I don't need perfect
I just need braille so that I can laugh with
I am feeling a chasing go
A chasing go
Where am I running to?
I'm taking so
This is the life I set
I feel every little thing
I'll give no man
Oh man, I swear, I'm fine
And I'm finally on my side
I don't need perfect
I'm just a real soul, I can't let go
I'm just a soul, I just can't let go
I'm just a real soul, I can't let go
I don't need perfect
Don't need more to fill it up
Turns out I don't know anyone
I don't need perfect
I just need real soul
I can't let go in
I ain't afraid of what I'm chasing down
What I'm chasing down
Where I'm around
I don't know what I'm taking so
This is the life I set
I feel every little thing
I ain't trying not to look it
No, I don't want no sweat
Just fine
And I'll finally hold my side
I'm gonna be a pervert on that
I'm just a friend
Someone I can land on
I'm just a friend
And I blame myself
There's no doubt
We're back up now
Who knows why we fell
The land pushing
More than a war something
The blue sky is command
We're still here
All out with love
Yeah, I feel the love
It's something we're gonna need to understand
Oh, I feel the love
Yeah, I feel the love
Let's just go know we're gonna be fine
Cause I feel the love
Because I'm a different man
The world of scenes that we believe
The new ourselves
There's a cool...
We are back in Tokyo for the final day of Champions Clash.
By the end of today, we'll be crowning a champion.
Hello and welcome to the arena at Tachiko Atachi here in Tokyo, Japan.
I am Zoe and joining me on this fine, beautiful, exciting, illustrious morning.
Arash and Johnny, my good friends.
Guys, it's been three days of action including today and it went by really fast.
It really did. It's been such a quick weekend. It's kind of crazy to see that we're already in the final day here of Champions Clash.
Yeah, and so many entertaining matches as well as the Region's Clash here on the international stage.
So we're back and forth between all the different regions and EMEA, they still have a team with twists and mines going up against the two giants from Korea.
Yeah, we expect it as much. Now we don't have an awful lot of time here in the pre-show because we got treated to an incredible opening performance by MFS.
But now let's get into it how did we get here talking about this bracket and the journey these teams had it is a CR
And Zeta division in that upper bracket
We expected this run so really nothing unusual happened in the upper bracket nothing unusual so far
We expected the top two teams from Korea to be dominant in this fashion and cat met up and the EMEA teams
They really haven't had a say in things twisted minds got swept by Chris Rockoon's and then Burgess Pro
They managed to take a map of serve division
But that was not enough as they were eliminated yesterday by twisted minds as well. So we have three teams remaining here Ash
Yeah talking a little bit about that lower bracket on day one
We had both of our North American teams as well as China dropping down there
Unfortunately, we did have to say goodbye to all of them yesterday. Weibo gaming though
They did keep a close up against twisted minds
So definitely good looks for China as far as the improvements that weibo have had and VP even though
did get eliminated yesterday up against twisted mines which was heartbreaking
repeating history there they honestly catch a pretty close up against Zeta
even though it ended up being that 3-1 doesn't tell the whole story no it
really doesn't I feel like this is good of course for teams that have to go up
against Zeta Division because it did maybe expose some cracks in the armor
they're very teeny weeny like it's not much to go off like they haven't really
shown a weakness per se so maybe they were just a little shaky there now I do
over all though we had a lot of high quality matches especially in that
lower bracket like those teams were fighting tooth and nail Johnny they
really were fighting tooth and nail and it's been so interesting to watch these
matches because the meta has developed throughout this tournament as well we've
been seeing a lot of the cat fashion of course but also some Mizuki in the mix
absolutely let's take a look at today's schedule because it's grand final say so
obviously we have a grand finals but we're kicking things off in the upper
final with CR and Zeta and then we have a death panel as well as a show match so
you do not want to miss it. Now Twisted Minds they're making that lower bracket
run and they'll be waiting for their opponent which will be either Crazy
Raccoon or Zeta Division. After that you know it's better than one show match, two
show matches so we gonna dive into a mini show match what that might be we
don't know but we will be finding out and then of course the grand finals
are still coming our way, after which we will be finally crowning a champion as we will be.
It's gonna be really fun to see.
We came into this tournament with a lot of people thinking it might just be a two team show.
Twisted Minds are talking to Fighting Astro yesterday.
He did sound confident about their hopes in a lower bracket.
He did and he said that after doing a gauntlet of three matches and there are close ones too.
But let's discuss our first match of the day, the upper bracket final.
It's gonna be familiar foes crazy raccoon going up against set of division and look if we're looking at how this year went so far
It's been all set of division they formed that super team right and of course crazy raccoon lost shoe to them
So kind of set of division had their number that said though
It was a close match when they met in the upper final in the Asian League
It was a close match of going all the way into that seven map OT
But I think you could also argue that Zedah they did a little bit of experiment in keeping that Anna in the mix
Maybe making it a little bit closer than some would have expected there for that final here in Asia
Well, what I really like about this matchup is that it's also a matchup of different styles
I think generally speaking set of incident they like a little bit of flair
They really trust their mechanically skilled players to swap over to a more individual skill per hero
The Anna for example is going to be crucial for set of division Chrissy Raccoon
I feel like they have hedged to more safe and rely on just their execution when it comes to these default team work coordination
kind of compositions and so looking forward in today's upper bracket final which of these teams are going to come out on the
Yeah, I mean it's the team versus the team
It's the individual matchups that are so exciting for this one because we know what ease of these age of these players can bring to the table
Proper versus stalker. There's history there Ash
There is a lot of history between these two players previously playing together
And I think that this comp this comparison gets interesting here as well
When you're thinking about what these two players have also been bringing to the table for stalker
He's been playing that skit hit scan for proper. He's been on that flex DPS instead very different roles here for the 13th
Yeah, different roles
But that's also what's required from these teams to be able to be hyper flex players because we've seen at times
You know proper he can play a little bit of may here and there
But he also can flex over to the hits can roll stalker as well
It's been another player that's been playing some hits can there and there
But also has to be playing these flex heroes and so this is a matchup
We might be seeing them go head-to-head. They might be playing different roles
There's going to be a lot of very intricate advanced
Compositions being played here by either team they really going to trade and make the most of the hero pools
Both of these players have a diverse puzzle
Yeah
Now wonder how much each of these teams were able to hold back right because they are so familiar playing in the same
region and also being tested a little bit here like they got to see a little bit of what the other
team might be bringing to the table. If we're continuing on our individual matchups here,
I also want to take a look at the background. Once again, you know, the script writer's been
cooking with this one. Shu versus Vigilante. Vigilante came into this having big shoes to fill.
Thank you. Thank you. Glad you noticed me, Senpai. But yeah, I mean, this is such an
interesting one because
with so much pressure, did shake,
did start off a little shaky.
She was allegedly like that's a
hard one to step into. It really
is. It's so much pressure on one
player's shoulders. They are for
vigilante stepping up into a
roster like crazy raccoons. You
talk a little bit about that
shakiness, though at the beginning
of the season, you have to keep in
mind vigilante is slotting into a
There being that main support here on the side or sorry that flex support here on the side of crazier. Yeah
And I mean part of that substitution of players was a big reason why craze raccoon
They actually started the year struggling a little bit because she was such a big presence on craze raccoon the last couple of years
Did you want the trying to fill those shoes? He's not the same in-game leader for craze raccoon
He doesn't have that the same level of playmaking
Obviously an incredible flex support player in his own right
But they've had to try to change their communication internally in Chris Raccoon, losing a couple of key players at the start of this year.
So it's going to be interesting to see how Chris Raccoon work around that issue.
How they try to gel together as a team and get more coordinated as this year has progressed.
Also, before we head into predictions, I want to quickly get you guys' thoughts on the subbing strategy that we've seen from both of these teams so far in the Champions clash.
Yeah, I think especially in the tank matchup, it's been really interesting to see how both of these teams are trying to make use of their tank players.
their tank players. Obviously, Breaking Ball is being played a little bit, and that demands the
skill of Jönbin and Milgaru for either team. And so we've seen both of these players flex
all into that hero when necessary, but also Bernard has been a standout Mauga on the side of
Sela Division. So Max is also a season-fazer for Cracer or Coon. So we have four tank players in
the mix here for two teams that are looking very competitively with each other. And I think if we
see two matchups between these teams, should they revisit each other in the grand finals?
We're going to see a lot of information being traded and a lot of lessons to learn for these four players.
And I think that flexibility on both of these teams is what's going to make this matchup so much more complicated.
When you're thinking about the hero band situation as well, it's going to be so hard to try and I think pinpoint map to map
who they really want to be focusing on because both teams are so strong.
And that's what made predictions for this one so incredible difficult because yeah, if you're a numbers guy or girl,
You know, like then you might just go with the obvious set of division like they had the upper hand
What's easier cool? And they had there they have that X factor
They have a clutch factor where they just like somehow some way step it up making those lower bracket runs and then
Getting really close to like hoisting a trophy again, which I know they really want that said I went with setup because I am a numbers person
Okay, that is fair
Numbers person, but I'm a vibe based person. So I'm not going for numbers this time around
I actually went for a crazy raccoon. I think that they really haven't been tested so far in champions class
There is that potential that there have been some secret things that they've been hiding meanwhile Zeta
They've been pushed the limit. Of course, they are gonna come out strong and angry
I think going into this match and play confident to considering the last results
Ash, I'm gonna back you.
Yeah, I love it!
I'm going with Crazy Raccoon as well.
Look, Settled Division has been the more dominant team in this matchup so far.
You saw the map record so far this year,
but I actually think that Crazy Raccoon,
they have improved as this meta has continued to develop.
They've moved more towards the carry,
and also the discovery of this Musuki May composition.
We've seen more of this very weekend.
I think that Crazy Raccoon,
they found the compositions that worked for them.
They iron out the coordination problems, and I think they're looking like the better team of these two today
Yeah, I definitely got to agree
You guys have got the gaslighting error on it
Hold on, hold on, no gaslighting here
He's talking about the conversations and stuff
He's saying it's been insane on the map
True, I gotta give it to him
You know what, it's gonna be a close one
That's what we're hoping for
And we're about to head into our opening ceremony
But before we go, may I once again remind you to connect your battlenet account to your twitch account
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And now we have a lot of great things in store for you today, you do not want to miss it,
we are heading into the upper bracket final first and of course for that we will be sending
it to the stage for our opening ceremony.
You don't want to miss it, don't go anywhere, we should be right back.
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The World Championship will be decided.
I would like to invite you all to join us at this moment.
Now, let's take a look at the award-winning champion of the Omochi Championship Class of 2026.
Today, the presenter who will give us this award is this person.
He is the MVP of the previous world championship in the last class.
And with the best skills, the world's top 1-liter race will begin.
Everyone, please give a big applause!
I'm going to open it up again!
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Please welcome the grand finalist of the first round!
First, the second round!
First, this team!
ZENSA DIRJO!
I'm going to be the winner of this matchup.
A matchup everybody has been waiting for.
Especially the crowd here.
Crazy Raccoon and Zeta Division in the upper bracket finals.
Look, Mokshi.
They've had a couple of bouts,
but it's been Zeta, a 4-0 in series record over Crazy Raccoon.
I mean, Zeta, perfectly the favorite's coming into this match, like you said, with that history.
And just really the favorites of the crowd at the moment.
Oh yeah, free stuff!
Just buying everyone's love with the free signed t-shirts coming up, you know.
I might take the headset off and just try and find a way for the crowd.
Just try and grab one of those, cause, oh, you have to be a Zeta fan.
But you also have to be a Crazy Raccoon fan, because like, this is a net that has been formulated by these teams.
We have the jetpack cat, we have Bastion, that was cooked up by the side of Crazy Raccoon.
But then we also had the hidden Mizuki comp, which came out, which a lot of the other teams just weren't ready for.
Yeah, and the Mizuki's been really cool to watch, actually, because we expected, like you said, jetpack cats, we played 99% of the time.
But now, the evolution of Mizuki, where we're seeing it on places like King's Row, and it's even copying bands now.
I mean, yeah, especially if you're not ready to be able to play it, like we've seen a couple of teams attempted on it, like New Junk City.
There were a couple of times where teams would run out, try and play in the first or second fight,
and would not be able to pull it off and have to talk back up, but because they were going for bands
with that composition in mind of like banning out the Sim, there was stuck in a bad composition,
as we're going to be starting off on Elios, which is Zeke's pick, so while we talk about
potentially seeing the Mizuki, this is very much the home territory of the Jetpack Cat and the Bastion,
which is why Crazy Raccoon actually take the Bastion out.
and the Kyroko too. This is a little...
Well that's that shoot. That's what Zeta want to do. Zeta, the big disparity between Zeta
and Crazy Raccoons back in their region play-offs was that Zeta stuck to their guns trying to
put Shu on the Ana as much as possible and even though it was JetPaket and Bastion Mirror,
it was still the difference being the Ana versus the Kyroko. What I find really interesting
is that crazy raccoon of their own accord took out Sebastian when they thought of the Kiriko was
being targeted, so now they can actually try and have a little bit more of a composition that can
get into the back line as opposed to you being able to swipe you down. Playing on Elios too,
if you look back to the Asia playoffs, both Zeta and CR, they played Lijiang Tower for both of
their games on control to start off, and then an oasis when it went to that map number seven,
Well, it was map six, but that's a map game. Um, so
Ilios, honestly, it has been the favor of the tournament. We've not really seen a bunch of other picks. Why do you think that is?
I mean, I feel like for both of these teams, it's going to be the wrecking ball, right?
Both of these teams love getting to play the wrecking ball.
Milgaru is going to be in as well on the side of Zeta, so you're going to be running a lot of those knockoff
positions, not having the Kiriko as well means that it's going to be much easier to put pressure on
that backline with things like the Tracer, with things like the Wrecking Ball, it's control two,
which means that the more players that you split off of the actual objective, the easier it is for
you to be able to just walk onto the point and cap it. A bit more normal overwatch here, much to
Johnny's disdain, but I do like the fact that the Kiriko is banned here as well because a lot of
these maps especially would go down to the lighthouse, we can play the Arna too, which
shoot is a master of. I just I really want to see what crazy rikkuns have because Zeta were the
ones in those group stages in those recent playoffs where they were not fully committed to the
bastion cat. They played so many different things I'm sure we're going to see at some point in this
series now that the bastion bands are coming out from the side of crazy rikkun the Bab Elari
come out from the side of Zeta's backline because they would play the bastion but they would play
and they would be able to challenge for it.
Zeta now looking to see what exactly we're going to have Violet playing. Will it be the Mizuki?
Because we know that she's on the Anno.
I don't think I've ever heard the crowd this loud to be honest.
I'm going to be real with you.
Even in a while, finals will
his crowd is especially with
Zeta and crazy raccoon playing, of course.
Louder than it's ever been.
10 seconds till the gate unlocked.
Another pick that has been so good
over the last couple of days has been the Cassidy.
Cassy is well being able to keep up
with knife on this far. Amil Garoo
on that Winston might well
get melted. So nice actually going
to swap to the Cassidy to be able to match.
But Amil Garoo is still on the monkey
Violet going for the jetpack, despite not having the bastion to enable it.
He's going to be hard to hit, hard to lock down.
The Churrong has the Lucio with that Speedfish, so Crazy Raccoon's going to engage in so much faster.
First bloodshed over to Knife. Nice headshot onto Heesang.
He's going to now try and force Stalker away from the point.
Mugara, who's putting a barricade between Knife and the front line with that bubble.
Good double kill for Knife. Make that a trickle on the casting to start us off with.
He's gonna be so safe too, because Viola can hit that grapple over and over again on the Cassidy.
We're not protecting the Bastion, we are protecting the Cassidy in here.
Yes, and the Lifeline too from Viola, so if Jumben tries to knock someone off into Well,
you're going to be able to use the Lifeline to catch them because unlike the Ultimate, it's just a basic cooldown.
You volunteer, you say, okay, yes, I'm okay, we're being carried away, and with the Deadly Approaching for Knife, we know that we're about to use Skynar.
Yeah, I mean, look, he's nice to rotate.
Oh, the flashback is good as well.
E-Sack goes down.
Miley prompt as well.
Nike, the one-man Recky Bruceman.
Eventually stopped.
The only two, Kanano on to Stalker.
And the dead eye as well, Provinter.
Make sure he stays alive.
No good sleep on the trace, but an even quicker recall there.
Vigilante goes down, however, but Milgar is so low.
Gets Nano to stay alive in the fight.
His stated division in pure control.
Cool, calming, collected from the home team.
Yeah, when life goes down you think maybe Zeta will cave and walk away
But they give the nano boost to Milgar who went low thanks to the ante
But gets fully healed back up by the Anna with the damage reduction
And I have primal to stall and crazy raccoon. They don't have a good answer
They don't have nano, they don't have dead eye
Is he really throwing it to him?
Bit of a cat on the hands of the violence, unfortunately
He is not missing right now.
Yeah, he's getting but a cowdy as well. Violet's just using the lifeline to carry the Cassidy up onto the high ground in a position like Yi-San can't reach him.
Yi-San's got the pulse bomb that could be the difference maker for Crazy Rook. The Protoss is doubting him and not letting him pass into the backline.
Yeah, nice primary range there for Mugarras to keep himself off and they're just going to keep this one going as well.
10% to go Mugsy before this point is Zeta's.
So close to the sign bar the first sign bar of this round which speaks volumes about how much crazy raccoons have been able to do
Yep, they've got it now
They just actually need to successfully get it off while it's already goes down to vigilante and I still smart cross them out the trunk
Goes extremely low can't get the sound barrier off so no support ultimate here for crazy raccoon in this fight unless vigilante can save up his
Proper takes down Jim, but this is a very one-sided affair so far. Is that it doing a using extra control of the point is
Support, combat coming through from Crazy Recune, and Zingalati picked up two kills in the fight.
Okay, now I want to see how well Zeta are going to fare with the cat and not the Lucio.
You're not going to be able to close up the distances quickly under Crazy Recune's composition.
You have to worry about stalker, but so too do you have to worry if you see a knife.
Just being carted around, this is the Bastion play with a Kessie who can two tap you.
But if you have this catnapper as well from Violet, if you slam in the middle of the point, you're going to go down well for sure.
So Vigilante is going to have to play cautiously, rotating with the Cassidy right now.
They're going to try and get on the back right here, but Shulant's nice anti-on stalker instantly taken care of by Milgaru.
Nanabou should set the tempo in their favour, Trom snaps back real quick with the kill onto Shulant.
You've actually got to like land it from him and get a connection, but Milgaru, he can't find anybody to jump on.
jump on. A skydune. Oh, Knight, you're down, show em. Did you anti is going to come back
with a nano in a couple of seconds for the point right now? He's being contested. Well,
nano goes on to jump in so that crazy raccoon can hold on to the stall. That's desperation.
He ends up killing Knight though. Desperation play works out here for crazy raccoon as jump
in goes for another slam back in in May. Spider, streaming low as well. Even Shoe's under a
lot of dress here but Violet's got an extreme Shoe, cannot send that pass quick enough.
has the dead eye as well as they did a bit of not a great position to be able to shut it down.
No nanobooth gone to Milgaro to open up the space and for easy returns they're headed to final
fight territory themselves. Xiong actually even comes back on the jetpack cat himself so we're
going to have the sky noon just from the two core castles in the sky. Here we go Stalker over the top
kite takes a chunk out of him and fire it. Flush back to good stop Stalker diving in again but
He's on the high ground here, shouldn't be very easy for Stork here, but 40 HP is not too much he can do from this position without being healed up.
99% for Crazy Raccoon now, his Zeta needs to be able to come back, and now Stork has just been escorted away, straight out of the danger zone.
He lands a headshot onto Nifer, Phyllis there with the heals. Another retringering of OT4, Phyllis, Miugaro jumps back in, requires heals for going for OP engage, but it's Cholong at Kills, Phyllis.
The sleep is too good as well, but Knife gets up, smacks into Antti in the face and lands a silver bullet for the double.
But he's then keeps the point going.
Crazy Raccoon come back and 99 to 100% lit for CR.
We might have to rename Crazy Raccoon to Crazy Cat because that was a ninth life play.
back that they were able with the cat noon to stall out Zeta's push get to 93% deny
shoe having the healing coming on through to bother for now to go some will go
primal so Zeta had an ultimate to be able to just push forward brute force their
way onto point create that opportunity to get on top of vigilante but they were
denied
Stick them in the same comp though Garoo back on the Winston, jimmed in on ball.
How long before they actually switched to Kat here?
I wonder if there's just going to be a speed boost from Chorong and then a quick swap,
doesn't look like it.
Oh, they're sticking with the Lucio even though it cost them on well.
But there is less environmentals here, but you can already see Knife getting tevred
on up onto the high ground position, Crazy Raccoon being very careful, there's so much
normal ability. Oh,
doing such a good job of just keeping Jim bent off or feeling
aggressive towards the back line and I'm sorry. Oh, just two
things, I suppose headshotting show up. God, can you imagine
shoes face when you saw the patch of like, Hey, you can
edge up. People is on the now. Oh, those silver bullets have
magnets in for these heads. Oh, knife is on an absolute tear at
the moment, pushing all the way back into crazy raccoon space, not allowing them any
opportunity. That fight goes so one sidedly, no one gets to build up an ultimate. And Knife,
by the way, first fight already has Hainun.
Yeah, oh yeah. Sorka, look at that, 60% behind.
Oh, the pass back!
The flashbang is going to be good for a kill too. Jumper, that's been so careful. Another
silker pull-up, connection from Knife. I mean, these fights are not close.
No. And that's really bad for CrazyWakoo.
Someone's behind. They've forced Recall already. I mean, he's hanged his dead for fights.
He's hanged gone.
Knife is going to be able to go check out where that tracer was.
If you try and get close, it's okay. He's got the combat roll. He has...
He found the hammer to get the auto reload. Like, he's going to be in a really good position.
There's Jemba not so much in a good position right now. He's not being able to do anything
to open up space for his team, which means that Stalker, he's playing with absolutely nothing
in comparison to Knife, who has a full monopoly of ruins.
So tough to get a lot of ult charge here for Chorong as well on the Lucio.
You're only really hitting the Cassie permanently.
She's taking a few pull-ins to the brain there in the back of the head,
but it's going to be a decent sleep onto Milgar, which ends the fight.
Oh, wait, the boss, the Sky Moon!
Oh, nice!
And he doesn't stop there, straight on top of the billiards,
Violet picks down Chorong,
and now only two players left for Crazy Raccoon on the point.
The clutch up from Zeta is just absurd.
There's nice little tether, a flashbang hits, he's out.
He's got the body shot, he needs one more, the silver bullet,
and he's still affected.
Gai, now the backup coming in,
she's going to be able to heal and fall 100% HP.
As Zeta, Santa, with only two players left.
The good news is for Crazy Raccoon,
they've got ultimates in this next one.
The bad news for them is that Milgaro has a primal.
So, Zeta to Fishing can well weather the storm of the Nanoboost.
And who do you put it on?
The wrecking ball to have the staying power.
Nanna? Oh, the Caster D.
Nice hand to get a background as well.
Fitcher, Lancer, Char.
blowing bright purple but this is a feeling a little bit like deja vu I
can't lie you say to get 99 as raccoon get the flick
Chiron is so close to sound barrier as well Stalker sitting there with the
high noon but Zeta they've got so much point percentage to be able to play with
they can just wait fish for a fight that they feel confident force crazy raccoon
to have to burn ultimates just to be able to hold on to this round a little
bit more. There you go strap the high ground now for knife. It's just poking
he's using the high ground verticality to be able to build up dead eye and now
crazy raccoon have to respect the angle the cast can have with cap. Oh they really
want proper best move in a little bit too good Samara comes in crazy raccoon.
Sky new knife, he'll kill strong but still they have to beat, they have to
tempo but fighter gets another one as well. Knife and fighter are just a two
man wrecking through on the point, he sank balls, knifed at like 10 HP or something ridiculous.
They're hinted at his jump in data, the vision gets the flip, they get the round.
Not happy with that first one, we can't go down that, that again.
We're going to round three.
Even without the bastion, cap proves to be a problem.
I love that we were always talking about the fact of like, okay, if the bastion is removed,
that just disables cap fully, because what else will you carry around?
Well, at this level, Cassidy is having an absolute time of it.
I mean, you've got to just roll out with the cat at this point, right?
Yeah, you have to match.
You've got one beat off there if you're Chorong, but like I said, you're not healing too many people.
You're not healing anything.
The ball every now and then.
Ball sometimes, but that's when Chorong even gets back to your team, because if he goes towards Zayte to play aggressively, chances are he gets flashbang and killed.
They're rolling with it. Look at this. Chorong instantly on the cat.
Very good map though, to be fair. If you're going to play a cat, you're going to force it. It's going to be this one.
Yeah, cat naps so many opportunities to take people off of the map verticality as well.
Finally, the other day, the amount of times he was dragging people off the map on this map specifically was...
That's insane!
Ridiculous.
He just landed an anti-nade on the Chorong.
Well, it didn't matter apparently because Nive had to have gone down anyway and Shoe paid for his sins.
I'm not sure how Violet's getting so many kills on the cap to be honest with you, but Violet...
Just Violet, she would think. Such an aggressive backline. They're always going to be able to find those hits.
Zeta actually saw Crazy Raccoon pushing them so close to spawn, they swapped prop onto the Widow to see if they could find a little bit of space.
The Crazy Raccoon's great, but now they're on point. Flashbang comes through from Knifestopping, Jimbin's movement, and Violet gets hit by the Antenate himself, and that one does hang.
He goes down.
They need to kill real bad here. Stalker falls short, but Jimin's already got the environmental on knife.
So this fight is going to be wrapped up. A nice little bow on top.
Ah, Miel Gaurav. Not having as fun a time on Winston on this map.
Especially with those anti-nits coming through. Vigil Lante is just on top of it.
Yeah, he's getting destroyed here unfortunately. You jump into the high ground.
Surely he's off to the wrecking ball.
So that you have that environmental potential, you can knock those players off.
You've got the car drive the shielding and there it is
Show up the ball perfectly cool
No, Garry. Okay. Now they have to worry about the wrecking ball in their midst
Although he's taken half his HP has gone already collects the health packs
I mean across the map there stalker just ends up killing nice. Oh
Violet's goes what?
In enemy territory
He sang die sure but still corrective racoon in full control right now
Slams straight on top of him hits the internet. It's like yeah, you're done
Okay, we need a weather warning. Catnap is in play and in fact almost all Crazy Raccoon's
Alts are in play as well. Knife will have the high noon, stalker too, so we might actually
get the cold Cassidy joust. No Anna with Nano Boosts, give one the advantage.
Catnune? Oh! Stalker, get the better of Knife. Oh dear, we made it. You gotta be more aware
than that I'm afraid. Oh, that's another one.
They're just bleeding players.
Four kills for the Cassidy and now Crazy Raccoon 10% away from claiming the first map.
That's such a cheap fight win as well on the side of Crazy Raccoon.
They've got to go. They've got to go.
The Cat Noon, he takes down Chong, removes one ult from Crazy Raccoon's bank.
The Slam, Jumping dragged off the edge of the map.
The Slam is finally secure as the kill.
Jumping Slam, slide it down though, but proper cleans it up.
Crazy Raccoon though, they held on to both Katnap and Nano Boost. Zeta Division, they have their work cut out for them.
They have to delay Crazy Raccoon from walking on to this point.
Proper width of pulse bomb could be absolutely huge if he can find the angle onto Vigilante and shut this Nano Boost down early.
Zeta can win the next fight cheaply and by point percentage with it.
Symphony or Garoo can kind of put a thorn in their side.
Oh, a nano boost onto Stalker too, got a lot of people in his sights right now.
And one civil bullet is dragged over the top.
Oh, he's absolutely destroyed. Stalker for the double.
Crazy racoon. The fans, giving them the energy that they required here.
They got 99%. They got the flip as well.
Popper Milgaro has to get back to the point.
Go for a touch, but it's looking impossible.
Crazy racoon with a 2-1 victory on Ilios there.
as close as we expected and this series is going the distance boxy I could feel it you know what's in saying
When I saw the nanoboost onto the cast see just like the cast being pulled by the cat
I was like wait is this all school Anna nanofarm Winston dive engagement matter because that was sort of the way that they played that
Retake right they knew that shoe would be a problem. They knew that you would be coming with nanoboost
They did not want to let the Ana play up on the high ground out of the way of things like the Tracer
So what do you do? You give your Nanavis to your Cassidy. He gets the damage reduction
You tow him along he gets to take away the high ground you drop onto Shu then you force everyone from Zeta to be beholden
To heal from violet with and cuts into what knife can do because he's obviously not going to be able to get the
Lifeline off because then the cat's not going to be able to help the rest of the team and you can just work your way at
At taking the point itself man. It is just about the casties right now
If it was like no one else really exists in the map, it's cat cast. Yeah. Oh, yeah
Cast cast it's a casting matter. Yeah. Oh, there you go. You got it nailed it
I think with how this series gonna progress though with actually not being bad now. Yeah
I'm still like maybe the custody is kind of kind of going
I mean we talked about the fact that Crazy Raccoon like by their own hand banned out the Bastion even though
We were saying like this is the team that came up with the Bastion cat comp
This was the team that stuck the most rigidly to the Bastion cat comp the maps that they pulled against Zeta like before
We were even talking about it on the pre-show right?
Zeta has always beaten Crazy Raccoon in the last year and some of those have not at all been close when it did stop
being close when it moved away from just three O's was when Crazy Raccoon cooked up the Bastion
Cat Comp and the maps that they won in the grand final against Ada, which went to a 4-3,
were for the most part the Bastion Cat maps. So it was very strange coming into this and seeing
Crazy Raccoon go for the ban on the Bastion, but still play the Cat. And it feels yet again like
we're seeing we're uncovering more of these layers to the Cat composition. We thought Bastion Cat's
the problem. Okay, that's not the actual problem. It was hiding the Musuki strat. But now we come
to be able to do that. We're
going to have a lot of
competitions coming today and
we find out that okay, no, it's
not just that. It's the cat
cast as well. So they've
obviously had a whole lot of
different compositions prepared,
but they did not want revealed
to the world before it was
time to show them off in an
official format where you don't
have the opportunity to adapt.
Small substitution to just
jumping. Get up so Max is
going to come in. This is the
state division starts against
CR over the course of 2026
is that escort sitting at 33 that control obviously was going to get a knock down a little bit there
is not 60% anymore but close enough but very impressive we made across the board still
oh it is sorry i'm getting a word for it's been updated so 60% even after that loss yes yeah well
the the last time in the grand finals crazy racoon actually did walk away winning the first lijiang
and it it went the distance it went all three maps but again it came down to the fact of like
crazy racoon with playing the Kyroko and say that we're trying to play the ammo.
But ours coming in as well here, so Milko and both teams changing out their tanks.
I mean, makes sense, right? The hero pools are very much like overlapping for both of those two
players. If you're going to be putting Max in, you're probably going to be playing things like
maybe the Diva, but likely the Sigma, a little bit of that Malga, and you want to be able to
match a mirror. Once upon a time it was Jumbin in mainly and Max getting subbed in once in a series,
and right now so can like Max is going to be in for a lot more than just the singular one.
Um, so I got right out, it's going to be the pick from Zayton.
Sigma. It's going to be a lot of Sigma.
Potentially that Sigma, uh, Mizuki comp that we saw yesterday,
where you get to use like the Bastion, you get to use the Maywall,
you get to use that Maywall and just wall off the other Sigma,
go into the Sentry turret form with the Bastion, shred through the defences,
force out the panic coming through from like the backline to use the Immortality Field early.
Speaking about the backline, do we think this is the moment that we get the Alari target ban coming on out?
Because we know for sure, if Zeta played it on Havana on Circuit Royale,
there's no way that they don't feel towards the Baptiste Alari backline.
Yeah, if you peep in the map hole as well, like this is probably one of the best maps to play the Alari on, so...
Yeah, I wouldn't be too shocked. Do you want to get that away from Violet? 100%.
Yes, we absolutely want it away from Violet.
Alari in general, and Sekariel, Sigma map, we must play Sigma,
Triton's like the dawn of time, but Alari at this point as well is like almost a must-pick on this map.
Just how long-range things are and the amount of poke damage as well.
If you don't have the Alari on your team and they do, like your Sigma shield's getting deleted if you're playing that mirror.
Not just that as well, but if you're like Alari on the defense, you can put that Pylon so deep in your backline that there's no way that you can break there.
just put the pile on down
The healing and you get to be as aggressive as you want and that suits pilot to a T or I guess a V
He's DPS is will be crying at the same but support player by the way support here is a larry
But no, we all know she's she's a DPS mask or eating as a support. Yes. She really is
It's the best. That's why she's the best support will be most fun. All right crazy
Up a map already first to three here and if you're looking at how
this kind of bracket is gone, it feels almost inevitable that we're in this situation. This
upper finals with Zeta and Crazy Raccoon, I think coming in, a lot of people expected
this, but Twisted Minds in that lower bracket. So you do have the wild finalists looking
for some sweet revenge as they move on their way up. The loser here goes against them in
the lower finals later before the Grands. Are you expecting, on like a Twisted Minds
kind of perspective, who would you rather face at this moment in time? Because Crazy
Raccoon if they keep up this level of pressure with stalker
I mean that is so so scary and they're gonna copper a castie ban
From crazy raccoon and a Mizuki
Mizuki ban coming on for from Zeta
I'm so happy that we get to say this is not just a bait ban as well
It's actually being played the composition like being able to mirror having that may look into counter wall
having to constantly worry as well by someone being just locked down into a position and
jumped on because the follow-through from these teams, they're so good at identifying those
slight little windows where maybe something goes a little bit wrong, maybe someone's just
a little bit out of position and jumping on the opportunity. But with the cast out of the way,
we do have other DPS available. We saw a little bit of the Hanzo as well coming back into the
mix, but Widow is also still online if these teams want to field into it. Sojourn, Emory,
still an absolute powerhouse that you could have the option to be able to go for, because we know,
Like the tank will be Sigma the back line likely going to be the Basti Salari at least on the side of Zeta
since Violet gets the Alari through
Still have the Cap Ashen though
That's the thing and you can play the Kiriko here too if you want to play that kind of flavor
But with the Sigma a little less prominent. We'll see what I want to play obviously
We're just loading in in a moment
We have to wait for our max obviously to get set up Zeta actually beat the bastion cap with the Basti Salari on
Havana they were able to to beat it there because just as we're talking about Lara being very aggressive very good at being able to just keep
Shooting she's also very good at just shooting aerial targets, right? Farah echo jetpack cat
It's all that plus the fact that you can actually double up with your activity since the pile on is the thing that heals you
So when the cat tries to go towards the Alari unlike when the cat dives aggressively on something like an Anna
You have to make the choice of like do I use cooldowns on myself?
What do I try and do live the cat a larry gets just sit back and actually click the head while still having the pile on
He went up. Yeah, it's great
Symmetra being the most bad hero right now at champions flash diva on a bashing larry Cassidy Kira Kusariya
Cobbin about five four five six band each cast is symmetrizingly low. No shock. I'm gonna be honest
A lot against against the NBA teams. You want to ban on a simple show?
Yeah, the Korean teams as well. They've started picking up the sim. We got the sim Bastion on Newjunk City yesterday being such a pain, a fawn in the rematch of fight.
The rotations for the TP on first Newjunk City is just so annoying. If you don't have that speed, you're trying to chase the teleport guys.
Yeah, good luck.
the bade outs as well, like when they fake out the teepee, they're like oh, we're going for the high ground and then you have to just
totally tailor your position around a fake out and then you give it a low ground space.
We're all teleporting, I promise!
Psyche!
Alright, circuit royale, let's load on in.
I would love to see a little bit of Widowmaker.
If someone could grace us with that, that would be great, but...
I mean, if chronic was here, it absolutely would be Widowmaker.
A lot of good hitscan from this tournament to be fair.
A lot of very scary ones. Some of the best to ever do it in this very series to be fair.
Alright, let's get in.
Crazy Raccoon going to be starting off on the defense. We were right on the Sigma, but even with Aipan Mizuki, they're still going to play the Bastion anime, and yeah, Jorong will be on the Jetpack cat.
So Zeta Division, they might have moved to an escort map, they might have moved to one where there will be slightly longer line of sites for them to try and get on top of where exactly the Bastion will play from,
but they still have not fully avoided the problem. But Knife should be able to scout it.
He's on the handle with the Sonic going to try and lodge it around that wall that you can see stalker hanging about on.
Setting up potentially a good shot from when the proper was on the wood over at shops to the main.
Yeah, a quick Sonic there to get a bit of information.
Okay, Cap action. Almost complete mirror here. Just a vigilante and shoot.
That tail is all the time or at least as all this 2026 crazy recumbent as data division.
really good engagement play from both the nanoboost and the anti, but the
Kyroko aggression, teleport and Suzu can really keep Shu in check. A lot of the
abilities to survive these dive bombs and the bashing as well as you're playing
the mage, you just hit the block real quick, make sure you didn't get blown up.
Well the good news for Shu is that there's no Maga, so he doesn't have to worry
by crazy or couldn't just walking onto him, which was the thing that was the
pain point for Zeta in the past.
No, there they go. Nice handsy on that.
He's saying, and Max, damage on Stalker is good, though,
from Kroffer.
And I could hold this corner as well,
for the May.
It's really tough here.
If you lose one of your DPS that early on,
you can't control this fight.
You can't control where the enemy's signal is playing.
And your signal is just so vulnerable to that.
A very quick and clean fight from Zeta Division.
And as they get the point.
Yeah, they're already pushing crazy recurrence
have to just give up more space since knife and violet in tow stopping crazy
requiem from walking forward they have to deal with the duo which means that
first checkpoint picked up already started to move your way up through
ramps and she just quietly steadily off of the poke coming through against the
bastion loading up nanoboost so that knife gets the better of stalker right
straight over the top again so I'm in trouble this is stalker needy desperate
help as Susie is good and a teleport away from vigilante at 1 HP but still mentions
This guy, Knight is going to pop this turret for me, but Max is already dead.
Knight needs to deliver some comeuppance here to the enemy bastion, but BOO! But no!
He actually eats the Blizzard from Heesang.
Oh, that's devastating for Crazy Raccoon's ultimate economy.
Eating the Blizzard, using the artillery strike to just totally stop any momentum from Vigilante's rush.
And Zeta Division, they didn't get the picks with the nanoboos, but it did enough to give them the space, and they set up to shut Crazy Recoonz out.
So much pressure so early.
Oh, there's the gap. Actually straight through the door, that was really quick.
Straight on top of the tent too. The Blizzard in the corner, Stork has got nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
Prop is basically to limit these kills for free, as Bernard hits a giant block.
That is an unwinnable combo of hosts there for Crazy Raccoon to deal with, a Blizzard and a Flux.
That is like Geneva Convention level stuff, like Rose.
Now it's the end of the vision. In 5 minutes and 20 seconds, it's Pelos on slow.
Yeah, and I mean for Crazy Raccoon as well, you don't want to fight on the point itself because you get your Sigma shredded by the May.
Vigilante has to swap off with the Kiriko, but shoot by the way, he's already got another Nano Boost.
Crazy we can have no answer to this and because they're not taking the dual
against Zeta Division, they're trying to play space in high ground, they're not
actually stopping the cut's progression.
Alright Sean, Sean has got this cat-hole here, oh Violet, whoa he's won HP!
A whisker.
Straight over the top here, shoot doesn't up her, nading himself so he doesn't
up staying alive, but high ground control very much in favour of CR right now, but
a hook from Banas, shut down stalker and Violet trying to int into the backline
Get old and then chuck someone off over the edge. It's going to be a wall actually to isolate proper
But he's still alive from now eventually max does clobber him with his left hand
But nice I tell everybody make short work of the enemy may is the payload just a one speed just ending down the straight
All of the fights are happening off the point itself
They gotta touch
as much she defy the violet drags one over the edge with it. A style kill onto stalker.
A second individual eventually halted, but four minutes and it's like what,
20, 30 meters away from the checkpoint? I mean, we've seen stranger things than a four-minute
hold on Circuit 3rd, especially with the ultimate economy, Sierra Bikes a hit,
Nano Boost, Flux, Lizard combo. It's available that for Zeta Division II,
but Crazy Recons, they're wise to the strategy now. They have to make sure that they don't get hit
by both at the same time.
I've got this Flux.
He's just going to survive this,
and they can pretty crap around this corner.
Oh, Toronto Rock!
The Flux still don't...
Yeah.
Ends up killing Bernard.
Max playing that so safe around the corner,
guaranteeing yourself...
You just did not want to get cancelled by the Rock.
Yeah.
They knew that Bernard had it.
The fact that Toronto literally steps up
to be able to absorb the cooldown
and let Max be the play,
be the win condition,
so the Crazy Raccoon can hold on,
hold on and that's a good fight win it's a cheap fight win and that's already one minute off the clock
but say the division with how close the card actually is again they can just build up their
stock she was going to have a nanovist the moment that been on proper get close enough to open the
blizzard the sleep is really good here please it though encounter actually with proper the flops
isn't going to be able to connect it does but is the damage really there i mean i can properly
And he did the DPS completely evaporated, to say into vision, what a perfect response from Heeside.
They managed to land the sleepling shoe, and they blizzard straight at their feet so they're unable to then flush off after that.
They follow up as well, Nanna wants a stalker. So you've got all of the setup with the blizzard, rooting Zeta in place, and then all of the damage to be able to back the kills.
Chubo, he's got the nanoboost, that's likely going to come from onto knife, but onto the diva as well.
Just so you can bruise into crazy racoon spaces and take that high ground away from where the cat bastion can play.
I've seen this payload to move up as well, it's regressed so much after their first push.
Classic wall of this high ground to give them a little bit of a reprieve here.
Looks like they're going to get aga, get knife, but he gets instantly set.
He gets nanoed as well. Yeah, you can see the side is that oh wait what stalker gets dipped on it
Violet takes him over the edge of it like close quarters with the main what there's like three pixels of guys fighting on
Then he kills him with the ice block passive. I mean he's time as well
Is able to pull himself into the corner?
No, I'm going down. There's what I'm a on the payload of course here, but life is still going
Turing form here, artillery barrage for Stalker, ends up killing knife eventually but they
got the bodies on the point. Stalker ends up going down, the venture here from He-Sang
to try and stall out a little bit longer but the wall is good enough. And Mija to go,
the blizzard hits, He-Sang to heal, he's coming in to shield, how is he survived? It's long!
The Flux as well is going to get blocked. Choron Pax crushes Violet. And that is the
a ridiculous hold. The self-destruct on the point is going to get blocked and a meter
remains for safety of Crazy Raccoon's stance hold. Knife on the tracer takes him down by
Heesang. They hold. Crazy Raccoons, it's an absolute hero play from Heesang. Walls themselves
off, close enough to counters contesting the point. Max falls into the sideline, not
that they're still alive, but they may bite the time, the nanoboosh before, the shield
from Max and Crazy Raccoons are able to hold up Zeta Division. Shu though, so close to
another Nano for 30 seconds to go. Crazy Raccoons so far away from Alts, it's just going to
come off of Herox alone.
Yeah, Shu needs this Nano really badly right now. 15 seconds, they try and swing the Bastion
in to get a good angle here. Stalker's going to get chased by Popper. In fact, the Cat
Bastion is behind them right now. Look at that rocket tonight. He's going to be parking
for a kill. And a sleep bug to Burnout too. He's completely isolated. But Max ends up
Going down to Violet, the Maddo Booster on the Diva should lay waste to the front line, but a block is going to save.
He's sang for now.
But Jordan's actually waiting in the wings.
He's going to get a final touch here, as he sang eventually felled.
And now vigilante with a good ante on to the Diva, but it's not really too much follow up here.
Crazy Raccoon have got the spawns, but Zayna Division have the bodies on the point.
Five players fighting around as Max and Steve suited.
Going to go for the Cat Scratchers, and I get to double.
An OT push, for Zayna.
3 points on the board, a 5 minute hold there for Gracie Raccoon.
Well, we said we've seen stranger things here in Overwatch Esports, and we were right,
so it continues to be that third point defense, like the moment you lose one fight,
it's so problematic for these teams to attack into, because you have to clear up the high ground.
You have to have like 10k damage there, are you silly?
Yeah, he was popping off.
The shields, the fluxes, the rocks onto the bastion as well so that you don't get the opportunity to just walk away with all of that damage, all of the space, and just push that payload a little bit left to get the checkpoint through.
Sankons, no shock, better for Shu here though, I must say, on the defense.
What is shocking is that Zeta could have gone for the Alari, but because the option of the cat is in play,
Viola actually forgoes it, and we have the continuation of the Bastion Cat coming on through with Knife Sparing,
Shu is going to be playing the Ana to have things like the Antenades as well as that Nano Boost onto Knife,
that Zeta Division have really been trying to use as that default engagement,
But Crazy Raccoon, like, they could actually start off here with Max on the D.va instead, having the defence matrix shutting down the Ana's plays.
He sang on...
On the, uh, Reaper of all things. I mean, being able to play these corners is just so easy for the Reaper.
Look, teleport, high ground, even in the small room as well, with the help back there.
Right.
Because like Bernard now has to give up a lot of space, which means that the Saida Division don't have a stable shield and crazy recruits get to push around the corner,
which would be problematic when they're trying to get past and put the pressure on for that climb.
It's easier to dive as well with the D.Va. You can really put pressure on Bernard, or in fact just kind of ignoring some of the time too.
Look, they've already pushed Bernard into the small room here as he's not getting off angle.
23 HP, there's a mega health pad, but he might be able to get cleaned up.
He survives here. That's a horrible spot for them to have to fight from.
Prop is actually the one that goes down and knife is backpedaling right now.
They haven't got this frontward pressure with the main wall.
And look at, he sounds positioning.
Like, there's so many things to look at right now, if you're Zedah Division, and they get picked for pieces.
Your attention's just being split.
50-50, like you're having to deal with the Reaper behind you, then the Deva's within one piece to fight your distance.
Okay, little troll, little troll.
Zed is efficient at knifeers. I'll try to bail out the team. They saw the crazy Rukun
We're getting aggressive walking too quickly and he tries to slow that momentum ice off the pressure with the artillery strikes
Now you don't have it to open up the space in the next fight
What you will have though choose seven percent away from that nanophish might as well have it now
Which means that you've got the space to duel out stalker
God a matrix that
Straight on covering stalker to make sure he gets out alive actually gonna pop the old really
On the upper, maybe, on Shul?
Oh, sure, on the front line, those last two shells.
Here comes the rush now, but nah, he's going to have to look behind it.
It's a nano-push to point to make sure he survives here.
So Heesang is just going to switch targets straight onto the bastion.
A beautiful slam there coming through from Violet, but is it enough?
Max got two kills, Heesang's still in a good spot. Max with a third.
There's a deathboss who's available too, teleports into the corner,
but needs to actually push in.
It's a tag team effort here from Max and Heesang, but he's got enough damage.
Got enough, Danny! He sang with a double death awesome kill!
They're still moving this payload up, reinforcements arrived for this no-frontline 4, Zayac!
Butiland even comes back with a cure for cold!
To be able to switch them with the rest of the team and rejoin it!
They're picking up on Zayac's efficient, they get late kills, there's no chance for a regroup!
They get second checkpoint!
5-30 on the clock!
Oh, it's the last round! No one can defend past the second!
They're saying as last time, Bernard off of the Sigma, onto the D.Va as well, wants to be able to use the defense matrix to be able to put a shut down to Salka's burst damage,
wants to be able to shut down Hussang on the Reaper as well because these D.A.C. blossoms have been so detrimental for Xayah to have to deal with.
Now it's important for Crazy Recruit to fight for every inch of this high ground. They put Reaper up on the height, he can then TP behind if he wants to, and then be a Ruckus.
And the good thing who's a day is that she was keeping pace with vigilante in terms of the rush
That's keeping them is that crazy Raccoon can literally just play on point. They don't have to go for the high ground
They can force they to walk into them instead. Well, they're gonna try and get knife our position here
He's got a decent angle actually hitting some headies, but yeah, you're right
I know the payload here is so good for CR. Yeah, you force them into the Reaper
Properly says the blizzard gave them high ground. They get the five
You're kicking for Stalker there! You're grouped up like that. You know you're going to get ulted by one of the cats.
It's four and a half minutes to go.
They position 50-50, half the team on the point, half the team taking high ground.
When Xayah tried to jump on the players on point, they gave up the high ground, and he sat still there.
With that death blossom, Rush mirror to decide if Rage of Recursion can complete this push with time for Spat.
They got a better position now than Xayah the Division had on their attack.
their attack, rushes on the point and trying to make sure Bernard is kept alive.
He's got a self-destruct here.
Here's the artillery barrage, he's saying,
Oh, the get-pass has come up top.
Knife gets taken down and the additional damage held in there to kill the proper self-destruct.
It's going to help clear the point here.
Choron dashes underneath it though to make sure he stays alive.
Another self-destruct eliminates Bernard's neck, his ditch lags,
the headshot on the baby fever.
It's all crazy, we're through here.
4 minutes and 39 seconds as they get that payload onto the third, a very different third point push for Siga.
If you're Zeta, you're really thinking back to how fast Crazy Rookin were able to pick up that first point too.
Because the moment that they were able to get that Reaper TP off onto the high ground
and put pressure onto Burner to force him to kite around the first corner, they didn't really stop at all.
Which is insane, like first and second, yes, with that momentum carrying through, not so
much on third.
That's so rough.
A minute versus 4.39 is history kind of dictates here, Moxie.
First and second will be a breeze for both teams, but with only a single minute, realistically,
if you're stalling out on first, like, you're pushing this in OT to the first point, not
even like to second or anything, it's not going to be an easy time against this mate.
I mean, there's a couple of options available for Zeta with one minute, but you're looking
at the ultimates that you can build up within that time, right?
You're thinking, okay, Shuu can come up with a nano boost, maybe we go for a nano boost
onto something like a Genji, even if you don't have the blade build up.
Going in with nano boost Genji at least gives you the space for the rest of your team to
be able to get something done, or you go for something like Banar on the Sigma to have
that extra defense for the damage reduction, but you're also worrying about Krajiricum
playing the Reaper against you and it looks that they go instead for the Bastion cap.
Knife and violet going to trying to open up this fight.
Shoe playing as safe as possible on the Kyroko in case Crazy Raccoon turned their attention
onto the back line. Can proper get in position though. He gets the teleport onto the high ground
or to that mini room it's going to be or the health pack room is going to be real dangerous for Max.
It's the same play that Crazy Raccoon used and abused to push the A to D defense all the way back.
Bernardo gets hit by the rock, coming up through from Max, who has to burn the Suzu early.
Sase Division missing crucial cooldowns, but if they wait for them to come back, they're running out of time.
Yeah, Prop is already up into this height. Max tried to challenge there for a brief moment, but
it's fallen back already. Here's the retreats. As we hear Knife's turret form being used,
everybody grouped up into this small little room here.
Looks like Bernardo's going to try and get in the business, but he's just getting chased down.
If I get into the swapping positions of the backline, both Kirikou's now falling over.
Nice job, this ultimate could try and sustain, but time's running out here for Stated Division.
Over time ticking through, but if Kanaan and Poppy just keep themselves alive, a nice little push in,
forcing them into that room and then they're trying to die at first, that's not it for CR.
I mean, now, like you said, just going for the wrap around this corner, Crazy Raccoon having to take cover,
trying to play around Max with the Sigma shift to absorb that damage,
for them, Burnall just speed through the whole team, pushes them out of position and sets
up Vigilante to fall early and that means that she was ahead in terms of that Rocks
for Heesang. Has to blizzard, it's overtime flight, they can't just disengage it, it has
to be a defence matrix. Has to be perfect for Heesang but exactly, it has to be perfect
for the Rocks. Oh the Rocks are good though. They got off the point, they got off the point.
There's no way they'd get off the point there. Disaster in the ranks.
It is not often that we see a true C9 like that, you can tell as well, like Crazy Raccoon
they were so ready for it, they saw that self-destruct coming through, they put so much pressure
on to burn us back to try and pop him out early, they forced the self-destructs, the
instant that self-destruct is in the air, out comes the blizzard locked towards the card
And Zeta Division, no one's in position to be able to trade onto point.
But, at least for them, with the one minute that they had available in comparison to Crazy Raccoon's four and a half,
they got a checkpoint. It's still doable.
Theoretically doable, right.
Theoretically. We wouldn't say impossible, but it would be improbable that Zeta Division would walk away with this one.
That is a C9 of all time.
Bookmark that one, clip it, chat.
No, don't.
There's highlights, and then C9s are just low lights.
Production, clip that one.
They already did. I know they did.
Four minutes and 39.
The first point defense, the second point defense.
Yeah.
Look like nothing for both teams on the OG attack.
Crazy Raccoon can take so much time as well.
Like, they can have Heesang here.
Like, they're already just, like, onto the high ground doors,
scouting out the information.
No Sonic required. You saw the players.
because they did a vision with the little time they have available they have to close hold
Yeah, it's all about he's saying getting a position. Oh, that's so low trying to go through that door proper being quite devious here in the side
He's gonna get she'll
Just around the shield they can all bought the Nara in the head as well. He's not getting here buddy
It's no way the guys get in here
3 players on the point now pushing like this is Zedah Division,
falling all the way back, they can get another regroup here.
But the problem with Zedah Division is that they were not in a position,
they lost players but they won in a healable position,
so Chuu does not have nanoboost to be able to bail out Zedah Division in this next fight.
And this is almost final fight territory,
Crazy Raccoons can bleed players like in this engagement,
they will be able to push Zedah Division over before we get a full regroup in the next.
It's basically a one fight here Moxie.
You're relying on the nanoboosts. Choose trying to have the team stall as long as possible.
If Knife gets her turret strike up, he gets a window, a space to be able to board it up for free,
the crazy recruit, they're just not letting up the aggression.
Yeah, look at how aggro they're playing. They're just pushing this up and they can't move Kaskas.
He's holding the door there, teleport behind, spotted out.
The cat. Oh! Violet!
Packed him up, hang on.
He sank, stalked the dead, crazy recruit with a reset.
Winnable, and in a much better position than Zeta's words before that fight broke out.
Shiu has nanoboost, Knife will have the artillery strike for the additional armor.
But Vigilante, this is my warrior, Jack. He's got the Kitsune Rush. Zeta Division,
that card is so close to the checkpoint, they can't simply disengage it. They have to meet it,
head on, or go first. Before the rush is in place, we're going to choose to win.
Or even to be fair, this flux of 5% or so, they can just basically ult bump at this point.
Oh, no, kidnap someone, get them out of the fight. Maybe Shu.
But Maxi just moved forward with impunity here. He sank at his back.
There's the rush to start us off, Nanobush entrepreneur.
Rock goes a little bit wide, guitar reform is going to be engaged.
The grass is going to get used to waylay all that damage, but the flux from Maxi
is going to score the kill onto Shu.
Knife going low with his bandit, the brawl of the payload pilot
is trying to just clutch this one up.
But there's no clutch in that.
payload secured by Crazy Raccoon, that's the checkpoint, and they're not getting back.
There's absolutely no way Crazy Raccoon, a couple of meters to go and they sink that payload in.
A 2-0 lead for CR. They want revenge for that upper finals, they want revenge for the Asia finals.
We've been here before though, this was what happened in Grand Finals.
Crazy raccoons went two maps up, and then Zeta equalized the next two.
I'm sure we're going to be seeing at some point maps like RonaSappi come out, because that was where they've been the most dominant.
But unfortunately for Zeta there, like it was just a case of the amount of time that they had,
because they all stepped off of the objective when it was their attacking round,
the moment the crazy raccoon get close enough to cart to be able to use the rush,
you can't use Nanoboost aggressively onto your bastion to look for kills,
you have to use it on to burn off. Because if not, the rest of the team will be in a position
to play safely away from rush, but your sigma gets pulled over, and no one's within distance to
be able to trade their position on to point, and stop Frazier Raccoon from picking it up.
So in that instance, it had to be you go first and play for preventative action,
as opposed to reactive action, or something has to go amazingly right when you have that
that nano boost and you get a kill off of just like being able to go aggressive, proper
looking for a great wall, being able to cut off the rush when Crazy Recon want to go aggressive
and up too deep but they can't simply disengage out. It was such a big risk but if they went
first with the nano boost there's a much larger risk with the time that Crazy Recon's
had that they would call off utilizing the rush, let the fight go, don't use any ults,
fight it out dry and then come into the next one with all of them available good to go.
Kind of mugged shooting that last fight as well. You see that flux hit it
It's fair looked away knew we got the kill guaranteed because violet then has to react right
He has to react you'll shoot and violet is playing more up with knife
Yeah, get him you know grappling him around getting him into a good spot, right?
It's so tough for your honors there because it's like, okay
Well, I hit I hit a sleep I guess like I hit an eight on the ground
Hopefully I survived like but that's just not gonna happen nine times out of ten or you tracked the sleep
that cooldown and only then do you use flux. Right, but then if you're so far across, like,
it's a good, like, choose a good item. Yeah. Like, he's, you probably hit that, but
if you're maxed out, you're taking that chance because you have so much time in the time bank
anyway. I mean, there's also like some pretty cool min max stuff you can do as sick, well, like,
you can still have the shield up, and then when you use the flux, you can actually duck down below
it, which is one of the plays that sick players will use to make sure that they don't get rock
cancelled by the other Sigma in their Flux activation animation or the sleep dot coming
on from the Ana and it feels like it was almost an impossible position that they to
put themselves into with the little time bank that they had and the little distance they
picked up. Like we talked about it, not impossible but pretty much improbable that they would
be able to walk away with that one. Like the stars had to align, they went for such a greedy
a risky play of holding so close
and trying to cut off the high ground
push. Coming on out, expecting
crazy raccoons to get his thing into a very aggressive
position on the high ground very early on,
wanting to be able to wall him away from the rest
of his team, having the may, having the
signal pushed that far up, but they lost
those players early, they lost the opportunity to have
the Nanna boost first, and they couldn't control
the tempo afterwards.
The reverse sweep now for
Zayah Division to get themselves
locked in for the finals, but
I mean, that was. That was
insane. Like, okay, well, we've
got this guy's like. Like you
said before with that place,
like use the bomb. So that's
an easy blizzard and then
every has a bundle back on. It's
just. It's a catch 22 a lot of
times in these columns where you
want to use your alts proactively,
but then they've got the counter
kind of things you go first, you
go first, you go first, you go
first, you go first, you go
You want to use your alts proactively, but then they've got the counter kind of things you go first you go second
It's been a real tough very close still though so far. This is if it's a 30 it's been a close 30
Yeah, I feel like this is one of the ones where it's like the scoreboard doesn't quite show
How close it has been there's been some heroic play moments
But the stat line like max has been an absolute standout 42
eliminations. And they sobbing him out. And they're sobbing him out to put Jimbin in.
Look, this is the thing, right? If you feel like you know where Zeta Division will take
you, especially if we're going to see Milgaro come back in for Zeta Division, it's likely
that again, you're going to be like, oh, yep, see, there we go. Hey, look, there's the sub.
This is just the switcheroo. You know, they've both got dance partners. It says Benara Max
and Jimbin and Milgaro, so that you both have access to be able to play the same heroes
like the wrecking ball the ball the Winston no more divey say it's chance to
choose again I've had the cat man already like Mizuki was the man we've got a
cast man too yeah they used the cast they went for the Mizuki do they just
take out the cat it feels like at this point if you're gonna have to yeah
Because again, like they got the better of them. Oh, sir
Sir Vassar is going to be the play as opposed to Runa Saffi
But because of how dominant Zeta have been on Runa Saffi
Maybe that's the expected play that C.R. would assume will be coming through so you sort of skirt that you careful into sir
of Vassar
It was a rough time in the past actually when Zeta matched up against Crazy Rikkun
This was actually one of the maps that Crazy Raccoon took against Zeta.
Back in the early days, when Crazy Raccoon were playing the cat and Zeta were trying
to work out if they could potentially counter it, they floated the Soldier 76, actually,
in the first fight.
Lucio banned for Zeta to start and a Sierra banned for CR.
Okay, well, Sierra banned coming on for potentially to protect against the Cassidy.
Lucio getting banned out, which means that it's still going to be things like the Anna and that Cat coming out.
I just, I wonder if it's going to be the Mauga.
If instead of the Ball or the Winston, it's the Mauga that comes out instead,
and then you can just try and use your Mauga to brute force walk on the backline, so you can split the team comp in two.
The Bastion Cat plays individually, the Mauga tries to run on the backline,
and you have something like a trace of just being able to take advantage of how wide
flashpoint maps are, the flank avenue approaches, and hit onto the back line
or anyone who falls vulnerable enough to go down to a one-clip.
Alright, as they set up, our Crazy Recruiting Group
are going to be able to beat this Zate Division curse.
They're currently down 4-0 in terms of their series score over all against them this entire year.
I mean, look, if there's a stage to do it on, it's this one.
on and crazy people will land themselves in another finals.
I mean Zeta they've been here before, as we said the grand finals, it was crazy Raccoon
going two maps up, they know how to play under pressure, they know how to perform a reverse
sweep. The problem is that the more these games go on, the more hero bands you burn.
It's even more dangerous when you get to the Grands obviously, first to four, but
Syrovosa pick next. It has been new junk city for the majority of games and a lot of eyes because we don't want to play
I can't bash it. We go to that map to like get away from that
But we are with Syrovosa way. This is a good ball map. This is a very good ball map. It's also a good Malga map
Potentially Winston since that was something that Zeta were trying to do earlier having Milgar on that Winston being able to give things like the bubble
to protect the Cassidy the vulnerable Anna as well, but
the winston. The winston against
the cast. The it just was not
performing and cast has not been
banned because we saw a Sierra
Band in place, which means that
even if you go for like the
Winston or the Riking Bowl,
they're still potentially going
to be kept in check the winston
just by getting shredded off of
the damage cast can I put and
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As we load in
surafasa crazy recruit about to
sweep Satan a very close series
so far and that is exactly what
they're fighting for right now at
trophy.
Well, not right.
None.
Just a little bit.
Not this one specifically, but
the tournament is all.
I mean, it is the upper bracket
finals though.
So if you fall here, you will drop to the lower bracket to face off against the world champions
To see if you can climb up and have that gaudry rematch as we get ready to head into map
Yeah, it was a Lucia band first coming on ice the era bands second
So that Lucia band does safeguard the Alari, which does mean that well if you want to he could go for that greedy
A backline play we're yet to see it so far in this series
And again, like if you go up with the Ellori, you give up the cap, so it's like, do you want to mirror and match, or do you want to try and counter it?
Okay, potential of the Mauga like mentioned potential of the Wrecking Ball potential of the Rhine are we believers
crowd definitely wants it I'll tell you that right now well we have the right
mirror I did play like right they're looking at the shield they're looking
at the right they're looking at are we looking at the set? No, he sang on the Reaper wants to play that close
No!
Do you know what we're just applauding the anticipation we got two
two Rhinemirrors in two days of Overwatch eSports in the big 2026.
Kind of too much fun, guys. We have to pause because there's two Rhines on the screen.
We have to let you wait. We're making sure that you get the time for your drops in as well.
Because there's a trio. This could be quite a fast day of matches.
No, it won't. We don't say that. Come on, you're cursing us now.
Who's past Johnny with the curses? Come on!
Jumping looks a little bit confused there on the cam. So maybe a CR small issue.
issue. Hopefully we'll get that sorted in a moment. Looks like some nods. I think good.
Everything chill. Hopefully. Maybe the confusion is he's like telling the same. Wait guys,
I swore I saw a Reinhardt before we had to. Reinhardt the Reinhardt. I thought I was the
one getting to be Reinhardt. I mean, I feel like Reinhardt players, they love the mirror
match so much. Audio issue for Viggy there, so should be able to get that sorted real
real quick. They've been really quick with pauses and stuff. This tournament is all good.
We've got the Rhine Mirror, but it's probably not going to be like a full blooded Rhine
Mirror where you're actually like swinging your hammer and trying to chump damage in.
It's much more about being a body soaking up the damage, having that shield, giving your
team the opportunity for the cast to be the true hero maker as a knife will be on the
bastion so proper can play on the ground.
Yeah, you shouldn't last them too long against those Bastions, that's for sure.
And against the Reaper as well, to be fair, everyone, he's that...
Oh, the counterpins, real smooth.
Oh, he's that...
Oh, wrong place, wrong time.
Robinson gets the kill, but they got a double, so...
They won't play her up right now, good night being healed.
Should be another one though.
Yeah, crazy raccoon.
Nice start, a counterpin.
That's exactly what you want to do there, so you get your Bastions and some free fire on the tank.
Melt through the Rhine and then like just use that shield jump in that Rhine shielding stalker
So that he's able to take knife down and they get the Bastion out of the way
Which will be enough the first kill onto the Rhine the lid to come to the Bastion crazy racoon
Get first cap and have a story strike to be able to hold the space off. Yeah, so quick
Build with that up. I mean that fight was pretty fast, but got so much damage down into Milgar
It's all good taking to the skies
They're gonna try and swing out of this door here getting out of his line of sight
But tonight's game torn apart, it's in the back by he's hanging through
Chorong has the catnap, the crazy Rukun down the basket
Chorong gets the one versus one win against Violet
That's a screenshot moment as Vigilante does have the rush but
Crazy Rukun, they've got the kills, they don't have to use any ult
This storyline is brutal
This stall is devious
I mean, proper stalling dead-eyes
Proper of all people and a class like that is insane and now basically most of these last fight on this point
It's lost by territory Zeta division have to make the decision of like do you use the rush in this fight?
Or do you try and hold off on it and have it for first fight on the next one?
vigilante might make that decision for them because he's got a rush to be able to match
They're gonna be able to get the touch
You would imagine no garu is gonna be there is gonna have to get on it. Hi dude. Oh the slant
down and she stops proper. What an unbelievable ult from Xhorin, cancelling that high dude.
And the death blossom from Heesang, the final nail in the coffin for that first point.
Zated Division, they had a plan, but it was not executed as well enough.
Crazy Raccoon. And Xhorong dead, that was the play that he needed to make.
They matched the rush as well. Xhor uses rush, but proper's already down.
And Crazy Raccoon and have he sang death blossoms to stop Zayac's vision from picking up any value
with later artillery strike not being used from Knights just using the sentry form and set
but Crazy Raccoon have already been able to bunker themselves up onto point and play out
of the line of sight of the Bastion's burst damage. These rotations are so nice from Crazy Raccoon
they're getting out of the way of Knights so quickly. There's the artillery barrage, there's the double lock
catch, everything's in trouble, eliminated by Shu, didn't really require that Bastion ult but still
they've ended up flipping that again. Stalker's taking a whole heap of damage here drawing Nades down
on to the point for knife but it is proper killing vigilante it's a capture now for
satan division yeah great man max there for milgar gets revenge for the
counter pin to open up the first fight counter pins jim bin stuns them up
until the strike comes through and jim bin gets dropped razor a cannon though
they've got till the strike of their own and satan division don't have good
ultimates to be able to hold them off at the pause they've got shat it down on milgar
that'll be perfect they're gonna try and go over this high ground here clear off
with the artillery barrage as both carries have been traded but it's just straight
trade it's a 1v1 right here on the point it beats what it's what he says
oh the shadows just so damn good the pinnacle all on the proper new power of
violet now trying to get back onto the point try it make sure jumping doesn't
roll over there it can't be cat in the air and a Ryan be Ryan on the point you
can't ask for better than this she is about to hit rush
Oh, the shatter! Oh, that's killed before jumping!
Oh, the trigger!
Crazy Raccoon get a miracle flip there, with a fantastic kill onto Milgaro
before he can get the pit on the Reaper.
Absolutely huge play coming from the Reinhardt's of all heroes.
Vigilante Shu, they've got the rush mirror and Milgaro, he's had it, but no!
He's breaking out the maga!
No more honours for Rhinemirror, it's Malga's sustainability time.
Oh no, tragic. I mean that's when you know you've given up on the Rhinemirror when you lock the Malga.
Share with that rush, Zeta close enough to be able to use it to cost greater coon to match on point.
Oh he's like, f***ing HP.
He's actually a fan to survive, there's fashion to backline, he's going to stop.
The Milgaris is going to get picked in the back as well, all focused by now, Kevin.
Delft will go Gara, another stop here, coming in when he can't stay alive.
50 HP, takes out Jugginsman, he's standing the best possible again.
over in Tuck-a-Tow, and Gilgarr is still alive!
Some kind of free Gilgarr, what is this?!
This is how the Overwatch would choose to fight him on the character.
The self-sustaining on that tank, which is like a little bit of help from their
fooder, is absolute bonkers. Gilgarr in one fight with 70% of the
Okay, and Zeta Division are able to tie up the points one to one.
Cherong has the catnap, Milgaro can dodge it if he uses the run at the right time for the CC immunity.
They're gonna try and go in. There's the storm pick-up, but he's there right behind him.
As soon as Milgaro goes in, Pomsai Cardiac Overdrive and Storker just gets run over by proper encode.
Milgaro, Kage, about to come online for Milgaro as well.
If they can combo this with something like the artillery strike,
Crazy Recruitment do not have a good answer for it.
It's all up to Heesang, who swapped onto that Reaper to try and shred down Mjolnir on this map.
But so far, he's just not been able to break through the sustain that Shu is using to keep Malga up.
Oh my, that's a scary sight.
Mjolnir lifted up onto the high ground there.
So Crazy Recruitment's like, you know what, she's gonna go a different way.
Shadow from Jumbin.
They have got Shadow. I mean, Mjolnir's an easy target, okay?
He's just gonna come in and set Jumbin trying to line up here, trying to protect the rest of his team.
We're trapped at the gate, but the artillery yards from at night. It's just too good. It's just too much damage
Hmm that combo again quite illegal there. No one can move so artillery barrage almost a guaranteed hit
If they can get a late kill here onto vigilante, but no vigilante is able to live
They've still got shot down
He hits two as well. Shoe needs to die here. Jump in, double fire, strike, cut, and actually connect both of them
Potato division, they're still alive here even without shoe. The sustain is good for them
But that's not a rush for him.
CR2 and they're getting to the point he sang with the desk boss.
They're looking at properly, forced to shift.
Lil' Garoo as well.
Trying to shoot, trying to heal up by himself.
But Karthus overdrives just not enough, not when you should hit the right shield.
I mean, you take the Kerakot, I assume he's only got the jetpack,
he feels to be able to rely on Vigilante, he can hold onto the rush
and still have it here to be able to force later division to have to match it.
That will go into this next fight dry, like Vigilante Popper disengage
and come back with their own because they're sitting at 92% one fight win and Zeta Division go up on Suravasa two to one
Deathboss and from Pizang and proper could be what they need to win the fights
Milgao is going to peek around the corner go for the storm doesn't get anybody initially there as both rushes are laid on the point
Mugara against so low cardiac overdrive has to be popped
Deathboss is going to be going and Phil on the stalker is great and everyone at the storm
Well, Katbash is down. He's now waiting for Heesang to come out of that waveform.
If he hits one of his own, God, he's away from Heesang's own deathblossom.
Jumin is just so low, he's caught in that as well.
A teleport away is proper. Just keeps dismembering, crazy racoon.
That's four kills to the Reaper in that fight. It's a tainted vision.
They cut the point. No one's close enough to touch.
That's it. Two to one, safe division. With the Mauga and the Reaper still up,
are able to keep the point in play and Jumbin still playing this run instead of matching.
Zayda division now one round away from being able to start this comeback, this reverse sweep
potential. Jumbin so close to the shaft of the cigar, not got a good answer to it, but the run!
He's going down, there's just no way! Oh! What? Stalker comes into the rescue there,
Jumbin was as good as dead, sacrificed himself for the greater good.
debate. They saw a vulnerable line and Zeta got baited. They lose so many players they lose
you late. Crazy Raccoon are going to be able to establish their position on point and that's
brilliant news for them because Milgaro has the cage. If Zeta Division were playing with the
monopoly of space Crazy Raccoon would be the ones having to walk into them. Now they can cut off
the mauga and position so they don't get caught by the ult. We're going to have a shatter again
Again, a couple of moments as well, 8%.
Swinging In comes Stalker, round the side is Jim Bin,
just anchors himself onto the point.
Now, Milgaru trying to put pressure
on this Rine Shield right now.
Small bash away.
Here comes the charge, he's like in the back,
no ult to be found there, but Milgaru,
they sound like Paige, the shadow's good.
Knight ends up killing one with his ult,
but this rush is gonna be tough to play on
from Milgaru now.
This cage not being available to the point,
It's not going to be easy for Jimben to stand up now. It's just too much firepower coming out from Milgaru.
He's going to be able to... Is that catnap from John there on combustion? I mean, I'll use it a little bit later for CR.
Here's the match. Jimben goes on to the mage. Vigilante, do not betray. This is not actual life waiver.
This is just tech to be able to pull players out of spawn faster, because they do not want to give Zeta Division any advantage or point percentage
point percentage when they're walking to this next fight into a one-sided
kitsune rush and a death loss on coming on for it from proper they know
mathematically they lose this they just have to lose it fast
all right time for one from the stalkers who finds a nice little flight there
jumped in cardiac overdrive at night tracing him down at least trying to make
her in a coming in there it's just too much stomp's good as well this is a
division winning this fight there's gonna be a flip though so they don't get full
percentage, but you know still happy winning that fight. They draw the fight away from the point itself so they can go for the flip.
They can go for that as well because Shoes Hand was forced, Kitsune Rush comes up onto the side of the point as opposed to on top of it.
It's static, it can't move, Milgaro does not have the cage, and Crazy Raccoon get the flip, and Storlite's aided the vision.
They're swinging round, almost swapping spawns here, Dent cross him from proper, actually isolates.
He's signed away from the rest of the team, but it takes him out.
Don't read the year for a crazy recruitment means mild garu is gonna be a little bit more safe a little bit more eager to fight in
The front line account to stop there from milk our way to the rest of the team as the steel enter coming through on jumping
He's locked through the air picked apart by meal Garoo the double-catlin guns there is safe to the vision
They're gonna recap and this touch is gonna be deadly
But yeah at 99 because see our match to flip it right if they did the vision has been able to hold on to the point in the
second to last fight, they just have to chase the kills. Jumbin's onto the ball,
Deff from trying to get by Pusim into it.
They're touched and they know it too.
Prop is going to tell the ball back, Pusim's going to come in from Jumbin,
but the Giants end up dying.
The Keisha and Higaru off screen right now, it's only Jumbin.
Jumbin versus the Wild on the point.
I mean, the rest of his team, they're already gone.
The point's not yours and neither is this map.
Zayti Division are going to 3-1 this.
There's going to be a final touch here from Choron.
but heed this warning to the arts, we will not go down in grief!
This is like crazy raccoons.
We'll start recalling how exactly the grand finals between these two teams went down.
Down two maps, later division, yet again.
Replicate history claw the third one back and a huge part of it comes down to
the maga play that they were able to pull off with Milgar. Such good cages, such
good follow-up from life. Like Jumben on the Rhine was absolute light side. Like
you said he won the Rhine Mirror. He forced Milgar to have to bend the knee
and literally swap off the character to go to attack who counters Rhine and
everything that unfortunately Rhine stands for. There's a reason we do not
see Ryan all that frequently in Overwatch Esports professional scenes, especially up against
the burst damage of the Bastion and the Cows like you can lob the flashbang over the shield.
The Bastion does not care about the shield, he just breaks it in half in a matter of moments.
But it was some brilliant team play and some crucial late kills, going for the early clutch
pick on Dvdl Lante who was 86% on the rush when Jimman swaps to ball.
Honestly, it's Milgarovic's clip again where the guy survives for, what, 20 solid minutes in that mini-room?
Like, there isn't too many players that can do that. I mean, he dipped below 20 HP a couple of times.
Shoe's probably getting grey hairs.
Oh, this is the clip here. You can't tell all of it, of course, because it's too long.
Like, how much firefire is set in his way? I mean, he's literally in a cage match.
Oh, literally, he hasn't got his own, but he has one of it.
And he still manages to survive.
I mean, you see all our focus firing him, but she'll invite keep him up. He has his cardiac overdrive as well
That just an insane amount of survival thing. That's my girl
Yeah, it is. Yeah, that is straight up if no one knows what Mauga is, you know
Which is show them that 20 second clip of meal guard
Refusing to die and that's that's all you need to know about what exactly
exactly Malaga can do, and what he has done in the past like this here as well, the cage
combo with the artillery strike, there was some brutal plays, there was some really
smart plays though from Crazy Rikken, we talked about the fact that they knew of point percentage,
if they were just able to find the flip once, they would be able to guarantee at least one
more fight, and they almost had it. If Vigilante had been able to build up that rush, if Jimben
hadn't been forced to have to go into the Rikkenball, just a panic swap in time, and
that meant that Crazy Rikken, when they're feeding their players and one by one trying
and keep the overtime in play, they have nothing to really just use as that sort of like eye
in the storm right where you have an ultimate you can use it you can get in space you can
potentially find a trade or a pick and that is your comeback ticket but they're denied it fully.
Milgaru comes in for this map again we saw him on control jumping over to control plus
in Suravasa as a yeah look a little bit of a beast I can't lie that Mauga was insane I did
You'd want to see the Rhine for a whole map, but you know, sometimes the Manga has to be brought in to count of the Rhine and look
KD center five, Shawl, Gray, damage, hitting it 9.5 per 10. I mean that is very high
You're expecting that from a Manga player of course, but still Mugaru just an absolute boon to the team against someone that is now playing against
veterans of the scene, veterans of Overwatch history too, hasn't got the longest
like a history page team page of course, but stepping up to the big stage in a big way.
Yeah, it's brilliant to see, right, the fact that we're seeing all of this new talent developing here in the scene in 2026.
And as we talked about Mildar, one of those players who was on way, was there with Top Dragon? Who are you?
Sun-Jun, Lee Sin, then all of the new powerizers, they're all coming from that one specific team, like those guys on way, they're doing something right.
They are they will cook it. They were cooking some mean players and yeah milk are now with Zeta
They win that Asia finals now looking hopefully gonna get their hands on that trophy a little bit later CR
They're still in at this series, of course
We are on a match point but Zeta needs to come back, but you mentioned it already
Small flashbacks that play through your head. We've been in this situation before will we see the same side of the coin?
But before that, we will jump to a quick break. Don't go anywhere. We got more Overwatch coming up after this
It's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gonna be all night.
right welcome back
that. We're going to be back.
Jump into our fourth map
between crazy raccoon and Zeta
division. Crazy raccoon still
on this map point that Zeta
division coming back in a rather
large way. Thanks to that
malware. What could have been
if we'd seen a malware ban? But
we're going to be seeing the
usual substitutions and we know
Look at Crazy Raccoon's team squad, and seeing Max come through for Gemburn.
Like we said, this is just the expectation, right?
That is the way that these teams will play.
They see a one substitution, they will instantly match it, as we can have a look and see Max's
stats coming on out, 24 eliminations per 10 minutes is a very good start for a tank player
to have.
But, officially as well, the KD, you do not want your deaths to be high on a tank.
when you're in this meta and relying on the tank being up to give you a bastion and your
cast space. That pose too is like, give trophy please. Please hand me trophy. I mean it's
right there right? It is right there. In theory, he could get up from the sea and take the trophy.
But he's not going to do that because he is a sportsman and he is a super star tank player.
King's Row chosen by Crazy Raccoon.
Okay, so we're locking out N'Bani, which actually, if they want to really lean into the Bastion Cat play,
they could have gone for N'Bani, but they instead go for King's Row, so again, we're likely going to be
seeing things like that Sigma, the Deva, potentially some of that Zarya come out into the mix.
I just want to know, will it be the Cast Cat or will it be the Bastion Cat? Because we've
seen both have really good potential and if you want to get around some of those
tanks being pretty hard to be able to push out of position on the defense you
can just literally fly around them.
Oh domino ban, interesting don't think that was gonna get played but a little
protection of the tanks here as well as the Sim Netra ban from Zeta.
Yeah Sim ban I like getting to see it, Sim being able to just TP people around
if you think that Grav is going to be in the field as well being able to just like
take the teleport exit strategy out of the way and yeah we can see Domino was banned first
which means it was a protection ban out onto those tank lines because just as we know when
these players are getting subbed in what tanks they're likely going to field into so to do
the other teams and they want to make sure that you can't target ban out things like
the Sigma, the Mauga and that D.Va.
the table. That's some of the
Zuki action. One of the maps we
seen. It played the most good
name app as well. If you want to
pair alongside for sure. Lot of
corner control here required for
Kings Row. Crazy raccoon want to
spine that finals. They've been
in. They've been in so many so
so many, but Zed have had the
number this whole year. Yeah,
remind you, Moxie and everybody
at home for over the last year.
But Crazy Raccoon this time around were the ones really determining the method, right?
Zeta were the team, it felt like when we took a bat in catch, in catch.
Is this the moment the fabled Viola Illari approaches?
Zeta starting off on the defense, we talked about the May being strong here and it truly
is not just the corner control but also the wall off potentials when you go into those
chokes especially if you get to play first fight on straights as Bernard will be the
anchor on the sigma, Crazy Raccoon, they won't play the Widowmaker but they might want to
go for a little bit of shield break action with something like the Hanzo if they so determined
it but Trace is also in play and being able to clap some type of shield so that the Ana
isn't able to keep Bernard up could be a very strong way for Crazy Raccoon to start their
Kings are attack. There's a big power play with the honor and the Alari being able to play in two separate windows like that
And you're basically asking crazy raccoon like well, I'm not asking you demanding
You have to deal with this up on height somehow either by half rotation or just some sort of poke damage like from the far
Yeah, stalker not going for the hands though probably just using it for a dash to get out of spawn faster
He signed going for the far so we've got crossfire coming up through from the side of crazy raccoon. No bastion
No cat. Stalker just trying to eye-put a headshot damage onto the reaper if he comes close, and that also limits what proper can do against Max, right?
If he gets too close to the signal, eye-comes the flashback.
That was a double-rock. And now Stalker's in hotel.
Hi there, just going down.
Okay, they do actually have trade supports here. Zedadivision have lost theirs completely, so this point is as good as done.
I mean, the trade benefits Crazy Raccoon because their race corner is closer to Vigilante on the Kiriko, who was also able to live, so Zeta Division lost their backline, Vigilante stays alive in Crazy Raccoons, wraps around, takes the high ground, goes to the point, has the Kiriko, wins the frontline brawl, and is able to go for the full cap as Zeta not going to be in a good position as well to hop closer on streets, proper actually, goes to the echo, this is a great answer to the farer, but much more vulnerable to the Cassie at the same time.
They're sticking bombs raining down on Stalker now as they make that arduous trek through this archway.
My Susie Valley, wow that was a lot of heals.
One-sided rush up onto Vigilante since he was able to outlive Shoe so crazy recurring they can use it to prove for Stroke.
And Zayton know they're not holding close if they do, they die to the rush.
They've got a good eye to it.
Nipon stop it with a wall for just a moment but I mean the Blizzik might come in a big way as well for Nive.
He ends up actually using his strength on top of the team as well.
Jorgen is trying to go for the teleport but gets frozen up.
It's a support backline dip for Crazy Raccoon that they have to avoid.
Good damage though, onto Benar.
There's still damage coming through from Max, but that'll do it.
The captive's son from Violet, taking down Heesang and proper dealing with Stalker will reset the fight.
Yeah, Zedah Division, utilizing the tools that they had available,
the Blizzard to slow things down, Stop Vigilante's one-sided rush,
Baishu the opportunity to board one himself.
It's good though, because you kill Banasso late, so like you can just quit, okay, well hop back on, you can't hold corner.
Up onto the point, and now as they've been trying to stall it out, they don't have the Sigma shield to be able to hide away from the dead eye, so they have to all back off, and that gives Crazy Raccoon much more space to be able to work around with.
Shoot with the rush though, can potentially bully it back off the Crazy Raccoon.
Flux for Max, trying to posture through right now onto this point.
The barrage is going to get stopped by that shield, oh as the sanctuary comes in, that blood's as good though, but it only helps stalker secure more bodies.
He's already got a couple, and Saita just crumbling like the rock before the tide.
Oh, that's second checkpoint.
Light hill onto Viola, coming over from Nysang's concussive.
No one on the tracer, no wrecking ball.
Zed's division not gonna be able to get past Yi Sang, that is second check when picked up, we go into third control with five minutes on the clock and this is looking a little bit like circuit once more.
I've got duplication, could even dupe the far if you're that crazy, even the tank would be good here as well, just double-sig like pushing up super far.
Dupe carry, so you can match vigilante's weapon potentially.
Well, that's not a nice kill for a Gracie Roku.
I mean, that's the kill that's they have required to be able to just drain the momentum from this attack
That gives them the chance to get into position for their DPS to take one down yet again before vigilante's rush comes through
Out around this corner since she still does not have the national they don't have blocks to be able to disrupt it to
Little cacti son now violet just
Did nice teleport but nice in trouble though
You see that beam healing from a lari from across the way is going to put max in the spot where he can push up now
He knows the supports are in trouble captain son with the old
He mentions to take the high ground shore but by the top of a captain son into the just normal pill onto max
That was a disastrous all there max thought he had those supports. Yeah, by like uses the captain son to dodge max's cloth
And then it turned against crazy recurrent
Vigilante falls still not able to invest the rush and this was the stall that say to required two minutes almost off the clock
and Shu, who's got the rush to be able to match. Zeta do not have to give ground.
They can just dig their heels into the dirt and fight vigilante one-on-one.
They're just gonna farm up an arsehole as well which won't take too long.
Prophet's still got this duplication as well. The wall is gonna be good here to
stop the healing coming in. The dead-eye ends up getting blocked really
most of it by Sopra and Max. They've got kills. Pop with the duplication.
Didn't result in too much. The Panther team killed for Freyster Coon to send that payload forward.
Sanctuary is on the table for Chorong as well, so they can get a player on to the Cup Contest, but they can't deal with it.
They got to go quick, they got the Flux as well, but they can't get out of the door, Max blocking it in front of them.
Sanctuary gets deployed on the point, and I said we'll boop off potentially, but the Flux only hits the main.
Who is blocked?
A 2-44 time back for CR as they claim all three points.
Yeah, this is looking in the worst way for Zedid Division like Serka once more because that was full push with time back to spare.
I mean, having that sanctuary is like the worst possible ultimate for the defense to have to try and stall the card on.
Can't do anything.
Because you can't do anything.
It's locking down point.
You've got one player maybe getting on to the cart in town with things like the venture mobility of the borough
But because of the sanctuary that absorbs all of the incoming heal potential both inside and outside
So you have no way of sustaining that person's presence on point long enough for the rest of your team to take the engagement
Or split away and try and catch on to crazy requins backline
So they've got kill potential they've got car control and they have full safety for their supports
the three things that you have to be able to complete a full push on Kingsford third
It's the Alaric comp here better than the Missouli comp it feels the Missouki
You know not as much firepower as violet but like yeah that oh it's just so strong even used on the corners in the street
I feel like it has more playmaking potential when you sort of like weigh up what it can stop the enemy team
Capitan's got kill potential, and it can be absolutely devastating, but the speed, the
healing aura that Mizuki is able to use, since you're playing this composition very stacked,
and Zeta Division, they agree, Violet's actually going onto the Mizuki to match.
Alright, proper Pharah, knife, cast.
No Mei, to Mirror, which means that Hisan gets wall once I did.
Yeah, so, a tough effort here for Bernard to really control this high ground space.
It's gonna have a lot of covering fire from proper, right?
Just throwing those missiles into the corridor, but this is the Bernard game you want to play.
You want to play on point, force the art to drop on you because you're not winning that
high ground.
Yeah, and open space as well.
Point is open enough that a Merewell comes through, doesn't instantly kill your Sigma.
So they've already got one tick, and CrazyRick is gonna be in very heavy.
nice boot to contest this dodges the rock though because the shield up just in time and now proper
has the high ground nice little sneaky play there's gonna force a crazy racoon in the top spot into
this hotel they're gonna try and make the best of it though try and force their way out but they've
already used that block of two column may war it's not gonna help he sang i say the division win
this fight and they get the payload going nice team kill too very fast point cap just like crazy
Raccoon and they're off of the main he sang is going on to park
It's actually gone for the echo the Joann to go back spawn so he has to get the taxi
Which is actually kind of annoying because they they could have all spawned there
They could have rushed in and hold this corner
I mean crazy raccoon something to talk about as well like they're still actually poking Zed of the vision
Like they have to be so careful about the plug that they do if max uses those fears against Zed of the visions team
She was only getting rushed faster than vigilante
This is an arms race. You have to get the Kierker Ultimate online
Yep, Violet's got a sanctuary and rush like this is a big old investment 5-4-8 division if they want it
And even proper with this barrage. Oh, I mean that will do it. They're gonna try and brush this
Yeah, it's actually just trying to go in but Violet can just pop up sanctuary
You can't do any damage to us like Max ends up falling down. I mean
back! Oh, it's just thrown to the wind from Digi.
That's not good. Crazy Raccoon, at least when she has one-sided rush, will have
flocks or dead-eye to be able to try and hold their ground against her, but it's
going to be such a tall order just to be able to get back onto the point in time
to contest Aida Division. Like, you might lose someone just in the walk-up to point it
What's up?
Wow!
High noon into the Flux.
Good luck following up some damage here.
Oh, they've got the cancel to the noon as well.
Straight to the cross.
Here comes the return clutch.
Max has got no CDs left, but he does not need them.
Stalker with the high noon kill onto Nifus.
Pobba takes the high grab with the Barrage in his back.
And there's nothing left of CR on this.
They just plucks from the sky.
There's a proper rate of Barrage down on their head.
That is a quick cap to five minutes in the bank.
That was a lot of ult though.
It wasn't just one-sided rush.
They had to burn everything that they had in the fuel tank.
Nite, actually, onto the ash.
Hitscan range to be able to try and keep up with Hisang and Stalker's poke potential.
You don't want to get close.
If you do, you get locked into the sanctuary and you have no answer for it.
So this is just slow warfare attrition.
Trash onto Crazy Recruiter for us, then back and turn it into a one-fight territory.
Well, Max is going to be in trouble here.
Here comes the sanctuary though, probably ducked straight into it,
but it's actually Pena that's in trouble.
A massive value grasp there to sustain himself
and get him out around the corner.
Good scouting as well coming through from Pena
using the sixth space.
Checking to see if he's starting to up there
on that position with the grasp, but Knight falls.
Good rock, rock.
The great cocoon, they'll just push forward
off the back of that.
They want more.
Yeah, the chains end up getting soo-sooed
so Pena does get out of the fire.
Not so lucky.
Virgilanti has the rush too.
So Zayz's division, they have to be very careful.
They'll have the opportunity to bold one and match like you don't go into this next fight without having rush in the pocket
It's literally about 10 seconds extra in comparison to the 30 seconds or so you waste waiting for the respawns
Double support ult
So any division could do the same thing again here
They're gonna try and just rush this point both of them almost exactly at the same time the flux though
Barrage from on top proper brought back down to earth by max
the flux has been so good for Max. Just taping full of damage. Of Zeta's team positioning
inside the rush, everyone's there. You're not running in the immortality field with
the Baptiste. You don't have to lose the oath. This is just crazy raccoon holding Zeta
the vision of taking all of that momentum away. Dead eye to be able to hold the space
for us to get the kills. It all comes down to the flux coming through from Bernard because
That's the only thing that they don't have at their disposal right now.
Hey, the sixth man, Cobb, in 4%, what can Bob do?
But I was going to have this punch, as well, but he's going to put a dent in their plans.
This five-minute time back, getting whittled away.
Stalker with a pixel shot onto Kropper as well, playing out of his damn mind this tournament.
So here's the thing, Choron could actually use the sanctuary, defensively, against Knife Bob.
Because you can just lock it on Bob's position and it absorbs all of the bullets.
Hey my man, some respect. Sanctuary that guy, when he runs in.
Bernard has the Flux though. Both of these sickness have been absolutely clutched, but if you use it prematurely, stalk it as you use it for a better balance of points.
There he is! There's the Bob! Oh, the Sanctuary! It's still kind of moving down there, Tromps when he's low. And then Bob gets the kill to Churrong!
The Flux in the front line as well as Bob collects another, a true hero, and I've been
Bob with three kills there, two minutes on the time bank final corner push.
Bob did something, and that something gets later a chance.
Rush Mirror coming on for a Heesang, desperately swapping to Tracer,
just wanting to be able to get into that backline for pressure on Shu,
potentially panicking out that rush early.
Max is close to this flux though this fight is going to be kind of crazy for Zeta here.
They cannot get caught. This backman has to play a little bit more safe.
Max leads this ult in 5% to use the brass to go forward.
The rock ends up getting blocked as Copper goes down with the ult.
Can they sustain through this?
With Tron dead it looks likely as the flux insta-kills Fnarr.
He sang on the tracer chasing down the Kiri. The rock misses but he sang does not.
He sang with the swap on the tracer so that the card showered on Q.
Stalker, high noon. Oh, it is the shield. Shankar is coming up as well. And now Stalker.
Oh, he's trapped and not in a good way. Kaila ends up picking up a kill onto Stalker, but
The fight back is going to be good from life. 15 HP remains, but he ends up getting killed off.
Proper in the 1v1 kills Matt, but it's a scrappy fight to say the least.
He's then comes up clutched yet again as proper tail between his legs.
Past the retreat.
One fight territory. The Crazy Raccoon.
They've got so much time to be able to attack Stated Division.
Violet's onto the Juno to be able to match Chiron, but if he gets orbital ray up in the over 10 fight,
This one's done. It all comes down to burn off on the sigma get a good flux
Forsythe the foozie get the kill and open up the chance for overtime. Oh
Stalker comes nice straight off the bat and now they can just walk on board this 10 seconds ago crazy raccoon
This is their fight to win a finals place that required
As a flip back from stalking rolls away
He ends up getting frozen up, my proper!
The Blizzard is massive!
Violet ends up going down to Heesang.
And he's got the post-bomb as well.
The stick, Suzu, as Benar and Teta make their final push.
Shoot! The back gate gets in a rush, but why are you using the flux?
Stop and create your revenge from touching!
It hits one, proper, gets healed, but not healed quick enough.
Stalker lands another, Silver Bullet shot onto the main.
The high noon round the corner, light brings him down,
but it is all Heesang here in the backline.
All were to rail on the point, and crazy racoon of Dunnys!
A final displacement, the past bloke and against Satan Division.
They came into the game, and lost four series against them.
And now, they can rest easy.
Some pivotal swaps there at the end coming on through from Crazy Racoon.
The tracer, the Tuno, such good plays, but it truly is
is a tale of Sigma in my opinion like those fluxes were perfect. Being able to
take advantage, stopping the rush momentum, taking the higher buff and
breaking the turn. You can see how much it truly did mean to them right. They've
batted their heads against Zeta again and again and again. Sometimes pulling maps,
sometimes not pulling any maps but never getting the win until today they truly
do look like the kings of the cap meta. Asia finals feels like a lifetime ago
now crazy raccoon with a placement in the finals twisted minds now in that
lower bracket having to face Zeta Division and that'll be their chance to
to find themselves in yet another finals.
We're going to have an interview in just a moment,
but look at that.
That's Suravasa.
That Malga come up there from Milgarus,
she showed them that map.
But crazy raccoon, when it goes back to the catmata.
Like, that is what they're good at,
and that is how they're winning.
Like you said, they're the kings of the catmata.
They were the ones who wrote the script of the catmata.
And when we move away from the bathroom,
they can still play the cat,
And they can still play that Mizuki, because, oh my goodness, would the Sanctus go?
Let's really come down to the stage of an interview with Junvic.
She's up getting though in, and I feel like this win would feel more special,
because I feel like CR always sort of struggled this season against Zeta,
but now you guys did finally clutch out a win.
What went differently for CR this time around?
I think this victory is very special and feels good.
Even during the regular season, I think the opponent Zeta had a lot of pressure.
What changed this time?
I think you had a lot of trouble against Zeta during this season.
You won today. How did you feel today?
We met a lot in Korea, and we know each other very well, so I think we changed our strategy.
I think it really came down to our compositions and our gameplay.
Because we've fought against each other so many times, we know what to expect.
And so it really boils down to one or two things that we had to tweak.
And I think that was super effective today against Zeta.
After all, each player's game play was amazing today.
Because we were facing each other many times, we were able to take care of each other in detail,
and today, it was simply a good thing.
You guys are now one step closer to lifting that trophy, Junbin.
How confident are you that Crazy Raccoon could win it all?
I think it will be a chance to bring this trophy to you. How much will Crazy Rock win?
Crazy Rock will only win if he wins. Are you confident?
I feel like, as T for CR, I feel like I've experienced it all, whether it was from waiting from the high up or climbing all the way to the grand finals from the bottom.
I think it's our mentality, so we have to just keep in that mentality, and if we do it, then we can sure get the win.
That's it for the interview. Thank you so much.
I'm going to welcome you back to the casters. Thank you very much
Yes, shout out Gavin and Danny by the way down on the stage shuggling for real languages for those interviews pretty pretty insane
Some of us can barely speak one and now Jim Bernier saying look mentality got to keep the hopes high here
And yeah coming into that game especially off of that first map
You're like wow this is going to be a close series
It was throughout, but landing himself the first spot in the Grand Finals, a bit of a weight off of his shoulders, now knowing Zeta are not unbeatable.
I mean, extra weight as well, probably onto the shoulders of Twisted Minds, because like, if you were looking at that bracket, based on history, you were expecting to be matching up against Crazy Raccoon.
Right.
it's like how much preparation have they done in case it was actually Zeta Division that they now
match up against and we know that like the Mizuki composition was being used that we were thinking
that maybe it's a specific character to some other compositions that the other regions have been
playing but then they put it in the mirror so like no this is not a full counter composition
entirely this is actually viable on its own so for twist lines it's a question of how can you
keep up with the bashing cap but also the Mizuki composition as well. Well they're probably watching
So they're going to be able to
gleam at least something from it,
but twisted minds, they are the
reigning world champions. This
meta doesn't look like theirs though,
and that's the thing. Have they managed
to evolve day in, day out at the
LAN? I mean, we've only got three days
and two realistically to kind of prepare
really just hone in on that playing
officials. Because now you find
yourself in the lower bracket finals,
one mistake here, and you are out.
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Don't give up cause you come a little closer
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Hold my hand and I'll make it there together
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This time around I am joined by crazy rock crew.
We got lip and Jumbin. Please say hello.
I'm Jumbin, and I'm doing a thing.
Hello, I'm Rin, and I'm the dealer in the market.
What has been your favorite part of the trip so far?
First of all, the food is delicious. The scenery is good.
I think everything is good so far.
Just by coming by bus, the scenery is very good.
Japanese feeling.
Isn't Japan pretty?
How many thousand won?
I'd like to say that I'm here with my friends in Japan.
What has been the best thing you've eaten in Japan?
I've eaten Yakiniku and Judo until now.
But Yakiniku is good.
Oh, Yakiniku is popular.
Alright, third question.
If you have to spend an entire day in Tokyo with one of your teammates, who would it be and why?
I'd like to go with Nex.
Nex? Nex, you?
When you travel to Mexico, there's always a scene, so you can't lose your tension.
Our personalities are very...
There was one.
Me too, Max.
The reason is...
Because everyone in Japan can't speak Japanese,
I think Max is very good at speaking Japanese.
Oh, really?
So I think I can communicate with him.
I think I can give him an Injury.
What?
you
Like you've been walking on shattered holes, I can't believe I didn't see, but now I make you nothing but a memory.
I'll take the strap back, so I can move on
Been on the wrong path, you're not the one
I'll take the strap back, so I can move on
Been on the wrong path, you're not the one
We've been blinded for too long
Now we've got no place for good
And we've gone, you've got me real close
So, everyone, before we get started with the lower bracket finals, we have a special guest
So everyone, before we get started with the Laura Brackett finals,
we have a very special guest to take a first look at the new map that is going to grace the world of Overwatch.
May I have the pleasure to welcome Olohatshima,
at the bidikta- oh, the only guest on this! How are you doing, Deon?
I'm doing well, Gavin. Thank you. Thank you, everyone.
So, Dion, how are you enjoying the event and your stay in Japan?
Japan is always awesome. It's super fun, and Clash has been fantastic so far.
And I'm rooting for Crazy Nat Coon.
I'm going to be talking about the new map coming in Season 3.
Is that right?
Yes, that's right.
I'm going to be talking about the new map coming in Season 3.
Yes, that's right.
I am here to talk about our newest map, hitting season 3, Tokyo.
So let's kick it off with a bit of background.
Can you speak a bit more on how this map began and what was the plan behind it?
Yes, first I'd like to give a shout out to Peter Lee, a world building team and a level design team, who did a fantastic job creating this map.
Fans have been asking for Tokyo for quite some time since OG Overwatch, and we've been wanting to put together a hero and map launch for some time.
First of all, I'd like to thank Peter Lee and the world and the level design team for one thing.
For a long time, fans have been asking for Tokyo's hero and map,
and I wanted to answer that question.
So, why a hybrid map?
Hybrid is a very popular map in the game.
And as you know, King's Row is obviously a fan favorite.
First of all, Hybrid is a pretty popular map type, and King's Law has been loved for a long time.
And with so many requests for Tokyo, the community was asking for another hybrid map we wanted to deliver on that.
And we've been asked to create a new map in Tokyo for a long time.
And we've been asked to create a hybrid map for a long time.
So we decided to create it together.
Okay, so this map also looks absolutely gorgeous and vibrant.
Can you talk a little bit more about the art direction specifically,
and what you guys were looking to do with this map?
Looking at the pictures, it's very vibrant and gorgeous.
Can you tell us a little bit about the art design?
Thank you. One of our senior concept artists, Andrew Mendevar, he pitched a Tokyo map that was based off of a city pop music genre, Japanese music genre.
and he had this mood board that was based off of the music.
It was full of beautiful pinks and purples, just super colorful,
and this led to a very colorful and neon-drenched map.
So the map has this very hopeful, positive, and happy vibe about it.
So there also seems to be a lot of real unique areas to the map as well.
Can you tell us a little bit about that?
I want to ask you about the unique area in this map.
Yeah, the team instilled a lot of love into this map.
You can see that it's inspired heavily by Akihabara.
And so there's a giant mech in front of one of the capture points.
There's a gachapon shop, there's a figure shop, there's manga shops.
There's a lot of love and tiny details throughout the map.
There are special teams involved in this map.
Akihabara is a place that is inspired by the central area.
There are big, big, and big robots.
So we also get to see a bit more of Hashimoto here as well, right?
Yeah, we wanted to install a bit more lore inside the maps as well.
So the Hashimoto has a giant skyscraper towering over at this area of Tokyo.
and with their Hashimoto branding, the nice, tighter logo.
Well, the story of Overwatch's sense of correctness
has a feeling that you want to dive deep into the map.
So, in the middle of it, the big tower of Hashimoto
is like a sky-scrape that can jump out.
The logo is really feeling the pressure in Tokyo.
I think that's one of the points
that makes me feel alive.
So before we go, any last notes about the map or any hints or cool things that you personally love about this map?
I like a lot of things about the map, but there's this one point that's overpassed within the map.
This is a very powerful sniper section for Widowmaker Hanzos.
If you hang out too long, a train will drive through and illuminate you, so it's kind of a risk-reward area.
I think it's a point where there's a lot of writing.
Lastly, I'd like to say a word to the fans.
Yes, this has been a very special map for the team that creates, and we hope everyone enjoys it when it launches in Season 3.
Please!
Obviously just one game here, you know Japan versus the world, right?
So we're gonna have some of the players from Barrel, Tio's gonna be out there on the stage as well
And in the world represented by players, creators from all over and we got one joining us here right before this game
Rap Attack
That's serious for you, man
I mean it's super great to be able to represent the world. I mean depends been awesome. I'm excited to take him on in the home crowd. You know, hopefully we don't get booed too much, you know, we'll try our best to win, but we'll see how it goes.
Yeah, and you're also trying to get, I know a map win for lethal and hawk here. So obviously online, maybe you had a chance to play the new map. Any thoughts?
I mean, this will be our first time actually playing it, but I did play like a little we saw we saw bits and pieces of it and
The design coming in so really excited to see how far it's come since the early concepts and
Yeah, see it against some good pro players. I mean the deck is a little bit stacked against you guys
I mean we got
14 Japan
The crowd here in Tokyo, you know, I
They've been pretty respectful though. There's been cheers for both sides
You know even when the Japanese orgs take on there's a chance you should get food though there you guys come out
Maybe maybe can't passion
We take a look at some of the
I know you probably had a really early look at it
But once the overwatch our team gets their hands on a man they always good. Yeah. No, this looks like a beautiful map overall
So, you know, it's also a hybrid map as well. So another hybrid map coming into the pool
It feels like it was the last hybrid.
That's what I'm gonna say.
It's been a minute.
I mean, we've been getting so many push and flash points.
I'd say midtown.
It might be midtown, which might be.
What was that with that?
Yeah.
That was with those release.
I was playing against you.
You were coaching Houston at the time.
That's it.
You told us don't go through there somewhere.
I remember that.
I was like, don't do this guys.
Yeah.
Trust me, it's not good.
And I think I've been vindicated.
But hey, we are gonna cast that show match.
You have to go playing it.
Yeah.
They're probably waiting for you on the stage.
We wish you good luck.
good luck. You better get to win for the world. At least something. At least some fight.
We got to show something for others. We'll win. We'll win.
Turn up. But thanks so much for joining us, Rack. You can head on to the stage as we are
going to get ready for the show match here. Jake, this is a lot of fun. I mean, when we
get a new map into the rotation, we always want to get a sneak peek. I think Dino was
saying this one's going to be a season three drop that we go over the rules and just kind
How it's gonna work one more time so neon junction the newest map set here in Tokyo and do team Japan
I mean like we have to glaze rack up a little bit. I mean we got a like he's off the screen now
He's not watching he's walking over. It's gonna be dead. Oh, yeah
And it is gonna be tough look hey, I get it though. You want to get a team together for the world. That's fun
You know, maybe a little
I can't think of anything that's been losing this.
Come on, let's be 100% for real right now.
Although, I agree, you know, that if a lethal and hawk
might come out throwing haymakers,
you got it like these guys, they're hungry
for a dub on stage here in Tokyo.
I also want to see how the map plays, right?
I know, obviously we get some really awesome shots
of the map, the fly through and, you know,
but like hybrid obviously with the, you know,
the control point first, you know,
give some flexibility, if he got up there quick,
that he's moving on fast, he was moving.
give some flexibility in terms of how they can design the map.
They do kind of going with a mostly control type style,
fighting over that first point.
And then as it kind of moves through the rest of the map,
can obviously change up a lot.
I'm a hybrid enjoyer, Matt.
You know, we get our occasional draws on this map type,
little throwback from the 2CP era.
Man, imagine a show match draw.
I don't think we've ever had that.
We were talking about that in the back.
That'd be spicy.
No, I think Team Japan, they are going
to be very difficult, it feels like, to stop.
But you also don't know, hey, I mean everybody gets a look at this at the same time, right?
We'll see kind of how it fairs.
So I know you got a Yami blood, hawk, lethal, length and rack attack there,
representing Team World and Team Japan.
We know this roster pretty well.
Probably see them even in Overwatch World Cup.
Yeah, an exciting team.
A lot of these players you got to imagine are going to be making that Japanese national team
and potentially joining us at BlizzCon.
I mean, Japan has been a resurgent reason this year.
Yeah, or really insurgent for the first time is a team that can really can grow right?
They mention that all the hearing squads, right? They almost were no, I know they very nearly were I think
That's even more impressive considering the results from CR and Zeta so far in the tournament like to have
Been a contender in that kind of an arena speaks volume about the potential of these players
I can't imagine it'll be long until they're joining us for some of these major
your OWCS LAN competitions.
And making noise at the competitions, right?
Because when you're coming out of that region, you're legit,
right?
So, Forze in the fire, man.
It doesn't get harder than that.
No, so here, before we get into loser bracket final,
we'll have this match.
And we've got another one coming up later,
another little show match.
Going to buy some time, getting in that grand final.
Left players just going to rest a little bit.
It's knee on junction, newest map coming to Overwatch in season
three, I feel like they always step it up with the art, but some of the stuff they were
putting in and showing on that map, even when we were standing here with Rack, he was super
stoked about it.
Yeah.
I mean, I think some of the features are going to be exciting, and especially to bring
us back to a locale that I think has been really deep in a lot of players' hearts.
You think about Connemora, just iconic from back in the day.
For me, the very beginning, just hearing about Overwatch, wanting to try it for the first
time thinking about you know Hanzo and Genji and those animated shorts right like that thinking about
getting casted by me and Mitch right as in your room and you're like man I was like oh wait for
Matt to come I was thinking about you Matt right right you did it for me did it for Matt
made it I don't think anything else yeah yeah now you're here and now you're disappointed
we get the game all set up ready to go probably Rackett was the one who uh you know we don't want
I don't want to blame the delay, right?
But it's probably Rack getting up there.
It's going to be perfect.
I mean, we're going to, like, I don't know if we want to be
cast on the Sparges here.
We're partially at fault there.
That's how it's ranked.
So we obviously, I haven't had a chance to get, I know,
a sneak peek at this map, right?
But I'm going to be kind of learning.
They're pretty fresh as well.
I don't think you've had a chance, either.
So this will be fun.
This kind of probably looks like an area
where the payload goes through.
So some close quarter and high ground type setups.
Yeah, because you're seeing a lot of these smaller rooms
arranged around the outside.
maybe to get some smaller number skirmishes.
I like a little bit of a claustrophobic look on hybrid
because I think when you have the payload,
you know, moving through those areas,
it creates its own piece of cover.
I'm kind of curious to see too, what is the payload?
Because every map and overwatch has a pretty unique payload.
And so, you know, for me, that's always a fun bit of flavor
thinking back to like Hollywood,
you know, the studio exact insulted you from this car.
Yeah, this looks like probably the depender's spawn room,
the last one that looks like the end of the map potentially there so yeah looks
like a really close quarter kind of like interior type of map towards the end
which is something yeah off the top of my head it doesn't feel like we have
another hybrid that has those type of features I mean Kings Row is one of the
most popular maps in Overwatch history and hey Kings Row it's not new art I'm
okay with that because I think that same type of design but Kings Row I mean that
would be I mean it's it's gonna be something new something fresh but also
some of these concepts in Overwatch can be iterated on, can be made better and better
through time.
Our team's getting set up on the stage, we'll be able to jump into this match shortly.
Right, because the maps really have kind of gone under in evolution, right?
Obviously, a lot of the initial ones designed 6v6 in mind, and then switched to 5v5, and
then with new heroes being added, and just mobility, verticality, they've obviously taken
a huge adjustment in terms of how they design the maps now.
So, seeing kind of like how hybrid will kind of develop as a game mode and like kind of
the maps that are concepted up for that will also be interesting.
I, look, they can't come out and play Kat of Ashen.
I mean, there's like 30 minutes.
That would be hideous.
There's 30 minutes.
Lettel's looking hungry though.
He's looking, you know, Lenza, come on here.
Yeah, I mean, look, they were, Iraq was joking, but yeah, I mean, they want to get a win,
right?
SSG had a little bit of a rough run here.
I know at champions clash, but the good sports, uh,
Hawke always like one of my favorite players get a chance to talk to catch up
to the new guy. He's one of those. He's, he's been,
he's been doing it for a long time. Fierce competitor.
It's, it's a tough thing to do to stay at the top for years and years.
He done it. That's the one thing I've always loved about Hawke. And, uh,
like whenever you see him kind of coming off a loss, like some players,
they lose and they're not half right. But like, you know,
he is visibly like, uh, he cares. So he's a fierce competitor.
I think a lot of people maybe maybe miss that because I think he's sort of a nonchalant guy
But he's somebody who's always pushing himself always pushing the team. There's a reason so many top teams keep trusting this guy
You know with the reins of the squad really because he's delivered and I've you know seen him behind the scenes
He's a hard worker. I'm excited to see our boy rack play as well. Yeah, it's upsetting
The stream is doing so well because it was fun watching him in professional play
But you know, I mean like back stays winning. Yeah
I'm sure they're turned in. Yeah, yeah, the Rax family who I believe a ton of them came up to support him here in Japan
So really an iconic story. No, his name always like is a good role indeed for all the events
It's awesome to see kind of you know, my family used to do the same back in the day
I would play no pretty awesome to see my family got this far though
My mom draws the line somewhere probably about in the middle of Pacific. It's doable in the car
If you got to get on the plane, we'll see you on the stream.
That's kind of their motto.
But just waiting to get into the game, obviously, new map coming in Season 3.
Neon Junction, a hybrid map, set here in Tokyo.
I'm sure we're going to hear a lot more about this kind of leading up.
We've got some, I think we just had the mid-season patch maybe like a week or two ago, right?
So have some, a little bit of time here heading into Season 3 where I know I'm sure we'll
all get like hands-on on this suit and be able to kind of play it for ourselves.
Now yeah, they're probably a new map potentially for our pool the next time
we kind of start up by now LWCS. Yeah always exciting to see you know some
new maps come in shake things up provide a new opportunity a new field of play
for these players to showcase their skills. This team Japan man like excited
for them to see them together here and on the stage. A place that it feels this
team already belongs right like in the pedigree that they've earned the
respect that they've run out and I think it's it's not cope like across the
world I think a lot of people would have said I mean they would have wanted to
see Vero in this tournament and to not necessarily be going out quickly right
like to be a team that could actually punch up to maybe some of these tougher
contenders now I mean team Japan is gonna be pretty awesome here to see them
play obviously the world I know has here it's gonna be a tough uphill climb but
We are now joined by my goat
Dion Rogers Dion. How you doing man? It's great seeing you the art director here for overwatch and Dion
Tell us a little bit about this map because like we haven't had a chance to see it
Hybrid been a bit since we've had a new one. Tell us a little bit about some things we should be looking out for here
Well, there's a ton of more in this map for including some hero lore
Some backstory for Hansa o Genji. Okay. The payload is actually
A storage case for the technology that creates Hansel's dragon and all these swords
So I think
Be able to deep down a lot of all details in this map. Yeah, I mean we were talking is we now go into the dark
The payload and all these other right they also have like very interesting things sides of the lore
He was talking about the Hollywood one where you're kind of getting yelled at so
You guys are always killing it. I feel like it's just it hits another level every single time
Tell me about like a little bit of like kind of the inception of this map how it came to be
Yeah, so there's an artist on our team that I mentioned was Andrew
And he really loved this music John Rock called City Pop in Japan and he kept saying hey this music has this awesome vibe
Beautiful colors and so he was showcasing these concepts
he was working on and this mood board that he created and
me said okay that that feels like a unique version of Tokyo that would fit the
world of Overwatch. Yeah I mean it definitely looks awesome definitely a
unique kind of take on everything the mech here yeah it feels like we're like
hey like a little Kings Row I got another nod so can you tell me a little
bit about how it plays or how it's played when you guys have been testing
yes I know like is it more of a close quarter of maps big sight lines kind of
So what's your feel for it?
Yeah, a lot of the objectives are a little closer than usual.
Definitely Kings Row will be in highly inspiration for some of the layout of the map.
There's a ton of verticality that can usually balance a bit well with this map.
So I find that almost every hero has a ability to use their powers in a meaningful way on
this map.
Right.
As we kind of get into the game here a little bit, as the world's starting off pretty good
year is that Weeple kind of gets up in the sky with the aid of the Jetpack cat
and now you've been here a little bit you've been watching the games like
Jetpack cat is kind of taking over here man I mean when you guys like we're you
know when that hero obviously you're kind of seeing it in the playtesting right
like what was your first reaction seeing Jetpack cat kind of come to life yeah
the whole team was like are we doing it? We're doing it. But at some point he became
so fun and unique for the game. We knew that we had something special in the
heroes so we continued to push forward. And he's also been around for a long
time. There's a thumbnail. You know, there's been around for a while so it was time.
It's like deep lore of the Overwatch team. IRL kind of showed up in the game.
Okay, so Jake, the payload gets taken here. I was beyond was messed. The
objective is really close to the spawn there, which is really interesting
compared to other hybrid maps. Jake, what's your thoughts here as we kind of
go through this area of the map just kind of what you're seeing. I mean this
high ground control that you're seeing KSG fight for looks to me to be super
important. And I love this terrain. As we're moving through the map, this is going to be an area you want to fight, we've got a mix.
That has to do with how Tio picks up a kill and you can hear the crowd reacting. Japan wants to see a victory for their hometown squad.
This has to be a pretty sick moment for you as well because like I can't remember the time you know we've done a bunch of these right where we review the map
but like the dude in the in the place for the map is sick. But that's something like pretty kind of like special to be able to
combine those two? Yeah, it's been pretty awesome. It's something we've been
wanting to do for a long time is launch a map in a way that it seems up with a
lot of cool things like the championship in Tokyo and drop them that. The team
worked hard to line the dates together but we couldn't be more proud of
everyone. Yeah, and I mean just kind of hearing the crowd reaction here when they
heard that it was Tokyo and starting to see obviously has to be kind of going
all the way back to the depth team at home.
It's a self-destruct.
Ooh, nice.
Has it all there.
By Hawk being able to block this is,
I know Jake just kind of, we've been talking a little bit,
like Japan has really leveled up in terms of like
their overwatch skill over the years, specifically this one.
It's going to be a test for him this fight though,
coming back on the retake.
And if this checkpoint is always on pretty much every
hybrid map in the game, the crucial fight to be able to win.
But the team world getting a lot of space.
Nico Koopy's shutting it down.
The cat visor, one of the most fun combos to execute,
shut down by wide up.
So we've seen a lot of the jpeg.
Is there a further monorail?
Is it on like a timer, or does it kind of,
how does that work?
Because I'm trying not to die to it.
Yeah, it's not quite on a timer,
but there's some signals when it will come.
I saw it, all the lights up red,
that ominous color, it's like, get out of here.
You are on parry.
Do not stick around for long.
It's interesting because that position looks so powerful.
You might want to take some time up there and then, you know, don't stay too long.
That's going to be me going to get by it.
Zoned out in the night, just like, oh, I'm up here.
I'm good.
And then all of a sudden, spicy cat, cat carries into the train as well.
Oh, that's the new tech.
I believe that actually for that was the cat pack out inside of the orbital, right?
Ends up getting taken out as the OWC asked the Japan team here.
starting to kind of heap up is they control a little bit of this high ground
on the defensive side of things that we haven't seen it yet but talk to us a
little bit about the end of the map right because that always has some cool
kind of galore and kind of meaning to it yeah I wanted to note that the official
name of the map is neon junk yeah and the end of the map takes place in kind
of a kabuki theater all by the Hashimoto clan oh hey behind the theater the first
spawn room that the defense spawns in or the defense spawns is basically Hashimoto layer.
That's one of those storylines that I think fans have always been really interested in historically
in Overwatch right? Like learning more about the Hashimoto Clan, what is this that Genji Hanso is
such a contested story in there more. Did we learn more about that from this map? Is that going to
be something for fans to really dive deep on? There's a ton in this map. Multiple spawn rooms
related to the Hashimoto where the Hanzo and Genji weapons are created those
type of animal weapons there's a spawn room dedicated to just that and like
you know like how Jake was kind of talking to you it got me kind of
thinking back to like that cinematic with I know Hanzo and Genji like yeah it
was like the one I was like oh my god this is unbelievable I had I was like
chills I mean ten years ago right yeah this is like a huge part of my life and
to see it kind of come first full circle year.
Really a special thing in Tokyo.
Yeah, a lot of love in the match.
Yeah, as Hawk will get DMAC'd here
and really in a rough spot now, team world.
So man, Hawk has been staggered out on the diva
a few times for this event as C now.
It's probably, you're going to meet just one more fight
potentially for the Japan team to be able to win.
It's looking a little rough for the world here in Japan.
Planting their bark in the sand, you will go no further
and it's been quite a few fights back to back for them on the defense.
The great thing Dion gave us a little bit of an update on what happens at the end of the map.
We may not see it here with how good Japan has been on defense as a team world.
We'll try and step up, kind of control some of that high ground.
Do you have a kid student in Russia available?
The MRA Altier Popify Lethal.
So, just trying to create a space.
Oh!
So glad we got to see it.
I was convinced maybe these players wouldn't let it happen.
You know what though? Hey, there's something to being world first, right?
Yeah, but there's something interesting world first.
I mean, hey, look, they're playing pretty well.
It's like, hey, I have an opportunity to look.
Tio's a content creator.
He has the opportunity to get a clip there.
He's been a showman.
I've seen him in a boat from him in this game.
Yeah, not saying that was on purpose, but hey, I mean,
I'm sure he'll have that clip on social in like 10 minutes.
The payload, now continuing to move here through the world,
so 14 world, how far away are they?
Okay, so is that kind of the next objective right there?
I feel like that's the next choke.
Right out front of the Hashimoto building.
Rally for Rack Attack could be huge this fight.
Low numbers engage in our cart and it's
a full deep into the back line.
Just down the cloud.
And Rack stands strong on the point.
I think Team World might be getting us through
the last point, giving the people what they want
closer to that Kabuki Theater
and the Hashimoto Lair.
And like, that just shows like,
you know, Jet Pat Cat obviously
that when the hero came in,
came in a lot of people were like going for clips and stuff and I think like now with how we're seeing like people get
Fashioned up in the sky and all these other different things
I think we're just starting to scratch the surface
So you like the chaos that this year
Oh can kind of bring to the table aware. No, it's obviously a huge moment
No, when like all those new heroes kind of came in at one time right had to be great to see like
No, just really the shake up to the game that it's out man. It's that closer look at the payload. Hmm. Oh, I see exactly
What you're talking about
And what a beautiful part of the map here as we, oh, get a beautiful pulse.
It is a nice style of thing.
And it looks like Deon, this part of the map actually looks pretty tight and short.
Like they kind of get around that very corner, then make the next turn pretty similar to
King's Row like you were mentioning.
Yes, correct.
And a lot of the points are a little tighter than, you know, just to mix it up a bit.
I think that's interesting because we don't really have another map that's like an escort
or hybrid that plays in that close border type of geometry.
I think it's really cool that you guys have gone that route with it.
That was the goal of the level design team was to achieve a similar feeling to King's Row
and some of our other more popular hybrid maps.
Yeah, I think it also, Jake, as we kind of talk on the almost competitive side of things,
with the design like this, it even opens things up for more heroes to get involved.
Cloud will take out Yamablod, and that was huge.
I mean, the sim wall available as Hoth going on to do this, but it looks like he will get shut down.
But yeah a map close quarter here like Jake
I mean it allows other heroes to really kind of shine very good for the Kirikou alt though
I will say
These tight quarters congested spots with a rush just envelops the entire map as an overtime fight begins
Leto does shut down tile creates an opening for team world to potentially look towards the pole cap with Hawk adding on
Yes, I mean this looks like team world. Okay. I was gonna say potentially taking it is you see they've actually gonna gone here for a backcatch
Wow, what a what a scene in here. I mean that
Japan has to get back here towards the payload
I mean they're in a really weird spot they have one player coming out of the spawn
That's gonna be Tio here on the Reaper is Hawk gets dangerously low yet again meteor strike here used
Getting back on top of the payload. I do not think that's gonna be good enough this team world
Now off of the payload towards the end at least they gave us that we see the end
At least we see the end now as just the unbelievable work by the end of the rest of the Overwatch
team, just bringing us a new map here, being able to show off neon junction, kind of lighting
on this map.
I mean, I think that's something that I really notice is being distinct from maybe anything
else I've seen in the world of Overwatch, right, where, you know, each point really
feels like it has a different flair and flavor because of that.
Can you talk a little bit about what the process is like for these final art passes
on these maps?
Yeah, thank you too for the compliment.
This is Peter Tran, is one of our lighting artists on the team.
And when we build maps, actually King's World does this really well.
We call it the visual progression of the map.
So as you make progress in the map, the world's changing, the lighting's changing.
You're feeling the progress just through the visuals.
And so this one we took the best of every map that we could, applied it to Tokyo.
That is something that when you're playing the game, you're never really thinking about it.
like the lighting kind of like kind of guiding you a little bit through or just kind of changing
the map.
What you described is like the feel where it's like I think that's something I overwatched
as like a lot of other games can't like where like when you're playing as like a Winston
you kind of feel like you can't really explain it you just kind of like feel it.
And I think with the maps like like yeah you kind of alluded to King's Row and then kind
of looking at this one right like the progression of like as you're kind of going to these close
quarter areas and there's like more you know darkness or lightness right you're kind of
getting closer and you kind of have the illumination over the point, it really is kind of next level.
So I'm curious now we see this from an offensive POV because you can get a better chance of
the look. They kind of like, where the objective is. I was thinking, you weren't kidding me.
I mean, they get right out of the spawn and they're really close right around that statue.
Yes.
Yeah, that is something Jake that we don't really have, I think, another other, you know,
really mass, right? That the fight is this open over the point right away.
Closer, yeah.
Yeah. I mean, I do like it because I think some of the weaknesses of other hydrogen maps
It can be really hard to cap first point.
You kind of feel like, oh, where's the rest of it?
What's the full story here?
And I think to maybe give some powerful defender positions
deeper into the map, but balance them
with better attacker opportunities early.
For me, from a competitive perspective,
it's actually really exciting.
I feel like this is a map where those final clashes
in the Kabuki Theater are going to be epic moments
when this is played in the Neesports context.
Yeah, and I know potentially a lot of my games
the statue about my games going home.
We may not see the theater, so I'd love to see it here.
But it looks like Team World at least gets a whole gear
on defense right away.
I mean, we have seen in this show match that this event,
a lot of Mizuki.
So, like, you know, Mizuki really kind of starting
to show up in the middle a little bit.
He's one of my favorites.
Yeah, I mean, just kind of the whole idea with, like, you know,
being able to, like, heal multiple targets,
like the hat, like the teleport, I mean, just a really,
You know, awesome design. That's going to be a nano here on a KSG up towards that high ground.
Some nice help though from Team World being able to keep their players alive, but they're getting fully back off of the point.
This white out finds Yamablud, so the Soldier gone, not as much.
This raw damage here from Team World is very much looks like it's going to be a point take here.
Jake is, hold on.
Oh, look at that!
The Sinaitu Airies now create that Venn diagram on point.
Hawk taking the opportunity to hold the space behind him.
Channel from Niko.
This one looks tough for Team World Hawk.
It fades, but not long enough.
Passed the suspect to get back into the suit,
but still a play to be had!
Oh, the backstuff from Hawk!
And Lethal opens with a living weapon.
That is brutal there.
Where Hawk gets that remake.
Lethal starting to pop off on the MRA.
that we are getting a really awesome match year on me on Drunchin to show
things off coming in season three. I gotta see how long have you been here in
Japan? Like have you gotten to do anything like really fun around the city?
Yeah I've been here since last Wednesday and I've done a lot of shopping.
Oh yeah. Vintage watch shopping like seiko's. You know enjoying the food and
the people it's just an amazing place. Yeah we've had so much fun here.
Yeah, I mean the food the people just being able to kind of like and walk around sightseeing. It's like, oh, what's down there?
Let's go that way. It's like let's let's explore a little bit. So we've had an awesome time here at Kymian Slash
We'll be a blade here for Tio
Trying to get Japan over the line here is very close
Yeah, the pressure on point looks to be overwhelming, huh out of the suit last defender to fall
This pain will get rolling for Team Japan. I mean we can't have Team Japan go out like that
I'm thinking people held unhomed territory.
Lethal's coming for this win.
Lethal needs a map win on land.
And he's going to fight for it.
You've got to earn this on Team Japan.
Yeah, we had Rack over here, Dion, before, obviously,
playing for Team World.
And he was saying that Hawke and Lethal, Team SSG,
they had a rough go in terms of the meta.
Didn't have a great out there.
Oh.
The tiles going through there for a second.
Hats off to the Lighting Edge here,
because they had the ominous feeling there.
You need to get out.
The first time you played this map, I feel like you already know, I don't want to be here much longer.
It goes really dark and red and then you're gonna have it. It comes pretty quick.
I mean, not a lot of time or back.
It wasn't like that for a while, but a couple of play tests and you're like,
dude, we need to know when the train is here.
Being a little too much here.
I'm sure Custom is getting annihilated by the train.
You just spamming emails about the train is,
well, thanks, Royce. You're just gonna drop on top of each other, so
It'll be a death ball fight inside as Hawke is gonna go over to Roadhog is
I know it's not down a ton of road I'll play at the event
I mean in combination with the Mizuki really difficult to play arounds two minutes here on the clock
I'm bored Japan. I need to see Hawk hook somebody into the train. I need to see it
I mean, I think he's thinking about it to blame in that high ground. Yeah, I'm mentioning the
Jetpack cat ult into the train has me thinking about like why doesn't anybody do that on a wasted?
Just grab people into the hiring, just like put them in the street.
Yeah, put them in the street, I mean, it is so demoralizing getting taken by that all the time.
It is.
Oh yeah.
There's some things you can't hear obviously right now, but the sound design on this model
is insane.
The sound design team just...
Is there some special things to like look out for in terms of the sound design?
Like anything that kind of stands out to you or just kind of like the ambience of the
...
Just the ambience and the music and when you step into some of the shops and you step
outside it feels like Japan I mean dude we saw like two of the shops it felt like
and the crowd here is going crazy it's gonna be like I'm sure people are gonna
explore this map like alone and just gonna go into every single store figure
out like where all the plushies are all those secrets is okay KSG not gonna get
back in Nick but getting a little bit closer to that second checkpoint J huge
right here for Nico a win could be massive for the squad but can't quite
get the connection with KSG up the spawn might be a regroup but Team Japan
showing a lot of fight. Team World's got to step up to the plate here. Yeah, whole hog available here.
Four Hawks. We don't get to say that very much. No, we don't get many Hawks. They whole hog available.
Yeah, it's a hawk just trying to take a breather, trying to get out of harm's way. It needs a lot of
breathers. Oh, it does fucking back on KSG, so hawk. Finding something here and lengths it quietly
on the Mizuki, picking up one on the flank. Yeah, and I know, lengths of hurry has another
They're all here, so Hawke, with a hook, finds another.
It's now Japan in a really rough spot, Jake.
I mean, just the support ults to work with.
You were talking about though, with how this map shaped,
you really think that Karika's ultimate could be pretty huge.
Yeah, I like both Kiriko and Mizuki
right with those support ults that are locked
to a position on the ground.
These tight corridors really mitigate the weakness
of that style.
Niko, looking for a cheeky pick on the flank,
but Yamimod might just best if it's sold to you.
Niko comes in for the assist.
Yeah, they kind of find him on an off angle.
So you do have the transcendence available.
It will be KSG who gets on, gets a touch.
Oh, hog it over time.
They're so worried about this whole hog.
It's all going to be a transcendence here.
Going to be Langson on the top of the over.
No, what happened to Leville?
We're going to have to down.
They're falling there.
You don't know.
Goes down.
Maybe the OC from Tio is going to be enough to close this one out.
Oh, he's good.
He's better.
Keep the hero for the pain.
The crowd goes wild.
Looks like we are going to come down to a final clash in this third point.
Yeah, and I think, oh, you see the gate opens there as it unlocks at third point.
And I think you were talking about before, Dion, you can see the lighting as we go in
towards this last part of the map, really, so it's brightened up, but it also has these
dark features with the wood and stuff like that that makes it feel very impactful and
the climax is about to happen of the map.
More drama near the end.
Yeah, yeah.
Could be a key feature.
I love all this art on the wall, all that unique customization.
You can see the swords on the walls as you move in here, some of the weapons as well.
So just little tidbits.
What's that?
If you got one part when people get in here and check out this map, what shop are you
looking for?
Where are you spending your time telling people to go look for?
You saw the crowd pop off with the CR stuff and the Winston plushies.
Is there any one part of the map that you're just like, this is so sick, you have to check
it out?
we haven't seen it but it's the animal weapon room the room that they create the weapons in yeah this
has been designed beautifully so just wanted to spawn and say the forward spawn that he spawned yeah
i think people should check that out for me for the chance that'll be pretty awesome you know yeah
look at a lot of spawn room footage here but you know in terms of like lore and how people think
about the game and just kind of the universe getting a chance to kind of see that and it's also
like how you guys are able to like weave in those like lore moments like pretty naturally throughout
out the map. Right. This one, very carefully. There's a lot of, I can't
spoil it, but even this layer behind is a huge significant student. That will be
revealed soon. In time. Japan getting very close here to finishing this
yield. Oh, not to believe that hole, huh? Uko comes up with another.
And it's an albider for Team Japan getting the finish, closing this one out.
Team World said packing but they made it more format.
What? Thanks, I also...
I love all the players on Team World.
It would have felt a little odd for Japan not to have that in the end.
I mean, come on, come on, you gotta get to Instagram win.
But, no, that's an awesome look though at Neon Junction.
I mean, I love, like, hybrid.
It's like one of, like, the, you know, original game modes.
It just kind of, like, feels right.
You get a little bit of, like, everything, right?
Like, any role points.
And then also, the payload is kind of coming in on through.
His cargo shows some love here towards the end.
But, just seeing also how you guys are looking at each map now differently, right, and kind
of creating different play styles by a little bit more close-quarter, while also keeping
all the awesome art and style, it's really awesome to see, man.
Thank you, yeah.
Going forward, we're trying to inject a lot of lore, a lot of narrative, a lot of cool
design, just keeping the maps fun and overlapped moving.
The community has had so much passion.
I mean, it's one of those things where you already know within 10 minutes of this map
actually hitting the servers, people getting the chance at that, people are going to have
found every little thing, so I like, you know, these little teasers, it's an opportunity
to see, yes, some of the big things on the map, but to your point, you know, people
need to dive in and find all those little details to learn more about this world.
In 15 minutes, there's going to be a YouTube app just off of the map.
I don't like to stop in every piece of it.
Enhance.
Yeah, enhance.
We're going to zoom in over there, but yeah, I mean, I agree.
I think it's going to be it looks like a map that's going to be a fan favorite
I mean just off of the art design and then how it's going to draw on up
So I think so we love it at the off back at the back of blizzard and so we look forward to
Everyone's reaction. Yeah, again a chance to see everybody play it
But I mean I know hey team Japan they pull it out against Team World
Unfortunately lethal and Hawks still searching for that map win here and our poor boy Raph
We got him here and he you know he has to go back to co-stream and hold the L
It's a it's a rough one, but hey, I think it's a great sign though for you know
Uh that we've been talking about how Japanese overwatch is really kind of like really recent up over the last two years with like
OWCS and like more open
Seeing them kind of playing obviously at that level a little bit of a preview
We'll see a world cup in the future
Yeah, have it some fun here
But it's gonna be really exciting when they get a chance on a proper competitive stage to show
You know what they've really begin to put together as a squad to see something like Tito to coming out
Who I think has been a real lightning rod for the Japanese community, right?
Like you see his streams doing incredibly well probably brought a lot of people interested into the game interested into the competition
And it's great to have him here at this event as well. Yeah, no
It's awesome that Tio and all the co-streamers here creators, you know players from I know all different regions Dion
Thank you so much for going on. It's been a long time. I love seeing you
Can't stop that Dion and the team over at overwatch table about in terms of art and maps, but guys follow us everywhere
Yo WCS, you don't miss stuff like this
I mean we just showed off a brand new map coming soon scan that QR code follow us everywhere
You don't want to miss all the awesome overwatch eSports. We have coming up this year, right?
I know we have the midseason championship coming up
We got overwatch World Cup qualifiers like this week. I feel like as soon as we land we just start casting again
But you know teams from I know all over the world and then as we kind of build up towards the championship at the end of
The year and then you know going back to this kind of watch world coming so much awesome stuff coming soon here Jake
If you got to follow us, they don't want to miss it right stay tuned in on the socials
We keep you guys updated make sure that you don't miss a beat here in the overwatch universe
Yeah, well guys that is going to be it for the neon at junction show match
Thank you so much for Dion in the overwatch team getting us a little preview season 3 coming up
We will be right back with our loser finals though coming up right after this quick break
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Japanese food is the most delicious food.
Japanese food is delicious.
What about you, Baile?
I always eat cream cheese ice cream from 7-Eleven.
That was really delicious.
Alright, let's move on to the second question.
What has been the best thing you've eaten in Japan?
I like ramen.
I love ramen in Japan.
Especially, I love ramen with a lot of teeth.
I always eat ramen in Japan.
Baile, how about you?
I think I always eat eel rice in Japan.
Third question.
If you had to spend an entire day in Tokyo with one of your teammates, who would it be and why?
I chose Krusty.
What about you?
I was thinking of choosing Mingyu, but I don't really like figure numbers.
If I go with Mingyu, I think I'll be able to figure all day long, so I'll just take it out.
But then, Krusty, the one who will get it right for me.
Violet, how about you? Who would you go with?
Alright, next question. Who on your team is the most likely to get lost in the train station?
I'll go with myself.
Oh, are you going to die?
Every time I got on the subway to Japan,
I was always dragged by my friend.
I don't know myself.
How about you, Violet? What do you think?
I think I'm the same, but I've always been dragged by my friends.
Then who is the one that sort of leading Zerat division so that you guys don't get lost?
Who do you think will be the winner of the tournament?
I think it will be Verna.
I think it will be easy for me to watch the animation.
I want to go to a place like that.
You know the place where you name yourself.
I like those kind of places.
It's quite quiet.
I want to go to places like that.
Okay, Mr. Haruto.
I haven't had a chance to eat sushi in a minute.
I want to eat sushi.
Well, guys, Violet, I hope you have your sushi that you really wanted to
before you leave Japan.
And also, I hope you find a lot of beautiful places in Japan
that you've seen in anime as well, proper.
That is it for the interview.
Thank you, guys.
I'll see you, bye.
Thank you.
I'll play myself
There's no doubt
I can do it!
That's right.
Yes.
Very good.
Wow.
Sorry.
Very good.
How do I say very good in Japanese?
It's very good.
Yes.
Okay, that's it.
I'm going to be giving you a great gift with Kago-kun from now on.
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I'm going to do my best.
I'm going to do it personally, so please cast the win.
Now, Nani-san.
Isn't it wonderful?
What a great message.
message. Happy birthday Obochi! Okay that means my turn so I'm gonna look in
around, look around. Okay there's a lot of, you know a lot of CR and a lot of
Zeta fans and a lot of people that I can't even make up for mine.
Okay Danny, one more for me.
All right, I think I see some Korean signs over there.
I think I saw someone say Duguri, which means raccoon.
I think she's a CR fan.
Where's the person who posted the sign of Duguri?
I think I saw it.
Wait a minute.
Oh, I think I don't see her anymore.
Oh, I see her.
All right, you can come this way.
Hi, please. Can you get up?
Yeah, right here. Thank you.
That was the last one.
I'm sorry, but I lost, but I'm still cheering for you.
I'm going to go with VP13.
The people are here, so please look forward to it.
So repeat if something.
What is the point of your trombard?
cheering board. So I came here all the way from Ireland to support VP. I'm dressed as Ash, so that's why I wrote VP or something.
We've been doing this since Ireland, and we've been doing this till the cosplay. It's amazing that we still have the chance to see VP.
Let's go to the next one!
Can you tell us what that sign means?
What do you have to say to CR?
Please explain the sign.
Please say something to the CR players.
I want to say thank you to all of you.
Thank you.
This message is in hopes of CR dominating the Overwatch scene and to all the CR members, fighting.
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I don't think I've ever been able to have this kind of over-watch scene with him, so I'd like to have him as a caster too.
Thank you.
Not just a scene, even a caster has been able to have this kind of over-watch scene.
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But that's not all.
Two more judges are still coming up.
Kargo-kun, please pick your next favorite.
Wait.
Happy birthday, Olof!
I feel like the person right next to me is going to be very jealous.
Oh, and?
The last one has been chosen!
It's Gatorwin!
Alright, for the second winner,
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Next level troll.
Yeah.
Get a jersey, so I'll go it all.
You gotta fix that right now.
Maybe they can sort it among each other.
The fan signs here have been so cool though.
I know.
Everyone is so talented.
It's so, so, so very cool.
So get on it.
You know if you're here and then you're with us, then also why you're watching our stream.
But get on it and show us your signs.
Pop up in the back.
We love to see fan signs.
We also love to see show matches.
Let's quickly talk about what we got to see there.
there. The first sneak peek of our new map. I'm loving the easter eggs. I'm very partial
to them. Merlop got Zillow, Merzillow, whatever like that was peeked for me. I can't wait
to go and explore. It is so cool to see and of course it's going to be a map based in
Tokyo, right? For this event. It was just amazing. We also got the mono rail going on
in the map too. You know what else we got? I stole a plushie directly from the map.
We went to Neon Junction ourselves, built us a political day to plushie, brought it
back to the desk all in all that time you know that one is actually so cute
what is it I still am not sure is it a fox is it a wolf what kind of canine I
want to know what you think all right and meanwhile we will be talking about
the series that we got to see in the upper bracket the upper bracket final
between it was crazy raccoon and said a division exactly what he expected did we
expect the outcome? Well, some of us did. Some of us did not. This was such a dominant
performance from Crazy Raccoon, which is insane, because I mean, set up for back very early
on in the series, but then afterwards it was just Crazy Raccoon running away with it.
And we talked about how Crazy Raccoon have had such a good event so far. They haven't
been pressured. And the fact that they're going up again, their foes from Korea and Asia and
They're able to step up considering the history of losing four of their matches in a row so far their season up against data
It was the revenge that they definitely wanted. Yeah, this is literally Zeta's first loss so far in this entire season
Right because they've been flawless. I mean, they've lost maps
But they haven't lost a series certainly not a crazy racoon
But I feel like we got a little bit of a preview of this in the semifinals crazy green 3-0 versus twisted mind through Zeta
Did struggle a bit more versus VP and once you start to read into those results a little bit
I think this result now makes a bit more sense.
To me, CrazyCoon could have even maybe got a 3-0.
It was just that flash point in the middle where Zeta sort of found the match again,
put of a Malga moment coming in.
I'm not going to say, I'm not going to say.
The Malga mentality came out for you, just a hot minute.
We also got to see a Raian duel there at the very beginning, so I'm here for that.
But, Anro, as we watched that series, especially on King's Row and on Circuit,
you pointed out the difference in the Sigma comms that we got to see.
Yeah, I definitely think when you look towards crazy raccoon with max specifically piloting the segment
That's been his signature hero for the longest time for several years in a row now where you know if there's one here
You would associate with max especially if there's sigma meta it's is that here
But then you also have
Flexibility that I think crazy can show that Zeta didn't the willingness to now move over towards a lot of the diva on the attacking side
When you look towards a time bank of where that circuit rail was I mean defensively both teams struggle a little bit
But once you get to the C point defense about Kingsrow and the circle route that's been crazy
You couldn't with their ability to swap with their clutchiness in their players all quite see that as data
They were able to prevent data from really finishing the map or when Zed it did finish a circuit with no time at all
Yeah, the flexibility was something that we're highlighting from both of these teams heading into that upper bracket final
But I also want to talk a little bit about the the situation there for is a division and the conversation about the support players
because we were talking about how dominant she was when he was last year's MVP for Champions Clash there as well.
And he just wasn't able to take that W up against Vigilance. We were so curious as to how that head-to-head was going to look.
Vigilance looked great on it. But I think that, Shue, this is a player where he hasn't necessarily been like stepping up in that kind of way.
But Violet has been showing really great promise and performances on the myriad of heroes we've seen him pull out
and leaning very heavily into the current meta that's been developing.
Well, Violet's best look was certainly on the cat, in my opinion, on that first.
Oh, yeah.
He was such a big difference maker, proving that you can be super active on the map.
You might not even have to use a Bastion because Bastion was banned on that opening
early on, right? So a lot of great plays out of Violet, but speaking of the shoe situation as well,
I think he's definitely wants to lean onto the Ana, but in my opinion, looking at
particularly some of these mirrors that we're seeing with the Sigma, the Kiriko
seems like something that will give you a lot more consistent value over the Ana.
I mean true is by far the best honor or you the katsune rushes how obvious of a win condition that is and how good
Suzu is particularly up against an honor as well
I feel like vigilante and the comp difference when you look at crazy racoon is starting to shine out a bit more for me
I'm glad actually that we had talking about the back lines here because and now is that it has to go up against twisted minds
and we did have funny astra on our desk yesterday, and we did pointed some
pretty pointy questions regarding their choices in the back line with that break composition and
And funny Astro Dutch, he did not want to share anything with us.
How do you think they're going to stack up, Ash?
Ooh, I think it's going to be really interesting because we've been kind of memeing about how they like to play on the floor.
Right, for Twisted Minds.
Overall, this team has shown a lot of flexibility.
We know that they're confident about being in this elimination kind of position with a pressure on their backs.
But I think that when we're, again, talking about the differences in how the meta has been developing,
Data division have still been more comfortable for twisting minds my eyes go more towards that tank conversation that we're having previously Avril
I'm kind of wondering how TV NT is going to be going into this matchup
Yeah, because they have the ability to swap out the two tanks on the side of data TV NT is not going to be able to sort of
Bring in the ball or the Winston. He's going to be stuck on the Zara and the diva
What he's got going for him is exceptionally good
I actually think on those specific heroes and a diva diva I actually kind of have TV NT here over burn out
So if they can sort of make sure they stick the landing on those all-time choices the sigmas to me a bit of from I
Haven't seen much of TVNT sigma and I do think Bernard Zeta will drag in that direction eventually
Yeah
They will definitely have to try because what we've seen on TVNT for example on the Zarya like you do not want to match that
I think that he has been the difference maker here for twisted minds
We have talked so much about courts and be him being the star player for twisted minds
But it feels like during champions clash here in Tokyo TV and he has been the player to keep your eyes on and a big reason
Why some of those matches ended up being closed despite the losses?
It's come down to so much clutch play especially for twisted minds in that lower bracket that had not one not two
But three matches that they had to clutch it out and they really went a distance for a twisted minds
And I think J-Woo and Quartz really had to step it up in those J-Woo in particular because he's gone up against proper
Who's extremely well-proven former MVP player J-Woo. This has been an incredible tournament form
I've really like J-Woo on the Tracer so far. So if we can get a Tracer battle between proper and J-Woo
That's going to be the real test with J-Woo. And if you can step up and beat proper in that duel
There's a good chance TM can edge out on big Zeta
So if we're looking at bands here Ash for this one, what are we trying to ban out?
I mean because I feel like quite frankly every time another team is trying to ban out Quartz's here
It's not going too well for them
No
It's not going that well for them because Quartz has been so flexible like when he's not able to play what he's comfortable on
You got to see you're gonna see him on the fray at some time to see him on the emory
There's just a bunch of hitscan heroes that he's gonna be able to pull out in that kind of regard because of how
Mechanical and talented of Claire he is I think that you have to target a little bit more into the tank
Honestly that conversation that we've had about how good TVNC has looked on that other on that diva
You want to get him off of those heroes and then overall I feel like the other thing too is maybe on the twisted mind
They want to try and ban out some of the new meta heroes that have been coming in so they can play a little bit more to their company.
Yeah, definitely great. Zayna should be focusing on tank bans here because attacking TVNT is the most obvious.
He's got probably the weakest hero pool on that team, and that really controls the meta, particularly when we look towards forcing the Sigma, going onto the Sigma maps.
We're just removing, first of all, protecting the Sigma by banning a tank, but removing options away from TVNT.
I actually think they're from Twisted Minds, Pure V. Looking towards supports is going to be quite important, because we talked to Funny Astro.
First of all, I don't think Twisted Minds are always prepared to play the Mizuki type of composition.
That's something that he even mentioned was a surprise meta coming in from Korea that Korea was hiding.
But on top of that as well, I do think Twisted Minds want to play more Brig Judo.
So they probably want to protect that a little bit, remove away some options, enable their Brig Judo,
and take away the cat from Violet.
Because cat is one of those heroes that I still think Twisted Minds don't fully have a complete grasp of,
whereas Violet is very keen to play it.
Take that out of Violet's hand.
Yeah, I mean, early on in this tournament Violet looked like straight up the best kitty out there, right?
Now I do think that all this have started to like come up here to the Chorong played played it like on a really really high level
I did love when funny astra shared that you know
They've been screaming the Korean teams, but the Koreans are fully shown that their hands in those screams
So we love a good surprise that did have an entire night to you know
Work something out based on what they've seen and what they've learned about themselves as well in those three
Matches that they had to play in the lower bracket. I think a bit crazy to pick twisted my
you
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The next team is the new team.
First of all, this team, NETA DRIVIZION!
The title is...
TWITTER TOWER MINE!
World Champion taking the stage right now.
that 20 25 trophy was lifted by what four out of those five players taken to the stage, but Johnny, we are now in the lower bracket of this event in Tokyo, and they're against data division.
That is Asia's number one seed coming in after they take in a pretty spicy defeat from the raccoons. Yeah, this is when Overwatch becomes magical elimination on the line.
teams remaining here in our first major tournament of 2026 and like you say the reigning world champions twisted minds
They've had to do a bit of a lower bracket run here with the dominance from solo division and crazy racoon so far
Oh, yes, and crazy racoon are gonna be waiting in those finals as well
Elios is gonna be our first map chosen by Zeta and I must say Johnny history is being changed already that upper bracket finals
Finally crazy racoon were able to overcome their fears right in Zeta division who up until this point?
had to have a 4-0 record, a series record, against Rekhout over the last year.
Serenadevision has been the best team of the year so far and then finding themselves here in the lower bracket
perhaps is a little bit unexpected to them.
Now, have to win one more series to make it to that grand final and they're going to go to Ilios for the very first map.
This has been a map that they've been dominant on of course.
Twisted Minds, they remained competitive on Ilios,
But because of the division, they drop from the upper bracket, they also get the first
ban and they remove the diva.
Look who's taken to the stage though on the side of Twisted Minds, Johnny.
A different DPS.
No J-Woo in the lineup.
We have Yubi and Quartz coming up.
I mean this is as late as you can possibly go almost for Twisted Minds to make a roster
substitution here.
Yubi coming into the mix here to bring his iconic Symmetra gameplay that has been so
successful for them in the past and a big reason why they won the World Finals
to begin with but so far this year you bring in Jaewoo to replace Psycho for
this lineup because of his mechanical prowess how well he's performed on
heroes like Tracer but Twisted Minds at this point in the tournament feeling
like that is not the path to success they bring back Ubi into the mix his in-game
leadership and the symmetric gameplay has been so good for them in the past
got like all your cards out on the table. Quartz, this is the event performance so far, so the entirety of it.
Desperate looking at six, Katie, 3.5 damage, you're looking good there as well, a limbs up there.
But like, this is not a position Twisted Minds are used to either. Look at EMEA, look how dominant they've been there.
And we were expecting as well as a lot of foreign teams that, hey, we, the Twisted Minds are going to be the ones making that incredible upper bracket run
Being X-WO champions now the meta is shifted completely
We're in a jetpack meta and we say the division of already showing that promise and that's a bit to the shock to the system for
Twisted mind having been so dominant on a meta for so long
But the verticality that jetpack cat introduces to the game has really forced them to rethink their game their approach to the game
And it's been a bit of an adaptation phase as they struggled to pick up the pieces that Korea has been dropping
So now, let's see how they actually fare, head to head here, against Zeta Division.
An opportunity for them to continue their lower bracket run.
The Twisted Minds cheers there as loud as Zeta's, and they are in front of a home crowd.
A lot of them may be shocked as well, but they're in this situation.
Going on to Ilios, you've been hovering the sim already, funny Ashrow Quartz, Cat Bastion,
but one thing's A, a division have already done, they've already pulled a punch here,
bounding that diva away from TVNT.
And it was so pivotal when Twisted Minds actually looked so good, there's going to be the Roadhog instead of here.
We've seen it once before on well, but even through replicating it, we could not have predicted this.
Shu on the Cendiara, I mean, when was the last time we saw this?
A Zen in the big 26.
Surely they must have predicted something like this, knowing that the D.Va gets banned out.
Provides you with a lot of line of sight, relatively uncompressed.
And that Discord orb is going to be so impactful.
Oh, Nite with the first kill.
Nite with pilot.
Picking up their mirror matches on the other side.
Point capped by Twisted Minds.
But look at that teleport. Oh, so quick.
Off of the point. It's going to deny Zeta 5%, but that's it.
That's it, they have to retreat.
So a lot of mobility here, four twists and minds.
Obviously they have the deathback cat
to pull people around, the Rodog or the Bastion.
But also, they can teleport this Rodog.
Oh, he's got Simbull, no way!
No wall climb there at all.
It's all set on the list for now.
Wow, I'm shocked Simbull didn't have a wall climb
or even like a Swiss step.
And huge, Johnny, he's so free.
Like, who is gonna take him down?
Now this UB goes for like a TP play on top of the Zen, it's going to be so hard to shut the Zen down,
meaning the Discord Orbs are so free to be applied to TVNT, and even Quartz as well in the air.
Son of a division, so much pressure right now with this Tracer.
You can see TVNT, they want to put pressure on the pointer, but right instead, she was just free with these Discord Orbs.
Look at Perna on TVNT right now, the artillery, just kills UB straight up.
The hook's good, but not a kill to proper.
Oh, Zayda are playing perfect Overwatch right now.
Twisted mind is really torn here about what they want to do.
They want to put pressure onto the point here,
but I kind of feel like they have to go over the rooftops
and really put pressure on the shoe now.
She was going to start building this transcendence though,
and that invulnerability could come in handy for a dive.
Oh, you beat that. Wow.
I mean, Johnny, this isn't looking that close at all, my son.
Only 5% it's a individual they are literally in the spawn alting for quarks proper gets out alive
He's got the all pot and he's just gonna hang around
Twist and minus needs something here
He's got the whole hogs job
But you be turning down for both more on the ground course at least because I'm a kill on to milgare
But the trans Genesis is gonna come in and help proper push on
Susie winds up saving cause for a time here, but he has a buddy faction for left and proper is just so free on this tracer
He's at the freest time of his entire career at this point
problem with the triple, UB is back in the action, the cap is going through for TVNT, but he is alone in OT
the mines pop down, he's ran out of breather, ran out of juice, ran out of health, ran out of time
Zayn into vision, they're going to hold on to this one
with these honestly, I mean 105%, that is just not it, look at that, look at UB coming right now
That's what it's known for. But also, this was never going to be the round, the map,
the Twisted Mines really get going in this series, because Seta Division's
advantage of getting to pick Ilios, but also removing TVNT's Diva. The
advantage is just too much here for Seta Division. Twisted Mines in the past,
they don't like substituting players in and out throughout the series, and so
right here thinking that even if we have J-Win the Mixer for an Ilios, it might
temporarily benefit us here on the first map. But, like we just saw, we want UB
in on the very first map for that in-game leadership, for that communication, and then
build as the series progresses.
This is a twisted mind's team that is thinking long-term that later the series goes.
Okay, now the hog really comes into the fold.
We're going to go to Well.
Honestly, the perfect stage for this kind of con.
Shoes sticking on the Zen, though.
Really like it.
Counter rotations on the Zen are very powerful on these kind of maps, and even sitting on
this high ground.
Like I mentioned, that disc will always dead be on the hog.
just get blown up in an instant. And now with no jetpack either you can't really
hard swing on to the Zenyatta as well. Forts doing a little bit of poking and
prodding. Need to look for some of the Vingel picks here. Yeah and you need those
picks coming from someone like TVNT. They need to land them. They're trying to kill the Zen.
Oh he's got fans of hook work too. TVNT's hook which was not available there to
actually go for an instant kill on the Zen. Quick teleport over on the court,
catch shoe off guard. Finally the Zenyatta is dealt with. Some sharp
shooting in fact as Quartz claims yet another and now cooling out against the
passion on the high ground knife gets into cover eventually but can Quartz
actually carry his team to victory here a slam onto the ground as TVNT kills
Milgaru after that hook so as you can see a small adaptation being made here on
well just in mind getting rid of the senyales she swaps over to the Kiriko
Meal Garoo, Rhyne on Welp. I actually don't believe my eyes.
Hi Noon. He's going to spot it out. There's a teleport there. Quartz back forward.
Oh, only some damage. Oh! My God! Oh!
Oh, you see them better. Wow, Quartz!
It seems like 17 steps into the future there. That was a ridiculous flash headshot.
And now, Twisted Minds are coming alive with his Hulk.
It's going to be the Mauga instead, Neil Garoo, recognizing that the Rhino are perhaps a little bit in error
from that previous series against Crazy Raccoon.
Twisted Minds starting to build some momentum here, and they're starting to build the Ultimates as well.
Simple has to skid sooner or he can deploy for an advantage when he comes to the positioning here on that point.
Set of division, they still have this Jetpack cap, let's see what they can do with it.
They're gonna slam, they're gonna drag, TB&T doesn't even make it over the lip of that well before getting destroyed by Night.
Oh, the boot is good for Fadi Astro, and of course, it was on him as well.
Well, the ball's gonna get sent out too.
Quartz, in this 1v1 versus Propper, is just looking so crispy.
Pretending that first round just didn't happen.
Proper now, on to the Farah, and this is what Sera Division does.
Unlike Chris Raccoon's and Twisted Mind so far this tournament,
they trust their individual star players to make the swap necessary,
to have the slightest of advantage.
and so far as the Milgaro shoot proper all been making swaps throughout this single round
But it's been all to spend mine so far here on well
You're swapping far into one of the best hits games the game has to offer right now
That's my only worry
Well shoes also got this rush. They don't want to get baited too early though into TV NT
He's got a hook ready and waiting for him at the point go high noon
There's the teleports across the point
But it does end up getting destroyed there funny extra goes down to Milgaro's the charge ends up coming in quartz rolling all the way back
that whole hog is going to make sure Milgaro has not really an answer in this fight.
As Quartz gets an amin left put, but the artillery barrage is enough to finish off the
Cassidy as eventually Zated Division find a semblance of control.
Twisted mines have racked up 73 percent here. TVNT has the opportunity here
to make a swap away from the Roadhog. Now when Milgaro is over to this Mauga,
she no longer on the Senyatta but looks like he's going to stay for now,
trusting the process here. Quartz over onto the Bastion here as well.
I got this cage for Mugaro. Violet is so close to another role as well.
Proper starts off the fight with a kill, but a look from CBNT just removes the cage possibility.
Knife kills Simple, Shaw, but can you survive against the hog? Yes you can. Violet slams him down.
Robert takes for the Skyfall and he wins it versus the Cat.
This is such a scary prospect now for Twisted Minds
because they have to walk up, approach this point and start contesting.
But Milgaro has this cage properly with a Barrages as well.
Could be a lethal combination to pause Twisted Minds in the tracks.
Yeah, I mean, that's a one-tap combo.
If I ever did see one and Robert just hiding around this corner too,
he's such a good decision.
There's the Barrages on the top, but the take point is so much better.
get some out of danger and onto the point as well.
Two ultimates from Zayna Division,
just doing absolutely nothing but give Twisted Minds the space to work with.
A dash onto the point here from the Mauga,
but he's quickly dealt with with a nade from Quarkt.
Blown to Smytherine, does proper repaising kind with a kill onto the Sim,
but it is all Twisted Minds on control of the point right now, Johnny.
90%.
And Zed Division, they're still surrounding.
Twisted Minds pretty good here.
Proper being hunted down.
He's got the Mega.
He's gonna get chased by Quartz. They just need a one more tap and action.
But UB ends up getting the kill anyway.
TVNT goes for the stall now.
Seller division coming in for the touch, trying to extend this overtime.
They want to build this Kitsunorosh.
Shoot at 91.
He's finishing and he's landing.
Unfasting, put him to the bastion.
No chance to save him.
Violet goes in for the swing but he hits a miss.
And now the ult from the hole.
No way!
Milgaru with a bullet and a pause.
What?
Oh shoot, disconnected.
No!
You can't be serious. You got it at this moment. No. That was about... Oh. Come on, man. Come on.
That is unbelievable. What do we do? What do we do? What do we do? What do we do? There's no
procedure for this. There's no procedure? What do we... What a start to the lower bracket final.
The game is obviously paused, it actually auto-posses when I put it in the seas, from the lobby.
But that is unbelievable, what a round of well we just witnessed.
And it's not over, so if Shu were to rejoin the lobby, would be stuck in spawn with no ult.
And that is obviously impacting the competitive fairness outcome of this round.
this round. So we'll have to see how we're treating this specific scenario. But unbelievable
unfortunate timing. Oh wait, here we go.
Choo's gonna get back in. TVNT just got knocked into the well after that hook. We're right
back in this overtime. It's taken down. Twisted mines, still in control. McGarner and our
Eber Pressures, tries to get out with the charge, but unsuccessfully does so. That wall
gets cropped up and his violet attach goes down to the turret and that's the round for
Twisted Minds, TVNT removing one of the main threats there, that bastion early in that fight.
And for those questioning the on-pause there in the game shoe it looked like he had died just
previous to the pause and so didn't really impact the outcome of that round regardless even though
we weren't over time. 1999 to 1999 and we're going to our third round here on Ilios Rose.
What's my support doing bro? He's got zero kills, zero limbs.
It happens. Yeah, that's one of the better pauses if you will because like you said
He did end up dying so it didn't really impact the fight too much. All right, we're going to the final round of ruins
So I think one big takeaway from that well is you saw how twisted mines are flipping the map here with the use of
Ubis-Symmetra and it caught set of division in a pretty uncomfortable place as they try to push forward try to be aggressive
This is what twisted mines want to do
If they want to flip this map on its head using UbiSymmetra and put Celerthivision at an unadvantages position
Shoot back on the Zen. I thought maybe Ana would be the play here because you can get put up on these little high grounds as well
Always bad
Well, that would that be the reason why Johnny thanks for now
I mean the Zen Yarder here as well applying that discord over team in T same kind of thing right because you haven't really got too much
Shielding or anything, it's kind of sustained with Mugareki slowed up by those little turrets.
This is the scary thing now, how do you deal with the Senyatta?
Twisted mines can put pressure on this point but...
Bound to lose in the long term, unless they get a pick onto someone like Maikoro.
The Cassie really does create that danger zone for the Wrecking Ball to roll into.
You get hindinated and a lot of...
Oh! Quartz!
Oh, shut up then, shall I? So you can make a play.
Come on, he's a proper number for the last couple of maps.
And they're going to try to keep making plays here.
Where can we put Quartz on the Cassidy to keep picking people off?
See that center division? They require a lot of setup.
As you can see, Milgaru already flipping around the map here,
trying to set up multiple angles,
Violet hovering from above here as well, proper on the outskirts.
But you can see he's twisted in mind.
They're adapting, they're reacting to the center division's position of play.
Trying to stay safe for now.
Yeah, Violet's getting home by those towers, but a good stomp, slam into knife.
Proper connects the pulse pump onto court, so they've traded the DPS for a DPS.
Funny, Astro Chase is down. Violet there.
Proper's still managing to come up with these kills every so often, but he has very little support on the point now.
3 vs 3 for now.
TVNT on the Mauga is going to be such trouble to deal with for Senna Division, so they opt instead to regroup, get a proper fight going, but this is already 60% here.
Four twist and mines and a lot of ultimates coming their way
So many even with that cage a wall sometimes is enough to win a fight to be fair
Thousand HP from Milgar those overshadows doing a lot as they draft everybody Astro off of the map
Transcensus is gonna help say that if she sustained through this cage, but the wall is just been so awkward might get deployed as well
Oh, poor Stasit!
What's for?
Four kills for the Hitscan god
Just like you did at the World Final, thumbs up clutch, four twists in a mine, set of
the vision with a desperation touch now, as Fanny Astro grows closer to this sound barrier,
which could be the one ultimate to push with the minds over the acroonylios.
You'd be waiting in the wings, we're going to jump on my proper, proper double planks
over the point, but it's already corpse, it's got his eyes on him.
Prop out of the box for a couple of seconds, although you'd be going down, it's not the
The best of starts with Twisted Mines.
They sound barrier.
They do hit the sound barrier, yeah.
So Twisted Mines really believing they can win this.
Knife with the artillery, barrage as Mark.
Oh, he's just trying to create space,
but Quartz just quad dinking him.
Twisted Mines.
Domination over the last couple of stages.
That's a 2-1 to start off the series.
Your world champions coming up in a big way to start.
And Johnny, they've lifted one trophy, they've won a lift another, their secret weapon deployed is Yubi on this Symmetra,
saving the vision, not quite expecting that.
Tristan Myers teased us last night, they said they had a little surprise in store.
And bringing it out here today on the final day, they haven't played Yubi yet this whole tournament,
feeling like here in the lower bracket finals, that is the best time to bring out the Symmetra gameplay.
And you can see how it just changes the entire matchup, set of the vision there.
Feeling like they're on the back foot trying to set up these wrecking ball dives, but it was all Twisted Minds.
The Bastion getting out damaged by the Cassidy there. 18,000 damage for Quartz at the very end.
He is here not to mess around, not to play around, but to win.
He's unbelievable. And we saw yesterday that Twisted Minds, they're happy to just play around Quartz Cassidy.
She's like, yeah, you can go around on back, two shot people.
How can we set up our hitscan player for success?
He's been so good, so many major tournaments in a row, one of the best
hitscan players in the world, obviously dominated in the grand finals of 2025 and
he's keeping up that momentum here in 2026.
A very defensive pointing star on that first round. I mean, today it was Spawn
camping. I mean, it's not often do you see that against a world's caliber team.
The one thing for set of division here is throughout this entire year you've been
dominating. You've been the best team in Korea. We saw earlier 4-0 against
Crazy Raccoon up until the match earlier here today. But they're so reliant on
their star players to make these key switches, to make these key hero plays.
Obviously they got stars that align a proper violet shoe. So many individuals
on this team who can make individual plays. But when you're facing a team as
coordinated as Twisted Minds, just demand so much of you. You have to play so
perfectly and they can't just simply rely on their individual skill as much.
Oh that hook was ridiculous from TVNT. And that's the big thing about Twisted Minds. That's
historically been the narrative for this team is that they are one. They are a single brain
working together. They're all on the same page all of the time. And a lot of that comes down to
how many Symmetra mechs we've had, well like the best Symmetra teams are just all thinking
about the same thing at the same time and you're able to just mind interlinked Symmetra interlinked
like it's incredible to watch. I mean we're witnessing every single game UBIS in the game
we're witnessing the best Symmetra player in the world always putting his team in the right place
to win. The timing is unbelievable when you have all of Sela Division surrounding you with the Wrecking
with the Tracer to know exactly when to teleport your team out,
when to get in the backline of set of vision.
That timing is so very small and they seem to get it right most of the time.
That just speaks credit to Yubis unbelievable skill on that hero.
Serovasa, seeing a whole lot more of that recently.
Well, you want to avoid that new junk city.
Yeah.
Yeah. You ban Cassie? I think there's an opportunity for Zed to take that off the table, but it's served us to the right place, because I think you look at hybrid maps, you're like, Cassie's pretty good on all of these, I mean, in general, Cassie's phenomenal, but catching people on the rotations is a bit easier on this kind of map, where Cassie sometimes lacks.
I think we're bound to see the Symmetra being banned at least once in this series
Then force UB on an uncomfortable hero because as good as UB is on the Symmetra
Doesn't quite live up to the top tier gameplay we're seeing on those other heroes. It's usually the tracer
It just doesn't stack up against proper right. You can also fight that the Cassidy ban
Maybe it comes out in one of these games because Quors just taking over series on that one hero
Yeah, and I know that it's going to swap over to something like a soldier and the bastion
You know it's so good at this matter here as well, but just removing the presence of a cast in the lobby
It could provide fruitful here so division as well one key difference between this team and twisted minds is that they have shoe
Violet of course such a powerful double flex support line-up violets than just wreaking havoc on the allure so far
She can swap over down to the bath. He's here as well and that might be something to cater to in this series
So look at simple stats from Ilios
13 limbs return looking pretty good across the board here
And one thing that Astro told me about Simple when I first started playing him, he's like,
dude, he is next up, like he is one of the best flex supports, like he can really play
everything.
If we need him to play it, Larry, we can.
Sure.
Carry?
Sure.
Like it doesn't matter.
Funny Astro said that he doesn't think they win the World Finals without any other support
than for Simple in the mix, because he was so amazing at playing those Juniperic compositions,
was funny Astro in these Wooyang compositions and just held courts individually to set him up for
success and so that just speaks to simple skill as a player here as well. So Zen is like nasty too.
Yeah he's ironically the one player we've kind of seen placed in the other last year when they
pulled it out on Ilios there as well. Yeah I mean they were facing EMEA competition and
those EMEA teams had a rough go at it against Westmines. No substitution here.
UB staying in the roster, motor mouth as well, always common, always bringing up ideas, always making sure everybody is on the same page.
I mean, you say it's one mind, but it's really UB mind. UB UB mind. UB state of mind for Twisted Minds.
Does they play the Symmetra? This could be a good opportunity here for Solid Division to ban out the Symmetra and play the double flex support lineup.
line up because the one scary thing is it's not going to be that at all actually
it's going to be a mantra ban here for sell division which is quite interesting
because obviously allows you to play this metro once more maybe they're
thinking similar little better on a like a push for example we'll see where they
end up going first of three here that ticket to play crazy raccoon in both
teams grasp so we've been done round one map one sorry it was a very close one
I think with how Zeta like banning the rematch or two. I'm like, well, that's fine
Like TV and T this map very good for diva still like very good for a lot of off tanks
the RAM
As we later we go in the series
It's gonna be like a good ban in a way because you can still ban out a lot more of like TV and T zero pool and like focus really
Heavily on somebody also they could be using it as a kind of a protect to make sure they get to play
Yeah, I mean Miligoro loves playing the wrecking ball as well
And it is now good to be fair the lot literally the last series against CR was like this is the best that they want like
Yeah, absolutely ridiculous. I think one key thing we got a point out here as well
Is that so division they will have a guaranteed symmetric band if they want it later on in this series as well
You got to think long term and that is what a lot of teams are doing here
Maybe we can win, you know our preferred map. This is the set of divisions first map pick in this series
Syrovasa is the map they think they have the biggest advantage on. Can we get away
winning Syrovasa and save the impactful Symmetra band they run in the series?
Maybe that's our best way to get at least two map wins here in this best of five.
Separating the map band from the hero band, that's the way to have
distributing the effect you have throughout the third series.
There we go.
UB, I will say, we're talking about the Similot too. He does like the Summons characters and
you know Torb?
Hey, does the Symmetra guys ban they have UB in? You could rock the Torb a little bit.
Probably is always a good hero. Love to see that.
Do you think there were a macro bound in place here to maybe help Milgar
enabling the Sigma gameplay? There's a composition we've seen so far.
A lot this tournament. Oh yeah.
This is a composition that is new to this meta after recent changes of course.
Yeah, this makes a whole lot of sense too.
Getting rid of that ram, one of the big counters to that SIG,
and then you're playing the Mizuki in the backline too.
The Mizuki has been just honestly, I don't know where for me,
like kind of exceptional on these close range maps too.
The amount of AoE healing you're getting out and getting done, and you can play on off angles, and you can chain the D.Va to stop her kind of running through everybody.
There's a lot of utility there for Violet.
On this matchup now, proper under Symmetra as well.
Rao biting her time as the point unlocks.
Symmetra Teleporter's coming out, who can have the best position?
Oh, it's not towards this time around, the micro for a big trade here is Milgar, he goes dangerously low.
3 punnets replaces the shield, but Ubi, full talk right now on this Sin Beam, Mugarr needs to hit that rock, he doesn't, at Teleport, Ubi.
This has got such fancy footwork with this TP, but goes dangerously low, Knife swings the corner, hits the blast bang, picks up a double, and Zeta claim the point.
The sustain is just too much there, as Ubi can't find the picks required, instead of the vision, they win the fight in the long term.
over onto the Cassidy here whereas Quartz prefers the soldier so as much as we talk about Quartz's preference onto the Cassidy a different approach here
shoot on very with that Kitsuna run
yeah that is quick
Simples on too far behind
so just buying their time a little bit
just want to build this ultimate
yeah that's exactly right
yep he's got it now
okay so now they can time make their play
Teleport from proper threatening the off angle but there's the rush onto the point they're going to respond with one
One with one, proper end of going down to Quartz.
Oh, he's just a laser beam.
He's already killed two, and getting up to this high ground as well.
Knifes is going to use that dead eye.
He's already got another cut.
There's still the deviant in his way.
They cannot battle through to shoot the backline,
as Quartz, once again, takes over.
But that fight opens up because Quartz proper finds himself
in a bit of an awkward position, and the Fybers' force scenario,
Twist and Minds are going to win that almost every single time.
And you can't be making those mistakes if you are the Symmetra player.
Proper obviously, you have to prove something here, despite being one of the more decorated players in Overwatch history.
You're facing the best Symmetra player in the world.
Now you gotta keep up.
This war is gonna be such a boon to Twisted Minds.
Proper's got one of his own, so...
They can just double wall and create kind of an awkward spot to fight in.
But they're happy stalling this one out.
A simple, lands a shot and defy it after quarts.
Just taps him with a railgun
And they have to go for a reset any late death. It's gonna be disastrous flux flux wall coming out
There's a self-destruct on the point as well. They go. It doesn't pick up kills there
It's actually what that comes up with another and now they could just barrel on forward. No Garry's just so
Devastatingly low as twisted minds. I'm gonna get that first point
And they look so comfortable playing this style as well
Funny Astro with a key sound barrier
Defend the team, protect them from that gravidic flux and up 1-0 already.
Kitsunor is just going to be in hands for both teams here as they look to take position here on to this point.
Teleporter early here. Wow, a real boom fist. A real boom fist.
Oh, he gets the punch on Astro. They've still got simple up though,
But proper is full energy right now on this beam, gets the DMIC on to TVNT, this cock is fast and furious Johnny.
This is incredibly aggressive from Steador Division.
Obviously Twisted Might's playing very stacked up here, gotta watch out for a big punch.
Doesn't get the empowered punch there from Mokar, definitely would have gone in if he managed to get it.
It's very early. Oh, they grouped him a little bit as well.
That's the old teleport. Now he's got the powered up punch, but he's already disappeared off his screen.
He's teleporting up to the high ground on the top left here.
Shu has this consumer rush, so if you're salivation, you can wait this out.
Punch.
Straight to the back line.
Yep, proper.
He's already got a kill onto TBNT.
And that stops for Matrix as well.
If you get a punch on the D.Va, she's way more vulnerable.
I mean, this is on the hurdle.
Oh, no Garoo.
He's doing this gameplay, and Milgaroo is making it work.
I can't believe the amount of heroes here at Tversky with Steve and Johnny.
Yeah, he's got to beat this track too.
Get out of jail, free card for the Doom.
Talk about the set of the division making hero plays.
Neil Garrow, I don't know where,
looks one of the least picked heroes in the entire game
and is making it work there.
Twist and Mind, a lot of ulti is on the board,
but they need to win this team fight.
Nice short punch.
They end up hitting the teleporters five plays though,
and they end up flipping the map.
Another punch, Shane, high noon, turn the board behind.
All the defense matrix there from TVNT, red knife like a book.
So it's going to be a reset here for Celerdivision.
Gil Garro drops down, but they only have to win one teamfight here.
They can buy their time for the moment and look for a better opportunity to throw things out.
Oh, Yubi, dies here.
It's going to be traded out, fortunately.
Doesn't let Celerdivision go for an early push in a five versus four scenario.
For Nova Clock, though, there's not really too much to mitigate it, Johnny.
Of course, gotta make a play for his team here.
They're gonna do it.
Oh, and Mike instantly destroyed.
Robert puts his wall up, but I mean, Knife's already dead.
Violet's coming back with a Sanctuary in just a moment, but Twisted Minds still have control
of the point.
A punch in, hits, TVNT, but Samurai is running Astro, surges them forward.
Another defensive punch from Milkdara, pushing everybody away, but still, Twisted Minds have
control of the point.
Sanctuary deployed, but it is Violet that is now pushing up Dacys.
98% for Zeta, but Twisted Minds have won yet another fight.
They're going to keep pushing the momentum here. They want to take the two set of divisions spawn.
80% then taking here. Proper is going to make a swap onto the tracer now.
See if you can combine with Milgar as a question on the Doomfist.
I don't think he's got a power-up punch either.
She has this rush available.
There it is. Power-up punch and the rush.
Nite, onto the wall.
Ubi instantly eliminated. No chance to try and save in there.
as OT has been flipped to Z-Division, now in control and watching trouble, proper with a crippled Blinked Dash!
Milgaru and Propos saved the day for Z-Division!
And you can hear the crowd erupt!
Well, Twisted Mines with the first punch on Ilios, and now Z-Division coming out in full force here on Suravasa,
with some interesting hero picks of their own.
Equalling the rounds here,
One apiece on Suravasa.
Already Zed in a kind of a priority position.
They can get Milgaru up into the backline now, because he has that Meteor Strike.
Up, Neteleports come through for Twisted Minds, just navigating that whole space as Milgaru tries to get funny.
Astro, Astro is in trouble, Astro is in a whole world of hurt.
Shoot with a nice headshot, Astro is wall-widing away to the rest of his team.
Meteor Strike straight into the back, Quartz is going to be in trouble here.
everybody grouping up, a power up punch, smashes the Kiriko into the wall, a still guard who
planes another. And this is just a piston mines team that is now thinking, what are we doing?
How do we adapt to this aggression of set-up division? You're playing very high tempo
composition with the Lucio, the Symmetra, you can flip the map so very quickly, but the Doomfist
Tracer is keeping up now and Tristan Mainz are on the back but they are the ones who are constantly
trying to absorb all of this pressure from set of the mission.
Oh my, wow that suzer was so early, but the E-Propa's pulse on the rotation.
High noon for nine, but Klor setting up with the overclock, gets punched away. Not many targets
left to shoot at now, Propa manages to get out alive. Not even a scratch on him as Milgaru now
with the power of punch goes back on to the point. Twisted mines have the wall and get the flip.
They got the point control for now, Milgaro going down. That's going to force the division to back
away here as they built the double support ultimate of their own. Fane Astro with the
sunbar in hand can't get cancelled here. He's going to be the number one target for south
division. Needs to get value out of this sunbar here. He gets punched by Milgaro here. That's
one easy way to Ajax. We've got to look for it.
Farny Astro biding his time, playing all the way back there to beat the safe one.
Sanctuary on the point now.
Bill Garoo could just have his way with the team if he wants to.
The punch into the wall is good. The high noon, not quite there.
Dashes round the corner though with that goal is Bill Garoo.
Denies TVNT the rematch.
And how often do we see this? Twisted mines with key ultimates being used
and no value to gain. Quartz with the previous overclock.
Didn't find any targets, funny as to the sound barrier. Negated by Settledivision's own sanctuary.
And look at the pressure they're bringing here.
Milgar is just going straight in, everybody's grouped up in his corridors.
Triple punch to Meteor Strike as well, but it's actually Ubi that's filling the kill feed for the Orange right now.
He's taking out the back line single-handedly.
Settledivision up 95% but they're gonna lose this cap.
Settledivision wanted to make a play there, couldn't make it work.
Ubi flips things around and that's going to be Twist in mind.
Going up 2-1 here on Thuravasa, really feels like they've been on the back foot this entire time, but they are the ones securing the lead here.
Something that we've really don't see is this doom and Milgaro is continuing, really feels like they're confident in this pick.
Quartz has this overclock again, proper with the post, TVNT has been hot on the heels, has been managing to eat and deny proper space to venture now for knives.
that this is the most all-in comp of all time.
And it's doing them some good, they're finding teamfight wins here, but Twist and Mines
done a fantastic job so far of playing the objective, utilizing TBNT skill on this D.Va as well.
Taking them away from the clock, where they try and make their move here, overclock as soon as this
point unlocks and they can get pressure on it, there's three bodies, make that four or five of them on the point right now.
Nice for the burrow.
Nice, not a good test, but Twist and Mines, the cap wants more.
Yeah, now they can just play safe. This point's way easier to play around for TVNT.
There's a giant column in the middle that you can kind of dance around.
Nogaru goes to the back again, hits the punch, but it is proper.
Elmas has his head ripped clean off of his shoulders.
Not a burrow from Nite. This is way too far.
A pack you feel. A Susie was fantastic.
Big Arugaru! A double punch into the wall.
Even the free throw went back for Mercy.
This is an unbelievable performance coming out from Neil Garoo, but it's still
twisted mines with 37% gained on the point there.
Tony Astrow once more having built this somber, he's got the beat.
Astrow has to be so careful here, Nick Ars, the fact he's got this ult as well.
Quartz taking down Superlone as soon as that means strike goes off.
Astrow hits the beat but they've retreated already.
And here comes the Sanko from set of division. This is fear time to turn.
Yeah, Bilgaru's just gonna jump straight back in. Quartz can't get into this fight.
Oh, double slide, already used.
Walter Poyle from Ubi to private life, give him some cover.
Bilgaru's got another one.
Proper smacks, Bunny Astra upside the head.
And Twisted Mind's looking a little battered, bruised and broken.
A rush low, off onto the ball as TBNT.
Surge, 3-2.
Knife and shoot go down.
They banded up their wounds, and they're ready for this next fight.
Simple with the Kitsuna rush,
one down a man in that fight,
Enable Suzymine to get back to it and secure the cap.
That's an unbelievable turn around for Suzymine.
Can't afford to go down early here, proper throws out that post bomb.
A scratch worth of damage there, not too much.
Quartz is building up to another overclock here.
Suzymine have to survive this initial dive as Nogoro goes in.
Yeah, there's no ults here for Zedah, yeah.
Quartz with his overclock.
He's been so good so many times, I mean,
The teleporter is going to come through, as Nike are going down 86% and Counting Twisted Minds looking to make this a 2-0.
Zayna Division, they're on their last legs as Quartz, Raleigh is one of the best to ever do it.
Propper goes down, it's only Mille Garou left and Twisted Minds, they are sitting at a 2-0 versus Zayna.
Zayna can bring whatever they want to the table, a 2-fist of all things.
but they cannot overcome the might of Twisted Minds.
Really, Felix, Sera Division 1 are swinging in this one,
swinging for the fences, playing the Doomfist, the Venture, the Tracer,
and Twisted Minds still with the mobility from the Symmetra Teleporter,
TVNT's defense matrix, they're able to buy enough time
to survive the initial dive and then turn things around
and pick up the pieces, getting the frags on Sera Division themselves.
So we take a look at the stature of Quartz again, 25 and 4.
And look at the Deaths here as well, Twisted Minds, or it doesn't come out on top, but
7 Deaths here for 3 of the players.
Just speaks to what a highly contested Seravasa this was.
And I want to go back to what you were talking about half way through this map.
And it felt like, you said, Follick Zeta was in control, and it really did feel like that.
You kind of, you know, we're rolling through the replays now, but you kind of think back like, wow, Mugaro had some insane punches.
And there was a ridiculous dive from proper on the tracer, using the Doomfist for space, like, there were a lot of big plays from Zeta, but when it comes down to it,
Twisted Minds fundamentally had a better game plan, it felt like coming in.
And that's what they've been doing so far this tournament. We saw in the upper bracket as well, when they were competitive on Ilios,
It was them playing the objective, playing the point on Lighthouse.
And now, we're seeing that again with even the overall to this D.Va,
they're going to use their protective abilities. The Su-Su, the healing goes from Funny Astro,
the Su-Metro Teleporter, to just navigate around the map and always contest the objective.
And if you look at Settledivision's composition, I mean, they're playing the Tracer, they're playing the Doomfist,
but they can only contest the objective temporarily and they're forced to give up the cap.
The cap and so even though some of the mission they're winning a lot of these fights
They're racking up the kill feed at the end of the day
It's an objective game and twisted minds are playing it beautifully right now
It's gonna be a
Some sort of castee ban hedgehogs quartz here, but we know how good of a sojin is
I mean not if you're twisted minds as well. You're not really afraid of Mugara's doom coming out on any other maps either
it's um there's a push available Johnny we're gonna hybrid as well like we're sitting on an escort
of course and but we're sitting at 2-0 I mean Zeta sure they just come off of that loss versus
Crazy Raccoon but that was a nail point that was so close like it felt like Zeta well they came in
on top of the world but they were finally knocked down a peg by Crazy Raccoon surely they've not
I don't think they have, but this is a different series.
You're not really playing against the styles of Kraiser Raccoon anymore.
You're forced down into the lower bracket here and deal with the symmetric gameplay from Yubi.
And sometimes that can be a little bit of a headscratcher for set-up division,
because at one point you have to think about, okay, how are we dealing with Kraiser Raccoon?
And then we have to think about how are we going to play against twisted mines?
There are two completely different styles, and maybe you're caught a little bit in between the two.
in between the two. Yeah, and that's you becoming in cold. Pretty damn cold here.
And standing up right now, I'm curious if he's gonna pop back down and play at the
next one. Looks like a small discussion between everybody right now, even Astro
get up. But your confidence is no all-time high. I think the cost to his
demise are up 2-0 here. You can kind of play the long game here in a best of 5
series because you kind of have to leave UB in on this one maybe. If you want the
Symmetra ban I mean would be really crucial here for Settledivision if UB
remains in the game here but maybe you're thinking we can maybe sub in J-Woo
here have a better chance elsewhere but at the same time I talked about it
earlier, 2-3-9-13 they don't like doing that they like to keep the same player in
the full series and UB with his in-game leadership skills you can see he's the
He's the one making the map, he's the one making the decisions, he's the one teleporting the team, and he's the one making the strategic decisions outside of the game too.
They obviously trust his intellect here in Overwatch.
Oh yeah. Group discussion here for Twisted Minds, what they want to do, but I saw UB kind of sign the paper however he just did.
They're ready to rock and roll. There was a substitution, but not in. Milgaru out for Zeta.
Fizayda. That's something that the Cedar division have to keep doing as well. This is not an unexpected
substitution from Cedar division. They like to use both of their tanklers. They have different
strengths. Milgar obviously can't play the Doomfist like we saw the Wrecking Ball. He is more about
those kind of dive characters. Bernard on the other hand, he's been playing some of that Mauga. He is
the Sigma player as well for this team. And so Cedar division, maybe we're thinking what they
We want to do entirely here. Do we maybe want to force something like a circuit?
Real, play around or double flex support lineup.
Still been a really good jet by Cal Bastion map.
But the threat of the Symmetra is always there and something you have to reckon with.
Yeah, Benar is also a player that's been around since, what, like 2016?
BK Stars?
So long.
That's 10 years, buddy. That's a decade of overwatching, Benar.
Yeah.
BK Stars back in 2016. How many of you have watched these teams?
Like three or four?
London, Spitfire, Spark, Outlaws, like, three teams there from Overwatch League, like he's been around, like he's been, and then Fusion U as well, that was a legendary roster.
I mean, just being able to survive in the scene for ten years is unbelievable.
Like, we have so many legends who have been around the scene for so long, but, you know, the usual Overwatch players are like, five years, four, six years, something like that.
Being around it for so long, it's unbelievable from Bernard.
And still an impactful player here, competing.
That squad, by the way, with Bernard was with...
Twilight?
Well, that was a... I think he was on the same time.
Yes, he was on a couple of months with Twilight.
But that was with Alarm, the late Alarm.
We had Bunny, Carpe.
Like, come on, these are OG names.
And like you mentioned, I think that's worth saying again, like...
Being competitive for that long, like 10 years, we're celebrating the 10-year robots.
There's a few signs in the audience that say, you know, happy 10 years and stuff.
And it's like, it's kind of ridiculous when you think about it.
We've come a long way since then.
We've come a long way, Johnny.
It was a different game.
There were no roll-ups.
There were sixes or sixes.
It's...
That was a crazy game.
He did play Dank back then, by the way.
Not only players have learned 10 years, the devs have also learned from 10 years.
I've been watching them. We're in a very different place now.
We got bounce in the game.
And Bernard is still doing a King's Row, it's going to be it here, a set of the vision, Bance out of the Lucio here, and again, I talked about it earlier, this is them saying that we really like or flex you or Violet and Shoe, we want to maximize their ability, and removing Lucio from the mixer from Twist of Mind, could put Twist of Mind's back on the back foot.
I'm not scared though, I'm going to be real with you Johnny, you've got Simple and Astro on this map, like Simple can play like an aggressive Flex Boy who wants to, probably not going to play Xen, but can play Alari, and do you know for Funny Astro?
like or they could just go Kiri and Yang Yang yeah for funny Astro like I just
don't think that the Lucio ban is much of a hindrance anymore really with
Twisted Minds yeah and especially I mean they might bring out the Juno Brigg
here because you still have that brawl capability you know so much a we healing
going away speed ring as well classic the momentum going you this gonna be in
the game here Symmetra is still available you can flip these maps take the
high ground on first point whatever you want to do and so you're putting a lot
of faith in your individual ability to deal with these rotations from twisted
minds and this like I said going into the series is what twisted my or this
was celibation does though they trust their ability to make these individual
plays to break down these kind of compositions but it's a very difficult
thing to do
TNT, maxing and relaxing, reclined all the way back.
I mean, come on, we're in the lower bracket final of a major tournament.
And my guys in this class?
And these guys are chilling.
You know what wrong, I mean.
So composed.
Yeah.
I mean, usually you'd be like, the adrenaline is pumping, you're like, this is the most
important match of my life, but the rate of growth down, and I've been there down.
Yeah.
Come on, guys.
It's just another game.
Dude facts sound like Danny trying to do English slang now as I look at quarter stats from a surah boss
13.2 K damage per 10 only for death as well. I mean that's crazy
I just love the fact that yesterday they came out and they played bashing Cassidy, and they're like, yeah
We recognize that bashing is matter
But you know if we just put quartz on the Cassidy like you know just fly
I fly around the bed. I chew people just shoot some headshots like
Essentially, what we saw from Kevster on the tournament for Virtus.Pro, she's like,
take over the game. Just like, yeah, we know Bastion is the best hitscan hero, but just
play the Cassidy and take over the game on your self-ports. It's unbelievable what this
man is capable of.
It's kind of funny because the camp Bastion has been the talk of the town, talk of the
tournament, talk of the meta, but it feels like Cassidy now as we approach this final
day has been more of the hero in the spotlight than anything else.
Yeah, 100%! I mean, I think what's so funny about Twisted Minds here as well is that it's not the first time that they bring it out to Symmetra late in the tournament.
Right.
Because the last stage of 2025, they essentially played Cycle the entire time, and we're like, oh, this is interesting.
Like, they're just playing normal hit scan and tracer and stuff like that.
And then they bring out to Symmetra in World Finals and win the entire game.
Yeah.
They're like, oh, wait, guys, we have a simple.
Say it about it.
Half-lead decibels, louder than Twisted Minds right now.
They definitely know how much it means to the crowd
as well at this point.
Being playing in front of their home one.
That's the loudest it's been.
Oh yeah.
All three days, that's the loudest it's been.
The Japanese fan cheering on these Japanese organization,
wanting them to win here in their home country,
this first major tournament of 2026.
Astro on the Juno, simple on the Kirit.
That's a whole lot of healing.
Coming through, Twisted Minds, defense, TVNT on the Ram.
Pretty nice.
Fantastic with the Symmetra of course, but Prop is going to try and take to the skies as we see
Scythe Division is twisting things up as well going to a ramp
But against it Scythe Division here the team without the Symmetra always have to be aware of
Twisting might potential to flip the map if you are proper here on the fora a lot of poke damage
It's going to come through here
But what do you do when the hitscan flips the map on you and you have to disengage and survive?
Yeah, you're hoping you save your poop right for a teleport or anything to get him away from it
And then hopefully kind of isolate a kill
Both rams trading blows the nemesis form that good rabbit vortex but forts has a slide
You know that that peel is gonna be there for quartz every single time
No TVNT's on the island here on the mini. Oh
I'm telling you this guy is out of his mind right clicked and then through the statue he ends up picking up a kill
very small margin there to pick it up but yeah Quartz has already found one
and all night. Wrong place wrong time buddy. The momentum here for Saturday
vision has really faded. Quartz is having an unbelievable series once more
here on the hitscan and proper is sticking it with the fara, trusting the
process but we need to see more from him than we have so far. Trust the process
trust, trust improper. That has been, honestly, a lot of teams have relied on just that.
It's going to be the support of the people here for Celadivision.
And the end of just rotating really fast, though, through hotel, but they're going to get pinched
if they're not careful. Quick teleport out to the choke point, maybe? No, they're actually going to
go flip, flip side straight up. I mean, look, Xu's got the rush, too, and then Panar with the annihilation.
Both rushes laid on top of each other, Rammus Vortexes are traded as Rams go back to back as
as they just try and absorb as much damage as possible to floor each other.
But it is Quartz time.
Overclocked, used.
Annihilation for Banara.
Violet is so low.
Here comes the wall.
No one's behind just yet, but Yubi is fully charged up right now on the screen.
But Banara uses the fall.
But it is Violet that goes down to Quartz.
And Twisted Minds.
They've cracked this open.
As Zayna division, they had a firm hold on this point,
gaining two ticks, Johnny.
But now with a minute and 40 to go,
they're going to have to regroup.
Twisted Minds are allowed to play their game. Their layering of these ultimates is going to be perfect every single time, and they come out on top once more.
Now, had to invest quite a few ultimates there. This should be Settler Division's chance to really get things going.
Knight has to come up big time with his own overclock.
One-shot Ravus as well, Johnny, with the orbital ray.
Proper's got the barrage, but teleport onto the high ground, forces him to relocate once again.
Suzu, early on, simple down, there is the ray.
a return one. I think a fight might be already done in Dustin and that's Astro.
He gets an insane kill but no, it's all 9.
DBNT low. Surely he doesn't survive. Nightflank another.
Okay. Knife's in the building.
Set of the vision. Finally gets a breathe. A sigh of relief there.
With the ultimate advantage and then a nice early pick onto Simple.
They get going in a Fibers' 4 scenario. When proper steal has this barrage,
They're so difficult to get value here TVNT is over to the diva and that is going to be the goal sign here for
He can't be on this far up against the diva
But to be the May instead here and now we're kind of playing that misukie composition once more
Yeah, he's gonna take that 15% free ult charge from the swap
TVNT on this high ground, but they're gonna try and maybe split the team off
But a really good wall from proper there stops the assault
as TBNT puts himself in choke, but these ravenous vortexes, while Johnny,
gonna be big value if they land on TBNT and they can chunk him out.
Yeah, that was really scary for Prospect 4, Twisted Minds,
they're starting to run away with this cart and they're gonna build a Kitsunosh as well.
Twisted Minds, no great teleport locations for them here.
The wall on cooldown, there's the Suzu, hits 4 for simple,
it's gonna earn himself a Kitsunia, Rush and Yinsi pops it,
it's air division, I'm gonna respond, but they just walk forward with this ram,
nice wall, it's gonna, I see that UB from the rest of the team,
but a wall of his own is actually gonna separate,
Entirely is heading to vision. They need to group up, but ask them to swing it, but he can't get the heals.
He's dashing in and out of the wall and no one can land any healing shots on him.
So 4 vs 4 scenario, Bernard is down, a lot of tanking away from the enemy proper.
Sanctuary's gonna come in though, and TBNT is trapped in here.
He tries to trace proper, but he's already been healed up.
Beautiful stuff from Violet.
Saved here for Zedah.
Proper's gonna burn, he's mech down with the left click now.
Payload's still going. Zedah with time in the bank.
I don't think that twisted mind is going to get another touch there.
It's going to be very close as they rely on Faniato spawning.
Faniato actually gets a great spawn here wave, but it's not going to be quick enough.
And this is going to be set up the vision. They have this bit of teleporter to get up early.
Overclocked from knife. You want to find a pick?
Just to guarantee it, maybe.
Oh, the car kept down.
They want the chain. The chain from Violet. Put Kibbe and T in place.
And the DMACC as well, self-destruct, and he gets killed, Johnny. I mean, they're losing so much ground.
They're losing so much ground, and not only are we already on third point here, but set a division.
They have the superior ultimates, as sure as it's getting closer to that Kitsuna rush.
Who doesn't mind, they need one player to pick up things big-time here at Quartz.
Oh, probably behind him, he's trying to go for an assassination with the mate.
There's two big ultimates for Zayna, they've got Blizzard, they've got Neonation, however the orbital ray is being used by TVNT
but it is all Gnar here. Funny Astro popped that and hoping TVNT can push forward with the heals and the damage and kill the backline.
But Zayna, like, perfectly.
And now proper as well. With this Maywall and the Blizzard available, could really put Twisted Mines in a tough place.
The Sumetral Teleporter is good.
It's so cheap.
That last fight was so cheap though, Johnny.
Blizzard on the point, TBNT gives his life up for the cause
as the annihilation now stands in the way of Twisted Minds
and touching this point.
There is going to be a sanctuary here for Violet.
They save the division.
They roll on in.
The ultimate economy on that last push has never looked so good.
Twisted Minds, that map just got away from them
from the very first time on second point where they kind of got walled off in the choke
and Settled Division were allowed to keep pushing that cart, it just made the defense really awkward for Twisted Minds there.
Now, that being said, 1-49 in the time bank here, because of Twisted Minds' fantastic defense on first point,
those actually allowed an opportunity here to get back into this map.
We know what kind of momentum they can keep rolling with, with the Symmetra, with the Soldier.
If they get going here on their own offense,
This map is not over for them yet.
We want more than three maps. The crowd does. Everybody in the chat does as well. I already know.
This is the best Overwatch players in the world. Wanna see as many maps as possible.
It's a set of division. They've been caught lacking so far.
Jake Love could point this out yesterday by the way, that they're optimizing here to hide the composition of course.
Don't want to spoil to the office just yet that they're playing the Masuki make-up position
Quick change there if they do spot out of his paper. Yeah, good. Tonight's a little bit of info every detail matters
Dude's so true me playing on low detail for 10 years every deep
I got 500 FPS bro on my 250 Hertz water
Alright Quartz, here's the TP play for Twisted Minds, this has always been the big problem
actually defending against this team.
Quickly taking high ground, quickly getting to this mega health pack room and UB basically
sets up a little house and they have Quartz basically just fish for snipes.
Just a matter of time here for Twisted Minds as they look to use this teleporter to give
themselves a positional advantage.
TBNT is going to put pressure on to this point, it's going to force the move, you can see proper here contesting the point on the main as well.
But with less members here for subdivision on the high ground, it would be an opportunity for Quartz to set up.
Knife and proper, so low.
TBNT.
The health bars are so low.
He's swinging haymakers right now.
The chain's good, I mean sure, it locks him down so he can't chase, but whatever.
Knife and proper, that entire time trying to, I was peeping the health bars, under 50% HP for a majority of that fight.
And that was just the point.
And this is what I said as well, the momentum can really start going for Twisted Minds here.
Set of division, have to set up their defense accordingly.
If Quartz finds a pick here early to help get through this trope, that could be devastating for Set of Division.
What was that explicit really quickly?
Is he in hella right like 80%? I mean Violet too, he's almost got sanctuary.
They really need to come online here.
They need some defensive tools here.
If they can, this is one of the better jokes in the entire game, you want to keep this defensive position from side direction, it's crucial they get a good teamfight here.
Oh my god, of course there's one HP. Wow!
Quick, sharp reaction there, showing that teleport, but there comes the sanctuary in the trope point, proper, Blizzard at his feet, TVNT trying to get away.
What a suzu coming in from simple, but he might have just given his own life, and unfortunately, it will be Twisted Mind retreating.
Blizzard sanctuary on the corner, TVNT, he just couldn't be saved.
You have to use a couple of ultimates to maintain this position.
Twisted mines, they used the Kitsun rush of their own,
but they still have four very powerful ultimates.
See what they can cook here.
Try to set up Quartz for success with this overclock.
Using very narrow sidelines here, but it doesn't need much.
Yeah, here comes the rush.
They're really tempering their ult now, but it's all great.
The one-shot on this shoe is good enough.
Quartz on the corner now.
He's kind of been wailin' a little bit with his ravenous vortex, but they've opened up the choke with a team kill.
The orbital ray and the overclock is enough to damage out, but it's just too much.
And Quartz open things up there, and Twisted Minds get rolling once more.
UBS wall? He has the Symmetra wall, and this is a pivotal tool here to try and get some more sustain on this next team fight.
This ultimate alone could be enough to win it.
The wall is so punishing for Knight to fight into with this OC.
There's the Ravnus Vortex. There's going to be a wall up too.
Isolating TVNT is the teleport, swings Knife's head.
There comes the wall and now they can start their dance.
A slow serenade on the point is Fnarch tries to stay alive.
Nevis' form straight into the annihilation.
both DVNT and BnR just trying to keep themselves up.
As QoS dashes back, receives a Suzu, but it's BnR that falls first.
DVNT absorbing so much damage, and for the rest of his team, it is merely clean up.
And going unnoticed in that fight, it's actually Knight taking a massive flank with the Overkill,
trying to get picked, but he doesn't find anything.
And because Set of Division are missing the damage from their sojourn player,
They're able to put more pressure on to Bernard to win the battle in the front line.
And with that, they're going to keep marching on to the third point with four minutes in the time bank.
Kitsune rush versus Kitsune rush. Sanctuary and propers blizzard available. Another big tool that
they used to win that uh choked fight a moment ago. There's the sanctuary used. TVNT caught in here
It's the wall. They managed to destroy a couple of pillars so he gets out alive, but I think it'll be as a killing image. I don't like it.
So proper obviously has this blister, but facing us to Metro Teleporter is going to be hard to get value. Quartz as well with this overclock.
We look to get into a position.
Oh, where he can open things up again! Quartz does it over and over and over time and time again.
His rail guns are just so blind. Wow.
Yeah.
Orbital Raid for Funny Astro against Proper's Blizzard.
Quartz is waiting on this high ground, waiting, hoping he can get a kill onto Knife.
Surely not.
Probably looking for a wall first to isolate a target.
Wow, he's already popped the block. There is the Orbital Raid.
He has to pop Blizzard, he's just has to!
No!
He's still Blizzard Jax!
It gets cancelled completely by Quartz!
They're just gonna run it down now on the tanks, but I was on the right side of the team fight right here
So he's gonna get healed but I should just gonna come up as nice shot down court
And if you can do it, I can do it better says knife
He's got a couple under his belt is TVNT with the annihilation on the point solo
Two three, there's no way he gets a fourth surely not proper ends up getting healed up sure, but
The Ramatra is too strong for Sella Division. It's an absolute brawl with proper going down early.
The Blizzard cancelled, but knife fights back on the soldier and secures a couple of picks for Sella Division himself.
But it's not enough to run Marko with the annihilation.
TVNT makes the most out of things.
And Twisted Minds with 2 minutes 23 as we head into overtime here on Kings Row.
That was the ult to stop the Ray push, the Blizzard, the Blizzard Jax, the Maid Jax.
Whatever you want to call it.
We're not used to seeing proper dropouts like that, that's for sure.
TVNT at the end, receiving a little bit of healing there, but
And he's in the annihilation, sure, but he's killing four people on his own.
Just in mind, they do such a great job sustaining throughout these fights.
The healing is just unbelievable, and it feels like every single time they win the tank matchup, Bernard.
He just can't stand up to TB&T, and as that last fight progresses, you see the end result of that, TB&T.
He stays alive the longest, and Ramatra, the tank, such a powerful hero in the late stages of the teamfight.
Twisted mines, they got going, they're showing that they got some teeth yonking throw themselves.
Minute 49-223.
Proper, Farah again here.
Yeah, I really believe that he can get value out of this pick when team T is over onto their
Mothra.
Early push through with the speed rig.
OHHHHHHHHHH!
That was a sick flick from Proper.
Well, that's one way to deal with the carry on the team is just 1-2 in a punch.
has to be a disengager from Twisted Minds now, regroup, get people going. They have the
Symmetral Teleporter so they could flip the map here. But this is going to be a very
tough contest if they go for it at all. Maybe they test the waters here a little bit.
Matini is going to get shielded off for the rest of the team, he's just so low. Crossing
his arms right now, as Funny Ashrow goes down, as Bernard goes to the trade. Nice shot again
from proper there. One minute to go and Johnny getting this fight this early on
you're gonna be able to take that choke point. That was a big difference from what
we saw early on from Cedars Division on this map. Twist in mind the previous
time it was probably three minute defense there on the very first point but
this time Cedars in proper with an amazing individual play that's what we
keep talking about. Cedars Division's ability to make these kind of plays open
things up and now they're pushing crucial meterage being gained here by
subdivision in overtime rounds. Whoa a five man teleport from Tristan Mines right
behind them. Surely they are having inklings exactly what they kind of
did before but it's a little bit too far far away for them to re-engage. Proper on
the tracer this time no maywall available but Tristan Mines still letting
the payload push a lot here. Force to recall but still happy to get in there.
Simple, wants to build a skitsunerosh.
The bot's moving though, for the payload.
There's another teleport, TVNT going low.
Has to play a little bit more tentatively.
Careful.
Funny ashtrow as well, takes a round-run shot,
and there's proper in the back, get the recall as well.
So is able to escape, but there's like...
Kitsunerosh!
Simple trying to drop the kitsunerosh, but...
Johnny, it's all for naught!
They thought they could make a player in overtime,
dropping a massive ultimate.
But they get nothing for it, and the crowd responds to Cedarivision picking up the pace.
Proper strays it there, I mean, that kill onto Astro, that's the call out from Knife.
He's half-bomb, Proper goes in, cleans up, and that's it, that's the fight.
So clinical from Proper, to be there at the right time to clean up.
And Cedarivision now with a lot of ultimates available.
At this point he's probably got 15 rollies on his wrist, mate. Of course he's got the perfect timing.
Another body shot there, onto simple, quick teleport away but Nike's hunting for a head.
You're facing the Katsuna right here.
Oh boy, it's gonna unleash this overclock, but shoot, it's already down for the side of Zella Division.
It's OT of course and they have to fight the payloads.
There's the Annihilation for Banar, but the sanctuary is not gonna help him.
35 at left on the point now, he gets cleaned on up, OT ticks through, Zeta halted but an
impressive push off of 1.9. That's an unbelievable push from Sena Division. To get to the third
point in overtime rounds with a small time bank they had as well, that should give them
the upper hand here, that should be enough to claim their first map win in this very
We saw what Twisted Minds were capable of on the attack themselves
But to get to the third point to finish the series like this highly unlikely from Twisted Minds
Quartz about thousand more damage you are that 700 or so above knife right now
Similar ish a limbs
Now do they change anything up for their defense it doesn't feel like they really need to I
I mean proper on the tracer is interesting. He has so many different heroes he can't play here on this defense
but he trusts his own individual skill to achieve great things on this tracer.
Proper of course Overwatch League MVP himself back in the day.
Hale is such a great young prospect and he's made one hell of a career for himself.
He's one of the best players in the world, undoubtedly the best player in the world at times.
And he believes on this tracer, he can have big enough of an impact to secure this map win for Cedrician as they look to advance in the lower bracket, now facing an 0-2 deficit.
I mean, Tracer's been one of, if not the biggest impact hero of all time, like since ten years ago.
What's the demands here?
Gonna take this time to set up, set up these angles appropriately, respond to what's
said at this point or deliver.
Oh, Yibi.
Don't really low.
Knife as well trying to chest the anchor, you can't just simple like that.
No Surrey.
Change on support.
Look at the support coming in.
And one.
Once again in that fight, it's Quartz opening things up.
He was not the one to get the kill in the kill feed, but a crucial rail body shot and
the rest of the team capitalise and knife goes down in that one. Quartz taking some
great angles there. It's a crucial shot and sets up the rest of his team. Proper now,
over onto the farra instead. Is TVNT going to stick to this marqura?
Okay, it's going to be a tough time to actually change gears. Quartz takes a body shot rail
from knife.
Just a battle to build these ultimates. Simple.
Has to lead a 2-0, 7%
And this is A-Division trying to come back in the series as well, Johnny
There's a minute left on the clock here as they try and make their defensive move against Twisted Bites
Kite focused the other to kill onto Ubi
Every kill counts here
Oh, he was looking for the dash, you see that?
You have to keep taking these chances for either team
Obviously the railgun's so powerful
You have to be wary of it
But you have to keep making plays, stay proactive, stay confident
that you can't take these swings and not die.
Here comes another swing for TVNT.
Proper over the top there,
so a couple of rockets raining down in the back line,
but is TVNT now, now walks on forward?
That was very close to five actually dropping,
but is TVNT that goes down?
The overclock from Knight is going to buy them even more time.
Twenty-three seconds remaining here for Twist of Minds
as they wait for TVNT to get back,
but this allows the Division to set up this next fight.
However they want, Sanctuary into Tuna Rush available.
It's going to be a lot of ultimates deployed here.
Proper sparrow could be a big difference maker though.
Over to Rey, there's going to be dangerous for fighting into twisted mines.
There's the barrage in the back, it's well panna.
He's trying to stay alive.
Quartz, it's all quartz all day.
A double kill with the Rey on TVNG, cleans up the rest, twisted mines.
They only used two ults in that fight.
But Senna Division, they have a couple of opportunities here.
That was not a must win fight.
Twisted Mind Stove, fantastic jobs, maintaining ultimate economy here.
Only deployed the orbital ray and the overclock, and Quartz secured those frags.
They still have three ultimates, and they probably need to win a couple more teamfights here.
Cropper waiting in the wings with the barrage, do they know? That is the question.
They're trying to go for it now, but the wall is going to be a massive hindrance to him.
There's the barrage on top of the wall!
He's on the roadside, it doesn't matter, he still kills you, they jump on top of the payload, now it's a car,
and it's the annihilation in front, they're teasing down,
Quartz is hitting all the way back, he's taking it into his last minutes,
ends up falling off the annihilation, and states are deficient.
They're not out yet.
They won the rematch in the finals.
Johnny, I hate to say it, reverse sweep starts now.
The reverse sweep starts now,
Sella Division win their first map here in the lower bracket final facing
elimination and it was proper on that fara making the big play with the barrage
to open things up for the rest of his team. Great play by Sella Division
holding on to their ultimates and finding the right time to collapse onto
Twisted Minds. They close out Kings Row in spectacular fashion but now
Twisted Minds get the opportunity to pick map for the first time in this
series and Ban first two that's the danger zone I think we saw what push on
the card to escort as well so when it comes to push like runasapi is such a
good map for something like a far too it probably still wants to to rock it
cat-bashing obviously as well I mean you could get the the far ban out if you
want to go to something like runasapi and I think you're good to bring up
because it has been such a dominant man for Twisted Minds, the way they've been closing out on that map.
And if you ban the Pharah, well, you also protect, obviously the Symmetra that is going to be deployed here.
I do think that this is a very scary situation for Scylla Division to be in, because obviously you have to reverse sweep,
but you're going to be forced to play into Twisted Minds, now playing their own game with the Symmetra, with their map picks, their map bans.
It's only going to get harder here. This was set of divisions choice here
They want to go to King's Row. They got the first ban now you have to play twisted mines game
We say the division
This was the map not exactly the map, but the number the third map in the series they won against crazy racoon
Crazy crew went to a lot they take a map go to the next one and then they faltered to land themselves here
I really do feel, if you're a Twisted Minds here, you're so confident still, we took them to overtime on King's Row, we've been rolling these first couple of maps, playing the objective so well, you're not going to let this affect you.
I bet you, if we take a look at the camps right now, they're leaning back, they're comfortable, composed still in this series.
It's just a matter of where do they feel even more comfortable, what maps do they prefer in this one?
Yeah, TVNZ is going to be straight chilling again. Lean all the way back.
And you know they're going to learn from this series as well.
What are Settledivision doing? We saw a knife there a couple of times.
Hard swinging with the soldier and trying to open things up.
Bernard, how is he playing in the front line on this from Atra?
Ubi, he gathers all that information. They learn from their mistakes and they improve upon that.
That is what Ubi can provide as in-game leader with a stick shot here from Propo.
It's unbelievable. It's one of the very best for a reason.
I mean when he joined the Overwatch League everyone was like this guy is it, this guy is the God Gamer.
People got tired of us talking about Poppershot.
They did, they actually did, they worked.
We talked about Poppershot, watched people got tired of it.
People got really annoyed.
But he was next up.
He was?
We gave the year MVP in the same year.
Yeah.
That never happened, that was the first time that ever happened.
It's the only time that happened I believe.
You're testing my knowledge here after a long day.
But it is the only day I believe, proper or special.
And he remains special here, making the place on the far, on the tracer here as well.
It's going to have to be pivotal for the rest of this series.
It's a set-up division team that, again, to recap, has been the best team in the world in 2026.
They dominated Korea, beaten down Crayson Raccoon 4-0 so far up until today,
where Crayson Raccoon finally got revenge in that matchup and claimed their spot in the grand final.
So set-up division, high expectations for this team.
A super team coming together at the start of this year with the ambitions of winning majors.
winning world championships but now they face themselves in a 1-2 scenario here in the lower bracket final
They had expectations for so much more. I can't believe proper got that kill with the wall like this is a messy overwatch fight like
Rushes annihilations as a wall there too sanctuary as well on the corner. That was a messy one, but proper
like on that wall like he managed to dip in and he got the opening pick that they needed to propel
themselves to win that map. Twisted Minds still on match point. We're going to their pick and their
ban first but before that we leave the players a couple of moments as we jump into a break.
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Broke in pieces on the floor
Like you've been walking on childhood holes. I can't believe I didn't see
But now I'm making nothing but a memory
I take the start back, so I can move on
Then I'm the wrong guy, you're not the wrong one
I take the start back, so I can move on
Then I'm the wrong guy, you're not the one, not the one
We've been blinded for too long
Now we've got no space or good
And we've gone, you've got me real close
There's no more to try and win through
How this story ends and up to you
I'll take a step out so I can move on
Then on the wrong track, you're not the one
You're not the one
I'll take a step back so I can move on
Then on the wrong track, you're not the one
You're not the one
I don't know where I'm going
We've been lying for too long
Now we got no strength, we're good
And we've gone
You've got me real close
Got to run
I'm looking hard and hard
We're moving on, we're moving on
Zeta is still on the brink of extinction here in this lower bracket finals, Crazy Raccoon
waits for one of these teams as Twisted Minds lose Kings Row Johnny and now get their map
pick.
We're on to map 4 in this series with Set of Division trying to make a comeback here.
They face an 0-2 deficit, took us to King's Row, secured a map win on their own pick,
but this is now Twisted Minds being allowed to play their own game and they are going
to take us to Circuit 3R.
Okay, now where are they targeted in their bands?
It's going to be the Pharah taking that away from proper.
Zeta with the Kiriko.
So again, can go Kat Bashanir, can also play the Juno for Funny Ashrow, can play the Juno
break brawl like we've talked about on this kind of map not so much you really do need
a Sigma here if you're both teams TVNT definitely no slouch on the SIG but would probably opt
to play the Diva regardless.
Yeah we talked about it going into the break as well that the Pharah ban obviously blocks
proper ability to play that hero but it also protects the Symmetra ban and so that is going
to be crucial do expect the Symmetra to be played once more here it's just a matter of
How do you want to design the composition around UB? What do you want towards the play here to really have that impact on the hitscan hero?
We've seen a lot of cat bastion being played so far in Circuit Real. It's been a very potent composition.
Okay, proper knife. They're not tank players, but is there map to the forward stats?
I mean, there is one hell of a 1-2 punch duo.
Oh yeah, knife.
Nife has been such a standout player, and I mean he's been around the block as well
He was watching the same comments properly just on two very different teams
Bro, the Vegas is out of my chip, and then the San Francisco shock, two very different teams
Hey, it was some crazy racoon for a brief stint as well. Right? Yeah, didn't make it to the world finals unfortunately
Also had a short sit on Team Liquid, so that's what we're talking about when Nife has been around the block
But I feel like you know this combined with this time on Fatic as well
This has been one of the times it's really been unleashed and been allowed to play his own game
This is undoubtedly the best roster he's ever been on and I think it speaks to his level as well
All these legends shoe violet proper at them taking him in and saying knife
We love what you're doing. We love the impact you have on them as well and we trust you
We love what you're doing out there
Please come join us. It's just it's just the way you put it right. I mean look, okay?
Yeah, I gotta say, I know we got set a division to his mind ahead of us, but the fact that Knife, earlier on Ilios, took over the lobby when we had proper stalker Hissai, and Knife was the one who took over the games at times, that was incredible to me.
That's a great damage player you got from your hands here for set a division, and so a lot of impact so far in this game really took it to quartz at times on that king's row.
We talked so much about forceability, one of the finest discount players in the game.
And Nite, he was the one to pick up some of those entry frags as well.
EMEA's number one world champions.
And Zedah Division Asia's number one, jumping onto Circuit Royale now.
That crazy racoon team.
Take it down Zedah Division not a moment ago.
Now it's Tris Mines, maybe it's their turn.
a bit more leveled out that time Johnny I must say. It's a lot of twist in my
fans in the building still. You're always going to be a fan of a wild champion.
So look at this defense. No big shock. Let's say Shu on the the honor, no surprise,
Kirokoban, and man is such a good point for this as well. As Banar doesn't go
for the Sigma, he's actually just gonna face TVNT in this Randall. And I can't
wait to see how this compositional matchup is going to go. We saw even
earlier in the tournament Virtus.pro that they brought out the Symmetra
themselves thinking that perhaps the Symmetra was a key for success here. Quartz?
Wait, looking for an early hook shot there, but not going to be it as he swaps over to the Soderne
And I just want to see now how you be with the Sometra teleporters could flip
Against this fairly immobile composition service in our plane
Yeah, they've got the Alari too some added damage and pressure on that ram
You'd be solo teleporting to this high ground here and just slinging right clicks out to see if you can fish for a
A body shot on which quarts can also then follow up with a body shot.
Jump into, unfortunately, another little pause.
Maybe Zedah Division on the other side of things.
So we're just pushing the cart for now,
controlling the objective as we approach this very second corner of the map so far.
And this is where things become really interesting,
because where does that first UB teleporter get deployed?
If you want to teleport you and yourself to the team to the outskirts towards the edge of this very first point
You're providing the rest of your team an alternate angle to try to get shots onto the back line
Off a set of vision, but how do they respond with the may walls and such?
To try and prevent twisted minds to get into that superior position with the extra angles
Knife drop something I don't know what happened there, but I'm spitting his earphones back in so
So, we shouldn't be another couple of minutes, we should be getting into the game in just
a moment.
We're going to pull these headphones out.
You want to make sure everything is perfect?
Of course, here at the moment, just the briefest hiccup, it doesn't have to be much for any
of these players.
They want to make sure everything is working correctly.
So, hopefully just a brief scenario where I felt that something was alerted off, and
it could be a quick fix here and get going once more.
Yeah, it looks like he's good at the refs, calling in, and hopefully, yeah, there shouldn't
be a device issue I'm seeing on the big screen now you can see the device issue
with knife people just have phones out for show I mean it is technology brother
I mean we all know technology I don't know how it works but sometimes it
doesn't work for some reason and then it works again it's so true them IT
support be like a just turn it off and on again but it works though why that
Oh, second quarter.
So, what's that teleporter now from, Yubi?
I'm gonna catch out proper, but...
Very easy to go block mode, and then wall mode.
Banar fighting against that area there. That's a lot of damage to that teleporter.
Again, really aiding...
In the front, which pressure from Twisted Minds.
They get up to teleport, find an off angle, Banar falls back.
No healing for Knifes. Banar was like...
Sub under HP, even in Nemesis form, proper goes down as well.
They're pulling out, leaves them on all day.
And I mentioned it earlier on King's Row as well.
Quist and Mainz, they just seem like the superior team when it comes to the neutral tank matchup.
So much damage being output onto Bernard, and over time, Quist and Mainz,
they're just going to overcome their opponents.
Set of division.
And to me, while they're relying on some of these individual plays, I feel like, at times,
to open things up.
Quistin mines, they have such fantastic layering of ultimates, they need something a little bit extra.
Look at how much healing, shoot, and Violet, already done. They've got ult coming up like this now, it's so early for shoot.
So his mines have pushed up fairly far, they used their teleport to escape.
Oh, this overclocked range, true for Quartz, but an instant deploy of the Sanctuary, and even the nano as well.
That's true support ultimates for Zeta.
Quartz! They best be winning that fight. Quartz gets a what?
Why don't you end up going down?
Twisted Mines have times gone around.
Quartz gets a third in this fight.
I mean, Benara and Propper have no say now.
This fight's gone and done.
It's over.
He took out both supports and now to fight
Dunn and Dusted.
It didn't matter the television.
They deployed the nonibus there.
They were the ones to get going.
Quartz puts us both to things.
Unbelievable.
They used both support ults in that fight, Johnny.
Now, Twisted Minds have both, they've had four ults coming up, like...
The Maek could be potent here, but Twisted Minds, they can play slow with the Pope.
Wow, that is a very early ult from Bernard there.
Taptive Sun, for Simple.
Blizzard on the point, the wall deployed as well, separating them.
And Simple's got a better angle now, by the way, thanks to that wall from proper.
Straight up from that high ground, Bernard's got no CDs left, by the way.
No annihilation, no nemesis form after this, so he's going to be rather alone in the front line
and Quartz deals with him as Violet, and the rest of the gang just intons of the payload,
but Twisted might just run them down. The confidence from Fonny Astro in that fight as well,
not the whole team's right. They knew that they had the advantage when it came positionally to
set up the vision. They had to be the team to go touch the payload and put themselves in an
unfortunate position. Fonny Astro, using his veteran experience to know that, held onto this
orbit on Rey and are now getting close to the mines an amazing opportunity to have a
tremendous push in a circuit route already on the third point with 4-30 in the
time. Yeah they're thinking win this high ground fight as well Johnny with that
Rey. Jobs are good in.
Wow what a shot from Nigh. Finally like coming up right here but Ubi here's that
right thing payload still moving Johnny Ubi with the teleport forcing the block
into proper little turret placement as well. Someone has to deal with UB right now but a quick escape.
He's so annoying here. QBNT is going to drop the annihilation.
Yeah but I was low too. He's just running all the way to the back.
Takes one punch of violet. The annihilation finishes him off and twisted mines have not let
their foot off the gas. UB what a sensational pick there to keep things competitive and it
allows twisted mines to get back early. The annihilation is too much and Bernard the first
tank to drop again. Quartz has this overclock here, Jaws. Oh, he's on a ridiculously deep
angle right now. He manages to get out of the way just in time, but Quartz might go for
a reappearance here. He is half HP, but still willing to test the mental over his own division.
Proper set equally low. Orl orbital ray now for Fyler onto the point. Captain Stunner's
long is going to connect. Fyler sleeping with the fishes, although Nite returns with a pick
onto UB. So four versus four scenario here,
Twisted Minds, they're still doing a lot of that.
Properly to play.
TVAT was trying to force out the entire time.
He had to get out as well.
Oh, man.
That's another vision.
Barely holding on there, on the defense,
but forced to use so many ultimates,
Violet with the orbital ray, proper with the Blizzard
as well, just to make one grand stand there.
The very last team fight before the capture
from Twisted Minds.
Twisted Minds are still comfortable here.
They have the Symmetra wall, but because of the high ground
available here for Celerdivision, maybe the best opportunity
to get value here.
Wanna play the objective prep.
Nanoboost Vashu here to help Anar on the point.
They're gonna wall proper off, force the ice block, in fact,
as they get high ground.
Properest goal finish here.
With that teleporter.
Yeah, probably just gonna get out of it.
He wanted to try and stay alive,
but no Nanoboy Vashu, he's 10% away.
The anti-goode massive though, a simple and eubing end-up going down.
The anti from Shusei today for the payload has to be touched.
Ports ends up killing Vileber.
Benard still on a spree and there's only TBNT left.
And Shue is the saver of the day with that periodic grenade.
Hit onto two members, allows the division there to get the advantage and finish off that fight.
It's not only proper as to make place on this team at night.
Shoe with some great impact there as well and every single teamfight matters here to try and reduce the time bank available towards twisted mines.
Now this time they're wrapping around on the outside here trying to get the high ground and allow Quartz to get into good position here with the overclock.
I feel like it's going to be an OC versus OC fight Johnny.
Two annihilation here for TM, it's TDNT as well.
Oh what a shot, the pilot, the headshot is good, let's finish this off.
I mean only one support available now and Quartz pops the overclock.
Knife down, proper to follow, and Twisted Vine, sink that payload in.
And does it not feel like this Twisted Minds roster is destined to reach another grand final.
They're rolling so confident in their approach, they lose a team fight on the back of some great
plays by Sella Division, but they keep coming back with coordination with Team Play, and it's
It's just too overwhelming for Sella Division.
22 and 3 for Quartz, 9k damage on point 6.
Astro not even dying too.
Zero deaths.
Yeah.
He do be chilling in the back line.
Chilling and living in the mines.
But again, I mean that Sella Division, they're playing the slower approach,
they don't have that same level of pressure.
Right.
Onto the back line of Twisted Mines.
And meanwhile, you're seeing Violet, you're seeing Shu.
Those were the members who often died first for Sela Division.
Obviously they have to peek around the corner, they have to try to keep Bernal up.
But Quartz and Ubi, they capitalized on that fact because they get line of sight onto the supports of Sela Division.
And it felt like so many times on that attack, Quist and Mainz opened things up,
abusing the support line-up that Sela Division are opting for.
Can you see why they've had a fire too?
You want to run this comp with simple on the Alari?
Another threat to the far ashore, but kind of annoying to deal with in the Ram comps.
See if Naive can get quick headshot, probably not.
But you never know.
The bro just won 6% old George.
Then he got 0.
Oh, Bastion jet backcat.
Oh, okay, flipping the script.
Here we go.
Straight over the top.
Hello.
What miss? There's no one there on the bridge. They've actually all rotated down to the mega health pack room.
Oh, funny, I straight forward.
Nifus getting shot by three different anglers right now. It's going so low as Yubi, but he's managed to keep himself alive.
His knife cut down by Quartz.
But Pena is able to make some sense of the madness in the front line.
Oh, what a Cortex!
The Cortex indeed, but it's good stall there by Twisted Minds, keep the payload in place
so you lose the initial fight but you get to scout out your opponents, you get to make
some reactionary switches if need be and TVNT is over onto the D.Va.
So now, come the real defensive stalwart point for Twisted Minds here.
They have the more optimal composition to deal with what Zedavision was rolling out with.
result here for Shu, kind of, 60% or so.
They're to re-engage really quick as well.
They've got the teleports to bring everybody forward,
but they're gonna swing the bastion in.
First of all, he's waiting for this one, obviously.
He's gonna get that call down out first.
Survive for now, but Shu wants to build his nanoboost,
and the next time the subdivision goes with the turret form,
that is the one to be scary though.
Yeah, well, TNT's gonna try and take this high ground
away first, so they have to regain that ground.
Looks like they're gonna back off now.
Shu has the nano.
That's probably gonna be the play, Jerry, like,
and knife goes in, what a matrix of TVNT though,
boards though still, pressure down.
That matrix doesn't last the entirety of the Bastion form unfortunately.
As FUNNYASTRO is at dangerously low,
is that made over the top of blind one from knife?
Heals off FUNNYASTRO, but TVNT is still up by the way.
No self-destruct.
Ninty's quickly dealt with, that is the point that, Mazzada.
The fight deteriorates after that non-boost engage from the set of the vision.
It is such a powerful approach that this is the meta so far, this tournament.
These aggressive swings with the Bastion and especially with the non-boost in hand as well, it's just too much damage.
You can only matrix for so long and you see right there why so many teams opt for that composition.
Twisted mines here though. Five ultimates out there to Skosalts.
Oh, high noon. Yeah, well, we're all right.
I'm gonna try and jump down this maybe.
Paul's making a decision.
Actually, proper that fall is okay.
I'm gonna attack here from TBND, just cutting off Shu from the rest of his team.
And that is going to be something they keep doing here, Jaws, as well.
Because Shu is such an important character for Settled Mission here,
that especially with this D.Va play and the speed ring as well,
you have to take every opportunity to punish that backline.
And Twisted Mind's, wow, the way they're setting up the aggression right here.
here oh oh see I take that one instead I was really cheeky now you take that
trade they have to get him out by the soft over actually oh to the chain and it
keeps to be in place in spot wow violet massive brain and that's a free little
attack TV and he's gonna get back quick though you just couldn't expect that if
you're TV and T and television are quick to capitalize on the mistakes of TV and
This fight is going to be so important now.
Twist and Mines, they have the orbital ray to roll out of this narrow choke point.
They have the captive sun as well.
Throw sanctuary to help with that, old Johnny, sadly.
Oh, here comes the captive sun, straight in the back.
That's a good connection.
He's trying to chunk out proper.
Oh!
Proper.
Maybe testing the ego a little bit too much.
Suddenly, you're in a really uncomfortable position if you're set of division losing all this high ground now.
The twisted mines once again push the spawn doors here proper over to do with the MAKER, watch out.
The shield is in the way.
But set of division now without this high ground as we're playing this slow approach with the MAKER,
it's going to give Twisted Mines the opportunity here at every single time to be proactive, especially with the thigh that I appear as well.
Yeah, they can TP this one as well, straight on top of Knight.
They knew the player they wanted to kill, and they got their man.
Another fight win for Twisted Minds.
Nano-Poust invested as well by Shu.
Caught way too far up.
They're gonna try to keep making place here at Twisted Minds,
and they're still shooting into the spawn doors of the center division.
They got a back.
Ultimately forced to withdraw here.
They do have the cementer teleporter, so should have no trouble regaining five members.
Oh!
But simple!
Wow!
Going down to proper actually.
Crucial icicle from proper.
And that means they can push up here and with the Sanctuary as well
Really good ultimate to maintain this ground
There's like a miracle kill right? You don't expect someone to go down that late into the retreat
Even he already low as well and the wall feels no armor teleport you know
He missed it. He missed it
Who's gonna come in sanctuary to annihilation to keep him alive on the point hit but ours on the other side of things?
He's a not with his team right now, but it's up to twisted mind to try and find a pig
They turn up in R, they've won 80 for him, and 4 swings the corner, but the Placent is going to trade out for TVNT.
The Placent goes absolutely nuclear for proper.
Jills are funny, Astro, and that'll be the point.
So 2v2, it's a 2v2, the block for proper, as Violet stays alive for the teleport for UV.
He's giving him the run around, but can't quite make it, as proper saves the day.
The survivability is too much and even though the tank goes down for Cedar Division, proper on the mage, so effective around that payload.
And it's a lone member to close things out in a V1 vs 1 and Cedar Division, they stay alive in this tournament.
Two minutes remaining, they need to win this map if they want to stay alive in the tournament.
And two minutes isn't a lot to work with on circuit third.
aggressive push onto TV NT overclocked overclocked from knife shuts down simple
but Ubi with a teleporter is gonna return the favor to him all but to
ray from funny Astro pushes them on as Ubi is a menace he's already killed two
and is going off the ball three kills for Ubi's he teleports there's another
to be to here I believe but I mean surely Bob said give you tears in big
trouble here at me. There's just no way.
Saved by simple.
Captive Sun for simple.
Doubles A to support although
I mean that is one thing to stop
Simple from popping off for this Captive Sun
and as well as this Railgun
from Quartz, the OC can be denied.
This Sanctuary from Violet is going to be
very crucial.
As simple as we look to land on this Captive Sun
you need some kind of protective area.
They're trying to move off for free using that wall
the payload as Quartz pops the OC but he's already behind them. Where's the
sanctuary at? Quartz! We needed it! Quartz! He needs to go! Quartz with three with the overclock!
He just keeps doing it, keeps ragging up the multi kills and time is running out
now for setup division. 40 seconds remaining. Have to capture this payload
to stay competitive. They have a couple of ultimates available but twist in mind
Surely we look to stay proactive once more with the Symmetra.
Nifes an opening kick man to get this going.
It's going to be an OT push, annihilation for TVNT, standing in the choke point,
UB in, out, all about with that teleport.
Benar's trying to move up this staircase now with an annihilation of his own,
takes care of the little turret.
Oh no, Benar's going to be in trouble here, he's just so low.
Time's ticking Johnny.
Nile is going to go in, pops the sanctuary dam, he's going to go so low.
Quick teleport away, there is proper fight for his life in the payload,
they're coming down, TVMT, just wreaking havoc on the payload,
and say to the vision, they're merely a step on the ladder that twisted mind declining.
Twisted mind, they keep marching on in the lower bracket,
Taking down opponent after opponent and a super team from Korea is no match for them
as the Rating World Champion
Earned their place in the grand finals against crazy racoon
Taking a brief bow and a brief break as well before that game
And I can imagine crazy racoon looking almost in horror at this game
with the fact that they're sobbing UB in this late into the tournament
and coming up with the May, the Symmetra strats
that they've been known for for so long since their inception in OWCS.
The energy is different when UB plays the Symmetra
and coming into Championship Sunday here, it just feels like a different team.
They feel so confident in their approach playing this Symmetra.
And you can see when they take part of these team fights, they feel so comfortable in the neutral
Their calm when it comes to the ultimate layering as well
And that earns them a spot here in the grand finals
A familiar scene as well for Zayah division
Exactly the same circumstances as they went down to crazy raccoon
Asia's number one seed and a team everybody was extremely scared to face here too
I like I among many Johnny
Come on, you plan to escape this, thinking Zayden Division were going to make it to the finals with almost ease the way they dominated Asia and Korea as a region.
We saw it, said it was going to be a two-team tournament, and Twisted Minds proving here that they are one of the two who make it to the grand finals instead.
I mean, I said it earlier, said the division, they have been the best team so far in 2026, but the regular season, the regional play, it doesn't matter once we get to the international stage right here in Twisted Minds or the team to keep going.
to keep going.
Let's jump down to the stage real quick for an interview.
Thank you very much.
First of all, the more you put in your energy, the more you become stronger.
You become more and more more and more confident.
What makes you stronger?
So it's really simple, every day it seems like you're playing stronger and stronger.
What do you think has been the key to improving every day and coming back even though you
lost originally to CR?
I think now in this meta, I think Korean teams are better than us.
So yesterday we decided to play Sim and the last time I played with the team it was World
Finals without screaming, without anything, and they just went against Zittat.
I'm really happy.
I think Korean teams are stronger than we are in the cat-and-mortar environment.
So, in the last stage, we had to fight against the current environment without fighting against the sims.
We could win the sims in the past.
I'm really happy about the moment I won the tournament.
Next, we will have another match with Crazy Raccoon. How do you feel about that?
We can do something against them and we're going to filter it out anyway.
Last, I just want to hear, like, where do you have for your fans at home?
I want to send a message, can it?
Okay, I want to send a thank you for WillyVee and Brain and Mohamed Al-Anidzee and Abraham Al-Jabrain.
See you all to see the mind.
I want to say thank you to all WillyVee and Brain and Hanna Jabrain and all of you.
I hope to see you again when this is over.
Thank you very much, Yubi-sensei.
Thank you.
Now, let's have a real talk.
We're going to toss it back to the gassers. Thank you guys.
Thank you so much.
I'm sorry.
Thank you so much.
Johnny.
Yeah.
I should have hit that right?
Bro said, last time I played with the team was the World Finals.
That's been the case. J.Woo too strong.
But even stronger with you in the mix.
No, I said he wasn't screaming that much.
And he comes in like this, beat Zeta, 3-1.
He said it was going to be a hard game.
He's built different.
Rematch, look at that.
Upper semifinals in the first of three, crazy raccoon three Oathen, but they've got another weapon.
They have a secret strategy. They have UB in the mix, like you say.
And maybe that 3-0 that communicated the twisted mindset.
We just can't be competitive in a composition like that. We have to change things up.
And already yesterday, it felt like they had decided that UB was going to be the secret ingredient for Championship Sunday here today.
And they earned themselves that real match in the grand finals.
I would throw that 3-0 just out the window.
It doesn't matter, okay? I know the Chris Raccoon won that 1-3-0, but we're looking at a potential grandfile that could go the full way, all seven maps now, and twist in minds, they're going to see what they can do with the symmetric composition instead.
Yeah, it does feel like a different team that stepped onto the stage today, as they take a brief break. I mean, I'm pretty sure. A little bit shaken up, you know?
So look, we beat Zeta. They were the number one seed coming in from Asia. And now they're having to get revenge on crazy raccoon.
It's going to be a big game. But if anybody can do it, it feels like twisted minds can.
But before that, like I said, we are going to go into a break.
But if you haven't done already, make sure you connect your bounty account to your Twitch account to earn these drops.
If you haven't done it, bro, the show is not going to go on for too much longer.
So connect it now. There are the drops on your screen.
And yeah, we'll see you in a bit after this.
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Alright, a little bit of a short rest bite there, and this morning Johnny, unfortunately
not streamed, but bang, absolutely amazing performance by MFS, played the Kirikou song
Bao, it was legendary.
Yeah, we got live, treated through a live concert, and as you said the broadcast missed
out on it, you had to be here, you had to be here, you missed out, next time, come on.
will be here next time. Yeah, it was honestly incredible. And Johnny, before we kick off
the grand finals, we've actually got a Hanahoka show match for V4. It's going to be first
to one, but we're only playing with Japanese heroes. So Genji, Hanzo, Kiriko, Mizuki, and
we're heading to, yeah, Hanahoka, the clash one.
We've got some nice teams assembled for us. It's going to be Shimada against Hashimoto,
Sanjun, Sugarfree, Maka, and Recall teaming up as Team Shimada against Alphari, Leeve, Ultravalet and Lukimino.
Yeah, a little break. Make sure all the players are ready for this grand finals.
We also had the new map review as well.
Yeah, Neon Junction, of course, the new map in Tokyo with some Real Kings Robe, Midtown Vibes, another hybrid map.
Yeah, I loved it.
He also talked about it. Just like well, we know you guys love King's Row
Yeah, we also love the lighting and stuff like that on King's Row
I said, let's try and replicate that with obviously all the beautiful details of Tokyo. Yeah, dude
Hybrid maps is the best game. Oh, yeah, I'm on it is the best remote come on keep releasing hybrid as minute keep releasing bangers
Yeah, it looks great. I actually super look forward to playing it and it was like yeah a
a King's Row S kind of map and it felt like short, small street.
A lot of Abetito environmental as well.
I saw that giant train coming along.
I'm like, oh my God, there's Jetpack.
Kat Steel is going to go crazy.
There's going to be some shenanigans taking place on that map for sure.
Yeah, let's quickly jump down to the stage.
Let's get the show much underway.
I think it's better to say it's a new strategy, or a new strategy.
It's become a battle that has strengthened us.
And before the historic battle, we'll have to get even more excited about this.
And of course, it's going to be a series, so let's start with the initial match.
So, this time, we're going to do an interview with the people who will be joining us for the mini-show match.
Yes, then, Gaby-san, please.
Well, first of all, I'd like to ask you about SugarPlee's reaction.
SugarPlee!
Hey!
Come on!
No, I'll just come.
Well, thank you very much for your applause.
Thank you!
Absolutely.
Well, first of all, it's a mini-show match, so it's a 4-4, which is a different rule.
I'm sure you have confidence in that rule.
So, I know, you know, 4v4, a little bit of different rules than normal.
How are you feeling going into the show match?
Feeling pretty good. I'm gonna need to explain some Genji probably, see what happens from there.
Well, it's pretty good. I'm feeling good, so I'm looking forward to using Genji from now on.
Thank you very much. Are you enjoying Japan?
How do you like Japan so far?
Japan's really nice. I love going to Lawson and getting some Onigiri and sandwiches.
I love Japan so much. I went to the convenience store and bought 3 times.
That's the most fun thing I've ever seen.
I'm so happy to see you.
There are a lot of other players in the team, but I want to fight, so I want to beat them.
I know there are a lot of different players on the other team, even Ultra Violet.
Is there anyone in particular you're wanting to beat on the other team?
Yeah, probably Ultra Violet, so you can leave Japan without getting a single map.
I want to defeat ULTRA Violet and return without taking a single map.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Let's call ULTRA Violet in the middle.
That's all you need to hear when you come home from the ULTRA.
What's your matter? Can you come up with me?
You were told something, weren't you?
I was told quite a lot, but...
I was told a lot, but I have to ask you something.
Sure, free. Just definitely lay down some words for you.
You got anything to say back just to spread it out?
Yeah, I was thinking since I'm like a support player,
I'm supposed to like, you know, help boost my DPS's confidence,
but I think I'm just not gonna go easy instead.
Well, I'm always doing support, so it was my job to make the DPS feel good, but today I'm going to beat him up without taking off my hands.
Oh, I'm looking forward to it.
This time, there's a change in the rules, 4 vs 4, but do you have any confidence in the rules?
So rules are different than normal, it's going to be 4 vs 4. How are you feeling going into the match itself?
Um, I don't have a plan. I'm just happy to be playing on stage again.
4 vs. 4.
It's not like tanks anymore.
That's right.
I'm curious about how to fight a different rule.
I think it's the anti-aircraft engine.
I don't think it's anti-aircraft.
I think it's going to be a place where you can control the engine.
I think it's going to be the anti-aircraft engine.
Yeah. Oh, good.
I love that Ultraman let's talk back a little bit as well.
It's just like, all right.
I know you're the superstar damage player of the year,
but Ultraman let's get some mechanic himself.
Yeah, he's a little freaky with it.
I mean, SSG was a super team that really came together
at the start of the year.
Had a tough tournament, of course,
but Ultraman at the sugar fee,
two of the premier North American players
in this very tournament.
They got leave though. I think well UV straight chillin
Yeah, leave us sugar free in a tracer head to do you got?
Or I just got it's gotta be it's gotta be sugar free. I think you think I kind of want to go
I mean look, I know leave us the MVP. I know he's got the resume and all of that but
2026 the big 26 in the big 26
Take sugar free over leave. Wait, is this like a hot tape? All right, like what?
What does the quickad pulse ask? Do you have sugary?
I think I'm part of the people here. I think the people want sugary.
Maybe. I think it's just so good though.
I mean it depends on if we're doing a little twitch or bilibili I guess but...
I mean if we do not bilibili, every team's voting for leave bro. I hate to tell ya.
I hate to tell ya. There are the rules on the screen.
44 obviously. First one on Hanover clash.
Not seeing this one in a little while in a hot minute this game mode
in competitive play?
No, we haven't really, because obviously,
Clash is not part of the map pool anymore,
and it hasn't been for quite some time,
but the community, all the people we demanded,
the Hannah Amour, are such to be reused.
We need the Cherry Blossoms, come on.
And the Tracer team, they followed through,
they followed the Hannah Amour down.
And unfortunately, it got taken out of competitive queue.
Third time to charm, Tokyo,
get a Cherry Blossom under.
There's probably one in there somewhere.
Yeah, Hannah work at Clash.
It is a really good looking map to be fair.
I think they did really well.
Well, every Overwatch map is a good looking map to be fair.
I can't name a single one that doesn't look that good.
I love Hanokka.
It's Joe.
It's Vibe.
If you're still a stadium player, you're out there.
You're playing in Clash.
That's Clash, actually.
Big stadium players out there, you already know.
We'll jump into this in a moment.
Little 4v4, a little bit of fun.
I mean these these players they have to set up their monitors their settings as well of course as well on the back of that lower bracket final
They're all right. Well, we need the perfect keyboard adjustment here for this four before show match
Can I get everything in order gotta be warmed up practice range locking in the sense? I'm a little bit curious here Jaws. Mm-hmm
On the communication between the players
Curious curious leaves English. I I don't I'm not entirely sure but it's fine because you know what I wish we have a ping system now
I thought you were about to say that Overwatch is a universal language
I was about to like fall out of my chair, but what it kind of is though. You don't see monkey monkey monkey like
Come on. I
Do think that most over spares would understand here. You're a theory. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
I think a lot of that is fairly universal just like callouts for heroes. Hmm. I
Mean I play with the voice channel and so okay, it's still working pretty well so yourself
It depends on the day, okay? To all the people out there, I am a team player once in a while. Once in a while
I turn on the voice chat. I am the tank player. I have to make some comps
You have to be more of a team player now because people play on R1 so you can jump back in on your R1 phase
Yeah, your R1 arc. Hey, this tournament has proven to me that maybe I still maybe I still can do it. Maybe he's still got it.
Maybe I can put him back. Dude, pop on the Rogue Jersey. He's still got it.
All right
Let's get into the show match there a little 4v4 here on Hanahoka and appetizer
Yeah, even cheers for that
Okay, the Japanese partners are elite.
I will say, they're very nice, they're very nice.
And they're phenomenal, their job too.
It's also a really nice thing to have,
obviously this land in Tokyo as well,
finally bring it to the Japanese audience live.
I've always said the reason it's been underserved,
Johnny, and we're finally getting the taste
of an international here.
As we jump on to Hanokka.
And we're only playing the Japanese heroes here,
Of course, I have no idea what the tactic is here, Joss.
We have no tactics in the mix.
I mean, some players out there, they probably
dream about this 4-4.
This is peak overwatch right here.
This is the biggest fear of it in the making.
They've already had a competitive mode before V4.
Those players are popping off right now.
Also, leave on the Hanzo.
Oh, you best believe Sugarfree is going
to be ruin the day he called out UV here.
I mean, Sugarfree on the Musukie as well.
He was like, I'm going to be playing some Genji until Maka comes in and does the Genji role.
I think he wants to try and diff UV on the Mizuki to be fair.
You know what is the universal language? Support players wanted to play that much.
Yeah, that's so true. That's so true.
Maka's got a ring as well, don't forget. So, you know, I've watched League Champions.
You'd love to bring that up if Maka's got a ring.
All right, Hashimoto, they've almost got this cap in and he goes very low.
Don't say supports, can't play DPS Johnny.
Okay, I gotta say something though.
It don't matter who plays the Genji, it looks like you're doing a lot all the time.
Ooh, no, well, what do you mean it looks like you're doing a lot all the time?
It looks like you have impact on the game, when in fact you ain't him.
You ain't him. You ain't him.
You are.
Nice first cap.
Shimada
Rolling actually might be snowballing this oh
Yeah, the supports I hit him I
Mean so this is going to be Shimada gonna control early here on point B, but oh
Play rush to the spot
Yeah
There's a body on the ground and you're laughing please. He's hitting him with that blade too
Oh leave oh
Sugar free gets it with the chip that's a rare one getting him with the chains kill
Dragon dragon right coming out a very nice little deflects. Oh the bazooki sanctuary, but I'll hurry oh
Aww, with fire baby, hang on. 1v1, Marge, you gotta get out, he's so low, 4 kills, and...
Ohhhh, team kill, Alphari.
Alphari is like a 20 year old young Chinese player, first international event here for him.
He's like, I know it's a 4v4, I ain't messing around.
I'm getting the dragon blade 4k in this one.
I will be killing him.
Nice dragon strike too.
Is it?
Oh, well, look at the cap.
That was the biggest zoning dragon I've ever seen.
Hey, it worked.
I mean, it was leaving, you know, overwatching MVP.
Surely he knows what he's doing.
He knows what he's doing. Don't question it.
I ain't.
Ever.
Apparel will have someone to say it as well.
Is all I'm saying.
Two support of the Mercil4Hashimoto.
This one's sugar-free and UV in a 1v1.
Put the sanctuary down. Just do the 1v1 in style.
Oh, Maka is going in, man.
Oh, there's gonna be a trader. He should be about sorry. You're there. Oh and on the point. There you go
Nice sanctuary
The music is crazy on that too
Yeah, the new sound effect. I love it. It sounds so good. It's really cool. All right
Well Hashimoto use their support ultimates and they got nothing for all Michael were changed. Oh, get him out. Nice
Nice.
Quick little hand to headshot.
Boom.
A log is all you need.
It's such a...
Lumberjacks feel like.
Nice play.
Oh, the chains too.
Suzu initially.
Oh, this Suzu to help him.
Flick of the cent.
What is this?
Mark it.
Got a chill, bro.
3000 dpi.
My brain can't take it.
Nice defect of Lukabina there.
Me when I'm the centre of attention.
Flicking my mouse around.
Confusing the observers.
Where is UV? Where is Bro?
I think Marka is having the time of his life right now.
He's getting into play Genji on an international stage.
He's big chilling.
Come on Sugarfree show off a little.
That's a good kill from Lee.
Oh the dragon strike.
That's not happening. Easy assault to avoid.
I think unfortunately your days are numbered.
Modicator recall
No, I don't know far. That's going two points. They're going to even this one up
This is the most flash map in history
We go to mid and then we go to D and then we go to see them ago to be them ago to see we are so back
We're so back on class so
Is a funny game mode
All right, I'll hurry an actual down there
Replicated an actual damage player. You said one more time Mark. I got a 4k joint
Here's the dragon plate nice deflect. Okay, that's what all these dollar all good though
Maybe look at me. No, that's what go down to recall
We clash gaming so in theory this point is gonna get kept oh
You got your good free to come for a nice to be nah, I don't know doesn't that all right back to be
3 and 2 here.
Nice reset from Marco.
Another chainskill from Sugar.
How do you hear that on Lukavino too?
That's the screenshot for his social media.
That's a lot on the line here.
What SSG player will have to fly home without having to go to the pass in Tokyo?
This is going to be quoted in their scrims for the full stage to come.
When I was backstage a little bit earlier and Hawk, I passed Hawk and he was like...
He doesn't even get a chance for it after this one.
Sanctuary's popped on the point.
I should have had the rush too, I mean, it's chill. I mean, Mark is waiting for his time to shine again.
Please stop for us, 99%. Here we go.
He's got 24!
Big fin!
Slice after slice!
He's got one!
He ain't got two!
Oh no!
Marker!
He's got the one clip though.
Surely gets out as well.
His teammates are going to come back in a moment!
Marker!
Wait a minute, the dragon?
Surely not.
There's so much teleporting going on in this battle.
Kiri and Mizuki, yeah.
All right, that's four points for us.
We've got a match point here.
And they only need 33% as well,
for that last point, because they're on four.
Yes, a third of a point equals a point here on Clash.
That's a third of a point equals a point.
Dude, he's so fruit, so fruit.
I'm just explaining to the viewers what's going on
with our buddy. No, I know, I understand.
Oh, save my boy Lee.
Good, Susan. Oh, the chains are really good,
but yeah, better Susan.
Big dragon here.
Nope.
Unfortunately it's only a little bit.
Yeah, but look at all the ground they took.
Space created.
So true as they play in that school choke point.
They're building support all the time.
Oh!
Nice deep flag.
This could be it.
It could be.
They're trying to get this cap.
The plate's gonna get popped here.
Oh, it's Alphari.
Is he really gonna finish this off the plate?
I mean, it looks like it.
Oh, the 33%.
It takes so long to cap this.
It might as well be a full cap though.
They might be able to get a spot there.
I don't think the contest is going to happen here.
Just want to say that I'll be kicked sooner or later, and I'll thank you as well.
They have all the ultimate here, Joe. This is it. Sugarfree goes down. Zero maps for him.
This stage is ultraviolet. Look at that big grid on his face. He's ready to rub that in for the next few months.
Put it on Wikipedia.
Yep, oh yeah.
One to one, it's one to man.
From Sugar Free and the rest is a, well,
a fun turn match nonetheless.
Still big win from Lany of course.
It's all in good fun.
As Hashimoto take the mini show.
It's good to see a little four versus four action.
Yeah.
That is what Overwatch looks like
when you don't have a tank turn in the mix.
Yeah, just a mess.
You determined,
damage players at home.
You determined, was that what you prefer?
You know they're gonna say yes.
No.
You know they're gonna,
like trying to like bait but they're just saying you put a rematch during the
mix there for either team we're looking at a very different matchup so true
we'd be back to normal overwatch nice win though oh this is just the first to
one there so taking a W home so we have a brief break in a moment before we end
up going to the grand finals crazy racoon I can't wait for this one crazy
green team it's going to be such an epic showdown so great as well to see the
the reigning world champs in the grand final. They get to defend their crown.
Making a back from the lower bracket and also revenge against Crazy Raccoon in the upper bracket semis. Pretty crazy.
Crazy Raccoon, looking to reclaim the crown of course as a Korean team here. Korea that has been so dominant for so long.
We thought the gap had closed, we twist the minds winning. The world finals of course, but we'll have to wait for that grand finals yet to come.
So look at the bracket. We were
talking about it just a second ago.
So I was all up a ring that one up on your screens. There was a full bracket.
Let's keep this one up. Twisted minds there. Winning against AG, a little 2-0, but
it's Upper Semis. It was a 3-0 from Crazy Raccoon. Like even on the stage, the interview
was like, well, you know, we're not that scared. However, still it's going to be playing
in the back of our minds that Upper Semis did go their way. I mean, it was so one
Chris Raccoon, although competitive on Ilios.
So new Twisted Minds team here on Championship Sunday.
And a brief interlude here in a four versus four matchup,
of course, to buy some time for those players
to get some rest, recuperate, maybe get some food and drink
as well as they prepare for the one crucial match
to come here at our first major of the year, Josh.
Yeah, first major.
They've still got two more and a world champion
to crown at the very end of the year.
But for me and Johnny, that is going to be it.
And Johnny, I will say just one thing.
It has been my dream to cast in Korea, which I've done, and now in Japan, which I've now completed as well, another tick off that box.
So, yeah, it's been, honestly, an honor.
Decade in the making.
Yeah, yeah, a decade in the making too for Overwatch, and yeah, have we got any words you want to say?
That's been an absolute treat. I just can't wait for the Grand Finals.
Yeah.
This is absolute peak Overwatch. Here you go. That's the line for you.
That's the line. There you go.
Thank you so much for joining us, and yeah, we'll see you after the break.
Do not go anywhere. Grand Finals up after this.
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Hello and welcome back!
We have champion vs champion here in Tokyo, Japan, for our grand finals this ought to
be a good one.
Quite frankly, I don't think anyone had this one on their bingo cards.
We were kind of looking at Zeta going up against Crazy Raccoon for our grand final, in fact
we thought that Ceda is going to be the team to dominate them all.
Alas, it was crazy.
Raccoon Zoe here joined by Ash and by Avril.
Let's talk about how twisted mind got it done.
They went for that lower bracket run, and it was an insane run.
They managed to somehow carry the momentum from yesterday into today's match.
And they did the craziest thing.
They repeated the World Final, like, spiel their playbook where they go like,
you know, it would be a great time right now.
Let's bring you back in.
Would you have changed your prediction if you knew that?
Oh, honestly, I should have gone with my first answer.
I was originally going to predict TM, not even knowing that.
But I think you be coming into the mix definitely shook things up a lot.
We've talked about how important the hero bands were going to be heading into this matchup
and the expectations that they would be more targeted towards TVNT.
It didn't end up, well, we saw the Ziva band come out first on Ilios,
but it was surprising how well that we didn't see the Symmetra band come out
whatsoever there on the side of Zeta.
And that felt like a really big mistake early on into the series.
Firstly, I'm going to stick my my guns.
I wouldn't have changed my bread knowing that even though I think Yubi did put out a tweet last night and say like,
you might see something special tomorrow.
And that's what I think my expectation was saying.
He announced it himself, that was actually crazy.
I think he fully announced himself and he said,
you better watch out for some spiciness tomorrow.
We got it right because he stuffs himself in just like we saw Grand Finals last year.
But importantly, I think I had high expectations.
They probably had high expectations for themselves as well.
And maybe underestimated, twisted my a little bit.
You sort of mentioned this, Ash, but they didn't ban the sim at all during the course of this entire series.
And probably by map 2, if you lose the first map, you know UB is going to be in for the whole thing,
or definitely in for map 2.
Probably should ban the sim by map 2.
Get momentum back. Don't rely on yourself to reverse sleep, because now your 2 maps down, it's getting difficult.
It was getting difficult, but it wasn't just UB that was the problem, right?
TVNT and sports were such an issue. It was so hard to deal with them.
Even when that D.Va got banned on Eleo, he pulled us on Roadhog of all things and that must have been a tiltor.
And it was good.
That's the thing, like it almost felt like Zedok are tilted by the off meta comps that we got to see from Twisted Minds.
Now of course, Preyzer could have been watching that game.
What does that take away? What can they do better than what Zedok do?
Well, first of all, I know that UB is going to end up playing again.
Simban has to come on through. It is going to be a little bit weaker.
Enneagram, Pano's given that.
First of all, B.O.7, you're playing up to 7-maps.
Single sim band even if you do one that map putting one out of potential seven map
That's number one they get the lockout for secondly
I still think crazy racoon can play a little bit more cat bashing maybe to a high degree than what zanish was there to
Shide away from that one little bit
They didn't actually even win the cat bashing that much when they played you mentioned the hog
I actually hog a map one was a really good call coming through from twisted mines
I think that's sort of dodgeable by crazy racoon if they sort of just avoid Elias on map one
Maybe even drop in a hog man straight away
So a lot of surprises that twisted minds brought up against Zed division
Those are now fully in the open to the public basically should be paying attention to what picks came through and how you use
Piling with those do you think twist of mind has something else up their sleeves? Oh well? I don't know
Anything additional from this would be kind of crazy to be honest
You know there can be a lot of things that is for sure
But I think overall here for the side of twisted mind
I still believe that for crazy raccoon. They have a really great shot
It's gonna be a close matchup no matter what but having that revealed is definitely a huge boon to crazy raccoon
They got to kick back watch what happened in that game funny answer though
He did say how prepared they were I think now after playing against them the first time
They weren't really knowing what they should expect but now they should crazy raccoon need to drag the game away from the
So it was a hard carry throughout the entire Zedah game, but this also happens. I think if you do play the catbash a bit more, you're pushing Quartz more towards the cast. He's still a great cast player, but Soge is where his bread is buttoned. And that's exactly the position and the hero you've got to get Quartz away from. That's something that Zedah didn't do enough and Quartz was able to take over the show.
I mean you're talking about that Cassidy though and stalker has been insane on that hero
I think that head-to-head is going to be crazy to watch
Yeah, honestly
We have so many great head-to-heads here and like we talked about what needs to be targeted
I feel like a lot of individuals on all the different roles from both of these teams have really been stepping it up
Yeah, just mentioned stock like we don't talk nearly enough about stalker
I feel but then also like TV and TV I think he's having a lifetime performance this event as well
also like there's so many individuals which if you focus on banning them out
like the rest of the team can still step it up TV and he's also found the
alternative here we talk about this our talk about as diva obviously world
class maybe number one diva but the ram coming through is an alternative option
especially given the prevalence of Sigma being played max is likely in fact
guaranteed to come in during the series at some point will likely end up playing
the Sigma coming through with the rematchers gonna be a strong look for
TV and TV you have to be careful here I do expect on those Sigma maps
I think that he looked really
good in those matchups up
against Bernard in our last
series, but I think overall
here when we're considering how
good Max is also looking up in
that head to head if we're going
back to that upper final, it's
going to get spicy. It's spicy
regardless, right? Because if
you're looking at just a
history for crazy raccoon, this
will be their third Champions
Clash victory, right? If you
include all the way back in the
2024 so like all the way back
Obviously, they want to hoist that trophy again, but also Twisted Minds, the in-art of reigning world champs.
And they're the one team that brought EME, EMEA back on the map.
So, for Korea, this is also like defending the honor of Korea as dramatic as that sounds.
That's literally what it's all coming down to.
It really is. It's kind of that storyline of if Twisted Minds can continue to defend their world title,
versus Korea being the ones to take it back after the dynasty that they created for themselves at the start of ODF.
This is Twisted Minds going for the three-peat on land right? They won World Champs last year
They won Bukep La Salleah in Korea
They won a third land win here in Japan now and for Crazy Koon by the way the organization Japanese
They want to win on home ground defending the honor of Japan and Korea in Asia over all
Stopping the reign of Twisted Minds where it was looking like Twisted Minds are gonna get stopped early this tournament
Not the case now Crazy Koon already knows what it's like to be Twisted Minds in this tournament
They need to do it again in a longer series now or longer
Yeah, long a match. I I love that the fans said I obviously expected them to root hard for set a division also for crazy racoon
I'm seeing a lot of love for twists of mind
Yeah, because this this crap here is just all about good overwatch and the teams have more than delivered thus far in the champions class
They absolutely have it's been quite the event so far here in Tokyo
So impressive to see all of these teams evolving and culminating into this grand final the
The dynamicism within the meta that's been developing over just a couple of days is wild
to see.
Yeah, I mean, this is now, I thought coming into this one, gonna be camp bash and play
the entire way through.
Twist in mind, I gotta give them so much credit because I think they being the anti-mediting
throughout this entire tournament, culminating in the fact that they just brought out UB,
hard sim the entire way through saying, we just don't need to play the meta at all.
We're gonna play our style, make it work, just like we've done every other single time.
I also find it so interesting that this this was what I gotta be honest gonna be real
But this was one of those matters where I felt like this is silly
I'm gonna hate it like he's only gonna be put they all gonna bum play like like cat-bashing like this is this is not it
But when they do play it, it's actually really entertaining
To take a lot easy things flying around like honestly when it was played it was dynamic
It was exciting it made for a lot of huge plays like you know seeing like that
the highest of all noons up in the sky, like just like all the things that are possible with the
Jetpack Cat in the mix, it's been really, really entertaining. Even better given that we have a
lot of teams also not playing meta, also pushing away, VP started doing a lot of that as well, so
it ended up being quite a dynamic meta, and I think going to the grand finals, that's going to
continue because I expect Tristimines to lead the way in being the anti-meta team, and I think
that's exciting, you're going to have a lot of what we have had in the meta and some stuff,
some throwbacks as well from what Tristimines have done in the past. Yeah, throwing in the main,
and the Mizuki in the mix on top of that.
Everything is just getting so creative.
And I feel like really with this grand finals,
you have no idea sometimes what to expect.
Exactly.
No, they keep us guessing.
They keep on pulling different things out of their pockets.
I'm sure the grand final will not disappoint.
We're heading into a very quick break right now.
And then afterwards, we are back with our ceremony
to get our grand finals on the way.
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Twisted mind, undeniable!
Crazy Raccoon has done it!
And with a pixel shot onto proper as well!
And fuel out of gas!
Crazy Raccoon knocked him out in two!
Oh no!
I'll have your hand!
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Good night!
Sweet people who play!
And take this!
They are unbreakable!
Crazy Raccoon, unstoppable in the brawl!
It's time for the final match.
The heroes who fought for the past three days are now fighting.
Only one team will fight on this stage.
And everyone, the wonderful stage, the best stage, and the best audience,
And the best team is here, but there's still one thing that's not enough for you.
It's your ale.
Today, I'm here to support you, so I'd like to give you a buff.
Everyone, are you ready to give me a buff?
There's still not enough to sell, so let's do it again.
Everyone, are you ready to give me a buff?
The best of the ZAKAMOTE and the best of the ENERGY are here, so it's finally the grand final.
It's the first week of the grand final.
You'll be joining us from behind, so please enjoy it.
Now, let's call the first team to the stage.
It hasn't been an easy road this year, dead-doughts, death setbacks, the critics, but when Crazy Raccoon
stepped foot into Tokyo, all a bad noise vanished.
They were locked in from day one.
It was domination from the top.
The Dingsha survived the bracket, they tore through it,
and now we are looking at the ultimate battle.
It's the 2025 Champions-Clash winners meeting
the 2025 World Champions.
Storker!
you
Crazy Raccoon vs. Fint Zephyte!
The historic battle begins right now!
And so it comes to this, a long road to one final stage, one last chance for Twisted Minds
to hold on to a championship that seems to have nearly slipped through their fingers and
yet now grasping back at it, Matt, they're going to get one more chance.
It didn't look likely when we were kind of here on like that first day, Johnny Astrow
Spoken that like they weren't that great a cat bastion it didn't really look that good wasn't their meta wasn't wasn't meant to be their turn
But there's still kind of lingering around. I mean, this is gotta their live dog in this one
I think this is more than lingering right what they just pulled off against Zeta
I mean no one would have called that coming into the tournament those players included they they didn't believe that this would work in
This matter it was desperation that pushed them to that and yet now well you have to start to believe it
It's it becomes real. Yeah, I mean you also bring in Yubi here, which is something they did last year, right?
Where it's like, okay, like Yubi doesn't play at all, right?
They're playing Psycho a lot of the time and then he subs in they lead it to a world championship
He's on Twitter like oh, we got some special day. It's like, yeah, you know what? I haven't screamed in ages
Let me just dust this Sim off real quick and come in try and get some dubs is it'll be a crazy Raccoon map pick
They will take us to Ilios which you're wondering like do they go here because of like the Roadhog that we saw
against Zayna DeVichy, and this is like, you know, a really good hog map.
I mean, it's pretty desperate when you're talking about Roadhog being the pick you're worried about.
We were telling D.I. that we don't get to say, oh, he's got a whole hog off, and like the next game we saw it.
Interesting though, they banned the D.I. right away.
This makes sense though, because I think CR are calling the buff. They're saying, alright, run the Roadhog camp.
Yeah, yeah, see what you can do.
I mean, well is one thing. I personally, I believe are on well.
Yeah, I'm officially in the in the hub camp, but on the other two out of three, it's just not that realistic.
Yeah.
And so that's where taking the Diva away from TVNT on a map famous for verticality, for mobility, for dive compositions.
And with John been starting on tank, the wrecking ball is a glaring question that you must find an answer to.
I think CR obviously comes in here, a pretty heavy favor with how good they have looked here throughout this event.
But like we were talking about twisted minds, I think they kind of like, you know, since
they're lost to Crazy Raccoon, which, you know, they got taken to the cleaners, man.
Let's be 100% for real right now.
That was not a close match.
They got beat up.
I mean, but I think since then, though, they've kind of said, you know, it's good, like we're
going to try and, you know, play some of these Simrush comps into no cap fashion, see how
it fares.
I think TD&T, like, obviously, as D.Va's been really strong throughout this, some of you
know, teams like CR and Zeta have used like the Mizuki comps, like the Sigma to really
kind of like negate some of the things that D.va can do, but his rematch has been quite
good throughout this event as well.
I thought it's been a really nice showing from him.
We've been talking about TVNT in the back.
This is a player who I think goes a little bit unsung, unappreciated for Twisted Minds
as a team.
I mean, there's so many star players on this roster, he I think gets left out of the conversation,
but we were saying, I mean, think about finding a time where TVNT has made big errors, has
slipped up in big moments.
That's exactly what you need in a tank.
reliability anchor for the squad and he has been delivering in spades this
tournament and over the past couple years really. Yeah so we take a look at TVNT
here at this event that he has had a really good showing I think it's kind
of cemented himself right it's like one of the best tanks in the world I think
we kind of knew that but it feels like not really discussed amongst that kind
of rank maybe globally and then I also I mean to the confidence for this team in
UB and UB himself to be like, you know, final Sunday, I haven't played at all. I'm going in.
They haven't scripted with him in months, man. Like, no understandable with the player like J-Won the team,
but also in this moment the Mizuki had presented huge problems to them.
The sim feels like a good answer to it.
And there's one thing that like they've always discussed, like right this team doesn't have a coach,
like UB kind of feels like that coach, so bringing him into the live game that can kind of like calm a little bit more.
Maybe maybe heat the saw stuff from like a I know a coach's POV that is a little bit more of like a okay
I think we can actually stop this with some of the sim stuff and really give it some trouble
We're just maybe not making the right reads or calls that I'm seeing in action
But still it'll be map number one first of four here in it the grand finals
Kristen winds they also been the honor here to kick things off
So we've seen the honor you're in combination with the no jet pack at times right the nano can be really strong of the bastion take that combo away
Yeah, something that you don't want to worry about, especially with Diva off the field.
I mean, one of the best ways to stop on his cool turns is simply gobbling them up with
the Matrix.
But if you do run the Roadhog, you know, you're basically a walking, sleep-in-nate target.
Often the Nano can just overwhelm the health pool.
Crowd here.
Absolutely energized.
This is the match people have been waiting all weekend for.
I mean, really, since OWCS kicked back off this year, it's really been the matchup that
everybody has been waiting for.
I do notice a slight favorite.
Really.
Man, you know, I was worried that you weren't as switched on as you're playing days, but
you still are.
It takes a real master, but I want to give a lot of love to the crowd here in Tokyo.
It's been incredible, the fire, even for foreign teams, right?
They have come out to support the energy, because it has been fantastic in the arena as this one gets underway.
Alright, so CR is going to come out with a ball, like you said.
It's not going to be the roadhog here from Twist and Minds.
It'll be TV and Team playing the MAGA. The MAGA is pretty good here, especially on this point, right?
They'll get control. MAGA is so difficult to move out of the way.
There'll be quartz on the cast of the here as well stalker up in the sky
Already use the turret. It's gonna be the TP here. Nice job getting rid of that TP though
Quartz out on his own here TP deep into the back
Back comes in for the clean up great move from Chorong and co now John been rolling on the point
This has been his playground all tournament wrong
We'll just advise be able to slow this one down
What a save, total long and stocker. You think you're moved off the map,
Cat, great recovery there. Now it's going to be Quartz going over to the bastion.
Do they decide to play the Cat with it? They do, you know, Virtus Pro, their E-Count
apart decided to just kind of play it on the ground, but this time you're going to get Quartz up in the sky here.
It takes some pressure here from the ball already.
Junbin so hard to catch.
He's so deep in the back line.
I mean, he's doing whatever he wants into this comp.
And the Catbash is fully suppressed in the squad.
Stalker, gonna look forward now, breaking the TP,
but a pressure point flip from Twisted Mind
to be great thing to find in the chaos.
But with Ligilani finding the head of Yubi,
maybe that flip won't come through.
Beautiful wall for Junbin.
Cho-Rong cleans up simple,
and a kill for TVNT is all for him to find.
This part, it looks a lot like the last time we saw these two teams square off at this event as
Crazy Raccoon have been perfect thus far. I mean, Stalker has been a monster this
turn of it, like truly terrifying. And now obviously with some of the changes that come
from Twisted Minds in terms of like their heroes and compositions early, you're gonna be quite
behind in terms of some of these key ultimates. So CR, if you try and like TP to the point right
They're going to have this barrage that looks like a teepee straight across here from Twisted Mines
Is there trying to set up play for the point? Gotta be careful of this barrage. Truman pulling attention to himself
He's saying waiting for that moment to strike a rush from simple now forced out the cleanse
Keeps him alive just for a second. He's saying it's bound his mark and looking for more now
Assessing under UB TNT strikes back with one the player advantage raccoon
Files back to the side
an opportunity for Stalker to clean up.
And it's only the Mawgis stalled out now
in the final moments.
Complete composure as Crazy Mechroon
barrel towards their first round.
They're trolling them.
I mean, they keep TVNT alive there for like 10 seconds.
Will the UV here last ditch effort?
It is not going to work.
This is CR.
Yeah, this is CR dominant round one.
Oh man, oh man, Crazy Raccoon getting so much out of the far on this map.
I mean Quartz forced to just duel the enemy Bastion in the sky at all times.
These aggressive moves to point, not working out at all for Twisted Minds.
Yeah, I mean, look, when they get forced into the Camp Bastion, that is not the type of
no playstyle that they'll excel at.
I think they would tell you that themselves, especially against the team as well versed
in the comp as crazy racoon as we take a look at some of the first round stats
nothing too surprising with stalker and junbin with zero deaths I mean we were
kind of calling that out right they were deep in the spawn unkillable for most
for the round. Chorong has been the mastermind of this comp how will they
respond though to the TVNT hog a well-placed hook could be disastrous
CR once again over to the fara I mean dude a lot of pressure though a crushing
So deep, wow, Quartz! Overwhelmed!
Not expecting that level of pace out of Crazy Raccoon.
I mean, he is instantly dead.
Oh, nice rocket.
Oh, it's getting ugly now, Matt.
We're just getting started with this grand final, and already...
You've got to be worried. Quartz, though, does drop a body shot from range.
Don't want to get too close to the spawn door when he's on the widow.
Okay, so I was going to say, there's no way for the Sim to engage in this comp,
this comp right with the far end the fashion and so much the verticality from
some of these heroes you're gonna have UB switch over to the tracer there's
another here we can play but if you were gonna have to get into a tracer I know
value and love J. Woo out there right now that's the weakness I mean that's
they're gonna commit to the UB sim you've got to go all in feels the
pressure here stalker over the top no one
jumping the nice retreat into the room and without the tank the standard bear
four twisted minds, the rest of the players cowering in fear. He's saying Junbin looking
to hunt him with slivers of HP, Junbin refuses to back down.
They're able to just have a body block there, stay alive.
This has been an absolute blowout here on Ilya's bloodbath. Junbin takes the hook, not
care in the world and over the top over the spot oh no Matt this is not a
position you want to see I knew channel beautiful response so long runs for
cover course finds nothing I feel that is brutal there as we've seen some
pretty big dead eyes throughout this event as he sang backs up it'll be TV and
TV gets on gets a touch just kind of posturing here it's has he ever been
shut down this hard man. I mean this is brutal. This is not the answer to this
Crazy Raccoon comp right now. It has just been a dropping here in map number one
thus far. The Sunfields here from TVNT but they got nobody else alive. Holhog
used here. You know it's gonna be the Kitsune Rush just for good measure from
Crazy Raccoon but it is just a matter of time Jake. Great minefield zones players
away. He's saying takes down Quartz, now the focus comes towards the Roadhog. Stock will have it as well.
Players prickling in, funny afro, can't even make the touch. And map one, gone in the blink of an eye.
We could be in for a rough one, map.
That was a total annihilation there in map number one.
Crazy Raccoon just absolutely dominate twisted minds.
Twisted minds obviously a really rough comp to draw into, but to CR, I mean
Stalker just playing on another level, obviously to help from Chorong, getting
him up in the sky as we take a look at some of the stats.
Chonbin as well dominating on the ball. His wrecking ball has been just untouchable.
I mean frankly every time we see him on Elios it feels like him doing deathless
is honestly the norm. It's rare to see mistakes out of him on the wrecking ball. It feels like he has
every position mastered. You also got to look at Choron on the cat. I mean, a difference maker for
sure, right? Not being caught off by these high noons, saving at times the bastion from what looks
like dire straits, and always seeing those opportunities to get aggressive. I mean, that kind
of a read from a support player, having huge impact in this meta. I mean, what do you even do
if you're twisted minds. I mean, that was stylish. Yeah, then look at this.
Yeah, the composure right to delay this kill, so valuable at this moment. Nice
body blocking from jumping there. Vigilante obviously providing a ton of
healing there to keep that fashion alive, but where do you even think about
going here if you're twisted minds? I mean, obviously, you beat Zedu Division
a huge accomplishment, but you don't want to kind of go out like that here in the
final. And maybe a far ban, I think he's saying is a huge part of the problem here.
Really feels like the reason that the Sim just cannot get value. There's no one
to catch with it. And this is the version of the comp that CrazyRakun really
innovated, right? They were the team to run the Kiri, the wrecking ball as well,
and just be almost impossible to catch. Yeah, it's very difficult to mean,
Especially for a composition that you know in a team like twisted minds who's once like run down one target
Typically, it's like a mall or a diva or a raw mantra for them and it's like, okay
Let's pick a target with the sim and collapse on with the TP
Looks like max is going to be coming in here for John been I wonder if this is a circuit pick
For twisted minds potentially coming in wouldn't be surprised. I mean for the max pick to come in its
Circuit or I think he also plays King's row. Hmm. It'd be an interesting pick
I mean, I think this does feel good for TM. Like you you won't you want to get away from the wrecking bomb
And what we just saw new Leo's is untenable and I think at least
Maybe of you know these slower tanks that max plays could be targets for a sim rush, right?
Like that's you know, ultimately even the Sigma could be vulnerable to being overwhelmed. That's right. That's Symmetra
And sure so it looks like for twisted minds no subs
So you be will be staying in and it is going to be circuit. I think he has to stay in
I mean, I think at this point, I mean, they tried to basically be crazy about going pound for pound.
We saw what happened. I mean, they got obliterated 3-0.
They were never going to win that series.
And, you know, obviously, you know, the talk will be like,
oh, even he's coming in for J-woo. J-woo had a really good event.
True. I know, J-woo was playing on Tracer like,
what a beginning to his career.
We got him right. This guy's a young player, showed incredible prowess,
joining a world champion team and making them better.
That is an accomplishment very few young players could really
say that they've achieved. So if you're looking here at circuit, right, then your twisted minds,
obviously, Max coming in to expect to play some sick from crazy raccoons. What do you decide to
do in terms of the band? It was the on a band there in map number one. I know teams like to
obviously go towards double flex support here. So potential options. So it'll be a bastion band
here from twisted minds getting that one. I mean, look, I think this one, you're just trying to tie
it up like you're you're throwing that fashion you're kind of like all in the
diva fan already gone here there is a nasty potential here right for crazy
raccoon you could ban like rematra and then you know we haven't really seen
TV and TV play a ton of like SIG right so yeah they could play like this SIG
mizuki comps if you're crazy raccoon right ban in the rematra and force them
into diva that's what I'm going to go with you Larry which I like yeah it's
It's another one of those powerful poke heroes, one that would allow simple to really step
up to the plate.
Another player that is a, you know, part of this massive threat package, untwisted minds.
But for Crazy Raccoon, I mean, this is what made them look so unbeatable this tournament.
It's not just the wrecking ball and the cap bastion.
That's how they cut their teeth.
That's how they got to this place.
But it's also been the poke comp with the Sigma, different variations on the back line
and the DPS.
But these slower styles have also looked immaculate from CR.
The ability to do both so well has made it feel like there are no gaps in the armor.
I mean, no one has pushed Crazy Raccoon meaningfully at all in this tournament.
No, no, I really, I mean, they have been so good.
They came to win.
Like, they're number two in Asia, but they came to be number one in the world here.
And I mean, the Alari, we've seen Twisted Minds pull us out in, you know, in SEDA, right?
With, you know, simple, really impactful.
I know just the amount of damage that he can pump out and then obviously the captive sun
In certain situations and fights, but now that being gone
That'll probably have twisted minds going carry Lucio probably like a diva with a you know what sim and then like Cassie or so
Eventually it's awkward for funny astro here because I mean you could play the Lucio on this map, but the Juno
It's difficult. It's long range. Yeah, maybe that maybe the Juno feels better to your point
Maybe something with that rematra
For CR though, these DPS options like the May, you're just very comfortable for them.
And so, yes, you can go to those faster styles, but it's not going to catch because you're
off guard, right?
They know how to take those matches.
I would be worried if I was twisted-minds of just kind of walking into the Sigma, May,
Mizuki kind of blender here with your D.Va.
I mean, you still have the rematch available, but we haven't seen that really kind of stop that comp, right?
I'm a big fan of these Zuki-Kiri backlines. I mean, when they lay down those support ults around the end of a checkpoint,
you have no choice but to fight into them, and they are incredibly potent when you're forced to step up to the plate and take that kind of a challenge.
So I know map number one stalker was really kind of unreal. I mean on the bastion
So he is up in the sky just pumping it out. I mean 17k damage one death there
That really is kind of put himself up as like one of the best hitscans in the world
I mean he's going up against somebody who is often
You know if you had to give one answer is often the one you give in court
Yeah, who's the best in the world right now in hitscan for the last year? I think it's been courts
It's Stalker. What a revival for him as a player. I mean, often in past on team Falcons, right, playing second fiddle to proper.
In this awkward spot of, you know, will they, won't they, who's going to play what, who's going to find their role.
Now, a team that gave him full trust, full confidence, he's playing over lip right now.
I mean, whoa, like, lip is not off this team. Stalker's just that good.
Yeah, and the combination with he sank right with just being able to play so many different heroes and then it gives stalker the ability to kind of like
Yeah, like you know not be that number two right like okay
Like we're gonna let you kind of go out and do your thing and you kind of see the results that it is
You know had for crazy raccoon. I mean
I've been a stalker for a long time
If they win this map looking the same type of way
I mean your if you're twisted minds you're staring down the barrel something pretty tough
You got to plan a flag here man. I mean there's no question about it, right? Like, yes, it's the best of seven
But this is the powerful map pick, right? You come in here with the full pool open to you everything
But control the fashion gun
The fashion out of the way, you don't have to worry about that cap fashion
You know nefarious combo it can be wild to play and in fairness crazy
Raccoon is the best team in the world at that style. I think that's almost a given
You know the TV and T hog got you in last time in Ilios
But it was messy it required a huge individual efforts
Yeah, crazy raccoon just absolutely dealt with it right it just you know showed
Really a class difference between those two teams
Yes, as a division was not able to deal with that in the last series a
First to four here in our final as the Bastion gone here. It's TMS man pick and then the Alari gone
4 crazy racoon as we get into circuit with max coming in as well
I know John been played the ball man number one look incredible max coming in most likely to play something like a sig here on
circuit Royale
Who's in mind? It feels like this is a must win map jake
TVNT likely to be tested here. I mean I think tank into these comms is so challenging, right?
There's such an overwhelming level of pressure coming in on the front line
Never really lets up on a map like Circuit.
Gotta somehow find a way to force your way through.
Symmetra though, incredibly powerful here.
I mean, so much value can be gained from those TPs.
And I think it's up to Ubi really to lead the way on this one.
They are not practiced in this meta.
This is a desperate innovation for them to bring out the sim.
Will it be enough?
This is them bringing up the strap book from
worlds last year, right?
dusting those off see if any of those
Still work
So it is the name with the Sigma and the Missoufi like I was talking about
So I just gotta say we got to have more events in Japan. Are you here in this government?
Yeah, they've been going crazy.
They're showing love to TM right now.
Yeah, I mean, did you see they were shooting Pyro when I was on the desk?
For me.
That was for you, Matt.
That was for you.
Yeah, yeah.
That's what Sammy told me, just to make myself feel better.
Well, it'll be CR here on D.
It's twisted minds.
I actually kind of like the idea to come out with a remontra straightaway.
I think you probably had a good idea of what you're going to see on the other side.
Let's not waste any time playing that D.va.
Absolutely agree.
A little bit better at brawling out with the Sigma,
enduring some of the front-line pressure.
Crazy Raccoon with the Pharah May.
Trying to deal with the Symmetra with that.
Give Quartz quite a bit of room to work with.
Will that be something that Crazy Raccoon come to regret?
Quartz just charging up a rail.
So dangerous to play against him,
kind of coming around those corners, right?
Just the one-shot capabilities of the Sojourn.
It's a decent amount of car progress here, already gained by Twisted Minds, though.
Yeah, they're working things up, little by little.
These micro touches from Chorong, adding to the stall, the beautiful wall.
From Stalker, takes down Ubi.
TD&T holding those fists, passages back out for now with the player disadvantage.
Need to yield this ground, do not want to give up a team one.
I mean that is your hitscan player going over and playing May here to kick things off.
I mean he's so much more than a hitscan.
I know. You can't even put a box around what Stalker can do. I mean, literally pick a hero on DPS.
I think this guy's one of the best. And it was a sick maywall, right, kind of splits off UB from the rest of the team.
UB gets dangerously low yet again, it'll be a railgun shot that does not connect from Quartz.
TP up to the high ground here is UB just trying to pose a threat for that area on the map.
Got to see some aggression from these TPs. Get TP and TP into the back line.
Easier said than done though, Max up in your face, has a flux charged up already, his might be faster than they expect. Here comes the rush.
Simple, responds in kind, but Max with a limp. Not a huge connection, but slowing ports down worth something.
Just in mind staying alive but not for long, TDNT out of the suit and finished, and once again the attackers beat a hasty retreat to the spawn.
Two minutes off the clock, and not much to show for it, Matt.
Yeah, both rushes traded out there. Max ends up going with a gravid flux.
Only Knetl could switch quarts. They do a nice job actually keeping him alive on through that.
The Susu's able to keep him up. But with all those healing resources going to quarts at that moment in time,
they actually lose TBNT and his Max overclock here.
Pickup would be huge.
Pushing it, trying to get forward. The sanctuary is out.
Defensive response to quarts. One for one trade.
CR hold the line for now, but TM with a symbol.
Maybe with a tactical advantage in this next fight looking to beat that corner this time no value from stocker's wall
The ray is out over the top but twisted mind
Starter fight come all in the blizzard and this push is over
It has to be another reset and with just a minute 20 on the clock that there is no much prayer now
See of course the science to stay on this Freya
I mean, this would be a pick we have not seen in the ages
Grasping at straws it feels like yeah, I mean now you're just searching deep in the bag for answers
So you know you do have this sim wall, right?
But you already have another flux for max. I mean, this is a sick play from Sigma those five. He is farming
Absolutely farming team swing wide for Raj over the top
That's a quick down-simple, counter shots from Quartz, take he's hang out of the sky, a 4 on 4, TM, still in this one, still looking to find their option.
A lift does come out, connection only onto Ubi, but the supports do keep him up, CR, not letting up on the pressure, trying to overwhelm TM, trying to get this HP back.
Finally, with a bit of a chance in the ultimate economy, the supports from CR have already bridged that gap.
Yeah, they were just trying to back out there with UB as you're gonna be at 15 seconds on the clock nice chain there
Self-destruct don't hold on if you can get back into the suit it changes everything
Take so very over the top providing a face fire push them battle in see our cooling with a sim of their own
It's actually he's a finding the kill in that fight and TM limited numbers forced to the payload trades continue to come in
Anybody's game now with the low numbers fight for the making. There's too much
for the attackers to break.
TVNC gets D-Mack and Jake.
Oh, they're dealing it now, but they're bringing them back.
That is where the push will stop.
For Twisted Minds to see a cheeky smile there on court
is the round ended and obviously not a smile out of happiness.
Just kind of like, man, what do we do?
I mean, when you're going to the Freya and you're going to everything, I mean, you were just...
I mean, you were just trying to get lucky there at that point.
Trying to get something that can work against that comp.
I mean, nasty stuff.
Crazy raccoon, just icy.
Like, not getting overexcited on those cams.
I mean, it's the opposing coach.
That's not what I want to see.
I'm sort of hoping they get overconfident, hoping they overextend, but these fights are dire.
They are giving nothing up.
There are no windows.
Now, Twisted Minds on defense. I mean, this feels almost like an impossible task they have to be able to get a hold.
It'll be simple on the Zen, so they're going to play a SIG setup.
Obviously, Noah Lawrie here, which probably would have been the go-to for simple,
going to try and play the Zenyatta into this, where...
Crazy Rakuud. I mean, this is the setup, right? The Mizuki here.
And you've used some Mizuki against the diva, right?
I wonder if you kind of see the SIG on the other side.
If there's a different type of response, we'll find that out.
You have not seen Twisted Minds play the SIGMA at all throughout this event.
So you know TVNC can play it.
Just we have not seen them pull it out.
This feels like another little bit of sign of desperation.
It'll be a sonic arrow here from He-Sang.
Let's see what they decide to do in terms of comp.
You know, Horong's flexibility is vaulted.
I mean, I think among supports you really got to consider him as if not the most flexible in the world
They're gonna change the team. I think I think they like it against the diva. It looked like Chorong's gonna go back
Okay, so they're gonna play the Kiri with a Juno here. So something of a little bit of a different look
It's kind of like a you know, we're playing with this sim in the main
Not the bay but baby with a whim for the maze begins to swing wide
Taking that space away in an instant, twisted minds find themselves on the brink of going down 2-0
in terrifying fashion, crazy raccoon, setting up for the final fight.
I don't know how you fight this effectively here if you're twisted minds.
TV forward, TV into you, you stepped up.
In the back, I'm simply down! He never starts coming, both supports fall,
and strikes back with one of his own, making this just possible but only barely.
And Max finding another, taking that last set of hope, ripping it away from the rest of mind, they're down to go just like that, Matt.
That's as fast of a 2-0 that I can remember.
We've seen some dominant Grand Finals, Matt, but right now, this is an illegal battle.
I know I mean we we've had some
They'll beat downs in finals before but these two maps are lightning fast as
Twisted minds look I mean they are trying everything they can make an all different types of swaps see if they can get anything going
And crazy right there and they have had the answer every step of the way
Max deathless on this map stalker one dead. I mean this is just
That's not close. I mean show me that final TP under the back line take the player names away and
You know, who do you think is playing that same tipping it?
Yeah, it's like yeah supports down instantly winning the fight. You would have said that's TM
But it's CR absolutely
Snatching that fire away. He sinks is I'll just do it better this blizzard from so I mean look at that three players frozen
This level of play with a Kiriko and a Juno and a diva on the field
I mean you're you're not get much better than that. It's the barrage here. I believe yeah, I grabbed simple
And you know the Mizuki alts have been quite impactful in a lot of these fights where we see him the sanctuary
Can just eat up so much damage right force you to go inside and fight there
Against the team. That's not the spot you want to be in especially into Mays SIG
It's been a wrinkle that I think people did not expect coming into this event
but especially, you know, the chain of Mizuki, right? Not able to be eaten by the defense makers.
That is such a nasty shot off the rip there. And here is the TP play into the back line,
then the May wall, right? So you can't really even turn and fight it to split off the supports,
and it is over. And crazy raccoon sweeping forward, but feels like almost an inevitable victory
on that map. But when you set a hold like that on first point, you almost already know you find
a pick on quarts to start things off. And I mean, doesn't that just deflate the spirits for Tia? I mean,
they come here into this grand finals as a team that probably didn't expect to be here.
No. Given how this tournament started. And you couldn't hear Yubi like in the interview after
the last series, right? Where he's kind of talking like, yeah, we know how good Crazy Raccoon is,
like, you know, but they're gonna go down on their shield, so to speak, right, is Twisted Mind.
So King's Row will be the map selection for TM. One, they've had success with Sim in the past,
right? You know, obviously being able to kind of get, you know, two cross high grounds and
different things along those lines. This is another map, though, Jake. You could see like that
Mizuki sick come into play. I wonder if we haven't seen a Mizuki ban, I think, or at least any of
of the game's weak cast, so I wonder if it's a possibility.
I mean, what I'm thinking about is back-to-back Max maps.
That's true.
I mean, what a moment for a player
that Crazy Raccoon has continued to trust.
I mean, Junbin and Max have been sharing play time.
There's been matters that that has been questioned aggressively,
right?
If you're honestly with the community,
I said people have been talking about how Junbin's
so important to this team, it's always Junbin.
But this tournament, Max has been the standard bearer.
I mean, Junbin has been an amazing endeavor.
I don't want to take anything away from him,
But it's beautiful to see a player like max really shining and in a moment of maximum pressure, right?
They came here as the number two seed from Asia
Right, and I mean you take a look at max. Hey, he's pretty good. Just watch out
I mean everybody here on crazier a coon just putting up stat numbers that look fake
But no, I also think it's part of like, you know, obviously crazier a coon's so good
But historically in Overwatch, right? We've seen teams that like kind of sub these tanks in and out like rarely has it worked
Rarely have there been two tanks that genuinely make each other better.
It feels like there's always one to prefer to have in.
There's a lot of history, I mean, I know I've overwatched 10 years ago.
There's a lot of history that does not exactly work.
So, to see it done at this level, and obviously,
you need two incredibly special players to make it work at this level,
which obviously everyone believes Max and Junbin have been.
So, we'll see what you decide to do here if you're twisted minds.
I mean, you could ban May, you could ban the Mizuki.
The banning the Mizuki allows you to kind of play the diva a little bit more freely.
We'll see though, an opportunity, what, have we seen them ban the far yet or no?
I don't think so.
I mean, you have to worry.
You're not, though.
There it is.
They've got to keep deploying DPS bans as part of the problem if they want to keep this
sim engaged.
Yes.
Because I think without the sim, I mean, this SIG Mizuki looks like the Meta, and that's
been the one tool that I mean I would say has worked although in this series you'd be forgiven
for disagreeing I mean it right nothing has worked for TM in fairness here yeah and it's going to be
a Juno ban here for crazier racoon so slow the pace down I mean that's exactly what they want to do
horsemonic here you lose seal playing into like Mizuki Kiri with the SIG right and and I mean the
way Frazier racoon used the sanctuary I think that's what really elevates them in this comp above
other teams. Just from the eye-tests of me, they're fighting five-man inside the
sanctuary, all in committed to it. You know, we've seen players where I think
it's been a little more scattered, you know, a player uses it here, someone uses it
there. That's how we see, let's say, the Curicul use, which is totally normal. But
to have that full stack of players in the sanctuary, really defending it, making
sure that if you step inside, you're coming into a world of hurt, it's really
made it look drastically better than other teams. I want to get a lot of credit to
Chorong for being the player to really figure out Mizuki at the highest level.
With Mei as well, you're at a almost unwinnable situation, right?
Because at times we have seen the sanctuary drop down when they come into the fight,
if they blizzard them in the sanctuary.
Yeah.
So you either stand outside the sanctuary and die, I guess you round the corner,
but a lot of times they'll just chase through the sanctuary,
but then if you go in to play against it, then Mei is right there.
And teams do not have an answer to that setup just yet.
Crazy Raccoon, a team that is becoming so much more than the sum of their parts in the hat, and the sum of their parts is pretty damn good.
I mean, this is a team that loses shoe, right? Right? Wow.
And to rebound like this.
So we have seen Vigilante play at the highest level, but it is rare to come in and replace a player like Shoe
shoe and keep that same level of team play, there'll be crazy racoon on defense, Matt?
Allow me to sell you something. Allow me to sell you something, Matt. I've been talking
about this in the green room. Yeah. Have I not? You have. Have I not? The Rhine. Nobody's
body. I'm telling you, I need the Rhine. I don't know if I'm going to be your first
sale here on the brine TV NTS he's got to believe somewhere real somewhere
hottie is smiling yeah I think I think he sees the vision a sim Ryan an iconic
classic here in OWCS against the Bastion though the damage is gonna be
overwhelming margin for error non-existent a beautiful may well from
he's saying actually breaks the telephone from you be tried to go up into
window. Great heads-up play from Heesang. He's played these games before.
It's TM looking to see if they can get a TP up to the high ground, get that
Rhyne in position, which they do. Dangerously low as Yubi there.
In these close quarters engagements, TBNT steps up shield breaks now. No margin for air, but he continues to push forward.
Heesang forcing with the ice block. Fax stays in the fight for Bunny Astral.
Find May and the Chaos, Twisted Minds healing up simple on the petite, doing everything to keep this squad in the action.
And Twisted Minds find themselves just a bit of purchase in this series.
Somehow they're able to keep everybody alive there.
For Twisted Minds, that'll be a second checkpoint. Nice ant matrix here.
From Skinkle, Immortality Shield used as well.
Stalker raining down, firing through from the high ground, but it won't be enough to deny the capture.
And TM on the board for the first time.
There's no way this Ryan is going to look that good, right, I mean.
They ditched him able, he's hanging over to the Echo here.
Just putting even more pressure on Yuvi.
No far available on this one.
If the Echo can have the same level of impact, you're going to have Soundbar here as well.
You need to quite aggressive with this Reinhardt and the Suzu used here,
here and then it's going to be the continued rush as well, beating that's alive, holding the line.
Astro keeps the fight going forward, makes the opportunity to shut down the echo,
but losing TBNT will you still be able to continue this push? Crazy Raccoon has four, fighting,
but TM somehow continuing to roll them over, stocking up, cleans up the back line and now
maybe the stabilization that Raccoon have been looking for.
TM will able to come back, but the sound barrier obviously kept them alive for an extended period, but not long enough.
Now the advantage of the amateur comes out from stalker, right?
And then you can obviously have key-sane with that focusing being finished if player's off.
But one thing Sanctuary won't save you from though is Reinhardt swinging that hammer inside of it.
Absolutely shattered a little too.
An incredible test for Max. Brutal counter to Sigma being picked.
And Aitrix comes out. It wins the corner, but not much more than that.
Raccoon yield for now, playing their time, but with Shatter available as well.
Sanctuary in the backline. Hold on. Crazy Raccoon trying to flank and punish.
No value just yet. Simple. Weathers the rock and stands up.
And so CR losing position, finding themselves in an awkward spot.
I mean, it's a really weird spot for Twisted Minds to play them as well.
Oh, keep it broken! You'll be down!
Over extension! Shatter comes in, but where's the follow-up?
Max finds himself in a comfortable corner, the cut cross forward, the crazy raccoon
have done enough, the cop with the basket, seals the deal, and twisted lines, using
some of the most powerful ultimates, and even being delayed a brutal stack on this
patissed. They are just torturing simple.
As I think TB&T just uses that Shatter just to stay alive for a little bit
longer, Max to his left. Decides to turn Shatter him. Stable stay alive a little bit longer but
not enough to make a real difference. You are very close to the second checkpoint though.
You'll have an ant matrix here. You can maybe TP Quartz in an odd spot with the Bastion use that
ant matrix. Get the payload on in. It looks like they're going to try and potentially show that
they're going to wrap here. Well they go for it. It might be selling a fake. They're considering
Swinging back out may know they continue to go deep.
Taking the defender position with crazy raccoon, spread out across the map.
A powerful concave.
Window is out, plucks the funds.
Ensuring that it's difficult for ports to get down.
Stalking with forbidden combo.
Little leap squorts off the field.
Ubi finds one, but with just two supports in the sim, it feels too difficult to win.
Ubi dancing well, but...
Max, wait, hold on.
Neesa, okay.
That was a little scary.
I think Ubi just trying to...
Farm some bean charge there and maybe see if you can kill Max towards the end but Max finally takes him out
Now you do have two minutes on the clock, right? You know four chipper twisted mines. They took that first point pretty fast
this beat needs to be
Massive here from Astro TP. They don't go through it
They got a massive fit and here comes the beat from Astro doubling down disrespecting vigilantes rush
He's saying pull some macro into the back line staying alive for now.
Max kiting back with vigilante is not so lucky.
He's saying now looking to find his man but court response in kind.
Max falling back getting low, the overwhelm from TNT is good and the second point falls to Cliffs and Minds.
Not pretty.
Oh, that is though.
It's right up in a chore on space fire strike there from TNT.
Socrates go back to the Bastion just was hovering the reaper there for a second
But you may be only get some good progress off of this right because you have the same wall here shatter
You have ant matrix to use nearly the full stack for TM
Without the beat though. There's always a risk of losing those pick offs
It matrix comes out first simple buying space and time deploying it on the payload so that it moves forward as they push
maximizing the value
Twisted mines pushing towards a final fight.
What will the answer be?
Here comes the sanctuary.
Broke shut up.
Ooh, he's pushing up.
I thought he was maybe going to go for a swing
and then go for it.
He's thinking about it.
A TP into the back line.
He sank with a copied Sigma.
Copies his ally, tries to find a list,
but maybe broken out of the copy already.
The fire is brutal from Quartz,
punishing all defenders.
And Twisted mines standing strong.
Five on the point.
Crazy.
He's bleeding out.
This deep bench is done, and 20 points is done!
TVNT turns the corner,
Stocker in the fast artillery,
he's dropping it right on his own head,
he says, I don't care,
just charges him out of that,
loses his life in the progress,
but what a way to bounce back
if you are twisted minds.
The Reinhardt, cooking a little bit,
why Reinhardt?
Why the Reinhardt?
The price is up now.
Yeah, Stocks is high.
Hey, Stocks go up and down,
I'll buy it with this back low.
Why the Reinhardt?
Look, it's all about the sanctuary, right?
It's that ability to be
unstoppable when you group his five in the sanctuary
or inside the Katsune Rush
that you just cannot be contested.
No one can challenge you.
Reinhardt is one of the highest DPS heroes
in the game when he can connect on you
and swing those hammers.
When he's cleaving multiple targets,
he's the highest DPS in the game, easily.
And so you've got to remember
raw power behind the rime. I guess the the ability or the threat of getting into
the shanksuary and then also shattering as well would force you back if you're
crazy raccoon almost back out of it in a way potentially as a threat but yeah like
the damage output while you're inside of it right. It's also pretty nasty. So hard
to play Sigma into this both rime and sim really don't care whatsoever about the
defensive utility from Sigma they essentially ignore it run him over and
And so for Max, it's very hard to contest that ground, Batista's well doing obscene healing.
I mean, I'm excited to see the stats.
Oh, the simple because he is going to have a bonker stats on those healings.
TNT, it felt like he was permanently at like 10% HP the entire time, is...
Crazy Rektune, they all end up playing the Mei here, with the Sig.
Tristan minds his way to play the Sig, so not going to play the Rine here, on defense.
They're going to just TP up a little bit of a mind game here, take this high ground.
Crazy Raccoon going to rotate out, swinging to the hotel, a TP gets them up to the high ground, and Point is being forced.
Response necessary for Twisted Minds onto their own Sigma for this defense.
A positional gain here, dancing around one another.
Stalker though, could be able to grab this first hit.
Twisted Minds will give that up, they won't yet give any more.
TVNT now steps to the point.
That creates an opportunity for Max on the flank to find something with the Sigma of his own.
Yeah, and it's gonna be you falling first, but he's saying false as well. You still have both supports alive and ports here
obviously the highest damage I'll put
hero on either side at the moment as
It's gonna be stalker nice maywall there gonna be like keep himself alive is charl wrong coming back up the spawn here on the wheel
It's a blood that
Could favor the attackers but twisted minds holding steady
TVNT, ever the anchor for this team, stays alive, but Max Quartz gives you a big blizzard.
Will they be able to TP out?
Seems that one has, but Quartz is not so lucky.
They're from maybe with the finish.
Max Quartz deep into the back line, looking to finish off these defenders.
And it's a crazy recruit turn to open up this payload.
And that is a sick blizzard there from Stalker.
TP comes in to get Quartz back up to the high ground,
finding Astro there as well.
And then he just drops the blizzard right on top of them.
Astro able to make it out with his light.
Quartz tried to actually get into the turn
and ward on Bastion to try to get maybe a little bit more speed
to get back over towards that TP, does not make it out.
So a huge loss there for Twisted Minds.
Now, Crazy Raccoon is going to try and make their way
around this first corner.
Twisted Minds need to set a solid defense there.
The offense was fantastic, but it doesn't mean much if Krazy Rekku can get to overtime.
CR though regrouping well to beat from Astro, but it's not doing much other than buying time.
Krazy Rekku is still strong, title glass keeps Max healthy, and deep into the backflip, slams to beat to the floor,
deletes the Sim, and now it's he's six turns to cook.
TVNC falls, Quartz does find one, but he's not one for this world.
Just enough time for T.M. to regroup, but only Barry.
And they're going to go back to the ride.
The Sigma head-to-head is not something you would favor them in in the moment, as
Cort's going to go over to the Sojourn as well.
So you get a good flux from TBNT. Stalker inside of it uses the ice block to stay alive.
It'll be another fight here for Twisted Minds with an opportunity to hold on defense.
They have some long spawns for CR, but you would not know it with the confidence they are pushing this choke.
Still gotta consider taking some of these off angles.
You're gonna play for the Blizzard here, I think, if you're crazy Raccoon, and then just drop it right on the TPM.
TP high ground, oh, Simple just barely gets out with the TP.
Quartz finds Vigilani, a signature pick-off, he always finds them in these moments of chaos.
And maybe that's all they'll need.
Crazy Raccoon routed, split through the four wins here.
Will they be able to somehow make their way out alive,
port some shores?
And he's saying, well, not.
That is a huge fight win there.
Four twisted mines.
They TP simple endcourt up to the high ground.
Ant matrix rail gun shot.
That opens things up there early as the strut through the wall.
Around the corner, putting down some really nice damage.
Starrong has to be so careful.
You'll have a flux with the title blast here and the blizzard.
In rush, I mean, everything available here for Krazer and Coon, they go in there, that's going to be the sound barrier in response from T.M.
Beat is down, but Simple steps out of the Blizzard, not frozen, Stalker low, Quartz shuts down Eseng, he'll have his head, Vigilandie now.
Just laying the inevitable as Stalker faces a quick reset, but Twisted Minds won't be so generous, stalling for every last second against this May.
Aw, I mean, he is getting hit by the turrets as well, now you finally finish him off.
As you can tell they're they're really bothered by this Reinhardt. You're gonna go over to the Ramatra here
I mean what an Adelaide. What a change in tenor of the series the last two maps
I think this one's lasted longer than both of them combined. Yeah, we're not even through with it yet stalker to the venture a
Tried and true response to the symmetric but one the twisted minds was
Absolutely experienced before yeah play style that they're used to playing against
We'll see though right you can put that title blast onto the venture or the Ramatra
It could be quite devastating. It'll go on it to Stauffer as he goes up the high ground.
Big damage, Choron finds the trades, TVNT now down as well. Choron with two on the fight
and just puts it ass on the fence. Seems impossible with the rush still lingering on the ground.
Crazy Raccoon refused to give up anything for free, but with one to fifty-two on the opposing clock,
you've got to cap with time.
Yet no support ults available here for Crazy Raccoon, right?
We saw the title blast on the stalker. It was pretty nice.
Gets to the high ground, kind of like, you know, comes out of the burrow,
erupts at the perfect time, stuns simple, and then being able to finish him off
when he had the M Matrix.
But you need to win at least what? Two more fights here.
Now it's Heesang's turn to deploy the Sim wall boat.
In parallel here, team's looking for any angle, any opportunity.
Quartz somehow finds the crack shot onto Heesang,
and without the Symmetra, CR need to reset, they lose Chouang in the process, and maybe
more to follow, Twisted Minds look eager to continue this fight, they know that running
the clock plays to their advantage, they can secure at worst the draw if they can just
run this to 0.
I mean, you have overclocked for Quartz, where he has been money, it feels like it's
a tack visor in his hands.
Say, you also have the Shatter here for TDNT, the Annihilation up for Max.
You don't have like a support ulti combo with it, right?
The rush would be pretty nice.
It's gonna keep that rematch rolling.
Quartz!
Every single time you try to take these transition fights,
he's the best to do it on the Sojourn right now.
DBNT looking for more with the Shatter,
but Scylla's 4th,
Razer and Hakun with a lot of punch on this squad.
Yeah, you're gonna have to wait for Salka
to get back in the fight though.
There's the OZ. There's the OZ here.
Lot of pressure on Max.
Boxing players back.
Quartz hasn't found a shot.
Just get the rail is out, it's good enough,
Max out of gas, it's cleaned up,
UB finds another of the beat, just overwhelming from Astro.
And it feels like a draw might be the best we can do now, CR.
On the verge of dropping their first map in the series,
Twisted Minds pull up the grind and change everything.
I mean, especially with the way the first two maps looked,
it looked like we were gonna get a speed run here,
but Twisted Minds, they have pulled out all the stops.
Reinhardt here, giving Krazy Raccoon some trouble.
UB with another Sim wall here, quite fast, right?
Both of them got deployed at the same time.
Ivana damage, he's farming up here.
Able to get another one as we are below 30 seconds on the clock.
Sim pulls turn now to find Max.
Krazy Raccoon flustered the pressure of this Reinhardt,
beginning to overwhelm, but Stalker strikes back against Astro.
Ensures that there's still a fight to be had.
Taurang looking for the chance to pop this title blast.
Starting to drill down this front line, the title blasts onto the Symmetra.
All attackers forced to respect him, but maybe their mind doesn't go well.
Support is perfect though, and Stalker might do with the Chaos Helmeters.
So you still have ports alive in the back line.
You're probably going to get another fight here though.
If you're Twisted Minds, Simple does have an Amatrix.
Let's see, TV and Tee will get a touch.
Knock players off at the point.
Oh, so aggressive is Max holding one of the spawn doors.
Simple does the through.
TVT with the roll fight, one, and killed on back on the cat.
Cleans up this fatis max, though.
Surely just too much in the annihilation.
Drips and grabs, twisted minds,
but they have guaranteed at worst to draw one minute 52
to just gap a single tick to get on the board in this series.
But it feels, Matt, that it's two or die.
It feels like you have to get this map win
with the heroics you put in.
To this point, a draw could be devastated.
To play this well, you know, with how the first two maps went and then walk away with a draw,
I mean, that would be brutal here.
This is the first time that Twisted Minds in this tournament have really made Kreese Raccoon bleed
as we take a look.
Look at Simples.
That's some of the stats.
That is 27.6k.
That is, TB&T doing God's work is just a meat shield for the rest of the team, just soaking up so much damage on the Rhine.
I like to potentially see Twisted Minds come out here with the Rhine on offense.
Like, I think you know that they want to play Sig on D, right?
Oh, I don't think there's anything. I mean, I guess you can consider the Rematra.
I will say that one fight they did cap on first, it was a little tenuous, right? They got down low.
We took the Death Snatch Scrap to clean up.
I mean, they played Sigver sick, right?
On offense?
No, no, they did.
They were off to play Rai.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They did end up playing the Rai towards the later end.
So Max is showing the segment.
I mean, this is a little under-type.
I would have preferred to keep that hidden.
TM now.
And if they were to scout this comp,
they're not going to be baited with just one hero.
They really want to show what they're up against.
So Crazy Raccoon does make a change, though, right?
Oh, Cat Bastion.
At a moment such as this, I think
this is the last thing that Crazy Raccoon would have expected.
Probably.
I mean, they go Cassidy with a May here, not exactly, uh, no, the go-to against Kat's Bastion, so
It'll be simple here on the Baptiste as well.
Forcing the point to, stalker taking a lot of damage.
Perk's online already from the overtime. Big shots come in, but he's saying dodges.
TNT running low to Cassidy, drilling that damage in, but UB pressuring the flank.
Might be able to find an opportunity, he's saying.
Responding defensively, but twisted mind, giving the overwhelm, maxed out of gas, and the Bastion opens up.
It's absolutely just too much.
Damn, find their first map in the series.
There's more to play for here in Tokyo.
Twisted Minds finally showing signs of life
against Crazy Raccoon.
The first time these two teams met up here in Tokyo,
it was a CR blowout.
The first two maps looked like we were gonna get a rerun.
And this one they hold on they play the Reinhardt
I really like the call on the cap action there towards the end
I don't think crazy recruited any idea they're gonna run that I love it in the overtime right because you start with all the perks online
Typically we've seen bastions actually not go for that explosive artillery
Perkwright and go for the self-repair only leaving the one take exactly you're not even in the mirror anymore
You don't need to worry about shooting the other bastion out of the air
You just need to find those pick offs into the back line and what could be better than the AC 130. I mean, come on
I mean that speaks to me
Speaks to my heart man as I take a look at you
You see some of the highlights here playing the venue behind us some of the players gonna stand up get a little bathroom break
Simple that's a stat line heel frame almost 30k healing there on the Baptiste
Is I know court start to come alive on the sojourn as well
crucial for him to really get some wind in his sails. So here's Twisted Minds, right? You feel like, okay,
now when you see the Sigma, maybe you have some type of response.
You don't really have a response for the
Cat Bastion for a yet, right? True.
You know, it feels like now you can come back to a wrecking ball map or somewhere where those highly mobile strats are gonna work.
I know that the Ryan is a response to the Sigma, but yeah, how you deal with the Cat Bastion is a
is a nether unique test and I mean look what they banned the bastion already
right yes they did they've been at farra I think they did right did they not
ban it on circuit yeah they banned the no actually was what a lorry was the
band and yeah maybe in the farra so you're down to just the cat right we'll
have to take a look get the series bands man I'm gonna put my foot in my mouth
I'm way too locked in on the right heart. I know they played blacked out when I saw
They played me with the farra on a circuit. Yeah, okay. You're right. You're at the bar. Yeah. Yeah, so so you've used
You haven't used the farra band
And you still have the cat band, right? Yeah, I mean CR though can guarantee cat bashing if they just open
With a support band here, right? So yeah, you know the bashing bands been used now
You can protect the cat and show the combos there
You could consider something like, I don't know, a wrecking ball band to attack Jundbin,
but I'm pretty skeptical, let's say, of the impact that I'll have.
I mean, Jundbin as a player, you know, you'd be hard-pressed to pin him on a tank
that he's not going to be successful on.
Yeah, and I guess like now what, King's Row gone here, so what, Hybrid and Escort.
I guess now you end up, what, are you going to play a, you know, are we going to see like a Seraphosa potentially here?
Here, a lot of options I'm sure. Players, coaches discussing in the back. Now we've got a real series to play for.
And guys, don't go anywhere. We're coming right back after a short break.
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Okay, so there'll be new junk city here
For crazy raccoon there Matt pick if there's a ride ban. I'm about to lose it
What a ride man. I would I would I was coaching CR right now
Okay, and sim the sim band maybe more this is the true like
You're cashing it in now for you be this is this you know this is coming when you be placed
He's gonna have to do one map without sim this last series, but you know what is it gonna?
Commitize that what will he play?
You know the the the key he's got as well. So like you these hero pool you would say is what sim
tracer may
Maybe the may makes the most sense, but I
I could I actually don't mind the May when I can play and like sort of this you know
Mizuki rush mirror maybe it may be like a Ryan with me like a Juno may like a rock
are we playing like a rock I'm not sure the Ryan works that same I mean Ryan in
the sim together are really powerful though I really like it I think it has
incredible utility running over a Sigma but take that TP out of Ryan's kit and
you're looking at a very different game you're gonna have to walk across those
open sight lines. I mean, yeah, you're asking TVNT to do a lot if you're asking to play
Ryan there without a sig. I mean, just the amount of damage he was taking there as we
take a look at some of the stats from the previous map. And I think the impact for TVNT
is like not going to really show up in the stats. It's more of the space that he's taking
on the Ryan Hart, the position, and just like the overall threat he's kind of generating.
Four max on the other side. No, obviously continuing the strong play we talked about like from map number two
Yeah, in the end on Ryan, you're not really gonna get to deal your DPS consistently
No, it's the fact that that Sigma is constantly backing backing backing. Yes, he's gonna do his stats are gonna be better than yours
No question about it. Yes, you know any true Ryan player knows it's not about the stats. It's about the dub
Tim just put one up on the board. It's how Johnny played professionally for like three
Man, you just had to do it to him
I mean, you put the ball out the room. I just threw it in. So, I mean, I would say you're
partially responsible there. I'll take the assist. Anything for the stats, man.
Yeah, so the Keery Band for TM here, interesting. See where they decide to go in terms of supports,
right? Because you've seen Twisted Minds, obviously, they would play a ton of Lucio
Kiri right so to see that band come out of them is like quite rare right you know
what will simple decide to go to here so yeah maybe I look you wouldn't feel
great I you'd be trying to take like the tracer head to head maybe there's
something else that they've kind of got hooked up for him to kind of pivot over
to and Kiri has been a huge part of this kind of when we talk about the Mizuki and
the Sigma as being the core of the company Kiriko is just as if not more
important, right? The Mizuki provides the defense, but Kiri is incredibly valuable when you want to get on the attack.
And Max is still in, so we talked about some of those kind of comp changes in terms of the tank back and forth.
He'll stay in for another game.
I didn't think of it at the moment, but we saw Simple play the map on the last map extremely
strong.
Run it back?
Yeah, Yubi is going to play the May, right?
I was talking about like you kind of think May, Tracer, Sim obviously in the hero pool
for him.
Now you're going to also just play the ram and just try and run him down.
Break Juno though.
So powerful in these close range brawls.
Quartz on the Sojourn won't be able to match the raw DPS of Abastion, but maybe can find
a pick as he so often does.
Oh, awkward wall there.
May isolate him away.
Now some big attack comes in, but you need to be right back in, putting some pressure
on the flank.
Just in mind, playing angles nicely and it's CR.
Find themselves bullied off the angle.
Yeah, Stalker gets extremely low and so does Heesang as some railgun shots connect from
Quartz as he wants to go try and fight Heesang here, no.
There's no ice block up, just guns him down.
Yeah, he's so confident on the soldier to be able to do that.
Both Quartz are against it, May.
They grab the point flip, but CR still fighting, trying to punish TVNT.
The heals are massive from Sympil, keeping that tank alive and healthy, but Max will
They take the back piece, pipe in his stead, and a stalker is back into the form.
CR made him battling this one back despite the initial pick going against him.
Courts with one, not going to be enough though. It'll be a point flip here.
Four crazy raccoons. They also think, look, if you can get to simple and deal with him,
they just don't have enough. Obviously, EHPS is going to keep everybody alive, right?
It's just he's done a great job of doing it thus far. It'll be he saying playing tracer now,
so they're going to ditch the may.
Maybe the Tracer years will put more pressure on 2Ponniastro in simple.
Shield positioning that suggests a desire to go deep.
They'll think better of it, but now, here comes the Ray over the top, the Bastion form as well.
The wall doesn't last long, Max is deep into the backline, needs some support here.
Just in mind, bunkering nicely.
The Blizzard from Ubi just makes enough space, artillery and desperation for Stalker.
Rally out for Chorong. The Quartz is OC.
Seems to be a death now, but hold on!
That's sports for Krazy Raccoon!
Activate fighting kills on the fight!
A third for the backline of CR!
As they start off so poor, poor Krazy Raccoon,
but they battle back.
They get aggressive behind the orbital rate,
but it's a really nice maywall there from Yubi
in combination with the Blizzard that splits Max off
from the rest of the team.
Amp Matrix used there as well, but not enough there.
Four TM to battle back.
They get early point control, but lose it.
Be the first flash point on the board here for Crazy Raccoon.
Astro has the sand barrier, but this big Juno Comp can be so difficult to aggress into so many powerful defensive tools.
Hydra in control, though.
4TM provides Quartz with a base from which to put that fire down.
He's saying howling a pulse bomb, though, and finally a comp in which he can really connect with...
Chorong gets low, man, but they do not have enough to go in trying to fight him right away.
Here's the beat.
DM deep into the backline, can they fight?
Stalker is down, but Chorong demands a trade.
The annihilation is out early for Max.
DMT responds in time.
Max a little bit healthier up the two as these rematchers brawl out.
Hit your man even behind, and Ubi gets cut down.
Despite the ultimates committed from TM,
They can't win the teamfight, they can't earn that contest.
And I wonder if you're thinking about potentially a swap here for Twisted Minds.
It's interesting, right? They banned the Kiri here.
Or you would love the Kiri to maybe even play with the D.Va in this type of scenario, right?
At this moment in time.
The Nade comes through the choke here for Stalker, puts down some damage.
Just, you'd be taking a lot of damage as well.
It is going to be costly for Twisted Minds to kick this fight off.
Another Nade from Stalker, that's going to earn him the Artillery Strike.
In this position, so cloistered, so close range, it's hard for Simpho to find the opportunity,
but Quartz will make it himself.
An instant pick onto Stalker with the rail headshot, a recall force out of his egg.
But once again, Crazy Marcoon refuses to yield.
In the 4v5, they'll initiate first. They'll be sending these attackers packing.
Even though they get that pick, Quartz takes it off.
Long break.
But that'd be Stalker with a long range artillery here.
Oh!
Are you kidding me?
How does he do it?
He said, cleans them up.
And Crazy Raccoon making King Troll look like an anomaly.
Up 2-0 with very little contest so far on New Junk City.
Stalker with the artillery from spawn gets Funny Astro.
No way Twisted Mind's gonna be able to make it through the choke.
They give it up, but they do not have another flash point to give up here.
Oh, double bass, onto Astro, but hold on, don't get to the left, not for long,
the rest of Crazy Raccoon pulling over the top, a blizzard freezes too,
but where's the follow-up, Max still helping, he cleans up Simple,
and just UB and TVNT remain, running back to the spawn of familiar sight on New
Jung City as Crazy Raccoon once again, finding the early fight win and the first
Cap, Ubi to the tracer.
And simple.
The Moira?
Not now.
At this moment?
Now we're just searching, just raw HPS Moira here, just trying to keep everybody alive,
playing as much Cap as possible.
It's back!
Artillery from the high ground activated, but hold on!
Max, they have overplayed his hand, has to fall back into the waiting arms of Vigilani.
Ubi forces the point as well, pulling Crazy Raccoon this way and that.
But so far they refuse to you yield a kill, although Quartz somehow always the moment in the e-finding the kill.
DVNT finds a second.
Plaster wants to hold on to his B, but may not be so lucky.
A group so much he wanted Quartz on a single point of HP!
Not even a reaction as he goes down to literally one HP, able to survive Battle Out Chorong.
Yubi over to Tracer Boat and Wilder, the Moira coming out here.
It's Cat Bastion on the cards.
There'll be Stalker with an opportunity here to cover over the point.
over towards Quartz, forces him back a little bit. Now the turret form coming out.
TVNT offers himself up, the beat comes in for Mastro. Four players connected,
can they get towards his backline? Vision landing is low. You'll be playing
distraction on the flank, but he's saying, looking forward, trying to hunt him down.
Gets that recall out, but can he find the kills? Simple with the coalescence now.
Start it over well, but again! Stalker, the artillery fire, shuts down Lucio.
So post-Cusco wide, course, a second lease on life, another chance.
Maybe it'll be enough, but it comes down to a scrappy trade and Moira reigns supreme in
this kind of engagement.
Yes, Simple gets two here on the Moira.
This twisted mind stays alive.
The coalescence early there, laughs and just kind of bean people down.
I mean so the Moira right like in some of these fights Max goes over to the Maga here
The just the amount of healing and Moira can just get right in like a little bit of you know some damage at time survivability
Allow us TBNT to kind of continue these positions aggressively best in class survivability
But will it be enough vigilante pops the ray to ignore those fists of fury from TBNT
Crazy Raccoon, stem open to the point, but it's not quite open yet, so the ray is
essentially nothing. Beautiful rotate from TM, but Crazy Raccoon refused to yield
max, pulls aggro to himself, but just dashes right out. Quartz now with DOC.
Wheelie be shut down the bastion, looking to hunt him down, forcing to slide out
Astro, rides out. And somehow the first flip goes to TM. Raccoon not out of this
yet, still five players remaining but stalker. Seemingly soon to fall, and
Let's see if people find the finish.
Yeah, this would be such a huge comeback for Twisted Minds.
The Moira coming in, nobody would have had that.
They're gonna go away from Kat Bastion here.
They're gonna go with Stalker here, on the Soach.
Chorong gonna go back and play the Brig.
I mean, these are comps that Twisted Minds is pulling out,
and nobody, they didn't scrim them right there.
This is on the fly. This is modern overwatch. You have to adapt and both teams now throwing caution to the wind
willing to risk
Everything on this gamble max already cut down
Deleted the rail from course the follow-up
Three on the fight is this happening
Twisted mines down to oh on this map
go over to a Moiracom against the Kat Bastion they rally two flash points in a
row one away from tying this series up who would have thought after the first
two games we would end up in a tie game scenario after four TM trying to do what
It felt like the impossible.
Quartz is gonna have OC for this as well, by the way.
Pulse Bomb from UB doesn't get much.
Stalker, he'll take the challenge now.
On the Sojourn Mirror.
Quartz though, maybe with the Edge and early OC,
could be devastating and Astro holding onto that beat.
Feels like so much is riding on this opening fight
of the checkpoint.
Quartz pops the OC, sending rails into the back of Max.
Retreating out, but a headshot.
Take Chorong down with the help of TD&T.
And now with the player advantage,
Twisted Minds starting to cook.
Yubi cleaning up on this tracer,
finishes off Stalker.
And the rest of Razeracoon soon to follow the 15th straight
for Yubi.
I mean, there's one thing we got right here
is we have the two best teams in the world
in our final here at the moment.
Twisted Minds pulling out all the stops.
This is going to be a tough fight though. Orbital Raid, Rally, Cage Fight, everything available here for Crazy Raccoon, it'll be Max who gets onto the point here trying to drag them down from the high ground.
Rage used as well.
He's called upon in his team's moment of need. Aster with the beat, it's purely defensive, vigilante with the raid now forces the issue on point.
TVNT though holds the line. Still healthy and with annihilation to spare.
Annihilation in Colalescence is gonna be the cage right here dropped by Matt. It's gonna be an annihilation
TB&T he's healthy. He's good.
Back row down. Had to come into support. Got me great awareness to change targets. Twisted mind starting to crumble under the pressure
Colalescence still holding though.
Go wrong. Rallying. Desperation now as they look to burn down TB&T, but he just won from.
Ramon still fighting strong when he said. Shutting down Quartz. Maybe Hopus left for crazy back room.
Twisted Minds, they got 95 on the flight.
Yeah, they get up to 95.
It is Perotis.
Poor Crazy Raccoon, they're absolutely dumping everything into that.
It is just one fight though that Twisted Minds needs to get to tie this series up and to
a piece.
You'll be with a pulse bomb.
Aggression.
On to court.
They push up.
A double slide away.
Astrum now in the sights.
Crazy Raccoon looking to change the story.
The Twisted Minds definitely fall back, pulling off the play.
Max though getting a strong trade on the CBNZ who needs some real help.
Max sets his weakness, charges forward, but backs out and sends one to find the kill.
And in the chaos now, Yubi with the pulsebond could meet up.
And he catches Chorok in Twisted Minds!
On the verge of picking up their second map of the series and sending us to a tight grand finals.
Crazy Red Codewd, obliterated on map one and two, where have you gone?
Yubi just coming off the bench.
Yubi's like, you know what, I only play finals.
I don't really care about that regular season, Joan.
As they are laughing, down 0-2 on Flashpoints on that map,
Looked like they were getting dumpstered yet again. They come up with a they play boy. Who's playing Moira?
Nobody's even playing Moira in ranked. I mean you were just coming up with all the stuff
Crazy or who might be a little boomed at the moment. I mean after a game like that
What an impressive
What does Moira offer I mean best in class survivability when cat fashion comes into commit too often
It's the supports who are caught and yeah, I'm going to run uniquely difficult to punish in those scenarios
I mean 15k HP there from simple decent damage involved in some kills
These highlights are gonna look insane folks. They had it was a hard way on new junk city. I mean to go down to oh
Brutally, I might add a sick game
and look
With Symbol playing the back, right, you're just trying to, like, you need a, if you're going to play the Lucio, right, you need a healer who can just kind of deliver raw HPS.
Typically, if you see, like, a Kiri, obviously, they ban the Kiri here.
But once they start collapsing on the Symbol, on the back, you're kind of like, alright, where do you go?
Okay, this is where he gets funny, Asher. This is just kind of the whole choke point, just laying down, covering fire.
But you would never expect him to go to a Moira, right?
No, unlike this level, no.
But what are the other options I guess I mean, you know, that's when you look at a player like that's simple
That's something that you know if he had lost this right if it got people out
I'm where are you crazy? Like they would have fucked them right there would have mercilessly I might add
But simple
Exactly exactly I mean not something I would have had the intelligence to pick simple one of the best in the world right now and
You might argue the best despite being a young player
I mean his the most exciting flex support in the last few years
He would you a predict that they win the map that the other sim is gone
I mean that this should be your wife's map. This should be
The game almost against me. This is what this is why because the fora in the cat are still available for them to get rid of
In the remainder of the series, right?
Now we go over to push right?
You expect it to be rune of soppy we've seen everybody go to rune of soppy with new Queen Street being the other option
We've seen courts and then turned off. I mean that pulse bomb was it the one trick allegations have been greatly overstated
You be holds the line here on New junk City, but it's simple in the feed
I mean we've got to talk about this on the nails. No less. I mean pro the chat goes wild
Did you know the chat is losing their mind?
Seeing a moira here in the grand finals
as that is something I mean nobody would have had I mean you wouldn't even had
Moira in the show matches I mean you wouldn't even breathe that to come in
so simple brings it out here TM they were alluding on Twitter like hey we have
some crazy stuff so I mean the Reinhardt obviously coming in to play here I
wonder they're keeping Max in I guess I wonder we haven't seen the stuff I mean
stage so I mean the sub would usually be done by now so feels like we're seeing
Max in yet again. It's an interesting choice. Wouldn't mine seem to have been coming at
this point if only to shake things up. Bring out the wrecking ball. We've seen it on Rudis
Abbey. Yeah. And the last time we saw Twisted Minds play this as well, I think game we casted,
they went to the hazard on this map. Which is... Could be interesting. I mean the way
this series is going at this point. Who knows what they're going to play at this point.
I mean, they are, they are really, you know, something that I think people talk about Twisted
Minds is like, oh yeah, okay, so it's gonna be a Mizuki ban here, 4TM, first one lock
in the game.
A lot of times people will say Twisted Minds, like, you know, whether it's like the hero
pools or like, oh, we're only good at these types of comps, right?
I think you're starting to see them prove that wrong here, in real time.
I mean, frankly, you don't win World Champs as a team, but you know, the player like
Yeah, it's like yes, you can look amazing on the sim
But if you didn't have the tracer in the pocket like that if you were really getting free wins from the sim ban
I don't think they'd have wasted so many trophies. I don't think they'd have earned such a pedigree
And now look at the player you see also like coach moon and the staff for crazier akunas kind of like trying to keep these players on
Track right they look like this was gonna be an easy walk in the park after two
I mean they had to have started to feel that they didn't look overconfident. Yeah, I mean come on
It's actually you feel it. You felt I mean we were we felt it. We're starting to book train tickets
It was looking at Johnny's looking at registrants. I mean people are like, hey, this is looking rough Cassidy, man
Honestly, I don't think that bothers to him that much because like courts
He's gonna play the zone. I mean you want to play the Soge not a Soge band frankly
Yeah, I mean maybe you feel like the Soge is also really great for stalker to have access to if sim comes out
out, so you can drop the disruptor shot on the TP and slide away.
It's a very comfortable hit scan matchup where Cass might be maybe a little bit more vulnerable.
Cass can also be incredibly powerful in dealing with the jetpack cat.
So this could just be running back on jetpack cat.
I mean, with these bands, it's like, what's really going to stop you?
Cassidy has been one of the few hit scan tools for these low ground teams to, you know, fight
back.
Yeah, that is a good point is
The Mizuki is gone. So maybe you're trying to take away some of those like Sigma May
This is probably the only time I didn't really throughout the series as far where we're gonna get to see TV and T
Play that diva probably in like the free or type of style that he'd love to write without the Mizuki out there
Mystery heroes for TV and T so far on the day, but he's
The whole roster. I mean he wins on Roadhog and Reinhardt today
We saw them play Freya on Circuit Royale
And you know I was last time Freya basically you know the season that she was released we saw her
Yeah, she had a good run, but
There's not really been viable here at this event. They went to I love it the twisted mines
They're pulling out but no stone left on turns like hey, you think Freya can work out. Let's see how it goes
So the Moira comes through they are four twisted mines to tie this series up
at two games apiece
you did they win this one
c r is going to be sweating bullets
well man you take room to stop me
this is a crucial map right because whoever wins this
is on series point
and the way the series is going you can't take anything for granted
a huge map
winner
goes on to series point.
The loser will continue to search for answers in the set.
It'll be twisted minds here.
I think they'll end up playing this diva. This is kind of like really what they
want to end up playing
in a lot of scenarios. Just really haven't felt the ability to play it here
against Crazy Raccoon is
Okay, let's see if they can do it. Let's see if they can beat this jetpack cat
It'll be could be the far for he's saying goes reaper instead
valuing that low ground threat
Fortsville will have a lot of work to do on Bastion gonna have to be defensive
Always aware of the threat of stalker, but he sings Reaper another huge thorn in your side
Just in mind getting aggressive with the sim though
See our on notice you will not be allowed to rotate around this map for free
But with form used by quartz a window of opportunity presents itself
Yeah, they actually see the form used there by Stalker as well, so they're going to get back up.
Let's get back at it. We'll just kind of fly the Bastion out of dodge.
Just trying to put some pressure on it. Max, Max being dangerously low.
He's in trouble. He's a forced array form.
Twisted mind, enduring well. Max goes down.
TM regrouping, still healthy with a five on four.
Fiju landing now, soon to drop.
And he'll fall as well. TVNT cleaning the map.
Stalker, pulled into his daft showrun, just has to take the quick reset.
And the concept looked good on paper for Crazy Raccoon.
The twisted minds, back to basics.
And simple on the Kiroko.
Really unleashed now in the series.
So this is where, though, they've had trouble with he saying now going over the far.
And no way that the Sim can engage with really either of the damage dealers on the other team.
team. You can't really dodge both for long. Now you see some damage here from Stalker
on the flank, putting them in a really weird angle. It's soon a rush used by Stimple trying
to keep everybody up. Early rush. Zoned away with Quartz. Swings, he sent Cot alone. Bastion's
DPS throughput in the rush is immense. Even Stalker zoned away with the help of the cat.
Quartz, a huge threat on any angle, Bastion left on his own.
UB and Meezy smells the end.
And CR uses the rush here.
They use the rush, Twisted Minds just back up out of it here.
They're going to keep Quartz alive here.
He's going to use the artillery.
Big pressure on Max now.
Pops the form.
Twisted Minds though, on the retreat potentially.
Sim grabbed, but he can't be pulled away.
Quartz grabs the kills back from Jolani and Max.
Finds frags of their own.
And it seems the TMS push runs out of Baskerville.
Now, as I say that though, TVNT521, Quartz finds another.
Oh, he's gonna get the health map.
The 2v4, they're somehow winning.
He's gonna get the health map.
They're gonna have to back out there for a second though.
Crazy Raccoon, they actually dodged the cat bastion.
They're gonna go with Chorong here on the Lucio.
Stalker gonna go over to the venture.
We already have checkpoint here for Twisted Minds.
As Crazy Raccoon jig.
I think when you get in this like mystery hero type of game,
this is like Twisted Minds, this is what they want.
Like this is what they would rather play.
Max does have the annihilation sound barrier there. Only connects two.
Weak beat from Astro. Maybe an opportunity for Raccoon.
Just in mind, it's one for one off the plate. Quartz is low.
Does not have form. Surrounded flank from all sides. He continues to fire back.
The support grouping around this backline, ensuring the Quartz can still put down the damage.
The tracking is perfect.
I mean, you're watching the best hits again in the world by just off of the consistency
that he plays with.
Stalker now going over to the May, twisted minds looking to run it down on CR into their
spawn.
Katsune Rush there.
Max taking a lot of damage as he's going to back up.
You probably form Rush here for Vigilani and Crazy Raccoon, but it does not feel good doing
that back in your own spawn. The Mizuki Band has been huge on this one by the way as well.
Absolutely. TM now looking comfortable in their lane with a massive advantage here on push.
A hundred meter gaff already opened up. But TM, if I know anything, is that they're not
thinking about them thinking about the finish here on Runisapi. He's saying with the barrage
could find something over the top. Artillery shells raining down from above on quartz. Raccoon
Now with a rush up their own stock, just barely stays alive.
Rush is good for one, but simple, still gets three.
Yeah, it's gonna be TBNT using the self-destruct here.
Gonna get a remake back.
Everybody is split.
This is a bloodbath of a fight.
As you, VNCO, just trying to chase the members of CR down.
CR, just trying to get this back towards mid-map, Jake.
So they can fight outside of their spawn for once.
I mean, running the cart back mitigates your losses,
but it doesn't do much to change the fundamental state of this game.
Twisted mines.
Happy to run the clock down with an advantage like this.
It's crazy, Rikun, they'll have their sound barrier to be twisted mines, but theirs to match.
Blizzard available here for stalker as well.
Some big damage there going down on the TBNT.
It's gonna allow them.
You're gonna have an advantage here for twisted mines in terms of support ultimates.
Blizzard deployed a good boob.
Ensures TBNT can't escape.
Only a two player beat for TM.
Once again, but it's enough to keep TDNT alive, which I think was the objective for Astro.
Ubi takes an ice to go to the head, has to slow his roll just a bit.
But TM, bending, not breaking.
He's saying over the top means to find value.
But with a rush out of simple, maybe the value is just to survive.
Yeah, it'll be the rush here. It gets courts around the corner here.
Everybody on PR, just getting out of the way.
of the way he sang does find Yubi, so that is a huge pick off as we're about halfway
through the clock in terms of this push game.
I'm going to try and back out here.
Turret form as well, four quarts as he's moving on in, TB&T finally gets de-mecht as this
will be a fight win here finally for Crazy Raccoon.
And for the last few fights, feels like Crazy Raccoon have started to find their composure.
Twisted Minds came into this map, fire running on all cylinders, but crazy raccoon now.
With the chance to change things, the economy, flipping back in their favor, but still TM, with good options to deploy.
CR's gonna have just about everything for this next fight.
It's TM, they're gonna go on a wrap here, Jay.
See if they can find one nice maywall actually prevents them from collapsing on a target.
This is a really weird situation for Twisted Minds to...
Oh!
Kurok, what?
Bounced in by the grenade, perfectly placed from Quartz.
Yubi follows up with a sim maul.
The rush from Vigilani, though, makes it a little bit hard to step up through the plate.
A TP into the back line for Yubi, he's all in committed now.
Blizzard is out, and Vigilani is good for one.
Yisek still floating over the top, TNT will shut him down.
It's turning into a deathmatch, Scrap on the point.
Annihilation from Max. Will it be enough?
He finds one! Vigilani with the nether!
And Crazy Raccoon, right the ship here on Murusapi.
They will DMACC TVNT three minutes on the clock.
As that did not start off well for Crazy Raccoon.
If you lose Chorong at the start of that fight,
Quartz is going to go over to the soldier.
And I think this is like just to be a little bit more of a threat
to that far constantly, the railgun shots.
That is what has really bothered them at times throughout the series.
this Yi Sang Pharah. So it's going to be...
That could be enough. Kirikou pick first is just about the three. Desperation Barrage,
a beat going in as well. Crazy Raccoon. The pick, he refused to back down now. And even
three on three. Simple commits to Rush and TDNT finds two. Wheel Max being able to fight
this. The Rush provides so much of this kind of a fight. And it seems that Remacher finds
himself, on the way back to spawn, Twisted Mind starts the bleeding, the crazy raccoon
with a meaningful push into enemy territory.
I think if you're Twisted Minds, your kind of goal here is if you're going to win another
fight, get this back closer towards that spawn door of CR, with like a minute thirty on the
clock, you feel pretty good about your chances, it'll be He-Sang going over to the C here.
Max TP's out, beautiful from He-Sang, saving the Rematra, beat it's nothing!
From Bunny Astro, a blizzard out now from Stalker,
TVNT frozen, the self-destruct gets him,
alive and out of the fight,
piecing, runs him through.
Ubi, charged up the pass, drops him like a stone.
Kortz answers with one.
You still have a few players alive here,
Kortz twisted mines,
the bot gonna go back towards TN territory.
As TVNT gonna ditch the diva, go over to the rematra.
Gonna try and brawl this out a little bit more.
Huge rush here available for Vigilani and CrazyRapun.
You can just not lose somebody at the hands of Quartz early on with this overclock.
You need everybody to make it through this.
OC could be devastating. A symbol of support.
Simplifying to one. Quartz might even be able to hold on to this.
He certainly couldn't be more.
One kill, two slides.
Vigilani does find him, but it's an expensive one.
The rest of the team falling around him
and a nice delay on this Kiriko. Vigilani knows it.
He has to just head towards the edge of the map.
But that buys a massive amount of time for TM to roll this card.
Crazy Raccoon now.
And that's the rush for Crazy Raccoon, right?
You're going to have this rush here for Simple with the Rematra inside of it.
You don't have the annihilation, but with the annihilation from Max,
you imagine Quartz with that OC is going to farm through that.
Kashi thrown to the wind.
Cho-Rung already down! Too close to the corner!
Too for risk and he'll regret it!
DVNT though, throws it in the blister.
Pigeon Landy strikes back.
Max though, getting so low on this Rematra.
Maining the annihilation just to continue the fight in the shield, providing so much value,
but Gord somehow always finds his man back into the back, immediately back into the fight.
Oh, he is so good.
And with just 10 seconds remaining, desperation for Stalker, rapidly to the tracer,
but really even be able to touch, I don't think so.
Twisted mind, one game away.
What a world.
This is Korean Arobe, RTM against Seattle.
Look, we've been around for some time.
We've seen some blowout grand finals.
Have we ever seen a grand finals start like this one did and for a team to come back in
this fashion?
I mean, I can't remember it.
No.
I mean, not in this fashion.
I mean, this place is stunned.
I know crazy raccoon. It looked like it was gonna be a party in here early on and
courts it's just been dominant man
29 a limbs there 16k damage
Whether it be the fashion or the sojourn and do I gotta say for crazy raccoon
Like if you were to tell
TM two days ago. Hey in the finals
You're gonna get CR playing Ramatra with a may and a sim. They would have said. Thank you
They would have said they would have said please and thank you no changes needed
That is the type of play style that twisted minds plays themselves and they what I mean
They have no problem playing that they have to feel so confident at the moment
CR will not go down though, like this.
Four games in a row, can you imagine if Twisted Minds,
after those first two, just comes back
and just casually runs four games in a row
against Crazy Raccoon, and that's how this ends.
I mean, that would be a statement performance.
I mean, if you don't believe now, Matt,
you aren't paying attention.
This team has battled back, now in bold position
To lift yet another trophy for the franchise.
In a meta that they, they thought top three would be a great result.
I came into today thinking, you know what, we're playing with the house cash, we'll see what we can do.
The way they were talking, coming into this, you know, event, once they got here and started bootcamping, that was like, hey, we're there on the final day, awesome.
But it wasn't like a, they're extremely overconfident, twisted minds.
And you know, we kind of saw Funny Astro after one of their games, we came out of the dance.
He's like, you know, we're just going to kind of play our way and go down.
And he misses just.
Well, he never misses.
I mean, like in these moments, right, a spe- of all players, you know, to have that kind of a test asked of them in a moment of maximum pressure.
With no opportunity to make any kind of mistake.
Who other than Quartz would you put in that position?
I mean, I'm laughing just off of the fact that that says three, two twisted minds.
I mean, a little bit ago, it looked like we were going to see 4-0 Crazy Raccoon, but man,
Twisted Minds has battled back.
They are one map away from being...
you
I would have served them well, but it's max still in, we'll get an update here.
It looks like, you know, we'll see what the bands is trying to be.
You know, a lot of things available here to get brought in.
So, Jundan will come back in for Max, or Twisted Minds.
You still have the Jetpack Cat Band.
You also still have a Pharr Band available.
He's been really a nuisance on that far a lot of times.
Breaking Ball as well now, so a lot of the core pieces that looked unstoppable on Ilios.
Vulnerable.
But Jundan also coming with a lot of fresh energy.
I love to see a player like that coming and talking.
He's been watching this series devolve, frankly, from the back lines.
And now he comes in with a fresh perspective which is sorely needed for Crazy Raccoon.
But he's never seen the simple Moira though.
True.
He hasn't seen that.
On the other side of that.
He hasn't seen that bad boy on the server yet.
So, it'll be a Lucio Band here for Crazy Raccoon and it'll be a May Band here for Twisted
Minds.
Weird bands, man.
Really weird bands.
So I mean, Funny Ashrow likes to play the Juno.
I mean, could you go to Juno Kiri with like a, are you doing like Juno Kiri with a ram
and you're kind of playing that type of style with the semen play.
That could be Kat Bastion, though, very much live on Oasis.
Because you're a wrecking ball as well.
I don't don't like this may ban.
I think this is I mean, maybe it's a mystery from TM.
Maybe they're more worried about the rush matchup.
Wanted to take that may away.
Maybe they're going to save some crucial bands
for what could be the final map of the series.
But I think you'd be making a big mistake
to count CR out just yet.
Jumbin, or there's a VP winner,
lifted trophies in the past.
Yeah, I mean, maybe if you're twisted minds, right,
you get rid of the May here,
and maybe there's a world in which you feel like
if this goes to seven, right?
You want to pick a map that like Faro
would be pretty good on and you want to get rid of it there.
You don't want to kind of just burn it here on Oasis.
But you burn like, I mean,
yeah, I guess it is really the Farbans is the impactful one.
I wouldn't mind a wrecking ball band,
but maybe they worry Jumbin has such a deep pool.
It could go to the Maga.
Yeah, you know what also has looked fantastic with cat at times
Or maybe they just feel like they they have something else up their sleeve right this team is kind of pulled out
That's a big sleeves man Ryan Hart
You know Ryan Hart for TV and T to get a dub
I mean we saw you we pull out the tracer that may
We've seen courts have to go over to Freya at times in this series simple on boy, Ra. I mean they have
of Khan in every which direction throughout this one.
And I think Crazy Raccoon, I think with the amount of swaps
and everything that TM's doing,
I think it's kinda throwing them off their game a little bit.
Like, what is going on here at times?
I mean, see if they are able to send us to seven.
Crazy Raccoon, they have lost three maps
straight here against Twisted Minds just in this set.
And the fans have shown out in such a big way
this weekend in Japan. It's been incredible the energy that they've given
not only to hometown favorites like Crazy Raccoon, but to some foreign upstarts
like TM. They're just here for some good overwatch, Matt. Brings joy to my heart.
I mean, this is the topest overwatch we are getting. I mean, just tip-top. I mean,
doesn't get better than this. This is... I can't, you know, I'll have to top my head.
series that has gone like this where one team is going to dominate the first two, the other team.
I mean, look, we were playing in a lot of Overwatch without bands, right? So never the opportunity
to kind of start changing the game up like this to see all these different things start to come on
through. So, okay, so they have actually used the Pharah Band there for Twisted Mind. So they've
used the Pharah, they've used the Bastion, it's just a cat that would be available for a game.
If you can even get there, Crazy Raccoon, they secured themselves a comfortable state gear able to bring out Junbin with all of his main tank flexibility, cat bastard fully available, and on control no less.
A tough test for TM, they might find themselves on a serious point, but there's more to fight for.
CR's tournament life on the line.
Jumben comes on back in after a long stint on the bench here.
And Jake, there is no bigger moment for him than this.
I mean, I thought Max played really well.
It just seems like Twisted Minds kind of has those comps dialed in that he is playing Crazy Raccoon.
They will go to that Jetpack cat with the Bastion and the Vafara
Can it twisted minds finally beat this setup?
TP's from Ubi though gets high ground control
But against Cap Bastion it won't last for long crazy raccoon taking these wide angles Ubi TP's forward
Maybe they're gonna look for some pressure
Aggressing the troll run quick to pull stalker out of trouble now. He's right back into the mix TP broken
Limited mobility now for Tien. How are they gonna fight this one out?
Yeah, Tien gets out of dodge there with the turret form that comes on through.
It's gonna be TvT who steps up onto the point here.
Trying to keep this one contested. Nice rockets over the top there from Hissang.
And gentlemen, Orson needs to on point. His shot is good, but Stalker with a big angle on the Bastion.
TvT dropping low needs a lot of care from the supports at this moment.
moment, but with the point under pressure, forces himself into a difficult decision,
still neither team finding first advantage, no one wants to make the first mistake on Oasis.
Yeah, it's going to be quartz with a dead eye here, and that's an early dead eye.
When you move up here, it's going to be a TP with a dead eye.
Oh, he shoots and scores!
Shots down the cat, Ubi with the turret, cleans up Stalker.
A dead eye before the first cap, I don't know that I've seen that before, Matt.
just absolutely farming. He rounds the corner as they get quite aggressive
here, soccer with the artillery, 9 shots onto Heesang. Quartz will not be denied.
Trophy at center stage, one that both teams dreamed of lifting. But Quartz...
They crumbled in here Jake. Maybe a little bit closer Matt. He is inexorable.
On to the second dead eye of the round sooner rather than later. Yeah, and stock
I mean he's the bastard. He's got the cat by his side
It does not matter. They just get quartz in his face, and they just try and challenge. I mean
The play from the hitscan of this is not normal. What I mean, he's taking over the server map
Brother down terror that I comes in whether via TP flips the map
Chunbin definitely comes down low, a TP back, Yixing's not ready for it.
Dastin's still with the angle, but now it's TVNT's turn to challenge for the high ground.
Freddy Spectrum fighting on to the 4v5, rushes deployed on the point.
The raid from Astro though, buying time, positions still strong for TM.
Khorst though caught, forcing to a desperate 1v1.
TVNT looks to punish, but annihilation ticks away.
No support comes in and the D.Va gets the job done.
Yeah, it's going to be a TP back from Simul to the rest of the squad.
You're not going to be able to fight this just yet.
It's going to be crazy.
He's going away from the Pharah, going to go over to the Reaper.
The Pharah has been so good for them.
Now over to the Simul to try and get them back into the fight.
But this is a comp.
You have to twist your mind to totally find playing against.
It's going to be a Nade there from Stalker, puts some damage down, gets rid of the TP.
Simul is going to be huge here.
He already leveled three perks.
They're disjointed.
The best you can say.
Bastion.
A mere fly in the ointment.
The Gunslinger stands tall.
A shield to use now.
And the sword in the form of quartz looks to strike.
TVNT though cut down by Ysa.
Cast itself to strike.
But somehow Koran is found in the chaos.
Twisted mines are the player advantage.
99 is the cap.
CR still fighting with four.
Do or die in this fight.
And it seems the death is the answer.
TVNT refuses to back down on the point. Jun been running low and
100-0 is the score on University.
This could be a
TM on the verge of lifting a trophy that even they dared not dream for. One round away.
Twisted Minds the most improbable run back.
So we take a look. Simple TVNT and UB. Really, I mean, dude, that is dominant. Everybody
perfect there. What is court stats? In and around one. I'm sorry, what is that? 6K in
a round? That's a hundred zero round. I think it's like, let's even just stop the conversation
about who's the best hitster in the world. It's a stupid conversation at this point.
There's no more room for debate.
I mean, with the way he has played, now let's get Jumbin on the ball.
If you can beat this, and you deserve to live that trophy at the front of the stage, he
sang over the tracer as well.
Could be the final test, aggression down for CR.
He looked to change the story of this match as it has been in the last three maps.
Quartz always finding the initiative, maybe Jumbin's wrecking ball can change that.
A relatively passive position from TM, flanked from all sides, crazy raccoon.
Twist the screws now.
Not over committing, a roll forward from Quartz needs a support,
but big damage is coming in against them to die from CR.
What brought them to the top of the world may be enough to keep them alive in this series, as Junbin finds simple.
And I don't think TM is surprised.
They thought that when Junbin comes in, you're going to see this,
is Junbin trying to stay alive, taking damage from all angles here.
Does go down in the trade, but Bastion over the top from stalker, TB and D heavenly taxed
on this point, and just out of gas ports, he has another high noon, somehow, I don't
know what they're feeding him.
Yeah, the Quartz with one, the point is still open, I mean Quartz has the den I hear to
use.
You gotta be kidding me, Matt, this guy, somehow, against all odds, refuses to lose.
TVNT's back. I mean, he got a full fight yet again.
Still the point in contest. A deep dive for Forts.
Into the backline. A TBOA is good for now.
I knew this channel would bounce away.
And a post-mortem in his feet would drop our hero.
Crazy Raku in control now.
And Iseng looking for the finish. A big slam from the German.
Gleaned up. Maybe.
Iseng is good for Wad.
Feels like finally twisted my Ivee push-off the point.
It took a while, but CR finally able to get a fight win.
Quartz gonna go over back to the cast to see if he can find one out of spawn.
Two support ults here available for Twisted Minds.
Gonna be able to fight within that ray as Quartz puts a shot into stalker at range, TP straight
to the point.
They want to have the fight taken to them.
Mindfield is massive surrounding Quartz, burns him down, rested play from simple, but
will it be enough?
It's cleaned off the point, and Krazy Raccoon firmly in control, waiting out the rush.
Quartz is a long way away from this fight, and Twisted Minds choose to regroup, rather
than fighting without the Cassidy.
Hard to disagree with, given his performance.
This is a brutal point for Twisted Minds to fight into.
I mean, you had that rush, it kind of went for nothing.
You thought maybe if you keep Quartz alive, it's going to be simple over to the brick
here.
Juno-brick combination we haven't seen in quite a while.
Artillery thru Stalker, receiving a fine some kills through this show.
Point split!
What?!
For free?!
Crazy Raccoon alive on five!
An unforced error here.
Maybe they'll be able to find Quartz.
All would be forgiven.
Jogon takes out Ubi.
But the ray is down.
Quartz still looking to war.
Stun!
Good enough.
Jogon can't pull him away.
Jogon though.
It's the kill himself.
And with Stalker remaining on the point, run down by Brick and Diva but the support is
good.
Bastion will not fall.
Dude, it's wild.
Wild, they paint that up.
Typically, you don't see this point just kind of flipped out of nowhere. It's one you can test for a hard CBNT.
This is brutal.
He's got a rematch.
John Vane has the timing down, two perfection, TB&T.
They're going to go deep.
Yeah, it's going to be a minefield.
Great boop though from simple, denies the slam, TP forward, but stalker.
Punishers Quartz left behind and with Goodman's tracking ball, maybe they found the answer.
Crazy Raccoon, I'm deniable.
Forza decides to run with serious point against them.
They stay alive here on Oasis.
It's gonna be a rally here for Simple. Not gonna be able to keep anybody alive.
Bullied off of it.
Is Ubi keeping the comms going here for Twisted Minds?
They probably feel like that's potentially the best ball point on this map.
Then maybe you kind of just chop that one up.
We take a look at some of the stats. The tables have definitely flipped a little bit.
Crazy raccoon still into this one.
Doing a much better job, collapsing on courts. Right five deaths there after a nearly perfect round one.
Incredible energy here in the venue, twisted minds consider their options, gonna stick
with the tried and true, the Brigg Juno and Jun Bin.
Feels like the wrecking ball is the answer and I like this play.
It is a Brigg cast against him, it won't be easy.
But if anyone could do it, it would be Jun Bin.
Best ball in the world right now, it is the kill on the court.
Follows up some early pressure from the high ground flank.
And they're gonna back off.
I think they were actually trying to TP across there, and just the E got insta-killed there.
By Junbin with some health foam choreo-ong.
Oh, another one.
Deep slam.
Quartz caught off the loan.
Where's the support?
Cassidy!
Shutdown!
Isolated!
Stalker though, traded by TBNT.
But the flip comes in.
Crazy Raccoon.
Getting what they came for, but Twisted Mind's gonna try to fight this one out.
Without their hero, it's camp.
Yeah, TBNT goes in, crosses the point, maybe sees the support.
On the opposite side of it, Junbin still so much HP rolling around at the point.
Almost gets a body block there for a second.
This player still contesting this 4 Crazy Raccoon is there in control.
Huge pressure on, just in mind to find something.
Junbin takes some big damage.
He's gonna have to back off, grab a health back to come back into the fight.
But in the chaos, Crazy Raccoon finding comfort.
Quartz drops low.
Bit isolated.
TVNT peels back with a flank in support, a high noon that was out, a TP to use, but being
attacked from all sides, they flip the point.
It's nice.
Will it be enough artillery dropping around his ears?
Jürgen bin comes in for a slam, throws caution to the wind, but in control of the point,
it's DM's turn to find their cover for Sundin's nives.
Again and again, the Blossom has scored TVNT, dropping low now in the suit, simple committing
the rush, holding onto the point for now, a self-destruct by his TVNT, landing the
for a second lease and he's been getting to their deadly work in the back line now
TM a regroup in necessity. Jonbin wants to continue to play aggressive I mean
just so annoying or twisted minds to deal with he sang over to the tracer
here as well putting just immense pressure on twisted minds it's gonna be
orbital ray to open things up with funny ashobidilani in return is gonna use
that Katsune Rush.
Ah, Jun been holding the point so well, Doobie though, changes the story, but he's pulled
off the back of the turn.
Joe Robson's stuck and finding two.
Just sports now.
The standard bear for TF.
TDNT in simple.
Trying to flip this point, but Jun been undeniable.
Refuses to back down from this pass.
He'll give his life, but he gets the job done.
Say Jun find court.
No flip here.
Nice use of the artillery for the HB to stay alive.
TVNT in so deep.
Oh, he's going to be delayed here, Matt.
Yeah, this is miserable for TVNT.
Playing up for Cho'Gong.
There'll be no tank in this fight.
TME to massive stall.
UB with the symbol to walk up, but Jumbot
is free to play now in the back line.
Court's holding the point.
TP is broken.
Holding that high noon.
Holding his nerve.
But CR, Haitian's now.
Wow!
Walker is caught.
Doesn't expect the fast move. The speed ring from Bunny Astro gets Quartz into position.
Joe Rock caught as well.
And two and three back to the fight.
Still fighting into this one.
Oh, that is unreal.
Moments there from forcing a game seven from Crazy Raccoon.
Stalker just get his head peeled there by Quartz with the dead eye.
So now you're going to be playing into the rush here.
This is not free for Crazy Raccoon.
Stalker has been devastating over the top.
Junben, another massive slam.
Hold on, maybe the hinder denies it.
Beautiful by Quartz.
TM with the rush, holding their nerve.
TDNT with the self-destruct to keep this extended as well.
Running this clock down, but TDNT now has to risk his life.
The point of control, a rush comes down.
Match by simple, self-destruct.
Keeps EVNT alive, but it can't survive for the Reaser.
Chorong is low, but Stockley to find his mark.
Junben looking for more, everybody low across the board.
The 20th time you went up this map, it's not enough.
Crazy that move. Bring us to game 7.
Put an end any other way.
CR, they bring in Chumbin, they play the ball, they bounce back in massive fashion.
And they take us to a game seven. I mean dude Hortz had played out of his mind on that map
It's just not good enough man.
Dead Eye is a cool that for Quartz. It's he's not playing the same game as the rest of us
That's how it feels on the server, but neither is Chun Bin man
Overwhelming pressure from the wrecking ball despite incredible reactive movement
from the opposition and I mean you do you have to ban that in the last game I
would I would I mean that's that's been the issue right but they haven't lost
with the ball yet they've lost with just about everything else yeah it's been the
answer for Chunbin historically a great matchup against cinema hero who hates
to be booped around disrupted denied from utilizing the TPs as they prefer and
And crucially, it allows you to put pressure on Quartz the way nothing else quite can so far in this series.
Yes, we take a look at some of the highlights here. Nice shots there from Quartz yet again.
But yeah, like you're talking about, I mean, dude, they have been on the real with the ball.
And I think that's one thing that teams doesn't really, like nobody in EMEA is playing.
Nobody really is playing ball outside of really what Zeta and CR and obviously teams in APAC.
A-Pack, not a lot of ball players in EMEA.
It just does not seem like something they feel good
about playing against.
This is some unbelievable support play.
They keep Stalker alive through that
as he steals the health pack there from Simple Lab.
It's just so mean.
It's some of these tracking moments when he's saying,
I mean, it looks downright inhuman.
Yeah, this is the second round
where things kind of started to turn
and then just more of that here at the end,
some kind of pre-fire there from Chorong,
and then a slam on top of the TP.
This is just dominated by Junven.
I mean, you see this and you're just like,
okay, well, we know, let's lock in that TM ban
for the game seven.
I mean, just been so good on the ball.
And then I think that kind of gives you a weird thing
to work with here if you're crazy or at hoon.
If the ball ban is the ban, who's the tank?
Yeah, in game seven.
I mean, the thing is, you're gonna have to pick your tank
before you know.
Yeah.
You've got to lock it in
but honestly
Could you really take John been out at a moment like this?
I mean no matter the van I it'd be tough
I just don't know that you can't I mean max has played a phenomenal tournament. We've been singing his praises
Then what map do you go to?
I don't know man. We are weird. Do you play do you play serve awesome? I
Don't hate it. It's a place where Cassidy sim look incredibly effective consistent
Like a ball band play Saravasa.
Yeah, like maybe you put Jundbin on the Maga, which is something that...
It's a lot more...
Ununderstandable for TN, right?
They're comfortable pressuring these rush tanks the way Quartz is playing.
You'd rather not have a head hit box. That's the way I'm looking at it.
Alright, so here's our series head to head, so we can get a little bit of an idea of where we're at.
So, four Twisted Minds here as we get into seven, right?
right. I know the jet pack cat is available to get rid of. You also, I think the ball is the one
that's like the clear one standing out here, right? If you're on the other side for CR,
CR, right, what you have, you can ban Soch. You know, looking through some of the other ones,
I mean, if you wanted to, you could ban Kiri is an option for Crazy Raccoon. So,
So maybe a cat ban to come in also is a consideration.
4TM, maybe it's the ball, maybe it's the cat bastion, right?
So I think there's different ways you could look at this.
Well, yeah, I mean, you would have to be in the team
comms to really kind of understand
what is the kind of root cause of that issue.
Is it like if the cat is gone and the bastion's
on the ground, is that much of an issue to deal with the ball?
Is it because of the angles that the bastion is at
with the ball in combination with the tracer?
If it were my fault, it's for me, it's the German ball.
I mean, he's been the X factor this game.
Yes, Cat Bastion is powerful, but even give me
the rest of Crazy Bakun playing a conventional ball pop.
They disagree.
They say it's the Cat.
Yeah, so it is a Cat.
And then like I was talking to, they could ban the Soach.
So they get rid of the Sojourn here.
And that is going to force Quartz onto the Cassidy, which,
not the worst thing in the world, right?
But still, I mean, you think about it.
I know RuneSompy was so good on the Sojourn and the Surabasa is the map pick.
That's kind of what I was talking about where it feels like the place to go.
It'll be the cat that gets removed here in Game 7.
See are they answered in response with the Sojourn.
And we have gone the distance officially.
No draws on Flashpoint, Matt.
Are there any other hitscans you could play?
It's just gotta be the cast here.
I really don't think there's any other option, right?
I mean, there are other hitscans,
but the way Quartz is slaying in bullets right now,
I just don't see it.
I mean, the high noon looks fantastic.
I think one of the best hitscans to consistently combo
with the Symmetra.
You could consider a bastion of your own, I think,
depending on the matchup.
Siarca throw some chaos into the works here.
I mean, Junbin's a flexible player.
Wouldn't mind seeing him come out
and maybe trying to hit some tricky swaps.
maybe start with a poke comp, switch to the dive, right?
Like to really throw a wrench into the works,
but there's no margin for error now.
I mean, do you think they play ball here?
I mean, without the jet packet.
I think we get that.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
I mean, for me, the very first point on Saravasa,
I quite like Sigma.
Yeah.
I think that range poke can feel really oppressive.
Because I think the hard part with the cat
bashing in combination with the ball
is there is no target, right?
The target would be the bashing,
but he's up in the sky.
So now if the Bastion's on the ground,
if you can use the defense matrix,
live through some of that,
you TP on top of the Bastion,
you're in a good spot.
I mean, good CR.
I don't think you'd play Bastion without cap, though,
for CR, that is.
Yeah.
I think the internet's at actually an interesting point.
What is soccer gonna play?
I don't think it's gonna play,
it's gonna play maybe a cast of their own.
Could be a double flex.
We did see them play May Sim a little bit earlier,
but you're not playing that here.
You can't take the space in the mirror, I mean, come on.
At this moment, with what TM have shown in a rushed mirror,
that would be too crazy for me.
Personally, I would throw a conventional ball at the eye.
I would say, bring out the tracer, bring out the ball.
We'll get it done the old fashioned way. We don't need these modern tricks with the
cap in the back.
You might borrow a tracer with the ball. That second DPS pick is
Really vexing right now. It's like
Doesn't feel great. I don't love the forum
But what else do you really go to?
Maybe just a hit scan if you're out. I do it maybe
476 that's on it
I wouldn't mind like an Emory could be interesting. Hmm
That's too much Emory
This place has been wild since this series kicked off, really the entire weekend at
Champions Clash.
You know, man, the fans never quieted down.
We were down 2-0, it looked over, 4TM, but those fans, they kept believing, the cheers
got louder.
It was chalked for a bit.
As things got more desperate, incredible energy here in Tokyo from the Japanese fans.
Mizuki with the Kiri here at the end and they're gonna play the city mirror a Cassidy sim mirror here
I don't know that team expected this from Atra should be comfortable here for John been
Hi on control taken by stalker
Throwing shots down range with quartz giving it back man the amount of
Confidence they have in stalker to take this Cassidy head-to-head with the way that quartz is played throughout the tournament is immense
Big shot on Quartz, forces him to the low ground, earns first cap here, 4CR, Choron really brought this Mizuki to the 4 and supporting Stalker.
You've got to believe in the hitscan at this moment.
I think for Twisted Minds, you probably think about ditching this D.Va, right?
And Mizuki has given so much trouble to this hero as you are farming up towards your rush here if your Twisted Minds are also getting pretty close towards a beat.
and Quartz feels like he's always got a dead eye.
Is he gonna get this?
Maybe TP it up to the high ground, force them back.
First dead eye for Quartz.
He pops it, gets some channel down.
Playing around the shield, Skulls?
Is he gonna run the connection?
He does!
Rosh is around now, but player advantage, DM.
They're looking for a quick flip back.
It won't be so easy.
Vigilani, Chou Rong on slivers of HP,
keeping each other alive into this fight.
He's saying down now,
Maybe at the beginning of the end of this one, as sports finds yet another, TM, retake control, but it's so hard fought.
We're getting to a 90% here for Crazy Raccoon on the first fight.
I mean, these fights just go for ages.
Twisted mines, they play for the dead eye, they play for a rush off the rip.
They get both, and they are able to take the point back as...
Twisted mines, you're going to have this sound barrier.
Barrier, Bunny Astros had some odd ones throughout the series, but it'll be the sanctuary available here for Chorong
That's gonna be so difficult to fight inside
Maybe you see a TP in the sanctuary drop and everybody's spread
So it'll be Junbin who moves up gets on to the point
They fight together sanctuary looking for this flip early just in minds and may have no choice
But to give it up self-destruct TP oddly out of position and they keep him alive
Necessary, but the flip comes in. Time is against you, twisted mind.
Being held, buddy-ass throw, delivers at the last moment.
Junbin now, in a bad position, surrounded, hit from all sides.
The support is perfect! Junbin lived!
Simple's gonna get a rush here. He's gonna decide if he'll lay it over the point, as courts on and off angle.
Trying to find Vigilante.
Oh, they'll have them all.
But that flip in the mid-fight means Crazy Raccoon have another chance, and no support
holds to respond to this rush.
It's up to Quartz with a high noon.
They're looking to push the pace.
Catch Crazy Raccoon off guard in the spawn.
They try and push up, see if they can get maybe somebody out.
Jumbint over the ball here.
Try and get a touch.
Try and disrupt some of the things Twisted Mind's doing here.
Quartz with another dead eye.
They're so good at TPing him around the map, Drake.
Keeping him off.
Jundbin will move up.
He will get a touch.
Oh, it takes a lot of damage in the process.
Chorong backing out as well.
But here's the brush from Vigilani.
Dead out.
Ports.
High noon.
Where's it going?
Holding the line.
Looking for that Skull Connection.
Chorong pates it out.
Jundbin though caught by the hinder.
Will Bob be able to survive?
It's up to Stalker.
The hold is never fine to kill back.
He's gonna get beat.
Akshaw's gonna get beat.
Akshaw's gonna get beat here.
It's so close.
He needs it.
Chorong 80 to the sanctuary himself.
He'll get beat.
Twisted mind.
You're going to beat Quist in mind.
Looked the overrun quickly, but Junbin delays the force to enter the squad of the He-Seng.
Will it be good enough for the finish?
Oh, he gets it done.
MTV and T-Vac are at the point, and they are not able to keep it going.
All the C9 at this moment.
But if this is any poor 10-0, we're all in for a fantastic final map of the series.
And we'll see if Junbin decides to stay on the ball.
The jetpack cap in.
Maybe it just takes the Bastion off the table and you're not that worried anymore.
If you're twisted minds, they will get to this point first.
It feels like a wild even say that Quartz with another dead eye feels like every single fight.
He has this cast to the ultimate available.
It'll be Stalker opening some of the dead eye of his own.
Taking position.
Playing both angles with the help of that SimTP Stalker. A little bit deep, needs a SimWall to protect him.
Is your name Rush used by Simple?
Sanctuary as well, so a two for one trade.
Twisted Mind's willing to yield the point for that.
Yeah, I mean, what you use, your Kitsune rush,
you get out the Sanctuary end, the Sim wall,
and now TNT's already on the point.
Here comes the high noon, Quartz getting blinked down from range.
Kirigou putting in that damage, a big shot on the Heesang,
but the support is good to heal him up.
TNT now isolated on the point.
Heesang puts it forward, Chonron and Stalker.
Bind kills with their own, but a self-destruct means
they're still more to challenge.
Kills from the DPS, but without the support left,
Tm fighting with the HP they have in reserve.
Vigilani stays alive, but Trunman getting low at the symbol,
providing just too much cover to the knight.
They can't push up on through.
It's simple, it's gonna get back in.
An unbelievable flip there.
Forged twisted minds.
Early kills go in favor of CR.
But Tm able to battle back.
It'll be a continued rush here for Vigilani.
Chorong takes a lot of damage.
Tm stay alive.
What?
They got to lead him!
Crazy Raccoon lapsing all the way to the bank, willing to take that three-bite.
The Twisted Minds would give it up so easily.
They had no ults, they made a desperate play.
But Seahawk, so prepared.
And I think they get Chorong quite weak there, and maybe they feel like they can capitalize on top of it
to side a TP on A and knowing that they're at a disadvantage there.
It was the Kitsune Rush used by Vigilante in the fight.
It's going to be both support ults available for Twisted Minds in this one.
Another dead eye here.
It's not over just yet jumping with the spam.
Nice amount of damage there.
Pressure applied.
Stalker puts the damage down, forced the contestant into the sim wall, high noon as well.
What's going to be the response?
DD&T is out of the suit already and another C9!
Listen to mine.
Hand kicks the point.
Can't find the fight.
Yeah, they just get bullied off there, Jake.
1 here in game 7.
Just in mind, you will be able to open up this next flash point with both support ults.
You didn't use the dead eye either, so you're in a pretty good spot, right?
This point being able to fight over with that Katsune rush. Sanctuary available though for CR.
The Katsune rush is so strong here in this part of the map, specifically this point.
Slam from the top window, Stocker cleans up Asco, no beat to be deployed into this fight,
simple commits with the rush though, player disadvantage against him, but a beautiful
sanctuary denies all that incoming damage.
And the first flip to Crazy Raccoon, maybe more to find, he'll be isolated potentially.
Oh, they're gonna beat, they're gonna go quite fast, he's saying dangerous and low.
They find him, Choron gets out of dodge, he was basically dead as well.
They won't give it up for free, but twisted minds exacting their blood price, Quartz finds
kills, Junbin delays things, but it feels inevitable.
The minds find one, but it won't mean much.
Funny Astro back to the fight quickly, and the minds even eaten up by TBNT to charge
up that rush just a little bit quicker.
Yeah, they know they're going to be at a disadvantage coming into this next fight.
Did you line up with a Cuny rush of his own jump and going to go over the ramp?
I like how they were looking with the ball.
I know the ram obviously great for jumping. We'll see how it works out here fighting inside of the Katsune rush
Yeah, this point though so close range nice TP forward to the corner. He's in takes position
I knew this out from ports he's the backline Kenny find the connection
And jubin forced to just head off the map for a reset
Quartz and you be side by side
So many trophies lifted by this duo, and maybe just one more to be found today.
Oh, the dead eyes, and just kind of going side to side, one spawn with the Ramoncher.
We are back to the ball here to try and get a touch.
It's going to be an overtime fight, but still something to play for.
Twisted Minds.
Holding back, ready for the inevitable attack.
Junmin pressures the point.
Moment of pause, but the rush comes out, breaking the call.
Now UB, Simwall on point as well, rushes traded, and in the chaos, Stalker finds a powerful position.
Reigning in damage, Quartz, also looking for his opportunity, but he's sad.
Is the one to get his first blood, Stalker with the second.
Doeskus? Stalker is life, but as the flip comes in,
Crazy vacuum, keeping this point in contest, we're going to a final fight on this checkpoint.
Oh, hold on, they're trying to get Simple out of here with TD&T, Jumbun will not chase.
You're going to have another fight here.
Thord's twisted mines. This one not over yet.
This flashpoint is so important.
We'd send somebody to Game Point,
Championship Point, in our Game 7.
Again and again, behind Noom's ring out.
He channel onto Junbin, taking it to the sanctuary just barely.
Asuka with the beat, but it doesn't provide much.
Junbin throws Goshen to the wind, now straight into the backline,
pulling the attention.
Stalker raining in damage into his turn.
To hold this six-suitor flight from behind,
Yumi shuts it down, but Dundun and Yisei have done their work.
And Crazy Raccoon from Main Healthy
finding himself a champion to point here on Sir Abasa.
One more point for CR.
You know, take champion's clash and TV and he will go over to the MAGA.
Trying to deal with this pressure from the wrecking ball of Jumbin.
The Mizuki may be a little bit less impactful against the Maga as well as opposed to the
Diva.
Stalker just trying to find some damage at range.
Simple gonna take some of that damage, turn into a Katsune rush.
Team B to the high ground.
Yeah, that's an aggressive teamfaker.
Does it pull attention to him being big slam next through the heart of TVNT?
But he stays alive for now, the rush ensuring a powerful position, Simba from Hissing, proving
to be enough to counter rush from Vigilani.
Decisive advantage now for CR, but can they clean up the fight?
Pusted 9 back off, but there's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide!
Hissing queues them, Stalker finds another, and Simba has to take a long walk after Short
Pier.
A dominant first fight there from Crazy Raccoons, potentially this final Flashpoint TVNT now
Now, over to the Zarya.
This is work for Twisted Minds, right?
Searching for answers throughout this series.
Maybe the Zarya, right, gonna be able to kind of keep
some of these players alive a little bit longer.
Jumping, his ball has been at the different stage.
Oh, and the Kiriko going down first,
and the instant fight win.
Stopper cleans, DVT, blood in the water now.
Crazy raccoon, peeking the spawn, looking for more.
Now, even the overtime touch in question.
We talked about it earlier.
A huge decision.
The ball, or the cat, the ban here in game 7, they go.
With the cat, it'll be TVNT back for the T-va.
Oh!
Choron doesn't get the sanctuary off.
Desperation minefield mound from Junkman.
Crazy Raccoon won't back down from just one pick.
A P comes in to Mastro and is sested to keep this fight going.
Crazy Raccoon may have done enough forcing that feat.
They back off and look for the regroup.
No support ult's left for TM. It's up to Quartz and you'll be this fight, but immediate pressure from C.R.
Hold on, Quartz! Takes his head off!
Jundbin as well sent running.
Jundbin dangerously low. I don't think you can fight this.
Esang's going to fall as well.
Twisted mind still has some heroics.
Choron does not make it out with his life.
And Jundbin...
Ramp around as well.
Got simple a new lease on life and flow!
What in the world is that?
Heroics were asked for and heroics were given.
Simple now, close the gap on the Katsune Rush.
Twisted Minds retaking the economy advantage.
Need to win this point to stay alive.
So you have the Sanctuary and the Katsune Rush available for Crazy Raccoon.
One more fight to win Champions Clash.
Twisted Minds looking for that same fight to extend this game 7.
Jumbin goes in over the top.
Formation disrupted.
Ross on the point.
Walls straight in and cross-over says,
but TV and T off the suit and hold on.
Megan, crazy raccoon.
I've done enough fortune to high-noot.
Bites, jumping.
Crazy raccoon still out.
He's still brawling.
You get rocks.
And five players stand.
Twisted Minds falling.
Their hoes around their ears.
Crazy raccoon bullet-jokey-joke-joke!
What an unbelievable series shake.
Twisted minds a lot of hearts to battle back into that one. They win three straight maps. Crazy raccoon though.
They pull it out in the end.
This is a final. We'll be talking around for a really long time.
There's not a competitor on this stage who needs to be leaving
without their head held high. I mean incredible fight shown from both squads.
The energy here palpable.
They had to work for this one, Matt.
They took the long, hard road in this series.
Yeah, and Crazy Raccoon, again, everybody together to lift this trophy, Jake.
It's an incredible moment.
One that I think these players will remember, as you said, Matt,
one that will go down and overwatch history.
You can see what it means to them.
They put in the trials and tribulations. They had to fight through an incredible team effort from Crazy Raccoon
The road was hard but Crazy Raccoon
Your champion class winners here in Tokyo
The Throne in Crystal Mines
Sitting on the top of the Overwatch world for a while, the CR now back on top.
It's a beautiful moment now.
Bittersweet Navy for twisted mind spans, but for crazy racoon of vindication of their faith in these players.
Refusing to give up, refusing to bow, facing a true test of adversity in this grand final.
than anything had faced thus far.
We have not seen Lyp all cornered and long, but the crowd still has love.
Which is one of the best silver-locked players of all time.
The crowd's overcome with emotion.
After the first two naps, everybody was looking to celebrate.
And if we said mine, win three straights and see our holds on in the end, what a run.
Junbin's wrecking ball to start the series in style and to close it out.
And let's go down to the stage with Danny Gavid and our champions clash winners, Crazy Raccoon.
Guys, you guys did it! You guys are the champions for Champions Clash. Big congratulations! The start of it is Chorong. You get to start off the interview.
First one is going to be simple. You guys are the final champions. How do you feel right now?
Congratulations on your victory. You've finally won. You've become a champion. Please tell us how you feel.
Honestly, I thought I'd win 2-0, but the champion is different.
The opponent is really...
It's really interesting.
They have a lot of good combinations.
So it was a little hard, but I'm happy to win.
What do you think about Choron?
And Chorong said, yeah, I mean, it does feel really good to be crowned as champions.
I feel like our opponents had a lot of pasty, kind of fun compositions to come up with,
but it did really feel good to beat that and beat the champions for Champion Splash.
I'm very happy to be the champion of this tournament.
What does the champion's clash mean to you?
I think we won the Champions League last time, but this time we will win the Champions League in Japan as well.
What did you say about the Champions League in the last game?
We won the Champions League last year, and won the same one in Japan.
What do you think the title of the Champions League title means to the GR team?
It was the first international tournament, and it was very important for me.
And this time, we won in Japan, which was a crazy rock.
It was an honor to win, and I'm very grateful.
I'm happy.
Last time I won the title, I was really happy.
But this time, I won the title in the crazy racoon in Japan, so I'm really happy that I won the title in Japan.
Next question is a very serious question.
Why are you guys so good? Why is Crazy Raccoon so good?
Next question is very serious, so I hope you listen carefully. Why is C.R. so good?
We have Stalker, Chorong, Vigil, Zumbin, Hizang, and me.
The reason is because we got Vigilante, Chorong, Max, Zumbin. We got all these great players and I think that's why we're good.
The players are really strong, and so are the vigilantes, and so are the so-called players, so we are really strong as a team.
And Jinseo, we have a revenge!
Jinseo, we have a revenge!
Alright.
Shiu, Jinseo, we got your revenge.
I've lost the revenge of my life!
Who is the MVP this time? And why do you think it's yourself?
Next question is for Junmin. Why do you think MVP is your confidence?
First of all, I think I'm still good at it.
To be honest, I think I'm pretty good. I'm really good.
I'm just good at music!
Move it on! Move it to the next person!
Thank you for coming to the next person.
What is your favorite moment in Champions Clash?
You guys have fought so many battles, you guys have won so many games.
I bet there were some highs and lows.
But what was your personal favorite moment of Champions Clash?
I think there were a lot of battles in this champion's class.
Which was the most memorable moment in your life?
I think it was a lot of fun and a lot of fun.
What's your favorite moment?
I won the game, so I remember the most.
I thought I could do more while playing today, but I'm sad.
moment but after playing this game I realized that there are a lot of different areas where I could improve so that's something that I need to work on
Well after all, I can't forget the moment I won this game
But I want to win the championship and improve the place where I still have not enough space to play
Next one is for Heesang, you guys have won this not only for yourself but for all the fans that are watching here and online as well, Heesang do you have anything you want to say to the fans?
I think the reason why we were able to win this game is because of our fans.
I would like to thank Gisang for saying a word to our fans.
We didn't want to compete in the third round.
We won the first and second place in the third round.
I think we were able to grow as much as our fans supported us.
I feel like this is all we're also winning is thanks to all the fans this is our third time winning on a tournament and I think it really we're able to win this because of all the fans that are watching us thank you
Next, Rips!
I think we won this time, but what's the next game?
After winning the game, what would the fans expect from you?
Well, we won this time, so whatever the next EWC or even bigger tournament, we will overcome it well.
And we will be able to overcome it and win it well.
We will definitely be able to have trust and trust.
confidence in ourselves to do better in the next tournaments to come.
Last but not least, of course, Head Coach Moon. Final question.
You guys won and you and your players poured your heart out. Do you have any message for your players?
I'd like to ask you something.
I think the players did their best this time.
Can you say something to the players?
Coach, last but not least, I'd like to ask our fans.
Please say something to the players.
First of all, I've been through a tough situation.
Thank you for understanding and following me.
Let's do well in the future too, guys.
Thank you.
I think there were a lot of difficult moments, but I'm really thankful that we were able to overcome them and win.
I really love you all. Thank you very much.
I would like to say thank you to all of you who have come to see me.
I'm happy to be able to participate in the world championship.
Thank you for your support until the end of this long journey.
Let's meet again here.
The winner is...
Crazy Raccoon!
I've done it again, they are one for our champions, plus champions.
And Nuri, you're looking at our MVP, Jumpin. He came in hot for this bad time.
His wrecking ball was the key for success for Crazy Raccoons here.
Obviously stand-up performances by so many players on that roster.
Stalker repeatedly creating highlight moments, but the wrecking ball really felt like it was the character that toppled this series in Crazy Raccoons.
It really did feel like the general was what gave crazy raccoons their momentum in this series
Especially when kids in line really started to come back into it
It felt like they were starting to run away the crazy raccoons. They were incredible today
Hey, really what this was such a war of attrition for both of these teams
Honestly coming back from such a deficit from distant minds like that's incredible
It looked like an absolute blowout, but then they got it back and then it looked like crazy racoon on out
Just like the unraveling at the seams and then somehow they brought it back once again
This one really went the distance. Is this like the most close overwatch match we had in like how many years?
Spent a very long time. I mean, I remember the last time we had a map seven grand finals
This isn't the argument for the best finals we've ever had, you know, watch history
It's up there with like Dallas fuel shock in 2020.
It is. Yeah, it definitely does.
I think that for this champions clash,
it's just an incredible storyline here for crazy raccoons
to be defending this title.
But not only that, just the journey for all of the teams,
it felt like this was an event of what the unexpected was
to happen and it was just a kind of a surprise.
Yes, script writers did a phenomenal job for this one.
Let's once again take a look at our bracket
to see what our teams went through over the last three days.
Because we kicked things off two days ago
in such a high-stacked stakes, round one.
First two matches, we went through the lower bracket
that day as well.
So we already had to say goodbye to teams.
Like, everything was on the line from minute one, Joshy.
It was an incredibly stored this tournament
because we came into it thinking the Korean teams
were the favorite.
And Chris Raccoon and Set of Vision
went head to head in the upper bracket finals.
But Twisted Minds, they still had a card to play with UbiSymmetra and they made the lower bracket front.
But it just wasn't enough in the end.
Closing things down on Syra Valsa,
Chris Raccoon secured that title.
Beating set of divisions of the opponent that struggled with so very much this year.
0-4 going into Championship Sunday today.
And Twisted Minds, the Symmetra that he won a World Finals Championship with last year.
That just wasn't enough to secure the win once more.
And Chris Raccoon, come on, Victorius.
Did you indeed, you just saw them signing that plaque?
Ask this means that they are officially qualified for our champions clash for the mid-season.
What is mid-season clash champions? So many words!
I don't know any more excitement.
Yeah, for the next landing, there you go, I got there eventually.
We definitely did get there eventually, but it's been quite a wild ride.
Crazy raccoons are definitely going to be thrilled with this finish here,
especially on home ground for this organization.
absolutely now it's been an absolute pleasure we have three days of non-stop
action ups and downs from all these teams that put the best foot forward to
gain that trophy in indian it was crazy raccoon lifting it on behalf of all of
us here on the desk and everyone behind the camera as well thank you all so much
for joining us on this incredible journey here in Tokyo Japan now this is it
for the champions clash but how many days until the World Cup action starts and most of these
goons will be on the mic for that one so you don't have to wait long for more overwatch e-sports
thank you all so much for watching and make sure to tune in to all the World Cup action starting
this very weekend.
Thanks for watching guys!
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