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Lift me up and I'll take this feeling higher
Hold my hand and we'll make it there together
It's gonna be all night, night, night
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you
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I've been wandering these places, trying to find where I know I belong
And I've seen too many faces, oh I know they once were all alone
It's an impossible thing, and I'm feeling the pressure it's been on the inside of my face
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So don't try to deny, don't try to deny
You ain't even here alone
No, we ain't goin' home
When I'm with you, I'm sorry
When I'm with you, I'm trying
I just want you here, it's all over
No, yeah, yeah, yeah
Got me feeling, got me winning
I'm lucky, baby, you're by my side
Oh, it feels like it feels like it's all over
It's all over
Oh, it's all over
It's all over
Feeling alive
Gives me a reason
For never falling down
I'm in love right now and I can feel it
Baby hear me and never leave me
I'm flying over the world with gorgeous charms
And I feel it, I can breathe again
Touching skin to skin, I've felt alone
Baby let me in, just the two of us
And feel the love within
Let's keep running
Let's make believe
Keep it coming
You make everything
It's your need
My life
To love the future
You
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I'm not going to regard some of the Mizuki coming out there, too, and we saw some of
the weaknesses and strengths of these squads, right?
Some custom paid actors playing this game.
I thought VP was really interesting, as we were talking a little bit in the back about
how their game against Weibo, obviously the closest game of the day, but I thought they
actually looked really good and, you know, EMEA in Asia, right, the kind of two regions
now that are really, you know, ascended amongst, you know, our global regions and like, you
know, NA and China, these international now, just battle to see who doesn't go home first,
because EMEA and, you know, Korea are just so strong.
Yeah, I mean, Space Station gave me one of the teams that it was kind of sad to see how
they went out of the tournament, but you already said it, Ash.
was the games were such high stakes first to two in that first round in the upper
bracket and also in the lower bracket so two of our teams only really got to play
two matches and then they were out of the tournament I hope they have a great
time here in Japan though I hope they stay some extra days and you know just
enjoy the the surroundings and take it all in we certainly have to doing that
Matt what's your favorite thing so far I mean me and Danny hit at the crane
place a few times now we were like hey we got to keep these suga cards to get to
the venue in the morning. So I had a great time. The food has been unbelievable. Like
just everywhere you go, it's just top notch. Yeah, top notch Overwatch, top notch food,
top notch people, top notch desk talent. We got it all here in Tokyo, Japan. Let's talk
about our lower bracket because for these teams, it's on the pressure is on in order
to stay alive and make that lower bracket run. We did see both of RNA and both of our
Chinese teams falling to the lower bracket in the second seat of the respective regions
is already out of the running. So now we got Dallas and Weibo remaining. Yeah, Weibo, they're able to
repeat history from last year, knocking SSGO once again. I think that this is a squad that we're
looking at to be, you know, a bit more of a dark horse in this competition. Dallas Fuel, we didn't
really get to see them playing to their strengths as much. They did try that in their matchup the
day beforehand up against crazy raccoons, but overall it was tough, right? Like you saw Chorong
really taking the style that they wanted to emulate to them as well but we're
looking at a bit more of hopefully a comfortable start here for Dallas in the
lower bracket. Yeah I think Dallas is a team that could potentially go pretty far.
I think SSG look a really rough meta for them a rough bra. Webo just kind of doing
the Webo gaming special here you know they lose one round one they you know
what they somehow find themselves at the end. That's classic. They looked really
good in that second match. The thing that I was like pleasantly surprised we
we actually saw them make adjustments from their loss to VP to that game.
And I think that's the big thing for Wayvo Gaming is how impressive it was for them to
do that with such a short turnaround time in a day, in the first day of this Champions
clash, but not just that. Again, in those first to two series for every match for day
one, you don't have the opportunity to take those adjustments map for map as much because
the series aren't going to be as long.
Yeah, also some teams just really had a tough draw in their first match and they kind of
went in with the expectation that they may or may not be fighting their way through the
lower bracket after that first one. Let's talk about how the map pool affected us. We did see
Antarctic Peninsula back in the mix and it was pink yesterday. Penguins were spotted. We love it.
You had some nasty words to that penguin. Yes, a nasty penguin. That penguin looked filthy. If
someone watched the broadcast and said there's something. There's probably a lore. There's
probably a lore reason why he's dirty. There's got to be some lore. Maybe the other penguins are
early bullying him like we don't
have to make me feel bad.
The facility put a malfunctioned
and then he became dirty from
it. Okay. I'm just a horrible
human being. I guess you know
who's been bullied? Symmetra
banned out the most yesterday,
which honestly was a bit of a
surprise, especially because one
of that Symmetra bands came from
twisted minds themselves. Yeah,
I was kind of confused from that
because it didn't really seem to
impact the approach that they
were going to have in that
in that series right they may be a little bit of a throwaway band there
from twisted minds in that series up against all gamers but overall I think
that the bands are gonna look different heading into today yeah and some of these
bands like could be used to protect some of those like half-fashion different
type of looks right where I think today with the longer series it's gonna be
much different in terms of what we see in that band and even map selection
process yeah definitely first two three will change a lot heading into today
wear yesterday. Some teams might have been able to squeeze in based on hero bands and
map selections. So today, you know, they have to show what they got. They have to open more
pages in their playbook or rather than flip more pages. It makes so much more sense in
my head before it came out of my mouth. That's crazy. That's crazy. Now, I do of course also
want to remind everyone watching PSA drops because they two drops are different from
day one at drops. Now we got the Fuji Sun at daytime. Is that date? I guess it's daytime
or is like sunset? Have you actually connected your thing? Because you've read this about
that.
It's in the game.
And you're like, oh, I got you.
Look, look, look.
Oh, you actually are.
She's locked in.
I'm locked in.
You're forming in real time.
That's right. She doesn't lie on broadcast, Matt. Like some people, okay?
Well, she did up until like two days ago, but...
True. That's factually correct. No, but yeah, definitely make sure to connect your
to a Twitch account and start collecting now each day we have different drops and of course we also have a rerun
So in case the time zones are messing with your ability to like catch all the action
Don't worry. We got you covered all day and all night
And now speaking of coverage, let's take a look at today's schedule to see which games we have in store for you
We're kicking things off in the upper bracket with some absolute bangers
Twisted minds going up against crazy racoon and afterwards. It's gonna be set up
the game. We're going to be
playing against the V. P. And
of course we have Dallas and
Wablegaming into lower bracket.
What a way to open up right
like twisted minds versus crazy
raccoons. You know the crowd
is going to be absolutely
crazy, and I feel like that's
such a great way to start off
the second day of champion
flash as well, filling this
room with energy. It's like a
grand final Cal. Right? I mean,
these are the games we usually
see much later in the
tournament, but with the way to
kind of bracket, swallowing in
get here really early and Twisted Minds look the meta may not be exactly kind of
going their way but history does though like historically the last few
opportunities they played each other Twisted Minds had the upper hand they
won against them in the World Finals World Championship last year then once
again in the second they just won all the last year and then in the bootcamp
for one if you want to count the bootcamp is like a serious competition you
You can you cannot that's okay, but you're not just historically they did have the upper hand yes in a different meta
But like they showed us yesterday already asked that they they can pivot away from the cat's fashion
They can pivot away from the cat fashion
But it is up with a different caliber of an opponent when it came down to all gamers now
facing up against the pioneers of cat fashion a little bit of a different story that we already talked about how these
Hero bands are gonna make a really big difference in this matchup as well as the map selection
What direction are you kind of exciting here? I think they're gonna be a little bit more aggressive in terms of their fans towards some of that
Like half-fashioned type of stuff right there the higher seeded team
So they'll get the number one kind of like map selection for control and be able to kind of control bands here
I also think this is a series where like last year you may have been even a little bit more worried about
Twisted minds in this one, but you have J. Woo who can like play tracer
You can like it kind of takes them to another level which this is the type of game
You kind of get him for it to be able to play like a tracer in something that doesn't exactly maybe kind of favor tracer at the moment
But he can just dominate exactly now their opponents, of course crazy racoon
They are the originators of the composition that we see quite a lot of right now the cats the bastion and they've played
Really well yesterday not many cracks in their armor were showing in fact there were kind of I don't want to call it trolling
But they were certainly had some fun with it. I mean, yeah, I'm the zuki spotted for them as well as said
I still don't know if that's is that a bait other baiting us. What's happening? I feel like it's a little bit of the bait
I think that it would be funny if we saw it again
I don't think it would come out in this particular
That's for sure
And I think that the conversation of twisted minds already having been able to kind of be comfortable playing what they were playing previously
I feel like crazy raccoons. This is a team where we've also seen them be able to flex into different cons that aren't the cat bastion
You also have players like soccer who have been so consistent throughout the season so far and I think that the
Firepower on this spot is definitely going to be bringing it to TM. Yeah, but there's something with like how so he was talking about right?
That TM has won three straight games against CR
It's like starts to get in your head a little bit
International's like TM they probably even though they know the meta is not great for them right now
They're going up against the team that kind of like originated it that I know really kind of formed it
They still have to probably feel pretty confident because they're like hey
We've had this team's number over a numerous amount of series in maps at this point like a lot of those series were like first to
Force right? Yeah, so like they're beating them in extended series too
And they beat them even when they had to pivot away from the Symmetra meta at the time right so they were able to actually
You know played different things into crazy racoon and still have the upper hand
So it wasn't gimmicky was like straight up honest honorable
overwatched it they were playing against him so if we're looking at predictions
for this one I gotta be real like I personally oh I'm gonna go TM because I
think yesterday I showed us that yes when they played the Cat Bastion like it
didn't look great as soon as they switched away from it and played into
their strength it looked phenomenal and it is really hard to band them out with
here about because the individuals in the back line in the front line they can
just kind of play it all still, right? Like quarts, like whether it was on a Freya, on
a Cassidy, on a Sojourner, like it doesn't really matter. Like they can still pop off
like that. Like I have a lot of faith in them to do really well. Also, I really like your
jerseys. You know, you know, the buyer, new jerseys, kind of popping off. I'm available
to get one, to say. I'm a potential wearer of the jersey. I can't be a candidate. No,
I'm really feeling pretty good
about their chances despite the
middle. How about you? I think
you should, but I'm not going to
agree with you this time around.
So yeah, I'm so sorry. I am going
to be going with crazy raccoons
for my prediction for this one. I
think that you talking about the
flexibility of the backline is a
great point, but I've also got my
eyes on the fact that we've seen a
lot of flexibility in the different
gameplay styles from crazy raccoon.
This backline we saw them in
yesterday's matchup. They were
happy to take that aggression to
DF, especially on that a little
especially on that Alari pick there for Chorong versus a team who have a bit more of a passive
back line. They like to play that supportive role a lot more and I think that that's something
that crazy raccoons could take advantage of. Those are all extremely valid points. In a rare
occurrence, I'm going to agree with Sally and I'm going to take Kristen by it. Uh-oh, that's
cursed. Is this cursed? No, I just believe they're going to figure out a way. I think like when you
are a team that have had the success that they've had recently, like you can kind of take that
confidence and do crazy stuff with it and I think that like the gap between these two teams is like
not that large that like they're just going to kind of like you know roll over and CR is going to
like dominate where I think that with the longer series being able to kind of can you know decide
this first game on control I think team's going to pull it out. Yeah now let us know in chat who
you think is going to have the upper hand regardless of who is winning this one the loser will just
just drop into the lower bracket and get another run for the title.
Yeah, the loser just has to play for their tournament lives a little bit later, that's it.
Yeah, I'm playing all!
Yeah, the loser's just almost going home.
But the storyline is way cooler if you're coming from the lower bracket.
Crazy Raccoon has done it before, they can do it again.
Look at me, just already predicting TM once again in that very sentence now.
Before we get into the action, we are heading into a very quick break,
and when we come back we have some very important World Cup news for you,
We don't want to miss it, don't go anywhere, we should be right back.
I
Hello everyone on stream, in the venue and around the world, today we're going to do
a little bit of some new reveals for the Overwatch World Cup 2026 and for that
we have a special guest from Blizzard the director of eSports for Overwatch
Fernando how are you doing today Fernando? Doing good thank you Gavin I'm very
happy to be here with our Japanese fans. Awesome well take it away. So you know
the Overwatch World Cup is extremely exciting this year we've had teams
qualified through conference cups and also all three past championship
winners are in the tournament.
This year's Overwatch World Cup is really exciting.
Of course, all the winning teams from the last tournament are here,
and a lot of strong teams are coming from the Conference Cup.
We also have some incredible new teams competing in the tournament,
like Pakistan, who are looking to make Overwatch Esports history
by making it all the way to the group stage.
And this is the first time that a team has come to us.
For example, it's the first time that Pakistan has come to us.
We want to make a history of a group stage
that we can add up to the online event.
So, what's next, Fernando?
Our main tournament is officially kicking off with the online qualifiers.
So let's have a look.
The
online qualifiers are here. You'll see Asia holding their qualifiers May 29th through the 31st
and the Americas and EMEA will be holding theirs from May 30th and the 31st to June 6th and June 7th.
We're also extremely excited to celebrate the return of the Overwatch World Cup with a fleet of drops.
So Fernando, what drops are you most excited for?
I would say probably the watch party spray and the eSports loot box.
The eSports loot box gives me a chance to catch up on some items that I've missed throughout the season.
The next couple of weekends are going to be very exciting for us.
So here are the groups from around the world.
So what group are you looking forward to the most?
America's B for sure. I mean this group is extremely exciting. I can't imagine what two teams are going to be making it out of it, so just very excited for that.
So just remember follow overwatch e-sports and follow your favorite teams on their social
I know they are no overwatch e-sports offer to stay so she's gonna team over as an S.L.A.
For us to decide and to make it even easier to show your conference pride
We have some awesome skins to show so she's gonna skin a conference or a part pride or more
They should be certain I know I don't know a ton of a Tennessee skin more release is still in mass
Get ready to show that pride and you know these skins are going to come available this Tuesday
May 26th at 11am Pacific.
I'm sure you'll be able to find out what you like about the game.
Each of the games will be available in Japan at 3am on 27th May.
Is there anything else you want to cover?
Yeah, thank you for asking. We actually have one more announcement to make.
After...
Oh, there's one more announcement.
After online qualifiers, our team will be taking the Overwatch World Cup to Busan.
In August, our top 16 teams will be arriving in Korea.
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Welcome to Tokyo.
the minds taking on Crazy Raccoon and what is shaping up to be potentially, we hope I
guess one of the most competitive cross regional matches we've yet to see here in the champions
clash Johnny.
This tournament is scaling up quickly Jake.
Day two already and we're about to witness, probably the best match we've seen so far
this tournament.
Two teams that are hopeful to make the top three here at the champions clash.
Twist in minds, I'm praying Jake, I'm praying that this is a good one because as much as
This crazy raccoon team Falcons was peaked 2024-2025.
This could potentially be a two-team tournament after this very matchup.
Twisted Minds yet to see how they fair against these Korean teams in a new meta.
Everything shaping up for Crazy Racoon and Zeta, you know, really hometown turf for these
two organizations, two Japanese organizations, to just run away with the tournament.
Twisted Minds, they're still the current world champion, but it doesn't feel that way considering
that this is a meta built and developed by these Asian teams and one that they're expected
to win on.
So, for Twisted Minds, the ball is in their court.
How are they going to innovate?
How are they going to adapt?
It's going to be the name of the game because Crazy Raccoon always keep their opponents
guessing.
Yeah, definitely the underdogs going into this one.
But you got to put some respect under your name.
We always talk about how talented the Twisted Minds roster is from top to bottom.
The tanks, the damage players, and the support players.
But looking forward to see how someone like Fanny Astro adapts to this meta, I've seen
said yesterday that I think this is a bit of a main support tournament because I
think that these jetpack cat players they have unparalleled amounts of impact
in positioning their bashing correctly and making sure that your hits can
player can really deliver because quartz usually an elite player on this roster
that has so much impact especially in the world finals taking over games as the
soldier player he doesn't really move around as much anymore it's up to the
jetpack cat to put quartz in a position to succeed it's interesting because you
look at both funny Astro and quartz and their players that you really want to
have kind of unleashed in their own right to be able to make place, whether it's the
Lucie or the Hard-It scan.
And this is a meta that asks the two of those players to both make sacrifices, to come together,
to form a single unit, really, an entire cohesive team.
Meanwhile, the rest of the match is often incredibly chaotic, and so I think in a LAN
environment, it's a true test of a team's ability to communicate and adapt on the fly.
One that I think is not impossible for Twisted Minds, but historically, they have played
much more grouped up, you know, coordination comps, where Crazy Raccoon looked very comfortable
in these kind of chaotic dive matches.
Yeah, and Crazy Raccoon as well, I think that they are kind of defining this meta really
well when we look at Celerdivision, which is the number one seed in Asia.
They have a bit more flair to them, Violet Shoe, they can wake up and say, we want to
play the Ellori, we want to play the Baptiste, we'll shake things up a little bit.
I think Crazy Raccoon so far, because they've had to pick up players like Vigilante to fill
the shoes of shoe and stalker getting more playtime over lip they've kind of
play more default they play the meta without as much flair as we take a look
at here at the bounce Jake pretty surprising Johnny this is a Winston
band I mean Winston just not a hero that I think has looked good at all in this
meta I mean with a lot of Mauga and Bastion being played Reaper as well you
know a lot of conventional Winston counters are very much in the meta but
still Twisted Minds gonna get rid of that first I think they're probably saving
some of these more impactful bands remember now they're in that first to
format teams get a little bit more time to stretch their legs and get into the series
So you really want to look deeper down the pipe and I think that's what twisted mines are doing with this opening band
Yeah, and it looks like they've been second as well as EMEA number one seed here
Crystal can go to ban out the Cassidy and so both of these bands kind of tell me that maybe twisted mines
We're looking for a more Lucio Cassidy kind of approach
Which we have seen some teams do when they don't want to match that just pack cat and try to maneuver again
around the outside angles of this Ilyos map.
And I think this is going to be a matchup, Jake,
where both of these teams are going to feel each other out,
see what they can bring when it comes to different kinds
of compositions.
What can we learn from this matchup as we get deeper
into the tournament?
Definitely.
And opening up on Ilyos,
and it's a surprising choice, you know, for TM
and in the world, this is crazy Raccoon's comfort zone,
right?
Historically, these Korean teams have looked like Ilyos
is their best map by far.
I think they might be a little bit surprised as well, frankly, on the roll up at TM.
Cueing up, they might just go pound for pound in the Cat Bastion Mirror.
A win here would really just flip the script on this match and put Crazy Raccoon on their heels.
Yeah, that would be very surprising if Twisted Mines were able to match Crazy Raccoon, but they are the reigning world champions.
This is an early opportunity, Jake, for Twisted Mines to get a grasp on how they fare against a team like Crazy Raccoon.
Is this a composition we can rely on in a deeper as this tournament progresses?
Or is this maybe a composition that we'll have to abandon for our best chance of winning this very tournament?
Jundbin's going to play his iconic signature wrecking ball, and this is something they'd like to do in combining He-Sang with Jundbin.
Try to put pressure on the backline of Simple.
Fashion forms traded, now Tracer's poking, prodding, looking for any advantage.
None found just yet, Jundbin in the back, having a bit of opportunity to work now.
Putting some pressure on, takes a lot of damage in the trade, but actually slams over the wall and rolls out, so he's doing just fine.
TBNT, though, finds Vigilante, left alone and on to one of the difficult parts about this comp,
protecting the on often, she goes without resources, but it will cost TBNT his suit.
Yeah, Jay was peeling for his team right now, so that was TBNT completely alone getting the job done here.
Both teams kind of brawling, contesting this point right now.
It's up to the Tracers, the D.O. players, can they find any of these picks?
Oh, first clip does come in, TBNT.
Low on the baby D.Va, does go down to he's sang, but Jumbin loses almost all of his HP in the process and Quartz!
Find stalker crucially winning the duel in the sky now cat-bashing for twisted mines able to rain down terror from above
He's saying desperate now looking for something anything to bring his
First
No cool as an album for jaybou is crazy looking to fight back in this one simple under a lot of pressure
Suzu is course and this looks like crazy raccoon
Going to win this very fight what's still a baby baby all the drop
Oh, it should have been crossed back up. Saved by the team, but Quartz still running rampant on the point.
Turned form force, they're trying to definitely finish him off with Funny Astro.
They're coming up with the heals, perfect peel to keep the Bastion alive into the artillery form as well.
Clearing the minefield, staying alive, and finally both Bastions off, but this whole time, the point ticks up for Twisted Minds.
And Jentini fights another frag onto Simple here. Vigilante is going to get close to that Nano as well, Twisted Minds.
Twisted Minds, just building percentage, it's very moment, but with the funny asterisk down, the sustain is gone, and this should be Chris Raccoon flipping the point any moment.
An absolute tour de force for Jon Bin. A score of kills already on this match. He's got what, 8-9? I mean, a disgusting performance on Wrecking Ball still.
Twisted Minds, the incredible staying power on point, puts them in pole position to close out this first round.
So, percentage.
No room for mistakes now.
No room for mistakes whatsoever, and Stalker already putting a lot of pressure on the Twisted Mines here from these guys, but Jilanti has this non-abuse as well.
So, Kraserokun, we're going to look to find an opportunity here to put pressure on the Twisted Mines.
Twisted Mines are so split right now, you have two people come back from putting the point.
Pano comes out, it's on the Heasing unconventional in this matchup, but the Katsune Rushroom's simple TD&T pressure on the point gets the flip through.
Adivabon looks like pulled off the map, TD&T popping them to stay alive, Jumbe with the slam, takes down J-Woo.
and finds another one to court!
Junbin does it all!
Popping off here on the wrecking ball.
Plistomized it, we're in financial fifth to pointer actually.
So 75% uncounting, still doing a good job
just playing the objective here for now.
So Krazy Raccoon, they end up winning the fight,
but only at 30% so far.
Really fantastic play from TM, getting these flips in the mid-fight,
meaning Krazy Raccoon has to work so hard
to move the needle on this objective.
Junbin's doing everything he can,
It's not really translated into advantage on the map just yet.
Gotta look out for the dive here.
Peace sign.
Go sun early!
Oh!
Tool in the sky.
Heels coming up.
Simple.
Great awareness to keep his Bastion alive now.
Opportunity.
Four quarts to push forward.
A minefield.
Fourth out of the point.
Just to hold on to this contest.
Beautiful positioning there from J-Roo.
And a double flank gets him to the pack now.
He's in on top of J-Lanny.
Tracer comes back trying to peel this run up.
But this makes a lot of space for Twisted Mines now.
Seizing control of the skies.
They're just playing so well positionally here.
Funny after this is going to go down,
there's a lot of sustain out here for Twisted Minds.
See if they can fight the pick here.
Try to keep up in this very fight.
Ball spawns out, Fjord supports to the artillery.
Making space, but as you've mentioned,
the cap does go their way.
Jundven finds another group off.
Unstoppable on this wrecking ball.
Still, Twisted Minds in control,
playing with the house cash right now.
Trying to potentially finish this fight,
but it seems that Jundven has done a little bit too much
and needs to clean this one up,
has a new chord, 99, and he's saying, hold up!
Wow!
Bunny Astro with one, TD and T with another!
Quasaraku, Nano on stalker, in desperation!
Will it be enough German knees to find something else
in this fight where they find the flip and the chaos?
Three versus three right now, on to the point.
A lot of hell here for Quasaraku and Steele.
J-Woo tries with pressure, push ball!
Huge pulse from J-Woo, and German is low as well,
twisted minds battling back into this simple,
on the road back, on the war path,
looking to drop this Katsune rush and contest the point.
a pull off the map goal would be deadly and it finds PBNT.
Beautiful bike so wrong.
Protecting the opportunity for CR.
Stalker back on the reaper.
Looking to brawl this one out.
Quartz looking left, right and center,
but all he finds is the post bomb.
Twisted mines now out of gas on this first checkpoint.
Just a stagger from J.Boo to hold on,
but crazy raccoon through the fire and the flames.
Somehow they get this first round gone.
What a way to kick off this series.
All right, 99 to 96 percent, Twisted Minds,
doing a fantastic job playing the objective there.
Giving themselves a win condition,
but Cracer or Coon, they're just too much.
The mechanical prowess, securing those picks,
winning a lot of those fights,
while Twisted Minds focused on the objective.
This is incredibly well done.
I mean, it comes down to these tiny moments,
these death match fights.
I really feel like you gotta give that
first round to Jon Bin, though.
But if there's one individual, it's the wrecking ball, constantly staying alive, even in the
fights.
And he's played the strategic game immaculately well, tons of flips, just from the pressure
they put down on the point, but Jun Bin gives it back in speed with the individual prowess
on wrecking ball.
Yeah, so we head over to Rulins here, it's going to be a neutral fight, so look out
for these bastions.
Usually you see one big commit in these aerial duels, of course, when he's up over to the
the form, that's when a lot of damage comes online.
This is about picking your opportunity here,
so if the Tracers can open things up,
that's too simple, actually.
This could be the time to strike for Chris Raccoon.
Here it go.
Choice with a lot more fighting power alongside the D.Va,
and Cortes finds an A-connection.
Andavigilani, is he gonna go down, though?
Punishment attempted by Crazy Raccoon,
but the cap fashion combo is separated and cut to pieces.
Just in mind, finding the first two kills in the fight,
certainly gonna hold on to this point
and grab the first capture as well.
These are fantastic signs for Twisted Mind's fans right now.
The way they're staying competitive in this one,
as they retreat towards the objective here,
Crazy Raccoon, just trying to get a couple of picks here
and there, Churrong does pick out Fonny Astro,
but Twisted Minds are looking really impressive here, Jake.
And Johnny, on ruins, the honest walkup
is a lot more fraught, all right?
Now on Lighthouse, you know,
you can pretty reliably get up to that high ground
and start putting down damage,
finding opportunities for those Bionates,
but on ruins, every step is fraught with danger.
Yeah, I gotta keep an eye on J.Boo here.
As he's on, put some pressure on the Quartz.
Torret form is forced out as well as the Seusser,
so a lot of pressure on the Twisted Minds here.
Simple, on slivers of HP, beautiful peel from funding Astro,
just barely keeps his Turret go alive, but not for long.
Shocker finds one, the pulse bomb is out.
Not needed though, as Junven's slam takes down Quartz.
Now Twisted Minds just trying to hold on to this point
for everything that he can.
J.Boo finding that kill on the Vigilante
just injects just a little bit of possibility into this fight, but he
saying shuts that down. Yeah, great execution by Cracer or Coon. Getting on
top of force there, maybe identifying that the Bastion was a little bit out of
place and one second is enough for Cracer or Coon to capitalize accordingly
as they try to set up quite aggressive here with the wrecking ball with the
tracer. Vigilante is coming up on that nano, but it's gonna have to build it
quickly at swiss demilines. Look to re-engage with five of us. Holding forward
on the high ground.
Junbin though, taking a lot of pressure in this trade from J-Woo.
And with the slam out, there's an opportunity for Twisted Minds to step up, put some pressure
on the point.
A massive bank of open forms, and Nano comes out to open the fight, he's saying, into the
back line, being a sacked from all sides.
But TBNT with the Matrix, minimizing his impact as well, the Katsune rush on point, gives
Twisted Minds an incredible base of firepower from which to fight.
Junbin's slam comes in, but where's the value from it?
Stalker takes down Funny Astro, Codron cleans up, of course, even the artillery armor is
not enough but a three on three on point still winnable for either side.
They will cataclook in here, three versus three, good post bump,
Jutri is going to peel away so for the time being, just remind a lot of pressure
on towards the point here, Riko forced by Heislein, 25 for quick.
Big pulse onto Simples shutting down some of the heals for TM and with point
in control of CR they're trying to desperately hold on to it get that
extra percentage of duel in the skies the cat trade is good for funny Astro though
who shuts down Tauron looking for that desperate trade. Vigilani over to the
Here we go in self now sees the value in the ability to brawl out in these low numbers
And it can't be understated how much TV and T is doing here on this diva
The peel is perfect for course with the defense matrix and able to sustain throughout these fights
Giving an opportunity to the likes of J-Woo to come up clutch
58% in ticking air for twisted minds as a big swing is coming through here for Chris racoon
It's a big move a tool in the skies, but it looks like course has the better
Support comes in a deep move a desperate one
I dare say for Crazy Raccoon and with losing the bash in this early TV and T self-destructing the rematch
They're in Paul position to move toward 99
He sang finds up against a J-Boo a lot of pressure up to funny as well
Beast this is the way these competitions are playing very broadly back and forth always looking for me to get a pick
No recall. He's going to be okay for now
Huge that he stays alive a little bit off-sync now with Junbin
He's saying steps back up to the plate just in mind may need to yield the capture control for now
They're forced to now the opportunity for the repush.
Jundbin is low, TDNT steps up, holds the corner, but with a third form out,
there's an opportunity for Quartz to put the pressure down.
Jundbin tries to drop the minefield to slow things down,
but with Katsune rushes traded on point, it's anybody's game.
The next kill could very well decide this.
And Jundbin, he finds Quartz first with a fashion down.
Twisted mines running low, TDNT finds one, but really it'd be enough.
They need yet more.
And Funny Astro doesn't own the cat.
Shots down Heezing without DPS.
Can't see our battle back into this.
Twisted Mines got this, Quasarocoon dropping very low at the minute and Jaewoo coming back into this fight.
They should be able to stabilize here, 11% though.
Quasarocoon should be able to regroup here.
Both tracers with a pulse from here, Jake.
He's saying it's almost a necessity.
He needs to find something, but with Bastion up in the air, your targets are so limited here.
Desperation for the tracer.
Twisted Mines turning, healing.
And with He's saying force to recall, he's already in dire straits.
The Turf one comes out on point the cleanse saves him for now great support from see our bit of cost which you land in his life now
He's saying pulses out, but it's on to TV and T with self-destruct ready J. Woo now looking for those punishers trying to shut down
The enemy turn to drink when he can in the face of course with course remains healthy standing tall strong on this point
The self-destruct right space and time but the Astro stays alive and it seems a crazy raccoon
Struggle and fail to find a finish on round two
Twisted mines, closing things out here in ruins.
Going to force a third round.
Jumping.
Doing a good stalling pressure for now, but surely not.
Just dribs and traps.
Coming back to the point.
Jungman has another touch in him, but Quartz, comfortable in this back high ground position.
Bastion untouchable.
J-Woo does die to Vigilani.
Some possibility, but the numbers are just too low.
The playing really calm composed here.
Twisted Minds, can you have their Thib really well? You can see the difference in style.
Chris Raccoon at times, they're going for very wild swings with this bastion. You can see they're
hard committing, going in with the extra speed boost from the Jetback Cat and then hoping that
stalker finds that extra pick. Meanwhile, like Twisted Minds, they're sitting back, they're
rotating around the map really well and playing around TVNT's defense matrix and this slower,
more composed approach is working out for Twisted Minds so far. I feel that so much is asked of
of Junbin and he saying in this style, right?
You know, TVNT, what he'll provide with the matrix,
with the defensive utility of a self-destruct
to reset his health, incredibly consistent,
incredibly valuable.
But Junbin, that X factor, that unknown,
can sometimes be where championships are won,
the willingness to gamble, to take the risk,
to trust a player.
But will Jun be able to find it?
Knockoffs abound here on Ilyos well.
Historically, a chaotic map,
The duel of the skies already begins.
Quartz looking for that tracking advantage.
TBNT up in his face though is going to mitigate the outgoing damage from Stalker.
Both teams looking to reset here for the time being.
Jhinven trying to get into a good position here.
Going to knock Simpel. Forced a teleporter actually.
This could be an opening here but Jhinven forced a withdrawal.
Both teams taking their time for now.
Lot of pressure on the extremities.
Hissing takes a big shot to the face.
It's going to slow him down.
Send him back looking for a health pack.
TBNT, forcing the issue on this point, you've got to stay contesting lest you give up the flip early.
J-Woo, without recall, playing with reckless abandon here on the flank takes heavy pressure from the Japanese just out of gas.
Riko on half a second cooldown, but they find the kill.
TM now desperate looking for the trades, but Crazy Raccoon denied.
The re-kill's in the fight and soon to be more.
A simple error from J-Woo, capitalized on, no cooldowns available for the recall or the blink.
And that alone pick is enough for Quasaracun to secure that very first fight.
And now, Junbin already with mines up here.
And maybe pick a spot here where he'd like to leave them, make it difficult for Twisted Minds,
to wrap around on this high ground.
So much freedom for Junbin on this map.
So much ability to come in and hit the backline.
Simple though. Already under attack. Cleanse is out.
Out of answer. Stalker into the form.
In the form, Quartz maybe with an opportunity though to punish and Twisted Minds need to
seize any chance that they get now, swarming forward inside the Lighthouse, Quartz, over
the top of the Bastion, but Junbin already sent it into the back with the Minds, a beautiful
tracking from Quartz, but it's not enough, the artillery provides the help to keep Stalker
alive.
This is the timing for Twisted Minds, they dropped the Kitsune Rush, but they couldn't
find any value.
In any minute now, Quaster Raccoon are going to turn the fights momentum here, and with
a pick up to simple, this is all of Quaster Raccoon in this one.
and Jun Bin seems to have been warranted.
Stalker fighting simple, takes the legs up and under,
twisted mines, and he's saying we'll finish them.
Finds the completion in the fight,
and in this one, it really has felt like a different story,
finally with room to work with,
on Ilios well, crazy raccoon,
taking it to the spawn doors right now, Johnny.
That was a massive fight, the twisted mines just lost there.
So much investment quartz,
temporarily only we're to make here,
but can't find the pick required
as they push Jun Bin back here,
and this could potentially drag on
To the very final fight here, Vigilante has to skip Soonerage.
Chris Raccoon can pick their timing here.
When do they want to deploy?
They kind of need to move fast, double support ultimate, available for Chris Raccoon.
Hold on, big damage into the backline, which soccer finds court.
Vigilante stays alive, into the backline with this Kitsune rush.
Self-destruct forced out.
Just trying to keep players alive.
So wrong, a slight misstep, cost him his life.
Still, it's not going to be enough.
Twisted mines need something more.
And in desperation, 95% of the clock, Crazy Raccoon, hunting kills, hunting opportunity,
wanting to take this first map against the World Champs.
Twisted mines, got nothing going for them in this one.
And Lighthouse, going the way of Crazy Raccoon, but also well here, looking to be theirs.
As they close things out, J.Will Quartz grew up in a quick succession.
And while it was competitive for a couple around there, Crazy Raccoon, they come out on top.
Massive signs of light from Twisted Minds in the Jetpack Cat comp,
but Crazy Raccoon making it to that third and decisive round on Ilios Well
with the Chunbin Wrecking Ball and the Heesang Tracer is not a place
you want to find yourself on the other side of the server from.
What a great first map in this series, the showcase of style between both teams there.
And Twisted Minds did well with the Diva composition, but that one failed engagement
where they couldn't secure any value with the Katsunorosh.
It kind of just allowed the Kresgerokun to get away with things on that third and final round.
Now they get the opportunity to get the map pick and the first ban.
See what they want to do in this one.
Do you want to keep playing the Jetpack Cat?
Is this a matchup you're pretty happy with?
And I would be pretty happy with it if I'm twisted, mind's here, Jake.
But you take this opportunity to maybe force something like a new junk city, a circuit reel,
One of these very one-sided, one-dimensional kind of maps
and force a different pale style.
You always have the opportunity in this best of five
to break this Jetpack-Cat Bastion combo.
And it's something that you look at a player like Quartz,
and it's hard to argue with it when he wants to go that way,
when he can pull out a more conventional hit scan
like the Sojourn.
You'd be hard-pressed to find an opponent who can really
stand tall against him.
Stalker, though, for his part, from what
he's seen from him in this tournament, it has been deadly.
I mean, he has been shooting back in the worst kind of way when he plays these core hitscans like Cassidy.
Yeah, he's really wanted to commit to this hitscan role for a while now and gets the opportunity to do so here on this crazy raccoon roster.
Of course, replacing Lip, who is currently the substitute for Crazy Racoon.
It's been an adapting phase for Crazy Racoon, and obviously they've adjusted extremely well to this new meta,
coming their way, making things a little bit easier for them after a rough start to the year.
And this is maybe Twisted Minds thinking about, okay, you look really good in the Jeff Pack
hat composition, but maybe we can beat you with way for some kind of Lucy or Juno Brick style.
They have a lot of opportunities, a lot of tools in the toolbox. And so for
Stalker, you mentioned this is a test for him as a player and it's gonna get difficult.
Gotta get harder before it gets easier. It's Twisted Minds. I mean,
I think what they've shown is that they do not go down without a fight. And you look back to
this first round. Very easily could have gone the other way and we would have been looking
at a 2-0 for Twisted Minds. I felt strategically on Ilios well, the Wrecking Ball looked like
drastically stronger, but on the first two maps I was with you. I believe the D.Va looked
incredibly good, so I don't think it was crazy for Twisted Minds to go here. I mean, I was
a little surprised by the Ilios pick, frankly, against the Korean teams, against a team like
Crazy Raccoon. I mean, this is where they're most comfortable. Twisted Minds very nearly
took it to them in two rounds. Yeah, I think the CELO division are watching this map and putting a
lot of respect on Twisted Minds' names. Like, all right, we weren't familiar with Urelio's game
because it's always been the Korean teams go-to map, the way they've been dominating
MEA in North America on a map like this. What a stick. I mean, he's singing in Jyunbin.
I really respect Twisted Minds for how well they performed in this one because of the level of
coordination required to navigate around the wrecking ball from Jyunbin and he's
sang on that tracer as well. The fact we're able to stay alive that initial engagement with the
the defense matrix and then turn things around, allowing for the time to get the
picks required with the Bastion. I think it's very impressive from Twisted Minds
because we know we're familiar with Kreiswarkun, we're familiar with their
with this kind of style from them and how good they are playing the Ranking
Bo-Kong. And there's individuals on this team right you know that they've cut
their teeth I think as you know some of the best rush players in the world but
bringing on an upstart superstar like J-Woo you know just gives them an
incredible versatility look at this look at that recall that is insanely close
I mean that's the kind of margin that crazy racoon are playing on they're
punishing you on a quarter-second recall cooldown that's just the level of play
that is required to reign as champion here in Tokyo and that's like what a 30
40-second skirmish both teams going back before trading abilities Choron we
don't I mean a little bit of a slip up a little bit of a slip up well it's kind
scary because if he just drops it then maybe he put his team in danger and so
you want to get it to a good spot yeah excited hazardous waste disposal bring
this off the map there's no one needs to worry about that it's so tilted if the
jetpack I just said like okay I'm gonna drop the bomb here cuz I don't want to
die and then like wait what about me though so I'm either so Chorong you
know you have to pick and unfortunately gonna get away in time max subs in which
which says to me, you went beyond with the Circuit Royale idea here.
I mean, Max, typically I think we see him come in for these very heavy, committed, off-tank style maps.
And I don't know what else in the pool is really going to go that direction other than...
Chris Raccoon or gonna... Chris Raccoon? Like, the Max-Janvin thing has been ongoing
dating back to the San Francisco Shock days.
But we've seen both of these tank pairs, they get some playtime each.
Mauga has obviously been a really popular tank to play as well in these kind of compositions,
the way you can overrun into very tight corridors, then stay alive using the cardiac overdrive.
Of course, you also have some extra damage output onto the enemy, Bastion, enemy Jetbackat,
if you are playing with Mauga's longer range guns, as we're going to Rialto here for Twisted
Minds, very interesting.
That is kind of a Jetbackat, Bastion kind of map.
It seems very possible, I mean, it also seems like a place where you could opening band
Bastion asked for spines and say all right stalker you've looked you've looked impressive
You know you you've you've beaten many a team many a team on the warpath that it took to qualify here as a number two
See from Asia, but can you handle the courts widowmaker on a map like Rialto?
Not many players could pass that test in the world
You know, please Drake the course with a major like
Often but I mean opportunity alone like if I were to resign minds
I I'd be wanting to take it there when it comes to you know
What kind of a player are you really going to give the ball to in a crucial map like this?
You know and in a first to three this second map
I think is maybe the most important map in the series if you drop this here you go down to oh
It's an it's like a monumental test to come back in the series
But if you hold the line you even the score at 1-1 you make your mark here as a team that will not fold easily
Could change everything
Could change everything indeed
As we talk about Max here played against Dallas Fuel yesterday when Dallas Fuel tried to play that double flex support composition
And maybe that's a point to be made to that by picking Rialto
You are denying the possibility of Chris Raccoon taking you to circuit Rial later on in the series
And if I'm twisted mines
Yeah, we can put some respect on Faniasra's name
But I'm probably more scared of a Churrong Vigilante kind of double fixed support lineup than I am of twisted mines
And so not only do we get the pick here of Rialto as an escrow might, but we're also denying possibility of circuit real
Yeah, I love the Bastion ban here
You know deploying it obviously takes you out of what has been the dominant meta choice of this tournament
And I think it also protects the widowmaker which I genuinely think is a reasonable ban
If you if you get the chance to against Quartz on this map
They'll already taking it away
I think it mitigates some of the most dangerous threats in a Widow comp.
When there's an Alari watching the flank on top of a Widow, it's like a long side, right?
You think we're going to see it?
I'd say it's 10-1, I mean almost certainly.
This has to be Widow here, for me, at least on first point.
Maybe you swap, you know, second.
I feel like we haven't seen Widowmaker in so long that I'm kind of a little bit in denial.
I mean, we had some big Widowmaker metas in the past where we just let the hitscan players do their thing.
Venom has been buffed hugely.
And you got to remember at this level of play, it's actually really significant on a map
like Realty because, like, first point, there's no real way to get to the Widowmaker, other
than crossing the sight line.
There's that one long hallway to high ground, right, and you're defending first point.
But the Benamite, there's so many places it could be.
It's incredibly hard.
It's tracer to blink past every doorway, waste your CDs, and on top of that, you're
going to meet resistance before you get to Quartz.
Like, it isn't just the Quartz show, right?
It's the entire team of failings around him.
I'm so all in on this. It's gonna look silly if I'm wrong, but that's all I roll Johnny. No, no
I fully believe in you Jake if you say that we're gonna get some widow maker
I'm fully locked in and I'd be so happy to see it
I'm thinking back to like
Birdring popping off on realto just taking over on maps like this like you said it's a very iconic
We don't make your map in that sense. You know the defense table you you got the sidelines onto the payload as you capture the first point
You can swing around the Riverside area as well and try to look for some off-angle shots
And so I would love to see the Widowmaker
I just would feel like we haven't seen it in so long Jake that I'm a little bit into disbelief
Yeah, I think it's an it poses an interesting question for crazy raccoon because in my eyes
You look at a player like stalker who has been a world-class flex DPS
Like he might be playing hitscan now
But there's no question about his ability to hold his own and and surpass many of these committed flex DPS players on
on the flanker. So you could come out with a double flanker set up and really try to push the pace,
especially with a lorry band. I could see something like that.
Be of interest to Crazy Raccoon. This is a real test for them. Mentally, like, how do they approach
a twisted mind who is, I think, one of the most devastating teams in the game right now
when it comes to these slow poke setups.
Let's see what kind of composition is Quasarucun's play here.
We've seen some of the Korean teams bringing out this Misuke look.
With that nerf to lose there, the Sunbearer being a little bit worse.
We've seen more teams being willing to flex over to the Mizuki, especially with the change as well to the ultimate,
down the gates for the Dictals, whether you're shooting in or out.
So this has been played around with, and I think yesterday, even some of the community were thinking like,
okay, well, this is not a real hero pick, but some of these guys are committing.
This hero is good. I think it's been good.
If people underestimate the power of aura, healing, AOE healing, it's hugely impactful.
It just doesn't give that obvious visual punch.
Just in mind, he's going to scout out the opposition, consider the way they want to approach this.
For now, holding the Zarya strap, we'll see what they actually commit to when they see the full comp from Crease, you reckon.
Yeah, this is such a difficult composition to break down as well.
I love that. Look at that for Chorong. Steps into the cart and teleports back.
Beautiful little micro stall.
J-Woo is going to swap over to the far line, so Polk is the name of the gager.
Bull's show run down to the low ground, he's getting a lot of cards off this Mizuki, love
the value there.
Stalker definitely is going to have his work cut out for him here on the gass and he has
to deal with J.Woo's far and Quartz's pressure from the Emory at the same time and he's
already getting low.
He's the main target.
Maywall does come out.
Hold on, catches TBMD.
Needs to get bailed out.
The cleanse is good but still has to back off off that one.
I think this is so scary because that wall is going to come up with me as far as Farnantho
gets picked here.
TBNT, just feel like he's going to be in such trouble trying to play this sariah
and he's kind of relying on Javel, of course, to open things up here with a pick.
And it's really difficult to do against a composition like this.
Still, even with that pick, Twisted Minds do not back off for a second.
They continue to fight for V5.
Absolutely fearless as Quartz takes a bit of hide-and-control, looking to work for a pick.
Emery, relatively uncontested here, which is not the sentence you want to be saying playing against Quartz.
Javel, in a bit of trouble here on the outskirts.
Gets run down, beautiful rotation there, assist on the stalker who shuts him down again, and now he gets deep into the backline on top of force.
Great move, but not great enough. And Mei into the backline, pulls a distraction, TVNT finds one on the counterplay, and the second beautiful finds on the Zarya is going to set this defense on its heels.
Despite the reset for Twisted Minds, their spawn is much closer.
already two minutes drained of the timer here as both teams starting to build up
that ultimate economy. Crazy Raccoon been very quick to build up five
ultimates here. Funny Astro. They only 60% on this song barrier. This should be
Crazy Raccoon with some good ultimate layering winning this fight but they're
letting the system might push the court quite a bit here. Matt's still getting a
lot of value on the flank. Shots down courts. Hainoon is out. Big grab with the
Misukiyo keeps them all alive!
The guy's sanctuary denies any kind of follow-up on that grab.
Twisted mines sent packing with two of their most important ults already deployed.
I feel like this is really convincing.
In the favor of Kresger Raccoon so far, yes, they used four ultimates there,
which is very important, of course, and getting value from this flux is going to be quite difficult,
especially as funny as to approach it to the sound barrier.
But the clock is quickly ticking here, Jake.
Twisted mines, not a lot of opportunities left.
Quartz needs to find something with his Override Protocol, needs to come over the top, already he's taking some damage.
Stalker in quick with the play, wants to kind of beat the punch for these ultimates.
But now Override Protocol turns, trying to clean out these opposition.
And they do shut down Stalker, but not before he finds his one.
Right Stalker, continue to put pressure on here.
TDMT, going to survive for now.
This is maybe when you're looking for a bit of an engage with Funny Astro.
It's going to be forced to hold onto this sound barrier to prevent Max getting value from the flux.
Still, these car just refuses to move forward.
Max dominates them on the Sigma.
Every time they come to Kadeski, he finds his punish.
And even TB and T-Fall, G-Boo, a desperation barrage for one,
but too little, too late in this fight.
Fork is going to substitute over to the soldier here instead.
One single rail could open things up here,
but you're looking at Kresgerokun, they're almost there
for another Kitsunorosh with 30 seconds left here,
twisted mines, running out of options
and making some desperation swaps.
TB&T, over to Ramatra here as well.
Joe Rang, it's like he's finding so much impact, almost untouchable on this Mizuki.
Talk with a little bit of room for more play, and he takes Gord's head off from range!
The peacekeeper rings out the beat, purely defensive from Funny Astro!
Stalker back in deep on the flight, the rush deployed as well!
They want to break the back of twisted minds with a quad-ticking low!
Simple, a rush from him though, keep players alive and then the fight.
J-Woo grabs that overtime contestant, sure there's still a fight to be played,
but into the Shanksuary is in a difficult place to fight.
So difficult, and as we're gonna walk up here,
Stalker has the dead eye as well.
J-Woo trying to peek.
Oh!
Funny asmode, reached out again.
He's so dialed but Quartz battling back,
needs to sit down this opposing hit scan.
Well, Hidun rings out, finds it smart.
TVNT is down, Max, pure domination on the cart,
sends Quartz running for the hills.
J-Woo desperately keeps this overtime and gets test,
but not for long.
From the court held at the first quarter, Crazy Raccoon came to win here in Tokyo.
So mentally crushing for Twisted Minds, so competitive on Elios, and so one-sided here
on Rialto.
And the May-Sigma composition with the Mizuki, it's real Jake.
Twisted Minds scrambling for answers and as the other teams look on, they're now thinking
what are their answers to try and take down this composition we've now seen from Chris
for Bakun and Senna Division.
We talked about the Quartz Widowmaker much wanted,
but now the hitscan duel seems to have decisively gone
in the favor of Stalker in that last round.
Sure, Quartz found big damage, but never able to really break open that hole.
Even when Fraser Bakun did back off, it was but for a moment,
and that golden box of victory is devastated and twisted mind as they roll out on this defense.
A monumental, almost impossible task lies ahead of him.
I mean, as you approach this defense, you're probably talking among yourself, thinking about what are our possible compositions here, how do we want to approach playing against this composition.
It almost turns more into a bit of practice here, as this Rialto is so very unlikely for Twisted Mines to win here.
I mean, it's such a solid composition because there's so much to stay in, obviously, Sigma has this poke tank, the Maywalls as well, very protective.
And the Sanctuary, because of its protective power, the way it negates all these portals for so long,
makes it so difficult to fight into, and so, SwissinMinds forced to look for answers here on how to take down this composition.
They go at the far once again. A lot of value for J-Boot of fighting this without a hitscan on the opposing side,
but a quick teleport under ensures Bajorak could have a strong position to move this payload.
To this in mind they really only have one flight no margin for error no
opportunity to give up a mistake quartz looking for an early pick that could
offset some of the pressure on his team I mean that's what it has to be right it
has to be quartz opening things up with a rail gun shot or J.Boo getting some
critical rockets.
He's gained! Jo-ron beautiful catch on to Astro. Lucio is down and so too the hopes of
twisted minds now dwindling quartz on a sliver of HP grabs a back and back into
the fight simple, battling for his life, has to teleport over to court, needs to keep these
players alive, but the cart rolls forward, Max does straight out his mech in the process.
Someone has to touch though, ZDNT will do it for now, but he sent claims to his ma'am,
and may step up on the cart as well, demanding a finish here on Rialto.
Crazy raccoon, will not be denied, nothing left in the tank for Twisted Mind, and the
2-0 Skipper is already on the deck!
Absolutely dominant here on Rialto. Twisted Mind's map pick.
They come out so strong. And this is what I talked about going into the series, Jake.
Crazy Raccoon. They're not messing around. They're not playing with Flare.
They're playing the best compositions in the game and they're looking to execute perfectly.
And that's what they did just there.
Stone-faced, twisted minds. Can't blame them.
But for Max, what a moment, right?
For a player who has often been doubted, let's just come out and say it, right?
People have said, you know, Junbin, you know, he's the player you want in in these crucial moments.
Are we sure Max can step up to the plate?
But he does. 11-0, untouchable.
His ability to never break on that defense secures the map outright.
Stalker with a masterful hitscan performance behind it.
But the ability to go to the May, something that very few players of that hitscan caliber would be confident to bring out.
So Crazy Raccoon doing something that makes them unique, that puts them in a league of their own.
And you can see they're starting to feel it, starting to feel the chance to knock the world champs to the lower bracket with extreme prejudice.
I mean, this could be a 3-0 against the current world champs.
Things have already shifted monumentally in the world of Overwatch.
I mean, they feel like a Terminator squad. They're laughing.
They're up 2-0, laughing, joking around on stage.
Just twisted minds, just probably feel completely hopeless after a map like that.
And like you said about Max, I mean, this is Coach Moon who's put a lot of faith into a player like this for many years now.
And fans, community, they've been doubting Max, questioning the fact that he gets so much playtime over Jönbin at times.
But this is the perfect kind of composition for a player like him.
And combining with the hyper flex player like Stalker as well.
Looking so scary, bringing out a composition like this and look, run day 2 out of 3 here Jake.
It's not like you have a lot of time to prepare accordingly, this is an upper bracket matchup, so of course through the mines, if they lose here, they drop down.
But if you're looking to win this tournament, not only do you have to figure out the Jetpack Cat composition, how can we take down the Korean teams playing that,
but you also have to figure out this Mizuki composition, what are our answers to something like that?
It seems like this Mizuki poke caught him completely off guard.
You also got to consider the support line for Crazy Raccoon, a player like Chorong matched
up with Vigilani.
I mean, Chorong's pedigree has a player, almost unique right here in terms of his winning
history on the main support.
Talk about somebody that you want in these clutch moments, that you need to shut down
the team like Twisted Minds.
He delivers here on Rialto, J-Bo and Quartz have eviscerated many an opponent before
But today, feeling lackluster in a fight like that,
one by stock, I mean the pure hitscan duel, right?
When it goes your way, you really have to start to ask questions.
It feels a strategic outplay combined with individual excellence.
An unstoppable combination.
Yeah, you almost need something drastic in a matchup like this one.
You're not a tank swap away.
You're not a hero swap away from breaking down this composition from Chris Rucun.
You almost think like, okay, Tristimus,
Are we gonna invest in some kind of Symmetra style here to try to flip the composition?
flip the position on the map to our advantage because
It is so groundbreaking that maybe you're considering, you know, you'll be waiting in the mix here
Wonder if that's the style that they need to practice. I mean, I'm sounding desperate, but but you should be you're absolutely justified
I mean TN fans around the world are feeling desperate right now. They're feeling the pressure crazy raccoon
And we're all over them in map 2.
And even things started to turn on round 3 of Ilios, right?
Like 100-0 control round.
Also pretty brutal.
Maybe an easier one to shrug off in a shorter map type.
But when you make that kind of a statement defense,
that's an obliteration.
This was the crucial map in the series.
This is the map 2.
You have your pick of the litter.
The rest of the pool is available.
You control the fan phase as well.
And that's the best you can do.
I mean, questions have to be asked right now.
Or to some mind, they're lucky that they find this match up in the upper bracket because
I'm already starting to wonder if there's any hope left for them in this series.
Yeah, this is a lot of information being revealed to either team here.
So, look to get better at this tournament progressives. This is usually how it goes, Big.
You know, you kick up a tournament, you think composition is meta,
and then day two, day three, you're starting to get a grip of what your opponents are doing,
what your composition changes to we need to make to put ourselves in a better position to succeed.
But this is just an absolute game breaker of a composition. We got our hands here with them, Misuki, Max, dominating on the D.Va and the Sigma so far.
And so we saw the map pick there. It's going to be King's Row here, four Twisted Minds.
Bastion Band is out of the way. You get the opportunity to deny a map like Numbani as well. King's Row. Makes a lot of sense here, I think.
I will say the good news, if you can get over this hurdle, if you can somehow get through King's Row and force a map 4,
the next two map types push Flashpoint, the map picks aren't that big of a deal, frankly, right?
It's not that crazy, not that game breaking, which of the two you get, I think New Jump City is quite a bit more enclosed than Suravasa,
but in the end of the day, Potato Patato, you can still kind of play the comps you came to play and you came to practice.
However, I feel like King's Row is a place where the same style we just saw in Rialto is absolutely viable.
Yeah, and even less room to work around it, right?
Those twisted minds are going to ban the Symmetra actually.
Chris Raccoon deciding to get rid of the Juno.
But to that point, I mean, King's Row, very narrow map, not a lot of room to operate with.
And so maybe we see J.Woo continue playing the Pharah, for example.
You want some aerial poke to try to deal with the composition that Chris Raccoon are playing here.
Bastion is going to be available. This is going to be Twisted Minds trying to
find something that kick starts the momentum going there away. But yes, I
think you can very much expect the main Mitsuya composition to come out once
more for Kreis Rakuunir. I feel like now it's GM who have to look at the
cab Bastion as a hopeful option for them, right? I mean, Ilios was much more
competitive. We saw great play. We are praising Twisted Minds for their ability
to go toe-to-toe. Maybe a place you need to double down here.
I mean this might also be a Jetback Cat Bastion map because there is a lot of aerial
verticality on the first point and also the second point you can play above the
buildings. That's why we seem so far at being played on this map recently, on the second
point. Because you can kind of like hover around the rooftop area, get some nice
rockets in. And so maybe the surprise element with Bastion Jetback Cat, you can try to do
something similar. Try to like play around the main Masuki composition because
because they don't have a lot of speed going their way.
We'll have to see what Twisted Minds decide to do here,
but the Symmetra is out of the mix.
The one hero they relied upon
secured the World Championship in November.
And for Twisted Minds,
for some of these players, for somebody like J-Woo,
to be surrounded by such veterans
with such a wanted pedigree,
as the rest of this Twisted Minds squad,
incredible pressure on him right now.
They got it locked in.
Oh, this is tech, right, by the way.
This is the tech.
You roll out this way with the Maywall so that the enemy never scouts you walking to
high ground.
If you take the conventional staircase, you have to show the enemy playing from that spawn
as J.Woo is almost certainly doing right now.
But taking this path with the Maywall, you're still ready to defend on time, but you don't
reveal the composition so Twisted Minds still don't know anything yet about what
they're facing. Every detail matters Jake. Every small detail matters.
Chris Raccoon showcasing why here. I love it. Now they'll see what they're up
against. Surely they discuss this. Surely they consider it. It's gonna be the
TVNT diva that is the reaction. Big conk down though puts Bastion in an awkward
spot. Immediate response though. Okay. Alright. That good enough. Twisted Minds.
overwhelming, finding two! I'll rock those wide from Max! And immediately, Twisted Minds back on the
board! An explosive attack from Twisted Minds securing those picks they couldn't get on Rialto.
And that's going to be a brilliant first point cap for Twisted Minds as they get the payload rolling
here on Kings Row. I said much was asked of J-Woo and he immediately delivers. Coming out with
a resounding cushion blast from the far off pushes Stocker out of position, I mean CR instant with
the reaction to try and play through the fight regardless, try to help this bastion, but it's
It's not good enough, Stalker preferring the mobility, the dynamism of the Cassidy, makes that swap for second.
And as they probably look to set up these alternate angles here, J.Woo up top,
and Quartz looking for any kind of sightline to hit one of these Railgun shots,
a lot of attention should be paid attention to TBNT on the D.Va here.
It's going to be under pressure from the Sigma with the Equation, but also Chorong with the change from the Mizuki.
Oh, out of suit!
Out of suit already!
That's painful, because simple as coming up on the Katsune Rush, TBNT needs to swap and quick.
They don't want to let Vigilani bridge the gap. They were trying to farm up that rush as quickly as possible.
But that pick is going to give a lot of time now for Vigilani to...
...match up potentially in the rush in the long fight.
Max already fights the rock with the Astro without the speed.
This attack could be neutered.
And Vigilani, 10% of the rush but may not even need it.
I mean that's massive. They just back off.
And now, it's a check up. Game window, huge rush!
Over the top, unexpected, shuts down Stalker, but it costs TVNT his life, assisting the play.
Max now, looking for the clean up, he's saying pitch land, he find their mark in the fight.
It's a long walk back for Stalker, but still the remaining four have proven themselves
to be formidable in these choke points.
And again, this is Twisted Minds, they're making place here as J.Boo stops over to the
Tracer temporarily here.
A lot of ultimates for the vote on Kraser or Coon.
This is a fight Twisted Minds, without some of their own.
Should look to drain the ultimate economy for Kraser or Coon here.
They are wisely waiting for Stalker, they know where their bread is buttered, now they step up with a maywall onto Point Quartz, stands tall in a risky position.
Flux comes out, really find the lift, only under the kerakal, but Stalker swings into the room, cleans up two, looking for more, and you might find man J-Woo!
Drops like a bag of rocks in Raccoon, straight to the spawn door now.
And so good for the ultimate economy from Chris Raccoon.
This is a team that is playing picture perfect right now.
So calm, so composed, not making any mistakes, not over-investing in ultimates.
Playing around, what twisted minds are doing.
To play proactively, try to make some place here.
See how they set up for this next one.
Of course, with an OC, but a rock-on to TDNT already puts the attackers on their heels.
It's desperate, but ask of him, and he can't find a single, like a guy's sanctuary denies the follow-up.
But immediately, CR move past that. They do not need the defense team.
Swarm forward, cleaning these attackers off of the map.
Another fight with Kraserakun just to invest the one ultimate and that pick is enough to turn the tide
But they can push up secure the remaining frags and drain some time off this time bank
Listen, mind you're gonna get back into this one with double support ultimate
But they need to secure some value to get this payload rolling at this time three minutes on the clock
The explosive attack on the first bottom a lot of margin in this fight rushes now exchange
Oh
And the TBNT has to drop the suit. J-Woo, though, finds one kill. Will it be enough leads yet more?
The Blizzard out from He-Sync rides a powerful base from which to fight.
The Wall denies the support from Quartz and J-Woo just out of gas in the back.
Crazy Raccoon, unstoppable in the brawl.
I'm not losing my mind, right? That was an A-Jax.
I think so.
That was an A-Jax. I'm not losing my mind, right?
8% of course, built up.
Over time, but losing it at Sombra is just absolutely devastating.
Devastating it, Twisted Minds, no support of us online anymore than Kroeser Raccoon continuing to dominate on this defense.
The rematcher could change things, needs to.
A chain denies TVNT his preferred retreat, starts over the power felt, takes down Simple.
TVNT fighting, trying to brawl, but it feels desperate, it feels minimal flux, held for Max.
And just two minutes remain.
In the last three, it seems that Twisted Minds have not made more than a few meters of progress.
Crazy Raccoon barreling towards a 3-0 finish in this series.
I feel like it's 2024 again.
This is the Crazy Raccoon that was dominating globally.
One of the best teams in the world.
And now, the way they're dealing with the reigning world champions,
it's just unbelievable.
A minute 40 on the timer here.
Four twists in a minute.
As they look to wrap around,
force has the overclock here.
But what hopes do you have to find picks,
I guess, a composition like the May 6th?
What a world we find ourselves in,
where the Quartz overclock.
No longer something to be asked for, T-Stalker!
Just too sharp on the cast!
Lucio cannot get away, TVNC finds one!
It's something to hope for!
May stays alive through the flux in the final year of opportunity!
Here comes the OC from court!
Jasper defined an opportunity for the team to believe!
Stop, Stalker!
Nice him!
Swings deep into the flank and takes the ball!
They are unbreakable, Quasaracun!
That disengages are perfect and re-engage
to make things difficult for Twist in mind.
stalker with an unbelievable performance on the cast to be so far and they've
held his second point now for what five six minutes absolutely devastating
soccer sees them coming no question about the approach now for just in mind
he's saying the blizzard could be devastating J. Will over the main sub
will it be enough to know every single time you step up to the plate you're
Badder, badder, and he wants more! Sight's on FUNNY ASTRO!
Look! He's hurt! One in between! J-BOO is down as well!
And so too, to the hopes of Twisted Minds, come crumbling down!
Minutes since they've last made meaningful progress on this map!
Praise to God, crushing the hopes of EMEA.
As they look to reclaim their crown this weekend here at the Champions' Clash.
Twisted Minds going to have one more engage.
FUNNY ASTRO, rebuilt the Sunbearer now.
J-BOO coming up on that blizzard.
This needs to be the fight.
Blizzard is perfect.
Fence comes out, it buys DMT a little bit of time,
but he still throws it once again.
Headshot follow-up is good.
Now, Stalker with high number quarter,
hold on, something to fight for in the overtime.
Desperation strikes, and twisted mines come up for air.
That's going to be the payload, continuing to push here,
and overtime spalls here for Quasaracoon,
with limited movement speed to get back into this fight.
It's a good point, Johnny.
One of the weaknesses of this comp is the rollout is incredibly slow.
No real movement abilities across essentially the entire team when it comes to desperation
recontest.
But they've held out so well I think they will have time.
He's already forced the ice block though, it's going to be hard to touch, Max is going
to have to do the honors.
I'm way well by, there's a little bit of space for them to do so.
Looking to find this high noon first, zoned away the back line, ports out of the fight.
Max is here, could be devastating.
Oh it's a big lift under the neck.
We have a point! A beautiful 49! And then, shut them down at the second hurdle!
So much hope on the back of that first fight from Twisted Minds, and now, where has it gone?
Dare I say, Jake, I feel like Twisted Minds, this composition has really stumped them.
They're not playing the normal selves, because typically, a flux in overtime.
Obvious that you need to recontest the payload as two people go into the sky, but twisted mines
They're paying a little scarder have a lot to think about
Facing this composition that they're perhaps not used to and that's forces and I ever like that
Overtime dissipates very quickly. That's a brutal thing. I mean in a long overtime like that the game ends so quickly lifted off that payload
crazy raccoon
Presenting an as-yet-unsolvable problem to Twisted Minds, we're going to go back to the well with a tried-and-true style for them, but will it be enough to win the day?
So far, nothing has really moved the needle. I mean, the fights they have won, been on the back of individual plays, but it just doesn't feel reliable or consistent against the Feylanks, the crazy raccoon to present it.
I feel like at the World Finals when Twisted Minds did claim that crown.
They were put in Chris Raccoon's team falcons in an uncomfortable spot.
At that time it was the Korean teams who felt like they were perhaps on the back foot.
Their rotations weren't on point. Their support ultimates were a little bit scattered
and not securing the ultimate value they required.
And you can clearly see twisted mines here.
They're the ones who are struggling to execute in these teamfights.
They are on the back foot now.
Trying to adapt to what Chris Raccoon are bringing their way.
But he has to rise up a hero for Twisted Minds to slow things down, but Stalker almost uncontested here, swings wide.
They take the defender position, already twisted Minds on the back foot, desperate to hold on to this point.
TVNT rocked on his heels.
Stalker looking for any opportunity to punish.
TVNT already out of the soup, takes up from back, cleans up the opposition, and Twisted Minds on their heels.
No one able to stand and contest.
The feed fills with orange.
The whole Twisted Minds dashed on the rocks as Chorong looks to finish the much-voted DPS duo of these world champions.
I mean Twisted Minds historically, they were relied on that D.Va play so much, but with the Mizuki added into the mix here.
One of the first times really seeing Mizuki get a lot of value in a composition since the hero's release,
but it puts so much pressure on to the D.Va in a situation like that, TB&T, can't escape with the flight from the mech.
Stalker's bashing could be devastating here.
Incredibly hard.
One Sigma stun could be more than enough.
Even grabbed that aura out of the air.
And with the form, TDNT, defensive, fully backing, the rock.
The finish is good.
Simple.
Finds one, but not nearly enough.
Stalker and Heesang stacking this payload, moving it towards it.
Now seeming inevitable finish.
And with five minutes on the clock, this feels impossible.
a sycophie and effort, asked here, of Twisted Minds.
I mean, this is an unbreakable object.
There's so much to stain for the...
Crazy Raccoon and Twisted Minds.
They're trying to poke and probe, they're trying to set up these angles, but...
They're just not finding the picks required.
Jaewoo set up the flank angle here, and he's got a post-form in hands, but...
The ultimate's from Crazy Raccoon.
They're looking to post things out here, Jake.
Already the rush now, puts Twisted Minds back.
They're trying to bunker Sting Live, biting their time.
Why is he getting this first ultimate out?
I've come with the rush of their own. The sanctuary though, allowing crazy raccoon to stand tall.
DD&T dropped inside the rush of lightedness out from courts.
Sanctuary protects though, and stalker bleeds out.
We got out from the table, very little gas to take, artillery from back.
See you, deal.
And create your raccoon. Do it and breathe in Tokyo.
Are you kidding me?
We came into this first match of the day, hoping for a banger.
a barn burner that would perhaps set the pace for the rest of the tournament.
EMEA staying competitive with the Korean teams, but that was not the case.
That was all at Cracer Raccoon after a pretty close
Ilios to kick things off for us. They escorted the hybrid maps.
EMEA had nothing to show for and Cracer Raccoon now looked like the clear cut favorites in this
tournament alongside the Korean friends in the center division.
Well deserved round of applause for the crazy Raccoon team.
It's their turn to innovate. It's their turn to present as you said an unsolvable problem to the EMEA teams.
And now it feels almost destiny that it'll be one of our teams from Asia, one of our Japanese orcs here to lift the trophy in Tokyo.
Few opportunities left, right? If twisted lines go down like this, who else can hold a Campbell to crazy Raccoon but maybe Zayden Division?
That was the best shot. North American EMEA had to stay competitive with Korea here.
That was so one-sided, Jake. And I'm out of ideas. I'm thinking we're twisting minds here.
What can we realistically do? Like, the farra from J-Woo, you know,
realistically should be a good hero to poke in prod against a hero like May, like Sigma.
But there's just not enough room to really navigate and secure those picks in the end.
And I thought Chris Rokun did a fantastic job with that aura healing from Dimsuke
to stay alive and buy enough time to turn things with soccer scarcity.
And the flex picks from his saying in soccer, I mean throwing these ideas like flex and hitscan to the wind, right?
They're really just willing to play whatever is asked of them.
We're going to go down to the stage, we've got an interview with Cho-Rong to see how they're feeling about this incredible win.
Chorun, congratulations on your victory!
Hello
Congratulations on getting the win. I want to start off this interview by asking you about
I guess CR's composition. I feel like in this Champions' class, Crazy Raccoon have been using a lot of Mizuki.
Is there a special reason as to why you guys are sort of using a lot more Mizuki here?
I think the team is more likely to be used by the Mizz-Key.
Especially when the Raccoon team is playing the game.
Is there a reason why you are more likely to be used by the Mizz-Key?
We are making a lot of combinations.
We are going for the Rookie.
We have mastered the Rookie combination, and the Yang-Boss combination.
We have mastered some of them.
I want to make the other team more difficult.
I think we did a good job in the research on the music.
I feel like we have a lot of different compositions under our belt.
Whether it's the Cat Bastion or the Lucio Chirico,
we have mastered a lot of different compositions for a lot of different scenarios,
so that's why I think we are utilizing more so that our opponent would have to have a harder time going up against us.
As a CR, there are a lot of different components in the Neko Bus and Kikorushia,
so I'm thinking of using a variety of components so that other teams can't deal with it.
And also, I feel like it is safe to say that Crazy Raccoon is probably one of the best teams in Champions Clash, so my second question is pretty simple.
Why do you think CR is so good? What makes Crazy Raccoon so special?
Also, including this victory, CR will be able to compete with a strong team in this Champions League.
So, is there a reason why CR is so strong?
Well, because Crazy Rock is a very strong team, there is a reason why they are strong and good.
Is there anything special about Crazy Rock?
I think the key to our strength would have to be me. I play a lot of different heroes, I have a deep hero pool, and I think that makes a lot of the other teams have a more difficult time. I think it's pretty cute.
I think I'm the strongest of the CRs.
I can use a lot of heroes, and I think it's quite aggressive, and it's cuter than anything else,
so I think that's one of the reasons.
Thank you so much, Shorun! Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!
And so you're going to see them end up, I guess,
wabling gaming in a lowers match later on today.
Battle of wounded pride right there, twisted minds.
The current world champ still?
Current world champs, but it doesn't feel like enough
to that match in the number one seed from China
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Hey guys, Abrol here with Lang Sir for the exit interview.
All game is unfortunately being eliminated today.
I just wanted to ask you, despite being on Monday today,
what kind of lessons did you learn in this one of the Champions Clash?
I feel sorry for being eliminated today.
But what did you learn in this competition?
There are many new players in our team,
so we didn't have enough time to practice.
And we didn't have enough time to practice for a long time.
I think we can give more time to the competition.
So you're saying that you know they obviously have a new roster some new members coming together
They still need a bit more time to sort of gel together. Maybe a bit more practice time coming to this event as well
Would have helped their team a lot. So
Yeah, those would be the lessons learned second question. I want to ask is
What do you think the Chinese region as a whole for watch teams so needs to do to sort of catch up and improve
What kind of progress do you need to make in China?
I think we need more practice and more players to join us.
pro players. So my final question to you, not that you guys have it eliminated. Is there
anything else you still want to do in Japan?
What do you want to do in Japan now?
First of all, we will learn from the later competitions.
Then we will go back to find some points.
Well, thank you so much, Ling Sun.
Thanks so much.
See you.
Welcome back everyone and just like that we have our first winners finalist in Crazy Raccoon.
So pretty much like we all expected to have a death.
I think Ash had tea.
Yeah if you didn't have a cup of tea I would have liked that.
That's crazy.
Am I getting gas there right now?
Potentially.
No I mean me and Sally were wrong.
The important thing is to be aware of the situation Ash.
So I think that's step one.
Awareness is key.
Exactly.
Awareness is key.
We're now definitely aware that Crazy Raccoon are just that good.
Quite frankly, this was anti-climatic.
Especially after Elio's, initially the first two rounds were so close.
And they both played the Jetpack Cat and the Bastion.
Both looked good, both first two rounds went into almost 100 vs. 100, right?
So everything looked so close.
And then round three, I don't know what happened.
I think the rest of the series happened.
I think the rest of the series happened, but it was so quick that you barely know that it even happened.
Yeah, I feel like the turning point was also when we saw the pivot from the Anna onto the Kyriaco.
That was where we really saw more of the survivability there for Vigilante.
And then overall, I think that on the side of CR, it was just really clean.
Let's be honest, you've got to give credit to Tien, though.
I think last time we saw them on the Cat Bastion, we also had J. Wu on the Bastion.
time around ends up being courts. Things change up. I don't know if that was
necessarily because of the Cassidy ban that came through or if they're trying
to hide it yesterday. I was impressed with how they were, you know, managing that
in the first two rounds of Ilias, but you could definitely tell there was
discomfort. The worry I would have for TM for the remainder of like the kind of
tournament, and I think they'll, I would find it hard to believe they don't like
just kind of like lose the next match, but like maybe they could because like a
lot of the series, like they didn't really kind of play a lot of the cap
They lost to CR when CR was playing, you know, a lot of these Mizuki coms that we thought were a troll yesterday may not actually be.
I know with the May it's a really good combination.
This one's still out for debate. We don't know.
We still don't believe.
I'm not quite part. Yeah, I mean, let's take a look at the bracket.
Obviously, this was probably the toughest opponent right behind the set of the vision that Dien could have faced.
Now, in the lower bracket, they will be going up against Wave or Gaming.
I mean, they looked at Twisted Binds that is they looked formidable against the second seed in China, even when they had to go up against the cat bastion. So I low key expect Twisted Binds to have a much easier time against Wavell.
Yeah, I definitely got to agree with you on that. It's going to be a different level of opponent heading into that lower bracket, and it's going to be about being able to brush off this match up heading into lowers later on today.
That game's got some silly potential in it.
Like, yeah, Waybo, Waybo Tm could get a little silly with this.
Like, you know, like, as Waybo, we saw them play some Cap fashion, it didn't look that great.
Like, does Tm go back and play it? Do they really kind of commit to something else?
I think that series could get a little wild.
Well, we'll find out very soon, because we have quite a few matches to go through today.
Of course, we still have a second match in our upper bracket.
This one is going to be Sada versus VP.
Quite frankly, when I looked at the schedule this morning, I was like,
That first one is going to be so close.
The second one has potential to be not that.
Now, the first one was not that close.
So how excited are you?
If you're a fan of the Korean team, I think you're really damn excited.
Oh, you're going to be eating speedrunning content.
If you made plans for the rest of the day, you're good.
Honestly, you're good.
Let's talk about the teams, though, starting with VP.
I think they surprised a lot of people.
We didn't expect them to play quite that dominant.
uh minus non-bonnie but uh other than that like what have we learned what's
the biggest takeaway from vertus pro in their first series yesterday
kebster's back i mean kebster is like all the way back yes
i mean crazy just his game on cassey and like so the positives here for vertus pro
if you were to make an argument for vp right is like you know land and in psycho
have this like really you know they've done really well at international events
over the last two years right you get kev back on land like fix is playing
pretty well. It's just a really difficult opponent though. I mean the V-Tuff is the
opponent they can draw in the field.
I mean, it doesn't matter how much lanamal potential you have when you're going up against
a team like Zeta Division.
Yeah, I think they would have preferred to face them in the first two too. Yeah, generally
like this first three. They can't really do the same things that we saw them doing
earlier on yesterday. They were able to not use up the bands in the first map or win it
out regardless. And then they did come in with the I think the bashing burn. It was on
map to now, of course, in the first two, three, what else can they pull out of the back? I
think you're just going to see those bands coming out a bit earlier. I feel like that's
a lesson that can be learned and even taken away from this last series with TN versus
crazy raccoons. It felt like they were holding on to some of those cat bashing bands into
a little bit later in the series that we expected to maybe come out. But VP also, we saw them
play the cat bashing. So maybe they don't really feel like they need to ban it. Like
I think at least they can try and see like what level they're at maybe like in an early map and then kind of go from there
Yeah, are you like really far away or are we like we're fighting through a
Intransitive properties, so I see like how do we be stacked up against TM?
How do you stack up against crazy raccoon? How does crazy raccoon stack up against Zedda?
Yeah, Zedda seems to be you know at the top of the food chain here in our little circle of misery
But comparing VP to TM in what we saw on EMEA in Stage 1, it's a completely different game.
True, it is.
But I do get paid to make some points around the desk, so I'm fully committed to my draft.
Okay.
So you know.
That's valid.
Yeah, thank you so much.
That's why I get paid medium bucks.
Let's talk about Zeta Division.
Obviously, we held this team as the team to win it all.
They have been so very dominant in the entire regular season, and while the playoffs for
them in their region was a very close one against crazy raccoon. They're just like,
they're just stacked top to bottom. They've not shown us any, they've not really shown us anything.
I don't know if half the comps they played so far have even been real comps.
Okay, you say that yet. So they pulled out the Mizuki too. Like maybe the Korean teams just
know something. Is that the direction we're going in with the rework that happened to his ultimate?
Is there riding back in the legs?
Hey, who knows?
We saw Ryan Mears yesterday. Everything is kind of on the table.
I mean Zeta like the roster is just so filthy that like it could have been a little bit of shenanigans yesterday
Where I don't think they'll see I don't I don't play for real here against VP
I think like but a lot of those weird cums are kind of talking about they make work like yeah
I think it doesn't really matter. That's why we don't know if it's a weird come for
Like when we see the Mizuki heads ahead with it Zeta versus CR later on
Yeah, we're gonna get the stats in for that one as well
I have a misuke is like probably one of the highest win percentages
Again something we get paid for it, so it is what it is. What do you think is win percentages about like it's very high 98
Predictions for this one I at the every crazy surprise if anyone here with VP just like I was crazy surprised that she went for a TN
I'm so surprised, I didn't know.
Yeah, you checked it out, I didn't know.
That's how crazy that was.
Now, listen, I mean, point is, you're ready for predictions.
Like, we don't really know what to expect from these teams,
what they have in the back pocket.
It is just eight teams playing it out
in such a like high stakes format
that any team might have, you know,
something in the element of surprise for us.
That is true, that is true.
So you ended up going for Zeta in this.
Yes, yes, to finish the point, I'm going for Zeta.
I was like, she set this up.
I got to set myself up for this one.
Zeta all the way.
What is Zeta division?
The way you were back in VPF, like,
are you going to be in contrarian?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I think we're Zeta division across the board here, right?
Yeah.
And it would be crazy not to just kind of go with Zeta.
No, I definitely got to agree with you.
It would be pretty wild.
Yeah, it'll just be a matter of like how dominant is this match going to look like.
Can VP fight back?
And if so, can they once again like kind of provide a blueprint,
maybe something that TM can take away from their match there as well,
because I really liked what we've seen from VP
and how they handled the current meta in the first round yesterday.
Again, that's it.
That was the first 2-2.
This one is the first 2-3 and they have to go up against the best team
that we potentially have here, the Champions clash.
So it will be an uphill battle in order to secure that final spot in the upper bracket final.
We are now heading into a short break and in a few minutes we're going to have Tyga on stage to bring out our teams.
All this time, I've been nothing but a pain
There's no more to try and we're through
How this story ends ain't up to you, not to you
I'll take a step back so I can move on
Then I'm the wrong track, you're not the one
I'll take a step back so I can move on
Then I'm the wrong track, you're not the one
We've been lining for too long
Now we've got no place to go
And we're gone, you've got me feels close
Time to run, my broken heart and I
We're moving on, we're moving on
I'm broken all in all, I'm moving on
I don't need perfect, I don't need perfect
I don't need perfect, I just need braille so when I can laugh with it
I have failed, I'm chasing down, I'm chasing down
Where is my run gone, who I take as the low?
This is the life, I say, I fail
And I'm feeling low again
No map, I sweat, just fine
And I finally hold my sign
And only perfect, I'm just a hero
I
2nd match
First of all, this team.
ZETA DIVISION!
The final is...
BERSERK SPROW!
to take down the world champions
and the number one that seed in
twisted minds, not just a moment
ago, but now we have careers
number one versus EMA's number
two. Here you are. A few three
t shirts of the crowd as well as
air division, giving a few gifts
before they well the crowds hope
at least I'm not a VP.
I mean, that would be insane, right?
When you look at the match schedule
for today and you looked at all of
the games, you think to yourself,
Twisted Mines vs Crazy Raccoon or Zeta coming up here against Virtus Pro, you would probably say it would be the World Champions.
That it would be Twisted Mines going head to head of five map balls against Crazy Raccoon, but no!
A free and oh win there for the sweep of the home team.
Now we get to see how far the divide comes between our seed 2 from EMEA and our seed 1 from Asia.
And it wasn't beat down by the way, like it wasn't like a 3-0, like, oh, okay, that goes like that.
But it was like, yeah, you might as well have just punched me in the box, you know, because it was that bad.
And that's not what we expect here, but like you said, this game, in theory, is going to be not even as close, like 1% as close,
because Zeta have been so damn prominent in Asia. It was a very long series. It went to seven maps
versus Crazy Raccoon in that Asia finals, but like it felt like Zeta didn't really have the steam in
the early early few maps and then they eventually picked it up. It feels like Zeta coming in.
Everybody was super scared of them. And now Virtus Pro, like, like, what do you think of the
chances here for VP against Zeta? Well, VP set themselves yesterday when they did that winner
interview, the one team that they wanted to go up against was Zeta, and you can see that they're
prepared here, right? Ana banned right out of the gate to take Shoe's Ana away and force him onto
the Kiriko, something that Zeta were always prioritizing was the Ana in the Kat Vastian
matchup coming on through in their region stages, but the fact that it's Elios means that it's likely
going to be things like the wrecking ball as that tank instead, so I think you'll be on the Kiriko
anyway. Oh, look. Oh, that's
signed jerseys too. Oh,
nice. Damn. I thought it was
just regular teachers. Just
regular teachers. I would have
been way through that crowd,
Duke. Give me. Give me. Yeah,
but it's pro. They have a very
tall order ahead of them because
Zed division. I didn't mean
Johnny would speaking about it
rebuilt from the ground up and rebuilt with some of the best players to touch the game.
I mean, look at this backline and tell me how many Overwatch teams these have been...
Who let them get you? Who let them get you?
They had to snipe it with a crazy machine.
You're allowed to pick up she was well because they've just been collecting the
infinity stones. That's the best way to describe Zayda's game at the moment
and in comparison to Virtus.Pro, they lost Jey Lu to Twisted Mines.
Right, right. Yeah, so it's like well shoe we got him and then jaywoo you've lost one of your best players of 2tm
Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be tough here for VP first map is going to be ileos
Like you said some wrecking ball to come in here
Especially on this round. Yeah for sure if his lighthouse
Starting off as well then that wrecking ball is going to be feeling the impact and Neil Garrow has a mean
Wrecking ball on him. No cabastian band out. So likely gonna be seeing the bands
I've been waiting for that.
Way bigger chance there from the
division side. A ton of fans coming
in through from Japan and from a ton
of the different countries to
seeing some English fans come up
to us, which has been rather nice.
So there's going to be a few of
them in the crowd for VP ice
actually hovering Malgo to start
up fix it. Obviously hopping over
oversea hopping over to the
jetpack cat kevster on the bashing quick teleport out
say to the vision running different than tank full milk garu obviously is going to be on wrecking ball here
so I just want to get to that point real quick
yeah kevster on the bashing too means that you don't have to ban out the castity
not to have to worry about stopping that bracing ball
but graze is there
kevlo gets the best of knife
they're going to save his burst damage
oh nice mate too forces the recall really on for a proper
That's got Shu weighing in the wings, but this gives VP an opening here to guys on the point
They should be able to get onto the point like you said and now you're going to be able to play that Malgood just to anchor the point itself
You're going to be able to get out when the wrecking ball comes through so they don't even though they have a mobile composition
They don't get the first point cap so they can't play the store lot
Good slap, but
Hevster instantly bathed in that Suzu knife on the high ground. It's not got too much of an angle there
Unfortunately to shoot anybody's gonna have to drop again. It's proc or I'm higher end of going down
All right, okay, good start from VP.
I worry about how they're going to be able to deal with Ice on this Maga too, because usually you would see the Reaper come through instead of that Tracer,
so Ice Nom is just going to be able to survive for infinite on this point,
and if Zeta can't Ice the Maga or get to the back line with the Kiriko,
they're not going to be able to actually flip the switch and get this point capped.
Have Scott the emergency out as well?
Psycho's waiting for them to dive in first, then double blink to that high ground if they stay around.
Herdmild Garry though, drops down, takes that mega health flag, Kevster pops the ult,
he's got that over health, so he can't be jumped on instantly and he's got ice on his back as well.
There's a bit of damage there, onto the bash from the proper, goes down to Landon.
That's a couple of times in a row now that Landon's got the pick on proper.
And it's huge too because proper had the pulse bomb, which means that you can use Suzu freely,
worrying about the pulse bomb being able to come on through. You've got the catnap as well from Fixer
potentially to disrupt Shoes usage of the Kitsune Rush as ladder falls. Yeah, Shoes already got
that kill. Violet's gonna slam into the ground and drag Ice off the edge. Nice work from Violet,
but still VP with 70%. That was Shoes Rush though invested for Zeta to be able to find the flip,
which means that Virtus Pro could potentially, if they can walk on to the point with this Maga,
Use one side of rush and force the division to give up all of the space they just got back.
Alright, well they're taking us to the skies again with the Bastions.
Milgaru's gonna try and knock him out.
Or at least distract for a moment.
My 50 HP is gonna get around, but all good.
Here comes the healing off.
Food is gonna be able to stay alive as Kevser goes down to Milgaru.
There's two pronged attack as well.
It's worth pointing to mine, like you've got the Bullslam and the Bastions deal with.
Come on.
Properties are going down again.
Not used to seeing proper go down this early so many times mines on the point
There's a rush through it to for VP so ice is gonna be more than safe to hang around with a boot ends up coming in
What's again violent takes down ice? Oh good stick
Knifes down good exit trade there from psycho which means that Zeta won't be able to play super aggressively towards verus
Pro spawn side with the bastion with that cast so but if we'll have a little bit more space to be able to work with
But 92% picked up for them. That's one fight win from being able to take this round
And by the gold again ice is gonna have to be careful cage so important this fight though
Yeah, if you can combine cage with artillery strike coming on through from Kevstar Zayda are not going to be having a fun time
Yeah, cage for ice them on the point
Violet is so damn good on this damn cat
I mean, the cage denied by the catnap coming through. It's a horrible time for a mauga.
Even if you've got like the overrun and play potential, you can use it to dodge out from
the catnap, but ice it must have been on cooldown while it perfectly tracking that
mauga's weakness. And as we're going to be looking for proper having that pulse going,
which means that Landon has to hold the Susie.
He's gonna have nightmares this week. I'll tell you right now about Violet's
jetpack cap
Our fish has got an all of his own the cat now but
What a post from proper though artillery up for us comes into maybe we wanted you to actually
All along because then that deep enough for sure to be able to commit the casino rush and bird is pro
No, I don't know in a mage cage, but might as well be caught in a barrel
They need to get to the point, Slam's going to come in, who's here to actually touch,
VP get one, the Ecycobo fix is already dead, this faction's going to be alone here, taking
the Sky's knife, hitting the Skybox there for a second.
It's going to be a mind, but as soon as the only thing Landon can do to save the team
now, and there's five players from Data Division locking down this point, there's just no hope,
no chance, no wait.
They're going to get that one back.
round one over to Zeta. I mean, it's not just five players from Zeta, it's also the minefield
as well. So unfortunately for VP, they just did not have time to be able to sit in the
space, build up the one-sided rush, and use it to be able to flip through that over time
play. Zeta, it was close. It was close. Like, there were moments. The fact that Landon was
getting the better of Propos so many times, the Kiriko versus Tracer, could have opened
up a lot of space, but the moment Zeta were able to get feed on the point, have that space
deny the maga from being able to hit the backline because they were in control.
Oh yeah. They could keep the Kyroko out of Aicis reach.
That's when they started pulling ahead.
Alright, they're gonna roll with the same thing.
Milgaru?
Roadhog.
Milgaru?
It's as well.
Don't hold on well?
Yeah.
Alright, so we've seen Subrime and now we're seeing the hog.
Okay.
It's custom workshop time.
How many people have looked into the well?
They're getting him up with the high ground too.
Oh, don't fall for it, please.
Well, they're gonna have to hug now.
I see something.
What?
What is my tank doing, man?
Look, who expects a Roadhog to play from that position?
They knew he was there.
They peaked the corner.
They knew he was there.
But the hook just grabs them in a little bit too deep
before they can get out.
And yet again, Zeta answered the question.
Like, what do Virtus Pro do now?
Getting this Margaret back in, it did not go well on Lighthouse.
It's likely not going to go well and well.
Eregan's trying to stop them from pushing in
and actually forced the forms really early on.
Knife hit in the hill,
but now you have to fight into the Roadhog, into the well.
Kev's starting to get real close to an artillery strike,
but it's not really going to do much to lock Zeta's players down.
Knife and proper both going low, Psycho Buster recall.
Super early too!
Missing the hog and the flying bastion, but all good.
You're going to have to show us a mouth with an intensity right now.
I should try and chase Mulgaru down because Prop is already got a kill onto Psycho.
Atilla Parib, Barrage does make sure Ice has to back off.
So, VP, the end of losing both DPS.
Fixer does end up killing both of them though, at least, but, I mean, getting two kills at least, but
are you gonna be able to stay alive?
The catnap!
Prop is still going!
Violet gets to get another catnap onto the Malga.
Oh my goodness, Ice is having the worst possible time in this tank roll.
There it is, Hellish.
Ice is in just the seventh circle of Hell, and it's jetpacked cat.
It's the catnap off of the map. You go so many times.
She was going to have earlier rush as well, so when Virtus.Pro walk into it,
they have nothing to be able to answer back, which means it just has to be a good decision to play.
No, I'm still taking too much damage here.
Still hovering above this window right now.
Oh, the hook!
Oh!
Ice!
Ice, you can stay too! Are you serious?
There's just no way!
Okay, Viola is making a play to be one of the best jetpack cat players in the world.
Like the amount of accuracy for the catnap.
The saves from the quite literal lifeline to keep Milgar in the fight with the whole hog against Fixer.
What a play!
I mean, I just have the worst possible time in this tank pig right now.
Well, they've at least killed Nife.
There is a rush on the point, they're still looking front of the hook and Milgar against Fixer.
makes the whole hogging to the corner.
Milgaru is still alive, mind you,
despite the artillery brass landing next to him as well.
Katoons are coming in, Zeta Division on 99%
for proper kills, Kevster, and now Istone.
He's had a use of the Kadec overdrive already,
so he's not gonna have any sustain for this point.
Violet swoops in, picks up the kill on the Mauga,
and Zeta Division 100 to zero on well.
Disgusting first map.
I think we're about to see a catman.
Look at that smile on Violet's face.
Oh, he's so happy.
Look at that smile on my guy's face.
That is...
Versus a red, Violet's a blue.
If he's got a catnap, you better believe
Ice Nom is in the wrong side of the kill feed.
That's how that saying goes right now.
Oh, they really did just read VV perfectly.
Like, the fact that the maga was coming out,
they were more than happy to let the maga come out to play
because the catnap, the jetpack cap, the bastion leverage being able to just take out so many times the tank so that VP lost any way of creating space for the bastion or the trace to get anything done, so dominant from Zeta.
20 and 2 for Violet. Ice sitting at 8 and 8 on the Malga. I mean, this is copping a Jetpack
Cat band. That's for sure. I mean, that was, I mean, there's going to be less environmental,
you're thinking, I mean, Ilios in general, very environmentally, if that's a word. But
I mean that performance of Violet was ridiculous. I would say out of all Jetpack Cat performances
I mean, we we did see I think for me the smartest Jepa cat play was still the previous alias where we've got a little dip of the lifeline
Into the death box while the cat's still above it so that you only get the diva killed and still stay standing or I guess
Flying but across the board. Yeah violet for sure the most amount of value the most amount of connections poor ice
What is my tank doing?
It tries to run away!
Off of the high ground and get the drop
but look even there the environmental
off of the hook coming through from Milgarra
a cat that's there on their eyes
It's just comedy
It's just pure comedy
I mean I've been getting saved as well
I tell you what, Virtus.Pro
they're going to be talking to the devs
they're going to be like hey I know you sort of tried to fix AP
but what if we could build some rails
around Elias well
Just just to make sure that please don't don't listen to them keep it the way it is
I want to see more roadhog. No, it's the same people who built the DevStar
I'm pretty sure like they have the same a version to railings to just let people fall off the side
Well say the division on feeling very very comfortable after that map a little quick tour
I'm let's talk about what we spoke about at the top of this
We're expecting Zeya division to be like light years ahead in terms of not really like the meta
But just how well they'll perform here considering how dominant they've been in Korea and in the Asia finals as well
But for VP
Going to a map my new joint city kind of the map that you're like, okay
Jetpack cat or like jet bash a cat-bashing not as prevalent
Not as many as environmental teams. Exactly. Every team that's like, okay, we kind of don't want to play that kind of comp, they're taking us here.
Yeah, there's only two points really on New Junk City where you can potentially get environmental off by a cat nap.
So, Reathersport will probably be just like crossing all limbs that they don't R&D random roll into them if they do let the cat through.
But this is a first of three series, so even if they ban the cat now, they do still have to face it against another of the map,
the map that then potentially they could go for the Bastion ban. As I think for Verdaspro,
I'm not surprised it's New York City because this is where Kevster popped off the other
day with the Cassidy like generational performance. Probably the best cast performance he's put
on in his whole Overwatch career.
It was substitution for Zeta as well. We'll take a couple of extra minutes here just to
get everybody ready from Zeta on the stage. If you've got to lock in though, but Kevster
on the Kastie again. But again, look at the DPS she's going against them obviously.
But what if they ban the Kastie?
Sure.
Because like that ban is potentially there, so if Virtus Pro would get first ban, maybe
they actually go for the Bastion ban, so that they can then use it to save the Kastie as
well while still removing the threat of the Bastion cap.
Yeah, little protect.
Benar for Milgaru though. Milgaru rocking that Wrecking Ball a lot of time.
Benar, okay, I'm liking this substitute especially on this kind of map. If you want to play a
a lot of heavy like off-tank. Maybe some Sigma of the guy. Yeah, a little bit of Sigma, potentially,
maybe some Zarya as well, if you want to just be able to play like super aggressive and run
towards Virtus.Pro so that they don't get the opportunity to create and stay in that space.
The DPS to be able to get work done since both Zeta and Crazy Raccoon, like they're such aggressive
teams, they really understand the timings to be able to go in and disengage and get out. And
that's really like a good playstyle for Flashpoint because you sort of look at control and how fast
the point percentage ratchets up on there. It ratchets up even faster on flash points,
so being able to take these fights really quickly but also punish your opponent when they start
losing one to stagger out those picks and deny them the chance of regrouping for the next one
can be the difference maker of allowing them to take three fights per one point and only limit it to two.
I think the question is too, with the EMEAS, you've got crazy recruiting game,
three over twisted minds. And if Zeta keep up this kind of performance, maybe it's going
to be three oh versus VP like, are we back? Are we back? Yeah. It's like going down there
with NA and China into that lower bracket. Mizuki ban for VP. Looking at last series,
Moxie. Mizuki pretty crazy, but a Zarya ban for Zeta.
Yeah, I like the Mizuki ban because it also feels like something that a lot of the non-Korean
teams weren't ready to be able to deal with it. It's probably like a strategy that's been hidden in
scrims. Likely everyone's come into the tournament thinking it's going to be the bashing, going to
be the cat, and Karius has pulled off the biggest game of psych that we have ever seen in football.
But actually, Mizuki's kind of fired, guys. Mizuki, guys. Mizuki. He's so, he's so bad, guys.
And then he gets double buffed, because when I'm playing on live patch, so he's been having two back
to back buffs, the ori healing coming tonight. But honestly, it's the sanctuary. The fact that
you don't play it as aggressively but more as a defensive option against things like the overclock
and if they use the grav aton as well then you can be able to just absorb all of the incoming
damage by staying inside it but we do get the Zarya van coming on out as well at the same time so
likely they'll potentially a little bit of signal.
Yeah I think with uh especially on these escort maps the Zuki is so powerful holding corners
really nice to play around and you can play a little bit passive aggressively to with the TV
Yeah, not like a Kiriko where you can like TV at will you kind of to set yourself up for it
But like yeah, you being able to play on those off angles also very annoying have to get cleared out and then you have
And then oh, but you can be the way and then he's super far in the back line and the aura here into is just the chain
The chain is that was easy. Yeah
Anything which can just like grab you to one specific spot with that follow-up as we can have a look and see our stats coming
them through from Bernal. The biggest thing in my opinion for stats for a tank is the
amount of deaths that you have, right? Damage, you're going to expect to be high, but it's
the amount of deaths. Like you said, it's very low in comparison to the amount of damage
that you're doing, as well as the limbs that you're getting, which goes to show that Bernal
has got a very good rate of what he can get away with, but also the synergy with his back
line. Because that was like a worry, too, when you're adding new players to your back
when she was coming in. How well versed are you going to be when you have to add a new support?
Like, is the trust going to be there to be able to pull off some of these plays, which really come
down to half a second, friends? Yeah, we'll see if we'll see more Garu a little bit later on. Looks
like Benar is set up, though. We're about to get into this next map. VP, you've got a lot of questions
to answer. Can Kevster kind of play this carry performance again with the Cassidy against
the Like-A-Saita division, which is, yeah, it's a tall order?
I mean, like we said, he looked insane. He was getting what? We had two flash points
and he had two ultimates. First fight, second fight, we got six kills.
He got like five kills in the first fight.
Six kills, yeah. Six kills within two fights.
Three kills in the first, which was absolutely wild. By the time the first fight had ended,
he was 72% to the first dead eye.
It was clicking heads.
And combat rolling.
The reload into clicking heads.
Yeah.
But against proper knife,
like, are you gonna be able to do the same thing?
Probably not.
Like, you probably can't disrespect Zed
at that much.
Shear on your screen.
Of course, with Violet's here next to him,
crazy backline too.
I mean, Violet obviously two championship rings.
guy is one of the greatest of all time. Kitted out pretty much like every player
on Zeta's team is just absolutely hit it out in Overwatch East Portugal. Like
that's why we said better favourites coming into this even though Twisted
Minds wear the championship tag Zeta are the arguably more dominant team when
you weigh up all of the years of Overwatch East Portugal history that they have
collectively and in this matter it looks like it favours the Korean teams
because they got the jump on the bashing cat, and they now have the lead on the second best
meta, which is that Mizuki.
Yeah, and just to add on to that a little bit, she has been around since 2017, before
even Overwatch League.
It was on Flashlight since 2017.
When you could change two other roles within the game, I know, crazy concept, he was playing
a little bit of the Widow as well as the Arnaud.
The guy's been around for such a long time, a true veteran status player, as we jump in
to this next map.
Yeah, getting ready to go into this flashpoint, this is the true test for Virtus4, can they
come out with the turnaround after such a dominant first round?
This was where they were able to turn things around yesterday against WBG, but it really
could have been either way if we did not see the Kepstikasty.
that can he pull off a generation of performance twice in a row?
All right.
Benar subbing in for Zeta Division.
We're expecting Kevster hoping Kevster has another generation of performance.
But playing this tracer, you know proper knife.
They're going to be playing quickly with Benar on the off tanks.
You almost know what you're going to expect.
No bashing here. No cat.
Mizuki banned for VP as well.
Kevses Tracer has to go crazy here against Zeta.
But playing it's proper, it's so tough.
Oh, that's not a Tracer. We've got beta.
That's not a Tracer. Okay.
That's a Vesodian. I was going to like...
The Tracer has more macro potential impact
by being able to split the backline attention,
but it's not the kill potential of something like the Cast Vesodian.
Alright, still on the bashing though, isn't it?
No cast. They're just going to rely on proper TP's to get them around.
Yeah, it's the same. This is something that Virtus.Pro used for Numbani yesterday, and it really went quite well.
You're going to be able to get around the staticness of the Rematra too, since you can only put the shield in one direction.
Wait, wait, wait, nice behind them. You've got to look around. 180 quick.
Binar and proper take the kills, but nice. Just basically walk behind them for free then.
It's the Remchil, right? Once you put it down, it is dedicated to that one angle, as opposed to Binar's, who's going to be much more fluid.
This is one of the drawbacks of Ramatric, go for something like a Tracer or in this instance,
a sim TP to enable Night's reposition and Ice can't save the team.
Great teleport rotation. They're going to have to look out for it. They're going to have to just
keep their heads in the swivel because with Virtus Pro comp, yeah, they can use their own TP to get
on somebody, but I mean, getting spammed out with the right things from proper, sure, quick reset,
but they're not going to give up another kill.
I mean this is allowing Shia as well to hit Rush faster because Landon's down one player to be able to heal all of that incoming poke.
They're not allowing Virtus.Pro because it's only poke that they're taking to build up something like Kevser's OC to break this fight wide open.
And look, Shia's already got the Rush ready to go.
Virtus.Pro, if they want to match it, they have to give a point percentage.
Yeah, they could go really quick as well.
Virtus.Pro deciding against going through main, they're going to try and rotate through this middle choke point instead.
TP up the high ground though, nice and such a good spot.
These little turrets aren't going to be in too much, as Fixit gets poked by Nife
and picked off as well. I mean Zeta, she's just pure domination, Virtus Pro.
This is point.
They got nothing.
This is straight up first point, 100 to 0.
Like the fact that they were getting those earlier lends onto Virtus Pro,
the fact that they had that fight so one sided in the first instance with the Bastion getting that reposition.
And now while yes, Landon has one sided rush and Fixit does have the same barrier,
You can't use the sound barrier at the same time as Violet because Bernard will just be holding on to the flux to rip all of the extra help off.
Hey, maybe Kephs can do some special here with this overclocking moment.
Cropra doesn't have a going down, the flux is good though.
Oh, and a good snipe on Psycho.
Sound barrier for 4 on the Zated Division.
Those bros, that barrage actually is going to force IceTron to back up slightly.
Bernard's now alone on the point.
Ravnus Vortex is going to hold him in places.
Well, the rest are going to get cleaned up.
A fairly expensive fight though for VP. Both support ultimates used.
Yeah, Burnard goes for the Flush to disrupt Landon's Rush, as opposed to waiting to use it to strip off the Sound Barrier Health, and then they use Vylus to be able to match.
But this comes out of cost now, Jaws. You don't have the Barrier to be able to beat the OC. What you're relying on is proper symbol, which would be great if Zedah Division were in control of the space.
Now they're going to have to invade it and walk on to the point, get the symbol onto position, which Kevsey can easily overcome.
Free TP, everybody's taking that on the exact same frame there. That was pretty impressive.
This is proper set up with the wall.
Little Taric's gonna fight each other for the moment, but here it is.
Alright, now what can you really do if you're Ice Nerm?
The only thing realistically is just kite back.
You've got Nemesis form, so you're gonna be able to survive.
Oh, proper with the TP. He's gonna have an off angle for the team as he teleports away from Kedser.
Still an ultimate available here for VP.
They've still got this annihilation to just turn up the tempo.
going down to fix it, Zated Division now completely isolated. Every single member fighting their own individual battles as Virtus.Pro.
They're looking to claim this next one.
It was a long fight too, and they get Shu late, which is absolutely massive. Shu's not able to use the swift step and make it out with the rest of his team.
So they have to wait even more time, even more point percentage from off of the back of that one.
They're not going to have the rush to be able to challenge it. Virtus.Pro get the point, tying us up one to one.
one and she will have to consider us to go first in this next round but you still
have to worry about that OC waiting in the wings for Kevster no sim wall no
segment to be able to shield it off that's super early rotation might just
be a double rush fight to be fair they might just one pops it the other one's
gonna pop it in kind hopefully they can win it out Landon's a couple of
percentage away Kevster still with his overpop two by the way yeah all right
there it is Kevster's gonna pop it instantly gets rocked though I said I'm
going extremely low. Luckily those got nexus form to back him up as knife gets run over.
But still they're very low in the front line. Luckily I'm still holding on, landed, healing
him up in that rush. Soundbarra full violet ends up hitting four. Flux is gonna be good.
It's gonna tag the lucio, but fixer is more than alive. He was like over 75% HP there
in that flux. But Arthux did nothing. Pilot speed did nothing. As Zeta, they lose this
This fight, and there is Birdus Pro, take point.
So many layers of that fight, Kevser using the OC, forcing Shooter to have to use the
rush defensively, allows Landon to hold on for second rush, and then they can survive
to make that fight.
Oh, we're so bad.
Oh, Birdus onto the Erisa to be able to put up the pressure onto this Rematra, Bastion
Cat comes on through from Vard because this is one of those points with the environmental
potential, and now if he can go as aggressive as he wants, he's got the Atillery Strike,
if he goes too low after the damage from the Sojourn, he can use the Atillery Strike for
the extra health.
TP onto the Katbash, who's like, sure, we'll just fly away.
He's got another form in just a moment.
Oh, you've got to run, Kepster.
You've got to run.
Nice, dangerously low now on the half HP.
And there is the turret form.
Is he going to be able to actually get a couple of kills here, maybe?
A couple of them sent toward to Ice Node,
but they trade Shoe for Kepster, so lack of healing now.
It's only Violet, so can't pay attention permanently tonight.
Pinar ends up getting focused down by Psycho.
Level three beam ripping through that armor.
As far as pro, making their stand.
Fixer gets shot down by proper Shaw, but they've still got a tank on the point.
Mm, Saiko on the Symmetra as well is doing such a good job being able to shred through the Orisa's defences,
even though Fixer is not there with the rest of the team,
you've got the Sim wall to be able to give you that additional level of cover.
And speaking about addition, Ketster's on the cast.
Alright, Ravenous Vortex is going to hold the approach here of Bernard, but proper was there for the touch.
Rush comes in, knife goes down, Ketster back on the cast, like you mentioned.
And with this Nemesis form into the annihilation,
I just know him can basically a one-man army on the points.
Gonna be a tough here for Zeta Division.
They catnap Psycho, sure, but he's actually enough from Violet.
There's still too many ults here, it feels like a Virtus Pro.
Annihilation gets popped, proper end of going down.
Shoot to follow.
Virtus Pro, wait, a second here.
Two points back to back, 100 to zero.
Oh, Zeta Division, they risked it for the biscuit.
She used the rush in that fight as opposed to the call-in grip.
Instead of saving it for first fight in this next one, you could have used that rush advantage to be able to play into the Virtus.Pro soundbar, but now you don't have it and you have to worry about the dead IT.
Just a monumental throw honestly from the veteran.
Well here comes the cat passion again.
High noon. Psycho still trying to test him.
And Knife really can't move here as well, he has to stay grounded right now out of the way of that high noon
As they try and collapse on Bernard, the entire team is teleporting onto this Orisa
Point has been unlocked, Bernard's got the Terrasurge proper with the pulse
They're gonna go in but Fixen's still got the beat, Knife pounded down as Hevster does not miss
Beat onto 5, VP making this map look easy
easy. Landon's bolt up rush in that fight as well. Burner's off of the Ursa, going for
the Diva instead, wants to be able to get into that backline, wants to be able to put
pressure on this Cassidy as well because Kedger just used the Deli to be able to hold
the space against the Bastion Cat already 53% to the next one.
Talk about getting back up stronger after that first map you're thinking, wow, they
are going to destroy here, even that first point in this one.
Look at the rush.
Insane.
Landon's about to have the rush up, they did a vision, they can't walk on to the point
If they go too deep, Virtus.pro rush into them.
They forced Tuzu, landed instantly, hits the rush, proper, and the backline still got a recall.
Has to use it, but his pulse gets eaten.
Psycho doesn't end up going down.
More to barrage. I mean, it doesn't really get too much, clears the point, I suppose,
but Pena's been de-mecked by the silver bullet.
And Virtus.pro looking like they're going to win this map.
Drop it down, Shu dead, Virtus.pro dominating Zeta Division.
There's one more fight, and Shu went down late in that one as well,
so if they get one chance, one rush,
Virtus.pro going to just use the dead eye and try and put the pressure onto Zeta to make it clear they can get the flashbang onto proper
and stop the trace from getting past so Zeta don't have a player to touch
that could have been huge
He's gonna have to re- he's recalled already
Oh stupid, they killed-
Oh! They don't punch though!
You get the kill proper but you don't get the point
Virtus.pro with a map win
a dominant
three points at the very end
Zeta division had their number on that point one
But 2, 3 and 4, I don't know what Smash said to VP there during that map 2 break, but it worked wonders.
VP take a map off of Zeta of all people.
It's the Cassidy. Like, Cassidy goes on to the Cassidy and all of a sudden, like, you're seeing so much more pressure on the Bastion,
so much more pressure on the Cap, the tank as well, they have to swap off of the Orisa,
they don't get to use the Sin TP to get Knife into really egregious off-angle positions for VP to have to deal with,
And they've got to actually start determining the tempo, too.
20 and 5 from Kev's to Kev's, like, Cassidy.
It's like, whoa.
He had damage, Cassidy.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
By how much?
300.
Little bit of extra damage.
Yeah, that was, like, kind of a return to form for Zeta.
Like, hey, we want to play the camp Bastion now.
Like, that's what we crushed you with on control.
And it's like, well, actually, Kev's on the Cassidy.
This map is what we talked about before.
Yeah.
Kind of perfect against the camp Bastion,
because there aren't too many points where you can play around these big buildings for cover
and it's a little bit quicker as well.
Well, Xehanort also had a few funbles in terms of like going for those ults.
The fact that they were still committed to taking some of those fights and using things like the rush
when you could potentially play it a little bit safer had one sided rush to be able to
fully go into that first fight on the third point and deny the cast from having that space
because Virtus.Pro just took advantage. They knew if we used Dead Eye,
They used rush in the last fight, Shukon used it aggressively against Capstar.
You can just sit with the dead eye for the entire duration.
To stop knife, to stop violet from doing what they want.
And then once the Cap Bastion are ready to go in to make a move,
you've already forced Bernard so low, that he has to use terror as a just for the extra frames of fortified strain survive.
Hold up.
This Cassidy, this fire?
Like, I mean this is one of the points too where like, yeah,
You're not dying if you're ice too then as soon as knife ends up going turret mode
And then well, okay now we have to back off a little bit like violet can kind of slingshot me away
Ice can survive so long with normal form shield
Nemesis form has the annihilation like he's just rolling these cooldowns just so often
It's like you can't get him off the point even if your knife on bastion in the sky like it's so tough
Yeah, a very good map from VP. I mean look I don't expect many people thinking VP
he had taken a map off of Zedadvision, less in this fashion either.
I mean, they did such a good job too because that was rematch with Kyroko Lucio's heals.
Sure.
The moment that Bastion actually gets to start turning that burst damage onto the Ramon,
you don't have your cooldowns. Because the Bastion has that cap mobility, you can very
easily move around the Rematch with Static Shield. So the fact that he was able to stay
alive for that long, and then you forced Burner onto the Orisa to counter it, but that played
perfectly into Psycho. With this, and you saw there in the replay, every Javelin's been
used defensively, just eating through with the Sims primary.
Riyato is the map pick for Zeta, Mizuki is one, but it's what I'm thinking about.
Yeah, Mizuki, also potential for out of like the cat with the environmental potentials of
just like taking you into the drink, so they're going to be able to beat the band.
Yeah, I mean VP have the band second here, so because they have the first band, there
is a...
And they've already banned Mizuki.
Yeah, there's an option to protect the cabash if you need to.
you can go for a ban here on the support so that they then can't target the cat.
Which could be huge because as we said VP they already burned that ban on the Mizuki so no
matter what happens Mizuki makes it through even if you don't go for a support or save.
Tough decisions ahead for Zayac Division.
I think you ban Cas.
I think the high likelihood yeah that they do.
I think you you ban cast because then that also means that you save like the bastion and then you force
Verdi's pro into having to burn the cat ban
You could just use it on another game type exactly hybrid see we have push as well so
All right, let's see what they want to do
We'll get the bands in just a moment seems to discuss and make sure they're fully locked in
Wow, I mean I was thinking coming in like okay, they win here. It's going to be a replay of the Asia finals
with Chris Racoon and Zayac Division.
But first the power ranking off entirely TV because this was the number two seed of EME and when we were looking at the EME group stages
the divide gap between Twisted Minds and Virtus Pro was monumental I think is the best way to describe it
we can have a look and see Iceman. We were talking about Bernard coming on through with
4 devs. Iceman is able to excel past that with only 2 on the Rematra of all things.
And with Ram, like we said with Kyroko Lucio, when Rematra first released, teams tried to
make it work with the Kyroko Lucio and it just got overwhelmed. You might as well be
trying to heal with tissue paper for the amount of good that the Kyroko as a food has did,
keeping the Ram up. So many players had to go for the bat for the ball, for the Moira
for the rush. Okay I'm seeing it on the screen. It's not on the lower third yet, but Kiriko Pan,
there we go. Kiriko, for Zeta, protecting a support. Boom, VP, and Tracer. Interesting,
so maybe if we do see the camp bastion, we could see the Reaper come through instead,
but then that falls off if you're not playing like the Mauga composition plus by banning the
Tracer. You don't have to worry about your backline as much, much, much safer. You don't have to win
win the duels you can go the honor here as well which is a lot of teams are playing
like initially they're mixing honor a little bit so and you have one of the best to ever
do it in shoe shoe honor and then violet on the cat yeah I think it's really smart to
in a reaction to the early Kiriko ban because like Anna can't win the 1v1 against the Tracer
as consistently as the Kiriko which was something that we were seeing happening on the lighthouse
earlier on Elios so it's very much a case of like you let one team ban to read out whether
wanting to run their composition and then when you know okay this has created a
weakness in our composition you take that out second. But we're headed into
Rialto now, it's still one apiece so we're guaranteed at least two more maps.
I can't believe we're saying that Virtus.pro versus Team Zeta Division is
the closer map so far today but Virtus.pro are looking on absolute fire,
Kester's cast makes it through a band line yet again.
I'm here for it. Didn't the crowd is here too?
Mentioned before, a lot of Zeta division fans in the crowd here in the chance,
but there's VP fans in there as well, making their voices heard.
As we get into this third map, we're headed to Rialto, a Kiri band for Zeta,
opening up the field here for Arna and Kat.
There it is. On the attack, at least hovering it right now, but we're seeing, oh, this is
an Elclacico from Landon. Jumping on the BAP?
Without the Sigma. That's the true surprise, right? We're seeing the Diva with the BAP,
not the Sigma, not the Orisa, and not the Rematch with the most stable anchor tank
to use the require a little bit more burst healing coming on for with the Baptiste with the immortality field that did get buffed the region is
massively like much higher in terms of take as well as the cooldown coming on out
But keep your eye on Kevster on the Kathy like ice being on the diva means we've got disruption potential
And being able to keep the bashing cat in check and create space for Kevster to just click heads
I stepped onto the low ground to keep the car contested and he's pushed them off again
They're going again
They just keep wrapping around this high ground and fix is the one caught on the rotation by night
This is such a horrible comp to play into I know needs like four matrixes
Surrounding himself to like cover every possible angle
Nice first fight when they're for Zeta
I love this fire because since you have the main like divas not going to be playing point statically, right?
the bashing cat also not going to be playing points statically so what you have with the main who's much more tanky with the
cooldowns and the wall you can have proper being much more anchored on the point itself and you can play just push
Broder's bro off of the angles probably these names as well another thing to kind of keep in mind
But I just got so much to kind of work for right now nice little turret says gonna force knife away
But you can just dip straight back over and
This may is going to be a problem too for proper but nice the first one to go down though for people
Lays it and obviously playing on the point like this. You are very vulnerable to sim
She though with the nanoboosh could potentially come through onto knife
But Zeta with the kills going against them likely going to throw the towel into this fight and just have the defense for second
Yeah, you can't really kill the catbashing here either like it's so tricky to actually lock them down
So they're gonna be in this fall position this whole time
Zeta going to be looking for the regroup knife coming on through off of this idea again
Which means the bird's first attention split they can't punish the court your cross
You're in the small rooms as well. Like it's kind of crazy. Yeah, you can't punish the drosh
You can't back out to the bridge teleport comes in well as the tri-player again
He's in knees out and Kevster gets knocked down a window doesn't come in through but the narkin sit in front of it
And even they use the wall now to stop any of that damage coming through no heels onto ice though
self-destruct on the point, but it's an easy little kill for violet as this point is getting away from VP fast a
beat coming in for fixer I mean
to be able to stop Burner's
self-destruct or the dead eye to
try and take Zedas Division's
space back off. But the fact
that Shu even used the nanoboost
defensively on Turner, they knew
what they wanted to do, and it
was shut Landon's opportunity
down with the amp. They've
already been able to take the
high ground away, too, which
means the payload's moving for
absolute free. Thank you very
much on this high ground, too.
That is one HP by the way. Oh, it is all Bernard all day in the high ground. You've either got to push into that May in the D.Va, or you've got to pay attention to the Kat Lashun. They chose the D.Va this time and they chose wrong.
Yeah, and they're taking so much damage, but they're not channeling it into support all-church because the kills are coming through so quick so fast. So, Landon, you'll have an amplification matrix in the next fight, but it's not good to go for now.
She will have a nanobooth that will likely go on to burn our unless I used to engage on tonight
What is this? How do you deal with this if you're British pro?
Well, they've
Pop the sim wall at least so now it's gonna be a little less of a pain in the ass
Well and landed on the high ground is gonna have this baptize windows soon, but say division respected in the back
I mean if Landon uses the amplification matrix and Zeta can just disengage it
They will they've got so much time to be able to play with they can make a replay back in with that now
I guess he's mad.
Got a run, Kevster.
Land gets deployed, window two, they're going to try and cross five.
It's flashing down, it's just not going to work.
Look at that, chasing landed down to nano on knife.
Oh, my word.
Virtus Pro right now, Moxie.
Got to be honest, handed a three-question quiz
about what colors are in the rainbow
and they can't name anyone.
Come on.
Ice, you have to look to him with this defense matrix
to shut the blizzard down. Fixed the nostrils,
not have the time barrier. Zeta, pick up the second checkpoint
And we roll into third the good news is for birds for if they win one fight
They'll be able to slow them momentum down the bad news is they had to use immortality field just now
Props got the blizzard to
Theory barrage from nice straight on top of the point all ice known tanks one of those in the face
But here's the track self-destruct perfectly used though pilot hide away from it manches to escape alive proper not quite so lucky
For a Kevster
Essentially kind of coming alive on the Cassidy, but he ends up getting shut down by Bernard
It's going to be after a quick reset here for Zedah Division and push it too far around this corner
But Vardis Pro, they still lost one.
Yeah, but they hold long enough for Fixer to be able to come through the sand barrier to deal with proper Blizzard
So it's not quite the same one-sided threat that it was before
Little bit of pressure coming out from proper just building up the space trying to force Vardis Pro closer
But you're likely not going to use the mail to be able to pop ice out of the Mac
It's gonna be a fairly trivial thing to do if you're having to touch this point constantly as well
Kevster high noon, always looking for this cat bastion, but the skulls really aren't built up
So it's only tickling a damage. A nice little silver bullet shot though onto fire. It goes dangerously low
He's like one pip of health remaining, but they've managed to escape alive
Landon has amplification matrixed, attempt over the gate and off of the nape, but they get flanked
Tatera getting flanked, Shoe ends up getting just crunched by Kevster
Nyf also pauses, Ketched against three kills. Aiding with the window there, did Landon, reset for the baby D.Va, as Virtus Pro making their stand, two minutes to go for Zeta though.
That was a very costly ult though. Landon uses and Fixie uses B in this same fight.
Prop has still been holding this Blizzard by the way, which speaks volumes to the fact that Ice has been able to hold onto the Neck and speaking about holding, Nyf is being held and Violet's pause and Virtus Pro have to be able to deal with the Bastion flyby yet again.
Kepster's playing so far back to stop his passion over the top. Well, there he comes.
Kepster gets safe, though. That's a lamp, a wall, and a matrix to try and save Kepster,
and he's granted them a kill.
They got the cat. They got Viola at early, which means when Knife gets dropped in Virtus.pro's
backline, he does not have the cat to be able to disengage safely. I'm looking for more
exit kills here onto proper, who does have the ice block, who doesn't want enough.
And Ice has to be out of the fight!
Put an unbelievable anti from Shudez, stops Verdes Broke, collapsing on proper further after that ice block.
There is still Displizzard in his back pocket, but there's a minute or so to go.
Nade kills Fixer, no more speed for VP, they're gonna have to play this one cautiously.
Bernard uses the self-destruct too, so even though you lose the map, because they picked Volusia, they still get to commit to the fight.
And now, proper can use Displizzard with almost impunity, play on these corners, get the DMec, and then you can win the fight, win the point.
point just off of this blizzard there it is round the corner and connects to fixer couldn't get to the
TP in time so they've lost one player already and land is also super low pops the window to aid in
the healing and damage output but knifes got nanoed again Kexas on the sidelines but cannot stand up
to the force knifes putting out teleport bomb does not do enough for VP to hold on to this fight
artillery strike is there for knifes but verterspro have to close to respawns ice is back in the
the neck. Vix is about to get the sound barrier. We're headed to the last fight territory. Zeta
have to find an opening, but they don't have good engagement ultimates. They can't break
against the Cassidy right now.
Yeah, this beat coming up in 10% as well from Vix. It's going to have to be clutch. He's
earning this so fast with the map. Hope damage coming in. He's just about got it.
He's got the beat. And Zeta Division, because playing it off, they can't get the catmash
clutch.
He's waiting, and she's already gone down. It's a five before now with a beat. Ice has
been frozen in the backline, but Knife eliminates Kevster, but they've traded each other. They
spawns are going to be so good for VP. Ice Throne just needs to live. My tank just needs to live on this point.
And he's just about gone and done it. A double kill for Ice Throne. As Vardis Pro,
they refused to give Zaytid Division that third point.
The Bastion Cat was so problematic on the first and second of Realtor, but the moment we headed
indoors and they were able to drain the momentum sky, when the Cat was looking to drop the Bastion
into the back line. So many people turned and looked at knife the sim wall as well being able
to stop the momentum because literally if you're playing five versus five and you have two players
taking the attention of three people that then creates disparity on the front line right so you
can just brute force your front line to walk forward three versus two but they don't get the
opportunity to do that because of the sim wall coming into play so Verdas probably they dig their
heels in they find their reserves and they hold Zeta off from a full push
now the defense for say it happened to lock in a comp here fairly early and it
looks like it's just going to be the cat bashing with a bit of a nicer time to
for shoo though being able to play super far back very hard for Verdes Pro to
kind of jump on shoo at any moment so we'll see how proper and but I set up
for this no surprise here just going to be hanging around in this first little
bit of a high ground but you saw where she was he was like he's he's all the way
back and you don't get punished as much in this round for having the Anna that
far isolated from the rest of the team because they're just pro they banned the
tracer so you don't have someone to split off from the main fight and go mark the
Anna. You're not healing four people you're healing two. It was nice and violent doing
whatever they want themselves. Fixer with the Mercy damage boost just for
Kevster to try and find an opening pick but it only finds the D the mech before
he swaps to the cast looking and go we like it kind of disorientating to kind
of aim in a way well they've actually forced them off the angle at least we
kept so luckily could use this TP to close this and snow tracer but sim does a
decent job of that perfect into the diva to like burn all has to be the one
trying to like this part and then goes a little bit low little fakey and has to
They'll fake you actually grab that corner there too, his knife goes dangerously low.
Lot of matrix coming in for Benart, even a wall too committed by Prop to make sure he stays up.
They've given so much ground though, they've lost corner, they've lost high ground.
VirtusPro can just hold Zeta Division hostage to the actual point and push it along.
Almost a perfect kill.
Fixed his deer in the healing output right now.
Tyrant mode for knife.
The two most long on ice unfortunately, looks like it's going to be a reset.
There you go.
Oh, he actually gets the credit for ice, and then boops him off the map in his mag.
That's a good chunk of all charge as well.
Violet's about to get Catnap on lane 2, and British Corp don't have anything to really prevent
one of their players from being grabbed.
As it's going to be reliant yet again on these 70ps, they've been good from Psycho.
Like you said, baiting Bernard, forcing the D.Va to have to boost backstrike and push people off the hill.
You're very low to the ground, you're very low to the ground, mate.
Oh, and Violet gets chased down to way over eager, it felt like that.
Yeah, just holds too close and a knife over extends into Vertisporous Spaces, and that's
a really cheap fight win. No ultimate cost required. In fact, worse for Zeta Division,
it bolts Vertisporous Alplank up.
And then it can just pop window down.
What? It's dead eye.
Oh, okay. I mean, stalling for a bit of extra time. I don't think it's going to even be
a touch. Just...
Oh, well, there is a touch, but Violet got instantly deleted.
And then the same TP as all because like you're trying to use that touch to get Zeta division players back up onto the high ground
So that we'll just probably don't just get to pick up the first checkpoint and then take the high ground to get all of that free
Carp push but they've got the same TP
So even though Zeta division try to get their players onto the high ground position
Psycho just make sure the ice can push them out of it
So you have the nanoboos though can't open up this engagement first for the third the amp
But they just go faster that nailing so funny flying from that far away
to the right. Everybody in the
corner right now for bird's
bro apart from that diva. Here
comes the knowledge of walling
off that window uses to the
good teleport to escape as well.
So they're not in any immediate
danger. Actually nice that ends
up going down first. But not
stay around here. A shoe gets
collapsed on by ice and that
was probably just a solo kill.
This is something we saw from
virtual yesterday against WBG
when they had the bastion gap.
They just hid in small rooms
up. She knows and publication matrix that yet again, they try to go for the defensive
Nana boost onto burn artist sit in front and go for the defense matrix, but landings already
50% to the next one and proper is on to the venture.
All right, was going to come in first up. You have to stop knife at some point. That's
a good tool to do it. But unfortunately, they lose the ice known for self destruct as a proper
goes down to fix it. But they've still done enough damage. They're training. It's kind
awkward trade but your spawn is very very close saying it's fight versus the sim not advised for
the diva but you've got the cat next to you for the heal so they clean up land and last which means
the rest is there. I really want to see how Zeta decides to try and hold this like traditionally
when you win a fight on realtor second as the defense you can tax your tax approach over bridge
but because psychos on the sim the vertus pro can just blip right past it plus zeta division
they're not really yeah they're just going to try and counter someone with violet ultimate but
But if you can't napping, you don't have to die!
What?! Oh, but Nife ends up killing two anyway!
On the rotation!
What an unbelievable play from Nife, their shoe!
I wouldn't say he was baiting himself there at all for VP, but like, hey, that worked out stupendously!
But it's a fast fight, and it's one that Virtus.pro don't commit ult to, so they're coming into this next one.
Double support ult, Deadeye potentially paired up with the sim TP, so
Burnar has to use the defense matrix and hold the mech for as long as possible or Kevlar could just get behind and kill everyone.
There's the dead eye defense matrix coming on for him from behind. They can't sleep it.
Look at this, Ana. Kevlar just got so bad.
Only a tickling of damage though.
There's the high ground control by Knife right now.
Has to be dealt with at some point, but Shu ends up killing Kevlar anyway.
Knife is staying alive for so long where D-Mech onto Pervinar might help tilt the scales for Virtus Pro.
But all good. The baby D.Va's still got it.
but not end up pistol-whipping fixer and takes it out but the property keeps this fight alive
It's falling it's falling with the venture shoes
But we have to come back to the nanoboost and proper and violent together
Just shut the dispros potential down and they hold the cart yet again on second
And that was the old dump plate coming through from bird as pro now if they want to be able to get past
They have to deal with elbow grease and basic kit alone
We're going to have war in a moment, 25% or so, but with only a minute to go, they can't
afford to make any mistakes at this point, with how long it takes you to regroup.
They're still trying to hit that silver bullet, Teleport ends up coming into this high ground
and is trying to dissuade Shu from playing any type of progressive, a beautiful nade Shu,
unreal!
Insta kills Kevster, and that might have just done it.
It is a quick fight, so actually maybe VP get another here, but they need to die, or
they need to regroup quick.
The problem for them is that she has nanoboots, so if they don't want to just start this fight fast on bridge with nanobastion to prevent Virtus Pro from actually getting onto the cart and hitting OT, then...
Oh, that makes unreal!
The anties!
She's lineups are insane! Virtus Pro stalled out, having to wait for the anties to run out, 70B comes on through, but she's still got nanoboots!
She's got nanoboots, it's going to give it proper growth, just run straight through them, turning them into fossils!
Fixer ends up going down as well, 20 seconds to go, Landon's going to get antied as well, I7 needs kills proper, so both TPS now down for data and now Shu is in trouble.
He's done so much heavy lifting with that 240 bench, end quite there just yet. Kedster saves the day for BP.
Yeah, but Virtus.Pro are not there on checkpoint just yet as well, Zeta can still potentially get a touch.
You can see Ice trying to channel the high ground and proper gets the touch for the OT. Zeta has one more chance.
He's got the shock as well. It's going to be an artillery barrage too
So so many also have to deal with that if you're a data division a pop-up from problem
It's gonna be deadly here. That's a Scott the dead eye in his sight, but he meant just to get away. I don't know how
Ice them does chase him down though and in OT they get that second point skin of that youth
But that's not a lot of time in the bank for Virtus Pro to get pretty much all the way through third worst for them
Zeta Division are about to come in with Nanoboost, and Bernard, he's had enough of the D.Va.
He's thinking about going for the Zarya just to be able to beam on through, decides for
the Ram instead, so far-range poke, but also a good shutdown potential with things like
the Vortex to slow.
Nanobooshu in 15% knife now off the Bastion has got Sim instead to help with that front-loaded
damage.
Do you think they put the Nanoboost onto Bernard and just sent him in with Ram Nemesis form
and pommel on through birdie's boys front line.
Possible. I mean, yeah, again, something like Landon,
it's going to be very effective,
but that golden box victory is so close from this choke point.
Pommel's wall could be quite annoying here for birdie's bro
to kind of fight into.
Landon is so close to the end.
As you said, just straight down at the middle here,
Psycho going dangerously low,
1 HP in fact is Banar,
swing and hits him over the head.
It's 28 seconds to go and VP needs no retreat.
No, Landon has to stay alive!
He's cooking up! Zeta, that's it!
They get the bat late, there is no chance for Virtus.pro to be able to cleanly set up around this amplification matrix in the OT.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what is this? Knife over the top with the sim?
I mean, Vile's got catnap. You can just use the catnap onto lander, so that you deny the ultimate uptime for Virtus.pro.
Yeah, as soon as that goes down, you know that catnap is coming in. Well, they're going to get a touch at the very least.
It's going to be the diva that gets there in time. There's been a hold down the front line.
The catnap's going to come in, so it's going to steal the diva away, so it's just non-factor in the fight.
O.T. ticking through, but look at the beam damage coming through for Knight right now.
Pinar ends up going down, however, a savior, potentially.
Shoe hits a fat ante, but isn't actually enough.
So I don't sure, charged up the beam fully tall,
because five hits another, but Kevster is just playing waste to them.
But Shoe pops it again.
It's only Mila on the point, and the 1v1,
but he's going down.
Another touch, a wall.
Knight, Pinar, they've done it!
Rialto is dated!
A male fighting end!
Oh my goodness!
It comes down to Kevster trying to get the dead eye off!
Panicking, probably thinking, is you about to get sleep dart up?
I have no defences, I have to just pop it now!
And hope that I do enough that my sin can follow on through!
But the diva is still in play!
and I think that's a good thing.
And Benar is able to use the
boosters and push him off
contesting the car. It comes
down to the absolute wire all
of the time that virtual lost
on second point of realtor comes
back to haunt them on third.
Look at this freakish stat line
from Benar 40 limbs to nine
It feels like he was almost involved in every single kill at that point.
I mean, shoot, 32 assists.
Ugh.
That was there.
That was all those days.
It's the anti-kills.
It's trade of the anti-kills.
And what's even more impressive is the fact that you're using them against D.Va, who's
there with things like defense matrix, but because so many of them on second point will
lineups, you're not expecting the anti-come-through.
And here you have those specific times.
You have to matrix, like, every door.
Pre-antibly.
Yeah, exactly.
Every single door you're going through, you have to matrix.
Because of the AOE. Like those lineups, you don't know if when you're trying to get out because with the Bastion Cat, something else that we sort of don't really talk about, it's not just the burst damage that you can do, it's the scouting potential too.
Like being able to just dangle Bastion up on one of those roofs, there's a reason why in the past when Winston plays used to do the tech where you would use the jump and then you would slide on the roof to be able to hold your position, you would then use it for scouting.
Same thing with using a moat for the third person POV around the corners, so you knew when the teams were pushing it.
Oh, we've seen a diabolical one of them from Kepster, I think.
Yeah, and then you can just like, relay when you want to send your Ana anti-nude in,
when they're about to walk, so that you get the most disruptive hit of purple possible,
so it cuts right through the walk time.
Ana Avalos freaking in the green room right now.
That's all I know.
Crazy Rikki, Ana Avalos.
They're like, yeah, that's, that's you.
That's just two things.
ridiculous though from Virtus Pro losing that map. Yes, Moxie, but in that fashion like that was one be ones at the very end
Like yeah, it doesn't get much closer than that
EMEA second seed coming into the tournament after going down to Twisted Minds in the finals well champions like okay
Sure script pre-written going into stage one TM have been dominant for so long
You're showing up like this against Asia's number one like yeah, this is ridiculous and this very well could be going into a map
Obviously, map 4 now coming up in just a moment, but where do we pivot now if you're Virtus.Brow?
You've got the priority ban for the next one, and we're going to either a hybrid or a push.
I think you go hybrid and you ban out the Bastion Cat, so that you can get the risk of Numbani out of the way.
I think like you you go hybrid maybe you go somewhere like Kings Row you ban out the bastion or the cat and
Then you don't have to worry about later down the line Zay to taking you to Nambani with the bastion cat fully implied
All right, we go I'm picking up what you're putting down
Because VP they're not running the bastion cat right bastion cat was on the table there for real though
But they were much more happy to just play a counter composition to it having the Baptiste being able to help out with that
hitscan calves to just so lethal on the Cassidy with the six shooter. If you're not going to play it,
like, you want to ban it with how disruptive the bashing cat has been. It might not be like the
thing that wins you the fights, but because it's splitting so many players' attention,
depleting and diverting so many resources off what should be your win condition to have to play
reactively and more defensively, it's not a fun time when you have to play for second turn,
because things can go wrong when you're waiting for it to be your chance. If you lose someone
really crucial to the composition, like one of your support players, or maybe someone
who carries the ultimate, and when these teams do all tracking, they have a priority list
of players that they want killed, and at the top of it, it's support, or it's the person
with the ultimate that wins the team that fight. If you pick them off on stage one, even
if you're trying to play for second turn, you have no confidence, no motivation to actually
commit to that fight.
I mean, we can look at it here in this replay.
It's blown off with that ram as well, the Nanobus, full sending in Divertus Porus' team.
And that shot was so filthy too. I mean, this was Kevster really playing it, what felt like 110%.
He's putting up big numbers on the Cassidy.
Look at that, yesterday on Juggertown. Like, that is ludicrous.
He's back. It's old school Kevster. He's back.
I mean, you don't have to play the bashing cat here. You could also play like mozuki on it mozuki carry mozuki, something like
That has been shown already by CR. So and we've had the mozuki band. So we've also had the violet Ellari be a standout
the bazookie band so we've also had the violet Ellari be a standout yeah so you
said to have to worry about but again like I find it strange that it going for
the Ellari because it sort of forces violet onto the cat line
BP overthinking it maybe a little bit but maybe not so much I have to see what
smash has been a cookie in with this Kings Row and then if we need to go to a
fifth map, New Queen Street, Brunus, Soppy.
They used the Tracer Band too, on Rialto,
which means that you won't have it here
in Kings Road to be able to use it.
And yeah, there it is.
Larry Bann comes on through from First Pro.
Zeta taking away the Sim,
and again, that sort of goes back to how
frequently Sim has been used in the EMEA.
Ah, EMEA.
They got the Sim virus.
I'm gonna look at how you-
If we can find a way to slot Sim into the comp,
like Sim, Ryan, old school SR peek check for like the true OG London Spitfire with
Vez as well and then like we play Sim with everything. Sim Bastion, Sim Sojin.
But it makes a lot of sense because like for Kingsrow especially being able to go
from the low ground to the high ground very easily with something like a sim
TP is really really strong plus if you don't want to have to be forced on to
that dealer line then you don't have to reserve your boosters for being able to
chase the TP and then push people off with the booster impact. Something that I'm sure
Zeta were not that happy about, given the fact that Virtus.Pro really just played a
game of cat and mouse with the same TP as on Realtor. First it was like, ooh, maybe we'll
use a false same TP to push that team into your backline. So your Diva has to give a
ball that space, but surprise, we're actually playing the frontline instead and now we have
cat pushed.
This is, this match is delivering a whole lot more than I expected and I'm so happy
I can't understate that moxie honestly, especially after that first game today
Well the improvements that bird as far as being able to make because they looked rocky against WBG that there were moments when you
Watch them versus WBG. You were like doubting who would actually be able to make it out from that series
And then we see coming in today the improvements that they've been able to make
Yes, again, it was Kevser on the cast he being a standout, but it's other things as well
It really does feel like this team has been able to find their comfort zone in a
method that was very much about pushing these American and EMEA teams out of
their comfort zone. None of them had experience with playing the Bastion Cat,
but crucially as well, playing against it.
Kevsey just taking a sit down, just a small bathroom break, I'd imagine, and
just making sure they're ready for hopefully a longer series for them.
He's getting ready to just like rest the shoulders so that we go into this
next map and he can just put the weight. He is limba. I'll take that right now. Here's the stats
from just Rialto 152, a limba to 115 on the other side. Look at the deaths though. 56 deaths
on Virtus Pro in comparison. Nine separate. I mean that is, yeah. I mean Zeta were just so
good at running the clock down with Virtus Pro as well, like getting cheap fight wins,
using the anti-nades to stall Virtus Pro's approach, being able to cut off the amplification
matrix as well, because Virtus.Pro landed with the BAP. This is a hero that he is known for.
Yeah, he is the BAP team. He is the BAP team. He is the BAP team of Overwatch Esports, and he has
some really good ideas in terms of using the amplification matrix. They worked out very quickly,
okay, Bernard's using the diva, playing right in front of the amplification matrix to face tank it,
one defense matrix on site, he's got the damage reduction of the nano boost. So you see, especially
on that second point with the amplification matrix, they don't do it for one specific person,
They do it right down the middle so that the cask gets the damage boost, but the bat gets to play the off angle and use the healing through it to be able to keep his DPS up.
The problem is that Zeta just go right through it and catch it onto land when he's isolated.
Is he Panas staying as well? No Milgari, only for control there for ZetaVision.
I mean, it's keeping your options open. You can play the Diva, you can play the Sig, potentially you can play the Zarya as well.
Racking ball is decent on like maps like Numbani, Kingsrow, you've got disruption potential and he's still viable there, but it's not as problematic and you want to have that flexibility because so many different compositions are seen in different parts of Kingsrow.
All right, let's load in upper semis. Here we go. Zeta Division up two, sitting on matchpoint
versus Virtus Pro. I mean, with that single game there on New Junk City, but what a map.
It was a four round or four point map, but three of them were just VPs, just sheer domination.
And from Kevser specifically, like on that Cassidy, let's load into Kings Row then. Zeta
We just want to finish this one up right here right now first bro
You know EMEA kind of living this one up. They want to take this to a map five. Yeah, like King's where it's home grand territory
Zeta division starting off on the defense and here it is band out before
Violet is on the Mizuki and they're not likely theorized
Stays in to be able to play the Sigma. This is what we saw in circuit rail. Yes
They use the mayor wall you trap people with those walls you find the isolation
But proper not on the bastion on the echo to have more fluidity
Oh, I like that a lot echo in these kind of comps against the far as well
Right like psycho is known for being able to play the far and echo melts far alive
The moment you get her down to half health the tracking on the focusing beam she melts
9th on May, this DPS line to be far from Zedor is just so flexible too.
Widow from Kev.
Zenvoli, but not sticking on it, so yeah, it's just to get a little bit of damage as you walk out from spawn,
but then I will be able to shield off the most of it.
Kevster sticks on the Widow a little longer since Zedor had that high ground presence before swapping to the Sojourn.
And over the back of that, Virtus Pro have actually been able to get that way through Choke,
looking to either walk onto high ground with the Zarya potential, or onto the point of Osada to walk.
Yeah, very easy, because the Sigma was just not playing that at all. They're playing on this high ground.
Crossing's going to be fairly difficult on this square section of the back here on this high ground.
Look at this crossfire.
Oh, good mail order.
That's annoying.
She loses line of sight for a moment, but that's the mail order gone.
Psycho now uses it on the point as Zeta Division have to have knife anchor to stop VP from getting cap
Yeah, super nice kill there from Bernard. It's it's really tough for goddess pro here because they have to deal with shoes somehow
But like we haven't got a teleport. Yeah, we've got this bee boost like it's the male. It's tough
It's it's psycho using the male to cut off the line of sight from cheer, but then the problem is not more kill surely
Yeah.
Oh, but nah.
Oh, there's one left!
Oh!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Don't let Kev to get away with anything.
They kill.
They kill on Kev, so there we go.
Yes.
Like, third is pro.
They have this run-down Sigma composition with both the Zarya and the May being able
to ignore a huge chunk of the Sigma's defenses.
But if they're running down the Sigma, they're not running down Chew, they're not running
down Viola.
And you can see that he's already almost at Nano Boost.
Really hard for Iceman to stay on this point too, with only a couple above us.
He has to use them on himself more than likely.
It's going to be the one point present, and wow, that was a shot.
Knife with the nice little headshot, strange the block, and Virtus Pro,
yeah, they're backing up all the way to their own choke.
Oh, potentially a pick here onto Ice Nom as well.
Suzy.
Yeah, Suzy moment, Knife with that Maelal though,
and Virtus Pro denied more time having to wait for the Xaracus engage.
Rush for land and double support ultimate for Xayah,
Nano already online for Shu, even this sanctuary as well.
Ice Ward off for a brief moment,
Knife gets shut down though by Kevster. Oh and the Flux! Incredible use of free will there by Bernard. Ends up whiffing that one completely.
Bernard and Fyler end up just crumbling under the pressure of Virtus.Pro and that's the first point.
Yeah Bernard tries to use the Flux to disrupt the positioning of Landon's Rush so Azeta can keep our hold of things like the Nanobus if the fight goes long once the cure goes off ended.
But the flux whiffs, Virtus Pro get the kills, and Zedah Division lose the opportunity to last the fight long enough to have the ult advantage.
Silver lining for them, they've got four ultimates coming into this next one, and Violet with the Sanctuary can shut down Cervus' OC.
We've seen it defensively before.
Yeah, Sanctuary's so nice to use here.
Pins is Graviton against the Blizzard, like...
It's sort of the answer for Lacking Sandbarrier.
Oh, they're gonna strike win. Rock into pinning the bubble there of ice. There will be a nanoboost.
Oh, Keth just gets deleted. A copy and a Blizzard 2 thrown in by Zeta.
And they've still got the sanctuary, right? Proper goes for the copy onto the Zyra so that you're a big
beefy target. You can play in front of the OC. You get the health reset. You drop onto Keth, so you
deny Verluspro using the other clock to break through the choke, and it forces ice now to have to
use the Graviton aggressively, which means that Violet can react with that Sanctuary as
Kevster onto the Cassidy, potentially looking for a flank just to blow this fight wide open.
Psycho's actually on the flank right now. This is going to reappear with the rest of the team.
Wow, Sada back all the way up. Wow, they're giving them a choke.
I mean, they can play around corners though. Like, they've got banana brits to take the
space back, or they can use the Sanctuary. They're playing reaction. They want to know
whether Graviton comes out.
Look at Bona's ult charge already. You're already at 80% in here. There's the Blizzard.
grabbed on Serge Bernard doesn't have getting nanoed but he's so far away from the team with the grasp
It's actually gonna save him the shield and they're coming up in time as well
It's heads that ends up getting deleted my sanctuary from pilot 2 does protect the backline there the pocket on for no just ridiculous
I mean it's the grasp and then the shield and then the amount of healing even though he's outside of entry
With the first one did not with that second on the high ground now as well fixie use the fine barrier. It doesn't take long
Okay, but through that shield, as Banalic does end up getting felled.
Proper. Guess the stick is on to catch that doesn't drop the castie though.
So VirtusPro's still in this fight in Zeta Division having to fight Peddl.
Yeah, they're trying to get the walls there, trying to trap someone in, but they're already out of the game.
I mean, you've got Blizzard coming on through from 9th.
VirtusPro don't have a great answer to this outside of the Zarya bubbles coming on through from Ice.
Where's the pick coming from?
VirtusPro are looking to try to just set up an off angle with second control.
They're trying to get ice, he's already got a bubble and he manages to get away, beautiful stuff, nice kite.
Doesn't give some space too, they've been able to take away the caps of flank coming out to put pressure on the back line so she was boarding a banana boost entirely uncontrollable.
Double hop onto the high ground, props not really expecting that one, was looking the other way the whole time.
Here comes the copy from proper as well if they want to get aggressive, she was a banana boost for going to the aircomb, might go on to burn odd just to have the stability and push into Virtus Poise face.
This place face man insane push and pull here from VP and Zed of division just trying to get flanks on each other trying to get the
Upper hand as ice pushes the tempo
Now no onto proper sound bar from fixer does hit fire to try to run down this baseline here
But it's going to be in trouble. It's gonna get burned down by Kevser in fact
I said smack to the face of the melee they end up training for psycho and she was still alive plus they have to
Yeah, the ice is so close to the ground and you got violent so there's no defense against run down shoot. She's gonna get out
nice wrap around from VP and
And there's no healers left. An ice is a hundred energy.
Nice calling from Ferdice Pro to run down shoot.
Proper still behind though. They know that he is. One of the players is marking it.
Can they actually get someone on pointy contest? It looks like they've given it.
Proper might have been able to get behind, but Canister catches him out on the Cassidy.
And Scythe actually swaps to the Reaper to be able to put much more pressure on Beno with how far forward he's been playing.
I was not afraid at all of that shield. Broke just stood there, didn't move, shot it, made
him recall it. Time to play around corners. What a rock!
That's one ulti-leaded Katsune rush, but here comes the sanctuary from Violet. Oh, the
Flux still manages to connect. Kind of shocked that one here. I think Ice is probably feeling
the same way. Wait, Grav? From Ice, potentially, that's
Why everyone's getting... Oh, it's the Grav as well!
Oh, and they're still surviving too!
I mean, what an 8 from Shoe, healing everybody up like instantly!
Yeah, proper ghost with a cop with Desire 2 to be able to get extra bubbles,
work for the Graviton!
He's got to throw out at some point, catches land,
and then leaps him as well,
Shoe with the headshot, proper dupe Grav, does it for Zeta!
Vile is back fast here, he swaps onto the Juno to be able to rejoin the fight
and take it 5 vs 5.
Fixer's about to get a sound barrier up, but Shu has the nano-boost, and Zeta can continue to try and apply all of his pressure on Divertus Pro
and run the clock down. Final fight territory here. If Fixer has to use the sound barrier to engage, they won't have it for the second fight to be able to actually complete the push.
This nano is going to be so scary.
Fixer needs this beat. Cannot go down early. Fixer dies here. It's pretty over.
They've got a blizzard too. They're going to throw it out on the point.
Oh, Kessler's in trouble. The ice block's gonna fade away, but it's all good. Fixer got the beat and he got it off, but Landon was just isolated for the rest of the team.
A good kill from Proper and Anti onto Kevster, Reel's in backwards.
His problem against the double.
There's 20 seconds to go.
Fight's over.
Potentially kill onto Kevster.
Bernard's using the shield to the afterblock line of sight so the may falls early.
Kessler's onto the Juno, desperately trying to get onto this point to activate the OCD for the speed rate.
They walled! They walled! They walled! The ice block get through!
get through. One second, 0.1, he manages to get there in time. It was a ray form in the
end from Psycho that gets the touch. The flux though, the nano boost, British Pro don't
have good answers to this. Psycho could have lost them. The flux is unbelievable and Psycho
goes down with the deathmoss and runs from Bernard, sends Fitzer to the Stone Age. Ice
end up falling and that's where the payload is halted. Say to the vision, only granting
VP those two points. The ultracking, it's so good, like the flux perfectly positioned
onto Syco's position so that they get the one player with an ultimate who could flip
that fight out of the way as quickly as possible and then you don't have to worry about groping
up and getting all hit by the Death Blossom.
But not again, 20 and 3 leading the server in damage as well as sitting at 11k.
I mean he's been on absolute fire, he's also getting all of this base because of Viola
and Chew just being able to keep that Sigma up.
Virtus Pro, if they want to continue in the series, the wine has been drawn in the sand,
It's not a full push, we won't go to overtime rounds, but can they get the cart far enough to remain or do they go out?
The lower bracket will await them if they end up going down.
Zayac Division will face rather familiar foes in a crazy raccoon.
Mizuki, Hover for Violet.
This comp very at home of EP with this.
I mean, yeah VP going for the old faithful.
Cyco on the make, Hevster on the Cassidy, pick potential staying power as well,
with that may being able to anchor the point.
But Ice, he doesn't have a lot of mobility on this area,
so potentially you use Cyco's walls just to be able to go from the low ground to the high ground,
but then you're not using them aggressively.
You can say this team is Zeta, well they get the opportunity,
this is the luxury of starting off on the attack.
You get to read out the comp and go for something which Rottesboro will struggle against,
that being the M-Rite.
Rob the master of all is chosen at the far up for this bout
So much range
Yeah, that knife has with the scope and but sport they just can't charge the cost you give up that high grind
It's over like there's just no way you're huddled in a hotel and you're being forced to leave no late check out
Can't start not having a fun time utilizing the flashbangs
Make sure that knife can't just swap to the siphon blaster and jump his way out of there
But say that they've got their hands on the high ground and that is not what is for one
Yeah, but trying to wrap around advice actually gets Andy but like proper. It's just straight disrespecting VP right now with this flank
They've already forced the block as well name was a little bit too early, but he's got the back up
I mean, but not a little one-by-one
He pulled him into the octagon
And he didn't leave a single finger on him psycho
Had no ability to escape in that fight and that's gonna be point for later
Yeah, and he had no help from his supports because both Fixer and Landon were being run on by the other members of Zeta, a very fast point take.
And one, that means that Virtus.Pro don't have ultimates to be able to hold Zeta off at the cost when we had to first fight on second,
which means that proper is going to be so disruptive here on the Faro Psycho.
Off of the May onto the Tracer, knows that Viola on the Juno is vulnerable to the One Clip, there's no break to be able to keep the Tracer in check.
The server I protocol is going to be dangerous for nice 10% away. He's been farming on the MRA. No diva as well
Ice is on the Zarya, so no defense matrix. No shutdown for VP. She's so hard for ice to stay up like landing has to be
Playing his a game right now. I think they're getting jumped up. But look at the support coming in from violet
Benar has the fun. I mean, they want to be able to go in if land and my users rush
Pinar just offsets it with the Flux.
One HP, Ice, he's got no bubbles left.
The Flux is going to be good for him.
And then we can just do it with the backline.
They're completely trading spaces right now.
Because of the Mad Hatter.
But Pinar is just crunching them.
As they try and escape,
there's four minutes to go.
The idea was there for VP,
but Ice tried to cross this small
like area towards Hotel
and just got decimated.
I mean, Sigma is not normally
aggressive tank known for taking space but because he's getting so much healing
and the orbital ray there from violet they're not just gets to play as
aggressive as he wants but I probably do have the gravity on this could be the
turning point but knife with the overall protocol is going to blow the fight wide
out from the same space they have to back off they can't afford to lose anybody
Kevster around the corner is gonna hit the hint today, and then the nice little
Susan there is gonna keep the light, and Iceberg just glazes him down.
Here's the Grapple and Search as well, he's gonna hit, but that Rocket Bracelet
provides some propensity to eliminate Iceberg, and pick up Fixer.
He's a high noon for Kevster, but you're not welcome here.
Proper with three.
Kevster, nowhere to shoot.
Make that a four.
What a concussive from Proper to push the dead eye out of position so it doesn't
kill the Fora.
Damage reduction, there's not a lot of time, Virtus.pro onto Ice Nom's D.va, just to be able to try and stall Zeta off and give VP a chance at one more fight for Fixer to use the beat, and give Virtus.pro a second chance.
That last map was close, but this is feeling anything but right now, as Virtus.pro on their last lifeline, they've got a sound baron, Zeta haven't got any ults here, beats to force the tempo, but Nas on the wrong side of the fight and gets picked.
They don't want to go free though!
Catch the Psycho, not caught by the Sound Barrier, but they've got the picks on the backline.
Shoe fall.
Don't let him get another one.
Surely not the Exitrade onto the Lucio.
Ice is doing everything that he can to keep Fixer up.
And Virtus Pro, skin of their teeth by the Sound Barrier, survive in the upper bracket for now.
Because Zeta Division, they've got four minutes.
Jaws, they can just play to take a fight that they're comfortable with.
Force landing to use the Rush.
Burnout Potential builds up the Flux.
Disrupts the momentum and then Zeta Division with the orbital ray get the last laugh
Trying to force the position of ice no now. I think I'm gonna go forward again with this roster
Yeah, like you said pick it up a little bit a nice rock on the ice and it's gonna be good here comes the rush
But instant back off. It's gonna be a flux actually pop from but are pretty quickly there
They're hitting me
There's actually gonna hit with a flux does match to connect with ice stone a nice little suzeria keep some life at the
Moment as well as that ray coming down to fight. It's gonna be so tough to fight into
There is gonna be a self-destruct for ice stone to keep them up at least for a couple extra moments
Kepster pops the high noon, he's in the small corridors,
Violet is in the back line!
What's true, he's so close to the nanoburst,
does Zeta still think it's one of all?
No, it's not.
Not with that hit from Kepster!
And Virtus Pro yet again sees Zeta to vision off.
Oh, what a kill!
Three minutes.
Double DPS ult though, and nanoburst for Zeta.
Virtus Pro have to hold Zeta off from getting aggressive,
and here it comes!
This was the thing that broke open in Rialto.
Nano boost onto Burner on the rematch to take the space away from Virtus Pro,
who fell fixic and battery up the beat.
They've got this Blizzard too. IsoNiC, they eat this.
There's just so much for IsoNiC to do, so much weight on his shoulders right now, for Virtus Pro.
Oh, a knife! What?!
Psycho gets eliminated instantly off the rip!
The Blizzard gets burned out by Knife as well, he's all falling apart, knife gets a double!
Oh, dearie me!
Nano, not even required.
Landon takes down Shu, but Zeta on top.
Virtus.pro.
They made it look close.
But Asia's number one reigns supreme.
We get a rematch in the upper finals.
It will be Crazy Raccoon versus Zeta Division.
And what a match that will be.
But Virtus.pro, this was the upper bracket.
They get a second chance, they drop to the lower bracket, and with the improvements that they've shown in comparison to their performances in the group stages, and yes, they leaps and dimes for this team, they look so different, they look dominant, they look like they could have been first seed EMEA.
There's a couple of smiles there too, I saw Psycho giving him a big grin, and yeah, I think that's it. That hope there, that very, very close series.
maps off Zeta. Yeah, they almost got Realto. They almost got Realto. It really did come down to
a one versus one versus one versus one. But that was one of the closest maps in Overwatch history.
It's so rare that we see it come down to the wire in that fashion. But it truly was, like you said,
Virtus.Pro have the hope. They've got that spark now ignited. They have the motivation. They know
it's possible if you can pull maps against Zeta by letting the bastion cat through and dealing with
that composition, you don't have to be as scared about the current meta coming on through from the
Korean region. Yeah, look, didn't expect it to be this close, but absolute banger. A four map series.
You mentioned it already. Crazy racoon Zeta. It's going to be a rematch. However, Virtus.Pro are
knocked down to follow a bracket. They've got no more lifelines left. They're going to join the
the Chinese and the North American teams down there as well. They can hope they can make
it through to that lower finals in front of a home crowd, though, is Zeta. Well, Krusty
is going to do a little bit of talking, maybe a little bit more than talking. I think after
that one, they want to shore this one up, making sure that crazy raccoon match is going
to go their way. I mean, that has the potential to go the distance. Like the last time these
two teams met, it was a seven map. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We're going to quickly jump down to
the stage though for a quick interview, we'll see you in a sec.
Bernard, big congratulations on getting the win. I want to ask you about after losing a New
Junk City, were there any changes that the team had to make in order to secure a win?
What do you want to hear from the team?
How did you win the game?
We were going to try our best, but I think the opponent did a good job of countering us.
So we wanted to play a little bit more.
Rather than doing what we usually did, I think we were able to do that.
We wanted to put a twist in our gameplay, and I think that's how we got the win today.
At first, I was thinking that I wanted to go with the style I was going for, but the opponent, VP,
did a pretty good job with the strategy, so I think that's why I went for the win.
And also, looking forward, tomorrow you guys have the upper bracket finals. You guys will be facing off against crazy raccoons.
What do you think about that, Mejoo? How confident are you that Zeta could defeat crazy raccoons tomorrow?
Tomorrow will be the upper bracket final, so we will be fighting Crazy Raccoon, but how confident will you be in the Zeta division?
I think it will be a very interesting event tomorrow. The Zeta and Raccoon match will be held again.
Will you be able to win tomorrow?
First of all, we won the final match in the last round, but I think we're doing well these days, so I think it's going to be an easy game.
But we've won this game, so I think we'll try to win it again.
We will try our best.
one too as well like both of them have been showing improvements like
Virtus.pro as we said have been able to deal with both the Bastion cat meta as
well as play it themselves plus Kevstar with the Cassidy in the back pocket
we do know that both these teams haven't really played the Mizuki as well
though so you don't have to worry about that additional composition coming to
the mix because again I really do feel that was something like the Korean
teams purposely kept hidden everyone was like is it a big composition is
that. You know, it turns out
that. Yeah, this is actually
something that is very much
viable and really good at
shutting down things like the
Sojourn and that's ours, so you
don't have to find out. We'll
find out how the match goes
down just after this. We're
going to jump to a quick break.
Don't go anywhere. Desk is
going to set that one up.
Let me join by Coach Christopher from SSG.
Hey, like we were chatting right before this interview started.
Hey, things happened.
It was a bit of an unfortunate outcome, I think, for SSG.
But hey, I know you guys tried your best.
So as a coach, Christopher, if you could sort of tell us,
what was the biggest, I guess, problem for SSG
in the Champions Clash?
I guess it all kind of comes down to two decision points,
I think.
The first decision point is that we couldn't play cap bassoon
and we couldn't win on it, which I think
makes it difficult at this moment in time.
And then the second was at least today,
we kind of took a gamble that we thought
we could beat it as opposed to Bannet. You have two options either you just try to Bannet
twice and guarantee lose that third map or you gamble that you can win one of the maps
with it open and then third map they can't, you can guarantee but and we thought okay
Oasis maybe it's not that good for Kat Bastion but I mean to be honest we should win Oasis
because once they pick the wrong pick we can't lose but we did lose and then yeah I guess
the same thing with Kings or we kind of gamble that we could beat it and then map
free in theory they can't play it but you know if you lose every decision is
bad you know. And also I mean you know with losing you also you know gain that
gain another experience right to move forward as a coach I mean at this time
right now you know with two losses and getting out of Champions clash what
can you say to your I guess players. I think even though it doesn't look that
I think it's a team we have made improvements through our first stage together, but I guess
one thing that we also have to look ourselves in the mirror and realize is the gap between
us and the teams that we want to be able to compete against is too big right now.
It should be closer than it is, I think, so we maybe have to look inwards a little bit,
you know.
Hey, I mean, but we're still in Japan.
Are you, Chris, are you staying a little bit after the event, or are you just flying
going right back out and then going right back into practice.
I usually fly on Monday but it seems that my weekend's just frayed up so I guess I'm
visiting Tokyo.
Where do you want to go?
Is there like a food that you really want to try in Tokyo?
Yeah, I haven't eaten any, I really want to get like a proper Tonkatsu curry because
that's actually one of my favorite foods.
I think I need to do ramen too.
So far I haven't had any of the really good Japanese foods so yeah.
I hope you enjoy as much food you can get in Tokyo.
They got great food.
You guys definitely deserve it.
Thank you for your time and thank you for the interview.
Thank you.
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And Danny, who is also working with us, is also working with us.
Yes, Danny. Hello.
You can speak Japanese too, right?
Thank you.
It's the first time I'm speaking Japanese.
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Okay.
There seems to definitely be a lot of people out and about.
Where are we going?
Oh, wait.
I'll look deep first.
Let me look deep.
I don't want to end up just going for people in the front.
Excuse me.
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I wonder what kind of person is there.
There are some people who are playing the Kirito cosplay that is playing at the back.
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Cargo, still out there, still doing the good deeds out there.
That twisted mind of yours about it was definitely cargo size.
It definitely was.
That was so fitting, guys.
I mean, that was his personal jersey.
It probably was, and he gave it away.
Our audience here is incredible.
The energy in here is wonderful.
And I am delighted because I got Moxie and Ash with me here on the desk to break that.
The series we just got to witness, not watching, witnessing.
And we're going to set you up for our next match, which will be in the lower bracket.
So everything on the line for these two teams.
But first, let's talk about what we just saw.
saw. Yes, SETA division wanted, but ash man like VP they played it so close. I don't think anyone
thought that this series would be this clutch. No, I mean you're setting it up top of day.
And I love that I was wrong about this. I know it was so sick to see VP bringing it to Zeta
division. There is a world where this could have gone all five maps. Realty was so close. Overall
though, I think that, you know, you have to give a lot of credit to Zeta Division. Bernhardt was
having an insane series as well on that Sigma, but focusing back into that VP Moxie, I really am
impressed with how solid Kevser has been. He had an insane game the other day up against all gamers,
and overall, he's continuing with that momentum and the prowess on that Cassidy.
Yeah, what was really impressive for me for Virtus.Pro was the fact that they were able to come
back with momentum, right? It was a very one-sided map of Ilya's Well, poor old
Ice-Norm, I feel like, so more of the inside of Well than the rest of the map
direction, but they were able to come through, pull a map against Zeta Division,
and you saw it at the end when, like, we commented when we were casting, when they
were doing the Handshake, they were happy, like, even though, yes, they didn't
physically, and literally when, they still sort of won in terms of the mental
game, right? You now have the confidence you pulled a map against Zeta, you're
coming into this is the second seed in EMEA. You don't know if you're going to be able
to come into the international stage and keep up with everyone, especially when the meta
changes, but they've shown, they've proved that they can hang with these teams and they
can best them.
That instills so much confidence for VP going into this lower bracket matchup.
Yeah, and I mean it's a short turnaround, but I guess another positive you can take
away from here for VP is also like, you're coming in with hot hands, right? You're coming
in with a confidence booster knowing that you made this look so very close as you just
So yeah, what will we see from these two teams? Because neither of them is going to be super partial to playing the Cat Bastion meta.
Now, both of them have an opportunity to play their own strengths here, which I think could make this a very exciting match.
Yeah, there's a world where we have a little bit of a gentleman's agreement not having the Cat Bastion come through.
I think what a big standout for me as well here for the side of VP is they continue to prove that Ujung City is their best map.
It was so impressive to see they go down a hundred to zero on that first point
And then it's a hundred to zero for them full sweeping the rest of that one
I mean
There's actually a really smart game of the system that Dallas could potentially do if they lose the first map and that's
Take us to a flashpoint which is not New York City to sweep it away from both sides
Yeah, and I'm also just quickly want to mention Mizuki win rate still through the roof also
It's got to be met up because he bans Mizuki and they win a map. Just like just throwing it out there
If Zeta and crazy raccoon are both playing Mizuki
Like for sure it's met it and it was actually doing like so much to be able to shut down a lot of power plays
It really was I'm kind of curious. I'm like, okay. Do we see yeah is one of those teams where I could see them pulling the funny out
Exactly.
I think CJ is one of these players in this double flex support lineup
That's been so consistent.
Luke Mino is the one that we always talk about because of how aggressive he gets on that
Alari on that back.
But CJ is always there holding down that back line.
Not just, you know, the Alari, but also the Wu Yang.
Yeah.
But we're using a little bit of Wu Yang.
He's sort of fallen out.
He's not as strong as he was in 2025.
But Luke Mino having that flexibility and also potentially forcing out a ban on the
Alari since they just probably don't really play it themselves could be really strong.
It's also like we had wits on the desk yesterday, right?
a post show and it did say that they didn't expect to win their first match in that upper
bracket so they kind of knew that they're going to make that lower bracket run.
They recovered so well at the same day in their match in the lower bracket to stay alive
and I wonder is it giving them an advantage now?
Obviously they got to sit back during this first series.
They got to watch VP.
What do you think their takeaway is?
they're a particular crack in the
armor that they could abuse just
based on what they saw. V. P.
playing against crazy raccoon.
No set of the vision. Excuse me.
I think you want to get rid of
this area if possible during
one of those maps. It's
consistently been one of ice's
best heroes in the pool. We've
seen him making plays, especially
with those grabs as well.
Sometimes you know not always
able to follow up on it because
of how well data were responding
in that match, though. I mean,
potentially this are also
potentially the D either
back before the day's start was that
Kellen doesn't really feel towards
the diva right so being able to play
things like the Winston or the Sigma
could actually be a really good shot for Dallas Fuel.
Yeah it's definitely going to be a difference here
from what we've seen thus far in this
tournament because we are playing with
two teams that can throw
a lot of silly stuff into the mix that
is not meta or not considered meta and
there might be this gentleman's agreement
looking at the predictions here. I had to go with Dallas Fuel
I should think overall their skill ceiling
is higher than what we see from VP. I feel like VP has shown more than one time, not
just in this tournament, that they can be tripped up in terms of composition. Also maps
where we take them. So I feel like for Dallas Fuel, it should be theirs to win. I hope for
a close match, though, of course. I also hope for a close match. I had to go with VP for
this one. I know you're going to call me up for the reasons you buy it, but I mean granted,
I think with VP, what's been the most impressive to me is the fact that they've been so adaptive.
We talked about how grueling the first of two day was yesterday, and to be able to have
these turnarounds and have those comebacks that you were talking about earlier.
Was it great to see?
Yeah.
I mean, I won't call you after recency bias, but I will join you because I'm also going
for the spot right there coming into this hot.
They've got the confidence.
I think they're going to be able to take it.
Yeah.
Well, let's see which team is going to come out on top.
They got to both bring their A game because this one is for all the marbles.
Playoffs lives are on the line, Dallas Fuel and VP will crash after a short break.
We'll be playing the lower bracket, and we'll be playing the VARTAX PRO from the previous match.
Let's get started!
First up, VARTAX PRO!
Welcome back to the ODE WCS Champions Clash here live in Tokyo VP vs Dallas Fuel.
We had to bring in our NA EMEA expert Avril.
You had to sit back and watch, you had to watch back Zeta, NCR back to back and then you come out here for our NA EMEA super matches.
We always get excited about the event.
I mean, this is the game, this is the game that people should care about.
NA versus EMEA rivalry is like the rivalry, right?
I mean, we got Asia in there.
Yeah, yeah.
We got Japan and China, what the really, NA EMEA.
That's where it's all about now.
I was really impressed with Virtus.pro in their game against Zeta.
Obviously, they don't come out on top because we're here in the loser bracket.
But I I thought they looked really good. They played them tough on multiple different maps
Although you were saying you thought the Dallas actually looked fair pretty well against crazy
I think they had a decent showing but VP definitely played Zeta way closer again that we just watch so right now
Probably a little scary for Dallas also VP pretty warmed up. They're just gonna play black back. I mean VP
Adjutants renders one versus Dallas field who are gonna need to spend a little bit of time in the practice room to get themselves
But given how good VP played, I mean, I think VP should feel good about going to this game now.
Absolutely. And that's one thing that's always kind of, you know, hotly debated whether, you know, you want to kind of play back-to-back.
You want a little bit of a break. I kind of like, I know, ending up playing that back-to-back.
When you take a look here at the map, so it's VP's Matt Pick. They end up going with Oasis here.
So this has really been, I think, outside of one time.
I know what we've seen you know some of the EMEA teams really kind of favor oasis
So like one or couple early horses so far first bands are going to be Anna and Diva targeting ice
I mean you saw how good ice is Diva was in that game versus Ada no surprises down
So they come in also Kellan by the way on the Dallas side. He's a main tank player
He can jump on the Diva, but he doesn't prefer he would like it. Yeah, just didn't play the Diva
This is a nice asymmetrical band to start things out with so he was talking in the back though
The Ice Zarya kind of goes hard.
I mean, you know, on King's Row he was putting up pretty good performance there against Zeta,
so we'll see where Ice Nome goes in terms of his hero pool.
Because last year this team kind of comes out with Vesola and Ice on the roster for
most of the season, and then this one they now kind of drop down to just Ice.
So his hero pool has really, I think, been tested by a lot of teams over the course of
EMEA and then now here at Champions Clash.
Also looking towards, you know, some of the other positions here, I'm really looking forward
to the Chronic vs Kepster battle. Kepster has had quite a turn on early in the year.
The news of him moving towards the headscam position is like, oh, how's this going to
go? But now that we've reached Champions Clash, dude, he's cast so far, he's been deadly.
It's been disgustingly good. Kurox needed to show up today.
No, it's always awesome to see Kepster kind of back on top, back on the main stage as
he's been gone for a brief period of time. Really just kind of those last two major events
last season. I also think you're looking at like land in here for VP to have a big game.
For VP, and there are series against Zed division, a lot of odd sound barriers and some of the
ultimates that come out from VIXA, so, see if he's able to make those adjustments here,
going into this series, but, Dallas, they've had some time to sit around in Wacha, I know
coming on the stage, maybe a little bit cold, I'm interested to see how they start off.
So with the backline land so far, Luke Mino on the Wooyoung so far, I mean, it's something
that he did also play in the Crazy Raccoon game, one of the few teams on the few plays,
willing to go in that direction. Let's see if any of the teams will actually go into the Cap Bastion. Notably, Cap Bastion not banned an opening map.
And I think both of these teams, not that one to play at base on the previous matches, so they're gonna get them and scream in this one.
Just handshake it away. No Cap Bastion. Play some normal on-us Overwatch.
Got a chance to see what VP decides to do here is, uh, Cab. Yeah, the Cassie's available. He's been kind of locking that in the entire event.
so Psycho gonna go over and play Tracer gonna can been playing some Sam and then also some Reaper here as well as
Sunder gonna come out and play the forest
So this is actually a comfort Dallas feel that a lot of other teams are actually running with the Mizuki, right?
But they're playing with the wheel. Yeah, I wouldn't expect the Mizuki too early because I think it's better on the sort of hybrid
escort type of maps really open Mizuki might suffer a little bit
Right now this opening fight so if I kept the house is what kind of from because he needs to be the one shutting down
There's no D. But as a reminder, yes, Ice Emblem actually gets stunned there for a brief period of time as he's a cardiac overdrive.
Finds chronic, but they lose it, fix it right away, so not going to have the speed to kind of get them back towards the point.
Close the gap, get past the signature shield.
One-to-one so far, but it's quite still very open for either team.
Ice Emblem got quite low in that fight.
He's being careful about how he approaches Kaleon Ultimates.
Still a little further away, Ice Emblem takes V again though.
Kaleon makes it out.
He's just getting chunked with rockets from the side from the Zundre.
Kev is in a rough spot. Nice play that comes on through the wall here.
Kev using the movement, just not good enough there to stay alive.
The far has really been an issue early.
Right about Ice making it out of Fortshire. He got on a sliver but still finished off now onto Desiree like you mentioned.
A little bit earlier, Landon, a little bit closer to the CJ towards the Ultimate.
CJ's basically closed the door on that one now. It is going to be Virtus.Pro's opportunity into this new fight.
Probably Dead Eye to open this out with.
What do you think of Desiree this week here?
Swap, well certainly gonna give some capability for Ice to just have a bit more safety in terms of the bubble usage here
He's just gonna be personal on as well. He doesn't have like great bubble targets
Still not great into unfortunate the fire though. So I'm just causing the shoes
I mean hey, that's an odd trade though, right? The faria fara in the Lucio kind of trading out here
You do have the Katsune brushes for both sides gonna be CJ popping his as well as landed
but chronic with a huge rail gun shot so both supports now down.
Four Virtus Pro gonna be in a really rough spot here is still gonna be Dallas
Fuel in control of the point. Vixxia is back, gets Azaria bubble there from
Isom, he takes Haraga from Sunjin but then you're gonna have to wait for land to
get back in the fight. Auto Blast is available here, running a lot of great
targets unfortunately, might just drop it onto himself with Mino and just dive in.
Possibly could be used defensively onto Sunjin when Sunjin wants to go towards
zone barrage, in nice safety. Burn a spot. Losing a bit of time here. They need to do
something about the 70% plus on D.F. so far.
Dead eye. Or Kev as he's going to move up here. Going to get the speed train, get him
in position. Nothing really, no even damage there. It's the signature shield that kind
of blocks us. They're going to be walking into that for a bit of flux here.
There's barrage. Turn on the ice. No personal bubble. Not enough of a save. Not close enough
to the sound barrier for Fixer E. There's a Sons just going to clean up and that might
just be the end of the first round, man. Not a lot left here.
Yeah, the title blast here on it, so he's gonna go in trying to find anybody, but everybody around him ends up falling
You're not even gonna really even need a challenge at Gravitic Flux. They will get it in the OT
Fix us so close to the sound barrier here, Avril. He's won it's thing!
Ohhhhhhh!
Thank you to that. Thank you to this throw badly. Now, I see the only one that might get a grab here
Try and save the day, but you still need to keep this touch going. Count on with the flux
And no grab. No, I mean this one is GG. That is that is really rare though
I feel like because VP obviously they're the team that just ends up the kind of losing they they're still pretty warm and fresh usually it
Takes the other team a little bit to get going but Dallas just kind of dominating near their first round nice as well struggling opening up
And you start on the Malga recognize. Okay. I'm being farmed up a little bit by the sojourner on the other side here
Gonna make the change over to the side also strangely enough when you look towards the Malga versus Sigma
Typically you would expect okay
You have a lot of safety charging on and nothing's gonna stop you to set up these fights
But yeah, unfortunately, I didn't have a lot to deal with so and you either who is really putting the damage and after
Ike some gets in on the Malga. He's pretty susceptible
He's just taking damage and charging up those rails for chronic repeatedly by the time it changes over to desire
He didn't even have time to build up a single graph. They didn't have a lot to deal with anybody there an ugly first round
From VP and what do they answer with the honest overwatches over there?
Straight to the cap, Bastion here.
What a little fail.
And hey, that's one way to deal with a far, right?
You get that Bastion right up in the far his face.
I mean, nowhere, if it's something to go.
Now, they're going to be...
So, this close-quarter area is tough for the Bastion to go into, right?
But that's going to force him off the far right away.
I actually think this is really good for VP,
because I thought the far was the thing that gave them the most trouble in that first round.
Yeah, Kip still wasn't getting a lot done on the cast and fortune.
He's just completely shielded away by Kellen's Sigma.
He's still on, by the way.
to make his way in, good rock to start things out with, but
there's still holding onto Cat pretty comfortably for now.
What if he keeps his next turret form to be available?
Yeah, I mean, they're trying to beat them out onto the point, right?
That's when the turret form and Cat Bastion can really start to be effective as
the Cat, you know, can dodge there for just a second.
This angle is so filthy, right?
They're going to try and like push him out, right?
Going up the staircase, but you see Suntran
having to use recall here and now the turret form is going to come in.
He split the team as well.
You notice that Kela actually dropped that weapon
the rest of the team, but look at me now on the other side, managed to find Landon, is
traded for, gets it down as well, Psycho is doing a lot of work on this fight.
Yes, I do get Ice Nome extremely low though, so the Tracer is still alive here as the point
is in control by VP.
You also have Fixa in Landon here as well, is not able to save Psycho, so he's popping
off here on the Tracer as the Pulseman, but both supporting a nice shot for VP keeping
each other up.
Sooner is here for CJ, wondering if Dallas Phil have a good position to just drop that
Russian lander saw a little bit further away.
We still in VP's control, so that was a powerful fight.
They get Icelot back. This is great stall by VP.
If so, looking, not finding CJ Ripsett,
Landon has now finally up, but they lose.
Icelot's so quickly.
VP, are they gonna even open this one?
Doesn't look like it.
Icelot's got disintegrated there.
I mean, he kind of steps up onto the point after coming back.
I thought it was really nice from Fixen Landon to be able to kind of get it to that point,
but Icelot steps up.
CJ ends up dropping the Kitsune Russian. They just run them over.
So they also VP have held off. We say five out 64% lead as well. A lot to use yet.
Rush is obviously the big first ticket. See if they can maybe set something up with maybe a cap set.
Artillery here is all fixed to drag Kellen off the map. Landon going down.
That's gonna be a big problem.
That's a big set.
I mean you lose the landon here. This is gonna buy so much time for Dallas.
We'll see now. They can keep this one rolling, so I assume I'm going to just wait just a
little bit. If you end up losing something as you use the pulse bomb, but now I mean
you're going to be able to use this dead eye up on the high ground potentially. You might
be able to kind of weather the storm through these big support ults.
What if I land and that's the go ticket, fix it, take a bunch of damage, so it could be
a bit problematic. Here we go, ripping the consumer rush. Big response though. Flux and
title boss on the other side. Yeah, he ends up kind of keeping himself alive there,
Kev with the artillery is the ends of getting picked up into the plots.
Ice no more to has the annihilation rolling to shine a find the tracer.
It is just up to ice no more.
I think he's got maybe, oh, yeah, no, it's going to be psycho back in the fight.
You do have lead fixer there as well up in the sky.
So they do get the turn, but it costs them absolutely everything to do so.
Dallas field dragged up to 65 is also the equalizer in terms of percentage
points. It's ice on where the dust settles after annihilation.
Still in the mix and a lorry now a swap from Luke Mina. No, that's gonna be the cat
He's still deciding what he wants to play the cat for the dead eye combo has to be exactly why look me
They would want this. No now you're just gonna get chronic up in the sky escort him
It's a nasty angle. It's gonna really put a lot of pressure on ice there in the corner
Just around the corner and burns them down
I mean, it's just bait ice not in the open to try and bait out the deadline while that's happening
Kiffzer turns the corner, Kronik not ready for that one. VP in a strong position now,
aerial battle, fixer takes it, from Lukmido and now it's just up to CJ. That was the
thought of anything, no further touch, no Katsune rush, and the last minute
swap to Sombra, I'm not going to be quick enough either. I like the adjustments from VP though,
right? We were talking a little bit about how dominant that horror was in that round one,
and then it looks a lot more even, right? When you have an Ascension on the tracer being matched
by Psycho, it can really start to open things up for the rest of the team, and then the Bastion
swap from Kev as we take a look at some of the S2 cycles only got one depth which is pretty crazy
considering how that first round looked. He was definitely staying alive even if
E.P. weren't winning that first round but there was certainly a lot more winning on that second
round with the fact that they're showing their capability to flex back over towards the cap
bash and even when you know they've been a team that hasn't been as willing to play certainly
Dallas as well have been the team not that one to play guess what Luke has locked it in,
Chronox locked it in. Kellen's coming back on the Sigma and Ice is back on the Malga.
Hmm, this will be interesting, kind of. Now the Malga versus the Sig, right?
The Malga can obviously just get right past this shield, put that Stomp onto the Sig, put a lot of pressure, so we'll see.
How Ice Nome decides to play that is already Chronic taking a lot of damage.
Well, that was a real battle. It's going to go the way of Chronic. Kephz is trying to heal himself back here, but
but not enough healing to save his life.
That was your early opening for the 5v4 here.
Point should be theirs, Virtus, for a quick reset.
Yeah, and although Chronic took a lot of damage early,
he had that turret form available a little bit later, right?
So, Kevin, they get a little bit aggressive
around the corner, maybe they can finish the bastion off,
but Chronic just starts vomiting out damage.
So, Sundren trying to make a plank.
I went into the back line there.
Keep an eye on that flank,
Keb now trying to find an angle as the VV is moving away onto the point, ice on dangerously low.
It's another situation, it reminds me of the opening round, where Ice was starting on the Malca, but just couldn't quite find purchase.
Yes, you can sort of dive up the shield, look in, come on, throw the kill stick.
A strong range rock from Gelend to just knock Fixer down, and Ice, just something from the first round,
goes from Malca towards something else. That was Zard, now it's going to go towards the ram,
and Malca is just not quite getting him what he's looking for, even if you can charge past the shield.
the shield after he's done that he's just in the open and dying. Yeah it's really
rough and you wouldn't say that Sigma is like that when VP had a bestola it was
really Sigma that he was kind of playing. It's chronic using the artillery, you're
gonna get out there with a sliver of health and that is so unfortunate there
for Virtus Pro right if you were able to get that kill on the Bastion would have
been huge you end up losing Landon at the hands of Sundance with another fight
here that goes into neighbor up and now yeah Isom doesn't even get dragged off
the map because he just gets deleted there by chronic as Kellan moves on
forward as do they are having so many issues with the sick of it as I say
that he's a flex to stay alive oh just grad sound of the band I mean that's a
fight you were you have control over right you probably don't need to use that
all don't want to overspend on that one for sure Dallas fuel had a play
advantage and ultimately still pretty cheap for them just a catnap for that
little skirmish does get exchanged with a catnap I think it's so which is even
economically better for Dallas field as I go into now what will be the final
Kachunovrush in hand, Flux in hand as well. Super strong combo here. Put that Flux into land, then Kachunovrush is going to be dead.
Like, a must win fight here for Virtus Pro. It'll be the pulse bomb from Psycho. It's going to be the Suzu that comes down from CJ.
Cleansing that off. Revitic Flux comes through. Not a lot of damage that comes through from that ultimate.
So, we'll see now as Kellen using the kinetic rash trying to back up, soak some of that damage in as he gets back on and contests the point.
Well, Kellen's in trouble though. He has to back out. This might just give the flip over to Virtus Pro.
So trying to hold on to this one. This is a stickless juicer! Right on time for Kepster to save his life.
I like that I'm still in trouble though, so this is not over the greatest part. I have barely anything left to play through.
This might be the map over.
The artillery there from Chronic, pushing players back out of that choke.
But now you lose Kellen, so both tanks out of the fight.
Now I still am going to come back off the spawn here in just a little bit, as VP somehow magically able to flick foot this after all.
I really came down at the kill and to kill it first and foremost
but then getting Lugmino on top of that one just gives VP a little bit more to play through
having that play advantage, getting Eichstamm back with an annihilation coming online pretty quickly.
Maybe you have a bit of work to do to climb the mountain and coming back on this round
but you start to see the vision here of how they can do it.
You remember how good that previous annihilation was last time we sought out from Eichstamm
winning fights, winning the round rather off that.
Yeah you have the catnap here available for VP as well so maybe they can make a play
They have to do a nice job of keeping Ice Nome alive, he's been taking a lot of damage up at the front.
That's going to be the third form from Chronic over the top here trying to put some damage down on the cycle.
Doesn't really come up with anything as now a lot of pressure coming into Ice Nome there on the point already uses the block.
It's going to be the third form here, it's going to be the artillery from Kev putting down some damage.
Tried to back them off the point, but that's a consumer, so they're going to get aggressive here Dallas.
Yeah, they are Chronic going down, Virtus Pro looking to see if they can get it further.
get it further kills here here comes cat and I'm not just gonna catch to me
players maybe this one hand going down killing off the edge would just be the
kill they required doesn't quite get him if so going down is still a problem
he's not alive neither of our bashings are there and then I like some to try and
keep this one further forward still need to get this flip and land and come up
to the rush yeah and I mean fix is still here you don't end up having a kind of
end up using that continue rush just yet you're gonna have to house back out here
trying to get another fight it's gonna be above 50% here or VP is all you lose
cycle that's brutal for Vertus Pro. Blocks it as well. Kelen trying to lock this one down,
clean it up for Dallas Field. No cycle, still in mix. Chronic artillery on top,
it's just landing on top of ice, it's still pretty healthy, it's his tank. He has to back
up there for a second, you're going to get everybody back in the fight. Seiko's going to be
here to be able to touch as well. Going to get a vortex over to the point, Kelen taking a lot of
damage and you have to, the kill is fine, Sunja, that's huge. Just blocking away all the damage,
Mishkona can't even get a trade here, Verdas pro off the back of Ike's nomp
playing through the defensive capabilities of his ramping, healed up by Fixer and Landon
Unkillable on this point no matter what Dallas Fuel are putting in and VP they caught up, this was like a 0-99
They caught up on a fight
And now you're gonna have Kellan going away from the Sigma which is looks really good
But I think this ramp swap from VP has really paid off
They started hit their strides with the rematch are in play pulse bomb available though from Sundin
C.V. is able to land a big one potentially onto Kev.
See, Fixa there, gonna just knock back for just a second, and then even...
The cat finds the tracer yet again! I mean, that is brutal there!
Or Dallas is now ready to no T.
Now he just has to play through, Chronic has to do some magic,
and C.J. still has to stay alive to find this...
Because you're right, he's landing against the Miracle Kill!
That's gonna be at the end of that bittersprung!
That's nice, it makes the comeback happen!
Bro, this is such a clutch up from VP
as they steal map number one here.
From the Dallas Fuel
Avril, that was a nasty comeback by Virtus. Growl. Yeah, that comes from the fact that okay ice wants to start on the malware
Doesn't really work for him makes a change up first round doesn't into the Zarya doesn't quite find the value
Maybe probably should have played the RAM didn't even get grabbed on the first round
Yeah, however you look towards with the RAM plan on second and third round particularly the malware to the RAM stop as soon as he
Swaps to the rampines so much value doesn't really die on point at all final fight preventing
The final Cachino rushes a couple of Dallas Fuel to save the day, and Landy getting that kill.
Baruny and stuff.
It's a massive kill from Fixa as well on the Jetpack Cat.
Like two or three times in a row, he ends up getting some of the Tracer for Dallas Fuel, which is so impactful.
And I think he really saw the game turn when VP decided to play that Cat Bastion, right?
Like after that first round, when they kind of go to the Cat Bastion to deal with some of the Farah play from the Dallas Fuel,
that's when VP really started to get cooking.
I was wondering as well, you know, we're going to get some more cat coming through from Fixer because earlier on, you remember the Waybo game as well.
It just wasn't playing it. So you had this sort of bashing ground composition.
Mostly cats are happy to just play the bashing.
No cat support at all. Ground bashing, classic bashing.
And he kind of made that work versus Waybo.
But this time around, you see the VP side, they're like, okay, you know, versus Ado as well.
We're going to make sure we play the real combo and we can prove that we can play the combo.
Even though, typically speaking, looking at a lot of the VP games, they tried to like shy away from the cat bashing.
But if they can secure themselves as the better cat bashing team in the mergers Dallas feel this is now winning matchup for them
They can rely on for the series. Oh, absolutely
And I think just off the rip here right in the second round
We see the first round it was just completely dominated by the Dallas fuel in the second round when they came out on the cat
Bastion actually just catches Dallas completely off guard, right?
They're still playing the borrower soon just goes right over top and then he just dies instantly does not expect the bashing play in there
And then they never looked really comfy playing against it. So
So very nice swaps and adjustments there from Virtus.Pro and now I think obviously the balls
in Dallas Fuels court to make some of their own.
You mentioned this as well, but you know with the Sonju swap over to Tracer, typically
I would really really trust Sonju on the Tracer.
Definitely one of his best heroes.
Sonju definitely like a star player on the Dallas field.
You sort of mentioned Sonju was first picked a lot on the Tracer.
Yeah, on the cat.
Particularly on that third down.
I was like, whoa, they're losing their star, Tracer player quite a few times here leading
to 45s.
Yeah, I mean, that's something that cannot happen, especially in these matchups.
You see Fixer there just kind of chased out his counterpart in Lukamino.
So looking at the series, kind of moving forward now, right now with Dallas, Linda getting
a map pick, what would you like to see them go to?
What do you want to see them start to look at to potentially van?
Circle Royale, and I think you really want to start leaning towards the strength of the
back line.
So one thing that Dallas do better than most teams, and I think only Xayna in this one
that can really sort of match him in terms of the flexibility of the back line is they
I can play the double-flag support.
We've seen the Alari come through from Dallas Field as well.
Luke Mino can just move between so many different heroes on that support side.
It's something that I don't think Fixerlander can do quite as comfortably.
So, Dallas Field played that circuit versus Crazy Raccoon, looked okay.
I think they can move towards that again, maybe now obviously versus VP.
Well, I mean, if you look okay against Crazy Raccoon, right,
you look awesome just about everybody else.
So, it also allows Kellen to continue to play the Sigma, right?
Correct.
Kellen is playing a lot of Sigma, where Circuit,
by far the best Sigma map in the game at the moment.
So we'll see if that is where the Dallas Fuel decide to go.
Obviously, then you could kind of get into the band process
where you'd have to be worried about potentially
the Sigma going.
So, Amberley, don't go to circuit.
They actually go to Dorado.
But Dorado is another map you can play, Sigma game.
Yeah, I think NES called map.
Like you could have gone to Rialto here.
You just want to go to something
where you can get a good Sigma experience,
little bit of front to back type of gameplay,
really make the poke work.
My question will be,
We're gonna see Mizuki because the Mizuki start to creep up in the tournament meta something that I don't think many people were expecting coming in
But obviously one of the live patch Mizuki did get buffs and where Mizuki is getting playmat is in that backline to sort of I
Think sometimes to replace the breakers break does get played the same in the past
But now you have the sort of a we healing from the Mizuki
But with the poke potential from Mizuki to safely have the the guy sanctuary
But also the chains and that battles off having a lot of effort being able to just poke down with his own left click
What are you feeling? What a strong poke composition.
Right. I think the Mizuki to the break kind of comparison is pretty good.
And then also the ability for the Mizuki to put down some damage at ranges that break obviously can.
From a little bit of a safer vantage point. It's a really interesting.
I think the ultimate has been buffed now to a point that it definitely feels viable and useful.
I mean, we saw a lot of times in previous series where we see the Mizuki in play where the Farah is kind of just trying to shoot down rockets into it
rockets into it or maybe a garage gets completely you know annihilated by that
ultimate so curious maybe the farra a potential ban here as well like you
don't want to see that if you're a pro like that something you potentially
could do as far I can get some play at times under autumn I think if you're
down it's like what are you prioritizing right here well you call the fire right
I'm basically the coach you might just be smashed yeah I hear you're talking
to the team I was thinking you could be looking towards maybe a challenge
Sigma protected, depending on what your priority is, like how badly you want to play to Sigma.
But clearly, you know, the priority here is to make sure that you get rid of one of the
problem here, is that you don't want to deal with which is no problem. From your point earlier,
though, right, with Dallas's backline and how flexible they are, right, they get rid of the
Qiri here early, which it could be a little bit advantageous to them, right? They have a little
bit more flexibility to play some odd stuff. You're really looking towards removing the Lucio
Kiriko composition, because that would have been the default otherwise. And we're assuming, by the
way, that we're not just going to be default cab bashing here, which could still happen. There's
the possibility like this but assuming that teams are still testing out maybe
we can get away with not playing cat bashing no Kiriko no Lucio Kiriko that
leads into that the Dallas Fuel potential for more recreating double flex
backline could you know definitely the lorry in there I was in the lorry yeah I
think a lorry should be on the table without the Kirigata I'm curious where
we actually see VP go to right you know typically we see I think Landon
usually plays Bap yeah that's kind of where I was thinking as a potentially
they go Bap and look look Bap if you're gonna play like some rematch or comes
and stuff, that can work, right? You can kind of go to that. But they don't really have that,
you know, fix I would say is primarily like a Lucio, and then now obviously Jetpack Cat
Type is a player, you're not going to have that ability maybe to play some of those,
you know, two-flex support liners. I forget about the Symmetra as well. One thing I think
on VP's side, specifically that they have over Dallas Fuel, is the fact that Psycho brings a
lot of the Symmetra experience from his time on Twisted Minds last year. Learned a lot from
from you being on Twist and Minds and you saw the Symmetra play versus Ana in the game before.
I thought it was a pretty big fact. It's a point where Xeada had to ban out Symmetra too.
So Psycho still has that in the pocket. This might be a good map to bring it out.
Yeah, I do wonder though, without the Kiri, what is the support that would go with the cat-bash and kind of combination?
We've seen a lot of the Kiri alongside of that combination.
You mean, Ana with cat? Just Ana with the bashing has been a very classic one.
So if you are just gonna like default cabash and that's a pretty good animal up as well, right?
I mean, you have seen like on obviously historically throughout. I know overwatch succeed on this map. So
The VP
Looking like on it defense here to open things up
And by the way, look look at this. We have the Winston from Caledon as well
He doesn't want to commit a bit of felony here back by the Anna
Winston not particularly strong in the meta, but I think you know like we'll see a Dallas Phil can make this one work
You don't even really see Jimman get subbed into play Winston these days from Crazy Raccoon, so
Kellen's feeling very brave so far. Obviously he's still waiting for gates to open, but
the Anna here obviously makes sense. If Luke is going to lock in the cat, I'm expecting Cronk to then go towards a bash and then
classic cat, Anna, bash and trio.
You know, the VP
using Kev on the Cassidy here to open things up. Dallas Fuel obviously some opportunities to make some changes. We'll discuss that
once they can come to an alignment in terms of comp as
We have not seen Genji at all, so I would be...
Chronic sticking on?
A little.
Are we going to get...
Okay, so they're going to play Winston, Winston Genji here with the Widow at the start.
So this is like a classic dive with a couple poke elements.
You have the hard hits, get a long range poke from the Widow and the Allari, but then beyond
that a Genji Winston at her is just like a super classic dive combo.
Yeah, they're going to try and put a lot of pressure on to Kev's Cassidy, but it's been
so good without the tournament.
Chronic obviously get the Rett to Kevster as well, right, with just the extra sight lines
with the Widowmaker.
But remember, crazy couldn't band away, Chronix.
What a win, Dallas Hewlett took them through the circus,
and now we get to actually see what Chronix has been cooking.
This has been definitely one of the more hyped up heroes
in Chronix repertoire.
Things down early and forcing.
Can't do much against Leica.
No, and I mean, there's nobody that can kind of help
the Chronix up there on that high ground, right?
CG doesn't really have a vantage point.
You're not going to have the Alari turret over there
where Lukimino dangerously low as Iceman,
just kind of gets in his face with Vixor.
They barrel him down as Dallas Hewlett
I'm going to make just a swap here to get chronic over the Cassidy here a lot of more stink power
I'm not too sure on just kind of the Genji wins any these been two heroes who have really been
Non-existent in the meta for a while definitely you've really reliant on the anaheer to do a lot of heavy lifting put the nano boost
So CJ is obviously getting that done pretty quickly in the moment
But it's for all sorts done to get some of these alchemists
Planned in with a window available
Obviously defensively he'll probably not be playing that too aggressively you would think really time of looking at CJ
8% left to go, but Mino needs to stay alive if you have a Dallas Shield.
Good position on the payload for this eventual nano push, but you don't want to have Sunjin down.
I mean, sure, you're gonna have the ability to nano-play. They're actually nano-chronic here.
Right away, so they're gonna try and push him up. Maybe they thought there was an opportunity to get a player to nano-play.
Yeah, but now you don't have the ability to use the nano with that blade, which I thought they were gonna be working up to.
That was either a mistake in terms of seeing just nano the wrong person.
All chronic was about to die, and he felt like he really needed to stay chronic.
I mean, maybe, I was like, is it, was it supposed to be maybe the intended was to go on to Kellen
because then you would have, you would have rallied in it into the primal, right?
Which then you could have used and maybe kind of kept it going, but that's, that's rough there.
Yeah, I mean, unless you have the blade, you're definitely popping on your Winston for sure.
And so, yeah, that's the other point, Matt, there's, they did a 4v5, Sungeon dies, so you could have missed an enemy.
And if you had blades, you could have just saved it, right?
So a really rough spot.
We'll see if Sungeon can make a hero play with this Dragon Blade,
but you're going to have to fix it with a soundbite on the other side.
I mean, VP has not been pressured into using any ultimates thus far.
Doesn't look like he found anything with Manna.
He finds a shot to the face from Kevster via the dead eye.
Easy fight with the VP.
Dropping an extra window from Landon just for safety, you know.
But cleaned up onto current freshly, onto the Sojourn pick.
Dallas feel, I think, yeah, this is just unfortunate.
Whiff after whiff.
Nana Bruce didn't get that much value.
Captain Sun, no value either.
And I mean, now you have to go over to the Lucio here, below a minute on the clock.
You're gonna have chronic go back to the Cassidy here
Off and they're gonna have Luke over to the break so bring obviously historically good against Diva
But like you're in such a rough spot that below a minute. I mean sound barrier still saved here for hurt his bro
I mean Kellan with a primal can maybe be a nuisance
But man this is gonna be really difficult because Dallas you'll need to get some progress
This will be a brutal spot for the card to stop makes us just saving it for the blade
He knows it's gonna pop out eventually which means you're not gonna get it out of him
Cycle at least goes down opportunity. Dallas still can find a 5v4 here, but Dallas already popped the primal.
But now you're gonna have the sound barrier that comes out.
Played? It's gonna be the blade that comes through from Sunjin just after the beat expires, so this shouldn't get huge value.
It's gonna be two with the blade.
That's Isenome still on the payload, just keeping this contested for the time being.
You don't get an opportunity to stagger him out, so Dallas, in the final moments, they'll get a fight win.
You may get another fight here though for VP.
You're going to have Psycho go over and play the Sim here, you're going to be able to TP players back, get a little bit closer, and you're also going to have a self-destruct.
Let's see if the TP goes in, that would be the only way Touch has been enabled.
This is going to force a Nanna for sure.
CJ is going to feel pressure to pop, all that happened, hopped up to the counter of force, big buy-in and onto the back of the VP will not win this fight.
But I agree with the choice to go in for the final contest, because you are forcing CJ to pop Nanna, forcing Dallas to use ult.
And what, I mean you gave up your self-destruct for it, right?
So, you give up self-destruct, they end up using a nano,
you still get high ground control, most likely here.
Four Vertus Pro, a really good defense there.
Although Dallas Fuel does end up breaking it at the end,
not a lot of time for Dallas Fuel,
they need to bunker down and hold this high ground,
they have the rally to potentially do it.
I mean, the reason why it's important to get rid of nano,
because I think that's the tempo set of four Dallas Fuel,
when you look at this comp,
they're now playing an even more classic dive,
because you get the Brigana as well.
You really need the nano boost to be the initiator here,
and that's gone off the table.
Kipster will just force Dallisville away.
Not going to hit a dead iron portion.
Oh, nice timing on the rally there from Lukamino.
Gets the bash there into Kev.
Not enough to finish him off, but Landon drops down,
uses the ant matrix, and just fires down on Lukamino.
So everybody from BP goes on a little bit of a flank there,
Avril.
And they get a nice angle with that ant matrix.
It's made it really difficult for Dallis
to get any more progress.
Well, shut down the rally pretty quickly.
Ice even gets back to the mech.
That could have been tricky if Ice doesn't get back into mech.
maybe DF Dallas would have a little bit more to fight in there with.
The landed with the, you know, obviously, insurance policy put into play again will win those to kill it.
What's your thoughts on the break at this part of the map, right?
With VP kind of controlling the high ground and this little time on the clock.
I mean, if you had the rally, you could definitely push up.
This would have been a hard map for the break on attack side before, but with the runner changes,
you can make a push up that hill for sure.
It's about the play now. The play is where Dallas was again, you need to find the value.
Yeah, sound barrier here for Fixa.
You said a little bit early, so there's still a huge value from the blade is it is going to be at the nanoblade that come through
But when two players already dead, you don't invest the beat love that decision there from bird is pro the fight already lost
Some Jim and killin coming up huge there in the feed and Dallas will keep themselves a lot
I think two things there one would be the fact that I noticed part with a little bit split
So you wouldn't have had a good value bait you would have missed a few people
Obviously, then you talked about the kept like the Kevlar's down. Yeah more importantly though Matt is look at the time remaining now
Now that you've saved B for what will be the Final Fight you can, we'll lose to the Nano Blade, but when it hits 0 on the overtime, we're gonna have to be at advantage.
It's gonna be a pulse bomb there from Psycho, doesn't connect with anything.
Kellen gonna have the Primal Rage there, to maybe just kind of dislodge players off the high ground, but...
...Lukemino, this is just him.
Dodge out, it's gonna be the B here with a dead eye that comes out from VP as we're below 10 seconds on the clock. Everybody from Dallas has to back up.
This might be the first two.
I'll go back to the cart, yeah.
Psycho's down there, 5v4, Dali's coming in for Chronic instead. This is capable for sure, especially with Kephza down.
Dallas too have just given themselves another point to play with.
And Virtus.pro, I think they just pulled the combo too early.
And Dali at a sound barrier, so quick before the OTE hit Matt, which means Dallas too could just back out,
kite away from Kephza's Dali, and then come back in with their own.
And Dallas may be able to finish the Matt, man.
I mean, you're looking at something, getting this blade fixed is gonna be nowhere close to B probably at that time.
You're gonna have the blade probably before there.
And you might be able to kind of complete the map, which is crazy because we were, you know, basically just gonna write Dallas off for dead
because it didn't look like they were even gonna get the first point. So, it's gonna be a huge comeback here for the Dallas Fuel.
It's gonna be the rally as Ice Noem goes in.
Trying to get some eyes on the CJ here, but surviving!
She should be beating Kevser as Double Casting down so far at DMACC, into the self-destruct. Ice Noem will not get back at SMACC.
VP losing this further fight given Dallas Fuel. A bit more of a chance, you said, Matt. Very capable, I agree.
This is a huge comeback here from the Dallas Fuel.
You're going to line this blade up with the Nano as well.
I mean that is going to be as good as you can ask for here for the Dallas Fuel.
Is players in first row?
No, there's no beat on the other side for VP and they're just funneling out here onto the cart to just stall time.
So stall time as much as possible.
I think of your VP though, the kind of wind condition here is to force out the blade and the Nano maybe around this area.
Maybe a few players make it back keep the tracer alive keep it going and then come back off a small
Well the further this
Escorted payload goes the worst against a VP in the sense that you can't just kite the blade either
Previously you would be able to get ahead the final fight yet
So I'm just gonna have to pop this combo has to come through mainly Dallas feel this is their moment payload is in an okay place
Certainly capable within one fight within one nanoblade. Yeah, they have the nano and the blade of it
Oh, that is a sick sick there that comes in from psycho
The Nando goes on to kill him, so they don't even get it for the blade.
It could be tricky. I mean, you don't have a play here.
So I'm just stoning some...
And they're gonna get beat. They're gonna get beat here for Fixa.
It's gonna be the ant matrix in the corner from Landon.
It's just gonna guide them out of the spawn.
It's gonna be Kev ending up using the dead eye.
There's gonna be the sound barrier there as the blade comes through.
And VP, Avril. Looks like they may be able to get a hold.
It's looking likely, especially with the spawn advantage there.
There's Fall Ikes nearly all to himself.
It's struck, but it won't even matter.
Dallas, you know...
have not managed to finish the map with that
that was doable though, they looked like it would have been the finisher
because there wasn't a beat there either
but look at what VP did
what they ended up doing was putting the pressure on to CJ which ended up making him
with the nano, he's like I'm gonna die here, I gotta drop the nano to somebody
the other person he sees, I think, would have been Kellan there
and then you dunk the nano blade and then the beat comes through because the fight extends a little bit
and now you get to beat against Songin's blade because he takes so long to pull it through
I think if Saundra just had the timing there earlier before the beat comes through, which
there was some percentage point of work, that could have been a winning moment for Dallas.
I think it's as simple as Dallas was just a little bit slow to go there, right?
They had the opportunity, they were just kind of waiting and waiting and waiting, and like
Ice Nome did a great job just kind of contesting the payload, letting the clock kind of barrel
down, and then Psycho comes up with that huge pulse bomb there, on to CJ, and at that point
You're just scrambling right where it felt like for you know 10 15 seconds
There was an opportunity for Dallas to really have a set like executed play there that would have worked out quite nice
And I like this psycho went for it because you're not gonna pick it's a diva so you have to worry about that
You don't go and you're not gonna because here because you don't have to worry about the suzu
So just go for the Hail Mary play like why not that's up
You know the nano is going to be the set piece of Dallas sort of work with and you made it work
And then because the fight got delayed again fix the fines being Dallas feel you set it Matt
Just too slow to get the feet off the ground and Dallas here on defense
They will play Kellen on the diva so you're gonna have an honor we on back line and something gonna play the echo which
I'm a little bit worried. Okay, so let's see what they decided to do because
It looked like VP gonna off the place and sim
I was a little bit worried from Sunjin's perspective about psycho playing a tracer, which is like really good against echo
so two things that is
Traditionally actually on Dorado this first opening rooftop section echo is actually pretty decent
but you also play into a sim, which I think you get extra value. However, you do die a gift step.
Aw, this, uh, man, Dallas, so close. Uh, you know, even getting a map completion there would have been huge.
And now you lose your Echo right off the rip here, is Isom going to try and control some of that high ground.
Uh, you're going to have Chronic here, just farming up a Railgun. He gets dangerously low.
It doesn't look like there's anybody here to help him at that time, and actually uses a slide to dodge nicely,
so it gets out of the way. You're gonna have to Echo back in the fight, but at a long distance,
This, Hinder there, all the Kelin does not look like they're going to be able to get the kill though.
Nice job from Dallas keeping him alive.
Well, look, Munir goes down, the payload's moving forward.
This could just be a one-flight-one cap here.
Dallas feels strong to find any sort of momentum in terms of getting a counter-trade.
Not going to happen.
Kevster, by the way, is about to find Deadeye.
Really fast Deadeye here from Kev.
You do have Kelin go on in, but they have the TP to kind of get players out.
Vixen here on the brig, able to deal with the D.Va.
And that is a first point take that is a lightning bassier from Virtus Pro.
Now you're going to be able to get high ground five minutes on the clock.
It's going to be very difficult to constantly kind of dive into this like big bat setup.
Straight away, look at Kevan, just swapping away from the D.Va again.
Not one of his comfort heroes. He wants to play something he's a little bit more familiar with.
But isn't it better in this? They almost think it's worse.
Probably. It probably is worse.
You have to think about Kevan's hero, Paul Raleigh.
He's not known for D.Va, which causes some of the problems yet.
Which means once again, this is gonna be a CJ Nano onto Kellen. There's not much else they can do here.
Sungeon obviously looking for the copy. A couple of good targets. D.Va, Cass, all pretty decent.
Yeah, some pressure here from the echo on the flank.
This is a psycho getting close to a wall as well.
I think they're just trying to bait some players down, right?
Just keep the payload moving and like force Kellen in that area.
As Flukimino is gonna use the title blast here on himself. Doesn't come up with anything with the sun.
It's gonna be the Ant Matrix here, which is forcing them into a weird spot. Dallas, they try to get aggressive there.
Now they're going to use a copy to try and get a wall of their own.
Oh, okay, they're putting a lot of damage in there, Nanna.
Fire rather also hits fixed and that's going to take care of the rally.
Notice pro, trying to heal their way back in towards his fight, so one for one.
Supports, no defense for Kela, no support there.
I just don't get it back into mech, you would think at this point as well,
which would be VP, tank advantage, CJ trying to make his way back into the fight.
So when do you use this, Nanna?
Yeah, but I mean now, you know, fix obviously here, coming back on the Lucio,
not going to play the break here.
You're going to have the sim wall to work with Dallas yet you're forced to basically what you're going to have to use the nano here on to
Kellen
Chronic it feels like over the overclock comes on through and I'll fix that they do find the kill that is huge
So you end up using the overclock in the nano here for Dallas
It feels like you know VP obviously knows this fight is potentially a lost cause
They are just going to kind of find what they can and then get out but already a lot of car progress
It's the first fight with Adelis Friorzo, their stabilization fight, like to call it,
where they get to dig their heels in, come to inventory here a little bit.
Primal will allow them to be able to stall a little bit longer.
They also, you know, they did get the wall out of cycle, which is nice.
So, but you can, if you're VP, right, you can either kind of go on like that wrap, right, towards this right-hand side,
I know where Kellen would be looking, you'd know it's coming.
Or, which they do, they TP right up there, they got one player pretty low, it's going to be Luca Minu, who's able to stay alive.
But now you get a pretty sick angle here for this hand matrix with, you know, Kent being able to fire on through.
Yeah, exactly. That's what the Sim's gonna allow you to do, right? Find those creative angles.
But I think Kellen needs to get aggressive. When the window comes down, he needs to get amongst that with the Primal.
We're still moving across the map, people.
Bro, it's a big one for the CJ!
I mean, that is such sick play there with the SimTP.
But it's not over yet. Tidal, last year, onto the Echo.
Going to knock Psycho down.
And although they do get a nice play there, VP at the start, right? Getting CJ out of the fight.
It is the Echo and the Primal there from Kela that come up clutch for Dallas.
And that's the thing, right? I was talking about how you need to see Kela get aggressive with the Primal against the window.
That gets even better when VP decide to drop the window inside of the bank, which is super tight and narrow.
And Kela's like, this is just easy for me.
And he instantly gets to kill the land in the back line, for VP just melts away.
Gets it out, try to open the next fight up, and it does.
Oh, it's brutal there.
Ice Zoom gets quite low. It doesn't have the self-destruct just yet,
But we'll earn it here in just a second by losing the echo which Sunjoon had copy
Good and up being the thing that breaks their hold here is Luke Amino now falls CJ is gonna get the nano
Do you decide to invest it here? He's done it
He's popped it onto Kale the neatest just to delay this one allows such to get back in it
Wow, it's just a freak your products even though well with the extra coffee that such a finds the fight will go the way it does in fact
So I'm sure probably didn't need to do that
Just didn't expect that his team would pop up that hot Kale and chronic both lock it in heavy for that 45 defense
And no, they probably thought that one was slipping away, right?
Because it definitely looked like VP was going to get it over the line.
Now, Virtus.Pro, it's just the duplicate self-destruct throwing over the top.
See if you can find anything.
We'll see if VP are going to get the sim here with a minute 16 on the clock.
The payload's so close to going over the line.
No sim will make it a little bit easier to read, right?
I'm knowing exactly where they're going.
So, that's CJ angle, by the way.
He tried to off-angle the bionair, but doesn't quite find anything.
Appreciate the play, though.
VP at this point trying to find the correct position.
Fall the window!
That's time to get Psycho down.
Psycho didn't want to end up using the recall there.
Decides to try and play you for the health pack.
It's going to be a immortality field that keeps players up there through a nice bio from CJ.
It's going to be the ant matrix as well. They're not really able to get much value with it at all.
It's a weird spot.
They're stuck in the corner! They're just stuck in it's clutches, they're going to fall down!
Fix it, it doesn't want to HX, it's going to hold the beat.
But that is unfortunate with VP because they couldn't find where they could properly use this window.
landed, drops on the low ground, tries to allow his team to get an angle of the payload,
but guess what? CG drops on a huge bionade, which instantly forces VP back, and then
they can't even use the window, got no value off the Ant Matrix at all.
So VP does have this sound barrier though, to deal with the overclock that's going to
come on through. Chronic, just kind of lingering above here, the members of Virtus Pro as he
drops on down, it's going to be the sound barrier used right away, and VP's actually
going to decide to fight this. Kellen just barely making out with his life, going to
at the title blasts here to stay up, not able to find anything there with the knockback.
It's going to be Kevin using the deny pushing on up as Psycho has gotten huge here, coming
up with two. He was putting a lot of pressure onto the payload behind the scenes, right?
Forcing some of the players back. And this way I was talking about really early on with
Sumtran playing the Echo, Psycho always the ability to go over the tracer, forces him
off of that hero back onto the Genji.
You can see what Dallas will try to do there, right? Cut all Virtus.Pro on their approach
just to intercept their final push, but because they did that, like you sort of mentioned,
so I'm going to get to the backstab, trying to just get straight on the payload, diverting
attention away, and down the field, summoning a super spread at their entire final fight on
that B point, just went to lace a little bit, obviously fixed a lot of huge value on that
bait. Not a lot of time for VP though. You do have the nanoboost here used on the kill, and he's
going to get right on top of land. That is a sick dash through from Sunjin, and he comes up with two.
This is gonna buy a lot of time. Ice is gonna get staggered out here
You have to ready credit CJ as well for that double kill because he dropped the baron at the top of the supports and Stonjan
That single dash who cleans them up both and you mentioned time being a bit of a factor here
But now they're losing the capability to clean off even with the last 30 seconds
Landon doesn't have the window anymore that would have been a huge tool for them to get the cap in
It's gonna be a lot harder
You need to buy a little bit more time for Kev to find dead I to cycle with the pulse bomb
That was was big on verus pros defense, right?
That's what allowed them to get that hole and this is a great call from Dallas
They go aggressively collapsed right on top of Kev up in the spawn. They don't know on the loud on the good times
They have to touch here as well
Tracer has to do it cycles got to be the ones to go in tell us just to laying the sofa
CJ trying to lock the door and will he do so?
He will
Dallas feel punch back on the second match
So that was really close there, Aperol.
As it looked like for a while, I thought Dallas, especially
with how their offense ended, I thought
they were going to punt that one away.
VP looked so good on their first point offense,
but then Dallas really kind of turned up on defense there.
I mean, what?
And VP, after their first point take,
had about five minutes to get that second checkpoint.
And they just kind of dwindled that clock all the way down
as we take a look.
at some of the stats here is Psycho had a pretty good game on the tracer come up with
a huge pulse bomb kills and then on the other side of him, Kellan playing the Winston which
is something we have not seen really anybody do hero that we don't really think is pretty
meta at this point having a lot of success.
Well he wasn't really that punished I felt like he actually managed to get away a lot
he wasn't just sort of dying repeat like you would think a lot of Winston's in this particular
meta would just be falling by the wayside quickly CJ I think was a bit of a standout
here because a to get your wins and succeed your and has to be really on point as well
He's building those nanos up beautiful bionades a multiple times and a lot of those by needs
We're fight-winning we talk about one of the strong rotations that you really need to see out of Virtus Pro
Shut down entirely when Landon drops in the ant matrix and CJ responds with a single binder that catches three
You get the double kill dash from Song Jin that was set up again by a bionade
So I think CJ was kind of an unsung hero of the snap of Dallas field
Yeah, and just a sick player for Dallas as you kind of alluded to before this map number two
Just a really sick back line from Dallas that allows them to do a lot of different things early on
It was not really allowed to do anything. I mean they were stuck on the spawn. It felt like mints
But then once they started to get going really Dallas with some of these comps took over the game
Yeah, they're really insane moment as well if you remember it looked like it was a 45 and it looked like it was all bad
Four Dallas from the B defense and then Kellan and Cronk just saved the day the overclock
I think I don't even remember if it's an oakland might have just been the Royal rails coming in the Kellan
We've had the final flat situation just those two players kept it alive
Sondra coming back in with the copy ended up not even really needing it burnt it anyway
But that was a really clutch fight the Dallas rule needed to win that wasn't going their way initially
Yeah, I mean diva we think is obviously like the ideal pick right in this type of situation
I think Kellen his hero pool obviously trends more towards the Winston. You're still playing the honor
So on the honor and Winston have a good combination and then the Genji as well from sunshine
I mean the Genji is a a pick that we really haven't seen
Really, I mean the last like a year has kind of fallen out of favor with some of the sim comps and rush comps
that we've had really highly prevalent in the meta and honestly
If you just subtracted this ending here for Dallas, right? It was a pretty strong map overall from them, right?
They had an opportunity to clearly get a full push there.
They just kind of, Psycho makes a hero play, just coming over that pulse bomb.
It's that B point though, I think the B point offense really slowed down for Vito's brokers.
I think when we both look at this, you mentioned the five-minute time bank after capping A.
I mean, with that kind of time, with that kind of momentum, you're thinking VP should take this map
pretty comfortably.
This is a huge moment too.
Oh yeah, I remember this.
You know, the window coming down, then Kelly having the perfect final in there,
shopping up land and getting one in that back line.
I think just a couple of those missteps right I think it does come down to the fact that when you look at VP
Trying to set up these when no plays as their core set piece for a fight
Two times I can recall distinctly that moment in the bank and the other moment sort of downstairs on the hard flank with a
Bionic coming through the procedure to stop it those two big moments really stopping VP's pushes
Caught them up way too much on that be attack and cost them all the time
Yeah, and I never even really to make it back to go get a touch here as we take a look at the final moments
from VP is ice getting juggled getting pushed back psycho already used the
recall so that is map number two in the books as Dallas you'll they tie it up at
one game apiece and now it'll be Vertus pros opportunity to kind of make an
imprint on the series in terms of the map and it ban process and they're quick
they already know we're going to new junk city this doesn't seem too
surprising to you I mean they this is the map they want to get Zeta right so
They played the ram heavily on this map sim is going to be gone
So Dallas feel one none of that they know psychos specialty is going to be on that sim
Which was also by the way played by VP against Zeta division
We young out of the mix knowing that Dallas feel one of the few teams that do want to play the we young
Okay, I mean it does target Luke a little I don't think it's the strongest band
But now it is a directed targeted ban now that they know that okay. We won't play some it's kill
We'll play the tracer our ram is safe though
Ramm was one of the big picks from Ice on that map of NewJunk vs. Zeta that got them across the map.
I will say though, Sim also did a lot of works, but I have to figure that part out.
At least the rest of the team looks good.
Yeah, we take a look at the tanks here from map number two. I mean,
Kellen really popped off. And to make this work on the Winston, right, where not exactly
easy as comes to play into, it just shows kind of the level that he can play that hero at,
where kind of taking control of the game from Ice in every category.
I mean, the comp just allows you to be really, really initiative-heavy in terms of deciding
where the fights take place and what you want to do.
CJ setting up a lot of those executions for both his Genji play of Sanji and also killing
on the Winston.
But having, like, kind of the confidence to bring out a rig and a Winston in the Big
2 6 here, Matt, where you just don't see that comp at all, it's not just about the Winston.
It's to bring out a combo as well.
It's such a classic, Hongjo spark looking type of comp, it's like Wabo would probably
more than to play here, but it's actually Dallas, your play. We would have probably said they were
a bit silly for doing that if they lost a map, but yeah, that they don't even need to go towards
the things that I would have expected. You remember, I said a lie would have been a huge choice to
them. They did play that didn't work out for Luke. So they said, screw it. Let's go to something else
that VP are not going to expect. And they made it work. Right. I mean, they're able to kind of make
it work kind of come out on top in that game. Number two, now with psychos, sim mcgon here,
like, I think you probably see a lot of tracer here, eventually from psycho. I think an opportunity
to even play some Reaper, right? If you wanted to, right? Reaper obviously we've
seen in a lot of these like cat bastion comps. Yeah. Potentially you could work
the Reaper into the mix if Kellen is going to go to that, but ooh this would be a
little bit of a wild card, right? Then bringing out the Sigma comp with the
Mizuki is something that we did not maybe expect from Dallas Fuel. Especially on a
map where I don't know if you're going to get the full value out of Mizuki, I
still see when you want to play these kind of Sigma-based poke compositions, to
me it kind of works better on front to back maps like Escalced and Hybrid, so
If it ends up being okay for them, Sonya gonna go towards the May.
Thought about the Toll, which would have been a bit of an anti-dive, but like Xayah to do a lot in the Carmina, proper playing a lot of May,
Sonya's just taking a page out of his book saying, let's bring the May out.
Yeah, and Dallas feel obviously ditching the Lucio here on Flashpoint, which is always a risky move, but we'll have Luke here on the Mizuki.
For VP, they're gonna go back to that Remontra look, right? They think they expected that Sigma, maybe they didn't expect the Sigma with the May.
So we'll see how Dallas kind of plays into this is ice already gonna kind of use it now
This is for him see what he can find the maywall already out
But now have to back up another thing right maywall is gone now
Joe Petrucci vortex the speed versus how the response gonna get on top of that show just completely collapse onto the window speed
Bruce on the defense to get out in fact there this vortex straight up the killing first kill
Yes, just a lot more aggression here from vertus pro obviously
Aided by that Lucio speed with the tracer they can kind of get past that Sigma shield
So we'll see how comfortable Dallas actually is on this calm
So they'll have to kind of maneuver it in is it looks like we're already maybe gonna see some changes here
Talk about again interesting. I want to thought the main would have been stronger here
Tom is gonna call some problems to cycle but overall
I don't think it's gonna be that in fact what you would imagine perhaps we start looking for it's like
All predicted it's gonna be the tourbillon sigma Mizuki comes coming in here. Yeah, we're really cooking now Dallas
Yeah, so we'll see if they can open this up with the tour obviously the turret's gonna be pretty good to depend at the first
Psycho, maybe kind of protect the backline a little bit
I guess it died this would make a lot of sense if you will play against the fall or Winston
This is a hundred percent, but right now we'll have to see if Sunja is really cooking or not. Oh
Nice rock there actually interrupts the dead eye that comes through chronic ends up using his dead eye
Just a detervary pee from pushing on through that choke
But now it'll be Dallas coming with an advantage here with their Katsune rush
they already lose Kepster here on the side of Virtus.pro.
I sense the side of him is going to annihilate, he's not going to do so,
Kronix is just going to pop his head off.
Well Dallas feel, now be able to get that flip. VP though, they're looking at the situation,
thinking okay, we'll let the point go across, still have 86, that's one fight territory,
you're going to come back in with a fixed beat, plus annihilation.
Drop it on top of the Dallas, so that no longer have any support ultimates.
That's a pretty good win condition for Virtus.pro, so not a bad spot for them just yet.
Yeah, it does have Psycho here on the point, contesting it.
Getting it about to halfway so it's going to force Dallas Fuel to back going up.
That's going to allow Virtus.Pro to enter through the show.
And now Kellen is a really weird spot.
Just waiting for what's going to come through here.
Flux could be interesting though.
Does pop one of the plays, kept into the air, but now the annihilation to put the fair into Kellen, Dallas Fuel.
And with I-Stomp, he knows win condition.
Nothing to stop him. No support ultimates.
Nothing to get away from as well in terms of speed boost from Dallas Fuel.
And I-Stomps all too happy just running and punches away into victory on point one.
Yeah, but Saiko, getting the point, getting that touch, drawing players back,
it gives Virtus.Pro the opportunity to kind of like not have to use the, you know,
amp it up to get that like speed to close the gap,
onto Dallas allows them to kind of enter that area for free,
and then just like no respect for the Sigma, right?
They just kind of run right by with the Nemesis form,
once that wears out pops the annihilation, keep it rolling,
and you're just able to barrel down Kellen.
And like I said, the Mizuki now being swapped over for Lukmio Zalari and said,
I'm not convinced on a very open map like a Flashpoint,
It's going to have the same kind of value as you would on an Escort or Hyper C.
He's going to move away from that, but still largely playing a poke composition here.
Advantage with the Kitsune rush here for Virtus Pro.
We'll see if they decide to use this at the top.
You can't just multi-call on top of the rush though, so that could be a good play for Saundra.
He's looking for it.
Looks like maybe VP going to opt and go low here.
They're not going to like trying to dislodge this Sigma from the high ground, right?
Just going to force that Sigma down.
He's going to multi-call early, so it should be just down and still back and we'll rather Virtus Pro.
Back and away from this one a little bit, giving space.
The re-entry with a continue rush, especially with Luke being out there.
That was a cycle, the hero is so far.
I mean, no way that the supports can keep themselves alive.
Obviously, the benefit of the double flex is to play a little bit more aggressive,
but not able to protect themselves against Psycho there.
You do lose, Kev here, towards the end of the fight,
but Chronicle get cleaned up on a high ground,
and I love the way that VP played that.
They were not going to challenge the Sigma at that range.
They were going to drop down,
force the Sigma down to the low ground, and then fight.
Man, something to trade supply so far has been so good.
Psycho just completely annihilating 1v2.
Double backline has gone.
And that's considering the fact that Sondre dropped in the molten core.
Virtus Pro said, okay, well, we're just going to save our rush.
We're going to re-approach.
Our re-approach is still coming in for Dallasfield on the opposite end of things.
CJ now trying to catch up on the rush.
Yeah, shield, blocks the accretion of that off angle there for Ice-Nome.
And Cab is still on fire along with Psycho.
The Kasuni rush comes down there from CJ,
But they already lose two players one at the hands of psycho than one with kev early on is
That push goes for nothing and now what Dallas without the speed right you're thinking about like do you even have a really good fight here?
Towards the end. I mean something can maybe get a touch and then kind of try and push in behind it
But you're gonna be pushing into the sound barrier plus annihilation
It might be worth it if you can get a touch just to force the fight in because you could still force all to its out
Rvp they have all to the back to
full Dallas Fuel to be able to try and collect, but Lodge in this fight is looking all VC.
I mean Kellen taking so much damage on the walk up in is, he does get the annihilation out so that is beneficial there for the Dallas Fuel,
but another point that goes in favor of Virtus Pro.
U-Kills here towards the end just to clean it up, but VP has looked great here after all on New Jump City.
I mean map score wise it's all Virtus Pro. Dallas Fuel is just trying to tax away what little type of, you know, silver lines they can get in silver lining here,
Just like we saw in the first point is it's going for a final push try and get an ultimate out annihilation is a pretty costly
Altus, that's nice kept the Sun though
It's not the ultimate will want to see some valley out of look me enough strung to get anything out of that in the last map
Yeah, kill I'm gonna end up using the gravity blocks here fix it not gonna end up invest the beat
So maybe you feel like you're gonna be able to kind of come back fight this next one
With that sound barrier being a better spot nice clean up there from chronic comes up with the re kills there
doesn't even have to invest the overclock to do it. So you just win that fight off
the captain's son and the gravitic flux. I think VP wanted to try and kite away
from the captain's son but still caught up by the flux which ended up being the
actual killer. This winner didn't get too much work done on the captain's son, I
believe it was actually sues you to lay by landing. They have to be careful of positioning here.
It's going to be the sound barrier that opens things up. OrcWalk used as well. Nice
shot there from Keb finishing off CJ and when I was talking about worried
about positioning is okay hold on chronic answering the two but he's the only
one is that you know when kelin is playing so far up in those positions with
the speed boost available for VP especially with a sound barrier in that
situation he becomes such an easy target for the rematcher to just pop
nemesis for him get behind the shield and just barrel down exactly me you
speed into invuletix pop nemesis yeah kelin just dies there's no way to keep
up at least he's got look me on the loose her now so slowly you look at the
doubts for backline they're slowly matching VP but could it be too late in
the day because they try to make the double flex support work and now if I
look me to catch up with CJ though that's on parodies would land it's a
f**k Kevster or not on this.
Kev has been on a tear all event along given two more here on the edge.
Oh dude I don't know what it is it is this map for Kevster he is unreal.
This hero as well.
Yeah and I mean Psycho has this pulse bomb he's been so good connecting with
these a pole-spot on to the supports could just absolutely ruin Dallas fuel on this map
Lock it down for Vertus pro both teams end up here
with their Kitsune rushes
Try to make going in Kevin needs to be a big target of a Dallas show
But also they're gonna keep chronic alive. They won't keep Lugmino alive last point here last fight
Is it gonna be enough though four versus three ice Tom nearly onto annihilation remind a VP on 99% for the cap itself
They look like they'll get the flip.
Yeah, they do get the flip here for Dallas Fuel, so that stops it for the time being.
You're going to have Chronic Alive on an off angle.
CJ here as well will be something to get to touch here, just keeping OT rolling.
Lukamino here over to the jetpack cap just to try and stay alive.
Get back into the fight quick, as Isom does have this annihilation.
Probably just waiting for Kelin to come in.
It's going to be a touch there from Lukamino, getting dangerously close to OT.
Blaring down and saying his Psycho coming up with the first pick here.
Chronic dangerously low.
That's the map!
This might be it, Avril.
That's the map for sure!
Annihilation just to put the cherry on top,
but Kronik will get nothing more done.
No seed found, no point found,
and the map goes back towards
the thirdest for a dominant win here, Matt.
3-0 on this new Junk City.
Didn't look like Dallas Fuel
really had a strong idea of what they needed to play.
Constant hero swaps backline,
just couldn't keep that 1-2 in terms of
Lucio Kirikov.
This is your company going to play win.
So many swaps across the world, particularly the backline, and Dallas feel playing a little bit too much mystery heroes to get anything done on New Junk.
And I also think, look, I mean, Psycho and Kev just really winning the kind of DPS battle, right?
I mean, you see, Chronic actually had a pretty good game on the sewage in terms of damage, right?
But it just feels like the impact from Kev and Psycho.
Psycho, especially with those pulse bombs, constantly builds like every time, you know, coming up with a kill or two to take a look at some of the clips.
What do you think about this first point of just composition in the swaps here for Dallas Fuel?
I feel like I put them behind for the rest of the game pretty significantly.
Yeah, I mean I question the usage of the Mizuki straight away,
but then you saw the Sondra swap onto the toll, which to me is a strange call,
because you would want to play that if you're going up against a dive,
very punishing against any of the dive tanks, certainly against Trace a bit.
You know, okay, it's annoying for Psycho.
Once you actually saw the Molten Call find, this was not a good fight,
unfortunately, with Dallas Fuel, because so easy for VP just to kite that one away.
It's the fact that Cycro to me one of the best plays he made on that particular point which was over the replay here
He just like one of the two the backline by himself. Yeah, you just saw yeah
It was like a pretty sick play ends up taking out Luke Amino and then just kind of CJ is like
Teleporting towards them and doesn't have his back to him and just takes him out as I know also Dallas
This is another really like kind of a interesting fight that we catch here on replay
Which is pretty awesome because Dallas has to use a lot of their ultimates to kind of
Stand that push that BP is going towards their spawn. They really have a lot here towards the end
I'm wondering if this is time to be a kelin here a poll issue because he's
The call to play the segment even on this map. I'm not saying you can't do it
I think Bernhard even dropped the signal on this map
But just seems like it's so much easier to pilot the Lucio carry ramp. It's so straightforward
You know the wind conditions are and even in the first couple points you've gone up against me
No, Lucio on the other side which for flashpoint you call that out Matt is a strange call to make and it's just so easy to drop
Voltex speed in, punch Kellen down if wherever.
And what are you going to do if you're Kellen on the Sigma?
That's just like a tough situation to be in.
And he plays Sigma like throughout the whole thing.
He's not really keen on the D.Va so far.
And that might be hurting him right now because
D.Va might have been a good call for him to swap to.
Yeah.
Maybe anything other than Sigma because eventually they play Lucifer anyway.
Yeah, I also think there's like a pretty sick possibility here.
Right? Like, you know, Dallas will want to play Sigma,
at least what it looks like, right?
We'll be going over to either hybrid or push for the next map.
So like you do have an opportunity here for Dallas though, right?
You can pick a map that you think is maybe a little bit sigma-favored
while also getting rid of the rematcha, right?
You have the ability to ban the rematcha and then force them into maybe a diva, right?
That could be a possibility where you can play that, you know, force them to play the diva
into the sigma that comes on through.
That would be Kings if they really want to lock in for the sigma-po-kop.
Way by the way, Mizuki will also be good.
Mizuki will actually be good on that map as well in terms of how that comp works on a hybrid.
Kings are, like to me, is the obvious choice for Dallas, or if that is in fact the direction they're looking to go to.
Yeah, and opportunity, obviously, as some of the players take a little bit of a bathroom break here for them to come up with some answers.
That's just a timer.
Dallas, yeah, you see the timer there.
We are angry with that timer, and sometimes that timer is like seven minutes, and it feels like we come back here really quick.
But it'll be new Bonnie the map take here for Dallas fuel. So see see that's that's the benefit of being here, right?
And everybody else is looking at a clock. We already know the map section
You know, we know it's new body. That's not English stream, you know
Well, so new bodies a pretty decent Winston map as well, right? I mean you if you that was the fallback
You know, you know what a decent map is from the body is it's a good cat passion that it is but why?
Dallas feels like the team out of these two that wouldn't want to play the cat
passion because they lost it on Oasis right so they probably think that
would not want to do it we actually might get away with a full series that
will go to at least four maps by the way you don't see a cat or a passion band
one time yeah that's true that's like that's insane to me but yeah it would
fun it is kind of wild to see so Numbani is the map selection for Dallas
obviously tournament lives on the line here as they find themselves down to one against bird as pro and
VP is looked really
No, I think obviously with how EMEA has been pretty competitive VP
We're like wondering how they would kind of fair coming into this tournament and I think they've actually been a lot better than people expected
I thought they would have a pretty strong performance
It looks like they're kind of backing that up and these two players are a big reason why we expected to keep still
Obviously lead the way in terms of the star power on the DPS side, but psycho has been really performing as well
And on heroes that you know something here as you would expect them on obviously coming in with some experience
So there are some people last year who are like Kev's wash. It's like bro stay on stay on that side
Don't don't think I think I'm sure now that Kev's was coming up with some huge play
I think I was thinking I think his team was in a little bit of a rush
With all of the mix-ups happening are but you put Kev sir onto this VP lineup
that was already fighting some good success, Vasya Matt.
And he's obviously performing,
you're bringing Cycle with some good experience.
And now he's also performing on the Tracer,
as we saw in the series.
Cycle coming in off the world championship, right?
With PEM, like bringing that kind of like experience
to the table.
So it is a Lucio ban here for the Dallas Fuel,
as VP decides to get rid of the MAGA.
So, yeah, whatever it is.
I'm really hyped about the Lucio ban.
The reason why is because when you think about what went wrong
the last map, Matt, is the fact that if you want to really play the Sigma, you're going
up against Lucio, Kiri, Ram, and they're just going to speed Warwick's into you.
Yeah.
Okay, let's get rid of the Lucio.
Now we're going to be a slower type of matchup here.
Now if you want to lean back and towards the Sigma, now you're playing more of a slow
poke style.
You can put the Mizuki in there as well, make that one work, Dallas, you have more flexible
supports on your end-of-way.
That's one of your biggest strengths versus VP.
But I think this opens the door for VP to just play Kat Bastion.
Correct.
Right.
And that's what the Mal'Gurban says to me, is, okay, well, we might just prefer a Kat
bashing because you get rid of the Malga. Malga's one of the clear answers to the
Cat bashing and you also know by the way that Kellan's been kind of uncomfortable
with picking the Diva so far. So if Kellan refuses to play the Diva, can't play the
Malga because his band, his options against Cat bashing start to run pretty
thin. Yeah I mean he can try and play Winston but it just feels like he would
just be a pinata. I mean he would just get you know beat up playing the Winston
into I know a Cat bashing. That would be crazy. He could play ball, that is on the
table. He'd have to be a confident ball on his team would have to be ready for
when they can do because we've seen we've seen in Korea Crazy Coon and Zeta
Milgaroo and Jumin obviously play the can't bash in with the ball so that is
as possible and maybe Kellan will have to start leaning on that because running
out of options here so I think both of these bands pretty impactful I'm
telling it by the way in terms of where the teams actually want to go towards
for what could be our final match yeah as I think this like I would almost say
it slightly favors VP in the sense that like I think they have a little bit
more flexibility to kind of work around this year.
Where if you train and play some of these Sigma comps,
maybe you play a little bit slower,
the cap bastion, you know,
with some of these open sight lines in the body,
especially if you're going to play
that double flex support, right?
Could be really vulnerable.
Both players have to be extremely careful.
We're about like a minute
till we get into game here.
Alive from Champions Clash,
is Dallas Field Tournament Lipe on the line here
against Virtus Pro, who's been playing back-to-back games,
shooting pretty hot.
I mean, they looked warm up coming off that loss from Zeta and had some very close calls
there where they maybe could have even taken more maps off of Zeta Division.
I'm sure they'll be looking for a bit of revenge.
I know VP believe that they have more of a life to play through in this tournament through
the low bracket.
I kind of want to see the game five.
I mean, we have an ad like we've had a lot of just like blowouts here.
We had a game go to three earlier.
It was the VP Waybo game, but we haven't had a many close series here.
Got a four mapper Zeta VP, but no map lives yet.
Yeah, that's true.
The VP looked quite competitive against Zeta.
A lot of those games are really close.
I wonder, as we move forward in the tournament,
what it says, whether we'll see how CR,
and Zeta stack up against each other.
Then if VP can get past the Dallas Fuel here
and continue their run.
This is also the last hope for North America, right Matt?
You've got SSG gone, Dallas Fuel holding the candle strong.
Full NA.
Now, this fuel being the last hope for North America is something Overwatch fans are very
used to.
It is something we have gotten used to throughout the history of competitive Overwatch, so they
are trying to extend NA's life in this tournament.
It will be VP on defense here to open it up.
We basically discussed like where they expect the comps to go, right, Matt?
We called it pretty correctly here.
Malgo ban means that VP want to lean towards the cab bastion.
Lucio Band means that Dallas will probably want to lean towards more of a poke composition
with Kelly on the Sigma, but we are also locking in Luke Mead for the Cat for now, which does
say that potential for Cronin to go towards the Bastion is still there, which means Dallas
will be playing some sort of weird Sigma Cat Bastion, a little bit more off meta compared
to the standard Cat Bastion.
I don't know, I mean that's a weird look, right?
If somebody can make it work though, potentially the Dallas Fuel is, Kelly has looked his most
comfortable on the Sigma, see what Chronic decides to do, they can't in the mix, they
maybe they see, okay so they're not gonna play the Bastion, and by the way Sonjin on
cast which is typically Chronic's hero, so you're gonna basically have double, no there's
no spot, okay here we go, Chronic's gonna go back, yeah I was like there's no way
tournament life on the line, we're going you know, Mizuki, Hanzo, you're trying to challenge
I interest you into a name. I've come up for this cop. Sure. So he's had a few that we've been we've been shut down
What do you think of a cat 130? Oh
That tickles you a little bit. Well, I mean that is he see that's where you bait me, right?
You know my call exactly why you're trying to beat me into that
You know playing to your interest yet. Yeah, so he's had a few that I
Cash, I don't even know which ones are she's had like nine throughout the day as I hope
Oh, they were going over right there, Kephs are going over the top.
It's an optimistic rock.
Yeah, it's Kela and trying to make, you know, a tiktok there just trying to catch him across the way.
It's Kela dangerously low there on the point.
Pressure just coming from all sides.
So for VP, I think the thing that you like here, right with that Divas, you can control some of this high ground.
It's going to be too tic-so for Dallas.
They have done a nice job weathering some of the damage coming on through.
You think I'm gonna get into this play because the only it's gonna go by fall down a spiel
Kips has done enough damage. He's found out this one looking for this place
It landed and seizure that need to be using these so far dungeon down a site
No big kill for VP to open with
Yeah defense matrix gone. It's gonna be a two-day rush here from boat teams
It's gonna be the artillery there from cab dropping it right inside that kids soon a rush cap that near it is going
And oh you're gonna try and drag kill it into the squad, but a nice job finishing off fix
It's going to be the Gravitic Flux that comes on through, Kellen with another one.
Kinetic Crash is trying to stay alive.
Now Kellen gets piloted over towards the point.
Mike's still going to be good enough for Dallas Field, we've run out of ultimates
except for the self-destructing, which I still probably have to use.
He's not going to do it.
Which says to me that VP have given this one away.
The calf is all but gone now.
As soon as we claim the rest of the map, it's a little slow.
Big 7-1. Big 7-1.
Suncheon with two.
See if you're going to be able to find any of these kills.
is now on our way. Chronic coming back on the Bastion, going to clean it up. So a wild
first point here is, let's see if you decide to stay with this Cassidy. So I feel like
Psycho has been on the better end of the tracer head to head throughout this. So now
it's something going to just go over the Cassidy and just trying to really make it very difficult
for Psycho to put pressure onto the backline of the Dallas Fuel. I mean it's also really
good in terms of just comboing with Cal a little bit more, playing together as a solid
core, putting damage into the cap, bashing that certainly helps.
Landers rocks too, a lot of highstone can do against it.
Definitely hear the bashings fighting somewhere off the map.
Yeah, well, Krona gets the better of Kev.
Kev actually puts some damage down onto the Cassidy
of the Dallas Fuel and not able to finish it off.
Even though Psycho, they're playing from that high ground.
So this is gonna allow Dallas Fuel to round that card
around the corner without the bashing damage.
It's pretty hard for VP to fight.
They are just kind of back on first point.
They went to Dallas Fuel spawn.
Yeah, let's feel a hand to just push a bit like okay. Well, this is there's a free time of the payload here
Well ice and cycle. They're gonna be so they are gonna be so split here VP
I mean you're gonna lose fix. You're gonna lose ice here. I mean where where we got I just got a reset
This is kind of gross from VP there completely off the rails in terms of their position
You don't have time to reset dude
I mean they're gonna have to get back here and try and get a touch me the second checkpoint almost done ice accretion there connects
on the ice no less he's gonna have to just get out desperation it's gonna be
the continued rushes yet again here to open things up turret for brunt chronic
putting down some damage is now the diet coming in on sundry it's gonna be a
catnap taking care for a ride oh nice use you there as well keeping chronic
alive there through the pulse bomb that connects from psycho those self-destruct
remake fly stomachs only kept to a land that will give us a lot of life a much
longer hill he's got a singular trait but a catfish from me this is just a
culmination map of some of the mistakes from VP earlier on the B-point where they're all over the map trying to go for a spawn camp
Dallas a free-pushing the of this final last minute kind of
Reapproach on the point to save a VP and they just fall apart all those went through it was I was getting the expected cap
It was ugly from Virtus Pro there their second point defense obviously
They got really split never able to kind of re-engage together
This is interesting now trying to play there were a mantra here without the Lucio right not gonna have that speed to get right past that
shield and collapse onto the Sigma. It's going to be something using a dead eye there on an off angle.
Ice Nom not able to get up and can test the payload as the payload is continuing to roll.
I don't think Sonja got flown there might have been a mistake from Luke Mino.
Dallas Short could have done a lot more. Kelley will find a couple players would like to kill.
Surely Kev? No, nothing. No, nobody there able to finish off that kill on a Kev is
Kev comes up with one as VP looks like they're finally going to get a defensive stand Avril, but I mean at what cost?
I mean Dallas has looked great on offense
unfortunately because the
Looks actually caught a couple plays with Dallas from another position to actually get the cleanup
Good news here is they pushed a decent amount of distance payloads in a great spot one fight for a
Round win here for a full map completion. Kachunin rush available CJ is the same for the land on the opposite end though
This is gonna be another huge ultimate exchange. Yeah, VP though with a lot to work with right is a psycho
ends up using the recall there, gets taken a lot of damage, it's gonna be CJ opening the
wings up with the rush as Iso gets aggressive, no way he's able to stay alive.
Trader for Chronic, I think losing Iso might just be a little more impactful.
Catnaps gonna change the day, get a little bit, Paul spawns flying in, explodes everywhere,
it's VP coming out on top. Despite Iso going down, Kepha's a psycho, it's the DPS line once more
that'll hold steady for the rest of, we had what, four of us being played there?
Yeah, that is really difficult for Ice to play into that as, you know, Cabot moves on forward, they do deal with Kalin, you lose, fix him, and he comes back up the spawn pretty quick.
But when both rushes come down, Ice decides to like, vortex Nivus' form, push up, but I mean, he gets hit with an accretion, he gets hit with a hinder, I mean, there's no way, he just blows up.
Never seen a Rematcha die that quick.
Yeah, I mean...
And Ice, I'm not used to going down that quick either, Rematcha.
You've never seen Johnny play Rematcha, so...
Oh, yeah, well, Johnny doesn't use the block feature, that's why.
Yeah, I mean, he doesn't, he doesn't...
He doesn't, he doesn't have a card, yeah.
He just runs on in as we do see I assume now with the annihilation. So
See how he decides to play around this a lot obviously a lot harder without the Lucio speed
I mean you could just airdrop the rematch or in with the way right at combo
Trying to find targets here. They're trying to hide as well shortly what gets that
And the shoes have been too early by landed beautiful stuff from Dallas field that could be the cap here as well
It's basically a team wipe.
Psycho has a little bit of time to delay,
but the payload is basically at the finish line.
Yeah, I mean, you have a brief moment to delay,
so Psycho can get here, get a touch, right?
And then maybe you can actually just kind of air drop
Ice-Nom in with the annihilation.
It'll be the reaper swap from Kepiser here as well,
as we're below a minute on the clock.
Fix it, get there, and get to touch.
So it'll be VP with another great opportunity
to get a whole nice accretion there from Kellen.
Stop the push there from Ice-Nom coming in right away,
but no way Sundran can exit.
No way to get him out of there, so they come up with a huge kill.
Full respect given to the annihilation, but time has run out now.
Dallas Fuel absolutely have the payload right up against the back wall, all burners per spawn.
But 30 seconds left to play through, it's just a continue, which will be matched by landing.
This is now going to be a very even fight.
Dallas Fuel got a massive dead eye, but that only put the payload in the correct place.
Now can they finish?
16 seconds on the clock.
the clock. You're gonna have the continued rushes here from both sides to get things
off yet again. Vixen gonna use the catnap. Killing low. Looks like he connected with
killing there for a second, but got interrupted. It's gonna be Kepster taking
out Chronikas. He goes deep. Two kills though. Four down. You will make it three.
They are going to clutch up yet again. Avril. And they will get a map
completion here on the body. Sunjim showing up on a hero you're not really
used to seeing him, he's not typically known to be a hitscan player but we're just discovering
more and more in terms of players that are typically on the flex DPS side, you know them
as Tracer players, Genji players, etc, guys like Kev's are moving on the cast, performing
and now Sonjin doing the same thing on the cast in the final fight, showing up when it
matters. The three-can in the previous fight with the Jedi, well timed, not going to get
baited out by the Suzu and then the following final fight to get the job done when the tanks
time to get low, by the way, Kelly still surviving was ice that went down and that's going to give
all the room that Sonja needs to play with. Kelly, Kelly and CJ, a really good half from those two,
obviously one death from each is, and now we've highlighted a few times the support line here for
the Dallas Fuel, so flexible, so strong, really kind of turn the tides for them in this series at
moment so it'll be Dallas now on defense they'll come out with a Cassidy with
that Bastion yet again in combination with the Sigma the Sunjin has looked much
more comfortable I would say on the Cassidy than trying to match that
tracer. By the way this is proving for Dallas as well that they can make the
Sigma work it's not quite the same poke composition that they were hoping for in
terms of winning that on previous maps like you know Dorado and all that but
now you're looking at this situation where okay it's cat Bastion Sigma which I
reminded about is a little bit more niche compared to playing the diva and
Kellen's avoided playing the diva that maybe this was a final chance to make it
work and what a time to start to get this segment into its groove. So they'll try
and pressure here on the high ground maybe the slodge Kellen from that
position is okay now we're gonna get a cat-fashioned war here on the flank is
so this is what the diva allows you to do right I so I'm just gonna get back on
the flank takes this interesting position is Kellen's gonna use a kinetic
grasp here but CJ I suddenly will find CJ collapse on him Sunjun as well and a lot of trouble
They want Sunjun down. He's very low HP. There's just no support here, but CJ gone. There's no cutscene it
Sorry, there's no
Go go T for you to save them look meaners obviously gonna be busy taking care of killing and chronic and keeping them alive and Dallas
Feels defense is falling apart you do lose Kev and you still have chronic and Luke alive though
So can you maybe come back in challenges right is a non-anime the spawns not coming in fast enough there?
So you're not gonna go try and contest it there on the tracer.
Two spots per segment, I think.
Yeah, maybe you can get there with the tracer and contest it, but the SIG would have never made it, right?
So, at that point, just give it up.
Seems like when you looked at the fight breakdown, Dallas will really split CJ down first,
Sungen's off to the side of the map, caught out next, then you just have the rest of the players on an island by themselves.
Sungen, by the way, now is hopping over towards the tracer, so not really feeling the cast as much on the defense as he did on the offense.
Turret, already burned here though for Kev.
Just gonna buy them some space around the corner and maybe open up an angle here for
Psycho to get on a little bit of a flank on a wrap.
See, maybe both teams already here at it.
I'm trying to play for a rush as well.
The first fight kind of happens pretty quickly.
Oh, Kev's still here!
I mean, Kev just gets escorted right on top of where Ice was playing.
That was really nice.
Ice went in.
They're used, obviously.
The D.Va boosters are gonna get past that Sigma.
And then they just kind of fly Kevser in right on top and no way they could even react there.
Completely disavowing no fly zone there.
It's just going to be Kevser and Fixer going over the head of Kellyn, dropping damage on
top of Chronic and well Dallas Field with Kellyn completely left by his lonesome on
the payload trying to defend it by himself.
VP clean it all.
And by the way, no ultimates used.
They got 5 ult coming next by now.
And advantage on Rush here for Virtus Pro right with how aggressive they're playing especially
gonna collapsing on a Kellen an opportunity here it's gonna be Kellen
using the accretion you see how aggressive fixer is getting Kev in a
position chronic in a really rough spot he's gonna use that artillery strike to
try and stay on the hill and he gets ice well Sonja's got the rest of it so
Dallas fuel is still gonna hold on to this one chronic to get the first kill
Kellen now responding with his own that's for holding on stabilizing
fighting on this defense after also bit of a rough one to begin with this the
first strong defensive win. Yeah, self-destructive use there for Ice-Momb.
And for Dallas, right, you ended up using the catnap, you they don't have the
flux, and then also the artillery strike. It is a costly fight, but it was
definitely one that you absolutely must have needed to win if you plan to
actually kind of hold on here to this second checkpoint. This Sunjin and
Psycho just gonna mark in each other here, just trying to chase each other down.
Especially with how fast VP was on the a-point as well right if you want Dallas feel any chance of winning this map
You want to make sure that B is a slowdown? Yeah, you're not in position to hold all the minutes there in that situation
Speaking of all the ultimate rush to rush CJ holding the hillburn
Kellen is still above the rest of team by the like trying to draw attention away
The camera really rushed by Luke Amino dangerously low being chased by ice but can coming up with to uses the tour form puts out some damage
I'm just not sure it's going to be enough, right?
I mean, CYCO is still alive here.
I still am as well.
Fixed him putting down some damage.
It's just going to be Lukamino here alive for the Dallas Fuel.
He will fall.
No way, Kronek getting back in the action.
So even though CYCO was trying to go off there on the tracer,
not able to get that second point hold.
And now a lot of time for VP to complete the map.
I also think, positionally, like it's a bit of a rough account
because he's so far forward compared to the rest of his defensive team
defensive team where I storm can push with Kevster you see chronic as the
opening target with Kevster pocketed by ice on such easy for Kevster to get
value much harder for corner to do anything like Helen already pretty low
as a connect with grass gonna be a toy here from Kev gonna be able to keep
yourself alive but a little bit of damage down me which is trying to shake
them around the corners all CJ dies at the hands of psycho nice to do their eye
landing keeps Kevster up as well it was a pulse bomb that connected from
Tundra just doesn't come up with anything.
Kelen on one, but he fluxes, he's gonna miss it, but just trying to put the fair into VP.
You'll say it's a bit of an unfortunate flux, he doesn't get anything, but he does push away
for to save his own life.
If Kelen dies there, it could have been problematic, and now he's gone D.Va.
Yeah, really nice Suzu there from Landon, keeps Kepster alive through the Pulse Bob,
and you absolutely needed his damage in that situation.
Isom does have the self-destruct here to use over by the objective.
Kellenale going on the D. But like you mentioned, Catnap available for both jetpacked cats.
Lukamino uses his that comes out with nothing.
Tex is still in position to use his as well.
Scythe just needs to live.
He needs to use the self-destruct and that should be the push by Chronic on low HP.
He's got to pop his own ultimate to the king for self-alive.
One-to-one trait so far.
Lukamino respawns and Dallas trying to hold on to the specials again.
If Landon gets a rush here, it's probably just all over.
It might still be over because he's barely defending his life.
You are so out-damaged at this point, but Lukimino comes through, takes out Jepster off the spawn.
Rush Dallas trying to fight this. They do have the rush here.
We're landed in CJ.
You're gonna have this spawn advantage though here for the Dallas Fuel, so VP
may have just been throwing those ultimates in for nothing.
Is Dallas gonna hold on here for a second?
They need to hold on for a lot longer as well because Virtus.pro
if they manage to get this with, they leave above one minute to draw only scenario by the way with Dallas Fuel, so
Really, back against the walk-in, you do not want to be in a troll-only scenario.
You want to make sure that if you're down sweet, you have a strong win condition.
So, I'm destructive at it, but for Kallen now, he's got an extra life.
It can't go somewhere at the top. Nice defense, nice throw.
No defense matrix available, and keep chronic up. You lose, CJ.
Sontra has to be hero.
It feels like the beginning of the end, though. Avril, Pulse Bomb thrown in.
Nothing there. Self-destruct as well. Just a matter of time here.
It's a VP finish with a minute 44 on the clock.
So this puts Dallas in a really rough spot, right?
They got to come up huge here on the defense.
Yeah.
I mean, might still get a map five map, but not the one we expected.
If this goes to a draw, that's all that Dallas can hope for at this stage.
I mean, I expected for sure to get some decent damage out of our Bastion players, but I don't
understand if Sanjiun also put a decent amount of work in there as well.
He started to come alive on the tracer, where he was not really looking that way, moving
that way throughout the earlier parts of the series.
Psycho was really getting the better of him.
I was curious what Dallas would decide to do here on defense, right?
Because we did see them playing like some Cassidy with the Bastion, but it'll be the
tracer yet again.
More importantly, no Sigma.
I think we're starting to see that maybe Sigma in the A point defense just doesn't have the
mobility to be active enough on the map.
But it feels way more comfortable though, I feel like for VP kind of playing this like
mirror than it would doubt, right?
I mean, I feel like Dallas, they kind of want to play some of these Sigma styles.
Well, Dallas have been the team that don't really want to play the Divos much.
We've just seen Kellen choose not to do it.
He's just been wanting to play as much Sigma as possible.
also play the Winston even. When you choose to play Winston over D.Va, you know you really
just don't want to play D.Va. So he's been forced into it now because that last 8-point
defense for Dallas was not great. Pretty ugly. In fact, the team split up really hard and
not a lot of what Kelly can do there in terms of being reactive. He's going to need to have
all of that and bend some. A minute 35 to make sure even a single tick does not go through.
Yeah, Dallas Fuel needs to be perfect here on defense to keep their champions clash tournament
chances alive as Kev gets right over the top here on to the point like you
mentioned it's just one tip that they're going to need so you make oh you
can't have that here is Kellan getting dangerously low I'm gonna get a stop is
man just like that we were talking about you know maybe diva doesn't feel as
comfy there for the Dallas fuel killing gets DMG right away and that is it VP
He takes the series here over Dallas Fuel, keeping themselves alive.
No draw today and no more hope of fortune for North America.
The first region knocked out a Champions Flash.
SSG gone yesterday.
Dallas Fuel gone today and for EMEA still going from strength to strength.
Both the teams in it to win it.
And Pervertis Prove a pretty competitive game versus Zeta to now a more, I would say, comfortable
win.
the game against Dallas. Then
the game against a division
was still props to Dallas. They
did get that one map in there.
They saw full captain them
body of forces one to a time
back. I know I thought VP
obviously really strong
performance. I think especially
playing those matches back to
back pretty grueling, especially
with how competitive the data
series was. And then now here
against Dallas and I think for
Dallas, you know, just kind of
put a wrap on their tournament,
Look, I think the back line obviously is strength.
I think maybe in terms of like a hero pool,
this didn't really break in terms in Kellen's favor.
But I think a lot of bright signs for this North American
team for the future.
Yeah, certainly had some good spots in there.
I mean, go back to the Dorado map,
I thought was quite a, obviously they won that amount too.
But what they were able to show in terms of punishing
BP's mistakes, BP showing some mistakes there as well.
They just said, you know, this is a team that I saw capable
of not having 100% clean games.
Dallas feel they need to be in positions to be to fully punish VP away and win on some unconventional cups me
They won that map playing a Winston. Yeah, Greg Anna, which is not you'll commonly see anymore in 2026
No, not a comp that we see very often
But vertus pro obviously advancing through our bracket
Let's take a look at the bracket kind of see where everything lays now right where we saw CR and Zeta division really
They kind of mark their spots in the upper half of the bracket going to our winner's finals
And then now here in our lower bracket as we kind of bring it up VP they get by the Dallas fuel here
They set themselves up for another match right there like three matches today a really long day for Virtus Pro
Against the winner of TN versus Waybo, which is either a VP Waybo rematch from day one
Oh, it's gonna be all in the a showdown with one in your team has to go home
That is true and I think that would be you know, I think if you ask VP
They probably would want to play twisted minds get revenge on them as they have really kind of had their number throughout stage one in
EMEA, let's go to the stage with land and know to hear his thoughts on that game
So, first of all
So, looking back at this match, you did win 3-1, but it definitely seemed pretty close.
There were a lot of really close fights throughout.
What do you think was the key to your success versus Alice?
To be honest, I think both of our teams had a pretty similar game plan.
We just clutched and we needed to clutch.
Like I think most universes out there, I think we'd lose that map one and maybe like that map four slips away from us, but today it didn't, you know, like we just clutched up.
But today, we managed to win by doing what we could do.
Next, I think Asia has been really focused on this.
The only Virtus.pro that got the first map,
what's the reason for that?
So right now, Virtus.pro is the only team that's been able to take a map off of the two Korean teams
from the Asian Division. What do you think is that difference that lets you do what the other
Western teams and even Twisted Mind weren't able to? Right now Zeta, I mean obviously Zeta are a
strong team but like our team has everything we need to beat them you know. I don't think there's
any one specific thing. We've just got five good players, we got a good coach and we believe in
each other. So you think if you match them again you can beat them? I'll take three or four maps
I want to beat them.
I think the next match will be the winner of Weibo Gaming vs. Twisted Mind.
Which one do you want to be?
And one last thing, please.
classic EMEA rematch, but I want to win this time.
Thank you so much. I love landed. I mean his interviews are always great is that we take a look at our brackets of CR Zeta. They're done for the day. We really focusing on this lower bracket average to round out the day. Do you agree with Landon's assessment that that's going to be a three oh T. M. Well, first of all, Landon's always got great things to say about way but as we remember that that's true beyond beyond that. I think T. M. are probably the more likely team just given that they you know the competitive pedigree.
that competitive pedigree defending world champions,
but they've looked kind of like a little bit off this tournament.
Their previous games have been like not the best,
so they look shaky.
I think actually VP looked better in Twisted Minds.
I think this next game could be close.
I don't think it'll be 3-0.
I'm not willing to say that,
but I think your team should have the advantage.
No, I think it'll be a really competitive game
with Twisted Minds.
I don't think they know with obviously being the world champions
and then obviously really kind of running through EMEA.
I don't think they're gonna go out that easy, right?
And I kind of, I'm excited for the last match of the day, regardless of how it shakes up, right?
You get a Weibo versus VP rematch, or you get a TM versus VP game battle of best in EMEA.
But we got a game to decide here before that final game of the day.
We'll see who ends up playing VP.
It'll either be the Twisted Minds or Weibo.
We'll have that coming up right after this break.
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as for undefeated on this map site, but what I really want to talk about is
Psycho's Tracer had a lights eye performance, we were talking yesterday
how strong Kastor was looking, but Psycho, especially on Dorado, had some really clutch moments
like the Kastor's talks about the pulse bomb being able to interfere with CJ's
nanobooth timing so you don't get to line it up with the blade, but he was also
pulling off some really good picks against like Chronic on the Widow, where he had an
absolute insane 1 vs 1 against Chronic, he goes, catches him on the low ground,
forces him to have to grapple up, uses the recoil to reposition him to the high ground,
double blink across and take the widow down. It was really crazy. It really was. And I think
on an individual level, it's not just Psycho, which we just saw stepping it up on the tracer in
this match. It's been fixed on the last series as well, looking so much better. Earlier on,
a little more shaky in this tournament, and Eisner as well, had a few maps, a few moments where
we're like, oh, this doesn't look as good, not what we want to see. And then suddenly they're
stepping it up. Kevster obviously yesterday having a lifetime performance. So yeah, it's just each
and every single one is stepping up when it's needed the most and thus VP continue their run here
at a champions clash. I'm so excited to see them again a little later today. Yes, that's right,
they have to play three first two three series today. Which is absolutely nuts. So I hope they're
fueling up in the back with some bananas and I don't know what else the game was eating. But yeah,
Yeah, let's talk about our second match here in the lower bracket. It's going to be twisted
minds going up against a waybo. We've seen a little bit from both of these teams already,
so the big question is what have we learned about these teams and how do we feel they
stacking up? I think what's interesting about this storyline for these two teams is that
twisted minds are still going in as the favorite. I think there were a lot of expectations for
TM going into this tournament with the fact that they were defending back to back major
events. I think, though, we've seen twisted minds shaky even in the all
gamers matchup. They weren't looking that great on the cap fashion. They did make
adjustments going up against crazy raccoons. It did look better for them,
but they still haven't found their footing in this meta. Moxie, meanwhile, for the
side of Waybo gaming, it's been that different story that underdog team
coming in from China, we've seen crazy improvements, honestly, day for day. And
it feels like when it comes down to these adaptations on game day, they've had
that edge up.
I mean, yeah, like you said, Twisted Minds, the expectation was there for them, but they
haven't really met them. Wave-O though, everyone was underestimating them as a team, and they're
excelling, they're outperforming the expectation. And I think a huge part of it, honestly, we're
not talking about the Overwatch League players who already had that experience. It's the
newcomers, it's the new blood. We've got Sunzo, we've got Lee Sum and these players who didn't
really get that opportunity to be able to punch up into the tier one level back in the old
circuits, but they're really getting to just generate, incubate this town because Lee Soo-Min
actually comes from a dynasty. We had a team called Wei and we talk about Wei so often when we're
looking at like, you know, Sun Jin, he was on it for a little bit of time. We had Huayu,
Top Dragon as well, and Mil Garu who's now playing for Zeta Division, but Lee Soo-Min was the Lucio
for Wei back in 2025. So you can see that this team is actually starting to generate a lot of
powerhouse town. It's really impressive how Sunzo and Lee Suman have just become these
playmakers for Weibo Gaming, but they still definitely have quite the tall hill to battle up on.
I always love those incubation team stories. We have so many in OWCS, really. There's so many
teams who find the talent, nourish the talent, and then the talent goes to a really successful team.
But it's great to see them on this stage, let's see what they can do today in this very match.
Let's chat predictions because we've done so well with predictions here on this this tournament actually kind of crazy
We've done
As a general statement
Some people have definitely nailed it other people have swung a hammer and it went it went places
You know and it do be like that gotta be real for this first prediction
I cannot remember what I predicted
So I gotta wait until the graphic comes up and then it's gonna be a surprise to me what passed
So we obviously a picked twist of minds again because I'm a rider guy. What could I say? Hey
Valid valid. You know who else is a rider guy?
The haters out there are definitely gonna come for me for this prediction. Oh, it is fair
Again, I've been so impressed with Sunzo and with Lee Sue and I think it's gonna be really interesting
I also think that we had that conversation in the green room
so much. The about how twisted
minds haven't really had to do
some sort of lower bracket run.
They do have experience and
veteransy on that team. It
should be something that they
can, you know, push through,
but I wonder if it kind of weighs
on their mind a little bit with
all the excitation pressure on
their shoulders. There's going
to be stress. There's going to
be pressure for sure. They're
not accustomed to being in the
lower bracket. Like when we
actually saw them in the EMEA
group stages, they were barely
dropping maps. In fact, we were
sort of coming in with the
expectation they might be able
against like, like, Virtus Pro, who pulled out a very cheesy composition where they basically
ran Vendetta Tracer, and you could argue like, okay, Twist of Mind went ready for that composition,
for their backline to be as bullied as they were. They don't have the same excuse coming into this
matchup where it was a case of like, are they going to look weak against the Bastion Cap? It's
not just the Bastion Cap they've been looking weak against, which does mean that Leipo's looking
pretty strong in terms of this matchup too, because they haven't been overly reliant on it,
But I still pick Twisted Minds, you know?
I come from a very long line of getting to see Twisted Minds, like, at the top, both from Tier 2 and now in Tier 1.
It's been an absolute joy to get to, like, a witness.
This team go from punching into Tier 2,
managing to walk away with the World Cup win all the way back in, like, 2023,
and now just being able to dominate the Tier 1 scene.
But that was a very different matter.
That was where they could just, like, rely very heavily on pumping the resources out into their DPS.
So now they're in another world, they have to look away from just the DTS being those carries.
Well, it's going to be an interesting game for sure, perhaps even a clash of styles we're about
to find out on this stage. So once again, we're heading into a very quick break and when we're
back, we're going to bring our teams out to get a bit tiger.
Welcome everybody, Danny Limbio. I'm here to catch up with Gushui and leave in Japan. Hi guys,
Hello, see hello. Hello. Hi. So, what has been your favorite part of the trip so far?
I think the most fun part is when we arrived in Japan, we ate ramen for the first time.
I really like ramen.
The second question is about your favorite food. You said your favorite food was ramen.
What was your favorite ramen? Where did you have that ramen?
In the city, there is a restaurant called Yiran Ramen.
It's your choice. How about you, Lee?
Yeah.
same same okay all right one more thing for you guys what's one thing you guys
always bring on your flight
I usually use my iPad because I have to use my iPad to watch movies
and one final question for both of you
and leave. What's one thing you want to experience in Japan before you leave?
Before leaving Japan, I want to eat ramen.
I want to eat sushi.
That's it for the questions. Leave and Gushui. Thank you so much. Thank you.
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Let's start with the team's friendship.
First of all, Twisted Mines!
I mean, look, it's a fun chance.
I mean, they take a loss to Korea.
What can you do about that?
I just love that WayBoo Gaming consistently shows up
in the lower bracket as his international opponent.
He's just like, all right, we hit level three.
We're about to face up against WayBoo Gaming.
Here we go again.
They all literally, the Terriers, they got rent there,
they got a house there, they got,
if you want to not be terms,
they got one of the hotels there.
We're waiting for them to level up to level four,
but they're still at level three.
They've been at level three for like the past year or so that they haven't quite been able to hit their stride internationally
But they're still so formidable
Especially when you go to these Lucio Kierkegaard kind of compositions and try to do his thing on the soldier
And what have you and so to his admins? Yes to come into this one as the EMEA number one seed
But you still gotta put some respect away the gaming
Put some respect on the cat's name and put some respect on the cat's feet too. Oh, all right
No more please stop shooting our backline and two tapping us. We have so many good hits campers this tournament
Yeah, I mean what we've seen from campster so far and then you're considering what quartz to let the world finals
Yeah, now going up against the leader shy as well like we're just like this month amazing
It's a bit I bring up every time everybody brings up every time shy so you want to listen the world when it was released
My goodness guy was two year old narrative two year old had more
We're bringing it back. We wrote it again. We're remixing it this time
He's still got it. He does he does and he's old. He's like 24 years old throws all 24
He's all guys like he's gonna run in lock. Yeah, please don't please don't he's been here some brails on this time
Yeah, he really has leave to I mean look for my virtually game the PS1 on the Chengdu Hunters
We have to host 2021 we have a
a fan actually that has one of the signs which was quite cool Sunzo though looking really good
Right in the article part two Johnny's been looking fantastic on the tank roll. Yeah
It's a good addition to this team. Obviously they needed a bit more of
tradition of tank player to round out usually zero pool and so and so for me formerly Billy
Dang has stepped into that role and done a good job at this tournament so far for a way of gaming
So we'll see how much playtime is going to get here as twisted minds
they're going to, I believe Twisted Minds are going to take us actually here to Waston.
Yep, that was their map pick, and they get the band first of the cat. I like the response
here from Wayabolo, banning out the Cassidy, but my problem kind of lies with going later
into this match. Elimination game once again, this, where are we going? Are the lower back
at Warriors at the international competition? Can they, like you said Johnny, and after
you put it, can they actually just make it further here? Twisted Minds are for the world
chance. You're not expecting them to be this far down so early on.
It's going to be really interesting to see what kind of compositions we see here because
maybe we just have a gentleman's agreement. Here's your carry. Hey, back to the good old days.
I mean, I think Astro would love some of that. I think simple two. J-Woo two has been such a level
off of the team. Really has. Obviously, popped off at bootcamp.
I mean, Zarya is just a really good, well-rounded hero.
So, I like the fact that we're seeing some Zarya play with Ice-Dog from Zarya earlier
today.
And we've seen a couple of teams default to Zarya when perhaps they don't feel as comfortable
playing something like Adiba.
And she's just a stable default character to roll out with
Here in 2026 this is a hit scan matchup
I wouldn't be shy of versus quartz to the best soju plays to the game
Great. Oh, so few charts down. That was such a close booth from pretty astro
They're almost get something off of the map, but he's all the Zarius right now hit scans no way
Oh astro gets his mark. These are men though. He was astro
I mean, he's just trade on trade on trade on trade bro. Looks like a trading card convention
Hey, J-Woo picking up two fries himself as well and it's going to be twisted mines closing things out here
I mean, this is just I'm just leaning back
This is going to be an absolute cinematic series here if these two teams are just willing to look in these five heroes
Should leave for this course in J-Woo
We'll see if we do get some
Oh
Just when I was comfortable all set up all sit down Johnny sat down he got onto my height sat down
and we was ready to rock and roll.
I was just straight enjoying that first teamfight.
That's a bit of an appetizer, a bit of a crumble for the rest of this series,
whether it's as to what for us.
Because again, way boo gaming, when they get to play these kind of compositions,
they're still one of the best teams.
Remember, last year they took a couple of maps of team falcons,
for example, they were really competitive.
They just couldn't get off over that hurdle.
So when things stay, you know, pretty simple, no Symmetra should add against, no Jetpack, Kat Bastion.
That's when this team really shines. And so, facing off in a mirror like this, I do think that Weibo Gaming, they're going to be quite comfortable.
Yeah, they'll definitely be open, so...
A lot of the Chinese fans too have flown out to watch Weibo and their organist.
There's so many cheers here, yeah.
Yeah, a lot of chance.
Everywhere in the world, to be fair, Toronto, 2023.
Yeah, so much support. So I mean, there's still 100 spot jerseys, but it's very easy to pick out of course being pink
Yeah, they got the traveling support wherever they go in there exactly exactly a lot of them showed up to um
The midseason last year as well. I'm telling you here we go. I'm pause. Okay. We're back in 11% TV NT. Go shy then
Good stuff. Oh
Standard after pause frags
Wait, where am I?
TVNC gets another two there to really secure the second T-fight here for 2-2-1.
Nice animation cancel there from J.B.
Good stuff. Alright, TVNC.
I mean, TVNC has been fantastic so far this tournament.
We talked about it, Steve, when they were playing those get-back-cat kind of compositions,
but now here on Desire, left an impression early on here on Oasis,
as we're kicking off this lower bracket series.
The way we're gaming here is try to generate some of these ultimates.
You can't let the round get too far away from you. 43% of the Cali, and another headshot.
Twisted mines, they're generating so much percentage for free here, essentially.
So much free value generated by Quartz just landing a Heady Rail.
And look now, TVNT, he's pretty close to this grab.
We've got a rush online as well with Twisted Mines, and that is some revenge.
That's a cold.
That's nice as well, because you don't have to use one of these big ultimates to just try to get some ground.
Now you can secure this point, you can rush, you can drop.
Tondo's gonna have to be rather careful, one more blow still left in the tank, no TVNT ends up throwing out that gravity.
Big hit, four people as well, but the Susan is just golden for Maka.
Hits four of them as the damage rolls in. Unbelievable!
Yeah, Big Ultimate trades back and forth.
The Pony Astro, no sound barrier available there as well, and so Lisa Min now has that sound barrier advantage for his team.
I was looking at the marker, health bar, I can't lie. They're going to rip this over
caught though. Of course they're not moving in, but Shai's going to try and match. Shai's
a very low though. He's taking out my TVNT again. Bane of any TPS player, TVNT. He's
a large one himself. I mean Zarya, 100 energy, you're just farming people. Look at this.
He's in charge right now in that front line, Sonzo cannot say the same now.
Quartz coming a couple down in that fight.
How did they fight back in that one?
I don't know.
He felt decisive like Wable Gaming.
Cruftal a great starter, but Twisted Minds fight their way back, 80% and counting in.
Wable Gaming, they don't have any alternates here.
Now they need someone like Shai to step up.
Get an early pick.
TVAT is just so high energy all the time.
They're not backing up, but he's just so...
He's just so accurate around these corners.
I mean, they're not way more than expecting maybe him to play so far up
Going to push up here force the teleport from simple
It's going to force the rest of twisted minds back might be looking to build this kitchen
No, I saw it all right, what a base it really feels like Watson TV and he are taking it in turns to carry right now
We're gonna see though enter down this leave gets still on the tracer simple also falls
So she will cause him funny astro trying to salvage this fight, but leave gets another all right, okay another one
What he can still do in 2026, we're still going.
Leave picking up a couple of frags here to even out the fight.
And WeiboGaming stay alive here on the very first round.
And that allows them to build these crucial ultimates as well now.
Christian Mainz and WeiboGaming both with Kitsumorosh at their disposal.
We can try and rush onto the point first.
Very early Suzy uses with Alcoma for just a moment.
SunZu, no bubbles left.
And TVSE is just going to chase him down.
So he ends up getting quite quick though, is Divya, he can't do anything!
He's trying so desperately hard to push the envelope!
But why is he gaming?
Just zip it up! I mean, Twisted Mind's got ran over there!
Yeah, Sonto would have a fantastic grab at them searches as well, really securing...
...a lot of value in the middle of these fights.
And a pick up to J-Woo at 82%!
Need J-Woo to touch the point here, Funny Astros going to get close to the Sunbearer,
T-Bee and T-Bee has a grab as well.
He needs to hit a big one here does TV NT needs to catch this front line
He's gonna throw it in he can't just collect the Zarya, but there's a lot of support coming in
Nice focus fire from twisted mines to players in a assist feed as well
It's called sends the rail gun
He's got the short slide to get up to the high ground just a moment's notice and TV
It's he's just running down the back line. Jay. Who's end up a nice snipe on Lee soo Finn
hits him with the Ajax and twisted mines. They got this first round. Going to close
things out very shortly here. Lisa Min, I mean he has to make the play right. He
has to make the touch for the point and drop the Sunberry in the process and so
very telegraphed that the Sunberry is going to come out. But still, there's
moments before he was just a few percentages away from building that
Sunberry early to maybe retain some of that positioning on the point. But
because he couldn't get the healing in time, that meant the Twisted Minds, they were in full control and able to close things out at the university.
15-3 for TVNT, Min-Max title by the way, very apt for TVNT I would say.
Yeah, at least you're in, like you said, you're in a situation where like you have to hit the beat but they're looking at you, it's like I've got no other choice.
No one's throwing that against him, but it's an Ajax nonetheless, add it to the count.
They were fired up buddy. Oh yeah, I mean they're down around brother. They knew all the energy they can get
Different look here from TV and T now this is the hero he is no poor and best on as well
This diva is so scary one of the reasons why twisted minds won that world finals
Yeah, he plays so well with the rest of the team rotates with course
Setting himself and his team up for success with that defense matrix and you can see a twisted mind
They're using the D.Va here to rotate around this point.
Try to look for Pixie, as soon as it drops low and as soon as it comes out as well.
He's used by Pupples right in front of their face, Quartz was just shooting the whole time
and then TVNT's just right on the side just shooting back at him.
Nice smack from J.Woo too.
Double support going down.
They are still so very good at this composition.
This tournament so far has been about the Jetpack Cat.
You can see here, I'm poking early, prodding, trying to look for a rail, can't quite find one, so they're going to retreat.
Just hang back for a brief moment, just making sure they don't get sniped by Quartz as they walk in.
It's all about the rushes here. We're losing four ultimates.
But it's even to you out of that. Okay, TVNZ knows he's been shot in the back needs to reposition back on to the point
They're just in team on shy right now on my fact. Maybe
The back line is shy retreats with them Russians are getting used they've isolated the carry here for Weber gaining
They just can't fill the two to wash jobs. They're forced to withdraw so much because Mark
I couldn't get it online and twisted nicely capitalized on the back of that
It's gonna be a little stagger to oh
Ho, ho, ho!
Straight into the cars.
Yeah.
Nice extra 10-15% there, Johnny.
Indeed, 53% there.
And Weibo Gaming, it just felt like they haven't come online so far here in the second round.
They have that double support a little bit.
That's a recent in builds towards the summer, but here comes sports, early push.
Really nice stuff.
Joby's already in the back, as well, just trying to trace the supports down.
Marko goes dangerously low. He's got this rush, but doesn't want to use it right now, but shy with the snipe.
Quartz though still manages to get the DMEC after death there by the looks and
things but he already shot him and Sun-Zo was DMEC-ing midway through that other
kill. TVNT end of killing leave here as Shai just tries to clutch out this
fight here but simple gets enough and enough simple gets two so far as away as
well as TVNT and simplest thing is the duo carrying this fight. TVNT twisted
mind hold on to that fight this could be a hundred though. Everyone in the server
I never assumed that Wave of Gaming had won the fight, type of cervical, but can't get the value.
Wave of Gaming still had their support on them, and they're going to have to touch the point?
They're going to touch.
These women has to hit this beat, FUNNY AASHRO 2.
You're going to touch. Oh my goodness, that was close.
Alright, Marker, laying down the rush first, Mr. Mice,
paying a little bit of heed, a little caution backing up slightly.
FUNNY AASHRO knows he cannot go down here either.
A counter-beat, a better beat required for TN.
But you want to go second here, you don't want to be the first Lucio to drop it.
Gives the opportunity to the other Lucio to respond instead of...
And they have not flipped, by the way.
There's the beat, now Astro hits his.
Slightly better one, and now the intonating shy can continue as TBNT runs him down.
Brutal.
No touch there, but way below at the end.
The OT lasted so long, Johnny, that not only a cup, like one second off the point cost them that map.
That's a 2-0, map win.
The tempo was just out of control for Twisted Minds.
That second round took control.
What a massive fight win that was outside of Webu Gaming's spawn.
Simple gets a couple combining with TV and T on that diva.
And Webu Gaming reflecting on that second round.
You gotta think we got off one Kitsuna Wash, one sound barrier.
We need more than that if we're gonna stay competitive in the series.
in the series. Yeah, J-woo is looking real clean with it as well.
This roster is so good, it's so well-rounded, I don't see how far they can make it. Can they make
that kind of salty run back as well in the lowest? Yeah, I mean, J-woo is a player who was really hoping
that we'd remain in a very tracer-oriented meta and it just hasn't been the tournament for him so far.
We saw what J-woo is capable of at the boot camp, but obviously in this tournament, it's more about
flexing over to the reaper if need be. We've seen a little bit of Tracer play in some of these
bastion compositions, but this is a series that Jay Wu has more of an opportunity to
leave a mark playing his signature Tracer. Well the cat can't be banned on one side at
least, so we'll see. Look at the Astro group as well. It's crazy. Scary place to fight.
Ranger on that is ridiculous. Here's the grabs. Funny Astro. Yeah, it was an Ajax. Yeah, all right.
there you go well it is scary it's a scary prospect dropping the sound barrier while you're in a grab
on search he wasn't in the grab well he was jumping into the grab to save his teammates i think so
but nonetheless top spot to try to drop the sound barrier there's a lot of damage being
traded back and forth there do you get these two minutes come on surely we've got to replay that
one give me give me wow you're just hungry for age access yeah come on we know the end result buddy
Yeah it's funny. I don't need to see it again. It's funny.
You just enjoy the lose your players.
I need to go after the ultimate. You don't?
Come on bro. It's kind of funny Nakala, but it's not bad as well.
Yeah it does feel bad for the players but you know it's a cool play.
Jake would be having some words with me right now.
What do you mean? What do you mean it's sad for the players?
It's reality, it's what happened. It's reality. It unfolded.
It didn't fold it before our eyes.
This fight was absolutely mental.
I can't believe that Twisted Mines
ended up winning that one.
TVNT in simple duo-curing
that backline.
That's crazy.
Insane.
Yeah.
And I mean, it helped them get the win as well,
here in the second round.
So, the tempo was just unbelievable.
Like, again, swinging wide with quarts
playing the soldier and trying to hit
these failgun shots early,
putting pressure on the way of the gaming.
To try and even get out,
you know, something like a Kitsuna rush, for example,
getting out one of these big cooldowns.
That is why you want to up that tempo so much.
And Twisted Mind is really putting way beginning in a difficult spot there on Oasis.
King's Row chosen by Webby.
Indeed, it's a map to have been pretty comfortable on.
So far this tournament, I mean, it's pretty straight up, you know, it's a good old default.
Everyone votes for King's Row when it shows up in the ranked.
Is that true still? Do you reckon?
I think so.
I mean, I always vote it.
I'm not sure about everything else.
I'm not sure about everybody else.
If you get six, seven people in the lobby
who don't vote on T-12.
Do you really say that on broadcast?
I mean, what?
He doesn't know chat.
Don't worry about it, Johnny.
He doesn't know.
Let's look at TVNTSAT from map one.
9.6 KD, 33 a limbs per 10 as well.
Yeah, I mean, he is absurd.
Oh, I get it, though.
Yeah, he got it.
Hang on a second.
He got it.
30 years old, damn it.
It takes me some time to process these memes.
TVNT has been popping off.
I thought it was really impressive how Twisted Minds,
they really took it on Ilios, too crazy.
Obviously, the series didn't end the way they wanted.
That's why they're here in that lower bracket.
But TVNT has just been such an amazing tank player for this team.
For the better part of a year now,
and then part of so much success this Twisted Minds roster has seen.
It would be interesting to see how they adapt to their loss in the upper bracket.
Obviously they have to deal with Waybuu Gaming here first.
But a lot of these teams are learning about this Misuki comp.
You know, how are we going to battle that one Virtus.Pro?
They came out with some Symmetra gameplay as well and that, you know,
left a dent in a team like the Division Athletes.
And so a lot of these teams,
they have different compositions on their mind, different strategies in place.
I have to see if maybe they bring one of those compositions out here.
Try and throw the opponent off guard.
Yeah, Ashura, I didn't have a good game, you know, on C.
just getting picked a lot of the the time in their upper bracket game just
first like okay well if you're Lucio or your support like that is getting picked
so often it's just so tough to like come back in the fight the 4v5s especially
going cabash in is real tough. Bands coming up, use your a little glimpse already.
Mizuki Bands for Tien as we see a Genji Bands for what it? Yeah I mean there was
like I don't know how to describe it I go far from the crowd when they saw the Mizuki
come out there or maybe it was the Genjibang, I mean I don't speak Japanese but one of the two
they were like surprised about and I don't see what was the Misuke because Twisted Mind is obviously
putting some respect here on Waybegaming's name just like okay well we're going to King's Row
it's a really good map for a composition like the main Sigma Misuke which we have seen more of
we just don't want to partake in that we don't want that to deal with that composition right now
and we saw in the previous series with no Misuke in the mix it is a way harder composition to pull off
it's kind of insane, Misuke's almost come out of nowhere, it wasn't really good on release to be
to be honest compared to like you know again the classic Kirilusio.
He's good in his own rights but like at the top level like Kirilusio is just so good.
And in this tournament it's just pop that over.
It's like oh wait this is especially for King's Row like very very good.
Well I think when Misuki was released we're kind of thinking about okay well what is Misuki's
role in the game right?
What does Misuki do for you?
Yeah.
And a lot of it was about punishing flankers you know you can get the chain onto a wrecking
ball in your backline for example.
Now here on D.Va as well, we've seen some effectiveness against D.Va players getting that chain on line, putting them in place, but also, now we're at the point with Sambar, you're nerfed on Lucio, Misuke is just a great alternative Aura healer, providing so much healing to the rest of this team, and Sanctuary, it's a good ultimate, you know, put it in place, now it negates protocols from either way whether you're shooting in or out, and I think this is a great ultimate if you just want to hold some space, which is so pivotal in the professional scene.
Yeah, it's gonna be a ban by Twisted Minds, second to ban there.
Alright, Kings, Rowe.
Probably not playing a cat bot either.
Certainly called a cat bot.
Jetpack cat and Bastion.
Yeah, I mean, jetpack cat and Bastion is a mouthful.
So...
Well, yeah.
I think cat bot was good.
Cat ban. I like cat Bastion. Cat bot's good.
I like that too.
I think it could bring it out. I mentioned to Jake earlier, like, I think there's some roof tops here to play around.
I think it gets a little risky if you're the attacking team and you get a swing on the first point to try and get some value, but
The Skybox is pretty good. I don't mind it too much. The composition is really strong right now
But most likely going to seem a bit more of default. I hit the wukong at default but Lucy carry
All right, so look at the defense here for Twisted Minds, simple Alari, I mean, he is a beast on Alari.
And Funny Asher running the Juno instead, no Lucio, can't really pair the Alusio with Alari, not too much healing to be had.
What do you think about this support you are here?
As a fellow Alari player, Jaws.
Yeah?
Yes, that's me.
What do you feel about this little backline?
I think it's great, honestly.
You think it's great? Does that mean there's Alari in it?
Yeah, I mean, look, on King's Row especially,
Especially you're playing on a high ground a lot of the time you put your pile on in a position where they can't shoot it unless
They're into the corridors and then you just like rain your little light shots down to the people on the point
I think it's good, but on the other hand, we'll be
Well
They're any cat-bashed. Yeah, I think Juno as well
It's a pretty self-sufficient main support if you're not prone to getting hit by a tracer or something like that
And also they might be fixing over to something like a Juno break from second point if they're unable to hold here on first
But way beginning they're going to pay the different cat and bastion
Let's see how they navigate the verticality here. They try to swing and get a couple of pigs here Jerry so in line
They were a quick shot though a lot of poke from symbol as well
It's gonna be out to kind of snipe you through a little bit of pressure on shy and these you mean oh my god
Oh, where are they going?
They're trying to like cut the entire team off luck. So it's almost like it's
Going down anyway. Yeah, it's so tough like she was sorry of all people
You can't really help the cat passion if they're going that deep
They're really doing a great job trying to set up the angles, but that time it's also
kind of cart in between his cat and Bastion and the rest of his team.
Mark on the Ana, of course.
I'm a little scared about Mark potentially being left alone here on this Ana.
Leave is going to have to do a lot of work to fend off J-Woo here, as he looks to capitalize
on this pretty weak wave gaming backline, but once again, can't overstate the importance
of Bastion in this lineup. He is the pivotal character.
Yeah, I mean, J-Woo's getting straight up marked by Lee this entire time, so that pressure,
like you said, relieved from a mucka. They are just flying around, buddy.
They are. They do be flying around. Valor, that's going to get matrixed, unfortunately.
Hose not for J-Woo, too. Recoil force really early on by Lee. It's going to be a close.
Oh, not quite. Sal's high in the sky, but at least some insolence are going down. They
They trade a support for a DPS.
We can build a couple of ultimates here.
I don't think they're in a rush necessarily to defend the point, twisted mines.
They got attached.
They want the captive son, and the orbital ray if they can.
You can't not be touching right now.
Captive son, straight over the top, looking for somebody, looking for the support on the back.
Like, it hits Marker, that's the double tap.
Marker goes down, and leave two.
I mean, wow, simple spoofing, so good.
It doesn't end up sniping at least a bit, but it doesn't matter.
I mean, J-Woo is here with the play now.
The individual ability of these Ellori players can win a fight like that, really impressive from simple.
I think the most crucial element of that fight was that Marca used the Nonoboost and it is so effective in this Bastion comp.
You want to put it on your Bastion, just confirm the engage, double down on it.
At that time having used the Nonoboost, now Marca forced over to the Kiriko as well.
That was a pretty big condition here for him to get the cap out of the point.
They're going to try and kidnap somebody.
Orbital Racer coming out, so there's just too much damage you'd think.
Is it proper to high ground now using that Orbital Racer damage?
J.B. went to be falling, there's a lot of players from Weber Gaming right now sitting on that mega health back.
Pushes quarts away for a brief moment, Mark is so low, as Lee chases down quarts.
I mean the entire G at Twisted Minds there, we're trying to capitalize on the rotations of Weber Gaming,
but it is Lee that comes up with a kill.
That should be the first point captured here for Weber Gaming.
Christian Mainz there, don't want to let Wave of Gaming out of those tight areas and you saw Quartz for example trying to set up on the flank there on the Cassidy just rain damage into Wave of Gaming as they're stuck in that hotel area but Christian Mainz got a little bit too greedy, poked a little bit too hard into Wave of Gaming, turned the tables on him.
Yeah, and if you leave, as soon as you hear that cast and aid, you're like, well, that's
a nice little go for me, especially for someone like Lee.
You're heading into this second point.
Simple has the captive sun, but it's a tough part to push into.
You don't want to go too far with this one, and you also have to consider the defense
matrix.
Makka's going to have the Kitsunorosh here.
That could be an ultimate you could use to push forward here and gain some ground.
Oh, all right.
Shies behind on the rockets to really good against the teams that aren't running the Cap action
Chai takes that simple simple as well. My goodness simple captain some that tried to get it off, but shut down by shy
Yeah, very tough spot to get it out. Let's see here. It's going to be a swap
Simple that bashing
Also just using the speed was there to try and get a steam across swaps back to it actually
They're changing their minds, maybe?
Alright, that makes more sense.
Simple still has his brain, we're good.
That's crazy.
I'll lose you, calf. Come on buddy, come on buddy.
There's no way. There's still sense in the compositions.
There is still sense here.
Oh, Shy has popped that out to try and stay alive.
Trying to find someone to shoot at.
Looks like he was trying to go for a mid-air shot on quartz.
Didn't get any damage from that.
Oh, great, it's a good one, Jay. We've got a better Suzu there from Maka.
Don't do it, taking a lot of damage here.
It's down.
Bomb's going to be popped.
Oh, I like...
There's Sebastian.
Close range.
Orbital fire here from Shy and Quartz.
Quartz gets better at Shy.
So much easier when you don't have that rocket perk.
Oh, that clip-down patented.
Didn't even need to steal it.
My Lisu Min's cat has been so good.
Yeah, hitting a stun onto the tracer like that.
That's going to be enough to give your team the opportunity to close things out.
Twisted Mines go for a bit of a contest here.
There are a few players with simple going down and no mech available for TDNT.
That should be way beginning capping the second pointer and continuing to roll here on Team Throw.
Two and a half minutes in the time bank now, really starting to roll with its cap action.
You see what twisted mines can do here, so...
Shire, he has taken the AC-130 perk, and so Quartz swapping over to this bastion could potentially have the advantage in the aerial duel.
Yeah, Abbas been saying that for a while, you know, you're taking the rocket perk, it's like, well, actually now if they switch to bastion, it's just so much more difficult.
We've been saying it.
Obviously, you want the more direct tracking ability of the bastion to try and pick your opponent out of the sky.
guy. It's inertial it's available here Jaws.
You can suffice for a little bit of damage there coming through from shy as he pops out
of terraform. And moving up pretty effectively here, there's going to be a rush backwards
for marker. Attempting to kite it, kidnap, oh not quite, he's been finally shut down.
There's still a point presence here from shy and he's got ult but they have really got
the bodies here to actually make this work. Nice Suzu actually covering almost the entirety
of Twisted Mind's front line, being in front of Rebellity, and that's going to make sure
they win the fight.
And going back to this perk discussion, I think that Webu Gaming are in a really tough
place now, because you can't necessarily rely on these hard swings anymore and try to get
the aerial dominance.
And so Twisted Minds are in a great position here, as they're still skirmishing, trying
to build some more of those ultimates.
You can see actually, this is quite a bit of armor here. This is going to be a go-kondish
for Webu.
try at least he's trying to snipe people but it's just not worth it he's gonna get
them over with a good sniper on simple we'll do it shy with a bit of a punch
in midair against quartz but now is descended eventually down to the ground
bottom of such an off angle here it's kind of frustrating for him to be dealt
with but they need to be able to get back to the fight they've been taken up by
cap action again quartz box the officer of additional health show him to the
high ground go the rocket but he doesn't actually get out by the looks of it
There's the kick up over the edge, see ya later!
TVNT!
Oh, there's the reset!
Nice ult from Funny Astro!
Great ultimate from Funny Astro!
Good rotation from Twisted Minds, there as well.
Took a while to get the picks required, but...
Delaying the cards being pushed.
15 seconds to go here now.
Wave of gaming.
Got a great ultimate economy to work with.
Let's see how they...
Utilize this turret form from shy.
Make a decisive push onto the card as they have to touch.
right here double post there we go
Alpha leave and J Wu and here comes the rush
how are you sustaining against this bunny
Astrid just falls over there's not much
they can do now with this fashion
Quartz is going to have to do it all by himself
Sunza also very low post bumps both of
them going wide as leave now to a
running for Sunza with a double
self-destruct I mean that is the
difference maker some of these teams
been known to get value out of these
self-destructs and now here in overtime, Christian Mines might get a decent
attempt here to get back to the court but this is looking like wabble gaming
look at the cap the third point on King's Row. They're gonna try and get out
funny Ashroy's swapping over gotta go to Lucio again to get another to amp it up
one meter to go now. Ashroy's already down, and shy is on top of this high ground
he's gonna hit that O2 I mean good luck staying alive he's gonna use it on the
point self-destructs not good for one course that's what he's to mean but that's the
It's a chance for Waveboat.
Zero seconds to the time bank, but it will do.
You can hear the crowd in here.
It is electric when Waveboat Gaming gets going.
So many fans in the building for this team.
And that's going to help the team as well.
Feel good as they try to win a map here in this series.
3 and 2 for Markov 15 assists, we'll see how twist of mind to want to kind of conquer
this one and that was the big thing dude if it was like 9D chess you don't play the Cap
Bastion until the Bastion gets the Rocket perk and then you flip the Cap Bastion and
And it's like, Robb action is worse.
Exactly.
Because a lot of that turret's form gets strained by the D.Va as well.
So how many rockets do you have in that form?
Right, I don't know.
12, maybe?
10?
If you get half of those reduced by Ethan, yeah, but a defense matrix,
I mean, you don't get a ton of value from that turret form anymore.
Now, that being said, way beginning.
Some really good, decisive pushes there, because you want a hard swing
with the Jetpack Cat speed boost ability to try to get your Bastion in there,
try to get one big hit onto the enemy carry or a weaker character like that.
Wave of gaming, they did a great job making that happen, obviously there.
So I'm so self-destruct as well, helping the team get across the finish line.
There with a quick Sonic.
He's a couple of things, which is Tracer. Looks like horse is going to switch off as well.
Just scouring for now seems like thinking about what composition they want to play.
Okay, quartz over Soge.
No cats in the mix here, pretty default.
BVNT going to touch this point here.
Force labor gaming to respond.
Main contestor as well.
It's all about building these railgun shots now.
Have to still be aware of Shai's turret from Kulda.
We're utilized right now.
Yeah, you can hear those bullets ringing out.
Sunso does a good position on the point there, just making sure there's no free ticks, although
TVNT is still going to sneak one away.
He's going to attempt to kind of tackle the point here, but he lost mech.
Yeah he did.
They've managed to get at least one tick, but they're not going to go on to the second
now.
Wow, he's still lose one.
All right, hang on a second, Chai's really low too, Joe.
He's like howling him down.
Luckily, the defensive agent's going to do it.
But that's another tick, just by losing mech.
Yeah, Twisted Minds are in a pretty good place here.
That's the way we're getting them. They're still waiting for their fifth member to get back.
It's in a rush being built here as well.
This could be a great opportunity for Twisted Minds to get this first point.
Yeah, both rushes too. You can't step up to the point now, unfortunately.
Marko is going to use his in response.
Suzu goes through onto Sunzu, but unfortunately, Shia-Li is already dead.
And that's going to be the point.
Quite sharp from Quartz.
There you go. Point of locks.
Halo, signs get moving.
And so TVNT there when he lost the mech, pushing the high ground, trying to put pressure on to the enemy bastion when that turret cooldown is offline.
Now he lost the mech, but, way before gaming they lost the high ground in the process, trying to contest that objective as well.
And they couldn't really escape that very close narrow area as well.
That allowed to surmise to be in a superior position, have the better angles, come the actual teamfight.
There's a sound barrier for Avril, um, Avril, Astro, he hasn't got sound barrier, not yet.
Who knows, he might be, might be in the room right now with, with a, with a beat, Astro
5% away.
But these Quartzes are old first though, but at least Minjus pops the rally so they're
able to peek around this corner a little bit and basically just negates Quartzes'
ult completely.
This could be a sound barrier if we're from Funny Astro if they want it.
Yeah, as long as he doesn't get interrupted here at all, J.Wood already on the flank.
Kind of raring and ready to go.
That's got a pulse bomb. There's the feat, like you call Johnny. And now, macro in trouble.
Marke is gonna use his Suzu on himself, and now J.Wood can just turn his attention towards the brick,
but Marke TPs into the front line to kill J.Wood.
Solid team fight. Fight with the mines.
Easy does it, with the sound barrier in hand, still one of the most powerful ultimates in the game, despite being nerfed.
Who's going to continue pushing this cart?
Now, they're going to have the opportunity to set up.
As you can see already, Quartz on this high ground.
Have the Kitsune rush and that's going to be dropped on top of this cart.
Worsing way, but it'll take a lot of damage.
As to his payload contest, it comes.
They have a guy at Bastion now, so they're going to get a slingshot shy in or try to.
But there's not really much aerial space to use that realistically.
Shy gets jumped up, goes from on the wall as well. That might just kill him.
How's he not dead?
Somehow Mako needs to be in keeping alive but they can't keep Sonsu up.
There are the kills. That twisted mind's needed.
A team-mech on to TVNT.
She's gonna be a self-destruct to get the remake.
Leesmin dies and that is point.
What a really solid King's Row from Twisted Mind so far on this offense.
Can't really complain about too much in either of the teamfights that have taken place so far here on this offense.
And they're rolling onto the third point with four minutes and a half.
Yeah, I feel him real good about that.
And they only need what? The extra minute on the clock, right? And then you get a free attack, so...
Lovely.
You're in a real good spot.
Try here. Look at the high ground.
But the D-Way is so close range. Leeson is really low, actually.
Means that Sun-Trois is less healing available as well.
Wave of gaming.
Picking so much poke early on in these fights.
Don't want to lose too much positioning.
Yeah, Sun-Trois.
Now, with the ability play ran here, you've got an extra lifeline with that nemesis form.
It isn't scary.
He was taking so much damage.
Oh, he's been so low.
Oh, Trash!
Gash is away!
Shai takes him out regardless.
Marked with a beautiful kill into Symbol.
That almost looked picture perfect there for Twisted Minds.
That was real scary for a second.
The position that Quartz was in,
but great job by WeiboGaming.
Coming in for the contest, forcing him
to the low ground.
And they're going to hold for now.
to rally these three minutes here and this next fight is going to be a tough
one. Funny Astro, beating Gage. They're just beating into this, I mean Shy's on the wrong
side of the fight right now, same with Lisa Min, so it's a three-person hold on
the payload right now for Webber Gaming. They're gonna try and swing back in, you
can see Shy being tangled and they are not looking at him at all, Johnny.
It just got a little bit too crazy. Lisa Min carried Shy into this
spawn doors of twisted mines in Funny Astro, thought he had an opportunity to drop the
sound barrier.
Get a pick early, but, wave of gaming disengaging accordingly, and then collapsing, putting
twisted mines on a really difficult place as TD&T swaps over to this mauga.
It's going to have some more direct damage to output onto the cat and the bastion in
Aswelp, thought he had a co-overdrive, who would be quite effective in these narrow-ank
breakdancers.
Oh, what a stupid save.
It's nice, but Shy is still just shooting at this front line.
And with FUNNY ASTRO going down, I mean, if I do this over, Johnny,
Symbulans are using the rush to try and salvage what's left.
A storm bit to the front line, but Shai is going to be able to get picked up in just a moment.
Pops the ult, doesn't sustain. Oh, the pole storm is good, but again, the Suzu is just better.
TVNT goes down, and Shai is just dominating.
Wave will give me a control now as TVNT pushes quite deep.
Obviously relying on the cardiac overdrive timing, but couldn't get anything going there after FUNNY ASTRO.
Astro dropped early again and that's been one of the stories so far way
beginning putting a lot of pressure on the twist in mind to lose your player
that's half of the three minutes gone already I mean they're not finishing with
the minute Johnny there's just no all over minutes you know 20 seconds ago
it's just no way nor at this point even teachers trying to get in get out see if
You can force a call down or two.
This bastard is so scary.
Have to care around it.
The first half of the game with TVNT was just super low.
Already a cardiac overdrive popped yet.
But guess who's got another tariff on?
It's Shai, who just walked around the corner.
This is so tough for Twisted Bites right now.
They cannot come up with answers at all to a Weber apartment.
This is unlike Twisted Bites.
It is so very difficult because at any time, Wave of Gaming, they could swing in with this
Bastion and put pressure onto Twisted Minds, but they don't have a lot of defensive ability
here now, obviously, can't hit the Maga here as well.
Look at these rotations from Twisted Minds.
They're always going to be in a tough place with Wave of Gaming having to put through
the window.
Oh, so he's really low.
There's the focus fire that's needed.
Oh, the Braj is going to come in here for Shy, but should be done and dusted.
They're now shining, swimming behind them.
Yeah, just gotta chill for now.
Have to wait for this next teamfight to keep you in place.
But this is what I'm talking about, twisted minds.
They have to be worried about front and back.
Funny Astro with the Sunbearer here crucial as we head into overtime.
Yeah, we'll see if Lee can get a nice post bomb here.
Uh-oh, CBNC, 1,000 HP now in the cage.
Marcus trapped in here as well as the high new from Quartz is good for one.
Annihilation, Nemesis form all used for Sunzo.
as Twisted Minds in OT should be out to launch this one in, Shai Kyo's Astro and it's all for naught.
A minute each in the time bank now Johnny. Just too many ultimates for Twisted Minds that time
and they end up completing the map as well. Either team gets a minute each here to try and go again
And if neither team does it, we're headed for a draw.
Classic.
Come on, we need a couple of draws at the tournament.
I kept one going.
This is peak overwatch right here, and I want to do maximum maps.
Crowd's so ready for Webber to kind of beat that lower bracket curse.
I mean, this is a team that's been hunting for a major trophy for many years now.
They won't compete with the very best in the world, but as of recent, just haven't been
able to secure the title yet.
Haven't got their hands on that trophy.
And so obviously bringing in Lee Suim and Maka into the mix here, way beginning, looking
to increase their ceiling potential to try and compete with the very best.
Twisted Mind is one of them, the reigning world champs.
The singular minute to defend against, and they've decided you know what, we are just going to opt in for the cat-bashing.
You got a minute to go. It's a great defensive rollout composition that works against everything.
Leaves on Reaper. Against this comp.
Reapers are really solid hero in the meta now because of that long-range shot available to you after the recent change
but only have 40 seconds to go right now. There's no great Reaper target. A lot of pressure is put on the shine for the minute.
He's going so low. That's not a good start, but the end of killing is simple.
Using Bastion is more of a distraction if felt like that.
TVNT has to let that kill go on Lee Soo Min, didn't have the thrusters available.
Nivus 1 HP as well, they're able to sustain up in the hotel though.
Living for now, 20 seconds to go, Jable.
That's a huge pick on Tamarka.
They have to reset.
They've got to go again, you can't afford to lose anybody else now.
But it's 10 seconds!
Shai's gonna die!
Oh, Jable gets another kill!
10 seconds to go, Johnny.
Someone's gonna touch!
No one can go.
No one can!
Sunzo, no way near...
Oh, the cat!
Oh, we're back!
Triggered it!
Get the asset back on top!
Oh, no!
Got a game player in it!
He touched half a second there, but...
It was not enough. The cat was not enough.
But he got the touch.
He got the touch. He did get the touch.
He did his best.
Alright, so Twisted Mind's a minute on the timer here.
If they extend this lead to 2-0 in this series, man.
Absolutely, you can't just get yourself into here.
A draw would be huge for Webu.
Massive.
But you just need, a lot of the time, you just need a single kill.
And that is what the Cap Ashen team is just very good at, just getting that single pick
early and with how shy and at least a minimum playing at least a min has been phenomenal on the
cap especially with the Alts like this really been going for it they can't get crushed can't get
crushed and realistically I mean there were a couple of teamfights in this minute now
and you can't sit back on this defense either because if you just sit back you end up giving so
so much positioning to twist their minds on the offense. Quartz is going to make
the most out of it on this bastion as well. So Waybu gaming for this one
minute here. Have to be proactive, have to keep making place at the scary
prospect of going 0-1-2. Alright, trying to bay out each other's forms as well.
Everyone's just waiting for the swing.
I know.
Literally waiting for someone else to pop the ball.
There it is.
There's the form.
They're going to try and go first here.
Shy on the ground already.
Both defensive edges going straight over towards Shy.
The force is so low.
So close.
The crowd can feel it too, but TB and TNT end up losing mech.
That's not good.
They need to reset and TB and TNT Johnny needs to also die or get mech back.
60% already though, and J-Wiz should be able to count the point.
They're gonna try the back line.
10 seconds to go, now this is looking like a draw.
Wapu, I think they've just gone and done it.
The DMEC on TVNT, he's got 99%
Well he's gonna get remade sure, but where's the touch?
Has to come in. J-Wiz dies! The draw!
No way!
The solo DMEC on TV NT Johnny. They left the baby Diva. They don't leave him. He respawns,
gets MEC, they fight. Absolutely massive draw by Webogaming and not go down into that
0-2 hole here in the lower bracket. We restart. Essentially the second map here now. They get
to pick another map in the pool once more.
See where they take us next.
Why would you guys, if you're old?
Web again.
Well, they're looking quite competitive on this Jetpack
Cat and the Bastion.
So going into the series, talked about the Lucio
Kiriko, how comfortable they are playing a composition
like that.
But maybe after what they saw in Oasis, they're feeling,
ah, we want to stay competitive here.
We actually want to play what is matter. We want to play this fast and we feel like that is the better chance
against a team like Twisted Minds.
Obviously having played the hybrid map already, you cannot go to something like a Numbani now.
You could go to Rialto if you'd like in a squad map.
We have to be wary of the picks and the bounce as well.
Thank you. The map six, the variant.
We were ready for it. We had the graphics ready.
I love a map 6, come on now. We need one per major.
One per major. We traveled all the way here, we might as well get a 6 map series.
He says we need two draws in a major and one map 6.
I don't make the rules. I'm glad honestly.
I think you probably should go to something like a realtor here.
I mean it's very scary if you are
Weber gave me to go to a map like that because of what we've seen from Twisted Minds in the past, but
they've already utilized the Cat Band back on Oasis, and so if you are a team like Weber,
you feel like okay, we can protect the Bastion, we're guaranteed to be able to play the big
meta composition for now, and based on the look of this King's Row, I feel like they learned
throughout, they got better and better, and they're saying really competitive with the reigning World Champs.
Well, we'll see what they want to pick, obviously when it does, if we do end up hitting the
map 5, the map pool does get reset, so when the map 6 comes around, they can pick anything
you get.
Worth keeping in mind, if we get that far.
That would be the can.
They would have gone to something like a circuit reel.
That is for sure, I don't think either team would want to pick something like a circuit
reel in this one.
The Rado, not to sure about that either, so I think we all do some really good pick here.
Obviously, maybe they'll play spoiler, pick push or something, but I, I don't see it for the minute, unless they really want to go lose your carry, then I could defend something like Aruna Saapi.
Chill. I can agree with that.
I'm just, I'm just saying things.
He's just saying words, hey. That's what we got you here for.
Say some words every now and then.
That's what we do.
Hey.
All right, Twisted Minds as well, potentially banned the Bastion too, that's still like an available ban.
Yeah, I think you've got to protect the, probably protect banned the Bastion if you are, when you're gaming.
Banned DPS, just banned, just a, I don't know, Sojin?
Symmetra. Symmetra, yeah.
We saw earlier that we're just pro, they were quite happy to play the Symmetra, because obviously flipping the map,
Steal the Jetpack Cat and the Bastion have a difficult time to instantly react to a Symmetra Teleporter.
It's just a faster way to rotate.
And so we could throw the opponent off guard a little bit.
If you get something like a Symmetra and a Cassidy going, and the Cassidy has already been deployed as well, then banned.
And so the later the series is going to progress, it's actually something Twisted Minds have talked about obviously,
obviously is the fact that they feel like they get better and better as the series progress
because they are so comfortable when vans have been utilized. Yeah. And they get to play their own
game, they are very good at it, masses of it. Have a look. Runes-Sapi, here we go.
I mean, I, yeah, I'm in the same wavelength running, I think. Do you ban DPS to weather?
We did actually see all gamers, they did play the Jetpack Cat Bastion there as well.
So some legendary Diva Bombs come through with the Mag Diva Bombs.
Oh that was great.
Whipped around the corner.
It's a new meta.
We're all learning of the fly here a little bit.
We're pushing the envelope, seeing where we can get away playing the Cat and the Bastion.
And so far it looks like team, so we're feeling quite comfortable here on Runosopia as well.
ban. Gonna protect an Amalga team. Yeah and that guarantees of course TD&T. He's able
to get away playing the D.Va if need be there as well.
Look at this, these bans as well. Cassidy, Genji, Pharah like and they hit the DPS man.
They really want to protect that Bastion.
They feel like it's pretty good for them so far.
Yeah, I want to keep Tristimine's DPS on their toes, that's for sure.
So is this Sunso dropping the Sauria here once more?
We saw that it was the preference of his on Oasis, alright.
And so now you're probably thinking, okay, well, TBNT, maybe he goes towards something like a Comfort Pick, like a D.Va.
That means that Counterwatch 101, we want to feel like we play the Sauria as a really good meta pick here as well.
can play that into the Viva if need be. If we see Cat Bastion though, the Sire would
kind of be left out to dry. Not typically a hero you would play too much with the Bastion,
but it's been done before.
Let's load on in.
RuneSappi picked by Webogaming. China's number one and EMEA's number one fighting out in
the lower bracket to stay into the competition. First of three, Kings Rai was a draw so we're
got a look in heading into this third map here
Weibo Gaming, this was a comfort mappic of them, the best team parkers.
Lot of chairs still, heavy Weibo favor, but you need to keep the energy going, oh yeah,
being channeled to the players. They're going to feed off that energy and on the back of a very
well earned draw as well. Feels like Wayba Gaming has some momentum going into this run as Abi.
That's why Maka's got an Overwatch League ring.
That keeps getting brought up. Yes, he won the 2023 Florida Mayhem Overwatch League Championship.
I haven't brought it up yet so it's new to me.
It's brought up here once in a while as we see the rollout come through here.
Both teams are going to play the D.Va, to be expected.
But this time around, we're beginning to want team opting for the Bastion while Tristan
mines putting Quartz onto this Cassidy instead.
So again, you've got to be so prepared for the Bastion flying in, out of nowhere, trying
to collapse with Lee on this tracer as well.
A lot of heads up play required from Tristan mines in this one.
Yeah, a lot of it.
Sonto going really low there.
He's a joker, we can actually snipe this kill on to leave,
and I think he's going to give him an opportunity.
So, Blink's smacking a quick recall.
I don't know, try and take care of this bot here.
I mean, they're trying to fit Shai in position where he can jump onto this back line.
Uh-oh.
I mean, Quartz is so healthy, though.
Good matrix.
Scythe's Tyreform's going to run out in just a moment.
I mean, he's still shooting down.
It only gets it to...
Simple, maybe you haven't hit the reload there, unfortunately, it's funny, Astro follows him back to spawn, which is so oppressive.
You have to try to round stay away from this bastion for so long, and yet when the third form ends, the pressure just never ends from a player like there as well.
So if you're in the castle, you just gotta hide out, you gotta buy time for yourself.
You only really have the speed boost to work with, to try and navigate, deploy where you want the castle to play from,
to play from and try to get a pick either onto someone like Lee that puts
some pressure on the marker for example but it's so difficult to play this
Lucio composition and try to beat the jetback at Bastion not playing it yourself.
Wrapping around here, twisted mines, they're going to give way beginning this
positioning here. Here you're going to take the higher ground but realistically here
quartz is going to be outranged. You're not doing too much from this distance you
can see him kind of chunking at shy but it's not doing much damage at all
Especially through the armor Mark has an earlier to turn Russia could deploy it. This thing's difficult. Wow
They're gonna go so quick
Simba's got hidden 2% but this boss gonna get away from them
It's gonna run around around the corner who's been my it's gonna have to be engaged in a very tough place
Yeah, they're gonna try and do it. They're gonna
Lay the road on the road in a retard market if they chase Sunzo out Sunzo is not with his team right now
It's completely isolated. I think as Marker you can see is being tagged by J. Woo
And just to get back but yeah, that is a good isolation
Oh, the post is so good!
They trade there, but you've lost your tanks, you've lost a lot of your front line.
Shai is so low as well.
Amazing stuff from Jai, where they're giving his life for the teammate.
Great play by Twisted Minds, putting pressure onto Sansa early.
I thought Wipo gave me a good job purchasing time there for the re-engage,
but Shai couldn't get back into the fight quick enough,
and with that, Twisted Minds taking out the D.Va player from the opposing team,
that's going to allow them to clean things up here.
as Funny Astro gets close to the sound barrier that won't be matched from Wave of the Gaming.
Astrid's in mines, looked around this corner.
He's in min two, Johnny. Can't just go for a kit map on somebody.
Leaving to do it on quads. Here he goes.
There's a bastion in our midst.
There's a bastion behind us.
There's the B from Funny Astro trying to keep this fight alive.
I mean, TBNT, that overheld's been stripped away very quickly.
But you're happy getting across this corner now.
Open things up positionally for Twisted Minds and Quartz in a better position here.
Way better damage here onto Shy, still taking a bit of those days coming in,
but Shy is just too low, TVNT turns his head 180 degrees and kills Shy.
Self-destruct by TVNT kills, Marka is going to be able to get the remake as well.
What a beautiful fight from Twisted Minds there!
It's just fantastic.
Positional understanding from Twisted Minds.
Yes, we commit to Sound Barrier.
We don't really get the pick required that typically you'd want to see on the back of that ultimate, but the positioning is good enough, shy, caught up in a pretty poor place on the back of Leeson, mids, cap play, and now twisted mines, they're pushing this card, and they have a Kitsune Rush online as well.
Kitsune Rush, Quartz actually gets hit with an 8, they're straight up, that's gonna be a team neck on Tassanto, I mean this is starting for bad to worse for Wave-O right now.
This is really not good.
They can't use any more people, but they can't not.
That's a really late death for Maka.
But it's indeed, and if you look towards, maybe I could sooner rush here.
Can't realistically swing if you're the bastard through this gate as well,
and hit twisted mines from multiple angles.
So, Weber Gaming, they're facing a pretty devastating teamfight coming up here.
All spawn for J-woo as well. Maka's so low, he's already dead as well.
Oh, dearie me. Weibo game again. Come on for some of the big here. Sunzo's down now to 3 on 5.
This is a disaster class right now for Weibo.
Twisted mines get a team kill on the very final stretch.
This should not be the cap still though because Maaka has to skips sooner.
I should wait for everybody to come online. Shire's going to have great positioning out of spawn.
So, Twisted mines, if you can get this all out and retreat, that would be good enough.
They can just play the corner too. They don't have to go anywhere right now to Twisted mines.
They can't just hang out on this corner.
Like you said, I mean,
Shai's gonna have to get a kill here.
Something's gonna have to happen.
They don't want to use ult for a twi-
Faniastro's got this beat so soon.
And he goes down to quartz.
Soon as that kill comes in as well,
Faniastro's gonna hit the old Sybil also as well.
I mean, two support ultimate advantage
to his demise.
Johnny, this is, this is over.
Where'd we get me to get team fight, team kill?
It's done.
There's four minutes left in the time bag,
But coming out of the spawn, it's only Shy.
Lee is going to get a final touch, but there's two meters to go.
They're going to get another one, but they've got no ults.
They have the touch required, though.
The Tracer and Roder is buying enough time.
Shy has to come up big here on the bastion.
Find a couple of these frags.
Gable dropping low.
No recall available.
Both of you go down on the back of Shy.
And this annihilation.
No.
He would not buy enough time for the apple.
Oh, the Reaver killed it.
Lee!
How did he do it?
That should not have happened Johnny. There is no way Twisted Mind should have got away
with that. That's 2-0. That's match point for DM.
What just happened? What just happened? I need to see the remake kill. If we're going
to show the age axis, I need to see the remake kills.
minds absolutely dominant on Runa SAPI, essentially winning 16 fights in a row, to cap out the map.
That is what we're expecting from the reigning world champs.
Just a ludicrous amount of push and that was okay. They've almost got checkpoint. We win the
fight, we get the bot control and then we just push it all the way to the end.
They look like they weren't complete control, yes? There's Sebastian flying above us.
rotating around us we have to be so cognitively aware at all times where the
captain of the bastion is but the rotations were on point the defense
made me from TV and T to make sure his vulnerable players didn't go down
just immaculate coordination by twisted minds to navigate this medical
position we saw from webgaming. I mean if you're looking at it they really
only lost one fight and that was the first one
and then he just sunk our own
TVNT. What a star player on this D.Va.
Yeah.
At some point it's like we want to ban that out.
Surely we get the rematch.
I mean it's a carry hero essentially.
Yeah.
If you play like this on D.Va, it's just a monstrous hero, tremendous amount of impact
on this game.
And now, if you're away beginning, you're probably admitting defeat on the Bastion
composition here.
you just want to fight them straight up instead play what you played so well as
we look at twisted mines closing things out once more here yeah
thing leave his top right there I saw TV NT kind of swoop back in hey TM 21 this
is especially after that draw and how vicious I think way but we're kind of
biting back at twisted mines I mean that was anything but vicious they got
I mean, that's mentally crushing.
Right.
For the win beginning.
You're thinking, okay, we have a draw, the crowd is cheering us on.
We feel like we have some momentum going our way.
But I mean, after being capped out on a push, now it's all in the dumps.
Now you're thinking, where do we go from here?
We don't have any faith in our ability to play the cat bastion.
We're feeling like we're outmatched on the Lucio carry on the back,
what happens on the Aces.
We go Sigma, Mizuki, Mei.
Sigma, Mizuki, Mei.
It's a good comp.
It's a really good comp.
Let's have a look at J-Woo.
Honorary Saabi.
Two deaths.
8KD.
Is he putting the best in the game right now?
Yeah.
For sure.
I mean we're talking about a lot of store players here in this tournament.
Tracer players.
J-Woo.
Proper.
He sang.
J-Woo.
He's right out there man.
He's right out there.
I've been singing his praises for a while.
He's so young.
He is.
Such a great prospect in this scene.
He's going to have a long career.
If he's doing it this well, this early on, obviously he doesn't have that title.
title of winner right last year we
spoke last year hey maybe 100 for another
one this year yeah I mean this is a
twisted mind-steam that got better
after they won the world championship
team after they picked up J.Woo to
replace Saiko who now is under the
sprow here instead they won at the
bootcamp in clean fashion as well
relying on mechanics rather than the
Symmetra play that played so well for
them in Stockholm last year and they were thinking okay Twisted Minds they're
looking better going into this year but then you know a bit of a wrench thrown
into things here with Bastion and Cat being in the meta but they're showing
that they can play around that and still feel really comfortable yeah a little
weird meta but you've been you know you've been channeling this is good this
is fun I mean it is all right you're hanging on this man I'm like oh what
is happening so this is a lot of fun I'm having a blast being here in Japan for
All right, we're gonna jump to a quick break. Do not go anywhere. Twister Minds, Matt Point.
I
You just saw us doing the little thumbs up to the producers that I'm sure on the camera.
Hey, hey everybody!
We're down here.
I don't even know where the cameras, is it somewhere up there?
Yeah, it's up there.
In the sky.
It's a big sky box.
It's a really good fire map.
It is.
This would be a really good fire map, actually.
Actually, probably not, because, you know, there's a lot of line of sight here.
There's not a lot of cover.
Oh, there's not a lot of cover, yes.
You need a mercy.
We haven't seen a lot of mercy since the World Finals when Chris Ruckman pulled it up.
Yeah, that's right.
All right.
Mr. Mines, 2-0.
Matt, point now.
Don't let your eyes deceive you, though.
Now don't let your eyes deceive you though. We're going into map number four after that draw on King's row for our second
Now that was a soul crushing defeat there on runisapi forever
Yeah, now you got to think what is our final stand?
If we're facing elimination here in the lower bracket, where do we want to take things?
Going to be certain real. Okay. I talked about how I wasn't too sure that maybe they were feeling
this map, but okay if you trust, at least for many, you trust market to adapt accordingly.
Twist in mind, you know traditionally we're thinking about Funny Astro as
primarily a Lucio player, a lot of main support, but he showed a lot of prowess
on a hero like Wu Yang. Juno? Juno as well. If you wanted to commit to the brawl
of course, the Lord is going to be banned out of Fumble Able Gaming here.
No way down from TM. Funny was going to be that Funny Astro can't sleep on that guy.
Yeah, he has a deeper hero pool than you might think I mean simple would be the one rocking the Alari and yeah
It gives Astro, you know a little bit more of a job to heal the team
You know you can't just or heal people Lucio, but I think Alari ban here for
Webo does make a lot of sense. I love the band that we'll make it to I mean look
See come on pick some stuff out of the mix just like I don't have to think about this here
They have to think about the way with it
especially from a team like webo come on
This probably is going to be the Sigma composition we've seen so far from
teams. Yes, the aura healing from Mizuki combined with the surrogability tools of
the Maywall and Sigma shield, Kinetic Rask, and that has been so effective at
just putting pressure on the objective. The enemy team can't pick you apart, so
that could be a composition we're seeing once more here.
Alright, twisted mind on the defense.
No Mizuki, they're just rocking the camp action.
I trust them.
They're the world champs, Joss.
They can do whatever they want.
Got a good cigar, bigger.
Do it someso.
No, they're wright on this map against the poke.
Come on, man.
Jake was in the green room earlier, vouching for Ryan.
I swear to everyone watching the broadcast, Jake did actually want to see some Ryan art.
He thought it was a great swap, so I'm just putting it out there.
Maybe not introduced by Kaz Bastion, I'm not going to put those kind of words in Jake's mouth,
but it did at some point say that Ryan art was a good hero, so I'm keeping that one with me.
Alright, it's going to be the Sigma, May, and the Mizuki.
Maybe they're going to adapt here when they're seeing what's on the defense of Twisted Binds.
Yeah, I think Shira's going to go change here.
he wasn't heading back to spawn.
He's gonna go bash.
I think it's just gonna be the solo bash in here.
There's no cats.
They're gonna stick with these women on the Mizuki.
Yeah, again, the strength of this composition
comes from the way it can contest the objective,
the payload here.
And so, twist in mind,
they obviously have a timing around the turret form here.
Wow.
And a timing around the course,
just shooting heads apparently.
I mean, if we're getting stills,
it should be fairly effective with composition
after this teamfight is all about wrapped up.
He is such a sharp shooter.
In that, I mean, you can't be jumping trying to like get from cover to cover without him ripping your head off.
No. Full focus, at all times.
Have to be aware where Quartz is, and respect what he's capable of.
You know, we've seen a couple of iterations of the poke composition. Obviously, Twisted Minds,
they've had some time to think about what heroes they want to play in a composition like this,
and if they feel like the damage output of a Bastion with J1.0,
and Quartz ability to flick heads is good enough.
Maybe this is Twisted Mines' best response to this May composition we've been seeing.
They've already got double DPS out of Twisted Mines.
Like, that is so quickly being built up.
Oh, and Lee just gets blown up by the Nade.
They're gonna play a little bit safe.
They don't want Jayway to get blown up here as well, but...
Pow! I mean...
That is a quick kill.
And Johnny, look at the time bank. Already two minutes, twenty seconds.
And they haven't really had a fight to begin with.
Leaves now, it's going to swap over to the Casterly.
This is K.
This is Swap's hit.
They're going to match it.
I mean, that would be spectacular.
Gotta come up with the goods. It is, but...
It's just gonna be so hard to fight into this still.
You haven't got much time left at all in these comps.
They take a little while to get popping, especially on these slow corners.
They're gonna make it a little bit quicker now with this rush.
Nice Rockville to TVNT.
Just stops him from using the cross.
Oh Quartz, he manages to get one, but can he actually stay up and alive there on the sidelines?
There's more.
There's a little bit too much of a heavy lift there.
He's still up, but Sibyl goes down.
My goodness, how does he still alive?
There we go.
Okay, that's going to be point for Weibo.
Twisted mind is trying to make a play there.
It's funny, Astro can only heal one of his damage press at the same time.
Left J-Wood there on the bastion.
Weibo gaming capitalized beautifully on that, and Quartz wasn't able to secure value with the dead.
dead eye and they start rolling here on this second point trying to stay alive
in this series but they have a lot more to go
yeah they're gonna need to give a whole lot more than that Johnny they're still
down two maps here flux is gonna hit a high noon from leaving oh son go with a
better flux onto TV NT Quartz falls as well funny ash throw down and that is
twisted minds just getting scrapped with this waybo just walk over them I mean
that is just a differential there from Sunzo great play by way beginning
that I as well coming through from leave can't underestimate that damage TV and
these folks over to the D but to get this final contest here they need the
matrix remove some of this damage give them a decent contest TV NT he's still
going to have to sell on this play load now is these human dives into the backers there's a pause
oh man i don't know what happened there really hope that didn't change the outcome of that fight
yeah i that was a massive fight shy looking a little bit confused by the things i think it's a
Waybo, cool for the pause.
I mean, that was just a chaotic fight.
I lost my mind because I believe the accretion from Sunso knocked
Forts out of the dead eye as they tried to make a play aggressively through the choke point.
But two players dead here, four way beginning, five versus three scenario.
It's going to allow Twisted Minds to keep contesting this second point.
And obviously that cap makes a huge difference in the outcome of this map.
Yeah, we'll get word on what this pause is for.
Looks like it is.
Oh, is there a monitor? Yeah, I think there's a monitor issue, maybe, from Shine.
He's got the monitor flipped the wrong way around.
That was not the...
Yeah, bro. No, not like he was playing with that.
Shine doesn't need a monitor to play, man. He senses it.
Maybe pull the hand bin.
Oh, yeah, the monitor.
Yeah, 70 degrees.
If no one's ever seen that, I'm sure there's many images online,
but I haven't been basically playing with this monitor at like, yeah.
Almost parallel with himself, like, I don't know how he can see it.
You have to see the picture because me saying it is kind of unbelievable.
It's just like, what?
It paid, will it tilt the monitor?
Yeah, it has to tilt that.
Yeah, like a 70-degree angle, it's insane.
All right.
Well, the monitor is working, so that's good news.
That is good news.
All right, yeah, Shad is just adjusting it too to the preferred height.
Hopefully this is just going to be the main issue and it's going to get resolved.
Such a tough position to be in here now if you're the offense because you have to regain
the ground, contest the defense high ground, but then also find the picks required in a
proper team fight to secure this payload over the point now.
After it looked like way beginning, it's so much momentum on the back of that first point cap.
Not able to secure the second point here.
T-20 is on Diva indeed, so how to use that to get back to the point to contest.
Could be a bit more of a hindrance now if you're on the SIG.
It does alter the matchup slightly for the tanks of course, not playing the Sigma mirror.
But I still think Twisted Mines can get away with it because they have the high ground.
That means that they can't play quite proactively with D.Va in case they want to collapse on
the enemy backline.
Don't think they're going to survive in the neutral.
The poke from the Sigma will just be too much.
But Twisted Mines, they have an opportunity to make place here with this D.Va now.
Even so, they might be at a disadvantage in the neutral fights.
You want to play a little bit more quick.
If you're the D.Va team, you can just kind of, you can't sit there and just poke
way whittle people down. It's going to be a slow-poken prod from the offense here to
try and get that ground back. But once you have it, you should feel like you're in a
really good position to neutralize the diva. Yeah. Who's in mind though? I feel like they
are a team that kind of adapts to these kind of scenarios. I'm thinking back to the boot
camp where TVNT found himself on wrecking ball on the New Junk City. And you're thinking,
okay, well TVNT's on the wrecking ball, like, it's not a great hero to be on New Junk City.
But they clutched it out. They managed to make it happen and after the map they were laughing on stage.
How do we make that happen?
But that is Twisted Minds adapting to the heroes they are playing.
Despite the fact that it might not be the most optimal roster, the most optimal strategy.
They're still finding a way to make that work.
And TVNT already, great Eva player to begin with.
Bit bigger of a tech issue than we once thought.
So we're going to jump to a quick break. Don't go anywhere.
We've got Twisted Minds and Waybu playing Circle Royale coming up.
It's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gonna be, all night
Energy, energy, energy girls
It's gonna be all night
you
So, I've already been with the team, I came from Saudi, I couldn't come to the boot camp
because I was sick, but I arrived and basically just left the hotel.
Is there any like one particular thing you really want to do while you're here in Japan?
Last night went out for some Japanese barbecue. It was pretty nice.
in these places trying to find where I know I belong
and I've seen too many faces now I know it wants to run along
it's an impossible thing that I'm feeling
my pressure is building aside from my fate
tell me it's real and I swear that you mean it
yeah you mean it
I try to deny, don't you try to deny
You know I ain't even here alone
Well, we ain't no one to move
When I'm waiting, you come fly
When I'm waiting, you all I'm flying
I just want you here, it's all over
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Got you feeling, got me waiting
I'm lucky when you're by my side
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
When I'm saying I'm not dying
Every time we touch, every time we touch
It's all just tears that we've got
I'm in love
Gives me a reason
For never falling down
I'm in love right now
And I can feel it
Baby hear me
And never leave me
I'm flyin' off the ground
you
You
It's the next game. No, the same game.
Monitor issue. Get it together.
Has been resolved. It's been a little while.
I need to run to the bathroom.
I sprinted past all production.
You did not have to say that to the camera.
You did not have to say that. Anyway, anyway, anyway.
We were right here all the time.
Sure, sure.
I was just going to give them a little peek behind the curtain.
What happened, Joss?
I already told them.
It was a monitor issue, and the issue has been resolved.
So we will be unpausing the game in just a minute.
Just a minute. Up 2-0 in this series after three maps being played.
Yes.
We're in the middle of map 4, we're just circled 3 out.
And obviously very close to finishing off that second point, right, progressing on to 3rd, but lost that previous teamfight and now forced to reset with twisted minds establishing the high ground once more on the second point defense.
I will say what it's kind of talking about is that the pause was very awkward, although Webber are probably going to lose this fight.
If I remember correctly, there were about two people that were dead on both sides.
Yes, there's a 5 vs 3 scenario, as we're about to head back into the game very shortly.
So I don't know, I've seen worse, like 5 vs 3.
What would you put percentage to bring this one back?
5 vs 3, 8% and 8%.
Yeah, probably.
We'll have Jake confirm those odds for you.
We'll have him compute.
Astro!
Number so far in this series, so 3 maps faster here.
7.5k heals per 10.
Like you said, he's had a bit of a tough go here early on in the tournament, adapting to these Korean teams as we reload back into the game.
And the way we're gaming they say, no, we don't even want to take this 5 vs 3, we're going to head back into spawn.
And we got 2.45 on the time bank.
8%.
I don't know how 90% happened.
happen. Yeah, well that's true. That's very true. Like I said, two and a half minutes
now for Weber Gaming. Still rocking the cap action of both teams. They tried to kidnap
but yeah, the Suzu came in clutch. Sunson are moving forward. Fortunately, half of that
wasn't by himself. He was pushing them into the front line. And it's all about TVT here.
His Steve Apley has to manage these booster cooldowns and combine with a team that I could
be used here he's gonna use it straight over the top and they're ready for this
one no oh you've got a matrix it he's got it he's got it prime for ready the
focus by is too good matrix ran out held that that I for basically his entire
duration nice way with capping second all right calm composed get the second
point cap going as they roll on to third and J will be really low but yes
enough sustain, enough healing from his team-mates to stay alive in this one.
Take a look at the ultimates. Quick reset going into this one soon. So past his flux, both Kirikos working towards that Kitsune rush.
Try to set up on the high-con here, give me a feed.
That armor is chunked off and now have to be careful.
Have to be healed back up by his Kiriko, but it's going to forfeit some space for a way beginning.
That wasn't insane. Oh, the knee. Did you see that actually connected with Astro?
He went super low, so he tries to get Jey Wu in a good position, but Shy ends up going down first.
A free form now for Jey Wu, and he should be a free fight on top of that.
You're thinking of getting an extra frag here, pushing on this also.
Even he can't lose mech. Goose, Goose, Goose.
He's low. Oh!
The kid now gots no cancel there.
Wraithbergaming end up...
I'm responding to this one with a giant flood.
Simple falls as Maka gets two.
Sonsu go huge.
What a flood from Sonsu.
Wow, what a play and Maka following up there as well.
Saw an opportunity and capitalized on twisted mines,
being quite low after the initial skirmish.
And now, way up again.
They're looking to close out this map.
They're still putting pressure on.
Nice native there.
TVNC not letting get that one close to spawn for his teammates.
Gonna put leaving a good spot as well.
Oh, shred to the high ground.
Okay, not gonna use that high noon trap just yet.
Do all of them available, Jaws.
Cat noon?
Uh-oh, uh-oh!
Oh!
The cat!
Ah!
That deep is just better!
One minute and 40 to go,
but they don't need the rest of that.
Absolutely not.
Wave of gaming, finish that point in style.
The tiniest bit of difference was enough.
The channel time was quicker for Leeb.
He's the one to get that IKLs required to win the teamfight.
Wow.
Unbelievably loud still.
It feels only a matter of time before this team gets it going in this lower bracket.
They've got such a tough go over the last few internationals.
You can never count these guys out.
I mean, they are Chinese Overwatch legends, shy and leave.
At the very beginning, they were on separate teams.
They hadn't combined yet.
Chengdu Hunters, Hangzhou Spark, but they said if we want to have the best opportunity
to win an international major but have to join forces and they did so but yet not able to get
across that finish line not able to overcome some of these Korean teams and now they're facing
the reigning world champions in twister mines they have a tremendous long path to go if they
want to end up winning this major obviously already down 2-0 in this series but you can't count these
guys out three minutes could be pretty big difference here's 138th on the
time back for Wabelgaming they capped out with here it's just a mindset going on
the offense yeah they're gonna run the cat bash in both teams just deciding you
know what it's actually the best course of action TVNT on the diva leave and
court I mean I I said the very side this mad like well this series it's gonna be
such an insane hit scandal and it's proven to be just that oh that's what
happens the diva sigma you're going to get those accretions to your face some
pressure to wait we're getting here though listen mine's looking to swing
perhaps yes I really love actually I have to back up to this second corner or
third corner I guess
fighting their time it's all about the bashings in this one
yeah just trying to make the sigma use cooldowns nice dodge to the rock
if you get the stoop below so Sonto though who'd choose to coming in from
simple save today it's gonna earn himself a rush to they're gonna pop it
straight away I'd imagine right around this corner yep that's exactly what
they're gonna do Marcus 3% away by the way they come over to kill here it's
gonna be gold but no market gets it in time it's gonna go again dies already
dead oh not quite every scarring for cover though and he was completely
isolated as courts it's a big indenate oh run the floor all the way back oh
what an unbelievable flux there some though just takes course out completely
a ridiculous turnaround for Waybo I mean the peel into the indoors area to stay
protected from the dead eye. It was so impeccably fast and that meant of course
that you can't rotate put pressure on the twisted mines backline and the way
beginning to turn things around with the gravidic flux. Two minutes of the timer
every single teamfight matters in this one. As you look to chunk off this time
bank from twisted mines on the attack.
Patsy didn't seem really low and like you said those rocks are gonna be here and
you constantly if you're playing this diva or to dodge
you're at 4
this reminds us of better timing here
if they want to go
hi noon
uh-oh
cat noon
oh shred from sky on
he just keeps on delivering
to weibo gaming
tb and t's out of mech fight stun
one minute and 20 left
he's putting on a map of the flying dead ice so far
Quartz is going to drop quite low here.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, even more stagger.
More time wasted.
This, this time it's going to be Twisted Minds turn. Quartz 98%.
Let's see if they can get things going with the Runtail combination here.
But, this is the meta now. Wave of gaming. They're going to be prepared, tracking that ultimate intently.
Catnune. That's it.
Catnune. Catnune.
Here's the mines, we've got it. The Bastard for now. J-Wool with the turret form.
They both actually use the right TNTs, really low though. They can use the E-Tactually to try and absorb all those heals as shy takes down Quartz.
There's 40 seconds to go in TNT.
He goes for the remake!
Things are just not going with Twisted Mines, way right now. They have one more opportunity in this one.
And the Kitsuna rushes have been deployed.
TVNT swaps over to Ramatra.
Along with the BUNA, it's just going to be for the extra speed I'll respond for temporarily.
TVNT is going to be there for Ramatra, provides some survivability here on the point.
But the ultimates from Waybegaming, this Flux, Leeb coming up on the Deadeye.
Steals so many tools with the Waybegaming's disposal.
They got Cat Noon again.
Here they go Noon.
Leeb pops it straight to the skies.
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
Leeb has done it again.
and he's going to isolate Fonny Asher as well.
I mean, there's nothing this man can't do.
Waypo Gaming come back in a big way, on a certain way out.
They're not out of this.
Two and one.
We're going to a map five now, Johnny.
Trying probably dip.
That's one way to get some momentum back in this series. The crowd fired up.
That leave come at buying with Lisa Min on the jetpack cap.
They had the upper time every single time with those dead eye combinations.
And now they have a recipe for success as well. The Sigma Composition working our favor.
We'll feel comfortable in this one. It's going to be twisted mind-smap pick.
But at least Webogaming have a composition they can trust.
Like you said, at the very end there as well, everything relied on getting a good high moon
or dead eye with the cat flying you over the top and Twister Minds, you want to be able to,
if you're playing your own cat, you want to be able to like push around the corner,
but as soon as Lee kind of cuts you off, it's like you can't go anywhere.
Well, this is a new kind of composition we've seen.
We haven't really seen this adaptation too much of the Cassidy with the Bastion.
And we saw through the middle of the series obviously, we've seen Kat and Dead Ice being combined since the very release of the hero at the bootcamp.
But to this effect, we really have to respect it. Both teams trading back and forth in this one.
So Tristamines on the map point, so now they're in the hot seat. They choose the map. They choose to ban first.
And because this is going to be our fifth map coming up.
Yep, now fourth, we're only reduced to Flash Point,
being the map picks available here.
Now we've seen a lot of New Drunk City so far
for teams that don't want to play the Bastion Jetback Cat.
And obviously, if you're basing this from Oasis,
you could say Twisted Minds, they are the better teams
when it comes to not playing the Bastion Jetback Cat meta
as much.
So maybe they wanna go back to a New Drunk City,
maybe they wanna go back to Basics
in some of these more closed indoors kind of areas we have available on that map.
Oh, there's so many unreal highlights from leave.
It's insane.
Quicker at the draw.
I mean, people are going to New York City to get away from the cat bastion.
Yep.
Sorry.
It shows your mind's aren't really happy with how there's is going.
I mean, New York City seems like the perfect place.
Wow.
Oh, what a rock as well.
Oh, are you kidding me?
We didn't see that, because we were at first like, POV of, uh, leave...
...ridiculous.
So I think that that happened once before in the map, right before the pause, but we'll have to double-check that.
But if that is the case, that would have been two...
...dead eyes that were cancelled by Sun Tzu's accretions.
So that was well...
Why do you want one?
My dude is popping off.
Obviously very comfortable playing the Sigma into a hero like D.va for TBNT.
Right, but I think you can just look at the performance individual performance on this hero itself
I say that was just not a match-up diff that I was Sunso
Putting on a display on one of his better heroes available to him. Yeah. Oh, yeah
Only known as Billy Dan and with how this is going now
It feels like a momentum shift pause in a way right when I
whether running this one home
Hey
Twisted Minds, it's up to you how you want to get back in. You've already banned the cat. They banned cat on map 1.
They did indeed
So now it just comes into question. Do you feel like you have to deploy a ban on something like a Bastion instead without the cat?
You know Bastion is still a hero we see here and now, Leeson and stats being showcased for you here
And like I said, I like the proactiveness coming in from this guy
He's obviously trying to make place with the ultimate because you can get that initial stun as well to set up the rest of your team
But if you can get on top of an opponent drag them into your own team
That is a way to win a teamfight alone
You just have to be so very agile so careful not to be picked off when you're trying to fly off with your victim
Hey, oh, you can drag him off the map. We've seen a bunch of that one already
It is
It's crazy how much Jeff Hacat all commenced how you kind of play because you being literally kidnapped by it's like
I can't do anything. I have to put the cat. You have to yeah, please
or Suzy or something just like as long as the look of it. I'm fine
But yeah, real tough, but you seem in
Fantastic job so far pilots in the cat another veteran player as well
Oh, yeah, I run for many years now even dating back to the Overwatch League days and some time on soul dynasty
and
So now finding a home here on a way boo gaming roster that's retooled with a Korean
Backline they're finding limited international success here
And also, I mean it deserves to be mentioned we haven't seen Gushui in this lineup because of the meta that we find ourselves in
It's all about Sunsilh this time
And so where's before it was a four five man team lineup
As we're big chilling big TV and T is chilling maximum relaxed and declined all the way back
The chairs are very comfortable. I will say they're like some Japanese chair brand, but they're very comfortable. Yeah, I agree
We got some.
Show on the back.
It's actually how they advertise them.
From what we've seen so far in the arena.
It's just like the ability to lean back and get comfortable.
What TVNT is doing right now, they're like, this is what we do.
This is what we do.
TVNT's full display right now.
Showing off that chair.
Yeah, it's really...
It's getting late for these players, I mean.
I was about to say, it is pretty...
There's still one more series after this, by the way.
Yeah, they are going to play the next match up here.
Matchup here, Virtus.pro are waiting in the wings in the final matchup of the day, the lower-back at final, but I mean, look at, look at, I hate to talk about funny Astro because we're just looking at him but he doesn't think there's a cam on him, but like he's looking at a little tire, you know, in TNT in the middle, is that a yawn, it was a little yawn, you need a caffeine brother, come on.
We need to get fired up once more.
Yeah, especially considering this can go to six maps.
So, Mr. Mines have done that before funnily enough against Alcat?
Yeah, they did.
Midget's in championship last year.
Yeah.
That draw on Blizzard World.
Of course, Yawning too.
Oh, we got him.
We got him.
We got him, chat.
Who's next?
You know, one person Yawning and suddenly everyone starts Yawning.
Exactly.
And so, it's a slippery slope for the rest of the team here.
Gotta watch out if you're simple
J-Woo
Don't it don't it be caught yawning. All right time for some adrenaline back into the game
All right
New Junk City, no surprise to see us go here, Johnny.
In theory here, I do give the edge to Twisted Minds.
We've got the hard replaced obviously in a moment as well.
Ooh, are you so mean?
Uh-oh, uh-oh.
Are Twisted Minds expecting this composition to come out from the beginning?
Surely, I mean surely.
This is what it's been like evolved into over the last day or so.
day or so. Twisted Minds are playing way more of a default, a way more common composition.
They have to adapt their play now to what Weboo Gaming are bringing on their own end.
So it was a Bastion Band by Twisted Minds there Johnny.
The Diva Band for Weboo Gaming. TNT is going to be still at home though on
Desiree. It's all about kiting here for Weboo.
Maywall is so pivotal here as well. TNT has to be careful on Desiree as the
rotate comes through from Weboo Gaming. A lot of sustain. If you're Twisted Minds
You have to rotate away and open up the angles for J1 Quartz.
Mayweal has been deployed though. This is a good time for Twisted Minds.
Quartz, you're hoping Quartz gets an opening.
He's actually shy, snipes funny astro.
And a cap too.
So it's not just Twisted Minds now if they want to stay in this.
It is so slow. There's so much percent that's being drained here.
Quartz, not to slide out. Simple.
Mike has caught as well.
You've got to make a decision. You've got to die or get out.
Oh, funny, Astro almost gets caught again by Shy.
And now, honestly, if you're Twisted Minds, you start thinking about,
do we need to make hero swaps?
I really do feel like the composition Twisted Minds are playing right now.
It is suboptimal into this new meta composition we're seeing.
You can make some individual plays with the Tracer, with the Soldier,
but so very difficult.
It's just, the combat plays slower here.
It's just such a big advantage when you have the point capped already
Yeah, they're staying alive. They're rotating away from to some minds not giving them an inch here
All the months are coming online though. They force leaves block on the point at least okay by the tracer
But shy is just keeping overwatch right now at this high. Oh good rail gun kill onto marker though after that rush to be used
And there you go. Okay, twist of mind's brass being a victory
98% flip though
Yeah, the Kitsune rush is going to be a big enough of a difference maker simple building it earlier than his counterpart on the Maka here
And now twisted mines and they want to poke and product early
They need every single opportunity they can get to find an early railgun kill here
Or maybe catch someone with TV and these ground on surge coming up
98% though way beginning with five ultimates such a tough uphill pass for twisted mines
Oh man, a TVNT can grab on the rotate, that's a good pick though, straight to the dome, shy, goes down.
Alright, okay.
Wabuk, I've got time to back out though.
That's Silver Clock deployed, about 64% here for Twisted Minds now, and they have the Sunbird, they have the Graviton Surge.
They're facing five ultimates, but they have very powerful ones of their own.
through on. Catch him on the rotate here, just TVNT he's got the high ground right now with
the crops on search. Rush is going to come the through on to the point. There's the grab
and it hits him big. Jaewoo looking for a nice little post. Jaewoo with a triple post
bomb kill in the grab. Disaster strike, Wayvo gaming. Oh they're losing this first point.
J-Woo TVNT!
What a comeback on this point from Twisted Minds, individual place out of everybody.
Everything had to go right and Twisted Minds executing brilliantly on this one, going up
1-0 on New Drunk City, looking to advance here in the lower bracket.
Yeah, at least he's been trying to deploy the sanctuary as well, trying to just to no avail.
Flux. Oh, TBNT jumps out of there and they kill Shai. Straight rip the beat.
Way to gaming. Where you at? You're in the wrong postcode right now.
Shai's went over to the soldier. It's this one of more swaps to come.
Sunso over to the Ramatra here as well. Lisa Min. You going to do his part? Lucio it is.
So, more of a default kind of composition here, leaves sticking on the May for now,
just to deploy the Blizzard, can't expect the Tracer swap to come.
But in this fight coming up, simple is the one with the Kitsune Rush, one of the better ultimates in the game.
Janku, again!
How?
The individual plays from this team.
How has SunZo been caught on the rotate?
I mean, this is going from bad to worse.
Cleanup heroes are going to come in, Johnny, but it's given them enough time to build up ults.
This feels more like something we saw on Runa Sapi when it was all twisted minds after that initial engage.
Wave of the game he hasn't found anything. He's giving up, he's giving up the Blizzard.
Wow, Leafs swaps over to the Tracer recognizing that not going to get a lot of value with that Blizzard.
It's going to be so difficult to catch anyone.
But now, no ultimates of their own, 73% in twisted minds, they can do whatever they want.
on. Let's have a look from simple quarts. Gonna pull the overclock first, but Sunzo
already so low, needs some desperate assistance. The entirety of Twisted
Bites right now, looking at Sunzo as he just melts. TVNT. That's a, that's two
points now, Johnny. Webber gaming at that good first one, but that's a 200 to 98.
This map is quickly getting away from Webber gaming. It feels like it's already
gone. How are they going to come back into this one? There's star players, Shy, Leib,
gone missing and it's all Quartz and J-Win this one. Twisted Minds trying to advance
into the lower bracket. Maka has this Kitsunorosh available, but this Graviton Surge, so deadly,
especially with Twisted Minds already set up in a good position here in Webu Gaming for
us to make a play. Shy! Oh, there we go. Punks alive. Okay, Shy on the board, Leib 2, taking
out their mirror matches and that's what you need. You need these opening kills from leaving
shy to get the ball rolling. This is what it's all about. It's not just going to be
the ultimate in this one, four-way bootgaming. Yes, you need to win fights on the back of
your Katoonorosh, on the back of Sound Barrier. But where it all starts coming together is
when you can line up the railgun attacks and the individual plays from your damaged players.
They need more of that to keep things going.
I fear now for Twisted Minds when I approach this one with shy with the overclock for the Graviton search from TDNT could put a quick end to that.
No pulse bomb to line up with it, but they might be okay with that.
Now the beat available for Lee Soo Min.
Overclock is going to get used by shy.
What's the response?
Looks like a beat.
Lee Soo Min's got a better beat timing now.
It's going to cover fire with him too.
It's Twisted Minds have to back out of this fight at least for now.
Don't want any business to do, at least I'm in Sambar here.
Going to look for the reed again as well.
They've got Pratt, they win to 1v1.
Sun2 in trouble.
Now they just get run over.
Oh, it's feeling like that 0.1 all over again.
Look at the old Swiss mines of SAVED as well.
They got the bigger bank combo.
They got the Graviton surge with the post bomb as well.
But still, I like the very hesitant play from Weibo Gaming to hold on to that Kitsune rush.
Mark at that time doesn't match simple recognizing that they already dropped the
member so 85% here for Weibo gaming now they're still in a very good position to
get this for this point for them. TBNT oh he's gonna get cracked right there nice
little bubble on the course but course still goes shy this is good for two though.
TBNT goes down as well to shy. Twisted mines not using their combo they used it
They could have done, but they were already caught in webos and it's 95 percent.
Can I find the tracer? Where is J.Woo?
They're gonna give it up? They're gonna give it up.
Team couldn't follow up on the tracer touch, no need to do it.
And webo gaming on the board.
You think it's a trivial fight though for Twisted Minds though.
This next one? It's a graph pulse. As soon as that point unlocks, you're here in that graph pulse, and then you get the point free.
A lot of pressure on Tamaka. Need to save that Susu for the pulse bomb that could come out.
Well, they're actually just going to use that rush first, they actually catch Sunzo.
That's a lot of healing coming in, but it's just too much.
They've saved the pulse, saved the overclock as well.
A really nice teamfight, a cheap one for Twisted Minds as they gain the point.
Yeah, J-Ware expected the Suzer to come as well, so he didn't even use the pulse from that time.
Didn't feel like he was the right time to drop it here.
So, seeing as Skirmish back and forth, again, both of these soldiers like to be so active and always look for picks.
Warch has this overclock and we know he likes to ride swing but at the same time they're building towards the double support
Open at sports which I'm shy. She's just gonna get solo. Do you get to make out? Oh, this is just too good
J-Woo does it again. Oh, at least you mean
It's way far in the back line there
And that's gonna be a fight to twisted minds. That's a back-to-back
It's again. We're beginning on the back foot
Wabu gaming on the back foot as well and no support ultimates for this one.
As Twisted Minds draw ever closer to closing out this very series.
And they still have the opportunity to go fast if they want to.
Sambario 4, funny Astro, Lee Soo Min as well, 25% away.
Lee throwing up, pulse, don't see a kill.
Unfortunate.
But he's so low actually on the point, he's actually just one.
the overclock is going to get pulled from shy but J.Boo wins another DPS still
this is coming down to the wire now 10% to go they're going to try and catch off
funny Astro but he gets Susie and bubbled and out quads with the overclock
it's going to be the biggest thorn in the side they got the touch but Lee Sun-in goes
down 92% towards the beat and twisted minds have done it
Your world champions knocking out China's number one seed from Tokyo.
And that's as dominant play as we expect from the reigning world champions.
Turning up big time on the very first map and on the last one here.
Playing the composition they're so very good at.
The Lucio Kiroko with the soldier, J-Wu, making those plays on the tracer.
That's why he was signed to this roster.
You just round things out, improve on this roster alone.
And it went 4 maps, it went 5 maps, it even did.
Twisted Minds facing some stiff competition in the beginning, but you gotta talk about
the runa sapi, the oasis, the way they closed out these map wins for themselves.
They were so dominant on those 3 maps.
Yeah, J-Woo just carried towards the end.
Had that big old draw as well on Kings Roy, you can't forget.
An incredible series here.
And yet, Twisted Minds, they're continuing this run in this lower bracket now.
Vertus Pro, obviously waiting in the wings.
It's another rematch.
Like, we're getting rematch after rematch after rematch from every region, it feels
like now we've got a career one tomorrow, we've got an EMEA one coming up in just a
moment.
Twisted Minds on this revenge tour, Johnny, they want to make it to the finals again.
Yeah, and it really felt like in stage one that Twisted Minds was the better of these
two teams, the way they were destroying Vertus Pro in regional play.
But I feel like here on the international stage, the way the meta has been developed
so far, I think Virtus.Pro has a better chance in this match-up than they had once prior.
Let's really jump down to the stage though, funny actual with the interview.
I saw the weakness of the team, but how is the mental state of the team now?
We obviously still have some little kinks that we need to work out, but yeah, I think we're confident going into our match against VP
That's a matchup that we're really happy to play. So yeah looking good
About VP,
I think VP has shown a lot more than they have shown so far.
Zeta has shown a lot of things that have been shown in the last game.
What kind of strategy do you need to play against VP?
What kind of mentality do you want to move forward with?
Please let me know.
were even able to take a game off of a data.
So how are you thinking about how you're going to beat them?
Like, you don't have to say specific strategies,
but it's like, what are you feeling going into the match?
Do you feel like it's going to be an easy 3-0?
Or you're feeling like it's going to be a little bit more
of a struggle than you normally would have had against VP?
I think our games against VP are always close.
But like I say, they're our rival from Europe.
And we're really confident playing against them.
I think they have a bit of a mental block playing against us.
So no matter which matchup we play, no matter what comes
So Ron, we're going to win.
Thank you so much for that interview, KUKOM Collective, ready for that VP bout in a moment.
Yep, they got another match coming up in a very quick succession here.
So you just want to take a breather real quick.
Just stay calm, collect yourself, try to buy some time to get ready for this very next one.
And obviously, we talk sometimes about what series are draining,
what sometimes maybe you feel a little bit warmed up.
That was a pretty long series right there and you know it's getting late into the evening here in Tokyo, Japan
And so we'll have to see if they can reset appropriately. Yeah, they're gonna need to VP as well
I've had a long long day both teams ready to rock and roll
Unfortunately, they're gonna have to knock out each other. Oh, no, each other both of cargo out not just yet
But EMEA are gonna have a head-to-head after this break
What's up everybody, I'm here and for OWCS Tokyo and I'm joined by everybody's favorite team Twisted Minds
We're talking today with of course plenty of Astro and KSA and first guys I'm just gonna ask
When'd you guys get into Japan and what's it been like here in your first few days?
We got in last night we spent a couple of weeks before that in Korea
So we've been bootcamping preparing hard, but yeah, it's been just a amount of travel. I'm gonna go right for the tournament now
As for me, I actually I loved earlier than the team. I
Came from Turkey. I couldn't come to the bootcamp because I was sick
but
I'd have been risked to slip the boat
Is there any like one particular thing you really want to do while you're there in Japan?
Last night I went out for some Japanese barbecue. It was pretty nice. Some unlimited food. It was pretty tasty. I liked it. I'm excited to try some more of that.
As for me, I'll be honest, I have nothing in mind I want to do right now. Most of the time I just try to hook the team one. That's about it.
Does anybody have any travel superstitions? And then you get traveling to international competitions. You guys, I mean, actually you've been doing it for years now.
Is there any sort of ritual routine that you have when you travel?
I used to have a specific pair of socks that I'd only wear at the tournaments, but they were for us, so they're gone now.
Is there any one thing here in Japan as a country overall, something you want to experience, see, or do before you leave?
Like what are you excited about here in Tokyo?
Um, we're pretty close to the mountains, so I was hoping maybe we could get one day off that I could go explore over there,
maybe get a nice view of Mount Fuji, go for a hike, maybe.
As for me, I haven't really thought much about it, I'll just, you know, after the competition
I'll sing or whistle.
Okay, okay.
Alright everybody, well, that's been our quick interview here with Twisted Minds.
I gotta wish them good luck in the rest of the competition, definitely a lot of expectation
for our current world champion team.
I'll make my rules, you'll know it too
Wish they'd see you, just like I do
Just like I do
Let me take you to the fantasy
Let me show you everything that I see
I'll be taking you to my imagination
Get into my head, it's all tomorrow then
Tomorrowland
To our home
I've awakened from the dream I had since I was just a kid
which of the two teams is going to come out on top because quite frankly in their last two series
it's both of them are fighting like tooth and nail in order to make this lower bracket run.
Ash, Moxie and myself are back here to break it all down. Let's talk about how twisted minds got
this victory because Weibo did fight back on more than one occasion. What stood out to you?
Oh, okay. When it came down to Weibo Gaming, I think we could just continue on with that story
building when it comes down to Sun Zou and Lee Soo Min. This is a team that has
leveled up. I was really impressed with the changes that they've made to this roster and the improvements that have come out here.
We have always had that conversation with you about these things from China needing to kind of grind, fight back in,
and we're finally seeing those level ups here from Wayvo.
Yeah, China, China's Overwatch has always had like a place in the Overwatch e-books like history books, Shanghai Dragons, basically, like that.
old-school classics. They've come up with some insane DPS players, but it's great to see the tank
players and the support players fully elevated in this current climate. The fact that they were
able to actually complete that full push on Circuit Royale and then complete the full hold
afterwards. Some insane stuff coming on for and I like the fact that they tried to go for this
Mizuki composition. You can see a lot of teams trying to take advantage of how quickly that
wants to be able to push on up into the priority of the comps, but unfortunately I think again
career being able to hide that strategy for a little bit longer means that the teams who are
trying to very quickly flip onto the Mizuki, play it for one or two fights, realize that it's not
quite working out for them and have to swap back. Yeah, I want to talk a little bit more about the
competitions here because Twisted Minds, earlier on here in this event, we saw them trying out
that cap ration and they quickly, swiftly, had to like get off of it again because it did not seem
to really suit them. In this series though, they play quite a lot and it looked good. It did look
I think that we also got to see them actually playing it the way that they wanted to. We got a preview of it in that all
gamers matchup to start off the day yesterday and
Now into today. We also saw the Cassidy there for courts
I think that was a really big difference maker here with a cat bastion calm
can be able to play that Cassidy and really just like nail down the other cat bastion on the other side of things was
Really the big difference maker. I feel like here for team
Yeah, but it's a risk right when you're going for the bastion with the Cassidy
It means that you're not playing something like the reaper to be able to melt the tank or the trace to be able to go in and hit
The backline because the cast isn't going to be able to help out with the backline unless they're over
Extending and swinging at much harder. What you are doing is putting much more pressure on things like the bastion and the cat
But that means that the backline can be a lot more safer
And if you don't manage to hit your shots, you're not going to be able to find a lot of value with the Cassidy
But quartz is known
It's been one of those standout hitscans who very quickly crept up into just the
Anthium that we've seen like the pantheon coming on out of the hitscan areas
Even the Korean players last year was saying that they were worried about matching up against courts with how dumb
He could be on things like the soldier. Yeah, no court has been an absolute threat for many stages now
Honestly and then in years almost right it generally twisted minds
They've been that one dominant team in EMEA and VP really struggled all season long to catch up
There just seemed to be that tear gap between the number one and the number two seed in EMEA.
The last two times those two teams faced off against each other, it was twisted minds.
VP was the only team in EMEA that managed to at least get a map off of them.
So there is hope also, again, very different meta.
Do you guys think like those two teams scrimmed it all with each other?
Like, well, how familiar are they with each other in the current meta?
I don't know. Actually, I can't, I would feel like they did.
And I feel like you're taking advantage to the other international teams
So they have had the opportunity to definitely watch the gameplay from each other
But I really don't think that that was their focus to play each other coming into champion flash
Yeah, especially because like Twisted Minds
They lost a map to VP when VP played a sort of cheese comp on Atlas with the vendetta with the traitor
That was something that VP were known for last year. That was something that twisted minds specifically wanted to remove J.Woo
From Virtus.Pro's players like I told to the team
I was like, why exactly did you pick up J-Woo and they basically said you be decided out of all of the players
They could potentially have gone to pick him up and replace him when he goes into more of a coaching role
That J-Woo was the one that he truly like trusted to be able to come through with Twisted Minds with the amount of flexibility
He was bringing to Virtus.pro for us
But for me the big difference is that that was Twisted Minds in their region. Yeah, we had the skill divide
We talked about it on cast so many times
TM here, Virtus.pro here, the rest of the teams here, but now that we're here in Tokyo,
that skill divide, TM being up here and Virtus.pro being here, it started to close.
And honestly, with how close Virtus.pro's matches have been against some heavy hitters,
it might be on pass or passed. Yeah, I'm about to find out. You guys,
you know what I'm most excited for in this matchup? There's so many really, really incredible
matchups just like player versus player like psycho versus jay would just like
this one is so good like I'm actually so excited for this one it's the
opportunity for psycho to try and get the his revenge on this previous right I
think it's such a cool story that we're seeing come together now here in Tokyo
and the interesting two thing too is twisted minds feeling like they've been
a little bit on that back foot we're finally seeing jay who heat up in the
server within these previous series today. And for Psycho, this has been a VP that have
been looking very adaptable here in Tokyo. Well, Psycho has also been popping up for
the matches that Virtus.Pro has been playing. Like, yesterday we were waxing Lyric to Lyric
about, you know, cap stuff on the cast, but today it's been Psycho being able to come
on for it with the Tracesome. Really impactful pulse bomb moments as well. We know that
Virtus.Pro and Twisted Minds not really wanting to field towards the Cap Bastion. Virtus.Pro
been banning it out, Twisted Mind's not wanting to play it all that much themselves because
they much prefer the hit scan of the meta coming on through. I think for one of these
teams is going to be who can actually adjust to the new meta, and so just playing the old.
Yeah, I think that what's going to be interesting as well is we've set up this Virtus Pro team
as the one that has been having that quick growth here on LAN, but at the same time,
I kind of wonder, do we think they might have a bit of a chip on their shoulder? Could the
past ghosts of losing to TM so often in their own region, maybe be something that haunts
them on the stage.
I don't think so.
Quite frankly, just like if you're looking at the players as individuals, they're chill
like that.
They are.
They're chill like that.
And also, there's a lot of very much experienced players there.
So I don't think they let it rattle them.
I feel like if anything, they might just be fueled by it.
Like motivation.
I think a lot of players take it as motivation.
So many of us just, we operate out of pettiness at that point, out of fights.
And I feel like we got some candidates of that on that stage.
Well, they also, when they were asked which team they wanted to match up against yesterday,
they did not say Twisted Minds.
They said Zeta, and then they pulled a map against Zeta earlier.
So if that's not a confidence boost, I don't know what is.
Okay.
We didn't actually do predictions for that one, but I'm going to put you on the spot
now.
Who do you have for this one?
I feel like this could literally be a coin toss.
Honestly, I'm kind of going with VP. I'm liking what I've been seeing. I think that for VP, they're playing a lot more into the meta.
They look a lot more comfortable doing it for the side of Twisted Minds.
They do still manage to pull off these wins, playing what's been good for them. They're adjusting to that cat Bastion,
but I'm here for the upset potential. You know me. I love a good story.
I mean, recently, Bayus, like we said, Virtus.Pro have been performing far better than Twisted Minds currently.
but I just it's so close it really is like quartz versus kevster and it's like
it's going to be really coming down to the DPS I think that's why it's going to
be so conflictly I'm I'm gonna be with that
you
So what has been the best thing you guys have eaten so far?
You've only been here for about a day, have you guys had a chance to explore, what would
you get a chance to eat?
I went to this Roman place close our hotel last night and it was so good. Yeah, yeah, that ramen's great
I went to like a convenience store this morning got like an egg sandwich and some some like fried chicken
They had it was so good
So if you understand entire day in Tokyo with just one of your teammates, who would it be and why?
It is probably psycho
Yeah, why?
Because rest of my team don't like to do stuff the bonus. Yeah, this relax you know play the game
Yeah, so I think I was gonna like a chill vibe as well. I think you'd get into you'd get into some stuff
What about you? I ain't gonna have to go to fixer. I get lost a lot
I need to fix it. You know, keep me keep me going the right the right way
All right, so one of the questions I was gonna ask is like who is most likely to get lost and why?
You're immediately like what why is this you have a history? Yeah, kind of you start some directions anything like
That's no where he's going. What's one event that you got lost like or like?
Let's have fun with all our might!
Now, it's time for the final match!
Are you ready to get excited?
Now, let's have fun with all our might!
Now, it's time for the final match!
Let's start with this team!
Twisted Mind!
I mean they have been here all day battling through the lower bracket and it's good
I mean I'm excited because we've done a lot of EMEA throughout this year and these two teams kind of like battling it out really twisted
Minds getting the better of VP a lot of it
But if there was one time I think VP could kind of take them I might be this event right now
They're they're playing pretty good you look at a player like Kevser who you know didn't make it to lands for what?
Yeah, he made it not not at all last year
I mean it was the first one and then that was it it was a brutal drought for him as a player given his story history
right? And now he comes to Tokyo and if there's one player who's come alive from Virtus.pro,
it's Kevstar, right? Like, yeah. What he pulled off against Weibo on the Cassidy was absolutely
disgusting. And these two teams, I mean, they're, we already have the map selection and the
band's already on through. So, a Cassidy band comes through here and then also a Rematra
band so it's VP who they get it's the map pick here four twists and mines they
defer the band over to VP VP gets rid of the Cassidy which I guess like you know
Cassidy is obviously strong for Quartz as well but you know Kev has been on fire
with it I think I think VP may try and play Cap Ashton here against them like I
think that's what the Cassidy band's signature yeah right because the Cassidy
has been part of the linchpin of countering this strategy and the
The Ramachan man is also pretty interesting, I mean the Ramachan has been played a decent
amount but hasn't been like a core meta choice so maybe both teams saving something in reserve
to go deeper into a series.
Even VP they banned the Cassidy here but I'd be surprised if they don't use it themselves
going deeper down the stretch in this series.
Yeah the one thing I can think of is that Virtus.pro, specifically Ice Mom, has gone
over to the ram constantly like against some of these different types of comms.
especially some of the Sigma look so I know maybe there's something that
Tiena kind of will pull together that's a little cheeky as the crowd here loves
them to me and me a overwatch here is we have one more game to see who makes it
the championship Sunday it's great to hear the energy in the arena still going
one strong for this final match of the day.
Come in the underdog, I think that is without question, but hold up, Jaewoo?
My man?
No, no, no, no.
Just kidding, it's been a long day.
Let me ask you a fun.
Jake was a little tired in the back and once he sees some junk ready,
he throws the perk up a little bit.
He's like, hey, hold up.
Okay, so Verdi's broken now. They're gonna play some sim here
Where no cat interesting. Yeah, so they're gonna play Juno break here or twisted mines
That's a an interesting look, but it looks like already they're going all the way back to the spawn
I like this choice. I think the sim is a serious problem for the Juno break and even Astro
Those over the week. We're getting wild and wacky this way. I don't know what to think. I mean, it is late, but
Ha ha ha, it's late for these teams too man.
Test of endurance, here in the arena.
First cap goes to Virtus.Pro, uncontested.
An odd start to the series man.
Yeah, I mean, TM basically gives it off, right?
By, you know, going back to the spawn and making these changes,
it's simple putting some pressure on the keb,
can't exactly go in, kind of chase him down the Zarya bubble there.
On the symbol will keep him up, we're all going to shot just barely,
really miss connecting.
Burtis throw, staying on the front foot with this Bastion Sim, another TP forward, threatens
QWAR2.
Disrespects, it looks like a fake TP, and they come and punish the Brig.
Vulnerable, especially with the DPS that Burtis Prout are fielding, twisted mines.
Really not getting much fight of anything so far in this map.
But with TM, right, with their composition, they're kind of banking on some of these fights
going a little bit longer, right, where the Brig healing can start to kick in, right,
and some of the woo-yong damage because if these fights go pretty fast,
which they have in favor of VP,
the comp doesn't have enough survivability just overall, right?
They kind of need to kind of keep those going for a while.
It's going to be a venture pick here for some reason.
Ah, we have not seen him play this the entire tournament.
I mean, it's good against the Sim, but I mean, for me, kind of terrible against the Bastion.
I mean, the raw DPS throughput, you just cannot tolerate that on the venture course.
So, Binds picks up, opening on the Lucio,
gives you the opportunity they needed to get back into this round.
Simple, pops the rally, but he gets two-day rush,
devastating damage, over-ramps KB and DSorya,
a fast forward in desperation towards Kevster's bastard,
but he remains helping the enemy three from nowhere.
How did that happen with the TP bomb?
Oh, that is brutal there for Twisted Mind.
Both support ults, now we're making changes there.
Psycho Sim, not the hero I would have expected him to come out on, and definitely not what I expected him to be making plays like that.
A little Psycho revenge game, right? Going up against Twisted Minds, they're gonna go aggressive by the feet.
He's in trouble, Quartz already down. Overwhelmed, desperation to Twisted Minds, grabs out Eden,
to end himself with injury, not that it makes a difference. Twisted Minds!
A shadow of their former self, they need to wake up immediately, Matt.
Virtus.Pro, a statement, Matt, victory around victory, I should say, but where was Tien in that?
What are they doing with these picks?
That was wild.
I mean, if a lot of different hero selection compositions that we like do not see often
from twisted minds, have not seen throughout the tournament from anybody, making those
types of comps come together. Maybe just kind of trying something. Maybe there's
something in scrims that potentially works here against Virtus Pro, but taking a
look at the stats. I mean, TV and T had a rough one. Really, everybody from the side
of Twisted Minds had a pretty brutal game there as we go into the next round.
And okay, so Virtus Pro is clearly adopted to the meta. They're not playing the cat,
but we saw Virtus Pro do this against Wave-O gaming on this one without the cat.
What's in mind is going to translate MAGA here. MAGA with a Juno Brick. Like, this is a very old comp.
They're going to try to overwhelm. Here comes MAGA straight to the back line, trying to get on top.
But death, use of the Sim Teleport, gets Psycho and his allies up to the high ground
and into a safe position. Once again, DVT dies in the back line up, beats off on top of Kepster,
followed up by Quartz, and this time he'll make good on the promise.
Yeah, and I think the one thing here for Burt is pro, right?
You don't have the ability to kind of get that fast in the sky right and really kind of avoid the maga stomp, right?
So you get rid of I would you be surprised they went cat here?
I know maybe for you know, I like to see it. Yeah, I'd like to see it
They're gonna just put a reaper in the mix
So just ditch the sim and I guess when TV and T comes in they're just gonna try and punish really hard
Let's see what's I can do done on this reaper. It's gonna be crucially important simple
Also, making some space on the point, Quartz already forced up the high ground, but willing
to seed that ground, he's got some good space from which to fire.
Tbnt's got big stuff again, great form though, keeps Kevster alive, Vixen gets caught in the
chaos, and Jaewoo, hunting, pecking from the sides, finds his side.
Yeah, and I think he'll find Virtus Pro.
I would love to see them coming over to the jetpack, that's a pulse bomb, that would have
been insane to connect with.
This place would have been nuts.
a little speculative, but we'll allow it,
J-Woo with three on the fight,
and the mod defining some purchase for Twisted Minds.
It's just now for Virtus Pro.
You're making Kevser such an easy target, right?
Like the idea with the Jetpack Cat
in the mix with the Bastions to get Bastion up in the sky
and making him kind of like,
you can't really engage with him.
This feels like it's perfect for Twisted Minds
to play into, and I mean, now you're gonna have rally
when you have the ray, it's gonna be even stronger.
I mean, feels like VP may be playing for that sound barrier,
then maybe making some adjustments.
It'll be the consuming rush here for Landon,
getting reaper inside of it.
That's going to be the rally used.
Overrunning damage, trying to come over the top.
TBNT, the ray is going to sustain him through,
but a sound barrier allows Psycho to continue to fight,
despite the rally.
Cage though, could be just too much,
or Virtus.Poto responds to.
Landon, trapped like a rat,
dropped down by the two mini-guns.
TBNT will have them all,
This could be another round back as quick as the first.
I mean, this is a slaughtering here.
Twisted mines have bounced back in a massive way.
So it'll be a selfless chuck from Ice Nome here.
He gets a touch and simple will chase him down.
Just like that, we are 1-1.
And I have to agree with you, Matt.
Where was the Jetpack Cat?
It would have been, I think, so nice against a Brig.
Like, what is she gonna do against a Flying Bastion?
I mean, that's not much. I mean, two rounds down, one heavily in favor of VP, the other heavily in favor of Twisted Minds.
Yeah, I mean, it feels like if you're going to run that Bastion there, you would have most certainly needed the cat.
If you, if I didn't know any better, you might have just avoided it all together?
If I didn't know any better, I'd have said that they banned Cat this map.
Like, it, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, it feels like it.
with the way the meta has shaped both of these teams and played the jetpack
compassion have looked good with it maybe just fearing that the counterpicks
are too strong simple gonna be happy to be on the break in this matchup against
the D but gonna be easy to consistently proc that inspire the twist in mind
let's see they're gonna wrap around towards the right side for a second
there I thought maybe they would want to make some changes potentially but it'll
be psycho here getting the TP down I'm gonna be looking to go from high ground
too low. TP's gone, killed there by TM. Space taken from Twisted Minds here.
In a dominant position on point, a TP forward onto Quartz, sent in for a quick
rotation slide, but the team quit to recall a less around him. Now, a bit of a
dangerous reverse road there, but the ones to put a dominant pressure on point.
Still, Quartz with a wide angle means you're never safe, you're never
comfortable in this matchup. Oh TP, they go in aggressive. Okay, they put some
Pressure down on a simple here.
Oh, the Shabu!
From behind with the tracer, devastating with these dual pulse pistols.
And without Kevster, damage, severely lacking for Virtus.pro.
Feels like a matter of time.
TV and T will find the next.
And it's turning into...
Dribs and Drabbs' stall game for Virtus.pro, but...
An inevitability.
This admiral's looking comfortable.
Every T.P responded to beautifully by quartz.
You know, VP...
We've obviously seen them succeed with a lot of comps here at Champions Clash, but for me, I feel like they were playing this bash in Canada higher level than probably Twisted Minds was, and then Twisted Minds is not going to opt into mirroring it, so you can kind of take them out on it.
potentially would have been in a pretty good spot so there'll be a point
control here for twisted mines rally and ray available here so a very strong
combination a very difficult point to take back it's gonna be contested for
extremely long time is railgun shot there and it picks up not enough to
finish him off though. For it's comfortable in his element an instant headshot
sends land and scurrying for cover, Kitsune rush buys a lip of the space with
twisted mines continue to twist the screws right over the top and a beat
Force out from Fixa. Can they find that offensive utility? No, it's simple. Into the fray with the rally.
Heisnomm does find Quartz in the chaos. The Simwalt further providing a bit of space and cover for BP to work with, but DM's still in control here.
Yeah, I mean, look, you got TDNT here with the self-destruct as well. You're going to be able to extend this for an extremely long period of time.
He's going to get de-mech here. Going to use it as Jaewoo finds Fixa. Jaewoo's been unbelievable here to kick this butt off.
I smell him get some right back so the tracer out of the action it's gonna be
Kev's chance with an overclock here Jake is we're already at 70% here need for
come up in minds one shot connected simple with a depth shield to block the
second shield broken a rail to the back but where's the finish maybe it's
coming for you Kevster DBNT desperate for the kill but can't find it loses the
suit simple and poor so find their mark and now J Wu ready to clean out I mean
And just the level of play from Jaewoo right now is at such a high level.
I mean, you can kind of see right, like, how important he was to add him to this roster,
just give them that explosive tracer play.
And he may kind of carry them here to this first map win.
And Spixx is just going around the outside, trying to get a touch.
They came out so strong that Twisted Minds were healing on round one, and a completely
different story in the following two. Yeah, the rally there, we don't catch it from simple
POV, but Rally Batch denies Fixa from actually making it there towards the point. So, TM.
Little bit of love there for JV. Little bit of support, so I love to see. I mean, JV had
a big map. He came back in a major way after that first round.
I mean, he was kind of farming. It's crazy as well, thinking about how that first round
like, looked so good for VP, and then seeing the stats at the end of this with the TM win,
it's like, how do they, how do they take that first round?
I think a lot of the first round, maybe, looking back on it was TM going all the way back to spawn,
switching their comp, giving up that early point, and then control to the Sim,
and never really being able to get it back.
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of that, you know, when teams fully yield the mid-fight on control,
you're basically on retake from the first fight.
cheeky little TP bomb play from Psycho, showing what's possible on the sim.
I also feel like, you know, TM kind of beat themselves on round one.
And then maybe they, you know, right the ship, right?
It's just a, you know, maybe a momentary lapse.
They come back in so much stronger.
The Magokoms looking well-practiced here.
Still, if they were to win Cat here, I think they could win that round.
I totally agree.
I think this Brig is really powerful into the Lucio matchup, especially with Lucio Nerve.
I really don't mind the break at all. The reason I think we don't see her much in this tournament is because of Jetback Cat, right?
Like, if Big Brick has no ability to deal with Flyers, and Jetback Cat Bastion is just about the most devastating flyer in the game right now.
Yeah, I mean, you could have given them a lot of trouble, like some other teams have given TM some trouble here,
and this is really what kind of gave them the momentum to storm back. I mean, this second round was not particularly close,
And then, look, you guys just watched the third round.
I don't even tell you what happened there.
I mean, just TM, just kind of walk over them.
So now, four-vertice-pro, like, how do you think
they view this series, right?
I would have thought, potentially,
they would have looked at it as,
let's kind of do what we've seen some teams do with it,
which in mind has been pretty public.
They don't love playing Jetpack Cat, Cat Bastion.
So, like, maybe kind of just stick it to them in that.
But it almost doesn't seem like
And that's where VP wants to go, and I kind of get it from the sense that Kepster's been
that good, but Kepster played the Bastion at a really high level here too.
I like Kepster on the Bastion.
I think he has a really strong look on the hero.
I agree with you.
I think they played the overall comp really nicely.
And this is a team that's, you know, to Fuddy Astros point in that post-game interview.
They've lost too many times before.
You'd almost want VP to be willing to take some risks.
Yeah.
To take some gambles.
A straight-up heads-up battle like that and one that team are comfortable in feels like we almost already know how that plays out
VP though bring us to new junk city
They haven't lost here to my knowledge right so far. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, it's been great
It's been disgusting. They have wiped the floor with their opposition on new junk city
Yeah, and I wonder what VP decides to do in terms of like ban here, right?
We saw what? The Rematragon in the first map, and then we saw the Cassidy, so we'll see where VP decides to go in terms of the banning process.
We can take a look at those simple, you know, playing Brig, I mean, a pretty fantastic game.
And also, I mean, look, a part of this kind of stat line and like the performance goes into, there was really no punishment for the Brig.
No real attempt to kind of collapse on the simple there in rounds two and three.
Yeah, when you're on the back foot and Brigg can get up there and be that threat, not just defensively, but offensively, right, that changes the game.
Simple, one of those players, you know, when I see a flexport player on Brigg, I know they're always going to be looking for those opportunities ready to strike, and simple just had a great read of that in the last round.
This is the last two rounds, really, just they couldn't respond to him. Every dive in from those simtps responded to, well, making sure Quartz was always healthy, always ready to fight.
What do you think the ban? Okay, so the first ban here is going to be from team
They're gonna get rid of the sim which I know rare to see twisted minds get rid of the symmetric
But I actually like that call
I mean psycho that was pretty effective in that first round with the Bastion. I honestly
Strategically, I understand this from team like VPF show and they really want to play this sim as a fan
I want to see VP off sim. I want to see psycho taking the tracer dual and yes
It's J.Bool on the other side. That's not a matchup. You're excited to see but for psycho as a player
I think that's one that he needs to take if they want to win this series if they want to show
Real fight real threat, which is what is needed to stay alive
Remember one of these teams is going home at the end of this series. You think VP would think about a diva ban at some point
It's an option. It's interesting
I mean team I've probably leaned more heavily on the diva than just about any other team in this tournament in the world
right over the last
year and a half and like I
And like, I sounds pretty good on Diva. I wouldn't say it's like kind of the, you know, pick for him. So he could maybe get a Bazzaria ban.
Okay, so that's one that TVNZ can also partly play, right? So potentially you're worried about some of the compositions that TN can do with that Zarya in action.
So yeah, I think there could be a potential opportunity because we've seen, you know, Iceplay, the Ramatra at a really high level, right?
As we take a look at the top band heroes and feel so worried about the sim just the mobility the
It just kind of messes the game all up for everybody
Pretty interesting how relatively little cat and Bastion have been banned compared to their prevalence their place in the meta
I mean it's come to the point where people are playing Bastion as a conventional hitscan now, right?
Like you're not even with the cat comp. They're just yeah valuing what Bastion can offer the incredible damage throughput
ability to just churn through tanks and damage dealer supports alike. Will it be
featured here on Newjunk City though? This has been a map type or rather a
specific map that we've seen. I think more of the Sojourn than the Cassidy.
People wanting that ability to just maybe be less cooled on Reliant for that
hitscan. I mean you could play like Twisted Minds could play something like
a... could you see them playing some of those Maycoms? I like the May. I wonder
for either of these teams. They're almost toyed with bringing out the Mizuki, but Kev is pretty
sick on the May. I mean, Jager can play the May as well, right? Yeah. Doesn't really feel like maybe
T.M.'s looking like her third style of play, right? Like in terms of how that May looks,
but it's definitely something that I think they can work in. I imagine for VP, we're going to get
Kev on some sort of hit scan and then Tracer from Psycho with the Simgon. You could look at the Zarya
as enabling Cassidy, I think, on New Junk City, where I mean Cassidy's ultimate
weakness as a hero is a comp that just runs you over, right, that like disrespects
your close-range threat and just dominates you even where you are strong,
right, the Reaper, the Zarya, just, you know, no fear, tanking the flashbang, take
a bubble, keep running, Cassidy just doesn't have great tools to respond in
that kind of an all-out aggression scenario. You take the Zarya out of the
equation though, and it's a lot more difficult to see a strat that
Overwhelms in that way. You look how high funny ash or sir headrest is
He's looking so happy his spirits are so high
He's got that he's got that ready to like crank dude TV and he is just chill maxing in between games
Yeah, I've been watching over Klein mode and he may be that was funny ash or as the headrest that I may be
You know something different when he leans that chair bag and he didn't take a little snooze in between that boat
But yeah, I think that's a good call to Cassie right because Kev is played
I mean the if you were to make a highlight reel of Kevster
You can make a three or four minute highlight reel of Kevster just on this map just playing Cassie
So like I think that's a really good shot on I know getting rid of that Zarya and maybe kind of powering that up
But I also think psychos was really good on Tracer throughout this event. So I don't think it's that I know crazy
or worrisome here for Virtus Pro that the Sim has gone.
Yeah, like I get that they like the Sim and it's, you know, they've looked comfortable playing around it,
trying to turn one of those historical tools for twisted minds against them.
The flexibility, the name of the game in modern Overwatch, and both of these rosters have it in spades.
It's a question of how they deploy it.
So, VPS played, you know, ice on the ball in the past, but...
would be a little odd in this one most likely I mean we've not seen the go
through this at all I think for twisted minds this is like a comp that you know
well yeah I mean try to play through yeah right this is yeah I mean simple's
gonna speed ring and swap to the carry in this year yeah but other than that I
mean this is this is bread and butter this is comfort this is but isn't that
like what you wouldn't want like to allow them to just play the comfort
because like we've seen this match in EMEA how many times now it's tough you
You know, the W-No versus the W-Junior.
See what Kevster can get done with the Ramatra frontlining.
No sorry to overwhelm him.
There's certainly going to be opportunities for this Cassidy.
Isis looked nice on the Ram, though, throughout this tournament.
You see Kev.
Oh, wait.
Put some good early damage down.
Scythe gets the clean up.
Oh, but simple from Reign.
Shrops Kevster with some spam Kunai.
That's massive.
Gives Twisted Minds a chance to fight back into this one.
VP, need to close the gap.
Need to activate Isdem's Ramatra.
But the vertical mobility advantage to D.Va.
Yeah, they always have to be worried about the force, right?
As TVNT gets low, he's going to get some healing there towards the end,
as I know him to take Railgun, shot not fully charged though, so...
Nobody in control of the point just yet.
Poteet out of the save back at full strength, but Landon and Kev fall.
And this move certainly will result in a twisted mind's point take.
Great awareness from TVNT.
Punishes Kevster off the respawn.
landing even teepees back in a fruitless attempt to save the core hitscan.
First of all, it's really playing that fight to perfection, you know, taking the challenge,
but always being ready to punish that respawn. That was their ultimate goal the whole time.
That tee, I'm just going to rack up some percentage here. I mean, the court's going to get very close to an OC.
His psycho takes a rail cutting shot there.
This is going to be really tough, I think, on Kent, right? You were talking about it, but like,
Now, TVNT, J.Woo even simple gets really aggressive into the back line and can they keep that Cassidy alive?
Is shot the air for Quartz, connects, gonna have to heal everybody up here for VP, but he's got an overclock here really early.
Nice shield buys quite a bit of space here, but Rush comes out from simple, trying to take it right back.
Landed, responds in kind, Quartz finds himself in an awkward angle, trying to fall back,
Kevster able to fight strong on the Rush, TVNT, drop just percentage points before a self-destruct.
Now advantage and Kester will clean it up
Binds one more on the fight landed with another and the flip comes back in for Virtus Pro on top of a positive economy trade
This puts them right back into the match
And I think TBNT thought he was actually gonna be able to survive enough to get that that self-destruct and then maybe be able to
Get it back and then kind of extend that fight. That's it
Well, you kind of see no divas like him and zeod like they kind of push it all the way to the absolute max and just time that one
Oh, not exactly as TBNT takes some shots there gonna make it back to the rest of the team though
Yeah, disruptor spot buying a bit of space and time
Opportunity on the defense ports with the OC fixer ready to respond with the beat but holds his nerve for now a better beat as well
But he asked for only finding three a dominating economy trade for furthest pro
But will it be enough they need the kills to clean this fight up TV and T
Well, okay, I'll hold on but quartz answers back with a railgun shot. So
We'll see how Twisted Minds decided to play this.
Virtus.pro very close to taking the lead here.
He does have the annihilation to work with,
but just gonna back out here.
Hasn't she'll deploy with it, doing a nice job kind of rotating through the cooldowns.
Absolutely boxing them out on the Rematra.
No ultimates left in the tank for Twisted Minds.
20% of that rush, it feels a long way away.
J-Woo now forced the stall, but annihilation comes out.
Funny as-fro!
Drop!
No hope to come through that choke point.
Eisdarm takes a bit of poke in the trade,
but with the player advantage, Quartz dropping low.
Horts dropping low, a rush from Simple desperately tries to keep this team in the fight.
High noon, opportunity for the re-peak.
DBNT though holding onto this OT, better rush onto the point though, provides a decisive
advance for Virtus.Pro.
Will it be enough they need to find these kills?
DBNT loses the suit and has to come back down to the point to keep the OT running, where
Kester more than happy to claim the skulls.
Cav is cleaning up still. VP they battle back they end up taking that first
point. I love the way that I still played it like at the start of that fight, right?
TVNT moves through the choke, he sees Funny Astro directly behind him, what he
vortexes, keeps Funny Astro locked down and then just pops an annihilation, just
kills him instantly. Gives him that advantage in terms of supports right
away and guess what VP is gonna get control over the high ground here early
is TM's in a weird spot. Lucius have been odd notice this tournament. Very vulnerable
to the amount of damage throughput coming through against them, but now at a much more
open flash point, it's going to be a little bit more difficult for Rematcher to hold these
chokes down. DD&T putting a lot of pressure on the point. For now, Virtus.Pro reeling,
a peek through on lower, but you find yourself fully corralled towards all the rooms to work
with, and Aiznop just overwhelmed. Too much damage comes through. Hold on, overconfidence
though, Kevster finding that kill back provides an opportunity for Virtus.Pro, but they need
to get more out of the fight to make it.
Kevster will do it with the beat from Fixa.
Oh, I was like, there's no way they're going to beat this guy.
Oh, I mean, hey, if Kev is shooting like that, who cares if you don't have your tank?
Use whatever you can to keep him up.
I mean, the soundbatter, he gets one, they kind of even it up for before, then they end
up using the beat there to keep him alive.
And that is allowing VP to climb back into this one, a rough map one for Virtus Pro, but looking to take their second flash points here would be a hot start.
Bare mistake from Quartz to open that fight, Kevster shut him down and brought his team.
Kicking and screaming, early beat from Astro though, they need to find some quick kills off the back of this, Kevster gets low, but support is good, landed.
The rush stabilizes the backline, Kevster with the high noon as well, provides a bit of purchase for the team.
A self-destruct from TVNT will mitigate this repush, but he takes massive damage from the resuit.
Post-bomb traps him out again, and Aiznog looking for more.
The rush is a threat, but Kester is yet more dangerous.
Six-shooter, all he needs.
The Quartz fighting the counter-fielder, Mech off one!
TVNT, how does he do it?
I mean, he remex on top of Fixa and takes him out.
We'll see if that is good enough.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, so still viewable.
Landmins here, keeping Isom alive so now.
Psycho needs maybe one more in this fight.
It's not gonna be easy to find, simple.
Refuses to get anything for free,
and TBNT back in the suit.
Surely he's got enough to clean this up.
Kevster poking from the outside with the assistance of Vixen,
but without a tank, feels impossible.
Kevster still gonna take the challenge.
Kev kills Funny Astro.
You have Psycho here,
and then you're gonna have Ice getting back here,
off spawn here in just a second.
So, Funny Ash will be back in the fight quick, but still, maybe a brief window of an advantage is
Forge just slides across, dangerous position, he was in there, so now it gets to a better spot
and he'll be kept walking out with the dead eye, trying to open this up.
A lot of space gains.
No capitalization just yet, Forge with the OC now, and a dominant spot over the top.
A body shot at the Kevster won't be enough for a kill, Aiznop definitely slips away on the low ground,
He's running out of gas, needs huge support,
beats 99 to the beat, and comes out just in time.
Virtus.Pro now, forced to fight this out on point,
simple with a rush from the high ground.
Gord's fight's landed, and without the Kiriko,
surely this is too much to ask for.
Kester needs something in this fight.
We've asked for more from him in the past,
and he has found a way to deliver with this time.
Jable with the pulse, denies the hole.
For Kev to do what he did at the beginning of this point,
in TM to take it? I mean that is tough to swallow if you are Virtus Pro. You cannot
really ask for more from Kevster there. I mean just kind of dominating at the start of that
flash point is TM somehow tie it up. One flash point of peace. Virtus Pro will get here to
control the high ground yet again, TBNT just get to mech back so they have to stall for
just a little bit for him to get that one. But you do have, you know Landon does
early in the previous fight that allows them to kind of have this Kitsune rush here, but
Astro does have BJ. They may just kind of run in.
They're going to go for it anyway.
Yeah.
And overrump Kepster.
The carry is good, but it's not good enough.
J.Woo finds his mark in the chaos.
Now Virtus.Pro desperately scrambling, and they do grab simple in the trade, which might
just be enough.
Aiznom stays healthy on the point.
The Vortex defends his team, but TVNT still poking and prodding for more.
I'm says it's not enough is enough going to double down push into quartz position
Try to route this hitscan up twisted minds TNT loses the suit has to self-destruct from a purely defensive position here
They have any need kept back in the fight though, right? They were just so low in terms of damage
It is BP connecting and holding the point that that I hear for Kev trying to see if you can catch somebody out
Oh, but he's in a weird spot though Jake he gets hindered and gets de-mech
Beck is out. Annihilation of Aiznom though could overwhelm. For now it's just enough to take down TBNT, but Quartz finds Fixer on the rotate.
With limited players alive, Aiznom into his last final form, holding on to this point for dear life, but he's blank. He's assaulted from all sides.
No where to run, nowhere to hide, ports, finds it out, didn't know, hold on!
Cycles gave it to Ice, takes one as well, pride comes before the fall!
In fall they do, twisted minds!
With the desperation Malga was simple falling, it'll be another flashpoint going against them!
This series is going wild.
Somehow VP pulls that out.
I snom fixa and land and still live on the point is they are able to clutch up as TV and team
Let's see. I know the Moga may have been just to kind of get back to the point
I know but I also think like Kev, you know, they've been taking advantage of Kev. It takes our work there or he's not satisfied
He's picking the choke. There's no hits came to oppose him
They'll have one and he'll take another now
Forced to fully back off the point that might even create an opportunity for a free flip
And this is the comp I think that VP has looked the strongest on throughout the tournament
You know they have not lost a new junk city and this comp is a big reason why ice has looked awesome on the ram
And then Kev just seems to be on another level on Cassie at this event. There'll be a rush from both sides
Nobody in control the point just get stomped there on the canvas and a poster feed out TD&T runs out of gas behind the River Whelms
Kester! Fight yet more! A lot of feed on the server! Looking for more!
Game has run for the hills with the recall!
So, dude, it is so good to have Kev back in events, man.
Just the plays with him on hitscan. A little bit more focus roll here on
Berthes Perot than some teams in the past, maybe to stretch his hero pool, and he is
they'll just dominate on that hero. Annihilation here for Ice-Nom as well.
Knows, you know, support ultimate available and maybe you decide to get
aggressive with that. Ice-Nom wants to get aggressive in these choke points, has
found many an opportunity. They swing left on the flank, putting the pressure on
the TVNT, the cage fight, forces Ice-Nom into a duel and one that could be
difficult for him to win. Kepster assists the Maga, gets a stomp and returns.
TVNT trying to regroup. Now with that lifesteal activated, gonna really put a
challenge in the eyes and we find himself on an awkward angle. Things falling
apart, four furthest approach. What's in minds? We'll reclaim the flashpoint. And the
Magistom seems to be really strong at targeting the Cassidy, right? Time and
time again. That time, Kev actually just kind of gets inside of the cage. So a
swap from Icenum here over to the D.va. But, you know, Kev gets inside the cage,
tries to kind of help P's Ramatra stay alive, but constantly TVNT using that
charge to train Linn right on top of the cast.
Aizan goes over to the D.Va, prefers the matchup into the Maga here. With rushes
available for both sides, it could be Fix's beat that makes the difference, or
maybe just the high noon from Kevster, taking all the space away. TVNT a
desperate in charge. J-Woo touching point just to hold the OT. Kevster gets low
though and Malca finds an opportunity deep to the backline.
Quartz comes in with the OC as well, but maybe TVNT bites off more than he can chew.
Kester now with room to work with, and Psycho takes down the hope of Twisted Minds.
That pulse bomb evaporates Quartz.
J-Wood Astro will need to find a way to get this overtime touch, but it won't be easy.
And I wonder if Twisted Minds had an idea that Fix had that sound barrier.
Builds up to it pretty quick.
It's funny Astro only at 90%, and he doesn't get the top bird as pro.
able to take map number two and tie this series up. We've got a game on our hands
Matt and one that looks at least from the eye test to potentially be a new era
for Virtus Pro one in which maybe the mental block could start to break down
and I think a lot of it comes from Kevster his ability to show up in the
team's moment of need. This is a map they've gone to time and time again and
And it's because Kevster keeps on delivering.
Hey, just an unbelievable performance yet again from Kev.
15k plus damage. I mean, we saw the clips on Cassidy.
And to tie it up, I mean,
this is just gonna be a all-out slugfest of a series.
Two teams that know each other extremely well.
It might be a little bit of a different meta, obviously.
You know, I patched just recently and just kind of shakes things up a little bit, but...
Now these two teams, I mean these are comps we would see potentially in like, I know EMEA nothing crazy, right?
We're not seeing any like, you know, bashing cat on a lot of these maps like
It's a lot of like, okay, we're gonna put Quartz and Kevser on hitscans and we're gonna see who dominates
Sure something that the fans won't be too upset about
Considering the fireworks
showcased across this game
I'm showing why hey, maybe there's a good reason you might want to consider banning out the rematch
But now, protected for the rest of the series, right, he's going to be able to keep bringing this out and it looks like a real problem, right?
ATV and T goes to the MAGA, then the counterpick of the D.Va, proves to be an adept response.
And I think when TV and T kind of goes to that MAGA and they just swap over to the D.Va, they feel really comfortable there as well.
So, seems like at least for Ice, right, the Rematra, that is so stupid.
That is the fact that he's able to do that is crazy.
That that's it. Oh, no, okay. That's the pulse from the corner. I was like, where was the remake kill?
I don't know. We'll have that all right there actually fix it. Just get stomped on there
In your peripheral vision
Well, so now it's with some minds a rare map pick for them, right? Especially in these matchups here against Virtus Pro
and we've junk city gone
You know an opportunity like
Would we see them go like a Kings Row, right? I mean that's a possibility
disability, do you want to go something that even takes the cat-bashing off of the map?
We just saw what?
Did the team just play RuneSoppy, right?
Yeah.
Against Weibo, so maybe that's an option.
They played a lot of quarts on the Soge, and then J-Woo Tracer on that map, so maybe
we see them just kind of run that back on RuneSoppy and take us to push.
There's so many mind games between these two teams, I'm sure.
It's such a challenging one to predict because they both know each other so well.
And so there's an argument to try to throw a wrench into the works and do something that you think your opponent won't expect from you.
By the way, what a clip.
Like, good thing you had recalled, buddy. I was about to drop five.
Dude, it'd be so fun to be that good.
Yeah, it would be so fun, bro.
Oh, my God.
That was nice.
Somebody had to do it.
Well, the other parts of it would be awesome, as I, you know, he's just a fried target.
Ford's twisted minds is, I know, here's kind of like the final fight, right?
Where T.M. kind of goes in and falls.
Yeah, that's a sick pulse there from Psycho on the exit.
And then they kind of get rid of Funny Astro as we take a look at Kevster's stats there on New Junk City.
This is event-wide as well.
I mean, just absolutely farming on that map.
And 24 limbs per 10.
He is putting in that work.
Also want to give Flowers to Psycho, comes out of the tracer, has not lost a step.
Fantastic to see him on maybe a little bit more of a dynamic playmaker.
Like, yes, the Symmetra team plays can be powerful,
but for me, I'd like Virtus Pro better
when they're more unleashed, more players
who can step up to the plate and hit a potential home run.
Twisted Minds, this one's going to put them back
on their heels a little bit.
They almost certainly come into this series confident,
but as maps potentially start to slip away,
that can't change.
And Twisted Minds, they doubled down on the Realtor.
They played this earlier today and got obliterated.
I completely backfired on them.
Right, so probably again.
However, it was a very different match, and I think when you go to that map in terms of
your first map pick in the series, clearly it's something that has worked for you.
I will also say they got brutally full held on first.
We didn't get to see the scope of their defense, which is really why you picked this map.
An interesting choice, especially because we saw VP play this earlier in the day against
Zeta, right?
And they were kind of awesome against Zeta on this map specifically.
it goes right down to the wire, Virtus.pro played a really good game there, so we'll see.
Okay, so it's going to be an Alari band here to open things up, and then the other band, Jake,
did you get rid of Bastion meat? Just to kind of get it off the table? Yeah, I wonder if they're
not just like traumatized by the Sigma, Mizuki, and maybe get rid of the Sigma, but it isn't really
the inverters pro style to pull out what crazy raccoon did earlier today so you
know it's a tough call I you know I think when teams know each other this
well when they have this many reps against one another when they're almost
certainly each other's biggest screen partner okay there we go it's hard to
call but they're gonna just get rid of the bash and ensure there's not gonna be
any of those cat bashing shenanigans could absolutely come into play yeah
cuz VP like you know maybe you know you pick this you get rid of the Ellari that
Protects the cat as well. Yep, and then I know force them to get rid of the bash on the other side. So
No, actually, okay, so
VP no, yeah, it's human pick. Yeah, so they they get rid of the Bastion first
They don't even want to deal with it. So it's not a protective look like the day. It looked like the first
I think first, but maybe that was just an error. Yeah, so
VP they get rid of the Elori. They want to take that potential away from twisted minds
Definitely going to be an interesting one.
I wonder if we'll see a different look,
a different idea from Twisted Minds.
They've had a bit of an opportunity to reflect,
to watch the bot think, and maybe provide a different approach
this time around on Rialto.
It will be VP on defense to open things up here.
It'd be huge for this team, Jake, just kind of like big picture.
talking about cracking into the top three international.
I mean, that would speak volumes for how this team has progressed.
I also think it would speak volumes to the type of players
that landed in PsychoR, right?
To do it in EMEA from, you know, multiple different teams now
to be able to crack into the top three of internationals.
We're very impressive from those two players specifically.
And for Kevster, what a Cinderella story.
One of the best players to ever do it in Overwatch.
I mean, one of the most storied players still competing at the highest level
has been there almost since the very beginning.
And still to be outputting a performance like this.
Shredding the years like it's nothing.
You'll see what Twisted Minds signs to do here.
Sonic Arrow, can I give an idea
of what VP is trying to play on defense.
And then I think...
Okay, so they're gonna go with Azaria here.
Azaria with Brig in the mix.
and then the funny Astro, Juno.
This was a fantastic look for them.
Yeah.
In previous matches, TVNT,
get in some energy,
be his opportunity to maybe get some revenge on Aiznom from last game.
Well, I mean, you're trying to punish Aiznom, right?
Like, make him as D.Va really just not able to engage
or like really kind of, I know, be offensive
because you're playing into the brig and the D.Va
as Aiznom gets up to the high ground there.
TP has to be deployed to refight for the high ground.
A loop off this time from Vixxia provides advantage.
Two Vertus Pro, Twisted Minds now reeling, gonna regroup on the low ground.
Both teams vying for that strategic position.
Decent amount of space though, game there by Twisted Minds.
They're gonna get the payload.
They're gonna go.
Psycho not able to get back towards the TP and he just gets run down, just smoked there by Symbol.
Nice overwhelm.
Eyes down, now desperation has to come touch the payload.
But twisted minds ready to receive all comers a bloodbath here on first point twisted minds with Azaria
Finding the response is VP. Just go ram here
I do you don't hate it to try it at all. Yeah, they're gonna go Ram here
They you cannot try anything. I know force ice-no-bin to those aggressive plays there on the diva into this type of calm
That's quite nasty
Nice TP forward. What's ice-no-bin position to hold this cart has to come into the form though and has this ticks out
You could find yourself in real trouble
He supports, pops POC over the top, looking for an angle, doesn't find anything just yet.
Good evasion, Kevser takes it back, sets him down, the car wash, sends J.Woo packing,
and now with the high noon, Kevser replays position, rally gas, shuts him down for the moment,
and in the thick of the grab, the beat, not enough to stay.
J.Woo finds his mark with the pulse bomb, but picks up, finds one back, and the rush is keeping eyes on stable for the moment.
Hold on, they might be clutching this.
Yeah, you still have Simple here with Bunny Ashrow, Bunny Ashrow getting close here towards that ray.
With Bunny Ashrow is going to pop the ray here, Jake. You still have TD and T alive, but you lose Simple.
You have Psycho coming out of a spawn with the rest of VP, and Isom's still really healthy.
Ah, TD and T is just too energized.
Zarya, indomitable in those final fights with Energy.
Definitely got pushed to their limit though. That one is not as easy as you might have
have hoped, Kevster being able to shut down that overclocked force, the heavy
expenditure from Twisted Minds to Cap first. I mean, Ice Snow went from like a
hundred HP to zero there, but felt like a second, so Jeyu now is going to play the
Pharah here. Change it up. We've seen him on Pharah kind of, you know, at moments
throughout the tournament, so trying to put some pressure right, the Pharah can
put the pressure onto the Cassie, but also like there's no way for someone on the
site to really engage with the Pharah. If you're going to use that TP, try and
punished him for using it. This spam is gonna be oppressive here. This good mines working
the angles, comfortable playing a long slow fight for this pro, ultimately harassing but
not really gonna be able to commit to anything before this corner. This rockets and poke coming
down here. Four twisted mines and... Even T is still really charged up, G. I mean you
don't have the support ults here, four twisted mines, which puts him in a weird spot, but
He's already got another grab.
I mean, he's doing so much.
Aiznab can only really vie for time,
but the corner is a difficult place to break.
Like this long-range forest spam,
ultimately, you're gonna have to get aggressive.
You're gonna have to force some kind of an opener here.
I mean, you're gonna get a grab plus barrage here
in just a second.
That could be enough.
Wants to find his way through to the back line,
catch those DPS and supports.
Well, maybe you just overwhelm Aiznab,
the vertus pro with the bank of ultimates of their own.
Not gonna be an easy position to break.
one of the most devastating defensive holds in the entire game here.
Both teams decided to just farm up for 10 ultimates across the board here.
Rush comes out first, landing. A bit unforced there.
DVNT won't even back down.
Borts with the OC though, not finding any value across the other side of the stairs.
Kept 2, but the beat keeps him alive, not alone.
Kept 3 drops, the withering of the barrage, it's still not enough.
The symbol of VIXA landed.
Support to the ones to find the kills in this fight.
this fight. I mean that grab from TVNT was pretty sick. I don't think I've ever seen it.
No, I'm not going to lie. That was sick. Yeah, Cap just two players above him on the stairs
because he kind of like drops it in and it just kind of sucks them down from that high
ground and they kind of wrap. Simple trying to put some damage down into it, but VP able
to get a hold is going to be a progression. The rally used here by Simple. They're going
to use double support. Double support? What? IceDom is low though. Hold on. He was deep
on that but he gets bailed off on the team. Two support ults thrown in essentially for
nothing. I mean the Heiming from Kessler came out but you're happy to take that trade any
day of the week. That's wild. I mean you rarely see Tm do stuff like that.
Punished. Now maybe an opportunity though. Averse for a quick three group. Quick to
stabilize the health bars and landed 70 to that rush. Twisted mines need to find something
in the next few moments with their spam. Only a minute on the clock here Jake. Not a lot
Deadly in range, those beat shots on the enemy DPS.
Forced Twisted Minds to regroup and play things slow.
That buys the time for Landon to get towards the rush, and with 50 seconds on the clock, a tough ask for TM.
I mean, you're not going to get support all of this for Twisted Minds.
Quartz and J.Mu dangerously low. Katsune rush comes on in as we are well below a minute on the clock.
Ice just hunts down simple.
Great evacuation, but not for a while.
You can stall this a little bit too.
Yeah.
This is going to be rough because it's a long road back.
back yeah no obvious overtime toucher this has been brutal for twists and
minds TV and he does have a grab that's not exactly gonna help them a 20
seconds considering your options J. Woo better safe than sorry and it seems like
where's from might just allow this overtime to come in they're gonna back
off and play the corner that has been they have been I mean maybe you engage
fast we beat here it's gonna be overclock and don't get high. Whoa, Denike
it's Astro, he stabilizes, Kepster, back, back, it's set, grab, finds two, and the
team cleans up, twisted mines. It looked possible for a moment, but the beat from
Fixa prevents all possibilities and that hold is gonna sting twisted mines. Caught
in the web there for longer than they would have liked. It's a great defense
from VP. I mean, a pretty fast point A take there, four twisted mines, but not good enough
to be able to kind of push to that second checkpoint. I know Virtus.pro did a great
job kind of holding that corner.
I think about that double support all thrown in. I believe IZOM got booped down to the
low ground by a fire conk and they thought maybe we can just punish with the rally, but
and that's so much that at the same time and you still don't get the kill
That's rough. It's the rest right mean it when you don't have the Lucio your ability to catch a tank who wants to run away from you much less a rematch
mmm
Very limited and now twisted minds on defense. They'll commit to this far
Yeah, are you feeling this right now? I mean, hmm. I don't mind it on the defense. I will say it's a lot easier
I think to pilot on defense when you can play around these buildings, but it's not my preferred far map for me. It's
It's not great positions. The buildings are
Not really able to play over the top of them easily don't quite have the gas for it, especially on this first corner
And I feel like Virtus Pro will see this out of the spawn and they will just play exactly what we just saw them play
Right they'll end up playing that rematch or with the Cassidy
They'll Lucio with Kiri and they'll have no problem taking this type of matchup
Devsir is going to see what he's up against, see what he decides to go out with.
Eisenham on the wrecking ball for now, but going to end up over on the diva.
And Psycho loved this to have the tracer not going to be forcing the Symmetra into that far up.
And without a tracer on the other side of the field, he's going to be able to get deep into this backline if he wants to.
Yeah, and maybe you play the diva here instead of the ram because you need some high ground control, right?
You just can't kind of concede it all and have the Zarya up there all alone.
and maybe you want to make a play around this corner as you see Ice-Norm, I mean you have
the brig up there, the Pharah, I mean you see J-Woo just kind of like watching that off angle,
right, knowing that Psycho could potentially come around that is going to be about the high ground.
Oh, that's his forward landing, it'll take his head off, and that's going to be more than enough
opportunity to swing forward. TBNT wants to find a trade on the Kevster, start between a rock and a
hard place, no way out for this Zarya, so he's going to stand and fight, but against the full
Of course, Upward is probably not enough, and meanwhile, Psycho claims a solo kill of his own.
Twisted mines! They should be a much better hold on first than what we just saw.
Yes, I mean, dude, they're trying to like, fully commit to get rid of Kev, but it's such a great job from VB with like, the fence matrix, and then,
they suzu and just the brah, HPS, being able to keep him alive, as
TBNT will be able to step up, can test here.
Almost a must win fight, you think about it, for Twisted Minds, the way this is gone.
Simple, still fighting Quartz, takes down Landon, and that's huge!
Without the heal throughput, Virtus Pro have to beat a hasty retreat, no chance to stick around in that fight.
Quartz buys a new lease on life, and this is a defense that can get a little bit scary for Virtus Pro, rather, on these walk-ups.
walk-ups, a lot of space to work with, and J.Woo is going to contest every inch of it.
And I like the swap here from J.Woo over to the tracer. I think the baller up, I know,
especially with the way that Kev is hitting right now, not exactly the pick, is it's going
to be a dead eye here, they're going to try and just muscle their way through this first
point.
Rush now comes out, cycling with the pulse on the course, takes down the tip of the spear,
the grab is good, but where's the follow-up, where's the damage, the 4-man rally dash,
Will it be enough fixa doesn't find the opportunity to drop the beat simple though does go down in the chaos
But what just slivers of a fee surely this is J. Who's fighting moves?
Nice. I'm still fighting forces out the orbital ray. It's nice
That's not enough to take first point
Man, I thought there was an opportunity to maybe beat there. I do wonder
I think it's yeah
I mean, maybe they think that there's they're just gonna kind of get whites and they're gonna save it
But I mean, yeah, it's so risky. I mean, you do have a decent amount of time to come back and be here right now with the Ramatra
Maybe just kind of run them over
But if you don't you don't win that I mean you're looking at like you could have had an opportunity with you know
Off a player to you to kind of use that be be the overclock now to be the summer there somewhere doesn't get that way Kev
Yeah, it's just defending people be quartz still has another shot to deliver beautiful wrap from VP though
they take the defender's position, twisted mines. In an awkward spot, they're not the
part of the map that you want to be on, especially with eyes on forcing the issue on cart. TVNT
though getting energized throughout the chaos, slowly building ahead of steam, they will
find Slandin, and that could be it. Twisted mines, now with the player advantage and two,
surely it's too much, Virtus Pro has to find a quick reset.
Ah, it feels like VP may have fumbled this map, Jake, which is brutal. TM, just watching
Up here.
I like the angle they took, they wrapped all the way around.
There's still a chance, Matt.
You know, ult for TM.
If you can get a decent touch here, and get into an overtime fight,
it tends to do you have ult advantage, but it's so much easier said than done.
Dead eye.
Gonna push them back a little bit, it's gonna allow them to touch.
Oh, Zarya caught, but they can't force her off the payload.
Psycho now does get that OT touch.
Aiznum is here in position.
Fixed it over the top, getting burned down.
Jeybou desperate for the kill, they'll find it!
Post-bomb though does hit on a TVNT, but a stick is good, not even needed, because Icedem has already fallen.
And a fumble, it must be, twisted mines. Hold the door on first point.
And defend their map pick, going up to one in the series.
And with how good VP looked on defense, none of it matters.
I mean they had plenty opportunities to feels like on offense just not able to get it done some tremendous plays from TM
Constantly able to come up clutch
I know J. Woo makes swap over from fara to tracer and really starts to open things up in a huge way for twisted minds
But of your VP you'll be kicking yourself watching that one back. I mean that is tough
got a hand at the courts in J-woo they came up clutch in fight after fight we
got down to those scrappy overtime fights at the final meterage of first
point and consistently it was the DPS from twisted minds to find those opening
kills and in that kind of a fight balanced on the edge of a knife an
opening pick from a DPS is usually more than enough to get the job done right I
mean it dude it feels like such great opportunities we take a look at some of
the highlights there.
The nice suit you've been in the beat, this is not enough, though, to get that whole 4VP.
I love it if we'd have, you know, potentially, you know, in the highlights, right, that one
fight that we were talking about, that grab was sick.
They actually, the TPs all play, right?
The fight where Fixa, we were like, ah, is he going to beat, like, the grab was there?
Because I think maybe they thought that people were going to end up dying in the grab, and
they actually had everybody kind of alive after.
Yeah, I was like, you almost couldn't believe it.
They had like four players in the grab.
They got four man rally bashed.
And I agree there was that like one second
where maybe the B comes off,
but I mean the risk of an Ajax is so high there.
I mean that's why we do see Ajaxes at this level of play
because sometimes there are moments where,
you know, with hindsight,
you might say you should have risked it,
but can't blame Fixer for that one in my eyes.
And I think they also, they got a decent use of it.
It's not like they didn't get it off.
It's just they didn't connect with Kev.
That's the one thing.
Yeah, it essentially did its job and mitigated the overclock.
This is it right here, I think.
Look at this.
Like, how do they live?
They're still alive.
There's so many players shooting them.
I will say, I don't know.
Is it because I just didn't get off?
Is it because I had got self-destructing at the neck?
Maybe?
I don't know.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, I think the Ajax is there.
I really don't think you can pop B.
We haven't had on this tournament, though.
It would have been nice to get one.
What are those spots where even if you don't AJAX, it just seems like you're gonna lose
a teammate before the game comes down and it's gonna be thrown away.
Aw, it's just looking at it after, right?
You're kinda like, uh, yeah, maybe we take a look at TBNT is, I know his ability to play
Xarius really been a huge difference maker in this series specifically, right?
Giving them some trouble on that hero.
Definitely an asset, always strong in the front line, enabling that Brig to come out
simple after has to do some pretty monster healing in that map I mean you
know the supports from twisted minds always they'll play really phenomenally
especially here on land they just kind of do so many different things with that
backline of simple and funny asher and I like I think you can see when we see on
the TM side of the stage it's been a long day for these teams runes copy is the
map pick here for Virtus. Pro typically in Overwatch you don't get a lot of
three match days, right? No, I mean, this is a long day for them. Absolutely.
Against a familiar opponent in a match that may very well go down to the wire, but what confidence
to take us to runasappi against, I mean, Twisted Minds has picked this map quite often in this
tournament, Matt. I mean, this is a, you're going right into the Hornets nest with this one. Well,
Well, I mean, where would you have wanted them to go?
Like, let's say, you know, maybe both of these teams
through scrims and whatnot know that they kind of have
the same hybrid preference, right?
Maybe they both would have, like I said, okay,
we're both going to go to King's Row or something like that.
So let's take our, you know, pick of the pushes is,
I imagine what's going on in the talent room is a lot
like what we see from TV and TV screen right now.
So he is, he is relaxing.
Honestly though, you know, I like to see this from a player.
He's bad and I love it.
And we can make fun of this, but this is like legitimately in a day this long you need to conserve your energy
Yeah, so much is asked of him like today and he's been rock solid like find me the mistake dude from TV and tea in the day
Like find me a big misplay that he's done. I really don't we've seen it we rarely kind of like
You know, but he has developed into a tank that is like I
Mean, it's obvious like he is that like the kind of like the you know top of the world kind of Calmer
especially unlike the Divas, Arya, but maybe it's like putting that conversation as often
because of how strong the team around them is, but it's very rare to, maybe like, at
when the internationals, there's like maybe like one or two games you look at, like where
you know, TV and TV, like, ah, you had a little bit of an off-game, whatnot, but okay, so
it will be Juno-Ban here from VP, and TM gets rid of the Divas, I was like, ah, are we going
to see a Diva-Ban, potentially, in this series, then they get rid of it.
Interesting choice considering their preference for the Zarya in the first place.
I mean, I don't think it's unplayable to take the D.Va into that matchup.
But maybe they feel pretty good about his Zarya into their ram.
They're not really worried about that type of setup.
Actually, now that I think about it, it even makes total sense.
When you ban the Juno, you almost implicitly ban the Brig.
That's really the comp that gets played is the Juno plus Brig.
Without the Brig on the field, D.Va is really free to, you know, get deep on the back line,
get on top of a player like Quartz in particular.
right who is somebody you want to enable and so okay you say well you take away
our our big Juno backline we're not gonna let you get frisky on courts you
know you're gonna have to fight your way through with some good old-fashioned
hitscan dueling which is a place for twisted minds it's an old standby for
them if it's you got to play like courts on your roster you want the game to be a
straightforward able to all I mean you just win that more often than not yeah
Yeah, Twisted Minds, one map away here from joining Xenia Division and Crazy Raccoon in our final day of play.
I am, you know, Twisted Minds, look, they hear a lot of the chatter, right?
Like, I know you can kind of look on line where it's like, oh yeah, finally now that we're not on like some of the same bed as, you know, Twisted Minds.
We can get back to like, you know, normal, you know, schedule programming, right?
I know whether it be Falcons crazy raccoon is a division of final
I think they want to like kind of buff that trend
I think they're probably pissed about how they've looked against crazy raccoon because they look quite poor
And they want to get this one. They want to run this one all the way back
And to buy yourself a new lease on life as you said that to survive today three
Would be a much needed respite but not something the players can afford to consider yet. You got to earn your way there
Two more maps still to potentially be played in this series and Virtus.pro for their tournament life.
It's Runisapi.
Like you mentioned, this is a map that we've seen twisted minds select and have pretty good showings.
Here at Champions Clash.
VP, I think they'll play this for a mantra that seems to be what they go to right after
the D.Va is gone.
Twisted mines?
Wait, hazard?
It's real.
Wow.
No, there's, uh, so, uh, who was, I was reading one of the interviews, one of the players
they were, like, talking about how, you know, hazard was, like, pretty close to kind of
being in the middle.
Maybe one of the interviews in the EMEA, and we did, and underrated, and then also hazard
gets some adjustments, right?
So potentially something hazard with the far quite interesting in
Curious what Kev can do in this one a lot is asked of TBNT on the hazard
Can he get aggressive? Can he shut down that Cassidy or at least keep him under pressure so Quartz and J.Boo have room to work
What's your thoughts on the hazard into the rematra though?
He finds the kill onto the Lucio hazard typically tanked it more or less avoids the straight up tank battle
Yeah, mitigating maybe some of the advantages that Ramatra has in the front line.
I mean, you just see the survivability as well of the hazard, right?
Being really going to go in, the takeout kept there towards the end.
Oh, while locking is...
I don't think VP expected this at all.
No.
I mean, I wouldn't...
If we've seen TD&D play hazard, I wouldn't say it's like one of his, like, kind of go-tos, right?
It's a lot of, like, you know, Ramatra, Maga, Diva, Zarya, but coming out here playing the hazard
is definitely thrown off VP maybe a little bit.
See if they can find the answers.
They'd be curious about even something like
the Sigma, the Zarya here.
The IZone's gonna stick with the Rematra for now.
One fight won't be enough to shake his confidence
and that's fair considering the results
so far in this tournament.
Symbol's gonna get this rush so fast.
Oh, that's, you gotta find a way to bridge that gap.
But I don't think Twisted Minds
are gonna give you that opportunity.
Kevser needs to come up huge in this fight, a big swing now from TBNT, the rush comes in to follow it up.
A full retreat from VirtusPro, getting yielded a lot of cart time, trying to find their own rush,
with the damage just overwhelming, landed a defensive rush of his own.
But TBNT still holds his ground, J.Ru finds Kevser in the KO, passing down for a huge connection.
Hi, Suzu.
Despite the rush, it's gonna be overwhelming.
Aw, this has been brutal, man. VP. That is checkpoint. And then some here.
Four twisted mines. As they are looking to close this one out, Jake.
I mean, you're going to have Kepster's dead eye. It's going to like back them up a little bit.
If I force with this OC, here's going to be the dead eye.
Oh, great job.
Really difficult to find to follow up. The rail shot is good, but Aiznab does find one.
Hortz though, another with the OC, looking for more with the help of TVNT disrupting the backline.
He's locked in, he's dialled. The very same map, the distinct, won the World Championship on.
Surely another full cap would be too much to ask for, but maybe for the fans. They've got to believe.
Hortz is like, hey, let's get out of here. I mean, just overclocked there.
Coming up with a few, you may see Jay would be able to find an angle here on the flank with Sparrage.
It's a Fixa and... watch these sound barriers as well. Fixa and Planiastro both with beat.
Ice Nome here. A rare hazard-be-hazard matchup. It's gonna be the early beat here from Twisted Minds.
He's down. He's overwhelmed. He does die for that.
What do you do with this beat now, if you're VP?
I mean, they've got it to his hold. They can't afford to lose players.
Kepster no con. TNT takes down Fixa. Denies the beat.
Now, Kepster in the side just to cart. Continues to roll inexorably towards a finish
in the tournament life of Virtus.Pro slipping through their fingers like so many grains of
sand, twisted minds, undeniable.
Simple with the rush here.
You're going to have to get a use of this sound barrier from Fixa.
Twisted minds, doesn't want to pull through the choke just yet, playing this quite passively.
Now I'm going to end up...
Ah!
Quartz!
They shoot back to the spawn, ice up.
They give in no quarter.
Hazard though doesn't make it back.
Psycho to hold the point for now.
Chester might bump in no one to touch.
Twisting grinds again and again.
Staying alive in this tournament.
Earning of reprieve in Tokyo.
Man, it feels like after watching that map,
Maybe after Rialto, and the way that went for VP, you kind of ran out of steam, a little
bit of confidence, twisted minds, although VP made it interesting, right?
Still kind of holds serve as the kings of EMEA, and now I'm really interested.
TM is like, hey, let's run this back tomorrow.
I mean, the CR versus Zeta is going to be a tremendous match, but I also think like,
And you know, TM, I think they're still alive in this one, right?
Like I know with the way they looked against CR, I think you probably have to like, you
know, CR is playing extremely well right now.
Like you're asking me to pick right now.
I probably say CR beats data, but the man twisted minds like they get that type of style.
I almost think they need to like throw out what everybody else is playing and just kind
of, if you're going to go out, go out playing the type of style that they're used to, yeah,
Go out with your own look.
The fearless confidence in themselves has been this team's calling card.
It's absolutely here to stay.
Von Rudisappi.
I mean, this is the...
You know, this is...
Virtus.
Pro has new Junk City.
DM has Rudisappi.
I feel like they full cap this map more often than they don't.
That's great.
Historically in push, we do not see full caps that often.
What?
5, 10% of the time?
For DM it's like 50.
Yeah.
It is pretty rare to see that but Twisted Minds they secure their spot even at the top three. Let's go to the stage and hear from Twisted Minds
You guys had a very long day, so I'm gonna try to keep this short and simple
I want to ask you about your tracer play
I personally believe you are probably one of the best tracers in the champions class right now
So I want to hear from you. Would you say you're the best tracer right now in OWS?
Personally, I think Tracer is really good. Do you think this champion is the best Tracer in the world?
I'd like to ask you about Tracer. He's always been such a good Tracer.
Can you tell us about him being the best Tracer?
I'm good at some things, but my teammates are good at some things, so if I play well, I can show them that I'm good at some things.
I do want to say that I am pretty good, but it's not only me, it's also because I have great teammates that support me to look good on Tracer as well.
And if I continue this play with my teammates, I am sure that we could get more wins moving forward.
Talking about moving forward, you do have a really big match tomorrow. You're going to be facing either
Tracer or Zeta. How are you feeling about that match?
I don't know which team is better, but I think it would be great if both teams are good at the match.
I think it's definitely doable. I can't really say who we're going to face off tomorrow because both of them are very scary opponents, but if we prepare well for tomorrow, I think we do have a strong chance of winning.
That's it for this interview. Thank you so much, Yel.
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much.
I will return this to you all.
Take it away, casters! Thank you so much!
This has been so long.
So we're close to the end of the game.
I hope we can finish the game soon.
We'll see what happens next.
We will be playing against 2 players.
I hope we can finish the game with a 2-0 match.
I'm sure that the players will be able to win the match.
I hope we can finish the match with a 2-0 match.
I'm sure we can.
Welcome back one more time one last time I am joined by Abro by Ash and the ever so
brilliant, funny Astro. My guy, you had the longest day in the history of days. Are you
tired? Are you amped off from like adrenaline? What's happening in your body right now?
A lot of caffeine.
Awesome.
Tons and tons of caffeine. A lot of adrenaline. It's been a really long day, but yeah, I'm
just relieved that we've managed to make it this far.
Yeah, I can imagine. It's been a grueling day, that is for certain. You guys started off
with a really hard matchup as well up against Crazy Racking. And I think that I'm kind of
curious to see what the vibes were like for the team as the day kind of carried on.
Do you guys have any kind of like dip in energy? And if you did,
what did you guys do to bring things back up here for this last match?
I think the loss to Crazy Raccoons wasn't that bad because it was over so quickly that it was like
almost not enough time to be sad about. We got rolled so hard that it was just like,
we clearly weren't playing the game. We weren't ready for anything they were doing.
So just focus on the next game. We knew Webber was going to be easy for us.
I think they were a little bit more of a challenge than we expected.
But then yeah after that we were super confident. We're really really confident that we're going to be be
Yeah, you're both in class two matches didn't feel like too much difficulty
I mean there were some close moments so between both the webo game and the class VP game obviously
You guys have to work through some stuff
So like what did you guys sort of learn after losing to crazy freedom to come into these two last games?
Well, I think we just needed to stop playing Overwatch really
The first match we really weren't playing the game and the close moments in webo and BPR
I'll put them down to us just playing bad.
I think we had moments where we played really poorly today.
Hopefully we're going to get some good rest and come back tomorrow stronger.
I'm kind of curious about your take on how the meta's been developing throughout Champions
Flash.
We've seen the Mizuki gameplay.
What are your thoughts on it?
I like Mizuki.
I think he's a pretty cool character.
I'm glad that he's getting some play time.
I think he's really fun.
No, but it's viable.
You saw the crazy raccoons game.
We both know that's viable.
That's what we're wondering, right? Like is this just like the state on the place of recruitment having fun with it?
Are they like leading us on? Is this a bait or is it like for a real composition that can be played?
I think it's like it's a secret Korean matter that they've been hiding from us in scrims. We didn't know about this one
What was your prep looking like? Which teams did you scrim in order to get like the best possible chances in order to like catch up to the meta?
There has been developing over in Korea. We've been scrimming pretty much everyone apart from American teams
We scrimmed them a couple of times, but we didn't care too much about practicing against them against the Korean teams
I really think they've hidden a lot of strats from us in the scrims, which maybe took us by surprise today
But now we know what they're gonna do. We're gonna be better prepared coming in next time
One last thing sorry
I had a question just to piggyback off the meta question because you guys started playing Greg Juno
Told me a little about that kind of baited VP maybe look it's they stuck in the looser character
But you guys think you know we don't need the looser character at the moment
that's a secret that's all super valid I have one last question for you I think
that it's for you guys for twisted minds it you guys don't really have to play
like it within the lower bracket make that kind of run how are you feeling
about being with you know having elimination on the line every single
match now we love playing in high stakes environments we love reverse sweeping we
love anything where we need to try really hard when the freshers on we know
that we're all going to play well and we're going to be there. So you talked about that
and sometimes we just then played a few by Spice, you know, if you want to go extra hard right after.
Funny answer, we're going to lay your rest up. Sorry for holding you hostage here on the desk.
We wanted to pick your brain. Once again, congratulations to you and the squad. It's been
absolutely fantastic seeing all of them in action. Also, thanks to everyone watching. It's been an
absolute pleasure. Let's quickly take a look at our brackets so we know exactly what is coming,
our way tomorrow on our third and final day of competition here at the champions clash in Tokyo
Japan that's right we have our upper bracket the fully korean beat down the beat down the fully
korean uh i'm lacking words here uh the fully korean give me a word brawl brawl let's run with
brawl dirty i don't know how dirty it's gonna be i mean look these two teams are very familiar
with each other, play each other so often. I wonder if any of them was able to like hold
something back, have something extra in their strap book.
I think Crazy Koon haven't struggled enough so far this tournament. So I wonder, you know,
first of all, just look at the bracket. They haven't even lost a map yet. They are the
ones to me that there's somebody hiding something. Crazy Koon are still the ones potentially
hiding something.
Yeah, especially when we've looked at that Zeta matchup up against VP not too long ago.
We saw VP really pushing them the limit.
I think that it's going to be quite the brawl in tomorrow's upper final, but I got to agree
with Avril on this when it feels like Crazy Raccoon really haven't struggled thus far,
and I'm interested to see if they're going to get their revenge.
Well, okay, now that Fanny Ostergo kicked off of the deck, how do you feel they will
be fairing the lower bracket against either of those two teams?
I think that when he was talking about how he wasn't really ready for what Crazy Raccoons
were bringing to the table today. But now they have that experience in the server. They got a
feel of what crazy Rockins want to be pulling out. And I think that this rematch, that, well,
that's if they end up playing crazy Rockins. We don't know who they're facing off against quite
yet. But I do think there is that potential for Twisted Minds. They're an experienced team to
be able to make these adjustments heading into tomorrow. I think either way, you know, if they
want to be a champion, they're going to have to go through. Because crazy green lose tomorrow,
low breakers straight away, otherwise crazy green grand finals, team want to go there. So
They're gonna have to get past that hurdle and currently I do look at this twist of my squad thinking okay
They are hiding something as well cuz I know our good friend funny
I should didn't quite on you first one I talked about you want to ask about the bridge you know stuff
But to me if I was to sort of break that one down a little bit
Lucia did get nerfed bring Juno might actually end up being the secret answer can might be twisted minds
They are the ones having that little extra to push through the other teams are not looking at yeah
I mean there is like up to nothing Jake talked a little bit about the break in the big stair as well, right like that
break obviously not being good against fire so obviously in a meta where we do see the bashing
cat like swirling around in the skies might be a bit tricky to pull it off they pulled it off today
it looked good will we see more of it oh we'll find out tomorrow so yeah we have some great
bangers coming our way tomorrow as well as not one but two show matches nani ash i'm so excited
to see what tomorrow is gonna bring a bit of a surprise on deck there for the grand final
Sunday. That's right. Kevin, last thoughts here. What were your big takeaways from day one and two?
Yeah, I mean, I think at the moment, the biggest takeaway has to be the fact that
there are two Korean teams, two Asia teams, crazy Koon Zeta. We expect them to do well
this tournament, and they are by far looking like the best teams. EME still in the mix,
fighting in North America and China. Maybe this is just not their manner. And obviously,
the double EMEA game to finish things out with, you're only going to get one to push on through,
and it's going to be the defending champion of Twisted Minds. So, top three, this is an exciting
final three teams, gotta say. There it is. Ash, what have we learned to share with class?
Oh, well, I don't know. For me, you guys know I've been trying to build like this entire weekend.
We've learned that China is starting to slowly close that gap. I think the improvements have
been really nice to see. Twisted Minds, they end up getting that top three finish that we were
kind of expecting for them at minimum going into this weekend. I think overall though, again,
It's the big question of are they going to be able to make those adaptations that are necessary?
Those meta questions that Avril was asking there as well.
Yeah man, there's just so much good Overwatch to have to keep track of, right?
So many different regions, different meta, different players.
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