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But man I've watched World Cup action is kicking off dude
It's felt like an eternity, honestly, and I'm so glad the program is back because we are gonna have some really fun
Matchups coming up today, Abilene. Like you said bringing the double a duo always
I feel like it's always nice to be together here despite our disparate time zones
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everything's all about
About having the battery charge nowadays, but you know, we're going old-school. We're going old-school
We're going straight back to double A's here and we're gonna go towards one of the A's big A's is Asia
We're here eight teams in this Asia conference for our online qualifiers group a group B
Korea Japan Hong Kong Pakistan Australia Thailand India and Philippines
And this is a I mean
I think it's a very interesting group overall because obviously I've no affiliation with any of these teams
Apple as you know, I've no affiliation with any of these rosters of any sort
But there's definitely a very interesting matchup in general when we look at some of the teams and the players looking out with some of the, especially with an ODBCS now here in the ODBC.
We have so many of those pros crossing over for a lot of these rosters also with the addition of the breakout player for some of these teams that have historically maybe not had a ton of top level talent per se,
and making them a lot more competitive here on the global stage for Overwatch World Cup.
So we opened up a lot of opportunities I think for potential upsets where in the past we'd look at these rosters and be like,
There's no chance that there's anything is going to really change, but I really do think with the addition of the breakout players and you know
Those developments in the notice as overall the RC and a little bit more top-level talent spread out
And our two groups here as well
I mean we have our expected teams that we have in the higher seats here Korea Japan Australia and Thailand of course
Company Asia Conference Cup teams that qualify through India Philippines Pakistan Hong Kong invited to this event
it's looking definitely if you're in group A I would say a pretty rough group
especially if you pack a son right of us yeah I would say I would say
unfortunately it is looking a little tough for Team Pakistan for sure either
way we'll be doing the meetup in Islamabad so it's fine but overall I
mean you have to look at group A with Korea and Japan which have so many top
level players especially with Korea who's just mixed you know essentially
their recent mid-season, you know, their champions clash roster with some great individual players.
But Group B no slouches either. I mean, in Australia, Thailand, you're going to be seeing
plenty of players that you recognize in the OBSC I've seen in those rosters as well.
Of course, this is how we're going to be doing the Thai break is for the round robin. It's two
groups of round robins. We're not doing any bracket play here or this Asia conference here.
Essentially, you have your two four groups and the top two teams out of each group will move on.
That's the most important thing. That's the only thing that you really need to remember main event in Busan the group stage
All the actual over walk up of which walk up main event
To get them get to be top two at this event. That's really good. So two groups top two in each group move on
That's great various succinct devil once again your powers of explanation
They remain they remain unmatched and also as a reminder to these matches are first to three as well for these group stages
So we are going to the first three, four,
or in terms of each series that's being played as well
on top of the breakdown of how teams are going to advance
out of the group as well.
So there are going to be, at the very least,
a decent amount of opportunity and chances across the maps
to win.
And also as a reminder, there is still
going to be how we turn the ban order and do the bans
in general, which would be pretty similar to O2PCS,
where there's only one hero from each category allowed
per ban, per map, and then you can repeat heroes
as you go on, but only once, per se, for each team.
So very similar if you're familiar with the O2PCS format.
map.
Well, we're getting into our opening matchup here at Japan versus Korea.
Some would say this is basically the matchup, like when you look at these eight teams, I
think the two teams that stand out to me the most, the two countries that stand out to
me the most are Korea and Japan.
Obviously, Australia and Thailand are going to be fielding some very impressive rosters,
but I think they really have put the two best teams in this entire conference in the same
group, in group A and they're going to be facing off first.
Yeah, this is really the mashup to watch in general, I would say because I do think that overall the group the majority of the Japanese roster coming from Veral, of course, which just narrowly got eliminated.
Coming to that Asia finals that happened earlier, you know, they even nearly beat Zeta, of course, and I do think this is the roster that could challenge Korea overall, but Korea obviously going to be a favorite at all.
I would like to think so I mean Korea is obviously a team that has made it all the way in the walk-up before a team that we
Expect the highest things from given that the majority of this roster
I'm sure we'll get into the roster in just a short while so you can see exactly who we're talking about
But we're talking with majority crazy raccoon players in this team who just won champions clash
We're talking about Korea as a standard for a watch professional e-sports in the past
Being the team to be the country to beat the country that has had the highest average quality level of players
for the longest time up until maybe recently when you would say you may have
kind of caught up a bit in some regards but then again you look at Champions
Flash the Korean teams basically out on top except against Twisted Minds so
crazy Korean players largely on this career roster they are the team to be
not only in this Asia conference in their group as well but possibly for the
entire World Cup depending on how the meta shapes up for the rest of the year.
I mean and maybe even historically when we look at World Cup as an entity from
2017 to now, the 2026, which is crazy how long this program's been running, really
thinking about the various types of Overwatch history that we've seen.
I mean, I remember 2017 we had, and even before that, we had Huck.
There was like players that you couldn't believe that were playing in some of
these World Cups very, very early on, Newzelk for a team Australia and things
like that, right?
And so now we've really solidified and made such a, so many, these
rosters in general for the national teams are so much stronger.
And I do think Korea is still going to be the team to beat historically throughout the entirety of the World Cup program
Even though they have lost it has happened, but still the definitive favorite usually when we go into the World Cup
You've brought the legendary 2016 year the World Cup we had
Content creators in those teams. I remember 2017 finally as well. I was committee for a team New Zealand that year
We actually got to go to Santa Monica for that group stage. That was a lot of fun
I've got a lot of thinking that that was a team USA in the same group. I'm not mistaken
I remember losing a Jake, which is not a fun memory
Okay, I beat him in the show match in twenty twenty four in Dallas. So I got a lot of fun to lose to Jake
I mean Jake. He's he's the he's the epitome of our sport and
Gotta stop lying on Baroque us of us this one rule we have the ladies
It's just no way
Eat the same thing about your team. Your team pack is on now. You know
I'm dual citizen. I say dual citizen
So I'm kind of repping kind of repping both in this situation
Holistically, but it is gonna be I think a great opening match between these two rosters and definitely really sets the tone
I think
For when we just get into World Cup proper because this is our first match
Of the whole event and it's a really kind of a banger to start off with and I'm really excited to see because I think also
Also, when we talk about the evolution of World Cup, in particular, Korea, not only
are they typically in a favorite, it feels like every year they've started to take World
Cup more and more seriously.
Every year they just refined it even more now, where we've essentially just gotten the most
recent tournament-winning roster with some great additions.
And I do think for Korea, this is just a great year for them to potentially win it all again.
But Japan definitely not going to be a slouch in the group and potentially competitive for
the whole event.
Let's not say it's very yeah, well, they didn't take it seriously. I mean we know that you could argue that the year where they had
Was it the year that the that us the USA one? I think people will be like well
They kind of sandbag perhaps like maybe they didn't bring their best to the four
Maybe it was just that I think that was crusty as a head coach for that year so they could be like maybe this is a certified crusty classic
in that moment could be one of those there's a lot of explanations obviously
just depends where you stand and obviously neither of us were missing
we're not necessarily South Korean insiders in the scene per se though
obviously we hear a lot of information so who knows exactly where it lands in
this tree but I do think for this year at least it feels like they're just like
okay let's just throw what we got our best at the wall here and just like try
to get another win another dub on the board for South Korea that will come
yeah so it's been a couple of years actually since they've actually won
because they were like I sort of mentioned the loss to USA in 2019
Yeah, and then yeah famously the loss to both Finland and China in 2023
I was gonna say last year, but it's been three years guys since we've had the World Cup
So they did lose there as well Japan on the other hand as before we get into the actual roster was talking about their history slightly
Yeah, they sort of competed, but they got a ninth to twelfth finish in 2023 in the last I watch World Cup and
And in 2019, in the preliminaries, they came 11th to 20th, unfortunately they lost to,
it was Italy, 2 to 3.
So it's been, you know, a bit of a rough journey for Japan.
But also, in the last three years, since it's been an Overwatch World Cup of last, since
233, Japan has just gone from strength to strength in those three years.
Yeah, it's been a huge evolution of their scene in general and the amount of talent
they have and the amount of investment in the region.
How just I feel like Japanese fans in general are loving the game of Overwatch, which should
reflect here for the World Cup team and I do think like we were talking about
they're very edited for this year World Cup and so something to root for if
you're a Japanese fan.
Alright well we're just about ready to head into game here so again Korea versus
Japan we'll have to look at or find out actually live in a match of us what our
bands are but we do know first map is gonna be Oasis and just to quickly run
through the Rosses because we didn't get a chance to do that he's saying Sonjin
Stalker, Jumbin, Max, Trong and Simple, 4 South Korea, Niko, Kyuki, Rumiya, KSG, Epic,
YDot and Finn for Japan.
Looks like Finn is on this roster.
Matt!
Matt Justin here in the news.
Yeah, we know that guy.
We do know that guy.
This mix of Veral and GK and some other squads that have come out here and obviously for
Korea like we talked about.
is the crazy raccoon roster from Oda BCS with Simple and uh, with Simple pretty much right now.
Yep, at least in this opening lineup with Simple, Jimben setting out on the Rhine, possibly expecting
Kashi to do something funny on the off-tank side, but that's just going to be the malware to start
things off from. We're not going to get any cat bashing in this opening fight of course,
so we're going to find out what the exact band, so it could be the either cat or bashing word
band out initially. I believe that Kat was banned. We just didn't have something to do with it yet,
but we do have a Kat banned initially as well as you see this first fight going the way we had
this Reinhardt aggression here with the Sinatra just running over. This team can be banned right now.
And look at that, the backgabber on it. Okay, she's jumping over towards the hazard.
And a little bit deep there for Korea, I think he saw Jumin go for the charge, right that
Early pick there as well, control on Epic, just losing those players, going a little too deep, didn't have to sustain.
As now, Team Japan making their way onto the point, hitting the flip, winning a percent here.
The Fria coming back in, still sticking with this Reinhardt composition, they'll fit.
About to have the rush, equalizing simple, so there is going to be an opportunity here for Japan to stay on the point of winning this fight with his World coming up.
Still coming up to Deadeye as well, a very important moment, still getting really stood out in Japanese Clash.
More crazy recruits. Now we're looking to do the same for Team Korea first in the site, so we need to thank our KSG.
Everyone's leaving the point very quickly, simple. So, waiting for his moment to find the Tetsudo rush will be coming in first.
Simple to respond. He's likely to drop wall in this fight as well.
Something game-dependent, close to Shatter. So, just trying to pressure. Maybe going a little deep again.
Has to back on out. As Niko going down, that's a lot of damage up here, but Jumin getting traded here.
Still, Team Korea gonna play on the wall as it is up in danger.
If Team Korea re-engages, you're gonna drop the downblot, maybe find one, is gonna find these things.
Jorong, like B, A, B, opening fight!
Well, rather I should say, opening round of our first map, it's just gonna be an A-jax from good old Jorong.
Didn't expect that early in the day for South Korea.
Epic doesn't even have a sound barrier on the other end.
Jorong, waiting for a bit of a risky flight below half-HP on pretty sure as when he actually went for the cost time and doesn't land on the ground.
big opportunity miss there and if you're not you know sometimes you have to you
just got to go for you know maybe a little I would say a little risky
obviously but it comes around drops a shatter hits epic epic off the ground
gonna go down to no sound very well but you're thinking that yeah really random
there's like it looks like Jim and Nelly I just missed the charge but still
managed to find a shadow and see the target there's one target you want
probably gonna be the loser to prevent the soundbite from coming up for like
Punish yet on Kashi on the jump, but
The Japan's are pursuing out to get a bit of a extra lead on this capsule is still with a sound battery in half the next like
Yeah, I mean the Shatter just unfortunately sure
Very valuable target that we go
Give me a ton of pics there off the Shatter jump
Not even the second I was going up there in the plank
So Kria looking to be engaged you're getting into a last fight territory here as well as epic still hold it on in the barrier
I mean, double support will come in here, but he's dead. It's a very little fight.
I mean, just a disastrous fight there for Japan, unfortunately, because, like you said, they had this world, they had this world, but they just went into the room with the Reinhardt.
I mean, it really was just that simple. They all went into the room with the Reinhardt, didn't hit the pulse, didn't find an early pick, and then you see Fin popping the rush behind them behind, just on the stairs, has to immediately TP out, so there's no value for them.
either the Reinhardt, the Symmetra are getting so much there for Team Korea and now last fight here for Team Japan trying to make their way back into the point they are going to have to bury for Korea they are going to have to beat here for Korea as well along the chatter so much that can pressure this area of denial fight mode.
And we'll trust that Shurong's gonna land it this time around as long as we don't take too many risks.
Easy important play to look at.
Starting out, it's gonna be pushed about from here, saying already Japan has shrunk to make any headwind.
The shield's just in the way here.
That's a doubtful gonna turn around for that one instant reaction from Shurong, keeping everybody healthy.
The kill's just...
Don't leave the room! Don't leave the room!
on two plays the fight's over and the round is going to be over so Japan had their opportunity of us
it was a little bit earlier on with a double support ultimates and once Korea won that fight
well there's not going to be too much to stop them in the further fight afterwards
I mean unfortunately they just didn't know how to get away from the melee hero
they didn't know how to escape the melee hero's grasp
Apple is just time and time again two dependable fights there
the fight that ultimately lost them that round when they committed double support ults
in to the lower part to the point, just weren't able to clean up ending there again getting caught.
The TP gonna use no cooldowns with the backline for Japan getting caught with a double shatter
kill coming out there for Jumbin. So the Reinhardt still proving his effect and especially when
combined with the Symmetra which Symmetra being such a meta defining hero here at the top level
for Overwatch, the ability to just make any map much smaller, put your supports, put your DPS anywhere
on the map along with the tank just especially if you're the one that's not mobile which is very,
very powerful. Now, Jumpin' going to a ball here. It's very characteristic of this hero pool.
It's a signature pick and I was wondering, you know, I'm assuming ball wasn't banned here.
There would be a very important start for him. Speaking of which,
backline for Japan already taking on nice and early and that just continues.
Jumpin's POV is all squeaky clean. Nothing happened there. Japan falls by the wayside on the rest of the point.
Yeah, we did see Jumpin' giving you the roll out of the down case. You're just gonna be
likely going out late. Yes, as the rest of Korea just cleaned up
Oh, those squishy targets there for Jhin. Getting caught, Stalker, He's in here.
The combination we've been seeing a bit, right, is this a lot of Pharah, a lot of casts.
Just trying to play a very poke heavy, just damage style.
The Pharah's kind of hard to punish, especially if you're in position play.
Malga, then B-Ball to field.
Now Jhin's going to do a good test.
Malga's going to have some good input, specifically on the He's, thanks for...
Okay, Ajax would be a good kill to Jumbo here as well, but against Korea with Jumbo on-balls on your top pull.
This is the best look for Jumbo, the best look for the core of this team, Korea, which is a crazy racoon.
And he's saying, I'm just gonna get that coax shot onto QQ, a nice early 4v5.
And no tracer here for Japan. I mean, QQ around so early means that, okay, Jumbo, I can be aggressive, stalker, I can walk forward.
Here comes the rest of Korea off the pick, knowing that their backline is coming way less pressure here.
trying to chase them. It has to be low. Oh, unfortunately not making it happen. But still,
we're going to chase all the way into spawn and get them back on out into the ults. Starting
to stack up here a bit for Korea.
Pretty massively as well. The only ult that throws the other direction is Finn. A little
bit closer. It seems to find a continued rush, which will be pretty important. We're going
into double DPS ultimates. He's saying, oh, he's going to be very dangerous on the flank.
Coming through from an off angle in the sky. Okay, we're going to be as best as we can.
He's going into Preston. I'm getting just going to hit him. We're going to trade, actually.
There's the rush too early for spin, he's not going to have it just in here Ammo, but maybe nobody in Japan.
I think Yseng even goes down as a pretty decent trade for Japan, but the supports going down next,
spin on low HP, Yseng are sort of going towards the Symmetra, Simba's going to clean this one up,
drop him a finale note, but Katooni and Rush are likely, could just be the last fight here,
we're already at 80% Japan, still slowly losing plays, they got a reset now.
Yeah, they're looking for a last fight situation here, they're going to have to trade here, they're going to have to beat,
the beat so there's gonna be some opportunities because you touch with Korea
look like they want to contest here really aggressively deny the chance for
some of these heroes to touch maybe just get some picks and they try to make it a point
as the high noon off the off angle there with the TP
Feds already down.
I should be at 99%
just a nice little victory sound barrier for South Korea and map one
specifically that second round of us very quick very decisive at least and
opening the universe around a little bit more back and forth to mid-rime but a
funny moment strong Ajax in absolutely hilarious moment but aside from that you
still managed to pull back on that round one we don't go around for you
yeah this is to be I think you're looking for these drinks like they're just flexing how
how much debt we have here right? I think you've seen it in this match, in this map so far
So that's what subs on these roster as well, I'll have to see if any of those end up being played, but currently Japan, they're going to pick a pretty good secondary map, and absolutely towards what bands will be good here as well.
here as well. We go to a bowl map, ban the bowl against Jeumban. It would be pretty strong. Look,
I knew as soon as we got the bowl out on that second run of guard, it was going to be a tough
look for Japan because that is by far going to be Korea's strongest comp. And what craze you can
really want Jeumban on that ball. So that is going to be something that Japan will struggle
that every single team was struggle against when they faced Korea.
The ball is just really a hero that's very tough to deal with as well despite, you know, everyone's
Everyone's like, oh, you can play Sombra, you can play a Mei, maybe, it's just still
not really an easy hero to ever really counter pick.
It's more so maybe you're able to build around the rest of the comp that's supporting the
ball and hoping that the ball's weaknesses are not going to fall up as fear.
A little bit of replays going on with this roster is going to be the A-Jax from Chorong.
Definitely a very questionable decision and then there's the double shatter kill.
But that's Chorong for you.
I feel like Admiral Chorong is a very aggressive Lucio throughout his time and just support
player in general. So it lines up here. So I just don't really know if there is
exactly a map. The ball is ever going to be bad for. So you're talking about a bit
maybe just ban the ball. If your team Japan like going into maybe some of the
upcoming maps, unless maybe you're really feel confident that you can play like a
very, very good symmetrical rush type of company, even in the ball. Very strong into
that. So with slams. I'm thinking go towards maybe an escort, something that's
going to really lean away from it. Let's see that KSG Sigma come through.
For some acts to be subbed in for career as well. See how that goes
That's usually a good type of play once you go up against this type of call
Right if you were playing against the actual crazier moon roster
You'd probably want to take them to a map where you instantly force the subway gym bin just to get a bit of a change
Up on their roster see how that goes so looking towards the
Escort side of things or you just take away a flash when I think a good strategy is to take away a flashpoint early
Pick that map pair it with a ball band that would you get one of the highest value ball bands
you can possibly get on one of the ball's best maps. If you think the series is going
to go somewhat of a distance, which I think if you're going to beat Korea, it's probably
going to be a four or five map required here from anything, but definitely Japan. And I
still think it by the way, Japan is likely the second best team in this entire Asia
Conference here. Going to a flash point like Sarabasa, banning away the ball, forcing it
towards a Malga matchup. I think KSU would love it if it's a Malga matchup. He's already
been really trying to get a Malga in so far on a laces, but Jimin's not going to be
playing into that mirror anytime soon unless I think you pressured in specific ways maybe with bands
Yeah, it's very unlikely and even like you said like we get a ball band
Jumbin is still very comfortable playing a huge variety of heroes same with max because of them
because typically these subs and bands are going to be working pretty similar to what we if you're
you know watch your vcs the bands are going to happen post subs so realistically I mean it depends
if max already in right you probably don't bother to band ball then but I do think that
for the situation, ballband especially on a flashpoint could be a fantastic option for Japan.
It's kind of just chugging against the inevitable tide of how strong Korea's depth is and how
many different options they have in the hero pool, I think through this squad. So for Japan,
you really have to just narrow in like what's the comp that they feel the most confident in
that role. And I mean, I haven't seen as much of this core roster myself. I've been much more
watching North America EVA. From your perspective, what is like the strength here for a team Japan?
It's going to be as many players on that battle side, Kashi and Niko in particular.
The problem with the Japan roster is when you consider the core comes from barrel, they
are definitely missing some of these Dragon players.
Bob Dragon is typically one of the, I think he is a star player for a battle.
He's a Korean player so it wouldn't be eligible on the team.
Adding Fin in is definitely a good boon, but so if I'm not really seeing too much out of
the epic Fin type of combination going on right now, obviously you don't have your
Maceful Slate from the barrel squad. It really gets to me gonna come down to Kashi and Niko being the star players to really pull through their weight
So a little bit of that Niko Kasi on that last map cast in a pretty decent place in the meta
I think Niko probably still is one of those soju players. I need to look towards going back to that type of here
I think Emre is maybe a little too
nerfed for current meta, so we'll see if that ends up being picked at all
So, as a reminder here, from my perspective, I was thinking either you go straight to a
flash point with the ball band, or you go to an escort, force the max sub in, KSU then
play the sigma, max are coming to play the sigma in response, so let's see how that
one goes.
Yeah, probably one of the better options here for Japan, and also, I mean, circuit rail
strong map for ball, but not necessarily the strongest map for ball either, so does kind
force like you said that max sub potentially if they want to go that angle. But once again then
you're still getting decrees, we have a house of you're getting cast, you're getting sojourn,
you're getting he's saying Farah, you're getting the Symmetra comps, you're giving the potential
where Chorong for the Chorong backline is alongside simple to play like this double flex support
option right because Chorong is a relatively flexible player that even though he has played
historically a lot of main sport that Lucio Brigida, he can play those more flex sport options.
So it's just that issue of that multi-faceted threat that Korea brings.
So a lot of it's going to be on how confident is Japan feel on taking into
some of the maps that maybe they can force the ball out of the equation.
So we do have further information.
So it'd be Lucio and Hazardban will work on exactly who banned Wonkyu.
But if I was to guess, I would say that the Hazardban more likely came from Korea to target KSG.
But at the same time, I think both teams know that this is going to be a Sigma matchup.
So, I don't think Hazard was likely to be played anyway, the Looser Band does tell a lot of means of potentially moving into either double flex support, or more of a Brigg look coming from the teams. Brigg Sigma is a decent combo from the tank support side.
Otherwise, Alari Ana has seen a lot of play, Alari, Kiriko could be a possibility here as well, definitely looking over towards some kind of Alari plus hero on the second round.
Yeah, and I think this is just gonna be kind of a bit of a skill check for Japan because okay control it happens
You're playing with the jump and ball you have the jump and Ryan you have some of these like rush comps
Here if you can't bring it together then it starts to get a lot more dire right not just because you're down two maps in the series
But because really at that point what's left in the tank in terms of like strats you can pull out here
You know at that point all you have left is maybe a ballman a few drown
Which is relatively impactful
But there's going to be plenty of tools in Team Korea's wheelhouse post that point
So hopefully this is just going to be their option that I think we're too real for them
We'll see what the bands were got to be who did what because obviously we're still trying to figure that on our side
But for Japan this is kind of the I would say it's obviously not the end all be all but it's definitely a very very strong point
They're like do they have what it takes to kind of bring the series further at this point
I think despite the fact that Japan is the obvious second favorite in this group
map differential still matters as we saw on the earlier format graphic where the second and third priority for
Highbreaker is looking at specific map differentials
So Japan getting a map in this matchup right now with basically you would imagine
Secure them a top to assuming they don't lose to the other two teams in group A now don't write off Pakistan just yet
Okay, don't write them off just yet. You have that's things
If Pakistan or Hong Kong end up somehow taking a map off of Korea or finding that sort of map differential and tiebreaker
Japan could find themselves in a sore spot in terms of losing out on a tiebreaker
So I would say in these round robins given that you know, we're not going to a bracket
The individual maps at the end of there because you're playing three matches yet having to bet a map differential is going to help out a lot
So Japan wants to make sure they get that one map because if they get a map of Korea
And no one else gets a map that's free. That might be the difference
It could be especially when you're dealing with this what we could argue is maybe somewhat lopsided groups
What do you have like because all you you do talk about the effects of okay math differential when you have very close right?
It's like okay
These maps are all gonna matter because our records can be very close
But also we have very hugely different records
But everyone all in sort of like that bottom half the distribution has near identical records as well
Then the maps also are gonna be extremely important like we were talking about
So this could be an opportunity for them to be, you know, setting themselves up for success later on guaranteeing that sort of top two position or putting them in a little bit of danger.
Obviously right now I think you if you're looking holistically of what Korea's current success is it does look a little bit slim to get that but if there is a team in this group that is favored to get maps off Korea it is Team Japan currently and this is going to be one of the best shots to do it.
Want to really see if Sonjun gets a bit of playtime at some stages. I imagine he will imagine that max will obviously get playtime
Given that Jim and Max's swap rotation is very obvious given how they do that in crazier current typically they will both
Almost guaranteed get playtime during the series Sonjun
And simple for that matter but simple obviously being paired alongside Chorong simple is
Locked in for sport because there is no other sport play here
Sonjun with he's saying stalker makes us just an incredibly
versatile DPS trio because you already have stalker that mixes up the roles
between his can and flex DPS such projectile I mean he's already like the
hyper flex player in all of O WCS alongside guys like proper but Sonja is
another player I'm really looking at brings a lot of flexibility on board
and hopefully we'll see a little bit of play time doing forward but I start to be
looking towards how the barriers map to max is subbed in and so is Sonja and
actually
A well-to-pitch answer team Korea here because I mean arguably you could argue that Sunjin doesn't necessarily his hero pool
Doesn't necessarily change much for Korea. Just mostly we have another great fantastic flexible player
To play for this team. It's like we talked about we are seeing the doubles. Yeah, that's fair
And we do see the double signal also here
So they are seeing the option with this is the matchup soccer
I'll be looking here
shots and also stuns in there in the hands of the off-ankles.
You can hear me Lee play come through, stalk her on, the wooded man, like, like, uh,
those dudes.
So, you have a lot more programs you can't support mine, but otherwise, I mean, with
the addition of Rurimiya coming on the May, I'm gonna pull some pro activity coming through
from this defensive side.
There was May walls in there, and you forgot about the water making me go, can't do that.
And then here comes the aggression.
All team crew is just gonna be walking on forward, walking over, Team Japan, who's gonna
They try to play the corner, Lamp used pretty early, but you see they're all in the sidelines right now,
on the soccer.
Soccer getting pretty poked out, actually can't take the peek.
So KSZ is still trying to enter the corner right now, Lamp the touch.
KSZ's been bullied out, look at the difference in his ult shot compared to Max.
Max dies first due to the fact that Wyber does burn in the extra application matrix.
I should give the opportunity now for Japan to stabilize, even KSZ needs to do a lot of catch,
but Niko, he was shown respect over to his ult, there should be an easy fight for him to win.
The cry is the extra usage of the drone to save us like, Japan will get away with that one, with all players alive but an ultimate does get burned.
But that's a great situation to be in here for the Tanks here that are in the near cap, they brought it around the corner, very, very good pressure.
Denying the peeks there from the Stalker, they get that window in time for why not, so why not.
You know, a lot of value on the back here, there's a little bit of that extra sustain that the Bat mains comparatively to the Juno,
So Korea is going a little bit more of an explosive style here, trying to go for Rey.
There we go.
Axe barely flexed, he has an advantage.
And the response is going to be Finn trying to find something on the back line of Korea.
Doesn't look like anything will happen in that regard. It's simple, just...
Drubs down the orbit of Rey and Kuro.
Warp on 4 and full of heals, full of extra damage.
Musashi, so he has to find his ultimate in response to be the last one for him in Japan.
But it will be a cap for Korea.
and just really just that old advantage going in the way of Korea there finding
those early picks Japan not finding much didn't have anything in the bank
still why not even have that window up available just yet because they pop it
earlier in that fight so now Korea and move off over here past first with
Dr. Still on this May they are gonna have the captain's son available as well
which is very strong when you hold the shelter out of life because it puts so
much pressure from the high ground here because you're gonna have that alarm
Even now Skybox trying to get their squishies.
So Japan here, they're gonna have to be watching it for Toronto Ultimate.
A lot of worry about the wall from Sarkozy.
Toronto has to just be concerned a little bit about the United Grasp to eat from KSG.
But aside from that, it'll be pretty good sights here.
But Japan have save lice in the floor, all of this.
They managed to push up clear, showing a lot of restraint as they fall back a little bit.
Meet them, drop on the OC.
Doesn't find anything to act as the headshot from Sarkozy to shut it down.
And Toronto puts some extra damage.
I don't believe he's done an explosion kill on that captain's son yet.
A lot of ultiers being traded across the board can span basically using everything
and now they've fit the final ultimate on why does Amm make sure the second time
we'll have that so far in the course of this map.
Seems like there's some enough to force Korea back.
Great to stabilize here, but the problem is they haven't removed and they haven't gotten picks.
So Korea can re-fight in situational situations.
So I'm just gonna go in here with the Blizzard Max and I'll have the flux as well
so they can very expensive fight with him and not get too much here and lose all this round.
Instant catch onto Rorimi and this is a frozen Kashi as well
She'll definitely not see you living for too much longer capture come on in just a moment back to order cash to pan
I want to defend that point after the blizzard console man. You basically said it blizzard straight into victory Kashi
I'm even a hope of getting the grasp eight
Japan left wanting here still I mean it does cost Korea about four minutes, but still plenty of time left after that as well
And with the flux and the ray available in particular the ray here right this orbital ray from the Juno just provides so
Much utility coming in spite so a lot of eyes we have to be on thin
Then with the captain son available obviously if you talk about max could be ready to be in this they could
Loess this but a good point where you can get a lot of captain son value
Cality ball already gets used here as well as you see a lot of poop going on
But you can't around look like they want to play it a little bit slower
No, they're gonna go into big age right now huge on the back line
There should be the ice block to save. I believe it was only something I caught by the captain's son
And it's not enough if you're looking at him
You need to get at least one more member to kill a kill
Saundra's found one you need kill in Japan's wide swing from thin on that flank just does not work on outs max now
For the additional punish see if you manage to find something that that flux
KS was responsible for Saundra first and max I believe only gets wind out of here. It's not enough
But back down Korea likely has to fall back unless KS. She can go down next
Great find from KSG, I mean I have to prop some axe, it's a crazy rock there, but KSG finding that pick there on the corner, they stabilize, they stay alive here, this isn't a tough one, they push to Japan, so just leave, kind of, don't want them to cross here for free and own the high ground.
Spin they're gonna get caught from the spam and then here comes the gauge from off the dragon
Dragons will be catching room yet. He's gonna lucky to get out of that one alive
Why don't not so lucky Japan faltering yet need to go fast
Respawn from the rest of the members cash. She might have been
But he's good. He's actually flying so far. He's buying stuff has the flux of a little wind up dropping that right away captive
Son coming up control so double support office in Korea the freeze on top of cash
It's just gonna die, the captain's from getting anything done and no further touches from anybody.
But if lots of silver and me on the main get on point and ice block, but not gonna be the case here, which means a decent time back from Korea.
A very strong time make for Serger Rao. Getting not just a completion, which is a map that's not always easy to complete, but over 2 minutes, 2 minutes, 20 here on the bank and just that glut of ults that Korea had going into that final fight, the split to where they didn't have to...
They pretty much were forcing KSG to be like, okay, I have to flux point. I can't go for a flux on sort of those outskirts to take out pressure
And just look at the scoreboard here
I mean look at max max that 12 a limbs to death
He's just been farming here on the sigma and max has been you know that alternate to jump in
Yeah, we're crazy raccoon and it's just showing just he's so strong on those years
He's been playing circle round a lot obviously the sigma's been a great and even some of those comps
We've seen like the Mizuki Sigma comps to kind of counter Diva max into St. Nicole
And there's really for team Japan their their moment big okay
It's not it's not the worst bank. We've ever seen we've definitely seen faster banks, but I'll big uphill battle
Simple by the way got away with zero deaths on that entire offensive side and a perfect 1,000 damage
Which is quite rare. You never so I see four figures rounded up by three zeros there
but no deaths is definitely the stat line that is important for simple the
fact that on what he was playing was a Juno in that last attacking side to not
go down a single time the two-minute 20 time bank which as you sort of mentioned
is definitely quite stressful really feeling that would it make it definitely
more risky on the defensive side I will add at least on the attacking side if it
doesn't work out for you he stops over towards the main now in the defensive
side he's gonna have to die first but we get the chance to swap
So playing with a lot of poke potential trying to let Max just take this phase and they get the off angles
Find a pick. And with Nego here, being on Freya
They do have a DPS line up that not only can pressure the frontline here
It was already on the May, but with Nego able to just go into the back line
Maybe find some of the bolts to pressure out those push your targets as well Freya
I think it's going to be tough though. Nego has to then pretend that he has a Stalker
And he has to use those tight lines which will be maybe be built by Max by the way
Max is really solidified this front line to give opportunity for solidifying shots.
There's no stall for, I guess, the Japanese who are worried about so far.
Sondra with the double.
Both back line is gone.
Japan, like, there's nothing left to say in this fight.
Niko is gonna get Sondra, but still, spawn's gonna need plenty of time to then make it back.
You just see how Korea binned back there from the aggression, Max.
Max on from that aggression, from that wall.
And let's Korea absorb them, try to hide their picks at the moment.
That's actually what they do with the early pick up.
Why does Max says, okay, you know what? Then you are not getting out.
Gonna drop the Flux, essentially in spawn, and here comes a very aggressive hold for three at the doors.
This is a spawn camp. You really might ever see a spawn camp from any team on Super Royale.
This is quite a dangerous spawn camp, just given how open things are.
People you'd want to play more towards the corner that Stalker's currently holding.
Max even just dropping the Flux on the spawn doors for what it's worth.
Do you know the change up from KSG on Forza D.B.A.R.S. if you're starting out online for Soul Kit?
Which I think is nice, I mean it gives them a little bit more options here to potentially zone out some of these squishies on the backline through the DPS.
But the problem here is that they're just taking so much damage from the rest of their squad right now.
They're just getting hammered by those double long range DPS, Charlong as well, and simple poking.
So if we're going to play this composition here, Abel, they really need to find a way around max.
They need to find a way of not losing one too early and just try to get some lower value here in the back.
I bet that D.va makes space for this one.
The Kray has got all the ultimates right now.
Why do I still really try to find his way into off the territory with the Rake?
Obviously, I'm away from that one.
We get happy to give away a little bit of space just to see what Japan's going to open up with.
Japan does have to open up with someone quite quickly.
right? Oh no, I can't see you gonna eat the cat the son that big and the old
there comes the lens going their way the lamp you like with the blizzard
catching simple here have this should be a cat
boring disaster I mean it's only max alive start coming back up and yeah
actually go back to spawn here and beautiful beautiful eat their KSG max
and just had all those photos available. Yeah, so if you stop over towards the Diva
okay maybe it's a little harder to get that eat while you're on the signal but
D.va is certainly gonna be the exact hero you're looking for to shut down Chor-Roll.
Japan finding their mark has been confirmed.
Korea getting nothing done with that couple of backflying support ultimates.
Hopefully, Killa is gonna go to Niko on this next up-fottling fight,
but Tracer is coming up through KSG, having a much better time on this D.va.
It's gonna get D.va next, unfortunately.
But if I want the likes in this up to Chor-Roll, that'll be a lost fight now.
And that is one of those moments here as we reflect this way,
because once you come back into your command, we're having that double sniper,
That double long range DPS duo kind of hurts into that mage because you have the blizzard
you have to sustain from the mage as Niko looking like they may be want to swap nope
I mean close to overclocked here from this fight overclocked to be very very strong especially
there's still no D-Bond to field
Japan doing the approach getting closer
wall already used here as well so maybe opportunity for them to commit and they are pretty low
as Niko got a fine dungeon
I
Comes max opportunity. I splucked out. She's not quite but doesn't matter. Really was survived regardless
So I'm doing down these 45 is respawning. It's what you stole this time next by this opportunity
Lobs into Blizzard deep Nico
Actually a pasta blizzard though look that looking for an angle look for a play it
But it's going to stalk with the icicle beautiful strength of the devil in these guys
Opportunity so for so kid the rest of the circle going down there
Maybe could the cleanup here max being alive in the middle of the enemies captive rather the enemies
Over the right pieces being alive
Herding the payload, getting the last of the Nordia before blizzing
And now KSG I mean getting a late a limba beautiful rocks again from maxing with that over the way used from white
It's a lot of fuel gone for the push here
Yes, you get them a little bit of hope here finding that late pick
The dawns are pretty close to maxing
There's not letting the cart do anywhere there, and that's gonna find another watch. That's gonna be easy.
Might be a kill on some baby D-Vers. Well, Kashi, desperately looking to remake. Will not get it in time.
That's kind of in the open though. Storkin gets a bit of a layup shot.
Long range rock again. Andre Romy a force in the ice bucket. Storkin's gonna burn the fortress.
Time the flux. By the way, he dropped it on his own hand if you didn't know about that play.
He drifts up Romea, jumps down, like he basically puts himself between Romea and the ground and that way, the flux drops Romea on his own head, instantly dealing with damage, not even waiting for the bodies to hit the floor.
Max is terrorizing this push right now, Max is absolutely terrorizing and you see that's part of the value of having some empathy for right things with Fox.
He's so much value here. Now Japan trying to cross yet again, so I'm going to commit the cast of Sun.
He's great one.
Thanks to May though, May will just be ice-fucking away.
So, he dodges down from the kid who's kept us eating the leg.
Finn will definitely be able to define this value. He usually sees a singular target and says,
that's enough for me. Chiron already goes down to KFC, so a five versus three.
This has to be the fight going to Japan's leg finally. A lot of time has been burned here.
Remember, Japan is looking for some sort of time-making. They're definitely not going to get a 220 time-back,
but a finish on a nap at all will be good.
And Brainy is gonna be up here, Ultimary is gonna be up for wide-up very soon, so we'll have to worry about these people tiered more to be able to try and drop that bolus.
So they need to back up a bit, it's Gria walks on in there, where's the blizzard, so I'm gonna have that available here for Gria, because maybe if a lot of pressure comes in, she will pop it.
angle got caught up a little bit there by max it comes to range you're talking about
double raise on both sides fall into the back line and just stick yourself a bunch of points
in the back knee lock airsheet lines to eat onto the blizzard that could be critical careful
no supports are lying for japan things could still get uh oh they got a touch
things could still get pretty dire and it gets unbelievably dire because we don't have any
touch guess what i've asked map one we had an ajax map two we had a c9 what are we gonna get next
We're hitting all the buzzwords all the buzzwords if you're keeping track at home with the finger card every single
Factor is being hit. We're finding all the categories and despite the beautiful KSG
I mean, there's the pressure so strong there and really once again
Max just taking so much space just pushing them forward there on the sideline
You see that power of max coming in the sub just the overall flexibility the roster has been jumping in max that we've seen in
OCS obviously because racoon here for team Korea and it is just a very very strong tank line
that's available for this team and just bullying KSG on the diva there for large portions of the map.
Salker's well finding some crazy good shots and obviously that was just a freeze but we saw some
decent right clicks coming on through. Niko feeling like he wasn't able to stay on the
Sojin was quite interesting to me Freya. Still to me a little bit of a niche pick in current meta.
I won't say completely bad as a pick but very niche and in this particular matchup not to
Convinced by it overall
When you really get into the leads of it, I think this is maybe still a finishable map for Japan
Unfortunately, the C9 is at a costum daily
They'll likely not have had any time left because they hit the OT already, which is what the C9 came from
Which means they would have a minute 30 to finish the map with which would have been quite difficult
still doable, but likely the time bank the two minutes 20 difference there would have been but too much and
And, the start of that show, I think you sort of called it out was Max, particularly you saw how hard Max was gaping KSG in the initial phase of the Sigma trade-off,
in that first opening round, I believe it was Chris Recruiter's hacking side.
I remember seeing 70%, something percent alt charge for Max to 20%, something percent for KSG, just to show the damage difference.
I mean, he's a monster. He's a monster on the field, and that's why this team is so scary here for World Cup,
because they do have just a ridiculously flexible
hero pool roster.
They have the option to play pretty much any composition
that's currently meta or even non-meta
that still even fits their strengths really well.
And it is one of those situations where you even look
at a team that's as strong as Japan and you're like,
okay, what do we do against a roster
that's just this well-rounded,
has so many strong, just overall players across the board
on it.
And I do think that's where the struggle is
and why we're predicting that Korea once again
is another favorite to win this year,
even though we're just in the group stage, it's a very, very early prediction,
but it's a pretty safe one.
If you were to place it, I would say is that Korea is going to be potentially
winning the World Cup again, but by no means a done deal.
And for Team Japan, you look at them, the cat, the ball band, I should say,
still on the table.
They have options to go to like Flash Point next, right?
You know, a couple of different options here as a loser pick.
But the ball band is still available.
They want to go to something like a flash, like a serve, or something like that.
I believe we'll get information and confirmation on map coming up very shortly to still Japan picks
what it's worth having lost the previous map and the map before that one but once you really break
down the roster's like I do think the overall sentiment is that Japan should be the second best
team in this entire Asia portion of the walk-up or a major conference right but like I mean South
Korea when you look at their team given that it's five crazy rookie members then topped up with song
and simple. You've basically gotten more than the core. You've got four, four members at any given time will be crazy
to members, which means they already understand exactly how to play with each other. Or Barrel in Japan. They have three
Barrel members, but Kuki is a bit of a sub on the Barrel side. Obviously, because there's Niko and Top Dragon playing the entire time.
Kuki doesn't really get much playing time. So you have Kashi and Niko, but then the rest of Japan have to sort of find a way to fit in there.
And we all know that Finn has good capability to play, but some of the other members probably don't have quite the same level
experience we look at why don't epic and veramir so really tested is Japan to
try and get their star players in kashi niko as much space to play with as
possible we just see a couple of good things out of kashi in particular niko
to me so quiet at the moment and then had a couple of interesting moments that
start that had some good potential but maybe not quite landing where the mark
is but you can start to see that Finn is trying to be proactive on the map as
well this is gonna be rough it starts to look like the Korea is very likely to
roll through this entire round robin,
three O's across the board for them.
Which isn't necessarily shocking,
but it is obviously still,
we want to see more competitive games
that are coming out of here.
Opportunities still on the table with Japan.
We're not going to say that it's totally done yet,
but if we were checking the timer here,
we put something in the oven,
we'll cook in a little bit.
It's like, well, I think we're approaching the end here
before we might get a little too crispy, potentially.
So hopefully that Japan has been cooking too long
and they have something in their sleeves here,
But likely Korea, like you said, looking very, very strong initially here,
this is going to be likely the toughest opponent that's also in this group stage,
in this group here.
And so you look to them and be like, yeah,
they're probably making it to those main events and will be a favorite.
But Japan, they still have some options on the table.
They still have some bands available as well, but kind of struggling,
I think with the depth that Korea has as an overall roster.
Yeah.
Without wanting to ride Japan off just yet,
Japan likely will have to make sure that they get some good wins in the following two days
against Pakistan and also Hong Kong.
But what could be the final map now is going to end up being Surabasa, chosen by Japan
and with some confirmation on what the hero bands end up being.
But I sort of, as I alluded to earlier, a good choice for this would be to go to Surabasa
and then go straight for a ball band.
So would it be surprise Japan did opt to ban away the ball?
And that is assuming, of course, that Jimbin is being sub-backed, which would usually be
the case for this lineup of Korea?
We'll just have to see what they decide and also, I mean, you see a ball ban, so potential
to see, I think the shenanigans we have seen at midseason clash earlier with Kat Bastion,
which we haven't seen yet in this first match so far.
But I highly doubt that Korea themselves are too worried of having to bust out extremely
early.
And then you look at the team Japan, and I feel like for them, they're likely, they're
not going to necessarily try to bust it out as a secret move, secret maneuver by any means.
So it leaves a little bit more open. I think still like, okay, ball band is very much on the table
here and something they would like to see going into a map like Surabasa. And then you look to
Japan a bit, okay, maybe more diva for KSG, maybe they try to play some just more traditional like
Tracer-Sodran compositions, like Luciferico. But that's another thing that Korea is going to be
pretty strong at if they do decide to even marry in with Max not being in. I mean jumping
themselves can even still play D.Va even though it's not really like what you're going to see
him on playing a lot of more like a technical Winston or the ball.
So that confirmation behind the scenes that we have a Mizuki and Cassie ban.
I'm not entirely sure what the order was but if it was Mizuki first that would be from Japan
and Mizuki is starting to see a little bit of play time. Possibly if you ban away the Mizuki
actually helps the ball so exactly she's wrote by the cast man likely come
through from the korea side because if they want to play ball get rid of one
of the stronger counters in cast you've gotten rid of the mizuki already so
that's gonna be chains going to stop the ball that's gonna be flashbang so don't
stop the ball this is looking like mega ball territory now in japan's gonna have
to do something very interesting to stop this ribbon ball assuming a gym
and is being subbed in which I think he should be yeah the mizuki bands very
interesting too because I feel like most of the time what we're seeing is
Buzuki comps come out it's for teams that feel really confident with the you
know they're playing into a team that feels really confident playing around
those Sigma comps to sort of take it on stronger diva teams seeing that sort of
that rock chain combo that happens a lot just to remove the DM from the field
really fast so very interesting to see what the you know who did that Buzuki
ban. The Cassidy ban I mean I could imagine that goes the way I could go
Oh, either way, right? This was, we want to protect Finchland's Sojourn, for Niko and just guarantee a Sojourn mirror or something like that, who are also,
D.F.H. saying we have to be just full play fair, or even stalker, like we're like, all the time.
Well, the Bastion, we're gonna see Kat, who's the big question here, who's, Kat is available, because you're gonna go bad.
It's just gonna be a dry Bastion on the floor, at least on the Korea side of things.
It's gonna be Bastion TP'd around by Sondre and the Sin, and for Niko and the Bastion for Japan, it's just gonna be a little further.
I just want yeah, it's just
Completely unsupported fashion. I want to see how that one goes fashion is just I mean soldier has to be fine
So there's an a6 crime in order his job is taken by AI
fashion is
He's living the life which is living the life the modern lifestyle here were bashing taking his job as the hits can play
You know that max is in so no gym been to play ball. Yeah, it's gonna be D
But something's up with could have been actually by the way to sign start on opening point for service
It is quite a popular word for a lot of teams.
Just to be at any point.
Otherwise, we do have roughly mirrored matches here.
Just QQ and Saundra the only differences.
There's TP coming off the road.
The first important one coming off the road to give an opportunity for Korea.
Saundra pulls.
No kill than he can.
Until a little bit late on.
He's saying with the grenade himself trade off QQ with a double, so if QQ gets bashed to find a third, he'll be the rest of Japan.
This will be a flip for them.
But Korea, mind you, has a recap point.
However, I mean, first flight, just as important to win this game, the first cap is not arguably more important.
There's going to be the reflip there, coming from Japan. Max went so deep trying to pressure the backline, but they killed himself through a paddy cake.
As now, the pen only in the point. Pretty good here on the old charges, as there's the other reference then, got a master simple.
And we'll be in epic with a slightly sooner sound barrier here by low HP on the side of Japan, it will be a risky one for Epic to go through from.
QQ and Niko, they're getting enough kills, it might just be enough for Japan to squeeze on through.
Max, Noreen, that good kill by Finn.
With the support there from QQK, she's the only light tank with double DPS on the field for Korea, not likely to need too much more yet.
Have to back on out and reset, and the foot does go the way Japan as well.
And they don't have to over chase, I mean sure, they might be able to get out, but there's gonna be a chase a little bit longer than the best of them, such as there.
but then it's that final damage on the symbol just falling down there with KSG.
Everything's gonna pop the beat here as well, and now Japan is a very strong sponsor on the point.
Toronto direction of Korea lives, stands simple, so it's gonna be a 4 man beat.
It allows Korea to push up forward, clean, and you can kill KSG,
you'll see them get some ring neck in there as well.
Low HP, crushes the neck of Max, which is a weird thing to see in the timeline there.
That's something you would really be able to see a lot very often.
And the point looks like it's just gonna be gone, no further contest.
Chorong doesn't manage to get a touch with Jax. No neck in sight.
Korea somehow ends up kind of fumbling that ultimate point despite that really nice counter
soundbar for Chorong. I mean, QQ, you talked a bit about how maybe not always going to be an
interesting role in terms of the position of the season. You've been a lot there on the Tracer.
Chasing down a lot of those low players, bought up the damage from Miko, and KSG, of course,
also kind of working as that sort of like that large Tracer that you just sometimes
I'm just trying to isolate targets.
Japan getting the first point here of the flashpoint.
They're gonna be close to the rush.
Actually they have to rush to the advantage as well.
Maybe an option to find someone to engage with on for Korea.
No support in advantage.
Suzy comes in too early.
Missed time there.
Coming through was simple.
It's gonna allow QQ to get a brilliant kill on the east.
That's not much important.
Remember down.
Post-DPS gone as well.
Korea 4 and really quickly in this opening fight.
As it's QQ again, the player that stood out in the opening fight
opening fight in the opening point, standing out again.
Yeah, that little flub on the Suzu, like you said, just to come out a little bit early.
On the ground wasn't even, I don't believe it was a snake, it was just on the ground there, and they run into it.
The QP still making space here for Jvan, making some of these opening picks.
National is going to be available here for an ego along with the rush for Finn.
The old scary, bizarre, mechanic is created in the long-awaited point.
If you're down, you're going to pass!
Big problem, Epic, no sound barrier, in response, evil, so that's just going to be a lost fight.
Japan gonna try and hold on and maybe get a counter-trade at any time, possible,
given that they invested a continued rush, but it's gonna be just the one-to-one ultimate,
and nothing found from Japan at all.
I mean, that's probably one of the best possible fight situations there for Korea,
where you pop just the early rush, walk in, even when you're a Kugler on those ults,
and just immediately with the wall from his aim,
deny Niko the chance to escape.
Removing the damage very quickly.
And now they have this initial wall here as well, for the beats,
they have a lot of options, the LOS, that damage is gonna come through,
I think they want to go through the aggressive P-Rai angle.
See if they want to go for Tenbo B-Rai because that's epic set-virus, however,
if they don't manage to get an initial kill to put them onto the leaderboard,
sure, we'll have that response quickly.
Japan needs something fast.
Yeah, they do.
They do, they do find them with a wall.
Beautiful fight, I can't see it, she's off the map!
Now, Renek, I can't see she's gone.
Doesn't manage to catch any of the Green HP, so the rest of Japan...
It's not going to likely get too much done here either.
either. Oh man, they had the beat advantage.
Shirling does eventually respond, but I do believe it was the He-Sang War that blocks
up LLS onto KSG, which means the all-important Diva doesn't find the
sound barrier HP.
Yeah, and the main walls here, he's saying, consistently finding lots and lots of values.
Japan look like they want to contest. They put this figure on for the venture.
No, actually, they're saying, no, we're actually not going to bother to contest. We're going to wait.
And this is a composition change you see happen fairly frequently in the teams that
I feel like they're kind of dealing with headrunners, they should just met your high avilas, you get a venture,
opportunities to try to collapse on those CPs a little bit more, isolate some of the players.
You do, you also have various revivals, you have a lot of just ability to get out of the fight and get into the fight.
Grandiners, like this third, oh, last one.
Do you know that Niko is also off the bash, and he's saying so, come back with NA some time ago.
Niko says, well, I'm also not just going to run the bash and dry anymore, and support it is quite difficult for order.
Double Kitsune Rushes likely to be the openings here for our team's career on point first
of Japan.
Has to be the one to pull the trigger first, but we'll be thin, simple to follow through.
He's saying maybe to close the door once the fight really gets going.
As these Kitsune Rushes try to get Japan in so far, but they just can't quite get on
the point itself.
Here comes the place finally, not even away by KSG.
No kills yet, no freezes so far.
He's just trying to find his way around the map, hitting and followed underneath the map
itself still no opening kills for this point do you know though that Korea has managed to actually
capture points in Japan now even more in time than they were before. So one of the better
cases that Arios there for Japan is not immediately finding one because you see that he's waiting for
a T-Back maybe as soon as you went out no one goes down epic. He is up, he's available, a little
bit more Charon here as well. Then I have to pop and keep people alive and here comes the engage
and they find 81 degree and they're gonna find simple. Next, let's get back into Max Charon. Finally
has to be available before man. It's gonna have to be enough. Japan has members alive.
Does get a minus one now. Losing to Lucio. So, the performance available. Niko, banished
to the alive. Niko, think, can she? Now, look at the keepers. Niko, Max versus Kashi. Baby
Diva versus Baby Diva. Kashi gets back in Magnica, pops the OC, and that might just
be enough. Big shot of the Charon. Should be shutting Furi out of the point. However,
it's 90% in one fight territory for Korea.
We're gonna go late, Stagger there. We're not that late.
And Mikey said 90% here from Korea. They have tons of time to pick up on a Blizzard.
If you look to this next fight here, we're pretty likely, they just want to pressure KSG really heavily.
They want to remove the boom out too.
Pop a Blizzard, you walk on in here.
For Japan, you look at this thing, okay, maybe we can go early.
The Mithril just finds a little midi Sunjin here off the TP.
Mithril pretty strong to find at the TP.
He's trying to high-stage KB to Symmetra.
I'm trying to look for my bag while I'm shot.
Techonics shot is so fun I don't really find it too much.
Possibly a kill on the heal side.
Lizard is in play and he's trying to get out of there.
Kashi eventually just gives up on the chasers.
He sent Fax away to the minibag.
Simple now. Opportunity uses Katsune no Rushing reports.
Allowing Finnish to burn early though.
Simple filing copies of response.
Cap goes back to their Korea which means more work requires
means Japan and a lot more work required.
Now they're just losing members.
in terms of kills at all, they put everything into trying to catch Hissang, and a defensive
blizzard keeps him alive.
Yeah, it doesn't even find anyone but just gives him the space to get on out.
And unfortunately that aggressive mid-air like he said before, is not blindly on the
off angle, and there's going to be a very, very late just chase down there against Miko,
so they're not going to have to go up.
Though Overclock will likely be available for the opponent to fight, as created here
already on the point.
He's paying attention away, he is going to be Hissan, the simple bot in this time, getting
a much later continue rush, but definitely a much higher value one given that was the
ultimate, allow Karina to shut the door in his Japan, you're shutting doors, this is
the final point, you're locking in just a moment, you're creating these one more and
they got their one kill to allow them to early camp.
the back line so there's so much pressure alongside Max that's really player pick.
In Japan they're trying to stay alive, they're trying to regroup here but unfortunately there's
no team like that, you can't even out. They're gonna be first capped, yeah, and their bank's
gonna be fully charged. They are looking at a five-old situation, definitely.
Now we're going to Japan, looking at those will be stuffed in the coffers as well when it comes to
ultimates, so not a terrible situation to be in here, but definitely not ideal.
Really can't afford to have a player like Epic getting pre-fighted here from Japan's peer-to-peer.
Kiki's still in the mix somewhere, trying to stay alive, cares for you half HP as well.
A lot of ultimates, as you sort of mentioned, on both teams, particularly in Korea.
Do you notice what?
Fin for the first time, it feels like Sintai Sovasa is actually behind, simply, in terms of ult charge.
Kiko's getting his entire, I always block that by the wall.
I don't want to target the shoot here, so the AC is going to get wasted somewhat.
Fin, but Sintai Sovasa, just as he goes down, probably 5th here.
I think Korea should be okay, logic silk, because they have the consumer rush, they have the player advantage, and low 18 minutes of Japan hasn't played for a while, so much longer.
Yeah, Niko, so low, getting chased down there from Max, despite that he, like you said, I mean, just really coming down to the fact that Finn, kind of alone on the point, we see that split there from KGS and Niko just trying to go to the off angle, and Finn pops the rush on point of launch that immediately taken down, maybe overestimating how fast he can get out.
last chance for Japan to keep the map alive, a series alive here, 90% of the county upwards here for Korea.
Last chance to lose here, KSH has to pop the mech, dies instantly to Trong of the
Phoenix to Korea, which spells it, and that may as well just be over now.
Simple lays out the lead card for Korea, so they win here in Asia,
and a 3-0 will do it for the entire series. Japan put up a bit of a fight, got a couple
points in that second and third map. The Korea is gonna be undefeated here, and I think as expected
By far the favorite and if Japan can't get a map. Oh boy. I wonder if anybody else will it's not looking likely
Look, it's looking very grim looking very grim. It's it's about the showing we expect from Korea
Realistically, there are definitely very strong signs of life from Japan here playing against what is like we've talked about one of the favorite teams here of the event in the qualifiers
So you have to look at their performance of world, okay?
Like they definitely are looking strong, but maybe not Korea strong currently, but still a little early into the event in
Totality, there's a lot of time left to go
But Korea
Definitely proving the hype
I think we had about what we expected for them going in because they just looked extremely multifaceted good
They have you know the aggression the mechanics the depth everything you need from a team that's likely
Position to win this event. Yeah win this event
and perhaps be the biggest threat in the overall Overwatch World Cup as well once we get global
and get every other team from the other conferences in as well, but Japan, you know what, I still
think I saw enough out of Japan that I think they should be looking in a reasonable position
versus Hong Kong and Pakistan which are definitely the two teams that are trying to get one over
Japan. I think if either of those two teams can get one over Japan, they might be able
to just seal away that second spot here in Group A, but I think no one's going to be
touching Korea in this group they it would be surprising if they dropped a
single map now the biggest chance from the drop the map would have been in
this series they didn't drop a map a couple of points here which those showed
that Japan certainly has some capability but larger when you look at how
clean Korea is this is what you expect out of Korea I think Korea's title
losing World Cups they've lost two in a row now but he wants to win one yes
they're very much like that I think at this point stop the losing streak and
And overall, this is just a team to watch out for it, like we said, and really now it's that race to see how does Japan second against the other players in the group, right, against Hong Kong, against Pakistan.
Like, that's going to be really the question of the hour here.
If you are a Japanese fan, I would say, and a fan of Team Japan, I would say you're likely pretty favorite in those matchups.
Holistically, they should be finishing pretty solidly second here in the groups, but anything is possible.
We really haven't seen those final forms yet seen those like how the current performance levels on stage are gonna look
For those two teams for Hong Kong Pakistan as we go into the actual group stages for these groups
So I mean, I just think that maybe there's a chance
My good news for career is they now I think
Definitely have gotten their hardest match out of the way
So for the rest of this group stage or group a rather I should say for South Korea
Test things out see how they see what Hong Kong and Pakistan could do against them
But it's gonna be a three-way fight in my eyes as I talked about Japan Pakistan and Hong Kong
I think group A is definitely South Korea favorite
We looked at the fact that even if crazy couldn't did it when champions clash
We would have probably have still said this is looking like a very strong team
But the fact that they won on top of that and its entire five members your entire core crazy crew is here
Plus the coaches as well
This is a team to beat I'm not to show if anybody else in a can do it
But Japan still has more work ahead of them
We've got more games ahead of us as well
We've got three more matches on a line of us to get through we'll be back with match number two right after this break
We're going to watch World Cup Asia Conference for 2026.
We've stopped out of ours, brought our friend Lake Day in for this very exciting next matchup,
match number two here.
Moving on to Group B, Harry, for the Australian Thailand.
Yeah, this is probably the headline matchup of Group B that's going to be on your screens
very shortly.
Thailand. We've had pretty effective runs through World Cups before. These are teams with like some
excellent national identities as well as good interactions with the breakthrough player system
to bring in some additional firepower that's maybe not as represented here in our Asia conference.
Yeah we've had you know Australia in particular who have made it to the main event a couple times
in the past famously you know reverse-swipped by Canada in 2017. That was particularly heartbreaking
because they looked like they were about to make a historic run in 2017 at BlizzCon by getting a
huge upset when versus Canada which no one would have expected but unfortunately that one slipped
away from them and fun fact as well they've also been able to in that same 2017 the Sydney qualifier
when we had the Overwatch World Cup stop there they beat Japan three in two as well so we did see
Japan in our previous game in Group A but Australia find themselves on the opposite group they won't
I won't get a chance to play against Japan, but it's good to see some of the overlap there between some of our international teams.
I mean, I think this is also the best time to ask Blizzard to like do another Australian LAN for Overwatch,
like Australian LANs do go incredibly hard, no matter the esports,
so I think some to consider another Australia, maybe another one in Sydney.
That could be pretty strong, Thailand on the other side.
I think that could also be a great position for a LAN,
But Thailand's team, this is going to be the first time in like what nine years?
But T2WT's not going to be playing as the tank for Thailand.
Of course, they do have multiple members of Team Secret who are going to be playing together.
In fact, they'll be playing against some of their Team Secret's colleagues
between Australia and Thailand. These are all players that are incredibly familiar with each other.
And of course, you and I from our long 10 year in Asian Overwatch,
very familiar with Ace, High Vision and Yoshinori.
We do actually have, you know, the last World Cup in 2023, Asia Pacific Conference, it was called back then.
You had Australia and Thailand together in group B, so they find themselves both back in group B,
where they were three years ago, with some slightly different roster. Some returning faces, of course,
in terms of, you know, you mentioned the High Vision Aces here, Cuff is back, Punk is back after three years.
years, that was probably one of the better games. It was Australia in the first group
with Thailand coming second, 5-0 and 4-1 record respectively, but Thailand's only lost being
to Australia in a 2-1. So that was of course a first to 2 format. But this time we'll
go on and we've got a first to 3 format three years later, wondering how the results will
change now between these two things.
Yeah, we've got a little bit more depth to this series, some space to try and augment
your strategies when things start to go wrong. Of course, as we look at our map, Paul, it's
going to be the same between all of our teams by loser picking where we go next as the entire
peninsula is going to be our first.
We'll find out information on bands when available.
To go through the rosters very quickly before we jump into the actual map, it's South Australia,
ColourHex, Soggy, Cuffer, Punk, Aki, Burtlog and Hamster.
I think that's we've got the call but Malga was the band coming through from
Australia and the counterband coming through from Thailand is going to be Juno
So a little bit of a some some speed taken off of the field with Juno be taken out force
The overall reliable Lucio is always going to be available
But also Malga is in a pretty strong position and I always love seeing a little bit of Malga matter
It's it's a little bit easier to cast so I think it's getting a little more hectic with our malware on the table
We'll get to the bands in a moment as well before that though. Let's talk about Thailand ace high vision Yoshinori 2k
Tyrant loomi msg and Pali loomi coming in as a breakthrough player from Singapore
Also, I think you mentioned this already the color heads from New Zealand so you from Singapore as well
We have a couple of hours Singapore in mercenaries finding their ways onto the rosters and
And a large contingent of team secret players to team secret players on Australia three team secret plays on Thailand
Yeah, like the team secret split here definitely is going to be a there's gonna be a lot of familiarity between these players
Especially when it comes to their map picks and the potential bands as well like you you target ban your own colleagues
I mean sometimes when it comes out the national pride might be necessary
Of course, Kala hex in years previous has mostly been representing New Zealand
But now we're going to be moving across it across the oceanic border not to make sure that Australia has a little bit of extra firepower
In the DPS slot and obviously Calhag is one of a few Australian
Players who managed to make it to Overwatch League back in the day alongside punk is also on Australia
And personally given that a vast has been like roped into team Pakistan as like as a
Contently is on I'm pretty sure Australia can probably pull some strings and gets punk and get punk stared as their own content
Correspondent because he's always good for some other things
We have
Players that have had a lot of history here as well the sense that so he's also played for the core of
Team Thailand which is in the past being believe these sports or Daffy sports, so he's been in the mix there a couple times
So certainly had a lot of history in the Pacific region
Between these guys and even in contenders Australia
Pre-Pacific as well, but Thailand usually I mean this has been the core of
of when you think about what the top players in Thailand and who the number one players
for Daphne Bleed representing Thailand had been over the course of the last three to maybe even four
years it's been the majority of these players right it's been the high vision answers of the world
Pali's been in the mix for the longest time as well I mean there's maybe a couple of players
you would say are someone missing uh some new faces like Kyren on the tank side that we haven't
I haven't really seen too much of, but the DPS line I think is going to be the strength of this team.
Yoshinori 2K, High Vision Ace have been the three top DPS players for this high squad.
And also when they play professionally as Daphne or Bleed, or now Team Secret, these have been the guys.
And in the past as well, and Ace has been in the mix, he's also been able to flex on some other roles.
We've seen him on support in the past as well, so a couple players here are capable of moving between different roles.
Yeah, Yoshinori, I believe he's been playing professional Overwatch since they were like 14 years old
Like there was a free. Yeah, it essentially tie sugar three there was a there was a long time
We were like oh Yoshinori is gonna probably pop off and over the league once it reaches like a minimum age limit
but I never quite got there, but what he he survived every which they did not and
And eventually it was part of that Thai team, as you said, like that Daffy Sports Corps,
who have been this hegemonic force in South-Eastern Overwatch and in Thai Overwatch in particular,
of the course of the last couple of years.
And that was a roster that kind of underwent minimal changes, only ever changing like one or two players at a time every single year,
but keeping the majority of that core together.
So there's a lot of synergy in particular between ace and high vision.
High vision and Yoshinori, I would expect to see them play together unless we're looking
like double hit scouts as far as I'm aware when it comes to their hero pulls, both of
them are pretty good like Cassidy plays in particular, maybe there's a world where you
bring out like a sojourn in conjunction with someone else, Ace tends to play a little bit
faster I believe, usually picking up the tracer if memory serves correctly.
Yeah, so I think the only thing really missing from the Tyros is they haven't had a lot of
tanks in the past, it seems to you it's not been in the pro scene, we're going to head
Straight into map 1 though the new Antarctic Peninsula slightly rebuilt here tougher versus Kyren
Mind of Bands were Malga and a Judo so none of that in play
We do have a dry bash coming through from high vision. No cat support a TP supporting either from symmetric
Yeah, gonna be a pretty slow here for high vision
They're very judicious about when they pop that ship from and bring out the maximum DPS
But for now Australia they are just gonna be continually making sure that Kyren can't drop down to a point easily
I do have the Mizuki on both of Akio here as well, no signal to support in terms of the classic walk into chain combo.
The chain is going to have to come through on their own. High ground taken by Carter Hex and a little bit of pressure here.
Coming through with Carter Hex, by the way, on their headscamp is something that I think typically in the past, Carter Hex has mostly played when he's been on DPS.
What I'm going to project on, mostly known for his fire.
See what Australia is able to do here with their first Katsune Rush.
Alright, this could be a big position of play, Kyren's run used so many of their resources already, Yoshinori's been taken down on the point though, enhanced stability.
Is there extra pit-and-sauce situation about laying down the kills as Australia would get first cap?
First cap, first submitting of these ult, this is all at MSCG, lagging behind, covering thing down Kyren.
Yoshinori now swapping over towards the Reaper, it's really trying to run at the rest of the players, they're just getting some further late deaths.
Yeah, probably doesn't really have anywhere to go and as you were pointing out before like high vision no TP
No cat to really help them get around hasn't really been a factor bus bar
Optimus available though
Something on that backline for Thailand
This cap over towards Australia
Unexpected the high vision attorney to do too much here typically only use defensively for a lot of his basins
He's taking a ton of damage free fight
God, such a great hitbox, and Kalaheis' cross is just continuously pulling them down from
across the map.
Sogi is not suffering from any damage drop on either on the mega-tuneer rush.
It's going to be sent on over, and a big drop of the artillery shells down on top of the
mace, if it survives enough, at least for Sogi, the feeling was solid, now hydrogen
has to try and find themselves an open going over onto Sogi, looking up towards Carthage.
He just crosses the arm because the gamer posed to him, not really interested in whatever
We'll get the best scuff there for Australia at times, they've dropped in 4 off, but Songi didn't want to drop in the 5th.
We'd rather didn't want to drop in what would have been the fourth because Copper had the annihilation there as well
But as the fight goes on the words is Australia slowly
Finally, my color hex can kill off the kill with Kylin down. That's just to come on through likely from the Shinnori
I haven't gotten a single percentage point yet. He can't make it work
You're shinnori taking down. You can actually make a touch happen here would appear
But no one is going to be there and Australia simply have a couple of celebratory
Ultimates in their pockets as Thailand descent reeling on sub map number one
late-stop from high vision is like you know really starting on that dry basher
with no support coming on through I'm gonna very quickly that I don't think
it really works you need TP to move the basher around what you need to count to
move the bash around you're not gonna do any of that probably just start the
song which the vision eventually moved towards anyway try to be playing the
same comp as they did on that last round your scenario ended on the repo will
start on the Reaper this time I make me to touch more difficult for
But for now, it feels like Cup is playing fairly conservative in terms of their positioning,
just waiting for an opening to happen before they really make waves with the nemesis form.
And of course, is happy to play that slow and pokey style of now being off the table.
Repesario, the classic combo, coming through from Thailand this time, just slowly solving
things around.
Very different opening, front-flying, depending on what we saw on the last round.
And I see Repesario, he's going to end up being the difference maker.
Pyro is coming for information and it looks like Australia ran up a bunch of his new title and mates for now.
Our tonight's energy has to be a little bit more conservative though. No bubbles to try and help them move forward.
Until it's all about using your health bar to try and exchange for the space looking over towards the Kiroko.
Not walled in by themselves, but slow as continuously giving it on over and couples there for the finish.
Hellhakes now looking out towards the other angles, goodbye to Yosinoria.
There's going to be a tradeout onto Hamster, the audacity of Vakiriko is sure to be punished as MS is taken down.
My vision needs to do a little bit more here, but I think Thailand are just going to end up backing out.
No more supports or the tank to play through. High energy for Karin Zayev at low HP towards the end there.
Not getting enough done out of those bubbles.
Need to be really allowing Yoshinori to get into the back line and get that damage done on the reef with the squall of the levels.
Slightly ahead is going to be MSCG on the Coutuna rush.
Tuna rushed her lightly, just the tall that Tanya is looking for to fire themselves back in for the round.
I visioned a chance to fire. I'm just trying to make sure that Hamster can't over peek into this and build up to a wall.
Oh, he's fighting.
Oh, gosh, she's caught on the approach and oh, I visioned coming in to get out. Soggy is nasty right now.
Yep, that's a double. Working on Australia's first ultimates coming on mine.
Slow going, you would say, for both teams, that's what the amount of kills they've gone through.
30% now, for Australia's second point.
I'm still looking for their entry, but just slow down and intercept them at every angle.
Sorry, just making sure that any entry here is just so heavily packed by the icicle.
Watching the approach of high vision, that angle cannot be 3, Kyron only 6.9% of the way to war with the ram.
Oh, farewell Yoshi once again on an island and it's not going to be a fun one out comes from the Zuki Ultimate
and that makes it so much more difficult to move ahead here for Thailand with 74%
lack of rush is caught up in a fox and you just try and break out
still be the Katsune rush to make it happen
Karin is looking for those hard score downs
two players grabbed on him but the firepower's too much to bear
Pally on the other side, found by Kappa who's let loose for suffering of Rematra
Australia gonna try to do that that's with only Saudi remaining couple. It's gonna be that last chance saloon
Can't chase out Yoshinori still 95%
Nylation doing more than enough for Australia to hold on to the point itself and covers gonna end up finding another you'd imagine
A little bit more damage onto the backlight of Pali and that'll be another support dog
But just a lot of second shoes allowing msc sheets to help Pali out opportunity now for time to Yoshinori and get first death
It's not been a great game so far for Yoshinori
You're gonna have to try and fight and match on the other side, my vision.
Gonna try and make Australia disappear, that's a great headshot there to get everybody low.
But where's the Kirikou gone?
Pally's frozen up, headshots are easy, cover the exit down with a ravenous vortex.
Choose through Thailand's defense, high vision now.
Needs to deliver, Hamston's gonna take them away on the other side.
Surely the Yoshunori's get something done now.
Gonna come back with the Death Lawson from the other side.
MS chase down, cover stars to spin.
This is gonna be Hamston fighting, taking down, but Yoshunori can't get more than one
before Kalahex takes their head off. In Australia they will reign dominant here on Antarctic Peninsula.
As a look of their real touch at all as the vortex will slow down any further re-approach.
And a clean opening map from Australia. No points given away. Cleaned that one up 2-0
on an opening in Antarctic Peninsula in Thailand. Couple different looks there. Started out with
the Orissa on round one coming through with Azari and eventually a desperation doom to try and
finish this up with Kyren. It's really the reaper from Yoshinori that was probably a little bit more
the disappointing side as Kyren didn't really get too much done there. I believe they got one
flip at some point. No actually on that second round they didn't get a single percentage point
on the cap itself. Maybe on that first point I do believe they got a little bit more percentage.
Second point nothing. Yeah an ideal stuff coming through of course Yoshinori like we've seen that
Australia continuously like dotting their rise and crossing their teams. These off angles have
being continuously mollanted and it feels like color hags is kind of on fire when it comes to the
aim right now. Those rail gun headshots and making sure that Yoshinori cannot go forward or if he
does end up hard committing is almost instantly punished and of course you have that close range
bruiser power with the May that makes it so much more difficult for the Reaper to stay here and
actually get any purchase. So I'm just checking back here as well. It's actually 100-0 on both
points and actually means that Thailand unfortunately are not on the board with anything in terms of
So what they've been trying so far double pre-fight kills that we saw onto players
Someone which ended up being Yoshinori so he doing quite a decent amount of work on the mate talked about color hex as well
I don't believe he really died
I didn't see much of color hex in the gilfee'd on the death portion of it certainly have seen him a decent amount
Trying to get kills this ice wall come through the soggy as well as we see the secondary angle there
Tell he's gonna free beyond Yoshinori where Kyron couldn't find the bubble to save Yoshinori
He was probably expecting the bubble
And otherwise, Kuffo is staying alive and plus annihilations when numbers start to get low and keeping the point alive via those annihilations, I'm dying at all.
Yeah, it really feels like you hit an ale on the head there. For Kuffo to name a game, definitely was staying alive when you're going up against that Reaper.
Sometimes you feel like you're a little bit endangered as a tank, but High Vision and Yoshi weren't really getting the uptime to actually threaten Kuffo that much.
that much so the cover was like okay i'm just going to make sure that this point is continuously
contested even in most long over times we're pointing to the flip toe for a favor of thailand
and uh kaffir just not having to worry about amalgam on the other side knew that when it came to
like the tank list as tank doles was not going to be in truly perilous positions when you can
always just do your little block stop rematch with us yeah i think uh when you just see more
the zarya reaper duo in particular felt like the zarya and the reaper were not doing a lot
for thailand there but for australia easy days i'd be curious to see how many times kaffir
actually been down there alongside the rest of his teammates. I feel like much. It felt like it was
almost no deaths for Kuffer looking back on it, particularly when you're 100-0. You don't give
away the point at all and basically dominating your opponent there. Rough going for what should be
our closest game for Group B. I mean, you would definitely say these are the two teams to watch
out for in Group B, but it's really leading. So strong to start things out with. Thailand
Thailand need to show a lot more to make sure that they are still in top 2 contention.
Yeah, Thailand, we definitely need to see some real life from them here.
As you said, this is probably the marquee matchup of Group B.
We expect good things from both these teams, especially with Thailand having like so many players who've played together for so long.
We expect that synergy to be there and maybe a little bit stronger than some teams that have had to wildly mix and match players to measure whether their region was effectively represented.
Now, Thailand though, they aren't going to be able to play towards their strengths and
move towards a map of their choosing.
If I remember correctly for DAF, one of their better maps was New Queen Street back in the
day, but I don't know if that's going to be where they would opt to go against Australia,
which has some of their colleagues on it.
New York City is the choice now for Thailand.
Now that Malgris available, perhaps that will end up becoming through for Kyren.
Otherwise, I can definitely see this as being a more of a macho favoured type of scenario.
stuff will remain on Rematra, be through the entirely new junk city and I don't think it
really needs to change much from what we saw on that last map in terms of playing through
the same comps again.
I'd agree, I'd agree, I think that like you don't really change until they make you change,
you know, make Thailand commit resources to solving this issue before you preemptively
have to invest your own mental resources in making something new work.
We've got fans coming through our role and I wonder what they do say.
Australia has got for Wuyiang, Thailand mate.
So it would have been Thailand first as a losing team from the last map.
May being gone is going to be targeting Soggy first and foremost.
Going to be opening up some capability for their own tanks to start to play.
I think definitely Soggy has some decent impact in there.
Wuyiang being gone might be a bit of a throw away.
I'm not entirely sure how much Wuyiang would have been played here anyway.
I think if you are planning to play Symmetra, you are taking away one of the possible Symmetra light counters in Wuyang.
Aside from that, you know, the band probably doesn't end up doing that much in this particular matchup.
The Mayban is going to be a little bit more impactful from the Thailand PwP, forcing Soggy away onto, I would likely say, either Tracer or Reaper.
Yeah, Tracer or Reaper. I think that Mayban is also particularly impactful for the matchup you want to see a little bit more of.
of the Reaper and the Zaya. Zaya doesn't do amazingly against the Maywall with that lack of
overall mobility before you get your jump perk. So Kyren, we might see a little bit more of that
Zaya come out. Of course, we also see the Mauga was banned in the first map, but not this one. So
now Mauga might be available to give a little bit more trouble over to Kafa when he's trying to
sit on his Rematra and have a bit of a block fest.
Let's see where the composition ends up falling here.
I think for Kuffin, nothing really has to change.
Soggy then has to initially look towards the change of the hero.
Soggy might roll out of the cast to start things out with, if not just stay on the
Soge for now.
I don't think you've been hitting shots like Kullag Staz.
Maybe you don't need to swap away from a Soggy.
I mean, that's been the case for Overwatch eSports for five years now.
So Jed is very, very strong still.
Well, certainly out of the M-Ray nerves, otherwise we would be seeing permanent M-Ray from our DPS players on the Hitscane side of things.
If not, the Bastion, kind of still available by the way.
But, okay, Bastion, I think, you know, a little bit of what Avast was saying earlier.
teams that are sort of less well-practiced than the
clear-cut OWCS teams which were playing a lot of that cab bashing and not his experience
Into the cab bashing so unlikely that they'll be bringing that one out because you
As easy as the comp sounds like to play and you know, I think it is kind of easy
Some level coordination definitely required and the Malaga now open on the tight side of things current instantly locking that one in
Marked adventure to be real. I would love to see a cab bashing on this point as well a lot of inside
Capture areas which means that might be a little bit harder to get value out of the airborne bastion
Tyrant does seem to have enjoyed the newly opened Malga
I know that's gonna be a little bit more easy to get the pressure over onto kappa and this could change the
Mathematics of how these tanks clash and how Australia have to handle their engagements
Absolutely now in June are so lose it to be found here so again out to trace that I should have given the reaper another go
Soggy starts the nibble at the margin, just continuously taxing those attention resources
and pressing the capture on the point as well.
Person is, who am I going to send to give this one contestant, do they want to try and
take a full team fight down here?
I might just give it over to Soggy for free for now and that's a great pick up for Australia considering it's been bloodless thus far.
That's a big engage there from the Malga.
Full commit, pops the cooldowns, Kallite's gonna be saving some damage off the back of that one.
In Australia, they're having a bend but not breaking the narrative troll of the place.
Uchubra is gonna have to start blocking.
S-Rama giving it over. Stomp is good and we can see exactly why the Malga was banned by Australia.
Heading into map number one.
Slow going, but they all get to win this fight with Cuffer down.
Really, Thailand ideally shouldn't have given away the cap, but this is what happens if you don't have your own tracer to contest the point itself.
It would have to be Oshinori or Kairan going on to the point giving away
map control over to Australia.
But while Soggy was capping, Thailand could have as well forced the 5v4.
Eventually, the 5v5 went in there putting a lot of damage on a couple of times securing it.
MSCG now slightly ahead of Aki in the race for the first ultimate and first continuing rush.
And they slowly catch up to the 41% that Australian has, but high vision, instant cap down.
Oh, I'm off to Australia, ColourHack's high vision found out the hard way for the danger is a real big commitment coming through from Australia, try and take...
Trying to take Australia off balance, he's trying to land off the back of that big engage, and even bigger now, everyone's moving away though!
From the Katoone Rush, maybe it was ill-conceived or at least ill-listened to in the comms still, and there's Gino trying to close with money after that, goes after their Malga!
A quick disengage away from the Malga.
These Colaxes are not of any support from the Kiriko.
Must give you a re-take now from Thailand.
Thailand, all the support ultimates play through.
Hamster lacking in that regard.
No orbital raid for Australia to be able to contest.
The ultimate trades.
Thailand will be able to find their mark early.
And still keeping this one well-ultimed contention.
But anyone's game, at least for the opening point,
there should be a big fight now for Australia.
They've been waiting it back and on some of these massive ultimates.
Yoshinori probably has to be the hero here.
Finding something behind the cliff.
This deathblossom is just playing for crying the proper page.
Shouldn't you auto-marry?
Deathbloss only gets it.
Boing the cage. Can you try and stop down Yoshinori?
Get two Haki and Kala Hicks.
Yoshinori's revenge is going to be well documented and brutal cover.
Might be throwing out a little bit too much here.
Starts to let everyone know about Remarchra's pain, but there's no time for listening out here.
I didn't read all that, but I'm happy for you though, bro.
Saki was the last ditch epic on his own reap and front save the day cup and out
Like so all to their signal not a normal cup of hero to be honest
We could do a little bit of infected cosplay or rather. I should say the Kellen cause we maintain playing a little bit of a stigma
And we'll see how that goes in this map consider. I think
applicable that usually you would just
Play through the rematcher would be more than typical. We'll play a like a cup of it
I wish up next for all to what it's with
It's a little bit slower, and he's gonna let Kyren take a lot of initiative here off the back of the overrun.
For so long, Ultimate has been the hallmark of danger for so many years now.
Good side step away from the Rock.
You can't really get through the shield that's been presented by the Sigma though.
Just gonna try and skip it and indeed find Soggy as Kappa's left alone on high ground
trying to play the stalwart defense.
Yes, for a good teleport beacon for the Kerakos to try and disengage away too,
But do you want to try and cap it?
Fallen can't afford to give away an objective for free again.
And indeed they will chase Kuffer away from this angle.
Should they be able to get a stag here on to the system result?
No.
The lack of amenability.
Kuffer is a fine man with just not enough water to put out all of the fires on the map.
You have multiple players falling around him individually being taken down by Tyler.
And Kuffer is one of the last to fall there.
This Australia on the back foot for the first time I want to say in this series
It's also to map so far to in Thailand doing a lot of catch-up now Thailand sitting the time sitting the case
Australia having to be the team finding their own pace against Thailand on this huge young city
All right, soggy can make them initiative here with a death loss and they want to try and force some resources out of the
Backline before engaging it though. It's gonna be all about that objective play though
Australia have forced themselves over towards that but I didn't mean to collect was abandoned right on top of a
Kiriko should have just get a forced out more overrun council.
Didn't want to get a CC immunity in time to avoid the incoming accretion.
An extra health steal coming on through for Thailand.
It's an absolute brutal massacre of the Australians who dare to profane their lands.
Far more active now you see out of Thailand.
On that initial point you'll remember that while Soggy was off capping the point itself,
Thailand just kind of...
...pans and pockets a little bit, but this time around, while Australia once again goes for a Scylla Strait straight to the point,
Go for the flip. So he finds a flip and Thailand says we're not going to be just sitting around doing nothing.
They actively are hunting down members of Australia to wall their splits.
And now they have the ult, they have to finish off this point.
Over time.
They're there for Thailand. Now the Magus starts to move on in.
Forces out the invincibility from the Reaper.
They move to spin the S for Yosunori!
All the revenge is so sweet for the little Ractor.
And indeed a good spin for Thailand brings them 2-0.
on NJC. Not going to get captivated by Soggy in the distance trying to distract him away from the prize inside of the Kaikai Sanctuary.
And of course, that will be Thailand. Beautiful combination of ultimates, three being dropped in there. It's a heavy expenditure, but it's what you need.
You have to get yourself two zero in the lead now. It's really good to get a point on the board for NJC, but at least
if a lot of ultras play through, this fight should be in their favor.
Alright, Australia once again prioritizing the objective, since there's a hallmark of any Jax City play so far.
Also, we're at the Suzu, and that's a big rate of fire increase here.
That's gonna up the healing coming through from the Kiriko, and Colour Hex, so I just need right of fire.
He has accuracy, and I thought that he needs well-charged up when it comes to the railguns looking towards the Malga.
It's trying to get the value.
On the other side though, the railgun is charging and it's charging quickly.
Copper just enters from stage right and slowly lists across your screen to eat up all the damage. Great fight from Australia.
Two to fight, two to one rather I should say in terms of the Ultimate's exchange, their high version dropping into the extra O.C. the Force and what a ray from Australia.
It's the O.C. of Call of Hector that does the majority of the work as Kyler now. Band is a malware.
We'll be towards Azir, with a bit more support for Yoshinori now, ever.
You have to look back over towards the entire peninsula, not the best in terms of what we saw out of Kyra on Azir.
They're like, they've got a lot more initiative out of this Malge.
We'll have a lot of work ahead of them now from that Azir worker we did before.
Alright.
Cannot least pull up a lot of charges doing that.
Hope they are going to be forcing just a little bit of a distraction, a replay coming through from the Mizuki.
Soggy needs to decide where to go needs to move into a mix of Thailand starts spinning
Up comes the gravidic flux here from Kaffir
Raps walk by air seems like it's gonna maybe be Yoshinori who was caught up there with no slam
Comes through from Kaffir in the aftermath and Thailand decided that without Yoshinori this fight's not worth doing
In either way no bubble from Thailand to save Yoshinori
There's something look a lot more like a type of peninsula now
Especially with Australia look at the hundred zero this point Yoshi comes back on to a tracer
But, like before that time, the double support of Thailand needs to go low HP on Kyren though.
Oh, what a stun! That means no healing coming through for Kyren.
Do you want to try and use your Mystic Sanctuary for a last chance to loom, die, trigger, take out MS?
And so, Palli all they can do is stare from afar as their team fall one by one.
The point goes the way of Australia.
Just a different team. Thailand, when they aren't playing this map, they're going back to the Xayah.
You see a lack of initiative, unable to even walk in.
Callie eats a rock as mentioned from Cufford, stopping him from dropping his ultimate to protect Kyren, who is probably expecting that Sanchery to allow Tylan to buy them onto the point and now no Reaper either, which was Kyren at least.
It would be a little bit more selfish with the bubble usage, but the combo is strange, you're not working out for him, you would expect a lot more out of his RRE for combo to really find advantage in this matchup.
Just look at the case, Callie taking a bit of damage early on, but you need to see Tylan quickly support Alphys in his ultimate fight.
Alright, opening up straight away, overlaying them lands, lands, lands. It might well be worth it. Kairan's already taken down one.
And the damage core of Australia has been torn asunder. The armour has been perforated and the point has been captured.
Two to one in terms of all trades here. Katsunea rushes, traded with the Pali, dropping in the extra Kikai Sanctuary in.
I'll grab it on search for Kairan next and hopefully lock down Australia who otherwise have a very strong flight ahead.
ahead. Orbital Ray not used because it wasn't available for Hamster. That will be as Yoshi
goes on the hunt in the backline. Piding his footsteps. Pulse is going to be important
here. Nothing to stop it. Let's back here. Hamster Suzy. Give him back.
Here we go. Over grabs. Going to be huge. Everyone's just stuck to the pulse bomb. It's
going the other way around. That time no stick was given over but they weren't able to flee
away. Cover him with high energy. She's going to be able to chase down the stragglers. And
A couple might be a statuable situation here considering that Thailand a 20% at 40% away from winning the entire map.
For the last fight, Tereshaven Cupra gets back in. Australia put in three ults there.
It's the big bang combo of the Grave and the Pulse Bomb that was enough and by the way, Baylor's used it slightly earlier.
The man in Saga even uses Wraith form so all of the vulnerability tools out of the hands of Australia,
and what a high vision. What's the put the game in towards his hands and lock the snap up?
Oh, great early play right here, Australia could not peel for Kala Hexen, can you get Aki as the question?
She's gonna be in a wild dash for the health pack, Soggy Trash has got the point ever, at least we don't have to worry about the overtime.
Come to Soggy, he opens his arms, waiting and ready to spin, already managed to get one, and she's just catching out on the back line here.
Soggy, just worry about those side bubbles, try to keep this point contested, yes, a little dodge around here from a shallow step there.
And Yoshinori, we're gonna play a patient.
Tyran low HP though you have to save your tank it's not going to happen
opportunity foul from Australia they already have to count which means Tyran okay time
adjusts reset build a bit of ultimate and MSCG's ultimate and then we continue to rush
It's going to be so difficult to try and find value here Yoshinori once again
it's going to be all about that pulse moment they want some play Tyran can look for that big bang combat
You have to out play Aki here
So this is about to be a last fight territory, so I'll be thinking about the ultimate deal
to death blossom that will think better of it.
I'll truly just throw that 1A Yoshi looking for the possibility of a pause but might want
to be patient for every slab between the MSG's first upload.
Hedra TP, Hedra Suzu is go timed out for Yoshinori, he needs the clutch up here and now with the
pulse of the MSG's already down.
Haki on the other side, he's out as well, only Hamster's going to be the healing remaining,
out comes for Sanctuary, but it would appear if Atile doesn't have anyone present to try
I make use of it Yoshinori's gonna be the only one who remains and the staff of
Rematra throws up so many nanoparticles but it's overwhelming two to two.
Just late in the day Pali should have held onto that ultimate or if you've
got a drop it use it to save Tyron. None of that applied as MSCG fursons
responded by Aki and Yoshinori still hunting for the opportunity to pulse
doesn't find it. Tyron doesn't get the graven timers or dies just as the
hundred takes over. It's the struggle for Tyron to keep the tank alive that's
can toss him and be frightened. That could have been the end of the map if a Tylan was
a couple of ways from them now.
Oh, that should get one inside. Waiting for the bigger bang did not use the Kitsune.
And now Kappa turns it around. Nice, just chasing everyone down here with the annihilation.
A quick change trying to slow down the approach of Tylan. Yes, Kappa's got yet another use
of the nemesis form. Cleans through tank and healer alike for support, uphealing unsupported.
Ah, Yoshinori is going to try and clutch it. Already gets one. I'm not sure if there's much more than this.
Could it be two? Inside of a ravenous vortex, it's so much slower. The remainder of Team Thailand are coming back.
Entirely still in control of the point, by the way. Must be grabbed by Yoshinori in the mix of that fight.
He opted to cap the point instead of helping the rest of his team, and that might just buy his team a little bit more time, although they do lose the opening.
Allow Kairan to now come back.
I'm thinking of an Algar I might add and people would expect that they need this mountain
but they don't need this hybrid to get this early. That's what a straight is going to have in mind.
No way, ColourHex fuels the aura and the aura is strong.
They're disengaged towards the back. They've pushed through the clips.
The cut is more than happy to meet them there for a quick cuddle.
And Marver is going to be a last second attempt from Yoshinori. They're letting control.
Thailand on the back foot again. Fresh swap from Kyren. Down pretty damn quick as well, ColourHex.
Don't be shy about ripping into the OC, and well, don't be shy about finding these rails, either, in the sense that you'll be finding a lot more uptime on the rails.
Spamming shots into the Malaga, then you would, if you had a high vision, put a shot into the cover, but in any case,
his high vision's turned to shine now, he wanted to OC last fight.
This is his last fight for Australia.
Telling X shots again, he finds the other map high vision.
Please respond.
Discuss the hero.
Accus already down though.
High vision getting notifications from victory, tries to move into a mix of their own team.
Nice!
Hey, not a soggy! And that might be exactly what real Wakens for joy in Thailand are pretending to ash in their hands.
ColourHacks returns once again. High vision says not this time, buddy. No more clutches, no more resurrections.
Hamster up in the sky. Kappa has the annihilation of only they wanted, but for soon he's going to stop that one early.
And Thailand now have to hold on.
There was a little 50-50 there for a while. ColourHacks getting the first kill is not what you want from Thailand's POV.
But the fact that Australia has double supportals coming in, it's only double support on double supportals.
I do have to say the orbital rate, largely better value than the Kukai Sanctuary Thailand.
But I'd like to see them maybe get a little bit aggressive earlier on here. Don't want Australia to stand for a good orbital rate.
Bottle missile sent on out, mission has already suffered a certain wound up alive, out comes to pie, sanctuary.
They're going to serve us around now from Yoshinori, looking towards everybody.
Double support out is coming from Australia, they're so brutal to try and beat down here.
And the brutal beatdowns are being given over by Kappa.
One punch after another into the bloody corpse of Thailand, Australia.
Dominates when it comes to their point control.
A last second touch, unlikely two at the fourth coming into Australia.
You're the map back from Thailand just looking like the possibility of Thailand getting this map in especially when it was at
2-1 scoreline on the actual New York City map itself
Which unfortunately slipping through their fingers is going to be that fourth point eventually when we get to the final point of
New York City
Australia finally marked with the orbital ray fight getting on the point itself Tyler not forcing it early enough in terms of getting the engagement
Just don't think the Kikai century does enough into the orbital ray
The orbital ray is going to find a lot more value over time, but more important than that, like there's the fact that Colisex time and time again,
opening, pre-fight pick, constant 5v4s, and you need big heroism out of Thailand to be able to overcome those 4v5s,
and you're just not going to see it often enough for them to be able to do so.
So, Australia, match point now, dangerous for Thailand.
Yeah, it feels like very right with the analytical point there about the ray and the Kitsune-Reshima being able to get so much more value compared to the Kaikai Sanctuary,
Also, both of these are forward-moving AOEs and, like you were mentioning, the initiative
from Thailand was a little bit late when you get both of those forward-moving support.
All AOEs going on to a point where we had Thailand in control, I would have liked to
have seen those forced out a little bit earlier, so that you couldn't have that objective
battle with all of your support just being front-loaded from those ultimates.
I'll say the fact that, you know, I think Australia definitely may have cooked a little
bit too hard with the Kuffer Sigma for the majority of the middle points of that map when he goes back
on towards the Rematch you start to see a little bit more of the history that we saw on that opening
in Tactic Peninsula. Some of the things can be super kind, I feel like his best point so far has
been on the Malga, very liked in terms of what we're getting out of that Zarya. A lot of early
deaths taking a bunch of early damage. I could support to keep him alive at various times as well,
but still plenty of opportunity that they probably could have had to at least
playing this one up three and one. Definitely that bomb flash point that
got a wave from Thailand when you saw that really nice they had that big
bang combo play that put them into the lead and it was a hundred to zero on
that four point is all but didn't clean it up. Yeah I think that we definitely
identified a couple of points where I felt like Hiram was expecting more
resources than they got on their engagements like sometimes it came
them to a good accretion from Kafa, stunning out the Mizuki, making sure that that sanctuary
can be put down on top of a very vulnerable Zarya who'd already put their bubbles on the
approach. So those are good heads up play from Kafa, but in other cases it seems like
some assumptions were made that as the tank going towards the point in overtime, I'm going
to be receiving these resources and often they weren't quite there in time.
Yeah, especially the sort of mistiming between when you have for example, apparently not
being able to save Kyren with the Kikai Sentry, I believe was a couple of percentage points
off.
Yeah.
And some of the other plays that were just a couple of percentage points off as well,
where Yoshinori had a later point trying to wait for the big bang combo, and the grab
just wasn't there because the grab was to look percent or two off.
As Kyren dies, just as he gets the grab, Yoshinori is still waiting, and then suddenly the points
kind of just gone, and no opportunity further for Yoshinori and Thailand to be able to finish
things off.
So, what about disappointing ending where it looked like Thailand was beginning to pick up a decent amount of pace for that second map?
Yeah, I mean, in terms of commiserations, like you said, some of these players are just like percentage points off.
Like, we understand and we appreciate Thailand have some pretty good fight plans here with how they're going to be using their resources to try and get won over in Australia.
But sometimes in the chaos of the battles, like, someone just is a couple of meters back from where they should be, maybe they haven't made it around to Corny and can't find the line of sight that they were looking for.
Maybe there's just this constant slowing that's coming through from the ravenous vortex of a rematcher
Which for now seems to be one of Katha's better picks and speaking of picks,
Tynan's map pick, I talked about new queen 3 earlier, we're not going to be going there, RuneSarpi is the choice man.
Interesting stuff here, as I think we've barely seen new queen 3 in this meta from anything, it's a bit available to pick
Everyone goes for the Roosa, but you're probably more balanced and I'm honest here as well
But with the better design push map of the selected choices
But really needs to be a good one coming out of Thailand
Otherwise, we're going to back to back three years here in our opening
matches between our
Premier teams you would give the stage move certainly the favorites for both the cons with the respective groups Japan and Korea
Favorites for Group A and make short work of Japan in that one
and they're now Australia's most favorite soccer team, where Thailand is definitely putting up a much better fight
against Australia than Japan did against Korea, but still not enough to just get a map under their belt.
Yeah, like Australia definitely felt incredibly threatened in these games especially over on New Junk City.
And we were talking about how the game was working out.
A lot of it I think was just dissuading the Mauga gameplay, because for a second when the Mauga was gone for like an extended period,
We saw the couple was happy to return to for a mantra, which definitely seems to be where Australia are at their most comfortable playing this like very fast forward heavy playstyle with the remat really in the way with those nemesis forms.
But the Malaga is a real threat to that and needed to be discouraged.
I would have to see as much Malga coming through on Runa Sarpy, given that Jetpack Cat and
Bastion is an option, like maybe it will be a little bit hard to get value out of, but
maybe the Bans are going to work their way.
You are not going to cash me saying this too often, but I really do hope we see them,
Malga, because it's been Kyren's best look so far.
Everything else he's played has been just left wanting, and Bans have indeed come on
through Tyban first, Jetpack Cat followed by Ozban on Tracer.
So JPC and Tracer, that takes away the Jepegat Bastion combo on Rumi's side, straight away.
As you sort of mentioned, probably one of the better maps given the super high Skybox that
you can really play the Jepegat Bastion here, flying over the rooftops and stuff.
So it could be quite oppressive, removing the capability away from that.
I think all of these teams outside of Korea, possibly Japan, but the seven teams outside
of Korea, unlikely to play Jepegat Bastion.
In fact, more of these teams, including Korea for that matter, have just played the Bastion
with no Jibakat support at all.
So probably don't want to see any dry Bastion, no Jibakat support.
That's definitely going to be gone.
The Tracer being banned away here is going to be pushing Yoshinori likely back over towards
the Reaper.
And look here, the Tracer player, Yoshinori had some reasonable Tracer play in there,
of note that certainly, I guess, put the pressure on.
Interesting that Soggy definitely does not prefer the Tracer so far.
in this match, given that his history has had some very, very good trace of looking
like it'll be moving towards reaper territory instead, which if Kyron of Thailand is going
to end up playing the Malga, that's better for Oz, because Soggy wants to be playing
the reaper into that.
Yeah, Soggy would love to play a little bit more of the reaper.
And this also does mean that maybe there's not quite as much juggling when it comes to
the objective.
It felt like Australia were being a little bit more considerate of how they were playing
the objective.
early pick, that early point flip being given over from Thailand on New Junk City without
really getting too much value off of earlier even though they did kind of address that
as we went over to some of the other points of New Junk City. However, so far I don't
want to trust it, but it's over in the Faroqs.
Honestly usable on this map, you have to be concerned about high vision, dropping the
shots from long range, or a big heart of high vision to find rails compared to Calhex
in terms of how fast we can charge them, but I mean, the Farah has some capability.
And again, famously, this used to be Kal-Hex's signature here and now.
I would advise Soggy as Kal-Hex is happy to just play through the Soggy for all three
maps.
A faramentor, perhaps, for Soggy, that when Kal-Hex has got a hot hand like this, why take
him off the Soggy?
I'm not sure we're really taking a little bit of damage on the approach here, and happy
Afro noises.
We are, if I was sitting in the mall, going to come out once again from Kyron.
the best that we've seen from Thailand so far, but early control of the body till we
grab our Australia, and that's gonna be a huge engage coming through from Kyron,
needs to get back to the Lord Arms of their Helos, more than an off angle from the
soggy, just a peering out of nowhere and blowing Malga to smithereens.
Just gonna say in these neutral-active versus soggy where with the fire you can
get chunked down, put on fire by the mouth, and when Kyron is just
completely in the sight lines of cover and force into that tank trade, kind of
taking as much damage as they did, like they're coming through from the DPS and look at the
ColourHack's ulti on top of that, it's so much soju damage from putting to Kyren, now
putting him in the lead, first ultimate, like in the line, excuse me, sir.
How do you deal with that Oc, so he takes to the skies, Karin's going to be taking a lot
of this damage, cut the core in the corner, but he is good from Australia, they really
are giving so much care over for their main tank ravenous vortex, popped in the face of
Thailand to slow their roll forward, and speaking of slowed rolls, this part has not slowed
down and fall so far, continuously moving in favour of Australia. A big engagement coming through
already from the Maldrum, that's going to be the other one, sent through the Colisex, already
grabbing palliers or anything more than he found, 3 HP! It's going to be Yoshi from downtown,
the Dietarygers get it done, and S sends out the Kitsune, Rache and Australia don't particularly
want to fight into that one, they can re-agress later if they really want.
Alright, maybe going the wrong direction here, having to really force the support of people
On top of the fact you just run into a hole, bound by Saki, that was unnecessary because Thailand had control of the payload.
Live-ranked gameplay coming through right there, diving in, 1v16 inside, Kappa!
Probably see an annihilation onto Pali, does not want to see any survivors.
I'm fishing a pool, so that makes P remaining. Okay, Kappa's actually min-maxing right here.
I'm tired I need to look for a quick regroup here because that was not a coordinated playout of the
met all huge punch from Australia. Kuffer finds two in the annihilation as mentioned.
With an all the way to play through, we've talked about the fact that Akagi Kaisenchiri
have online for parrying not going to be good enough against the orbital ray and I think the
only thing that Akagi Kaisenchiri will be able to get a lot of value on is Sogi. He's not going to
be able to find it easy to get inside and get value. He's going to Yoshi if he wants to get inside
the back line gets it out of its arms right now.
Got you, Richard, to cut.
But you lost this back line, so much healing coming through already from the Juno,
Yosin, already in high vision. They just have overwhelming firepower,
two damage ulcers, yeah, that will get it done.
The opening, you also have the third ult to be played by
Tyrone's Pally as well, the K'Gai-San,
she just had a little bit more in there against Australia.
First meterage now being found on by Tyrone,
We're solidating together. Cage, Online, we'll be using next.
I, Kyren, for Oz, a bit of a slowdown here.
So, the color hex it has been taught of for so far on the team.
Let's see how fast he charges in the next OC.
Not against the Malga. Probably won't take too long to be honest.
Cage is ready as well. This thing is really hard.
Don't have to plan for it. I want to give up that first cast here.
Two, Tyran. Oh, yes, directly onto Aki.
A little bit of a climb towards the Kerakor, all in to get rid of the heals, but can Pyran survive?
The audacious maneuver that they've made, just a quick overrun for the over health,
and now Kappa's gonna be the one to struggle.
Yoshinori taking down on the backside, and Kalec's getting it done as well.
Overclocked for Alex, they smell the clutch in the air,
and I'm gonna be clutching my pearls with another Tyfan right now,
because this has actually fallen apart after a first frag came through for Tyland.
Now he's looking decent for Thailand, but a great read from Australian Response Color Hex is saying okay, might have lost our tank, we have a sort of opportunity, there's a little bit of a split line-up from where Tyre being positioned, Tyre in.
Let me make his way back to the rest of the team, running back with the roguerun, Pally in the open, ready to be taken out by the overclock to talk about how quickly we're just going to find these OCs, but that one's pretty damn quick.
Quick!
There is Soggy.
Cause Rage is good to go.
Right now, just playing very close to their tank.
Frontline Farah.
Little bit of personality.
Zoom in, moves on down.
Here's the barrage!
Wants the Sojourn, but what a perfect Suzu coming through from an S.
Yeah, we're gonna aim for it.
We need to change his solids.
And that's gonna be a dark, deep attack here from Yoshinori, moving in toward the Kiriko.
But the dodging is so good, Yoshinori just can't connect when it comes to the Trash.
Triggers, and Kyren needs to try and get out now, as Cutler's getting put down and wrapping his forefights behind the slowish, strong point to the catch, and he's forward-spawned now through Australia.
She knows she didn't have death loss in here, wanted to go into the backfire, but didn't trust himself to win the 1v2.
Finds Akiba, Akiba just seems to be waiting in Australia, ever marching forward.
Look at that 100m mark.
Hallya, he only altered the face-off for Kyren in Australia.
Get to be pushed away here with two. Really, she'll open to the underguard.
So, thanks, Rory.
Our light's already being taken out.
Halley on his side, traded out though.
Yoshi coming in, but very close to that Farrah.
It's dangerous to try and deal with this one.
The healing was so strong from the orbit array.
Yoshi, Rory doesn't want to spin this deal with this
as Australia continued to get more meterage.
Yeah, Yoshi not in other positions
to get too much out of that death blossom.
Like he would have been taken down straight away.
Looking for the cage combo.
Either way, it would be expensive.
Hire there, they're going to have to spend ult'ness.
Straight on a spawn here to contest.
And that's great news for Australia.
who don't really need to do anything in response. Even if Australia lose this fight, they've got enough
means to be able to win the map of it, you would think.
Happy Vast Farm, Yoshimori.
Thank you, Mr. Discover. I'll do one fight and take this fight.
Calaxx on one side, getting it rather close, but that means Cuff is a little bit overextended now.
While everyone else was looking to try and keep their carry alive, Cuff was in too deep.
Oh my goodness, the Pharah is scary when she approaches like that.
Ultima Kill kill for High Vision there who smartly saves the OC as double ultimates rather used by Thailand
I sort of mentioned there forced to do so to get out of spawn and win the fight finally three minutes left
26 to 113 is doable but very difficult at this point now in Australia of a comfortable gaff and a comfortable lead
You didn't have to use too much of a response either. It can obviously look like we stand in terms of ultimates as well
Armini's strong, Hamster less so, broken at the knee of Pali and Hydra should try and get away as fast as possible.
Vy, Suzu brings out a lot of vulnerability but Kappa doesn't quite have it, uses their own annihilation for additional Arminis to try and connect.
And it's gonna come through.
This time for Faki just making sure that Saki has a touch of backup.
And I continue to drop his gun.
I like having a better high vision is going to be a continued problem here and what the problem needs to be solved
ASAT is not enough time to play for it
If you're Thailand at the moment with an early fight last half of weeks in the next half of mid
A vision of opportunity, OCN play, oh it's just going to back out from this
And they will have left Sony behind to try and have a splendid key barrage but you can't sleep past high vision
He's seizing to the third dimension, the call for fifth and the sixth as well.
But this engage here from Kyren, too much damage, too much...
Coming through off the back of the Kitsune, Rush drops down by Aki, and the chase should be solid.
Onto Yoshi, Kalei's time, she's to grab that one out, MS, needs to hide away from the damage.
Kalei himself in a healing position, Kalei's down as well, cover caught in the corner.
Two minutes remain, and a stomp is solid.
When it comes to this, oh, when it comes to the counter strike though,
Soggy, great barrage timing has taken down Kyron.
One minute 50 left to go through,
Oz still playing in this fight, they're still in it for now.
Duff is surviving, solidly with excellent damage,
Kyron not expecting the fire of all heroes
to be the demise of his last efforts to stop that push.
Old high vision down, Kyron have to regroup,
and with a limited time left,
Australia gonna shove Paylor directly
to this four-pally down next.
Kyron likely to be staggered here,
this is looking like South of Kyron,
I have nothing to play with here.
That angle from Soggy was disgusting by the way.
And Hamster still has a little ray in the back corner by Mission MS'er down.
All the Squishies are just falling apart for Thailand.
And they are looking down the barrel of an ended series here.
Unless Yoshi can really get something done off of his PB.
Temporarily stops the point.
Can they get the two number?
That trigger is a strong.
Can you get yourself an extra Q?
So many Squishies so close.
And the distraction is solid.
That means Kappa doesn't have to kill him.
trying to survive this one close and personal killaxe with eye-triggers get it
and soggy now with so little HP to try and work it's not the high vision of a
hitscan aim. Thailand rescue themselves. One last push no opportunity for any type
of Avril. Theory here is 46 meters guarantees that Thailand are not gonna
get 100 meter gaffed but Australia might as well have done it. Australia might as well
have just finished up the entire map here. A 130 to 46 meter difference but 30
seconds remaining requires perfect gameplay out of time. Really sick if you can't lose
No more Mulligans, no more second chances, no one's IN THE CAGE!
So that means you're just to put even more, takes down Galaxia, so it's punished by Aki, a headshot from across the way.
What's he doing over here? Chasing down Kafa perhaps?
There's still been that pickover onto Hamster, and of course, as overtime approaches, we're going to have to start thinking about where's overtime's spawns.
Kafa's just gone unnoticed so far, and now we're going to be able to assault the backline.
Her avidness calls extra roll on for the annihilation, ready to go as well.
Extra damage onto high vision chasing down the Juno now.
The last hopes of Thailand crumbled to dust before their eyes as the rocket barrage strikes
terra firma and then looks towards the sky as the fireworks show a celebration of Ossie Ossie Ossie.
Oi oi oi.
For Thailand I saw a loss because not a single man being found there.
Australia coming far too strong.
The addition of the Faray at the end there, really the X factor is fine, could not deal with it.
Didn't see much damage like Kyran to put on the Sogi,
High Vigil as well on either the cast, or the Soge, and able to shut him down,
and that's on top of the fact that Kyrahex still flies time after time,
insisting damage, insisting the first Pecs, consistently outplaying High Vigil,
High Vigil I mean, and in that head-to-head on the Soge as well.
Just look at how fast he built the initial Overclock,
Ended up in flight, setting the stage, setting the tone for Australia's gap on this map,
and I would say gap potentially in the entire series as well, given it ends up being 3-0.
Yeah, very impressive 3-0 here for Australia, and like our marquee series as we build it for Group B.
Thailand certainly were challenging Australia, but the addition of Soggy seems to have done
absolute numbers for this team, to be honest. Like, we constantly, we've got our, we've got our
color hex glaze hats on it's true and for the song each time to play this kind of orbital dps
who has to move around color hexes sojourn pick to allow uh collects to just continuously use this
hot hand with some great pharaoh play some uh some reasonable tracer but for me it was so
oppressive over an antarctic peninsula as well as instrumental making sure that tylen can never
have any space to work with and really where i think tylen just again let the foot off the gas
a little bit too much. It was that new Jax. So that seemed like a very winnable map. This
Ruseapi, less so given the gap in the meters that we eventually saw in the Atac dependency
as well, was a 200-zero, definitely the least competitive out of our three maps. So another
great start for Thailand on that map, or the entire series for this Asia conference for the
World Cup here in Asia for 2026. But it's an opportunity, I think Thailand still largely is
among the top two full favorites in Group B. But now you have to be scared of the fact that
Okay, then when a single map of Australia, if Australia, in dropping a map elsewhere to either India or Philippines could get an interesting scenario with Tiebreaker based on map differential.
This is assuming the Thailand Dodgers coming up those next two series, which given their stature and their record, they should be favored to, but I would have liked to have seen a little bit more out of Thailand in the series that we just watched.
Yeah, we have high expectations for Thailand.
That's what we mean, you know, because Thailand have very high expectations.
We know these players, we know that they have so much talent.
We saw like a big flash of a high vision Cassidy, which I love to see come out now and again.
Very strong hit scan player and we're hoping against other teams.
We start to see what Thailand's capable of, but also in Deer and Philippines.
These are teams that do have like these unknown power levels.
levels and you really surprise a team that goes in unprepared? Yeah, so I think you know where
after our first two matches getting a very clear indicator of who the top dog in the
perspective groups are, pre-F4 group A, Australia 4 group B and then depending on how the rest of
the chips fall for the other three teams in those groups, opportunity for something to go in Miss
Scare and for that last spot of both those groups to be open for whatever team, of course we have
two more matches so play through on our opening day up next is gonna be Hong Kong versus Pakistan
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Welcome back World Cup Enjoyers. I've swapped out Avril for a newer model in Avast. Of course
with Team Pakistan on the docket I had to bring in the Breakthrough Content Creator. Welcome
back Avast. I'm sure we're all going to have a fantastic time watching two of our Breakthrough
teams there. I mean we are going to remove any and all bias from the cast which is the
most important part because these are obviously two two talented rosters that which we have
none of us have any affiliation with and we're going to watch this as an impartial observer
and at any point if Pakistan loses then we're going to cut away from the feed
and the whole broadcast will go down but it'll be fine but overall I am very excited for this
match it is great to be working again with you like that it's been a bit and I do think we're
going to have some exciting games still for the rest of the night though I mean we could argue that
perhaps that's some of the most marquee matchups. Yeah, I think the some of our marquee matchups may
have passed, but I think that in terms of like the past of Overwatch Esports, the Overwatch
World Cup has always been a great way to involve new fans into the scene by getting them behind
their national teams, Hong Kong and Pakistan. These are these are teams with pretty vibrant fan
base. I think that Hong Kong in particular, like they had their their themed team in very early
Overwatch of Hong Kong attitude who captured a lot of attention over during like in the Western to go through gamers
error
I believe back when back when it was just ZP in a cave with a box of scraps
Trying to make things you have
You have to realize that this is also you're talking about lore that is ancient
That's true at this point comparatively to where we're at
Like this is the uncle is jumping out of the screen. You can feel the uncle energy just radiating out
But they are very popular Hong Kong like you are correct
It is a very storied roster comparatively parks on not quite as much. I would say no variety perhaps on the world stage
comparatively
So I do think this is kind of the opportunity where they've really gone all in
I mean there they've done a lot. You know, they boot camped in Tokyo
They've been working really hard to like screams and everything and I think that's part of the fun of World Cup in general
like for both these rosters and all the other roster we're gonna see especially from
teams and regions that aren't typically as represented in the international level right where
This is their chance to really kind of have a not just a fun time
But show like oh, yeah, we do have a lot of talent for their rosters and we have the opportunity to kind of
You know just show our stuff of it and be creative
Yeah, we we've got some recognized players in Pakistan as well like petal who's over on there
But first of all let's dig in our way towards Hong Kong. We've got to spare here
potentially
As a as a vanguard we have as expected
Kame's probably gonna be the focal point of this team playing for Team Secret of course colleagues with many of the
previous players that we watched on Australia versus Thailand, Soggy, Kafa,
High Vision, Yoshinori, and Pali. All also from that team's secret roster. So,
Kame has been in good and high-skilled company thus far when it comes to their
competitive career. Definitely. And I think when you look at kind of the
competitive history of these teams, obviously Hong Kong as a player, you
know, just a player history is really gonna have a little bit more on the table
comparatively the team Pakistan here where you look at like pedal this year like la la bronzi a lot of these guys
Comparatively especially when you look at like team secrets in team in a pack right now
They are quite having the same. I would say legacy
Comparatively, but they do you know, they are gonna be looking a lot here for team Pakistan
For light and pedal and light in particular as a breakout player who's included like on swap posts
So like they do have with one of the breakout players a player that does have some obsessed experience
It's bringing a little bit more experience overall to the roster at that top level.
And those are simply going to be seeing who are going to try to make these big plays for
Pakistan.
It's going to be light and petal, in particular the DPS line, while Hong Kong may be a little
bit more well-rounded.
Yeah.
I'd say that Hong Kong's power distribution is very nice, you know, they've done a balanced
power bill.
We're going to put some points in charisma.
We're going to put some points in the constitution.
Whereas Team Pakistan, they might have gone 20 points, strength and six intelligence right
now.
It's all in on light and pedal and honestly like given the pedigree of these players,
I don't think that's a bad setup.
That's still going to be a very off angle, heavy setup where pedal and light are going
to be continuously demanding this attention from the off angles, make the supports turn
around and maybe they'll give an opening for a frontline tank to go down and be match up
versus either Kashia or someone else who wants to get a little bit frisky.
I think that is probably a relatively he could read on the situation and I do love how you make sure you have to put your D&D terminologies of course because you're already an uncle you might as well commit by starting using tabletop RPG.
We used to play with people in real life.
Yeah, we might as well. We might as well just fully commit to this as we are looking like
Getting into the map bands here just a bit and you look towards
The map pool in general for these rosters and I do feel like Hong Kong is definitely
Still when we talk about just how well rounded they are a bit favored in the maps
But there are some interesting opportunities here when you have such a dps kind of heavy lineup
I would say for Pakistan where if you could go on
You know, it's sort of particularly maps where like maybe even like a circuit where you want to really like a double
Like if you want to place a double sniper potentially think like they're up to because pedals pretty hits getting oriented
Maybe they have some pretty interesting map opportunities here across the board and I do think that there's just the map pool in general though not necessarily
favored towards any one squad, but I think that when especially when we look at the bands here with Pakistani bashing so they don't want to deal with any cat
Bastion nonsense right off the bat. They do not want to because that's that's just all of them and then the law and then all
Hong Kong moving the Ellari I
Don't know who got the first band necessarily
But still a
Make sense across the board. I think we're both these squads. Yeah, like getting rid of a cat Bastion
We're some honest nine to five blue collar solid the earth overwatch and
Honestly, I think that Pakistan their best chance might be here on control
this is where your DPS can really like try and win via raw
fragging power. We've seen it in the history of
overwatching sports that this is um I believe Reiner famously
called it the Mickey Mouse mode uh where you can just take a
raw talent on a team and convert it into a map win on control.
Yes, we're all talents. Can take
you very far and I think you've
already seen this here. For
some of our other matchups, even
the matchup where we'd argue
they were a bit closer, the more
closer matched, or at least they
were the best potential players
and teams in their groups is that
this is kind of the realm, I
would say that World Cup stays
in right now, right, especially
with these qualifier stages is
that we're going to be running
into a lot of battle tested, a
to prove in players at the top level into a lot of players that it's not that they don't have talent, it's more so they just really haven't had a ton of chances.
And there isn't as much of a scene necessarily sometimes for them to play and this World Cup is their opportunity to show it and that's going to reflect at times, I think, when you when you get into maps and game modes like control.
Yeah, I think that's part of reason why the World Cup is like such an important institution to have more G sports in general, giving some of these players for chances that maybe the organic scene
Organic scene thus far hasn't given over because maybe like the pings too high to scram a team from Pakistan or something
Or maybe a team from Hong Kong doesn't get to mix with their peers as much as they would like to so I'm excited to
Exist in this dark void with you. Hello
Yeah, I was
Scared there. I was like wait a minute. What's what's happened here? But yeah, this is definitely the opportunity
I do think this is going to be a very interesting first test for these squads here when we look
at how they're going to perform in the group, and there's a chance maybe they can go play
against Japan really.
They're fighting against Japan.
I mean, Korea is obviously the possibility.
They could take maps up Korea, anything is possible, but I do think Japan is like the
person to beat in this group in general, and so for both these rosters, depending on their
points here, maybe you can see like, okay, they could measure up to change Japan or maybe the
hope might get a little bit dimmer, you know, they might be a little bit further away. So it is
going to be an interesting measure for these squads to look at it and just see like, okay,
where exactly do they stand in comparison to us? Which is a good part about a group stage that you
get to kind of immediately see where does everyone stand because we're playing around Robin.
Yeah, like in the round robin, you get these chances and we start to build our internal power
rankings, of course, who may get some hot takes from our from our more clip
farming co-streamers. I love all of our co-streamers, by the way. Thank you so much
for bringing some attention to our group stage here in Asia, just making sure
that some of these players are getting the attention we deserve for their
competitive journeys going all this way. We're setting up for our first map here,
which I believe was decided by a 1v1 off-camera, but I probably, yes, yeah, but
But I don't think we've got the replay for that one, like the team that won the 1 vs 1, we've got to pick the first map.
I'm not sure who won the 1v1, but we're going to Oasis either way.
Yeah, so Oasis, someone won the 1v1, and we picked Oasis as a result of it, and we've seen the bans.
And what we need to do, now we're playing more of the game, and now that we have all the info, can we place it to the right team?
We're doing sort of a who done it situation once we get into the map at that point.
And I do think it really it's I think the most interesting part too with
Pakistan bounding the bastion like a me they know cat bastion
It makes a lot of sense because also pedal is played a lot of like heroes of Cassidy
Yeah, some of the trouts that they've scrimmed
And streamed and then for Hong Kong removing the Alari
It kind of hints for this fact that they're probably not gonna be playing a double flex type of situation
Not you likely would on control anyways could also just been a protect, but you're probably to see a lot of Lucille Curico
more than likely so could have also just been a throwaway band but once again
we're not quite totally certain about the order of those bands yeah but it would
make a lot of sense for a team like Hong Kong which we said it's a little bit
more well-rounded probably gonna feel a little bit more comfortable potentially
playing some of these more typically seen meta compositions like Alusio
here with a back line with you know what the tank's gonna be like a diva like
tracers odor etc yeah now that the bastions being banned and can't be
banned again by whatever team band if they're in a series there's a world
where if you go for a first ban on a support, you end up creating a cab ashen for two bans
that you can do to try and turn it around. You can effectively protect the cap by first banning
a support heading into another map if you get the opportunity to do that. But of course,
our losing team is likely going to have both the map pick and the first ban, so they'd be able to
have those pride to protect. I think the bans really have made a very interesting
dynamic thus far for trying to shape how these matchups are going. We saw like in our previous
matchup between Australia and Thailand, there was a lot of fear of the of the Malga to start off with
and that allowed for the Rematra to really come through and do a lot of extra damage,
but with Bastion being gone, maybe this gives a little bit more room for something like a Malga
or someone who's more worried about a Bastion. Maybe it maybe a Winston might be
something that gets a little bit more playtime here. And that's really kind of the
the, inherently interesting part about World Cup, right, is that not only are we seeing
a lot of players and rosters in countries that aren't typically competing quite as much
at the international level, if there's not getting as much representation, it also gives
a lot of variance for hero, I would say weirdness to occur sometimes, and like hero specificity,
where there's going to be certain nations, rosters that I think are going to have very
specific hero lineups that they want to play and very specific hero pools they want to
play.
Yeah.
ban strategies that we typically aren't going to see in ODFCS here in the World Cup and kind
of how we play around the strengths of certain players where they've had a very particular,
I would say, training regimen and just like specialty and compared to what their hero pool is.
Some of the more well-rounded rosters that have very, very repressive meetings and players.
Yeah, people who are putting in like that, they're 20 hours a day on the grindstone expanding
They're here. I pulled was team Pakistan an old classic here a little bit of a Kansas in the may
This is very very frontline heavy damage. You miss me. I make it that's what's more difficult for despair to get back out of
Isaiah
Now very interesting to be doing this without a Lucio
It's not in a possible feat obviously, but there's also no sim
So but we haven't seen right heart beginning a little bit more utilization here especially for a point this week
You got a brawl on it, and you can put a little bit of this death ball style when you have a melee and you have the Zuki as well to get those AOE heals sort of in place in the Lucio.
While of course I'm playing a much more traditional quest style here with Azaria, but the Reaper and the Soldier.
So something that could very easily punish the Fox on here is on the point is the chain, and I go out trying to punish Lucio.
Now nice wall as well, that's going to isolate the side, but in the end, he's still going to be there, still pedal, good accuracy.
In isolation onto the Reaper, Pakistan are going to get their first capture here against Hong Kong.
I mean, the strategy-paying dividends here for them currently, right, is okay, unfortunately, Malan is going to be a little late,
but not to the end of the world, but using the threat of the Reinhardt and the threat of the May here from Light, that breakout player,
to really just keep Hong Kong off the point, and then he set up the chain early from the
long force, the Shadow Step.
From the week there, they're making it really much so very well played here for Pax on early
as Pedal there from the damage he's going to find for Rumius too.
I mean, he talks about how Pedal had been playing a lot during the tryouts, evidently.
Team Pakistan's coaches were impressed, but like it's just as impressive here on the
May Isakal after Isakal, and this is just an absolute powerhouse showing thus far from
Pakistani team. I just know right now the fans of Pakistan they're revving up
scream if you love Pakistan get ready to scream if you love Pakistan it's
revving up it's revving up already I feel it building as now this year 70% to
the shatter those supports your bronzy belong gonna have their effective
ultimate I mean 5 volts really fucks up you're holding very very aggressively not
letting Hong Kongers kind of walk in here keeping the pressure up is they're
Trying to go in immediately! It's not bad, everything! All the CC effects, goodbye!
Well, 1v5 TP, of course. It did capture the attention if that was the goal.
Attention successfully captured, but also plenty of bullets being fast-tapped into Vechet.
Well, here we are, still here, 5 volts on the board. Hong Kong, not quite there just yet.
I already need to get a laptop. Can you get in? Special point, give it a test.
All right, for sure. Can I feel the aura? It would have been blocked by their own may, but they fall down anyway.
Still, it's a good trade here. Can I take an out on the other side with dead eye?
Nice to claim the life of Wu Yang. Despair was so much charged to move forward.
There's Romain and Pakistan. They might give up the point as we could be a momentary touch from light.
Early pick onto Macau. This could be perfect. Up comes the sanctuary, but it can't do much against the beam of Despair.
And that is a little, it got a little messy. Got a little messy there. I think that was two tank ults that were lost. I think that was a Ryan Jax and Azaria Jax pinched there. I don't think either of those ults ended up hitting unfortunately, but really good back off there from Pakistan.
two tank ults that were lost. I think that was Ryan Jax and Azaria Jax. I don't think either of those
ults ended up hitting unfortunately, but really good back off here from Pakistan. And Light and
Pedal, like we talked about, really putting a ton of pressure here and getting a British driving
the force for Pakistan right now, which is about what I expected, right? It's Light,
someone that has experienced Pedal, obviously, been a kind of that hit-scan player threat that
this team has revolved around. And Hong Kong actually probably said, like, okay, this team's
It's got a lot of history, but currently struggling to begin to see Bugsot.
Yeah, 20 shrink passes uses. Pakistan definitely very DPS-led here when it comes to these initial engagements.
We'll go to once again see how Hong Kong take advantage of their...
Well, we didn't actually have more speed now, and they've already lost comic! Once again, it was just an accuracy demon!
Oh and now the wall gets used, they have despair up against the wall, despair, actual despair
is occurring here as they're taking a lot of damage this year.
Now Peddler's gonna look, they should be for me, find someone else.
Nah, I can't do much for him just yet.
Nope, that's first cap there.
It's a big angle.
No, it's big accuracy right now though. Peddler, the second we put the camera on him,
does instantly, uh, trouble under the pressure.
It happens to the box.
Top 10 respect moments. Top 10 respect moments.
You take that duel anyways, let's just go for it, however, unfortunately the less fun
you can run on it, but I think you've done a very good landing, get up from down below
as well, off the addition of different pedals, giving down a lot of damage, and that's going
to be the flip there.
Yeah, great flip there from Hong Kong, well managing there, right, so of course, taking
that 2v1 on the off angle between the Wu Yang and the Sojun was very important, you
can really make sure that you pay attention to these off angles, because you know the
Hedl's gonna have like the goonies to try and go for those again and again.
BNC on the table here for Pakistan. No ult's up just yet, but the bluzers not too far away from Hong Kong.
Done a good job here of equalizing this ult bang. If you play on a low, you'll get further back playing near this point.
Is she already down?
Oh and Ken, Hedl's gonna be joining them there, covering me to the march, better range, not having to suffer as much from the damage.
Drop off of the team, be away. The Cam Bronze actually escaped with their life here.
here, the risk is going to make sure that's not going to be the case.
The window there from Dumbok is getting a lot of value here in comic on the
Wionk currently, but they just getting lots of extra poke.
We have the option to kind of pocket a little bit.
You can also just that triple or or perks.
You can get a more poke if possible.
You're a bit survivable if they're trying to potentially just run that running
down to you, especially when there's no speed on the field.
And I'm talking about looking into here again, the old still pretty good
is there's the wall on pedal.
Can they save them?
Oh, they have to invest so much to try and make it happen, and that means you can't do as much about the Arissa.
Still, the Arissa demands even more resources.
The immortality of your being invested there might be showing that download comes to regret as movement for second half of this fight.
It'll take him down early once again, isolated by the wall, but a swift step is solid from the Kirito.
He doesn't manage to save themselves.
If I can stand for their long-fragging power, and my long-going down is not going to help.
78% in favor of Hong Kong, and looks like this fight's in the bag.
They don't want to lose anyone too late here, maybe gonna lose light, not quite yet.
So four ults on the board, they have time to touch light, still alive, it's on here.
Double support available, Kishir could get any points of point if he gets that cycle,
if he gets the skill in here, that is gonna be what's gonna happen.
We hang out, given over and that window is brutal to try and deal with, moving forward
is going to be difficult, the cows are already falling down Kishir, it's over incoming damage,
but now it's the face of the music and the lift to play it up to the sky.
You need to stay over on the point itself, but great movement to take out Karumi on the other side.
For Wu Yang, it's just a little bit of a dalliance off the map as Pakistan are back in control.
Great sanctuary there from the lawn. Mitigates a lot of the damage coming out from the window
and they made sure to get a contest because you're going to save that grass just to make
sure it's okay to find some late. They had the eats available there too and light didn't even use
Blizzard. There's going to be a Blizzard available for Hong Kong here though, so they do have to worry about that fresh heat with the Russia.
Not going to be able to just get the bronzey though.
The comic goes down! Pedal!
Makes it happen.
Alright, Pedal getting his revenge there in turn.
He can easily be collapsed upon by three players for Hong Kong.
They're playing the smart, but just so you know what, this one's over.
We'll reset the ladder.
Now Russia's up for bronzey, so that pick from Pedal gives them just what they need to
They eventually equalize here, give them the bank that they desire, and we're swiftly approaching the last fight scenario for Hong Kong to figure out how fast we're going to take this fight.
Right now they're just looking at poke. They come to troll me.
So we have to try and move forward here. It's going to make it even harder to try and get away.
Get away!
Big eats coming through, Mr. Shear getting rid of McCow's blizzard, what a play from the
Sigma and Bronze is taking out the Caster as well, pedal on the other side, making sure
that you cannot peek into Miss angle, but there's an absolute guerrilla warfare that's
going on here from Hong Kong, quick bleed from the Silver Bullet, trapping round the
other side, trapped in by the damage and by the chains, and there's going to be the cleanse
from the other side coming through.
Hong Kong has got two players on the point, for a major of Team Pakistan, he can move
over to try and deal with this but despair is not really going to have too much of a
blade backup and isolation comes with a sigmo, kinetic grasp eats in everything, that's going
to be a nice TP node for the Kiriko when comes with Suzukashia, can it be turned around?
Despair is making the team Pakistan fans put their heads in their hands, but demo taking
down by the line on the other side, despair continues to be an absolute terror, even more
What a flip from Hong Kong so far and Pakistan a flummox. What just happened a
Rissa moment that's an original I mean classic
Classic team Hong Kong the honeypot there putting all of my supports on the right side making you chase so my a Rissa
Who has taken the shield perk which most of us don't take because they view that the secondary perk where Rissa isn't particularly awesome
Uses that to their advantage to cap the point and then just hit every spear and win
That is what we call perfect gameplay from Hong Kong to a little support honey trap and then honey pot I guess and then
Just go to point with your Rissa hit every shot
Easy as loving me spear
ate me back at simple ass
Yeah, well
Beautiful stuff there coming through from despair who's now gonna play out the remainder of this game as well with the shield perk on
on a racer, some classic Overwatch gameplay just like when she released.
It is, it is a very classic.
It's a very classic minus the fact that there are two supports on the field that are not there.
The enemy, yes, but definitely the older ones.
To share now on the D.Va here, this map is a little bit more mobile.
You have some options to get to the high ground.
You can test a bit more with Mike, going to the tracer here.
A pretty classic pick for him.
It's for me not to find a little final on there.
Keep with the fully charged rail, surely might just dump it into the D but for the easy headshot.
Of course the D still does feel good and light, having to use their recoil bed to get out after maybe over committing into multiple players.
Still gonna be no early cap here, we do know the city centre is notoriously difficult to find that first capture, the amount of health that's over here.
And it would be about shielding as well, courtesy of the Riser who does not fucking put in down the shield.
in Pakistan, that initial capture, but it was going to be just a strong collapse like
Petal taking down on the other side, Karumi is going to be trading out on the other side
and it's a lot of the splishies of Hong Kong that are going to be punished, but the S.P.A.R.
is going to get that again! You know what, I'm going to start taking the shield pike,
I've seen enough. No! Bro, he jumps in front of the ice people! He said get down, Mr. President!
Get down! But now, they're still going to clean them up. The wall actually, Rubiko,
I'm just I think trapping them in a bit corraling them and Pakistan still controlling the point here
Kind of going off the flank as Hong Kong looks like they don't want to give up
They want to test as fair as they're they help them pretty decent right now rushes for squads as well
So some opportunities here for an old fight is 40%
Pakistan feeling good. Kitsune rush, Kitsune rush
But head of one plus stun, even more classic gameplay from the Arissa the bink is solid
Demo easily falls away here though and it's like towards the back with Hulse Vistals looking towards some of those squishy and members
Mikau trying to find themselves a victim once the Kiriko will settle for the Tracer for now and the Entry
and proving it's actually a difficult, it's hard mode on covax today
And you move in onto Bronzey, click TP away, and that's how big slow Mikau there has the cushion to deal with the push
and Milan and Light are traded out
That's going to be the clean up and despair once again, I mean, not only just making a
tons and tons of space, but hitting every spears, it looks like some pauses going to
be called from Team Pakistan, Team Pauses, Dan.
So we'll have to see what's going on with that.
We're not, we're not totally certain just as well, but despair really making a best
case scenario here for Zeris, especially with the shield perk, I mean, denying a lot of
damage is coming on, especially because Poxon relies so much on Petal's damage there, the
DPS output from the hitscan. So having that extra option to kind of just put a barrier
in his face, deny a lot of the poke that comes out and play really well around that Arisa pick,
and now a chance for Hong Kong to bring it back here, potentially close out the map
in their favor. Yeah, but the shield does give you the option to kind of peel back on the remainder
of your team without like completely revealing them to Petal, you know, because Petal still
we're going to break through that shield when usually if you turn around on a
reser pellets just gonna be able to stand in main and pelt down shots after
easily building up a fully charged rail off of shooting the a reser who's
fairly probably hardest to miss than to hit at this level of play that we've
come to expect Pakistan of course the pause hopefully will be able to figure
it out soon a lot a lot of flight flight planning to do here for the remaining
25% they need to claim their first map here in their first match of the World
cup. And they definitely do have a lot of bank like you mentioned there. So there is a lot of
opportunities. Hong Kong has to pretty much play perfectly from here on out, uh, because they just
have so little bank left. It looks like we are going to be unpausing. It seems like everything's
going to be in fine. And now I'm looking for the recontest. It's fair not quite able to hit
that spear here. The Harris are just going to be up along with the Blizzard. So a lot of
holds in the bank here and the question now is not only can you win these fights
but can you do them in a way that's not insanely expensive right you want to have
holds long enough to cycle hold this for 99% of them you're down so much
thank you for Hong Kong. Yeah the economy is not looking good. Is it a demographic issue?
We just spent no pedal. Relay charge rail. We're not going to use it only at risk for a
stage. We're going to look around the outside of the front by themselves squishing.
McDonald's in a little bit of an old-fashioned position. Outcomes for
Sanctuary that's going to be a bunch of that incoming damage currently does not want to try and push any further on
So those who were transgressed upon the point, but for now Hong Kong they're fairly happy
I think the blizzard just got screwed like this year. It was lost
So I believe they have lost the blizzard as well
So now much better opening for pockets on however with the sanctuary you can tell me that means
putting in sustain available going to get a pick might get a good amount of top so
Not a fight win, but for Pakistan you can look at the old bank here. Look at what was happening
And we'll be a pretty expensive fight from Hong Kong all things considered so that they don't really have much to make other than the rush
And this bag and I take a lot of build up to a fish okay here as well
So uh oh, oh, that's going to be a very ill-considered TP from Baymo
Using all of their cooldowns to try and save one of their pps to overextend the defense in their own right light
They're actually gonna be shut down nice shots from the cow to even up the numbers
There's still all about that singular heel moving in, climbing the space, Pakistan starts to pinch a stand on to the spear who's surrounded on so many sides, Karumi gets isolated and Pebble's there with the chase down.
Can they match the crunching on this or is it over? He's feeling very difficult to assault especially with the May. Continually laying down those icicles, Pakistan are in control.
Flip, gonna happen to your Terrasurge up along with a Terrasurge barrage option with no sanctuary
means there isn't a ton of options other than maybe, you know, you obviously have.
Especially if you have a shield, you're gonna have the Suzu, so Hong Kong has to react pretty
quickly here just to deny the value for that.
What's up with the Suzu to do?
There's gonna be the barrage up here, just onto the, abyss of all things, we're moving
to Suzu.
Alright, spin the wheel, spin the spear, paddle around the outside, fully charged, and Mikal
had no way of surviving that one. A tenor third coming through. Who dares to even step
inside? No one in this case tries once again taking down by Karumi Mizuki. Just gonna
easily hop on by Malan being taken out there. Just gonna make sure that things are a touch
more hated. Hong Kong are trying to turn it around and Pakistan are falling apart if
it seems to sheer HAS FOR SEALS TO STRIKE SAVE THEMSELVES AND SAVE THE KIRIKO AS WELL,
but they find themselves in the loving arms of Karumi who with a powered up overclock
should be able to put this one to bed. No touch on the other side. Hong Kong denied Pakistan their map
and they claim control. And really just a beautiful map there for the spare and a beautiful clutch
there for the enemy Karumi playing around the edges getting all the picks they needed just
guaranteed there's no damage on the field. And what was looking almost I would say like a Pakistan
like a near moment of just we have this we have the initial picks Hong Kong
turns it around there really I mean central to this just amazingly well
played spare on the Ibiza so you have to give a lot of credit there to the
tank line for Hong Kong is now up 1-0 in the series and we're looking like we
might have a bit of a slugfest here like they I think this could be going back
and forth to pin out the bands they seem relatively even match so far yeah
like I honestly if I'm team Pakistan probably kicking myself after that fight
Like getting that early pick on the demo who used both their TP and their Suzer to try and save an over-extending DPS.
Admittedly, it was a successful save, but then Light goes inside on the Pharah, maybe not the ideal angle for your airborne character.
Loses for Dall to the Magus, 2v1 over there, and suddenly it's a 4v4.
And despite the loss of the Blizzard, it's fine. They're more of a neutral May.
They're more of a neutral May. They're not really an all-team type of May. They're more of a neutral May.
And it did pay tons of dividends. You can see here just in the replay package of this fair,
anchoring the point there, letting that Rekintest, which kind of brought it all together, bringing it back from the brink
on that back half despite some of those early losses that had happened earlier than that.
And so Hong Kong, showing that kind of experience level, how well, how well,
there are a little bit more even more well-rounded, like we were talking about.
Time to set it a bit top heavy with Petal and Light trying to, they're trying to drive a lot of the plays that happen on this team right now.
And they obviously do.
But you definitely see how Hong Kong may be a little bit more well-rounded a little bit more cohesive currently
So Parkland got to find a way to kind of bring it together and just really work with those kind of carry DPS line
They have yeah, I think that you've hit an L on the head here when we compare our teams in the
Hong Kong might not have like a superpower that like say a light or a pedal is in the DPS line
But they do have some seniority and they have a lot of experience when it comes to competing at the highest level and in very stressful
situations and we saw that a lot in these over times when the chips were down
despair was able to knuckle down and not make too many mistakes played their
life very effectively as well as juggle overtime which is a difficult task the
tanks often have to shoulder upon themselves to play their fair life and
the objective like all my tank is feeding or all my tanks C9 like you've
got you got to make sure that you're not doing over those whereas on the other
side maybe Pakistan they've got this initial like firework of like initial
damage trying to find those early pace get a 4v5 but then closing it out can be a touch more difficult when the comms
Don't get flooded. There's some weird like to support flank going on the the honey part
They're like, oh, we gotta go. We got there's some honey over there
We gotta go like why we started here to vent employment. There's some honey to grab
Yeah, unfortunately, there is something the poob there maneuver is very powerful. It's very powerful
secret move secret weapon and I do think that's where I you know you see that
coordination difference at times because even that's an opening a very free
opening it takes a while to clean up they got a rotating point they can't
punish any of those players are on the point which sort of leaves to the rest
of the not necessarily collapsed but the sort of waterfall effects cascade of
effects leading them to that final map win there for Hong Kong but for Pakistan
it's definitely very very winnable for the series and they have clearly some
driving forces with a DPS line it's more so just channeling the right comp
Just try to cut down on the mistakes a little bit right and punish those mistakes a bit more for Hong Kong
And they have the firepower to win it
But it could be anyone's game right now, and I think that's about what we expected didn't she go into this
You know Hong Kong did have a bit of a seniority difference, especially when you bring a player like light onto the team as the breakout player
Yeah, I think that um
Research you bought up that maybe that we'd see like a power play from King Pakistan trying to utilize
Light and pedal by going to my circuit Royale. I think that circuit Royale would be a great
Like either of them as their first map pick here is of course, they did lose the previous map
They get to choose where we'd go. I'd love to see them continue to ban the old where I'll be going is so correct
Oh my goodness. Hello profit
There it is. There it is. It's all coming together. It's all coming together for me
Everything's coming up of it
For me specifically and this it makes a lot of sense especially because light as we saw has a very strong
It is a very strong flex player, so you could see May, Plain, Pharah, both picks that are
going to have a lot of value here is okay.
It's going to be the Juno ban.
So Pakistan chooses to ban Juno first going into this, which could be potentially just
a protect for them, but also maybe they just don't want to have to worry about playing Juno.
They might be more comfortable on a different support line for them, just through entirely
in Hong Kong.
Really the Widow, which also I think is a pretty decent ban because Petal is kind of
one of those hard-hit-scan players, so maybe just removing the chance of penalty played at all.
Yep.
I'm pretty happy with that ban from Hong Kong. I think that's a good counter punch.
I think that there is a danger here that maybe a team like Hong Kong, who maybe a little bit more
upon the OWCS try-hard meta, could bring out something like a Bastion and Jetpack cat duo,
which might be a good way to try and deal with Pakistan if you feel like maybe their backline's going to panic
when the minigun bears down upon them.
Yeah, it's an interesting option. I mean, especially because in particular for I mean really the whole map you can get away with it where the fashion is pretty strong for the cat where you can get over the top, you know, get some value there from going around some of these
more in transpositions that can happen on circuit, it kind of just depends on what both
these teams how they want to play, especially if Sin enters the arena, because Sin really
changes the calculations a lot and what you can get away with.
So going to be interesting to see here, but I imagine Sin won't be because I feel like
and it looks to be reflected obviously defense more a little bit more set of the offense,
but I imagine this is likely what we're going to see here, like they is kind of double slow
Backline Sigma to just like soak up damage may try to take some space and then to hit scans
Yeah, and it's gonna be kind of a shootout. It's gonna be a Wild West shootout for the most part of circle now
And I think that's how these team both these things want to play
Production deployed the crumble weeds. I think that this is probably one of the best matchups the team Pakistan
essentially both teams playing on a timer
Rollin' some dice, waitin' to see who hits the clicks in good succession.
And we know that Pemlemite are in a pretty senior position
when it comes to popping off in these long-range doors.
Hope just goin' on here. And what's the Freya on for Hong Kong?
Which also, I mean, look at this SWAT 2 word.
Niko's actually playing Sigma for Hong Kong,
and Despair, who is the Rissa player, is now playing Freya.
So maybe just one of those things we've done run at the HGC parts of our World Cup,
I won't help you see these hero pools and how they have to collect these for rosters, a lot.
I don't have some of those, I'm more around it, not the roster though.
Okay, I'm gonna try to trade you on a fellow so you can save both sides.
Double charged bolt, being thrown out into the signal.
There should be plenty of fuel in coming their way.
Decretion makes things a much more complicated, and there's this consistent pressure.
Going the way of Karim, he's kinda just, uh, hit it in the box right now.
Hungry down, hungry down.
Yeah, I'm on the statue right now.
First playing a very different kind of cover shoot a game right now and honestly good pistol cover you see he just gave a dynamite as well back
Oh
Pedal who slides in aggro from dog now
Walk a court
I mean that's just a little
I mean sometimes you just slide in on so you get punished for that. Bob, buckle it.
I thought you said Bob, you're on it.
I thought you were about to be something like that.
I thought you were about to go over that.
Me addressing a child on it?
I've lost the raptors because of it early.
Rap is rap side. Rap is rap side.
Wait, oh speaking of Bob.
Bob is behind the barriers, respect me.
Very good concert going Bob. Bob would never go past this in security barriers.
That's probably how it would be making that out of my mental right, but then each of you have to walk in it.
Bob, I've been lawful, good at Bob, but I'm feeling pretty chaotic and meh-neutral right now.
The spare sends out the bowler, and the cow needs to choose a...
Oh, yeah, that's gonna be so many squishies.
Grabbed inside, transcendence, well timed here, by Mola.
This is gonna force Hong Kong to give up a little bit of space here, as Pekka's now making her own counter strike in.
A Captive Sun is trying to turn this water around for damages, Solid Belong's going down.
No one else is afflicted at the moment by the Sun, but it is going to be McCow able to play on this call if he can test it.
I'm just not able to get in. I mean, they hit the pitch on Mama too off the window, which peaked so aggressively, but they just ganked on in.
He was white, losing some of the Sun there. Now, finally, they're trying to take the corner here and look at Overclock.
Still the anger is happening for Mika right now. Candy's wrong.
Oh my goodness, Pettos just gets run down right there, a little bit late when it came
to the window, and so Pettos not gonna be able to take much of that punch, but I'm
gonna drop a headshot from the Hanzo, double damage to spare, doesn't care about it, I'm
intimidated and undeterred trying to sneak it all on by themselves, the bobble is there
Oh my goodness, the absolute-
Uh-oh!
I banged one on the car!
What now?!
Oh no!
The clutch happens and not able to touch the point because you're getting the cap on there in the end.
And despite the despair pop-off, it is not enough because it is an objective based game.
It is not to do that now.
Max on the left, claim the first corner, claim the first point.
Bolt's coming up online if he wants to go slide here, but it's still a pretty tough area to go,
especially into this sort of double hits game set up here where you get a lot of slosh in the character.
Yeah, I'm lacking a lot of cover on the approach as well.
Can make it a touch more difficult for Shea, which is going to try and get all the HP of Shea as an account.
Plays around the corners, forced out the community, grabs it on the other side.
with the window. Is anyone else going to move into P? Get them.
So dangerous to try and peek into that double DPS lineup.
How comes the credit flux coming through from Trisha? Who can they find early on?
Two of them are basically not going to be much so far. Might well have been stunned out by the opposing Sigma.
The count for similar magic grabs two DPS up in the air. It's easy follow-up for the guns thereafter.
And the 21 gun salutes. Sounds out a death knell for the Pakistani push.
Great plays there from Hong Kong, I mean the window gets a little zoned, it's very easy
to spam by the sigma and by everyone, you know the Hong Kong zone everyone, you know
you can just do that spam but way long enough get the pressure, hit a really good block
there so the swap here for me to go onto the sigma seems to be paying dividends currently
for Hong Kong and now they're just going to claim the corner.
Very good position.
Boy do I love dividends a vast.
Kishiya.
Okay.
Coming to be located financially.
Financial analyst killed him.
Look at that, look at that, say, light needs to try and get some shareholder value right here.
Seems like it's all about positioning in the market right now, the Pedals' world positions.
Turns out what light is gonna be traded on the other side though,
Pedal still has something to say about this.
It could float up from Kashia, floating on the market.
Perhaps an IPO from Team Pakistan that's gonna be well respected here,
but Karumi tries to shut it down with shorts as solid,
and my goodness, he's staring down upon a devastated market as Karumi just devastates everything.
Capital's right up a fortress, a high-interest rate environment, and right now my interest
is on Cromie there.
Getting three is now Hong Kong still holding strong.
They're great overclock playing.
That's sort of a�, right?
Just a hips game pop-off.
If you wait for those cooldowns to come out, a lot of ults get traded, and Cromie's free.
Last one standing.
Not much to challenge them, especially when you get that early death single trick down
next year.
For Pakistan, they're trying to make their way back up the hill.
They have an overclock up their own, and they also, they could have all sorts of things.
They could have a lot of stuff going on.
They could have a decade of heroes.
Okay, there is going to be a Transcendence Wall along with the window.
It's going to be double pop. We've overlaid our support.
Somewhere...
There is a very sad sight.
What a float here, by the way, from Kame.
I'm not sure if it's the greatest maneuver I've ever seen in Zenbeg,
but it certainly was impressive to behold.
Light taken down.
Not before grabbing himself as a headshot of the Karumi though.
And now the Cow is in a position where they're chasing after a payload.
Me when I missed the bus by a couple of minutes.
And Miko, he's, I mean, Stagger, Stagger here has cut, he's just kind of constantly going for players,
he's going to go down pretty late, now they're not going to have the anchor,
because she's going to commit the flux too, gets Kame,
and sure the Reaper's back, but no cooldowns, because she's getting really, really strong here on point.
The accretion's ready as well, if someone wants to try and step up, surely Karumi is going to just give this one up for now,
doesn't want to be even further staggered, like he came back on the venture of all things.
Pakistan, they're just overtime warriors.
And they're gonna have the captain's son's fight too. Captain's son for a port like this is pretty free to go support us for Hong Kong
because they had overlaid them so unfortunately, the fight before.
So now, Pakistan could just look to take Haigarh here, put Malam into a very great spot,
just pressure set up the captain's son, and unfortunately, Kettle has been plunked, so there is no Kettle.
I mean...
It's gonna give time for Daemon to stop building up towards a window as well.
this year just gonna scan my boosters make sure we don't take this high ground
away from his precious hits and oh you don't be careful to call out over here
good movement from despair a little bit little bit of nonsense movement perhaps
from frayers
that is kind of the benefit of frayers right? even though she's not quite as
fast she used to be still very very strong for boos enemy to be able to do a
voice damage to take advantage of this. it's an aggressive maddie like in fights
despair I mean getting one after another cleaned up here on the last point
30 seconds to remain. Last fight for Pakistan, they've got someone on the
Captain Sun, not too close to anything else, maybe the overclock, but Thomas
gonna have the window view of the approach, they have to work it on to get a
meeting with the guys on that clock.
If you do not want to be atomized before your fight, this is where Pakistan are as
strong as when overtime is ticking, maybe in every sense you could block them
from the accretion and now here comes the big dammo damage. Are you gonna be able to
move away from the Captain Sun though? Dammo has to make sure not to explode and
And they are going to be able to talk about most of that by using their immortality field.
But still, Damos is not going to have their healing bearable.
Solo Zen heals for now.
Charged Bob betternates inside of the alarming concert with the Charged, Vales as well.
Karimi has to be careful not to overthink.
Karimi got the harmony off to sustain them.
But that's all they need.
A second of elation before they let loose with shot after shot.
Team Pakistan going to be unlucky to touch here with the exception of Lime coming in on the tracer, whoever there is to step up.
next will be taken to the stars themselves that melody is a victory gong for Hong Kong's
and despair and korel me have really taken over the server this time around we talk a lot about
the dps requirement some but now Hong Kong the dps line being extremely active here for circuit
real especially considering that despair just the map before was playing orisa so wasn't even playing
dps so Hong Kong having some some tricks up their sleeve just a bit and and it is kind of paying
out exactly what we expected here, right? We're seeing some very brawly sigma and then a lot of
DPS poke, a lot of DPS cleanup for both these teams really relying on that a powder can do is
despair. I mean look at despair 22 of them scroll me at 23. Very impressive as far and we've seen
like some impressive clutches as well from Karumi and despair. There's a world where this could have
ended on first had the spare been a little bit closer to the car. I'm not gonna say
more discipline like there's only so much I can ask of someone getting a 4v1
clutch however if I could ask for one thing more maybe a touch more proximity
to that car in those final moments still I think that for circuit rayalvis is a
very winnable scenario for Pakistan this could easily be one-one if Hong Kong
I'm sure Nelser looks like Pax on here on the defense, looking like they want to swap
it up a bit instead of trying to play the Sigma.
Getting to Ramatra and the Lucio Baptiste alongside Light going to the Mei, which we
see Light playing a lot, so maybe a bit more brawly for them here instead of worrying on
this poke, trying to maybe catch Hong Kong early knowing that they're going to play maybe
a double hit skin with the Ellari.
That's fair, looking to go over the top, maybe find some in the back.
And that is A, a despair masterclass, the bolus is already up, and B, kind of the value
still where you can see on maps like supper outward Freya could be really good at getting over these
high walls around these flanks swooping in from behind just getting some burst damage.
Focus on making a swap of pedal onto the enemy here maybe just an option to cool the Freya a bit
more you do have a lot a little bit more sustain and the burst honestly remain not that either
especially and the overall protocol pretty good too because you have a very long sight line so
a lot of options.
First into the gun wide for now, but it has force like multiple members have.
This cashier is going to have to give up two states here as well, and they already used the Nemesis form.
A little bit low on defensive utility, Hong Kong going to be able to wrap around the corner here,
and put Pakistan in a bit of a box.
Up comes the first layer of shielding, and that skill is even more sent out by the Rematra.
Yet another Nemesis form makes it much more difficult this engage if you are going to be the cow,
but gets the support coming through to you there, at least beyond the immortality field.
Right now, stepping in for a moment, I think Tess was taking the pressure off their Ramatra,
but the Frisk is going to be having over here.
Oh, what's this?
Oh, but what's my stuff?
Only the Ramatra, and I'll be extra healing as you come through from the window.
This EG should be strong, we can't be so dispenser!
Can't they flounce above it all, an imperious solar god who rains down fire and brimstone
upon the porch of Pakistan?
Just this pressure from Hong Kong right now is putting Pakistan kind of in a corner,
Because they're trying to play these tight angles, wait for the re-engage, but at no point of hitting a vortex in the game to walk in with the maid,
it's just Karumi despair and Kami just essentially shucking damage, insisting, and they're feeling all this pressure.
They didn't get any value with the window of the captain's son.
It's pretty beaten, they're already using the doorbounds.
They're using the window of the best of their time.
Oh, this is gonna be very easy to try and save.
Oh no, the count might have been on the long side of the...
Ah!
Woo!
Nasty. Nasty stuff there from Cori now. I lost words, I gained sounds.
I mean, as sometimes as all you can say is, okay, the annihilation used is well,
they are definitely gonna clean up this point, but a little...
I guess you could argue it's nice, really not gonna be that expensive because they got the window
up and the overclock, so right now Poc is on, gonna hold on to the point, gonna stop the push for now.
It's because she's here here on the ramp just really getting exactly what you want to see this
comp do, which is the Ramatra needs to be kind of taking that fight into them, right? Because
because you don't want to be bullying the Sigma continuously, especially when the other team has a Freya and a Soldier.
There's so much hope in this.
Now that poke is gonna overwhelm you very quickly with your limited healing outperfitting.
And now, to find a little bit more forcefully, as you've been emitting Storm, this is a great chance to try and shut down the H-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho pedal.
Imagine you grab Dana, that's all the healing gone now.
For Hong Kong, how may I try and clutch it out with the limited HP that they have?
damage done is permanent attrition could be everything but they're still flying up there
feeling pylon left behind they're calling it the pylon that could i mean it was keeping
everyone alive they're finally gonna get the damage they need but giving a ton of value
for kamei those early support picks very crucial there for pakistan and stabilizing a bit windows
It was going to be available, but you looked at Hong Kong, overclock again, probably because the overclock has been really dangerous, and they're going to have to double support ult, probably Captain Sun's a very opportunity and opportunity in general to use here in the situation where we have a lot of high-grading and cross.
There's not a D-VD to get your face.
Alright, he's not gonna be a force though, so the remainder of your poke DPS are gonna
have to commute over to receive some of that healing beam.
Captain Sun, what do you put with this one?
Frontiers, when he falls one out, that's so many bullets afflicted, but debuffs are everywhere!
But can you start to decimate them?
You can hear them start to blow up, the chain reaction begins, and the chemicals start to
seep into Pakistan's water.
That is probably what if you're as a lorry player that is one of the best it's ever gonna get you know everyone's everyone's group
The battle lamp gets used before so there is no immortality drone
Maybe we'll get to so early they really want to get desk cats is unused for a lot of me dead and I think that's
Timing either we can't complete it before they touch just
Unfortunate stuff, now Hong Kong, they have 3 minutes to not make it very far through, third.
And that is likely one of the worst possible situations in the process, where they couldn't even have held that very very strong, choking window.
Christian kids really had a may and a ramp, they wanted to contest, they wanted to stop it, and now they have to go for this very long contest into the window, and not all of the music has done that.
And what we thought was maybe going to be a potentially better map for Poggesson, actually
ended up being far worse, Hong Kong feeling extremely comfortable, especially with the
Spare who was playing the tank who's playing Arissa earlier swapping over the Freya and honestly taking over
the lobby pretty effectively pretty dominantly in fact uh they made this double hitscan comp work
extremely well for them and you look to Pakistan where should have been a map that hopefully their
DPS trove them there actually maybe some unintended negative consequences or maybe just didn't foresee
how good these swaps could have been for Hong Kong yeah like what we we've seen like some good
iteration come through from these teams like a couple of swaps as we maybe saw a
little bit more focus on trying to make Macau uncomfortable on the Sigma via the
use of those Mables but I think that we saw quite a wide spread come through
from Hong Kong that serve them well against the May they always had like
an off-handling poke DPS who was always making sure that you weren't
comfortable sitting through has a quick look at pedal once again being blasted
off the map by the coach on a rail one. Tragedy. Just absolute tragedy there
and you know you saw these flashes I think a brilliant for Pakistan's comp where they really
had the space they needed to let light and petal just take some of these off angles but unfortunately
just after their defense you look at the offense the Freya they just didn't know or rather when
you look at their defense you just didn't they didn't know how to deal with the Freya often or
not I mean despair was consistently breaking behind enemy lines getting picks chromae relatively
uncontested often during these overclocks and then compounded by the fact that just an unfortunate
last really last fight that happens for them but they try to go for that contest on second
and they lose just all their positional advantage throw away some ults and don't have anything
for the last fight to try to stop it yeah like this is such a cheap fight here right getting it
just off a captive sun because this is a difficult fight to win especially with just one ultimate
like move the thing a hill into an entrenched poke composition is so difficult and the fact
that they gave up both space on the car and like the entirety of the fight to that one
ultimate meant that for Hong Kong it was just such an easy push in towards the end we saw
the swap of his asymmetry for that mad dash off the back of the TP trying to get there
they put up the own wall to stop any boops from coming through or any slows on the other
side but in the end time just wasn't on their side the stacking on the car to make it go
Fast just got it to the goal before they could touch
Yeah, so maybe some unfortunate macro issues there happening for Pakistan which is about what we expected
I think where they're a bit more of a rough team
And there are teams that really rely on a lot of their natural firepower and a little bit less on some of that experience
Like we've talked about and I think we're seeing that kind of come into play here a bit especially on the second map
you may be more so than first and
Now the question is do they have the mental resiliency to bring back because it is first to three
So not a guaranteed, you know, they could definitely be back and could have a reverse sweep situation
We've seen it plenty of times before however, it's gonna hurt their map differential
which we talked about earlier today where the map differential is very important in this group stage because you might have some
equivalent records where you look for the maps and
Losing a bunch of maps early could hurt you later on especially if there's gonna be a very tight race potentially for second
Obviously right now. I would say if you look at both these teams and how they're playing I
I don't really know if Japan is like 100% like within their realm like within their grasp
But I do think that there is possibility
And so currently the more match are obviously going to drop the worst
It might look for you if you're in a really hotly contested second race
Potentially because obviously we're we're feeling pretty confident that Korea is likely going to be the number one for buffet
Yeah
South Korea obviously multiple-time champion and one of the greatest talent export is normal level or cheese sports
So we're pretty heavily expecting to come out first seed in group A, but Japan getting 0 and 3
It does make them like a saleable as a target. What's gonna be picked out?
I believe it's gonna be rune a sappy which has been chosen by Pakistan here as potentially
Where they make their final stand, but it could also be where the reverse sweep begins if they want to go full-pogistan
is like not quite as medic currently with some of the top of the team who's in professional
play and in Hong Kong instead she's in Japan to sign in return so there isn't going to
be kind of these slower pushes they really want to try to force them on to maybe these
diva or rematch recomps.
Yeah, there's also a world where despair like oh I took my fray I guess I'm going back
to Orissa.
We don't often contend with like role swapping players.
We haven't seen the Eryssa Rollswap or DPS like Hydra, if you still have a lot of Hydration
perhaps.
Oh yeah, Hydration, not Hydron, yeah, Hydration, so it hasn't been, it's been, and I guess
maybe Checkmate, they played Rhyne a little bit, so that was, so maybe some opportunities
there, but then bring back some past memories, but it does feel like when you look at the
bands, having, being forced to ban Freya isn't ideal because she isn't necessarily the most
meta, DPS currently though she still has her uses because she's still quite powerful, and
removing the Sigma in return for Hong Kong where maybe they feel like just an identity feel a lot
more comfortable forcing them off the Sigma forcing the box on off Sigma perhaps a bit better in
terms of the the band takeaways here for Hong Kong. Yeah, I think the Wild Freya is not the ideal
band in many cases when it comes to those DPS it might be one where maybe lights and pedal aren't
really comfortable mirroring it and so they're quite happy to take like a classic mirrored DPS
matchup like in sojourn versus sojourn or Cassidy versus Cassidy. So we're trying to get rid of a little bit of the
je ne sais quoi of the Hong Kong roster.
Excellent. I love the little French you brought in there. That's nice. That's nice.
You're gonna be able, they won't even question if you're if you're English if you were to order that in there, and a Parisian cafe.
That's true. What's that out?
I am allowed in the Team Peps fan meetings. They don't recognize.
Well teampeps fans are not too happy right now. I don't know if you're aware but they have been
relegated from OBS very recently
So not the best bad time for me to bring that up. It is a fantastic time for team Pakistan in Hong Kong
So there will maybe Pakistan. We'll see this could be the end of their run for today
Yeah, it's actually two mall kids
All right, we're gonna stand at this can some tell each other with bullets
It's uh, it's not good. Yeah, that's just that's this is our life now strapping for the 10 minutes
As we wait for someone to use their overrun and hard commits of issues
Why does all these positions potentially from the cow nice and see but the cleansers there?
No, and we're going to the motion
Yeah, I mean light unfortunately, just I think posh ring a little aggressively gonna go down in return
Maybe if we follow up off the anti is now Hong Kong gonna run on forward
Pakistan really reliant with the Mabu-Bihana here. They're like, okay, maybe we can hit anti, punish the Malaga.
But you have a Q-Rico, and a Q-Rico's just gonna suzer that, but in return, Pedal's gonna find a pick.
Correctly, Billy might be in the sub for Pakistan as well.
Yes, Billy has not. I mean, Billy, a sub has not. When Milan's in play in a previous two maps, he's in the sub.
Okay, maybe a new perspective, a new vibe, when you're O2 down.
Can't hurt, trying to change things up a little.
Touch, pedal, man.
Just get one thing, and well, the Bonnie Shot's gonna finish that one off.
Beautiful flashbang onto both of the supports of Hong Kong.
You feel the aura there with pedal.
I did, I get that immediately.
I did feel the aura.
Doesn't get a single shot, turns away, says, you know what, let me get hit.
That's the aura.
I could feel the aura.
I could feel the aura there, a different pedal.
So Pakistan now double-supported off that win are gonna have,
that Jedi as well as having it available here, which is pretty good for a fight like this,
With the Malga, there's not any real, I mean obviously you have the sland which you're not going to have with the Mipid, you're not going to have any shields.
Aw, big stick. Come back, Rolls-Kitho.
Oh, it's a wall, yeah.
Noob. Noob of ass.
Silly noob.
Despair.
Get skills up.
Inside of a considerate rush.
Chases down Philly, because she had managed to get the nano before Philly fell on down.
And despair being forced to use their recall not gonna be able to do too much more than that Hong Kong stop the car. It's tracks
They fight there for Hong Kong didn't even have to commit the cage either neither one of these teams
They're kind of in the standoff where
Both teams want to save the cage try to pop it in retaliation of each other
So there is a little bit of a race
We're not gonna do them light is gonna hold on to death blossoms with that blossoms available here
Maybe they can force a snooze you early put in the back line
but that's kind of the hard problem right is that you need to be able to shoot a baby towards that.
It's a little bit of a surprise that you can't fight here, alright, on the back line.
Cage on Cage. Boy do I love Venn diagrams, but I don't think the Pakistani huge fans of these ones
has created a lot of great trivial layers and calves themselves afuro into the Pakistani defense.
And unfortunately there, I mean, we saw the vision, light tries to get the pressure up
early to commit the cages into each other, but then just runs into the cage, gets caught, immediately punished.
The overclock coming in just on the outside.
And with Orville and Rey gonna be up here too, that's a very, very short,
and you'll get these little compositions, so a lot of pressure again,
when people are like, doesn't your petal get to me? Have any petal gonna fight me?
Alright, that's a big opener here, and I'll fangalike and petal, now free to try and marauding for that fight.
Like, I'm gonna try to turn it around, though.
Out comes the other way, light comes in from the side, no from the back!
He's even stronger than we thought!
Mikau gonna be the next one to fall on down and light's gonna be good to chase this,
but of course chasing after a Tracer was a reaper, can't be a little bit of a fool's error,
and said, Bronson gonna pick it up on the side.
Still pretty equidistant on the bot push here, but both these squads are...
We have not reached the fabled Avril theorem.
Yes, yeah, they're sounding to come close to passing.
The Malga is in a little bit of a poking right now, the spare hold it onto the pulse, but
it was not too far from where they died, but pretty cool on the old base as well, the
other team might be in setup.
I'm not going to have that forward spawn, it doesn't mean that they are able to contest
this one pretty early, they have lost access to it now though, so anyone who goes down
will be coming back for a long way, a big commitment here from the Malga, will it be
rewarded?
Macau falling low, there's nothing in the way, where are my Malga going?
My Malgo has unfortunately charged to the back line, then Andy and was not able to get TP'd
to O'Donnell dropping the TP a little early to get the Crony to drop his heal, so unfortunately
not the other TP in the drop, but Seizu to cleanse that. So the Malgo going down very
very early now is promised on going to be pushing this bot. The ult's going to be looking pretty
good here too, Nano not too far away from Billy. Equal rushes for both as Pedal in a little nuisance.
just kind of just kind of zooming around right now as they're waiting for the
response maybe not back yeah I mean lots of me it's already pushed now
yeah pedals on sheriff give you that you're trying to make sure you're just
there if I'm in spawn cam out go both against two new rushes Pakistan they're
gonna try and control the space Hong Kong's wing a little bit more conservative
leave a speed on it the cow never and now it shut off the shot from pedal
Billy of Y backs off field field we'll get the healing you know how it is classic
to move from pedal and class or some Pakistan's they take the lead.
Good finds are from a sheer and a really well played from the situation to because you just have the opportunity to walk on for the dead
I because once again, there is no mitigation. There's no shields. There's no matrix.
There's I mean, there's really just not a lot in the bank for Hong Kong to deal with a high noon play in general other than LOS.
I mean, they use that to make the space easier for them.
There's the HQ this year.
The HQ's there, Lee.
Oh, in place.
Demo's got nowhere to go.
Both of the supports hanging by a thread.
And it's going to be a last second stagger here onto McAlphanel.
It's going to be something.
This is so much space for Pakistan.
Hong Kong are going to be making their way back out there.
They're about to have the beat, have a cage of their own,
so they do have some very good ults to turn this year.
And you'll look to light on the flank,
Maybe they can set up a move to Suzu early, drop a death wazum and then you find a squishie or something that looks for the off angle, light, lane, wait, you know, look for it.
That trick is used to just put the Lucio on noses.
And while you are taking care of light, you know, but there's no Suzu there.
There's gonna be an opening here for light instantly taken down by Karumi who was prepared, but Kami gonna be trade down on the other side.
Hong Kong temporarily have control of the thoughts.
Light making sure to announce his next action, dropping a quick dodge.
And then going down, very, very, very important there to stay up with Dragon Fecta, but Kame with the beat still, and the death boss of God means that Hong Kong, they have great ults.
They still have the cage tube, they just want to drop an immediate fight win here. Really this is where they should be trying to drop the tempo, knowing that they have the ultimate damage.
to damage.
So he's there from Karumi.
All we're going to get for it though is a little bit of additional push on the block.
Just want to overpick into this one, but a 2 vs 1 perhaps onto Lighthouse to avoid all
of this incoming damage demo, taking them over to High Triggers and coming on the other side.
All the healings gone, the Seuss is going to be there to try and save the Reaper from
a briny grave.
Avoiding the stop coming through, yes it's despair.
But a 1 vs 4 scenario, he's still going to take out Billy.
What a great stagger.
Yeah, I mean getting a late pick there definitely takes a little bit of wind out of the sails
But that's an unfortunate fight here by popping and all getting nothing out of it
And now your old tempo that you had that advantage for Hong Kong kind of gone here
Especially because in the Pakistan they already have an advantage in the push so they don't have to win
And build pressure nearly as much as Hong Kong here to get the cart going to get the box going like
Doesn't want to take the two versus one rightly so disengaging
The land damage go the way up to sheer, but of course it's going to allow Billy to build up towards that nano-boost.
A pair of support ultimates here to try to stand to work with.
And I am trying to make that base there.
Still a panel very far in front of the whole team here, unfortunately, they're going to go down.
Yeah, the mountain may have disengaged.
I think there's a quick suzer on those flashbangs as well.
Some good calculations coming through from the Gerakot.
They use the cage, surely none of them at the corner face wants to sub down to Palusio.
The crit is good, Kame flattened a 2D Lusio, he's a pixel spray.
The Hong Kong still on the desk, clear, it's half control.
And it got a bit wacky, it got a bit silly there, just made a little bit of disjointedness I think at times.
But still bought this on a good spot considering that we're about to hit a minute on the clock.
Hage is still up, Rush is still up.
They're in a good situation to segment out this beat, they can even get around just worse than me
early with the rush then pop the cage and a lot of options.
Head is going to be an early push to pop it.
Incredibly aggressive once again.
Pedal going to be caught out first.
Keshia drags possible members inside of the cage.
There's no...
There's been a frags all the back side of it.
Light, low on resources.
Has to use her shadows to just...
Pedal ain't fly at late.
There'll be a rescue coming through.
Oh my goodness, on the other side, it's good thing.
Support to a fraggy.
Actually to get two, the Kiroko and the Ana both are treating themselves in the kill freeze here.
And I guess that I'm still managed to deny Hong Kong just that forward spawn, so everyone who goes down is gonna take so long to get back.
And now, I mean, in control of the bot, 30 seconds on the clock still have the advantage in the push too.
And no support ults, no big ults up, just for Hong Kong just yet, so it is gonna be, if you're a friend of Hong Kong, looking towards Kolomi.
It makes something happen here.
A lot of space for a soldier worth the overclock.
And Heddoff on really early!
Yep, head of once again off off an island and Karumi now has a little bit more space to work with it's very aggressive from Kishi
Yeah, light once again announces die and does stay true to his word. No lies detected
The light detected either
Now OT situation Billy might go down late to despair here. No sleep
Surely there's the feel here pulse not gonna hit Billy gonna survive so no pulse either
This is actually kind of an okay situation there, Robocon-san.
Nano about to be out here, like, man.
You look at this, you look at the cage.
The cage here, for only as well, with a lot of space,
we have a lot of opportunities to make something happen here.
Alright, here's the Everco.
What, they're recharging the rails up to 150,
but no one's peeking over, no risk to be taken by Pakistan,
but light gets found early.
And now, without the re-run, there's a lot more freedom
for the Valga moving in towards the back.
Billy lays down the Nano on top of pedal.
The electric cowboy is a tale as old as time, but one that I've seen before,
the Kitsune were sent out in response from Hong Kong, meaning that Pakistan don't have to call it the Kitsune.
Okay, Pakistan, you have to be taking this, this is amazing.
This is amazing, the rush gets used on point, it's completely LOSed, it wasn't even twice as fast as it was on the plane.
This is their best shot high noon from the back.
Okay, good sound barrier match, the ones with the incoming damage light going down now,
maybe Hong Kong could try and rescue this one, but they're gonna be doing a rapid turn.
It's absolute roadkill, we can really get squashed under the wheels of a semi-truck that is Malga.
Farewell to a Tracer stopped down by Kashiir. Pakistan claimed their first map in the Overwatch World Cup.
And a lot of that really just feels like it comes from the Malga gameplay.
Also, Billy coming on the honor, putting a little bit of extra pressure there too,
where the Malga matchup may be not the Hong Kong's favorite, a lot of great Antis being hit.
And that was actually a relatively quiet map, all things considered, like not a bad performance,
but a relatively quiet map from the Pakistan TPS line. Really felt a lot more support tank driven there.
So really well played from Pakistan, taking their first map of the series, map potential saved,
and right now there's a chance for the reverse sweep.
I mean, I'm enthralled by the potential of a reverse sweep here by Pakistan for Hong Kong.
Now it's going to be the first time but they get to pick which map we're going to.
I believe that we still have Flashpoint in the pool at the moment which might be their
choice but we're going to go to Suravasa or New Junk City.
It would be a place where maybe the Arissa would be a touch weaker as Arissa tends to
shrug a little bit more with like the commute portion of a fight which there's a lot of
commuting on Flashpoint, a lot of running, you really get your steps in when you're moving
between those control points.
maps I mean in particular if you look to Suravasa you know these are maps where they wanted to
Pakistan wanted to play a little bit more Malga it's also very possible and and also
New York City both maps where you can potentially just like drift towards that side of the game
so there is a bit of openness here for Pakistan especially after showing of what appears to be
a bit of proficiency now with this Malga comp yeah playing around especially with Billy coming
into the Ana to put a little bit of extra pressure on to Domo and Miko uh respectively
with the Antis. So even there you can see in that cage plate that Anti comes in
and just brings up a little bit of extra cleanup power there. So maybe Pakistan
had a little bit of a hidden strat in the back pocket here. But definitely not out of the woods.
It felt, I mean at times like that was the last fight situation. They lose that fight there.
The map was over. So very much against the wire still against Hong Kong.
Yeah, kind of, but think back to Damos's use of the Katsune Rush there, like to answer that the
Nanocassidy, it was pretty smart from back then, like you know what, in Nano vs Katsune Rush, we think
Katsune Rush is more valuable, we're just gonna, we're gonna pop down to the shops and we'll see
you when that one's over. I wouldn't be surprised to see a reactionary ban on either Ana or Malga
here coming through from Hong Kong that it's just trying to get away from that
Malga star or if they are gonna have the Malga star not allow Billy to play the
the honor that they got so much value out of yeah depends on if Billy stays in
right because the substitutes happen before the band so obviously Billy stays
in then maybe they go to the honor just kind of depends I mean because serve
also still also a map that has relatively long sight lines to where an
honor can get value similar to runosopy so that is an opportunity if we go there
But there's other options on the table. I mean, it could be very even New York City also has a very similar situation. It's pretty big map
All they considered so we'll have to see depending on what the map ends up being
But definitely like you said pox on recognizing the advantage getting I would say
recognizing the advantage that was very
Luckily given to the mind say because that rush was not quite in the spot that I would put it perhaps when the flank fight was occurring
So I do think just not getting the maximum value
you unfortunately for Hong Kong in that situation where you probably would have
wanted to either hold it or put it towards that flank fight with the
actual fight was occurring so it was a lot easier to back up but because of
that they capitalized they're in a good spot they have a chance now to at least
take another map bring us to fifth map in the series they need to reverse sweep
territory we'll just have to see what the map ban is and then obviously the
your beings
yeah like a lot of us can depend on what map we go to
what's our above map
maybe high grade
oh yes that's a good way also yes I'm gonna have a flash point would be our
options here
then I think the flash point probably where Hong Kong would decide to take us
here and like you said maybe the concern in Russia was an ideal but it might
have been a position where
it's the one I said stay on bot like occasionally you just draw the short
like congratulations to payload princess help a fight how you can I'll send you a fox that's what I'll give over and it does see
Like scrims row kings row the old classic here from the Hong Kong
Maybe we can finally maybe some more Reinhardt perhaps
We have some more Reinhardt it's possible anything's possible though as though obviously recently Reinhardt has not necessarily been the meta pick a king grow despite its
strong association. I would say it's got kind of a strong association with the map
historically but definitely leaning a lot more towards the diva comp, sariah
comps, rematra and look it looks like Hong Kong is gonna ban the honor so that
means that Billy must be in. Billy must still be in here otherwise because we
haven't really seen the fight with some backline play any other honor. Often and
in fact I'm gonna ban the sojourn which I think is a great pick. Chromie has been
kind of farming on the on the sojourn and sojourn is still very very powerful on Kings Row you have a lot of off angles especially when you
Just look at all the ways you can get around or get up on high ground to pop an overclock or something that nature
So a very good then I think as well for Pogasan so
Pretty decent options all around. Yeah, I'm happy with this band phase as you said like sojourns like means of moving between levels of
verticality with dash is
So it needs to be constantly considered here on King's Row and if Billy's not in I'd be very surprised about this Hong Kong
Anna ban, but we're gonna potentially assume that maybe we see a Malga run back here and perhaps Hong Kong thought
I think a real major difference maker would have been the Anna and Malga versus Malga like so long as we can stop
Macau from like charging in 1v5 and getting anti now we can charge in 1v5 and not get anti
So that's that's that's gonna make it a much more effective plan
That is that's that's you know, how do you consider that?
calculus makes sense the calculus makes it so
The plan that's all I think I think that's that's pretty genius. That's pretty genius. I do think that
Overall, it's likely not gonna be a malice situation here. I feel like Hong Kong. Somebody tells me that they really want to potentially play
like, I mean, they could play Sigma here again.
Sigma is not like a terrible option for Kingshore.
It always seemed a lot.
It seems to play Sigma, especially if they want to play
more in Mizuki, a comp that's pretty strong
until like D.Va comps, maybe even Azaria, it really depends.
Cause also it, it seems like their tank line
and DPS line is a little flexible
with despair swapping between roles here and there.
So I wonder if that's going to stay
or maybe just keep despair on the DPS.
So it is something to look out for
because it's still a little uncertain exactly
what those comps are going to be,
Especially because Kashir, at least from what I've seen so far from what Pakistan's played, is that Kashir is willing to flex on just about every tank, so there is a lot of options for them in terms of how Pakistan wants to play it.
And with Sojourn being gone, it's definitely leaning again towards pedal, probably just going to play more Cassidy, because mostly what we've seen pedal play is just full-on Cassidy compositions here, then flexing to kind of whatever is necessary to fill in that tracer that may.
Yep, tracer, may, Reaper, whatever off-angle wizard is necessary to make some magic happen.
They're like May is an old classic on King's Row, obviously like the wall is about as wide as the corridor for the payload.
On point B, and it can be a very tight space, it's very difficult to navigate against the May if you're playing like a mobility challenge tank, shall we say, like a Sigma.
Yeah, and May has, I mean, always been kind of a staple pick for King's Row for a while now at this point, so it definitely would not be surprised to see that coming to the play.
And also with Sojourn gone, that means that that's one less, if you aren't playing these harder hitscan compositions,
one less hero that can get away from those engages if you're playing like a Lutri Qiriko may comp, right?
So it does add a little bit more credence potentially to where you could see, in particular, T-Bots, I'm playing that,
but you know, even the opportunity still for Hong Kong to play it as well, because they had played it previously.
So just something to watch out for, I think, the Roky squads, and it's kind of the interesting part, watching them,
because they still seem to be both pretty fluid.
They don't really lock in.
The only really locked in sections
that we're kind of having so far is that we're likely going
to see pedal on gas.
Yeah.
Everything else is kind of like up in the air.
Yeah.
Everyone else is spinning the wheel.
We've seen a lot of Kirikou as well.
I think we can expect Kirikou from both of these teams.
But we've also seen some rotations around like what
second play it is.
Like Junior is pretty common at the moment.
We have seen Junior bands come out as well.
So I think Pakistan have been consistently
trying to discourage.
use of the junior because she could be she could be a pretty big tool in the hands of a pretty
coordinated team and I think Hong Kong have a bit of a coordination advantage when it comes to just
the seniority of their players and all being used to playing as a squad in competitive Overwatch for
such a long time that maybe they're better at their 3-2-1s with the old speed ring. They've been
watching the classic Atlanta rainbows where 3-2-1s someone explodes and maybe you win off the back
of that whereas Pakistan they wait for some magic to happen and sometimes magic does occur.
A lot of magic occurred on Runa Sapi which was a pretty good pick up and it seemed like
even with like the cat fashion on the table Hong Kong weren't willing to move over towards
that staple of the OWCS meta and play a little bit more classic kind of poke versus poke.
Yeah Juno I think in many ways is kind of one of those comp one of those heroes where
You can get a lot of value out of her kit,
but it does require at times a little bit more coordination
and like I would say just overall execution ability,
which is why sometimes we'll see some teams veer away from it
if they don't have the super experience back lines.
Cause you know, I mean, you're not only do you have
the speed ring, you have the fights around the ray,
which provide just kind of like infinite utility when popped.
And then also Juno herself can not just pocket people
and do a lot of overall healing,
but it's really good at also splitting off
to people for flankers, right?
fight flank, especially with the Orbs, which can kind of poke and do a little bit of instantaneous
damage to the right click. So I do think there's a lot of opportunity overall with her, with
her kit, where sometimes teams that, and players that aren't quite as experienced with her kit
will probably be away from it. So maybe we'll see. Really is the answer. Is that we're going
to see you? But I imagine, I imagine it's likely going to be a very interesting pick, no matter
What and it looks like okay?
If you pedal actually rolling on the hanzo this time which makes a lot of sense here for the event for pedal
You have a lot of high ground to use you can climb up and down
The sonic air was really strong as well for King George's because you can get that good that early positioning knowledge
Well, let's see what's in return
What Hong Kong's gonna finalize because don't trust the spawn doors
Okay, don't want to go on sigma a lie, so it's gonna be a sigma exchange
The spare is going to be a real expected hit on the Pharah.
Lots of different angles you're going to try and approach from,
but you are going to be continuously harried by the Distorted Orb
and light finding those angles on you.
So right now, I'm going to be poking.
Shears up on the high ground, just trying to throw those Orbs.
Get a little bit of extra damage there with the poke.
The pox I'm trying to play, just the high ground in general,
play the planks and try to punish.
And that's exactly what we're going to do.
find Domo there, talk to the 2 man peak from the lawn from Pedal. Pedal is trying to get
very aggressive right now and the question for Hong Kong is like what's the answer for
them? One you're going to see Pakistan just playing so split, letting the Zen put Pedal
in light, try to take these off angles right? And right now they're just going to do a little
of the hero chest.
There's some classic hero chest. I think that Pedal's aggressive maneuvers probably have
in the story of the game so far, whether for good or for ill, light is going to be taking
upon themselves through a lot of that point.
And here, as Macau has lost a lot of their resources, used to connect, practice, engage,
should be healed up, which does mean that he's going to be missing a couple of things to
try and refresh that point.
That'll try to contest the third hit to high ground right now is, they've made it pretty
deep.
They have told the stature, they put it Macau, here on the high ground, it's trying to contest
the sheer, but the sheer with the discord, with a little bit more cooldowns to keep him
off the high ground there, making that space back. It's coming, gonna go down.
I'll put him up in the little hang fight to be honest.
So let's take it over here by Pakistan, as the spell looks to always try and make an
entry happen, but with Red ammo, and Mikhail going down in the run right, I think this
one might be cooked from the get-go. You have a little pile on the CUDA remains, but the
remainder of Hong Kong couldn't.
And you really don't see Zin pulled out very often these days.
And definitely getting some value here though, because they're playing the long silence and getting more value too for the cross, letting light and tiddle kind of feast a bit off of this words and with the harmony.
Oh! And that's an early pick.
Seriously as well, we don't actually have Billy in for Pakistan, and yet they still cut that out.
Still ban the Ana, yeah, still ban the Ana.
for sure but either way working out of the Pakistan right now about to have five
volts available Hong Kong still pretty equivalent to be fair even though despair
I mean that's fine you can you can live without that is only about to have a
minute so not a lot of time left for Hong Kong okay fistful responsibility
might be the name of a game in Pakistan that needs to defend for two more fights
That's a bunch of ultimates, all the ones.
Okay, why not just a three? See if it works out.
That's going to be a exchange between McCow and Kassir here.
That's going to be the Transcendence as well.
Pax down and put it all on the line to try and make something happen.
But Kami's still falling down.
On the other side, Peno gets it down with a storm arrow headshot.
They're surrounding the Sigma, but can they execute?
It's definitely Light who's arrived, and it seems like most of the ultimates have been expended.
Yeah, the old trades there went pretty well just because you're getting that early pick
and Milan actually getting to find a despair minion that's free transcendence.
So now last fight paratrooper Hong Kong boss is available.
Nothing else on board.
Maybe I'm going over to the D by here to try to bring out a little bit extra pressure and
also opportunities to maybe go high ground.
That's all of Hong Kong goes to hotel.
Oh my god.
First of all, it was good to go saw the approach as well of the, oh my goodness.
What a headshot.
Karumi just has the source every single time, man.
When you need a hero out for Hong Kong, Karumi's the one to step up, still holding on to their ultimate here.
Surely they can get Malan in the back, is that D-Mech? I saw come through now, and Mikao is going to keep a hold of the Mek,
and there's going to be the second take. This should be a cat here.
Yeah, not going to be a classic in touch.
I've never seen just a more clear indication of the effect of like, well, we have to win this fight.
I guess we are we are grugging
With a diva and it worked out perfectly ran down like immediately off the aggression
And chroma didn't have to pop close to please so have it here to try to open up to give an immediate pick
There's not coming fighting back something a little hold the choke kind of aggressively here
But there's a lot of opportunities for Hong Kong to get around it with this sort of the mobility
Okay, Missouki and Gasty coming up as well in place of Hanzo and Zen
Parumi.
A tension amongst the weights with the bow.
What was that from Pedder? Was that a Dinkamelee?
They didn't even have time to recall. Lightmansion to find ammo on the outside.
But it's even Steven when it comes to trades so far.
It feels like Pakistan.
A little bit undersourced when it comes to trying to keep the spawn confessor special
when faced with the D.Va Grug.
And right now, I mean, to be fair with Pakistan's comp, they should be able to
I'm gonna keep that low for the effect of the Sigma and the Mizuki, but no such luck so far as Chrome is still terrorizing the flank, doesn't want to get caught, feels gonna adjust in time.
Gonna make an Alba Rush available for Blondie along with the Flux.
Alright, Katsune sent on out Pesto, all the demon of Islamabad has revealed himself.
Despair and Daemur, how's your eye frame very solid from Blondie, able to avoid the incoming damage of the D.Va,
But the land found in the back no help gonna be given over there half the HP of McCall taking down the mech is
Forfeit as to is a stagger and despite the best attempts of Karumi be a chance to charge smoke does it?
Here's walking over the land and that was a relatively expensive fight, but
Getting pretty close at a Hong Kong in return to repulsion I could be happy with this situation
That I still gonna be available to put a lot of pressure for this fight when it breaks down
because they're gonna have to have one person anchoring, likely gonna be the Rematra.
And now you lift the pox on you and say, okay, where's Kevlar in a position here?
It's gonna be the high ground, look to bring it down and go immediately!
Look at the high noon!
Jennifer's so live from so much history, coming through from light, but
head away a bit off slightly more, but they can shoot the charge, box is strong!
Runzie's down as well, a destination removes Milan from the fight,
and now Hong Kong have to do it without any healing,
but they don't have too many players to go up against as well,
Kashier gets a touch of over health from the kinetic grasp but not much more than that and now as we go into overtime
B-Squals gonna take a while
You saw the light bulb there you saw the light bulb pop up like let's set up the trap plate
But maybe a little too early didn't find any skulls either
And a little bit of lack of focus this thing. It has to happen. It's still possible. Why can't you get another touch?
Welcome up a light someone else used to come in though. Kashier can't get there in time
And a second point is going to be grabbed by Hong Kong as well as an extension of their time bank as well
Someone's gonna be an all-out roll to share momentarily considering resetting this and the call comes through that. Yes, we're gonna go third
This is getting a little scary here for Pakistan last
You know kind of a beast the whole
But with the with the bullet and the pulse available to players that have been relatively
I mean, there's extremely high impact so far the DPS like of Hong Kong
You have to be a little afraid because you only have one Suzu. There's no Baptiste. There's no lamp melons on the Zen
up on the high ground right now. Eyes up listening to the sound of that Suzu from
Daemung. We see light right around the outside going up against their counterpart. Can't
find the two versus one. The Bola on to Bronsi, Kulumi has once again found the magic formula.
And what Pedal gets the Silver Bullet bleed from elsewhere. Imagine if you even it up.
It's only going to be a little bit lower on healing. Bronsi has just respawned so he
and switched them out of spawn in very little time.
Yeah, I believe the false force that's seen you there
to be just immediately popped the bullet,
but just not enough because Petal's on the cast,
getting tons of impact right now.
Not by Demo, that's huge!
That's very, very big, a lot of you going.
Now, but now, I promise, something happened.
With the annihilation chasing down Bronsi,
but Vakirikos are down, but the land is gonna soon...
The remainder of Pakistan is to chase after this car
as Kashiya is gone, and Petal has to stand alone.
Once more light steps up to the car, but every sport is simply too slow
Hong Kong should be able to roll in as the slow arrives just in time and it's the third point completion in overtime
I mean what a
Follow there what a conversion there as well and recovery
Coming out from Hong Kong because they immediately lose one of their supports
But the annihilation on the point finished it up a lot of those squishies really really early
Despair just making sure to keep the pressure on trying to clean up those pics. They're already damaged
And you see this despair DPS swap and Miko also going over to the tank full-time really paying dividends
I think for Hong Kong curiously is I mean you see the stat line to just despair
Continuing to be toward that top ever making it since making this swap
But finishing an OT it means this is a very winnable situation from box from this is not an individual time bank
They look pretty good on the defense. So
Extremely winnable.
Problems here, Milan, I don't think it's getting too much value out of the Zen, 2.6k damage.
Not quite the all-
That was your worst scene, necessarily.
Yeah, unideal.
Room for improvement, perhaps.
So
we have to see like maybe some more tank bullying coming through from Milan
to make sure that Mikau is not feeling as comfortable as they can be
currently on their tank pick, because you've got to get some value out of that all but Discord.
So now it's going to be Puckstone here on the offense, Hong Kong.
They really want to roll with the Ash here, an Ash and Sigma, so try to get some of that
value from the Dynamites, some of the Poked and that instantaneous combos you can get here
with Kami.
So on the O'Rari, this time Petal on the Widow, which is another hero we've seen, he's
about a Petal, and the Threatening from Petal here might be the first time going on to the
Echo right so you're gonna have opportunities to kind of execute the high ground with those with those stickies without immediate like focus beams
Well, you're gonna have some some options here
Just to kind of beam down people
All right, head off impress me. It's caught a band right previously from Hong Kong
Evidently, I think that pedal has a hot hand on the widow, but for now
We're just slowly
Hong Kong respecting them a lot, giving them a lot of space here lately, just trying to respect the pedal widow.
There's a lot of respect for that, but eventually the stair makes their incision, takes down light years.
It's only going to be several years from now though, putting Milan falling down as well.
Pakistan have very little space control.
Look at this pedal, having a look at the flip map, down to only 75 HP.
Can't really take much more of the way of poke.
Every single engagement needs to be well considered, but Karumi marauds for the refiner and grind.
Might now, getting off the echo, go into the reaper, maybe Petal gonna make a swap here over to the Cassidy.
And yeah, I think that's what we're gonna do, so I'll just say, okay, let's just get in, aggro here, they have the ash.
They have the Alari, we have some options to just take that fight really aggressively, and control the space.
And as long as they can heal from a lot, they can still get a ton of value here from the support and the harmony.
armies like fresh in hotel very aggressively
okay the drug is alive and well panel and light
just walking slowly shoot our guns win the game the cow
will keep up the high ground tears where is that we're going
well you know sometimes you'd be as well
kept on rolling forward and Hong Kong kept on rolling
with this defense Milan over peaks into courier
takes their head off it's just like on that I always
I think they were very much hoping that they could get through the arch into the back and start pushing the high ground
But then obviously they you know, Hong Kong was gonna let them go for that rotate for free
And now sub two minutes remaining a minute 45 for bugs. I'm not still kind of old son board
They're starting to build up here for on the board
But Hong Kong gonna have the full bank of their own and we're looking at a potential first-hold situation here
That's been how long this fight last word last by territory. If not, you know, they're not being over
Very much could be.
Get to an air rush.
Ready to go.
Light.
I believe it's already used there.
Recall.
All the sticks on to...
Only to sheer, I believe.
So it's easily soaked up by the larger health pool of the tank.
That means the Fonsey can have a little bit more liberal when it comes to the usage of a
Suzu to spare chase down after using their Recall post bomb.
Then Hong Kong, they appear to have been distracted by light in the back.
Just not getting their eyes, no crossing their teams.
One player caught inside of the grid.
And it was expensive but they got to hold on to 2 DPSs there.
So not going to be the first hold really well played off that initial pick
Now focus on their life is still alive here
They're not done
But this it was just yet a little under three minutes remaining and the time bank is largely relevant at this point
Obviously you want to cap faster, but Hong Kong already capped an OT anyways
So it's not like it's an automatic. It's like who's finding despair on the plane magic opens it up here
Still on the ball swamp in the back pocket. They want to use it on to the yari
And there's no Suzu to try and stop this one.
And so there's nothing to try and stop the roll of Pakistan.
I don't know if they really needed an AI here, to be honest,
as it was already a disengaged coming through.
The Affliction forces out for Suzu.
And now Pakistan, they can keep the pressure up and keep Hong Kong pinned into first.
There's actually amazing tempo for them, too,
because sure, they had to use two ult from the DPS ults that aren't insanely high value.
They're gonna have to rush in there.
But the percent of the trans already is,
uh-oh, having a Suzu early to save,
Pedal, Pedal getting caught.
Yeah, just he got so aggro there!
Yeah.
Unfortunately, they're just not able to make it out now.
I mean, that's fine to me.
They get the rush out of me, so...
Kind of an inexpensive fight, ultimately.
Trying to jump.
Kame in the streets, two dinks coming through,
but the healing, solid, and demo doesn't have any patience for lights.
And despite all that space gained by Pakistan,
not too much push on the car.
Yeah, the problem now is that Hong Kong,
looking like they want to set up and have people up on the high ground too,
and they might have to burn the rush just to get through this choke, right?
This choke always at your point of central pull on the map.
It's such a strong position here.
And that's really where the worry is, and Foxen has to commit a lot of people just to make it through.
Oh, Macau's facing Gage, incredibly dangerous here.
Buffed up, Bob is gonna be protected.
Eventually taken down to Rimi, looking for a victim in comms with her Riddick Flux.
Kishi is gonna try and chase them down here, but Pylons just keeps their healing going.
M'Kaucho has to turn around because she is on the other side.
Two players, I believe, may have been grabbed up into that one, but actually it's just the singular.
The may who manages to save themselves and because she is just ruling these streets at the moment.
You need to get in and peel for your zen.
Malang can't do it alone, but the spare is chasing after the Omnic in the midst of all of this.
M'Kaucho is taken down and Malang found the guy who gets the healing they needed.
Okay, a little unconventional there because she is using the flux to get up to the high-grounding pressure from the flank.
Really opening up there.
No one from Hong Kong is able to follow up and return and look like Hong Kong is in a good position to potentially capture his petal.
If you don't want to go down, on the far, you're going to have the high noon and the dead eye available along with the transverse.
Why is there no contest? What's going to be happening here? Yeah, now it's not a basic test to start thinking they're going to make it immediately having to pop the recall.
Right now, they're still in a position. Yeah, they're in a good position here.
And their transiveness is up. Blizzard is going to be available for light pretty soon here. A lot of pressure.
All right, that's the sun giving on over because you're trying to get into their face nice shield does pop there
Can at the grasp as well which means there's not too much to peel for pedal room the next of their team still falls down
It's a team of Hong Kong. They're very good at focusing down a singular target if you had to give them some credit
So a minute now
in the bank essentially five volts is going to be up for Pakistan they have
the bank they need they know you're no captain's son very strong usually had
they just don't want to lose anyone too early
should have a speed boost off the back
speed boost on the disengaged
yeah many queues have been pressed right now by Pakistan and Hong Kong just
don't really want to fight into that to be honest each of a bunch of damage on
their way through and is it disengaged back to the back line for such an
additional healing, the pedals gonna have trouble surviving here, the healing's not gonna be there.
Karumi's Bob was taken down on the other side, yeah, they just took so much attention!
And now Karumi's in an absolutely brutal position,
wins down lead upon Pakistan and Hong Kong, they are absolutely stalwart.
Yeah, I mean just popping in that decent pull up really early, not able to take any space,
offering a losing pedal to flank, but probably just completely untouched on the high ground.
Ult's are still available, they still have a flux, they still have a blizzard, so they have some very strong options here, especially with no support, you know, to just get to Hong Kong, so...
Hoping it's alive for Clarke, for example, this is the map and the game on the line.
The ship, go to may grab, Kame, that's a great start, now looking ever towards them wants to get rid of all of the healing here for the side of Hong Kong who's still trying to keep this high ground contested.
A slow float upwards, a harrowing from the diva, yes, and it might well be a knockoff, as the bomb is inched on forward, a shield is wrecked against the face to dodge the threatening beams that irradiated from it, and now Pakistan are in a command position.
Those dudes up, dead eyes available, but still Hong Kong now with double support, gonna be available now, lights still holding on to them, they need something to happen soon, it's a lot of the image.
I have to have some destinations at everything like lays down the place
You've got who's gonna get frozen on up the cow loses. Yes, the mech
There's anything more than that to be found the space to it for stick puts onto the back of a Sigma safe farewell to your tank
And farewell to your series Hong Kong grit their teeth and they managed to lock in on third for the defense of win the series
And Hong Kong definitely showing I think why a with a really heads up swap. I think the spare moving to the DPS
this role, it felt like it made them a lot more explosive for the rest of the series,
so despite what his name implies, it provided much hope to Hong Kong there, I think through
that swap.
And just seeing that kind of experience difference overall, I think we see just how those flanks
were controlled, trying to avoid over popping ults a lot, which I think Pakistan saw a lot
here where there's just a little bit of the overlaying of the ults, and Hong Kong coming
on top showing a little bit of that that veteran experience a really good swap
for despair too and then really if you're Hong Kong you can be like okay
we're pretty we're pretty happy with this scenario it felt like the
experience kind of shined through there yeah but as we align outline it with
Genesis this series it's two very different teams some some old heads
when it comes to competitive like a lot of the Hong Kong roster they've been
time together for a long time on Hong Kong attitude, like the the unks are here. For us,
for Team Pakistan, this is for many of them only the beginning of their competitive journey,
and there's a there's a lot of room for improvement, but also sparks of talent that have been very
impressive thus far. However, I've been, I think it's just impressed by like Kameh and Daemo,
this backline of Hong Kong, definitely want to keep an eye on. Yeah, and I feel like that's just,
you know, one of those issues of just the experience of differential. And really, I think
When we talked about Pakistan, we were like, okay, it's really going to be driven a lot by that DPS line, but currently in despair, especially when despair made that swap,
handedly kept up with it. I feel like also perhaps making far better positioning choices throughout the series in particular were pedal just getting caught a little bit of much.
I mean, even same with light at times. So overall, Hong Kong looking extremely well rounded, imperative Lee, maybe even potentially a threat to Japan.
but obviously right now it's a pretty big stratification in this group.
So we'll have to see how it plays out further.
Currently it still seems like Japan and Korea might be a step above the rest of the teams in the group.
But Hong Kong giving a pretty solid showing.
Yeah, I think that considering we saw Japan get 3-0ed by Korea, there's percent stratification
in this group. At least in terms of our preliminary power rankings is pretty calcified,
But maybe Japan is fallible in the face of like some amazing pop-offs
who saw Karemi consistently play a very impressive like raw power DPS role that maybe could try and shell shock Japan
But at the moment it definitely seems like the story of Rupai is going to be like Japan versus Hong Kong
But potentially that second place and that qualification to the main group stage
Of the World Cup for South Korea. They're looking about as good as we expected in Pakistan
This is a team that's going to match so they're definitely
They have a lot of contingent power here question is can they bring it to a team like Japan who?
They're full of current pros not not not old head throws like current barrel players who are doing very well and they're to be here
Yeah, that is gonna be kind of the question for the entirety of the group
And I do think that it's worry and it's worrying, but there were signs of life
We showed a lot of I think signs of flexibility, but overall
Definitely still a team to look out for.
Yep, definitely going to be one to keep your eyes on, but keep your eyes on these highlights because we're back for our last series of a day when we come back after this break.
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I'll be right back.
Kevin?
Well?
Hello.
Welcome back.
I'm Kevin.
Hello and welcome back to what's world cup in Asia for unlike qualifies last game of the day today fellas
I'm back with of us as usual
One more game to close it out. Hopefully a close one of us
Yeah, we can only hope obviously we're not getting the seminal
Pakistan versus India matchup
This year necessarily different groups potential. Let's see both make it out of groups, which is theoretically possible
So we're all looking forward to India versus team Philippines here instead, which should hopefully be a relatively close one
I've got some like honestly kind of I think for a group stage
We're expecting a kind of unequal distribution at times of games
So maybe this will be on the closer end
Especially because unfortunately, but was somewhat close for a previous matchup seem to be pretty lopsided inside of Hong Kong's failure
And I don't know I look at these two teams and I feel like potentially Philippines might also kind of have a similar situation
Where they have a little bit more experience on the run
I mean, we've got two teams that both came through from their own separate Asian qualifier, right?
So, Philippines coming in first place, India coming in second place, Philippines, maybe edge them out, just based on that alone.
Yeah, and I think for the, I think for Philippines here, it's just a question of, I don't know, I mean, I look at this team and frankly, I feel like, oh, maybe I'm going to look at the DPS line.
Maybe it's kind of they're just more around it overall than India
But there's still a lot of opportunity for surprise on this stage and it's talked a lot about for the World Cup
And no watch World Cup is a program in general is that we don't see a lot of these
teams in particular teams like India or previously with like Hong Kong and Pakistan of like
They're not represented quite as much globally in the professional circuit. So this is their kind of chance to like oh, yeah
Look at the talent we do have in the roster
But sometimes going into this so a little bit blind of like oh really how are they gonna stack up?
And like you said, they did already go through these qualifiers. So realistically
Qualifier is kind of an indicator, but also with India picking up with a pretty interesting breakout player with X-10
Of course
Who would add a lot of firepower to this roster for team India?
Captain Prash has also had some decent experience in the past there as well
So, you know, it might be a couple players to look out for
Just looking across the Rossi, you know apps also got a little bit of experience in the back pocket having played contenders in the past
and play for Zocorp in the past series as well.
So I think India might be able to bring a little bit of 5-0.
And obviously we'll look at the previous results
between these two teams.
India and Philippines met.
It was a 2-0 for Philippines.
Maybe in that time, you know, since that game was played,
which was a couple of months ago now,
might be an opportunity for India to play back.
And of course, Philippines also having Cinnabar as well,
which is someone that we have seen competing in North America
and seeing kind of just in some of the scenes
We have a little bit more exposure to overall, but it has been like you said a bit.
So we've seen them come up the head and who knows what's changed since then.
Because obviously I have not been keeping as close tabs India as I've been working
close to looking closer to Pakistan.
So they've been a slightly different camps there in terms of where I'm
going to keep a track of.
So this is going to be a great opportunity to see where they're at right now in the
group stage because right now the measurement is can they stack up to some of
those powerhouses in their group that we know of, right? It's kind of this chance to
like, are any of these bought these other two teams that might be considered potentially
bottom four, bottom, uh, four, the bottom two of their groups going to stack up to those
top two of their groups. This is a chance to see that parody, or we kind of already
building that structure a little earlier, but we expect for the rest of the group stage.
I mean, when you look at the players and you sort of, as you do, check the liquid, see
what the history is.
So it means actually on paper, look like the team that has less experience, if you look
at India, final players that have had at least tier 2 experience playing around and competing
in different teams in different events, but then you, again, look at the previous results
from when these last two teams actually played in the official, and Opin's coming out with
the 2-0 does say that, you know, despite maybe the lack of Wikipedia accolades, maybe that's
not what it's all about because, you know, like, you do have Cinnabon here who's probably
the by far standout player in the subs here as well is solace who's been a
99 divine perhaps will end up seeing a substitution come into play at some
point but this is the all-important game where to really set the stage for how
the rest of this group sort of shapes up and whether either of these two teams
between Philippines and India have a chance to either make some apps off of
Australia and have a bit of a fun interesting scenario with the map
differential or indeed maybe just like straight-up beat Thailand and that would
really cause this group to, then it's quite something interesting.
It would. And that's the power of the group stage and the power of World
War Two World Cup general. And generally, when we see some of these kind of less
represented nations at times, and maybe there's a chance for a time this wild
card, like, oh, there's a lot more talent, a lot more depth to the roster than we
would have expected from what the teams that we typically highlight. And
Philippines could be one of those such teams, like you said, actually
highlighting that maybe they have less experience. So maybe this is like an
opportunity for them to kind of show up on the world stage, which is the whole point.
And we'll have to see, obviously, they both are utilizing some breakout players, which
are very, very good players in their respective region.
But at the end of the day, talent isn't necessarily, or specifically, the Wikipedia accolades,
isn't everything in the World Cup, because these are kind of rosters built together
from a assortment of players from various experience levels and it's really coordination
that's kind of kind of make the difference often.
Yeah, I've been for not three overwatch obviously we've had mostly three overwatch here the Hong Kong back is down game
At least went to an extra map, but overall still this is showing from Hong Kong
So being a very clean viewing of how group A is going to shuffle out and of course both these teams
Wait, we're gonna see every single team play again on the following day Australia
We playing India in the Philippines up in Thailand
So again that Philippines time again, we really important Philippines can perform well today in this India game
Do well against Thailand tomorrow be a bit of a shoo-in for that secondary spotted first map is going to be oasis
So you wait to see what our band information looks like as well
No aces obviously been pretty common and it's gonna be
Bastion and Lucio gone from the field here
So that eliminates cat Bastion though. Obviously there could still be cat Cassidy and comps like that
That's still a possibility and though Lucio means that we're not gonna be seeing any Lucio curico
So, it's up to that.
Mizuki options, the Mizuki Kiriko for some of the Sigma Comps opens up even some slower
options if you want to play on Wari, things like that, but...
Juno.
It's very interesting.
Yeah, Juno, of course.
Juno, of course, is going to be very popular.
Probably not going to be seen.
I wouldn't suspect it would be any double-flexible here, no Wari for Oasis.
Probably a dangerous map to play her on, so I think Juno Comps makes a lot of sense here.
mentioned Mizuki as well obviously depending on where all tanks end up
lots of combos you can get it with Mizuki with the chains, segment Mizuki
I don't think the segment is probably is not super popular on a map like Oasis
no Bastion obviously we did see some Bastion early on sort of commented on
the fact that even when we did see the Bastions the cat wasn't banned still
wasn't cat with the Bastion just the kind of a Bastion on its own wandering
around, see what it can achieve. But here, I'm going to even be looking towards that.
Who knows who would have even played it anyway. I don't think any team has actually really
brought out a cat bastion, which is nice to see.
Yeah, there has been bastion played, but no cat bastion, interestingly enough. Bastion's
still in a pretty good spot as it gets here in general. So this could be our opportunity,
but like you said, maybe not in the cards instead of here in Oasis, but we'll just have
to see because it's been a while since we've seen these teams meet up. We're not totally
certain exactly the cops are going to favor are going to be in and I'm seeing two sigmas
I'm seeing two sigmas obviously spawn doors not to be trusted. I'm seeing two sigmas.
If it is sigma you know sigma mazuki you start to make a little bit more sense here. I can
look into you lock in that cast for opening rounds won't get banged by the submitters
just yet. I see them might be really thinking about these are again could be a little dangerous
I mean that you doubted you doubted you said no a lorry. No, it's not but look at that. Look at us now
Look we're at now. So the girl she's on the a lorry coming on through xin. Yeah, like I said
Casso it is the Mizuki sigma comp here when I'm a large and the lorry and a lorry
the malaria
The a lorry
Instead go pretty similar but with the may available
Have to be aware of the wall here
We'll see like India try to play coastside right now
It does leave open Philippines to take the jump pad and the high ground which you can see through the silhouettes
They're happy to do so from the time being this point unlocks
We are first up
See if you want to do some damage on the side
There's a lot of space around the off angle but right now just playing around the objective for India
Just playing it slow trying to find someone to wall poke still ongoing no picks just yet
And point very much of it up here India most their players on the play for things are locked out
They're not able to really walk their way in trying to play off the ground
This respect to the carry on the other side though
While they got a first hopefully a couple of trades here losing Leo should be really rough for things off the get go
It's India could just slow this one down. They already have cat advantage
been to still alive here, seemingly reasonably healthy. Philippines wants to be able to flip
this one over. It doesn't seem like they have to fly around Phillip. If I get somebody down,
low HP on India, but they're still alive.
Fresh gonna have the sanctuary available here. Point going to flip now, so Philippines are
going to manage to get the pressure, get the cap that they need, but still a lot of sustain
for India to make it back onto the point. The blizzard is up and available, so Philippines
is going to have to wait, play it a little slow, wait for the respawners to come back in as
and then you just end this reflux of flicking again and then you can just anchor the point here as a main with the Sigma.
Or see, shield straight away and the Blizzard as well. Completely look at how you wanted it.
And freeze and just to really put the insult off, so that's going to be the OEC completely for naught.
It's a response to Cinnabar as well, that's going to be a suzerain, keeping you away from abs.
There's still a hedgehog on the bend, it's going to be good enough.
Leo trying his best to survive, has a flux in hand, but won't have a chance to use it.
He is still maintaining cap control for the time being.
Ah, it's a chopper, because Gina rushes.
Seems like he's just slowly losing men this year.
What have they been wanting to say here?
In India, I mean, playing this anchor composition,
this real bunker style cop extremely well.
They have a ton of sustain between the Mizuki and the Kiriko,
along with the Mei.
And X-10 just not going down, so she's just putting
on consistent damage currently.
So Philippines, with the flux available, with the pulse,
they have some options here.
There's no support ulter India, but they're just
having a tough time with this lodging India from the point.
Not to make a good call of it, not a lot of time left on this particular point as well.
Hoking on the side in his X10, you see it.
She was poking Leo down, and here comes the strong ult, coming at the play, double hit.
Should be decent amount of damage.
You won, though, getting me double on the sidelines while Leo is keeping in check the rest of India.
Will be the play coming on through.
A little bit extra time, taking out the board here, is that since she's gonna be last fall.
But the flux, exactly what you wanted to see there.
Just get the players they need.
Philippines now have to play near perfectly for the rest of the round.
I mean 98% here for India.
Not to have the rush available, so it has a little bit of options.
The cinema, speaking very, very aggressively for the pro-com,
they're already just trusting for the mechanic right now, gonna go for some binks.
Nothing to play with on the Philippines.
They need to buy time to allow desperately looking for a consumer rush response
to the India triple threat.
Double DPS plus tank ultimate in play.
We'll be doing push, this is the one push that will get them the rounds.
Because they just take, give us a slightly, a little bit of hope that...
We want them to just find out where this wux is gonna come on in.
Then we should probably just drop it on top of Lala, and he's right at Philippine's backline now.
Good way to counter that Caterina rush is bylo, which eats the dirt.
No real big ultimates from India though, drop it in the, I believe.
Yeah, it's gonna be the blizzard.
Let's block out Lila for some time, but no kills.
I mean, you're still here on the flank with the overclock, keeping the pressure on,
so it's really tough for them to chase that blizzard here.
Leo, better be looking to follow up,
is Captain Crash on the point still here,
but unfortunately, Lightning's gonna get staggered.
Well, unless you bomb with your head on the top,
and maybe you don't give a...
No way!
No way Captain Crash gets out on the Mizuki of all things.
I mean, you don't even really have enough movement
to all be considered.
So that's an unfortunate slide moment for you on this.
Now, India,
gotta be able to have a little bit of faster recompense.
My Philippines are basically caught up now.
In terms of Cap of Sandage here,
We are finally the clutch revenge and holding on to that one for a while. We are surely going to super low HP
Flux doesn't seem to deliver enough damage to clean that player up the cinema
But you see the captain's son will wait you for hot to throw that one in the midst of the
Sanctuary that's been played in they're still captain crash with one target. He was the one actually cleaned up
Hey, careful of kills coming through the Philippines. They're shipping it up now
Unless the abs couture rush saves the day for India extolling some damage under look those are the way of Philippines is
99-98, and you're spilling down that you don't have the firepower anymore.
Then the final play that gets what in there, but Leo, the flux to finish things off,
and I don't see anything left for India to contest.
Zidemar there with that hero play towards the end of the captain's Sunday,
get that very, that very kind of early pick in the fight,
and forcing the sanctuary to, because of the fear, still not able to stop that pick.
And now it was a close round, very close round.
I mean, essentially 99-99.
So, so anyone's map so far, but Philippines just edging out in the end definitely showing a bit of flexibility to despite having some issues
Just lodging that may come from the point earlier playing the flanks really well. Just try to find the opportunities where they can
And there's struggle a lot to be able to get past
It was a second to last fight with a decent ultimate advantage, but couldn't quite drop their own flux in the counter outlaws
Katsune rush
We hit him to this one
If India is able to capitalize on those leagues because Philippines make a big comeback from very little percentage point
No real swaps here still
That's the board is open choosing to take this high ground first
That's it up puts in a bar there
Piles are up now as India looking like they just want to continue to play this kind of bunker style competition
Only the point put the pressure on maybe find some of the main wall
And the india definitely want to grip a little bit more to take advantage of the aeolii, the zuki healing
But before that the multi-angle approach from Philippine Shashi will be the first to fall
Doesn't look like Indy is able to really contest his point and all been trying to break his way out on the side room
But so she's locked up from all angles. Look at the damage coming to Indy's back line
Yeah, not just the damage to the amount of space they just don't have currently
The sigma orbs just the damage of Cinnabar as well on the blanks along with the telegist
Keeping the pressure on across all sides. Now we'll be looking to look at this, we still have no ult on board just yet.
Rock's going to go wide, not going to be able to find its mark across the wall, the XA will get pinched on the vital.
By versus 4, do not the Philippines, you have a bit of a lead on the offense, but that's not a matter of XA just finds every single kill on that 2 so far.
Plus the pile on top of everything else forcing the Philippines back in.
back and Leo had something like a 50% ult charge lead over the Vendak gap is gonna
start the slowy close now. Yeah great wall there too from Shashi so now you know
the late stagger extend, finding the heads up, that she needs just open it up.
They're gonna look at the whole point. This really comp gets a lot stronger right?
Especially if you lose that first fight you're always in a kind of a disadvantage
regarding this but in a comp like this you struggle a little bit when you're
doing with this Koki style Philippines. It's gonna be a plane very aggressively.
Could have been a really sick rock there.
The shield is coming through from Leo.
I'm going to follow this up with a flux.
Just under one for now.
I still need this amount of damage.
It's you wanted to flank.
Locked up by a naval for the time being.
Tino Rush played in for India.
There just doesn't seem like they have enough level.
Hold on to his own Tino Rush for the time being.
A train to lock Leo away.
Seems it will be just barely healthy.
It's vital to Cinebug.
Despite the low HP on their Cigna player,
the backline of all Philippines get it done.
And great split too from the Philippines as well. You see even if they didn't get a ton of work done with the overclock
So put the pressure and was able to
Get onto the cap get onto the point itself
And that's kind of what you want to see happen when you're playing into these may comps
Especially with the lack of ability with no Lucio is that okay? Let's split. Let's get around the May
Try to use the advantage we have when playing the sojourn tracer
Now 50% on board for the Philippines
India looking to walk on in maybe with the flux
The team rush is so good here for the Philippines, we have to be a little bit careful for the fact that Blizzard
will stop the aggression, certainly going to stop the Philippines from walking any further,
sitting at the top about these, the Suns before, this one is not really finding anything for the time being.
Basically every single one of them is burnt from both teams now.
Good stun is on rock strength and kill for Vind.
Oh look at all those, whole spine shawty and gets that pick onto abs.
The tall just feasting here and there's going to be a stagger on the Vind.
And then Lowefy trying to get out.
Gonna go down late and now we're in a last fight territory here for India.
This could be for the map as well.
No ult on board.
Exit kind of close for the dead eyes.
It doesn't want to go down too early from the cloak.
So I'm just coming in, binned onto Thiever.
Crash.
I'll be forced to June on a little bit of speed required.
Yeah, no one else can really touch because I'm not playing Trace.
And I get shot.
Uh-oh.
Oh, shashi.
Beautiful.
Right.
I'm trying to do one.
That'll be the fight before.
They need to get themselves onto the point.
Touch should be enabled.
But what can we find here? Shashi again, the double up here is gonna force him to get on the point if he comes out.
Shashi, you're hitting the right clicks. I mean, that's just nasty.
And that's just the power of Mei as well.
The right click, if you're hitting the headshots, you're gonna get a lot of damage done, maybe some instant picks.
So India with the backs against the wall, make it back in.
Or see the final fight of their own here.
It's like the opposite.
Then I very, very early get some pressure from the opponent.
It's a lot of skulls and a lot of skulls means a lot of kills as well.
Just able to dance around the shield,
and Leo successfully extend with a triple,
puts India into a fighting chance in a good position now for this comeback in round two.
Rush is up not too far from the Blizzard as well.
There's no situation. Okay, Sennavar actually, she's chasing the go-ins to the Vita right now.
I mean, even bash the D.Va away from that, have some of the packs available to just tank your players just a little bit more.
I need to get in, but it looks like Wilf is in someone's face.
They got the DPS now so they should have the point and then lose the shoot of the map.
And the rush just in time there for the Philippines closing it out.
Map 1 going their way and despite India with some real hero moments too from Xen and Shashi just not able to clean up in time.
Rush comes on out and really good abuse of the flanks again from Philippines.
Getting around that comp trying to take control of the map.
Some real heroes that we saw a little bit earlier on is often Q1, definitely a bit more of a standout on that first cap as on that first point I should say.
But an interesting Sigma vs Sigma on a laces, and that would you probably more expect, you know, the Rams to come in through, Mborelik here, some Malgus to be in play, but these two teams so far locked in a mirror.
I'd be very curious moving forward. I mean if it's just going to be more Sigma, I think Escorts, hybrids all play well into that
Maybe someone will end up banning a Sigma at some point as well, particularly if it's India
That's not quite keeping up here
I believe it was Leo that had a gigantic lead of a Vind on that second round of University. I think early on it was
50% or more in terms of roll charge lead at one point
Yeah, maybe the Sigma gonna be that staple just because perhaps these teams are feeling really built around
their breakout players of her X10 for India where she's just playing a really
hard hit scan it's had a lot of you know obviously a lot of talent a lot of
not that's really obviously insane results but very good showings in North
America and then Cinnabar who's been on this Alari right for a map which we
thought oh there's no way there'd be a lorry played but it's typically not
played on a control map like Oasis but maybe they want to build around these
two breakout players a little bit more both squads and just play a little bit
slower especially with Sigma being in a relatively strong spot.
Metawise right now
Especially with the addition of Mizuki to help counter those Diva comps a bit more
So very very likely you see some of those map picks like you were talking about
Overall though, I think India played Philippines quite close and then you look at the results here
I believe both of them essentially went to 99s. It might have been a 98 in there, but we'll count it
It goes to show particularly on that first round by the way with India
sort of getting that 98 first and forcing Philippines to make that long come back that we do have more than capability
Maybe have won either of those two rounds. Certainly. I think we could have probably gone through a sliding third round of that opening oasis
Thanks for the results. I mean this is so far a pretty competitive game really want this one to not be a 3-0
It was honestly kind of giving shades of old London spitfire, you know back with the team that would only bunker
that's all they could do. Christopher's like, okay, guys, back on the May backbone, get back on the May. It was kind of giving those vibes because they were doing a really good job of actually, you know, LOS, some of the damage, keeping the contest on the point, which is one of those crucial parts of the composition.
But that's where Philippines, I think, actually showed a lot of resolve and really showed actually kind of much more tactical depth and expect because a lot of times when we looking at these teams that are a bit more wild cards in the World Cup.
What they struggle the most on is that issue of like taking space like I'm using planks really fighting
There's opening picks that a lot of much more high-tempo teams can do and Philippines are doing a really good job
Especially you want to be told just opening up that space and making sure to get around some of those slower picks and those slower heroes
Especially with Cinnabar playing
Alari of all things and I do think this is a really good showing from Philippines showing they have their flexibility in general
So the worry right now is for for India and like what else do they have kind of up their sleeve now?
They try to pull up this like plunker comp is it really what they're gonna be aiming for or is that just a look for goasis?
I don't know you don't want to us we continue to run that into Philippines
It looks like they've already kind of cracked at least like they understand the content of the let's get around and let's use the space
But we've had certainly had some you know in the previous showings these two teams are even playing the dominant
Which is quite interesting. That's something that you probably wouldn't expect anymore, but again these matches took place all the way you know back in
like April, I guess I'll say March but late April, around that time period and
Ram as well, so all Sigma all day
But yeah, you had a Lee Jung and a new body in there that both went away all Philippines a
couple of different plays even
Had some showings in there some of the subs that we saw in the lineup for that roster
we're able to have a bit of game time so okay we'll wait to see how this map
takes us but so far I think the series is looking competitive this is looking
like it'll be the one today that will actually deliver us a easily super
competitive game rule. First time in Rialto so far in a virtual cup for Asia.
I mean so this is interesting too because it kind of to me feels like May
Merchantine it's taking place if India is picking realto because you want to talk about a map where people love the place of may
It is realto and shashi did look really good, right? I mean that made a comeback possible there
For that final round of oasis. So yeah, I kind of sniffing the air perhaps we're gonna be doing some may trickery going on
Would be the right map for it. I think this is where you can start to lean even heavy it into part compositions. So realto
Typically on any more of a diva mat, but I think if you just want to force a sigma
I think that can certainly work and well
We're just gonna get rid of the diva and say look diva point one point eight is extremely strong
Let's remove that because we want to play more sigma and then a lari gone from the India side
Notice that a cinemabar was causing some issues there
Wanted to force this one more towards a ground game over ball type game because because despite both teams playing the signals
Right the different styles of sigma team
You had more of a double flex support look with the Ellaria and Niki Riko with Philippines.
And then you had more of a brawly style close range, Maycast and Mizuki.
More of a team that wants to brawl up a little bit more, even though they are playing the Sigma, they want to get up a little bit closer.
Yeah, I mean, I think this it does make sense.
Band-wise, like you were saying there across the board, it also makes it a little interesting to because when Divas and Ellaria are both off the field here,
Especially for a map like Realtor when you look to like fur, I mean really the entirety of the map, but in particular first and second
There's a lot of verticality, right? There's a lot of options for verticality
There are a lot of options for long sight lines where D.Va can close the gap and Ellori can kind of abuse the gap
So you look at that like okay
There are opportunities now to where maybe even like an Ana comes into play because there's no D.Va
It's going into them
But we have to teams play things like Winston a lot, right?
Which is that sort of that long range pressure that dive pressure that you need or is it just
especially because this vibe I'm getting from May see from the first point they
look pretty good in that first map with me are they just gonna continue to see
more Sigma I think Sigma would be a great goal here this will be the map that
you would expect Sigma to blade on rather than Oasis really it just comes
down to whether Philippines still want to play in more of the poke style and
whether India sort of lean more towards May I think that's been the real
sticking point sort of noted Shashi's made is this going to be the May team
That's the kind of vibe I'm getting so far from in the end. This would be a good map to bring it out on a good main map.
Yeah, we will have to see and definitely still a map where I think even with the Ellari being banned, I do think this is kind of just a situation where you can expect potentially Cinnabar to still play something that's going to provide a lot of pressure and a lot of damage when you see how she was playing with the Ellari.
Obviously don't you can't trust the spawn doors. I doubt this in
Will say but it's possible
It's something that you could potentially expect because it is very very long sight lines here, but in comparison
Philippines
With the bastion, I mean there's this comp bastion. I mean that's that is cab bastion
That is cab bastion with an honor. Oh, we've seen our first cab bastion. Here we go
What's an honor? That's just like that is nano the bastion
Let it rip
The attacking side has the capability to go for swaps yet, but again, no D.Va could potentially
cause an issue.
This is where the D.Va ban starts to come into effect.
Easy X-Fingers kinda.
Over the bow.
Get the one for the pro here and- Oh my, what a rock!
But unfortunately, uh, it doesn't do anything, it doesn't do anything.
Cosmetic rock, sadly.
just a cosmetic I mean that's that's what we call a gymson. Ah yes non-functioning. See how
much function we get out of this so far though as cabbashing like on paper I mean it is kind of
easy to fight but at the same time when you need to get along if you haven't had the practice
really played through we don't talk about fighting you want to ease playing the end mate something
that has been sliding out of medic given some various nerves that we've come through on the
Philippines will try and make this one work so far. It's not getting a lot out of X-Tin's
fashion so far, but we're trying to form. We're not getting those kills in.
And also, I mean, the Philippines doing a really good job of just LOSing around the building,
setting up those picks, and really just getting that, I mean, that early Pekina Shashi as well,
but eliminates a lot of pressure that Philippines is going to fill up in their backline.
And that's them trying to go from behind here, trying to gun someone down with him down early
here and the entire front line is gone.
Philippine seems like they just keep going with this Bastion reasonably well by not even
really fighting the Bastion or fighting the rest of the team, fighting the Picks elsewhere.
As X-Ten and Prashah, not getting much value out of this combo as you would expect.
As far as the way Philippine's abandoned away the Devo, which would have been the pick that
we'd normally go to start dealing with, is we can't Bastion a little bit more.
Seems like they don't need it though.
They chose to ignore it.
They chose to ignore the Bastion.
They've actually said, actually, we don't need a Devo.
I'm just gonna make you do the war instead, I know you're not in time for that, I'm still here in the back line again trying to broadside, trying to find someone.
It's now time for Leo to sleep on the bed.
I bet you're x10 damage perhaps to come on through, no real...
...that a combo is to play in, but you certainly don't need that if you just go straight for the harness.
It's the one kill going away of India, it's sort of like jumping into a cassoon rush, Leo's already got a lot of kills in here, low damage in the ready as well.
The fashion gone, in his hope of defending his point, is basically like, despite the ones that are coming on through, is that enough?
Is Payload still moving?
I mean, they do have cats so wide, so they have a chance to maybe heather the way they go, but they actually not even necessarily end them, get the nano just to contest.
And there's gonna be the cat-olds.
They cannot go on through, I don't think it really matters, it gets as stunned as they end up here on through.
That was enough! All they needed was one.
I haven't capped there though, 4 minutes!
So 4 meters left to go through Philippines, they had a good positioning there.
Over right protocol from Uon, but just not enough damage, barely even gets a kill to X then as
the rest of India walk on forward, ignore the override.
And now some more changes coming through, it's Lucio, Kirikou, completely forgo the cat-bashing coffers.
No, they didn't really do too much for India, this is where India might have an opportunity to just
walk in for those deep ends and dig the ears of it.
Blade is a naked blade. No, I mean no nano nothing just blade in catapult crash down it's one like it do force the recalls are actually
Be a punished possible
It's a low
Well, we'll find that one. That's also flux being burnt by Leo as well some supporting damage
More rematch remains no more hold for maybe that could have been an opportunity for India to the blade will
Despite only getting one kill one kill sometimes would just give you the fight before you need shashina thinking okay
You know what? Let's get back on towards the main. The main was working before, so make that main work one more time as that also stops the unit.
Yeah, I mean, I'm just, and this is 0.26 in Genji Gif value, but no nano.
I think in general, it's, it's rather miraculous that everything's in space.
It needs, it needs, it needs, it's been coming into Nikitas.
And I'm actually available. Oh, so much so much to do, God.
It's opportunity though, that's one down, fall out, and you might want to push a little bit further forward and see how much they can bite off.
Uping slowly working their way down, starting to see the valley of the main walls come through for Shashi.
Burn that timer down, because hopefully he's still gonna do some time back to work with.
Even with the annihilation rush about to be up along with the overclock we were talking about, so...
Bank, not, if not pretty good, I should say for India.
Philippines here just went along.
Pokey Captain Prash poked a little hard there.
Lucio moment, Colt mid-air.
Layle, coming through a second day of the game, you are now in the second player.
This is going to have to do a lot to hold on to get the snimmers are falling all around and so the abs didn't kill us
Things are the lousy double support line kill is really important for India
They need to rely on respawn skills double think is slowly come back into what's the fight
India might still be the whole onto this one Leo's the only one alive, which means other things have to back out
They're saying it might be one of the most wall like displays of Sigma came play you've ever seen just running for
getting those pics in the right spot. I mean I read it
The last gameplay. That's just the power of the nuisance on Higer. He's dealing so much damage there.
I feel a little bit weak against that, to be able to run him in.
I've done pretty well with the OCE before, with just the rails on his arm.
I've already found his target at the time being, but Exit is still down, because he needs to be trained.
Plus, for Flash, just shy away from buying this all-important beat, and just have it just yet for India.
Just save them 96% and that's what it will die on. This Blitz is going to have to do the work instead.
Except coming through a score on the O's since decent damage from Vince, it's a point damage from X10.
As I really want to hold on to this fight, the overall range to get for the P's a little bit more
stave-in time, it seems like it would be enough, but while on Leo,
getting the kills, the ping goes down, it's Flash, God save them! It's gone, Flash! It's a solo bait!
It's a one man, and one man being not able to save in time, that's going to be the cap of the rain,
really, not a few people stave-in power, but the finishing power for that fight.
sure the blade not available for Philippines. What a good fight there for them making it on in.
And he seems to try to get that blizzard just not quite enough but they were able to get around it,
force the blizzard to get out of that LOS, come back in with the Wraith. And Philippines the
tempo is great. I mean this is a I would say comparatively to some of the matches we've seen
today. Well so far this feels like a very like he said evenly matched the tempo is great. Both
these teams seem to have like a pretty good understanding of how they want to play their cops.
still a two minute and eight second time bank is really decent because it was
time was starting to go down a little bit some of the other points some to see
a little bit more life out of India when they stopped away from the cab bashing
before she just came a little bit too long to build up certain ultimates and
most important one they absolutely have to talk about the fact that it was the
sound bearer kept impression so dying them all that fight great targeting by
you on by the way there's also found a decent number of rails across the board
headshots and otherwise, really put the damper on the India's defense. I think that that
sound barrier came on through a little bit earlier in 17, but would have been a different
looking defense altogether. So it means India have their work cut out for them on the offensive
side as X10, once again, hovering the bashing.
And so, I mean, this is a map where Cat Bashing can get a lot of value. You have a ton of
skyline to work with, you know, you have a lot of opportunity to get behind some of
these more egregious points of geometry, which are so easily able to contest the cart.
So a lot of opportunity to be found here is just a question of getting value out of it.
And here they go.
This is the exact same style, if I could have identical stuff in these defense, it's one of the same comp now on the defensive side of things.
I do find the genjails so interesting for this comp here, right?
But this time they do have an honor, so there are going to be nanos available as X-Ten, like you said, all the way on the flank here.
Just trying to take some pressure away, trying to set up maybe to beam someone down.
And the Genji is certainly an interesting choice, not a lot of support to allow the Genji to get anything out.
Unless you have the nanoboost on top, or shoot for X-Ten, you should be seeing some good damage onto the tank.
But the Genji is going to spur it out of that one. Barely, you won't slip, it's still alive as well.
And he is just not able to clean up some of these skills
What I have shurikens and I'm trying to stop the
tethered batch
800 meters in the air. It's definitely it's definitely a choice. Definitely a choice of anti air defenses here
Just throwing these up in the air right now. He's looking for the many a beef like that thing that would be
It's gotta be the play
Yeah, I mean I imagine they're just trying to set up to maybe punish some of those smaller members of India like ads there on the honor.
I think we're just gonna get found there so that's pretty good obviously there those media medivacs are gonna have a cop there.
There's one way to really put the dance on the catabash composition. Rare you see the cat going down first. Usually the bash is the one in trouble.
The Philippines are already leading down this time of great significance.
Pretty sure the India defense faltered by this time of the year.
If you do one down, that's not going to be the opportunity for India.
A little bit more now.
Shashi on the two, Leo, Slip, and India ideally get through this without using too many ultimates.
There will be one more fight, and that's the fight at the end of A when India won't drop the ult.
Perfect, Angon a little bit late picked there in the lousy.
There's not going to be a nano up just in time either for this contest or without being the last to go.
But still the spawns are close and likely gonna be chance to get it with Cinnabar. She's gonna have the rush available
But I do have to worry about these old tier for India in this chose especially with the Bugs coming up along with the Manos
Manos an early. Strangler to X and that damage should be pretty nasty
Porting everyone into the locker room as you are now gone
Just an Anna on to Leo. Laos didn't have the opportunity to put on the solo so he didn't have the late either
That will be the Cat India. Find their mark
It seems like just a bad bash and then it's over now. Well, the matter certainly will put it over life
That's just the perfect situation there for the cab bashing and part of the reason why you can see this accomplish is so good
When it's played properly there, you're in this to reach for it
You just have it across this wide open space you need to contest with the bastion just perfectly mobile love you
Especially combined with the nano just mulches. Yeah, I need those lower HP heroes
But Philippines they're gonna have what's available. I mean, you're gonna have the override protocol
You're gonna have the flux you're gonna have a blade though. No nano available here
Those some options to be get in they just need to make sure they control this high ground
What's for the chains here as well as cinnabar has something to do with you keep?
Shashi stick a fortune one deliver a kill on the Leo to see if you and does more is alright
I always saw previously looking for any targets, but just not find anything will mention get out of the fight
Well, what does that mean shashi deliver this more he got a stick in the Leo previously now flies the extra kill the solace
I mean beautiful split there too from the India backline. I mean I was making sure not to get caught by the protocol
Everyone just splitting properly there as you want them making a swap over casting said okay, maybe no more in-raise
Yeah, there's day. There's gonna have the cat and available long flux
So they have some options to just walk on in before the nano is up because there's no defensive support ults up for Philippines just yet.
Okay, so one to one trade so far.
Now we're just going to put this one further into Philippine's contention.
No X-Ten Alive flash, we'll have to exit. Loads him.
Waiting for an opportunity to claim their own ults here.
Obviously, might be a little bit too far where they really get a catnap kill into the river, but just dragging a plate into your int could be worth.
Yeah, just the stun too, right? The setup and engage where you can just drop the catapults and damage to prevent any actions going on.
Then we'll just instigate someone who potentially has catapults and prevents them behind, get again, or something.
Vendor's gone though. Probably Lindheim Explosives coming online for X-Ten, but Solace is still looking for more targets while Solace can equalize this.
Probably taking too good for a new drag away. Oh, catapult!
X-Ten's doing more. X-Ten's still alive for a fair much damage.
Oh, it's a little scary. Yeah, they're stuck behind me lies now captain brush can likely get out
You do have a lot of ability here, but it's a little scary
He's out on one
She ought to one. I mean, it's the cat cat moments
And so it's not with the narrow you's gonna make this walk over the trace appear probably if it's better to do a shashi a bit
a little bit of test
Well
Because he's been good shashi's been lights up so far man now trace that
Now with the distraction you see you want to try to shoot the cat that she gets one
Shashi on the floor is the place you actually can worry about
Onto the back flight on the Sena far shashi's gonna triple the slide bend of the Leo
This should be a free push all the way through the final door
And that's just the shashi effect right there. It's three two very important ones early
And they're gonna have a nano bash in here again, right?
So, something that could immediately mulch someone,
they don't want to use it defensively,
however, it wasn't essentially available along with the flux arse,
and even the dead eye.
There's a lot of options to keep that in check,
and you can deny what's going on.
The dead eye needs to come up from the ant,
the ant needs to do a lot of heroes off, flux is coming on,
and, Cinnabine, you want to be caught by the fire,
and they put onto the ground,
we've got X-Sync, what we did at least for our pitilery,
but the damage is just not going to be in flight.
It seems like the Kekai Sanctuary did more than enough
To prevent the damage from X-Men being nattoed to come off in for India, this is the finished push, nothing else out of this.
I mean, well played from Philippines there, I mean, and in India even saw the follow-up, they're like, okay, Sanctuary's up, we need to get in, we need to hit like an anti,
take the fight to them inside the Sanctuary, but with the flux available, just to bring their eyes on the value, they held on to the high noon too.
There's going to be a plea to come off off now for India, with the mantra, they have to rush back into the main X-Men cheese of moving over to the cast.
It's difficult to get the cabash inside the final sea room, like you've run out of complete
ceiling space down to the skybox, so it's good fun to make that sort of happen is you
want to slow it a little bit, it walls off a little bit, and you know, we'll just wait
this one out.
It's just a deterrence, just a deterrence, burying their fangs a little bit there, so
it's looking to just make some space here in the backline, pressuring a bit.
Try to find the opening, but they can wait, they can wait out, they have to choke.
Excellent on the center bar, that's the 5v4, India opportunity of Shash, this will go down here.
That's the matter though, it's Captain Shash to you, I've seen that one in the kill speed multiple times,
a different heroizer you want, it's an extra one on for Shash, that's just probably not going to be enough members now for India.
Dropping two, the Philippines having a resport advantage, but certainly a slowdown to India, not going to push just yet, just holding for fight.
The enemy pressure here a little bit, they have to worry, there's the rush, they're going to run over them there too,
And almost even working out better for the Philippines there, just keeping the fight drawn out a bit before burning more time off the clock.
Ow, I mean, that used to rush, of course, but now it's a last fight situation.
So, gotta wait for the Cinnabar ult, because Leo's got a good opportunity here.
Flux9 could be on board once, they actually hit the OT.
You can be a little bit careful from diving it too far, but that works out.
Flux on Tashashi, doesn't ice block by the way, which means Lodge gets the kill.
Ben has to pop annihilation, just to keep himself alive, by the way.
Still have to touch here and they have had the race for the payload. This seems like they got a couple of kills
Hope he's potentially fine. They get you Vince got the touch
And they have rush. I mean this could be a clutch moment
I mean there's two players behind the rush is up after the touch there. It's gonna be
Hello, that's big anymore. Oh
I
I mean, what a play. What a play from Abz and Vind. I mean, that's just incredible.
And we talk sometimes about how strong Kiriko is negatively, but this is the moment of Kiriko.
Positive, positive plays. Being able to make it work.
A lot of the value there from the damage. Have the rush available. Abz and Vind breaking through that forward hold.
Philippines walked up. They played super aggressively. Flux, Katunin, and Rush was used even before that to get the triple kill.
But playing that far forward, India split their own team up and typically, I mean, that's risky as well, India split their own team.
Vind and Ambs going towards the payload because somebody needed a touch.
And Ambs just having the extra consumer rush, the extra damage output.
All the players from Philippines that tried to come back and contest and touch ended up going down to that duo.
It's a really insane two-man clutch that really, most days of the league, you wouldn't expect that to work out.
to walk out but Philippines probably thinking they allowed them to slip
through their fingers slightly. Yeah a bit of the perfect storm there for India
and the perfect play on top of that. So now Hope is alive for India off that.
Map not done there is a chance we've seen crazier plays. The question here
especially with a minute on the board for India is like with this cat bashing
comp you kind of get like one shot and then maybe you'll get another fight but
the longer the fight, the longer you can end up to OT. So it's a little bit scary
considering it hasn't seen like the most surefire immediate insta-fight with Zybar
and then you know. And they were able to, I believe, get a decent amount of damage
from the regulation, of course, to actually get the A cap. They require a
vision flash next thing to go over the top side but do know that because when
time back you instantly get all your perks so just start grenade and damage him straight away
does get blocked out mostly earlier shielding good oh what a sleep
sadly so
enough oh my god what a sleep down wow
well again it just means that okay you know next in caution you bag
now in a very tough spot they have to play it a little bit slow wait for the
spawner they are close to spawn it's so gonna get down but after crash after
crash such a big fine view it's a lot less pressure that's gonna go down to
Turn.
Philippines looking like they'll give the win this one.
India only have three players.
They'll have to do another complete clutch by the way.
Laos about to have ultimate.
Leo still has the payload.
And if the payload doesn't really move from here,
this is going to be rough for India's defense.
Once we actually flip sides,
you want someone to add this up.
Game three, Nato.
Leo's going to live regardless.
And you want to clean up the last couple of plays,
adding them stats.
And I'm going to say in advance that payload
doesn't look like it's got enough distance in it.
It's very short.
It's just a freckle past the hair, which by most metric or imperial measurements is not very far
So it's it's not looking good
It's also a very tough spot to prevent it from going because you have to cycle contest the point so
Effectively because you're any also. It's like directly under the high ground at that. You're not even not a corner per se
So this is gonna be a very very tough
hold for indians even possible and really set up from that amazing sleep from wow as well. I mean the
Just an incredibly good sleep
Just get that pick and put them on that back foot of it
By what you want 15.4k damage compared to x7 17
But when you consider x10 has been mostly on the Bastion you once kept up in damage against the Bastion
Which is a hard thing to do because you are definitely farming stats on damage specifically when you're playing Bastion
It goes to show that Leo and you want you put up on the damage department specifically you see Leon Leo's
3k ish two and a half K lead onto Vin which was also a big talking point that we had on that elacist where it felt like
Leo had a bit of end
the Sigma matchup
Other vendors been playing the Sigma the entire time mind you
Three minutes and eight now to barely push past the first corner. You've got our manager for the pains go this one of the bags
It would be a miraculous hold currently for india. It would be a miraculous hold now
We didn't see some good may gameplay may of course going to be one of the another picks
But usually anchor this point now
But it would be probably one of the greatest hold you've seen in a watch
Notice that india has not go for camp bash and I'll gamble that one didn't really work out for this time back offensive as
finish it off and for Philippines we saw how little distance they needed to push and we knew
that three minutes was going to be more than enough of that. And just really so beautifully
played again from Leo. We talked about them a bit on the Sigma but getting the most out of that
perk as well to keep just the cycle contest. Come on in, take high ground, go back to high ground,
force them to chase to try to spread India a little bit thin on that anchor and really,
really, really well played for Philippines, taking control of the map, and their tempo
has been really, really good here, Admiral. I mean, I have to respect Philippines and
any of both, both of these teams. But, in particular, Philippines, just their win condition
understanding has been, I think, fantastic. They have an extremely good tempo. They know
we're like, okay, we need this map control. Their map control is like, kind of, is like
pretty stellar. I just have to look at the scene and be like, I'm really, really impressed.
Despite the fact that they did kind of get back capped, they got the two men back up
that happened to them but that you know that happens the best of us I mean and
then you get into the time bank and it's back to business right you sort of just
get past the fact that okay India did clutch that one out but get back to
normal regular schedule programming and that's so far has been Philippines
getting the better of India who took some risks on this map reminded that they
did really want to play a lot of cab bashing some of that worked out on the
offensive side definitely I would say defensively wasn't much to look at at
all in fact it probably ended up being a bit of a liability they looked far better
when they stop the way from it. And they start to look towards future maps where again, it's
India's pick now is the loser of the last map. Do you want to keep opting into allowing Leo to
play the Sigma? Do you want to opt into a Sigma? A duel here between Vind and Leo where Vind has
largely not been able to do too much against Leo at all. Might want to either go towards a flash
point, which is not going to be great for the Sigma or perhaps ban the Sigma away would be Michael.
Yeah, because I mean, there really isn't, if you look at what's happened so far, there doesn't seem
to be another like great option for bands necessarily other than like, okay, maybe you
could ban a tracer, but I really don't think that's the pain point. You don't want to ban
cast because that's somebody that X since she's really good at that support line wise. I feel
like, I mean, there's not really much you can look at to be like, yeah, we really want to make it,
get them off this hero necessarily. So seems like the tank line and that Sigma and particularly
like you called out is likely the best option. If you were trying to do some strategic bands,
try to force yourself in a direction that maybe puts them on the other foot.
Yeah, obviously, Serovasa has the first point, which is pretty reasonable for Sigma than that.
That's not a bad map. I think Serovasa, if you're willing to still play into the Leo Sigma for point
one, that would be an okay place to go where you don't have to ban the Sigma just yet.
Or you just straight up go to a map where it doesn't matter. You ban away the Sigma,
the hybrid is still open, Porsche's still open.
I don't know what other comps that India
have really tried yet, but in my mind,
there's still the opportunity to play something
way more brawlier, sort of the Malgo option,
particularly for-
Yeah, or even the ranch could be quite good.
Just full commit to the ram.
I think realistically,
instead of trying to force these similar comps
a bit more, it feels like Vindice seems relatively
comfortable on the ram too.
So maybe an option to just try to kind of full force
ram compositions into them, see what happens.
I feel like they were doing a decent job.
I mean, even though it didn't work out,
I saw like a really nice vortex setup play with that cat Bastion
where they threw it into the top,
tried to catch them there so they could have
just the Bastion reign in the nades
soon as they have it when they're stuck in there.
So I do feel like that's an opportunity for them too,
especially because they have a,
well it seems to be a very competent May player for Shashi.
So lots of opportunities still to play kind of that
brawl style as well and give off maybe the Sigma a bit more.
Well, even like leaning into Shashi's Tracer
but more because we're talking about the May,
but also the Tracer was impressive from Shashi.
There were quite a few moments there
where the Philippines was struggling against the Shashi Tracer in particular.
So maybe a comp in there somewhere.
I don't know if there's a dive available, possibly a Diva Tracer type of
Lucer Curie comp by Sigma Dive.
X-10 can fit into that with a lot of different options.
So just obviously easy to fit into that type of composition.
Um, but I think a faster Flashpoint style map might be what
Indian E-Nap because the more front to back type of maps you have for
Philippines like a hybrid might just end up playing more into Philippines hands where clearly they just want to play more Sigma
I'll play more Sigma Polari not rely Sigma
Kiriko plus Mizuki
But it's gonna be non-binding. Okay, if we are going to body this has to be a Sigma band for sure
Also the opportunity for them to band Sigma and just play like a dive if it's on the table or Ram
So yeah, I think I think a sigma band would make a lot of sense though
It is a map where well no
I mean really good to say well it's a map or simply but honestly Sigma is still pretty strong on you
It was like I got a very good position
Especially if you want to if you're worried about playing it's like a diva right where you played that sigma of the Zupi comp
So you can actually punish the diva pretty effectively
so
Okay, not it's gonna be a tracer band
Well that does
That is kind of wild because I guess Shashi is only going to play Mei then.
It's Mei right?
It's got to be a Mei situation here, unless Shashi is about to pull out like...
Unless Shashi is kind of pulling out the Mingyu special where we're seeing Mei, Vera,
something like that come out.
What happens if you're banning the owner of Alaric by the way?
Cinnabar was the one playing Alaric earlier.
So that's taken off the table.
It actually wouldn't surprise me if actually it was the other way around.
That's actually has India already banned the Alari. I think that she did early on which means they can't
Again, so that's a second Alari ban India's ban at once better pins abandoned now
No, Sigma ban, which means that India either happy to play into it again or
Have a plan for it. We'll see maybe they'll play maybe those sick the more Brawley stuff like the ram
Malaga could work for their favorites or eight points gonna be very interesting
Diva is probably gonna be a better look on a point compared to either Sigma or Malaga or Ram
Yeah, we just have to see what the final comp choice is going to be here.
It definitely leaves a lot of questions, but obviously we put our immediate thoughts towards
a May competition, and that is exactly what we're seeing so far, so it is, and it's Sigma,
and it's Sigma.
So they're just saying, we're mirroring the Sigma still, which obviously has not necessarily
paid dividends so far, and they are playing that Sigma-Mazuki comp.
It's anti-diva and it's a nature, but it's a cop that though they've seemed pretty strong
It doesn't seem like they've had I would say mash you over for terribly Philippines
Fresh has also been subbed up for regime
We'll be playing the zoo key currently
I just be worth a bit of a change up on the roster see if it changes your
Opportunities a little bit Xen already pops by the way what appears to be a rock so lucky to survive that shot
So let's see you're on the flank with Zayu, yeah it's on the flank trying to make them
turn a bit to get up onto the high ground aggressively, is Leo gonna take the rock there, then I'm
actually gonna go down?
Hey India, retain control of this left side, I'm attacking POV currently, for the brand
By the way, okay vendors getting to be
Okay, yeah, I know
Completely gone. I was just running out. I guess
It's like India
More than came to play especially by the way playing in these tight Cardinals shashi's maith has got to be very important
He's got us
And this is where like you look to saw us a new one
Just trying to open up
I mean bother they see the main like let's try to get close
I think it's required
I would like to give some specialist pressure for update, especially because of this rock chain that's gonna happen here when I'm using the gun.
If you want to just play Interferipizo, I was thinking India could play this one slowly, take advantage of the high ground situation, but they decided to all dive down, drop on top of Leo, really aggressive may wall, then as they back on out, they'd catch solos on the back end, enough time with the solos killed to put themselves back on high ground in minute 30 gun.
I really actually I think they don't want to play too slow right because you have
the Mizuki so you really want to set up a chain especially when you're playing
the Juno's no longer the fight runs Juno's probably just gonna outheal you
so I do feel like you they want to take these aggressive fights with the
flight rather than the person you will be kind of split because if they all go
coasting it feels like you can focus the pressure a lot more for indian here look
at these ults now this is big for india they have just like everything going on
katsuno has to come on through as soon as he meets me here stop protecting some
Flies not get them slammed up with the Flux
Even dropping into secondary support. Oh, there's gonna be regime Leo takes a rock and won't India throwing a batmany ultimate
You better expect that one
Yeah, both the support is gone here, so Philippines gonna have the ray gonna have the rush and then the blades available to
Alongside the right protocol so pretty much everything they need to kind of break the point open at this at this level
Especially without a flux try to deny the blade or anything like that. So scary. This is a scary fighter for India
But if they win this I mean like
And you want to also really hard gigaflight here on the overriders or take a back angle and it's gonna be tougher in here
I think maybe a may have overspent regime particularly holding up the kick ice actually would have been very strong in the next place
It can be just been against your right. It's a decent flash bang
But where's you on so far when I see this damage really come through for India for Philippines rather
What's done is this fourth position? That's gotta be something at least the shashi down for the pings
I mean just beautifully played different Philippines and they had the ults, they had all the ults they needed. Using new ones just make sure they got off the high ground there.
Just nothing in the bank left for India after the pressure.
And they hold on to Blade which I mean they might, it kind of, it might seem like potentially a little bit of trap.
It's a Genji, you don't have an honor or anything, but like it's a blade on your body, you definitely get something going.
If you're careful not to get chained up here, as soon as you will be, your problems are actually not swapping.
Well, which was the Soach.
You're given the call that they at least got some decent time down from Philippine, really forced Philippines to admit a lot in that last fight.
Charging onto one HP, but staying alive now, they got a lot of low HP players on both sides still alive.
I don't think it's the same difference, just using the TP to get out before the fight begins here, but Blizzard is up to Josh and they have some options here to just fight him so he's not going to go for it very early.
Closing up, there's going to be a tank, Leo, like you down here, it's going to be gone.
So let's get nothing done, try to slice away and extend and extend.
We'll be able to show Sollis what's up in the Philippines, this is going to be the fight gone away from them, this is going to be a trade.
I hope it's up the mid here, Bond being so much closer means that Xen likely not gonna
be there to pressure too hard, but they can just play a bit further back.
Lux is up, no support from Philippines, so that means that Vind is keeping track of
what they have, because they know they've popped from first.
Try to pop an aggressive Lux potentially for this upcoming fight.
payloads on the move again and for overrides be a good call see what kind of anger you
want can take now within this first of flux this lift up is going to be on top of Leo
and it gets him down I mean it's a solo but it's good that's enough for India
that's exactly what we're going to see is a very clean efficient fight now however I
mean oh however I mean obviously very short which is not ideal for India because the shorter
fight just means like if we popped it all to now Philippines are going long or
just gonna have to think up there's a long fight when you build the
bit without the right but okay okay yeah I mean which makes it makes sense right
not a lot of anti air here with Eva next in oxygen pressure
century comes up this time to the overwrite but unfortunately the
override will still find regime via flux is mentioned Philippines I'm gonna see if
They can just clean up the rest. Yeah, so it's all you know, rock the bing will still fall
It's going to be Philippines first
Good push on B. It seems quite some time. I
Mean that's just I mean you gotta love how the interplay of some
Like okay sanctuary and so this is coming in like well
Let's just we need to go in or we can just take you out
And so they just say let's just take you out of the sanctuary and then you'll eat some
One of those being played into this one, double support from Philippines, but X-Tams can try and OC into this backline.
Solis, right on top of that, Solis takes the right shot.
Joshi now, listening, Solis is getting more than up work done in India, you got nothing left to play through here.
Philippines, you've called a disengaged, but coming back in now, should be the cap.
Looking relatively healthy to have some option to anchor the point, not if they don't touch though.
But unfortunately they just didn't get the punch in any time, it was unlikely anything was going to happen
regardless.
But I mean the overclocking is huge, so just a little bit of a mistiming there.
And Philippine's playing that so well, saving the Suzy, no one completely was going to be available.
Got out of the Blizzard.
Re-engaging now, then going back to the Sigma.
No ults on board, Shashi's on Pharah of their own, so maybe a little bit of Pharah due to taking place.
We're slowly just mirroring each other, so both things are completely mirrored on every single hero
You put things slightly more ahead on every single, in fact, every single one that you've turned
You're up first to the flex, so we've been looking for opportunity with Barrage
But this is scary considering that there's another player that can shoot you down mid-Barrage
She comes at flex now from Leo to catch
I'm just not sure if that actually will handle on something that doesn't look like it actually did, which is a bit of a problem
Oh it's aggressive, it's caught, tries to go in off that plus, no one goes down, now
we're going to trade and return to a lot of heals off the field, I mean loud one and two!
Great overwrite coming from Regine, trying to hold on to this one, dealing a charge she
though, important, that's the rest of your damage you're going to need, all the damage
speaking off of you while taking a rock in the face, Leo though speaking of rocks straight
on top of Ben, it's Philippines with all the members still alive in India, struggling to
Spawns back in. In fact, nobody really even available to touch abs and extents to hang around spawn
But 19 seconds they're remaining they will confirm the cap and importantly of us before hits the OT
Yeah, that is the all-important objective at times special from Abakubani where it's so hard to cap that final point at times
Now Philippines in a very solid position not not an untenable position for India at all
especially considering they look pretty good on the defense. I like the looks so
very very winnable still for India. The Philippines again just showing a lot of
flexibility a lot of really good fundamental play in terms of the
disengages in terms of hey we see the strings of the complets let's work around
our strings and just do a little mechanics so maybe maybe Kat Maschert
Yeah, hovering for now with the diva in play also offer a little bit of protection, I mean
India, you'll say they really burnt the timer down as much as possible, they still have
to finish themselves now and a lot of their struggles in my opinion on C, given the fact
that they wanted to eventually mirror the compositions, it took them a while to get
on to the comp they wanted to play by then,
because Philippines had the major ult of knowledge of India left,
far behind in most important ultimates in
the G-Men were trying to just drop in the final overall raid,
but comes in a little too slowly.
Cap Ashen, for what it's worth, also extremely good to follow, which sort of is the plan.
Well, okay, another big rock, but it doesn't quite matter if you don't hit the cat.
So now India looking to set up X-Ten,
and put her behind with the cabash and just try to sweep the plane.
Can you see how Philippines are playing here?
They're trying to play really close to the choke so they can run into the doors,
maybe catch Philippines and they go for the location.
Another game against Kogir.
Okay, might still be thinking some decent damaging,
but slightly missed call in terms of the timing of the tower fall.
Next thing we'll find one.
Regina's in second.
That's actually probably so enough of you.
Let's engage now. You can work with those kills.
Yeah, but you see Philippines play that really well.
I love how they played that.
Just played really tight to the choke really tight to the hallways there to just collapse
on India when they try to go up in a collapse way.
Not bad at all there for the initial engage for Philippines even though India did get some
picks, but should be able to take them space, like you said, from those picks and yeah,
they are going to get in.
As you can now be picked by Cinnabar, by the way, what's the damage to Shashi, you the TP?
The ransom was chained to the Cap Bastion to be 244 to Philippines.
Solus, the likely should end up something else. You can just see how bad the fire is into the Cap Bastion.
So easy for the Bastion just to completely destroy the fire in the sky.
It's a one to one DPS trait so far.
And he's got good position from X-hands POV. Solus is gonna come back onto a repulsed visitor.
Is there far a gone so I mean not a lot of pressure right now despite that pick
Trying to get a pressure on to have gonna find it
Once the kill to Leo as well, but Leo still staying alive good healing for the backlight of the Philippines
We're not enough against the damage of X 10 still you've got to straight the make way then he's gonna go down here
Why not get a ring that can fact absolutely not Philippines holding on strong two minutes gone half time is no more
I mean, this is just, I mean, this is nice. I'm impressed. I've been really impressed by Philippines. I'm impressed by how they're playing the defense. I'm impressed by the tempo, the swaps, just everything.
Like, this is a really, really good fun with the play. And India's not playing poorly at all. So, well played for Philippines so far. The Oat Bank is looking really good for the two here.
India again, gonna be putting an X in here on this long oak with the Cat trying to make a little bit of space.
because you are playing cabash and your ultimate value is not great, artillery is not amazing,
catnap is not amazing, although maybe you can still find some value, you can get a kill
right now but extensions are not connected so far on to anybody, you're a little bit
scared of the fact that there are chains there at least, you are going to find center right
here, I'm going to turn right now, but no setup for this like it means no real building
to kill, oh couple plays, look to the corner, open the run, bow and you on, just resigned
to their face eating their artillery shell from the sky so a lie actually finds a perfect shot.
They got a touch point. Hey even with the beautiful mortar, I'm loving the canineering
going on but you're actually still at the end of the day capturing the objectives right?
I think that's the funnermis of Bombay. The fight is not very strong right now
and the Philippines are still just pressuring me as we depart from any new space.
And the stacking also is all beautiful. Chain up the Leo, that's going to be
then combo straight into the flux, rock to kill x and you trade the fashion for the
targets a little bit rough but you've got most of the damage out of India now
double support open so our man has to skill the loul, so winnable by India
nano onto vin now opportunity for India they have a bit of respawn skills over
Jean not gonna find anything I lie actually dies in the middle of the catnip
but we'll get a one-for-one trade can vin do enough for adeva still so damn
strong and finally you talk about the cap of us we're getting the cap done
slowly
Finally, I mean also, I mean we're pretty much in OT
just about it's gonna be down to the wire rush gonna be easier for a lot of the readests and also don't remember
Don't forget to come back with a sanctuary
No trees under the play just yet. Sashi on the low Leo D next
Okay, he's gonna make some decisions here. Likely the decision is to back on out save your ult. This cap is gone
Still a little bit torturous
A little bit torturous now, but you can keep momentum. It is Nubani. Nubani's second tip, but it can be pretty fast to fall.
If you keep the momentum going, just get one good pick. Keep the snowball. It's very, very hard to find the footing to behinds with the defense.
The sanctuary is still available. It's just a complete swap-up now for India, getting back to the Sigma.
They said we're done with the D.Va.
Let's get the Sigma going again. X is off the Bastion here as well.
Time is the factor here. I mean, two minutes left to play through this.
There's gotta be a good bead push, I said, now I'm looking over towards the cast instead.
Or maybe, if the flashbang plays against the leaf or an off-solus.
I hope that the beam is not shy from fighting Leo in the second action, but...
...Ajie has got Leo's way and now with the first sanctuary...
...we find anything here, just a lot of bullying on the Shashi group on him.
Joshie caught in this sanctuary, it is not a sanctuary ring, it is very dangerous, and now...
I think I can lead the backup and find a fight win here on second and looks like I'm gonna get some staggers for jamming ads caught behind Suzu trying to find a TP.
There he is. Okay, I was a little scared for a second there but now even a later stagger now for Philippines and for Indians to be put behind it's a minute and a clock.
We've seen Ab's clutch before, so I'm sure Soloz was feeling a little bit of pressure there, but hiding away, getting ready for a key deathlock, so I should say.
Much for the Suzu coming in from Ab's will be super important.
Since HP has been in a lot of trouble, yet there's a Suzu finally. I'm not gonna have to eventually save Ab's.
There should be a one-to-one solo fight, but even with Soloz going down, the rest of the Philippines will get the cleanup.
It's beautiful, I mean it's beautiful, they have the death blossom go in, they have the
Suzu close, walk forward with it, just keeps so much pressure there, but they have to split
because there is no support ult available yet for India.
This is now last fight in situation, at the time the fight happens, they are very close
to spawn doors to be fair, but the bank is good for Philippines though.
It's a big time all the alps apparently been dropped in X10 getting dropped out
Five versus three now abs thinking about using the alt that was just top of the loss
Philippines blow the entire alt bank now. It's only 10 seconds left in India
They're gonna probably have to use up was just gonna let's pull but there's a chain and a rock
There's a chain and a rock these are both a tree scary now
There is a cat in the field, but never mind. No cat. They still have to touch
They are gonna get it rush use on high ground X into one two, maybe
Chaining a rock being what I'm playing to survive again looking for the next upgrade of my equipment if a bit of games right now.
Maybe the chain in a rock wasn't quite enough. We are still going to be using Kaka Sanctuary.
Cinnabar in the middle of this play right now with the Blizzard Revention dropping sides.
The Sanctuary means it's gotta be over and they are clutching up for this fight.
It's OT. They can't lose in more fights, but they are gonna get the opportunity to push.
The problem is the pressure to pop Blizzard in that situation.
It's like Shashi, they played it so well they got there, they hit the ice well just in time.
But if they had just saved the blizzard, then maybe this cap would have been a fantastic spot.
But now, they're fighting a full 5v5 and Solis gonna have that blossom.
Maybe we're gonna be safe.
Actually, nearly one-shot Lyle in the backline, but yeah, I think you're right.
We really have to talk about the fact that Solis is the only one that's in the end the ultimate.
So the opinions of the fight to get one more fight is pretty large.
Here's the regime in XCent, got to fly their way to victory on this combo.
We're gonna lock out plays for some time, but it would be long enough to get Leo up.
Huge amount of green edge free from the Canada grasp.
Just struggling to find a single kill here in the Solis.
We'll just get this one on the point.
I should be enough, but here we go.
Find your way on, get into the back right.
Not gonna use it just yet.
Philippines losing to the Indistans.
Wow, what a really good score there.
Keeping that pressure on the Leo so early too.
No one goes down.
They put the pressure on the vign to try to set up the deathblossom, but the cap's gonna go out.
So India, they still have a bit of momentum and they're gonna have an open goal.
So there is a chance, there is a real chance here now for India to get this cap.
Maybe even potentially, it's likely gonna be OT here for India.
It's likely to be OT, but I don't know.
Yeah, and it's guaranteed OT here for India. They don't have to find something special to get to here.
I gotta say, there's a lot of catnap artillery, maybe not amazing here, but it's just kind of hard to get from the back.
So maybe, but with 10 seconds it's just so it's gonna be such a mad bash
Like we're gonna be the official land
It works, okay, the artillery allows regime to get the touch in there cut sooner rushes
Trader, but you lose a batch and that's a pretty big shot coming in blazer
I'd be enough to just hold up for the piece for now
Can I sanctuary all the ups and you want finding opportunity to go through the other city get these last couple of kills?
is there enough damage for a genie with the solar?
The genie's got nothing at the moment.
The genie is the one that's going to get dumped for India.
Philippines are struggling. The OCE is gone.
It's burnt away. No more ultimate for either side.
Absolutely gorgeous there. The cannon's going to be going up.
Not necessarily a high impact help, but maybe a chance.
Just find one, especially before Leo gets the flux up available.
Here comes the pressure. Trying to walk it, Leo.
Just get him off the point here a bit.
Flux 9 is going to be the weapon here.
Leo, a single flux onto the point, could force the C9.
The touchers need to come into play if you are looking like he's low hp, could be going down next
A rock to be played in, just directly on the payload so that's all you need
Flush 9 the enemy team that you could put it right here
Looks like he caught like three plays but someone still touching doesn't matter
They're shushing down, regime has gone, then final remake
But I don't expect anything more to get into here
Don't have enough to actually get it across to 9
Bill of Pins with 5 alive will lock in the 3 and 0
Short of abs doing something miraculous which I don't think is going to happen
And then we have to say SEA later a little bit. They're all eliminated, but
Very well played from Philippines and I have to I mean just
immensely respect the
Just a fundamental gameplay that Philippines play here, right?
We saw some mechanics of some good swaps and India putting up a fantastic fight too
And utilizing that cat bash a bit more than we've seen some of the other teams previously doing so
But despite what the score line would say
I'm walking around. I'm walking with the series feel like this is a really big show from both these blocks
I think India had a yeah, they certainly had a decent show now some winnable maps particularly our first one
We start to look back at the 99 99s two rounds in a row on Oasis
Rialto bringing a clutch to be able to finish off the map shame about the distance in the time back
I think the time back really betrayed them a little bit and I'm an embody
I mean they got it towards the end the thing is they just act in
in having enough successful pushes on both the A and B, but particularly the A, it took them a while to get this cab-bassion into play to finally get that cap, and that's really the difference making here as Philippines were able to get through A and B much more comfortably.
I think this is honestly when we talk about teams that maybe have the sauce in terms of
candage challenge, there's top two in the groups, Philippines.
I think they might have the sauce, Ambrose, I think they might have the sauce here.
Obviously they're not in the, this is not the group with Korea and Japan, of course,
but so when you look at like Australia, Thailand, this is like what we're looking at potentially
like oh maybe a top two but Philippines and even India I mean I just think that it's a lot more
open potentially in this group. Particularly for getting maps as well because you saw
Australia and Thailand out there and we talk about that differential being a potential
pathway for teams that sneak into that top two so I'm looking forward to the Philippines Thailand
game which by the way is on the cards for tomorrow I think that'll be a very interesting one because
based on what we see in our Philippines today I think Thailand should be a little bit worried.
Certainly that shouldn't be a game when we trade maps. This one was looking like a game where maps
probably should have been traded and that being a 3-0. It's one of those
games where you have to say the the dreaded line it's a close 3-0 right but no one likes to hear
that but it was it was a pretty competitive 3-0. Don't let the school rely on Fulia whatever
elder what other cast or cope we can we can throw out there necessarily but it's it's true it's
Legitimately true. I feel like I walked around like that India definitely could have taken maps in this series multiple times
Let's take a look at where our teams line up after a full days with a game
We've seen every single team playing out. That's both of our groups
No surprises Korea locking in their one and zero Hong Kong over
Pakistan as well
Australia and a very comfortable win versus Thailand and the Philippines
They struggle a little bit more but still like clean 3-0
So the only match we got in there that wasn't a three or wasn't Hong Kong Pakistan game and you know
Look to see how those map wins and losses end up affecting things later on in the round Robin
Yeah, so a little early to tell exactly where it's gonna land up
but obviously we do think what we think is gonna likely be our
Top two despite Japan obviously not being in that to the group A and that number two in the a right now
But I do think that's the first day gives us a very good idea like yeah
These are the teams we're probably expecting
But I think group B really being much more of the shocker and showing that there's a little bit more of a race going on
For those tougher that top two spot. I think comparatively
I would like to see for both the log groups where the other three teams outside of Australia and
Korea where they kind of established themselves as dominant teams in their respective groups
It should be a race between the other three teams to find out who's gonna get that last spot
Obviously, you probably rate Japan a little bit higher and a little bit higher given the histories and
The competitive history is individually of the players as well.
We really looked at some of these other teams and saw some good moments there about it.
Yeah, 100%.
I mean, these squads, they have already surprised us a bit, I think.
And there's a lot more in the tank.
We still have two more days.
It's kind of still up in the air where those final standings are going to be.
It's still only the first day, so we can't come to conclusions first.
Other than maybe Curio might be number one in the group.
that that might be the case for the rest of the games we'll still have a lot of
stakes to them I'm sure all the games will have stakes in terms of whether you
can be competitive by those maps or not but that's day one done in Dusted guys
all which walk up qualifiers in Asia we've seen every single team now some
interesting gameplay coming through some close games some less close games it's
gonna wrap it up here with me the boss and also leg day we'll see all of you
tomorrow same time they'll go anywhere
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