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This is the moment we waited for
Every thing you want is right here
We gon' give them what it came for
We gon' check in there from last year
Shoot them a step or I'm long range
Being a thing on the straight pipe
Stay down never switch off
Only thing change is the way
I'm in the zone now
Nothing can change when we on now
When that blood know it's going down
Put on that mask and it's slowing down
The aim of the brain is to settle in
Keep down the building, won't let me in
Sinking all of you, I got a way to watch it
Keep down the building, won't let me in
Alright, good morning everybody!
Oh, so exciting, hello and welcome to the NAIS Spring 2026
Grand Finals presented by ASUS Republic of Gamers
I'm Tracy Mu and we are proud to present the best
of the best varsity collegiate e-sports competitors from around North America to take home the
coveted NACE 2026 Grand Finals trophy.
Where we broadcasting from, we are here live from Full Sail University in sunny Winter
Park, Florida.
This is the Full Sail University Orlando Health Fortress, the home of Full Sail Armada.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm so excited to kick this off with a nice grand finals competition. Yes
We have such incredible gameplay in store for our top teams of varsity play
But before we get into our first matches today, let's introduce the casters for our very first game of the day
Overwatch taking away guys
Thank you so much, Tracy. You're so excited to get into our matches today. Two Grand Finals,
two new crowns to be given away for our Collegiate Overwatch title. We're back here on land for
the first time in seven years for a developer back's Overwatch Collegiate tournament. My
name is Tiny Shiny. I've got Twin Salty with me to break down all of our games today.
Yeah, we have two Grand Finals today. Starting off with Open, we're going to wrap up with
varsity before even more in nayscreen finals and other titles later today
But we got quite a plethora of great games for you
We're starting off with the open-grain final Northwood University going up against Winthrop University
Northwood got the better Winthrop in the open upper bracket final Winthrop looking for some revenge today
Far and away our two best teams in collegiate overwatch, but that's a thing about collegiate overwatch
We're not just looking at the best and collegiate. We're looking at the best in the entire
region with these three teams that we're gonna be looking at and yes I said
three that is because Winthrop University made it to the grand finals in
both open and varsity to opportunities to prove themselves today. Yeah they'll get
that opportunity later to be St. Clair once again St. Clair hungry after one
heck of a game yesterday in that semi-final against Cumberland but we
have a little bit of time still before we get over to that one. Absolutely we're
gonna take a bit we got our teams that are coming out here shortly they've
They've been getting ready.
They played it in ton yesterday,
almost nine and a half hours total for some of the teams,
especially St. Clair at the last game.
By far the longest going back all the way to five
against Cumberland University.
I know they'll be getting ready later for now.
Winthrop and Northwood, it feels like the story
that we've seen at time and time again.
Both these two want their spot at the top
and now with Illinois State's no longer in the competition,
that throne is wide open.
Yeah, the throne is open to crown
in each champion of collegiate overlock.
We gotta beat our teams before we get into the action.
Tracy, take it away.
So much, and of course, the moment we've been waiting for,
let's get our teams out here for our Overwatch Collegiate Open
Grand Finals.
Are you guys ready to meet our teams?
All righty then.
Let's get a drum roll here.
Let's get to know our very first team.
Let's give it up for Northwood University!
Oh, they've got their game faces on!
These guys are funny!
Plus, twenty years and my girls so near
I see my picture be so clear
It's a gem
It's a real group
It's a gem
All right, who's ready to meet our next team?
It's a gem
How about some love for Winthrop University?
It's a gem
All right, our two teams are here.
There are big time bragging rights on the table right now,
and I cannot wait to see how this plays out.
Players, go ahead and go to your stations.
And casters, are you ready to take us through our Overwatch 2 open grand finals?
Let's go.
Oh, you bet you we are, Tracy.
Two teams, a new budding rivalry.
that has formed between these squads. So much talent and one spot at the top. It's been Northwood,
the entirety of the open bracket and any other meeting they had against Winthrop and Cat. In
fact, the only team who has managed to beat Winthrop University, the entire academic year.
Yeah, it's crazy. It used to be, you know, ISU kind of led the way for a long time in collegiate.
They have backed off. Now we got two true contenders to take the crown. Northwood is
undefeated when they have their full roster this year. That is an unbelievable
stat across all competitions. Winthrop is the one team who can get it done.
They've been the closest to beating Northwood and maybe they've been playing great this weekend
so far, but now is the true test to see if they can take the crown.
They've never gotten their flowers, not once. They have made finals almost every single event
they have played in. There's always been someone in their way. It used to be Illinois State and now
It almost looks like it's going to be Northwood we saw before in those upper finals 3-1 to Northwood
That was what the actual result ended up being they thought their way back at a bit of a run in with st
Clair in the lower bracket handled them there find themselves back and it's been a month since the last open bracket match was
Played a lot of time between then of the second northwood
This is their very first game that they will be playing at full sale university
Whereas windup had the entire day yesterday to get warmed up against some of these top teams
They went to the bed yesterday to go through the varsity group stage and the opening stage of the bracket Northwood
What were they doing? They're canoeing. You did look at supposed to be doing having fun
And then they actually came back to the venue to watch the semi-finals yesterday
Both teams feel very confident. We got to catch up with both and both teams yesterday in a little bit this morning
Both are feeling very confident about what they can bring to the table
It's been a whole new season patch since these two teams played in mid-march and we have Kat Bastion as a
We've been seeing it in O W C S China and Korea. We saw Winthrop tossed it around a little bit earlier yesterday, but it's weird when you're not playing the mirror match up in that. It's a little bit more awkward to play.
I'm not sure if Northwood's really going to want to play it, but time will tell.
We'll find out a little bit later what they've actually been cooking up because you know, there's been special preparation from Wentzup University for Northwood in particular.
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And I think we're ready for these games to get kicked off.
We have been hyping up this series for the open final for a month and it feels so good
that we finally get to do this in this best of seven.
Absolutely.
We look at these rosters in particular and there is representation from every single
OWCS partner team between these two rosters, which is just incredible to think about.
But at the same time, I think in the sake of Northwood University, this is a little bit
more impactful.
They have Haven that is coming back, kind of went into pseudo retirement, I guess, but
But it's playing in this open roster for the entirety of the tournament and it's been blowing
it out of the water for this team.
And you know, when you're filling the shoes with somebody like Chronic in that example,
having to step up in that regard and managing to do it to the degree that he has, taking
a length up, especially in those upper finals, coming here today to play live, he's definitely
to be a player that I'm going to have an eye on.
Yeah, definitely a player to keep an eye on.
We actually got to talk with one of the coach and the coach and one of the players for Northwood,
Here's what they had to say, leading into today.
Hello everyone, this is Rolusson from College Esports News.
I'm here with CJ and Haven from Northwood,
and I mean, they're competing against Winthrop
for the crown of NAIS Grand Finals Open Championship.
CJ, you guys have been doing a lot of screaming,
VOD reviewing, some prep, leading up to NAIS Grand Finals.
How was the season matches and how do you feel going into this match?
Honestly, the matches have been pretty well.
We haven't lost it this year with our full roster. So we're not really all prepping all that much
We have a couple screams as a team, but I think going into this we're very confident. Okay. Okay in Haven
What about you? How are you feeling? I feel confidence that my team is better. So when
All right, so team chemistry it really matters. What kind of team building activities are you guys doing?
Um, honestly, I think every single day we go out and eat whether at the bad side or a school dining hall
or we go out the B-dubs, we go there at least once a week,
maybe even more, but yeah, we're just going to eat.
Alright, and what has been the biggest challenge for you
in this season as a player or as a team?
We haven't had any challenges, if I'm being honest.
We have rolled everybody.
Alright, what about you, CJ, any challenges?
Just that we haven't really gotten to the scrim
because we're all on different OWCS teams,
so it's really hard to find times
that we get to scrim with each other,
But as far as there has been any challenges, no one has really faced us, so just waiting for one.
Okay, okay, subtle flex, subtle flex with the OWCS.
So, you guys are pretty familiar, you went through it, are there any ongoing jokes,
banter, or fun things you guys are looking forward to going into this match?
Zira thinks that Christian Aldrin has a goat, but he's wrong, Messi is definitely by far the goat,
and I'll show him that tomorrow.
Alright, alright, what about you, Haven?
Uh, the fun fact is Zira did not know how to tie a shoot, so he turned 16, so of course, I'll be talking about that.
I'll tell him how to tie a shoot.
All right. Do you guys have any last words for Winthrop before you compete head on for the title of Nace Grand Champions?
Uh, no words. Just gameplay.
Herd, herd. And is there anything that you guys would like to say to those supporting you, anyone that you'd like to shout out?
Shout out to my mom, my grandma, all my siblings, everybody at home. You guys make it happen.
What about you shout to everyone at Northwood shout to our fans shout to all our fans are no WCS teams and we're doing it for you guys
All right guys you heard it here live Northwood is feeling confident about this championship. So
Caster's what do you got to say?
You know confident might be an understatement
That was some strong fighting worms from Haven not a concern haven't lost a match
technically on their full roster this year, which is an incredible feat, nonetheless.
But for a Northwood team that has seen a lot of changes, a lot of substitutions, and mixed
practice time with them, I think having that bond outside of the scrims, going to eat every
day, all these other bonding things that they do is really helping them get to this level
and continue to compete even if they don't have the same in-game preparation.
Yeah, I think it's really showing like this, Northwood has always been a top three, top
five team. They've really went into that number one spot even entering this semester like hey
it's probably Winthrop one northward two and they made that jump up to number one. Now is the time
to prove it once again but Winthrop is not going to make it that easy for them. Absolutely not.
Winthrop, they too have some strong words for their opponents. There were some shots fired.
We'll touch on that a little bit later but first we got to give Winthrop University
a chance to show themselves on the broadcast. Let's hear from their coach and their captain.
Hi, my name is Cody. I'm here with College Esports News. I'm here with team
Winfrop for Overwatch. First off, you guys are going in to be playing your open
finals against Northwood. What does it feel like to be going into that match
and what does it mean to you to make that? Yeah, we played them twice this
season and we lost both times, so I'm pretty excited to get the chance to play
them at land and you know get the win that actually matters. What about you?
Yeah, I agree. This is the one that matters. The matters change now they're not
carried by broken heroes anymore so. All right. Following up on that what type of
prep you guys have known you're going against them for a little while now
what type of preparation have you done leading up to the match? I've been
messing with CJ on my Dallas field team chat a little bit and you know we
screamed a lot more than we usually have in previous semesters so you know we
prepped a little harder than we ever have. And then lastly what do you have to
to say to Northwood how did the game today?
Um, you might want to ban my honor.
You should definitely ban his honor.
All right, thank you guys so much.
All right, well, Northwood, you should ban his honor.
I don't know what to tell you.
He gave you the opportunity.
And after the performance that we saw from UV yesterday,
easily I think the best honor in North America
that we're going to find, best flex support in that regard.
If you're taking notes on it has had a big dip in the meta, but at the same time, we got a such a bit on what we'd said for the coaching portion only match only team that they are worried about this weekend.
And we've seen that kind of preparation. They have not let any gap slip went in the entirety of their competition yesterday. No maps drop flawless. They've stuck by it so far.
This is the one team that's had the number.
that's the one to that's being
not once but twice this year.
And they want revenge.
Well, they really want to make
sure like, Hey, as he said,
this is the one that counts all
the games before.
Yes, it gives Northwood a little
bit of an advantage going into
this. They get first map pick
and ban. But it's also like,
Hey, this is the one that we are
going to talk about for ages to
come again. First time in seven
years, we are crowning the
Collegiate champion in person.
That feels like a lifetime ago.
the pandemic for all of that going on basically all of these players were either just getting to
compete whether it be an open division contenders or they weren't even competing at some of these
infected was I think was console at that point so it's been a long time coming to have this sort
of return and I'm excited to see how these two teams are for yeah it's going to be shown I think
from map one this is a series that will be heavily dependent on bands hey UV on it's out there and
also how these team comps are going to form. Winthrop is again made very specific adjustments to how Northwood play. They're familiar with their play style.
Weets also coaches some of Northwood's players on the Dallas Fuel and some of those things are definitely out there.
But if we are going to see Winthrop perform well, we have them at the underdog. Northwood bypass results you have to understand. This is a team that is there.
If they're going to win this, I think it is going to stem from Zera matching Rocket on this tracer, an incredibly important hero in this current meta
the heroes that you're going to be saying, Tracer will be a constant regardless of that.
I need to see how that does match. Same goes between infected and a pain killer.
Two tanks that have very different strengths. And I gotta say,
hero pulls and what is strong? Pain killer has the diva. Pain killer is the Zarya.
Something infected has leaned away from Ithias the opportunity to.
Yeah, I would say meta right now leading towards pain killer. Obviously these two have also,
a lot of these players have played together in the Team USA trials that have been flagged on right
now. So there's a lot of chemistry
either within the team or knowledge of
each other
because of that fact. And like you said,
maybe a little bit of a meta lenience
now over to Winther. But it was kind of
heavy in Northwood's favor the first
time these two teams met up.
But now we can see a little bit of a
different meta.
Maybe a little bit of that Jetpack cat.
We saw a lot of Lux, a lot of D.va, a
lot of Zarya.
We saw some like Remopter yesterday. I
think that might just be our Cumberland
special. I don't think we're really
going to see a ton of that here. Maybe
I would not necessarily think we're going to see a ton of it, but the bans are so important
in a series this long.
It's not like it's a best of five.
If you get a 3-0, cool.
You probably have your three priority bans.
This is a best of seven.
You really have to plan out how you want to use these.
It is a long, serious, long series.
It is a marathon, not a sprinting, especially in terms of bans.
looking at these coaches to really help get that process going and we've talked
to I think we said this about we'd so many times about the support that he
has he's one of the best coaches in North America I get is not even close
the best coaches in the world exactly and they have him behind us Winthrop
roster is a real threat I'm so excited to see the preparations that they have
for this Northwood team because I wonder how different it is from the looks they
showed yesterday to keep something secret to not show their entire hand
until they are actually here on the specific stage.
Transitioning a little bit though,
substitution for Northwood.
Technically, Vega will actually be starting
what it looks like on the stage instead of Lep.
It's been Lep almost the entire year
starting for Northwood and a little bit of a change.
So CJ Vega is going to be that back line.
And it's not like sometimes we can hear subs
like even yesterday with Brown Club,
hey, it's going to be a little bit rough,
not going to be the exact team that we've seen this year.
This is like, yo, this is like the same team.
There's some slightly different strengths going on.
But this is the same caliber of team with Vega,
and it's going to be a nice little extra spice
that with or don't have odds on this team with Vega.
Now, it is going to make it even better here
on this grand final, we'll see.
And we probably could see left sub in at some point.
We even got a little bit of a tease,
like maybe Brayden gets subbed in on Tank for Northwood.
I don't think that'll happen.
I wonder if that was maybe a little bit of hope
to get into this game, but
we'll see. And obviously with
them, there's going to run
their five right like they're
not going to have any sort of
changes. There's going to run
what has been successful
throughout these entire
white year and a half, two
years, and they're going to
keep going forward with that.
They're going to put the best
for fours and you absolutely
have to went up are they're
buying for this. They have been
hungry for a championship like
this for years. They've been
second countless times, even a
couple third and fourth place
finishes. Just with somehow
that some of these brackets
of these brackets have played out it almost feels like is this the time I
want to hope I really really do but anytime we've gotten to a final this
team it's not even that they slip it's that whoever they have been against has
just leveled up I don't know if it's something to do with the curse something
to do with the land environment and I really hope that having the team play
at this event at Full Sail University yesterday has prepared them well enough
they did a ton of matches got to experiment with that jetpack cat
that Bastion a little yesterday, hold that out, and perhaps have the upper hand on Northwood
University just because of how new that is.
It's so new and like it started off as a meme in Odysseus, China, and then Korea was like,
wait, wait, wait, this could actually, this could cook, like this could be great.
And I won't lie, as someone who's watching, it's awesome.
Like, it's Apache helicopters just going out of the air and you got a 3V3 on the ground.
It's so fun.
But when you don't mirror it, we saw a little bit of how awkward that can be.
Yes.
to stay and say like we're just gonna hide. We're not we're not gonna peak that. There's no reason to.
But when you have the mirror matchup, it definitely changes it up a little bit more. And of course,
make sure everybody get your drops. Drops are continuing today on the Overwatch eSports channel.
Make sure you got your Twitch account links to your battle now. We got not one two eSports
loot box drops here in this one. So make sure you got everything connected. Get those loot boxes.
I know I got mine yesterday. You have some work to do still yours, but we'll get there. It's okay
Use your error on my part, but it's okay
Make sure have your accounts connected that you are watching so you too can get your kind of that you're sort of the eSports
Loot Boxes give me the collegiate banner. I need that I need to complete
It's like my my infinity stones of collegiate drops
That's like the last one that I need at least from the ones that have happened in the past couple of years
I might have done some before that, but those are the ones that I actually need to do.
So I don't expect me to be rocking those in game at some point, but it looks like our
team's getting ready to go into lobby for map number one.
Now here's the question, Jesse.
Lee Chong Tower.
We saw in every single game yesterday out of the five series we cast, every single team
wanted to go there.
It is a very strong jetpack cat mode.
Yes.
Rack attack cat.
It can't happen.
It can't.
I mean, she's been on the streams.
She's been playing it a lot.
So I think it could easily come out from with them. It's more Northwood. I'm not quite sure if they're going to pull it out.
Oh, look at that.
Oh, boo. Y'all are so... So Bastion's banned, so no Jetpack tag here in map one.
It's going to be the Wrecking Ball Band from Northwood. A very smart band.
You're not going to see Wrecking Ball viable on a ton of maps.
It's a lot of the time push and control.
The most likely you get out one of Infected's best heroes early to try and start out on the right foot if you're Northwood.
Something would have been very wrong if we didn't see Wrecking Ball Band.
Yeah, I think it's the advantage of having someone like infected. He is one of two players that I'd say
All right, you can play ball and probably get away with it. Yeah, that needs to go. Format number one
And no repeat of the Sam rack attack bastion cat that we got on this map yesterday against NC State
Taking this one a lot more seriously and probably a bit more traditional compositions after seeing that wrecking ball
Racking ball band was more than acid because that is what they played for the tank with that composition
What do you do now? Is the question. Do you try to do some of this diva mirror because there's with diva being in the pool
Pankillers on that that is almost a guarantee. It's not yeah
It's not a big question unless we go to control center first
Then we maybe see the Zarya something to that degree hazard has been around a lot more in the meta as of late
He can't struggle a little bit more on the open maps at least our tower definitely the diva feels better
You can even argue that Winston at times can feel better
But it feels like Winston this gets blowing up during this meta right now. He's not in a fantastic spot
But I think this is going to be north one wanting to surf on the right foot
They want to put their players in the best position possible
It is going to be a lot of the DPS duel. Where is this going to be going?
You got unbelievable players on both sides Haven and rocket for north one
You have just unbelievable players Sam and you and I'm I said UV UV is basically
This is not a DPS.
This is basically a third DPS for the team.
But Zera, like, Zera's a Zera.
You know what I mean?
It's an incredible team right now for both sides.
I want to see who starts off right,
because we even saw yesterday.
Team who starts off great first,
they usually are just going to be running,
unless you're St. Clair Cumberland and then you go five
and you know, whatever.
Yeah, well, we'll touch face when we get there.
That's our city.
This is the best of seven.
So we are getting a minimum of four maps,
regardless of how this goes.
I do not expect this to be a sweep in either way.
I'd be shocked if this is a sweep.
North would favored but I do expect went up to get at least one two maps if it's even a rough ish day for them
But if there comes now at a full swing we could easily see this though at the distance
We already highlighted that rocket zero matchup tracer
1000% can be playing on this map now Haven more of a traditional hits game player
Yes, Sam Chobis not as much as Sam is been more of that flex DPS on his time
But because he's on the same roster as Zera, it's been very back and forth on how that has been
Rotating out. He's found home for himself on the M-Ray. I think that has looked fantastic by far
The best hero performance from him on that
I could definitely see it on Lige on tower
But it's also Haven on the opposite end and top tier hitscan where Sam hasn't necessarily had that full experience playing at this high level
It's going to be a real test for him and how him and Haven will end up matching out the field
Yeah, because when Zara joined a tree left a tree was their certified hitscan for a while. Yes, and now it's like, okay
You really you're not gonna force Zara to play hitscan. That's just that's not going to happen
Same as that a great job adapting to it. Yes
But it is different when you're going against a true hitscan on the other side of Haven who's been around
Yes, took a little bit of a break last semester
But joins are we joined this team and it feels like he never left
He really has picked up right where he left off during that golden northwood run for a while where they were getting top three
You know back to back to back events. It was just ISU existed during that point and even went from kind of beat him around as well
But something just feels different about this team in Northwood
It feels like finally all of the pieces are starting to click they have not won an O.W.C. title since
2023 how and it feels like when you're a program like Northwood who like if you've been around collegiate, you know the name
It's one of the standouts. It is crazy. It's been three years since they've won a major
It's also crazy to say went to have yet to win a major it feels illegal
It feels illegal to say and one of these curses are going to be broken here today on the stage behind us
It is a wild thing to say, but we are almost in I saw we saw some of the players on the you know the Li Zhang tower trainer
I won't lie got beef with that. I always lose
Usually I'm not gonna come in well. It's not usually a great result for me. That's your CPS
I thought you said you dropped down to gold.
No, at one point I'm back.
Okay, so, gold.
I'm a tank player, man. We don't aim. We just think.
Alright, so that's the thing. When do you get to tank 1v1 Reno?
Let me know, and then we'll retry.
Let's see if that goes any better for you.
I was like, I never said...
I became a caster because I was so bad at the game.
I say that all the time, about the people that become casters.
They love the game, but man, we cannot play.
We still drop because it's a ton of fun.
Seeing these players hit new peaks and showing their talent off. I mean, it's pretty cool
These we are looking at the best of the best right now
And that is my favorite saying ever a guy said wants to demonstrate one more time
Not just the best in collegiate best in North America and there's so much backing to that
We will see that level of skill and combat on the stage
Yeah, we have some of the best in Otis. Yes several of us yes reps here on the stage behind us
even in the events as a whole on the varsity side,
ton of top face-it players who are just getting ready for their shot up.
A lot of people in Masters, we got some players in expert as well who have been
really starting the grind over on face-it. It's been a great year for what's
eastward. This feels like the year of resurgence for the game as a whole,
and it feels like this is like the perfect stage show. Like collegiate has grown
since 2019, since that point, and we are now back in a spot where we get to do
events like this, and the teams are just so much better than they used to be.
like three, four years ago. It's like we didn't have pros like this behind us who get to get
an education while getting to play at stages like this, have more consistent reps, and it
has shown to work at the top level. We had nightmare last year, who was basically ISU plus UV,
and they just ran through the get third in Champions clash. But here we go. Finally,
we're in the map here. Teams are ready to go, and we're going to kick off this best seven.
We hear the crowd everybody behind us. Let's go with Li Zhong tower best of seven
There's gonna be a long one
So buckle up people feeding refreshments get the note highly recommended popcorn might be a little early
Especially for some of our west coasts. It's like 7 a.m.
Popcorn for breakfast. It'll feel really good once we get started
It will actually be on control center to kick us off
These are gonna be the more brawly comps that we are inspecting both teams on the rematch for now
now, a Judo Brig versus Keri Lucio.
Yes, sir, that Lucio Keri that we've seen, God, it feels like two years now in this
comp, has been around us with different variations and it will be continued here, but Winthrop,
they want to play us a little bit slower, want to play around the wall, but you don't
got to want to play around anymore.
Yeah, wanted the wall, you're so fast before it, but tunnel vision is too much and not
paid for it with this life, never the right cost.
So Winthrop, we send back to the spawn first, great punish by Northwood.
And this is the benefit of having a tracer.
Rocky can just be all over the place,
pestering the back line,
and we already see mass changes for Winther.
Vaelos, Max, Lucio, Kiri, support line.
Sam will stay though on the main.
They still want to play a little bit more up front,
trying to put painkiller.
In these awkward situations,
it's going to be a lot of pressure on the Hayden
to break those walls to allow their tank to escape.
And also to mention,
we talked about Sam was going to be pulling the hits.
It's actually there this time around.
This is a pretty common thing for Winther,
depending on what the DPS duo will be.
Sometimes there's more comfort for one player than another.
No one really knows Zera from A too much,
so seeing Sam on that roll, that feels pretty good.
You just can't hit the shots here.
On the Haven, he's getting chunked really low.
The pressure from Rocket will finish him off.
Rectek couldn't quite get to his Cassidy in time.
Another great start for Northwoods.
Winter struggling to get a full push together.
Just cannot seem to get through this initial choke.
And eventually, something's got to give,
but it'll be the rush from CJ to seal it.
And Northwood want to go up,
they want to stagger this out even further,
come away with Sam infected in danger.
Rocket's still just pulled spawn in pocket.
He's definitely thinking about pulling it out
with the pick on the Xera, realize,
you know what, it's not even needed.
The Jipper will basically playing in Winthrop spawn.
Yeah, just touching the doors,
even though it will be an exit pick
from Ultra Violet on the Hayden.
So that'll force Northwood to give up some space.
Winthrop can actually have a full on push
as we get in here.
Now they have a Katsune rush of their own
from UV to set us off right.
Both beats, both annihilations ready.
We could see a lot of purple on our screens here in a moment.
Yeah, rack attack and Vega gonna be up to the timing
of these downbarons keeping them up.
When they're at the advantage of the Kitsune rush,
even when the annihilation popped out of painkiller,
he's so incredibly low as to walk to the outside of the map
and let his ultimate dissipate.
Now the Eagles on the objective, what can they make of it?
Both the portals, what's the price to get them there?
And Haven will be caught out, great flank out
from the Xerash, that's down Vega
on his own attempt to escape Northwood,
will get swung in this week.
You know, Flesh DBS, who cares?
3K, 4XZera, they're able to withstand the storm
of the first two ults, three ults from Northwood,
and they just have to use the support ults, actually.
They hold on to bullet and dead eye, blizz,
and annihilation during that fight,
and can start a little bit of a reversal here
as Northwood's ult economy will take some time to recover.
It is the overclock, go from Haven, ready and online.
We know if he can hit the shot,
so that can turn this fight into heartbeat.
that this one of the Ultimates is really a single kill.
They have a lot to gain, one flight territory for Northwood.
This overclock is still a threat.
You have to go up and deny any opportunities.
You'll be the blizzard from Sam to do it.
That is one remotor-shaped popsicle for Painkiller.
He's gonna manage to escape with his life
with the remainder of the block.
Able to get out, it is just one that falls.
But with their arc run to Karim,
they just want to use as few Ultimates as possible
to try and string this along.
Northwood now at least have a consumer rush
of their own to Wolfson in.
With a dead eye in response to Haven,
and it's a good starting tool for now,
but Sarah has to drop so quick,
and Arrakatac blasted into tomorrow.
It's a one for one though.
Sarah on this flank is doing work,
but Haven doing more.
He's flipped it around on the objective.
No healing left for an infected Northwood.
Get the foot back over, and he'll take control center.
157 in favor of Northwood to start us off,
and this is exactly the type of form
They left off in that open upper bracket final, right?
They just controlled the tempo of that series.
The entire way through is exactly what they are starting off
here on Li Zhang Tower.
But now we get into the more dive-centric rounds here.
You take a look at the score where you rocket 10 and 0,
you have just casually a little bit crazy.
And Hayden's been doing great.
Yes.
Line up the shots already.
Kind of wonder again, somebody who just stepped
into the scene this semester after taking a break
sometimes can be a little bit shaky.
But no, that has not been the case.
It's been quite the opposite so far.
But actually, Northrop is going to continue.
Why not change?
What's working?
Winterfell will go more of that dive, Cintric.
It'll be the hazard for infected,
and then the double poke up on the supports with RAP,
on the Allari.
OK, I'd be a little more worried about this
if Painkiller was on Dema.
He's under monster, though.
So I think this double flex support duo with the Arteana
will work out OK for Winterfell for the changer.
The biggest change though, Zera on Tracer. You cannot let Rocket run as free as he did.
And you're already finding Valley out of it. Now to bionade from downtown onto Vega.
You don't call him the best on an NNA for no reason.
He wasn't banned out on this map, so he's going to be sure to take advantage of it.
But it is so Northwood on the objective, went through up. Yet to find their way in,
cooldown is up. Or UV. Look at him throw that out of the spotlight.
But Zera continuing to put in the work. Valley of the Tracer continues to shine through as Northwood
would continue to get zoned out and lose player after player yeah just cannot
find a way into this point and a little bit of a save there from Sam for the
reflection apart but I will say you be gave the warning earlier you gotta bend
the on at some point obviously going to do it once but already doing a great
job with the util and Northwood already makes some changes haven't over to the
Emory a little bit more range than the soldier in those have typically we've
seen a lot of Emory as of late those names are great in the overact protocol
on this point you can hide a lot and just send the shots at the point without
seeing no repercussions. And it's going to help against the support line too but
I'm pioning so quick for UV, but he's also in the middle. No Vega, scoop, swoop on in,
we'll take him out. The trades are quick to come through. Remains to be a 3v3
rocket though. Win that duel against Zerab should shot this one down and it's
northflip. Get a flip. They'll get it just 38% solid of a dogfight. Wait a minute.
and Winthrop win the two 1v1s and now Sam will us usher in the rest of the
Eagles over to this point but it's a little bit hard we have a shield to deal
with it you only have so much able to break out through it was a huge error
from rocket and Vega over standing from the team and Winthrop only matter to
sneak away with 15% shout out Sam and Racketech turn that around
Pulse goes wide that time from a rocket but it won't matter if there's a
consumer rush in the face of Winthrop and they let's dip out a point you don't
I have a response to that. They have some nano-infections just to keep him up.
Strike attack, and for the captive son in the back, he's going to need to be huge.
He's at his bench, but the player drops the son, cutting point blank on Rocket.
He'll be down. Painkiller's annihilation, running a rack attack, there's nowhere for him to go.
Linkara's doing a great job of stalling this out, getting the percentage up.
Still at the DPS Hall to Zara and Sam, but we'll see those next fight.
Still a few members here that's going to link her in a row, and Zara will not escape.
Who would I to the skull if the death senses this time but it's affected with me, maybe, maybe.
Oh, there you go, Nate. There you go, but a lot. There's so many youthy resources going into getting the tank out, let alone that'll open the door for the Northwood for a little bit of a counter punch.
This is infected with no cooldowns. Use everything just to stay alive and Northwood's so fast to push the tempo, but Sarah and a nice little parting gift for Haven.
You might have traded out some more infected. I'm here at the event in Lucille, Cury. Sound barrier there, temple beat in place.
Northwood run through remainder of the Eagles in the front. We have a reset.
You have so much offensive capability with this Alari on a comp,
but you don't have the, you should have that kind of play with the sound barrier whether to react or to have that type of
temple beat. Winters just have no chance in that fight where you're at like a 300 to 800 HP deficit.
compared to Northwood. And now Northwood will gain the lead. Both DPS ults here for
Northwood to continue on the push winter. They have nothing. They'll have Nano maybe
late into this, but they're going to need some of these ults to build up as we
approach potential final fight. This is final fight. It is not looking good for
Northwood, aiming up in the sky. Overwrite protocol infected, taking a huge chunk of
damage. Back off of Sam. Shut him down. Mid air. Straight down. K-Killer found his
towards these supports, now to boost on infected.
Just so old for Violet can get out and keep his tank alive at the same time.
He'll win that battle for the tank. Somebody's got to get over to the point.
For Winthrop, they have to do a druke and suny rush of CJ.
They are favorites and their is tanked on one side.
Sam likes to shop a no! The C9 and the Boop!
There were three players there from Winthrop, but the one called Touch
pushes them away. North way, take map one.
What a boot is they like? No, you think you're touching this?
Nah, get out of here, man.
What a round here from Northwood and they will take their map picker map one and that's the advantage
Of coming from the upper bracket. You get to start the series how you would like
It's exactly what the timber wolves did some good moments here for winter
It definitely looks better once same was on the hitscan zero was on the tracer looked a little bit more to the winter
Standard that we have been used to
But I don't there's something about northwood this year that everything is clicking even with vega in instead of lab
It feels like everything is continuing to work out. I liked the allure as a concept
It just didn't work out that time Northwood respected a lot of those sight lines in Iraq
This didn't get as much value as you would hope from that pick
Yeah, it was a yardie. It's a lot more value in the neutral fight than it is the main
But it's hiding on a corner. Well, you're not going to get it
You're not going to land those bio names the same and after that first fight well north. It's like, okay
Let's just not peak. Let's go around sentence because on a yardie. They're not mobile. So rack attacking UV
We're just stuck trying to play this game around the Rosie
But it's basically walking whereas the other team was sprinting
You're not gonna catch up in a lot of those instances and I have to mention rocket
I think that for Winthrop running the May castie tried it once is seeing rocket on that tracer
You cannot let him go unchecked any other point in this series that absolutely destroyed them on control center
They're in Sam much better on the second map of Night Market from that point on where they just couldn't pull it back together
together, do some of those hero
comps that they're attempting to
put in. Yeah, I would like to see
Xerah stay on the flexed. Whether
it be the Tracer or Genji, whatever
it may be, that just feels like
Winthrop are more comfortable in
that line. If you're playing May,
it seems probably the better May
player in that line. It's just
weird catch 22 of when you have
two flexed DPS. Somebody's got to
give in and just go hit scan
because the way Haven's lining it
And when you have that synergy, these two have been playing together for a long time here at Northwood.
It's seamless. And now we get to see what Winthrop would like to do in this map pick.
Obviously, we don't have to go to a specific map type.
Everything is on the table. Escort, hybrid, flashpoint, push.
Whatever coach Weeds and team would like to go.
And they're going to take their time to figure this one out.
As it is the best of seven, especially as you get later in the day, you're like,
Dang, I really wish we saved that fan for this map and that's something I think North
Earth would and Winthrop will be considering as these discussions continue.
And overall though, as you said, Northwood, come out of the intro.
We were, come a question, you know, it's your very first game on LAN for the tournament.
Winthrop have already been here for a while, had a ton of competition yesterday.
Right out of the gates, I don't think there was a warmup period whatsoever.
They were ready to go and that synergy between the two DPS of Haven and Rocket is unstoppable.
the ball. Yeah, it's unbelievable. And it's not even like they're on the same
mode as CSTV though. Like Haven isn't even playing in pro right now. He's just here at
Northwood. Like hey, why not? Well, I'll go on a championship with the boys. Having a
great time. Like it's just a great setup here for Northwood. If I had a guess,
Winter may be going, oh a little bit. Okay, sir, we never saw yesterday. It was just Atlas, Atlas, Atlas.
All of yesterday, Winter will decide to shake it up and they'll ban out the Lucio.
They want to play more of that bridge.
You know that they tried to run initially on Lijon Control Center and in return at Northwood,
another tankman, this time on to the Winston from Infected.
Pankiller just doesn't run a lot of Winston.
It makes sense if you know they're trying to run more of a dive-centric comp.
Yeah, I think it seems like Winthrop do not want to play Lucio Cure today at all.
They tried to do it.
They started on the Juno bridge, swapped off that instantly,
saying it's not really going to work.
And then the Oni-Yari situation.
So, it seems that they want to lean more into these other heroes, and I think that's a big
part of preparation they have done for this match.
I don't know if it's just because they don't think that they can match it, they get more
value out of those ultimates from the other heroes, which can be valid in certain situations.
But you're also expecting a brawl with the Lucio Baron.
I think you're either going to be, I think we're going to be in front of Rematra.
I'm going to say the mouth, that is a very real possibility for this map.
Rematra seems a little more balanced in that regard though, especially for what these hero
pools are.
overwatch right we don't we don't want mago overwatch correct I will see
I'll keep when there's one man go where there's two man guys it gets a little
things get a little silly but it's okay we'll we'll find out I know the
pink killer would pull it I guess sir bossa as a whole is one of the the
flashpoint map that we don't me see a little word died than anything died yeah
just why I think they banned the Winston so maybe more of that hazard or that
Viva is also an option but I don't know if you want to run the hazard with the
but you don't break it back for me.
Are they doing something else?
They can.
Go back to the honor?
They could easily go back to the honor.
But then again, you lose the speed,
especially at flashpoint, on those rotations,
whether it be the hyper-ring,
obviously you don't have the Lucio amp
to run around this map,
it's going to be a little bit hard
and you're gonna allow Northwood
to get such a positioning advantage on these rotates.
Is it worth the cost, this type of gamble?
We'll find out here in just a moment
what Windrup would like to do.
If I had to guess yet, it's probably going to be the dive, Lucio, and not the Lucio.
Juno with the brig, and we'll see where it goes from there.
And it allows there to kind of run wild on the tracer.
I think you just let him go.
And if you could even run the double flex, we saw that yesterday, and it works.
In certain situations like this, it can, but it's also a great Emory map.
So it's a worry, or you could do this.
That is an option.
And I don't want to say anything until they actually go.
Because when they're barred, team that likes to meme, and they like to throw us off a little bit.
I don't think it's a meme. They did it yesterday.
They did do it yesterday.
It's not a fully hidden strat, but because infected, no longer affected by this ban.
Well, here we go.
Here we go.
He's going to roll out on it. Zara back over to match Rocket on the tracer.
So it's going to be a dive, be dive. Sam, rack attack. These are the two to watch.
Yeah, Sam is just going to basically get Ubered up in the air and just center on wherever
Rack Attack would like and when it's time out these turrets for Northwood, you've got
to try and shut down Sam early, it's going to be a lot on the Haven and even Vega to a
degree to get that range in early before the turret damage is too much.
And Painkiller already notices this cat and Bastion putting a little pressure on Rack
Attack to make sure he stays at a safe distance and not drop Sam into oblivion, but here we
go.
Assault every bit of defense matrix is used, but it's deep you are not going bird
That's that's pain killer happy to go on for it. This is the start of the rocket in the back line though
And it'll be the on up eventually that will win that tracer duel at the back
And this is I think the most comfortable comp for Winthrop. They only had yesterday to practice it Northwood no time at all
They had so and you see you basically can sit back here a main piss northward are still afraid to push in
They can't go anywhere.
With the Bastion in the air, there's nothing they can do.
And that is the perfect spot for UV just to get set up, send in Nades, heals up Rack whenever
he gets low.
It is a nearly perfect setup.
And now Northwood taking a lot of time trying to figure out how they want to assess this.
Haven has gone over to the Emre now to have a little bit more range, but those Nades aren't
really going to do much in the air.
Same thing with another victim.
I mean, you can, they're precious to go on a Rack Attack.
If you can get Rack Attack out of the sky, well, you can do a lot of damage.
You can deal with Sam, but they're not doing that.
With BangKiller out of mid, he's flying through the back line.
All Zera's been doing, bodyguarding all too violent
to make sure Rocket can't touch him.
This is working out perfectly for Winthrop.
This is a strat that I, we were,
we teased it pre-game, right?
Like this is something that could come out
and it's worked perfectly so far.
It is a stellar execution.
Northwood have one more opportunity to touch this point.
We can tell there's just so many questions going on.
Zera wanting a pulse, but maybe thinking,
Hey, is this even needed during this fight today? It's just a pulse from Rocket.
We'll be the nato poos out of the Bastion as main killer dives in,
quick to get out, CJ, pops through over to raid, but it's a negative HP to work with.
He won't actually get healed up. It's only Vega who recently swapped over to the Yardy
for more opportunity to pressure this flying robot.
Even then, will that be enough artillery strike now for Sam and Vega?
Very low, but doesn't manage to keep his life northward.
Gotta swap through all of this.
Windruff does not have any point presence, but it will soon as Rack Attack, good naps,
even drags him into the enemy team just for his own demise.
Look back over, overtime with burning Bangalore can miss the self-destruct.
Northwood looks so incredibly lost on this point.
They don't know what to do about this comp.
Windruff, have it down under lock.
Yeah, this is just perfect execution.
Windruff went in a clean round to start off Flashpoint.
Another rotation game begins and a pause and now just my winter. Uh,
surprisingly enough, you couldn't tell, uh,
considering how well that first round went here on Suravasa,
but hopefully a quick tech issue here that can get fixed relatively fast.
But what a round to start off if you are with them, like, Hey,
and that's one of the indoor rounds of Suravasa as well.
Once we get to these kind of more outdoor sections,
it's going to be so hard,
But I do like going the Ana and the Elori.
You need to have as much poke pre-fight as possible.
Yes, you're not gonna have as much heals mid-fight.
It doesn't matter if there's a helicopter above you
and you can't do anything about it,
you gotta deal with that first.
And with, excuse me, North would have been four swaps.
Alrighty, just in that one objective,
I don't know what to do.
I'm going to figure this out.
Eventually, something that might work a little bit better,
but it's gonna take a while.
And Winterfee need to ride this train
as far as they possibly can.
This is the biggest advantage that I think they are going to have for the entire series.
As long as Northwood has no idea to do about this, can't?
Well, you're pretty goalie.
Like seriously, having Rack Attack on this roster,
best Jetpack Cat you're going to find around in Collegiate for sure,
and even further than that arguably, you can't match that.
I don't think Northwood are going to pull out Jetpack Cat unless they get super desperate
and run out of every other option.
When I was talking with Northwood the other day, he's like, hey, Braden said, hey,
there is a chance this is run.
but I don't think we're going to do it.
Wow.
Maybe that was great to know.
It was about a week or so ago.
It's been more prominent in Korea this week.
Could easily see that being a change.
But you can tell it's still fresh enough
where a lot of teams don't know how to counter it.
And it didn't even look great yesterday from when they ran it.
You can tell they really sharpened it overnight.
They got ready for this series in particular,
and it's just looking so oppressive to anything
Northwood is trying to do, what am I going to say?
I think we have fixed the tech issue out on stage.
Are we ready to go back in here to serve Asa in just a moment?
But let's see what the answer is for Northwood.
Do they have an answer to this,
or are we going to be tied up here after Mapster?
Not yet.
I was also really impressed by it,
because there is just the body guard.
Yeah.
He's the only part of this team that cannot move at all.
So having him there, defending against Rocket,
it means Rocket has to take a 1v2,
And he doesn't get the assistance of either other support because they're busy dealing with Jetpack Cat Fashion.
Sam with Haven, he is so zoned out of this fight, he is not built up to that override protocol yet.
And I think that will be the best chance for Northwood to get back in the series.
So, move on to our second point.
And already Northwood trying to take an early advantage by point.
The risk here is for Sam.
If Rack gets killed above one of these ledges, you go down like a lead balloon and it's out of map.
So it's a little bit of a worry if you are winter, but they're just gonna feel out where Northwood is
But it's hide in a quarter to wait for infected and the trap works. Yeah sleep on to the wrecking ball
Some to have a more permanent sleep to say the least Northwood
We're looking a lot better and you can't really bodyguard against a diva and that's gonna be the big thing if painkiller can actually start
Participating in these fights Northwood all the much better time. Yes, and I'm just looking they are using DM
Yeah, the entire fight it felt like on the first flashpoint over at protocol pulse a in the captive Sun now for
North of just the monster in fact, which granted can't open up maybe an early flip during the midfight and
Everybody's so afraid to push into that point. But is that follow-up?
What is that going to be here from went through almost the nano from ultraviolet to go back on Sam?
I'm looking at Northwood's all-time three ways that you can just murder ultraviolet Sam does back off
He's not attached to the jetpack cat at this time. So on that retreat give us more space to work with there
You go that is way number three you could have done perfect stick from rockets on it all to violets
It's worth one final fight territory here
You don't want a pink killer and make without the jetpack cat that bastion so much less of a threat
But they put the ultimates to work with they're just not gonna get just chance to use them
Yeah, the setup is just never in there. Northwood. Don't give them the opportunity
Zerath trying to look for a potential touch who will be infected who sets the mines over by a point
and then at least give a little bit of time for UV to go back into this fight.
Ooh, the nano onto the deep bastion and because Teamkiller wasn't in mech it's so easy for infected to take him out
and you're still in this. That's the advantage of the wrecking ball tracer. So many ways to stall this objective and they did it to perfection.
Yeah, Teamkill 04 whipped up. Just needed to stall a little bit of time
But an innovative bastion in the sky, yeah, a little bit of a scary sight to say the least.
And they still got both DPS ult and the cat napping ready to go here to start bringing another
mini-reverse sweep here on the map with Northwood. They have a lot of uses here, ultimately, from CJ with the nano.
Could go with a pink color, honestly, just to push on high ground and try and take out Rapper Sam.
I love to deal with Havens over at Protocols. First, blast Sam out of the sky now looking for the jetpack at Architect running for his life.
Havens goes, but no, the cat will manage to use one of his nine lives.
They end up, there we go, the fire attack, flip back over for Northwood.
There's still a couple touches, infected, and well, there was a life, not anymore, just infected, rolling on through, but he won't have the health.
Install this one out any longer, Northwood. We'll tie up our map at 1-1.
one a piece and you get the lake to under effective will help her a little bit
in the jetpack cat is gone a rat goes over to the break and the haze and em
ray is now matched so everything is basically the same just a little bit
different for the break compared to the alarm are a little more poke here for
northwood but more of that pop potential with infected on that has we
already saw it last map here and there having those moments let's see if you
to give up another.
I have to give up a couple alts to make those swaps very necessary for Winthrope, so that
they're not holding on to those old outcomes.
There's a look for Rocket on this pulse bomb UV, still on this Ana.
You know that's the target.
He's gonna be searching for...
...this matter of time until he finds him and effect it with a Bionade from CJ, can't
it finish him off?
No, great sleep!
On to Pink Killer!
UV single-handedly saved half of his team with both his cooldowns.
Northwood, their percentage on this point will be short lived,
Nautilus now on to infected hunting for Haven, he falls!
Doctor Sun in the sky for Vega, that's when you're going to want back for the numbers,
so you are down, yeah, you get full supports, without a tank, it's really just the Yachty,
you're not winning a 1v4.
No, not a fight that Vega is going to want to push on through,
but a quick 30% in garbage time from Northwood on this point,
and that may come into effect a little bit later.
Only time will tell.
Just the self-destruct to go back into mech here
from painkiller during the middle of the fight.
Made us almost like a pseudo primal.
Nano with CJ to store the nano on a painkiller.
Let him do his thing and if he gets out of mech,
cool, self-destruct and re-run it.
Nano and D.Va, we should have already
blown up squishies pretty easily.
With that nano, make it 50% faster.
With these damage boosts there.
Here he goes, zoom in through the cut.
Look how fast he is.
Back in that shield, it can only last so long
feeling from these tanks will not be enough. The Sam, as long as much time as possible,
Northwood has the grip of the point, as Infected peels for his team, but his two little, two
white rocket sweeps across the Vulture Violet, remaining health bar, and this percentage
will be evened up and surpassed. Paikiller will opt back off.
Is it at least Infected who should get out, but now without a few bruises? Winter, no,
Well look at this ulti-copy, everything's button-and-it was drastically on-line, it's just a matter of
can they get to the point and set up in time? They should!
Over at protocols, they have a little bit of fight in the air, there they go, it's simultaneously!
Both both sides at the same time, that's him!
I think we're hitting him and no, can't get the heavy shot!
Off in time, Rocket Dice was a post-bomb that had to have been from Rack Attack!
On the other side of the map, Pup the rally to live!
Took out the tracer! Northwood got 99% affected!
One's the one to talk to the point and make sure the eagles keep this one going.
Eagles nest little flip back, but everything that they had built up at that point is gone.
Just the nano from UD to go on to infected entering this next fight. A little bit more to worry about
if you went through up in terms of Northwood's ults. Vega doesn't have to deal with the you know
defense majors on the other end. They can put this type of stuff wherever he may please but he's
He's got to live first, wrecking a Xerobos thing that has time for ability.
Goodbye CJ, didn't have a chance, he could have blinked it, he was just dead.
But Painkiller, doing his best to trade this one out, is on the point, but affected.
A two for nothing is fantastic, he's back now, knocked out of mechs is Painkiller, self-destructs.
We'll give him a fresh one, but you have no support, any damage wins or take.
We won't be pertinent, infected, feeling the reality of that situation.
It's gonna be on Xerra to clutch this off, because he is struggling to live.
on the spikes is enough to keep the pain killer back with no the touch can't
happen Zera goes down would have been a long shot anyways but Northwood now take
the lead into a boss so cool he was just waiting for that recall didn't realize
how quickly that overtime ticker would it draw it down Northwood one around the
way it's my two is your lead in this series but every single flashpoint
clearly has been close other than both the Apache helicopter to start off in
Flashpoint 1. Winter already set up over here. Has the downpour from Infected?
Could be easy targets for Xera with this pulse.
He's gonna look for it. Look at the downpour first. That actually grabs three players!
What a downpour! From Infected, Postfone goes to Waste and Rocket!
Yeah, get Xera! The constellation, Infected, dealing half the team.
I don't think you're happy about that.
No, not really. The setup is so good though from Infected.
They don't even need the pulse and a pause cue once again here from Winthrop. So maybe it's that same pesky computer
Maybe a little bit of an issue over there on stage. We'll get that figured out here in just a moment everybody gets land things happen, right?
I mean it's after every pause we've had has been after a flight they went through have one in the big
place
So it's not that much of an issue as they're still able to win that specific fight
But we'll get that sorted out for them momentarily, but the turnaround is there
We were talking about how long it would take Northwood to actually figure it out. Well, you managed to do it
That's only the cat and bash it away
Immediate swap and it's it's been a little dicey
I think there's just some pieces that if infected or Zara can't have these major pop-off moments
It's been Northwood's consistent go in get out that has worked out for them
Yes, know exactly what your your win con is and if you can feel it's not happening get out of that man
But it is just that simple
Feels like I think it's UV that they're messing with his setup for just a moment. Yeah, that's a key player
You kind of need to know a lot of your main healers coming from him and a lot of honesty of your pop-offs have come from him today so far
He's a fantastic game. He's had so many just star plays winning tracer duels for Zara
Saved like half the team we got a sleep dart onto the D but that was diving into infectives like 10 health left and the
Bionate on the rocket right at like there's just so much threats that he has existing still got that on a band by the way
Yeah, it wasn't technical protect from one prep as they did found Lucio
So it does guarantee it would be playable or at least this round
But I want something for Northwood that I'm sure they're thinking about as this series continues to go on
I was I was kind of questioning this. I think they're playing Vega for the opportunity of this double flex support. Yes
You don't really have that flexibility with Lep. He's an incredible main support.
Absolutely. One of the best Luceos we have around right now, but he doesn't have that flexibility to go on to a flex support.
They want to run something like this with the Elari, and it's worked great ever since that pivot.
Oh, great. It was a rough start to this map. It felt like they had no way of even starting. There was no momentum, nothing.
But now they've really turned it around here on the back half of Saravasa, and if they get to this 2-0 lead,
0 lead. It can be quite daunting sometimes to get away from that. Because then if you
went there, you got to win at least two Northwood map packs, which is a lot easier said than
done.
And as I said, if this series, I don't expect it to be as sweet. This match is already much,
much closer. And it almost feels like something on a, I don't even want to say fundamental
level. I think it's just a playstyle thing. Matching what Northwood is doing versus setting
your own tempo. It seems that Northwood more often than not is the team to go first. But
Winthrop have these huge moments that when they go, they go.
We've seen that twice in the past two rounds.
They've been tested and a fantastic downpour just as we saw in Palace before the pause.
Madelboost managed to get them close to winning the point if they got the touch at the end there.
So there are these moments that Winthrop can do it.
Winthrop just went a lot more consistently.
Yeah, it just feels like the more maybe I don't know if it's more reps or it's more
comfortable on the stage, but Northwood seem a little bit more steady in their approach so far.
But again, it's a long series.
Sometimes it just takes teams a little bit more time
to settle into this one, figure out
how they want to deal with this exact setup.
Yes, Winter was here yesterday playing,
but they were in the venue across the way.
They were not here in this building,
so it's obviously a little bit different
when you have these sorts of setups.
And obviously you're just looking here,
pulling it square in the face.
They were just right across here from each other.
So it's definitely a little bit different
than when you're playing at home
or even on the opposite venue.
They were kind of opposite sides of the building.
So, a little bit different, but we'll see.
Again, when there was not a team,
you can never count the steam on anything.
And it's not like they're getting blown out of the water.
I had to share to a lot of these fights
are one, two kill differences.
And even these last second and third flashpoints
have been, you know, 100 to 99, 100 to 80.
They have been close the entire way through.
Yeah, and I'm honestly kind of impressed.
The fact that Infected doesn't have this deep
on this hero pool, I think it gives Winthrop
a little bit of a hard time.
Because now you're trying, you have to force the hazard.
You have to force the Winston, which you probably won't see
It will so mostly be that hazard such a strong hero right now getting out safely going after these squishies
Protecting your team if I can do everything and that it has to work twice as hard to get the same value
Or has to play a completely different style that doesn't match painkiller in the end
Yeah, it's like you just have that extra option. He was just so good right now
It feels like she's been good for months
But she really is the best tank in the game right now now that Zarya Vendetta is kind of falling away Vendetta
got nerfed into the ground. It took a while but she did. Zarya still had a good spot but
I feel like you have to play super safe with it. And with teams like this, the bubble discipline
has to be on point because the punish is going to be immediate. So I really haven't seen
Zarya at all today so far. It's just been diva or the hazard into the rematch when they
go into these more brawl style rounds. But it looks like it's still going on. I don't
know if it's a mon issue.
There's a party going on over there.
Yeah, there's a whole party of T.O.'s
that's trying to figure out whatever is going wrong
with Infected's computer.
Yeah, we're looking to start out.
That's the fantastic part about being here
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It really takes a village.
All the people that are behind the scenes on production
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So we're gonna fix in as soon as possible
to make sure that everything is looking okay is, you know, they're just kind of vibing.
I almost thought that painkillers like talking to somebody across the way, but I was just
vibing, getting some hydration in, there's a rack attack in the back there, which is
good. You've got to stay hydrated for games like this.
Oh yeah, well we got a water up here. You've got to stay hydrated. Again, this is a walk
series everybody. We're in for a best of seven. And then Winterbats ate another best of seven
after that fact. So, long day.
We talked about, hey, it's the best of seven, this is gonna be long.
Oh, hey, your Winthroth, you also made the finals for the Marseille Baguette.
Yeah.
Steven Longer and Sinclair, already team, that if you are not playing at your best, they will find a gas in your play.
Tread been a huge addition to this roster over the past semester.
We'll pick apart teams piece by piece, although Winther, we'll have to see how long the series actually ends up going on.
I think when we see them, I've always kind of questioned, you know, this is kind of the
question at the start of the semester, when we see how they brought in Painkiller, they
brought in Chronic, started wasn't playing, Kaden made that return, how would that synergy
actually come into play?
Because with both of these teams having majority of their players with OWBC as partner squads,
getting practice in with those collegiate teams maybe once, maybe twice a week compared
to those other sides.
So how does that synergy actually change?
Whereas with them, they've been the same roster for two years now.
Yeah, they've been making the same roster the whole way through.
And yeah, it's hard because we were talking with Weets about it, they went from maybe
one or two scrims a week with this team to now, hey, they were scrimming every single
day these last few weeks.
Now that OBCS, it was kind of wrapping up a playoffs and we have a little bit of a break
before champions clash over in Japan.
had more time to prepare just as this solid five rather than kind of taking pieces from
different organizations and trying to put everything together, it can be a little dicey,
can be a little tricky. And that's when you take advantage of, hey, these are teams and
players play together on the service. O WCS team. All right, we try and bring that over
to what we're trying to do here. Vice versa a lot as well over there for Northwood. Again,
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I say it's tier two, but it's like it's two one point five. It's like there is there is
pro players here in collegiate getting it done. It's been incredible to see. And the
crazy part is a lot of them started in college and then moved on to those upper levels. We
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We're just currently in a tech pause
Northwood University have the lead 1-0 over Winthrop.
Look back into Sarawasa momentarily as all these players
are trying to get back in.
Yeah, we're trying to get back in.
Everybody's trying to, wanting to get back in.
We've got a small, tiny thing that's being figured out.
But it sounds like there is a solution there
that's working on it right now.
But yeah, it's great.
This place is filled out a little bit behind us now
that we got started.
I think the alarms maybe felt a little bit early.
It was a long day of competition yesterday
for some of these teams.
We got a lot of the teams you got knocked out yesterday hanging out here in the venue wanting to watch so this one ends up
I've got a lot of parents here watching. I know we got the winter up here. It's quite a thing to my left to right now
But yeah, it's a great venue right now. We got a lot of people in here watching this one
And if you are in the Orlando area
Free to come out to see the tournament for the overwatch side and an actual day
and we have so many collegiate teams from around North America who are coming to
competes at Northwood and Winthrop are
Clearly the two top as of now and to continue to showcase that throughout the game and it's really cool
See not only the people that come out we have teams that were eliminated yesterday that are here
Have all of the parents they're backing like we I think there's a whole set of like Winthrop family team bleachers
On the side of the map. I just heard a cheer from there. So
They're here, anytime. We got a lot of energy coming up.
I know that last year we kind of had a little bit of a run-in with Rock Attack at where we were staying.
And apparently, instructed the parents to reel it in, sit farther back from the teams because it was distracting.
But they have so much energy to give. They're just being supportive.
There's so much. I hear a tear in the air behind us.
just like, hey, we know, we know if we love the support, you know, it's got a step, it's
sit a little bit further back to be here, but it's not drowning out the audio, but that's
awesome.
Like it's awesome to see a lot of the support here at the Grand Finals in Orlando and obviously
again, we talked to a lot of managers, coaches, players, the support out here has been great
this entire weekend across all the titles.
So it's been awesome to see and yeah, it's just great to be back on land man.
like it feels like all you can see it all the time in order to see yes they get to go all over the place and
Obviously some third-party lands are going on
But it feels nice to have like we're crowning our actual champions here like in person
We'll get to see who it is right behind us here in just a little bit
It feels great because we haven't got to do it in so long and it feels and I feel bad for the teams
We didn't get to if it is just like pseudo zoom interviews for their winter
But we get to do it here on land here today. Yeah, I think everybody in person is fantastic
Even when we were talking to players before this whole tournament, a consistent answer to one of the questions asked,
what are you looking forward to most?
Seeing all of the other teams, players, friends, across the board, as yeah, you might be playing for a different college,
but with the full integration of a lot of the face-at-league tournaments, calling all heroes, ODF ACS as well,
you're going to be on the same team, Tech, Vega, on Team Liquid with a lot of the Winthrop players
we are officially back on in issue resolve, the Winthrop, our control palace.
Yeah, we are officially back in and I think shout out to all the amazing TOs for getting to work on whatever was going on
But thankfully it was something that couldn't be fixed there. I don't just chillin out here on the flank
Waiting for this pulse bobby. You don't see just kind of look
Postbomb to the back of the head and affected dives in on the follow up perfect execution out of zero
Winthrop said they needed to take the initiation, they did it perfectly there.
Perfect, you get... See, they were like, where is he? Where is he? Left or right?
They just did it looking times there with a perfectly placed pulse right there.
And now some swaps actually, painkiller.
And yeah, under a mantra.
Oh, oh, shit.
The one and the run it down a little bit more as we answer...
Just get it ready for that final flashpoint. It is more rush-centric.
And I think this flashpoint, it's a wrap.
Yeah, I think Northwood would have kind of accepted this one.
Except if this one's over, especially with Sam Nuking,
both supports with an added override.
Tarticle, yeet, actually get the third on top of it.
Look at this guy go.
Not a traditional hitscan, Claire.
You wouldn't know it based on that.
Winthrop will take a palace.
And looks like we're going to finish this one off in a five.
We're going all the way here on Suravasa.
Winthrop, tie us up once more.
Try to tie up this series at 1-8 piece.
And I have the Riley to build up a lot of that armor health
during the beginning of this fight if they so choose,
but it is also screaming as a giant target for Haven.
Lips us over right, protocol,
and we'll get to see maybe which one gets popped first,
but we have a feeling where that target is going to be.
And Rocket also has a pulse here
in just a few moments as well.
Yeah, Rocket, pulse bomb.
Well, the relatively easy time getting
to rack attack in ultra-violent now.
Well, he actually gets a stick,
his rack attack, and it's just about to kill feed.
Got him with it earlier.
For now, Northwood, I think David Van,
Swapping to Ramoncha ruined such a brawly, objective winthrip they want to stay further away for the most part just with your support comps.
You don't get the opportunity to do that here.
Now throw that open to turn it around.
If you're really rallying for rack attack, not even a chance to pop the override protocol.
Yeah, rocket will throw the pulse bomb.
Little tickle damage, unaffected.
It's not going to mean much.
At the end of the day, the Eagles back on the top starting off ruins.
Winter block it in and they don't have to use a lot of what they had else built up during that fight just the rally alone
Haven't died so early in that fight over at protocol not able to be used
And now you have to worry about the rest of this the downpour could be a great factor
I get easy set up for zero either just to clean it up or maybe on a pulse bomb onto painkiller if he gets it down
There's looking for CJ
They definitely thought about the pulse pump, thought he could get him in the 1, but that's all these distraction-infected solos on Haven with the assistance of the downpours.
They're just struggling to take out these supports.
Okay buddy, I'll give you a little bit of a hand.
Northwood, you just can't trade out as effectively on this Remontra. They can't get to the supports.
When the Red is starting these fights so early, Northwood had no time to do anything.
Still over in protocol. Annihilation. Rush is almost here from Vega.
You may as well use the consumer us to make sure you get to the point you have a chance on at least having one more
Try at this, but you also can't use everything. You're going to need to win two or three fights in a row to take this map
The boys are
Smites rocket before it even starts in on him and now can't even hear what they know
There's no touch for north wood at all with them
We'll end up taking it and eagles will tie up our open grad flight
I got to want to take a look back at that. I don't know what happened must have been the dedicated touch
He gets taken out early and there nobody else really has that much mobility pink
Oh, that's right. I'm not like he was on anything else. It's like that's rough
That is a rough bill to swallow if you are in Northwood felt like they had a lot of tools
Going into that fight to bring it home
But just did not have the player to get on the point and a nice rebound from Winthrop
But they win their map pick now the power for that where it turns over to the Timberwolves
And you know what happened? Windsor started catching Northwood in these rotations
Yes, they didn't get them time to set up
They went first as early as humanly possible the scouting from Zara and even when rocket attack was on this jetpack cat
Realized it wasn't working making the swamp was key, but the big thing was the playstyle
You're not letting Northwood make all these decisions for you because of that it gave them a huge opportunity
They completely swept on two of these objectives just because of it
Yeah, it was just a clean run for a while and then North would have, you know,
started to pick up the pieces again near and late, it felt like, but just not quite
enough. I want to get to see you maybe in a minute how all that happened, but I
think, again, even if the Hazard isn't necessarily the best pick right now,
D.Va is definitely the more well-rounded pick. The way infected is playing him
right now makes it all work. Yeah, it's hit twice as much effort to get the same
value as the debuts the fact is he is doing as much as he is is honestly insane
and the effect of hazard we haven't seen a ton of it in collegiate because it's
been a little strange in the meta but I hope it stays that this needs to be a
continued thing for Winthrop and now you have a confident thing to play in to
painkiller now the ball back in Northwood's court for this next map and
ban I'm looking at the honor I'm gonna be fully honest if you're going in a
a escort map, or you got a hybrid, it's got to go.
I'd say if you're doing push, maybe not.
If it's hybrid or escort, yeah,
I think you have to ban out the honor.
Unless you have a specific like DPS ban you want to get out,
you want to deny like the cat bastion happening again
on some of these maps, but you got to ban the cat
because your bastion was already banned earlier
in this series.
But yeah, there is a whole lot of options here
for Northwood to take this.
And obviously there is no King's Row in this map pool,
which feels a little odd, I won't lie to you.
It's just a little bit odd to not have, you know,
scrims row as an option,
but it's going to be a decent,
and it's not a plethora of options here
for Northwood to take it.
So they want to go full dive
and it's laying into this diva.
I think that's probably their best decision,
but then you have to at least think about it.
Like, how do you want to play around it?
And the on a band is probably the way to go.
Watch Prince Balder is available.
Yes. You want to go to the dive.
It would Winston. Yeah, it's going to be up, but I think if you're infected, you're going to stick hazard in that situation, but out of the absolute this honor cannot be allowed to exist.
And yeah, we saw the swap from CJ. You got decent value out of it. It just wasn't enough in the way that UV was playing around rack attack, especially after the break.
It became so much easier for him to operate. Zara was let off as leash of being the bodyguard and matched rocket in ways that I just haven't shown us so far today.
Yeah, just been it's been a bear as a tail of two halves right now like map one felt like northward running with this thing
Map two not so much went through
You know got her punch back and now we're starting to bring this background best of seven now a best of five
And let's see this ping pong goes back and forth you can honestly see it with these teams
They have their dedicated maps that they're going to be comfortable with in this map pool
We can easily see you know northward with map three winter with map four and just go back and forth
And that's the advantage Northwood may have laid out as they would have that final map 7 map pick
Unless we get a tie somewhere in here on one of these hybrids later on I don't
I hope I didn't just do that
You have a record of cast I have a record of cast occurred. I don't know why maybe it's like what we balance each other out
You do all those I just
I learned from Necro that she has a lot of the C9s,
I just have a lot of the caster curses.
It's a little rough.
It's just your thing, you gotta accept it.
You gotta live with it.
But I'm okay with that.
It just, hey, if it's not personal.
Winter, Northwood, I promise it's not personal.
But we get more overwatch, we get more drops.
That's true.
I'm doing this for you, Chad.
I'm jinxing us for a tie for a MAP 8
so you can get more drops.
It's all for the people.
I think it would be new that would be a wreck. I don't think it's ever happened. I don't know if we went to seven
I have to look I don't think we've met the seven in a final not in the last two years
We haven't we've got the six gone to six
But I don't think we've got a seven we've not done a seven yet
So yeah, we have a little bit. I see your face on that. Yeah, we got we teetered around
I didn't even think about it until after I said it and then I saw your face
I'm like wait a minute that you know none of that today
I do hope that whatever map pick is next it sets up Haven better because we can silent for north one on that
I think there were a couple of pop-off moments with the override protocol.
It was all Sam, for the most part, which he was kind of my big question work for Winthrop today
of how he would be performing. That's God. He's great! Oh, I'd like to see more of it,
but now I've taved it. It's kind of getting dipped. And he was the one in the interview
that became so much content, no concern whatsoever about this team.
We're going to show up. We're going to win. Well, we just lost that last map and
didn't really have much of a say in what happened.
Not much. It was just a very weird change.
Surveys is a map where it's a lot more pressure on your tank and your flexed DPS rather than
your hit scan. They're going to have moments when it is both those flanks, those side angles.
That's really more impactful. Just without quickly those fights are developing,
depending on what we go to next. If it's a hyper escort, they're going to be a little more drawn
out. It's a lot more important how much poof you can get pre-flight. That is when a lot more of that
value can be landed onto the shoulders of Haven. And I think it can't happen. Again,
We've seen everybody has been drawing blows so far. Nobody has been like, oh, you know,
they're kind of stepping back. They're kind of a step behind the rest, per se.
No one's really been that so far. It is just a matter of what style of play do Northwood want
to go to. They want to try once again with this dive, and it's lean more into this diva,
or do you want to try and step back, maybe go a little more a poke, or do you want to do something
like that? Again, the options are endless here for Northwood on what style they would like to go.
So next fight I guess is probably more of the dive and it's leaning into the diva more
But the absorb they are a good poke team. Yes, but you could dive bad hazard
That is still on the cards and I think that would put infected in a really uncomfortable situation
As wrecking ball won't really check a lot of those boxes. Yeah, yes, it can work. He's fantastic at the Winston
But in the diva has a really tough matchup to play properly and it would set Winfra back
You have even more reliance onto these DPS, which is something that you definitely could do.
It's just not a preference.
I think with the style of Winthrop and how they often play infected, is this engaging point?
Is the one that's been setting the tempo more often, not unless we're seeing like an initiation pulse bomb or something from Zera.
So having a band like that or keeping them available before Northwood is a consideration.
is the pool does, we'll get smaller and smaller so your map picks have to be so specific on when
you actually want to take that away. I knew Bonnie watch Point Brawler. Yeah, it's going to be a
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Finals has been delivering so far with the university have tied the series and won one
After a fantastic win on sir. Wilson have shown some current profits. So starting to figure out Northwood's play style
Well, let's develop their own
Yeah, now we and sounds like everything of the figure out just a say I'm not UV who had something going on
But has a physics and shout out to y'all is everybody working the magic back there making it all
Get fixed fairly quickly considering all you know the issue that it was
But here we go. Map 3, where do Northwood want to go next?
And we were kind of theorizing a bit on, hey, they could go dive, they could go poke.
We're probably leaning towards the dive.
But now we're going to see what Northwood would like to do.
And it's going to be dive with the Ritisopi.
And they do ban off the cat to avoid a cat bastion comp on this map.
And I think that is absolutely necessary.
With this is by far one of the best Jepak maps game.
You have to do it.
to do it. This means the Ana is available. I don't think you're as worried about that.
On a push map, it will be a little bit easier to collapse on top of Ultra Violet if you
decide to do that. Now, the other side of this is the Tracer, and I'm a little shocked,
and I think it's more so Rocket is a problem if he is unmatched. They don't want to match
Rocket here. They don't want to play Tracer. Wind Threp have their own idea of how they
would like to force this map, and it also puts Rocket in a bit of an awkward spot. It
is for the way he's best hero. Yes, he's the Genji, the Mandetta, something like the Venture,
the Flora, but they are nowhere near the level that his tracer has been. So playing it on this map
will be a bit of a challenge. Yeah, a little bit. And I think, you know, Rockets would be fine.
Let's just say that even though he's not on the tracer, it's going to be completely fine.
But I do think it's a great band for what they're like. We know we're not going to match it. We
came with Zera and the option is there, but they would rather play around with something else.
And you take away Rockets Vest Hero, force a little bit of a pivot, and now Winthrump can go into this thinking, hey, we have a great chance to get a 2-1 lead here, entering the back half of this series.
So we'll see what they would like to do here in just a minute at least, exact comms, because they were probably wanting to run that cat bastion, but obviously don't have that opportunity now.
Yeah, and without the tracer, what do you put Sarah on? Is it the Fara? Fara is...
We've seen a lot of fire this weekend. It was the biggest winner of the most recent season two pouch with the addition of the
Well one you get to move all barrage
That's been added to base kit and then you'd have the concussive blast with the perk plus 50 damage
Add it with the second one that has a smaller rockets
You got basically one shot any squishy any late game situation that far
It can be playing on this map with a decent amount of vertical cover that you're able to use
I don't know if it's the most popular pick though
But with that, I mean, clearly they have some idea, they want to take away a very core part of what has been these team's identity so far.
Hey, we said like, oh, these team's identities, they have like four.
Exactly.
Like, they have such a diverse skill set here where they can kind of run anything.
And we're seeing that here, these are maybe not the comps, I think a lot of people expected to see.
Once we load it in the runes, so I think, or I think maybe three crafting still on the exact play combo we did expecting.
and with the Tracer gone, the Genji's will come to play.
Yeah, when they're sticking with their guns, they have been allergic to Lucio Curico as much as they can today.
They're going to start on that Cric Juno, at least he's going to sneaky him out of Marissa this weekend.
So in fact it's there, can killer being on the Zarya, not only is that going to help Rocket with this Genji,
but it's also going to melt infected if he's in the wrong place.
Yeah, infected will have to play a little bit more safely around cover,
Just to not get burned down by this Zarya once that charge gets up to that higher registry
A little bit of poke going in until Winthrop a more hesitant and you got to use the speeder and carefully which is more
So hey, let's give Zara this hand walk on forwards painkiller low on bubbles
There's plenty of support behind with CJ and Vega
Thank you little spot from Zara. No idea. He's coming finds the target in havens protection. So is who force
It's actually this, here we go, not so much in trouble,
this painkiller, because there's been so much time
occupying, he supports the rest of Winthrop,
walk on forwards, and team wipe the timber wolves.
Just the art of destruction right there, everybody.
Zara just draws attention of three members of Northwood,
and at that point, the rest, you're gonna take the 4B,
two of your Winthrops, go on in,
save Zara at the end as well.
And now Northwood have at least a better idea
of what they are up against,
but will not make any changes.
It'll be up to Haven to get a lot of good shots early
and disruptive shot as well to kind of force
Infected away from these early pushes.
Now, back them off, but that's that speeder
and play went through from looking forward.
They're executing on it perfectly.
Haven, the target calls time and time again here, Sam.
Spots CJ off on the side, he's gonna dip on out.
Over the rest of his teams, Infected did in fact overstep.
That is the problem with this composition.
Once that speedering is gone,
Our sit-in doc suspected Zara found out the hard way of the Northwood.
Time to get started around.
Once this charge gets up, that is when Northwood are going to be real dangerous in this composition.
Because yes, the infected can set up with the jab throw, trying to isolate Haven in that
first fight.
It can be a great asset, but once Painkiller is starting at the start of the 70, 80, 90,
100, it just melts infected even with fortified.
Jasmine isn't going to do anything, so expect Infected to probably go to Shield perk once that major is unlocked.
We'll find out. There could be a tempo pick for Winthrub. Speaking of tempo, Infected is in there.
Fantastic, sooze out of CJ. To the end of the concerning rush speed boost, they have enough to get through the fight
and they have Power Rocket on his Dragonblade. Sand is shut down. Beautiful shot.
Out of even, an expensive commitment from the Northwood. Three ultimates into just the two of Winthrub.
But it will get them close to this,
in fact it will get the lead and close to the forward spawns.
Yeah, easy lead now, forward Northwood as that changes over.
And honestly, should be a tick,
unless there's a last thing in touch here
from Zera infected, getting up on the Eurissa,
seeing that it's Eurissa on the other side,
and the Remontra will have a better time
against the Russian here.
Yeah, you're a lot more safe on the Remontra
between the block and having the shield
to sort of stop the beam.
That's great.
Here's the other issue.
You don't have a sound barrier or a transcendence, for example.
This grab is free, so Sam needs to come up big on this overwrite protocol,
but because Haven has this overclock online, he's not daring to peek his head out,
so that ultimate almost goes to waste.
You get fantastic suzerain from CJ.
He's been on point with these, but it just didn't happen to everyone's self.
By the time he's out, lock guys with him, they'll take him out,
and see that when we'll be able to rally after Northwood,
expand all of their resources early.
And that swap already for infected at paying off.
I do wonder if Painkiller just matches it once this round gets used.
If I had to guess, probably yes.
At least everybody from Northwood Rockett barely got that forward spawn.
It was not by much, but everybody from Northwood will play up and that's why I went to him.
They're just gonna chill out mid.
They don't want to push into this too heavy considering Xerath took a little bit of extra time to get here.
Well he doesn't, the dragon blade was going to be impu-
What?!
But the blade did it!
Xerath, what a play of the reaction!
Throw it right back in Painkiller's face and said Northwood's back to spawn.
And what was their biggest win condition of the map?
What an insane play from Zera.
That will give them the tick, and that'll maybe even set them up
to build on the lead here.
And that is the best play of the day so far.
And that'll give Winterbat taking that blade in hand.
I don't know if you can top that.
It would be awesome if I could play over the entire day,
even after all of our matches are played.
And yeah, still is the dragon blade
to work with the season.
This is my territory, both plus slices at the bubbles,
but Vega moved on away, Blaine will go to waste,
perfectly glided, find Morsewood,
and they came up with both supports on the opposite end.
Winthrop is doing their best to stall this out.
They got the forward spawns,
and that enough is good to take away.
Yeah, you get forward spawns.
It's enough for this fight, you know, yes.
You have that change now,
Lucio Curie will be the match,
considering it's just the full on rush now,
Zera will swap off the Genji, goes over to the Pharah.
So, Sousa can have a little bit of an issue sometimes,
snapping the Pharah out of the air, the only other player.
The Orca can maybe get a Shuriken or two here and there,
CJ will have trouble as well.
So, that'll force Northwood to play a little bit more tentative.
Because look at the angle that Zera is on too,
he's clear away from his team.
He doesn't need to play safe.
He can sit by the side.
Northwood knows that they're winning this fight in the open,
it needs to be now.
B-Blade is out, Rocket, Dices are at attack, gets a second out of Sam,
for it's caught by the last 10 drill, I'm instructed, it is still a two from one,
favoring Northwood, the painkiller, so much charge worked with, infected, shouldn't stick around for long.
The infected is trying to get a little bit of all charge back up, but no, it's going to be another
fight win here for Northwood, but they won't stick around for too long quite yet, still only
four members here, they want to wait out, and especially now we have an overrun protocol in
That'll be a very forced retreat.
Yeah, you don't really have a choice if you're northward.
You can face the rockets of Sam, or face the rockets of Zera.
Again, very full flank angle, and nothing that northward can do to contest that.
We'll be able to see here on the spawns.
We'll get the forward spawn here for Haven and CJ on that light wave,
but Zera already nearly at that barrage.
It's going to be a continued issue for northward.
It is not handled correctly, but there are at least more than some of these angles
that Zera could be peeking his head out of.
out of. So he's thinking about it. I mean I don't know where he is. He's still not safer.
I think Haven honestly is waiting for Zero to overxit. Oh no, he's dead. He's a secondary
fighter from pain killer. Now he can just pop this free to make sure that the fight
is won or I can just barely hang it on to life and he just can't do much to keep infected
on his feet as ultra-violet. It's far away. Taking out Haven. Instead, it's like, well
I'm gonna take the heal. Let's get a little aggressive, get the pick. Northwood at the
end of the day, we'll still have the bot. Three minutes to go here. Northwood's still
holding on to a 27 meter lead. Katsune rush in the hand of a CJ. Ultramanal almost has his
built up as well, could use it for a bit of a counter depending on how much poke Winthrop takes
during the beginning of this engage, but it's gonna be up to zero. How long can you hide to get
this barrage off? As long as you get one it's worth. Now he's up in the sky by fencing the headshot
from Having his drop down. Suzu is using a massive cooldown out of Winthrop. CJ knows it. Katsune
We can rush out, ultraviolet holds the trigger, but perhaps too long.
Graviton surge from painkiller.
No deflack this time.
Rosham Zara!
I mean, it gets two.
It'll give us a good contest, at least.
Yeah, a decent contest.
Just loosely heals us.
It's pretty hard to sustain off of, but no deflack to worry about this time for painkiller.
And that'll lead to a massive grab in Northwood, 108 meters.
That is where they'll assign it's good enough.
to speed on out of here before any extra casualties and almost end up being a
rocket but a nice little bubble there from pink killer making this play
towards mid advanced spawns still active in case they win this fight to push
once more. In less than two minutes now we went through a lot of ground for them
to make up. Holding on to this is Kuchtsune Rush. Could just be the answer. The Vega answers.
Tempo being answered. Yes they're barely gets it off but thank goodness no disasters yet.
Is everyone's on their feet? I can't quite say the same for Faga. He's taking a lot of damage, tries to skirt away, and back to Thou.
We'll whip right back around, take him out, Northwood on the retreat rocket, push the blade, with nobody there, the rest of the team are already backed off.
Yeah, that fight was done. I think that was maybe a little bit of desperation trying to bring it back.
But that is, and all that, they are going to watch the back, and even some stagger kills.
That's the biggest one you could get. CJ out.
Be more space now for Winter, Fort spawns, reactivated here for the Eagles and now look at these ults.
Got annihilation in the overclock here from Sam and it doesn't even need it!
Wow! Sam is just rolling now on the soldier.
Haven, again, we said that he just didn't get to participate last night.
It's been a similar case here. Winter thought they've done an excellent job at shutting him down at every turn.
This leaves One-Fight away.
One-Fight and North would have zero ultimates.
it's two try counter on maybe haven can build up this overclock but that is kind
of a tentative thing and they're almost got this barrage as well
Puss has already been dropped by Northwood they've one chance to pick it back up believe it's just gone
Winter can't get for free, Northwood don't even test the overclock of Sam so much of a threat
they didn't want to take the risk
Adam, Winter realized that hey we don't have to win this fight anymore we can and we will
They are here at the spawn doors, ready to take that lead. Annihilation is still here for stall with infected, but it will be a continued rush from CJ.
Can usher everybody, y'all. Try and push off Winthrop. If you're the ego, do just what all sounds.
Haven, overclocked last chance now for Northwood over time and a mountain still to climb, but you don't have Rocket.
The annihilation from Infected enough to zone them back.
Ravidton Surge is still available.
Tank Killer, fighting is time for now.
Knowing Infected is in the backline, you can't afford to hold it for longer though.
Sides to put it so low onto the curate go, yes he comes up with three.
The turnaround is there for Northwood that Winthrop are in such a good position.
I don't know how long this can last.
can last. Infected got four kills in the back there, but it's just not enough.
Northward survived and now will bring the long escort of the bot back over to me.
But they, that was the way, they just wanted ult out from Northward and they
get it. Overclocked, grabbed, Kitsune, all gone. And they have the beat now to
play around. This is Winthrop's map to lose. It's all on rack attack here. Timing
this right whether it's a temple being a reactive one.
Winthrop have the best possible tool to work with heading into this fight.
How is he going to decide to use it Sam incredibly low?
It's just super ultra-violet and rocket!
Falls it down, no bubbles inside, that's the beat!
Forward!
Winthrop, surging on in, Zera grabs Vega and CJ for the road!
What a turnaround from the Eagles and even worse, the drop of the spaghetti from Northwood!
That backing forth that we talked about earlier no longer in the hands of Northwood it is in the hands of
Winthrop what a turnaround on that map
And it felt like in Northwood. They got that rhythm going. It's a they got in that wind loss wind loss
It's okay. You can keep the bottom
Winthrop side of the map and then just two three fights get put together here late
And it is just not enough from Northwood at the end didn't have those ultimates to bring back forward rock
it was close but died at 85%. And now Winthrop two maps away from that title, but still a long
ways to go in this series considering how close these maps have been. Like honestly from this
deflected grab play, I think there was just something that flipped in Winthrop. Like all right,
if Mike Gagey could do that, we can do anything. Swaps over to the floor, so much off angle pressure
that Northwood never dealt with. Yeah, he wasn't in the kill feed a ton, but it set up Sam really
well. Infected could walk in because everybody was pressured back. Northwood, I think they
held on as long as they did because of painkillers Zoria. If he wasn't on that hero, I think
Aven and Rocket were just struggling against the Zera poke damage. They couldn't get anywhere
and Winthrop just made this map their own.
Yeah, it was just the last I could turn around and I would say Sam's pick offs at the beginning
of that run through.
Staggers!
It was so big because it just eliminates an entire fight from Northwood and it went
up just like oh now we just get lead automatically and we can just extend it without having to commit
everything to this and that just was the perfect setup for wind drop and now two one lead heading
into a map four power now returns northward didn't work out that time in the map pick escort and
hybrid now are your two options i sense they watch point your brawls are in our future or a blizzard
world if i had to guess it's got to be something like that unless they want to lean more into that
Zarya which can work. It can. No that the Tracer is going to be back into play unless they for whatever reason ban it
But I'd be a little stunned if they did
Tracer being back for Rocket and he's in hump a lot. Genji, yeah, he can play it
But it's just not really what he's known for even with the Zarya bubbles
Don't want to get Zara to one of his two that top heroes being Tracer and Genji
I don't think there's like many players in North America that could have stood a chance against that kind of play
I need to see this team rally because I'm watching Northwood be the most calm composed team ever
And then just stagger out for a minute and a half
Like these are things that cannot happen that have to be cleaned up when they're taking advantage of those mistakes
It's not necessarily that they're having a constant huge pop-offs anymore
It's that they're seeing these little gaps in Northwood's playstyle and taking advantage of them
When you were teams this high up, right? You were the number one number two teams in the country
You can't afford to make those little mistakes, because you know the team on the other side
of that stage is going to stretch that little mistake into a mile of progress, and that's
exactly what happened there on a ruin of Saafi, and you got to give the press a winner.
They see that opportunity and they take it.
They do not let it slip, but now we're going to see what Northwood would like to do next.
And it's a similar spot.
I would say we had our little bit of press on social media ahead of this.
We both leaned at Northwood, but I was telling people earlier.
It was 55-45, maybe even closer than that.
We knew this was going to be an absolute dog fight
going into this series,
and that's exactly what we've gotten so far.
And this can totally be a toss-up.
The two results that we have from this semester,
specifically, a 2-0 for Northwood,
and then a 3-1 for Northwood.
And that was when OWCS was still going on.
I think on an individual mechanical level,
Northwood have been able to outmatch Windrub.
But these past two weeks,
where they have constantly been screaming,
knowing what they are doing,
But again, not leaning into this Lucio carry as much, picked it up there at the end and
it works pretty well.
It's those types of things that are keeping them up and look how much energy is going
on.
And you have to be.
It's these kind of vibes that will help you play well, that will help you move on forwards.
And kind of looking at Winthrop in the past, they are a very boomer or bus kind of team
when it comes to the mental.
So having this much energy and hype going each other, because I'm a huge turnaround
Yeah, that's gonna carry them forward and Winthrop not only have to fight against a Winthrop team who are more confident
But one that has this momentum behind them
You tell me there was an extra burst of energy after that map
Just be it be a comeback in the map a little bit of a pause is on heating around and it was probably a little bit of frustration
Like whenever you have issues like it's frustrating. Yeah having that like and it'd be Sam
I think you having those figures like yo, I'm here now. Let's just go
Let's go do this thing. That's a major boost to this team
I think if you're Northwood you have to find some sort of answer that is not a map
I thought we were going to see but I don't mind it midtown is going to be map 4
Hybrid it'll be the break band of forcing potentially more of that Lucille carry out
That's what I'm thinking. I don't think it's Lucille carry. I think you play on a yard. Yeah
I just so valid here. Jeff that cat bastion can also work really well on portions of this map and the Dita band
I'm not too sure about that. I feel like this is more, it is forcing the rematch or the Zarya from pink pillar.
Second phase is so wide open, you almost like, first phase you can run whatever, sometimes you get a little bit tricky with some Sin TP strat.
You can run a rush with like a May, or you can just run the dive and try and rotate around Firehouse.
Second phase is so wide open, you need some sort of movement, whether it be the dive or hyper ring, Lucio amp, something to get around.
Because that high ground is rough, man, and that high ground is rough to push into their phase. Yeah, we're gonna be seeing more this area
They're a mantra
We used to see a lot of dominant, but she's you know, the back heroes kind of dead in a corner
Feels like but this will see pretty was all sorts of angles from these teams. We get to the rush
We'll get to see the dive
Dare I say what the win this this is done
It feels like it like it because they would have the momentum from that last map this map now
You need to win three maps in a row two of those would have to be win throughout the map picks
It'd be a very tough situation from north wind to come back from it is possible
They have done it in similar situations before but sometimes when you have a crowd like this momentum can build exponentially
It's a little bit of a tall order sometimes
And we're only three maps into what could go all the way to seven here in our best of seven matchup
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Winthrop University after a bit of a rocky start had managed to take the lead.
Two to one. Now two consecutive map wins.
It's up to Northwood to find that fire.
From map number one, they've been cool, calm, composed.
Everything fell apart in this last map.
last match. Yeah, I felt like they had it and just slowly the momentum
drifted away from Northwood to these guys right behind us with all the
winter sides. I can't shut out all the fans here. Got a lot of support for both
a lot of Winthrop parents here today. But yeah, we got now Northwood. This is a
chance for them to even up the score. Turn this into a best of three late in
this series. And again, a three one hole is a rough one to come back from. You
gotta kind of build that gap up if you're way through up you gotta shut it down if
you're northward you can't give this team momentum they're gonna run away with
this thing if you do and they think that place to regain the momentum is
mid-tall of all the math unexpected pick to save the least out of our hybrid and
this to me screams haven needs to do well you're setting even up for success by
picking this map over something like a blizzard world and I'm really gonna be
running too much dive on this map.
I mean, the D.Va going away.
The Kira there.
It could, like, hazard, perhaps, on a second point.
But at the start, it is going to be on these especially hit
scan DPS and Sam and Haven.
And Sam's got a hat Haven number.
Today, a sentence I did not think I would be saying at all.
And it's really been helping us out, infected,
making the swaps around as needed to continue to be
the anchor for this team.
But here's the other thing.
I don't take a plane, Lucio, Kira either.
We're playing on Stinson, some Ana, Iyari gameplay, which has been what Winther has preferred.
At least, I think, for Winther. I think Northwood, probably Kiri Allari, if I had to guess.
Yeah.
They haven't shown any Ana, basically, at all today. They've been leaning more towards...
See, she played it a little bit.
A little bit on Turbos.
Yes, they played it. I think it was the Ana.
I think it was the Ana Allari, actually, on that map.
So maybe you throw in the Kiri there, if you feel like it's necessary,
to even just get through some of these jokes.
She's wanting to use the clubs, make sure nobody dies on entry.
But then you can also get punched in the face five seconds later and they don't have a cleanse to save your team.
So, it's a little bit of a mixed bag, I'm depending on how you want to go about it.
But this is the real opportunity. Winthrop could just shut the door on this thing right now.
And the scary thing is, again, we have another grand final after this for Varsity.
Winthrop against St. Clair. St. Clair, a lot of the boys are actually right up there watching the game right now.
This is a scary team as they build momentum in this first final.
They're probably going to continue with him at second final and that is a scary thought
Yeah, it's not northward again taking a longer break to recover to pick this map
It is very important for this roster. I traced you back for rocket
It will be huge and more of a match for for Zera
And again, it's not like a rocket can't play other things. His tracer is just so far away. He kind of has to and with how strong
Tracer is on literally every single map
You just gotta do it.
He'll force Zara into a matchup too.
You do not want him going back on the Genji.
Still thinking about that deflection grab.
As soon as we went to break last time,
he took off his head and said,
it's like back to a deflected grab,
which is a warranted reaction.
So you don't want to have that to worry about here.
He will be back on the tracer,
and he did protect the Kiriko Iari.
And, well, Winthrop could be thinking about a few things here.
So we're going to let them kind of do their thing.
It is going to be that Kiri Alari.
Alaris is so good,
Actually a defense on this map you can set up that pylon anywhere and the heal radius is insane
Thank you. I was trying to hold it down this first choke point
Can be tough it can be really rough to push on through that's what Northwood's goal
I have to be with some extra nades in from Haven, but they're about to get quite a reality check as the cat Bastion comp is a back
Me on Haven and Megan are dealing with it. There's just not much painkiller. We'll have a say in this matter
And Rocket, he's on his own to 1v2 Zera and Ultra Violet, and we will be keeping well protected.
But we're in our time, ideally for Zera, I need to get set up, and for Infected to get around the corners.
Here's that rotation form that we were expecting, just five it in the corner, and Painkillers, great for Tex, will force him down.
Here's the nemesis form, just not often deal with that Bastion to take the risk.
Crack Attack, low on health, will still taxi his Sam over to safety as Vega is already down.
If this Bastion isn't a threat, it's these Bionades and follow-up from Effective.
That will go ahead and be Northwood's Bane, and finally gets the ball he was looking for.
Old Trials takes care of the rest.
Vega just got ditched in Firehouse.
Everybody turned for the Bastion and Vega was still set up over there.
Infected sees that, finds the one-on-one and went through.
Cap early here on point, a five and a half minutes.
As we enter into streets, if this is probably the best phase of the map for this bastion, Cat Cop as well.
So much high ground to use, so much verticality, the ceiling on this map is ridiculous.
This could be a scary thought for Northwood if they do not find an answer quickly like they did over on Suravasa.
North-crazy part is too. It's not even Sam that's doing stuff. He's just existing.
No, he's just a distraction.
He's distraction and he's terrifying. Northwood don't even want to take him crisp like Walt. There he goes.
He wasn't tasked with jetpacking at this time, he just overextended.
Rocket though doesn't want to be the one he wants, so he has a bit more free access to the backline.
That's where Sam will come in.
One threat after another, great healing.
Out of Vega and his pylon, keeps the M-Ray on his feet, and even will get Rocket attack out of the sky.
So Sam is a sitting duck down here, away from the payload.
Open that little ketchup and give it a little more cover.
But the sleep skin adds to the natto!
This is the problem, I'm shocked we didn't get an autoban.
I'll just map in particular as it's been Sarah. Taking advantage of it is a nice sleep dart.
Nothing else will follow through. Avan is back and he seems to be back in business in terms of how he's playing, which is much needed for Northwood.
And this is an ideal setup for Haven to set up here on high ground, put the nades on the stairwell as anybody's trying to build up and jump on up.
Obviously infected a little bit more choreographs as well on where she will be coming from on some of these fights.
But if you get the downpour now you gotta worry about whether artillery strike, that can be dangerous.
We're just down for it. Get out of there!
Cute cat below!
They can throw us in the pool! Both Cat and Sam are hit.
Raptac doesn't get to safety either.
Pankeel hunts him down.
His hads are swapped.
Paying off in Northwood.
Showing us change of what we saw on map one.
That was such a 100 IQ play right there.
Like usually, he may not hit the flying cat Bastion,
but he can hit the wall if they're close enough to where the splash radius is going to land.
What a fantastic play there from Vega and now already two minutes gone off this street space clock
But still plenty of time for when they've been trying to get this out
But now they left away a little bit longer a little bit of a jump scare on infected on entry and then of course a little bit
Of a change up here at least on how they approach
Oh the people that died first infected is the last one you would expect that's happened to I think he used the nemesis form to get
Back to the fight faster and just yeah
Yeah, that's a real check. Welcome back to the series, if that could.
Well, it will be Winfreyk looking for an approach. You have Catnapper, but I don't think Racketech wants to use it.
You want to get this cool down from Sam. First, Force Havens hide around the cover. What results in much?
Jullery Strike is out to corner players. That won't really happen, Haven. They can think they can do his own hands alongside Rocket.
side rocket, finally gets the kill, onto ultraviolet, even if he pays for it eventually, even
popping off on this map. We needed him to come back alive and he is here.
Zera does get two pick offs during this. Both supports are down for Northwood at the moment,
opens the door for maybe a contest, Winterfew makes some changes,
matches the Elori in the MRA, but that is a little bit rough.
Yeah, I don't know about that. Maybe they expect the place to go a bit further. You're just kind
kind of in the open, but there's a lot of people
shooting at you.
And I've been stressed, we'll get back to the fight fast.
Hasn't had a boost from Ultra Violet to work with.
Did go to Zera last time?
So maybe an effective play if he can get to high ground.
Yeah, that's the big thing.
If they can get to high ground, it's not the easiest task
right now.
In fact, yeah, they made the swap forward to their
Amatra, and there's no way of getting to high ground.
The North ones pull the trigger first,
and see if they can soon get to watch Vega.
Bola, Captain Sun, eats a whole lot of shield.
Not a deck to play, but you were looking for an Arachite UV.
This double flux support comp has been working out all day.
For Winthrock, we're going to keep on that streak.
And Winthrock will finally get themselves
the progress on this payload.
Yeah, it took four minutes, but they eventually
get through this opening choke point.
Now, high ground, completely in their control.
That'll set up a lot, including a Bionade.
From Ultra Violet, if this fight wasn't already
a little bit scuffed.
It is now.
I think that was also infected growing the vortex into the back line.
Catching out the E.R.D. there, couldn't use the shift to get away.
We punished last fight now, but Orc would defend this point.
They will at least have time to give back over here, but they won't have any ults to
work with.
Maybe a pulse from Rocket, but then getting marked out of everywhere recently, but Sam
is locked in a corner.
Sam is a bad rocket attack, getting up the cast of Sun.
Hopefully help win the 1v1.
One didn't really do the same though for ultra-violet. He is the soul of support this battle. No goes away
Just as the shot bled on Sam now clear the battlefield will be close to final fight early
It should be for Winthrop. They are committing every single ult and it will be well worth it second point half to two minutes
Let's go and they hold on to the nano as well to go on to probably infected into this next fight
Maybe I initially wanted to pair with the override protocol
What sample it has we got it uses we cannot afford to lose this fight and that was indeed the case
Northwood have a little bit more to work with again pulse with the downpour maybe the override here from Haven rush
They just can't use everything all at once
Thank you. No anti-dump has to run away. There's the pulse gone
I'm not really able to think about it now this one much more important particularly since infected is running it down to the back line
These trades have to come through racket
He's a bunch of cactus on the Northwood.
They're not waiting to get through another amazing bionade and a slip dart.
Knock some up high ground. Just will not keep them alive long enough.
Look at the turnaround. That is all because of Ultra Violet.
That is all UV right now.
If I had a pick and MVP for this series right now, it has to be UV.
Singlehandedly has turned several flights that have been crucial for Winthrop during this series,
series but it's still got a lot of overwatch to go including this overriders with this Q and the
S-Score it helps from Winter they want nothing to do with it.
And we're messing with that. We'll pay off in the end some more of a zoning thing than anything
Xerra did to chuck out the whole spawn not too long ago. Again, UV! Tracksail not on the final blow
on to Aven after the target was called. These over extensions are starting to get punished
to sleep start anti-unfengal! Like what can't this guy do? Vega's passive saw him
Yeah, there, but who's there to actually capitalize on it?
It's pulling apart again for Winthrop.
Winthrop just continued to push on.
They ideally would love to have some time, but there goes the pop-off recently.
Haven the late widow swap, and it gets immediate value.
You apparently see this works.
And when it comes out, but the time is done, oh man, doesn't feel good.
And with UV out of the fight, that's a happy time.
Poor painkiller recently swapped to the Orisa to push on Fuller.
No tank! Winker has no choice but to commit great swap from Haven.
He'll manage to help clutch this one out with the help of Vega and Rocket.
So Winker has to stop just before the finish line.
That's some serious momentum as they will switch sides to the defense.
Good recovery from Northwood after very end.
When you get your fighter to fighter to fight having those kind of early staggers,
the one benefit is you don't use a lot of ults in those fights.
You have a lot for that late second build up.
So at least that worked out for Northwood but not ideal by any stretch a little bit.
Look at the scoreboard here. That's a pretty even, slightly Winthrop favored.
But it's not like it's anything crazy. No, and I think it really came from Northwood's hold on
some point as most of those stats. But if you just said, then like, oh boy, that's huge.
Since then though, it's been mostly Winthrop outside of that last piece of clutch.
Good news for Northwood. They're looking significantly better than what they did on room soppy much more controlled in the approaches that they are taking and they're taking initiative. Winthrop were allowed to have the the the big old I'm going to go in stick for too long and now pass that off or other rips it out of their hands.
hands. It's been very helpful for that defense. Now it's your first signs to become all more
apparent. Winthrop, you're gonna run it back.
Yeah, no reason to change it up at this point. Just let UV sit back five, right? Just have
all these sight lines, possibly imaginable. This rocket, Hans, I'm pretty sure it's just
for Sonar, or not even gonna be Sonar, just not even wanting to run it in general. But
let's see here, I think he's just having fun with it.
He's having an identity crisis.
It's a little bit.
Can't kill it though, the Zarya?
Zarya Reaper.
It worked well on a RutaSopi,
not with the Reaper necessarily,
but it can work.
Again, it's the same game plan as we've seen
from that Zarya Vendetta comp a lot recently.
It's just a little bit more select.
You don't have the immediate kill power
that the Vendetta has.
Yes, here are the two sides of this coin.
Rocket can now assassinate Rack Attack
and Ultra Violet if he gets the bubble.
He'll be fine.
But this means Zara has so much more free space to work.
So the pressure on the opposite side, they're fine.
Haven will handle that accordingly.
No tracer for Wim through off, and Northwood.
See, TP, bubble?
There's nothing he has to do about that.
He shot it, and he's so much health,
it's easy to hit these shots.
If he's in the right position,
having those dire triggers added to base kit,
it's even so much power.
Over to Reaper, and he's gonna come up like, triple.
I love that change, by the way.
That's just such a good quality of life change for Reaper.
And you can see why it's in moments like this
where it can really work, and already Wimthrump,
needing to figure out something.
Basically an identical time bank,
going into second phase, but this middle bit,
especially the first phase of second,
this is where it's going to matter.
How long can Wimthrump hold the line on the high ground
before potentially his northward
is able to break through?
The same to swap over to the Sojourn,
as he's actually going to get away
from the bubble draper now, instead of the M-Race,
which is a good choice, but it's a bubble on it,
Like you know what I don't want to be there almost got caught out by infections cats
There's no money up over it. I don't know whether you knew that was coming or not
North that I see said this is a very difficult spot for them to move through some rocket break that door down and
Okay, you can park more of a cast is that's a new one go straight on to
Infected forces the nano out playing inside of consumer a brush painkiller put the sleep and ante it up
You could tell he wanted to go in, didn't have to do so,
thankfully Rocktack's been showing on the high ground,
popped Vega, but he just can't do anything.
Northwood are investing everything into this Reaper,
and they're being a two for two.
Zara comes up with a pulse bomb kill, lost painkiller,
but we're also moving them, so, oh, what a sleep.
Yeah, the FlexDBS trade doubles,
eventually it's Vega who finds one under ultraviolet.
That would give Northwood way more space.
It's great that healing pylon is still there, helping out with a lot of the healing loss
that you get with no Ana in the fight, but even with that, North would gain high ground
control and they have the saw barrier going into this next fight.
Yeah, hey then, get even bubbled here, it's so hard for attack, it's not possible, you
can barely use it, it soars in, no fear, isn't the world of Sam Turner out for the North
where DPF has been ridiculous, they eventually will get shut down and it's just nothing,
Winthrop may be able to say about this Zarya Reaper composition.
It's pillowed from Violet fighting his way through this fight, Raktak might be able to get one,
but the boot from Vega will keep CJ alive long enough to land the Kunai shots.
Scrappy as it is, Winthrop's pawns are closer, so they'll have another chance at pulling them.
As much as Vega and CJ would love to to be to that, I think.
It's just not a winnable fight there for the support, but so much ground made.
An extra two minutes or so to hit this last point to what winked their pad during their attack as Zera has the pulse bomb
Just waiting to see if anyone's going to pass by but for now everybody is up on height
Okay, take this time. It's wrap up Surgeon to the back. I want to throw from expected
But just not enough. Rocket was on the opposite side of the grab, Sam. It was bye-bye, but Zera let's get another pulse bomb onto the support
Keep this up long enough to the Nano on to effect it.
That isn't the job and he fights it.
Should have secured the win with the Graviton Surge.
Those are complaints.
Yes, you get your one from and you shift down the potential for the overclock.
But you still have that Nano hazard that you have to worry about.
And there's no answer from it because
Clem's was used early, no sound barrier as well.
And Northwood, back to the drawing board.
They'll have the rush to escort over to point.
Could pair it with Rocket's death blossom.
just make that thing a real Beyblade going on, but Windram still have plenty of options to go about this and they're starting to figure out the rocket game plan well
Or what is left of it?
That's gonna say rocket not being there for the rocket game plan. That kind of foils that so Windram
See how many players didn't clean up and stagger what started is the five and a half minute time bank
It's time to do and oh the almost get painkiller, but they do drag out the cloud
Oh, Vega!
Vega, so this will still allow it even further.
We're not having to use any ultimates during this as well,
so now they have the captive sun to go through it.
There's almost got another pulse bomb
to go into this next fight.
Vega last time will be looking for another support
this time around.
The 90 seconds north would have to find
some sort of play soon.
And they're going to start it off with Hayden,
rack attack, hoping to force something out of Vega,
But the TPSuzu from CJ gives him the life support necessary to sleep down onto rockets!
That's the big combo that you're looking for!
Winthrop, they suffered against this now, but they're thriving off the fact that
Rack Attack Ultra Violet cannot be touched because of the sleeps.
Northwood, every single time they think they have a game plan,
Winthrop have the immediate punch to not allow the plan to go fully through.
Try to open up with the override protocol.
Immediate captive son, drags out the cleanse from CJ.
That leads to the death of Haven, who has now gone over to the Soach.
Yes, you still have Rush, you still have Blossom.
You're getting close to Beats and Grav.
But you need to win now, 2-5. This card has regressed so much in the last two minutes.
I'm almost already out onto Rocket, too.
Has the Death Blossom available? I won't need it.
Reaper firing as fast as he done with those shotguns.
He's don't really stand a chance if you're in front of him like you are. There we go.
As the faster TP to get to the back lines at all, well, maybe they're in front of me, but it's also so far to go for Northwood.
Yeah. They basically had to win one fight to get themselves back into the position where they were earlier,
because they only had to use the rush. They have a beat to enter anything that Wim Thrip have up their sleeves.
Zeray stuck in between a rock and a hard place with rack attack.
Just trying to take the two-me-two when they bring out beats.
I'm gonna say, who's stuck with who here? Bigass have used the sound barrier just to stay alive,
And there's an op that rest of the team, Sam overclocked in the front line, Rocket, yeah,
to bust him there.
That's a second out of the Sojourn and the nail in the coffin for Midtown, Winthrop.
Now up to series of points.
One map away from the first major title for Winthrop as what a second hold there.
Man, this guy has really turned it up.
These last two maps, Sam has been going insane with some of these overclocked and overwrite
protocols granted to the help they get a nano for this one absolutely that helps
shred it immediately but still great game plan for Winthrop and another
north wind map pick goes the way of the Eagles and now three maps in a row
needed for northwood to avoid a collapse that one really hurts for northwood
because they got some serious momentum back we're starting to see Haven and
Rocket find their rhythm again it just wasn't enough and then here's the thing
their attack. Yeah, the Reaper worked once, but the other side of that coin, Zera could do whatever
the heck he wanted. It brought so much time and attention away that it never looked like Northwood
took a cohesive fight in the five and a half minutes they had to catch the second point.
This was just, I won't lie, during this right here, I thought Northwood were going to get it,
have like three, four minutes going into Final Faith, but this hold by the Midtown Tunnel
was so good that that is the stuff if you are a different team you want to get better at midtown
second defense watch that VOD back it perfectly executed never allowed north wind to reach up
the high ground to set up anything anytime north are trying to go low ground somebody was there
yes it helps they have uv to sleep basically anybody to push on through but what a performance
there from wind drop and is a very tall order now i said earlier it feels like wind drop steal away
map for this thing is done I'm not willing to say that yet but man it is a
tough task here for Northwood would be considered an upset if they managed to
pull this off today in Northwood it came in so confident you've beaten
North you've beaten went up so many times a semester I think it's warranted to
have a certain level of confidence but this team has spent the last two weeks
preparing specifically to play your team you cannot show up and have that level
It almost disrespect towards what these players can do and the outcome it they don't know what to do about this
Bastion comp if it comes out the infected hazard is absolutely frying right now not to mention
You just want a full five and a half minutes of leaving is there a
Contested their backs are up against the wall if one more shots with this escort map to help bring it around
But three in a row it feels almost impossible with how Winfripper playing
You're right now I feel like they can't do no wrong and that is that is just an unbelievable
thing to say again.
Northwood won both meetings prior to this in the Swiss stage and in the upper bracket
final.
Northwood got the better of Winthrop, but we were talking to him, he said, we've impressed
him way more these two weeks leading up to this event.
We want this.
This is the game that will matter.
The other two don't.
They're playing like it right now.
That is for them.
Sure.
But let's see how they want to do it.
would still have the power to go into this map 5.
It is escort no matter what going into this.
So you have very limited options.
The one benefit is once we get, if we go to a map 6,
everything resets.
You just can't play a same map twice,
but all the map types reopen.
It'll be better, but we've got to get over this for a while.
This is what we got.
Havana, Watchpoint to Brawler, and Rialto are the three
choices for this Northwood team.
What are you going to stick with?
And in this, like this is a, you could dive,
down the, if the Ana bet hasn't happened,
it needs to go down.
Don't just fight it.
And as you can see,
the map solution not beginning away with,
as you already said, it's MVP level performance
out of this guy.
And if you're going to an escort map
where Ana range is going to be the best thing for you,
it has to end here.
Otherwise, I really do question
what Northwood's planning process
has been for some of these maps.
Yeah, we talked about even the beginning of the series.
Haven had a lot of weight on his shoulders.
I hate there is no true hits get on the other side.
What can you do?
Can you build that gap to allow the rest of your team
to lead on?
And we saw that in map one.
Haven was going nuts on the Zong Tower.
But Sam has turned up.
He ever since the halfway through Suravasa,
he has been turning it around.
He's been winning a lot of these duels,
getting a lot of early stagger picks,
and has worked out excellently for Winthrop.
And usually, again, there's zero unbelievable talent.
We've seen that all the time on Team Liquid.
And it helps you get to play with this buddy
infected up here.
I mean, yeah.
That chemistry has been very apparent
on a lot of these tracer hazard dives.
It's just so much right now.
Northwood, you can't, you have to pick your poison.
Tragicon are one thing with the bands.
And then with the strats, you've got to figure out answers
to everything else.
But it feels nearly impossible right now
with how the egos are playing.
It's unbelievable.
I mean, I haven't picked a poison yet,
But they have picked their map to be the last one for Northwood.
One last chance to make a stand here,
see where they are heading next.
For this, Esquire, again, it's going to focus on this range.
Sam has been doing so unbelievable today.
I went into this tournament fully thinking that not having
hitscan player is going to hurt.
But since I've been doing this now for two years with Winthrop,
this roster has had several semesters of synergy
to build this up, where are there still some newer components
on this Northwood roster, as we've seen them so far this season.
And this map pick is so incredibly important
to how they are going to pull it out.
What do you do?
Do you try to dive when that's all
what they've been doing in the first place?
Maybe.
It just feels like right now, Northwood, we talked about it.
Maybe, hey, the D.Va's great.
The hazards all right.
The way in fact it's playing it right now,
It feels like it's the other way around.
It's going to be real to real toe.
Here it is.
And there is, yeah.
This is what we thought was going to happen.
The Anna Band is finally out from Northwood.
Go to a long range.
Map into Zarya Band in response.
A great answer from Northwood, understanding
that they could try and go to Zarya late into this thing.
Let's just delete that off the board.
Try and see if, probably primarily or a matra.
Maybe we see some sigma.
I doubt a ton of it, but it's probably
going to be a rematch or mirror like we saw in control center.
Likely rematch pass hazard sprinkled in on the objectives,
but it really shouldn't be rematch.
That autobahn though, I'm happy with that.
Northwood finally are taking that away.
And that's the thing.
It's not like they didn't know it was an issue.
They were just saving it for a moment
that they thought it mattered most in Rialto.
Certainly that spot, because it also,
and you can play like a Yard of Kiriko.
It was something that we have seen from them as well.
But it's got to go, usually said it himself,
you have to batter on it, push back the hook.
It's got to go, this is the one time it's going to happen.
If we are going to see a comeback from Northwood,
they have set themselves up in what I think
are the best circumstances possible given the situation.
But can you execute?
Like we thought they were in a fantastic position
on RuneSoppy two maps ago.
And then the spaghetti is fumbled
and it went through, I'm stealing the map
the momentum has been with them ever since that point. And it's it's often you usually
can't pick our land this moment when everything changed. It feels like you can right now with
that series ever since they started to bring that comeback up. You got the deflected grab
you got same with those early staggers to set up that fight. Ever since that point,
Winter have been playing like one of the best teams in the country right now or like the best
team in the country, maybe North America wide collegiate, non collegiate, they've been playing
that type of level these last two and a half maps can they do it for one more to seal the deal
it's been mid-game adjustments it's been the struggle for morphthwood winther for playing
unconventional compositions in terms of supports and because of that it also means that you have
to adjust from playing lucio kirigou for the past year or however long it's learning something new
and northwood seem to have struggled with that taking you on a way will be a start
Like ultra violet doesn't have several other heroes and he will go back to it seems we are returning some good old helicopter
Bastion on the field there looks for a shot
And there it's looking for the opening P. We almost thought actually work yesterday
I think during St. Clair Cumberland it almost works
But there are very quickly was matched the tracer of rocket and a very good pile on placement there from Vega try and hide it
From just this flying ball of doom in the here right now from Sam
Well, here we go. Why flagger on it's going to catch somebody on here CJ trying to play undercover as well
Well, at least he fell on the ledge so didn't drop the bastion too, but hey
But and has really good started Sam just can't get around the corner. That's two players down to his name
So that's I think where the diva has helped like getting on the court payload staying at the spots max for a monster
Leave it more challenging
Yeah, you have to find some sort of way to get up once get around pain killer if you're north and went through up
So you don't just have DM in your face all the time, but you also can't have rack that gets shot out of the sky
It's a little bit harder for UV on the cuticle to keep rack up
And we're already seeing that in rocket winning that trick to do has been wanting to return to that
that disgusting okay ultraviolet what do you do he just ran up the stairs like i'm
gonna go take this one do you want to be up here right
CJ's definitely home somebody walking to the airbnb oh somebody is still staying here
whoops that's terrifying yeah uh already two and a half and one and a half minutes gone
two and a half remain here wrecking ball i respect it on this part of the map it's it's not like
the rematch is going to be able to do much you might as well try and move some of these
These backlight members around is set up same in the air.
With the Precausum cast, left, right, and center,
I think it's worth it.
Ultra Violet now on the ERD2, so even more of a ranged threat.
Sam, much protection he has available though,
can rock it, is on him.
Yeah, being out of range, painkiller being on the D-Vide.
It's so hard for Ultra Violet to stay alive
with this specific composition.
As Northwood, get a free pick every time he's there.
Hand Rack Attack died again.
Racketech and Sam both fall and the hold so far from Northwood has exquisite
Xerragist chillin in the spot of Northwood but Racketech and ain't worth it man
Eventually, he's got to come back to this point only 52 meters
Reached so far from the Eagles now 90 seconds
They've given up on the jetpack if the gamble has not worked
So it'll be break Emory as the response
Yeah, they'll make those swaps over, and break absolutely necessary ultraviolet has been suffering this map.
He's like, dude, give me a hand.
Also, now from Veigud, it sets up the kill on the Sim.
On time, I was sure if that landed, but you take those, you're a pain killer.
He's went through, it's still on this wrecking ball, and I think it's a little more challenging to run it.
And without the jetpack cap, Bastion, these hollies are narrow, separating the team.
It's almost impossible.
It's something you gotta find a way to break on through, but it feels nearly impossible right now.
Over at protocol, you gotta worry about self-destruct and the Katsune rush. There's so many elements, but it'll do!
It was a captive, son!
What a play from Painkiller! Heard the voice line, like, nope, I am there!
Eat that one up! Northwood! Eat the Katsune rush, everyone from Winterback's home is that's kind of the main Winter gone Winterback in us!
you know that is a mind to go on point maybe create a little bit of space instead
onto the back line trying to find Vega it does is it's the opening now
yeah but look how low Racketock is he's the rally to pop up the last second he'll
manage to stay alive under the threat of painkiller at the top and ulti Violet
clutch this one out winthrup he'll get through no one should have a touch
yo should have a touch from painkiller and has the self-destruct to go back
in the mech to extend this fight even further. Haven still has overwrite protocol. All you can
really hope for if you're with them is you dodge out of the way. There's nothing to stop this.
We'll have the point touch. I brought the wrecking ball. It's actually staying here. It's rack
attack right now. It's poked out at the start with the boob on the zooming from infected base on
the assist. Haven has to pop this to stay alive. He'll be a good zoning tool to self-destruct
plus this together, but he's on the low ground.
He's in the threat zone of this tracer,
and Sam takes out Rocket.
The only thing to match is the ball.
Can't get contested.
Last of K, you got team members.
Get this one up.
As soon as that tank fell, this one,
as good as done with the wheel break through
and Northwood's defense, incredibly solid.
I got an incredible credit to do.
What a placement.
Back to just disrupt in the back line.
Never let Haven get set up for that override
that could change his entire flight.
gets an early pick up to Vega, CJ is fighting for his life,
let alone trying to save Painkiller's life up front.
A great play from the wrecking ball
and now sets up with Roma, two more minutes.
All right, Ragnos, take it,
Shield just gets close, there you go.
I have some for you.
I went up, though, minefields from Infection.
Blue North towards this main area
and it leaves Rocky with no escape
between the mines and the hard place.
After some of his out, but everyone will stay alive
on the witch up side.
Vega groups with the rest of his team
effected make this map look more like Rebolto yeah that just doesn't care
about anything right now this is my life northern what you got a player on me
well I wish Sam kind of had the same idea and you just get chopped out of the
alternate bear painkiller flies up to the sky so see like the space that went
up didn't manage to take bill fall down I was just gonna rush and then the
Cassidy is a great swap haven't you all kind of lived and that of course is
swaps out. This is two staggers. Three players down. Northwood spawns are late years away
compared to that of Winther. Painkiller will back up. He'll buy more time for his team,
but I don't even know if that's going to be enough. Has no right to even get two or
a level of three picks during that fight, does Zera? Battle Force Painkiller has to play
up close, but supports are yet to get here just coming back now. So at least some space
gain from Winthrop with those picks.
And Rack Attack rallies the team together.
Not gonna push too aggressive with it.
Just gonna use it as a defense as Northwood.
See the threat. Not messing around.
It's either he's time to shine, got it, he's up last time
and he'll be here for a second.
He loves it. With the edge of the matrix,
it's gone. A rocket, that's back.
Rack Attack down. It's always supported in the reality
and that is a very scary thing.
Both in Tank Killer and Rocket on their respective heroes.
Infected, holding it down at the point,
But feeling the lack of healing coming through 19 seconds left when throw you're not gonna take
Yeah, infected will not get here on time
He will not have Zera to get the last second touch in fact, it's like I gotta go ball
No reason to stay on there much, but who even is the touch?
Not rack attack. I can tell you that much ready ball swap
Park goes over the roof. I mean he's there, but there's just no reinforcements that will be coming in
Yes, eventually Xera will arrive. You have no assault potential. Northwood put their foot down just short of second points
giving themselves
mediocre win condition. No last second magic from Winthrop during second phase like they got on first which
Honestly consider the first three and a half minutes of that this map went
Winthrop will be at least content with where this cart ended up
But still a lot of work to do here on the defense to lock it down win condition for Northwood
is here to try and extend this out to a map six.
They just got to go 104 meters in the second phase,
but Winthrop, their eyes on the prize.
They know what is at stake.
Now they know the condition to bring home
at the program's first title here in Overwatch
in program history.
Let's see if they're able to do it on the defense.
They're just gonna go back to their mantra
that they started on earlier.
As fun as the wrecking ball was.
It's not really going to work very well on defense.
I mean, it would have been funny, but it would have been hilarious.
It would have been, it would have enjoyed it.
Uh, the rest of Linkdrop and their fans.
Not so much, though. I like this rematch to pick a lot.
No shenanigans. This is a very, this is a very neutral comp.
We are seeing from this team, we'll be matching the tracer and everything so far.
Uh, the biggest thing is especially looking at rack attack and ultra violet.
Here we go, Brig. Not easy to get on top of.
Oh, not easy at all.
It's going to be several steps needed even to get remotely close to having that go through Northwood again Haven
Let's see if he gets his opening back. You never know one in a million shot and
No
You do not want it man. Yeah, thank you rack attack for that honestly
We're going to put him in the shield there, keep him alive, hit him, okay, not Junkrat,
we're not playing Junkrat, alright that's more like it, there we go.
We like a little bit of fun here in Orlin though, it's fun in the sun but I don't know.
That's too much fun, too much.
That's a little bit too much creativity going on.
It's okay, we're good now.
Resetting his rocket, I think around to this higher, I haven't spotted anybody yet, this
was Winter for all in the close hold, he wants to get on top of either of these supports,
of course, cooldowns. That is the teleport from Ultra Violet, and it leaves Sam on an island!
The rocket takes him out, and the painkiller eats up the damage with the support out of
the D.Va. The synergy between these two players is integral to their success. It's looking
great so far, Infected. Something to regroup by the mega-pack, but a rocket attack wasn't
ready for the pain that was as D.Va knocks him down. The Northwood has broken through
this first defense incredibly fast.
Yeah, pretty much the polar opposite of what happened during Winthrop's attack on this map.
And look how far up the positioning is.
There will be no touch from a Winthrop.
Northwood crews do first phase.
Five minutes on the board to go 104 meters to extend this series out to six.
Five minutes is ridiculous.
The wild timing.
It's in their hands.
Now, you just gotta find a Wincon.
Winthrop, they can run.
I mean, they did it before. They defended 5 and a half on Midtown.
This is technically less than that.
Attainable.
If the payload already moved across the bridge, no poke potential.
In fact, it wants to bunker down on this first quarter.
And Wyndham do not want to give up this high ground under any circumstance,
but eventually, something's gotta be done.
With the capture of Sun and the backline of the cleanup that killed,
but if perfectly timed, Suzu out of Ultra Violet bail Sam out of danger,
The consumer rush works out for Zera and winning that 1v1.
The Esau freeze at now for Northwood, they back off.
Tank killer just wanted to hold onto this high ground a little bit.
They get the healing from CJ and Vega over by bridge, but eventually it's going to be too much, at least for a moment.
Northwood got all the resources he could possibly want except the captive son.
Nothing, maybe but a late rally from Rack to answer.
Northwood are saving up for an ult dump. This is about one and a half fights.
You can say that you have to win, and getting a neutral pick on Azera, who and I between the eyeballs
sets you up perfectly. Now these ults are coming out, even on a far flank.
Close by to close the rack attack, sunsets him down, and it was set up to kill rack attack.
Because rack defend, this cake's out, haven't. And Northwood, this is the fight that they had to win.
This is the fight they had on the ultimate saved up for, and it's all Sam and rack attack,
keeping this one going for Winthrop.
Positive, you hold on to your self-destruct pulse.
Downside, you lose your best two ults in the override, in the cassoon and rush.
Yeah, it flew a little bit close to the sun.
There's it, hey then.
That's meant to get shielded, Bast, from a rack attack on Bridge.
But it works out great.
Three ultimates, though, from Winthropter in that fight.
Just the pulse here from Zera will have his eyes out just to draw out that Suzu early
from a CJ.
He's planning this, too.
Sometimes he doesn't even get a Suzu, because I'm quick.
You just don't have time to react if it's on someone that's so far away
Yeah, Northwood sitting on just two ultimates and two that often aren't going to win new fights in particular
You'd be back up to another consuming rush
It just runs infected into this fight helps there up when everyone be what he wants
There's a post bomb down to the robot room big takes basically no challenge. Yeah, that's cool man
And Paul from zero misses that time around
Sam though stuck in no man's land
Yeah, overextension from Sam, Painkiller swoops on in and drops out.
Is there a low?
Let's take out Rocket, and look at Suneiro.
She's gonna get a little bit of a look at how that last fight turned out.
Painkiller, who just best to salvage this fight, but it is scrappy,
Infected and ultraviolet, getting way too much value.
This half the sum from Gevaega, hopefully could have done it,
but in fact, it still has so much health to work with.
Three minutes is gone, Molly.
Only two more minutes left.
Oh, would that make it even longer for Northwood to have another push at this?
This is the issue with going against us from Machikov on the Dima.
Yes, you have this verticality.
It's great to feel out, you know, where Sam is, where Zera is.
You have no staying power on this point and infected is able to do these quick rotates
on that back sterile from high ground to low ground, back and forth, and there's nothing
Northwood can do.
There's no answer.
Infected's goal isn't to get eliminations, it's to be a brick wall to this payload, to this high ground, and even doing that excellently.
Thus far, Ellie's back up for Rakutak to get a little bit of a flashback now that previous rally wins.
Northwind, you have this Katsune rush to work with, and CJ needs it knowing that Suzu is already gone,
he's under pressure, Zera, lasers him down, and so with their favors, a rally from Infected Rakutak shouldn't have been enough to keep them alive.
But what was five minutes, Jesse, is now down to just one.
They won't have continued in Russian time, maybe a latebie from Vega, but the walls are closing in.
On the Timberwolves, what will you do when your wall- back is against the wall?
Both DPS assaults and self-destructs still from Painkiller, where they're playing eerily aggressive.
It doesn't get anything early though, but they have so many old-schooling into this, Molly.
One last chance, one final fight for Northwood.
They're half their playoff journey ends here, or take us to more vaccinated, starting at all
right! Is that what you're for? But the shot doesn't land! The Matrix from painkiller!
What a clutch! Takes out Sam in the process! And Northwood, the pieces are finally starting to
come together. That's the annihilation from Infected. It's on the point. 30 seconds left to go.
But it's okay, Northwood. Only down one is held. Continue forwards.
But they don't lose you here. CJ is going to be late to this fight. It is just painkiller.
And Rocket here on this point. Yes, you have pulse. You have self-destruct to stall this out
We have so much more you have to worry about
Becks it back on the wrecking ball now. He'll be here fast. Pulse bomb goes way wide out of rockets
Only that self-destruct to buy time but same goes for Sarah. I'll find the target that he's looking for
It's overtime now. Windthrump. Smell the blood into the water. Painkiller knocked out of the mech
There's the self-destruct. He can get this back and still chance a rocket attack!
He goes down no shield available get second front of him. That's a second after pain killer. He's gonna clutch it out and Northwood
continue on
What a clutch from pain killer gets I don't know how that kills rack
I don't know I have no idea how that kills rack play another one right after nobody is even remotely close to touch
With I mean what half a meter left and then overtime and went in Northwood not done yet
We will go to map six, but now maps map types reset
Winterpads in open canvas to pick from on where they would like to go to try and send this series away
Winthrop by the skin of their teeth and they're so close on that defense and north of clutch
I'm a very pain killer clutch that out
Yeah, he has been the leader for this team far and away all day long
I don't think I've seen a single point where he's struggling on this matchup
We're gonna go ahead now with Winthrop being in control of all of these decisions and Ana is back.
I don't necessarily think that was an issue for Winthrop.
I think it's gonna be more of a problem for Northwood, depending on what Winthrop picked.
Because theoretically, we could do back-to-back escorts if they really wanted.
They could, yeah. They could just go back to an escort, just not Rialto.
Because, yeah, all five of these maps cannot be picked again.
You can just pick these map types again.
I don't think you go to a control because you lost there.
You looked great on Seravasu.
You looked great on Irenosopy.
Midtownic got a little bit mixy here and there.
Wide open right now for the options for this team on where they would like to go next.
I don't know man, this has been a wild series, at least Northwood.
They got their energy back.
We can hear them screaming once that game got wrapped up.
The energy is back, but you've got to make sure you continue that now into the next map.
You cannot fall short here in map 6.
If you're going to start this mini-reverse, you're down to 1-3, you've got to win 3 in
a row.
You've got the first step.
Two very impactful steps still in that blend.
Breaking your momentum is honestly huge.
Having that go away, and as close as that was, having that now shift over to Northwood,
It's got to feel great. Here's the other thing though, D.Va's not available for the rest of the game. It was banned at map 2 or map 3, I think.
It was banned at some point during the day. Oh, it was map 1. So, Painkiller can play that. I think you should stick it.
Nazaria isn't terrible, but if Infected's going to keep playing Rematra, it leaves a lot of room for this D.Va to work out.
work out. As long as you're not face taking, you can move around him as much as you would like.
Unless you're forced on more of a flash plate map, which is Atlas. I honestly could be a good option.
Yeah, if you want to go brawl just go over to Atlas. Great. It has
dive areas around the back. Can work, but you just want to get down and dirty on Atlas. You want to
go in and brawl it out. And that's exactly the style that Winthrop has really been wanting recently
With this Rematch, I'm saying that they're not going to run Azoria. They're not going to run a D.Va.
Like, Kuz is on this roster.
You're not going to see him play today, because Infected is just playing at such a high level where that's never going to be the case.
But you have to stick to your strengths. Northwood have to find a way to play around that. I think the D.Va is a way to do it for now.
It's honestly incredible how Infected. Like, I'm going to continue to be impressed by Infected.
The two best tanks right now, he doesn't play.
Becky's getting so much value out of that remulcher, out of the hazard as he has been.
It's just ridiculous.
And we kind of got to see it at the end there, pain killer, the value that that hero can have in the right hands.
And it's truly helping put this team in his backpack at points and keeping the Timberwolves journey alive here in these finals.
Honestly, I don't know if it matters what map went through it.
I think they're just happy to have this on a back in rotation the diva. Yeah, it can touch it
But it's also one of the biggest turrets to the dive normally. It's like a lot of so diveable now an ultraviolet
It's letting every single sleep dart through the matrix. He knows how to play these matchups
He's done it for years on end and he's not gonna stop doing it here
No, not gonna stop and you have cat bastion if you want to run it again
Yeah, it is available the rest of this series crazy. It's hadn't missed results
It was rough on Rialto, but we saw how well it can work in squirts in maps two and three
So we could see more of that as well if we go to another open map
But again wide open game plan here for win throw up on how they want to potentially seal the deal here in the open
Grand Final or Northwood could send us to a map
Seven to decide it all it would be fantastic. Let me think that we can we said at the very start of the series
There is no way this ended in a sweep. We were right north. They're on the other hand
I don't know if it was jokingly or not. You talked to one of their
I talked to Brady's like hey I could go in map 4 but that didn't obviously be the case
Maybe a little bit more resistance than they were anticipating
Yeah, a little bit. I thought it was kind of tricky. I mean, Brady's a great often-comic player for sure
But over the worth painkiller has been put in. Yeah, I don't know if you're gonna
Not really starting with painkiller in many situations. There's not many who win
No, not at all, but I think Northwood, it's been, they've been this extremely successful
program across multiple game titles for, but it seems like, right, and Northwood, and Winther
has really built themselves up in those as well, but an Overwatch title has evaded both
of them for, what, three years almost now?
It was the ISU Illinois State's dynasty that entire time, and as that roster, and it kind
drifted away and left a huge gap at the top. We knew one of these teams was going to fill it.
It's been Northwood on top for the entirety of the semester. They won both of those previous
matchups and now it's Winthrop that almost seems primed and in position to take it from them.
Yeah, Winthrop right there one step away Northwood though not giving up quite yet. We're gonna go
on a quick break when we come back. Map 6 for the Open Grand Final.
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The lights are shining, the venue is set
Northwood kept themselves alive in our best of seven
by a back-to-back fight clutch out of painkiller of all people. He's been having one heck of a series
and it means we are now at a 3-2. Winthrop, their mat pick, their first ban and they still have
championship points on their side. Yeah, the championship is in their sights but an extra
little detour potentially here on the way there. Northwood, hey there's at least a path forward
now. You have stopped the bleeding from the three consecutive maps from Winthrop, but you're gonna
to go on your own little three map run. If you want to do this, it'll be blizzard world.
Here we go.
Here we go is banned by Winthrop that plays right in the UV's hands. Fashion is banned
from Northwood to no check that cat. Fashion, but a lot of these key pieces that Winthrop
have been playing around will return here on Blizzard World, but expect more Diva versus
hazard. It will be Dive City once again.
Dive City. Here we go. No cleanse now for Ultra Violet. This guy is single-handedly winning
fights. Part of my winning maps along the line for this team. Unless you're playing Zarya,
I don't think you're going to. Maybe third phase, but that's really...
Yeah. Like third phase, we're going to see a lot of swaps like we always do. They're going to change
it up and go something more probably rush potents. But yeah, this is going to be a great map setup
for Winthrop. They can just continue this Anna hazard with the nano on him. It's been unbelievable
what in fact it's been able to do. You jump in slash, you basically kill any squishy,
and then you choose the spike guard to finish. It's an unbelievable combo.
But let's see what Northwood have up their sleeves in return. I think getting rid of the Bastion
is the right call. Obviously you can't ban the Anna again.
and the hazard you maybe want to save for later?
I guess it's a pick and it's gotta be that.
And I don't know, if Winthrop don't win this map,
I'm gonna be honest, I think they lose the series.
They cannot set themselves up for better or more success.
I can't say that, yeah.
I think it's gonna be really hard.
Moving on through this,
you cannot have a better setup for this game.
Lee Northwood on the defense will start
painkiller on this diva.
I think you should stay there.
the rest of the series, pending specific point swaps.
CJ on the Ana Vega, back on the ERD.
CJ's also had a great series.
Ana though, it hasn't had the same impact as UV.
Yeah, it just hasn't been necessarily the same so far.
All eyes on the man named Ultra Violet.
But as of now, Winston has picked up the phone.
Infected will roll out.
On Winston instead of the hazard,
It's a little bit, these gaps, we have to jump in these dives.
A little bit larger.
I understand, especially early on here,
you want the monkey to really kind of jump that gap.
It's a little bit harder for such a long range,
sometimes with the head.
CJ double-nade into the back UV.
Already feeling it sets up the elix perfectly and effected.
Gets out with his life.
Sandpicks off Rocket on their retreats.
It appears they want to start it for the Eagles.
Already on point.
Did not take very long, Molly.
should be a recontest though from Northwood so three members survived the onslaught but it's
going to be rough pushing into this by a winter up and instead Northwood don't have the members
here in time at least enough for a set of their liking two and a half minutes added onto the clock
four winter five and a half left here in the time bank in Northwood got a lot of questions so they
They will continue to rage on.
This is probably ultra-violent, unstoppable.
Northwood have not been able to do anything so far this game.
It is all the wind drop in the driver's seat.
Every map to have won.
It's been because of this guy, because of the initiation.
Yes, you do lose out on Invectin.
Zera takes a nap, but he's not gotten two.
It's only Painkiller.
It's the real threat for this team,
and it's enough for wind drop.
Just back off to the payload.
Then Rakan just chill out point until he gets some uninvited guests, and then just jumps right back out.
Nano already here from UV, who said not to infect it for this dive.
And he just got the speed perk as well, and I'm sensing a lot of pain in coming for CJ and Vega.
And Vega's not on break here! He cannot get away other than that ship who will stop infected for now!
He's gonna have to jump up and ready to use!
Aqua dodged the sweep, what timing!
From this guy, he originally made his name for himself way back in the day, on the Winston.
Clearly, he continues to keep up on it.
Northwood, they're coming up on a couple off of their own.
Pulse, come on for Rocket, won't find the value he wanted.
This villain has stopped before the time being as Northwood, waiting for the cooldowns.
Yeah, Pulse is a little bit short now.
CJ has a nano of his own.
And Mathlion...
Oh!
Oh, I got Cajal.
Oh, they're never going to do this, not painkillers!
You have to find a trade fast though, but Rackstack didn't make that easy, another sleep dart.
That's a second booster, and it's completely deterred, and Zara is running it down in the back line.
Vega goes Kabooie, and this palin from Windthru, they are making record pace through the map.
No supports left.
Bang-Filler, yeah, you can try to touch, I don't know what you're gonna get tied to, but you just slam the sprocket against the wall.
That's rude.
Then Windthru, at that point, you're not even getting there.
Using the capture sun from Vega after the point ends, or five minutes, Jesse, for the Eagles to move through the point.
It's gotta be a swap here, right, from Vega, right?
That's...
If not, that is quite an error.
Near the end. You there will be, it will be the break.
So that was like, why not?
Throw it on in, matches the break of a rack attack.
Self-destructing overclock.
Still here for Northwood to find some sort of answer, but...
I know, they're bleeding out quite quickly here on Blizzard World.
Yeah, we're going to be bleeding out. We just need to amputate this limb and move on with our lives.
Like, this is world-wide needing a full team reset.
Winter will give the opportunity to bionate on to Vega in the back.
And now the boost helps secure an elimination.
Winter can't move this forward as quickly as they wanted. No damage to back it up.
So, we'll be a soft reset. We'll have plenty of time to work with. Just wait this one out.
But, Northward just has to stick around here.
Because Winter aren't giving up on this cart. Not full resetting.
Another sleep from ultraviolet, but the DM will be there to get him out
We do have a pause that has been called by Northwood
We'll figure out what's been going on on that side
Maybe rocket just took it too hard of a nap. We gotta give him some more time to wake up
Maybe hit the desk a little hard
Well find out here in a moment who it is it actually is rocket
But what a start here from Winthrump just
constant pace Northwood continues has to back up back up back even if they're not
always getting taken out with them is doing such a great job of controlling
the entire map Northwood this kind of stuck in two or three corners and
went through they're gonna take that advantage all day long
I don't know what you're by let's just clear the field. I don't even know what else to say. It's not fair. It's not fair that this guy is as good as on a best on a player in North America and I don't know if that's super close
of a call at this point, and he's truly securing it in this current matchup.
As I did at the start of this game, that if Winthrop are gonna win the series, it's gonna be here.
They took that spear seriously!
And they have 5 minutes on the third point.
Northwood, I don't think I've seen them make a play.
They've reacted to plays. They haven't actually made any pour themselves.
They were constantly on the back foot.
Now let's move back into game, see if anything has changed.
Sam in the sky over at protocol chunks out CJ. So he's basically out of the fights and rocket won't have the same
luck after the issue is fixed
And well, I think it a little bit of an extra trip
There is the final stretch of this northern. Yes, they have basically everything they could possibly want
Mano self-destruct pulse to try and fit enough with up above absolutely nothing
But that hasn't deterred winter up at all in prior fights
Yo, they're winning these with ultimate disadvantages.
Time and time again, it's a nano on an even electric cowboy
in a hot minute, since you see that.
But it's just the thing that North would need
to make infected pops like a balloon,
send Winter back, which is three and a half minutes
to work with a zero!
No, what a roll!
Reactive A for Rocket!
On the other side,
Loose Rack attacking Sam the bitch,
and will shut down Winter's comeback.
They didn't want to use the pulse today,
but as soon as you see the other one go out and get value,
you gotta do something to rock it landing that one nice little cheeky 2k with
the pulse and now a northwood kid relax for the first time in a field like in
ages on this map but they used everything they're Molly rally what is
almost up from Vega hey we don't suit enough that dead end but that almost
a scream to that shoot me target rather than anything else there's I think that
Winston is not an infected even as a primal rage to get out of any situation
Impossible and they can't use it. I just response to infected now the boost is how do you want to get over this wall?
There we go second time the charge gets the now boost at the end of the stump
On quite land that everyone from northwood corrals into the spawns with the effect
They're gonna get back down to earth you won't but the people will
What clips even through the ten I that is basically useless CJ has the nanobody doesn't get the chance to use it when dropped
I made this look as good as it done
I am clean this up with a nice little three-piece and that is a two-minute 18-second full capture
for Winthrop. They want to win this title now.
That is the type of attack you have if you're going to seal this map away.
Especially with how hard third phase can be to cap. How hard first phase sometimes can be to cap.
11-0. That is crazy. Did not, Yumi did not die.
during the entirety of that map, that is unbelievable from him. I'm pretty, honestly, standard across the board.
Everybody doing their job. You see right now, three and three, but ten assists for the brig right now.
And it was three and a half, and just over three and a half K damage mitigated.
What is the answer from Northwood? They started to pick up the pieces again.
They were able to do it last map in the second half of it, can they do it again, but an even more
daunting task this time, needing to cap with time remaining if they want any sort of attack in overtime.
I just don't know if it's possible at this point that we've said that Northwood, you know,
squeaking away with Rialto would give them some sort of momentum into this game,
but when Thouplz took that as an insult you're like, you want to see us go?
Bet rolled out absolutely,
Steep rolled through the defense with the infected Winston a hero.
We have not seen work all week and long.
The only one who has made it happen, ultra-violent, to back it up.
It's now Northwood set up for what could be their final attack.
What do they have up their sleeves?
TP up and Iraq's like, what do you think you're doing, Haven?
Do you really think I'm going to let you shoot one of my teammates?
No, get back.
Winter, this one down will be the Ember and Swap once again for Haven.
But it is the hazard to start, not the D.Va from Painkiller.
Interesting. Yeah, we've seen a lot of success with that so far.
There's none on Northwood's side.
Yeah, I was gonna say, even though the convective made it work, I can do it too.
Alright, CJ. We see you. Sam down.
Northwood, they wanna make the post, but they're bowing into the back of the thing,
Instantly on the follow-up an ultraviolet is punished on the other side
This one's gonna be scrappy and north one at the advantage of it's air falling that is good as done clutch power
Eliminated and Northwood. Oh boy. They have a lot same office tech
Yeah, there shouldn't be there might be another toucher, but they will not have infected who's going to the ball
Well thought about it swaps off the ball realizing it's not worth it at all Northwood
Five and a half minutes very similar time bank going into second phase. I'm getting a little bit of deja vu for real so
I'm not sure about you Molly, but quick yeah attack first phase
What will it be another similar hold from winter up in the second phase of this map?
Try to stall this out his second faces. It's just been real quick tonight
This real tall wind way back a big town five and a half minute hold from Winthrop there
Now the Nano boost coming up for CJ, which likes to go a button for Northwood.
He's back off the payload for now.
On to Baykiller Ultra!
Bound it in lava land and rack attack!
Can't quite keep him up for that amount of pressure.
Attempted body block unaffected.
He'll squeak right through, but only to his own demise.
Winthrop University!
While they have had good second point ults there,
Northwood can't allow it this time.
That Nano being built up so early from CJ,
to the door to the endless possibilities and the Timberwolves they take advantage of that.
Racketech lets you go off of the break.
On to the Allari realizing more poke is needed to kind of fend off painkiller.
Yeah and you can actually do damage to this hazard as opposed to something like the Winston,
like the D.Va. There's a more doable situation.
Haven Racketech sniped him out of the sky. That's the value.
The arty will bring to the team in the sleep!
On to Rocket!
They can as mid-morning not bolt for Violet.
Will be able to secure the kill.
But about so much time for his team to get to the point.
Still not over though.
They're infected as down.
Asked to be on the Sam.
He's hit with a sleep dart.
But oh my goodness, these DPS will not give up.
Will not let it be.
And what a sleeper UV.
Allows more time to heal everybody up front.
And Rocket is forced to kind of push away.
But so plenty of time now for Northwood to work around.
It's not as many ultimates as they would ideally like just the rally to build up a little bit of free fight or mid fight health
With about way more nano onto infected back in boot of the primal catlison almost ready to go already from rack attack after just one fight
Do not know it's getting up. See R.A.'s just ridiculous
Great call on that swap. Oh my god
Oh FHB chunked up my CJ I believe
I'll take him down so it's not affected by the way to clutch this one out with the rally from Vega
They gave most of it to LesterA even when he walked to the office and zip code.
Minkiller now found another support.
Racket Sack, again, he is clutching up for Winthrop.
It has to be shut down somehow.
The nanobus on a rocket you think would do it, but no, he did so much damage to the tracer.
Racket Sack forces the recall.
And Northwood, it works kind of in the standstill.
Make us down.
It'll be actually a reset this time.
Big guy got bullied into a corner like, this fight's over, man.
Just let it be.
Northwood, do they make a swap on the brig now?
No, it will stay for the time of being just the pulse from rocket due to the late nano from CJ
But with them don't really have many tools up there sleep at all
North was going to win a fight it has to be now before these ults are back
I'll ask a little bit of deja vu from the last fight same position same kill great post bomb
No sleep on a painkiller means that he can't walk the rest of the damage there again at least into the back
He's got a backplot in him and infected! Run in a mock! Northwood just like that!
Down two minutes.
Stop the worry, you lose your head scan. Back to backfights early and you still win both fights?
In winter, I'm not caring about that at all. Two minutes remaining now.
And now in the back of Northwood's head, they know they have to finish with time on this map just to have an overtime push.
They're just saying they can't finish with overtime if they want that to be true. They need to get it done soon.
Maybe we can call it a little too soon on that second point curse.
Maybe a little too soon.
One drop, seven and up, and honestly, now he already swapped for Rack Attack.
There's been a big catalyst of it, 84% to his next captive son.
And went up to have all the tools close.
And it's not quite yet, he'll have it eventually.
Even the falling to his favorite native Rack Attack finally dealt with.
that NaNo goes to do it with a sling!
He skirts out and puts him to bed!
A pain killer!
He's absolutely dipped by Ultra Violet in the air!
This guy just does not die!
Say hello to the other guy!
Very much mortal.
Snipe down.
I see Jane Ultimate canceled.
It's over a minute now and UV wants to stop the bush here
and now infected back on the support for Snipe
and the support for Sarah and UV.
Too much for Northwood to handle.
It is once again going to be down to one final push.
final push.
And it will be the stay arrow on the painkiller, he will not spawn with the rest of their team.
And Winter almost want to tease this close home, but it's just kind of infected actually.
Wanting to get a little bit of poke to allow you to be able to build up this next nano soon.
Captive stun, primal to get out, pulse from Xera, all the tools are here from Winter, but
Northwood have the rally to stay up, Haven needs to get something out of this captive
stun if Northwood want a chance.
would have to find a way to get through this. I mean, it's gonna be the bank you would think
defensively, but no, it's gonna be used to go in north with no damn browns to cover
and drops the search. Well, finding a thing is instead of ultraviolet infected. Coming
up with one piece, painkiller doing his best to keep this within even trade. As the boards
are under fire, they can't go anywhere, they can't help him at all. Infected as low sands
in the room with them. Siphon blaster down. It has taken two years of this team up, this
roster for Winthrop. They're finding a way to make it seem close. One last effort now.
Rocket get the touch. Painkiller to H.M. Mchaven. Get the headshot on to Sam. Painkiller, D.M.E.C.
That's your best choice. Keeping his payload contested, he falls. Who else can get their
infected overextended? Starting to fall apart. Going to be on the clutch. Now the host is
Rocket firing away down a boosted hand only Sarah in his war path of clutching this up and north one
This can keep themselves here a wind up small. You're so incredibly close your second F supports for a while Sarah
Returning from the grave rather staying alive as long as he has rocket puts in the bed payload has to stay up infected
Returning to the flight has the slate pulls from stuck. He goes to the back
That's two down down in the grave or Northwood will find themselves. They almost clutched it. They almost had it
Finally get their flowers first championship in school history
And they're now a nice open champions
Second to no one no more
Winthrump, win open and up 4-2, but now without a lot of push from Northwood and it felt like
near the end of that play. Winthrump had it, but reflected ties. In fact,
Nano goes under Rocket. Rocket had a fantastic set of plays there near the end,
but it was not enough. The squad are just too close for Winthrump.
And finally this team will get the title they have so rightfully earned.
So long for this roster, so much time, so much effort preparing for this specific matchup.
Northwood, the only team that has managed to beat them in the spring semester.
They will take down in a 4-2, in a 6, showing some new gameplay.
It showcases the work they've put in, and oh my goodness, did they earn it?
Ultra Violet played absolutely out of his mind.
What are the best airing performances we've seen from a support in one of these collegiate
flights?
Yeah, what is one of the best performances we've seen in a long time and a lot of love
between these two teams and obviously a lot of respect as well.
Fair play to Northwood, second here in the open at Grand Final, one heck of a season
from the Timberwolves, but it is the Eagles.
of Winthrop that stand above the rest here in collegiate.
We have a new king up on the top of the collegiate world.
And they are not even done a four to 10.
They have another grand final in varsity against St. Clair,
who had to have been watching this pretty closely here
in this one.
But man, I wouldn't want to play Winthrop right now
if I was anybody.
No, we were talking before all of these matches started
that, you know, if Winthrop ended up losing this,
maybe there's a chance percent clear to take math but winning in this fashion against the only team
they have lost to this year. An incredible performance. Yufi set it himself in the interview
as they are getting ready to perform. I don't even know what else to say about this team other
than they have earned it. They put in the work and this 1000% paid off. It's such a happy moment
for this team to get the recognition at the top of collegiate overwatch and if
you look take a back of the replays here again it was back and forth northwood
start out math one swinging and here we go at the replays
honestly with their up just did a fantastic job across the board after
this first map they just decided we are not losing this series three in a row
north would have a great honestly a great performance on a realtor after a
fantastic hold for Winthrop, but this Bastion cat comp caused chaos north but
had no answers for it during certain sections of the map. And man, my oh my.
And as we look back, Sam had some phenomenal performances. If there was a
second MVP, it's probably going to him, but it's hard to argue against you these.
I can't lie, it's just so hard to argue against it when he had such a phenomenal
performance this year you can tell the work and ethic of this roster past two
weeks scrims every single day for them the second one if he says and in mind
you these players spent so much time with their professional teams working and
perfecting these comps and didn't even get a break locked it in for this exact
moments they went in this tournament said we are not concerned about any buddy
else Northwood is where they have set their sights and I said that worked out
incredibly well in Northwood. They gave it a flight. Painkiller had an outstanding series
with him on the Diva. Incredible clutches. It just wasn't enough. Winthrop got their groove,
found their rhythm and took the flights on their terms. It just looks like it was done from there.
At that point, it just felt like Winthrop can't do no wrong. They are going to run this into the
ground until Northwood has a way to answer and they just did it. Nothing from Northwood
could handle what Winthrop was given out and what a way to end it. And if you're watching,
obviously, Overwatch One Cup starting up, you have a lot of bright futures here on Team
USA potentially. We don't know that roster yet, but a lot of trialists are on these two
teams. I think the United States got a pretty bright feature over there too, but men, collegians
find it's not only here but nationwide and in North America and real I won't
like this is what I thought this was done but Northwood find a way near the
end painkiller clutches up bring us to this map six but having that map pick
was just way too much power for winter to have and rocket plays hard out here
on blizzard oh my god I don't think you could have done much more than these
incredible clutches he came up with and I think it was almost a wind thrift like
I need to play another map all right let's let's get this over with it like
well let's wrap it up here banned the Kiriko ultraviolet had just nothing that
could have been done about it rack attack and a fantastic swap over to the
ERD at the end and clutch this one out for the rest of the team and it was just
lights out on this point infected the only player to make the Winston work and
it's almost like a storybook this is the very first hero and I think he
kind of a game to recognition for cup several years ago at this point and
here he is now closing out our nice open finals on that exact pick an
incredible fashion. Yeah just an unbelievable game against C here Blizzard
world is where we ended out but what a series it was here in the open grand
final. We're gonna head out to Tracy and she is with the north what's and that's
Northwood Winthrop squad. Here we go. All right. Thank you so much you guys. I am here with the
winning team of the Open Grand Final Winthrop University. How exciting is this? Let's give
them another big round of applause everybody with their trophy right here and right here with their
I think I was having a really good game everything click today.
Yeah, I knew we were going to win like from the moment we started this batch the way we were playing.
Interesting the confidence. I like it coach. I'm going to go to the coach over here. Come here, sir.
How are you doing the first win for your university and overwatch that's got to be a big deal. How do you think you're going to win?
to go to the coach over here. Come here, Seth. How are you doing? The first win for
your university and Overwatch, that's got to be a big deal. How do you think you guys
got here? We got here because Winthrop just supported us, even though we lost a few times
in a row and now we finally got to win, so it's awesome. You seem thrilled, sir. Thrill.
This is your excited fate. Yeah, I'm very excited. All right, so you guys are actually
coming back for the next game for the varsity part of it. Are we ready? How are you feeling?
Good. This is a hard match, so I'm feeling good. Anything else anyone wants to say? Hi to mom? No?
Where? Happy birthday, mom. Happy birthday, mom. I think that is a great present for mom. We are
celebrating you. We are celebrating this incredible team. We're going to take a few minutes, folks,
And then we're gonna come back for the varsity grand championship of Overwatch. Be right back folks
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Welcome back everybody to the NACE 2026 Grand Finals presented by ASUS Republic of Gamers.
Now who is ready for some more gameplay?
Well, it is now time for our Overwatch OVARCITY NACE Grand Finals, but before we start and
on the action. Let's drop in on our amazing casters taking away guys. Thank you so much
Tracy. This has been an amazing weekend of collegiate overwatch here at Full Sail University.
The first time in seven years we have had a developer backed collegiate tournament on
land. It's been nothing short of special Jesse. Yeah already an incredible end to the open
season, Winthrop 4-2 over Northwood to take that title. The first one for such an
egregiously talented team, they finally got their chip. And now, one more still on the
horizon here in varsity. They could do the double.
They could. They could absolutely pull it off the momentum that they have had going.
They've not dropped a single map within the open, excuse me, not the open,
the varsity bracket. We saw them a little bit yesterday. They've been out in states
in those semi-finals for single Elim find themselves phasing off against the Saint Clair
Saints. The only team that we have representing from Canada within the Overwatch side and they
have been on the rise throughout to hear their consistency and their discipline, the two things
that have made them stand out the most. Yeah, they have been a team that they've been put through
their paces here and there man. They pushed all the way to map five yesterday. They've had a lot
of fantastic games but they want revenge now on Winthrop. They're the team that knocked them
down the lowers in open. It was a 3-2 banger that Winthrop survived and eventually moved on and
we just saw won the whole thing. St. Clair won a little bit of revenge but they're also a team
who has yet to win this varsity title before. They've always been second or third to an ISU,
a Marybilla Winthrop is now the time for the Saints to be on top. Now the question that we will be
answering. But first, we have some special recognitions from the NACE. We would like to
acknowledge those are the competition wards for spring of 2026. The all first NACE and second
teams, first and second teams of the players who have showed up and had some outstanding
performances throughout the season. They were to start off with the first team of all NACE.
everybody. Here we go. Treda, Zera, Nody, Regime and Admiral is your first team on Mace. And
great that this is for the entire school year, not just this semester, hence my Admiral. Still
made the list, but what a talented group we got right here. The explosion of applause from
Scotland who are here watching for their team member, Nody and Regime, who's also hanging around
for today, but so much recognition between these two. And of course, Zara and Tread both playing
in our Grand Finals matchup for Farsity. We also got to look at our all-nice second team
to recognize we have infected Lethal, Lobby, Reddix, and Ultra Violets. Two members again
of Winthrop University and Reddix from St. Clair. You can tell that these teams were destined for
for the top. So the best of the best and I got a I got a shout out lobby killing it
yesterday during day one doesn't make day two but was one of the standouts
yesterday from the group stage but congratulations to our first and second
all a nice teams to just incredible rosters here. It's incredible we have
the opportunity to recognize these players and the efforts that they have
put in it to success them for results to back them up. Now it's time to
and recognize two individuals for some very special awards.
We're gonna start with the Overwatch Collegiate
varsity coach of the year.
It'll be Eric Reeds Perez from Winthrop University.
I'm gonna take a seat.
Congratulations, Reeds.
Congratulations.
I'm gonna scoot in real close
because our camera angle has a good seat.
And we are, we also got Overwatch Collegiate
varsity player of the year.
No, Alexander Tread magic Smith from St. Clair. Get over here my friend.
And we're going to squeeze it. You got to squeeze. We're getting real personal.
There we go. There we go. We get to see everybody. So,
fantastic accomplishments for both of you and you're both representing one of the teams that we have
up on stage ready to go. And I first want to ask just to get from you, Weets. You have been for a
very long time a standout coach within the collegiate space and beyond that
what does it mean for you to get this recognition? Yeah it's nice to you know
win an award obviously my team is the reason I'm here so you know thanks to
them thanks to my family and Winthrop for supporting me.
I mean there's a fantastic support system I love to get from Winthrop and we see how many
parents families that are here for the players today and I'm gonna ask you just
because your team is on the stage.
Put you on the spot a little bit.
You got the win over Northwood earlier today.
What are the thoughts heading in?
You got St. Clair one more match
to guide your team through for the next season.
Yeah, they might win a map, but that may be, I don't know.
Oh, okay.
So we're back to this UV on a band kind of face.
Yeah, I'm not too worried about this one.
Dang, all right, all right, all right, we'll tread.
I'm gonna give you some time.
We wanna talk to you about your player
of the year rewards as well.
So what does it mean, man?
player of the year for Nays.
It means a lot to me.
It's my first year playing in NA,
and getting this award means a lot.
I will thank my team, and especially the directors
at Sinclair, Chris, and Sean.
Yeah, it's been a fantastic year for me, you guys.
Obviously, you're one of the top five teams in the country,
but now you're going up against the champs
that we just saw and opened.
How are you guys feeling going into this one?
I can tell they're scared to take a ground tank bear after.
Oh, OK.
After the last time, I'm looking at all their screens.
I don't think they've touched a ground tank here since.
we will see. All right, well, we will let you get back there with the rest of your team.
Congratulations, Nace player of the year. Get back there, man. Best of luck.
All right. And then as we're going to let our teams play, so don't forget your awards.
Yes, don't forget your awards. Don't forget them up here.
You have earned them. There we go. We got all of our stuff. So it was great to hear from
both Wheat and Tread a big match up ahead of both of them. And this is going to be a bit
of a sweaty one. Tread and St. Clair were here for the entirety of the previous series with
Winthrop against Northwood. All of their cards were on the table for them to see and they're
going to get ready to go for this next part. We are going to go ahead and toss it to Tracy
to get ready to meet our teams. Maddie congratulations again to all of our award winners but now
we got to do the most exciting part. Let's get our teams out here for Overwatch, Varsity,
Nace, Grand Finals, who is excited?
Oh yes, it has come to this
and it's gonna be very, very exciting.
Here we go, do you wanna get to know our first team, folks?
Are we ready?
All right, here we go.
Let's make some noise for St. Clair.
Now this team consists of previous Team Canada players,
Multiple players playing in Tier 1 and Tier 2 organizations like Disguise, Dills, Ducks.
Wait, wait, wait, guys. We're gonna put you in front.
We're gonna put you in front for now.
Don't get too excited. In front. In front of the stage.
They're staying up here, Bruce.
These guys are ready.
Let's see if our next team is ready as well. Are you guys ready to bring them out here?
Let's make some noise for Wrythrop University!
These guys not only play collegiate, but also play for teams like Team Liquid, Space Station, and Dallas Fuel.
And just won the open competition just a few minutes ago
All right. Our players are on their stations. I can feel the energy and the tension up here on the stage
But let's get right to gameplay back to our incredible casters taking away guys
We have our teams set up ready to go but in chairs for one final ride here the NACE varsity
competition for the collegiate overwatch scene
Winthrop and St. Clair, I far and away the two top teams that we are going to find.
St. Clair had a bit of a run yesterday though, almost didn't make it to these finals.
Yeah, if you want one heck of a game to watch, map five, St. Clair, Cumberland, and just
haymakers being thrown between those two, St. Clair survived the scare and now get a chance
here to take down the tap in Winthrop. Just one open, obviously they're going to be feeling
Good momentum is on the Winthrop side. They are entering this as the higher seed
But anything you know we saw it earlier today anything can happen here on this stage
Do not put it past St. Claire to pull it up say here
It's gonna take a lot for St. Claire if you've only team that is slightly pushed when throwing throughout the year did have a
5th map series before we'll see if they're ready to go have some notes to take away from the previous series
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It's been a wild ride over this past these past two days yesterday
nine and a half hours of
Overwatch was played across the course of the playoffs,
which we're gonna take a little look at the bracket.
If you'll visualize, how we ended up here
in the first place, they were split into two groups,
two teams made it out, four are single,
Elim Semi's getting Winthrop, not dropping a single hat,
whereas for St. Clair, NC State,
even though they run for their money,
along with Cumberland.
Yeah, St. Clair, a little more adversity on the road
to the final Winthrop, just doing Winthrop things.
Sweep, sweep, sweep.
Obviously, they are going to be the favorite entering this.
But again, St. Clair almost took them down
and opened a month ago.
We ran up Brandy Metatrix, and hey,
they are afraid to play the ground tanks.
Let's see if that's the case.
Maybe we see more of that or continue to dive.
Wintrum has definitely been favoring here today.
St. Clair have done their homework.
I think this is a school that varies differently
from Northwood.
They have similar play styles to a degree,
similar comps that they prefer but on the other hand I think they are a lot more well
practiced well versed in synergy unlike any other school that we have seen and has given
them the opportunity to stand out this is already the best performance for a St. Clair
overwatch team that we have seen the first time that they will find themselves in the
finals for a major overwatch tournament in fact the collegiate overwatch tournaments.
This is the one of the calendar and of course again where you get double the fun you get
open. We get varsity. There's more nace games after this, by the way, everybody. Make sure
you stay tuned. We got Call of Duty and Super Smash Bros. later on here at NACE. So make
sure you stick around, but we do have a little bit of a preview from these players, more than
what we just got here on the desk. But we did talk with the St. Clair coaching captain
before this game. Another field. Take a lesson.
What's up Overwatch fans? Ben here again for College Esports News at the NACE Overwatch
Varsity Grand Finals today. I am joined by Razor DPS and Red X support of St. Clair
Saints, two very famous ducks coming off of a long and arduous five map series against
Cumberland University. Razor, what do you feel like was going right for you in the first
two maps of that banger? And then what do you feel like started to slip a little bit
in the second half of the series? Yeah, I think our draft on the first couple
maps was really good. Honestly, kind of felt like a stomp for the first two. And I'm not
sure if kind of inherently we left the gas a little bit but going to Atlas,
Tread wasn't able to play the D.Va. Their draft was really good and I think they
kind of built minutes off that and brought that on the way into Blizzard
Worlds. Thankfully, we closed it out, made it map 5. Yeah, I'm sure I think we
finished it out. Yeah, Brex, I was really impressed by some of your Lucio
timings as well as how you were able to survive a lot of those 1v1s on map 5
Blizzard World. What do you feel like made the difference in map 5 against
Cumberland I think I did a really good job of building my beat and using my amp when I really needed it
So they were they were really looking to kill me a lot
And so I didn't peak their hitscan and I build my beat around the corner and their tracer had to push into space that
Was dangerous for them in forcing recall. So if they're looking at me the whole game. Well, that's what you do
You build your beat
Yeah, and thank
Thankfully, there were no there were no Ajax is for St. Clair in that last map
I was I was I'd be honest. I was scared. I was like, oh gosh, is he gonna Ajax?
Is he gonna Ajax? Oh my god, and then it all worked out just fine
But looking ahead you are now set for a match against Winthrop coming off of there
relatively comfortable win against North Carolina State
What do you think are the the key differences between your style and their style as you look into this Grand Finals matchup?
Yeah, I think they play a lot more flex support heavy comps. They do have ultra violet a lot more main tanks as well
infected like ball Winston and they could see I do ever seen I think they're
playing the cat bashing comp that's coming into into play recently so I
think I see a little bit of that but last we played them it was in I believe
it was open either open Swiss or open semis we went mat 5 so hopefully we can
go a mat 5 maybe in our favor this time yeah bread ex what do you think of the
jetpack cat bashing do you think that it's kind of a gimmick or is it something
that you're afraid of going up against if Winthrop looks to pull that out?
As the rank one Jepac had North America, I think that the cat Bastion Comp has its flaws
and I think that a lot of the time carrying around your hitscan is kind of troll.
Is that, does that have anything to do with any thoughts you might have about Winthrop's
hitscan?
No, I wouldn't say necessarily that.
I would say it's more in the likes of cat has a lot of value outside of just picking
people up.
a lot of the teams right now playing Jetpack Cat are playing way too much for the tether
rather than the insane heal value that you get out of pocketing tanks and being able
to force the off angle fight.
I did not know you were ranked on Jetpack Cat.
Well closing out here, what would it mean for St. Clair to get what I believe would
be your first Overwatch championship as a collegiate team?
Yeah, I mean, for most of us, specifically me, Red X, Noxious, and Soaks were all graduating this year.
So tomorrow's going to be our last match, no matter what.
So to end it off with a win would be really amazing.
So we'll see what happens.
Yeah, honestly, I'm just really excited to be able to play on that land stage.
I remember last year we came top four and we had to watch the finals.
And I'm really excited that we get to end our collegiate run at St. Clair Gaming.
on the big stage in front of everybody and hopefully we're going to be able to take it
home. I'm going to try my best.
All right. Well, all of you watching at home enjoying these absolutely phenomenal matches.
This weekend has been insane. I'm having the time of my life. I hope you are all at home
to take care of everybody. And Red X Razor, thank you both so much for joining me and
we'll see you in the server.
last ride for the St. Clair
College roster. Best way to top it off would be here taking the title of the
nice varsity collegiate overwatch stage and doing it against the Winthrop team
that just took out Northwood was our technical number one team prior to this
event would be absolutely insane. No, they've done their homework and are
feeling pretty good about batting some of these cat bashing comps.
these cat-bashing comps.
I'll say put some respect to the red X's name.
The number one jetpack cat in North America, period, end of sentence.
I think they have a great chance.
They were able to watch that open final, take a lot of notes.
So the question is, are they playing the jetpack cat?
The answer is yes.
They are trying to play a good amount.
But it's also, again, it's a swan song for the St. Clair Rush.
It's been around for ages, it feels, like four people graduating at the end of this
semester in what a fitting way for them to be sent off.
But with this kind of game at Winthrop,
they got something to say about it.
We also did talk with them before today's matches
and how they're feeling against St. Clair.
Nace Grand Finals in Winter Park, Florida
at Folsom University.
I'm joined by Rack Attack and Infected Supporting Tank
for Winthrop University ahead of their Varsity Grand Finals
matchup.
This is infected.
This is a little bit of a redemption opportunity for some of you on Winthrop after an OWCS
stage one that maybe didn't go the way you were hoping for reasons that weren't entirely
in your control, but do you feel like this is an opportunity to kind of get your feet
back under you and maybe regain a little bit of confidence after what was probably a pretty
stressful stage of pro-play?
Yeah.
I could have actually, yeah.
And then this is another shot for Winthrop at winning a national title in Overwatch.
that you guys haven't been able to pull off in the two years that this program has existed.
Rack, what do you feel like is the biggest thing that's changed about this Winthrop squad
compared to how you've been in previous semesters that might allow you to clinch a
nice national championship? I think this is the first tournament that we've actually had a few
weeks of good practice and time. Other than that, it's kind of been like overlapped with ODBCS.
We never really had time to sit down, review, talk to each other, scrim so we're definitely going
out hard and we want to win.
Yes, you got a full strength Winthrop overwatch for one of the first times. Obviously all these players playing in tier one.
A lot of the times when you guys go to lands, you have people filling in, you have people off-rolling.
But this tournament, we've seen some weird meta trends. We've seen more Malgo, we've seen more Orisa.
We've also seen a Jetpack Cat Bastion composition that is slowly spread from east to west.
Infected, what do you think makes this composition strong? Why have we seen you play it? We've seen other teams play it.
We've seen Zeta division play it. What do you think makes the cat Bastion strong?
Well, I think it starts off with Diva and hazard being really strong in the meta right now
And because of that they're really good at countering normal hitscan players
So instead of playing hitscan, why would you just why you would rather just play Bastion?
Bastion is honestly better because he can live against a hazard in the Diva
And why not just add a cat because you can just fly in the skybox and you can't really do anything about them
So I think that's why can Bastion's is definitely the most OP comp right now
As the the the jetpack hat player often in these comps rack, what are some of the key principles that
You look to to find success playing that hero. It's definitely just a push and pull. I mean if you're in a cat and bash of
Year, it's just all about cool downs
Where are you set up like how you use corners and stuff just catching the other guys off guard and then
Adapting if they don't play it. Yeah, and lastly to both of you
What's been your favorite part of this LAN experience of just being able to see all your friends and teammates?
from across collegiate and pro-play in person.
What's something you've really enjoyed this weekend so far?
Just getting to see all my friends
and everybody I know from online.
Being able to put a face in a name is always really fun.
Definitely the fans I'd say,
because there's a lot of local people
and full-sale put it all on.
There's a lot of people traveling down,
whether with your school or just,
hey, we're like 20 minutes away.
Super happy to come down and I've already said hi to a ton
of people, had a lot of pictures.
Really fun time.
All right, well, thank you both.
Good luck in your grand finals match.
And everybody, don't forget to link your battle net
to get those drops, all tens and tens and thousands of you.
Enjoy the overwatch.
Well, we've already gotten a sneak peek
on what Rack Attack infected
and the rest of Winthrop University have in store for them today.
And they've been experimenting quite a bit
with their compositions, especially in the support role.
The honors with the cats, the Geary,
because I don't know, you name it,
but ever is not Lucio-Curie go.
They want to play, which I know there's been a lot of talk
about that being the very constant
in the highest level of play for a very long time now.
So seeing that being switched up is both unique to them,
but it also can throw some other teams off guard.
They're ready for it.
I don't think St. Clair's gonna be one of them though.
They've had a ton of time to watch this win 30 play.
But also if you're saying Claire,
all they run is Lucio-Curie basically.
Like a lot of times they do run some Juneau break
here and there, but they are massively a Lucio-Kiriko team.
So I think it's the matter of,
when do you need to swap over to that Juneau break,
maybe make a little bit of a change,
whether it be ban enforced or just kind of comp assisted.
Time will tell here from St. Clair.
Winter, again, does get first map pick and first ban
because they are the higher city finished higher
in super conference than St. Clair.
But here we go, everybody.
We should be getting on here in just a minute.
I will say exhaustion if this series continues to go long,
you do worry maybe a little bit for Winthrop.
We started this morning at what, 10 a.m. local time.
We are now at 2 p.m. local time.
We have been here a while.
So at this point, they at least had time to grab some food,
drink some water, catch up.
They should be feeling good.
It's just a matter of how much of that we'll hold on.
Can St. Clair maybe start off running
and maybe that'll work out.
I think that's the hope for St. Clair as part of that fatigue kicking in, but also it seems
like Tread is very confident in his ability to act as Tread confident no.
Sarcasm aside, Tread in this interview, and both here sitting outside the desk, Ground
Tanks, Lucio Kierigal, those are the two things that he confidently thinks St. Clair
holds the advantage over, and I'm inclined to agree for the most part.
I think it needs to be tested on paper and I don't think Whithip have learned a lot from their previous matchup.
It's these DPS duos that I'm worried about.
Like the tanks can exchange depending on what is being played.
It's DPS that got to scare me.
Razor very off and on yesterday's.
Tracer, fantastic.
Moving on to other heroes.
It was a bit of a struggle at times.
I'm looking at matches.
Mr. Kanae themselves.
Like this is the final run for him.
He was excellent yesterday.
One of the main reasons why they survived the scare.
against Cumberland. Will he have enough magic in the tank to bring the Saints to a title?
Again, we're doing it. This is basically the United States versus Canada preview in the
World Cup, it can feel like. So I'm excited to see how this one goes. Again, a lot of
forwards in Canada players here for St. Clair, a lot of Dildox during their OWCS run and
including and face it as well. You got the disguised connection here for St. Clair. There's
a lot of pieces that are going on, a lot of connections. These team players have known
each other for years on St. Clair and now is the time for them to finally get
that title finally get that championship that their program has been
building for three years. Yeah if it doesn't happen now then how much be it
for this I mean it's a specific roster yeah there's the last chance under the
St. Clair College marker but they could come away with that title and it's gonna
be tough they're the only team who has managed to put what push went up to the
distance. This wasn't the open bracket that has happened. Took two men, pushed us to five,
almost one, but fell short in the end and then were swept shortly after. So since those points,
you had a lot of time to learn and to fill up. And if I know anything about St. Clair, it is their
coaching, it is their communication outside of the game that has really helped them set themselves
apart from the other top teams that we are going to be seeing, it is going to come down to that.
how much prep is going on today, how much time you spent analyzing this unique style that Winthrop is
completely theory crafting on the road, almost on the spot. Yeah, pretty much. Like, this is going
to be an awkward spot. If as long as they could, again, they had time to game plan around Jetpack
Cat and some of these, even the hazard cops that Winthrop was throwing out due to the fact they
were, they were all watching to the right of us in the Raptors. They were watching that entire
series getting ready to go. So they have a general idea of what is coming at them. But
sometimes when you're looking square, you know, right at a train, you can't stop the train.
And that feels like what it is right now with Winthrop. They are on such a run, such a tear.
It is going to be a lot for St. Clair to try and do it. But again, they brought them to five and
open. We know they have the ability to take maps off. And it's just, can you do enough
to build that early momentum and then just run with it through the finish line.
Well, there's one more thing that we haven't talked about at all. It is Ultra Violet. If you have
been here for at least part of the last series, you probably would have seen him win several fights.
It's not maps, basically on the zone in a way. He just empowers the team so well on his honor.
He's the best that you're going to find, the collegiate best you're going to find in North
America on that pick. Winthrop, a team that has kind of perfected it, and I think this will be a
point for St. Clair. They were pretty locked in this Kiriko Lucio. Alex kind of coming
in to flex over to that support role has been fantastic on that specific pick. We just
haven't seen anything outside of that Kiriko and even a little fact, geez, I'm just not
going to help you. I guess what one step has been running.
It's like you maybe you're on the map on a poke map here and there, but that's at that
point you might as well just run a lorry and Anna or even Kiri. So I don't think it's going
to be an interesting show here from St. Clair. Dredd can basically play anything. I'm not worried
about, oh, what are they going to play on Tank? What are the main point of this composition going
to be? That is not a worry, at least for me, and I doubt it is for you. He was player of the year
for a reason, everybody. But it is just, can you get all the pieces to fit correctly to break this
puzzle from the Eagles right now? Because again, they're just in such incredible form. It is going
to be a tall order, but they will be, they could be the team to get it done. Yeah, again, they
had to went through it again. Winter, they've been smooth and migrate a little bit of adversity
if they're on stage, so they could have already went through their paces. They've had their struggles,
they've already had to improve on certain things throughout the weekend. And hopefully Coach Zay
had a lot of time to be like, Hey, this is what we got to do. If they want to have a good chance
to hear of upsetting Winter. It's the culture of St. Clair teams. I mean, between Zay being a
a fantastic coach for them and then Trad also that kind of stand himself kind of like a player
coach almost with this team in the shape into a fighting form that they are disciplined
but they are on top of it.
You have a first map pick in with the higher seed will select Li Zhong tower every single
match on broadcast it is confirmed seven for seven they'll take away treads diva and response
is the Bastion no cat bastion on Li Zhong tower will likely Azoria coming in from tread.
Yeah, more than like the Zarya from Tread.
It's one of his better heroes.
I'd say if we have to pick for Tread, it's like Zarya D.B.O.
And Hazard can be up there.
But we could actually see a Hazard mirror,
something that I didn't really expect much to see.
In fact, it's been willing to run it.
It was a big reason those nano-Hazard plays were fantastic.
There was nothing the Northwood backland could do
during that final.
Maybe we see a similar run here from St. Clair
and from Windrum against St. Clair.
But it could also be flipped on their head,
I don't see St. Clair running a lot of honor like I just don't see that in the cards
They could run some cat comps if I do red X got it. They're like guys
Let's just run cat. Let's just say that there are other he thinks there are a lot better uses for the cat outside
It's carrying a hit scan around so and a chance for innovation. Is this the time to test it out that?
Yeah, exactly. We don't know obviously what they've been doing in scrims
They could have been testing out a lot of these cat comps before
but testing it on scrims doing it now completely different, but we don't have to worry about that for the time being due to the Bastion ban
From St. Claire and I think we are almost ready here in Li Zhong. It's sour to start us off here in this varsity final
Best of seven the longest series up ahead with a university already played six maps of the round up previous
versus seven against Northwood University. Now St. Clair in the path can they get their
one title for a graduation or Winthrop go back to back. I find out here starting on
Lejeon Tower and with it being gardens, Winthrop especially infected very happy about a specific
little hamster. Oh yeah, it's the fact that you take a game
ball you don't ban out the ball but then you have to ban out the bastion to avoid
like one of these key comps from Winthrop. They're gonna go to a very similar look here
with the ball but not the cat actually. Late swap from Rack over to the Lars with his double
flex support comp from when there was zero out of the farra going to give nauseous and
raise a run for their money. So this is like uber poke and then wrecking ball. There's one thing
Everything is not like the others, Infected's job here is to just rub St. Clair enough so
that these poke targets Sam and Zera can get value, or you could just send Redix reeling
off the map Zera Snag's razor on the opposite side of the map.
And Chaos already ensued and Tread left on his lonesome, nowhere to look can I close
the gap on this team, will be an Eagles first cap and a stagger on Alex.
Yeah, what a statement there, Infected, not even allowing Redix to have any sort of setup,
the nice little poop off early and here come the spot from St. Clara maybe
Razor will have one soon after after that stagger out from ultra-violet. Nox is on
the M-ray to help deal with Xero a little bit better in the air. Tread now on to the
hazard. So let's see you know effective look at this position. It's creative I
like it. All right infected let's see what you got. Okay we're readjusting.
We're readjusting we're setting the angle. There's geometry. Nobody's there. All right well there's no one there so we're
Make the adjustment trend.
We've set onto the hazard, which will help close the gap.
Racketsack and Ultra Violet not mobile.
But you actually gotta get to them first to make it matter,
and they just haven't been able to do that.
Zera comes up with two.
That's O and three now.
On to Racer.
He's just not been allowed to play this game at all.
Not exactly sure.
Zera ended up falling off the map, likely by his own doing.
Wait, Sam goes off with a second.
This is getting a little scrappy for what Lundrup would have liked.
But scrappy, we're expressing wrecking ball.
It's pretty good fan of that one. He'll stall out this point for as long as he would like, even out of the minefield, if needed, which this room wouldn't kind of juicies, especially as Ults are violent.
It sends to off a cliffed courtesy of Reddix. They're just kind of chilling. It winds up the down players, they've been staggering for a while.
So I'm saying clear, there's no reason for them to back off. They can keep pushing forward. How mobile this wrecking ball is.
Yeah, what they just want, like, as little full-on teamfights as possible, try and find
those early pickoffs, try and drag out some of these early resources, like the cleanse
and the amp from St. Clair. They've been doing a great job of that so far.
The captain's sawn up in the sky for aack attack, and he'll snap two huge cops off a
pile drive from infected synergy of this team, firing on all cylinders. That's almost gonna
a team life now as Dread falls and a flawless round of gardens for Wins of
University. They're picking up right where they left off. No hesitation whatsoever.
Clean 100 to 0 from Wins. They're up to start us off on Li Zhong Tower and that
wrecking ball band may have been a good choice from Northwood. They did win this
map earlier today but that was a band that was in place not one that St. Clair
made and I think we're seeing the reason why right now is yeah it is just rough
right now infected is yet to die 10 3 and 0 for him ultra-violet is the
leading lobby with eliminations that it should be illegal that's not right
that's not right it's gotta go out someday and even wheat said that you
know we might go for one because the honor is banned every map that it is
here well it's kind of the carry potential is in the same and I mean the
It seems I'm playing so incredibly well off of this pile drive, set up from infected,
full teams running back on the exact same comp.
They have to get noxious and razor in positions for success.
They've just been getting tried by Sam and Zara before they can take the team fight that they want.
And already, Winter just trying to split the map, trying to find anybody left to low and it will be 1, 2, 3 off.
Well, it was kind of cool.
That's the second time now, Renix has managed to catch Ultra Bot, sitting too close to a cliff, Racer does come up with Rack Attack.
No support, doesn't matter. You're playing a hamster. You roll around to get outbacks. Only a first cap for the Eagles.
Just continuing this momentum from earlier.
You can tell St. Clair, they have ideas on how they want to enter these fights, but they're getting disrupted immediately.
By Winthrop, the Eagle game plan is working to perfection right now, eventually.
They're trying to rotate across, but hey, we can't really get them off the map here.
He can't make any real progress at the point either.
Now, but Tread did isolate Rack Attack, who hugged a little too close to a Cactus,
as he went through up, trying to fall apart here.
He did lose both of their supports.
They know what happened to Mindful from Infected to Stahl,
so he's going to do it the old-fashioned way,
and Tread's decided to take things into his own hands,
continues to be the killer for St. Clair.
We're seeing the first real quote-unquote fight when I say that because Infected
and it's all a ton of time.
Yeah, stolen a little bit.
Zero, trying to find an exit frag,
but he's found out a buy razor.
And Sinclair have their first fight win of this series so far.
Will now look to build off of it.
Tread wanted to hold that eye ground,
but will not be given that option by Ultra Violet.
And Sam, this minefield from Infected,
could lead to an early flip.
Last rack's gone.
Rack attack has just been priority number one
for Tread, the second that he shows his feds,
like, oh, I wanna go see that guy.
Take some Alton.
This is much better for St. Clair.
We're starting to see them take initiative
and disregard infective's presence entirely.
Just ignore the ball even exists.
Try and take the 45, as long as you have somebody,
probably Razor at a touch point here and there,
to ensure the flip doesn't actually go through.
St. Clair now gained the lead.
Kitsune, Rush, and Paulsman,
everybody's starting to creep up on these ults.
Razor bent on infected duty.
Most of this map, swap the point from flipping and that is a battle.
Saint Clair will happily take Sam down first.
Here it goes!
Doesn't make it not just eat a rocket, it even finds Riddick's again.
The natal boost onto this far.
Oh my gosh, Riddick's are obliterated.
That's one way to break through this defense.
And Saint Clair started to get set up.
It will be short lived though, 65% to their name.
Yeah, went through them.
I wanted to use that as Baylor.
Okay, you're going to go in, Zara.
Just go have fun.
Nobody looking at the FARA immediately,
and that is the death of that fight for St. Clair.
But the benefit is, no ultimates used,
you just have to how quickly that will dismantle.
But the other side of it is, it was only the nano
for Wither.
So they got their fair share.
Oh, Trent, I was going to say, took that like a chance.
No, he did, and then infected showed up,
made him drop the block.
So St. Clair, no, just had to take the brazen for Wither.
That's a fantastic ultimate efficiency.
Oh, yeah, just the one Altenacius sent away.
And now Sinclair, one more push before Winter potentially
starting us off here 1-0.
But the positive is all five volts for them
are on line, just the two, maybe a third from Sam for Winter.
But what are you going to actually end up using
for now at down four overclock?
I saw him barrier there to cover for the catch of sun.
You get no reddit to not want to pop that.
It'll work out.
We'll shut down Eski Emre.
Razor finds Ultra Violet all by himself,
but this is the one fight Sankler should have won.
And Jesse, I don't think they're gonna show this at all.
Postcom, no, Razor has to go, but no, the shit perfectly timed.
Out of rack attack, he'll deny Razor entirely and nobody.
It gets to the point with review diversity.
Close this now in a clean 2-0.
didn't even get to use the Katsuneirash from Alex during that entire round.
And that is what maybe St. Clair would have wanted back, but Wintra they converts their map pick
and now start us off where they 1-0. Right after that capture son
from an early on and just lining up the shots.
They did a rack, but here we go. This is the start.
We had a feeling Wintra would have, but now a lot of this power goes to St. Clair.
What direction do they want to take this series to try and avoid getting it too deep of a hole early?
You gotta brawl it out. Honestly, bad RNG not getting control center.
I think that's where we kind of truly seem St. Clair shine to a degree that not getting either of those maps
and overlooking the wrecking ball as a potential threat.
Maybe because it was banned out in the first series, you didn't see it later.
We were so focused on what was actually up there.
there. I'm sure that's something they might be regretting. Later on for now, it'll be
Winfuff University. Starting this series out on the right note, I'm going to St. Clair
College to decide how they will return.
Yeah, they obviously have a hybrid, escort, push, flashpoint, all those modes available
here for them to choose from. I agree with you. I think they just got to run it down
on Brawl.
You have to.
I think you have to. The worry is you almost have to do a protect ban for your Zarya. Like,
You cannot let the Zarya get banned, because then you're just going to be in a Ramir and
infected, and it's going to be very comfortable in that situation, or maybe to say screw it
and go the hazard anyway.
So I think, you didn't even ban off the hazard, but you won't want to save that for one of
the dive maps later on.
Well, that's what you can go to though for Brawl, because I don't think there's a single
map that I'm thinking of at least in our map pool that both, can you play Brawl and eliminate
that hazard as a potential threat.
I think that whatever you go to, Winthrop are going to play what Winthrop want to play
St. Clair just need to get themselves in a position that it's slightly more uncomfortable
The Zarya is within range and you have people to protect and I think I'll be the biggest part in getting your DPS on life
Noxious and Razor have some good moments at the end of that map
But Noxious was a little quiet at the start which which did happen yesterday to his credit
So maybe just some more uptime they didn't get a lot before this
So perhaps just getting used to that stage environments
And we can see the true potential that he has later is he has some insane hit scan pop-offs if given the opportunity
So he's been at it for quite a long time if you haven't been around there watching enough
He has been near the top for a while took a little bit of a break
But it's now trying to lead the way here for st.
Claire to get that time before this roster
Kind of ends this legacy here for st.
Claire have always been kind of a top 10 top 5 team
They don't want to be top anything but top one here today in the varsity final
But going to have to figure some things out early here as that was just domination from winter
But I don't know what
Some sort of sign language hand signals is going on over there
I'm not sure what that meant. That's a if anyone is in interpretation in chat would love to hear it, but
Yeah, all right. Well, I think it's all sorted whatever it may whatever it was
I do a lot of the players get to face each other on the stage. I think that makes up for some really cool moments
Although they are being very respectful. We're not jumping out of our seats. We're not chatting at people
Now let's see where we can jump over the table
You might think about it though. I don't know. The internal is a no, we're not gonna have that
But it's been fun. And honestly, I'm looking back at their histories here. Shimbali was the pick last time
But that is not in the map pool this time around. This is a not a Brawl Map pool
This is very much a dive or a hike you can kind of run either like serve also you can run rush
You can run dive same thing with Atlas both push maps as well
You can run pretty much either or whatever you kind of are leaning towards
It is a very nice map pool for win throw, but it's not like they don't have a good dive
It's just dealing with normal dive and then dealing with wrecking ball chaos dive from win throw up are two different things
Yeah, but it just seems like the trend is very hesitant to play the diva into this matchup
And just because they're not playing great against some of these ground tanks kind of take advantage of that catch players off guard
But even like the wrecking ball won't really be a concern
I think going forwards unless you're feeling really gutsy or runosoppy or something and I don't even seem to be the intention
Yes, but I mean hazard infected showed the Winston today that works out incredibly well
And you only have one half you banned one half of that jetpack cat Bastion combo to so there are that will be back on the table
Unless you decide to take away the cat on the map, but of course it's when you depend
I'm feeling a rotissoppy. I'm feeling a rotissoppy kind of day. Oh
Okay, well, I got the right map type. That's something he's bronza will in fact be the pick
Brig is taken away. So they want to try to I guess make it more uncomfortable
This is how we try to play D.B.
Number one, you don't want to have a break.
Yeah, you don't want to have to break to protect the Ana, which makes your question, do you still play the Ana?
And then the Tracer going second, Zera wants some Genji action.
Yeah, Zera wants to get busy, or you just continue with the Pharah.
The Pharah works great.
On Leisure Tower, yeah, it's a little bit more difficult here in Esperanza, but it's not impossible by any means.
It makes sense why St. Clair picked this map. Map 4 of that series, it was a 142 to 6.
Oh yeah, that's another thing I have in my notes that I haven't really brought up because it hasn't happened.
Went there for a larger to East Bronze. I don't know what happens. Every time I have seen them play on this map in this semester,
they just get steamrolled. I don't know why.
We're gonna take a look as to what that could be and I have a feeling there's D.Va maybe a part of it.
It's just not an infected hero pool which still continues to be impressed the two best tanks right now are two of the things
He just doesn't really play so he's happy to get creative
We just had a massive impact on how this team has been and even rack attack was saying during the interview
Having these consistent two weeks of prep have really helped him get nailed down these comps and be ready for this tournament
And anything that St. Clair could throw at them. So again, they're trying to balance so much classes and LBCS
I don't know how to do it.
I could barely do life, let alone that.
But they're able to get it done.
Here we go, Eshparanza.
And let's get a first early look of what these teams are throwing.
And I was wondering when we would potentially see this variation of the comp.
Okay then.
I don't hate it.
And in fact, it's going to have a big role in deterrence, I believe.
Zera, I'm assuming we'll just swap over to the Genji after this to match Razor, but
they're going to get ready to go out East Pyronsa onto the way back to this jetpack,
Cat, and Bastion Combo.
Okay, well, you got to pick up the Bastion first.
There we go.
We got him now.
Everything's fine.
Sinkler seemed pretty confident in handling this.
We're going to put that to the test.
These comps that I do see OWS channel are just funny to be funny. And then there's a few that actually pick up steam
This is one of them with the Maga and the jetpack yet. And here we go. How are St. Clair going to respond?
Exploding Sam I like that response that's pretty chill the St. Clair duel is one of their own as drive sets it's like an ultraviolet sleep
Goes why it's all get you good
Yeah, I almost butch it with the perv but even that is not enough to stop a full health
Diva in that and it's instant swap from Winthrop University. This is not gonna work out
Yep, same already on the MRAF field. We'll see rack go off of the cat here and just a minute there
It's Winston and Laurie here for Winthrop and obviously you're not having that break chain
It limits what you can do in these dives, but again St. Clair
They just want to continue running this season here
It has been their bread and butter for almost the entirety of this roster's existence. No reason to change that now.
No, not at all. Keep up with it. I think Alex
Slotting into this role was pretty much only played the carry go unless it is banned out. So play to comfort. No reason to change that.
As of late at least. I went through up.
Looking to execute on these dives. You saw them put on a master class on Blizzard World.
So far, I got a holding it down on this bridge. Nothing too crazy is happening. Maybe this could soon a rush out of Alex
That will determine how st. Claire persist on for the aggressive
It's gonna cost him his life both actually fall in the same instance any critical error from Alex
Landon st. Claire's push
Yeah, that'll wrap that up. She gives a baby to you to kill
Onto rack attack, but it won't really me at a whole lot with the win the fight
It was a crack a little bit more time to re-enter the fray and that could sooner or less is one
Not not the best one from Alex there
I think if Alex survives then yes, it could have worked out by just keeping it right into the hearts of the Eagles
And now Zera has the Nano blade ready to go
And that'll blade off a classic combo
See what the initiation is you know red X's sound barrier
I don't know if they're actually gonna commit the nano boost into the Genji for that reason. They're not gonna get as much value as
Normally would so we'll affect me into infected
They're gonna hold the blade for after the beat red X so much respect over to infected dive
But Sarah knows it is inside this side slices through razor looking for Alex
There's not another blade swing. I've finished that off with the good old shurikens and the self struck these by tread
I'm imagining that signals a swap during all of his team is already dealt with
Probably a swap coming in from the Brits. Let's see here just a moment. Nope. Wow stick into it
Maybe just uh, you know, we all range Q a little bit
Just like add an instinct. Oh, it's winnable. No, no, it's he really is it
Uh, captain son tribal and override but xerra's gotta make sure he lives to make sure you can play around those
But him playing as far up as he did the night saying claire the touch the forward spawns already captured
Or St. Clair and Alex is not having a good time in this game infected Zara had their sight set on him
St. Clair
One support of the red X is nowhere near enough to keep Noxious alive
This payload is on to the move went back for breaking these broadskers
Well already better than last time on this map for a winter up. So I gotta give him credit there
Oh a overclock and blade here what not to do it is anytime
Nope, that Chris is going in an immediate response to Sand, which you kind of have to do if you
slide into the middle of where everyone is standing or looking to die with face to the
rack of ultraviolet. He is nailing the shots. I think with Elam not his team last game,
and Zara, we got a rival for that title.
Yeah, Winthrop continue to push on forward, not even halfway into this map, but this one,
What the Vedas want to end this early, only about 40 meters or so until this map is all wrapped up,
still have the Captive Sun in Primal to play around.
UV can give the Nano-Answered Infected to have an extra life, post-Primal.
They have all the resources here needed.
It's really just up to Razor.
If this blade can do anything and it gets too many rush, they'll have a chance.
Sam, really, really low, and actually it's due.
They don't manage to slice him through, but the Captain's side, Rack Attack,
Snacks him on the roof and St. Clair
Managed at least hold the line. They're not necessarily going to win
Winthrop can't push this forwards much longer infected in a rack attack
Do their best to solve this else if they can get reinforcements realize, you know what it's not worth it
Yeah, get a few extra meters but not commit to it too heavily
Infected just trying to slowly back up try and buy some time so that winthrop can play here right at the top of bridge
Engine needs a little bit of an assist by UV, but Zara survives
Critical medical care there from ultraviolet keeps Zara on his feet
They wanted to build up a dragon like fast old Ajax Redix
Steering us a little bit, but the sound barrier goes off. It just doesn't keep him on his feet
Zara committed the dicing him into a bajillion pieces and infected will take care of all the business in the front line
We're on St. Clair backing off attempting to retreat to get ultraviolet, which will help them in the long run
Yeah, but I don't know how much time you really have to stall this up especially because Tread is going to go out of mech
It's something short to use just to stay in this fight and it works out effective
That's a little bit of a wake-up present
How did you actually get hit by it? It felt like it. It felt like it. Yeah, yeah, but the ultraviolet
Walking his little way back to the objective someone threw up not taking any risks
You're gonna see it clear the chance to make the first move knight or team near any ultimates as a prevalence
and every second it ticks on, the Eagles just get more and more favorites with this game.
St. Clair need a quick turnaround. They cannot afford to finally start this comeback with a
minute left. They need longer than that, but their issue is there is no way for them to even get this
bot out of their own spot. Uh-uh. No, and the Ultraman's are coming up, but not for St. Clair,
Captive's son, plus override of protocol and explosions happening all over the screen. None
None of them have to really do the ult, except that one on Razor.
Teeth killed!
That is just going to be infected through the spawn doors,
Tread maybe able to get a touch, but it will not come through Winthrop.
Smash their way through map number two, this team wants it,
and they might just get it if they keep playing at this pace.
Pure obliteration from Winthrop, just never letting their foot off the gas.
and once that bot went into the St. Clair half
and play of the game, well go to us, but Zara,
this actually kinda went in, all started to flip around,
St. Clair beginning on a pretty decent note,
but after this point, not really the case.
Winthrop just run it down from there
and now Winthrop two maps away from getting the double.
This guy's game, he's just insane.
I bet what happened, he's like,
guys, guys, guys, please let me play game,
Let me out of tracer down. I just wanted to grab earlier today. You do not understand. You know what? He earned that one. He earned that.
He absolutely did. It's still, I think, the best play that we've seen so far this weekend. And, yeah, St. Clair had a loss of what to do.
This was their map pick. He even said that we're going to play ground tanks. We can beat them in that matchup.
Well, guess what? I don't think there's anything you can do to make the Eagles match you on that composition.
They're gonna play what they want to play and stuff to you. Do you stick to your guns?
Are you going to be the ones to adapt?
They have to make some sort of change here because that was their go-to like, hey, we
smashed them last time on this map. Not the case this time around. St. Clair
had a 90-second window of a fantastic play and then Wintrip just ran away with it throughout the rest of map 2.
But again, still plenty of overwatch replay here. St. Clair can't turn it around.
they fended off the reverse sweep yesterday. They may need that kind of similar sort of turnaround
here if they want to avoid going to 0-3 hole, which against this team, that's pretty much
the worst case scenario. Performing under pressure is not exactly the thing you want to do,
but if it's necessary for St. Clair, if you're getting pretty close to that point,
is when to get a third reverse sweeping, a first of four? That's hard. Doing it in a first of three
is already crazy. I have another map onto that. Alright, you might be talking a little
insane. I'm not gonna lie, but what do you even do? I think if you're saying Claire,
you've now been beaten twice at your own game, we've realized Winfuff are gonna do
Winfuff things no matter what we bend, no matter what we pick, and you only got one
on a band. When are you going to decide to use that ultra-violent remains these silent
heroes? Sometimes not so silent. In this Winfuff backline, essentially untouchable,
what's your full committing on to them and paying for at least a life of one player.
I think if they want to go to a Rialto, something like that, where they can at least more so
force the rush, more than I think many other maps during this map pool, get banned off
the Ana, it worked out for Northwood, great, so they barely got that thing passed.
That's what I was saying, was that that was cool?
It was not like a dominant performance by any stretch, but they did get it through at
the end of the day. Take that type of step forward, see if that will work out. But it
is a rough go right now for St. Clair. There's a reason why it went through up. One of the
open championship just about an hour or so ago, they want to, they want to for two. ISU
did it in the fall. They went open. They went varsity. Coincidentally, I didn't say Clair
also in that fight on varsity. They want both. And so far right now, it's looking like Wytham's
going to get it unless St. Clair could turn this ship around.
I don't know. I don't think this ship has a steering wheel at the moment. I'm not going
to lie. Something has to change. It's got to be something big. It seems like they're
getting shut out of flights. There's so many threats on this one for roster deciding which
one to focus on as your first priority. That's a difficult task and something that I think
they're taking a bit of time here between maps to figure out as they come through with
their selection defense. They know that this again it was very similar to the
Northwood game to where Northwood needed just some sort of break to be able to
breathe and like hey we can actually run this thing. St. Clair need that right now
a little bit earlier than when Northwood did just because Winthrop they have
continued their form from that open final. It has been all gas no brakes. St.
Clair are struggling to get any sort of set play going because we're always the
trying to start these fights, trying to get that opening pick.
Poor Alex has been targeted left, right, and center during these first two maps.
I think that's gotta be step one.
Keep your flex support alive so you can keep the rest of the team alive.
Because having that Kierakow die as quickly as he has been,
you're never going to win these fights.
It's determining whether or are we diving in, trading backlines,
or are we turning and burning, whoever is jumping into the team.
usually trading backlines has been the choice for a lot of squads depending on their composition,
but in instances like that, turning around when they're just blowing up infected or
putting a little bit more attention on Zera so he's not getting as much value as he is,
would be a consideration. It's just a risk because you're allowing the team to initiate
into you, it's setting a trap and baiting them into it. It can be really difficult on specific maps,
Especially ones like push like flashpoint and control bird cops meeting in the middle
I don't any have any of that set up that you would get from an escort or a hybrid
Yeah, we have a safe flashpoint and then a hybrid escort still remaining here in the map pool
Don't know if I would go flashpoint. I'm just weird it. That's the one northwood three-odd
So maybe no, sorry, I'm thinking
Sorry, that's completely serious from yesterday we've all been st. Claire. I believe that she I think also
So maybe not Flashpoint, for St. Clair, maybe go over the long weekend guys.
You guys have been here throughout the whole day.
Hey, thank you so much for supporting Collegiate Overwatch.
But also, drops, still going, get your use-boxes and boxes.
I think you might be close now.
I might be. I'm getting my new boxes.
I still want that banner.
I want the banner. I'm getting the banner. It's okay.
I'm going to think, I'll throw a finger at you.
I'm gonna give my stuff. It'll be all fine. But in the meantime, you have to figure out where our teams are going to go
And we have the answer
They need to think Jesse and you are full on head and hands right now like what what just happened?
Well, it is serve awesome
Winston bed
We're playing ball. You're playing jet that cat. We're playing Anna and there's Lucio bad on the other side
This is um, this is a little disaster to me at first look
I don't know if I agree with the vision, but I can see the vision.
The vision is trying to deal with the ball, obviously.
They're going to run the ball, jetpack cat.
That's just what they're going to do.
I think you almost need to go double, double flex support with this team, but you don't
have the hero pool and your support line to go double flex.
You know, I don't know.
I think maybe it's like, hey, this is quick.
We can, if we snowball early, we can just run it.
And I get that.
I'm a little worried.
I'm just a little worried.
If we do see a team that is losing, turning around, I feel like it
happens a flash point way more than any other maps, because how fast
paced it is.
I feel like your mistakes, all mistakes and not touching objectives
are amplified, especially in squads that are maybe a bit overconfident, and I don't think
went up are necessarily overconfident in this instance, they're giving up water.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I wouldn't say they got massive egos on them.
Well, depends on the person, depends on the person.
That's okay.
Hey, Dal.
Hey, you're right too.
After that game, they had to every right shoe.
Exactly.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing.
You've got to have an ego.
If you don't think that you're good, well, you're not going to be good.
It's just, it is how it works.
Skeleton shoe.
That might be real. Is that real?
A little good.
Is that compared to us? Yeah.
Yeah. Well, obviously.
Okay, I thought Tread was going to break him off for a second.
I got really excited.
No, you're not doing that.
Winthrop, not going to cut-but-cook up what we expected.
Yes.
Perhaps.
Yeah, I mean, there is still time.
Infected is having one heck of a time here.
He's warming up his mechanics.
He's red.
Getting the momentum going.
I think it could work.
We've seen this combo.
If it's not the Bastion, Cassie.
Here we go red X number a self-proclaimed number one cat player in North America
Let's see what you got red X. It'd just be ushering around noxious for the time being
And he specifically said in the interview catch it so much more go
He's not doing this. I feel like to I said that I feel like to and we'll see he is putting him on an angle
Which that is good. You are forcing a fight on this side. So this I like this a little better
He's taking noxious relocating. Oh my god
So here's the problem with that.
Ranking Ball can go wherever Ranking Ball pleases,
and same with Zera.
Zera is Infect's best buddy
that he's just following around the map.
That is where problem will be.
So Rennick's a little more careful
of where he is dropshipping his Noxious next time.
Yeah, that was just right perfectly.
By Windrump.
And now, by over by a different Flashpoint,
during this, Infect flips the point back over,
and they straight to go back and forth.
Windrump, no healing though right now, available.
and that is why you see your Zed just runnin'.
Yeah, you're also, and that also affects Tread significantly more than effected,
as it's not as easy for a D-Vus to get in and out.
So effected, stowing out the point, making sure nobody caps,
Alex goes through, but a block in momentum,
actually saved him for a while longer, is effected!
Ooh, almost overstays his welcome.
He'll get out 54 HP to spare, but at the cost of the Zed's recapping the point,
here comes Noxious again, dropped hopefully, but the sport of actually both Alex
And Redix this time, themselves are not so healthy.
Bionade, out of an anxious Zera there,
the squeak on in and then it's him off.
Other chaos of map number one,
but it's starting to feel like St. Clair
trying to click too hard.
They've at least flipped this point early
and they're trying to hold onto it
as long as they can,
so they at least guarantee one more fight on this flashpoint,
but it's not like this is going to be the one that does it.
Well, I mean, I recommend a consumer entrance,
like what's one more?
thinking this is still winnable. His red attack is relative low.
It does have ulcer violet in his sightlines.
It's just him cleaning up this lobby,
right out of his own room,
makes sure that there were no remnants of St. Clair remaining.
St. Clair, all things considered,
did get that in Final Fight territory.
Reddix tried to pull up the bomb,
but I think Reddix tried it instead.
Oh, no.
Could have been massive there from the Saints,
but just didn't work out that time around.
Postbump here for Razer. We'll be looking at rack attack and UV trying to take a lot of these supports
From Winthrop that has been running rampant throughout the entirety of today, but holy checkmarks for Winthrop
Yeah, three almost four shiny buttons on last year was fine. You really want to want to go that far Razer so low
He actually gets finished off Zara chases him down. No recall. No else backs to be seen
Catnaping. Those on this sand will be dragged into the end of the episode. It is a one for one.
I'll take them down to the ultimate. Might feel the best in these overtime scenarios.
It helps to keep Dred away from the point and separate.
Everyone else on St. Clair shouldn't be falling like Dominoes. D-Mec onto the tank.
Nice little bit of tech. Alex 1 HP left remaining. Ultra Violet just don't mind if they do sweeping up even more Elimps.
over to this auto player and I'll go ahead and do it for Winthrop University
solidly in control for most of that percentage win tell you they even lose
the fight when UV tried to pop a nano on Sam and it didn't go through in time
but it's like UV doesn't care already two-thirds to another nano like just a
little bit wild say clear now a little bit of a change up trend will go on to
to the hazard let's see what he can do with that oh that was not where that was
I don't know where zero was he saw something I guess in the matrix it is
a so demons all right Alex is down though and which makes up for the loss of
ultra pilot Sarah though taking that fight without recall was a big gutsy to
save the lease not just will punish him actually gets rack attack too before Sam
also me blows him up running in the sky with his own override protocol St. Clair
Now verbally in control of this objective at least in terms of the area. It's what you they want you to think
That's as long as infected in the live
He's gonna make it as difficult as again stop this potion separates tread
I
Get shouting out infected for how it's just a writing and conquering if he can't get the kill
He separates it for another team member to come in
It's perfect disruption right now from infected and now that you know we're entering some apps with a wrecking ball
Can really work
You're seeing why this guy's one of the best right now in the country on the roll
Nino already built back up from UV mind-blowing and kind of impact this push from sake of a lot of sleep
There's a good good sleep that it's not gonna end up saving his life
But it will set up for an even trade not just though starting to come to life
We'll have to see how long that last is infected on the prowl for any sports called lacking in this case Alex
It's barely as any HP, amazing he lived as long as he did, but Xerath cut his life to an end, down 4 out now.
Will catch infected, but it's not like anybody is able to get all the way down there to stop him.
It's Tread instead, losing much more danger, and honestly at risk of staggering this point even farther.
Presented Xerath, one to estimate the power of the Hazard Slash.
This is a team deathmatch, now we're watching.
Yeah, and Drops are okay with it, because they still have control over points.
Now there's just desperation here from St. Clair, it needs something to happen.
Drop's infected off the map, so that's a great start.
The red text is, uh-uh, that's my hamster, leaving low.
We'll get the revenge pick.
It's un-mapped just now.
If they can clutch this up, Alex returns with a Katsune Raj,
but no, the shots have landed onto Zara to keep the Kiriko alive, and I fear he has once again been unleashed.
Razor does come back.
Driven this out, the skull is there, but no!
The touch is not in a fade, St. Clair and Winthrop.
They only need one more point to go up to Weld's match point.
Just one more needed, and they're the ult to calm it and do so.
St. Clair threw everything at them to try and get the flip to avoid this O2 hole,
and they don't get the touch near the end.
Another kind of just hunting infected in the previous flashpoint.
When everybody else is crossing the map, we are just a long ways on this rotation.
But that's what you have, a jetpack cat in this one with the Lucio Bam and red axe.
Just need to stay alive, man.
I think it's chilling, mostly.
I'm a little surprised we stay out of the jetpack cat just after, but I guess it solves the hero pool.
That rack is so far away.
You kind of have to, I guess, on the Iyari.
But Sam's also in Lawlandland. I'm not really sure what he's trying to set up on that high ground.
Ultra Violent is, well, okay, was here. He had slashed across the back.
He treads spikes, and he's gonna look to make his own eggs that infected much more of a threat than he wants to respect.
Sam's looking for the first cap, and Windrub will have them at it, Rack Attack.
doesn't want it to last long, doesn't get caught though by the downpour, forgot his umbrella at home,
turns out to be a trade and a stick from Zara, each finding these out of seemingly nowhere
will secure Winthrop, its player advantage, in this battle, they almost grab Renekton's supports,
doing the patty cake thing and just going every single year again, and that's fairly not the
ward off infected, but can't stop Point Flip. Yeah, Flip goes through, but the fact that Alice
and Reddix are both still alive? Little bit crazy. Racketech will now go on to the
Brig due to the Valiant Tread that's going on to the D.va. A little bit harder when
you're on the Allari to get anything done with the Defense Matrix interface.
Yeah, good swap there. Got no for Reddix, which I guess just unsam, and actually dropped
Racketech. That's a double! Effectively for Reddix. Setting up his team well doesn't
Again, self-proclaimed number one check back tap for a reason.
Backing it up gives the Saints the flip.
Saints flip early but Red X cannot get out of the fight and now Zera.
Looking to turn this around himself.
Zera's such a rat-way place, Tracer.
And I mean that in the nicest way.
Nobody knows that he's just lurking around the corner.
Red X has always boosted to go in.
Now he's seen him as suffering because of it.
The Sam now with the overriding protocol wasn't that a boost on top of it.
Alex doesn't stand a chance not just fellas kaboom shortly after and wins up university will cut St. Clair short of
One-flight territory
Oh and portrait all the stagger. This is what you get when you get player of the year you just get staggered out
They don't want you involved
That's a group that should not have you do the post bomb there to make up for our rack attack the mic drop
I don't think you deserve that
Your honest got pancakes
Whoops
Yeah, what you be flew a little bit too close to the start
But I've been right over here for with them you have the mines so you can just delay this actual engage from it
St. Clapper so long it'll be enough time for you to get back
And he's gonna put it right at the entrance podstret back
And so he's not just me and he's in the sky. He's get past the minefield. He just doesn't want to he's gonna say safely over on the side
Sinclair, they have to get a touch-going match point on the line. Razor, do a good job of it for now.
And without Racket's hatch, Rally, Winthrop are significantly weaker until he gets back.
Srapping this up quick would be huge, but if they're uninfected with their appropriate 1v1,
this is a straightening of backlines that Sinclair have struggled with in Winthrop.
This is where they thrive. They thrive in the chaos. They thrive on this wrecking ball led by infected.
They're going to find themselves up at Championship Point.
one map away from the double here is winter but it feels like nothing can go wrong right now if you are a winter player
everything's lining up yes maybe a scary moment here here are there a reminder to not get rematch
uh that's really that's all the notes I have right now for this team they're playing just that well and you read I said okay that was funny I would lie
that was hilarious catnapping on to infect it felt a little bit personal
It's like, you're talking about this wrecking ball?
Here's what I think about that.
Just don't sit in the water, so.
I think all the alligators have them.
I mean, half of these places aren't right.
The cat did work.
Do it to grieve it.
The synergy that Winthrop have, along with infected,
it's just incredible.
That happens, but add it to the low lit reel.
You won the map.
It doesn't really matter in the long run.
That hitbox is a little sketchy.
Mm.
You think you're safe, but you're never safe
from the diva max so 3-0 now four went up university in the first four one more
chance for st. Clair University I'm gonna say this on a band still there on a band
still there but now a reverse sweep is needed in this best of seven if st.
Clair want to end this dynasty for their overwatch roster on a high notes but
it's looking more rough and rough as this series goes on it went through I'm
not letting them, giving them any sort of chance to build momentum.
And yeah, I think some of the magicals has to happen here from St.
Claire. If they always want to start that process, did you have another
map pick available here for them?
And I just don't know.
It's, it's yeah, escort hybrid.
You can kind of pick anything you want here.
I wouldn't go Blizzard world.
And I wouldn't go midtown.
So hybrid, let's not do that.
So let's just not do hybrid.
You'd have to do it eventually, but right now, perhaps,
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This is the moment we waited for, everything you wanted right here, we gon' give them what
they came for, we gon' check it up from the last layer, shoot them in the chat while
I'm in on range, me and the team on the same party, lay down never switch floor, on the
One more map that is all that stands between Winthrop University and going up back to back they beat Northwood
I'm already scared the number one spot in the open the brackets earlier on today
Now they got one more shot to do this again as Saint Clair leading a reverse sweep
And they first a four to pull this off
Yeah, it is a nearly impossible task if you was like right now given the way and with your display
It's unbelievable and we take a look at our map that we were going to for map for potentially the last one here
of the Overwatch Collegiate calendar at Savannah.
You got your wish.
And the Audemann has come through from St. Clair.
Widowmaker is the answer,
which created not just as a phenomenal widow
in his back pocket.
And Widowmaker doesn't play Widowmaker.
No, so that honestly, it makes him a little odd at first,
but it does line up with what Widowmaker wants to do.
Yeah, so those make sense,
but you said the Audemann is what I wish for.
It's what I wish for if we want to lock Steelies.
Well, let's clarify that.
For St. Clair's sake.
For St. Clair's sake, it is the wish.
Because right now, your backs are up against the wall,
and you're kind of curled up in a corner at that.
So taking away the honor, this is the one map
that Meets did say in his interview
that he might give up a map with this specific band.
And honestly, both comps are not something
I'd really write in the playbook.
For this team much, I'd like this pick a ton
from St. Clair's side.
They're going to get themselves back in the series.
And it even tells the best possible conditions to do it.
I say something's got to work eventually
if you are St. Clair.
It's just, is this going to be the right combination?
And for their sake, you kind of have to hope it is,
or this series is done, and they will end up
as the runner-up once again.
And this feels like a common trend here for St. Clair
over the past few years with this roster.
It's never able to get over the line.
It's because of, you know, it's not even like
they're playing bad.
There's these teams like a Winthrop, like a Maryville, like an ISU, who are standing in their way and Winthrop, they want to win back-to-back, they want to win open and varsity in end of season on the best note possible.
In St. Clair's defense, they did go from a top 10 team to a top 14.
Yes.
Within the past semester or so, I think that's fantastic for them for the improvement that they have had.
We are going to do something that we don't see a lot anymore on this map and I'm going to say it because I don't really care.
We're close-holding. We're playing a map.
I think so.
There's no way that you are picking this composition.
Not expecting to get all those crouched bombs.
Unless you're just playing corner?
No, no, no. There would be crouch walking.
Just say! I've been playing Devil's Advocate over here.
Okay, well, I also have eyeballs, so I'm sorry.
I just got some serious sot, I could have...
That is a wild statement.
Okay, well, okay...
Okay, both of us are blind. We both wear glasses. It's not like...
I mean, that is a fact.
The benchmark is quite low.
It is.
Is it clear, though? They gotta work something.
Is their benchmark also very low on the starting point?
We are doing this close-hold infected season, races back towards the spawn.
Isn't too much of any adjustment, Sarah?
on the submitter of all heroes who are trying to catch somebody off guard, lacking, that's just isn't the case right now.
Well the TP going on forces the attention away and allows the least sub-members to walk out.
Whoa! Ultra Violet cut off from the spawn, but Rack Attack breaks through with the help of Infected,
and takes out the most important stabilizing factor of things I've saw up in Alex from there.
We are going to watch this spot fold crumple. I've gone the attempt, don't see too many teams do this these days, after the bottom F changes.
Yeah you don't see a ton of it anymore but hey still fun to do. It gets off 45
seconds and now they can kind of go back to normal and they can also pick
whatever counters they want without really giving up that much ult charge.
So Zarya is the play for champion, they're waiting for it all series long and it's finally here.
There is Sean's Metra by the way. That is a windthrob picking at half.
Crafty didn't show all of their cards just yet at this one hiding up their sleeve for this moment
Vex is still trying to lay Razor in the middle of nowhere the rest of his team rotated to high ground
He got a bobble that's not saving you from everyone looking Dread incredibly tight charge, but no protection and Wintherford just moving the payload
Just moving along helps that quick TP up and then it's air asserted by well almost by my red X
I'm shocked he lived I'm gonna be totally honest with you but I can't quite see the same fate
four noxious eventually wins the claim of the pieces having the cement rock out of
there takes this approach so unpredictable yeah the orisa of all
things we just saw her a little bit yesterday but it's continuing to work
out great for team is running it four and a half minutes and already this
teepee is up top just trying to gain some early high ground but take learn that
the greatest fan of that idea and it'll be the old fashioned way
She's vibing right now, up on the high ground.
Photon barrier for Zara, I have a feeling that's going to be a response to Noxious in this.
I'm not sure that's my best guess.
Yeah, for now it'll be Alex, that's Nat Matrix, and actually is going to force the amplification matrix.
So I'm sure Noxious is happy about it.
Force is trying to retreat and gets one from the high ground.
But dead of?
Uh, this is not season one, Pat, guys.
This is season two.
I don't think Razor cares about that, is it just swirls everybody into a blunder or an action that has a final ingredient, ultraviolet and absolutely newt.
Looking for more, but in fact it's just the important part around the quarter.
I'll take him out at the end, I guess crazy as that play was, the set-up was there.
It's just not enough.
For this, the rest is so consistent, it's a frontline.
And beyond Sam, now close this one out.
Push, go continue.
Push rages on a from a windthrump and yes very expensive one but noxious well
thought about it thought about the hanzo ends up swapping back off of it and
Alex will go on to the kid a cop so live or change this is more of a
traditional St. Clair cop I would say but I think our traditional has a work
so what's the pivot now and location matrix out sound barrier in response to
St. Clair want to take the fight to a length of University the ground on surge
Whoo, that's pretty cool noxious and three cap the back of it payload one fight
territory is infected with a Tipee from Zara to get in the safety gets him out
Razor doesn't want to be done but doesn't really is it given an option so the
Vendetta it's going to make effectiveness life a little more difficult also
anybody going through Tipees and Razor is there there's a red slash with our
name on it. Well, again, Vendetta a little bit worse now that she used to be. Vendetta's
gonna slide up a bump recently. And Razor is making this work! That both supports down!
Talk about it, turn around for St. Clair! I say blast from the past, but it's really not that far
into the past. About the stroke. It feels like a while, but Vendetta, still strong! In this guy's hand
is what I'm starting to learn. A triple kill for him! St. Clair investing heavily in this guy.
Yeah, why not go back to what was working into the patches prior and maybe just enough
of that magic can come back with that overhead slash just misses the head of Sam.
Folks as it was went through it.
We'll now have their choice while they enter.
I think they walked the, or they tried to walk the old fashioned way around the side,
which St. Clair now get an idea of what's going on.
We send a rager straight in, bubble, denies the javelin of infected, and hold on to this
Parasurge for a long time now, maybe waiting for a combo or some sort of teleport setup.
Rasha can stick him on the objective, force the eclair to fight onto this low ground point.
We'll be asked to rush on the high and send Dred to run and get down to the rescue team.
Razor, that is just his dodge out of the way by mere milliseconds from infected Parasurge.
That goes down to the drain.
Who thought the answer would be Zarya and Vendetta?
Yeah, that is our maybe not as dead as we thought it was in this metals
This trumps this down to a minute ten granted there sticking on a smetcher this long and maybe a little creative
But yeah, we're gonna see just a little bit of a change here infected now on their mantra is gonna work out a little bit better
Yeah, I think you're pretty happy about that if you win for him
Hey, it's not, this is good, and Vector wasn't doing that.
He's actually doing a lot better than I thought he would.
Into this composition, but I don't think they'll open it up.
It's an overclock from Noxious on the side,
but some older Vile has already done it.
I can't believe that was an engage from Razor.
He's gonna come up with another double kill.
This guy on the stopper bowl, on the objective,
they really put their foot down here.
They have found that second tier,
well, they've needed this entire series to be fair.
Yeah.
But hey, you have to find it at some point
if you want to come back just a little bit later than they would have hoped.
So now, Xero, let's see that last second swap does.
Commanding will be on to the Genji.
Window with the amp and with the overclock here.
Could open this up, but a Sombraer is available to answer.
I'm not worried about that.
I see Dredd with the Graviton surge,
and Razor with the middle sword strike that he can partner up with.
And you're not even going to need it.
Noxious already fell Sam in the neutral.
Razor, okay, well, he used that in the back line.
With the birdie down two, St. Clair's tippo beat on and throw the gravity well on top of infected, he goes bye-bye.
And with that, Winter had slammed on the brakes by St. Clair, decided to take over the steering at the last second.
They had to throw a Hail Mary Jesse, and they happened to find the catch.
There is a pulse in St. Clair. They are alive in this series.
They got to make sure this attack is just as good as their defense, but that is a very
winnable position if you are the same.
And granted, obviously a lot of things still need to go right.
You can really hold in this first phase for a very long time here on Nevada, even with
all the changes that came through.
But at least this is the best they've looked all day so far.
It's easily the most competitive they have looked.
Now we get to see if they can continue that on here on their attack or if Wytthub is going
to regain that form from the first three maps of this series.
And Wytthub showing a very similar look here, but with one change that I had a feeling we
would eventually see on this map.
I'm almost surprised we haven't seen Sigmund Tiltman yet.
At all.
Yeah.
This is actually the first time we're seeing it in the finals for both games at least,
okay?
Yesterday either so this is part of the map to do it not necessarily a hero in fact
It's known for but one that he can hold it down on if needed
It's one of it's a decent hero for him
It's not like you know some tank players are like well if you have certain heroes
It's just no you cannot put them on it. This Sigma is not on that list or infected
So they as much as a close hold probably sounds fun
It is not going to be the case this time
be able to speed the old-fashioned hold at the end of this corner and let's say
clear to get a very slow walk up with a million angles to try and figure out
just get this feeling to the first corner and then really set up what they
want to do razor popping off on the spin data thus far you have Sarah on the
tracer I think to go and attempt trading at the backline put more pressure on
Alex has been actually able to play the game for once in this series now the
built at the corner tread within laser beam distance of infected.
After things look sticky for Winthrop University, Sigma and Zarya,
don't have a great relationship.
No, not necessarily.
If tread can close the gap, then he can melt infected pretty fast.
But it is closing that gap, which is going
to be the difficult part of this equation,
a razor, nice little chuck out, but he is stuck in no man's land,
but it isn't able to get out.
Eventually makes his way up to the high ground to rack attack Ultra Violet and apparently Sam has been killed by such a whole party up here.
After the final overhead swing, 40 HP and then Zero chases him and down with the cause of Ultra Violet.
If you're safe there, you take those, Razor took every bit of attention with the four players, went to go chase him in the meanwhile,
Tread happened to walk into town, but it still slowed up.
Once the scene turns attention more towards the panel though, they're good as day.
Same as Chonobah, that's what it was. What a disgusting shot from Alex.
There should be a... I don't know if they're even going to try and touch this.
It'll be a little bit of a stalling from Xerah.
I just have to recall. Thank Claire.
Oh, they got a hundred blocks.
They do. And considering the rest of Pop from Alex,
within all of that focused damage, in fact, it did not stand a chance of feeling.
We're going to see a swap. One cast, four and a half minutes.
It wasn't over to change.
over to change now for St. Clair to move forward and they're coming up on that
combo but they like so much. Yeah just grab with anything Razor wants to do
basically. Doesn't even have to be the ult. Sombrair as well to answer anything
coming up from Winteroth infected will make the swap off to the Rematra which
would be a little bit better here a little more brawl heavy during this
second phase of Havana. It's not like you even have to worry about their phase
we're not seeing it. Both support ults for Wind Thug ready to go, either of those could
pair with Sam. It also means you get up sand in front of Tread, and deserve to be permanently
running away while it BS-key. This is an application matrix perfectly placed from Ults or Violet
and Sam of forming through the chaos. So if I do guarantee themselves at least one fight
of a win here on this point, then it'll hold up, probably not.
Charged reset there for Trent, maybe something he would have liked to keep, but won't be the case this time around
But they at least keep all the ults that was going over there
So went up while I have to use the window during that. They just want to play a little bit up close to personal
They want to see, well, they're gonna be more than just see. They are going in on this point
Which to me is seeing Sam doesn't see anybody. Just catch Trent at the end of that. I think Xerra's around there
Do it again here and clean! Wimps up off of this point to add put it to a one to flight territory.
Just Rack left alive but it will be their reset. Four Wimps through Abin St. Clair begin this final march with the Katsunei Rush and Razor's ult soon to follow.
Wimps through Abin have nothing right now but his annihilation if it's built up could be a real nuisance on the final push for this point.
And when they're kind of banking on that the only option you'll have is Razor and
it's frustrating to slice and they're half of the infected so far.
Here's your match though.
He'll be fallen.
I just can't say the same for his back lane.
And we're telling you so well, Blade builds are violent.
It buys them seconds but I've got full support for fallen Thread.
Razor on his way through the rest of the team as St. Clair.
They have a pulse.
They are not just that.
They're thraving on this clump.
They found an answer and they will keep this series going if they have the choice.
Zera wants to keep this contested.
In fact, it does have the annihilation
if he can get back to the point.
Zera, keeping this winnable.
All things considered, the UV is down.
In fact, just about to pop the annihilation to live.
Everyone can run away, zone it off.
Over meanwhile, Zera keeps testing,
keeping jumping in and out.
Nobody from St. Clair wants to focus the objective after all.
And that will come back to bite them.
Two meters remaining, recall, force,
And one, no more touches.
Stand corrected.
If you hear the cheers erupt behind us
to St. Clair College, keep themselves in it
and get their map.
Not a sweep.
We will not have a sweep in either of these Overwatch
Grand Finals.
Today, who knew the Trent Zarya is going
to be the one that makes it happen.
And again, this Zarya dead off that we thought
was kind of dead in this meta has a second life
in the form of Canada's finest.
And that will be at least St. Clair.
Okay, if we're gonna have a reverse sweep,
something needs to go right.
Something has gone right.
Now, Winthrop, they will have the honor back.
Now, hey, which was right, both maps today
that the honor was banned, Winthrop did lose.
That is true.
And he saw something.
Also that shot was the same.
Because we could see it through the wall.
He cut it, so we're not gonna get it back to that.
But regardless of that fact,
Alex was able to win because it wasn't a dive.
It was that ground tank matchup forced
the St. Clair wanted so so bad. Here's my fear. Winthrop get first ban. Why not just
take the Vendetta away as a concern or even concerned about it. Yeah, or the Zarya. Whatever
you pick. It is not reset. Yes, you have to do push. No, not push. I'm one of my I'm
losing my mind. You lose your mind. I read. Yeah, Blizzard world. Uh oh. That is an effect
It's played around on wrecking ball as well. If he wanted to do it again
He's doing all what he wants granted today in the series
He could just do it again and at that point I think you just ban out the vendetta
The Zarya is never going to get played on that map other than third phase
Like you might force it just even
Raise her on the attack. I'm not gonna lie. It wasn't doing much
She was existing and being a threat and it forced rack attack ultraviolet positioning the second that they were in his sight lines
He jumped on it forced the cooldowns get out
But everybody else go in and do the rest of the work
It was a great strategy and St. Clair clearly have protected that they've been one of the teams that have the access of a fantastic
We've got a player in razor and even better. Sorry a player in tread
With that kind of being removed within the last week or so you've had to get creative
But they're bringing back an old look that gives them a chance with hyper is the only option
I'm a little scared for how this might proceed it went up
I think that was the single best map I've seen from that team was that blizzard full map. I thought oh they can just go rush
Yes, well a but with them's not going to want to do that. Yeah, the map pool doesn't allow that
It's what blizzard world at new Bonnie midtown
They're not going to midtown probably
It's good and nobody plays no Bonnie anymore. It feels like it's kind of just cursed in now
We've had these maps over time like nobody picks them in these kind of settings
That has turned into Nambani in a lot of days, in the old Antarctic Peninsula, which, at least that got reworked, but it has kind of turned into that map of this map rotation.
It's got to be Blizzard World.
I don't want to have to do my mindset. I really really don't.
It's got to be, right? I don't see any other way. It is a different map.
Yeah, and I'm rooting for St. Clair to find something else, but it just doesn't feel right.
with very recent past scenarios as well of those have turned out to just
stop the team that seems to have perfected how to play a map the honor is back you
could easily just ban a carry go if you want that takes away from Alex that
forces into the battees probably because that's the only hero pool and we've
sort of gotten from that point with Baldwin Phillips court like this I
seriously fear that St. Clair and they're gonna have to find something they did
They did it before, they did it on Havana.
They did.
But the circumstances were much more in their favor.
Yeah, the environment where they did that,
vastly different now than what it was on Havana.
And you basically have to redo that all over again.
And once we get into, you know,
if we get to the future maps
and we have the map pool reset, then maybe yes,
but still it is Wimthrub picking every single map
from here on out.
It doesn't matter what St. Clair wants to run,
It is the settings of which Wither will allow them to operate in for the rest of the way.
Yeah, you're in Wither territory now, the Saints.
They didn't like it or not to fight even harder than they did in those first couple of maps.
When they got their first map pick, they got their first ban.
Hit this run, gilling.
We saw, reversely, yesterday from Combo, almost a second one from them against this very team.
They were able to shut it down.
and I know stranger to these longest series. In fact, last time St. Clair played
Winthrop, it did go all the way to five maps. First to four, it could take it to
seven. In fact, they're gonna have to if the Saints want a victory, but their very
last performance. Just needing a little bit more to get them into that map
stage. And then a little bit more to get to that final map. Just you got an inch
on closer. You cannot give up here if you were a St. Clair. I would say the energy
back up on that stage. Like they're actually, they're the loud St. Clair that we know them to be.
That is what they needed to kind of get this momentum back because it's just been so odd.
They've been so quiet. Maps two and three and even four. It was just so quiet for most of it
and it is going to be buzzard world. The Keterco has been once again by Winthrop.
And it will be a tracer man this time actually from St. Clair. I like that a lot.
I do like that. The Kiriban is very well placed from Windrub. I'll give them that. It is,
considering the gameplay we know is coming, it's like seeing a disaster before it happens.
The Ana is going to be very abundant once again because there is now no cleanse to deal with any
of that impact. I worry about the Ana, I worry about Alex's hero pool. I don't think I've seen
either here we go or Baptiste, I have nothing else.
You could Juno break it if you wanted to.