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Welcome back everyone to the Overwatch World Hub.
We're in the final stretch here for the online qualifiers and I'm ashroned by Matt and Molly.
Overall guys, how are you feeling about how this last week has turned out?
I feel amazing. I mean, I know not just, you know, for the Overwatch World Cup, but for the last week of Overwatch World Cup.
I mean, that was pretty good. We saw some awesome games last week. I think everything in EMEA has kind of been pretty expected thus far, at least.
And honestly, we couldn't see some upsets, but in fact, we haven't seen anything too crazy so far.
maybe just getting comfortable with the stage. Now that these teams have had a bit more time to
scrim and kind of practice with each other, I think today will be perhaps some new strategies
coming on out of the meta. Yeah, it's been fun to see, I think, a lot of like litmus tests in
last week and to see how everyone is stacking up against each other. But if you guys missed out on
our first weekend, I do want to run you through the format again real quick. The World Cup online
qualifiers are going to be putting us through multiple 14 round robbing groups. And stay with
with me here with the top two teams in each group advancing to the group stage of the main event
Busan South Korea. Very exciting stuff. After a week full of matches again, none of these groups
have been fully decided yet. Overall, talking a little bit more about last weekend, having a bit
more of a deep dive here. I think that we can chat about how Denmark are currently in the best spot
realistically. They're the only team that have left that week in 2 and 0. This is pretty expected
overall considering how many matches were, you know, contested during last weekend after a nail bite
or 3-2 against Finland. Molly, that group. The group of death right now, Denmark must be pretty
happy about the spot that they're in and UK, France and Great Britain are all continue to show,
are all expected, I think, to show what they're going to be, why they're on top, I think, with
these rosters. Yeah, I think the having Denmark, Sweden and Finland in one group feels kind of
of illegal. Honestly, how strong all three of those rosters are. And especially seeing
this Sweden-Finland matchup. If you're in Denmark, you're the biggest Sweden fan right
now. You see Finland go down 0-2. That guarantees your spot in Busan. So I'm pretty sure that
they will be watching some of our games with a pretty close eye today. But as I said, the
rest of the group's heading out pretty much as expected.
I mean Ash right like seeing Denmark playing that well is like really impressive right you kind of see their
Matt differential
Group B. I think we all expect you know great Britain there to get on through I think Germany, Norway
That could be you know a little bit of an interesting game
I think we may even have that one today
So that'll be one kind of look at as potentially something that decides that second spot and then group C
I mean, I think this one is the probably the most clear cut out of the ones we have here in EMEA
We're at France and Poland look pretty good right now. Yeah, they definitely do as again though two wins doesn't guarantee that you're going to necessarily make it out of groups today, but it definitely helps their worlds.
We're going to see, you know, some of those like one, one, two, one score lines going through and we'll see how things end up rocking out on Sunday. We've got a lot of matches coming.
coming. But overall, as a reminder, China and Saudi Arabia all are already awaiting
you there in that group stage alongside some other teams from Asia. Where are
their qualifiers for that? And it actually last weekend. And the top half of the group
stage will advance also to the playoffs. That will be in BlizzCon in Anaheim,
California. Those are hard this morning, guys. But how excited, Molly, are you for
this year coming up? Like, it's so fun that we have OWWC coming back here at BlizzCon.
Yeah, and it's been what, 2023 is the last time that we had
OWWC arounds, level of land, it's quite soon.
We have both been on and Anaheim later on this year.
So I think it's a lot to look forward to a lot of the time
for these two to showcase players in the regional foul.
Well, talking a little bit more about the schedule now
that we have for today, as excited as we are looking forward
to these line events that will be coming up,
we gotta still get through these online qualifiers.
We have four matches in EMEA to kick off this morning here on Saturday
And then afterwards you guys will be joined by Jaws and Johnny for the Americas groups or another four matches
So a lot of overwatch on the docket for today. It's gonna be exciting stuff
And a lot of time for you guys to secure these jobs
I want to give a big shout out to Matt right now
Like congrats on the fact that you managed to get your three stream watch streak
I think that's awesome. If you guys want to be like him, definitely ensure that you continue to tune in to be able to get that
Awesome, these sports loot box and ensure that your Liz count is also connected
To make sure that you actually you know get it in overwatch
But overall talking a little bit more about the matchup that we do have coming in next
We talked about how important these groups are and these score lines trying to secure that
second win early on and for Finland versus Sweden is there is a world Molly
where if Sweden get this win to kick things off they are going to be able to
lock in a like soft lock in a spot for them in that mark yeah pretty much is
to have two teams at two and two kind of impossible to break through that but yeah
I think Sweden when I first looked at this group A I'm like why are all these
teams in the same bracket kind of crazy so the fact that they have the
opportunity today to lock in that spot, especially against a Finland team.
We're kind of the surprise of 2023, getting all the way up to a third place finish.
So if they're able to kind of shut that down, get that win today,
I'll be very happy with that going on ahead.
It just shows how fast overwatch moves, right?
It's like, oh, we got third place a few years ago, and then now all of a sudden,
like you're you, you might not even make it out of the groups, right?
I know I think you're going to have to see like sauna and Vistula probably have
like a really huge games here against Sweden,
but like the Sweden roster is like so stacked.
I know I think Ghost is obviously a really important player
here for Finland as well.
And their World Cup run in the past,
like he was really tremendous in terms of like
that like support role.
So I think, you know, for me, Finland,
they have to know how important this game is, right?
Coming in, you're going to see the best version of them today.
For sure, I think this will as well,
like we already know how great of a player he is, but with how important the tank matchups have been
in the current meta with like maps that we're seeing also in the pool,
I, you know, I love to see the best of all of them coming out, but overall let's take a look
at who they're going to be facing up against because chatting a bit more about this
Swedish roster that Matt you were saying is so stacked. Yeah, I mean, I know obviously anytime
you're going to have Kev on the roster, it's going to be pretty strong. You highlighted there, Ash,
like the kind of tank match of Ray Bestola being able to play this Sigma.
No, I think for me, like it's like, okay, like what is Willie's gonna play, right?
We know Silent Apparel are two really, you know, fantastic support players.
Like Willie likes to play a lot of the Hazard, can play like, you know, some of the D.Va,
can play like Sigma himself. I think if Willie's wins that tank battle,
you kind of look at the rest of the roster.
Swede is going to be very difficult to beat this match.
And then I think it's going to be the pain points. The play styles of these teams have been so drastically different over our first week of competition.
We need more towards the Sigma style, which is more like Hard, May, Symmetra, Brawl type of thing.
So seeing those clash out on the stage, if Willys can manage to get the best of this, Stola, it seems like Sweden can have this one.
Yeah, it definitely does. I'm curious what you have out there because it's going to come into play at home.
Homeport and also, you know, the map picks are gonna be as well as the hero bands that we're gonna be expecting to come through here as well
Overall, I'm not I'm kind of curious
We're how close do you feel like I think we well we've known that this game is going to be a close one
But I feel like most people see Sweden as having the upper hand in this matchup not the twitch
Dically, they're on something this morning. I mean, I'm gonna hear you got like five million channel points on
I'm like, what's going on here?
I'm like, is everybody from Finland
the entire country?
They're all showing up right now.
They're all here.
Because you look at the rosters.
I mean, I think Sweden is like a, you look at the roster,
and it's like, they could be a favorite even when you go
to Busan, but in some of the other groups, right?
Like that's how good it is.
Not to say the Finland roster isn't.
It's just like, right now, at the moment,
it seems like Sweden is kind of clicking.
But the kind of like what I was alluding to earlier, I think Finland, you kind of know that this is basically your last chance to make it out of groups, right?
Like, there's probably some other shenanigans, like, you know, all the math wizards out there can figure out some type of way that they can kind of sneak on through.
But like, this is really the best chance for them to make it on through. So, I think you're going to kind of see them kick it into another gear today.
Yeah, it's gonna be a really important matchup for Spinland, especially considering that they
yet to have a win underneath their belt.
Let's go and see who ends up actually getting that high received with that 1v1 deathmatch
coming in next, you guys.
Okay, yes.
As we go into the 1v1, Molly, what do we have here obviously?
So, Alliance for Sona Doomfist 1v1.
You know, I'm thankful this has not been spoiled to us, because, you know, well, even if they
they did I wouldn't really believe it seeing this kind of come play out is that
looks like a okay so the kill comes in after the kill cam there they just kind
of traded where Elias gets the first one yeah do this I think being the hero
selected between Widowmaker and Ana the other two options is a little shocking
but and they're making it work both DPS players on it and Elias kind of cooking
sauna for what we can see here and it's been a minute since Doomfist DPS before
these players clearly wanting to relive that is sauna. I'm sure to make this one the full distance.
How did we not get, you know, EMEA to have a Reinhardt 1v1 option? I mean, that would have been
just the EMEA specials. Okay, so Sweden, they will receive the higher seed, so license of taking
out sauna in that death match. So they'll get that first pick, which is pretty important. So
So it'll be Sweden picking Ilios here to kick things off.
Ilios is definitely more that dyed-ish, centric, one of the best cat fashion maps that are
available as well.
We saw it a little bit from Sweden previously.
Granted, it was Kale that was in instead of Admiral, so unless we're seeing a bit more
of a swath in that regard, and with the Devalusio bands, it almost seems like a guarantee that
that's what Sweden will want to pull out.
and it doesn't seem that Finland are a team to shy away from themselves either.
Yes, I mean the diva ban is pretty interesting right, really early on getting it out of Estola's
hands like one of Estola's you know best heroes. I think for Finland like you know getting rid of
Lucio like that now this would allow you to play what we're going to see maybe like Juno Kiri
right? Do you want to play some Moga with that? I know we they're always down for a little bit of
Maga here in the Overwatch World Cup it seems so that that definitely opens in
different comps up especially I know with Lucio being so strong really in just
about every situation. It takes away from a lot of that speed. We won't have as much
environmental potential I guess is a little bit sad. We saw a Roadhog here.
Don't sleep on the hog. I mean it's possible.
going for some environmental kills, but I mean, we've also seen Roadhog end in disaster,
so I don't think either of these teams, I mean, Sweden, I think, you know, we'll just
be gabbling it, but I don't think we'll see it here early on, but, yeah, to your point,
like, you kind of ruin a little bit of some of the environmental potential.
Yeah, and like, it's, you know, maybe a little bit too high of a match stake to do some Vicky
Mouse gameplay with our Roadhog, so, I think it's not really something that we've seen
I'm not sure if it's for the solo, but hey, first one for everything, definitely catch them off guard.
But again, tank matchup is a big one.
The one I do think is the DPS, I think Kepster and Krampen for Sweden in that first match against Austria.
And it's Kepster, it's not really much else that you can say about that.
So seeing him be matched by Sauna, who's just kind of making his comeback into this EMEA region,
is going to be another big thing that I think Finland are going to have their eyes set on.
Yeah, it's a great point. And right now the game is very close to being ready.
We're just waiting, you know, hey look if you watched last weekend, you know, we
wait on some of these players sometimes, especially in the MEA. They like to take
their time again in the lobby. I think we're just waiting on one player to get
in the lobby and then we'll get this one kicked off. Would you favor Sweden in
this as well? Like I think, I mean, to say they're a clear favorite seems to be
like Dog and Finn a little bit, but for me, I mean, Sweden, I think I thought they
would win this group so I would probably still have them as a favorite here.
Yeah that's kind of where I put them especially with that loss to Denmark I
think that kind of dropped my stocks in Finland's a tad bit it's not like again
Finland are a bad team feels illegal double-tiered them in the same group but
yeah when you look at it I think it's hard I just see Kevster on this
roster along with like this again a little bit biased from the collegiate
backline of Admiral having to extra synergy with Skyle too.
He just seems like so much for the Finland to have
to overcome in a short period of time.
Or maybe Denmark is just that good, right?
They've kind of put themselves a cut above.
And then we kind of end up with a way closer game
than we could have imagined.
But I think that Skyle was really good last week
with Admiral.
And then anytime you can play, Kev's playing a little bit
more like Tracer here.
for this roster than I know he kind of does in OWCS.
So I get a little bit of like throwback have
and I think that's why like he's so strong
in especially like tournaments like this, right?
Where you just kind of need players
who can kind of jump into the server,
tell you whatever and play it at a high level
and kind of fit into any team really.
It's going to be important, especially for our World Cup
teams with the overlap with OWCS.
There hasn't been nearly as much intensive practice time
some of these rosters compared to others and it just is going to come with the higher levels of
gameplay that are out there that just can be a side effect for being too good in a way. But
seeing that blend, I think we'll be more, we've had a bit of a week for them to get more of those
reps in, become more comfortable. But yeah, it's really going to come down to the difference of
play styles as well. There's, again, Tonnes in May for Finland. They like their brawl, they like
I like being up close and personal, or hipster, and favors that tracer.
I'd be more hokey in that regard, but you're on Ilios.
I think this is going to be one of the bigger highlights of how these comps can mismatch.
Yes, obviously some time here where teams can kind of decide what they want to play.
The illustrious cat bastion is available here.
I know it's one thing.
We saw a bit of it in EMEA last week.
They kind of like started to like trend a little bit
away from it here, at least in this region.
But with the Lucio gone,
you obviously not able to ban another support.
So it'll be thin when playing the cap fashion here, Molly,
with Sigma in the mix.
And then for Sweden, it looks like they came out on this.
It looks like, for a second there,
I was wondering if they were gonna decide
to make some changes, but the Freya
is something that we have not seen at ages.
Yeah, she had that small buff kinda coming into the lack
of two patches ago with the updraft and just the way
the back of the team.
And I think she makes Freya a lot more survivable
in these long range book matchups.
You can land these bolts, it's gonna hurt,
but you can already tell that Pippen
and making sure Saunam had to knife
and use some safe ground in Lighthouse's Willys.
Also, then stopping over to the Malgoth
makes the beatings test the plate.
safer against Vestola in the front, but Zoro making a bit of a face-to-face,
saw him not exactly recommended against the Cap. Shouldn't that solve the issue?
Yes, you're just trying to find angles here for Sweden, just trying to like lock them in to the
point as Zoro, pretty difficult to hit, but it takes a lot of damage and then Gucci is going to be
able to finish him off, so just like that it feels like that Finland is going to get controlled
you know early on as everybody from Sweden backs out and it's gonna trigger a
couple more small to see Zoro move on over to that Ashe. I think to have more
potential to help us still off is not letting you know and you're gonna see
some changes here from Sweden and I like the idea I don't think you can really
play the Freya into this it's like really thing with the cap bashing you
kind of need just like consistent damage on them I know at range where like the
Freya we kind of saw from Zoro's POV it's like pretty difficult to hit those shots
And then now with the rematra gonna be in a better spot to throw it out
But a lot of the ultimate tier 4 Finland
I mean, you're gonna be walking in like a Katsune rush here for Sweden. It'll be very difficult to play
An unfortunate side effect making the later swaps and Finland's already within our force
Katsune rushes out of it. He didn't successfully manage this. He's high from it and we indeed, it's a captive Sun.
The only card in style to find is the Kirigo in the back line. That's my room for Sun and I'm assuming was dropped
it really was able to punch him somehow and much better start without the threat working in the sky
so we can move to the point a bit more freely. The catnap though and we really that was stunned and
off into the cliff he shall fall. Finland, you want to look to clutch this up? Sauna get Skyl from
assumably the spawn coming back in zero. Gotta take the reset for the last fight. Yeah just one more
opportunity here for Sweden. It's not been a good round for them. It's Finland piloting this camp
Bastion I know almost to perfection here early on the best solar is gonna have this flux
You see a nice job here from Gucci just trying to deny kids a touch here from the high ground
Now you're actually gonna have this soul moving up there. This are really nice luck
On the sky I'll turn into a pancake on the high ground somebody can see this touch of the storm
He's pretty low that see players trying to surround the suit they can do but it is still a sigma after all
So that I get to the point there
So Zoro, he managed to get the punish finally.
Sweden, we'll be out of this one, at least in a whole sweep,
because I'm actually at some percentage going.
Yeah, there goes Zoro.
Well, I mean, the Soletrizer denied that area,
and Zoro just sends a bob right into his face.
And then the bob is able to take out the tank,
like, you know, get past the six shield.
And now that they're going to be off this, kept fashion,
I think there's a real world in which Sweden
can get back into this.
So, this Mizuki comp can be really difficult to deal with, like when you're playing D.Va.
With the Rematra, the Rematra can deal with it a little bit better.
Even if you kind of get the Rematra stuck in the chains, you have that damage to form the block.
You have to shield it.
Keep you up to the high ground, nice vortex, catch is one.
Yeah, this point Sauna down there makes that trade all the worth it.
So much harder now for Finland to close that gap.
It is the one smaller weakness of the cement of that cock and it's just gonna force a swamp over to tracer match good sir
See Gucci here from like an off angle put a lot of damage down onto willies
I was gonna play a blue on so extra damage here
I know a little bit of extra feeling as well compared to Yalar
Yes, or I should find Gucci at range. It's gonna be the consumer. I should have from dose to open things up
It's they want to try and end it here
Sweden lost control of the point and there's a nice trade there ghost running around being more of a DPS than both as damage players for the time being
And for Finland that should be enough to get them through this objective
It's only really realistically sitting on the point with his violation burned on down a little much that he has left to offer and walk
Will it slowly run on out down he falls and just an old kevser. I stick on the shield
But yeah, ghost as Kunai with his name on it. We Finland and run one
Yeah, really good round from Finland. I think the cap fashion definitely through sweet enough a little bit trying to find their bearings in terms of like what comp they would actually want to play.
Instead of you know what they kind of rolled out one right so they rolled out with like a hazard and some other stuff. You know the Freya kind of coming into the mix and a lorry.
and Ellari, doesn't really work out that well for them.
Some adjustments there makes it a bit closer,
but Finland comes out really strong,
especially by Stola, only one death in their first round.
That's none of that tank matchup
that we were talking about as well.
And when Sweden were having their identity crisis
at the start, put them far behind
and it just allowed Stola consistently on this pick.
Farm on through in Sweden.
You have another swing at this hazard comp
that had a rough go at it.
It's Katbashian.
Yeah, let's see.
It looks like Kat actually just uses the Echo to get up
into the sky to see if the Katbashian is flying towards Luma
and then goes back and decides to make some changes.
So it's going to be the Rematra change here as well.
Ellari, so a lot of changes coming in here for Sweden.
They will still go with the Freya.
So trying to make the Freya work,
you can get in the sky, maybe kind of land some of those big
bolts down onto the Bastion.
But the Bastion comes with such a nasty target.
I mean, you see the Jipek, I can just fly around so fast.
And with being a projectile, it's garnier possible to blend enough holes to make that consistent and even get chased down.
You lose out on the bestola, though, and that's kind of the issue with the cat fashion.
If you leave your tank on the island, you really just happily walk him down without that tank press and spindle.
There's a little way to stay on this objective, so see you on the first cat.
Yeah, and I mean, the cast you swap is, I think, the ideal move here.
Like, you're also really susceptible to the tracer.
Uh, no, as, uh, the free-outwear for being Gucci was really good to start with this game,
which I know an early kill on the Zorro, really taking it to Kev, and the tracer head-to-head
as some nice damage goes down on the Zorro, but there it is again, Gucci with another.
He's just running through this team.
Kev's just kind of being that highlight tracer player for this match, but it has been all Gucci so far,
and he's going to almost singlehandedly get Finland's that recap.
Yeah, so, even when getting back in control of things here is, uh, you know, Adworld's
doing his best to kind of keep Willy's hide up, so, you know, now it'll be best to look
at it controlling some of this high ground.
And now trying to move through this choke with that cash bash is going to be really difficult.
Adworld takes us that one swing of the cooldown, and, which again, such a great job of zoning
Pets are off of this fight, is kind of just running away, for the most part, has the support
of Ghost behind him as well,
and makes it all the more difficult to sauna.
It's a passion for him out.
He's like with Willys, but you're gonna say Portals.
You're more worried about Ghost first.
Hold is, I'm not too far behind,
but it's that catnap again you're worried about.
There's just nothing Willys is able to do.
He's dunked in the well.
Finland's leading to support Alts to clean this.
Well, at least they should.
Great Eden for Vistola.
They'll be okay to fight again.
Yeah, now that's brutal, right?
because you use your Kitsune rush there for Sweden, you want to get Willys fighting inside of that.
I know, end up kind of cycling the, you know, Nemesis form into the annihilation,
as the Sothic goes up to the high ground, trying to move Kepster off this position.
And then he just gets here with a catnap that just takes him off the map before he can even pop the annihilation.
So, good use of the Jetpack catnip there from that thing, is that this has been a much closer game.
I think we would have even expected as, I know, a nice, I know, Kepster's on here,
use my Skyl up on the high ground not able to find any of those extra kills there.
I stole it! It's a bolting on sub 100 HP and he's going to end up getting chased down by the Hempster.
Near Final Fight territory, four teams, they're going to want to get themselves all appointed.
If they want to do so, they've got to get through one more Bastion Cycle on issue at all for this rematchra.
If they do end up losing out on Willys, I'll hurt a bit later. For now, here we go again.
Yeah, and then you're going to get Willys back in the fight here. Everybody kind of falls for Finlund,
So you're not really worried about them coming back slightly faster. It'll be a tee-pee here as a YouTube now switch back
Over to the tracers up. We're interesting thing here though. You're gonna match the Sigma so
Sigma now match nearby willies
You will have a little bit of value extra support, right?
Because you're gonna be playing that a large hearing in the back line not gonna have the head
I know jetpack yet just piloting that fashion around as the soul really just relying on ghost
That is why you kind of make the switcher over the cast of the Molly right zero is able to find Gucci
Really on Gucci getting a better out of playing you know sometime right at high cost
But now zero really heat up. You see now that the the trace is gone
There's no one really to stop Zorro in that fight. That's actually really huge too worse
We did not have any to commit any of their ultimates had that dry flight needed to snowmall the spirit
Yes
See if the one more chance here probably for Finland
You will end up with another catnap, but we usually don't talk about it as an impactful clip, but here on Well, I know quite, quite impactful being able to just get that environment a little rather quickly, so I will see if FN can kind of capture anybody yet again.
Dead Eye available here for Sweden as well. It'll be difficult to kind of have this cat-fashion hover over the point.
And Zoro's absolutely going to be looking for an angle to punish this cat-bashing this rotation from Finland and flipping the map
On team Sweden and this cat-bap all it can do to take out the tank almost instantly would be the ideal scenario
But no and then as I'm getting punished, they're safe with the willies and now get them all the old 14 Sweden style
And captive Sun into the back line as the extra overalls of Sonic's and his group used to be losing player after player here
You're here Finland's in such a good spot that we'll be back in the flight now
But you just don't have anybody to keep that point contested Sweden are there and take us all the way to round three. I
Mean an unbelievable swaps there from Sweden
They kind of paddle back into that round and really I think it was oral going over the Cassidy
Cassie has been so good against these cat fashion comes trying to play all the sip and stuff like a Freya
where even an Ash could be pretty difficult, where now it's really going to force Finland to make some adjustments.
I know Reed Deaths from Vistula just in that round, Kev's playing pretty good.
It just feels like Gucci has come up with constant kills, but the stats would say that Kev is obviously getting the better out of him early on.
So we'll see now, Sweden, probably, we'll see if they just have to stay with the Juno.
It'll be note when I've already swaps of Juno just to actually kind of get that speed ring out
It'll be Kev. He's gonna check to see what they're running when no cap fashion. I wonder what he decides to do
I know potentially could stay on the echo. Yeah, that looks like what they're gonna go for so without the
Without the cat's action in play against the SIG gonna try and place them echo to maybe burn that signal down
the extra poke down in here
You should feel friendly dealt with.
Very helpful for you, Sweden.
You have this assonation potential.
First down, some of these squishier targets question support.
Yeah, they're just struggling. These health bars are so incredibly low.
And you can't really TP into that easily either.
Push with health.
Sona cannot get killed off, and neither can Gucci.
In time, we'll be a trade hit scan for a hit scan.
This is still Finland, set up on the objective.
I mean, having his first on the high ground is so much free space, poor Kevsters, you work with, no teleports, you worry about either.
Resource saved Finland, running is low, all these dwarfish shots landing on Sweden, get them through, but they won't step off the point, Finland, grab it.
It feels a soft free-tweet, or Sweden, seems to be very tough to get through.
Yeah, I mean, early on it looked like that Sweden was winning the battle in terms of the overall damage output, right?
everybody's health bar is on Finland, dangerously low, but I know getting rid of that sojourn
is huge there as it'll be continued around here from Finland as they want to try and
find a target really focusing on Skyle at the moment, not able to chase him down though.
It was Admiral permanently healing him, you're gonna need like three people to take him out,
which yeah you do, but at what cost? Kempster just ran rampant through your back line and suddenly
this fight, I'm more even than you expected, so I had to pop off the Davidic Flux after losing
in control of that point. And they aren't an expensive commitment for Shurner. Katsune
Rush now from the duplicated Kiri Gull over Kepster. You don't have too much damage, you
really follow through. Willy's going down, Vistula is chucking these boulders from free.
Blink goes back over to this. Yeah, that's a huge accretion there. If you don't actually
hit that accretion, you have some other players coming off the spawn, you're probably inside
of that Katsune Rush that Kev. I was able to dupe and use, and then maybe even think
about. I know potentially being able to use your own, but nice accretion there from Vesola
as he is looking really good here in map number one. There'll be four ultimates here to work
with. Four Sweden, they'll open things up with Skyle's captive son.
I was just gonna angle across the teleporter. That's a new case, but nobody quite helped.
I'm in team Finland. There's a perfect block. This ult is much more decisive and Vesola can't
it pulls up enough, will he go ahead and win this one?
I'll put it through the commitment of the sanctuary.
That is when you are going to walk back.
You are FN, you've been down so many members.
Sweden, let's go ahead and regain control.
Yeah, maybe you decided to change or though,
you just kind of see, look, it could be pretty difficult,
right, that sanctuary actually, there's a lot of healing,
it's been with the changes, like how projectiles work,
like inside of it, the, you know,
The sixth sim could be really strong, maybe they thought that you could just kind of place on inside of that
He ends up taking out willies and then kind of the time's control here
But it does give them opportunity here
Ice and wall used to gonna block that overblog and then now you're gonna use your own continue rush
And that just destroys Kev's grab steamroll twice when you could duplicate form and Finland
Wic take this point back over
Just be a little bit of a late stagger here onto willies
He doesn't have the extra support but if you're Sweden you want to get out of this fight as soon as possible
Yeah, I've been really looking in a prime position here to take
This first map is a nice accretion there from bestola yet again. He will have a flux
So the willies over the ball here everybody just going high mobility for Sweden trying to get a touch
Looking for a miracle party do for the CC knock up willies in town
How he goes.
Yeah, he did not stand a chance.
It's still a close-up.
That actually goes a bit wide.
It's okay.
Didn't really need it too much.
In first place, Finland will come out to swing it and take the map of Elios.
Yeah, I mean, they looked awesome today, Molly.
I mean, coming out there, really showing some nice comps with the ability to kind of place
some of that Sigma in the mix, you know, adding the Mizuki.
So we'll see if that's something they kind of continue to do here throughout this series.
Series and they're not just a little cat-bashing at the start
I think just enough to kind of get them over the line, but hey
They still looked good when they had this week off of it, right?
They go over towards in these Cassie looks Gucci on the Cassie here towards the end saw that had a really good game
I know overall in that this this could be a much closer series
And I think that we already thought it was gonna be very close, right?
But I think it could be even closer than we expected
Yeah, I honestly wouldn't be shocked if this one went five even before
I just looking at these rosters on paper, but again, I think the difference in
Compositional preferences is going to be big for this game knowing best along
He's going to sip this Sigma as long as humanly possible that as we get into some of these later maps the
Symmetra perhaps of May kind of coming in for
This Finland team can make it difficult for this playstyle that Sweden have preferred more the Brawley
setting Kevster up on this really strong tracer pick for him is the ideal
situation but you may not be able to get away with that forever as we saw the
fast-paced here jetpack hat from FN. It's a little too much for Sweden to handle
most of the time. Yeah it really you know was that where I think Sweden like
they didn't really want to play I think the Sigma right I think they would have
prefer to kind of play, you know, Ramatra, play Hazard, things along those lines.
Cause like the Vistula probably like one of his best hero, if not his best hero is
Sigma. And you guys saw that on full display here.
So when Finland can kind of get it into this like, SIG head to head,
I think they feel pretty good about it, right?
And you know, right now in the MEA, you can point to Vistula as being one of the
best Sigmas. So a really good start for Finland and opportunity though now for
Sweden though. Well, I guess they already had their map pick, right?
they had on Elio, so they'll get another one here, really to kind of turn the tides, like
off the series.
So what you can potentially see, like, do we see them go to like a New Junk City?
Maybe they want to play, you know, more Ramatra, right?
So Royals was certainly out.
That would be a graphic that Finland would be like, thank you.
So I think you're also looking at maybe like a King's Row, right?
King's Row, you can play a little bit more D.Va, Ramatras, all right.
Yeah, a team is actually something fantastic. Something that is more brawly and more forcey to play those close quarters.
So that's kind of the one weakness with Finland's comp is they're not as in your face, but they're gonna pick Saravasa.
Instead, more of this kind of open rotation poke kind of map, and I think Finland was pretty happy with this one.
Yeah, I would say so as well.
We've seen a lot of teams go over to
to a new junk city is kind of like the preferred, you know, flashpoint map of choice, you know,
over a really, uh, champion's clash and then now here, you know, Overwatch woke up. So,
uh, seeing a little bit of a cheeky serve as a pick, like, I know maybe they want to
play some of those more long-range hitscans, like, you know, an Ash or a Freya here, and
then, uh, I think potentially for Sweden, you could burn the Signific.
Yeah, that is possible and I think you might have to on a map like this unless it's going specifically to like
Summetra or
The main there are other options
I don't think sports gonna get too much attention in this game unless you're like really want to run a diva strat
And for some reason you want to ban Mizuki, which probably won't happen
But if this sort of also pick I think so we didn't have something looking up their sleeves
I think they want to have a bit more room for
for Zoro and Kevster that to play their own game.
But I'm also curious too, that if we keep seeing this Yardy,
was that just kind of an Elio's thing?
Was it just for the Jetpack Cap Bastion,
or is this going to be one of those teams
that we're going to see consistently hold that pick up?
I think it's really decent damage for the Cap Bastions.
I think that's kind of like why you're picking it.
And then like for Elio's,
there's like some pretty good sight lines for the Elari.
So I think that's kind of like
you can see it come into play. You could, if you are sweet in, ban one of the cat or the bastion
here, like that is a super viable option and I think you'd kind of be fine with that. I think
the worry would be is that Finland may, you know, decide to ban like a rematra in response, but,
you know, you can go to like, you know, if they're playing some kind of sick base comp, right, you
can go to like a mauga, right, I'm just going to get past that sick shield. So, like I do think
there's some options there. I would probably get rid of one of those then kind of save the Sigma now
that I'm thinking on it for later on because there's some like pretty nasty Sigma maps that could
come into play right like Sweden wins here right they ban the Sigma then all of a sudden now we
get a survey without like Ramatra into Sigma that would be kind of brutal so uh see what they
decided to do so they get rid of the Sim and then uh yeah kind of like I mean I think it's a really
a really good band for Finland to deploy, it'll be Romantra.
A good trade-out, I think it does force Sweden's hand a bit.
I think we're going to see Willis on the Mauga regardless.
Highly doubt he'll pull out the Hazard of the Diva again,
considering just how well Finland have been flying around the Sigma.
And because Symmetra makes him a bit more of a sitting duck,
but it doesn't necessarily stop Finland from pulling with the same game-con that they have.
If anything, it frees this team up a bit more to continue matching that tracer they really wanted to.
Uchi had a fantastic map on Helios, it's really kind of taken up with Hevster there.
So wanting to see that, especially on a map like Sorobosa, leaves the door open.
Yeah, and I mean, taking a look back at the predictions from the chat, like 67% of Finland, maybe they knew something.
Because, yeah, I gotta be honest with you, I took all my channel points and I took them on Sweden.
Oh, no, so I'm all in on Sweden in this one
But like I mean, yeah, I guess the way things have looked right like a maybe maybe Denmark is like way better than expected
I know Finland obviously know how good this roster is
I know but obviously with their performance at the previous world club and bringing basically back to our entire team
No, this is a huge map like if Finland is able to win this year, right?
you know, go up 2-0. Like, let's say, you know, even if Sweden picks hybrid, right?
And they end up winning it, then you have the ability to go to, like, a circuit, which, you know,
you don't have a mantra band for it, like, which would have been nice. But still, you could band Diva or something like that, right?
And I, you know, force them into a weird comp right away. So, huge opportunity for Finland.
You know, not just in this series, right? I mean, just with their odds of making it out, you were talking about how, like, you're so stuck.
thing less like about how strong this group is top the bottom like some teams are obviously not
going to make it uh there would be a lot of pressure on Sweden right if Finland is able to take this
series. Then it leaves us a weird tiebreaker situation where Sweden would have to have like a
really really good game against Denmark and they almost have to sweep it if i'm not mistaken so
it would be it would be rough i think for Finland you're losing that game to Denmark that hurts a
a lot, especially with where they came out last World Cup returning with this
roster. Yeah. They do lose it in game five though. That is a series that
goes way down to the wire, right? So it wasn't like Denmark kind of came in,
blew them out, where that could kind of go either way. And I mean that also
kind of makes like, you know, man, I would hate to be comp ops for this group.
You're looking at like math differential, all different types of stuff. So you get a
closer to it. Sweden will see, Kevin's been showing this echo, so maybe that's kind of
another look they want to play. You're going to see Lucio. Okay, so no Lucio for Finland.
This is interesting. No Lucio, hearing Mizuki with a Bastion may in play. This is a really
kind of different call. We've seen some AME-18s dabble with the Bastion, with no cat, but
It's really been with the Lucio that empowers it, but Mizuki, I guess, must be that strong right now.
I think it's overall...
It's safer for a death ball.
The lack of mobility can't hurt.
Like, as soon as you don't hurt, you have to be burned.
Thereby, goats just to keep everybody on their feet.
Sweden, they have the...
It's kind of a challenge of staying at a distance, and they can get the angles.
You have the boat like Zoro is now.
Nobody can do anything about it.
And this is kind of the fight that we want to take. Make sure that Finland will get nowhere within arms reach, and there you go.
We'll go ahead and get that first cap.
Yeah, I feel like you kind of need the Lucio on this map specifically, but Finland looks like they will have FN kind of come out on the Mizuki yet again.
I mean, very close to the Sanctuary, but just like Lucio on Flashpoint in general, just the game mode is so good.
is a nice cult coming in here from Sweden is Finland on the approach is like a
zero now is basically gonna be built up for an OC being able to kind of like sit
on the high ground now it's gonna really get a little Finland to push into. I will
say the nice part about Finland taking your beating was that you do have support
ults quite a bit faster than Sweden or at least the sound barrier. You can't initiate this in a
I stopped Zoro, but it comes in to this.
Overclocking it. So many resources going to be burned.
Gravidic Flux. I just secured Sweden.
Yet another. Elin Zoro drops down right on top of FN's head.
Will be a second Gravidic Flux now coming on out there.
Doesn't go ahead and seal the deal.
I mean, lucky for Finland, the point actually flips there for a little bit, right?
So it's going to give them, I know, another crack at it here.
But walking into a rush plus a beat, I mean,
I'm probably not even gonna have to use some of these ults. I mean, maybe Vistola uses Flux,
you decide to beat, but you're in a great spot here.
For Swede, we'll simply close this out as sticky bombs from Ked there have to be,
I know, 2-2-2 off, and then now you see, actually, with a lot of damage down,
Kyle decides to use a Katsune rush here, because Vistola, I mean, you should get bullied, Mali,
at the point. As soon as that Katsune rush came out, did not stand a chance on a,
so well, couldn't pop the Blizzard in Sweden. They're making that look easy,
needed the turnarounds here in Sorobosa and this is absolutely the degree we
expected them to turn it up to. Yes, now Sweden comes into this next fight with a beat,
Finland obviously doesn't really use anything there, so stolen a good spot, but this damage
range here from Kev Enzorov, the post on the way in is pretty difficult to deal with. You see,
as they kind of move through the choke, almost end up losing Gucci there. At least it looks like
You have to stun on this solo for a brief period of time.
Drop your shot, gonna kind of separate the rest of the team, but really difficult here for Fimulin.
He's gonna get some approach right without taking a lot of damage.
And if you have an ultimate advantage walking in Uchi uses, then I just get space.
But Fimulin is struggling against Kepster and there goes the Blizzard!
And just ice cream for dinner, I guess.
Well, really, he deserves it at this point.
And it just resourced after resourced up down with Fimulin.
That is brutal.
Yeah, that one was rough.
I mean, uh, you know, bestola, that's one thing with the echo in play, right?
When the other team once played a lot of SIG, like the focusing beam, there's nothing you can really do about it.
Uh, you know, it has to SIGMA, but that's a really nice angle for Kempster to take, because Gucci is the dead eye channel at that time.
He just doesn't care. He's able to get in there and burn him down.
It's that now 4th beating, uh, you know, a great, uh, you know, tool to use against the Sanctuary.
Uh, of the Mizuki is being able to get that gritty xbox, right?
Damage still going to kind of take into effect.
And Admiral, hey, guess what? Still having this sound barrier for the Flux for Vistula being able to hold onto this for a very long time at the moment.
The Riddick Flux now from Willys? Well, it lands onto the May. Don't really need the pull to trigger on the same period just yet.
There's that Stomper and out to keep Willys on his feet, even then that might not be enough. He's gonna fly a May wall nicely and from the rest of his team, Vinland, go ahead and get the Flux on over in the much needed fashion.
There's wind for just building some of those pretty quads.
I mean it's really good beat from Admiral Knicks. Everybody just willies was targeted down so fast there by Finland and then
And then Missola cleans everybody up towards the end. So a lot of use here though before Finland would be able to take that right?
I know Katsuneirash, they're sanctuary, they get their use of their gravitic clocks.
An opportunity for Sweden to really climb back here pretty fast.
And it's gonna be an overclock here from an off angle nice maywall there from sauna
Just trying to buy some space is that a solo focusing beam down there by Kev
Now finishes them off and I think you're good with this trade. Yeah, it's not a ton of feeling but
Without the solar just to contest point pretty chillin if you are Sweden and skype
We'll be back just a little bit faster as well have served
Continue to poke in and out with Spinelins.
Will matters, you get it up to Final Fight territory and even take out Zoro.
They're holding on.
I mean, it's hard without Skyline.
You just don't have enough healing to really go out and kind of challenge that.
It's all nice play there by Kev with the moves.
They're gonna juke Gucci there for a second, but the solo comes back on the D.va trying to win this one.
Poor Spinelins.
They're gonna have just Admiral alive here, you know, with Zoro and Kev.
I know Kev will be able to get that move here, gonna use it on the D.Va and go in for that backline, the sound barrier comes in for Admiral, so this should be good enough here for Sweden to get a flag, but this is not over just yet.
People coming back off the spawn here for Finland.
It's getting real scrappy in Finland. We'll be hanging around to retake this fight momentarily.
Sweden had to use everything that they had in the tank just to be able to hold on without objectives leaves it to one
More white to get set up and with the stolen now on the diva plus carrier for these backliners
Doochies we get team into the point with the dead eye or locked by the tank flip
We'll come back in
Finland's a huge has done his job for now and Sweden don't have any great tools to get into this boy
It's just gonna be punishing somebody on the back guys older
definitely hurt this whole chance. He finally is the Sanctuary. Just go ahead and vibe inside nothing more
than if you do live out without his hands.
Keep him up and Finland come back in a great way. Take away the second objective.
Yeah, just no cooldowns available for Willys, right?
I know no shield there, no kinetic grasp when the Sanctuary comes on too.
So very difficult to kind of deal with their full Willys.
He will stay on the Sigma, but that's probably a flashpoint that Finland most certainly needed to win.
Now they kind of set themselves up tie it up here is I know now Finland can come on to this next point Molly
Right, you have to self-destruct so this all can play hyper aggressive. They used to do two lives here playing with Zona
And Finland so quick to engage this point and now not having Lucio
I don't think it's as much of a concern
Do whatever you want close this gap. That is a beautiful prophetic watch that grabs onto three
Suzu keeps them alive, but half of the things beat them. Everyone's so low, Finland's backing off into the upper corners.
Nobody finished them off.
Evster turns right.
He's turned around on Vestila much more of a threat now on the Diva to his wife.
Of course, the self-destruct is Zorro.
And I should take the Sweden.
Sweden in control of the white bullsbong.
It's getting stuck onto the shield and so on.
If you finish off Lilies exploding for this in life, it won't be enough here.
up here, a 20% gains, Spinland, get the cap.
Yes, I really love this Divus spot from Bestola.
Like, so much pressure on the cap, right?
Like, no one was really able to, like, engage with him
in the sky, and now you most certainly can, right?
I mean, Gucci can put some damage down onto the Echo,
and then Bestola finish it off.
So, we'll see how they decide to play this.
Maybe you see Ken go back and play, like, Tracer or something.
I know you would love to play, like, this game potentially,
Right, but uh, an audio feature at the moment that will be dead-eye here for Kuchy with a Kuchy in the Kuchy in Russian side, and no damage down, and it's a nice view from Pipsir goes in with a defense major, beats it up.
So many tools just dumped here from Sweden, but it is not enough.
Between the Kuchy and Eros and the Sanctuary, Willy is just sitting there and taking a beating, fight after flight, but it's scrappy.
Kevster out of the duplicate form, he'll have to be on him clutch us up, but you don't have the numbers.
Willy as well, free says, the list fucks with the devas.
Yeah, and Bali, like, I mean, it's so important for Finland, we talked about, obviously, they
lose to Denmark.
Denmark seems to be kind of the top of the group at the moment, that 2-0.
But if Finland's able to get a dominant win here over Sweden, it turns all the pressure
now on Sweden.
Their game against, you know, Denmark, which is the last game of the group, it's a nice
pull-spot there.
From Sona, it gets under Willys, gets Willys dangerously low.
Admiral also very low, but Sully gets around the corner, finishes him off as this move certainly looks like another flash point that Finlayen would take.
And 2 for 1 too on the melee.
Out of Sully, we talked so much about his Sigma, but this guy's D.Va on another level.
Sweden have not had an answer for it.
Hopefully if one more flash point, try and figure this out.
And I mean, look, I thought Sweden would come in, you know, a favorite, like, very close Silver Finlayen.
because I think like these two teams would have been the teams you had predicted coming in with
Denmark obviously you know make you very close but I know this really looked like a series that
Finland is in a prime position to be able to take and you know another flash point here being able
to go up 2-0 to Rio which is so important in terms like their map differentials so
see if they're able to do it as Finland now kind of controls some of this high ground and Gucci's
just gonna have this dead eye to clear off this area.
You see, Sweden have some success against the Skola Divas.
Yeah, I mean, the Echo wasn't really working that much when the Divaswap comes in,
and that's kind of what I'm saying, like, oh, maybe we'll see him go over towards Tracer,
where, you know, this is kind of, I think, what you want to see, you know, Ked in the action for here, right?
So, Sweden, they do get a flick. It seems like the answer, though, here for Finland is, like,
when they go over and play something like a Tracer, they're going to try and play this May.
And usually you see the main kind of in combination like a Sega in the mix with this comp, but they're gonna play it with the D.Va here.
I know, maybe you see them decide to make some changes, like you can play this like with like a, you know, Sega Mizzou D.Va,
especially with the sound barrier here at the moment, not gonna make any changes like that.
No, you're not gonna get put in your best salt, just gonna make a fast change, look at the wall up in main, so huh?
So now empty cutoff support but zero break on through with the help of willy's dead
I in the tank in the south here will have to come out
Without a fear there to keep Finland on their feet matches the one of Admiral all that over help the starb at the time cancer
And pulse bomb part gets over to huge chief
Finland little post deal of the store out of the neck and Sweden
Cracked the code on this one is it seems highly unlikely Finland's in another full fight in fact not gonna happen
Yeah, it's a nice full-spot there from Keb, so both teams ended up using basically
Soundbarry at the exact time, and then, yeah, this is kind of what I was alluding to, right?
Do you see them go over to Sigma Zuki as that kind of plays much better with this
NAE Sigma?
One more Flashpoint to decide.
Can Sweden tie up the series?
One game apiece or Finland take that game.
Really dominant.
Two-0 lead.
I'll say this, Molly, with this Flashpoint, if I kind of like the geometry of it,
I really like it when you see it here.
Well, Zora also does, like, the mystery.
Yeah, I was going to say.
That's high-five to that.
I didn't even have a chance.
As we see it, Sweden instantly puts Kevster back onto this echo,
and without the team, it will just re-raining for this map again.
Yeah, so it seems like basically when Sweden sees the sigma,
they will go over to the echo,
and then otherwise they will kind of play the tracer.
That is kind of what we're seeing here, develop,
through the early parts of the series.
So Finland decides to go back and play this diva which plays a little bit better into the echo
So I will see how I kind of place it really like a sigma shell around it
But diva silver still you probably played many situations be a dead eye here
Trying to gain some space here who's or takes a little bit of damage, but not enough to channel and do anything serious
Now it's gonna pop the
Oh, never mind. Really has to jump back in at the end, seeing how this structure is out, and does have a 3-back, plus double-divin' out.
Or, suiting the bush back onto this objective in Finland, out of the least shiny buttons to go ahead and press the duple kick.
Back off. They still have all of their numbers here in Devastor, all sending it into the backline, self-destructs.
We're actually not catching anybody, but of course, Gucci, we're trying to do an off-roader position along with the president of the team.
Several support ults coming on out, but today we're not going to do it at the sanctuary.
Not enough to go against the overcome of the Sound Barrier in Sweden.
Not only hold on to the point throughout this town, but they're just going to go ahead and flat out take the mech off the back of it.
So, uh, throw it out of the mech, self-destruct. Get him out of the mech, but won't keep him on the point.
the point Sweden type of series.
In that last fight went on forever,
but the scale and the rest of the squad
there on Sweden do a nice job kind of holding on.
You saw really nice use of the sound barrier there
from Adro being able to kind of keep at least three players
alive there towards the end.
And I think you saw kind of Kev on full display
throughout the 30 and three 16 page damage there.
Just really kind of farming a lot of the time.
And I think you kind of see what's developing here, right?
Like when when they see the Sigma they have no problem playing kind of the echo we knew it and feeling pretty comfortable about it
And then when you see you go over to maybe something like a diva they've been able to kind of swap over to the tracer
So I think that's kind of where Sweden is looking at in terms of their matchups and kind of comp swaps throughout this
But not really another good nap between these two teams
Yeah, Sweden and
They almost look like they're locked in this rock paper scissors of where these tanks and DPS
end up landing for the most part and as you said Kevster shining light for the Sweden roster and
really helped shut that down. It does show that Vesela and he's not afraid to make these swaps.
He will be the one to kind of lead this team to victory if he can have his pick and if he can
stay alive but it's something that Sweden seemed to have a very good lock on and can be an issue
as we head into some of our future vats.
Yeah, and so we even see here kind of like, you know,
I think go over to the Mizuki.
I think the Mizuki is really good.
I actually like the kind of like, you know,
maybe read there at the end where it's like, okay,
let's go like the Mizuki is really good in a diva.
Let's like maybe kind of work a sig into the mix,
but it seemed like at that point, right?
Sweden had like point control really difficult
to kind of dislodge.
So now with Finland having a map pick Molly,
I think they go circuit and I think you've probably been a tank to protect the sig right
That's probably what we end up. I mean, that's kind of what they probably should do
Like it just depends on what tank you want to get rid of right you want to get rid of
What's called bloga do you want to get rid of Eva potentially, right?
So like I think there's some options there for Finland, but circuit seems like a map, you know, specifically may I mean
Yeah, this is what we got, you know, it doesn't take a day, you haven't had to watch that much overwatch for you now and how, where Finland, I mean, this feels like also they're going to have to use a tank to protect the sigma.
Absolutely, there's no way that if you've had to think that sigma is getting through its pathways. It has to go, honestly, because Remantra is available, I don't really think it matters what tank you ban, because that would be up regardless, and that is likely we'll release, we'll have, I'm predicting.
in Malga, Viva either could be safe. I think the only thing to consider for Sweden is that if you
ban the tank it's probably going to lose out on the May if I had to guess. Just to make that
talk to back a bit easier. But yeah it's not something that Sweden have showcased a liking to
thus far. Finland are, this is their bread and butter and if you're playing in it it's kind of
just good luck to Sweden. I hope you can make it a good map. That is how heavily favored Finland are.
They've really figured out the recipe for success here and I'm going to be pretty surprised if Sweden
managed to take this one away. Yeah, this is going to be a rough one. We'll see how the kind of band
process kind of plays out here where Finland, you know, you could ban, you could just do a throwaway
ban, right? Like if you wanted to be able to play something like a diva maybe a little bit later.
I know in the map you kind of, you know, ban some like a Winston here or something silly.
Sweetie and I wonder what they decide to do if they ban, if you ban the Mizuki, right?
Like Mizuki is like a pretty strong. Mizuki really kind of gives D.Va a lot of problems
into like those sig comps, right? So that opens up like a pathway where if the D.Va kind of makes it
through, if you get rid of the Mizuki, that could be quite effective. That is another option.
I think when you think circuit, it's not always the thing that you're going for, but
Pharah just cuts out of that field. If you've got to say, haven't seen that much this series and
I guess it's something that Finland want to keep Kepster off at all costs.
Yes, they get rid of the Pharah here, but that opens the door up for a sick ban.
And maybe if you're Finland, you're okay if like, okay, like, you know, we're fine playing
the rematra head ahead here it just feels like you would have maybe secured you know nothing's
ever a lock right but you would have given yourself a great opportunity to potentially kind of close
this one out on this map specifically I know where you kind of get up the sigma into the play
my confidence is dropped a tad bit it's not like this all can't like mantra but I think it's it
It seems a lot more in Wheelie's wheelhouse now, but I think the Farravan also signals that Finland are putting a lot more emphasis on having access to both the Symmetra and the May.
I think that is a critical part of this kind of composition that they've cooked up on this map. They have to do it without the Sigma, whatever you have the Remontra's backup.
But there really isn't an alternative to that May, and I'm assuming that's the thought process going in behind it.
Especially because it's not something Sweden have attempted so far.
It gives you a significant advantage.
Then this map pulls out.
We'll be Sweden on the defense. As I say, we're not really playing me.
Kevster's like, you know what? I have to, I have to.
Yeah, I mean, Keva is a really strong me player, right?
It's just with some other stuff than meta.
And then I mean, making guys see this amount of new meta play,
it's just not something that like Sweden would want to do with some of their comps.
This one definitely looks like they can kind of work it in, it's now for Finland.
Maybe they feel like, hey we can match the Vistula, I know with the Ramatra head-to-head
against Willys and you know Vistula is pretty good on the ram as well.
Not like a hero he can't play and then playing it with like a double flex backline here could
be pretty nasty for Finland.
You're going to see basically you know the little sonic arrow, I know Widowmaker shot,
nothing comes out of it.
I'll see what they decide to do in terms of damage dealers.
They try and go, okay, so I'm gonna go with the Bastion here.
So, obviously it's a lot of damage I'll put here.
Orphe and Lindman also, I know you have the ability
to kind of TP that Bastion around and then within the Orbital Ray.
And Amatrix, just an unreal amount of damage.
Yeah, Willy's just gonna have a rough time.
If he steps into this hole, I'll just blind.
Go in, just please face up in Tyrant.
It's pretty typical for map like this.
I don't see most real fights happen until the quarter, although Kuchi had his life left before his eyes.
In episode, he lit her blocker, but not enough. There goes his life. In fact, an itch is gone.
It flashed, and then she went black. As Kuchi ends up falling there, like, it's dangerously low,
and I think he thinks he's good. And then, obviously, he's not.
I think that's the hardest part, right? It's like, Vash is such like a slow, clunky kind of character.
is Skyle takes out Vistola.
You kind of need that simTP or Lucio speed to kind of get him in position,
as Zoro takes out another as...
Man, this has been all sweet and off the rip here.
Gucci's going to swap. We'll see if they decide to keep the Soj in the mix,
or if they decide to go back and play.
The Bastion... I think it's been really difficult.
I think Sweden's been able to kind of collapse on that Bastion right away,
is these other waterworks on the Weon coming around the corner,
pretty nasty just kind of hope damage coming out from Skyle.
We don't see Yong Egg fun on this map as much, but Skyle is proficiency on the hero.
You can see the definitions of what he's going to have if he ends up landing at the physical.
Finland's just moving through the poke.
Episode Auri is online, but not a chance to use it.
He just explodes where you can see Esther.
And Finland's are going to win this fantastic ant matrix out of ghost to catch a budget prize.
Yeah, I don't think Kev is expecting that amount of damage coming on in at that moment where, uh, you know, Finland though they still have an opportunity here on defense, it'll be...
Well, Sweden are, sorry, goes down and they'll actually use the titleblast on the willys, and I know it'll take some damage there, you are building up towards this annihilation.
Sweden are on defense here with an opportunity to keep this going, it'll be an orbital rain here for both sides, and now the Kevster Blizzard will come into play.
because there's this ouch Gucci barely managed to squeak out of the storm, but you'll be caught in the end, annihilation is back, and for everything it's faded, it's purple, in fact, it is Sweden, now out of the tank advantage on this point.
You're gonna keep it contested, that is a charge to Metra and Sauna, and that's something you want to take all that lightly, but Sauna holds just before any mortality fields comes on Alton.
It's like that, the Finland map, play us one more minute to attack.
And I am I'm stunned they decided to get rid of the far. I mean maybe
They'll obviously can't can play the far and like does it here at times, but I mean having this in play here would have been
Obviously, you don't know how kind of map would play out
It just feels like they would have a better look here at the moment is that a nice wall there from Kev
Plowsons gonna get the solid dangerously low. It'll be a TP everybody from Finland across here to take high ground
It is one fight character for him. It's possible that the game is still holding on.
This overclocking is another epic. But Sorrow gets his head ripped off!
Gucci! Fantastic answer! Millions of Sweden had in this, and...
...try to walk his door to Gucci. They gave him so much damage.
Immortality Field from Joss keeps him on his feet.
The pieces of Sweden will slowly crumble away.
Finland puts again, catching Sweden with their hands down.
Move on to second point.
I mean, Guts has had a huge series thus far for Finland, I mean, right there, pop COC, the same time as Zoro, and then just rips his head off, and that allows Finland to get first point, where it's not looking great for Finland at that moment, where it's going to be Keb using that bay wall there.
I think if you're Sweden, you take another, you take a fast fight, right, you have that Blizzard, you have the titleblast, you have the titleblast here, on to Willys, getting closer and closer towards this annihilation.
I really wanted to go for Ghost there, but it didn't connect, and every space space is fully charged, sauna, except now to get miles away, to have to pull out the Blizzard, all the resources are lowering on the side of Midlands and everybody else.
Looking to back off without the Symmetra. You don't really have legs on this call position
Still I'm gonna get staggered so no ghost is in the back line of all places and
Yeah, I don't know. I mean they end up using the orbital ray
I think what they think there's an opportunity that they get so potentially then it goes is like behind enemy lines
And he's putting a lot of pressure down on to them where kev has to use a main wall behind Sweden
And I kind of deter the Baptiste from putting down that damage and maybe they feel like that if you use that orbital rain
You keep it rolling right and you know best falls a little bit healthier Ecopsy annihilation players coming up a spawn
You can kind of make something work there
But they end up all falling it'll be a TP straight across to the low ground
Good spot with the Finland, you can kind of like, you can show either way, a lot of damage there though, it's gonna be the immortality field used already there by Finland to try and keep players up, and I think at that point, Sweden might, they know it's go time, they just run them right down.
Knowing there wasn't a normal to Rai match, makes it so easy for Sweden to make that call in Finland. Exit against the wall, once again, is the solo swap enough on the expectation?
No, Lisa pick here. Okay, it's gonna be really difficult. I mean, no shield to be able to kind of like, uh,
shrug off some of this damage and prevent it is.
It's gonna be really difficult for the rest of the crew to kind of get through, so...
The reset does do pretty good against the ram, but I mean, a lot of ultimates here for Sweden to be able to use.
And the simple screen is absorbed.
Still the title blast that's just sitting on,
and really, really is, as I've said on Gucci,
denied the overclock, but no!
The stoves are right to where the members of Sweden
were trying to hide to stay alive.
Finland, see the opportunity,
Sweden's traffic fish in the barrel,
this wasn't an answer, just an answer.
Or excuse me, just ghost fighting on this point.
That was the best stolen out, coming back as the Blizzard.
How much he can do with a very circular shaped popsicle,
does man just stay alive through all the store with both those NFNs
through the fence off the heels in and they trick his out.
Willys has to retreat through now.
It's over to lane, but Finland's got it down.
Now you have to hang out here if you're sweet and it's a nice job there from Finland
being able to keep players alive there through some of those big ultimate.
Coming on down, Willys will have this annihilation though to use.
It'll be very difficult to get away from him as oh it's a nice use of the Vortex over the top.
Catches FN two kills there with the annihilation and that is where Finland's push will end really nice defense from Sweden
Sweden it shocks anyone how well that ended up going we've been
Talking so much about this being Finland's map just to happen almost lose out in first point
I got a couple extra meters on in there to make it count
But in just looking at the sets you can see how much of a domination this actually was willies 21 and one
Coming out of that map again
And not having the Sigma here still a mystery because they haven't it's not like Finland have played anything that would have been banned
Otherwise in the DPS department, so I'm a little puzzled by that swap. Perhaps we see that change
coming on the defense, which I guess we're gonna have sauna move over to the May, but you really have to make this count and put your foot down.
Yeah, we'll see what they decide to play on defense. I think, obviously, an opportunity to kind of continue to play some of the sim.
Gucci looked like, for a second, was gonna go back, but then decides to come out on the sojourn.
So I think you're gonna get, Molly, I think you're gonna get a mere matchup for what we just had.
you're gonna see Kev play the May and I think you're gonna see Zoro end up playing the Sojourn and like
this would be a huge map for Sweden I feel like to be able to steal it feels like
you know for Finland like not getting the Sigmund here like it may have been a little bit of an
overcoat getting rid of the far although far can give like Sigmund Mizuki a lot of problems right
I know no way that like a lot of the heroes in that comp can really can engage with the far
in the sky so maybe they thought like okay let's get rid of the farra and then let them burn their
sigma band right here uh but still i mean the way they look when they're sick the skin lids
love to have it on this map so sweden all that's a nice maywall there it's gonna get their soul in
a lot of trouble they do have the fully charged symmetric kind of following through that stairs
yelling back often so many of the school down ads of the views at that point as the teleporter is set
up, Sona, to get out of that sticking situation,
and this Bay Wall is going to have some problems with the arching issue,
but Finlay just want to plant their feet, lay around,
Sona has not had the opportunity to come to the server, but it's really cool.
Yeah, it's going to be a same TP, it's a nice Bay Wall, yet again there from Keb,
is we'll get everybody back out here for Finlay, but a lot of space already gained here by Sweden.
Zoro's got a rail gun there up on the high ground with a lot of damage done into the solo.
And a force for 4-mounds, maybe a little bit earlier than he would have wanted.
And, this is right around the corner, sort of gets you in a rush.
I think that's what Finland are looking to play for, to go fast.
But I run this calm down, there's some more willys.
Those ones have much of a health barge.
I feel like we're to attack Zoro.
Doesn't have one at all.
They're caught up by a strange missile.
I'm gonna try to walk this down now in the back line.
With the annihilation, and to be enough for FN,
Like, really it's kind of a bandage to his backline in this little boss who's a duney.
He doesn't even try to brush it on, but he gets on us, tells the bars,
he's doing a rush far too late, making a difference.
This first duney, ah, because he just kind of dies.
I didn't have the same key to suppress his team,
but still on the line there to make sure there wasn't a long walk from Finland.
Pits him solid ground.
And do the Suzu there from Ghost was crazy,
He actually times it for when the title blast pops, so nobody actually gets knocked out where they were kind of playing inside of like Willy's effective range there with that.
You're wielding ultimate. It's a really nice play by Ghost there of Finland.
I know obviously with the Kishire Rush, you know, that kind of provides everything that you can for the team with that.
But then also to kind of deny Willy's a potentially huge knockdown while he's got Nemesis worth rolling.
And with the Blizzard here, I know it could be huge,
the solo goes in with that annihilation.
Ted just turns the corner two times.
He's getting out of bed.
And everybody from Sweden managed to live through
the annihilation.
Now this Orbit Ray makes a lot more sense for Admiral
O'Dress, as we need to push on him,
and there goes the Sped.
Once more, on this point, we still have to think
about the timing, and able to stall it.
In fact, I mentioned push Admiral into a lock or take
if lunch money, but he's sore of so much space.
It's a scrappy fight to say the least one word only overclock go ahead on the storm get sweet into this point
You'll see if it's enough. I think it probably is gonna be just the cheeky little like we've ever grabbed
Out of the spawn trying to combine it with a sound barrier
It is not gonna be enough to get like the TP close
So that will be Sweden getting that first checkpoint you see where their golden box victory is and Molly
There's a decent amount of time the clock and you know about three minutes here
Ah, force Sweden to get it done.
thing about Willys, there's that annihilation as expected. It just doesn't have a target to engage on. The Maywall just used to more block sightlines than anything else, and it sets up.
This team in a great spot, Willys, will not live in a small room against a Symmetra turret, apparently. Sweden, off to try and escape.
You know, a decent hold here from Finland is, you know, they kind of get control over this, you know, kind of turn here, they're not going to push up forward.
Although they probably could, right? I think they're going to kind of bait them into Finland with a huge advantage in terms of support ultimates here.
Maybe, like, get this Sunei rush rolling, they'll have their annihilation as the solo kills are shot here, as he goes just trying to find a prime spot to use it here.
Now that's a great angle. It's gonna be the main wall that comes on in from Camp Blizzard as well
But it doesn't look like it's gonna get much of anything. It's a nice CTP there Molly
That actually gets Missile out of that Blizzard there from Sona, and that's gonna allow
Finland to hold on to some of these other big old mits like that Cynwall and Orbital Raid
How large that time bank is, you have to be cycling over to Missile, you don't need a perfect URB, you can move off to Sweden
and in fact that you get Kempster as the blaster came out was a huge help but in fact he's just going to swap over to the Tracer.
I wonder if this is more of a combo play. See if you can use this with the Climb Blast and Skylark.
Yeah, the Climb Blast combination here could be pretty sick with Kev on the Tracer.
Maybe you want to even have like a whole spot with it, but we'll see.
Kev takes some damage there. It's going to get on all the people, but now he's going to get the Climb Blast.
She's in her bag, looking for Gucci, but the suitors won't connect.
Style grabs the final blow.
Finland's now reeling, trying to group around the orbital ray, which doesn't do much.
I'm gonna keep them on their feet, but here comes the royal flight.
And Sweden want to have in their favor no sauna now.
The pressure is Sigmund. This is looking just about done.
Sweden walking it through on Finland's very own map, take the one that we thought was impossible.
possible for them to lose in fact the one that Sweden will take to go up to match 40.
You told me they were going to play the Sigmund.
I would add a little bit of a different approach to that one.
I figured we were going to get a SIGMA vs. SIGMA battle here on circuit, but the SIG
does make it through.
If they go with the far band far, it's very good against SIG, Mizzouki, here, like that
kind of combination of heroes.
And we take a look at some of the stats, and you know, obviously Sweden, they clutch up,
like the tank battle is where I thought this map would be decided because they
thought this old was gonna be just able to play Sigma and I was gonna be very
difficult for Willys. In the Remontra head-to-head you see you know Willys
really turned out 29 and 4 there. I had myself a very good game. Yeah and this was
kind of Sweden from start to finish. I think between that and then Kempster on
that May they weren't all too concerned about this sauna symmetric. For the most
part, Gucci at the nice highlight please. It just really wasn't enough to put a damper on this Sweden team. And again, begs the question, why not lean into that tank matchup? You're playing to really strengthen, especially in a composition like this, having a strong, confident frontline is going to go a long way.
So I mean they don't have the Sigma band I guess for the rest of the series, right?
And maybe you want it like let's say we got a king row here
Maybe you want it there. Maybe you want to try and play some Bonnie and play some sick
I mean that could be a possibility, but
Yeah, it feels like this one maybe for Finland
I mean look even if they even if you banned something and then I know get the Sigma in and they use that far off
You know at least you kind of got that playstyle in right maybe you're able to play I don't know
Maybe you're able to play like Gucci on the Cassidy and you're able to kind of do with the far right you can play
I got I know off Cassidy with the May right and get quite aggressive there make it work
But yeah, they decided to go to different direction. They decided to get rid of the far
Maybe they thought that you know the Sigma they wouldn't kind of burn that band that early
they would go with like a you know you could have banned like Mizuki there right and that could
have given them some trouble I know they probably would have just played the map but
no it's a huge map for Sweden being able to win that one so Sweden now kind of in the driver's
seat I expect the next map to be King's Row like that's what it would be Kings Row I mean I don't
think you're gonna see Finland I mean if they wanted to kind of continue to play some of the
stuff I mean could I guess play Runa Soppy but I think obviously Kings Row yeah this this is uh
this is the map pick to go to. Yeah, I think this is the, what we're seeing, Finland fall victim to
just the Kevster threat. Like Kevster existing in general I think is taking a lot more precedence
in their picks and fans. Curious if the same will happen on this King's Row. But as you said,
the positive is he do have the stigma for the rest of the series, have it to play here,
and that is a matchup that he kind of got to admit the Skolok was winning pretty confidently,
when the Echo wasn't in play. So, whether that would be a focal point, I don't think it's a pit we see on King's Row much.
There's just not a ton of space for the Echo to move around compared to other points, but I think Finland, this is your A-game.
It's now or never. See if they can force the series to map 5.
Yeah, we'll see what the bands decide to come in with here, right?
Um, Finland, it feels like you have a bunch of different, I mean for both teams, it kind of feels a little bit wide open,
uh, in terms of what she would like to be here, so we did see a Lucio ban, I think, early on from one of the teams, so
Lucio not really available here, I think this is one where like,
Sweden could get rid of like a Mizuki if you were like a little bit worried about some of those SIG comps, right?
Uh, no, now that the SIG has already been banned,
And maybe you heard it like a bab-teast, like, uh, you know, something along those lines, like, force them, like, into, basically, like, one support combo.
Uh, that, in theory, could work, or you could play Lucio Fury with a SIG, but there's probably other combinations you could play.
Um, you know, with the SIGMA over it, so, and maybe you try and attack them from that angle, uh, if you're Sweden and, uh, you know, for Finland, I'm curious what they think here is giving them the most trouble.
Is it, my question is, are we going to have a map similar to Seraphosa where we're playing
more rock, paper, scissors, these competitions, and see a ton of swaps come in, try to stay
pretty locked on one of these points?
The question is, it does look like we have our first pan in being the guillotine.
The guillotine was really effective.
Yeah?
Yeah, I mean, really effective.
It obviously puts down some pretty serious damage at range, and then this also does protect support category, right?
So no ability to kind of get rid of, like a Mizuki or something along those lines, so.
See, what the ban is for Sweden here is...
Sweden, obviously, you have a bunch of different routes that you go here. It'll be May.
So even though Kev obviously playing May at a pretty high level, they decided to get rid of it.
I think that makes a lot of sense.
It's not like Sweden's preferred strategy, and if they don't have to match it, they don't
want to.
I think they'd rather have more of this really heavy poke damage than they've been relying
on for pretty much the entirety of this series so far.
It's shut down in England's preferred be up in your face, brawl it out the old fashioned
way kind of thing.
Symmetra is still obviously available just because of the previous ban that is there,
so whether it's going to be more of a focal point on that for Finland is something I would
like to see, potentially Gucci going over to that passity.
I think this is the expected, I think it's where he's looked some of the best so far
today between that and Tracer.
So options there for Finland, and a lot of pressure heading into this map, facing elimination
from the World Cup qualifiers if they do move out here.
Yeah, it'd be very difficult for Finland
to kind of find their way on through.
So we'll see now with, obviously,
May is pretty nasty in some of the streets,
no parts of this map, right?
I also think like getting rid of May,
obviously those sitcoms are really good still,
but you can play like Diva, Tracer, you know,
into it, right?
You have to probably contest the Mizuki,
but still in a pretty decent spot.
If you're Sweden, then look,
Sweden's already kind of done their work, Molly,
where they get another game.
I hate their worst case scenario.
They get to pick their push map
and then obviously get first ban.
So they've put themselves in the driver's seat here
where another 3-2, you know, for Finland would be rough.
I mean, the Spofi series, you know,
one with Denmark last week, you know,
going the distance, they end up losing.
And then now with Sweden,
you see a very competitive series just really rough considering like how good
they were at the previous World Cup to get this group dropped and they were the
best GMEA performing team and getting all the way up to third place of course
that upset over Rhea was massive back then but and now yes similar roster but
haven't quite had that same level of success and I honestly think it's because
a lot of the other teams they've managed to build themselves up. Sweden, by an example of that,
having Willys coming in as one of the German tank players, Admiral joining as the Glickthrough
player for Sweden has made them a very formidable opponent. Take a look at what the teams are
playing here on the defense. Will be the Romantra Steel Kevster on the Echo. I wasn't sure if we
would see that, but fully expecting that Sigma and with how much success it has had in the past,
I did not blame it at all for that pick
Yeah, now not at all. I mean right being able to kind of come in
Play some of the far it looks like son of those over to the the bar here
I think kept playing the echo son of playing the far
Just gonna now just get a rocket and then decide to go back into it
So they're gonna go cat-bashing here. So this gave them a lot of trouble on Ilyos
different comp from Sweden on that map, but still I know it was very difficult for Sweden to play against
half the team now in the sky.
For Finland and Sweden, yeah, you got the range to deal with it.
That's not a super confident answer, especially with how this first point is structured.
The sloth already works his way over to the high ground,
putting a lot of pressure onto this Admiral Zoro duo.
What's even going to rotate is barely in view.
This is not a space to deal with, and at all,
It's been like, it's been like that, especially when Willy's has been able to do much of anything.
At least a kick, give it off, and losing out on Willy's. I don't think Swings want to fight this.
Nah, he's getting beat down. I mean, from every angle. I mean, you have Sona now on the far,
so this site's actually gonna continue to play it.
And then you also have the Jepak Fashions, which is a lot of damage that Willy's gonna go over and play D.Va.
So D.Va is gonna gonna eat a lot of that damage while this is really nasty to play into.
With that mizuki now so the swabs coming in from Finland as soon as they see the diva swap they know exactly what they go to
Rock paper scissors
For a lot of this map and in Sweden this is still gonna be brought Finland having the closer squads
Hello, you are really it has to be
It's in and out of the park.
There's a lot of progress gained from skinlin already.
I know it's going to be a fast turn around the corner.
The appreciation just kind of scares Willys off of that position as well.
They have gotten a lot of progress here through the street space for really nothing at the moment.
You're going to need somebody on speed to go huge here.
There's a nice railgun shot there from Zoro playing inside the Katsuneirash.
There's nothing else available at the moment.
Just the weird thing with Sudeirasha, it's a pathetic plus, though.
How well it puts him back to?
You just don't get it.
So we didn't stop not how to take this entire point, they can't use it all.
They can't take a flight that is how overwhelming Vinland's composition has been.
Yeah, I mean, they're just kind of running on through them.
Now Willie's just going to go back and play their Amatra.
Just kind of getting the better of you, Spinland, of some of these swaps, right?
I know exactly like, okay, Sweden's gonna go to the diva after the first one once we come out on that
And you know, cap bastion far and then we're gonna go straight over to Muzuki
Just roll them off a little bit. It's gonna be the sound barrier here for Admiral trying to keep everybody alive
It does the trick and it makes your Zoro to face tank the Jedi
Take out the Cassidy and then the back and use the Mendoff
Then it pops, there's a kid all that much of a golly with Admiral
He's getting around, that's the Mendoff pack
There's a more frontline for a bit but that's okay
You have a sauna, he has a microwave beam, a melt through, everyone else that is remaining, we are looking at a beefy 5 minute time bank.
Yeah.
Adding it to this third point.
And I guess the plus side for Sweden here would be is that I know no real ultimate for Finland.
Coming into this next fight, but even a four plus minute time bank is crazy here, it's Kevin's gonna go over to Venture, so
Venture could be pretty good against me, Simcombe.
Although also susceptible to being hit with like, you know, they cast the Magrinade, the Cretian.
You also have Mizuki's kind of chain stun in there, be very difficult for Venture to play around.
So, you see how Swing decides to make this work and he loses already.
That's going to be a large chunk of your consistent damage.
They can't get a full 5-member fighter to try to do a gear but can't stir it.
With every single CC ability you can possibly name it,
you know, without that, sure, you can change for Gucci.
At what cost? Finland on base just won this all the way down.
Will is more strong than Finland.
I mean, nice play by Fn there, able to get on top of Skyle,
and Chisa, him down is...
This is an absolute blow out here.
And the favor of Finland is he actually got hit with a chain and the
the hit of clutch coming on through here from Vastola. Nice sanctuary to use here by
at Venice. You just have so on a fighting hole around this here with the
Simgang so charged up and Molly that is gonna be the offense there from Finland
330 in the time bank just an absolute beatdown to Sweden. Not even remotely close
I don't think we even saw Sweden take like a full fight, like maybe one, but you're at such an old disadvantage
It was over so dang quick and 3-30 to be able to work with on this side
They put Kevster quite literally on a leash with the Mizuki there and what do you do now?
I think if you're you're Sweden, it feels like Finland has an answer for every single possible answer
that they have come up with so far like I'm genuinely baffled and roll out on this
and you try the people are the wrong mantra for this first point I just to
try to get through the boat but it's kind of front line's rolled and Finland have
set up it's been it's miserable for Billy's and it doesn't seem like Sweden is
really kind of hooked up a strong answer to some of this right where Finland is
able to make these different adjustments time and time again whether it be like
going over and playing I know a now cap fashion with the far or being able to
kind of play some of the diva we see at times from Vesola they've seen like
they've had an answer for everything so see if Sweden can get things going on
offense he really difficult time bang by for them to be able to kind of pass I
I mean, 330 is...
That is brutal.
At this point, I think anything over a minute, you're okay with Icarus, Sweden, plus there's some drastic change of pace, which...
I guess for Pharah, it's only one of the ways to do it.
Yes, I mean, look, this is kind of why they probably decided to ban the Pharah on the previous map.
Like, Mizuki can't really engage with the Pharah.
I know, they solo-can a little bit, not like crazy.
I don't hear each and every single shot that bars away is a nice change
They're actually gonna catch the Billy's as they were trying to chase down bestola
But really nice job getting a period of willies that was pretty impactful, but hold on zurl actually finds two from high ground
Something you see all that often he's actually get a third here
Joe lighten it up. You didn't abstraction
What was kept sir on the high ground he's gonna wrap around completely all the Gucci in a room of sin turrets
It doesn't need to be just from Skyl, I'm not sure he doesn't go down, but Finland's really dismantled back to the front.
I'd say the least fantastic angle from Zoran.
Yeah, Zoran gets that high ground, he finds like one with the rail gun, and then I know able to just kind of like slide across and jump, and he'd be able to take out another, so...
...Swedan making slight adjustment, obviously, with the, I don't know, I don't play the Juno here, but...
We'll see Finland they'll decide to kind of roll out the same thing. I think they would love to play like a major
But obviously they have
At the moment, we're gonna kind of keep rolling out with this sim
I think it makes a good amount of sense
stops movies from walking forward as
Carelessly, I feel like they just poster on the far of which he had a range to manage the out bar
Has to play
the actual pressure on it. At least, doing a decent job of actually staying alive, taking
spikes down. See, I know, Finland, here on defense, kind of playing around this next
corner here, trying to play around, maybe their overclock is, I don't know, hold on,
the arrow pops his, you know, being able to take out three there, so Zoro with a crazy
3K with the overclock. I was like, oh, is Finland going to play for this corner right,
Maybe kind of like it like Gucci with the dead eye and inside of the casuding rush, but I mean
Hey, Sweden set themselves up Molly. They said as good as time potentially here as Finland
There's a no defense here on King's Row thus far
There'll be a dead eye here for Gucci. It's just gonna try and buy them some space so they can get back here
and test
I mean, Snowball started a game in Jackson,
or Sweden.
He's been with half of the positioning now,
to work with.
Do they have the case of Kev's of the Lodge?
Still online, it's a fantastic sanctuary.
If you ever go any back and the gravidic flux,
we'll be stopped by a style suit.
You got one against the wall,
and you have to feel these all by himself
in the middle of Ships City, of different players.
We're also gonna come out, though,
from Kev's 3 to Percival Vendetta against Gucci,
and I had to make sure he got the message there.
I'm in a good position, I'm difficult for them.
He's pushing it, they have to get this trade out on the Stola to make it winnable and Kepster is going to do just that one out of Zorro.
He's going to drag this one back from the break when it looked over.
I can start to see why the Pharah was banned now, Matt.
Yeah, I mean they're just never really able to chase down that Pharah.
Like you see Kep kind of get an off angle there.
Nobody able to put any kind of damage down into him.
Nobody really able to contest.
They kind of move their Stola into some of those positions,
but he kept just so strong.
Now he's gonna force Finland onto the diva,
away from the Mizuki here, over to the Juno.
And I think this is exactly what Sweden would like to see.
And this is fantastic.
And to work with the pushback into the split lane,
but in Zona, you're using a barrier against the one guy
who doesn't care about the barrier.
Unfortunately, he's really smacking down through his own shield.
And it's still the unilation.
They wanna just walk forward right here and right now,
up for the tracer, make sure that Sona can get back quickly and Goro's already in this
blind position to work.
Inwards.
Oh.
Inwards.
Billy's gonna end up you know popping this annihilation. They're gonna just
capture a player on the corner. Nice shot there from Kev. Knews that Sona obviously
had no recall. It's gonna be Kev as well. He's going for another play there.
Trying to TGGG. We can switch off over here to see Zoroz OC. You know Kev not
able to go GGG right away but does at the end here is garage annihilation. I
This is just for good measure and although not as good as time still sweeten giving themselves an opportunity only a 15 second
Difference between these two teams at the moment as I that is one way to battle back if you're sweeten
How the how the narrative has changed you're like oh my goodness
Stop them into a poll. How do you come back from this? Well, you do it with 15 seconds
less of a time bank and I honestly want to put a huge amount of that credit to
Zorro. Yeah the Kepster Faro was fantastic but these are kind of highlight
level plays that we're seeing from the from the It's Scan and Sojourn looking
fantastic 18 and 4 after that round and hey guess what it's now Finland's turn to
go back to the drawing board like all righty. Well these two teams are just
counter-comping each other right like I mean there's just kind of like musical
chairs in terms of comps. I think the thing with like Sweden is if they can use as far
to effectively move Finland off of this type of comp, then I think it starts to favor Sweden
pretty heavily, right? Like I think for Finland, they want this comp to be effective and they
want like Sweden to obviously kind of fail playing into it. Like this is kind of the
preferred exact comp that Finland would love to play, really the entire series.
And they're very egg happy with the setup that they do have. At this point the
bands for most of their comps are kind of off. So you're locked into this for sure
but now Sweden seem to have a slightly different solution. Keep like those
making sure Zoro can't just have all of this high ground space for free like on
the previous attack and save either team and formulate defense now the shorter rounds
willies the pressure onto the objective if it can force anybody to drop on down which eventually
will get us some metro there if being in short. They get a lot of pressure here
jolly to be on two finals just really Gucci right like can you kind of put an up down and down
into this far.
And to obviously kind of take Kevster out of the game slightly here, is that they kind
of TP him up to the high ground here, just kind of move in Gucci around, make it a very
difficult target.
Kind of deal with is, really easy to get on the point, there's going to be one checkpoint
here, of course Sweden, so quite huge, Kev takes a lot of damage, going to hide here,
for a bit.
Somebody from Finland is going to have to contest here in just a little bit, it's going
to be FN for that moment.
spining chain there connects but not able to finish up wheelies just yet.
The chemists are working in the sky, it's a marathon for anyone that's on this high ground.
Eventually the horses drop back around more towards hotel than maybe two ticks came now.
We're sweetened, Raj online was almost four minutes or approaching the final in 30 seconds.
Slow burn, getting the state now, we make a break.
What this point has to do with Finland is flying the time to all the ghosts.
Pops is instantly forced to release the back.
The wages out of the shield though.
Beautiful.
Keeping up hands and even not a scrap of Skyl on the low ground.
Fantastic plays all around.
From Finland, one more shot now from Sweden.
Get Skyl back in the flight with Vistula.
Watson's in the lion.
From the start, hasn't Gravitic fluxed out.
Always spots it off the billiard.
That will be plenty.
Shucked out the tank.
Part of the time, being Orgore is out.
New from Sweden, one person on this objective.
That would be the, or not the velocity to the dead eye.
That just nebzert zero fear of sorrow,
wrapping around last chance of hope.
But sanctuary wall, you name it,
everything thrown off in this guy's face.
Make sure you cannot have another fuck off play
with the Alps of Finland.
The intro game is sub-security on this point.
We didn't do any good jobs with coming in and contesting.
They don't have the real win condition.
We haven't worked with this one.
should eventually burn on down.
They bring the defenders.
My goodness, that was close.
Yeah, two ticks there for Sweden on their offense.
And Molly, it's just unfortunate, right?
Because Willys has to go in, get a touch,
but they have the gravitate flux.
They're kind of holding.
They can't send the supports through the choke
because both supports have ultimate, right?
You have a continuing rush plus a verbal right there.
So you're not going to sacrifice either of them.
If you would have had Willys alive
with those two ultimates rolling,
I think Sweden probably would have been able to take first point, but I know maybe enough damage is done in terms of the progress
They get there's a really see we've seen it from his PLV a bunch of times, right?
But Zoro really have a great map 18 and 5 some huge kills with the overclock
So we'll see if he can come up with some more heroics here on the defensive side of things
So I see 74%
It was where Sweden kind of gets that first checkpoint. We'll see if Finland
Kind of match it. I'm Sweden. I'm fully preparing for cat bastion here
I know potentially with a far in the mix. I'm curious to all see from Kev
Do you play tracer here like that?
Might be one of the safer options is we do have a pause
So we'll get a sense here of kind of what's going on knowing that Kev didn't pick a hero potentially
It is Kev. I I think you would think about
potentially tracer here for Kev sir
Just to give a little bit of something like I know against that backline and then also they get quite difficult against the bar
I think it helps a bit your ground becomes a lot less safe if we are going to see
But it also gives you an opportunity to chase down
Round picks it is a unrealistic to try to go like something that's been a hard poke out
I'll just first check the base structure. There's always going to be some sort of safe place for this team to fly to.
Dare I say, this is, despite what we have been seeing, I still faith in them on this map.
It helped them to leave. They managed to run through that first point before.
I think it's going to be darn near difficult for Sweden to have to stop that in two minutes.
Yeah, I mean, to remind you guys, we're at this group, right? So this is group A here in EMEA.
me a Denmark sits at top of it at 2 and 0 Denmark is beaten
Austria they beaten Finland in a game 5 so very close series against Finland
Sweden would be sitting in number 2 at
1 and 0 they have beaten Austria as well
So Austria in a rough spot in this group at 0 and 2 a win here
For Sweden would get them the 2 and 0 Denmark obviously the 2 and 0 and then
Finland would fall to 0 and 2. It would be very difficult for them to kind of make it out of the group.
So an absolute must win for the Finnish squad here.
I know obviously they were great at the last Overwatch World Cup a few years ago.
You know, then Mark though has come out and looked really strong, maybe stronger than people expected.
And then obviously Sweden kind of holding serve and how good we think they could be.
So you're a fan of Finland, you know, from there.
This is exactly kind of you want to see them take this series, right?
This is really kind of their only path.
It feels like to make it out of this group.
And even even then, it's a bit sketchy.
I think leading it up to tie breakers,
leading Denmark to the news, Sweden, or more of the to get kind of really in the weeds there.
Yeah, this is a muscle for them to want to stay in.
I do believe that if Sweden win this, it would lock them up to an O.
I think you get impossible for another team to come in so I had qualification on line for this team and
As soon as they can hold it out
I mean Finland did manage to take Denmark all the way to five and they can do that again here
But this time converted to a win. I wouldn't be huge for them, but extra in the farm. Yeah, this is interesting, right?
I don't care I'm gonna hide here around the corner. So not gonna kind of give
Any insight that he's plugged in this so we can't bash on the other side
So, the Pharah to match the Pharah of Sona, he is very susceptible to this fashion damage,
so he's got to play really smart in the positioning.
Does cat. And obviously put down a ton of pressure though down on a Vestola, like, you know,
really going to expend their healing resources on the side of Finland.
That's gassin'.
Yeah, perfect. Guchi already down, tanked a couple of rockets,
crossed the silver bullet there out of Zoro, and I think having the Cassidy makes a lot more
sense on this point especially for perks available and overtime is he's just kind of fine sauna no idea
where this Cassidy was lurking in Sweden up to a really nice stall yeah you're going to stall out
vestola for just a little bit here so really good first fight from Sweden uh the changes here uh
you know they're just actually Gucci makes a swap going to go back and play oh did they actually
swap yeah they swapped who's going to count who's playing the other the bashing who's playing
the faric here so a spot between these two players we'll see if it kind of leads to any success
here is uh made up on the top there from so i'm just trying to clear that angle
one more shot here realistically for finland they can get the wheels on their composition
bro there's some pressure both is all to pull that out of style take a hold on the high ground
We'll be the point now under contestion.
Close to one tick, of course, and Willy's back.
This becomes difficult now, so we need an outer pool.
Four cooldowns.
In fact, if the point gets to somehow find both the ports,
that absolutely should have happened.
I'm just going to get out of the sky.
Finland are falling apart.
Yeah, they were able to keep Willy's alive.
I mean, that is like the massive thing there.
We're going to end up getting a few players back off of the spawn.
I wonder if Admiral's going to go and try and get them back in the fight.
is the Kepster gonna come back on tracer decides just gonna ditch that bar and
need to get back into the fight rather quickly a sauna up on the high ground
here and those God of Lair taking some great tank shots
Yeah, a huge win there for Sweden.
Huge win there for Sweden a very tough battle here against Finland a
3-1 victory though for the Swedes
I mean they come up so clutch in the end being able to kind of keep
You know animal alive there
It's just a tremendous suzu that comes on through there from Skyl
And then you take a look I mean Kev really turned up and when we talked about Zoro and something like his awesome moments throughout that
I know with the forest there at
the end and also the ability to play
Tracer 30 and 9.
This one it feels like a little bit of a
gut punch here for Finland, right?
I mean you look so good on King's Road
to start things off and then you allow
Sweden to just kind of like battle back
into the game set.
I know a pretty respectable time bank
of their own and I think eventually
they just started to figure out how to
play against Finland.
They really did it was an impressive matchup here
I think for the side of Sweden and then they definitely did their best in this series
But I do think that we saw a little bit more of that depth
You guys were talking about it during the cast like across this entire series how?
Sweden were more than happy to you know play anti comps up against the top side of Finland
And I think that that does say a lot about kind of how we set this series up as well kind of questioning
How much more like flexibility Sweden had versus what the game plan was going to be there for the side of the mid Molly?
I think that we saw a lot of rock hipsters
There's a lot of counter swaps coming out from both of these teams today
But I think at the end of it Finland were the or more
dependent on
How their tank was able to play just with the superstar DTS lineup that Sweden had at their
and it really did make it difficult for them to overcome a lot of those challenges.
That's an interesting band that's coming in there as well for this team,
but ending that one after their big kind of miracle performance in 2023 does hurt.
And now I think a lot of the EMEA hope is looking to sweeten.
Ash, I mean, I think it's a really rough one.
You know, Fideline, obviously, we talked about how good this group is.
Is that one map that decides who goes on to Busan?
You kind of look at how the rest of the groups form.
Maybe Denmark can actually hang and beat Sweden.
We kind of find out that Denmark was the strongest in the group overall to begin with.
But two really close games for Finland that just don't go in their favor.
Now, I mean, just in a brutal spot, right?
They'll have their match against Austria.
We'll see kind of how that goes.
You'd expect Finland to kind of come in there,
I know, and take care of our business in that series.
But after game one with the cap fashion,
and them being able to kind of play it there,
and obviously, you look really good on it.
Sweden just took control of the series.
Yeah, they really did.
I kind of want to pick your brain on this a little bit,
more or not, because we talked about during the cast
how the lack of Sigma Protect on Serger Royale
was something where you'd be like,
you know, okay, maybe they're trying
to get the Sigma ban out a bit earlier on,
giving them a better chance later into the series.
But when you think about the map pool at the same time
of what was going to be able to, like, take it into,
do you feel like that was something
that was maybe a little bit of an overcook there
to the side of the map?
It's tough because you saw there on King's Row
what that farra can do against like that SIG,
Mizuki Komp, and it can just kind of ruin it.
So you're in like, you know,
a really difficult position where like, okay, fine,
like they give them the ability for them
to like ban the SIG, right?
But, you know, you get rid of that farra,
then you feel like, okay, so if they ban the SIGMA,
then we still have some other stuff to go with
and we have SIGMA for the rest of the series.
but coming in here, maybe what they needed to do
was actually ban a DPS.
Or, I mean, I guess, I feel like this is
a really weird spot with that ban,
because on the next map, when they lose it,
they can't ban the far there,
so they can't really play the SIG on Kings either.
So they kind of gave themselves a really weird situation
where they can't exactly win that.
Let's say they ban a tank to get the SIG
through on circuit it doesn't work with the far on the other side they can at
least ban the far on kings and then allow them to ban the sigma and then like
play like rematch or something right they just never gave themselves a really
strong opportunity but also Ashmi it's a really difficult comp to play in
multiple different maps for this specific reason right there's some like
different things you can do against it give it some trouble yeah for sure I
think it's really tough it's also just a generally a really tough group to be
playing in here as well. It definitely a heartbreaking loss I think there for
Finland because if they had one it really would have shaken things up here
for group A within OWC of EMEA. Overall though I think that Sweden looks
really good. I think I'm gonna be really excited to watch that Sweden-Denmark
matchup tomorrow as well but we do have an interview with Sweden's Willys
coming in next year after this win. Congratulations Willys on the win today. I
I kind of want to get like your vibe as well as the vibe of the team heading into this matchup up against Finland
Because you guys going into this knew that if you were gonna win it
You would qualify all the way to Busan off of this win
Did that put like additional like pressure on your guys's backs because obviously for anybody who's competing in OWWC
You want to get that qualification early?
I mean maybe for me it was a little bit more pressure
I think on the last map maybe it showed a bit but I think for the team
I think we have a lot of veterans right so I think they were able to control their pressure
And I think some of the comps also made like maybe
Were a result of the pressure like especially on the first map
Yeah, well as I'm curious you're just kind of having a debate about like some of the bands and stuff
I
Don't one of the maps they would definitely have I know a probably advantage over you guys was like being able to go to
Circa and play the sigma
But then you guys were able to ban the sigma was that a little bit of surprise to you guys like how that all kind of played out
I mean we knew when they wasted Ramban like on one of the earlier maps, we knew we had a really good advantage like
for circuits, so I mean we definitely expected like that situation.
Absolutely, and I think it did kind of show the preparation and kind of importance of the bands that you guys were able to put down and
really just the overall strength that this roster does have, especially heading into Busan, locking that spot in and
What does it mean to you to know that you'll be representing Sweden on an international
nation like that?
I mean, it's a lifelong dream, you know.
Like I was watching when I was younger back in 2017, 2016, and now getting to actually
play with the team and represent Sweden, like it's just a different reality, I don't know,
like an insane dream to accomplish.
I couldn't have expected this like 10 years ago, you know.
Well, I just want to say again, congratulations for your qualification to Busan.
the rest of Team Sweden. We're so excited to see how you guys are going to fare when
it comes down to that international competition. Thank you so much again for doing this interview
with us, Willis, and good luck with your match against Denmark tomorrow.
Thank you.
Man, I love hearing about how much it means to these players to be able to qualify to
the group stage in the main event here of the Overwatch World Cup. It was a hard-fought
battle there. I feel like, you know, Willis is saying that the pressure was like showing
in the later half of that series, but to me it didn't really feel like it from an outside
perspective, Molly.
Yeah, you know, I think that it looks like that this team just, hum, won't collect it
for the most part.
Yeah, they had some stutters in their gameplay, but the fact that they were able to consistently
swing back as hard as they did was really impressive, and it shows that the veteran
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Witness Sweden secure their spot at OWWC Busan, but we do have another match to come.
Won't quite 100% secure it for the side of Germany if they do win this match up against
Norway, but it does make noise.
It makes it really close.
It'll be really tough for Norway to claw back, so it's going to be really important
for this Norway roster in this head to head to try to take this.
And they do want to keep their spot open here and opportunity open.
Molly for the looks of O W WC Busan.
Guys, my coffee is kicking in.
I swear to God, it definitely is.
But Molly, these are these are two dark horse groups or two dark
horse teams, right?
And Team Norway, they had a tough draw in round one, having to play
up against Team UK.
Yeah, I think these teams in the field pretty set.
Very likely Germany and the UK moving on.
Norway, one of the best chance for an upset.
But I think it's going to be asking for quite a bit.
And one player I want to watch, I think it's Jesper Swag.
It just recently qualified for O2BCS EMAA.
He's been a very flexible player to keep an eye out for.
I'm really interested to see how he'll match up with you.
Yeah, team Germany, they've entered this year's online qualifier through the conference
cuts.
This match also feels like, you know, it is that decider, almost, for that second spot
here in Busan, here, Matt.
Yeah, and I mean, this is a really strong team, right, with players like top to bottom
that we've seen, you know, in the OWCS before, right, so pretty competent roster, you know,
top to bottom, and they beat Portugal 3-0, like, and I'm pretty in commanding fashion.
I think like the argument for Norway would be is that like, you know, I think I know Great Britain is gonna like
Run to everybody in this group and it's like, okay, like maybe they were just another casualty, right?
They were just the first casualty
And we really don't know I know that series though against Great Britain, right? It was like 2-0 on Oasis
3-1 on New York City and like a 3-2 Kings Row
So like no not not the closest series of all time
I know not going down the history books, but like, maybe there's a chance where it's like,
hey, you know, Norway, you play that game, you get a little bit better, right?
They have some players who played, like, you know, for a really tough quality of watching the past.
And they can make a run here.
And I know they both seem to probably know that, like, hey, we win this series
we're in a pretty good spot to qualify.
So I think that's kind of the minds that they have to come in with.
Yeah, that is for certain.
I think here for Germany, especially, it's more of trying to make another statement
for themselves in this group as well, considering like the roster on deck, I think there are great players on the side of Norway, but Germany, they definitely want to be making their stand, and really showing, I think, how they are stacking up against the teams in group B after that dominant win, that they had versus Portugal just last weekend.
Overall though, I do believe that we have that 1v1 deathmatch to find out that seeding here. Let's get straight into Norway versus Germany.
Yeah, and Molly thinks Ash, like Germany comes in number one seed out of like the conference cups, right?
So you kind of look at like how they kind of made it here
They've had a little bit more time like playing a game against it with each other right now against some of these teams
So maybe I know a little bit more tested here
I know obviously their players probably are just from you know kind of the level of play they're playing at but
It will be Ice Nome here, going up against Isaac, and another one of these Doomfist 1v1s.
Ice Nome though, it looks like it ends up just kind of sweeping it here, so Germany gets the higher seed.
They'll get their map selection.
Okay, so Germany actually picked Hero Band order, so they get to pick second ban here.
So although they win the 1v1, Molly we've seen this a lot, it's going to be the ban deferred, the pick deferred, and then they want to get that ban.
I think that for control max unless it is elio specifically will play relatively similar
now you're not going to see as much variance so more importance is placed on that but we
haven't seen a ton of oasis actually in the in the World Cup qualifiers so far across
at least just the Americas and EMEA so seeing that picked up is kind of cool but like in
In terms of playstyles for these two teams though, I think this is going to be quite
a clash.
Germany very set on their ways of jetpacking, and Norway despised that composition with
every ounce of their being, and we'll just take away the cats to begin with.
Yeah, I mean, if you can get rid of it, get rid of it, right?
I think there are some teams though who like, both of them kind of won't go towards it.
You know out of a
Respect or like the cum can be very difficult to pilot so
One team that can probably do with though is Germany like I was talking about how much they've kind of played
I know as a unit together. So like they have looked pretty decent at it
We'll see now with the Moga ban, right?
You know, I think Moga is like a hero that can like no other teams can start to pilot get you know get rolling on
He can become very difficult and annoying to deal with so if you can get rid of it here on Oasis
And I know a way it's a pretty decent map for the Moggy you may as well
Yeah, I think it's it's worth it on this map
Especially if you're wanting to play of more of like a remote draw a kind of kind of thing
Which is where Isaac and I said we need in past both of them really like their Montravena
I'm expecting not as much you know switching around
Countercalls as we have in some of our previous series
but more what are these teams comfort picks? What are they going to play more
towards their strengths and normally they like their brawl they'd like to keep it
kind of close quarters or they'll just completely swap it to the D.va. Nothing
really in between of that so it's just a matter of had maybe as coordinated as the
team who, as you said, does have the advantage of playing in the top team.
Yes, I mean, we're just going to wait for some of the players to get into game here, and we'll get this one underway.
But, Germany 1-0 in the group thus far, Norway 0-1, and Norway kind of seems like maybe the out...
If you're looking at like a, you know, a dark horse kind of makes some noise in this group, it would be Norway,
But this feels like I know their last opportunity to do so right now. You lose here
You go to 0 and 2 Germany goes to 2 with oh you expect a great Britain to kind of continue their strong play with that roster and
You're in a rough spot if you're Norway, so it's kind of do or die time for Norway here and look
Even for Germany right they still have some matches left
They would have to you know play against Great Britain, but still an opportunity
even if they drop this one just a really important game for Norway overall though
Yeah, I think for either way and this group has the I think potential to end in
More of tiebreakers, but if there is a game that will be closed. I think it is
It seems like Great Britain is here above of most everybody else
So it's who's gonna be second who is going to grab that second slots and best contenders and these so far
I was curious if Norway would hold this out like I don't want to fully fall for the spawn bait
Yes, but this is kind of a very unique
Strat that they've been attempting to play so far in the terminus tournament to limit its success
But if they can manage to do that again here against Germany, I'll be very impressed
Yeah, Germany looks like they're gonna come out and play okay, so they're gonna play some sigma Zuki off the rip
And then for Norway, they're gonna see them play Zarya based composition into this. This is a really different look.
We don't really see Zarya as much as we used to, right?
I know it would be sad to feel like at the start of the stage where you used to see a ton of Zarya.
And that is not what you want to see. I mean, that is Aisnall taking out Snowdrop.
The VTS player formed Norway. As Norway had control over the high ground, Molly, I mean, that is probably the worst way that that fight could go.
And all of a sudden, I saw them marching off there.
I got the couple of shots to pick them up.
And I think Norway, they really want to engage with Jesper as much as they can.
But if they can't get him in a position to fight, well, you're sort of victim to this poke at it.
Yeah, I mean, if you lose your sojourn here off the rip, I mean, nothing you could really do.
I mean, you're relying on a lot of Bizarreia bubbles to be able to kind of like,
keep Jesper swag in these fights on the venture.
We'll see if you're even able to kind of get to venture an acquisition of a wall there
Kind of splits off Isaac, but it'd be okay. I'm gonna be just for swag getting on there get a touch
So really see how kind of they are to move forward here norway. It looks like with this car
Preach it the binding
So many threats it you have to worry about it. There goes one of them is just
Bunker down in the earth. There's that push onto the high ground that doesn't have to help stay alive with a bit
But it blocks those really specialised acting with Pancake!
Now it's German, I only have one more so far.
I don't really love that play there.
Like, just before I had an opportunity, I mean, Icen was so low.
I don't know, maybe he thinks that like, if he needs to be able to finish it off, he goes for the high ground.
I know, here I can see you.
And not able to finish off the soldier, and then I also never finish off the SIG on the low ground.
And then, obviously, and it does not result in a fight win.
the bow team's here with a Katsune rush coming on in, but I mean you could not meet any type of progress, you know.
They've been completely out, and then I know there's so much CC still available for Germany, they just have to back up.
The main will block the Katsune rush, Matt. They don't have a way to get into this point now.
In Germany, they take the advantage entirely out of their hands, and if you mind I can build up a bit of a clock at this point.
I was like asses back against the wall
The TP comes in from next, T-Cross, and he's using a fairly nice stay alive
But 3% of his cooldown is still right here
He's walking on it there
Last couple of TP's left, okay, he's gonna miss his shot
The damage is gone, there you go, grabs his swag
On to the exits
Graviton surged me, it's close
I was like, but what's the damage goal?
I'm absolutely nothing for this T
Reflex caught himself on the point for a last-ditch effort
And it's just Germany top to bottom here on Gardens.
Not a great rayon for Norway.
You know, you get split off with those ice walls as well as the Zarya.
You end up starting to have to use Zarya bubbles for yourself.
You don't have them for the venture, and the venture can't go in.
And then it's how you're kind of stuck in a no-man's land as we take a look at the stats.
A lot of good stats for one team, a lot of nothing.
Nothing well quite frankly outside of death for the other is a brutal round for Norway
No deaths on the side of Germany and once they get set up on that high ground like what what do you do?
How can you actually contest them with that composition?
I think there are some swaps in order for Norway going on ahead
Isaac is on the same page to see what just hurts. It's going towards whether it's the venture or
Uh, yeah, actually gonna stick on the Symmetra, see if they can take these slides closer.
So, I mean, look, they're gonna get high ground, right? They did this last time, they end up losing to Snowdrop right away.
And I need, uh, you know, how do you go down, though? Like, you know, Norway obviously is gonna have to be extremely coordinated
in how they kinda use this SIMTP and they end up losing their hitscan again from the high ground.
That is a rough one here. Yeah, literally. Okay, but this is good though. I mean, look at this, the next he gets into the back line, those are two huge kills.
I don't think they expected that to be in TP, and even though they lose their hit scan, probably the worst way you can kind of start that fight off, they may actually end up winning it.
I mean, I don't think you want to stick around,
don't mind any people.
The soul potential is good as it takes Bunker and Ice Blank and Akku
to spend her time, but she'll eventually fall over in Norway.
I will turn that around after a rough start.
I'll see you now, Norway.
With control here of the show,
I think definitely a huge surprise there where Norway took the TP
and next able to find two there.
So, see now how Germany decides the approach.
Obviously she's not really close to the Sanctuary just yet, which would be pretty nice to kind of fight here,
especially if you're gonna be eating all those projectiles forcing your way down the low ground.
What's what happened to it anyways? The point being, because they're...
I snogged him very close to that, but it blocks him.
There won't be a sound barrier, so it doesn't necessarily stop that.
It's affecting it, it's not in this fight momentarily.
It's gonna wait for the Getsurei rush instead.
Alright, so you already find Jetsurei's swag.
I don't really do much, but this watch is just to clear the space,
make sure Isaac can't walk towards the frontline of the team.
That's gonna go ahead and get in there.
Make sure you go ahead and send it back to spawn,
and run it quickly, just coming through.
Alright, so at least Norway gets like up to like 50%.
You would love to see them kind of like,
get a little bit higher with how difficult this point is.
You know, Duke can test back.
I believe it was up to last week. Yeah, she was able to use the Jetpack cat to kind of drag the players in the traffic.
Unfortunately, not going to see that here though. Pretty cool. See you again.
But, there'll be the annihilation here with the TP potentially from Norway.
They're just going to be playing it into a Blizzard and maybe even into the Sanctuary.
Nice Maywall there on the high ground. She kind of blocks that TP.
Being effective, going to have to wait for that to come back off the cooldown.
I think I have no time here.
Annihilation is there, but there's not much space that you can buy with the overclockers.
I have not had much needs reflected on the sound barrier.
Great timing, and with everyone frozen in place, and even at overhounds, you just chew through
like that to nothing, Germany.
You don't have to hold on to that objective, and it's not enough for Norway to break through this wall.
You know what ends up trying to get aggressive there, you know, they use the overclock and then a nice job by Germany everybody kind of kiting it
Then they end up going in. I know they end up using their soundbar to try and get aggressive
But often she drops that sanctuary you have to play inside of there against the May
It's a brutal spot to be from snow drop gonna go to the window maker here
Looks like we just trying to find a kill out of spawn doesn't find one just yet
It'll be just like you're using the sim wall here trying to get them closer
Now taking a lot of damage nice to preach you there from ice norm as you end up losing it just for swag is
You may end up losing qrx you here at the hand
I know I'll no drop in Isaac, but it was awesome. You have lost basically the rest of the squad a
Bold overclock there from qrx you but everybody else on Norway left alone as Isaac turns his attention to the sojourned
That'll be a very swift map one of Oasis, Germany
I'll take that one away despite being Norway's pick and that if this is how the series is going to go
I do fear how Norway and Madison
way to contest the Serbians
Yeah, like I you think I'll get something that's a little closer in round two, right?
I know obviously round one was you know what it was, but I know round two was
Just a blip. Yeah at the start. I mean ice. I'm still able to go
19-0 there on the SIG, I mean just like, you know, what, 4k more damage, you know, more than Isaac on the other side.
This is the one-play, I mean, look at that, I mean, down to like 50, you know, HP or so, right?
Obviously gets a little bit of health from the kinetic grasp, but that was an opportunity just for SIG.
He just kind of played with Isaac for the SIG, and I may have been able to take out Ice-Film, they allow him to live, they kind of still continue to win that fight.
Next to it, the two kills there, that was like probably the biggest play, you know, four.
Norway, but obviously not enough
No, and and Norway went into this with a good idea of how they wanted to play but in the sigma
Zuki combination is just way too powerful to try to deathball into
Cd that has to offer you're pretty much locked in place
If you're not waiting your time off
What do you do? Where do you go if you're in Norway? What kind of strength do you want to lead to? I think a poke comp is off the table.
Yeah, you're probably trying to go like a New Gen City, maybe in playing some rush. I know getting a little ram action in there.
Maybe you can actually get rid of the SIG on a map like that. So that could be a possibility for Norway.
Norway. They're also just might not be a ton of really good maps for them to kind of go to, right?
It seems like obviously, I know Germany can play multiple different styles, and I'm not really worried about it.
So, if Norway lose this, they rely on Great Britain losing two to stay in the running.
So, Great Britain has two games left, one against Portugal, and then another against Germany.
Great Britain were to lose to Portugal, I would be sure to surprise, you know, I mean probably Portugal, you've seen them once they lost to Germany 3-0, pretty, pretty down at 3-0, so you would expect Great Britain, and it is new junk cities, this is kind of what I was talking about.
I think this is like one of the better rush maps like in the pools, so this makes a lot of sense.
Yeah, I think Norway want to believe more towards that prolly style.
Have not seen Issygma yet from Isaac, but they're not going to keep it here.
They're actually going to prioritize the Mizuki band, which I am 100% on board for.
It makes kind of walking with these death walls so much more difficult.
Aku, she looks fantastic on the pick.
And it's followed up by the by the Symmetra.
So, presumably, more of May, perhaps, like a Cassidy, a Tracer, something along those lines, I don't know that.
I think this is like, I think you still play the SIG, and you just play BAT, right?
And you just like BAT May, right? We know Sim to close the gap. I mean, I think that's a, you know, a rough one.
potentially for Norway to play into yet again, so we will see how Norway fares here.
This is an absolute must win map, and you can't go down to own this series in lightning fast
fashion, and still expect to come out on top.
I think this is kind of do or die, I think if you get steamrolled here and then are left
to her sweep. Even if you managed to get those map picks, I mean everything from that point on
would be in favor of Germany, just between fans and everything there. So if you're in Norway,
now is the time to get your bearings back together, taking a bit of time to get through this map,
to regroup, wipe this slate clean, and see what their potential is. It just does seem that on a
macro level. Germany have such a good idea of how to play as a squad. And I think that's why
they're likely to be one of the very few conference-cut teams that can qualify for Bussau.
Yes, we will. I mean, this is a must win for Norway if they want to qualify, but Germany looks
like they're in a prime position, right? On the opposite side, I know for them to be able to kind
to kind of get over the line.
I know that game, with Great Britain,
would basically just be like four cosmetics
and who wins the group, I know,
just to get that last game under their belt.
Norway, so the Moga was banned in game one.
And maybe they want to come out,
get some Moga action here with a venture.
So this could definitely give Germany some trouble.
We'll see what Aku and Daki decided to do
in terms of the support line, and they'll probably see
Volusio kind of stay.
I wonder if we see the Juno, say I think the Juno maybe
just the speed ring, yeah, then you're going to swap.
It's going to be Curie, right?
So, OK, an interesting Norway decides to just play
the Azaria into this.
So Azaria head to head, just really a difference
in terms of the DPS, what each team decides to go for.
This seems like this is what Norway's core strategy
running your star yet, catching it with the venture,
glass and space.
I'm almost surprised that we're not seeing
Icemob on a robot truck or something into this thing.
Catwalk out is just going in,
like how much space is able to get just off the ground.
There's the power of the pick,
and it's the cool down cycle out.
And certainly, dedicated players have some points.
So they're just gonna, we'll begin taking off,
and then the ring around the rosy,
feel like their favorite, the speed icemob on the end,
the health bar, so it's all in kind of a low,
Yeah, I mean just so much charge from Ice Nom being very careful here doesn't want to lose that charge
I just go drop around the corner of being able to provide the bubbles to the tracer making the tracer pretty sturdy
Against the Cassidy and then I know constantly being able to kind of like bubble himself is Ice Nom
So even when Jaster tried to make a play there, and it was a nice speed boost by Akushi's get the rest of the team
I mean, how does the way, I know, just the venture's gonna be very difficult, I mean, Molly, to make work in this series, I think team, Zeba, this level play, a really good idea how to play around venture.
Yeah, it's a fun pick, it can be, it is venture's best map, I think.
Once you have an idea of cool down cycles, how to punish it, or, rather, know where to win points are, well, can you work with it?
But this is a nice part about Snowdrop being a pasty that makes it harder for SXJ to play the instant once you have a very specific bubble, Isaac though.
Pretty low, doesn't matter if you get to look all the way across the suzerain or the next team.
Stay alive, this is a bit that you just get more threatening is when those bubbles are gone.
But she did not approach with enough posh shit and Jesper's flag goes down, and soon they rush exchange.
It does favor Warwick, the same through Ice Knob's health bar.
I'm gonna hold on just a little bit.
Yeah, I mean that's a huge thing, right? They get rid of Ice Noem, even though they end up losing the Venture.
And that's huge, right? It allows them to even kind of hold on through that Kitsune Rush.
One thing I will point out going into the next fight, I think she is way ahead in terms of sound barriers.
It's going to be a grab that comes through Isaac, besides trying to drop it later.
You know, connects to a bunch of players, but there's no follow-up there whatsoever.
Oh, and Snowdrop finds one. Jesper's like finds two with a tectonic shock.
And just like that, you know, this is a dragged-out ball, but it's going to be very difficult to deal with Ice-Nom.
Ice-Nom gets rid of Reef like that Molly. That is the first point go to Jeremy.
A bit closer, I think, for Norway, compared to what we saw in control, but,
again, falling back to that fundamental understanding of rotations, the cooldown game,
that gives them that little extra edge.
Just looking at how to refinery next. So another one of those in-your-points where Jesper can be a little more used for that.
I see a SXJ kind of getting set up here as well, kind of be able to kind of get around that fling, give Snowdrop some trouble.
It's like she's got that sound barrier and unique flavors, but how you use it, because I some lives an extended period of time,
you look at the change in terms of nasal, first eye back, a lot of railgun shots going down into the tank all the way, barely staying up.
That was fine, Akku, so a huge hit from Snowdrop, the hit scan is starting to come alive.
And without the sound barrier, either, man, there's...
It's harder for Germany to walk in, but I still...
It just does not care about the dogs, he's gonna run down.
He's just dominating.
If he doesn't face to do it, hey, look at, 91 charge, nobody faxed and I added.
That's gonna be Norway's downfall.
He is just absolutely farming right now, I mean...
Jester's gonna go over to Reaper here, so Reaper, Sodran, squads.
At four Norway the reaper will put a little bit more pressure onto the front line. So like that, you know, good night on ice
No, but
He just seems locked in right now
Yeah, you still have a sound barrier to pulse bomb calm it up with it
It is very difficult just to live through it and I just had to race for them as I would have
I mean normally confusing so many of the people now just to try to get to the flight
and by the time they managed to break through in the germany I don't see the single answer
there's the graviton surge three players hold on and in the spawn goes through what actually
means chunking damage alright surprisingly I understand their feet bro all of that damage
built into a small door here's that sound very occupable it's able to save it or the right climb
It keeps your tracer on and it really beats it.
It's just ice-knot pen running through the speed in the back line.
There's not much more we can do.
Trade around it.
99% on the board towards the scene with Isaac falling.
They're looking like a second.
Going over to German.
Yeah, it looks like it can test here towards the end,
but it feels like just a matter of time.
I feel like it finishes off those players.
Yet again!
He's already used two grabs. This would be his third and this is working towards Isaac's second.
So, just a, obviously a tremendous tank performance here from Isome thus far.
The pulse bomb with the grab combo that Germany is trying to do is a really nice Suzy from Nexity.
That kind of prevented a lot of that damage from coming down. That kind of keeps Norway topped up.
They end up using the Vita after. It looks pretty decent.
But still I mean never able to really deal with the Zarya the pocket too strong here or Germany
On twice them there. I think I think they're gonna be shot that he is another grab
I think they're gonna get grabbed and they're gonna have no food
Not a chance you're ready for this and
No sound barrier this time either
For both teams and Norway if you can find the way to engage early maybe set just the swag up
That's awesome, but there's the grab up on the high ground Isaac, as you said.
Not really, there's Gorgon, now the double clip.
That's actually Akku who falls, there's the dip, awesome play.
That's minute, Norway.
How did she convert with three ults dumped on top of Germany?
You could flip.
Yeah, very nice from Norway.
They clutch up there, another opportunity where they have the grab, you know, with,
I believe, you know, the pulse bomb was available at that time.
And another suit that comes through from next thing, you kind of heard it kind of like pop,
and then I know no damage can come down on after it so huge fight win for Norway
I think if you're Germany you can come into this next fight you know obviously you're building up towards your support
Open maybe you can kind of save one get both the bears out, and then you feel good in the fight after I
Think this is gonna be more of a and how few resources can you commit to this flight?
and it's on right there and it's just ice up and go big every single time and we on like a
standard carry like track here we might be. I mean just that is a fight where
Germany obviously they build up their support ults are able to kind of get them uh
you know online pretty quick and they end up just kind of you know say hey like we'll match them
and we'll just like let ice just barrel you down. You can't lose uh the Reaper that early though
Like Reaper feels like cannot, you know, you lose like a support early or like even snow drop like
Feels like I you know,
Not I said that right for it's netball first, right?
But like okay, like you know Reaper does have a lot of survivability in like obviously
Should be able to live
And it just retains a lot of pressure from the side is
It's gonna be the final blast point here is germany just trying to close this way out
They gotta get to the point first which looks like
Jesper just managed to sneak in under me.
Triggered the overtime and there he goes!
Isn't on his dog, Alpha Threat, and dealt with.
Surely, Norway managed to clean this one up, but it's not over quite yet.
There's a couple of players, I'll bring around the points,
making sure Norway has their work, or this capture with Daki falling.
There's a whole lot easier kills are coming through, and Norway hanging in there.
Is that Jesper going to go for the chase on Haku?
She's gonna get a nice bubble there from my snow that keeps her alive. So
Get another fight here for Germany. Germany gonna end up Molly with another graph
Rap plus OC you're gonna just kind of free fire into it
Potentially we'll see you though. We'll get a touch it looks like it'll be a such a
Haven so much time to slow down
So let's just take a bite out of Ice Thumb's post bar.
I'm gonna hide around there.
Get a thread at the scrab.
There you go.
Wait a minute, you are at 2.
Shut down, mid overclock.
This is here for Norway.
Here's the graphic fun surge.
I'm like just getting his up.
Doesn't pop it just yet.
Sound barrier is out.
He's gotta be hunting for the opportunity.
The only real win con here.
I've left an Ice Thumb past to fall.
If this guy continues to live, it's just game over.
Back in OX, it is game over.
For this Norway team, Ice Thumb, back up to full HP.
and Ice Gump has to fall. If this guy continues to live, it's just game over.
Back in OX, it is game over.
For this Mereway team, Ice Gump backs up the full HP.
And that'll be the end of map 2 Germany.
Now on match points.
Hey, hey, hey, Ice Gump just absolutely ruined them.
The entire map. I mean, you can just watch that.
I mean, that is a Zarya plank.
I also think the supports, you know, Akku and Ducky, they did a great job.
Just keep an eye on him alive, we got a season he's down to 25, 33.
Look at the damage compared to everybody else in 13k.
Almost doing his DPS's damage combined.
There is, if you take a look, I mean Isaac at maybe 700, almost near his hitscan, so not bad either,
but just like, I mean almost, you know, doing, almost as Zarya doing the same amount of damage
just both your DPS is like filthy and I mean that that's exactly what it looks
like because I still felt like every fight was like for like a 4k in every
single fight that we had there yeah and the final blow ratio has got to be
insane for for what we saw in this map and this one hurts if you're Norway you're
kind of wanted to play your own cock you like this Zarya style it's not
something I think we're going to see much more of for I don't think the rest of
the Overwatch World Cup or even just in this match to be totally honest so that's
it depends if Norway has somewhere to go maybe they run it again but if otherwise
I mean I think you kind of you have to get rid of it you look I think like
there were some bright spots for Norway I think like so drop starter to play it
will be better I think no it's really difficult to get like put even Isaacs
like the performance in the context because like I said it was so crazy great
Like, you know, that's obviously the support's helping him out and things like that.
There's all like, Snowdrop had a pretty good game on EC, you know.
I think he finished like 15 limbs and like, four final blows and like, 8,900 damage.
That's more damage than, you know, more damage to Lestes than QRXE on the other side, right?
So I think that's like a positive sign to look after your Norway, but...
And I saw something so difficult to deal with right now. I don't know what they do.
I think from this point forwards, you've got to find a way to deal with the...
And finding a way to deal with the tank is one thing, but I think something's also just so flexible
That even if you direct a band towards him, I mean it's very clear that he'll be able to find a way to work
around it and
If you really want to switch up the comps like the one that screams out to me is
Honestly, either Dorado if you want to die it or circuit Royale if you want to mega lean into poke
But it's gonna be neither good old faithful Kings Row for Norway. I want to go back to this brawl
Yeah, I mean
Like I think I know Dorado's circuit would have been interesting like I know maybe new Bonnie trying to change it up
But I know a good old trusted Kings Row. Are you trying to play?
jetpack cat
fashion here like is that an angle maybe for Norway, but
Feels like this guy is still kind of playing in potentially Germany's strengths
Yeah, this is tricky territory, and Zuki will also be back up.
Ben probably has the best map, honestly, to have that hero unless you're taking away
the Sigma, which I wonder if that's kind of a go-to, if you really want to stick on this
Zarya strat.
There's just a player after player.
The more that you add to this German roster, the more stacked that they honestly do feel
and they want to end this in three if they have the ability to and King's row was honestly a map you're pretty chill about considering how things are going so far.
And journey. This is the right move. Get rid of the Bastion. Don't want to see any of those shenanigans in play and then Sigma ban here for Norway. So I think they kind of expected some of those SIG comps.
Now you'll see what ice can play you know some diva can continue to maybe play some Zarya here
Just has like every tank in his pool, right? So not really too worried about this
Norway, you know, we've seen them kind of hover some Maga Zarya
Like is that what they want to kind of go to here?
I I don't think you can often that head to head again, but maybe that's what they're gonna decide to do
What what other choice do you have I think Norway are
I don't necessarily want to say a one-sided team,
because they do have different
how positional looks they have.
But this particular style of,
I think having that synergy between Isaac and Jesper Swag
in some way, shape, or form,
has been their strong point in the past.
I think that's how they've gotten as far as they did,
but this is an uphill battle.
To say the very least,
see what they have to offer here on King's Row.
Jermaine don't have the Sigma available to them.
Like they honestly could just throw Isom back onto Zarya
if they really wanted to and run it back.
I think Remontra's a safer pick,
but with how well this guy's been performing,
I don't think you're too afraid all the way.
We'll start on Remontra.
Yes, I think for Jermaine,
I mean this is a safe pick on defense.
Gonna go with the Mizuki as well.
So I'm gonna play some Mizuki into this
I know may so this is like a a pretty much like Sigma comp just with the rematchra in play, which I know obviously can still
Really make work. So we'll see what Norway decides to play into this. They can try and play Zarya
Not exactly the best
We'll see what they decide to kind of plot in the end. So they did go to the Reaper that could definitely be
Something we see them kind of go to
here yet again next year is a bit of a change to some no I imagine so drop
probably ends up pulling the sojourn so they want to go and play this venture
yet again I think it's gonna be even harder here against like the May
between the May and Mizuki it's darn near possible I think for just for to
stay in one spot it's kind of going get the bar out see how many cool downs you
can do and then real that shop and that's the cycle that you have to work
with and I guess the goal is how much can we how easy can we make it for Isaac to walk towards and take space
in this role of the game but I suppose it's a good job I can test him to play. Bay Wall is out
of the defensive one. That's a major threat out of the way in the war way to start to add more
testing on the objective. Great bobble to make sure that Akku doesn't keep Jessica on and reach for
Too long. I've been still losing so much space, but it's not wrong.
It's hard to actually hear, kind of, just holding down point.
Nothing out of the game in terms of percentage there for Norway.
They obviously want to make a play here for the high ground.
As it's a nice railgun shot, and then just ran through there.
Jester's like, does find one, so you end up losing to the big feet.
Few fears, more high ground pressure being put on by Jester's flag.
As this is what you want to see with that venture gank into the mix.
So it's like a few players from Germany draw back to the high ground. It's gonna be one tick here
Norway now getting something rolling here on offense make that two ticks. So I something a big rail gun shot
They're walking out of spawn
Changed to Isaac is getting hit with these left right and center and also
Please let me straight back to this point. I think they're kind of okay with that result concerning the time that they still have
Yeah, I mean look you suck two minutes, but with the way this series is gone
I even really have to feel you can't really feel that good
if you're in Norway until the objective is for sure in your hands is a
Ortex gonna put down some damage on you lose no drop there. Just turn to the corner trying to farm some railgun shots
Now you can get stuck into the choke this is where it starts to get dangerous, right? And now you're below two minutes
You have a decent amount of ultimates building up here for Germany, Norway kind of need to make this happen fast
Because it feels like you know if you get into OT it's gonna be a Germany full home
I think this is a pretty rough look because sure I mean you know you're now
stuck in the choke here you have all five ultimates available on the other
side you're not really gonna get your rush here if you're Norway and now just
Just so I can just remember the Reaper, just put a lot of more consistency, it's going to be an OC here for Snowdrop, trying to see if I can find something up on that high ground.
But, you know, it's going to be the QnA rush, the rest of the team doesn't really want to pull into, but they find Jester, so I know Rate for him there.
Vortex, Maywall, then he gets finished off, Molly.
And they're so split up right now.
And if Isakon's looking to chase down the rest of the team,
only 30 seconds left,
reflect those sounds of sort of the sound barrier.
And, Isakon, and honestly,
you might need to admit to grab here.
If you're not careful, thankfully,
the jump is missed by Isakon.
So, we'll hang on to the players that are on the high ground,
but the ones that are low.
Now, best of luck to you, SXJ,
hitting every single icicle.
They can even hit their shiny buttons.
Germany have only used two, and there's 10 seconds left.
Get back on over to this point, so drop swapping over to the tracer and attempt to make it with that main wall.
Stop reflux, sort of distract his little bit of a contest.
From just for swag, with the sanctuary on point, plus QRMC zoning it.
There's a lot of resources I think, actually the decent angle for a Graviton surge here,
but it's only onto the main who has nice block and to define that no problem at all.
That was not pretty to start. I mean that looked like all Germany and then
I know just like able to get back into the fight. They keep Isaac alive
I know coming off the squad
I know the bar had definitely paid off there towards the end as
I'm because she was trying to make some plays a nice chain on it just for not enough HP to kind of finish off that
Bara now a sloth for Norway over to the Maga
So they're gonna try and really be aggressive with that Maga stomp
You know into some of that far damage see if you can put some pressure onto these backliners like Mizuki doesn't have a hunter
survivability because it does have a ton of mobility. The TP is fine but not going to
be able to keep you alive consistently like a teleport does with Yuri.
It's more of a planned plan, rather than a I need to get out of here and go into a situation.
To do that works. Me, although, I say it's not too bad. I say some of the Cardiants overdrive
so no lives are too bad, specific for us, but not the one after them, right? It pulls
out the hands you started to punch people backwards Norway they're gonna take the full reset I like
this walk around but you can take more than that yeah and I mean look you know the far is pretty
good obviously into this comp it's very difficult to play it like this part of the map a nice nice
use of the vortex there for myself kind of trying to make a play for just such kind of ripping him
out of the sky looks like Norway is actually gonna wrap here and trying to go high ground you know I
I would like this to be like high ground here and like push out with like a rush or like maybe even a beat
But like they only have much to work with here. So
Try and take this high ground just maybe kind of avoid this may now you drop low
See how they decide to pursue this with some of these old man
Student rush is available. It's ready for Germany and they decide to use it
They're gonna run on four as you ice off those five shiny buttons up for the team.
Sanctuary there.
Eat up all of the barrage of rockets.
Nice cool.
Send Jesper Swag packing it back on home and honestly for Germany, this is best case, or
not for Norway, this is best case scenario.
Get the support ults out.
Save yourself another fight.
Yeah, I mean what?
Barrage used there for Norway but you get both support ults out so you feel pretty good.
If you are Norway in this next fight, which you don't feel good about though,
unless you've got 10 seconds left, walking into a blizzard plus annihilation,
I can kind of rip through the sound barrier.
Oh, they have the ball going to come out here.
Isaac is dangerously low.
They're going to have to sound barrier a bit early.
But the fact that you get docky though,
maybe there's not a lot of sustain for the rest of the team.
And next season, there's a kid in these two nights.
When it matters the most,
We're all concerned though, in the Firmatral. Bunker down on the point.
We can take him out. Norway could find a way to get through, and once you get in Norway, find a way to make miracles happen.
And the backs are up against the wall. I'll do two in her darkest thing, I was not gonna have it. Two might just be on that guy.
Okay, I'll keep moving.
I say somehow find another way, is...
Soundbarry they have to use early. Isaac gets split up by MA wall dangerously low.
Isom's gonna go over to D.va here to get back into the fight. Also to kind of
use the defense matrix here. Obviously great at taking out I know Iquara as well.
So it's like Ice gonna step up wait for the rest of the team here. It looks like
I know you may have SSJ kind of working on an angle is because you are a rocket.
It's a gauge fight on the point which is more like I dare you to come in here and fight me, sort of deal.
And it works out, Akku!
You end up falling.
Nice, though.
It doesn't have anywhere to go.
Elkhart's basically depleted and you're the only one that can't touch this point.
And it's just not gonna happen once the DMET comes on through.
I honestly didn't think we'd be seeing this third point on attack.
I am impressed with how Norway's match turns around.
Well, I mean, they're just clutching up, right?
I mean Norway is coming through at the final moments in a lot of these engagements where
SXJ is now going to match the Pharah here.
They're going to stay with the Mizuki Kiri backline.
Just for swag, gets the better of the Pharah head-to-head, so...
Good start here. We're Norway gonna gain some significant card progress.
Around this first corner, it could be quite huge. You will have double support all available here for Germany.
So we'll see
How they decide to employ them is Isaac is famously low. He could not fall and as I say that he does
I'm gonna say if you're German if you make this fight
And blasts long as you can right now see if you can design Norway another for a head switch
It won't get one the fact you can win that in the neutral is huge to stop the payload
It's now at 30 seconds. It puts you in a really rough spot if you're in Norway
I mean you're gonna get this vlogger here up on the high ground ice has to make it out with his life
I mean what, you have Sanctuary for the barrage on the other side and then you also have your Rush.
Right now, Noe is trying to build up their own Rush and also their own beat, but I have to get a touch here.
I'll wait, hold on Jesper.
And he'll stay alive here for the 9B for a second.
I got a little scary, it's a nice Sanctuary there for Roku.
You just expect that Mirage to get countered out completely in your RIC.
Zodge and the Bandits over, Zodra with the Overclock.
Shilling pretty in the Sanctuary.
It seems like he's a clutch.
Finally, run out of steam.
Mirage for good measure on top of Isaac.
Norby will be stopped, just short of a full completion.
Yeah, pretty good push though for Norway.
All things considered, right?
I know where we were at in terms of the game on that first point,
and then I know as we kind of moved on through felt like a time after time they
were able to clutch up so could have been way worse for Norway as you know now
we get to kind of see you know how they can hold on defense or if they can hold
on defense they're gonna look at some of the stats you know Isaac plays ice
dome in a much closer battle right and I think that's kind of like the series I
know if Isaac can continue to do that I think it could go a little bit longer
than people expect.
Yeah, and this is, it's looking a lot better.
I think between Isaac and it kind of starting to find his rhythm and to just respond to
Sara as well.
I think it was a real catalyst for this Norway team, to get the better of SXJ for the most
part when they're rearing it.
I think they're going to go back to this venture position, well the venture, this time the
Romatra, which is a little more stable for Norway, but I still just fear the impact of
this venture has been able to have, you could lock down an angle, but that's pretty much
about it.
I mean, I think it's rough for the venture on defense, because like this all ours, like
we'll see what Germany decides to do.
They could play, you know, a far, right, and then if it becomes very difficult to kind
of contest with, so we'll see what Germany decides to do.
I think obviously just gonna, yeah, maybe we should take a little bit of a different
angle with it.
So, are we just gonna continue to...
I'm just gonna take a few shots, yeah, but this is gonna get silly.
Um, yeah, they go with the far. I like the decision to go with the far.
You probably play the sojourn here as well, yup.
Uh, and now it puts a lot of pressure, like, if you can just kind of start pummeling rockets
into Isaac,
they'll back him up, or even, like, the venture comes on in, you know, a direct rocket hit onto the venture.
She's in a lot of trouble, has to leave all her cooldowns and get out.
Uh, you know, you're in a really weird spot.
This is aggressive bro, just for playing touch the spawn doors challenge, which I guess works out that these preens fill that favor Norway at all.
You'll be able to live for the time being, but in Essex, Jane, I snog them, you have to be aggressive.
I mean it's tough, when you're playing Venture, they have obviously the burrow, right? I mean they're a kid.
But other than that, there's really not a lot of like, you know, survivability, like you're kind of relying on like, I know the drill dash, kind of get out of dodge, and you go that deep.
I mean, there's no possible way you're going to make that happen. They switch off with a venture right away, I think, for those considered reasons.
Like, against the far, you're just going to constantly get punished, and as a past point, they take their...ward Germany, so...
We'll see now how this kind of progresses through the second part of the map, seeing a Pharah matchup at this point.
It's quite rare, right? I know Pharah kind of loses some value in the streets portion.
I mean, you kind of play around some of that damage a little bit better.
So, both teams side to play. I mean, SSJ kind of staying on from attack, but just for kind of switching over to the match, it's more interesting to me.
It just has been better angles for sure, just on the defense.
I think it was just because he looked better than SXJ on the Para previously, but it doesn't really do much here in frontline.
I was just being out of matches, I had a big red light blaring issue for this team, and they're gonna start to get mowed down shortly after.
They just cannot find sport-native fights.
Yes, you're gonna get even more payload progress here for Germany, so...
I mean, you have the, you know, for me not even need to use the rush here, we'll see how it kind of
hands out for Germany, right? You could, uh, end up matching the rush, like I guess, if, uh,
you know, Nancy and Norway decide to do it, and they may end up too, because they're in dire straits.
There's a nice chain that connects on Isaac from Aku, as she's been hitting those all day long.
And I guess you, like, want this all day. It has done so much work for them.
because the sooner rushes, the ice storm just sends it
on to Jesper Swag as he lives with a sliver of HB
Oh never mind, that's actually found him at the long range
Germany two meters away from this point
he used the Baloch just to get on through the rest of the objective
that denied the mech
and Isaac and we're looking at a I think a near five minute time bank
oh excuse me over five minute time bank
or this team denied the mech
yeah and I mean just to try to get a little bit of an off angle
but you see how aggressive ice storm is
is trying to hunt down that far off into a way like they get right up in just for space.
There's nothing you can do about it so see how you kind of maybe try and play with this
barrage here coming up next but you're going to have that sanctuary to kind of eat it up
and you're going to go with the beat plus the barrage there is that you know obviously
Germany takes some damage but they're going to be able to survive it.
They get Isaac as he pops out of mech for the self-destruct.
This is going from bad to worse.
The temple replay, gamble, did not pay off.
And this is the final quarter.
Golden box of victory right under Germany's feet
and almost secure their spot in the top two fendings
of crazy situations.
But now or never, we'll be the same.
We're on the play.
Isaac is the next self-destruct.
He's out.
And they can deny the rebound.
There's a chance, but still dropped.
Ask the lad to shot.
Here we go, he has it, but they have to stay on the point.
That's not the tank over there, but it's a baby Diva.
He's not gonna last long at all.
And Norway, they're running out of options.
SXJ is still working in this background.
There's nothing he could do about it.
He'll find the last two.
They've got a third for him.
And Germany will move on up to two and O in the group stage.
I mean, another damage showing there from Journey.
I mean, they got a three O over Portugal
and now a 3-0 here over Norway,
putting them currently on top of the group at 2-0.
So looking like one of the, you know,
obviously they come out number one from the conference cups
and they definitely look like an ice noem
with another dominant game here in this series,
30 and four.
Akushi was great, all series along,
you know, putting up some pretty nice healing numbers,
but then just also the plays on the Mizuki,
playing a lot more Muzuki than probably a lot of other teams and then I didn't look up for Norway.
I think you got a better game there from Isaac and Jesper swag.
Just not enough in the end.
No, yeah, not enough in the end there.
I think that for the side of Germany, they've got to be definitely very happy with this win.
And we talked a little bit about how important it was going to be for them.
I think to make a statement up against Team Norway here as well.
unfortunate there for the side of team Norway though Molly I think overall we
did see you know some of those moments of brilliance some of the counterswaps
that were coming in also just generally you know you were mentioning how
Jesper Swagg was a bit of a boom for this team during times but
unfortunately just fit too big of a loss. Yeah I think that the advantage of
Germany again having the extra time to practice with each other going through
this conference cups and getting a good taste of what this competition can be
like there's a massive advantage to saw it in a game play and I think individually and I just signed
through. I'm glad that we will see some of these players like Jesper Swagg just recently qualifying
for the BCS in the A. We'll see them continue to compete in other regards, but for Norway I think
it's going to be really difficult to move on. Yeah, I mean, look, the Norway started to make
make some nice things happen there on King's Rail, but in Germany you look awesome, this
series. The kind of entire team top to bottom, like everybody had kind of standout moments
where I do think about the ice on New Jersey City, you know, the support play across the
entire series. They're a real threat, I think, I know to kind of maybe take it to Great Britain
as a, and then we take a look at some of the highlights. Really kind of the dominance started
early and often.
Okay, you're talking about, you know, being able to maybe take it up against Great Britain, Matt, can you, how, at this point with seeing how strong they looked up against Norway, how close are you looking at that series being because I think that we were both, or not all, not just both of us, but generally everyone is kind of expecting this group in particular to be, you know, journey and Great Britain.
With Great Britain maybe having a bit more of like that kind of edge up considering the roster lineup that they are fielding
Do you think it is maybe a bit closer than we might have anticipated all things considered now?
Yeah, I think that's gonna be a highly competitive series
Germany seems to like really be kind of clicking on all cylinders
They obviously played through the conference cup so they play a little bit more with each other
Then no Great Britain, but I mean I expect that to be like a four or five game deep series
like that's not gonna be a quick one I think that's gonna be a really back-and-forth series
I get yeah overall yeah what's up well I could see it I think if we like look at great but
I think on paper they have a great stack of individuals but if Germany can take it to them
it's absolutely gonna be because of this you play yeah I think this synergy has just been
really looking good something that I do as we're highlighting throughout the entire cast just how
how good that they looked overall with the chemistry and that time that they've gotten to have together,
not just screaming but that conference cup experience there as well. But we do have an
interview with a lovely Aku coming in now with this win. Congratulations Aku on your win today.
You looked great in the server. I would love to hear I guess generally how much this win means to
you guys overall, even though technically it's not 100% confirmed that you're qualified to
Busan with more games to play out. Realistically, it feels like you guys have essentially punched
your ticket all the way to Korea. How are you feeling about that? Yeah, I feel it. I mean,
I'm feeling super, super great, like super excited for what's upcoming and looking forward to like
Korea as well. I think it's going to be super cool experience that many of us on our team
did not really had so far. So really excited for that. It's going to be awesome.
Yeah, that'll be an awesome time. You guys most certainly deserve it. You played a lot of Mizuki.
What do you love about that hero and like how it kind of plays into some of the comms that you
guys like to work with? Yeah, I mean, it's mainly like being started playing like into that Divas
and Metra comms kind of. So that's kind of the reason why we started playing it since we had
had like struggles playing into that, like teams started playing the DevaZoom and Scrims,
so we were like, okay, let's just try to pull that off since we saw like also being played
in the OWSES. So we kind of picked that up more recently. And I mean, it's actually super
fun character because you can kind of like bully the tanks with it a little bit, if that
makes sense, like actually brings me back to like the old break shield stun times where
could just like, bully whoever's like trying to go in and kind of feels the same with the
chain like super flashy gameplay, super fun. I really love the character.
And you looked fantastic on it. I think we, I don't think we saw you as a chain, I'm gonna be
honest. Anytime that we're watching you through this series. So it's been fantastic to watch
you and and this team kind of gel together. I know coming out of the conference cups, one of the
very few teams that has the potential to make it to that next stage in Busan. What has it been
like for you and the team to kind of build up that synergy between the start of that conference
cup to now? I mean, I would say it's just mainly about like a lot of practice. Like, I'm not sure
how much other teams scrim but we're like pulling up like even the past week just double blocking
daily and just really preparing for these games. And I think this was like kind of the main game
we're looking out for as well to like win, to hopefully like secure the spot for Busan.
So like I feel like just the scrims and great staff team like bringing us all together there,
like great coaching, shout out to Amir, he's doing like an amazing job helping us all to improve a
lot as a team and just bringing us together synergy wise. So I feel like that that just helps
like with a lot of practice and like effort to bring this to the best stage again.
Yeah, I mean all of that work looks like it's definitely paying off in the server with how great you guys are looking as a team together.
And that kind of leads me into my next question. For your next matchup, you are going to be playing up against Great Britain.
I think that a lot of people for Group B have looked at Team Germany and Team GBR as being the top two teams within your group, right?
How are you feeling heading into that matchup? Is the team feeling like confident going into that game?
Yeah, just general vibes
Yeah, for sure. I mean we scrimmed
the team before the groups were announced like after we kind of stopped of course, but
At least before we were screaming them and I feel like it's always a match to look out for like always excited to play because they have like great players
Played on big stages with a lot of experience
So for us, like we all have like a lot of these newcomers not really experienced that much
It's just like really exciting to see and play against those those guys
So I think for the match tomorrow, we're going in like very very excited and just looking forwards to to showing what we can do
And how we can like perform in comparison. So yeah, just just looking forward
I think it's gonna be an awesome match. I'm excited for it
You mentioned obviously playing against some of those players, and they played in the OWCS and other big events before.
Are there any international teams now that may have had a chance to settle in?
They're like, oh, we're going to go to Busan. Are there any international teams or players you'd love to play against there?
I think I couldn't decide on one of them, just in general, seeing how good we can do outside of this EU region.
Really just showing on the world stage how good we are as a team.
is the team. So I couldn't name a single team. It's just like everyone.
Understandable. There are a lot of cracked teams out there that are going to be
exciting to see you guys face up against. Congratulations again on your win today.
Aku is so lovely getting the chance to talk to you and good luck in tomorrow's
matchup against Great Britain.
Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.
She's so sweet, guys. That was such a great interview to get the chance to talk to her
there Matt. She's got it. I mean, her Missouki play was crazy, right? We kind of highlighted
it. I'm excited for that Great Britain game. I think it's going to be like a really back-and-forth
series seems like I know they've had some decent time screaming each other and whatnot. So,
setting up to be a pretty awesome decider and a group beat.
Absolutely. And I think when we get to see how that plays out, I think it of course will
technically depend on the Great Britain Portugal maps that we have coming up today,
whether that is a shoe-in or not for Germany, but it's looking pretty good and getting the chance
to play against Great Britain. I would love to see how that synergy is going to match up against
a lot more of the established talent that we see in this region. Yeah, I think that'll be really
their true witness test to see how they're going to be kind of stacking up against a lot of these
other teams. We do have a quick break before we go though. I do want to remind everybody that
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While we do come back though, we are going to see if France are going to be able to secure
their spot and boost on, or if Poland can make a huge upset.
Welcome back, everyone. We've got a third banger match up coming in hot here for
OWC ENA. It's going to be France versus Poland. And for France, this is their
opportunity to punch their way to Busan. They were one of the heavy favorites
here in this group. I think overall this France team here in Mali,
breathed by team Spain last week, they want to secure their spot today and this
is a strong team when you're looking at the roster lineup. It's kind of a mix
between two different rosters. The good guys come in from the ace it and the
unfortunate Hepps team that ended up falling down not too long ago and I
I think having that previous synergy is very helpful, and it gives them, like it really does show what the individual skill level is for them, and it really do feel like a team that is meant to be on top of this group.
I mean, Ash, they have a great backline, right? I know, with FDGOT and Zarya, Majin I thought was really good last week, and then like Dip in Q, you've seen obviously have some really strong performance at the top.
like this is a team that should be at Busan like when we get the boost on will kind of assess how well they can kind of
perform and how well they can do but
You know any M.E.A. right? These are the stuff fantastic roster put together for an event like this
It really is I think that you're my you're mentioning how good that back line is with FD gone in Syria
Even last weekend we got to see ace like coming in and subbing in here for FD God during during certain maps
I think it was on Turgut Royale that he actually came in for some of those
Kiroko and Mizuki compositions that were coming through there. I think that
he also had a really great performance there, Molly. That kind of flexibility
here for Team France is definitely going to be a huge boom when it comes down to
depending on how hero bands go, what maps they want to be taking
form to. And that's kind of one of the designing factors for France. He's heard
it in the interview from DIP last week and this is a team that has made sure they
are comfortable with multiple
competitions and both playing
with and against that question.
I think they're one of the teams that I think
has the potential to pull it out more
than others, so it definitely was something
to be scared of if you are.
Yeah, speaking of pulling that,
this is a squad that sounded really
confident. I think after
their last matchup, last weekend,
overall, you have
a very solid
roster here.
really fun to watch them. I think Arlen tested them for a moment, but after that moment, they pulled it together and like, okay, now we're closing up the series.
Yeah, it was like a brief moment in time. You know, I think it was a game of Rialto that like goes down to the wire. It was like a crazy one.
Poland obviously is our number two seed out of the conference cups. And then there's a few players there we've seen at the Overwatch League level and I know OWCS level in the past, right?
right so like uh you know china eggs we're always kind of floating around
contenders and then kind of ate it into a bcs so uh a few players here you know
around that we've seen yeah and i think it's also kind of fun that we see like
half of good guys is on t poland and half of good guys is on uh t france so
maybe a little bit of internal rivalry going on so i think i'll be a fun dynamic
as well it really will not just like fun internal rivalry but just like the
similarity for these players, right? I think that it's less so a rivalry energy more like they had they get so excited to play again
It's like it's unique and whatnot. I cannot wait to see if we'll and we'll be able to pull off this upset or France will lock
In their position here. Let's take it it take it away
Yeah, we're gonna jump into this
1v1. Okay, so not a Doomfist 1v1. Oh, okay. Oh, that's a pretty pretty sick sleep cross map from X
So we get an X versus Xerion matchup in terms of support here, Molly, to see who gets that
first seed.
I mean, X getting up to a great start.
He's cooking right now.
Oh, okay.
We're taking time to look at the spray.
I like this.
He knows that he's good.
Look at this.
Happen around the corner.
Little rat play.
Looking for Xerion, but eventually we'll just run that one on for ourselves.
We'll be the higher seed.
We'll see whether they picked the map for the first man.
through but again I think I'm you're feeling pretty good if you are team
France about flexibility and yeah very happy about this Ilios pick yeah and I
Poland will get the map pick here they'll take that um team so you're gonna go
to Ilios or Oasis right so unless like France was diehard I'm playing in
Arctic Peninsula like I think we've seen it selected once then you're kind of
not worried about it so it'll be Poland like getting rid of passion here at the
start I like this fd god can really pilot the jetpack cat with some of the
movement tech that he's kind of learned on the lucio obviously kind of bringing
that over to the new hero so get the bash you know no combination there and
then a roadhog is the band for France so they don't want to deal with any type
of roadhog shenanigans potentially here on ileos relax did pull it out last so I
don't blame them for that bad at all and I think it makes it easier especially
if you're wanting to play a bit faster, maybe with this D.Va.
And for Jhin as your typical off-tank, quote-unquote, player with the D.Va and the Sigma that we'll
see for the most part, where relax is kinda all over the place in terms of those hero
picks.
With half-fashion being off the table, we'll see how these teams decide to hit it.
I think if there's one thing for Poland that makes them set out is that they have two flex
supports on their team which I guess really only affects Lucio in this case
but it's something that they've really tried to make work throwing eggs on pigs
like we are the autumn. Yeah obviously I know a ton of different options they
can kind of go with. I think for France you're not gonna have the catbash
in that play here it'll eventually kind of poke its way into this series
potentially but I think they're fine like obviously like having a fd god coming
out and playing something like a Lucio and playing Lucio Curie and kind of
that's something a little bit more standard. I don't think that's
necessarily a worry from them, right? They can play, you know, that with like a
sojourn and a tracer and be totally fine. For Poland, I think it's like a little
bit more of like how you can kind of get creative potentially with some of these
comps. So we'll see if they can kind of pull out something like yeah maybe like
a double flex look or you know China can kind of move over to something
pretty special here early on so we'll see you know what Poland decides to go
to I think that's not probably more the biggest question I think France will play
something a little bit I know more standard what we see I think another
one of those makes that China really does shine on is that far and this is a
fantastic match to be able to pull that one out so I would love to see him stick
on that and kind of force a dip in excuse me Pio in the situation where it might
have to swap off the sojourn or just have a bit more of a tough time figuring
that one out. We'll be starting on wealth here as these both teams want to go
pretty fast with these divas. The main difference of course would be what
will Keo and China decide to pick up. Yeah so it will be a mere matchup here
outside of Cassidy versus sojourn. So you know, Cav obviously going to be able to
I can make Dips life a little bit harder,
but going for that Instagill burst single here.
Poor Frantz, you see he already had a rail gun shot.
So careful, ah-ha, Keo.
The huge hit there.
You can't exactly go out and challenge that right away.
Dude, nice shot, keep it alive.
I'm on fire there for Keo, but he's okay now.
We'll have this angle to go on with the God.
First time actually we see him on Lucio in this tournament,
Believe it or not, more of a throwback to where I was trying to defend.
I'm pulling.
It's kinda taking their time here, looking for the setup.
It's China.
Getting some shots in here, onto Q, Susan will come across the map, get him on his feet.
France, mostly on this high ground with the exception of my- she was just kinda in there.
I don't know if he can fully get out of this.
And Rax flies up to contest, but he's helping in that department either.
That battle is won. It's hard enough of pulling.
And a true win call in this fight was to get a crazy neck from China.
It's a relaxed falling on over.
So we're going to see France start to roll on at this point.
Good thing of the well from FD God.
You know, our first capture.
Yeah, I mean, Ma Junah gets some help by, you know, kind of cross map there,
being able to kind of keep, you know, him alive, you know, with that D-Venek.
And I know you see Constantine where China is trying to put some pressure on Akio.
He does a decent job of it, but you have to be so careful.
careful Daryon so good in terms of like doing some damage from that carry roll
Pulse Bomb from China goes wide doesn't really connect with much of anything
here so there'll be a dead eye from my cabin that actually finds Kyo that's a
huge opener
I think I was just gonna finish off with 1v1 make sure the shot landed a thousand percent worth it
if you are a Poland if I can't get another one stops defending its tracks
France they're holding on to this point for a decent amount of time and we'll see this one
I mean, that is massive to be able to get a flip here, but France, in theory, should have been able to hold for significantly longer, you know, also building up towards the key ultimates, but a huge pick-offs there from Cav.
That sets them up to get a flip and potentially, you know, just one fight away from taking a lead
França will come in Molly with absolutely everything to use though
So an opportunity just kind of like bulldoze through Poland here at the moment is they will get control of some high ground here
And then they're trying to wrap around the outside of that
Russia's from either team but China down before any real fight can happen
Fransky get through this with just a consumer rush one happy team
You end up losing relax on, excuse me, yeah,
just relax on the map, kill him quickly.
And with the self-destruct there, then goes for the gym.
He'll be thrown away, right?
Apparently getting over that wall and climb,
but just as the time does go over,
I keep France again.
You're very happy about that, he's pulling.
You wanna commit a bit more to spite,
considering all the ultimates that France started with.
This is getting a lot dicerent,
but they might not win at all.
Please, replayers remaining.
I'll just come up with some form of trade.
There we go, Dip! Yet another long side, which in these two, I think the pinches, France, and he's almost everything.
Yeah, I mean, uh, no, France able to kind of use that sound barrier towards the end to kind of keep, uh, you know, just three players alive.
Dip, FDGOT, and Majin able to make it back into the action, so...
Holy Melendor end up here, you know, they'll have X which over to the Mizuki, just gonna try and put some more fresh onto Majin,
it's gonna be high-cab with the dead eye working his way towards the point, and Majin steps on there just to contest.
Gonna be able to keep it going as an overclock where Keo rips China around the corner.
Huge opening pick, although Majin Lo does not matter.
Keo finds another that's two with the overclocked Molly, and that might put it away for Frans.
They're in a great spot now at the moment.
Nasi shoved it to the postpot there, oh cool, almost catches Keo.
Wait a minute, there's a chance, Majin got knocked out of mech.
Huge over extensions from Frans.
At least the back door open and Poland are gonna just let themselves on into this point.
A bit of an error there from this team France and they're not gonna get it quite in this one unless they can stall out even longer before people come through.
So I mean tremendous stuff from Poland. It looks like he'll actually even almost like slid back into the pole spot there potentially so.
But this is really good for Poland, right?
You'll end up with Rush, you're gonna end up with Sanctuary here, you have a self-destruct to kind of keep it going.
I think you probably, you're worried about this gift, Pulse Bomb potentially, like you kind of have to keep these supports alive.
Turn away in the back, I need to sniff it out, Eggs!
I'll sniff this Mizuki here.
That's a God. On this high-grade, Crank's gonna make a great setup.
Stick their team on up there, especially with Keel.
Eggs, the season of the threat is lurking, but a great chain there!
Onto the jean, stop some dead in this track, there's the south barrier now though, and the ultimate, two overwhelming, the Poland to handle, they're gonna get to use most of them, it's walked on in, months before a bullet, and they'll be getting themselves a point here on the well over time wick, starting to burn down, we'll be at far a swap from my cap, see if you can touch, AXE is coming in as well, not gonna have much support, we're gonna work this one out, there's a couple of last touches,
coming on in for eventually France seal well away there's a good round there from
France Poland did a fight strong so I know this isn't gonna be like a walk in
the park series at least it seems like for France where there was a nice
binding chain that came out from eggs but I know motion just gets a benefit to
the sound barrier they push on right through it so you take a look at some
of the stats dip with only one debt the FD got with zero those two players and
and they can play that aggressive no throw out a series
and not get punished for it.
No, France is going to run away with some games.
No chance on FDGod too.
And this is a comfortable map for this team to say at least
they have figured out for now,
have quite a few compositions swapped by the looks of it.
Heading into this ruins map more focused on this brawl.
Yeah, we'll see.
It'll be France coming out here with a look of their own
with the Mizuki SIG, and I think this is gonna catch Poland off guard, you know, Poland now playing the D.Va without the D.Va on the other side.
So now it's gonna put a lot of pressure on the Relax, right? Not getting hit with those chains constantly.
It's kind of burned down by this signal.
I don't see a way in which Relax gets into a fight and then somehow finds a way out.
Piggy itches is not so practical with the Maywall flashbang for Chain.
Nobody thinks we could be stuck in Steven.
Boonai from Texel are fantastic.
The damage that outputs from Rage sets up Polin perfectly.
For an entry, a lot of those threats now neutralize Polin.
If they can find more picks, we're definitely taking their time.
They don't want to risk any overextension to his eggs.
Pretty low, does have to back off.
Nice to do that from Texel, Polin.
Yeah, for now, I mean we'll see if they're able to kind of hold on to it, as it looks
like Alan Machin's trying to work his way on in, as you know, getting rid of the Curito
is massive, right?
A large source of the healing, you know, in this comfort france out of the way, and now
Poland wins two fights in a row, Molly.
They're going to be able to kind of stack up some significant percentage here.
I wonder if France considers going back to maybe some of those like D.Va type looks.
like a from now at least think on the sick but this could be one that Poland
just kind of takes this off of the conflict and just kind of like rolling
on through it's not really bad if I just can't move up as easily I think and
then it's getting out of action to speak China has free reign of whatever as long
as it just doesn't get clogged by the key of splashbang there
Make a sooner rush here, I'll make sure it's there right now.
Come on, you're going to have to master one with pencils.
Dead item.
Yeah, not wanting anybody to play in front of the sight lines is,
you see the rush to hide behind the pillars.
No one daring to beat their head, but it just means dead.
The sports sit there, I just hate the damage from relapse.
Now, in the back line, all places, the trunk a bit low.
As soon as the mid-grass begins to get out,
and the sound barrier very much needed.
In that situation, I would've just been going,
bleh, oh, then, pop shots, and then it blocks.
No, there's no overhousing.
Get in the way of it, and it's so scrappy.
Holy, I'm still in confidence.
Viva is out of mech, but Relax shouldn't have an issue
getting back into it.
This fight is so expensive for France.
They have committed every single ult so far,
and even then, it has not secured them a capture yet.
It kinda tech-solves, it's gonna help a lot.
The stain falls off, blip, and finally,
three last balls, but that took so long.
Yeah, they almost get Modgen,
but it's a really nice combination of things.
So Modgen's dangerously low,
Xerion ends up using a Suzu on top of him,
then they throw the Blizzard there,
and then Modgen has the kinetic wrap
to be able to deal some of that damage up.
That's coming in, being able to live,
but the position where the game was in,
they needed to go all out in terms of that fight.
Now you kind of worry about how you kind of get through some of the rest of these fights if you're France because that was on the brink of just being around that pole is just dominated to the end.
Oh, Xerion falls here, ends up using the Kitsune Rush. Maybe he just didn't have the Suzu available at that moment in time.
They didn't take years for France, so they do get rid of the maximum relapse.
This is for the real good.
France sustained in his fight here.
My goodness!
Thumbs up with three, but he tickles fire right back as the carry goes.
Kind of the battle of these two, but in case of a bowl in this final fight territory,
they can manage to put this over here and be huge lefty god.
Not going to let that happen.
These are the things to say about it.
Okay, now maybe France can kind of start to get rolling, right?
right? You're gonna have two support ults probably available for Poland. You're gonna
be able to just like if eggs ends up I know using the Sanctuary right maybe you can just
kind of like play around it with the the SIG in the May and then gonna come out on top
of the Blizzard after. So you will also have Dead Eye to deter some type of push that comes
through here from Poland. Poland is gonna go with their rush here early it's gonna be
Dead Eye. From Kiel there's doing a nice job keeping Kiel alive and that's gonna be relaxed
Even though you lose dip, there's no mech there for the diva on the side of Poland.
That is brutal.
Now you're going to allow any, but Dibba's going to get back in the fight here.
Now you're just like, you're going to have to just kind of funnel onto the point here.
If you're Poland and France is an opportunity to close it out.
It's only China live right now.
He's even got to recall.
Like yeah, the touch is there.
That hurts if you're Poland.
No pulse bomb.
There's the Sanctuary, but the Gravitic Flux stops them getting any more touches.
France, they've had it a relatively close 2-0.
Yeah, it was a very competitive map, probably more competitive than people would have thought,
but France comes out on top.
Poland is not enough in the end to hold on, of course, a last round there on Ilios, is
to take a look at some of the stats.
I got a pretty good performance, 11 of limbs.
12k damage, I know 11,500 and then I see Q on the other side kind of like I know a little bit less in terms of the damage
But more in terms of the output of coming up. I know with a limb
So pretty competitive game Molly pretty good
Pretty good map from both teams like nobody
Kind of felt like all behind I think the one that you could like maybe point to like I know relaxed
They're asking to play some really tough. I know into some really tough comps as well
Yeah, I think if you're old after that, I wouldn't be too upset. I think it was more just, you know,
the composition difference at the end. This, especially on Ruins here, getting the setup
with the D.Va, that's great. You just cannot let this team get into the point, and they did that.
They almost took it just 100 out, but once they kind of humbled that control, that's where the
composition starts to snowball. It almost feels like on individual level, these players
weren't that far apart. It's honestly just came down to the compositions for a good chunk of time.
Yeah, I'm really curious where Poland decides to take us next, where they kind of find that,
I know, maybe they made some inroads there in that map in terms of comps and things that they
would like to kind of bring out. Like, they looked pretty good playing into the SIG, right? So,
I know, I don't think you're really too worried about that at the moment. I do think Poland's
Poland's probably worried about cat fashion though, they get rid of the Bastion early on.
I imagine we see a cat fan at some point because France can most certainly play that.
So, you know, a bunch of different options at the disposal for Poland.
I don't think there's like one map that really like kind of flew in on to play here.
Taking a look at some of their previous games, we saw Ilios which we saw here, we saw, no,
that was an Ireland pick which was Rialto.
They went to King's Row in that series.
And then that series was an odd one
because Ireland ended up picking new Queen Street,
which we rarely see.
Yeah, I can't remember the last time.
Actually, no, that's a lie.
They played it once in the Americas
and it was a back and forth death match.
So I don't think we're going to get that between these two.
It would be a bit kind of funny.
But I think the map was honestly pretty open.
I guess it's just more lands on where is Poland comfortable
going and why not pick the OG King's Row to go ahead
keep that up and the the nice part about King's Row is it is so flexible in terms of what you can
pull out and you can kind of just pick through the options if you feel like you're getting
or countered I think that's the mentality Poland are going to head into this battle.
Yeah so uh King's Row this is the map pick that we saw them uh go to against Ireland so uh they
feel pretty strong uh about this map we'll see like this might be a map that you feel like you
You don't need to ban the cat, like you don't want to play cat fashion here, but
We'll see if they kind of like
Maybe see if France will just kind of like opt into playing it that they kind of can beat it
Or they want to get rid of this year. That'll be kind of a decider for Poland
I think it just depends on what their movie spirit is. I was thinking outside of that first point, I don't think cat fashion has much quiet ability at all
It doesn't really make much sense to
that one way although with the compositions being relatively similar
and perhaps the only thing you do is maybe do something with the supports like
perhaps target the rhythm of the Zuki if you really don't want to play it or like
wanting to play the Gimbal more I think that's kind of the option to go
relaxed seemed to be leaning towards but other than that it's I think it just
come down to what is like going to be uncomfortable?
Yeah, it's a good call, right?
I know you could, you know, if you're pulling, right,
let's say the Kackets fan, right?
Maybe you see there's an opportunity for, you know,
Modgen just played the D.Va really well,
but like Modgen can play probably some of the other stuff.
I know at a higher level, so like you ban the D.Va, right?
And like force relax to play something else.
Like is he going to train and force like a mug into the mix,
right like or match the CIG or a mantra like you probably feel pretty good about you know France if that's gonna wear things
knit out I think it's just determining on like how much Poland or how scared they are of this like cat-cat
fashion combination I can come through from France because you get rid of it here but you know then there that's the last
chance you get rid of it right so you're gonna have to beat it eventually it feels like it's just on what map
There are many better maps for it, so it seems like that taking it out here would be weird,
I guess, unless you are THAT scared of it on this particular point.
But even something like a flora thing, China likes to pull that one out on maps like this,
and we've seen today, alone, how much impact that hero can have, especially into more of the Sigma opposition.
So that is another spot Poland maybe wanting to lean towards protect the DPS so that you can
make sure that that goes on through but
It just feels so open to me with how these two teams are playing
Yeah, it feels like an opportunity just kind of play a little bit of everything
So that seems like we're waiting on some players gonna jump into the lobby here or just gonna get the band
Situated and then I know we'll be able to bring you guys some little via Kings Row
For the group that we're in group C. So France currently sits at top at one and oh
Poland is also want to know here in the group
But I think a lot of people Molly would say that like they thought that like Spain would probably be
That number two team, but Spain also loses to France 3-0 and then beats Ireland in the same exact fashion as Poland
So I don't exactly know I think Poland could potentially
I know find themselves in a way that they can make it through. So this is group B
This is from the last series you just watched with Germany
They defeated in Norway, but the game were curling in as a group C game
So that would be I know with you know, you can see it here. I know all the way to the right
So I think it really comes down to Poland in Spain
If honestly if Poland can manage to take a map here off France, that could be kind of huge
it could matter in terms of tiebreakers but again that match tomorrow between
Poland and Spain is the one that feels like the true decider for this
group Ireland pretty much out unless there were some crazy shenanigans that
were to happen up in the France area but otherwise it kind of kind of feels
like Poland and Spain are the two that we were gonna watch for match against
France, it's more important to France than it is in the league, because it's going to
come down to that game tomorrow, but if France can get a win here, they're feeling very,
very good at moving forward, so they're only remaining matches against Ireland.
Yeah, and you'd expect that worse, you know, France to get to two and one, right?
So you'd have to feel pretty good about their odds to make it out, and then for Poland,
right?
So we kind of steal the series and obviously you're kind of pretty, you know, pretty good.
It's just going to probably come down to that game against Spain.
I believe we have that game tomorrow as well.
A lot of crazy games tomorrow coming through on EMEA.
That could be, you know, the siders of the group or like that.
You know, worse than for two seats for the group.
So it sounds like we're waiting on both teams.
Looks like everybody in the lobby potentially just being on some bands.
So probably a lot of liberation going on here.
Okay, so, uh, Poland gets rid of the sojourn here, so we're trying to, of course, have some more chastity, uh, what probably feels like, and then, uh, on the other side of things, it'll be an Ellari band, so, I want to take away the potential for, like, you know, uh, maybe some double flex supports from, uh, Egg's & Co.
Yeah, and what we've seen from Aks and Texel as well is that they pretty much only played
level 4 support, and this was the map that we already found some decent links.
And to be able to work, to take that away, he is pretty smart.
If the soldier and more of a general, I want to play cast, I don't think Keo's gonna complain
about that at all.
He looks really, really good back on Helios, but Kings are such a flexible map, and with
these bands and will limit it a tad as to what they want to play but for now
France seem like they want to run it back from what they did on that last
game of Ruins with the Sigma kind of Mizuki in. Yeah so it'll be France kind
of sneaking up here to high ground that letting anybody spot their comp off the
rip that we'll see what Poland decides to do obviously a lot of time to make
some changes for them looks like probably just kind of you know hovering over
somebody no fun heroes and we're gonna get out of the spawn and then decide what
they're gonna play right after I would love if we saw a roadhog on this map but
that might be an overkill I'll see what they do China looking for a song I
won't find anything swap over to that far out which I mentioned it before about
How old is it? Not only is it strong, but it has a China.
Yeah, so, uh, there's just no hitscan available here for Poland, right?
So all of that damage is going to be really reliant on China.
Because, uh, Keo could potentially give this bar some trouble.
Nice main wall is going to be blocking off the hotel there by dip.
Then you're getting close to one tick here for Poland.
And I realize it's taking a lot of damage in all this area on there.
And I'm interested in the first map is no fantastic damage dealer in terms of the flex support role specifically here
He comes up with that first pick
See if they can kind of withstand another storm can Francis
Well, a nice cough there used by
No, uh, China up on that high ground
It's gonna be a maywall that's trying to split players off from ICAP over there in the choke. Nice chain there
It's a suzu though that wipes that away is
Relaxing a lot of damage ring this guy to be some type of help there Molly. They kind of keeps the tank alive
Not losing your sigma nap position
You can't relax
Like that at all like I get needing to put China is for him on a plank
But in real action nowhere to go in that instance and all that set up work
Just gone from Poland is or go halfway through the time bank and France already build no
Yeah, it's gonna be another attempt here for Poland is they just kind of step up onto the point
That'll be a box used here. It's gonna connect on the Mizuki is eggs does take some damage
It's just all a nice play here from Majin just dumps right on down
It's gonna be cab using the blizzard there
Just trying to get players off the point and I look around every direction
They're just gonna I'm trying to circle the team all Poland is I know dip is gonna be able to kind of
Look over the wall there kind of put some shots down as this has been a play brutal
Now you're gonna have cab switch off of the may go over the casting that you need this hits in
To be able to kind of deal with what is coming out on the other side
I mean you can't allow just kind of Kyoto like not really have a hit-scan to deal with like the may is great the point control
Right, but like it have no answer
You know nobody be able to kind of like do you have rain play a consistent hit shot on it
not
Sanctuary here from SD got an egg so both Mizuki ultimates coming out the same time dip using that blizzard on the point
But Molly, I don't think it's gonna be good enough hole in getting off to a fantastic start
I know what will be the final point fight here on this first point
Eventually find their way through and it really did come down to that casting spot as soon as we saw it
You can't go over Kyo sitting on the high ground
He couldn't peek at that window and just shoot for free anymore
And that did make a ton of difference for this team pushing on towards and a good news too
You still have this gravedict box
You're gonna be able to pull out by the time France manages to regroup and get back over to this objective
We'll see France. You had a pretty good job on defense here
Work with their way through the streets is trying to get close to the choke to kind of place some good defense here against the Poland
Oh, and I mean that is some serious far damage from China coming around the corner
It's a huge block. It's gonna be the dead eye though.
It deters him from moving on forward.
Nice Suzuu Yuusir as well from France.
Suzuu keeps them all on their feet.
We're kind of the second wave.
And that's not how our opponent will go.
You have holding the dead eye and the pillar.
They're doing him no favors.
And that's not bad.
You're right down shy.
So a huge chunk of the chip damage.
All of that line on.
It's no longer there.
So they're gonna back off more towards the bookstore.
Exhaust getting caught out invisible dots have to be a goal reset France. She's grabbing pick out the pit
Yeah, not if French continuing to move forward you see a fd god kind of hunting for the kill there
On the eggs. It'll be different of finishing off the Mizuki
They just kind of know for fd got eight just he pees on back out so
Good hold here for France is we're below two minutes on the clock. So
So, can China continue to kind of do a nice job doing some poke damage at range, and they're not, who is going to be, you know, like the, you know, it's great that China does the damage, right, Molly, but like, where is the follow up on the damage, right, like, okay, you know, a few rockets here, you know, the flux on the other side, but how are they possibly finish following these kills up?
Typically it would be Cav, but falls on this one, okay, it's going to be China using the barrage there, but Sanctuary comes out at the perfect time, and they deal with that far.
There's not much you can do, I mean the Gravitic walks all the ultimates used for Octopus by Francis.
The fact that they still re-in the tank is, it just has more pain on the pile.
You have a little over a minute if you are pulling, you'll be able to make this work, and you know that they're going to want to use this because they want to push on to this point and having a Symmetra helps in that frontline battle.
But what are you going to do about this Blizzard?
What are you going to do about this Cassidy?
I think that is going to be more of a sort of a cut-off, if you see from Poland.
Today's rushes do come out. Mabel has been fantastic.
Players try to throw forward away, but still catches both texts on the black.
Grants could not have played that much better on a swiftly returning spot.
Yeah, well, I mean, for Poland, right?
Like, you're going with the sim here to provide the mobility,
because you're not playing the Lucio, you're playing the Mizuki,
and you're just going to TP in on there and it does not work.
He's not able to really kind of stay alive as you know Blizzard comes down, you also have the Katsune Rush for both teams.
He's there, but he dead-eyes for both sides trying to deter people from moving up towards the payload as Vilex does have that Gravitic Flux to use.
He had some big ones, you know, some big connections, just kind of damage right the cleanse.
He's very on so good at keeping people alive on through it.
And if they're going to win this fight, they will be off the back of this bravatic force combo, but somehow everybody manages to live through that.
And in Poland, the devastation for them got a back off, because it was back of the dead iron keel.
He thought, as one heck of an ankle, Zeryan didn't know what hit him.
He swiftly shut down the bravatic force down the other side from the gin.
But France, in just the position they want to be, pierced out this payload in the streets of King's Row,
row and has a pretty good win condition for themselves as they swap sides.
Yeah, I can't get the TP up to the high ground to use a dead eye and it's a nice
main wall there from Dib that kind of blocks the line of sight and then even
there towards the end right he kind of drops down to the low ground and we see
him kind of connect it's like a suzu that comes out of time you have an ice
block and then you also have like a kinetic grasp that kind of soaps up some
of the damage so not able to find any kills there is we take a look at some of
The stats China with a pretty decent round in terms of damage, right?
But a lot of that's kind of like poke playing that far on the opposite side of things Kio 21 and one a really
strong game playing that hit scan roll for France
Kio's getting away from crying right now. This is a
Big thing that it needs attention. I absolutely sticking you up on this Cassidy
You kind of have to if you are fallen and seeing what he's able to do to start to shelf this down
I think another one of the things that has stood out is dips may walls and while he himself hasn't necessarily been in the kill feed
It's Lynn the impacts that it had to set up players like Keo or just split up
Poland so they can't take that good quality flights that they want has been great
We do have a bit of a swap though or a watch your pick now from relax. It's kind of giving up on that sigma mirror
I think the Ebi Ram plays a bit better with the Sim.
I know the Mizuki still may use a little force into it, so.
But I think you're kind of more worried about the Ebi but playing where it seems like, okay, both teams will end up playing the Mizuki.
I love this bar I picked out from Dip into this. I think it's going to be really effective.
Look how much damage relax is taking.
He's almost a quarter HP there after the geneticist form has me back off.
But that pulls out long, France.
Every opportunity to take the space set themselves up on point.
Gene's still being poked out from the angle of the France.
They're all spread out on this map.
Every area covered except for this high ground called Theo, it's still flying at the shots.
For all that chaos, it's E.C.A.B. keeps his life in France.
We're getting some point percent going Keel and get another flank full-blanked.
The last one with Texel, Estimation comes in, got a team for a reason.
France picked Swiftwerk of .80.
I mean, Xerion was sick in that fight.
I mean, being able to kind of like TP up to Keel,
Suzu keep Keel alive, Keel like rolls up the side, takes out ICAP,
and then Xerion, he'll live long enough to kind of make it out and TP back to the other side
and over by Hotel to the other support.
so tremendous job buys area on there that opened things up and now a little bit of a change up for
France is uh left you gotta move away from the Muzuki and play Juno here in combination with the May
I like it I don't think you get average value of the Muzuki into the Korra as before and the
speed rate is so awful and that's a bit faster you get these Maywalls and they're kind of just
going to push past this bookstore corner by the looks of it big cool down exchange you still have
I'm just gonna come through this whole scene, friends.
Looking for a regroup waiting for the maywalk.
Come back up, we've got it clocked first here.
I'm with Jin, means they can't use the get-suit me rush.
It's a good Suzu, but it's in the pad early.
Won't stop the damage coming from me, Con,
but Jin has another boulder with Lex's name on it.
I'm just gonna run between disappointments.
There's gonna be a final fight,
there's gonna be a final look so that
unless this can go really long and full,
It gets tired, but it's a beautiful day wall.
Yet again from Diff.
There won't be a tank for this contest.
In fact, there might not be anybody.
Yeah, they're going to try and see.
I think they have one player here that might be able to get
a touch, but not really anybody great to be able to do so.
And yeah, it looks like actually China was forced back with a
decretion, and then not able to get back over to the payload
in time.
So just like that, France jumps out to a 2-0 series lead.
France and we've got to favor them as the top of the group for a good reason.
And they're showing this game after game.
And this was however the math game.
And look at that.
26 and 1 by the end of the game.
And I think between that having Jin to set up in the front to kind of be the shield for him,
finding these things off angles is, it's the wincon of France.
Right behind this guy.
And there's not much of Poland I've found in response.
No, I mean, it takes a little rough game there for Poland, I think like one and six, but
Mods are able to just kind of like lead the server in damage, constantly in control on
the Sigma.
And then even, you know, on the defensive side of things, right, when things got a little
shaky, right, they sort of bring that far into the mix, give them some trouble.
They were still able to kind of weather the swarm.
And this is probably a huge fight.
I mean, you see Keio, they were like 30 HP being able to keep alive, you know, that DPS
player than I know him come up clutch. I was so important for France to be able to get this home.
France, and it was a decently long hold that they had to do as well. I considered how something
ended up falling away for that first point, but I think that this Sigma is going to get some
investigating from bands as we look to what could be the last map in series, and for sure,
Poland's last map pick I'm almost feeling like do we go to like a new junk city now and make a way that Sigma
Maybe I mean a new junk city you could do a room of soffy would kind of give you the same type of thing
I
Mean it still feels like though like if you're Poland and you go to like one of those maps
You're at a sick mother just gonna play even Ram with the same type of stuff
And you're gonna have to beat that right? I mean it's
not like it's going to be a walk in the park against France, they think they're
going to be able to kind of like you know use some of those same shells that are
giving you some trouble and continue to play them at a really high level.
They have so many looks in them as well. I don't think that there's like a
significant man either that Poland could do to throw this team off of their game
and they've found a way to say that you know they can both pull out this kind of
higher level of composition, like even if you went to a dive mat, I'd still feel very good about France and like a
Eva-Vee-Deeva matchup. If you really wanted to do that, then will in fact be New Junk City.
And more of that kind of close quarters brawly type. The other hero I can see getting the axe is a May,
and that was kind of a significant pick or dip there, but it almost seems like the stigma
should be taking priority even on a map like this.
Yeah, and I think the the scary part would be is that I know this isn't a great map for but if you get rid of a sigma
That does the jetpack hat fashion available. Yep, New York City. It's not really an awesome
You know map to do that
But it is it is always a possibility. I know some of the points play a little bit better for it than others
This also isn't like the greatest
Sigma you know you've been having to play it without a Lucio
so maybe if you're pulling you feel like you can
get by some of these Sigma comps and maybe ban like a melee he talked about because it's not a great map for the hero
No, it's not and I honestly guess it would be better to save it for any one of those escort picks honestly
But are you even get to that escort pick? I think it's the question may it seems to be a lot more reasonable
But we do have a substitute happening something. We don't see it done
or at least haven't seen each other in these EMA qualifiers you'll have Crocs
subbing in your gym is what it is first time playing in these qualifiers for
going. I think we're against Roadhog here maybe you know maybe
Roadhog I think you know France they're having they're having a good time the
vibes are high they probably feel right there in a great spot in the series and
it's like you know what let's see what happens. Ah Crocs can also play some of their heroes.
just gonna see in the roadhog in the past so obviously a lot of heroes of the
tension play it is Poland banning the bazookie and then it is France getting
rid of the Zarya here so we'll see kind of I know how that kind of plays into
things but hey I'm down for a little roadhog shenanigans here I know early
morning and I'm with it there's no way right surely like I get that they're
doing really well but are they doing that well like Poland can make this
somewhat competitive although I am very excited if we do end up getting a
Roadhog in this game go ahead and check that one off the off the bingo card maybe
relax would be right he's also known to play a little bit of Roadhog himself so
that would be a new joy city map of all time if we were able to get that but
Mizuki, I think, being taken away, what do we play instead of that is a question in my mind, especially for eggs and Texel being kind of locked in this double flex support situation.
What do you end up pulling out on a map where speed is so important?
It's going to be probably just like a Lucio carry. I'd assume for both teams.
I think I'm more interested in like what we get at at Crocs is uh, you know, yeah, I mean hey, we can see it
No, I know this is uh, this is where I can start to get a little a little silly here where uh,
Well France. Oh, yeah, I mean we get a a gypsy cat Roadhog combination. That would be pretty sweet
Just hooked up into the sky
Okay, that's more reasonable yeah, that's
We're having an identity crisis over here.
Final answer, Junker Queen from Crocs has had a series of buffs, but still a hero we
haven't seen a ton at the top levels of play.
France are hoping to just use their speed to outmatch this Polar Craster.
Yeah, I mean, you're also seeing Poland coming out and playing an Orisa, so don't see too
much Orisa either.
So, you know, an interesting comp from both sides.
and also not gonna play a Lucio, gonna play a Juno instead, but they do have the symbol
of extra bit of mobility in the mix.
Yeah, I think not having Lucio player for Poland is kind of tricky, for them, Juno is
a great way to help navigate, and if you have JLM on the Sim, that's not as hard, I mean,
if you were going to just jump down to the point here, you'll be in a latch, the bending
shot is out, box, looks for one of the backlabs, and a fantastic javelin from below, that helps
And through the juggler play, he would not fit.
He fell back to pick up two players in the back
before turning around, so he had to contest the last one.
And all the players of Southampton down there,
it's a bit rough not having to take a front line.
Yeah, I mean, that is like, you know,
you kind of see the Orisa jump down,
go and contest the point.
And then France, like you're just kind of waiting
for an opportunity where you can kind of like,
use your speed, you shout, just kind of collapse
onto a target and then just get like,
in the mix and the gif obviously comes home with the goods, comes up like two kills right away.
And it does force China on over to match that, so no more Symmetra.
For Team Poland is, you know, I can't just ball to some shit damage from the heal,
that actually should not happen, because Crosk is like, all right, go to that,
and shoot it, or, shoot it, it's out. Okay, what it can do, lift the commanding shell,
but, you know, Darker Queen, still very cool down base and a long one at that, so relax.
We'll go ahead and hang around here if I can't hear you.
This guy takes a lot of damage as well, it's going to be essentially a Terrasurge here available for relax.
This guy's used, it does have a Spear Spin here, you know, he kind of likes it a little bit closer,
but it's going to be right in the continue, which doesn't exactly go into that.
He's hit and ripped off there by P.O.
They don't really want to fight there.
You can tell he's looking for an angle for the Terrasurge, but the rest of his team so far back,
back he was hesitant and bought too much time friends go ahead and take arena
start off this pulling this Poland seem to be running out of turns here see
what they can work out on bomb plastic volts yeah so what when we go over to the
bomb flats right I mean you're gonna have the sound barrier to get aggressive
if you want to go in right with I know Crocs this Crocs just taking a load of
damage before they kind of get him into the fight but when they get him in the
fight healthy I mean it is difficult to stop the team she is rolling it'll be
actually you open things up here with an OC is a nice Suzu there just kind of keep the players alive
for Poland for the time being gonna be Poland end up using their Consulate Rush here Molly we
already lost three players will be a terracert bringing a few on in Daryon and D. God Cross all
getting dangerously low so Poland's starting to fight back we have a huge terracert I got three
squishies so incredibly low and these pickings which I don't go ahead and bring out the room
long side relax okay I don't know if that was necessary but it definitely is
going to be one that Crocs will remember Holland want to make sure to get the
cap fast I mean Holland was all in on that one I mean I had to go all out you
know use their owner I know rush towards the end I know when there were a few
players down at that moment in time Terrasurge also got everybody you know
pretty low after after you got in a really I know
Interesting sound barrier got out of the way, and I only connected with everybody, so...
Just a little bit of a night there, and decided to relax, just, uh, nothing too serious here at the moment, is...
Dead Eye here for I can't see if you can find anything here, is, uh...
Doesn't look like, uh, nobody's gonna poke her out around that corner, so...
Gonna be pulling, getting up to about 60%.
And it was all the right scottish-based deal.
For the team, as soon as they pull the trigger on his friends, they don't really have an answer for it.
Let's get like a really good streak on the full spot.
So if Poland is waiting for the fight to tip around, then it's going to be their favorite.
China picks off Keel without the speed ring, and actually they continue to grab a couple more players, making it triple.
Poland don't even need to commit anything. They're just doing so well in this neutral time. China having the time of his new life.
Yeah, and I wonder if you have to maybe consider going off of the Queen here if you were France, so
We'll see if they decide to kind of stay with it. It looks like at least now with Crogs being that far out of the spawn
You're gonna kind of continue to run it where
See, you know, maybe it's like dips
It's fun that kind of opens things up here for France, but a good flash point there for Poland
They're just trying to keep themselves alive in this series very much alive in terms of the group really regardless of this series outcome
You're not too pressed and kind of assuming France is the best team in your bracket. You can get a map, rape, you know, you can get a better team.
Also, if you're in the World Cup, you can support Alps coming on out.
Katsune Rush is the orbital ray that's usually famous in the orbital ray.
Not this time, Daryon fighting all of the extra damage as we've seen him do.
The tiring of today's matchup in France is taking the first cap of the day.
Yes, I know, using obviously the orbital ray, a huge ultimate there for Poland,
but inside of the Katsune Rush, it just seems like on the outskirts of it,
obviously getting the benefits of that and then kind of taking it a little bit
further outside of it and then you know outside of the orbital rain coming up
with huge loads of stuff. See now on the entry, RELAX already taking a decent amount of
damage. Molly gonna have to use 4 to 5. It's gonna take 30 to a little bit.
It'll be the Cucinane Rush here. It's gonna be a nice sound barrier here and up to the
high ground, those heals. You do have the Overclock, but now that they've lost the
I can't even feel the need to use it.
There first comes on, and it looks like everybody gonna get out.
It's a nice hold bomb there.
From a dip, lands on to relax, shot from Crocs to finish things off,
and another fight win here for France.
And that's just the point.
You're not getting back into that fight at all.
Poland, bested in a lot.
In a losing battle, and I think if you're France, you're very happy.
It's where you're standing, heading into the Ducks here.
I mean, still having this rampage on board for Crocs, I feel real good.
Yeah, it's just like really difficult to get value out of right with like how you can kinda just suzu'd also.
We'll see if they're able to like, you know, get that suzu out there, maybe find an opportunity to kinda use that rampage.
Just kinda get the queen ticking as, you know, IKAP does have another dead eye here, so.
Potentially kinda uses it at the high ground, it's gonna be actually the dead eye used in response to the OC.
So, trying to prevent Kyo from coming around the corner, Kyo just trying to find some shots off of China.
I was in far in China, but actually you end up getting eyecaps, and two kills here right away.
Make it three is both teams gonna exchange them as Relax and Air gets in with a rampage.
Not able to be healed on up, and that'll be Fran's thing at the point.
China cannot do more. I'm seeing him out there dodging shots from Kyo.
Still manages to kill both supports, while not even turning an eye to the soldier.
It is impressive what he's able to do but the rest of the team is falling apart on the other side as France
They're set up on this objective use a lot that is not
The unmatched
We are always
They get some significant grounds on this first start of the point is to make their way in
Yeah, I mean that's a continued rush and that you're gonna get the queen rolling inside of it and then pushing on forward
So even losing I can't there at the start is switch over to the sewage now back to the Cassidy
There's a brutal, you know loss and then obviously kind of compound with everybody else falling for Poland
So for France, right? You just need one more fight win to put this series away
I know put yourself up to all in the group and really looking to kind of finish 3.0 number one in group seat
Well, I will have to touch with relax. I like this though French is ignoring it
French is ignoring the touch and then just pushing on right in
You can do if you are pulling
Rissa be a sitting duck take down the rest
France want to secure themselves at the top as a group
Matt, it looks like they're gonna do just that celebration sound barrier from the HD god. They're gonna take series 3-0
Yeah, really nice performance here from France. I like the way they played that last fight like relax kind of gets on
To the point Trace to trade like drag them back Poland. I know that France actually just doesn't even acknowledge it
They just kind of use the jump for Queen's Shout. They push on forward
They ended getting like two agree kills and then relax kind of stuck on the point all alone
as we take a look at some of the stats, pretty heavily dominated, really across the board,
for France is, you know, I kept with a rough one, I mean, you know, three and 10,
whether it be the Cassie of the Sojourn could just not really stay alive or get anything going.
Yeah, I think that it was quite the, the New Jump City, it felt like, okay, there were moments
where it seemed like Poland was, you know, going to be coming back into this one.
Molly, when it comes down to what Poland we're struggling with against the
composition here from France, what do you feel like was the glaring issue here in
this last one? I think it just came down to more of the tempo place that we saw
from France. They were very intentional with how they used their speed cooldowns
and it left Poland in a bit of an awkward spot at times. I honestly don't
I think China could have done more than what he did.
I think it was like 14 and four at the end of that map.
And it did look good from an individual standpoint,
but from a team perspective,
France just looked like the better squad.
Like they're on the same page.
You can start.
They just dominated, right?
I mean, I know you saw moments from Poland
that were pretty good.
And I think Poland probably still makes it out of this group.
Like Poland, I think Poland can beat Spain.
Like I don't think that's like, I have the question.
I think, but I can definitely hang, but it seems like France is just so well versed in multiple different comps,
can play different play styles, we saw a crops get in for some fun towards the end, just a very strong team.
Yeah, I think they also come down to, you know, for France, they also have so much synergy on this spot as well, right?
Like, who we were talking about how we have a mix of like two teams heading into Team France from good guys,
And dip, and sorry, not dip, dip, well, peps, but dip was on peps, but, um, mixed up my words here.
We do have an interview though with Crocs on deck.
Big congratulations to you, Crocs, for this win today.
With this, you love it.
You love to see it.
You got the crown on your head and everything here.
It must feel good knowing that you guys have essentially solidified your spot for
Busan with this win. And tell me a little bit about what it was like, I guess, subbing
in on this last map. I think when we talked to Dip last weekend, he talked about how
some of your strengths as a team as well is just your ability to kind of like swap in
players and then out to be able to have more flexibility in your compositions. What was
the game plan, heading into Newjung City, bringing out the Dunker Queen?
Okay, basically, the whole game plan is around Kanami, my personality, being crazy.
Like we used to say, if we don't know what we do, they cannot guess.
So that's what we do.
We go Junker Queen.
We have really high win rate in scrim on that map.
I think the broader do that for us, like Team Poland because they're my teammates.
I think they did that just to unleash me.
Lucky it's me.
I know I was going to win.
3-0, Team Sweden.
We're so happy to go to Busan.
For me it would be my first time in Korea and I love to travel so it would be free and I hope a lot of fun will be there as well.
Alright now that you guys are going to Busan you're going to play against some international teams.
Who do you want to pull out the Junker Queen, the Roadhog against?
What are some other teams that are going to be there that you want to do on a land stage?
Pull out some of these tricks.
I will say Korea. I think they don't have the French guy. I think they will.
I've already tried and it already worked with Violette for example. I think you remember me now
And when I speak I speak I would love to get seen because I'm a guy that love the show
Like like we say in front in a French je vais juste les faire picorer and it will be perfect
I love the confidence that you're heading into this
This event lift with some of the best teams that were I can see from around the world
I kind of want to ask you, because this is a very big event that will be happening in person.
Are there specific preparations? Have you had experience on a land that is the size?
I had the chance to do all the land in France, and I was like unbeatable except recently, winning everything.
I play on stage multiple times. I play on the Grand Rex, which is like a big theater in France, like the biggest one, which is really famous.
And I don't know, I think I'm born for that, to play on the stage, just counting people face to face, you know, like, not even being scared of like, jumping off my chair, do a little dance, you know.
Like, I think I'm born for that. I'm legit do it because like, right now in New York City, I shout really loud. I was basically dancing while playing as well.
And my teammate just followed the mood and I believe if we do that on stage, like, Korean people or like, any national, we just get mad and we don't care, we're gonna win.
I love that. I love the content. Honestly, one of my favorite parts about LAN is the
smack talk on the stage and getting to see like the player reactions and stuff. So I
think it's going to be super fun to see you there. I guess bouncing off of that now, how
far do you see your team going within the Overwatch World Cup? Like are you guys mostly
just focused on seeing how things go in Busan or do you already see yourselves pushing all
way to Anaheim in BlizzCon.
We go to BlizzCon 100% I have no doubt, I think we have one of the best support in
the game right now in our side and he's French so shout out to him you know I think and I
will like confidence mode like I think with the best frontline as well like me and Magine
I'm not even mad that I don't play much you know I'm like I think if I was younger I would
be mad because I don't have 100% of play them but now you know you just grow in age and
You're just super happy to not being forced to play D.Va, an ex-kaitor, poor man, poor fucking skaitor.
But like for me, I think I'm the best online, just DPS, we just need to lead, you know?
Like Kyo is my baby, it's been two years I've played with him.
DPS is my baby as well, we are champions in France.
Yeah, it's... we're just the best team I believe, the best France team that I ever had, and we just go to NA
and we're gonna show to people, we're gonna take Korea, Chinese people, like
who the fuck wants me just beat them all I think easy I I gotta say I I'm excited I want to see
you guys at blizzcon you guys have one more game in groups against Ireland are we gonna see you in
that game can we get can we get you back out we get back in that one what's the deal I can send
you the discord of the coach if you want I don't know if we can request but I mean we can try I
I'll just go, I can send you, I can send you back.
And if you get a lot of spam, I believe you will put me in.
Yeah, yeah, we'll get every chat to just go in
and spam your coach and we'll maybe get some
Queen Roadhog action against Ireland.
It would be super fun to see, it definitely would be.
It's been an absolute pleasure chatting with you Crocs
and good luck in your last matchup up against Ireland.
I'm sure you guys will make it a fun one.
Thank you so much for the chat with us
and can't wait to talk to you again hopefully soon.
Thank you, goodbye, and we love peps, remember.
We love peps as well.
We do love Team Peps as well.
What a standout performance there from Team France.
And Molly, that interview was so fun.
We did it on every day.
Getting to know Pops a little bit.
We did it on every day.
Honestly, let's bring him on as part of the desk, you guys.
I wish I had it.
This guy knows content.
I mean, I honestly, I mean,
pretty much guaranteed to make it to Busan, but if I'm tuning in for any of the games, I will specifically watch Francesus's guides.
That's the energy I want. I want to see what Dancy is cooking up. He's talking it up.
We got to get him in that Ireland game tomorrow. I don't know how we do it, but he's got to be out there against Ireland tomorrow.
We got to get like an Iliosnap1 Roadhog prox game against Ireland that like, you know, a little 4am East Coast start.
I you know what if I have to wake up at 3 a.m. For tomorrow anyways, that is how I want to be starting my day guys
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Welcome back everybody for our final matchup of the day here for EMEA on the Overwatch
World Cup and we have got Team Great Britain vs. Portugal coming up next guys.
With a win, Team Great Britain will be nailing the cup or putting a nail on the cup in there
for the side of Team Portugal in this group and it would finalize the qualifications as
well within Group B. I think that's heading into this event. Molly, this roster of Great
Britain is extremely strong. They're the favorite in Group B here as well and we're expecting
them to be making a statement today. Easily. Every single year we've seen this team qualify
or the top eight, minimum.
So seeing them go out,
that is really kind of crazy.
This is a UK roster, every single player
is either currently in OWCS,
just recently re-qualified,
and it's kinda stacked down there
when it comes to this squad.
Seeing what Great Britain will be able to do today
is kinda, I think it's gonna be a statement
of the individual talents coming together from several different regions,
at least from their OWCS teams, to be able to...
I mean, they've had success on the world stage in the past, right?
Know that just as a unit, like, I know all these players,
like, Great Britain just in general, right?
Overwatch has always performed pretty well.
At Overwatch World Cup, you take a look at kind of the lineup rolling out today.
You know, Tread in terms of the tank rolls, obviously.
I mean, all these players, like you mentioned, Molly, like OWCS,
I know whether they just kind of made it back in.
They've been playing in it.
They played in the past.
I mean, really talented roster top to bottom.
And you look at like where they stack up,
like this is a team that stacks up, you know,
to a lot of the other teams internationally,
where I would be surprised if they're not up BlizzCon.
100%, the Portugal definitely have their work cut out
for them to say the least in this matchup.
Though I will say Portugal, they did make it in through the conference cups with wins over teams like Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Turkey.
But they were also greeted with a rude 3-0 to start off their qualification run here by Team Germany.
This is a squad though that I think Matt, there are also some shining lights here, but regardless, it's going to be a hard match up.
Yeah, I mean they get the final spot out of the conference cup, right?
So they get fifth, we're taking five teams from the conference cup.
I thought in the last game, I know when the image cast of them, I saw Rod, if they play a pretty good game,
I saw some stuff that he did was quite nice, then now Karama had some moments in terms of the damage deal overall.
They're going to be under so much pressure from Great Britain like playing at such a pace.
If we see if they're able to keep everybody in sync and able to execute some of the things
that we tried to see them execute against Germany.
I think they've had a lot of, you know, they've had practice time together, I think that is
the advantage of coming from the Conference Cup, is you have a little bit of extra time
to build up your synergy.
But I think on the same time, a lot of these players are more of our upcoming, that we're
have seen more turns to the top end of recent in the master's league, so giving them the
chance to showcase the talent that is coming out of Portugal is going to be great in our
match today.
I really love that shout out Molly, I think again an opportunity even if it's a tough
matchup to try and showcase like even individual talent for some of these players and have
more eyes on them to see what they got to bring to the table.
then UK are going to be able to potentially solidify their standings and qualification
to OWWC in this matchup. Let's see what Portugal have got to bring to the table.
I mean, Ash, it's a great show, right? I mean, if Great Britain were to win this, they would
go to 2 and 0 in this group. They would slot that game against Germany left, right? But
you would kind of just be playing for seating at that point. So we get a good old tank battle.
get a golden pants versus Rafa 99 1v1 here is like Rafa actually getting the
best of golden pants at the moment we'll see who comes out on top as we had a
few of these do this 1v1s that end a little bit silly okay so Portugal they
come out on top here in our 1v1 decider for who gets you know first map pick and
And they'll take us to the Antarctic Peninsula. You know what, hey, I like this pick, right?
Like if you're a little bit of underdog, maybe you've practiced this map a little bit, nobody's
really playing it. Maybe you've got an interesting strat you can come in and give them some trouble.
No, I just will switch it up. I think Antarctic Peninsula is at least in this region and the
least picked map starts. These are, I gotta say, interesting bands. I think with the map
that was of choice, Flora from Portugal, definitely targeted at W. Vamon for one of
the pitch that he's been leading more towards lately.
Great Britain, no shenanigans today.
They're gonna take away the jet pack.
Pat, just to make sure Portugal haven't changed anything
the last week.
Yeah, and so the cat gone, far gone.
Just to keep you guys, I think we got a few players here.
We're just waiting, and we'll be able to get this one underway.
But yeah, I mean, like, maybe you just don't wanna see
the cat bashing.
You just don't even wanna deal with the kind of uncertainty
that it brings to table for Great Britain.
So I just get it out of the way.
I know the FAR ban obviously could be used
to target Mimone with some of the heroes
that he can play, but also to protect the Bastion.
So I don't think this series Molly is gonna be decided
in terms of the ban phase.
Like I think it's gonna have to be Portugal
playing the games of their lives,
and then maybe even then some, right?
But hey, we've seen crazy upsets in a watch World Cup
in the past, so you never know.
never said never that's not sure I think that you know this game at least
if you're Germany you are great Britain's biggest man's right now when
here would make sure that you would guarantee qualifications and vice versa
for the sake of war way at least at least weird high breakers so it's a
decided match in a way for the group and I think for Great Britain getting a
a win here would feel real good.
Seeing this team not compete on a larger stage
would feel kind of wrong.
That is.
Yeah, I think we're going to see why they belong in one
once we get into the game.
No, they'll get there.
I mean, I'm not too concerned for Grapefruit.
I mean, when you take a look at some of the other groups,
like Sweden, Denmark, 2-0, that game will be tomorrow.
So that'll be kind of a top of the group of designers,
like a first seed and then I know Finland versus Austria will be interesting.
I think Finland is, you know, they've had a, you've had a rough go because like,
you know, they lose three, two to Denmark and then they lose three, one to Sweden
earlier today, like two really close games.
Like they could have really found themselves in the top two, but you know,
they'll be playing just to get a dub there.
I know against Austria.
This one, I think it's like, you know, great Britain.
It's obviously there's to lose here.
And, uh, the, then versus Germany, I think is a really good game.
Like, you know, Akku and, uh, I know the rest of the German squad looked awesome earlier today.
Ice, no, I'm looking to be clicking on all cylinders.
I think that's when that could actually be really, uh, close because like a lot of these games will have tomorrow.
We'll probably determine who gets the number one seed in these groups.
Um, and obviously you're going to want to do that going into Busan, uh, trying to avoid some of those like powerhouse teams.
And I would be like kind of like a litmus test for this Germany roster that we've been seeing for,
And again, team synergy is fantastic on an individual level, they do have some downed out points too, but Great Britain are on another level, so it would be a great match if we go ahead and watch tomorrow, but for now, we will see how this match unfolds.
Antarctic Peninsula, the selection of Portugal.
Do you want to take a second though
for the Sega Great Britain?
They had every name on there is pretty familiar
except for Kiwi, kind of been a breakout player
actually playing in collegiate right now and in a master.
So him getting picked up pretty late by Great Britain
to fill that flex support role
and the opportunity to talk to him a couple of weeks ago.
And he's really excited to be able to play on this stage
and to see the potential that newer support players
especially have coming into this region,
really fun to watch.
And we're finally ready to get back into our game
as we're starting off on anomaly.
Yeah, so obviously Antarctic Peninsula
gets a little bit of a refresh coming into this season.
You know, some of the just points kind of changed
pretty drastically from where it's been in the map.
But even then at the top professional level,
haven't seen it as much. I think this would really be a good comp for Portugal, right?
Like, hey look, we're gonna play some Sigma with some Mei, a little bit of a slower type
of style, and really try and punish like a D.va look, right? So we'll see if they're
able to do it because Tread and, you know, it's very great. I mean, it's just a normal
team. And look how aggressive they already are, you know, with the SimTP and the speed,
they're able to take the high ground.
That's kind of the advantage with this right-threaded opposition to Chris B.
You know, Lucia was certainly a help.
I know.
Arch rail shot.
We'll find the connection without the Suzy or the Teleporter here, right-threaded.
Our force reports that they're positioning.
That is the advantage of having Rafa on the sit-up.
Her eventually dropped down.
Started walking this ploy, but Rama actually found an icicle between the eyeballs of time,
leaving it in one-to-one trade.
I mean, Karama, if I'm too right off the rip, I mean, now you lose, Rafa, I was gonna say.
You ended up getting caught earlier in the beginning of the fight.
You weren't really able to kind of like clear the deck, upgrade Britain, and then they came
back, they take out Dank, Puncake, and then on the bounce back, Mimeon gets back into
the fight there, had to walk away for a little bit to get healed up. He just beams down roughly
and one of you win on the point. Although it is Portugal getting off their pretty nice
start, specifically Karama, it is great for him getting the good point right back.
There's a chain there, I'm sure this horse has a drop which is dangled for a second.
Also starting to come online though, especially for you even, and it's Portugal, who managed
to strike ports, they're just finding these big ops at poke range, this is unprecedented,
to say the very least.
Yeah, I mean this is a really good sign for Portugal early on, now being able to use this
like poke type of play style, Karame able to get a few kills at the beginning of these
fights they can just get Tagalini there to kind of get going here on the soldier
and really I mean this could start to be one that Portugal at least runs away with
first point so I'm kind of building up towards this OC I know Maywall already
used here by a Portugal kind of be a TQ to the point that they're actually gonna
use a Kitsune rush from the back side
finally though you get to close that gap with the teleporter
That's where the Symmetra start, before the start of the fight.
Portugal, I'm kinda losing it out there in that ultimate battle.
Sanctuary won't be enough to just keep them alive for all that damage.
Yeah, it's like a sim wall right after the TP as well, I know with that kid's do-name rush.
They tried the Sanctuary, I was actually quite curious, like,
because the Sanctuary was kinda like a little bit, you know, taken some of the spots below the platform.
It was like, can I like soak up the projectiles?
But they didn't need to fight inside of a kite,
Ends up using the OC, gets over the main wall there, takes out Karama's.
See, it's gonna be the Katsune Rush here from Portugal.
It's gonna be- they do get tread out of-
WHAT?!
But oh, come on, I mean, looks like Rafa, you know, maybe ends up getting booped outside of the doorway there, into the line of sight.
And then ends up dying to this Alps destruct that is brutal, as now really swung in favor of Graper.
Order line spawn camp territory there, from Graper. They definitely considered it.
Of course, I'm just having the may, but I gotta say Portugal aren't out of this, still one fight to go, three ults, and that's kind of it, maybe calmly.
Up with this pretty close and blizzard, grabbing a new Tia Galini via the space, has the overclock, but no targets inside everyone, nice and teleport out.
From Great Britain, Rafa is on the objective from us.
He's getting run down, presumably via this deep tread, trying to deny as much space as possible.
There goes the flux, can't quite find the target and trying to miss onto Kiwi, but he's got some fancy work work,
so now that's the perfect time for Crispy.
Comes on in, sound barrier down, and a blizzard, more as a zoning tool.
Just to keep Rafa on his feet.
He's poking the way out, it's all playing.
There goes Karama.
Charged shots are going to hurt the longer this guy stays alive.
Great Britain.
Even though I've rallied the troops back together, triple for W. Maimon, and they'll take map one, round one.
Yes, you know, Portugal did fight pretty strong in that round, but Great Britain towards the end really started, I think, like, maybe realize, hey, we can't effectively just kind of like, you know, just kind of coast on through this one.
through this one we really have to kind of turn up in a big way.
Kiwi does a great job staying alive the entire round.
No deaths from the Kiwi on Great Britain.
And then you kind of look at, we were talking about,
you know, Tagalini against Kai, right Kai,
with 12 limbs in that first round.
Almost 1,000 more damage to starting to get a pretty big
Sojourn get there.
So we'll see if, you know, Tagalini who's we've seen tonight
stuff in some of the previous series that can really start
to heat up.
It's just about having the room to work and also going up against a hitscan at the caliber of Kai's no easy task for any player
Do his best so far, but they didn't have a little bit more on the second point
It's great for him. I'm gonna get in there first. I'll just pass the rotation with the Lucio
And they're gonna look to flip the map on Portugal. I'm just gonna go over to the objective
I know Portugal, I know Abel is gonna come up with some kick early, and you see already
great Britain, Molly.
It feels like they're kind of like, okay, maybe it's like Trids like I don't really want
play the deep end of this. I'd rather end up playing, uh, you know, the Ramatra into this.
It's going to be the main wall there, splits them off as, uh, so we're going to be able to keep that
Gram alive. So we're going to put the Ramatra with a shield and then just to throw them so good.
And it's not raw, just a little bit too close there to the Ramatra. It gets taken out.
Underestimated primary fire damage for sure. They can't take it.
And for a similar fate, of course, they're, of course, going to cut and dry the Great Britain's.
And the work of Teleport is just fantastic. Unless the only thing Portugal do is get it all out of the main walls.
Yeah, so Portugal, they get that first fight win, and then on the, you know, next fight it's Great Britain, you know.
I really, it's just, if they don't leave Rod early, they're probably gonna be able to keep that with going for a while.
Mizuki would have probably ended up with a sanctuary there during his Karaminal with a Blizzard.
And you kind of like split off shred and maybe end up kind of catching him with the blizzard is
Like some of them are missing great Britain they back up as that's a nice shot from Tagalini
It's gonna be the blizzard use as well. So they get rid of crispy here
They're gonna hold on to some of these other alphanets right you have the annihilation you have
It's gonna rush no reason to kind of waste them there, but there's some early pick offs yet again from Portugal paying off
And maybe a bit of overconfidence too, from Great Britain.
Not necessarily expecting these shots to fall off as well as they have, but both Tia, Galenie and Caroma
have been fantastic on opening these fights up before Britain can make a move.
Yeah, all 5 ultimates available, a little 4 Great Britain.
Soba is a decent amount for Portugal here as well.
It's the sim that's going to allow them to wrap around the corner.
Nice shot for Tagalini there.
Going to make Kai think a little bit from rounding around that corner.
It's going to be a sound barrier from crispy this connect with everybody has a great use of it
Oh, he gets brought up into the sky by Rafa's
Gravitic blocks and this is going to be a fight it feels like in these fights and ultimates
This is where great Britain can really get a flex their strength
Rod and even eight oaks total using that fight
between both teams and that's still one great friend
Almost every day of the week, you can have this close hold now, and you gotta prevent Portugal making that further space.
They didn't try to trick them going around the other side, but I think the bait was successful.
I think for Grave Britain, you're just gonna pull back and play this choke.
Like, even if you play the point, right, you have this annihilation from Treads to work through, right?
So, oh, hi, I think in an off angle there, Karama.
He's so aware of where that sojourn is playing from and any time as I think it looks like like Tread just finding a moment to be able to go
Finding a moment to be able to kind of collapse here with this annihilation
Now the rails on from high on a Karala so dangerously low gonna use that may walk to protect himself
There's gonna be the ice block a wonder Tread after using this. Yeah, he's gonna decide to go here with the annihilation
Karama yelling for help that whole time. Anything his team could offer but nobody was home, tread.
Making our players peace by East's Great Britain.
Taking Antarctic Peninsula.
Showing the true strength that this team has to offer.
Yeah, making the adjustments obviously going over the Ramatra look in round number two.
And they kind of handle business here against Portugal
In this first map at least we take a look high, you know another 12 final blood
It's another level limbs in that second round right 12 1st 12 in the second
I know getting up to 9,000 damage is like it's gonna be tough
Like if he's gonna play that well in the hit scan like and you're not kind of really gonna sit in a lot of firing shots back
It's gonna be tough to gonna hang in it
But I know I thought we saw some really nice stuff from Karama yet again
Karama easily the bright spot of this Portugal team and he's getting these
icicles off early, not there, but most of the other times when we were seeing
these fights being won by Portugal it was him finding a key icicle or maybe the
maywall there to stop the Sim teleporter for example like there's a lot of
things that went right for Portugal at the start of the fight but it felt like
that the longer that they went on Great Britain had more and more control so
eventually it just slipped away from Portugal and I think that's just the experience that
great put in half playing at this high level and I seriously is showing within the game
point of view.
Yeah, as we take a look at the final moments of the annihilation that uh, you know, Trent
just running down some players there for Portugal.
I'd like to see Portugal take us to an app where they can kind of continue to play some
of that sickness that like maybe circuit.
Like I think, you know, Great Britain will probably use some fans on it.
And even if they do, they will enforce Portugal off their game, but Great Britain like maybe
decided to play that can't bash him, right?
That's a possibility here, so.
But I thought Portugal looked pretty good when they were playing like the May and they kind
of had, you know, the Sigma in play and forcing Tread to, you know, move away from Geva and
try and play the Remontra.
It took a rail, it felt perfect for this team.
And they do that on the Remontra perhaps, and then force the Sigma near, I think would
be a key part. So it is a map that Great Britain are going to be very comfortable with as well.
They like their sim make homes. They have the choice. And if you only concern with a map like
that, it's just very poke oriented. Kai still exists. And that is going to be a correct card.
You're gonna have to pick a battle somewhere. I feel like, you know, I feel like Tagelini can kind
kind of get like going a little bit and like you know at least like look where
you're not asking him to go you know 35 and 2 right like basically you're like
hey can we just go we go even we put some rail gun shots like kind of a you know
into the opposing soldier right like kind of force them down I think that's
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I guess the Sigma is really strong here. The Maypoke can work.
Cap Bastion is a very real thing if you try to pull it out.
Yeah, I mean the Cap Bastion is actually really good on this map.
This also is a map that maybe you can play some Sigma.
Obviously, it lends itself way better to D.Va, right?
So it kind of feels like we'll see what Portugal decides to ban here.
but it probably feels pretty comfortable for Great Britain.
I don't think this is a... Ouch, that hurts for Great Britain.
I don't think it'll be a map. I think these players are very, very flexible.
They're constant and in particular can play almost every tank at a very high level,
even though he is known for more of those traditional off-tank, quote-unquote, heroes that we have seen.
Nubani will lead itself to several of those. If the Sigma gets bad, you play the D.Va and Vice-Força.
I feel like it's where you're going to lean a bit more towards.
Just because of how important high ground control is for parts of this map.
I think the only question mark is, do we actually get Cap Bastion or not?
Great Britain do not play that at all if they have a choice.
In fact, they might even consider batting them themselves.
Yeah, I mean, that's substantial, right? They could get rid of themselves.
Um, it is pretty good here.
Like, I think if you were really, uh, if you're a great Britain and like, okay,
like we want to get this, you know, try and get this over with, like, you know,
mass painless, like you may want to go towards it.
Um, but, uh, I, I really liked what we saw from Portugal with some of these
sigma base comps, like I would love to see them, uh, and I go towards it.
So we do have a sub, uh, this is a sub for Portugal.
So, uh, dank punk cake, uh, will be out.
And then we're going out with a warrior regal that's coming in for Dank Pumpcake.
We're also getting a sub here for Great Britain.
Golden Pants is coming in for Treads, so changes on both sides, that's a bit surprising.
I think the support can make sense, anything, Pumpcake.
Maybe you're just really good at the curriculum, you have a lot of specialists, perhaps, that you want to pull out.
The tank sub is a bit more of a head scratcher, and Golden Pants does play Doomfist as we saw in the 1v1 before the game.
Highly doubt we'll see that though, so seeing Tread come out, I wonder if it's just kind of to get him in to have more of the time experience playing on this stage, because their through pulls are relatively similar.
Yeah, yeah, maybe giving Golden Pants some run here in this series, right?
maybe it's also for
You know porch gold they want to do like to let me the double flex support tape look or something like here, right?
Or maybe it's just kind of like a hero pool thing, but yes a golden pants
That is the sub for a grapefruit that is coming in for dread
So yeah, there there it is on the screen and then I worry if you go coming in for dank
Okay, in terms of support. I don't think this really changes really kind of you know much of like kind of what we think teams are gonna play here
And how this is gonna go right?
We'll see if okay, so it'll be a Bastion Band for Great Britain. They got the second band. I had some wrecking ball band here at all the start for Portugal
Now that kind of makes sense, the one thing that you don't really see Tread pull out is
this wrecking ball and having golden pants come in, I think I put Stignify, that being
a fan, but it does bolt the Dima and the Sigma open, I think those are very viable options
while taking away that cat-fashion, great friends don't want nothing to do with that,
Portugal pretty much forced their hand in terms of that ban and guarantees them most of what they wanted to play
We're gonna be pretty happy about
Yeah, so I know getting a ball gone and then the fashion guy, which I think great Britain is obviously thrilled about
That it's really not that like contested
Ball maybe they kind of like protect tank here for Portugal
I know not like it anything hit in the tank pool, so we'll see you know kind of how that impacts their game
I'm excited to see golden pants play right?
I know it's all a good old do this one be one
But like a let's get a good old good old fashion game over watching for golden pants here in the overwatch World Cup qualifier
Old fashion, maybe just most on a new person. It's just for the vibes
We'll see I do like this a lot though from Portugal keeping the idea and the identity of the
Sigma here and the support cop. I think is what stands out the most
Couple we don't see a lot
Yeah, I mean on a on a wheeling here with an ash here
So like a lot of like just kind of poke with a Sigma in play. I love the Sigma
I think the Sigma is a really great shout out that they looked good on it
You know in map number one, so I love the idea to continue to run it
This is an angle for a
We'll see if he ends up staying there as the spawn door is open, but everything if we can just get some a little bit of poop.
As they roll out as it will actually be a Winston from Golden Pants, Kai.
Looking for the little maker shot, he'll run back.
The spawns, you'll see those swaps coming in crispy over to the rig, and so do we forgot.
So, okay, we're gonna get a Winston here from Golden Pants.
Winston doesn't see a ton of playtime in the meta at the moment, but with this complete
boardroll coming out, that might not be that bad.
You're also mindful of your often-enabled, trying to get a good old-fashioned dive done.
You're in a bad, massive defense of a golden hand, sub-100 HP, sketchy, but if you're Rafa
being in a Winston bubble with Mammoth and all this echo, you don't have the same hand
can't be for that Sigma having to take it to that wire, so they have a quick retreat there for Portugal's.
Rafa's just gonna match the Winston considering the Recontest.
I don't know if they'll get their tank back in time though, they should, they're right around the corner.
Yeah.
We'll let you jump in, see what they can do.
Yes, I know a lot of damage there, I don't know, the older pants have a nice focusing beam there from my mode.
on a Rafa as Ori Guido turns the corner there and now he gets taken up by Kai, Kai finishes off too, is very difficult to bounce back into that fight for Portugal.
They try and contest by some time, does not last long, it's above five minutes now for Great Britain through the second part of the map.
This is the part that you kind of blink if you miss it, that sort of thing.
It can move really fast if you get snowballed on through.
But the nano boost from Kiwi and Golden Pants
essentially gets a free leap onto this backline, pending a sleep dart.
You'll see, I don't know.
So, Rafa, obviously, you know,
is trying to get some of this high ground back here for Portugal.
Dynamite that connects onto Golden Pants, you do have the ability,
obviously not yet, because very far away,
the nano boost potential here onto Golden Pants,
and then kinda go into that, I know, backline is that QE gets dangerously low, needs some help from Crispy to stay alive,
as also Golden Pants has to get back to the payload.
This is a bit of a tickle cannon battle in the backline, but there's that nanoblade that you were talking about.
Whoa, a lot of trouble.
Your team's galenic finds himself and can convert this into a second on the other, and it's made it up, but not enough damage.
We'll finish off the tank, that's size, good trade though.
Both of the back lines, the whole team is still Portugal, down one if I'm not mistaken here.
No doubt it was really to come in, Golden Pants is gonna go ahead, rival up his opposing Winston into the corner.
No way, Rob.
Yeah, I mean, you know, Rob has the, you know, Nano, but I mean, Rob is so far away and just being juggled into the corner.
I mean, there's no way you're gonna be able to get any type of healing on him.
Now he's literally just stuck into that backline and the nice part is you still have the nano for this last contest
Great Britain are packing a punch
Did you have a rally though?
Did you have some opportunity there?
Because the natto boost has to come up big though.
Is it jump into the back but going as high finding one of these and it just couldn't get going on it.
With the natto boost it all couldn't even come out.
I either...
Great Britain steamrolls right through second point.
I mean this is uh there they are just running it down now it feels like uh
this is kind of great Britain's to set a tremendous time and really put Portugal
in the back foot. Rod's gonna get all this falling in and fire off some shots.
You have the Bob here that creates a lot of damage Golden Pants is taking but
this is gonna allow Q to get another Nano so fast.
As I said I think you intentionally throw Golden Pants in there to take damage.
It's my style, Nate.
What's ChristianeTVWinston.org isn't there?
Bob is in, along with the duplicated Winston from Maimon.
Anna is down and the battle rig will not
be long for this world.
Portugal seems to be found their way
into the fight wind that actually involves
ultimates of put the brakes on a four-minute minute timing.
Yes, Portugal needed to kind of invest pretty heavy, right?
So they do there.
It's going to be some changes here.
What I'm pretty certain is this is going to be a pretty nasty comp, Molly, for them to play in, right?
I know Zarya, Reaper, and not exactly the friends of Winston here, so a lot of pressure is going to be on Rafa.
Okay, Rafa's really going to be a lot of dodges, and I think the mentality is he jumps in, uses his prival seats, and gets one,
and then makes a swap, really wants Kai off the map, and angle, not panning out, and comes throw him into the leady's sightlines, though.
Pretty happy with that result, and not to the team.
Yeah, nice play there from Rafa, being able to kind of juggle Kai for a bit.
It was like a Suthu that ends up kind of keeping Kai alive,
and then some healing for the rest of the squad,
but eventually just kind of gets knocked into the sightlines of the Ash of Portugal.
And how do we portals start?
Well, I need to put together some pretty good defenses,
and it's all, this is technically anything, really low.
You know, like, get back to some healing.
Actually, to use that Nano onto the Ash while players, that is far from ideal.
Yeah, I could get Crispy the title boss.
This massive.
It's kind of scrappy.
All things considered, Portugal just do not have the numbers in this fight.
And the Reaper's Aria is such a threat in the front line.
Bravo.
And too much.
Look, in the real, you know, Warrior's League is just up above, where...
Creeperton is at the moment, you're gonna see, hey, he's gonna get spun out.
They're gonna...
Oh, actually, it looks like they have an idea he's there.
He was going to look for him, but...
Now they know exactly where this wheel is.
Hope mom, we get thrown out too.
I like the small support we're making,
but if we don't, it's in the back line.
You don't have to healing for Wafa in general,
let alone the sooner rush for the TV.
Great Britain, they want to end this right here
and right now, sleep car care on a W Mime on.
Let's see if we can sign the last message
but this one is as good as over.
Great Britain, get a full cap with two minutes in the time bank.
Yeah, I mean, really good adjustments there from Great Britain.
Honestly, I mean, I get why you use the Nano there to kind of try and keep the Ash alive,
but that is such a key ultimate for Winston to get value out of it.
I thought Rafa was playing quite well.
It's like if they're going to kind of round that corner and commit that hard,
I know to get that kill on to Tagilini,
like maybe use the nano there onto your Winston,
let him build up more towards primal,
and like kind of keep that fight going,
burn some more clock,
but Golden Pan's coming in for Tret,
looked really good in 15 and one,
playing a lot of Winston.
All right, you can ban his wrecking ball,
but you can still pull off some other picks,
and it was making it look pretty dang good
for the most part.
Just showing some flexibility.
I'm fine with that play.
Oh, did you see the side switch though?
It seems Great Britain want to stick onto
Winston as they think catch Portugal some rotations a very aggressive backline Anna and you already together
Yeah, this is a lot of damage that's going to be out from this great Britain fine up, right?
You know, you're gonna have the you know, even the honest at the right at range rate the lorry Anna
I know with the sojourn and then obviously the focusing beam from my moon being but they're gonna finish players off
I'm gonna be very difficult for Portugal to play against I wonder they're gonna try and go up with this
I know no speed here for Portugal. Tagalini is gonna go back probably switch like a soldier and I had imagined
Or an ash okay, so they're gonna play an ash here probably a little more comfortable on the hero
but
These are heroes like you know the honor we on sigma like you can collapse on these heroes pretty easy
Especially on this first point, the angles you have to fight into are brutal, and trying
to line up something for long range poke damage.
Not easy.
A lot of pressure, I think I'm going to Karama here to see how much space you can hear.
That cut off from the side angle, and it does force Krispy out into the poke damage of Rafa.
It's kind of exactly what we saw happening in Antarctic Peninsula, where Portugal just
find these ridiculous shots we're great-pickin' aren't ready for in the poke side.
Yeah, I mean, you get two kills here at the end for a Great Britain, but they're not really going to result in much.
I mean, Olden Pants gets to a health pack here, so...
See, I mean, he's going to be able to kind of cross this void. They're not going to live.
I mean, this is a fast take here for Portugal.
Yeah, I mean, I'm a little bit surprised with how kind of Great Britain's defense just kind of crumbled before it even began.
I was going to say, is that like really, really good on Portugal or Great Britain? Where were we standing?
I think it was a little bit of both, honestly.
Yeah, yeah, probably a bit of both, I didn't say.
And you do get high ground control.
I met him over the second point.
Yeah, but you have to give porch goal credit, right?
They see where maybe Great Britain is vulnerable
and they're taking advantage of it.
And now Great Britain is trying to get some high ground control.
It's a golden chance they get a spawn and damage.
Even just trying to get in position there
feel learning to play as uh all this get with my mode in crispy though not able to find one
and he's kind of in there it's an interesting position holding out in this small room but
doesn't make it so Rafa can't really push past that corner if he wants to just kind of bides and
eyes taking a lot of players as he sees that he can't cross the boat going for a highlight real
play almost thought we dropped close to vomit keep that one for next time or never mind don't be
See you next time, AMON! Working out the corner!
They end up using the nano on the gold base, but he's got the give off of the bio grenade.
He doesn't actually get any like benefits.
He's going to be crispy on a flag.
Another nice slate there from Rod as Portugal is able to fight through it.
Rod just pulled the Udor first card in crispy.
That's enough for him to swap over to the break.
makes a lot more sense, but in the fact that Portugal worked their way through that, again,
a bit of silliness from Great Britain, I think, on the place, they still have a chance
to leak a test, but an anti-Slex Winston is very dead at Winston. Don't have another
touch, and I'll be the point coming on through with only the Bob expended.
Yeah, I mean, this is a map where, you know, can Portugal complete it as well?
I mean, like it's definitely possible. I mean portugal's we can really get brought with like a tremendous second part of the math
They're multiple sleeves big bios coming out from the honor of portugal. So
Starting to get some signs of life here is Portugal in this series
Oh, it's in number one obviously ended up in a lost mine. I mean these are just really nice echo plays that he's making
I mean nothing some of these players can really do about it
it. And it's curts, as soon as these shots hit, you're kind of done. Also, Worry Gwicoe
has got to be the most aggressive hook I've ever seen. This guy is in there constantly.
Same as Karamo, she probably should have left with the rest of the team, but it's enough
pushing on the time bank for Portugal to get over some of these.
Now, who does this nano go to? Probably Karamo here, or Rod. So, it feels like that's where
You're gonna get the most benefits of my mom though getting ready to train like a most assassinate a play rates to keep on
Rama got really low
And that was actually the nano that went on to Karama there and then like he kind of dies in flight
So it doesn't actually get the benefits of it. That is
That's brutal there
For a portugal so and now not only did you lose your tracer you lost your nano for nothing
And I was kind of the big
Yeah, so now starting to get kind of stalled out here is Portugal, most likely even if
They were to kind of compete if they're gonna have a worse time. I mean, you know, certainly now worse time
then Great Britain so
Can you kind of get me be a you know walks you the choke right?
I know typically like a spot you see where I know from the fighting would be good to kind of
Against the echo but I mean not when you know, I'm on explain this also
You do get a kill there on a crispy so no beat available tend to the flux in response
But you do only get golden pants in it
You know Bob does come in putting in some really nice damage there from Tagalini on the side
There we go. I was kind of worried how they would get through that
Graviton search there but it works for Alma. That is not a 1v1 he wants to take
I can even choice what a stick
Onto Rod even if the guy is not playing the echo he has so much of a threat
You might get another one, but that is a terrible time for a pause to come in
That is so anti-climatic, but although we'll get that figured out shortly
Yeah, well, we'll figure out kind of exactly like what's going on in game and kind of get back into it
But you know Portugal got off to a pretty good start on their offense, but it feels like here Molly towards the end
That's when they started to really kind of stall out a
Bit of sputtering and the composition swaps are a really good call from Great Britain having a walk
Sigma instant Azaria
has been working and this echoed from Neymar they're not checking the corners
he's not getting scouted out early and comes up with at least one just by
himself everybody yeah now they're doing a great job like kind of holding that
high ground position with you know my mown in golden pants right like so
the tracer come up to like kind of test it then you just gonna like you know
bubble the echo and like take that fight right so they're doing a really nice
job of kind of playing from those positions I'm trying to take a look at
Okay, so it looks like we're getting it unpaused here.
I get ranked back into it, it looks like it's a brief connection issue.
Now that that's resolved, we're just going to move it on with things as my own users
do there.
I know Scott the Tracer, it's been very deathmatchy, back and forth for a little bit now, but
no real car progress, significant car progress has come through to Fork's goal.
Maybe here's a window of opportunity though.
I think being in this more open area helps a lot, like, I hope this is not a time for the open enemy.
I think the back line, I don't think they're ready, they're so ready for that.
Goodbye, Kain, I don't want the Kurama this time, it will end, and my goodness, does that hurt?
You'll find Crispy, there's no scrappy, no Rafa here, you just don't move, part at all.
If you do not have a tank, the spawns are open and shocker, Maimon, and the kill feed.
Yep, Maimon just kind of dominating this game, holding this high ground area as Echo.
He's not kind, but the overblock was big in the last fight.
Now Rafa's going to go over to the Rematra.
Uh, Kurama takes some shots that's going to be recall right away as Maimon just kind
of gets out of that doorways.
So now Kurama trying to work this position, at least hold it for now.
Maimon is back out completely.
I think that's the best part of that play.
Yeah, I give her a recall, but you sniff out the echo,
make sure your support just don't get assassinated.
Then you do use the Tidal Blast on the Ash,
which is far from ideal, and he still ends up dying.
The Golden Pan walks it down and spawns.
This is basically the last fight with the Stagger as a touch.
I don't even think it's possible.
Well, I mean, just think about some of the support usage
for Portugal, Hero,
the kinda trying to use the Nano onto the Tracer
and the Tracer guys before,
then this time using, I know, the Tidal Blast onto the Ash,
Not exactly a high-value target.
Nice grab here from Golden Pants.
Actually gonna lock them up by the spawn door,
and that will beat it as Great Britain takes another map.
Yeah, that one.
I think closer than many people expected,
but still the same mechanical oppression
that we expected from this lineup,
Femur and Kai, fantastic map from both of them.
And I think the commoners on the dive were beautiful.
20 kills across the tanks and DPS and equal contributions.
Yeah.
Do you like to see that?
Yeah, I mean, a great game from them, Kiwi,
to with 18K in terms of healing, just doing a really strong
job for Great Britain.
And just kind of overall, some really nice adjustments
on them throughout this map.
It was fun to see Golem pants come in,
play some Winston here on Numbani.
And also like Portugal had their moments.
I mean, this is not like a full like out,
just kind of beat down. I think Portugal has had some really nice moments throughout this.
There have been opportunities for them to probably even play better, even better, but
they're just kind of the experience, I think, for Great Britain really paying off in this series.
It feels like a very tall mountain for Portugal to have to overcome, but the fact that they do have
some of these highlight plays has been a good treat to watch. And then you see things like this,
from W. Mangon. Like, what do you do about that? And I think that's where a lot of the
difference is. If you can find the team play, setting up on the angles has been, I think,
a really good strength for this Portugal team to accomplish great Britain lacking in the ways
and get the flight wins that they have. But it just hasn't been nearly as consistent enough.
Can't quite get through the old flights. But they only have one more chance. See if they can
push this series further, keep their hopes alive with ballbusters.
Right, so now for Portugal, you can go like an escort, you can go circuit if you wanted, maybe
a new junk city available in terms of like Flashpoint, that's obviously a pretty damn
thing everyone. You haven't seen really any push today at all throughout the game.
It's a game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just been kind of, the game mode that has kind of forgotten about it.
So they go circuit and I think look try and play SIG if you can maybe protect the bank play SIG and they kind of see what happens
Yeah, I'm thinking a rematch or bad
Order if I had to guess and you got to get the SIG in there
But also the I think the Karama bank still a very good strength for this team
I think he's had the at least from an individual perspective
one of the best standout
Formances for Portugal so far a great Britain though, and it will be you're okay ending this map
It is just one of those
It's one of those places that it feels solves the teams know what to do. They know what the rotations are how play out
So
Anybody going here? It's gonna be pretty okay with how you actually ended up playing it poke damage though is going to be
Key for how Portugal can put these fights out and I wonder I know if we decide
I know, well, no, no, we decided.
We see, I know, any subs here, right?
So obviously we had a warrior Guido come in
for Dank's punk cake,
and then also Golden Pants come in, you know, for shred.
I wonder if we see, you know,
either of those teams kind of make those subs
like on back in, right?
Like the shred come back in here to play circuit.
Do they kind of keep Golden Pants in?
Like kind of what the, I know, sub strategy is here.
So circuits to pick,
I'm gonna try and protect Sig, I would imagine, if you are Portugal, I guess you can ban the
Rematra maybe, you can ban Eva if you wanted, I would probably ban the Ram, and then see
what happens on the other side.
It would be like a Mizuki ban for Great Britain at that point, if you wanted to open up some
D.Va play, make it a little bit better.
Also an opportunity for, uh,
Great Britain, if they wanted to, is like play Cat Bash, they wanted to.
Uh, I mean, uh, their circuit's pretty good for it.
Lots of like high ground over the buildings you can fly the Bash and over.
Uh, if they're playing like a double flex support with like no mobility,
and they have a SIG in the mix, like that could be pretty nasty, they're trying to deal with.
So, uh,
look even even though I agree with this map, it's gonna be a lot that has to go right so
tread that does come back in for Golden Pants, Golden Pants gonna protect that perfect winery
here in the qualifiers so we'll see at the my... it wasn't 1v1 as well, right?
That's true, that's true.
He's been on fire so we'll see if there's the sub for Dengpuncake coming in for Warrior
Wego that would take us back to the starting lines for the series but not sure on that
one just yet. Honestly, I think we're gonna might stay in just because of the poke nature
of this map. We all it's really really good here. And actually, no, it won't be there.
And Portugal don't project the Sigma. And there it goes. It's called. Yeah, I look, I thought
he would. I thought they would want to come here to play SIG, but maybe they're fine with
a little Rematra head to head. We'll kind of see because that feels like what we're
going to get into. This is usually kind of that poke point. I'm just guessing we're getting
a Robocamere unless there's like some other shenanigan that I'm not aware of. As of now,
this just feels like the RAN is definitely the safest choice. Karama May, you'd love
to see that come back out for obstacle if they can. But again, I'm a little worried
about Kai on the on the hitscan angle for this. This is kind of the map for those type of heroes.
If we can see him start to to get cocked in there, I do fear for how Portugal will be able to match
that in long run. Yeah, so I mean now with the the Siggan and Curigon, right? So I guess like
Portugal came here not necessarily to play Sigma, but more to play double flex support, right? To
play like in a in a lorry or something along those lines but I know those
cops also play really well with Sigma so it seems like they'll be out here for
potentially our final map in the set so we'll see it looks like I know at least
coming out here maybe it'll be great Britain on defense we'll get a better
idea and what they're deciding to do and off the rip so for them I think it's
going to be. Well, it's going to say remote, but I mean, I'll do it. Yeah, it's
rematch. They like high place and widow. Yeah, why not? I mean, hey, but a widow, I
know a lick of widow's in here look. So that'll be really interesting as a
Portugal potentially. I know that I think they're going to match the remote. I
think everything else kind of up for debate and change. I can't remember the
last time I've seen Zenyatta. I get this level of play. This is a, this is a, it's been a minute for sure but, and if anyone's gonna do it in between
Crispy, Paulie, and Alvin, Kai on the Widowmaker, and how do you match that? If you are a Portugal, it is a total frontline damage into Rafa, I think the, the fashion, and I'll change that but, what do you do about Kai with the consistent range of damage,
for the grapple shot, a bit of chip there into Rafa, but it's kind of be that slow burn we see at the start of Circuit Rail.
So, so it's seen now, Tagalini, and it's gonna not match like a hit scan and gonna go for Bastion,
so just raw damage output. So Rafa getting stuck behind a main wall, and really weird spot Karama
taking some shots there, some Kai as well. Crispy is uh, you know that damage is gonna be
Really serious from the then as soon as we swap off, that's gonna be kind of a headshot there.
Maybe he just has like, he can't hit the shots if we're watching him.
Uh, from the inside, there we go.
But yeah, I mean, Landon won. Eventually you peak this guy so many times, he's eventually going to find the shot.
And I do like the strategy that Portugal are playing out.
All it takes though is just time.
You're gonna replace it at the right time, which crispy, wrong place, wrong time.
Say the least that is not a pick I expected to see going down early and somehow Portugal managed to do it again and class of Portugal fashion
I said now you lose rod so I know how seriously can you kind of push on through here as it'll be an infrasight
Work high at find one. I'll be so careful
Subway on the damage as well as
In a backup here for just a bit
So the May wall does fall so
You have orbital ray available here for trade to fight
Here on the Tagalini, I think it was actually it was a rod was trying to hit that for Rafa. Rafa was dangerously low
I don't know. Yeah, it was no way. I'm not kidding. He is down. He's marvelous
And there's a wall that's right back
You can't get the support that he needs from the Juno the transcendence way too late
Give him a lot of Portugal just been a clear this first point four and a half minutes
Yeah, I mean that was a little bit late there on the transcendence
Maybe just trying to like hold up a little bit too long had the ability to kind of use it
Now we'll actually see a swap here Kai over to the Sodorin. So this is a
I mean outside the Zen right this is like a comp that you could definitely see especially if the band's gonna go this way
Maybe four for school coming in it's gonna be a blizzard from both sides
It's a nice no bio grenade there that connects on the shreds of no healing gonna be able to keep him gone
I love that carola. I just put shred up on a pedestal to pose in statue
I didn't burn down fantastic there and if Portugal are cycling their ultimate
They're finding the wins and more of these macro based fights
But they have to do it fast if they let these go on
So the struggles will start to show was they moon just pop out the ice walk so I can swoop in
I'm a little bit of a hand with the opposing name
I'm trying to get it with this fashion the bionave. There's just nothing you can do about it
I don't think Wafa's chilling on the objective, no more annihilations, he doesn't necessarily need it, except that tank's still looking like an adipose, so I guess it's insurance.
Make sure you get the point down before Tread gets cracked, but he's right around the corner, swapped over to D.Va, I still find him too.
And you're both supports here.
Try to stay in, yeah, full support, there's not a bunch of board should go to work, but if this keeps going, they do not have health bars.
to move on forward, and Tread is still alive, still kicking, and it's still the build log,
you know, from all the entirely great things. Get back to this fight, Orbiter Ray is down,
and Rafa just falls over. Portugal, that one hurts.
Yeah, I mean, so you do back out there for Portugal. When the Orbiter Ray comes and you lose Rafa,
I love the swap here to the diva for Tread.
So now with no sick money on the other side, right? You know, I'm really gonna
Maybe they can play a Mizuki into this if you are
Portugal but I think you know going up against this Bastion the diva gonna pay off so much is that it's a huge fight in there
For great Britain this Portugal look like they could have said a really good time
And they're gonna get it now hi not allowing them to move on forwards
We give this life for the pick on the woo young it one less support hurts a lot more than one less DPS
They want once the temperature down had been great blizzard from him. That's gonna throw three players
Spawn rooms
Portugal it's so much space. They were at the door and now they're just stuck here
Yes, this is a good spot to actually kind of hold from here
If you are great Britain Ray you kind of can have like tread maybe kind of control the Syria easily be able to fly back up
And then it's either crispy actually have rain. She's been kind of firing these orbs off and I like through jokes and that time finds a warrior we go so
The prophet even with that discord taking some serious damage on the walk up
Crispy
Chroma definitely has some fear in it
I've just seen the Zviata pop off before
An annihilation now, crispy does have this transcendence, but doesn't really have a need to use it
This border that's enough to just make Wafa back off
You're not gonna combo it with the not a boost either another interesting decision there
I'm porch going to come to support all this and they're just out of steam right now steam
They just don't commit any further great brain like okay. We'll push in
They're just losing so much HP on the clock up. It feels like great that they're not really able to kind of like
You know get a good fight or like even get in position to have a good fight
Like it just feels like every time they walk up they're just taking so much damage from whether it be
Zen or you know my mom the diva the
It just kind of starts to compound on itself and they're not able to get in position like healthy to actually
Kind of play here
I'm probably just a sport of 10 ports,
I'm gonna have to come up with more.
It's crispy, perfect!
And you know, the Nautilus don't fork out though,
because it denies the transcendence.
And the payload is still moving.
Ripritan flits the map, but playing on the spawn,
or turns everybody else into an item,
the exception of Karaman,
he's happy to just go through and mop up these players.
We're gravely out of position.
It is over time, Rafa, on this point,
by himself, cooldown's back up,
and the reinforcements just too far away to make it matter.
The Atreants' End is on point, make sure nobody dies.
And Mike is doing it from Portugal here.
No more numbers, running out of bodies
to just throw with this payload as croma.
I just have a little boot to the face there.
Then back home, and Portugal is stopped
just shy of the second point.
Pretty decent push there for Portugal.
I tell you, it's kind of been like the story of their match.
It's like, hey, it's been pretty good,
but like just not really kind of like enough.
We'll see.
They can put together a really good,
defense, but some fun plays there.
I know out of Great Britain,
enough on seeing some Zen in the mix
and I think just that extra damage.
Made it so costly for Portugal to kind of like,
you know, cross that gap and get up towards that high ground
and be able to kind of like go towards the payload.
It's just something they were never really able
to kind of fight back through.
No, and that's kind of just the nature of Circuit Royale
second point the high ground defenders advantage is brutal if you don't have a
very specific way to get through the choke and blade that poke damage just
could not happen from the start. Karama having a good game the tracer swap was a
key in clearing the path for the fight to the good take on the helmet even then
the rest of his team was taking a beating in the back line now it's
Portugal a very similar look at backs the identical look what they rolled out with on attack
As we'll see I know what great the science do on their offense if they would like to kind of continue
To play the Zen and I know then with a Juno. We'll see
Okay, so to be trained on the Arisa so Arisa can be pretty good in like interrupt the rematch
like push the rematcher back at times like one of the uh one of the things you kind of like
seeing like stands toe-to-toe is uh your spin gets uh read across the gap here
oh hell i i kind of like the orisa with the extra poke you're not as vulnerable you get
may walls i guess but and it does ward you off it makes you a rematcher i can just walk for free
onto your team.
Great Britain, now under this first quarter,
I'll be the main wall from Wama there.
Look at a ton of value though.
You're kind of careful if you're Portugal.
I mean, that was just for most of us.
A lot of these key cooldowns are just getting burned
before the full fight can be unleashed.
Great Britain, a little more cautious
in how they're using them.
Like for example, that wall on the side there,
Wama, he won't be getting out of that one.
I'd say the trend can stay alive.
and Grapefruit has a chance with those health bars.
They're so incredibly low.
Karama doing his best to help finish him off
with Warrior Grigo,
he's hanging on for the time being.
Really just tank.
Karama had to find a way to heal.
Yes, Karama actually jumps over the wall there,
finds a nice shot onto Kiwi,
is trying to get the health pack, make it out.
So a real overall there.
And I'm going to win in our first fight.
So, Tray, this is gonna win.
You're gonna get a few players back off a spawn.
They're gonna let Kai form a rail gun here.
With Crispy as, you know, maybe just trying to find, like,
a spear there from the tread into a shot from the soldier.
And so, you see this warrior who does TOE,
he does have the title blast, and he'll give over.
And then towards the drop, as that's exactly what he does.
It's gonna be everybody running out of the way.
He's not even gonna find much of anything.
It's gonna be the lizard here used here.
My great Britain, you end up losing your tank here
4 Portugal as Tread finds 2, and this was certainly Molly looks like Great Brain. They're gonna be able to take this first checkpoint.
Yeah, you're not gonna get Rafa back in time for a consistent test, so better just set up here on this high ground while you can.
That was Greal's competitive build. From Great Britain, still have the Terrasir as a combo with, like, the kitchen sink, lost the overclock.
I don't want to throw that in here.
Last position though that like I know breakers and has right there not gonna be a lot to be as impressive
On the side of Portugal to be like it down and trying to test that spawn it's gonna be a one-for-one here
Thank you. I don't find a nice till they're on to Kiwi is
Now now can I kind of work between back and forth the car?
Without Rafa
Portugal, they're standing on like,
a steel chair and a box of table.
They don't have a way to stop the cart though.
I mean, they're just kind of stuck waiting for Rafa to get back.
You don't want to be near Tread at all.
Yeah, I mean, Tread's so alive with my Mona,
very dangerous players.
Crispy's going to move away from Zen and now come back on the lari.
There's no ultimate available here for either side.
It's going to be this raw damage output here.
I'm great for it and maybe enough to get them overlying.
Drama and Rafa already really low as where did we go trying to build up towards this title blast?
Oh, I walked by territory in three minutes to do it as well.
Torture going, kind of just stopped the payload now. Got nothing in the tank to do it with.
Great friend, he's said to be closer to a lot of these tools.
Just blast out onto the tracer drama, look at her play, get the knockdown!
The missile's from TV, deep crispy alive and it's just kind of Nolan Voight.
Now a blizzard up for W.Mamon and you don't have broad one percent away from the Navibus tragedy there.
Or Portugal as the pieces crumbled downwards. Great Britain looking steamroll their way
through the remainder of Sorceror Al to secure their spot in Busan.
Yeah, great game there from Great Britain. We knew that they were a favorite in this group.
They come in. That's a pretty uh pretty spicy Portugal team. They put up a pretty nice fight
And they were competitive at times by Great Britain. They take care of business a 3-0 Norway a little bit earlier in their group
They now get a 3-0 here over Portugal
They set themselves up with just a one game against Germany this time who gets number one seed out of group B
Yes, take a look at some of the stats. I mean tread. I know really both tanks even golden bands came in some really great
Performances, and I thought I know Great Britain showed us a lot of different comps here today
actually different stuff they can go to at any time. Yeah they really did. It's been quite fun to
watch I think the variety that we've seen from both these teams, the double subs that came in
during Numbani and then I think like the Lu Yang that we're seeing a lot here for Warrior we go on
the side of Portugal. Unfortunately these swaps just weren't enough for Portugal to take anything
on the side from the side of Great Britain, but overall this is kind of what we expected, right?
I think that considering everything and how tall and tough an opponent that Portugal were going
to be facing up against here in Great Britain, Molly, Portugal, they did make it close like here
and there on some of these maps and put up I think a little bit better of a fight than maybe we would
I'm pretty impressed with Portugal, I think all things considered.
I had, and just being a team of sort of unknown players, in a way, a lot of them are either
newer to the competitive scene, or are really only played for this Portugal World Cup squad
in the past, so seeing them kind of come back and have some fights, keepin' it decently
competitive at times was a pretty impressive thing to me.
I was pretty pleased with the Portugal performance.
We highlighted a little bit.
Karama and Rod earlier in the series,
I thought both those players played quite well.
I think Tekken Leaning had some moments.
Rafa, I think, they asked him to do a lot.
And sometimes they had some ultimate to go sideways.
And really, he could have used and stuff.
So I mean, a tough spot to be in.
But as an overall unit, I thought
they put up a really good fight against Great Britain.
like Great Britain could be a bunch of other teams in this tournament way worse right so I think
I know Portugal are really kind of flexed a little bit today. Yeah they really did and I think that's
part of what we've highlighted for some of these teams in Overwatch World Cup. The opportunity to
highlight those individuals who are kind of budding stars within Overwatch and you know they made
some of those fights close at the beginning but I think that experience again and better than see
on the side of Great Britain continue to shine through as the series would go on with how they're able to recover so quickly within those fights.
Now to get a look at our standings here within Group B, you guys already mentioned it, but with this win here for Great Britain,
they do solidify that spot to advance all the way to the group stage in Busan, alongside Jeremy, who will be playing up against tomorrow.
That's going to be a really good game.
I think you're gonna see like some of these games on the groups like you know
Like they didn't feel like some teams like maybe taking it easy as sometimes that is gonna be like a all-out game for both teams
I didn't get that number one seed a group B
So we had a lot of like those tomorrow like where you're fighting for the number one or number two seed
In your group and those can be pretty exciting
Yeah, they definitely are going to be super exciting. I think that it's just been so fun watching
that EMEA developed here within Overwatch World Cup.
It's kind of cool also that you kind of carry over
that EMEA identity into like these nation teams
where you're seeing EMEA continuously marching
to the beat of their own drum,
not really playing into like the Capachimeta as often
and just continuing forward with like their strengths
as an overall region.
Molly, when it comes down to your overall thoughts
like from this series today
and what we've seen from Great Britain.
How excited are you as well
for tomorrow's matchup against Germany?
I'm really excited.
I think it will be for, it shows two different things.
I think where the Great Britain seemed
to like a few wake points that they did have
or actually something that Germany is their strength.
And I think that's in their overall
coordination team playing macro idea.
I think it'll be very interesting clash of styles
between these two teams,
especially with Germany leading more towards the Muzuki pumps.
I would love to see how that would play out.
Not even to see like, I know Greg Britton's good.
I want to see how Germany can match up against that.
For sure.
I think that also taking a look at the standings across all three of our groups
here within EMEA, I just want to remind everyone at home where we're kind of
sitting right now with this, right?
We have six matches left in the region tomorrow.
We will be determining the final qualifying team within Group C as well in that Spain vs.
Poland game and overall it will also be battles to see who will be the first seeds in each group
heading into the Busan group stage with five out of our teams now locked in between Sweden,
Denmark, Great Britain, Germany and France. This is a very strong lineup I feel like Matt
or EMEA heading into the Busan International Stadium?
Yeah, and I think, look, group A, obviously,
we kind of know what that's going to be.
C is like up for grabs, right?
I mean, that's what Spain versus Poland,
I think that'll be like a really competitive game
to figure out who actually goes to Busan
out of that group, right?
A lot of the other ones seem like pretty,
I think I've said our least or two teams,
just not sure what C, but group C
will have that really interesting game
to see who actually goes.
I think that's kind of the fun part about having all of these tiebreakers within these
small groups is that there is upset in a lot of these areas.
So again, that Poland's game, which is Spain, is going to be the big one for tomorrow for
sure.
And I get what happens there.
I mean, we can even see France be thrown in with tiebreakers if, for some reason, we
see an Ireland upset.
So chaos happening over a group C, but for the most part, everything else got in dry.
I think, man, a friend's Ireland upset that would be really crazy.
Let the French fans have some fun, let them have some fun, peps is at a rough go.
They need this one.
All right, let's let's let's let's let's a France on the wall the way through.
Let's get them the blizzcon.
I feel you.
Um, overall, I think that it's been such like a fun day.
Tomorrow is going to be such like an insane day though for EMEA, like thinking about six matches for the EMEA region and guys, NA is kind of been coasting. I'm just saying, I'm just saying.
They have. They have. I mean they uh, they've been kind of, I mean we have a million games for EMEA, but at least like each game matters in some regard.
Yeah, they definitely do. When I say coasting, I just mean the schedule. You know, they don't have as many countries to get through with when it comes to all of these groups.
Johnny is just kind of, you know, he's just sleeping through it. He's like waking up. He's like, oh, sweet, we won. That's great. I'm going back to bed.
He woke up just to check. You know, he definitely isn't locked in for later matches.
But we do have our interview with Kiwi now after the win here for Great Britain. We're going to get a chance to talk to him super quickly.
QE, congratulations on your win today solidifying United Kingdom team for OWWC.
I know that this is your first time actually playing for the great, like representing for the United Kingdom team here for Overwatch World Cup.
How has the ride been so far?
It's been exciting overall. I didn't really expect to get this far, but I'm happy that I am and I'm afraid to show everyone what I can do.
QB, I got to ask a great game today against Portugal.
What are your thoughts about that Germany team?
They're pretty good.
You guys got a game against them left to really determine who gets the number one spot at
a Group B.
I think they are by far like the best team that besides us in the group, but we're going
to 3-0 them easily.
No chance.
I love the confidence, QB, and we'll wait and see how that turns out tomorrow.
I think that the big thing for today was that you have for sure qualified for
Usan and how I guess how are you feeling about knowing that you're going to be competing on that stage in South Korea
I think it's gonna be a lot of fun
I look forward to this like seeing all the other teams like I want to see team France and team Canada
So I got a lot of players on there that I know and I think it'll be fun to just meet everyone and play on stage
Yeah, I think that's one of like the most fun parts about getting to go to land is just actually getting to see all of your competitors and
in person because it's such like a rare opportunity to do so.
We really appreciate the quick interview with us, Kiwi,
and wish you the best of luck in tomorrow's match versus Germany.
It's a great interview there with Kiwi to just look at his quick thoughts on how he's been feeling here
within Team UK. I think again, it would be awesome if this UK roster
is a bit of like a mix of very experienced players here, Matt, as well as some of these
newcomers within OWWC, and then also just like cutting talents within the Overwatch
team.
And now, look, I know when he talked about the Germany match tomorrow, he's like, yeah,
they're the other best team in the group, but we're just gonna re-open like it's not
like that.
Yeah, like it's not even, I don't even know why we're even talking about it.
Yeah, they're good, but we're just gonna kind of be at another level, so I'm excited
that I know we'll kind of see and look if Great Britain beats them that bad and
like it's another level I think that's a great sign for their chances to advance
like BlizzCon right and how they would do it in Busan it really does feel like
that Great Britain I think top two top three team coming out of the NBA alongside
Sweden maybe Denmark thrown in that mix that'll be another game watch tomorrow
we'll do the Sweden Denmark one as well to see how that goes but I think that when
we see and the competition is great for it as it's not it's not without something to back it up.
They absolutely have the gameplay and the talent. Yeah, they definitely do. We have some banger matches
on deck for tomorrow to determine the seeding here for the top two teams in each group. But for now,
I actually got to say goodbye. That's all from me, myself, Matt and Molly here on the EMEA
OWC broadcast. We do have America's following shortly though after a quick break where you
You guys will be joined by Jaws and Johnny, so don't forget to follow us everywhere on Overwatch E-Sports, and stay tuned for the American side of the world.
I think we're pretty equal sized I won't be too self-conscious about it and I definitely
don't think the viewers would have noticed unless you actually pointed it out to them so
okay well that was a mistake you know i sent uh i you know uh tokyo just gone i sent my grandfather
a picture of me and you on the desk and he was like that guy looks 10 feet tall next to you i'm like
yeah yeah everybody yeah i'm on that me me doing the desk with uh so you know yeah a lot of that in
this frame we are the similar heights we're the same johnny's we are the same tell you what isn't
the same though. This format
well actually is kind of the
same as last week. We're still
in the group stages, Johnny, the
online qualifiers for team
round robin. All matches, obviously
are going to be a first to two,
but the important thing here is
the top two teams in the group
stage will end up advanced.
Yeah, first to three matches,
giving all the teams a chance
to really like get a proper
like you just pointed out with two teams advancing to Busan to land, which is a huge deal for a lot of these teams that
obviously don't maybe have the best opportunity to compete in order to see us, you know, like really top heavy competition there with these
these established teams right here with the World Cup, you know, you and your friends from any given country can turn up and
have a chance to qualify for an actual land and shopping Korea like that's that's an amazing feat for a lot of these guys.
the game. I think we're going
to get to the next one. Yeah,
it being in Busan, too, I think
you spoke about it last week,
but a pretty historical place,
Korea in general for eSports,
but Overwatch eSports especially,
like we're thinking about like
back to apex days, but we had
a World Cup stop as well in
Korea. Quite a few moons ago,
Canada USA Johnny Group Pay and
Group B. They're on top right
now. Canada sitting a while like
six and one USA. That's map
the team that's currently
sitting at a one. No both teams
looking like they're gonna just
steam along through the group.
They are the stronger teams. It
feels like, but there's some
up and comers here as we see
some of the highlights from last
week. Yeah, I think Canada USA
were always going to be the
favors for advanced from their
respective group. But what I
love about the World Cup is
that a lot of these teams are
fairly evenly matched when you
look at the other teams with a
chance to qualify. And so in
realistically in group A or group B. But like, yeah, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Brazil in group A,
like going into this World Cup stage, I would have said that like any of these three teams have a
good chance of actually qualifying for LAN, right? And we've seen a lot of different players,
a lot of different teams pop up with different identities. I can't wait to watch more Elemental
Guy later today. You just know that Genji is gonna come out and it's not really a hero we get to
see in all the BCS, but here in the World Cup, you know, a Genji player can come out big time for
The likelihood of them going through is basically zero at this point, unfortunately.
Puerto Rico and Colombia, those cities, one-on-one right now, they are fighting for that number
two seed coming out of the bay.
Yeah, I'm not 100% sure, so if I'm wrong here, the admins can yell at me on this court,
but I think Canada is pretty much through because the tiebreaker is going to be head-to-head
record because Canada 2-0, you know, they are guaranteed to have that head-to-head win
against either Colombia or Puerto Rico.
So it's really just Colombia and Puerto Rico who are battling for one of those qualifying spots
And you know Canada going to have to have against Puerto Rico later today
There will be a really tough matchup for Puerto Rico
Colombia should have a better time against Brazil, but you know, we'll see you there for today
Hey top two and then you just got a finger crush. You don't face Korea or like Saudi in round one
Obviously would be not as kind of a push forward there
We've only had a few matches like we've only had what two Chile, Argentina with Chile winning three and one USA versus Mexico
USA winning three and oh there. I don't forget as well. Obviously the live events in Busan. It's
Far away. We are in June. I know kind of a shock already
We're halfway through the year Johnny, but 21st and the 23rd of August is Busan
But finals this car and I was so bad September 12th to the 13th. That's the live event
I just need to take these five seconds to say that I don't know if you were that person, but back when I take so much while I still do it all the while,
like every best con I just browse like in a mode champion to get all the latest news from all the panels and stuff, and like crazy nerd hours about this one, and I love it when you jump in.
Yeah, it's gonna be a good time. There's a whole lot of history there too, in terms of a tree sport, so yeah, it's gonna be a good time.
Let's have a look at the schedule though, for today, Johnny. Canada versus Puerto Rico, you already kind of teed that one up.
USA versus Argentina, Colombia versus Brazil,
and Mexico versus Chile.
So many great matches to come, really,
because I've really grown to become a fan of, like,
at least a couple of players on each of these teams.
And I'm just looking forward to all of these.
Typically, you know, the house that's, oh, what match
are you looking forward to the most?
I'm pretty certain I look forward to all of these matches.
Like, I think they're all going to be quite entertaining.
And you can earn drops along the way, Jaws.
So what's not for them?
Dude, so true, so true.
you. We've got some new view
incentives for you. I'm sure
most of you committed your
accounts already, but got 60
minute 121 182 40 some icon
some sprays. The wash party
spray stands out and then the
eSports loot box at the very
end. Plus some bad past
tickets actually throwing in
there, too, which is always
good. Um, yeah, that's over the
course of today and tomorrow
versus Puerto Rico.
Can it look good, Johnny?
They're 2-0, only lost a single map,
and that was against Brazil.
Brazil, unfortunately, pretty much about to actually get out,
like you mentioned there, but yeah, this match,
it looks science-y and delivered.
That was...
Yeah, I mean, Puerto Rico, they gotta come in clutching this.
I'm gonna take down a can of the team
that's look really strong.
And I think Mac Chicken is the go-to here, Josh.
Mac Chicken.
We're looking towards Mac Chicken to pop off.
Jono as well, that's brought in some of the cat.
we're seeing Lucio Curia as the favorite preferred heroes for the back line, but Jethback Cat could very much come in clutch for this team as well.
So I'm looking out for Jono right there, but McChicken, Talisman, I think are really strong, dams drew up for Puerto Rico here.
And so if the upset is to happen in this match, then I'm looking to make the chicken to come in clutch.
McChicken, you've got to pull it out. The Cat Bastion has been super good for a lot of teams, even in the WCS.
Yeah, we'll probably see a little bit of that today.
We saw a lot of like double flex support from Canada. Obviously Cal can play pretty much anything
We saw some of the highlights there in the very beginning. He also rocked the Ellari too
Yeah, you love that
Okay, I'm gonna call you out. I'm gonna call you out before the show
Joe's for some of these own liquopedia page almost like Ellaris my third, you know
I was like when did I ever play it back? Why is that one of my I mean I did play a lot of that from like perma bat
matter to be fair, but it makes sense. So this is a perfect team for you because like you said,
they like goblins. They can play some of that. Cal, Jayton noted out about Cal last week, just
like I want to see more Cal. I love watching Cal play. And so Cal come in clutch with some of
that on our gameplay, of course. And I think Canada with that, because they're playing a slower
approach with like on the Elori, like they just pick these teams apart, like they're just going
to sit back, take good angles and just poke these teams down. Before the enemy team really has a
of the game. If you have a
chance to contest the objective
or really get to that back
line of Canada. And so the
question for Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico here today is can
they take down that double
transport you off Canada? If
they decide. Yeah, it's gonna
be wrote off. Let's look at the
Decider. Yes. If you've only
just joined is your first day
watching World Cup. There is a
But that's uh, you know, you know what look chicken the DPS player pin the bat the only character that DPS players can play on support
I believe
This is skillful right here. This is peak ability usage go make the lamp at the right time
You can keep it away. Oh
Shorts toes look at this. Well the support boy of one
Yeah, I mean you're not living that down if you have a support main losing against the DPS on your like
It's killing me. It's like one of those color beauty like
Canada won that one there you go and they end up picking Ilios as the first man
I did by the way, just just to point it out Johnny
I did
Let everybody know that we should change this to a tour panel one day one
So hopefully in the future we'll get that one locked in because that is a true test of skill
The Torbjorn will be on.
Our talent theme has so many different opinions. You want the Torb 101?
Jake is like how would you make this as skillful as possible?
Not yet. Have the Torbjorn be one.
I'm not going to spoil it what he wants, but you know it's a clear opposite of Torbjorn in one month.
No, he wants just hit scan players shooting each other. That's it.
Like if you don't want to win it or something. I just know it.
That's that's that's pretty worded words in his mouth. Let's let's not do that. He's a fellow friend of ours
It's not tour 101 that's for sure you do love the hammer kills well, it should be and I'll be I'm sure the chat is behind me on that one
Let's jump on to the Ilios though. It's like a cows honor is getting banned out here
Which is a little bit disappointing. So maybe a little less
Honor play here for Canada, which means maybe little jetpack cats, but now go on the other side
Which Puerto Rico have like to play they like playing now?
Yeah, they have done indeed. I feel like Elios is the one map where I'm like, okay, I'm looking on it
If the honor is available and I'm killing someone, I'll lock in the honor
And then inevitably miss my sleep guards and get decent value out of the magnates
But getting the honor out of the way, I think that's a bit of a relief for Puerto Rico
Not having to deal with that long-range kind of threat here, they can close things in a little bit
Not sure, chain mines play in the Wreck-n-Ball leader to be fair, so
Bit of a fast cop
How on the Alari graveyard on the Juno and Asher on Diva they got false obviously in the
Support lineup 14 Canada, which is always quite exciting
His that's fine, she's fine. She's got opinions
About wreckable and about Diva actually really popping off her
That's crazy so the gas ball series comes down because she sees wreckable versus Diva on the Leo's well
Oh, not a lot well, sorry layoffs
Trace is also going to be on the Reaper easy kill on Tatarsman. No, no one be one door
You'll have to see that for a loose neck out of it. You know as soon as you came in a little bit late
Freckleball reworked there with cast land
Count up playing the pretty interesting DPS or
Portion here rather physical and the a lorry
Just trying to find a time right now as the captain you've already been chained
Yeah, nice little kill on Takiri on the side zone,
which just ends up picking up the kill on the support.
Pressure on the point now, this is where Razor needs to be to stop Chain getting away with anything.
A bootpump from the high ground is starting to rejoin the rest of his squad.
It's very messy, his sloppy start around doesn't mean he can't get the lead,
at least early on, with Razor stalling out with a shift and Astro is back somehow.
No cap for Puerto Rico.
Yeah, and that's going to be a big question for Puerto Rico is just like how did it kind of dislaunch Canada right?
BigSlam comes in here onto the back line of Canada, but they're keeping themselves alive for the time being
after the great jobs contested by the mines coming out here.
Have you ever seen mines in like the Hotspot area before in your life?
I didn't.
Really wanted to support Puerto Rico.
The other road is around now.
It's a lot of time to back up.
Yeah, I mean Puerto Rico should in theory cap the point, but you've got Diva and Reaper like they can still for quite a long time.
Nice, they will suise you a rush in front of the point as well to use and telepoints the back wide for Razor shooting the Lucio in the back of their head
There's noxious finds the wait the coach gun kill on to chain off the map
That's it's either happen the boots
Come on. Yeah
You sound awfully surprised, but we've all been there rare one players Ash has never played right now
So
This is gonna be so frustrating for Puerto Rico because you probably especially if you're a chain
You feel like you're doing so much work and it's not resulting anything because Astros kind of sitting on the point
And Canada's four ultimates here with 80% already in their favor
Then like a wrecking ball man now. I'm just doing so much. I'm doing so much
Well, uh, it's cows gonna pop this captive son
Sam Bari into coming in coming in Puerto Rico hits two players
You know, I kind of grouped up in mega health right now
Astro kind of chunking down that overheld real quick.
He's gonna be rushing the point up from the quick teleport there from, and there's a
McChicken trying to find his bearings on the point, but it's Razer's life behind him
every single moment someone tries to touch Razer's on top of him.
That's it, boop kill though for Jono, takes care of the Reaper as he's self-proclaimed
on the point, and it's gonna clear the Lucio away.
Overtime still ticking as J makes his way back to the fight, killed with the little
Alari Pylon.
Have a boop on to Cal too!
Cal's already got a kill though, so it's all good.
The trade was worth it, Puerto Rico with no supports, mines up in a couple of moments
but it's Astro booping the ball off the point.
There's still Starling, but Tickus gonna come back with Talos from here with ultimates
so maybe he can pull this one off?
It may be, Razor from the high ground, but oh fuck, he's taking it.
Deadliest high new of all time, instantly dies, no spells acquired.
There's the mines on the point, Razor gets booped up into the skies before he jumps
into the wraith form.
It's Puerto Rico, Johnny, they've actually managed to cap Canada.
They actually let it go.
Actually, Cap, now they got a chance to defend the Obligatory Heroes' Corridors' Talisman.
Need to stay alive here.
You can't start losing members because Canada is immediately going to punish you, so Puerto Rico need to stabilise here.
There's an appeal of pointing away there, but not after they ended up taking a headshot, something pretty low.
Ash wrote with the follow-up.
It's kind of cowering on the point using the mines for a little bit of sanctuary.
as Chain again continues to just do so much on the ball.
Oh my goodness.
Eventually, Gil's razor too.
This is like pure Wrecking Ball gameplay right now from Chain.
Like picking up people randomly across the map
and then instantly like almost teleporting on the Wrecking Ball
to the other side, tricking up another kill.
You'd have stuff from Chain from Puerto Rico.
Yeah, honestly, this is peak Wrecking Ball, like you said,
where it feels like you're doing a ton the entire game,
and then you don't get any value for it,
until at this very moment where Chain is finally
uh getting some objective time as well for this point first.
I'm threatening again. I'm threatening somewhere from Jono.
Woo! Okay that's how you turn the ties.
Unfortunately they're kind of do you sneak the point away so you're not getting any pcs right now.
Surely they don't s-
Oh! They touched! Oh my goodness.
Three heart attacks are felt in the audience just then.
Chain ends up uh unfortunately on the wrong end of the stick here.
Razor on the point with the rush and the death blossom.
Shut down my chain.
He's doing the mostest for the team but
Unfortunately this whole time Canada had the point so they weren't actually getting to sense sadly so you know what chain?
You've earned those nine, buddy.
Ch-Chain is dominating so hard that I'm like questioning it's like is he like stealing the kill feed frags here or is he actually doing this?
I think he's actually doing that much work.
Chain is just destroying everybody. Just racking up the kill feed right now and these have a lot of us Mr. Gold.
This is like last fight and they got a rush.
Got a rush. They got mines. They got high new which is probably gonna get zero kills.
Talibans didn't know behind already an early Suzu and Shane does it again.
I'm telling you man, this guy can't be stopped on the Wrecking Balls.
The rush is gonna get used to as Shane barrels his way towards the point that
Razor was there for the touch, mines available, Captain Sun 2 for Cal.
Canada have to get it popping at some point, Johnny.
Please, Canada, what's going on?
This Captain Sun has to hit something.
It doesn't have connected with him, but you get in the back line there, it explodes.
Told you the high noon would get nothing.
Unfortunately, very useless ult in these cons with everyone being so quick.
Canada now trying to again put themselves on the point. It's now Bob there playing minesweeper as
Tragedy has struck Puerto Rico as Shane has to get out to get the mega health back goes back in for another time
But now has to deal with Bob
Eventually Bob is gonna be himself a June ends up getting off the map and well Shane eventually dealt with his Canada clutch up the round
Heartbreak for Puerto Rico is thinking at 99%
10%
Yeah, it definitely was and that last fight
She's not how Puerto Rico wanted it to go because as that captive son and the dead
I guess ongoing and my chicken goes down
Can actually I'm sorry Johnny chain is 16 and 2
I mean he's doing it all right now for I get out
It's everywhere everywhere at once. I mean look at the damage as well
6,500, next up is McChicken with 4700 but going back to that last fight
Chain drops his mines on the point as that whole thing goes down with the captive son
And I actually think that you know especially because you have the objective
It's over time get everything has to contest not getting more value out of those mines at a pivotal time
I think that's a little bit disappointing for Chain there
So Puerto Rico just lose out at the very first round on just the slightest affairs
Hey, it was close though, and that's the important thing.
Change, switching orders to Sigma.
Now this is a comp.
This is our...
We are going to play in Cage and then hopefully TP onto the back line.
Unfortunately, both supports have to have teleports.
So a little bit tougher than you'd expect.
This is like the opposite of what I expected an Ilios composition to be.
He was playing ball.
I said I'd go to my play in Sigma now.
Hey, it's powerful. We're still to use.
It's good.
Yeah.
A lot of A and E healer.
No Lucio's to be found.
Unless a day for flex support plays everywhere.
Alright, points gonna get contested here.
Puerto Rico very good at contesting mind-tune.
Good at kind of sticking on the point, on the corner with Sigma.
Gonna be able to asterisk him.
Even Razor right kind of TPing behind.
Hopefully creating a bit of pressure but
yet to be seen.
And now he's trying to go for it.
Oh.
But you guys won.
Susa was forced but
they're doing this thing alive for the moment.
Yeah they are.
I have her chain doing again, kinda the mostest on Sigma right now, on the point already,
Ashro just BLEEING him off the meridious kinda with the cap.
Yeah, Ashro's doing a ton of work on the D.Va so far.
I believe someone is pushing her up for Puerto Rico here, Chainsman.
Get a pick on the chow, dead eye.
Some low damage, want to make sure you get it.
Yes, so much, but noxious.
I knew Neaton, nice grasp there from Chains.
They're trading fairly well here, but Chainsman have a tough time sticking on the point,
Especially the end of Nav dead, there's a teleport, Chains end up coming in, helping with the kill off Astro, self destruct popped as well, Sanctuary comes in, oh they blocked him in!
Oh Chains, good news scape, they're self destruct, unfortunate stuff there for Puerto Rico, they've lost that fight fair and square, Canada actually ended up switching over Razor to this Pharah too for the next fight.
Yeah, because of Chains we've spent a lot of time talking about Puerto Rico, but Canada has played this Ilios essentially perfectly so far and they're taking these angles so well,
Ensuring that they have the positional advantage onto this point and the racer over on this Farah
That's just going to mean even more poke damage coming the way of Puerto Rico
You know pretty stacked up with this a gun
So close taking a couple of directs there and dying instantly as their wall to start off the fight raise a one
Kill the fire good stuff Puerto Rico only a single ult invested to that
economical yeah that's what you need
trying to bring this round back here
when I see them try to make some place
with this Symmetra as well can't really
sit back with this composition you need
to do some proactive place to try and
pick off Canada's they're setting up all
these white angles you can see Farah onto
that coast side as the rest of the team
is on the left hand side
looks like a rush drop
look at that, it's a flood too
if you already got the carries you didn't have a use in that suju but survives
So we'll end up teleporting away.
Moot Chicken on this high off angle right now.
Got to be scared of this move, but it doesn't matter if you just hit a headshot like that.
Good kill on Terre, a solo kill and a teleport back as well to safety.
Puerto Rico in a good spot to win this fight.
That's what I'm talking about.
What a great teleport play with my chicken to pick out that far that took the wide angle.
And now Puerto Rico 45% and counting.
They're going to get this Kitsuna rush up in just a second as well.
Keep making pace like this.
Where did we go? Good chance here.
Barrage in 10, 4 Canada, high noon parry from the chicken. Will this be more successful?
Okay, the chicken doesn't instantly die again.
Oh, TP across, TP back. Okay, being a little smooth with it.
And now looking the way of Razor again, he's just jumping over the top 1 HP,
ends up going down mid barrage, nice cancel from Chang.
Even better damage from the chicken there, setting up that kill.
This is all my chicken and the kill feed, or at least it should be.
Staying with a couple, those Puerto Rico end up using the rush and killing Astro's mech too,
two doors in the jump into the well as a skin kill practically oh well no okay okay bro what whoops
all right it happens okay quick we come so far out it happens to the best of us
in a minute I got kind of switched over to their own sick not happy with the diva clearly uh is they
Kind of closing in on 99, Gregor has got Sanctuary, but that's the only real ult they have to survive against Puerto Rico's damage here.
Yeah, the Sanctuary can be really powerful though.
With the use at the right time, both teams are just trying to build some ultimates for the time being.
And the wall's going to be the bigger fact here for Puerto Rico.
85%, there's the Sanctuary, aggressive use here from Jono, he jumps straight in, in fact double Sanctuary on the point right now.
point right now they do end up trading. Ashgrove rotating those shields, gets the
rock on the wall, doesn't hit Talisman. Beautiful deployment time there from
Puerto Rico. It should be the round just over with him and done. Ashgrove was the
only one anchor in the point at that time as Puerto Rico can't get it done on
the Wrecking Ball but get it done on the Sigma in the second round. And the
Symmetra was the big difference maker making life really difficult for
Ashgrove both on the Diba and on the Sigma as well. I mean the tanks have been
the story of the game so far, Ascro, the D.va player has been really strong to start off
this map, but as you can see, Chains just keeps racking up on the Sigma there as well.
But this Symmetra gameplay is just thrown Canada off guard a little bit there.
See how they can make any adjustments going into ruins here.
23 and 3.
Chains might be him.
This is what I love about the World Cup, Charles.
This is what I love about it.
You just, yeah, individual players just pop off and you get to know some of these players
So, I don't necessarily see in all the BCS as much.
Like, Chains just pop up from wrecking ball against Canada.
Okay, I'm up to see that.
Yeah, you do get these players that maybe don't have international recognition
or like, haven't had the chance to even be in like OWCS, right?
So, it's a big opportunity for players to kind of make a name for themselves
and then also hopefully find success after that.
You know what, Shane? Looking good so far.
I'm so low.
point unlocked but yeah unfortunately they're just getting a spam yeah goodbye chain unfortunately
stuck in the rock animation they're not just with an easy kill.
They're kind of just stuck indoors still have this Symmetra so you'd like to hit it somewhere
but like if you don't get the good teleporter first time around as the chicken prints they're
like here you're really just caught in the middle of nowhere like Puerto Rico was just
then I think on on a round like well like maybe have an easier time kind of like
flanking around here on ruins way more like mini or math I suspect you can go
down to some more spam and perguiko really struggling to keep up this
specific round in the last game. Spam comps how much you like him for that term?
Is that an actual question? Yeah, well how's it a bit of a thing?
Sometimes competitors just be saying stuff
I wasn't prepared to a philosophical composition about conversation about how much I like poke
I like poke but I like James freaking will even more. Yeah, I like this alone or more. Just get in there close like gap
Make sure much. You can doesn't die to spam randomly to raise a racist so close to garage by the way, too
In fact, you just got it as soon as I said that
You thank me for that one. All right, Jane
You gotta get in with the slam. You've got to basically force Cal Graveyard to hit teleports
So Talisman can kind of capitalize. They're gonna use this one strategy surge forward now
Can the paying it keys and stones they do in a back in up?
Talisman actually the shortest teleport of all time. They're calling it
But like little TP doesn't manage to get out as they're too afraid of the overclock at this point Johnny
Yeah, Puerto Rico
It's going to be a tough time nonetheless. You dominated on the breaking ball so far
But like, who do you really dive on?
I'm gonna get it for her in the time being, okay?
What a slam!
Okay, yeah, end of killing Razor,
delete that ult from the game, can't use that,
uh, until he returns.
They do have a train though, which is a little unfortunate.
And that makes chicken.
Time to shine on the high noon.
Now, everybody from Canada backing up.
Can Puerto Rico come back in?
Doesn't look like it, though.
A lot of space is created,
Ashwin does not let that point go over.
A good rock, actually!
Send Talisman to 1 HP,
picked up by Doxius,
and the solo flugs.
Pure disrespect from Astro.
As Jane comes back in for the final hurrah, gets shut down,
Barrage not required, Canada.
2-1 on Ilios.
Pick up the first map.
Yeah, the round kind of got away from Puerto Rico.
Obviously, favouring Canada's Poe Kevi style, they're on ruin, so...
Bit of a disappointing way to end that Ilios,
but overall, you know, good signs from Puerto Rico.
So it got some things going on both Lighthouse and Well,
but at the end of the day, it's going to be Canada
popping off once more noxious kind of quietly doing really well on headstand.
Obviously, he had a lot of room to operate that entire round, essentially 17 and 18.
16,000 damage. That's the highest in the lobby right there.
Yeah, real nice. Yeah, chain. Chain racking up three deaths on that last round.
That was more than the first two.
Oh, sorry, it doubled his first two rounds.
That was the coach gun.
That was real nice.
Yeah, the coach garden, especially with the little boat there was a little crazy. Um,
I would agree with you, Johnny Puerto Rico.
Good science here for the team. Regardless, we regardless of this kind of result here, we're expecting candidates to do very well.
We're expecting them to roll the word realistically, but even Puerto Rico taken maps.
I think that's a really good standard to set for the team. And I think you can be happy.
be happy or well okay it was around not a map but you get what i mean i think you can still be happy
with that going into the later maps we see how the they are not picking and banning as well i think
chain's actually going to be fairly hard to ban against maybe they just thought they'd plug it
into dps yeah i mean they have two kinds of compositions to go to right if they want to play
this wrecking ball they can try to force that because it's a sort of off or something like that
or uh you can throw things down with the sigma this is obviously a crucial match for Puerto Rico
because they essentially need to win and Brazil to meet Colombia for their best opportunity to qualify out of their group, right?
And so you're already down 1-0, but don't get it twisted. Puerto Rico, a lot of pressure on them to perform here.
Don't get it twisted, he's saying.
Yeah, Brazil are 0-2. They did end up taking a map off of Canada, so, you know, there's a chance here for Brazil to play upset over them.
you know, it's a little bit
different. We'll see if
Columbia, obviously end up
taking that match against
Brazil a little bit later, but
look Puerto Rico, um, going
by these kind of comps. I think
with the wrecking ball, especially
it has got a lot harder to play
the wrecking ball comps with the
additional musukey because the
chain is kind of crazy
against wrecking ball. It is
very good at locking people
in board these days you really have to have like an all-in comp and we're not
seeing something like a tracer either being picked so it's it's tough for
chain but he was doing a lot to be fair even if it was just him and like a Reaper
diving looks like we're gonna go to Kings Row for our next map that's Puerto Rico's
pick that's no wreckable here it's probably gonna be chain back on the
Sigma if I to guess yeah pretty interesting pick because Puerto Rico
they haven't played Kings Row so far in this group despite having every
opportunity to pick this map and so we cannot see what they what they got in
store for this one. Maybe we're gonna read them what the Canada can do as well and just
be like King's Row is the the superior map for them here but yeah breaking ball
not not the best King's Row is not the best map for breaking ball I think you
right about that analysis Jaws. Kingsman. Yeah I put my hardest work I put my
the team. I think it's a
team that's going to take
Queen's Weave. Honestly, that
would be like the ideal
scenario for them to come out
a second in the group. Group B.
Obviously, we haven't played
that many games. We've only
played two so far. So we have
a grand total of four still
remaining played over the
course of today and tomorrow.
Yeah, still a lot to learn
from group B. Play around
today and see what teams are
looking the strongest. Even
United States, you might look
at them and say, Okay, well,
they went three against Mexico,
that series, a lot of the positions that played quite proactively, aggressively put USA on
their back foot.
And so I'm looking forward to see what Magiskill can bring to a team like Gilead later on
today.
Yeah, I think that group's really a really good one to look at.
USA obviously are just going to sweep there.
I don't think they'll even drop a map.
I mean, the USA World Cup roster is so scary, man.
They've got free and Zera from Liquid.
They have all been infected.
They have and then they have free support. So like USA are like stacked head to toe. This is like the we want to win again
We're gonna aren't quite right it back Saudi won it last time, but we want to we want to run it in World Cup
And we want to take it to the finals again
They've already won it once so far. It has been a Korean dominated
Scene for the longest time at this point Saudi obviously with a big kind of upset at the previous World Cup Johnny
So USA they're building a team to win it this time around
I mean, we had an interview with Infected after the series, Infected said like, oh, we just started screaming like the day before.
And so I think they're quite comfortable here in the online qualifiers.
They're looking forward to Busan, obviously, a bit more pressure to actually qualify to BlizzCon from there.
But like you say, USA, they should be looking at a top four finish, the finals at BlizzCon.
Minimum, minimum. Hold on to it.
Puerto Rico with the first ban, a good man Farah, and a Kiri ban for Canada.
Okay, I'm interested if this Farah maybe just as well, you know, gets that out of the hands of
Razor, but also protects maybe like the Symmetra or something like that for yourselves, because I do
think that Puerto Rico, they showed some good heads-up play with that Symmetra at time, especially
on that well around, and so if they can kind of replicate that on King's Row here, channel their
best twisted minds performance.
Maybe there's an opportunity here for
to equal this series.
There's a big opportunity.
I was just a Puerto Rico's World Cup
roster.
I was just peeping the 2023, because that's
the last time they ended up playing World
Cup, or one of the only other times.
And there's a couple of returning players,
obviously.
We've got Ann Derp and Talisman.
But Ann Derp was playing, he's a flex this
time around, can play a little bit of
everything, but was playing DPS primarily
in that 20 23 World Cup which feels like roles here and there you know like I'm a support player
now I don't play tank that much you know so really that's just what you plan on support you
better see yeah I'm I like to chill you know I'm in my I'm in my 30s now I like to chill you know
I'm not I leave a tracer for other people like I'm not going to be playing tracer so I like to
sit back out I like to lose yo I like to miss you those kind of heroes you know like I'm not
stressing too much and so it's killing almost Vuki since what high APM yeah I
think the Suki is like chill like yeah you know use the doll you know push
forward go get some flags in there but for the most part it's pretty chill you
got the aura healing you know that's not like that's crazy yeah I was always thinking
the flail just going crazy yeah that too speaking of going crazy look at this
viewership incentives oh no way you got some drops on your screen right now I'm
I'm sure a couple of you have earned them already from the EU stream a little bit early on,
but you can still earn them here as well as tomorrow with some more games,
EMEA and America's rounding out the online qualifiers.
We're kind of, it feels like we're barreling through this in a way, Johnny,
with these online qualifiers because Busan only a couple of months away.
It's in August.
I mean, there is a lot of that, no DVCS, yes, yes, great.
Yeah, it's crazy, like we were just in Japan and we got the mid-season championship coming up,
We've got Busan, qualifiers, BlizzCon.
I just, it's kind of like a shock to the system
that we have so many Overwatch tournaments
and broadcasts going on.
And so, you know, the more Overwatch,
the better for everyone.
Yeah, don't forget as well.
You can support your region and your teams as well
going to the World Cup.
So we've got the crowdfunding bundles.
So when you purchase some of the bundles,
you get, well, a little bit of that money
goes towards the kind of overpriced pool as well,
which is fantastic stuff.
prayer icons, there's a little charm there as well and also
The skins too the music you want. I will say straight fire in the red. It looks great
But there's also a bundle giveaway too
So make sure you visit that link on screen or scan the QR code if you're too lazy to type that in
You've got a short form tick tock brain and then you can just scan the code
Yeah, you never you never know you never know so you might as well sign up
You know, I saw someone from Japan. They put took in one of these giveaways and then they met a reddit post about it
They're just like I didn't expect this but they just they they earned the pricing from the Japan giveaway. And so like that could be you
You wouldn't think it because it's such a small chance
But it actually does go to real people and if you're a real person sign up
It goes to real people instead of what like the omnics, bro
I don't know like, you know with the advancements of
GPT like who knows but that time is not yet
Yeah
Most relevant topic you've brought up with the broadcast so far
I'm trying man there was a pink issue for Canada so as you can tell we're doing our best broadcasting
Stalling impression and it's going horribly. It's going horribly, but we're gonna get into the game in just a moment
Canada and Puerto Rico, obviously.
Yeah, I think Canada's this now, I don't know.
I think you're doing great.
I am having a fantastic time with these beautiful Saturdays.
These beautiful Saturdays.
It's very warm today in LA.
It's going to be a nice time.
We can stay outside.
How awesome is that?
It's great.
No.
Don't send me back to the UK.
No.
It's a great filter over the UK when you enter.
So yeah, I don't want to.
The most exposure to rain I have is when I load into a watch
and it's like for a rainy kind of.
One of the rainy maps here when the rain you go into
Firstly not complaining
I'm not complaining about this either we're finally in Canada sorted their internet out or into or ping issues or whatever they had as
We load on in Canada on defense first Puerto Rico on offense double flex for Canada
It's got to be although the Kirikou Bam. We'll see what they've been into
Yeah, we'll see what they got in store again. I think Canada there's such a great job
leading into the angles they were taking, you know, it's like beating down the enemy teams and that's kind of what they've done so far.
That's why they have a 2-0 record here in this group.
And I think if you're a relatively new team, you know, put together for the purpose of qualifying here in the World Cup,
it could be one of those compositions that you're maybe not that well practiced against,
like maybe you're more familiar playing as Brawl compositions, maybe you're more familiar playing as Lucio Keery.
So when Canada buzz out the double flex support here with Anna and Wu Yang
You know, there's a different kind of pace being thrown at you and because of the level these players play at
It's just so difficult to adapt in the moment to all the poke coming your way
But Puerto Rico they're not to find a way here as my chicken looks the bastard
Bastion just a bastion. Okay. No
Okay, well I guess kind of on the ground we're gonna be using that TP to get a
bash in good places. Double flex support for Canada, they got Wuyang for
Graveyard, Cow on Ana. I like Razor on the May too when it was a lot of May and
when Razor was playing OBCS like it was kind of fun on the May so we'll see how
well they can do and especially like trying to take these high grounds.
Razor is gonna be such a thorn in the side or an icicle in the side I should say.
Look at that.
Um.
Great job.
Who's this warrior?
Nice CP.
Oh!
Fraser gets rocked.
What a rock!
Wow, it couldn't even out ice block there, sadly, but they lost their main toss of damage
now, sadly.
It's a graveyard with a kill onto McChicken after all of that spam.
Good sleep on the Sigma, but false ends are going down.
This sim is terrifying for Puerto Rico.
That should be the first point.
Yeah, great job by Puerto Rico, and we'd be remiss to mention, of course, a false something
for Astro, a false historic tank player, of course,
have been played on Vancouver Titans and such.
That's your bingo card right there, Vancouver Titans.
Obviously, it's a bit of a specialist on a hero
like Sigma has, well, but tough going for Canada
there as Puerto Rico.
Doing another great job with this another teleporter here,
making a play happen.
Yeah, OK, Reds is like, yeah, not today.
I don't want to get teleport on.
So it's going to switch over to the Echo.
And the chicken's switching off fashion.
I think that's a smart pick. You're not playing Bastion in this corridor. There's just no way
You're gonna get spanned out you go to our form Sigma's gonna eat all your stuff and then you will find
Yeah, we need the cat is what we need to do
That's the thing with the cat cat with a jetpack
All right, how's post this that it might not be enough actually safe also good Nate actually ends chains life
Eventually here, but it's still gonna be
Canada peddling back. It is an even trade of course. Razor maybe even calling for a
Nanna for Cal. He's looking towards his play. Can I? Yes they're gonna go for it.
Oh the chicken ends up actually taking out Noxious for the... Shane's actually from
Razor stops it or onto Razor. Sorry, stops him from propelling forward after
that first pick onto Jono. Yeah, they're confident kind of play there by Canada
trusting Razor to pull that off. Only gets to one frag and it's going to allow
Puerto Rico to keep moving this payload as he gets back here. Like chicken?
From pick on the Calibur doesn't quite get it, but do we conceal it?
You know a decent sized ultimate bank here, so try to push forward and run this corner Jaws.
He won, the chain there is the orb.
He's gonna go with the razor, he's trying to get some of the knockdowns, he meshes to get one there, but
Chains flux ends up helping with the kill on the razor. Sanctuary toys the payload as well, means Hander once again, just holding the Eski.
They've not helped W this entire time, Johnny, permanently on the back, but there's noxious now behind them.
Same with the graveyard, both really weak, so they can't really be an influential factor in this fight.
An orbital... Okay, well, that was an array of all time, but you know what?
Four minutes and 55 seconds, you're chilling with that one, yeah?
It's kind of like using your ultimate before you die and swap to a different hero.
It's just like, well, you secure the checkpoint, you always have that on.
So, yes, objectively bad orbital rate, but hey, we're on 2.3.
Okay, cool next
They're not only on point three the banks should get this high ground as well away from
Orson Canada to kind of poke their way out it gives Puerto Rico enough time to get around to this final
Ben which is I mean insane amount of
Maybe just maybe
It's so hard to heal the
Sojourn up there if your channel and up as well you're hoping for them to go for a brief jump
But the chickens sniked away by Cal.
I mean, I don't even know how the geometry works, but the chicken was anti-knitted as well.
So Cal obviously hit the biotic grenade somehow onto that high ground,
and that just wasn't enough to secure the pit onto that kicker there.
So a huge play from Cal, actually.
And that's kind of what you need with this Canada composition.
A lot of poke from their side, but they haven't found enough picks yet to really put Puerto Rico to a stop.
Cal's gone Ana too.
Hit this wall from Talisman and looks good on Ilios, will it look good again?
2 HP, Chain! Oh my goodness! And then hits the grasp by the way.
Wow that was as close as it gets really.
Rodrigo kinda wanted to never have won with a Waker, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah they would love that one. I can't lie, that might have just been the-
OH WHAT UP NOO!
Oh no! Chain!
Absolutely Sculved! And they use wall too, that is.
A disaster class unfortunately, but it's there for Puerto Rico, and it's brewed up.
Wow, devastating, third point for Puerto Rico, so sorry.
It's just one unfortunate fight after the next.
Still three minutes in the bank though, this is what you get, because you did such a good job early on.
You still have a gravitic flux, you're coming up with a support ultimate, that's as well here, so I hope it's not lost yet.
Racer on the high ground here, oh what a, wow, what a destructive shot.
brain. End up sniffing Razer out. They want the Echo Die Bombing, one shotting someone.
And a poor Flux hits two. And Noxious sniped out of the sky, but Chicken had a rail ready
and waiting for them. Well, they're the beam and then straight up into this captive sun.
Just chunking down chain. He's already used all of his cooldowns, by the way, so it has to kind
of take an off angle now to get re-healed up. Officer Ray coming up in just a moment, Johnny,
as well as that Sanctuary hits Puerto Rico. They've got no overwhelming left of holds,
but Razer could really turn the tides here with the salt. Oh, there's an A in the front line.
Yeah, there's got shield. This should be shield. Here's the rage on E now. Puerto Rico moving forward.
Razer very low, needs this. Dupre Noxious is already down. Razer's too much damage, too much healing.
If they kill false here, it could be all over. Double Sigma on the point, but look at that.
Sanctuary placed down for Puerto Rico. Razer has to jump on in as the chicken is made up for it.
He's made up for those high noons earlier on. A triple kill for the Soge. Make sure Puerto Rico
They'll cap the point with time to spare.
Woman in 53 in that bank.
They're a massive prop support to Rico,
the way they're playing right now.
The ultimate layering, looking really good,
the way they use one support ultimate at a time there
to maintain a consistent advantage over Canada.
And the reason I reacted to the biotic grenade
so strongly was because for Rico,
they're obviously waiting for like the perfect timing
to start that ultimate rotation,
to drop the first ultimate,
but that biotic grenade had the potential
just secure a pick for Canada and stop Puerto Rico in their tracks. It's not going to yield
value for Canada at the end of the day. It's going to be a Puerto Rico capping King's Row here,
with a pretty solid two minutes to go as well. They were looking quite dominant on the Sigma
composition so far. Yeah, honestly, looked really good. Been changing a lot as well on that second
point getting a lot of like pretty high impact kills on the Sigma decent rocks as
well can't on their offense Puerto Rico kind of sticking with the same sort of
thing although talisman on May now and more sim I think may is gonna be way
better here sim kind of useless on the defense sure you can like TP away you
can keep it to the high grounds but may way better in terms of utility yeah it
depends on who you talk to right because twisted minds would be like well
just teleporting to their spawn. Well actually, you could just TP on Blackpine and then you
teleport into the cinema and then you take the high ground behind them and you do the
flip-a-roo and then you put your hitscan in a great position. So, there's Symmetra.
You can't all be world champions, okay, Twisted Minds, come on.
Alright, alright, they set a standard. Now everyone's going to be in the top grade.
It's like Razer's happy sticking all the echo. Don't know about either.
Yeah real close to going down. Noxious on the Hanto, this is our class to go.
I'm off a little bit of a punch of gameplay when I get to see it.
I thought I didn't know what I was saying.
A lot of skill being in the street right there.
Hopefully Noxious is watching Tree Volts.
We're in the best Hanto in North America right now.
Not probably is.
Just straight up in.
WarChain. Chains a bit of an odd spot here, Johnny.
He's in hotel while Canada have just kind of freely taken his high ground.
If they force Tarzan to block or get off at this height, I mean, it might be over.
Nox just also kind of retaking all straight into this dropped shot, though.
The easiest kill of a changed career.
And as they end up shutting down the defense, Tarzan's been held on for this entire time, by the way.
This is two players.
Yeah, I think that's harder than it looks for Puerto Rico. They sit back.
They didn't give Noxious an opportunity to hit any of those logs in the first place, right?
Like, we looked at Noxious's POV and it's just like, okay, well, you're throwing logs, not really hitting anything, but
it's because Puerto Rico is doing a great job at not making those angles, at not making themselves vulnerable.
And then when Canada does make a move, you saw a razor pushing in on the Echo there,
that's when Puerto Rico kind of, they take their turn and they push forward and they make a play again.
So Puerto Rico, another great job by them, very composed right now for this defense.
Flux first off Puerto Rico imagine here that captive son just unlocked for graveyard
There it is captive son office if he goes down as well
Just a hail fire of arrows and it feels like this captive son wasn't even needed
I mean graveyard end up popping the old and then they went up dying
So that'll be Canada taking the point Puerto Rico. They fell flat on their faces
Changes start unable to really grasp hold of that last fight after that sleep that you mentioned
yeah Cal making a play for his team and that's essentially not don't do it to
them stop stop I won't do it to him there's a
shoot okay this is a machine
out of my wall haha just in case we don't want a round of arrow hit my head
that would be very dishonest overwatch right there because I took a loan to the
case in a World Cup online qualifier I don't want to see that it's like Wemby's
missed pass yesterday so you can't just see it. Yeah he is so true, I guess, FDA guys.
That's not good. That's even better actually. Wow! Nice little collapse there! Oh the rock!
These were all from balls, cancelling chains ultimate. Oh there's a pilot that's going to go
down like this, but this is in the choke point as well. Easy, kill, odds are false,
they're running him down. Cow trying to go for the 1v1. Oh he still keeps at him!
Wait, a Noxious goes with Chiggy? Wait, these trades aren't supposed to happen like this.
Oh dear, what a Rico they ended up losing to just in the kind of chaos and the breakdown there.
Kandere gonna go Riga real quick and they got all the pushes too.
Kandere's going to be so gassed.
Yeah, Perth Riga should take their time here. Just wait for the spawners to get back so you get a proper fight.
You have a lot of ultimates here.
The Sanctuary can't be underestimated. It's such a powerful ultimate to block all of this spam coming in from Canada.
So, Canada with ultimates here, but Janna with the Sanctuary could flip the tide of this ultimate fight.
injury here for Puerto Rico, as Razer just takes over the game. A team kill for Canada
too should be able to get his payload in, no problem.
Yeah, kind of brute forcing their way into that fight with the NANO, just pushing in,
securing the fight necessary. That's going to be it, Puerto Rico. Despite them having
a Juno Speed Ring, I don't think they're going to get back to this point, because Jane had
a pretty late spawn there, so they have to look towards the third point as well. Three
minutes 30 for the time back here for Canada so very high likelihood here that
Puerto Rico still going to that war time back shooting can't even push it into
the first place but I'm over here over the way nice name again it shouldn't
matter almost rain captive Sun though doesn't have any good one I believe is
the mate the day nation night I did end up hearing it there but no initial kill
off of that it's big chicken what's wrong with this overclock gonna shut down
two players. The chicken looking way different here on the Dissojo Johnny compared to Cassidy.
Oh that DPI too. This is nasty work.
Look at the chicken. Who would have thought? Who would have thought?
Look at the whole player that looked chicken hitting rails like Merritt.
I mean it's beautiful to watch. There's still a little blister here. Flux.
4th, 4th, 3rd, we're going into this next fight so do a good job for the moment.
McChicken did his work with the overclocked.
There's a flux for chain, gotta be careful though, this time maybe hopefully making another
roll gets paid out for all of this fight by a couple like this.
No dodge. Nice little dragon striker trying to
sear up this wound, Johnny, but unfortunately Gregg has already gone down.
So on that mega health pack as well, but clearly no extra heals there to help out the Alari.
I can't let her here, kind of waiting, by doing their time to go for another non-appreciate
home to base on the zombie, good name, that's meant to be the trigger.
Yeah, being straightened as well through that brass, there's going to get a lot of extra
over health though, it's changed, Lizzie comes out in defense, false ends up getting instantly
frozen, good focus by her from Puerto Rico again, how's it been, Lizzie's been very
good so far, isolating false, that's two times in a row.
Yeah, I love Puerto Rico. They're doing a good job making sure the Canada are in fighting these pigs.
I mean, that was a non-autoracer and...
Good.
Essentially no value because Puerto Rico are doing such a good job of staying together,
playing on the payload with this May,
keeping Canada back and so.
Just like Canada is always trying to make a play with this poke-in decomposition they have about Puerto Rico,
like you said, with the May, with the Sigma.
All these defensive tools is just buying them enough time to...
um, endure some of these fights.
Oh, the movement there was just wonderful from FALSE.
Hopping down the sanctuary though to make sure Chank actually stays alive just by being anti.
Duplication onto the mainfall razor, looking to earn a free Ablizzus.
Just a right kick from the high ground doing a lot of damage, but no free blizzard can be had.
In fact, Port Orico again taking over, and despite you enforcing a good flux,
that sanctuary from Jono really helped to win the fight negating all those projectiles
by damage to change it to 5.
This is just a crazy good hero, Jaws.
Yeah.
We went from, like, Misunuki,
it's not being pretty in the pro meta
to, like, being really strong.
Yeah, look, the Sanctuary buff was huge,
but you're just seeing the value that Sanctuary
is getting now, and gating all these projectiles, right?
And this is Puerto Rico now.
30 seconds to go for Canada. We're seeing a...
Oh my god, it's the Hansel Genji
iconic damage hero.
My guy's on Genji.
Alright, here's the capture zone already into the back home. There is the Genji looking for a target here on time. It's gonna be perfect
Oh, oh, oh, there's the dead nation and up down. No ray. Dragon's good for a kill on to Talisman as well
Canada with 10 seconds to go Johnny, but they're not finishing in time
It's gonna be a free attack if Canada managed to finish me Puerto Rico has the ultimates
You cannot put a stop to Canada right there with a way over clock from our chicken. That's something to fear in theory
This is unloosable right now for Puerto Rico now
They're boost onto post to try and hold the door there is gonna be no pop from a chicken needs to find a shot
He ends up getting a body shot double time with graveyard
This is gonna get popped down as well so folks ends up falling over and they've still got this all with a ratio use as well
Noxious racer Shimada brothers end up coming up with kills, but it is all Puerto Rico
They've got all the ults. They got all the time and that's Puerto Rico taking Kings Row Johnny. This is what a piece
All right, Puerto Rico comes to play here in their final group stage match against Canada
They look good already on alias, but they get an opportunity here on their own map pick of Kings road to secure a win
against Canada and like
You know dominating here on the Sigma composition. That's something to worry about if you're Canada moving forward
They're actually
Crazy what from Canada their ultimate rotations have been so good and again, I think the leech ring has been
the front line for Team Puerto Rico. I think Chains looking good ones. Look at 30 and 5, 15K damage.
Just spamming a lot of the SIG, of course, so you're going to have high damage.
But still, I mean, only five deaths. That looks real good for Chains.
McChicken 39 hitting 11K damage. Really good picks with the overclock.
I think he ever played very well on Team Puerto Rico side.
So we jump into the highlights from this one.
I mean even this just his first attack Johnny. It was sublime. It looks so simple
Yeah, I think it's really impressive especially in the World Cup when these teams have like really good chemistry and
Synergy with each other because I think that's the hardest or sometimes to get right obviously
These guys are playing at the very top level in Overwatch
So they're all really skilled at the game
But you know, they have a good flow to the game as well
Especially like ultimate layering like I mentioned previously
Like, Puerto Rico doing a really good job with their ultimate layering, making sure they always get ultimate value, because if you throw out like a couple of ultimates per round, that maybe you stack ultimates on top of each other, that's going to affect the entire rest of the game.
Like, we saw the orbital ray come out from under when it wasn't really necessary. That's a huge ultimates, and that's going to kind of trickle down the effects of that, are going to trickle down for the rest of the round.
So I think the fight in Puerto Rico, they're getting so much ultimate value, having come
together here for the World of Qualifier.
I think that's a really good sign of a team that is really gelled together.
And they're now kind of overperforming, one might say, as a component of my countup.
Yeah, I completely agree, I think Canada are expecting to run through the group, but
Puerto Rico putting a little stick in their spokes, we'll see if they can kind of continue
this.
Obviously Canada are still top of the group and the reality is there is maybe like a
one percent chance they end up
don't making it to the van in
Busan, but Puerto Rico is all to
play for still that second spot
very open against Columbia,
whose match against Brazil is
going to decide a whole lot.
Yeah, so pretty curious to see
where we go next here for
Canada because based on what we've
seen so far, it's going to be
the Rado makes sense.
Dying heavy math enables that
double flex support line up here
as well. And also, I think it
kind of plays into the Diva as
well. I think that's the best
look that Canada has to Diva
game play from Astro as a team like Puerto Rico because they are really strong hero right
now and if the enemy team can't really match the power of the diva, the tank advantage
can just be sometimes too much for the enemy team.
So, Gerardo, that's the power of the team here.
Yeah, Arn has been banned as well for team counters so like they can't have that sound
against them so Kala is going to be chilling on that pick.
They can play Dive, they can play the Sigma again, we'll see if her force ends up sticking
It was like you're talking about the Alari. Yeah, they don't want like they's double like hard hitting flexible duo the Alari in the honor
I'd be a little genome. I'd be little Ciri for graveyard maybe with cows to go in the honor sigma band for Canada, so they
They're happy and like saying hey, we've been sick like chain
Maybe four someone's the wrecking ball. We're happy to take a dive mirror. No a little quicker
I like this path, I think it changed it very well, but on the signal on the last map.
Alright, I'm going to make a plea right here.
A hero we haven't necessarily seen too much in the meta.
Give me some Winston Overwatch.
Come on.
Hey, come on.
Let's go.
Let's go see some Winston Overwatch.
It's gonna work.
It, I mean, surely we see Winston if Astro is here.
Actually, I can't play ball as well.
Asteroid is kind of a ball player, a little ball merchant.
Asteroid plays everything, like hyper flex, but for tank.
Yeah, that's true.
I mean, also, I was just thinking too hasty.
I mean, fairly good historically, on the Rado.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, look, maybe I'm open minded to all heroes being played here in the World Cup.
I very much feel like a bingo card.
Like, I want to see them all get played.
Oh, that's what we need, man.
I mean, it's a bingo card. Well,
if someone's out there, please,
if you can hear us.
bingo, please, folks of Astros.
So, or folks out. Sorry, Astro.
in. No, thanks. Astro ball or
Winston. Well, it's got to be
sure. I mean, Jane probably
baseball here. I mean, we have
So
I love to see some wrecking ball play as well, you know
Junbin did a fantastic job in the pan to demonstrate some wrecking ball play
So I'm happy chain is carrying on that legacy here
His chain the Puerto Rican
No, that's the question. Is he the Puerto Rican German? His ball look pretty good
Puerto Rican Junbin we can't do that
Yeah, why not? It could be. It could just be him on the record board. I mean, you never know.
At that point though, to be fair, to be the Puerto Rican jibbit, you have to play hog on like
some insane map like on a control to be fair. So not there just yet, but you know what?
Okay, I don't want to play spoilers. That was a very fun suggestion by you,
and I don't want to play spoiler to it and get down or too much. And so I'll let Twitch chat
decide. If Twitch chat want to go with Puerto Rican jibbit then I'm all for it.
You know, this is all about having fun. It's to work up online qualifiers. We're having a great old time this Saturday. So if that sticks, I'm all for it.
There you go. There you go. Mega happen. Canada, they are going to choose the Toronto after that loss on King's Row. And a very decisive win, too, I'd say, for Puerto Rico side, finishing with almost like two minutes, right?
And then also burning the clock down for Canada. I think they had incredible discipline when it came to the old. So we'll see if the same can be said for Toronto. With the Sigma Band, though, it's going to be quick.
It's going to be fast. It's going to be furious. And there's a great man once said, sometimes if you win by an inch or a mile, it don't matter. Winning's winning.
And if Puerto Rico find a win here, then they're one step closer to Busan, Johnny.
Here we go.
Street's the same. If you don't get the reference, I'm far enough. I can't have you join.
Puerto Rico on the defense with chain and no ball. Unfortunately, it's going to be the ramp.
Oh my god, this Hassard call for me would be generational.
I just, it has a good pick on this man.
Yeah, look, I agree with you, but I was in the Winston camp right there.
I just wanted to see some Winston gameplay.
Is that too much to ask for?
No, I mean, I would prefer Winston, take it your own, but, but it has a very powerful,
very good, very good on the, it's first point especially being up to like wall people off.
Yeah, I mean, oh, let's go. Oh, let's go. Come on. That's surely that's what I'm talking about. How has to play on it here?
That's what I'm talking about. Okay, Winston, it is. Let's go. Winston gaming.
This is Pico. Sit back, relax. Take it in. It might just be, it is P.
Double flex support. Winston. Winston on a gaming. Here we go.
We go with Johnny. We're so back. It's 2016 again
Team Canada has sure for pokelo's ID huck golf and logan the best
I did I knew sure pause on that team, but
Rolls as well. Not the red. I forgot about the red.
I know, yeah, Manga 2. X-Mankooby Titan's playing. Wait a second here. It's all coming
around. It's all coming around. McChicken dying to a dynamite into a direct rocker there
from Razor. Really nice start. Canada. I mean, against this Winston comp. Oh, for
Puerto Rican. Like, you have to almost go a little bit quicker, because the Winston is
just gonna poke, get poked out, and then you're gonna instantly die to Spira. It's gonna be
so tough. This Reaper from Talisman you just kind of get in the mix. Yeah this is a really
scary prospect for Reaper because you probably feel like you're just trying to make sense
of what Canada are playing right now and just trying to find a way that you can utilize
this Remarker Reaper Composition to find an edge and just rock to die and all this
programming from Canada. It's going to be Cal, building towards this Nono, filling up
Astral on the window. When that Nono is built it's essentially go time. This is the most
Dorado of all Dorado's guys. We're gonna take that. Oh, unlucky.
Unlucky. We're gonna take the high ground and then build nano like this is the most Dorado player of all time
Yeah, actually calling out the chicken. You got to stop man
We cannot feed this on a nano which you just got so here we go
Nice there's nano rush is getting exploited everything. They're actually bought off the heels with the bowl nice stuff from astro and
Winston gaming Johnny
This is Dorado played at its finest.
Ten years in, I just can't get enough of it. I just can't get enough of some decent gameplay.
Like, kill the Nato, throw the Nato to Winston, and let the Winston go to work. What more do you want?
It's cinema. It really is.
I mean, what could Puerto Rico do there, Johnny? I mean, yeah, they've got the rush, right?
But like, Astro jumps in, separates people with a bubble, because McChicken and Talisman are not often off-angle,
an off angle, trying to poke out the Winston, poke out of the else, it's a hard
come to deal with it if you're not playing quicker or if you're not playing to
die yourself. I mean 100% I'm not too sure about this
rematch are being played right now because I think it's so weird for your
tempo after team, like you're kind of just forced to sit back, you know, absorb
some of this damage and then you can push around with it as you carry, but like Canada's going to have the edge of you every single time.
Rushing on the high ground like this, I mean yeah, where's the reaction here from
chain there really isn't one. He's playing the high ground right now, high noon for chicken,
might want to drop off the edge, he's going to try and find a Winston, the bob ends up
killing Ande up though. Nice shot onto Astra with the high noon, Sambarri comes in as well,
but the high ground control for Canada just being manned by Bob. There's still five players
available for Canada with Bob being one of them. Top deathblossom from Talisman does
in the killing cow, but still Canada with height.
This is so expensive for Puerto Rico because they don't have any positioning whatsoever.
They're kind of forced to invest in some of these individual fights to try and make something happen
But like an open up to get up to it. That's really not good enough
The um, the analysis is going to be tough here Jaws, and I think it's quite frankly just chain watch and swap at the end of this life
Yeah, I mean you had to do it to survive there too. You saw his nemesis form running out and it's like well if I don't use it
I'm dead literally everybody's been bubbled off as well
High ground control best place for Puerto Rico to be right now
Now the barrage from Razor could put a little damper in their spirits.
I don't think it was noxious though.
Okay, is the small ball rolling?
We'll see if this can tumble down here and get even bigger here in Canada with the final
raid.
Ashrow is going to go in, pop himself into bank and the high ground control once again
taken by Team Canada.
Jono falls to graveyard, they're still in this one with Shane looking rather sad and lonely
now down on the point.
Got a nano.
Let's go a time again for Astro.
The racers got this Perosh as well. It's gonna hover above it. Utilize this Perosh as soon as Mercury gets out.
Nani, no, no, no! Perosh is in that a Varajus right now.
Chain Card survived that. There's just no way. Bob would separate everybody as well, and that will be all that she likes.
Uh well, Canada are gonna take this point.
Two minutes in the time, Bang turns into three and a half there for Team Canada.
And, Chane- yes, there we go. Okay, eventually swapping away from the ram, straight to the hazard.
Disastro mix decision.
Counter Swap
All right fair enough we haven't seen a lot of recent in meta here as well
But seeing the enemy tanks will go to the hazard besides
So I'm gonna pay the Orisa to try and contest the high ground here price you there is some space for not just on the ash here
Perhaps that's kind of a rolling right now. They come up on a kitchen rush as well
That's gonna be pivotal in this kind of round the battle. We're bound to see between tanks
But make chicken massive pick up the notches. Yeah, there you go. Go in quickly. Okay, and now it's their turn
Good double hit from Cal though. That's been so much. Oh my cow
He's just too good man. I'm telling you how is a beast
Double kill for the honor already just stick on this play with these three entire time the entire time
We can't be good. Look at this guy. Thank you server. He's gonna get all the door. Don't go away. Okay?
Okay, so good who chicken ends up kind of savoring them there, but unfortunately. Yeah team Canada's roll that payloaded. I
I mean, okay, but I'm bringing it back Johnny slowing it down a little bit if you look at kind of the comps and
The maps well to be fair. I think with dive it really does separate
The very best from the best I think when it comes to dive comps and kind of dealing with them
It is the difference maker the differential
I think with Canada and how experienced I would like Cal and Astro and being on their best heroes like
It's tough for Puerto Rico with that Sigma ban. I think Kahn did a good job coming into this map
banning the SIG away from chain, which could have been the thing that shuts down the Winston,
which is normally very good at and holding these highgounds very effectively.
The rematch it is just not it really.
Yeah, because I'm Swedish, I cannot feel sympathetic towards these teams sometimes.
And I look at Puerto Rico's defense there and I go, at what point did they really have a team fight
that they felt good about. Win or lose, like, did they have a teamfight that they felt really good about?
And to me the answer is just like no. They were always on the back foot, always trying to adapt to what Canada were already playing.
And they couldn't really get a good teamfight going.
That's obviously credit to Canada for the composition they're playing, the preparation going into this round itself.
And Puerto Rico's surprise. But I think that's for Puerto Rico. It looks horrible to get capped out on the road with 2 minutes 20 to go here.
But I don't really want to hold it too much against them here.
That was just a very tough game to score them.
And Ashe has a Wrecking Ball.
So Puerto Rico's game pioneer is just gonna TP around via nuisance.
But I mean the problem against the Wrecking Ball here is
if there's one way Ashe can control the team fight, that'll make the most difference is
hitting slams like this on like a transitioning team.
Puerto Rico want to transition to high ground, to run a transition to low ground,
we're gonna get to like across choke points, right?
An Astro can just be just such a pain, I mean, look at that.
But the Sim just struggles so much against the Taniqa.
Yeah, I just said it.
I mean, it even felt good for a minute there because you got to pick on the Cal,
but Astros just doing the work.
Gornas of the Ana being missing at this part.
And then you gotta be careful of nades too.
It's just it's just tough Johnny. Yeah, they're taking things slow
This is good though because you have to kind of look like take things slow here
And you have that one teleporter to try and put yourself in a good position
You will maybe can flip them out of the enemy team is fairly vulnerable
Susan's gonna save the day but they managed to separate chain from the rest of the team
Shade's gonna have to slow things down just a moment, but look at the spam damage too.
Oh, the good Conk as well onto the low ground. I think crazy honorable people is just playing points.
I think they can expect the support to be that close.
Quick TP to high ground, here's our pastro.
Yeah, maybe a bit over the middle, everyone's going for the Pharah right there.
Because as soon as Canada sees a teleport come through,
So Rodrigo is going to pressure the far up, but Canada is going to swing in from the different angles
And just say like okay if you're going to push our far up, then we're going to stab you in the back
of the canine. That's exactly what Greyjoy did right there. So Canada, go get heads up play here.
Recognize where Perth Rico is playing and where they're pushing to try and get the advantage with the angle somewhere.
It's a ball off Johnny. It's actually deathmatch right now.
I'm trying to swap though.
Looking alive? Yeah. He did. Okay. Well, I can't hide you actually.
Astro ends up earning the mines, of course, over the last couple of fights, but I like this
swap for Puerto Rico. Like, you're not gonna win with the ram there, or any kind of slow comp.
Astro briefly chained up, but now can try and almost execute someone in the back line with
these mines in the slam. Yeah, that's exactly why I think this is the way to go here, but
this is maybe a little bit too late. They're gonna have a lot of tools here up their sleeve.
Not this one?
Four damage, you can do this as well.
What?
My talisman?
Where did my reaper guy go?
I mean, you get destroyed because there's so much damage coming in from everywhere.
There's a Pharah poking you and Ash.
The ball is just all over the place and so,
Talisman probably thinking,
there's no damage you found in the narrow choke point right there?
Well, jokes on you, there definitely is.
So, Puerto Rico, still no position whatsoever here.
I don't have to use an ultimate here to push up and try to scare Ken at all.
Yeah, and it's not someone that can parameterise the point as well.
NANO on to Farah.
Oh, the sleep in midair, did you see that?
Cal hit the sleep on McChicken midair.
Rota can nap at, like, 3,000 feet altitude and then instantly hit with a barrage.
That was disgusting little play.
And with the NANO barrage being used, it's like, that's fine.
We still have barge, we still have bomb as well, just stall out for you two to send it into the backline
when you try and, like, rotate onto the point.
like dude it's it's a looking die a taskman now even on the tracer trying to
tell you for this yeah they're just trying to speed up the game any way they
can to try and keep up with what can't also throw in their way but 10 seconds
ago here you've got a touch the point you have support ultimate spot these
two mines can't also consider us just very difficult for 33 complexity here
look at their shot they come to my master on the stairs with Susie Sanchu's gonna
The opponent's lobbed, but Talisman instantly killed by the mines.
And Bob's skill level went down.
Chain though, with a reversal.
Double mine, kill for Chain, but Bob finished his chain off.
Still whatever we hear though for Puerto Rico, but they won't still deal with Astro.
The mines doing the most in this fight for either team, he doesn't mean the mines, but the most kills.
Astro eventually though, cleaning this one up, Canada.
Sitting at 2-1 now after the win on Dorado.
That was a disgusting performance.
That's the kind of map that you bring with you to Busan as well.
And you're just like, look at what Canada did here with the Rado.
This is why we don't want to go to this map,
because they just sort of dominates right there on the Rado.
That was disgusting.
Yeah, look, nice double-flex score too. That looked real clean.
I think we've set the good map pick, good bang.
Astro, flick score. Look at that.
To do it all, 25 and 1. 25 and 1?
I don't know, man.
That is crazy.
We're going to have to get
on the ball. No less. And on
the Winston. Yeah, dominant
map straight up already was
breakdown. Honestly, after that
one, we jump into some highlights,
but it was just so Canada
focusing. Realizing that You know
what, Puerto Rico. They can't beat
us on the dive. If we ban
Cig. I don't mind the record
from chain. I think you did
the gate. Yeah, it's scary, right? That's what I got Cal here.
Dude, call me guys.
That's a great demonstration of what Canada wants to do, because if you look at some of the
performances before on the group stage, you know, like the kings were always up previously.
They lost to the peninsula earlier on in their group stage, like very narrow, close
cornered kind of maps. This is a lot of us where they're able to play freely and play to their
absolutely strength. And again,
the force is like this. The
mines fight at the end were
like Ashra got two killed
saying got two kills of the
mines like the half the lobby
dying to just stationary
explosives. You love to see it.
Canada offer onto match point
now vote Johnny Puerto Rico get
the chance to choose and one
thing worth keeping in mind for
Puerto Rico, even if they lose
and take us to map 5. Yeah that's that's I would love to see that then forcing
map 5 I mean we get map picked of their own here like maybe you go towards
something like a new jump city that's that's favoring your Sigma style so far
and obviously some bands have been deployed from Canada already and so
Puerto Rico they definitely have a chance to force one of these maps that
would favor them a lot more than the Dorado we just saw here so I'm not
counting them out to force a map pick map 5 rather we'll have to see where we're
going next here. Where are we going? Brutus Suppy! Okay, I mean, yeah, slow comps, very
doable. Wind Snow Vought still very doable, very doable. Brutus Suppy is probably one
of the more open maps when it comes down to it. It's gonna be the first push all day as
well. We didn't have a push in EMEA, which is kind of crazy. Yeah, I feel like everyone
loves push, so it's gonna go to, not all different teams here, but you know when you think about
like the mapping so far in the series very much makes sense towards slider team style.
Runosopy though, it's I find it a quite neutral map. Like you can get away playing a lot of
different stuff here. We see you want some kind of speed on these push maps, you can get back to
robot forces when it fights as possible, but for the most part like a lot of different playstyle
is available for you. Yeah, absolutely. We'll see how Runosopy fares Puerto Rico can't have the
have the signal either. So maybe you're just going to roll with the six straight out the
game. It's really good on King's row. Just slow the pace down a bit. But well, to be
fair, Canada, if the if the slow pace is kind of brought the table by Puerto Rico, you can
just have the Ellari and the honor played from Canada. So there's that problem. Yeah,
I think Puerto Rico, they'd be quite happy to roll up with the Symmetra again, because
then they can get on top of these back lines that Canada would throw out them. I'm curious
to see what racer is going to play here. It's going to be more of the farra stuff because we've seen quite a bit of farra being paid on the minisoppy.
Did you know that from Puerto Rico? Maybe protect that in a bit more support there as well.
I'm gonna make sure they're able to pay their Miss Sukey call.
Cassidy is found for Canada here. Look, I'm just saying, Jack, just back down to Bastard. Come on.
I'm getting ahead of myself. I just really want to see just back down to Bastard.
We haven't had it. Like, we had the Bastion. But it was just Bastard. We didn't have the can.
I don't care what the chat says. I'm not going to hide the fact that I love watching
Jethra and Kat Basteren for a minute. At some point it won't be as good as it is right now.
So I'm just trying to seize on the moment, seize on the balance patch and try to see as much Kat Basteren as possible before it inevitably falls away.
He's living in the moment chat. I am living in the moment. Enjoy the present. Enjoy the present. Kat Basteren.
It is, I will say, I wasn't a hater, but I was much more on the bench of like, well, if we see it perma, it's gonna be kind of meh.
But from what we saw, at least in like Tokyo, which is Tokyo, like, teams started to move away from Katbashin.
There was a little bit, but it wasn't like perma, so it's actually, we're in a good spot, Johnny.
I'm yeah, if we see it, I'm happy if we don't I'm happy as well
This man is actually turning out to be quite fun a lot of things being played
I mean and a lot of tanks being played to which is normally the sign of a very healthy meta when the tanks right a lot of
vitals
Exactly so little wins and
Cinema alright, so look Canada match point versus Puerto Rico
That's three of course so right now Puerto Rico they need to win here and then we'll go on to a flash point
And we already see chain hopper in the segment
Yeah, this has been the best style for Puerto Rico so far with Talisman onto the Symmetra as well
If you're Canada you kind of have to expect this out the gate
It's going to be a race from that far out like I mentioned going into the map as well
And so I think anything too surprising here as from the wrecking ball
I suppose
It's not every day that you see working ball play here on runa soppy because you know it is
Quite close cornered at the end of the day here, but see if Canada can make it work
I'm quite scared about Cal being under a lot of pressure here
So have to be played quite cautiously and maybe doesn't have the same line of sight for those better grenades
Yeah, you're playing a perma range of your cow making sure you don't get tp'd on
Yeah, that's the arguing too with the honest like do I say tp'd myself for it?
Sorry, do I save Nade for myself, uh, waiting for the TP or do I just hope for some aggressive ones?
I think, in this instance, probably aggro ones, because you want to help set Racer up, but
if you chicken in Fissure and then a fire, a good rock as well onto Ashe, right?
Stops him from getting it killed.
And for you, we're just trying to finish this off here, they're all pushing us off.
I'm finding...
See, the palace on the pressure here, but the signal is going to be a late stagger.
Unless...
You can change as well. There's a lot of things to shut down Astro right now. They got chains, you got the rock as well.
Like, it's tough Astro to navigate this fight.
I wonder if he ends up swapping. Cal, like you mentioned, just because, just got run up.
Like, you've already got the Kiri to kind of help you out. She's gonna be on the line.
Yeah, look, I really respect Canada's individual skills to be able to pull off this composition, but in my mind,
I don't really think they have the advantage come to compositions here.
This creature we're going to look around this corner.
See if they can put themselves in a good position to get some good angles onto this far.
They have to use the teleporter early just to get out of the spatial, pushing back in.
To do those, to negate all that damage, but if it takes a rail gun from downtown, dealing
with Razor now is going to be impossible.
There is just no way this far is taking too much damage.
And hurry here and know it too, so they're able to also disengage very rapidly for the
Yeah, building towards a Kitsune rush, Cal. Those are towards that Nono.
See how Puerto Rico engaged from this very tiny room.
He changed. How did he get out of that tiny angle?
Uh-oh, that's bad news.
Cal is on, like, an envious angle too. Like, he is odd. In theory here, he's on Puerto Rico's side of the map.
He shouldn't be allowed to kind of stand here.
Uh, his Noxious does get a double, so that will result in a bot being pushed.
Across that golden line
I mean fair play to Canada right now. They're proving me wrong the way they're executing with this composition
They have a nano they could apply on their forum for another number of right here. Take Puerto Rico by surprise
And I did you go for the slam first try and force out class. Okay. Did you hear the barra?
No race it's got all surely
It's done so much damage. There's Janano, Suzu, Baraj, oh look at round two. Flicking upwards as well so he doesn't hit the shield.
Nice kill, some laser. Surgical.
Yeah, it really is right now. The way they're combining ultimates to set up some of these plays, right?
And if you're probably the recall, like, what can you really do? Like, you can force a teleport early, but what good does that do you?
You really want to be able to be in a position to use the teleporter to get on top of Kalim's at first place,
Please but they're not even able to step forward and count us just rolling about a hundred minutes. You're hoping look early as well
Yeah, I like it double OC which is just gonna rip his so
So do you in looking for each other?
It's actually just gonna give counter a little bit more space. I mean put a recurve not be pushed off of this ball
Goodbye team I have been separated nice cello
I see well
In a blink of an eye both support also being popped out for Dorico
They're hiding the sanctuary right now to try and escape the damage being flung out by Canada's own rush
This is where you need to push a temple here great cloud of grenade is going to push
The war gets deployed there by time for me to already did I do I didn't even hit the floor like he got
Booped up like twice by the ball and then instantly killed
What's in there?
We're not just...
He's being annoying to the air, not just with the rotation behind his mid chicken.
180 turned around, but it was Astro he needed to be looking out there.
And they can't even kill Razor.
I mean, it's just so tough to kill the Pharah, eventually Talisman deals with him on the Reaper, but yeah, Puerto Rico.
They're losing this fight, Handel is.
Canada once again can throw that bot pushing onto the final stretch.
Yeah, Talisman swaps over to the Reaper actually because they're recognizing they're not getting value from the Symmetra, so...
There we give some some extra opportunity here to contest the objective push some of those side angles
But this is an all camera so far and building towards an overclock and another nano here
Potentially cap things out pretty cautious for now. No need to force it in this very this out of impageous choke point
Yeah, I mean it's hard like back and forth Johnny is just so hard
If you're Puerto Rico right now and a correct suits you from graveyard is what it's gonna result in a swift death
Okay, so it's mistakes like that Puerto Rico it needs to be capitalizing on and looks like they're gonna be able to
Actually deploys the mines to no avail as we chicken takes a map. Yeah, you're exactly right
There's a fight that Canada wasn't necessarily have the best execution with Cal
What we freshers by late as well
Good for potato
The further they can get this bot over to Canada's side here and try to set something up,
will this all not be better.
Got a Kitsunash in hand as well.
But I want to see them try to push the angles onto Canada quite early here as well.
Don't let Canada set up with this working ball composition.
Force them back a little bit, make them uncomfortable.
Change flux.
Got to hit Cal ideally, right?
It's gonna be the best course of action, or even hit Noxious, although saving the Sliders is gonna be imperative in order to survive.
Nadegh Barash from Razor again, with chickens trying to deal with a fire, but just serves attention towards Noxious instead.
It's gonna be a slam onto the floor there from Astro after that Flood's hitting him directly in the face.
It will be Puerto Rico, capping the check point though, Johnny, so they're still making ground here.
It's where they can actually finish out this fight clearly, because the spawns right now in Canada, they are very good.
Looks like they're gonna try and go for the rushes.
Shono actually booms Astro off the edge of the map from the looting, like, okay.
Now this is where they turn this one around. 70 meters in building.
Yeah, they can push a lot forward quite a bit here, but not having any long-range hits.
Gannis from Skull, Trouble, Talisman, Sceptre as well.
Great Tsutsu!
Unbelievable Tsutsu!
Okay, they managed to get out.
The Reaper survives, has the ult too, but here comes Doxus.
And the overclock does help at least get a couple of kills and finishers off Talisman there.
Swift team kill, although with McChicken just born in there, won't actually pop on the screen, but a team kill in spirit.
Is Chase which is over to Mauga instead. Have enough of the Sigma.
Yeah, this is quite interesting because obviously with Mauga, you have, you know, a little bit of long range poke if you want to try to hit Razor as well.
I'm going to last few for some playmaking ability as Astro, she's going to cause some trouble in the back right here, but shouldn't be a proper engage.
McChicken though, why does it pick up the Razor?
Oh, he is pretty good. Pull down the chicken chest to sell the broadcast. Delivering right now. Can't lie.
Okay, my looking for the playshare player. Here's what I picked.
Look at that. I know what... I mean...
Come on. I mean, Puerto Rico...
Slowly pouring their way back. I mean, Canada feels like they've...
They're a hubris a little bit, almost, Johnny. I mean...
They aren't thinking of kicks here, luckily.
They're still not feeling great.
It's gonna be a soundbite for this next fight for Puerto Rico as well.
Chains still randomly getting killed, but again, up to nice two meters from what was almost a hundred meter deficit is extremely impressive.
And with two minutes to go, Puerto Rico have a way back into this game.
Yeah, the other tempo has really held Puerto Rico out here, and McChicken has made some big plays onto the soldier as well.
Making sure that Canada can't go for these committed setups.
Now, this fight is going to be really difficult.
Cal has to have Nono again.
Razor will be angling for the barrage to get some value.
A lot of pressure on Jono here.
Needs to get a good sound barrier.
Oh, that's aggressive!
Aggressive beat!
Canada aren't in the position to disengage them,
but Nano comes out regardless on to Razor.
Barbarage hits two.
Secures to get on Shane and McChicken.
Cal, if that Nano doesn't go off,
if he Nano jacks this or anything like that,
that is a very different fight.
A quick team kill for Canada
They regain control of the bottom they push it into Puerto Rico side of the map
Yeah, that's that's very true indeed as soon as the sound bearer came out calibur recognizes
He needs to get it out because he was in a vulnerable position there, but don't get it out and raise her
That's his part on the far out with the barrage now for three come
I'm not quite a few ultimate sir. They can win this relatively cheaply. I've been good for any chances the rest of this map
Mine rush OC Canada, they're really good spot change the cage might be good though
It would be good for at least a kill.
Ends up getting out 1 HP while anti.
Little unfortunate.
Now is Canada's time to out this tempo with those Cs.
Rush, Cage, uh, Chain? Did he actually get anybody in there? Not sure.
Uh, well, it's very lowly on here.
Chain just shoots out of it using the cover.
That's about it.
Graveyard chooses himself to get out of the fray.
Shaden sends him dangerously low 20 seconds to go now Johnny. That's a lot of old mistrain from Canada. So again Puerto Rico
Very well together try to get an early pick. It's going to be the overclock with a sleep from Cal.
Oh sleep from Cal. Ends of getting taken out though but the overclock basically wasted it for Puerto Rico
While I say that I guess one kill at least here but with OT push Puerto Rico need to be perfect now as Canada
They're gonna look for respawns
It's going to be quite difficult for Puerto Rico though. I feel like
I have to make some manual plays now just to rely on the simple abilities and my chicken has come across so far
On this fair map hitting the rail gun shots to open up the fights for Puerto Rico
But side that a lot of going for them. You'll need to win a couple of fights here
So John should be able to build this sound barrier, but
A lot of pressure on them here the verge of losing the series to us
I say now go run off the bottom like this. Please. Don't see no. I'm not the final out of please
the game. And that's it. Canada
delete chances of Puerto Rico
sending us to about five. That
was a ridiculously quick final
fight that you blink. You miss
that one. Canada, though, with
the map win and the series win
three one overall and Johnny
sitting at three Oh in the group
almost a perfect stage there.
to perfect stage there, almost, sorry,
a perfect group, not necessarily a stage.
They lose two maps, but they come out ahead
with that like one position.
Yeah, look, it's about us to be expected from Canada.
Some big players stepping up for this team Astro again,
one in one and three this time,
so I got different heroes.
But Canada, I think did a fantastic job
throughout this group stage,
and they really played through the strength so well
with these flex support lineups, you know?
It made things really difficult for a team like Puerto Rico,
and Puerto Rico were just like,
it's too big of a hold to come back from realistically,
based on how the start of this map went, right?
Yeah, still though, I would say Puerto Rico,
doing their dandest against a caliber of team,
like Team Canada, I got a little hope.
The group no way near decided just,
we still have one more game,
that Columbia versus a Broselle,
was we try and set up for an interview
in Canada in just a moment.
But yeah, Canada's a victory here,
Johnny doesn't mean that they are going to Busan 3-0 in the group stage as expected
But still there are some price spots for a lot of the other teams in the group too with how well people like Chameleon play on Puerto Rico
Yeah, and I mean
Essentially unlikely now that Puerto Rico, I think the hopes of that are actually qualifying out of the group here
So as you take a look at the highlights here draws
I just I just gotta say as well I can't obviously there are team that has a lot of history
And we woke up, they had a fantastic running, 2018, 2019, like they were really strong in the early days of World War II.
But they, you know, not really had the same level of success in the recent years.
I feel like you look at this squad and how they performed so far in the real stage.
Canada, maybe they'll have a better opportunity here to compete with some of the EVA and Asian teams, humbless on.
Yeah, they finished fifth, eighth last year alongside the US, UK and Spain.
the top four was very
competitive that year. We had
Saudi China coming second
Finland. Of course, Finland
are up there, man. Always
always on the precipice of
taking it. Maybe it's
Finland's year. We'll see. And
obviously, uh, South Korea who
do well a lot of the time. I
mean, Team Canada, they've
also been in every single
walk up as well ever since
2016 Johnny's. So it's been
good to call team Canada's
names again and I'm excited to
see what they do in Busan. I
Cal and Graveyard too. I think they got what it takes. It's going to be a tough, tough bracket
though as we get onto the LAN. A very different environment as well.
Yeah, definitely one of those teams that I could see compete with a lot of the countries we mentioned.
You know, like, I don't want to say middle of the back teams because that's kind of dismissive,
but you know what I'm talking about. Like there's clearly a tier established like Korea,
China, Saudi Arabia, USA. And then I feel like a lot of teams are always booking in from the
outside and trying to secure, like, on four,
common place for themselves.
And I feel like Canada is one of those teams
who can always punch above and surprise a little bit.
And I think they have the talent necessary.
I think they've displayed some nice strategy, certainly.
Here are your standings.
Plus seven for Canada as they round out that group.
Puerto Rico sitting at one and two minus three.
As Columbia looking pretty good there as well.
One on one, match against Brazil, who are currently 0-2.
That's a little bit later on.
We're obviously going to be looking
I think we'll talk about it a
little bit more later, but like
Team USA, their roster might be
the strongest one yet.
We'll talk about that.
They won the World Cup, but
maybe they can, you know, try to win
another one. Yeah, I mean, but
still, if you look at the
compare them, I don't know, they
looked pretty good. I mean,
they looked pretty good. I
mean, they looked pretty good.
I mean, they looked pretty good.
If you look at the calibre compare them, I don't know they look they look real clean. It looks like it looks like especially with their entry like that's that's crazy
But before we get into that let's jump over to a quick interview with Danny
coach of team Canada and
Assistant as well of team a liquid. Hello Danny Danny World Cup is so back
How you feel being on the team and I'm assuming a lot of the team are excited to go to Busan at this point
Yeah, the team is super excited and I'm really impressed with like the development of all the teams throughout this World Cup.
I mean, we're seeing teams like Team Germany and even the Puerto Rico, Brazil and Columbia, like all the teams in our group as well.
Like the talent that's emerging is very impressive and I'm really happy that the program is back.
So I want to talk about Canada specifically here, Danny.
What was your kind of approach when you assembled this roster and you thought about, okay, how do we give ourselves the best chance to perform well here in the World Cup?
here in the World Cup. What was kind of like, whether it's like the compositions or the kind of
like players you have in your roster here was also a big vision for this Canada team.
Yeah, so I think the most obvious thing is our support line, Cal and Graveyard. So we have two
Flex support players actually and Cal coming back exceptional on a player. I think you've seen in
the last three maps. So that's something I really wanted to build around. I want to play around our
strengths and I want to be able to just play these compositions where we don't care what the meta is.
we kind of want to be like Zed or even Dallas Fuel in NA and we just play whatever our best heroes are
and I think that will give us the best chance of winning in World Cup.
Yeah, I was excited to see Cow back to be honest. Yeah, the honor is crazy and it's always fun seeing
double flex support too. And I did want to ask, I'm pulling on that thread a little bit more
of what you said earlier. A lot of regions that have been maybe a little bit underserved coming in
and impressing yourself and I think impressing a lot of players and the
viewers I'd imagine too. Is there any specific player from your group not on
your team of course that stood out the most?
So I would say actually not in our group but in NA.
I think Elemental Guy. I mean you saw it in the match against the
against USA. That guy is crazy. I mean we scrimmed against him and he farmed us on
Circa Royale as well. I think he's been very impressive.
So yeah, I think I'm going to give it to elemental guy.
He's he's insane.
And he he should definitely see play time in facet league masters for sure.
I can't wait to see more elemental guy later on today.
Now, obviously it's the World Cup.
There's a lot of different kinds of opponents you might face in Busan.
So obviously I have to ask, are there any kind of nations in particular
that you want to take on Busan and you want to defeat on the international stage?
Yeah. So I heard on a understream, he's been talking a little bit of trash
against Team Canada, so I'm down for a rematch.
you
It's looking like hopefully Argentina getting a map, but maybe it'll 301 the cars to start us off in group. Yeah, let's be real
This might not be the match you want to throw the channel points on target, you know
Because United States they are looking stacked. I mean they got an intro video like no other in fact
They're going crazy
They they went through your own against Mexico last week, but at the same time Mexico kind of took it to them a little bit at times
They look quite menacing and so USA I think they want to look even more dominant in here the second week of the online qualifiers
Just a certain
Okay, Johnny, I want you to run a little quiz real quick for you. All right
Can you name how many players from the USA World Cup roster from 2016? Can you name?
2016 2016 the first World Cup roster. Yeah
At least one
give me a bomb
no British tactics
there's no way there's ten years ago brother there's no way bro you can even aim like seagull
God's was on that one
I'm sorry every God's
235 player, I'm sorry. Yeah the boldest man in Overwatch eSports gods
Yeah, it's okay, but yeah, like you mentioned Johnny you would say their roster is just so damn
the team is going to be good
for the team. We'll talk about
how stacked they are in just
a moment, but their opponents
right now, Argentina. Um now
Argentina's roster when it comes
into it, we're expecting them
to hopefully punch up a little
bit against Team USA, but even
just getting some practice time
against a really good team here
is going to be good for the
team. Couple of players you
might mention. Notice here from
O WCS or at least one will be
Argentina I think it's worth pointing me out
Yeah, it is yeah just in case people like wait at least one you were almost like what's happening?
But I mean left in general, you know if phenomenal support player the team so it's um
It's good to see him on the work at roster on Argentina. It was USA that did end up
Winning it the highest seed with tree on the Cassidy as well of all picks. I mean
This is what I'm saying Johnny it needs to be tall panel won't be one. I mean three years
I'm making a statement for a nice players in the game. So yeah, that was dominant video
Oh
That's out boom boom boom
I love it. Okay, so United States they get the first map pick because of trees dominant cousin boys
Yep. Yes. Oh
I'm not the one who would be out there, it's not me.
Who's surprised? Yeah, me.
We've seen one anti-tip peninsula like last week, so, you know.
There was a sprinkling of difference in there, but out of all three maps,
Johnny, if you're making a tier list, you're probably putting Elios at the top.
Then Oasis, then anti-tip peninsula.
If you're like a sane person, I'd say.
Right, I mean, it's definitely the most opportunity to just make sure that you're skilled.
Like, if you're an incredibly skilled team and you take the enemy team to Elios,
odds are that you will find yourself being the team that comes out on top.
top and you don't get you know some of the silliness you can maybe pull up on the authority
peninsula if you want to play more of this brawley kind of style like you know like maugas,
metro like weird stuff like that. USA you know they weren't the back foot on Oasis against Mexico so
you know I'm just saying things are possible on Oasis but alias I feel like it's the
map of choice there for USA like what. Yeah it is it really is.
that's what I'm talking about,
and there's not even a bad
here for team USA which means
Infectors definitely plank.
Is a. Horton infected Sharon
server time means no Diva. No
off tank no hawk and honor man,
Johnny how stacked this roster is you V
Lucamino and Landon on the support right now like
flexibly it's crazy yeah it's kind of a nasty backline because you're thinking
okay like maybe you can get a couple players were able to pay a support point
33 that's just that's absurd absurd indeed yes oh yeah we need a fat guy oh
Oh, we have landed. Oh, we need an ultra pilot who can play by his hero.
I think it's genuinely a conversation about like which one of the three you play, you know, like,
it was one of those going to have to buy the bench.
True. I mean, we'll see who ends up starting here in this form.
In fact, it though, like I mentioned, is definitely going to be playing here instead of Hawke's Divas band,
unless they're trolling Hawke to no end, which would also be very funny.
It's the way to just force a really simple match of advantage in the tank role,
right. So you saw being a player who's really good at making ball, uh, or the Winston and
then you ban out the D.Va. And in fact, there's just such a fantastic time for you that realistic
here. It's going to be awesome. Yeah. And then tree and Zera as well. Like Mike, like
you have the trace of beast in Zera and then tree who can flex to whatever the team needs
or team wants. It's just ridiculous. And then obviously if we go to a map like Gibraltar
or whatever in World Cup at the LAN like to treat or any map to be fair. I mean, even
Kings Rose pulled out the Hanzo. His Hanzo is ridiculous. He was even copying fans as
well throughout the WCS.
I would personally vouch for that. I think I met quite clear so far with this broadcast.
I'm just rooting for more energy and playtime and Hanzo is definitely one of those heroes.
And so given the fact that three like you said earlier is the best class player in World
I guess you know that so please
Can they recreate 2019 can they do it that one win for USA in 2019 it starts here in the online platform
I guess Argentina
Yeah, exactly the roads got to start somewhere Johnny
It might not documentary comes out, you know, the
First five minutes will be here
the first five minutes will be in this series. How long is this documentary? Okay. Okay. One and a half hours. One and a half hours, damn.
So that's a long one. You know what? I'd stand and watch it. USA vs Argentina, though. First match here for Group B.
Today is Saturday. First of three, of course, infected in and Landon and UV are going to be the back line here for USA.
All right, let's see what composition they're going to bring out here because I
foresee some of this stuff
Well, whatever this is I foresee more of it obviously I think having the Wu Yang is
Actually, like a really good hero to have up your sleeve. We saw
Christian minds have a lot of assessment financials over that hero. It's not a hero you see that often
But we'll have something like you really niche situations where the Wu Yang comes in really useful and so I kind of work
Some practice
what's happening we'd see Sierra but unfortunately tree really not gonna let
us have fun huh no no bastion but there is a cat for lead for Argentina and
they're just rocking with the matter too great to remind the boy right Tizzy is
the one getting lifted to the sport but it's TUSA okay well persona is down
down there. It's not the hottest you start here.
Oh! Hey, oh!
Oh, my God!
That's really nice.
Of course, you don't have to go across the map to send a bad-kimming Saxon.
I mean, this, you would say, is just...
Well, the most nice ones from Wario today.
Get Laurie here as well, and please just take me to the heavens, guy.
This is kind of what you expected.
And if you're already a teenager, you cannot expect this as well.
Yeah, you definitely don't go in with any...
Notions that this would be an easy case
I didn't have a great day
I mean
If you want to pray at all three is definitely died having to name that in a chronic of course
I mean they're just
Technically
Oh, the Hellfax deal from Zera.
He actually might need the Bastion level of damage from his too many guns at this point.
What are you saying right now? Be careful with what you're saying.
You can't be playing that kind of stuff in the world.
What the devs are gonna hear and go, actually, you know what, that'll be a fun, that'll be a fun little mouth to butt.
Have two Bastion level damage, uh, like weapons on his arms.
No, he, even he, what are you saying?
He would listen to me even less.
Johnny, you don't understand. He would listen to me less.
Yeah, only a lorry can be here for you this evening, but...
I don't think that's going to hurt if you say too much, because I'm so uncomfortable.
She's so low as well.
I mean, in fact, he's just having the time of his life on the Wreck-a-mole too,
and then Landon gets to play his favourite hero.
I can't imagine Landon is going to be doing too much shit in here.
Oh, well, what? What was that?
I don't know, but...
You can tell by the kill feed, at least, I suppose.
The left is dead.
There is going to be a rock as well.
That being said, double-actitude.
Bola sends up their tag infected,
but now they're in a free room with those mines.
Captive Sun kills.
Saksden, as that cage gets deployed.
Landon is in a little bit of danger on this high ground.
Volt, the pilot, is safe on his.
Now we're going down there, it's big news, Saksden,
because you'll see, the one opposition
I'm in a position where maybe they could have touched up that, but there's a lot of gold, just be enough, so it stalls the point a little bit further, but okay, a bit of a rig group here.
All them tracers are always staying active, always looking for some peace.
Oh, there he goes! Oh, oh, stroud to the par!
Who has the skybox now? I mean, with the Mauga being tethered around, it's... you can mess with him even less than you can with a bash.
Is it okay?
Use your pain.
A piece here as well, right?
If you just drop a mug on the piece, it's like bad news.
Oh!
Okay, well no cat.
Can't be dropping any margots anymore.
Oh, that one goes down there.
Very messy.
This is a very messy game so far.
The soda falls to three.
There's gonna be a bit of pressure on the point now.
Assassin is the rightful one.
And without an O, he's gonna be vulnerable to this tracer.
Here's that.
Oh, what a shot.
That's very low, too.
Yeah, it's another nice little shot onto the Kirikou, but you think he's dead, I mean, again.
USA aren't exactly making this one clean.
Yeah, I think that's great to say.
We do have a lot of pressure on to the point, only 55% of Kirikou is easier as well.
It's quite enough to last 15.
Yeah, actually, they're on 16, that was like a clean win.
win like that they won the team fight USA have to full reset and get ground again so
right and that's the crucial point as well like they need to find ground for
just for players right I think Argentina's gonna have a single or two to say about that
that's a crucial dart for Cerebral actually oh yeah we're going to be on the other side
what the hell's back to set though yeah post bomb for Zera persona dead okay tree
wins that 1v1 and the rest of the USA ignore everybody except ignore Tizzy
sorry there's the grab okay just grab any light okay you need just walks away
actually kick a chat ignore left completely just focuses on the front
facing two fighters that Tizzy ends up dropping that cage you can get us
eventually end up dying is a tree sitting behind this window now wait a minute
we're able to deal with first thrill and persona ends up actually getting a fairly
really decent trade. Is there a tree down infected? Minds kill on the point. Argentina
still in this. Maybe Lec tries to get back. Lanum shuts him down. The third DPS there
from Team USA ends up coming up with a clutch. That was close. 92% for Argentina. Okay.
That was way closer than for Comfort than it needed to be. I mean that boils down to
a two versus two and the wrecking ball was just too much from infected. 11 and two at
the minute three fifty six hundred damage with the Freya but yeah I expected a clean sweep here
from USA but that was nothing but holy aura title gold support for surreal that is that is aura
you're on the World Cup team you're rocking that title yeah
Yeah, I have respect.
All right, same kind of thing here.
If Argentina just floating them out,
did that tickle you, Johnny?
That tickle you?
Yeah, it did, actually.
That, that's, uh...
I'm in.
I won't speak, if I speak, I'm in trouble.
That's nice.
I say what, it's quite terrifying.
The mag one is high ground like this.
Are they gonna try Tethering again?
There he goes, straight to the back line.
Master, master! I instantly deploy land, land instead. They, they just drop ship the Malga into the backline to go the supports.
When, when do you swap the carry? And you just like, I need, I need some more ability.
I was not thinking about it.
I mean, this is ridiculous. Like, what is happening? Argentina have now, we've got two players.
Weird as this Malga Tether.
I mean, it's kind of working for them. It has to be said here. Definitely making things
little for you is saying, and this is kind of what we saw last week as well. Like, some
of this tendering around people, the verticality and how dynamic it is. It's definitely making
things annoying for you to say here. So, it's like, it's necessary for them to get the
cap, though.
They're treating so much damage. He's just spamming in this game, basically. Nice. Nice
Nice shot as well, we're taking aim shot connecting with the Scyther
Thanks a number there of course, he's Saxon
All right, so we can let USA
Can I make it clean from here? This is actually what we want to see though Saxon Widowmaker, watch out
Don't don't it's so unnecessary
It is, but it is that shot. It would be I mean, it's kind of aura.
Here comes the, I was going to say, Bastion, but here comes Tizzy again on the Malga.
That's a little bother. So ends up shutting down left and three with an easy double.
Oh, he's that great game shot in the skies as well. I mean, that is what three kills for the
press so far it's the rest of Argentina recoiling and discussed they have to put
it after every spawn there's still access to web this shot oh not play I feel
like you can do it once and then the other people like okay I'll actually
press this board
fine yeah like getting to the point versus the ball is already a nightmare in
of itself but this is kind of a whole new level slam tree on a nice that he's
that short as well oh didn't get credit for the kill but he probably shouldn't
know about that one catch his son man solo window as length dances in the
cave yeah okay mine strands of the case as well so there's no even chance for
to survive there. Uh Team USA are gonna clean up that round. Way, way easier for them on
that one. It was a hundred to ninety eight before but that wasn't a hundred to zero for
that first map. It's gonna be there. Okay so that's kind of in line with what we expected
it from USA. They pretty uh poke heavy with all the picks required. That's going to be
USA picking up on the lead here. Quick, that's up the scoreboard. Who stands out to you Joss?
Uh, probably 3 with 10k damage, like, 4k over infected.
Yeah.
Damage sponge.
He does it well, but unfortunately he doesn't mean 3 gets like, infinite ult charge basically,
and you have to burn Cardiacum Drive like instantly as well, so.
Alright, Team USA, little, uh, little one only to start off with.
Okay, we didn't see that on, uh, on Pam's, but I was kind of funny.
Straight from the high ground, just like that.
This
This is called like where if you're on a team now like just just pick whatever was for you in squints
And you pray for the best there
Yeah
I mean you are vibing
Like you said Chile and Mexico obviously the other teams in this group will see some of those series a little bit later on
So I already say a 1-0 like three and one. They've actually looked really good
I'd say they're one of my favorites to make out of the group them alongside at the US
We'll see how well Mexico does. Mexico versus Chile is going to be a good match.
You can argue maybe Mexico, Chile could be the decided by second squad.
Absolutely. I mean it is a very close contested group.
We got both with Group A and Group B. We have a set of favorite from Canada and USA.
But you couldn't really pick one of these three teams that would be the favorite
favorite going into the online qualifiers here.
So obviously Mexico wasn't invited team and then Chile and Argentina they qualified for
the Compostcox as well but like you said Chile, they qualified as the number one seed and
so they obviously already displayed their ability.
Great lengths here but like you say their match against Mexico later on today that could
attention to be the side of your full group, the Ornithina already taking a
loss to Gileo Forts, you know, a 1-3 matchup. That's quite difficult, so we're
running on the Turin Asapi. I mean, do you like protect band for the cat here?
Just keep doing the cat shenanigans. Lepp is basically the only played cat, so...
Right. Maybe, but Lepp has the ability to play a lot more than just the cat, so I
mean we'll see. They don't seem to want to play the Bastion at all, I mean they're
happy just to kind of tether around the Malaga which did work in a couple of scenarios but
you are against Team USA so maybe the cat bastion is something that you want to throw
something more off the wall rather than just like the stock standard kind of meta pit I suppose.
I mean I feel like Landon had a really difficult time like the rest of the team was thriving on
ileos but Argentine made sure that Landon had a pretty tough time on the bat it's like yeah we're
We're just gonna drop a mug on two base.
Yeah, over and over and over again.
Yeah, making you land, making you hit shit
and then just killing you.
I mean, hey, if it works, Johnny, it works, you know?
So we'll see, we'll see what Argentina wanna ban first.
They have priority here, because they chose the map.
I mean, you just got actual curveballs, right?
So...
Oh, a hundred percent.
Yeah, if you're in this situation, just throw things
to the wall, see what sticks
and then find something that might work
because at the end of the day, like you're not expected to win here.
So even just finding an ounce of success or even maybe even a map,
like would be would be exceptional for Argentina.
Yeah, you can't you can't play the game straight up because you know
that the United States will just outplay you like.
They're just the skill difference is just unbelievable, right?
So you kind of have to go for like the hero plays like even in the previous series,
like someone from like like chicken, like making place with the overclock.
Um, and just lending you that help in those fights where maybe you don't have the best ultimate economy and stuff like that.
Like you kind of need to lean on that.
So you need to make things pretty crazy if you're a Argentina here to just make you say the slightest bit of uncomfortable.
And then you need to come up and have some like worldly games, some big place for yourself.
So it's going to be the tracer band.
Maybe you're figuring like the tracer, you're able to exert so much skill that, um, like it's just too much to handle.
Like there's no really good way to counter Sarah's tracer
But that also, you know, maybe open things up if you want to play some heroes that might have difficulties if they stay as a tracer
Yeah, I mean Tracy is just for Zera is a little absurd
I would definitely agree. Just get that one out of there. Just don't want to deal with it. That's fine
2023 was the last World Cup showing Argentina a
I
Didn't make it to the land fortunately, but still end up participating
All right, should I give you some trivia here now because you put me on the spot, okay? Sure
See one member from USA
2017
Jake
Yeah, I knew he's not one of those Rosses. I knew it was a really early one too.
It's probably fell off after 2017.
I'm joking. I'm joking. Yeah, I do remember him playing that.
I think you play any other World Cup right after that.
No, I mean the 2018 was pretty stacked.
So, they didn't play for that team.
I remember that qualifier was crazy in 2017.
We were in Santa Monica and we were in like an airport, like a hangar, like a huge store, airplanes and stuff.
Oh really?
Yeah, that's where that iconic clip comes from, where Jake is just standing on the high ground with the rice and lunar colony.
And it's just...
High ground advantage over Germany, just raining down bullets thanks to all of you.
Shooting a fish in a barrel.
Shearing fish in a barrel.
The rice and lunar colony.
The old heads, remember, and the old heads nodding right now.
Yes.
They're doing that.
like, in a hangar is kind of
crazy. Like it's kind of
insane like aura for a
tournament. I'd say it
reminds me you will not ID
brother. You are there like
two people doing this that
might know what I'm talking
about, but the old like GSL
Starcraft Korean tournaments
when they're held. They were
held in an air hanger and
they were like drove in like
on a car and stuff at the
the intros for some of those
players were the thing.
You want to see something
insane. I think it was GSL.
when you're like yeah the older heads are not the soccer heads are not like um yeah some of those
interviews were live as well and yeah I'm just giving you a stage this year as well okay we don't
have to that's not let's not get too far deep down the rabbit hole Johnny because we will lose we
will lose people the portal is right there and then like I'm acknowledging the portal or the rabbit
at all like it exists it's right next to me like a I forget what it's called now
because I'm Swedish like a pothole an extended pothole I'm really sorry
I have no idea what you're talking about man like I'm trying to pick up what you're putting down
but sometimes there are like holes in the ground and like people like falling
them stuff like yeah yeah oh the pot oh sure sure sure we don't want to like
For the pot hole is yeah, but like very normal, so we're just like okay. There's full over there. That's that's that's the rabbit
I'm just acknowledging. Oh the rabbit hole. You don't want to go down there. I'm gonna walk past it
Yeah, I'm not gonna fall into the hole, but I'm gonna walk past it. Okay, infectious playing Ryan. That's gets the game infectious playing Ryan
Ryan Hart with three on Bastion. No cat
Let me know playing K. They're playing Missouki. Oh
You don't get much more abortion
Yeah, I
Will have to see how infected us. Okay, oh my
All right, yeah, get in there
And my tracer, huh?
What's crazy actually is that Ryan? I will say has been one of the worst tanks
And it's not like it's history. He obviously in old old old school. I've watched like many years ago
Yeah, he was like super good right like Ryan was on the only tanks
He's been eclipsed by a lot of heroes recently, but even it like the fuck even it's like Tokyo recently
Now we're seeing it here a little bit too. Even if in fact is maybe messing around a little bit like Ryan's coming back
I've got it. I've got a feeling Johnny is in my boat. Oh
What the mongrel engage
Yeah, you can't read you much else apart from hold the rectangle on the car and then hope your team kill everybody
It was a good rotation from Argentina. They managed to like cut the map in half. They jumped on land and killed UD super early
So yeah, really nice engage hard. Yeah, I mean at the end of the day, they're playing Ooyang and Soldier
So they're going to have quite a bit of poke damage, so if you have to be aware of that
I got overrunning in there
Always good for at least some damage to try to connect
Along with your team to get some of those frags. So yeah, I think should indeed
I mean infected. First of luck about it. Okay, the Maywall is just too much.
Yeah. No one's shooting the Maywall. Come on, T, if you have to shoot the Columns to
help the Malga, it's just like running into the Maywall super slowly. And yeah, it needs
to kill. I mean, the May is going to be the biggest problem for Argentina here.
Right. If you can't shoot the Maywall, the Columns, you're going to lose. It's imperative
if that's his he survived because if he does then the may ball ends up getting dropped and then you kill it like
You can just shoot shield and run does nothing
Going back to what we said earlier like the game has kind of slowed down the last couple of times just here
And so it does enable
Ryan our tab a good chance, and I'm like we're seeing some of these sigma compositions come out of the sip
We should be so apparently has a better place in the meta right now compared to that
So we've been seeing a little bit more play here and there
Okay, overthrown, they're actually going to pop a window to try and turn this one, but
Argentino on such a good angle.
Blizzard drop 2, there's a 3 player push here, oh, infected, gets the push off onto Tizzy.
Well, that's what you, and that was with Leth as well, applying that ult.
So, yeah, Tizzy off the map, but still, I mean, Argentino had the 8th, they had Persona
and I'll fangirl that entire time and they didn't end up getting the blizzard onto Persona either
so it was able to kind of free range, shoot at the front line.
Yeah, just too many ultimates for you to say to overcome there as Trige. Oh my, okay.
We slide, get some vertical ground and then here shoot left and face. Okay, we like to see that.
Because he was the cage, I'm just all I'm looking at right now isn't facing to the shadow.
Yeah, me too.
All I'm looking at. Yeah, sorry. I was kind of just focusing on the chatter
I mean that's fair. There's nothing to shout at. If you're Argentine, yeah
Like maybe Tizzy gets shattered because he's the only one playing on the box. Like all close to it
It's one of those moments where we kind of hold on to it. It's scarier than it actually is better
You never know. That's correct
And that was a little scary.
Well, they're going to drop the cage.
They're going to get some straight inside of the domain expansion.
Surreal ends up going down to a railgun shot and...
Infected that entire time, Johnny.
Yeah, hit the slam and they were just jumping around as his team used the shield,
so Tizzy couldn't shoot and kill anybody.
Unfortunate stuff there for Argentina as USA win the fight.
The shield actually gets a pretty good value, though.
But it's time for United States, but yeah, it's really good.
And now, I mean, they got a kid sooner or she had a kid, but they should have snowballed if they were just going to pick here.
I should be good. I just got boosted too, like six.
Tidoblast, four left. I played with Tizzi last time around. There's the rush on the point. Ultraviolet's already down, though.
They're in a good spot to witness, though. There is the Tidoblast onto Tizzi. He gets the knockdown, but a preemptive suzerain there, almost from land.
Who writes the wrongs, almost?
Trist focus though, is Saxton, is assisting in that fight.
Or assisting in that kill, I should say.
112 meters and counting here for Team USA.
They're quite quickly losing the grasp of this engagement as Infected falls.
112 is all they'll get.
Yeah, dropping ultra bullet that early.
It's just going to set USA back because you're kind of reliant on all that A.W.E. healing.
Infected tried to make a play, Seroton did this best well, but...
I couldn't really get any value out of that one in Argentina's air life for the time being.
Is this kind of where you need to see persona to step off the timer?
Get a quick 2k on the back of this old bomb.
We're gonna try and rip the hosty early.
I mean persona's been very good at connecting with these, but if they get shields on another level right now,
unfortunately persona has to just dash away after taking a fire strike to the face.
really good early pick a team kill for Argentina to they're gonna get some decent
meterage would be able to get checkpoint there's no speed here for USA
there's no Lucio available so it's gonna be tough to come back and like a
a fairly fast fashion although in fact he can obviously just pee out of spawn.
Okay, so TC is going to contest the high ground here as well because trees are a big problem here with the overclocked body.
What's he doing? He's doing good on the protesting for now. He's gonna use his face.
Well, the end of game checkpoint there. Tree overclocked, straight in his face though. TP Saxon.
Has got the death blossom in his hands as well, but trees still looking for bodies to shoot at.
Everybody from Argentina disappearing like smoke though three minutes twenty seconds to go now to see on an island
I say from the rest of the squad you can see them on the horizon as they all get walled off in fact
Just pay the objective game
It's bound to yield you some success
I think Argentina did a good job contesting those crucial angles and tried to give themselves an in on that fight, but
You say they just have too much going for them with its brawley to Reinhardt make composition
They're still looking for Pixons and left and surreal world.
It's just playing around with Lancer.
My door's closed.
There's the slam, Tizzy, not quite,
but a pin onto somebody will do.
A quick cancel there, actually.
There's a surreal.
Ends up just teleporting away.
Counter slam, Cage.
There's the main expansion there.
Ultraviolet, Sanctuary on the floor.
Ultraviolet ends up going down to left, though.
He's just kind of playing outside the cage.
He's shooting projectiles inward.
As infected, follows the brethren.
Great steal of the bot, though, from Landon. Looks like he's gonna get a meter. That's it. That's all he gets, but Team USA is still well.
They reset the bot onto an Argentinian's half the map.
Yeah, you take that. It buys you a few seconds, even though you're getting staggered.
Trisha wants to go further into the spawn off Argentina.
Look, they're winning a couple of fights here and there, but at some point you gotta get a bit of a streak going.
Get a couple of fight glints in quick succession.
I'm back here with Persona, needs to get a couple of things.
Some big difficulties on the platform, but...
She's one way below there.
Oh, there's...
Oh, get to...
Prey DPS though, overclock available, same with that Blizzard.
Uh, Lep on the wrong side of the team fight right now,
is not gonna be a factor in this fight at all, as Persona finds Landon Lackin,
forces the Swift Step, gives him a rush course of the hill,
and let eventually kind of dealt with there.
He probably tries to make his way back to the rest of the team.
Blizzard isolates Tizzy, couple of headshots,
but it is still a mage you're having to deal with.
And Zera now looking around, spotting Serial with the TP.
He gets stuck on the tree.
And it is all Zera all day here by the looks of things.
One more shot required though to finish off the Soge,
but Persona with the movement kills Zera.
Alright, minute to go here.
Still at a 60 meter deficit.
You're kind of the same thing here. You're very cognizant of the fact that Tree's going to have this overclock available.
You need to find the edge. Maybe if Persona is able to pull off a bit of a flank themselves with this overclock.
That would be enough to just turn it down this year though.
There they go. Persona on the flank. Taking power.
Oh yeah. Instantly killed by Tree. Here's the roundgun shot.
immediately pops over clock. Tissie dead. Argentina. Gonna have to back off. 40 seconds to go, Johnny here.
Alright, so Argentina. Pressure is definitely on here. 30 seconds to go. We say it still has to
get sooner or something. This big slam. The Argentina has, you know, they've navigated the
I don't think it's that big.
No, they absolutely nobody.
In fact, he's probably not happy about that one.
Tidal Blast on the Tizzy doesn't get any knockdowns,
but Ultra Violet is going to be in his sights
a quick charge away by Argentina.
They're going to need the Vancouver Titans' Goats level performance here
to come back in this one, Johnny.
113 meters to 71.
Since he goes for another re-engagement,
there goes the Sanctuary Heslautication, his own, of course,
but Death Bosson is going to isolate Ultra Violet
and get the kill.
The Teleport awaits you on top of the Reinhardt as well,
the kill, the teleporter waits on top of the Reinhardt as well as Saxon still trying to punish
Invoker to being so close to this bot. Tizzy's gonna have to make a play here, goes for another
stomp, slam in the front line, Invoker then going down, a quick shoot on the Kiriko as he
keeps away, escapes through the life shore, but Zera not quite so lucky. Tizzy with another kill,
puts melee to the face as overtime ticks through as the final members of Team USA die on the point.
Okay, so keeping things going here in cage fight, very strong ultimate if
If you can get back in time here though, you would say definitely going to have the advantage.
Oh my... Okay, okay. I freak. I freak. I freak. I freak.
Okay.
Is that cool?
Oh, like...
This is...
Oh, five versus three.
The OG, they almost got off the bottom just like straight out.
Well, the Blizzard here, Xerath's gonna be good.
They've really forced this rape form out of Saxton instantly taken down as the Blizzard
now placed at the feet of Tizi, nowhere to go, nowhere to hide, no chance in that fight unfortunately.
Team USA finish up Runisabi 2-1 or 2-0 in the series so far and a single match point.
On match point indeed. Still looking quite strong even though they're pulling out the
Reinhardt in the make position. They're making, they're finding a way to make it work.
or pre-hitting the soldiers with the soldier.
And maybe they'll close this thing out
in a regular three-hole though.
Looking at the scoreboard though, like three of 10 deaths.
I mean, what is this happening with these deaths right here?
So if you showed this scoreboard to somebody
and said to them, who won this game,
you would probably say Argentina.
Exactly. Four deaths, four deaths, four, six, and then eight.
And then there's like sevens across the board,
10. So TBS is like literally more the macro game rather than the like the kill game, the KDA game in this one.
Yeah, quite surprising to do it, but I mean, you would say they're playing this, well, like,
tightening it together, a bit more prone to these deaths compared to Argentina trying to spread things out, taking side angles.
I mean, Argentina is definitely keeping it close. Like, going into the series, I expected like full caps to happen,
you know, hundreds of zeros.
Hasn't been anything like that.
It gives me a lot of hope.
Argentina. They're on the group,
honestly. So we'll see if they
have a team to take that second
spot. You know, say, though,
still in the league, still
sitting at 2. Oh, already going
to be sweeping this group, but
that number three on your
screens in just a moment.
Argentina's pick again.
That's like one of the few heroes in the entire world. So I'm like, okay, we can find a way to go around this.
And honestly, like Argentina, they did a fairly good job as demonstrating why they're trying to do so.
Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, but you're a jank-88, you know? You're big chilling if you're Argentina.
We'll see if USA round this one out, or if Argentina can clutch up and grab a map.
Yeah, I think a lot of people are hoping, especially when it comes to Busan that team USA show up with an extremely strong roster like this. I mean, we have obviously stage winners in here from like O WCS and kind of will not hopefully get stopped by teams like South Korea and Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia.
Obviously the reigning champions of the Overwatch World Cup taking it in 2023.
three. We'll see how they end up doing. I mean, I feel like pressure's on for the United
States because like you said, I think there's some expectation that you're like top two,
you know, like it was a past. Well, yeah, it was past. I think it's fair to say that
like, okay, Korea's always going to be the favorite, right? Stag, you know, Stag, most
of course. But I do think that this expectation that USA are going to be like top two, like
they should be. Is that a radio? I was going to say top four. They finished fifth to eighth
last year or 823. Yeah and then you say this like it's not good enough. Definitely not. I would
say top four. I would still put China up there obviously. Saudi Arabia because they won last year
and then they've like ports and obviously Korea. If I had to make a tier list right now it probably
would be South Korea, Saudi, China and then maybe the Four Swats kind of open. I think
I think based on talent, I would still think he was a cool player.
I mean, he's undeniable that like, sort of maybe like a PABMT, UB, Quartz, like they're just crazy good, right?
But I think he looked talent on paper, I still think he was a good backlight.
That's the sign of that.
Damn!
Alright, fair enough.
I'm looking forward to the land, it should be...
But that's what I'm saying, like you can't be under-reformed, you know?
Right.
Are you picking up?
Yeah, I'm picking up.
I'm picking up this time, Joey. I'm picking up what you've got there.
New Young City is where we're going next to it.
Mauga Band, by the way, a few USA. They were like, nope.
Please, no.
Just give us a non-Mauga Comp, which probably...
I'm gonna make a stab in the dark here.
In fact, it's probably gonna go around again.
Like, as maps go,
why not through bad on the Flashpoint?
I mean, look, it's the first stage,
The first round here were indoors, like maybe it's a shield to get you a bit of an advantage when you try to swing it on the ring.
I couldn't see the arguments.
Alright, we'll load in. We'll see if Argentina can take that elusive map.
Open SO. It's a little bit more than a 3-0.
There it is.
I mean, there it is.
I mean, it is.
Infected was bringing out the Reinhardt on like, Paraiso with an energy shock back in 2024.
Like, any opportunity to do that, they'll bring it out.
Playing Reinhardt on Paraiso is like, you have to be built so different to play Reinhardt with Reinhardt.
They didn't have a lot going for them in that specific map and were like, maybe?
What if?
Oh, Infected.
You've spoiled the fun. This is so sad.
It's gonna be a Sigma mirror with tree though on bashing Xera on me and this is like the anti Sigma Sigma comp
that you must airplane
Yeah, still you're going to be part of a bit of pressure here from the week about how do you have to be aware of the maywall?
You see Saxon going a bit of a flank here already side of the one in the side of USA
but
Abilities forced for the draw that's going to enable you is it push forward without worry
Now there's the walk. Persona's on top of it. Oh the rog, it doesn't matter, compared to all the higher stairs and the little shmack to the base, well enough, picking up Tizzy.
I mean, realistically, Persona's going to be that guy, Argentina, right?
Has to find an opening pick, or at least some damage with a railgun to force USA to react.
Oh, well, I can surreal in the spawn.
Okay, that's tough, just hate to see it in between the rounds, that's what you'll use it.
So this...
But like you say, you need to find some kind of like entryway through these angles, right?
There's the shoulder and rail gun, reaper finding you a bit of an edge,
because you can't really play straight up against the main.
up trees got the bashing out as well so you could do the forbidden combo the flux with
the bashing out very doable that's a five-point right there I mean it is yeah it
literally insta kills insta gives oh it's just gonna use to trade away chains in a
Actually, a passenger infected there, but oh surreal caught out. Yeah, that's a quick reset
That's it. All two actually is gonna force
Saxon to try and take the fight versus four people and that's gonna be point
That's going to be pointing deep and they're just going to push this ball
No worries in the world. Saxon's still servicing the far out. Not even knowing what the next round is
Yeah, probably one of the worst ones
I mean you want some more poke you got it you want to fire some of those funkits and if you can capitalize on that damage
He's like like round fire behind the single show
I mean the damage is to be respected here dolls, so
Look at this back in the union
Siger soldier on the other angle. She's got a good strong going
Yeah, they do session doing a little bit of damage here little chip
But that is the big combo, right?
The Pharah with the Sojourn is the double tap.
Body shot the route or head shot,
and then the Pharah pushes them off or the other round.
Nice deal with the damage there, Tromper Sun.
There is both sanctuaries being used.
Tizzy taken out of the skies.
It was a flux-by-flux, but it was infected
at that game out on top.
It's real tough, but especially with the sanctuaries involved as well,
it's so easy to pop that down as soon as the flux goes off.
It's such a powerful, especially after but okay treat what what it's my guy do
I don't know if there's a skill in dodging that but somehow
Okay
Send it into the bash not if you don't have any form of speed you're going to die if they place them
I thought I was doing something wrong, but thank you.
No, the fashion of the stairs is so, like the soloists are so large.
You're gonna die if they, if you're like near a wall.
Uh, what? Lebends are going down?
Wow, man. Okay.
Here's the back. Stug-Wang.
In a little small corridor with the bastion shooting in,
you're not going to get a lot of steps forward in that scenario.
Yeah, this is looking like the most one-sided map thus far in the series.
Yeah, it definitely is.
I mean, the farra, when you're so far away trying to hit some of these rockets, it's,
I mean, essentially just like a chance every single time.
Like, okay, are we going to, like, kind of step into the rocket?
So, Saxon, maybe?
Better luck on this specific ground.
Let's take a little bit of a divided push here, or you can just split up.
Listen, what a blizzard, yeah, hit a rock there too, onto Tizzy, and then pop down the
business, he can't use the grasp to either either.
That was a very swift team kill.
That was a blizzard placement, ready myself, very drill to the USA.
Will it rock again?
Okay, missed that last one.
I mean, I don't think I've quite seen that.
All right, well they're touching this one
Okay, hang on a second hang on a second is sacks and does end up killing to
I'm bringing it back with a barrage. We're so back
Okay, USA again the way hubris a little bit a
Lot of it. Okay. Yeah, three. That was quite a bit. I think Argentina has the ultimates
Yeah, we could sooner rush to lead into all fakes on hall
Yeah
If the infected pull is not as hard, then you know it's all over bro, is what I'm saying,
I mean he has a soul bearing as well.
Oh okay, he needs to hit one hook, like that is it, he needs to hit one hook, oh no persona
slides out, he's here away, take him to Bastion, he's still buddy hopping by the way, he's
tree trying to get into a good spot, legs already dead, and there it is, the hog?
That wasn't really an infected skill, let's be real. That guy was 1 HP, and he's not doing much of the Roadhog, but it looks cool. It looks pretty sweet.
Zero percent of accuracy.
Yeah, yeah, actually.
Sierra and the mix.
This is the first time I've seen Sierra in a fucking game.
Probably not, I mean maybe, maybe.
She hasn't really been picked at all, like not.
right now, at least not in the point where she's in the minute.
Surely Trie doesn't instantly die here.
Oh, and they don't touch the point either.
OK, well, damn.
Sierra didn't even get a kill.
Neither did the hog hit a hook.
So you know what?
Oh, you're trying to do that.
USA, though, come out of this series with a 3-0.
Kind of as expected, it got less and less close
as the match kind of went on.
But they are in a position, even if it was like a group
group D kind of merged but they're probably gonna come out on top. Their roster incredibly stacked
right now as they move on to not better to get in to Busan, Johnny, 2 and 0 in the group and
plus six map differentials so yeah looking pretty good for Team USA. Yeah to no surprise to anybody
in the world the United States are one of the best teams in the world destroying their way through
the online qualifiers here against Argentina. Infected did not go 16-1 on the roadhog.
I
Maybe it went like one now to know you got a couple of limbs on the road. Oh
Yeah, I mean, I guess I
Mean he he was literally just picking off people at the very end so zero percent of accuracy is
The big road on flank
Road on flank as everybody is looking at tree as he just bunny hops his way into the back line using the bashing turtle
Yeah
I think Argentina they they showed they showed a little bit here and
Their match versus Mexico, which is actually the last match in group B, which I believe will be tomorrow
That again might decide it. This second place is very much up grabs between Chile, Argentina and Mexico
Yeah, 100% and if Chile knows just win against Mexico later on today as well
as well, like that with the Chile firmly in the place, in the running 4 second place here in the
group and actually qualified for the song here as well. And so Argentina already taking a loss to
Chile, now taking the 3 of us to the USA as well, and we're finishing the post quite a bit here,
unlike the qualified group as well. But this was to be expected, you know, if USA are going to
the number one spot here, then it's a lot of pressure to just win every single match
of these other two teams, right? And so far, I think I struggled a little bit here.
Yeah, struggled just a little bit. And those spots are so valuable. When there's a two
top heavy teams, a lot of the time, and the case is kind of the same here with Canada
you're in USA, taking them to
some one spots like it's tough.
You're fighting three teams fighting
for one single place. So yeah,
we'll see how well they end up
doing. We'll see if that team
Mexico is welcome kind of bounce
back in that group. Looking
forward to the land. I'd imagine
they're a team USA. I mean, it
feels like they just come off of
one right? I mean, we're having
the midseason. And then straight
into Busan. There's a lot of land
Yes, yes, yeah every month
The next few months here, so stage two kicks off
It's good to see USA though do well and hopefully they're gonna be back to full strength going into the
I think. I think this is one
of the strongest losses of all
time. You could argue, obviously
the big win for them. It was
definitely their peak there, but
we'll see if they end up doing
them one better. I've got
landing for an interview as well
in just a moment. In fact, right
now we're just going to have
right now. There you go. There's
the queue landing. How you do it
obviously a fairly easy group
the 2-0 and you're basically locked in for Busan now. How has the team been? How has
the environment been and yeah how excited are you to play on LAN for World Cup again?
I'm super excited to play with this team. We honestly don't have that much time together yet.
I think we did one practice so far and I wasn't there. I think like half the team wasn't there.
We've played these matches. We're kind of phoning it in a little bit right now but I'm excited to
with them to the LAN and have a good result.
What do you think the practice will kind of be structured like later on?
Because I feel like you have so many, you know, amazing players on this team
and so much depth when it comes to like hero pool.
So with that in mind, how do you kind of like structure practice to figure
out what are your best compositions?
What are your best players to play with?
Like Hawk were infected.
That's going to be a big choice.
And obviously it could be map dependent.
Some people prefer to have one tank staying through the entire game.
So like, how do you kind of figure that out?
Maybe that's a question for John book, but how do you as a player feel about the fact
that you can play so many different things with this lineup?
Yeah.
I don't know exactly how things will work, but I'm pretty confident.
Like we've players and coaches that know how to play every composition, you know,
like every style, if I had to guess, I think we'll get closer to like the career event.
And then whatever the meta is or whatever like style that we think gives our team
the best chance, I think we're probably just all in on that, you know, whichever
tank or whichever support line it is.
I got one final question for you and we've been talking about it over that last series looking at USA or team USA historically
Do you guys think you're the strongest lineup?
going into a LAN event like this because I think
Judging by the roster and how deep it is as well even though team USA one obviously quite a few years ago now
It's got to be one of the strongest roster USA has filled
I mean this roster is super super good like I think for sure like it's a hundred percent better than the last one
But then overwatch patched like the last World Cup was such a different game early. Don't know
All right, thank you very much Landon in enjoy Busan, of course, we'll see you there and yeah, congratulations on winning the group
Thank you
All righty, that was landing from Team USA, um, yeah, obviously he's gonna say that he's the strongest group
But yeah, I really do think strongest team out of the history to Team USA as well
Yeah, I really do think this team has a good chance of cracking that like top four
I mean you said even top two so yeah, we'll see how they do on the land
But here's the updated groups for you. Yeah, I mean on paper definitely
Top three for me I think is where I put Team USA
Okay, we don't need to drill into it, for the time being, like you said, they are on top of Group B, 6-0 in maps so far, and I think that last new young city map kind of tells you the full story, that is USA when they turn it off real and take things on against one of these teams in their group.
So they qualify for Busan, can't wait to see them in action, maybe against some more teams on par with their own level combat events.
But for a long way, a while from that one, we have a lot of options.
Yeah, a whole lot. Speaking of which, Colombia vs Brazil is coming up next. Stick around.
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you. Welcome back halfway
through the day already. I
know it's been that last one
least was pretty quick. Columbia
versus Brazil on your screens in
just a moment. Columbia Johnny.
There's a little bit of seeding
decided here. They need to at
least win two maps here or take
the series. It's a bit odd,
especially when it's only a four
team round robin collecting a W
will be the easiest way to go
about that one, though, but
Brazil. They're probably not
going to make it easy. Let's
Let's Super Gomez a great host up and change. Yeah, there are a couple of familiar names for
you here as well. And we also see mixed we get a little bit of play time here for
Columbia as well. I think Super Gomez is the one that stands out because of their previous
play time in the World Cup World, Columbia here as well. So bring a little bit of experience
into this year's version of the World Cup. Yeah, I mean, look, experience means a whole lot,
especially if you're in a land environment to which all the teams are hoping to make
to back that up as well. So if Hydron delivers a good performance here on the
hit scant that can make the pivotal difference for Brazil.
10 versus Hydron in the 1v1. The seeding decider of course to decide who gets the map choice first.
Really? I would kill by 10 actually.
I think I would dominate you.
What? Really?
What was the last time I saw one of his games?
Is that actually? Yeah. Damn. I didn't know you liked that.
I was gonna play Lucio. You said you were a support player now.
So I never trust that to be honest with you.
I've got good to focus on this five round one-on-one to decide about that.
That was so tough. Look at that flick at the end. That flick was clean.
Alright, Columbia. They end up winning that one and they receive the higher seats so they get to choose fast.
fast all right well that actually matters like it's a huge deal um i don't want to undersell
what a big deal it is to get that first map pick in columbus might just take us to an
arctic peninsula
eva ban for columbia first brazil banning the reaper guy yeah i'm not too surprised to see a
whole lot of reaper being played either with how with how close people want to play like there's a
lot of mauga here we've seen a lot of ram too reaper's gonna be up their priority decent
on Antarctic Peninsula as well. Very enclosed, even after the map rework, the
bottlenecks are still very present and some of that Reaper thrives in.
Yeah, I mean, the dire triggers being added as well. Huge game changer for Reaper as well.
So we've been seeing a lot of Reaper throughout the meta. There's an old
of a BCS or a World Cup here to be a tool for some of these flex players.
I think this one though, we'll be looking more towards the hits can see what they can do on the run.
Yeah, Hydron Ludwig versus Lich and Pimp. Yeah, I think especially with the experience like Hydron obviously overwatch league played in that for a fairly long time and
I've been experiencing kind of LAN environments too. So the Florida mayhem at one point.
It's definitely exciting time for Brazil, although they are zero two, which is the kind of the big problem here.
a big problem here. And like I
mentioned before, Columbia do
need those two maps or just the
series went kind of that clinched
the spot. So see how they end
up doing 10 seconds of the get
unlocked. So it's like two very
different comms. We're going for
the Sigma May for Brazil and
super Gomez rocking the ramp.
Yeah, so we'll see how
Columbia decides to adapt here.
Could just be a TPR respond for
Celer, playing with the May as well,
don't focus more on towards the point,
navigating the shield off the Siegman,
trying to use that to your advantage.
Columbia should be able to spread out here.
All right, to find some alternate angles
to hit some of these rockets and find an opening pick.
Yeah, it's so easy to rotate here if you're Brazil too.
It's like Hydra, I'm just gonna try and go for a flank,
but before we can actually go up, it's our fangirl.
Placenella and Ludwig, die to Lichenten.
Good trade from HydroN though, it limits both DPS and Nick, I mean this is where the experience really comes into play, I think HydroN in this lobby would be too hard pressed to save the most experience and probably the best play in the lobby.
Yeah 100% and if you are able to just tell your team like I want to move to this position, try to get these frags and it's going to be everything going for your team for the moment though.
Columbia has map control here, super gommas.
He's able to live for the moment, you know what he needs?
Help keep himself alive.
He's working with him.
Nice little Susie there, she keeps him alive on the point.
Hydra had to slip sliding way back to get some heals,
but they've not given this one up at Columbia.
I mean, they are still fighting this.
It's a couple of pixels away from actually capping up Brazil,
but Hydra's just nice and under shot at this point.
They've got to get it an opening kill.
Might be on to Lich, but Lich had the brushes, gets back up on to the high ground.
Thakur eventually goes down. Point is regressing in control percent as well as Brazil just flopped over.
Columbia that entire time holding the point up to 50%.
Columbia after a really hot start so far, they're looking to push from them as well into the spawn.
Both teams have gone down.
Bit of a stagger spawn, just going to buy even more time for Columbia as they're eyeing the last fight here.
They have a lot of ultimates in their way if they want to fight early even or even try to force some ultimates out of Brazil as they try to walk afterwards at the point.
Yeah, Lich is gonna be... well need to be hunted there from over there.
Okay, makes a fairly decent shot there. Heidgen doesn't end up getting healed up, but happy to take the 1v1.
A quick teleport is not enough, which only hits two there on Columbia's side.
Velucio and Romandro, who's already in the nemesis form, and then pot the annihilation.
Romandro would get another kill, which should be a cap here for Brazil.
A very aggressive beat from Kratos, though, to try and just run them over.
Yeah, I'm not quite sure what the plan was there, especially because you know that Brazil have all these ultimates themselves, right?
They have the Sanctuary, they have somebody defensive to use in the Maywall, right?
So you should be able to buy yourself enough time to think about what is on one side, one back.
Still though, 99% for Colombia, so what's the biggest steelbreaker in the world here?
You can drain some of this out of the steel here, just give yourself...
Look for one advantage just to find the challenge.
Barrage, almost goes to directing Ludwig there, but it will be a rush from Bazanella.
This is very winnable.
I'm sure they didn't even have to catch anybody, but this is, yeah, super winnable for Combi though.
Again, Lich is still behind them. They're going to know the Pharah's hopping around in just a moment.
It looks like they want to just try and jump instantly onto Hydrons to shut down the carry first,
but it's Hydrons that just respond to the railgun.
Lich falls, Sanctuary on this small pillar, so 10 attempts to just slide in and get a kill onto the backlight, but unsuccessful with it.
It's all good though. Dalken's are going down to Super Gomez, just the rematch of putting himself in the Sanctuary.
Not too much you can do about that, apart from like,
hopefully focus down the ramp.
Thanks to 90C for Columbia, chasing down Hydra.
They pick up the kill. Super Gomez with one,
lich with another. That is
round here for Columbia.
We're going to go with this brawl composition
so far, and I felt like Brazil
kind of did everything they could.
That sanctuary got so much value,
it absorbed so much damage from both
mid to the far end temp on the soldier,
but this wasn't enough for Ludwig
or Hydra to get a couple of picks
of picks for Brazil's side either way. It's going to be Colombia up to a good start here on their map.
Yeah a bit of um a bit one side of there in terms of control at least. One death that
changed Creosan and Super Gomez at the end of the round. I mean that's really nice. Super
I'm sitting at 10 lm's to 5k damage
Not too bad. I was really like the
Yeah, I really like the ram there because you're able to kind of just like out sustain the stigma in a way and it's so close
There's a Sigma can't play like super high level poke
Your you are forced into these close quarters with the ram, which is not really where you want to be
Yeah, I think if you're a top end team like Christopher Cooper or something, like probably
favour the Seymour composition quite a bit.
You know the woke up stage is also about just playing through your strengths.
And so far, Colombia showcasing that with Corazono de Lucio, and then going onto the
remoto.
That's their preferred style.
They're making it work.
That was like, quickies first pick I've seen on this map.
Maybe even on the control.
That was insane.
Nice little cap there from Brazil.
Well, I have to see how Columbia can find it in here now, which already haunts people
on this side of the map.
So Mokka's in the temp as well.
Hasn't really got available here.
They're ignoring temp right now.
Eventually kind of paying attention to the surge, but it is Hydra and Mokka that killed
the DPS.
Well, Columbia just jumping into the meat grinder at this point, it feels like.
Yeah, I mean, that's kind of what happens, right?
Because you have two damage pairs that have to spread out and look for pigs like Super
Super Gomez is left by his own sum with the support players and when you're facing a Sigma there's a May wallet there looking to wall you off and all the pressure like a chain from a Mizuki, like there's just too much pressure on the Super Gomez.
So really it's on the damage per se of Colombia to try and find something going for the team.
Okay, that's a good start, super goman.
Here was the Mizuki, and then look at this, yeah, just close boys like this, there's just
no way.
As definitive as the Brazilian fights a couple of moments ago, I mean that was very fast.
Oh, you gotta die in point there if you're as Nela, but it's all good, she's a goman.
Anyway, changes here for Hydro, pass me now.
Okay, so we'll play a bit more close-knitted to the rest of his team, get some additional support, and put some damage going through the bar.
I think Colombia are going to be pretty happy with the angles they're able to take against this composition.
I hope Brazil will catch up with Casterly paying closer to the rest of the team here as well.
I think it's a rotation, however, this rush is going to be tough to deal with.
Super Gomez has that extra life, though.
This annihilation on the point is going to be so tough to actually buy back from, but
all my damage for Rush from Listo is going to settle the score on three people, in fact.
Hydron eventually finds the kill on the far end, something that you're expecting the
Caster to do.
A messy fight here before a Brazil, but with Hydron's damage, they should be able to get
The cap they do is 2D1 now, which is Hydra on the left.
The light, the craitism comes in, little slight kill.
It's just, unfortunately, Hydra no healing at all as Columbia reflipped.
I mean, that's an amazing display of skill from Columbia.
I let you obviously getting three there with the barrage in the final rocket,
but Temp as well, getting the fragmented Sigma on the Sigma.
I think that's way harder than it looked as well,
because you need to hit all those rear-end shots and navigate the shield.
You have no room for error, but Temp made it work with that overclock.
But now, Columbia, in good position, if that was world.
Yeah, this flux from Dalca could be a real scary.
The crazy thing is, they're playing all the way.
They're back here when the flux come out first.
They're going to try and force the issue, though.
Soundbarrier only hits two there for Columbia,
and this ends up going down to the high noon.
Or these soundbarriers, which has not hit their march on each.
The value is just not there.
Yeah, and especially you facing a Blizzard
and a gravity flux as well.
You kind of have to play pretty greedy with the soundbar and try and get as much value out of it as possible because
you know that Brazil are now going to have these ultimates to use quite freely.
See, Alves are pushing up here.
Just trying to...
...invotivate the flora.
And the soldiers. This is a central rise from taking these white angles quickly now.
Maybe we can think together. This is better for Brazil.
Nice blocks. That was a really early suzu as well. Way too early from change.
You had to go out and that should be Brazil taking the round 10 jumps off the map. They're looking for Litch who's
Skulking around on the side
Yeah, there's the kill from Ludwig and I said Lysco will do it Lucio coming in and for a credit some
But they've already used that wall to block it and that is round Brazil now tying up
And I think that's better just
Making it difficult for Colombia to get those angles in the first place. We saw Brazil poke out of the
Objective just to get a little bit into Colombia's face
So trying to set that up and then Hydron is always good for a flank. I mean 24 on the Cassidy like
Yeah, there's some props to Hydron here
I feel like something Hydron has been doing throughout the group stage is doing really well
Just like going for these flags and trying to hit the side of the back line of Colombia in this example
Did just that that's going to work out for the rest of the team over onto the soldier and once again here though
Don't mind the soldier you know, they're not gonna play the farra
And if they did it's the skybox is just so low anyway, cuz you're indoors it
It wouldn't really matter you wouldn't need the Cassidy so I like the swap
Okay, maybe the three to one speed as they oh, oh, yeah, they're gonna try oh
I think they were waiting for Brazil to walk up a little bit more, but Brazil were almost hesitant to do so like okay
Why is no one in need?
Yeah, it's like yeah
I mean it looked good until the Maywall
Fortunately missed it. You catch one person and that's a lot of damage to try to get a neutral temp
I only pick up the moment to just drop the drone
I can't play like that if there's a 2v2 prepared but you know, not quite what they were answering for.
What the fuck?
Yeah, like I mentioned before, Hydra definitely the most experienced in this lobby.
Kind of showcasing that now. Double kill for the Soju.
Unfortunately there's very little frontline for them to play around.
I don't know if they have the point.
You'll see if Super Gomez can lock this one down.
It should be very hard for Hydra to find a peek here. They're not gonna peek him.
He's trying though, he's getting a lot of the support from the Kyrgyz on his team to try to win these duels, like this one, and now he has the superior angle over the slumber team.
Even looking at the man in the backline now.
Very early overclocked, they're probably not expecting this early, there's just no way, he's just farmed so much.
Forced to TP, gets a body shot onto the Lucio, but 10 doesn't want better.
Better. Hydra getting chunked out way too much, that overextension, the overpeek on the wide angle.
And the costume is like, attempt to fight a double, make that a triple.
Three rails and headshots. Back to back to back.
They even try and stall out.
Bout to actually high level play from Columbia. That's real nice.
Even a few extra seconds there is just Grush on control. I like that a lot.
Yeah, really good job I caught us on there combining with 10 on battle fangirl.
fight Hydrone back and then regaining that Hydrone. Really job well done there, and then
House Colombia to fight back when it looked like Brazil were in control. So we're coming up on
an ultimate wave here, it's quite significant. It's such a hard floor, he has to get away,
Rammus will attack, he's going to slow him down for a brief moment there,
but a double slide thanks to the perk, make sure he is safe. I mean another swing,
up into the high ground, but this time Colombia can fight this one with a rush. Speaking of
the way it's for Zill, also going to use this. Sanctuary and Sanbury still available for each team, so
we'll see if Columbia throw this one out. Looks like it's going to be a wave had a
beat this time around for Crater Sun. Ends up hitting four players, but unfortunately,
that plays it to isolate Super Gomez. Pretty nicely placed there by Ludwig, fighting on the
point like that. They have to do something here, as Columbia are up to 9%. Yeah, Columbia,
and there's quite a bit of ultimates there. And obviously, you're on a four versus five disadvantage.
I think you can argue back and forth about are you investing the sun barrier there, but what is for certain is your four versus five
You need to make a play you need to even out
The number of members on either team immediately because you can't fight for long four versus five
I'm not able to make it work there
It's another round where they break up the majority of the percentage
You have a lot of time to find a single advance in the finish of this time
Pretty early all used to fight low wages trying to survive against Tamp who's been quite the sharp shooter
on the soldier and even competitive is what I like, it's really good, oh there's this sanctuary coming out, supergummers gets frozen up, I'm able to use ult by the way, like straight up frozen by Ludwig so I didn't pop Q, that's a quick chase to spawn is Brazil, I don't like this one hurt, looks like they're gonna over chase there, they got my giant boom navigator, they don't wanna be shooting at people that are invincible inside spawn room.
Yeah, I very much think that Supergummers would have actually put that annihilation, should they not have been frozen, but...
It's Columbia back here. Pretty even open economy here.
Columbia now fighting Tigran. This is coming up.
Oh, the annihilation can get popped in Brazil, an instant disengaged.
Look, the annihilation's... It's already gone, Johnny. I mean, he was taken in by absolutely nobody, but negative value, unfortunately, apart from the high ground.
ground. Here's Hydro though with a overclock, a better annihilation but again, Dark Knight
is instantly frozen. These from Astro by the way, not having a good time against the May.
Luckily Super Grimace gets saved by 10 but good shots and a lot of wiggers. Columbia
do cap the point. Very nice 9 and with that tank for Brazil. Only coming back on the tomb
now is going to be a hard 4Rs to try and win this fight.
What's the matter?
Do have to consider what's what she's got?
No, yeah, it's all over.
Brazil in a culture of the final hurdle here is Colombia.
I'm going to claim this first map.
Oh, too, what a fair untouched peninsula.
Wow.
I mean, that's over.
What a back and forth.
It's quite the difference from the map we just saw between USA and Argentina.
That was really irritating.
Both soldiers trading picks back and forth when testing each other.
Timber amateurs on point like that was.
That was a thrilling opportunity to answer that.
Yeah, it looked good from Columbia. Look, they want to win this series. They want to get that number two seed.
It's gonna be tough
Going to a land like that, but I think making it for a team like Columbia. I think that's a massive achievement.
They just need the two maps. That's that's all they need to lock their place in Johnny's. So
Very doable here for the team. Yeah, exactly.
Just one more here for Colombia and obviously they did finish 9th through 12th at the 2023
edition of the World Cup and so that's obviously a good result already for a nation like Colombia
so the fact they're looking to bring it back this time around in 2026 to replicate a performance
like that I think really strong signs and at the end of the day it comes down to a pretty
weird fight where Hydron kind of slides into a blizzard and Brazil loses all
their positioning. I think Columbia are doing a great job just making sure they
have the superior angles and the superior positioning compared to
Brazil here. Brazil are relying a lot on Hydron finding these picks and you saw
the scoreboard as well like Hydron really stepping up with shots like that
but it's not enough to carry you across the finish line because I think
I mean, I think it's a lot of
players that are still kind of
waiting in the wings. Maybe
their chance like even OWCS
for the stuff is up next. I
think Lich and 10, 10, especially
in that last one, like you
right from going to down
against Hydro. Look great. These
players haven't had a watch
the experience like Hydro has
had that tier one like land
experience either. So, um, yeah,
a place to present. It means
the world to the squad. We'll
see if they can get it done,
though. Like mentioned, one
of the most important things
is that you can get a chance
means the world to the squad.
We'll see if they can get it done, though.
Like mentioned, one more map required,
and they'll look in that second place in the group
just behind Canada.
All right.
So we'll have to see where Brazil takes us next here.
Obviously, I think Hydrone is going to have two things to say
about it.
Finally got something out there.
One thing we haven't brought up so far,
which I think is quite noteworthy,
is that Brazil is very O2 peeled.
O2 bosses are coached, they got a plethora of assistant coaches in Mjolnbong, pressure, Kain,
and so they got quite the support staff going for the Mjolnbong.
I feel like this is a phase where they can have a lot of impact in the game.
Are they going to take us to Nujunksid?
Nujunksid? Yeah, that is quite crazy.
Yeah. Oh, two boss. Uh, and
the assistant coach office, a
lot of them or like most of a
Korean. So it's pretty. It's a
pretty stacked lineup. I think
with. Yeah, how they're
performing now like the
hydrant. You just need to keep
getting the better attempt. Like
that's it. And I think the best
thing Columbia can do is kind of
They fit in the bands too. Maybe they even just take the Cassidy away or the sojourn away here
From oh, no wait, maybe they take the cast away because then they can play the faro. We'll see a lot of options Joss
I'm like, yeah, I'm thinking of right now, man
All right, they're gonna look at group A here Puerto Rico
one and two
After taking a loss to Canada
Earlier on today, but still liked what they showed throughout here
It is Colombia though that is expected to be the number two team out of this group as long as they can seal their fate in this final matchup of the group itself.
Yeah, it was always going to be a tough group with Canada in here, but it was just that second place you needed to fight for.
I think Puerto Rico did very well considering.
I think that obviously they did end up dropping a map versus Brazil, but I thought there was a lot of promise there.
Canada, they end up taking a map off of them too. That King's Rose. So yeah, a lot of a lot of things to be happy for for Puerto Rico, but it's it's Columbia's time to shine, I think with this group. So yeah, fun stuff for for America, I think Europe, Europe, sorry, European groups are always going to be
very competitive with the so many like you know that all the finished players
the German players there. There are a lot of good players in Europe that have
been served for quite a long time but a lot of the South American teams and
players haven't had that chance to really punch upwards so yeah it's good to
see Colomby here doing well. Mizuki ban and and Brazil and the Ram ban
instead so no more super Gomez on the run. Okay well this kind of makes sense
you know Columbia thinking something away from Brazil that they like playing
obviously can protect band for the Lucio as well they wouldn't have done that
because they banned second but Columbia prefers to play the Lucio and they're
going to be allowed to do that so here where's Brazil take away the Romatra
which works so well for Super Gomez so I guess we just run it back minus two
preferred heroes right of the team
I think it's a good idea to
see it. Yeah, the most UK has
been so popular as of late. It
might just be speed comp. We
might just see Lucio back in it
will see. I think with. How
Mozuki like kind of operates. I
don't mind him on flashpoints. I
think that hero is really
starting to become almost
Yeah, I'm ready to lock in some Suzuki later on today. I'm just saying. Well, do you want to lock in? Yeah, I'm going to play some sport. I could actually. I would the Missouki allari duo. Right. Right. Right. Oh, yeah, that would not. I don't think that would go down too well.
like where's the speed we need speed no we don't we just shoot
as well like like playing lucio like you know if I run into people in the
right I'm just like hey I'll give you some speed look like a play yeah it's
nothing I think I'm having speed every yeah everybody if you're playing lucio
the game it's like there's not really ever a point where like nah don't want to
lose here right now like you're always kind of sure with it everybody wants to
just getting people's faces. You want to play Ryan? Right? You want to play Ragn? Right? You want to play Winston?
Go for it. I am not a Frogger kind of Luseo. Oh, I'm not a Frogger. Oh yeah, you're pure support Luseo player. I like that. I like that actually. The master versus Frogger. That is the two ends of it. Okay. The Lijie Godd versus Master. That is the two extreme ends. I mean, I would say. Speed is one thing.
but your entire team is low and you're like heel boosting and your old
retort is building like that that is that feels good it's different you know
it's different Malga super go-man's talca
Malga game complete mirrors here as well so pure skill much up
wow this is this is like throwback to a couple of years ago yeah actually per
really go back really nice like anti-spaceman says stomp coming in as a
both three you just take a rail gun body shot all right well yeah I mean
unfortunately that is the regroup is gone some of the time you are as soon as
you use that shift you will die pretty quick I as is quite kind of wages on
here okay try to contest there's a little more trouble
I wanted to go ahead and disengage here.
Quick anecdote, you remember the 2022 meta?
There was also Sodor and Rieker in the playoffs.
Oh, we got Dallas Fuel as well.
Dallas Fuel win, yeah.
Jake Lamey and he was coaching that Houston Outlast event
and he said to the Reaper players,
the Reaper players were coached,
you kind of just had to trust that the enemy Sodor is going to miss.
Like, did you just have to go for it and believe they'll miss?
If they don't, well, you're done.
Well, that's exactly what just happened.
So, yeah, Hydra did not miss and Ted did.
So, you know what, we still win that fight, there you go, it checks out.
Forward hold here from Brazil, I feel like this is kind of up their element, right?
Like what we just saw on Tarkik Peninsula, where HydroN is so happy to play pretty fast,
and play these angles, and make individual plays, like this is very much of Brazil's kind of preferred style of play.
Rush needs...
It'll be tough here for Columbia to even move through this show.
Well, I mean, one good stomp ideally here from Dalka,
although taking a feather of damage initially,
that was actually playing a more defensive position.
It's the rush.
Double rush, unfortunately.
It's a thousand, it's two stick kills.
Great, it's Vamaluccio.
Double cage, wow, we really are back to Maga better.
Double rush into the double cage,
and then the Sojin's hitting the overclock,
and then it's just farming kills.
Look at that high drop picking up a couple at the very end, and that is the first point only in Brazil.
Now that's 100 to 0 too, that's not even close.
I always need more caffeine just to be able to tell you what happened in that fight.
Because there was a lot of ultimates that dropped in that fight.
I mean the important thing there was that Kreson died super early on Lucio, so you lose all that aura healing and you lose the chance to hit the sound barrier too, so...
I like Mokka's tenacity in that regard, just saving this soundbar. I'm not using it so you can count on me.
Okay, I have this soundbar to go.
Hi!
Carousel, I see...
Oh, I got this one again!
Yeah, that's not good. I maybe hit the Malva 2 or something. Overheld actually there on the Malva, but yeah, that's...
It better be hit from Mokka. That's...
Not pretty.
Did Coruscant get booped off to like the point or something?
There must have been a boop involved there.
Because there was also a very long beat.
I was watching Coruscant U2 Ultimate and I was like, why is there no LVL?
So I think they were in the high ground and they like dropped down.
It just felt like a prolonged channel of the beat.
Um, there must have been a boop there involved.
Uh, we'll see about that in the replays available there.
But that's a lot of Ultimate's in Veseria.
Brazil's gonna come up with this kid soon and watch once more here.
So in control of the point, this has been at all of Brazil here in New York City.
yeah this is not even close it feels like well the same Columbia we saw a
minute ago remember they only need two maps to secure themselves on the second
scene in the group so they need to come up with something special in this fight
with just the death boss them well cage up in 10 I suppose
okay jumping 10 the first one to go to the fourth is the cage there's the cage
Okay, death boss inside cage. Yeah, that's a nice combo.
But it probably needs to put a lot of super Gomez and now Hydron has an overclock.
So Hydron could just take over the game just like this.
Hydron with four kills for the OC.
It's gonna make it a 5-2.
Oh, you've got to give it to him surely.
Five kills for Hydron.
That is an insane feat for Brazil.
Clutching up that fight.
That, I mean, you can't ask more than Hydron, more from the Hydron from there, right?
Two oh two hundred to zero as well like this is president was mapped through and through
That's what you get if you invest resources into your damage player hydro is definitely calling it it comes right now
Support me. I got this and that that's kind of what you get as a result of that
Hydro is having a big time for this Brazil roster now. We're up to over in New York City
They got a cage fight and they're coming up on the death blossom as well
They're looking very confident playing this more like aggressive style compared to the slower
And Brazil have cage, they have cage, they have deathmoss and they're in such an insane
spot to just win this fight if they don't win in the neutral already.
Supergoma is dead, there's the cage on the Reaper, it's like taking canik for a baby.
I mean Kitsuna is throwing out there from change as well.
And we're just going, oh the Sombra, no guy, and I'm like 4 versus 3.
I mean you might as well secure the fight but I can't complete the whole step up too well
Yeah, I suppose I suppose
They're gonna have to face against me, but they do crazy on again because Christmas beat last last time is not good. Yeah
We haven't seen in the ages today
Oh, he's man, you really just did him like that. That's crazy. Well, I think he's got it about 10%
Oh, that's a boss with massive look at what we go. Guess take it by 10 in the end
If it's slide away, we're gonna head shot. We'll take him down and
Dalca try to measure the best 10 and putting it in at the dirt
That's another still alive two players from Columbia now trying to make it to point trying to get the flip coming
Yeah, what a back and forth
Lichting a load of work there for Columbia to get that one back after decisive push from Brazil
So it'll be colombia here in map control and they have a lot of ultimates here to go
So if they can win this one relatively cheaply, they get a good fighting chance here
Well there's the overclock from hydra on 10-4-2-1 Veda maybe, could shot from Vasinella
But it's at least that shuts down hydra on 10 takes the hydra and rips the head off the blood wig
Wow, the sojourn highlight reel for this game
So that's what the highlight is gonna be after this map
It's just gonna be all sojourns
I mean that's what we get in these mahogamurs as well
Well, it really is a flashback because we used to see a lot of this in like 2024.
Soldiers being able to build these rails on the Marga's as well.
Think they're great, darling.
Stop.
Now, Phillips for another.
We're gonna hit Super German.
It's just winning this 1B off by, I guess, this enemy Marga, and now they have mission
in this cage too.
It has deathmoss, and now they're dead already.
And Lundia with some proactivity in their bones. They end up catting at last points, and they get an easy push onto this next one too. They're gonna be here first.
Yeah, 30 seconds to go though, so Brazil should have one attempt up their sleeve. This consumer should give them enough of an advantage that they should be able to come out on top though.
But a death blossom in the mix. You can't count it out
Infights like this and overrun would put a stop to it
But maybe you're able to get just enough going your way. You can win this by
Transparency waiting for someone to beat their head out so we can use this railgun into firing off of Brazil off lane on their own rush
So 8, half the situation, 4 kilometers to the end, very late rush for change.
Who in the hell are Supergome's? You're kind of trapped in that animation as well when you hit the rush, so you're not able to send out a healing.
Supergome's, even if it's for like half a second, is left on a little island.
Yeah, like you said, it was like a little bit too late as well, because you lost all that positioning, you have to invest the rush,
and even the rush is not a guarantee that you're going to fight to get that space back on towards the point.
So, Colombia just found themselves trapped after a nice engage from Brazil.
Going up 50% away from taking a map and equalizing the series.
Yeah.
Again, playing a little bit of upset.
Two, one, two.
TP onto the point, both overclocked.
Available soon.
Hydrons got his very close, but Tennis is gonna pull the trigger.
Rangers are getting shut down.
A cursed soundbar from Mocha again.
I mean these beats sold good for Brazil. They should be excited. This is gonna be a late death on 10
But they're stalling this sojourn as well. I mean, oh, whoops. It's all good. It's the Lucio
They get back in time, but there's not gonna be a touch. I don't think it's gonna play up to the sport
Supergirl miskillers I draw on sure, but yeah, no touch
Brazil with a map on the board
All right, so we finally have an identity as well that really works for Brazil and something they can lean on
for the rest of this series you're worried after that first map the way things looked in a bit of a remote ground mirror but
New junk city really going Brazil's way here
There's a building on this intent utilize it later on in this series. I also have to say Jack
I don't even know if this is possible
But was that a cage jacks?
It is possible
I don't think it was possible.
And it was.
Prod saying it was a cage jacks.
It's a rarity.
I'm just saying, like, sometimes you see stuff out
in the world that's a bit unlargized.
Yeah, the animation is very quick.
So you don't typically see that.
Yes, I just want to pick that up.
No, Ajax.
Oh, there's the beat.
Oh, the boop was crazy from Mokka, Johnny.
Wow, that was insane.
That was all Mokka there, just making sure Chris
doesn't get a good beat he it was kind of like on the high ground I think what
happened there was the boot from the Malga into the boot from the there is
yes actually I mean that that's certified for the game like you're able to
drop a beat then you know prevent an enemy beat like that's just yeah that's
a lucidest dream yeah genuinely all right well Brazil are up a map let's go
All right Brazil now can they actually close out the series that's a question
And I think that map that was definitive late that wasn't really that close like Brazil are in this still Johnny
This is still a decided game. It's the last match of group A and
If Columbia can't clutch out a second map like Brazil might be the team to take that second seed
Yeah, look, I think um, it's going to be tough to replicate this kind of performance because we saw this in Japan as well
like you don't serious such a
I want to say it's a pretty unique map in how close corridor it is and allows for that
set of playways so they were not getting banned. And so there wasn't a lot of opportunity for
Colombia to kind of adapt and play their own game, have they wanted to play something else right?
And so that map was all Brazil, but now you gotta try to keep that momentum going.
I think if I'm Colombia, I'm now like keeping this in the back of my mind, depending on where
I go next and thinking like, okay, where can we go where maybe can we force like the polar
opposite of that. But still, though, I think something like Hydron's performance on Sodorin
stands out at something you always had consistently be worried about, because Hydron really came online
in that second map, and you know he's kind of a gunsome blazing for the rest of the series.
Runisapi, and that's the big thing as well, if you end up losing that map, and you just need one
more, it's like, okay, we get to go somewhere, we feel more comfortable, so Runisapi it is,
and now you can dictate what tanks they play too. You could ban out the malware if you really wanted
I wouldn't say that's a too much of a bad pick for Colombia and then just opt-in to the run again if you feel comfortable or even opt-in to the sea
Yeah, it's pretty well-rounded. So I think I would probably do that if I was Colombia like you can't really go wrong
If you force that kind of comfort, maybe you need to protect band for a part of something here on that Lucio
that you are so difficult to you
So I could see that but
You know, we've seen a couple of
teams do this and all of this.
I see them do awesome.
Like it's not, it's not comfortable.
You prefer to use the band to
probably do anything.
It's your strength.
Columbia.
You just did that one map and
you talk about things like
lurking in the back of their
mind.
That is definitely one of them.
Like just being this close to
an international man like that.
That is a big weight on your
shoulders.
shoulders and I think what a unique aspect of the World Cup as well obviously a lot of
teams they're playing for the fans a lot of the time you know like a lot of fans are very
loyal when it comes to teams and players but when it comes to like nations as a whole
I think even more so you know you're playing for your country I think it's a whole different
ball game in other guard. Mayban for Columbia sick and tired of getting blizzards is the
tanks and jetpack cat van for Brazil okay not seen in this series so both of
these both of these bands are like we're tired of this yeah and we're tired of
the jetpack cat just dragging people on this guy
hey man where is it yeah I would say I'm taxi peninsula and Newjung City are
like not match you'd ever see
Katbash in. So, you know, fair
enough, like Columbia ended up
picking that first map as well.
So like, and then Brazil picked
the second one. If there's a
time to play the Katbash in this
will be the map. So Columbia
steering way clearer that one
and but time boost on and stuff
rolls around to maybe there's a
small patch in between. So maybe
they don't need to be as worried
about Katbash. I mean, honestly,
I think it's so funny, right?
Because it's such a unique composition and I mean, there is a, there is quite a bit
of skill in deciding like when do we actually commit and use these, you know, the cat speed
and like when do we use turret mode and bastion stuff like that, right?
And so I feel like a few teams probably think that like, do we really have to learn that
composition so intrinsically?
But I could also see how maybe in the future of Overwatch, like imagine a year from now,
We're like six months from now, probably world finals either.
Just having a composition like that to bring out,
if it's at least reasonably good,
that could be like a good niche composition
to just throw the opponent off guard, right?
Like Twisted Minds, we're not really talking about
Symmetra as much, it's a good hero, it's a viable hero.
But Twisted Minds are able to bring it out
and just tear teams apart, right?
Playing the Symmetra.
And so like, maybe there's an opportunity,
like I found the road, if you really well practice
on Kat Bastion, going a bit of a ramp here,
I think that could favor you down the line.
That's a good composition to have off your feet.
We just about, whoa, it's 2024 or what was going on?
What's happening there?
We rolled back the clock, what's going on?
We just, Malgo, Reaper, Sojin.
All right, well, we just...
So much for theorizing, but...
I mean, listen.
I do love seeing Sojin highlights.
And I, there is no one on this,
chat, you can back me up on this.
There is no one on Earth
that doesn't like watching Sgt. Halec. Come on. Come on.
That was true.
Right?
You know it?
Yeah.
It seriously is.
It is the most fun to watch.
Come on.
Again, with a really early kill on the Hydra.
And I think this, this map and this series might just come down to the 10 Hydra won't
be one.
Uh, the Sgt. do.
Yeah, 100%.
They have so much impact on these heroes, right?
You're able to build so much well done charge off of the enemy maga.
And I put those down.
It wasn't even like, really, a rail gun shot either, it just kind of like went down to like fire damage or something like that, 10% or something.
What is happening, Jaws? What is happening?
Well, the Sojourn's the problem, so we've run it, Sojourn and Insta-Kill. Thank you very much.
Alright, Ludwig, time to shine, hope the enemy Sojourn misses.
Of course, he freaks and does not. He's the Lucio, isn't it, the supports.
It was nothing to do with Sojourn's that entire last fight. They just got picked on, they got bullied.
Okay, so Brazil bringing things back here. I'm curious to see down the line here on this map
how Colombia is kind of adapting to what we saw on New Jersey City because they're opting into this
matchup that they, you know, firmly looked these seven pages on when these teams went head to head
of this kind of position. So it's really on player like temp to step up big time and put
hydrant off that pedestal. Both of them are just being built for either team here. Brazil is going to be slightly closer to the rush.
Oh, there we go again. I'm telling you that now both teams are like nope, not today
We will not die. We'll get boss minicage from this
Okay. Well, you don't need the sojourn if third lich is just gonna do that
Kent dies first up lich gets a triple and Dalker does not want anything to do with this fight any longer
lich, what a beast
I mean that's like the second insane death loss on in two maps
Like how often do we see death blossom value out of the reapers? It's it doesn't really happen and now you know
We're back in market cage fight man. Yeah
She's the best better to use a death blossom
Rush through the center off the point they split up the team here Columbia. I'm not get caught out. Okay. Yeah, there we go
Now they have advantage as they walk down this hill. We sell quickie. They want to go early Susie
There's the stop in the door. Both Malus now looking at each other, stop, beats, better here.
Kratosund totally hits, oh, he gets five.
He's got very, very close to only getting two there.
And there's Ludwig with a kill on Kratosund though, it's Hydron Triter.
How do you even this fight up?
Slides away, takes super Gomez, very low, but Columbia goes with able to resustain during this fight,
or re-kill off I should say.
I sneaked onto Ludwig, a reset for Columbia now, into mid.
Yeah, they almost get the better ultimate rotation there because they're sitting back and like to get a better beat out.
Carlisle was one when they got the Sun barrier out.
So that was the difference between Lucia fight like that because of an AJ and coming out on top.
So Brazil did their damnness of trying to get on top of the enemy Lucio and now Colombia.
They're going to be able to cap this point here.
That was obviously going to be Big Boon in their favor here on Runa Sobino.
And they'll drop back, try to establish the positional advantage.
Okay, always looking for the railgun trucks.
Yeah, no ults, gonna be a dry fight.
Which basically means, hopefully, my Malaga can stomp their sojourn,
or one of their supports, we can blow them up.
Nice off angle though, from Hydron.
They just got chunked out so much, just walking through the destruction.
There's gonna be a trade onto Moccas, the 4V4, but
Hydro in half the position and egg now no one's looking at him. She's quite the opposite of what was happened before
We're going to buy their time here
We could ask the team this is still a pretty tough angle
We'll push through you don't need to watch there and the cage as well
This is the depth of the getting trapped in the cage and he lets it rip once again. It's getting Susie's huge to stay alive
enough damage, resulting in a team fight win there for Columbia.
And the Mokka survives as the bot is reset in the mid.
This is the most back and forth rune-sarpy I've ever seen.
They're just trading fights back and forth.
It's one fight to one fight to one fight is insane.
There's no back-to-back fight wins here.
What a mile.
Oh, unless?
Unless?
OK, unless.
Is there anything unprecedented?
Getting two fights in a row?
There's no way.
Well, they already killed two, and that's a fight win.
and that's checkpoint done and they're just moving on way past it.
Yeah, it has to be said, like, those fights when you win with the cage fight and the Bussom,
that's paying off with Columbia here because they can overclock in this spot, like, you know?
He sends now, maybe?
Temp?
Oh, he's full, that was close.
And unfortunately, he's not there.
Try to end up stalling the bot there so we didn't end up getting away from them, but, no, it just gets sniped.
There's just too much damage from Temp and Lich, we're just basically on top of it the whole time.
Sound barrier
Hydra and has no place in this world right now
Unfortunately a good beat on C from Columbia as well Johnny
I think beating here and just gaining that extra momentum. It's just so good and don't look for a better beat win the fight
consistently and
What's that now three fights one in a row? I?
Mean they're getting out controlling. They're pushing the spawn doors
This is
right here it could be my name myself a little bit no but seriously they have
the death loss and coming up they have a cage as well they are potentially one
fight away from locking them into Busan so 130 meters to 34 Avril theory coming
up in just a moment as well as we from Mokka to be a little bit of a spoiler
This is a everybody shoot to lose your moment. Try to force the A.J.
Yeah, that's what Hydra is gonna do. Hopefully he's preventing here with a nice little flank
trying to win the fight just with a generic rail gun and save the B for another time.
Kegens are coming out, Lowe quick just shooting supergrabbers in the back of the head, but
he's a lich that comes out. Lich in the neutral just shooting at the back line. That's a
triple kill for the Reaper and Columbia are marching on forward. A team kill with three
minutes to go and ult to spare. I mean this is like a g-sign level performance on the weeper
by Lich. They have a lot of impact having on this hero in this hero matchup but still has
five ultimates coming up here for this upcoming fight but Colombia is spending complete control
so far in the topic. Abra theory over a hundred meters already achieved without the checkpoint
means Colombia they have a very high chance of winning now. Lich though? Well partly contend
And with that one unfortunately it's a Ludwig's time to shine a triple kill with that bosson and well
That's a team kill but two minutes and thirty seconds with over a hundred meters Johnny
I mean, what do you do? Like the only thing you can do is like spread out so we don't all get caged, but um
They really do their best there. I mean, maybe with the cardiac overdrive the healing is enough to
Try to outlive their colombia so I'm going to go again. They're back very quickly here
This ends now.
Uh, Super Grammys, you gotta live, buddy.
I still kill all the Hydrons,
Sandbaria for 4, 4, Brazil as they kill Lich,
1-1 trade, now 10.
Gonna need a main toss to damage 4, Columbia.
Try to snipe, and I'll get in the back.
A good Suzu.
Should be an easy kill on the Lucio too.
Gracie with a 2 player Sandbaria for Columbia.
But they should be good for it.
The ball's gonna be reset back to the mid,
as Brazil just cannot win a back-to-back fight.
Yeah, it might have actually been three people there with the Sunlighter, and I actually don't disagree with it too much.
Yes, it was a fight, but it's not my favorite win.
But now you push the bot back to Brazil's side of the map, just making ever so more difficult for Brazil here to try to get some momentum on this one.
So you're in the new fight mode, they are in.
You want to try to turn the tides and put the table here?
Flambier will try to play out this whole time and Super Gomez is the only one on the point.
It's isolated and Brazil now have to be perfect.
There's only a minute to go and Tent is taking dangerously low.
Sight out of danger yet again and somehow still surviving.
But someone at the back of the car just sending them both DPS to the ground as Plydron picks up the kill onto Tent.
Brazil still have a cage in their back pocket here.
They have to be so conservative with their ults they can't use them willy-nilly at this point.
Yeah, that's right, and it's actually really good that Dalka holds on to this cage fight here as well
So now maybe you can use interior advantages. You look to win a few teamfights in a row here
You're coming up on that Sunbear as well
So a lot of tools for disposal here up Brazil, but like you say you want to stagger these
Ultimate out you want to layer them perfectly make them blast you try to get some
And that's what we need for the next round.
Ah, Mokka was sent to 1 HP, there's the cage, Dalka, focusing down, however there's going to be a return cage.
Good beat from Mokka!
Massive for Brazil! A heavy investment, sure, but an investment they needed to make.
20 seconds ago, Bot briefly stolen, Brazil have lost Ludwig, but they're still winning the fight.
Ideally, you use no one else here, and it doesn't look like Dalka's going to let that happen.
Tep shot down.
It's actually perfect execution based on what we just said about the ultimates being pivotal.
And now, this is a massive moment for Higon to be able to step up here with his overclock,
looking for an off angle here, put himself in a position to carry his teamfight,
cross this checkpoint first and hopefully then I play it.
You have to overcome the apopheary burn, I don't mean that's possible, I'm gonna be honest,
it's just so tough here for Brazil, they have to not lay the ults, right?
The wise words of Pruse do not overlay us before all of them.
Any ults for this matter for Brazil.
Brazman's giving the speed.
You can open this one up with 10. Okay, double overclock.
It's Soji vs Soji and I told you this.
You gotta come down to the way of Soji, you can land the shot.
It's Hydra on that gets 10.
Snipes him out of the window.
Disadvantaged Shoe from low to high.
Nails the shot!
It's a shot of Brazil pushes forward.
They're in a good position here to make a decisive push with this good soon wash.
Have to be aware of Carterson's Sunbury though.
If taking snooker, so they can mention Ajaxi more.
A worse Sunbury hit. Oh, it hits five, they're going early. They want to guarantee this play here right now.
There's Jeff Ross of the Lich Trail on the top of the point.
A lot of damage getting hit, thanks to that Sushi's over. It is all lit on it.
He doesn't again for a TP they're trying to get closer to Hydro, but he's going to slide away
And that was a 2v2 on the point. It's super goba. It's just too much health to chew through his Colombia control the box
And they get the second map and book their ticket to Busan
Columbia up to one in the series, but because of their performance previously here in group a they now
Stand on top here and get second place in group a
They had a great job by Colombia, they're coming out on top, but Brazil made them work
for it almost coming back here in overtime.
They did everything they could really, really do with Malka looking at great sound barrier
followed by Hydrone coming up clutch with the railgun shots, but there was too much
to overcome.
Three fights were one too many.
And Colombia closed in Southern Missapi.
I think it was a good chance.
It was pivotal that they got a
good sound barrier there and
credit is on now. They like hit
everybody. They went early.
They knew that locker didn't
have one at the very end. And
a good victory for Columbia
second seed in the group just
behind Canada. Brazil just
playing for the style points at
this moment. Really unfortunate
stuff for Brazil. I think they
us to a fifth but at the end is all Colombia. There's a lot of support staff as well behind you
for Brazil and we're helping out immensely and despite the score line of Brazil that went 0-3
I think still a lot of promise for a lot of players. Hydron especially I mean he's always been good
but kind of proved to be here on the social. Yeah a bit of a carry component here you know every
time we looked at the scoreboard because like Hydron still has to stand out because of hits
them comments like that but yeah I mean you saw that second to last fight
Hydron gets the first pick, quickly, very long shot and that is enough for him to get the upper hand
and keep on like that and I feel like Hydron did that repeatedly. Four team Brazil in this
world of qualifier but it's not to be instead of this Columbia we're celebrating
you know again like I'll say they had to success in 2023 and to see them come out
on top here again in 2026 and security ticket to Busan. That's a fantastic job by this country.
So that's a lot to be proud of.
Land is going to be such a different beast though and that's where it all
all matters. We've got to be honest, you know.
Yeah, I mean definitely, but you know, a lot of scrim time, a lot of practice is probably
going to go in over the next coming months before they head to Busan. It's going to be a good
opportunity to get some experience on the plan as well.
Um, yeah, Columbia with the win, obviously, uh, Columbia win, uh, Brazil, but with this
next map, it will be Brazil picking and it will be a circuit Royale, um, for our potential
final map.
A bit of a change of pace here.
I don't think we're going to see the Margarir, but I can quite firmly, uh, make the case
that we're not going to see the same composition we've been seeing for that classical maps.
You know, give us a little bit of make your hybron. Come on now.
Startle points. Yeah, you gotta look if it...
That's old school hydron too, for the view is exactly, for the fans, for the fans.
To run through the fire and try to run.
For what? Yeah, to run through the fire and hydron.
That was a that was a fun team. That's because that's spectra on it as well. That was good. Oh
Wow
Yeah, what a what a throwback
That that was an interesting team because it is really well, but then they also like under performed quite heavily. I had their
They had their ups and downs
Totally, I really liked spectra's a player. Yes, but you're sick. Yeah. Yeah
You know, it's got to all right
Farah ban for Brazil, and he has Sigma ban.
Go on, give us the Circuit Real Rhyme mirror.
Now, we got here thoughts?
No, I mean the sidelines are just too strong, too overwhelming here, so...
I'm not going to see the mother game play.
I mean, even Rhyme's sin on this, I think you really appreciate it, because I almost think that like, Rhyme would be more justifiable if the Sigma was actually available.
And if you're like the offense, you know what I'm saying?
So
Yeah, this is going to be a tough one. Maybe this is a jet-back cat bastard angle. Come on now
Just once today. Bring it out.
He's like, please. I just want we saw it in Japan. They like the bastard Cassidy
Cat bashing I don't mind if it's a little sprinkle here and there. It's pretty fun. It's pretty fun. So close
see it's so warm get in the pool wait did that change color what was that am i hallucinating
i was what's the shade of the sun or something it was pink what wait from what to what see it's
going from like purple to pink i don't know that's probably yeah that's why i think it's just a texture
thing i think it's a shade right yeah i think i mean when colors are in shade they tend to look
Okay, but I didn't I didn't I didn't expect that, you know, I'm sorry
Graphics RTX on graphics
Download the latest driver
Chat go make sure you have the latest drivers
Come on
Brief little pause
brief little pause as we
So, everything out. There you go. Got correct score now. Columbia 2, Brazil 1.
I'm gonna put your best foot forward. Gotta make sure the setup is all good.
Maybe they need to update their graphics driver. Maybe that was what it looked like.
Alright, so we're in a pause here. So I think I'm allowed to do a personal anecdote. Is that right?
Of course. Yeah, sure. I mean, there's no rules for broadcast, but I guess there's very few, but yeah, go on.
Some people demand analysis at all times, okay?
Well, again, to take this moment. World Cup 2018 in Thailand.
I bring my mouse, the qualifiers, the mouse broken.
We're rehearsing and like setting up on stage, my mouse is broken.
So we're in this big shopping mall in Thailand for the event.
And so I'm like going escalator down floor after floor, floor after floor.
Trying to find the electronic setting, the electronic store.
And I get my hand on like a racer death fatter with built-in mouse acceleration
He doesn't say my primal rages were not the best ever in Thailand wait have built-in mouse Excel
Yeah, it was it was pretty what?
I
Couldn't turn it off
I could there was no setting to turn off the mouse acceleration and I'm primal raging and it's I mean this there's a clip of me on the body
Somewhere during
And the primal rage is awful because my mouse is do this all and I I had gone in you know
So some people you remember Winston players who were like practice
They're like the perfect boo into like the jump triple hits with the primal. You know, yeah
Yeah, yeah, I think I think I know what you're saying. Yeah
So to do that for like 20 hours and then to have your mouse die and so you're like
And then you hit the mouse excel and yeah, well now I can't do anything
So at this point, I would tell all the players playing this qualifier everyone playing all those. Yes
Bring your spanner mouse
Bring your spare mouse ring two because if the one died you're in trouble
honestly, then
Keep lay a mouse over like keyboard if you're not comfortable with your mouse like that is the big difference
Okay, it really is like having that feel in your hand, especially what I mean hit scan players did I've seen some
we've seen some crazy mice collections and keyboard collectings from like
x-games players is it is absurd oh my god I mean I could go on and on but I'm
not going to let's go back to the real life
it's a little bit lagged there from Brazil so we did have to end up jumping
into a free force but we're back to it all good it ever may actually with the
Okay, so just ram Mei Sojin, I'll quite like them out of the box, thankfully. Mei's just trying to wall off the enemy rams, all that was close.
Leech with a nice snap on some of that, but really good.
So about trading with the neutral here, we'll be having this Mei that helps them get some better sightings here for the defense.
defense. The big difference is going to be the choice of meanscourt. Colombia out there cannot
telegraph now that they really want Crotis on to play this in the O3 route regardless of what
composition it is. Brazil played with Volca over onto this Juno who can be such a potent character
as you swing around, get so much healing done with the torpedoes there as well. Once again it
comes down to somewhat comes down to the Sorghum players here. Trying to find the opening for
Yeah, I don't mind having like too high impact like damaging the damage amp alts from Brazil
You lose a lot without a speed like you have the speed ring of course, but like the inherent speed that Lucio gives
That's nice counter
And there's the rush and the maze doing amazing. Oh nice shot on the high drunk mid slide
Oh, they're blizzards?
You're blizzarding?
Oh my... yeah.
Ambitious from Ludwig there.
After losing Hytron as well, that is...
That is a large commitment.
Yeah, I wouldn't even say that,
you know, in prior years,
it's probably easier to get value from blizzard,
but I feel like in this image,
somebody proves to try to communicate
being frozen in some of these blizzards,
and so turning that fight around,
fight the round I think was very ambitious from Ludwig there losing that
blizzard now when he tried to round this corner it is going to be a nice little head
shoulder down there that's going to get things going okay so you can see from
your social player just a random opening pick on the enemy search now you've got
too much more no damage right I mean realistically Temps can be back for this
fight on the cap. A whole lot of ults here. I mean literally, Polisas could go giant.
Ormiston's tank is gonna just throw it close to backline. Hydra and Tenpens are using that
overclock, but here comes the Sandbar. It's an overwhelming amount of health as well.
This over health coming in for Columbi is already disappeared, thanks to Dalka's ultimate.
So annihilation just running forward and that over health last like maybe half a second it feels
like. A nice kill onto Lich and just following that up with kill onto the Kirojo would be perfect.
Salka, pure control over that fight is Brazil cap.
Yeah, that's Sambaria maybe a little bit too early once again.
I feel like Colombia really weren't able to capitalize on that over health because,
I mean, you know that the orbital wave will come out.
You know that the Gixin rush will come out.
And so it's really on YouTube.
If you want to use that Sambaria aggressive,
which you probably should do in that situation, I don't blame that,
but you need to find some value with it.
You need to get a frag onto Brazil.
And they just weren't able to do so.
Yeah, Orville Torre is gonna send a strong message to Columbia.
Gonna return with a rush, just a lot of weight too far forward.
He's not that prolific, too.
You'd imagine he wants to use that, but he didn't get instantly deleted.
Now a temp on the high ground, a good overwatch now, unintended, over the rest of the battlefield.
Hasn't ever let down, and Brazil should be along for this world, yeah, there it is, quick,
in fight.
Ah, Columbia even staggering Hydra on his left. Oh, what? Alright, that's enough. That's enough. Pain.
I get too paranoid. I'm like, they're totally going to kill my Lucio, and, you know, Hydra and Billy are going to, uh...
...on the Crotus on there. Well, this guy's called up the opportunity here to utilize this Hydra.
To the best of their ability, Pamp is going to have a field day now with this additional Hydra on.
So maybe Hydrone here can't hit like a good railgun shot to try to push Columbia back already some good damage on the super bowman
It's going to force you a marker back
Hi to low Hydrone trying to make to again, but it's just too strong. You get a good wall you get a good blizzard
Even just a good wall some of the time
He's enough to kill the ram
Nice kill, a nice fight for Brazil. One minute and forty seconds still in the time back.
It's Columbia now, after Regal.
Yeah, I still feel like there was a little bit lacking there in the neutral, because
Supergummers took so much pressure to begin with, and it's a nice shot from Hydro, like
I called out. That's enough to push Columbia back here.
Brazil, look at the cap, the killer here, like, maybe you can go into Columbia here,
but it's still able to...
Oh, God, he's...
It's big! They got to run into this nemesis form though, the blizzard crates a whole lot
space but not the space that they ideally like. Can imagine freezing Darko would have been better.
Annihilation. Both have been popped already. Now the Rams can just continually look at each other,
but not after a wall gets placed right behind Super Gomez's back. It's a good shot from 10,
but I think the rest of the fight is pretty much done and dusted. There's yet another
kill coming through for the Sojourn, but unfortunately not the kill on to the Ram. Having a Ram survive
that long and also having the annihilation makes it pretty invincible two minutes now for Brazil.
And you have to give credit to Brazil there the way they're disengaging and staying away from
Colombia during their power spike because of that sound barrier. I feel like Brazil they then
do a good job of flipping momentum after colombias used their ultimates already and Brazil now
steaming on to the third point here already contesting the outside decent playwall here but
should be able to get in the kitchen unless loadably.
Oh nice.
Extensive aid.
That was a nice Ramness Vortex honestly.
Yeah fair play.
It's so funny when the character models die on a staircase and they just walk down and
roll down the stairs.
Look at the ram, man.
It went around.
Dude.
It sounded detainment to you.
It is very funny.
The ragdolls in this game sometimes go crazy.
The Malca, the Malca when he gets hit with like a massive railgun and dies and then just
spea- it was like the hog when he just like spins.
Alright.
Look, I get it.
I get it.
It's peak.
I like how he's getting the peak.
It's go time.
I don't know, there's the overclocking here for Hydrone on the high ground but, man,
Temp is always prick on the trigger here with this opening kill.
That way he doesn't get traded.
Another one for Temp, Hydrone!
Gotta pick up the face.
Like, Super Gomez is gonna find you in another.
Hydrons overclocked then.
Not having the same effect is just 10th with a normal round.
This is actually a really entertaining back and forth here between 10th and Hydron.
Both throwing out punches, getting picks for the individual team.
Longia, where did they go from the corner here?
I'm just running out here, Joss.
Samson's going overclock now, double slide, mocker, already took a body shot.
Blizzard on the points, Columbia investing a whole lot of Olsen's this fight for his defense.
They're gonna have to face Ludwig's own, uh, Blizzard here, but Brazil don't really want to use it.
Like, ideally, you're using this for one of the final fights, final pushes, but you're gonna have to at some point if needs must.
Oh, Ludwig's just dying from this, aren't he, actually?
There's the raid.
It's over time now.
Decentrales to go.
Beats.
Crotis on.
Ludwig dying.
This final hurdle here is not going to be a good sign here
for Brazil.
Ludwig's coming back in a couple of moments,
but Super Gomez could turn this one around
with an annihilation straight off the limits of form.
Ludwig, you just got to eat it, my guy.
You just got to eat the Blizzard.
It's going to have to happen just straight onto the point.
There it is.
Straight onto the point.
Enter Pining Lynch.
He blocks straight on top of it,
but unfortunately Ludwig, a little bit too late,
can't even take out the Lucio.
Dying like that in a fight so close to OT is a tough spot for Brazil to be in.
Do you know who I want to glaze there?
I want to glaze through the bonus.
I think that was a really decisive push with the Ramatra in overtime.
They're like really pushed deep into the Brazil team, into the back line.
They're forced out to disperse from the annihilation.
And that's going to make the recon test so much harder, which can be scary at times.
Obviously, I mean, you're a Ramatra who is using annihilation.
Like you're pretty survivable, but in overtime to sacrifice the positioning you have to try to make a pretty decisive push.
I think that was a recipe for success there for Colombia and a good final fight there, even though they had the man advantage, of course, with the league going down just moments prior.
I think it was a good execution there for the team.
Secure that final fight.
2.57 and a half meters.
Same cops, although, Mizuki for Brazil on defense.
Now, this is what I really like.
I like the Mizuki on defense on these maps.
I think on a lot of escort maps,
the Mizuki's just so powerful.
Just being able to lock down locations,
sanctuary on corners, hybrid suits, be fair,
anything with like a straight line kind of payload push.
So good.
Yeah, I mean, the sanctuary is so good
to move them up here as well.
I would say I'm a bit of a Juno enjoyer,
you know, it's like a drill.
You get so much value from the torpedoes and smithing.
Very reliable if you want to make it as tight as possible.
Yeah, I think torpedoes are specially.
You're hitting them down straight.
Like, yeah, yeah.
I mean, that's why you're pretty good at that.
Did you do the sampler?
Sampler?
Yeah, yes.
Yeah.
We're still here.
put that on the liquid video please. Alright, Sam, what you got for us?
Surely a large railgun shot coming up. Everybody very scared at Sam for this point and you should be.
It's a gold news though, so Brazil, what's your retreat through this?
You know, it's time just to, I mean, it's, you know, in Colombo you're taking our whole heap of damage.
Good retreat here from Brazil
It really takes too much like
Up from Pope there at the very beginning. It was Columbia. He tried to swing and
Hey, are we healing as well from the Mizuki and then throwing the hack
He's a little absurd and you've compared that to like Lucio or I'm sure if you have a lot of healing but
Passive healing from Mizuki
It's so good and you can see how much damage Mark has done to 82% already
Yeah, I think that's a fair point in that this is a big natural, like in the suit he has to use to look at the map, which can help him in so many ways, right?
Meanwhile, this is kind of struggling here.
Oh no!
But look here from down.
Oh, niche.
No block.
Oh, no problem.
Kill for 10th though.
It's slide up, kills Lightron, and now he's on an off angle, but he has a lot, he is alone, and isolated himself to try and fight even more for the team.
It's Colombia once again on the back foot, just holding S.E. getting out.
Yeah, so they're taking me alive here only to defend someone.
Good job with some gauging and re-engaging after I've been able to find a couple of these picks.
I mean, look, they haven't really used any ultimates here either, so...
They're going to have 5 at their disposal.
You can kind of pick and choose which ones they want to go.
Pressure if you want to block it here.
Try and get something going.
Alright, Hydra.
I mean, it's not this overclocked as the sanctuary of bullies that is going to connect with it to annihilations in a place as well. I mean, Columbia, they better be winning this fight. It doesn't look like it, though, especially without the main.
There's no control left really on the battlefield. It's hard to get slid on blizzard from a Ludwig rather late for Brazil as they've already lost two players. A good little freeze there on.
This is a 2v2, but Gomez is a 2v2 with the payload still pushing.
Oh, look at him!
The final shot!
Killing Kratos on stopping them, push the payload.
I mean, that is nasty.
I don't know if Cardis Tome would have been able to push it in regardless, so I don't think that is decisive,
but a crazy moment nonetheless. That's how close Columbia gets.
After using it pretty much the entire open attack within a minute to go,
I'm just on the Elori here.
Oh, you're going to instantly die.
Yeah, used to help, but it's way too late.
But we were in the ravaging score state, so you wouldn't have gone far at all.
All right, Columbia.
Now it's your chance to kind of spring into action
and show everyone what you got.
Only 40 seconds to go, but that might be what they need.
I mean, you've already forced the block.
You've already forced the nemesis form as well.
And you have the overclock.
Python's dead. Yeah, this fight is done.
You wrap it up with a nice little blow.
All right, so Columbia, it's an opportunity here on second point to finish off this series.
You can make it through this area relatively quickly and get some extra time back to start having to do it.
Third point, it would be in a really good position here.
You don't want to be struggling as much as you did that's very first point.
So this first ultimate wave here for Columbia is critical.
You won't have to sound very relatively soon, change the score and get through much.
It is critical that you get the ultimate score.
Look at this annihilation from my Dalker.
I'm just trying to run it down here, but now I have to be a little bit more careful.
Both brushes, annihilation, trade with annihilation.
I'm waiting to see who's there, Mr. Poppies.
I'm waiting for it. Credits are going to be the first to die. There it is.
Eventually, he's going to get it going.
He's... Dalker just kind of forcing Columbia to use ult.
Credits are going down so early.
There's so much more healing on Brazil's side, Johnny,
compared to Columbia's with the Slucio versus the Juno carry.
yeah I mean the torpedoes from hooka came in culture actually knows the
difference make it to get that very first pick like you say just having that
presence on to the payload as well with the blizzard it's just overwhelming
for Columbia they did throw in a couple of looks here now they're one minute 40
on the timer yeah 10 pins of going down the police gets thrown out as well by
They're licks though, it's getting bad for worse than Colombia.
I mean these like ults and then kills are happening just so close to each other.
It's hard to really say that but it's just bad, they're in a decent spot.
They can never use this soundbar, it's trying to get out.
I'm super gonna skill die.
Yeah, these, these are size of soundbar pushes just hasn't been into Colombia so far.
They're not getting the value out of this Lucio which
It's the worst pick out of these different main supports you can play here, but you're trying to cater to Protosson's comfortability here.
Let's just go over to the Symmetra here, try to get some positional advantage here against this defense favor.
Maybe the Symbiim is willing to just ramp it up on Darko and Darko's shield and then just burn him.
Alright, they're still going. They're still got time. Still got time, but this point of the map, especially if you're sold here, it can be so tough to practice when open.
Wow, the attempt just gets completely owned by the wall.
And then takes the railgun shot from my drone, so that's a deal.
I'll try to build this annihilation if they can, double rush, that's what they're waiting
for, crem them to turn the corner first, looks like the angel can sink this one in, looks
If you look with Dalka down, it is going to be a Columbia flight win.
Oh, Joan, why do you not know about some of these old stats?
You did not need that annihilation, and that Dalka is now going to have a better annihilation here.
Yeah, no, you're totally right.
Yeah, absolutely.
They're going to get some of this time back here, a minute 30, which they don't have to push too far.
I don't even think they have to go around this very difficult corner here on the third point, where the spawn have sight lines.
So, Columbia are very much still in this, but like you say, you have to get more value out of these old guns.
Wall is a big factor for Lich. They are going up against a Blizzard. Hydron has the overclock as well.
A lot to kind of think about. And we feel the loose gear. Oh, great, it's not having the best of times against Hydron at this moment.
Now the B of course, but it will be Columbia hitting the reset. There's no chance of anything for an extra pick, so
You should be a fairly quick one
You will have one really good fight here with the Symmetra wall and the Sun here coming up
Columbia has the opportunity to close out the series
Yeah, it says you won't fly at this point. Yeah, this wall could just delete the T all the way
I'm sorry, dead though. They're gonna be able to charge up the speed behind this wall here from this
So he's gonna do a lot of damage to the front line
Sam Barrett comes out doesn't end up hitting for freezing the front line those super Gomez is just isolated and alone
But armor and that and nemesis form it's gonna be good for another as great as done ended going down eventually
But it's still alive. It's gonna be the main damage dealer for Columbus for Columbia right now
2v2 as a
Again, which comes out on top whether it's the river where Jimmy does not matter licks for Columbia
It's just gonna win the team fight a nice team kill and a nice Matt win circuit royale is there's a 3-1 and like I mentioned before a
Tickets to the land in Busan going along with Canada
Leaving Smith draw was too much at the very end and Lich comes up clutch like they did earlier on in the series on Reaper as well
27 and 8
Great performance by your flicks player there who really stepped up
This has been a very impressive Columbia team throughout these online qualifiers.
It's been very well deserved.
It's their ticket to Busan and a LAN.
A LAN tournament, and they get to compete against some of the international teams we had from the different regions.
Yeah, it's a big moment, I'd imagine, for Columbia.
Obviously, they end up getting it on map three, and the placement in Busan, thanks to only needing the two maps.
I think Brazil really gave
them a run for their money,
but that was the last match in
Group B. So that's fully done
and dusted now. It is going to be
Canada and Columbia or Group A.
Sorry. Um that would be Canada
and Columbia making it through
to the land.
A big achievement for all the
players. I'd imagine. Obviously
we're going to get an interview
with 10 in just a moment.
I think Brazil really gave them
moment as yeah I'm curious of what their thoughts are Johnny I'm wanting to know
kind of the details because I think for a lot of them going to a land like this
is gonna be a big a big life event a big life achievement for them. Yeah I mean
being able to travel to a land and participate they watch this amazing
experience and a lot of a lot of these people I mean they hope to get that
I think in the end, you get to experience right.
So for a team like Columbia, this big achievement for them.
I'm very happy that they do get that opportunity
to try and replicate this time here once more.
So Columbia now, I mean, I'm curious to see how they stack up
against some of these other teams,
like Danny mentioned in the previous interview,
that seems like Germany are surprising.
And obviously there are some really good teams in the NBA
there, of course, as well.
Thailand, Japan, qualified on the side of Asia, right?
And those are the kind of teams I'm looking for.
If I'm Colombia, like, hey, we can beat those teams.
And I think they displayed here,
like they have the individual skill
from players like 10, for example.
Here's the Hydron 5K, we look at that just there.
But those are the kind of teams that like,
they're very beatable.
Like if we bring our game, if we have good practice,
like we can make it pretty far at Busan.
Yeah, it's gonna be really fun.
I think ideally, like,
the team is going to be good
for a lot of these teams.
These don't match up against
career Saudi match one. You
know, the seating is going to
be kind of crazy. I think
there's a very big chance for
a lot of players to make a name
for themselves, regardless of
how well that team does. I
think it's going to be good for
a lot of these South American
players to hate. We can mess
with the best, you know, we
deserve a spot and maybe OWS
like OWS teams. Look our way
and take us up. Give us a
I think it's a good thing that
they're. Exceptional players
and speaking of exceptional
players. We got Kratos joining
us now for a quick interview.
Congratulations, of course, in
making it to the land. Obviously
yourself and the rest of the team.
I bet are ecstatic about it, but
I want to know what it means for
you guys to represent Columbia
in this regard and going to such
a historic place like career
where Overwatch really, I wouldn't
the game were from and yeah, what it means to you guys.
Yeah, I mean, it's an absolute blessing to me,
artists, I mean, getting to visit that beautiful country.
I've always wanted to visit that country anyways,
just to experience the culture and everything.
Every single one of us on this team,
we were all just completely excited.
We had Korea literally on our minds
and then obviously we have even more future goals
ahead of us now, but it's just an absolute blessing
to be able to have the opportunity.
So I'm very grateful.
What's it like representing your country in Colombia, like the fans as well, rallying behind you?
What has the experience been like competing for your own country?
Honestly, like, I wish I could be here all day just to explain my excitement, but it's just an absolute blessing.
Really, like, it really is.
I mean, I mean, it took a while for my parents because my parents are both fully Colombian and they didn't even understand the concept of like competing for video games or anything like that.
And then it was only until like I started convincing them, like, hey, mom, hey, dad,
I, you know, I can actually do this, you know, competitively.
And then maybe even for a living one day, you know, it was really.
And then that's when they started to, you know, gain some respect.
And then on top of that, I just feel so like I just feel so, you know, patriotic
about, you know, my country being Columbia and everything like that.
And it's an absolute blessing.
Like I have family in Columbia, in Bogota, the capital city of Columbia,
watching from home, me competing so it's an absolute blessing.
Yeah, you guys are gonna look sick on the stage as well. I think with it being on TV and like you guys like showing up. It's a big thing. Like you mentioned, your parents to see, you know, it's like, wait, you guys could do that and go to other countries.
Yeah, I totally get it. I want to ask you, obviously, going to the land now, is there like a team specifically that you've always wanted to play or players that you've always wanted to match up against from any region?
I think it'd be a really amazing experience to go against Korea again because I know in 2023, whenever Columbia was already qualified, they actually played against Korea.
So I think that would be just an incredible opportunity just to get to see that quality of gameplay as well.
And I think it could just be fantastic for the experience itself. So definitely Korea.
All right, well, we'll let you go. Congratulations once again. I look forward to seeing you guys in Korea. I'm sure it will hang out at some point as well. It's going to be a good time.
It's going to be a good time.
Sounds good, man.
We'll take a picture too.
Congratulations again.
Oh, hell yeah.
That was an amazing kind of story, Johnny,
because I think a lot of players are probably
in his shoes as well, right?
Where, you know, your greatest is mom and dad
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a lot of overwatch. Man. Oh
yeah. Let's get into this,
though. I think I'm coming
into group B. We already knew
USA was going to be topping
that group for sure. Mexico
and Chile is still fighting it
out to try and secure that
second spot on Chintina right
now. Use the map. If Johnny I
that second spot Argentina right now.
Um, just the map tip, Johnny.
I didn't think they're even eligible, uh,
this current moment in time.
It's gonna be Mexico on your screens in just a moment.
I mean, what are you thinking about Team Mexico here?
Haven't really seen their full strength in all honesty,
um, since they've only just played for USA.
Yeah, like, but I still really like what they had to show
against the United States.
Uh, obviously, Elemental Guy waving at the winks
to bring out the Genji, which we saw last time,
came out after the initial control round.
So nothing too different this time around.
But Le was kind of operating the jetpack cats
and taking commerce all over the place
with them tethering the cats and flying them around the map.
And I think they did a really good job against United States.
So this is still a Mexico squad
that I'm putting a lot of respect on.
I'm quite curious to see how they perform against an opponent.
That is in the United States.
Yeah, this is the big test as well
are currently sitting one and
of their sitting at zero on one
with a minus three to Chile did
end up dropping a map to
Argentina. That was the other
day. So how they're going to
fare. It's honestly, like you
said, a bit undecided. I always
kind of rate Mexico's chances
in these kind of group stages,
but because a lot of the players
like Angel have been around for
such a long time at this point,
but Chile have also bring
to the table too. Let's have a look at the team that they're facing off against.
But, Ali, Frank LCS and WED are on spot. Yeah, I think a lot of these teams,
they don't have a ton of experience competing in the World Cup, like I'd maybe even look at Columbia
from the previous matches, but maybe one of the more experienced kind of teams in this South
America region. And so, we always look at Mexico and like from Brazil, I had a couple of great players
back in the day but none of them has really found a tremendous success so far and so I
think Chile they're also pretty hot start so far in 2026 and if they could close things
out here today and qualify for Misson that would be a huge achievement.
Here's the seeding decided though, BAP. Do you prefer the BAP or the cast in the Wobby
ones? What would you be picking? I mean I feel like the BAP has a little bit more like skill
to it because of the lamp I suppose but I think the tank option is Winston by the way.
Yeah, I don't think anybody has anybody chosen the Winston one. Yeah, I don't think so. Please come on now
The Winston ones the ones come on
It's not it's not
Okay, it's not well
Girl sky be on my staff solid
Yeah, first guy with a
clean trio on the back if you'd like to see that that means Mexico do end up choosing the first map
and it will be oasis all right we've seen everything but oasis today so yeah and this is
what last we not seen today reauto oasis nimbani hollywood blue queens blue queens and serve us
okay so actually we are so and they killed by the way if you saw these like eight hours ago in
the eight like that that was not us okay that was not that was not us uh the producers have
I've definitely seen all of those maps if they were used to give you that.
Yeah, that's true.
All right, Bastion, Band from Mexico.
No cat Bastion.
Suzuki for Chela.
No cat Bastion, but I'm still going to gas up Mexico here.
They played Cassidy with the cat, and so I kind of want to see if they replicated
because they did play Oasis against the United States as well.
And so this is the one control map we've seen from Mexico so far in this tournament.
And they look good on it.
So, I'd be a little concerned here if I'm gonna see that again.
The Cat Noon is good.
The Cat Noon is very good, I think.
I don't think it's better than the Bastion, like, straight up.
Obviously, the Cat Bastion, the reason why it's so good is because infinite tethering,
you just fly the Bastion around, but the Cat Noon has got legs.
It's got legs in David.
Yeah.
Look, I mean, because it kind of forced the United States back always to play, like,
in very tiny corridors, because they're like,
Okay, well, there's a Cassidy flying around.
We can't really match it.
And so we're always forced to sit back.
And, you know, the United States,
they're incredibly professional team.
And so they found a way to get the job done.
But Mexico made it, definitely made it close.
It was almost similar to the Argentina series,
in a way where Argentina,
they were actually like quite competitive
on the Ilios, right?
But then at the end of the day,
the United States, there was too much to deal with
and they came out on top.
And that was kind of what we saw
with the United States against Mexico as well.
So we definitely see Mexico be competitive in series like this
All right, let's load in Oasis
Chile versus Mexico still fighting for that number to spot in the group
We're about halfway through in terms of matches here. I mean a couple of them played it so far
See how the tank match up ends up
Hiding out as well. We've seen a whole bunch. We've seen a lot of Ryan Thays now guys a little Rissa
See a little has it. Wait, we see every tank?
Rhyme, Arisa, Hazard, Winston, oh no Saria, no no no, yeah.
So every tank, what, Zarya?
All right, frac, you could do some really fun here.
Or sometimes I'll lock the Saria.
I think sometimes I'll actually pay the Saria last time against the United States.
There you go, dude, check that out.
Do it.
Shout out, DHL.
What a big add in the game now as well, W.
Boom.
Oh, wait, there we go. Okay. That's a lock. I count it. I count it even if Santana doesn't leave the spawn
That's all tanks. I believe they stay there
I mean, we're doing a pretty good job of bingo so far. We're so hunts on King's Row
Elemental guys can't play some Genji which
Elemental guy will be subbed in we hope who will play Genji. We haven't seen an adventure being played
Ventures are good. I would really enjoy watching adventure. I mean come on
We so no we did see what it make up. We did see what it make it was for the truth
All right here the goal
Yeah
This is insane and on top of that as well
Come as he's getting bobble like you can't even really shoot the Cassidy as he's getting flown through the air
Back in again
You're gonna have a laser sharp aim as well because you're just you're like weakling in the air
Nice trade, okay, no more cat noon or cat cast
Layers we're going down
Yeah
Who's right doesn't have going down so yeah this area well good against the diva
Against how fast this comp is with the Lucio
It might be tough for the Zarya to operate your your support character for calm there's a game. I mean
Extremely cat-reliant
So if you kill Leigh, I rate she lays chances.
I mean, but it's the best lesson to do down here, Robert.
There we go, there's the cat! I'm a ring!
Oh, I mean, the flashback was good, but unfortunately it didn't, there's not way to kill.
It's actually Eli picking up Karmes.
It's a good strat, Johnny, but...
If it doesn't work, there's gonna be some point where we need to swap.
Chile has found the answer in grouping up together.
Yes, it's proven to be too much for Mexico here and they're going to swap over to Lucio.
Perfect.
No Cat Noon, which is... I'm a little bit sad about.
Really real with you.
Okay, be easier to rotate here with the Sari as well.
You're not just getting the rings to run around you.
Nice off angle for Carmen.
earned to Hainu, not for that damage.
There's a rush on the point, so they will end up going down.
And now, the problem kind of persists, where we were playing the cat,
so now we have no charge on the beat.
We'll get there, we'll get there in due time.
We just have to win a couple of fights without this burst.
And they got chased off of the rush, so this rush did almost nothing,
but it did actually help Spamers get a kill on the burst.
Oh, and the high-news good for another kill, too.
Okay, come on, guys, don't need the cat to operate.
There's actually a great ultimate layer.
They'll get the Sangria later on, man.
You just ended up winning the fight with the bear, I see.
It's an uphill battle for Mexico, but...
You know, don't count them out.
You'll really have to hit the best beat of all time if you'll lay.
Holy...
Who is the best sound barrier usage guy of all time?
I'm just asking you a question, right?
Oh, you're Kalex? I don't know, I'm just wondering.
Kalex? Ooh, wait, that's the...
That's a good one. That's a good one.
All right, quick charge in there by Frack.
He's gonna get flashbanged in the back of the head.
That grab is unreal, but the sound barrier from LCS
didn't help Negali suffer that damage.
Good slam and stomp from Frack.
Does kill, too.
Chile.
In pure control, although there's only two of them currently alive,
Angel on the high ground on the reefers got the deck blossom same with car mayors kind of chilling out both DPS have the Lucio to taxi
But is Chile with the point
Yeah, Mexico are making it really difficult though this sun barrier if they go for the good engage
Showing the back the head the test was
the deadlift. They're trying to force something from where they've done just that.
Sandbar comes in, hits five, return to the Death Bosses. But yeah, shut down instantly.
I mean, they're so sad watching the Reapers just Death Boss them in front of the Mawgus,
and then Mawgus just shoots them. It is so sad. Team mates go have three players left alive here,
Chile playing on their rush. They're going to be good for another flight here,
Cardi and Kovacry pop by both Mawgus. They both stare each other longingly in the face.
Looks like Frac is going to break the staring competition. A little bit too late. Almost
costume is life, but it will be Mexico with the point skill.
Okay, so one big cage fight from Frac to try to be this round in for Chile.
Can they get it on? Can they sustain throughout the cage fight?
The cage comes in, Santana needs support. It's like everybody from uh,
T-Mexico, they're trying to jump on him to hell, but the cage fight is just too good.
You don't have a return cage. It can be so hard as the enemy supports are just free firing in,
And it will be chilly claiming this first round, you'd imagine.
And he's just gonna get the triple blink onto the point, get the retouch.
It must have worked on him.
And one, not quite, spur shuts him down.
Santana does have a cage to come with a second as well actually,
so there's no good just yet.
He's gonna reach it back in, nice little stun.
Cage comes out, but he lies there with the cleanup.
Yep, and now it is gonna be Mexico against Frag, pretty much.
Getting this maverick out of the way is gonna be nigh on impossible.
And the sound barrier is gonna just seal that letter shot a hundred to ninety eight.
Chilean making it close.
Yeah, that was a nail bit of a round right there in Mexico.
Coming back and getting a lot of value from their ultimate car mess as well.
With the Cassidy, I think they did a great job at finding picks.
Necessarily, you can see that eight eliminations leads the team.
Good job on Cassidy. Six thousand damage so far.
But it was just too much in the end.
You know when you get off to a hot start like that on on control like it is I
Mean, I don't know what theories that is some kind of theory that if you're 99 to zero like you're also winning the round
I'm pretty slim right there. So it was just too much on the back of a pretty poor jetback cap start
Okay, they've decided you know what maybe the cat
Not so good here
I'm sad to be honest. I waited all day for this and then it is a he waited all day for the cat
for Lisa Faker. Well, it's okay. There's plenty more maps to come. On control, you're
easily punished for going for a swap, so don't call me. Why not? What? I'm trying to help
you out, bro. I'm trying to be a kill better. I appreciate it. You're a good- It's been
a long day, man. It's been a long day. We have this our fourth game. We've got to fill
Alright, frac. It's gonna be the the the tall test with me Mexico
Can they actually attach to someone and get a kill which this one is very good at normally of doing but against the diva a little bit more difficult
Especially that cardiac home drive gets bought fracc's gonna eat all that damage from the magus. We can't heal himself
I'm trying to go for a trade though. Legos down
you lie
It's a funny way to make every single fight competitive.
And get on top of the world here.
That might just turn the idea when it was when you played this event here in Mexico to get back into this one.
It's another great pick and sell.
Doing the work here at the moment.
How is Karmus alive there?
There's no way Karmus should have lived.
That was an insane amount of damage from Frac initially on the diva.
It's too much damage.
Alright, let's go. Go for another play here.
Then I bring it out. I feel like commerce is always good for that. I kill
If you get one that's a value that I
So if you can get one pick with the nurse at it, that's good
Unlucky those insurance agreements are pretty high as they are
I think that alone now who's jumping in the way?
Kormus is always good for a dead eye. It's crazy. I don't know what magic Kormus is conjuring up
Always good for one or two that I chose
Secret sauce. I think I'll boot into the road to and then roll back in
playing a track
Yeah, actually
Okay, but
Overclock strange rush really only see see see she's kind of gone away from birds beyond it
And then Angel just playing in the rush.
This fight is done for Chile.
That was the saddest death possible I have ever seen, unfortunately.
That was...
Oh, wow.
That died out of cringe.
It was that bad.
It was cringe.
Alright, Team Mexico.
Should be a fairly trivial cleanup.
LCS got to use the B at some point, man.
If you're a B in the co-
B here, B here.
Boom, here's the B.
Okay, it's four. They're back in this cage. Yes, boss. Okay
Yes, boss
Well, that's the reason already down and there it is that's awesome
Doesn't matter if you didn't get a kill. It's all good. She makes you go. I'm gonna claim this round as
LCS too high up there's it actually trigger the control little hitbox
That's what I'm one
Me and LCS we had the same elusive play style
we're kind of just like
Flying around the map and then swing in for the beat and then continue just riding around with very high speeds
Gotta go fast
Platinum support from lay with the title that is legendary. I
Mean I could work that one. Yeah, ultimate kitten as well
Perfect perfect perfect title usage. Did you get there? I will say
They did lower the requirement so I should have it now.
But I will say they've been on fire with the titles recently.
The best one I think of all time, like the meme one, is still gold damage.
Really?
It has to.
Yeah, it has to.
It's the best like meme one, because that was the only one I've ever won.
They're putting the pressure off, like this Mexico team.
I feel like when they come in, like they just storm through, it's just overwhelming whatever
they push through like choking. They're a great dog, just combining forces. You get the upper hand once more there.
Yeah, really nice. Should be a very trivial cap. Unless Fracke, no, size against it.
Oh my god, Fracke took infinite damage. Just on the walk up, had to get Susie, then popped
Cardiac Overdrive. I think it was Carmeus just shooting him on the side of the headbang,
You're just being choked looking the wrong way.
Are you guys trying to go for the wrap?
What's happening?
Okay, we lost our carry in Hooker.
And now the swing from Bird.
Should be good for a kill on to Angel.
Yeah, there's no ray form man.
Angel end up using that really early on.
It's such a good fight.
It was a good fight for Tile, finding a pit like that.
Don't even have to drop the Kitsuna rush.
And now you get to build some percentage yourself
yourself while still maintaining your open economy in place so they can counter
Mexico has coming their way. Carmesto always good for one. Always good for one.
Always good for one.
I used to be good for one damage.
Ooh!
They're stylish when they get that all the way.
No, it should be high ground. Check this out.
Where's one HP as well? They're all hiding from it.
They know Carmes is always good for one.
They're just making it.
Oh, that's a good shot. Straight down to low ground, Karmus in trouble now.
Overclock ripped from Burr as a lay is torn in half.
Thanks to that overclock.
Maybe Chile win the fight.
Yeah, I mean, good heads-up play by them.
Good flip as well into Mexico's kind of indoor area right there.
Played out for the dead-eye good execution by Chile overall.
Well, Amalga on top of a Cassidy. It's a little bit too much.
It's a little bit too much if you're Karmus.
So Frac definitely doing his part on the maga so far
Let's go. Have the kids sooner or still in hand here to help them get some decision
Mexico so many old so
So his death was a perfectly tight beat from late
That's a lot of damage but good focus fire from through from team Mexico
He's doing it losing their lucio danger with a quick teleport into the back line. He's gonna be able to get great forms to stay alive
As well as even just some time existing
Up front! It's good for Team Mexico.
I mean, that was a powerful beat right there.
That's max value.
Yeah, probably the sound barrier.
Like you said, it was the perfect time as well
to make sure that every, you know,
millisecond possible that this person has covered.
Great timing.
There's so often, you know, we make fun of the new repairs
we've criticized them for questionable beats.
That was a perfect one.
Yeah, it was actually straight up perfect.
Yeah.
Couldn't have been better.
Oh, wow, that was an aggressive TP. Good try, good attempt at Punish from Team Mexico, I really like that.
There's gonna be a rush here from where it's gonna be a fairly trivial place to play on the point.
Kamez is gonna try and delay some time here with a high noon, but good for one, good for none, Johnny.
Unfortunately, there's three high noons and he kills so far.
For Kamez, I think he could get it.
They're bringing in a few tasks right now. It's tough for Carmers out here.
Yeah, Chile are kind of dominating here so far and they're looking like they're good to close out the map as well on the back of Bird's Soldier gameplay as well.
Push the spawn while you're at it. Make it difficult for them to touch.
There's Gammon.
Are they actually going to... No, the Lucian is there. I think they've ended up blinked the past. Nice boob. Good recall though.
And that did trigger OT, but Team Mexico are so wounded and weak, and they're in a cage, and they have to fight a beat, and there's no chance, unfortunately.
That'll be Chile, I mean, yeah, late dying with the sound barrier.
Unfortunately for Team Mexico, but Chile, wrapping that one up, 99% to 74, make that 100, that's a 2-1 to start us out.
Okay, so we expected Chile to be a bit of a powerhouse in this group as well, obviously
qualifying first place through the conference cups, making some of my qualifiers in the
first place, and they keep that momentum going, taking down Mexico here on the Wacis who were
invited to this tournament, this is one of their historical performances, so if you look
at the scoreboard here, it stands out to you.
You know, Eli getting 12 bets while the next person is 6.
I feel like that just speaks to the, uh, the, the, the committing of the rest of the team.
Like that, that's a team player right there.
That's someone who's like to put a team above their own debts.
Yeah.
I think that's Reaper gaming, uh, at that point as well, where you're just,
you're in a way just like you mentioned, I think last series, like, Hey, I, yeah,
I'm a space creator and I hope the sojourn misses.
And I hope I can just shoot the mug in the back of the head for a little while
and then have them fall over.
It's not for sure.
Oh, that was such a nice clip.
And if they don't miss, then you have told them.
Yeah, exactly.
But we're kind of coping here.
Just a little bit.
We're coping a little bit, you know, making excuses,
but that's all good.
It's to work up on like four times, all right?
He's trying to put it in perspective.
And you know what?
That's good of you, John.
That's really good of you.
I love the world, Captain.
It's great vibes.
It is great vibes.
It's great opportunity for some of these players
to be on broadcast, to compete for the country.
I love it.
Yeah, the regional pride, like what was discussed
in the previous interview with Columbia, right?
Like the regional pride for that team is just so high.
So yeah, it's going to be the same here for Chile.
It's going to be the same here for the team Mexico as well.
Just showing up to a big stage, playing online here,
and then hopefully making it to a LAN
where you get to play in a very historic place for eSports.
No watch as a whole.
So yeah, it's definitely a good place
to be for the team Mexico Chile.
It's better if you win here in an hopefully secure spot.
I have waited is it elemental guy time? Oh
Elemental guy I
Thought you took my time in a limb not Danny down. No, no, no coach Danny
Yeah, talked about it. I mean last time this girl picked circuit real and they leaned heavy
I mean the playmaker was absurd. I feel like it's almost like a myth
Don't be kidding here, like a legend of Elemental Guy.
Elemental Guy? Yeah.
Well, it was crazy. Like, it was a Genji-carrying team fight in 2026.
And yes, some of that was, you know, non-oblique and whatnot.
I get that.
But you have to run the other.
Yeah. Yeah, 100%.
So, I mean, it's kind of tough in a way because, okay, there we go.
Yeah, yeah.
Like, do you protect Ban the Genji or the honor?
I mean, at this point, yeah, it's like, we have to...
I think they just ban a DPS and then have that as the protect and then hopefully they don't ban honor I suppose
Okay, because we know Eleanor's going to play Genji. He's definitely won me a couple of games the last time I played and I was actually
getting with the game, nanodim a couple of times. I was that's why I was so surprised to see his name.
I'm like, man, I've never done it all this guy a few times. Well, I don't know him. I've nanodim a couple of times and he's won me games because I've nanodim a couple of times.
I was in the assist feed. Yeah,
let's go. The assist feed of
mba. Yeah, exactly. I still
was substituted as well. So,
um, with the sub coming in,
yeah, it's about protecting the
elemental guy. Genshi. They do
have the first band. It's going
to be a DPS first band. It has
DPS first man
It has to be it has to be yeah, it kind of has to be so but yeah, what would you bet if you were?
It's in Mexico here. Well, I mean Mexico they went to overtime against USA
Also, I think that tells me now like if they if they fall a captain to the real
Took USA to overtime. That's a damn good performance if you're Mexican, right?
But the one thing that just gave him too much trouble
What's the symmetry?
Don't mind that
Really hard to kill the mate is the Genji most of the time like you're chilling Zarya and for
Chile
Yeah, really just trying to hamper
This kind of get a genji all in like bubble the Genji kind of type play style. We are going to circuit real though
Elevator quite is in
The elusive again GOTP and we'll see how this ends up paying out for
hyped up Elemental Guy all day now.
The everything, just please pay off, please let the hype pay off, otherwise people are
never gonna listen to me again.
He's like, he's damn sweet, he's castrated, he hyped up Elemental Guy all day, and then
he fed his brains out.
It's like, I need Elemental Guy to put in work in the killbeat.
He will, man.
Kind of like, okay, okay, okay, no, no, no, no, no, I can leave, that was not shade, that
was like someone pressed like a mechanical button like a remote it's
spawned in like it spawned in the car spawned in yeah the color like spawned
in or maybe it hit like I don't know like a lightbox or something can it
change color I don't know I'd never like works in this game I'd like to believe
that there's like very tiny like neon lights or something inside of it and
and it just like, it's on a timer.
That's definitely not.
It changes on like every five minutes or something.
It's, that's, no.
They put details in this game,
but not that level of detail.
We do, but I don't have wasting light effects
on a rubber duck, you know, in like a pond
or like a pool is worth it.
Okay, hang on a second.
We are playing the Zen.
We're playing the Zen for LCS.
Oh, that is, check off the bingo card.
Check off the bingo card, we're seeing a Zen.
So I think that's all support's played.
Not mercy, right?
Not mercy, oh mercy, I forgot.
I don't think we seem brave either, to be honest.
We're likely to be.
We have a long way to go, brother.
OK, we've got a long way to go.
It's been a long day, everybody.
It's been a long day.
I hope you're still enjoying yourself in the chair.
He's an elemental guy, though.
Let's take on this guy's theory for a little bit.
They've already lost one DPS, but he's a high DPI.
The high DPI, yeah, the glitchy kind of movement DPI.
You know there's a good Genji player when they hit the 3K DPI switch.
Yeah, I mean that is...
That is like Huxul level of intensity.
I was about to say...
Huxul or like Water?
32-100 or something.
Oh, yeah, Huxul was...
Really nice.
Okay, okay.
I'll CS down.
You know that how he plays in a very small pad and you just pass out the DPI on?
It is ridiculous.
Yeah, I'd like to see if...
I had a lot of contact they would tell us but what do I know maybe they just move off that place
Hey, she's comfortable and if it's comfortable, then that's fine. Well, they end up full cap early capping with five minutes
There was there wasn't a fight a fight did not occur
Yeah, honestly, like some time ago
She's got an interesting
Emory check it off the list and you're playing it with the far off. This is about as much focus possible
But they're just trying to stay away from the other guy
Yeah, they really are
Alright the pistol they're gonna use a really early rush and I really like this
You know you want that fight so easily you might as well just send it
It's gonna be a flock so on to the stigma
Santa go so low. They try to use the shield that's block a lot of seals, but it was instantly kill
Still back up the end of down using the O. C. Well, you know it doesn't go down
They trace that eventual guy, but with the overclock available it should send Chile into a bit of a tizzy in the back
Yeah, it makes it look like we're coming up from big opens as well.
Obviously, fun precision to be in, it's a bit of a 4v4 right here, but we build this
whole little way to push it aggressively right now, so we can go forth here.
Elemental guy, closing in on that place.
Oh, the blocks here, straight off the CT, but oh wait!
Prakins are actually just killing Santana, that was a really good bit of focus by coming in from killing.
Yeah, honestly, I was a bit of a poor positioning from Santana as well, Missy at creation and then kind of like tries to rotate around the pillar to get some safe space but just too much damage onto Santana, they're not able to drop the flux in the beginning.
So I think that's a fight that makes Goode like their back, not the cleanest of execution at all.
And now Chile Ami, they have a fair share of opening the bank as well here, it's going to be difficult for them to protect their value against them.
Okay, wait for the title blast to come out first, I think, before you end up pulling that one.
They've done their trading fairly well, though.
Thing is that you've only got the Tuno at this point.
Double support available, which delay no TPS, of course.
So, whoever's going to pop the blade might just do that, Johnny.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven slashes, pretty much, on the other Sigma.
No nano, but got the job done.
Elemental guy with the dragon blade kills frack and that is gonna make sure that payload is delivered to that second point
Four and a half minutes to go
Yeah, we talk a lot about the elemental guy, but you know the rest of Mexico squad is doing a great job
doing the same composition with the
Juno Kirigou here as well. Chile obviously
Not the most typical composition I would say
Okay, thank you Samurai and Bora and Yuya and Kiri, so they have a bit of a tougher time to stand up, I guess I'll just make sure it's moving here, but you gotta make some swaps here.
Just the sick? Yeah, just the sick. I think Elemental Guy got out of that one.
this I can't go over the other
I said it's so it's so gittery
Genji players Genji players
living weapon available for birds
shut down actually is now next
I just gonna walk on forward it's no
real response here from the Farah at
all and a frack was so low and the
shield was so low they also have to
I've got to pedal backwards.
Yeah, I mean, Stammer Street or Frontinus, you're getting a lot of work done and you might find yourself over here to select right here, actually.
You just kind of need some of the football because, let's go, they're winning the neutral by far.
Yeah, it's a very easy neutral fight, it feels like right now, and it feels like it's simply a game, because they got a Genji battle, and this is what I could do in one.
I promise, classes.
Oh, fuck that's well.
There you're just running this one in.
He's the, uh, speeder in there to put some pilot into a better position. Elemental Guy gets deleted.
The Genji vs, like, the alt from M. Ray.
Kind of two different tales of DPS, I think.
Ah.
The, like, heavy shots on the Genji is just, if you don't have D. Fletcher instead.
You're just, you're not winning that 1v1.
Yeah, I think we haven't really mentioned the fact that Elemental Guide has appeared in the game in front of it, uh, on the one side of it.
But we'll get to that later when we get to the scoreboard, the time we basically still push it forward with a little bit of rain here.
Fox, this is a Fox available from Santara, so I'll use that cross to stop incoming damage, but a good slam there, straight to the ground, easy kill on Tuno.
I mean, the Fox is gonna come in and return, but A is actually enough damage.
He likes down, title blast, ultra-frag, a shield blocker from Santana.
He's going to make sure he stays up late in the fight.
And the mental guy with the blade now at the very end, needs a dash, climbs up the pillar, gets the reset, straight back up to the high ground again,
wins in super low. Another reset dash from that mental guy as he goes in, and Team Mexico.
Well, that's all that elemental guy, baby. Straight off the back of that blade, they locked that payload in at that third point.
And an impressive time back goddess Lee Johnny one minute 49 a circuit ring out of nothing to scoff at
We need we need higher frame rates to deal with this elemental guys sensitivity
I mean, it's chaotic like crazy, but that's Dragonblade. It's enough to help push the payload
Over the finish line there and Mexico for the second time taking a role here been
capturing circuit for y'all so
Clearly I'm after feeling pretty comfortable on and
And I mean, it's not capping this map, I feel like it's quite difficult to begin with.
It is definitely capable.
It's not like some other S4B hybrid maps where it's more likely to cap, so it is capable.
But it's still a really good achievement, and I'm definitely putting Chile in a bit
of a tough position here to try and equal that on the run attack.
Again she's fairing on the defense though.
You just gotta trust.
Just trust.
You gotta trust, yeah, 100%.
I was half expecting to go over the rooftop there
from Elemental Guy, just like, ooh, straight over.
I was a lot of games to do that on attack.
Yeah, you just go over the high ground roof
and then you have the dash.
You just end up double jumping,
sliding off the roof type of thing.
Can't really do that here on the defense.
I think they've started the blade.
They've started, yeah.
They started the blade, they know all the tips and tricks on Genji.
Yeah, they know how to deal with their lines for God, that's for sure.
Well, they're going to use a teleport for any good position.
That's first up.
Okay, so it's going to be a lorry in hand here, but the lorry could be quite vulnerable here.
How do you feel a lorry master about this matchup?
I would say I'm a master by any stretch of imagination.
I think I can keep the light to the end.
What?
I'm gonna leave a little bit more in Master play.
Master play?
Yeah, Master play.
I had a mental guard with one.
I'm just respecting the guard.
Right, but...
I'm not that good though.
But it's okay, it's okay against the Genji I'd say.
But against someone like...
I don't know what you guys think.
It's gonna be tough, man.
Oh, man, that's a nice dash right click.
It's nasty.
It is an ascension.
Oh, again, another one. Oh, nice run.
Because, like, the Genji is not going to dash towards you more often than not, because you have Outburst.
And then you can just Outburst away.
And you can, like, be hopped with the Outburst a little bit, so you get even more distance.
So, you're going to want to kind of save it to these up and close them and you dash it up, you kind of thing.
Like, it's good for poking the Genji out, right? Like, that's the main position.
Yeah, but unlike the thing where you play this.
So Genji is actually like, has a good opportunity to get up and close the person.
Oh, for sure.
He's healing her, they have a Kachunobush.
You know, there's gonna be a Fox available too, from a team Mexico.
Losing the mech like that, I mean, Mexico don't need to really do anything.
It's great, they can just kinda chill, they can vibe out for a little bit.
Hopefully kinda chase some of these kills.
Even a single pick here is good.
Ideally, it is onto Fraxley, just to get a free re-mech.
And it looks like Santana wants to try and get just that.
And then it's like Abby just thrown in as well on the Genji.
It's gonna be fine with that trade and yeah, I mean this is a very good defense from Team Mexico so far.
Yeah, they're doing a good job of pushing the momentum there as well,
recognizing that as the enemy team they don't have a teammate.
And they won't let that go unpunished, and so...
I still like the aggression we're seeing from Nesco at times.
Both on the first map, but also representing a few on Takerground.
I think they're doing a great job.
They have a lot of ultimates in the back here as well, with a minute and a third to go.
Yeah, Captain Sun here for LCS
Don't want to get this deflected that'll be a Twitter clip of the blue card generally
Well, they're gonna use the wall always waiting for the blade. Oh good kill as well
Stopping the movement from the Genji was really nice and a direct hit to onto Santana
I'm saying play from LCS
Just when the Genji like jumping around like that you hit the you hit the outburst
So they're like kind of still in the air when they don't want to be and then just body shot them
That was really clean for NCS.
She'll A, gonna cap the point, Johnny.
Not in the same kind of fashion as Team Mexico,
but they still got a decent amount of time.
Yeah, they're getting a good job, Dando.
I feel like Burrush has to come from some magic here.
Elemental Dive!
Aw, Deblay. Nice.
Heal onto Burr.
Quick reset, that's as well.
There you go.
The naked blade.
No nano.
Required for Elemental Dive until soon.
Neat.
Neat. There's a couple of crags.
Ooh!
Okay, okay.
Okay!
Oh, he's nasty with it.
I'm not the guy who's crazy.
I mean, get this his peak.
I'm just like watching Huxall again.
Yeah, like, love watching him, you know what I mean?
We're so back.
So many ultslopes to Mexico, Johnny.
I mean, playing this corner, too, is just so powerful.
With these syncopes, we see frag, obviously.
on the rematch for now.
They go for it teleport, but that flux,
I don't know how do you do that here,
that's gotta be a minimum of three.
Just trapping people in the lower portion of the stairs.
Suits would have spared their life
for like half a second or so,
but Santana with amazing positioning.
And good awareness Suits come to split the team fight up
as well, frack on one side, the rest of them,
damn that's no second.
Yeah, and as much to me, kind of like,
talking about Genji and not being a super hero,
like you can, Suits in well,
This is my position, right?
You know, we've been seeing a lot of bleepers and such today, and so,
Chile, they quite struggled to get things going on opens here.
Now, though, finally able to find some space,
they've been controlled this area for themselves,
and they've allowed them to drop these ultimates when they see me.
Carmas first though.
Every pretty fresh queue at the same time, something will happen.
Please see.
Nice shot from Carmen, face Caravate.
But if you can't follow those two nice, actually a right click from the Symmetra that will end it all.
Back to your double kill, for Eli. Okay, Elementor 5. 4 HP, couldn't be lower. DICE TO A TURRENT!
That is the most gengy thing I've ever seen in my life. Like, DICE TO A TURRENT RANDOMY ON AND OFF FANGAL.
And another turret kill! They're just better. They're just better.
She's like with a nice fight win off the back of this Demetra.
The thirds were too strong. And now they still have the Symmetra open as well, so this wall is going to be devastating for me.
go they have a rush in the blade though magic maybe oh wait captive some not
available either I want to play so bad right now I'm not good to wait for
something there's the back there's the blade in straight behind the pillar go
for the tank though my goodness holy damage indeed Johnny
Elements are going to be exercising his demons there against the tanks.
I mean, Elements are going to be swinging that blade menacingly, getting so much damage onto the tank, and that is enough for a fight like that.
Oh, getting the opening pick on the Elori. Huge, especially like you said, no captain's son available.
And now, Chile, 24 seconds, they have a similar teleporter to get all the fakes for now.
But, I mean, it's desperate times for Chile, it goes.
Okay, most of his health bar.
Don't deflect by the way, so there's a good time to LCS 2 towards Trigger on this capture
sun.
This is exactly what they're going to do.
Challenge the payload, maybe, maybe look for the tank.
It's going to be up again in a couple of seconds, so let it get deflected.
Straight on top of his head though.
And then to guy shut down of my LCS.
Sweet revenge.
As LCS now sets up with his pylon, and now comes the real challenge here for Mexico.
Try and push back into this.
Has this rush in a couple of percent here it is and they can not even use it
Okay, they just let them cap this one straight up
Yeah, just to make the damage from the Elias just too much there
Though the payload is captured here
I mean Chile with only 60 seconds finishing this map with 60 seconds and you've not won
this first initial fight for these doors that's only 4 orders.
Everyone to die off onto the sidelines here.
He's trying to get a 2 flight kill on fur but it's not happening.
He's not shooting that red gun any time soon.
I can't be getting a pick though both of our masters are getting one piece and I and
Now running out for Santana as well. Elemental guy shut down the hero asking slain as a team Mexico lose one of their DPS and let
Bert get onto a high ground. Santana at least gets a couple in this fight. It looks like it into onto the payload for team Mexico to
try and get a faster reset. Yeah, so Chile's at least keeping themselves in this one. 15 seconds to go. Great stall by Mexico
and they still have a couple of ultimates here. Give themselves a good chance.
I think this is going to be a really difficult spot here for Chile, because they don't have a lot of room to operate with, have to touch the cart, they kind of need LCS to build his captive son, I feel like they're jobs, to be the difference maker in a fight like this.
I'm not sure what's going on here.
Blades. There's a rush to use that
blade in the rush as well. It's
even more deadly.
It's fine. Walk forward. Basically
airport from elemental guy
straight to the back line there.
The wall is no problem. Baby
sweeps so quick. The DPI is just
too much.
My good. It's hard to expect the
time to swear. Get shut down by
Bert. There is frack holds down
the frontline with the
annihilation eventually ends up
wearing off here. LCS now with
of detonating a little bit of extra damage on top as well. That cap is done, putting
a lot, but LCS not doing enough. That will be a Mexico taking the map and they're tying
this series up. It's not a map draw. It is not. I can guarantee you that. It is Team
Mexico with the map win. That would be the bingo card of all time. That would be the
Like, export, map draw, possible.
Almost impossible.
It is like, it's looking 1% of... No, 0.1% of the time.
Something like that.
You've now witnessed Elemental Guy.
I was going to say in the flesh, but not quite, because it's online gameplay, but...
And here's the sidewalk ninja, so I'm not sure how much flesh the Genji really is.
Okay, okay.
Just getting tanky with the year a bit, buddy.
You're a long master.
Like, come on.
That is very funny.
Broke all of them.
Actually, he's actually most
disciple.
I'm going to get scored by the
Loreheads in the chat, dude.
I don't know. I'm not a Lore guy.
I'm sorry.
Well, Starthead or actually
Anakin?
I see.
He's millennial posting.
Yeah, I mean, hey, they actually like stayed really competitive is one considering how like all the composition looked at times.
I actually give them a lot of hopes for taking that one really close because it is a comfort map of Mexico.
We've seen what the elemental guy can do.
And you know, based on their like, if you don't trust Mexico and circuitry out, I'm telling you the fact that they took United States on overtime on this map,
this map that should have enough if you're really good at this map so Chile they still
stay competitive this might be a five map banger right there yeah very much could be
I want to reiterate the stakes actually real quick Johnny if Chile win this they will just
go up to her which means they guarantee lock themselves in that second season like they
are in if they win this series Mexico a good opportunity and have to be perfect from here
on out because they came into today 0-1 to secure their spot to Busan there you go there's
I mean, this is an amazing opportunity to get your ticket to Bason like all six of those teams who are in Canada USA when they got the schedule and they saw the group draw, they're just like, this is an amazing opportunity to call a purpose on there.
Like all six of those teams who aren't Canada and USA, when they got the schedule and they saw the group draw, they're just like, this is an amazing opportunity to call a purpose on.
There's realistically like, we have the opportunity to do something great here and I think Chile and Mexico battling here right now for the opportunity to go to Brazil.
This is a lot on the line.
some of these players this is perhaps their only opportunity to actually make
an Overwatch tournament so to capture that opportunity it would be a massive
yield for those players. Oh we'll check another one off the bingo card Johnny.
Numbani picked by Chile. Okay well how do you see this one going are we gonna wait
hang on are we gonna see Elemental Giant?
Yes, and it's actually the second map of Mexico Pete. Yeah, I mean
Net and Bonnie's just kind of good for the dive kind of good for the Genji type beat. So okay. Okay. I like this
I like this a lot
You see our Chile and the responding they get to ban first they could do the funniest thing right now
They just be the funniest thing is it funny to
Banning elements for guys Genji I mean I
I think that's kind of funny in the grand scheme of things you see the one
trick on the enemy team well you can't do that anymore but see the one trick on
the enemy team okay don't mind if I do I feel like I mean if you actually ban
Genji look I understand it because you're facing the other guy and it's
actually maybe like they might play but just the fact that there are so many
heroes in the game you could ban, but you decide to ban Genji. That some way has to be good for
Mexico, right? So some way that makes it good for Mexico. Do you know what I'm saying? I mean,
yeah, no, I understand what you're saying. Yeah, because it's like, well, you could have banned,
like, Japan Cat or something like that, you know, some sort of other kind of con, but you decide to
target the guy that only plays Genji at the OTP. So we'll see. I mean, look, a lot of Genji players
probably have a mean venture as well so they banned Arna instead honestly don't mind it
you're not banning the Genji but like you're banning one of his strongest like duo partners in
the Arna so like sure why not I mean Arna's pretty good on the Barney anyway and then you ban Diva
that is team xc
It's like you're gonna live with that if again it gets like
And you also saw like a little guy at times
Struggle to get value on the game again. We never saw that
But as much as we gas up elemental guy we actually didn't see
Did show up in the kill if you at times just like you're a genji at the end of the day
playing circuitry all and we don't have that knowledge to go with it right so I died quite a bit
and I think it's really quite happy to go down that path it's just like okay we can we can deal
by uh with the Genji by uh they're lonesome we should be able to manage that so that'll be
all i like that it's a good thing anyways aim kind of reminds me of as well do you remember
er... Zergie?
A trackball wizard?
Yeah, Zergie.
You don't remember?
Is this a previous World Cup player?
Er, I had to check if Zergie played a World Cup, but...
Er, he plays on trackball...
In EMA, or it used to.
Um, yeah, and his aim...
It looked like a little jittery, and it looked weird.
for like a long time and then people were like why does it look like your
aim just looks strange and then it's like oh he plays on a trackball that's
why he's like top 500 like hitscan like I play on a trackball type guy and it
was it's crazy it looks it looks a little strange
right now trivial yeah using a trackball mouse track track oh yeah oh yeah yeah they were in the
flash ups it was just stage 2 2024 yeah exactly man wow he's kind of legend great pull from you
that is that that's a perfect like trivia question oh yeah who played on a trackball
in competitive overwatch yeah everybody thought he his aim looked really weird it looked kind of like
not almost kind of sus you know but like it's like oh actually you just watch him like his
hand cam it's like okay that makes sense actually like that's why it looks strange because he's
on the he's on the big trackball kind of reminds me of elemental guy um the way he kind of aims
but that's good just because he has high dpi well he's uh he's a body anyway as we see you finally
johnny let's go and then we'll jetpack cat let's go okay we're gaming now this is what i'm so how
So how does the Genji interact with this comp?
It's gonna be my question to you.
I mean, do you want the end of the analysis?
Yes, I'll find it.
Okay, that's fine.
I'm doing turret mode and then deflect.
Yeah, doing a good job of it now,
except Santana's right in the middle of the primary bar.
Yeah, Santana taking omega damage.
You can look through the wall.
Little high ground rotation.
Next thing you can do against the magra is Genji too.
It's not only you can shoot with a base,
but deflect all those bullets
he's glad he had to overdrive. I still kill from an enter guy reset into Bastion and another
one straight onto the tracer. Okay team mexico little team kill. Yeah I mean this is a pretty
scary prospect right if you are Chile because like if you swing in the sky with the third mode
activated who are you really shooting at? Just the Malga really? Yeah exactly just the Malga right
and at that time Cordyc the driver was activated from Santana bought himself enough time to
live through the turret mode, and then, next to his composition, actually do a great job
with the added firepower from Pal-Loft and the Allure, to beat down on Chile after the dive.
He gets killed all the way up. That's kind of sad, actually.
Alunter guy kind of wants to go in for that dash. Santana is going to fall,
Alunter guy needs this kill, he's bashing desperately. Oh, nice backup though.
The cat comes in, collage. Else yes, taking care of the deep gas.
I feel like sometime I was kind of just too exposed to be open there right like
to some degree you have to be cognizant of the objective the point right
because the other day you're probably gonna have to be the person to touch
there but you should be overrunning it like very tight corridors play out of
line of sight especially during that right we're lying on the quarter close
the right it's a little bit too much and you end up losing the mutual
down for some time there
the bashing just weakened me like
two most intelligible like characters in the game the bashing making beeps and
boots and the cat just meowing it there so barb on the point
it's gonna stall out on the corner for mexico and then it's like as i've played
there is gonna be a cat basher behind them. Hello Margaret and this might be a good buy as well.
Nice little cage and an instakill. That's rush actually coming through from team QA.
There's gonna be a sub-sum like a lot of stuff but you're hitting a sun just like that. The
captain's side in that small room instantly suesued like in insane timing from WED. WED carrying
in that fight are like hands down insta brush to kill the enemy Malga straight into the suzu
after the capture sun yeah 100% suzu came in touch big time chillers while activating you know the
ultimate to get that added over the top of the borders but misko they still can take a bit of a
stand here they got keeps quite down the blade at this time it's going to drop two for the moment but
that's enough for ever not to have to go yeah you don't need much more than that i hope you get the
the result of the matter to then hit the extra dash I'd assume that we're good
cage blade used I mean okay you want to bring it back to old matters the blade
cage the cage blade I think that's another good one another well okay I
wouldn't say good it was an insane oh you like that okay no no no no I mean
double magic, H-knots.
Oh shit!
Whoa, here we go!
We're in the here and now, we're in the big 26.
As you can see, the Katbash is just saying
you've got the enemy hits down players.
Oh, the NAZE kill almost taken out the Alaris,
but for a villain that's swinging around the corner.
And Elemental Wife, very low, ATHP.
Needs a reset, just needs backup, health, anything.
It's payload, it's gonna get dunked in eventually.
Chile with four minutes in the time bank.
Yeah, and I think at the end of the day, it can't come back to like two fights prior to us.
It's over there, that's clear after the table.
It's just a classic rank, but going for the contests after the... it's a capture.
You actually don't realize and you're like, I've still got it, guys.
That fight where the Susie came in on the captive zone, like that was a big comment from Mexico
and I feel like Chile there ended up capping the second point.
A couple of team fights later because the ultimate economy favored them a little bit.
Another guy, it's the back here, and the dash.
I mean, both rushes are in use too, turret form.
Is it gonna get a sense sky high though? Elemental guy without a deflect just runs straight into the frontline.
And that is a great dangerous place to be for the Genji, but doesn't seem to really bottom mine too much.
Bob, Ash taking care of, and the charge out of the cage.
Ooh, not good here for the track, but we should get the cover at this point,
Now she's elemental blind in the back, return cage comes in 14 mech's coat,
fraction is just gonna be just gunning down Santana.
Captain Sun does end up connecting there 14 mech's coat and get a double kill as well.
Seems she lays backlight eventually just succumbing to the Sun.
Just evaporated by the captain Sun, the delayed captain Sun.
And that's actually going to be enough to put she laid back.
Here on this third point, I mean, two-thirteen time-backs, it's kind of like a pivotal moment in the series here where
Chile is now forced to fully reset and makes those, and set up their defense accordingly.
Malgus, still running at each other. Uh-oh, there goes Basin.
Here comes the blade from Elemental Guy as well.
Oh, the Suzu's gonna be a little bit of a thorn in the side with the Genji.
He ends up just getting a single kill.
Both DPS from Team Mexico are gonna get cleaned up so this payload can get moving again.
Yeah, things looking really good for Chilo right now.
This, uh, flashing cat in the neutral has just been too much for Mexico to deal with here.
Consistent value through a lot of these team fights, and now Mexico has to look for a re-engage here.
They're coming up on a Kitsune rush, but I just get it slightly too late.
Stomp in, and then some guy is dashing through a couple of players there, a 2-0 playtip.
Santana is very low. They need this rush to sustain this magra in the frontline.
I'm not sure they're going to be able to do it. The focus fire is just so great for Team Chile right now.
And then, Cherry on top of that one is that Bastion ult.
Dex, Blossom, used Shaw for the Reaper.
But it don't matter. You've got a whole lot of firepower in for who,
Honestly, Johnny, at the very end then,
Do you, Mexico, are unable to really focus down the Bastion?
Yeah, I mean, the added over health from the ultimate as well.
It gives the ultimate to Mexico a chance to, or,
Chile a chance ready to like heal up their bastion and keep them topped up for the next go around
And I feel like at the end of the day like the neutral was just too much like this this bastion and cat
It is so strong in these mage mirrors
That makes us really found itself on the back foot
I mean they have a couple of moments here and there like a captive son a dragon blade
But in the neutral is just overpowering this bastion damage coming out from this composition
So Chile definitely with the upper hand so far. It's reflected in the scoreboard
Alright, Cabash in defense time. Here we go. How fast can Team Mexico collapse, unlike
WED or FRAK? Because you're looking at running someone down. It's not really many people
to do that. Like two players already in the air, and then you have to force two cooldowns,
one each for the Kiriko and the Reaper. Yeah, the shifts for both of them, the TP and the
switch step or the switch step sorry and the uh the rathal
we need you hello
an honest band as well so you can't down the blade this is so sad
okay but after this map we are after this map as long as genji don't get
banned we're unlocked their full potential
that is facts that does require Chile to lose this next one to get the first
bank you know they're gonna Mexico are gonna protect that more than likely oh
well that works if you just 180 and then look at the cab action and then shoot
about that yeah that'll do it
that brings joy now Mexico can't collapse on the point sometimes I think a lot of damage again though
The frac putty has to offer a hand in this other duel.
I'll have to force Mexico back for a time being, unless...
I'll never die from something similar.
Unless... yeah, Elemental Guy does it again.
Alright, Team Mexico.
That is the point, Cabs.
I mean, you can't let your cat Bastion die that soon.
If your Bastion dies off RIP like that,
you don't really stand a chance in these comms.
Yeah, look, everyone knows it. Everyone's watching.
They all said that. That's the story.
Okay, that is a lot of covering fire. My goodness. They require an emergency suzerain to get
frak out of danger. In fact, they've done that whole bunch. They also raided, like,
you're in a bad spot if you're that rita. Yeah, Elemental Guy spots it and actually
just sends the sky too. Gets a deep, like, kill onto that. He said nothing the sky can't
do.
Genuine.
That's not go down that road. Let's go. Look, you want to talk about Hero Pool? You can
do that elsewhere. Like I said, go have a lot of ultimates here to really start steamrolling
ultimates, so maybe we shouldn't count them out just yet. This second point is really
difficult to defend as well. Should have come up with a couple of big ultimates, but this
should be, let's go, great opportunity here to keep steam up to the third point. Should
be nice that it'll stop. Although Elemental Guide dodge is out of the cage, they're still
moving this payload by the way. It has eventually been contested but Kame is on a beautiful off
It's just so much GPS from both Kame's and Elemental Guy right now and then also the Captain Sun gets thrown in
That team kill was just so fast
Chile had a good idea right you end up caging and then you're like, okay
Well, we can focus people in the cage
But then Kame's and Elemental Guy are no way near and they're just killing everything outside of it
It's just too much. I mean, it's just too many ultimates there for Mexico and Chile can't stand up to it
5 minutes 30 here. I mean, when does it get sooner, Rush Squad?
I'm not counting out any team that has a cage fight available, so it's not like it's a big work here.
Nice, already quite low.
Yeah, frags super low. They are playing on a rush though, so the cage actually ends up getting destroyed.
That's not good, but I think I'm going to count.
Well, you did invest a lot of ultimates into that second point capture, so I think it's to be expected here.
It can't be this third one, it's going to take a bit longer as you're going to rebuild your ultimates.
You've forced down a couple of ultimates though.
That could be beneficial, you're always using ultimates.
The Mishima wants to win this one, except for Paulette, trying to early frag it, put some pressure on Chile.
Yeah, but down.
I don't want to go out stay heading the rest of the team. Oh the get awesome
It's even gonna get one kill. Okay, it's this with the kill from LCS, but
That's it. I mean that is a really good push at first gonna spawn here
You know that dies last so there's gonna be a late spawn at Mexico. They are five right now on this point or closer
This could be an absolute crazy push. You have double support over here. Bert has to play savior
I don't know if you're sure, I don't know as well, there's the suit, there's still some one walk through it, but needed to maybe, nice slide dash, Captain Sarn, needs to get this slide, but no!
Palette ends up taking down Bert, Captain Sarn, he's good for one, need more damage out from the Alaris as well, they are gonna capture on you, they're gonna cap with a whole lot of time in that bang, look at that.
Basically, starting with four minutes to get.
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What's he Mexican that is that is sir
We've all been there on the money
Look, we all know it. We've all been there when the enemy team is a map of all time
It is a map of all time. It happens
Steamrolls do happen on the attack on this map. So
That feels strange and bad. I mean LCS having a sound barrier in spawn
Didn't have the opportunity there to drop it in the first place that uh
that uh that does not spark joy quite the opposite
all right well thanks ghost time to defend it's only a minute in 25 and that's my big fair
one good attempt and then half of one maybe
it's really not like the cap lashden pump does like it needs to set up a little bit
Yeah, it has to set up a little bit, but I don't think there's any, like, ultimates you can build here anyway, like, because 85 seconds, I feel like usually you could reasonably build a couple of ultimates on the attack here to give you a good chance at one good fight.
But I feel like this kind of a composition like maybe you will probably get there with the rush
But I'd almost like to value go for two swings to the bathroom and see if someone like Sun Tana like messes up again
We get early pick once in a while because of this this overpowering damage in the neutral
Right the long set up again with the cab action
They end up spotting out Thames and the mental guys forced to hit the reflect early.
I like Bert forcing that actually.
Does help the front line is of course, they have set the bashing up on the high ground
behind him.
LCS is pretty low, but an elemental guy ended up trading.
He lied with the TP onto the high ground, but LCS dead.
This is looking rather worse to wear for Chile right now.
That is 45 seconds to go, so they need to reset right now.
They need a pick or they need to reset and it looks like it's going to be a quick reset here just dying on the point
I think they're quite comfortable with time though, and they are going to get this kid sooner or she probably is
Mexico obviously building some of their own
You give that a good attempt Mexico had a nice rotation that one time to bring birth out early
She really has another go over here, and you just want to take shots on go
another good attempt here
try and get the skill is going.
They've got high ground of course there, elemental guy
trying to get testing the water with the gen g or you hit the reflex so
safety is the number one force of action.
Both rushes now in this small corridor, this is Mauga gaming for sure but Karmes
just making use of everybody in one's face and end up hitting a massive just rub to
shot with a couple of railguns to follow it up.
Kill a 0-tix on that first point.
Team Mexico they need a single one in four minutes
Yeah, it's almost like it were a little bit too aggressive with the first time around with the basium and then a little bit too slow
The second time around obviously they were quite behind when it came to the Kitsune Russian
So theirs was delayed, but that turret mode you almost need to put out a lot of damage onto fracter
But it was a little bit too late
And instead here it's going to be Mexico with a fantastic chance
4 minutes to close out this map. It didn't end all when Mexico was defending.
I honestly like almost counted them out a little bit because Chile looked so good on their own attack, but this has been quite a turnaround for them so far.
Chile, they want to be able to secure it up here to make it to Busan, but Mexico being a rather large force to be reckoned with in this series, an elemental guy too.
How often are you playing in scrims against something like this? Not too often.
She's not even opting for the cat-bashing here either. It's like, okay, we're gonna play lari, we're gonna play sojourn, like, we're just gonna go a little bit more old-school with it.
I mean, you just have to make place and hopefully the place work out. You have to keep being proactive, take off angles, so LCS has to pop off, Bertha has to pop off,
cage blossom at some point in this four minutes right you are you need here's
where the individual skill really matters and you have to be clean with it too
can't make any fights kind of scrappy well then historically Numbani even after
shawing the spawn distance you can get back to spawn as a defender it's not as
bad as some other apps oh that is a very aggressive wrap around here I mean
frack is almost one shot like okay he just ends up falling over that's uh that's math that's just math
it's games for this one games in the match unless something crazy happens which it's not going to
factor regular schedule programming on nimbani only 33 percent required and mexico dunk it in there it
is a 2-1 as they leave the series that's match point chile they've got to come back into this one
and want to make it five, but team Mexico is putting a large quick in the spokes.
She laid back.
Remember when I said that it's going to make place for crack?
You want to make place?
Yeah, it was a deep place.
But Frank tried to make it.
So I don't believe I don't care how bad that looked and broadcast.
I don't care about hindsight at least.
Frank tried to make it play, which four minutes on the time bank for the offense.
So, you know, it didn't work out.
Go next.
Found 2-1 in this...
We have to be serious, I'm not on the line here.
It needs to be reiterated here, Jack.
That obviously if Chile wins this match,
they actually qualify for Busan, right?
But right now, it's Mexico with the 2-1 upper hand.
I mean, looking at the next games as well,
Mexico would be facing Argentina
in the last game of Group B,
whereas Chile on the other hand,
a very different fate.
they have to face Team USA. So very tough to kind of keep themselves in the series and
then also face Team USA and hopes come up with some maps. And Mexico, they're looking
good to close this one out if they play like this again.
Yeah, 100% and obviously getting the win here, it helps with, you know, the map, the map
the current show here as well like yeah it should have just been a world of trouble let me just put
it that way if you lose this match that that's pretty much your hopes dashed right and so uh this
is not the spot they wanted to find themselves in like going into the series you know that if you're
closing south of the group in this series if what if I hurt this arm this will not like they dreamt
it off this morning and now they have to bring this one back it's very difficult still to do
Yeah, and then they're going into the next map. They're banning that Genji for sure like that is what you have to go for right?
Like while elements why I say like okay
It's not like a huck so like okay. I'm just gonna solo card the entire team
I'm just gonna get blades offer every and I will get like two every every single play three every single play
but it's like
We need to get him off his best hero
At some point we need to be able to deal with it because the later we go, like these maps aren't getting any worse for the Genji, like Runesapin, Queen Street, Nijun, like Surabasa, and not add for Genji by any stretch of the imagination.
So I've been more Margaret Genji in my future.
Exactly, so I'm thinking you know what just pull the band-aid off take us to a map 5 and then deal with it there because they need
You need an emergency intervention now this Mexico are on that foot
Yeah, you feel like it's in one of those positions where
And if you do that if you don't like
There's obviously a lot of different heroes that we want
Even like
on his path and playing cat bashing like this. I don't feel like Sheila were ever comfortable
really playing circuit real and I don't think they were too comfortable playing them Bonnie
either. And so you kind of want to go into an asap and just like play your own game.
I think your own favorite kind of position right. So if you banned the Genji and obviously
that's a big kind of card to play when you could have not played it on something else from
You gotta do it, it's some boy from you. Just wanna do you know element of guys saying it you just wanna do it
It's the impasse imperative it is
Elements about all elemental guys out
We're not bad again angel
Okay
Second substitution as well. I'm hearing as well. Okay, so lay coming back in
I mean, this is a fourth series, and so like, you know, the caffeine is the kind of wine.
Yeah, we're going to get little curbs.
This is 99Q, because if they lose this map, then they can just sub in Elemental Guy for the next one,
and they don't have to go to the Genji map.
So you might as well just maybe sub out Elemental Guy in this one if you know the Genji target that is coming,
And then instead rely on more flexible line up here instead.
Maybe you can play some cat bastion.
We saw a cat study earlier, of course as well.
Didn't work out though, didn't work out at all, Oasis.
But I like the substitution here,
because it gives you some versatility
and prevents you from putting yourself in this hole
where Genji gets banned out for a month and a day.
Wait, you might be big brain, like no joke.
Well, if I was big brain, I'd say that before it happened,
right before my eyes.
last one working with what we got right now exactly exactly right let's have a look how they
end up navigating this one they found the cat as well so no cat bastion um
Malga and two I'm not seeing you know not too fast about that one if you're at Mexico I think
Jaleigh they've had a good Malga comp so taking that one off the board it is nice they're going to
be going to what new juncture of laster as our last one so it's okay we can we can probably
deal with the Malga there and we could just play something else if we don't want a mirror.
So I don't hate it. I don't hate it at all.
Yeah and if I'm next to the world I almost was taking that or like next map like okay we can play
Malga, Genji, Karm. Serob also, you don't see whatever that is. I think that the Cat Band makes sense
here too because it's the only hero we've seen Lay. We've played here in the World of Qualifiers
and so yeah if you're substituting in Lay all right we've only seen them play just like Cat
that so far and the big substitute out for everything else. Let's target them instead
here and see what we are here with the loophers.
Yeah, for sure. Alright, team Mexico won. Matt away from taking this series and which
will mean one step closer to going to Busan as well. Their next series will be against
Argentina who not looking too hot, at least coming out of the gate. They ended up losing
to Chile in a 3-1 and then they lost against Team USA, no surprise, a little 3-0 there too, so
Argentina are out. Team Mexico a very good opportunity if they do take this next map
as we load in to Runosapi. Yeah this is a high pressure situation for a lot of these players,
can't be underestimated how much a serious win would mean to either of these teams here.
As we take this very serious moment to zoom in on the plushies
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Not in game Johnny, not like do Blizzard like make the animal
Yeah I'm lost I mean like it's fine
It's it has a long day. I got the set of division mascot right next to me. Oh
Yeah, I got one too. Yo, shout out to that division
Giving us a little plushies the little tracer one. Oh, I got a circle one. So I'm gonna be on
Yeah, they will be duty. Yes Easter egg
It is very cute
Speaking of cute things one of them fan jetpack cats gonna be Ram versus the sorry a pretty Mexico
That Angel is subbing in too for Elemental Guy.
A bit more rounded of a composition here with the Reaper as Frac is just hosed with damage.
Ah man, it's picking up the kill.
I'm sorry Reaper, it's obviously a flavor we've seen quite a bit of the last couple of years here, so...
Let's go trying this composition once more.
Just dishing out resources onto their damage players here instead.
They kind of need an alternate composition that really works out for them because they've been so reliant on Elemental Guy
and how you're seeing them here with the Star of Composition.
Obviously we'll trade fairly neutral against a hero like Rommadra here,
so I'm starting to see some of the playmaking for him.
Someone like Kormes here, because they have a big tank on their score.
We made a decent lead.
I mean, here comes the...
kind of the flavor for the Repound Asari.
You're just gonna put the Reaper forward, you're gonna bubble him up like this,
send him around the corner, try and get some damage in,
and then just eventually build up a...
Already Frac is pretty low playing on the shield.
Wow, actually just going to the TP.
Almost baits LCS into following him.
Frack is very low at this point,
but it's the reach of that co-stamp first.
What kind of a messy push there from Chile.
They're not rewarded for it either.
It's Angel TP's forward.
They've lost Slay, so it's a one-to-one trade,
but support going down.
Not good between Mexico.
Yeah, very scary here.
Hopefully they won't just wanna stay for it
for the time being, wait for late to get back.
Mexico taking a very patient approach
for the time being, building resources.
they want all the resources they can push this very difficult corner she laid
the ability to see Russia themselves first coming up an old overclocking
as well as the superior position over time game she they're committing here
Jaws yeah they know it's the bubbles going down to them tanner is super low
there's no bubbles left after this one there you go
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you don't need to hold that either so just winning a neutral like that is
real nice especially at this point in the game to where you're more than likely
gonna be able to take a lead or at least get it to the corner this first
corners actually pivoted from both teams here like with these the way these
compositions are looking they're more like standard brawley don't have a lot of
room to like a super wide angle spinamines and so their corner comes
basically they want to sit on the corner like oh the sanctuary is golden as
I mean that might have been I'd have to double check on that one oh
tragedy to later they use four odds and then lay says yeah about that and then
hits the sanctuary on the corner he's just destroys them with the ground
impeccable timing from team Mexico it really was maximum value for them and
now they've earned themselves the opportunity to push this corner themselves
and commerce still has this overclock in hand
wide swing yeah I mean the overclock you'd love to see that and this is the
problem with this map it can really get out of hand Suzy comes in and yeah I mean
That's Angel, this is go time, Team Mexico, hold on Johnny.
I mean, this is-
They've got checkpoint and they're gonna get a considerable lead now
and they only have to deal with the annihilation, like it shouldn't be that difficult to deal with.
Right, with so much on the line, if you're able to just get to 80 meters,
don't have to get to the 100, be the mark, like this is pivotal push that
Mexico is gaining right now in these brawl style corner compositions.
And Chile here, desperate to get something going to prevent Placelot from extending their lead.
Yeah, I believe that was an A-Jack.
Rather unlucky there for Chile.
And now, we go back to what we do best.
Play on the corner, and send A-Job to high ground with a TP.
There's the annihilation!
Can they actually sustain through it?
Wow, Angel is still on an aggressive angle here and just gets punished.
maybe realize that they couldn't break all the way back to the front of the corner from the ground.
Now Frack trying to hit the game into his own hand.
You know, like already down, however, Santana standing up so tall in the front line,
and now on the rush as well, these models are going to come back in no time.
They can turn this one so easily.
Graviton's surge available as well.
Santana, went from the corner, Graves in, almost whips it.
That was close.
Frack jumps in though, securing the grab on one player.
Oh yeah, that was very scary if that grabbed us in it.
Sometimes I have like four people in front of them and then two seconds later you think
that they're gonna still be there but they're not, they're not still there.
So again, Micsko continues pushing here.
Crucial meetridge game here.
Chile, you need to come up close.
Big time here with the sound barrier rebuilt and an overclock available.
Sanctuary? Oh! Good shot, bird.
Again, same shot.
Ooh! That was messed up easy.
Okay, but...
Where did that other guy go down to, right?
Poutine kill. Real nice.
I was thinking, like, look, they pull the...
Overclock? Hey, Sanctuary. On the corner.
Then we win, but...
Wow, sniped layout like that.
That's probably the best thing possible.
I mean, if you lose that fight,
the win probability on ESPN ain't looking too good.
me too good and so it is so critical that you land a rear gun shot like that
just to keep things going so Bert did their part now need someone to step up
here this makes us a lot more than this good
okay this is for the beat that's the success one it's a pity for as well
sanctuary comes in death boss Amanda overclock Angel just spinning to win in
the sanctuary they're not taking any damage and still kills Bert
Mexico, continue on the rampage so far here in Roozopi. 3 minutes 32 go.
They're doing their part through getting the value they need. Not too many mistakes from Mexico so far in this critical map.
Close out the series. Sorry, Composition. It's been... Composition, they've kind of unlocked here.
They're a long time ago, guys. Can't you... They're looking for answers.
I'm just gonna get her as an annihilation.
Going straight into the back there. Good Susie, who stops a lot of that insinemis coming through from frack.
But, his eyes return towards the Zarya.
Not high charged enough to get punished, but they trade tanks, so some 4 on 4.
More honest overwatch now without the tank players.
Both rushes are gonna get used as well.
New Mexico still fights on a lower ground here.
Easy upper chill A to fire, and fire down upon them.
There's still no picks coming in.
Haley has got this death boss, and of course, but Haby's gonna jostle the bot so far.
You can't really make a play with the deathmuss either because you become a target to the soldier and frack, looking his way back from spawn here, so you're taking their time.
Let's go. Don't have any ultimates here, so this is quite the vulnerable fight here, Jaws. Let's go.
They're lovin' the front line.
But enough for us to grab, so surely there's the deathmoss, a nice suzer to stop the Reaper getting instantly blown up, but it's only a one-for-one.
They get some presence short on the front, but now there's a sanctuary to deal with, and this grab is 20%.
Santana with no bubbles left, no fear of the opposition either without sanctuary on the corner.
It's just such a powerful note when you can dive forward, hop sanctuary down, and then farm outwards, because, Chile, I'm gonna dive in.
I mean exactly we're talking about these compositions being corner comps and if you don't have any positioning
Dropping the sanctuary is going to give you that free space that you can then use to work with and sometimes I did that
So at first hand now they built up
Any sight line
Grab on the point. Nice just sound barrier though from LCS. Suzu on top of that. Make sure LCS stays alive and kicking
Double DPS off of Mexico and Chile have nothing to deal with.
Brak's going to get melted in three, two, one, bro's going to die.
Oh, no, it's Suzu instead.
It's head-to-side.
There you go.
Suzu can just do the most.
It really can.
Well, there is the rushes from both sides as Carme is kind of struggling to find damage.
Annihilation now popped.
Brak, just, what is that?
Mac 5 speed towards the back line.
That's a tough thing for Team Mexico to deal with.
And the injured Santana, it comes to their wounds
as they also try to stray back lines.
Yeah, I'm not quite sure what happened
with the death cross from there,
but the main story is that she, like,
defend their corner and they were to fight back here,
at least giving themselves an opportunity to come back
in this crucial map to try and tie up the series,
forcing a map five here, 40 seconds to go,
but they commit a lot of ultimates.
Who can stand up here and make a play for your team to keep this series alive?
Are we gonna fight on this corner?
What was that kill? I mean, no way.
Yeah, see, Mexico lose their sojourn like that and they've lost the point too, so there's no chance for a contest at this point.
It's the last fight right here. Sanctuary available for lay.
You have to be perfect.
Yeah, looking to make a play with the stuff wasn't it?
You have to be perfect because the spawns are not going to come in. You need
Exhaust Boston to go absolutely nuclear. You can try and focus down Santana first
I don't imagine trying to get a couple of bubbles up but there's the sanctuary
that's going to run forward. Force the Reaper to hit the Rave wall. It is very
early. They're still playing on this corner here.
Tell the point, he's in fact, I didn't get to read it. Yes they can! What is that
damage from Team Mexico? They're doing a training one-for-one though but this
soundbite from LCS needs to connect. Beat hits the ground, hits four, Team Mexico
are falling over map number five in Chile sites joint as team Mexico are losing players
Santana no bubbles left remaining there's good Suni rush there's an overclock they have so much
to play with the grabbett on touch and two percent but they managed to get kept alive how is
Bert not gonna kill the grabbett on touch is absolutely massive as well on the point the
annihilation there's absolutely nothing how did Santana stay alive for that long clutch
scored for Team Mexico as they take the series 3 to 1.
I thought we were going to map 5.
That's unbelievable how they turn it around. It looked like a dumb deal. They looked like
Chile were storming their way through the renasapi. Get the meals required but like you said I
4 players from LCS and there's no kills. Yeah it was a 4 man summer. How do you not close things out?
They had a kid sooner washed out. They were building an overclock and somehow
Mexico stay alive and
And the car miss gets the frags required to close things out. I that that's unbelievable
commerce kills, but
mid-o-c
After the beat had worn off because they couldn't kill anybody and then Santana with the perfect bubble rotation
and then he hits an annihilation.
Like how?
How?
Nightmare fuel.
That is...
That was Chile's chance to make it to map 5 and maybe make it to Busan.
Oh!
Check this out.
We got the last play on the screens.
Okay.
So the barrier's up.
That both damasters are dead for Mexico.
So it's like 4 versus 3.
How?
Yeah.
And Santana just stays alive.
He's still alive.
And Santana just stays alive with two support players here.
Because Soonerush is down at the minute.
And Mexico just has unbelievable down.
How is Santana not dead, Joss?
60-H, he went to 61.
Heaping it, peeping it.
Went to 61 HP.
And Bro survives.
We, I thought we banned the cat bro.
Bro's got nine lives.
No, it's ridiculous.
You were hyping it up.
I was all on board like we were on our way to map five.
We were going to serve us a new density and then that happened
Wow, that was a way to enter the team Mexico's
They only need to defeat Argentina now and they have locked themselves into a spot Busan like this was the mountains kind of overcome
This was the hurdle to overcome like there is a real possibility
We see team Mexico at the land because she'll they have to face team USA next to very different opponents like
What an unbelievable win from team Mexico?
Let's take a peek at how it went down with the highlights.
Oh, this feels like a lifetime ago.
Can't miss getting the double high noon mic in there.
Yeah, we might have to revisit the chorus always good for one thing,
but that's not something we need to do with this very broadcast.
We can do that at a later stage.
It I do am impressed by Mexico, the way they were able to excrete with
Saracen position because at this time, like it was all an elemental guy,
you know, hoping off to these Dragon Bates getting one case, two case with this blade.
And they did play a pretty good Sigma, you know, ground composition as well.
Numbani was impressed from their side, they looked over from the cat bastard,
a cheetah-eyed train in the way.
But I did really enjoy seeing a look from Mexico that wasn't elemental.
Guy oriented with Genji did a good job with the Soria here,
very composed throughout the thought.
Yeah, I think having two different styles like that, even if one style is like,
okay, he's going to play Genji because there's no TP.
like I think that's a fantastic way to be as a team because you have more of like a default and then you have okay well
We actually have some sneaky stuff up us. Well, okay, it's not sneaky you see elements guys. I've been making energy them up myself
But they've still got like a different strategy. They can use if they want to deploy against a team that might not be
too versed in play against it or even just kind of
Out of left field against a team that is considered better than them
So yeah, I props to Mexico there a 3-1 victory over Chile next opponent. It's gonna be Argentina. They win that
All right, wow that that was that was literally just like that was that was Pete
It was similar very end. I did. I was sort of like yeah, I will interrupt you
We got a interview with lay ready right this very second from team Mexico
Congratulations, a massive smile on your face, congratulations for that win of the 3-1, Santana might be the greatest player of all time, he's surviving in the very end of the year.
I thought I poked him.
That grammar is crazy.
Crazy.
That grammar is way too clutch.
Congratulations on the win, of course. Argentinian is going to be your next opponent. I've asked this question throughout the day, but team Mexico, yourself, like Busan, potentially on the cards as well, if you do well in that last series.
How is the team feeling representing Mexico? How are you feeling World Cup being back and yourself on the team?
I mean, we're all very excited. I'm not gonna lie. I'm 18, so I was too young to play in
last World Cup, but if I had been the age requirement, I maybe would have played in
it. So I'm really excited to be able to play in this one. And representing the countries
is great. Our team staff have organized watch parties in multiple cities in Mexico. So it's
just great seeing all the pictures of all the fans meeting up just to watch us. And
and it just makes us feel excited to go to Korea and represent.
Alright, Leigh, obviously very excited after a win like that.
I just want to sit back here for a moment,
just share with us how that felt,
to close out the series like that in a fight like that.
I'm sure the communication went crazy,
like the comps and everything.
How did the team react when you closed out to Nassap
in a fight like that?
I mean, most of us were just screaming at each other, of course,
But it was just, I don't know.
We logged in at the end,
Santana got that huge grab.
We just survived even through Rush, and it was just great.
He lived at one HP for like five seconds,
and it was just very...
You're just healing everything, like, please survive.
Please, just take the thing.
We had Ferris Keeper, just like spamming heals on him.
A final question.
You just said there's quite a few watch parties out there
watching you guys compete.
Is there anything you wanted to say
to the people watching you and your fans out there?
Well, I mean, can I say it in Spanish? Is that okay?
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
Go for it. Do it then.
Okay. Muchas gracias a todos por vernos.
Se que están en la rara, mañana en Sierra México.
Ahí hemos visto fotos y muchas gracias a todos por estar ahí.
And to everyone else, Elemental Guy said he's going to be in the interview tomorrow.
So be ready for that. Or Hype Man is going to be here.
So, it's been so fun watching Elementor Guy and the team.
We talked about how two very distinct styles already helps you guys out and you know Elementor
guys sub it in.
Playing on like 7000 dpi, it looks like a whole lot of fun.
Congratulations once again, best of luck in your next game.
One step closer to Bhutan, but yeah, some well earned rest after this.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I think that was a lay from
team Mexico. Hello, mental guy
interview tomorrow. Maybe if
they were to get on Tina, double
you. I'm down for that. Make
sure you tune in for that one.
That'll be tomorrow as we round
out group B. Currently this is
your standings Group A complete
Canada, Colombia going to
Busan USA going to Busan. Group
match against Argentina, and
the match is on. Oh, he's
the schedule graph. There you
go. He's there for me as well,
but I already went there.
America's ones. Any of the E
me a once Johnny sticking out
to you. What's up? What's up?
So the sweet versus Denmark,
the classic rivalry. Boom. Oh,
my can't wait. That might be
heat. That might be going to
It's going to be he both teams already qualified to role in the group now. Go ahead for the pride. Let's go
Our Sweden Johnny yeah, give me give me this what Sweden back
I know it's that I don't want to curse my team. I know I mean looking good right now. I know Edmund is doing work for us
is the cherry on the pot. If
not the whole cake at this
point, man, it's going to be
it's going to be a whole lot
of fun. Don't forget to check
in and follow the socials and
stuff to make sure you don't
miss a single beat. But that's
going to be it for me and
Johnny today. Thanks so much
for watching and tuning in.
We're going to take some much
need of rest and so should
you. So yeah, we'll see you