I don't even know it was it was either flanking or dashing doing whatever
He wants the only time he didn't do anything
He's what he wanted is when he tried to blade in the middle of an orbital ray and well, thank God that did something
You have to hold to kill rocket. That's how difficult of a guy. He is yeah, and I mean
It's just it's just so
Crazy to see that these teams have all had or that north one in particular have just been
So good at so many different things and it makes me worried about the rest of the bracket
It's like where do you see anything in terms of the pick-band phase of the map phases, right?
Because it's like okay
It feels like they can play anywhere play anything and play it at such a high level that they don't really care
What you play is a map pick is a map or pick is a band?
Well northwood are in the upper final, but it's not over for Cumberland
we're actually gonna follow them around to the lower bracket because they got
St. Clair as their next opponent and we'll be jumping into that match to see
how the day will go or end for Cumberland. Will it be smiles or sadness? But I know
we're gonna see big smiles from Northwood because we have them for an
interview coming up next so they'll go anywhere.
Welcome back, everyone, to the
Overwatch Collegiate playoffs.
We are joined with a very special
with none other than pain killer coming off that sweep win from Northwood. Thank you so much for
joining me on your phone for this quick little interview. How was that series for y'all? It was
very entertaining for us with the cat gimmicks. Yeah for us you know our main focus is obviously
going to be on getting to the Grand Final and playing versus Winthrop. So Cumberland actually
a really good tournament you know they'd be St. Clair in the Swiss but for us you
know we were looking at that match more as to us like well, so it was Winter and they were losing on.
Awesome. I think we got some of that. Yeah I'm interested kind of okay so talk to me a little
bit about the bracket because you know you're going to be playing up against Winter eventually
You might have to play them a second time.
What do you think is that matchup going to look like between you two?
Because we've seen Winther play a little bit more of that standard style.
And you, you know, this is the first time you've been on broadcast,
you just brought out so many different things.
I think in terms of like heroes, we've seen North would play more heroes
than anyone else that we've seen on broadcast today.
Tell me a little bit about how you think you match up against Winther.
Yes, so when we played against Winther up in the twists, we beat them 2-0.
They were playing with Kalooch.
I think in their matches today, they were infected, so that really goes a lot into the prep and to what we're going to be playing versus them.
So, you know, if Infect is playing, we're going to be expecting more like main tanks, maybe more brawl and Winston dive.
But, you know, if Kaluj is in, probably will be like an off-tank mirror for the whole match.
And then last time we fled against them, they tried to ban out our backline.
We actually had Vega and left playing, so we had two main supports playing, and we still were able to beat them.
So I think the priority for us is just playing comps
we're comfortable with, and we know we're actually good at it.
And what kind of challenges has the Northwood team been through?
Because it feels like you guys are this flawless team.
Is it just like a lineup thing that you
have to get straightened out, or what have you really
overcome this season?
So last semester, we lost to ISU and Winthrop.
We beat ISU one time.
I think it was in the Swiss, though, so it was only best of three.
And then we lost them, I think, two or three other times.
And then we also lost to Winthrop once or twice.
So no, I see this semester.
So really, we just hard planned for one team, for that Winthrop team.
And just show up on match day, and we should be good.
Outside of Winthrop, it feels like we got first seed,
as you guys can see.
And playing versus Cumberland, we 3-0.
So for us, I think right now,
were just really dominant in this tournament and we're open to continue that streak.
Okay, so interesting. I kind of want to touch a little bit on the ISU thing because ISU was kind of
this boogie man of collegiate overwatch where it's like ISU's in the tournament, they're probably
going to do very well. Now that ISU is gone, it seems like there's a lot more openness
in the bracket. You were even talking about how there are so many teams that like are having
really good performances. Do you think it's like been that much more open? You guys are
obviously very strong but it feels like this is a tournament where at least maybe like four or five
different teams could win where previously it was like kind of ISU in the field. Yeah I think
looking at this tournament so you have I think the two big teams are obviously Northwood and
Winthrop and then outside of the top two it feels like the next couple places can really be up
for anybody. You have Fisher, St. Clair, you have Cumberland, like a bunch of teams can
can easily just beat each other, like we saw with Cumberland versus St. Clair.
So it is pretty exciting to see and, you know, have different teams that you wouldn't maybe
expect.
Like, I don't think many people are expecting Cumberland to win that match and they did.
And I mean, that's, that's what the competition is all about, you know, making those upsets
and climbing up the rankings.
Well, no upset here because you guys had an incredible series.
Congratulations on this sweep.
That was so fun and also hilarious to watch at times.
Best of luck in the upper final against whoever you're going to face.
Thank you.
Thank you, cheers.
And that was a painkiller from Northwood Blue who just secured their ticket to the upper final,
and we're still waiting to see who will face them next between Isher and Winthrop.
But I like that painkiller is still ever so serious.
I thought they were having more of a fun time with all the gimmicks that they threw out there.
Yeah, and I think the other thing that was, I also appreciate Painkiller for getting on
the phone, you know, and by any means necessary, we got to get an interview with the Northwood
folks.
But yeah, I really like that, you know, kind of what they said about everything in terms
of being able to play like the teams below and like making those upsets and how it is
so competitive.
And I mean, even though Northwood played really, really well today and had that very
clean 3-0, I think the, the gap between like those top two teams and the teams that
are like a little bit after that with the spaces isn't necessarily that, you know,
as big as it was previously
and
we have a pretty amazing match coming up at the other semi-final
is sure for his winter in a crowd myself the lower bracket will continue
to maro but we've got also a day three we have championships sunday and only
one team will remain at the end of this so don't go anywhere folks report
to a quick quick break and we'll see on the other side
I
Welcome back everyone to the Overwatch Collegiate playoffs. We're going to the upper final next.
Fisher and Winthrop have settled the score. Winthrop have advanced to the upper final to face Northwood.
We could not ask for a better match than this.
Yeah, this is a grand finals preview, I am assuming, right now with what we're going to be seeing.
I mean, to be fair, to what we said, you know, Painkiller, we had that interview.
seems like the top two is pretty standard right now, but hey, anything can happen once we make it to that lower bracket.
St. Clair pushed Winthrop to basically the complete edge show.
It's definitely possible for this to potentially be that Grand Finalist preview like I was talking about,
or maybe things get shaken up tomorrow in the top four.
Well, thankfully for Fisher that match was off-screen because according to our admins, it was a sweep in favor of Winthrop.
So if this is went from peeking north would better watch out at least very much lock-in
This is gotta be the match of the day
Which is really hard to beat after what we saw at the start of the day
Yeah, and you know what else is gonna be hard to beat Jen
We got some that's some announces some little bit of announces right now overwatch collegiate is heading back to land
2026 and a CE finals come out April 25th and 26 to full set full sale University in Orlando, Florida
Florida for an in-person showdown featuring the top eight varsity teams, the top two open
teams battling it out to be crowned varsity and open channels, and the best part, Entry's
completely free.
What more could you ask for, Jen?
And in Florida where it's nice and hot anywhere from, well, at least St. Clair are going
to be there.
They're going to be happy to leave Canada for a little critic.
It's a little cool there, but it's also cool to see a lot of the varsity teams
compete in the open we get to see what they're like against and how they stack
up against all the different teams but now we gotta settle this uh... saturday
here with an upper final and championship sunday is really going to
decide our big champion so it's gonna be tough
course yes and i think one of the cool things about
what we have here now that i mean as much as i
you know the moment that the fact that i see was not in collegiate workers i
really liked that program and was really attached to it and all they did for Tier 2 and the
scene in Collegiate. Having this more open bracket where you can have a team like Northwood
who felt like Northwood, the thing about them would be they would always get to the final.
It was either like a Maryviller, an ISU being there waiting for them and now they are
the ones who are going to be at the number one seed, taking us potentially to that
grand final. You can check out their roster. A lot of these players need no introduction.
just saw most of them right now, but I think that this team is poised, especially what we saw, to take it all the way to the Grands.
This is a stacked roster, and you just heard from Painkiller how confident they were feeling going up against Winthrop, and how can you not be when you're able to play anything you literally wanted.
But that was against Cumberland, like we saw the rocky Genji, we saw the double flex support,
We saw Haven being an MVP on the M-Ray. Like, this is such a versatile team.
Yeah, this is a really versatile team. There's not really much you can do to pick and ban them out,
it feels like. But we also have on the other side, Winter, who we saw earlier on the broadcast today,
get pushed to limit by St. Clair infected with the Hammond. That's where my eyes go
directly because that is kind of the linchpin for how these series end up going. Where is that,
you know are they going to be able to deal with infected on Hammond and you
heard from Painkiller that they've been prepping for this Winthrop team
specifically so they probably know all this you know all the strats that Winthrop
are bringing to the table. It was so fun to watch Winthrop
earlier on and Rack who was really wishing he could play at the cat at
least he'll get to sport the portrait and have support of the
family watching but Zira's tracer is the thing I'm
I'm going to watch too. That guy went sicko mode today and Sam can flex to literally anything.
I have no doubt we could easily see some anything from Vendetta to something outside of that
because we can't even deny Sam on the Echo 2, which has always been a niche pick of
his when it comes to control, but really also flexible roster.
Yeah. I mean, that's your point that you mentioned with the tracer. Can you imagine
Rocket versus Zera matchup on the tracer. Oh boy, we're gonna have some good overwatch today
Jen as sure as God made green apples. This series is going to be five
I hope it's gonna be five maps for everyone out there who's like I need a little bit more time for my drops
Or yada yada yada, but we're gonna have to wait a little bit unfortunately for the tracer matchup because it's banned out first map on the
Oh boy
So now the double flex support special from Northwood featuring Vega and CJ you better watch out
I think lefts unavailable right now
So he'd be very sad to see this Lucio bad
If I'm zero I'm also very sad to see this tracer band
This is gonna be a banger y'all. Let us know in chat who you got winning this Northwood or Winthrop or maybe you already put your channel point somewhere
I don't know. I'm not there
This is the upper final y'all only one grand finals ticket for one of these teams
We'll see where we go on to our first Li Jiang map and without Lucio
I mean that kind of for me would just remove Zarya from the equation completely because again Zarya
molasses without the Lucio and I think that this is actually it's gonna be interesting now that Tracer is gonna be available
throughout the rest of the series because you know taking it away from Li Jiang Li Jiang is a very good tracer map
But there are also a lot of maps that are in the pool that are phenomenal for Tracer.
So that I think that does mean we'll get that Zera Tracer like you've been talking about matching up against Rocket on the other side.
That's something that I am really, really excited. That's...
I just got a nightmare like I was like, that's a flashback.
I don't remember them being in this tournament.
I know they were good, but I didn't know they were good enough to win a tournament they worked in.
I did not know that.
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And I want to learn more about these compositions.
Is what is Haven going to swap to after this?
Yeah, actually sticking to the Symmetra.
Okay, no.
We're going to the Emory.
The ultimate mirror between him and Sam, Old Guard vs. next-gen.
Really excited for this.
You already have a potential position here for Northwood.
Already on the perimeter of the point.
Xera stepping up into the arena, I should say, and already slashes down CJ.
Still alive and well, I don't know about healthy, though, for Northwood.
They're trying to take shelter in Dojo, and Sam is harassing them on all fronts with Xera.
And they got all the picks they need to get the point first.
And one of the things you're going to have to be looking out for with this tank matchup
in particular that came out, I don't know if you're going to stick on it, because I think that
what you saw is Zura is just able to do whatever he wants on this Vendetta because of the fact that you have Zarya.
And on the other side, there just isn't anything like that. They're going for a bit more of a spammy look with that Rematcher.
But again, look at this, Zura just gets to go in, get ultimate charge, get charge for the Zarya,
and is already at 60% rocket, joining at first.
Oh, come on in Slam and welcome to the Vendetta Jam Zero!
Just got turned into Jam Delft, that's not good, but fantastic for Northwood, who kicked
the door down and a big win for up on entry.
And that's such a tough point of the map to get through and, oh my god, the story
wasn't even ended there with a rocket hungry for blood, so Northwood, back in control.
And I think that's where you're going to have to see a little bit more from Northwood
if they aren't going to be offing in for the Zarya, the rocket's going to have
have to buy more of a peel something like a Vrindedda than just like the very aggressive
one that you saw because you saw Zerat goes in but if you know Rakesh kind of just standing
there holding ground with the supports it's not going to be easy for Zerat to just get
in get out and get free has to respect that incoming damage on the other side.
Watching how Ultraviolence set up this Katsuneir rush, he had it down red carpet style towards
the point seeing if he'll get a free split and North would not be getting so charitable
pain killer gets a close and personal, got the Wu Yang ball on Zira, tries to ground
some of these supports, and now will fade back towards the Mega Pack while Winthrop didn't
seem to have worked for magic despite having a Katsune Rush, while Vega didn't have his
Winter Blast to fight, that is insane.
And it's really fantastic feel from Northwood, using the speed of the orbital ray to get
out of the tidal blast that was coming in through, didn't manage to find any value
from Windrub that combination and now we'll see if Windrub can get back into this one.
Droughton Surge is going to be available. No defensive ult to miss the deal with it,
so I would be looking for Northwood to probably play a little more aggressively
and try and set the tempo themselves in this next fight. Northwood if they secure this fight
they'll take the first round and they have all the tools to do it. Windrub may get a good
Good enough Grav to get the full weight they need.
Pain killer already stepping up.
Haven't let it rain.
The Grav catches a mid-flight and the Winthrop can't follow through.
One Insect is playing all those albs for naught and Northwood still have some in the bank.
And there could be a last second touch, but probably not for Winthrop.
Yeah, you're walking into an annihilation too and also the ultimate from the...
I mean, it's gonna be very difficult for you to try and win this one.
Look at how aggressive Pinker is on you, maybe just a bit too aggressive here.
In fact it has been touched and Tracer's been, you can't swap with that or Lucio, so overtime one's force is getting ugly,
and Winthrop are too unhealthy to sustain through this Northwood.
When the one crashed through, you get to ruin them all and man through the wall and everything.
A hundred to thirty-six amazing stuff out of Northwood.
Yeah, Northwood looked very good there. I mean the first flight looked like it kind of
was a bit scary, especially with how well that Zura was moving with the Zari bubbles. But again,
I really loved the adaptation that we saw from Northwood. Rocket playing a little bit more passively,
waiting for those engagements from Zura, waiting for the bubbles to come through,
and then punishing whenever Zura would have to go back because if the bubbles aren't there,
very easy target to take down as an opposing Vendetta with all of your cooldowns. So really,
really good adaptation from Northwood and understanding of what Winterfw wanted to
to do with their composition.
Northwood is suffocating as ever to go up against, especially when Rocket gets the ball rolling.
He kind of turns into a boulder into a rock slide, and Windrub is still going to try,
as in my mirror, but it's Sojourn vs. M-Ray, and he got the Wu Yang in the picture still.
Windrub don't have control of the server side, and Rocket just holds them from getting
anywhere near it, as Xera is the first blood, and Northwood's smell blood in the water. They're
not even gonna settle for just that! They're coming for the spawn room! Rocket gets away with murder!
I mean, how good is this team right now? How good are they? They have so much momentum in their
back pocket, not even from the 3-0 win, but they just look so... And remember, this is the
first time we're kind of seeing them play, quote-unquote, the metagen, and it looks completely
like the rest of the other compositions that they had beforehand in that last series,
but they were just putting people in the dirt.
At least Racketech should be happy he's not in the Lucio-Kiri Jail anymore.
I know this would be the interview, and...
Hopefully, he's gotta keep the team up.
Win front, have to regain control.
Here comes Zera swinging for the fences!
For home run!
Winstewind all to CJ and takes down two in the process,
but Northwood still did more work annihilating the remnants of Zera's team.
and Winfrey flues a second fight.
Hopefully, keeping up towards that past that 40%.
Painkillers been doing so much work on this Rematra
because you can see Zura is trying to take these very aggressive,
very long flanks to the side, but then Painkillers just saying,
okay, there's no Vendetta, I can go into the backline,
I can get a bunch of damage done, has this annihilation.
Siege also, Urviga's also got this Katsune Rush,
so it's going to be a very difficult fight here for Winfrey
without any resources in the event.
Take a bit of damage, get the Katsune Rush ASAP, but Northwood, they kind of rescue as soon as they have it.
She jumps surprisingly as a Katsune Rush, yeah, and she's kind of magic, the annihilation does, and guess what, it annihilates the Wind Thrupp.
Job done, but not over yet. 70% now for Northwood, but Sulf's wall is here on Leisure Tower.
Yeah, this is looking flawless. It's like, I don't know if there's a better word that you could have used besides flawless, right there, in the way painkiller.
I mean, it has been playing so far ahead of infected on this rematch on ultimate charges.
It's gaining so much more value in Northwood, still get out of that fight with a big win
and so many support ults in their backpockets.
Last shot for Winthrop, and they're so low!
The Wu Yang Ults is the thing that saves zero!
Can you tell it's the fight for Winthrop?
Xe'ra tries to open up fear and submission into Northwood.
The Orbit will ray everyone fairly standing on their own two feet
as rock can hope the cause of the heal!
Oh, but he can only snarl.
Wind Thrupp, they annihilate Northwood off the Rematcher
Ultes, but now they have to do a 0-100 comeback
to even force around three.
And I mean, Zura was literally one.
I know people in like Ranked and like Chowdy
are like, oh, he's one, he's one in like Ranked.
No, that was an actual, Zura was one.
And the peel there from Ultra Violet
was impeccable to keep that Vendetta alive
and keep them fighting.
Now get that chance like you mentioned needing to get a hundred a zero back in the painkiller is gonna come here
Eventually soon with this annihilation and just wreck having I'm pretty sure because winter have nothing to work with
And when the neutral fight and now the rematchers got the gloves out
And it's the haymaker being thrown zero with the assist and he's taking over
The spotlight is on the vendetta and when put stand tall they have lost their Kiriko though
and that's where Rocket can turn it all around.
He's already killed three.
Rocket is a menace and went through a flounder.
What should have been a flight win?
Ultra Violet falling, spelt their demise.
Yeah, Northwood had no business winning that teamfight
and it's gonna be them getting a first map win here,
continuing their run towards that grand final,
towards Orlando because Northwood is playing
out of their minds.
They looked like a well-oiled machine to the highest degree.
Also, this has been Dennis skinned.
We love Nier on a mana.
Fantastic.
That's better than what I said.
I said, oh, I like this emo skin.
I mean, it's very edge lurk.
You know, it's like, it's like, it's like a potato potato, you know?
It's like a kind of, you know, same stuff.
Super edge lurk though, because that blade was sharp.
Rocky, happy to see as soon as he saw that the support was dead.
Rocky was on the job.
This guy is insane at Vendetta and if you can't even say that this is a Vendetta team like you mentioned before it could all be because
They'll beat you up in data and anything else. So loved what I saw in Northwood
And it's so funny too because I remember when I was casting rocket and rocket was like didn't have the hero pool that he had
And like had like this hero puddle one of the big
One of the big things that we would knock him for on broadcast. I was like, oh, yeah
It's like the Genji is just not that good but Rocket has this innate ability to just pick up a hero that feels like it has no
Business being in his hero pool with the tree how good the Tracer is and with how good the Hitscans are and just instantly just be
So good at that's what it feels like with this vendetta because we didn't even see it in our previous series
We saw a lot more of the Genji that's something that he was known for something that he grew into now on the vendetta
That vendetta you could have taken the name plates off and I would have expected to be one of the best vendetta
you've seen already. And Northwood they had to put in the work to expand their
hero pools to learn the better because there's so many new heroes being added
and there is so much to keep up with and Northwood they put in the work to be
that number one seed and they're working hard to become a future champion and
it's only map one so we'll see if Winthrop can try to gut them on their
next map pick coming up and that's the advantage that Winthrop have to
work with. Yeah, and I wonder where we go because that map felt like it was so...
One sided is what I'll say, so it's like where do you really... And the other thing about
like what we saw in the previous series is like, can you even take this team anywhere
that's not like, like is there a map that like I'd be like, oh I don't know if I can
play... I don't know if Northwood has like the hero pool or the chops to play this
and I'm thinking about it and I'm like, Blizzard world! Maybe! Oh, I guess that's
like the only thing because that way it's like okay and what what map do we pick
where ball is good like that's where I'd be thinking like Blizzard world is
definitely one of those but then you're like okay we pick Blizzard world oh it's
a Hammond van now we're up Creek without a paddle a little bit in that scenario
with an infected place Winston and then we try to cope on if it is playable or
not so I don't know if you want to figure out if something is playable in
in an upper final match like this.
So yeah, Winthrop, again, a lot of your,
I guess map picks are based on your tanks,
but when you have painkiller of infected,
it feels like the sky's the limit
on what map you can go to.
But infected being that ball specialist,
and I don't know where painkiller
stands on ours on Hammond,
but I look towards Winthrop to try
and bring this to a Hammond map.
Yeah, and I wonder, do we see,
you know, I guess one of the things we talked about
is like, is Kaluzia gonna play it up?
that was something that we did hear from.
He did join the voice call.
Did join the voice.
So it's aware that there are games going on.
So maybe that is the wrinkle that they need,
but that could also be something where it's like
break glass in case of emergency type thing,
where it's like, okay, we need to, you know,
we're down O2, maybe we really need Kalu's,
bring him out, but keep infected in as long as we can
in those scenarios.
So we'll see if that's, you know,
a wrinkle that wants to be brought in
from this Winthrop side, but I think you're right.
I think go to what brought you here, you know,
go to what brought you to the dance
and it is that Hammond, but it's actually is going to be Gibraltar is going to be picked
and the Diva ban is going to be picked.
So this is just this is. Yeah.
Is it actually going to be Winston?
I feel like this is like a blizzard world if it was like an escort, you know,
like an escort map. So you don't have that point.
It's still a huge map to try and bowl around.
Still cool for the Hammond, although Point B is a little bit more difficult.
So, we'll see if the infected, uh, Hammon will be in the picture.
I would be super stoked about that, because you take out Anna, which is one of, uh, CJ's specialty,
something that he was dealing on corpses with.
But now that you won't be able to sleep, uh, Hammon, it's gonna be a little bit more difficult.
We'll see.
I mean, this is, this, it's interesting that I wonder if that's also like,
because we had Stone, I think, and that team banned out their own man.
I wonder if this is just like well, we were gonna run Anna here anyways
So why don't we just get it out of the way in case we need to play it on another map and we can have it in our back pocket forever
But it is gonna be interesting to see what the tank matchup looks like
I think that painkiller definitely can play on this hazard. It is does offer some vertical ability
But it does kind of show me that Winston is truly just dead because of the fact that we're getting
No Winston on Gibraltar and we're instead getting something like hazard without the deal of being there
but infected playing ball, I think it definitely,
I mean, if there's anyone that I would put
to be able to play ball anywhere on any map in Overwatch,
it's infected, and like, probably John Bin
is the other person that I would try to play.
Yeah.
Who can follow through with this?
Sam's gonna get a Masonic to see what the composition is
and then swap.
Right now, Northwood anchoring on the high ground
with the choice of the M-Ray
and rocket on his signature tracer.
Zero's going to have to mirror this, and Sam is sticking on the Hanzo, so we really are seeing all the heroes that Overwatch has to offer.
This could be some serious burst potential, and especially with the Stormbow out, I don't envy anyone on the other side of that,
but hard to get at these supports of Northwood, because they're very scary in themselves.
Yeah, I'm surprised this isn't a Sojourn, but there's also Sam and Sam's signature heroes.
Azgis Hanzo, Azura is able to one-clip Vega completely.
That's a lot of healing that's going to be lost without this movie area.
So, it's sailing for Wind Thrupp, getting the carton out through the underpass.
So now trying to meet Northwood at the server side, which has more cracks in the armor than before.
I like the synergy, though, between the infected and Azura.
For the scariest dives that you can have in North America.
Here comes Infected. They're just trying to push painkiller forward, does not connect, and somehow Sam becomes the victim being that close to a hazard.
So Winthrop are stifled on their momentum.
I also like that they guys switch off the lean, over to the boots, just offering a little bit more of that peel potential with the lift shot, making it difficult for these engage to come in through from the back.
Winthrop need a decisive fight though if they want to lock this game you can't just let Northwood be on this high ground
Sam needs a sideline to work with. He's really struggled to build any old charge at all
Winthrop get to play with everyone and I like the pile drive. You have all the pins in a row
Someone like Sam will hit the full strike. Winthrop still need to get more than just one kill
They need a team life and now Northwood take matters into their own hands and lock everyone down with the hazard
all, but then Zero delivers a big bomb courtesy of Ultra Violet, but then Rocky responds with
his own bomb as well, windthrub meters away from the end of the point and Northwood are
around the corner.
Northwood get to have that respawn advantage as well as they're going to be looking for
Zero who does not have recall, will finally be able to get it, but now I think if
you're Northwood you just press the advantage, you know Zero's not going to be in this
fight, so why don't you just try and get some of that space back.
They are looking for a slam.
Dumb can kinda hesitate to throw the pulse when the brick shield could be up.
That'll be a challenge for him to face soon.
You've got the mind from infected to kinda hold this real estate.
North would have their backs against the walls, but they could soon a rush win for
a hesitate on how they want to approach this.
But while taking down a support, it's huge.
As North would really sulfur in the health department, trying to stabilize themselves,
They are just stalling to the end of time, though.
Winthrop are doing everything they can,
but it's been frustrating while losing to support themselves!
But who needs anyone else when he got Ultra Violet killing while healing?
This guy's doing it all!
And Northwood are doing enough to keep this point from being capped.
Yeah, Vega is also gonna have rally here relatively soon,
so it's gonna be even harder for them to go in.
It's just a never-ending one, and with less than 60 seconds,
Winthrop need to get the job done. It's taken too long. Vega is done.
Surely this is locked in, and as soon as you peek around the corner, Haven lets it rain, but then he's C9, so what does it all matter?
Winthrop sneak it away.
I mean, Infected is this... If you want to know why Infected is one of the best ballplayers, that teamfight was exactly why Infected
Bulls the Brigitte who is in rally into the rest of the team, kicks a piled driver and is perfectly comboed.
One shots her through all of that over how it takes him out, and that's exactly what they needed.
But, fortunately for Winthrop, maybe getting a little bit too over-aggressive here.
Now this is going to be a great position for Northwood to be in because they get to hold all of these doorways
and make it miserable for Winthrop to go through because this is the hardest probably point of this map for Infected to maneuver at ball.
The point A was already really painful for Winthrop, and that's supposed to be the easiest part,
but now you can kind of balance priorities and have Zira escort the cart while the rest
of Winthrop focus on the high ground.
Because there's a lot that Zira's going to have to accomplish here, along with hunting
for a boss bomb, but Zira's delivering an even bigger bomb, and of course, Bump
To boot, Double Bomb, special courtesy of Winfruf.
Haven underground and northward dismantled and hunted by Winfruf.
Yeah, these combinations between the Tracer and between the Wu Yang Ultimate are just so impactful.
Even though the Suzu was really well placed, that means the Tracer pulse bomb is going to be there in time in a minute and 30 seconds right now.
Is there going to be a re-contest? It looks like there will be some pain killer.
I don't see where anyone really stunned and now he has his back against the wall and you
gotta worry at all times if Winthrop can just sneak the cart right past you and Winthrop
try the end of the back line, Vega peels, Winthrop try to up the ante and a lot of that
pressure is now gone and will be reinvigorated thanks to the Katsune Rush and North Wiggle
back away and respect it, try to stall it out as much as they can, and Northwood, they
own the space that they have, and it's up to Winthrop to evict them, and it's not been
easy until Sam and Xerah finally emerge. A beautiful double kill out of Xerah should
seal the deal here for Point B.
Yeah, it's gonna be a nice first kind bank of two minutes about in their back pocket.
It seems like the Hammond is just the amount of mental ram that is exuding from this
went from the snorkel inside is just so much to deal with. You can see we saw on Rocket's
POV, as CJ gets a nice kick on the Xam, Rocket's POV is just always looking for the Hammond,
for the Tracer, just trying his best to feel out these new fights.
Rocket recall forced, and I'm surprised Infected didn't want to give him some more hands,
but he sees a bunch of players up against the wall and Infected. He tries to feast,
so that was the try and get some healing, just barely. It's going to be some amazing
old charge for Racketech once he gets back in, Winthrop will have to take a moment to breathe.
Yeah, but we've got that combination of the...well, cast a curse. There is going to be no combination
for another 30 seconds, about why they have time to have this, and now if I'm Northwood,
I just want to push the advantage here as much as I can.
Northwood have drained every precious second from Winthrop in a sound bigger tempo, engage,
and Wind Trub caught off beat. And this, they had ults coming up, but man, it takes until
the last second for Wind Trub to cab. They got me on the edge of the seat.
Yeah, it's going to be really about where we're going to be looking for this combination
of the Tracer and the Weang ultimate. That's really where this teamfight is going to be
one or lost, and with no defensive ults for Northwood, CJ really has to come in
pain killer taking matters into his own hands winter up barely standing and
going back to respond and Sarah is trying to hit them from behind to ultra
violet saved by his own old while rack attack will respawn soon and when
the man is surprised by the league having one support that's just the
carry potential of ultra violet and northwood yeah you gotta get rid of all
of them if you want to win a fight one support is not enough CJ humble Zira and
North would get back on their high horse this is last my territory here Zura's
got a pulse from but that's all they have racket tech needs to get to work
this all the time but it's not gonna matter they're just falling apart
Winthrop are not going to be able to get anything else okay we're shooting
spot shooting ourselves like what's going on North they are standing up
tall and I don't even think Winthrop will get the touch no but still this is still a
commendable push so almost get towards the end of the map like we've talked
about time and time again a lot of teams get caught up I mean Winthrop themselves
almost got held at A as there's definitely that potential yeah I think
the other thing that's actually really good about this for Winthrop is they
made it through two of the hardest parts of the map like where it's like
okay you made it through a you made it through B B was like really hard
especially for Hammond compositions to get through but they made it through that with a really decent time bank in their back pocket
So if you're winter, but I think you're saying okay now
We're gonna be on the defensive end
We get to play a little bit more around Hammond with these you know with these grapples with these bowls and make it difficult for Northwood to
really get into our defense and
You can tell the confidence is just radiating from someone like pain killer who just calls for an ult
He gets it and when painkiller calls for a fight you trust him that guy looks so locked in from the interview
And he looks locked in in the game
They just win every fight when this guy takes charge and that's how they really kicked winter of when they were down multiple times
But now can they do it on offense because that is that's the challenging part
And the other challenging part is that they're not gonna have the Hammond
So it's is gonna be infected on the submit infected
You know very service will sign it, but it's just not the same amount of oomph that something like the
Normal infected Hammond is because his hammond is just so good
Really, I'm gonna be looking out for the spam to get value here either from Sam or from the sports
And there's a nice headshot
Definitely harder to go up against a hazard on ball to
So in fact, they're just trying to provide a stable point and Sam is back on the honzo
trying to make me a believer. We'll see if it convinces everybody else, but when a
stormboat hits you like that, any tank will succumb. So, a lot of burst potential,
and a tank destroyer, you got Katniss Everdeen, and oh my god! Precision like that?
I'm liking it. I mean it's working. I said how I needed to see, you know, the
poke come to fruition, and we actually see Pinker going over to the
Winston, and again, I'm sorry we're playing Winston Genji dive now. What is
This is CJ's able to take down all four violets. That's a lot of dealing. It's gonna be lost here
And now it's only just rack attack being able to keep the rest of the team alive
Feels like the chairs have been swapped because it feels like infected is usually the one that would be the one bringing out Winston
but Northwood just wants some high ground pressure and
even now trying to take some shots from below
Gotta be careful when wind trip can drop on you and
Someone's got to try and stall out this card eventually and might have to be Xera with all five of Northwood here
It's a little scary pain killer almost falls Northwood bring him up
They're trying to generate towards a consume a rush and went through up so desperate for these executions that are just not getting them
And that's gonna give a lot of that also charge over to Northwood's
I mean CG is gonna have a limited advantage but it comes back to Xera's
Well, they re-engage is so good from Northwood, the immediate collapse onto the honzo and Winter couldn't even salvage that.
Rack attack falls again and Northwood is...
WHOA!
It's Zero!
It's just...
Well, only one person could take out Zero, that's himself.
A3 K though, may have just saved Winter up.
That would have been such a sick clip if he had done that without unfortunately blanking into his own pulse bomb,
But you will take that one nine times out of ten as it basically saves the plate for them
And now with her get to hold their ground a little bit longer preventive flux available for infected
Rock is I'm gonna mirror I swear to God after the blade a mirror would be so sick
I got my popcorn ready wouldn't throw up the hell the wall for now things to zero now
We're looking for an infected
Look at the rocks paint killer soft soft and he's looking to do the same thing to
Sam or uh to a haven who's now on a haunt so these pics are outrageous
Northwood though without rages is having less than 90 seconds, and it's not getting any better
And the 90 seconds with where the card is and where the respawn advantage is for winter
I mean this is lost by territory for them. Yes, they have a dragon blade
Yes, they have a sound barrier in a primal rage
But that's about it and the way that Winterfarm moving with these picks and with these long range damage. It's very
All right, well reset guys. We need to wait for Vega to come back
At least he's the fastest guy, right? So he'll be back and pain killer can get the ball rolling here
He's got Primal to be aggro. We'll have a second life and
It's a crazy taking the low ground approach and he gets ripped to shreds by a tracer
and didn't want to pop the final, so Miss Combe there from Northwood.
Yeah, I think they're just waiting for this last team fight,
but now they've let Winter get back all towards all of their key ultimates.
The Paul Strong is going to be available from Zura.
I mean, how do you break this defense with how well Sam is shooting right now
and try and dive and get off the high ground?
All focus is on this Ponzo.
Painkiller knows what he has to do, and it's a full squad.
He barely lives.
Salveria does not save him, but Northwood will still beat and blade
and try to beat Winthrop to death, and despite the Kostone Rush, Winthrop did not stand a chance.
Northwood...
I think he's swinging for the fences. It's just...
Should I get capped here in a few seconds?
But wait, I dragged it straight! Infected!
Winthrop! They're never dead!
They rise from the ashes with respawned advantage, and Northwood have not convinced them
all they point a cap.
It's taken everything out of Northwood, and the wind is out of their lungs at this point.
Pain killer doesn't have enough support, has to keep the fight going on the cart.
And there's no one really left from Northwood. One last shot, and there it goes.
A wind trip. All hell Northwood, and I've tied the series.
I mean, wind trip understanding and making it known why they picked this map.
But those clutches, I mean, some of them were absolutely absurd.
And if Overwatch is a game of interest, this is going to be the play at the very end, I imagine that was the 3K with the Pulse Bomb.
Oh no, it's not actually, it was the 4K.
But I think that like, even that last sound barrier that we saw, Winston gets like, I think 1,050 health or something when you're in Primal Rage or something absurd like that.
It had vanished instantly.
It was just completely gone because the entirety of the calm structure of Winthrop just knew that they needed to take down that Winston.
They do exactly that, put Pulse Bomb into it as well, and as Pinkyla's just diving away,
just dives away from the Soundbearer and doesn't get hit by it, and that's the difference maker of that map.
And Zera just went automatic with this tracer, infected the Tall at the end to save that fight when he was on Sigma.
I thought for sure North would have capped that, all of a sudden, Winthrop turned it around.
There's so many uno-reverse fights where you were convinced that WinTruck won, or North would
win, and then Zero hits a 3k pull spot, and then you think North would have won, and then
Infected turned it around.
It was so insane of a map.
Yeah, that was really impressive of what we saw there.
Shout out to Painkiller for trying to make the Winston work, just unfortunately.
I think D.Va is definitely what you would have wanted, and it made sense why the
band of the diva came through and now if I'm you know now this is where I would
start to if I'm Northwood I'm like okay I have one first map which is great for
me because now I can take us away from any map that's like good for Hammond
like I would like give me a new junk city right here or something like that
like that feels like it would be really good for Northwood in terms of what
they want to play and what they you know has brought them to the table here
in this winter final but I mean this this both of these teams have just
so many insanely clutch players and insanely talented players that it is
is just the difference of, you know, Zera finding two pikes in a third sticky bomb and actually,
I thought that, I thought it was funny watching the replay. I thought that Zera had dashed
into his pulse bomb, but actually Rocket did the very smart thing and dashed into Zera
with the pulse bomb, so we'll do a silly little bit of a return to sender there, but that's
just how high of a clip these players are playing at.
And this is a Windtrip that just came off of sweeping 3-0 the Fisher main squad.
That's incredible of a statement already to say because of how good Fisher are.
So you know Windtrip came here warmed up and ready to go.
And man did they ever show up being resilient.
A full hold is so insane.
And we have ourselves a Thai series just when we thought Northwood were kind of running
the show based on how one-sided Li Zhang ended up being?
Well, it's even.
Yeah, it's nice to know also, you know, I mean, it's probably Northwood fans aren't happy
about that, but it's nice to know that there is like, you know, Northwood can bleed a little
bit with their compositions.
Yeah.
Because we were talking about like, oh, what do we do because it feels like they're so
meta-proof and it feels like there's not really a map or a composition you can take
them off of that really hinders them.
But there, I mean, just put them on Winston, which unfortunately is not a very good
hero right now and play against Pope where you have Sam who is going to be playing at
such a high level.
Hanzo, one of his key picks that's always been in his back pocket for the entirety of the
time we've been casting and watching him.
So definitely feels like now Northwood are a little bit more.
They can believe it's just how much now about Winter Bear they're going to be able
to cut them.
I was very surprised with these Hanzo picks because usually it's a saunig out the
door, check out what's cooking, come back with a comp.
Sam and eventually Haven who ended up marrying it for maybe a one round or one life or something
very surprised at least on Sam's side when you had painkiller went to Winston and you're a pretty
submissive and diveable character on Hanzo and Sam made the most out of it so very cool looks out
of Winthrop to change things up and we were like applauding this this Hammond and yeah it got
winter super far on their attack but then it was the sigma on defense that
that one if we went through up and I mean the teamwork as well so this has been an
amazing series so far I can't wait to see what Northwood are gonna pick next I'm
I'm thinking a brawl map would be really solid yeah anti anti Hammond map like
Coliseo or like like New York City is another one that I think we talked
like they did I would expect that like what happens here is that if if Northwood
wins this map which is going to be a map that's like very anti-ball I
I would expect then we're going to be going to Blizzard World as our fourth map
because of the fact that that one is very good for ball but then you still have
to be worried about the Hammond band because it is
still a potential
uh... thing that we haven't seen just yet i think that infected is so good
at that here that you
kind of just have to
eventually respect that
and kind of looking at how haven slots into all of this case you got
zero who's just running things on tracer stand that's flexing to
everything, including even Hanzo, and Haven's been running a lot of the Emre, and that's
not going to be a consideration for a band coming up for Esperanza, because Souljorn
has been removed. So I could easily see Haven back on the Emre. That looked really fun,
but the vendetta is not as much of a composition without the Zarya. At least it'll be hard.
Yeah, I think you can, we did see them play it a little bit earlier with the Rematra
version of it. You have to play so much more passive than you do with the Zarya.
I think taking away the Zarya is a good ban, just because we saw,
I think we saw Infected played a little bit earlier and it's just like,
not the same as like the Sigma or the Hammond or anything like that.
I think you don't want to be opting into a painkiller Zarya matchup in that regard.
So I think getting rid of that is a very good ban.
I think also taking away the Sojourn is understandable.
On a map like Ishparanza, it's very good.
Very, you know, you're able to get a lot of those picks.
I think it also potentially be just like a respect ban for the other side,
because I think that they do have a very good Sojourn player.
And
Winter better hope that they didn't watch what Northwood did on Esperanza
Series ago just saying I don't know if you can abuse a Junker Queen comp against a team like Winthrop
But hey, I'm ready. I'm letting Northwood cook whatever they want to do even the rocket Genji
Although I'm gonna break my desk waiting for a chance to see this tracer versus Zira
But we'll see what everyone ends up with I think on a map like on a game type like push a tracer is a pretty important character to have
Sometimes you could steal the bot and you know make the most out of a lost fight or push while the fight takes place elsewhere
Yeah, still the bot I think also controlling the flank angles is really important on a map like this
So you can do that with the tracer. I hope that we're gonna get the vaunted zero versus rocket tracer matchup
It's something that I think we deserve at the end of a long day of overwalk
Actually, you know, if we start with a map 5, we end with a map 5, and we end with a banger series between two of the best tracers that we have right now in Overwatch, I would say.
But I mean, the other thing that's going to be interesting is what the tank matchup is going to look like.
No Zarya, which is very prevalent on this map, but it looks like we might see a bit of a deal mirror just at the start of this one.
I would expect probably the DPS is going to be the tracer in the Emory battle, and then Lucio Kierko, because we've been playing that for, what, five years, I think, like the tech said.
Alright, the fact that Rocket's not on Genji, I don't think the Junker Queen comes out and
we're sticking to the D.Va, alright, being able to dive with your Tracer is gonna be-
Tracer here.
Yes!
Alright, my crystal ball, it's still shiny after all, I'm liking this, because Zero
went X Games mode on Gibraltar, you gotta do something about that.
And Rocket usually pulls off a lot of murders with Genji as well, we actually just saw
on this very map, but it was very different.
Yeah, I think you see they're gonna be dancing a little bit to kind of find out where they want to go in terms of the damage
and where they want to put a lot of pressure down.
And Garry's the Sam though, at 30% is they're doing a little bit more in terms of getting value on the spam
than Haven on the other side.
Yeah, Sam has been just like jack-of-all-trades,
but Haven was like he's been the master of the M-Ray.
So what will prevail Northwood with some progress?
A lot of posturing as Winthrop fall back to their bridge to be able to hold that comfortable sightline and Hathven takes a peek and
finishes off Zera. So that is a small advantage for Northwood, but you don't want to get too antsy
You don't want to rush it because just like Drupalter, Winthrop can turn a fight around from the brink of defeat.
Yeah, and one of the best things about that though is that losing, if you're Northwood, losing the tracer that early on the other side means that
The rocket gets to play really aggressively, doesn't have to be worried about check by another tracer or something.
Play more aggressive, you can see the rocket has already gotten so much more in terms of the ulti cart full at both ends, which you're going to have to submit to the team.
You just gotta be careful of the divas, because the most annoying thing in either composition is the diva that's going to be able to deny your ultimate and shove you around and into a locker,
With Katsune Rush by 10th, the Senate CJ leads Northwood to a good start to this fight,
as Winter been submission, but Painkiller waited away too deep and lost the mech.
Now Sam emerges with nothing hindering him this time.
The eliminations follow through and Northwood did make a ch-choo-a-almost cat there,
so Congress wasn't totally halted by Winter, as the nebz is about winning the war.
And Winthrop haven't necessarily done enough damage with the M-Rail to justify a full win.
Soundbearer though, Rack Attack and Winthrop still seem to believe and Northwood are nowhere to be found.
Yeah, Northwood are just gonna get out of dodge and Northwood are gonna be saying thank you very much.
We'll take that fight win, especially because that Soundbearer who was used Vega will eventually give their life for it.
But heads of play, I mean that's what you talked about beforehand, whereas if you have that tracer,
you can just kind of cap the bot during a teamfight and no one is, you know, people are just numb to the wiser.
So really good heads up from Northwood who get that point catcher
60 meters and now a fight has to take place to actually budge this bot even close
To a lead match here is Winthrop will have the katsune rush that they didn't get in time for the previous fight
And now they'll unleash
Daven trying to cut them down on their trajectory
He could find Zedal to Zera, but this D.Va is such a nuisance, and Hazel has drained enough of that
Matrix to try and let Luce, but Sam kind of jumps into the enemy team there, and I think
Gwyneth will have to give this one up, and Northwood will keep hold of this map.
It was actually a really good heads-up play from Painkiller, who boots Sam off the
hybrid into the rest of the team, and then just completely melted them.
One of the things that have been really impressed with so far about Painkiller
is his ability to maneuver the other members in this teamfight. You know, boosters are good for getting in the face,
but you can also knock people off of the high ground, so really good heads of play.
And now Northwood are sitting on this high ground, sitting pretty, have a big ultimate advantage.
That CJ, Kastuni Rush, is going to do wonders in terms of just initiating this one.
Northwood's choice of map after they full cap Cumberland.
Not too long ago, and they head for the hills, they've got the Kastuni Rush,
They're chasing Winthrub. They want to actually get kills out of this ultimate investment
But Northwood are so good at disengaging and they're setting up a crossfire
So Northwood don't want to step into that trap
Yeah, you can see Paekiller also just waiting and looking around with that defense bitch
Knowing that Zura is somewhere with this pulse from trying to negate it from blowing up the rest of his team
Winthrub
This game back control the Bob a north would have the bridge control and that's where
Haven is at his deadliest on the M-Ray and Zira's got a present for him
And they guys can pretty good at feeling so far. He's already watching that doorway and hope I got there was flying with them synchronized swimming
When truck do have north would in submission with the M-Ray old, but would pretty unaffected
Maybe we see Zera on the fight here with this pulse one, but Xen is already down and now
this is just good heads up play for Northwood where they know they have an advantage where
they can't see the tracer.
Maybe Zera could try to trade here.
You don't have to fully give up on your plan for the sound barrier and the Consune
Rush.
Both used from Winthrop, but only one barrier to withstand Northwood.
It still is a disengaged, but at 91 to 16, all this stalling benefits Northwood.
We can see actually the fight right now from Rocket and they're trying to check him.
Recall is forced out. This should be a dead tracer.
Oh, Zero. He's got help. He's got a team.
Northwood will push back and they have control of the bot.
Winthrop, they're fine. They're back at square one,
but we actually didn't see some development and Zero just rewound.
One, rewound, and now you don't have a recall.
They get the aggressive, I don't know verbs and when threw up they don't kill us either, so it's back to the drawing board
It's technically a rewind I'll give you that one. That's a you know, that's a good that's good word
We both have college degrees. Yes, we do as surely now it's gonna be Northwood moving forward again
I feel like when you were talking about a little bit earlier
Maybe it's just good that we never see Northwood on the map like this because it is
really, really strong for them. Four ults in their back pocket, close to a fit, and they are about to start touching spawn doors at Winthrop here with only a three minute difference.
Four ults at Winthrop haven't had a convincing fight. They've only locked in 16 meters because the Orcwood was feeling charitable today.
And now with Hayes, they open the skyrocket, deliver the kiss of death to Zyra and Northwood at triple digits.
This is the danger zone, and it doesn't get any better! Northwood want to put Windstrup in a permanent sleep!
And now you have to come out of spawn. You have the Emergency Widow. You have a bomb in front of spawn.
Windstrup can't get their heads above water. They're drowning, and Northwood aren't gonna let them out.
Okay, we're able to get one, but the salary's just coming too much.
Yours is gonna be taken down eventually here by a killer.
So me has been the MVP of this series so far, but the consumer actually tries to get them back in.
Man, painkiller calls the low HP target. Rockets on the job. The executions follow. If it's not one, it's the other.
There's too many threats on the Northwood side to deal with, and that is why they are the number one seed.
But Winthrop, they don't give up, they don't surrender, and you have Sam doing the Lord's work out here giving some morale boost to Winthrop.
It feels like deja vu again where it's like they had such a huge lead, you know, are you
going to get called by Kaluzier if you're Winthrop on this map when you're down by such a huge
amount of Northwood looking to continue to hold.
Two and a half minutes left from Winthrop, they have to play this perfectly, but they
have a beat to work with now, which they can play and use a little bit aggressively
to create that space, potentially finally get their first capture.
Northwood, they just know how to turn aggression into just being passive.
They're just stalling the progress. Winthrop are forced to dive towards the bridge in Northwood.
They just engage so fast to the MegaPak side, but...
ROCKING!
WAIT! Dave's fourth one! What a pulse bump! Sam and Rack are dead!
Winthrop try to trade, and Winthrop still can continue their progress.
But with less than two minutes, there's quite a hill to climb.
Yeah, and they also have the respawns that are closer right now toward North,
which so Winthrop have to wait for their members to get back into this when infected.
Nose can play a little bit aggressive because he has that self-destructive play as light.
Winthrop, they gotta go from the 0 to 100 metaphorically,
and now Northwood are trying to take flank angles around the Mega Pack side.
Back to a neutral-ish state, Winthrop cannot lose control of this situation.
You can't have your bots stolen either.
Winter barely have control of the bridge.
Kitsune rushes are mirrored and you saw the sound here in the back pocket for Northwood.
They're gonna be as patient as they can.
CJ takes the 1v1 against Ultra Fiery.
It vagapops the barrier now. Couldn't save Haven, but could save the war.
Northwood still at 140 meters and have not let Winter catch up at all.
Yeah, this time right now it's getting getting on solo trying to use that pistol to stay alive,
but it's not gonna get the workout.
Maybe finding something back and forth, but the guilty is just turning all blue and...
What?!
Heads up play from Rocket again, we did it again, again, another return to sender from Rocket there.
The brains on that lad is just absurd.
The lads are crazy, as the...
Maybe the British would say if like they was here, maybe something like that, but...
Something like that.
Windtrap, I feel like they gotta pull off something crazy.
to come back a hundred meters with 20 seconds.
It's gotta be perfect from here on out.
Infected's doing everything he can to pressure the bridge
to force hesitation from Norsewood.
But this confidence is so unbeatable.
Paint killer's fairly back.
It's a mech.
It's to come again.
And Haven's in the sky trying to take care of Winthrop once
and for all.
We enter overtime and it's not going well for Winthrop.
They have to be out in the open
because that's where the bot is.
And it's overtime and you don't have a tank!
It's Xeer and Sam against the world and what Ultra Violet and Vakatek can't provide!
Which is one last sound barrier to rule them all!
And Winfrap at least get all five I think back into the picture.
And Northwood, they'll bring it right back to a stalemate.
Yeah, they're trying to just...
I mean, the fact that they've made it last this long is absurd.
And Xeer has to use her ult relatively early.
Gonna be looking at those Concentration relative...
Oh! Oh! Oh! Okay, okay, what?
Yeah, hey, that's just over.
Yeah, it's the overtime just goes away so fast, and Zira, it's just one of the best players on Wither.
Like, you have to send him to- Zira go kill.
I don't blame Wind Thrip there, although it is technically a C9, it's...
At least it ends now when not in 5 minutes later, you know?
Not 30 seconds later when it was definitely gonna end.
You know, it was like a mercy killing, it felt like there, but I gotta really give credit.
someone who didn't show up in the kill feed like that much is painkiller and painkiller played
phenomenal on diva i mean the peel potential to be able to use that uh defense matrix you saw zura
a lot of the time was holding on to these pulse swamps for so long because he was so worried
that painkiller was going to be checking him right there with the defense matrix completely
negating any of the pulse bomb value and it felt like haven commanded a lot of the power
positions on the bridge and Northwood just knew where to take the fights. Always being
okay with giving up space to Winthrop to keep their distance and forcing Infected to have
to reach and stretch so thin to reach someone like Haven. And if your D.va leaves your backline
and has to go after an Emre, where does that leave the rest of the team? So I just
think superb job from across the board from Northwood because we gave enough love
to rocket previously, but I gotta say, even force a big change in the Winthrop camp to address him.
Yeah, they're playing like a well-oiled machine, definitely understanding why they picked that
map in particular, and it does take Infected off of something that he is much more adept at.
You know, the diva looks pretty good from Infected, but we know Infected to be
more of that main tank player, so really good heads of play from the coaching staff over there
at Northwood. And it's now 2-1 for Northwood. We're gonna reach our halftime break now
after a pretty good win on a map they return on but now we're looking towards
Winthrop and what map they want to go to next they'll have a few extra minutes
so see you after the break
I
It's match point for Northwood, but Winthrop, I've pushed them to the edge before.
We'll see what awaits us for map number four, as Winthrop are still deciding that one, and
this is for a ticket to the Grand Finals.
Yeah, and I mean it's going to be great to see if Winthrop can come back and make this a series like we were talking about we started with the map 5 I want another map 5 here we finally got our Zura versus Rocket Tracer match up and I think this see you know
Obviously the people who are at home who are watching right now and be like oh I want my drops you know how much longer is this broadcast going to go for what we want for them for this to be a map 5 series so I hope that we can come back around here from northwood to
Or from Winthrop to get them that
We're the people's cast here, we're trying to get as many drops going as possible.
And Winthrop of the Sided Atlas, and we don't get to see this one every day, and the immediate
tracer, now I gotta go investigate, who banned the tracer?
It's Northwood, so Rocket not wanting to deal with Zera today, maybe with the amount
of pulse bombs that Rocket has been sent this way?
I don't blame him.
Yeah, no no more return to senders
There for for rocket
Yeah, just no sender at all
Just don't even don't even don't even want to be stuck anymore, but the Lucio is gonna be taking out the table
So that means to me no Zarya is going to be here
So I mean we could just eat at least is a very enclosed map
You know rematra is very important here vendetta is also very good
But without I wonder like do they even bother playing the vendetta
We did see a little bit of the vendetta with a rematra
But Zarya is kind of the thing that keeps that one going a lot of the times and without Lucio Zarya is not very fun to play on this side
And if you remember how the first map went and just even the last series for Northwood, they are a relentless
Team W keys only. I don't even want to
W key for Northwood
I don't even want to change the end, but you know when through up there's a W there too
And they got a match W for W, okay, or this flashpoint is not gonna go well because base on control base maps Northwood looking like the better team
And I think one of the things that you're talking about that's interesting about you know their aggression
It feels like they're the ones who are a lot of this time are going first in Winthrop when they're winning fights
It's usually off the back of some very clutch plays coming out from their DPS
Which is you know if you have the DPS and you have the caliber of players like Winthrop
It's definitely something you should rely on, but it's not necessarily a game plan, I would say.
I feel like painkiller is the master of brawl and infected as a wide-hit wheelhouse of Dive and even Hammond,
but infected was the big reason Winthrop won Gibraltar with his ability to clutch and withstand a lot of pressure,
and Sigma's the best one to do, and Rocket trying to deliver the pressure,
already diving in trying to find any health packs and his safety away from
Winthrop, but they're both he seems to be like such a push and pull.
Yeah, and I mean it's true that we're gonna have the Genji here for sir, it is kind of
like a tracer like when you have the diamond, it gets to push forward and
get into the backlight aggressively, but you need to convert those dashes in place.
See if that tracer band that closes Zera at all, because I'm used to seeing him
like on Echo on maps like this, but hey all this poke damage from Winthrop
This is quite lethal. You've removed the tank and the biggest part of Northwood's anchoring, so
Winterfarms are fully safe with
Misses here and there. It looks like Northwood can take a seat for now.
Yeah, I actually really like that Ultraman is going to be on the Voodian here because he's going to be able to deal with the
Vendetta going in, you know, if the Vendetta dives on you, you just hit your, you know, water into the ground and it makes it
difficult for the Vendetta to get a lot of value in here. So I think that that's going to be something I'll keep an eye on, especially when you have that ultimate
at the title with last, that can just be thrown onto Zera, get into the back line and get
a lot of stuff.
Winthrop already halfway to the first point, and now trying to contest the point means also
being out in the open, and that's not where someone like Rabachera is going to thrive.
Pinkkill is very low, and his healers are occupado, with Winthrop thrashing them.
So Northwoods actually just don't have the resources to contend here, and this
be a 0.1 win for Winter very soon.
I actually like to see Rocket after this Ultimate comes through change over to the Genji himself
because I think that it is a little bit harder to maneuver around the Vendetta without something
like Azari like you mentioned before but Painkiller is just going to forgo completely to Rematra
who is going to be going over to the D.Va.
One of the things that was working out so well for them in previous maps and actually
if you're in Orcland this lottery for you is really good because you get a lot
of positioning now on this point.
being killer to the diva that just try and follow through with rocket but when
club now it's Sam commanding the skies with the old but against the consumer
rush to slow be conservative with this positioning and think it was gonna get
that close to the Sun and Sam here to Northwood and now the re-engage with
the consumer rush and zero follows through with that and Northwood
disengaged just as quickly in the blink of an eye when Trump want to get
away with a cap, and it's contested from Tank Killer, the orbital ray will supplement the
tank, and havens its control, and ruins the plans of Quint Thrub and a recap of Super Northwood.
Oh wait, rice rocked out from infected, it won't matter, but that was still pretty nice to put
on the click show, but Northwood, one of the things that we've been seeing Jen throughout the
entirety of the series so far, and through the entirety of Northwood on broadcast,
Their disengages are slick, so really just well played they get out of dodge whenever Wimper tries to take advantage and take their turn and then they know they have such an advantage when it comes to those resources and like we're going to see now in this next fight, they can have the advantage, they can push forward, especially now that they haven't been dead at all.
Northwood holding the line, Tvaga falls back to safer positions, and a rocket waits for
the ghost signer even to just charge up the ult and has a bit of safety here, and now
we'll put the pressure down on infected to regain that space as Northwood pinch from
all sides hoping to collapse on Winthrop who holds their own.
They're in a pretty healthy state, getting culture violence to deliver maybe a bomb
to Zera and well, delivers a final blow to Haven! Now, this Pied swing in Winthrop's favor,
but Sam's solo didn't get attended to by Wrath in time, 97% for the flip, and Winthrop,
get away with that!
Oh, actually, and that's Wrath TPing back into to try and save Ultra Violet. Actually,
Managers to work gives his life for it, but is that going to be enough to convert
that into a teamfight win? I'm not so sure, it does not look likely.
Oh, it's no support, it's Winthropes have to buy time.
This is not going to be a winnable fight without Ultra Violet or Rack Attack.
And Northwood are about to win this second point here and tie things up here on Atlas.
And Rockets gonna put the nail in the coffin on that one.
And this is Winthrop that needs this map win, or they will see the lower bracket.
Yeah, and I'm really liking what I'm seeing from the D.Va,
just the ability to play a little bit more faster tempo if you're in Northwood,
Which is gonna be nice for rocket because a lot of the times with what we saw with the rematch or rocket
It's just going in alone didn't really have any support
But now you have painkiller to go with you
Which is so so important that you can have be blanketed by the defense matrix when you're making these engages and look at the
Defensive ultimates that you have for a north with they're feeling really good about taking this first point cap here
Got to keep your distance. You keep even as safe as possible
A rocket is always up to no good, he's always trying to find an off angle, and it's Sam that takes to the skies.
And Pinko's about to lose the match, he'll have to self destruct, and Wimpsrub are so degenerate on duty.
They're just cleaning house and trying to evacuate everyone from the point.
Beautiful flasks were made effective to actually finish the job, and Northwood flounder as Wimpsrub will take control of the point first.
They plunder enough teamfight that looked like they had an advantage, especially with the support ultimates, but the patience there.
And the spam is well coming in from Windrump.
From Sam in particular, hitting a lot of those heavy rounds really did a lot of that damage.
And now, if you're feeling great right now, because now you have the title blast,
you can put that directly under Zura, Zura can get into that backline very easily, get some stunts and get an easy teamfight with him.
Deva is such a hard matchup into his Sigma, you're just gonna be eating rocks, literally.
There's something you can do about it, you gotta find a way around it, not through it.
Northwood trying to retake off of a Haven Hulse, and his focus is stopping Zera, the ace of windcrub sleeve.
He's taking Haven's attention away, while Zera's still managed to somehow kill CJ off the map.
It's still a three versus three on the boy, but if Winstrip win this fight, they will be in the lead here on Flashpoint
Oh, no, they actually aren't now they don't have supports in effect
That shield is gonna be big, but it's not gonna be enough to keep him alive
It's gonna have to be a reverse sweep here from Northwood
That shoo-zoo from Vega in that previous fight was able to negate a lot of damage coming from the Tidal Blast and the Vandetta
a gauge that we saw there so really had to play even though CJ ended up falling.
Hey good! Just died to a random mate that cannot happen, Jim.
Yeah, you wanted that 0-100 and it's...
Well how do you do it with just Juno's solo heals, Wind Prep?
I couldn't be immediate pedaled to the metal.
You know they have the advantage of told to be behind a Sigma shield
and Sam generates another ultimated match against Rocket!
Flam's not out to infected!
There is now no safe space for Winthrop to stand on, and except on top of the corpses,
but Northwood's best revenge served here by Stan.
But Winthrop still needs presence on the point, and it's tough to do while infected is still rotating in.
And Winthrop are gonna take the duels up, they can, but they need that space being created from infected.
I have the two nourishes welcoming in from Vega, who died early in that teamfight.
Support Ultimate's looking very good for both of these teams.
How are you going to be able to deal with infected Gerevic?
Fucks those, that's going to be the big one.
Soon they rush to kick things off, see what they can...
What opportunities they can get off of things.
Combined with the Xerath Sword,
slashing through Vega like butter,
and the Winthrop, they keep on investing.
That's how much this point matters.
99 to 96,
Rack Falls,
Northwood and Shambles,
Rocket takes over,
and the Winthrop,
they trade blow for blow,
and it's Northwood with only a small advantage to work with, but it's Zera that still stands tall,
pain killer deals with all the squishies, and Zera's the lone wolf remaining, so Northwood,
by the skin of their teeth, will take a point and take a lead. And their own flashpoint point
to get themselves into that grand finals, into Orlando later in the next month, and this is
going to be a lot for Winthrop to ask, and they also are going back over to the ham, and
This is what Winfraff, this is where the bread is buttered and going into it on last point, last life here in that upper bracket, that's really where you want to see it.
Infected ball could...
You just that deliver a swift win for Winfraff on this point, they need it, but someone's put a stop to Haven, there's red in his eyes, there's red on the ground, and Zira could not escape, and that's enough to get the cap going for Northwood.
And I really liked that aggressiveness that we saw from Northwood, knowing that the Hammond was going in.
There was nothing to be able to negate that overclock, or the ultimate, from the Emre.
And now that the Fuse is going to be on the other foot, though, Sam's going to have one.
But now that Painter is on that D.Va, that mitigation from the Defense Matrix could be all the difference.
It's time to clock in if you're Winthrop and it's Sam wanting his revenge against Haven,
letting it rain onto this backline.
But Winthrop, they got to stay Vega, they do so.
And Windtrup has zoned off Northwood, but haven't gotten the kills, so being killer here for the retake and a rocket best Zera
Advantage for Northwood, already passed a halfway point to winning this map, and Windtrup will have one last chance to reset
Yeah, they're gonna be able to get clean up these kills. This is last fight territory, actually. In fact, it needs to...
If I could die, that would have been so disastrous, and...
Jen again, we're not good at Mathis casters, but I'm looking at four ultimates potentially five from Northwood and Winthrop not a lot to
Work out with the big thing is that the title blast is gonna be able to get stuns if they can potentially stun members and just clean up
The teamfight that way that's the only way Winthrop can win this teamfight
Oh the mind Northwood went to contest Winthrop takes flight
Ultra fire adds to this giving the Bronx and Zara and Northwood still have not died
They have so much left in the tank, Winthrop has to fight on the point, and they will see the lower bracket!
Northwood, narrowly dodging that, and Rocket can't claim any more kills, spitting towards Zera.
They could still need to rush, they re-invigoration of Winthrop, but they're hemorrhaging after thieves!
And Northwood will not let them live!
Winthrop did manage to flip, but it's all over here, depending on the stall that an infected can provide.
but it's all over for Winthrop pushing Northwood to the edge! It ends here! Northwood to the Grand Final!
Northwood take their rightful places, the number one seed in that Grand Final. From the Winner's side,
looking crisp and clean, Winthrop made them work for basically every inch of every map they played,
but it was not enough and this Northwood team that feels like they cannot be
touched continue to move forward and play at such a high level that I don't know
if there's anyone that's going to be able to touch him. What an incredible team
and so stacked like Northwood can play any composition from beginning the map
on some hazard even the drip router hazard from painkiller rocket showing
us the Genji, the Tracer, Haven, Owning on M-Ray and showing us the true potential of
the newest hero from the double flex supports of Northwood to running everything in between
is just a meta-proof team and so well deserving of the grand final.
Yeah, and it's like, cause the one map they lost was like the one I heard they had to
play Winston and it's like, okay, well yeah, you're playing Winston, like that's
very, it's usually harder than this map, so every other map it felt like you just
had that little bit of an edge.
Even this map, they started out relatively slow,
but once they got painkiller onto that diva,
being able to get themselves forward and be aggressive,
that's really where they started to put the paddle
to the medal and you could see qualified
to those NAIS Grand Finals in Orlando.
So exciting and we'll be finding out tomorrow
who will be their opponent
cause there's still a championship Sunday
to get through folks,
but also a very important interview, okay?
because vibes are important and we want to get a vibe check with Northwood before they
go to that Grand Final and before we cap off our day.
So don't go anywhere folks.
We'll see you on the other side of this.
You
I mean it was definitely different because I've been retired for like almost a year now
So my comeback to competing was different for sure
Is it's a completely new environment for me? So I'm used to just playing all the time and I just don't play very much
Okay, you play more at least after that
That every was pretty good
I mean I think that one of the things I'm interested to be talk to you about is like the m-ray like the difference between the
Emery and the sojourn because we've had kind of like it's been going back and forth some people have said it's a preference thing like where do you
Kind of stand on the power level of emre versus sojourn. Do you think it's a preference thing or do you think there is one that has a little bit of an advantage over the other I
Think they both have their place. I think they both really good right now
I think his pants on the courage spot. It's been a while since this guy's been this good, but his games really good
It's really good
And what were your expectations going up against Winthrop?
Because I know that's what y'all is the biggest challenger, your biggest rival.
Were you nervous coming into this match?
I'm sure you guys have faced enough times, but what were your expectations coming into
a series like this?
I'm not nervous at all, because I trust my boys, but they're like that at least.
I'm just reclining after that one.
Crazy.
You had to mash it, energy man Haven.
But anyway, back to my question.
How was it going up against Winthrop over your expectations, etc?
I mean, I expected them to be good.
I mean, they're all really good players.
I mean, I said to my teammates, they gap them, so I.
Fair enough for you.
You're part of that. Yeah.
I also just want to talk about kind of like your journey a little bit,
because you said that, like, you know, you took a break from competing,
you know, retired, and now you're like in this environment.
Because I remember casting you in contenders,
like it was very much that online environment.
You're probably not playing in like a team, like a team area where you are now.
What's that been like, kind of like being around, you know,
the boys and the teammates and like having them there with you
to be able to play in a live setting like this.
It's definitely fun, it's very enjoyable,
but some days of scrims, everyone is so loud.
It is just so loud.
It is actually unreal, especially Rocket and the Laprata,
two loudest, for sure.
They're both just so loud.
I love them to death, but some days of scrims.
And it doesn't get any louder when you win a match like this.
So how do you personally lock in for matches?
you see a guy who likes to be composed, locked in, cool, like what's your regimen to get into
the mood for a match like this?
I'm pretty lazy. I do like ten minutes of co-backs and then I do like ten minutes of
a walk-up and that's it. I do like that and I will create it.
Okay, okay.
Well, we're glad you're out of retirement because, man, you put on a show today and
You're going up in the grand final and I know we still have a few matches to do to figure out who will join you there
But if you had to guess which team would join you in the grand final, who do you think is going to be?
Who's playing sorry, I don't know. I don't really follow this very much
We got a lot I mean out of the top teams that you know are still here
Yes
we think they can make that lower bracket run to the final
i believe in them i believe in them
i believe in peace catching up
he's pretty good
you get the current well thank you so much uh... for the interview at haven uh...
best of luck in the final and congratulations on making the land
thank you
salsa that was a great interview that was really funny
and he's social everyone's like a high-five screaming
i was about to ask him how he was going to celebrate i think he just wants
to get out
I don't want to hold the box too much on the internet.
He just wants to take a little bit of a nap
and you know, just wait, there's a bigger prize for him
that we can talk about, Jen.
It's getting to that Overwatch Collegiate LAN
that's coming up soon.
Overwatch Collegiate is heading back to LAN
at the 2026 NACE Grand Finals,
coming out April 25th and 26th
to Full State of the University in Orlando, Florida
for an in-person showdown
featuring the top eight varsity teams
and the top two teams battling out
from open to be crowned champion.
best part entry is completely free gen so come out feel the energy of the crowd
and see your favorite overwatch collegiate players compete live and in person as
they fight for glory in the biggest event of the year. Absolutely big shout out to
NACE for creating this amazing opportunity for everyone and such an
important platform for people to grow in for people to come out of retirement I'm
so glad you're out of retirement you cannot be done with your career with
a performance like that we hope to see so much more of Northwood in the
grand final and we still have to decide guys who is going to be joining them and
it's quite the lower bracket that we have left and you'll want to join us on a
championship Sunday tomorrow starting at the same time as today so 11 a.m. Pacific
or 2 p.m. Eastern and all the time zones and one hour you can actually check the
schedule on the twitch channel it's listed somewhere there and also you
can go follow over watching all the socials owe sports you know where to
go and also Kenobi and I will be have been here, but also tiny, shiny and salty will
be here to cover the finals and the conclusion of this incredible tournament.
So thank you all so much for watching and we'll see you for Championship Sunday.
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