you
I know that you're feeling it Got me winning
I'm lucky when you're by my side When I stay in I'm not dying
You made me to be touched You made me to be touched
You feel like
I'm the drug that lives Between the two, you play
You make me to be fine I'm the drug that stands on
I'm the drug that lives Between the two, you die
And we're talking, we're talking, we're talking, we're talking, we're talking
I've been wandering these places, trying to find where I know I belong
And I've seen too many faces
Oh, I know it once you're all alone
It's an impossible thing that I'm feeling
The pressure is building inside from my face
Tell me it's real and you swear that you mean it
Yeah, you mean it
So don't try to deny, don't you try to deny
You can't even hear a word
No, no, no, when I'm with you, I'm silent
When I'm with you, I'm silent
I just want you hit it, so no, no, no, yeah, yeah
Got me feeling, got me winning
I'm lucky, baby, no problem, I'm silent
Yeah, baby, when I say it, I'm not dying
Every time we touch, every time we touch, it feels right
And if it's always us, and if it's always us, then we're stuck inside the ground.
I
Touching skin to skin
Off to love
Baby, like me, yeah
Just the two of us
you
That's pretty good.
That's true.
They only reserve that in the UFC for a chance.
That's right.
And some of our teams, they might get that as well.
For now, he's our guest of honor here as Ash and I have been holding down the fort on this disc.
Let's talk about day one. I don't think it had a lot of surprises in it per se.
Like a lot of it just kind of played out as we expected.
But I do feel like we learned a lot about the teams.
We really did. I think that it was such a grueling first day to have those first two.
We learned a lot, but also some teams kept things a little bit
hidden if we got our eyes on the crazy raccoons and Zeta in that kind of 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. I thought VP was really interesting yesterday.
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 EMEA in Asia, right?
The two regions now that are really ascended amongst our global regions. And NA in China,
These international now just battle to see who doesn't go home first
Because EMEA and you know Korea just so strong
Yeah
I mean a 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 it was the games were such high stakes first to two in that first round in the upper bracket
Then 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 in some extra days and you know just enjoy the
the surroundings and take it all in. We certainly have to do that. Matt, what's your favorite
thing so far?
Oh, I mean, me and Danny had hit at the crane place a few times now. I followed him around.
No, no, no. We were like, hey, we got to keep these suga cards to get to the venue in the
morning. So I've 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 best 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 our RNA and both of our Chinese teams falling to the lower bracket.
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 SSG out
once again. I think that this is a claw that we're looking at to be, you know, a bit more of a dark
course 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 draw. Webo just kind of doing the Webo
gaming special here, you know, they lose when around one, they, you know, they somehow find
themselves at the end. They looked really good in that second match. The thing that I was like
pleasantly surprised, 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 that opportunity
take those adjustments map for map as much because the series aren't going to be as
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 I was
looking yesterday penguins were spotted we love you you had some nasty words that
penguin that penguin looked filthy if someone watched the broadcast and so
There's something going on with one of those penguins.
There's probably a lore reason why he's dirty.
There's got to be some lore.
Maybe the other penguins are really bullying him.
We don't have to make him feel bad.
The facility put him 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.
He's been banned out the most yesterday, which honestly was a bit of a surprise, especially
because one of that Symmetra bans came from Twisted Minds themselves.
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 series, right?
They may be a little bit of a throwaway band there from Tristan Mines in that series up against all gamers,
but overall I think that the bands are going to look different heading into today.
Yeah, and some of these bands could be used to protect some of those cat fashion, different type of looks, right?
I think today with the longer series it's going to 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 where yesterday some teams might just have been able to squeeze in based on
Hero band bands and map selection. So today
You know they have to show what they got they should have to open more pages in their playbook or rather than
Flip more pages
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 a PSA drops
Because they two drops are different from day one at drops now. We got a footsie son at day time
Is that date? I guess that's daytime or is like sunset have you actually connected your thing because you've read this
about that and you're like, oh, I'm gonna do it, I got you by the eye.
Look, look, look.
You actually are.
She's locked in.
I'm locked in and I'm locked in.
We're forming in real time.
That's right.
She doesn't lie on broadcasts, Matt, like some people, okay?
Well, she did up until like two days ago, but...
True.
That's actually correct.
No, but yeah, definitely make sure to connect your botnet account to your 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 zone's messing with your ability to catch all the action, don't worry, we
that she 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 can be set up division going
up against VP and of course we have Dallas and Wabel gaming in the lower
bracket what a way to open up like twisted minds versus crazy racoon 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 of the game, right? I mean, these are the games we usually see
much later in the tournament, but with the way the kind of brackets swung and with seedings
with these teams, that's a game we're going to 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
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...
DWC last year's...
Yeah, exactly. And then in the bootcamp, for one, if you want to count the bootcamp, there's like a serious competition. You can, you cannot, that's okay.
But you know, just historically, they did have the upper hand, yes, in a different meta, but like they showed us yesterday already, Ash, that they can pivot away from the cat's fashion.
They can pivot away from the Kat bashing, but it was up with a different caliber of an opponent when it came down to all gamers now facing up against the pioneers of Kat bashing a little bit of a different story that we already talked about how these hero bands are going to 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 bands towards some of that like half-bastian type of stuff right there
The higher seeded team so they'll get the number one kind of like max selection for control and be able to kind of control bands there
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 to be able to play like a tracer in something that doesn't exactly
Maybe kind of favorite tracer at the moment, but he can just dominate exactly now their opponents of course crazy raccoon
They are the originators of the composition that we see quite a lot of right now the cats the bastion
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, Mizuki spotted for them as well as said
I still don't know if that's is that a bait other baiting us
I feel like it's a little bit
of the bay. I think that it
would be funny if we saw it
again. I don't think it would
come out in this particular
match. 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 rock. This is
a team where we've also seen
them be able to flex into
different concepts. Aren't the
cat bastion. You also have
players like soccer who's been
so consistent throughout this
season so far. And I think that
that the firepower on this squad is definitely going to be bringing it to TM.
Yeah, but there's something with like how Zoe 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.
It's really international.
It's like, TM, they probably, even though they know the meta is not great for them right now,
they're going up against a 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?
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 play different things into crazy raccoon and still have the upper hand so it wasn't gimmicky. It was like straight-up honest
Honorable overwatch that they were playing against him. So if we're looking at predictions for this one, I gotta be real like I
personally
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 ban them out with hero bans because the individuals in the
background in the front line, they can just kind of play it all still, right?
Like quartz, like whether it was on a Freya, on a Cassidy, on a soldier, 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 can pop enough.
I'm available to get one, just say.
I'm a potential wearer of the jersey.
No, but like jokes aside, like I'm really feeling pretty good about their chances,
despite the meta. How about you?
And 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 back line 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 back line we saw them in yesterday's matchup
They were happy to take that aggression to DF especially on that a lorry pick there for Toron 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
Is this curse 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
It's like not that large that like they're just going to kind of like you know roll over and see ours going to like dominate
But 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 gonna pull it out. Yeah
No
And now let us know in chat who you think is gonna have the upper hand regardless of who is winning in this one
The loser will just drop into the lower bracket and get another run for the
Type the loser has to play for their tournament lives a little bit later. That's right
Yeah, the losers just almost going home
Our line 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 second stop.
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.
So you don't want to miss it, don't go anywhere, we should be right back.
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
Best 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 qualify through conference cups, and also all three past championship winners are in the tournament.
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.
So what's next, Fernando?
Our main tournament is officially kicking off with the online qualifiers.
fires so let's have a look.
The
online qualifiers are here. You'll see Asia holding their qualifiers May 29th to 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 eSports and follow your favorite teams on their social
And to make it even easier to show your conference pride we have some awesome skins to show
Get ready to show that pride and you know these skins are going to come available this Tuesday
May 26th at 11 a.m. pacific.
Is there anything else you want to cover?
We actually have one more announcement to make.
After our live qualifiers, our team will be
We actually have one more announcement to make.
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 to play in the group stage
before heading to Anaheim in September and compete in the finals at BlizzCon.
Lastly, for the first time in a while, our top 16 teams are going to have jerseys. We'll be revealing these jerseys at a later date, and you'll be able to get them once they go live on our website.
So that's it for today. We don't have any other announcements, but we're very excited to see everyone at the Overwatch World Cup from online to Busan to Anaheim.
Thank you, Kevin. Thank you, everyone.
Today's main event is about to begin!
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Let's get excited and go.
Now, let's welcome both teams who will play the first match today.
First, this team, Cheese Dead Minds!
The final battle is going to be a crazy knockout!
Welcome to Tokyo. Twisted Minds taking on Crazy Raccoon and what is shaping up to be
potentially, well we hope I guess, one of the most competitive cross regional matches
we've yet to see here in the Champions Clash.
This tournament is scaling up quickly Jake. Day 2 already and we're about to witness
fully 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. Twisted Minds, I'm praying Jake, I'm praying
that this is a good one because as much as 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 fare against these Korean teams in a new meta.
Everything shaping up for Crazy Raccoon and Zeta, you know, really hometown turf for these
two organizations, two Japanese organizations, to just run away with the tournament. Twisted
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 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 said yesterday that I think this is a bit of a
main support tournament because I think that these Jetpack Cal players, they have unparalleled
amounts of impact in positioning their bashing correctly and making sure that your hitscan
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 and
He doesn't really move around the smarts anymore
It's up to the death back cat to put quartz in a position to succeed
It's interesting because you look at both funding 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 loose here or the hard hits can and this is a meta that asks the two of those players to
Both make sacrifices to come together to form
You know a single unit really an entire cohesive team
Meanwhile the rest of the match is often incredibly chaotic and so I think in a land 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 coordination comps
where CrazyRakun look very comfortable in these kind of chaotic dive matches.
Yeah, and CrazyRakun as well. I think that they are kind of defining this meta really well
when we look at Settledivision, which is the number one suit in Asia.
They have a bit more flair to them, Violet Shoe.
They can wake up and say, we want to play the Elari, we want to play the Batiste, we'll shake things up a little bit.
I think Cracer or Coon so far, because they've had to pick up players like Vigilante to fill the shoes of Shu,
and Stalker getting more playtime over Lip, they've kind of played more default.
They've played the meta without as much flair.
As we take a look here at the bounce, Jake.
Pretty surprising, Johnny, to see a Winston ban.
I mean, Winston's just not a hero that I think has looked good at all in this meta.
I mean, with Amalga and Bastion being played Reaper as well,
Well, you know a lot of conventional wins and 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 bans
Remember now that we're in that first to three 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 minds are doing with this opening band
Yeah, and it looks like they've banned second as well as EMEA number one seed here
Chris I'm going to ban out the Cassidy and so both of these bands kind of tell me that maybe twisted minds
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 jetpack cat and try to maneuver again around the the outside angles of this Ilios 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 Ilios
bit of a surprising choice for TM in the world that this is Crazy Raccoon's comfort zone.
Historically these Korean teams have looked like Ilios is their best map by far.
They might be a little bit surprised as well, frankly, on the rollout, but TM,
queuing 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 Minds were able to match Crazy Raccoon,
But they are the reigning world champions. This is an early opportunity, Jake, for Twisted Minds to get a grasp on
how they fare against a team like Christian Raccoon. Is this a composition we can rely on in a deeper as this tournament progresses?
Or is this maybe a composition that will have to abandon for our best chance of winning this very tournament?
Jon Bin's going to play his iconic signature Wrecking Ball, and this is something they'd like to do in combining He-Sang with Jon Bin.
Try to put pressure on the back line of simple.
Flash informs traded, now Tracer's poking, prodding, looking for any advantage.
None found just yet, Jun been 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.
TVNT don't find Vigilante, left alone on the onto one of the difficult parts about this comp,
protecting the onto often. She goes without resources, but it will cost TVNT his suit.
Dan J was peeling for his team right now, so now his team and T 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, T.V. and T. Low on the baby D.Va, does go down to he's sang, but Junden loses almost all of his HP in the process and courts.
Finds stalker crucially, winning the duel in the sky.
Now, Cat Bastion for Twisted Minds, able to rain down terror from above, he's sang desperate now, looking for something, anything to bring his team back in for him.
It should have been reminded first.
Now Kunlun is available for J.Boo as Kraserakun.
Look at the fight back in this one.
Simple under a lot of pressure.
And this looks like Kraserakun going to win this verify.
Quartz still alive in the TBSG.
Oh, the drop!
Oh, Krimpen crawls back up.
Saved by the team, but Quartz still running rampant on the point.
Turret form fourth. They're trying to desperately finish him off.
Funny astral.
Perfect peel to keep the bastard alive into the artillery form as well.
Clearing the minefield, staying alive.
And finally both fashions off but this whole time the point ticks up for Twisted Minds.
And Jiminy points another frag, all too simple here. Vigilante is going to get close to that Nano as well.
Twisted Minds just wielding percentage this very moment, but for the funny Astro Town, the sustain is gone.
And this should be Chris Raccoon flipping the point any moment.
An absolute tour de force for Jungman.
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.
Great Raccoon, no room for mistakes now.
No room for mistakes whatsoever, and stalker already putting a lot of pressure onto Twisted Minds here from these guys, Vigilante?
Past this non-abuse as well, so Kraser or Coon, we're gonna look to find an opportunity here to put pressure onto Twisted Minds.
Twisted Minds are so split right now, you have two people coming back from hitting the point.
Nano comes out, it's on the he-sang unconventional in this matchup, but the Katsunei Russian
simple TBNT's pressure on the point gets the flip through.
Adidas bomb looks like pulled off the map, TBNT popping next to stay alive, Tumbe with
the slam takes down J-Woo, and finds another one to court!
Shouldn't been does it all!
Popping off here on the wrecking ball, customize the word, and finish with 5th the pointer actually,
so 75% and counting, still doing a good job, just playing the objective here for now.
Crazy Raccoon, they end up winning the fight, but only at 30% so far.
Really fantastic play from Tien, getting these flips in the mid-fight, meaning Crazy Raccoon has to work so hard
to move the needle on this objective. Junmin's doing everything he can, but it's not really translated into advantage on the map just yet.
Gotta look out for the dive here. Peace sign. Go sound early!
Oh! Tool in the sky, heals coming up. Simple. Great awareness to keep his Bastion alive now.
Opportunity. Four Quartz to push forward a minefield. Force down on the point. Just to hold on to this contest.
Beautiful positioning there from J-Woo, and a double blank gets into the back now, he's in on top of it to Lanny.
Tracer comes back trying to peel this one out, but this makes a lot of space for Twisted Minds now,
seizing control of the skies.
They're just playing so well positionally here.
Faniaccio is going to go down, there's a lot of sustain out here for Twisted Minds.
See if he can fight the pick here.
Try to keep up in this very fight.
Ball spawns out, force him to the artillery.
Making space, but as you've mentioned, the cap does go their way, Trimdon finds another boob off.
Unstoppable on this wrecking ball. Still twisted mind and control playing with the house cash right now.
Trying to potentially finish this fight but it seems that Jumbin has done a little bit too much.
He needs to clean this one up but has a new core of 99 and he's safe. Hold up!
Wow!
Buddy Astro with one TV and T with another.
Crazy Raccoon Nano on stalker in desperation.
Will it be enough? Jumbin needs to find something else in this fight but they find the flip and the chaos.
3 vs 3 right now. On to the point.
A lot of health here for Crazy Raccoon still.
J-Woo trying to put pressure. Pulse bomb!
Huge pulse from J-Woo, and turn by his low as well. Twisted mines battling back into this simple.
On the road back, on the warpath, looking to drop this Katsune rush and contest the point.
A pull off the map go would be deadly, and it finds KBNT.
Beautiful by Chorong. 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 a Pulse Bomb.
Twisted Minds now out of gas on this first checkpoint,
just a stacker 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%,
Twisted Minds doing a fantastic job playing the objective there,
giving themselves a win condition,
but Crazy Raccoon, they're just too much.
The mechanical prowess securing those picks,
winning a lot of those fights,
Well, Twisted Minds focused on the objective.
This is incredibly well done. I mean, it comes down to these tiny moments.
These deathmatch fights. I really feel like you've got to give that first round to Jun Bin, though.
If there's one individual, it's the wrecking ball constantly staying alive, even in the fights.
I mean, Twisted Minds 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 head over to Ruinz 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 form, that's when a lot of damage comes online.
So it's just about picking your opportunity here, see if the Tracers can open things up. That's just a force not as simple actually.
This could be the time to strike for Crystal O'Koon.
Here it goes, choice with a lot more fighting power alongside the D.Va, and Quartz finds a NAVE connection on the vigilante.
And on to Vigilini, is he gonna go down though?
Punishment attempted by Crazy Raccoon,
but the Cat Fashion Combo is separated
and cut to pieces.
Twisted Mind finding the first two kills on 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,
that's a retreat towards the objective here,
Crazy Raccoon, just trying to get a couple of picks here
and there, Churong does pick out funny Astro.
But Twisted Minds are looking really impressive here, Drake.
And Johnny, on ruins, the honest walk up is a lot more fraught, right?
On Lighthouse, you don't be pretty reliably get up to that high ground and start putting
down damage, finding opportunities for those Biodes, but on ruins, every step is fraught
with danger.
Yeah, I gotta keep an eye on J.W.E.A.L.D. here.
Ask he-san, put some pressure on the quarts.
Turret form is forced out as well, ask the Seussers, so I'll load up pressure on the
Twisted Minds here.
Simple.
On Sliver's HP, beautiful peel from funding Astro, just barely keeps his Kerakor alive,
but not for long.
Stalker finds one, the pulse bomb is out, not needed though as Tundra and Slam takes down Quartz.
Nautrists admins just trying to hold on to this point for everything they can.
J.Will finding that kill on the vigilante and just injects just a little bit of possibility
into this fight, but he's saying, shuts that down.
Yeah, great execution by Chrysler O'Koon. Getting on top of Quartz there,
maybe identifying that the Bastion was a little bit out of place,
and one second is enough for Chrysler O'Koon to capitalize accordingly as they try to set up
Quite aggressively here with the wrecking ball with the tracer Vigilante is coming up on that nono
But it's gonna have to build it quickly as to the mounds root to look to re-engage with five of us holding forward on the high ground
Done been 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
Ultimate forms a nano comes out to open the fight he sang into the back line being a sector in all sides
But TV and see what the matrix minimizing his impact as well
the Katsune rush on point, gives Swisserminds an incredible base of firepower from which to fight.
Junbin's slam comes in, but where's the value from it?
Stalker takes down Bunny-Ass, or Kodron cleans up course, even the artillery armor is not enough,
but a 3 on 3 on point, still winnable for either side.
J.Wool cannot cook in here, 3 vs 3, good post bump, Junbin's going to peel away,
so for the time being, Swisserminds, a lot of pressure on towards the point here.
Recoh forced by Nisa, 25 to pick.
Big post onto Simples, shutting down some of the heals for TM,
And with point in control of UBCR, they're trying to desperately hold onto it,
get that extra percentage of duel in the skies, the cat!
Trady is good for FUNNY ASTRO though, who shuts down Chow-Wong, looking for that desperate trade.
Vigilani, over to the Kiriko himself now, sees the value in the ability to brawl out in these low numbers.
And it can't be understated how much QVNT is doing here on this D.Va.
The peel is perfect for Quartz 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, 4th twist in mines.
That's a big swing that's coming through here for Crazy Raccoon.
It's a big move of a tool in the skies, but it looks like Torch has the better!
Support comes in!
A deep move, a desperate one!
I daresay for Crazy Raccoon!
And with losing a bash in this early TDNT, self-destructing to Renek,
they're in Paul's position to move toward 99.
He sang.
5th up against J-Woo, a lot of pressure off to Fanny Astro as well.
This is the way these compositions are playing.
Very broadly, back and forth, always looking forward for Fanny to get a pick.
Like no recall, he's going to be okay for now.
Huge that he stays alive and 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, and they're forced to.
Now the opportunity for the repush, Junbin is low,
TVNT steps up, holds the corner, but with turrets for him out,
there's an opportunity for Quartz to put the pressure down.
Junbin tries to drop the minefield to slow things down,
but with Katsune rush, it's traded on point.
It's anybody's game, the next kill, could very well decide this.
And Junbin, he fights Quartz first, the fashion's down.
Crusted mines running low, TVNC finds one, but really it'd be enough, they need yet more!
And funny ask, we're just in on the cat!
Shots down He-Sing without DPS, can't see our battle back into this!
Crusted mines got this, Quasaralcun dropping very low at the minute and Jaewoo coming back into this fight.
They should be able to stabilize here, 11% though.
Quasaralcun should be able to regroup here.
Both tracers would oppose from here, Jake.
He-Sing, 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 Mind's turtle healing.
And with Yseng Force to recall, he's already in dire straits.
The Turf form comes out on point, the cleanse saves him for now.
Great support from C-Arbiter Kospichilani, his life.
Now Yseng pulses out, but it's onto TVNT with self-destruct ready.
J-Woo now, looking for those punishers, trying to shut down the enemy,
determined to do what he can in the face of Quartz.
But Quartz remains healthy, standing tall, strong on this point.
The self-destruct provides space and time.
Bunny Astro stays alive, and it seems the Crazy Raccoon
Struggle and fail to find a finish on round two.
First and minus, closing things out here on ruins.
Going to force a third round.
Junbin, doing a good stalling pressure in four now, but surely not.
Just dribs and traps coming back to the point.
Junbin has another touch in him, but Quartz, comfortable in this back-hikern position.
Bastion untouchable. J-Ru does die to Vigilani.
Some possibility, but the numbers are just too low.
They're playing really calm composter, R-twisted Mice, playing objective 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, R-twisted Mice, 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 Mind so far.
I feel that so much is asked of Jun Bin 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 Jun Bin, 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 Jhin be able to find it?
Knock-offs abound here on Ilyos well.
Historically, a chaotic map as 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.
Jhin been trying to get into a good position here.
It's going to knock simple. Forced a teleporter actually.
This could be an opening here but Jhin been forced to withdraw.
Both teams taking their time for now.
A lot of pressure on the extremities.
Esen takes a big shot to the face.
It's going to slow him down, send him back, looking for a health back.
DBNT, forcing the issue on this point.
You've got to stay contesting, lest you give up the flip early.
J-Woo, without Riko, 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.
Three kills in the fight, and soon to be more.
A simple letter from J.Woo, capitalized on. No cooldowns available for the recall or the blink.
And that lone pick is enough for Quasarucun to secure that very first fight.
And now, Jundbin already with mines up here.
Can maybe pick a spot here where he'd like to leave them, make it difficult for Twisted Mines,
to wrap around on this high ground.
So much freedom for Jundbin on this map.
So much ability to come in and hit the backline. Simple though.
already under attack, cleanses out.
Out of answer, Stalker into 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 Jumbin already sent into the back with the mind,
feel 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 Getsun Rush, but they couldn't find any value.
In any minute now,
Quaster of Coon are going to turn the fight momentum here,
and with a pick on the simple,
This is all quits to raccoon in this one the trust in junbin seems to have been
warranted stalker fighting simple take the leg out from under twisted mines and
he single finished 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
it Ilios well crazy raccoon taking it to the spawn doors right now Johnny that's
a massive fight that twisted mines just lost there so much investment quartz
temporarily on the way to make your boat 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 this Katsune rush.
Chris Raccoon can pick their timing here.
When do they want to deploy?
They're gonna need to move fast. Double support ultimate available for Chris Raccoon.
Hold on, big damage into the backline which Stalker finds court.
Vigilante stays alive into the backline with this Katsune rush.
Self-destruct forced out. Just trying to keep players alive.
So wrong, a slight misstep cost him his life.
But still, it's not gonna be enough.
Twisted Minds 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 Minds have nothing going for them in this one.
And Lighthouse, going the way of Chris Raccoon,
but also well here, looking to be theirs.
As they close things out,
J-Boo Quartz dropping a quick succession.
And while it was competitive for a couple of rounds there,
Chris 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 D.Va composition, but that one failed engagement where they couldn't secure any value with the Katsunorosh.
It kind of just allowed 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 wouldn't be pretty happy with it if I'm twisted mind Sarah Jake
But you take this opportunity to maybe for something like a new junk city a circuit we all 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 you know
It's hard to argue with it when 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 we've 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 hitscans role for a while now and gets the opportunity to do so here on this
Chris Raccoon roster, of course, replacing Lit, who is currently the substitute for Chris Raccoon.
It's been an adapting phase for Chris Raccoon 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 Jetpack cat composition,
but maybe we can beat you if we're for some kind of loosey 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 link 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 two out for twisted minds
I felt strategically on Ilios well the wrecking ball looked like drastically stronger
But on the first two maps I I was with you. I believe the diva 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 picked frankly against the Korean teams against a team like crazy racoon
I mean, this is where they're most comfortable to the minds very nearly took it to them in two rounds
Yeah, I think set a division or watching this map and putting a lot of respect on twisted minds names like all right
We weren't familiar with your Ilios game because it's always been the Korean teams go to map the way they've been dominating EMEA in North America
on a map like this, I mean he sang in Jundin. 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 Jundin and he sang on that tracer as well. The fact we're
able to stay alive that initial engagement with the defense matrix and then turn things
around allowing course of 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 Cracer Coon, we're
familiar with this kind of style from them and how good they are playing the
breaking ballcom. 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 it 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 Raccoon are playing
They are 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 it's like what, a 30, 40 second skirmish?
Both teams going back to 4th, creating abilities.
Chorong!
Wait, we don't...
A little bit of a slip up, a little bit of a slip up.
Well, it's kind of 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, exactly.
These are just waste disposal, bring this off the map, no one needs to worry about that anymore.
I'd be so tilted if the jetpack had just said, okay, I'm going to drop the bomb here because
I don't want to die.
And then I'm like, wait, what about me though?
What about me though?
So Chorong, you know, he had to pick and unfortunately couldn't get away in time.
Max subs in, 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.
I don't know what else in the pool is really gonna go that direction other than
So we're gonna crazy racoon like the max jump in true thing I spend me ongoing dating back to the San Francisco shock days
But we've seen both of these tank pairs to 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 and say alive using the cardiac overdrive
Of course, you also have some extra damage output on to the enemy Bastion enemy jet back at if you are playing with
Mauga's longer range guns as we're going to Realtor here for Twisted Minds very interesting
It's a choice that is kind of a jet back at Bastion kind of map. It seems very possible
I mean it also seems like a place where you could opening ban Bastion as Twisted Minds and say alright stalker
You've looked you've looked impressive, you know
You know, you've beaten many a team, many a team on the warpath that it took to qualify here as the number two seed from Asia,
but can you handle the Quartz Widowmaker on a map like Rialto?
Not many players could pass that test in the world.
That's a bit of a piece, Jake. The Quartz Widowmaker, like, we don't get to see that that often, but...
Oh, I mean...
Opportunity alone?
Like, if I were just in minds, 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 this series if you drop this here you go down to oh
It's an it's like a monumental task 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 playing against Dallas fuel yesterday when Dallas fuel tried to play that double flex support composition
And maybe that's a point to be made too, 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 minds, yeah, we can put some respect on Faniasro's name, but I'm probably more scared of a Churrong Vigilante kind of double-fix support lineup than I am of twisted minds.
And so, not only do we get the pick here of Rialto as an Escobar Mojepo, we're also denying possibility of Circuit Rial.
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,
Alari taking it away, mitigates some of the
Honestly, 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, you're really on the Widow, huh?
You think we're gonna see it?
I think it's I would I would I'd say it's 10 to 1. I mean almost certainly this has to be widow here for me
For me at least on first point. Maybe you swap, you know a second
I feel like we haven't seen with a maker in so long that I'm kind of a little bit in denial
I mean we had some big widow maker matters in the past where we just let the hits can play
I mean but hugely like and you got to remember in that this level of play. It's actually really significant on a map like real
to because
Like first point. There's no real way to get to the widow maker other than crossing the sideline
There's that one long hallway to high ground right and you're defending first point, but the Venomite there's so many places
It could be it's incredibly hard as tracer to blink past every doorway waste your CDs
And on top of that you're gonna meet resistance before you get to courts
Like it isn't just the court show right it's the entire team a phalanx around him and so I'm so all in on this
It's gonna look silly if I'm wrong, but that's how I roll Johnny
No, I fully believe in you Jake if you say that we're gonna get some Widowmaker
I'm fully locked in and I'd be so happy to see it
I'm thinking back to like, burrowing, popping off on Rialto, just taking over on maps like this, like you said it's a very iconic Widowmaker map in that sense, you know, the defense, you've 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 feel like we haven't seen it in so long Jake, that I'm a little bit into disbelief.
Yeah, I think 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 surpass many of these committed flex DPS players on the flanker.
So you could come out with a double flanker setup and really try to push the pace, especially
with a lorry ban.
I could see something like that be of interest to Crazy Raccoon.
This is a real test for them.
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
See what kind of compositions Chris Raccoon play here
We've seen some of the Korean teams bring out this missouki look
With that nerve to lose here December being a little bit worse
We've seen more teams being willing to flex over to the missouki
Especially with the changes well to the ultimate it now negates for the titles whether you're shooting in or out
So this has been a hero that's been played around with and I think yesterday even some of the community were thinking like okay
Well, this is not a real it's not a real hero pick. Yeah, I hope this is good. This hero is good
I think it's been good if people underestimate the power of aura healing a we here. It's yeah hugely impactful
It just doesn't give that obvious visual punch
Just in mind's gonna 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 crazy raccoon
Yeah, this is such a difficult composition to break down as well.
I love that. Look at that from Chorong. Steps with the cart and teleports back.
Beautiful little microstall.
J.Woo is going to swap over to the far end, so Polk is the name of the game here.
Polk's Chorong down to the low ground and has to teleport back. He's getting a lot of carts to off this Mizuki.
Love the value there.
Stalker definitely is going to have his work cut out for him here on the cast.
He has to deal with J.Woo's Pharah 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 T.V.N.T.
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 and put me a spot on Pharah.
Astro gets picked here. T.V.N.T.
He's feeling like he's going to be in such trouble trying to play this Zarya.
And he's kind of relying on J.Woo, 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 high ground control,
looking to work for a pick, and relatively uncontested here, which is not the sentence
you want to be saying playing against Quartz.
They will.
They have enough 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
Tubble Quartz.
Great move, but not great enough.
And May into the backline pulls understraction.
FnT finds one on the counter play 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 from the Astro.
Still only 60% on this sound barrier.
This should be Crazy Raccoon with some good ultimate layering winning this fight but they're
letting Twisted Minds push the court quite a bit here.
Max still getting a lot of value on the flank, shuts down Quartz.
Hainun is out, with some pressure down. Big grab with the Musukio, keeps them all alive!
The guy takes where he 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 his funny astro approaches the soundbearer, but the clock is quickly ticking here Jake,
twisted mines, not a lot of opportunities left.
Quartz needs to find something with this override protocol, needs to come over the top,
already taking some damage, Stalker in quick with the plank, wants to kind of beat the punch for these ultimates,
but now override protocol turns, trying to clean up these opposition,
and they do shut down Stalker, but not before he finds his one.
Where's Stalker going? Continue to put pressure on here,
Steve Inti, going to survive for now.
This is maybe when you're looking for a bit of an engagement. Funny as though it's going to be forced to hold on to this sound barrier to prevent Max getting value from the flux.
Still, this car just refuses to move forward.
Max dominates them on the Sigma. Every time they come to Kadeski, he finds his punish.
And even CBNT both debut a desperation barrage for one, but it's too little too late in this fight.
Forge is going to substitute over to the soldier here instead.
One single rail could open things up here, but you're looking at Grace Rokund, they're almost there for another Kitsuna rush
With 30 seconds left here, twisted mines, running out of options and making some desperation swaps, QNT, over to Ramothra here as well
Joe Rong, he's like he's finding so much impact, almost untouchable on this Mizuki
Stalker with a little bit of root, and he takes Gorten off from Rage, the peacekeeper rings out the beat, purely defences from Funny Astro
Stalker back in deep on the flight to rush deployed as well.
They want to break the back of twisted minds of the clock ticking low.
Simple, a rush on him though, keep players alive and in the fight.
J.Woo grabs that overtime contest and sure there's still a fight to be played,
but into the sanctuary is in a difficult place to fight.
So difficult, and as we're going to walk up here, Stalker has the dead eye as well.
J.Woo trying to peek. Oh!
Oh! Funny as well, quick stop again.
He's so dialed but Quartz battling back needs to shut down this opposing hitscan.
The high noon rings out, finds it smart, TVNT is down, Max, pure domination on the cart,
sends porch running for the hills, J-Woo desperately keeps this overtime in contest, but not for long,
and the cart hails at the first corner.
Crazy raccoon came to win here in Tokyo.
So mentally crushing for twisted minds, so competitive on Ilios, and so one-sided here on Rialto,
And the May-Sigma composition with the Mizuki, it's real Jake.
Twist in 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
Kresger Wakun and Settler Division?
We talked about the Quartz Widowmaker much-vaunted, but now the hit-scan duel seems to have decisively
gone in the favor of Stalker in that last round.
Barcourt's found big damage but never able to really break open that hole.
Even when Fraser Raccoon did back off, it was but for a moment and that golden box of
victory is devastated and twisted in mind as they roll out on this defense.
A monumental, almost impossible task lies ahead of them.
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.
almost turns more into a bit of practice here as this Rialto is so very unlikely for Twisted
Minds to win here. I mean it's such a solid composition because there's so much sustain
obviously Sigma has this poke tank, the May wars 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 Twisted Minds forced to look for answers here on how
how to take down this composition.
They go at the far once again.
Lot of value for J-Woo to find in this
without a hitscan on the opposing side,
but a quick teleport under ensures Bayes'
record of a strong position from which to move this payload.
Just in mind, they really only have one flight.
No margin for error, no opportunity
to give up on 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 railgun shot over J-Woo,
getting some critical rockets.
Metra to the foot of the gunk from Hissang, and they're flipping the map.
He's gained!
Jo-ron, beautiful catch onto Astro.
Wuxio is down, and so too, the hopes of twisted minds now dwindling.
Quartz on a sliver of HP grabs the pack, and back into the fight, simple.
Battling for his life has to teleport over to Quartz,
needs to keep these players alive, but the cart rolls forward.
Max does trade out his mech in the process.
Someone has to touch, though.
CVN T will do it for now, but Hissang times his man,
and May steps 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 Minds.
And the two O-Series already on the deck.
Yeah!
Absolutely dominant.
Here on Rialto, Twisted Minds' map pick.
They come out so strong.
And this is what I talk about going into the series, Gig.
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, John Bin, 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 and 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.
They're even 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 it with a hyperflex player like Stalker as well.
Looking so scary, bringing out a composition like this.
And look, run day two out of three 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?
Seems like this Mizuki poke caught them completely off guard. You also got to consider the support line for CrazyBakun, a player like Chorong matched up with Vigilani.
And I mean, Chorong's pedigree as a player, almost unique, right?
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 a team like Twisted Minds.
He delivers here on Rialto.
J-Boo and Quartz have eviscerated many an opponent before this,
but today, feeling lackluster in a fight like that,
won 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 and 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 Krasovakun.
You're almost thinking like, okay, Tristimus, are we gonna invest in some kind of a Symmetra
style here?
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 style that they practiced.
But you should be. You're absolutely justified. I mean,
TM fans around the world are feeling desperate right now. They're feeling the pressure.
Crazy Raccoon, we're all over them in map two. And even things started to turn on round three
of Ilios, right? Like 100-zero 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 pan phase as well. And that's
the best you can do. I mean, questions have to be asked right now for just a minute. They're
lucky that they find this matchup 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 progresses.
This is usually our go-stick.
You know, you kick off 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 hero composition changes do 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 the Mizuki.
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, 4, 2, 7 mines.
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, as 2, 7 mines,
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.
It's not that crazy, not that game-breaking, which of the two you get, I think New Junk CD 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?
The twisted mines are going to ban the Sinetra actually.
Kresgerokun decided 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 Kresgerokun 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 their way.
But yes, I think you can very much expect the main Misuga composition to come out once more for Kratos' Raccoon air.
I feel like now it's DM who have to look at the Cat Bastion as a hopeful option for them, right?
I mean, Ilios was much more competitive. We saw great play. We are praising Twisted Mice for their ability to go toe-to-toe.
Maybe a place you need to double down here.
I mean, this might also be a jetpack Cat Bastion map because there is a lot of aerial verticality on the first point
point and also the second point you can play above the buildings you know that's why we
seen some Pharah being played on this map recently on map 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 Deadware Cat you can try to do something similar try
to like play around the main Masuki composition because they don't have a lot of speed going
their way.
We'll have to see what Twisted Mind decided 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.
Grace Raccoon.
Uh-oh.
They're going to run it back.
I mean, why wouldn't you, right at this moment?
Can't change the world by following all of them.
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 Y here. I love it.
Now they'll see what they're up against. Surely they've discussed this. Surely they've considered it.
It's going to be the TVNT diva that is their reaction. Big conk down though, puts Bastion in an awkward spot.
Immediate response though from Chris Raccoon.
Alright, that's good enough.
Twisted mines, overwhelming, finding two.
Rock goes wide for Max and immediately Twisted mines back on the board.
An explosive attack from Twisted mines securing those picks they couldn't get on Rialto.
And that's going to be a brilliant first point, Cap, for Tuesday minuses.
They get the payload rolling here on King's Drow.
I said much was asked of J.Woo, and he immediately delivers.
Coming out with a resounding cushion blast from the far off, pushes Stalker out of position.
I mean, CR are instant with the reaction to try and play through the fight regardless,
try to help this bastion, but 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 wellgun shots a lot of attention should be paid attention to TV and T on the diva here
It's going to be under pressure from the signal with the accretion browser Chorong with the chains from the missouki
Oh out of suit out of suit already. That's painful because simple's coming up on the Katsune rush TV and T needs to swap and quick
They don't want to let vigilante bridge the gap. They were trying to farm that rush as quickly as possible
But that pick is gonna give a lot of time now for vigilante to
Match up potentially in the rush in the long fight.
Max already bites the rock on the Astro without the speed!
This attack could be neutered!
And Bidgelanny, 10% of the rush but may not even need it!
I mean that's massive. They just back off.
And now, this is just as good as it was though. J. Woodall!
Deals for off!
Over the top, unexpected shuts down Stalker, but it costs TD&T his life, assisting the play.
Max now, looking for the clean up, he's saying Bidgelanny, 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
Again, this is twisted mines. They're making placers, J. Wussup's over to the tracer temporarily here. A lot of ultimates for the vote on Kresh Raccoon
This is a five twisted mines without some of their own. Should look to drain the ultimate economy with Kresh Raccoon here
CR wisely waiting for Stalker. They know where their bread is buttered. Now they step up with the maywall onto point court
Stands tall in a risky position
Fox comes out really find the lift only under the Kirikou, but stalker swings into the room
Cleans up to looking for more in the fight. 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 craze 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.
Quartz with an OC, put a rock on the TVNT, already puts the attackers on their heels.
It's desperate, but asked 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, they swarm forward, cleaning these attackers off of the map.
Another fight where Chris Raccoon just invested 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.
Just in mind, they're going to 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 was bought in a lot of margin in this fight.
Rush is now exchanged, Spocker already finds Astro.
And the TBNT has to drop the suit.
J-Woo, though, finds one kill. Will it be enough leads yet more?
more the Blizzard after me saying provides a powerful base from which to
fight the wall denies the support from court and jaywoo just out of gas in the
back crazy raccoon unstoppable in the brawl I'm not losing my mind right that
was an Ajax I think so that was an Ajax I'm not losing my mind right 8% of
course built up over time but losing that sunbear is just absolutely
devastating it twisted minds no support of us online anymore than Chris
Raccoon continuing to dominate on this defense.
The Remacha could change things, needs to.
A chain denies TVNT his preferred retreat,
stalking with the powers that 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 and mines.
As they look to wrap around,
Forts has the overclock here.
But what hopes do you have to find picks,
I guess, a composition like the May Sigma?
What a world we find ourselves in where the Forts overclock.
No longer something to be here.
Forts, he's dying.
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,
and then finally an opportunity.
Here comes the OC from court,
desperate to find an opportunity
for the team to believe Stalker dies him,
swings deep into the flank, and takes them all.
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 their second point now for what?
Five, six minutes?
Absolutely devastating.
Soccer sees them coming.
No question about the approach that Fortress had mined.
He's saying the blizzard could be devastating.
J-Boo over the main sub.
Will it be enough or no?
Oh, every single time you step up to the plate
you're battered back and he walks forward.
Sights on Fonny Astro.
Look, Herb, one and he swings.
J-Boo is down as well.
And so too, to the hopes of twisted minds
Crumbling down minutes since they've last made meaningful progress on this map
Grace welcome crushing the hopes of EMEA as they look to reclaim their crown this weekend here at the champions class
Tristan Mines going to have one more engage funny Astro. We built a sunbar here now. Jay will coming up on that blizzard
This needs to be the fight blizzard is perfect friends comes out it buys even tea a little bit of time
But he's still frozen once again
Stop follow-up is good, now stalker with a high number of quads in the corner!
Hold on! Something to fight for in the overtime! Desperation strike! And twisted minds come up for air!
That's going to be the payload continued to push here and overtime spawns here for Kraserakun
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 hold held so well
I think they will have time he's back already forced the ice block though
It's gonna be hard to touch max is gonna have to do the honors
I'm way well buys a little bit of space for them to do so looking to find this high noon first zones away the backline
Quartz out of the fight
Max Fluxier could be devastating.
Oh, it's a big lift onto the net.
Oh, the point!
A beautiful force to nine.
And Max shuts 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?
There 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.
It's obvious that you need to recontest the payload as two people go into the sky.
But Twisted Minds, they're paying a little scarder.
Have a lot to think about facing this composition that they're perhaps not used to.
And that forces an error like that.
And 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 gonna 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 Phalanx the Crazy Raccoon are presenting.
I feel like at the World Finals when Twisted Minds did claim that crown, there were putting
Even Chris Raccoon team falters in an uncomfortable spot.
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 so clearly see Twisted Minds here.
They're the ones who are struggling to execute in these teamfights.
They are on the back foot now, trying to adapt when Chris Raccoon are bringing it away.
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. TBNT rocked on his heels. Stalker looking for any opportunity
to punish. TBNT already out of the suit, tanked out from back, bleeds up the opposition and
Twisted Minds on their heels. No one able to stand to contest. The feed fills with orange.
The whole Twisted Minds dashed on the rocks as Jo-Rong looks to finish the much-bonded
DPS2O of these world champions.
I mean Twisted Minds historically never 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 heroes release, but it puts so much pressure onto the D.Va in a situation like that, TVNT,
can't escape with the flight from the mech.
Stalker's Bastion could be devastating here.
Incredibly hard.
One Sigma stun could be more than enough.
Even grabs that aura out of the air.
And with the form, TVNT, 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's now seeming inevitable finish.
And with five minutes on the clock,
This feels impossible as this a fee and effort asked here of Twisted Minds.
I mean, this is an unbreakable object.
There's so much to stay in for the Crazy Raccoon and Twisted Minds.
They're trying to poke and paw, they're trying to set up these angles, but...
They're just not finding the picks required.
J-Woo set up the flank angle here and he's got a post bomb in hand slot.
The Ultimates from Crazy Raccoon, they're looking to close things out here, Jake.
Already the rush now, puts Twisted Minds back.
They're trying to bunker, staying alive, biting their time.
Why is we getting this first Ultimate out?
Now some of the Russians they're on the sanctuary though, allowing Crazy Raccoon to stand tall.
He and T-Drop inside the rush behind him is out from courts.
sanctuary protects though and stalker bleeds house.
Regal off from J-Boo,
very little gas in the tank,
artillery from Bastion,
seals,
deal,
and Crazy Raccoon do it and freeze in Tokyo.
Are you kidding me?
We came into this first match of the day hoping for a banger,
A barn burner that 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 the crazy raccoon after a pretty close elios to keep things off for us.
We escorted the hybrid maps.
EMEA had nothing to show for and crazy raccoon now looked like the clear cut favors in this
tournament alongside the Korean friends in set of the division.
deserve 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 oars here to lift the trophy
in Tokyo. Few opportunities left, right? If twisted minds go down like this, who else could hold a
cannibal to crazy raccoon but maybe Zeta Division? That was the best shot. That was the best shot
North America and EMEA had to stay competitive with Korea here, but that was so one-sided, Jake.
And I'm out of ideas. I think we're just in my seat.
Like, what can you realistically do? Like, the farra from J-Woo, you know,
you realistically should be a good hero to poke in prod against a hero like Mei, like Sigma.
But it's just not enough room to really navigate and secure those picks in the end.
And I thought Kraserakun did a fantastic job with that aura healing from Dimsuki to stay alive
and buy enough time to turn things with Stalker's Casterly.
and the flex picks from Hiseng and Stalker.
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 Choron to see how they're feeling about this incredible win.
Choron, congratulations on getting the win.
Congratulations on winning the game.
Hello.
Choron, 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?
belt, whether it's the Cap Bastion or the Lucio Kiriko,
we have mastered a lot of different composition
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 features in the cat bus and the Kiriko Lusio,
so I'm thinking of using a variety of features so that other teams can't do anything about 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?
And with this victory, CR will be able to continue with a very strong team in this Champions League.
So, is there a reason for CR's strength?
If there is a reason for CR's strength, is there anything special about it?
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 powerful, and it's cuter than anything else.
That's one of the reasons.
Thank you so much, Shoryun! Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!
Now, let's take a look at the game.
at the bracket, see just what crazy Raccoon have won, a birth into the upper final
and an incredible head of steam, you can hear from Trollhagen in that interview, he's dealing
on himself, he can smell and taste the championship here in Champions Clash. Yeah, the confidence is
oozing, as we're going to get a matchup of Virtus.Pro and Sett of Division coming up next here to see
who will face Priest Raccoon in the upper bracket final, but as we take a look at the lowers as
well, Twisted Minds, Dyn-Moded, and the bracket flips there of course, and so you're going to see
see them end up against Weybergaming in a lowers match later on today.
Battle of wounded pride right there, twisted minds, the current world champs still, current
world champs, but it doesn't feel like it after that match in the number one seed from
China in an elimination game, but that's just how it goes, we've got to crown a world champion
here in Tokyo.
Guys, we've got incredible matches all day, huge impact, got to see which teams can make
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Hey guys, Adrol here with Lang Sir for the exit interview.
All gamers unfortunately being eliminated today.
I just wanted to ask you, despite being eliminated today,
what kind of lessons did you learn in the Tournament for the Japanese Clash?
Today, we were eliminated, but what did you learn in this competition?
Because we have a lot of newcomers 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 for the competition.
to sort of catch up and improve.
Do you think that China's team needs to do some progress in the finals?
I think we need more practice and more players to join us.
We'll need more time, a lot more time to practice, and more importantly, we need probably more players getting to the competitive side to potentially become new pro players.
So, my final question to you. Now 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 first?
First of all, we will learn some things from the later games.
Then we will go back to find some points.
Well, thank you so much, Langston.
Thanks so much.
See you.
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Welcome back everyone, and just like that we have our first winners finalist in Crazy Raccoon.
So pretty much like we all expected here at the back.
I think Ash had tea, right?
Yeah, you did not fall around like 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 step one.
Awareness is key.
Exactly, awareness is key.
Well, we're not definitely aware that crazy raccoon are just that good quite frankly. This was anti climatic
After especially after Elias like initially the first two rounds were so close
And they both played the jetpack cat and the passion both look good both first two rounds went like into like almost a hundred versus a hundred
Right so like everything was looked so close
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 pit from the honor onto
the Kyrie Co. That was where we
really saw like the more the
survivability there for for
vigilante. And then overall, I
think that's on the side of of
CR. It was just really clean.
Let's be honest. You got to give
credit to TM, though. I think
last time we saw them on the cat
I don't know if that was necessarily because of the Cassidy band 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.
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
Capashians right like they lost to CR when CR was playing you know a lot of these Mizuki
comps that we thought were a troll yesterday may not actually be I know with the May it's like
This one is still out for debate. We don't know.
We just don't know. I'm not quite bought.
Let's take a look at the bracket.
Obviously this was probably the toughest opponent right behind the CETA division that TM could have faced.
Now in the normal bracket, they will be going up against Weibo Gaming.
They looked for mid-ball against the second seed in China, even when they had to go up against the Cat Bastion.
So I low key expect to survive to have a much easier time against Wabo. Yeah, I definitely got to agree with you on that
It's gonna be a different level of opponent heading into that lower bracket
And it's gonna be about being able to brush off this match up the heading into lowers later on today
That game's got some silly potential in it
With this like you know like is what way bow we saw them play some cat fashion
It didn't look that great like this team go back and play it do they really kind of commit to something else
I also 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 upward bracket
This one is going to be Sada versus VP quite frankly when I looked at the schedule this morning
I was like who that first one is gonna be so close the second one has potential to be not that now the first one was
not that close
So
You're a fan of the Korean team, I think you're really damn
speedrunning content. If you
made plans for the rest of
the day, you are you're good.
Honestly, you're good. Let's
talk about the teams though,
right? Starting with VP. I
think they surprised a lot of
people. We didn't expect them
to play quite that dominant.
Uh, minus Numbani, but other
than that, like, why have we
learned what's the biggest
takeaway from Virtus Pro in
their first series yesterday?
So the positives here for Virtus Pro, if you were to make an argument for VP, right, is
like, you know, Landon and Psycho have this, like, really, you know, they've done really
well at international events over the last two years, right, you get Kib back on Land,
like, fixes playing pretty well.
It's just a really difficult opponent, though.
I mean, the V-Tump is the opponent they can draw in the field.
I mean, it doesn't matter how much Landon will potentially have, but 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 like 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
I think the bashing burn it was on map two and 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 tm versus crazy raccoons
It felt like they were holding on to some of those cat bastion 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 bastion
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 in terms of what they decide. Yeah
Yeah, are you like really far away or are we like we're a fight the true way?
Intensive properties, so I see like how do VP stack up against TM
How does TM stack up against Crazy Raccoon?
How does Crazy Raccoon stack up against Zeta?
So Zeta seems to be 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 looks like a completely different game than it is.
True, it is.
But I do get paid to make some points here on the desk,
so I'm fully committed to my draft right now.
Let's talk about Zeta though.
Thank you so much, that's why I get paid to make the medium bucks.
Let's talk about Zeta Division.
We hailed 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 are just like they're just stacked top to bottom. They've not shown us any they're not really shown as anything
I don't know if a half the comps they played so far have even been real
Okay, you say that yet
So they pulled out the Mizuki to like maybe the Korean teams just know something is that the red direction?
we're going in with the rework that happens with Ultimate.
He's riding back in the legs.
Hey, we saw him riding mirrors yesterday.
Everything is kind of on the table.
I mean, Zeta, the roster is just so filthy
that it could have been a little bit of shenanigans
yesterday.
Where I don't think they'll play for real against VP, I think.
But a lot of those weird comps are kind of talking about.
They make work.
Like, it doesn't really matter.
That's why we don't know if it's a weird comp or if they're
serious.
Just like will we see the Mizuki head to head with it data versus CR later on? Yeah
We're gonna get the stats in for that one as well. I have a misukas like probably one of the highest win percentages
Again something we get paid for so it is what it is. What do you think it's win percentage is about like it's like
Predictions for this one I at the every crazy surprise of anyone here when VP just like I was crazy
surprise that she went for TM in a previous match.
To be clear, we went for TM.
I'm so surprised.
I didn't know.
Yeah, you took that.
I didn't know.
That's how crazy that was.
No, listen.
I mean, point is, you're ready for predictions.
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 high stakes format that any team might
have you know something and then I'm in the 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 BPF like are you are you gonna be a contrarian?
I think we're Zeta division across the board here, right? It would be crazy not to just kind of go with Zeta
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 a VP and how they
Handled to the current meta in the first round yesterday again. That's it
That was the first to do this one is the first to three 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 a final
We are now heading into a short breaks and in a few minutes
We're gonna have Tiger on stage to bring out our teams
I'm sick and tired of you
All this time I've been nothing but pain
There's no more to try and rescue
How this story ends ain't up to you
I'll take a step back so I can move on
And I'm the wrong try, you're not the one
I've gotten stuck by it, so I can move on
Then I'm the wrong track, and I'm the right one
We got blinded, put you alone
Now we got no friends, so good, and we gone
You got me free and strong, but sometimes you run
My broken heart and I, we're moving on, moving on
you
You
First of all, this team.
ZEATER DIVISION!
The title is...
BERSERK SPROW!
to take down the world champions
in 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.
A few three t-shirts of the crowd as
well as air division giving a few gifts
before they well the crowd hope at
least.
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, what
closer. Twisted Mines versus Crazy Raccoon, or Zeta coming up here against Virtus. 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 honking team. Now we get to see how far the divide comes between our seed two
from EMEA, and I see the one from Asia.
And it was beat down by the way, like it wasn't like a three or like, oh,
I can't get that little fight back.
But it was like, yeah, you might as well have just punched me,
Mux, you know, because it was that back.
Like it was, and that's not what we expected.
But like you said, this game in theory is going to be not,
not even as close, like 1% as close because it's safe to have been so
damn common evening 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
If there was like Zeta coming in everybody was super scared of them and now furthest 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 Anna ban right out of the
Gates to take shoes Anna away and pour some onto the Kiriko
something that Zeta will always prioritizing was the Ana in the Catastrian matchup coming on through in their region stages.
But the fact that it's alias 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 Curico anyway.
Ooh, look.
Oh, that sign.
The sign jerseys too.
Oh.
Oh, my.
Damn it.
I thought it was just regular teachers.
I think it was just regular teachers.
Eww.
I would have been at the time myself.
I've been way through that crowd, Duke. Give me, give me. Yeah, that is pro. They have a very tall order ahead of them because Zayna division, I didn't mean Johnny was speaking about it a little bit yesterday. The fact that this team as well was 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 him get you?
Who said...
Do you know what?
You're allowed to pick up Shula as well, because they've just been collecting the Infinity Stones.
That's the death way to describe Zayda's team at the moment.
And in comparison to Virtus.Pro, they lost J.Woo to Twisted Rhymes.
Right, right.
Yeah, so it's like, well, Shoo, we got him, and then J.Woo, you've lost one of your best players of 2TM.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's going to be tough here for VP. Fast map is going to be Ilios, like you said, some Wrecking Ball could come in here, especially on this round.
Yeah, for sure. If it's Lighthouse starting off as well, then that Wrecking Ball is going to be feeling the impact, and Neil Garro has a mean Wrecking Ball on him.
No Cap Aston banned out, so likely going to be seeing the bans.
way bigger chance there from the
division side a ton of fans coming in
through from Japan and from a ton of a
different countries to see 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 to the jetpack
cat Kevstar on the bashing quick
teleport out say the division running
different than tank full milk are who
obviously it's going to be a wrecking
ball here. So I just want to get to that point real quick. Yeah Kevser on the
bastion too means that you don't have to ban out the Cassidy, not to have to worry
about stopping that retching ball. Oh, gets the best of Knife. Yeah, he did that.
Oh nice, Nate too. Forced to recall really on from 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 Malga just to anchor the point itself. You're going to be able to get out
when the wrecking ball comes through, so Zed even though they have a little mobile composition,
they don't get the first point cap so they can't play the scoreline.
Good slap, but Kevser instantly bathed in that Suzu knife on the high ground.
He's not got too much of an angle there, unfortunately to shoot anybody, he's going to have to drop
like Garen, it's proper and quieter, end up going down.
Alright, okay, good start from VP.
I worry about how they're going to be able to deal with Ice on this Maga 2 because usually
you would see the Reaper come through instead of that Tracer, so Ice-Nuln is just going
to be able to survive for infinite on this point and if Zeta can't ice them out
they'll all 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.
Kephz got the emergency out as well.
Syco's waiting for them to dive in first then double blink to that high ground
if they stay around. Herdmilk Garu though, drops down, takes that mega health back.
Kephz pops the ult, he's got that over health so he can't be jumped on instantly.
got ice on him and he's back as well.
That's been a damage there onto the Bachelorette.
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
not worrying about the pulse bomb being able to come on through.
You've got the catnap as well from Fixer
potentially to disrupt Suzu's usage
of the Kitsune rush as Landon pulls.
Yeah, Suzu's already got that kill.
Violet's gonna slam into the ground and
drag Ice off the edge.
Nice work from Vyla, 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 Malga, use
one-sided Rush and force Zeta Division to give up all of the space they just got back.
Alright, well they're taking this to the skies again with the Bastions.
Mugara'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 in my light, you've got the
bull slam and the Bastion to deal with. Come on!
Proper ends up going down again. Not used to seeing proper go down this early, so many
times. Mine's on the point, there's a rush through it too for VP, so Ice is gonna be
more than safe to hang around, but the poop ends up coming in once again, finally takes
down Ice.
Oh, good stick! Knifers down, good exit trade there from Saiko, which means that Xayah won't be able to play super aggressively towards Virtus Pro spawnside with the Bastion with that cat, so Virtus Pro will 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 time it's gone old again, Ice is going to have to be careful. Cage, so important in this fight though.
Yeah, if you can combine cage with artillery strike coming up from Kev, so Zayda are not going to be having a fun time.
Yeah, cage for Isom on the point, she's going to get dragged off again, not again!
Violet is so damn good on this damn cat!
Oh!
Zayda the fishing and making that fight look easy.
And that cage, Moxie, yeah, it was important, but come on.
I mean, the cage denied by the catnap coming through...
Oh, it's gross.
It's a horrible time for a maga even if you've got like the overrun and play potential
You can use it to dodge out from the catnap the ice it must have been on cooldown
Violet perfectly tracking that maga's weakness as we're gonna be looking for proper having that pulse phone
Which means that Landon has to hook the suzu man. He's gonna have nightmares this week. I'll tell you right now about violets
Jepa cat
Well fish has got a note of his own the catnapper
Wow, they think they're putting free. What a post from Propobo!
Our delivery up for Raj comes in too.
Maybe we wanted you to actually have the point there.
It was a bait. It was a bait.
All along.
Because then they're deep enough for Shuta to be able to commit the Katsune Rush
and Virtus.Pro not caught in a maugagate, but might as well be caught in a barrel.
It's them building though. They need to get to the point.
Sam's going to come in. Who's here to actually touch?
VP get one. It's Psycho, but Fix is already dead.
This passion's going to be alone here.
the sky is the knife. In the, uh, in the skybox there for a second. It's going to be a mind,
but as you do, the only thing landed 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 way. They're
going to get that one back. That is 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 overtime 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
vs Tracer could have opened up a lot of space, but the moments 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. They could keep the Kiriko out of Aista's reach. That's when they started
pulling ahead all right they're gonna roll with the same thing milgari
right on milgari it says hold on well yeah all right so we've seen some Ryan
and now we're seeing the hog okay okay it's custom workshop time how many people
get hooked into the well they're getting him up on the high ground too
oh don't fall for it please but they're gonna
I
What is my time to it and look who expects a road hook to play from that position they knew he was there
Yeah, they beat 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 answer the question like what do voters
Pro do now getting this maga back in it did not go well on Lighthouse
It's likely not going to go well and well
Yeah, they're just trying to stop them from pushing in, and they actually forced the forms
really early on.
They're getting the hill, but now you have to fight into the Roadhog, into the Well.
You have to start getting real close to an artillery strike, but it's not really going
to do much to lock Zeta's players down.
They can probably both going low with Psycho Buster Recall.
Super early too!
Missing the Hog and the Flying Bastion, but all good.
You're going to have to show some malware mentality right now.
I should try and chase Mulgaru down, because Prop has already got a kill onto Psycho.
I tell you, Barrage does make sure Ice has to back off.
So, VP, the end of losing both DPS.
Vixx 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! The catnap!
Popper is still going!
Violet gets to get another catnap onto the Malga.
Oh, my goodness.
Ice is having the worst possible time on this tank roll.
There it is, Hellish.
Ice is in just the seventh circle of Hell, and it's jetpack cat.
With 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.
Not taking too much damage here.
Still hovering above this windmill right now.
Oh, the hurt!
Oh!
I just made two! Are you serious?
There's just no way!
Okay, Viola is making a play to be one of the best jetpack cap players in the world.
Like the amount of accuracy for the catnap, the saves from the quite literal lifeline
to keep Milgarra in the fight with the whole hog against Fixer, what a play.
I mean, I just have the worst possible time in this tank pick 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 Milgarra against Fixer.
Hogan to the corner, Milgaru is still alive, mind you, despite the artillery brass landing
next to him as well, Cajuns are coming in, Xayah Division on 99% but proper kills, Kevster
and now Ice-Tone, he's had a use of the Kadec Overdrive already, so he's not going to have
any sustain for this point, Violet swoops in, picks up the kill on the Mauga and Saitan
mission a hundred to zero on well disgusting first map I think we're
about to see a cat van look at that smile on by its face oh he's he's so happy
look at that smile on my guy's face that is roses are red violets are blue if
he's got a cat nap you better believe ice nom is in the wrong side of the kill
feed that's that's how that saying goes right now oh they they really did just
I mean, it's great VP perfectly like the fact that the mother was coming out. They were more than happy to let the mother come out to play because the catnap the jetpack at 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.
I mean, we did see, I think for me the smartest Jetpack cat play was still the previous Ilias
where we got that little dip of the lifeline, or rather the cat's...
Into the death box?
Into the death box, while the cat's still above it so that you only get the D.Va killed and
still stay standing, or I guess flying, but across the board, yeah, Viola for sure, the
most amount of value, the most amount of connections.
Paul Eisner...
Paul is my tank doing...
He tries to run away!
Yeah.
Off of the high ground and get the drop, but look, even there the environmental off of the hook coming through from the El Garro, a cat hatched out onto the ice.
It's just comedy. It's just pure comedy. I mean, I'm 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 Ilias Lell just to make sure that...
Please don't. Do not listen to them.
Do not 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 aversion 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
And let's talk about what we spoke about at the top of this
Hmm, 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 like you don't city kind of the map that you're okay
Jetpack cat or like jet bash a cat bashing not as problem
Environmental students 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, that's only two points really on New York City
where you can potentially get environmentally off by a cat nap. So, Virtus Pro will probably
be just like crossing all limbs that they don't RNG random roll into them if they do
let the cat through. But this is a first to three series, so even if they've been on the
cat now, they do still have to face it against another of the map, but then potentially they
could go for the Bastion ban. As I think for Virtus Pro, I'm not surprised it's New
Junxty because this is where cats are popped off the other day, with the Cassidy like
that's a good thing. I mean,
it's a good thing. It's a
generational performance.
Probably the best cast
performance he's put on in his
whole Overwatch career.
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 a lock
in, though. They kept strong
the casting again. But again,
look at the DPS going against
them obviously, but what if they
go for the Bastion Burn so that they can then use it to save the Cassidy as well while still
removing the threat of the Bastion Cap.
Yeah, little protect.
Benar for Milgaru though.
Milgaru, rocking that Wreck-n-Ball a lot of time.
Benar, okay, I'm liking this substitute especially on this kind of map.
If you want to play a lot of heavy, like off-tank, Benar is the guy.
Maybe some Sigma.
Yeah, a little bit of Sigma potentially, maybe some Zarya as well if you want to just be
able to play super aggressive and run towards Virtus.Pro so that they don't get the opportunity
to create and sit in that space for DPS to be able to get work done since both Zeta and
Crazy Raccoon are such aggressive teams, they really understand the timings to be able to
go in and disengage and get out, and that's really 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 Flashpoint, 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 we're with the EMEA is
the crazy raccoon game 3-0 over twisted minds and if Zeta keep on this kind of performance
Maybe it's gonna be 3-0 versus VP like are we back?
the Asian region back. Yeah,
it's like going down there with
N a and China into that lower
bracket. Mizuki ban for VP.
Looking at last series, Mobsi.
Mizuki pretty crazy, but sorry
about for Zeta. I like the
Mizuki band because it also
feels like something that a lot
of the non Korean teams weren't
ready to be able to deal with.
It's probably like a strategy
going to be the bashing going to be the cat and Korea's just pulled off the biggest game
of psych that we have ever seen in a lot of ways.
I actually think Mizuki's kind of fine guys.
Mizuki guys, Mizuki.
I hate to bring him to the- He's so bad guys and then he gets double buffed because when
I'm playing in live patch so he's been having two back to back buffs, the Ori if you link
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 man coming
on out as well at the same time, so likely D the potential little bit of signal.
Yeah, I think with, especially on these escrow maps, Mizuki's so powerful holding corners,
really nice to play around, and you can play a little bit more aggressively too, not like
you can like TP at will you kind of have to set yourself up for it, but like you being able to play on those off angles also very annoying
Have to get cleared out and then you have and then the almost easy piece away
And then he's super far in the back line and the aura healing too is just the chain the chain
So as well easy yet anything which can just like grab you to one specific spot with that follow-up as we can have a look
You see our stats coming up 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 not expecting to be high, but it's the amount of depth and
fall, 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 Bernard's got a very good rate of what
he can get away with, but also the synergy with his backline, because that was like a worry too,
when you're adding new players to your backline, 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 frames.
Yeah, we'll see if we see more Garoo a little bit later on. Looks like Benar is set up though.
We're about to get into this next map. VP have got a lot of questions to answer. Can Kevster kind of
play this carry performance again with the Cassidy against the Leica Zeta Division, which is,
yeah, it's a tall order. I mean, like we said, if he looked insane, he was getting what? We had two
flash points and he had two ultimate. First fight, second fight, he got six kills within
two fights, three kills in the first which was absolutely wild. By the time the first
fight ended he was 72% to the first dead eye. It was clicking heads? It was clicking heads
and combat rolling. The reload into clicking heads. But against proper knife, like, are
You're going to be able to do the same thing?
Probably not.
Like, you probably can't disrespect Zed at that much.
She was on your screen.
Of course, with Violet sitting next to him.
Crazy backline, too.
I mean, Violet, obviously, two championship rings.
The guy is one of the greatest of all time.
Kitted out, pretty much.
Like, every player on Zed's team is just absolutely
Kitted out and over to each possible.
Like, that's why we said they're the favourites coming into this.
Even though Twisted Plains wear the championship tag,
Zeta are the arguably more dominant team when you weigh up all of the years of Overwatch
eSports history that they have collectively.
And in this meta, it looks like it favours the Korean teams because they got the jump
on the Bastion 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, Shu has been around since 2017, before
even Overwatch League.
It was on flashlights in 2017.
Like, he was, when you could change to other roles within the game, I know, crazy concept.
Um, he was playing a little bit of the Widow as well as the Arnaud.
Like, the guy's been around for such a long time.
A true, like, veteran Satyrs player.
As we jump in to this next map.
Yeah, getting ready to go into this flashpoint.
This is the true test for Virtus.4.
Like, can they come out with the turnaround after such a dominant,
dominant first round. Like 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 Kevster Cassidy.
So like we said, can he pull off a generational performance twice in a row?
go crazy here against Zeta, but playing it's proper is so tough. Oh, that's not a tracer.
We got baited. That's not a tracer. Okay. That's the surgeon. 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 a castle surgeon. All right, still on
the bashing those knife, no cast that you're going to rely on proper TPs 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
rematch for two since you can only put the shield in one direction.
Wait, wait, wait, nice behind them.
You've got to look around. 180 quick.
Benar and proper take the kills, but knife just basically walked behind them for free there.
It's the round shield, right?
Once you put it down, it is dedicated to that one angle as opposed to Benar's, who's going to be much more fluid.
This is one of the drawbacks of rematch.
Go for something like a tracer, or in this instance, a same TP to enable nice reposition, and Ice can't save the team.
They're gonna have to look out for it. They're gonna have to just keep their heads on a 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 Rikings from proper, sure, quick reset, but they're not going to give up another kill.
This is allowing Xiu 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, Xiu'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 to high ground though, nice and such a good spot.
He's a little turret so I'm gonna be in too much as Fixit gets poked by Nite and picked off as well.
I mean Zeta, she's just pure domination, but it's pro.
This is point.
They got nothing.
This is straight up first point, 100 to 0.
Like the fact that they were getting those early limbs onto Viv's pro,
the fact that they had that fight so one-sided in the first instance with the bashing, getting that reposition.
And now while yes, Landon has one-sided rush and Fixit does have the same barrier,
you can't use the same barrier at the same time as Violet because Bernard will just be
holding onto the flux to ripple off the extra help off.
And maybe Kev's gonna do something special here with his overclock in a moment.
Cobra doesn't have going down, the flux is good though.
Oh, and a good snipe on Psycho.
Soundbarry for 4 on Zeta Division.
But those, bro, that barrage actually is gonna force Aislin to back up slightly.
B'nars now alone on the point, Ravnus Vortex is gonna hold him in places, while the rest
are gonna 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 Vilus to be able to match.
But, this comes at a cost now, Jaws. You don't have the barrier to be able to beat the OC, what you're relying on is proper sim wall, which would be great if Zedad Division were in control of the space.
Now they're going to have to invade it in, walk onto the point, get the sim wall into position, which keeps it can easily overcome.
Wait, TP, everybody's taking that on the exact same frame there. That was pretty impressive.
This is proper, sets up with the wall.
Little turrets are going to fight each other for the moment, but here it is.
Alright, now what can you really do if you're ice-nirmed?
The only thing realistically is just kite back.
You've got Nemesis form, so you're going to be able to survive.
Oh, proper with the TP. He's going to have an off-angle for the team as he teleports away from Kevster.
Still an ultimate available here for VP.
They've still got this annihilation to just turn up the tempo.
end up 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 a 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 and Shu 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 sigma to be able to shield it off.
Yeah, super early rotation. Might just be a double rush fight to be fair. They might just
one pop sit and the other one's going to pop it in kind. Hopefully they can win it out. Landon's a
couple of percentage away. Kevster's still with his overlock too, by the way. All right, there it is.
Kevster's going to pop it instantly. He gets rocked, though. I still am going extremely low.
Luckily, though, he's got a nemesis form to back him up. His knife gets run over. But still,
They're very low in the front line. Luckily, Aishen is still holding on, landed, healing him up in that rush.
Sambara full-filing. 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 our Flux did nothing. By the speed, did nothing.
As Zeta, they lose this fight, and they as Virtus Pro take the point.
So many layers of that fight. Kevser using the OC, forcing Tudor to have to use the rush defensively,
allows Lantern to hold on to the second rush and then they can survive so they can fight.
Burn us onto the Arista 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 Knife, he can go as aggressive as he wants. He's got the artillery strike. If he goes too low
after the damage from the Thojan, he can use the artillery strike for the extra health.
TP onto the Cat Bastion. It's like, sure, we'll just fly away. He's got another formage just a
moment oh you've got to run Kevster you've got to run like dangerously low
and there is the turret form is he is it gonna be a taxi gets a couple of kills
here maybe couple of them sent towards the ice no but they trade shoe for Kevster
so lack of healing now so only violence so can't pay attention permanently tonight
but now are into getting focused down by psycho level three beam ripping through
that armor as far as pro making their stand fix it gets shot down by proper
sure, but they've still got a tank on the point.
Saiko on the Symmetra as well is doing such a good job being able to tread through the
Arista'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 of addition, Kevster's on the cast.
Alright, Ravenous Vortex is going to hold the approach here of Bernard, but proper walls
up there for the touch.
Rush comes in, knife goes down, Kevster back on the cast, like you mentioned, and with
this Nemesis form into the annihilation, Ice Nerm can basically be a one-man army on
the points. It could be a tough here for Xenia Division. They can't map 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, great, a second here. Two points back to back, 100 to 0.
Oh, Xenia Division, they risked it for the biscuit, shoot, use the rush in that fight
as opposed to the next ball in the way. Actually, agree that one away.
of saving info for us fighting this next one. You could have used that rush advantage to
be able to play into the Virtus.Pro soundbara, 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-bashing again.
High noon. Psycho still trying to test him. My friend he 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 going to go in, but Fixen's
still got the beat, knife, hound you down, as Kevster does not miss. Beat onto 5, VP,
making this map look easy.
Landon's bolt up rush in that fight as well. Bernard's off of the Orisa, 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 Kevster 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, today
we're going to destroy here, even that first point in this one, like insane.
Look at the rush!
Landon's about to have the rush up, they did a vision, they can't walk onto the point,
if they go too deep, they're just probably rushing to them.
They forced Suzu, Landon instantly hits the rush, proper, and the backline still got a
recall, has to use it, but his pulse gets eaten.
just end up going down. More to barrage. I mean, it doesn't really get too much
clear to point, I suppose, but Pena's been de-mech by the silver bullet.
And Virtus Pro looking like they're going to win this map.
Proper down, Shu dead. Virtus Pro dominating Zayda Division.
There's one more fight, and Shu went down late in that one as well, so they get one chance, one rush.
Virtus Pro going to just use the Ted Eye and try and put the pressure onto Zayda to make it.
Oh, that was close.
They can get the flashbang onto proper and stop the trace from getting past so Zayda
don't have a player to touch that can be huge he's gonna have to read he's
recalled already you get the kill proper but you don't get the point
parties probably the map win a dominant three points at the very end
saving division had their number on that point one but two three and four cast I
don't know what smash said to VP there during that map wonder to mat 2 break but
But it worked wonders. VP take a map off of Zeta of all people.
It's the Cassidy. Like, Cassidy goes onto 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 SimTP to get knifed
into really egregious off-angle positions for VP to have to deal with. And they actually
start determining the tempo too.
20 and 5 from Cassidy. Yeah, that Cassidy. It's like, whoa, it was pretty good yesterday.
Yeah, oh, yeah by how much 300 little bit of extra damage. Yeah, that was
Like a kind of a return to form for say they're like hey, we want to play the cat bashing now
Like that's what we crushed you with on control. It's like well actually
Kept on the custody this map is what we talked about before yeah
Kind of perfect against the cat bashing 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 Zeta 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, you can't use it aggressively against Kevstar. 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 cat bastion are ready to go in to make a move you've already forced burn
us so low that he has to use terrorism 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
And then well, okay, now we have to back off a little bit like Violet can kind of a slingshot me away ice can survive so long with normal form shield nemesis form has the annihilation like he's just rolling these cool down 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, but I don't expect many people thinking VP had taken a map off of Zed of vision less in this fashion either.
I mean, they did such a good job too because that was Rematra with Kyroko Lucio heals.
So 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 camp mobility, you can very easily move around the Rematra's static shield.
So the fact that he was able to stay alive for that long and then you forced Burnar onto the Orisa to counter it,
but that played perfectly into Psycho.
With the Sim you saw there in the replays, every Javelin's fin used defensively, just eating through with the Sim's primary.
Riyato is the map pick for Zeta, Mizuki is one, it's one 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 bands.
Yeah, I mean VP have the band second here, so because they don't have the first band, there is a...
And they already banned Mizuki.
Yeah, there's an option to protect the cabash if you need to.
Exactly, you can go for a band here on the support so that they then can't target the cat.
that. Which could be huge
because as we said VP they
already burned that band on the
Muzuki. So no matter what
happens, Muzuki makes it through
even if you don't go for a
support will save. Tough
decisions ahead for Zayac
division. I think you bank
cast. I think the highlight
good. Yeah, they do. I think
you bank cast because then
that. You can 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. Get the
bands in just a moment seems to
discuss and make sure they're
fully locked in. But Zeta. Wow.
I mean, I was thinking coming
in like, okay, Zeta, they went
here. It's going to be a
entirely too, because this was the number two seed of EMEA, and when we were looking
at the EMEA group stages, the divide gap between Twisted Minds and Virtus.Pro was monumental,
I think is the best way to describe it, as we can have a look and see.
Ice Nom, we were talking about Bernard coming on for the four devs.
Ice Nom is able to excel past that with only two on the Rematra of all things.
And with Ram, like we said, with Kirikou Lucio, when Rematra first released, teams tried
to make it work with the Kiriko Lucio and it just got overwhelmed. You might as well
be trying to heal with tissue paper for the amount of good that the Kirikos are
doing instead, keeping the ramp up. So many players had to go for the bat for the
ball or the Moira Avenue 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, Van Tracer. Interesting. So maybe that's
trying. If we do see the Cap Ashton, we could see the Reaper come through instead, but then
that falls off if you're not playing like the Malga 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 the Jules.
You can go the Ana here as well, which has got a lot of teams are playing like initially,
they're mixing the Ana a little bit, so, and you have one of the best to ever do it, in
Chu. So, Chu, Ana, and then Violet on the Cap.
Yeah, I think it's really smart to, in a reaction to the early Kiriko ban, because like Ana can't
win the 1v1 against the Tracer as consistently as the Kiriko, which was something that we
were seeing happening on 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 the 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. Kestis cast makes
it through a band lane 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 Kiriban for Zeta, opening up the field here for Arna and Kat.
And 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 bab.
that's the true surprise, right?
We're seeing the diva with the
bat, not the Sigma, not the
Orissa and not the rematch with
the most stable anchor tank to
usually require a little bit more burst healing
coming on through 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
Kavsta on the Kassi. Like ice being on the diva
means we've got disruption potential
being able to keep the bashing cat in check, and create space for Kevster to just click heads.
All right, what DPS are we going to see from proper knife, bashing, and proper on the May instead?
So it is going to be the Arna cat backline. I mean, the May is going to be able to put a lot of
pressure onto ice as well. You don't have to worry about defense matrix, the primary just eats through
it. You've got defense matrix to eat the blizzard, but here's the wrapper right from 9!
RIPHA is crazy.
Okay, they're gonna be able to force people for high ground,
it keeps them already rolled off.
70p has to come through to get him back onto the high ground,
I step onto the low ground to keep the car contested.
He's going again.
And he's pushed them off again.
They're going again.
They just keep wrapping around this high ground
and fixes the one caught on the rotation by knife.
This is such a horrible comp to play into.
Ice no need like four matrixes surrounding himself
to like cover every possible angle.
Nice first fight win there for Zeta.
I love this fight because since you have the melee,
D.Va's not going to be playing point statically, right?
The bashing cat also not going to be playing point statically.
So what you have with the melee who's much more tanky with the cooldowns and the wall,
you can have proper be much more anchored on the point itself,
and you can play just push, but as for off of the angles.
Got a bit of an eased nades 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 there, it's going to force knife away,
but it can just dip straight back over.
And this may is going to be a problem too for proper, but Nais, the first one to go down though for all people.
Lazy, then obviously playing on the point like this, you are very vulnerable to sim.
Sure though, with the nano boost, 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 a second.
Yeah, you can't really kill the Katbash in here either, like it's so tricky to actually lock them down.
So they're going to be in this formation this whole time.
Zeta, going to be looking for the regroup. Knife coming on through off of this side yet again, which means that Virtus.Pro's attention split. They can't punish the court. You're cross.
You're in the small rooms as well. It's kind of crazy. Yeah, you can't punish the brush. You can't back out to the bridge.
Teleport comes in. Well, there's the drive-by again. He's in, he's out, and Kevster gets knocked down.
A window doesn't come in through, but Vanarkin's in front of it, and even they use the wall to stop any of that damage coming through.
No heals onto Ice Stone, 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,
straight into the blizzard? I mean, that is done so for VP on that point.
Yeah, now you don't have Sandbarra for the next one. At least you have this in wall,
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 nanobooth defensively onto Burner,
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 Hela, the payload's moving for absolute free.
Thank you very much. Oh, on this high ground too. Landon is 1 HP by the way. Oh, and it's all banar 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 cat fashion.
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 charts
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 nanobus that will likely go on
to burn our unless it's used to engage on the knife. And how do you do this? How do you deal with
this if you're a bonus pro? Well they've popped the sim wall at least so knife's going to be a
little less of a pain in the arse. Well I'm landing on the high ground it's going to have this
baptised window soon but Zedavision respected they end up backing up. I mean if Landon uses the
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. Nano, there's
a comes knife with the flyby.
Got a run, Capster. Land gets deployed. Window two, they're going to try and cross five.
It's bashing down, but 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 any one. Come
on.
You have to look to him with this defense matrix to shut the blizzard down, fix it and this does not have the same barrier.
Zeta pick up the second checkpoint and we roll into third.
The good news is for Virtus.Pro if they win one fight, they'll be able to slow the momentum down.
The bad news is they had to use a mortality field just now.
Prop has got the blizzard too.
Teary barrage from Knife, straight on top of the point.
Oh, Ice Stone. Tanks one of those in the face, but here's the drag.
Self destruct perfectly used though.
quite a height away from it. Manages to escape alive, proper not quite so lucky.
Kevster eventually kind of coming alive on the Cassidy, but he ends up getting
shut down by Pinar. It's going to be after a quick reset here for Sader Division.
I haven't pushed it too far around this corner, but Virtus Pro, they still lost one.
Yeah, but they hold long enough for Fixer to be able to come through the
sandbarry to deal with proper's blizzards. So it's not quite the same one
side of threat that it was before. A little bit of pressure coming out from
proper, just building up the space, trying to force Virtus Pro closer, but
you're likely not going to use the mail to be able to pop ice out of the mech.
It's going to be a fairly trivial thing to do if you're having to touch this point constantly as well.
Kevser, 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, on to buy it. It goes
dangerously low. He's like one pip of health remaining, but they've managed to escape alive.
the game. The game's length.
She went up getting just crunched
by Kevster nine four so four
as Kevster gets three kills.
Aiding with the window there did
Landon reset for the baby Diva
as Vardis Proma can they stand
two minutes to go for say it
though that was a very costly
offer. Landon uses and fix it
uses be in this same fight
profits still been holding this
blizzard by the way, which
blizzard by the way, which speaks volumes to the fact that ice has been able to hold
onto the neck and speaking about holding, knife is being held and Violet's paws and
Virtus Pro have to be able to deal with the Bastion flyby yet again.
Kev's is playing so far back to stop this Bastion over the top.
Well there he comes, Kev's to get safe though, that's a lamp, a wall and a matrix to try
and save Kevster and he's granted them a kill.
They got the cap, they got Violet at early which means when knife gets dropped and 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.
Will that block enough?
And ice has to be all over the place!
What an unbelievable ante from Shude.
Stops furthest bro collapsing on proper further after that ice block.
There is still this blizzard in his back pocket, 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 the Lucio, they still get to commit to the fight.
And now Propok can use this Blizzard with almost impunity, play on these corners, get the DMEC, and then you can win the fight, win the point.
Just off of this Blizzard, there it is, round the corner, and it connects with Vixxer, couldn't get to the TP in time.
So they've lost one player already and Landis also super low, pops the window to aven the healing and damage output, but Nife has got Nanoed again.
Kephz is on the sidelines, they cannot stand up to the force, Nife is putting out.
Teleport Bomb does not do enough for VP to hold on to this fight.
Artillery strike is there for knife, but Virtus Pro have to close the respawns, ice is back in 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 Fixer, it's gonna have to be clutch
He's earning this so fast with the amount of poke damage coming in, he's just about got it
He's got the beat and Zeta Division because he's playing it off, they can't get the catmash in the fight
He's racing, and she's already gone down.
It's a 5v4 now with 8 beats.
Ice has been frozen in the backline,
but Knife eliminates Kevster, but they've traded each other.
These spawns are going to be so good for VP.
Ice Thome just needs to live.
My tank just needs to live on this point.
And he's just about done and done it.
A double kill for Ice Thome.
As far as pro, he refused to give Saita Division that third point.
The bashing cat was so problematic on the first and second
of Rialto, but the moment we headed indoors and they were able to drain the momentum,
Scout, when the cat was looking to drop the basket 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 5 vs 5 and you have two players taking the attention of free
people, that then creates disparity on the front line, right?
So you can just brute force your front line to walk forward, free versus two, but they
don't get the opportunity to do that because of the Sim wall coming into play.
they dig their heels in, they find their reserves, and they hold Zeta off from a full push.
Now the defense has happened to lock in a comp here fairly early, and it looks like it's just going to be the cat-bashing.
A bit of a nicer time too for Shu though, being able to play super far back.
Very hard for Virtus.Pro to kind of jump on Shu at any moment, so we'll see how proper Umpanar set up for this.
set up for this no surprise here just gonna be hanging around in this first
little bit of 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 for people you're healing to his knife
I'm not even violent at doing whatever they want themselves.
Pixel with the Mercy damage boost, just for Kervster to try and find an opening pick,
but it only finds the D, the Mack, before he's forced to the cast.
Looking him go!
Weeeee!
Right, they're kind of disorientating to kind of aim in a way.
Well, they've actually forced them off the angle at least for Kervster, luckily.
Because using this TP to close the distance, no Tracer, but...
...Sim does...
...a decent job of that.
Perfect into the diva too, like Bernard has to be the one trying to throw like this cart
And then goes a little bit low
Ooh, little fakie
And has to boost straight away
Little fakie actually grabbed that corner there too, his knife goes dangerously low
Lot of matrix coming in for Bernard, 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
Oh, that's a good throw though
Almost a perfect kill
Fixed his dirty healing output right now
Tyrant low for knife
It's too much longer than ice, unfortunately. It looks like it's going to be a reset.
Yeah.
There you go. Oh, he actually gets the credit for ice in there, 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 line two, and Goethe's probably don't have anything to really prevent one of that players from being grabbed.
As it's going to be reliant yet again on these simtipes, they're picking good from Psycho, like you said, baiting Bernard,
forcing the D.Va to have to boost backstrike and push people off of here.
You're very low to the ground. You're very low to the ground, Knight.
Oh, and pilot gets chased down too. Way over-eager, it felt like that.
Just holds too close, and a knife over extends into Vertus Pro's spaces,
and that's a really cheap fight win. No ultimate cost required.
In fact, worse for Zeta Division, it bulls Vertus Pro's all plank up.
And Nanook can just pop window down.
Why is Dettai?
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 7TP as well, because you're trying to use that touch to get Zeta Division's players back up onto the high ground,
so that Virtus.Pro don't just get to pick up the first checkpoint and then take the high ground to get all of that free cart push,
but they've got the 7TP, so even though Zeta Division tried to get their players onto the high ground position,
Psycho just makes sure the ice can push them out of it.
She with the nanoboost though, cannot open up this engagement.
Virtus.pro, they've got the amp, but they didn't just go faster.
That nail looks so funny flying from that far away.
Everybody in the corner right now for Virtus.pro, apart from that diva.
Oh, here comes Banar. They end up walling off.
Look at that window he uses too.
They're going to teleport to escape as well, so they're not in any immediate danger.
But it's actually night that ends up going down first.
Banar cannot stay around here.
A shoe gets collapsed on by ice, and that was probably just a solo kill.
This is something we saw from Virtus.Pro yesterday against WBG when they had the Bastion gap.
They just hid in small rooms and forced the Bastion to be in a position where he can't follow up.
Shoe knows Amplification Matrix, but yet again they try to go for the defensive now
and boost onto Burnout to stay in front and go for the defense matrix.
But Landon's already 50% to the next one and proper is on to the venture.
Alright, War's gonna come in. First up, gonna have to stop Knife at some point.
that's a good tool to do it, but unfortunately they lose the ice known first self-destruct as a proper goes down to fix
But they've still done enough damage. They're training. It's got an awkward trade
But yeah, the 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 heels
So they clean up land and last which means the rest of Zaya group up
I really want to see how Zated decide try and hold us like traditionally when you want to fight on realto second as the defense
You can taxi tax approach over bridge, but because cycles on the same that is broken just blip right past it plus a division
They're not really rich. They're just going to try and count on one with violets ultimate, but if you can't nothing
What oh, but knife ends up killing two anyway on the rotation
What an unbelievable play from knife their shoe
I wouldn't say 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 birds brought don't commit alts to you
So by coming into this next one double support all dead
I potentially paired up with the same TP so burnout has to use the defense matrix and hold the neck for as long as possible
Okay, so I could just get behind to kill everyone. There's the dead. I defense matrix coming on for my
Sleeper
So bad only a tickling of damage though
It was the high ground control by knife right now has to be dealt with at some point
but Shu ends up killing Kev's there anyway.
Nice for staying alive for so long, but a D-Meg onto Permanah might help tilt the scales for Virtus.Pro,
but all good, the baby even still got it,
but Nahh ends up pistol-whipping Fixer and takes him out as proper, and keeps this fight alive.
He's stalling, he's stalling with the Venture,
Shu's going to be able to come back with the Nano Boost and proper and Violet together,
just shut Virtus.Pro's potential down,
and they hold the cart yet again on second,
And that was the ult dump fight coming through from Virtus.pro.
Now if they want to be able to get past, they have to deal with elbow grease and basic kit alone.
They're gonna 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,
just trying to dissuade Shu from playing any type of aggressive.
A beautiful Nade, Shoe, Unreal!
Insta-Kills Kevster, and that might have just done it.
It is a quick fight, so it may be VP get another here,
but they need to dial, they need to regroup quick.
The problem for them is that Shoe has Nanobastion,
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, they can't...
Oh, that Nade is unreal!
Shoe's lineups are insane!
insane. Virtus.pro stalled out having to wait for the anti-tp run out.
7TP comes on through, but she's still got the Nado.
She's got the Nado and it's going to give it proper growth.
She runs straight through them, turning them into fossils.
Fixer ends up going down as well. 20 seconds to go.
Landon's going to get anti-tp as well by 7 kills proper.
So both TPS now down for data, and now Shoe is in trouble.
He's done so much heavy lifting.
About 240 bench, ain't quite there just yet.
Kevster saves the day for VP.
Yeah, but Virtus.pro 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 have one more chance. He's got the shock as well
It's gonna be an artillery barrage too
So so many holes to have to deal with now if your Zeta division a pop up from proper is gonna be deadly here
Ketchum's got the dead eye in his sights, but he mentions to get away. I don't know how
Iceman 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.
Worse for them, Zeta Division are about to come in with Nano Boost, and Bernard, he's had enough of the diva.
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, where things like the Vortex to slow.
Nanno for Shu in 15% knife now off the passion has got sim instead to help with that front load of damage
Do you think they put the nanobus onto banar and just send him in with Ram menace's form and pommel on through
Vardisboar's front line?
Possible, I mean yeah against something like Landon it's going to be very effective but that golden box victory is so close from this choke point
Popper's wall could be quite annoying here for Vardisboar to kind of fight into
There is going to be the next one, like you said, just straight down at the middle here,
Psycho going dangerously low, 1 HP in fact is gone on,
Swing and hits him over the head, there's 28 seconds to go and VP needs to retreat.
No, Landon has to stay alive, he's got the amp!
Zeta, that's it!
Beget the bad 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, what is this? Knife over the top with the Sim?
I mean, Vile's got Catnap, you can just use the Catnap onto Landon
So that you deny the ultimate uptime for Virtus.pro.
Yeah, as soon as that goes down, you know that countdown is coming in.
While they're going to get a touch at the very least, it's going to be the D.Va that gets there in time.
There's been our holds down the front line.
The countdown's going to come in, can't you give the steal?
The D.Va away through is just non-factor in the fight.
OT ticking through, but look at the beam damage coming through for Nife right now.
But our ends are going down, however.
A savior, perhensually.
Shoe hits a fat anti, but is it actually enough?
Psycho-short, Ty shot the beam fully, tall.
I find it rather, but Kevster is just letting waste of him.
But she comes in again.
It's only Vyla on the point, and the 1v1, but he's a very bad,
another touch, a wall, nice, but ah, they've done it!
Realchorey's nations, a nail-fighting end.
Oh my goodness, it comes down to catch the try to get the dead eye off, panicking, probably
thinking, is she about to get sleep darted up?
I have no defences, I have to just pop it now and hope that I do enough that my sim can
follow on through, but the diva is still in play.
And Bernard is able to use the boosters and push him off contesting the cart.
It comes down to the absolute wire all of the time that Virtus.Pro lost on second point of Rielto.
Comes back to haunt them on third.
Look at this freakish stat line from Bernard.
40 Elimps to nine deaths.
Insane damage from Knife on the Bastion of course, but just an insane amount of Elimps.
It feels like he was almost involved in every single kill at that point.
I mean, Shoe32 assists.
Oh
No, it's they absolutely all those things it was like it's straight up the ante needs and what are even more impressive is the fact
That like you're using them against diva who's there with things like defense matrix
But because so many of them on second point will lineups
You're not expecting the ante come through and here you have those specific times you have to matrix like every
Door yeah, yeah every single door you're going through you have 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 to 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 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 capstra, I think
Yeah, and then you can just like relay when you want to send your Anna anti-nade in when they're about to walk so that you get the most
Disruptive here of purple possible so it cuts right through the walk time
And I have was freaking in the green room right now
That's all I know crazy. We're gonna probably like yeah, that's that that's you
Two things
ridiculous though from vertus pro losing that map. Yes moxie
But in that fashion like so that was one be ones at the very end like yeah, it doesn't get much closer than that
EME a second seed coming into the tournament after going down to twisted mines in the finals world champions
You're 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 five
Obviously, map 4 now coming up in just a moment, but where do we pivot now if you're Virtus Pro?
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
like Numbani out of the way. I think like 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 Zayda taking you to Numbani with the bastion cat fully in play.
I like where you going? I'm picking up where you putting down.
Because VP they're not running the bastion cat right? Bastion cat was on the table there for realto but they were much more happy to just play a counter composition to it.
Having the Baptiste being able to help out with that hit scan, Kev's just so lethal on the Cassidy with the six shooter.
If you're not going to play it, you want to ban it, with how disruptive the Bastion Cat
has been.
It might not be 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.
A ludicrous final fight.
I mean we can look at it here in this replay.
It's it's burn out with that run as well the nano vs full sending in diverters pro's team and that shot was so filthy too
I mean this was Kevster really playing it what felt like a hundred and ten percent
Yeah, he's putting up big numbers on the Cassidy
Look at that yesterday on gender town like that is ludicrous and it's back. It's old-school Kevster
He's back. Yeah, it feels like it feels like no face Kevster where they were feeling on the other gladiators like this guy is a
a menace and he will tear up the scene and he continues to kind of do that and it's continuing on
an international stage too. Like the guy's not lost it. It's insane stuff from Virtus Pro.
A couple of minutes before we get back into this next one. Man number four coming up. Kingsrow?
It's going to be a Kingsrow pit. Yeah, Kingsrow and then likely a Bastion or a Cat. A lorry.
So, huh, Bastion Cat makes it through yet again, unless Zeta decided to ban it out here.
I mean, you don't have to ban Bastion Cat here.
You could also play like Mizuki Ana, Mizuki Kiri, Mizuki something.
Like, that has been shown already by CR, so we've had the Mizuki ban, so...
We've also had the Violet Elari be a standout for you to have to worry about.
But again, I find it strange that they're going for the Ellari because it sort of forces
Violet onto the cat line.
VP overthinking it, maybe, a little bit, but maybe not too much.
I have to see what Smash has been cooking with this, King's Row.
And then if we need to go to the fifth map, New Queen Street, Bruna's Saapi.
They use the Tracer Band too, on Rialto, which means that you won't have it here in King's
Row to be able to use.
Yeah, there it is. Larry Ban comes on through from FirstPro. Zeta taking away the sim and again that sort of goes back to how
Frequently sim has been used in the the EMEA
They got the sim virus
We can find a way to slot sim into the complex sim, Ryan, old school SR peek check for like the true
OG London spitfire with theirs as well and then like we play sim with everything. Sim Bastion
for sim virus
But it makes a lot of sense because like the King's Row especially being able to go from the lower ground to the higher 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 do 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 sim TP's on realtor first
It's like maybe we'll use a full sim TP to push that team into your backline
So your Diva has to give a ball that space but surprise actually in the front line instead and now we have car push
This is this match is delivering a whole lot more than I expected and I'm so happy for it
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
meta that was very much about pushing these American and EMEA teams out of
their comfort zone.
None of them had experience but playing the Bastion Cat,
but crucially as well, playing against it.
have to just taking a sit down just a small bathroom break I'd imagine and
just make sure they're ready for hopefully a longer series for them but
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 limber. I'll say that right now.
Here's the stats from just Rialto 152 a limber to 115 on the other side. Look at the
deaths though 56 deaths on Virtus Pro in comparison 9 separate I mean that is
yeah I mean Zeta we're 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 because
Virtus Pro like landed with the map this is a hero that he is known for yeah
He is the Baptiste 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 Deva, playing right in front of the Amplification Matrix, the Face Tank it,
One Defense Matrix, 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 cast gets the damage boost,
the back 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 on to land when he's isolated.
Is Ipanas staying as well? No Milgari, only for control there for Zeta Division.
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. Wrecking Ball is decent on maps like Numbani,
you've got destruction 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 Kintro.
Alright, slow it in. Upper semis, here we go.
Zeta Division up two, sitting on match point versus Virtus Pro.
I knew with that single game there on New Junk City,
but what a map it was, a four round or four point map,
point map but three of them were just VPs just just sheer domination and from
Kepster specifically like on that Cassidy let's load into Kings Row then
there they was want to finish this one up right here right now first row you
know EMEA kind of living this one up they want to take this to a map five
It's home ground territory.
Zeta division starting off on the defense and here it is banned out before Violet is on the Mizuki
and Bernard likely theorized stays in to be able to play the Sigma.
This is what we saw in Circuit Royale yesterday.
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 whole hot echo in these kind of comps against the far as well
Right like cycle 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
It's just so flexible to the widow from kevv.
Then voli, but not sticking on it, so yeah, it's just to get a little bit of damage as
you walk out from spawn, but burner will be able to shield off the most of it.
Kevvster sticks on the widow a little longer since they had that high ground presence before
swapping to the soldier, and over the back of that, Virtus Pro, they've actually been
able to get that way through Choke, looking to either walk onto high ground with Vizaria
potential or onto the point of Osatia to ball.
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 map
here on this high ground, look at this crossfire.
Oh, good mail order. She loses line of sight for a moment, but that's the mail order gone,
Psycho now uses it on the point. Osatia Division have to have knife anchor to stop VP from
getting cat.
Super nice skill there from Bernard. It's it's really tough for that as pro here because they have to deal with shoes somehow
But like we haven't got a telephone. Yeah, we've got this speed boost like it's the male. It's tough
It's it's cycle using the male to cut off the line of sight from sheer, but then the problem is that more cable surely
But now
Don't they catch to get away with a kill like kill on Kevser there we go
Yes.
Virtus 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 Shu, they're not running down Viola
And you can see that he's already almost at Nanoboost
Pretty hard for Ice Noon to stay on this point too, with only a couple of obovels, has to use them on himself more than likely
Nye's gonna be the one point present
Wow, that was a shot
Knife the nice little headshot strains the block and verse pro. Yeah, they're backing up all the way to their own show
Oh potentially a pick here on to ice norm as well
Yeah, see the moment knife with that may well though and verse pro denied more time having to wait for the czar to disengage
Rush for land and double support ultimate for zeta nano already online for shoe
Even this sanctuary as well ice walled off for a brief moment knife gets shut down though by Kevster all in the flux
Incredible use of free will there by Bernard. Ends up whiffing that one completely.
Bernard and Phyla 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 Zeta can keep a hold of things like the Nanobus if the fight goes long once the Kyrgyzoth ended.
But the flux whiffs, Virtus.Pro gets the kills and Zeta 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.
Against this Graviton, against the Blizzard, like...
It's sort of the answer for lacking Sandbarrow.
Oh, they're gonna try and go in. Rock ends up hitting the bubble there, Vice. There will be a nana boost. No, Peth 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 Zarya so that you're a big beefy target
You can play in front of the OC you get the health reset you drop onto kedsa
You deny the spread using the overclock to break through the choke and it forces ice now to have to use the gravity on
Aggressively which means that violet can react with that sanctuary as kedsa onto the Cassidy
It's actually looking for a flank just to blow this fight wide open
Psycho is actually on the flank right now.
He's going to reappear with the rest of the team.
Wow, Sator back all the way up.
Wow, they're giving them a choke.
I mean, they can play around corners though.
Like, they've got bananas to take the space back,
or they can use the Sanctuary.
They're playing reaction.
They want to know where the Graviton comes out.
They've got Benar's ult charge already.
They're already at 80%.
There is the Blizzard Graviton surge.
Benar doesn't have getting nanoed,
but he's so far away from the team of the Grasp,
he's actually going to save him.
The Shields, and they're coming up in time as well,
as Kester ends up getting deleted.
Nice Sanctuary from Violet 2 does protect the back line there.
The pocket on Bernard, just ridiculous.
I mean it's the grasp and then the shield and then the amount of healing even though he's outside the sanctuary and a couple of flanks.
Flanks.
And Bernhardt.
With the first one, did not with that second on the high ground now as well.
Fixie used the time barrier, it doesn't save London.
Ooh, okay, but through that shield as Bernard does end up getting felled.
Yeah, they're trying to get the walls, they're trying to trap someone in, but they're already
out of the game.
I mean, you've got Blitz coming on through from Nife, Vittespoir don't have a great
answer to this, outside of the Zarya, Bubbles coming on through from Ice.
Where's the pick coming from?
Vittespoir, they're looking to try to set up an off-angle, which they can control.
There's the Blitz, they're trying to get Ice, he's already got a Bubble, and he manages
to get away, beautiful stuff, nice kite.
It gives them space to they've been able to take away the caps of flank coming out to put pressure on the backline
So she was boarding up the nanoboost
Entirely uncontampled
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
Shoot with the nanoboost could go onto the aircomb might go onto Bernard just to have the stability and push into vertice point space
Man insane push and pull here from VP and Zeta Division just trying to get flanks on each other trying to get the upper hand
his ice pushes the tempo, nano onto proper, soundbar from fixer does hit five, they're trying to run down this back line here,
Viola's going to be in trouble, they're just going to get burned down by Kevser, in fact,
that's that smack to the face of the melee.
They end up training for Slyker and Shoes are alive, plus they have to.
Yeah, the ice is so close to the ground and you've got Viola out, so there's no defense against...
They're trying to run down, Shoes, Shoes got to get out.
Nice wrap around from VP and there's no healers left.
Nice is a hundred energy. Nice calling from Thirdis Crow 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 point to contest this? Looks like they've given it.
Proper might have been able to get behind, but Kester catches him out on the
Cassidy. Encyco 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. Brode just stood there, didn't move.
move shot it, made him recall it.
Time to play around corners.
Whoa, what a rock!
That's one ulti-leted Katsune rush,
but here comes the sanctuary from Violet.
Oh, the flux still manages to connect.
Kinda shocked that one here.
I think Ice is probably feeling the same way.
Like Grav from Ice Potenti,
that's why everyone's getting faster and faster.
Oh, it's a faster Grav as well.
Oh, and they're, I mean, they're still surviving too.
I mean, what an eight from shoot,
He's getting everybody up like instantly.
Yeah, proper go for the coffin to the Zarya 2 to be able to get extra bubbles.
Free graph.
He's got to throw it out at some point.
Catches landed.
And then leads him as well.
Shoe with the headshot.
Proper dupe graph, does it for Zeta?
Vyla's back fast here.
He swaps onto the Juno to be able to rejoin the fight and take it 5 vs 5.
Fixes right to get the Sion barrier up, but Shoe has the mana boost.
And Zeta can continue to try and apply all of his pressure onto Verus Pro and run the clock down.
the clock down. Final fight territory here. The Fixer has to use the soundbar 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, Kess is in trouble. The icebox is going to 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 Propper and Anti onto Kevster. Reels him backwards as Propper gets
double. There's 20 seconds to go. Flights over. Potentially kill onto Kevster. Bernard's using
the shield to depth block line of sight so the may falls early. Vixx is onto the Gino,
desperately trying to get onto this point to activate the OZ for the speed ramp. They walled!
They walled! They walled! The ice can't get through! 1 second, 0.1. He manages to get there in time.
It was a wraith form in the end from Psycho that gets the touch. The flux though, the nano boost.
Buttersport don't have good answers to this.
The flux is unbelievable.
And Psycho goes down with the deathmoss.
And Rock from Bernard sends Fixer to the Stone Age.
Ice ends 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 Cyco'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 nah, again, 20 and 3
leading the server in damages while sitting at 11k. I mean, he's been on absolute fire,
he's also getting all of the space because of Viola and Chu just being able to keep that Sigma up.
If they want to continue in the series, the line has been drawn in the sand.
It's not a full push.
You 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
Psycho on the make heads are 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 the Zara
So potentially use psychos walls just to be able to go from the low ground to the high ground
But then you're not using them aggressively and say this team is Zedah. 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 Virtus.Pro will struggle against that being the M-Raid
Rob the master of all is chosen the farer for this bout
So much range
Yeah, that knife has with the scope and Virtus.Pro they just can't chance the cost
You give up that high ground 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 Kevster not having a fun time utilizing the flashbang to 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 good is for one
Yeah, there's gonna wrap around here but ice actually gets anti
Well, like it's proper. It's just straight disrespecting VP right now with this flank
They've already forced the block as well. Nape was a little bit too early, but he's got the backup
I mean, but nice in here
Little wanky one
He pulled him into the Octagon and he didn't have a single finger on him.
Psycho had no ability to escape in that fight and that's gonna be point for Zeta.
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 Verbespro don't have
alternates to be able to hold Zeta off at the pass when we had to first fight on
second which means that proper is going to be so disruptive here on the far
off of the May onto the Tracer knows that Violet on the Juno is vulnerable to the One Clip
There's no brick to be able to keep the Tracer in check
The server I protocol is going to be dangerous for 90s 10% away. He's been farming on the MRA
No diva as well ice is on the Zarya so no defense matrix. No shut down for VP
It's just so hard for ice to stay up like landing has to be
Playing his a game right now. I think they're getting jumped on but look at the support coming in from Violet
They're trying to go in.
Yeah, I mean, they want to be able to go in.
If Landon uses the rush, Bernard just offsets them 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 a backline.
They could completely trade his faces right now.
Because playing the mad hatter.
But Bernard is just crunching them as they try and escape.
There's four minutes to go.
The idea was there for VP,
but I tried to cross this small, like, area towards hotel
and she's got decimated.
I mean, Sigma is not normally an aggressive tank known for taking space,
but because he's getting so much healing and the orbital ray there from Violet,
Bernardus gets to play as aggressive as he wants.
The Riddish pro do have the Graviton, this could be the turning point,
but Knife with the Override Protocol is going to blow the fight wide open to save the space.
They have to back off, they can't afford to lose anybody,
he keeps around the corner, he's going to get the hint today,
and the nice little Suzer there is going to keep the light of the ice,
it just blazes him down.
It's a Graviton search as well, he's going to hit,
the hip and the Rocket Bracelet, and eliminate Aysir and pick up Fixer is a high noon for
Kedster, but you're not welcome here. Proper with three. Kedster, no way 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 Fara. Damage reduction, there's not a
lot of time. Virtus.pro onto Aysir on Diva just to be able to try and stall Zeta off
and give VP a chance at one more fight perfect to use the beat and give verbs for a second chance.
Our last map was close, but this is feeling anything but right now as Virtus Pro won their last lifeline.
They've got a sound barrier. Zeta haven't got any ults here. Beats to force the tempo,
but Nas on the wrong side of the fight gets picked. They'd only got three though. Catch the psycho,
not caught by the sound barrier, but they've got the picks on the back line. Shoe falls.
Don't let him get another one. Surely not the exit on to the Lucio.
Ice is doing everything that he can to keep Fixer up and Virtus Pro skin of their teeth by the sound barrier
Survived in the upper bracket for now because Zedah division they've got four minutes Jaws
They can just play to take a fight that they're comfortable with force land them to use the rush
But our potential builds up the flux disrupts the momentum and then Zedah division with the overall raid get the last laugh
Trying to force the position of ice known now. I think I 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 hinting a there's actually gonna hit with a flux does man she connect with ice though a nice little suzu
Keeps him live at the moment as well as that rake coming down fire. He's gonna be so tough to fight into
There is gonna be a self-destruct for ice them to keep him up at least for a couple extra moments
This kept some pops the high noon. He's in the small corridors fire in the back line
What's your he's so close to the nanobus does that I still think it's one of all it's not
Not with that pit from Kevster!
And Virtus Pro yet again sees Zeta Division off!
Oh my God, I kill!
Three minutes?
Double DPS ults though, and Nano boost for Zeta.
Virtus Pro have to hold Zeta off from getting aggressive and here it comes!
This was the thing that broke open in real-to!
Nano boost onto Burner and the Rematch to take the space away from Virtus Pro,
but full fixic and battery up the beat!
They've got this Blizzard too, Iceland needs to eat this.
There's just so much for Iceland to do, so much weight on his shoulders right now for
Virtus.
Pro.
Oh no!
What?!
Scythe Pro gets eliminated instantly, a Thrip!
The Blizzard gets thrown out by Knifes, while he's all falling apart, Knifes gets a double!
Oh dearie me!
Nano not even required!
Landon takes down Shu, but Sada on top!
Virtus.
Pro!
They made it look close, but Asia's number one great supreme
We get a rematch in the upper finals
It will be crazy racoon 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
in comparison to the performances in the group stages. And yes, they leaps and binds 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.
They pulled maps off Zeta. Yeah, they almost got Rialto.
They almost got realtor. It really did like come down to a one versus one versus one versus one.
Yeah. 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 bashing cap 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 absolutely bang a four map series. You mentioned it already,
crazy raccoon Zeta. It's going to be a rematch. However, Virtus.Pro are knocked down to the
lower bracket. They got no more lifelines left. They're going to join 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 the home crowd, though, is Zeta. Well, Prosti 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 on these two teams map,
there was a seven map. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We're going to quickly jump down to the stage, though,
So for a quick interview, we'll see you in a sec.
For our big congratulations on getting the win, I want to ask you about after losing New
Junk City, were there any changes that the team had to make in order to secure a win?
What I want to ask is, unfortunately, you lost in New York City.
What was the advantage of the team?
How did you win the game after you lost in New York City?
We were going to try our best, but I think the opponent did a good job of preparing for our counter-attacks, so let's try to play a little bit more.
I think that's what we were going to do.
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'd like to go with the style I had planned, but the opponent,
VP, was pretty good at countering it, so I thought I'd change the style and move on to the next game.
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 match? How confident are you that Zeta could defeat crazy raccoons tomorrow?
Tomorrow is the upper bracket final, so we will be fighting with Crazy Raccoon, but how confident will you be in the Zeta division?
I think it will be a very interesting event. The Zeta and Raccoon match will be held, but will you be able to win tomorrow?
First of all, we won the last Raccoon finals, but I think Raccoon is really good these days, so I think it will be an easy game.
But we have won this game, so we will try to win it again.
We will try our best.
as well. 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 Kevster 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 that the Korean teams purposely kept hidden. Everyone was like is it a big composition? Is Mizuki really that good?
good. No, it turns out. 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 ban it out.
Well, 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.
I'm here to 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.
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 Kat Bastian,
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
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 like 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 Cat 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 and then yeah I guess the same thing with Kings where we
We kind of gambled that we could beat it.
And then map-free, in theory, they can't play it.
But if you lose, every decision's bad.
And also, I mean, with losing, you also
gain another experience to move forward.
As a coach, at this time right now, 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 way,
I think as 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 realise is the gap between us and the teams that we
want to be able to compete against is too big right now, like it should be
closer than it is, I think.
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Yes, Danny. Hello.
You can speak Japanese as well, right?
Thank you very much.
It's the first time I'm speaking in two days.
It's a fun time.
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Cargo, still out there, still doing the good deeds out there.
That twist of mine, Jersey Barrow, was definitely cargo-sized.
It definitely was.
That one was so fitting, guys.
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.
Yes, set a 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 dig.
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. Realtor was so close. Overall though,
I think that, you know, you have to give a lot of credit to Zeta Division.
Bernard was having an insane series as well on that Sigma, but focusing back into that
VP Moxie, I really am impressed with how solid Kepster 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 Iceland, I feel like so, more of
the inside of the world than the rest of the map duration.
But they were able to come through, pull a map against Zeta Division, and you saw it
at the end when we commented when we were casting, when they were doing the Handshake.
They were happy, 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 to pull the map against Zeta, you're coming into this as
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 Europe 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 said, Ash.
So, yeah, what will we see from these two teams?
Because neither of them is going to be super partial to playing the Cat Bash meta.
Now, both of them have an opportunity to play their own strength,
Syroge, 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 Bash didn't 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 100 to 0 on that first point, and then it's 100 to 0 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 Junk City, to sweep it away from both sides.
Yeah, and also just quickly want to mention Mizuki went still through the roof.
Also, it's got to be meta because VP bans Mizuki and they win a map.
just throwing it out there.
If Zeta and Crazy Raccoon are both playing Mizuki,
like for sure it's META.
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, OK, do we see?
Diem is one of those teams where I can see them pulling
the funny out.
Exactly.
You know, I'm pulling the Mizuki out here.
I think CJ is one of these players in this double flex
support lineup that's been so consistent.
Luke, you know, is the one that we always talk about
because of how aggressive he gets on Betalari,
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 look, you know, having that flexibility
and also potentially forcing out a ban on the Alari since the sport don't really play
it themselves could be really strong. It's also like we had weeds on the desk yesterday,
right? For our 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?
Was there a particular crack in the armor that they could abuse just based on what they
saw VP playing against Crazy Raccoon?
I think you want to get rid of
the Zarya during one of those
masks. 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
Zeta were responding in that
match, though. I mean,
potentially this are also
potentially the diva something
that you and I were talking
about in the back before the
or the signal could actually be a really good shout for Dallas Fuel.
Yeah, it's definitely going to be a different series 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 that might be this gentleman's agreement.
Looking at the predictions here, I had to go with Dallas Fuel.
I just think overall their skill ceiling is higher than what we've seen 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 gonna call me up for the licensing bias.
So yeah, I would do that to hear that.
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 ruling 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 by a spot, 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've got to both bring
their A-game because this one is for all the marbles, their playoffs lives are on the line,
Dallas Fuel and VP will crash after a short break.
First of all, this team!
Battle floor!
Let's go!
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Welcome back to the Ode WCS Champions Clash here live in Tokyo VP vs Dallas Fuel and we
had to bring in our NA EMEA expert Avril and 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 come out here for that event.
I mean this is the game, this is the game that people should care about NA vs EMEA
Is like the rivalry right? I mean we got we got Asia in there. Yeah, Japan and China. What the really and a yeah
That's what it's all about man
I was really impressed with the 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 look fared pretty well against crazy record
I think they had a decent showing but VP definitely played Zeta way close in the game that we just watched so right now
Probably a little scary for Dallas also VP pretty warmed up
They're just kind of playing black to back.
I mean, maybe you jump and shred this one versus Dallas field who are gonna need to spend a little bit of time in the practice room to
Get themselves going but given how good VP played
I mean, I think VP should feel good about going to this game. Absolutely and that's one thing
That's always kind of a you know, highly 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 set so it's VP's map 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 of early Oshiz so far first bands are going to be Anna and Diva
Targeting Iks
I mean you saw how good Ices Diva was in that game versus Ada no surprises down
He's also going to come in, also Kellan, by the way, on the Dallas side.
He's a main tank player.
He can jump on the D.Va, but he doesn't prefer it.
He wouldn't like it if he just didn't play the D.Va.
This is a nice asymmetrical ban 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, right last year, this team kind of comes out with Vessel 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 puro pools 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 bout and our Kepster has had quite
a turn around.
I think early in the year, news of him moving towards the headscam position was like, ooh,
how's this going to go?
But now that we reach Champions Clash, dude, his cast so far has been deadly.
It's been disgustingly good.
Chronoks need to show up today.
No, it's always awesome to see Kepster kind of, now back on top, back on the main stage
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
And then 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 and watch 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 Wu Young so far,
I mean that's something that he did also play in the Crazy Raccoon game.
One of the few teams on the few plays that's willing to go in that direction.
Let's see if any of the teams will actually go into the Camp Bash.
Notably, Camp Bash had not banned an opening map.
And I think both of these teams, not that one to play, it bakes on the previous matches.
So, they're going to get him in agreement this one, just handshake it away.
No Camp Bash in place, a normal honest overwatch.
With a chance to see what VP decides to do here is, yeah, the Cassidy's available.
He's been kind of locking that in the entire event.
So, Psycho gonna go over and play Tracer,
gonna can play in some sim and then also some Reaper here as well.
Sondra gonna come out and play the far.
So, this is actually a comfort Dallas field
that a lot of other teams are actually running with the Mizuki, right?
But they're playing with the Wuyo.
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, they fight so far.
Kevster has his work cut out for him
because he needs to be the one shutting down Sondra.
There's no D.Va as a reminder.
Yes, I still actually get 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 gonna have the speed to get them back towards the point.
Close the gap, get past this Sigma shield.
One-to-one so far, but this point's still very open for either team.
I still got quite low in that fight.
Please be careful about how he approaches Kevin.
Ultimates still a little further away.
I still need to be again though.
Damn it, now.
He's just getting chunked with rockets from the side, from the Zungeons.
Kev is in a robbed spot.
Nice claims that comes on through the roll here.
Cab using the movement, just not good enough there to stay alive.
The far has really been an issue early.
Why about Ice making it out of Fortsch?
He got on a sliver, but still finished off now onto Vasari.
Like you mentioned, a little bit earlier.
Landon, a little bit closer than 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 out with.
What do you think of Vasari in the thick here?
Swap.
I'm certainly going to give some capability for Ice to have a bit more safety in terms
of the bubble usage here.
He's just going to be personal on his post.
He doesn't have like great bubble targets.
Still not great into unfortunately, the Farah though, so he's causing issues.
I mean, hey, that's an odd trade though, right?
The Farah and the Lucio kind of trading out here.
You do have the Katsune rushes for both sides.
It's going to be CJ popping his as well as Landon Bacronik with a huge rail gun shot.
So both supports now down.
Virtus pro gonna be in a really rough spot here is still gonna be Dallas fuel in control of the point fix it is back
It's Azaria bubble there from ice though
He's takes a rocket from Sunjin, but then you're gonna have to wait for land to get back in the fight
I would have lost so available here
Not a lot of great targets and fortune might just drop it onto himself look me know just dive in
Possibly could be used offensively on the Sunjin and when Sunjin wants to go towards his own barrage in nice safety
Burn us broke losing a bit of time again. They need to do something about this 70% plus on to you so far
dead eye for Kev as he's gonna move up here gonna get the speed trend get him
in position nothing really no even damage there it's a Sigma shield that
kind of blocks this they're gonna be walking into that gravid flux here
Trenn and Ike's not personal bubble not enough to save him not close enough to
the sound bad for fix it either so I'm just gonna clean up and that like just
me the end of the first round man I'm not left here yeah the title blast here on
the sun Jimmy he's gonna go in trying to find anybody but everybody around him
up falling. You're not even gonna really even need a challenge at Gravitic Flux. They will get it in the OT. Fixed us so close to a
sound barrier here after all. He's one HP. They needed that. They needed this so badly. Now I see the only one that might get a
grab. Yeah, try and save the day, but you still need to keep this touch going. Cattle with the Flux. And no grab. No, I mean, this
one is GG. That is really rare though, I feel like, because VP obviously, they're the team that just ends up 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 there in that 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 desire also strangely enough when you look towards the mouth of a segment
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, they didn't have a lot to deal with sojourner either who was really putting the damage and after
Iksum 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 he changes over to the Zari didn't even have time to build up a single grab
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 cat bashing here. What all else?
That's one way to deal with a far right you get that bashing right up in the far and stays me nowhere for something go
Now they're gonna be in so this like this close quarter area is tough of the bastion to go into right but that's gonna force them off
The far right away
Which I actually think is really good for VP because I thought the far was the thing that gave them most trouble in that person
I kept still wasn't getting a lot done in the cast and fortune just completely shielded away by killing segment
We still on by the way to make his way in good rock to start things out with it
But as Pro still holding on to cap pretty comfortably for now. What if we kept his next turret form to be available?
Yeah, I mean they're trying to bait them out onto the point right that's when the turret for man the cap
passion can really start to be effective as you can dodge there for just the
second is this angle is so filthy right they're gonna try and like push him out
right going up the staircase but you see some are having to use recall here and
now the turret form is gonna come in he split the team as well you notice that
Kelly actually dropped that way from the rest of the team but look me now on the
other side managed to find Landon is traded for
yeah the side well kept sit down as well psycho is doing a little 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 Fixed End Land in here as well as not able to save Psychos.
So you're popping off here on the Tracer as the Pulse is on, but both supporting a nice shot from VP keeping each other up.
Sooner is here for CJ, wondering if Dallas Phil have a good position to just drop that rush in landed so a little bit further away.
Point still in VP's control so Dallas Phil is powerful.
They get Ice Nome back, this is great stall by VP.
If so, looking, not finding CJ Riftz at Landon, has now found an ult, but then lose.
I come so quickly. VP, have they got to even ult this one?
Doesn't look like it.
Ice just got disintegrated there. I mean, he kind of steps up onto the point after coming back.
I thought it was really nice from Fixxon Landon to be able to kind of get it to that point,
but Ice on steps up. CJ ends up dropping the Kitsune rush, and they just run them over.
Look, they ulted some VP of held ult. We say 5 ult, 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 Kevstar
Artillery here is all fixed to drag Kellen off the map land and going down
It's gonna be a big flop next to reset. I mean you lose a land in here. This is gonna buy so much time for Dallas
So we'll see now
They can keep this one rolling so I still I'm gonna just wait just a little bit
You do end up losing something as easy as the pulse bomb
But now I mean you're gonna be able to use like 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 a land and that's the go ticket fix taking a bunch of damage so it could be a bit problematic
But here we go rip in the consumer watch big response to flux and title boss on the other side
Yeah, the the end of kind of keeping himself alive there can with the artillery is
The ends of getting picked up into the blocks ison with to has the annihilation rolling just trying to find the tracer
It is just up to ice. Well, no, I think he's got maybe. Oh, yeah
No, it's gonna 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 feel dragged up to 65
It's also the equalize in terms of percentage points ice on where the dust settles after annihilation
I'm sorry still in the mix and a lorry now a swap from Luke Mina
No, she's gonna be the cat. He's deciding what he wants to play the cat for the dead I combo has to be exactly why Luke
would want this. Now you're just going to get Chronic up in the sky, escort him to
the nasty angle. It's going to really put a lot of pressure on the ice there in the corner.
No! Kipster! Just rounds the corner and burns him down. I mean it's just, Ike's not in the
open to try and bait out the deadline while that's happening. Kipster turns the corner.
Chronic not ready for that one. VP in his position now. Aerial battle, fix the Texas.
From Lukmino and now it's just up to CJ. Dallas would have done it if anything, let
No further touch, no Cusune rush, and a last minute swap to Sombra and 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 Pharoah was in that round one, and then it looks a lot more even, right?
When you have an assumption 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 is we take a look at some of the Sassu Psycho's.
It's only got one death, which is pretty crazy considering how that first round looked.
He was definitely staying alive, even if EP weren't winning that first round.
They certainly do 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
a team not that willing to play.
Guess what?
Luke has locked it in.
Croix locked it in.
Kellen's coming back with a Sigma.
And Ice is back on the Malga.
Hmm.
This will be interesting, kind of, that the Maga versus the SIG, right?
The ball can obviously just get right past this shield with that stomp onto the stick
but a lot of pressure so we'll see how Ice Nome decides to play that.
Already Chronic taking a lot of damage.
So that was a real battle.
It's going to go the way of Chronic.
Kephz is trying to heal himself back here but not enough healing to save his life.
That was so early opening for the 5v4 here.
Point should be there as well as for a quick reset.
And although Chronic took a lot of damage early he had that turret form available a little
a little bit later, right? So Kev and Co, they get a little bit aggressive around the corner, maybe they can finish the Bastion off, but Chronic just starts
vomiting out damage. So, some trying to make a blink, I went into the back line there, keep an eye on that flank, is Kev now trying to find an angle as
VP is moving away onto the point, ice them dangerously low.
So another situation, reminds me of the opening round, right, where ice was starting on the Malakas, but just couldn't quite find purchase. Yes, you can sort of
Time for the shield, okay?
That was sick.
Wrong range rock from Gellin to just knock Fixer down.
And Ice, just something from the first round, man,
goes from Malga towards something else.
That time was out. Now it's going to go towards the Ram.
And Malga is just not quite getting him
what he's looking for, even if you can charge past 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,
when VP had a best solo,
it was really Sigma that he was kind of playing.
It's chronic using the artillery.
like 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 out of the
Bastion, it would have been huge. You end up losing Landon at the hands of some, so another
fight here that goes in. And, yeah, Isom doesn't even get dragged off the map, because he just
gets deleted there by Kronik as Kellan moves on forward, as dude, they are having so many
issues with the signal, but as I say that, he's used the flux to stay alive. No, just
grad sound of the band. I mean, that's a bite you have control over, right? You probably don't need to use that all.
I don't want to overspend on that one for sure. Dallas Fuel had a player advantage.
And ultimately still pretty cheap for them. Just the catnap for that little skirmish.
Does get exchanged for the catnap of the assault, which is even economically better for Dallas Fuel.
As I go into now, what would be the final fight? Katsune in Russian hand, flux in hand as well.
Super strong combo here. Put the flux into land and Katsune in Russian is going to be deadly.
They 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.
Gravitic Flux comes through, not a lot of damage that comes through from that ultimate.
So, we'll see now as Kallen using the Connecticut Grash, trying to back up, soak some of that
damage in as he gets back on and contests the point.
Well, Kallen'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, but this is thick for the Suzu!
Right on time for Kepster to save his life.
I actually am still in trouble though, so this is not over.
Virtus.Pro barely even let the 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 flip this after all.
Already came down to Kellen, to Kellen, first and foremost, but then getting Luke Mino on top of that one just gives VP
a little bit more to play through, having that play advantage, getting Icestom back with it,
and 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 Istone, winning the fight, winning the map, well, round, rather off that.
Yeah, you have the catnap here available for VP as well, so maybe they can make a play as 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 in the ice
from there on the point already uses the block it's going to be the turret form
here it's going to be the artillery from Kev putting down some damage tried to
back them off the point I hope that's a consumer so they're gonna get aggressive
here Dallas yeah they are gonna going down furthest pro looking to see if they
can get it further kills here here comes Katnav not sure it's going to catch too
many players maybe this one tank going down killing off the edge would just be
the kill they required doesn't quite get him if still going down it's still a
problem he's not alive neither of our bashings are there and a nine legs for
to try and keep this one further forward. Still need to get this flip in, Landon. Coming up, Katsune Rush.
Yeah, and I mean, Fix is still here. You don't end up having to kind of end up using that Katsune Rush just yet.
You're going to have Dallas back out here trying to get another fight. It's going to be above 50% here for K.
Or VP is all you lose, Psycho. That's brutal for Virtus.Pro.
Locked in as well. Kallen trying to lock this one down, clean it up with Dallas Field. No cycle, still in mix.
Chronic artillery on top, but 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 gonna get everybody back in the fight.
Saiko's gonna be here to be able to touch as well.
Gonna get a vortex over to the point. Kellen taking a lot of damage and you have to kill him down.
That's fine, Sun. That's huge.
Just blocking away all the damage. Kanna can't even get a trade here.
Vertas, pro, off the back of Iksnom.
Laying through the defensive capabilities of his Rambi. 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 to 99. They caught up on a fight.
And now you're going to have Kellen going away from the Sigma, which looks really good, but I think this Ram Swap from VP has really paid off.
They've started to hit their strides with the Rematra in play.
Pulse bomb available though from Sunjoon.
CD's able to kind of land a big one potentially onto Kev.
See Fixa there, going to just knock back for just a second.
The Cat finds the tracer yet again.
I mean that is brutal there.
Four Dallas, now we're in OT.
Now you just have to play through, Chronic has to do some magic, and CJ still has to stay alive to find this.
Shirosh, playing against the Miracle Kill, that's gonna be it man, Virtus.pro have managed to make the comeback happen!
Bro, this is such a clutch up from VP as they steal map number one here from the Dallas Fuel.
Averill, that was a nasty comeback by Virtus.pro.
Yeah, and it comes from the fact that, okay, Ike's wants to start on the Malga, doesn't really work for him, makes a change up.
First round, does it run to the Zarya, doesn't quite find the value, maybe probably should have played the Ram.
Didn't even get grabbed on the first round.
However, you look towards with the ramp play on the second and third round,
particularly the Malcolm to the ramp stopper.
Soon as he swaps to the ramp,
there's so much value.
Doesn't really die on point at all.
Final fight preventing the final Katoona rush to cover from Dallas Fuel
to save the day, landing, getting that kill,
burning and stuff.
It's a massive kills from Fixer as well.
On the Jetpack Cat.
Like two or three times in a row, he ends up getting syndrome.
The Tracer for Dallas Fuel, which is so impactful.
And I think you really saw the game turn when VP decided to play that cap bashing, right?
Like, after that first round, when they kind of go to the cap bashing and deal with some of the farra 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 Fixic as earlier on.
You remember the Waybo game as well? It just wasn't playing it.
So you had this sort of bashing ground composition.
Boci Kevser happened to just play the bashing.
No cat support at all. Brown bashing. Classic bashing.
And he kind of made that work versus Waybo, but this time around you see the VP's slide, they're like, okay, you know, versus Zeta as well.
We're gonna make sure we play the real combo, and we can prove that we can't play the cover, even though, typically speaking, looking at a lot of the VP games,
they tried to like, shy away from the Cap Bastion, but if they can secure themselves as the better Cap Bastion team in the Murrigan's Dallas Fuel,
this is now a winning matchup for them that 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 kill Milo and they can't bastion, it actually just catches Dallas completely off guard, right?
They're still playing the bar of syndromes, it goes right over the top, and then he just dies instantly, does not expect the bastion play in there,
and then they never looked really comfy playing against it, so
very nice swaps and adjustments there from Virtus Pro.
I now think obviously the ball is in Dallas fuels court to make some of their own.
You mentioned this as well, but you know, with the Sanger swap over to Tracer,
typically I would like really really trust Sanger on the Tracer. Definitely one of his best heroes.
Sunjin definitely like a star player on the Dallas field. He sort of mentioned Sunjin was first picked a lot on the Tracer.
Yeah, particularly on that third Dallas. They're losing their star Tracer player quite a few times. Yeah, 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 where Dallas ended up getting a map pick, what would you like to see them go to?
them go to, what do you want to see them start to look at to potentially ban?
Circo Royale, and I think you really want to start leaning towards the strength of the
backline. So one thing that Dallas do better than most teams, I think only Xayah in this
tournament can really sort of match in terms of the flexibility of the backline is they
can play double flex support. We've seen the Alari come through from Dallas Field as well.
Luke Minow can just move between so many different like heroes on that support side, something
that I don't think Fixerlander can do quite as comfortably. So Dallas Field played that
Circuit versus Crazy Coon, rocked okay.
I think they can move towards that again, maybe.
No, obviously versus VP.
Well, I mean, if you look okay against Crazy or Coon, right,
or you look awesome just about everybody else.
So it also allows Kellen to continue to play the Sigma,
right?
Correct, yeah.
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.
But Amberley, don't go to Circuit, they actually go to Dorado.
But Dorado is another map you can play, Sigurd Yeh.
Yeah, I think any ESCore map, you could have gone to Rialto here.
You just want to go to something where you can get a good Sigma experience,
a little bit of front to back type of gameplay, really make the poke work.
My question will be, I'm not going to see Mizuki,
because the Mizuki's starting to creep up in the tournament meta.
Something that I don't think many people were expecting coming in,
but obviously we're on the live patch.
Mizuki did get buffs, and where Mizuki is getting playmat is,
in that backline to sort of, I think sometimes it
replicates the break, because break does get
played a segment of the past, but now you have
the sort of AOE healing from the Mizuki,
but with the poke potential from Mizuki
to safely have the guy sanctuary, but also the chains
in that battle is off, having a lot of effort,
being able to just poke down with this own left click.
I think you're like, what a strong poke composition.
Right, like, leaving 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, right?
know 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 or maybe a barrage gets completely you know annihilated by that
ultimate. So curious, maybe the Farah a potential ban here as well like you don't
want to see that if you're a Virtus Pro like that. Something you potentially could
do as far as I can get some play at times on Dorado.
I think if you're Dallas, like, what are you prioritizing right here?
Well, you called the fire right here.
I'm basically the coach of VP.
You might just be Smash.
Yeah.
I hear you talking to the team.
I was thinking you could be looking towards maybe a Kellen Sigma
protected, depending on the priority.
Or it's like, how bad do you want to play the Sigma?
But clearly, 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 that far.
From your point earlier, though, right?
But Dallas is backline in how flexible they are, right?
They get rid of Vakiri here early, which it could be a little bit advantageous them, right?
They have a little bit more flexibility to play some odd stuff.
But 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 cat bashing here,
which could still happen in a map 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 the Dallas Fuel potential for more regaining double flex backline.
You know definitely the larry in there. I know why yeah, I think a large should be able without the Curie god
I'm curious where we actually see VP go to right
No, typically we see I think landings the place back. Yeah
Yeah, that's kind of where I was thinking as a potentially they go back and look look back if you're gonna play like some rematcher comps and stuff that
Kind of like 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 of player
You're not going to have that ability maybe to play some of those, you know, two flex support linings.
I'll forget about the Symmetra as well. One thing I think on the VP side, specifically that they have over Dallas Field,
is the fact that Psycho brings a lot of the Symmetra experience from his time on Twisted Mind last year.
Learned a lot from you being on Twisted Minds, and you saw the Symmetra play versus Zeta the game before.
I thought was a pretty big factor. The point where like Zeta 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 like without the Curie like what is the support that would go with like the cat bastion kind of combination
Right, we've seen a lot of the Curie alongside of that combination
You mean what Anna was cat? Yeah, just a man of the fashion has been a very classic one
So if you are just gonna like default cat bastion that's a pretty good Anna map 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 defense here to open things up and by the way look look
at this we have the Winston from Kelin is all he does want to commit a bit of
felony here backed by the Anna Winston not particularly strong in the meta but
I think you know like we'll see if Dallas feel can make this one work you
don't even really see Jimman get subbed into play Winston these days for crazy
racoon so Kelin's feeling very brave so far obviously it's the win for the gates
to open but the Anna here obviously makes sense if Luke is gonna lock in the cat
I'm expecting chronic to then go towards the bastion then classic cat Anna
Bastion trio yeah it'll be VP using kev on it the Cassidy here to open things up
Dallas feel obviously some opportunities to make some changes we'll discuss that
once they kind of come to an alignment in terms of calm as we have not seen
Genji at all so I want to start sticking on a little are we gonna get okay so
They're gonna play Winston, Winston Genji here with the widow at the start.
So this is like a classic dive with a couple of perk elements.
You have the hard hit to get a long range perk from the widow and the Allari,
but then beyond that a Genji Winston Ana is just like a super classic dive go.
Yeah, they're gonna try and put a lot of pressure on to Kev's Cassidy,
but it's been so good without the tournament.
Chronic obviously get threat to Kevster as well, right,
with just the extra lot sightlines with the widow anchor.
But remember, crazy to come band away, Chronic.
It's one of the way in Dallas you'll took them through the circus,
Now we'll get to actually see what Connick's been cooking.
This has been definitely one of the more hyped up heroes in Chronic's repertoire.
He's down early and forcing.
Can't do much against Leica.
No, I mean there's nobody that can kind of help.
You know, Chronic up there on that high ground, right?
CJ doesn't really have advantage point.
You're not going to have the Allari turret over there where Lukamino, dangerously low as Ice Noam,
just kind of gets in his face with Vixxer.
They barrel him down as Dallas, you're now going to make just a swap here to get Chronic over to the Cassidy here.
A little bit more stink power. I'm not too sure on just kind of the Genji wins any of these been two heroes who have really been
Non-existent in the meta for a while. Definitely you really rely on the Anna here to do a lot of heavy lifting with the Nano boost
So CJ is obviously getting that done pretty quickly in the moment
But it's pro all sorts done to get some of these alpents
Landed 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, would mean only to stay alive if you have a Dallas ULT.
Good positioning on the payload, will this eventual nano push, but you don't want to have Sungeon down.
I mean, sure, you're gonna have the ability to nano play, they 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 play here,
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 Seizure's nanoing the wrong person, or chronic was about the dying,
he felt like he really needed to say something.
I mean, maybe, I was like, is it, was it supposed to be,
maybe the intended was to go onto Kellan,
but then you would have, you would have rallied
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 Sunjun was there.
That's the other point, Matt.
There's, they did it 4v5.
Sunjun dies.
So you could have missed him there.
And he had blades.
So you could have just saved it, right?
So a really rough spot.
We'll see if Sunjun can make a hero play
with this dragon blade,
but you're gonna have to fix it with the sound barrier on the other side.
I mean, VP has not been pressured into using any ultimates thus far.
Doesn't look like he found anything, he finds a shot to the face from Kevstar via the dead-eye.
Easy fight win for VP.
Dropping in the actual window from Landon just for safety and now it's been cleaned up onto Chronic Freshly,
onto the Sojourn pick.
Dallas feel like, yeah, this is just, unfortunately, whiff after whiff.
Nano boost didn't get the much value.
Cap to 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 going to have Chronic go back to the Cassidy here,
AWP, and then you're going to have Luke go over to the Brick.
So, the Brick obviously is sort of really good against D.Va,
but like you're in such a rough spot that below a minute,
I mean, Sound Barrier's still saved here.
Exactly.
Four Vertus Pro.
I mean, Kellan with a Primal can maybe be a nuisance,
but man, this is going to be really difficult
because Dallas Hill needs to get some progress.
This will be a brutal spot for the cart to stop.
Vix is just saving it for the blade.
He knows that Sunder's going to pop that on a bench seat,
which means you're not going to get it out of him.
Psycho at least goes down opportunity.
Dallas Hill can find a 5v4 here,
but Kallus already popped the final.
And now you're going to have the sound barrier comes out.
Played.
It's going to be the blade that comes through from Sunjin
just after the beat expires.
So this shouldn't get huge value.
It's going to be two with the blade,
as Isenome's 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 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 nano for sure.
CJ is going to feel pressure to pop.
All that happened.
Popped up the kill.
And of course, big vine and onto the back.
And VP will not win this fight.
But I agree with the choice that's going for the final contest.
Because you are forcing CJ to pop nano, forcing Dallas to use ult.
And what?
I mean, you gave out your self destruct for it, right?
So you give out self destruct.
They end up using a nano.
You still get high ground control, most likely here.
Virtus Pro, a really good defense there. Although Dallas Fuel doesn't stop raking at the end,
not a lot of time for Dallas Fuel. They need the 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 Nanna, because I think that's the 10-point set up for Dallas Fuel when you look at this pump.
They're now playing in even more classic dive countries. You get the Brigana as well.
You really need the Nanna boost to be the initiator here. That's gone off the table,
kept the wall. Just forced Dallas Fuel away. Not going to hit a dead eye, unfortunately.
Nice timing on the rally there from Luke Amino gets the bash there in the cap not enough to finish him off
But land and drops down uses the ant matrix and just fires down on Luke Amino
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 Dallas you'll to get any more progress
Well shut down the rally pretty quickly guys even gets back to me
I could have been tricky if I doesn't get back in the mech
Maybe the Dallas will have a little bit more to fight in there with the land and with the you know, obviously
insurance policy put into play again will win those skills. 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 rudder changes you can make a push up that hill for sure.
It's about the play now the blade is where Dallas wants a candy to find the
value. Yeah sound barrier here for Ficksa used it a little bit early so there was
still a huge value from the blade is it is going to be the nano blade that
And with two players already dead, you don't invest the beat. Love that decision there from British Pro.
The fight already lost. Sunjoon and Keon coming up huge there in the feed and Dallas will keep themselves alive.
I think two things there. One would be the fact that Virtus.Pro were a little bit split, so you wouldn't have had a good value beat.
You would have missed a few people. Obviously, then you talked about the KFC.
More important though, Matt, is look at the time remaining.
Now that you've saved beat for what will be the final fight, you're okay.
We'll lose to the nanoblade, but when it hits zero on the overtime, we're gonna have to be in advantage.
It's gonna be a pulse bomb there from Psycho, doesn't connect with anything.
Kellen gonna have the primal rage there, maybe just gonna dislodge players off the high ground, but...
Lukimino, it's a just imp-
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.
Let's go back to the cart, yeah.
Psycho's down to a 5v4, Dallas coming in for chronic and Siv, this is capable for sure, especially with Kephs down.
And down, Dallas still have just given themselves another point to play with.
And Virtus.pro, I think they just pulled the combo too early.
A dead-eye and a sell barrier, so quick before the OT hit map, which means Dallas
could just back out, kite away from Kips' dead-eye, and then come back in with their own.
And Dallas may be able to finish the map, man.
I mean, you're looking at something, getting this blade fixed is going to be
nowhere close to beat.
Probably at that time, you're going to have to have the blade probably before there.
And you might be able to kind of complete the map, which is crazy, because we were
Basically just gonna write Dallas off for dead because it didn't look like you're even gonna get the first point
So it's be a huge comeback here for the Dallas fuel
It's gonna be the rally as ice them goes in trying to get some eyes on the CJ here for surviving
CJ beating Kevser as double cast these Dallas are far a DMACC into the self-destruct ice number not get back
It's mech VP losing this further fight give a Dallas feel a bit more of a chance. You said Matt very capital 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 as players
from Bird of Throat.
And no baits, by the way.
Yeah, yeah.
No, there's no bait on the other side for VP and they're just funneling out here onto
the cart to just stall time, right, just stall time as much as possible.
I think of your VP though, 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 the swamp.
The further this escorted payload goes, the worse it gets for VP in the same cell.
You can't just kite the blade either.
Previously you would be able to.
We're going to hit the final fight here.
Sondre is going to have to pop this.
Combo has to come through.
Mid, he does feel this is their moment.
Payload is in an okay place.
Certainly capable within one fight, within one nano blade.
Yeah, they have the nano and the blade.
Oh!
That is a sick, sick thing that comes in from Psycho.
The nano goes on a kill and so they don't even get it for the blade.
It could be tricky.
I mean, you don't have a play here.
Sondre still needs to pop play.
They're gonna get beat they're gonna get beat here for fix it
It's gonna be the ant matrix in the corner from Landon is 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 it comes through and
VP Avril looks like they may be able to get a hold
It's looking likely especially with the sport advantage there's fall ice nearly all to himself to struck
But I want to give a matter Dallas you have not managed to finish the map that that was doable
It 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 Presidiant, which ended up making him with
the Nano.
He's like, I'm going to die here.
I've got to drop the Nano to somebody.
The only person he sees, I think, would have been Kellen there.
And then you dunk in the Nano blade, and then the beat comes through, because the fight
extends a little bit.
And now you get to beat against Sondra's blade, because he takes so long to pull it through.
I think if Sondre just like had the timing there earlier before the beat comes through,
which there was some percentage point of work with, that could have been a winning moment
for Dallas.
I think it's as simple as like Dallas was just a little bit slow to go there, right?
They had the opportunity, they were just kind of like waiting and waiting and waiting and
like IceNome did a great job just kind of contesting the payload, right?
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?
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 I go wait for it because you're not gonna pick it to D. But you have to worry about that
You don't go in right you're not gonna because here because you don't have to worry about the suzer
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 who to work with and you made it work
And then because the fight got delayed again fixer finds being Dallas feel you said Matt
just too slow to get the feet off the ground. And Dallas here on defense, they
will play Kellen on the D-Buzz, so you're gonna have an auto-weaing backline, and
Sunjun gonna play the Echo, which I'm a little bit worried, okay, so let's see
what they decide to do, because it looked like VP gonna opt to play some Sim. I was
a little bit worried from Sunjun's perspective about Psycho playing a
Tracer, which is like really good against Echo. So two things here is, traditionally
action on Dorado, this first opening rooftop section, Echo is actually pretty
But you're also playing into a sim, which I think you get extra value, however, you do Dada Kipsler.
Aw, it's, uh, man, Dallas. So close.
You know, that even getting a map completion there would have been huge.
And now you lose your Echo right off the rip here, as Isam going to try and control some of that high ground.
So, 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.
way you're gonna have to echo back in the fight but at a long distance this
hindered there on the kill-in is does not look like they're gonna be able to get
the kill though nice shot from Dallas keeping him alive well look Muno goes
down and the payload is moving forward this could just be a one-fight one cap
here Dallas feel strong to find any sort of momentum in terms of getting a
counter-trade not gonna happen Kifster by the way it's about to find dead eye
really fast dead eye here from Kev as you do have Kellen go on in but they have
the TP to kind of get players out picks are here on the brig able to deal with
the Diva and that is a burst point take that is lightning fast here from
Virtus Pro now you're gonna be able to get high ground five minutes on the
clock gonna be very difficult to constantly kind of dive into this like
big bat setup straight away look at Kelly just swapping away from the Diva
again not one of us comfort heroes he wants to play something he's a little
bit more familiar with. What if they think better into this? I almost think it's worse.
Probably. It probably is worse. Probably you have to think about Kelly's hero pull
right like he's not known for Diva which causes some of the problems yet
which means once again this is gonna be a CJ Nano onto Kelly and 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, 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 kill in that area, as Flukimino is going to use the title last year on himself,
doesn't come up with anything with the Sun, it's going to be the Ant Matrix here which
is forcing them into a weird spot.
Dallas, they tried 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.
Bio rather also hits Fixer, that's gonna take care of the rally.
First pro, trying to heal their way back in towards this fight, so one-for-one.
Support's back, no defense, Kayla, no support there.
I just don't get back into mech, you would think at this point as well,
but you could be VP, Tank, Advantage, CJ, trying to make his way back into the fight.
So, when he uses Nanna...
Yeah, but I mean now, you know, Fix obviously here, coming back on the Lucio,
not gonna play the break here.
You're gonna have the Sim wall to work with, Dallas, yeah.
You're forced to basically what?
You're gonna have to use the nano here onto Kellen.
Chronic, it feels like the overclock comes on through
and they do find the kill, that is huge.
So you end up using the overclock and the nano here
for Dallas, it feels like VP obviously knows
this fight is potentially a lost cause.
They are just gonna kind of find what they can
and then get out, but already a lot of cart progress.
So the first fight with the Dallas field
is all the stabilization flight, like to call it,
where they get to dig the heels in,
count the inventory here a little bit,
The Primal will allow them to be able to stall a little bit longer.
They did get the wall out of cycle, which is nice.
But you can, if you're VP, you can either go on that wrap towards this right-hand side,
where Kellen would be looking, you'd know it's coming.
Or, which they do, they TP right up there, they've got one player pretty low, it's going
to be Luke Aminu who is able to stay alive.
But now you get a pretty sick angle here for this hand matrix with Kev being able to fire
on through.
Yeah, exactly.
That's what the Sim is going to allow you to do, 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, there's Pro and they can move up to the CJ.
I mean that is such sick play there with the same TP, but it's not over yet.
Titled 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 Kella that come up clutch for Dallas.
And that's the thing, right, I was talking about how you need to see Kella get aggressive
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 Kelen's like, this is easy for me. And he instantly gets
to kill the land in the back line, but VP just melts away. Gifts him out, try to open the next
fight up, and does two sides. Oh, it's brutal there. Iesum gets quite low. Doesn't have the
self-destruct just yet, but we'll earn it here in just a second. By losing the echo,
which Sunjin had copied, could end up being the thing that breaks their hold here,
Here's Lukamino now falls.
CJ is going to get the nanos.
You decide to invest it here.
He's done it.
He's popped it onto Kali Danita.
Just like this one.
Allow Sgt. to get back in.
And wow, it's just a freak.
And Kali Danita, well, with the extra coffee
that Sgt. finds, the fight will go the way it does.
In fact, Sgt. probably didn't even need to do that.
Just didn't expect that his team would
pop up that hard.
Kali Danita, both locking in heavy for that falling
fight 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.
It's just the duplicate self-destruct thrown over the top, see if you can find anything.
We'll see if VP are gonna ditch this 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 for Reid, right?
I'm knowing exactly where they're going.
So that CJ angle, by the way, he tried to off-angle the bionary, but doesn't quite find anything.
You appreciate the play, though.
VP at this point trying to find the correct position for the window.
Bad timing to get Psycho down.
Psycho didn't want to end up using the recall there, decides to try and play 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 just a weird spot.
They're stuck in the corner, they're just stuck in a such a place with them down.
Because it doesn't want to age actually, 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 lander, drops on a low ground.
Tries to allow his team to get an angle of the payload, but guess what? CJ drops a huge bionade which instantly forces VP back
And then they can't even use the window. God, know that off the end 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 gonna lingering a boss here. The members of Virtus Pro as he drops on down
It's gonna be the sound barrier used right away and VP's actually gonna decide to fight this.
Killin' just barely making out with his life. Gonna get the title blast there 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 is what I was talking
about really early on with Sunshine 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 off 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 back side, trying to just get, try the payload, diverting attention
away, and that'll feel, suddenly a super spread, and their entire final fight on that B point
just went to Lace a little bit, obviously Fixer got a huge value on that bait.
Not a lot of time for VP though, you do have the Nano Boost here, used on the kill, and
he's going to get right on top of Atlanta, and that is a sick dash through from Sunjani,
he comes up with two.
This is going to buy a lot of time, Ice is going to get staggered out here, you have
already credit CJ as well for that double kill because he dropped the phony on top of the supports in sorenjan a 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's to find dead I to cycle with the pulse bomb that was was big on
Virtus Pro's defense right that's what allowed them to get that hold and this is a great call from Dallas
they go aggressive they collapse right on top of kid up in the spawn they don't
know how to allow them to get close they have to touch here as well
Tracson has to do it so I just got to be the one to go in Kellen's just a lane
that's so far CJ trying to rock the tall and will he do so he will Dallas feel
punch Beth on the second match so that was really close there after all is it
looked like for a while I thought Dallas you know 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 deep
ends there. I mean what? And VP after their first point take had like 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 coming up with some huge pulse
bomb kills. And then on the other side, I mean, Kellan playing the Winston, which
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 Winston succeed, your
Ana has to be really on point as well.
He's building those nanos up, beautiful bionades at multiple times, and a lot of those bionades
were fight willing.
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 Sondren. That was set up again by a Binder. So I think CJ was
kind of an unsung hero of this map for Dallasville. Yeah, and just a sick player for Dallas as you
kind of alluded to before this map number two, just a really sick backline from Dallas that
allows him to do a lot of different things. Early on it was not really allowed him to do anything.
I mean they were stuck in the spawn for like minutes
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 4v5
And it looked like it was all bad for Dallas from the B defense
And then Kallen and Cronk just saved the day the overclock
I don't even remember if it's an overclock might have just been the raw rails coming in the Kallen
We've had the primal 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 show 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, Genji is a pick that we really haven't seen.
Really, I mean, the last, like, a year
is kind of falling out of favor with some of the Simcomps
and Rushcomps 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, you know, 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
now for Venus brokers. I think when we both look at this, you mentioned the five minute
time bank after capping air. 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, remember this, you know, the window coming down, the Kelly having the perfect
final in there, shopping up land and getting one of that backline. 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 window plays as they're called set piece for a fight. Two
Two times I can recall distinctly that moment in the bank and the other moment sort of downstairs
on the hard flank with the buyback coming through the procedure to stop it.
Those two big moments really stopping VP's pushes, caught them up way too much on that
B attack and cost them more than time.
Yeah, 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 pushback, psycho already used the recall.
So that is map number two in the books is Dallas field.
They tie it up at one game apiece.
So now it'll be Virtus Pro's opportunity to kind of make an imprint on the series in
terms of the map in 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 against data, right?
So they played the Ram heavily on this map.
Sim is going to be gone.
So Dallas field one none of that they know psychospecialty is going to be on that sim,
which was also by the way, played by VP against Zeta Division.
WuYang out of the mix knowing that Dallas feel one of the few teams
that do want to play the WuYang.
Okay, I mean, it does target Luke a little bit.
I don't think it's the strongest band,
but it is a directed targeted band.
Now that they know that, okay, we won't play the Sim.
It's kill.
We'll play the Tracer.
Our Ram is safe though.
Ram was one of the big picks from Ice
on that map of New Jump versus Zeta.
They got them across the line.
I will say though, Sim also did a lot of works.
To speak, I have to figure that part out.
at least the rest of the team looks good.
Yeah, as we take a look at the tanks here from map number two,
I mean, Kellen really popped off.
And to make this like work on the Winston, right,
where, you know, not exactly easy as comps 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-having 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 playoff, Sonjin, and also Kellen
on the Winston, but having like kind of the confidence to bring out a Brig Anna Winston
in the big two six here Matt, where you just don't see that cock at all.
It's not just about the Winston, it's the Brig Anna combo as well.
It's like it's such a classic Hongjo spark looking type of combo that Labour would probably
be more willing to play here.
But it's actually Dallas Shulpland.
We would have probably said they were a bit silly for doing that if they lost the map,
but Brig here, that they don't even need to go towards the things that I would have
expected.
You remember I said Alari would have been a huge choice for 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 were able to make it work, kind of come out on top in that game number
two.
Now with Psycho's Sim gone here, like I think you probably see a lot of Tracer here, potentially
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-bashing comps, potentially you can
work the Reaper into the mix if Kellen is going to go to that, but ooh, this would be
a little bit of wild card right? Then bringing out the Sigma combat 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
pro compositions to me it kind of works better on
front to back maps like Escort and Hybrid. So
it ends up being okay for them. So you're going to go towards the May. Thought
about the Tall which would have been a bit of anti-dive, but like Zeta do a lot
in the government, proper playing a lot of May,
So I'm just taking a page out of his book saying let's bring the mail. 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 is for VP. They're gonna go back to that rematch or look right?
I 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 that nemesis for him
See what he can find the may well already out
But now have to back up and that's the thing right may well scorn now
opportunity, Vortex the speed versus Hal, Virtus Pro is going to get on top of
Dallas Hill, just completely collapsed onto them and no speed boost on the
defensive. In fact, there it is, Vortex, straight onto Kellan, first kill.
Yes, just a lot more aggression here from Virtus Pro, obviously aided by that
Lucio's speed with the tracer, they can kind of get past that Sigma shield. So
we'll see how comfortable Dallas actually is on this comp. So they'll have to
kind of maneuver it in, as it looks like we're already maybe going to see some
changes here. What the Torb out again? Interesting. I would have thought the
May would have been stronger here. Torb is going to cause some problems to
Psycho but overall I don't think it's going to be that impactful you would
imagine. Perhaps when we start looking for it's like... We all predicted it's
going to be the Torbjorn Sigma Mizuki Coms coming in here. Yeah we're really
cooking now Dallas. Yeah so we'll see if they can open this up with the Torb.
Obviously the turret's going to be pretty good to kind of deter Psycho. Maybe
Maybe you can protect the backline a little bit.
Like against a die, this would make a lot of sense.
If you were playing against the fall or Winston, this is 100%.
But right now, we'll have to see if Sunja's really cooking or not.
Oh, nice rock there actually interrupts
the dead eye that comes through.
Chronic ends up using his dead eye just to deter VP
from pushing on through that choke.
But now it'll be Dallas coming with an advantage here
with their Kitsune rush and they already lose Kepster here
on the side of Virtus Pro.
I sense the side of Virtus Pro is going to annihilate.
He's not going to do so. Chronic's just going to pop his head off.
Dallas Fuel now be able to get that flip VP though. They're looking the situation thinking okay
We'll let the point go across still have 86 that's one fight territory
You got to come back in with the fixer beat plus annihilation drop it on top of the Dallas
Fuel that no longer have any support ultimates. That's a pretty good win condition reverse bro
So not a bad spot for them just yet
Yeah, it does have psycho here on the point contesting it
They're getting it about you halfway, so it's gonna force Dallas Fuel to back on up
That's gonna allow a vertus pro to enter through the show and now killing 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, Kevster into the air, but now the annihilation to put the fair into Kalin, Dallas Field,
and with Ike's top, he knows win condition, nothing to stop him, no support ultimate,
nothing to get away from him as well in terms of speed boost from Dallas Field,
and Ike's top's all too happy just running and punches away into victory on point one.
Yeah, but Sycho, getting to the point, getting that touch, drawing players back,
he gives the 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,
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 an emissive form once that wears out pops the annihilation to keep it
rolling and you're just able to barrel down Kellen and like I said the Mizuki
now being swapped over for hook me as a larry and said I'm not convinced on a
very open map like a flashpoint it's gonna have the same kind of value as
you would on an escort or high proceed it's gonna move away from that but still
largely playing a quote composition here advantage with the Katsune 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
Saundred, he's looking for it.
Looks like maybe VP gonna opt and go low here, they're not gonna like try and dislodge
the Sigma from the high ground, right, just kinda force that Sigma down.
It's gonna multi-call early, so it should be just Dallas or back, or rather Virtus
Pro backing away from this one a little bit, giving space, re-entering with a continued
rush, especially Luke Minow.
Now back, oh my god, Cyclone, they're here 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 Cab 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 kind of challenge the Sigma at that range.
They were going to drop down, course the Sigma down to the low ground, and then fight.
And so the Tracer play so far has been so good.
Psycho just completely annihilating 1v2,
double back line is gone.
And that's considering the fact that Sondre dropped in the Moltencourt,
and Ferdinand's pro said, okay, well, we're just gonna save our rush,
we're gonna re-approach.
And 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-Nomas.
Kev is still on fire along with Psycho.
The casunate rush comes down there from CJ,
but they already lose two players.
One at the hands of Psycho, then 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 him behind
if you're gonna be pushing into the sound barrier plus annihilation it might be
worth it if you can get a touch just to falsify it in because you could still
force ultimates out RVP they have ultimates in the back to fall Dallas
feel to be able to try and collect but largely this fight is looking all VP
I mean Kellen taking so much damage on the walk up in is that 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
Few kills here towards the end just to clean it up
But VP has looked great here after all on new junk city. I mean maps call wise
It's all vernice pro Dallas fuel just trying to tax away what little type of you know silver lines
They can get in the silver lining here just like we saw in the first point is that's going for a final push
Try and get an ultimate out annihilation is a pretty costly ultra so it's nice kept the Sun though
another ultimate that will want to see some value out of the Camino. Struggling to get
anything out of that in the last map. Yeah, Kellen gonna end up using the
Gravitic Flux here. Fix it, not gonna end up invest the beat, so maybe you feel like
you're gonna be able to kind of, you know, come back, fight this next one with that
sound barrier being a better spot. Nice clean up there. From Kronik comes up with
three kills there. Doesn't even have to invest the overclock to do it, so you
just win that fight, what? Off the Captain's Sun and the Gravitic Flux.
Yeah, I think VP wanted to try and kite away from the captain's son
But still caught up by the flush ended up being the actual killer
As the winner didn't get too much work done on the captain's son. I believe it was actually sues you to weigh by landing
They have to be careful positioning here
It's gonna be the sound barrier that opens things up or clock uses 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 Kellen 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
Yeah, exactly me you speed into and vortex pop nemesis. Yeah, Kellen just dies
Basically no way to keep at least at least he's got look me to on the loose show 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 ball work and now and if a look me to catch up
It's CJ though. That's on powder with Landis from father
Cavett has been on a tear all event along
Give him two more here on the egg
I don't know what it is. It is this map for Kevser. He is unreal
This hero as well. Yeah, and I mean psycho has his pulse bump
He's been so good connecting with these a pulse bomb onto the supports could just absolutely ruin Dallas fuel on this map
Lock it down for Vertus Pro
Both teams end up here with their Katsune rushes.
Try to win going in. Kev needs to be a big target for Dallas Fuel, but also they got to keep Kronik alive.
They won't keep Lukmino alive. Last point here, last point here.
Is it going to be enough though? 4 vs 3. Ike's still nearly on to annihilation.
Remind the VP on 99% for the cap itself.
And they're looking like they'll get the flip.
Yeah, they do get the flip here for Dallas Fuel, so that stops it from the time being.
You're going to have Chronic alive on an off angle. CJ here as well.
It'll be Sundryun who gets a 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.
Playing down and saying it is Psycho coming up with the first pick here.
Chronic dangerously low. This might be it, Avril.
That's the map for sure. Annihilation just to put the cherry on top.
But Tronic will get nothing more done. No C-pound, no point found and the map
Go back towards
Virtus Pro. A dominant win here, man. 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 put him keep that
1 and 2 in terms of Lucio Kirika. This is your company going to play win.
So many swaps possible, particularly the backline and Dallas Fuel playing a little bit too much mystery hero
to get anything done on you, 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,
coming up with a kill or two,
so you 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?
feel like it 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 soldier swap onto the tall of 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 of it
You know, okay, it's annoying for psycho once you actually saw the molten coal fine
This was not a good fight
Unfortunately Dallas feel because so easy for VP just to kite that one away
It's the fact that psycho to me one of the best plays he made on that particular point which I show up in the replay here
He's just like one lead to the back line by himself. Yeah, I just saw yeah
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
It's 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 and they really have a lock here towards the end
I'm wondering if this is going to be a Kalin here, a bull issue, because he's the call
to play the Sigma even on this map.
I'm not saying you can't do it.
I think Bernard even dropped the Sigma on this map, but it just seems like it's so much
easier to pilot the Lucio-Curie Ram.
It's so straightforward.
You know what the win conditions are.
Even in the first couple of points, you've grown up against a no Lucio on the other
side, which for Flashpoint, you call that out, Matt.
It's a strange call to make, and it's just so easy for you to drop Voltec, speed in,
punch Kalin down, or whoever.
And what are you gonna do if you're Kallen 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 diva so far and that might be hurting him right now because
Diva might have been a good call from the swap to yeah, maybe anything other thing because eventually they played Lucid Curie 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 Rematra, right? You have the ability to ban the Rematra
and then force them into maybe a diva, right? That could be a
possibility where you can 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 Poe comp. Where, by the way, Mizuki will also be good.
Mizuki will actually be good on that map as well in terms of like how that
Cup works on a hybrid Kings Royce like to me is the obvious choice for Dallas
Well if that is in fact the direction they're looking to go to yeah an
Opportunity obviously as I know some of the players take a little bit of a bathroom break here for
Know them to come up with some answers. That's the timer Dallas. Yeah, you see
We are that timer is sometimes that time is like seven minutes and it feels like we come back here really quick
But it'll be new Bonnie the map pick here for Dallas fuel. So see see that
That's the benefit of being here, right?
Everybody else is looking at a clock.
We already know the map selection coming up.
We know it's Newbody.
Got the links on the English stream, you know?
So Newbody's a pretty decent Winston map as well, right?
I mean, that was the fallback.
You know what a decent map is for Newbody?
It's a good cat-passion map.
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 on Oasis, right?
So they're probably the team that would not want to do it.
We actually might get away with a full series that will go to at least full maps by the way.
You don't see a cat or a passion fan one time.
Yeah, that's true.
In a heavy competition.
But that's like, that's insane to me.
But it would be fun.
It is kind of wild to see.
So Numbani is the map selection for Dallas Fuel.
Obviously, tournament lives on the line here as they find themselves down to one against
Virtus.
Pro.
VP has looked really, 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
You've 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 expect it to keep
So obviously lead the way in terms of the stopout on the DPS side
The cycle has been really performing as well and on heroes that you know
Some of the heroes you would expect them on obviously coming in with some experience
So there are some people last year who are like Kev is washed. It's like bro stay on stay on that side
I think his team was in a little bit of a rough spot last night with all of the mix ups happening
on that.
You put Kevser onto this VP lineup that was already fighting some good success last year
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 a 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, what were we going to say?
I'm really hyped about the Lucio ban and the reason why is because when you think about
what went wrong in the last map is the fact that if you want to really play the Sigma
and you're going up against Lucio, carry Ram, and they're just going to speed Warwick's
into you, 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 the way, that's one of your biggest strengths versus VP.
But I think this opens the door for VP to display Kat Bastian.
Correct.
And that's what the Malga band says to me, is okay, well we might just prefer a Kat Bastian
because you get rid of the Malga, Malga is one of the clear answers to the Kat Bastian
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 it's
banned, his options against Kat Bastian 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 beat up playing the Winston into, I know, the
Cap Bastion style. That would be crazy. He could play ball. That is on the table.
He'd have to be a confident ball and his team would have to be ready for that when
they could do, because we've seen in Korea, Crazy Coon, Nzeta, Milgaru, and
Jumbin obviously play the Cap Bastion 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 play some of these Sigma comps, maybe play a little bit slower, they can't bastion
you know with some of these open sight lines in the body, especially if you're gonna 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 live from champions clash is dallas field tournament life on the
line here against vertus pro who's been playing back-to-back game shooting pretty hot i mean they
look 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
bit of revenge. I know VP believe that they have more of a life to play through in this
moment through the low bracket. I kind of want to see a game five. I mean, we have an
ad like we've had a lot of just like blowouts here. I mean, we had a game go to three earlier.
It was the VP Webo game, but we haven't had a many close series here. But a four map of
Zeta VP, but not five yet. Yeah, that's true is the VP looked quite competitive against
a lot of those games are really close. I wonder, as we move forward in this tournament, what
it says, whether we'll see how CR, and Zeta, stack up against each other, and then if VP
can get past the Dallas Fuel here and continue their run.
This is also the last hope for North America right now. You've got SSG gone, Dallas Fuel,
holding the Candles strong for NA.
Dallas 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'll be VP on defense here to open
it up. We've actually discussed like where we expected the cops to go at Ryan Matt,
I think we called it pretty correctly here. Malva ban means that VP want to lean towards the cab
bastion, Lucio ban means that Dallas will probably want to lean towards more of a poke
composition with Kelly on the Sigma, but we are also sort of locking in Luke
and me for the cat for now, which does say that potential for current to go to
the ball as a bashing is still there, which means Dallas will be playing some
sort of like a weird Sigma cat bashing, a little bit more off meta compared to the
standard cat bashing. 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, so let's see what chronic decides to do.
They can't in the mix, they may be waiting if they see, okay so they're not
gonna play the Bastion. And by the way, Sunjin on cast, which is typically
Chronic's hero, so you're gonna basically have double, no there's gonna be double, yeah okay.
Chronic's gonna go back. Yeah, 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 high ground. I interest you into the name. I've come up for this comp
Sure, so he's not a few that we've been we've been shut down. What do you think of a cat 130?
Whoo, that tickles you a little bit. I mean see see that's where you bait me, right?
You know my call exact. That's why you're trying to get me into that
You know I'm playing to your interest. 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
They're going over, right there, Kephs are going over the top.
It's an all-pimistic rock?
Yeah, it's Kela and trying to make a TikTok there, just trying to snap him across the way.
It's Kela dangerously low there on the point.
His pressure's just coming from all sides.
So for VP, I think the thing you like here, right with that Divas, you can control some of this high ground.
It's going to be two ticks though, four Dallas.
They've done a nice job weathering some of the damage coming on through.
VP got to get into this play because the point's going to go by full Dallas field.
Kephz has done enough damage, he's found Opus, we're looking towards his plus
Landon and Cj, they need to be using these so far, Sunjin down his site,
go big kill for VP to open with.
Yeah, defense matrix gone, it's gonna be a Katsune rush here from both teams.
It's gonna be the artillery there from Keph, dropping it right inside that Katsune rush.
Katnap here, it is going in, oh you're gonna try and drag Kelen into the squad,
but a nice job finishing off Fixa.
It's gonna be the Gravitic Flux that comes on through, Kelen with another one.
Kinetikrash is trying to stay alive.
Now Kellen gets piloted over towards the point.
Mike's still gonna be good enough for Dallas Field, we've run out of ultimates, except for the self-destructing, which Ice Town probably has to use, he's not going to do it.
Which says to me that VP have given this one away, the cap is all gone now, as soon as we clean up the rest of the map, it's a little slow.
Fix it at once, send it with two.
See if you're gonna be able to find any of these kills, now, no way, Chronic coming back on the Bastion, gonna 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 under going to just go over the Cassidy and just try and merely 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 Kelly a little bit more playing together as a solid core
Putting damage into the cap action that certainly helps you land those rocks to all the ice-tom can do against it
I definitely hear the Bastions fighting somewhere off the map.
Yeah, well, Chronic gets the better of Kev. Kev actually puts some damage down on to 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 going to allow Dallas Fuel to round that card around the corner without the Bastion
deck.
It's pretty hard for VP to fight.
They are just kind of back on first point.
They went to Dallas Fuel's spawn.
Yeah.
Dallas Fuel had to just push the payload.
Okay, well, this is, there's some free time of the payload here.
Well, Ice and Psycho had to be in the first spawn.
They are going to be so split here, VP.
You're going to lose, Vicks, you're going to lose ice here.
I mean, where, where are we going?
I was just going to reset.
This is kind of gross from VP.
They're completely off the rails in terms of their position.
You don't have time to reset, dude.
I mean, they're going to have to get back here and try and get a touch.
I mean, the second checkpoint almost done.
Ice accretion there connects on to ice moments.
He's going to have to just get out in desperation.
It's going to be the Katsuneit rushes yet again here to open things up.
Turre 4 from Chronic putting down some damage.
There's now the die coming in on Sundry.
It's going to be a catnap, taking Kev for a ride.
Oh, nice Tuzu there as well, keeping Chronic alive there
through the pulse bomb that connects from Psycho.
Those self-destruct remake flies from its only Kev's
to land and won't Kev's to survive for much longer.
He's going to single a trade with a Kev's.
This is just a culmination 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.
That's a free pushing.
Think of this final, last minute, kind of, uh, re-approach on the point to save it from VP, and they just fall apart all that was flying through, and now let's get the expected cap.
It was ugly from Virtus.pro there, their second point defense. Obviously, they got really split and never able to kind of re-engage together.
This is interesting now. Trying to play the Remontra here without the Lucio, right? Not going to 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 and off angle.
I know I'm 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 Schuylke would have done a lot more.
Kelly will find a couple players who would like to kill. Surely Kev? No, nothing.
No, nobody there able to finish off that kill on a Kev. Kev comes up with one as VP looks like they're finally going to get a defensive stand after all.
But I mean at what cost? Dallas has looked great on offense.
It's unfortunate because the Lux actually caught a couple of players with Dallasville not in position to actually get the cleanup.
Good news here is they pushed a decent amount of distance.
Payload's in a great spot. One fight for a round win here for a full map completion.
Katrina Russia-Ventifel, CJ is the same for Landon of the Ops, and though, this is going to be another huge ultimate exchange.
Yeah, VP though with a lot to work with, right?
as Psycho ends up using the recall there.
It gets to take a lot of damage.
It's going to be CJ opening things up with the rush.
As Ice and Pryce are getting aggressive,
no way he's able to stay alive.
Trade of a chronic.
I think losing Ice might just be a little bit more impactful.
Catnap's going to change the day.
Get a little bit.
Pulse bomb's flying in.
Explosives everywhere.
It's VP coming out on top.
Despite Ice going down, Kevser's Psycho's the DPS line
once more, but a whole 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 Kevin moves on forward they do deal with Kellen
you lose fix of the he comes back up the spawn pretty quick but when both rushes
come down ice decides to like vortex nevus's form push up but I mean he gets
it with an accretion he gets it with a hinder I mean there's no way he just
blows up never seen a rematch at that quick he's not from not used to going
down that quick either a mantra you never seen Johnny play rematches well
he doesn't use the block feature that's why yeah he's not he doesn't he's not a
He just runs on in as we do see I still know 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 we're gonna get our combo
Trying to find targets had to try to hide as well surely what gets that
And the Susan been too early by landed beautiful stuff from Dallas field that could be the cap here
So 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 minute to delay,
so Psycho can get your get-a-touch, right?
And then maybe you can actually just kind of airdrop
Ice-No-Min with the annihilation.
It'll be the Reaper swap from Kepzher here as well,
as we're below a minute on the clock.
Fix it, get there, and get to touch.
This will be VP with another great opportunity
to get a hold. Nice accretion there from Kellen.
Stops the push there from Ice-No-Min 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, the time has come to run out now.
Dallas Fuel absolutely have the payload right up against the back wall, all Virtus.pro spawn.
With 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.
They're going to have the continued rushes here from both sides to get things off.
Yet again, Bixx is gonna use a catnap.
Kellen low, looks like Kenington with Kellen there for a second,
but got interrupted, it's gonna be Kepster taking out Chronic,
as he goes deep.
Two kills though, blowdown, Fuel make it three.
They are going to clutch yet again, Avril.
And they will get a nap completion here on Numbani.
Sanjim showing up on a hero you're not really used to seeing him on.
He's not typically known to be a hitscan player,
which is 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 Kevps are moving on the cast,
performing, and now Sojin doing the same thing on the cast in the final fight, showing up when it
matters. The 3K on 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 were starting to get
low, by the way, Kelly, still surviving, was ice that went down, and that's going to give all the
room that Sanjeev needs to play with. Kellen, Kellen and CJ, a really good half from those two, obviously one death
from each is, 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 moments, so it'll be Dallas now
on defense, they'll come out with a Cassidy with that fashion, yet again in combination with the Sigma.
Sunjoon 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 this Sigma work.
It's not quite the same post-composition that they were hoping for in terms of winning that on previous maps like Dorado and all that.
But now you're looking at this situation where, okay, it's Kat Bash's Sigma, which I remind you about.
It's kind of a little bit more niche compared to playing the D.Va, and Kellen's avoided playing the D.Va.
I mean, this was the final chance to make it work. What a time to start to get this segment into its groove.
They'll try and pressure here on the high ground. Maybe this watch, Kellen, from that position is, okay, now we're going to get a cat-fashioned war here on the flank.
So this is what the diva allows you to do, right? Icene just kind of gets back on the flank, takes this interesting position is, Kellen's going to use a kinetic grasp here,
But CJ. Yeah, I still may be fine 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 Katsune
Sorry, there's no
Jericho TP to save him with Minos obviously gonna be busy taking care of telling the 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?
It is now, never mind the spawns, not coming in fast enough there, so you're not going
to go try and contest it there on the tracer.
Two squads 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,
Sanjens off to the side of the map, caught out next, then you just have to rest the
players on an island by themselves.
Sanjens, by the way, now, sopping over towards the tracer, so not really feeling the cast
as much of the defense as you did on the offense.
Turret, already burned here though for Kev.
Just gonna buy them some space around the corner, maybe open up an angle here for Psycho to get on a little bit of a plank on a wrap.
See, maybe both teams are ready here, Admiral, trying to play for a rush as well.
The first fight kind of happens pretty well.
Oh, Kev's still there! I mean, Kev just gets escorted right on top of where Ice was playing.
That was really nice. I swayed in. They're used obviously the D.Va boosters who kind of get past that Sigma and then they just kind of fly Kepster in
Right on top and no way they could even react completely disobeying no fly zone there
It's just gonna be Kepster and fix it going over the head of Kallen dropping
Damage on top of chronic and well now let's feel with Kallen completely left by his lonesome on the payload
Trying to defend it by himself VP clean it off and by the way, no ultimates used
It'll fly volts from the next one now an advantage on rush here for vertus pro right with how aggressive they're playing
Especially kind of collapsing on the kill in an opportunity here
It's gonna be killing using the accretion you see how aggressive fixer is the getting cab in a position
Chronic in a really rough spot. He's gonna use that artillery strike to try and stay on him and he gets ice
Sondra's got the rest of it
So Dallas fuel is still gonna hold on to this one chronic pick up the first kill kill and now responding of what this own
that's for holding on stabilizing, finding on the defense after also a bit of a
rough one to begin with. This is the first strong defensive win.
Yeah, self-destructive use there for Icemomb as for Dallas, right? You ended up
using the Catnap, you 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 Sun June in Psycho just gonna mark in each other here just
and chase each other down especially with how far as VP was on the A point as
well right if you want Dallas Field any chance of winning this map you want to
make sure that B is a slowdown yeah you're not in position to hold ultimates
there in that situation speaking of ultimates rush to rush CJ holding the
hill burn Kellen is still above the rest of team but I try to draw attention away
With the counter really wrong spot, Luke Amino dangerously low being chased by Ice, but Kev coming up with two uses the Turreform, puts out some damage while Sundrin coming alive here on the tracer.
I'm just not sure it's going to be enough, right? I mean, if Psycho's still alive here, Ice is on him as well, if Vixen putting down some damage, it's just going to be Luke Amino here alive for the Dallas Fuel.
He will fall no way, Karanik getting back in the action. So even though Sundrin was trying to go off there on the tracer, not able to get that second point hold.
hold and now a lot of time for VP to complete the map. I also think
positionally like it's a bit rough for Kellen because he's so far for compared
to the rest of his defensive team where's Ike's thumb can push with Kevster.
You see Chronic as the opening target, with Kevster pocketed, my Ike's thumb is so
much easier for Kevster to get value, much harder for Chronic to do anything.
Yeah Kellen already pretty low. As a Connecticut, that's going to be there.
So we're here from Kev going to be able to keep himself alive, but a little bit of
damage down, maybe just trying to get him around the corners. Oh CJ dies at the
hands, Bob Psycho, nice Suzu there, Landon keeps Kepster up as well, that was a postbomb
that connected from Tunchin, just doesn't come up with anything.
Kellen 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
Virtus Pro to save his own life, if Kellen dies there, it could have been problematic
and now he's gone diva.
Yeah really nice Suzu there from Landon, keeps Kepster alive through the postbomb and you
absolutely needed his damage in that situation.
Isom does have the self-destruct here to use over by the objective
Kalinale going on the D.Va like you mentioned. Catnap available for both
Jetpacked cats. Luke Amino uses his. It comes out with nothing.
Vex is still in position to use his as well.
Isos needs to live.
He needs to use the self-destruct and that should be able to push my chronic on low HP.
He's got to pop his own ultimate.
Should have came for self-alive.
One-to-one chase so far. Luke Amino respawns and Dallas trying to hold onto this as much as he can.
If Landon gets a rush here, it's probably just all over. It might still be over because he's banding it to defend his life.
Hey, you are so out of damage at this point, but Lukimino comes through, takes out Ketzer off the spawn.
Rush Dallas trying to bite this thing. If you have the rush here, or Landon and CJ, you're going to have this spawn advantage though here for the Dallas Fuel.
So VP may have just been throwing those ultimates in for nothing. Is Dallas going to hold on here for a second?
They need to hold on for a lot longer as well because Vernus Pro, if they manage to get this with, I believe, above one minute
It's a draw-only scenario by the way with Dallas Field, so really back against the walk-in,
you do not want to be in a draw-only scenario.
You want to make sure that if you're Dallas Field, you have a strong win condition.
So I've destroyed the medible for Kellan now, he's got an extra life.
It can't go somewhere in the top.
Nice offense, nice throw.
No defense matrix available, keep Chronic up, you lose CJ.
Sonja 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 forty four 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 of the source to a draw
That's all that Dallas can hope for this stage as
I mean
Expected for sure to get some decent damage out of our Bastion players
But I understand Sonja also put a decent amount of work in there as well
It's still and I mean he sort of come alive on the tracer where he was not really looking that way moving that way throughout the
You know earlier parts of the series psycho was really getting the better of him
I was curious what Dallas would desire to do here on deep ends right because we did see them playing like some Cassidy
With the Bastion, but it'll be the tracer yet again
But more importantly, no Sigma. I think we're starting to see that maybe Sigma in the 8-point defense
Just doesn't have the mobility to be active enough on the map
But it feels like 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
So that was a bit of a team that don't really want to play the divas much
I'm just in talent choose not to do it. He's just been wanting to place much Sigma as possible play the Winston
Even when you're choosing to play Winston over diva, you know, you really just don't want to pay the diva
So he's been forced into it now because that last 8 point defense for Dallas was not great pretty ugly
In fact, he's split up really hard and not a lot Callan can do there in terms of being reactive
He's gonna need to have all of that and then 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 tick that they're going to need so you know you
can't have that here is Kellen getting dangerously low gonna get pushed off as
man just like that we were talking about you know maybe diva doesn't feel as
comfy there for the Dallas fuel Kellen gets D make the right away and that is
is it. VP takes the series here over Dallas Fuel, keeping themselves alive. No draw today
and no more hope unfortunately for North America. The first region knocked out a Champions
Clash, SSG gone yesterday, Dallas Fuel gone today and for EMEA still going from straight
to straight both their teams in it to win it with the Virtus Prove. A pretty competitive
game versus Zeta to now a more, I would say, comfortable win.
But certainly an easy game for them against Dallas.
Then the game against Zeta division was still props to Dallas.
They did get that one map in there.
They saw full captain and 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 Zeta series was.
And then now here against Dallas and I think for Dallas,
you know just kind of put a wrap on their tournament right as we take a look at some of the stats look I think the backline obviously a
Strength I think maybe in terms of like a hero pool this
Didn't really break in terms and 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 map too
But what they were able to show in terms of punishing BP's mistakes
Me if you showing some mistakes there as well
There's just that you know, this is a team that I saw capable of not having a hundred percent clean games and Dallas feel
They need to be in positions to be to fully punish VP away and win on some unconventional cups
I mean 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 Virtus 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 kind of mark their spots in the upper half of the bracket going to our winners 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 vertus pro
Against the winner of TM versus Waybo, which is either a VP way by rematch from day one
Oh, it's gonna be an old in the a showdown when 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 a land of note. Here's thoughts on that game
So, I'm gonna
I'd like to talk about the game this time.
The match for KUSHI was really tight,
but where is the advantage or the advantage?
So looking back at this match, you did win 3-1,
but it definitely seems pretty close.
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 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 were able to win by doing what we wanted to do.
Next, I think Asia has been really focused on this.
But the only pro player who got the first map,
what's the reason for that difference?
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 the Weibo Gaming or Twisted Mind.
Which one do you want to be?
And one last thing, please.
classic EMEA rematch, but I want to win this time.
back to the casters. Thank you so much. I love Landon. I mean his interviews are
always great. We take a look at our brackets. So CRZ 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 gonna be a 3-0 TM? Well first of all
Landon's always got great things to say about Weibo as we remember. That's true.
Beyond that I think TM are probably the more likely team just given that they
You know the competitive pedigree defending world champions, but they've looked kind of like a little bit off this tournament
They're previous games have been like not the best so they look shaky
I think actually VP look 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 that team should have the advantage
No, I think it'll be a really competitive game with you know 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 I'm excited for the last match of the day regardless
Foul 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. They'll be either twisted minds or weibo will have that coming up right after this break
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keep on getting better today and we're hoping to keep that streak in going because we do have
two more to go before we close our day two here at the Champions Clash in Tokyo, Japan.
Zoe here once again back with Moxie and Ajin. I mean you guys called it alright VP,
they do that one. I thought it was very interesting to hear in that post-match interview here as well
that they had similar ideas but it was VP clutching it out and what I think is extra interesting
about that is I assume they're going to be tired. They played such a close and such a close series
already earlier right before that and they're heading into the lower bracket high stakes match
and then at the initially right on control it did look like they they kind of steam like
and then suddenly they brought it back in a way but for these players too right it's that adrenaline
when they're on the stage when they're in the server and I think VP definitely brought that as
as the series was going on.
They think that we expected it to be a little bit closer,
maybe even going to all five maps,
but I think it really came down to a lot of what we talked
about, that hero pool between these two tanks, Ice,
being able to play that D.Va,
and the Zarya very comfortably throughout this series.
Meanwhile, for Kellen, we talked about some of those
weaknesses, he is that Winston Sigma player.
They did pick into it for D.F., you know,
that new body working well for the Sigma there as well.
But I think when you're thinking about that cat fashion meta,
Ice's hero pool just worked so much better.
I mean, New Junk City as well, but it's far undefeated on this map site, but what I really
want to talk about is Psycho's Tracer had a light, I performed this with him yesterday,
Khaestron Khaestor was looking, but Psycho, especially on Dorado, had some really clutch
bombers.
Like, the Kastor's talks about Pulse Bomb being able to interfere with CJ's Nanogu's
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
one versus one 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 Aisland as well, had a few maps, a few
moments where they'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 continued their run here at the Champions' Clash.
I'm so excited to see them again a little later today. Yes, that's right. They have to play three first to three series today, which is absolutely nuts.
I hope they're fueling up in the back with some bananas. I don't know what else the game was eating.
Yeah, let's talk about our second match here in the lower bracket. It's gonna 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-gamer's matchup
They weren't looking that great on the cap fashion. They did make adjustments going up against crazy reckons
It did look better for them, but it they still haven't found their footing in this meta moxie meanwhile for the side of
Weibo 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
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. I think a huge part of it honestly
We're not talking about like the Overwatch League players who already have 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 1 level
level back in the old circuits, but they're really getting to just generate, incubate
this talent 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 Miel Garu who's now
playing for Zeta Division, but Lee Soo Min was the Lucio for Wei back in 2025, so you
You can see that this team is actually starting to generate a lot of powerhouse talent.
It's really impressive how Sunzo and Lee Soo Min 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 Odawee CS, really.
There's so many teams who find the talent, nourish the talent, and then the talent goes
to a really successful team.
So I'm lucky.
But it's great to see them on this stage, let's see what they can do today in this very
match.
chat predictions because we've done so well with predictions here on this
this tournament actually kind of crazy. I think you mean we've done so well as a
general statement some people have definitely nailed it other people have
swung a hammer and 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 out and then it's gonna be a surprise to me what
past so we obviously have 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?
Yeah, I gotta be way because I'm still a very tiny type of my life, guys.
The haters out there are definitely gonna come for me for this prediction.
Oh, they're dangerous.
But again, I've been so impressed with Sunzo and with Lee Suman. I think it's gonna be really
interesting. I also think that we have that conversation in the green room, Moxie, 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.
Yeah, 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 to
to Golden Stage, they started dropping some of those maps against like Virtus Pro, who
pulled out a very cheesy composition where they basically ran Vendetta Tracer, and you
could argue like, okay, Twist and Lent went ready for that composition, for their back
lines 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 Cat?
It's not just the Bastion Cat that they've been looking weak against, which does mean
that Waco'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 two and now in tier one, it's been an absolute joy to get to like a witness.
This team go from punching into tier two, managing to walk away with the World Cup win
all the way back in what, 2023, and now just being able to dominate the tier one scene.
But that was a very different matter.
That was where they could just like, rely very heavily on pumping the resources out into the DPS.
So now, they're in a matter of where they have to look away from just the DPS being those carries.
Well, that'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 up with Tygo.
What's up everybody? Danny Lim here. I'm here to catch up with Goosey and leave in Japan. Hi guys. Hello. See you. Hello.
Hello, hi.
So, what has been your favorite part of the trip so far?
I think my favorite part of the trip is...
when I arrived in Japan, I was eating ramen for the first time.
Because 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?
I had ramen in the restaurant called Yiran Ramen.
It turns into a good choice.
How about you, Lee?
Yeah.
Same!
Same! Okay!
One more thing for you guys, what's one thing you guys always bring on your flight?
you
You're waiting for them to level up to level 4, but they're still at level 3, they've been
at level 3 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-Kirco kind of compositions and try to do his thing on the soldier and what have
you.
Twisted Minds, yes, they come into this one as the EMEA number one seed, but you still get to put some respect away from gaming.
Put some respect on the cat's name, and put some respect on the cat's name too! Quartz!
Alright. No more. Please, stop shooting our backline and two tapping us.
We have so many good hits here in Paris this tournament.
Yeah, I mean, what have we seen from Katz here so far?
And then you're considering what Quartz did at the World Finals.
Now going up against the shy as well, like we're just trying to do some amazing things.
I bring up every time everybody brings up every time shy soldier one of the best in the world when it was released
My goodness guy was two-year-old narrative to your dad more more
We're bringing it back. We're running 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 for his old 24
He's all guys like he's gonna return lock. Yeah, please don't please don't he's been here some brave from this time
Yeah, he really has leave to you. I mean look for my virtually again the P as well on the Chengdu Hunters
We get to know us 2021. We have a fan actually that has one of the signs which was quite cool
Sun so though looking really good right in the art of war part 2 Johnny's been looking fantastic on the tango
Yeah, it's a good addition to this team. Obviously. They needed a bit more off
tradition off-tank player to round out Gushui's hero pool and Sun so formerly formerly Billy Deng has stepped into that role and done
a good job at this tournament so far for away 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 wait us yeah that was
there Matt pick and they get the band first of the cat I like the response
here from Waybo though banning out the Cassidy but my problem kind of lies
with going later into this match elimination game once again this
where we're getting all 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 champs.
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, who's your period?
Hey, back to the good old days.
I mean, I think Astro would love some of that.
And simple two.
J-Woo too has been such a level after the team.
has obviously popped off at bootcamp.
Oh, TVNT looking Zarya? Sanzo Zarya as well? What do you think of Zarya right now in the meta?
I mean, Zarya is just a really good, well-rounded hero. So I'd like to fight if we're seeing some Zarya play.
We ice-knot popped off on Zarya earlier today, and we've seen a couple of teams default to Zarya when perhaps
You don't feel as comfortable playing something like a diva.
It's just a stable default character to roll out with.
And you're in 526.
This is a hitscan matchup.
I want to be shy versus quartz through the best soju players to take the game.
And oh-ho, soju shuts him down.
That was such a close boot from Buddy Astro.
They almost get soju off of the map.
But it is all the sorrys right now.
Hitscans.
No way to be a cap, but Astro gets his mark.
At least he's in there.
He was Astro.
I mean, it'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 lock in these five heroes.
Shia, Lee versus Quartz and J.Woo.
We'll see if we do get some...
Oh, no!
Just when I was comfortable.
All set up.
They 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, Wable 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, Syranagans, no Jetpack, Kat Bastian.
That's when this team really shines. And so, facing off in a mirror like this, I do think that Waybo 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 Waybo and all the gamers.
There's so many cheers here, yeah.
Yeah, a lot of chance.
Everywhere in the world, to be fair, Toronto 2023, I think Park had so much support, obviously a lot
I mean, there's still 100 spots, 30s, very easy to pick out, of course, being pink
Yeah, they got travelling support wherever they go in the world
Yeah, exactly, exactly
A lot of them showed up to the mid-season last year as well
Yeah, I'm telling you
Here we go, I'm paused, okay, we're back in, 11%
TBNT keeps shy though, good start
Standard after pause, frags, you're falling in, you're like, wait, where am I?
TVNT, guess another 2 there to really secure the second teamfight here for just a month.
Nice animation, Katz with that from J.W.I.T.
Good stuff. Alright, TVNT.
I mean, TVNT has been fantastic so far this tournament.
We talked about it, Steve, when they were playing those get back Katz 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.
He waved the game in here, he tried to generate some of these ultimates.
You can't let the round get too far away from you. 43% of the Cali and Quirk appears in another headshot.
Twisted mines are 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, but that is some revenge.
That's self-called.
That's nice as well because you don't have to use one of these big ultimates to just try to get some ground.
We can secure this point, we can work this point to drop.
Sundo's gonna be rather careful, Wamba will still have left in the tank, no TVNT ends up throwing out that grab.
Big hit, four people as well!
But the Suu-Zu is just golden for Maka.
Hit four of them as the damage rolls in. Unbelievable!
Big ultimate traits back and forth.
Funny Astro, no sound barrier available there as well, and so Lisa Min now has that sound barrier advantage for his team.
That's not an adax, right?
That's not an adax?
Hey, no way.
That's all there is, though.
So I was looking at the marker.
Hell, Barak on line.
They're gonna rip this overclock, though.
Horses now moving in, but Shai's gonna try and match.
Shai's very low, though.
He's taking up like 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.
Larging in charge right now in that front line.
Sonzo cannot say the same now
Quartz putting a couple down that fight. How did they fight back in that one? I don't know.
He felt the size of him like Wave or Gaming
We're off to a great start there but Twisted Minds fight their way back 80% in counting here on Wave or Gaming
They don't have any ultimates here now
They need someone like Shai to step up again early pick and TVAT is just so full of energy all the time
They're not backing up, but he's just so he's just so accurate on 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, going to force the rest of Twist and Mind's back.
Might be looking at the buildings, could turn on Nerva.
Alright, what a base. It really feels like Quartz and TvNT are taking it in turns to carry right now.
TvNT though ends up playing down as Leev gets still on the tracer. Simple also falls.
So it's J-Woo Quartz and Funny Astro trying to salvage this fight, but Leev gets another.
Alright, okay. Another one?
This is what he can still do in 20-26. We're still going.
Leave picking up a couple of frags there to even out the fight.
And Wayberg gaming stay alive here on the very first round.
And that allows them to build these crucial ultimates as well now.
Mr. Mines and Wayberg gaming both with Kitsumrosh at their disposal.
They try and rush onto the point first. Very early Suzy uses without a comment.
Pinch of the moment, SunZoo. No bubbles left and TVSE is just going to chase him down.
chase him down. So he ends up getting right quick. He can't do anything. He's trying so desperately hard
to boost the envelope. The way Blue Gaming just zipped it up. I mean, Twisted Minds got ran over there.
Yes, on to a fantastic Graviton search as well. Really securing a lot of value in the middle of
these fights. And I pick up to J.Woo at 82% need J.Woo to touch the point there. Funny
On the Astros, getting close to the Sunbear, he has a grab as well.
He needs to hit a big one here, does TVNT. Needs to catch this frontline.
He's going to throw it in, he can't just collect the Zarya, but there's a lot of support coming in.
Nice focus flyer from Twisted Minds.
Two players in there, assist feed as well.
The squad sends the railgun.
He's got the short slide, so it gets up to the high ground.
Just for moments, notice.
And TVNT's just running down the back line, J.Roo's ended up playing a nice snipe on LeeSoo Finn.
Hits him with the Ajax and Twisted Binds. They've 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, just 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 Lisa Min, he couldn't get
at the healing in time.
That meant the Twisted Minds, they were in full control
and able to close things out to university.
15 and three for TVNT, MIMMAX title, by the way.
Very apt for TVNT, I would say.
Yeah, Lee Summin, like you said, you're in a situation
where you have to hit the beat, but they're looking at you.
It's like, I've got no other choice.
No one's solving that against him.
But it's an eject nonetheless, add it to the count.
They're fired up buddy. Oh yeah, I mean they're down around bro. They knew all the energy they can get.
Different look here from TVNT. Now this is the hero he is known for and best on as well.
His d-bit 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 Quartz, setting himself and his team up for success with that defense matrix.
defense matrix and you can see here twisted mines they're using the diva
here to rotate around this point try to look for pixie as soon as it's a bit of
slow and as soon as it comes out as well she's by bubbles yeah 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! Matt from J Wu too!
Double support going down
they are still so very good at this composition this tournament so far it's
been about to jet back cap. You can see here, poking early, prodding. Trying to look for
a rail. Can't quite find one, so we're going to retreat.
You can 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'll list the four ultimates.
Put it TVNT out of there. Okay, as TVNT knows he's been shot in the back, needs to reposition
back on to the point. They're just inting on Shy right now and in fact maybe the back
line is Shy retreats with them. Russians are getting used, they've isolated the carry
here for Weber going...
They just can't fill the Tetsunerosh jaws. They're forced to withdraw so much because
Marka couldn't get it online and twisted nicely capitalized on the back of that.
It's going to be a little staggered to... Oh! Straight into the cars.
Damn.
Nice extra 10-15% there, Johnny.
Indeed, 53% here.
In 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 Lisa Minn-Bills towards the centre, but here comes Quartz, early push.
Really nice stuff.
J-Boo's already in the back as well, just trying to chase the supports down.
Barca 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 of things, but he already shot him and
Sun-Zo was a D-Methny
Midway through that other kill TV NT end of killing leave here
Shai just tries to clutch out this fight here, but simple gets enough and enough simple gets to
So there is a way as well as TV NT and simple as
There's a duo carrying this fight TV NT
Twisted mind hold on to that fight. This could be a hundred though
Everyone in the server assumed that's way beginning had won the fight type of silver clock, but can't get the value
Wave will give me still had their support ultimate, and they're gonna have to touch the point.
They got touch.
At least you mean it has to hit this beat, FUNNY AASHRO 2.
You got to touch. Oh my goodness, that was close.
Alright, Marker.
Laying down the rush first, twisted mines.
Paying a little bit of heat, a little caution backing up slightly.
FUNNY AASHRO knows he cannot go down here either.
A counter beat, a better beat required for TM.
But you want to go second here, you don't want to be the first Lucio to drop it.
They have still to live into the other Lucio to respond and they have not flipped, by the way.
There's the beat. Now Astro hits his slightly better one.
And now the IntonTig Chi can continue as TBNT runs him down.
Brutal.
No touch there, Puebo at the end.
The OT lasted so long Johnny, that not only a cup, like one second off the point cost them that mat.
That's a 2-0, mat win.
Dear.
The tempo was just out of control for twisted minds.
That's second round to control and what a massive fight win
That was outside of way boo gaming spawn simple gets a couple
Combining with TV and T on that diva and the way boo gaming
Reflecting on that second round you gotta think we got off one Kitsuna watch one sound barrier
Kitsuna's need more than that if we're gonna stay competitive in the series. Yeah, Jay was looking real clean with it as well
Thruster is so good. It's so well-rounded
I want to 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.
It just hasn't been the tournament for him so far. We saw what J-Woo is capable of at the bootcamp.
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,
compositions but this is a series that J-Woo 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, it's ridiculous.
Here's the grabs.
Funny Astro, yeah it was an Ajax.
Yeah, alright, there you go.
Well it is scary, it's a scary prospect dropping the standard while you're in a grab and search.
he wasn't in the graph well he was jumping into the graph to save his teammates I think so
but nonetheless tough spot to try to drop the sound barrier here's a lot of damage being
traded back and forth there do you get lisa mince come on surely we got to replay that
one give me give me wow you're just hungry for age access yeah we know the end result
buddy yeah it's fun I don't need to see it again it's funny you just enjoyed the lisa
You don't? Come on, bro.
It's kind of funny, not gonna lie.
Yeah, exactly. 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 unfolded before our eyes.
This fight was absolutely mental.
I can't believe that Twisted Minds ended up winning that one.
Ended up winning that one.
TVN10 simple duo queuing that backline.
That's crazy.
Insane.
Yeah.
And I mean, it helped them get the win as well, even in the second round, so.
The tempo was just unbelievable.
Like, again, swinging wide with quarts playing the soldier and trying to hit these railgun
shots early, putting pressure on wabergaming.
To try and even get out, you know, something like a Kitsunorosh, for example, getting out
one of these big cooldowns.
That is why you want to up that tempo so much and twist your mind, it's really putting
way beginning a difficult spot there on Oasis Kings Row chosen by weather indeed
it's a matter of being pretty comfortable on so far this tournament that I mean
it's pretty straight up you know it's a good old default everyone votes for
Kings Row when it shows up in the ranked is that true still jerking I think so
I mean I we thought it I'm not sure about it if you get six seven people in
the lobby who don't vote on TvNT's roll.
You really just 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 TvNT's stats from map 1.
9.6 KD, 33 alims for 10 as well.
Yeah, I mean, he is absurd.
Oh, I get it now.
Yeah, TvNT.
Hang on a second. He got that.
I'm 30 years old, damn it. It takes me some time to process these memes.
He has been popping off. I thought it was really impressive how Twisted Mind, they really took it on Ilios, two crazy players, and 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 tag player for this team, for the better part of a year now, and then part of so much success this Twisted Mind roster has seen.
It's going to be interesting to see how they adapt to their loss in the upper bracket.
Obviously, they have to deal with WaveBoo Gaming here first.
But a lot of these teams, they're learning about this Mizuki 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 Sera Division at least.
And so a lot of these teams, they have different compositions on their mind, different strategies
in place.
Let's see if maybe they bring one of those compositions out here.
Try and throw the opponent off guard.
Yeah, Ashro didn't have a good game. You know, honestly, just getting picked a lot of 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 Kabashin is real tough.
Band's coming up. You saw a little glimpse already, but Mizuki band for TM as we see a Kenji band.
I don't know how to describe it, like the fall from the crowd when they saw the Mizuki
but they come out there, or maybe it was the Genji band, I mean I don't speak Japanese,
but one of the two they were like surprised about, and I assume it was the Mizuki because
Twisted Mind is obviously putting some respect to it on Waybegaming's name, just like okay
well we're going to King's Drow, it's a really good map for a composition like the main
Sigma Mizuki which we have seen more of, we just don't want to partake in that, we don't
want to have to deal with that composition right now, and we saw in the previous series
with no Misuki in the mix, it is a way harder composition to pull off.
It's kind of insane, Mizuki's almost come out of nowhere.
It wasn't really good on release, to be honest, compared to, like, you know, again, the classic
Kirilusio.
It's good in his own rights, but like, at the top level, like, Kirilusio is just so
good.
And his, in this tournament, it's just, pop that out, he'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.
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 or a healer,
providing so much healing to the rest of his 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 Mind, second
to ban there. Alright, King's Row. Probably not playing a cat bot either. So we call it
cat bot. Jetpack cat and Bastion. Yeah, I mean jetpack cat and Bastion is a mouthful.
So, well yeah. I think cat bot was... I like cat Bastion. Cat bot's good. I like that too.
I think you 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 got to 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 hate that we're calling it default, but losing carry.
Alright, so look at the defence here, four twisted mines, simple Alari, I mean he is
a beast on Alari.
And funny actually running the Juno instead, no Lucio, can't really pair the Alusio with
the Alari, not too much healing to be had.
What do you think about this support duo here?
That's a fellow Alari player Jaws, yeah, yes, that's me.
How do you feel about this little backline for the guys?
I think it's great, honestly.
I think it's great to have that glory in it.
Yeah.
I mean, look, on Kings Royale especially,
you're playing on the 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, Webby, well, they're in a cat-bash.
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 flexing over to something
like a Juno break from second point
if they're unable to hold here on first.
They're going to play the deck by Cap Ambassion.
Let's see how they navigate the verticality here.
They try to swing and get a couple of picks here.
Terri's so low.
A lot of quick shot though. A lot of poke from Symbol as well.
He's going to be able to kind of snipe and put a little bit of pressure on Shy.
Oh my God, where are they going?
They're trying to cut the entire team off.
Sunza was like, it's something that's going down anyway.
Yeah, it's so tough.
Like she was sorry of all people.
You can't really help the Cap Ashen if they're going back.
Going that deep
They're really doing a great job trying to set up the angles, but that time
So I'm so kind of cart in between the his his cat and bastion and the rest of his team mark on the honor
Of course, I'm a little scared about mark a potentially being left alone here on this honor
Leave is gonna have to do a lot of work to fend off the J. Will here as he looks to capitalize on this pretty weak way of the
gaming backline
But the once again
Can't overstate the importance of passion in this lineup. He is the pivotal character
Yeah, I mean Joe who's getting straight up marked by leave this entire time
So that pressure like you said relieved
From a muck up. They are just lying around buddy. They are there we go
Let's turn a doobie flying around well all that's gonna get matrixed. Unfortunately
postmove for jw2
Recoil force really early on by leave. It's gonna be a post. Oh, not quite sales high in the sky
at least I mean still ends are going down. They trade a support for a DPS.
If 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 a touch. They want the captive sun and the orbital ray if
they can. You're gonna not, you can't not be touching right now. Capture the sun,
straight over the top, looking for somebody, looking for the support on the back line. It hits
Marker, that's the double tap. Marker goes down and leave two, I mean, wow, simple smoothing,
It's so good!
It doesn't end up sniping at least a bit, but it doesn't matter.
R.B.J. will be here with the cleanup.
The individual ability of these Elara players.
You win a fight like that, really impressive, from simple.
I think the most crucial element of that fight was that Marca used the Nonoboos,
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, have you used the Nonoboos?
Now, Marca forced over to the Kiriko as well.
That was a pretty big condition here for him to get the cap at the point.
They're going to try and kidnap somebody.
Orbital Racer coming out, so there's just too much damage you'd think.
Simple up on the high ground now, using that Orbital Racer damage.
Jay we went to be falling, there's a lot of players from Weber Gaming right now sitting on that mega health back.
Push his quarts away for a brief moment, Mark is so low.
His lead chases down, quarts.
I mean the entirety of Twisted Minds there, we're trying to capitalize on the rotations of Weber Gaming, but
his lead that comes up with a kill.
That should be the first point captured here for Weber Gaming.
Mr. Meinster, 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 cashing just
rain damage into Wavigaming as they're stuck in that hotel area but Mr. Meinster
got a little bit too greedy, hooked a little bit too hard in Wavigaming turned
the tables on him. Yeah and if you leave, as soon as you hear that casnade you're
like well that's a nice little girl for me especially for someone like leave.
So you're heading into this second point. Simple has the captive son, 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.
Maka's going to have the Kitsunorosh here. That could be an ultimate you could use to push forward here in Jameson Ground.
Oh, and Shai's behind on the rockets too. Very good against the teams that aren't running the Cap Ashen.
Shai takes down Simple. Simple as well.
My goodness simple captive 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 have action
Also just using the speed was there to try and get a steam across swaps back to it actually
Like with the money change of the mines. Maybe all right. There's our sense. That's more sense. All right. Simple still has his brain. We're good
That's crazy
I'll lose you, Cap. Come on, buddy. Come on, buddy.
Yeah, that's better.
There's no way.
There's still sense in the composition.
There is still sense here.
Oh, Shy has popped that out to try and stay alive.
Trying to find someone to shoot out.
Looks like he was trying to go for a mid-air shot on Quartz.
Didn't end up getting any damage down there.
Oh, great.
Great, it's good for Jay.
We've got a better Suzu there for Marker.
Don't do it. Taking a lot of damage here.
Mom's going to be popped.
There's Sebastian.
hit from shy and quartz. Quartz gets better or shy. So much easier when you don't have that rocket perk.
That hit that per-death. Didn't even need to steal the mic. Lee Soo 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 an
opportunity to post things out. Spisted mines. Go for a bit of a contest here. There are a few
players but simple going down and no mech available for TBNT. That should be way beginning.
capping the second pointer and continuing to roll around. Please roll. Two and a half minutes in
the time back now. They're really starting to roll with this cap action.
Let's see what twisted minds can do here. So, Shire, he has taken the AC 130 perk.
As a quartz swapping over to this bastion could potentially have the advantage in the aerial
duel. Yeah. Abbas been turning that for a while. You know, you're taking the rocket bug. It's like,
Well, actually now face-switch to Bastion is just so much more difficult for the player against.
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.
It's in Russia's available here, Jaws.
You can suffice for a little bit of damage there coming through from Shia as he pops out of turret form.
And moving up pretty effectively here.
It's going to be a rush backwards for Maka, attempting to kite maybe.
Hello.
Kidnapped? Oh, not quite. He's too big. Finally shut down.
There's still a point presence here from Cheyenne. He's got ult, but I think he really got the bodies here to actually make this work.
Nice Suzu actually covering almost the entirety of Twistermind's frontline.
He didn't got mobility, and that's going to make sure they win the fight.
And going back to this perk discussion, I think that Wave of Gaming are in a really tough pace now.
Because we 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, Twisted's quite a bit of armor here. There's going to be a go-conditional wave-o.
No, they're going to try at least. He's trying to snipe people, but it's just not working. He's going to get mad at the moment, but they could snipe on simple. We'll do it.
Shy with a punch in mid-air against Quartz, but now he's descended eventually down to the ground.
Quartz is on such an off-angle here. It's kind of frustrating for him to be dealt with.
out with but they need to get back to the fight they've been taken up by
Cap Ashen again Quartz pops the officer in additional health Sharon for
high ground go the rocket but he just managed to get out by the looks of it
there's the kid over the edge see you later TV and T. Oh there's the reset nice
ult from Funny Astro great ultimate from Funny Astro good rotation from
Twisted Mind Steer as well took a while to get the picks required but delaying
the cart being pushed 15 seconds to go here now wave of gaming you 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 cart as they have to touch.
Right, yeah, double post. Here we go. Alpha, leave, and Jaewoo. And here comes the rush.
How are you sustaining against this? Bonnie Astrid just falls over. There's not much
they can do now with this fashion. Quartz is gonna have to do it all by himself.
Sons are also very low.
Postbombs both of them going wide
as leave now to a head right into a song throw with a double self-destruct.
I mean that is the difference maker.
Some of these teams have 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 way too gaming.
Looking to cap the third point on Kings Row.
They're gonna try and get out.
Funny asher, I swap it over, gotta go to Lucio again to get another to amp it up.
One meter to go now, Ashro is already down, Shai is on top of this high ground, he's going to hit that old two, good luck staying alive, he's just going to use it on the point, self-destruct, not good for one, pause, he's too mean, but that's the cap, the Wave-O.
Zero seconds at the time, but it will do.
You can hear the crowd in here, it is electric when Wave-O 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 like try to win a map in the series
Three and two for market 15 assists
We'll see how
Twist minds want to kind of conquer this one and that was the big thing dude
It feels 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 it's like the Bastion is worse.
Exactly. Because a lot of that turrets form gets strained by the Diva as well. So how many
rockets do you have in that form? 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 Death Pack 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.
Sunso self-destruct as well, helping the team get across the finish line.
There with a quick Sonic.
Here's a couple of things, which is that 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.
And they're not gonna go! Okay, Quartz, I would search.
No cats in the mix here, pretty default.
DBNT, going to touch this point here, force Wabigame to respond, and contest as well.
It's all about building these railgun shots now.
Have to still be aware of shy's turret from cooldown.
We can use lights right now
Yeah, you can hear those bullets ringing out
the Sun so does is a
Good position on the point there just making sure there's no free ticks although TV and T is still gonna sneak one away
It's gonna attend to kind of track a little bit here, but you lost mek. Yeah, I did
They've managed to get at least one tick, but I'm gonna go on to the second now
Now, Barry still lose one.
All right, hang on a second, Shai's really low too,
J-Woo is like, hounding him down.
Luckily, defense major's gonna do it.
Johnny, that's another tick despite losing that.
Yeah, Twisted Minds in a pretty good place here.
As we begin, we are still waiting for the fifth member
to get back.
It's an rush being built here as well.
This could be a great opportunity for Twisted Minds
to get this first point.
Yeah, both flushes too.
You can't step off the point now, unfortunately.
Marko is gonna use his in response.
Zuzu goes through on to Sun-Zubat, unfortunately, Shai and Leeve already dead, and that's going
to be the point.
Nice shot from Quartz.
There you go, point of logs.
payload.
Steins 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 Wabu Gaming, they lost the high ground in the process, trying
to contest that objective as well.
They couldn't really escape that very close, narrow area as well.
They're allowed to sit in mines to be in a superior position, have the better angles, come the actual team fight.
Is there a soundbar for Avril?
Avril?
Astro?
He hasn't got a soundbar. Not yet.
Who knows? He might be.
Might be in agreement right now with the beat.
Astro 5% away.
These Quartzes are ult first though, but at least he just pops the rally so they're able to peak around this corner a little bit
and basically just negates Quartz's ult completely.
This could be a sound very push from Funny Astro if they want it.
As long as he doesn't get interrupted here at ult and Jey we're already on the flank, kind of raring and ready to go.
That's got a pulse bomb, there's the beat like you called Johnny, and now Macker in trouble.
Macker is going to use the Suzu on himself and now Jey we can just turn his attention towards the brick,
but mark a TP's into the front line to kill J-Wood.
Solid team fight, fight Twisted Minds.
BC does it with the sound barrier in hand,
still one of the most powerful ultimates in the game,
despite being nerfed.
This mind's going to continue pushing this cart.
Now, you're going to have the opportunity to set up,
as you can see already, Quartz on this high ground.
Have the kid soon rush,
and that's going to be dropped on top of this cart.
Worsing, way beginning to take a lot of damage.
As this payload contest comes.
Well they have the Cap 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 on both from on the wall as well that might just kill him.
How's it up there?
Somehow Marko needs to be keeping alive but they can't keep Sonsu up.
There are the kills.
That twisted mind's needed.
A DMEC onto TVNT.
It's just going to be a self-destruct to get the remake.
Leesomeen dies and that is point.
What a really solid King's Row from who's in mind so far on this offense.
Can't really complain about too much in either of the teamfights that has 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 them real good about that.
And then you need what, the extra minute on the clock, right?
And then you get a free attack.
So, you're in a real good spot.
Right here.
Look at this, the high ground.
But the D-Vice so close range, Leesonman drops really low actually, means that Tuzu-Sunto has less healing available as well.
Wave of gaming, taking so much poke early on in these fights, don't want to lose too much positioning.
Yeah, Sunzo, now with the abilities they ran here, you've got that extra lifeline with that nemesis form.
This is scary, force has fallen into the game.
Dude, taking so much damage, aww, Leesonman's so low, oh, try to get back!
Oh, gosh, he's away!
Shai takes him out regardless and Mark with a beautiful kill into symbol but
almost for the picture perfect there for twisted minds. That looked real scary for
a second the position the quartz was in but great job by Wabu Gaming coming in
for the contest forcing him to the low ground and they're going to hold for now
the fans really need to rally these three minutes here and this next fight
It's 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 there's a three-person hold on the payload right now for Webber Gaming.
They're going to try and swing back in. You can see Shy being tangled.
They are not looking at him at all, Johnny.
They've just got a little bit too crazy.
Lisa Min carried Shy into the spawn doors of Twisted Minds,
and Funny Astro thought he had an opportunity to drop the sound barrier.
Get a pick early, but, way beginning disengaging accordingly, and then collapsing, putting
two submits in 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, cardiac overdrive.
Going to be quite effective with these narrow-act breakthroughs.
Oh, what a stupid move.
It's nice, but Shy is still just shooting at this front line.
And with Friar should go down, I mean, if I do this over Johnny, simple ends of using
Russia trying salvage of what's left. A stomping for the front line but Shai is
going to be able to get picked up in just a moment. Pops the opposite and
sustained. Oh the pulse bomb is good but again the Suzer is just better.
TVNT goes down and Shai is just dominating.
Webugemi in control now as TVNT pushes quite deep. Obviously relying on the
cardiac overdrive timing but couldn't get anything going there after funny
Astro. Dropped early again and that's been one of the stories so far. Webugemi
putting a lot of pressure onto Twisted Mind's Lucio player. That's half of the
three minutes gone already. I mean they're not finishing with a minute, Johnny.
There's just no all over minutes, you know. 20 seconds to go, there's just no
way, not at this point. TVNT's just trying to get in, get out, see if he can
force a call down or two.
This bastard is so scary. Have to pay around him.
I forgot the TVNT was just super low, already a cardiac overdrive popped yet.
But guess who's got another tire form?
It's Shai, could just walk around the corner.
This is so tough with Twisted Minds right now.
They cannot come up with answers at all.
To a level of a pilot.
This is unlike Twisted Minds.
It is so very difficult because at any time when 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 paying the market here as well. Look at these rotations from twisted minds
They're always going to be in a tough place with way beginning
Okay, he's really low. There's the focus fire that's needed
Well, the brush is gonna come in here for shy, but
Should be done in Duster, but now shine these women behind them. Yeah, just kind of chill for now
Have to wait for this next teamfight to get being placed
But this is what I'm talking about with some minds
They have to be worried about front and back on the Astro with the Sunbearer here crucial as we head into overtime
Now we'll see if that leaf and get a nice post bomb here
CBNC a thousand HP now in the cage Marcus trapped in here as well as the high new from quarters good for one
Annihilation Nemesis for all use for Sunzo
Those twisted minds in OT should be out to largest one in
Shaiqio's Astro
It's all for naught.
A minute each in the time bank now Johnny. Just too many ultimates.
We're 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've got one going. A couple?
This is peak Overwatch right here, and I want to see maximum maps.
Crowd's so ready for whether 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 Sui Min and Maka into the mix here,
way beginning, looking to increase their ceiling potential
to try and compete with the very best.
And Twisted Minds 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 Bastion.
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.
Only have 40 seconds to go right now.
There's no great Reaper target.
A lot of pressure is put on the shy for the minute.
So low. That's not a good start, but the end of killing is simple.
Using Bastion is more of a distraction if I like that.
TVNT has to let that kill go and Lee Soo Min didn't have the Frosters available.
Leave his 1 HP as well. They're able to just stay up in the hotel though.
Living for now. 20 seconds to go. J-Woo.
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 going to die.
Oh, J-Woo gets another kill.
10 seconds to go Johnny someone's gonna touch no one can no one can son so no way near
He touched half a second there, but
It was not enough the cats was not enough, but he got the touch you know the touch you didn't get the touch
It did his best
All right, so twist in mind some minute on the timer here
If they extend this lead to two woe in this series man
Absolutely, you can't just get yourself into here. That draw would be huge for way boo massive
But they you just need of all the time you just need a single kill
And that is what the Cap action team is just very good at just getting that single pick early and
with how
Shy and Alicia Miniman playing Alicia Min's been phenomenal on the cap. We're especially with the Alts like
It's 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 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 Waybuu gaming
for this one minute here have to be proactive have to keep making place at
the scary prospect of going 0-1-2 all right trying to bail out each other's
forms as well
I
Was just waiting for the swing and I was for literally waiting
For someone else. Oh, there it is. There's the form. They're gonna try and go first it
Try on the ground already both defensive edges. He's going straight over towards shy before to so long
So close the crowd can feel it to the TV and TN to lose the map that's not good
They need to reset and TV and T Johnny needs to also die or get mech back
60% already though, and J-Woo should be able to cap the point.
They're going to try and trade the back line.
10 seconds to go, now this is looking like a draw.
Wapoo, I think they've just gone and done it.
The DMEC on TVMT, he's got 99% but he's going to get remade.
Sure, but where's the touch? Has to come in.
J-Woo dies! Good draw!
No way!
The solo D-Mec on TV and T-Johnny, they left the baby Diva, they don't leave him.
He respawns, gets mech, they fight.
Absolutely massive draw by Wable Gaming and not go down into that 0-2 hole here in the
lower bracket.
We restart, essentially it's the second map here now.
They get to pick another map in the pool once more.
See where they take us next.
Where would you guys, if you're old?
Where'd they get me?
Well they're looking quite competitive on this get-tie cat and the bastion.
So going into this 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 like and I scored map.
We have to be aware of the picks and the bans as well.
There you go. The map six, the variant.
We were ready for it. We had the graphics ready.
It's 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 way beginning 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 Wave or 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 it's 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 9-6 comes around, they could pick anything again.
Do I have to keep in mind, if we get that far?
That would be if they can.
They wouldn't go to something like a circuit real.
Chill.
That is for sure.
I don't think either team would want to pick something like a circuit real in this one.
The Rado, not to be sure about that either, so I think we all just have a really good pick here.
Obviously, maybe they'll play spoiler, pick push or something, but I don't see it for the minute.
Unless they really want to go lose your carry then I could defend something like a rune sappy, Joe
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
Mr. Minds as well
We tend to ban the Bastion to that's still like an available ban. Yeah, I think you gotta protect it
Probably protect Van de Bastion if you are way beginning and DPS just by an um, just a
sojourn
Symmetra Summature yeah
We saw earlier the Virtus 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 you 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, been banned.
And so, the later this series is going to progress, it's actually something Twisted Minds have talked about, 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 now, very good at it, mosses of it.
Have a look.
look rune is soppy here we go I mean I yeah I'm in the same way that Johnny I
think you banned DPS to weather we did actually see all gamers they did play
the Jepacat Bastion there as well yeah so some legendary Diva bombs come through
with the oh the Mag Diva bomb gang 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 looks like teams are feeling quite comfortable here
We're in a sappy as well far ban
Gonna protect an amalgam team
Yeah, and that guarantees of course TVNP. He's able to get away playing the diva if need be there as well
Yeah, look at this, these bands as well. Cassidy, Genji, Barra, 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 Tristan Mines DPS on their toes, that's for sure.
So is this Sunso dropping the Saria here once more?
We saw that it was the preference of his on Oasis, alright?
And so now you're probably thinking, okay, well TVNT, 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 Saria as a really good meta pick here as well.
We can play that into the D.Va if need be.
If we see Cat Bastion though, the Saria 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.
Runisafi 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, King's row is a draw so we're going again here, going to lock in.
Got a look again, heading into this third map here.
Webogaming, this was a comfort map pick of them, the Baskin-Bakas.
But you need to keep the energy going. Oh yeah. That's been 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 of something.
So when Marcus got an Oversleek ring...
That is back keeps getting brought up. Yes indeed. He won the 2023 Florida Mayhem Oversleek Championship.
I haven't brought it up yet, so it's new to me.
It's brought up here once in a while, as you see the rollout come through here.
Both teams are going to play the D.Va. Be expected.
But this time around, we're already giving our team opting for the Bastion,
while Twisted Minds 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 Leave on this tracer as well.
A lot of heads up play required from just reminding this one.
Yeah, a lot of it.
Sons are going really low there.
Here, Joe, we can actually snipe this kill on to leave.
I think he's going to give them an opportunity.
So, Blink's makin' a quick recall.
Um, I want to try and take care of this spot here.
I mean, they're trying to put a shine on him
where he can jump onto this back line.
Uh-oh.
I mean, Quartz is so healthy, though.
Good matrix.
Scythe Tyreform's going to run out in just a moment.
I mean, he's still shooting at it.
it gets it too. Symbol maybe haven't hit the reload there unfortunately. It's funny.
Astro follows it back to spawn. Just so oppressive. You have to kite around, stay
away from this bastion for so long and yet when the third form ends, the pressure
just never ends from a player like Shai there as well. So if you're in the
castle you just got to hide out. You got to buy time for yourself. You only really
have the speed boost to work with to try and navigate, deploy where you want the
Cassidy to play from and try to get a pick I don't do someone like leave and put some pressure on the market for example
But it's so difficult to play this Lucio composition and try to beat the jet back that fast and not playing it yourself
Wrapping around here, Twisted Minds to going to give the way beginning this positioning here
Yeah, then gonna take the higher ground, but realistically here quartz is gonna 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 rush here could deploy it makes things difficult. Wow, they're gonna go so quick
Simba's got hidden 2% but this box gonna get away from them
It's gonna run around the corner custom mines 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 if Marker
You can see it being tagged by J-Woo
And just to get back, but yeah, that is a good isolation.
Oh, the pulse is so good.
They trade there, but you've lost your tank, so you've lost a lot of your front line.
Shai is so low as well.
Amazing stuff from Jai, with that giving his life to the teammate.
Great play by Twisted Minds.
Putting pressure onto Sansa early.
I thought Wapu Gaming did a good job purchasing time there for the re-engaged,
but Shai couldn't get back into the fight quick enough.
And with that, Twisted Minds, picking up 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 way beginning.
Astrid's in Minds, look around this corner.
At least he's in M2, Johnny. Can't just go for a kidnap on somebody.
Leaving to do it on Quartz. Here he goes.
There's a Bastion in our midst.
There's a Bastion behind us.
That's the beat from Funnyastro2 trying to keep this fight alive.
I mean, TBNT, that overhills been stripped away very quickly.
If you're happy getting across this corner now, open things up positionally for Twispin
Mice and Flortz in a better position here.
Way better damage here onto Shy, still taking a bit of those nades coming in, but Shy's
just super low, TBNT turns his head 180 degrees and kills Shy.
Self-destruct by TBNT kills Maka, he's going to be able to get the remake as well.
What a beautiful fight from Twisted Mice there.
It's just fantastic.
Positional understanding from Twisted Minds.
Yes, we commit the 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 Lisa, means Catclay, and now Twisted
Minds, they're pushing this card, and they have a Kitsune Rush online as well.
Kitsune Rush Quartz, she gets hit with an 8, that's straight up.
That's going to be a T-neck on Jacinta.
I mean, this is going for bad to worse for Wabo right now.
This is really not good.
They can't lose any more people, but they can't not.
That's a really late death for Maka.
It is indeed, and if you look to awards, maybe a Kitsuna rush here.
Katria literally swinging through this gate as well,
and hits Tristan Mines from multiple angles.
It's a Weibo game, they're facing a pretty devastating teamfight coming up here.
All spawn for J-woo as well, Mark is so low, he's already dead as well.
Oh dearie me, Weibo game, you're going to have to come up for some big here, Sunzo's down now.
It's a three on five.
This is a disaster cast right now for Weibo.
Twisted mines get a team kill on the very final stretch.
This should not be the cap still though because Mark has to skits sooner.
You wait for everybody to come online. Shai is going to have great positioning out of spawn.
So, Twisted Minds, if you can get this ult 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 Minds.
They can just hang out.
On this corner, like you said, I mean, Shai is going to have to get a kill here.
Something's going to have to happen. They don't want to use ult for Twi-
Fanny Ashro has got this beat so soon.
And he goes down to Quartz.
As soon as that kill comes in as well, Fanny Ashro is going to hit the old Sibylo also as well.
I mean, two support ultimate advantage of the Twisted Minds.
Johnny, this is over.
Where do we get me to get team kills?
It's done.
There's four minutes left in the time bank,
but coming out of the spawn, it's only Shy.
Leafy's 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 Rotter is buying enough time.
Shy has to come up big here on the bastion.
Find a couple of these frags.
J-Boo dropping low.
No recall available.
You have to go down on the back of shy and this annihilation.
No.
You're not buying a fan from here.
Oh, the remake killed the me.
How did they 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?
I need to see the remake kill.
If we're going to show the age axis, I need to see the remake kills.
Twisted mines 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 looked like they were in complete control, yes?
There's Sebastian flying above us, rotating around us.
We have to be so cognitly aware at all times where the Katharine Sebastian is.
But the rotations were on point.
The defense makers from TVNT to make sure his vulnerable players didn't go down.
Just immaculate coordination by Twisted Minds to navigate this meta composition we saw from
way beginning.
If you're looking at it, they really only lost one fight and that was the first one
And they just sunk our own
TV and T what a star play on this diva. Yeah
Those are some points like we want to ban that out
Surely we get the remix I mean it's a carry hero essentially yeah if you play like like this on diva
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
the bashing composition here maybe you just want to fight them straight up
instead play what you played so well as we look at twist the mice closing things
out once more here yeah I think leave his top right there I saw TV NT kind of
Swoop back in, hey, TM 2-1, this is, especially after that draw and how vicious I think,
Wabo were kind of biting back at twisted mines, I mean, that was anything but vicious, they
got de-clawed.
I mean that's mentally crushing, right, for Wembley gaming, 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
think 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 outmaster on the lucio carry on the
back what I'm on the way sis we go sigma basuki mate sigma basuki mate
it's a good comp a really good comp let's look at J-woo on a runesoppy two
deaths 8kd is the best in the game right now yeah for sure I mean we're
We're talking about a lot of star players here in the tournament, Tracer players, 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, I have you know.
He's so young.
He is.
Such a great prospect in this scene, he's gonna have a long career.
He's doing it this well, this early on.
Obviously doesn't have that title of winner right?
The World Cup last year.
We've done a spot last year.
Hey, maybe a hundred for another one this year.
Yeah, I mean this is a twisted mind-steam that got better after they won the world championship team
or after they picked up J.Woo to replace Psycho who now is on Lord of the Spro here instead
They won out the bootcamp in clean fashion as well relying
you
You know as well if you want to commit to the brawl of course the Lord is going to be
band out from Wabble Gaming here.
No, Wido from TM.
Five points was going to be there.
Thonny Ashrow can't sleep on that guy.
He has a deeper hero pool than he might think.
I mean, simple would be the one rocking the Alari.
And yeah, it gives Ashrow a little bit more of a job
to heal the team.
You can't just aura heal people with Lucio,
but I think Alari band here for Webo does make a lot of sense.
I love the band that we make it to.
I mean, look, dude, come on.
Pick some stuff out of the mix.
Just like, I don't have to think about this hero.
Don't have to think about the way it would act.
Especially from a team like Webber, 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 survivability tools of the Maywall and Sigma Shield, Kinetic Rast.
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 minds on the defence. No Mizuki, they're just rocking the camp action.
I trust them. They're the world champs, Jaws. They can do whatever they want.
Got a good cigar. Here you go.
Do it, Sunso.
No, Rhyne on this map against the poke, come on man.
Jake was in the green room earlier, vouching for Rhyne. I swear to everyone watching the broadcast, Jake did actually want to see some Rhyne hard.
He thought it was a great swap, so I'm just putting it out there.
Maybe not in the death pack as Bastion, I'm not going to put those kind of words in Jake's mouth,
but it did at some point say that Rhyne hard was a good hero, so I'm keeping that one with me.
Alright, it's going to be the Sigma, Mei, and the Mizuki.
Maybe they're going to adapt here when they're seeing what's on the defense of Twisted Minds.
Yeah, I think Shai's going to go change here. He wasn't heading back to spawn.
He's going to go bash. I think it's just going to be the solo bash in here. There's no cat.
They're going to stick with Lee Shim in on the Mizuki.
Yeah, again, the strength of this composition comes from the way he can contest the objective,
the payload here. And so Twisted Minds, they obviously have a timing around the turret form here.
Wow.
And a timing around the course is shooting heads apparently.
I mean, if we're getting skills, it should be fairly effective with composition
after this teamfight, it's all about laptop.
He is such a sharp shooter.
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 the course is, and respect what is capable of.
You know, we've seen a couple of iterations of the poke composition.
And obviously Twisted Minds, they've had some time to think about what tiers they want to play in a composition like this.
And if they feel like the damage output of a Bastion with J1 that tiero, and Quartz's ability to flick heads is good enough,
maybe this is Twisted Minds' best response to this May composition we've been seeing.
They've already got double DPS out of Twisted Minds, like that is so quickly being built up.
Oh, and Lee just gets blown up by the Maid.
They're gonna play a little bit safe, they don't want J.W.J. to get blown up here as well, but pow, I mean, that is a quick kill.
And Johnny, look at the time back already, 2 minutes 20 seconds.
And they haven't really had a fight to begin with. Leaves now, it's going to swap over to the Caster.
This is K.
This is Swap's hit.
They're going to match it.
I mean, that was mech.
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 as a TV and T
Just stops him from using the grass
Quartz he manages to get one
But can he actually stay up and alive here on the sidelines these more there's a little bit too much of a heavy lift for him
He's still up when a simple goes down
My goodness, I was still alive. There we go. Okay
That's going to be point for Waveo. Twisted Mind is trying to make a play there as funny
Astro can only heal one of his damage burst at the same time. Left J-Wood there on the
Bastion, Waveo gaming capitalized beautifully on that and Quartz wasn't able to secure
value with the Deadeye and they start rolling here on this second point. Trying to stay
alive in this series but they have lots more to go. Yeah they're going to need to give
a whole lot more than that, Jonny. They're still down two maps here.
Flux is gonna hit a high noon from LeeV.
Oh, SunZo with a better Flux onto TBNT.
Quartz falls as well. Funny Ash throw down, and that is twisted mines.
Just getting scrapped with his Wabo.
Just walk over them. I mean, that is just a differential there from SunZo.
Great play by Wibigame.
Dead Eye as well coming through from LeeV. Can't underestimate that damage.
TBNT is over to the deva to get the final contest here. They need the matrix
Remove some of this damage give them a decent contest
TBNT
He's still gonna have to sell the spail out now. It's these human dives into the backers
There's a pause. Oh
Man
I don't know what happened there
I really hope that they didn't change the outcome of that fight.
Yeah, I was a massive fight.
Shia looking a little bit confused by those things.
I think it's a Weibo call 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 Weibo gaming, 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.
We'll get word on what this pause is for.
Looks like it is...
Oh, is it?
There's an Admonis.
Yeah, I think it's...
A monitor issue, maybe, from Shine?
He's got the monitor flipped the wrong way around.
That was not...
Yeah, bro.
No, not like he was playing with that.
Yep, yep.
Chai doesn't need a monitor to play man, he just 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 Hanbin basically played with this monitor almost parallel with himself.
I don't know how he could have done it.
You have to see the picture because me saying it is kind of unbelievable.
It's just like, what? Will it kill the monitor?
Yeah, it has to kill the monitor.
Like a 72 degree angle, it's insane.
Alright, well the monitor is working, so that's good news.
That's good news.
That is good news.
All right, yeah, Sharjah's 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 the
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.
T20 is on Diva indeed, so had 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 Minds can get away with it because they have the high ground.
That means that they can't play quite proactively with the 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 Minds, 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 pay them a little bit more quick if you're the D.Va team.
Sigma team you can just kind of, you can't sit there and just poke away, whittle people down.
It's going to be a slow poke and 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 D.Va.
Yeah.
Christian Meisto, 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 is on the Wrecking Ball, like,
not a great hero to be on New York City, but they clutched it out. They managed to make
it happen and after the map, they were laughing on StealthTale. 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 you appeared to be in 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 of Wayboo playing circle row coming up
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What's up, everybody?
I'm here and for OWCS Tokyo, and I'm joined by everybody's favorite team, Twisted Minds.
talking today with of course funny Astro and KSA and first guys I just got to ask
what did 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 for very hard but yeah it's been just an amount
of travel I think we're ready for the tournament now. As for me actually I had
earlier than the team I came from Turkey I couldn't come to the bootcamp
because I was sick but I had then just left the hotel. Is there any like one
particular thing you really want to do while you're here in Japan.
I lost my way out for some Japanese barbecue, it's pretty nice.
I've been wondering these places, trying to find where I know I've been on.
And I've seen too many faces
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Welcome back. Yes, we are indeed back. This is Johnny. We're in Japan's. Oh, no, that's not good whole show again
We're just about to get into the next next next game. No the same game
Well, it's for a shoot together 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, we were out here all the time.
Yeah, sure, sure.
I was just going to give them a little peek behind the camera.
What happened, Jaws?
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.
Twist of mind, up 2-0 in this series after three maps being played.
Yes.
We're in the middle of map four, which is Circuit Real.
And obviously very beginning, very close to finishing off that second point.
progressing on to third 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 and it worths
kind of talking about is that the pause was very awkward although it was Webber are probably going
to lose this fight if I remember correctly there are about two people that were dead on my both
side. Yes it's a five versus three scenario as we're about to head back into the game very shortly.
So I don't know I've seen worse like five or two three. What would you put percentage to bring this one back a 53
8% and 8%
Yeah, probably we'll have a jake confirm those loads for you. We'll have him compute
Astro
Number so far in this series so three maps faster here
7.5k heels pretend
Like you said, he's had a bit of a tough go here or early on in the tournament, adapting to these Korean teams as we reload back into the game.
And the way the game is, they say, nope, we don't even want to take this 5 vs 3, we're going to head back into spawn, and we've got 2.45 on the time bank.
8%.
I don't know, what the hell 90% happened.
Yeah, well that's true. That's very true.
Like I said, 2.5 minutes now for WBG.
Still rocking the cat-bashing of both teams.
It's a given game. Off of the high ground.
Oh, they tried to kidnap, but yeah, the Suzu came in clutch.
Sun-Ten are moving forward.
Fortunately, half of that wasn't by himself.
T-Vents, he was pushing them into the front line.
And it's all about T-Vents here.
Here's Steve Apley, has to manage these booster cooldowns
and combine with a team.
DeadEye could be used here.
He's going to use it straight over the top,
and they're ready for this one.
No, oh, you've got a matrix there.
He's got it. He's got it.
The focus by is too good, Matrix ran out, held that, Deliver basically is in tire duration.
That is way with capping second.
Alright, calm composed. Get the second point cap going as they roll on to third and J-Woo
dropping really low, but he has enough sustain, enough healing from his teammates to stay alive in this one.
Take a look at the ultimates. Quick reset going into this one, Sunso, has this flux.
Past his flux, both Kiriko's working towards that Kitsunerash.
Try to set up on the hike on here, give me a T.
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, four way beginning.
That was neat. Say, oh, the knee! Did you see that actually connected with Astro?
He went super low, so he tries to get J.Woo in a good position, but shy, ends up going down first.
A free form now for J.Woo, and should be a free fight on top of that.
You think you can get an extra frag here?
Pushing onto Sunzo, even if he can't lose mech, you too, too.
He's low.
Oh!
The kid now gots no cancel there.
Wabugaming end up not responding to this one with a giant flood.
Simple force as Mark gets two.
Sunzo got huge.
What a flood from Sunzo.
Wow, what a play and Mark are following up there as well.
Saw an opportunity and capitalized on twisted mines being quite low after the initial skirmish.
Now way beginning 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 with his teammates
Gonna put leaving a good spot as well. Oh shreds the high ground. Okay, not gonna use that high noon cat just yet
Do all them available draws
Cat noon
Just better
One minute and forty 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 Lee.
He's the one to get that IKLs required to win the team fight.
Wow.
Unbelievably loud still.
It feels only a matter of time before this team gets it going in this lower bracket.
It's such a tough go over the last few internationals.
You can never count these guys out.
Yeah, I mean they are Chinese Overwatch legends shy and leave
At the very beginning they were on separate teams. They haven't combined yet Chengdu hunters hangtose bark
But they said if we want to have the best opportunity to win an international major
Well 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 Twisted 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. There's 1.38 on the time back for
Wabble Gaming. They capped out with here. Twisted Mines keep going on the offense.
Yeah, if 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 D.Va.
Leave and court. I mean, I said at the very start of this map, like, oh, this series is gonna be such an insane hit-scan duel.
And it's proven to be just that.
Oh, that's what happens.
The D.Va Sigma, you're going to get those accretions to your face.
What pressure on the way we're getting here though?
Who's in mines looking to swing perhaps?
Yeah, should I really low actually?
I have to back up to this second corner, or third corner I guess.
Right into your time.
It's all about the bastions in this one.
Yeah, just trying to make the Sigma use cooldowns.
Nice dodge to the rock.
He's in there.
though. Good shoes you coming in from simple saves today. It's gonna earn himself a rush too. They're gonna pop his 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 the kill here. It's gonna be gold, but no, Mark, it gets it in time.
Is it up high here to the cap? Here we go again!
Jai's already dead. Oh, not quite.
Everybody's scarring for cover though, and Niamh is completely isolated as Quartz is a big indenate.
Oh, we're on the floor. All the way back. Oh, and Quartz joins us.
What an unbelievable flux there!
Sons though, just takes course out completely.
A ridiculous turn around for Wave-O.
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 Minds backline.
In the beginning they turned things around with the Gravitic Flux.
Two minutes off the timer.
Every single teamfight matters in this one.
Let's say look to chunk off this time-bank from PrusaMines on the attack.
That's even really low.
And like you said, those rocks are going to be here and you constantly, if you're playing this D.Va or to dodge.
They're at form.
PrusaMines has a better timing here.
If they want to go.
Hi Nune.
Uh oh.
Cat Nune.
Oh, strength this guy on! He just keeps on delivering for Wayvo Gaming.
TVNT's had a mech fight done. One minute and 20 left.
He's been 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 time it's going to be Twisted Meister and Quartz, 98%.
Let's see if they can get things going with their own dead-eye 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.
First to mind, we've got it.
The Bastion for now.
J-Will with the turret form.
They both actually use the right T-Vents, he's really low though.
They can use the E to actually try and absorb all those heals, he's shy, takes down Quartz.
There's 40 seconds to go in TBNT. He goes for the remake!
Things are just not going with it. Twisted Mind is way right now. They have one more opportunity in this one.
And the Kitsuna rushes have been deployed. TBNT swaps over to Ramatra along with the Vino.
It's just going to be for the extra speed I've spawned temporarily.
TBNT 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 dead-eye,
steals so many tools at the Waybegaming's disposal.
They got Cat Noon again.
Leeb pops it straight to the skies, no where to run, no where to hide.
Leeb has done it again.
And he's going to isolate Fonny Astra as well.
I mean, there's nothing this man can't do.
Waybeau gaming comeback 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.
Flying cowboy dip. That's one way to get some momentum back in this series.
The crowd fired up at leave comb, buying with Lee Sun-min on the deathback cat.
They have the upper time every single time with those Jedi 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 weibo gaming have a composition they can trust
Like you said at the very end there as well everything relied on getting a good
high noon
or dead eye with
The cat flying you over the top and twist of mind
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 leave kind of cut 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 this series obviously
We I mean we've seen cat and dead ice being combined since the very release of the hero at the boot camp
But to this effect really have to respect it both teams trading back and forth in this one
So let's first of all, it's on the map point, so now they're in the hot seat, they choose
the map, they choose to ban first.
Because this is going to be our fifth map coming up, we're only reduced to flash point
being the map picks available here.
Now we've seen a lot of new junk cities so far for teams that don't want to play the
Bastion jet that 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 Jetpack Admeta as much.
So maybe they want to go back to a new drunk city, maybe they want to 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 have been going to NJC to get away from the cat-bashing.
Yeah.
Sorry.
If you're just a mind-boggling, you're happy with how this is going.
I mean, NJC seems like the perfect place.
Wow.
What a rock as well.
Are you kidding me?
We didn't see that, because we were first like POV of leave.
Ridiculous.
So I think that that happened once before in the map, right before the pause,
but we had to double-check that.
But if that is the case, that would have been two dead eyes that were cancelled by Sunso's accretions.
Sunso is in presence.
Why do you want one?
My dude is popping off.
Obviously very comfortable playing the Sigma into a hero like D.Va for TB&T.
But I think you can just look at the performance, the individual performance on this hero itself.
And say that was just not a matchup diff.
That was Sunso putting on a display on one of his better heroes available to him.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
normally known as Billy Dang. And with how this is going now, it feels like a momentum
shift pause in a way, right? Where like, we're running this one home. Hey, twist of mind,
it's up to you how you want to get back in. You've already banned the cat. They banned
cat on map one. 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 leaves him in stats being showcased for you here
And like you said, I like the practice has 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 popular 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 play off with your victim
Hey, or even drag him off the map. We've seen a bunch of that one already
It is
It's crazy how much jetpack cat 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 Suzu or something just like as long as they don't get hit. I'm fine
But, yeah, real tough, but at least we've been fantastic jobs so far, pilots in the cap.
Another veteran player as well.
You know when I run for many years now, even dating back to the Overwatch League days, spent some time on Soul Dynasty.
And so now finding a home here on a Webu gaming roster that has 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 Blushway in this lineup.
Because of the meta that we find ourselves in, it's all about Sunster this time.
So where's before it was a four or five man team line up?
As we're big chilling.
TVNT is chilling, maximum relaxing, reclined 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've got some chill 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 TVT is doing right now. They're like, this is this is what we do
This is what we do. This is what we do TVNT's just 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
They still won't more serious after this by the way. Yeah, they they are going to play the next
Match up here versus pro are waiting in the wings in the final matchup of the day the lower back at final
but I mean look at long it I hate to talk about funny astral because we're
just looking at him but he doesn't think there's a camera on him but like he's
looking a little tired you know and TV in the middle so I 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 I mean first of all it's
happened on that before funnily enough against Alcat yeah they did
Mitch is in championship last year. Yeah, that's raw on Blizzard world
Of course, Johnny too. Oh, we got him. Oh, we got him. We got it. We got him chat. Who's next?
You know one person you on and suddenly everyone starts yawning and so
It's a slippery slope for the rest of the team here. You gotta watch out if you're simple
J-woo
Don't it don't it be caught you on it. 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 mines. We got the hard replaced obviously in a moment as well.
Ooh, do you zoom in? Uh oh, uh oh, our twisted mines expecting this composition to come out
from Weber Gaming? Surely, I mean surely this is what it's been like evolved into over the
last day or so. Twisted mines are playing way more of a default, a way more common composition
They have to adapt their play now to what Weber Gaming are bringing on their own end.
So it was a Bastion Band by Twisted Minds there Johnny.
The Diva Band for Weber Gaming.
TNT is going to be still at home though on Desiree.
It's all about hiding here for Weber.
The Maywall is so pivotal here as well.
TNT has to be careful on Desiree as the rotate comes through from Weber Gaming.
A lot of sustain if you're Twisted Minds.
You have to rotate away and open up the angles for J1 Quartz.
Maywall has been deployed though.
This is a good time for Twisted Minds.
Quartz, you're hoping Quartz gets nothing,
he's actually shy, snipes Funny Astro.
And a cap too.
So it's not Twisted Minds now if they want to stay in this.
And it's so slow.
There's so much percent that's being drained here.
Quartz wants to slide out, simple.
Might get 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 sub-optimal 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 rotting away from Twisted Minds, not giving them an
inch here.
Ultimates are coming in line though.
They force leaves block on the point at least, okay, by the trace of it.
Shy is just keeping Overwatch right now on this high point.
Good railgun kill onto marker though, after that rush has been used, and there you go,
okay, Twisted Minds grasping 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 Minds, if they want
to poke and putt early, they need every single opportunity they can get to find an early
Railgun kill here, or maybe catch someone with TVNT's grab-torn surge coming up. 98%
though, Wabugaming with 5 ultimates, such a tough uphill task for Twisted Minds. Oh
man, TVNT can grab on the rotate, that's a good pick though, straight to the dome, shy
goes down. Alright, okay.
Webu, I've got time to back out though.
That's the overclocked the point, about 64% here for
Twisted Minds now, and they have the Sunbury, they have the Graviton Surge. They're facing
5 Ultimate, but they have very powerful ones of their own. Catch them on the
rotate here, just CVNT's got the high ground right now with the Graviton Surge. Rush is going to
come through onto the point. There's the Graviton, they hit some big, J, we're looking for
A nice little post, and then 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 plays 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 back yet
Yeah, at least we've been trying to deploy the sanctuary as well Johnny just to no avail
Flocks whoa
TBNT jumps out of there and they kill sh they kill shy straight rip the beef
Right for gaming where you are you in the wrong postcode right now
Shies was over to the soldier
It's this one of more swaps to come.
Sunso, over to the Ramatra here as well, leaves him in.
He's going to do his part, Lucio, it is.
More of a default kind of composition here.
Leave 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 Kitsuna rush.
One of the better ultimates in the game.
game.
Game who, 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.
Clean up kills 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 Runasapi when it was all twisted minds after that initial
engage.
Wave who gave me hasn't found anything.
He's giving up.
Wow.
to the Tracer, recognizing that not going to get a lot of value with that
blizzard. It's going to be so difficult to capture anyone, but now no ultimates of
their own. 73% of the Twisted Minds, they can do whatever they want.
Let's have a look from simple quartz. I'm going to pull the overclock first, but Sunzo
already so low, needs some desperate assistance. The entirety of Twisted Minds
right now, looking at Sunzo as he just melts TV and tea. That's a, that's two
2 points now Johnny!
Webber Gaming had 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, Shirely, gone missing and it's all Quartz and J-Win this one.
Who's mine?
Trying to advance into the lower bracket.
Maka has this Kitsunorosh available.
But this G'raviton surge, so deadly, especially with Twisted Minds already set up in a good position here in Webu Gaming for us to make a play.
Oh, there we go.
Okay, Shy on the board, leave two, 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 for Webu Gaming.
Yes, you need to win fights on the back of your ketunor, on the back of sound barrier.
But where it all starts coming together is when you can line up the railgun frags 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 a shine, with the overclock,
but the Graviton search from TVNT 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 Sumin.
Overclock's going to get used by Shy.
What's the response? Looks like a beat.
Lee Sumin's got a better beat timing now.
He's going to cover five with him too.
His Twisted Minds have to back out of this fight at least for now.
Don't want any business to do with Lee Sumin's Sunbury here.
Going to look for the reed again as well.
They've got Brav. They win to 1v1.
Suns are in trouble.
Now they just get run over.
Oh, it's feeling like that point one all over again.
Look at the old Twisted Minds have saved as well.
They got the pick-a-pick 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 Kitsuna rush.
Mark at that time doesn't match simple, recognizing that they already dropped a member.
So 85% here for Weibo Gaming now. They're still in a very good position to get this point for them.
TVNT, oh, he's going to get grabbed.
Bob Long's pause, but pause still goes shy.
This game is good for two though.
TVNT goes down as well to shy.
Twisted Minds not using their combo.
They used it, they could have done,
but they were already caught in webos and it's 95%.
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 there for the Twisted Minds, right?
This next one, it's a graph pulse as soon as that point is locked, you're hitting that graph pulse and then you get the point for three.
A lot of pressure on Tamaka. Need to save that Susu for the pulse bomb that could come out.
Oh, they're actually just gonna 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.W.A. expected the Suisse 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 wide swing, but at the same time, they're building towards the double support open at Sportswist.
Oh, shy, she's just going to get solo. Can you get the man out of the way?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
This kick is just too good!
J-Woo does it again. Oh, at least you're in.
It's way far in the back line there.
And that's going to be a fight to Twisted Minds. That's a back-to-back.
It's a game. Webber Gaming on the back foot.
Webber Gaming on the back foot as well, and no support alternates 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.
Soundbarrier for FunnyAstro, Lee Sumin as well, 25% away, Lee throwing up Hulse, 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 gonna try and catch off on the extra but he gets Susie and bottled and out ports with the overclock
It's gonna be the biggest on the side. They got the touch from me soon in goes down 92 percent towards the beat
And twisted minds have done it
Your world champions
Knocking out China's number one seed from Tokyo
And that's a 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.
Luccio Kirigou with the soldier, J.Woo, making those plays on the tracer.
That's why he was signed to this roster.
He just round things out, improved on this roster alone.
And it went four maps, it went five maps, it even did.
Well, Twisted Minds facing some stiff competition in the way we're gaming, but you got to talk about the rune of Saafi, the way they closed out these map wins for themselves.
They were so dominant on those three maps.
Yeah, J-Woo just carried towards the end.
That big old draw as well on Kings Row, you can't forget.
An incredible series here.
And yeah, Twisted Minds, they're continuing this run in this lower bracket now.
Virtus.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 short, Johnny, they want to make it to the finals again.
Yeah, and it really felt like in Stage 1 that Twisted Minds was the better of these two teams,
the way they were destroying Virtus.pro in regional play.
But I feel like here on the international stage, the way the meta has been developed so far,
I think Fortress 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.
Congratulations! Congratulations on your win!
Thank you very much.
First of all, we both were in a fierce battle.
Unfortunately, I was 0-3 in the previous CR.
Until now, I've never seen a team that was a little weak.
How is the team mentally now?
I mean this right now it was even though it was 3-1 it definitely felt like a very
struggling 3-1 like a hard 3-1 and I know even on like sort of the other day
you were today you were talking about 0-3 you weren't feeling great so how is
your mental how's the team's mental right now in this tournament I think we're
doing a lot better than we were at the start we're starting to find our groove
we obviously still have some little kinks that we need to work out but yeah I
I think we're confident going into a match against VP.
That's a matchup that we're really happy to play.
So, yeah, looking good.
This time, it was a really strong match.
I think it's a very strong match.
What kind of strategy do you need to play against VP?
What kind of mentality do you need to play against VP?
Please let me know.
How are you thinking about how you're going to beat them, like, I mean 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, you know, an easy 3 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 game is against VP always close, but like I say, they are 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 for on, we're going to win.
When it comes to VP, it's always a fierce battle, but I think that the opponent's mental block is a bit of a disadvantage.
I think that you can win any composition, any strategy.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for your show!
Thank you, Miyazaki-san!
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.
Yep they're gonna need to VP as well. They've had a long long day both teams
ready to rock and roll unfortunately they're gonna have to knock out each
other. Not each other. Both of them can't go 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
funny astro and ksa and first guys i just gotta ask uh what'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 a decent amount
of travel and we're ready for the tournament now. that's for me
you
Wable did fight back a more than one occasion. What stood out to you?
Ooh, okay. When it came down to Wable Gaming,
I think we could just continue on with that story building.
When it comes down to SunZo 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,
Waxie, about these things from China needing to kind of grind, fight back in.
And we're finally seeing those level ups here from Wable.
Yeah, Chinese Overwatch has always had like a place in the Overwatch Esports history books, Shanghai Dragons basically like that, all 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 from it. I like the fact that they tried to go over this Mizuki composition.
You can see a lot of teams trying to take advantage of how quickly that one's been able to push on up into the priority of the comps.
But unfortunately, I think again, Korea 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
quite 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 cat bashing and they quickly swift. They 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 good
And 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-gameries 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 the cat bashing comp
the backline. You know, you
have to be able to do that
with the backline. You have
to be able to do that with
the backline. Hit being able
to play that Cassidy and
really just like nail down
the other cat bashing on the
other side of things was a
really the big difference
maker. I feel like here for
Tim. 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 because it
isn't going to be able to help
out with the backline unless
they're overextending and
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 casting. But Quartz is known. He's been one of those standout
hitscans who very quickly crept up into just the antheum that we've seen, like the pantheum
coming on out of the hitscan areas. Even the Korean players last year were saying that
they were worried about matching up against Quartz with how dominant he could be on things
like the Sotron.
Yeah, now Quartz has been an absolute threat. For many stages now, honestly, and in years
almost, right? 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 matter. Do you guys think like those two teams
scrimped it all with each other like what 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 trying to take advantage
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 champions 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 Tracer, and 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's roster.
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 obviously with how close Virtus Pro's matches have been against some heavy hitters
It might be on pass or passed. Yeah, I want 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. We just like
So good like I'm actually so excited for this one. It's an opportunity for a psycho to try and get to his revenge
I don't know. 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
But we're finally seeing J. Woo heat up in the server within these previous series today and for psycho
This has been a VP that have been look looking very adaptable here in Tokyo
Well psycho's also been popping up for the matches that Verdas price been playing here like yesterday
We were waxing lyric the illerative about you know cap stuff on the castee
But today it's been psycho being able to come on through with the traces
I'm really impactful pulse bomb moments as well
We know that Virtus Pro and Twisted Minds not really wanting to feel towards the Kat Bastion,
Virtus Pro been banning it out, Twisted Minds 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 chill like that. And also there's a lot of like very much experienced players there.
So I don't think they let it rattle them. I feel like if anything that might just be fueled by it, like motivation.
I think a lot of players taking this motivation like so many of us just we we operate out of pettiness
I feel like we got some candidates of that on that stage
Well, they also when they were asked like 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
If we didn't actually do predictions for that one, but I'm gonna put you on the spot now
Who do you have for this one? I feel like this is this could literally be a coin toss. I honestly, I'm kind of going with VP
I've been seeing I think that for VP they're playing a lot more into the matter
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 I'm here for the upset potentially. You know me. I love a good story
I mean recency bias 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 Kevstar and then Psycho versus Jailer
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 Ashe though. I think Virtus.pro
I'm gonna be contrary alright. I'm gonna go out ride or die and lock in Twisted Minds for this one
I guess I just I think
There's a lot of clutch potential on the server like on both of these teams
So it's really just like it's impossible to really make an educated guess here because it just depends on which of the two teams
Showed up VP was incredible clutch in order to get here
There was just the better team that moment, but overall the games here in the lower bracket have been close
Even though the score doesn't quite suggest that right? I was super impressed with what you just saw from TV and T
I think he like out of the Zarya gap in that last in that last match
So I don't know. I feel like they're coming in red and hot VP had to like kind of sit out for a little bit
This was a long series. It was now obviously doesn't really matter to the players like
Maybe this is just something that we use here on a desk to fill time. It very well might be but let's find out
Which of the two teams is going to stay alive and continue their run tomorrow and which team will be sent packing?
We're gonna get those teams on that stage a very soon tiger will take care of you after a short break
So don't go anywhere
It's gonna be alright
Energy, energy, energy, love
It's gonna be alright
Don't give up cause you come a little closer
Lift me up and I'll take this feeling higher
Hold my hand and we'll make it dance together
It's gonna be all night
It's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gonna be all night
It's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gonna be home.
you
I
That a little bit about their trip here so far so what has been the best thing you guys
have eaten so far you've only been here for about a day if you guys had a chance to explore
what would you get a chance to eat?
I went to this ramen place close to our hotel last night and it was so good.
Yeah, yeah that ramen is great.
I went to like a convenience store this morning got like an egg sandwich and some fried chicken
they had it was so good.
So if you had to stay the entire day in Tokyo with just one of your teammates who would it
B and Y.
Boom.
It is probably Psycho.
Psycho?
Yeah.
Yeah, why?
Because the rest of my team don't like to do stuff, they won't ask you.
Yeah.
They just relax and they'll play the game.
Yeah.
Psycho's got like a chill vibe as well.
I think you'd get into some stuff.
What about you?
I'm not going to have to go with Fixer.
I get lost a lot.
I need to fix it.
You know, keep me going the right way.
All right.
So one of the questions I was going to ask is like, who is most likely to get lost?
Why?
This year, we need to like, what, why?
Is this the other history?
Yeah, kind of.
He starts with directions, anything like,
there's no where he's going.
What's one event that you got lost?
Like, or like, any time?
I know they won't say what I'm doing.
It's in the center.
Now, everyone, the last match.
Are you ready to get on board?
Let's have fun with all our might.
Now, it's the last round of the game.
First of all, this team! Three-set-mine!
And the other team is...
PARTY SPROW!
It has turned into a long day here in the arena.
to a veteran squads no stranger to opposing one another in crucial matches and now one of them must be sent home. Yeah, the only two the only two people who've been in the venue longer than us has been Vertus
pro. 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
getting the better of VP a lot of it, but if there was one time where I think VP could kind of take him
I might be this event right now. They're they're playing pretty good
You look at a player like Kevster who you know didn't make it to lands for what yeah
He may 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 of history, right?
And now he comes to Tokyo and if there's one player who's come alive for Virtus Pro it's Kevster, right?
Like yeah, what he pulled off against Waybo on the Cassidy was
Absolutely disgusting and these two teams. I mean there we already have the map selection and the bands 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 for twisted minds
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 Kev has been on fire with it.
I think VP may try and play Cap Ashen here against them.
I think that's what the Cassidy has been on, right?
Because the Cassidy has been part of the linchpin of countering this strategy.
And the Ramatra ban is also pretty interesting.
I mean, the Ramatra 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.
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, right like especially some of the Sigma loads, so I know maybe there's something
They'll pull together. That's a little cheeky is a
The crowd here loves them to me and me a overwatch here as we got one more game to see who makes it the championship Sunday
It's great to hear the energy in the arena
Still going strong for this final match of the day
BP
Come in the underdog. I think that is you know without question. Hold up J. Woo. My man. No, no
Just kidding. It's been a long day. Let me have fun
Jake was a little tired in the back and once you see some junk ready for the program
Hey, hold up. Okay, so British program now. They're gonna play some sin here
Where no cat interesting. Yes, they're gonna play Juno break here or twisted mines
That's 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 goes over to the wing
We're getting wild and wacky this way. I don't know what to think. I mean it is late, but
It's late for these teams do man test of endurance here in the arena
First cap goes to British pro uncontested and odd start to the series man. Yeah, I mean TN basically gives you it off
Right by, you know, going back to the spawn and making these changes, is...
...Simple putting some pressure on the Kev, can't exactly go in, can it chase him down?
The Zarya bubble there.
On the Simple will keep him up, Realgun shall just barely miss connecting.
Burdis throw, staying on the front foot with Dispatch and Sim, another TP forward, threatens Quartz who...
Disrespects, it looks like a fake TP, and they come and punish the Brig!
Vulnerable! Especially through the DPS that Burdis Pro are fielding, twisting mines!
Really? Not getting much fight of anything so far in this map?
Well, with TM, right, with their composition, they're kind of banking on some of these fights going a little bit longer, right,
where the break 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, like, survivability just overall, right?
They kind of need to kind of keep those going for a while, and it's going to be a venture pick here.
Fortunately, 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, though.
Bynes picks up, opening on the Lucio, gives you the opportunity that they needed to get back into this round.
Simple, pops the rally, but the Kitsude rush, devastating damage, overwhelms TBMZ Soria.
A Bastion were in desperation towards Kepster's Bastion, but he remains helping like a three!
From nowhere? How did that happen? The TP bomb?
Oh, that is brutal there for Twisted Minds. Both support ults now are making changes there.
Psycho Sim, not the hero I would have expected him to come out on, and it's 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 on the feet.
He's in trouble, Quartz already down!
Overwhelmed! Desperation to his advice!
Brown is out, Eden to add insult to injury!
Not that it makes a difference! Quist advice!
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?
What's going on with these picks?
That was wild.
I mean, a lot of different hero selection
compositions that we like do not see often
from Twisted Minds.
They've 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.
from the side of Twisted Minds at a pretty brutal game there as we go into the next round.
And, okay, so, uh, Virtus.pro has clearly adopted to the meta.
They're not playing the cat, but we saw Virtus.pro do this against Wable gaming on this one without the cat.
Twisted Minds are going to try and play Moga here.
Moga with a Juno break. Like, this is a very old comp.
They're going to try to overwhelm. Here comes Moga straight to the back line, trying to get on top.
But, deft use of the Simteleport gets Psycho and his allies up to the high ground.
And into a safe position once again, TVNT dives into the back line up, beats Fulton on top of Kepster, followed up by Quartz, and this time he'll make good on the promise.
And I think the one thing here for Virtus Pro, right, you don't have the ability to kind of get that fashion in the sky, right, and really kind of avoid the MAGA stomp, right?
So you get rid of, would you be surprised if they went cat here?
I know maybe for, you know, I'd like to see it.
Yeah, I'd like to see it.
They're going to just put a reaper in the mix.
So just ditched 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 like I'm gonna get done on this Reaper. It's gonna be crucially important simple
Also making some space on the point courts already fourth with the high ground
But willing to seed that ground you have some good space from which to fire TV
It's a big stuff again great form though keep Skepster alive fix it gets caught in the chaos and J. Woo hunting pecking from the sides
Yeah, and I think he buying bird is pro
I would love to see them kind of go to the Jetpack Cat.
That is a false bomb. That would have been insane to connect with.
This place would have been nuts.
A little speculative, but we'll allow it. J-Wood 3 on the fight.
And the mod defining some purchase for Twisted Minds.
It's just now for Virtus Pro. You're making Kevster 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,
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
in order to consume a rush here for Landon.
Getting Reaper inside of it. That's gonna be the rally used.
Overwhelming damage, trying to come over the top.
TBN team, the Ray is gonna sustain him through.
But a sound barrier allows Psycho to continue to fight.
Despite the rally, Cage though, could be just too much for Burdus Poe to respond to.
Landed, trapped, like a rat, dropped down by the two mini-guns, TVNT will have them all,
and 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 self-destruct from Ice-N-Ome here if he gets a touch, and Simple will
chase him down.
just like that we are one one and I have to agree with you Matt where was the
jetpack cat it would have been I think so nice against a break like what's she
gonna do against a flying bastard I mean that's not much I mean two rounds down
one heavily in favor of VP the other heavily in favor of twisted mines is
yeah I mean it feels like if you're gonna run that bastion there you would
the most certainly needed of the cat.
But now it looks like he might have just avoided it all together.
If I didn't know any better, I'd have said that they banned Cat this map.
Right, but the way the meta has shaped both of these teams and played the Jetpack Cat
Bastion have looked good with it.
Maybe just fearing that the counter picks 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.
You have a twist of mind. Let's see, they're gonna ramp around towards the right side.
For a second there, I thought maybe they would have wanted to make some changes, potentially.
But it'll be Psycho here, getting the TP down.
Gonna be able to kinda go from high ground to 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 him for a quick rotation slide, but the team quicked a recall less around him.
Now, a bit of a damage for Virtus.Pro. They're the ones to put a dominant pressure on point.
Still, course with the 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 J.Boo!
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.
TBNT will find the next, and it's turning into DRIBS AND DRABS, the stall game for Virtus.Pro,
but an inevitability.
Twisted Minds looking comfortable, every TP responded to beautifully by Quartz.
You know VP, we've obviously seen them succeed with a lot of problems 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 like mirroring it, right?
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 Minds rally and ray available here. So a very strong
domination, a very difficult point to take back. It's going to be contested for extremely long
time. There's a railgun shot there and it picks in not enough to finish him off though. For it's
comfortable in his element, an instant head shot. Sends land and scurrying for cover. Kitsune rush,
Ize in the lipidest space, but Twisted Minds continue to twist the screws.
René over the top, and a beat force out from Fixa.
Can they find that offense of utility? No, it's simple.
Into the fray with the rally.
IzeNom does find Quartz in the chaos.
The SimLaw further providing a bit of space and cover for VP to work with,
but T.M. still in control here.
Yeah, look, you got T.V. and T.H. 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 DMed here. You're going to use it as J.Woo finds Fixa.
J.Woo has been unbelievable here to kick this one off.
Ice Nome.
Get some right back.
So the tracer out of the action, it's going to be Kev's chance with an overclock here,
Jake.
We're already at 70% here.
Need for some of these mines.
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 forced though, find their mark and now J.Woo ready to clean out.
I mean, just the level of play from Jeyu 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
to give them that explosive tracer play.
And he may kind of carry them here to this first map win.
As Fixx is just going around the outside trying to get a touch.
It came out so strong that Twisted Minds were feeling 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 bash denies fixa from actually making it there towards the
point so TM a little bit of love there for JV I love to see I mean JV had a
big map yeah he came back in a major way after that first round and she shenny
he was he was kind of farming it was crazy when to achieve crazy as well
thinking about how that first round like looked so good for VP and then we've seen 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 small and 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 that you're basically on retake from the first fight
Tiki 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 nerfed.
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 Jetpack Cat, right?
Like, Jetpack has no ability to deal with Flyers.
And Jetpack 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, ah, look, you guys just watched the third round.
I don't need to tell you what happened there.
and just TM, just kinda walk over them.
So now, for Virtus Pro,
like, how do you think they view this series, right?
I would've thought, potentially,
they would've looked at it as,
let's kinda do what we've seen some teams do,
the Twisted Minds have been pretty public,
they don't love playing Jetpack, that cat fashion.
So, like, maybe kinda just stick it to them in that.
But it almost doesn't seem like
that's where VP wants to go.
And I kind of get it from the sense
that Kepster's been that good,
But, Kephs played the Bastion at a really high level here too.
I like Kephs on the Bastion. I think he has a really strong look on the hero.
I agree with you. I think they've played the overall comp really nicely.
And this is a team that's, you know, to Funny 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, to take some gambles.
But a straight-up heads-up battle like that, and one that T.M. are comfortable in,
Feels like we almost already know how that plays out. VP though, bring us to Newjunk City.
They haven't lost here to my knowledge, right? So far the tournament, it's been disgusting. They
wiped the floor with their opposition on Newjunk City. Yeah, and I wonder what VP decides to do
in terms of like ban here, right? We saw what the Ramatra gone in the first map and then we saw the
capacity. So we'll see where VP decides to go in terms of the banning process. We
could take a look though, simple, you know, playing Brigg. 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 Brigg. 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 I 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 give her to the sim which i know rare to see twisted minds
get rid of the symmetry but i'll actually like that call i mean psycho that
was pretty effective in that first round with the fashion i honestly
strategically i understand this from team like vpf shown they really want to
play this sim as a fan i want to see vpf sim
i want to see psycho taking the tracer duel and yes it's jable 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 the series do you think VP would think
about a diva ban at some point it's an option it's interesting I mean Tia
probably leaned more heavily on the diva than just about any other team in this
tournament in the world over the last year and a half and like I sounds pretty
good on Diva. I wouldn't say it's like kind of the pick for him. So maybe he'll probably
get a Azaria ban. Okay, so that's one that TVNT can also partly play, right? So potentially
you're worried about some of the compositions that TM can do with that Azaria in action.
So yeah, I think there could be a potential opportunity because we've seen Ice play the
Ramatra at a really high level, right? As we take a look at the top band heroes and feel
I was still worried about the sim, just the mobility, 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 valuing what bastion can offer the incredible damage throughput.
The ability to just churn through tanks and damage dealer supports alike.
Will it be featured here on New Junk City though?
This has been a map type or rather a specific map that we've seen, I think more of the
Sojourn in the Cassidy.
People wanting that ability to just maybe be less cooldown reliant for that hitscan.
I mean you could play like Twisted Minds could play something like, could you see them playing
some of those Maycoms?
I like the May.
I wonder if either of these teams they 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 preferred style of playing, 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 Kevin some sort of hitscan
and then Tracer from Psycho with the Simgon.
You could look at the Zarya Band as enabling Cassidy,
I think, on Newjunk 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 Asher's head rest is.
He's looking so happy. His spirits are so high. He's got that. He's got that ready to like, you know, that crank dude TV and T is just chill maxing in between games.
I love it. He goes on the full day back. Yeah, I've been watching over Klein mode. I mean, maybe that was funny. Asher has the address that I maybe maybe know something different when he leans that chair bag and he can take a little snooze in between that.
But yeah, I think that's a good call to Cassie right because Kev is played
I mean the kid like if you were to make he's been I write real good sir
Monster on this game you can make a three or four minute highlight reel of Kev sir just on this map just playing Cassie
So like I think that's a really good shout 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 crazier. Yeah worries them here pervert is pro that the Sim is 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
It 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,
they just didn't play this. Yeah, right. This is, yeah.
I mean, Simple's gonna speed ring and swap to the carry in this comp.
The carry, 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 know, the W-No versus the W-Jungle.
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. This is you see Kev. Oh wait put some good early damage down site
Oh, it's the cleanup. Oh
But simple from range drops 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 ice comes from mantra
But the vertical mobility advantage to diva
And I did they always have to be worried about though for it's right as a TV and T gets low
He's gonna get some healing there towards the end as ice mom takes a rail gun shot not fully charged though. So
Nobody in control of the point. Just yet. Oh
Back at full strength but Landon and Kev fall and this move certainly will result in a twisted minds point take great
Awareness from TV and T punishes Kevster off the respawn
Landon even teepees back in a fruitless attempt to save the core hitscan.
Lucid Minds 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 TN is going to rack up some percentage here.
I mean, Fort's going to get very close to an OC as Psycho takes a rail cut and shot there.
So this is going to be really tough, I think, on camp, right?
You were talking about it about like the TV and TJ even simple gets really aggressive
Into the backline and can they keep that Cassie alive is
Shot there 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
Landon responds in kind quartz finds himself in an awkward angle trying to fall back
Kevser able to fight strong on the rush,
TBNT dropped just percentage points before a self-destruct.
Now, it vanished, and Kevser will clean it up,
finds one more on the fight, landing 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 going to be able
to survive enough to get that self-destruct,
and then maybe be able to get it back,
and then kind of extend that fight.
That's the way you kind of see Divas like him and Ziad,
Like they kind of just push it all the way to the absolute max and just time that one
Oh, no, not exactly is TV and T take some chops. They're 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 courts with the OC fixer ready to respond with the beat behold his nerve for now a better beat as well
But he asked for only finding three a dominating economy trade for furthest probe
But will it be enough they need the kills to clean this fight up TV and T
I'm psychobob, J.Woo!
Okay!
Ah, hold on, but Quartz answers back with a railgun shot.
So, we'll see how Twisted Minds decides to play this.
Bergaspro very close to taking the lead here.
He does have the annihilation to work with,
but he's gonna back out here, has the shield to play with,
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 to stall, but annihilation comes out.
Bunny Astro, drop, no hope to come through that choke point.
Aiznop takes a bit of poke in the trade,
but with the player advantage, Quartz dropping low,
a rush from simple desperately tries to keep this team
in the fight.
High noon, opportunity for the re-peak.
TVNT though, holding onto this OT,
better rush onto the point though,
provides a decisive advantage for Virtus.Pro.
Will it be enough, they need to find these kills.
TVNT 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.
Cabot 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 vore Texas keeps Funny Astro locked down and then just pops an
annihilation just kills him instantly gives him that advantage in terms of
support right away and guess what VP is gonna get control over the high ground
here early is TMS in a weird spot. Lucios have been odd notice this tournament. Very vulnerable
to the amount of damage through, but coming through against them. But now, on a much more
open Flashpoint, it's going to be a little bit more difficult for Ramachur to hold these chokes
down. DDNT 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 with all the room to work with, and
I'm just overwhelmed too much damage comes through hold on over confidence though
Kevster finding that kill back provides an opportunity for vertus pro but they
need to get more out of the way to make Kevster will do it with the beat from
fix up. Oh I was like there's no way they're gonna beat this up. 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 sound barrier he gets one they kind of evened
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 won for Virtus Pro, but looking to take their second flashpoint here would be a hot start.
Rare 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.
Self-destruct from TVNT will mitigate this repush.
He takes massive damage from the Reacher.
Postbomb traps him out again, and Aiznath, looking for more.
The rush is a threat, but Kester is yet more dangerous.
Six-shooter, all he needs.
But Quartz, finding the cover kill, the Mech of what?
TVNT, how does he do it?
I mean, he remex on top of Fixer and takes him out.
We'll see if that is good enough.
Hold on, hold on, so still viewable.
Landon's here keeping Ice in the lives of now.
Psycho needs maybe one more in this fight.
It's not going to be easy to find, simple.
Refuses to give anything for free.
And TBNT back in the suit.
Surely he's done enough to clean this up.
Kevster poking from the outside with the assistance of Vixa,
but without a tank, feels impossible.
Hold on, hold on. Kev kills Funny Ashrow.
You have Psycho here, and then you're going to have Ice getting back here off spawn here in just a second.
The funny-ass show will be back in the fight quick, but still, maybe a brief window of an advantage is...
...Portz just slides across. Dangerous position, he was in there, so now gets a better spot.
He'll be kept walking out with the dead-eye trying to open this up.
Lot of space games.
No capitalization just yet. Ports with the OC now.
In a dominant spot over the top, a body shot of the Kepster won't be enough for a kill.
Aiznop definitely slips away on the low ground, but he's running out of gas, needs huge support.
He's got beat 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.
Gordz finds Landon, 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, but this time,
J-Wil with the pulse, didn't I so!
For Kev to do what he did at the beginning of this point,
and TN to take it, I mean, that is tough to swap.
If you are a Virtus Pro, you cannot really ask for more from Kepster 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, TB&T 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 that early in the previous fight.
That allows him to kind of have this Kitsune rush here.
The master does have BJ, he may just run in.
They're going to go for it anyway, and overwhelm Kevster.
The care 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.
Aiznop stays healthy on the point.
The Bortex defends his team, but TVNT still poking and prodding
for more.
Aiznop says, enough is enough.
Going to double down, push into Quartz's position,
try to route this hitscan up to his admins.
TBNT loses the suit, has to self-destruct from a purely defensive position here.
Yeah, I mean they need Kev back in the fight though, right?
They were just so low in terms of damage.
It is VP connecting and holding the point that Dead Eye here for Kev,
trying to see if he can catch somebody out.
TBNT with the main pick.
But he's in a weird spot though, Jake.
He gets hindered and gets de-mecked.
Mech is out.
Annihilation from Aiznom though, could overwhelm.
For now, it's just enough to take down TBNT.
But Gordz finds Fixa on the rotate.
With limited players alive, Aiznom...
In his last final form, holding onto this point for dear life, but he's flanked. He's assaulted from all sides.
Kevster, nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Ports, finds it out, didn't know.
Hold on, Ice!
Cycle's Gavu, Ice takes one as well. Prype comes before the fall, and falls they do. Twisted mines!
With the desperation, Malga was simple falling. It'll be another flashpoint going against them.
This series is going to be wild.
Somehow VP pulls that out.
Ice Nom, Fixa, and Landon still alive on the point is they are able to clutch up as TV and team.
Let's see, you know, the Moga may have been just to kind of get back to the point.
You know, but I also think like Kev, you know, they've been taking advantage of Kev.
He wants more. He's not satisfied.
He's picking the choke. There's no hitskin to oppose him.
He'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 that 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 of the point just yet.
Stomp there on the canvass, and a close-up beat-out.
TDNT runs out of gas, the hymen overwhelms Kester.
Fight, Ketmore!
What a beat on the server!
Looking for more!
J-Boo has to run for the hills with a recall.
Dude, it is so good to have Ket back at events, man.
Just the plays with him on hitscan.
A little bit more focus roll here on Virtus.pro
than some teams in the past, maybe try to stretch his hero pool.
and he is able to dominate on that hero. Annihilation here for Ice-Nom as well.
No 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 a TVNT to cage-fight. Horses Ice-Nom into a duel,
and one that could be difficult for him to win. Kepster assists the Manga,
and gets a stomp in return. TVNT trying to regroup.
Now with that lifesteal activated, gonna really put a challenge on the eyes and find himself
on an awkward angle.
Things falling apart, 4-4 this approach.
Twisted mines will reclaim the flash point.
And the Magus stomp seems to be really strong at targeting the Cassidy, right?
Time and time again.
That time, Kev actually just kinda gets inside of the cage.
So a swap from Isenom here over to the D.Va.
But you know, Kev gets inside the cage, tries to kinda help.
He's Ramatra, stay alive, but constantly TVNT using that charge to train Linn right on top of the cast.
Aizanam 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 Kepster.
Taking all the space away.
TVNT a desperate in charge.
J.Woo touching point just to hold the OT.
Kepster gets low though and now defines an opportunity.
Deep to the back line.
Quartz comes in with the OC as well, but maybe TVNT bites off more than he can chew.
Kenster now has room to work with, and Psycho takes down the hope of Twisted Minds.
That close bomb evaporates Quartz.
J.Wood Astro will need to find a way to get this overtime touch, but it won't be easy.
I wonder if Twisted Minds had an idea that Fix had that sound barrier built up to it pretty quick.
It's funny Astro only a 90% and he doesn't get the touch.
Virtus 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
Kepster 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 it's because Kevster keeps on delivering.
It's 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 yeah, 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 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
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 through a mantra, 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?
ATVNT goes to the MAGA, then the counterpick of the D.Va
proves to be an adept response.
And I think when TVNT 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 Ramatra...
This kill!
That is so stupid.
I had the fact that he's able to do that. That is crazy.
That... that's what...
Is this the...
Oh no, okay. That's the pulse from the corner. I was like,
where was the rematch kill?
Uh, I don't know if we'll have that.
Oh, right there, actually. Fixed it just gets stomped on there.
In your peripheral vision.
So now, Twisted Mind's a rare map pick for them, right?
Especially in these matchups here against Virtus Pro.
New Junk City gone.
an opportunity, like, would we see them go like a king's row?
Right?
I mean, that's a possibility.
Do you want to go something that, like, even takes the, you know, cat-bashing, maybe,
off of the map?
You know, in terms of, you know, we just saw what?
Did that team just play Rune of Soppy?
Right?
Yeah.
You know, against Weibo, so maybe that's an option.
They played a lot of, you know, kind of Quartz on the Soge, and then, you know,
J.Wood Tracer on that map.
So maybe we see them just kind of run that back on Rune of Soppy and take us to push.
So many mind games between these two teams, I'm sure, right?
Like, 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 recall, buddy.
I was about to drop five.
Dude, it'd be so fun to be that good.
Yeah, really?
It'd be so fun, bro.
Oh, my God.
That was a nice, that would suck.
That would have to do it.
But on the other parts of it, it would be awesome, as he's just a fried target for Twisted Minds.
I know here's kind of like the final fight, right, where T.M. kind of goes in and maybe...
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 Stats there on New Junk City.
This is event-wide as well. I mean, just absolutely forming 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 just in minds this one's gonna 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, completely backfired on them.
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 they were kind of awesome against Zeta on this map specifically like it goes right down to the wire
Virtus Pro played a really good game there. So we'll see okay
So it's gonna be an Alari ban here to open things up and then the other ban Jake
Did you get rid of Bastion meat just to kind of get off the table?
Yeah, I wonder if they're not just like traumatized by the Sigma Muzuki 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. Yeah, there we go. It's hard to call
But they're gonna just get rid of the Bastion and sure there's not gonna be any of those cat Bastion shenanigans
It could absolutely come into play.
Yeah, because VP, like, you know, maybe you pick this, you get rid of the Ellari that
protects the cat, as well, and then, you know, force them to get rid of the Bastion on the
other side.
So, actually, okay, so, VP, no, yeah, it's Teeamacpec, yeah, so they get rid of the Bastion
first, so they don't even want to deal with it, so it's not a protective...
It looked like they deferred the pick on the graphic first, but maybe that was just an
error.
So, VP, they get rid of the Ellori, 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 would be huge for this team, Jake, just kind of, like, big picture.
Talking about crafting into the top three.
Hey, National.
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 Psycho are, right?
to do it in EMEA from multiple different teams now to be able to crack into top three at
international is 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.
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 like it's nothing. We'll see what twisted mindsides do here. Sonic
Arrow gonna 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. In previous
matches, TDNT, get in some energy, be his opportunity to maybe get some revenge on
I know be offensive because you're playing into the the brig and the diva as I some gets up to the high ground there
The refight for the high ground
From Vixxup provides advantage to vertus pro just in minds now reeling gonna regroup on the low ground
Both teams buying for that strategic position
Decent amount of space though, game there by Twisted Minds. They're gonna get the
speed load, 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 on that
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
a response. Does VP just go ram here? They're gonna go ram here.
You cannot try anything. I know force I snow them into those aggressive plays there on the diva into this type of calm
That's quite nasty
Nice TP forward puts Eisenham in position to hold this cart has to come into the form though and as this ticks out
You could find yourself in real trouble
For its pops POC over the top looking for an angle doesn't find anything just yet
Takes it back and shuts him down the car wash sends J.Boo packing and now with the high moon
Kepster reclaims 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 Vixxia finds one back, and the rush is keeping eyes on stable for the moment.
Hold on, they might be clutching this.
Yeah, I mean, you still have Symbol here with Bunny Ash, so Bunny Ash are getting close here towards that ray.
Bunny Ash is going to pop the ray here, Jake. You saw Tv and T alive, but you lose Symbol.
You have Psycho coming out of a spawn with the rest of VP, and Isom's still really healthy.
TB and T is just too energized.
Zarya, indomitable in those final fights with energy.
Definitely got pushed to their limit though. That one was not as easy as you might have hoped.
Kevster being able to shut down that overclocked force, the heavy expenditure from Twisted Mind to Cap first.
I mean, Isno went from like 100 HP to 0 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 at moments throughout the tournament.
Trying to put some pressure right at the Pharah, can put pressure onto the Cassie,
but also like there's no way for the Psycho to really engage with the Pharah.
If you're going to use that TP, try and punish them for using it.
The spam is going to be oppressive here.
Just in mind, working the angles, comfortable playing a long slow fight for this pro.
Ultimately harassing, but not really going to be able to commit to anything before this corner.
This rocket's in poke coming down here.
Four twisted mines, as...
You need to, he's still really charged up, Jay.
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, Aiznog can only really vie for time, but...
The corner's a difficult place to break, like this long-range forest spam.
Ultimately, you're going to have to get aggressive. You're going to have to force some kind of an opener here.
I mean, you're going to get a grab plus barrage here in just a second.
That could be enough.
He wants to find his way through to the back line, catch those VPS and supports.
Well, maybe you just overwhelm Aiznop, the Virtus.Pro with the Bank of Ultimates of their own.
Not going to be an easy position to break. One of the most devastating defensive holds in the entire game here.
Both teams decided to just swap them up for 10 ultimates across the board here.
Rush comes out first, Landon, a bit unforced there.
TVNT won't even back down.
Gorts with the OC though, not finding any value.
Oh!
Side of the stairs, Keptus 2, but the beat keeps him alive, not alone!
Keptus 2 drops, the withering of the barrage, it's still not enough.
The symbol of Vexa, Landon, supports little ones to find the kills in this fight.
I mean dude, that grab from TVNT was pretty sick.
I don't think I've ever seen it.
No, no, no.
I'm not gonna lie, that was sick.
Yeah, capture's 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 BP able to get a hold is going to be
progression to rally use here by simple.
They're going to use right here as well.
What?
IceDom is low though, hold on.
He was deep on that,
but he gets bailed out by the team.
Two support ults thrown in essentially
for nothing,
meaning a Heimann from Kessler came out,
but you're happy to take that trade any day of the week.
I mean, you rarely see Tm do stuff like that.
Punished. Now, maybe an opportunity, though.
Averse for a quick to regroup, quick to stabilize the health bars, and land in 70 to that rush.
Twisted mines need to find something in the next few moments with their spam.
In only a minute on the clock here, Jake. Now the master deadly at range those beat shots on the enemy DPS.
Forced Twisted mines to regroup and play things slow.
That buys the time for Landon to get towards the rush and with 50 seconds of the clock a tough ask for TM
I mean, you're not gonna get support ultimate for twisted mines towards MJ
We were dangerously low continue rush comes on in as we are well below a minute on the clock. I just hunt down simple
Great evacuation, but you can solve it a little bit too. Yeah. Oh, this is gonna be rough because it's a long road back
Yeah, no obvious overtime toucher
This has been brutal for twisted mines
This TVNT does have a grab that's not exactly going to help them, uh...
I mean, J-Woo has to touch the cut part.
Yeah, I mean...
20 seconds...
Considering your options, J-Woo...
Better safe than sorry, and it seems like Virtus.Pro might just allow this overtime to come in.
They're going to back off and play the corner that has been...
The link to their defense.
I mean, maybe you engage fast with beat here, it's going to be...
Overclock and...
Don't get touched!
Whoa, it's an eye-catastro!
He stabilizes, catchs for fact, back from inside the crowd, finds two, and the team cleans up.
Twisted Minds. It looked possible for a moment, but the beat from Fixa prevents all possibilities,
and that hole is gonna sting. Twisted Minds 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 check point.
And Virtus.pro did a great job kind of holding that corner.
I mean, I think about that double support ult growing in, like I believe Aizam got
booped down to the low ground by a Farconk and they thought maybe we can just punish
with the rally, but then the raid comes out at the same time and you still don't get the kill.
That's rough. It's the rest, right? I mean, you don't have the Lucio.
Your ability to catch a tank who wants to run away from you, much less a Ramatra?
Very limited. And now Twisted Minds on defense. They'll commit to this far.
Yeah, are you feeling this right now? I mean, I don't mind it on the defense. I will say it's
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 just not great positions.
The buildings are not really able to play over the top of them easily.
You 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 Rematra with the Cassidy,
Lucio with Kiri, and they'll have no problem taking this type of matchup.
Dexter, he's gonna see what he's up against, see what he decides to go out with.
Eisenham on the wrecking ball for now, but gonna end up over on the diva.
And Psycho, love this to have the tracer, not gonna be forcing the Symmetra into that far off.
And without a tracer on the other side of the field,
he's gonna be able to get deep into this back line if he wants to.
Yet maybe you play the diva here instead of the ram because you need some like high ground control,
right? You just can't kind of concede it all and like, you know, have the Zarya up there all alone,
and maybe you want to make a play around this corner as you see Ice Noem.
I mean, you have the rig up there, the far, 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 to high ground
all.
The Ashes forward, Glandon will take his head off, and that's going to be more than enough
opportunity to swing forward.
TVNT wants to find a trade on the Kevster, start between a rock and a hard place, no
way out for the Zarya, so he's going to stand and fight, but against the full force, Upward
it's not enough and meanwhile, Psycho cleans 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 defense matrix and then there's Suzy with just a raw HPS
being able to keep him alive as T.V. and T. will be able to step up, can test here.
Almost a must win fight, you think about it for Twisted Mines with 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.
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 ball, 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, you know, just muscle their way through this first point.
Rush now comes out, cycling with the pulse on the court, takes down the tip of the spear, the grab is good.
But where's the follow-up, where's the damage? Reborn and rally fast, will it be enough fixa?
Doesn't find the opportunity to drop the beat. Simple though, does go down in the chaos, but with just slivers of HP, surely.
This is James fight blues. I'm still fighting forces out the orbital ray. It's nice
This is not enough to take first point
Man, I thought there was an opportunity to maybe beat there. I do wonder
I think it's uh, yeah, I mean maybe they think that there's they're just gonna kind of get wiped and they're gonna save it
But I mean a lot of risk. 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 win that, you could have had an opportunity off a player to use that
beat.
Be the overclock, now it'll be December, December it doesn't get that way, Kev.
Yeah, it's just defending people, but Quartz still has another shot to deliver.
Beautiful wrap from VP though, they take the defenders' position, twisted minds.
In an awkward spot, they're knocked upon the side of the map that you want to be on, especially
with eyes on forcing the issue on Karte.
TBNT though getting energized throughout the chaos slowly building ahead of steam
They will find Slandin and that could be it twisted minds now with the player advantage and two surely
It's too much for this pro have to find a quick reset
It feels like DP 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 take you.
You do 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.
Cycle now does get that O2 touch.
Aiznum is here in position.
Fixed it over the top, getting burned down.
J-Woo desperate for the kill, and they'll find it.
The most bomb though does hit on a TP and T, 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 of opportunities, it 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 a swap over from Farah to Tracer, and really starts to open things up
in a huge way for twisted minds, but...
Aw, your VP...
You'll be kicking yourself watching that one back. I mean, that is tough.
Got to hand it to Quartz and J.Woo. They came up clutch and 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, dude, it feels like such great opportunities.
We take a look at some of the highlights there.
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, potentially, in the highlights,
right there, one fight, they were all here.
The grab was sick.
Oh, they actually even see people.
Yeah.
The fight where Ficksa, we were like,
ah, is he going to beat like the grab was there?
They, 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 to be comes off, but I mean the risk of an Ajax so high there
I mean, that's why we do see Ajax is 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 fix up 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 didn't connect with Kev. That's the one thing
Yeah, you know, it's actually did its job and mitigated the overclock
This is it right here. I think this like how do they live? They're still alive. They're still alive. There's so many players shooting them
I will say I don't know
Is it because I said you know is it because I said I had got a self-destructing if the you know didn't make me
I don't know yeah, I mean
Honestly, I think he Ajax is there. I really don't think you can pop
We haven't had he's low. We haven't got a tournament though. It would have been nice to get one of 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 TB&T is...
I know his ability to play Zarya has 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 has to do some pretty monster healing in that map.
I mean, you know, the supports from Twisted Minds always 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 think you can see when we see on the TM side of the stage, it's been a long day for these teams.
Runosopy is the map pick here for Virtus.Pro.
Typically in Overwatch, you don't get a lot of three-match days, right?
No.
Yeah, 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 Runisabi against, I mean, Twisted mind just 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, I mean, where would you have wanted them to go?
go like let's say you know maybe both of these teams through scrims and whatnot
know that they can have the same you know hybrid preference right maybe they
both would have like said okay we're both gonna go to King's Row or something
like that so let's take our you know a 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 he's relaxing honestly though you know I like to see this from a
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
You know like today and he's been rock solid like find me the mistake dude from TV and T in the day like find me a
Big misplay that he's done. I really don't see it. We rarely kind of like
You know, but he is developed into a tank that is like I mean
It's obvious like he isn't like the kind of like the you know top of the world kind of caliber
especially unlike the Divas, are you, but maybe let's get like put in that conversation as often because like how
They're strong the team around them is but you know, it's very rare to like, you know
Maybe like at win internationals. There's like maybe like more or two games
You look at like where you know TV and TV like I knew that I had a little bit of an off-game whatnot
But okay, so it will be the Juno ban here from VP and TM gets rid of the diva
I was like, oh, we're gonna see a diva ban potentially in this series and 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, the D.Va man makes total sense. When you ban the Juno, you almost implicitly ban the Brig.
That's really the comp that gets played as the Juno plus Brig. And 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 brick Juno backline we're not gonna let you get frisky on court 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 a player like quartz on your roster you want the game
to be a straightforward able I mean you just win that more often than not yeah
Twisted Minds, one map away here from joining Zeta 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 online where it's like, oh yeah, finally now that we're not on, like, some of the Sin Metas, you know, Twisted Minds.
We can get back to, like, you know, normal, you know, schedule programming, right? Let's just get, I know whether it be Falcons, Crazy Raccoon, or Zeta Division in a final.
I think they want to like kind of buff that trend. I think they're probably pissed about how they looked against Crazy Raccoon because they looked 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 to day three
Would be a much needed respite but not something that 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 Runosopy.
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 minds?
Wait, Hazard?
It's real.
Wow.
No, there's, so, 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, underrated and underrated, and then also Hazard gets
some adjustments, right?
Yeah.
potentially something hazard with the far quite interesting and curious what
Kev can do in this one a lot is asked of TVNT on the hazard can he get
aggressive can he shut down that Cassidy or at least keep him under pressure so
Quartz and Jaewoo have room to work what's your thoughts on the hazard into
the rematch though? He finds the kill onto the Lucio hazard typically a tank that
More or less avoids the straight-up tank battle. Yeah, they're getting maybe some of the advantages the rematcher has in the front line
I mean you just see the survivability as well of the hazard right being really gonna go in the takeout kept there towards a while
Locking is I don't think VP expected this at all. No, I mean I wouldn't
Then we've seen TV and he 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 rematcher a maga
D.Va, Zarya by coming out here playing the hazard is definitely thrown off VP maybe a little bit
See if they can find the answers and be curious about even something like the Sigma the Zarya here
The Isom's gonna stick with the rematch 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 somehow find a way to bridge that gap
But I don't think twisted minds are gonna give you that opportunity
Kassar needs to come up huge in this fight a big swing now from TVMT
The rush comes in to follow it up a full retreat from Virtus.Pro gonna yield a lot of cart time
Yeah, try to find their own rush with the damage just overwhelming landed a defensive rush of his own
But TVMT still holds his ground. J.Boo finds Kassar in the KO.
Oh, he's down for it.
Huge get it, 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.
Like, Quartz with this OC. Here's going to be the dead eye.
Oh, great dragon ball.
Really difficult to find to follow up. The rail shot is good. But Aiznab does find one.
Let's 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 that this team 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, it's been a long day.
Coming up with a view.
We may see J.Woo be able to find an angle here on the flank with Sparrage.
So fix it and watch these sound barriers as well fix it and funny astro both with beat is ice. No I'm here a rare hazard
Be hazard matchup. It's gonna be the early beef here from twisted. He's not 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 just hold they can't afford to lose players catch the
TNT takes down fix up denies the beat now
Now, Kester in the sights of the cart continues to roll inextricably 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 gonna 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 gonna end up...
Quarks! Quarks! Quarts!
With two moves, it's almost all over now, the third of a fight!
It's all over the cry now!
The desperation back from the spawn, ice up!
They give him no quarter!
Hazard though, doesn't make it back!
Psycho to hold the point for now!
Jeffster by the bump and no one to touch!
Twist the cards again and again!
Staying alive in this tournament, earning a 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, TF 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,
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 Zeta, 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
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.
And, you know, the fearless confidence in themselves has been this team's calling card.
Yeah.
And it's absolutely here to stay on Runosopy.
I mean, this is the, you know, this is the, Virtus.Pro has new junk city.
DM has Runosopy.
They like, I feel like they full cap this map more often than they don't.
That's, that's great.
I mean, historically in push, we do not see full caps that often.
What, 5-10% of the time for Cam is like 50%.
Yeah, it is pretty rare to see that, but Twisted Minds, they secure their spot in at the top
three.
Let's go to stage and hear from Twisted Minds.
You guys had a very long day, so I'm going to 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.
What did you say you're the best Tracer right now in ODBCS?
I'm good at some things, but my teammates are good at some things, so I think I can show them that I'm good at some things like the second or third game.
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 Crazy Raccoon or Zeta. How are you feeling about that match?
I don't know which team will come down, but I think it would be great if the first game and the team would be good.
I think it's definitely doable. I can't really say who we are 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 the interview. Thank you so much, Yoh.
Thank you very much.
This will be returned to you by the people of Jikyousa.
This is good so far.
And now the first round is going to be a quick one.
I'm going to beat the last two players and keep the other team strong.
I'm going to beat the last two players and I'm going to make the first match a better one.
And now we're going to match the first match.
That was crazy!
And now we're going to see where you're going to score the first match.
You're going to score the first match.
I'm going to show you the whole fight.
Welcome back one more time.
One last time I am joined by Averill, 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 on like adrenaline?
What's happening in your body right now?
A lot of caffeine.
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
And I think that I'm kind of curious to see what the vibes are 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 recruins wasn't that bad because it was over so quickly that it was like almost not enough time to
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 gonna 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 gonna beat VP.
To both these last two matches, didn't feel like had too much difficulty. I mean there
were some close moments between both the Webber game and the last VP game. Obviously,
You guys have to work through some stuff.
So like, what did you guys sort of learn after losing to Crazy Freeing and coming 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 Wayborne VP are putting 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 has been developing throughout Champions Clash.
We've seen the Mizuki game play. What are your thoughts on it?
I like music. Yeah, I think he's a pretty cool character. I'm glad that he's getting some playtime. I think he's really fun
Wondering right like is this just like sit on crazy raccoon having fun with it?
Are they like leading us on is this a bait or is it like for real a 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
What was your prep looking like? Which teams did you scrim in order to get the best possible chances in order to catch up to the meta that 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 going to do. We're going to be better prepared coming in next time.
One last thing, sorry, I had a question just to pick you back up the mid a question because you guys started playing Greg Juno
Talk me a little bit about that kind of baited VP maybe look is 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
Super valid I have one last question for you
I think that it's it's for you guys for twisted minds it you guys haven't really had to play like it was in 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 pressure's on. We know that we're all gonna play well and
we're gonna be there. So you talked about that and some teams are just in plays a
few by Spikes, you know. Funny Astro, we're gonna lay your rest up. Sorry for holding you hostage here in the desk, but 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 not beat that the fully Korean
I'm lacking words here
Fully Korean, give me a word. Brawl! Brawl! Let's run with Brawl!
I don't know how dirty it's gonna be. I mean, these two teams are very familiar with each other, play each other so, so often.
I wonder if any of them was able to like hold something back, have something extra in their strapped foot.
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 Raccoon are still the ones potentially hiding something.
Yeah, especially when we 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 gotta 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 gonna get their revenge.
Well, okay, now that Fanny has struggled, 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 you, 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 raccoons want to be pulling out.
And I think that this rematch, that, well, that's if they end up playing crazy raccoons.
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 will have to go through
Kizukun.
Because Fraser-kun lose tomorrow.
Low break is straight away.
I'd like to see Fraser-kun in grand finals.
Tien want to go there.
So they're going to have to get past that hurdle.
And currently I do look at this Twisted Mind Squad thinking, okay, they are hiding something
as well.
Because I know our good friend, Frenfony Asher, didn't quite answer when I talked to him about
the, you know, wanted to ask about the Brigg Juno stuff.
But to me, if I was to sort of break that one down a little bit, Lucia did get nerfed.
Brigg Juno might actually end up being the secret answer here.
It 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, I think Jake talked a little bit about the brick in the mix there as well, right?
Like that brick 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.
Yeah, we have some great bangers coming our way tomorrow as well as not one, but two showmatches, 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 there are two Korean teams
So 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 meta.
And obviously the double EMEA game to finish is out
with you only gonna get one to push on through
and it's gonna be the defending champion
of Twisted Mind.
So top three, this is an exciting final three teams,
gotta say.
There it is, Ash.
What have we learned to share with class?
Ooh, well, I don't know.
For me, you guys know I've been China-filled
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 is asking there as well.
Yeah, man, there's just so much good Overwatch
to have to keep track of, right?
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