Welcome back everyone to the Overwatch World Cup.
The Asia online qualifiers have now concluded with Korea, Japan, Australia and Thailand
advancing to the group stage in Busan.
But today I'm back here for EMEA and I'm joined by Mitch and Matt.
Guys, how are you feeling, Mitch, about how yesterday compounded?
I mean, Europe was pretty interesting yesterday.
I think we had like one of those opening games where we have maybe some potential mismatches.
We had a pretty sick Godfight in Group C as well, between Ireland and Spain.
And I'm looking forward to this.
Can an AVI team is now being crashed together to see who comes out of that group play on top.
I mean, we have some sick games today.
Ash, like I think your potential will be much closer than yesterday's game.
So I think for all the fans out there, that's what they hope as well.
And then, you know, you talk about Asia over at Mitch,
I should say you're celebrating Australia a little bit, so...
I didn't know it was for you until you were like that.
I do, I do. It means a lot that we made it.
Yeah, it means a lot for you specifically Matt.
But while Asia may have just wrapped up earlier, we still have three more full days of the NBA in America,
as we'll be capping things off at the end of next weekend.
Talking a little bit more about that format, if you missed yesterday,
the World Cup's online qualifiers are going to put us through multiple 14-round Robin Brutes.
The two top teams in each group advancing to the group stage in the main event in Busan, South Korea
Yesterday we got our first taste of that first to three kill 1v1 death match on Lee Jang tower to determine
The higher seed guys how are we feeling about that? I think we learned too that we have like the heroes actually like region long
Yeah, pretty cool Matt
Yes, I think we got ana for support. We got widow
Yesterday we saw dune fist 1v1. Yeah, so like it's pretty interesting
I like it when we don't have, you know, seeding in a season that like they know these teams are coming out of all different qualifiers
Right, so we kind of make it up there and there's some strategy behind it as well
I mean I I dig it. I think you laugh at Adamage. What are you laughing at?
Adamage needs to be one-shot kill and you can only scrub in for like a second like proper true Ana paintball
but it's a quantum lead forward in seeding decided for the overwatch
you know, ecosystem so I'm glad we've implemented this change. I think it's a bit of fun as well being in all these games.
Definitely does. I'm kind of jealous of America's. I think I got Winston over there, so I lost some Winston.
Hopefully we can see it later today.
Well, let's talk a little bit more about yesterday and what happened, right?
You kind of gave a little bit of a teaser of it at the top of our day.
A couple of those upsets coming in, a bit of shake-ups. Ireland having that pop-off performance on Oasis.
they're not quite being able to close things out against me.
Yeah, look, I mean, Island looks pretty solid there as well, but I think they did attempt to
double the Jetpack Cat composition and just couldn't quite execute it. We heard from Treads
sort of saying that it's actually pretty tricky to make that comp work. I sort of think at this
level there's some vulnerabilities and also like you want to do healers as dedicated to the Bastion
at all times essentially. This cat napping was absolutely fantastic on Oasis, but in general
We've seen a pretty big diversity in metagame, but the cliffnotes are that you know
Great Britain and Germany look very strong should be getting out of that group
Is it still a bit up in the air about group C in terms of what France and Poland and looking like when we get into game and
Group I is just all over the place. Denmark, Finland and Sweden have also been really strong teams and one of them is gonna miss out
Yeah, I mean we get a lot of group A action today, right?
So I think that'll be really fun to see because like Finland and Sweden are two extremely strong teams
Denmark me all good
They could be where it's a wild that one of them is not gonna make it out
Yeah, it's gonna be pretty crazy and fun to finally see France, Poland, Finland and Sweden play heading into today
Two wins obviously doesn't guarantee that you're gonna make it out
But it definitely does help with how scrappy some of those groups are gonna be like you just alluded to and as a reminder
for you guys at home. Top two teams of each group will be playing live in the group stage in Busan, South Korea,
where China and Saudi Arabia are already waiting due to their placement at the Overwatch World Cup in 2023.
The top half of the group stage will also advance to the playoffs live in BlizzCon in Anaheim, California.
We love BlizzCon here. How excited are you for this to be coming back at BlizzCon here, Mitch?
That event is always insane.
I was kind of saying it yesterday,
but it combines like that anticipation
just for the next year of Blizzard Titles
with like a re-novel form of competition.
Overwatch is really unique in that we have had in the past
such a lively World Cup where everyone gets behind it.
This thing of return, it's much anticipated return
at BlizzCon.
The mecher, I think of any Blizzard Esports,
especially we've had some iconic
on-forge Esports moments there is, it's pretty perfect.
Yeah, I think now talking a little bit about our schedule,
After hyping up, you know, what's to come here for the Overwatch World Cup?
We've got to lock in on what's going to be actually happening today first.
We've got four matches here in E&EA and then leader on for the America's Groups.
You guys are going to be joined by Jaws and Tiny Shiny.
I think that it's going to be a very fun day.
You guys think this schedule is jam packed?
I think next Sunday we've got like five E&EA games actually in one day.
So it's going to get pretty wild.
That's like Mitch called out.
That's how easy it is there.
Listen, it's all about working smart, not working hard, Joe.
I'll be here though. Don't worry. Yeah, that's locked in is locked in. You know what else we should be locked in on though these drops guys. Don't forget to watch all three regions on both weekends to make sure that you get some of these six skins and ensure that you can also, you know,
But you know, I have some of these viewer incentives.
I think that the drops are looking good.
For me, firstly, America's icon, purple, favorite color.
I'm locked in for that one.
But now talking about our first matchup
that we got coming in hot here,
we have Finland versus Denmark coming in.
The Finland is a team that we haven't quite seen yet, Matt.
But these names are very familiar to us.
I mean, fantastic roster, right?
Do you think back to the last Overwatch World Cup
with how strong their performance was,
They're going to take out South Korea and now coming in with a very similar lineup.
So we'll see obviously Vestola, I know Ghost has had some great performances in that flex
support role.
And good to see Sana out there again.
I feel like we haven't seen him in a while competing at the highest level of Overwatch
eSports.
But this roster is really difficult to deal with.
This is one of the rosters that also has really good coordination, even them kind of coming
together because they've played with each other in the past.
Yeah, it's going to be really fun to see if that synergy that you're talking about is going to carry over and
Green Supreme heading into today's matchup up against Denmark.
This is a team where yesterday, Mitch, we saw them defeat Austria without a scratch.
It was a comfortable win. Do you feel like that's the similar storyline that we're thinking,
heading into this matchup, or are you expecting it to be the closer?
Definitely not. I think that like this Finland roster is very strong.
Historically, they've been like a top cut competitor when it comes to live events at World Cup.
I felt like these guys really played up in 2023 there.
It was like some really young players.
Ghost, I think, was one of his first outings as a competitor,
especially at LAN.
And he put on a fantastic show with those guys in it up.
I think in third place in the end.
Denmark, obviously, going to have their work cut out for them.
But I've been really impressed with Sky Tour.
I think it's continued to sort of develop on what we've seen
from him in OWCS.
And so far, it's also demonstrated a really robust hero pool.
In the past, we saw him try and force more towards the Winston
play a note of UCS because Steven yesterday was really, really good.
Shockwave is disgusting.
We talked to him in the interviews.
He's been kind of chilling, studying a little bit there.
Now, these guys are posted up in like the Copenhagen stadium.
They've got a sick facility.
So like they have everything that they need to succeed here.
And it would be would be disastrous if they didn't make it out of this group.
It is the group of death.
It is brutal.
These NNAV in things are all setting cold.
Yeah, it's going to be insane here for Denmark.
I think they've definitely got the hype behind them with such an insane boot camp
opportunity for this squad. But let's get straight into our first Overwatch World Cup
and match up in EMEA today. Inland vs Denmark.
Thank you very much Ash. Yes, we have a banger of an Ana 1 vs 1. Not Ana Pain, but also to
disappoint you guys. So I'll take a few shots. Apparently, Byronade is allowed. He's a very dishonest
player. This is about dishonest. For dishonest, you can't name yourself after the fact. I also
I think like if you hit a sleep little yeah little drop the twinings, you know I mean should be shoots
It should be sheep L.A. shoot to people off after you sleep them and I yeah obviously this is for
match elections
There's no rule seating amongst these teams and
It's it's it's low key sort of volatile, you know
They're like just both lurking around the corner. Oh, yeah, I hate to see this. Yeah, I hate to see yeah
Here's your final moment mix that million baby get the job done that sleep came at the wrong time, bro
And yeah, Gucci's gonna win it out here for Team Finland. They will be the highest seed and therefore
They'll be able to select their first map and or actually looks like they conceded
First map pick and so Denmark are gonna take us to Antarctic Peninsula
Yeah, I mean that's that's interesting a lot to kind of like I know you've figured that out with obviously I know
Kompob, so I love it. So Finland. Yeah, I mean
I think she's first ban.
Ban over the map pick, got it.
So that's an interesting little wrinkle that they decided to take that first.
So I think obviously everybody feels pretty comfortable on like all three control maps.
And obviously first ban is so impactful.
So sojourn ban here early on from Finland is it'll be a wuyong ban on the other side.
So a little bit of a wrinkle here with obviously how map selection works in the World Cup.
For Mimic, I think this series comes down to, like, you know, Rav yesterday we talked with Denmark, right?
Like, can he kind of, like, step up to the plate here a little bit?
And then I think the support line of Denmark, if they can stay as strong as they did yesterday,
I think they definitely have a really good shot of, you know, I mean, I guess you would call it an upset,
but these rosters are so strong in this group.
It's kind of crazy to say anything, particularly like an upset with teams like Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
Yeah, look and Rav on that topic. I think his extreme next up energy they managed to win the face at master
with their with their roster star this ex hypno
So, you know, I could pretty solid competitor
I do think targeting shockwave sojourn off the bat was you know more than enough reason for Finland to
You know give up that sort of first map pick given this like some level of parity
I think between these control maps are gonna be jumping in pretty much right away though
and we already have an idea of what Finland are playing for.
We've actually seen a few of these sort of catalysts, Bastion compositions.
It feels like Bastion, even in a standalone state, is extremely powerful.
And the second map, that defense matrix from D.V.R. is exhausted.
You're going to see Gucci try and blow people up.
Well, I'm interested to see if they're going to continue to...
Okay, so they're going to play this with a SIG.
So typically you see this kind of with the D.V.I. in the mix, right?
And we've seen Nido vs. Pro play this like exact comp.
But they're actually gonna have their solo on Sigma, obviously, they're still extremely good at the heroes.
Maybe just trying to punish SkyTour even more.
It'll be a sim with a Cassidy here, available for Denmark, as the TP will come through.
I know not everybody makes it on through that TP. Nice accretion there, but all our nice shots there from Shockwave.
But what was taken out? I don't know.
And so Shockwave can play off angles pretty comfortably in this matchup map, because they don't have a highly mobile tank.
They don't have a demon that can just run across and sort of eat that Cassidy damage up.
I like that idea and Sauna does get kicked off.
The reality is that without Sigma positions really well,
the Sola can't do a whole lot to sort of protect Sauna,
and they are really, really susceptible to Cassidy.
And then the Cassidy here, under normal circumstances against like Bastion and Symmetra,
has a favorable matchup.
It's so much about this is going to be positional.
Can they?
Yeah.
I just outmaneuver the Sola and make it hard for him to get in position
you actually cover his squishies.
And for Finland, like these are comps that we saw a lot of teams play to Mizuki in.
You know, with the Sigmund and also against the D.Va, they may not feel comfortable playing it though.
At the moment, they still play May's sim, so really strong rush-style comp,
but it feels like the Shockwave is going to be able to pop off against a comp like this.
Again, I think it's another hero that doesn't play well on the Cassidy.
Rats are going to get overrun there. It's a nice little speed boost here from Finland.
Tsunay Rats are also in the mix, but Shockwave has doubled down already,
already and he's pretty favored against Gucci here look at this fallback shockwave ends with a
brace of kills more than enough to Simon's Finland's here in this round you might ban a
soldier now but the Cassidy is I mean pretty well suited I think to this kind of environment
and that accretion is the only tool that the solo really has to dictate where Skytor goes.
I mean we see a lot of people even pick Cassidy when Sojourn is you know free to pick that's how
Good Cassidy is right now in the bed. It was a Katsune rush used there by Denmark
I know and you also saw it out from Finland. It was the sim wall though early from ramp just kind of splitting up the point
This is dangerous though for Finland that you have your sound barrier
You'll have a match on the other side, but this dead. I can just kind of buy some time
We've also seen a nice job from Johnowich about knocking players into the dead. I so
That is a really nice early day
I was like, oh, you're kidding me!
Shockwave's gonna get two kills off that!
That is nuts!
And just all of it.
I mean, he had some wackle-hat ends at the end,
but unfortunately, not able to perform like your Shaman in Raids, man.
That is stunning stuff here from Denmark.
And again, they don't wait for the boots to come to them.
They preemptively go for the dead eye, and that is a clean round, man.
I mean, I was talking about the dead eye,
and expect that just casually walking through the choke,
turn in the corner, and getting two.
I mean, that is brutal there for Finlinn.
I mean you had like what four ultimates and you don't even really get a use of any of them there
That is a rough situation is shockwave just kind of around this corner
Maybe they thought that like shockwave was gonna take the TP and not like actually kind of walk through the choke
Right because they drop a TP. We see a lot of Cassie's like they'll take the TP. They'll go back and forth, right?
They'll kind of like show different positions
Maybe they thought he was gonna come on through so they dropped because it looks like the TP was up on the high ground
Right, so they kind of dropped maybe avoid that and shockwave just walked right through the choke
Yeah, I just took out two. Just a miss call
I think on where the cast he was gonna come from in theory Matt Phyllons game plan there
It's just speed forward and trying to get a good blizzard off
But they never had the chance to make use of their comp back to the Bastion now
And maybe hope you just to bully this high ground of course Sigma's gonna give them a really effective station down
But that's he is certainly gonna get you ahead on a squibble for a moment
Dylan didn't fight no where Denmark we're gonna pop up
But now cap is out of the bag tank mode here for the Bastion
Spatial is gonna mitigate some of that damage
But still this is going to hurt all of them I have to fall back within fairness Matt
and covered this damage on pretty well.
Well, they covered the damage, and now they're in a really interesting spot where you see
Rad has really charged up on that, Sim needs to stay alive,
is all a nice knee there from Gucci, takes him out,
because I was going to say, you could have potentially kept ramping up
that Sim damage would have been very difficult to challenge on the point.
Nice to pinch you, Serial, with how from SkyTour,
but that's exactly why they want to play that stick,
but you see the accretion come on in,
interrupt that, and then just deal with that D.V. at that time.
So now although it is Denmark getting some early point control, you know getting up to 12%
It's gonna be Finland getting the lead
I really feel like this Denmark comp is hard to play against this setup
The accretion just can't be mitigated at all by the diva and that window would even stand up means that she's basically
Shark baited as a bastion and tank mode like that is more than enough time to basically blow sky to a rough
It's gonna be pretty perfect here
I think this sim tp is going to be just as important as the defense matrix in terms of minigating vidman's barrage of frontloader damage
Yes, now uh
Shockwave already we saw and of course, bitch
I know we can't build up to like dead eyes in like a minute. That's how fast it was
You see shockwave already at that old man trying to think maybe some high ground
That's gonna be a good shit right here from ghosts in Finland off of that high ground
I'm not really gonna be able to find anything that you can not die to the dead eye like that I mean
There's really nothing there that kind of
Maybe there's a boot from Jonovic, but it looked like just some damage at range from the position he's in but losing this in there
And that is brutal. I think you're right. I don't know if there's any boot involved whatsoever
I think Sota makes a miscalculation about where to stand. Shockwave also looked like he got boot forward by
My tacronated maybe it was easy for him to get around a corner as a result. That's an important finding for them
You lose you lose your rush. You use the rush when you just kind of move forward and then like
You're similar the other team's use of just that. I mean that's a brutal
Scenario for video. I didn't do anything with the rush either that seem more defensive if anything either way
He's been locked out in control. She's about to be used early on there by Johans
They're good to get a little off of that high ground. He's that symbol in play Finland have to make use of this window now
You can see the Ravistang charged up self-destruct. It's very defensive there for Skytorch.
This is going to allow them to outlast this symbol and now Raph can push forward with the use of his own.
So, all of us are trying to get towards the rest here of Denmark, but Ghost has been picked off.
You can't really answer this position from Shockwave though.
He can chill up here, get free damage down, and now Connecticut Grasp has been exhausted.
Denmark have the window to strike and they don't make use of this Cassidy up here, Matt.
Yeah, it's a later beat here from Denmark. Gonna keep everybody up in the fight, but Skytorch loses the man.
Deneye from the high ground here from Shockwave drops down low
Three players around the corner though. That's a thing you're seeing the push into especially with that fashion there
I mean pretty conservative there from Shockwave. Just want to fully commit the coaches on the off angle
That was a 60p out in the open for Finland gets everyone from around that corner and completely oval bones Danmark
Nice looks there from Finland and showing a bit of finesse here with the repositioning
Yeah, I mean Finland comes in with a huge
uh, opportunity here, mid-trade, get two-day rush, plus the room,
Simwall, nothing available on the opposite side, toward Denmark.
And they're gonna need another fight here. I think if you're at Denmark, try and force these
ults with that, get a really early fight, and then you have one more chance.
I know that, uh, you know, Crack at the point is, you know, shot there up on the
high ground, it's gonna get a little kick damage.
Uh, Vestola goes over to the D. I think this, uh, might be the right
decision here, try and match that D.va play from Skye to her on the other side.
So we're trying to start this fight up at Sauna's where he's falling.
This is like Kenny?
Yeah, Shockwave. And that was obviously on the fallback.
Shockwave wasn't even playing an off angle there.
That's just nice work from him.
Maybe an over extension from Sauna slightly.
Switch over to what's Tracer able to get Sauna back in the fight quickly with Denmark.
Going to flip here.
And they're coming up and get another dead eye.
These have been here thick and fast, but both teams are going to be able to match their support onto the fowl.
And what will be the last fight of the round?
That's a thing though. You allow Denmark to get back into the support economy when you're going to use your damage.
There'll be a dead eye here.
They have to touch. Nice job using the defense matrix. He's up from Vistola.
Pretty solid route there from SkyTor. He dives in virtually on his own, but Gucci's gonna be picked up in a space made by Vistola.
He's enough to get that kill. And that's a lion share of damage down for Finland that is off the table and shot way to still completely unbobbing here.
Playing around this sim wall. Clutch moment here from Rav. Gucci out of the game.
Finland's went away from the Symmetra and didn't have a chance to match these walls. And nobody, nobody is really looking at the Cassidy until the Ryze roll back in their head.
Nice little grave follow up here, the Tracer still needs to be dealt with, it's Dorinko in the play of the Shockwave, and he's under extreme pressure.
Nice play by Sona, deals with the Cassidy, Denmark now starting to run out of legs, Jonovic is going to come back in on the Jetpack camp, but it might be a little too little, too late in the day.
Finland ever to stand tall and get themselves a flip, and Jonovic just needs to not die here, but that is easier said than done.
Flip back, but Jonovic may not have the health, thankfully, Yofa to come in time, but Gucci's Sombra picks up the kill and gets fined on the round.
And that feels like a roundward pin mark they had that one almost in the bag
there towards the end but a tremendous job by Finland making some huge hero
adjustments right I know being able to have Sonic go over the tracer keep that
one going and then obviously Vestola going over to D.Va I keep that point
alive is we take a look at some of the stats Vestola 6th desk obviously pretty
high but then you look on the other side grab with seven there I know kind of
four on the sim it's a it's a ton I know need to keep that sim alive right because especially
you're ramping up in these fights that's where like most of the damage comes towards the end
I know as the sim starts to cook up this is a fantastic map so far I only regret as that
it occurs at 5 a.m and not 11 a.m so I can't reach it problem my neighbors so far though it's been
quality overwatch we're going to be back to the sigma setup now for Finland and they've opted
For the main so we're gonna have seems of course Matt if they made it versus Cassidy difference blow that you want to keep your eyes out
For it's right away Finland that make the place for position again
It's a high ground look here
That's a set up to continue to punish this joke. I mean I can you punish rev right now?
I know let's say they take a sim TP they move on in
Then you get a may wall directly behind right kind of like horse that's in our main wall kind of like
It's on top, it's a nice accretion on the Skytour, but the Skytour is going to be pretty healthy.
You can see Kinetic Rast out from Vistola already as he's taking damage on the point.
I mean, Demarka, the Wraiths want to play for more.
High ground, Rav gets caught hard.
Gucci able to find that elimination.
Vistola can't do too much to try and protect Sona.
Shotplate is relentless with his peacekeeping shots, really in out.
And now things start to break down, but Shotplate once again has safe positioning.
There's space made by Skytour.
There's nothing you can really make use of here as Cassidy.
It's an easy map, but I can actually dare onto the Lucio, and he will be dealt with now.
It's Denmark, as the dust settles over to play down from the high ground, just at the point.
I mean, you do get 16% here for Finland, but, dude, how many...
You lose at the beginning of the game, and he's playing.
How many are you going to continue to pull out and win, starting to play her down?
Look at this, Finland wants to go pretty fast.
Am I as well? Yep.
Get set up here, good Christian on towards the dig of a shockwave, Zedai is going to be a problem.
Kinetica asked, he's all well and good, but not if Vistola's not in position to make use of it.
And there it is, about the freest skill he's been asked for on that May, and the Lucio for Finland winter, I believe they are barely able to get out alive.
Nice playoff for Denmark here, and that's an unsuccessful play for Finland.
Okay, sure, Kinetica rather, the groupatic flux is a good look here, but Vistola doesn't have much to play with, and he's spending resources away from the point.
I imagine he's swapping off of this, like using that Flux and that position.
We'll see if he actually makes a better spot to do so, but you imagine he's going to swap off of the SIG at this point.
Maybe go over to D-Bump, match it, let's see. No, that's going to be the mantra.
Really, all about this brawl here is Team Finland wants to just run it down,
Seems like obviously Shockwave is the target, but he's done a great job at creating distance between him and the rest of the team.
John Lich has to be so careful as that sound barrier needs to live.
Now, excuse me, but this ruption has been traded out just for brawl.
I've got close and brawl potential now with the solo on the Rematra.
Sound barrier going to be Machia with the two to rush for Finland and Ravajova to arcana fall.
Even with that symbol in play here for Rav, Finland kind of played into it.
They just moved past it with this comp that is designed to close the gap.
Now, Symmetra might feel much less comfortable now against this small StarCop.
Yeah, and I think one of the reasons why you see RAPT there a little bit early is it does not get the effects of the Johnowitz sound barrier.
So it only connected with four of the members from Denmark.
And I think as soon as they realize that Finland, the Sim is the target.
Just run the Sim down. Didn't seem to grab head of TP available at that time.
But now, now another dead eye. I mean, Shockwave is so good with these.
He came with all of his viewfills, it feels like, and now, it's frozen up there, but nice UG who breaks that.
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of cool that he had to give up his mech in order to keep, you know, shot-flade in the game.
Still, we'll know how much else, self-described, to get him back in the game of shot-flades.
Still got room to work with.
Man, he really feels like this game drives us and falls on the back of the castity, playing that in Ghosts is dead.
Absolutely ruined.
Finland tried to come up with an answer, but switched to the Romantra composition, but that doesn't answer the threat of the castity.
I mean, we've also seen Finland here at least in this first maimage not go over and play any type of hitscan whatsoever
So that might be a little bit of a worry for them throughout the rest of the series
Especially if Denmark is gonna have shockwave playing at this level
Okay, what is an isolation pretty good spot for it?
However, the stall's not able to close the gap anymore and look at the free-firing coming in from shockwave
It's a matter of time. That is all charging up. Yeah, just gonna get crushed and yet the sim is going to be hurting
Raph though. Stiming by the shield for a time.
Portech pulls up a little bit short and shock goes out of the roll back and keeps that distance away.
Raph might be gone, but Finn is out of the picture.
That's no loose GOT if I fiddle into work with you.
But Tuneirash is going to have to be length on fear that it's an important fight and finally we get to see
conditions are right as RushComp can be overwhelming.
And then Gucci's over to the tracer now, right?
So, a little bit of a change in terms of their comp.
the annihilation with just kind of allowing the soul to just kind of keep that block going,
allows him to contest for an extended period of time. So we'll see now with another dead
eye, it'll be Ravius and then Simwold just gets to the lead instantly, which I mean no help as soon as he goes through it.
Somehow Demi decided to position himself to protect that Simwold. Now our Finland Simwold makes
it impossible for Shockwave to stick this dead eye at first, he needs to back away,
sees the having little skulls, but it's going to be mitigated. Maybe even a kinetic grasp in the
in the next night with a symbol in place.
Nothing could be done about it.
Denmark's done a run out of steam here.
Finland's a rush cop actually earning them the win here
on Antarctic Peninsula.
These two teams, you put a tissue over them.
They are so closely matched.
Yeah, I mean that is a really impressive map
when they're from Finland.
They kind of pull out in the end going over and playing.
I know in Ramatra, rush style of play,
I know into the Diva look from Denmark
is they've been so good on that Diva.
We take a look at some of the stats and I know for me Mitch
I mean you take a look like you know saw an obviously 13,000 damage again
You know a little bit more there than rad but I mean rad with the 11 deaths
I mean, you know a lot of wrapping goes goes that a rough go just gonna get him picked off by shockwave
I mean, that's a 31 and 5 game from shockwave with almost you know, 18k damage. It just kind of goes for nothing
That's a rough one there for Denmark in game one. It felt like they had some control over that
But Finland able to catch up shockwave by the way targeted by the band that Finland
You know made of course has a great game, but is not able to be overwhelming
I think the game changes so much for Ravus Symmetra when you're you know going up against Sigma as opposed to the Rematra
You get free charge off the Sigma shield
It's like okay dodge the accretion and try not to take too much poke damage
And you're going to be like a real threat in the front line even without a shield of your own the Rematra
I feel like it changes things like vortex slows you down. You can get caught in that front line
Which is kind of what you have to be a symptom to be remotely effective
And it feels like it's much more dangerous far more volatile. This was sick
Look at them throwing literally the kitchen sink at shockwave here
He dodges that accretion and then he's able to connect that dead. I
The speed boost of the exterior rush actually instrumental. Yeah shockwave
Yeah, I mean pretty huge and this is like one. I mean this second round
This is where I think Finland really kind of I know came up huge in the end right because Denmark is a few kills off the
Front of this fight and then I know Finland able to make some hero adjustments gonna come back strong
Is this is unfortunate here for Gucci the high spot just with the exact time basically the dead iPops
Runs out, but this is kind of what we saw look
I mean you see three players there or Finland just collapsing right on top of wrath
Nothing you could do there on the sieve
I think we were seeing like a tendency difference between these two teams
They might really favor this diva-based composition, you know,
it's described towards hearting that hero really effectively.
Dylan though, they, they're default, I guess, approach is to sort of play this
Sigma, even though the scholar is an incredible diva player.
Looks like their style is a little bit more bastion-oriented, play the main,
you know, don't, you know, try and play that, they're more like
up tempo, highly mobile, look, I say up tempo, but then they bring that
Rematra in and that's the level to sort of run down in some of these fights.
It also means that FN, their Lucer speeds are pretty critical.
Playing around those timings is very, very important for the Swedish one.
Yeah, I mean, you know, playing around, like being able to kind of see where the simTP goes in,
maybe get rid of a catch, like grab up guard, right from that position.
Felt like they were able to do that a few times.
I know around that speed, and obviously some good Maywalls there from Gucci,
being able to kind of like split players off.
So it'll be interesting where Denmark decides to take us in terms of maps, right?
seems like Finland wants to go over towards more like Ram's Sigma, like
looks obviously Vistula can play the Viva, but that's kind of playing into
exactly kind of what Sky Tour wants. So you see where Denmark decides to take us
in terms of maps where like you can't exactly do that, like maybe it's like a
Newjunk City, we've seen really good Cassidy maps there as well, Sojourn's
really strong too. I know Anna, Newjunk City, so maybe see if you can kind of get
one of those through. Good Denmark, you consider banning like one of those tanks. That's a
possibility. So yeah, it is a, it is Newjunk City like that, so.
I mean, I do think that going on map like this, the tracer might start to become a bit more of
concerned. It looks really good. I think on that, that's a sub-level map on tracer. As we hit the
Newjunk City, obviously, like having some flank potential is going to be pretty important.
It's also, I don't think the best sort of cat bastion map either, as you've gone in there,
so you can have a bit of counting all the time to sort of reviews.
It does feel like though, there's plenty of step for this Rematricon to find success here.
There's obviously just some limitations in map design, where you might favor like a more
mobile Diva setup. So I just think either way, Skrytor is going to have the spotlight on him.
It's going to be a focus point now, because Diva in that comp is so instrumental,
And the use of resources really can dictate success.
I mean, we've seen teams play Ramatra here, so it'll be a Zarya ban and then a Cassidy ban there for Finland.
I mean, I love that for Finland.
Zarya is a good response to obviously D.Va.
But we saw Finland go over towards the Ramatra and Sigma and other stuff when the D.Va came into play.
I don't know how worried, maybe the D.Va of the Zarya would have been the next option up, but
It felt like obviously, you know, Ramatra they were getting a lot of value from there towards the end
Yeah, I get it, like, Ozagi doesn't address the threat of, you know, Finland playing at a promotion crush competition
Now it's also like the magrinate out of the picture, you know
It's gonna be up to Shockwave on presumably the sojourn here to really make his own one
he gets to play something more, you know, mobile hero with like nice moments of burst damage
and he's the kind of person that can make use of those windows with railguns to great effect.
It just feels like, you know, this Cassidy is going to make it maybe feel a little safer for
Finland to look to close the gap more frequently. You're right, this doesn't turn off the prospect
of playing Rematra in this kind of setup. Someone who thinks to some degree just sort of breeze
past the D-Gro and kind of ignore her, whereas Sigma has to respect her position and be more reactive, right?
Remacha feels like it's a proactive game plan. Move up, take space, force people to respect you, play inside the vortex.
You get to set the tempo a little bit more and that seems to have suited Finland as opposed to that more static, reactive Sigma look.
Yeah, so I do wonder kind of for Denmark here
What the what the path it like I mean are they gonna just play soach with like the
Diva and sim like gonna just kind of like what we just saw cuz
For me it feels like Finland is gonna win out in that type of play style right they're gonna play Ram
They're gonna they can play sick they can play Diva they can kind of I know make it work
Maybe they don't even necessarily need a hit scan. They play like a may with the sim
Doesn't feel like Denmark at least with this band has really kind of taken anything away
From Finland that would you know give you pause if you were them per se
Right. We are off to new junk city folks and we mentioned already
Vistola versus Sky Tour a definitive matchup in this game
Sky Tour obviously featured on the quick eSports roster late last year in OWCS
they got that sort of eighth place finish there in stage three since then it's been a couple of
less high profile teams for them but they're still showing their quality and still obviously
demonstrating their prowess as a potential free agent. Mistala obviously not I think the finish
that they were hoping for you know Alcatya have been a little rockier as of lately maybe not quite
reaching the same heights that they had but again they did manage to win that Saudi E League of course
not so long ago with a really a banger matchup against Ki-Kei in their final.
So off we go. It's Nujak City time. Finland are ahead of one map to zero.
So it'll be Finland here playing the Sim Bank with the SIG. No, not too surprised in there.
Shockwave almost gets killed by an ice bull there right off the rip. And it will be Denmark
actually having schedule to play the ramp. So maybe they thought they were going to come out and
play the rematch and kind of like match head to head because you think, you know, with the
Sigma was here, they would have tried to maybe play, I know, the Neva once more, so it looks like Maywall there,
I know nothing has put them off right away, it's on an event, takes a big damage.
I also think Matt, as you mentioned, it being split off for Finland is a dangerous prospect, right?
The stone's ability to reposition quickly is really limited compared to the Rematra and Nemesis form,
but Sky Tor is going to get caught out. That may impact, you could see down on the point is exactly where
Finland are happy to take the fight, especially now that that Denmark's tank in play.
I mean, all right, but it's Denmark out in this first fight.
I mean, dude, the Sigma just controls so much space, right?
Like, I know being able to kind of shield on one side and then just kind of like spam
chokes, like, the supports just get isolated there from Sky Tour and, you know, not able
to get back, you know, over to kind of provide them any type of healing and Gucci just kind
of works them down.
So, first fight win here for Finland is that they're already at a Kitsune-Hemeraash.
I think Denmark's probably going to have no idea they got this one coming into this next
fight.
so quickly. Phil and Phil are looking very dangerous and they can go up tempo still with this Sigma comp.
You try and run them down. May Wolff would disengage a little bit of a cross-y is there of course.
You just need at a moment to try and heal back up that I splocked and that
frankly means that Phil can't effectively use that Katsune Rush at all.
Yeah, I mean, I think they maybe thought they were a little bit closer. They have to use it to also kind of give
a Eugene opportunity to stay alive. There's a nice accretion there.
This guy is going to get dangerously low.
Gravitic Flux here, Stytle is going to be caught in it, and that's going to be big damage on the Rematra.
Even in this form, it's percent health damage from that Gravitic Flux landing.
It looked like, positionally, there was an early issue for Stytle as he was knocked down onto that low ground with the Maywall behind him.
Yes, how that is. A drubbing there in that first Flashpoint, right?
So Finland getting off to a hot start here on New Jump City. I like the map pick from Denmark.
Not exactly in love with the first band though, I think you probably could have made a little bit more impact on the game than the Zari at the moment.
There's a, hey, you watched yesterday, you know what me and Mitch love.
We love a good old pause.
Is that we'll see what we'll see what's going on here is we'll probably get back into the game just a bit.
But it does seem like Finland's default is really to try and walk out these sigma based compositions.
And I think this order means you could probably play that before aggressively in the front line.
When Sigma is swinging him, you can sort of trend back away from him.
We had creation, you know, stun on that Rematcher.
It probably gives you time to ramp up and get pretty darn scary.
We haven't really been out of interest the Shockwave element here as well.
Isn't that first round maybe some of the sight lands on it?
What I think considering it's a concentric ring around the point,
when, you know, we start to get to flash points that are a little bit more like high ground audience here,
I think that getting Shockwave set up for success is going to be that much more important.
Yeah, it looks like maybe just an issue on the side of Denmark, and okay, we're back in the game.
Maybe just like an accidental pause there.
I'll try and figure out what went on.
A little accidental pause there.
Hey, look at that.
They're able to drop the Vortex right on top of that TP.
Now I saw them get back in it.
Take out the Sim early on.
Nice opening here for Denmark.
He's talking about high ground. This is definitely a high ground oriented point. Hold on
Yeah, yo, I'm actually uses okay for a second very close
They were gonna take a push Finland because I know they did get yo have really low the point
I know does gonna go out at Denmark right away
But you have these and stuff they'll want to use here for finger
You see that like title for that obsessed with controlling high ground here. I'm gonna get caught out
I'm just another shock wave of the movie cost look at him just to do this ignore the stowa
Look, low health Shukwai still kept the light.
The fact that Finland don't have the web faults
and pick off his low health soldier,
doesn't mean you need to know about their bandwidth
in that fight.
Blizzard up the backside here for Gucci feels like
it's a little bit of a miss time,
and that one is gone down the gurgle.
Yeah, it was interesting to see them not decide to use
maybe the beat to kind of counteract
the overclock on the other side,
allow Shukwai to really just start to pop off.
As he mentioned, he just kind of like,
shoot straight through the stole onto Gucci.
So, Gucci, no, okay, so we're gonna get rid of the main.
We're gonna go play Bastion here.
This is gonna be some serious damage for Denmark
to work around because like,
they don't have the beaver to soak all of that up,
right, so our mantra shield is gonna basically disappear
instantly.
I was looking at the main wall here,
just doesn't look nearly as good.
There's so many ways around it.
Here's good to go in that tank mode,
but Sinwall is a bit of a problem.
Gucci's just settling for clearing out that TP now,
so we're gonna drop down the later beast into the mix.
I told them we'd do annihilation and Finland have to respect this amount of support
all the women close to them might just burn down as the fight broke into a brawl.
This is exactly where Denmark want to fight Finland, drag them down, force them to contest this point
and now we're even here on New Junk City.
And for Denmark, I mean, they're like that obviously they win that flashpoint button.
You know, Finland decides to invest their sound barrier into that one.
Obviously, Janowich uses his as well, but like, it felt like there was really no reason to.
I mean, fortunately for Finland they use it on the side of Denmark because Denmark ends up holding on with
They probably still win that fight and they come in this next one with a really nice advantage
I know so now they saw it doesn't the ability to use the squads with no sound barrier on the other side
They might hear I want to play this was I high ground
At least that's when this corner note the short web at that off angle
So your hand keeping him topped up is going to be a paramount importance. Feel it again insist on these high ground
This is a bit of a scary position to break.
So who's supposed to be used early though because of the Disruptive Shot Damage coming in on Koguchi?
And that Shockwave needs to slide in position.
Nice little bit of extra damage there on Go's.
And the Drogidic Flux is really going to be catted out there.
Denmark just withstands that Shockwave beautiful ultimate,
but it's a Katsune rush from Yo-Hem.
It's out of sync with Go's since the H.
Yes, that's the one I'll switch over to the stick.
So I'm not really trying to, I'm really finding a lot of value there.
They're gonna come over to the Rematra a little bit more of an all-arounder.
There will be sim walls here for both teams, so the big advantage will be for Finland.
They see both support in this fight, just the one which sound very available here for Denmark.
But Denmark's probably gonna get at least 60% on this point by the time we actually kinda kick things off.
I'm sticking, but we've had a couple of ultimates just come online and crucially that sim wall,
the shot, shot, shot way down instead of he's there.
And after that, open up the airs lower,
and they go a little bit lower with the front low,
but Jonowitz here still is going to try
and get back in position.
Make sure these beat catches onto as many players as possible.
Denmark are looking good, they are very healthy,
but Gucci might have something to say about that
in a moment.
Jonowitz is going to fly on pass,
but Gucci's under extreme pressure,
he needs to find that extra durability in the ultimate,
it's not going to be enough, though,
he'll be pushed down in the end.
Sky Tour eventually falls,
but again, Finn switch to Ramartra,
doesn't seem to have yielded results yet.
Another great look for Denmark,
Importantly, they deal with their support ultimates from Finland.
I mean that is massive there, that four Denmark being able to kind of fight through both of those support ultimates that come through from Finland.
You know, John DeWitch, with that sound barrier obviously, you know, huge as Denmark here has put themselves with an opportunity to tie this series up.
You know, been rare with the World Cup thus far, right? We've seen a lot of the 3Os.
This group A though, I think is going to produce probably some of the best games we have
Overall as it'll be actually Finland here who kind of gets an interesting position first
You're mentioned all this. There's no help for Skye's where I mean he's right around the corner
You know young man John was just kind of let him burn down and die
I mean it was in Nemesis form using the block, but I had no support there to help him out
I don't know about the stats of Susan there, but
Ah, Denmark maybe couldn't really contend with that burst damage, right?
The map gets muddled when Bastion just starts to burn you down like that.
That is an unfortunate point to drop here for Denmark, and they were poised to try and take this map away.
Shockwave is 20 and 1 with 10k damage right now.
Gucci the next closest on Finland's side with only like 7.2k.
Dominic showing here from the sojourn, and Shockwave is being targeted.
Finland know that we can use this to deal with the team early if they can, but Rascal has a burst hole instead.
Shockwave's looking for an off angle with his overclocking. This is a whole lot to shoot at.
And Gushi got to be kept alive. Another alternate hip hop for that extra durability,
but still gonna be Shockwave doggedly pursuing him.
Annihations are gonna be matched here as Spindleens are able to use the solar effectively.
Yo-ham and Jonowitch are down. It's all the backliners.
They've still got to respect Shockwave here, but he has zero health outside of Sky Tour across the map.
Yeah, they just kind of like zone Shockwave out, right? Sure, he puts the pressure on the points,
but not really getting any angles there. Be able to get some kills.
They're on both of those 50p here as their solo rounds the corner does have that nemesis form
But now with everybody coming back into the fight for Denmark
He just backs up a little bit and that is a huge pick you take out ghosts
That's a majority of the healing there or Finland Shockwave just needs to stay alive
And you've got to be tracking beat with your finlinty
You know John which has it so you don't want to overpick you don't want to
turn it too many of your big ultimates now. Soon as you just get drawn out really in the fight
So we go here for Finland to press a little bit harder and Rav is gonna be traded for the solo
So that's every fight is Denmark. Shockwave's gonna try him in now again.
Gucci moving forward out.
And Denmark will still have a chance to reach for an early map win.
Yeah, I mean, getting rid of Ghost there early is massive, right?
It's just the largest source of healing there for Finland.
Then you're able to kind of work back and take that point, which is huge there for Denmark.
I mean, you're in a position there where Finland is going to take that flash point.
Rather convincingly, you know, Ghost is probably much closer to a rush at this point.
I'm hearing a really weird spot going in that final flash point is now Finland will work their way through the choke
Except the worry about sharply with these insta kills, right?
I thought that is never mind goes to the clock back. Yeah
Okay, instead that's brutal for Denmark can they survive now without their centerpiece player
Sam barista has to be committed here at the late of each of them with everything looking pretty good for the things right now
I'm sorry for his only gonna have a couple moments of this shield to work
You can get them to make a good piece of it, try to push forward and then the system is working towards annihilation of Vistula with Hop and his heals in terms of ult charge, and already Shockwave is back in the fight, looking for instant impact just to add water.
But Skytool will eventually be brought down, and Denmark's options are severely limited here. We may well see this one go to a final flashpoint as Shockwave really can only look on and decide to call a quiz.
Yeah, it looked like at least I know from our POV what happened there when go-sex you take out shockwave
It was like a nade from Gucci on the passion
Chabi you see comes down to a considerable amount of damage kind of knocked him into maybe I know a kunai headshot there
Which is a enough to finish him off overclock here could be the decider Mitch. I know really open things up for Denmark
Like this is a perfect area for you know that overclock ability of sojourn, right?
just kind of like these big sight lines, they're pretty open, I know I have an opportunity to
free fire here. This really rush here, if it goes off the rip, it might see an opportunity to
extend their little lead into this final flashpoint. Denmark wisely disengaged away from it,
but it's not like they have a distinct advantage to bring him to this next fight.
It's a reprocessing match, and so are the Annihilations. I mean, you kind of have to disengage,
right? You can run into that Bastion who's got, I know, these like immortal shells here just firing
into the consumer rush combined with the needs as well. That is a nice pick-off from Shockley,
but he's in such an odd position trying to slide back to the rest of the United America.
SkyTool used an annihilation there as well, but it's hard to see how he was having to derive
value from it. He'll try and push up here, QG. Now with the perps he's chosen, he can really
punish Chokes, but when fights get out and we open like this, it's a little bit tougher. His
fire rate is drastically reduced. SkyTool though somewhat surrounded, but the stall was still
having to be dragged off his high horse, and this will be Finland now working with the directness
So on a flying ramp it knows he's going to give himself up one and done for the sim as Finn have to regroup
The opportunity though for Denmark to get back into this year on our final flash point, right?
I know double support ult here to work with you're gonna have that sim wall to contest with but I know it has
And not been extremely impactful thus far
I know we typically seen just kind of used the same time and both teams just kind of
Firing damage is a little void about see you know how they decide to play around this mean Denmark actually just drops her
Kitsune rush right into it.
It might not be enough, I want to shoot Kitsune too close to the sun!
He's fighting with every punch, the stuffing out of him!
And Shockwave has room to work, but even with the symbol and poison he bothered.
Beats coming in, Ghosts who can have a Kitsune rush, but it might be too late.
Finland might just need to regroup for one more fight, their window may have closed.
Yeah, so the beat there for Finland does get the beat out from Jonowitz,
and now you have an advantage here with Ghosts with that Kitsune rush,
but you're going, it's going to be a final fight as I...
You're going to get very close to, I was going to say, even maybe switching to some of your strength and tests,
but with this team you're able to get back in here rather quickly.
Still in annihilation.
SkyTor has gotten ahead of the stall in terms of Ultra. Ultra just could be massive.
Now it's about pressure.
SkyTor can sit back and find an annihilation for the extra durability he needs.
It can shock those players playing Ultra, Ultra, Ultra safe here.
Look at this off angle.
Practically out of the fireball with Rav getting picked up by Atari, so that seemed very, very good for Denmark.
Here's the annihilation, and there's just no answer for Finland.
Denmark able to save them off and complete the map win here to tie the series.
And I gotta say, I mean, I think Finland is quite fortunate they even win that first map, right?
It felt like for at least, I don't know, at least for me.
Denmark was in control, a lot of that map. It's just kind of Finland pushed up at the right time.
So Denmark putting themselves on the board here, it is not easy though, but I mean, that goes all the way down to the wire.
I feel like that's some interesting support, a lot of usage from both sides.
I know kind of throughout this one. I think we'll kind of see that you know throughout I know World Cup at moments
But I know Shockwave come out with some big kills. I thought the Sky Tour was really good on the ramp
I mean here. I want to draw attention very quickly just tally up these 35 and 3 from Shockwave
I mean, he said like what he had only like five deaths 35 and 5 in the first one. I mean and
Crazy first two maps Raph is a monster game
I mean the DPS of Denmark combined for 8k more damage in the end then Finland able to provide and that's what Finland
You know, leaning into this Bastion composition, you know, like relatively, you know, sort of late in that round.
But yeah, Shockwave is still indomitable. He is terrifying.
And let this guy go free, he will just pump damage into you.
Rav had a great game. He has like 15k damage, so Rona's only able to, you know, amount to 10k in the end.
Maybe something to do with like that Sigma comp, giving him a little bit less reach here, but in general,
the Genmarker, even though they sort of dropped the ball a little bit midway through the round,
So much of this came down to first pick here and you can see the pressure you can see the way on shockwave shoulders
He's always on our fangal. He's always making solo play and these overclocked have been crucial
And I think for Finland right? I know if you want to kind of continue to play
Some of these like rush tiles to play there are some pretty decent apps and the pool to be able to do it
I mean you can play Kings Row like if you wanted to write a little bit more verticality on Kings Row
I think people expect frame to see a decent like you know play there
You could go to, you know, if you play like Aruna Soppy, do you play like a new Queen Street, right, something along those lines?
It's interesting that kind of Finland has decided to go towards this style, like, you know, typically bring down the meta, right?
We're seeing, you know, Sigma-like pokecums with, like, Mizuki in the mix, we're seeing Cap Fashion, and then we're seeing, like, more like,
And you're going to play, it's more like a diva-cassity-tracer type of look with like Kiri Lucio, than kind of like, you know, Ram-May-Sim, right?
It feels like that's like a little bit of an older type of play style.
Yeah, it is. I mean, and honestly, like at times it looks static and there's windows per up tempo play with like your speed boost and main wall.
So there's a very unique look here. Finland have kind of almost always gone their own way.
It was obviously a cohort of Finnish players that brought Quantaic Serkin into the minigame many many many years ago
Why do you have to remind people that they know where they've finished players brought blood tank in?
I mean it's nostalgic. I think some people have you know, I'm sure some people have thought or uttered it in Twitch chat
But there's no accountability for what you say
You don't like me and I wish we had blood tank back
I have literally I literally said people right by all the time on these things. You should know this yourself. Really?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So again, we're not there, but it's done and I just leave you
leaving into what would be considered like a more safe way to try and play the game a
little bit more keep them at a length and try and like find little windows to feel aggressive
behind like main wall and punish any sort of positioning areas all for eight positioning
problems for Denmark. But they thought brilliantly in that previous game. And now the bands get
a little bit more interesting here is Finland's do not want to see this rematch around. Well,
So I think it's more that they need to protect the SIG, right?
So they needed to ban a tank here for Finland, right?
If you would have let the tank go through, the SIGMA ban probably comes out, and then
you end up in a rematch from here, which you just lost.
I like the May ban, like I know we've seen them kind of go towards like a May SIM a decent
amount, then go over to the Bastion.
I think Denmark probably feels like they can actually beat this Bastion SIM comp that Finland
I know it's brought out here because I know they've been able to do it whether it's a soldier under the Cassidy in a numerous fight so
The bands here make a lot of sense. I'd be surprised if Finland
I know it goes away from the Sigma. I think that's kind of why they want to play obviously circuit and then ban that rematch or first
We know about this point that the hero pool for Sky Tour is is pretty complete
He's got a ton of options at his disposal. Do you think if he want to hop into like a Sigma star mirror
Does D.Va have played here on this map against that Sieg?
Obviously, for a creation, it's pretty scary.
You can really lean a bit more into their Pogkamp.
But Denmark have Shockwave.
They have someone who is more than happy to play that style,
and it feels like if you give him enough time,
he's going to outperform on any of those longer range heroes.
Yeah, I mean, I think, obviously,
here we'll see this will be Denmark on defense here.
We'll see them come out and play like a D.Va look.
I think you can continue to play like D.Va into SIG, but I think that would be surprising here, right?
I mean, but Finland obviously, Vistola is tremendous.
You see that, right? You see that grinding there from the other hand?
Yeah, he's hitting those rails, bro.
I think Vistola can obviously play the D.Va, but it feels like you've put in a step to kind of play some more SIGMA,
where, yeah, you're going to have some changes. Yeah, they're going to go play SIGMA.
So it will be Denmark patching up their deeper composition against Finland's Sigma, at least for now.
So what now? In his time, pretty nasty hitscan player, but I was during his stint in Overwatch League level teams,
who's quite often found himself on Reaper, I think?
Who's kind of the Reaper pinch-header for the Florida mayhem for a hot minute, I think?
I mean, if memory serves?
Yeah, if memory does serve, you're correct.
So this is interesting, they go with a Juno Bask, so Ghosts we obviously know can play
Bapidum at a really high level.
The Juno gives you like a range of fighting, which is going to be extremely strong, a little
bit of extra damage maybe compared to Lucio, but I think having the Bask here, right, because
like, typically like once Noguchi ends up using like a turret form, that's when Denmark
kind of wants to go and collapse, so now you're playing into the Immortality Field, right?
where Tally feels Regenberg's a lot to have to kind of deal with.
I mean there's so much more sustain here for Fiddling's composition, mate.
They can just go with the gaze.
Just the broad-feeling throughput is unmatched by what Denmark consider a match.
You can see them being forced to give up ground, hand over fist, and there's the Atmatrix,
but a good shockwave produces a pretty T-pick as the fact he's gone.
However, lingering out too long in the open, there means Arbus Dolar is going to clack you,
and now Denmark are really just operating in fumes.
They have a different place still, but that creation is going to make enough of SkyTor to get where he needs to,
to leave the backline completely vulnerable, Miss Stola able to go toe-to-toe with these supports,
which is never what you want to see with these two things side-to-calling.
And no, I mean, you still have that panel up here for Finland and being, you know, they kind of healed by Stola up.
I wonder if we see some changes in Denmark. I mean, that is a speed run there through the first point from Finland,
is that it will be SkyTor trying to match this Sigma.
So it does feel like that you're on the wrong side of the damage output battle,
the right game matching the SIG with the other team having the bash and with the
back piece back there it's gonna be really difficult it feels like the
kids can play it alive when you see already these guys walking up taking some big shots
look at how on that shield locks the shield pressure is disgusting for this
pastian setup and now I got the symbol to work with blocks that's a good predict
yeah she's caught inside that Joe Hamlet was dead basically before he kicked the
ground and the symbol just comes at late in the day for Denmark they can't make
I guess with use of it, Stunner obviously time is flying to you all without accretion attempt
and now you're going to realize that you're going to consume.
Yeah, you see that on the picture now, and obviously, you know, Chalkwave could be that
much more aggressively, but to set this up, I don't want to think you have so deep, and
Chalkwave was basically a different postcard.
Yeah, and they end up, what, they end up using their beat there, Denmark, and getting out
the ray as well, so, you kind of reset those to portals, and it's playing go-signal, and
just kind of farm up these FTCM mages, it's going to be a TT straight to the point, as
Looks like nobody's actually able to touch there. They don't want to go through the TP. They see me a breach in there
From this solo just kind of lining it up
I mean, it's kind of where he is. Yeah, it feels like any just gets to the corner
It's nice support being able to actually kind of keep him alive this long
The overclock kind of prevents everybody else from Finland from turn of the corner
This comp seems really difficult for Denmark to deal with. It's a force around extreme pressure
Trankage try to pull up the shields from Sigma last
last nanoseconds virtually, under this sort of front loader damage, and that's a nice
little flex. So can this be remediated yet? There's an immortality feel, so I mean, Denmark
don't have access to it, so you can strap off the Sigma Ultimate and get back to business.
Denmark trying to, you know, just drop you back a little bit, you would seem to be,
I'm sure they're alive, but they've given up a lot of ground.
This is a blowout here. I reckon the first one in the series, it feels like, is Finland
just kind of marching to Denmark's spawn door here,
about four minutes on the clock.
Looks like Denmark wants to try
maybe take some of this high ground here, Mitch.
They're gonna allow that,
they look just gonna go on pass.
And it's like, how are you eventually
gonna get down here?
Jesus, they actually kind of flip sides to the map.
This might be brutal here for Denmark.
The soloists also have that flop,
it's gonna drop in nice do-do there,
keeping some players alive.
But look at this, they're just running
right towards the spawn.
I mean, they're gonna have to use that consumer
to get back towards their own base.
Finally though, we get a fight win here for Denmark. They used that Kitsune rush just in the neck of time because
Finland was about to walk that one in. I like that though from Denmark.
Finland were in a position where they were caught between trying to move the card up and also defend what was coming at them.
That was one of those moments where Denmark's comp here has enough tempo window to speed in by Jonowich.
And Finland don't have that same degree of mobility, right?
They don't have, you know, they only really have the speed ring here from, you know, from FM,
which is only available in some of these smaller windows.
So Finland, get a little bit over stimulated, I think, by, you know,
there's two objectives they have to balance.
And now they'll be reset somewhat, but this is a very healthy time bank
that got their, you know, orbital ray coming online.
You've got to watch out if you're Denmark,
and get picked instantly by this ant matrix.
Time to go.
Shockwave, the advantage to him is that he's a really good perch to play from,
but the symbol is going to essentially nullify the high ground,
and he's going to kill it.
It doesn't matter.
It goes through the face full of rail government.
They've traded out instantly, but still a mindful that Shockwave is going to have to commit in that situation in Sky Tour.
There's this, it's a sustained problem, Matt.
It's just not enough.
Most supports for Denmark were alive there, but aren't able to keep them standing.
It's RavLight in the fight, they're charged up and ready to go with Finland.
Again, run out of juice.
I gotta say this is huge though, for Denmark, right?
Being able to kind of win these fights without having to use that sound barrier is a...
Do you believe Yo-Ham here, Blake?
But I think a few players have to stop for Finland.
I'm not sure you're going to be able to kind of capitalize on this.
The QRI TP you're gonna get back in the fight rather quickly as well.
Ravage is extremely low here, just these hyperspeeders have a cloaking down here, so come full of your reposition, but it gets a Suzu!
That's very early use of that ability.
The solo, preventing flex, more defensively, they have to catch Skytor inside of it and give him free reign to go after Shockwave.
Now, Skytor's in trouble.
Future may have fallen here, but Dylan's still operating on four players, and that is a glass of little accretion up in the hydra, and to disrupt Ravage.
Ravage's angle is late in the fight, and see how much damage they've got to put out.
The shield will be enough to prevent that, and now you're down to Dreg, you're down to support here.
If you want Denmark, and you are throwing yourself at the problem, that's a problem that can't be fixed soon enough.
You have a two-minute hold there from Denmark towards the end, so...
Some signs of life on defense, but man, that is a great offense there from Finland.
It feels like that SIG, Bash, and KOM, but I know now that they've kind of put the Baptiste and the Judo in the mix,
Really difficult for them to stop as you see kind of the the damage output
I know that Gucci is able to have there doesn't match shockwave
But still like that damage just kind of comes in burst from the bash and just kind of constantly moving the rest of Denmark back
I mean, let's assume for the sake of argument that we're gonna see the same comp here for Finland
How are you supposed to export is like Juno Batti's backline?
Are you trying to make use of their relative immobility?
Can you afford to run up on them because they're sitting with a bastion in their front line?
Not really because like you have the Sigma stun, right?
You have the the bash and obviously with the immortality field if you're going to attack when he doesn't have Turric form like let's see
Kind of go on in this could be interesting though if you play far
Right just kind of like constantly try to poke them down that could be an interesting look
Potentially for Denmark. It looks like they're gonna kind of go back
I know John which will probably play the Lucille here and they'll kind of go back to play some that's trusted from them
they play but but I think this is going to be really difficult to stop I mean
this is even something where potentially for Denmark right you would have
loved potentially having this rematch her to play
out of the gates here just Lucio maybe less important until we get past this
first checkpoint we had some point having that mobility is going to be crucial
garbage will be coming out here on this Juno okay so a Christian straight away
and because these guys will take half this health and damage virtually
instantly. So there's a lot of threatening things here. Also Ghost is just shooting. A lot of
like damages coming in pretty consistently here for the Baptiste. Releasing the potential for it.
And now Finland take their time. They're happy to slow roll this. Obviously they're trying to
burn Clock and Shockwave. Just it's incidental poke damage from the whole side to all Peters.
It's dusty here. Yeah, he kicks dangerously low during a push around that corner is
you see even here, right? Denmark kind of stands there and fights but you get more
A lot of quality films when it comes in from Ghost as SkyTor will go back to the spawn, it'll be a switch from the Juno to the Lucio, yeah so you have to match the Sigma, but this doesn't seem to be like a, like Vestola is like one of the better Sigmas in EU, right?
So it doesn't seem to be a strong matchup that Denmark is playing themselves into at the moment where that from Montrevan coming up huge.
Yeah exactly Matt, that's such a good point.
where the Spytor is supposed to find his edge. I think he's kind of hoping that Shockwave just
solved the problem for him to suddenly agree. Raph doing pretty well, he late in the fight,
big increase in the front line of Denmark and it could be pretty disruptive. Oh,
a little kick there from Fn. Okay, but Denmark still have a breakthrough a little more.
The Sigma matchup is good, at least if Skytor can buy Shockwave time. We just can't
have Shockwave dying randomly to pulsar torpedoes. We can't have that pressure on the back line to
constantly be pumping him with heals. So creating a bit more of a staker zone for
So Shockwave to play in seems to be optimal.
It is, but can you consistently win fights that way, right?
And you know, you're expecting him to just get like a rail gun kill every single fight
on either of you like, on or...
Yeah, you're kind of relying on it is that it'll be the overclock from Shockwave that
is an amateur.
The other direction is you wrap just blows up and not gonna get anything here with the
OC.
It's a bad question, right?
Shockwave's supposed to just sort of supply this like insane play every teamfight and like
Controversially the answer is yes. I think Denmark that's kind of been what has got them to this point so far
Shockwave is outperforming here at DPS. Just one pick though. He doesn't need to do one D5 every single fight
But I do think that yeah, the pressure is gonna be on. He's a rush so look at this outtempot moment
If you think Denmark they're gonna try to run for them and down
It's got an orbital ray symbol in place. Our Murray has to be used for Denmark up in the sky and that buys him enough time
That's just a good mashup in terms of ultimates. Yeah, Denmark is both of their support ultimates
have to here to get this checkpoint. I mean when the Katsune rush drops and you're kind of pushing on forward
As soon as they drop the orc ray and I mean you have the Bastion with the orbital ray there
I mean you can't push in even with that Katsune rush you're gonna need something else to help you out
So John O'Wetch uses the beat there the perfect time that allows us to get that first checkpoint
But Finland does hold on you know to that no sauna no sim wall right there
But they're gonna move up to a more aggressive position
I don't know, it's a creation there on G-Sheath Nox, and Bat gives a win if it's Silver Stollers that would win the frontline fight, and Shockwave has already called a cancel on this encounter.
And does not want a bar of it!
Then Michael can try to try and reset now, but there's the lurking fear, if they're tracking it, then that matrix is going to threaten to burst them down at this next fight.
And this is what we see a lot of great teams do, right? They move up to like this spawn door here, they're able to kind of put some pressure on the opposing team.
Now it looks like an openland backs out just a little bit, but I think they're almost trying to bait them into this ant matrix that's coming on in.
From Ghost is sharply taking an off angle.
Yeah, I mean, I'm freaking off angle.
Again, takes the time to get into the fire, but hey, he delivers. That's called, uh, interest, I guess.
Least is of a return with a kill, but traded out instantly. Because he's away from his team, he can't benefit from SkyTor's defensive utility.
SkyTor as well has no one to protect except himself right now, but hey, that seems to be enough.
with sauna clever shield thrown out just to block the accretion now you work with
it here's a staging ground for Denmark while Finland are completely in
disarray another hard-fought fight win for the Danes yeah and then Mark will
come into this next like Mitch probably with an opportunity to take that second
checkpoint in they'll have both support ultimates plus their flux to work with
so I will see if they're able to kind of catch anybody as they did like Finland
deepens right playing a little bit closer I know more aggressive I mean you
You can see these fights, like they kind of split up in every which direction.
We're on board with SkyTron, the first person here, and kind of like using that, I know,
Connecticut Rats, just looking every which direction.
They'll be at 2-2, they're actually kind of close to the cat here, it's been a long
time going across.
Throwing off Castellan, wanted the flux to be as short as it was, but it still caught
Jonovic, which is pretty massive.
He doesn't opt to use the beetle, doesn't have it available.
Either way, he can't make use of it.
Nicely done though, that's an emerald, and in your town, it feels rather clear to pull
forth, which hits the ground.
They seem down, but Denmark is still running on drake so they are going to have to reset this one now and this is where it gets tough to play upfield with the sigma comp so less mobility to sort of address the high ground concern and so back to this comp that's going to rain down on you.
I mean that is insanely good Flux there from Vestola kind of takes the TP across taking so much damage
Then he uses the Flux, Abhime, dodge the accretion and then connects with the Lucio which is not going to use the beat at that time
Hey, hello, the Lucio just takes out the Bastion here
That's the ant matrix that comes on through but there's no damage right now that the Bastion's gone
Well, the damage also to this a bloody die-connected cross, but it's simple and in the white
So that's pretty little but still later in the fight still didn't over the right to climb through
Oh, good dog to the accretion there, but soles gonna be forced out of the immortality field.
Skytron, though, might have to give up his life for his audacity.
No, just alive. Nice healing here.
FN, a bit of a threat though, up in the sky. There's Ghost, man.
This guy has always been nasty on the Vassics.
And also, like, Fingolin is pretty fortunate, right?
They, uh, end up losing Gucci at the beginning of that fight with the Ant Matrix.
Sound Barrier comes on through there, you know, for Denmark, but not enough in the end.
And so we'll see now as we're relying on another Shockwave overflog here.
Looks like we're gonna get a QT rush as well.
Shockwave can see what he can find.
And he'll have been taking some damage.
Nothing close to lethal though as everybody from Finland gonna back up.
It's alright to a little bit low though.
Can't play aggressively.
Shockwave realizes that means it's trying to back up.
Oh, he's doing the accretion.
Yes, that's the Sigma gap.
Just emerging in that brief moment and that's gonna be enough to get a stock damn mark in their tracks.
Finland, we're in with confidence on this circuit royal, but they picked us for this occasion, and Gushi, that's a good old timing there, just for that, oh good shield.
This may well be enough, a more county-filled promotion, 70 cleared, and Gushi will eventually forfeit for Stola, has a date with Destiny, and with Jono, which is called, apparently, as Denmark, are out of time.
Finland, pretty commanding victory on circuit royal in the end.
Yeah, as I you can see their strength when they can kind of match that stick
But I think that was a really good band of the rematchra
Preventing them from playing that there would have been maybe a go-to
for
You know for Denmark, so we'll see now as a Denmark moves into a must win scenario
Where they tried to go, right? Yeah, I know you you don't want to go towards like any of the the sick the maps, right?
But obviously how good I know this Stola has been we take a look at some of the stats, right?
Um, you know, we even though they were able to punish Gucci a decent amount of the time,
Investola, look at that, I mean, 21k damage on the SIG, I mean, just absolutely farming there.
Yeah, I mean, when we get these SIG mirrors, I think so much comes down to sequencing and just good game sense.
Stola sees opportunities like here, for example, where he can actually like dive the backline because D.Va can be ignored to some degree.
I think like putting Ghost on the Baptiste is such a power play, not every map is going to allow for it, right?
Here it's like pretty straight aways and like you know heavily high ground dependent
I think if you're Denmark on that note you're trying to pick
You know you're trying to pick a map where that slightly greedy of back line is gonna be harder to pull off or at least more exposed
And there might be like it you know need a map where you can play tracer something to actually address the back line because
We haven't seen that at all from either of these teams obviously Finland don't really care to do that
Right they want to play like single want to play may they want to play like pretty compact pretty close together
Denmark do they have the option to lean into like a tracer diva look on a map that really suits that something with
verticality sure but it is something where like they can put some
Frank pressure down in this backline because they're living easy so far all
the focus has been on Gucci and getting rid of the bastion course is very
important but it has not been enough even with like an 8k damage
differential on the side of Denmark yeah so what you have hybrid still left and
and push right um you know what hybrid the map will right now is uh what kings new bonnie and uh
kind of think of a third um i think it's lizard world um but we know uh oh hollywood hollywood is
the other guy um he's gonna be king or something uh yeah like if you want to play tracer calm
that is yeah what are you trying to play runasabi and uh basically you know you you everybody's
he's going to play. Okay, so they do pick Runesoppy. I like this pick because, you know,
mostly everybody in the MEA goes towards Kingsrow anyway. Right? So you probably have a good
idea that if you win this, if you're Denmark, Finland is going to pick Kingsrow and just
try and play like, or maybe in body, not maybe, but like most likely just going to play Kings,
right? So you can go runesoppy here. These are some good little sightlines for like just
So Jernar, you can cast it if you wanted.
I would ban Bastion here, I think, if I'm Denmark.
Ban Bastion, you know, other than the Bastion look,
you haven't seen them play any other hits yet, right?
They've played a lot of, like, Me, Sim type of clothes.
So I would ban the Bastion.
Then if you're Finland, like, the scary, I mean,
Finland could, I guess, ban Peeva, right?
But at that point, you're going to get into that Ramakramir,
Which I think SkyTour looks a little bit more comfortable on than trying to match Sigma's with Vestola.
How...?
Okay, so actually this is better than the others.
Kiri is going to be taken away, obviously that's just something that Denmark have had in every one of their compositions.
This might force a Katrina Lucero look on, or this might have mattered.
I wonder, if you are brave enough to put Sauna on Farri here, and try and abuse the screening of the high buildings,
even against a hits game, like of Shockwave's caliber,
Can you audaciously try and work a Pharah in these comps?
It doesn't mean the Baptiste has a little bit less run, right?
And there's a pretty solid go-to option here.
We've also seen Ana make some appearances
on this map though as well.
It can be quite potent and a decent option
to try and keep that Pharah top-dump at all times.
We've just seen it by some teams.
Abuse really quite effectively here.
There's also, like, you're trying to play a flanking,
you know, DPS comp tracer is super valid here.
You've seen teams trying to work the venture in.
I don't know how much these two teams are willing to, like, diverge from the script.
They seem pretty set in their ways.
And I do think Ruinosapi opens up a couple of different options.
Also, they kind of map in the past where, like, Arissa got some run.
Obviously, her disruption was pretty potent here.
She's obviously fallen off the wagon a little bit in terms of desirability.
And we might just, you know, get a rematch ahead to head.
But there's also potential to run the mage here.
I mean, we just saw that Finland, you know, ended up coming out and playing like Juno Bap,
right?
So that's a combination they get to run back here with a, they take it like Juno Bap,
same with like, you know, the Mei and the Sim, right, maybe?
They're still trying to figure out a way to kind of get the Lucio in the mix.
I mean, you could kind of play what Finland is hovering here.
Obviously no cleanse available.
In fact, this is just objectively superior when you're playing like a ground ball.
Well, yeah, when it works with the sick, right?
But now having the Rematrin play, I think this makes it a little bit closer here for Denmark, right?
Denmark potentially going to be going up.
Yeah, so Juno Briggs, so this will be obviously pretty rough to play into.
Typically we see Briggs like Excelling against like Giba-based comps.
Not exactly, I know, ideally, into like, sig- sig- may type loads.
No, you also, you don't want to get poked down at all.
You can't farm three whipshots like you can off of even for those inspire crops.
Here's the push from Denmark, though. They want to be the up 10-point team, and they can't box in Finland in, but Finland's comp is pretty good at playing with those small spaces.
No, Stola's already pretty charged up. That's an early, uh, immortality feel, though.
Does Ghost have a regenerative burst that looks like the Stola and FN are struggling here under some of this damage.
Future also is still alive, but likely doesn't have an ice block anymore after having just used it.
Now they'll push out into the open field. The early cross from Denmark kind of fails them, but they are away with the bot, and it's up to Finland to make the push.
Oh, I don't know. It's really low. They all are trying to block off the brig, and they finally do a few times in the first fight.
The brig got dangerously low, but the bot is actually needing to come far away here from Team Finland.
Maybe an opportunity here for Denmark to even get chip point Mitch off of this first fight.
And this is what I was asking for Matt, a tracer or some kind of flanking DPS to punish this relative immobility of the Baptists in the backline.
I think conversely, Jonowich is going to be targeted on this break for a similar reason.
So both teams have this super mindful of this less mobile backline piece.
Yeah, so I'm over to the tracer here just trying to mark Rad.
The one thing you could also work in for Denmark, and not sure it's him, I don't know if he's here or cool, but like a far, right?
Finglin just showed no inclination to play any type of hitscan throughout this.
There's a nice shot there from Sana on a yo-han, finishes him off, but you end up losing FN, while having the sound barrier, Raph finds the ghost as well.
So both supports now gone here, but fight seems like the damage is done.
Now, Finland will come out on top, so, okay, now SkyTour over to the Moga.
I think the Moga is actually probably a little bit better, I know, with some of the, you know, the kind of stuff that Denmark is trying to do.
Right, Moga excels with inside the orbital raid, I know that Brink can kind of like play a little bit better with that Moga.
It's going to be an ice bucket for Lucian, just trying to, ice wall, trying to keep himself up.
Okay, fuck that.
Do you now feel like you need sojourn in your comp to break this page fight or honor to potentially shut down some of this healing?
Might not be needed in this fight, Yo-Han just seems to get caught out. Matt is classy stuff from Sona. Great little stick there.
Jota, which also gives a leak in Sona. Happy enough to back away after that damage is done.
Yeah, I mean, sick stuff from Sona there. A lot of ultimates kind of expended.
I know, from Binlyn, right? I know they end up using kind of that sound barrier, which is huge. I know, uh, pulse bomb plus blizzard.
I don't think you necessarily need, you know, the cage, you know, the soach that people are going to deal with the cage.
Just blizzard it?
Yeah, I mean, you could blizzard it into it.
You can just kind of like ice block and, you know, use like the May wall to try and kind of like deter players into it.
As I see on the minimap there, it's a great jump from our observers that I know FN and Ghost are kind of working their way back in the fight.
It's just so a really rough spot, and finally they take him out.
This is too much damage at the start of the fight. Even Ghost, you know, just wasn't really present to get him topped back up.
That's a really early end of the fight. Now it's a matter of not getting staggered out.
Finland really need to fold away from this quickly as they can and each extra catch of these is going to compound the issue further.
Looks like Rav kind of trying to predict where these players are playing from here.
Ooh, that's ice block already. I thought maybe you were thinking about a pole spawn, but...
Aisa, the main pole, here from Gucci, gonna pick themselves.
The bot now, back into Finland territory as the pole spawn goes awry, but...
You do end up losing your main, you end up just having guys on which alive here, in terms of support, you need to get an evenmich.
You end up popping this rally, you do end up losing Skydor maybe so you wish you would have ended up using it, but
feels like now Denmark is still going to control this bot moving forward.
This is it man, this is the rap tracer game I've been looking for, this guy's actually popping off.
He is 14 and 2 right now, and crucially there was a bone down Vistola while he was in that annihilation.
The solo realizes there's too much front loader damage from his Malga, more than Rematra can contend with in just terms of DPS, so we're gonna see this switch over there.
Yeah, more. A more shot at fiddling just does not. Like, you know, so pretty good in the meta, Cassie obviously, great.
It'll be actually the rally they're used by Jungle which doesn't really get much of anything, but this is zero inclination from fiddling to try and play any type of hitscan.
I mean, I must be plugged into the comms for these teams at some point, you know, because
Gucci now going over to the Soge finally trying to match in terms of the hit scan
But yes, I'm really impressed of play there from Denmark as skydiver
It is not the Sigma head-to-head. They look pretty good. That is a nice poop back there from FN
It was just skies were trying to walk around the corner drop the cage
And I know FN just kind of knocks them back. The cage actually goes for nothing really big play by the Lucille Fimlis
This is getting problematic now for Denmark to send a very least sound barrier here for FN
He's moving back to the orbital ray, but that's something that Jonovitch can't benefit from right now.
He is not in position. Nice work by Effend to get out there alive and eventually it's Vostola who crumbles first in the frontline fight.
Is there more here from Finland? I think you should deliver on this sojourn.
Yo-han is hard to catch and did his best to keep Jonovitch alive. He is done enough.
Yeah, Pulse Bomb comes in from Sona, doesn't connect with anything as it feels like Yo-han was trying to start his V-nextion.
There's a lot of damage coming in at Johnowich.
I don't know if you can actually kind of push this in though without both supports.
So Sky Touring Co just going to kind of play at this corner, keep it in tested,
and now run back as Johnowich will end up back in the fight.
And we're also going to end up with some pretty good sight lines here for Shockwave's overclock.
Back to business for Finland.
They are a long way behind in this game.
Always say 100 meters separating these two teams.
And if another thought for Shockwave to you,
he doesn't want to let Finland gain back too much ground.
Still trying to find a way to abuse this squad,
that the Rappers finally called in the Tracer Ministers dealt with by QC to start the fight
but SkyTour clearly unperturbed, runs down at both EPS, lowest he is, that was about as good as
it gets here from your Mauga and keeps Denmark in the position of priority.
Damien, what SkyTour gets to there, right? Even though you kind of dodged that overclock from
Shockwave, the SkyTour able to come up with some big kills there is Vistola with the cage here.
a lot of time already gone in this game and I know Finland still hasn't even got a checkpoint mid rate
So they're behind by a considerable amount. Yeah, I'm running out of time as well
for even a snipe to play
We're gonna go for a cage right now, but more defensive than anything else. It's Kytor is gonna be extracted
Kill her, wrap. Gotta deal with this issue. Bit of a threat now
But Black's team mates unfortunately to really lean into this setup of sauna. He's gonna be able to clean up with the help of toast
And it feels like you almost kind of gave up Sky Tour a little bit there, right, knowing
that there's the cage on the other side, you know, Matrix was used, he just kind of plays
in that corner, Nose Vistula is going to come around and use it, because now Denmark is
set up in a fantastic spot, right?
H5 plus Orbel Ray to play in, Uchi here with the overclock though, could be huge.
Doesn't look like that cage actually kind of gets much of anything there, it's going
to be the rally in the Orbel Ray here used by Denmark, because FN uses that sound barrier,
That does not really kind of provide enough especially with the rally in the rain on the other side
I'm in so much to the range of keeping busy out of the fight there
This charges on in shield bashes keeps some sort of caught off on that left hand side
And he never really had a chance to make use of it overclock
There was a h-run in front of him for most of it and then the bridge steps up and threatens him two minutes left
Denmark back into position to threaten now looking for map completion here over Finland and wrap as yet now the pulse
His last one was pretty astonishing. Two supports for the price of one. It's hard to improve on that, honestly,
but if Rafa could get even half the impact out of this bomb, then that would be in good shape.
There we go, going over to the break races, but Sid was trying to match this comp.
Full spawn doesn't get anything there. Nice little tracer head to head. We were watching, but
Shockwave on and off angle puts down some damage. Nice job here, Prokvin. We're all staying alive.
We're damaged here onto Stola, but it's just not enough follow-up. The rest of Denmark wasn't really in a position to fight for
SkyTor wasn't really taking up the choke adequately enough to keep eyes off of Shockwave.
The recovery here for Finland, an interesting to see them kind of bend to the will of Denmark,
ultimately mirroring their composition.
They're going to have to run it back the entire map at this point.
They think you'd be kind of losing this fight in the mid-map.
Like Denmark's just going to opt to not move the payload and it'd be very difficult to get back and contest.
So a must win fight face the every you on from here on out for Finland, which he gets dangerously low
Don't you know for the time being but now strikes what needs these ministrations if Gucci picked up first though again
Finland's start from a player deficit and this time don't fancy it
They want one more five that they can fight five players here. They won't be staggered out any further. There's been market. Oh
Well
That is brutal here, and I know
Even for Denmark, you don't necessarily need to move the bot at this time, right?
You can kind of just let it sit, but...
...Sana now goes over to the Reaper.
You were talking about, you know, the Reaper pinch hitter in the past life.
It was a LVH fight here for both magas.
It'll be SkyTor using his first, if a solo drops his right after.
Second stage wins in that case.
Sona definitely helping with some of that.
First damage toward the frontline.
It gives them an edge against the mouth, but for me it sounds like a concession.
This also limits Finland's ability to pressure their backline meaningfully.
And it still gets them in a position to try and fight for this.
If not looking good though, it's going to be three or more consecutive fight winds required.
Is that first point? What's it even picked up by Finland?
And in that fight, obviously, Sony gets back in and starts to do some damage,
but it's really that orbital ray inside of the cage that opens things up there for Finland.
and really Denmark with a Ray plus rally.
The ghost does have the rally,
maybe kind of get like a nice bash onto a player.
He needs to kill, take him out.
It'll be John DeWitch opening himself with a rally of his own
as Gucci goes on a flank here with the OC.
He's trying to do his best attempt
at a shot by the impression of it so far,
he's a ton to look at.
Having a play safe, took him into the damage,
he knows what the healing is he's gonna be coming.
Oh, the Medivaster from Yo-Ham, I can't headshot,
I can certainly kill DPS.
Gucci and Sona are down.
And that is going to be it folks,
Denmark with a superior composition
and great composure, we'll take you to a decided.
And like with the way this series is gone, bitch,
it basically seems like if Finland is not able to play
like some of these sigma based comps,
like Denmark has the advantage, right?
So it feels like that's kind of what you're looking to hear
for this final game of this series.
And this final game so consequential probably
Who makes it out of this group as we take a look at some of the stats grab you were calling for for a while, right?
I know see the tracer come out a fantastic game
I know 29 elims only seven deaths on the tracer and it was just really difficult for Finland to get anything going
It was such a great start there from Denmark
I'm not kidding man about this next up energy for Rad this guy is pretty insane
Great performance. You know so fast switch over to was the tracer will be questioned whether that was really in the back pocket
For me, it's kind of kind of heartbreaking because you know rav
At least on this current roster won't be featuring in OWCS
They weren't quite able to make it through that promo relegation for stage one after you know
Falling to peps and to tell us you respectively, but this guy is a pretty insane player
It should definitely be looked at as a good prospect
I think like the switch here over like from Finland obviously they make multiple switches that closely
Rather like slowly get them closer and closer to Denmark's composition
I think they eventually cotton on that.
You know, Denmark come into this map with a plan that it's got a comp that's tried and tested.
And they're gonna take far too long to get going.
And even when they do, it's the usual suspects.
It's obviously shocked by being a pain, but also Rav just carrying a part that's slightly greedy backline.
So, as the Baptists forcing ultimates to draw.
So here's your positives for Finland, right?
They end up banning the Bastion does Denmark on that map.
So you'll have the Bastion coming up in and you control map.
And you can control first band.
You could band like Maga, which allows the sig to make it
on through.
You can continue to see that.
The one thing for Denmark, though,
is that they will end up having that Ramatra make it through.
Think back to Circuit, and why Circuit was really
such one-sided.
Finland picked Circuit from a tremendous sigma map.
They banned the Ramatra.
They just going to bulldoze them over.
So, uh, the potential here would kind of like the bands to make this, uh, you know, a little bit more even, especially kind of what we've seen throughout the series.
But, you know, Denmark is already one and O in the group, right?
I know they set up top, it'll be a New Bonnie pick.
Okay, so this is a little bit, uh, you know, New Bonnie's pretty decent, Sigmat.
Uh, you can play D.Va here, uh, bashed in very effective on some of the high grounds, right?
We haven't seen them play with the cat yet, but with the, uh, sim, you can kind of go side to side and do some things here.
And Mark 3 and L know obviously they did they beat well a 3-0 to Austria yesterday
So they sit at the top of the group at 1 and L going to 2 and 0 here
Would put a lot of pressure on Finland right and not only would you need to beat Austria in Sweden?
But you probably need to beat them pre-handedly in terms of like map differential, right already having I know
No, he did mark already has that 3-0 over Austria
You would at least need the 3-0 Austria and also beat Sweden right this this series has a lot on the line
So Finland goes with a break ban off of the rip and that allows Denmark to ban the SIG
Yeah, so sick out of the picture here and obviously Finland
You know obviously especially on some parts of this map defensively see we could be so potent right like you
May not have a good analog for see more in terms of like a static like pay defensive control high ground at least on that defense side
Rig band away by Finland. Makes you wonder like what the plan is because it's not like
Finland are really looking to play like flankers. They move Sona over to the tracer
eventually but it didn't seem to be their first preference at all. But you make a great point.
If they're not wins here it means that they had to have between Finland and Sweden basically decides
qualification unless Austria-Rena wins against one of these teams. So you know banning the obviously
this is a really good diva map. This solo is good at diva. Banning the brig obviously is you know
really strong for D.Va, right? But now that they sick is gone, right? In like a D.Va head-to-head,
like, it feels like the thing that we saw at least thus far that they've had the best results in
Finland is kind of like those Sigma matchups, right? Where they're able to play the Sigma,
a force of Rematra, but even when we see the Rematra head-to-head, right? I think it's been
much closer than, you know, really kind of like, it does not seem like SkyTorch can really kind of
of stand up and play that SIG at the level of Estol just seems like they have a much better grasp of that.
It felt like in the Sigma mirror, it was like each encounter, there's like a small edge that's still like each
side over like spider right, and it just turns into like firewinds. I think if you want to throw back to New
Jump City, that's when we got to see these Romartra comps interact a lot more. I don't know if like,
you feel great playing Romartra like on Dumbani, especially as an Attack Slime team,
like the rush comp can be challenging because you have to reckon with the high ground difference
your opponent's probably gonna be playing something sort of one range here obviously
can be quite impressive the attack side to move into that sort of left side high ground and try
and transition from there. I think it's always islands trying to play that jetpack camp bastion
on this map and it actually didn't really work trying to play around that sort of left side on
the attack here so I wonder if we see something a bit more novel in terms of tank picks is there
like a wall where you try the maulie here. I want to know what it is that provokes the Brigitte
band. Why are Finland banning her and why are they trying to play into it? I think that might tell
us a lot of the plans here, Finland. Well, because Finland, they seem more comfortable playing some
stuff with like the Baptiste and like a little bit more of like the kind of diving heat into the
support pool, where Denmark is obviously loved to kind of like have that Lucio kind of in play the
entire time neither team has gone towards the cat right it's been available with the bash on multiple
maps it seems like uh you know Finland obviously playing some bash in here Denmark not really playing
much at all uh playing it on the ground um you're probably playing diva here i imagine especially
on offense uh no and well now without the sig down even on defense right you're probably playing the
the Devo so we'll see how it pans out here for Finland like we talked about a
massive match right there's Sweden and is it in this group another root league
for all team although on Denmark those beat Austria 3-0 I think you know
Australia you know they do have something a pretty standout players so they
could maybe make some noise a little bit later but it seems like Denmark Finland
in Sweden you're kind of standing at the top of the group here at the moment
comes down to this one folks Finland and Denmark pushing each other to the very
limit it's Finland that get the map pick here they choose not to thanks to Kings
but Numbani instead Denmark is gonna start on defense though and they have
always been comfortable moving to this diva base look especially without Sigma
to threaten constant disruption for Sky Tour. Denmark want to try and get dug in
here up in the high ground the sim infrastructure has already been put in
place and if Finland do roll out on a combat features the tracer that might
answer the question about the Brigitte Band. How are they going to make the difference here?
From Atra or D.Va? That's my question. I know Vistola is a pretty insane D.Va player. It's kind
of hard to imagine where he loses any tank matchup in this head-to-head. And it is? I don't know,
FNN can switch off here. So we're sort of waiting to see if it's going to be a cat choice. Maybe he's
waiting on some information. It is going to be a jetpack cat, but not with a pack.
Is that with no Fash?
No, they're gonna have to go back and search.
Yeah, I mean, this is...
Are they gonna play Bastion?
Rematra.
Okay, so they will play Jetpack Cat Bastion here with the Rematra.
Uh, so maybe that's kind of...
I mean, the Brig...
Maybe they use the Brig to protect the cat,
but I believe the cat was already banned a little bit earlier in the series.
So that maybe is what the Brig Band is for, right?
It's to kind of protect the Jetpack Cat to make it on through.
make it on through.
Chomp right here, you're mine for just gonna get flanked on.
This is really annoying to deal with.
What's he knows, the Jetpack Cat?
Look at how low FNM did get in that moment.
But Phil and Duan just lag around and fall.
Look how effortlessly they were able to take it.
Denmark wanted to try and keep a foothold here,
but they realized that he's more trouble
than it was with the Bastion,
who is large and in charge now, presiding over the point.
That's right, folks, all Bastion's weaknesses
have now been ameliorated with the addition of Jetpack Cat
and so it can go exactly where he pleases.
This does mean though that Ghost has a lot on his plate in terms of healing, I don't know, the entire rest of the team.
Yeah, this is definitely what that breakband was for, right? It protects Jetpack half-dan.
You know, that could have potentially came through there from Denmark, and this is a con that we have not seen Finland use just yet.
It'll be Senior Rushier, you fight Ghost, they want to make sure they actually get this point as fast as possible.
guys were here still working, but out of the bank,
eventually he will fall.
So Jetpack can't,
and a Bastion gonna rule the day here off the start mid
so that allows Finland to take that first point.
That's right.
The descent into dishonest Overwatch
is begun by Finland here,
as they sing an opportunity
to play the Boogeyman composition, to take the series.
Pretty competitive.
Fightbow and Denmark still had good high ground control
on that point, but they had to retake it midway through.
And that lets them U3 to continue to press the advantage.
Yo-ham does have this Katsune rush available.
And it's sort of being fired off in there, but it's just-
Yeah, he's looking.
Yeah, looking for Sona and FN, but I mean, they did get out of Yo-Dajio.
They could just fly behind a building another day to do.
And now, they're in a really weird spot.
It's going to be a sim wall that comes on through.
The soul is going to use the annihilation here.
Yo-ham drops his Katsune rush ice block.
It comes out from Gucci with a blizzard right after.
Maybe if you get a full vote, Blizzard is in play.
And it's been made use of though, so far Denmark's been comfortable enough here,
and Smitehall says, okay, I can handle this Bastion to some degree.
Solo though is out of the picture, and you saw great switching there for Rav,
good TP usage back and forth, even against the solo's annihilation.
Rav is able to stay out of it for long enough here to get good damage down,
and Shockwave has made the switch to the Cassidy.
Yeah, Cassidy feels like one of the best options, maybe the best option against the cat Bastion.
Now you saw SkyTorror make a play for the Bastion, but she gets picked up just kinda like I squirted it out of the way
and even when SkyTorror is making a play for that Bastion, just players getting taken out on the other side.
That's a huge pick off there.
Yohan takes out Ghost. That's gonna force Fn and gonna drop that Bastion.
Provide a little bit more healing the rest of the team.
Super-Orc is one of the finalists.
Look how low the solo is and with only one support left to keep him up and Kyrotho's middling throughput,
it's just not enough time to get their tank back in the fight.
Right, Gucci also falling means that yeah it's a total dominating performance here for Denmark
and now they'll play this quarter and get Shockwave close to the dead end.
I mean easier said than done right but one of the ways you can kind of obviously deal
with this Cap Bastion right is getting rid of the Kiri.
Yeah, of course the main camp is actually short healing otherwise you're just going
to be able to kind of attach yourself to the Bastion.
They're going to grab the debuff but it's actually a self destruct there from SkyTorre
so don't want to exactly grab that neck back into the rest of the squad.
It's so stupid bro, you have to like, let go of the D.Va, otherwise you'd drag a bomb back into your team, that is so filthy.
Nice work by Sky2, I had to right to spawn some force, Lee.
It's hard to have an answer to this Bastion damage.
Shockwave, this is risky.
He pees forward and oh, it's blocked out by that ice block.
The solo looks like he had a shield up anyway.
Shockwave though is going to press the issue, sees Fn very low, one more Shockwave.
And, characteristically, Shockwave's not able to complete the kill.
Fortune for him, Rav is.
Finally both Gucci and Ghost and Denmark, I'm gonna say it man, they have a distinct strength advantage here.
Yeah, I mean once they've kind of gone over the Cassidy here, they've looked pretty good, so now it's gonna force Finland, they're gonna ditch that cat bastion, maybe they feel like they kind of came out with it, maybe surprise Denmark early on, but now kind of can't contend and can continue to play it, it'll actually be back over to a Sim plus May combination.
I imagine though like you can just see Denmark kind of match the Ramatra if they get into trouble here
But who doesn't want to commit too heavily to this
Surely tracking annihilation now about time for that from the stola. Listen here as well for Gucci
I told sticking close to the main ready that even if it does come up with that shockwave that's huge
And that's where Cassidy shines in this matchup against the Symmetra that's gonna force the annihilation out of stola. Oh, okay
Frozen up there was vital briefly, but no blizzard involved. It's just shockwave all the time man
and he's done more than enough in this fight
that both backliners bestowed a huge annihilation already
and couldn't turn it into a landslide victory.
So now, Finland are up against it.
Meanwhile, that's the plan. No annihilation.
A specter with a blizzard that's got to try and play into a sound barrier doesn't look great.
Yeah, I mean, somehow Sky Tour also, we have to kind of keep alive during that with some help from Yo-Ham
without actually having to use self-destructs or have that
in order to kind of get a new mech back in this site
a little minute, but close to portal available. Shotwave with the TP, nice job there. The
Maywall comes on through, takes the TP back. He's not gonna find anybody here. He's in
a really weird spot. Finally makes it back to the TP.
Firstly, this might just need to be kept healthy, but for Stola it just couldn't be. And this
is the Gucci. That's somebody gonna go for it, but this highly modal D.Va-based composition
just doesn't give an opportunity to freeze them in place. Do you pack that ultimate up
and save it for the next fight? But Jonovic didn't have to use this soundbarry in the end.
It was just the rush from Yo-Ham and now Rav is going to have a wall to work with.
This is going to be obnoxious for Finland to play into.
Yeah, look how far up.
I knew you had Sky Tour playing right here.
Gonna train to turn them.
I'm even getting near the corner.
It's going to have that Kitsune rush here used really early.
FN needs to stay alive.
Huge TP disengaged.
Love that work from Denmark.
They are healthy.
They are fighting, fitting, ready to rumble.
Sim will then play now.
Blizzard in this issue for Jonovic.
He doesn't have the ability to get to the TP.
But Shockwave is a very effective deterrent as it turns out.
He's here for Jonovitch. You gotta make a good one of this now with Raphjohn. He's still gonna go for ball player B.
Shockwave with yet another dead eye. Builds them awfully quick.
Oh my goodness, the ghost, Jonovitch. My goodness.
Sona and Ghost boot into the purview of Shockwave, and he will deliver.
Satole over to Sotostrat means that an opportunity is going to be there if he's killed up and up.
And good hindrance there. Nice mag grenade by Shockwave onto the Stolomite.
And he couldn't follow up against the D-Suted Diver. Now, he's ready to play a little more.
Don't respect the mate, huh?
Will he be suited once more?
These sim-tars are obnoxious, is putting it lightly.
Rav's able to bring Fostola down with it now,
and a nice spot used by Gucci means that Finland are on their last legs.
Looks like the frozen tundra might belong to the Danes this time around,
as Gucci will be nullified, and there's no touch from Finland.
Once it feels like Denmark stopped that camp bastion, it was all them the rest of the way.
I mean a great defense after giving up that first point relatively easily they bounce back in a massive way and
You shockwave coming up huge. They are on the Cassidy yet again
You see kind of 11k damage there in that first half. So
Really strong play there from shockwave in Denmark giving themselves an opportunity not only to win the series
I mean this sets them up
Perfectly to maybe make it out of the group as that boob from John which was huge right kind of pushes
Sona and Ghost pass that Rematra shield, you're able to come up with two kills there.
Just enormous.
How good is Denmark, man? I'm loving what we're getting from this team.
Obviously tied together by Sky Tour, but a player along with Yo-Ham and Jono, which you had middling showings in OWCS,
didn't really get to compete in crucial playoffs, didn't really get to show their quality there.
Shockwave obviously ties them together, but the relatively undiscovered Rav also has been disperbed.
just superb over the course of this series.
This is what World Cup's all about,
showcasing this regional talent
and seeing who wants it more to come together
with a relatively limited time
and put on a great performance.
And this win here for Denmark,
if they can win this map and series,
we virtually catapult them solely
into Sol's play for the group stage.
Yeah, Gucci's gonna play this bash in here.
The answer for Denmark has typically been the Cassidy.
So it'll be shockwave here at least early on playing
Sojourn, we'll see. I know if he decides to make a change a little bit later, but
Pp straight across
And I'll have a soldier to get some high ground here and it's just gonna be nice
I think I've got shockwave nice and tucked in here Finland though insists on his high ground
But who she's getting a little bit low bestola got caught midway through
He's trying to drive across the gap but got diverted and then desuaded
Rav had that extra damage and SkyTour had the credit for it
Now we can go upstairs now Finland really lacking that flexibility
It's a mini-dealer going hogged wire with a bunny blaster, but your name is many animals as you want
It's not going to be enough for Phyllian to stop this from Denmark sick positioning great sim play
And the catch on the D.Va is crucial
Yeah, it looks like this solo goes that high ground a baby challenge shockwave gets knocked off course by Johnowitz
Who's had some I know really big plays throughout this game
And then it just kind of sends him into the Simma just kind of blender there as they're already moving away from the Bastion here
they're gonna go over to Ramatra as well.
Feels like they are certainly missing that Sigma in play.
So I know maybe you're gonna ban that.
You know, Brig, we're kind of theorizing maybe you predict
the Jetpack Cat, which you gotta use to the start, right?
But, you know, not protecting the Sig here may end up
kind of burning them in the end is,
this will, I feel like they need to win this fight, right?
You cannot, you know, give Denmark an opportunity, right?
To get like, you know, maybe one more fight win
and he'll have, you know, four plus minutes on the clock.
Might be awesome at this stage, man.
Overclocked not even needed there for Shockwave.
He plumps one at FM, and that's the Lucio down.
That is a fist-engaged capacity.
Naturally neutralized outside of the team,
and Sona is a little busy right now.
No time to set up a TP to get his team away,
and Denmark have come alive.
Look at them showing this quality in the important game.
If they're trying to choose a battlefield to suit them here,
and Bunny is just not their home, it appears to them.
I don't know, man.
I don't think there's a touch really to be had.
Maybe Alucio just diving in at the last second, but this might be cooked folks Denmark here in a Scandinavian showdown
The boop there from Johnowich. It looked like two players. It looked like there's sauna
We're trying to go get a touch there with a and it's a nice boop there back by Johnowich
I mean really kind of a star player of this final map as game mark and they moved to 2-0 in the group
I mean that is huge there for their chances to qualify
I mean, big involvement I think on the sponsor sign here for Denmark, investment in putting
their best foot forward for the World Cup and it has paid dividends.
This was supposed to be one of their toughest opponents in this group and now the pressure
falls off Denmark a little bit because yes, Sweden also terrifying, definitely a powerful
squad but the win there are not even necessary at this point.
They have basically locked things out mathematically and will be headed over to Busan off the back
of this.
Let's recap Numbani quickly here, Matt, because again, it is the Rematra attempt here from
Finland to start with. They just don't want to match Divas, it seems.
Yeah, for whatever reason, right? I think they feel really comfortable playing these
like rush style comps. And then just not really working any of the hits can in where we've
seen how strong Cassidy can be, how strong the Sojourn can be. It's really that kind
of was like, probably the story throughout this series, that and kind of like these Sigma
base compositions that Finland was obviously playing at a high level but you know Ash I mean
Johnowich there just goes crazy there for Denmark right some sick boobs at the end I mean the boob
into the double dead eye and then also the boot to prevent them from kind of you know contesting
there towards the end no huge place by the Lucie with Denmark to get a win. Yeah it was really
impressive to see I think that coordination to come in there for Denmark and I think that
something that US have highlighted heading into this matchup as well was the contrast between
these two tanks between Sky Tour and Vistola and some of the concerns I think about maybe
some of the depth of hero pool there for Vistola and his comfort. I think he is a you know a class
act of a tank that we've seen but Sky Tour has been so impressive Mitch throughout the last two
days and how good he looks on such a myriad of heroes. Yeah but then you know he's able to play
D.V. at a such a high level that he can find some degree of success in the Remantra. I think it is
his willingness to be flexible though. Take the Romantra into the Sigma matchup. Take the Romantra
mirror. We ended up seeing that here on New Jump City after eventually Vistola was forced off.
And also I just think it's such a heads up ban that last map to just to make Sigma unplayable
and to put Finlay under pressure. We don't think that Vistola has a limited hero pool,
but he's definitely uncomfortable if he doesn't get to play that signature style for Finland.
No Sigma, no Dom, and Numbani.
I mean, I'm more worried about Finlid moving forward from the standpoint that like, outside
of the Bastion and then brief moments there, like we saw no hitscan play, like I don't
know if you can win or make it far within this tournament without playing some type
of like, soldier and Cassidy, even if you wanted to play Bastion as your hitscan, consistently,
with the damage output of some of these hitscans, it's really difficult to play some of these
rush comps at the moment. It really is. I think now Matt though, like taking a look at what's left here within this group a when
we're looking at the standings, you're talking about some of those concerns here for Finland. Do you feel like I feel like
honestly, it's not really going to get much easier for them. How do you think they're going to stack up against Austria?
I mean, like, I think, I think they, right, they have the advantage over Austria, right? I know, but we'll see how that match goes. I think
I think there's a real shot that Denmark wins this group.
Like I've been really impressed with this team.
They looked at it quite good, obviously Sweden, a tremendous roster,
but definitely an opportunity for Denmark to kind of win the group.
And I mean, if you're Finland, right, you're basically hoping that Denmark beats Sweden, right?
I know, and it kind of gives you basically that one game as long as you kind of get by Austria to decide your fate.
That's kind of what you're relying on here.
of the huge for Finland to watch that game coming up.
It'll be super fun, but we do have an interview
waiting in the wings with Johan from the team in Denmark.
Congratulations, Johan, for the win today.
Hello.
Hi, how's it been?
I kind of want to get a little bit of your own insight
because we talked to Shockwave yesterday.
How's it been at boot camp?
How are you feeling here for OWC?
I mean, it's actually like a dream come true.
watching World Cup since it started and then finally getting to be on the team and we get this insane bootcamp at the legendary place like Park and hometown as well for me.
It's insane.
I mean, you guys, at this point, like you're pretty sorted for Busan.
Like I'm sure that's the starting to become like evident to you now.
You have a match up against Sweden, which I'm sure you guys would love to win, but it's sort of not necessary.
Now that you guys have kind of proven to us, but also yourselves just how strong you can be as a unit
How do you guys feel like you're gonna stack up against some of the juggernauts across the world?
Cuz we love we love in a dark horse story. It was Finland in 2023
How far can this team go with this setup with this bootcamp and the synergy guys have developed so quickly? I
Actually think we have a pretty good chance like we definitely we get to Korea. We see our group
It's a lot about the group. We already got a tough group now and we're looking pretty
set on there's something happens, you know, but I feel like we can have a very good shot
at getting BlizzCon with these guys because we have all the, like, Kellex that's insane
at coaching, like helping us so much. We have, like, Shockwave who's the kind of the leader
with a lot of experience and then all the new people, like, wow, who's barely started
playing the game and he's already insane.
Yeah, I want to talk to you a little bit about this match, obviously. It goes down to the
the wire here. From our preview, it looked like you guys, were you surprised they didn't
try and maybe protect that Sigma towards the end? Because it felt like the Sigma comps
were the ones that were giving you guys the most trouble, and them playing a lot of those
Sigma-made looks. What was giving you guys some trouble with that throughout the series?
I mean, the Sigma comp is definitely the one we've been kind of struggling with. It's
been annoying, because we really prefer to play the Diva, and this is just so annoying
to play against. But yeah, we were a bit surprised they didn't protect it in the last one. But
when they didn't, we were like, well, we just play a game and now we win.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think we were a little bit surprised with that as well. I have one last question
for you, Jo-Hom. And I'm kind of curious, actually. Obviously, you guys have to just
play within your group here for EMEA to qualify to Blouson. But when it comes down to other
teams and nations within the EMEA region, who are you looking at to be one of the top contenders
here for EMEA? I mean, Sweden probably, definitely. I have some friends on that team as well, so I
mean, I think we're going to beat them anyways, hopefully. But I think definitely Sweden is going
to be up there, UK. They have a very good roster this time around. So those are probably the main
two teams and then of course, Saudi Arabia when we get to Korea. For sure. I love that you
you're so confident and like already looking so far ahead well I can't wait
to see you guys face up against Sweden later on but congratulations on today's
Wynjoham and thank you so much for the interview. I love to hear the confidence
from him already and just like I think I hear so much about like how much it
means to him Mitch to have this opportunity to be representing the
generic this is what Overwatch World Cup is all about. Yeah again I think like you
know these teams have the opportunities to like bring their own
entrepreneurship in and like source support from their own countries.
Like I mentioned, like the Danish government is behind that roster.
I think for them, like obviously pretty crazy to have the chance to play in such
facility, but also like just that team itself, like having kill lakes and that
veterans seed, like that guy's been playing this game as long as we've been
casting it, which is like 10 years at this point.
So like, you don't, you don't do much better than that in terms of a coach that
can get some of these young players up to scratch enough to put their team on the
world's day.
Yeah, I also think when you look at that game against Sweden, right, and Sweden's roster,
like, you've seen Willy's play for a while now, I don't think he's going to play like
Sigma, right?
And that seemed to be really what kind of like bothered them a lot.
Like, I think they're going to be willing to like match the D.Va and like Ram and play
different things like that.
So I think that's probably where some of that confidence comes from, I know, for this Denmark
roster, because that's where they look the most.
For sure.
I think that'll be one of the most anticipated matches here for the online qualifier for Overwatch
World Cup.
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Yeah, after map one I was really just kind of like all Spain now after that first map Ireland tried to force them like cat fashion didn't really pilot it that well and then kind of Spain was able to kind of regain control right so
This though is a much different test. You know France obviously a tremendous roster top to bottom
I think a pretty big step up in competition from Ireland
So for me at least know me Mitch. I know Spain has a cut out for them today. Yeah, I mean absolutely
Team France are stacked but Spain has shown some great quality. Santa is someone I'm really impressed with and the tank roll
She's been incredibly good and honestly, you know made some really good just positioning moves in that
match up against Ireland. Funny because when the jetpack actually got through that series
they had more success. So it's clear that they can punish that composition. But again
today you're right, a completely different test and a tough group to fight in as well
with Poland still waiting in the wings. So Spain at least need to put a strong foot forward
here. Winning is not essential. It's highly recommended.
I get a John Madden moment every now and then.
Mads been doing it for 10 years.
I get my 1.
They love to win this match, right?
And I think that's what they're going to go try and do.
If they beat France, they will win.
So that's something to definitely track, I think, over the course of the series.
also the chance that if they lose to France they will lose the series.
We're really good at math here guys. We're great at math. That announcement video was
also sick. I can't wait to see the France's announcement video. My producer was telling
me in my ear earlier on that one also looked absolutely wicked. France though is a team
that we have yet to see. I think in Overwatch World Cup it's going to be the first time we're
taking a look at this roster and I think that this is a big one too because it's only FD
God who will be remaining from that 2023 roster. Otherwise, it's a blend of these good guys and
peps players and it's the first time they'll be representing France. I mean, you know, France
had a history in Overwatch, Ashe with just tremendous players, great teams. It's so close,
just not able to win in the end. And it feels like though this roster, right, is a lot of their
like up and coming players over the last, you know, few years, right? I mean, you have a
Giff on this team, Keo we've seen, obviously some shrunk performances from them in the
damage dealer roles and FD God who's going to be kind of like the captain I feel of this
team, who's been around forever, obviously a great Lucio player, going to be the one
who kind of settles this team down and gets these young players to really understand the
moment.
And while peps gave us a classic 0 and 5 performance, in EMSA 1, this year...
Oh yeah, he might have to do that.
We're trying to celebrate the good here. I am kind of leap-leap Pepsi alone.
Yeah, there's a contrast, obviously. But this team is still like really quality.
I think I would be playing under a different name in the tournament client today.
I should be playing under Pat, who was obviously a pretty player in the past.
But that will be a thing of it. This team is pretty insane.
pretty insane. I think Xerion is like one of the best Kiriko players for example in Europe.
Loves to get in all chat. I don't know if we have that enabled which is a bit of a shame because
it's usually quite hilarious but you know Bip is uh you know frighteningly potent DPS and I don't
know if we'll get to see Crocs. Crocs is a very unique hero pool as a tank player so if we see
Roadhog a champion splash. We saw Roadhog a champion splash. He is the Roadhog guy. He is the he is
the snizzle those 10 years later by the guy loves also to talk about his favorite hero
Rodox so if we get him that will be David Margin's really solid someone you can expect to see
like you know who's great even a wrist supplier especially back when we got to see him so yeah
this team is terrifying. It's going to be an exciting one to watch that is Vrissar and let's
see who won that 1v1 deathmatch and get right into Spain versus Graeme.
Yeah, serve me up a piping hot doom fist. Oh, wait, well, sorry, I was
Tightest thing on the left hand like
One be one
She had the fist forward, you know, I'm thinking this is doing that now. Well, okay
Yes, so the the easier way would be to look at the bottom left of me
I'm looking at them grippers, you know, I'm saying it is good start here free so do although someone who oh, that's nerdy is
Obviously, it hits Kanna and Tinnado, and, well, that was pretty unclose, as Matt would put it.
Yeah, I mean, Exodiel just had a 3-0 beat down there, so Spain will either get, you know, first map or, well, first ban, right, as we saw in the last series, it was deferred.
Dude, a lot of teams going towards Antarctic Peninsula, way more than Champions Clash. I mean, we rarely saw it there, so we'll see.
I think part of it too much might be
Cat Bastion is pretty decent on the other two maps, right?
So maybe kind of avoiding that all together is
So Spain Bans, okay, look at this Spain Bans sojourn and then the FD God
France squad Bans the Lucia off the rip. That's a bit surprising to me
Okay, um, especially on this kind of map. I think it's super interesting FD God
was also pretty prolific to produce a player at times and be a little bit
interesting to see that you know on this map especially if we end up in like the
anomaly stage where like you're dealing with that sort of high ground constantly
so obviously plenty of flexibility in this France backline the fact that they
feel like they can afford to ban that Lucio is promising. I mean we'll see how
it pans out I mean maybe there is something you want to do with I mean
Like, you know, Call of Canale obviously, you know, would want to play Lucy as well, but like, maybe there's something like, you know,
Curie you want to pull out here at the start? Maybe you have some kind of like Jetpack cat fashion aspirations
So I know 14 France and like Mitch was saying FD. God is pack
So well when you hear I say FD God don't don't look around and be like what are they talking about?
I know just an account. No kind of a issue with him kind of connecting to the servers. So
They're not able to get that resorted in time, so we're gonna have him play as Pac for this one.
Cap Bastion, eventually on the cards here for both teams.
It's kind of a map where you can certainly make use of it. Plenty of reasonable flank angles.
We haven't actually had a lot of this mirror match between this comp. Obviously, the difference is
Kanayali's gonna be on this Juno, so up against Zerion's Kiriko. Let's see how it plays out though,
Exodiel and not someone we'd normally expect to you know take up this role and fd god on the jetpack cat is
certainly a new look
Yeah, I mean you know you're gonna have both these batches just gonna like just get nice shots here from exodiel on to fd
Goddard, I said is she a friend of the vixen takes out the uh, yeah, and that's huge here for spain
Because I'm just shoving up here and taking plenty of space
This is about as good a start as you could ask for for them France taking a water get their bearings here
Might be something to consider as well as this
Malga matchup into the D.Va
This guy starts to try and get past Marge and if at all possible
gets a big stop from the back line but here
This is a pretty interesting angle to come from
Kyo has to expose himself to danger pretty directly now
and does those exotic flying over the top
able to clean up the bastion
So that is France without their key damage dealer
and is Zerion getting himself onto the kill feed
France here in orange is quite confused
you guys are in a position to flip the point back in their favor
Yes, I have really a nice flip here is a little fish off talent also not look likely so
Kyo and Kobe come back in a big way as you kind of see these cat bashings kind of flying through the sky as
Really you're trying to get like the turret mode out first Mitch and then kind of figure out how you can kind of use that
Speed of the cat to kind of get that bashing your bashing into the fight with the turret mode of their themselves
I also think like the roof over the point makes it a little bit awkward sometimes and you you can't always see where the other
Caffastine is I think getting the drop literally on one mother is pretty cool. Okay. You know has to open
And obviously you're gonna try and pet the point here with some of this extra damage gala though
Does note that you know now is out of that turret form
He's only you'll just go to the pool apparently not a good look for Spain here now as France crushed them and
And uh, sounds like you're not really able to disrupt on this Malga.
Well, but the hard part, Mitch, is once you lose the Bastion, I mean the damage output is, it's, I think there's, there's almost like none, right?
I mean, in comparison to the other side, we still has the Bastion rolling with the Reaper as well.
So, I'm saying that she got off to a good start together, you know, and he got, but after that, it's hard to get this Malga rolling.
Now Exodiel just taking a lot of damage up in the sky and how they're gonna go for the kill on him.
Oh, Tachanar doesn't quite connect to Yasuzu desperately. Employee trying to keep Exodiel in the game and that was not nearly enough.
Santi caught out by a self-destruct, perhaps a lack of mobility window there for Malva really coming back to bite her.
Perhaps after a little bit of a slip early on in the round have looked like they have been in complete control.
Yeah, but what I really like and if I'm impressed it is like Q's ability to put pressure
Onto Exodiel like without actually kind of using the turret form and then as soon as they getting so we all low
That's when they kind of speed in the Bastion and just kind of use that turret form like we've been talking about that damage
Off when you have your Bastion alive. The other team does not have it available. It is crazy
It's gonna be a container rush here from Canale over the point
Kind of wheels gonna be searching for targets here and put the pressure on the Q
There's gonna force the artillery there just to get the extra health.
Yeah, there of course still being dragged around even through the ultimate scenario.
It's gonna be back in the fight.
Margin, look at the wrap around here.
Kayle going quite low.
That backline pressure starting to be felt to be a fight.
Shane and here's Kio once more.
Center for course, straight in that cage fight.
While tied by Saki, she had to wait.
Try and catch the Bastion out and that is the perfect target to look for first.
It's really good cage.
From the end she kind of sees that they can't end the Bastion quite low
and decides to kind of pop that cage right away,
and you're able to get two players inside of it.
So Spain not going down without a fight is now they come back.
I mean, what, hey, you do have your, you know, Ketnap.
We have, you know, some environmental ability here,
especially as team-strain rotate towards the south side.
So I don't want to kind of mark that one down for nothing,
as Modgen already sets up this point.
Pickers in the backline, Bones, Transkring to win.
Got to be mitigated heavily though by the defense, Vitrix.
Something, Spine, do not have to lean on.
Kanae and Keo is gonna be the trade so far but Santi is low and she's not able to get away.
If the cat nap in here for Gala, it might be a good opportunity to make use of it now
and yes, his margin for up, but it's self-destruct again.
Oh no, surely not!
No!
There's a big pass against Mark and I'm gonna take down on the Jetpack cat as Gala ends up with Egg on his face.
Yeah, so they try and, you know, drag Santi off the side, the self-destruct kind of comes on through
and there's really no way that Gala could have avoided it at that time, so good start.
You know early from Spain and it's like a lot of you know the France power kind of all the way through the rest of the round
Spain just kind of coming up with maybe one more fight win is uh you take a look at uh, you know Kio and
Zodiacal so those two bashing players their respective teams Kio obviously getting the better at the moment
Pretty nice damage output here for Zeran as well only the one death for the carry and Margin being dead list is pretty telling I think
Nancy obviously had a good catch with the cage fight there earlier, but in general she
got caught out in a lot of these fights.
And this is France forcing, as we understand it, the Jetpack pack mirror with Lucio out
of the picture.
Feel like their favourite hero, so far that has proven to be true.
A competitive previous round though, and on the execution side, there's a couple of screws
to tighten for Spain and they can be right back in it.
What your show's here, competent France would be in this particular look that there's a
team that actually gets rid of the Lucio a nice damage there on the canal and
keel over the top there with a mini to finish them off but not gonna be able to
survive it's a really fast fight win here for France and it's not here to face
take so much of that bastion damage the fire essentially and she probably
got a still this was already lost by that point once again picking up what
they left off in that previous round and now this gets a little bit
oppressive down to some buildings of course to take shelter from the endless
brain of bullets, but you know France could look to try and find vulnerabilities on Spain as they try and advance to the point
What you're seeing from FD God as well is like something like the kind of sick movement that he has on the Lucio
Kind of coming over the cat getting Kio in some really advantageous positions. That's getting the Turr form already used here though
I feel not really able to find a lot of damage. It's gonna be the suit you out from Spain as well if you can everybody else
I'm actually afraid up now to go and try and do some damage.
Oh, Bones TP!
Ah, that's vulnerable here.
Of course, that is the FD, God Correction.
Is able to drill a little bit of deeps here now,
and that should tell you everything you need to know about the progress of the fight.
If FD God can get untethered, you know that France are feeling comfortable.
Yeah, I mean, it's quite interesting, right?
That we see FD God actually going to drop the Bastion off,
and then he's able to go out and put down some damage and some pressure on the opposing team,
Provide some healing to the rest of the squad something that uh
Outside of the E there from drip. Okay, he really kind of do a while connected. So it'll be a TP from bones
and look uh trying to go on the way in as uh
I'll be turned from from ko you dropped off here on the point while inside of the rush
There's so split man
Right here really need to get the ducks in a row the better. No point at you've already touched down
And you can see now you can play behind this pillar
Recliner site.
If you're going forward, Deathlosser now in play for Dipmarsha and stand up briefly.
Derizodil just trying to fight as Marsha is going to be dragged on out of the way.
It's self-destruct.
Answer this time.
Void be catchin' Gala.
Out.
Spain have priority.
They've got decent point presence, but they've got to look out here for the threat of Dipmarsha.
Also, a lot of space being created down by Marsha.
After the cat-napping after ready as well.
Ice for Boryns perhaps, as they're just going to be brought down by Keo's damage output.
It's nasty.
Ditsune and Rush is going to be in play.
Can't have them used a little bit of weight with that, isn't what K'Nail still will be
He fought down though, but a cage fight means it's time to get that 1v1 against Majin Gavil
to reduce him to maybe the other form.
So it will be a fight win here for Spain in the end.
They will have the advantage with some of the spotters coming on through, but they need
to be perfect.
It's been France just dominating the second round here on Antarctic Peninsula.
I mean, Bones with a death blossom, I know nothing, nothing you can imagine that's going
to be too impactful, right Majin?
You're going to kind of eat a lot of that up.
I know, with the defense matrix. So, uh, Keo, also with the XRL, uh, use more now for just like, the extra health, right?
And, and then anything is, uh, they try and get a Goliol in position here, Mitch, and, uh, okay, so bones, those finds area.
Uh, that's a huge pick off.
And it did look a little bit uncomfortable there, very overextended.
Likely be chased down now, the defense matrix comes to the rescue.
Franz here stumbled just before the end of the round, just when the map was theirs for the taking, it seemed.
Philip chance to come back in with Kyo having that extra bit of durability infusion in the back pocket in terms of that
Mortar form might help us to fighting this hot and heavy in just a moment.
Margin wasting no time in getting over to the pocket.
Bones here will be waiting around a corner!
Courthouse!
Damage too much to deal with.
No chance for Wraith walk away at all.
That happened with Herion coming out, Gala.
With a trail from Meowl trying to find a way to tilt the fight in the favour of the Spaniards,
but it's all France, baby, all the time.
Again, just a slight stumble on that previous engage.
but here they're ready to land the plane and look good on map one.
Yeah, you cannot end up losing bones that early, just kind of pushed up a little bit too far,
maybe didn't expect that much burst damage kind of coming on out, falls at the hands of Majin
and then that allows France to know, obviously without that Reaper in the mix, right? I know a
lot less pressure onto the D.va and even the backline so allows them to just kind of pull those over
Spain pretty pretty good map number one though I know from both teams so some
signs of life there but I dip out they need a little bit of like a it kind of
goes on the radar and tip and motion both with one gap each a really strong
play from the Reaper diva combination yeah honestly look I mean this kind of
tells you all you need to see is jetpack combination looked stunning oh with
the bastion that is it can be a pain you to hear at times and again playing the
This is pretty difficult because there's not you don't have the access to that defense matrix
Ability to peel and just mitigate at least the first few seconds of this bastion damage
So auntie she has to be proactive and look for a big stomp on a backline and ideally
Catch up the diva and a Kyroko. It's not easy. This was
He's trying to like either get around the corner
Maybe they get you break the line of sight or just kind of get over the lip of the ledge there
I'd break the line of sight, but not able to do either there. I know is go and I look I mean
Start off a little scary right here. Like, oh, no, this is a not how it's gonna get my friends
We're pretty dumb in that number one. Yeah, honestly, you know, I don't know if we're gonna get to see this cop mirror
I played out throughout the course of the series. Let's see, you know, Lucio and Furio available for the rest of our list
Yeah, make the choice to sort of ban it out here
But France obviously kind of as expected they've got a really quality team and they say they're just gonna be an opt-in
to what right now is the most powerful composition. I think the game against Island kind of displayed
how it can be exploitable, how it requires a lot of coordination. I think if you've got
a team like Zerion who can hold down the healing responsibilities while Jeff Patpat is often
doing the thing, then you're going to be in very good shape. We talked about it, it's hard to play.
I tried to debate yesterday and you know if you are not pretty dialed in, you can really struggle
and you can actually see some of these games turn out into blowouts if it's going to be
like a mirror match in Spain, can't I?
Well, I mean, I think that's kind of like you see the skill gap of the comps, right,
in a game like this compared to what we saw yesterday, right, where Spain played Ireland,
Ireland tried to use it a little bit later in the series and wasn't able to kind of,
like, pilot it well.
So it does look like potentially we have a sub here for our friends, so we'll kind of
get that one up before you guys want to talk about it as we go into member two.
Yeah, it looks like FD God is actually going to be subbed out here and AS will be coming in obviously
part of that good guys roster
Also like a brief stint on the quick esports and
You know certainly like I don't think we see the taekiriko, but it's definitely in the real house. It kind of makes you wonder though
Without your circuit the primary looser player. Yeah, okay. We might see like a double flex
yeah, like uh, you wouldn't you wouldn't kind of keep FD God to play in like a
let's say like a Baptiste or something or like an Allari right that's where you
kind of make some changes in terms of the support line so this makes sense I
know as a circuit is the map pick up what does Spain like to do in terms of
their fan are you worried about cat fashion here does not look like it so
you're gonna get rid of the honor here sojourn is gonna be a fan on the other
side no for France right so this gives them the opportunity to play like some
Cassidy
Yeah, which is obviously going to be something that they can certainly draw upon comfortably different here of course between there
You know DPS lines would feel confident here, and I have to wonder I don't think you mind if you're excited
You'll be sort of forced onto something a little bit different
I think it was there Cassidy that really sort of lit the world on fire
It might just be less comfortable on the circuit map or we're seeing like way less frayer in situations like this now
Now when you're, you know, maybe you feel like you want to reach even towards the Emra in some of these scenarios that was even a ban that came up in Spain versus Ireland that matched at one point.
So still plenty of options and shouldn't really hamstring any of our main DPS players whatsoever.
No, I think we should still get a, I think more interested in what we're going to get in terms of tanks, right?
rally it's gonna be you're gonna be looking at some sigma type stuff right so that could obviously when you pick circuit
You're trying to like play those types of comes like sick Ram
So we'll get an idea for really really early. I don't mean you're gonna see like much Moga here
And like we did on an Arctic Peninsula
You could still see some of the diva come out though from Washington. I
Mean again like a whole host of strategies here was still
Kind of unfolding on what we should expect to see from France
they've been wailing in the wings up until this point and again they've got pretty high expectations
on their shoulders in terms of getting out this group. It's a pretty interesting group outside
of the reality that France should be a frontrunner. Spain also right out there. They did drop that
first map of the series to Ireland but after that they really managed to tighten things up so
we're hoping for a series that can continues to look competitive now that we're not locked into
a cat-fastened mirror and especially now that we have the potential for the double flex on this map
It's definitely heralded by you know the sub out and I wonder if that's what drew the honor band here from Spain as well
Time will tell us will be hanging in the game in just a moment. There's only a second in me a match of the day
We've got four of them to go through after this. We've got Sweden versus Austria under a second year
It's a whole more. I was like, whoa, wait, that's a long day. No, yeah, buddy
You just wrap in two more games after this one
But I mean do these EMEA games for starting to get a little bit more competitive today, right?
yesterday was awesome kind of like one side of one so I think okay so this is a
for France a comp that we saw this is really nasty against Diva comms right
so Zaryon gonna be playing the Mizuki as a ice over and playing the Kiri so
that's what the sub is for here and in combination with that so may sigma in a
It's pretty nasty
Yeah, we've enjoyed the music we've seen so far none of her played in the previous series though
It's not the film nor Denmark. We're feeling that way inclined, but they okay, so we are gonna see the ace curico
I did sort of wonder there and definitely seems to be the primary in that regard
But he didn't pick up both of these I think he's going to be pretty potent now
This could be really interesting. Gala still looking to play that jetpacker. Obviously on offense side
You've got some nice little angles to drop down in in France doesn't actually have a comp that
Punishes that all that effectively or the fire of that matter
No, you are all in on
Punishing the diva. That's really what you're all in on here is a centy. She's gonna go and play the sigma now
It's gonna be much harder, right? I know those hooks of the Mizuki and not gonna be able to kind of like easily kind of connect
with that diva so
There's really no way
Four friends to like engage with these like flyers, right?
Literally quite under the bridge
They're just starting to rack with so many of these elements and my dude has taken an absolute beating
Lot of damage being absorbed up by that Sigma and ground is continuing to be given by France because frankly
It's not really a viable game plan to deal with it
There's no way like slant the fight in favor of the binding chain the zodiac caught out by that
Oh the best thing I've gone you can start to venture out, but the fire is still an issue
maybe some soul I mean you shouldn't really need to be playing that close to
the zoo key that like you could end up in a situation right where you end up
getting hit by that binding chain is you know cesarean gonna just go like zodial
tropical low ground there and get hit by it but still you can't really kind of
move around this quarter and take that fight of your friends you're going to
have the sanctuary here in a second now that could be huge but he's not
He just push right on forward and just
uh, barrels him, barrels him, he's really
going to have anything to, you know, keep
yourself alive there.
Theoretically, this is supposed to be a
horrific matchup for France to play into.
And yet, Spain are sort of getting caught out.
Yeah, the binding chain is big, and also it's,
this is a 20-meter range, like it's,
and it's a pretty fast, like, projectile
speed as well. Definitely start to, uh,
catch that out, but I can't
imagine that your game plan is to expect to be
playing into three airborne heroes
heroes with this composition but at some point Spain have to commit and they
don't have a lot of staying power outside of this Conqueror.
Gonna be a block here for Margin. See Margin connects with the
the accretion is missed, the sanctuary dropped here that's gonna soak up a lot
of the damage, can't exactly push on into that sanctuary either. I can't really push out of it though.
So France simply just buy a little bit of time there, give themselves a chance to get
He's about to get back to work. He's about to come in for Bonesburg. How much can this be mitigated against Bonescourt by the Binding Chain?
Still haven't got a way though. He can crush it fast backwards and now it's back to business.
Larchin caught inside a catnapping. This is the problem. Right?
He's got a little bit of their Sigmo and he's sleeping with the fishes.
Yes, the catnap actually just kind of grabs Larchin, just drags him to the side.
But hey, you still have the man that makes Zuzu there, comes in and allows Sentigo to just kind of get out of that loofer.
is Fran still wants to fight and why not I mean now is all around this simple
just like conditions are right at least you to try and take a back in the
fray now on this diva and again look at that jet-tact again this gives you a
little bit more equity against some of those airborne heroes it's still
defense mate just is gonna be stretched to limit it doesn't seem that expo
you're gonna see that too often post Symmetra eliminating a Pharah pretty
rare sight indeed and Santi's gonna get run down yet again.
There's nothing there at that time.
I mean, it feels like with the Bastion in the far, you should be able to come up with
some type of ideal kills at that time.
You had no Tango line there, or France.
This would be a good zone off the side as this is a rough spot to be in here if you
are Spain, bitch.
I mean 20 seconds on the clock and you know, Xerion
You know pretty good of a you know close to that sanctuary has I believe like there's a four X Chargers on the bazookies
So I know pumping out basically max healing at this point
Santhi she's gonna go over there a mantra trying to play into this is they're also gonna get that far
You can actually be playing here for bongans is unclear. So I'll be caught in place finding chain inside the sanctuary
It's not fun.
France have to work with this now and they're going to rotate this into a Sude Rush and
that's going to be the later Rush that's very in that relatively mobility means that
the Zucchi is caught out in the open by the Bastion.
Now the Oblisher time is go time.
Sansi caught out inside of that Gala but they can't nap in it again.
Is there an actual environmental kill potential?
Oh no!
There's not even a kill potential at all.
Martin Lucia's mech is still good to go.
Gala going to be forced right on back out of this Spain though, get themselves a checkpoint
amidst the fight.
Yeah, France had they had like two players just kind of steaming right on the outside and it was so close to going over the line
since she steps up touches the objective and it just goes right on through so
Wrought there for France as they were looking for a full hold on to that first checkpoint
But for Spain, I mean
The final moments are finally only get it going and they go do a completely different comp, right?
Rematra here with the Cassidy
in an Ellarion play so
see how this kind of plays. Now with Mizzuki with the DivaCon, typically another binding
chain there connects. On the same thing, a nice job from Zarya, I'm kind of consistently
hitting these chains. The cooldown is not even that long.
Obviously, Zarya is just constantly at sort of max healing resource here, which is kind
of what you expect to see there. Also, the AoE healing is actually pretty considerable
from the Mizzuki. Large in here, eyes on him. Looks like Asusa was involved in cleansing
up. Gala going to be on that signature. Yari, peek! And, as earlier brought down, they're
and able to find some connection here and again showing us just how effective this hero
truly can be hard cc like that root is just hard to argue with when there's a may wall that punishes
it yeah i mean but hitting that root i mean turning the corner and just kind of connecting
like assie very on making it look easy there yeah that is not no it's a very difficult skill shot
that can i connect with so uh now you get into a lot of trouble right i mean uh you have this
sanctuary that you kind of have to play into and then they're just going to drop the blizzard on
top of it. So devastating combo.
As you can see, they're going to be casting me now and that's the farthest way into this engagement.
Brutal, the damage is too good! The blizzard is going to stop Cassidy in his tracks. Bones
going to be caught rather than Key Oath. He's going to be able to handle Cassidy in the end.
So goop away from the Sim now. Get a little bit of extra front load of damage. They're going to
punish this Remarcher as he wants to move on up. Margin is a nuisance. Gala constantly
being checked here and that Captain Xana is eaten for breakfast by the French either now the run on
the canals get nowhere to go margin with a remake opportunity here this annihilation feels a little
bit I don't know a little bit greedy a little bit desperate pull away what you want but there's 10
seconds left for Spain to make that play yeah I mean you would not have all there's another
binding shot there I clicked on the sentry it's going to be totaled here using the dead eye as
So Majin gets around the corner. Oh, I'm gonna use it. Oh, the bomb, the dodge, a sick play there.
Coyote de Ville of France, and that is where Spain's push will stop.
So, really, I mean, they were kind of fortunate to even get past that first checkpoint.
Yeah, I think...
I don't think it's controversial to say that that probably should have ended up being a full hold if France were able to hold on.
Spain, though, just happened to find enough of an edge to extend the game.
But on a serious note, I do think the fact that like a sim may comp was able to succeed
against a jetpack bastion plus the farra should illustrate that there's a pretty big gap.
The fact that France are able to identify, okay, we're in a difficult compositional matchup.
We actually have to change the way we play, where we play, what we prioritize.
And the fact that they burn on us, you know, foreign time in the clock doing so tells me
a lot about just how cold it is out there.
maybe just how at least from this map so far how much better they did hmm yes
we'll see now if Spain can kind of put together a tremendous defense as they'll
come out with a mate Emre so we saw a lot of Emre obviously early on this year
not as much anymore since some of the kind of nurse the damage the pistol
siphon so see if Exodiel can make it work here is still is a pretty high
damage output. I'd imagine though what you're gonna see like he and Dip just go
you could play like a simbastion here potentially if you wanted to. If you're
France, Spain you'll have a Juno Ellari here in the back line. These are targets
you can kind of really get on top of.
Alright, we're off the rip here and over towards the Maget again. So sim may for
France definitely seems to be the go-to. Now I'm gonna be up against the Emerald.
We speculated that there would be a replacement for that long-range pressure hit scan like the Sojourn.
Very reasonable, should be pretty potent in the hands of Exodiel.
They're gonna play this conference, which you're really gonna try and like TP on the Sancti-Shings.
You're gonna have to really be careful, kind of play around these May walls.
You're gonna have them on the other side as well, but that ramping SIG damage is so difficult to deal with in those close quarters.
Zodiel though, and down at least a lot of damage, next to a lot of heads, but it's going to be high ground now controlled by France.
Obviously consistent damage output is nice to see, Sansi caught by the Mabel, it's his oldest time virtually in this game,
and it's the key strategy for this Sigma base comp, set up, catch out, and then steamroll with that player advantage.
Now Zodiel does hit Margin, so that is huge, maybe going to stop the push for now.
I'm just flying around the corner trying to get some kills as well as QTPs up right to
Exodiel just a little bit of a brawl here at the end.
Q I think has got to be behind, yeah you see up there on that high ground Q is kind of
playing for me, you're going to be in a lot of trouble, you're not going to be able to
get out, so you're going to lose your skim, now going to be a longer reset.
Two minutes thirty to the play here.
Fran's getting styled up a little bit, I mean these last couple of fights, despite getting
pick on a Sigma as well. It appear though, well positioned. If there's any misstep from
France, it's Spain rather, it's gonna be easily punishable. Okay, a little bit awkward because
of where it was actually positioned there. They're gonna just commit the Blizzard anyway,
and honestly, it ain't half bad. Xonio does get caught on the backside of it, but I just might
be on bones right now. The counter-Blizzard though, for Spain, looks pretty good as well.
Maybe just a little hasty Francois in trying to turn that into a fight winning advantage,
but getting bones out of the picture is definitely gonna help to that extent. Xonio for now has a
a moment to pick Zip off and it's a 3v3.
But France looked like they were poised, so punish that misposition.
Yeah, it's a symbol there that's used by Q, just trying to keep everybody alive through
the override protocol, but some nice shots there.
Ixodiel finishes off, yeah, so what they tried to do there, I mean, look like he was kind
of falling back with the rest of the team.
I think he could have waited maybe a second longer, I don't think Ixodiel would have felt
his pressure there and then waited for the rest of the team to get closer before kind
of collapsing.
This is going to be a huge fight for France here Mitch. Spain has a real chance here of getting a full hold with Canale and Gala, both having these big ultimates.
Gala here in that captive sun margin, mindful of the holding onto that kinetic grasp, but Gala like he's going to just try to avoid the SIG or you'd think so anyway.
Okay still, playing the play without for France is going to push up with this all but a reign. That is a big flop, that is massive.
I think so, do a get caught out now and a Christian follow up on the gala.
Will Renda, Spain, useless for the rest of this fight?
Bones, really used to formality here, trying to hold up a bit of time.
Santi next to full.
And France with a landslide win here.
A huge fight win there for France, as you see with the golden box victories,
they're going to push up a little bit here.
Maybe you can find one, right?
There's no TP available for Spain, right?
So they're going to have to like walk up, you know, just the Juno speed ring,
kind of like get out of this choke.
And this is where you can maybe use the Mewall.
Try and split off a player or two, and then you get those kills.
I mean, it's GG. They end up backing up.
They kind of concede the spaces.
You know, the cards coming up the ramp.
Round the corner it goes.
You can obviously see the golden box in victory.
It's right around there.
Francie looking to push up.
A is a little bit low here, but able to fall back
and get that important healing.
Here's another wide protocol now.
Marching under pressure with the buzzer.
It's good enough to clean some of the up,
and he's noting his damage might not be enough
to tip the scales here, Zerid eventually falls with a combined effort of Gala and Exodiel,
but that is not remotely going to be enough. It's a main wall here for Bones, but again,
feels like a formality. Eventually Gala is going to be cleaned up now and it's just the
small issue of the Juno as France steamroll out into a 2-0 lead.
I mean that was a blow out there in map number two. Map number one, some moments from Spain,
right? I know kind of showing they can hang. That one could have been over even faster,
to be honest. I mean, it was a nice job from Spain to kind of clutch off and take that
first objective. But after that, I mean, it was nothing. And then I think on offense,
that's a little scary there towards the end. But France, once they kept it going, once
they got it going, they were difficult to stop ice finishes 14 with zero gas there. Really
a great game from ice. As I said, she had a rough go even doing a nice job kind of targeting
her with some of these main walls and just kind of collapsing.
Yeah, honestly, you could see the game plan for France and like a pretty standard classic like, you know, Sigma based composition
They at first I'm seeing this far. Look, I gotta come back to it because it felt like it's such a powerful comp mismatch
But Spain were able to create
You know, obviously the jetpack very powerful with the basting in this scenario
But even more so against a comp that doesn't really interact with airborne sort of high mobility units very well at all
But France showed great composure there. They simply play inside the small room
They're able to sort of shrug off a lot of that splash damage from far and find windows in which that
You know turret mode is not available for the bastion just really nice
I think you're not always going to see those comps interact or match up in that particular way of it
It's a decent case study in how to deal with the jetpack that composition in general certainly beatable certainly fallible
And France showed us exactly how you can unravel it and buy like four minutes of time
What do you do here if you're sphane?
I mean, it seems like France has pulled out multiple different looks here off the first two maps.
It seems like they have some advantages in some areas.
I know you try and do something with Camp Ashton, it seems like France can match it.
And then obviously these rush style comps are able to play as well.
Um, you do like a, what, Newjunk City maybe you're playing here, right?
I don't think you're gonna play King's Row, potentially, uh, Newjunk City, like, would
push it more into, like, the rush style of playing, uh, but maybe you feel like that's
a little bit easier to do.
Okay, so you pick King's Row, uh, see what they decide to ban here.
Yeah, I think, like, over the years of Overwatch, King's Row has been, like, a map you'd definitely
choose for comfort reasons or if you think that you're just like a stronger team in the
matchup.
Sometimes it's surprising to see the underdog take us there in general.
Obviously, we're at the point in the series now, we're actually 2-0, pranks are up, so
we are sort of one map away from seeing them in their debut in this group.
It's kind of dominate the other team that we thought had a great shot of getting out
here.
Spain only in line assemble to Ireland and frankly look really clean across the board,
but they are really exposed here so far by this friend after you are very, very well drilled,
coordinated, chronicled, so great, and getting to go to King's Row for France
probably has to feel more like a boon than a curse.
And poor France will be at the god coming back in, so this is like Lucio-Japetcat, right?
That's kind of what you would expect. King's Row obviously pretty good for Lucio, so
we will see if that is kind of the direction they would like to go in. Obviously,
I know there's an opportunity if you're spain you could ban the cat here
I know and you kind of keep it on the ground
With the lucio in play, but we'll see where they decide to go in terms of those fans
Yeah, and obviously like this. Yeah, you know
If you go to show us some sort of great Lucio play in the past
We have another opportunity to see if I France have not played any in this series, but we are
We were on a map in fairness
You know we're like Lucio is definitely not a must pick it's not as that's where you actually can sort of like to convert away from that philosophy
And obviously the jetpack that replaces the Lucio in comes where you're playing with the Bastion because you suddenly like relatively high throughput and that
Utility that the Suzu offers you from the Kiriko as well as a rush which high staff is like too easy
that Kiri has become like the
Like perma pick right remember who's always Lucio for like ages like it feels like there's never a time where Curie's like a bad option
So it'll be a sim ban here for Spain
So the other sim obviously has been kind of enabling some of these comms for France coming on through any
Azaria bit for France so taking away that potential that could obviously impact like a diva play
Yeah, okay, so I
Fair enough, I think. You know, France have been wanting to, you know, make use of the Simrather.
She's kind of insane on this map, especially like for an attack side, you can really easily get that high ground control.
Spain are obviously trying to, you know, really play to drag the game as much as possible when they get to that defense side.
So Hyder is just not, we've seen a band on multiple occasions, but really just not played, you know.
generally in some contexts felt like they're very powerful but this thing
less and less of those like straight-up brawl compositions so we did see her
briefly yesterday as I tell you why but it feels like it's so exploitable you
wait for that first bubble force the second and then try and you just push
the Zarya over. Yeah it's uh it was Zarya can have like moments there like map
so I can like areas where she could be extremely strong I think here like in
the street space right if the other team playing the diva that's like
Potentially a moment hours. Sorry. It can be pretty strong, but like she doesn't really
We can't bash and she doesn't really kind of fit in right like the bubbles can't obviously soak up. I know enough damage
So yeah, it's a reminder you guys it's to oh
France won both of those maps. So we'll get that one
adjusted
And we'll see kind of if Spain can kind of get a dub here
all right
Stand-line in a series making more competitive for us and also maybe add some
Controversy into how this group might ultimately resolve Spain would have to honestly perform a bit of a higher level than we've seen from them
That's fine in the series require a significant step up
But if there's any map where you feel like you can lean on your comfort and familiarity
It's gonna be teams row. I
Kind of like this. I mean if you go to the Mizuki would be
Quite a sight to see and it looks like France. Yeah, like favoring that
I think over that Lucio here on defense, which sort of makes sense
Gala and Canale in the past have been that you know support duo that have played in the Ari Bastion pretty heavily
They'd like to lean into a lot of those flex supports
It was a signature style of Virtus Pro at the time and actually found great effect on certain maps
I said well
There's a good example here where they're just mechanical ability as players supplemented by like, you know good awareness
Made them legitimate DPS threats, you know on those roles. Yeah, I don't know if yeah
We'll see gotta stick to the mercy. That would be quite a sight again
We've seen France deal with airborne threats pretty well even with heroes that aren't
So it'll be rants coming out here these are the comps that really give
Diva some trouble. It'll be a Mizuki here for Spain as well. So I know a rare
I know kind of a Mizuki vs. Mizuki kind of head to head
It'll be can't be she'll go over and play the rematch for this definitely has a little bit of an easier time
They're working into this calm, but still a lot to deal with here is a no dip
Pretty pretty proficient on the major skin
You see the new get one of these players they train cross nice shot into canal
They're not enough to finish them off, but that's you do already now force the self so zoom and a point where it's gonna be needed in this fight
That's all people's looking for don't need to kill that now
I spend have some ability to address this high ground right you can see they can just walk out
who stepped the main wall, they can get the Sojo and the Cross, practice gets picked up by Exodiel.
France allowed Spain to get a little bit too much of this high ground control for their liking,
and well Spada converted that into an elimination off the back of Exodiel.
It's hard to get in crush in the tank matchup though, not able to close the gap.
Now maybe just looking to poke down on this split front squad who have a couple of play on the low ground.
Yeah, if Diga is coming back here on the Mizuki, they're gonna try and get up towards that high ground here,
I know you do have that second kick that comes in from speaking exodial opening things up at the start
Somebody will have to get cast here for brand just comes right down to the wire
There and so he has seen better days
And I think rask use his packs over to come in and find that elimination now get sooner rush
They haven't even really been necessary at this point for France, but point mate
He oh gonna punch right down with a headshot on bones
France give up
99.1% of the
And they're gonna be having it in the back of your mind now if they give exodial too much of that
free reign it could come back to hurt them yeah and i mean uh look we weren't uh on with
the zodiel wouldn't happen but it also could just be like after you got split up there on the high
ground and the zodiel just kind of fires a rail down the hallway and uh you know past six shields
kind of maybe kind of connects right on through them as uh flux comes on through that'll connect
with the may but uh that'll actually have the ice block taken out and so we'll find another one
And also a great start here on King's Row as I know it's a bit of a one-time intensivist for an extended period here of your France
G.I. Jedi could be important to Derry and gets brought down by Exoddler. I think that's gonna be more than enough here
It seems like it doesn't really matter how much France try and you know account for the sojourn
Exoddler is gonna find some form of success and now we realize why it was so important to ban that particular hero in the first map
Spain it's hard fought
They lose a lot of time at first point, but they are going to be off to the races with the kick-eye century and
Katsune rush combo
Yeah, and I'll be keo switching over and playing the soldier in here
So I gotta try and match some of that like first potential. I know a pretty nice target there to kind of farm up rails with the rematra
So I'm just trying to make it a little bit scary there for exodus and I turn those corners as well as
It does have a blizzard parts gonna make this basically this first corner is by the back can't happen
I mean at DGOT, I know it just kind of turns the corner, just, you know, elite bones there.
But, you know, in this type of situation where you can actually make up, I know, some serious progress here,
for Spain, you cannot allow your mate to die that early, and I use the sanctuary there to kind of buy you some space.
But France, like, it doesn't really matter, right? You can now push up and kind of control this angle.
I just... France are not here that wants to full commit, so I kind of understand the sanctuary on a straightaway here,
It doesn't feel like that's the highest value application that ultimate and canale being the first go down is never a good sign
I'm gonna fight like this Spain simply have ground given by France and they make use of it there just to set up some poke
And they clean up
Yeah, I mean just uh two really poor occurrences in a row there for Spain, right?
They end up losing bones at the hands of fd god
And then canale just kind of coming back into the fight once bones back in just gets filmed there by dip
So you end up losing your Kiri. This allows for ants here to build up to all five ultimates here coming in this next fight.
There's a cast there just to make sure that Spain are nice and topped up.
I knew the rush here could be pretty dangerous. It's hooked up. Spain's devil-old combination,
but one of them went essentially for nothing, and now they're in far less of an advantageous position.
There's Flux! Almost cut away by everybody.
He dip also with a blizzard so a frosty reception for anybody dropping down to find that grabby
Was at least a number of its Spanish players
Let us come down again 40 killing per second not the highest
But it's the walking of those projectiles that is so important against the zodiac who has been running rough shot over
France when he's been given the opportunity
Margeum seems immovable right now, starting with Meawall, much more susceptible, and the Meawall is in a perfect size for this part of the map, but Cretian will knock the Rematra down.
Yeah, I did think that, uh, FD God Sanctuary, though, was quite good there for France, right?
Yeah, you know, it kind of drops it, forces the rest of the team to kind of play into that maze type of setup, since she's trying to back out there.
Knail was quite low, maybe kinda get around the corner, kinda heal up and then get everybody back in the fight,
but she gets cut off by a really nice Mawaw from Giff and then just gets chased down as...
uh, Bones? Very low, Gawd is gonna kinda use uh, no his abilities, gonna heal everybody back up as...
you will have a Sanctuary Deer, Horse's Fane, hopefully they get a good use of it here as...
Now you're at a minute.
You can know how you should make good use of this one, dump it on top of France, maybe?
Oh, that's huge cheer with a perfect pick on Exodiel by the way. Now it feels like it's just pointless to you
go for the sanctuary anyway, I guess but
That's another awkward ultimate there from Gala. But my choice really felt that way
Didn't want to reset for you in another fight, but that might have been the more prudent option here
This fight is going much the same way as the last
And now you're gonna be walking into what potentially, you know both support ultimate here for France is a god
It's killed here at the end. You know everybody from France looks like they're gonna back up
It's really funny, Camille as well, no TP, not able to get out, and that's gonna actually
kinda change the course here for France, gonna move up a little bit, since they don't
want to give Exodiel the opportunity to get a railgun shot off.
All of the chat here, Mitch, just trying to touch, I mean...
Yeah, I mean, they're threatening to do so, they will, they should do at least, but I
do love how Vitz is in France, oh my god, that seems like a little bit of a miracle.
Yeah, I was just trying to play more Overwatch and yeah, the main look prevents the time.
I don't like cats either, but it's rough.
Yeah, that's like, if you're getting up there, just eating a rail down to the face, I mean...
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, time to come back for that one again.
That was your only option it felt like in the end.
I do want to sort of address the unfortunate sort of Mizuki ultimates here on the side of Spain.
They just could never really set one up where it could be used favorably.
This Sigma composition from France is always able just to trend back a little bit and never really fully
Commit to these fights and they also never left themselves exposed to the point with like the
The way the sanctuary sort of slants a poke battle in the favor of the team that use it
They're just backed around one of these sort of L shaped corners and and waited
So we will see if they can hold on defense here in Spain
I mean, I feel like, you know, Giff has been really effective, you know, on the May, right, kind of splitting off.
Santee, she's had a rough go because of, like, these May walls that have come in, and at least not dealing with the Sim here on this map.
Maybe there's an opportunity for Spain to kind of, like, do a better job of holding high ground, the Exodiel going here,
and maybe have an opportunity to get, like, a hold, get a map when on the board.
And get us a bit more, yeah, run in this series.
More of a chance to show what they're capable of.
The tank battle has looked uncomfortable for Santi in this matchup.
Margin been, yeah, pretty dominant, I think, especially on this Sigma.
If I'm France on these attack side, of course, Dip will just light it up briefly and then
okay.
Over towards the Fari here, you have to expect an Exodio, but you can really break line of
sight and if you're the Sojin who wants to draw a bead on the Fari, you've got to expose
yourself on that far platform. Yeah, I mean, Barrick can be pretty good against some of
these counts as well, right? For a second at a grass bout, Keo takes a rail gun shot
there from the audio. It's dangerously low. Barrick just put a lot of pressure on the
point. When you see the angle I did this taking here, they're just kind of getting
into gear up on the high ground. Nice shot, though. Yeah, no real healing able to get
over towards him. Yeah, obviously, like, Mizuki has to throw a Casa, and there's, like, travel
time associated with it.
You did lose your Sigma up on the high ground so we'll see if you can actually kind of
fight it.
I think that's a good trade man.
The reason you're going to be used to march in the line, it's not about to kill you in
my life, it's just to lie the long enough here to allow France to continue to flex their
muscles.
This might be enough because Odyll is not in a significant spot right now.
Trying to put some damage speculatively on hack and not able to complete the kill.
Yeah, forced out of the fight entirely.
Just for a written test here, would have been in play if Gala had not fallen so late.
I mean, I don't know why you can't walk through the choke here against that farra, so yeah, you're gonna have to back up kind of concede first point
So not pretty, but Fran's able to get it
So see if FD god goes back and maybe switches over to the Mizuki
This looks like, no, continue to kind of just use this Juno here, so full on rush comps here
I know Warble Ray obviously fantastic to play in as you're gonna be able to farm this up with the Consumier Rush rather quickly
I mean, just look at that, the free support on charge that's being gained right now, as France
purposely take a little bit of poke in this choke.
Ones on that, they're trying to wall off France as they approach here.
A little bit split right now, but he's Odle feeding for first, he's huge.
Pio has delivered some crucial frags to open these fights.
The first picks have been sublime, and honestly from there, it's like a downhill run for France.
Paki's Odle out of the picture, and you are home and home.
And now for France, just probably one more fight to close this series out. It would be a very impressive 3-0.
You're gonna have Marchion's gonna be able to use this flux, grab some people up in the sky, into the firing lines of Keo.
We will see here in Spain in a last chance here. They are probably gonna be forced to use this, because you know, I'd rather assume...
to catch the Keo down to first this time. The Blizzard makes things awkward for France,
but the ice block means that it can be withstood. Martin though, maybe not able to get back
far enough, frozen up though on picked off. This is signs of lack here for Spain a little
bit more than the primordial ooze we've seen in a couple of these fights, and so France
will be forced to reset. But they'll do something all the way that's going to come up a little
bit earlier, and Keo has a chance to stamp his name on this series for the big overclock.
Yes, what? Orbital Ray you'll be able to play into here with France and then Overclock, right?
Exodiel opens things up in that previous fight with that kill on the Keo, which was massive.
So, Majin is going to go over to the D.Va here, so a little bit more fresher onto the backline,
maybe so you can get that kill on the Gala.
Railgunshot formed up here for Keo already.
We'll see if he can kind of connect one, maybe he decides to pop the OZ and keeps going,
but looks like he's going to try and maybe take a wrap here around, towards that high ground.
Yo, let's make that wrap around.
There's a couple connections here with big enough, in fact just one pick.
What we're looking for is an all but a wraith.
Okay, I think I'll the first to go down though, after he gets that wraith off,
Dipps stunned up briefly there by Sanzi's accretion.
The canals gonna be the trade, and honestly with the positioning of Pio here,
it feels like France are caught in a bit of a pincere.
Sanzi can be with one side of that though, for a tie with the shield,
but if Enki Day is going to be overrun, there's gotta be more accretion.
It's pretty good, the damage is reasonable as well.
Marching though is still at large, still absorbing much of this crack back in there
and his Q eventually chimes in when needed. Now this game is getting away from Spain, but
in order to raid, allow them to hang a little bit longer. Zodiac chimes in. This is a good trade-off
now between these two sojourners. Having impact on the game in a blizzard built very, very quickly
by Bones. Freezes, Mark, and Solid. The war's not going to be much of a deterrent. They could be able
to pop back over that if they need to, and now they've drawn a bead on Exodiac. Lo is the sojourner.
France, take a bead. What a regroup for one last push in theory. Man, Spain doing a tremendous job
holding on there that one looked like it was gonna be France you're gonna be able
to get it over the line I'll be continued Russians now for both
signs is two minutes on the clock is real looking for an angle here next on a
keo not enough to finish them off and then the plan is just to make sure
exoto gets back in the fight as soon as possible so yeah from France well is
this more favorable opposition for them for the rush they seem to think so in
comfort push now gonna reciprocate with a rush of his own out blue and red brick
roads crossing exonium close to an overclock but the sidelines are
50mm based on how France has flipped the map and perhaps we'll try and do the same.
Flanks are on Flanks here now as Exodia looks to step into the spot like Keo, blindsided for a moan
but has a chance to get away but that's a suit that has been used. Everyone running from Exodia or
running at Gullar is hard to save but either way Exodia was still caught outside the plate
of the time being. Remake here for March and France refueled ready to rumble with Keo with
an overclock now but lacking targets to use the on and March is going to be frozen up here out in
the open through response from Spain and another really solid defensive epic now gives them a chance
to take the map. I mean they have a real shot to get this hold. I mean they have been tremendous here
on defense. Now we are just below a minute so we'll see if France now going back over to the
Sigma can make this work. Maybe even make another swap here for France but it'll just be the SIG.
The self-destruct force ambush that she'll be only getting mixed back is Maywall there.
Gonna now ask no good things off accretions does not connect use quite early. They're hasty back
Maybe I guess you're hoping for like an early pick on the deal
But there's a self-destruct marine that comes in a bit for science in two teams over a first pick
Accretion knows why another super long range accretion from our
Agnes that I rather acting on these to stay alive. They have that orbital rain
It's going to be instrumental in giving them a chance in this fight
That was gonna happen soon as well go time visits gonna be in play here bones with the first one
Orbiter Ray though to keep you inoculated against the damage follow-up into your France and that's bones falling
It's a misstep an overstep perhaps for Spain as France have found a key opening to push this one through in Kio
Simply perhaps more insult than injury at this point gets that
Counter-slows you and kill on Exodiel and science can only stall things out for as long as you possibly can but that is a desu with no
Remake opportunity that is the series. It's a 3 over France
Yes, that one came down to the wire. I thought Spain probably played their best there on defense on King's Row
Just not enough to get things done
So we saw a lot from France here today, right? A lot of different comms being able to play some of the D.Va, the Sigma
Jeff Pack, Kat, Bastion, we saw that kind of come into play a pretty impressive show overall
Oh my god, we're on France
Let's take a look at some of the stats. I mean, Keo just kind of popping off. I mean Majin as well in terms of the damage I'll put
but the damage is just so heavily favoring France.
Yeah, I mean, Majin looks pretty dominant,
I think on the Sigma in many of those scenarios.
It looks like Sancti, she was happy to switch to D.Va
and Mira in those final moments,
which simply gave Majin the window to make that switch back
and be advantage in that last flight or so.
But actually, it's definitely also a map and series
to some degree that is highlighted
by the Exodiel versus Keo matchup.
Two players really familiar with one another,
having faced off an OWCS before,
some fireworks. They definitely did. I think that it was really fun to see the head-to-head between
these two hitscan players. I feel like we also definitely saw France focusing in on trying to
deal with Exodiel's throat this entire series as he was definitely a huge pain point for them. I
feel like overall though, France has demonstrated a lot more flexibility in their composition that
I think they looked a lot more comfortable on that Mizuki comp here as well, which is definitely a
a highlight. Yeah, I mean, we saw them play that, you know, the Mizuki, we saw them play
fashion, we saw them play a little far. I thought you saw a lot of really nice, interesting,
you know, compositions here from France. And I think, you know, with them being what we assumed
to be the favorite in their group, you're going to want to see them play all these different types
of things at a pretty high level, which they did against Spain and not for Spain. Look, I
thought they put up a pretty good fight. The last map, the first two were quite rough.
might just be some comps that they're not that equipped to deal with at the moment.
I also think that like the way that they handle that defense side on CircuitDoyle,
for me like it really illustrated that this is the difference in these two teams,
or maybe just like just how good France are in general.
You have to like make some pretty strong orderables when you have like you know two airborne DPS
you have to deal with in a comp that like just is entailed really to handle it.
Yeah, the fact that they bleed like three minutes and like probably should have been a full hold,
you know they bleed like three plus minutes off the clock there and just make a misstep
You know when it counts doesn't really put a blemish on the fact that they came up with an answer to a pretty tough problem
They get it on the fly
They definitely did I'm kind of curious to get your thoughts on Mitch for the side of Spain
What did you feel like was really missing from them to even take a map off in this series here from friend?
Okay, fair question. I think that like in general
In the hitscan mashup they were looking pretty solid. I also think Barnes had some really good main moments, but for me
I think like, science and she was solid, but margin is, I do think a cut above, I think they are like, genuinely, with the pedigree of like, you know, an up and coming elite player in the EMEA region.
I say up and coming, they competed obviously, you know, in the past, but I think just like, a potential experience out there is just sort of being displayed.
We use Sigma Mirrors, I think we've used it, I think, especially when we looked at like, Vistula in the previous game and like, in other situations to kind of illustrate like, an understanding of that match up,
up and just the way the margins have to navigate that and make the comfortable switch over towards
Diva. The mere emblematic of the engine room of France just being a little bit more well
oiled than Spain, who I do think will still impose themselves on the rest of the group,
or we don't know what to expect from Poland yet, I'm always holding out hope for them just to be
an exciting dark horse cross-back. But France again, in the tank role I feel like this will
then really be able to shine. I still think Ash though, like Spain should feel pretty good
about their chance to make it out of the group, right? They've already beaten Ireland, Poland,
you know, we'll see what they kind of have to offer in terms of like, you know, their potential
like level of skill where Spain, I think this may have been, you know, a really rough draw for them,
obviously, with, you know, France being such a talented team, maybe even like, you know, one of
the top two across all of the MEA, right, competing in the groups. So it could just be, you know,
a rough draw learning experience here from Spain, and then they bounce back against Poland, then,
and I know everything's all good on their front.
For sure, lots to do that they could definitely be taking away here in this matchup against
France, but we do have an interview on the way now here.
We got Dip here representing Team France.
Congratulations Dip on your win today and I kind of wanted to get an idea of how you're
feeling.
This is your first time actually representing France for the Overwatch World Cup and I want
to know what that means to you.
It means the world to me.
I think everyone on the squad is like so proud of representing France and French fans are like so hyped about eSports in general, so it's definitely something to me.
I mean, you guys always bring the party whenever we had live events in the past. The passion of French fans is undeniable.
I want to ask you like a game related question. I was really impressed with what we saw from you guys in Circuit Royal, your defense side when you had to play against like the jetpack at Bastien and the Fara.
And you're on like Simmate, which is not like a traditionally a good comp to pressure like, you know, airborne DPS heroes.
What is like the conversation in comps about how you're going to play around that?
Because what you showed us was like a really solid understanding of like, you know, like how to play into that comp where like you might have a mismatch in terms of, you know, what your comp is designed to do.
I think it was a really good discipline from us, we just wait out the bastion form and
then like inside rooms and then when it's our turn we just go out.
I think we've shown that we had a really good understanding on the cat bastion comp, whether
we play it or whether we play against it.
So let's say it's good discipline and good teamwork from the boys.
We were talking to Tread yesterday and he was mentioning how hard it is to like kind
pilot that cat bastion comp, what do you think is so difficult about it at times to be able to
play and like I know where some of the pitfalls some other teams have and trying to make it work?
Honestly, I'm kind of clueless. After you got this kind of doing the work on the cat,
I don't really know, I just know my job, I'm doing my job, I can't really answer to be honest.
Generally, just after you got all the cat, I just let him do the work, you know.
Fair enough. I'm also kind of wondering, I guess, now, I feel like we all feel pretty confident.
I'm sure you guys feel confident about your odds of going to Busan and being able to come out of your group.
And I wanted to know, from your perspective, when it comes down to Team France,
what do you feel like your biggest strength is as a team here at OWC?
I think that's an easier one. I think our biggest strength is that we have an actual team.
team, like we're a national group. I like some other teams which look like they don't
have like really a group of people where everyone's friend and you know, like in France, like
we're actually all friends together, we all get along with each other pretty well, so
I think that's our biggest strength, like we're a national team and I think we can go
really far next to that.
Okay, great insights here, I mean you've always been a standout player I think when
when we watched Team Peps and I want to say again congratulations on your win and we're
excited to see more of Team France as OWGCC goes on.
Thank you so much for having me, GG's.
Thank you GG's.
Taking a look at our groups now as we did a little bit of a correction here into our
standings, Matt, I think that there's good confidence here coming out from Dip that synergy
as well that he was talking about is so important and matters so much in competitions like this.
Yeah, I mean, like, the French Overwatch scene needs a little bit of a dub right now, right?
So, I mean, this team can kind of provide that positive spark to the huge fanbase that we have,
just like esports playerbase.
And I think Spain, look, I mean, you look up and down kind of Poland's roster, right?
There are some interesting players here. They got second, you know, in the conference cups,
but with what we've seen from Spain this far, I still think there's a really good shot they make it out of this group.
So they can kind of like hammer themselves too hard on just this one game.
Yeah, I mean, I think there's a really promising Poland squad here,
and my only concern is that there's upset potential in that potential Poland versus Spain game.
We haven't seen Poland yet, but they have a number of players that actually qualified up to OWC's in the A through Promo relegation,
and they're performance in Master, and they are the ones that pick Peps out as well, which is some particularly delicious.
So yeah, I'm curious to see them, you know get out and show us what they capable of here
But that's gonna be a little bit later on in the piece of course
Yeah, it will be it'll be a final matchup of the day will where we'll actually finally get to see that preview of team Poland
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Alright, we are now into our seating deciding here for our next game, Tama the Kevster on
that Widowmaker matchup.
Thanks for sticking with us there, just a brief interlude while we sort out some transmission
related issues, but Tama, good for it obviously, someone who we've seen on a number of different
tank picks has decided to take Widowmaker into this game and try to take it to Kevster, this
first time at seeing Sweden get out there on the field. Yeah true our first look at
Sweden. Kev was on one in Tokyo. I mean he was so good at that event. I know just
every time you pick Cassidy he was able to dominate. As I say that he is going
down to the wire here in the 1v1 against the tank for Austrian wheel maker
and Tama looks like he is able to come out on top there so you know just the
the Kebster glaze into the Tama 1v1 win there so pretty big for Austria that
they get the first map pick yeah I mean crucial this game for Austria is so
important it can't be overstated but they're pretty much Denmark yeah it's
it's legitimately do a dive especially with like the relative degree of parity
we've seen between Denmark and Finland. Sweden also need to come out against
Sweden. I think if I'm Sweden I want to make a decisive display here and let
Denmark and Finland know they're coming for them. Well you kind of, you know, we'll
see you look at the band so it will be a treacher band here from Sweden getting
rid of the wrecking ball, which we've seen Toma kind of go to a time.
You know, Sweden here, this is their first game, everybody else in this group has already played.
Austria got 3-0 there by Denmark, so for Sweden to kind of keep pace with Denmark, right?
Now, in terms of map differential, obviously going to have to get a pretty, you know, pretty strong performance here, potentially at 3-0.
Yeah, strong showing. That is going to be absolutely crucial.
This team, of course, this Swedish roster is pretty potent, right?
Somehow they've been at a nab admiral and get him in the back right there alongside the sile
But Zoro and Kevser obviously make for a pretty dynamic DPS line and we've seen Willie's a fair bit
I think over the course of WCS. Unfortunately. It was an ill-fated campaign between peps that has put them in
Oh, you're just killing peps
Every every segment we come on which is like
How do I turn this into a peps uh pep segment?
It's rough though, yeah, no, no, no, no, it's not for GMG, but obviously we've had some rough peps outings here and it's obviously was a tough stage for them, right?
Willy's obviously is certainly a hank, and I do think that, you know, I gap against Tama, he's gonna have his work cut out for him, especially given that Tama's not only like a wide hero pool from Tama,
but he's willing this also to like dig into it and like place stuff like the ball, like you do need to have, you know, like the strategy is ready to deal with that comp with it, raise its head.
So I think that willies can obviously play like maybe some hazard here
Can I know do some type of a diva type of play so?
We'll see kind of what willies kind of brings in here for Sweden
But the rest of the roster so strong about around them, right?
So you figure like this could be like a really kind of standout performance
Sounds like after Toma won be won be won here against Kev
But he went for a walk so we're just waiting on a no Toma
Get back here
You mean a victory lap bro?
Yeah, he went into his fridge, he just started shooting champagne up across his room.
He's got his oreos blown, he's just cleaning them up.
A little treat for daddy, I respect it, honestly.
That's fine. Ilyos is our first map pick, is interesting, right?
Kind of makes me wonder, because Sweden immediately they winged Neil Slam the wrecking ball band.
They do not want to see that on this map, and that might have been part of the game plan for Austria.
So heads up to Sweden to sort of see that coming again.
Tamar is a player with, well, you know, footage on them.
Like if you sort of know what to expect to some degree.
Yeah, and I think Thomas Hero pool kind of leads more towards
like those like died, uh, centric tanks.
We've seen Thomas struggle like is where you kind of have to play
like the, uh, the Moga, the Ramatra, Sigma, things along those lines.
So, uh, we'll see how that kind of comes into play.
Let's take Tom back in his seat, obviously ready to go here.
It was we get into Ilios where I'd be looking at Kev probably playing some Cassidy here in this series
We're really good backline obviously from you know, Sweden like you talked about that on style
Yeah, Kail low in for this game
Admiral taking a seat for the time being still expect good things from this roster obviously a lot of an aim brand power
originates from that DPS line Kevster again was you know
It recently just putting on a great showing and it's just kind of funny because he's kind of player who I really thought like he was
Tough to get much better
Then then Kester was and he's shown that that ceiling is higher than we might have realized
He was so back in Tokyo as we will see this will be a cat bastion head-to-head here
It looks like off the rip so interesting of notice Sweden will play with a castie and a bastion
Typically we see it with like a reaper tracers sim
they'll play another hitscan here as a psycho will be piloting the Reaper here for Osher
Hevz is also a kind of player who, you know, he's been playing alongside hitscan mains so
didn't show just how insane he is all the time but one of the most flexible VPS players in the
world who obviously has some saying like, you know, flanking VPS and drapery and he's also
an astonishing level of hitscan prowess so he will be dangerous and he will be a concern for
Osher here as Zybra is going to be dangled within this curve for much of the game. Hopefully
as little as possible if you're Austria but again Kevster is the danger man here.
A nice shot there by Kev, he's putting a lot of down and down in the Zidra but then also connected
on the psycho earlier in the fight which you know prevented Reaper from getting up into the mix.
It is all shut in control of the point but that is not going to last for long here as uh Sweden
going to take it right back. So I'm still up about that Matt. First of all a great season from Sile
to prevent this knockdown on Kevster that would have been a certain death and then after the fact
Willis comes in and sort of redirects Talon. Gets a charge, gets a, you know, a stomp on that enemy Malga.
And basically means Kevster can get away from that Scott Freeway, otherwise it would have been a really compromising position.
So obviously they love being invested in keeping Kevster standing for good reason, of course, and it pays itself back straight away.
See, Zidra already taking some damage there, Mitch. I know getting lit up by Willis and damage there from Kev.
As you actually see Kev the one being piloted in the sky here because he's got the dead eye
That is a crazy combo looks like it actually got broken up there for a second
I'm gonna use some of that feeling to kind of keep building up. Here's gonna be the dead eye flying through the air
This is chaos
Drag them low into the
Yeah, but that bot's there and not able to keep him alive.
It's not even the lion's share of the ultimates here that Austria have been able to develop.
Tama has a cage fight ready.
Tough to break there, or the caster needs a pose to like a soldier who can sort of try and rail it with an ultimate.
But now we are back, of course, in the pilot seat with Nix.
Look at her. Look at her. Fylo here with Zidra.
Look at her airdrop some love from Austria.
Dude, we should do a tail and take down where all the caster hairs on the desk coast have to be with Cap D'Archer.
Yeah, I'm anxious to see who can come up with that.
Uh, Willis is going to be a, uh, cage bite here.
Uh, Toma uses his as well.
That's also Katsune rushes from both sides, but, uh, just, uh, Zaro in a way better position
there because I contribute in terms of damage output, and that's an easy bite when they're
sleeping.
I can't believe you're invoking the concept of a talent takedown.
Just, there's a quicker side.
I think we abolished that because we all took it way too seriously.
Well, no, Jake ruined it.
Uh, you know, Jake.
Yeah, it's tough when pro players break away to casters and then take it all over, but you know.
Well, there's some pro players who, you know, they're pretty chill. Like, I think they were just kind of like hanging out.
Jake is definitely not one of them.
I can't believe your Butterboy's asking about it. He's testing straight from you here.
That's crazy. He's testing. He's gonna get blown up. These cyclists have to get in there and they did awesome.
And he's going to be a little bit problematic for Austria to deal with.
This is a decent look for them now. Zidra is well into that more of a form, style, taking down my Tama in the end in this stagger on solo.
That's right, if you like the Reaper, you get a little bit better value, right?
Like, obviously, you can do this fun stuff, but you're just going to get him up in the sky here.
With the Cat, maybe you get the Dead Eye in.
But if you can get Psycho in position and put pressure on the Willys,
like if you just have Silo being able to heal them, you can just get rid of that Mogga rather quickly.
So, the Reaper definitely paying off here, definitely a little bit more conventional look.
I don't know if Kev's done both, seeing with Ultimates.
Kev's been trying to do his best to get all the cards in the mix potentially.
80% now, we're up to parry here, Tama also made a pretty aggressive charge early,
but it costs him most of his health.
Dead Eye over the top, and that will do Zyder in.
There really is no counterplay to that combo.
One of the first we used to see terrorize ranked when Jetpack had made his way into the game.
Navo is really up to cycle, trying to fight for his life on the point there,
and eventually Kev's to gives him this due amount of attention, takes him down.
Well, so, uh, Austria will still have another fight here, right?
I know two support ults, I know with the cage as well.
The work with Psycho getting close to a death blossom.
I will see if they're able to do it. It'll look like, uh, working around the outside.
Maybe, uh, the punch here is, uh, no, for the time being.
I came right there. Phil's a bit arbitrary.
He just had to throw it out at that point and it was time for trying to stall things out.
It was always going to find himself in a compromising situation.
We had no time to assess it beforehand.
That's the pressure that's put on you with you are the team playing from behind and a very
Very lively ruins showing sees Sweden just edge Austria out
Yeah, both cage fights a drop-down style puts
The Kitsune rush over that for Sweden and I know what will he is just kind of starts to just take names there on the point
So back and forth round one you take a look at the stats. I know well, you know pretty even across the board here is a
you know, both teams just kind of exchanging fight after fight, right?
Nobody felt like was able to win two fights in a row.
Yeah, I mean, again, I think that that that capacity look, but also the Maga play was pretty reasonable here, Tama.
And also able to get plenty going.
And it's fun here to see, obviously, you know, two teammates battle it out, Kevster and Psycho,
and slightly different roles here.
Obviously, you know, both highly impactful DPS players.
players and so we'll notch up one for Kev's just so far those dead eyes over the top of the cat arc pretty ridiculous and
Willie's got towed up on the high ground there as well. This is a rare position for the Malaga to play
Well, we're gonna see both Malaga's playing from this spot, right? It is
See both bashings just flying through the sky as well
Over here on the outside is you see though the pressure goes on to Willie's from the the reaper
But it doesn't matter. I mean look at this. I mean Zoro just a firing squad there up on the high ground
Starting to mow players down. Zidra and Tom are both fall. I mean he's still like a Zoro instantly just focused on Zidra
There wasn't enough healing from the tether or otherwise to keep the enemy basking in place. Good start for Sweden
It's the kind of map here where it could be pretty hard to get back into the game
A lot of this relatively annoying high ground and great purchase here for tested to assume some off angles
Of course they take some major perks with the right clicker and doing that damage over time in Cyclonisk.
It's on the wrong side of the castle. It's tough match-up for him to play in, seems to be fair,
but it's clear that the Nostra feel like they need a little bit of anti-tank to deal with Willys.
Yeah, it looks like they're not sure what's going on with Tep there, so...
Okay, never mind. Right back, he's gonna like to go through the wall, maybe something up in the Observer,
but yeah, like they haven't really been able to punish Willys for any of these spots, even with a Reaper.
So when I see now, maybe I've been taking a little bit of an off angle here with Nix.
Going across that right hand side of things, but I know Kev has such an open area to be able to fire across, right?
I mean, this looked great here for Sweden, it'll be the dead eye getting blown around.
I mean, I don't even know what you're supposed to do here if you're Austria.
I'm telling you, like, if you don't have D.Va, there is no counterplay.
Pick the engine and collect it, I guess.
It is very, very hard to deal with.
Honestly, it's a huge boon to Sweden's composition that they've got two very viable candidates to be airlifted across the map.
Not that anyone would mind it, I think, but yeah, it's really hard to mitigate that damage.
And she's speed at which Gepak can't control that Cassidy around means that like,
Bed-Eye is virtually unavoidable.
I mean, yeah, especially when like, what, a lot of the times, you're,
I think you're trying to avoid it, you're avoiding it by running into a match and head on.
There'll be like two cage fights here, laid out, Zoro, and Zyger both using the artillery.
It's pretty loud in here.
Love that, yeah, I mean...
It's like a bottom line.
There's a lot of air for, yeah.
So I have to force off the line, and we see a Wraithwork has to be used here by Cycle.
We're going to come to...
Kephz is still coming back off Resport, he was one of the casualties in that earlier engagement.
So us, for at least, we'll have a child trying to capture Kier.
Willy's very, very low.
Can he take a sidebar and get top back up?
and in fact, yes, we're ready to fight once more as of Sweden.
And Psycho is in an awkward spot out in the open.
This is not where we could shine.
And they'll try and duck back to somewhere with less lighting
to suit his rooting demeanor.
Charge back with him, Tom.
And never a good sign.
Don't want to see your mag to come into the water.
Do that, if for sure.
Psycho, low.
It's a desperation death boss on that wilts under the pressure
of Sweden.
And this will be a much more cut and dry affair on well.
Sweden could be poised to take his first map up pretty
comfortably in Sydrif.
Look at that token amount of stall on the Sombra, and that will be about it.
Yes, if you can close the gap with the Reaper, obviously it can be impactful, which we saw, you know, Psycho do on our first round on Ruins, but I know they are on well.
With the Distance saving, you can see it from his view there towards the end, right?
He's taken fire from the Vash on one side, shots from the Cassie on the other. There's no way he can get in position.
position so Sweden with a pretty strong showing here in map number one first round pretty close back and forth the second round
And not so much. I'm really not about to argue with this both teams displaying an interest in going for this year
Compositions, but capster with 11k damage for me is pretty decisive
psychos opportunities here are pretty limited and there's a sense that maybe
You've I don't know you've over indexed into trying to like have the weaker for your anti-malga
And you're not really accounting for for this pass of the element which is I don't oh my god
You almost got away with this too. Yeah, obviously. That's you're any sort of counter play to that
He's being added to shoot the jet back up at here like so I did legitimately has nowhere to go man
Like I do not know
What you're supposed to do I
mean
Yeah, cuz you're also like relying on really kind of like the cat getting out of you these situations, right?
So if you've already used like the fly and you can't really kind of
get anywhere. I mean right here you can't exactly, you have to kind of know which
fights you can kind of stand there and fight and win because at that moment
you're just kind of like okay Zidra's basically at half HP and then you're
just kind of having like you know humbling into Zoro and the other
side of Zoro is like fully health. Like does, you're not gonna win that. So you have
to be a little bit more selective in the fights you're gonna take with that
jetback hat and the bash in combination especially going against another one.
This is going to be a huge amount of rage bait, but it is somewhat nuanced to play this composition, especially like Into the Mirror.
Um, this is also a rage bait now, I think, but there's room for skill expression there.
Uh, and, uh, it's already also just like...
You were just rage baiting people with the jab. Say something else.
Um, I'm keeping the face as straight as I possibly can.
But again, there are some situations where like your jetpacked out and bastions are facing off, and it's already just like nuked down sideways.
Like saw the bastion and knew that they just like wasn't enough healing throughput in the world
But like the move the movement is reliant on the cat, right?
Yes, so like you are the most of the cat as well
Like you is actually like you just hope you get put in the right spot
You're gonna trust that you've seen me even hard dip say it. Oh, we did the interview right?
He's like, I just I'm just shooting now. I see you guys just bringing me around
I don't know what's going on
But like you're really reliant on that cat. I put you in the good positions get the angles, right?
At that point, you're just like the you know chopper gunner, you know pilot
Exactly, that's exactly what I was thinking about. You're like, genuinely like you just have to, you know, hope that they make the right kind of strafing run for you.
So it's New Junk City, the pick here for Austria, after like a pretty challenging face-off.
They have an opportunity to take us to a map that sees much less of this jet-packed, game-player part.
I think we'll need to look a little bit deeper, we'll need to see some of these hero bands to sort of pick apart how they want the targets leading.
I don't know how you feel about this, but I think you're wasting your time trying to go after Kester's hero group.
yeah probably I mean you know what are you gonna get rid of right if you get
rid of the Cassie he'll play soldier and like I give her the vice versa right
target movies you know like I don't know like that is something you could
potentially look at I don't think we'll see much fashion here you that so maybe
we or maybe a ferocious right you kind of like make sure of that and I know get
rid of one of the two. I know Jeff I can't or bashing it does look like we have a sub
here for Sweden so it'll be a clips in Zidra moving to the bench so we'll see
you know how this sub kind of pans out what they want to play in this different
look yeah okay so like obviously Zidra someone who we've you know got a pretty
decent body of information on but it's good to see that there's some rotation
hear it with the clips coming into the the lineup so again not so I have like a
really strong read on but again as you move away from the jetpack at Bastion
potentially on this kind of map there's like a tiny space to sort of fill in here
Kevster won't necessarily be on the Cassidy once again the whole field of
you know other heroes in which he's very potent on kind of opens up Kevster is
the wild card and one of those few DPS players that you know plays across both
sides of the DPS coin more than adequately, so wherever he goes, maybe he's gonna give you
some unparalleled level of flexibility. That's a neat DPS play. And I thought Willis was pretty
good, and I know map number one playing the mawguff, right? I know Natahira you would kind of consider
him known for, so it'll be a hazard ban. That is something we typically do see, I know from Willis,
really strong on the hazard. A sim ban here for Sweden, something they don't want to have to go
up against, right? With Saiko on the other side, how good he is on the sim, especially on a map
like this so both these bands obviously you know make an impact on this game for
the team. And obviously Eclipse, you're not being
lovey. He actually did have a stint on Team Peps quite a while ago. Your entire
life revolves around Team Peps. Honestly though even more importantly this guy
was on the 2018 squad for Austria. Oh wow. Yeah like going way way back I
I generally remember this guy, so kind of cool to see him pop up here.
Notable results really only date back to 2023, so a bit of a gap there in terms of what we've
known as a competitive player is on Peps during that run, so a very different era of the game.
Let's see what he can show us.
Yeah, potentially coming into play some hitscan, like we obviously seen Zidra do that, but
I kind of can play a little bit of everything, so we will see Eclipse come in and play the
hitscan for Austria, so Tama on Lazaria, so we've seen teams ban Lazaria at moments,
we'll get a chance to see how Austria decides to use it here into Willy's diva, so I could
potentially give the diva hub Sweden some issues, right, as Tama decides to use those
bubbles.
Maybe a bit extra support for Psycho here, especially if we want to be tracking like their
Tracer matchup as we see Kepster and Psycho trying to fight each other a lot of the time on these sort of flank routes
Trying to control those ways into the back line
And also the Tracer wins there gets to go on and start to harass and support
Slide on in there for clips trying to make a big impression early on here
Kepster respects it enough to duck back pick a health pack up Zoro also suffered
What allows you very scrutiny now as the Cassie role has changed Sweden
That's that mission only, that flexibility allows him to go to the city, that's the style with a big two line connection.
You just see how aggressive Sweden can be behind this diva. You also just have Kevster just being such a nuisance in the back line.
We haven't seen a ton of no Tracer from Canada in the WCS and it obviously, you know, with Psycho on the team,
you can play the Tracer, you see him playing a lot of the hitscan type stuff, but always fun, like you mentioned,
mentioned you know so flexible to play so many different things seeing him move over play the
tracer here so we'll see I know Eclipse not even really able to get anything going in that fight
mid right not even really able to kind of put down some serious damage he did just I know 40 percent
here towards an overclock yeah he is like pretty determined I think we're trying you know like
catch her on that flank angle there is all shutting down maybe just an overexposure to
Kirikou but also sometimes you just die around him too nice and you can't do too much to sort of pack it up
Rilis is navigating what normally is a difficult matchup for the diva very effectively.
Note that his role is not to fight Naziah head to head, but to account maybe for psychos, pressure,
on the back line, and obviously want to try and tune down the impact of the enemy soju.
Yeah, I mean, Austria ends up flipping the point there, so no, you're not allowing Sweden to
probably get up to like almost a gage for thing when you really can't express this point, so
fortunate for them, they just cannot come out with a fight window here, so
So, this evening there's a grab here from Tama that can turn the tides and Sky will actually end up using it to defeat our Shogun things up.
It's going to be a sound barrier here for Austria.
It only connects with the re-image, but I still feel like the damage was done there with the grab.
I'm a bit shocked that Sweden find their enemies at the edge here.
Tama correctly identifies as the chance to go after the De-suitor Diva and catch the here now is left to sort of run about.
Camel did not have a beat in response to that rabbit on surge and that little mismatch really costs Sweden as far as they've looked it's still hard to argue with the Xyro.
Yeah and I like this decision I know and now Willy's going to go over and play the Rematra, much easier matchup to take into the Xarya, one that's probably going to look much better over the course of this map.
So, Psycho with a full spawn though, and I could have put this one away in favour of Austria here, would be a really nice way to start this map, obviously getting a Flashpoint under their belt.
Down on the point though is Psycho, getting his Eyeball here and there.
Dora is going to force all of Austria out of the way. This opens the way for some point pressure, and we're just going to let the deadline go in the infos of the shield of Parma, who's going to be charged up as a result.
Clips trying to go hog while the door is going to ward him off everyday.
Rail done.
He's done enough though.
Stiles are picked off to start the fight and that is a classy little fade away.
Beautifully done in Austria.
Yeah.
Take your first flash point.
It takes a little bit for Clips to kind of heat up, but you see some of the rail gun
shots connected towards you and I think for me, the biggest thing there, right, is obviously
Willie's having to make an adjustment a little bit later into that point.
Austria was able to flip it.
No, at times, right?
It's a psycho getting behind Sweden as they kind of push on forward.
And then Kale not really it'll build up towards that sound barrier, I know it's fast to nix
on the other side, right?
So it didn't have it, I know for some of the key moments in that fight, maybe an opportunity
to open things up with it here though.
I'll see if Psyche might even do pieces.
That would be awkward, just something you do want to say to the grab if you ever can,
but sometimes your hand is forced a bit.
Tycho costs the frontline, it has a lot of exhausts, very very low, he's gonna double
back and that's gonna draw out the sound barrier, and that's more than enough.
Nice little stick up the backside there, Kevster, Tama mitigates it to some degree, it's very
very low. Metonics down, there really is no help here for Desire. Tamer aware of that as well,
would just sort of die if you don't hit the parish. Who's taste? Yes, so you end up using that beat
aggressively there because a lot of pressure is going on the Zoros. They kind of felt like they
absolutely needed to use it. This is going to be the tough fight though, Mitch, like you were talking
about, right? Maybe you saved that beat for the grab, not going to have it here coming up. So how
do you stay alive through this grab? You almost want to just get Willy stuck in it, right? And
with the Rematra block and then maybe the Suzu you're able to kind of keep him alive.
I know also the shield from the Rematra as well. But you do have the fall spot from Psycho to combo
with it so it was very difficult. They're going straight through the back line.
That's not Lucio. Oh, Kimiko as well. People on special,
Tao gets going up there. Kitsuneirash used just the extra throughput, but that's not going to
be enough. Still, all elsewhere. Gets the spell. Two kills already, and I don't know if Tom is in
a great spot for this at all. Memors is form-activated, Tomex will crumple first, and Ancycler looks
sheepish out there on the point. He's going to have to give this one up, the flash point
will be fought back by Swede. So you know they're not able to get Skyle, so they get Kale.
Skyle, that will end up living through that grab, and this will have Osha making a change in terms
of tanks. So now you don't have that advantage in terms of like these Aria into the D.va,
but you're gonna make me swap over to Maga here.
So yesterday we were talking about how effective like Maga can be
in some of these different types of comps
and kinda what we're seeing in the meta right now.
You don't really get to see a ton of them,
but today the Maga kinda coming out
from a few different groups.
Patching up to the Remantra.
Stop attempts here coming through from timer.
This is the reposition there with the charge
for the looks of things that I, Zoro, will be uncomfortable,
but a lot of space to be made here by this annihilation.
Such as Zoro now has that safer pocket and which to play
and just rain damage down on Tama.
Now it's cleanup duty, Sweden.
Looks to have found their feet now on this map
after a dominant showing on Ilios.
Comfortably will lean into this bird flashpoint.
Yeah, and a bit of damage there from Zoro's dead eye
onto Eclipse, and it's just Kev kind of going around
on a flank just finishing him off.
So, my cycle gets dangerously low.
That's gonna be recall there.
It only nearer to see any chase from Kev.
He's gonna get back to the rest of the team.
Be careful here, Tamax doesn't have
back to any rush to play through so it's probably one of the best
ultimates there for Morgan to kind of work with.
It's in a rush now in play.
From Xquidly, just fucking your sidekips,
puts top down, really is going to be scum here.
Nice little stomp coming through from the maga.
Okay, good beat.
Very good beat.
With his definitely, you know, pushes to the point there.
Eclipse, he wants to surge forward and tap.
Sorry, just gets kicked out of thin air.
Some really nice shots coming in from Eclipse.
Put the back up of Psycho, and it's a clean up for Austria.
This is a wrap.
Yet, even though it's a sound barrier that comes in from Swedish,
there's the overclock there from Eclipse,
that just starts kind of running through some of those health bars on the opposite side.
So, man, these tanks just kind of counterpicking each other.
Left and right, Tama goes over to the Moga.
He ends up winning that battle over the Ramatra.
Now, you're gonna play the D.Va into the Moga,
as you feel like that maybe is a little bit more impactful, right?
And now, if you can kind of connect with some of these stones,
you see Tama, they're gonna actually, that's gonna be a go time
I'll be continued right after I get dangerously low.
We'll use our corners like a case fight.
Good reaction from Tama.
He was able to be kept alive.
Not just that, but also mechanic for both supports on his own.
Death of Hero pool and confidence brimming.
Tama have a lead Austria to another fight win.
I mean, this is why we were talking about like teams trying to play some Moga yesterday, right?
Where they were just kind of like, you know, throwing themselves into like the Romantra head-to-head.
And you know, obviously not coming out on top is Moga can be pretty strong against the...
They're just about any hero, I think by Frank, is now an opportunity here for Austria to go up with another Flash going to be Kevin who steps up here, just to get his touch.
So all you do is come like, that's a huge blow there, so Austria is going to decide to invest that sound barrier into this.
Yeah, it's such a nice stomp though from Tama, just sets up an easy kill on Kailh, and their side-go again getting involved has been crucial as the forces of this Flash won.
this flash one. And Austria looked to be the better team at the moment. Willy's completely
overwhelmed. The Diva knocked the answer, apparently, against this Mounder as Talmach
is ready to run Riot into what could be a final flash point. Austria giving us far more
than we maybe would have expected here as Sweden are really.
Yeah, I mean, this would be a huge map win for Austria. I know a few players still here.
I can't try and chase, maybe you can see that you can get a kill on rotation, as Skyle takes
some nicks, so I'm going to be able to come up with some kills here, but it's really those
kind of kills.
Once the point opens, that's going to take 10 seconds on that, you're going to have to
get a respawn here for Austria, you're going to obviously concede control of the point first,
but we'll see how Austria decides to play around this.
You have that cage, you kind of like lock Wili's in, you know, potentially, I don't know, just
cause a lot of trouble for the diva.
It'll be the point in control of Sweden first by getting those skills on the rotation like we were talking about
Sweden though does have the ability here Mitch kind of stack these like support ultimates, so that could be quite impactful
Piley though, Psycho is causing a lot of problems for Sweden 12 and 0 right now on this tracer
Really hard to check
That's a good drop there on Kepster as well, of course that early recall on out
But it's high ground control maintained by Sweden and obviously Willys wants to just measure his aggression into this frontline
This can be overwhelmed by the Malga, maybe looking to ignore him if possible,
creates a space for Zoro, he occupies it, and delivers a kill in response.
Tomex also caught out, and that's both backliners down.
A very, very efficient fight win in the works here for Sweden,
only having to spend his Sojourn ultimate.
Yeah, and I think the Sojourn swap here for Sweden is really good against the Magar, right?
We've seen that, you know, the overclock is really good at getting rid of the cages.
It's going to be 75% already on the point for Sweden.
This space is going to be one that, I know, Osher,
You're not even gonna be able to get a fight in it feels like they'll be a good scenario actually from Thomas
They want to continue train fight this air is a nice rail gun shot from Zoro
It's gonna be kill investing the sound barrier here to make sure they get it tied up
But that overclock can be so shoring against the mug in just like that. Here we go
It's gonna be Tom a going back to the Zarya
Is that you know the bow tanks just kind of swapping constantly trying to get the upper hand and Tommy is relentless
He does not care. He needs to find a favorable matchup
He knows that's the way Austria are driving a lot of their revilages in this game alongside Psycho's plate.
So again, he will go for it.
Elise here on the Deva, gonna be a little uncomfortable to start with if you can see.
He's forced to get the key out of there.
He's another overclock from a clip. They've been brilliant so far.
So even if he's over all damage out, what has been, uh, you know, outshone a little bit by Zoro.
There's just nothing to shoot at this time around.
Zoro, he's in the tip of an option.
Doesn't linger long enough here to allow a clip to draw the feed.
So we can have this high ground map controlled again, but quickly take this first flash point away.
Well, it's gonna be a sound barrier here from Austria as they want to continue to fight this here
They don't want to just give up this for free as Psycho takes out Kale and you also lose style
So it's gonna be both supports falling here
Sweden is gonna have to give this up the late beat there from Austria kind of coming on in
So, you know, they all take a lot of damage and then just back on out for a beat then go in
with that huge support ultimate and they get control of the point first.
He's also been a little nervous. They dropped immediately to try and tap the
point as they're open. They knew they were on a clock as Austria were encroaching
and they probably had tracked that sound barrier from next.
What's he done though? This is 28% now for Austria. Are you being built up?
These flashpoints, as you know, do party by pretty quickly.
Willis has to hope that his latest move in the chess game of tank swaps
will be enough. Pevster creates pressure, will force the drop of Sacco
straight into the purview of Zoro.
They put the point.
Yep, easy pick up there.
And yeah, I mean, also didn't want to contest, so I thought I was just dipping a toe on it.
I guess elsewhere they were actually under pressure such that they couldn't get the ducks
in a row, and now this might just fall apart.
And now I swap here from Willy's over to the Rematra, which you feel like gives them a
little bit of advantage.
Put some pressure on Tonex, you know, you can kind of force out that TP, which you do
not able to follow it up on the kills.
So does Thomas stay on this, getting very close to a grab, feels like he's going to
kind of play for it, but you're pretty much blocked into this for the rest of the game,
it feels like.
Yeah, I don't feel like he's got the buff right here to turn around and make a hero swap
with that grab.
He can tail match a beat with it, I don't know if they're going to have time.
Karma is charged up and obviously more charged up.
The quick of those ultimates come along the line, so Zorro, can he open up things here?
See Psycho, oh my god he's so good at the anti-tracer play, this is ridiculous.
Psycho has got to be punching air after that one.
He just cannot get any room to breathe.
And Sweden might have set themselves up
with the win condition now on this map.
89% and County, Austria without one of their key weapons.
And Zorro able to stay alive under pressure.
Here's the drop to the point though.
Tamar trying to just take this space up.
It might be a one player grapher
if he can get it off nose.
Send it to the back line.
Catches a couple, but there's just no follow up.
And no help for the Zaya.
Psycho and Nix though are back.
Psycho very quickly getting back into the game.
And Keds just calls for him a little bit wayward now.
Kale is down with beat by the way.
So now you rely on your styles, get sooner rush if it's required, and even he has been picked off.
Saiko is making this interesting to be fair, but now I think he might be on his last legs.
Pulse just leconically thrown, and Sweden will have the numbers now.
As Karma moves to a signature hero pick that really is in position to do much more than elongate the map.
Much closer affair here, Austria.
Have to be feeling short change not to come up with a map win, but that is the way the cookie crumbles.
Yeah, even though you end up losing your support there early on for Sweden,
you kind of trade those kills back on the other side,
they have to play into Willy's annihilation on that point,
and that is brutal to play into, right?
I mean, you're trying to keep it contested, you're trying to keep the game alive,
and that ultimate is just rolling, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Kev having himself a game 32-3 on the tracer just to constant nuisance for Austria to deal with.
But for me, it's like you kind of have this constant rotation of tanks and
It feels like I know if you just win
for Sweden like if you win like one fight when you're playing the diva against like the
Nozaria right you kind of keep it going and then like you get this massive advantage in terms of like the tank swaps
That's where you can really start to like make your money so to speak
But I thought Eclipse had a really good game for Austria coming in off the bench here for Zidra really popped off with some big overclock
Yeah, again, I thought that it was a big part of what kind of gave Austria that edge
I think time as well being first to make these tank swaps just didn't want to ever be in a position where there was like an
Unfavorable or even like quote-unquote even match up didn't want to play the mirror
And I mean again shows a desire there to win knows that you know
It's up to him to generate some sort of momentum some sort of advantage for Austria when they're up against her
You know a squad that's definitely considered to be the favorite in his head-to-head
credit sort of go to Zorro though. Kevses are able to do this kind of stuff right after
Cyco gets picked off by the soldiers a number of times though. We got to see this one in
just a second I think like Zorro like dropped down and yeah Cyco just gets absolutely flattened.
150 charge ralga obviously doesn't seem to be the thing there during ultimate.
A little bit tough to Cyco who was I think in the third fourth flashpoint he was 12 and 0
eventually into four deaths. Yeah I mean it's uh now if you're Austria like okay what do you
you decide to do, right?
The look at Thomas' hero pool in like the strengths doesn't exactly kind of play to
the meta right now.
You try and play, you want to go back and play the cat bash, and I don't think it would
look great on Ilios.
I think I know Eclipse played good enough that you can try and play some of the hits
can, especially if you see Kev on the other side playing Tracer, like he's not having
to deal with him although Zoro looked really good as well.
will be Runisabi. So this is a, yeah you can play, I know, Addisman, Adiva here.
Potentially a hazard and option, right? I know for Willys, with that being banned in
the last map. I wonder if Oshiro also feels like they need to ban some of the tanks to
kind of even protect Thomas here a little bit.
Yeah, I mean, obviously we saw at the end of New Queen Street, rather, New Jump City.
Thomas didn't really have any space to switch anymore. Like, you are losing too much momentum.
You know, I just kind of have to go for it.
The Zarya is going to be targeted initially here.
It's just a little too problematic.
And obviously like having to save the sound barrier
for that Graviton Surge, if you're on Lucio for example,
every time is a little bit tough, right?
Pale was found without that beat on a couple of occasions.
One of the times he sort of dies before he has the chance
to make use of that.
So take that sort of element of volatility out of the mixture.
So we can feel like the rest of Tamas Hero pool though
for them is really quite manageable,
whether it's wrecking ball, Malga,
or whether we're obviously just something else.
And we saw the bands there.
So it's a William band for Austria.
And then it is a Sweden band of Zarya.
So with a William band, I mean, are you trying to protect,
maybe they want to go back?
Oh, no, I don't think they're going to play the cat, right?
Because you would have left the Zidra in to play the Bastion.
So, or maybe Eclipse can pilot as well.
I thought maybe you're using that to protect the Jipak cat,
but also could be used to protect something like a Kyrie or a Lucio in these types of compositions.
So, Sweden gets rid of the Zarya, which would allow them to obviously play a ton of D.V. if they want.
And obviously that is right in Willy's wheelhouse, but playing it into the Remattro,
it always looked uncomfortable at times.
So, let's see, do we get the Cassidy from the Sojourn so far, gets, you know, full marks as far as I'm concerned.
Kepster's on that tracer that's always gonna be an issue and perhaps just having that mad grenade to at least
I don't know the turn Kepster from diving to deep might be the go with Austria with the Symmetra and Cassidy look in his rematch
a shell
See how this this matchup though. I think I would favorite like the least a little bit, right?
Where we'll see
No, and also like a you know camp on the tracer can give fits through this Austrian backline. So
We'll see if Psycho can get his team in position on the sims, obviously one of the better sims
in the world, so we'll see if he's able to get them in position to make an impact as
Zoro though with the railgun shot just rips Eclipse's dome off as now it's going to be
difficult to push on in.
Yeah, that's tough.
I mean, you need to search here for 100%, so now you need to play out of line of sight.
Zoro's could be quite punishing.
Clips takes the sweeps off the Cassie. I think having grenade against Kevster is nice
But you are outranged
You're a little outmatched up against the sojourn who live like sort of beat-to-out of mobility concern obviously nicely
Just left the shot
And it just wants to try and even the playing field. Austria very much about that trying to set up favorable matchups
but here it's Tomix versus the ground at a very
Large height and who wins?
The ground gets that round, but hey, we'll see we'll see what the run back looks like you never know
So we'll see yeah, I mean, I think you do need the sojourn like just kind of I know whether it be the overclock or just kind of the
Disruptor I know against the remote or you can build up like really easy rail guns there
We're not as much kind of free damage with that shield for the Cassidy
So that's gonna be checkpoint already here for Sweden. That is in TP in for psycho and crew for trying to get
I know an angle here, but psycho gets dangerously low. That's a pulse bomb stick there
From Kev, Toma loses all his armor as well.
Now we'll see if you're able to keep this Rematra alive as a support for Sweden doing a nice job.
Toma is going to drop that continued rush. They feel like this is such an important fight to hold.
Let's try to put him on the right spot here, but a lot of those rails going into a Rematra with his dukes up and release it.
The storm bath, the maelstrom is a different story. That one is going to wash him away.
Kevster eventually is going to be brought down here and Sweden's edge that advantage, they're able to build up here has now dissipated.
dissipated, but it's a Kasuna rush advantage and Kail again a little behind
Nix in terms of that sound barrier charge but not enough to be significant
it'll be both support ultimates online for Sweden in the next fight plus an
unmatched maelstrom of the rune.
Yeah Zoro actually gets very close to a rail gun shot it's gonna be Sky opening
things up here with a Kasuna rush as Nix answers back here with the sound barrier
for Austria but like you mentioned it's the annihilation you're just running
these players down everybody has to back up here for Ausia that sound barrier
basically it just gets completed Mitch with I know this big annihilation that
comes on through some shots from Dora. It doesn't outlast the annihilation and it
just serves to strip that over shield that much faster. It's about the only
answer that Ausia really had prepared for it though and that's fair enough.
Will is also getting 13% off the back of it means that they might be matched in
this next big fight. Oh man that's brutal. Kev gonna give it to you
Sometimes that's just the way to game goes nice to the Palskom onto a clips there and unfortunately
There's nothing to say about that one for Austria
They again lose their soldier right at the start of the fight and that's simple
Well, I don't put this without me. I mean now you're gonna be hell of your Sweden, right?
Like aggressively beat into this. I know you see actually
TV here or psycho and just trying to get them into this in is like a real gunshot
Can be the symbol that comes on through
It works pretty well with the symbol in play. Guess it's right where it needs to be.
Now Tama is spotted. Not in a great spot, frankly.
TP there looks good. Psycho trying to wrap around a little bit the Swedish.
Yeah, just want to try and lose no players if they possibly can, make it as clean a fight as possible.
And also, things out. Look at that bot is moving, by the way.
We are up towards the 100 meters and Austria is still sort of stacking out.
They're still fighting the last hostages.
The future pick there so you do get rid of Kev that's gonna reduce a lot of pressure
but that is brutal they are losing Tama. Now you have the Katsune Rush but you
don't really want to use it here if you're Austria you're gonna have to wait
to kind of use it. Coming off the spawn with maybe one last chance you're gonna
be using this Katsune Rush though right into Willy's annihilation that is gonna
feel brutal. Tama will end up getting his but not the situation you want to be in
and if you are Austria and you're getting blown out here,
it's Sweden kind of running it into the spawn.
Willys, you're taking some damage here.
You're going to allow style of kind of farm
of a continue rush of dope.
It's time for a nice big rail gun for Eclipson.
He is going to go for it overclock at the ready.
Susie though does get used to you now.
His both teams can't have a breather,
give way to this fight,
just long enough for the blue brick road to be laid.
And here comes Sweden again.
Psycho is going to be overrun,
but Cal does get caught out in the midst of this.
A sound barrier in the works here for Austria.
Something in the back pocket, but how do you use beat in order just to stay in the game?
Probably doesn't feel powerful, unfortunately.
That's the only flavor being served up to Austria right now, and Nix has to go for it.
Yeah, I mean, you have to use your beat to basically just kind of get out of your spawn door,
like prevent them from just kind of ending the game, and it is brutal.
I mean, even with that sound barrier, Mitch, you see some of the kills coming out in favor here of Sweden.
I think Sweden though, they just want to like delay for a little bit.
Skyl gets back in the fight, you see the TP up from Psycho up onto the high ground.
I think you're going to play for this beat. You're going to give them some space and then play for an advantageous, you know, more offensive beat here for Sweden.
Again, you have to play into the annihilation still, but I think that's a pretty key deterrent we saw from Nick.
That's not really enough to cover over that rematch for Ultimate if you used under more, you know, ideal conditions.
So, a bit more respect being offered to Tamar for these next few moments now. So, like I looked at he being the back side, he's not somebody who's ever really offered respect either verbally or in-game.
And he now is going to try and go to work on Willie's.
Tom are also assisting him out of the garden.
Here's the beast.
Comes late one in the game.
They're just going to run away with the bug.
I mean, now you're on the chase here.
If you're off here, it's a really weird spot to be in.
Fortunately, they do come up with the kills.
Yeah, I think the bit comes down really just because, like,
gives them some breathing room inside that annihilation.
But in terms of like an overarching game plan around it,
there's just more reactive.
So Sweden is going to stop yet again.
There's still time to play it.
3 minutes and 40 on the clock, and obviously you can see the progress bar, you know, it's like, you know, 4 plus consecutive fight wins from Austria, they basically have to go Sikomo to take this map, but look, it hangs in the balance, so far I think like the Spor.usage has been pretty reasonable here from Austria, and Eclipse, I'm manifesting another big overclock here, but Zoro has to use first, and I don't think Tama really wants to chance it, Nix though does get caught out, they tried to use the TP but they weren't quite quick enough.
Yeah, I mean, do you end up having Psycho take out Zorah by Willys here with the annihilation?
I don't know how Thomas is going to be able to stay alive through this, it's a nice damage
coming down from all different angles when you lose Thomas, the annihilation wears out,
but that is not where you want to be if you're Auschwitz, right?
Nobody can stand up and fight Willys on that bot, it'll be Helps going back, just grabbing
Zorah, bringing him back into the fight, and the bot now goes deeper back in towards Auschwitz,
spawn as Tom and El.
Gonna go over to the mauga here trying to get a tank advantage
I mean, it might be a little bit late for some of these big switches
But whatever it takes to you must really a staging ground a foothold here as they're starting to lose their grip nicely done by
Tom X that'll happen sometimes the volatility of the kunai
brings its head yet again that gets around the game now
Into this interesting time it does get overrun though as a result of perhaps worthwhile in the end even without Kevstar for a couple of moments
Now, respecting the sound barrier might have to be the order of the day, and it's an overclock
here, there's really nothing to answer.
So, okay, so they fold in their base where the overclock looks pretty, but you take a
look at the score at the top of the screen, that is not.
141 meters to two at the moment, so Austria are going to have to go on a generational run
here, Mitch, right?
I mean, you know, multiple fights in a row, Sweden's gonna have to make some kind of un-forced errors,
as Kepkear actually gets over towards the bottom here.
Thank you.
He got nicks, I mean, yeah.
Good healing.
He's a looser, very low, yeah.
Quickly realizing that he had to send some tickets in next resurrection.
The bot's been tested now, and you know, Tomix has to use that kid's coming to the other side,
and Kepkear's gonna go run away with it.
Yep, he'll be able to push this one basically back to the threshold yet again,
Austria and I in the position of disengaged with that simt pz
Yeah, so I could just say I'm gonna commit to find some value off this
I thought it was number the hamper. What makes it at least able to stop this from you know being disastrous
But still walks us down about the last in a play. I would say what advantage is yeah
I would say with the four ultimates coming into the base. It is disastrous here for Austria
It's gonna be the symbol here for psycho
Just trying to give them a little bit of protection as the overclock comes on three
You'll probably wait this out and then what beat with annihilation and push on in trying in the game here
Soundbar comes down connects to everybody
Nihilation here for Willy
And Sweden finished the game either way it feels like it's kind of determined already
The clips eventually falls up as a long hiatus without any eliminations even the big ultimates being brought to bear
Kailo gets onto the kill feed in a meaningful way with a quick double and that'll be that Sweden lost this one up
And again, just making it clear that there are the Scandinavian teams that are looking to book their tickets to Busan.
I mean that was a blow out. Sweden looked awesome there, man.
I mean, map number two was very close, extremely competitive, but that last game was really good,
you know, from Sweden. So
that's more signs to come for Sweden. Obviously,
a really good chance for them to make it to Busan and also make some really serious noise.
And while there, I thought that Willie's had a really good series kind of flexing over to multiple different tanks here throughout the pool.
Yeah, that was a nice look. You know, we sort of mentioned that Tom had been switching up a fair bit to try and get the edge on Willie's,
but honestly stuck with that rematch for so much of this game.
Some moments here from Ostrow, I think, where they're able to show their quality, but they never really amounted to like, you know, any considerable bot push.
It was always like one fight and then they get stuff back into their box.
They pop up for one, there's like a psycho moment or a clips is able to pop off and then they sort of get down.
And even where there's a couple of fights Matt with like Tom X said to first pick, it's Kevsey getting picked off.
That's huge.
Well, Skyle just committed like a Kitsune rush and then they end up picking Tamo off.
And then even in the shorthanded scenarios, we didn't have the confidence and ability to just, you know, to still find an edge in those scenarios and take the wins.
The Rapali team, we weren't expecting Austria to really be able to do too much about them, and it appears that position was pretty spot on.
They were pretty spot on, but I will say, like you guys were just mentioning, I was impressed with Austria on New Jung City.
I do wonder if maybe, for Psycho, for VP, that was their best map throughout Champions Clash, so maybe some of that leadership coming in made me feel uncomfortable on that.
And the fact that they dug a little bit deeper with their compositions on that map was something that was impressive as well,
considering the fact that that Symmetra got banned out after some of the success that they were finding up against Denmark yesterday.
But I think that it is still tough for Austria to be going down in that way, not being able to find that map win for Sweden,
though, I feel like now I think taking a look at how they're looking at that, how do you feel like they're going to be looking heading up against Denmark?
Ooh, that's gonna be a sick game.
Sweden vs Denmark, I think will actually be really close with how Denmark is looked.
It feels like they're really clicking on all cylinders.
I mean, Sweden was no joke across these maps.
Austria also put up a pretty valiant effort, right?
Same result as their game against Denmark, a 3-0 loss, but number two was very close.
I mean, if I had to pick between those two teams right now, I mean, it definitely I think
is an extended series.
I don't think it's like a fast one between Denmark and Sweden.
I don't know.
I really like the way that Denmark has played thus far.
Obviously, all playing in the same area is pretty beneficial, so we'll see how that kind
of hands out.
You know, also Sweden will have to get by Finland, right?
Finland obviously took Denmark the distance.
Yeah, so Finland is no joke either. So yeah, you take a look at how this group is stacked up
Feel bad for Russia three really strong teams here. I know in their group
Feel the same honestly, I
Just from what we saw from Finland. I think yeah extended series. I think we're just expecting that in general Denmark
I'm really impressed me. I think rabbit's just kind of kind of crazy. This guy's really stepped up
I believe in those guys. They've got some fantastic coaching as well.
My dollar box are certainly going to be on Denmark, but I'm hoping for an absolute bang.
I'm sure it'll definitely be a banger. Especially with how good I think Kessler has consistently been looking here for Team Sweden.
But we do have an interview with Zorro after this win.
Bringing you in now, congratulations, Zaro, for the win here.
It's the first time that I think we're actually seeing you representing Sweden for the Overwatch World Cup.
Heading into this matchup, how are you feeling? Were you, I guess, excited for your debut here for OWC?
Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely excited, yeah. I've always wanted to play on Team Sweden.
I mean, last year I was two done and this guy named sparker existed.
So, yeah, we're definitely excited for this match.
We had full confidence.
Yeah.
Now you're in a like a brutal group.
You're stuck with all the tops skin and avian rosters and there's like a reality where like one of Denmark, Sweden and Finland just don't make it to Busan, which I'm probably like is a bit stressful at this moment.
moment. That's a situation you guys I'm sure are thinking about a lot with what you've seen so far.
Would you rather go up against Finland or Denmark here if it was like a qualifying game for example?
Good question actually. I mean we haven't screamed either of them since we're in the same group but
But I think maybe Denmark, you think it's been more interesting, like everyone knows
of the Sweden vs Denmark rivalry in any sport.
So Finland just doesn't get to be a part of that rivalry?
I mean of course there's a rivalry there, but it's more like there's always been some
beef between Sweden and Denmark, like I gotta hold it up.
I like that.
I mean, I gotta ask, right? I mean, that game right now looking like you guys versus Denmark would be like for first in the group like
How important is it for you guys like, you know, win this group get first and then kind of move to Busan and not have one of those second
Seeds and play against somebody potentially from the top of one of the other regions
Yeah, I mean, it would definitely help like getting an easier group at least once since this one is quite hard difficult
But yeah, I mean, I think we definitely got that, like, we got full of confidence with all the screaming like, I mean, Kevser just got back from Japan, so he still needs to get a bit more time with the team.
So I think we're just getting better.
Makes sense. Speaking of Keppser actually, I know that he adds a lot of flexibility for you guys within the DPS role for being able to try out a variety of compositions.
How do you feel about how the meta has been developing, like watching Champions Clash now into OWWC?
I think we always know that EMEA is one of those regions that's willing to march to the beat of their own drum and still pull out some different things.
and things like we've been seeing a lot of the symmetric
coming back into play and stuff.
What's your read on how the meta is looking right now?
Yeah, I definitely think like there was a period
where like Kat Bastion looked like really unbeatable,
but I think like actually EMEA was like kind of one
of the regions who actually helped like beat at beat.com.
And now there's a lot more like, I mean,
like you said, Sim and stuff.
So I think that, I mean, Sim is always going to be a strong
here, if they're on their fair, like her TP is like instant.
You can just go anywhere she's always going to be strong.
Um, so, so yeah, I think, I think like symptoms are probably like one of the
strongest ones right now.
Okay, good to know.
Um, while I really appreciate the interview, Zorro, and thank you so much for
taking the time to do this with us and congratulations again on your
win today here with you then.
Thanks a lot.
So great being able to chat with Zorro, getting a little bit of, again, the
insight from our players is always awesome to see. I think that it's always great also for a lot of
these individuals, Mitch, players like Zorro that we have seen in OWCS, but maybe on teams that don't
get to be highlighted as often, have this opportunity to have more like stand-up performances and really
showcase their talent. Yeah, I think that's kind of like one of my favorite parts about, you know,
a portable cup. I also do feel like it evens the playing field a little bit and, you know, players
like you mentioned who maybe have not just had the fortune to find themselves on a top roster
surrounded by other really talented get to kind of show a case that in like a homegrown environment
with the backing of obviously of the countries they represent you know they've also the same
thing obviously it's huge honor for them to compete and just such a novelty for us to sort of
you know answer our fantasy questions about you know what country is the best so uh i am certainly
expecting to see another explosive world cup man and hopefully like a something different rise in
at the top, you know?
I mean, Ash, we always see a lot of players
come out of this program and move into the professional scene
as well, right?
Players who typically don't get an opportunity in the OWCS
or in the past professional scenes.
And then now through Overwatch World Cup,
you see what they can do around other professional players.
And maybe some of these people will be players
will see an OWCS later in the year.
We always have an opportunity to uplift our players here
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Welcome back everyone to the Overwatch World Cup for EMEA.
It is our final matchup of the day and we've got Ireland versus Poland coming in hot guys.
Ireland, this is the squad that we already got to see earlier during day one.
They managed to take a map off of Spain for Poland.
This is going to be the first time we're getting an introduction to this squad here.
Mitch, talking a little bit about Ireland.
I feel like one of the really big boons for this roster, standout player for us with time and his performance there up against Spain on day one.
Yeah, definitely the player I would have wanted to address here, seeing as roster.
Mostly just Tracer play, but it was astonishing. There were multiple, multi-pulse bomb kills on both backliners, and it gets Lucio Curicomps that is not a given, that is really hard to pull off.
I am blown away. I think what we saw from them and also pure Irish, so I think has really really good game sense
Honestly, just a great head-on in this team looks really good. Oh, I I felt like they
Honestly, like length into the jetpack at Bastion comp made too much
I feel like they can go for something a bit more standard and might have found a greater degree of success because
You would just pick up was banding map one and they managed to win that one out in the end
So I want to see a little bit more for them in terms of what their comps are looking like is they're going up against their opponent who
In theory has like some pretty solid name brand players that be competing a very high level in the in the area
They're gonna have to bring their best
Yeah, I mean it's the first time we're gonna see Poland
But like how Mitch mentioned right there are some players like I know specifically I think I know eggs in China that people
Have seen in the past for me. I want to see Ireland. Just don't go
They can't bash and again like we you know, we saw them win without it
They tried to pilot it it didn't look that great and they kind of continue to kind of run it into the ground
The ends Poland. I know Poland has the type of players who can definitely kind of capitalize on that
So I know the two players only we talked about they know eggs in the support role on then
I know China in terms of the damaged dealers
So we'll see what they kind of you know provide I know for the no rest of the team right now
I know maybe like we'll see a standout performance from some of the other players
But I know two kind of players that we've seen play you know at the top level before on the squad
Yeah, I think Mitch for me
I think two players on this Polish roster as well that I've got my eyes out on are
Ikehub and Texel the fact that they recently promoted actually into OW CSD and EA and
For team Telsi, I feel like those are two players that we also have to put our eyes out on.
Absolutely, I mean considering that you know that promo relegation was like quite
the gauntlet probably seems to sort of make it through. The fact that they come up there
feels like we might be seeing the best Poland roster that we've probably seen in terms of
World Cup. It really feels like the time is right. They've got some really talented young players here
and yeah the future is bright. Hopefully they can make a statement here because Spain looking
pretty fallible after outing against France but maybe everyone would in this particular group.
I really feel like this group C is trying to be highly competitive. It really is. I think that
What's gonna be fun though and also a little bit competitive for us our predictions?
I know that we can get a little competitive on that front
We haven't done any predictions all day, but I feel like this one has the potential to be right on all of them
Okay, you know, that's the narrative we can go with for sure. I gotta say for this one though
This is huh
I feel like if Ireland don't so horn themselves with a cabashtian comp
I got to work with Ireland for this one, but I think the Polish roster definitely has a lot of stuff
You know, I was gonna I was gonna buy pick Poland as well, but you know, you're usually wrong, so I'll take Ireland
so that's
Piece it off of that. Although. I do think I know pulling with that idea with China and eggs obviously have some advantages
You might want to ace on your face, right? That's what I'm saying.
You look so far away, you can't even do that to me.
Okay, well, we'll see if you can lob one across the entire country, but overall I can't wait to see how this scrap bus is going to pan out.
Let's get into our final match, Ireland versus Poland.
So, if that brief prelude wasn't enough to give the impression, we're pretty divided on our sort of predictions for this particular game.
But I tell you what, you know, handy little sleep dart and another 1v1 is always gonna give you the edge, nice job for eggs.
Rackin' one up for Team Poland.
And again, we talk about how important maybe like their first map selection can be.
I think that what we've seen from Team's map is the deferral of the first map and the ability to take first ban,
as seen to be desirable for many of these teams.
Yeah, it seems like I have a lot of people kind of like out to go for that selection now,
Now, I know at least at the moment not with the biograines putting in huge ears. This one
Disconnected I mean you just charging around the corner
Blasted I don't know. They'll take the map pick as well. They'll go to Ilya's
okay, so
It will be polled and with a sort of opportunity to first band. Oh, you're probably
You probably think it like send out players from Ireland last time we saw them was definitely time on the tracer
But I don't know if like you really want to spend a band in that regard
Especially because China is a really solid tracer player as well
You know may not want to deprive yourself of that option coming into this series
Also pure Irish mostly showed as a Diva play
Maybe there's a window there where Polish tank might be able to secure like a more favorable matchup on the map like Ilios
Which is pretty often a haven for D.va play in general
Yeah, so we'll see
Where Ireland decides to go in terms of like I know bands and whatnot like we talked about a little bit before
They played no cap fashion in map one they win and then they kind of went towards it
No, they weren't able to pilot it well against
Spain so we'll see what they decide to do. It's a hazard ban. I open things up and they're not pulling
With the first ban they get rid of the Bastion right away
So maybe they watch some of that Spain game and they don't even want to deal with it
Yeah, okay does open up the cat city play that we saw from
Cancel which looks pretty fantastic as well, but jet backpack will be available in this particular map
This though you imagine is probably sufficient deterrent to have I even go back to what honestly gave them success in that matchup against Spain plays
something a little bit more standard and with that hasn't been taken out we will
see many more standard looks on this particular map. This game has a large
amount of significance not just because it's discovery for us seeing what
Poland are capable of it's also if Ireland can get out of this group in
some shape or form must win game for them having already fallen to the Spaniards.
Oh I mean absolutely I mean if Ireland has any hopes of making it out it has to
start with a win here so we'll see you know if they have some adjustments from
the other day right I know and I guess this our first time seeing Poland as
you know Poland is gonna go on a bit of a run here bitch I mean Poland plays
Ireland the next match in group C is Poland against France and then the next
match in group C after that is Poland versus Spain so they're getting all
their games done in one shot here in a row here in group C so they will start
things off with a roadhog pick so we know we saw some roadhog at
champions clash we saw from just mine so we'll see if they're able to make it
work okay I'm here for it as expected pure Irish gonna be on the diva China
will be on the traces of some of our early projections already hanging out
Cassidy for IKAP though one gonna be favored at range again gonna be tough
to sort of try and attack this cog composition head on they have a pretty
strong brawl set up and of course there's always a lingering threat of
environment to kill potential especially on a map like well I mean it's just so
scary even going near the hot rate it's a with the hook cooldown available I
connected one there doesn't work is that time does all at the hands of cab so you
lose that tracer you were kind of highlighting is a long it's up to the
high ground can put some shots in but not gonna be able to take out a road
right so we will see if it kind of works their way back onto the point in Ireland
but it's really difficult to play it. The Roadhog obviously has high kill potential
taking out time there yet again and then you're also dealing with like the
Alari damage as well. We're watching in real time, Ireland trying to figure this out.
They don't have an unlimited amount of that either. They certainly need to come up
with an answer and right now they've been very tentative playing off the point.
The one looking to trade damage, obviously, has to be, might not be able to bother Luan too much, but I think certainly can be a little bit of a nuisance with these shots coming across an extreme range.
But I'm looking at time. They're going to be the one who gets something started up here for Island. Relax, obviously, you can struggle for a lot of this damage if that is a key connection on the wall.
Now, it's easy for China to pick off that kill on the Kiriko, and positionally, Island just a little exposed there.
It's not always trying to make it like a solo playable and off angle, and GCB is actually the first to get on the board for environmental kills.
Yeah, but I mean, you have not really been able to make any type of inroads
is Ireland in getting this point back. I mean, now you're going to be dealing with the
Captive Sun-Katsune-Rushier combination for Poland.
Now, that is Tuzu out early with some pressure that comes down as
Senior's going to be the Katsune-Rushier from now. It's going to go towards that opposite side.
It's going to be Captive Sun from the high ground.
A lot of trouble as Luluan takes out
Relax so the hog is out of the equation. I've lost two players already
Yeah, again, just about the buck from captive son is like really hard to shake obviously without a cleanse
You are gonna be in trouble. I can't just fall here. It's like he's getting some work done
This is just a little bit too slow for Ireland to actually get their ducks in a row
You're Irish out on the point here trying to contest here, but they have lost not yet
Yeah, who's the curious so early that kid?
That's Susan was in the Tracer
The Tracer is still here for Poland. You also have your Kitsune Rush, the Hog back in action, so you'll be the Kitsune Rush over the point as one trying to find some kills from the high ground here.
Lea did that from Icav. It's gonna be very difficult, just gonna deal with all those rolls this way.
There's our first Roadhog environmental kill. A whole hog kind of popping off. It'll just be time trying to keep this one going, but this is a really good look from Poland here.
Okay, I mean great opener here. This is the kind of map where like Roadhog is certainly viable, but
We really didn't see environment of kills be the difference maker
I think being able to get a hook kill on D.VaR is
hugely impactful and represents a momentum shift in a fight, but in general
Island weren't too sure about how to go about this. It looked like
Nubba's trying to do the most trying to make the play on a couple of occasions here
But you've kind of got to respect this, you know, holdish squad's ability to crack back and eggs
some pretty good damage. I'm not gonna lie, that is exactly what you're looking for,
Diary popping off on, again a map where we, let's be honest, we rarely see it.
Yeah, I mean that is a, yeah it's a rare occurrence to see Ellari there on well,
but when you're playing with the Roadhog, right, I know kind of soaking up a ton of
the threat from the rest of the opposing team, China's gonna TP everybody
forward, they're going to roll out with Tracer, Cassidy, and play that Ellari yet again,
So really punishing, right? Just some extra damage that comes in the way from Poland
And I know can't Ireland kind of deal with it at least face off the first round not really
Like I thought back a little bit diva defense playing too slow wall time by relax keeps testifying fit and not is down first yet
Again brutal China this time. It's not a position you're unnecessarily being punished China being that good at the game this fight's already over
Yeah, it's over really before it starts right I mean they get in and they really get rid of the pile on there from eggs
But you know you lose your
Curie early on right that's the largest source of healing you lose that source of healing
But there's obviously more damage on the opposing side. I know with the a lorry in the mix and you know that is the
Fab it's a really fast fight that goes in favor of Poland as they've been pretty impressive thus far
No doubt about it
I'm here, you gotta be driven back to some degree.
Irish yet, so early on in the fight.
Okay, it comes to the cost of the arrow here for X,
but that might be considered worth it.
But actually, if we look after the carry,
that's gonna be a swift step there now,
it's gonna be drawn out already.
And Poland with four players up, still confident
as Nutt is getting farmed on Respawn.
Yeah, as I just, yeah,
Llanby basically barely able to make it out
with his life actually end up falling
at the hand of Cab there.
Now you'll have China getting up to the high ground here,
Just trying to control this area relax gonna get up there
Meet him as well as you Ireland say it feels like they were gonna kill on this round
It's a rough showing from this team who was a pretty strong the other day
Okay 54% and counting
Here he comes a dead iron from I count in a space maybe also damage on the pure Irish and not also took out more than just a
That's gonna be Island Force back again. They're gonna have to retool this push. Can they coordinate another dive?
Can they try and get towards this like you know, it's gotta be your main target?
I'm imagining going after the Cassidy as well is an option, but you've got to be on the same page
I mean none of us falls again there goes down to half HP
We'll see if they can make a play is defense matrix pretty much expended there from through Irish gonna get a self-destruct
Oh nice pulse bomb from China on the exit
Now, Ulsan goes wide. It's going to be Ireland that ends up using their sound barrier here, Mitch, as they know they absolutely missed their last chance.
Yeah, China's been such a problem. Look at that damage. LeWon's having strips taught off of them.
I mean, I think you're running out of gas now. Lucio very low. GCBS to double back here.
And there's a captive sum waiting in the wings for eggs, which may well not really be needed. Time eventually gets picked up.
And now we're hunting for a recipient for this ultimate.
First step expected for the Kyrgyz, so that is avoided.
Pure ISL would be suited with or without the captive sun,
Dominus Shrine from Poland.
One of the games today I thought would be more competitive,
may not turn out to be that way.
Yeah, that is a blow out there as Poland,
they kind of run over Ireland,
so maybe it's like with the Bastion gun, right?
Maybe that's kind of what Ireland is really kind of drilled
in terms of like their style of play,
but based on what we saw the other day against
Spain I wouldn't say that to be true, right? So we take a look at some of the stats there China goes 14 and oh
We talked about time on the tracer the other day is that is kind of really kind of showing its dominance
I am time also just has a rough game again
They kill threat of the road hook definitely read its head in that first round, but we saw something
I wouldn't say standard from Poland
But the confidence to sort of work this to the Arianon and have like another legitimate damage source there
Was definitely a bit of what took them to critical mass. We exsends up with 4.8k damage
So very respectable. I mean doubling up almost on what time was able to do
Gaps everywhere, frankly
Either between these two teams and you know Paul is showing us that they can you know make a switch back to something
It's a bit more straightforward and still find success. So that bodes well for them in this series. It honestly
already wedding my appetite for their mashup against Spain and even potentially
France down there you're already you're already on to the next game you're like
let's get this one going I'm just gonna have maybe I only make some noise we get
the bash your bag and play I do I do hope so but I mean control was their best
outing in that last series here and here that look like a completely different
team so worrying signs but I will leave some space to believe that this team can
sort of bounce back, but not a great start so far. And again, like, we, I feel like we
watched the Cogs turning in that first round as I was trying to figure out how they go
after that Roadhog comp, while also like constantly being peppered down, right? Sure.
There's a Cassie for Poland, so they can't like harass it long range and effectively
because we are at the exit constant, shooting constant, you know, being a general nuisance.
And then it's like, we don't have armor. We can't afford to play armor maybe because
China is probably going to run the armor down and trace it. We need a backline that is
is as robust and safe as possible, but then, where's your pressure on the hog come from?
Like you don't have anti-aircraft whatsoever?
Yeah, yeah, and no clue.
Okay, so Rialto will be the pick.
Interesting enough, I was like, you, I mean, you can play like a, if you want to play like
a lorry, you can play like a lorry makes more sense here on Rialto than it does on, uh,
you know, Ilios.
So maybe that's kind of what Apple and Once Again continue to do.
I am putting eggs on that heroes that will see what Ireland decides to do in terms of
ban, but they definitely need to do something that's going to shake the game up in a big
way. Can't exactly go out just like that. I even think of a tracer ban maybe.
Yeah, quite possibly. And I'm going to need to see what time control some of these other
heroes. I think that more so than reality of being picked as the map here, Circuit Royale
Not being picked might be quite telling to Polin. We've often seen him as one of them.
Could you imagine if they picked like, okay, we just lost to the Illari on the other side.
Let's pick Sir Royale and just kind of rank one and say, how are you not going to do that?
I mean, come on.
I don't know if you see it as losing to the Illari necessarily.
It was just very solid.
And I do think it's a bit concerning that Polin weren't able to ever, like, pressure that relative lack of mobility that Illari has.
But maybe there's a difference.
They banned the Illari. I don't want to say that they got there.
Okay, I like that.
um the reaper ban so we didn't see reaper really at all but this kind of like forces
we now the tracer yeah maybe maybe we're modding maybe we're modding um that's possible
okay well i don't have to recommend this and i think it doesn't really probably change
our overarching game plan but maybe the idea is to limit some of the counter play options just
reaper while i don't think necessarily offers like a kind of space for like big moments individual
skill expression obviously it just puts a lot of strain on a team's healing resources
Especially if they're like on like a Lucio carry comp and they're playing with the Malva and you know
They want to you know, they favor that utility of a raw through-court
Then they don't have to deal with like these damage spikes that occur when your Malva tries to charge in which is obviously part of the game plan
So reasonable here to see that go away
There are I guess other reasons why like you might also want to play like some other Brawl style
Titan even if it's a Reaper like Zyra also could be threatened
Especially if the bubbles are pressured down and why that Reaper so kind of options here should give us a bit of an
idea of what poles over I can gain planes but so far I think. Roadhog? Any roadhog lovers?
I don't think it's like worth the arnaband here right that seems like kind of crazy and also
mega telegrams so something that's more like broadly applicable means that even if you're not
playing a roadhog or even if you switch off at some point you can still play another brawl style
tank without having to deal with that like this extra layer of complexity. Yeah that's true. I do
I do wonder if Ireland decides to try and play cat fashion and maybe Spain obviously was good about dealing with it, right?
Maybe Poland not as well, I know kind of like a reverse fortune here for Ireland as they kind of continue or try and continue through the rest of the series.
The worry I have here for Rialto is we do see a lot of stalls before first point on Rialto, so there is a potential to get like, you know, whole held here.
Yeah we are gonna be heading into game in just a moment. Looks like players are
sort of joining up and then we head over to Riyadh. It's just the kind of map
where you can look to play those like poke comps even if you don't have a
Leary like Sigma still very reasonable here. We've even seen like attacking
sides try and play Widowmaker off the rip. We've also seen it from defenders. That's
a little bit more niche here but this is the kind of map that it feels like
you're not being pressed into one particular mold. Poland are going to
You start with the armor instead, so perhaps there's one reason why.
We don't see you ever even considered being banned, but again, I feel like you don't favor
necessary that mobility that Lucio brings on defense side on some of these maps, similar
to Circuit Royal.
I think we're going to get Cap Bastion here, so it looks like potentially, yeah, that'll
be the play.
This is going to be under pressure from that Cap'n'Bash'n, obviously he can put down some
damage onto the Cap'n'Bash'n at range, but I know just watch for them to kind of like
drop that Bash'n right on top of the honor.
Alright, Team Poland looks very strong, stronger than we expected, even though we hinted that
they could be a Dark Horse, this is maybe a little bit more than that, at least by contrast
up in this matchup, they look superior.
Now they got a reckon with the boogie man that is the jetpack can't composition and one is locked and loaded
Ready to be an absolute pain in the behind
Again, you'll see all the pollen play you get pretty much inside that building
We heard earlier from Kyo saying that that's like how they approach that matchup even when they had a pretty
Theoretically bad comp against it on circuit Royal play inside and wait on that cooldown
for bashings tank mode before you get more aggressive
Yeah, as we're on there up in the sky, some pressure is on, you know, I can't, they're
dangerously low, okay, so they're able to get to Cassidy, finally, you know, Gumbel was
on the big here on the plane.
I love that from Pure Irish.
He sees that I-Cav is kind of obsessed with the idea of shooting at the fast here and
doubles back on, which he can't see immediately.
It makes it pretty hard to win that flight out.
Now, you're up to the races.
Obviously, Ike's going to put some pressure down in terms of, like, you know, the hits
scammed by Stamage but probably not enough here to really cause the one to be concerned.
They're looking for Xayah though, he's playing up on that back staircase so seeing where he
disappeared to is okay. Ash and Turret Moda are gonna be forced out as okay now I know
I can't, it ends up falling so and maybe Fo will not be able to deal with this comp as
well as Spain did the other day but Rilex does get rid of Nutt, he's gonna force GcB
to be able to start healing now tough out if you're not so far into those first
steps relax definitely don't focus on carry code down big pulse there though
X finally dealt with actually island able to deeply under have a position
the pulse form that has to be used but that is well worth it especially now
that relax will have no support in the backup and will eventually be brought
down and these canals are dangerous um cat mapping is certainly going to
provide some guaranteed kill pressure now for GCB as long as you don't drop them
them on to the gondola right you got to get them in the water in the dream he's
so you got to make sure you kind of like just you know dive them down in there
inside the back and up on the rooftops there as the cat almost falls gonna have
to wait for healing yeah this guy is this is a you know we've had some while
It's been a while since I've watched this history, this one might be a while though, so the Knights of Ayo Green, they've come back through there.
Okay, OOOH, Turremot, they've got me out of the pulse, I still haven't had enough to break through Luando.
Extra durable, there's Bastille in that form.
Now he doesn't have to die down, but soon they're much going to be deployed here by Nutt, they will again be first on the menu.
Nexol traded out on instantly, but Luan being down now, and he has to be running free through this fight, could be a problem.
China, with a recall, relaxed, low, but healthy enough, and with a remake opportunity there, can Eggs get in position to the midway through this fight?
couldn't get line of sight on IKav though, FGCB is going to have a quick exit from that
little encounter. That might be a little bit of an honor. Definitely exposed there.
Yeah, you do actually get the DMEC here on the Pure Irish though, so that is quite huge here.
I know towards the end of this fight, so it's going to be a dead eye here as you're going to get
Lu on right back around that corner as that's going to just buy some space as you see through the X-ray
Bastion looks like it's gonna go over this flanking high ground here, maybe try and challenge some of the high ground
But you see Poland, this is an interesting spot to be in though, but Poland can play like pretty much like inside a lot of the time
It's very difficult to get that Bastion to an avid pager spot
Yeah, you can sort of pop over the like
Flanking low wall around the edge, but that's a little bit risky, especially when the dmg's coming from that damage
I'll stop the way from by and okay, it's on the Bastion now
Immortality kill to have it cancelled that out pretty comfortably still looking for a flex support that can you know pressure to some degree
There's airborne targets in China just lingers on a bit too long within the purview of team island
Yeah, I just don't really feel like they
Have to go on here. They at least haven't made a forge out quite yet in here. Look at the jet pack
Bastion give it a grenade there by the castle, but the one is not follow
It's not the fingerprints of the box. It needs to be worried
Yeah, the immortality killed used by eggs there so the flopper won't the back teeth
It's gonna be a self-destructive use here.
Oh, not enough to survive that, but it's gonna be two kills.
I go in favor of Ireland as you still have your Irish alive here.
And here's from my ham on the pure Irish.
It's gonna actually be a Katoone Rush here used by Poland.
It looked like a catnap use there, attempt to buy GCB, and with all that playing going
down inside, they're not able to push out of the room with that Katoone Rush, and that's
gonna be the point to Ireland.
That is just the beyond fancy footwork there by Texel
Dovon by pure Irish that was the correct choice. I think by the diva, but maybe not accounting for the immortality field
Being a factor and GCB committed to heaven to that
So now finally we see Ireland move away from that look to something very much more stock-standard
Relactors were Malga Malga into diva
Just do that about this looks in general
That's we're gonna be able to outmaneuver the malga to some degree
But at some point you have to fight in this trope and that's where we know now I can try
So we'll see if you can... well, so the Mauga can kind of like stand toe-to-toe to fight with the D.Va, right?
Especially with that Immortality Field as X does have that Amatrix.
Also has, you know, Max on the kind of like X-Oil charge, you know, ob.
So we'll see them start to fight here pretty quickly.
It's going to be Amatrix here plus the Deni as the Immortality Field used.
It's going to survive that full bomb that comes on through where...
I believe there's also a D.Mec that's going on for pure Irish already.
So I'm gonna have to fall back here.
He is Ireland as the Volga getting in the mix.
I mean, yeah, relax can be much more aggressive in this position.
There was a really nice Malga stomp as relax doubled back into his own backline and interrupted Pryorish basically.
Instantly, demaking the D.Va.
It's tough to play into this, I think, and Pryorish are not inclined to switch.
Might have to, yeah, consider the impact of this Malga a little bit more because
I still have to play into this choke. I've managed to get the car up a bit further and now around this corner as well
It's day. Well, you see where it relaxes playing is poppy's back
Bro is posted up on that kind. You did not want to move. I mean this part of the map as well
It's very difficult to use that cap fashion. So they make a swap here. So
as a
One takes a nice shot from text also
It's gonna be a kill there on to the sojournate range
So that is gonna basically stop Ireland in their tracks
But I know that does not mean that Poland's going to stop as a you see you just get the log in there with the sum
See how much damage you can put out. Maybe you can kind of come up with some kills
Mitch it feels like also they haven't really stopped trying at all, right?
I know constantly in the back like it's gonna be pure iris mechs already gone
It's gonna be a self-destruct gonna get a new mech back
But like nowhere near the fight like you see us who on dies like pure irish over by the park
It's sort of like losing the next phase, some of the issue is just,
the day you don't have a mobility to actually get around in the fight,
it kind of locks into that animation for a set period of time,
and was on the one very, very poor, trying to play that off angle.
Island here, starting to run out of gas.
Definitely been caught in place in our poll, you're about to cycle into five
ultimates, now you can cage fight time or pure irish here and get a pretty
important catch out, so that's something that now
Island who wants to engage, who wants to set pure irish in the backline here,
have to be mindful of this game does not get any easier for the diesel.
So we will head into overtime here shortly right 30 seconds on the clock it's going to be all Luan
actually connecting with a rail gun shot there on a high cap so pretty huge, China's full spawn
does some damage since I'm not enough to finish him off. It's everybody here from pole and they
back out they want to play for one final fight here inside. I can rush, send this Malga in,
having that cooldown reduction is pretty massive considering uh how high does that
They can't even make an overdrive. This cage fight early?
Yep, it was pure Irish court inside of it.
Good beat though from GCB. China dead.
Just not able to get much done. Luan's able to pick keep off.
And then what's how they thought is down.
And it's open season on Poland.
PetSol and relaxed. Fall in quick succession.
And I have nothing left to do.
It looks like Ireland are going to prevail in the final moments.
Notwithstanding any stall attempt here from China,
who was the first casualty in that fight.
It'll be a touch and recall, but it's just two lanes.
I mean, they clutch up there towards the end.
It's nice cage right there, but a great sound barrier that comes in from GCB
So that gives Ireland a chance in this map right the map completion is you know
So important here is we take a look at some of the stats
No, obviously the lawn's gonna have some pretty high damage there playing that bastion for an extended period of time
But you see the Cassie damage on the other side for Ikev pretty strong as well
So we will see if Poland can kind of get things going on their offense and
Honestly, whether Ireland decides to try and play this cat-bash in here on defense.
No! Stop! They look so good but they're not playing the cat.
Genuinely. Very, uh, a good recovery, I think, later on the round here for Team Ireland.
And they're also going to go for the cat-bash team play.
If you think on defense, it's perhaps a bit more of a nuisance if this is a tax side
because they are, like, the flank pressure is so real on this map, especially.
And having the divert resources to like, you know, give attention to one and two CP will leave pure Irish up to make some target selections with a bit more impunity.
I mean, they were good with the cap bastion. You know, in this first area of the map, it's just kind of like it fell off over the long haul on the map here.
So not too surprised to see them pull it out early. And look, I mean, Poland definitely struggled with it for a while, right?
So I will see if Ireland can kind of use that cap bash and kind of keep this
You know advantage early on in the map and then maybe I know that kind of gives them the map win
Off we go. Ireland almost able to hold team Ireland off entirely now full map completion were quite deep enough
But I think these first few moments
They're quite telling as to whether this big pack cap Bastion composition is going to stick to the landing so to stick to a team island.
I can't very painfully aware of it
For now, we'll settle with just trying to usher this part forward and get some high ground off his arm.
There's a lawn here, just kind of lurking in the rafters.
X can be the TP out from the Kiri already.
That does not get me to use the turret form, as China does get nuts, so you lose nothing again early in the fight,
and you're going to lose pure Irish's meth before the bash even gets into, like, turret form here.
So that was not a great look here for Milo in that first fight.
I mean, they're fighting in the right place, Poland, right?
They know, I mean, they know, obviously,
that broadly the idea is to group up,
play together inside that small building.
And somehow, like, Kyryko just gets plucked out.
I don't know if it was like a swift step forward from now,
and maybe try and keep Irish in the fight
a little bit longer, but either way,
I think Poland kind of get exactly what they wanted.
The game certainly came to them.
Now we're gonna be, of course, fighting for this choke.
This is the first check one,
a big flank here now for the Cat Bastion.
Even China has been called
to try and get some extra damage at the neck,
That seems like, uh, I don't know, a sycophant task perhaps.
The line now touches down.
Like, Grenade is still a bit of a problem, but yeah,
he can't live too long on the ground.
That Tracer's gonna come to you.
And no, I mean, it's a great job that the support's here for Polo
and being able to kind of keep everybody up,
but then Polo's also gonna form their own missiles.
Oh, there's nothing you could do about that.
I mean, it gets deleted there.
This is gonna happen nowhere, constantly.
Oh, I like this.
The boss bomb is going to get some damage,
and I can't say that I can't do what I'm out now.
Can Ireland still hang with this? Self-destruct? Can they go after Pyriris?
No, they are completely zoned away by the threat of the explosion.
Now, time to hit a chance to head towards the backline, but it's a very quickly forced recall.
In fact, here's Poland. Do not have this checkpoint yet.
Very close though, as you're gonna have an amnitrix here.
You're gonna be able to kind of fire on through it, but how do they deal with this fashion?
You see kind of coming over the high ground there.
China gets into the back line as oh they get get not first here yet again
so you're gonna have to work on how you can gonna keep this you know carry a
light a little bit longer here for Ireland okay not bad from time there
but losing your carry got early on means that no one else gets any extra healing
Gcb either has to ignore the team or just you know heal them and not be out of
sort of ferry the back seat either option is like pretty bad for this come
It's tough honestly for Allen because Poland realized that the crux they want to keep out of this comp is to Kirikou keeping her alive
And that has been dying first in a lot of these fights
You'll see actually
You've gotta remember that your opponent can still act when you have them under the catmab circumstances than I have is
Wow, really now taking this frustration out on the rest of Ireland time available to get to them in the end of the world.
Without LeWon in the picture, time can only really stall this out.
There's a dangerous move trying to pull a cast of the other body of order.
I mean that is something you probably don't expect as now some changes here for Ireland.
LeWon's going to go over and play Emre here.
They're going to move away from the cast.
I know high ground here now control to fight Ireland is
Captive in this fight man. I mean you'd have a lot of time left here for Poland to be able to kind of complete this map
You're right there's a lot of trouble. I mean, I don't know how they're gonna help him
I mean very much a solo would never know if you're Irish like who is back? Yeah, I'm dead
I guess that's half the issue. Yeah Irish coming up there to make that one. I'm gonna find a great connection going on case and buddy
We love to see it!
Fortunately, it's really a footnote on that fight.
You know, seeing pure Irish getting picked off first is not what you want here from Ireland.
They're trying to be aggressive, trying to be proactive with this diva position,
but it's always back up for something like I've had as they get dove.
It's a buddy mortality build in play. You've got to find a way to tease that out before you fully commit.
Yes, and now you're in a bit of trouble here if you're Ireland, right?
You're going to need like two fight wins here.
here where Poland I know has some key ultimates to use I mean you cannot lose
anybody here early on would allow Poland to complete the map with a huge advantage
any of me to introduce here by Poland they're all in I can Irish out of my kid again self-destruct
at least for a second bite of the apple so to speak but Irish trying to get back in trying to
pick them up one he forced to defend but that's why from Blasper's that own
cooldown and so is the one yes the immortality killed used there by eggs
in a really nice spot allowing Relax to stay alive throughout that fight.
So now going closer to the spawn here, you can shine it with a pole spawn, could be massive.
I think you're going to be able to get this across the line, right?
You're going to have a few players coming back off a respawn as Relax is going to get back to the rest of the team here.
Dead Eye is available as well as you move up here for Poland, most likely, as Luan gets dangerously low.
you see Relax trying to go for the kill and not able to finish it off.
Postmortem on Irish, big D2 there as well, that makes it very much possible for the Island to meaningfully contest this.
Okay, override protocol.
So easy to break line of sight on this one, it's just a tough spot for the wind to have to make use of it.
They get the D bar, self destructing to be drawn out, but Relax will be able to get suited up and get ready to go again.
China across to the one, gives the Emmer no room to breathe, and our sound barrier comes in.
His nut is swinging for the fences with these Q-nised.
Much of that damage though to be covered up by a defense matrix.
Relaxed, still pretty healthy, eggs pretty close to an amplification matrix as well, but they won't have it here in this fight.
Big pick. Crucial one for time, but it will be traded out.
This means that Poland have to wait on this.
Yeah, I mean, you still have your fury here for Poland, so maybe they decide to, like,
you can see that he's got a posture here for, like, a pick-off.
You see China in that side room, trying to gain some map control.
Really just trying to collapse right on top of Ireland.
You see pure Irish trying to get him out of that area, which he accomplishes.
So, you know, they decide to play.
I mean, you have an ant matrix here set up with a dead eye.
Oh, and matrix is punishing their great Susie from not very nicely done.
That was pretty bullseye.
I mean, immortality field, like anything, you could pop the dead eye stand there.
I mean, it just feels like they just, you know, used the hand matrix and then nothing.
There is really no kind of setup, not a great play there from Polar.
This is
starting a little bit concerning. Holland had like two free fights here to try and finish the map here
But they've just pulled up short. Maybe just lost one too many players on each of those occasions and now
I'm finishing the map at all. I guess has to come in a question. I find this is because against that pure Irish Dean that right at the start
Still not when I want to get anything done there very aggressive as this you once more from pure Irish as we've come to expect and blah by suspect
We're now gonna be at a back away
For Rycav to start to make a mincemeat of them.
Did I hear for Rycav?
They're an important deterrent inside this Kitsuneirash.
It's extra deadly.
Everyone grouped up in the side room though,
is that Grenade goes wayward.
Time of court fire, the Texans have to find just the Remedy.
It's a kunai to deal with that offending tracer.
They're Irish with a remake opportunity now,
back in the fight with DCB, just got absolutely flattened.
No one there to really help the Cassidy.
And again, Poland are faltering potentially
at this last hurdle.
Iris always desuited.
Surely going to push it over the line here.
This is about as close as it gets, though.
17 seconds, gonna be lengthy in this game,
and the stall is gonna continue.
Trying to flatten the line,
able to find a nice little railgun,
headshot, and relax is very much alone,
up against the sound barrier.
Looks like Islander Doug Deep found some luck,
and about to find Poland off it.
Yet again, now they're forced to stall protocol,
so we'll have most of their team though in position.
Ikev's gonna be returning,
but relax is gonna have to take too much damage to start with.
Get a DMG, surely you can find this one here.
Ooh, time down to the bomb, that's huge.
Relax, I'm gonna re-neck.
Nice drop from the Cassidy, but still getting caught out is Icapturiris with a bunny Glasser.
Going to work.
And this looks like Poland are fizzling out somewhat.
Eggs has fallen.
It's Tixel and China.
And old Bunny, that one, that one is Johnnestine.
I mean, that is a huge hold there from Ireland towards the end.
I feel like Poland, Mitch, though, had a few opportunities to kind of break that one open.
It just is never able to kind of get across the line.
some huge clutches there from Ireland, really kind of playing out their spawn.
You know, for basically two minutes there.
And look, I mean, that is a huge win.
Ireland able to kind of come back.
They played some cap fashion, didn't look that bad.
They move away from it.
And then that's kind of where they start to come alive.
They relaxed 30 and 5, a little bit of a wasted game, you know, from him so good.
You know, in that D.Va role, and you look at the other side,
you know, blew on that moments on that passion, right?
The 13 deaths, they were able to punish it eventually.
Yeah, look I mean eventually Jetpack cat does absorb a fair bit of the time in the attack side
But they still got into the second phase of the map Poland with a good you know to
Obviously here like you know like a very healthy time bank
still
Challenging I think is it snarled them up towards the last part of the map
But once again, it's the switch off the jetpack cat where Ryland really starts to be like deep their heels in properly
The one switching off this over towards the sojourn. I think was that pretty huge difference maker there
And there's a key pick on China in one of his last fights that really keeps his poems ability to close the game out
That was a nice moment there. Nice little yeah, that's been a different my cabum. So it's very he started for those who are
Yeah, I know the jetpack cat and non-believers are probably I know we're juicing and I know watching that highlight again
But look Poland is gonna have to deal with that type of play style. That's what a lot of teams are doing here
You know in the Overwatch World Cup in the group
So for their chances to make it out, which for group C, right? I know we we obviously think France probably the favorite
Like there's a chance they could know beat like Spain been so unbeatable or like God like that
You would be like, oh that Poland can't do it like what you need to beat Ireland
Hey, you need to beat Ireland even give yourself a chance there against me. Yeah, absolutely
And so far like they're gritty, you know, it's funny like I kind of didn't want to
come in here with that preconceived notion because everyone loves like treating the
irises underdogs as scrappy is pretty so I was like I was gonna put that aside in
this game and just sort of like maybe focus on some broader narratives but
they're doing it they're doing the thing they always do this and now they're
giving us some pretty darn good overwatch obviously on the back half of that
reality map that of course was their map pick with a jetpack pack composition in
mine and Poland say right listen up at least nonsense have some good old clock
in clockout, 9-5 on his Overwatch, we're heading over to King's Row.
Yep, to play Cap Bastion.
Uh, no, I'm kidding.
I'm probably not.
We'll see if Poland decides to maybe kind of like go for a ban on one of those.
So, potential for that to be gone here.
This is the map where you can see a lot of May come into the play.
Uh, no, potentially for Poland, but China was so good.
You know, with the tracer, I don't think, I don't think you'd kind of go up
or something like that, right?
I think Poland kind of wants to continue to play sometimes hits and with the tracer in the mix
Yeah, I mean
This also like opens up a couple more sort of paint
Selection opportunities relaxes Diva
Creasy obviously like up until 30
Eliminations only five deaths and yet get this out. Yeah, that's like that's supposed to get it out
Off to the vet with you after the vet. I see we
I'm sure you'll be returning later on in the series.
Symmetra is going to be the man after here from Ireland.
And again, we've seen teams struggle at times to deal with this.
It also just keeps going.
So dread or your hits can play, etc.
What a mental advantage when those walls come into play.
So whether it just doesn't fall really within the purview of Ireland's preferred team comps
or is it just something they don't want to have to deal with
because the ability for attackers to TP forward on that first point is really obnoxious.
It might be that Ireland want to settle into the defence side of the map
without having to deal with teams popping up
where they're not wanting.
I mean, yeah, I think obviously just getting rid of the cat
is gonna be a huge win for Poland, right?
We'll see how Ireland kind of responds to it.
Like we talked about how time can play the tracer,
but like China has looked awesome in this series.
So May and Pope coming down to like, you know,
can time kind of like, you know,
sand toe to toe with China.
And then that maybe kind of gives them a little bit
of a chance there with the hit scan battle
has been a little bit closer.
Alright, I've got eyes on these comps right now, especially something to inform maybe this choice of Symmetra ban.
Okay, so Sigma's gonna be the betoist on defense, but with a little bit of a twist, it's gonna be a very poke-oriented Wuyang being brought into the mix and opens up the potential of that titleblast Tracer combo, which could be very disruptive.
Yeah I mean we haven't seen Wu Yong really kind of like in the meta for a while when he came out right pretty strong you know the amount of damage I remember like Wu Yong was putting out on a lease.
Well we haven't really seen him really kind of prevalent in a while we see him at time so we'll see how Ireland decides to deploy Wu Yong on defense.
Obviously Poland with some options here on offense. No, maybe playing some of the SIG maybe yeah
They mean the Mizuki obviously pretty strong. We'll see
This is what they decided to go to I'd be surprised is China gonna play
Okay, gonna play far right here. So far of me
Will be the comp here for Poland
Seen China's fire before
You know, if you see this I'm not mistaken
Again, right now, I is the time. It also gives you a pretty decent switch set target for Tex-Holt.
We can place things down on the top area down there on the ground.
Nut is low. Please don't let me... Don't tell me Nut is gonna go first.
Protect your Kiriko Island for the love of God!
ACRK on the Muzuki. I'm liking this as well.
As an obvious... Hasn't had much opportunity to build up that, you know, just Remedy aura.
No!
That was a moment... I loved it for a few hours, but Bros. and Noah, he does throw that, um,
sort of flat shield down to try and break the intrusion, but...
The enemy sickness model sort of clipped through it and died, but it still gets through it.
He breaks the accretion, but then he has nothing to protect him from about a thousand damage
barrel in his face.
Well, I think he's still got a crani in his well, that's the most fun.
Okay, yeah, a little bit of a rough go as we are already away from the wing, is this
going to be time going over the forest or matching the forest here for Ireland?
I like the Poland comp a little bit better, Mitch.
I think obviously having the sound barrier is, you know, nice to have here for Ireland in terms of, you know, sustainability.
But, you know, the sanctuary of the Mizuki, the hinder, like, you know, just the overall healing output, it seems really strong right now in the current meta.
And also, like, I don't think you're really kind of, like, needing speed at the moment as there goes Nutt.
So, you know, I feel like a rough series as far.
I mean, it's it's brutal. I did be like Poland I identify that that is the play that has to go first
And and you know you play in a Sigma comp. There's been fairness. You look like I said you're playing the Sigma comp
You're not up against flanking you were playing the Sigma comp. Yeah, you want to
You want to not expose yourself to it? Okay any undo stood me if you can I like the Lucio more with the ramp than I do with the Sigma like
You know the Sigma doesn't really care for speed right just kind of like wants the whole position
The ram wants to get in mix it up
And we'll see if they're actually able to even get a touch here in they aren't so they just kind of get fully it off there
By the blizzard that comes in from my cab and now everybody's dead. This is a rough go for Ireland man
They are getting speed ran right now by Poland and I know Poland now is gonna have both support ult here coming in
You're gonna have barrage they decide to go into the sanctuary you could end up using that barrage
You know one of the tanks we saw a champion
All right wall there
One of the tanks we saw a champions clash a decent amount and I people really liked against this
Zuki was Ryan
But I feel down a lot of people who now had a lot right hurry they're here for a while is that this is gonna just be all out
destruction is
the ports
447 in the time bank
Polska Grum anybody
I was around of overwatch that certainly could happen and probably could have been an email
But here we are four minutes and 40 seconds email, but I could have been a text
Yeah, honestly, you could have honestly hit me up on my pager, bro
I was gonna say yeah, give me up on my two way. It could have been a singular emoji
No, that's
It's not good emoji would it be Matt?
It'd be a sad one. It would be the ooze face for your face is just melting
Um, I would have picked a big plant, but that's fine. Okay. Well, you know that hey everybody has their own choices
Luan with the
solo a lim
Ireland
the single alien. Look you might, this map just might be a little chalk. And here's the, here's
the cope for Ireland, right? You're trying to cope here a little bit. This is their jetpack
cap band, right? They've already banned the bastion, you know, hey, we go down here, we don't have what
we want to play. We have it the rest of the way, we're good, right? Yeah, no, definitely. I mean,
you probably have some maps we can make it work I do think we still have flash
point in the pool which is not amazing I do think like there's certainly some
emotional damage you can inflict by taking your opponents to the map of
Overwatch and then absolutely driving them right I'm here and see what they've
gone I like they come back very much on real time sometimes they're gonna have
to set a world record here but hey these are getting OT you're not gonna get
blown out that bad again I won't have it twice yeah yeah it'll be a Reaper here
I know so Reaper wasn't available and I know one of our previous maps is now we
get the Reaper up to the high ground here with the rematra and it was decent
damage nice main wall there for my cab it's gonna secure Irish in a weird
position is though we know that the Reaper cell porting across is now time is
gonna make it back to the rest of the squad
I'm here that of course this is a squawk out but China is a very powerful squad here
kind of hard to see hard to draw a beat on them and pure Irish they're being impacted
by that are binding chain also is a little bit tricky for a martyr and
certainly relies on that extra mobility infusion during Nemesis form to do his job
so far Islander doing a great job at being spectators in this game that's
It's what I do. You can't do that too. You gotta play again. You gotta win some Overwatch here.
Pressure again from time to time.
They have Poland extremely split, so it feels like it's just a matter of time here before.
Oh, well, hold on. Oh, nice need there that comes on through there.
Not enough healing here for Poland, so it will be Ireland who's gonna be able to break this first point.
So good attack. We'll see if they can keep this going.
Obviously a lot of time in the time bank for Poland, almost like max time.
So we'll see as this second part of the map opens up.
I think this is where Poland's comp's gonna be a little bit more impressive though, right?
These streets with the May, the Sig, the Mizuki.
This is where the Sigma as well, this is where it could be a little nastier.
We reckon those things are called that music he eats into the truck
And I'm the bouncing what is he into the show?
He's like one of them discs. It's not in place like little they're like little science
Probably chakas now your Irish in the trouble. I think it's probably pretty I'm sure that's a word
I'm definitely in it.
Alright, try that.
He's felled here.
Pure Irish is going to be rooted in place and then do that.
That was so nasty against the Deva.
It's nowhere.
Too awesome.
There's no way to jump in.
You're going to go back to spawn here.
No environment of kill potential on this part of the map.
So it's a long walk of shame back for Pure Irish.
Yeah, we'll see the Deva swap again.
So there's going to be a lot of pressure on Pure Irish going to play this Deva into the
Mizuki at a really high level.
You also have that sanctuary available to drop here.
It's going to potentially soak up a lot of the damage.
Oh, eggs, I don't actually know if you've got the sanctuary on.
It looks like actually me, there is like a small cast time.
And I may have actually died at the same time as the cast went off.
So, yeah, the sanctuary doesn't go anywhere.
It's a 26 second costume.
They're like three times.
Yeah, looks like you might be right.
Polandar fumbling at this stage and time has been relentless
over the course of this game.
And now is finally satisfying some degree of success.
Solid showing, the Reaper must be respected, and time has a plethora of flanking options here.
To play low ground as he wraps around here, he can also go up top, you go around the right hand side,
there's a ton to work with. Play the causeway, drop down, throw this death blossom.
I'd be very concerned about what the Reaper can provide here, and time knows.
Pressure's on! Pressure's on to make a big impact, and really start to give Island that boost.
has the TP out though, gets spotted there by China. I know exactly where he's
gonna play from here so potentially what you're looking at like you know China
maybe get this Lux in is your Irish is kind of collapsed right on top of ICAP
takes him out that's gonna be the beat that's used really early on though bitch
we'll see if they have enough to kind of sustain through this. Good little snowball
that's going down right now. Your Irish caught out by these Starage follow-up from China.
There's still a bit of a problem. Shadow doesn't have to worry too much about the reaper, and time is dancing with no one in particular, but...
...Fluen. Great connection. Obviously, Emra pretty well apportioned to deal with this Farath.
And this is very reasonable for Ireland. They're gonna have a relatively healthy time bank getting into this last space of the map here.
Poland have nothing to slow them down. There's less defense than an NFL game here.
I mean, you just finish the map, right? If you're Ireland, like, and then just worry about the time bank.
And you know all the problems that I know Poland calls on their offense later
Because right now Ireland doing a nice job. It's forced a lot of changes here out of Poland is now
It's gonna be China switching over from the far and gonna be playing the man. Oh, so close man. They're cool. Come on
It's like three letters of the same easy clap for me. Honestly, too easy
If you wait from time this can get an out of the hot sign dough and frankly Poland is bring the party to him
That's one of the players who I think is pretty instrumental here for Island, self-destruct.
Yeah, I respect you, it is actually using it for an aggressive purpose.
That's probably elimination, but not certainly does.
I can't force by the wayside, but relax is extremely healthy, and not someone you want
to face in a dark semi-circular room with a health pack in there, and rest of Poland
waiting for you outside.
Yeah, the sanctuary used here on the rip is okay, hold on, Luan wants to use this Emory
It's just in time in GCB alive and it does play high cap, but I don't what are you getting out of this here?
One will end up falling you see members on the x-ray coming back
So I use the M rail maybe you're gonna swap here is that the idea?
Because you would have I don't know if that fight was like winnable per se
Pretty big investment there. I do think that
The one who's going to be sticking onto this Emra, let's switch here, okay.
Irish on the Rematra, they're really flux though.
Certainly going to be some concern.
That basically means that GCP's ultimate is going to be reserved for defensive perks,
only most likely.
Irish rounds the corner, pressure on Relax instantly.
Relax obviously has the hover perk, so just get a little bit of space.
Okay, use it aggressively, into the flux, right.
Not sure about that one.
Also Blizzard waiting for them down below. Good Susie though from Nunn.
Gonna get a kick driver from the game. This result relaxes overextended and you want to
thought be a guaranteed kill. Good looks here for Team Ireland. Job's not done yet.
Yeah an opportunity here probably for Poland to get out of the spawn. They'll
go and play some venture here. Probably gonna see some other swaps.
Yep, Tracer here for China. It will be the venture who gets all the more contested first is...
I think that was the most mitigated there as well, not enough cut through the picklays
of insulation of the Malgo.
Poland can stabilise now, there's a chance that Ireland might not even get a second
crack at this in extra innings despite it being a pretty oppressive time bank difference
that left it to be able to give it a go, try and play for a full-hold scenario.
You see his going.
I would just, okay, so I thought it was like,
Relax is gonna go back and swap to the,
I was gonna say, he had some time.
I was like, okay, they're double-dinged there from the high-cab,
just the leading time on the entrance.
And now that is gonna have Poland pushing on forward,
seeing if maybe they can find another kill.
That's gonna take a lot of meaningful time off the clock.
And now you've got to play into this kekai sanctuary,
as well as the kitsune era,
which is the double-sport combo here for Poland.
Challenging, plain to say.
Recon really cares about too much, but one certainly does.
Now it's down.
Always getting cracked early on in these fights, unfortunately.
And up here, Irish is...
Yeah, just gonna suffer a desuit now.
Kitsune Rush was made use of for Ireland, but this appears to be where the run ends.
They're gonna have to run GCB up and try and get a stall.
A Texol will make sure that there are no funny business occurring.
Well, so much for that.
We should have touched GCB.
It's owned!
And there's Poland with what looks like a really convincing start to the map
They start a little bit but show us they got the quality to finish the job. Yeah, I mean Ireland they bounce back, right?
I know they put up a fight on their offensive side, but I know Poland set a world record on their offensive side
So it's a little bit unlucky. So we will see if Ireland look they get a map selection
No cat fashion able to be banned out here
There's there's kind of there's a game five lurking around here. I feel like
I think.
We see the balls, isn't it?
Huh?
We see the balls, I feel.
I guess the potential.
Ah, another great D4 game from Relax.
War Deaths in total.
31 eliminations.
Forgets to pick second perk.
Honestly, it was based all around.
I mean, well, I mean, you were swapping a touch.
Maybe you didn't earn the second perk on this.
What was a vast, didn't select perks in a show match that we did?
I like it.
You forgot.
players got tilted. What was good? I mean, you know, probably one of the events you missed.
We had a vast play in a show match and I think like, you know, 80% of the way through one of
his teammates was like, bro, you have no perks. And he was like, oh, well, no, my god.
He did not have asked. He was just playing a lot of different tanks. So
probably just didn't get a chance to earn that second perk. But look, I mean,
Luan's pretty good here on the M-rank. I know if you want to kind of look at a bright spot,
but relaxed, been kind of crazy from Poland in terms of tank play. Really impressive performances.
Yeah and solid finish here. I do think that there's a lot to hang a hat on if you're island of
germs. If you don't look at your DPS line, they've looked excellent and also like some of the sound
barrier timings from GCD have been quite good. There was that one where they like take a 10-point
beat, try and start the fight into what they probably should have tracked as a gravity blocks,
and I mean thinking that they could sort of beat the timing on that and you know,
You know, honestly, it ends up being pretty scrappy and they do end up fizzling out there.
So maybe a couple of things to tighten up, but I mean, I'm watching this team play with pure passion right now.
They would certainly play after that over time or certainly playing for the next league.
They cut one Rialto to Poland, right?
I mean, they had like a decent amount of time to capture the last point.
They just kind of fumbled a lot of the ultimates they were towards here.
Yeah, I mean, that was pretty...
So I would say the difference between the high level we see from Poland and maybe the
some of their low light moments is pretty staggering, they really sort of, you know,
but I get like this is, the team is coming together, some to some degree of pressure
because you do know, at first you see a debut, right, so you're getting sorted under these
match conditions, also know that Spain and France are looking on one, circling like vultures
saying we want these top two spots for ourselves and you're Poland, I know, like defiance is
baked into the soul of the Polish people. They are not willing to be sort of underestimated here,
and I think they've honestly like put on a great showing. If they want though to maybe put God
into some like Spain, they need to be dragging Ireland down into the town square and uh,
beating them senseless here on New Queens Street. Yeah, I mean if you want to really kind of send
a message to the rest of the group, right, you would want, uh, you know, Poland to come out here
and like, you know, a full map completion, right? Um, so, uh, we'll see what they decided to do for
new Queen Street. But you know, I'm on the Ireland team. I mean, watch them come out
here a little ball cap fashion kind of like last minute. Last minute, they've just been
studying Korean bots the last nine hours since they played and they're just going to pull
it out. Pure Irish wrecking ball. I mean, I'm strapped in. I heard I heard I'm extremely
ready for that. It's obviously it's our last EMEA match of the day, but we've got sort
Plenty of great actions still to come here of course from our World Cup qualifiers
We got three, you know, America's matches following this one
So you have a chance obviously to check in there and
I'm also
Chats predict chats going heavy on Poland coming into this one. Okay
75% of the channel points. I mean, we're swinging a little bit. I mean what cat bashing is going to be available here
I don't know. I mean, uh
Ireland we'll see if they're able to end a band Cassidy. I mean, hey, oh, uh, maybe it's a little wild now
Pure Irish gonna play
Marta again
Well, he's been there. Yes, look, and honestly, I was maybe calling from in like a different hero's position might be that much more challenging
I don't know man. Yeah, I mean
Rematra
Yes, of all yeah, I mean kind of like what's headed out in Kingsford. You can replace it
You can certainly try and run that back enough. There's like Poland have looked a bit more comfortable in that setup
Stick around as well. There's a pretty insane rivalry match up in America. It's gonna be Argentina vs Chile
Yeah, in a pretty important group being matchup. I haven't seen either of them yet, but they share a group with the United States
So that could be a pretty definitive match up. But for now
Now, we have what may be, maybe the last match of the series, if Island cannot get their wits
about them.
They have chosen to take us to the new Queen's Street, so let's see what they've got then.
Taking the Cassidy out of the picture, Akav is going to have to find something else to
play.
Pyriris is also going to be forced off the table.
Yeah, and I mean, look, Cassy's one of the better heroes of the old cap fashion.
You know, a lot of people in the chat spamming, you know, band cap fashion.
It's already been gone here for Poland.
Those, uh, those picks have already been expended, so I'm not able to do it.
for the rest of this year's Diva Band is quite nice though. You know, Pure Irish has played that
pretty much the entire time. See what Ireland decides to do. I think we got an idea of what
they're gonna do. It looks like it is going to be camp with Bastion here.
The Malgo. Relax. We are the Relaxed Ball. Hold up. Okay, I can't set any backline. This could be
pretty poison I don't know if well I don't know if I'm a huge fan of it like
objectively here okay let's see it getting that what ball Kiri a lorry into
the maga can't bash in Reaper is not just get finality there off the rear
I mean they're able to keep pure iris alive there. Yeah, I know cardiac overdrive but I know the Reaper right there
And there's you see be getting some healing action in so
This is gonna be an early fight, but even though you lose not early on I
Think Poland of
Definitely making his heart for themselves for sure islands play such a very powerful like rock solid core of the Reaper
Kiri and the Malgrim and obviously got the Jetpack half-bastion element so going up to that is the correct decision
I don't know if I don't know if Black's is running, but either way they need to go over to the mag of themselves
Here we are, so they could just strike off most of the... oh there's the Bastion, yep
I can't struggle with that
He thought they were having a nice little healthy battle there and then all of a sudden here is just
You know, fun about mitigating the damage
directly coming around the corner. Also quite interesting is that like they
didn't actually kind of you know even pick up you know the launch guide them
into the fight. This is worrisome for Poland though Mitch right? You've already
used the cat and bastion ban you now use diva here and you know Ireland's
gonna start to get going. Yeah I like what you're foreshadowing man I'm kind of
here for it. Holland have not come up with an answer to this quite yet.
KiriFocus kind of goes with that saying, but Rifa is quite self-sufficient and so is Malga.
In lieu of like a dedicated dealer for either of those two, they can still hang and you see
if he can redirect himself. Time to support him. Okay, how long is he? Yep, that went down.
But look at this, my God, Ireland's so much better in the fight. Relax, this is blown up.
And yeah, defensive ultimate here for an envelope. I'm just not gonna keep him alive for much longer.
I don't think anyone here wants to fight Malga. He is an uninvited guest, a pest, perhaps.
Somehow eggs got away for a while still got caught out by pure Irish and this is all Ireland all the time
Rose wall to wall Guinness
as Collins
Again might be considered even more changes here
Yeah, I mean what are you gonna go to towards it's gonna be a death blossom available here for a time
The GCD as well with a catnap available time and really rough spotting
Nobody has even around to play with him at that point. So to be a cage right here
They're just trying to hold, relax in this place, Captain Sun and Overclock use here from Poland as well, so there's a lot of commitment here from Poland to win that fight.
Look, now what they have to do in their contraction of the power of the jetpack cat, Bastion Combination.
However, Poland are going to get themselves one fight away from this all-important first checkpoint, which would, obviously, by definition, get them ahead of Ireland.
It's a death blossom though and cat mapping, which could be problematic, but the environmental kill opportunities are already downloaded for GCP.
Even without Cassidy to make your life hard while you're trying to tear him away.
Down the open is where all the fighting for the map around here. H5 will protect him somewhat and it gives him enough time to wait till the rest of island.
Unfortunately, no one is just a little bit too late to the party in terms of dispensing that divine justice damage from above.
And here come Poland now back into the game and now into the lead
And I think for Poland if you can just force them off of this you feel pretty good about just kind of running this in the rest of the map
So the Moga
Swap has definitely paid off here for relics in Coe
China with a pulse bomb Luan is off of the Bastion, but you're gonna still keep the cat here for the cat now
The stun is quite good. I don't know if I would like stay on it. I'm stunned
and I mean they're kind of approaching your spawn I mean you have to have a
real faith in this ultimate coming up huge here
I don't realize the bomb didn't connect, it's been around too long
and we have caught it at the eye for ourselves however still got a complete
elimination and they do drag her into the side room and draw some of that hospitality
I look back in the game now but perhaps the jetpack cats time is short
Yeah, I imagine it's gonna be a swap here, probably to the Lucio, I would say.
For Ireland, so.
Look, I think though, if you told Poland, like, you're gonna get them off the cap of Ashy and get them into this set of you'd be pretty happy, right?
I know it took them a little bit, I know, about half the round to get a lead, but they do get it.
We will see eggs here in this next fight.
With the captive, son, you're just kinda waiting for that Maul to get quite aggressive.
aggressive they already burned down about half of your Irish as HP.
Loin caught out there nice stomp from relaxed shoulder charge comes in to connects beautifully this captive
son yeah I think eggs realizes I don't need this to get rid of an algae in fact
there are no targets so let's deploy a bobble and lighten up the map a little
bit hold them back in control I only really got it to mid map I mean I know
eggs are just dodge the moggest stomp right and then just head out of the
So I will see just some kind of high ground control here. It's gonna be a Poland going here fast with their OC
No, no
targets here. No, you know, I can't feel these so
It'll be relaxed here potentially the cage fight. It's gonna be a cage right from pure Irish opens it up
Hey, so it's straight up with the case by these definitely need to relax just doesn't want to use that all for me
I think if you're following you go to the time on a strategy of pushing deep into the islands part of the map
forcing ultimates out of them and then just, you know, taking a concession here and there,
coming back and then just incrementally increasing your progress now that you have ult advantage.
Yeah, so now, uh, look, we were about, you know, four minutes on the clock here.
Ireland needs to get something going, uh, desperately right there behind,
you know, by a little bit more than 45 meters, and we began to double up their progress.
Poland just does a nice job at just being so aggressive pushing back.
The whole spawn there connects on the pure air to the Suzu that comes in from the top.
It'll keep them fully healthy.
I understand the GCP, but maybe...
The guys are a little bit too deep in order to find that Lucie elimination.
The wind being down though, dangerous now for Ireland.
They're going to have to rely on time's damage output.
Poland? Well, irrespective.
Well, I mean Ireland uses the Kitsune rush on their side of the map,
and then I know Ireland just, uh, Poland can rush, right?
There's no reason to fight back there.
I mean, they don't even get any progress out of that Kitsune rush,
And then they just kind of get ran over this is brutal for Ireland
I mean you would have loved to kind of save that rush for a more
You know offensive fight ready to use it so deep on your own side of the map and everybody has pretty good mobility for Poland
They just run here at such risk in our just being worn out of this game
I'd be concerned about a captive son encroaching now especially like you can just be you are
Christ into using this ultimate as early and meaningfully as you possibly can
a stunning shot on ICANN. 150 charge goes a long way for sure, but eggs will be the next to fall.
And I don't want to get them done the thing, were they? Stay in the map. Stay in some degree of control.
But it's about furthering your overarching game plan that they have stumbled on.
But 2 minutes 20 is more than enough time. They've got to get that first checkpoint, which means there'll be a butt crash.
That means they'll be running on dregs as they try and push for a win and a map five.
Yeah, but what? You're going to hold this beat for overclock,
And then they're gonna have continued rush plus captive Sun, right?
I mean feels like you're gonna be able to just kind of run through them here with two minutes on the clock as a
Little step down. I know you're gonna try and deny some further
Box progress. They want this fight to kind of take place in the middle of that
It's gonna be a nice beat there from GCD tax to everybody
Yeah, perfect. I mean that's what people sound very good cover his text
I'll pick off their pulse for time is good enough to claim I can and there's that second consecutive fight you were winning and the
The extra odd side is that you did it!
Through this captive sun and overclock combination.
That is a good sign.
Now your continue rush that you pounded with a little bit prematurely.
A couple of fights to go.
Is back online.
It's time for Nuts to Shine.
Yeah, I mean you did end up using your beat though, right?
So obviously beat is a huge ultimate.
So I wonder if Poland you'll be able to kind of get somebody here to get a touch before checkpoint comes on through.
You do have to shine in here in the mix.
They're actually gonna get relapsed as well. It's gonna be pure Irish, trying to cut some other players off there in the king chain, but he's gonna take some damage. He has to back out.
Instant chance of a required death. Here comes Relax. Healthy enough of him to keep this fight going.
The statuishes are nice. They pass by.
Bulkie bodies of Malga don't even collide with each other.
Polandar able to stave off Ireland yet again.
The two-year rush there as an answer to cage fight was absolutely critical, but pure Irish.
Fetally realized that it was time to get out of dodge there.
Well, here's what you worry about now for Ireland, right? That was your your rush. You had your cage fight there
Poland is gonna be able to win a flight basically you would assume off of the back of this cage and we're about 30 seconds of the clock
They're gonna like run about the whole map
I think if you're Poland I would pull back a little if you're even just gonna like let some clock
We just kind of contest for a brief period of time and try and
I'm just gonna make sure they fall back in such a way that no reason are left exposed.
Like, X being super low.
Oh, it's the top of Dwightcrap, the win.
Just dropped the shot on himself. It's brutal, but...
They get both supports of the cage.
And GcB get caught inside the cage.
And that'll pretty much make this one cooked, man.
GcB can run back in with a sound barrier to try and stall this out.
X is again gonna have a captive son sort of, you know, contested with that important ability,
The touch is going to be brutal.
Solotree, Captain Sun, Pulska Girom here, as it is.
This Polish squad looked on and on at New Queen Street,
now able to shove towards Ireland and complete a series win.
The brief stall here for pure Irish, but it will be short lived.
It's just the Dregs, folks, all over, but the crying.
Tough break here for Ireland, but hey, you did kind of invent
the whole being Irish thing.
So who's a real winner here?
Poland, though, strong in their debut.
Yes, I know just a few minor slip-ups there for Poland, but I'm King's Row and then here on a new Queen's Street.
Really, I know all the maps, they look really, really good.
So, excited to see how Poland fares moving forward and how that final fight met you is tough,
because I know Pure Irish was really low.
Both supports go over to Triangle for Ireland and they just walk right into a cage in the close quarter area,
with China there as well.
I know the tracer here or Poland, you can really nice job.
And then also eggs.
I mean, look at that.
Ninety five hundred damage.
Some really nice stuff there, uh, you know, from the support
player of Poland, really playing that a lorry throughout a lot of the series
where, uh, you know, Ash, it looked like as soon as, uh, Ireland got off of
that cat bastion and I know kind of played to these mirror comps.
Uh, they're, they're in a world of trouble.
Yeah.
kind of a worrying sign there for Ireland, no, because I think the part of the conversation too
is that some of their looks off of the Cat Bastion were also obviously some of their stronger ones.
So kind of some questions here for Ireland as far as you know, depth and composition is like
general comfort, but I think that it's for a certain that Pullin looked a bit of a league ahead
of Ireland in this particular matchup. There were definitely limpses of brilliant, so I want to give
Mitch Ireland a lot of credit I think in some of these moments where you know when their backs are up against the wall
They were bringing quite the fight
But there was never really a moment where it felt like they had any sort of edge up
I think they really switched on as a team frankly
I was really glad to get to see them showcase what they take a lot. I think that
Sometimes they really have trouble like you know getting into these fights with like quite the same little in gets doughed pretty frequently in that previous game
And honestly like if you don't have
The comp for the incanations like you mean if we punish teams for playing the area on a map like new Queen Street
You will go find yourself at a pretty big disadvantage. They're like, yeah, you can sound very effective son
But in general, it's a consistent damage output puts
Much more pressure on your backline when that is already trying to deal with everybody and their brother coming for
In those fights because in any jetpack cat composition is the Kiriko that is the focus take her out and then it all kind of unravels
I think it comes down to as simple as like what it should say enough at the start is you know monologue there was like
Time right you you uh, yes, Tyree
You you can't you know win fights consistently and win maps consistently when you basically are having a you know one player dead
You know pretty much every single fight at the start, right?
It felt like time and time again whether it be not we want somebody like they were just gonna get picked off early on
some fights they would die don't be able to pull them out which I think kind of
goes a little bit of a credit to you you know how talented some of the players
are but I know over the course of a series it is not going to work out I
mean you kind of saw what that kind of amounts to in King's Row right on
Poland's offense so I think for Ireland they can definitely like play and compete
at this level it's just kind of cleaning up some of the things like that at the
start of the fights.
Hey super valid I think for the side of for the side of Poland as well they
just showed a little bit more of like that flexibility and comfort with a
more dynamic system. Within the compositions that they're able to
pull out and make look pretty solid overall. I think it's gonna be fun to
see how this blish roster is also going to stack up up against a team like Spain
going into next weekend as well. Overall taking a look at these Group C
standings now. You do have Ireland down 0-2. That doesn't necessarily count them
out what they do have France to go up against as well so that I want to say
that unfortunately just got a 3-0 France I mean and then hope everybody yeah
that's super easy right now just do it right I think that's great analysis
thank you so much now the whole like bringing the groups like that's kind
of like Matt Shimes honestly I'm curious on Poland versus Spain I don't know who
I would favor it in that game. Although like I think it's easy to say like Poland would have the
advantage. I think it's because they look awesome here against Ireland today and we watched they
lose against France. But I don't know. Something I would like a most favor spain slightly is like I
don't even really feel good about saying that but I think like off of like the totality of what we
see they almost work yeah that's a tough one for me um I think the pollen
going to look good, fantastic um so I think that's going to be an exciting match I do think like
I think pollen have probably even more showers there once they like to
satisfy them I'll tell them they're sort of like what's the series we can see even better
they've got time to prep so yeah I think they got it. Hey I think no matter what it's going to be a
scrap us for that one hopefully you know a five-month banner series but we do
have an interview on the way here with eggs here from team Poland. Eggs congratulations
on today's win. I want to get a little bit of insight from you I think from this last
match that we saw because it looked like a pretty convincing victory here for team
Poland overall but there were moments on some of these maps where we saw team Ireland really
starting to like claw back. I kind of want to get an idea of like, were you guys feeling very
confident still during those moments where Ireland were starting to really have that bite back or
were there moments where, you know, maybe tensions were rising a little bit there?
I think we were looking to win. I wasn't scared at all of losing many maps. We kind of threw the
reality in my opinion. We certainly didn't have lost it at all. We just couldn't make our own
its work in the last two fights.
I mean, you especially have been showing us like a kind of a
unique ERP on some of these maps where we sort of don't often
see her. What's the idea there does seem like you can take over
the game, especially when you're not punished. But what's the
thinking there by like trying to fold her into like, you know,
Ilyos for example, where we've like, we never see her.
I mean, we just want to play to our strengths. We have two very
good flex upwards. So one two four, scary and something at all
times and we just play either Ilaria or Ana, in my opinion. Ilaria is just so
fun to play right now, even though the Karabasthin meta is annoying, you can play Ilaria
into everything. Yeah, I mean, you looked awesome on it throughout the series today.
As I say, looking at the group, it looks like it'll come down to like a game
against like you guys in Spain, maybe they kind of come out. How do you feel in
that like head-to-head matchup? Have you had any time screaming any of the other
teams, what's your opinion on some of the, you know, really, Spain and France in your
guys' group?
I'm betting we can win both.
France is the hardest game in the group, but if we try 100%, I'm sure we can do something,
at least take them up or two, even.
And we should win Spain, in my opinion.
Super valid.
I love to hear the confidence coming out from you here, Eggs.
I'm also kind of curious overall when it comes down to competition across OWWC, if you get
that opportunity to make it over to Busan, which team do you actually have your eyes
on to play up against?
We talked about it before, I think we want to be China the most.
It will be fighting with China against China in my opinion.
I want to see that.
I want to win against China.
I want to win against China, one of the good teams, like UK, China, maybe Korea, but we want to see.
We'll have to see. We'll have to see. I wish you the best of luck with the rest of your matches.
You guys look great in the server today. Congratulations again, Eks, and thank you so
much for the interview. Thank you. Have a good day. You too. I always love to hear so much confidence
coming up from our players. But as we wrap up our day here in the in game out, taking a look at
these standings, I feel like things are generally stacking up just about how we expect things to
be. But next weekend's matches have the potential to really shake things up. Oh, I mean, yeah, we have
a ton of like really good games coming next week. I mean, that Sweden versus Finland game will be
really good. I know France will take on Poland, right? And I know we'll see how that kind of like
You know plays out for those really you know and obviously Germany right there gonna know play again next week
So we'll see kind of like out they kind of continue in their group. Yeah, I guess Norway
So a very very interesting week of a no overwatch
I know really that first day may decide some the key no number one spots of those groups
Yeah, I mean I would echo that I think the France first polling math is the one that like eggs
Well, it's expecting to be the hardest that'd be the definitive game of that group see and obviously Finland vs.
Sweden is like laden with meaning in terms of qualifications. So, I mean, yes
At a that's Sunday though, I mean, there are some bangers on Sunday. I mean, uh, Sweden, Denmark, right?
Great Britain, Germany. I mean, uh, you know, those are those and I know
Maybe hitting games so that'll be a really sick day as well
So, Sunday is going to be a long and exciting day for EMEA, that is for a certain, but that's everything for me, Mitch, and Matt here for the EMEA side of things.
You guys are going to be joined by Jaws and Tiny Shiny in just a few minutes for the OWC America side of the World Cup.
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We are back overwatch World Cup here in North America this time. You just watched EMEA for slamming games
But we and myself and Molly are here to bring you the first three on this beautiful Sunday as we head into North America
That was worth selling. So he's better at this than me. I'm hosting today. Let's have Molly has a go
With these games and these players are ready to kick it off for the second day of
the top two teams advancing to
the group stage in Busan in South Korea.
It's been a while since we've had a
bigger event in Korea, so I'm pretty
excited about that. I know for a lot
of teams, their goal is to make it to
this events, especially from Miss
America's region and it'll be great
to be back in such a region.
Their watch is very well loved,
so I we're still again not at the
stage to confirm who will be going
might yet, but I think it's going
to be a good start.
you know, it's not going to
be a good match. I'm not sure
I'm going to be going right
yet, but. The match is going to
count as well. Yeah. And just
let you know as well. If you've
only just joined us, I'm sure
you'll watch at least a portion
of the in the broadcast or some
of the matches yesterday, but to
decide some of the, uh, seeding
or at least the map picks and
bands. We've had a one V one
death match situation going on,
was the horn and what was the rook. So yeah, we ended up going for a more of a deathmatchy
style type thing with North America and different heroes to EMEA. We've got a Cassidy Winston
or a Bat 1v1. I think the Winston has been banned most often than not. I mean, Winston
1v1 really Molly? Yeah, you know, I saw that. I'm like, one of these things is not quite
like the other. So I'm curious to see if anybody will be engaging in some monkey business later
Definitely, I think if you look at the two teams that are on top of both teams, I think you're pretty locked in based on both class performances and just the overall strike that these rosters have.
I think it's the second spot though, it's a little more up for grabs than it has been in previous years. It's a combination of having a lot more of a competition.
I'm not sure what we can't be
honest, but it's all good. We're
getting into the first matching
just the moment Argentina versus
Chile will have a look at the
One more one-sided Molly going into this. Yeah, two of our two three teams that were qualified through the conference cup
Chile going in first place undefeated whereas Argentina squeaked on through in
Third so is the second time these two teams will be meeting up in that regard
Of course, I think the standout player is of course left on that roster playing in NA OWS for PSG
But yeah for the most part I think Argentina are the team that's the most approved for sure heading into this
It feels like Chile are gonna 3-0, but you know what, here's me proving wrong.
Here's the Chile roster on your skireen.
Oh boy.
Frack Hog potentially?
You know, we could.
You really could.
Frack has been on this roster a couple times now and been a leader and that's kind of where
Chile is well established.
They're all pulling together in a facility in Chile right now.
You have a lot of previous synergy. Most of this roster played on 9z who just qualified for EWC through South America
Recent masters, but if you get a look at this 1v1 death mesh to determine our first seed
It was the back T1v1 also sending in the tank for Argentina. Oh
Do you send your sign player into play about 1v1 that's the question
I certainly did.
It's a little rough.
Tank players are having zero end.
I'm joking. Tank players don't get mad.
You will be berated.
Yeah, that's true. Okay.
The tank players do have aiming characters now.
But if you're full, it's all good.
Also, not to be confused with
Vancouver Titans to do different play.
Yes, yes.
I went to being in on
the Baptiste stand.
Also the one to lose this.
you know what I'm sorry if we ever doubted any of your aims because Susie just proved you all wrong
up maneuvers with the immortality fields and we'll get that first pick for
Argentina but they instead were going to defer that map pick and instead want to go for the first band
Yeah, that's quite cool. I it's kind of an interesting
evolution how the map picks and bands and the hero picks bands have gone
We've seen a few teams historically space station gave me being one of them deferring a ton of them
But I actually don't mind deferring the map if you're going to keep the band first because it's like, okay
You pick your best map and then we'll just ban the strat on the map
That you like to play so looks like Chile are gonna be picking Ilios is our first one
Ilios more of that dive heavy map and neither the cat or bastion is
Arrogated it's something that we've seen not really from Chile
But a little from Argentina up in particular likes to pull out that jetpack cat if the opportunity is there
Well, something he did in the conference cup as well, so it is an option.
But otherwise, I'm kind of looking at easy to play this rucking ball, maybe some frack Winston,
or, you know what, Jaws, we actually have a Roadhog Center here pretty well.
Yes, this is what I'm saying. We saw it in Japan, is all I'm saying. Look,
whole can work. Only one map, one point, but it can work. All right, let's jump into these online
qualifies here in America's Argentina versus Chile. Can they get some revenge? Chile kind of
swept them under the rug last time with a little Swift 3-0. At least a map Argentina,
please, I'm begging. At least one. It did make it close. It would neither were like full sweeps
of maps, but yeah, I think it's going to be asking a lot for Argentina. Chile have some of the best
upset potential, I think, in this America's region when it comes to that match against Mexico. But
But of course, you got to start here first game of the weekend for both of these teams as we're going to get started here on lighthouse.
Now, this is the cat bashing map of all time in lighthouse for the bashing on top of the high ground. Easy mode.
Hey, look, I was in band two. I mean, the zoo key comps for the Kiri's been fairly popular.
I think the can bash is like a really nice, easy default for most teams at this current moment in time until they add a like a
Ted, the timing on the cat bashing.
That is something that Chile seemed to be leaning towards.
LCS and Bert hovering at dual, whereas Argentina actually
didn't step away from that in a bit different.
In the last two times, these teams met.
Argentina made sure not to scrim Chile for this exact region.
Reason if there is a match, they will win in their group.
Would be this one.
We're going to find out.
The teams get ready to roll on through Malga mirrored
on both sides.
So more of this brawl frontline heavy play style.
They're so tough. Look at this Reaper into this.
I mean, Reaper is only going to be shooting the Magra, of course, but I mean,
Persona has such an insane weight on their shoulders being the Cassidy here.
The only one that's going to be extra check by in the sky.
Already, you can see a nice little rotation there from Saxon
getting on the mega health back, but Persona shot from three different angles.
Going to play in cage for now.
Persona is kind of just sitting duck in this cage.
Like you can tell constantly has their eyes on the sky.
Still a Cassidy player, seen it in Calling of Heroes, and a face of a like.
It's all tasked with deep points and locks, but I really had the full rotations for Frackosin.
You just hear the Bastion above them, it's like, you can't do anything.
Like, what? You can't really transition to the point easily, with the Cat Bastion kind of waiting behind you.
And with Saxon dead, like, you don't win that fight. As soon as you lose that Reaper, it's open.
There's no pressure on this part.
Yeah, it's very easy for Frack to go ahead and engage alongside D.I. Nolan, that threat.
It's gone, and it's really just hard for Saxon, unless you can get close to Frac.
You're not really going to be doing too much on this, so we'll see if Argentina make any swamps,
but I'm feeling her to stick on this, but if you're chilly right now, you're so happy.
Look at this position, LCS and Bert, they just dangle from.
A little more difficulties for Sona, it goes up to match.
Yeah, it's needed at this point, but then you don't have the cap, so it's like,
well, this is great. We can shoot the Bastion a little bit more effectively with the chart form,
But you're still having to cross this giant expanse and you don't have a teleport either
There's no like SIMCP within with Ashton like persona
They're just gonna have to walk to mega and then walk to the point and hopefully not die in the process
Look, I mean, this is ridiculous. Like there's nothing you could do. It's like a horror game
Honestly for the Sargentina team. Okay, go next. They're not looking. They're not looking but now
Yeah, it doesn't matter at all
It's just so tough and it's on control as well the game mode that you have to you make one swap
You maybe you have like one and a half swaps available
But like you can't waste time you need to stop to catbash him right now like left. I think just needs to switch
And he's been what you did stop once but it was over to the Lucio of all things
I'll put the taxi that you're just not taking a flight
It's chilly flying into their hands almost every single time and look at the old thing that they have even frack with just this cage
fight combo with either a death blossom work your artillery strike look at like a
world-hurt
Okay, yeah, they just rush on the point, but it's gonna be a camera. I should feel like
Fashion mode pops it for persona. Hey, it's gonna be good with the hitting. It's just insane to come out onto
But they even just pops the old but pop so it's all that over health again
And then oh what happens death boss inside the key easy game she lay all gonna be out to say this map
Yeah, it should be a couple of cleanups in the very end, but, yeah, unlucky for Leib.
Didn't even earn a soundbar either, sadly.
Oh, unlucky.
Nice try.
That's gonna be the first round.
Chill out.
Yeah, very dominant so far, and I think this is what we're starting to see.
Yes, there are more teams that are leaning away from this cash fashion, but if you haven't
specifically gone on your way to practice more of these counters, especially with more
of that Mizuki style that we're seeing, you're really going to struggle.
Argentina did not take a flight on their own turns at all.
They were just hoping that Chile would mess up.
Well, it didn't happen to have one death
on the entirety of their team.
Come on, I mean, Bert died like mid-cage.
He was caged in, hit the ult,
still managed to pick up a couple of assists as well.
Like, come on, that's a little, oh, well,
actually no assists.
Okay, well, I'm surprised the more shells didn't count,
but there we go.
Yeah, Chile, the very dominant start.
Surely, let hits to speed, then hits to go.
No, please speed up. Where's the cat? No, there he goes. Reaper again.
I guess if you really want to take the front to back shore but half the team's in the
side. He's been dropped. Wait a minute. He's been dropped. Someone said a bash.
Okay, so the bash was dropped out of the sky. Wait, it was a bait the whole time. Hang on a
second. They literally dangled the bash in like a bit of a on the end of a fishing line there.
That was a little crazy. Now there's nothing to prove without Lucio. Yeah, good luck.
Actually carried on the stick moment there before Argentina and that took that bait and
you're like what helped clean this one up is it just Persona chilling around here is
Argentina.
I get that whole reset but a couple of later mix, chilling, totally happy with how this
is going and left the angle to be able to scoot away with the Lucio, rest of the team.
Not as lucky.
Still gonna stick it out though by the looks of it.
He's hovering around on this point and this one's even more open, Jack.
harder for them to get between cover to cover without getting mepped at Malva or the Bastion.
Yeah, now the Malva's on top of you, you just jump down and as soon as you try and make a cross
you're gonna go mega side and six, so leap across the high grounds, but that's the real
sort of down. This fight, unfortunately, is over. Without your little character, there's no way you
sustain.
I'm just gonna, can they even get out of this room though? Because it kind of looks like,
Chillie, especially you, I wanted to push that, but I'll make a swift escape.
This is who you're gonna breathe at.
Rack is kinda in there right now.
I'll have to back out.
I'll be for the rest of the team, but early consumer rush here for Chillie.
Just again, taking these fights on their own terms, whatever they want.
Yep, there's the rush from the point.
All the way through that choke.
Argentina have already lost a left.
You could suze your keyspeaker alive, but this isn't a corrective use of the ult by Bird.
That's not even like a, I'm gonna use this to save myself.
I'm just gonna throw it in over the best, and you know what? I'll kill all of you.
You take that. Like nine times out of ten, we see there were dillers strike, used just to live,
and they actually helped you get from the coach, but now I'm feeling bloodthirsty.
Gosh, I'm trying to play at the cage to stop the catapult!
Guys, okay, there's the right shortness to the fight.
Argentina win, RefinK, here, Jeff Blossom coming through from the side though,
straight through the doors, and unfortunately, that's a bit too much damage for Dizzy to sustain through.
Frack is going to be able to get the charge away, but there's only 10% to go.
Saxton? Serial? I mean, is there actually even a chance to touch? It doesn't actually feel like it at all.
Deathboss is available for the Reaper, but...
Hotchers? Oh, Leve died! What a slam! Oh, well, Frack has just saved the day.
Nice little touch by Saxton, but they haven't got a Sandbar yet. Again, Leve hasn't even, uh...
...punished the build one up. Maybe he gets back in the next 5% or so.
Deathboss won the point, quickly shut down by Wendt as out of Frack.
Just focuses down the enemy Malga.
Actually, Tizzy managed to get two. No sure how, when, and how he even died up front there, but the beat from left is going to get great.
And that is going to guarantee the fight. Chile losing this, falling over, is Argentina finally caught.
It took so much for them to do it, though, and it really afflicted and gave back, but that sound very in time.
We'd be seeing much, much different results there, so I'm good on him and Tizzy.
for Argentina, but I feel like we're still gonna run into some of the same concerns that
you did before Earth, again, ready to go, or until we strike again, more as a used Earth
revive tool, having a choice to go in with the cat force, the positioning, you can see
the fear that Argentina have at the look of this.
They've both got old again, dare think we're gonna use it defensively?
Oh, I say that, okay, my bad.
Sorry, team.
They've managed to ice-
WHAT?!
a good like stomp kill. Then a knocking persona off of the map. K comes in and that will be the
round. That should be the map. Yeah, I'm not sure where the bastion went there. Unlucky persona
couldn't even, oh, it's like, well, I'm gonna save myself guys, but no, just got pooped off the
edge of the map. Chile with a nice 2-0 start on Ilios, kind of expected to go this way, of course,
with him beating Argentinia previously in the free air fashion. I think if you're Chile, you're
going to the match. You know these players, you know this team, you know what to do.
I did switch up the play style quite a bit and is going to play into their advantage so far.
I'm even looking at this couple more deaths on the board shirt with one fight that they did end up losing,
but all things considered, darn air perfect gameplay.
And it just felt like one of those matches that on paper was just not winnable from the start
with the composition choices and making their lives just more challenging than they needed to be
You know, they're not gonna
be able to do that. They're
not gonna be able to do that.
You know, they're not gonna
be able to do that without
playing the cap. I'll be
tank player, not even down a
single time, so can't be blamed
by the whole team. All good.
Yeah, it felt. It felt easy.
I'm gonna be able to see Molly.
There wasn't really much
competition there. Sadly. I mean,
let didn't want to be in the
first round. That's how quick
it was, and yeah, just all fell
apart. I mean, the cat bash.
You just need to play. I just
don't think the Lucio version
other maps than you are playing in more closed quarters like our King's Row or some of our
Flashpoints for example, but it is also going to depend, are you going to ban out this cat or
the Bastion? I think it's something that you especially want for Soma off of, something
they can show a little bit more of their mechanical skill on. So we'll see what Argentina are thinking
about as they go ahead, but it seems like a major rework is in order for how they're approaching
this matchup. Just put the
and then the cat fashion, then
you can maybe match up because
the thing is you just hover in
there the whole time you sort
on lighthouse. They're just
hovering above cage the entire
time. It's like, well, we can
catch the point. Sure, but we're
going to take a million damage.
So they're like, okay, we'll go
through the enemy mega and then
we'll go down to the to the
point. But yeah, it's a little
rough, a little rough. Maybe
they end up just banning the
bastion of the cat as we go on
throughout this series was we
get the map pick up in just a
moment we'll be Argentina picking again. Actually no because it was actually
Chile that picked the first one because they deferred. Oh yeah you deferred you
right. They did yes but they did pick Runosopy which can be another Cap
passion man out of the pool that is there so a little surprising I guess
unless you have a very specific style or you are banning one of the two heroes
which I think it's going to be one it would be the Cap but it will go ahead
and see like seemingly wanting to avoid that one for now I think Moga could be
another point of focus for one of these bands. I think the like a
wrecking ball that even more of these faster play styles are
something that Argentina have enjoyed in the past and they
could pull up here on Rooftop.
The go to anti-cowashian strat is New York City. That's like,
well, look, we don't want to play it. So we're just going to go
there. Or you can do something like this, where you go to a map
where it's fairly strong, and then ban it and then they'll have
New Drunk City later. So yeah, Argentina with the first ban, they're gonna ban the cats and Malga for Chile.
Honestly, it's gonna feel like a bit of a fresh start, because we didn't get to see much of anything from Argentina,
just because of how much they were on the back foot.
But having that cat off the board opens up so much more of the map for them to be able to work with.
And without the Malga, they're probably leaning away from this Reaper as well.
perhaps some more of that Eva the tracer could make an appearance on this side of
things and I will highlight more the individual skill as in that overall
macro team play that was the reign of Iliostair so we'll go ahead and find
out. Because Argentina I don't think wants to go down to match point if they
have the choice to do so specifically did avoid screaming this Chile team that
you avoided each other at the play for this game and we'll have to see if it's going to pay off on this runes up.
So the way you phrased that was funny is like well you know if they had the choice I don't think they'd want to go match but like well I think if they had the choice I think this map and then also Band of the Cat was the perfect one I'm going to be honest with you.
That is just get that off the table go back to fair overwatch.
even see it, hey, even play some
that was like the comp of choice
towards the latter half of the
OWS took it a couple of days ago.
And it was a comp that I don't
think many people expect to be
played at all. Missouki did
receive a couple of little buffs
which kind of propel them into
the meta. Although this kind of
map is okay. We have to run
Lucia. The map is so open plus
it being pushed as well. So we
see what straps both teams have
up their sleeves. They're probably
going to still play the Lucia as
go to Runisapi thanks to Argentina.
having Saxon have more of this ranged poke damage on one of the flyers whether that watch the stick or not
We'll find out but now that you have more room for mechanical skill more room for as you put it honest overwatch
I think Argentina see if they can actually go toe to toe with Chile
There's gonna be more focus on this frontline Eli may and the Bert bastion
Okay, yeah, they're playing a pure front to back like this couldn't be more front to back of the tribe
The Sigma also to be fair is shown shown its head over the last couple of weeks
So you know I kind of like this. It's way slower. You have left obviously on the break too
I mean we'll see how Argentina actually navigate this the speed for Chile is going to be their biggest
Form of like aggression here just putting up a speed or like amping the speed off or but then swing a corner
It's gonna be real nice, but I just didn't have a lot of defense
So that going down first, that defense cut in half now.
He just kind of explodes. And the hard part with this too, is that
if Jilly can close that gap, there's not much RGP that can do.
You're lying on Saxon for some none. Even Tizzy a bit.
He's poking before the rotation can happen, and seeing Lep swap over that Lucio instantly
makes a lot more sense, and they got to keep Tizzy on his feet.
Yeah, Saxon's going to be able to do a good job of poking around this corner, but
you are literally hoping you get like a speed onto somebody and have Saxon blow someone up,
or you get persona in a position where they can hit a headshot railgun and then Saxon pulls up with a rocket.
But with Chile, I mean, right at this moment in time, you're just playing off forms,
playing off forms, playing off wall and hoping to get Tizzy in a bad spot.
Speaking of which, I mean, Led's already got the rush, rush round the corner, now Burgess heavy swings.
He looks as if he's coming down though, he's doing a nice little rock, he was pretty tough on a good spot around this corner.
Actually, it's a double LCS also, it goes down.
I mean, that is an unbelievable spot from Tizzy. That should have been punished.
He should not have legally been able to insist where he was as long as he did and look at that well over fact
From the race to that gravidic flocks and that's gonna get Argentina back on the board
And they have a fantastic wing condition for this next fight LCS
We'll not get up to that sound barrier
Especially if he does this one early you can combo it with any of your other old smiths if you really want to but
Argentina going into this with a hefty advantage and if they can play their cards rights and not over invest very real
possibility. See them getting to this checkpoint. Never really coverage on this
word. It's great for Saxton. He's throwing these rockets into this small room.
Perfectly to shut them down. Persona in the dust. Yeah, over the clock. Jumping
around the corner and I saw Brass there from Pratt to keep him up. Sam Barris
actually perfectly timed there from Chile. Didn't even miss that flux too. Saw
the hand go up but immediately went back to just firing his hyperspheres.
I'm trying to force the issue on the point now. He has to touch at some point
because that checkpoint is very close.
Late to Sound Barrier from left.
This should be a fairly easy win now for Argentina
as Frac is bowled over by left.
Matt Rocket Barrage, not even applied by Saxons
who actually has it to the next fight,
is the point is kept.
Go ahead and get it.
There's a little bit of a rocky start.
Stay the ways.
Had to play your cards right,
but for all of us, let's go ahead and do it.
Just leave it with the barrage.
And honestly, that Sound Barrier from left,
as I said, could not have come in
at a better time to keep that fight going.
chilly though you'll be looking to pump the brakes with the lines of lizard on
line and this is a great corridor go ahead and throw it down very little space
for our team Argentina go ahead and walk down you'll even see them back up and
play on this for their corner make sure that the strengths of both persona and
Saxon heroes are amplified before she'll like a bit more into their hand
wait I mean that's the problem right because they've back doubled away the
high ground it's like okay well but you're gonna have to find something oh my what
What happened there to Saxton?
Trying to come in, trying to come in a little freaky, perhaps?
Like, what was that?
Just threw himself into the blender.
Until I ended up coming up with a big team kill there,
is they win the fight very quickly.
They do, but they actually, I think literally half a second,
that Argentina get those forward spawns by, if I'm not mistaken.
So this fight can be taken a lot sooner,
and actually gives them an opportunity to stop this payload one more time.
off the red and you already tell Chile looking for the right moment to use a team only dizzy committed into the space
Nice use the rush there suzu into the roster and the corner you can have suzu back up again in just a second and
You guarantee the cap as well. So pretty high value rush. I'm posting they don't get a pig
So maybe not the highest value they could achieve there
But they put that up on a good angle at the very least rock on some crack though and a headshot follow-up from persona
Easy game here should be a fairly trivial team fight now
Without the tank there, easy enough for Argentina to go ahead and clean it up.
We end up giving up the forward spawns, but still managed to hold on to that lead as we're about halfway through our push map.
It's so strange, the fights that Argentina managed to win are the ones that they don't end up committing anything.
See, we're the ones that commit everything too. There's really no in-between for this team whatsoever.
So, see if they can make that happen. Zunaris is such a great tool to push through this space especially.
Dizzy, fingers crossed, Argentina fans.
Better luck on the grooveted flux.
This time around, that one won't go to wide as this corner
for Chile, the difficult push round.
He's the other block first, persona.
Wolves are in their face to stop that,
and they're almost over at this point.
Here comes the rush.
They're really letting these holes really nice here.
They're going to try and cut off where,
try to teleport away from the rest of the team.
It's the LCS match to scoot out of there,
but frackens are going down.
Argentina running away with this map now.
With 4 minutes to go, they've saved the Flux. Lett is close to a sound barrier as well.
Again, Chile need a bit of heat here. They need LCS to go last in the scene fight.
Oh, they're just gonna get full power.
And they do have the kills. Shut the fuck up!
If they're already gonna get a bit of flux to that, practically there's no team with him!
What's with my Chundo Sigma player? There's nothing there.
The Flux hits, but there's no damage.
Okay, well, it's actually not a barrage as well.
I mean, Chile's still in a decent spot with a couple of ults, but with Bird going down,
This is a very bad spot to be in LCS gets blown up by the barrage who couldn't even go for the beat
And if they did they would have Ajax where it goes down and a beat from left to secure the fight
125 meters and they're just rolling this one in there should be sports coming in from Chile
It's gonna be close
Honestly, LCS may need to sound barrier just to get to the gas for
100% there it is. There's the beat. They still got this blizzard and this OC available
Looks like a nice backup here from Argentina. Let's what HP gets attacked down by LCS
So close, but what is he ridiculously high value ultimate group from Argentina to get it this far?
And it's still actually totally the corners. Well, eventually sacks in a persona and it's going down DPS death Argentina are
142 minutes. One meter away from actually full cap in. You basically won the map off of that.
Yeah, more than 80 meters of difference now between these teams. Three minutes for Shilet to win.
And, like, three, four consecutive points, maybe, if you're pushing it, but I think having
Frac, having them sob over to the Diba, it does allow you a little bit more wiggle room.
I think it's harder, though, just synergizing with the rest of the composition, especially
with Eli on this May.
Not like it's all in the dumpster patchel-y just yet, you have a lot of options to push
through this fight, that's one thing RUKINDA did wasn't best heavily, so if this does go
a bit faster than Stalker's own up and building this overclock, before your own tools come
mouth then. There's no good chance of getting scored once again.
That's a really early overclock but left still ends up falling over to a head shot.
Pressure on the tizzy shield but now Persona's got a late OC.
The grasp available but now it looks like Chile have managed to escape the wrath of Persona.
Couple of miss shots there on the Kiriko in fact.
But now Persona doesn't manage to connect with really anybody there.
Wett also goes pretty low as Team Argentina just continue to hold on this corner.
Both rushes are gonna get popped as well.
Eli needs to come up with a big blizzard to win this fight.
Leveen's are getting chased out, Flax in the backline already.
Self-destructor in their hands, they try and tag down the Sigma,
but Tizzy's way too high up in the sky.
Self-destruct over the top, goes wide.
Bot's been stolen as well by Argentina as now Chile's scrabble.
999 died on the phone to try and get this bot back.
They've literally stolen the bot.
Guys, you have to move, you have to move.
Here we have to go. LCS is a four man sound barrier, a barrage getting each not mainly by frack there, a goat play, but
they've lost control of the bar and they got over to check point as well. So, Sporge spawns Megam from Argentina.
This is looking a little sloppier.
Little by being understated, that Archie just got away with highway robbery there. Getting the forward spawns again,
like that's gonna set them up for another
Another fight, since he leaps, is real.
They get it!
Oh, they didn't get it!
Oh, I'm so sad.
I was like a pixel away, but I'm lucky, I'm lucky.
I mean, they're still in a pretty decent spot.
Holding this Blizzard bird past two, three fights now,
and now or never, this is gonna be the last real fight
that you're going to end up getting in Chile.
They want to take it slow, they want to set up this main.
Get the value, it's so difficult.
On this open part of the map,
especially playing into Persona's hand,
Kind of bend them out of persona so far.
Come on Eli, here we go.
Big blizzard coming up, I can feel it.
Instantly gets robbed, as I said that, unlucky.
Persona goes pretty low, frag gets to call,
Sambari hits five there for Argentina.
Blizzard gets popped as well,
and I see the walls trying to segregate people, however.
And they're unlikely to find any picks now.
Eli ends up going down, so no isolation
can be thrown out towards Tizzy.
Persona's trying to find bodies here,
trying to find headshots to hit with the railguns,
but it's gonna be all tizzy at the moment.
Slep's gonna end up killing LCS,
but again, a very split fight from both teams.
Very scrappy, but it works out
to be in his favor, honestly.
If you just trade one for one here,
you're more than fine with that.
15 seconds snow now is Argentina.
They do it about getting the bot back
into the middle of the map.
He like comes back on the tracer,
smacks surreal as well.
Team Gilae tried to hold on.
They managed to get up a couple of kills there,
but to see he's still alive somehow.
And again, they're just trading
which is so unbelievably well.
The sports are gonna come in and they've got flanks.
Tizzy, one man army there,
calling that out for Argentina and Chile.
Two fights.
I think that they're gonna need to win
to get the robot as far as it needs to go.
And all eyes are on Bert right now.
If this guy land the shots,
find this overclock,
be the way to get Chile back into this map.
With so much of a lead that Argentina has plus persona
coming back up with an overclock of their own.
not this over time
This is gonna pop that flux. Oh, it's a good one as well. Oh
My goodness, he just gets dominated along with both supports else. Yes, and where did it fall and yeah, that's gonna be map there
No chance for persona against the diva make book doesn't matter time stick down and that will be that a beautiful map from Argentina
Yeah, we doubted whether they would be able to make a comeback as you said it was the most one-sided affair
you could possibly have back on Elios, but I guess the solution is they all have cat allergies
and if you banned the cat well, we're all locked in and ready to fight out of town and it really did
come down to Tizzy for much of this point between his presence on the signal look at that 23 and 4
throughout that game match with Persona those are the two players that really managed to stand
out and get more like of this mechanical individual plays that we know that they have outside of the
the macro level. And I think if Argentina are going to continue to keep this series close,
this is the kind of gameplay we need to see from them.
This was farming the damage. 14k. That's like 5 over what Frack ended up having as well.
I mean, it was just this point for like these couple of fights here, which is the cherry
on top. I mean, you're getting unbelievable picks on top of that. You're only using like
like one alter a time like the
old dragon. There was so nice
just layering one after the
next. You hit the barrage on
people. You're hitting a big
flux as well. And then frack
ended up with in their flux to
like or not with thing. There
was a connection on the Lucio,
but there was no follow ups
that no kills could be had.
It was. Yeah, a little rough
from Chile on that one. But
hey, it's all good to kind of
the cat band away again. So
Yeah, I think it's the fresh start that Argentina needed, you know, that they've been hitting
the grindstone along with all the other Conference Cup teams since that tournament concluded.
And the work really does show off when they get to play their game.
And just on that, because Jetpack Cat will be back in the fray, and depending on where
Chile want to go, I would not blame them if they take us back to a very cat-bashing central
map, kind of like what we see in New Pony, still being available, so Robosa is an option.
I believe it's not New Joke City and I think it's really good to go with whatever choice, but actually they re-old them.
It's more of a longer range map there for Chilling. See what those fans turn out to be, but I think that they want to focus more on this poke.
And honestly, do you take away the Sigma here?
Um, is it? Yeah, I mean, Reazor is good for Sigma, right? But is it what? I mean, I guess the map is already in the band too.
like I think you're fine taking away the sigma but if you just want to lean
straight back into the mouth of cat bashing I mean you could ban the
bastion in theory if you're Argentine but then she like well we pick Rialto
we bad first so we just bad at DPS wasn't excited like that they could but
they've done is they've done farra on the first map was that that's a pretty good
but yes to the far as they can't ban that again and the soldier I guess if they
to protect the passion. We'll
see. We'll see what they end up
doing here. But you know what?
What about Argentina? You know,
coming up in a big way, I think
Chile fairly dominant in that
conference cup when it came down
to it coming out first place at
the end of the door.
Yeah, it wouldn't be that
Argentina didn't have to when
they played in that conference
cup was persona persona came
into this roster afterwards as
that breakthrough player, which
is a great system that has been
added to show.
It kind of where other powers in
this region can lie, even if their
aren't here in that stage. So, Persona, I think that for Argentina is one of the
big highlights we had from Runa Soppy. Same thing with Duke from the opposite side
in Chile, but a little bit different. I think when you're playing the support
side of course, more so the synergy that you get with LCS in both face-it and
playing on collegiate for Wirecliff, but you can take it a bit of time. For these
bands, I think it's for Chile, a little shell-shocked after that match. I think
They are very confident heading into this series didn't think they'd run into much trouble
So being in a position now where they have to pick a map is a bit longer than it might usually
Chalet do end up planning a TPS so they do protect that
Ashton and they down ash ash also has been played a little bit so only VCS Tokyo again
We saw some ash we saw something insane like Bob's coming out
No, you can just ask who's the Bob look I think it's like a 3k or something from a Bob on real pose
So, you know what? Ash can still be played. Who'da thought, huh?
Wrecking Ball Band from Argentina as we think a tank will fill it.
Interesting. You know, you don't really see this as a Wrecking Ball map all that often, so...
It'd be interesting to get off there from Argentina, but...
People go ahead and see where this ends up playing out.
Not a cat-assion all available here for Chile. Should they just want to run it back?
It seemed Argentina were very set on not mirroring that.
Or if they're put in the same situation again, will they change their mind or just take another beat down is a question
So we'll have to keep an eye on what that ends up being
Because Lep has swapped between Lucio and Brig quite a bit but not wanted to touch the Jetpack cat today at all
You know what my respects from Lep
He's probably just holding out there for the Lucio players that they want to play the cat. I respect him so much
It's a new flavor. I don't mind the Cat Bastion meta, it's for a bit.
The Lucio plays down the line. I hate to break it to you Molly. The Lucio plays probably
mine. Yeah, that is fair. Is he playing Lifeweaver? He's playing Lifeweaver. Hi!
Okay, he is so determined not to play the Cat Bastion that we're seeing off on Lifeweaver.
I mean this is a rare left trading card. We've pulled the rare one. Is he actually playing
life weaver. If you're standing up to men like this and playing picks, I mean, look,
you can't not love left at this very moment in time.
It's been a while since we've seen the believer come on out and it could help, and especially
getting players out of these tricky situations that LCS and BART are going to try to put
them in. But, I mean, we'll see how it actually goes through. Not a ton of utility on the
side but there's a map to pull it out. This will be the one but that's how much all this is. What is the
Chile show? RGLCS and BERT on their own little takeoff. Okay, left. What do you got for us on the
Weaver? We saw a lot of Weaver like a long time ago. The back Weaver on like Circuit Realty,
Unbreakable Defense Comp. But I mean you know what, if anybody could do it in this series,
I believe it to be left as a part of the movement.
You kill from Tizzy,
Dominating still on the signal by the way, like, ridiculous work so far.
It's been a standout for Argentina,
despite that being easily the most veteran on the physical.
I think having that level of play is gonna help,
but when you're stuck in a small room with the D.Va pad fashion,
you're not gonna be in for a good time, if someone has found out,
and this is where the Lifeweaver's going to struggle,
left between a rock and a hard place, half to me,
and then just stay, but nowhere to go.
Yeah, didn't have a grip. Goodbye left. It was a cool pick while it lasted and Tizzy
should die pretty quickly. No sacri- Oh, okay, they sagged him a little bit there. Actually,
that was really nice from Chile. Just ever so slightly, even a couple of seconds there
really helped because they're probably not going to have that tank. I mean, Lep unfortunately
has succumbed to the Brick virus, so now it's on Brick. No more fun to be had. And
they're so touchy there. Although actually, no, hang on, Slaxon didn't have touchy. Hits
the shift as well and there's the point all right Saxon goes down and that's
stagger actually on to Tizzy like that. This might have burned a lot more staggers
if you're not careful. I'm trying to retreat into the small room, that was one thing.
I've got LCS and Burts. I do not enjoy playing as a track. As full access as the
high ground now with that late pick. Climb it to Saxon, he's now a proper little tracer.
Yep, turn around buddy as the microbe still sets in your direction and you
I'm not just an opponent, he does.
Oh, two birds of all people.
He saved the last mortar shell for lead.
Okay, this is so sad.
Let's have it a day.
I mean, maybe this is just the weakness
of the great virus here.
Not a lot you can do, except for run away,
constantly, but as if you're slain,
so I could sooner rush.
No, it's still gonna go on out.
There was a fight to the death.
Yeah, hi noon with a nice little dink there
until CS takes the car of the sky.
All right, okay, Argentina, they're gonna,
Hold on, miss a flashbinder, can miss that show.
Sona's getting the shots where it is needed
and it's not much of a disability for Argentina.
You know, this high ground, especially putting persona
up there, I think it's going to be helpful.
You're going to want to lean into this open space
as much as you can, make it as difficult as possible,
or chill across this gap.
And we've got it flexier from TC.
We've seen how much value these have gotten
every other instance, it's actually the one you have.
So, maybe for a solo here,
doesn't have many options, he only beat up.
That is a crazy aggressive moment.
You gotta respect the effort from Dizzy there, but
they're just so far forward.
Rally comes in from left, Dizzy still alive, luckily
receiving some of that over health and
all that inspire healing. High ground control now
in favour of Chile, but Argentina under trying to
sneak it back by the looks of it. Persona doesn't have going down
and unfortunately, 5 team is comped.
The better it is for Chile, just rotating the bashing forms is just so strong, it really
is.
In Argentina, now what's all this ground, bashing comms are going to get slightly worse
under this bridge, but it's a rough day.
And we're going to see a third swap now from Lep, and I think Tizzy going over to the
Moga not only helps contest the bashing, but gives you a little more stability in that
front line.
They're just not going to get, ah no, they do have sacks in here.
They are going to go for a full fight on this, but Bert already in position.
I mean, it's a very...
At least they're not arranged there, but I'm not sure how much damage it's actually doing to them,
how many meaningful damage.
Saxon, post-bump, here comes the ult from Bert, but he is persona-clicking heads.
High noon's going to get popped as well.
That bash is hiding behind the little fountain over there, the little shrubbery.
Only a meter and a little bit to go here for Chile, but they've lost two players.
They're really just spawning right now, as someone needs to deal with persona on the side.
By 1 HP on this chastity, surely now the cap comes in, there it is.
That turns it going down and 3 in a bit, minutes foot chile, shut up.
The villain is much better, James Williams.
This off from this team before, and very minimal on the ultimate commitment,
common theme we're seeing with this team, they use the least amount of resources as possible,
and it's helping them.
Argentina, these fights together as a hefty time bank, still has to work,
but they think Argentina need to go fast, with surreals, but soon they rush.
We're getting shut down with the Ashen Puppet.
Ah, very early rush again. Nice little leap.
On to the post bomb.
Burt's right on the floor right now.
I think we've got the old HR try and repair himself so the silver bullet wouldn't finish him off.
Oh!
Oh, no!
Lev goes down to a remake kill.
Tragedy for the backline there of Argentina.
And a quick clean up with the Tracer.
Team kill and now they're gonna push in.
Cap Ashen's not gonna be good here, but it might not matter to be honest.
Yeah, and you snowballed so far into the spawn. Argentina backs up against the wall a couple of volts close if you can get them up
Maybe there's a chance but she'll have the confidence that they have
Push on through this point seems to be on the match. They're gonna get a little bit more time though
I just back off. He's a Korean overdrive already out. He's dizzy
Yeah, a lot of those shots getting eaten up, but dizzy is in the worst spot imaginable
Just end up getting the rush out, but I was so close to the mag for it
They're gonna try and charge onto the Bastions. They've got all that over health to play with.
Sun barrier, high noon popped from Argentina.
Fairly trivial fight. Now, no shot, you lose that.
And being in this last fight territory, yes, the weakest part of the map for the Cap Bastion.
And the fact that Argentina just have their ultimate economy coming up, okay, sooner.
So let's go back on over to that rig, and I think that...
We'd make a bit sense, more sense if Eli and FRAC stayed on the Deeper Tracer, but no.
They are gonna go front to back as well with the Mal-Gar-Reaper and he shall left instantly go back to swan
Swap back, like I am not dealing with those types of shenanigans
Archana though, gonna look to throw chile in the blend of the cage play
Dude hit the cage on the corner, like that, team chile has stolen the bot by the way
Nice little kill there onto the cage, but they've stolen the bot guys, guys they've stolen the bot
Thoughts on this one, they've stolen the bot, left is back on the point, there's two players there
No way
somebody's gonna have to charge back in, tracer triple blink, sax and guest there, post one connect on to action.
But it doesn't matter. But ends up getting saved and oh dear, read me devastation in the commons far
Argentina there, is the cat bashing basically back captain. That was drawing people away from the team fight.
I like the idea. You put the cage on the corner and then you try and fight him early,
but you don't get the cat bashing. So they just kind of decide, you know what, we'll just walk past you and
the cap the point. Now it's that weird time in the time bank. One minute and 23 seconds.
science, how to swap back the rounds. No huge changes here. Poor Chile, except he might
stick Eli on the reaper with the D.Va, which is an interesting combo. I think this is more
an expectance of Dizzy playing that Mauga to start and hopefully just make sure he can't
run at persona free. That does make a bit more sense there. You just don't have to go
to follow up as you would with Frac on their D.Va dying, so that'll be something for them
to play out and it will work well at least on this first part of round one.
For Argentina, a lot of ground that needs to be gained to make up for this persona.
A lot of good picks there.
But how can you break past this barrier that has been this cat bashing comp constantly
lurking on the side angle?
You have not been able to solve it so far and still avoiding the match up.
Yeah, they're just waiting for them to approach the corner, dive on them, you can see the
catmash in the top left.
I just think those was going on though.
They're going to use this slight bit of cover, but it's going to be up to frack as well,
just trying to draw people out, ideally kind of cycling the point as well, making sure
they don't get too much free distance.
There's time here. I think you're kind of swaying for your cycles right now. If you're
at Chile, I'm gonna go for an impressive push to the ground, else he has to watch the Bastion
to go for the assassination. That's a major fact.
Yeah, well us this picks back up the Bastion and they try to beat the payload. It's on
this first corner. Oh, I guess technically in a second, but first real corner of this
map if you will. And now they're just gonna wait for them to come out of the open. I mean,
this is the deadliest point of this map against this guy, Bastion. Nice little shot, sir, coming
So shots are coming through from persona, but that's just too far away basically
You've got persona to any meaningful damage. I mean while like since he's just getting melted in the front line
And that'll be the fight over for Argentina all the back
That's crazy, that's crazy out of her it's better. It's better say less ball things, but yeah
I mean Argentina so start I have persona might as well just been shooting paper bullets the bastion for this guy the fall off
We need too much capacity for the handle, but better support those mid ranges.
That does get stuck in a small room!
Too much healing you think. Yeah, across the way, like, you're gonna be good.
Sweat, pops the rush as a persona.
This cowering for cover with both Tizzy and Serial.
Everybody is so little of what HP in this room.
They need to regain all the health and go front of the push here, but a one tap.
From Eli there, onto Saxon, easy kill for the Reaper.
Time bank is dwindling and unfortunately I think so is the sanity of the others.
They have nowhere to go, they are quite literally strapped in that staircase.
Change of importance on the side and everyone else on the other side.
I mean that is just devious from Burr.
Here's the high dude, pops the old dung-soon straight on his head.
That's little Sam, even the cage goes down, burst one HP but
Frack's doing his best hold or impression there, holding the door for the rest of the scene.
Self-destruct is still easy from jumping in and
The self-destruction still counts!
Come on, let's pop the rally too.
It's going from bad to worse here from Argentina.
Looks like a chilly map here. One minute and twenty seconds to go.
And that was everything too. You're not going to get another old fight like that one.
You're relying on more of these heroics to come through,
but Persona outranged Saxon struggling to get close with Eli,
basically building down every single doorway that she can and asked for.
Six seconds for Argentina to avoid going down to match points to a little bit of wiggle room, but I think great start for them to work with
Okay, we're just guys on an off angle. I guess from a headshot from surreal
Okay, well not the best picks of all time if you're a Chile that all good though. He's doing a fashion flying in the air
So damage no exactly lacking, but they can give up in a way of space. It's all good. They got a ton of time
Got time, you've got the presence of the point here as well.
Frack, he's chilling around this corner, eventually sneaking into the room, have a better contest
on this.
You see?
What?
Where does it end?
Okay, where?
Just getting picked twice in a row there, not great.
Surreal ends up coming up on another one, on it, to bash him down.
And that should realistically be the point.
I mean, you can't have your Kerakko going down first like that.
Two fights back to back.
That's just not on.
The high new the high new of all time they call that as persona pops behind him with zero people around him all good
I think you can do it if you're picking the Kirikou off of all players
Back-to-back and that is one way for Argentina to get going and absolutely something that should not be happening here or chill
It's a red hopefully ducked undercover this time that this cover is given to him
I've heard an LCS for now. This is payload. Can you see move on board?
She's like, gonna let this one push to the corner with Frack, and I'm swapping back over to that Melda.
I'm gonna play more in front to back.
Alright, Wedge. Do not die first, Callan. You'll see.
How much is that cat bashing you're doing in the back line?
Popping the defense of all, but still kills Slip! I mean, this has not been an X-game at all.
Cages are coming down, but unfortunately Frack jumped straight in.
and ends up killing Tizzy.
It's a cage fight for Argentina, but they're unable to come out.
Go ahead and take it.
Whatever's going on between Leth and Burt,
hit something else this game.
Burt is somehow matched upon Neal and almost every old stick
on to him, but Argentina is still moving forward a little
and get close to the second corner before backing off.
You're pretty happy with that.
What is Death Blossom's age-flight combo?
I think you're scared of. There's no real answer for it
last blood can get a shield bash, but if it's in a cage fight, you don't have that as an option anyways.
You got the death blossom too, so you could pop Frac's cage and hit the death blossom. Very doable if they managed to fight Tizzy.
Never the eeeerrly used the rally there. Tizzy like just continues to hold down that point so they don't get any free push,
but now it's back all the way up. Rally a little bit too terrifying for the Reaper to deal with us.
We do see Persona jumping around the corner high noon, locking on the cabash, but they managed to get away and Tizzy dies.
So hoping maybe for a single kill, but no none to be found for Posota and that's the fight down
That's case you hold on to that awesome didn't even need to combo
I think it was more of a I need to live rally from left at the very start of that fight
Which was respected, but it did mean that Argentina will low on resources heading into the rest of that
Maybe back set up with cage fight a little more easier. Look how far up the CS is playing right now with the bird zero respect at all
how this team is getting set up and you don't want to set an inch on this great
possible. Let me try and shoot the players as they cross. Let me try. First taking a
little bit of damage but man Tizzy is so low. I managed to get over the bridge to
try and get the touch but yeah it's just a looming threat of the gabash in this
entire time. Some players are going a little bit wide, Counter-Stone comes in but it's easy from where it keeps them upright.
But eventually falling thanks to that rush, Tizzy is shooting into the sky.
picking off the Bastion, Deathboss was gonna be good for you like that, and that's a double, and this cross is just so deadly against the Bastion, let alone the Reaper hitting the Blossom on your backline as well.
And that'll be it, Chile up two maps. Now, match point versus Argentina.
I'm gonna space control there.
4GLA again showing out with their macro control.
Science, screw again and again.
I think with this team, that's where their strong point is.
They've all been playing together for quite some time.
They know each other very well and being able to have this level of trust and communication
that was showing up and they've been totally blank.
They're playing the better composition in this regard.
And they will always win those 1v1s unless there was some massive mistake that comes
in from them, which was a couple fights with Argentina one,
making it when somehow managed to die first.
Two fights in a row extending that mathlet.
Backs up against the wall now,
for Argentina, one more map pick,
and the most important ban for them is gone.
And obviously, if they can show us similar lights
that they did back on Runesopy,
because we know what the fight they can take,
this, what I called, meta,
been so far out of their reach.
Yeah, like I said before,
I got a respect that let big time for not succumbing to the cat bastion, but it is just such a good comp right now
And you know you can't pay the lucid to like speak people around you can pay the break
It is very possible, but it just feels like that outguns at this moment in time. Chile looking great
Honestly, I think with the World Cup coming back as well
It definitely highlights a lot more South American players, which we haven't seen a whole bunch
like, you can look back in
the old watch league. Like they
weren't many if at all any
players that managed to reach
the highest heights. It was
dominated for a long time by
like the likes of San Francisco
shock, etc. And we are eventually
seeing you know, South America
come into the fray again and show
actually we can live up to the
some of the greats in the world.
I think Saudi Arabia was the big
level right now so I'm kind of hoping for the same thing for South America too where there's at least
a couple of players that shine bright on an international stage at Busan. I think a lot of it too
also comes from kind of the continued growth of the South American Basin League as well that having
a direct qualification spot to EWC and more teams overall just getting involved in that tournament
gives more competitive opportunities. We see a ton of players also participating in collegiate
roster is at least one on every single team. I think four total in this match alone. So there's
plenty of opportunities for these players to continue their competitive journeys and this
being another step on it, I think it's just another showcase for how well that development
has been going for what there still can be ahead for a lot of these rosters. It seems like today
Chile definitely has the upper hand in terms of experience to kind of that big question mark of a
team of how far can they actually go? Do they have that upset potential and this first match against
Argentina I think is really showcasing what they can bring if they catch Mexico's week.
All right, as we expected Argentina they're going to choose New Junk City, the anti-Cabastion map.
I mean that's what everybody was picking up at OWCS Japan, so no shock here to see that one come in.
And then they've still got a
few more apps to pick if they
do it at winning here. That
being Chile. I mean, we still
got Numbani Kings or a Hollywood
if we go to five. But I think
the best case scenario for
Argentina is maybe Chile pick
like Kings or something because
Numbani and Hollywood are like
so good for the conference.
See, but New Jersey is going to
be the pick here for Argentina
for now. So at least outlaws
that part of things. You could
I don't think Chile are off the walls much yet, unless they end up losing this map, so we will go ahead and see what Argentina have to pull.
They want to play as front to back. They can play that Sigma out here too for Tizzy. I think he'd be so happy with him.
Going back onto that, Hugo is then far away that standout player for Argentina, Space Grandpa, the weapon of choice for sure, and it can work.
on New York City might be a little bit difficult with Amalga in your face, but we'll see how he
wants to make that work out. And for Chili though, you're kind of okay with this map. They like this
hall. They liked Eli on this May a lot, and I think them not swapping the May when they
spoke to more of their diva stuff back on her stop, he came back to bite them. This is a map
that it can work anywhere, all the time, regardless of what you are playing, and still will be a
for middlable threats if Argentina are not specific. Yeah, I think the Mays are so good.
Yeah, and I agree. I think Margot was sick and why? I think either is fine. I think if you
pick the sick, it might be a little bit more dangerous if you don't pick the May. You need
the May if you're playing the sick. I'm just saying, because otherwise you're going to get rolled over
by the Margot. All right, so she's back, fortunately. And Mizuki taken off the table for Argentina.
That was the first ban too, so no chance for like a support ban from Chile. So, all right,
I'm so happy we're seeing a little bit more, uh, more
Mizuki. I don't think we're going to see it this series
unless we go to Kings, but it's such a, it's such a sick hero
to watch, especially with the old. I think the sanctuary is
just such an insane ability on like, uh, corners. And if
you're like jumping into a team fight and you hit the
sanctuary, it could be really hard to fly into. So, um,
unfortunately we're not going to see it here, but New
Young City is the map and a lot more poke coming in, I believe.
Bit more of that poke, maybe a Symmetra even?
I think it's another pick we can see on this map.
If you want to play more of that Brawley style, otherwise I think you're leaning into that
Cassie for Persona and they've been pretty locked on that, even if it is a bit of a risky
decision as we saw back on Rialto fighting the Catanastion, but it is the last chance
here for Argentina to show us what they got, see if they can continue to go on up.
It is again the first game of both of these teams in the America's online qualifier, so
loss here isn't the end of the world, but certainly not the message you would like to
be sending it through.
If you get our first look at these teams so far, I think for Team Sheila, you're okay
with this, and Burt sticking on the bastion.
Why not?
Has worked so well.
Left will attest to that.
The same goes for Frack.
They want to play this very frontline heavy map.
I think all's expecting TZ to pull through on the Sigma, which again is far away, his strongest pick of the day, but it is going to depend.
Are they going to run away? May? Are they going to have a way to fight against this, especially on this arena point?
You're up close and personal. Either these symmetries end up sticking, be a Reaper for EI, it actually got far up from Saxton.
Yeah, I mean we still have this kind of comp on, what, Ilios?
So yeah, I mean the fire is really strong in certain points here.
But this one a little less, so I mean, should I just want to basically form up, walk towards
the Sigma Con and then get knockdowns like this.
Perfectly timed Susie though from Serial.
That was ridiculous.
Frack, looking like they were going to get like a two man knockdown, maybe three with
a stomp.
Yeah, I think he was worth it, while quite literally surreal that was really good.
Good not the best for better timing, and it's just gonna give Argentina
a brief first tap, and Chile, especially Frack,
learn their lesson after they've quoted like a balloon in there.
Oh man, this is really good for Argentina to have this forward space.
Having to play into that composition of Chile would be absolutely miserable.
You can set up poke angles with both Saxon and Persona.
It's easy, a lot more comfy. Kind of just vibing at range,
is actually how freks walk over to their wardrobe.
First time we have seen that in this series with a very strong pick here,
nonetheless, it allows you to close the gap a bit safer.
Yeah, I actually don't mind the ram at all.
You have way more spiteability, especially with the shield and whatnot, so being able to just
kind of walk forward like this is really nice.
Okay, you get hit with the rock, but it's all good, you're still in the missed storm.
Flux is going to connect for the Bastion and an easy kill.
I mean, Flux is like that, guarantee one, especially with the Cassie and the Faro, so,
Yeah, Argentina hey, let's go put some respect on their name especially tizzy, okay?
Look I drop it on him look you beat you beat us last time with three I'll drop on
100% every kill you get drop on I
Honestly that should get them wait a less chilly strand before ascend LCS to the objective of now
Now, even if they're playing 3-4 back, and they will be sticky live, on there to see if miracles are possible, they're hard to cross with Sona.
Yeah, high news is gonna be so tough to walk into.
Tracer should get another retouch here, contesting currently. Actually, in fact, half the point has been capped already by Ely.
Both brushes. Now, by trying to play on it, trying to get form back ASAP, just unlocked it.
Hascot the old two is, uh, should I do find a flip?
Wet finishes off Persona with a nice Q-N-I headshot, but this will be Argentina having to go again.
Yeah, Argentina! End up fighting that one slip through the cracks, there is a great touch from Eli,
and you don't really have anybody on Argentina to stay on the planet recently, long term.
And it's going to be tricky, Tizzy does not like getting up close and personal with Fracu,
as is Nylation, I mean, huge win cons on the board, unless Saxon like, blows up LCS instantly for some reason.
I feel like it's great about taking a fast push into this season.
It's decent. We have plenty of time, Tim.
LTSID, do you need someone to use this on?
Oh, my goodness. Maybe a little bit quicker.
Required from LCS Saxon with a barrage for two.
And that is how you win a T5 right there.
Stand by from LCS. They're a bit too late.
You need the better beat, but that beat required maybe two seconds earlier.
Yeah, I think it was more of a,
I'm going to wait and see until this flux comes out kind of deal,
But we only have the time to think about that.
We need the matching sound barrier from the other side,
but I feel like just gonna have LCS go back over to the camp.
So they will be pulling it out here on New Junk City after all,
and leave her going to the ducks next, DSBR.
A little bit more verticality,
you can mess around with just not a ton of cover
in this actual objective area.
So they have to like very carefully round it,
but if Persona's already dead, the main threat is gone,
and Bird is happy to just chill and reflect by himself.
I'm sorry, did LCS like aerial drop E-Line to that time?
Like what was... I mean the cat got the assist, that would have been kind of funny.
But I mean that's an easy point cat now, without a DPS like that.
I mean the cat bastion, on the first point it sucks.
Let's be real, I'll put it in plain English for it, it blows.
But this point, you know, not too bad.
Getting up from high to low, high to low, and then
catching them on the rotations is really nice.
I'm very happy about this if you're chilling because how do you push this into Argentina?
You need another Tizzy to make Flux showcase here of a bird!
Flux, maybe you're from Tizzy?
He's looking for something!
You've got to hit it at some point!
Oh, why did they miss?
Okay, well, unfortunately.
A little duck around the corner there from Frank.
He's putting him in a bad spot though.
He's teleport from Wend and hits the rush as well.
He's in fast.
Actually, how do you stand with that rush, Jax?
It might have been.
Don't see the Tori gates on the floor.
Let's close it.
Eventually there, but still holding on Archilet, 58% in counting hours, is he on the points?
Hold, there goes the cap, Lashdon! See you later!
It's a grin and a wrap, yeah, not really gonna mess with that.
Archilet, I'd go on percent in about one flight territory, for them, and you're pretty okay with that.
It'll, you're going to be hitting a bit of a brick wall in this next flight.
Let having an unmatched sound barrier after the LCS swap will be difficult to play into.
Basically gives Argentina a second life in a lot of these fights and she like
I've had a toy between going this high ground and this low ground
See what they can find
Oh, hi noon. You got a run. You got a run buddy. Oh nice. Oh unbelievably well-timed there
That extra over health flopping that delay and sneak killing the sound barrier ends up coming through from left
It ends up hitting five two so Team Argentina are in a good state
I would really sneak away the point regardless
Saxon killing, WED is a good start though, to try to stabilize here for Team Argentina, but they're gonna need to at touch.
Our ground position here from Persona, he ends up running forward, but straight into frack, going to push him off that high ground.
LCS still now with an aerial position, ends up slamming into the ground there, but he lands up going down.
Team Chile now have to back off. 95% though, that's a one fight, one flip. We'll secure the point realistically here for them.
Yeah, when Argentina are all grouped up holding hens like that, there's not much that Team Chile can actually do to pull them apart, especially without Eli.
The last fight territory now, Katsune rush here for surreal, is going to be huge in getting Katsune to the fight.
Hi, Noon. Oh, taking down my frag, but Dizzy, as always, comes up with the goods here for Argentina, a double kill from the Sigma.
It actually is like you're watching Vancouver Titans, Tizzy. Welcome back, Vancouver Titans.
It's been a while. But Argentina, man, I mean, Tizzy, it might just be the biggest
raid possible time on the Sieg. Like, it's kind of insane. Argentina now up two points.
I think a borderline underrated, I think, when it comes to strength and more of these
rally competitions. Very good into the Bastion, who the good amount of survival ability can help
your team. And it's Argentina on that point, believe it or not. Very good chance at taking
the series all the way to a Fiverr. I gotta get to the next point first, which
just seems to seem chilling. Why not take this so early? They don't want to give
Argentina a chance to set up his frack, but poking in and out, seeing what they
can find, forcing Argentina's resources early, does mean I think Argentina still
gets to the point first, will have the sound barrier to work with, which are
really going to mean how fast she'll be pushing, but first eventually breaks through the door.
It's just so good on this point. One of the more open points is not the most open one.
You know the Cap Bastion's gonna win here. Like a hundred times out of a hundred.
You have five volts from Chile as well.
I think if you're Argentine or like, oh, please give me, please give me the refinery.
We can play inside and we have to worry about the Cap Bastion, but not so fortunate.
Chile though, very happy with this. And they have basically all five shiny buttons.
be able to press on this next point and being close to a cliff. LCS definitely looking his left right
about now. I see if he can drop anybody off a cliff here. And we'll see how this is actually
engaged left potential for a tempo beat, but how the sound barrier was nerfed is definitely a less
than optimal strategy for this objective. That's looking to not stage axe this fight. B comes in,
but personas already dead. Wow, that was mere frames away from saving personas life.
And now the rush is on point as well, so fighting into this if you're Argentina,
it really sucks. You needed like one kill straight off the sound barrier.
There's a quick cliff there from Argentina, but they're only gone at like 16% or so.
This is an unwinnable fight now, I've got to be honest, if you're Argentina,
this you can only do so much. A nice little steer as well.
Oh no!
Kira ko, but chased down by Bert. The Bert's County just way too strong for the cabash in there and following Surreal's every movement
Kissy falls and that was a what? That was a what? Like a 4v3 they're coming through for Chile. That would be the point
Okay, reverse sweep on New Junk City is potential
And they're lucky. It is bomb-flats, so you're still outdoors. Finally is that's your point. You are team Chile
We'll get to avoid that for a little longer, but didn't end up investing quite a bit in that last engagement
So won't really have much of anything to work with at least other than a full-fog
Frack wants to take you to the back like look how much damage he's doing
Yeah, not so near to
Sorry, it was way too far forward there sadly tried to push out of the sigma, but
That's a little off angle from frack. That's an easy fight
I'm going to go ahead and take it the first point again and this is kind of the nice part
about having the D.Va on these points.
It's great defense.
You're survivable on your own and don't have to worry about sticking to the team too much.
You can go for these guys.
It's a great synergy.
It's a nice pitch game.
Sambai, a really nice beat from left there.
Scott was burnt during any meaningful damage over the top though as they're trying to isolate
Persona.
Saxon trying to play a little bit of goalkeeper here, keeping Persona alive.
A self-destruct.
Sends up going off.
No kills, but Frac dying and no remake means no tank fought Chile fighting into this one pretty bare now
There's actually just for go the point is Argentina get a cap and force Chile all the way back
Without frac here. You don't really want to stick around too long is that got dicey when the deep even
I'm just before the little bore there.
This is on this point under pressure.
Hang up.
Oh, the rock's so good.
This is even self-alive there.
The pulse bomb connects with Burt too, and an even better one from Eli finally, the rabos
falls.
There was an opportunity there, I think, for Argentinians to come up with a big flux
flavor.
Shalay just found the picks, like individual ones.
Even with Burt dead, Eli kind of sort of carried that.
Yeah, of course, the pulse bomb, and especially I think a tracer and a consumer rush, that is terrifying.
Orc with Saxon, what did nothing do with that?
I think that really even could have been done in Argentina.
Looking at this gravid box to see if you can just get one.
I did it early on just the D.Va before, so hopefully I'll find a squishier target.
This time around is a split approach from Argentina to see the cat fashion overhead.
They have to use the flocks or the rush, don't use both at the same time.
There's the turret mode as soon as that rush is used, as Perk finds it off angle with the help of the cat.
They've able to transition to the point fairly well though.
No casualties, a little bit of damage, but that's about it.
Both Tracer's dead, 4v4 on the point as RGT to get the flip.
Flux now being used? Can they actually catch somebody?
We're caught up and he's trying to get the head slam as well.
slam as well. When it ends up going down to that flocks, fashion up in the air again from the
health with the cat, but she'll I have lost all semblance of control in this fight. She says he
chases down the steve and this is final touch territory. Tizzy, uh, sorry, Frank has to get
out alive. You cannot lose spec, otherwise you will lose the point. You need to buy time for
when to get back and more importantly, make sure you do touch. Every's gonna be a touch here for
me, I would imagine. Yes, the tracer is on the point, but the point is completely left alone
here so there could be a complete flip but Tracer's now in an honourable one-to-one as
Bert across the map kills two. I mean this is Chile coming back in a big way. I saw Cap
there as well, Eli goes down but the job's already done as Bert is swung in like a little
Christmas ornament and delivers a gift under the tree. That's four kills for Bert and that
is a point for Chile. Two to two on New Young City.
Reverse sweep potential here for Chile. I want to close out the series in four but this
This is kind of where things get a little dicey, reflatery.
Definitely the weakest point.
We're at this Cap Ashton comp.
You are not careful, very low ceilings,
minimal high ground for you to go bouncing between.
You do get to the point first so that will help
with some of the setup that there's so much easier
for Argentina to just fight you front to back.
And I started to see Tizzy swap to the Malaga
with the dead iron.
We're so back.
Malaga gaming.
But honestly, this point for it is just so nice.
extra sustain to wait oh whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa Frank whoa whoa wait a
second here thanks for both on the end of it and a killing part sure but
Frank is the two player player self-destruct on the DPS a tracer as well
I mean that is insane 11s I'm using the rally too but it's like well we can't
really push in there's three of us and it's only Malaga for damage that is
unbelievable scenes from Frank found the angle very rarely see that much value
self-destruct these days, but
down there and
Yeah
All right, it seems we're going down, I'm sure they trade
for the Tracer, but
wow, it's chilly. Man
Cap Bastion doesn't work, it's all good.
We have a deep self-destruct that kills two over the fight.
We're chilling.
I didn't practice smell of blood in the water.
They're like, you know, we can win this. One more point away.
Honestly, one more fight away by the time Argentina
matters to me, group, and
very doable. All you have to do is get through
get through this Katsune rush all the surreal let back over to Lucio what could be final lap here
let's see this cat bastion set up waiting for team argentina to peek on in let me try to take some
fast you just engage too easily though from this rush but uses the uh mortar barrage on the point
it's actually been snipped out like he's self-destruct dragged in what a susu from surreal keeps himself alive
Making sure stays up against it the teleporter way and I'll see us try to chase him down
But it's actually but that falls first cage ends up getting slammed down on the point Saxon with two
Should be it. I think that a third actually from the tracer
expensive fight though
That's a cat bomb didn't end up working out sadly. I would imagine that's what happened in that last fight
And we didn't actually get the POV from LCS there
So, you know the frag self-destruct really it was all LCS, but nice flip from Argentina
Suddenly it makes a lot more sense how that was going in just like chilly realizing you know what trying to push this in with
Diva tricer will be a bit tricky
So off to match this Malga and have Eli just flat out win that frontline battle
It's gonna be huge and you really look at it Saxon's not only stick a pulse bomb
But put pressure onto this battle line as much as possible
Nigh the space as the tracer does because you can not afford to lose the fight. We didn't see that we didn't see that section
Don't worry try to get the hot flanking into the window
I knew he's gonna buy some time.
There's no one's going to have to back up this yet.
You cannot fight face up against this team.
I still flanked here from Saxon.
Has my pulse bomb still?
Both sides are kind of shooting each other now.
They're very early, Susan. This is go-to.
I just jumped straight to the back.
I mean, that Susan was just so, so early.
I mean, surreal, I think, lost him that fight entirely there.
And potentially in the map of the series too.
Sambara comes in from left and ends up hitting three,
but this is just so damn low.
Saxon needs to come up with the goods.
on the point and they have the count too.
Saxon looking for the kill onto the reaper,
actually ends up getting it too with the backstab
with the melee.
There's gonna be another rush for the point but LCS
now needs to be focused.
Saxon needs to come up with another,
chases down LCS but
Frank and LCS have already come up with kills.
And the meatiest, well they're not the meatiest,
rather more to strike from the spawn
head to killing lead.
Saxon literally cannot do more on this point now
for Argentina.
He needs more, but Susu and the heal from
WED, it should be too long before
Saxon is chased down.
That's gonna recall either now, either.
There's the cage, there's the point, there's the series, Chile, with a 3-1 overall against Argentina.
At the end of the day, they'll be the ones that come out on top, but, my goodness, Argentina made that much closer.
And their previous matchup, and I think are satisfied with their improvement, not necessarily the result in Chile.
So much upset potential with this team, so many strikes, and I think just this hat bastion existing.
Longside crack a very flexible tank player to work with you see those existence synergies
Maybe sign through their team and I think it's going to be their strongest point
And it's also the weakness right a lot of the World Cup rosters that we see
Is just how little time that they have to practice together
Especially for these qualifying tournaments, but a complete opposite or team Chile
They clearly made the most of it here today even if Argentina made them work for it
I think that's a good point as
well. Like the amount of time
you actually get to practice
can be very limited for certain
teams. Obviously, every schedule
is a very different a lot of
players still in school, for
example, so it can be kind of
tough. But you know, Chile.
Respect on that night. Look, at
the end of the day, I think
America's especially has been
dominated by what both USA and
Canada for so, so long. I mean,
Brazil has been almost inching
I think they've got a lot of
potential in their bones. So
we'll see how they end up doing
later in on the group. Obviously
it's around Robin, too. So a
little bit more brutal when it
comes down to things. Looks like
we should be getting an interview
in the next couple of weeks,
but I think they've got a lot of
potential in their bones. So we'll
see how they end up doing later
in on the group. Obviously it's
Looks like we should be getting an interview in just a moment as well with a wed
But um, yeah, not bad so far the Cavassian clearly their favorite comp clearly the best cop right now
Yeah, and I'd be curious what would happen when you Chile me a team that either wants to mirror it or has
Did it the better answer to it?
I think that was something that was consistently the weakness of Argentina throughout the day today
You couldn't hold the torch and a few times you didn't end up winning those fights was when somebody on Chile just
Completely dropped the pasta that to be total franken. Yeah, they kind of just started from this map of Elios Bert was running the lobby
And yeah, I kept seeing it with these artillery strikes
So I think team Chile going on ahead still some kinks to work out without the cat fashion
They do look noticeably weaker in that regard
But if they can continue to play their comps if they continue to kind of work out those kinks
will be playing against. And
prepare for it. Thank goodness.
We got the left. Remake kill.
Thank goodness. I think this
map was a little rough for
Lepin. In fact, the entire
team, I will say to see was a
big standout for Team
Argentina. I think came up with
some. Mad numbers, I think
with with all the maps
combined. So yeah, it's even
the player to watch out for
from Argentina. I think
to watch out for from Argentina. Like I said, in just a moment, we'll get into a brief interview
with WED and we can see how they're feeling too. In fact, we're going to go to right now. WED, welcome
on in. Chile, look, they look pretty good. I won't lie. Argentina kind of kind of fallen over there,
although it was a little bit closer. Like, did the rematch play anything into this? Were you nervous
going in? I was definitely like a little bit nervous, especially because I'm like a breakthrough
player. I'm from Costa Rica. I'm not from Chile. So in the conference
cop, we lost versus them. So I was like, well, maybe we got to like,
what, tell them a little bit and like, actually prepare. And that's
what we did. And at the end, like all of my teammates, they were like,
just not nervous at all. So team diff not gonna lie.
Team diff. Yeah. Do I saw the bag in ice every single time you're
getting kills on a place I love you hitting the back. Everybody was
having a bit of fun. It feels like I'm had you follow your chances
No, it's because for me it was like hard because I'm currently in Costa Rica and I'm in 200 ping, so at the end it was like 200 ping?
Yeah, I'm in 200 ping, so it was hard, it was hard, it was hard. I was playing in the past, I was playing in the past.
I can believe it. And I think too with you said you were playing on Team Costa Rica before this, you didn't have as much time to integrate into this roster.
roster and I'm curious what that has been like for you jumping into a team like yes you know some
of them from the face at league 9z roster but what has that been like within the last couple
weeks kind of jumping in to a new roster after preparing differently for the conference?
Well for me like the change was honestly quite easy I would say especially because like the 9c
and like I know like all of them like I knew all of them from like a while ago so it was honestly
pretty easy we didn't have like a lot of problems I think the only problem that we had is like
like they usually come in Spanish.
And I cannot, I cannot come in Spanish.
I can only come in English pretty much.
So that was like the only problem we had at the beginning,
but like, at the end I got like good out of common Spanish.
So, yeah.
Yeah, I think this crazy hard thing to do
if you're used to coming in one language
and flipping to the other.
I mean, hey, nobody in the world can speak two languages,
you know, most people can barely speak one.
So I think it's a mad respect from your side.
I did want to know what the vibe is like in the team right
Now, obviously, Overwatch World Cup is back and being able to prove that some of the South American teams and players,
they get to now prove themselves on an international stage, potentially, in Busan.
What does it mean to you and the team?
I think for me, personally, it's huge, especially because we're from the South American region.
I think Blizzard don't really like Cura so much about the region.
So it's really important for me.
And from a team, I think we're like a really fun team.
We like to play with each other quite a lot.
So we just have a lot of fun all the time.
Yeah, I think just one real quick question
before we send you on your merry way,
making it to Busan would be a big thing
for all of you, of course, the bigger land.
Has any of your team played on such a big stage before?
And how does that impact your motivation going in?
I think my motivation right now is it's really like huge I'll say like I really want to make
this out and I know all my teammates we want to go to Korea and like just have fun as well
like represent Chile me myself I want to represent Costa Rica as a breakthrough player so I'll
say like it's really like we are gonna lock in especially to play versus Mexico and we're
gonna win and we're gonna win and we're gonna make it fun.
W yeah winning and making it fun honestly that's that's the way to go well thank you
Thank you very much, Wed, and congratulations on your win today, and I wish you the best of luck.
Thank you so much. I want to say something real quick.
Bert, I mean, left versus high.
That was it.
He said high a few times by hitting the control key over his body.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good to get that back to you.
Thank you so much. Thank you for having me here. Thank you guys.
Yeah, of course. Thank you very much, Wed.
Like I said before, good luck in your next games. There you go.
I knew there was some beef going on there, but, you know, you've got to give it to him sometimes.
you're going to give it to him.
Sometimes you've got to give it to him.
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Welcome back Canada versus
Brazil up in just a moment. A
bang again to start us off with
today. Chile 31 against Argentina.
I thought it was gonna be a
is Canada time. Oh, yes, I fear for this group. I really do against team Brazil. As I look at Canada's
roster at first, though, a lot of names. Everybody is very familiar with, especially players like
Astro, Breakarth, Cal, Alex in TPS, as well as Noxious. So, yeah, team Canada looking very strong
this time of year. Hey, team Canada, here with the most returners by Barron. As I said, any
Any match with Team Canada or Team USA always feels like an uphill battle to say the very
least so we'll have to see what is ahead because I think Team Brazil had a tough showing yesterday
you know as when we looked at their roster here in a minute too.
You'll start to see that yes they have great experience behind their lineup but where we
start to see them fall through getting that loss against Puerto Rico almost makes this
recently but yeah I think he's been kind of in and out playing in collegiate a
bit more also just qualified with that 9-0 roster from face and master's and
you're really looking at him to be that leader that matchup between him and
Noxious will be the one watch on the hit stand so beyond that point though I
feel battle it almost feels like an understatement we're team Brazil little
bit shaky getting into yesterday but at least they seem to have started off on
to be some foot back to one V
one again for the choice of
seating or the seating choice
of map or first back. Yeah, I
think the baptist one, I think
is the most honorable. I think
out of all of them, although you
could argue that lamb stop
honorable. Honestly, they should
disable the lamp in the one V
one. So I think the shift
spine for the lamp is crazy on
this map as well because you can
just hide around corners, but it
was hard run by the way. They
didn't end up winning this one.
Sorry to spoil, but you guys
So they do Team Brazil 2 technically take the higher seed here.
And they are elected for the first map pick, I believe, so they will have that to go through
for our patrol side of things.
You see, a quite a bit of Elios, little Antarctic Peninsula, depending on team.
I think it's Elios, more for Cat Fashion side of stuff, which has definitely been Team
Brazil.
No, they ever going to go for Antarctic Peninsula after all, which something team Canada are you okay with?
You know the SR rarity and Antarctic Peninsula you never see this map. The change is actually
Recently or it feels like recently it's first in a little while at this point so to an Anna wrecking ball band
So team Brazil like I mentioned first seed coming in technically after that one you are so they get to ban
They get to pick them up and they ban first as well. So ball and then such
Yeah, so the ball and so it's going away.
I think the ball is a good target fan from Brazil, seeing how much success Astro had
in that specific hero matchup yesterday against Columbia.
Yeah, Canada already in a great spot.
It's more so how close can Brazil manage to make this?
It almost feels like the experience behind this team Canada roster is second to really
only the United States.
We'll see that matchup in our group stage.
Instead, it'll be starting out on our indoor map of anomaly.
A more Rawl-centric idea of controlling these high grounds.
And I think that's a style that both of these teams are very happy to lead into.
Yeah, no chance for a cablash in here, that's for sure.
Very tough on this stage.
All right, brief pause.
Don't worry, it won't be long.
I don't think.
Yeah, Astro, pretty good on the wrecking ball, like you said,
I'm excited to see Hydro play
again. I'm going to cast it to
Hydro. I mean, so long at this
point. It was over sleep. I
think last time I cast him. So
yeah, it's going to be a good
to call his name again, but it
does feel like Canada. We're
not doing predictions here. But
if I did have to give a
Pred, I probably would say
Canada 304 this series. Maybe
Brazil's sneaker map. But
what do you think? Yeah, I
think I'm going to have to join
on that one. I think it's really hard to bet against the team.
Canada, again, four out of their players have already played for Team Canada in the past
and have pretty much all in the same collegiate roster, at least their DPS one.
So that's really, really cool to have that established synergy,
scrimmage for a minute, and they have kind of seemed to have solved a lot of the questions
we've had for them. Like one being two Flex support players, and both Cal and Braybaird,
how that would work out. But fortunately for them, we're in a meta that that can kind of work out.
Okay, so someone reset their
keybinds so I'm just going to
wait for that to be sorted out.
All good. I don't know how you
reset your code by accident.
Although I think the new
installs I think, no, because
it is. Make sure you can. I
don't know. Someone reset their
keybinds. We'll get into the
map in just a moment. Yeah, I
mean, double flex support,
especially in this kind of
matter. I think that's fine.
Also, if you're not playing,
like maybe Lucie is the only
support you're not playing. If
you're playing double flex
I'm not gonna be able to take
two black supports over like
two main supports. Uh so sorry
main supports. You get you got a
lot of hate. I can't lie and
then you Ajax and every points
and last you so yeah I do feel
few main supports but as a
flexible player, um the heat
goes off me so I'm good. It's
tough for that there for and
you're out there just like it's
not me. It's this guy point
fingers. Look, Ajax, it wasn't
It's almost impossible to rush Jags not impossible. We saw it, but it is very hard to rush Jags to be fair
Yeah, just gonna get into the game just a moment like I mentioned before just a quick pause so people can reset their keybinds
I think if you're team Brazil like hey a lot of more time to kind of kind of chat this game that were very important like with that
lost to team Puerto Rico things a bit especially with them being a
a conference cup team where as Brazil were invited and you're in a situation unless you
want to go into some pretty hefty tiebreakers which won't even possible if you lose to Canada
today. So making this as close as humanly possible is going to be key but yeah, they're
going to be playing into Canada's hand or a lot of this have a stacked coaching lineup
Danny at the helm and for assistant coaches
Should be getting into this one just a second. I think everything is ready to go
You know, I'm just gonna say I can't take that long to reset up the keybinds
All good. I think I've only have one keybind switch. I might sound crazy for this, but what's your melee on?
Melee like you. Yeah, what's a melee on? I know a lot of players have it on their mouse, but
And everybody but tracer I have it on
Okay, you're a crazy person then you're a crazy person that has tracer is a different melee button might on F
It's just easier to hear KV a little you know, it's not that far away. You hit the F key. Yeah, I mean, that's fine
All right quicker rotation here with a sim players Canada
I mean this cop is a little devious in May. They're gonna get walled off
off unfortunately. Nice ice block in the front line there. Almost actually stopped Delco from getting away.
Mokka so low as Astro just hits Nemesis Storm, swings the corner, kills the support, and that is Canada taking the first pick and the point.
I had to name Team Canada's comp. It is the Delco is not allowed to have fun comp. You cannot be anywhere near this team.
You're gonna have a hard time, I think, using the speed ring. Warsaw, as if it's engaged, or is going to be key.
Or no, they don't have the speed ring. Never mind. You're sitting duck, good luck, Delka.
Maybe a lot of people can stop it with this wall, but for now they're gonna just opt to drop down to the point, forcing Canada to come to them.
Not the worst idea, all things considered, seeing if they can make somebody flip off this mic.
It really is the WeeHate tank players' fault. I can't die to you.
I might still have changed my frontline bachelors, should be fine.
He'd be just standing up to this same player too, just trusting in the team that they're gonna heal him up.
up and they're healing out Putsu by the way. Tuno, Kiri, I mean come on Astro is not dying here unless
he mispositions like forably. I draw a nice little angle here but unfortunately their Ravis's
Vortex is going to stop him from crashing and getting a kill. There will be a rush onto the
point, actually overloads Team Canada's kind of forward momentum there so it's going to be a
flip as they back all the way up to the nice Ravis Vortex. Sop's seeing Brazil from escaping.
Now the rush, although it didn't event actually hit in the wall. Sanctuary comes in as well as that
Symmetra wall being popped by Alex will be a trade is that denihilation on the point of rips and tears through two players
Hydra now with a high noon on the high ground, but yeah, I mean Cal thinking that wall maybe surviving a little bit
Maybe a couple extra seconds or something. I don't just falling over but Blizzard is good enough for a kill
And Astro basically solo carrying this fight here on the ramp. That's what three kills almost four
Yeah, you take that team Canada with a flip
If we still do manage to get up to 32% so you're pretty happy with that but I think just a little bit too fast
Using the tuner rush to chase when Canada already disengaged left them at a disadvantage at the time
They came back in and an orbital ray here. You have to work with unless love would
That's so nasty
TP with the orbital ray in sir. I mean I love that going
a super high tempo against teams that a little bit less like a play time together. It's just
so nice. Just actually just can populate them. Brazil do end up capping the point, of course.
Team Canada have got Torres set up around the high ground here, so a bit more difficult for
Brazil to push in, but a flip. None of the lexity is going to be good. Yeah, and 39%
are not really winning a full team fight. Pretty darn good big teleporter there to actually get
Delca out just as the maywall went up obnoxious
Not by territory though for Canada
Which pushes in all eyes on the mud wig from this temperature down a little bit so you can walk up Astro
When he pushes on an ed or you can just take a lot of damage that works, too
Noxious the trigger fall right click from Hydra. Nothing has this blizzard to I do you're not using it here
You just yeah, hopefully just get a rock kill and this is actually what they do
Okay, I'm the cowling graveyard still come on with a pigs, but it won't matter but a 99% and you end up saving alts here for Brazil
Ideally, you're only using one in this fight to win it. It's kind of don't have too much to respond with not right now anyway
A bit of a whoopsy there, but it's actually really good because now one leg and use this lizard to stop Astro from walking into the team with the
Annihilation again, and I think they're feeling very good about that
that in particular, so half-tap choice, but Canada so aggressive with these teleporters.
Just want to take a point to point.
Yeah, the annihilation is going to be so good on this point.
In fact, the entire, the entire point currently bisected with the two of those walls.
This is going to fall a few people away, and now Astro pops that hole.
That push is not doing much for Ludwig at all, but the Cusino brushes are going to ring true here
for both Cal and Bazanella.
That's Rock from Darker, and Swell has the Flux.
I mean, this Flux, that's the Astro.
He's just so alone and isolated, and this wall is gonna cut off all the healing from Team Canada too, so this is Brazil.
Gonna come back in this point.
As 10% go now with Canada, only one player left standing, and they're gonna try and chase Noxus.
This is one of the enemies.
Oh, the team.
Uh, that's round.
That's bolder to the face, one dead Astro, and yeah, still, we're going to take round one there.
I said, the Astro with that wall was massive play from Hydro on there.
You put the wall in the middle of the point, Astro is already overextended to try and get ult kills, and then there's no healing.
And so he's alone, and then you flux him and he instantly dies. That was really nice play from Hydro.
You see, Darko only hit him that single death too, so really close here as Brazil take one round.
Yeah, I think I'm feeling very good about that. It really just came down to that one pick, honestly.
On to Noxious there. Dave, the neutral fight that Brazil needed to snowball their old economy back into a winnable spot.
And look at this, we're in the second more brawley-ish point of the rounds.
Very close quarters that I think sticking Hydron from match to Symmetra.
I'm going to suit you very, very well here. Only difference being the Juno versus Mizuki.
See how in Canada able to use that speed is still up for the post-bush that a little more open
You're high level of efficacy here from Marker being able to play on these corners
It's a missouki sanctuary. It's really going this point as well actually stopping that poke damage coming in a little bit of a failed attempt at a wall
All good, Valkyrie's going to be able to re-rotate, but now the May has kind of interrupted your rotation here.
Both Symmetra's are down, the Devil has been slain, but unfortunately Astro is going to follow with them.
Team Brazil are going to cap.
It starts to get a bit scarier once you have that freeze perk online as we already saw,
what with a lasting acro, into a very large popsicle there.
It's a lot more difficult now for Team Canada to be in the faces of Team Brazil,
Safely as before and having to walk into this will be difficult. You need Alex to realistically TP you
Creatively route some of these points. They're gonna just approach through this right angle
They don't want to give these small chokes shot at all even more room for the semester to work
Actually just needs to go to war. I mean that is really just the game plan here
Fakie with the TP, make them turn as Brazil drove a ward in their backs, but not the best
possible time.
It doesn't actually end up isolating, just makes Team Brazil go a different angle onto
the points.
I think we already killed this mate, so I mean, Canada, what's the game plan here, buddy?
You've got to try and isolate the signal, but it's just so tough.
I think Brazil are just doing a good job of being able to kite away.
Annihilation for Astro, but a flux is good, again.
Wow, Dhaka hitting these fluxes like no tomorrow.
hit two players and that was two kills for the Sigma as well. Nice work on Team Brazil so far.
They are making this work and honestly making it look pretty easy. Only two olds. I needed to be
committed there with all things considered. Pretty okay with that. And Brazil, I think are a little
more scared of this next fight. Kikai Sanctuary has my eyeballs from Moka. Seeing how they're able
to place that, you're going to need it for even the Metsune Rush. That's kind of coming up here
Even just defensive.
Yeah, don't mind that. Teleporting where as well, so Mokko doesn't up staying alive.
This Blizzard on the point might be big, but it's so late here from Team Canada.
Way too late in the day to try and get any kills. Chain on the May, easy kill, and wow, Brazil are just
rolling over Team Canada right now, and it might just be it. Yeah, I'm sure it's gonna jump on the Doomfist,
but the likelihood of you staying alive here on the Doom, close to zero, it's not even fun.
I'm getting to the point in time, but yeah, the wall isn't even going to help him unfortunately as team Brazil and they're coming up with a map
Okay, my bad team Brazil. I didn't know you played like that team Canada end up going down as a what a what a flash the pan star
Sorry, you know even a flash in the pan. It might not be I mean Brazil
showing up in a big way after team Canada's dominance even over the last couple years been true to fall in
a much more cup
Something to say to you was, yes, Brazil, I think they took a lot away from yesterday.
They want to play these brawl comps. They did a lot of forcing for this cat bastion.
So seeing them swap over, it is something that seems a lot more comfortable, is huge.
It seems like they had an answer for every single teleporter.
They knew what Team Canada's game plan was before it started.
They got a lot of these early picks. Their main walls are simply better in most of those matchups.
So with all of that being said, you're really happy about that.
that. If you're Brazil, um, getting upset and then falling it up by pausing and upset
of your own, it'll be a great way for them to turn around.
We saw my ball fires. Yeah, a really, really nice start. I'm expecting, I was expecting
coming into Canada and you two to be fair. We both said maybe a little three over team
Canada, but Brazil kind of proving us wrong and shutting us up for a moment. Mythic kitten
I think the one with me was the
big difference maker for me.
I had some good walls.
I like the salt here.
There were some tricky plays
going on.
I think the first couple of
fights where you're just having
Dalca just tank infinite damage
on the Sigma and then hoping
they survive and get picks.
Just wasn't it.
But as soon as they switched,
hydrogen onto the sim and then
lugged with May still.
I mean, yeah, pretty good.
I think the one with May was
the big difference maker for
me.
were some tricky plays but it just seemed once the wheels fell off the bus
between Canada in that one fight the Noctis got kicks and they lost any form
of momentum and could not string a fight went together after that point for the
remainder of the map and I'm not sure if it was kind of this Hormatra struggling
to face tank Ludwig after that freeze ray was up or whatever that may have
been they were just falling apart the angle control simply too strong for team
team. I think that's one of
the main assets that we can
see from team Canada. As
large as their roster is. The
flexibility that they have
behind it. Yeah, we'll see.
Yeah, you're expecting Canada
to have a lot of different
comms of their sleeve, but
team is still coming out with
the win already. I mean, that's
going to both of the
confidence. That's for sure,
especially in this group. You
mentioned before that team
to the confidence, that's for sure, especially in this group. You mentioned before that Team Canada
and Team USA probably aren't going to meet until they head to Busan if they end up winning their
group. I'm still expecting Canada and USA to make it there, but maybe Brazil has a fighting
chance as well in this group. Nice little map, we're going to start us off with,
there's Canada now, have to make their choice, where do we go next?
I think this is a big consideration for them, because I think another option you have,
all will be back. You do have the option of either any point plus false. It's just chilling on the edge as well.
For this team, if they want to go to one of those types of map, we do have I believe Poblato in there,
Mimbani. It's another good option if they want to do like a full 360 from what we've been looking at.
But I think after a map like that where Brazil were so heavily in control of the tempo,
it seems like the safest option, especially when you have that map pick and first man available to you.
just go for just run it down.
Ignore everything. Play ball.
You just got to. Yeah, false
coming in. Play the roadhog.
Maybe. Hey, we've seen a false
play roadhog a long time ago. It
can happen. And then maybe it
will. Another ex Vancouver
Titans player, by the way, but
well, okay, I'm saying Tizzy
like it's the Korean play Tizzy.
It wasn't, but you know, Vancouver
They want to go after this team Canada double flex support a lot of ability to play cut different cons probably not going to sit towards the Lucio
That's fine. You can play Juno
Not even Juno. I think we've seen in Canada if you're more towards these very greedy flex support homes
Or they can do like an auto the already together. Oh, they go into the home buff map
I mean, yes, home buff that is a home buff actually
They can't lose this it's actually impossible if they do it might be joe ver
it might be over for Canada, I'm sorry Canadians. It might be over if they lose this also Brazil aren't up to it. Just let you know they aren't one. It's not getting ahead ourselves.
Not going to get ourselves. Good at the Canadians are going to get mad at our own. But yeah, New Queen Street, a map that we rarely see these days. My word. I mean when push was like first introduced, it was New Queen Street was one of the most playing ones.
one. Runosapi, obviously a newer bush map, but wow this is, it feels like a throwback
I'm seeing this map again. It feels kind of strange. I've not seen it in so long.
It's not a common thing. I think if we do see it these days, it's four faster ponds.
I think the ball can still work really well here. The D.Va, so I'm interested if there
will actually be a tank sub for Team Canada, or if they will keep Asher in, since the
Directinballs are in the band, plus they have a different direction that they're wanting to go in,
But yeah, New Queen Street, a bit of an oddball, I think, with all the push maps.
I think it was a little weird first, just because teams didn't really know what to play.
I could feel awkward at times with how it goes.
But especially with the changes from Colosseum, yeah, I feel like so long ago,
the priority in pick for this map has just dropped off a cliff.
So maybe that's part of the strategy for Team Canada.
Say, you know what?
We know we have the home ground buff here.
Let's just practice it so we're unbeatable on it.
So any time that somebody meets us, they just don't know what to do.
Maybe that's a strat?
You need something to recover from that Antarctic Peninsula. That is all I can say.
That'll be fine. They got the mental. They got the mental, I believe.
I think RuneSappi, honestly, in real, is just a better map compared to New Queen Street, just the layout-wise.
I think with New Queen Street, fighting over the checkpoint is so much more difficult.
There are a lot less angles to kind of take.
you can tell the mini staircase next to us log. You can take like an even wider angle if you really want to, but normally you're just fighting and fighting them on like where the middle of the map is where the mega health back is. It can be really tough. So yeah, we'll see if team Canada can trip up team Brazil as we head to this one.
Which I've done that in just a moment. I think when it comes to bands
Sure, I mean ball has been banned away
Team Canada can play the wrecking ball here if they want to they chose to ban the cat actually, you know cab action on the spam
Yeah, obviously not too bad, but if they want to play something like a ball go quick then yeah, probably the plan to play
Thank you. You're pretty okay with that
Team Canada have stated multiple interviews that they do not like this comp and they will find other options to it
So they're just going to say, you know what they're going to play, what we want to play,
on this map, we're going to want to beat a cat.
The Cassidy, I think it's a bit of an interesting one.
It is one of those heroes that we can see Enoxious really pop off on if you wanted to
pull it.
Also tells me Brazil might be wanting to go for a bit of a faster play style themselves,
perhaps, as that can be a bit of a change.
But speaking of changes, we do have a substitution.
Actually Alex will be coming out razor will be going in on this map plus a couple of subs on Brazil
Wow, everybody's changing up
Hey, you going to a map that you've not already played a whole bunch recently. I mean sure why not kind of they're taken to
the home field advantage map the Toronto map new Queen Street razor in like you mentioned mints and
Was he in 14 Brazil? Hey?
Okay, new Wrecking Ball teams, I think this is starting to make sense and you're not really
going to want to play the May sort of flex CPS with that anyway, so throwing mids back
into the mix also makes sense.
First time that we'll actually be seeing them play out the end today, same with Wizzy, so
get a bit of their day view in this World Cup conference, excuse me, online qualifiers.
But yeah, Wrecking Ball near big difference goal. I think this Mizuki for graveyard has a lot of potential to change the game
Yeah, so when you got double flex support, you know, no Lucian is gonna be played
I like it though. You're kind of gonna be hanging around with the sojourn anyway
Just hoping for a pick so not too bad. Even if he just stopped dives as well with a chance. Why nice
Wrecking Balls though. Speaking of dives, there you go. Instantly change the Wrecking Balls
We can't do anything. Nice kill from Kalos starts off strong 14 candidate. Back to a couple of picks. Back to back. Very quick is
Reckonball, I can't really set up without changing it.
Yeah, and Braver is still going to be the key player for this match.
If you can just stop every single dive from Wizzy like that,
oh, there's not really much else you can do.
There's no counterdive, there's no real turn and burn without that tank,
enough of a stall.
I just concerned, and even Razor, being on this Reaper with the burst potential,
if you can manage to get close to one of these L-Dive targets,
or for some reason,
if you get too close to your backline, you're there to cover.
Well, he is in a bit of an awkward spot. We'll have to wait that out.
Oh, and Hydro. One of the characters he's known for in the Soju and played a whole bunch when he was playing in Tier 1.
Mokka and Hydro pick up kills. There we go. Okay, that's what I'm talking about.
That's a little body shot from Hydro. Takes down Cal.
Very sweet, though, this map, especially with how quick you can get back to the fight,
as Astro just rolls in and kills the Tracer, because it scores Astro a very good wrecking ball player.
And I want to see quite a side to the ball here. I think Astro is very fun to watch when he's on one of his favorite picks.
Picking up two like that, that's a good start. And while Team Brazil, sure, they got a couple of picks themselves, but resetting this map is just so tough against ball.
That's just kind of the nature of these competitions too. It's highly unlikely that you're going to see a clean team kill.
very deathmatchy
Well, uh, that post bomb, yeah, I didn't do anything. Everybody already walked out of the way and got booked away
Yeah, like you said, very team deathmatch. Very, very team deathmatch. Surely you don't let this point, well, they're gonna get it
Well, okay
Okay, well, the team deathmatch has to stop at some point for team Brazil here. Okay, it's kind of, uh, walking away with it
I did have an ult online here, I do expect those to start to come out and love the consumer
rush from Fast and Allity to wait for that to come out, like how far up, where is he,
how is he not just in the backline right now?
Please stop the wrecking ball, please.
Someone get a somber at some point, the ball is just taken over this map.
I saw some Hydra on the top assisting in that wrecking ball kill.
Okay, but the problem is they already are checking on you.
And in Canada whatever you lose that fight
Not not not the best thing, but not just in a different zip code there before
It was all picked off and first ones are still up and I'll be taken away
So make sure that everybody on the team Canada take this flight and they have so many options
How they can do it many shiny buttons and the setup and here's how the death blossom will be played like ladies defense
Oh, my Lucio!
Nice dive from Astro, set up very well with the Disruptor shots.
They do trade, sure, but, like, you have Noxus on this off angle now.
Both the backliners end up going down, however, but spinning to win is Razor.
Nice little dive there on the Sojo, who looked fairly tantalizing to dive upon, as the death match continues.
Well, we lost the Tracer, so it should be fine.
It is a ball against the Reaper, so don't think Wasi wants to stay around.
We've lost the tracer, somehow Team Brazil lost the plot.
They're wearing that fight, so scattered with how this is actually playing out, which it is how it can look,
but if you're gonna hands-check somebody, I don't think Team Canada necessarily the one you want to do that with.
They're still very conservative with their resources, you know, the third fight they'll be entering,
hit their support ult, so the last squeeze he gets out of this one alive might be longer.
I'm gonna trade in a nice post one connection on to the surge, but it will be team Canada
using that rush. Sanctuary comes in as well. Stop with that incoming fire. Sambari hits
4-4 Brazil. Team Canada just still playing deathmatch at this point, as Mokka has said
very low close to the edge of the map. And there's just no semblance of control from
Brazil right now. It's very hard, obviously, in these comps to like pin down a fight, but
It feels like Astro is doing the mostest right now for the entire team.
The amount of work this guy is doing, bopping people around, and also just staying alive is a little absurd.
Like, yeah, we're seeing Sissy and the kill feed a little bit more, but I think for Astro, the work you do outside of that matters more.
So we do have the pause coming in, hopefully nothing too crazy going on behind the scenes, but we'll be back in shortly as in.
We're kind of at like, I don't even want to say a fight win, like a pause in our team deathmatch anyways.
There's no fight wins, Molly. I hate to break it to you. There are no fight wins.
It is, we've maybe had one when that team kill came through on the what the, the little checkpoint there, but there's no fight wins.
It is just picks, and that's it. We're playing pick overwatch.
Astro, by the way, is nine and one with 5k damage.
Wow. Okay.
Leaving the team. By the way, yeah, I feel like he's doing the most of this right now.
the team is going to win.
It's going to get shut down by
the trace of the Reaper. It's
just it's just so hard against
record specifically unless you
come in with a counter. Looks
like we are on pausing though.
As we get back into this map.
Let's go Astro with a nice kill
and well now they've got
checkpoint again. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Now they've got checkpoint again, so they've got checkpoint and the forward spot.
Yeah, and they're normally like, alright, when you get checkpoint it's a bit tricky, but against this comp, where it's so hard to peel people off of the payload,
what are you going to do? Have them play it for Brazil? You've got to come up to win, Con, and you're hoping it's Hydra.
Uh, Graveyard was in Narnia there, no man's land straight up.
He doesn't have a TP. As Hydra gets blasted in the back of their head by Razor,
I mean, that is unfortunate, Hydra. And they're popping the ult as well.
WC and WC just go dueling out against two players, but an instant suzerain will save the day as Mokko goes down to Astro somewhere in Antarctic Peninsula still.
As with 60 meters and counting here, Team Canada very much in control.
Team Canada's splits are just so much better. I mean having Noxious set up with Pell, Razor with graveyard and Astro, doing whatever the heck he wants, I just won't be in this main area because there's a minefield and...
I just got back
Me when I respawn and then get instantly crushed by the ball. This is fantastic not even on a rotation by the way
I'll spawn for mid. I asked to recall super early on use those mines for defense there
Well, we want to get its cow not someone you want to face in the one we want
Especially cows on the Kyroko. That's for sure death blossom and that's a couple of kills there razor assisting in a second one
Bazinala goes down and with her death that signals the end of the team play and finally we have salt team death matching
It is actually a team kill.
There we go. It's real. It can happen, people, confirmed.
Team Canada, though, is so good at the map control.
It seems that Brazil have sort of been corralled,
whereas Canada are taking safe angles and winning them out.
For the most part, saw that sandwich between Noxus and Razor with their own ultimates.
We'll leave them slightly less often going ahead,
but the big early on to Hydron, plus a Katsune rush,
they're gonna be okay.
Just work for mid, sir. Force the recall super early, though.
post one out of the window didn't even break any class there didn't even fall to the ground about it looks things just stuck on the
Window sale all right team Canada they're gonna be using this rush to
Looking like a full cap angle as well. Most missuki change
Chains are just so frustrating if you're a wreckable player the reapers right next to you too. So you just get actually destroyed
full cap here for team Canada by the looks of things to think get on the pick
It won't quite get them they're close enough to the spawn that ashore cannot poke them
for that long, but another mind steal here.
Definitely could change the game as Brazil need to get out of the spot.
Oh, Pazanello so close to going down.
Sanctuary gets popped as well.
Graveyard falls to the Wrecking Ball.
It's mixed, you know what, decide to emergency fire a time.
Fire straight into the Sanctuary a couple of times and realize actually,
yeah, those projectiles went absolutely nowhere.
There's the Wrecking Ball player down for Team Brazil.
It's like Team Canada are going to be able to clean up now.
An emergency Sanctuary, but it's looking just about over,
Especially with this death blossom from razor and team Canada will tie this a map up only a couple players left
And he's clean there you go
Classic push moment where he doesn't enter the next five minutes because the wrecking ball is just swinging around the final point
Someone kill the ball, please
There we go. The ball's dead
And there it is wait. There's someone else such as the point blockers here half a second team Canada and there we go
Okay, one to one team Canada coming up with a very swift victory on their hometown map new Queen Street
I don't know what you've done if you lost this battle, but you would have been pretty sad.
I think you would have ulted full and uninsulted if you had lost at 140 meters.
That would have been the biggest comeback in history in Overwatch, but yeah, like you said, you can kind of win here, of course.
Now, it was real.
I think this is just the call. You're so much more comfortable in this than you are probably.
Maybe not even just comfort. Like, it's your game.
Unless you're going out of your way to specifically practice this, which you're not unless you have a very
strong wrecking ball player
You're going to win this nine times out of ten
I do want to commend it Brazil for taking that flight two in them trying to
Got around but on the start as he said 22 and one with almost what 9.2 K
Dan is pretty good
Good pretty good and cooking it up with the Reaper as well
You can tell a lot of time has gone into this 14 Canada Brazil
So it's a tough fight from the start.
You'll have the map over them so you're not at match point or anything, but it does show
how important these map picks and bans are going to be going through the rest of the
series.
And you can see where the reckonable was banned map one.
Yeah.
We, I mean, come on.
We went to Antarctica to be fair, but it's not the best control map of all time, but
hey, that is Team Canada up a map now.
One and one, so we're going to a minimum of four maps here.
How well Team Brazil can actually ban out this kind of comp, because they will just want to keep playing Ashe from the wreckable.
I mean, I'm sure that's fine. A lot of these open maps for the catbash is pretty good.
I mean, Team Canada can just play the ball and play a quick comp.
So yeah, we'll see if the substitutions ends up being swapped around here for Team Brazil as we go into the next round.
And I think any, like, Flashpoint map would be a no-go.
That seems a little tricky, especially with no wrecking ball ban, unless you're like, walking in a new jump city and maybe take away one of the king parts of the creature or Reaper even, but I think for the most part, the map pool is more suited to what the team Brazil want to play.
If they want to force some of these brolic comps, a king's row is still available as an option.
You have the circuit rail even if you want to go back to that side of things, which honestly, I'm kind of expecting that to come out being the the Sigma made it scan angle that Brazil had a lot of success on.
Yeah, I can definitely see that. Yeah. King circuit anywhere like bulls not good. Actually, we can still play the march for those. So I'm not sure the level of priority for team Brazil banning out the tanks.
We'll see obviously they'll get a bad first so they could ban out like a rematra for astro and then go on to like kings
Because astro on sigma is not gonna happen. They have false so yeah, it's tough
I think the fans as well are definitely gonna have to decide dictate where team Canada wants to go
Team pump as well
That's pretty cool. I like what you have teams with such different strengths
So you're going to be very careful about the decisions that you are making with the map
fix band.
It might seem a little bit more forward-facing normal, but not necessarily as- yeah, I think
this does make sense.
You're not going to play the wrecking ball here for the most part, you will be running
into a death ball that Brazil once set up on this new junk city map, and yeah, I think
for shades of Antarctic Peninsula, likely to come on in, see what ends up getting banned?
I cannot imagine it's like May or even if they seem to play with that very well
And more likely you want to do it. I'm almost thinking like a support fan in a way
Off this double flex support
Yeah, I wouldn't mind that actually a little support fan. I think honestly just banded around here much strong
Just getting rid of that so I sure can't play for all as well and then just runs a sick and then forces sick
I think we're going to get
some. I think we're going to
get some signal. It's like we
are getting some
substitutions, though. Alex in
for razor on the DPS team
Brazil have Ludwig coming in
for this. Um so I'm thinking
here that is going to be back
to the main shenanigans. Also
a tank substitution to stop
go back in. So it looks to me
Yeah, I think you absolutely need to be playing.
If you're gonna play the second we need to make,
that's something that we've seen earlier on.
Otherwise, you are just going to struggle,
especially if you ban that out.
And I think that is the risk too,
of banning the Wattra,
is that that may does get left as an option for a ban.
It's not that Team Canada necessarily did bad with it.
They just seemed to,
they weren't getting the same amount of value
I think we were seeing from Ludwig,
and it just shut down almost every single fight
in that back half of an art decononance to our Newark City.
I will play very similarly to that map in general.
Something has got to change.
Yeah, wrecking ball's available.
I don't really think you care about that.
You're out in Canada, and this was the concern.
If you take away another one of these things,
the may build be gone.
Yeah, you got a band of may here for sure.
I mean, look what happened with that one.
I mean, the may was a little nasty from like what you said.
Okay, like that band from Team Canada.
Brazil gonna ban the Kiri so again very like okay we want to play like this
Sigma so we can we can even play like Juno Brigg we can really bring it back
Juno Brigg sig you can still play sim you could have like a Reaper too I mean
there's plenty of angles that Brazil could can go even without the May so
you'll see what kind of the kind of respond with I think it's a smart man
and now that may just get the
there's two devils in this game.
I firmly believe Molly sin
and may that those the two demons of this game, they
they need to be stated at some point.
So I'm glad they said so we are in a very dark place and map one is around.
Oh, we are in the darkest, but we're in the darkest time level time.
We're seeing two.
We're seeing the the sin may mirrors and it is just walls everywhere.
Like, yeah, we were in we were in a dark place,
but thankfully this map a little bit brighter.
It's amazing that that.
We'll see what luck we will in some way.
Vincent is still not playing so well.
I mean, yeah, but you know what?
One is better than two in that situation.
I would firmly argue.
This would be something if we end up going for it.
I'm not gonna comment on that for now,
but I think for Team Canada,
targeting the flex support,
I think makes a lot of sense for Brazil,
but playing in honor here can be a bit risky.
It will be helpful into Dark Osmogna and a lot of the composition, but actually staying alive is going to be another story.
You can be easy to engage on, so that support from Graveyard.
All the more important is there's still some evil in the world. Alex will be almost dead.
This is so sad.
This is so sad, but it's okay. You know what?
The Ana is going to see play. This cow's best hero, by the way, by quite large barge, you know what I'm saying?
Kau's Ana is kinda crazy as he instantly gets destroyed, stomped on, turned to like, moosh on the side of the street.
That's... you know what, Kau? That's on me, buddy. My bad.
Yeah, so that's kind of the problem with Kau. On this point specifically, maybe on some of the more open ones,
you can force it, but it would all go on this. This is a hard death crawl.
Let's all hold hands and run at them together. Kind of pump, that is not what Canada wants to be messing with.
I think Alex on Reaper, it's much more sense than Zetori Delka, Astro, more survival ability on the Sigma, so...
He's gonna be here up, and it's a good Bionave from Cowell, who doesn't seem to have much follow-up.
Oh, wow. Oh, there we go, there he is.
Yeah, Nox is put on a crazy little off angle there.
Good day from Cowell, that starts to stop real well.
And that's the big problem here, not having the Kiriko, Brazil banged Kiri, it's like, well, the art is pretty good.
Yeah, Darker is like, yep, not going to stick on the mag, absolutely no shot.
Bramway much easier to stay alive, you can endemis this ball if you get made it.
I feel like we're in a game for tape, rock, tape, or scissors here.
Astro may be coming back to the modulator point in Fallenback.
For now, no ultimates really online, and enough.
You're going to take advantage of that. Having Al set up now, these bio-mates are in huge win
condition. You don't have to worry about not hitting the switch either.
I just think the unstoppable charge on it can't sure that that would get too close, but already in the back line, Alex under pressure.
Rotate if you're seeing counter-deserts. All you need to do is just permanently rotate around this high ground, and ideally you don't get caught.
Nice little knave there, end of saving Graveyard's life. This is under so much pressure.
And then I know how it's cut already, but that flux was unbelievable from Astro.
Hit three players, well, two players, bit of a miss.
No, it just does the rest with the railgun triple for the carry soju
It's cow that's exactly what you're gonna do
You're just gonna play a wet not away from graveyard, but to a point where like if graveyard gets jumped on
Your team Brazil you're committing a lot to try and kill that Mizuki and then cow can kite back and then pop
Mano on someone if they end up going down low so good
We now get to the next
soft pushing with this composition either. A little of the ultimate to walk on in.
Bionic though, very scary. In for it on the right.
With it going out onto Ludwig, I think this is the opportunity that Zill are looking for
because he's headed up, now forced to take a different angle out of this place.
Not just the odd one.
Nano Reaper. Oh, Nano, there's some nice little bash there in the frontline,
but Mokka's already down. And look at this, Nano Reaper, go.
A good whiff, actually sends Perling over the edge, quick teleport to the high ground though.
we'll make sure he's in a better position to do damage.
Unfortunately, Fyce already over here for team Brazil.
Nano Reaper straight into the front line with the deathblossom.
That's how you win a teamfight.
Yeah, I think identifying that, oh wait, the soldier's not applying.
Okay, let's just walk into the rest of the team and take this ad from Page's fight.
And it is actually going to be a swap from Brazil.
They want to lean into that a bit more.
We're back on the Symmetra, whether we like it or not.
or not, so they can trip up to Team Canada and close that gap a bit faster on both Kalv and Astro,
so they're gonna be earning as many resources as just to take this easy flight to the Kalv's they're lurking.
Oh, look at him go!
Wait a second, they definitely don't have to expect him, but he has to get in there real quick.
What was a raid? The Nade's good for three as well, unbelievable Nade from Kalv.
He hits a couple of shots there on Zmokka, but Nef completely alone and isolated in the front line,
and unfortunately that hero Nade hitting three players only resulted in one kill.
As Brazil, a little bit too quick there, Canada aren't able to capitalise on cow's harmonics.
Yeah, the only one that didn't get hit by the maid there was Delta, and using that annihilation inside of the Oroboray still is Gary's sight, so unfortunately, just could not get close enough to actually follow up on that plan.
more options now for Team Canada as they look to approach Noxious, but lighting up on these
overclock recently highlighted that matchup in the high run is about getting out of this
metro, so if it's a Noxious show, if he can button at a good time, find these shots, then
it's out.
Noxious is going to connect, it's going to be easy thinking safe and Noxious is already
doing a lot of damage to the frontline with this overclock.
And again, a very good ult from Astro.
It sets the team up very well.
I mean, if you're pushing into the shirt like that, you just got no chance unless you have a, uh, support, but you're gonna lose to me.
HAHAHA!
You will die to the Flaps.
Yeah, no, there's not really much options, especially with allies right there. Just blast ya in a small corner.
Very few options. Canada.
As soon as you Brazil can get a touch, teleporters there, they're on the point, but a sleeper on the one hand-
Oh, this is so good.
Yeah, look, wait, does it know getting out alive is an Anabuce that's gonna come in? Oh, and the Nades, who cal on a-
just a divine angle as the only boots on the repo.
That'll be all. Thank you very much.
Come on. Give me one more.
Gazing down. You bagging.
That one felt personal.
I've been a lot of person.
I will say there's been a lot of that.
And that's what I will say one thing, Molly.
The World Cup does really bring out the fun BM Banta side of things as well.
Brett T-Baggin in the last game left a little bit. I think Canada and the USA always have a good time as well.
Ashens are getting bashed, but not before he gets isolated too with a dead boss and then once again, Calf,
proving how damn good they are on the honor. It's three with a biome in the front.
Brazil licking their wounds a little bit, crying maybe out of both eyes and having to back up.
But if Astrum didn't die there, I wish they'd have the old, just win that fight easily.
But I can just walk up to the point for free and this is suddenly a fight that Brazil very had to take with the photon barrier
Not much Canada to do. You want to answer it, Astro. This is now the second fight
I don't know to pop the wall here on as a point. They're still willing to kind of stay in this one because of that alternate
Great beyond just goes down to high point. Sure, so it's help by tricking
I was curious if he's gonna use Sanctuary and despite that very early teamfight here coming through to Canada
They end up just flopping over like a fish on dry land. That will be Brazil also staggering cow
Okay, love we didn't eat it in there probably could have just died to the turret, but all good staggered cow for a brief moment
On my left and my right hand
Brazil though
Ooh!
Was rekt with his clean off?
Flux ends up coming through in that choke point,
Kallen trouble, and yeah, with the...
with the Orbital Ray, there's just no way you're not instigating someone there.
Well, there's no other which just...
Yes!
A good focus fire from Team Canada ends up bringing down the Sigma.
And now, unfortunately, Mokka's 1HP scurrying for cover.
It's Noxus's save.
The whole Team 5 for Team Canada are picking up two kills.
Uh, what'd I say?
Not just can find an angle.
Well, that's kind of the only thing that's gonna stop that.
Oh, that did also put himself on a bit of an island. Can't do it when Astro was on the Lacha of Pust-Kalus all eyes.
Always a threat to Wario, so Canada will be denied the extra points in Brazil for a time.
Being in one-fight territory for them.
But Nannolation though, as a win gone here for Team Canada, that is terrifying. If I am Brazil.
Oh, nice.
You say no, this is the war for board.
I don't think he even needs the ult here. I'm gonna be honest here.
Yeah, just nanoboost nemesis form run it down and again a good state from Cal so that was like what half HP
And the start of that fight can't get here
There's not much I think holding on to annihilation is gonna be really helpful because now we're staying Brazil
Build up some more of those resources. It'll be really easy to get to the point
Adjust with the combination
Teleporter
I'm a wall bit, I sure want to take it like to Brazil, they're my Bionade!
Oh my name from Kals!
The teleport I think came through in the native 5, the wall comes up and there it goes!
Oh Kals again, with an unbelievable Bionade, they just can't capitalize because of the wall!
I like Brazil, they'll take the point, they're gonna make sure they're not completely swept on this new junk city game,
but in fact they're able to pull that through is kinda crazy!
All things considered, we'll be going to the more open of the next match, which I think you like.
Just with the Sigmund a little bit difficult crash that gets you, but it's now harder to get to Cal's.
So, two sides of the same coin here, you have to figure out how to deal with.
If you're in Canada, getting into a space, getting noxious in a position to succeed is the name of the game.
Stickin' this guy on the high ground, on and off angle. Okay, well not that high ground, welcome.
He's up there already with the team and just gonna deny the silver clock entirely.
And I know the good name in the back line, like just walk up this one for free, just firing shots down range, there's noxis.
I mean I should claim the high ground for free, there's the deathboss with Smilex, again getting two kills off Rift.
There's nothing there, maybe apart from a whipshot, a small little pathetic bash from the non-ultin brick shield, sure.
There's just nothing you can really do against the Reaper, or if you get some good TP.
I'm sorry, I'm just laughing at the sound of the reaper going RUAAAHHHHH falling off the map there
He didn't know, he didn't know, doesn't need to do anymore
No, it's fine
But yeah, Brazil
There, that was that stuff
You can't do much about results, this is-
Okay, don't let him get away with this game
No way, no way
Don't let him get away with this game
Me and I just uh, a-banged in the front line
And yeah, goodbye team
I'm loving this
The Ana players just playing on the front line and then just lobbing the nade
Although, saying that Hydra and Mokka still get kills
But the problem is, Astro still has these ult.
There is going to be Alex in the front line,
going dangerous, you know.
Here's the ship to get away,
but it's all on Astro to carry this fight,
and he's going to do it with these.
He's just got so many resources to play with here,
and even with this wall,
Hydra's just going to get walked at.
The team cannot stand up to the might of Astro,
and Team Canada looking to take this one away.
No choice there, knowing it was last fight between Brazil.
Ad, you've got to push!
Ad, and they have to find a way to touch this.
You've got to push!
The break's half a speed and here's the Razzie, right.
Vazanella goes down and Astro continues the rampage and the doom ends up costing the point eventually,
but this point is just Astro all day every day.
Team Canada now on match point, a 2-1 in this series so far.
Brazil only taking that control.
Yeah, Brazil without the May really struggled into this brawling type of matchup that I don't know,
was able to put forwards and the Cal honor? I mean, honestly, would you have rather
at PepsiCurico just so you don't have to worry about it? I mean, that's something that will be
a wound for a while for this team. This is kind of a candidate we were expecting to see
come out today. They know where their strengths are, they know where their weaknesses are,
they have targeted it perfectly with the map picks and bans.
I'd say Brazil can work some more magic like they did on map number one.
Otherwise, this is looking all red and white.
the game. And I'm not sure
what the other players are
doing. And then. And Brazil
are like, Why did we ban the
carry man? How is just hitting
these fat aunties like over and
over and over again. Well,
looking good though on the
deaths. They've all got 10
each. So you know what team
synergy on point can't be
17 Canada, couple players with
seven the rest with six is
but yeah, that map was all
at the end of the day. I would
definitely give it to either
Astro or cow Astro for that
last point specifically, but
cow hitting these are crazy
made. Hiding on the flanks.
Honestly, Molly. That's not so
used to seeing any more like,
you know that whole like the
classic eight made from the
other players where they just
run forward and just made like
the classic one like that or
like hiding around the corner.
When was the last time you see
that kind of work like Kerry
it's nice to see that strat still working out for Team Canada.
Yeah, definitely not seen before Hero Band has been anything. I can tell you that much.
Here we go. Being as present as she has been, this is a great look for Cal and the rest of Team Canada.
Going on a head to the series, yeah, if we still get the next map, yeah, we'll have the May event.
Even if they do those options kind of like that Circuit Royale or something that we were talking about before,
You're kinda, your hand is forced here.
You are going to be needing to take that one away
unless you are wanting to play Griggo,
Souls, or Shurf.
So yeah, it just seems that every map we go to,
it seems like, uh-oh, that's another problem,
that's another problem, that's another problem
you think about for Team Canada,
and some ways it seems like this mountain of issues
is getting a little too high.
Yeah, it's like, whoa, we banned the ball on map one,
we can't ban a map two and it's a ball map.
something we spoke about what maybe 20 minutes ago circuit real still in the
pool so it's gonna be Brazil picking that one up and you for sure have the main
and I hope you protect that signal I think you that is a must for this team
you do not I don't think you want to play oh I'm not sure if you're a monster
here I have the absolutely I think you banned the rematch off stuck it up with
the Kiriko you'll have or the auto how's the Kiriko back if you're able to
encounter that a bit more, but I do not think in any world should you be allowing the rematch to return, especially with Galka being the best on the Sigma.
Yeah, I'm trying to think how Canada kind of familiar too with Backline, because Arna is great on this map obviously at Longside Lions, the Adi-Adi-Ada, but also you can't just play like Alari as well.
So if you go for the Sigma head to head, like, okay, we just play double flex with the, with the Alari as well, like, Alari in general, extremely good.
This is her best map, like, hands down, but you can't, I can't really think of another one.
Maybe something like Numbani is good as well. Hollywood's pretty decent, but Circuit Ray out, any kind of range poke, it's just so good.
So I do fear for Brazil coming in, because I do agree with you.
If you end up having to protect the SIG, you end up just banning RAN.
But if you don't go that direction, maybe you ban something like an aggressive character
to get out of the hands of Cal.
It's tough.
I think Brazil against the Rockin' Owl place in Canada aren't going to let them go down easy.
It's just figuring out what's the answer of two evils for this team.
Right.
I think there's definitely more resources to deal with, like, in Anahor and Yari, just with the nature of the map and here it go existing.
I don't think the same can be said for the Ramatra, unless you are so confident in this Ludwig made to shut it down completely, which you did a great job of that before.
But we are on a completely different map with different architecture that can make this a bit more tricky to play around.
And with that in mind, the support's being much more of a threat than they were.
I do not think you want to invest in that risk too, too much.
And if you just go for the safer option, set yourselves up for success, because you are down two match points and lost here.
And pretty much eliminates your chances of moving on into this...
There we go.
Hi.
There we go.
Hi.
Rematch for Bands.
Just saying, we both called it.
Yeah.
We're pretty smart like that.
Kiriko banned for Team Canada as well. So, you know what that leads me to believe?
You could play the Alari too, because you can't cleanse the alt either, or you can just rock the
honor again. Smart ban though, from Brazil. Taking away the brown. Please, Astro, don't smack me in
the face for the minute of the time. I already have a concussion. My medical bill is too high, boss.
That one hurted. This is going to be hard for Team Brazil. You've lost so much momentum.
What you did in that earlier map don't have the hero picks it you're necessarily wanting to leave
And I'm expecting on a yardy for this backline. I don't think there's any way that we don't play it
We've seen a ton of the yardy from get rave yard in particular
He's loved to pull that one out and that's Kiriko becomes all the more deadly like honestly
I'm more scared of the supports than I am the DPS in this match on this map
100% supports finally our time in this
I'm from Lucia players, unfortunately.
You should say Fletcher Jax, you will be a Nord.
Yeah, exactly. I'm sorry men supports.
It just be like that sometimes, you know what?
We'll see what Brazil want to do with their backline.
It could just again be the break, could be the Tudor.
Now we're going to see Lucia as Darker is still in
and definitely going to play the Sigma.
Ana, wouldn't mind that at all.
Mokka, maybe.
You could even play, hit me out real quick.
You could even play the Mizuki. I think perhaps not a bad option either.
But they have got the two demons on the team, the two devils. So we have the Mei and the Sim back.
Yeah, and that part does suck. Okay, Mokou does actually go back and swap back to the Zuki.
I like it. Yeah, I like it. I think it's good for a lot of these closer quarters range,
sanctuary, such a good ultimate. You're playing against poke anyway. So it's like,
You have you you kind of need the aoe healing away and also the sanctuary. It's so good on course
So popping it down the corner. It makes the fight almost unwindable as we see cow
Well, they're on honor. Yeah, bang Kiri play honor and a lorry on it now. We're cooking chat. Oh, yes a lorry honor
Flex supports a dream on this map
No, the problem Alex on the floor. There is no answer to this
There's no answer
The answer was the ten of over that was right next to
I don't think you swap of your hydra on I mean, unless you just walk back
It's not look like he's doing that through the wall there
So I will still be playing on this card and this is where the corner starts to get scary
Okay, there we go now those are swaps to make a lot more sense. You don't want Alex to get a free fight
Yeah, this you have to start by smeller as well. Swapping to the honor. Okay. There's two players now that can check the farra
The this is the most defensive angle of all time from the honor, but you kind of have to be unfortunately
You don't want to get Bob Bob gone ahead by Alex by any trust the imagination and also you take it as a caliphate from graveyard, too
This is close to the extreme
3 from Team Canada which is hard for Brazil because you need to play around this may wall
and that's not an ideal angle, it's more of a defensive get away from me type of thing
which I'm sure happy to do that as the pilot pulled back.
Look at the health bar by the way on Team Brazil.
The support players cannot catch a break right now, all the system is being over to the
Lyre themselves but Rock into Nade, no hands, this is very over this first point.
It's tough.
It's real tough.
Farah's hitting rockets long range.
If you're, I was gonna cut it.
If you're graveyard, if you're a lari,
is also just playing an aggressive angle,
you need instant picks.
And you're just not gonna get that with a castie man.
No, they want to get close and they're on the reaper.
So yeah, you're still gonna try to get close
to this pokecloth, but they just can't take these fights.
Especially look how open this part of the map is.
A very few places to hide, especially from the Farah.
But it blocks up now from Astro.
unless we see some sort of cancellation by either a sleeve or a rock, the light's out for still.
Okay. Oh my word, they're actually just sending him in. Okay, yeah, once happened,
I'll just decide that, you take that. Ultimate from Graveyard. Here was Mokka.
High noon. Hydro, I think the fight's already done, mate, sadly. Oh, the flashbang's good for
the kill onto Cal, though Team Canada are still in this, they're gonna try and chase down the DPS.
Ludwig TP's away. Hydro, unfortunately, stuck with only his feet to work with, there's Astro.
It's able to just to clean up the fight.
I mean it was a good forward push there onto Coward the Nano, but yeah that's already finished and look at the ult's kind of to have already to save, I mean, eesh.
It's holding on to that flux, dudes. Kind of insane.
I threw out all of that. Galca will have it to match. Like if you can get that with the Captain's Onshore, doing that is one thing. You gotta get out of this choke first.
Oh, the- yeah, I think she's gonna get out.
There's the flux and already back is down overclocked to just submit the victory in the fights
Just an extra kills to the Katie a Katie a
You've got to boost those stats. You know not just really to say I am the better-hits game player here
Yeah, he's gonna get the space to work with to already starting that wrap around leaving Alex. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa
This is a Peggy 12 stream
Peggy 12
Well, that was, you might as well be playing the high ground, at a minimum, and of course,
the box is in the back of the pad, and it's the captain's son!
Sitting in the sky above the captain's son, two connections, actually insane, hits three!
Oh, knocker, what a play!
Hits three, plays the captain's son!
Darker stills, two of those away!
That was an insane, oh, big combo actually, the captain's son with the flux,
Really tough to actually deal with it unless there's a suzu available
Team Canada though, they're gonna be happy both those ults were out very high impact
The fact that it's like you could see an outline of where that all was going
That's the only way I could believe mocha man
You should find that angle actually incredible there and it sets up team Brazil perfectly easy Canada pushing through the choke
It's not easy and one way to make even harder.
Yep. Oh good sleep
Oh they're gonna barrage him. Oh the disrespect is crazy for that X
Good shot as well from Cal, sleeping the Nanna Reaper.
We're going to get through this choke point as soon as they heal up.
Oh, the Nanna! Oh, the Nanna of the Fara!
Hainu from Hydra, it's a plug and trigger, a three-man anti as well from Basinella.
But there's just no follow-up there at all, just the Nanna Fara is just way too powerful.
A good little conch onto the Ana Flair, they need to clear out Basinella.
Gravia just can't do with it, got hit three times there, Lugwit comes in with a slide kill.
Oh, this is scrappy, so tonight's team deathmatch all over again, but eventually a semblance of control for Canada as they end up cleaning up the team fight.
The range advantage is too much, I think for this team.
It's really fight against, speaking of range, Hydron on the Widowmaker now?
Oh, this is a vintage Hydron play.
I'm loving this.
Okay.
There's a shield there, there is a shield.
He wouldn't guys, he wouldn't hit the headshot, but the shield is in the way.
Yeah, healers. Sorry. No, we're support players. We don't heal.
Put the enemy turret ahead.
As we said before, this game started.
Supports much more of the threats and the DPS.
They're at the final corner.
They want to stop Delka from getting to the point, but...
Ali's on an insane off angle as well.
Oh, the nade is so good.
Good shot from Hydron. Just whips around the corner there.
Doesn't end up killing Cal, but don't matter.
Oh man, supports too good.
Callan Graveyard going crazy on that round.
I think it's so difficult to match these two.
Canada, one of my concerns when I saw this roster announcement
was how are you going to make this work
with the two Flex support players?
And I think that having this meta with Ana Eari
in such good spots as they are
and having these two on your side is fantastic.
Could that be a problem in the future?
Perhaps, but I think for Gow,
It is something they can absolutely roll with and doing it to the highest degree here very very few desks on their side
It's I mean it's been very one-sided we totally honest other than that one highlight play combo from mocha and delca
Little wing conditions little signs of life from this team Brazil roster. We're just they gotta get a full completion
What's some on this I mean two minutes. Yeah, it is crazy style on a second real, so
So, yeah, it's gonna be a tough affair here for Team Brazil.
Match point as well for Team Canada, mind you.
I would, man, I would love to see Hydron on Widow.
I would really enjoy it.
Hydron, if you can hear me, you cannot hear me,
but play some Widowmaker.
Holy, very vintage Hydron.
And honestly, like you mentioned,
sorry the DPS in this map at the very least.
It is Graveyard Cal.
is the supports that are doing a lot of the heavy lifting here with the Nades and with
just the Alari damage from Greggart, it's looking really good for me, can't it?
Once we got the Genji, something we saw some shades of yet from, I believe it was a team
Mexico, a mental guy yesterday, made this pick work really well and it can help punish
some of these Swisher targets, A, G, A, Grave Hero, and Carol, for the main issue, for
the team, all of these just walking straight behind the team.
100% luck with this dc'd
It's kind of crazy actually I'm like, okay. Well you get the deflect but I'm lucky
Right, so I can have like this. It's gotta be like the best bait ever, but no, it's just no no no
That was not quite not quite the bait
That was just him walking in the straight line unlucky love with a 40 dc there or something not sure what happened
But well get back into the map in just a moment. Hopefully it's not too serious
They've got DPS on the bench though if they do want to suck people in so they can put people in for Ludwig if it comes to it
But for now it is just gonna be a pause while Ludwig sorts the inspiration
And think for team Brazil you're okay with a tiny bit of extra chat time although there might be a bit of panic like what happened
I mean, I think this is a
Very difficult thing to approach especially from a mental standpoint
points. This is a now or never kind of thing. You lose this game. Your chances of moving past this
online file for all the fire stage are basically zero. So let's get one back in here. We'll see how
they can pull this one back together as it will inevitably be a soft reset for this game.
Yeah, that was I think only a small DC and I haven't at the start. So it's all fine. Nothing too
crazy there. We'll see if this Genji ends up working out. Like you mentioned, it can
work on this map. You are against the pokeyest poke-cons of all poke-cons, so it might be
a little tough for Ludwig. It's going to have to really just play on a nice edge, although
killing Graveyard with just some generic shurikens after a Nade is going to be a good start.
Yeah, I think Mocha too saw that squeadering. Everybody on Brazil is rushing towards and
the panic out of Brazil to get the cooldown to fall off the fact perfectly placed.
Oh, the Nade from Cal too. Is there gonna be a cleanup here? Nothing?
I mean, I should've got Naded too. Point is 1.6m away. I think we have to stall out. No.
Wow, I'm surprised Alka's survived that.
Hey, you take that. You wanted Brazil to get back into this game? Oh, here they are. 5 minutes now.
You broached the second point and, well, the Genji itself hasn't done much, I think that's quite a bit.
Plus, Mocha just existing on the Juno to get this team into positions fast as he's often.
Get a decent amount of progress boards holding on to this high ground
Gravitic flux and the support ults to work with as any of tools
Zill to cook something up on this point
I do want to see the plastic flux on the plane only
for some of these
Larger healing
So now Greg out you went
Flux, sleep, Navi's gonna have to go on the tank here, she's trying to survive.
Good reshield, Flux coming back, end up hitting one, it's off.
Bazz, and now, end up getting destroyed.
Hydro and Weavness way past that wall now, she's trying to get value with this overclock.
Ends up taking to the skies and sniping the enemy sojourn.
The fight's already done, despite this raid going off as well.
I mean, Ludwig, if Ludwig had a blade, there's a potential that fight is very different,
but it is Team Canada on top.
Team Canada will eventually come out when the dust settles, and that HURTS if you are
Team Brazil.
That was four ultimate that they ended up using at the end, and really only a Dragon
Blade and a pretty naked one at that, as that Nano was used before.
I see a flood wick, it can work some magic there, but I just see this Catholic Sun and
I see a whole lot of burning pain for Brazil, but no, they don't need it!
There's another fantastic Maywall of the Dollars!
Yeah, I mean
Actually approaching these fires is gonna be so stop against the mayor. You just can't you can't stick around for too long
You have to just try and force wall out and there's another time. Okay. Well, where are you saying guys?
Which oh, please oh hundred words without yeah, okay
That'll do it signal the widow wait a second here hydro my guy
He's looking
Grab we shot those plays gonna come out as well. Oh great. You're thought about the way plays gonna get popped here
It's one of its captives son over the top and graveyard doesn't have connecting with the back line to as a mocha dead
It's too right this graveyard makes him turn his DP up to three cage trying to spin around and kill the LR
You quite end up working out two minutes to go now for team Brazil to 40
I like Ludwig going back onto the main. I think Alex being uncontested on that has been a massive pain for Brazil to have to work through and having at least some potential to throw that threat back at them will be very helpful for the wall.
and it is. It's got blocks. It should be able to buy the good rock though coming in from
that. That can't cancel that block. But still actually, it's going to just walk forward and
nano boosted space and a rock trans log with in secular the may after what was used trying
to buy that flux. Easy double as well for the sojourn. It's everybody was already scurrying
away. I stuff so far from team Canada. The pacing here, Molly is just so quick. Brazil
It's also just principle Pete Canada. They know how what their wind conditions are
They know how to win these fights set up Alex they make sure Astro ready to just chuck a boulder at Delca
And it's well over half the time boy. They all ready on and over bass and Ella
You throw it on the Delca if you need to survive, but you're gonna need it. Oh, just be anxious
Nanoboost for high drawn already this phone line super low. Thanks to Nate from bass and Ella
And a boost supply to Hydron is good for a couple.
Eight on top two.
That's what you need.
You need these big names kind of deep past these walls.
It's like Cal and Graveyard are doing their own bit of work in the back line.
They managed to get all the way behind them.
As Graveyard tries to go for another pick,
unsuccessful in their endeavor as Brazil finally went into a team fight.
I don't see much value from Graveyard and Cal there,
but the Stagger's, I think, will pay off for it.
This is more where you want to be for Brazil,
as in Ella showing her potential.
I'd be a game changer on this, Anna.
I'm not enough for this point, but,
PrevitiFlox, plus the Orbital Ray here.
It's an instant one-shot.
If you can manage to land it,
she's gonna get there first with Dalka.
Capture Sun. Dalka's so low, too.
Capture Sun from around the corner.
It's gonna connect with the frontline, too.
And there goes Dalka.
Flox wasn't in use, though.
He was just taking the skies.
This graveyard puts himself on a progressive angle.
He's already got a double good to his name.
And now that it's crippled as he takes down Hydron.
I'm telling you, it all supports this map.
Four of those kills coming through for Canada from the support players.
Yeah, I think there's so few teams that can actually say that about their support line,
especially in this region of particular, but Canada far and away one of them final fight now
for Brazil to keep themselves alive in this series, in this tournament even.
Have the Wondo combo still that Canada has been so proactive with these fights.
My plexus is so early.
OH!
Oh, and cow slipped it!
Oh ho ho ho!
Insane to injury!
Blizzard, Astro just walks forward
and that is just about done.
Cal, the Canadian superstar, flexible player
has just done it again.
Astro dodges out of the way, the Blizzard as well.
Having to take the 1v1 of the staircase
and Dalka accidentally limbs themselves
with the hypersphere.
Canada come up big, a 3-1 victory
as we end this match.
Wow, unbelievable stuff. Brazil with a little bit of teeth on the first map, but it was all Canada, all day for the next week.
Yeah, you know, it was like the... it was a wake-up call.
They protein Canada after that first map, really pulled together towards the end of the series.
It asked you 40 and 4, but that ends on Alden.
That's pretty good.
Yeah, yeah, we take this, we do take this.
We even went to Zermatria, being banned.
I've had to run that down on the little spacecraft, but that's Team Canada for everybody.
This is kind of what we expected from them.
It's highly predicted to come out on top of their group, and the remaining Flawless so far,
which is the one map dropped today, they are on track to do that, or at least qualify within the top two,
if things all go well, depending on that last match against Puerto Rico,
and this support line, a huge threat.
This is one great play from Mocha and Dalka here that kind of made this close,
but unfortunately, that was kind of all they have left in the tank,
still going to be very good as well as Team Korea as well. We got an interview with Astro
in just a moment, but for right now, Team Canada is chilling at the top spot.
I think they have a lot of things figured out with their team with their roster and
very extensive coaching staff, and Danny coaching this team for the fourth consecutive run of the
roster, well not the roster, but the actual team Canada itself and forces and coaches.
to back him up there. There's so many minds put together and clearly it's working out with the
pretty crazy hands Team Canada also have their disposal feeling really good about where you are
in this at this current point in time and what might lie ahead for them in Busan.
Yeah, it's going to be a good time. It's going to be exciting to get back on land. We see Canada
end up making it, but it's feeling pretty good right now. All right, let's get Astro in for a
a quick interview and talk all
things of what you all come.
Welcome Astro. Congratulations
on the win. Of course, team
Canada. You guys keep doing it
to him. That first map looked
pretty damn. Convincing from
team Brazil, but then it was
like three maps pretty easy
under your belt. How are you
guys feeling coming into a
watch World Cup again? I want
to ask obviously after that
victory, probably feeling pretty
good, but your chances at the
back into it. And I never got to play like in the playoffs or on stage in 2023. So this
year, I'm like, that's what I'm like rooting for. That's what I'm gunning for. Um, I don't
know, I think we're all excited and like, we're working really hard to make sure that
we can like go all the way.
Yeah, I did want to ask with your chances. I'm feeling like you guys are going to make
it with that team USA, of course, but when it comes to your team right now, what are
the vibes? Like how well have you guys been meshing together? I know a few of you played
together and have done in previous like OWCS, face at league and stuff like that, but like
yeah, how are the vibes of the team overall?
And the vibes are really good, like we all work really hard and when we have criticism
of each other, like it's not like taking a heart, you know, like we all know that we
want to win. So I think if we just like keep that attitude towards our improvement then
was like there's no way that we just like can't bring it all the way like and I think
we have that team with like crazy potential to be honest like especially with the current
like meta I guess I don't really know what's meta but like just with the things that people
are playing like I think we have some really strong Mizuki players so it was really easy
to just like integrate that because like we have some like really flexible players even
though we have like a double flex support backline it's like it's been actually pretty easy to
like find our identity and like make it work wherever we need to make it work.
Absolutely and with I think with all these strengths
getting behind you like what would it mean to team Canada to be able to make it
to Bruce on and play even further to this in the group stage.
I mean it would be in the world I think like for almost everyone here like on the
team like we have in like a maybe besides Cal I think maybe Cal might be the
outlier but no one's actually experienced like that that first
event so it'd be a first for all of us and like that's the most memorable one
you know so it would be in the world especially to me yeah and it's in a
place like Korea too that's would that be your first time in Korea it would be
my first time in Asia in general yeah oh really yeah well make sure you get
treat you and the team to some seafood Busan seafood goes crazy so yeah no
to see you guys there and well okay I'm calling it already but like you guys are pretty good
I'm gonna be you know I'm gonna be I think we're pretty laugh we're not there toward there you
know like as soon as I see the green light you know like all over my guard but yeah yeah good luck
in your next a few games and yeah congratulations on the win today I'm sure we'll see you again thank
Thank you so much. Thanks for
having me. Bye bye. All right.
That was a astro for team
Canada. Yeah, good stuff. And
first time in Asia as well.
Like I said, if you end up going
to the Irish World Cup in a
Busan, make sure you check out
the seafood is crazy, and it's
going to be a good time, so
hopefully we'll see some of you
there. Don't forget as well if
you want to rep your conference,
whether that's EMEA, that's
with some of the walk up skins in at the store right now so you get a little charm, little
portrait icon, little banner, you know the vibes and you get the sick colors too. I will
say the Mizuki one out of these three might clear, but the green vernera does go a little
crazy style as well.
I love the colors of all of these. There's so many ways you can support these things too
throughout your journey so make sure you keep an eye on all that stuff and get your hands
on the bottom. I'm personally a purple fan. No, I might uh-
All right.
you're on your screens and just a moment here. Colombia or not not North America. Just the
Americas, I should say. Colombia versus Puerto Rico on your screens in just a moment. Team
Canada with a 3-1 against Team Brazil. There's some signs of life there for Brazil. It's
going to be an exciting time watching them develop as the group stage and the round
Robin continues. But for now, Colombia and Puerto Rico are final match of the day, Molly.
One more left to go. And this is not the one that we expected to go more maps. And we've
We've already had that delivered to out of the real safe act can do the same as Columbia
coming fresh off in 0-3 loss yesterday against Team Canada, a lot of returners, well I say
a lot of returners.
Super Gomez is turning on this roster alongside change for that and a company by some of these
newer faces in 10th and bitch who had a good amount of success in both face it masters
and the collegiate side of things on the same team for Cleveland State there.
a lot of previous synergy, but they're going to need quite a hit to go against this rising team that a lot of people have been underestimated in Puerto Rico.
Yeah, so look at the Puerto Rico roster. I mean, look at the end of the day, it's all about the deathmatch 1B1s.
And of course, someone's named Mookchicken, by the way. Mookchicken won a 3-0 versus Lich, so they'll be taking the higher seed kind of thing.
I think we're going back to
the first interview of the day.
There's not been a crazy amount
of South American players playing
at the highest levels in like
Overwatch League. So World Cup
has always been a place where
they get to kind of show up and
show people what's going on.
So I think we're going back to
the first interview of the day.
There's not been a crazy amount
of South American players playing
at the highest levels in like
get to kind of show up and show people what they're made of. A lot of players
playing at the same rank for many many years at this point know each other, but
on the international and like competitive Overwatch stage a lot of
these names are gonna be brand new to people. I think that's especially true in
the case of Puerto Rico. This is a very very young roster. The chicken chain in
particular all in their first year of significant competitive experience. I say
year like once really is what we can throw it down to and even getting the
one-to-one here with chicken two DPS players thrown in for this one by the
way team Puerto Rico do you want that's getting a higher seed there see what they
ended up doing was not for the band at first but will actually be the band
selected as Columbia we could take us to Antarctica as far as what I'm touching an
easy choice for yourselves.
And I think it's like one of more simpler maps to play.
There's not, I think, as many points where you're worried
about moving parts.
And all these teams like the raw styles anyway.
So if you're kind of OK with that,
a Mayban from Columbia all by Azor, out of Puerto Rico.
The reason Azor is out specifically
toward Super Gomez, coming back into the scene
after a bit of time away, was one of the teams
course hero the most yesterday. It's just kind of with that cat fashion sort of feel.
I think that just makes a lot of sense. Kalisman had a ton of success on it before. It's so
weird to say that he's the one that's kind of has the veteran experience here at just
the young age of I believe 20. Young guy here.
Hey, that's getting on on. They're close to being unks out of proportion. He hit you
you know, I'm going to get
21 22 you turn into an I'm
going to watch unfortunately.
Yeah, don't know. Don't grow
too fast. It is kind of crazy
like you mentioned how young
some of these rosters are. I
mean, I'm thinking back to like
even like 2020 and crazy. Okay
newsflash. That was six years
ago. Everybody I'm sorry to
break it to you 2020 was six
years ago. A lot of these
players were probably watching
over actually kind of growing
up and still playing the game.
You know, so their first kind
of foray into a competitive
environment at this, um, like
It's going to be pretty exciting.
And with the chance to go to a land to in in someone like careers, a pretty crazy thing to do.
So we see how Puerto Rico and Columbia end up doing in their group.
But Puerto Rico already up a map, sorry, not the map.
They're up a series already in there in their group there.
So a very good chance to actually make it all the way.
Make or break game for both of these teams.
Otherwise, it will be left out of their controls.
Zill already own two
likely
Out of
Contestion there, but what are we gonna manage to get a win after they got that upset yesterday?
I would put them right now to Canada and I believe confer their spots within this event
Which would be huge or this young roster as um that is a composition of all time and it may be real
It may not be real
We saw the hog on this
I might have lost my mind
We know we are not a world my guys. She's got a swap
So there is gonna be a cat bashing
On the side of Puerto Rico here, but I mean at Columbia. They're gonna just do the okay
We don't want to play cat bashing and then hopefully Tent can
Insta kill people release try and shunk McChicken out of the sky
We'll see I mean it's just so tough on this point
No Molly being able to get the cat bashing in this kind of spot when there's so much high ground cover
Yeah, see we're going it's going very low already under back over the pressure chase down lich even after that good snipe from tempo
Settles the score, even stings up. It's before the 4 now as a point this cap from Puerto Rico.
Sombra doesn't end up connecting, but James1 definitely did.
Super Gomez again on the back first, he's just ran down.
There's no much you can do. If you're that far deep in after you use your charge,
you are at the whims of the replay on the other thing.
I think they're kind of feeling the pain of not having the Zarya there, I think it's Samauga.
We don't see Super Gomez on a lot.
In fact, last time we saw him compete in Overwatch was for Maudelaus Police, if I'm not mistaken.
So, a bit of a switch around now, but then it's Columbia.
And take the approach again from these small rooms.
You can get chicken as much as you can.
TP across to try and create some space, but here's gonna be the Cat Bastion flying through the air.
Gonna release the Bastion from the clutch as it does Cat for the time being,
It's just gonna be a destruction shot. It's gonna force the Bastion back over clock for 10th
He tries to find an angle and I still stomp a crit headshot there from a super Gomez
Guarantees the kill on the Kiriko a teleport easily telegraphed by the sojourn as a very clean fight from Columbia
Secures them the point. Yeah, so all the from top to bottom over clock. I really helped to seal the deal there
10th force. This is kind of the combo Puerto Rico
I've been waiting for I have the cage fight to set up. Hensherly of the artillery strike from the chicken feeling a little spicy
but plumbia though and also
Oh the cage, the chicken has to serve 180 there, Lich ends up hitting that rape form but has to go to death boss if he wants to use it
Teleporting away from the fight is both cages end up getting destroyed after those rushes are laid down on at the point
Super Gomez is going in for a risky stomp to slam there into the back line. He's just so low.
Just up 200 HP. He's still alive somehow.
Eventually he turns out by both Talisman and the chain.
Oh, that's charging from Super Gomez.
It seemed a little bit aggressive.
200 HP plus, I mean...
You're not surviving too long.
Not really much of a chance there.
And a bit of a late cyber there too.
Change buys more time and basically makes this a final fight territory.
For a team of Puerto Rico and a whole lot of damage output is available to them
I have to be a perfectly timed sound barrier out of credo son
They're get them to the point which is more likely
There's the beat
Straight in the face of the bastard
My poor son
Unfortunately that will be a flip for Columbia regardless. Hang on a second here, they sell the Capachian, they're still a form available.
Can they actually close this one out is the question.
This single gov needs to go for another very aggressive push in, with a help of Lich, but unfortunately they're a little bit missed time there.
So it will be Puerto Rico getting up to 99% spinal touches.
No, not today. Round one to Puerto Rico.
You know, there's been one too many occasions now that I'm seeing Super Gomez charge into a forming passion.
A little sign for concern there for Columbia without their taking these fights and not necessarily respecting that full,
cool-down rotation out of them. A bit of difficulty matching that with how those cool-downs are meant to be played.
And I'm honestly a little shocked they're not matching the cat fashion themselves. It's something that we saw out of them a bit yesterday
with both changed and I believe temp, but I think we'll stick him on the sojourn instead for this more potential
It will be the way play here. I go back to anomaly for the indoor map. Hopefully this neighbors the Reaper
I mean, let you get better.
I love Malga gaming on the high ground.
They're just waiting to swing in. They're waiting for Super Gomez to over extend slightly and there it is.
There's the Bastion. There's the Stomp from Chain.
Didn't end up hitting, but Super Gomez is out this time around, so...
It's worth kind of noting too, oh my goodness, and it should have destroyed. Well, unfortunate.
They didn't lose their cap, but I mean with the Bastion still alive,
They're still gonna be kind of a force to be reckoned with.
This is not what I meant.
I was about to say, it's worth keeping in mind too,
with the cardiac overdrive, when you swing in with the Bastion,
hit cardiac overdrive, the Bastion's not dying.
Like, there's just too much damage and too much healing,
it's just so tough for them to take down with chicken,
and it will be a point cap in the end,
but Ten gets an X to kill their onto McChicken.
Yeah, that should just be a point cap.
I don't see a world in which Puerto Rico want to fight this
without their main source of damage.
Yeah, that's the lowest you can possibly go. I mean, I think it might be
That's
And you do have everybody coming back into this right now a very fast overclock no from 10. You'll have that one up pretty to go
You know my whole team walks through the structure shop. Yep, okay
You hear about look at this sneaky peeky not quite yet
Let's just gonna get sniffed out there super Gomez also hiding around the corner
Mag is doing a very good job of hiding. A little bit too big of a carriage model, Sally. He's sick.
Alright, 10th, now you're in trouble. He's going to have to hit that slide away real fast.
Got the double slide, but he didn't have the second one up.
Still trying to find heads, so I should click on with this OC.
Eventually finds the rest of the team, but a quick ten-a-hole away there from,
and Erb is going to make sure that he gets away.
Cat ultimate straight into the front line. Super Gomez, not to the ground.
Easy kill there for Puerto Rico, as the Cat is going to come in.
She can't come back around and test the objective here, but a fine good amount of time is Glombia Head, which in the form, it actually buys enough time for Mosin to get back into the front.
Wow, I'm surprised they actually haven't done popping that rush there. There's going to be a storm back here in the front line as Super Gomez, at least basically the kill onto the chicken.
As the chain is locked in this ocean, they eventually focus them down, the death boss will help kill off Kratos' son.
And SuperGermans 2, Talisman 2, the rescuers, Puerto Rico, hold on.
Fairly there too, and that was a few more shiny buttons than what they wanted to press, but Columbia really made them work for it, but unfortunately they had already lost control of points, so that was all for naughts, and this means that they will be in a dry fight with Puerto Rico.
I'll set them up well now for Lich especially.
Oh my god.
That was close.
We've got two taps.
Salper is so early for Critison.
Really think they found at least one pick here.
Bastion's on the high ground, so...
Wow, that beat barely gave to any position.
Lich has got the ult now. Deathboss on the point.
Shooting the Malgrin, the back currently.
Critison gets chased down.
We're chicken in a good spot.
Eagle Eye view of the point, but he's actually chained that into 4 and over.
No chance to get the heal there from the cat who was there babysitting the Bastion the whole time.
turret full now from the chicken, kills one but it's actually Ted that's clutching up this fight.
For Columbia, three kill, three railgun kills for a soldier and earns himself the ulti.
Second overclocked in just this round alone. Pretty impressive to say the least and thank somebody that
you're going to want to lean into. Not on the Bastion, I think that's why you want to stick them on the soldier.
because of the particular pick potential that we have.
They're gonna be looking to him for this next engagement,
especially when we see Jono taking the chicken for a bit of a skydaring.
Gonna wrap as a group here.
Talisman bringing up the rear, making sure no one can shoot my chicken in the back.
They're gonna play for the final fight, because we are up to like 90%.
Tent's gonna use this overclock spot, both players on this high ground here.
Let's get him taking down my Talisman anyway, but they're running us the cat. In fact both supports are already dead
Which kills both of them and now Bastion instantly goes to turret bombs trying to stay alive
But Columbia looking like they're gonna win this round with ease
Lich coming up with the kill instantly onto the cat and then and up as well
That is the reaper play that Columbia needs. My Susie was lost off to the kidnap no one in there's the cage
Doesn't trap the cat, but they don't need it. Now be a round over. We're going to point number three here on top to Peninsula
I can see it in DPSDL glitch and temp, putting Columbia in their backpacks for at least this
round.
It did reel in Super Gomez a little, I think on this last point which certainly helps to
that degree but heading on to this point I think it's a little more, it's a little harder
just to get the Reaper online since you're not necessarily as close as you are in lots
more open space for you to be worried about just on that particular hero.
I don't think we're going to see any hero swaps though. I think both teams are very confident in their own play styles and how things have been running so far.
And I'll leave it up to this to go ahead and be the time breaker for Columbia.
They'll be leaning into these DPS. We're going to continue to do so round number three.
I mean, being able to swing
around this high ground is really nice.
In fact, they take height really early,
although with the map changes,
taking the ramp isn't as bad.
That used to be probably the most
claustrophobic point on any map.
Holding that ramp prior to the changes.
Gonna go for a stop in the front line.
It's chain.
There's the chicken screaming at his cat
to get an angle as he just shoots the wall.
All good though.
I'm gonna go for a stop in the front line.
though. Nice attempt at Sam. This is a really good amount of defense here coming through from
chain basically acting as like a brick wall or a wall of meat to make sure that the chicken
doesn't get jumped on. Now the charge through from chain gets out of the way. Some hundreds though,
entering super low, it's actually litterable people but healed up eventually.
He's almost like James playing Valga, like Luba. In a way defensively the heart of the team is,
despite for the point is still very much toss up.
There's a D, a chain, half HD right now, super gum is just going to go in for the storm but
a restomp comes in, it does hit super gomers but it will be, the non-bashing team actually
taking this fight win at the point, I say fight win, no one's actually really died so
it's just complete neutral warfare right now.
I'm just happy to explain this game, they've been playing a game of cat and mouse where
They have been the cat for the most part which is chasing Shane around the map
But the ultimate starts to come online. That's gonna tell a different story
Shane is so low goes the late stop get stunned as well though that's you to
Wait in the cage just walked in gets three just like that. Okay
Yeah, they just go ahead and chuck Puerto Rico in the blender right there that one hurts for sure
And that's actually gonna be enough for them to swap off the cat bastion entirely
Big chicken is actually in different hydrone yesterday a bit on the on the hitscan
So I'm excited to see what he has to pull off against a temp
It's been on a hot streak of his own Puerto Rico though. You have their own
Combo go ahead and pull out the litters
all the skins.
There is Don walking in the back wide, and we'll be Death Blossom on the other side of
things with a sound barrier coming in and clutch for Kratoson, and submitting pretty
much everybody there as they end up surviving not only the cage, but that Death Blossom
as well.
Really nice stuff.
Reactionary player acquired there for Lucio, but that was a perfect B.
And that's kind of the thing with Puerto Rico swapping their composition as late as they
did.
into this last fight now, no ultimates in your name,
you're likely not gonna get anything up to this thing
in this time and you're gonna have to face chat.
I could sudo Hiroshi, which against Amalgo,
this drop, let's go without making chicken.
You can't be dying like that on this final fight.
There's a rush available, they're just waiting this one out,
like they can late touch,
like the chicken can pan at the slide.
We'll be a touch from the Reaper,
but Hiroshi's gonna make sure it's gonna be
half of four Puerto Ricos that get back onto this point.
As soon as we have the frontline, we go to the base, and end up going pretty well over there.
Shade that force first, and now the no frontline for Puerto Rico is going to hurt.
Leech to the point, to the backline, force to the carry to TP,
earn himself a deathboss as well, right on top of their heads, bouncing on it.
Two of them dead, and that will be that.
Columbia with a 2-0 on Mat No. 2-1, sorry, on Mat No. 1.
Any great start for this team,
knowing the importance of this match in particular, keeping their chances alive,
within the group A side of things and it didn't make it a lot closer.
I think it's what we expected between these two teams.
We were able to go back and forth like we did and also having a clean answer to the calf bastion.
Puerto Rico didn't find too much success out of it other than the first couple of fights.
We saw back on Icebreaker that a good part of this was Ken, Ken Lich.
Kind of working together between this Reaper soldier and make it so difficult for this Puerto Rico team
to take the space that they needed to.
That's a lot of limbs.
27 and 4 was that?
Like 16k damage?
Not bad.
Oh, the classic.
I will say the cat is one of the funniest in the game
this moment in time.
I love seeing highlights of people
getting dragged off the map.
It's even better when it's a Malgo to be honest or any tank.
Just like getting owned by the cat is just so funny.
I think with how they've done here,
we'll see if control is still a fraudulent game type.
Does tend to be.
We'll see if Puerto Rico can come back because people expecting Puerto Rico to win this series, but you never know Columbia
They've got some fire in their bellies. You know, it was it's actually Puerto Rico
I think that was predicted to come out at the bottom of this group that narrative only changed after their map again
Your match went against Brazil yesterday
That turned out to be a win because they are that second seed coming in from the conference cup Columbia invited team of more
established veterans and it was kind of the
It wasn't awesome, it wasn't a fluke, it was Brazil just having it off day.
How strong is this Puerto Rico roster actually, and I think that they do have a lot of good
signs to look out for, especially in individual mechanics like from chicken and other things
like that, but I think having the May ban there is a bit rough, it's been a key part
of your play style, and then Colombia just overall lich and what we got to see from
the next one. We're going to
rune a sub. He is our next one.
See if that narrative can
continue for them or Columbia
and kind of spring a little
sticky trap on them. They need
to be able to take this one.
You mentioned it at the top of
the series, but going zero to
the fate is out of your hands
at that point. Some of the time,
so I'm going to go ahead and
The fate is out of your hands at that point some of the time
So they need to at least clutch up and get one one to make it out of the group make it all the way to
Oh, sorry. Yeah out of the group and then make it to a Busan, but now number two chosen by Puerto Rico
We'll see what that ban is
I think we're to stop a solid map overall. There's a lot of things you can do here
I mean, I think these are making a bit more sense Puerto Rico ton with their own cat fashion
experience and not as understandable. But the Reaper being banned from Colombia is almost
a bit surprising considering the success that we saw Lich have on that particular hero.
Maybe something that's more frontline heavy that they don't want to have shut down is
perhaps what I'm thinking.
Yeah, I mean, with both tank players as well, just happy to play the Maoka. You're going
to be a little bit more free.
We'll see what the DPS number
opting to go to. I, you know,
Puerto Rico banning this cat is
like, okay, we take this game
type specifically off the map.
Runosopy, one of the better cat
fashion maps, and then we get
rid of cat home here. So probably
don't have an opportunity to now
choose this one, unless we go
crazy and we reset the maps in
a map number six, but it's very
unlikely to happen draws very
rare in this time in a
watch history. But runosopy is
Definitely one that stretches the tank you're called two. There's a lot you can play here. You can just default to the map if you want to, but
Now you've got a flex on them a little bit. We'll see if even a Sigma ends up coming out here as well
We didn't really see
Sigma from either of these tank players
As a vest, either they really known for it. Like chain is more of your typical
round tank players
And more of the I'm in your face. Can't not the
That's a variety so it's in his hero pool sure, but it would be a stretch. They were super Gomez
I'm not gonna be shocked if we just run back the the Malga for the entirety of the series unless it is banned
It's more these DPS picks that I think I am interested in the soldier near but talisman
Going over to the tracer and you know
He is definitely a player that if he is left unchecked here
will be a massive issue or Columbia if they kind of let them run wild too long. They want
to focus on that front to back, but Rich instead, you know what I mean.
Front to back overwatch. See how well can Chain can stand up, but like you mentioned, I think
it's a perfect point there. Talisman, you have to be as annoying as possible, forcing
out this Kiri swift step and then trying to make a play off of that. You send Chain in
with a stomp. We'll see how well Talisman does, because obviously historically May against
the Tracer, the main very good shot. Your Tracer is not going to last you long, but a good Braille
going to start us off. As soon as you do, he'll ever be back up. Here comes the wall. It's changed.
Twice make a swift escape, but unfortunately it's 10 feet under now. Super Gomez chasing that.
It's kind of the difference of having the main here. Les Nalesman is getting an insane amount
of value out of this backline. Just kind of put a wall back a chain, and there's not much that you
you can do support him on the other side.
So, free text book from Columbia, so,
we'll get this one moving on.
Ellsman, let's open this back line.
Able to look.
Okay, you cannot play the mate here.
You can't play the tracer here, sorry.
You just can't.
I think Talisman's gonna have to swap.
This comp is just so unforgiving for the tracer.
Like, who do you like latch yourself onto?
Maybe the sojourn, like maybe the Lucio-Kiri,
but to me, and like you mentioned, it's so front to back.
It's so tough for Talisman to get things done.
Opening up for the kill that I want to crit his son.
No more speed now for Columbia,
so it's gonna make Talisman's life a little bit easier.
And this is where the tracer really comes into form,
is cleaner.
But actually getting to that point sometimes is hard.
We'll see if that Columbia can come back in this one,
but fairly decent fight for Puerto Rico.
You don't really have that same initiative power
or just the rett looming over your head.
May, it makes chains life a lot harder,
makes Puerto Rico's life a whole, a lot harder.
So, Kalisman, again, has to do some seriously crazy things
to get the full value out of it.
It was like Columbia, looked at both from the side,
and to this point,
living the map of Puerto Rico entirely.
Got this rush as well.
Little bit early on too, if you're expecting
and to have it at the same time,
maybe pop it here on this stretch,
try and force it out.
Having a potty overclocked versus McChicken, cages are getting put onto the point, is Shane way too far up.
I mean, that is a disaster in the front line, for Puerto Rico.
This is just turning from bad to worse. I think you're having Shane go in too far.
You don't have the sense of work as you do for the Reaper.
You gotta change the tracer.
It's just not gonna work.
I think the maze is just too good. It really is.
Like, Shane can't make a play if you're the Malga, you're like sitting there, it's real tough.
And it's not like Talisman doesn't play me either, like it's been his most played hero's tournament,
and it's arguably his second best if he would make that change, but really Puerto Rico has some sort of strange confidence in it, sticking it as long as we have it.
Miss Pulse, I mean, he hasn't got it anymore.
Well, we'll see if the rest of Columbia are enough to back out here.
Super guy makes sense and but falling great late beat here for Puerto Rico
Kind of regretting that one a little bit chicken ends up getting a double on the sojourn
It's pretty much done at this point just kept dying on the payload
The beat kind of guaranteed the fight there, but again, I kind of worry for Puerto Rico now
They're gonna have to fight into a beat Lizzie if chain goes to this cage
I'm gonna put that out there that blizzard is going right on your little head
it's gonna be an instant drop the cage and run out of there kind of flash is
not ideal for sure and that's really Puerto Rico's only win club
heading into this part of the massive target leaf was difficult to get through
there's the cage there's the wizard and there we go okay you know what actually
in same bait yes have a charge get out of there force the blizzard out they
They still got a sandbar that you need to force though.
They're waiting, they're buying their time.
And they can at this point as well, right?
Cause Puerto Rico at the end of the day, they are the ones that have to push.
So playing on this corner for Columbia, just make a play, I guess.
Oh, okay, Columbia made a play themselves.
Lit for the nice headshot there, onto the chicken.
They're gonna wall chain obstacles and then he's now charged, trying to get away.
Cardiac overrides is going to get popped as well, but Team Columbia are just dominating them right now in this frontline.
It's back to front, it's just so good. And guess what? They saved me.
It is. I had, right of sudden, had this for like three-ish fights now, and it hasn't really had a need to use it.
I wouldn't get close to the forward spawns as well.
Talisman, yeah, has a pulse bomb, yeah, lurking, will it get anything?
Probably not, unless you get it on, like, the soldier, but, I mean, Columbia will win.
I'm always right. Oh
Molly straight up curse and talisman you never would have guessed it
Yeah, and even if you get it on the foge right there is a suit you so well, there's the OC the rush and the sunburn
That's we've ever laid our support ultimate might be fine though
Shade ends up going down anyway and getting a very fast push here is gonna be all for the better for the push bank here
Columbia, oh dearie me Puerto Rico
So, small change up here.
Orisa?
Shake up the Orisa against the Harvick.
I don't hate it, but the lead that they're gaining now is...
Right, it's too fast.
It's not the change up we were expecting, as for sure.
In Colombia, we'll have control of this by-ground area, just chuck the temp on an off angle,
have the overclock and all chain can do the poke damage, spear, might help disrupt, but
fucking too much still, it's not a big push.
This is a space to match the front to back.
Plus, they have a huge advantage in support ults.
It's Columbia, but I'd have overlapped theirs
in the previous fighting.
Absolutely something Puerto Rico needs to make work.
Easy to change the vibe as well
with the amount of survivability tools to the Eraser.
But unfortunately, Talisman, the change came in,
but the Kunais are still hitting his little head.
Oh, well, I'm there behind them.
Just trying to chain up.
Soundbar comes in, does it for us,
They're just trying to leave on the front line, but there's just a better be here for greater son
I was going bad to worse here for Puerto Rico. They are getting absolutely
Dominated, I mean, maybe we need to help them age right on the stream
We need to drop it a couple of series ago. This is gonna be a paging 16-flight angle here
Columbia are gonna dunk this one in by the looks of things if you will pick stand up coming through Puerto Rico
They might be up hold on but we are a hundred and forty three meters apple theory in effect
No checkpoint in Puerto Rico either, as they FINALLY win a teamfight.
This isn't the greatest comeback to know what history on this map, these are going to be
the same thing.
Terra Surge connects with two players, instant block, and nice wall as well.
A headshot from Moot Chicken as he shuts down 10th.
Okay, well, there's a couple of ults burned from Puerto Rico, but like you said, there
is going to have to be a stretching of the ultimate economy here.
Just try and only use one to get things done.
Can't be on the other hand by the way Molly, can't just dump in ults if they need to.
They can dump too.
It doesn't really matter for them, the checkpoint hasn't even been reached.
The Blizzard might help with the cage fight, but everything else, good luck Puerto Rico.
They are going to need it as temp, just rip Giles head off.
Yeah, goodbye.
Unfortunately the Luciano hits you up in the open, Talisman goes down, nice overclock
kills too from temp.
one minute and 15 seconds well I'm an optimist Puerto Rico didn't use any
old there that's something so much more distance you're a biggest optimist in
Overwatch spotted there yeah yeah yeah yeah 90 meters behind come on it is a
growing developing team Columbia better an experience and it really is showing
in terms of the macro and the ult economy.
Are they going to try and wall off Super Gomez,
ends up charging out stage right?
40 seconds to go in the time bank, resetting on this high ground.
They're just going to wait for the ult dump, I think.
Cage available, there's the blizzard straight on top of it.
Are they going to charge out of there?
Is that...
Wait, what?
Where?
I get...
Booped off by Mega, I guess?
I mean, sure.
Good opening pick, I suppose.
A lot of damage now, negated as Columbia lose one of their DPS.
That's one way to start things off as the OT eventually approaches in a couple of moments.
Super Gomez standing up to the mites of the Mauga of the Orisa, sorry, still so very low,
eventually taken down, but now we're in an OT situation with a double support ult for Columbia.
Yeah, that's it, that, you know, the Optimus and me, you know, that this might be a little too much.
We're written up like Columbia. I have so much to be able to work with,
which can just chop this on the point, rush there, you've got a stall barrier, and there's already a Mable to trap them in!
Double beats! Oh, we're playing Tiny O'Bush today, ladies and gentlemen.
Dono's already dead, here's the rush as well. It's just too much, there's just too much damage, there's too much to stay.
Chris and then they're going down shore, the Blizzard is gonna completely split the team fight.
It has gone from bad to worse here for Puerto Rico.
Columbia are gonna take this second map a 2-0 lead in a series and match point as well as
Puerto Rico staring down the barrel era of a one-on-one as their record after this one. This is that was not close
Molly, I don't know how to paint mouth one. It wasn't pretty
You know out of all of the games there's no way this is about through this week, right?
That that's not a crazy to me if we can if this is what matters before law in
In Columbia's defense, one match they had yesterday was against Team Canada.
I don't think they got a true showing of what they had to offer.
But yeah, and this was tough and from start to finish.
They don't look terribly far apart, but I think it just comes down to,
especially in Supergozmos and Lich.
Having the tracer for far too long, it'll leave that Columbia got.
It just could not stop.
About the point those changes were made, it was too late to reverse the damage.
can do and we didn't see any post-goes either so yeah a little late on the change but you know what
is still in the series so you haven't gone down just yet it does require a verse week
it's all asked in our watch but still it is available. Yeah and the option is there in
Puerto Rico it just seems like there's some choices about and this happened last map too
I think with the cap action and not swapping off of that in time comes back to bite them
they're a little too hesitant to make these changes and realizing when something isn't working
and because of that it sets them so far behind in these moments and you don't really have much
more rope that you can give away here. Running out, Math Point, or Columbia, and one more math
pick to make this one work. Reaper will be back in the fray along with the, I even forgot what
the other band is, Jetpack Cat. We want to do that again, which I highly doubt based on how Math
1 wins. This is looking like a tough battle for Puerto Rico if they're even going to take a map
Yeah, oh man it just doesn't feel like it does it. New Junk City is the back pick for Puerto Rico.
Jepekka can be played but we're probably gonna see a little bit more. Again front to back or a little bit of rush maybe.
And still will play Lucio, little Reaper guy, can play the Mei of course.
If you want to go full DGN you can play the Sin Mei as well.
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure...
Sin, I don't know, may? Definitely.
I think there's no doubt in my mind that we will see an A on this map unless it is banned again.
Which I believe it would have to be ported to Rico to be mistaken.
Is it honestly possible considering how that last map went?
It's just gonna come down to these Maldives.
Likely some sort of reaper.
We're gonna get Brawly with it.
Just how it'd be.
I don't know if we have any Cal-level caliber players
just to pull out some shenanigans with the auto
Yeah, we're not seeing that much
This is a same old same old Puerto Rico
and they figure out their own theory
to do this because these compositions are going to look very similar to what they have
Yeah, it's probably going to be Margaret again unless that's banned as well
So yeah, some Baror, Whis, Sobac, Ripple
It's uh it's a map it's probably one of the better maps in the pool to do it on Twitter is it on
Surabasa as well you you can you can play dive but you can play ball you can play sick like there
are lots of angles for Surabasa but New Junk City just the way the points are laid out there's uh
actually we see Michael Bant so okay Rematra I think is going to be the next uh for the call here
the Suki Band for Columbia.
OK, that is...
Hmm, maybe they're expecting something that's a little bit more...
mobile, or maybe they want to play...
Huh, perhaps, but...
Well, see, I think the Malga Band, I guess, makes sense for Chain.
I know him for three heroes.
It is Malga, Ramachra, and Roadhog.
And it can't be Malga.
We better not see a Roadhog, so it's probably going to be Ramachra.
in this instance, Super Gomez played that one to a high caliber as well.
Still have the May, still have the Rupert as options, unless somebody decides to swap that out with the Symmetra.
It is going to be this front-to-back macro heavy battle that Puerto Rico seem to have been struggling with.
Yeah, unfortunately there's no Roadhog. This is so sad.
Unfortunately, Roadhog sucks and against the may comp is just no way. We're only seeing that guy on well
So from our tray. Yeah, like you mentioned, I think it's gonna be the next port of call
We see if that husband ends up jumping over to tracer, but it's gotta be especially after the last map
It's like
You just have to give in I think you have to give into the may and you have to be playing that on this map
Cuz first point
It can't just be dictated by one wall like if you hit a good wall as they come out a choke
You can just instantly blow up somebody if it's not like around that's front-lining if someone accidentally set the lid like
Two pixels too far out that door and you get wall you will die. So I
think
Having them may wall there to kind of count the enemy may wall is just so important on this first fight
We see if Columbia though can run the series out a little three. Oh, Puerto Rico
Just didn't really feel like they're in that last map
Maybe their hearts weren't in it on that one
but it is going to be another map pick for them, so confidence still needs to be gained here for the team.
I think for Puerto Rico, a very developing country, and there's like a second time competing
in the Overwatch World Cup just as a team, which is definitely one of the younger ones
that we see out there. As Colombia, they're coming fresh off the
the, um, what's called appearance or top 12 there.
So, uh, it'd be a big deal for them to make it all the way back and a must win game.
Puerto Rico, if you lose this, it's not the end of the world.
You need anything to play Canada for the win.
Uh, whereas Columbia, you absolutely, I need to come away with a big three here.
They're on the piece to do it as it is.
The Ramatras walked in for both of the tanks as of now, uh, Talisman back on May.
makes many people very very happy to be able to see that one out. Jane? Sigma? I don't hate it,
but I think just this team has struggled with the rotations. Jane has been left on an island a lot
that seriously needs to be reeled in if you are going to take this disadvantaged take back job.
Two very different looks, yeah. May with the six, so very slow folk, but Columbia Island trying off
Fangle as much as possible with this Reaper guy. So we have temp on this high ground top right and then Reaper is just gonna try
and peddle a kill on another angle
So they're slowly rotating but it's gonna be up to Puerto Rico to be on their best behavior be on their toes
Make sure the Reaper cannot get a flank on them looks like Columbia actually the plan is just to put pressure on the point first
I actually really like this for someone down from Puerto Rico
It's actually Talisman that hits the ground and run in on to the point, but a headshot from the chicken takes down Charlotte
You couldn't ask for a better start there and that is the worst
Here's pick that you could have if you are at Columbia very little sustained left remaining at that point in time
So again good idea in theory with which forcing close range combat on point
But we'll not pay off with just some raw mechanical skill from the chicken and it played their thing around the Rosie
Well, they didn't let the Reaper go crazy, and they kept Chained on a leash, at least for that time period, so...
Enrico, set up now, on this defense, it can play to Talismans' May, which, mind you, Columbia are often to take the Reaper instead of the May here, so...
A little more advantage, but he snipped out.
Oh!
That was a TP!
What?!
Whoa, okay...
That was a TP into four players, on the enemy team, but still have the shift.
Could have got rocks though if they
Showing a good timing there
Well, here comes the point pressure now for Columbia. Lich goes really low, Blizzard on the point, Talisman Insta block, Insta out of it
And an instant kill onto Super Gomez, or at least they're trying to. Cross the arms right now, that damage reduction coming into full effect for Super Gomez
Ted now trying to bridge the gap in terms of these kills as big chickens takes an OC headshot
It's Columbia, now in control
If you get that trade over Super Gomez, oh differently, but it's her a mantra holding his arms over his head
You are not killing him without the entire team looking at there the final fight territory or Puerto Rico
Was they are gonna lose my may doing quite a bit?
It's on my name. This is not where you see
Like vicariously through me
Yeah, actually well, they're gonna get spotted out by the sojourn. That's a really early war used to student
I don't know, I used to be honest with Ted, just yes, he's one of the more than kills Talisman.
Well, the end of killing out the Prolucy, I suppose, so that's gonna be good for a 1 for 1 trade.
Flux and a nice Suzy saves Gomez, a super Gomez, from any incoming damage.
And now the point's gonna get pressured by Puerto Rico. Both rushes on the point and now the rush would go a little bit crazy style.
Gonna pop the annihilation on the point, chains his, a nice Rodpa still has this arms crossed to take as little damage as humanly possible.
Change this another rock there on to the Reaper, meaning Columbia now in control of the point in 99.
Puerto Rico needs to come up with a kill. The sound barrier though is just too much.
A very early one for Puerto Rico to try and sustain through it. They needed to win off of that.
But unfortunately it's not to be and that will be the first point going over to Columbia.
Close, but some shenanigans will end up on the back of the bike for Puerto Rico there.
at the end of it so I think the idea was was there if you wanted to get Jono in
with the Sambirid knowing Kratos signed and just died no Sambirid a match you
didn't have the damage output to actually get those final blows so next point
it is nothing for Puerto Rico to work with and the death blossom up or Lich
you see how much value he's gotten out of that or like I don't know I was waiting
for the death blossom but I think he needs it now tell with a nice rail gun
Heady on to the chicken
And he's been hitting on this sojourn. It's been
Watch good social players honestly second to man in Overwatch. I'll say it one of the funnest DPS to watch of all time
Sure and
Players that can make it look so easy and for a while especially the collegiate season
He's always stood out as one of those amors in which both eating on that Cleveland State roster
do have that existing synergy and we've kind of seen that in how the
Finch is hard-coreing. Pretty darn well for this team, but for Rico, going in already?
No Mabla for Talisman, which is less than ideal if we're just setting up.
Do they check the box is the big question. Hang on a second.
Wait a moment, they don't know, they didn't check the box, but oh there's no one there.
Oh good though, I just run around I guess. It's in teleport, good headshot, nice wall as well.
No, one stops this from getting away.
Blizzard ends up coming in.
It's going to be a free non-to-Super Gomez.
You can imagine the action just ends up running away.
Norton's will move there.
Actually sets up a jig with a perfect kill.
Annihilation from Super Gomez just runs through the front line.
The annihilation's too good.
Stay too juicy.
Super Gomez with a double kill already.
Make that a triple.
Make that a quad kill, in fact.
Super Gomez laying waste to Puerto Rico.
As they claim this next point,
there's no chance Puerto Rico touched it.
Puerto Rico, they had the chance.
The Susie was forced, but it's all it takes.
or mage with annihilation to pick up the pieces of a broken fight in Columbia.
And one point at a time, by the way.
Yeah, one more match point, match point, all of the above right now.
Puerto Rico, pun last stand is all they get here on this New Jug City map within the series
and which has not used the death blossom left either.
And he won't have a corner to set up around this time, although he's definitely going
to find one of the little time that is left.
Oh, there we go.
This is the most ranked Reaper gameplay of all time.
Honestly, it works out though.
Little TP, little Deathwossom, you know the vibes.
There he is, range to the back.
Hello, what's up?
Didn't take behind you, did you?
Nice that was Susie there as well.
You should save in the day, let's just get away though.
And the chaos unfolds as soon as everybody turns their back,
the Super Gomez gloves on,
haymakers being thrown into the front line.
Such an easy fight there.
Okay.
Little back too.
Woo!
Alright, alright super dumbass, let me see it, and yeah, it's such a veteran player, you
can tell that the, exactly what this game plan is, Lich, yeah, he's subtracted, and
they are even more concerned about him, because he hasn't used Death Blossom at all actually,
so they know it's there.
There he goes again, they're checking him this time, can he finally go for the check?
Spy check, done, Lich, out of there.
Not something you do in this game too often though, hit counts here.
They really need it.
Charge so close to going down to the rail gun headshot of the body shot even.
The soundbar is just too good for both teams in fact.
As they try to burn in a spot where you can just wreak havoc with the Reaper.
There's annihilation though.
Shots down the carry player for Columbia.
Chain can't connect with another kill.
Super Gomez eventually fell.
Oh, it's E.B.!
Oh good.
Which other?
Don't panic.
Definitely not.
I was like, cool is the cucumber is that what they say?
I don't know.
I think so.
When are cucumbers ever cool?
Everyone's saying cool.
Do we put cucumbers in the fridge now?
Is that a thing?
Do you see that?
Wait, you don't put yours in the fridge?
No.
Wait, you put cucumbers in the fridge?
Okay, chat, bat me out.
You put cucumbers in the fridge, right?
I'll just leave one on the couch.
Do you leave them out?
Yeah, they just do.
I have, like, a whole bunch of vegetables in the fridge.
You're crazy.
Okay, we don't get into this.
They're about to win.
right hand is just going to run forward now with his OC straight in the backline effect.
And I still headshot onto Anzac and take him down.
I think it was a bit of a collat damage too.
And I still count on rotation though, it's a chain of chicken and they're coming up with kills.
Super Gomez for the annihilation, only does a little bit of damage to the frontline.
Pointing it down though for Columbia, but they're losing members here.
Can Lich actually stay alive?
A little bit too smarmy with it on the Lucio.
It's a back, what is this?
What was that death boss of...
That was death boss of... I've never seen.
Okay, well, unfortunately though for Super Gomez isn't getting taken down by the
Nemesis of Shane. They ended up getting the Reef flip there at 99% for Columbia.
That is incredible that they clutched that up with how many things to spit upon
Puerto Rico.
But they're going to fight another day and they're gonna have both support ults, which is the best thing you can ask for
in this situation. Columbia, they got an elch, a lot of nothing.
to go ahead and pull out. So, Puerto Rico, if they lose this point, it is over.
White literally. Cards at least are in their face.
Yeah, good rush as well.
They should just steal the deal you're thinking.
Like you said, Colombia don't have any ult at all.
Both supportos to guarantee this point.
Don't think you need to do the soundbar, but if you, in this kind of situation,
it's best to use it just in case.
But look at Colombia just springboarding back in.
Croterson's gonna have B in a couple of moments as well.
A giant bumble from Puerto Rico here as they can't clean up the fight.
Croterson with 99% gets shut down by Talisman though.
A super Gomez ends up falling over to the annihilation for Puerto Rico.
Not quite fumbling just yet. I mean, Croterson needed that ult.
As Puerto Rico clutch up at 99 to stick in this game.
That was so much more than what they should have needed to commit.
They gave 3 ults to 0 and they still almost lost that fight.
That is, I think, a red flag going forwards and leaves you with very few fools on this next point of the docks with only this overclock where McChicken has not been finding too much value with it.
And besides, still have the sound barrier from Kratos on top out if you need to.
Today's that scary. This is priority positioning. Over to Columbia, switch again on his little corner camping adventure.
Please someone check the corner do not get three hit challenge teleports and straight home the vendetta
They have against this year ago
Fancy billow from our ander and that will be a shut down village
I thought he popped out there, but he didn't end up here in the queue
It's false. Fortunately mission unsuccessful there for Columbia trying to say the back eyes Puerto Rico cap the points
And it goes to be Gomez to
If which did not have to reload there that goes so differently, I'm just saying that is either a dead Kiriko or a dead Lucio or both
As a matter of fact so Columbia though now have the ultimates to work with is only the overclock and
That ended up being used for Puerto Rico and that was all they had at their disposal Columbia
Have so many ways that they could just blast Puerto Rico off their feet and I'm feeling looking for 10 to be the first one
Alright Sam, what can you do?
Nice early railgun shot there, in support of the OC, try and get the double tap.
It's gonna be chain popping and this is from super early on.
I know it's a bit of a super Gomez too but they're not gonna need it.
Very economical fight here from Columbia, they've already killed the Kiriko too so,
Puerto Rico, they're not gonna have any gas left in the tank, never shoot in the feet
there, let's see.
Puerto Rico with 87% okay, they're still in a good spot.
It's whether they can actually sustain in this next fight.
This is very doable for Puerto Rico.
One fight territory, you'll have the tools to match.
I think the threat of the death blossom is a little much a switch.
Shit, come on.
Like, how did they just not check the corners at this point?
Oh!
He saw the right form as well, but I mean, that was so lucky that
Tasman needed to get the mini.
I think they're fighting a lot of checking these cores. That's right at all.
Ranks, Reaper, Gale, both of them on the point right now trying to fight each other 33 HP though for one of them.
As far as this just gets chased down, this rush is just so powerful for Columbia right now.
And Chain, how do you go into the annihilation too? I mean, this is such an easy re-crawl here for Lich.
He has a bit of an instickling Chain following up with the killer onto Ander, and that's a team kill too.
75% they cannot fall mistakes. Someone's gonna have to speed up a touch. It's gonna be John. Oh, he's the only one
That's alive right now. Tell us man. Not too far behind
Columbia looking to stop this much. They're pretty good. We have
No shift no problem there for Columbia nice little victory sound barrier as well
They're taking the map and the series of three. Oh, okay
Puerto Rico thought coming into today. They had a lot more guns than that
But it is Columbia that come out on top and honestly
Well, it looked pretty easy for them very strong in their group currently and one step closer to it to get to Busan
much needed when at the tough matchup to start against team Canada the
Night and day with this team that have a clear game plan know where their strengths are
Especially with this Reaper
I think they're the team that we've seen lean into it the most so far and have not had a reason to change it
Although it's not necessarily over for either team either of these teams
Columbia still have to get a win against Brazil and
Seca Puerto Rico they could get a win against Canada and we would have some insane tiebreakers on our hands
But one of those tasks much more difficult than the other Columbia happy with this shutting down this team that which is so good yesterday
the team. They're going to be
in the game yesterday. Getting
that upset over Zell of
Puerto Rico, still showing that
they are a young squad. They
still have things to come away
and learn what is ahead of them
in their competition. No, we
could do so for those next
days. Yeah, they can rest easy
for now. Can it team Columbia
very impressed with a super
Gomez and Tampa so Jen is
really good. Really, really
That's just so difficult with the U.S. and Canada, but, you know, there's some bright spots and there's two spots available.
So there was a very big chance here for Columbia to make their one to Busan.
They're gonna have to win the next one though to almost guarantee themselves.
Round robin format can be a little brutal, but, you know, coming in with a win, now sitting on one-on-one,
your step, you know, that first step in the ladder has already been taken.
Columbia, they didn't make it to last, well, I think last year, 2023's BlizzCon stage.
been a while. I didn't make it there for no reason and having the turning talent of Super
Gomez and the helmet spent around the scene for so so long, combined with some of these
newer players and both Tim and Rich who have come up since then. I had a very good look
for this roster. Again, I don't think we got a true showing of what their potential was
in their game against Canada yesterday. I will say though, it looked a lot closer when Canada
play Brazil. So perhaps a big challenge for them ahead in the next week because that will really make
or break their game so far. And as for Puerto Rico, same thing goes but it could be much, much
tougher matchup. A ton of potential with this roster but I think with a lot of things to clean up
in a short period of time you're asking for a borderline miracle I think to come away with the
map diff as well. I mean, it's not impossible at this point, unfortunately for them.
It'll be bye bye to team Brazil, which I guess if you're Colombia right now, you're like, OK, maybe, maybe we can do this, not as much left to play for.
But I think the roster that shouldn't be underestimated and one that can take you out is most of our matches today.
All of the group A side of things and group B much more testable.
It was actually Chile who won that match is Argentina that is oh and one Chile one and oh
But yeah for the most part. I think it's the the USA
Spots who's gonna go with them is the question
That's I'm hate breakage. That's every World Cup group ever
It's always one demon mode team in the group than that is just
Brazil, uh, Colombia is gonna be our last matches of group A and Puerto Rico, Canada.
So the Brazil, Colombia game, I mean, Brazil in theory could play a little bit of upset
here, but with how Colombia played today, I think they're kind of booking the ticket
here.
I just got, I've got a good feeling about that.
Yeah, I could see it.
I really can with how the, how Colombia is playing and with how close they are to qualifying,
little more to play for than Brazil at some points, which is certainly helping that matchup.
Puerto Rico, again, miracle required. That Canada shoe-in at this point, so they did lock in their
spot officially with the Guamia taking the win as well. So, just that one last thing up for grabs
on that side. Yeah, and those matches obviously aren't going to be happening next week, as it's
we're going to have to do this
Sunday at today. So next week
you're going to have to tune in
for those just going to set up
with a quick interview in just
a moment. I believe with a
litch. Um before we sign off
for the day, you may looking
good as well. It's good to see
some of the Finns and the
Swedes back at it. They'll be
one of the first games of
Group A next week, and that's
going to be a fun time. I think
I've seen the finish and
that's a next week. EMEA in
GM role has always been a strong
region with a lot of like very
strong teams. I think the
Latam teams have a lot to kind
of proof on the big stage and
you know, Columbia might be one
of them to do it. And in fact,
I'm getting word in now the
interview is ready. So let's
bring Litch in to talk about the
series of previous and how
they're kind of preparing
potentially good to going to
Busan for the World Cup and
Litch welcome and
congratulations on your win
feeling. It looks no guarantee just yet but it looks pretty good for you guys today to be some.
Yeah it's been it's been looking well like I think our team is pretty confident like especially
after that win like we've been really trying like all the meta changes and stuff have been like
giving us difficulty but I really feel like it's I think we're in it for the win. I think we can do it.
Absolutely and I think too with this being you know you had that loss to Puerto Rico yesterday
your next match being against Brazil, it will be the one that determines whether you qualify or not.
Do you think you are favored heading into that matchup, especially seeing them play a little bit more?
Um, I don't know. Like, I really think people favor Brazil because like they have high draw lines
team, but let's be honest, like, I think we'll be looking a lot better, especially after today's
showing like Puerto Rico already beat them like if we just go by win-loss like I think we could possibly win just because we beat Puerto Rico but
You have to look at bands. We have to do draft properly like depends on a lot of stuff
But I think Brazil is pretty favorite going into this especially since they took a map off Canada
Like they're the strongest in our group in my opinion like they're really strong team and we did lose to them of course, but
Let's just see what happens honestly. I think Brazil is favorite though. Yeah
That's going to be a fun series for sure. I did want to ask, and I asked in all of the
interviews today, but what does it mean to you and you guys for the Overwatch World Cup
to kind of come back and be within a chance of going to somewhere like South Korea to
play on a really big stage against international competition?
It's a very exciting opportunity. I didn't expect much to happen out of World Cup because
I thought it's gonna be like the same format
as like the last few years, but honestly,
I got really lucky, like I was able to be 18,
like I was able to play, was able to win, you know?
Like I think it's a really cool opportunity.
I just didn't expect Korea to be part of it at all.
Like it's really cool, like how it's being done like that.
Yeah, it's honestly one of the homes of Overwatch as well,
like stretching back all the way to like Apex in 2017, 2016.
So a lot of history there.
you can be a part of that as
well. Well, let's thank you so
much for joining us and
congratulations on your win. And
yeah, good luck in your next
one. Thank you so much.
I will say it's always good to
hear from the players and how
they're feeling because a lot of
these players haven't had the
same sort of limelight from
international competition or
like O W C s, etc. So it's nice
to hear and put a faces to the
names as well, which is always
always good to see. So we'll see
a little bit tougher than maybe
we're giving them credit for
mine. Yeah, and which taking
them with the with the grain
assault. So you know, it does
show that there is a lot of
respect to these American teams
and how really up proud that
second spot is within the group
and don't know until of course
next weekend how that will
resolve and I have a lot of
confidence. Both of these teams
will be ready to give it the
right game by the time this
comes out. Yeah, that'll be a
for us. So we'll have a lot of
you. It's been a great day for
us today. It was fantastic
costume with Molly. It's been
the first time for me and you're
self costing in a big stage like
this. So yeah, it's been
fantastic having you and we'll
see you all very soon. Don't
forget to tune in to next week.
A whole lot of action coming
your way on Saturday and Sunday.
It's a four games each day. Come
on. You've got 40 and a four
N a. It's going to be a whole
lot of a watch to secure drops
as well. Don't get to connect
and we'll see you next time.
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