Welcome back, everyone, to the Overwatch World Cup.
We are back bright and early, extra bright and early in fact for the final day of the online qualifiers again
I'm Ash alongside Jake and Matt promise you guys will see us
Just a window
I thought I was gonna appear in the window. I thought we got some new graphics tech here early in the morning
But no, I mean hey, yeah, actually is an early start, but it's because we have so many good games, right?
I know up a few games turning the top seeds in each group and then
And obviously, I think he got one group here in EMEA.
It's still a little bit undecided.
Otz, Jake, any this morning?
Not many in my head, if I'm honest.
But I am excited to see some of these teams play.
I think we're kind of getting to that point
where we're about to find out who's
going to be able to make it out of this stage.
There's teams that are still fighting for their first win.
This may be the last we see of some of these squads
here in the Overwatch World Cup.
So definitely a lot to watch out for as teams.
There's a couple matches that really determine who actually qualifies, who stays alive.
And at this moment in the competition, I think that's especially important to these teams given that.
What's next is the opportunity to travel, compete in a late-in event, right?
Like, that's like a game changer for a lot of players, where the bullcup may be their first chance to do so.
Yeah, 100% talking a little bit more about that kind of format that you're alluding to as well.
To give everyone at home a refresher, if you've missed it over the last two weekends,
The format is we do have three round robin groups here with four teams
So that means that there is a total of 16 advancing from the EMEA side of things
And you also have the 1v1 deathmatches for match seeding as a little bit of a new twist into this overwatch world
But something that we haven't seen before
I had to overwatch and we get to like test things out a little bit here
more of the six spots that have already been secured by Denmark, Sweden, Great Britain,
and Germany, you do have France is like a soft block for that spot here as well as far as what you do.
Yeah, I mean, they're a great spot to be able to do so, right? I know some crazy stuff would have to happen in that group overall.
For them to be even, you can kind of maybe, you know, on the outside looking in,
but France's been a great spot. I mean, you have to kind of take care of your business to get that number one seed.
number one seed. Uh and then
group. It's just, you kno
that'll be like the big m
like who gets that number
that group. Uh you think
obviously they have a mat
where, you know, France,
kind of care business th
if you look across all the
have some big games to d
seeds. Yeah. And the firs
much here, right? Because
about going to Busan, playing in that group stage.
You wanna be avoiding those groups,
that have teams like Korea, like China, Saudi Arabia,
already kind of waiting in the wings
and try to face up against some of the lower seats
from Asia or America.
That could be a huge difference maker overall
when we do head to that group stage in Busan.
Let's talk a little bit about one of the more exciting
matches that we have for today, right?
You're alluding to kind of some of these games here.
Jake, when it comes down to who's gonna be taking that last spot
within Group C, Spain versus Poland,
is gonna be so important to lock in that final team.
Who you got on like, who are you leaning towards here?
I mean, you know, for me, like with a player like Exodiel
playing for Spain, that makes me, you know,
excited about the possibilities for this team.
The Polanas impressed me in this competition, they've actually shown to be a real threat
here.
So I think this one is honestly too close to call, it really could go down to the wire
where we're talking about potential map fives before the show started and I think that's
honestly pretty realistic, especially considering the stakes couldn't be higher for a lot of
these young players.
This is an incredible opportunity to show your stuff against some of the best players
in the world in Busan or you just aren't making it, you're going to be staying home
watching the stream, right? So there's an incredible dichotomy between those two outcomes,
huge stakes on the match. So it's going to be not only a test of these players' skill,
but also their ability to stay composed under pressure.
Yeah, those two teams actually are really even, right? I think both sitting out one in one,
same map differential, you know, you kind of have players you like on both sides. So
really feels like a toss up. Like, I mean, it's difficult. It's like, I think Poland has been
pretty good though from what I know we've seen so I think regardless that's
going to be a really good game. 100% let's talk a little bit about today's
schedule though talking about how exciting this game is going to be we
will have to wait a little bit later into today to be seeing that matchup
between Spain and Poland it will be our second matchup of the day we are going
to be kicking things off with Finland is Austria and after our gauntlet of six
EMEA matches. We will also have the final two America's matches. We won't be here
for all six EMEA though. You guys will get coverage from Moxie and Molly later
on today. So a lot of great Overwatch content overall here for both EMEA and
America's. Before we get into the nitty-gritty though, I want to remind you
guys again not to forget about these drops. You guys want to watch for the
rest of the day to ensure you can get that eSports loot box.
If you haven't racked up your hours just yet,
it is going to be the final day of the online qualifier.
So ensure that you guys get that done and also get that locked in.
When it comes down to linking your battle net account to your Twitch and to your
YouTube, if you haven't already done that, let's get into our first matchup.
Jake, we've kind of talked about how it's tough for Finland and Austria.
they don't have that opportunity to qualify to Busan anymore.
Now it's really about that kind of like national pride.
And Finland is this team that came forward in the 2023 Overwatch World Cup
main event. It's really heartbreaking for this squad to actually not qualify
with that core of the Stola-Sanaing Club.
Yeah, I mean, I think what a fall from grace for team Finland, right?
Like this is a team that we thought, you know, not only is a team that could
qualify to the group stage, but we could be talking about them for BlizzCon.
And now they're gonna be going out in the group. So they think for a lot of these players love to be able to at least put up a win here
But yeah, this is this is a tough one
I mean even players like ghost 91 have been like exciting up-and-comers
They're gonna have cloud subbing in on the tank for this one curious to see how that goes. I think maybe
Bench
So, yeah, well, I'm I'm curious to see what's gonna go on here
I know with that sub we gotta get told I don't last minutes if it's the one Claudia
not the starting lineup. I mean this obviously it's not ideal for Finland to be in this position, right?
0-2. I mean they lose to both two teams though, like you know Denmark is a game 5, Sweden like
could have gone the distance very close series like everyone so like it's not like they came
into the group here and just got like dominated right it's like very close back and forth where
you know they probably feel like really it's the toughest group that we've had right so somebody's
gonna have to now qualify out of it unfortunately. Yeah I'm really unlucky I think I grew a death there.
I was gonna say that just might be the toughest group in the entire overwatch world cup but
on the other side team Austria also with some some strong players I mean that's what's crazy is
you know even these are the bottom two teams in the group these are both like you know some names
you recognize on the squad. Yeah, they definitely are. No, not a good idea. You actually love
talking about Toma. Oh, you're talking about Toma in the game. How are we feeling about this now?
I think going into this matchup, it's for pride. You have Cloud subbing in for Vinlin on the tank
and then a Toma that, you know, loves that Winston gameplay. He can play other heroes as well, but
but that's historically been one of his most comfortable ones.
Do you feel like now, Austria has a bit of a better chance?
You mean, yeah?
I just have no idea what we're getting from Cloud
in terms of, you know, tank play, right?
That we see, like, obviously, Tama,
like, there's some hero pool, you know, like,
when we get in the game, they go to VCS,
like, more hero pool issues,
but, like, there's discomfort pushing into it.
Good.
You know, going with the other team,
having a damage dealer in terms of their tank
for at least game one.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, Austria might have a slight advantage here,
but the series is going to get weird, I feel like.
I think we're going to be in for a long one.
I think it'll be fun.
I can't wait to see what Austria versus Finland has in store.
All right, Jake, we get into this 1v1 right away.
Ooh, a little Ana 1v1.
Always crucial.
Hitting the sleep, huge edge, and Gucci cleans it up there.
Of course, you gotta know the best up. Oh, okay. I mean this one's it's all about the sleep darts, right in the auto 1v1
Yeah, you know yesterday you kind of missed it. We got a bunch of doon fist 1v1s. I'm jealous man
Doon fist 1v1 was crazy
It was uh, it crazy was a good way to put it
It was definitely going a little crazy as uh, it's like, okay, so Tommy said it finishes off Gucci here
And that'll be Austria getting the higher seed so Austria. I mean, hey, this is a
I bet the chat would have loved to know the kind of line-ups before we did I know
Channel point predictions, but now now they get first match. They got clouded on the other side
What do you expect to see from cloud? Oh, I mean you never got the you never got the I have to play tank thing
You know when you were playing pro, but if you want to be honest, I'm pretty sure you see the play doon face
But like that's just the that's the like I'm a DPS player a long tank kind of a pig
I'm kind of hopeful that we get some shenanigans in this one
I think you know in all seriousness for both of these teams right now without the the possibility of qualification at this point
You got a kind of style on them, you know, you got to kind of show out
So the bands look relatively legit this now though. Yeah. Yeah, what are we?
Bastion are very legit
What a time to be alive
Yeah, I'll shake it's rid of obviously the ability for kept fashion for Finland and then a ball gone
I know Thomas played ball at a pretty high level in the past
So that's something obviously you're gonna have to be on the lookout for against Austria
Trying to think who's been the most, you know
That's like you have to throw kind of like the goats that are out of the way like who's the DPS player
I know that Dante obviously, you know, switching from DPS to tank was obviously pretty successful. Oh
Trying to think of some other players in history really gonna die it but
Yeah, there's really not that many
We'll see the lineup is coming out. Okay clowns over in the RAM
So pretty stock standard in terms of the tank pick here
If you're Austria and they put their damage dealer on Romantra
And they are gonna run it down. You can't lose the series. I will say it is a massive
Lost opportunity that we don't get LH cloudy running it down on Ryan the entire series
I mean, I just feel like that that way if I was coaching here her for team Finland
I would I would demand no less
we we saw Crocs yesterday for France a
very excited to potentially see him play again today as uh...
what's going on here?
I think Lynn's going to make some changes here and now.
Okay, so we're going to get torbed, so...
Oh, oh, oh, maybe we'll get a torbed?
And we're going to get a rime torb on this other side, so...
Okay, here we go.
This is, this is...
This is really set the stage for this series, man.
This is...
5 AM and I'm in my room watching a torb here in 1v1.
Uh...
Yeah, let's...
Alright, here we go.
Alright.
Catched one on locks.
It's open now.
No one wants to give up that first hit.
Somebody will attack.
No.
Oh.
They were using overloads, overloads allowed,
and Psycho, pretty decisive victory on that one.
And opening bell.
What happened?
Well, no, it's just that's honorable.
The Torb 1, everyone has to have stakes on it.
The stakes is for the mid-fight.
So, Austria takes up the Torb 1 that he won.
It's going to advance to the control point capture.
The next phase, of course, is we all know.
Yes, we'll see, you know, maybe an opportunity for a huge Rhyne Shatter here at times, is, uh, an out-of-heat, and we'll be moving on up here, yeah.
I'm just getting in the mix here. Brolin's up at the enemy tower. Absolutely burns down, son.
He's gonna go for more, why not? Why not? He's healthy.
He's making space out here.
I mean, he's got a really weird spot, buddy.
The ghost is directly to his left. It's just no way to engage with him.
Alright, Thomas pushed on up.
And he is not giving up that position.
He's going to be playing from there.
That is a powerful position. I'm not going to lie. You are not cleaning him out of that spot.
Who is he going for?
It's beautiful. It's a work of art.
Aw, that is so troll. Poor Cloud.
Shatter available for Thomas as well.
This ground is getting out of control.
If it wasn't from the very first, uh, hit it, oh my gosh.
Shatter headshot on the side.
This one, this series may have a little bit of area here.
Yeah, we were picing it up in this one's cycle.
I know what all of the everything will be now, but it's gonna have...
You can't predict this one. The script writers, they can only dream it.
Rushes come out on...
Yeah?
...Vinland. Back in the action, they're gonna get a flip here.
Show us a play back.
Oh no.
Oh, that was close.
Another environmental pin there.
We can get out of this, Thomas.
Didn't cover it from the beat.
What a crazy thing. I love that beat.
I'm so here for that beat.
Oh, they also have their rush.
I wonder if Austria decided to use it here.
They can get Thomas out of the beat,
and now potentially going to engage with it,
trying to flip the point.
We'll probably do one more flip.
There's a beat now from Finland.
them over the molten core, layered at the feet, and Gucci with the rails. Could get clean up here,
14 Finland. Putting in some nice work right on this clockback. Clipz even goes down late,
which is gonna potentially hurt, but Tomix, finding that one is gonna be pretty sweet.
Helping Astrid get back in the fight. Now, Astrid, I think, is probably waking up a little bit,
right? Realizing that Finland's not just gonna kind of give this one up as
loud now, playing from the high ground with his annihilation. We'll see how he goes with
with this ultimate where if you're just tuning in, you've got the DPS player for Finland playing
something.
I'm just checking in.
Everything has been normal, as expected.
Nothing's going to go back in a few minutes in the bot, not necessarily as the OCs come
out cloud, runs it down, like Eclipse.
Shut down in that one, so Finland holding onto this point really effectively.
Austria is going to take the enemy side of the map here.
I like this creative but I'm just running out of gas on this one. I'm pretty good for this one.
Alright, well, they're trying to make a play, I guess, there for Ghost.
Obviously not able to kind of stay alive. It's now Cloud running them up here.
It's kind of nice on the map.
I mean, if you use the Annihilation, yeah, it looks pretty good.
It's clean.
Are they even going to get like another really good fight? Not really, right?
I mean, you're going to be like going into a Kitsune Rush Annihilation.
It's going to be miserable to play it.
Yeah, it's gonna feel bad rush on the point Lucio
Looks like he got the tap. No, he did not get the tap
Yeah, well around is over and that one
Call that sometimes you know
I mean even very using the opening Torb 1v1 able to make a comeback from that kind of a down position
Is impressive. We don't see that often, you know the composure right usually when you lose that Torb 1v1
You just accept right like maybe this game is not ours, you know, like maybe we're not destined to win like the
Our standard bearer the Torbjorn
You know wasn't there that but the rest of the team apparently found the life
You know that was necessary and you this one was ordained to be a roadhog nearer
I mean come on come on man. Could there be any other tank pick here? I don't think so
Okay, so it sounds like you know the both teams had agreed to potentially
The Torbjorn 1v1
I mean that's standard here. That's that's that's an under the wall of the
little the notes you know G.A. Oh no that's my call duty days all right we
have a jetpack cat widowmaker Roadhog battle here
just over time we didn't maybe that's kind of nice on the tank we did not
respect his game you got he absolutely destroyed Tom in there I mean that was
That was crispy. It's your first time seeing the the widow jetpack cat though Matt. It's kind of a nasty comp
Yeah, you're one of the best
One of the absolute best so looks like actually a son of a hook here over on the side by Tom on butt space created
He's not a son of this turret
After he dies ends up getting the kill as
This one is just full of silly. I mean roadhog in the high ground like this. Oh, he's gonna back
Why don't we just on Gip I can't roadhog and like kind of like I know grip people
This one could be crazy
Read the vectors on that one ideal ideal it could lead to a flip back austere now plus two in the fight
Stepping back up to this. That was a nice grab.
Big shot as well from Tom on to Sana. Tom is going to clean that one up in Austria.
Right back in control. I think the Hanzo is going to be really nice in this spot.
This dude needs to go 5, Jake.
Oh, who's that? People need a lot of this.
Whatever this is, we need a lot of it. We need more.
Okay, an Alphara swap here for Finland.
For Finland, it seems like they're down the clown for a little bit,
But then obviously they want to get it out here.
It looks like
Gucci on a flank there and is able to get one.
Where? Where? A big plane.
Thomas like kinda, I think he's just looking for environmental skills.
I don't think he has any intention to help the rest of the team.
Both Roadhogs in their natural environment.
Oh, that's a wide.
Look is missed though.
Cloud has to play back off the pit.
Thomas, we're given the opportunity to clean this one up.
Big shots coming in.
He's looking to clean up.
He's in a rush over the top of Maastra.
still fendlin holding this point that's a flip but the cost you're gonna get it
right back the opening pick on the soldier it's a nice recovery you know
you know time drops an emo while soldier dies
he's soldier ends up falling by the hands of the pharah
you do the nano we need a nano hog yeah I don't think uh who would expect this I
I think it's all in there.
Oh, no.
He's dead.
Just gets absolutely run over and cloud with the whole log.
Getting in there.
OC, goodbye, Eclipse.
Doesn't even make it to the death pit off the map.
Ana's running for the hills.
Uchi picks up one on the psycho, and you are not getting out of this one, Nix.
No, it's a...
Fingling obviously regains control here.
This is their moment, Jake.
Close it out. Barrage.
I'm pretty sure the rest of them are into the spawn.
I'm gonna be real with you, Matt.
They're about to use every old diving into the spawn.
That's the only way to play this situation.
From Team Finland, they got a bunch of ults.
Tom with the whole hog has to hold the line here.
We need to see some kind of a fake out of him on the impression.
Hey, Echo... Echo Mercy here from Russia?
Well, they're getting in now.
Missed a hook, Clouds.
There's a lot of damage.
Psycho with the Mercy Pond could actually do some real damage to this Gucci.
Needs to find something. Needs to get lights out with the overclock.
Oh, it looks like a push-off to Matt, although he's about to take some clips off with him, so that's not a trade.
E comes out, makes a beautiful mercy jump here, stays alive, keeps healing, but Tom is getting low.
Someone's got to come touch this point, so he's got to touch, steps up to do it.
Merce grabs the touch, good play, but lost her life, was necessary.
Maybe he's going to clean the knife, but Ghost is too fast with the Suzu, and that should be the problem.
14 Finland right just running out of players to throw on to the point so
Finland taking map one I mean that's a that's a that's an impressive result
here on Ilios I was very impressed and we're I mean I feel like we just got a
little taste but we are potentially in for a doozy of a series yeah we're
potentially in for one here with this one as we take a look at some of the
stats uh tell me what man i know you're the you're the telecaster just give me some
what announcements here so look what am i looking at with these stats what do i
i should i interpret these oh you should interpret is both teams were told by
compops they need to play this game and we're getting it live is that we take a
look at the uh jorb 1v1 is uh obviously i mean you can just cut the
highlight paper oh this one uh crazy this this is kind of sick
the air from town this was tank gap he had that please tell me typed he didn't
stuff yeah I mean not in yeah we got a little bit of molten core all over the
place here you know we're just throwing it all over and then now molten core
trade you know classic one-for-one all trade I mean well actually kind of
decent on the remote yeah he was good this game this round you know this was
It was just all over the place. Yeah, that was a hell of a kill
You were trying to figure out what happened in the second round just keep rolling that road hot clip
over and over again, but uh, all right nail piter down to the wire
Here in a no map number one
Where do you want to see y'all should take us from M number two Jane push or flashpoint map?
push four
i'm trying to see some some high-paced action here in this one king's row you want king's row
i don't know you know i could be convinced just just i just i think this is a series that needs a
lot of needs spice it needs individual playmaking it's more spice i think i mean i think there's
just like there's so much spice i'm not sure a map as you know stayed and as as storied as king's row
would really fit the moment, right? I feel like King's Row is what we get if we get to map 5,
you know, like that's my feeling. But I think King's Row, just Torb your 1v1 for the point.
Just consecutive Torb 1v1s and you get to push cart so the other Torb gets back.
So while Abyssi you're joining us, this one's a little silly. Group A has already been, we already
have our two teams from this group that'll be in mark in Sweden. They'll play a little bit later
determined who's the number one seed in the group. This is just for, you know, kind of
pride in the lulls, as some folks would say. So we'll see where Autry doesn't think us.
Ash hoping for the new Queen Street. She hasn't seen that map. Ash from Tirana hasn't seen
that map. No one's picking NQS. It's kind of, like, surprising, I guess, like, how little
I mean, Runisapi is a very much a fan favorite
among the competitive players, so I get it.
But I'm a fan of NQS too.
I love a little cheeky, double flex sport ball comp
on New Queen Street, spice it up.
I think it's a lot of fun.
The Zidra's coming in for a clip,
so a change in terms of damage dealer here for Ausha.
I'm wondering if Cloud is just gonna play the whole series
so you don't see Cloudy or Vistola.
I think the Reinhardt play from Toma though
is a little bit of a bait.
Let's get cloudy out here. Let's let's get him out. Yeah, he's he's kind of calling him out and it is
The their throttle would not have been what I would have seemed telling so
Toma can play some Winston here that is trouble if they want to get back on like track so to speak
Would they have was this series ever on track?
Yeah, I mean this would be
Well, I mean you would still say it would be getting back on track, right? Yeah, I guess that's true
I guess that's true. I mean, for Austria, right, you know, putting up a map when it's getting on track and then maybe you're right
Maybe you know taking us to a Winston map so maybe to do it
You could you know, Dan and Diva or something something that really, you know gives the Winston trouble on the same
But this is also a map where I don't even think you don't worry about that though. It's uh, I mean
You know, it's like I my people like Diva is like another one of the very solid tank heroes to play as a DPS player
Right where it's it's a little more comfortable than you know
Like for example the Winston which I think is quite a challenge to take in the mirror if you're not an experienced tanker and
But I do like this look for Austria. I think this is something where hey, maybe the widow can come out
They do ban the diva
You know Finland respond by being in a lorry. They don't want to worry about you know
These cheesy double fucks for defenses and lorry looks pretty strong
Potentially on this map a lot of high ground to work with on the defense and now after the map rework by the way
We saw this map
Did we see this map at all in the Champions class?
I swear no one did.
We did.
Like once or twice?
We did.
I believe we casted it, where we saw Winston Genji from, I'm trying to think of the team.
We saw a team play Winston Genji on this map at Champions Glass.
Oh, you're playing.
Maybe.
Oh, I remember it now.
I think it was you and I, but we did see a team pick this, go Winston Genji, and don't
and get was successful uh... from what i remember
uh... but
okay this would be uh... finland on defense they're gonna play wincing engine
uh...
with a cat
and really just use by the cat here really confused well i mean you can just
okay now i understand it
yeah now i get it
i am now seen the light
i am enlightened by what i was currently having was confused and now i am not
Wait, this could be a crazy dive though, think about that.
Like no one, who expects this?
Who is ready for this?
I will say, if Tomix presses his button,
oh, he may not have digs,
he digs his back, it was fun.
Wait, there's just gonna,
he's in a power position here on Ghost 91.
This is a true Ana aim tester.
As we get some Sierra on Osana,
which I think will be fun to watch,
getting a little Sierra gameplay.
I mean, imagine you dart somebody
and then the cat like flies you in.
Wait, that could go like crazy.
I mean this is uh, you know I think, uh, Ausha just made it out of the spawn.
Ausha is playing like a, you know, a real kind of like die-com, just something that I think they would actually like want to play, right?
Um, you know, with Kama, obviously, you know, playing the ball.
Nix goes cat.
Yeah, Nix goes cat. I don't know why Nix is going cat.
He's gonna take the enemy cat out of the air.
It's crucial. Oh, dart hit.
Cleans though, it's important for Kiri.
He's on it back up into the sky just really putting on some strong covering fire here
This first point is looking to be difficult, but let's split Finland's getting pressured back a little
Yeah, I mean looks to be chaotic. I mean, you know Thomas trying to get a flank going
Oh, that that's where the darts huge right against like a no, I can't initially
Into getting to kill is they say you are getting some car progress here from all stream, right?
Yeah, we'll look at my little bit, it's two minutes almost off the clunk here, man.
Yeah, it's a lot.
You also have a nano now for, I guess, the cloud or Gucci.
Yep, I get the cap.
I get this Sierra up in the sky.
I wonder how the old works from up here.
I mean, that is nasty. You have to use the plens there to get rid of the dark.
He does just dial on Gucci gets just eviscerated and that one on a getting dove throws at the nano
Maybe in a bit of desperation what gets on to find from this bit psycho comes up with two
Quiet series from so far, but this is a big way to enter into it two minutes left on the clock
that double kill Paul spawns surely is gonna be enough sauna and
Then should be able to stay alive in this one go for that final fight
What do you think about Kat with just, you know, not
fashion random lightning right now we're seeing this like with the Sierra
I think the cat with the ball and Tracer is Sombra I really don't recommend with projectile heroes
Oh my god the cat blade!
Wait what? Okay you just got a lot of this editing in!
He doesn't find anything there unfortunately
That is an iconic old combo actually
That is wild.
That is a wild.
That is pretty sick.
Zidra, looks like you popped the actually dead fight.
Not really much of anything there, but it was sad.
Cool.
I hope the Carpura is going to go up to the...
Yeah, yeah.
And Cloud may be primal here.
Surely he's a primal.
He's usually low.
She's got a kill.
You've got to go for this.
And he's living quite some time.
Cloud, nice piloting here on the Winston.
See how the primal is?
The primal check.
It's not looking great.
Frankly, it's not looking great.
But the DPS playing primal.
Everybody ran.
I mean he stayed alive right that was really it yeah, that was the big thing the car hasn't rolled
That's good in the small but oh
Just immediately kills the cat all right
I mean can't the listen just like zapped you while you hold him on cat like yes
He was you and you'd believe so not the ideal target didn't really grab there I
Fun to see Sierra getting some gameplay out and honestly, I think it's a decent persona.
I mean this is a really tough comp to play Sierra into, right, with so much mobility.
Got him now, but this time it misses.
Maybe trying to grab Psycho, Psycho's just way too quick for that.
Gucci finding one, this guy's starting to get chaotic.
A lot of low players on both sides.
Austria still fighting in the down there, Jericho, but Tommy's gonna drop the minefield.
This looks a little scary for Sana. He just slipped back just in time, but maybe this base is created here for Oster to start moving this cart forward
Or maybe not
We'll see I mean goes that does have a consuming rush bill will be used here in the alleyway
It's not a deal. I mean, that's it. It's a huge pick-off right Gucci getting very close
Toward the blade and they're gonna end up using
The consumer rush anyway, that's a nice bio there from my mix I kind of connects on the cloud
So it's gonna go for nothing other side of the map saw this game like a 1v1 if somebody out there
FN's gonna grab
So get him up in the sky and get him at a dodge. So
Elves is you're coming off the spawn and he available here. That could be quite useful
I mean, yeah, what a beauty much as Sierra against tracer there. I
Mean psycho just put that work in on son of there
That was the door with the AMP. Maybe the player to watch. A lot of ultimates building up for Austria.
Like once again, right at the early point. It's rough for them, but then they come up to fell off into it.
Get a little more space to work with. But a blade from Gucci, this time not hindered by his own cat,
is going to take the life of Nix, which is essentially forfeit here. It does get a nice swipe though, on the psycho.
It's just going to slow him down, potentially force a recall.
Austria, a lot of ultimates, they've tried to fight this without their auto. The AMP is out on the floor. Nice connection.
connection. Sierra ult on the point where he does drop psycho without the tracer.
This fight is looking a little scary, Cloud. If you shoot that EMP, it's going to start putting
that damage down. It's a cleanse though, it looks like it blocks the catnap and
Tommik threw the headshot out of the air. Tommik says he's been on fire this series.
Yeah. Yeah, I believe that they actually did take the one with the catnap, but uh,
just kind of the lead to that thing so fast. We have mine kill back over by the objective,
cloud really kind of holding down the
high ground here.
Yeah, he's giving up the rest of his team to hold this high ground, but
we'll see, you know, he's still got the Prime on here,
so now he's going to pop it.
Kiriko has a lot of stall to evade this, the hack comes in,
he's getting poked and brought in from all sides.
He's got a lot of attention to himself though, it's giving his team a time to
respawn, to reset, re-engage.
Yeah, he was with some damage on Ken. He should be running low, can't quite get the sport in time, but Psycho's fighting for his life into this one.
Cloud has stayed alive through the fight, found Tomix, didn't find Psycho, and I think that'll be enough here for the hold to be made.
So Cloud on the Winston, alright. I mean, we didn't think it was going to happen. We thought maybe he's going to stick with more straightforward picks,
but honestly, pretty respectable. You know, like the positional holds were good, they really kept, especially Nix, struggling in that one on the honor, right?
one on the honor, right?
I think that's, it's a tough comp to be playing on in,
in a crazy mutual dive mirror to try and get out of the spawn.
Pretty difficult, right, on any of these points.
Yeah, it's, and that's a comp that I think for Austria,
right, like that they, you know, would want to play, right?
Like it feels like a comp that actually kind of like,
suits some of these, you know, players
and kind of what we've seen from the past.
So, you know, taking what you want from that game.
Psycho had a pretty good one, you know, first half, right?
I know a lot of really good pressure from the Tracer onto, you know, Saga, you know, playing that Sierra a lot, but
you know, Finland just...
You know, kind of stay in it there at the end, you know, where.
See what Finland decides to do on offense. They seem to kind of be
just throwing everything out there today. A little bit of area there.
Tell me about this offensive combat, this vibe, to our brainwaves.
And this is a this is a 525 a.m. Eastern time
Platinum I feel like you know the little mercy mercy hog Ciri on run Sierra nobody in voice
I love when the mercy on run
They don't play good. We can't I mean
Kind of crazy you're like you just send in the Roadhog like an umbrella bio weapon or something just drop him in the backline
No, we actually have a that actually looks like the Sierra is pocketed by the Mercy
While the cat is also flying around the Sierra so the Sierra getting like the double pocket it looks like
Cloud just on cart duty forever like this is I actually love the road. I've taken the spot
Just I am the cart man from Cartland and I will be pushing the cart
Here we go. Here we go. I've never seen the Mortal Z Hero
Dude, I should imagine they go Bastion with this dog
crazy. Sona? This is a crazy fashion but I mean I don't think it would have the
same humor effect. Yeah beautiful. They get a res but that won't cost.
Can it die again? Yeah, more kills farming them up. Sure they do take down the
Ana but unless you get a crazy hook out of cloud doesn't seem like there's gonna
be more to find. Do you want to chase the hall into these rooms though? It's a little
scary in there. Mama's healthy though and when Kariko coming in this one could
get scrappy
like that's gonna Jericho's life, Tom is just the turret here
both players just block off both sides of the door
as uh, yeah, unfortunately there's a full cost
uh, right on the cloud
there's Sierra, I mean, without the cat and the Mercy pocket
it's getting difficult
Tom is kind of dominating here
clean little sequence on the ball
Tom is nice on the ball
He has been pretty solid here
Big Nate as well over the top from Nick's
Austria
Cleaning this up inland. I mean they got a good stoppage on second point
But this is looking like a fold starting to develop here
I mean the ultimate economy not looking great in Austria on this dive set up a lot more comfortable on defense mercy
Where are you going?
Yeah, I think I know I think we're gonna fly to Gucci there just kind of fell as soon as
They got there at the same time, but yeah, Tom is kind of farming right now.
There's Finlan, I think if they're going to get this golem, they're going to have to make some changes.
Complys, the Sierra seems really easy to kind of go after at the moment.
So, it'll just be the hog swap out here for Winston as we'll keep Murphy in play.
I mean, the Valkblade is developing here, and like that, it could be something to think about.
Zidra needs to be careful with ZnP. He does pump it, looks a clear sauna,
but actually can't find anything, a good cleanse from Ghost91.
Keeps on it in the fight in Finland now.
Maybe with an opening, Psycho does clean that kill up,
but with Velka online this will be a comfortable res for Finland,
and now they're gonna get a real chance at this.
Here comes the blade, pulled, Nix dropped before,
he can get the nano out.
And Austria, scattered to the four wins though,
not giving him more kills this play.
That's a nice one.
Tomix finds a headshot in this 1-D1,
and Guji's actually gotta worry about this
because the path is hacked for a few more seconds,
and that buys enough space and time for the Curie to get out.
Austria navigating that one impressively. Yeah, it's a ton like still kind of hunting down
the bougie here finally the pack will reset as uh you're now below a minute
they're uh fiddling to me really rough spotting you. Tom is just absolutely dominating on the ball here
in the second half but I think Tom was very good on the ball very good on like Winston right uh
just some of those other like more slower pokey type of uh heroes kind of where uh you see the
struggle at times so uh tracer genji winston uh set up here for finland for the final 30 seconds
or so is and now it's like they're gonna play a summer of their own uh cloud obviously playing
tank here not lh plowdy so the dps for finland gonna pick up that tank roll is trying to deal with
comma's ball that was just a really almost impossible yeah that is bullying right now
Nano's out. It's on to Psycho.
Rush is traded on the point. Cloud has found Nix, so actually...
...good fight developing potentially more Finland. FN.
He's got a nice little cat scratch in there on the enemy tracer. Maybe even gonna clean up Tomix with the help of Sana.
Finland finding a big extra gas in the tank here.
It can be a better time to do it now with the overtime engaged 1v1 on the flank between Psycho and Sana.
Psycho stays alive though, there could be a recantist to come in, Tom. It has a minefield EMP online as well. You gotta be watching for this, Tim.
On the, it's the, uh, minefield off right before the hack kinda comes on in. It's gonna be a EMP here for Zidra as well. It's such a nasty combination.
Uh, I can't have 4F and, uh, now I'm gonna drag anybody anywhere and, uh, that is where the offense will stop. So, it's going to be Austria taking map number two there, Jacob. Really kind of denying Finland anything on offense.
Yeah, really, I think we got to see a little bit more of the potential of that set up on the defense
Where it's a little more comfortable playing the dive. I mean Nick's found some pretty big nades on Anna on that defense
Tomix able to have a little bit more flexibility to get in there and deal damage. This one is it's it might go six, man
I mean like let's be so
Six this is the bad
Yeah, Tom, I'm just kind of farming though
I think no part and also psycho with a really good game
We kind of highlight that in the first half but then
32 on the tracer he had like a million great targets with between like Sierra and Mercy and cat and everything
This is fun for a little bit
Directly above the spawn there is a no sauna kind of finding those days me easy psycho, right?
I mean getting getting to with a pulse bomb. These are all fun
Yeah, you know kills that we're watching but then I'm sure just kind of continued to move the objectives
Cart you know it can get you
Gucci definitely struggled with the blades in this one
There was a really good counterplay from Austria with their highly mobile comp right like not letting Genji get these multiple connections
Not letting him snowball the fights and then when we get down to these scrappy engagements
That's where players like psycho and tombo really show their worth also things interplayed a nice game of the sombra
That's a pretty high impact EMPs in this one. So definitely a roadmap here
For Austria in terms of a comp that looks very strong for them a style that could really work for them
And the wrecking ball band has been used like you could pan a tracer to kind of slow this down
But a player like psycho. I don't think attacking here with bands is gonna be your your best look here
Well, typically I would say you can't really run this what I'll show you did on a lot of other maps, but
You know if they're going to play
Yeah, they're gonna play like Winston Sierra, I can't it feels like you probably could
So I've seen a few cops that you're not supposed to run
I've seen a lot already. We've only been here for 40 minutes
Yeah, like for Finland you probably want to play maybe like I mean maybe they do take us to King's Row, right?
Yeah, you play something like that. I know that's not really great for the ball. Ah
Austria would love probably a new Queen Street. That would be awesome for them, especially with this type of setup.
But we've been lined at the moment. I have no clue what they're gonna come out by.
I mean, that's just about anything.
I'm really, I'm really hoping for some doing this in this one.
I just feel like it's a missed opportunity if we don't get it.
I mean, Cloud on the Winston, not bad, honestly respectable on the defense.
Offense was a little bit tougher for them.
Here we go.
That you were you called it Matt go into Kings and if we're going to six Matt
This has to be the place we get the draw and I know that's what everyone at home is cheering for
everyone chanting
for the draw
No, look, I think Finland like they probably would play better with like playing like some of the Ram and stuff
We saw on map number one. Obviously they end up taking that
for Austria like I
I mean, for Austria, they should be able to beat, like, whatever Finland's going to play, right?
Maybe, you say that. You say that, but I think a lot of this, you're right, is going to come down to a rush mirror,
and I think that can simplify the game pretty dramatically for Team Finland in a way that could be really good for them, right?
You look at a player like Sauna, I mean, you have some strong flex players on this team,
and for Austria, I think they'd much rather have Psycho on the tracer,
Tom on the ball like a very individualistic comp where some of these star players can can have big individual performances when you go to a rush comp
It's it's not so much about the individual anymore. It's about the unit and their team coordination
And you know, that's what's I think going to be called into question here on Kings Row
Yeah, so we'll see what the bands can end up being right no ball band you could ban
Winston if you wanted to
If you are Finland, right? I mean, that's a that's a possibility here
I know get that other like kind of dive option out and like for some of the kind of play
You could ban like the honor of the carry. I think both those bands also put a ton of pressure on on dive comps
Especially on this map. Yeah, Tracer could be consideration that
You know, it's like a good probably find his way on the echo or the Genji and still look pretty effective
You know, you know, he's got a deep a deep pool there, but I don't hate it
It is King's row though
You might argue that like look you don't really need to worry about these dive commons like they're
Playable on Kings Row, but they're very very hard to execute with very little margin for error where a straightforward like
You know rush comp that stands on the point is is gonna get the job done
You know a good majority of the time and I expect we're gonna see you know
Something a little bit more standard from these teams and the bands coming in Finland will put the respect band on
onto Tracer and Austria are going to respond by getting rid of the Mizuki.
They do not want to deal with some of those obnoxious Sigma-Mizuki-Po-Comps
that we saw so much of in Champions Clash.
Yeah, they've even played even more here, I think.
I know, as we kind of done the Overwatch World Cup qualifiers,
it just seemed like Mizuki play time just kind of constantly going up,
whether it be with the SIG or even yesterday we saw with some D.Va and things along those lines.
So obviously, we want to get that one out pretty nasty
against some of the dive characters.
If Tom wants to try and play ball or something along those lines.
So we will see it.
It'll be as I just still staying in for Austria.
So maybe they want to play that like tracer.
Well, not tracer anymore, right?
But like something with Sombra at the moment.
And Finland on their attack, we'll
see what they decide to come out with, right?
So it'll be Austria on defense first.
They'll be playing that ball we were talking about.
They'll be playing.
So, Anna-Kiri in the back line, pretty awesome with this combination.
I'm curious what Psycho picks up.
I mean, he's thinking about it too.
It's got to be Ekko and Genji.
I think those are the real options here.
I mean, you can get cheeky with something else.
I think he's going to maybe regret the Ekko, but we'll see.
We'll see.
I mean, you might need a Genji up against the Bastion.
Then again, what's Kahn-Kinlan's considering here?
It's pretty interesting.
If it's like a Jetpack-Cat Bastion with a poke shell around the Sigma, I mean, that's
creative.
Yeah, I don't think we'll see the vendetta. I mean, you never know but yeah, it looks like a song we're going back to the spawn will change
So I've been going up. Yeah, it's pretty uh, but yeah, this is a pretty good company
We've seen this from some other teams here and I will watch World Cup is that makes already under pressure here from
Bastion just gonna flying on in. I mean that is to do NCP already burn there
From the theory on Austria. So Finland's getting off to a great start
Yeah, and Hack on the Cat here does put Gucci in an awkward spot, but honestly, he's kind of not too upset to just cap the point.
And then I've already done more than enough to accomplish that objective.
Zidra and Tomo, they wanted to stay alive deep in the backline.
Kingshaw first doesn't make this very possible for Ball and Sombra to stay deep behind.
I don't know that it's really possible to chase these characters down at this phase,
but Sombra's going to do what he can to put some fear into their hearts and put some pressure on them.
I actually like this move from Austria. It's gonna give them a nice flank to initiate the next fight.
Yeah, opportunity to collapse, right?
As you see, Zidra can move up into position, same with Thomas. Players coming off the spawn here.
For Austria, they're gonna go to the mercy yet again. So dropping N'Kira, going to the mercy, just giving Sycho the ultimate pocket.
Is this enough to do a cat-bash in? I'm a little skeptical. We'll have to see. Oh, hold on. Zidra takes down the cat, Sanna.
Also taking a bit of pressure.
That's a nice find where the Bastion feels pretty lost in this comp without the Cat.
Finland though still putting some pressure on Cloud, moving the card up a little by little.
And weakness for Austria here is the lack of a frontline. Nice shield from Cloud though, keeps him alive for the moment.
Yes, I use the Connecticut Brash kind of play inside that room with the health pack.
Now getting dangerously low is, you know, just trying to heal him up from the Cat.
the cat. It's going to be the Kitsune rush here. Warped Finland is a time I have. Eventually
going to get taken out. Nice Suzu after the Biogrenade comes in. Cleanse that off as everybody
from Finland will live through this fight. I'll show you the fast pump for them. They're
going to be able to get back and get some more fights rolling into this one. Which they,
I mean, this is the moment to make a whole big gut EMP. They've got the Karve hold that's
essentially to work within this fight. Clouds are getting a lot of damage early. Mind the
behind him in an awkward spot kind of forced into the subway here, but a son of mine's
injured, that's a big pick off from the EMP. Now I'm not going to be really engaging in
this fight. artillery out from Gucci just to keep him alive from the pressure from
Psycho. He's looking forward trying to get a beam connection, but some fancy
footwork from FNAT takes him straight into the fight. He's in the corner and just
barreled into the minefield. There's a mix and a really wrong spot. I end up using
the Valkyrie to be able to stay alive. It'll be a dupe here from Psycho. Nice
These probitic plots there is a cloud eventually will fall, so a very important fight for Austria
that they actually end up pulling out.
And they get it, I mean it's relatively expensive in the sense that they use three ultimates,
but you have nano EMP going into the next fight, you don't feel too bad about that though
in the Stevens.
Yeah, no, not at all.
I mean, now Cloud going over to D.va here.
So, uh, see, uh, there's Zidra up on the high ground, just trying to get the virus there on to Cloudy, kind of eats it all up.
But, yeah, the EMP is going to be pretty nasty here, Jake, just trying to set it up as the more players start to move through the choke.
It feels like, uh, you can't get the hat there onto the cat, so that kind of eliminates it.
But, okay, there's gonna be a bit of the forest of them just kind of chasing down the Sombra.
Sombra, I don't think, uh, Zidra really expected that. It'll be a nano-use here on the Tama as well.
Oh, and in a world of hurt, here is Tamax. Gets bursted down by Sanna, Gucci.
Finishes the plate there onto Tama's drinking bottle.
Now, they're in real trouble here for the second point. Finland charging forward with purpose,
and Austria can just open to get a little extra poke damage.
You're into the final phase of King's Row, so Finland, you know, breaking through when it counts to no.
Zidra not getting off the imp there is a pretty rough spot to be you don't feel great premium into this fight here at the start
And just to remind you guys this group a
Know sweet in in mark at the top of this group
So we'll have that match to see who kind of gets the number one number two spot from it
This is just a figure out who doesn't get last in the group is I can see any rush use here
My ghost is tracking me, and it finds Zidra happily with his death.
I don't know, it's just his eyes.
You know what? My brow is gonna die anyway. Let me just name that one over.
Chaijuchi that gets knocked into the mines, it's easy artillery.
On Mercy, wow!
What?
Connection from Gucci somehow finds that clown run-down Psycho,
and this is all falling apart.
Austria, having held onto the CMP for a couple minutes now,
Zidra is under too much pressure and not able to get it out.
to get it out. Psycho goes over to the Cassie, a pretty desperate swap here. Bob, maybe he's
not a little too deep but has the self-destruct to fail it out. Here comes the MP from Zidra and
it's good enough for an almost instant team wipe here. Great dive forward there, follow up from
Tama. The MP actually really stops the momentum at a crucial moment where Finland were holding
Austria close to the spawn. It was looking pretty rough. You might see a quick completion but now
Finland reset at a crucial moment. Nix, I actually like this look over to Descent. Playing off the
the spawns here on Kings Row can be deceptively hard to punish these greedy
fucks of us and now you get me up so let's switch over to Reaper here so
ditch in the far as we're at the end and just kind of maybe PPA get a kill
for the backline and also get some high ground control so I just kind of
bullet out here by the cat will actually be a dino on to Tommy yet again was I
believe I've been there with a cat now. It's really gonna result in anything yeah.
Has the perk online here or the wrecking ball just has to have experienced ballplayer your Thomas definitely
Turned in his keep so far in this match Gucci picks a Tom X though
It was trying to get a little too cheeky arm that on it now
It's just the Zen use so extremely low resource might or Austria for the moment Tom is getting incredibly low
Hi, I'm writing a lot of space I go
I mean it's Sebastian right and without a sport
Yeah, you just don't have the HP for that rush over the point from Ghost91.
The mind-building...
Oh, Tom, a beautiful boss from the spec-ing ball, sends them in for the mind-building!
Oh, no!
What happened?
Saves himself, but not the point, and Finland, that was not clean, Matt, but they got the
job done.
Minute 30 out of the weave on the clock here, that's a respectable finish on Kings.
Yeah, I imagine the lost year on offense is going to be able to put together something
And it was pretty nice, though, with the ball in play,
is that I take a look at some of the stats.
Gucci played pretty well there on the passion, right?
Just kind of doing this thing, just pumping out a lot of damage.
And then Newey's all, you know, FN makes some plays on the cat.
Psycho's still having another great series.
We kind of would expect him to do.
I think it'll just be kind of down to what we see from Psycho
and off.
It's like, which hero we're going to see him come out and play.
Do you try and play that echo yet again?
maybe thinking there's gonna be that far on the other side.
Honestly, with how the series has gone,
you probably don't really have a clue
what's gonna be on the other side if you're Psycho
at the moment, but Finland, obviously know Mizuki here,
so they're gonna go with a Briggs,
a Briggs-May-Hassity around that Sigma shell.
Well, I do like this look for Team Finland, right?
This is a very potent anti-dive setup, I mean,
kind of has that written all over it.
So, Austria, they're gonna have their work cut out
them in this one especially with no tracer right so it's you're arguably
playing a slightly weaker version of dive without tracer who is you know kind
of the standard bearer for that style and team Finland are saying I'm gonna
kind of call the bluff here is that are you really gonna force dive into this
for Austria maybe they have to I really well they have a lot of poke though a
lot of range damage between the Laurie Donna the soldier and this is
definitely workable Finland gonna have to bunker through a pretty decent amount
pressure coming in. How is it up onto the point? It's like, okay, who's gonna drop
down a contest? You're trying to figure out what kind of comp they have on the other side.
It's a big damage though. Yeah. That's a shield for pretty low value there just to
stay alive. And it was fighting really nicely in the flank under this one. Thomas,
still rolling around, still doing his thing, but they're very aware of the
boot threat here for Cloud. And you see that's where they kind of play illegal
for the back of that staircase. They know that like whenever this threat kind of
pops up they have to kind of back out from that position nicely I'm there from
comma it's done a little bit of damage but it's gonna get healed up rather
quickly and this Brigand may holding down the hotel really nicely good
awareness from ghost always matching this movement from the wrecking ball and
austral not really able to put much pressure on the cap they're trying to
find a punish here maybe on the flank and they will overload take down fn
sauna waiting in the quiet freeze but most inevitably gonna be taken down here
lives actually quite a while. Hold on, Cloud, the Calvary has come in.
Finland, beautiful container of a failout. That's crazy. Wow, great ult from Sona there,
walling himself into the corner, buying enough time to rest in Finland, moving across the map
at that moment. Yeah, and all those late kills mean FN should be able to get back into this fight,
and we could very well see a full hold starting to brew. I mean,
Austria haven't really found much in the way of ultimate so far.
Yeah, Saifu nailed over to the far, so why even try and make even harder for Gucci here is, yeah,
I'm stunned, they actually didn't get sawed. I mean, he used the main wall to kind of keep
himself up, but they were down to one support there at that time, but it does seem like Finland
has been kind of boxed in here as Austria though. And even around the outside, there's
another nice main wall there, but it doesn't have volume, and it's going to deny them the access to the hotel.
Loses the blizzard, Gucci needs to find something on top of this rush.
So far, Austria has picked the part that's set up really nicely.
More where the trap of Gucci with a quick headshot.
So I'm just gonna cut back on the Reaper, this Cassidy with that one kill.
May have done enough to earn his team a strong recontest shot here.
Still, Austria's struggling to put that capture time on point.
Jedi is available for Gucci and he's looking instead for maybe a quick flank head.
Far though, he's very ready for that potential.
Austria just hasn't gotten any point pressure, right?
He feels like I know they've done a decent amount of job. I know that they lost there from cloud
That tries to catch Tom on but I think Tom I kind of rolls out of it
They have not been able to put any type of serious pressure on the point is on those injured
That's fine Gucci's maybe this is the opportunity to do so
Valley's out from fm is it's gonna be enough with the rush from nix doing a lot of comics zones away the reaper
EMP it hits in a big way here on the Finland core and Austria
We finally getting this one over the line, Sana even boop back away, nice clean up there from Tomekson.
Once again, Zidra, really sharp with these EMPs, hits them when they count.
Fiddler though, gonna be pretty comfortable with that haul, it'll be three minutes off the clock, you're not mad at that.
No, and I mean, you end up having to use the Katsune Rush.
You know, Andy and Peeve from Austria as Tama moves up here, you know, just trying to cause some problems.
I know Nick's not able to make it kind of out with his life, because he also moves Ziggler as well.
So Finland pushing up and controlling the choke.
I think at this point though, this is like where they can really start to take over, right?
Like this choke is really good for like that, Sigma and the Reaper are going to be very difficult.
Their Psycho-defined position here is Tama.
He gets beat up as soon as he gets through the choke.
Well, being very aggressive here on the Sigma,
and Finland has swapped into an even more impressive variant of the comp.
Austria with a lot of damage they can deal, but King's row, I mean, all these tight two points
and making it difficult, Tomek's trying to introduce a little bit of chaos here with the captive sun.
It's easy to find, the clan saves players for now, Guchi can't quite roll away to safety,
and Saiko comes in with a barrage when the support is just not there for Cloud.
Still, trades have come in for Finland in this one, so it's going to be far from a clean roll forward here.
For Austria, Saiko recognizing he needs to clean this Reaper up,
Reaper is going to stay alive in the attacker spawn. Could get a little spicy on that one.
Yeah, I was like, where is, someone is so far behind enemy lines right now. And the Reaper obviously has the TP out there.
Kind of survived that farm. I have no idea. Yeah, look at where he is at. It's going to be a long way for him to kind of get into this fight.
And I know Nixon is exactly where he is. He can hear the Reaper just a lot of loud footsteps there kind of lurking in the shadows.
I mean, it is mitigating some of the aggression that the Austria might otherwise want to put on.
He's playing well around these packs to pull a bit of attention to himself.
Mindfield even came out from Tama, but actually, Cloud ends up being caught by that, Saika with the follow-up.
All players from Austria still holding onto the EMP, now hitting it in a huge way.
Finland, the remaining three players in the backline cleaned up.
Just the flanking Reaper remains and will just be a delayed dance with death for Sauna.
So Finland I mean not really getting much in the way of a fight after the very beginning of first point try to do
Maybe a little too much with the creative flanking
Yeah, I mean, you know, I just kind of a huge flank that doesn't go right
I know there's a derivative another good EMP and I know I'm able to kind of consistently be a nuisance on this ball
The ball band already used in I know met number one
So now Tom, I play a free league for the rest of the series is nice hack on to Fn
They are not able to finish off that Lucio from Ghost91 to keep this Lucio on line
Oh, even the slam hits this Lucio is in a world of hurt and Ghost just will not let him go down
Crazy sustained from the Curie there Fn
Gotta be dropping in on the team for that one and here comes Finland now sensing an opportunity to get aggressive
Sony with the death blossom
Tom is applying to finish on the Tomex rushes out though from Nick
So I mean Austria want to continue to fight this Fn feels forced to pop the beat
But the mobility is starting to pay dividends for Austria, they're just proving to be too difficult to chase down, Toma with two.
Despite FN finding a kill, you have a feeling Austria is going to start to work things out as well as do what he can, but just going to delay the inevitable.
Austria could very well get a finish and send us into OT, Matt. The draw is looking more and more likely.
They just have not been able to kill Toma whatsoever.
Like, you know, just obviously the ball so annoying to deal with is this is going to be perfect.
Oh, the minefield.
Get him from the- Oh, he's right through the center!
Minefield blocks him from testing through that angle.
Cloud now, fully isolated.
And just without the support behind him gets instantly cleaned up here.
Still alive in the baby D.Va for a minute.
He's up on the high ground, didn't see that one coming.
Psycho just immediately drops him with quick two shots.
And Asher...
Can you get this one over the line?
Still a couple players here stalling things out with the Xen'e rush.
But Barrage is gonna seal the deal for you, Psycho.
huge because I think it was from 5 for that fight, insane finish for the Pharah, but a lot of credit, definitely goes to Tama for that initiation.
And that is...
No?
No, no, I mean that is not a map win yet, we still got more game.
I mean, we want to, we want to give them a win.
Let's just make that decision.
But I thought Oscar was pretty good.
Great chat from Austria and Finland wins.
But you know, I have to tell you, look at the footage.
He decided to fill in wins.
I mean, Tom has been impossible to kill.
Yeah, I mean, this wrecking ball.
This is not eating.
They got the tracer band.
We're playing wrecking ball in King's Row.
It feels like Tom might just run away with the series.
If he can do it here, he can do it anyway.
Yeah, as we see what Saigo decides to play here on offense,
I think it's probably, to the far,
they really didn't show any kind of ability
to just kind of stop that.
So it did take a little bit for all
he has the offense to get it rolling so I think that's kind of what you would be worried about it.
Yeah, I mean with only a minute on the clock, now of course in overtime, Matt, we do start with
the full perk loadout, which actually I think should be pretty nice for these dive comps,
could also be pretty useful though for somebody like Mei, right, getting that full freeze effect.
I mean, this is a potentially tough comp to play Wrecking Ball into.
Toma didn't make it look difficult, I will say in the last rounds, but now with the perks online,
a little bit more control available for most of these hero picks on Team Finland.
It's a nice start. I think you're right to call out Sauna on the far. It's going to
be important. I also think Tomix on the Alari could be a pretty big defense maker.
If you can get an aggressive position on the high ground, start putting some pressure down.
Yeah, I mean, Tom already taking a lot of damage, gonna have to kind of roll back for the rest of the
squad. If you get a hack, I think that's on the Gucci there, nice slam that comes in
from Tama, who certainly needs to play his life and live here, is the mercy actually
kind of paying off here with some of the damage we use here for Psycho, just trying to just
pummel rockets to really get anybody to get a big advantage onto the high ground and get
the 20 seconds left here for Tama and Kou to make something happen.
Potentially opportunity here on Cloud, he's hacked, he's in trouble, floats away here.
Actually, now it's Tama who's quite low, still the damage keeps pouring into Cloud, needs
He's a massive support at this moment.
Gucci relieves some of the pressure, but it costs him his life, with the res potentially
available for Nix.
This one isn't looking amazing here for the defenders.
The res comes through.
Bindlin staying alive still have double support.
Mays Sigmund.
I mean, it's a hard push.
I should need to keep the pressure on the cap.
Big rockets from Psycho, though, and this defense starting to wither under the pressure
with a barrage online.
You'd think things would finally get rolling here.
Barrage, oh, oh, actually, hold on, pops out, shuts down the barrage.
Rush is going to come up from both, since this one actually could be winnable.
I mentioned all in at this moment, a mindful on the point though.
But overtime takes down the Deadeye zoning them away, no one can come in for the touch.
Blizzard Deadeye plus Rush in the OT is a brutal spot to be really well played
by the DPS in support there.
They didn't get like, from 1% right?
Yeah, I mean, I was like, getting a tick is very much a win con, but this limited time, it is far from guaranteed
That the opponents are gonna be able to grab a tick that being said the comps that Finland has been playing
I think are a little bit more amenable to just like forcing the point and grabbing that tick if you back off even for a moment
Where Austria? I think they really play a little bit more for the fight wins. You know, I think
This defense is certain that there's gonna need to be an answer
There's no tracer to be able to stall the point out. Maybe it's just Tom on the wrecking ball
But I'm gonna go cat bashing with the ball Sombra here on defense. I mean gloves are off
man the gloves are off yeah just the respect is out the window you know we
had we had a good old you had a good old GA from yeah Trevor tell us do they
want to do the the Bastion 1v1 after that it's just you know low blows and
I pokes pretty much yeah we'll see cap Bastion potentially from both teams I
know it looks like FN and Gucci gonna hovering it right now but I actually
kind of like this come from Austria it is interesting there's a little bit of
spice for Finland. I do like them with the Sigma though. I think Cloud has actually been
pretty nice on this. Tama is going to have to make some magic happen here, pressuring
these low ground attackers, but of course the Cap Bastion Mirror is here. The bread will
more than likely be buttered. Tama already puts some early damage on. Tama comes in, pulls
the attention, and then a little psychothe opportunity to clean up Gucci instantly off
the rip. Finland routed for now. Cloud staying alive, putting some pressure in, but yeah,
Yeah without the Cap Ashen if you just don't want to fight, good news you have about a minute on the clock, a little bit more opportunity to work with.
It is not a ton of time though, I mean you see how aggressive Tommy is being already.
This is deep for Tommy.
It's a really good spot, yeah.
But he kind of wants the full extension of himself, like this is where he's comfortable.
Holding that kind of aggression, you know creating opportunities elsewhere on the map and Cloud actually gets native so hold on Sigma, yeah he's gonna go down, two Tomics no less.
to hack on the Bastion control in this series.
And yeah, lost your mobility from that.
Cubesly paying off Finland just seemed
scattered hit from all sides.
Clown going to go over to the diva
to maybe try to relieve some of that flanking pressure.
Yeah, and I mean, that's what, like a hack onto the Bastion
and a slam they come through from Thomas at like the same time.
So it's looking pretty grim, man.
I mean, this is, yeah.
Nano Bastion is going to come down like a ton of bricks.
And you just don't have the time for Team Finland
to live much longer into this one.
Yeah, nano you're charged up here
Opportunity, you may comment is hitting to onto the cat like we see it a little bit sometimes
Hold on the cleanse great care here on any fashion this is massive
Just overwhelming
artillery fire
This will be the full hold so Austria
a massive, you know, comp swap from a great execution with them.
He was like, they could play this all day.
As they now take Finland's map pick, go up to one in the series and on arguably one
of the worst scenarios for a dive comp, they still pull out the win.
So impressive execution from them.
Team Finland presented every challenge they possibly could, but Austria passed
those tests with flying colors.
Yeah, it's a really rough map for the kind of wrecking ball type of play style.
but you kind of see where TomExcel is playing the hero.
Just kind of like absolutely dominating there.
You know, 34 and 3, you know, fantastic stuff from him.
So, Psycho as well.
I mean, just kind of, you know, opening things up with some kills there on the bash
and then coming up, you know, really kind of playing some really nice Pharah throughout it.
So he has another tremendous game as Aushia putting themselves just, you know,
one map away from kind of third in the group.
That would be a nice showing from them here at the Overwatch World Cup.
Yeah, definitely is a win you want to get for these squads at least show something to show some performance
And I feel like you know the competition is we started with a tarp 1v1
But I think things are starting to heat up a little bit. I think teams are starting to feel find their rhythm find their style in this matchup
See you a few times Jake as well. You know, we should clarify that is not cloudy. That is cloud another player
for not LH Cloudy. Yes, the DPS player cloud has been playing tank pretty much all today.
He has looked at that on either, right? So it's kind of been like, it looked pretty good on the
Sigma times. I think some of these like comps can be really nasty to play into. So I kind of hold
it in zone in this series. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I think it's never easy to take a
a roll swap in competition, but for Cloud9, I think the picks have been good.
Didn't you play a little mercy?
What was that like?
You know, mercy honestly is a lot of fun to play in a competitive environment.
It's pretty enjoyable.
Brigg is fun to dive, I will say, actually.
I think Brigg is actually quite a fun support to play in a dive comp.
I think underrated enjoyment from people that give Brigg a bad rap for goats,
But in that is a different story you a lot of agency we never we never saw you play the blue suit did we?
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I don't think the jacuzzi. It's the it's not one that you want to see a different that was
I think people know we don't we don't want that's that's it's dangerous
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So where Finland what we have a cushioned flashpoint, right?
You could see them try and play like a new junk city like I don't think they might have really placed great ball
And you can maybe I guess the ball band is gone right then when you use it really early on so okay new junk city
And then you want to play like probably some like a brahmatra tape set upside-of-action
Yeah, I'm definitely getting worried because right even if you win this map
We've got you stand on the barrel of a new Queen Street ball comp like textbook classic that you know Thomas just salivating for
So for Finland it's like obviously a must win scenario down to one in the series
They cannot lose another new drunk city
I think you're exactly right a perfectly sensible place to go if you want to you know play things a little bit more
Brawley a little bit more grouped up
And it's absolutely a strong spot for them. Curious to see how they approach bands because yeah
It's not the best working moment, but honestly
I think it's doable especially with you know tracer now back in the lineup psycho can really sink his teeth here
into the opposition and
You know, it's really starting to look like Austria has turned the tide, especially with that win on King's Row.
Yeah, and I mean, look, I think if you're a comment, you probably just kind of continue to do it, right?
If you're Austria, like, you continue to play, you're playing with like a Sombra as well,
which is like kind of just being a nuisance to Finland, you know, at the moment.
So, we'll see, you know, Zidra's been in pretty much since map one, right?
I think they played at the Lips in map one, and then since 70Fed Zidron,
and I know they have looked good playing that Sombra.
So, they could ban Sombra, that could always be something that could potentially happen.
That could be, you'll still have the Tracer in play with the ball, but, you know, getting rid of the Sombra could be quite nice.
And, okay, that's exactly kind of where, you know, Finland wants to go here, is they get rid of the Sombra.
And yeah, well, I know a big test for Cloud, right? You're going to get rid of that SIG.
Yeah, I like the SIGMA ban here too, because I think the Sombra really helps into that matchup where, you know, more than most tanks,
I think EMP really hurts on Sigma, like you're really relying on being able to deploy that shield,
being able to pop your skills, and having those skills just canceled by EMP and their windups
really, really hurts. The, you know, hack can be a really strong counter to the Flux.
Without a Sombra on the field, Sigma would have a lot of room to work, and by banning it out,
you kind of avoid that matchup. However, I do think you, you know, you look at options like Rematra,
you know, you're not wanting for much on Neutron 6.
Yeah, I mean, uh, yeah, like rematch was totally fine on this map and well, maybe they feel
like there's a better, you know, opportunity to kind of, uh, you know, dive this wheel
with that Sigma out of the question, right?
Cause like you could have played like Sigma Zuki, right?
Mizzouki is like available now.
So, uh, you can still play with like a Ram or Diva, just, uh, you know, having SIG with
the accretion and just kind of the constant poke damage seems to be pretty awesome for
that setup.
We'll see if Austria can kind of hold on here, you know, get a third map in a row, take third in the group as well would be a big accomplishment because we talked about how good Finland was last year.
Just a really difficult group top to bottom.
Yeah, definitely. I mean, this is easier. Some strong teams in this one. No one's going to get off easy.
A new junk city is going to be where Finland takes us to hope to extend the series.
Austria, of course, would love to close it out here.
See what kind of hero picks we get out of Zidra with the Sombra band.
It's a little bit of an interesting challenge for him, a wrenchstone of the works, because
he's been looking pretty nice on the Sombra.
I mean, Sombra is not an easy hero to play these days with the limited envies.
Sierra Cat Mercy?
No, no, no, no.
Obviously, when I was in Seattle, I immediately thought that he was going to be a great hero,
Obviously, when I'm in Sierra, I immediately think Sierra Cat-Bersie.
Yeah, just that's the natural.
That was something that happened on Dorado.
Yeah, so Finland will play the Mizuki. I like that setup. This looks like a pretty, I know, serious comp here from...
Yeah, so we're going to Austria.
Yeah, Austria going with the Sierra, though. Like the Sierra in the bitch, and then also...
So we've seen a little bit more weeing here.
I know over the last few days, we're just at damage output.
Yeah, I think Ranking Ball is going to be crucial into this because pretty much just
Goochie with the flashbang, FN with that chain to lock him down.
But Goochie actually finds that initial kill onto Nix,
maybe overstepping just a little bit trying to get a bit too much stun on the weeing.
Finland taking a bit of poke pressure though in the chaos,
and Tama disrupts them enough to get the foot in for Austria,
both in 4 Austria and with 4 players alive in a dive comp, you can't take anything for granted.
Foud stepping up to force the point, but he almost into the Thunderdome with Tamar.
Yes, you'll have Tamar gonna get back up to the high ground here.
Cloud used that Vortex, gonna block off one side of the objective, as the objective does flip.
So, he's feeling when he gets controlled right now, but you end up losing Tomax,
but you end up dropping Gucci on the other side.
And that's a huge hit, although no zits right here, so no hit scan type pressure up from that high ground.
Yeah, and the Mizugi real threatened this Karmbride getting like locked down with the chain for basically anyone whose dive set up is a death sentence.
Trying to punish Gootsy on the reset of the flank, nice little chain in the wrecking malls going to slow him down, a little TP also built for that Cassidy.
So great support from Finland here, ensuring that the core stays alive.
Although Austria have been poking nicely from the flank, they haven't found too many openings into this one.
The Cyclops does have a pulse bomb. It's really good when you saw him on the tracer
Earlier in the series where it just has to sim directly in front of him at the moment as I know Zidra on the other side of the map does fine
Go so just the dive
Eventually just kind of ends up breaking Finland set up
So Finland does need just basically like what like maybe by no two fights
I know you end up kind of getting a fight with a flip and then you have to win one more to be able to hold on to this point
Cloud is gonna go over to D.va here
right deal with some extra pressure that comes on in yeah we've seen go to this
up a few times we sort of feeling that dive pressure it hasn't worked out
amazingly so far but I do like the big especially around Gucci's Cassidy but a
pulse pump into the back of Mizuki it goes not there with the cleanse it's like
oh that kills on thing massive because Finland are between a rock and a
hard place now like you really want to wait for the Mizuki that's a long walk
back 70% though you really can't afford to give up the map control that you do
I have no... about to be separated from the team here.
What's gonna be a nice Sierra ult there? Just gonna block off that area.
For Ben Spindlin from kind of running in using their Sune Rush.
They're gonna have to get out onto the point. It's gonna be final fight here.
Then Linda will end up using their sanctuary on the objective. That's gonna allow them to take out Tama.
And the Tracer going in nice stun there with the titleblast to come through.
Yeah, cleanse a little too early from Ghost 91, miss times it there, so Psycho's able to pick up a kill on Taguchi.
Psycho gonna grab some packs, re-heal, reset for the fight. Finland, they're holding on to the point for the moment,
but also they're kind of waiting for that wall to expire.
Ghost does find a trade, but Psycho taking down another.
Starting to feel...
How is that gonna fight?
Yeah, starting to feel definitely worried here for Finland because the wrecking ball
potentially unmatched at this moment, able to dance at his pleasure.
Baby Diva for Cloud not gonna be long for this world beautiful cleanup here from Tom X and co
Psycho Tom also finding frags in the fight and
The dive for Austria works out
I mean in on new junk sitting unless that first point is one of the referrants for a dive setup, right?
So yeah, the fact you're able to get a point when there is I think a feather in your cap
Yeah, it feels like it's sort to get way better right for Austria as the map kind of progresses
So as I go with another pole spam, I really think kind of
Obviously the standout player here for Austria just overall and then in this series
So I know it's been a great job
They're coming up with some big kills from that first point and then also kind of keep stalling
You have time to get back into the fight and then be able to win it
You've been gonna open things up here with a huge pole spam and honestly, even if it's just the DMIC on the cloud
That would be huge
Yeah, it could be enough cloud actually but no on the damage down Tracer needs a bit of support on it
Someone trying to force this point, force the issue, Psycho slowing things down.
Toma also taking a lot of pressure, though, so Guchi's actually getting a lot done in this fight.
And actually, the damage pressure on point is just a little bit too much.
The Flip does come through with a Flashbang out, though.
Now it's go time.
On to Guchi.
Cleanses out as well.
Pulse...
He just barely goes wide.
Was right on the toes of Guchi, but slips away a little too quickly.
Maybe that movement speed from the Kiri Ult making the difference.
And a nice little take from Finland.
Alright.
Yeah, I mean, I like the position that Alsharic got them into right like Psycho and Tama just kind of pressuring them into the small room
They kind of use the Katsune rush to get on out and
Even though they end up using that rush it was the pulse bomb that looked like I could I know maybe even kind of ruin that
I like deterred a little bit ghost very close to a Gucci as well
But it does not connect so Finland here looks like they have some control here on our second point
We'll find out from everybody here what's going on, maybe just like a little bit of a ping issue.
Yeah, we'll have to see of course what's going on. I think we're also seeing maybe some of the
weakness of Ciara so far in this matchup. I just haven't really felt the impact from her as a
particular DPS where you look at somebody like a sojourn in the same comp and you think, okay,
it's very straightforward, right? What to expect is like, you're going to be seeing some rail pick
You know some disruptor shots zoning people into top positions and then also a very rock-solid movement ability
Feels like Sierra that all hits like an absolute truck if it can connect
But you know not always easy especially when the enemy is showing mobility and then the motion that a team like Finland
Yeah, and it looks like that was just like a DC so we get whoever it is kind of back into the lobby and
Back under way is this one may go five
I mean we were joking a little bit earlier with like, you know obvious in the road hog stuff
I went on and I know map number one, but this series kind of felt like it's gone back and forth
Ever since then I mean see you know Austria on top here at the moment
They've looked kind of they've looked better over the last two maps in Finland
But I know not by a huge size of war and so we'll get everybody back in we're gonna get the game underway
That Finland looking to tie it up in terms of flash points here
Yeah, I think Finland have definitely
Found the style here that could work for them, Gucci finding a few kills in the Cassidy, earning a bit of respect for himself, with the title blast available for Psycho.
Nick's just waiting for the go sign.
Strong connection before, puts it straight onto the wrecking ball, dives in onto the Cassidy.
The Cassidy with a little clean roll slips away in time.
Dude, that chain is so filthy.
Yeah, the lockdown is just brutal on the wrecking ball.
Finland, I'm pretty sure they've kept this one for free, neither support can get in for the touch here from Austria.
Punish is clean, Gucci and FN, man.
Like these guys have enough lockdown,
maybe between the two of them
to deal with Thomas Reckinball.
And then, you know, now you have maybe a bit of an ability
to match the aggression on the other side
between Sauna and Cloud as,
it's like maybe another DC here.
It's like every other play we get an attack pause.
It's like, no, it looks like a,
probably just another connection issue.
But I mean, dude, if you can play the Mizuki,
like, I mean, that just alone,
if you can connect to that chain,
You see where they were from, Tom, I mean, everybody just
focuspires.
I mean, the ball is dead.
So nothing you can really do there if you are a Tom.
I mean, you can't go in slam.
You obviously get some shield.
But I know if you get the lockdown and then like four
characters or at least three, you kind of like hovering down
shooting on you, you're in a brutal spot.
And then also like the hinder from the Cassidy, like you
mentioned, always a little bit of an issue, always a threat.
OK, we'll get this one.
Unpause.
We'll get this one right back underway.
Yeah, and I mean especially when sauna and cloud are able to be you know keeping tomics and nicks a little bit away from the fight
So they're not able to get in for those saves
Definitely starting to feel it
If I'm doing a good job keeping that passive charged up getting that aura healing going
Luchi does take a slam, but a nice little climb and sure he doesn't think of mine in the process
Somebody's a fine a pick off fm runs for the pack, but can't quite make it there in time isolated
Clouds still got some bite back in this one, still gonna hold down on the point, it seems
like this one's gonna favor Austria, Zidra has made the swap over to that Sojourn.
Uchi still wants a BZ this though, pops the Deadeye, swings out wide on a point, takes
a lot of pressure and finds himself in a rock and hard place there, Tama, seems that won't
have more than my few to fight as well.
Yeah, and it feels like once they get rid of the Mizuki right, there's really no threat
as much threat of like CC like you obviously do have the Cassie hinder but
it's a bit easier to dodge than like the chain right but once you actually get
rid of the bazooki then it seems like everybody can move around free around
the map be hyper aggressive yeah and the chain is just so much more powerful in
terms of the extended duration caught in one spot. Beautiful chain there defends
himself for the moment but actually down is in the animation of popping a
sanctuary so Tama and Psycho the aggression rewarded this time ensuring
that FN cannot be equipped with a team and I mean Finland is still going to fight this
one but I just don't believe it, right?
At each your point without the Nizuki, Rush is coming out from Ghost 91 but a very disjointed
old pop because FN is already out of the suit, still FN on the reset, a boop almost over
the pulse bomb.
Yeah, but some good evasion actually from Finland to stay alive, now Zidra finds a connection
onto Ghost.
Finds another though, but the OC surely seals the deal here, and then, in a world of hurt on this point, he has not seen the flashpoint.
No, he has not really gotten close to even, see what that point looks like, and then just like a little bit of obviously FN kind of using that sanctuary and trying to deploy it as he's dying, doesn't get the cast off.
And then like a really weird spot where they end up using the kid's shooting rush where Cloud doesn't have self-destruct to get a new mech back
And he's like basically out of mech already when they end up popping the ultimate so
Just some things you don't sideways here for Finland a little bit is you're just one point away from Austria getting it up
Yeah, Austria's gonna go aggressive here, very early minefield from Tama
He's a lot of damage in the process, even gets a cleanse, save him and keep him alive but
but he is deep behind enemy lines here.
Gets another nice roll through though,
so pretty high impact from this wrecking ball.
Gucci's still standing strong though,
and putting down a lot of pressure.
Big connection on this title blast enough
for not only the initial kill,
but also the follow up from Psycho despite the chain
connecting Ogre, he still gets close enough
to do his deadly work.
And Rasha gonna open up with this first flash point capture
into this one, really nice aggression out of that.
He gets up, and hits the chain, but he walks psycho down with the title blast right next to Gucci, just kind of knocks him over.
Now we're going to get on Moga here from Cloud, so I'm still kind of searching for answers that sit down and kind of play against this competition.
I know that you see from Austria, Austria end up using, they continue to rush up on the high ground, and yet again it is Tama.
Jesus, so difficult to stop Osana.
He's able to find him. Nice sanctuary here from FN.
So, could be a potential flip here for Finland.
Yeah, fighting well in the enclosed corridors, right? That's a real strong suit for this Mauga.
Psycho though, not through with this one yet.
The pulse on the cloud actually sets the stage for a potential reek and test.
Beautiful tracer 1v1 here.
From Psycho and Osana. Psycho looks like he gets the better of it.
Stays alive despite not having to recall.
Now with recalled main edge, the Lucio by his side is going to get that clean up.
back fast Lucio and for good reason they hold on to the point maybe the series here because Finland
I just don't think they have the touch in this one yeah it's like I was gonna get one off the spawn
the minefield here for Tom up on the high ground but that is it as that Austria takes the map and
they'll take the series here 3-1 they're not gonna go to five in this one the prediction was wrong
we're very sorry you could six or seven which you know what I stand by that I stand by that
If you don't want to take me back, I'd do it all again.
So would Austria.
They pick up their win here in the group stage,
not going to go home winless Finland, of course,
having to unfortunately go down fourth in the group.
Some good fight from them, but a real tough opponent
on the other side.
Yeah, I mean, Psycho was awesome at 24-1.
I know Tommy, his wrecking ball was pretty fantastic,
all series long.
So I know as we take a look at the highlights,
a lot of tracer play. I know in action as I know it's on a head moments as well.
But ash a little bit of a wild one to kick us off today. Obviously cloud coming in.
I know something for Finland. I thought I know it looks good at moments in terms
of the tank, but really difficult to play against these ball coms. Yeah, it is tough
to play against those ball coms here for Tom. I think we kind of highlighted, you
know, Thomas strings heading into this matchup Finland versus Austria and how he
looks so comfortable on those die heroes.
But man, honestly, what a way to kick off our day on OVP News.
Like, it's not often we get to say, Jake,
that we get to start a mash off with a toward your gentleman
degree with the hammer.
I mean, it's truly a classic of the, what we might call,
a low stakes series onto this one.
But I like that we developed into a little bit of, you know,
more of a proper battle.
And the team's getting to show a little bit more
their style, what makes them unique and see some individual players that you might know
from OWCS, competing now here on the national teams.
Nice win for Austria, at least something to go home with a little bit of pride taking
down Finland.
I mean, look, I think Austria once they kind of got rolling with some of their ball-type
stuff, there was really nothing that Finland could really do to stop it.
I know Finland was obviously hanging in there winning fights at moments, but you just had
just kind of run out of bands eventually, but I mean this is what the real series is about.
Little, little power dance. Why does his ragdoll just fly so high in the air when he gets popped
all the head with the hammer? It's a powerful hammer. It's a very powerful hammer. It's a pretty
nice vertical though, I mean for, you know, he's got a lot of... Okay, yeah, I mean, I believe it.
We need a basketball thorn skin to prove his hops.
We saw like, we saw Sierra in the series at moments, we were seeing that, I know.
We saw like the, you know, a triple connection of like the cat
with the mercy flying through the sky.
This was a wild one, Asha, as you mentioned, to kick things off.
I know, but it's like, it's like 3 a.m. by Jake and he's watching, you know,
roadhugs fly through the air.
It's just a wild series, but I a fun one. The Austrian's a faggot. Yeah, I get a little bit of cat blade in there too
Definitely
That was that was impactful
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just teasers of the new meta that's developing guys trust us on this one
I think overall though even though for Austria and Finland
They were not able to qualify for the overwatch World Cup group stage again
I think it's also just nice to see not just these talented players getting to kind of showcase that
Representing their nation's map but also
Getting to see them just have fun in the server like I think that's also what overwatch world cup is all about
Yeah, I mean I haven't a good time. We've seen some chaotic matches and overwatch World Cups
So this one will kind of just
gonna get filed away into that one
where yeah, like people come in,
they have a good time, right?
Look, these two teams are just
gonna play for fun here, right?
Just kind of decide who gets third
in that group and I know
unfortunate for Finland, right?
A really rough draw with Sweden,
Denmark and Austria in it.
Not able to kind of repeat some of
the magic they had at the last
Overwatch World Cup. Yeah,
But regardless, it seems like the players definitely had a good time in the server.
Overall, I guess to get a little bit serious now, Jake, for a moment, when it came down
to how the series ended up developing, you said that, okay, these two teams kind of like
walked in towards the end.
Was there anything in particular from the side of Oster that impressed you?
I mean, I think what they just really found the connection between
Tama and Psycho like playing really comfortable heroes able to just have massive impact on the you know
The aggressive end of a lot of these fights
able to push the pace and once you win on King's Row with the tracer band and still playing that style
You know, I started to feel okay, but you know like that
Should have been a heck of a strong punch from Finland for that to not land
probably takes the win that year sales and yeah as we go to you know New
Junk City it's like it's not the best dive map but it's it's not that bad
either and they really showed a true proficiency with it also I give a lot
of credit to the supports on Austria I think Tom X in particular really
impressed me with a lot of individual kills on the Kiriko which are massive
in those fights you're able to shut down the enemy hit scan maybe even the
enemy tracer at times like these can be fight-changing moments and you know
able to constantly keep his team on the aggressive side of the equation, or was it a big part
of the win for them?
Yeah, also one of the rare occurrences where Austria goes one and two, but only three and
seven in maps, and Finland actually wins more maps, but finishes in the last, where Finland
obviously took Denmark to a final game, I know, in that series, so a little bit of an odd one,
but I know, look, Austria knew what they had to do, right?
They had the Conf, I know, to come in here, give Finland some trouble, Finland obviously,
I know it doesn't have either of their tanks, it seems like, here today, and I know even
if Fod put up a pretty valiant pepper in terms of playing that role, I'm not able to come
out on top.
And I know Wastry has something to build on.
Yeah, they definitely do.
Again, just great to see, I think, some of the talent being highlighted there.
I think what else is awesome to see was some of that Roadhog gameplay.
I think that was class J. That was pretty like that.
I love a little Roadhog here on Ilyosu Valley.
That's like a day one overwatch classic.
It was like when the devs made that map,
they had to know that they were cooking up
like the heaven for roadhog mains.
Like heaven for roadhog mains.
We even see it in the OWCS, right?
So that's legit, that is straight up legit.
Like no clowning around.
We saw the same clash at times in OWCS.
So always a great way to start off the series, of course,
getting a little roadhog in.
And I think the pigs even flew at times in this series with the jet pad cat now.
So, I mean, we, we well and truly have jumped the shark here at the Overwatch World Cup.
I think that was a fun map on well, but that's for sure there for
Ilya was just to see, it's like how many slam dunks everybody could get.
Like, there was an alarming number of players pull off the map by roadhug hooks.
I mean, like more than what we might expect.
Yeah, that is for certain.
I'm not any, you could take a look, highlights for me here from this not
I mean the Torb 1v1 obviously, I know, love watching some good ball gameplay and then I know like Jake Cassetti, O'Elios, Roadhog, Heaven, I loved the kind of clip that we saw where I think it was GLaD, he kind of jumped off and missed the hook and then ended up dodging the hook, but dodged the hook by jumping off of the map so I mean he would have wished he got hooked there right?
Yeah, you would have stayed on the map, but just kind of those shenanigans, they're not number one. That was
Yeah, you know what I always got a respect to some of those shenanigans a little bit of the limit testing in the server there as well
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Poland to determine the final team that will be heading the OWC Busan.
Welcome back everyone to the Overwatch World Cup, we do have the final qualification match
up on deck for you guys, Spain versus Poland. But before we do get to that, we actually have
an interview with Team Austria's Tomex before getting into our next series. Just needed a
little bit of extra time to get that one set up. Congratulations, Tomex! Love the headset!
We love the headset going into this. How are you feeling? How has Overwatch World Cup been?
Yeah, what are the vibes in general? Look like you guys are having a lot of fun in the server today.
Yeah, honestly, it was a really fun match to close out the groups of this World Cup.
I had so much fun with Austria, I'm so grateful for the opportunity to play as a breakthrough
player for them.
It's been such a wild ride, it's been really fun practicing with them, improving with them
and getting to show our abilities.
It's sad that we weren't able to be the best of the group and qualify to Korea, but I mean,
we'll take what we can get, you know?
I just want to ask, I think for you as a player, getting the chance to play with some veteran,
some really experienced, competitive Overwatch players, what was your experience like in
that process?
You talked about practicing with the team, like is there any tidbits or tips that you
were able to get from those exposure to top level players?
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, getting the chance to play with, like you said, veteran and experienced players
like Saiko and Tama really I think helped me improve as a player as well. It's just in the
moments in scrims where you know I make a mistake, I get instant feedback and like you know I will
know that the feedback is right. I'll know how to take that feedback and improve myself on it.
And it's just a really good environment to be in and like a really good opportunity to improve
myself as a player and climb even further. Now Tamax you guys in group A you had an opportunity
We need to play against both Sweden and Denmark. We'll have a game a little bit later to determine who gets number one in that group.
How do you feel about that game? What do you think would be the result? Who felt stronger when you guys played against them?
I think when we played them, Denmark felt a bit stronger. No shade to Kale, the main support from Sweden.
Sweden, but I think now that Admiral is back and playing, I think Sweden will look a bit
stronger. Although I'm a bit sad he didn't play in our match. The Estonia showdown didn't
happen, unfortunately, but I'm glad to see him back and to help his team qualify and
hopefully take the first seed.
Yeah, I think it's going to be a really fun matchup to watch later on today. I have one
last question for you, Tomex, and I'm kind of curious now that you guys are, you know,
unfortunately out of the qualifiers here for the Overwatch World Cup, it also means that
you get to sit back and relax and kind of just like enjoy the entertainment as an Overwatch
fan. Do you have a specific team that you're rooting for for the Overwatch World Cup? Like
who do you have your eyes on I think going all the way to BlizzCon?
I mean I think I'll have to say Sweden just because of the patriotism of the other Estonian
Breakthrough player on the team. I can't wait to see Admiral succeed and I hope they take
it's BlizzCon and I hope they make it as far as possible in the tournament.
I'd really love to hear that. It's been such a pleasure getting into chat with you, Tomix.
Congratulations on your win today and hope that we get to hear more from you again soon.
Thanks for having me on the interview.
So glad that we got that opportunity to chat with Tomix now by heading into this matchup
here for Spain versus Poland in Group C of the Overwatch World Cup. Again, this is our
last qualifying matchup here, Jake.
And you were already talking about how Spain,
I think at like top of the day,
does look a little bit like they do have that edge up here
as the favorites in today's head to head.
I mean, it's so close between these two squads.
I do give a lot of credit to Spain,
of course, having a player like Exodiel has been
one of the more exciting young players to watch
in the last few years.
But then also in the back line,
I'm looking at canaling and Gala with a lot of experience
especially those double flex comps, but with a lot of flexibility to kind of hit wherever they're needed.
So this thing can be good, but I think so can Poland.
This one, not only is it the highest stakes match, I think we're going to watch today,
but it's also the one that is maybe the most difficult to comp.
Yeah, Ash, I would tend to agree.
Like, I think that Spain has obviously played extremely well.
You know you have this strong backline exodial in terms of the damage healer
Sandy she's been playing tremendous in terms of the tank roll
It's just Poland also has a lot of like really nice pieces as well
Like maybe not I know it's like kind of like big names or flashy names
But players who can really kind of like I think rise to the occasion here against that
Especially because like for them, right? I mean while Poland gets second
I know in the conference cup on the way in I think falling to Germany just in that final
So they've had a lot of experience playing with each other already.
Yeah, they have.
And I think they they had a lot of confidence, like hearing from them.
When we had that, like, uh, interview with eggs as well this last weekend,
overall this fullen roster also have a couple of those players in
Ike have and Texel who have also promoted into OWCS through a
formal relegation in our like mini little off season that we have had here.
I think it's going to be a fun matchup that we're going to be looking to see
between these two teams overall though honestly I feel like I know it's gonna be close but
I gotta agree with my hair jig I think that there's a role we're pulling gets that edge
up over Spain today.
Yeah I mean I think you know it's one thing to have strong individuals but also you know
the reality in the World Cup is I think what what really decides things is your team coordination
that's maybe the more difficult element the more elusive possibility even for teams that
have had you know like maybe one or two of the top pro players the results haven't necessarily
been the best where you know a team that you know comes together and finds a
style that works for them that suits and what they're good at that they can you
know play with confidence in the World Cup that's a team that I think can go
super far so this will definitely be a really interesting one to see how class
of strategies shapes up. Yeah a clash of that experience for some of the players
on the side of team Spain versus the synergy that is already pre-existing
here for some of the players on the side of team Poland we will be finding out
who are final qualifying team will be after this matchup between Spain and team Poland.
And of course, we got to open with a 1v1 and it's
a heck of a start for Exodiel. I wonder if he was trying to like 3p the corner maybe?
I think he was trying to get a little cheeky peek. Evens it up though, hold on.
Oh, hold on. I have. Oh my goodness gracious. That's a nasty shot right there. Alright, Poland.
Kind of worked over in this one. If Poland ends up kind of taking that 1v1, so they'll
get the map pick. For me, Jake, a lot of this series, I think, like, if Relax can play well
for Poland, the tank on their roster, I think they can definitely, I know, come out on top
The series kind of, you know, I think of a player that we've gotten to know a little during the Overwatch World Cup and
Feels like they kind of have enough like, you know, firepower and play everywhere else really and it would take it to him
So when you pull him getting rid of the Bastion then the Roadhog Band, we've seen, you know,
Relax kind of go to it here. So not not all too surprising. I mean, this is a this is a serious Roadhog Band
As opposed to the typical, you know, somewhat troll-loaded Roadhog Band that you might occasionally see
I mean it has become a fixture on Ilios well, especially with the Cat Bastion meta in play the Roadhog doesn't feel completely crazy
I do think you're right to call it out though the tank matchup often gonna be crucial on Ilios right where where it feels like that
Experience on the dive tank can be massive. You know, it's it's very easy to overstep on this map
It's also very easy potentially for a tank to have a huge impact on the server with a lot of these high ground low ground
situations a lot of tight corners and very different maps between the three rounds
Yeah, so well, we'll see kind of what both teams decide to go to like Ash mentioned everybody else
Groups a and b we pretty much have I know all those teams decided
I know who would be going to Busan and then I know just deciding like who's gonna be the number one or two seed out of the group
This most likely will be who gets to seed out of the group obviously Francis play against Ireland a little later
in today but I know with the way
France is looked you'd expect them to
take care of business of this one
really feels like it is I know obviously
a game to go to Busan most likely in
the second spot from group C. Yeah of
course both teams being one-to-one I
mean that's certainly the stakes that
they're going to be putting on this
match so I think what we had a little
bit of cheeky fun in the last series I
think this one is going to be no holds
barred everyone showing their best
possible look. So Poland potentially, both teams actually, potentially
hovering over Mizuki comps just in different looks here with the Mizuki
plus D.va here for Poland and then Spain and we playing kind of a more of the
standard Mizuki comp we have seen I know with the Sigma in play so how do
they keep relax alive right on that D.va like that chain is so nasty against the
Xodio finds iCAP, a little bit of overwhelming pressure behind the Symmetra from Bones, EGS
trying to find something, but Santee even finds him with the bouncing orb around the
corner.
So great connections from the Sigma, I think you're right to go out, I mean this is a very
solid setup from Spain, Poland, a little bit more awkward for them, like sort of a half
dive variant, but this is a comp from Spain that you need more than a half commitment
to dive, you need to be absolutely all in if you want to dive this setup.
And if she's taking high ground here and just gonna get very aggressive and all that is a nasty shot there.
That's enough. They're just going to Korea match.
Yes, I mean that is quite filthy.
I know trying to play the D.va into this, I think he's brutal, right?
Yeah, I'm not a fan of it.
It's kind of what we see teams do, like, but this is the kind of comp that Spain is pulling out that we see teams do to D.va comps, like, pretty often.
So, even trying to run that even, anyway, this will be interesting.
So Pharah swap for the tracer, and then they're gonna get Hazard in the mix while keeping X
on the Zuki.
So, now we'll see how this kind of plays out.
Hazard does have the same type of issues.
I know, as D.Va, potentially, though.
And a little bit more of an explosiveness, though, and maybe you can get him with Pharah.
I do think Pharah has a better match up here, but a lot of it relies on getting past Xodiel,
who is on a bit of a eater already in this map.
Nail's gonna open with the rush now.
I knew him from ICAP, zones things away for a moment.
Maybe enough to even grab the flip, which is a nice thing to find,
but a shot from the back from Exodiel finishes with a standard fire.
Oh, and they're in control for now.
But maybe not for long.
This anime is really...
They're fine, it kills you.
Relax, fine, too, but it feels like maybe too little too late here.
Two supports behind Xanti, and she's gonna just clean house.
I mean, Gala with a nice use of the sanctuary, a few different players get chained up during that fight.
Now everybody from home will be back off spawn. It has not looked good for them early on.
Spain is kind of exerting some dominance over the Mathemoment.
It'll be barrage available.
Orchina, we'll see if we can find an angle here going over by the lighthouse.
Santee she was gonna take position on the ops side gonna play from that
You know no building there who was nice TP up to the high ground for a Zodiac here
Just trying to get an angle is that sanctuary so difficult to fight in you can't really do it
Even though they're forced to sustain probably ended up giving up the point here
Pulling still in it
And Spain gonna get evicted up that one
I mean it was a cheeky TP up to the high ground
You kind of have to take some kind of a gamble there
However, it means that China can hold on to the barrage after the take which is gonna be pretty important for Poland
I mean they're gonna need all the gas they can get if they want to hold on to this because sim won't coming down
I mean the very first fight in terms of a retake here. It could be a strong one for Spain
You know gave put a shield ball up around exodio. You're definitely gonna be feeling pretty good about that. Relax though
Setting up a cheeky flank. I mean if you step forward, you don't care this position
He could really get a big hit.
He gets a pretty nice connection, but a TP as well as a clan provides a bit of a comfortable fighting position for Spain to keep going.
Xodos looks down China, not going to be a barrage in this fight.
And Spain, maybe retaking with the vengeance.
ICAP with some fancy footwork though, stays alive right now.
Yet they do get rid of Gala.
So, you know, as everybody pushes forward here for Spain, they are end up losing some players.
And I know with the hands of Poland from behind this China gets back off a spawn actually kind of finds can ale through the choke as I
Kav has really kept them in this
Yeah, that massive, you know being able to just dance well and take down Gala was huge right?
I mean Zodiel was putting those shots down, but I have did not back down stayed in the fight
Bones gonna go over to the tracer now play for a little bit more of the map control
But Poland have earned their way very close to that next Katsune rush
Fling eyes on Santy, see what you can get done with this Flux, that gets Flux high noon, right, you do NOT want to be caught by this.
Now you have a dead eye on the other side as well.
Uh, Poland.
Alright, now they come back here, they actually need one more fight, it's gonna be the dead eye here from the Exodium.
And they get them on to the point, this, uh, ooh, nice contest there from Rela, it's gonna drop that hazard wall.
Ooh, roll. Keeps him alive for now.
Not much of a connection here, the Flux, the cleanse, denies any of the follow-up damage.
Shane goes in with his handy, but she's not going to be too upset about holding in this position,
holding this corner with dominance there.
Canales rush, providing more than enough covering fire.
And Icav hauling.
Eugene still hold on, keeps him possible with the Sanctuary, barrage as well over the top.
From China.
And Poland had battled back into this one against all odds after a brutal start.
Even losing the first pick in that final fight.
And they get the job done in the end.
It's actually Poland who come away with the first round and if this one is any poor time that we could be going to a very close series
Yeah, and I love the way they played that they're toward the end like eggs drops the sanctuary and they have the barrage right over it
There's no way that anybody from Spain can kind of shoot up
I know at the bar directly above is take a look at some of the stats exodial pretty good first round
But on the other side of things I know China 9-3, I know when traits are at the beginning they know where to the far
I think they really started to kind of find it playing that far and like I talked about any idea
I think relax gonna be a huge player in this year. He's right
You know once out once they kind of really didn't get any like free kills from kind of changing that diva and kind of playing around
That you saw that pulling really close the gap
So we're trying to goes to here on ruins gonna be the tracer for now
Zodiel definitely called upon in this setup to really put down a lot of damage, right?
The Symmetra often going to be teleporting for his benefit.
So you can find in this one, Icav, battled back in the 1v1 to take us to Ilios.
So, hit scan dual wins would really set things in the right direction for Poland.
No one must make the mistake and the strong poke from the Sigma is giving a real powerful
position here, two spin.
Yeah, I have just trying to get an answer, Exodiel here at range, you can see it from
Exodiel's POV, just like that, kind of constantly coming up.
It's so difficult for Hazard to kind of stay and kind of fight with the signal these positions
can relax.
You get to kill all the bones, that is massive.
You're also going to get the support here from Poland, you feel like keep that tank alive.
The support is so good from Poland, Rex is seeding through this awe, and as things start
to get scrappy on the point, kills coming in from both sides, Exodiel with a couple big pickups though.
And that may be enough to stabilize team Spain after potentially scary starting.
Goodness, he is snappy on the gasp on this point.
That is some really nice play there towards the end.
I mean, it was pretty tremendous for Poland to keep Relax alive and kind of fight as long as they did,
but eventually just kind of that damage from Exodiel is going to be the difference there.
So, see if they can kind of keep it rolling, just kind of like a dink there.
A lot of jump falling back.
You'll have both support ultimates here.
Of course, Spain is...
I know this round actually, I know, she pushes up, takes out ICAM, I mean, this round actually could be pretty Spain dominant.
I mean, Santee on the Sigma has really impressed me so far, like, she is no whole part of the aggression.
Constantly attacking forward, constantly trying to snowball for more kills.
And that's providing a lot of this basic space for the supports and exodial to work with and Spain is definitely showing a setup that
Could be a real threat for that standing still gonna rip it with the ultimate here beautiful cleanse though from
Texxall on the wall to save both players caught in the flux
Yes on the now see Poland kind of
Have to reset yet again, but they've just been kind of resetting their spawn it feels like this entire round
I mean already 60% in counting here for Spain
Nice dodge there from China gets exodial low the bones there directly to mark China for small way back to the health pack
You're really starting to feel the heat here sanctuaries both deployed bones. That's fine. I cabin. That's a big one
Shut down China's pulse from though punishes bones out of the recall
but with rush advantage Spain
Just playing with house cards.
Up to Poland to push forward to force some kind of an issue.
They do get the rush out of the canal, largely defensively.
Although Xodio maybe wants to turn this into a little bit of offense.
Beautiful head shot there.
That's insane.
Splits the wickets on the enemies and continues to battle forward.
Full confidence in the supports and to see why.
Oh, this is a farming here.
This is a statement, Spain.
Yeah, that is an absolute drubbing there.
there is a Exodio kind of goes crazy the entire round on the Cassidy so all tied up one round of peace here
so what can you continue to play this hazard I mean it's I think it's probably better than the
Diva right I will say I will say the Sigma is very very good on ruins like this sort of like
this setup in general that Spain has been running essentially the whole map is so much better on
ruins than it is on the other two points we go back to Lighthouse I think dive is generally
going to be a lot stronger here. For Spain though, with how well they're executing this
comp, it's like I don't mind them continuing to force it, but there are risks, right? There's
a very powerful high ground on this map, and Sigma not known for being the best. I will say,
I guess Sigma has the perk now to float up, so the fact that this is the third map
actually maybe unlocks more options for Spain in terms of the vert account.
Poland's going to keep, they're going to switch over to the devout, but they're also
I'm also gonna drop the Mizuki and go over to a Baptiste, so I know for the extra kind of healing and immortality field possibility, but that is Relax already getting DMG.
That's just a TB straight from Spain to the opposite side high ground, and they take the fight early, but I can't take out Exodia all year.
You're just gonna have to get a mix back here for Relax.
Yeah, it injects a bit of possibility into this fight, pulling Kite away from this one.
But that pickin' kinda minimizes the aggressiveness that Spain are able to bring, and now they kinda need a regroup of this Cassidy.
Presenting some trouble for them, China.
Maybe put some pressure down on the flank TP, but nothing really found from that.
Oh, Canal finding EGS is gonna be a huge pick up there.
Now some pressure comes to Santee on point, but she's honestly gonna welcome it and be more than happy to continue to take this fight.
Exodiel gets back into the fight, immediate revenge on the eye-caven, and Polan finds himself in the thumb spot, being chased deep in here out of this fight.
And it feels like if Polan can't play Sig, they're just in a world of trouble, right?
For like the, you know, you kind of look forward in the series.
As China goes over the far, this is kind of how they broke this the last time.
see if they can break it yet again.
I almost would say, I mean, do hazard with the bath is really weird, but I mean, not
a thing of this bath, I'm not going to lie.
I think this is a little bit suspect and do a seeming Sigma, but we'll see.
Maybe he just was the window to open something up.
Rush down, out from the tax office and push out a point to Nailedo has the same ultimate
to respond in time.
It's anti-big rock connection all into the Kiriko of all players.
It's just eggs here to try to hold on the drone delays the inevitable
But doesn't really move the needle on the fight overall
Exodio holding strong supports right behind him and santi right has that perk now to
Float up to the high ground and this is actually I mean things are really unlocked for the Sigma now Karen round three
Yes, I know eggs going over and playing the Mizuki here
So it kind of ditched the the bath is definitely not working. It's
Maybe she's got a gravidic flux. We're gonna potentially close it out
Really nice poke damage onto the point is that's going to be another chain there
Onto relics going to force the dead eye out here from iCAP
She was like struggling to get an angle here. I mean a lot of pressure being put down
Commit a grasp available. There's a Cassie up on the high ground here. They were not expecting that
And a solo Flux on the I-Cavvy is getting absolutely smoked, but at this point, there's not many targets left on T-Pole and then Spain.
Two back-to-back beatdowns of rounds showing a style that, I mean, you could throw some, certainly some bands at, you know, looking forward into other maps,
but I mean, this is a scary style. This is a very strong look. It's one that puts the hitscan in the driver's seat,
and I think where where supports can have huge huge impact and for Spain that that feels like exactly what the doctor
Or and it's good across a large variety of maps, right?
So we take a look by here where I said Anthony she was great on the seag and then a exodial
29 and 5 on the castie. I looked 3k
I know a little bit more than 3k damage more than
Icav then I have also getting punished you know 10 deaths
But I think it's also like a lot of the healing resources they're preparing to put in a relax to kind of keep that tank alive
But I know you end up just kind of losing so many other players in the time being
Like zodiac just doing the most here across all three points
I mean really crazy performance out of him felt like if they weren't able to shut him down quick in the fight
He was just gonna be able to earn the win here
So many shots from him, you know connecting in these crucial crucial moments
He's definitely a player who seems to be rising to the opportunity here in the WWC.
Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, Exodiel, we've seen obviously at the highest level of play.
He's kind of had ups and downs, right? I know he really had high hopes for Exodiel as a player.
Obviously still do. It's just like, sometimes just teams didn't really kind of go his way,
but here for Spain, looking quite good here early on, I think he got a band made of the SIG.
Sega War the Mizuki really you know for Poland to kind of get things back going in their favor
Yeah, I think those are good callouts
I think both depending on the map you want to take us to be could be different also wouldn't mind maybe an escort pick here because I do think
Circuit Royale is not gonna be your friend if Spain get to go there. That's gonna be you know very common
I mean to be fairness. There's a lot of maps where this exact style can look super effective
I think about King's Row.
King's Row?
Yeah, I mean not a bad one, but like a Dorado I think could be because they're kind of
go to King's Row.
Okay, they're one for this one.
I mean maybe you go to King's and then you throw one of like a Sigma Band out here.
But this is a bold choice because I think the comp Spain showed is like you could just copy-paste
on the King's Row and feel very confident.
Yeah, we'll see.
And what the band decides to be from Poland
You can get rid of the SIG, you can get rid of the Mizuki a few options here for Poland
I will say getting rid of
The Mizuki here would still kind of save you potentially like if the...
I mean, dude, you imagine if Spain lost, they would just go to circuit, right?
Play SIG. Yeah.
If you ban, let's say you ban Mizuki here, right?
then they would just kind of use a tank band to protect the Sigma there, then they'd have Sigma
Mizzouki 4-circuit. So I wonder if you get rid of the Sigma here. If you're Poland and then kind
of, you know, worse comes to worst, right? You're able to potentially get rid of another band. They
get rid of May here. So I guess they're worried about those, like, the May if you're with me. The
Sig comes, but now you get, they get rid of Hansen on the other side, which is probably the most
effective there for Poland. Yeah I love the hazard band here I think that was
like the one piece that proved to be a bit of a problem I mean I think the
jagged wall the you know the violent leaf right these are really powerful
skills to you know loop and disrupt the formation from these like Sigma setups
and a lot of damage that you're not necessarily gonna be too worried about
something like the sanctuary so taking that out of the equation I think this is
Honestly, a poor map pick from team Poland. I think like no matter what you banned here
There was gonna be a way for King's Road to look good for the style James Spain has just showed us on Ilios
And I think you know bang the maze nice
I do think the may is probably the best of the flex DPS picks, you know when you're playing this map
But we're up to see how they handle things without the hazard
I mean, I wonder if they've got I think the wrecking ball could be a good option
I mean not the easiest to play on Kings, but it is apparently possible as we saw in the last series
Yeah, I mean definitely definitely is possible. I just think yeah, this doesn't seem like ideal for Poland
Like if they really kind of wanted to swing things, you know, maybe a little bit in their favor or like even I would have said like
Hey, can we get rid of Cassie or something? Right? I know making so he'll kind of play uh, it's so just not like he's bad on
Sojour, but with the way he just kind of played that last map
Allowing, uh, you know Spain to kind of roll out with basically the same calm. I
an option for Poland that they I mean they're telegraphing at least with what
they're playing in the spawn is to basically take the mirror which would
be an interesting one right I mean they didn't seem to want it on on Ilios which
I think maybe was a mistake on ruins where it is such a strong look however
here on King's Row I mean this is a another way like if you can win the
mirror now it does kind of call things into question for Spain like they're
running it back with what we've already seen from them no surprise but if you
You can show real promise in the mirror, it maybe strikes some fear into the hearts of
the players from Team Spain in terms of, hey, if they can beat us on our best look, maybe
we are in trouble.
See what China ends up going to, just scouting things out on the Hanzo.
It's going to be the far for him.
So, good matchup into the Sim, but it can be a tough game to play for him.
Yeah, it's just like, yeah, I mean, I guess like the Sim right, there's no way for the
Sim to engage, but the Sim with the Mizuki is kind of difficult too, but I mean, that's
That's an easy way to engage into it.
This is like where I sometimes get tilted to.
Is that like, you know, with the band process, like you have such an opportunity to like kind of take away like a powerful thing from the opposing team.
Like, were you scared of Spain coming in like May here, potentially?
Like, I think you look across the board, there's way more things you would have been worried about.
And I think you're right, probably even the Cassidy band would have opened up for your
Pharah a little bit more effectively, but they are definitely getting into the mix here.
Yeah, with the Pharah, it's definitely a comfortable one for them.
That makes Odiel did snap China off last time, but we'll be able to repeat that now,
pulling, getting a bit of a power position on the point.
A little TP map, though, I like this look from Spain, man.
They're so aggressive and confident with these TP rotations.
It's the only way this income works is if you're willing to send it and, you know,
the opportunity that your Sim sees but clearly full trust in Team Spain. I mean, zero hesitation
on that play.
Yes, no, you do get one pick here for Poland, so obviously a positive. Now, for them, they
kind of work their way up here towards, I know, the Katsune rush as well. I think the
far pick is like really, no, I'm sure China would love to play Tracer, but really impactful
here. Put some pressure down as a Zodiac, they're trying to kind of hide him up here,
maybe for a dead eye.
There's gonna come up her, maybe a cheapy high noon, does pop it, I don't expect this one to get much of a connection.
Oh, the rock though does connect, so Santee, nice find from her, enables Exodiel to be able to get that high noon kill.
Now things look a little scary, we can pull and reset again, and I mean getting any like full fight win reset off a high noon feels amazing in this comp,
because you don't really rely on the dead eye for, you know, crucial matchups.
So we'll see now if Spain can kind of continue the hole.
I think this is going to be probably the fight that ended up deciding whether Fulham kind
of gets his first point.
There's a nice stun there that comes in there from Santee.
She actually hits the accretion onto ICANN when he's got some dead-eye channel, so I'm
going to have that ultimate.
It's going to be relaxed.
You got picked up there while in the sanctuary.
The sanctuary obviously isn't going to block that damage.
I can try and keep them in it, China, the barrage inside, those players are already fallen.
Now this is a huge fight that feels like Poland needs to win this one, Jake.
Oh, desperate rush here out of Canale, still senses there's maybe an opportunity to get the whole Santee called upon to find something and...
I mean, oh, so wow, with Canale actually, he's the one who does it, so great read on the rush, I thought that was pretty speculative, certainly a huge risk was taken in a moment.
Gala also getting in the mix, stalling things out, and as the time runs down, these spawners are coming back in from Spain.
Poland, that looks so promising for them with a couple of openers, and beautiful play from Spain with supports in the tank stabilizing.
Flux is out from relax, and ooh, a big accretion also connects him to Exodiel, but he's just gonna step down on the point into the sanctuary.
Gets a lot of ults out of the defense, but I think Spain are gonna be happy, I mean, they're potentially looking at a full hold, and Poland with nothing left in the tank to develop.
Yeah, Simwall's gonna be insane here too, as Dodiel turns quarter as soon as he misses that flash.
Gonna get out of dodge, just kinda gonna go up to the high ground, as that's a huge kill though.
You get rid of bones, and now you don't have that Simwall, but I almost think it's more impactful that the Pharr is gone.
Now that kind of poke damage coming down, not gonna be a factor.
May I'll find myself in the tough spot, does get shut down by Relax.
As you keep getting in, no potentially looking for the trade, and the Simwall from downtown actually cuts Relax off on the Pharr side of point.
Now Poland onto the tracer have to just get into a deep overtime scenario
But with Exodio charging up another dead. I doesn't feel amazing
Oh, I cab swings into the car wash finds himself in a world of her tracer no choice
But to recall truly desperate this one does play the dead. I shot, but
Well, he actually gets a touch. There's another fight to be played here flux is out pulling even out of the sanctuary
It gets slammed down actually drops her despite that so santi huge performance from her on this defense
She does go down to the trouble Roger's from Texas all and then hiding as well from I cab
But still you're just pushing into the meat grinder here Exodio takes all commerce and you know just be 51% progress 14
Poland Spain
Setting their here on King's Row. They may run away with this one right now because you look and there's so many other things
Like they you have to contest
If you are
Hole in for the rest of the series that we take a look as a gala pretty pretty nice first half
Obviously, no deaths
You know you look at some of the damage down from exodials so playing really well
China on the far not as impactful as you would have hoped this bones you see on the
Sim playing really well mostly from like that hotel area right trying to use them like that actual
I know map geometry like there's obviously no way China's gonna be able to kind of like poke down
from that angle, but just locking down that spot on the map is quite important.
Yeah, I mean, I think back to that clutch fight where, you know,
Canale just sends it with the Katsuhi Arash with only two supports and Santi alive,
and yet somehow they're able to claw that one back into contention,
hold on to the point, and get some clutch pickups to stay alive.
Santi with a couple huge fluxes.
I think both times actually pulling people out of the sanctuary from eggs,
eggs and I mean that's brutal right lifted above the sanctuary you're not
really defended by anymore not really accruing its benefits so I think that's
a really nice ultimate match up there for Spain one that I haven't seen so much
of here in the mirror but Spain certainly getting the better of that one and I
think yeah the decision for Poland to take the mirror certainly looking
questionable now well because you may as well take in the mirror in the first
map as well right oh my this is great oh this is gonna nasty so we're gonna see
yeah yeah just for a little bit of the window grapple grapple shot meta has
developing it's continuing to well I mean when you got to throw the mercy and
right the damage boost there just kind of flying out maybe kind of rip somebody's
head off around the corner so let's see if Poland can kind of pilot this comb
it's obviously one that I think if you were telling Spain that they would kind
against one of your Metrocute, they'd be point happy, but I'd have dealing with bones that's a pretty impactful first skill.
Yeah, Gala. Gonna be pretty happy to charge up a Nano here. I mean, Nano-Far is gonna be the way they're really gonna look to crack this one open.
I mean, I think they're well-versed in this comp on the defense, and they're actually working their way now into the flank, taking the high ground for themselves, which is a massive development.
Oh, and they need to deal with this now
Real problems starting to develop for them. Oh deal though. They want a bit of the pressure just rolls down to point
That's gonna head shut on the eye cap, which is gonna buy space to put a little bit of cap pressure down
So it's a little half hearted for Spanish poking prodding looking for that open
Yeah, you think though they have the time on their side, right?
They're just kind of like pulling them off of the high ground here push them back just kind of play for map advantages
With an accretion there from Santi, she actually connects it to relax, that's going to force them back and see how much space they've gotten off of this.
A nice shot there from Icav coming alive, takes out Exodio.
Yeah, Spain was super close to getting that first take, so it's massive that Icav can find it at that moment.
And Santi has worked her way all the way above the high ground, so the position is really getting closer now for the defense, but a backflank comes in, Icav, alongside relax, they're starting to clean things up.
Good movement though from Santi, she dodges the abrasion, has a clutch already, are you kidding me?
Picks up a dead eye, which you know probably is a little bit too scary to follow up on.
Actually the flux may be thrown in a little bit hastily in that one.
And if you wanted to kill off onto relax, it's a nice sanctuary there from X, kind of denies all that damage.
From the far off in the sky is, Ham is really kind of come alive here, Jay, on defense.
Cassidy for Poland trying to keep them in it. We talked about how good Exodiel was in the first half and now it seems like his
Superpower has been transferred over here to cap.
Supports down though. It started so well and then they go in for those cleanup kills and they lose both supports in the process.
Spain, major power play for them with no support alive.
You've got to give up a bit of cat time.
Dangerously close though, I have. Finding a kill here would be a huge way to bring things back.
Yeah, I mean position, position is really rough here, holding onto the point.
You really can't get up any more times as the first hit goes, and Bones just finds the
barrage, steps forward, shuts down, relax, Simo is in deploy, but you know, just into
the meat grinder here, China can't quite get enough support from Texel to hold, and
Spain get the job done in the end.
It was a valiant attempt though, from Team Pound, gotta give it to them on this defense.
Yeah, I mean, Cav really started to come alive there on Cassidy.
It's just, yeah, I mean, like you mentioned, you lose both of those supports, kind of like chasing down kills.
And they're never able to kind of make it back into the fight.
Just, you get kind of pushed back into that corner, even with the Mirage.
You do get a Sim wall there, but it's not enough in the end.
So, taking a look here at some of the stats, I felt Cav really started to come alive for that second half.
You see kind of I know outdulls Exodiel in terms of the damage there obviously
You know with the limbs to death so he's gonna look better for the winning team in this regards
And then I know the back line of Spain really kind of showing up right we know how good Gala and canale are together
I'm putting it on full display
I mean Gala with only one death in the map speaks volumes there
Able to find a lot on the Mizuki be like a really stable base
some of these TP plays though, I think, or what separated, you know, Spain's ability on this defense, right?
They were able to find these windows of opportunity where they could actually flip the script and actually be aggressive on defense.
You know, reset those attackers out of the position they'd much prefer to play.
What would you want to see Poland do here?
Because I think like there's also now a really bizarre argument where like they actually looked pretty decent playing the SIG, right?
Like against them like do you are you okay taking that and like maybe you can get the Mizuki's out of the question
You think it's like a little bit closer like that could be something that I wouldn't be opposed to like I
You know cuz like what I guess they could play
Yeah, if you get rid of the sick, right?
I imagine Spain probably just plays the same thing but with a ramp, right? Yeah, that's what I think right or maybe a diva
It's like whatever Santy is like next best most comfortable sort of hero that fits generally what you're looking for in that comp
You know, I think so far spade have not needed to dig whatsoever really into the strap book
We've really seen one look for them and the scary thing is I don't know that that is the extent of their scale
Right, I think they probably have other options to pull out
They just preferred this one and that's why I'm worried for people and now right because when you pick King's row
You you it's a real confident statement that hey, we're gonna handle you in the sigma
We're gonna let you play what you look the best at and we're just gonna, you know be better
If you win that it changes the narrative of the series it puts huge win in your sales, but
You you did allow Spain to be right in their comfort zone and they just kind of dominate you with the full hold
But yet to your point it was close at moments
Yeah, but a full holds a full hold right and that is a it's a staggering blow to taking a series like this with a
Land event on the line with the custodial
I mean, yes, ICAD came alive and it's like, yeah, there's moments there, but Exodiel has been on a heater all series long.
And so, you know, even ICAD having a great game, that's just matching what Spain are putting out.
It's like somebody has to kind of go above and beyond and take it to the next level.
You might also just be seeing like the experience kind of come into play for Spain, right?
With like, I know Exodiel, Teniel and Gala, three players who have kind of been there before, so to speak.
Coming into this series, both of these teams at 3-1 to Ireland, and then both of them lost 3-0 in pretty comparable fashions to France.
So you were like, okay, they're pretty... I mean, literally the exact same win-loss, the exact same map differential, right?
So you kind of looked at that and like, okay, this is pretty close.
Now obviously the map differential has changed as we've kind of moved through this series, Poland binds themselves at minus 2.
But, I mean, I've just been really impressed with Spain.
I know top to bottom, they've just kind of had the answers every time.
I think there's also a little bit of like, colon dazzling, really kind of forced Spain off of any of this.
Or like, I mean, they look pretty good on the SIG, like at least try and match it and see kind of how that goes.
Like give yourself like a little bit of a lift.
The test early on to kind of see like how far are we?
Because they look that bad on Kings, but it feels like they kind of went to a way too late.
I mean honestly, I didn't mind their dive comp. I just thought they you know
It was like the one time they played a legit dive comp it worked
And then they went like Baptize for some reason on Lighthouse
I really would love to see more of Poland
Maybe whether it's with the hazard or another option to like try to push the base
You know try to put some attacks down on these experience you have a very experienced hit scan and double support on the other side
It's like you kind of want to put some pressure on them
You don't want to let those guys just really get cooking and then I think Santy has really impressed me as well on the Sigma
I wouldn't mind attacking her with a ban here for Poland, just because she has shown that she's very adept in the Sigma,
is getting consistent value off the fluxes, finding a lot of solo kills with accretions and openers.
The team play for Spain is often times resting on.
At least that's the way you can maybe get an advantage here on Runisapin.
She's going to go over and play D.Va, like you just play the Mizuki and send that fire the other way.
They've been doing it to relax kind of constantly right like can you kind of give them some trouble with that type of setup?
I wouldn't be opposed that with room is soppy
No room is up. You don't want to play like a diva ram. It's a like feeling really straight me as a good
You know a huge up sick map a flipper
We coming in for eggs so I'm gonna have a little bit of a change in terms of support
I don't think we've seen flipper so far in the overwatch World Cup at least in the games that I know we've cast and it's really been
I know eggs playing the entire time
So maybe something a little bit different a little bit of a different look here
Yeah, I mean, I think Poland are probably starting to dig deep right this is the moment right?
This is your tournament life on the line and they are gonna ban out the bazookie which which is fair right?
I mean go ahead one death on the last map and it honestly was probably when he was playing on us
So I mean his bazookie has been nigh untouchable this series
And it is a huge problem if you wanted to play these you know mobile dive comps to hit from all sides
and Mizuki is so great defensively against that and Spain are going to ban out the Moga here.
An interesting choice, maybe something that they're thinking like an overwhelming rush comp
could be a good look against them. But I am more curious to see what the support look is for Spain
without this Mizuki that's been a main statement. Yeah, you know, I wonder, you know,
probably you'd just be like a carry Lucio I'd imagine they'd go to, or I mean, this is a
a sane team who could play like some double flex stuff, right?
We've seen teams kind of go over, I know, play some Malari for some more Coke, maybe not.
You know, the ideal thing here on RuneSoppy.
The Malkavan is interesting.
You know, I'm trying to think of a scene, relax, play it, I think maybe a little bit, but
wouldn't be something I would have been super worried about if I'm Spain.
Spain will probably end up, I know, kind of playing some diva here, I'd imagine.
Yeah, I mean, or maybe, I mean, honestly, I think there's a good argument for Spain to just go, you know, classic, right? Like a Lusso-Curri remontra hit scan of Exodiel's choice.
I mean, I think he often seems to prefer the Cassidy, even though I think Sojourn's a decent choice on this map, but I think the Exodiel Cassidy, I mean, you see why he doesn't want to swap off it in this series, right?
He is putting up some pretty nasty clips in a lot of these team fights.
And then bones is shown real flexibility whether you want to go with like a sim look or or maybe just a more classic tracer
I mean you have your options open
I don't think Spain are gonna have to do anything too crazy here on rotissoppy to find a comfortable thing
Yeah, it doesn't feel like they kind of have to reinvent the wheel so
See I know what Spain decides to come out and play here early on as Poland is on the back foot right away
A true O-lead here for Spain, a winner of this will qualify for Busan, coming out of Group C, most likely in that second spot, so right now it looks like both teams are hovering over a diva-based composition.
Well, flexibility on display here, Spain, potentially looking to build around the Symmetra.
We'll see if this is just like a TP out and swap luck, or if they're going to maybe just
go full twisted mines on us here and send us the Sim.
I mean, we've seen this, this hero is very effective at the highest level of play.
I wouldn't mind it at all to see Bones commit.
I think it looks like he will.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, they've been playing at a decent amount here, Spain.
So, we'll see how they decide to play.
I mean, just look at the aggression already, like pulling, kind of like already pulling
back.
Just kind of seeing Spain there.
And Spain's not even using it, but it feels like they're just giving up so much ground.
Spain didn't even use like a CP in there to kind of force it to back up off that space.
Just decided it.
You know, had Pope running.
That's not a great sign, Matt, for me.
Because like, where's the confidence in the end of leaving ICAB, kind of out on an island.
I mean, Spain are more than happy to jump on that opportunity.
It's just a speed boost, right?
That just kind of gets them right in, and they didn't even really want to take the fight that looked like Poland.
China's behind, but looks like the attack is already coming in from Spain,
swarming forward into Poland's spawn, once again, sensing an opportunity to just stamp on the gas.
And it's going to turn into a team wipe. I mean, Flipper gets out, but was he ever really in?
Yeah, I mean, Relax gets de-backed instantly.
There, you end up losing China too, so Gala just letting the bot push him through the
map here.
Now you're going to have the SIG comp thrown off from Poland.
They're going to try and control some of this high ground, but now that you've taken the
Mizuki away, right?
Obviously they should have.
It's going to make it a little bit harder to stop this diva.
Relax.
Holding it down decently well here, I think this would be a better matchup for Poland.
Increasing those wide there a little bit of a chaotic throw, but the high noon connects at the same time bones shuts down the front line
Flipper does grab the trade the bones has been more than willing to put his life on the line for these crucial team fights in the series
Exodiel doing his work as usual
It's a blowout frags and I mean we're looking like this is looking like a full cap mat. I mean eight minutes on the clock
To be close. I mean
You know, I thought like we seem to really nice stuff from Poland
And Spain just show that they're not just on a different level at least the moment so I can't take it some shots around the corner
But Jake any the ultimate here is pavers pain so heavily there's gonna be our
Crazy similar it's allowing exodio to get this wild plank in a position
You'd never normally be able to play and the rest of Spain that white line love the placement for bones on that one
And that's a fight is just open and shut it does cost two ultimates
But I actually committed the rush trying to hold on to that kind of grabs one back, which is nice
But I mean the cart is already, you know pushing into a
I don't know. What's the what's the word man? I mean, it's not the spawn
Yeah, the spawn I was gonna say dangerous territory, but no that is there the cart is
Rapidly approaching their spawn door, which is not ideal. He's not good
I they tell me you're not you don't want to be too close to your spot
I've never seen somebody win with a cart as he pushed into their spawn, so...
Not often. A strong position.
Poland playing defensive for now, but they're gonna have to change something.
And Leicaf takes a couple of shots.
Exodiel trading on the flank.
And China now, blows down.
And without the Symmetra opportunity for Spain to get aggressive.
B comes in from Gala, since it's the opportunity.
Oh, Leicaf does shut down Exodiel through the chaos.
Didn't want to get the B connection on that one,
but it's not gonna be much to write home about for Team Poland.
I mean, yeah, maybe Spain will end up, you know resetting it back out
But they're looking like they just want to fight without the cast of the air like that is crazy levels confidence
Yeah, I mean you're gonna have to back out there. I mean, they're gonna use this in tp to do so
I you know the other side has beats, right? They're gonna be at full strength
You kind of need
Exodial to be able to hit you know fight I can't have that range about 130 meters already here for Spain
Those are just a matter of time. It's gonna be sound barrier
their sim wall and did I all use here for Poland and they don't really get
anything for it here Jake they you know they're gonna get the the bot and run
around right and get it back towards the mid map but it's not like they're
gonna get like a massive team fight win out of it feels feels panic to me right
three ults for one exodia is gonna be pretty comfortable with that trade now
the flux comes out doesn't look like you got anything good little step around the
corner from bones to avoid the flux and of course flies out of it as well
Self-destruct out from the diva boat, canal finding iCAP, see the rest of Spain
wheeling just one forward, now diva joins into the fight, protection from the diva
massive onto the stretch right in the casting time, Katsune and Raj trying to
just get burned down, bones fully charged into this fight, spade getting a
heck of a piece of this one, and pulling a little bit of heart progress but
ultimate bank completely drained from that devastating trade at the earlier
fight. Yeah I think this is what I'm worried about, you have Simwala and then
You also have sound barrier to be able to kind of use together or just use individually and break open this spawn point and
seal it away for Spain and it's gonna be
She's gonna take some hung around position. You're gonna have to nail here. I'm gonna keep her alive
Yeah, I mean that is a one you're just gonna have I can't get it's a large no ultimates needed in this fight
and a TPing Exodiel into the chaos letting him just kind of pre-fire now to approach
the spawn door Jake I mean you're gonna be dead I sim wall you lose text all
here this is brutal for Poland Spain trying to make a statement yeah statement
definitely being made into this one dollar still holding onto that sound barrier
holding it doesn't quite need it just yet now rips it just for relax us to come
in and can test this payload. He's available. The high noon does more than enough. And Poland
just completely routed in this one with four minutes on the clock. Spain hit the full cap
and a 3-0 victory, securing their qualification to Busan. And I mean, there was no doubt in
this series. Maybe there was moments of contestion on Ilios, but two back-to-back maps of just
Devastation from T-Span as you said Matt they are just levels to it. I mean you just an absolute beatdown
I mean Spain just showing like they are on a different level although they came in
I know even putting in terms of groups canale and Santhe at both don't die during that map
I mean they don't say something like there are tons of limbs actually they kind of came
From the side of Poland and Poland. I mean look they had a few opportunities throughout the series kind of make some impacts on the
but I think it kind of proves that Spain just a little bit above that.
I think anything that kind of Poland would have thrown at them,
they would have been able to deal with.
So series that I think a lot of us were hoping would be close,
would be back and forth, right?
You know, a great one to kind of decide it.
Ash, Spain just absolutely runs through Poland.
Yeah, you were talking about it.
We expected this to be maybe a little bit closer
based on what Poland had shown us in their previous matches
within this group but overall Spain I think that you know we talked about how
some of their other matches were a little bit of like a litmus test in this
group to see how they were going to be stacking up against you know a team like
France for example and then it was a bit of a toss up between okay how is this
Spanish team going to look up against this Polish roster and I think that the
statement that was made was solid, the guys. And you expect this out of Team Spain, right?
Jake, this is a squad where the core of this team with an overwatch World Cup history,
2023, they made top eight. Like, we had high expectations.
I mean, I, I maybe expected the win, but I didn't expect this. I mean, this was one
of the heaviest beatdowns I've seen in quite some time, even in the World Cup. Like, this
is Team Spain that came to play with absolutely zero mercy. So it's great to see them firing
on all cylinders, getting a real statement of victory, of course, before that group stage.
This is like the biggest blow we've probably had in that group. I mean, just kind of looking
across it, right? Like, I know Ireland got a map off of Spain. I know France, obviously,
has kind of been, I know, really strong, right? I know Ireland got a map off of Poland. But
then, like, this was a, what, two, one on Elio, which was kind of, you know, close, but a full
hold on King's Row and then just like 144 full map completion to 14. I mean that's about as big of
a win in Overwatch that you can kind of get. What? I mean I guess I could say that you don't deny
them any percentage on King's Row but just really impressive showing from them. I think
really kind of showed that look I know their game against France, France obviously a great
competitor and probably finishes top of the group but Spain was heads and
shoulders above the team like Poland. Yeah I think that okay Matt then in that
kind of regard if you consider that game that or not game but series that Spain
had up against him Aaron they did end up dropping that one map of oasis to them
to start things off. Do you feel like today was just Spain firing on all
cylinders or do you think Poland didn't step up in the way that we had seen them
do? I think it could be a bit of both I think like Spain really kind of stepped
up showed like full potential here but I also think like Poland and it would
maybe like the the map picks and some of the bands really kind of do themselves
in favor it's quite interesting I thought they looked actually pretty good on
Kings, Whitby, Sigma comp but refused to kind of go to it to match it at least or
try to match it on Ilios that I know maybe if they played some of that
sick a little bit earlier and actually saw that they could kind of like you know
go toe-to-toe with them at times in it maybe would have changed kind of what
they would have went with the rest of the series yeah I mean I think honestly
there's some decisions in this game strategically that I could really
question from Poland like I mean on Ilios they go to like the BAP on round
three feels really weird and they go to Kings Row and take the mirror match
where Spain already looked so strong from round one.
But Spain, I feel like they started to sense weakness
as time went on, and I feel like they just kept
getting more and more aggressive.
I feel like we felt that on Runesapi,
like they were just pedaled to the medal.
And that's honestly like a great evolution for Team Spain.
Like in the World Cup competition,
things are a little bit scrappier, right?
Things aren't as clearly rehearsed or practiced
for some of these squads.
And if you get the opening to be able to just dive
into it swarm forward like Spain did,
is I think a strong sign for them as they build that confidence of course coming
into the further competition here in the World Cup. Yeah that is absolutely
for certain. It's really fun to be able to see just with almost like these
scrappier teams the fact that you get more like individual highlights of
sales for these players and we get to chat with one of these players after
Spain's win today we do have an interview with Santi on deck. Santi I
I just want to start things off by saying a big congratulations on today's win and for being able to qualify to Busan.
I guess to kick things off, my first question to you is, what has this experience been like?
This is your first time playing within the Overwatch World Cup here for Team Spain, being able to represent them,
and then also getting this opportunity to kind of play with players like Kanael, Gala,
and Xodiel and Bones, considering the fact that you come from like Faceit Masters League,
you've played a bit of Calling All Heroes, and now it seems like we're continuing to
see you level up and you're really keeping up with the competition.
Mm-hmm.
Below.
It's really nice to play with Xodiel and Gala and Kanael, because it's like I'm leveling
up like so much lately especially like especially like with sodial I feel like he plays really
aggressive and I really like it um yeah it's really really nice to play with them
um I'm also really thankful to the managers because they give me they give me a try to play
in team Spain and they put like a lot of effort and time on me and I'm really thankful for that
Yeah, it's great to see you guys, you know, in this win today, I mean, an incredible
performance.
It felt like, you know, we were expecting maybe a little bit of a closer series, but
you know, it feels like things just got better and better for our team Spain as things develop.
So I'm curious for you guys, did you expect that it would be like this dominant coming
in and yeah, like what was your anticipation of the match going in?
Basically, we can shift our pants in France because we were nervous, but for this one,
we're kind of chilling and it's a bit more natural to play this time in France.
So now we're kind of chilling this one.
It definitely looked like it.
You guys looked awesome today.
Now looking forward, you'll qualify to Busan.
Are there any teams from any of the other regions you're excited to maybe get a chance
to compete against? I want to play against Team UK because they have golden
funds. I don't like board players. I really don't like them. So yeah, I want to play against UK.
Okay, we'll keep that in mind as we're heading into the group stage of Busan.
I want to wish you the best of luck in your matchups when we do get to Korea.
And it was so great having this interview with you.
Congratulations on your qualification today, Santi.
Yep, thank you so much.
Bye, bye.
Bye.
Well, there we have it, guys.
Like Spain have punched their ticket to Busan with this win.
It's so great to be able to hear from Santi as well.
And it's really cool to see a player like Santi, Matt,
level up in this kind of fashion.
And like the fact that she's really like holding her own
and making these plays here for Team Spain when they look so dominant up against
Poland and just like climbing through the ranks of playing and calling all heroes
then into the face at Master League and now OWC.
I mean, that's what Overwatch World Cup is all about, right?
Obviously, you know, a lot of these players get to represent their countries,
which is like pretty meaningful to them and then kind of move on to play at some of these lands.
But we've had a lot of players come to Overwatch World Cup that's kind of
really been the coming out party for their careers, you know, going into, you know,
whether it be, I know the league in the past or OWCS. So, I'm excited to see Sandy,
she's gonna use that play, right? I know, who knows, maybe finding herself on OWCS,
seeing her coming up soon.
I would definitely love to see that. We have some more awesome Overwatch in store
for you guys, though, for today. We do have Sweden versus Denmark coming in next,
but before we do throw to a quick break and get into that matchup, I wanted to
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Denver.
Right before this breaks, Spain qualified to Busan group stage, but now we got a seeding
match up here within group A between Sweden versus Denmark.
This one's going to be an absolute barn burner and Jake, we are already talking to Tomek's
after his win today here for Team Ostra.
He was talking about how he was rooting for Team Sweden and his fellow Estonian in Admiral.
Yeah, it's great to see the breakthrough players this year able to show out where maybe their
country's not able to feel like a full roster to provide competition, but hey, they can
still show up and compete in the World Cup, which I think is actually a great initiative
to get more folks involved, even if maybe there's not enough to build a true national team.
Yeah, and I think that for Team Sweden, again, they've already secured their spot, Matt,
by talking a little bit more about this roster.
They would love to get that first seed, because, heading into Busan,
you've got some scary teams that you're going to want to look to avoid at the beginning of the season.
Oh, for sure. I mean, this team looked so sick yesterday against Finland, right?
Finland able to take a map, but Sweden just topped the bottom.
I thought Zoro played a really tremendous game.
Yesterday and then uh, you know admiral back in the lineup right so admiral and skyl former really nasty
Support lineup or anything to kind of go up against but
From me
I mean with a lot of what we seen from some of these games like I know the tanks were under just such immense pressure
Whether it be against like these mizuki comps or trying to play SIG into like all these different like you know far up hope different things
But let's get fashion here in EMEA
Okay, where like Willy's like we'll see kind of what he pulls out obviously a very deep tank hero pool
I think kind of skews more towards like
Diva hazard things along those lines, but can I know for sure pilot the SIG so excited to see what Sweden has cooked up
Okay diving in a little bit more into these tank head-to-heads then Jake
Let's talk a little bit about team Denmark
This is a squad where they are both, you know qualified. They're 2-0, but Denmark got high, you know
I have like one map loss
Lower in differential, but how do you feel like this tank heads ahead is gonna look for the side of sky tour going up against such a
inexperienced tank within willies yeah
I will say I'd probably favor Willis, but I I think it's pretty close
And I and I also think you know this Denmark team has already kind of punched above what I would have considered to be there
They're way class, you know to even be in the spot that they're in here
Fighting for the number one seed
I think looking at team Sweden, like this is one of the few teams near watch World Cup where every single player has like tier one experience and loads of it.
You've got huge veterans in the game on the squad too.
So you've got a favor Sweden for me going into this one, but Denmark is is proving wrong before.
Speaking of proving wrong last matchup, Spain proved us wrong with how close we said that that game could possibly be.
But for real guys, the Sweden versus Denmark match for this first seed to get a more comfortable spot.
think heading into the group stage of Busan is going to be quite the one to watch. Let's get straight into it.
Thanks Ash and uh going up here with the 1v1.
It's late. It's late alliance 1v1.
Jake I'm gonna say something here and this may sound crazy. Just come on and say that.
I think this match would have a little bit of Spain Poland in it.
In the sense that, I think Sky Tour would love to play D.Va constantly, and I think that you're going to see Sweden, like they have no problem playing like some, like, you know, SIG, Mizzouki-based type stuff, or even D.Va, Mizzouki, and really give Denmark potentially some trouble.
That's what I'm kind of looking out for to see if that kind of comes into fruition. It'll be Ilios, the map pick here for Sweden, but that's just something I think we should keep an eye on.
Yeah, I will say, Team Sweden, I think they're an incredibly stacked roster, you know, I think you just, I mean, you give me
Kevster and Willis alone, and I'm already thinking, you know, this is a devastating
core to play some very aggressive dive looks, but to your point with the
experience in the squad, I think they're really gonna be able to have their pick
of the litter in terms of strategies and really be able to hit Denmark where
the weakest between the bands coming out. It's going to be Cassidy and Jetpack Cat.
So understandable with the Cassidy band coming in as one of the best
hitscan counters to the Jetpack Cat Bastion. So Denmark don't want to deal with that
challenging matchup on Ilios without a strong counter. Yeah, and I mean,
uh, you know, we saw Zora actually have really strong performances in the hitscan role the other day.
So, uh, he thinks it's, uh, they were really smart. And, uh, early on, uh, the
You get back at gun right away. So also the Cassie, you know, the band is probably more targeted
You look at uh, you know, I believe chocolate right, you know playing
Really at a at a high level here
For Denmark, so I think just getting the Cassie out
I know forcing it onto a little bit of a sojourn matchup may actually you favorites or a little bit
That could be comfortable. They're gonna need all the comfort they can get getting into this one
And the Sweden Admiral back into the mix, really bolstering the ranks of the squad.
I mean, a very experienced main support, but now hovering the Mizuki, which I wouldn't
hate at all, coming into this ruins map, which can play things a little bit slower and more
pokey.
I mean, Denmark hovering potentially very fast, like what, to see what actually makes
it out of the spot and into the fight.
Yeah, Denmark looking to potentially hover a diva-based comp, like I was talking about
Yeah, it'll be Sweden. They'll be playing me, Mizuki. So let's keep an eye on this
Skytor can be in a lot of trouble
against him. You knew May
Mizuki Ramatra
Just put a lot of pressure
Onto that diva. So we'll see if scratch was able to kind of stay upright
Shockwave though. I'm talking about him much definitely going to be a key player for Denmark takes a nice ice go to the face from catcher
It's gonna slow down for a bit and Sweden get some strong position here on the point but shockwave
Still poking back, still looking for an opportunity to open a pick-up here.
I mean, Shockwave is awesome. All Kornemen belong.
As the guys who are getting taken with the chain,
people get DMacked as, uh, actually, you're worried about
not being able to kind of keep that diva in the mech against a lot of the CC coming out.
From Sweden, it's like, I know now Sweden pushing on up here as they get control of the coin.
So, I'm curious, what do you think about the Juno with the Mizuki?
It's a little bit of a different look.
We usually see it always with like a hearing.
I'm actually a fan.
I think it lets you, you know, push the tempo a little bit more aggressively, especially
with the May.
I think it fits really well together because May can kind of slow down the D-value.
You have some, honestly, some really tough challenges playing D-va into this one.
Even Sim could, you know, be a bit of a struggle, like a TP forward here to, you know, take
a different angle, but Zoro just takes down Shockwave and the Chaos and immediately, I
mean, Sweden waste no time.
They're going to be the ones getting aggressive cleaning up this fight.
Yeah, I mean you see the Maywall kind of like isolates your sky tour has to just run away
UN doesn't have the TP you're not able to get out as this has been all sweetened early on
This is kind of what I was I was thinking as we were gonna go over it and uh, I'm just gonna
Like yeah, but he knows guys were really wants to play diva. I mean, I imagine it's the a Mizuki van
From Denmark rather quickly
in this series, so I
I also probably see actually Sweden to play a diva band at some point is it's
gonna be a TV use here as a ram tracing it everybody on in it's gonna be OC
available really early here from Zoro. I think off to a great start you can't really
find anything. Yeah no connections now Yo-ham opens up the rush. Sweden responding
with a blizzard from Kevster kind of slows things down maybe there's still a
fight to be had here Sweden four members but they're coming up on these
Portal Smith, Willis very tanky with these fists up. The sanctuary now to
Coyote, they're gonna keep this fight rolling. Willis finds Rav to board, the
south arrow can come out and that, the Skyl just commits. With the Auburn Ray
Shockwave with the OC though, is a threat even with the healing from the Auburn Ray
Rave, you can still get popped. Damage coming in but with Willis holding onto
this Nihilation, 90% takes up Denmark. You've got to step up into this but the
annihilation just feels inevitable here Rav. Minstry, Symmetra Walter
to fight a little bit of cover, but Will is making so much space.
Rockweb just can't get into the fight, and it taps your back on the tracer,
picking up one.
It feels like a four guard conclusion now.
A little bit of delay coming out from the Symmetra, but with Rav falling,
doesn't seem like there's much more to guard now.
Yeah, looks like SkyTour will just get on, get a little bit of a touch.
Rav gets there as well.
SkyTour just knocked a little bit high there, just kind of colliding with the ram,
knocked up above that box where it would have contested.
And that is fantastic if you are a Sweden fan,
is just a pretty dominant round number one.
I thought Zoro looked really good on the sojourn
and just making it really difficult on Skye's World
to get anything going on the diva.
Yeah, it certainly, I mean, for me,
feels like this is a tough game for Shockwave
because he needs to do way more than just sort of trade.
With Zoro, he kind of needs to have a dominant game,
I think, on the hitscan for Denmark
to have much hope in this one, and if Zorro is going to be able to battle so effectively
in that matchup, I'm kind of struggling to see the advantage for Denmark.
I mean, certainly that was a composition that was maybe a uniquely tough test, and now Willis
is going to go over to the hazard with Kepster on the farra, so a very mobile look here.
In a Freya.
So maybe this is kind of like really trying to play against like the Sim, like this is
eventually like pretty strong Sim point, and not really worried about the Divas much or
more worried about kind of contesting the sim on the objective. A nice rocket
there from Cam on to Shockwave just kind of puts a one shot in them and then
no test slides forward and gets finished off by Willie so we didn't really I know
running it through Denmark at home this way I was talking about where I think
getting like me the baby she's of our last year for incredibly high score and
then you kind of get into the matchup and you start to see no it's interesting
With so many teams in the Overwatch World Cup, you don't really get to see a team's flaws until you see them play against one of the top teams in the tournament of the group.
Denmark's been unbelievable as far, mind you.
This is a matchup against Sweden, where Sweden would be one of the top teams in the A if they could play like an OWCS together, right?
Is that good of a roster?
Yeah, well, Flip does come in from Denmark, though, just teleporting on to the point.
Trying to get an aggressive teleport, but a nice, violent leap really sets them on their heels.
Denmark just trying to stabilize Shockwave, left the all-in-his-lonesome.
Doesn't quite make the trip with the rest of the squad on the TP.
SkyTor tried to get back. Now some explosive bolts in the back of Johnowich Lucio.
Still, though, they're holding on to the point pretty nicely.
Big support though comes in. A cleanse of the perfect moment here from Skyle.
Heave's Wheel is fighting Fit.
Although the flip came in pretty quick on that one for Denmark. They get it. They get a decent amount of camp off of it
In the end they can't hold down the fight and the ultimate started to build up here first week
Well, this next side's gonna be brutal, right?
Every ultimate's gonna be available online. Shockwave almost actually just gonna hit double direct there
my kev
The rocket salvo with that extra one just gonna almost finish them off. So
See if they're gonna get through this show
Bolashot with the, I know if everybody takes a TP, can also be quite nasty, is a TP used there to the high ground, it doesn't look like everybody bakes it.
Oh, that is so difficult to deal with there.
If you're Shockwave, the Bolashot actually does come through from the TP on the other side.
Just since I'm getting one, it's a, you know, don't even have to really kind of invest anything else, another fight win here, persuaded.
And the bullet shot is you know, it's it's kind of a pulse bomb level ultimate
Right you kind of throw that out and get a kill and you feel pretty good about it
Still with four major ultimate then mark building up to you know the major team fight that they've been waiting for
Maybe gonna look to go for a quick flip onto the point
I mean too late earlier fight
I like he's playing here on the TP disrupts the move forward here
And a rush comes out very early from no-hand my sponsor be from half on test or finds Johnowitz
The kill's just raining in. Denmark cannot even really find the opportunity to deploy the ultimates, meaningfully in this one, Skytor going to die very late into the fight, and if he gets out of the suit, yeah, this one is going to be done and dusted. I mean, there's not going to be a touch coming in here for Denmark.
Did the beat actually land for Jonowitz?
We ended up seeing him use it, but didn't catch there.
It was like a chain Ajax, as nobody can touch there.
Or Denmark, so Sweden, with just a huge victory there in map number one.
Really anything Denmark kind of threw at them, they had an answer for.
Yeah, team Sweden, man, they did not come to play.
Maybe they did come to play because they, well, they're not playing with their food.
That's for sure, because they ate them up.
For sure came to play. I mean they only had three deaths as a team, so Willie, Skyle, and Admiral just absolutely dominant there.
Nothing I think you can really kind of glean from that if you are Denmark, so that feels like they're in a really rough spot moving forward.
Yeah, that's a tough one to recover from. And I mean you just feel the confidence oozing out of Team Sweden in a lot of these fights, right?
Yeah looking back at you know the clip that actually it was a you know
Johnowich went to go drop the beat and actually got the you know directed by Kevser just taken out before you even land the beat
So you kind of build up that one fight and
Yeah, you don't even get sound barrier. That's a rough one
Yeah, that's that's one that'll put you back on your heels, you know for team Denmark and for them
It's it's early in the series
But already a real test of composure to be able to come back into the next map and throw a strong punch into this one
And I think we really need to see a really well-prepared map pick here.
I mean, in fairness, they probably certainly go to.
I mean, it's hard because we don't know their style, their look yet.
I mean, maybe if they wanted to play these Symmetra looks, I guess you could go to a
Kings to try and bring it out, or maybe even like a Suravasa, I think looks pretty good
for the Symmetra style.
I don't see Brunasappi.
I don't hate it.
I don't hate it either.
I think those are also good maps for the sim.
What I'm worried about though is that Sweden just showed like a very potent answer.
It's like we will absolutely hard counter your strat here.
And that's also with Cat banned out now.
So like the Jetpack Ambassion could be a real threat and it's a comp that I think makes
it pretty awkward to try to make these sim looks work against.
Yeah, and I mean, we'll see it's gonna be Bonnie the map selection.
I also worried for Denmark that like, honestly, do you even need to really ban the D.Va maybe if you're Sweden?
Like, I think you almost kind of want to bait them into playing at a time, you know, throughout this, because, like,
the hazard looked really strong into it, especially when they were kind of running next to him.
I know the Cassidy will be available, though, for Denmark, so Shockwave will be able to play that hero.
He's pretty awesome on thus far, maybe kind of slow down that dive a little bit.
But on the other side, you probably see Zoro pilot it.
And if they're playing the Mizuki,
I mean, good luck this guy's for trying to play the diva.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, the Mizuki, you know, I think
it's been a real mainstay of the competition here.
As the meta continues to develop,
I still think options like the Symmetra and the diva
can be very good, so can the wrecking ball.
But there's something about the comfort and stability
of a poke comp, the Mizuki, a lot of strong counterplay there
that I think probably appeals to a lot of teams in the World Cup.
I think honestly, there's not many teams like team Sweden where they can confidently pilot
the dive with like every player able to really keep up with the level of pace that is needed
to make those comps work.
Like, you know, if you're just let off the gas for a second there and you're not pressuring
the Symmetra when she goes for a TP, like your whole team can fall apart, right?
That TP can come in, somebody gets picked off, you never get the chance to die.
But we didn't see Sweden miss a single opportunity to get aggressive.
I mean, every chance they got, they were at Denmark's throat.
You also see from Sweden, like, you know, okay, if Denmark wants to play some of the sim, like, you know, Denmark's not going to be, I mean, I'm in a hazard.
I mean, that feels like a throwaway.
Uh, you know, they're going to play far on the other side, right?
Like, you know, there's made a kind of contest with like, there's so many heroes that are going to give you issues.
Uh, you can't really deal with all of them.
I almost find it.
It would almost be like a little bit of a bait, as it's going to be the Buoyong ban here for Denmark, as the Sim will go for Sweden, where it's so difficult to ban out Kepster's hero pool, like they're almost better off just attacking everybody else.
I agree, I agree.
There's no point in banning out the Kepster hero.
In fairness, the Pharah is pretty unique in terms of what she can do against a Symmetra comp, with so many good tools to deal with Sim.
However, they'll just play a different comp. Oh no, Kessler's Sly Tracer? That's so sad for Team Sweden.
That's so tough for them.
Yeah, I think that's the best option.
I think that's the best option.
It does. I expect to see it here. And this is N'vani, I think, is arguably the best map in the entire pool for that look.
look. Yeah, and I think we probably see it from Denmark, right? Do you think you see it for both
signs? I mean, I would say I kind of expect the mirror here, you know, with Sim banned out. You
could go even for maybe the Cassidy as well. I'm curious for Willis, like, you know, does he have
the wrecking ball in the pocket like that? I think for a lot of teams, it's going to be interesting
because I think the Cap Bastion is actually a deceptively challenging comp to play. I think it
this is being not as easy as people might think. There's a lot of coordination between
the movement of the cabashian and the rest of the squad and how they want to approach
their timings in the fight. So it's another comp where, you know, for some of these teams,
like, how much did they get to practice, like, these deeper compositions? Sweden though,
not looking like they're worried about the cabashian at all. I mean, not even going to
run a capacity here on the defense.
Yeah, it'll be at the sojourn available for Zoro as a, I see a really sensitive,
it looks like in spawn, maybe kind of thinking about it still, but they're a
mantra instead of playing the Sigma. So we'll see what Sky Tour and Denmark decide to do
on offense. This would be a an orthodox look I guess for them, right? Trying to
play, I know the Sigma May with the Mizuki on offense, but I know one that
can obviously be pretty strong. Yeah, I do quite like this defense with their
Amantra. I think Willis has landed on the right choice here. I mean, one of the
best tanks in the game for just holding down a choke point and giving you real
trouble, which is what they're gonna need. Denmark, you're gonna go right up the
gut with this one. It's like a potential high ground attack, although no, they're
gonna, you know, ultimately go for the fight on the coast. It's just the way this map is played now.
Yeah, Rav uses that main wall, tries to block off the line of sight. It's a nice main wall. It comes in from
Kev at a little bit more range is like you're talking about this is where a lot of these fights take place now on
Nimbani this Coastal line kind of like opened up a little bit
He's just too good one, dude. Yeah, he's too nasty with it
I mean his play at champions clash was like unreal like you know
I it felt like for maybe a year or so people were kind of like down on Kev and
And it feels like he's all the way back and then some like it just feels like the game is so
Tailored for somebody like with his skill set right like a really high just kind of like
IQ and feel for the game can play you know whether it be projectile or hit scan
Just really a great time for him in overwatch at the moment. Shockwave got a place of a Hanzo here
So I'm gonna be able to get like an off angle
and put down some pressure from the high ground here, but
And they're not a great one to say to the move.
Yeah, it's a little scary being here.
You're not going to be able to get much support in this one.
See if you can find a quick pick.
But it's actually Zorro who strikes first on the RAV.
I mean, the positioning is so disciplined here from Team Sweden.
They're not giving any chances.
Now Kevster puts a bit of damage down.
Zorro looks to clean it up.
Kevster actually finishes the plate himself.
I mean, the coordination was so visible from Shockwave's POV there.
I mean, he just didn't really get a chance in that one.
Yeah, and a nice play by Zorro.
Nose are going to be pushed out from that high ground.
kind of chases around can get to the bus and play quite aggressively there and
just finish off one player so now two minutes on the clock full
ultimate's available for Sweden here on defense and just about everything here
for Denmark on their offense it feels like a must win fight you can look from
Shockwave to COD again you can see kind of not really a lot of great targets
Willis actually takes a breath through the choke there, you know, with the, you know,
vortex and then Zoro pops the OC, turns the corner, just deals with Shockwave.
So Hondo not really getting much here from the choke.
Yeah, insane cleanse there from Skyle.
Like perfect timing to save Willix for, I mean, I thought that he was going to die,
but just even to block the flux damage from Skytort adds insult to injury.
And, I mean, shutting down that push with just the OC,
The absolute minimum necessary commitment there from Zara, you'd love to see it, and so he's still holding very comfortably.
Only a minute, 15, I mean we're down to like a final fight and a little bit of scrappiness for Denmark.
I mean this push needs to find at least some kind of an opening kill.
Yeah, I mean with this angle here on the coast, it's really odd to like try and use like a shooting rush from this position you see there trying to get aggressive.
Pressure, Jonowich.
The TP on back is that's going to be the dragon used here.
Nice hindrance from that hole there on the branch.
It is an eye to walk up.
Made do.
Kepster is going to be pretty confident in this one.
Holds the high ground.
Sanctuary is traded, though.
A little bit of a better timing here for Denmark,
but their Sanctuary is a very defensively positioned.
Willis puts the dukes up.
Chalkman, though.
That kill on the Kepster could be just what they needed.
Jonowich, though, caught alone.
Does get just run down in the annihilation,
looking to find more of Blizzard, defends me for the moment but Willis drops the low ground,
avoids the extended freeze and that one, stays alive for the supports to get back into this.
Caps are coming back on the tracer, little bit of a clock now on team Denmark and oh no,
losing Skydver really takes the win out of the sails, playing the ramshild now.
Rav, absolutely nowhere to run into this one.
Donovic, so he can find on the way back into this fight but nah, it's just Zorro cleaning off
and a truly dominant bull hold.
Sweden absolutely hit in the speedrun so far, man.
Yeah, when we started to talk about some of the comps
and how this series could go,
I started to think of the series we just watched,
I think quite frankly, with Spain and Poland
and I started to get a little scared
and it's kind of what I was thinking about
is Denmark is unbelievable, right?
I know they obviously beat Finland in like a massive upset
and then they get a, I know what,
They get a 3-0 over Austria at the start.
This is just another step above, right?
One death there from Sweden on defense.
Just absolutely farming here.
Yeah, I mean, this one looks to be pretty brutal now
for Denmark.
I mean, they got to dig deep here and put up at least some kind
of a fight on this defense.
It feels like if you just get rolled over here in one fight,
It's just hard to believe that you're really going to be able to get this win.
And maybe for Denmark, the second seed is the best they can do for Sweden.
This is a team that, honestly, beyond the first seed in this spot,
this is a team that you're looking at at BlizzCon, right?
These players, this level of quality, bringing on somebody like Admiral to the team
as a breakthrough player.
For me, the way Team Sweden is playing, I'm like, this could be a top 14.
to Busan is not the end goal for Sweden like they're they're they're prime for a
game I know to make it to BlizzCon so we'll see on offense I mean this is what's
brutal right is you only need one tick you can come out with a comp like this
and just kind of you know run them over right get a you know a big Willy stomp
I know down on this some players Lee the kid decides to do I know potentially
make a change okay Reaper I was gonna say you could play like you know the
far here as well, but I like the cap fashion. Yeah, the cap fashion here is a good shot,
worse than the kind of stop it. That allows you to really kind of like open up the coast
if the Moga can kind of get in position here up on the high ground.
Cassidy, screen is low ground, very aggressively trying to actively shut down Capture's Reaper.
That makes a space for the Bastion to get in. The support's not there for Shockwave's
monitors retreat. Instantly the cap is pressured and this map is over. It literally cannot be
faster than that is it's very close to factually correct into this one because
Sweden just obliterate Denmark there on the body. It's our closest game today
going to be the first one we did with Finland, with Finland Austria. I mean
that was a it might be you guys missed that you gotta go back and watch it but
these are you know putting on some the top teams really showing up in the top
way. You could take a look at the stats. I don't need to really kind of tell you what stands out here.
You kind of figure that out for yourself. If not, you may have a difficulty playing Overwatch as
you would not be able to tell really what's going on. This is just complete domination
from Sweden. Love the comps. Love the kind of way they played it. Denmark just maybe running
into a buzz saw here. Yeah, it just feels pretty hopeless for them like the way these fights are
going. I mean, there's just a difference in class across basically the entire team of Team Sweden
finding a lot of these like individual plays and then the coordination is so good, the economy is
so good. It's like, where do you really find an in here for the Dana squad? No, you can kind of see
here right shockwave take some shots early on in the choke from kev on the
reaper with that like a right click the extended range and then it thinks he's
walking back to the choke and there's half-ash behind him you know drill on
them and they're the only kill they're like and these weren't able to like
touch like I think like that I don't really recall yeah I know there was one
more but they were never able to kind of get actually even on the contest from
the high ground yeah I mean the writing was on the wall and honestly from
Shocker is effective. It's like it's going it's like he kind of has to take those swings and take a crazy gamble
Yeah, because it does just seem right if you allow these fights to progress to their natural conclusion
It's gonna be sweeten
You know able to win in these death matcher trades like they just feel like across the board
Real strength is being shown and Denmark are gonna take us to runisapii man
And I thought they would take us
I'm not gonna lie, but I have a real feeling we might see a full cap on this one.
Are we running it back? Is this like another...
Sweden are hitting an actual generational world record on this one, if they can hit a full cap on Runosopy.
This could be a world record series that might stand the test of time.
That finish on Dambani is literally about as fast as it gets.
It's kind of crazy. We'll see what happens from the series, right?
But if, you know, Sweden can kind of continue to play at this rate.
Um, really it's just the one map between Finland and Denmark.
That's like the difference between, obviously Finland ends up losing to Austria.
I think if Finland had a chance to qualify, that series maybe looks a little bit different.
But, uh, just that one, uh, you know, what it kind of comes down to like, I mean,
and that series was brutally close, Jake too.
I mean, uh, you know, Denmark was able to win a new drunk city on the final flash point.
control goes down to the final point so like
You know that may be the series we look at of all the groups
So I thought you could just look up as you kind of look across that I couldn't really have been the biggest impact
I know match of the entire you know group stages here in EMEX
Yeah, I mean that's been a few years right since we had World Cup competition and the rankings have clearly shifted right
You know some of these national teams are much improved from their previous iterations and some their fortunes have fallen
Let me look at Finland not even gonna qualify here out of the group stage
Definitely a fall from grace for them as I'm glad we have Hugo joining us on the show
He's trying to bash the keyboard or like something over here. So I was like you need to stop this before I
Was that you go something to cast move fine just bark at the mic you go you're doing great
They you he's he's good at that
He might be too good
Some would say at that, you know once once he's uh, once uh, once you know, there's certain to become activity outside
He starts to freak out. So we got a little bit of time here. It's just literally
Sweden gets rid of okay, so bashing gone
I don't really think like they would have came in and played the cat bashing
I think it's brutal now for Denmark that they're in a must-win scenario without either though
Yeah, I agree, you know, but that's this is the advantage that a player like Wallace breaks where he can absolutely take the deep of mirror
They're just banning this to give them a further advantage where Denmark it feels like
Maybe you I don't know like in the cap action would have been crushing at this moment though
Right for it to come in and we've seen it played on the map to great effect before over the rooftops like
It could you know very literally rain on your parade on this one
Although not much of a parade so far in the series for them
I think honestly Denmark are like trying not to get full captain. That's that's the mission like winning the map feels
was pretty far away for the way the last two months.
The status parade.
I feel like the parade where the costumes are falling apart
and stuff.
I mean, just a brutal on the way.
Yeah, I mean, look, I think Sweden is in a great spot, right?
They can come in and play Hazard here.
They can play Romatra.
You can try and play some sim if you want,
but you could put Kev on Tracer.
It feels like an infinite amount of possibilities
here for Sweden.
Absolutely.
You know, I honestly, I want to see Sweden hit the crazy speed run here.
I mean, we could see like truly, you know, like this could be one of the fastest series of
Overwatch competition, at least that I've ever seen.
I mean, we got the 2-0 on control, right?
That's like pretty, like not quite 100 zeros back to back, but pretty dang close.
And we've got, you know, about as, about as brutal of a full hold into instant cap on hybrid,
which is another very fast map type, if that's the exact way that it goes.
And now we're on push. I mean it's too fast this game mode. It's too all on elio's say I know up
I do I guess like they're gonna
1-0 on new Bonnie like statistically right, but like it's really just like one kick on new Bonnie and then yeah
I mean see how this one goes
Potentially Denmark trying to fall back to the Moga here where
Feels like Moga is uh, no, I think Moga can still be effective in some comps, right?
but no Moga being like the dominant force against like Ramatra and heroes like that
I guess kind of gone away at least at the moment so it'll be the Juno
Mizuki backline yet again here for Sweden. So ditching the carry
Gonna be playing with the Juno for the possibility of a little bit of extra speed
If you're seeing how this one plays out definitely comfort zone though for Denmark. I like this comfort then it's back to basics
That's what you kind of need to do in this series. That's really turning against you the way this one has
Sweden bunkering up maybe ready for that level of aggression
And mark aren't giving it to him just yet though, right playing things a little bit cautious
But now the shields come down opportunity for mage to step up. It's a lot of damage down but not enough
He's gonna charge you just yet now sends it forward gets a stop on the wheel as the corner offers ample cover
Still Denmark getting the better of this trade gonna roll the cart just a little bit
Yeah, I think Sweden's fine playing, I know, a little bit more like they're counter-right,
like, you see the aggression kinda come on in from Sky Tour to use the cardiac overdrive
there.
And one thing with the mug as well, it's gonna allow them as you pick out some damage or
fill it up, some stacks as well, Stomp coming in here for Sky Tour to mix with few players,
but everybody else on this team is kinda falling around it.
I mean, Sweden is just presenting a wrecked wall here, a good Stomp comes in a little
bit late in the fight on the admiral, but there's just no one else alive to follow up on it.
And so Denmark, despite going back to the comfort zone, I mean, Sweden, more than ready for
this matchup is unfortunate.
We're going to get a quick pause here, so we can get that resolved.
Just a quick pause.
You got to go.
It's fingers crossed.
I'm not going to, Matt.
I don't know if you hear that, but I'm knocking on wood to ensure that real wood, you have
a real wood desk.
That is real wood.
That's pretty impressive.
Ah.
No problem.
Me too.
what exactly is going on here.
You need to go down.
You need to get back to bed.
He's like, I used to just lose it.
But if you insist, I'll go down to bed, all right?
You don't need to.
You cannot go to bed.
Everybody's spent on the chat.
You don't want Jake to go to sleep.
You want him to stay here with you all the way through.
And A, pull the long late night shift.
We'll figure out what's going on.
I know maybe a DC or I know a ping issue.
So, okay, getting right back into it.
So, issue not really that big since we're gonna
right back into game.
So, Sweden will end up taking the lead here.
Kep with a full spawn and an overfond already here.
So, build DPS from Sweden.
Building these ultimates rather quickly,
which could kind of spiral a little bit into first check.
Yeah, sorrow, not gonna waste any time.
Pops POC, Denmark immediately try to back out,
but Shockwave will not be so lucky.
Takes a rail to the face, John,
which catches one of the body as well.
Kepster sends an opportunity to force a little 1v1 here.
So aware though, like knows that the sports coming in,
just pulls that attention to himself,
and it'll be a capture here for Sweden
on this first checkpoint.
But Ademar just trying not to get routed in this one.
He's getting grabbed, getting dangerous and low,
kind of pushed back by Kepster.
He's kind of needs some help,
kind of can test Kepster up on the high ground here.
It's going to be the Kitsune rush here used by Yo-Ham.
I had no support ultimate just yet.
Now it's going to be Ademar dropping the sanctuary,
and that's brutal, Diggany.
You see the position this is in, nobody able to return fire there for Denmark, it's going
to allow Sweden to gain even more space.
And nice that Denmark is able to just get out of that one though and stay alive so Big
Gavish now coming into shockwave to see if the follow up is there, the beat has to come
down to watch this cage fight from Skytor and Skyl, despite popping the orbital ray,
does get cut down.
But the rest of speed, Sweden, still fighting fit.
And Kester was shutting down Dranawich, just Skytor and Johan, and they're just forced
to take the log.
Road home. Yeah, I mean sky tour was dangerously low has to like kind of back out all the way
Yeah, that would have been huge
Yo, I'm maybe gonna be able to tell for back to spawners here get the regroup going but Sweden still looking very composed
Right who nice little stomp the hold on heads as well as we'll see the bit of a bail out of this one sky tour
Sets is maybe one of the few opportunities they get in this series
They've got the pounce on a shockwave pops the Oc to follow up on that aggression
does actually shut down Zorro.
Oh, he's an entrepreneur.
Tracer, so with Kepstras' full spawn,
but there's definitely a fight to be had
if Sweden want to go for it.
Both of them, though, doesn't connect this time.
Willis, on the back foot, just
having to play pure defense here.
At all, a beautiful opportunity
to throw out that ravenous vortex.
It assists Kepster to find that kill onto Shockwave,
and Sweden started to just pick things apart
in the front line, just unbreakable so far.
Yeah, they have
really a no answer for Kev on Tracer right like we've seen them kind of get a
you know a few kills at different moments has Denmark but Kev's Tracer has
just been you know invincible it feels like in the back line so you'll have
another fight here though with Johans Kitsunei rush you're gonna be using it
they'll potentially into that sanctuary with an overclock this time as yeah some
of the damage that Zerol gets up on the high ground there he's able to turn into
use ultimate so gonna get hold bomb there from rap doesn't get anything and
oh what is that the consumer gets dropped with willy's ends up using the
nemesis form finds two with the punches so this is not good here as the bot
will continue to move towards Denmark spawn you're gonna have both support
alternates now for Sweden to close it out yeah very composed fight there from
Zoro and Skyl just cutting back letting the aggression come to them I mean you
saw Zoro's holding on to that slide even with the mogash close range right
showing real poison confidence there. Admiral now with the sanctuary looking for the opportunity
to deploy it. Wants to maybe see the aggression coming his way first. Now let's chain them
all down. It's going to take the opportunity to push forward, maybe break this choke point
kevster. It's not blood in the water. Chance to shut down Johnowich. 90 to this beat. It's
going to be a crucial ultimate in the fight. He needs to be able to deploy it for value.
Slile now. Rip Steve. Ubril Ray. And Sky Tor have to go in deep to force that. He's
Kevin dies but the cost of his life now it's just a stagger and stall game but
with Johan going down to Zoro things are starting to dim prospects for Denmark
not much. Will you get a beat for Johnowitz trying to hold it so that you
can kind of get everybody back in the fight? Sky Tour will end up having to
kind of just start out on to the objective you never get a use of that
beat and that is Sweden just that is that is like a 25 minute match I mean
That is a lightning fast one. I'm Sweden. I'm putting out the call community statisticians
I know somebody's out there watching this broadcast. This has to be one of the fastest when you raise we like ever in
Overwatch, yeah, I mean at like this is
Mathematically if you were just trying to lose as fast as possible it wouldn't be that much faster
Now we're going overboard here
as a little bit of stats I mean look nothing nothing really
No, another really jumps out.
I'm not saying that they were on the other side was not.
But it's it's rare that we see it like this clean.
I mean, I mean, usually teams start to have a little bit more fun
when they're dominating this heart.
Sweden, they were dialed and they got something to do.
I mean, so.
But that's kind of like when we were talking about it with Ash
and Ash could have during us again.
I was like towards the end.
I was like, yeah, I was like, you know, a lot of like what we like.
Oh man, like they could be like issues kind of like, you know,
SkyTour once with Eva and what not, like this could look a little bit like
that last series with Spain and it was actually faster.
The next year he looked a lot like the last series.
The same results, just even, even more in favor of Sweden.
I think just kind of probably shows how strong they are.
You know, Denmark, obviously they still qualify.
They still get in nothing to worry about there with them.
Just Sweden, just obviously taking control of it, getting that first spot in the group.
Yeah, they definitely are and they've got to be feeling good about how dominant that win was that they just had up against team Denmark
Their guys teams are not making me look them on broadcast today
Like that's too much is in a row now that I've been like they could be really close
And they're looking to be like world record
How actually on close can we get?
This one's a surprise I'm on though I
I do think so like I think there are a lot of expectations on the side of team
Denmark and we really thought that there was a world where it was going to be a
closer match. What do you feel like was really the difference maker here? Was it
like the flexibility, like the inability I guess to like ban out Hamster to be
honest? For the team of team Sweden, was it more so like the tank play that was coming in the play?
Like what really started to come for me? I think it's like a really flexibility
And being able to play all different types of stuff
I really thought some of like the Mizuki with the Juno comps were quite interesting as well
From Sweden some that we definitely seen from many other teams and like the way I think Denmark kind of got here
It is like you know shockwave has been really incredible
And like I mean Zoro and kept we're just you know making it make it like hell for him out there today
So I mean I think just kind of a perfect storm happening for Sweden out there at least for me
Yeah, I mean I think like Zorro for me was probably the maybe the surprise in the matchners of how strong his performance was like
I knew he was a strong player
But I thought maybe hey that's the place to your point Matt where shockwave could have the edge could be you know the kind of a
Way in for Denmark off some opening hits can picks but way more often than not it was Zorro
I mean obviously from a very advantage position in a lot of those moments
but still able to deliver really key kills and crucial moments to, you know,
show a team Sweden that is maybe the strongest that this World Cup roster has ever been. Yeah.
Yeah, it's pretty insane to see how good Sweden looked.
But we actually have one of the support players here.
We got, sorry, yeah, one of the support players here to chat with.
We got Skyle on deck with an interview for us for Team Sweden.
Guys, I'm doing great at the fact that it's been such an early morning for me.
Sorry about that, Skyle, congratulations on the win today.
I generally just wanted to ask you, like, what were your expectations going into, and
the team's expectations, as well, going into this matchup against Denmark, because I think
on the desk, we were talking about how we thought it was going to be, you know, closer
than it was, but you guys really showed up and give them a bit of a pounding.
Yeah, I mean, their level was really surprising, because they beat Finland, right, and we
We had a pretty close game with Finland, so we thought it's going to be a close game again.
We're going to have to pull out all the stops and properly prepare and everything, but we
just kind of ran them over all three nights.
Yeah, I mean, this is a huge victory for you guys to obviously solidify the first seed
out of the group.
I mean, qualified and locked it in, of course, to go to Korea in that spot.
I mean, this team, Sweden roster, I was saying, it looks like maybe the best that the country
has ever fielded.
What's the goal for the team?
I mean, when you guys kind of came together, obviously now,
maybe you earned this qualification,
I suspect that was probably what you expected
what would already happen.
But what are the bigger goals in terms of the year
and the Overwatch World Cup for Team Sweden?
My personal goal is top three.
I want like a medal placing, you know?
If you don't make this college a disappointment,
and if we make top three, then I'm happy at minimum.
I think we can go all the way to the roster.
Like we can beat every team.
I believe.
I mean, you guys have dominated the group nine
and one in terms of maps.
I got to ask, a lot of teams are playing like Mizuki with,
no, the Kiri, but you guys have been playing Mizuki with the
Juno.
Like what do you guys see in that type of variation with
that comp?
When people are playing with Kiri, it's like they're playing
with Ram that's a bit slower or with Sig.
Then we never tried it before.
Admiral said in the warm-ups, I think Yajuna and Ram
could be pretty good with this.
We just tried it and it felt good,
so we pulled it out in the mud.
Yeah, it looked great.
It looks definitely super comfortable for you guys.
I think you guys had a standout performance
in today's matchup, Skyle.
I want to say a big thank you for doing this interview with us,
and congratulations, again, for qualifying to Busan
and for getting the first seed here in Group A.
Thanks for having me.
A little bit of insight that we got to have from Skyle
there as we take a look at our group standings for group a very dominant
performance that we just witnessed from Sweden Matt taking that over
Denmark being that second seed now but that also leads me to kind of wonder
like how is Sweden gonna be stacking up against teams like Great Britain for
example here coming out of the EMEA region. Yeah I mean you take a look at
obviously how good Sweden like performed and like throughout this group right
Like they weren't just like beating people. I mean, you look back at their series against Austria, right?
2-0
Goal the the actual the new John City is pretty competitive there
And then they get a full Mac completion on rune of sappy 144 to 2
And then just kind of the series we just saw and then how good they were against Finland
I mean, this is a really scary team. I think like how Jake was saying probably the best
No, Sweden's ever been for the Overwatch World Cup
Yeah, it really has been. I think that it was a fun match to watch, regardless of how
short it was there. Sweet and pulling out the stops and showing us some new compositions
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Welcome back everyone to the Overwatch World Cup online qualifiers.
back with the fourth match up here out of six for the ENA region and we've got France versus Ireland
coming in next guys. We've been speedrunning through ENA so far this Sunday and this matchup kind of
comes down to pride because France they've already solidified their tickets to Busan for the group
stage of the Overwatch World Cup main event Jake and up against the team Ireland that unfortunately
have yet to find a win. So far in this group and France they're not looking like
they'll be the ones you're gonna get that. Yeah I mean the French team I think is
one of these squads also that we're really thinking about in contention for
BlizzCon you know going much much deeper into this event so of course having
their spot in Busan is great but for them I think to drop anything less than
a dominant 3-0 would probably be a disappointment to this squad. I mean
they're looking to set a precedent.
Yeah, they're also looking ash to be one of the only teams.
I mean, look, we'll slide that, you know, Great Britain versus Germany a little bit later.
We'll see how that match goes.
But looking to be like the only team out of all of the groups to go perfect throughout, right?
They have not dropped a map as far, I know, while also being undefeated in their group.
So France really looking to kind of, I know, make a statement here, show that they're kind of back,
as a region that can really kind of contain, you know, as a country with the best in-over watch,
you know, that kind of has to offer across the globe.
Yeah, that is absolutely for a certain, I think, even from yesterday's interview that we got to have with Crocs,
it really tells you about the confidence and the energy that this French roster is bringing to the table.
I think it was really fun to see some of those different comps coming through yesterday as well, Matt.
with how France were looking to shake things up with those subs.
Yeah, we saw Crocs come in, end up playing some Junker Queen yesterday.
That was a fun time on New Junk City, so we'll see if they kind of bust him out today in their game.
But I mean, Majin and Ko has been so good, I didn't think really any reason,
potentially to take Ireland lightly.
No, definitely not.
I think for the side of Ireland, their dreams were unfortunately crushed
when it came down to the Overwatch World Cup over the past like weekend or so and there
have been rumors of brilliance though and I think like some shining some I wow words
are really not my friends today but I'm locking in right now I'm locking in right now but
basically what I'm saying is there's some hope there's signs of life here like time
has looked really good during certain moments. I think he's a player that we've constantly been looking at.
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely going to be a tough matchup for them, right? Going up against the,
you know, one of the top dogs, not just in this group, but maybe across EMEA in general,
from this French team. As we're talking about the really high expectations and I hope through them.
For Ireland, I think, you know, I think you mentioned this earlier, Ash, about this is a lot
of pride on the line here. This is about a committee show, a strong performance here. I
I can't kind of go out with your head held high.
I mean, frankly, the match-during team today
have shown that these top teams are not
taking anything for granted.
Like, they are not leaving anything to chance.
And they're showing out with full force
here in every single map.
So I'm definitely expecting Team France to show more
of the same here.
Ireland need to earn it if they're
going to get a map win in the series.
They've been good for one, though, in every series.
They've been good for one.
So I'll see if they can continue the streak.
Ashes is a brutal opponent though, I mean luck to have Ireland's best chance to spar a little bit earlier on against like Spain and never like Spain's first game, right?
So maybe not kind of like clicking on all cylinders yet.
The Lumaan has looked pretty good for Ireland.
And I know, and obviously this team comes from the conference cups going up against France.
A really difficult pass.
It really is, but we do have to give them that credit of those masses.
They're able to get off of Spain and the likes of Poland.
But let's see if Ireland will be able to do it again, or if France will be able to have that flawless run that they're looking for here in this next matchup.
Thanks Ash, and as we get into this one, it's gonna be Widow's or the 1v1.
You do like the broadcast, and we don't get any Doomfist 1v1.
I know, it's actually messed up. I was hoping for the Doomfist 1v1, because that's hype.
Widow 1v1, I mean, that's alright.
Yeah, it's a ooh, aah, you want to get it.
I'm getting spicy
Absolutely clinical three piece action here just
Kind of swagging on dip which I think that's the kind of that's a motivating win
Defeats dip and golden pants according to our graphic 2v1 Luan doesn't care
No thing everybody on is that it was just just there for a friend to end up kind of falling so
Ireland won this map. I believe this was against Spain. They won Oasis against Spain, so they'll go to Ilios here for game 1.
We saw them go up to this map against Poland, and Poland came out on top.
Trying to beat Crocs to come in to play Roadhog. This is actually a next level line game from Ireland, and I'm actually here for it.
I mean like we already got the line-ups, so
No crops just yet, but yeah, maybe just kind of like fading for the rest of series
So we saw practicing and play a new dream city just fall out junker clean
Into an Orisa base setups yesterday, then we had him on for an interview and he was a he was a pleasure doctor
Well very fun
Very fun guy, so we'll see maybe with me kind of pops up later in the series
It'll be a sim band here for Ireland to kick things off.
And a Lucio band from France.
So you would have thought, hey, a team of the FD God trying to ban Lucio, that's crazy.
But they feel pretty confident in a lot of their different looks.
Yeah, I mean, in taking out Lucio off the table, I think it speaks to the flexibility
right on Team France that you can take away one of the main say heroes given from a player
like FD God who's, I think, really known for the Lucio.
recognizing hey Ireland might be a little bit more reliant on some of these you know classic Lucio
Kiri setups. That's powerful, a powerful line of attack showing that they're not going to hold
any punches off. Yeah and I mean Xerion's been really good on the Kiri so you obviously want to
keep that in. I know potentially you know are you looking at like a Kiri Mizuki. Also FD got
really good at the jetpack cat. So this could be a jetpack cat bashing angle for France, right?
They're one of the teams that can definitely do it. We've seen it from them.
And then obviously, you know, as it kind of makes it through here, we've seen Ireland kind of go to
it as well, right? Just having piloted it at a really high level. You could end up seeing France
kind of go to it here. Yeah, I'd like to see it. I mean, it looks frankly, I think it's a pretty
pretty strong map type for it. A lot of powerful positions, the Jetpack Cat and Bastion can
take in tandem and maybe attack some of these defensive setups a little bit unconventionally
in terms of different angles are able to bring there. For Team Ireland, it's like, I honestly
think they maybe need to take the mirror. I think countering it is really high in complexity
and like really challenging to pull off. And without the Sim, it seems pretty difficult.
Like the Sim Cassidy has felt like maybe one of the better ways to play against it and
even that comp really asks a lot of your Cassidy player like you really need to be hitting
some difficult shots on that jetpack cat to feel good about that matchup.
Yeah, it does feel like you kind of have to mirror I guess if you're at Ireland right?
It's like the only kind of, I mean countering it would be pretty impressive, but it feels
like the path that actually seemed more likely is for them to kind of, they're just kind
of mirror it and maybe play it a little bit better, but actually you got really good at
which is kind of like, I know, maneuvering around the map on the cat.
So we'll see if that's what we end up seeing here.
As France is already kind of qualified, we know they're good.
It's just whether they actually can make fall to the second seed.
I think, I know there's probably actually no, they would tie with Spain.
They very beat them.
So no, no worry there for France.
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Looking out for the people.
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They need some games here.
Come on.
He's like, last few have just been gonna add some blowouts, but I mean Fran says he talked about it, it's not throughout the map here, through groups this far.
Yeah, we'll see if they can continue, obviously, on that streak into this match.
It seems like there's a player on Team France having some internet issues, so we'll get those resolved. Get into the action here on Ilios, which is Ireland's map pick.
They won the 1v1 Deathmatch Decider, which, I mean, you'll take any advantage you can get for Ireland in this one.
Yeah, it's uh, Ireland it feels like they kind of uh, obviously need to like, strike early in this series and then I think kind of make those necessary adjustments as time goes on because it feels like, I think it also kind of depends right?
Like are you going to come out as uh, you know France and take this like match seriously right? You could maybe kind of catch them off guard a little bit.
From Ireland's perspective, right, if France isn't going to click in on all cylinders,
they think this is going to be an easy one.
Yeah, I think you're hopeful, as Team Ireland, that there's a bit of hubris on the side of Team France,
but looking like little cat-bashing classic from them, wouldn't they eat this at all?
Can't disagree with this, and imagine it's also been pretty solid on the diva.
See what Ireland decided to go with.
and they have to expect the jetpack cat
is a pretty reasonable choice
and maybe they'll just take the mare.
Yeah, it's a little kind of see if they do.
I mean, I think most likely they will
as a another pause here.
Like dip actually, you know,
is there any kind of new traded places up there
in terms of the lobby?
So, hey, we're gonna come right back to us.
We're gonna get that one sorted
and we're gonna get it underway.
Yeah, we should be able to get this one shortly
just ironing out a couple final issues here.
Get everybody in their proper position.
We're milking these drops.
We're also trying to see how long Jake can stay awake.
I think we're trying to really kind of test.
Really should have one more cup of coffee, man.
Interesting.
Will's last break.
If it doesn't hurt you here,
I will actually take a sip of my coffee.
Yeah, I'm just gonna,
I'm trying to catch him off to that.
Yeah, yeah.
Do we have the 4D stream on so I can get the smell of it?
I think both teams, I mean, we know what they're going to play now, right?
We saw a little bit of it.
They're both going to play cat fashion here on Ilios off the rip.
So I'm not too surprised that we've seen France through it.
We've seen Ireland do it with some of the bands that kind of came into place.
It looked like both teams also going to end up playing Diva as well with Tracer.
So that's fully what I expect to see once we get back in the game.
Yeah, wouldn't be a surprise. I think I do like that matchup though 14 France and that's going to be comfortable
Not just on the cab bash in front
But you know you look at player like Xerion on the carry. I mean that's where you think you really cut his teeth as a player
You put you know dip on the tracer
Imagine on the D but it's like okay
This starting to feel like top to bottom a very good meta 14 France one that they could be really effective on
Maybe you're you're most hopeful for like the bashing in the sky
But like you said, I think FD God has a really strong handle on piloting the jetpack cat and on kind of like choosing the right moments
To take those engagements and then you know mechanical skill wise. You're not worried at all about a player like Keo
No, no exactly. I think France is a great
line-up to be able to kind of play this exact composition and I think
Ireland look I think it's probably their best chance to like mirror it, right?
But it is a very tall pass
over under you think this series is a longer than the last two we've had or do
you think it goes about you can't these these pauses I mean that's that's a
question oh game time let's talk about game time up not drunk at game time I'm
gonna say they can't beat that I mean I think I generally I genuinely think we
get some community statistician in this I think that's Sweden series was
literally one of the fastest I have seen in 10 years of our watch I mean I
And that was like the pinnacle.
Like, I think hybrid is the fastest game type or one of them
if you full hold an instant cap, because it can end so quickly
with the full hold like that.
I guess theoretically, escort can too,
but seems less common on escort.
And especially the fact that on offense, you can win.
And literally just one fight is pretty massive.
So I'd be impressed if Team France could even
come close to the speed run that Team Sweden just put on.
Yeah, so the map actually kind of changes ruin, so we go on a ruins this time instead of a, I believe we were set up there for White House the last time, so.
So France actually aren't gonna play Cap Echon on this map, maybe they're preferring the Cassidy here, so, see how this plays.
They're gonna match Sigma, so this is also not what we kind of saw, maybe this is just for ruins here with a little bit longer sight line, so.
It's gonna be really difficult for Ireland, I feel like.
Yeah, pulling the wand into position.
See what they try to go for.
France playing these rooms nicely, but as the point opens up,
that's when they're gonna become potentially vulnerable to the cap fashion.
Majin gonna step up, take the challenge.
Fashion now flies into position, but Zerion has already found time.
Ooh, okay, a nice setup from...
Sure, Irish, knockdown dip.
And they're still fighting behind on this one.
They're arching out, though, to get in the front of the pressure.
It just feels like they've got to bash in, like, two late games to fight, right?
Like, you already lost one.
You had allowed France to actually get back onto the point, start kind of taking it.
So, France will end up getting the point first here.
Time tried to come in, make a play there for Keo, not able to find the Cassidy.
So, off to a good start here for France, as we'll see.
It's the same to some independent teams.
change the Ireland but now I think they're gonna just try and boost force
the chip at cat bashing in see if GCB can kind of like get one into position
maybe a little bit faster yeah I'm definitely I'm curious how pure Irish
places because the Sigma America mentally is gonna be pretty tough because cat
bashing I'm not gonna do a whole lot to support you in terms of the front line
dip on the maze called upon though and so you do a lot up into this vertical
Katbashin now getting some attack range in on the back line, Rush is deployed from Zerion, but Team France kind of getting low across the board felt necessary.
Just a stabilized situation, so I don't actually feel pretty good about that getting an ult out for free, but Zerion still exact surprise.
The flux came out from pure ours, but Majin still very healthy, very comfortable on that one, and the Pine him connecting.
Not much fight left here. Katbashin does grab one back, but I think that's all they're going to find out.
We have a second but doesn't count for too much with the spawners on their way back to France
Yes, Gcb gonna be in a rough spot gonna get taken out by dip is
Nice to fly on back is Prince done a nice job kind of battling through cap bashing thus far
So you love a sanctuary here for FV God. This should be pretty strong to play around
They kind of soak up a lot of that cap bashing damage turned inside of the fight rather quickly is one more fight here
Not for France to probably take this round.
Time has been kinda struggling in this matchup, right? I feel like Xerion has had his number so far in these fights, and now Keel also tipped off to his presence.
Nice little pulse from around the corner, but it's on to the carry who comfortably suits herself.
Lux is out for Majin now.
Ironland need to get the chance to pop the rush here, it comes out onto that bridge fight, but FD got the well-timed sanctuary, ensures that that damages.
Essentially going into a brick wall.
Tatl is deployed, but Xerion cuts it down.
It's been a fantastical kill this round.
With that kill, pretty much the hopes to end the round drifting away between Ireland.
Xerion has been just tremendous for a while now on the QRI like in terms of like just the offensive output.
Dominant round there for France.
I think that's a worrisome sign there for Ireland because it feels like this is the best chance,
I know in terms of comp-wise that they have to kind of keep this one close. So
really early on
Don't Ireland we take a look at some of the stats, right? You know, we saw the lawn kind of pick up some kills like not really
impactful ones right at the end of fight. So
Pretty dominant there from France. I know as good as you can get there in round one
Yeah now expecting cab bashing mirrored and maybe come out here on
Ilyaos well a little bit more opportunity to play in those open spaces
I like this is from Team France to step away from the matchup on ruins where there's those powerful bunker rooms around the bridge side
And you know you have some strong positions to kite away from the cab ashen
pure virus that once again on the sigma on a map type where
Mobility is often at a premium on well, so to see how that plays out
Especially his ability to support the duel in the sky.
It's a little bit of a tracking simulator for Keo in the long.
Let's just see how it looks like.
You know, the movement of these cats, right?
Obviously plays into this as you see FDGOT do a nice job getting Keo around into position.
I think that's where you're going to start to see the skill ceiling.
I know of the Jetpack Cat flying up, right?
Not just kind of having the mariel, but then also really relying on the Jetpack Cat for the movement here.
So, D.God, it's off to a great start with Keo in a toe, so we'll see now how Ireland
goes about trying to get out of the spawn here as the D.Va picked for Puriris, so this
feels a little bit better to play in two without the Mizuki on the other side, like we saw
in round one.
Regression coming in, D.God's own flood in the water, sends the chance to swarm forward,
And Keo just beams down the lawn, dominated here in the mirror match in the sky.
And that just takes the wind out of your sails for Team Ireland, Team France, finding every
kind of opening pick into this, and not that they need to.
Yes, I know Keo going to heal himself up just with the rest of Ireland just right around
them.
They're going to de-mech Pure Irish, going for even more kills here.
The Artillery going to be able to use it, going to stay alive here, taking all the damage
down there from LaVon so not able to keep Keel up you will end up losing him so
maybe an opportunity here for Isle and to come back into this one but Xerion
just kind of takes out time and that's a brutal loss. Yeah I mean they finally get
the chance to take position with this cabashian but I mean team France
scattering to the winds here doing really nice in the stay alive. Majin super
close to getting that self-destruct he's just gonna stay alive in the suit. LaVon
though does find FD God who was looking for a kidnap at that moment. Majin also
Force out of his suit, pure iris, experiences the same fate, doesn't have the self-destructor
rematch, and now dip, lights it up with the feed alongside Keo, and France cruising toward
another 100-zero victory.
It just feels like Ireland really struggling to compete in the raw deathmatchability in
this match.
Yeah, it feels like once the fight starts to break out, you start to see just kind of
skill the players of France really kind of start to shine as, I know Ireland will have
to get a touch as uh see actually i think i kind of drop keo there for a brief moment
is and now that i'm out and keo just takes out luan why kind of the ultimate jake there
and it would have been able to get in our artillery for some extra healing
just does not end up popping it in time so not going to have to bash in their consuming rush
here for nut but uh it is just going to end as uh ireland uh rough start here against france
I gotta say, Matt, maybe I spoke too soon about that speedrun in France.
Looking to battle back in the quest for the overwatch World Record speedrun, Ilios 100
zeros back to back, slight over-climb on both rounds, but nothing to write home about.
And I think a lot rests on map 2 in terms of your ability to set a record pace.
Yeah, I mean, look, the stats pretty similar to how we had the last two matchups right
these teams that are probably, you know, heavily favored in these groups coming out on the final day here and you know, really just kind of dominating Xerion, you know, 2700 damage, but then also the 7k healing and impressive outing there from the Curie of France.
So, Modgen finishes Deathless as well. It feels like if Ireland's going to kind of want to match Camp Bash, they're going to be in for a rough day.
Yeah, I mean, it stopped right. This French team has obliterated all comers and Ireland
hasn't been able to find a series win in their group so far. So you see in some of these
moments, Kio's mechanics here on the Bastion shining through piloted, of course, by FD
God's jetpack cat. I mean, that's a combo that France could really lean on in this series
and maybe even far beyond it in the tournament.
I mean, I also think that like, FD God looks really good on the cat, right? Being able to
I kind of like pilot, I know Keo around, so it's like if you're Ireland, you decide to just kind of ditch that strategy at this point, right?
I know and maybe you're gonna kind of just try and play them straight up.
That's also no, like, not saying that Brantz just won't continue to do it, right?
They, they, since they, you just not able to stop it, they just continue to kind of play.
I can't fashion, so, uh, it'll be Ireland's map kick, uh, in the past, what have they gone to?
So let's take a look here real quick. So Ireland has gone to play
I know they've played in Bonnie they tried to play that
against Spain
Rialto, so this is a map I believe yeah, they went through Rialto
Against Poland and they were able to actually win it
It could be a comfortable choice for them
I definitely just think this is gonna be
This is gonna be tough almost no matter what you do. I'm curious
I wouldn't mind to see them just ban out the Jetpack Cat or the Bastion just to just to force something different out of France
Right, just to force them to show a different look and then and then like demonstrate
More depth as a team. I mean the tough thing is you know France does have that depth
But hey, if you're gonna give it your all in this series, you've got it to your point Matt
I think force them off this Jetpack Cat Bastion like you know
And maybe even something like maybe it's the Caricoh like there's different ways
you could maybe attack the overall strategy and still feel effective. The way Xerion is playing,
I wouldn't even hate a Jericho fan. Yeah, I mean, no, a Curie fan would be kind of interesting.
You can see kind of what comes into play in terms of the band. So, interested to see what we see.
I know from Ireland is obviously, I know they all have the first band in this one. Yeah,
Yeah, I would consider getting rid of the cat
Yeah, I mean, it's it's a possibility
Rialto as a map though
I feel like this one always gets interesting because like teams play almost all three classic overwatch styles here, right?
We can see like dive. I don't think it's crazy. We see like a very
Committed poke comps. This is where I think we really first in the champions clash saw the Mizuki sigma poke look truly devastated against the opposition
And you know beyond that even you can always play the classic Russian on this map
There's a lot of defensive corners that can be
Really great for that kind of a look so you know, I think options kind of wide open for Ireland. I'm Bialto
It's it's I think they're
Paragative to really show us maybe a strategy that is their comfort their preference
I think that's where you have to go in a series as difficult as this one
You can't think too much about the opposition and as we take a look at the group C standings here
We see team France, of course they're locked in for the top seed, but I mean they've been perfect so far in the group
Plus seven
Oh, I guess this accounts this
Okay, okay, it's updated. It's updated
Today when seven maps the last two series come on friends can't do that and the carry band does come out
But France just banned out the tracer. They say, you know what you take away the carry
We're just not gonna let you play tracer
So time is just time is just not getting any mercy in this one
Yeah, it's a rough one for time
So yeah, not not going to have the tracer available for this one and then no, Curie obviously
It's a one that we kind of discussed that potentially you know an option
So we will see if that kind of changes anything up allows Ireland to get back up into this matchup
I have to see if that holds true on Rialto, if they can show some fight back in this series.
Ireland may be out of contention, of course, for the group stage in Korea.
Still here in the fight against Team France, wanting to put a little blemish on what's been a perfect group stage for them so far.
Yeah, I think France looks primed to be able to kind of go undefeated throughout this.
They're going to play jetpack cap fashion. They're just going to combine it with the honor, which is another really good here to kind of play around it. So
We'll see. I know how that kind of plays into things, but nothing that would leave me to believe that, you know, France is not going to be able to pile this is a really high level.
I think scary part for IO and as well, they start out on the offensive side here, allowing France to maybe assert that dominance on defense and make this one quick.
I mean, Sim is a super interesting pick here from Dip. I mean, I kind of find it odd, right?
Uh-oh. See if Keo over the top gets scouted. It's time ready for this one.
We're for a delayed widow peek.
Rolling his opponents into a false sense of security gets a chance.
Dip a little bit reactive with the counter strafe there.
Dodge is it, and time's gonna go. Consider his true pick for the map.
This hero's out on Widow. I mean, it's not crazy, but the Reaper a little bit.
Yeah
Yeah, I mean you can't go without here at the moment
So like I think the Reaper a better shot of a nice tracking here from Keo putting a lot of pressure on the opposing cat
At Keo looks really nice up in the air and
FD got it. Yeah, I love how he's using a lot of the verticality of this cat
You know to not just dodge in one dimension, but actually add a second to that
And Zerion, okay, here's the TP actually coming into deployment there, like getting some value pulling the Ana out of trouble.
But you only have one use of that, the sleep just barely saves his life.
Zerion truly dancing with death, but seems to have done enough.
I mean, he goes down eventually, but Team France fighting well into this one.
Although Ireland actually getting the better of the scrappy Jades is the fight, you know, numbers run low.
neither can bashing able to take down the opposition, but
Ana and Sim kind of struggling in the brawl
Yeah, at least early on it was a nice job by
No, Zerion they're gonna get away from the Reaper that was like kind of teaching on top of them
Just kind of ended up in a really weird spot
A lot of times on realtor it just kind of comes down to these fights in the choke
So we'll see I know if Ireland can kind of get it on through is area on already here adding nano
not going to be very close to this as well but there's gonna be a nano on the
bash. He's got nice sleep there. Very clean even an artillery shell hitting the
airborne bashing. Wild stuff. Which other shells going back the other way? No major
connection. Ireland had to back out fully from that but now it's their turn to go
with a nano with their own. You have to find a window to get aggressive here.
They come nano bashing, flying in over the top. That's a huge damage on the
Watch this actually, how did the suit in this fight is looking a lot better for Harlan?
Zerion though, hold on, trading the honest.
GZD finding Dip, desperation now for France, they've got to come touch this point, Cap Bastian
not able to really deploy their mobility in this fight.
Bastian, he's fully committed now to the fight and doesn't last long in the face of a Reaper.
Yeah, and I think it's really difficult to kind of play the sims with the Reaper on
the other side, so maybe a swap here for Dip as, we'll see what he decides to play as
are we on our case and it was gonna play some honor so it does get some
adjustments I know as of late right I think obviously she's much better now
than on release but not a hero we see quite often really at all is that the
pure Irish who used to be all that is a filthy self-destruction here against
team France and what a time to come alive for Ireland we were talking about a
speedrun and I think that we got to get those words out of our mouth this is
turning into a true brawl. Time finding more on the Reaper.
Curibans usually really paying dividends for so them so far I really like the
Reaper play from time I feel like it's straight forward but puts a lot of
pressure on the defense. So far Team France hasn't been dealing with it well
they are coming back decently well into this brawl but even as Dip fans the
flames and the enemy D.va I mean ultimately he has to back out cannot hold this
objective. Yes, Audrin will get back on to the objective though. They're gonna have
a very on back here to be able to kind of use the nano if he be. I know Dip has
actually put down some serious damage on the Audron. She hasn't really resulted in
any kills at the moment. Now actually the nano on to the Audron. Nice job there.
Nice kill from pure Irish and the defense matrix in there. So Ruan can
actually deal with Gio as you see get way deep into the back line. He's able to find Luan.
It's going to actually use to be ultra red here, so you can be back into the action.
Yeah, and he's going to be able to find some kills at the back of this, because time,
if your eye were swarming forward, the self-destruct in the center of the chaos,
but Gio actually shuts down your eyes before the Remak can come in.
And with FD God attacking into the back line now,
Just look good for France to make the hold here on second point. Ireland just gonna lick their wounds and resell.
Time grabs another with a dire trigger there actually, so maybe there is a fight to be had.
Especially they're gonna send it for the bash and do a couple nice shots though from Xerion onto the cat.
And give GCB some real pause.
Yes, we'll see for France if they're still able to continue this haul list.
They definitely stabilize here a little bit. You will have to catnap for GCB.
He's gonna get the nano boost here, and Akio's gonna immediately have to use that artillery to be able to stay alive.
You know, if I should not find any kill just yet, and the counterattack immediate from France,
a little pick up on the Ana, ooh, doesn't quite take her up the map.
It's a slight mistake, I think, from FD God there.
Doing well, but, dang, she gets countered, turned on by the double support still, but both supports distracted.
Still may have just been enough in the fight.
Here Irish wants to get back into the suit, but the dip is not gonna give him that luxury and I don't have shown a strong often
So far, but they're they're falling apart a little bit here at the end of second
Which is an notoriously difficult point to attack here on watch. Oh
Yeah, this one can be pretty tough
They're just even without some of these like nasty cops that are happening at the moment
So it'll be the Zarya swamp here, so there's gonna be more pressure on modules
on the Diva. I mean look at it like what are you supposed to do here? I mean if you're
prior Irish, you don't want to play Zarya for this.
Yeah, I don't want to get attached to the Diva sort of, but the Jeff Ikebash in this
is not a recommended pick on Rialto. You're walking across like the beaches of Normandy
here. Yeah, he uses one bubble that's gone instantly and then just like gets to back
up. I think I know the Andron has been a pretty nice pick without Tracer in play, so
differences that look quite impressive.
Yeah, it's cool to see. A little bit of a tank trade here, artillery form though, jerk
the pressure of the bubble, invading for now. He was still under pressure or so. I mean,
he gots to keep backing him out here. The deathmoss him comes out from time and actually
did just can't quite get away from it. That was Rage of Recton's stuff though, with the
Ultima is going to stay in the fight and Cap Bastion are putting on a bit of a backcap
pressure here. France went all in for the aggression, but pure Irish stayed alive and
is continuing to fight this one out. Now Luan actually, yo, I'm sorry I'm playing, hold on,
this is looking like an overtime cap. You got to find something. But Luan after you got to find
nothing. That's NASA, now a biograin from Zerion on the other side. It's going to be,
I can't have air drag Luan off the side, and this is going to be pretty difficult. I feel like
Everybody's got a battle back into you. Yeah, yeah, there goes Majin as
Okay, hold on. I know after you got getting back in it
I'll kill off the spawn just as no fits where it ends
It's a nice swaps there from both teams, but France comes out on top of it again
Respectable pressure for sure from Ireland, right? Like, you know, that's that's a winnable push
Absolutely, if they can put up a solid defense first and second point very very winnable for them. I
Mean, I definitely got to give them credit that the Cap Bastion felt a lot better on this map. Yeah
Like some of the executions felt a lot cleaner and and I think France definitely
Passed up the respect level here
I also thought times Reaper was pretty nice found a lot of picks in some of those chaotic exchanges when the aggression really
Got let loose. I felt like time was able to get a lot done here on the Reaper. I think the carry band paying dividends
Yeah, I think it's like the carry band and also like you know not having tracer and I know having I know
Diffing like doesn't really want to play maybe the Reaper falls back something again on run where I think the Reaper can definitely start to
I know have an impact so I own will keep the Reaper on defense looks like France essentially still gonna go with the honor on
Alphins, what do you see now that I know the new hero?
Yeah, I mean on run she she's interesting
It's like I think you know you think about characters like Tracer and Genji right and in sort of a similar way
But on run doesn't feel as she has quite that same level of survivability and that's kind of the challenge
I mean, obviously that ultimate resurrecting you back into the fight can kind of make up for that.
But of course, you compare that to something like Tracer's Recall, and it's a tough competition for our cooldown ability.
So I think this challenge, Ron, is to be as aggressive as those other flankers, but actually make it out of those exchanges alive.
It's definitely going to be a test.
However, you can do a lot more direct tank damage, especially into something like D.Va fanning those flames.
So, let's just see, I feel like time did get the better of that last round on the Reaper.
See if Dip can get a little bit more done on the offense.
Yeah, so you need to maybe cause some more problems.
Forgot not on the other side, but always fun to see.
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So, fashion battle up here in the sky is Luan gets the better like P.O. of this one.
So I believe you also had a pure irish
Yeah, yeah going in there kind of finishing up the area on so I know a lot of elbow or France to
Really rough scenario they're gonna have to try and back out completely here
Yeah, it's enemy territory here is dead
slips away with that flametash, but if de god will not be so lucky and
These are the kind of fight wins that start things off on the right foot for Ireland right buying a little bit of time building up a little bit of ultimate charge
Gotta keep this up though, those duels in the sky are ever crucial, even with the economy
advantage behind you.
If your bashing goes down, things fall apart.
You know what I mean?
Keo is winning them, I feel like, with ease in the first map on Helios, but now, really,
Luan's starting to come alive as maybe just kind of a little bit of extra help and rest
of the team a little more.
The fire is, you see, Keo already dangerously low, but it's going to be the nanoboose that
comes in. On to the Bastion for France, his time does fine dip. Not gonna be able to find
anything with that nano, but you may have put down enough damage here to make it interesting
as if your Irish bug is DMX, you did end up losing some key members already though, James.
So I don't think you're gonna be able to win this either if you're France.
How great support to keep your Irish alive and he's able to even pistol down Keo, pop
back into the suit and this is looking like, I mean, we could be cruising to a map when
Fireland like they are doing very well on this whole that France it feels like they found nothing
Dip is put in the better. He's gonna go over the reaper mirror himself
Recognizing at times can you just a lot more out of this one, but it's late in the game
And I mean Ireland are up to the bank of every single ultimate now
It's up to them just be disciplined and play that economy game, but this is their math to lose
Oh that I doubt I mean they they looked obviously be in control. They have the nano here they use on pure irish
They can use on the lawn a few different good options
Now they're kind of conceding and playing...
The Reaper is a self-destruct youth airbind monster, so maybe you can catch that.
You can't fashion out as the long get together benefits of the Nano and go on in.
Matrix up in his face, artillery gives a little bit of HP, but a Nano back and just carves right through it.
Time with a little defensive death blossom here.
Make sure that the progression is stifled from France.
France and I mean I love that from Ireland. Nano Blossom come out you're not too mad at that and
France coming back into this with only the cattle they kind of need to get something done in the
deathmatch duel but so far that's been all Ireland here in Rialto.
We'll see here uh the final moments France can get it if there's an over the line trying to keep
their perfect map score through groups alive but Ireland they've been good for one in every single
series here, his pure ire throws in, his self-destruct doesn't connect with anything. Yeah, I like that they, they're carrying these diva bombs in, it's always a fun match, if a mage in a, oh, finding nut, that's a crucial kill, taking the legs out from under the Ireland.
And France also lose their honor though, so Heal's quite a premium here in this engagement.
GLawn getting a better Heal though, that could be enough potentially to seal the deal, but with Dipfinding 1, there's still a fight to be had, Time finds another, and this one is just down to the absolute wire.
Spawner's coming back in though, so I think France are gonna get one last crack at this. It is about as messy as they come in terms of team fights, man.
Yeah, Majin will stay on here for a brief moment. He's been moving forward as
you're going to get Kyo off this guy. Look out for the death boss and no fun
give. Dioriris is already dangerously low and I think they actually use the
nano here on the Kyo just bombing damage through the choke. Yeah, Dioriris going way
too deep into the back line gets brutally punished. Light's got a little bit too
bright for him there. France, give a clean house. Lock in this cap. Still more work
to be done on the map but that is a for sure a sigh of relief for France and
their perfect stage I mean Ireland were way too close to just ending the map
right there looking much more likely for France now right you know you're gonna
be able to kind of have that artillery to kind of keep you alive dip I know it's
still with that death blossom maybe gonna you can track some of the members in
the back line there just a lot of progress here they're kind of giving up
to France right where the box victory is like they kind of need to take a fight
That's why France was pretty successful, right? They got these those a few bikes by being close up and somehow you just let okay
Luan die this could be bad. Ooh nice. I sleep there from not
That has been uh, let me get cereal. That's pretty pretty nice, but man the rest of this is uh
Quite brutal certain to fall apart for Ireland. Yeah, and you need to find some counter kills
They're gonna go into the death blossom, but it's a little bit desperate
Imagine just holding on to a healthy dose of matrix more than ready for that re-proliment to come through France now
Looking to put this map behind them with a W.
Ireland, come back down on the retake. They have a nano boost, but not much else to their name.
If you get into the fight and imagine now, he's maddened into his own hands, gets in front of that Ana.
Grab from...
You gotta... it looks like it is actually enough to get in front of the Ana.
Yeah, they're gonna get that play here now. Artillery you have.
You have I know they can't appear from GCB so they take keel off the side while keel is using the artillery
It'll be picked with his death blossom is now you're just trying to clear off the Reaper and the cat and you're in a spot
For France where you complete this map you hold your perfect map score and you go up to oh
This is I mean that was a sketchy one for team France
Maybe one of the closest man was seen from them so far in the group stage like Ireland had some real opportunities there
I think there was a moment on first I thought they could have closed out and they kind of let it slip through their fingers
Like so many grains of sand and they might be kicking themselves for that one
Definitely some great plays out of Ireland though
Definitely showing us that they became to compete for team France a little little brush with with danger. There's probably healthy for them as a team
Yeah, a little bit of a wake-up call maybe for France. So we'll see kind of know what they decide to do moving forward
I think you probably have to get rid of I know that cap fashion right or or you just kind of chalk it up to
Like Xerion is so good on the carry. You can obviously still play on a I know at a high level
But that kind of just throws a little bit of a wrench into things
Yeah, definitely, I think it was a good band from Ireland, right?
It certainly the on a matchup felt a little bit more comfortable for nut
But surviving this one is gonna be big because now, you know
Back on the carry is gonna be quite the comfortable option for a player like Xerion
I wonder what our next map pick is going to be.
I mean, this map does make me believe, like, hey,
the Jetpack Katbashian is not a terrible matchup for Ireland.
Like, any given day, you're on the same map a few times.
Ireland could win a decent amount of them.
Like, this is far from a one-sided affair here.
So I wouldn't hate taking us to another map
where you can kind of run it back and just
hope for a different result.
Yeah, I mean, although you do have Katbashian fans
available right now for France so there is an opportunity for them to just kind of get it out
That that's a ways of threat here. I think if you're Ireland like I'm not sure okay
It was fun the entire time we were in game and now I'm just uh, yeah, I just disappeared into the darkness
Get that one story, but uh, you could where do they go? Okay?
serve us so you know any other map that you can play cap bastion on but I think
you'll probably see them trying to ban it out yeah if I were France I probably
would say you know what let's let's play things a little bit more stock
standard you know we don't want to get too silly in this one you know I wouldn't
I agree I wouldn't hate banning out one of the two of the cap bastion duo there
to try to run you know a more conventional look for Team Ireland I
think so far it seems like they really wanted to go the cap bastion both of
the Ilios map pick, I mean taking us to Rialto,
the Kiri right, like it's that's been their bread and butter,
uh, with the Anastas look good for them.
The only down, the downside of Sherpa Austin in comparison to Rialto though is regardless of bands,
I think the Ana it would be way less effective here, right?
Where like a Kiriko, the dynamism and the flexibility she has is going to be
really priced on a mode like Flashpoint.
Yeah, as I know you, you'll have uh, you know, Kiri in the mix, right?
For this one, uh, you know, and then I think,
I think, for Frans, I think the one thing is like you,
Suravassa, you wouldn't want to play like Alucio, right?
So, you know, do you potentially see
like the cat kind of make it on through
because like Alucio, you don't want to kind of contest that.
So, I think that is a potential,
like thing you would look at here,
but I don't think there's going to be something
that Ireland can do that really kind of
throws Frans off their game.
I think it's going to be pretty difficult to do that.
Yeah, this one I think is, you know, attacking the strengths of France I don't think is
such a great option.
I think for Ireland this has to be their own style, their own comfort and just trying
to be able to come out on a comp where you feel practiced, you feel effective.
Like, I feel like that's what we saw in Rialto which I'm actually impressed by Ireland, their
counter punch in Rialto was pretty significant considering the strength of this French team,
you know, to put them to the limit, you know, to find it into your like a winnable OT scenario,
you know, a couple of times in that map, right? Like that says a lot for me about this Irish
team and their potential.
Yeah, so still obviously kind of waiting for the bands to come on in. It'll be the first
band here for Ireland. So we'll see kind of what they decide to get rid of. I mean, if
your Ireland is, they got rid of like a,
could you get rid of D.Va here maybe?
I know Enforced Modgen on to something else.
They got rid of that, yeah, I don't think so.
So that could be something they could look to do
and kind of force it into like more of like a sig type of look
we've seen from Ireland in the past.
Although I think Modgen's pretty good on the Rematra
to be able to play that.
Yeah, it's tough.
Yeah, I guess they are gonna go accept the Mizuki.
So they're gonna get rid of like the,
regardless of the tank, like one of those really strong defensive poke options.
Yeah, and you actually see D.Va, the ban out comes from France, so they want to get rid of the D.Va that Ireland's been playing.
So pretty interesting here for France, this will set them up to probably play like a Remontre-Mirror, right?
And you were trying to maybe ban that Mizuki to allow Ireland to kind of continue to play that diva, right?
Yeah, exactly. And I think that's a good ban from France here because we've seen the Mizuki be one of the best tools to lock down a very aggressive diva, which
you know, you could certainly describe pure Irish that way in this series, right?
He's been really, you know, no stranger to getting it in with the enemy backline and really putting those attacks down.
So hey, take out the diva slow the pace down a little bit get a little bit more breathing room for your supports
It's makes a ton of sense for team france, especially faced with not having the Mizuki to work with
Yeah, so uh nope as we get into this one up potentially the final game in this series
still some more EMEA
overwatch right after this
Be an opportunity for island to get there one they've gotten one every single time alright, but
But I mean, Franch just looks way too good right now, just kind of dominating through
their group at the moat.
Yeah, both teams hovering a MAGA look.
It should make sense, right?
The MAGA Reaper pretty solid on this map and a good base from which to play the Cap Ashen,
where MAGA, Karrie, Reaper are all going to be pretty comfortable, and where the Cap
Ashen can have a little bit more free reign to roam the map.
See what the actual picks end up being.
It's actually gonna be Tracer for time coming back out and dip over to the Reaper.
I do kind of like Reaper a little bit more in this Magamare.
Yeah, I think the Reaper is definitely gonna be
probably the go-to here. Definitely gonna hang off and I look you still have Cap Bastion available for both teams.
I think that extra burst damage of the Reaper is gonna be way harder.
If your pure iris even kind of withstand that and also while I do a little bit of a Shadow we do have a sub, right?
So Crocs does end up coming in here, 14 France.
And when Waste no time making his appearance known, finds an instant kill on an enemy Bastion.
Huge fine, basically breaks the back of to Maryland, and this fight time just gonna
oak and prod, trying to farm up a little bit of Pulse Bomb, but yeah, without the Bastion and the Catcum.
Oh, even the Tracer game is gonna go down, so staggered now, coming in and Crocs looking to get aggressive.
The holding onto the shout, Trades and the Maga instantly back to full HP.
Tied 4 from pure iris, that is not going to work out.
France more than ready to take all covers.
And then Croc's going to keep going, man. Why not?
That's one thing he mentioned to us yesterday, Jake.
That he is just going to be as aggressive as possible.
That he was just kind of calling, you know, shouting out to the rest of the team.
Like how impressive he was going to be.
And you know, you see that already here on the Maga.
So I know more than halfway our first point is France says
I know we'll see if you got putting you know looking like they were gonna like kind of hover up behind there a little bit
But kind of saw the push start to come in and then I give out a little bit of a better location
FD got some pretty adept in terms of positions. He's been allowing his team to play
Drops fashion off on the high ground at Crocs once again since his opportunity diving forward to Russia's Spanish here
So far paying dividends and good stuff and pure Irish though keeps them alive and long trades out Kyo
Pure Irish meeting the cage here
Fight looks to be actually turning back in the favor of Ireland it's relatively expensive after the poison the old
It's in that one, but as long as they can get a song clean up here. They're gonna be feeling decently good about this
Rocks though those escape with his life, which is actually quite nice for the spawners coming back in
I mean we live in this one very quickly rocks right back into the action. Yeah, I mean a cage fight here
potentially four Crocs so we'll see how he decides to lull the Moga ultimate as
you're gonna have like cheese, essentially with like a death blossom inside of it is
Ty trying to make a play for Zaryon but hey Luan gets dipped that's huge
GCP's gonna end up using the catnap to drag that Moga away but I mean Crocs just
shoots him out of the sky as soon as he grabs up by him. Yeah in France you know
both teams now taking some losses but France looking a little bit healthier
looking stronger and a confident gauge fight out of Kroc's but with the tracer
in behind putting the pressure on his back is actually pure Irish who wins
that duel with the assist from time but in the end of two France cleaning up
and their earlier work done in this round to be up 99-0 now it pays off
recapture and a flash point. Yes no pretty pretty easy first point here for
France as you know now you'll kind of get into the next flash point you know
FD got here with the catnap probably a little bit I know better location for
someone by your mental kills so we'll see if he's able to grab Maga fairly easy
target although you did see Croft just kind of I know end up killing the cat
right away but I mean Keo just kind of drills him on a range and not even in
third form just in a normal Bastion yeah not really the way we expect that fight
to go bashing in the backline fd gun actually cleans up bcb drops off geo in a pretty hot
spot actually and that pulse bump of time is going to shut him down but not before geo puts his
damage out prox is in he says impressive and this is i mean this is pushing the limit artillery
fire raining down on prox tries to charge out of this one may just barely be able to slip away
with help of fd gun oh i mean man how almost able to do so right i know just gonna get killed with a
sliver of health and unfortunately for France right because that is just when
they start capturing the point so I know France I know that you get up to 11%
Ireland's gonna match that you know end some right away so you get that early
kill from Keel on the Levan but not even turn it into a large amount of capture
percentage yeah definitely a little bit over aggression here but you can't blame
I think you also had the catnaps from both sides, I think Epidod actually was not able to do so.
Was that a tactical crouch in the air on Jetpack Cat?
They're levels to it, and GCB is clearly on the highest.
I think the catnap from FD got it, he was extra trying to get the Moga, but I don't think during a run.
Ireland just pushed up, they caught France off guard here, really nice play.
Love that aggression there, the flip comes in, but you've already lost Keo, are you really going to be able to take this fight?
this fight. Ireland though, they didn't waste no time enforcing this engagement.
For the player advantage, you've got to clean this one up quick, and FC God, no fight's
nothing, the chaos buys team France a chance into this one. Cron's dueling really well
with the cage fight, but you don't really want to take the test against this Manga.
And the points looked like they've hurt France here too, right? It's going to be the artillery
as the stomp comes right in from Cron's. X-Luwan using the artillery, but he did not matter,
their approach just pushed right up into it.
All that somehow FD God, despite not having a Bastion,
kills a Kiriko in a chaotic mid-fight,
that is absolutely wild and pretty much single-handedly
brings that one back into contention for France.
It looked so good for Ireland with their aggression.
Now, without the ultimates,
this Flashpoint feels like almost a foreground conclusion.
Somebody needs to be a hero.
Can't try it on the enemy Mauga
and just heavy damage forward in.
Just, yeah, can't quite survive.
It's just a millisecond too late from not there
Yes, we go over to FD. Got speed we get bill towards the point as OT is triggered, but
Somehow France is gonna come back into this one gift gets right up in front of Luan space difficult
I know GCB trying to save the bash in there not able to do so nice subs there from time each OT triggered
As GCB will just kind of fly in and just swoop on in not gonna be able to do any more as if he got
hunts down his counterpart and just like that France is up to two flash points
to zero looking for a sweep. They may wear very well-finding here man I feel
like the Reaper is paying quite a bit of dividends in these midfights you know I
think time is doing decently well actually on the tracer but is
struggling at times to just take the raw tank trade with the minimal resources
that Reaper can kind of offer in some of these fights. Now ultimate advantage here
But they may not even need a heal, opening up a quick two-piece, goes for an artillery,
it's gonna throw away a little too mad at that.
But that should be an opening half for Team France, and even a very late stagger onto the Kiriko.
That hurts.
Yes, now it'll just be France who's...
Typically sometimes you get these kills early in fights here, not even like turn them into the point right away,
but they get enough kills on the rotation that, I don't know, not even a contest from Ireland.
So, Ion does have all five ultimates out here, Jake, but they have to be careful, right?
You end up kind of over-investing in this fight, and you don't get a win.
And you are in a position to end up losing this one.
Croc's gonna, oh, I was gonna say, they're gonna do a nice job of trying to keep him alive.
It's a huge catnap there.
And X with a few players, it's a nice full-stomp.
From time, lands on the QGCB, able to dodge the Death Blossom for now,
but after he got on the chase, hunts him down.
This has just been back and forth this feels like eventually it's just gonna leave yeah
It's gonna be Ireland it comes out on top
It's gonna be the Reaper who's just squirted away here by FD got up in the sky
I love that play pulling, you know, saving private Ryan there get him out of enemy territory dip though is backing out now
with
That raid form deployed and Ireland aren't gonna give him any quarter still pushing for a boost to your items to your iris
Yeah, there's definitely more opportunity artillery from the wad versus the back from now
But France, I think that's gonna be the last backstep they take here.
Gonna start pushing forward, forcing the issue on this point.
Time on the flight on this tracer, get some very nice damage on the Kiriko.
We'd love to finish this plate on this.
Honestly, a crucial kill to FDGOT's Peel is a really nice nat in the full-�am.
Goes just a step wide.
Crocs finds two, and France should be able to get a quick retake on this Peer.
I wish it was back into the mix, but it feels like a lot to ask for a comeback in this one.
Yes, Crocs gonna make his way back towards the point.
He's always just moving towards the Ireland spawn that the rest of France probably like,
okay, can you come back and help us deal with this real quick?
As he doubles back the whole kind of deal with your Irish.
But that's what I was worried about.
I mean, look, you do get up and get close to taking the lead here if you're Ireland,
but it's France now still in control with a little bit of a lead and now an opportunity
with one fight that just closed this series out.
So, awareness of the geometry here from the cat's form, baited out, both sides actually trading.
Now, we'll get a player on Crocs cage fight on the point.
Crocs deploys it quite early, knows you have to contest into this, trying to challenge the
enemy Valga and a nice little stun from him if he got, but he is caught in the cage fight
so we can't actually pull back out of that, but the rush is just doing too much, Xeria
makes all the difference, Nut gets his own rush, but it's just too little, too late, Ireland
falling here on Cervosa and Team France secure the perfect stage here in their group.
Yeah, just fantastic, right? I mean, they go undefeated in their group, just ran through everybody and really show how good of a team they are.
Whether it be Cap Ashton or anything else, teams are throwing at them.
France is able to really, you know, make it to their opponent.
As an FD God is, really put himself in the conversation, you know, as like one of the better get-back cats I think we've seen.
Yeah, I mean, such a low death count, like really stable.
and going beyond just just pocketing the bastard right like finding the
opportunities to get a little bit more out of the hero to like you know find a
bit like please is it is damaged pretty respectable here like almost doubling up
on GCB and without fun I mean still ahead on the heels to so I think you're
right just to call it FD God as a key difference maker here in terms of the
impact in this series and of course Ash you know you've been watching through
this series definitely some signs of life for Ireland but team France of course
getting it done. Yeah, and done in a flawless fashion, right? I mean, we do talk about like
the signs of life. When I talk about flawless, I'm talking about that map differential and
the fact that France, they come out of their group unscathed, which they've got to be very
happy about, right? We talked about how this team was going to want to make a statement,
especially I think after that interview that we had with Crocs yesterday, Matt, this team
is not here to play as fun as the vibes on it, Macy.
No, I mean, they looked awesome.
I mean, Crocs comes in for a really aggressive look
on Flashpoint yesterday.
Does the same thing here again today.
And I think, you know, with obviously how good,
like, Dip and Keohar, they're going to be,
I mean, just really the entire team.
Like, I think the back line obviously really good.
Like, in Xerion, can play Qiri,
they look really, really difficult to beat.
So I'm excited to see this team compete in Busan.
Yeah, I am really excited to see this team compete in Busan.
I think that, you know, the fact that they're able to come out without dropping a single
map says a lot as far as how good they looked in this group stage.
I feel like now after seeing all three of their matches, Jake, how do you feel like
they're kind of like fairing up against the rest of the competition?
Yeah, I'm really curious to see how they do in Busan.
I think France is one of those teams I see as kind of a bubble team from BlizzCon, where,
You know, I think it's very realistic that they could qualify to BlizzCon, but I mean, the competition is only going to get much fiercer from here on out.
And I think they'll definitely have to iron some things out if they want to qualify to that top eight, the final stage of play.
Definitely a lot to work with though. I mean, having a very solid cat-bashing look is something I think can be an asset for them.
Something that teams who don't want to match it are going to be constantly forced to worry about in the band process, right?
It's like one of those styles that can be make or break for a team in the current meta.
So I think France having it in the pocket is great.
And I think for them the versatility to go for other directions as well is going to pay
down.
It's got a deep roster on this French team.
So I definitely expect them to do well.
Yeah, that is for certain.
I think like you also kind of think about the interview again that we had yesterday,
and he talks about how a lot of the teams within OWC aren't wanting the Cat Boston because
they don't necessarily have like that synergy to be able to actually like pull it off and
how important that synergy is when it comes down to you know, having the trust in your
cat when you are the Bastion in particular.
So that's definitely a boon here for France and then on top of that too, I think with
all the subs that we see coming in, getting this team different identities at times,
not the map is something that we can definitely look at as a strength.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think France needs to play the cat fashion to beat somebody seems I think they're just kind of pretty good at it
I think FD God I can really kind of pilot the cat at a high level
So like it's not even a no necessarily like I think you're worried about I think as we move forward, right?
You know, maybe can't fashion will be meta. I know by time you get to Busan man
I know you'll have to kind of reinvent the wheel. I think this France team is gonna be able to play
I know multiple different types of play style
So you see here for group C, right?
France just kind of runs through everybody dominant.
Ireland not able to get their one in this series.
But Spain, I think, you know, really probably the,
obviously France dominates the group.
I think Spain's performance of against Poland
really put a lot of people on notice.
Yeah, it really did.
Overall, but I know Jake,
everything is kind of set here for EMEA.
I say kind of everything is essentially set here
set here for EMEA, right? As far as teams that we're going to be seeing, maybe just
a couple of new seed matches to better take problems to figure the last final of this
out in that kind of sense. But overall, I think that we've gotten a really good
idea of the different identities that we're seeing now from a lot of the
squads that are pulling up for OWWC. And I feel like EMEA, Jake, has always been
in this region that continues to like innovate at times,
but also like not fall too hard
into like maybe the set matters
that you see coming out from Korea.
Yeah, I mean, I think the EMEA region,
especially as far as the World Cup goes,
often feels just a lot of strong teams,
you know, that often many of them can make deep runs here,
whether through the group stage
or potentially even on to BlizzCon.
And now, I mean, the teams that have qualified, right?
You buy yourself that new lease on life
and opportunity to, you know, continue to practice,
a few more weeks of preparation going into the next tournament. Who knows if
the patch is coming down the pipeline you know potentially changes that could
shake things up. So I think for a lot of these teams you can have a chance now to
like breathe the sigh of relief. The qualification is over. You're going to
Korea and you're gonna have that you know next chance to compete and
represent the team on land. And I think I know I mean I know for teams like Team
France it means a lot to them to be able to represent their country in that way.
Absolutely. I think that even more so that some of these players don't necessarily always get those land opportunities too.
Like Overwatch World Cup is sometimes like one of the few opportunities throughout the year that they might get to play on that kind of like international stage
up against other teams and whatnot from different regions.
And I think it says so much about like the experience that individually they're also able to like kind of garner and how that can level you up as a player as well.
as well.
Yeah, I mean, you look at a France out of rough go
and Overwatch as a blade, right?
Pep's obviously not able to kind of like re-qualify in.
And there are a lot of really great players
from this region, from this country, right?
So be able to kind of see them qualify for Busan.
I think they're like a dark horse to qualify for Kluzka.
I think it'll be very close, like they go on the edge for them
to kind of make it.
But hey, look, I mean, they have the talent.
The meta shakes right.
And they get a lot of practice beforehand.
They most certainly can get there.
And I think it would be great for the French fans, right?
I know they want to see like their key succeed
at the highest level, a very passionate fan base
we have in Overwatch.
So I'm hopeful their app was gone.
Yeah, so I think the fans are definitely,
that's the best part of it all, right?
Really guys, it's just getting to see
how hyped everyone is.
And the fact that we're all fans of Overwatch
at the end of the day, Overwatch World Cup
is one of those events that like,
how to really bring this all together.
in that sense, you've got, you're bringing together fans
from maybe different rivalries within like OWL and OWCS.
Then they all kind of come together maybe
to cheer for a different team that you wouldn't necessarily
expect or just support some of their favorite players.
And that's what makes everything really fun here, Jake.
Yeah, I mean, this is a great program, right?
It's the opportunity to not only bring new faces in,
but also have a new mix up and a new sort of wrinkle
in the competition.
And then I think for a lot of players,
there's like a different kind of emotion and a pride
that comes with representing a national team
versus competing professionally,
where it goes a little bit more beyond the individual
and your career and being as successful as possible, right?
But really about, hey,
like some being part of something bigger than yourself
and representing for a fan base.
And we know for, especially for a team like France, right?
Like I remember when we were at the,
I was at the World Cup stop for France years and years ago
and the energy was incredible there.
I can't wait to be back in Paris and to see some of the eSports fans and to your point, Matt,
I mean, I think it would be a lot of fun to see a two-point team, France and Blitzconn,
and see the fans get behind them there in the round. I mean, their fans travel really well.
It's going to be super exciting overall, guys, but that's a wrap for us. We were up really early
today, so that's a wrap for me. And then it's also a wrap for Matt and Jake. We do have a couple
more AME games to go though as well as a few more NA games as well but we are done our coverage here
for the online qualifiers for the OWWC. We will be heading to a short break and then we will be back
with Moxie and Molly.
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the EMEA coverage here.
for the Overwatch World Cup qualifiers. I'm GotMoxy, I'm joined today by Tiny, Shiny, and we have the
absolute pleasure of finishing off the day for EMEA and also bringing you the last two games
of the day over on NA and Molly. We got the good one, right? We got Team GVR versus Germany. I think
that's one that we're really looking forward to seeing what's going to happen because both of
those teams playing a lot of the meta. Different story when we're looking at this next matchup,
right? Norway, Portugal, both of them sort of playing their own thing. Yeah, and Norway and
Portugal had, I think, a tough group going into the same area with Great Britain and Germany. It
almost seemed like those two were issuing from the start. So, unfortunately, they're confirmed to be
no longer able to qualify for Busan. I'm excited that we get to have them here on the stage for
one last time. And as you said, they like to march to their beat of their own drum.
They like to march to the beat of Venture Pick, it's fair to say when we're looking at Norway right, they play probably the most amount of Zarya that we've also seen from this age as you sort of being pushed out by the likes of Mauga, the Dether, Rematra, the Sigma, and they like to play their own thing as
the players, so many different heroes. I think he really has just been able to play for most
of our DPS roster.
Yeah, it's really a hyper flex. And I'm really excited to because he, for example, just qualified
for OWCS EMEA on the TELUSI roster. So I look to see more of him going on after this. But
you know, when I think when you look at this game, both of these teams not taking any maps
so far in this group, of course, that will change for one of them by the end of today
to see if they're going to be able to end out on at least one of the wins here.
Yeah, I'm Portugal in a very similar situation. Like we said, this was a very rough group coming
on through. They've played a little bit more of the meta stuff in comparison, right? We've seen
them play things like the Mizuki, they played the Bastion just without the cat when they went
up against GBR on Circuit Royale. So they're still playing some of that meta and I would expect now
Now that there's been a little bit more time as well for them to be able to practice that in official format,
we could well see a little bit more of the coordination required to properly pull it off.
Yeah, I think it's kind of one last showcase for these players,
to the skills that they have, to more of this regional talent that the World Cup allows us to highlight.
So, I'm looking forward to that. I think Portugal, a little bit more, I mean, I guess,
I don't want to say like indoctrinated to that, because they're not, they're still like,
I think they have more of a brawl type identity that will be an interesting clash to have
this unique venture Zarya or Reaper Zarya style that Norway have been trying to force.
I mean I won't lie, I do hope that we get to see a return of the Anna Wu Yang backline.
I thought that was really really creative especially when they were able to use it on
Numbani to take first point very quickly actually and Numbani is pretty hard to be able to pick
up that first point, but we do have the 1v1s coming through and I really hope that it's
a DPS decider. I might be an Ana main, I love getting to see Ana 1v1s, but there's something
special about the Widowins, you know what, it's the Ana and I feel like next you just
want this because you get the Sleep Dart, yeah, into the Antenade, into the Mellar,
wake up, which means that, boom, decided, seat complete.
Yeah, next to you. Participating gets some extracurricular activities there as well.
It's going up to, oh here, that's a nice name from Rod FD. Maybe you take one off here.
Okay, reverse sweep potential. Is that a thing? Like an reverse or 1v1s? Rod FD though?
Potentially.
We're getting some sweep.
One more shot health.
Both of them are one.
Oh, the wind!
Oh, the scope. Oh, the scope.
Something like in me just shudders and moves slightly down my seat when I see Ana players jump
Because I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.
That's the worst thing that you can do.
It becomes so easy to track the apex height that you reach.
And I mean, the thing about the Ana 1 vs 1 as well is that you can sort of cheat a little bit.
You can tease it with the Nade Ailee.
You don't have to be exact on the position that you chock up.
No, you can fudge it a little bit, but.
And speaking of that, Norma, do get the higher Steve with the next D grab and the win.
And they're actually going to go to Oasis.
We actually, shockingly, have not seen this map a ton.
It's been more Ilios and Antarctic Peninsula, but we're one of the few teams who want to pull this out.
I think it's just because the Zarya venture has a lot of strong points on this specific map,
with the exception of the Outdoor Point City Centre.
Well, they played against Germany, right, and they played with that venture.
So, as we've already said, when it comes to the band draft, we're expecting both of these teams
try to move away from the bastion cat so Portugal bans out the cat which takes out both the bastion
and the cast potential and norway removes the may which makes sense because now you're directly
targeting the mizuki conf because if it was a support ban you can't ban mizuki second and you
just go for the may instead yeah and i think the may ban makes a lot of sense if you're watching
portugal play at any point during this tournament you know that karama a bit of a sniper when it
it comes to this pick and actually had a lot of great setup when the May was there and enabled
more of these Brawley comps that Portugal wanted to play and again expecting the Zarya venture
as well. That is a pick that can really throw that composition for cutting off LOS for the
bubbles or just making it difficult for the Zarya to do much and also with it being that
oasis map pick both of these. Making a good amount of sense. I don't think we'll see Cap Bastion
In this map, neither team is kind of weird or like in the series even, neither team is weird in that direction.
This is like going to be, I don't want to say Mickey Mouse, but it's going to be very unique compared to what we see in Florida.
I love that personality.
Which like, I personally love so much about the Overwatch World Cup because it gets to highlight those personality picks.
Right? When we take a look at Team Mexico a little bit later, when we head over to the America matches,
we'll be seeing a whole lot of personality picks coming on through from their Genji composition,
and it's sort of like a question of how far can your pure skill at an off-meta hero go when matched
up against heroes who are meta? Are you going to be able to have enough skill to be able to break
the barriers of what a lot of teams rely on off of just sometimes how easy it is to be able to find
value. And it really does work. I think we see it more at like the lower-end face-it
masters, high-end face-it expert, with these teams that have their unique style that they
work to perfect. And it can catch these teams off guard if you don't have the experience
practicing or scrimming against it. But I think that when we look at these Overwatch World Cup
qualifiers, that is where that mark starts to break. And it's kind of led to some, I think,
some of the struggles of these teams. But seeing them match up against each other, I think leaves a
lot more room for what is the true potential of these compositions, how can they make them work
at a higher level. And that's hopefully what we'll find out here on Oasis. We'll be starting on
University. Oh, that may ban already coming in clutch. Oasis University, it's such a good map for
May, especially if we're going to be seeing Norway try to come out with that Zarya venture
engagement composition but they might have moved away from it because when you go for a composition
that is predictable Portugal will be coming into this match expecting that pick to be able to come
on through and making sure that they're doing everything to be able to shut it down so the
fact that Norway are actually showing us something slightly different a lot of pressure of a crossfire
with both that uh sojourn and fara just being able to absolutely hamper Portugal's backline with damage
I would say the best look I think we've had seen from Just for Swag has been on the Spara,
at least in terms of consistency, the ability to poke at a range, and kind of, as I said,
the crossfire angles are going to be big.
As the DKS-Line is weird, I feel like a different Izzy's tanks, the Sigma matchup, into the
Rematch are here.
Well, Rematch is a little bit less mobile than the Sigma, especially when it comes to
shield placement, so no way I might have a hard time with being able to hold these positions.
Portugal can get around them so shutting down these flights is really important
but that's exactly what's taking advantage of that at the moment right
seeing whether Romain Romattre is waiting for the shield to be set up and
then getting the fire damage possible.
Now this is from Ari Forstel from Isaac who's just buckered down on the point
helping for the best but Wafa might take it out of his health bar past the back
box this actually means no way you'll get this first capture there as the
crossfire angles for the sigma shield just bursted it down all of the way down
out, and that was hard for Portugal to repush, so they're going to attempt to do now, hit
Rafa, taking so much poke damage at the start of these fights, can't quite get the full
angle off of Portugal's needs before they eventually get the flip.
They do get the flip, so Iza gets bullied off of the point, but takes Karama down, moves
past Rafa's safe misshield as well to be able to put pressure directly onto the tank,
and that allows Norway to close up the distance, push Portugal off, and potentially get the
flip straight back.
We've had a total of three flips in the span of 60 seconds and two eliminations like that's kind of crazy
For this match both these teams very focused on the positioning and where the poke
Mmm, especially for both these teams because you're running far
You don't want to have to go into a full retake
Which is why like even a Portugal had them up flipped against them don't fully disengage because they knew that they would be losing
At the value of drama if snow drops able to fully develop those angles
so a very fast push back onto point.
Great Suzy from next-y to be able to save Isaac from the connection of the rock,
but unfortunately the ramp falls,
and Portugal will be able to flip back.
Flip number four, that's what we're talking about.
Go away.
I think it's just gonna be hard getting that Ravachra close to Rafa again,
and just trying to close these caps, but it's with Rafa, right?
Yeah, with no sin as well, right?
That's normally what the teams would do if you had to try and play retake.
Oh, Karama's playing cheeky!
Jaxler goes low, he's snuck up twice, and I know he'll walk forward with the OC, but Portugal just beat him much!
A good sound barrier there.
From Portugal, keep them in his flight, make sure the snowdrop can come back in with the last shot of the overclock.
Take the lead, he's down! Nice slide there!
Karama off the back a bit, and Portugal just falling apart here.
They had the sound barrier in play, but they never really recovered their health bars enough to take a fight.
Pendulum swings back to Norway's side, but you have to ask for how long, because Portugal did not match the Kitsune Rush.
So now for Norway, it's all about how well can you actually stop this rush, can you kite, can you keep the point in play,
because they are coming in with soundbar, if they want to be able to try and match Portugal's damage they can, but if you try to beat the rush, Rafa just rips it up with flux.
Yeah, and that's actually the best counter play.
We'll see what they do when they're honking.
Actually lays out the risk.
Perfect.
Here's the score signal.
So I'm very in front of the flag,
but as you called it, here comes that gravidic flux.
Everybody find a target.
We'll eventually commit onto next in the back line.
Not enough damage.
She's able to TP out to safety.
All the meanwhile, the flag is all ready down.
There we go.
Supports eventually locked up in a war.
Barapa, go ahead and take out.
And with this final flight territory game, the Norway, Portugal can't get another ball.
Isaac goes down. I wondered how much value Noe would put in trying to hold the point and push it to OT, because Isaac could have gone for extra nemesis for him too, if he used the ultimate.
So Portugal pushing all the way into Norway's spawn, trying to get as much damage off as possible, and allow them to pick up point percentages before Noe feel it's safe to be able to regroup.
This also means they can get Karama on an off angle, with I being scouted all over the barge and the back could be huge, but there's just no direct connection to one playoff.
He just cannot commit to one target there, and yeah, you get next to him on the back.
Snowdrop, having one heck of a game and some struggles in this tournament so far, but he's fighting these railgun shots.
Grin, Norway need it the most, and Isaac already burned through the annihilation.
This is final fight. You kind of have to walk forwards without it
It'll eventually be the flip back on over this Portugal will lose out
Do you get reflected in the takeaway? Yeah, but the point percent like Portugal have no chance to get sambarer online
Which is exactly what snowdrop knows so we see
To work Portugal side of the map to make sure that no one can really try and funnel that plays into a clean regroup on the point itself
No way
It just picking players apart one by one and eventually Portugal will run out of bodies
emphasis on eventually, because Raph is back on ball, but he's now down, and that means that
surely we walk away with the map complete. As you say, Snowdrop is the one making the pile bodies
there for Norway specifically. Great round there on the soldier, but extremely back and forth.
Probably one of the most back and forth rounds I've seen all weekend long, so Norway, starting off
with the upper hand, and I think this is kind of where the question comes up. Are Portugal
even going to try, or excuse me, or Norway even going to try to play this venture at all today.
I don't think you do it on this round specifically, but Norway, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Yeah, I think the issue when they actually ran into this exact issue when they tried to run the
same composition last time is that so much of like this first fight can be centered around if
you want to play the high ground position and obviously if you want to play the high ground
position you're not really getting your venture in to be able to do much of anything as both
the teams just go for the same tps for a little bit of a faster roll out from spawn because everyone
wants the high ground for that soldier. Yeah, it's a race to see if you can get your foreswitch
just having a rematchra is another threat. You know what? You can have that one. We'll go this
way instead, which is really great for Jesper's run and Snowdrop to have more of these angles
There's kind of a rain down fire, um, it's just a wraparound towards the back of the point, see how much LLS Portugal can cut off.
Somebody from Norway will eventually have to drop, it is Isaac, he's currently just chilling on the point, it's pretty standard.
But we see on this round, and not really having that full team fight, you're just relying on what are these socials so far as to come up with a pick.
Yeah, and the far is being the Difference Maker right now, right? Last time when someone dropped, Snowdrop fell early from the side of Norway,
but Jess was just absolutely pummeling damage
with these Roskets focusing to every single lane.
So Portugal just do not have the luxury
of being able to peek and try and contest the surgeon
on the point itself.
Now that the fight moves up into melee,
Isaac will be able to overcome the Sigma
and that will be no way yet again picking up the first cap.
It's just a matter of can they close the gap?
And a lot of this does come back to Snowdrop
getting these first picks, right?
But it gives Isaac so much space
just to walk towards the Sigma.
Oh, so much poke damage as well, Kirikou Lucio not having a fun time.
If a Sojin Shot comes through at the same time as a Fire Rocket, you're going to lose
one of these squishies, and it also allows Jeth to massively lead in terms of Ultimate
Charge.
And I guess her closest to an Ultimate by the looks of it.
I'll see you some at the later part of this fight with Portugal.
And wrap around the side, you're so close to Isaac here, it's not as good a decision
you want to be in.
Rafa, go back off, wait for the form to go away.
Where are you taking?
Rush this.
Sniper rushes.
Almost online for both of these teams, as pulling will see it.
Especially from Deng, Punkake.
This is going to become available, especially with Nexity going down here.
Real after me for Portugal, but Rafa doesn't have the healing.
He's just a sitting duck on this point.
No support.
Look where Deng Punkake is.
Didn't have the LOS at all.
I mean, reflect just goes for the DPS, Lucy.
You're playing and jumps Carama as well when the forest shackled, playing inside small room,
no freedom of space to be able to boost away from the fight, and Reflex just able to get
right on top of him.
Norway holding onto this point still, having the barrage, you've got extra frames of nemesis,
but Isaac if you want to play fully defensive against the rush coming on from inside of Portugal,
because Portugal can't even take advantage of the fact that all of the damage has been
coming their way with having one side of Kiriko ultimate.
even with mexico and now there was close enough to the
old thing doesn't make all that much difference all this next flight which
could be the last of the entire map forceful can't find a way to take this
one away but I mean just for what an angle going all the way over the roof
the idea is happening looks for carava Isaac finished it off and bye bye
Rafa no flux in play this one is looking as good as a done moxie snow drop
One last overclock. I self-fired works here for more way if they're gonna take map one.
I tell you what, like Snowdrop might have been coming through with the majority of the kills,
but Jesper has to get honorary MVP because of the amount of space he was creating for that sojourn
to be able to get the work done. Isaac as well, doing such a good job. We talked about how vulnerable
Romatric can be since he's so much more static in comparison to the Sycma. The fact that he only
dies twice, speaks massively in terms of his positioning, but also the amount of uptime
that Nexty and Reflect were able to use to keep all of that incoming damage away from
him.
And no deaths for Jesper, either. 16-0 for that map number one. And they were able to
set up these crossfire angles so consistently. And I do admire the discipline that they had
to not really jump the gun and force these fights into the Sigma. They waited for the
cooldowns, they waited for somebody to step out of the line and I think that did really help
for a lot of these bigger pop-off plays to happen. Yeah, Snowdrop was getting so much more room,
this all the way around the back as well does such a good job because if you're wanting to use Rush
in that fight right coming up through from nexty, one of the instant reactions that they could have
had was the flux. Rush mirror but flux overcomes the rush mirror, picks everyone up when they're
they're trying to play inside the Kirikou Ultimate to gain all of the advantages of it.
So what do they do?
They send Farah into the back to be able to use Baraj and Sigma is confined to have to
look towards her direction instead.
You don't have a choice.
It's like pick the lesser of two evils in that sense and that is the danger of that
specific composition and I have a feeling that probably the Farah will be getting a
look at when we look into our next set of bands.
But of course, dependent on the map that's getting picked and goodness for Portugal,
do have their maybach. That is something they relied on putting Karama on for a lot of the day.
And Circuit Royale is a very big possibility for this team and the strength that their competition has.
Yeah, Circuit Royale, a lot of teams really love going there, off of just the fact that you can play
a very heavy defensive composition, four to five your full back line make them absolutely
untouchable, which means the tank just lifts forever. The main problem used to be just attacking
into it, but that seems to have been fixed with the addition of things like the Mizuki
composition where you get to play the Sigma, you get to play the May, the Mizuki, the Kiriko,
and you get to be very aggressive in terms of the amount of damage that you can do.
But something that we want to make sure that you're all doing is following all of the action.
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There's so many different ways to highlight some of the best that Overwatch has to offer
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along.
That is not Soccer Royal, that is in fact Numbani, a pick that Portugal also made yesterday.
Yesterday if I'm not mistaken tried to play a lot of this Sigma poke with the main if I'm not mistaken
On attack it was quite strange, but they found a way to get a couple points upgrade Britain
So I'm excited what they can work now against this Norway squad. Come on Anna Wu Yang. This is
Give Noxy what she wants play this backline like honestly
I think it could go really well with the strategies that no way have had against them because no way have basically said
We're not going to give you the time to develop the angles with all of the spam damage pressure that we're putting on and one way
That you can try and sort of like meet these flyers because flyers are very strong and Nambani is by rolling out on a very
Damage-orientated backline and we ain't plus the tracer having that title blast combo where you can just bulk your tracer up and
and send her running off into the back line can be very strong.
It's a greedy support line, but if you can find a way to make both of them just survive,
it's a really good setup, especially for the potential to just blow up some of these squishier targets
that might be lurking on the high ground, so we'll see how then I'm swerving.
I'm not really sure how Norway are going to approach this.
We haven't really seen them veer towards any form of dive this weekend, unless you count the venture as dive, but it's not really with the rest of the team.
We'll see what they end up pulling out to match. It's not necessarily a secret what Portugal are going to be wanting to run.
I mean, it's also not really a secret that Noe have been staying away from the cat like
their nine lives depend on it.
Like I think this is actually a really inspired choice coming on through from Portugal, because
Numbani is normally avoided by teams who don't want to run into the Bastion Cat, and you're
taking a team who have not played the Bastion Cat onto one of its best maps.
So it's a case of like, okay, Noe, how much work have you done behind the scenes?
Are you going to be able to play the Bastion Cat composition?
Or do you stay away from it to the point that you don't even really feel required to try to ban it out?
Well, Moxie, I have some good news for you. WarriorGrego is coming in for the support line.
Something out for Dank Pumpcake. So that means that Wu Yong, one trick. I say Wu Yong, one trick.
He's only playing Wu Yong this weekend, so he might not be a one trick.
But Wu Yong, Ana, the support line here for
Portugal. So a lot of these fun plays that Wu Yong will be expecting.
I just hope we don't get a permanently nanodash again. That was the choice of all time. It happened like three seven occasions
We'll see what the target priority is but I do like these bands that are coming in the Curie go take it away
So that will enable this on even more and the sigma band to follow so I think a good hit to
Rafa he didn't go Winston yesterday, but with this comp
I'm not sure if you want to have more of a stable front line instead of the one that you're looking for.
I mean, taking out the Sigma, if you do force him onto something like the Winston is honestly a win in noise book
because there's just so many ways that you can deal with the Winston, you can just shred him, you can crowd control him.
He only is able to go after one target at a time as well, so potentially just like bait your backline,
which will then sort of come back to the value of that Curicog ban.
You can't just have a Kyroko bait in a space, wait for Winston to jump, burn the cooldown,
and then Kyroko simply teleports away. No, the backline will be much more static,
and that's where we're going to be seeing a lot of kiting potential. Having that Wu Yang being
able to give all of that kite could be a really strong play to make sure that your backline stays
up. But we're talking about tanks, we're talking about backline. If you can't stop the DPS from
just being able to spam down all of these lanes, you're not going to get much of anything done
Yeah, Rafa, come on, we don't believe that.
Ryan's not coming out on Numbani unless accompanied by a SEM.
We might be EMEA, we might be Rhymefield, but not to that extent.
Yeah, I really wanted to see the right angle, man.
That was really fun, but perhaps too much cooking there, of course.
So it will be the Divan's stead for Rafa.
One of the best dive picks that you can pull out.
Great mobility between the high grounds.
You can mix between engaging and peeling there
for Portugal. Norway though, I think teasing more the Ramatra for the time being, I think
it's where Isaac has been the most comfortable. I like this a lot more, but I can keep Jester
on this end.
Yeah, Isaac is well going to go on to the Diva to be able to match Rafa, so that you
can try and have things like the Defense Matrix, which will be able to try and eat up some of
the Antinates coming on through from Portugal if a good purple land normally is not going
have the suzu to be able to cleanse it as we get a flak all the way around collect side no lucy
employee for a knockoff and the sim tp straight onto points and all i can just get things moving
well they moved and then they kind of stopped the snow drop tp in the middle of just every single
wire has just kitchen sink on top of it that's a very swiftly set uh for doorway i like the idea
of the teleport you just can't do it but there's 10 different angles on you especially because no
No one's really contesting the Ash on the high ground if you're just telepathy or sort
of ignoring the problem and hoping that it just goes away on its own.
Portugal already knowing that the Sim will be in play, making it look like they're taking
much more angles around the high ground of the point above where Noe are trying to kite
and around it as we get the run around yet again, but this time Noe won't stay.
They simply kite away, will look to stabilise and now try and push Tio Gallini off of this
position on the high ground above the point and they did give him like 20%
old charge off of that dynamite and it's a good start they do okay well they got
to the high grounds and then they blew up rofa turned around everyone was it
with an anti-aid and this is where you're really wishing you could play Kiriko
this is why you're really wishing that you could play Kiriko because Caesar is
just that strong oh how bad is this all going to be
I'm just gonna let him walk back to the wall.
Yeah, walk back to the wall and swap hero.
So I was surprised he didn't actually go off of the cliff,
but then the cliff was closer to the defense side,
so maybe you're worried about being body blocked.
But there we go, Isaac's back in mech, and you know what,
normally they change things up.
They're off of the Mizuki, and they're on the Iliari,
so a little bit of extra sustainability,
and also really good post potential
to be able to try and keep up with the Ash.
Can't be in a drawing of two very damage focused backlines now, but Portugal has a significant
ult of damage with all of these swaps that came in later from your way and four shiny
buttons that you could press.
I'm expecting more of a nano boost here, from blood and D, there we go, out onto rock, but
reflect just explodes and fate isn't looking all that much better.
A snow drop wraparound is there and Portugal wouldn't fight off one ult.
Yeah, that was a really good play giving the D.Va the nano boost because no one was sort
like trying to split into two separate units. You had Nexie pocketing Jasper on the Echo who's
trying to close up the distance to Rafa, get the beam past the defenses of Matrix,
and Rafa just gets the Nano. All of the damage reduction can burn all of the Matrix
lying right at Reflex and without the Ana, Noe simply cannot push forward. Plus, Reflex
going down early in the fight means no healing from the Ana. No Nano boosts engagement for Noe to
to make a move off.
You know, the violin a thrown into the back at this time, the snow drop is kind of okay.
There we go, Isaac.
It kind of all ends on a tear-glee.
It's not really worth the cost of the mech.
Not having a tank here for Warwick would be devastating.
The rest of the team has to come up big, but lose out on Isaac eventually.
Have the self-destruct available for Wrappa.
I have to go ahead and grab another mech, and squish his snow drop into a pancake.
Oh, this is getting worse and worse for Warwick.
As this goes on, we'll get another reset for Flipper Waffa.
These staggers are gonna hurt.
Yeah, the anti-aunt to reflex, then the subsequent kill.
Like, Portugal even had the option of using Tidalblast if they wanted to,
but they hold onto it because Noe are yet to pick up one tick.
Of this point, so Portugal for a regroup would just be able to use Bob and Wu Yang ult,
and play for retake.
Noe do have all ultimates barring one available in this fight,
But if they lose someone early, it's not going to be a fun time to have to get onto the point and onto the backline.
You need these support arms to work out. Does another cap of the sun next to you?
All the way to the backline. Actually has Nano on him as well.
Okay, you know what? The GPS can't get it done. He already has got it.
But the bomb is on the point and it has zoned off quite a few members of this four-way team.
I think this is a successful self-destruct and finally still dropping.
Yeah, Crucial Killer onto Rod FD. If the Ana had been up in play with Nano Boost, Norway
likely lose the uptime of the Double Support Ultimate Engagement and lose the fight if
it goes long. Now we head into Streets Phase, but the lack of time that it took for them
to be able to pick up first, we'll come back and point them if they lose one of these fights,
and they don't have the ultimate economy outside of Snowdrop just dropping someone instantly
with Soul Drill to be able to win out a nano fight. It's not impossible, he's done it
good amount of time so far today, but it's a lot to ask, especially with the healer.
You're not going to hit a sightline on any of these squishy supports, and if Rafa just
full sending it into your backline, there's nothing you can do with your entire team.
This gets mowed down as the self-destruct. Likely looking to use it here.
I just, I'll love it. No, well the supports will come back up, I'll put them in Isaac once again. It has to reset the mech.
I mean, it's crucial that you don't actually use the self-destruct because you're staring down the barrel of OC in this next fight.
So if Rafa loses mech to Sojourn, you can still re-mech the self-destruct and use it to zone Norway from being able to take space with the Sojourn.
Portugal are so disciplined with the constant use of their ultimate, using the bare minimum
of memory while I'm in.
That's what you need to do on a defense like this, where Norway have everything but time
on their side.
Prana, sneaking around the back, does have this pulse bomb.
See, you can land it, there you go!
Right onto Snowdrop, and next he shifts right into her with two now, for the tracer.
He'll get out of this one, A-okay, and that's like one of his pulse bombs.
Yeah, I mean so many of these fights are one of the Kyuriko ban from Portugal.
And that's actually fended off the overclock from Snowdrop for another fight,
which means Portugal now going to be taking more angles trying to pressure the
Sojourn into potentially burning it early, allowing as well warriors to potentially
build up the title blast. That's the jewelite, the tracer, but Jesper does
still have Raycoul, so he'll be able to lose the engagement, but we're headed to
overtime. No, I have to make a move and they're already damn mech.
Yeah, that was a Bionade that laddened from RDFD, and every member of Forestry could whips right around, and this made him explode.
And that's, like, what, the third swap we haven't received, but this client just opts to stick onto the Mauga.
I mean, you're really looking at nexty again. Who was the player to help get this through?
First point, if this captive son can land.
Only Witton, who's relying on, instead of the Snowdrop, gets the map, shifts on up to the high ground.
You can find more targets, you know Bob, I'm gonna ride with you, you go bye-bye, you fight far from over.
Yes, a good angle, but it's hard to get with the title blast, this is a scary sight indeed.
There's so much work being done by Rod F.D. to make sure that this fight stays alive.
A nice pull-spot stick there from Grama, so obstructed to make sure Rafa get back into the mech and not a chance for these health bars.
It's survive on the point all that much longer Portugal would get the stop just outside the second start
That's wild from Portugal like snowdrop finds the entrance with the nano oce
But after you get your first like no one else is that the fact line
They all just claps onto point and then like you can see that there's so many options for them because they understand
how many ultimates are being burnt on the side of Norway, right? They use literally everything
and because it's an OT fight, if you don't have anything for the next one, you're potentially
going to be swept away, so they're thinking like, okay, do we play to lose this one,
Burner, opponents out of all of their ults, come back in with nano boost ourselves,
and just wipe them off at the point, and then they start getting trades and they're like,
no wait, this is actually winnable in the moment, and they commit what they have outside of the
because the Anna goes down early and it works out and Norway just gets swept away.
Honestly, this Anna has been a huge asset for Portugal.
Rod FD was 12 and 2.
And, plus, I have perspective, Tia Delini was like 4 and 4 after that run.
He was kind of getting beat up. That's just the life of the hitman sometimes.
But Portugal relying so much on this guy to be the carry and this backline.
It's just their style. It's something that they have perfected.
and Norway haven't quite found the answer for that yet.
They're still debating on what to roll out on,
and it will be just for Spelleg on the venture,
but this time with the Tiva comp.
Yeah, no Zarya.
I think because they know, like,
the Zarya just would not be able to get close enough.
For the amount of kite and verticality,
Portugal would just play where the diva could not reach,
as we are going to be having, like you said,
Jesper on the venture, trying to duel out Karama
and stop the tracer from getting space behind Norway,
which now pulls paranoia.
You're not just playing Overwatch,
you're playing a horror game.
If your Norway is backline trying to work out
where exactly the tracer pops up,
which then feeds into the space that the Ash is able to pick up.
Well, it does actually pick up just this way.
I didn't think he expected C2 leading ad warrior
to go on that far angle and wasn't ready at all.
It was more of a bit of an overextension there
onto that first part of the flight.
Brahma, he didn't even get the DMG on the poor Isaac, he's just gonna be left all alone.
This is how I trace his values, it's like worth her weight in gold, probably more than that actually, because she's probably fairly light.
Like, the fact that you can do so much, you can put so much attention from Noe,
and take what should be a very strong fortified Mimboni first,
and remove it entirely because the Ash just gets an angle that Noe aren't camping,
because everyone's running around on a wild goose chase
trying to pin the tracer down.
Over five minutes here, it's a, what, when one fights?
Did you even get to the payload?
I guess that's not a question I need to be asking.
Like, Norway is so far away, you don't have a tracer swap,
you don't have a ball swap.
All right, you do get Jesper there,
who's as the borough for the time being,
but he's not gonna wanna stick all this payload
for too long once that expires.
Karama, hunting for the venture.
I don't quite see it, so at least Norway
guarantee themselves one more fight.
Pulse Bob, though, almost online,
is drama with every cooldown out of reflect.
As the Pulse Bob, this one won't connect,
walks back into it, though, loses a chunk of HP.
All the meanwhile, these trades will continue
to favor the attackers of Portugal,
lose out on their D.Va mech,
and leverage the Domino to initiate the fall of the team,
and probably hold on a bit longer.
And I hold around Kona,
but it's no easy job to be able to lock this one down.
Portugal can just build up ultimates the payload so close to the checkpoint if Norway lose one fight that is just round
Done, so Norway going to have to literally burn every inch that they can
Meanwhile Portugal can be as leisurely as you would like four minutes to play
Realistically, if you just save up all five walls and dump them
Yeah, and then dump them into the ground
Honestly very valid where the ulti condom is stands. Every call is worse though. It's out of the chroma quite early
that I could snowdrop in the backline and, alright,
where we can just side the collapse towards the front
and then seeing these splits from Portugal,
where we identify them and kind of just running at them
with all the resources that they have to overwhelm
and working out so far.
Yeah, the Portugal dry fight.
Yeah.
So they're banking on five ultimates,
like this is the thing for Norway
with how close the point actually is to the checkpoint.
They have to use an ultimate every fight.
Portugal have so much time
They can slowly wear Norway's ultimate economy down entirely, so these fights have to be
won and won one-sidedly.
On the plus side for Norway though, they still have 4 ults, the only one that uses Deadeye
which is easy to go for these ones.
There's the Bob though, throwing it with Tia's lead, using the backline, just for swag.
You can apply some space, it'll protect the planet's shot, it's a decent damage in, but
no elips.
Is that the pulse bomb getting eaten by the guy I say should wear that as a new one?
Haha, if I've ever seen it, I could cast a reflex on that one.
Norway, you kinda used everything there, sort of Portugal, this is Best Case scenario, that was the fight Portugal should've won.
Yeah, especially because there weren't trades.
Coming through from Portugal side, right, you're trying to take advantage of close and respawns if the fights go trades,
it's you are players for the next, as Portugal just decided to take more angles against Norway and get aggressive,
which has worked out for them in the past, but nexty with the overall way, is able to actually take Rafa down,
Rafa down so Portugal can't sneak the payload onto the checkpoint again.
Rafa is overextending, it's instantly now for Portugal to chase down these limitations
and it's worth it I guess if you're a tracer but losing a tank is not really odd, it's brutal.
Especially because you need that diva mech for when Snowdrop next has this dead eye.
You can see a lot of pressure again just coming in through from Portugal trying to zone Norway's team away.
I have gone down so they're waiting for the regroup from the venture, but someone has to get on to point
No, that's that's not nice
That's not nice at all Portugal go ahead and take the map
It looks rocky there for a bit like they couldn't pull the old together, but all that work from Norway boxy
It's just down the train in the drain
down the literal drain you took
plus four minutes of hold you almost pull it off and then no one touches car
like it's it's that one exit trade it's the one exit trade that they were
looking for so many times they finally get a pick up onto the defense which
means that they don't have the confidence to close hold towards spawn
corner and they wait for the regroup and it becomes so much easier to just
intercept and body block and stop people being able to touch the objective
Yeah, that just hurts. And yes, it was asking a lot to hold the point, but doing a good job and then going down in that fashion.
Well, the more I certainly remember in Portugal, we're tying this series up now and really I think have the potential to take this, the distance with the compositions.
I think it's going to be very band dependent. Kiriko will be available from this point on unless Lori take it away themselves.
But I'd like to think this isn't a one-time thing that Portugal can string this together under the right conditions.
I mean, I'll tell you what, it's also additional psychic damage coming on pro, right?
When you hold for that long and it looks like you might be able to close it out on a stronger defense,
and then you don't get the touch like that, bleeds into your confidence headed into this next map.
So, unless they're able to just fully reset their psy-keys, that one could be haunting them, not just for Nambani, but for where we go next.
Yeah, Norway, a big decision ahead of how they want to approach this.
And anything that revolves around poke sounds like a bad idea.
So, Nujutsu-nii, great! Any guy's the best option that you have out of these remaining to force more of this head-to-head brawl.
If I am Maury though, I'm 1000% protecting this Rematra to make sure that we can have Isaac on his strongest hero.
Yeah, and you're also probably going to be seeing the Venture come through on First Fire as well, right?
Because this is one of those maps where you are, like you said, forced into that brawl territory within the first point,
and being able to actually have the Venture close up the distance, potentially go put pressure on the backline to pull resources away from the frontline.
front line, if you are indeed running the ram, that means he can go for the nemesis form
and just pummel his opponent down.
And then, I actually just slipped my mind.
This is where they played Zarya yesterday against, I believe it was against Germany,
but Ice Numb just had, I think, the single best carry performance on Zarya that we have
seen whole weekend easily.
Yeah, about five.
I think it is Ice Numb.
This is a different game, different team that you're matching up against, and a very real
possibility for Isaac to pull out. So even if you don't protect the rematcha or the Zarya,
I think there are valid options in that apartment regardless. It just depends on how much emphasis
you want to put into, I guess, enabling for DPS and playing that specific strategy knowing that
Portugal are going to veer more towards this May type of ball. Oh, we're getting this up, which I
I think we were both expecting right you would play warrior if you were wanting to play the wuyang if you're not going to play the
Wuyang you would put dank on you take in so that will be unexpected swap coming up from the back line
But there's a couple of options that you can have
I think Kyureko is for sure a lock especially after all of the value we saw from things like the
anti-nades and the pulse bombs that was a rough one to do without like
Every time a purple or a pulse bomb come through you're thinking what would be so different if we just had so is there
Yeah
Series probably and let's see decide the band of yourselves. It should be a little strange
In these columns, but I think that is a good possibility whether it's paired with the bazookie at a Lucio though
Is what I'm interested to see Lucio is a staple of flashpoint speed can be very important
but with the close quarter nature of New Junk Speed, the Mizuki gets so much value here.
I mean the damage that he does is, oh okay, we get Mizuki banned from Norway's end and Zarya banned
from Portugal, so Ran makes it through, Venture makes it through, and if teams want to be able
to play that speedy backline, it will be a Lucio setup, so likely going to be the Lucio-Kuriko
mirror for both of these backlines.
Yeah, I was like, oh, Mizuki, this will be fun, it'll make it hard for an adventure,
you gotta catch a sunner gauge, no, you just don't get punished as much now.
Yeah, so it'll be the speed more for these games, which I still do favor your way on this map,
just because they seem with stronger roll team.
You haven't really seen Ratha pull out more of these close range picks along with the May.
I think I'm fully expecting him to roll out on the Sigma again
And see if you can play this game of ring around the Rosie for a lot of the first half of this map
I'm very interested to see what the DPS go as well because with the Zarya band
Do you feel comfortable going for the venture or do you sort of venture away from it and go for something like the
Sojournfire across fire which was working out so well now granted
that's a huge risk because Tracer does so much on Flashpoint. You can use her to play
the objective, to pull people's positions away, you can use her to go for assassinations
on the backline with the amount of flanks available, but there's so many different ways
that you can decide to play the hero, and it is totally dependent on each and every
situation.
It's so strange to think about. Norway have not touched Tracer at all.
This is Diary Weekend, or their entire tournament run, and I highly doubt this is the time that we see it come to light.
And it was good to look at these compositions in Portugal, and it's pretty expected for what they were going to play.
So the swaps come through for Norway.
It's just that Lucio here, in fact, didn't see Isaac on the diva at a Symmetra from Jesper inside of the venture.
Yeah, no rematra coming through and that diva won't have a fun time having to brawl into Rafa or Kurama
That's two things, three things. The rock and the maybeam that you're not going to be able to defense matrix
There's a snow drop actually on the cast so try and take full advantage of the symmetric TPE potentially for some good dead eye setups
Really a fan of the diva, I mean a lot of that composition but also on this map
and trying to stay on these objectives and find these picks, particularly on Arena.
It's so difficult. Just to move around. You don't want to be near Portugal while the main wall is up,
so they'll have to go toward Point. Just take Isaac there, force some drops from your way.
You can pick up anybody else on the side, but reflect getting as chunked as he is.
The push has been slower. Cleanses out. He really wants the 5-2, the leading, all the sojourners.
You will be successful, but at what cost?
Oh, it would be the cost of this deck that the Suzu didn't come in down-tow.
Next he cleans that up, he slows over a lot of DM.
We'll wait right away to count.
Making the Diva work, forcing out the power slide, then using the boosters, a much faster
cooldown reset.
To be able to stay on top of the Sojin's position, great Suzu from next.
He's been really on top of those, to make sure the Karama goes low enough that he has
to use the ice block instead of being able to get the DM.
at no way, but just being able to flood their choke and not allow Portugal to move past,
that's already Mayweal as well, on cooldown for Karama. His wrapper is onto the ram, he
wants to roll, he wants to close with the distance and shred the Steve and Methan.
Yeah, I think this is a great way to punish, and to devour some of these bastard rushes
with the Symmetrax teleporter. Don't have the ulti necessarily to work in this fight,
next to you will have the faster Fitsune rush, I think Pumpcake, not too far behind, so actually
We'll build it up in time before anything is popped.
Over the top corner of the dead eye,
but barely sneaking behind the box is the old lady.
They'll keep his head, but take what's safe
for the rest of this team.
The Sim Barrier is so much to handle.
14 Portugal, Rafa just has to back off
and then it's formed down to waste.
They wanna take a tempo beat push now.
Into the team, quick response there, out of reflex.
Scrum up, doing his best to anchor on this point,
give room for the team to brawl
Without tank and cake, we have to go and just run out back.
These health bars start to fall quickly.
We don't find the pics, bicycles, just our landing Isaac, way too much of a threat with the additional support here.
It looks like he is single-handedly going to mop up this fight.
His Karama can get the touch, but it doesn't have health bar to deal with it.
Did the experiment successful in Norway so far?
There was a chance there for Portugal if the fight went long, forcing Reflex into burning
the beat before OC comes through could have been huge, but they lose the sojourn before
OC can be used to win at the fight.
Good news for Portugal, you'll have it in this next one, you can engage with the OC
or try and buy some space first with the annihilation, you can see that no way no, the sojourn's a
problem, the ram's a problem, all of their damage is being put onto those two heroes.
Yeah, the two focal points, right, for this composition, that Portugal had enough.
They have to combine a wave work function, because Isaac just drops Rafa onto the low ground here.
I don't think Calculated that. It's sub-40 HP and that last hit there from Tia Galini will force the self-destruct and give Portugal a first cap on the point.
So a nice punish there from them that this flight hasn't really started yet
It's more than a battle positioning
What these teams are able to do that's the push from Isaac it's your one and he is claiming literally every single final blow for his team
It's a quadruple kill in the start of this fight might as well give them all five this flight
But now I'm so dribbled to feel his glory
Portugal were trying to bait noi and they wanted to put them in a hostage situation with the point
so they were forced to eat both the OC and the annihilation and it just gets fully shut down by
Isaac like this diva has been doing so much being able to stay on top of these targets taking up
both elucio and then the sojin with those boosters as now next he has the one side of kitsune rush
portugal not going to have a fun time trying to play into it no i like your best option is maybe
throw a blue turd on it to start, but actually we can lead it to open this up.
Oh, it's early though.
Right in the line of the shot, but it never looks to be any better.
However, you're not going to get an angle to work with.
There's that.
Tsunigrash protects the C plus, the same barrier to make sure it's an extra safe problem.
Something just zoned the plane off here.
Uh, it actually does get just per swag.
He couldn't get through his eloporter in time.
That sets Horseshoe up decently, because now he just pancakes the Tsunigrash on his line.
and you're able to force Isaac back, he doesn't want to face-kink all of his damage,
or he's going to try to do it anyways, just to stall off the point,
and hold on to self-destructive for the next one that's going your way.
Well, one fight territory, and potentially one by OC, because Smodrop has the ultimate good to go,
and you can't just use Sangaria and sit back defensively against the OC,
because it does enough damage to be able to shred it down, especially with the nerf 2 beats duration.
As Isaac goes to Malga, this signifies Noy just wanting to set up on point,
force Portugal to have to crawl into them with their OC, baiting their positions out.
What's the OG Malga venture happen? They completely don't still drop off the ice wall too.
Portugal, they want to go along with this point, but Rafa just has to use the annihilation to
live, hold hands, and it's not exactly working out in his favor. Malga is so far in and can melt
This from Walsh, our pick. You essentially don't have a tank. You are just there to contest the objectives.
Just for swag, drops into the back, like, help Snowdrop set up the elam, and this is where the venture can get in there and, uh, brawl.
Alright, grab the flip, grab the point. They just need one more to take the map.
Yeah, this is too much point percent that Norway already had on the board, so even in Portugal did a admirable job of being able to wall off Snowdrops, I would say.
They still lose the overall battle as we head to Grand Point for Norway.
Kitsune rush available for them.
Karama likely going to have to play defensive blizzard to be able to disrupt
Norway's position into it as Norway are already trying to push their way onto point with the Malga
getting that before Rafa.
I will say for Portugal this is nice because the Malga venture isn't nearly as scary unless you
You just take poke damage and you're piranha and well, you can't really do anything about that.
Spock a little, just do their portugal, but Jeffert does send himself off the map with a missed drill dash.
Unlucky, say the least happens to every rock punch remain, but it is the window the Portugal won.
It's getting in this fight, and of course it's Isaac to commit this cage flight.
Just to make sure they can win the points and it should go ahead and do it.
It'll Steve roll on in, solve a lot of couple players to extend the cap.
This is like, ooooh Isaac!
Ole Miss got exited there by Karama who does go down late for his troubles on it, but yeah, this is actually O.G. Venture Mauga's composition, this was full engagement.
The adventure would burrow, your Mauga would slam, you'd both hit the same target, and you could only play Kiriko into it because Baptiste would just be blown up on the spot because you'd be pushed outside of the mentality field.
So this is a really good way, actually, for forcing Susan very early, as all of the Maywall catchers Isaac,
and watch Goldfinch think that they can keep him out there.
But it comes on firm, full aggression from political engagement up at the beach,
and this is them shredding through Noah's forces.
It's just not enough to stop the fabricant Tia Galini, it's just a swag, has to come in,
commit the tectonic shock, and he is making it look good.
That's two for him, forces the ice block, and while he does end up training his life for it,
I think he's done more than enough in this fight for Isaac and sweep up the remaining pieces
We just have a ton of health. I actually guess the Susie from next team will get that final and gauge into Norway
They just want to close up the map here and now they know the win conditions when they have it overclocked from Snowdrop
Bering anyone remaining Rod FD dare well and he found out
They'll be triple there for the sojourn is Norway gonna move up to that point
Yeah, smart play from Norway, Snowdrop doing very much the same play that we saw from him on University,
understanding that that side of Flashpoint is actually closer to Portugal,
so if they do manage to still at the point long enough with single players, they could potentially get a full regroup off.
So just use OC and cut down any of those chances as Norway move up to Matchpoint in a pretty close series.
Yeah, in Norway I think we've seen a decent amount of back and forth with these teams.
When I say back and forth, it feels one sided for whatever team has the map pick.
And that is something that really could come into play later on in the series,
but of course we'll favor Norway as they are currently the ones on matchpoint
and could have that map pick should we go all the way to a map wife.
But if things start to finish, Norway just seemed to have a better idea
of how they wanted to play on this map, and especially Rafa was given such a tough time
to just exist as a tank.
Yeah, this Ram was being bullied.
And then like we had the honest Overwatch from Isaac when he was on D.Va and not going
for the tanks, just going for the squishies around him, understanding that Ram is one
of the worst tanks to actually be able to peel.
So he'll backline with how he plays from them, and then the moment the D.Va stopped
working it was like, okay, we're done with honest Overwatch, we want to win, it's time
to lock the mago.
As if you would call it evil or not, it works.
I can't really go against it.
I think it's the best performance we've also seen from Jesper on this venture.
He's had a difficult time finding the value and force of living afterwards, but absolutely
take what you're able to get on New Junk City, but looking at the two map types we have left
being escort and push, I think if you are Portugal here and you go for the escort, it's
I think it's a lot more impactful than some of the changes you could get on the push side of things.
You'd rather play something that is more Tory restraints.
I'm expecting a Circuit Royale pick if we don't get that.
You know, I'm just questioning everything I know about this team to be good with.
I mean, I could see Circuit Royale because it swerves the Mauga problem, right?
I think if you go to any map other than Circuit Royale, you're going to have to just go for the Band-Aid,
just rip it right off, ban out the mauga. If one team's playing mauga and you want to play ram or
sygma and you don't want to match the mauga, you can't play it. Like you have to just ban it out,
as we do get circuit rail coming on through. So sygma going to be coming on out, potentially that
mizuki comp with the may alongside it, since the may ban was used up all the way on the control map.
I really want to see what the dps line is going to be though in terms of our long range. Are we
going to go for Sojourn, which is sort of been the comfort pick, I think, for both of our two DPS players,
or do we try to break out the M-Ray and take advantage of the scope and the formability
access that you have to it, even when you have access to those longer angles?
We've even seen a ton of M-Ray throughout our Overwatch work of Fallen Fires, and I think just
the recent heroes have been a bit tough on that hero. I mean, we're expecting a Sojourn,
but we also know what to expect from the backline. Portugal again making that sub for
Warrior Wego and I think if you are Portugal you protect your support. You want to make sure that
you can stick on this autumn wooyoung support line regardless. The sim has already been banned,
the mei has already been banned. I think you're you're kind of okay with those pieces. You can work
around the rest just make sure that you can use this wincon successfully. Yeah but that does mean
if you go for a support for tax you can well I mean that's what we get to see Cirque Rael coming
in two birds one stone. If you go for a support ban, that leaves the tank ban open, which means
that you would have to worry about the maga, but it's circuit royale, so like, maga is still
potentially viable. He's viable on every map with his survivability, but on circuit royale,
he definitely has the most amount of issues just getting up close to be able to find those engagements
with the slam, and you can sort of shred him down before he's able to get his full sustain online.
I think the other option is roll a mantra, if you don't want to play that into the
the Sigma. Rafa can play it, it's just not his preferred take of choice if he is the option to.
I don't think it can hurt either way. Support for text just seems like the better option, honestly.
Probably gonna be a throwaway since like the Kiriko, the Mizuki, a lot of those more impactful picks
have already been covered in that regard, so options are there. But if you're Norway kind of
facing into this composition, what do they pull out? Do they put Jesper back on the farra here?
I mean, no they don't. No. Well, there's the expected support save, right? Coming on out,
ban out the Lucio, your Wu Yang players coming back in, you wouldn't play the Lucio,
take it away from your opponent so they're not able to kite in and out onto these engagements
as safely as they would if they had things like the speed boost, plus signed barriers to lay very
strong defensive utility, but the Pharah ban is very interesting because that takes away a lot of
the strength of just the suffocation method that Norway has been using so perfectly against Portugal.
Don't allow them to play, don't allow them to set up because they're constantly on the back foot
having to deal with 24-7 damage off of just the Pharah.
I honestly would have loved to see Jesper pull out that pick here because I don't think Portugal
were going to do that themselves, especially because it kind of just dismantles the Sigma
Mizuki composition anyway.
So interesting choice here from Norway, maybe Symmetra again for Jesper Swag, see if you
can throw off Portugal on some of these kind of crazy choke points that Circuit Royale is known for
and take away some of the threat that is the high grounds. Interesting nonetheless, I want to see
what the game plan is here because I have a feeling it's something we haven't quite seen yet from
Norway considering where their strengths have been in the past. I mean I do worry if Norway does go
for the Sin though because like Portugal dealt with the Sin teleports really well. The times they
weren't able to deal with it was when Norway literally tp'd and then instantly kited but you
can't tp'd and instantly kite on circuit royale unless you're just playing very aggressive towards
your opponent and running straight at them which is when portugal have been able to totally dismantle
norway's compositions are so good at being able to match the aggression. Yeah and this is like the
D-Map, I think, for Portugal to pull out.
If it is last point, you want to come away with this win,
while it technically doesn't affect anything,
as both these teams are unable to qualify for Busan.
You want the bragging rights.
You want to be the one that comes in the third year group.
Exactly.
You want the ego, the ego boost.
That would come from winning this game, almost.
But is this, are we getting a lifelover?
No.
OK, there we go.
Where are you, Guigo?
So just messing around a little bit.
I think this is picture-perfects from Portugal.
It's every strong point that they have had with this poke,
with the May.
See if they do that, but Norway,
surely we don't see the Domino.
I mean, it's not the Domino that I'm looking at.
It's more the Cabbastia.
There is a cat.
Wow.
Like, this would be the first time
that we would actually be getting to see
Norway play this composition.
And that sort of speaks volumes about why they would
maybe ban out the far, if they don't want to have to face
aerial duel, but no, Cat Bastion total bait, and we've up our up Norway on to the Juno
Kuriko with Snowdrop on the Sojourn and Jesper, not on the far because they banned it, the
Venture, but how do you find the engagements when Portugal can just play from range?
Huh, I don't know about this one, and Jesper, yeah you can get to high ground safely, but
beyond that what are you going to do, like even Jesper's like, how do I want to go up
there by myself?
You're supplying charge to Isaac, okay? That's your whole job.
You get a very bubble, you go in, you take the hits, and then you let Isaac close up the distance and be the sick guy when he's full charge.
Sorry, Jesper. You're not allowed to play this game.
You are the bubble battery for Isaac, and that is your only job.
So live, get shot at, and uh, yeah.
Get out!
Yep, yep, yep.
That is exactly how well one objective failed.
It's okay, you'll get the next time
I mean they did get Karama there
Which is nice because you'll see Isaac start to push up without the threat of the main wall
But I guess you do your jump if you are just for swag like you already have the bottom four
I'm gonna charge Isaac has let's say just calm stand up to the Zarya because you call it grass further in
What do you do?
Realistic are just for your turn go in get bubble buddy. There you go. Take damage. All right
Fantastic, you're just putting Rafa in a corner right now.
He just can't get to this payload.
Maybe although it's perfect, it locks Isaac up,
hit with a Bionade, what can do,
fall absences is just better for one way.
Snowdrop is chilling on this high ground
and just with Brahma on the point.
It's essentially a less healthy tank in a way
and when Freezy beamed his way through Jesper
and okay, well that's kind of unfortunate.
Portugal! We'll call the port at the end of this, and I think it's a weird set of struggles,
Boxing.
I mean, Jeff is just splitting Portugal. You're not getting kills, but you are splitting
Rapper from being able to shield Angle his team, which then frees Snowdrop to get the
angles that he wants to play, and Isaac to just be able to walk forward with full charge.
You can try to come up with a tectonic shock here, but ideally you're really looking at
Russia since it's one side of Portugal playing a very greedy backline, no care it comes in with me.
They're doing the cruising out on, you know, very early in this fight and you get nothing.
Out of the Tech-Polic shock, you get to an English culmination. You shove
that butt into the objective, you just don't know if you also, in Portugal,
have such a hefty advantage in that regard, right? At this point, not one can commit more.
Oh, how well does Norway's comp fare on a full retake re-walk as well?
Like, Norway trying to hold their players in, desperation grab, literally just looking for anything,
so that Norway can try and hold off as close as they possibly can, because if they have to pull Warp from spawn,
the venture won't be able to buy them the inn.
Portugal will just hold them from range with all of the damage they can do.
I'm a little surprised we don't see a swap from Isaac there after the grab was thrown
as- as he said, Moxie, how do you get to this high ground safely without burning every single
thing you have?
Yeah, I mean, Karama actually swaps off of the May, goes Reaper to be able to sort of
like keep up with the distance that Jesper is wanting to take the fight since-
Oh!
Yeah, the venture just instantly fell down.
You can't stand there illegal grounds just for standing on
Rafa easily have to take that one out and the extra frontline damage from the Reaper is even more of a threat
Jasper he can't go in as the Isaac catch walk at people and look intimidating. Okay. He didn't give me
That's cuz there's also so drop. Yeah, Rafa's just holding flux as well
So that you can stop the momentum of one-sided rush coming through from next D
Snowdrop tries to open up the space with OC, but Karama's the one that gets the opening pick on T'nexty,
and it's a little bit falling apart from Norway as Snowdrop just has to hide behind covers as OC runs out.
I don't think you take this fight without T'nexty.
It's just play the stall, play the neutral, and T'nexty falls back.
Oh, wait a minute, the pig on the ruffles, that's actually huge!
The orbital ray is up, and this is something that Orway should be able to convert on,
and overextension again from this tank in Portugal, and they're bailing the birds out.
Nelly, there's no distance because of what to Portugal do you identify the losing of flight,
none of the reaper, so that he can hold the objective, and Nelly have to fight out now
of that rush, but this is what we're talking about, right? Rafa comes back with the flux,
so Nelly should not be able to take space with him.
Yeah, and it's so easy, I think, for Portugal to come back into the sky, they need so many
ults, and yeah, just for his dignity and gas, but he's not really gonna fully commit to
this fight, as he is the top of shot for cool down reset, looking for the ultimate to support
not a fight he wants to win.
Probably can't just get shut down mid-or-mid-if, watch the Sigma has not been allowed to play
the game in more way without that tank in their face, the Seymour, through the rest of Portugal.
Yeah, Jeph is actually playing his part perfectly. He's not overextending into positions where he's being caught.
His whole objective is to distract the backline.
Like, in that fight, Portugal want to try and fight onto the point because if they don't, no, they pick up the checkpoint.
But they can't actually get that backline to help complete the Sigma because they're being looked upon by the venture behind.
That is a debauchable time for Kogama.
It's Toti Gold, yes, Toti Gold.
It's the corner. Okay, first person POV. No one much will use. You don't know how many of them are walking.
Now we're not in stadium here.
Just have to grab a government search.
Isaac, if you can get players up to the high ground to follow up, it's great, but look how far this payload has already managed to push.
You don't have one.
Yeah, this is the thing. With how far the payload's pushed, you don't actually have to challenge the high ground.
You just go on to the point and then Portugal are forced to drop and give up their advantage and walk into the grab of their own accord
And you're forcing the positioning now of Portugal is no longer a detachment to hold the high ground
Blockless walk over to D'Isoria
The best hope is going to get an arrow
But that's a grab onto the high ground and still drop easily over the last tier of the weedy into tomorrow
And Norway are losing out on time to life
Isaac does fall, you are in the spawns, you have to find a way to clean this fight up, Rodda feeds the Nano-Sherbet, no targets for it!
Call completion, rolls on through, and Norway, you're feeling really good about that push.
Yeah, I mean, Norway just taking some very strange hero picks, which if you played them traditionally should not have worked,
but they have the understanding of like, we can't play this traditionally, if we try to, we get shredded apart because there's full counters.
that are being picked up on the side of Portugal, so they go slightly off the beaten path.
They do things slightly different, almost playing the venture the way that you would
a tracer, as opposed to relying on just like full engagement assassinations
to be able to very quickly dismantle the backline, and off of the back of it, it creates
so much more space for the team to be able to walk on the one thing which is vulnerable,
which is the Sigma.
And that's kind of I think almost the disadvantage of running this we all on a backline is just for swag is so much space
It's forced them out
You're not really scared of those unless you get hit by a sleep dart or something
So it's really worked out for Norway with that space that he's able to buy just stomp on Rafa every single fight
A little bit the side swap though. This isn't it's real interesting pic
I did not think Reflected would walk out of spawn, but we were looking at him.
It's real, Molly. It's real.
Okay, okay.
Defensive Life, Lever. Okay, Noe. What have we got cooking? What are we trying to do?
Are we going to life grab someone so that we can use the Purify?
Is it sort of pseudo-suzi?
This feels like I need to put my venture on a leash angle, obviously.
I can just grab him back when Jasper goes 2D.
I mean, he is in there.
He doesn't have the burrow to get out.
Like this first quarter is great for venturing, see?
There you go.
Put the venture on a leash, and this maywall is actually fantastic for reflect if he wasn't
into the least sight lines standing on it.
So Portugal does have the burst damage to work through this.
Yeah, poor Lifeweaver does have a pretty big hitbox for a support, and Vashing does pretty big damage for DPS,
especially at the start of those fights when you still have the turret form up, so I like the whimsy from Noi,
but it does cost them first as they've been backed all the way back up onto my grind of second,
a late pick up onto reflect, yeah, but that's checkpoint done, like no one's getting past Rafa right now.
No, Portugal is such a front-line advantage in having the May end of the Bastion.
Isaac can't really sit there, especially except for Jeph's first swag is going to be in backline.
It's not a huge damage output.
And Rafa already so far off the May wall, somehow, you see, I slipped over that one.
And Norway, they're going to make a plant there.
We find some stability on the defense, but a massive chunk of damage from Jeph,
just so they're saying he couldn't do it, will come up with two off the borough,
and will allow Norway to get that firm holding grouse they need for the second point.
This is huge for Nexty's value as well, right? You've swapped the Iliari,
you can use your Pylon, set it up super deep, you can see Jasper there just taking
parting bits of damage for Nexty to then be able to heal and gain closer to that captive sun,
as Portugal don't have a way of cleansing it unless Raph is able to eat it with the grasp.
But there's a lot of plug coming through from Norway's team as Jasper's just waiting,
No one has checked the angle
And I love that next your place it's fantastic there's a group that walks out though from Isaac
Anybody it's a bunch of holes that were dumped on top of each other to play to no value here for Portugal
I guess they do get themselves to the payload
Walks
Excuse me, Captain Sun that you're worried about, next he just flies in the sky, picks off two with just the chip damage, not even getting the explosions that were needed, looking for a third or that one, little overzealous, gets the trade on the part.
Gets the Ana low, tries to go for the melee finish, but it's okay, like off of the kills
that you got from your ult.
You did enough to put Portugal back into the box of spawn, is Jasper, what are we doing?
Again, we're still just trying to burn off as much time as possible since we gave up
so much on first.
This could just be big distraction so that Snowdrop gets freedom of space to be able
to use the OC, like delay Portugal's rotation, or hit the Ana when she's vulnerable, but
the woolyang's still there.
The violin is out, and look at that!
It does the trick!
It's all around for all the angles,
and the support's shoved into the locker,
and Jesper Swag wants their lunch money,
and they can't push up.
They don't have the space to work with,
and the venture is getting a ridiculous amount of value.
Yeah, I mean, this is almost a communication issue
from Portugal, in my opinion, right?
When your Anna calls out that the venture is on top of you,
the team should not be looking to walk.
You should clear the venture out first.
And we've seen that Portugal, they've had enough of it.
Juno Kiroko comes out, kite potentials waiting, simply ignore the problem, or try and duel it, because Jesper's just doing the same.
And I thought if you just get one shot called out, have the title last to make sure that Jesper will live, and it's just another fight one off the back of this rock muncher.
I'm at, we don't see it on, but oh yes Jesper, we'll keep seeing it, we're watching, we see you.
That Portugal are wishing they banned out the Venture!
I'm sure it, yep. Definitely.
Which is actually like wild to say.
Okay, yeah, no, they've really had enough of it.
Tia Galini goes on to cast to just try and put us off to Jasper.
Like, they have to clear the Venture before they walk
because it's just getting so much more value for Norway's whole team.
This time, notice me, you don't guarantee a one-shot combo.
You just don't have any ults.
If you're fortunate, you need to start in the five minutes.
Oh, boom.
Or I could just walk to you and take a shock on my captain, son.
I just see a way to get blasted while it's wild.
Text on the show?
You have Scrooge Aspa on the flank?
I used to parv a drill dash and the z-hectra perk there.
And everyone's on high ground. You don't really have a good space. Oh, what's your team, lady?
To expect that, not to play. We're on puncher in the face, and a good buy to the Cassidy,
and great efficiency, and one more way to keep cycling the teams.
I mean, Jesper's just playing ventures like a tank, in all honesty.
Taking advantage of the survivability of the cooldowns.
Like, yell at your tectonic shock until you get the pick onto Cass.
You're not really getting eliminations, but you're setting reflect up to get one on tier Rod FD
Which takes out the cure code stalls like the rush and here we go
Surely you check this angle. I guess this one is not insane. We'll get found out by the soldier there
He's the venture at this time just won't engage the lizard thrown into the back line
But it's so Isaac that ends up falling from Norway after son got some value
This is an interesting position for a yardie to be in none of that's been more way or still find the elims in this way
There's only three five seconds remaining and reflect
That was rude
I mean you just use title blast on to reflect so that you go deeper into portugal's team
You cut off the disengage you get the late kills and you're about to go into an overturned situation
situation and you have to give up all of this time to wait for the full regroup you're not going to be able to clear out the
Venture you're absolutely not going to be able to clear out snowdrop who's just going to be able to use the OC on an off angle
To work with here you gotta pray it's enough to get you through this overclock and to the objective
Where if we go still ends up falling snowdrop getting all of the valley in the world triple kill for him
This team wraps around to support this man. He's as good as a done boxing or way
Use their unique approach and they'll take circuit royal and the series
You know what at the start of circuit royal? I was a venture doubter by the end
Secure I am a venture believer or I guess a Jesper venture believer like I
I can't believe they got that much value just being able to stall out approach after approach after approach like they lost first so quickly and then up of the venture shenanigans 36 and 5 by the way
But Jesper is absolutely wild. They clawed back all of the time that they gave up and put Portugal into such a panic situation that even with the double support ults, it's not enough. No one has a track on where Snowdrop plays from and OC just shreds the whole team.
37-3 from Snowdrop as well. DPS were the highlight for Norway in this last map and, you know, as a venture player myself, I always, like, I'm about to cry when I see this map come up in my comp games, but we could all learn something from Jesper.
And I think it really did come from Norway exploiting some of these communication errors that Portugal were having, not knowing what to do about this walk mentor, just lurking in the back line.
They'll find a way to take this series away, I thought for sure we'd be going to 5 after
this game, but here we are, Norway, and it should come up with a win in their World Cup
trials round.
I'm so happy because that means that we get to interview them and we can talk to them
about the venture.
It's the first time that we're going to be able to actually do an interview with Team
Norway and I think we're both hoping that we get Jesper to be able to talk to him and ask him like
what exactly went down why did the team put their trust in the venture composition despite it being
a map taken to Circuit Royale which on paper the two should not mix that's like fire and water
to the absolute utmost degree but they make it work. Yeah it found a way it's a it's a plight to
the beat of their own drum. I think it's been Norway's theme for the entirety of the tournaments and
you know it can work I think at some of the like kind of the cost of like our tier one level of play
is where we start to see that struggle but the fact that they're able to play as much as they did
in the World Cup trials get this win here today as the run comes to an end. It does show what the
talents of this country has to offer what they're developing and the fact that we get to continue
to see Jigsper play in for ODBCS EMEA on the TELUSI roster will be something to watch.
Oh, I hope we get to see MoVenture. I truly hope that we get to see MoVenture coming from him.
And you really do like have to applaud Team Norway. They had some really inspired band drafts
coming on out some very smart map picks as well to be able to try and swerve those problems.
We were a little bit worried when we saw the Pharah ban come through because like if the
venture had not worked out, taking out one of your options of swapping onto the Pharah could
have cost them but they are able to deal with it. Masterfully as we get to see, I'm like look at this
highlight, no one knows that the venture is there, no one's checking your angles. You might as well
I'll be all the way back to season one, Reinhardt.
Just holding Shatter behind a corner.
Everyone walks past, no one knows he's there.
He jumps and then you go.
He just gotta check for orders.
Like that's just the rule.
Like you're always gonna be set up.
You're either looking for the one shot combos
or getting that positioning without having to use any space.
And I'm kind of sad that we don't get to see
Norway progress further into this run.
They would be a very fun team to watch and continue, but yeah, I'm glad they got their flowers at least for today.
And I will get to see some more of them, hopefully in future iterations of the Overwatch World Cup.
But I think in the case of Portugal, and this was a team that kind of stuck their way in through the Conference Cup.
They showed, they had to offer still having their own unique picks in a way.
and got to see the talent that is developing in this region and what could be up and coming for this EVA side things.
Yeah, they did such a good job on them, Bonnie, right? Being able to take first so quickly. Loved the look of the Ana Wu Yang.
That really greedy backline composition which we saw them try to double down on in circuit because if they did win one fight,
especially on the defense being able to have that amount of damage,
hampering the attacks, walk up can be so detrimental to both time bank but also all of those individual fights.
As I am so happy because I just saw which player we're hopefully going to be able to talk to in the interview.
But before we can secure that one, we do have to look at our group B standings because as we said,
Unfortunately, despite Norway taking the win here, when you then compare it to GBR and Germany,
it becomes not obsolete, but it loses a little bit of its value since those two countries have
already advanced forward. So this truly was for honor and glory.
No, I do get the honor. No, no rectangle man.
No, I mean, it's not even the macro.
I would be like the true case of Germany. We do have King's Revelle, so some great
print. We'll see. We'll see. If we if we have a
printer later on, but a lot of things look forward to. I still have that great
Britain-Germany game that will be coming up after this for a seeing
decider in Usan and it could be a certified banger. I'm kind of looking forward to that one as well.
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to seeing what exactly will come of that series because
those two teams are both undefeated but they're yet to meet each other and I think a lot of people
have got GBR ahead of Germany so I want to see like how close is it going to be because you're
going to be able to get a good measure from this matchup of both of these teams. How far
ahead is GBR? Are you meeting the expectations when you look at such a stellar lineup of
players that you have? Or are Germany actually that much closer than a lot of people expect?
Because I'll be honest, if we get the ice nom's performance, who we had from Virtus.
Brog, when we were in Japan, Germany could well pull maps or wins.
Their team's energy is fantastic and even Great Britain had some weak points yesterday as well in their match against Portugal.
Their pre-fight positioning was a little wacky. They weren't fully on the same page.
And I think that is coming from kind of a common symptom that we see with a lot of our top overall four-cup teams is that the overlap in Oda is, yes, kind of getting into scrims a little bit later.
I think some of them, for example, Germany, who had the entirety of the Compress Cup that's played together and compete at that higher level.
So I think that those two things combined, I could find a way to clash and make this a very close series.
Yeah, but both of these teams will have good knowledge about the latest of methods because they have players who have been in contact with the OWCS and those match-ups into Japan, right?
So you already, even if like Astro is not playing as a main staple for Team Great Britain,
you're still going to be able to convey the information and strategies of this is how you
play Bastion Cat, this is how you play into Bastion Cat, this is how you play Mizuki,
this is how you counter the Mizuki, and the same thing for Ice Nom as well.
So there's going to be a lot of very quick adaptations, I think, from both of those two
teams, which sort of explains why they've been able to get a jump on some of the rest of the
competition who have been trying to stay away from those compositions entirely.
Yeah it does depend I think on the you're either a cap option team or you're not. There's not really
in between at this point in time like usually you'll have some alternative but you're spending so
much time towards this one competition if a team can find an attitude at well that series is kind
of over and Great Britain are one that will avoid that with every ounce of their being whereas
seen germany play with it a tad bit in some of their matches against portugal and norway
grinds at great britain a different piece i think when it comes to that level when you look at this
group b for example it felt pretty clear seeing the rosters on paper who would be able to move on
yeah i mean there's a lot of names that are available for both of these rosters a lot of
recognition. I know that a lot of us are hoping that we get Chadi coming through for at least one map,
potentially even the seeding decider from the two, like get him in on the Doomfist,
one versus one, just so we can see him play outside of Ice being able to be just a super flex tank.
I think that's really been able to open the door for a lot of avenues of compositions that Germany
you can swap between. It adds to the level of flexibility and the timing there, but it's not
a Portugal game too. We've seen those teams compete against them as well and there are strengths
all across I think this region in general and it sounds like we have one more opportunity to hear
from these teams before we send it off. Yeah, we have been here with us. We said that we would try
to get Jasper. We absolutely managed to, so a huge hello to the one and only 100% win rate venture
on Circuit Royale. Welcome to the stream, Jasper Swag. Hello, everyone. How's it going?
Going great. I mean, you guys probably having an absolute time of it on Circuit. Can you talk us
through a little bit about how that map went? Because especially on the defense, every time we
we come back to you we were just seeing you in a room waiting for the backline and jumping
on those supports. Well there's a reason why I get harassed and ranked a lot they they
say I play like a rat I can't really deny it I would hate to play against me to on circuits.
I love that mentality I think it's especially for it was a unique pick and I was kind of
the thing with Norway this weekend. There were the odd one out with the
compositions and everything that you were cooking up. Like where I kind of
want to hear from you. What was the discussion and a lot of this planning
veering away from the meta and more towards your comfort? Was that just
kind of there from the start or is this something that was more of a recent
development? I'm excited to finally be able to talk about it because sadly we
We are out, but yes, so we saw like the meta being cat bastion for a while.
We had a little time before the patch to like practice stuff and we just practiced a lot
of different compositions.
And then the meta came around, or not the patch, I mean the patch came around and the
meta didn't change at all.
It just made cat bastion even stronger, it felt like.
We tried playing a lot of Cat Bastion, but we really struggled on it.
So we just looked at what other teams did. We saw teams trying to make counter-comps or
just find ways around it and we did try to play counter meta instead of meta because
as you know our team just got put together, some people haven't played in a while,
some people have played very little. It's a very big mix of people
So that's why we had that type of approach towards the plan because we wanted to beat
the teams with planning and game sense compared to just taking them in a raw one-v-one and
throw hands.
We wanted to take them to our game.
Can you talk to us a little bit more about the fact of the team not really having some
of those 24-7 household names of Overwatch, like does it mean something special that you're
able to represent your country and have the opportunity to play at this level with the
Overwatch World Cup?
Say, say once more a bit easier please.
I'm very stupid.
Do you, does it mean a lot in particular that you can represent your country with maybe
a team that doesn't get the same opportunities for some of their players as maybe some of
the other household names that have become such staples in the Overwatch e-sports scene?
Yes, of course, it's an honor, it's lovely, like friends of me and people just in my life
which I haven't talked to in a while just randomly DMs me, oh my god, I heard you're
playing in this tournament and just the fact that randoms know it, like not even like people
who game a lot, learns about it, just means a lot because Norway is probably a lot of
people know kind of a smaller country, population wise, more people know each other, it's a
higher chance to like run into people you know in their cities where probably everyone
knows each other.
So just the fact that you're able to have people talk around you and people, I don't
I know it's reputation. It's just real reputation even though it's e-sports, which is usually very small in our way
It's just wonderful to get the chance at least it's wonderful
So and it was really great that we got to have all of you come up on the on the broadcast today and highlight the talent that
Has been developing there and I know for you. This isn't necessarily your last stop
And you just qualified for OWBCS E&EA on the TELUSI roster as well and have a lot more competition ahead.
And what can we, are you going to stay in touch with your Norway team?
Are you going to keep practicing together and potentially work together moving forwards?
The team Norway has, I mean we've gotten resources definitely from being in this tournament.
But if everyone is staying together, I don't think so, but we did have the Norwegian team,
like every player, played together in the expert qualifier and qualifier.
Without me though, because I was in O or CS as you know.
So I think there is projects going on with the team, but I know also some teammates are
getting offers or opportunities from this tournament.
I don't know what's going on or what's going to happen.
I am probably not allowed to say what I just said, they might get pissed at me, but it is what it is.
But for me at least, I will try to stay for TELUSY for this season at least, unless I get any other offers to play.
That's my plan for now. I am trying to do some nursing on the side, you know, so I'm not all inning on gaming,
but right now I am all in on gaming for sure. I took a lot of time off to just play around
and just game all day and just practice for this. It is certainly paid off. We have absolutely
adored getting to see Team Norway and your venture. Thank you so much for bringing the
off meta to the Overwatch eSports scene. Best of luck with Tosity and we'll see you around. Goodbye.
Thank you.
Oh, there we go.
Probably when you run into Jesper Slag on your ranked games,
be very, very concerned and hope that you are not queued as support
as you heard there from him.
You would not want to play against himself, too.
I don't blame it.
I think it's a new strategy.
I think Norway brought something new to the table
and again seeing developing Norwegian talent like Jesper Swagg and others that will continue to play at the higher levels
whether it's out at ECS, FACEIT Masters or beyond, it's going to be an exciting thing to watch.
Like we said, we're hoping that we get to see more of those players become a little bit more evident in the Overwatch Esports scene
and that's something that the Overwatch World Cup allows these players to be able to do, not just represent their country
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It's time we get great Britain versus Team Germany and we're already into the action
molly.
It's not the doing this one be one, but it is the widow as Kai is going to be able to
take down QRXU, trying to work out who's going to have the choice of the pick and
ooh back and forth a little bit. Both these widows clean with their shots.
Classic Widow 1-D1 there, it's actually QRXU. It's the better of Kai, one of the more legendary
hitscans that we have in the EMEA region. So I think that's a message to start from
Germany. They are going to get the higher seed and let's go to Oasis, a pick that we're
are starting to see more and more.
Yeah, we already talked about it as well,
the fact that both of these teams have a little bit more presence
towards the OWCS scene and the tier one aspects of it.
So both of them are already very much rehearsed
at being able to both play and deal with the Cap Bastion.
Great Britain, of course, will ban it out.
So they still have the Jetpack cap ban waiting in the wings.
But this being first to free does mean
that if Germany walk away with this map,
they can only do that one more time.
Gryprin, Cat Bastion Haters.
They're never gonna see that if they have the choice.
And I think against a team like Germany,
you don't want to leave that open as an option.
I think Akku has shown her proficiency on the Jetpack Cat.
But also the Mizuki, I think she has been one of the best Mizuki players
that we've seen throughout the EMEA qualifier so far.
And because the Cat has taken away,
I feel like there's a very strong possibility we're going to see her pick that up in her first map.
Yeah, I think Mizuki probably the Sigma as well, since we had the Diva Band coming over from the side of Team Germany.
So it's likely that we're going to be getting that Mizuki Chirico-Nay styling composition come through.
Now the question is what's your second DPS going to be? Will it be the Tracer? Will it be the Sojourn?
Will it be something a little bit spicy or could it just be the Sim?
so that you're able to teleport in and out of your engagements,
and also have that beam being able to laser for a lot of our tank defenses.
And I think it is going to depend to...
These teams are both known to counter swap quite a bit, maybe not on the squirts map,
but I think the Sigma pick is one that Tread isn't nearly as comfortable on
I compared to some of his other heroes and that is something that Ice Nom can really play to his favor
Start we've mentioned a couple times now and how good he has looks like just in the last couple of months
Yeah, performance and I really think there was a chance that if Germany end up taking a map or even the series here
It will be off the back of his play. Yeah ice is very much one of the crowns
I've the jewels and the crown for team Germany when it comes to being able to be that flexible tank to anchor the team around and
Becoming fast a very much staple name
I think in the household of the Overwatch eSports scene
So as we get ready to head into Gardens fully expecting the double Sigma matchup with that Mizuki composition
How well will GBR play into this is the question?
Reminder both of these teams already qualified for Busan in the top two for group B
This is just to decide who gets the seeding who will have a slightly easier group as we head into that LAN events
Teams slowly starting to lock in at the call positions. Don't pay attention to Germany's DPS line. I believe that that is real
But the remosha for Trent here. I think would make a lot of sense
Especially if we see Mamon stick onto this semester. Yeah, and crispy on the Lucio as well
Right, so very classic with the Lucio just speeding your Ram in and I when it's his turn to be able to play as Mamon
Actually swaps onto the tracer no tracer as well on the side of Germany
So you're just fully reliant on your back line being able to win at the Joule
But both Mizuki and Kiriko have the means to do so
Mamon is just gonna exist on this off angle Germany don't exactly have that pressure. It's gonna be on Akku
to make sure that she can survive. For the most part, it's already mission failed, and
Maimon is back there. Nothing that QRXU could have done about that, and the revenge for the
seating match already claimed.
No honorable surgeon, 1v1, happening here. Maimon is like all as fair in love and war
and seating for the Overwatch World Cup as QRXU gets taken down, and it reads in terms
of his OC charge, right? Kai already, halfway plus past. To that first one, good shield
comes on third, blocks the lock from ice, but Tobias still trying to hold their space
on this point and stop Germany getting the flip.
But I'll go deal with Memon, and that's kind of the one thing that Germany can do about
it, and just now you can beat up Tread. Tread, we don't have anything to poke you in the
back. Goodbye, tanky guy. And Germany, let's go ahead and grab the flip, and more importantly,
the high ground.
little bit of a misplay to be fair coming through from SXJ right? Because that was their own main wall!
Which trapped eyes! Now it's going to be GBR trying to play into this retake, having to get this
tracer into a good spot to be able to deal the backline, but off of all of the damage that Germany's
been taking, they have one side of Kitsuneirach, which means the GBR aren't careful, and they go
too deep, they will just get hit by the critical ult. Let's go first for Kiwi's part.
I saw him on the opposite angle, where the entirety of the red brighten is pushing right now.
He's Kai, playing under a couple of shots, but the good Zune rushes will matter.
He won't get this stick really low, but it results in the heal, and the tracer zoned off entirely in Germany.
Managed to hold off.
Crispy has the ice, has the flux, which means that he has to hold it.
the threat with annihilation, but in Germany you can honestly just play away from it.
The question for me is how does Akku get used out of her ultimate, right?
Kai burned the OC so you won't use it to absorb the Sojourn ultimate.
Maybe you just try and interfere with the momentum off of Krispy's beat.
I think even that or perhaps try to zone Tread off with the annihilation.
But it's both Sojourn's already down at the start of this flight as Tread is going to
March on down onto dockey, but a fantastic mibble from xsj puts him in the timeout room
Riddick Fox goes out and just holds on to the sound barrier
Which is gonna be very important if you come out now, but Trentzl gets frozen up
Exclusion comes on in from Keely, but at the cost of his life he's every cool down to get there and Germany still get the point
Great sanctuary as well from Aku, sound barrier barely catches on to anyone on the side of Great Britain
And Germany lost by territory. Honestly, they can just go super aggressive with the OC to zone GBR of getting the touch.
Namu's able to actually get OT off of the recall, but you've already used up one of your main cooldowns as Tracer,
and you still have to worry about the social high ground.
Well, at least he's on a high ground anymore, and Tread jumped his way up there on the reason he swapped hazard.
But he's losing Kiwi this early, and that's just all the same.
gone, Tread doesn't stand a chance to be on these crazy shots of people like Hyde
and to actually clean his office. It is still over time for this Germany squad in
SXJ, because landing everything that he needs to, securing the round for Germany.
Well, we said that that was a possibility for Germany to actually be much
closer, I think, than people anticipated to GBR's level and the first round
reflects it. Some brilliant mails, some really good shots coming on from Q
QRXU to just totally dismantle Kai, and then as well like having the back line ultimates
being able to just stop GBRs from taking momentum onto the point where Neymar would have been
an absolute nuisance. If Germany had to fully play into the retake, like having to clear
out the tracer before you walk means that GBR would just excel in terms of point percentage.
The fact that the only player who's died on Germany is QRXU three times at that, like
It shows we're Great Britain's are putting the priority, but that's also probably the
no offense to QRXU, the most useless thing to their specific composition, Germany.
Yeah, it's bait, right?
Yeah.
Get the Tracer to look at the DPS so that the back line live and Keith Ice and SXJ up,
which is the main team core, and QRXU will still be baiting his life, but on the Cassidy,
so more damage reduction and a really good potential flashbang to stop Mamon from being
able to rely on all of his movement.
That's gonna help, and plus the Pharah now from SXJ is you've seen how deadly that can be on this split specifically, and I think it's gonna be hard for Pie to get a full angle on his.
As I say, besides some dual Maimon, all of Akku, at his side to make sure he doesn't get fully engaged on, for now it's kind of this poke battle for Germany.
I love those shots from SSA, like when we're watching his peer over here, you might be
questioning why he's just leading rockets into empty lanes.
He's using the AOE to try to check if Maimon's creeping through one of those angles, and
then when it comes up clear and he knows no accuracy ticker, you know it was that the
Tracer is not going to be that and he can change his attention to a different angle now that Germany has been able to sweep up
This first fight as well that crossfire the constant pressure from the soldier and being able to hide away from the shops
Over the rooftops is that in spades from the farm?
Like how do you approach this?
Yeah, if you're great Britain with all this poke angles
You have to use the speed and just get around the corner. Well, there's big tanks of rocket
That's not exactly what you want with this squishy health bar
High barely slides out of danger.
Look at the pinch that we're seeing.
Yeah, that's stuck.
Yeah, they're trying to flip the map, but you don't have your Lucino to get you around
fast, red, and you have to use the storms to get out.
Barrage in a small room, and it's one that is occupied by the Wormachra no longer.
Germany, hold on to the point.
Brilliant bait of the Suzer, and then you know that you have a free pass for the barrage,
as Germany still hold on to this point.
GBR losing Kai late as well. Crispy going down early in that fight means that you won't have the sound barrier
to try to survive the collapse of Ices' flux when GBR try to make them move with the rush.
Running out of time as well and how one else is looking to be likely last fight just don't have Kai.
Like, if you're a great friend, I think you try to get out now.
You have to.
Stay the cool with the battle.
You straight up have to, but you can see like GBR doesn't visit everything that you suzer,
Which means free kill onto Kiwi, that's the rush!
And Jeremy will just keep applying pressure before GVR can regroup.
That was the clean final fight.
That's round.
Wow, it's not just round, that's map!
Moxie, we've talked about going into this game, how Great Britain, or like the team to be, probably top three in the region,
but Germany just gave them a masterclass in their macro, quite literally, running circles around them.
And they'll be the ones to claim away since.
What's actually wild as well is that like Germany had the support or advantage
Did not have to use them just like off of all of these kills that Germany were getting on to GVR's rotations
The fact that they were able to just have so much damage off of both the cast and the fire
concentrated into one area ice as well had some insane
Rock connections on to players when they're trying to complete those crosses and because Kai was just always being kept under pressure
You never really got the railgun charge to keep Germany's players in check and try and draw some of that focus fire away from the rest of the team
Like 9,000 damage on ice them from this map
No deaths either like this Sigma is a problem and the way that Germany are playing around it to set up these pinches with either
Farah or the sojourner and maybe isolate with sxj's may wall and there's just no way to get it past it
I think if you're great Britain going forwards either need to find a way to
ban the Sigma or I think you need to try to play it yourselves yeah well you can
only ban it once you can only ban it once and since Germany were able to take
the first map they guarantee have so many more months where they have a like
look at this perfect understanding of the point percentage being able to pick
Kai early forcing GBR to have to abandon that fight wait for their
soldier to come back to have OC, see that Shuzu was used to try to bail out Maymoan
as he's getting around that corner, which means, hey, free flux! No sound barrier to
stop it, invest the sick up now, catch the Kiriko, and stop the fight before GVR can
even have it happen twice in a row. Brilliant tempo plays from Germany.
They're all on the same page, and it's been their strength throughout this tournament.
It's what got them to be undefeated in the conference cup. And if you're a Great Britain,
You need to find a way to change this around and I think Dorado is a great way to do it.
Tread not exactly known for the Sigma, but picks like the Hazard, the D.Va.
Those are way more of his alley and I think that's going to help a lot more to have him
in a comfortable position where he can actually exist with the team.
But Moxie, I think this needs to come down to the communication that Great Britain are
having with each other.
Yeah, it's a smart like swerve around the SIG, right?
You take out Asgore because you have to feel.
Germany got the option to go escort they would have picked circuit royale they
would have doubled down on the sigma so swerving away taking escort entirely out
picking up Dorado is really good but like you said nothing will change unless
GBR actually coordinate their players coming on through because like it's
just been a case of they've lost one then they've lost two then they've been
stuck in a really bad position which has then been crunched upon and they've
lost the fight so unsightly that they don't have ultimates to be able to
a bully Germany space back when they have to go for that retake. So really hoping for
GBR when we see the substitution come through, it fixes things on the communication issue
as we have golden pants actually subbing in for tread. So maybe we get a little bit more
dive coming on through from him, a little bit of the wrecking ball potentially to try
to spin Germany's back line in an absolute panic.
It was banned away from him yesterday in the new body game, but Great Britain, not gonna
be extra sure.
Take away the D.Va.
So the golden pants, wrecking ball, a very real possibility, still has the Winston in
the back pocket too, which we did end up seeing, well, and the treasure man to follow from
Germany.
I, like, while Maimon wasn't getting a lot done, a treacher on any escort map is a real
threat, particularly with the dive comp.
So I'm assuming they're to keep this Pharah sort of going, maybe pair it up with Hinscan?
Yeah, like Tracer is a big risk when you go on to Escob, because you have to be so paranoid
about her just pushing cart.
Like flight can be baited into going off on high ground, Tracer will just be pushing
on cart unless you send someone to go take the flight, in which case Tracer will just
abandon it and go rejoin her team because of the amount of mobility that she has.
Plus, it also means that you can't really play some of your support options, right?
Juno gets absolutely farmed by Tracer with the one-clips, you might have to go for a
break if you want to be able to match a Tracer of your own so that you have the armor advantage
and you don't want to pull away from things like the Kiriko and the Lucio which has been
working out so far, or if Germany want to go back to it, then Mizuki, because like
honestly, we've been seeing some insane Mizuki shots coming on from the side of Akku.
Yeah, I mean, Aku's fantastic on this Mizuki, I still think she's had the best performance
on the hero in the region so far, and I would love to see her continue to play that, especially
if it is a dive, it's a real threat to anybody on Great Britain who manages to get too close
to her.
Although, if you are running the Mizuki, I think you need to pair it with the Kiriko.
I don't really want an Anna to go alongside that, the two trying to patty-cake off each
other is not as good without like a brig or something like that so I would like to see that
backline continue for Germany with the success that it has and the very strong likelihood of a
wrecking ball from Golden Pants. Yeah like we said if we do get the wrecking ball coming through
from Golden Pants being able to chain the ball in place with the Mizuki so that you can actually
catch them before they just roll on through and disrupt beyond their way, play the health backs,
put so much attention off of the rest of GVR's players because like that's the thing when you're
running like dive in this day and age it's not really the dive itself that's letting you find
the kills it's more about the amount of space that the dive provides for the rest of your team so
Kai being on the soldier and it is going to be looking for the opportunities golden pants provides
calming out when multiple people are turned away from trying to scout out where the sojourn is
Potentially even setting up pile drives to push players airborne so that Kai can snipe them out with rail shots
And you're gonna need it because Germany are running the epitome of countertive
the sigma the Cassidy the Reaper the
Zuki on top of it. This would be tough for both golden pants to get close
So having them on product like the echo no long this little nigger stakes, I could
Okay, I could good thing we had a shift up
She's thought about the danger
Instantly teleported away Kai off of the widow golden pass actually goes for the Winston
I don't know how long that's going to stick around when he's scared out sxj on the Reaper
I think I prefer the wrecking of her
Yeah, maybe the thought is I have the bubble if for some reason I get chained but
We'll see how that works out, but I like this idea of the poke mentality and playing this as a close matchup
It's a bit tricky.
In Germany, just sticking the Reaper on the payload right now,
that has been from Force and Aukku,
and just getting a load of sticky bombs from the 7-packs bomb.
Yeah, GoldenPants is not actually diving.
GoldenPants is just baiting his position on point to full SXJ,
then Kaia-Memo and deal with the Reaper.
The Winston absorbs the damage,
funnels it to Kiwi to build Nano,
so that GBR have a good engagement option,
and they've worn down Germany's space really quickly,
despite Germany being on a full counter-dark composition,
Neyman's all the way in the back,
being able to find these really good positions for the stickies.
And you see it again, SXJ goes into contests with Golden Pants,
which I guess he does eventually fall into our ex-view.
He got a little too close there that it's literally just sticking to it and he's like,
Hey, come and get it, Serpenti!
And it's been working out so far.
Yeah, to the point that SXJ actually,
despite Golden Pants being on the Winston, bends the knee,
Swaps onto the Echo instead since he's been so problematic. QE already has a nano boost by the way
So we might get classic nano Winston engagement to just drop a QRXE with the dead eye
Winton going on in his hinder instantly, but it's a matter of SSJ and so much trouble and payment following up
There's enough chance for the team to get out those great layering of the utility there from Great Britain another first point
Yeah, perfectly staged, like Nano Winston takes all of the attention, forces out the reaction
dead eye, Ekko uses the dupe, catches the Sigma, suddenly you have a tank on the front line
being able to shield off all of the pressure, Kiwi got an anti-nade as well onto both QRXU
and the backline, which forces out the Suzu as well, and GBR, because of how one-sided
that fight was, they've already swept onto the high ground, so Germany, they're going
Going on to the Cat Bastion, GVR landed it on the last map by banning it, now they have
to deal with it directly so this Winston should get absolutely melted.
Yeah, I think Golden Pants goes back directly while here, with the most of the counter dive
gone.
I don't think there's a point sticking, you're a lot more survivable on this point.
Well it's also only Curie, right?
It's just the Curico for Germany because Akku is always going to be playing with QRXU.
I don't know if you can say cat sitting, because the cat is like, I don't know, Bastion sitting,
there we go, Robot sitting, speaking of sitting, Golden Pants, Goodbye SSJ on the high ground,
so, and that is kind of the vulnerabilities.
If you can find a way to ignore this cat fashion from the Aqua QR, just engage on the rest of
the team, like it's soon they rush from docking, it's hoping to stop some of that momentum,
but you don't really have to follow up, if you're so good away from me, let my team recruit
Yeah, Christy has titled Rasmus in Golden Pants, as rolling all the way further, trying to look at how much of Germany are possible to push off of the high ground.
I spot sight that GBR have way too much space to be able to prove, and shuts it all down with Flux,
punishing the fact that GBR do not have a character, and they expanded on that Wu Yang Ultimate as well, so Flux shreds off all of the additional armor and-
Whoa!
GBR! Cat haters, apparently!
Go to the cat bastion themselves!
And while it might be a jetpack cat,
we're about to have ourselves a dogfight in the streets of Toronto.
They've banned it at every single possibility.
This weekend they have not touched it.
This is the point.
You can tell how much they want to win this series.
Do you think it's for the nano?
Do you think it's because they know that Kiwi has nano,
so you'd be QRXU in the bastion 1v1?
You could, honestly.
It actually sounds like a great idea.
I'm excited to see this one come out.
He was already looking up at this guy.
He knows.
The cat!
No!
All right, we're getting the echo.
Forced the two pot of SXJ.
We actually go down if there's no way he lives
through all of this, right?
Even the emergency eels from Doki are enough,
which you might call a misplay.
Ends in a one for one trade.
A cat that from Akugo wants to change that.
Maybe I'm doing his best to trade it out.
That's all he's going to get.
No tank presence, Duke, but here we go!
I think looking for the Bastion there won't get the teleport off, at least stays alive and the best part of this,
4Grey, Brighton, Moxie, they still got the payload moving.
I can't believe...
The back of a missed nano...
GVR actually gain trades...
Okay, GVR, what are we doing? We don't have nano boost, but what we do have will be artillery strike from Kai and a really good boop as well from Golden Pants
to just deposit ice onto the low ground.
Neymar's looking for the off angle,
trying to pull out the resources from the kill
and he's going very low.
Going back towards the bottom while he finds it.
Yeah, and the Bastion just doesn't have the help
to stick through it.
Pai rolls around the corner as the distraction
turns onto his hamster.
Great Britain, they're doing their best
to divide this attention
and make sure Germany can't recover.
Rush though.
Germany have enough time to just face tank damage,
build rush and push GVR out.
So, this artillery from Kai might have to be defensive measures against the Kiriko Ultimate.
Jadal already got it. This has been the first time Great Britain are pulling out this comp,
but getting through the growing pains of the MISnano and suddenly things are looking up for
MSXJ moving back over to that Reaper.
And hopefully he can test the payload a bit closer.
What do you do? He gets his Cat Bash, well, he gets to do an A-Rush,
I go far like he was made of paper golden pants meeting a similar fate
Kiwi somehow manages to grab to it would be an attempt at reset
But I'm close I think crispy might be able to use the catnap to dive on to car and touch
QRX here is just
Taxing Kiwi what Kiwi was able to live that must have been made like you dog one you get hit by one
You need yourself you get nano boost potentially and it goes on to me when I'm
telling you yes this is the guy you actually want to go on it's not the
jetpack he's so close to duplicating such a smart play from Kiwi, Great Britain
not out of this one point yet. Cat Africa is down, it's double-stulling on the
ice gun. Tank falls, but Mamon doesn't have the health bar, the percent of sun
forwards. Crispy pops the purr, but that will be his last punch. Great Britain
fall just short of second point.
Yeah, you can see how worried Germany are about that nanobooth getting further to the point that they literally use the Bastion ult to try to take the Ana down
before QE gets a good line of sight on someone to give the boost to.
The fact that GVR got pushed into the cat Bastion ult, I mean, part of you has to ask, did they actually hype the strategy the whole time?
understanding that they wanted to sort of look like they were moving away from it because
their hardest matchup was indeed this one against Germany, so you can surprise your
opponents by actually mirroring it.
It's possible.
I don't know, I think it's the bands and how much they've kind of taken that away, or maybe
it's because they just didn't want to share it in the first place.
It could be some like crazy psychological trick, as going like the Roadhog that I saw is hovering
in the spawn here.
Also, shout out to Maemon. I think he's been kind of the catalyst for this very
frequent column that has the actual damage follow-up, 16 and 2 after that round synergizing
with Golden Pants. As this composition with the wrecking ball can be a lot harder on the defense.
Yeah, I mean being able to put so much pressure onto Dockley, especially on second point we just saw,
when Golden Pants swapped to the wrecking ball, Maemon would look for those opportunities of
Getting stickies onto the carry, forcing out things like the Suzu, the Swiftstep, and then allowing the Wrecking Ball to finish the job as GVR on the defense might make it a little bit harder for the Echo to work, but starting off on the actual Sebastian.
So Ice, looking for a hook opportunity, just trying to live.
I- I- I- I- I- I was joking. I- I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it! This would be real.
I- I- I guess it's a good counter.
Into the wrecking balls, especially if you can land, like, the Akku's chain, plus the hook, or vice versa.
Or just YOLKS guy, Kai out of the sky, goes fishing,
comes up on a robot, and Germany, well, the big threat is gone. They just take all the space for free.
I mean, that's a flying fish, I guess.
Coming on fur, as SXJ gets hit by the anti, has to weight hook, misses golden pants by a care,
but Germany still pushing this car onwards, GBR having to wait for the cat bastion to set up
once more, great hook comes down for wrecking bull, but that means it's not better to stop the bastion,
and everyone from Germany just has to take cover. Move from the fur actually almost,
end up being Iceland's deniers there. Just getting the smaller one, but everyone was just
Bunkered in here letting the Roadhog push cart. It's Great Britain parrying for the next swing on the Bastion
The pilot's soft engage from Golden Pants. Just to stop the payload out. It's Kite.
I'm ready to go back in knowing the hook is gone. There's a real opportunity. She don't have to carry gulp.
Therefore, no kids. Zude rush. Who's gonna touch the point and barely get there is Golden Pants.
If the duplicate out of the Roadhog wants me enough to shut this one down Kite with the extra assist is Great Britain.
and HERROLY stuff the guard!
Yeah, big play coming in first from GVR, catching out darkly, light pick as well onto QRXU, which
allows GVR to get their players who were traded back into a good position and set up CLOSE
with this cat bastion wrecking ball.
QRXU though does have the dead eye, so if Kai and Golden or Crispy are a little too
too rambunctious, they could be cut out with that one, as Germany avoid the Bastion Flyby,
going all the way around to the base, but now get scouted out and have to deal with a
sentry form.
But the fact that that cycle can go through early, but to get back at somebody's on the
payload!
I managed to get the touch in time, but this is a very split plump for Germany, and well,
I mean, Great Britain, you're getting pushed into a corner for goldenpans, no way to get
out of that one, and half the tank, you don't really want to stick Kiwi on the payload,
Who actually can test this?
Uh, the answer is the Bastion, you kind of just dangle him low enough to make sure it
can get there, but without the cat, QRXU, to make sure this point goes over to Germany
in maybe four minutes to get the second.
How well will the strat fare for Germany now?
Because you're playing much more low ground than high, late kill onto QE so they can secure
as much free push on this cart as possible, GBR will be very hesitant to try to push in
when they're lacking the Ana. Since Crispy will always be with Kai until Kiwi comes back,
this team are pretty much without a support. So it's just a little bit of poke coming on for
scouting out where Germany will be positioned. Mines on the high ground to push ice back on to the
point and a live GBR a little bit more space. Especially if the breasted team wasn't already
like regrouped under the point. So the payload still kind of moves. You just protect Kai,
for the time being, make the taper for Kai, and to go for his next turn, on this fashion-formed
URXU, uh, up low there, and throw the Suzuu on out to make sure he stays on his mind.
This is a big artillery shot, and don't run bungering in small groups, it's not a bad opportunity.
To use it aggressively, there will be the Katsune Rush instead out of Doki,
because that ain't great for in-running. Yeah, GBR just waiting for Rush to be done,
they've got Nanobis for the re-engage, if worse comes to the worst, they can use the
to do from Echo to get second life, Nano onto Bastion, SXJ mid Blossom, absolutely melted
and GBR will send Germany back in.
And that Blossom of Death Sentence is there, face to face with that Nano to Kine, this is
kind of far before Great Britain, this is the spot where the fashion complex sells the
most.
Yeah, well if you can't beat them, join them.
At least for Germany, they know that GBR used the Nano that fight, so you won't say
Cheese out the bastion one versus one win with the damage reduction and superior amount of damage
You can output as Akku is indeed back on to cat
I
Wasn't that is the advantage of having TV on the honor
You're not really gonna get dope too much by the sermon a comp and you're free to hit these shots on the cat bastion
Not respect your ice mom has to put in an extra work
It's just traded out and it's still a 4v3 favoring great Britain and Golden Paps will be back much faster
Yeah, main line picks cure X you as well
I still thinks that you can get something here good state from Kiwi
Clicking two seconds trying to just bait a position while you can get someone and that's actually is able to pick up Kiwi
That's the best pick you could ask for me and that's to down now for great Britain crispy getting desperate here
Drops down onto the point. Sun's ice them long enough. I have to take a breather. Can't heal him.
The canai on the cart. Oh, you, you, you, sorry Kai. You're out of options, buddy.
Pure XC who has your number. Whether you like it or not, it just doesn't matter for Germany as long as this hamster's alive.
Yeah, I mean Germany they get the picks, but Goldenpants is able to just stay
stubbornly on that point. What they have been able to do though is push it close enough that a one-sided rush
should be enough to be able to see themselves purrified, problem is GB have so many ultimates
upcoming, mine should be able to slow germany's approach down and let Kiwi hit the nanobus
and we have to be able to Germany don't have an answer to it.
Now there's a third fashion of the field now, something made more stupid, yet not a chance
for Aisla to get through that much, because so many rushes down, 30 seconds remaining
here for Germany, like what do you do with this point?
Iso wants to open the mid, Iso is now over to this breaking ball, receives the nano-booms,
and he is going to bump up the broken pieces of this Germany team, great friend,
said if we can't beat him, might as well join him, and Moxie, it's gonna be their first map win
unless Germany get a touch.
Yeah, turns out, GBL are cap-couple, as, oh no, well, Iso is able to touch and roll on
We have got ourselves a game, Moxie.
Our iconic question is how can Germany match up to this stack roster of previously established
talent for Great Britain?
But now the question is how can Great Britain continue to put out these performances consistently?
This map was incredibly close despite being their pick, despite putting golden pants on
a signature wrecking ball.
Do we think that there's an Ana ban as well coming on from Germany because they've obviously
wanted to run the Kyriacore, Kiwi's been on the Ana.
the Ana has been problematic, like the Anti's forcing Suzu early so that you've lost it in
really crucial moments, while Bastion's flying by doing all of that burst damage, you don't
have Suzu to be able to iframe through it, like there's so much that the Ana's been
able to do for this team.
And that's a mention, main bonus, except for that, we don't talk about this.
This was a whipsy, we're just remembering how to play Cap Bastion again.
I mean, Crispy does still come up with two on this play, but in regards to that, I think that on a deaf one needs some looking at
and paired with this wrecking ball, you're freed up to do a lot more damage.
You don't need to focus on healing your tank nearly as much.
They do applaud Germany for coming up with a counterstrat, but they had an answer for either the wrecking ball or the cap bastion or the echo.
Well, actually, they never really figured out the echo.
It couldn't get every piece at a time, and just because of how overwhelming Great Britain's
count hump can be, if you can't figure out all of it well, you're going to fall short
of pitch line.
Yeah, and that was the whole thing, right, that Great Britain were able to do.
If you have an answer to the Cat Bastion, you don't have an answer to the Bowl or the
Anna, and it meant that QB was just getting to farm up the Nanos.
Sometimes early kills were coming on through, but those were few and far between and had
to come off of like really clutch picks from QRXU or potentially getting the
Bastion into a position before the Anna is able to react to it but I think this
opens up the series entirely right because we went into this expecting GBR
to be constantly banning out the Cap Bastion not wanting to touch it with a
10-foot pole and now not only have they not banned it out they've played it
themselves so if you're looking at sort of like Germany and how they likely
approached the series they might not be expecting a lot of what GBR want to do
both in terms of bands but also map picks.
Yeah it's gonna be a King's Row here from Germany and I like this even if the
cat fashion does come out it's pretty much only valid on this first point it
gets a lot harder on the rest of the map to kind of play consistently but it
It also forces you back to the brawl, back to this maybe, or the flora, things that we
saw in Germany find a kind of success on, on a basis, you know that the diva pick will
be there, the sigma pick might be there if you protect it, I think it's just comfort
for Germany going back to this king's roadmap, and would not be all that upset if there was
all the trouble.
Yeah, I think like what you can probably do as well as we're getting tread being subbed
in because like kings are like you said it puts it sort of more back into that brawl line-up coming
out which means that you're moving away from the dive you don't want to have golden pants in because
while wrecking ball can be strong on points like first having to try and push him into streets phase
if you've lost control of one fight can be very difficult to get the ball somewhat rolling once
more as we're going to likely be seeing things like the sigma into the rematch yet again which if
if you're Germany, you're hoping for a repeat performance of how they were able to shut it down on Oasis.
Like, the Mizuki can come back in for Akku, I think, like, that's one of the main concerns for me.
When they play the Cat Bastion, it's that it moves her onto the Cat and away from the Mizuki.
And while the Bastion has playmaking potential, the Cat outside of the Ultimate doesn't really feel like you're doing all that much damage
or being able to shut down a lot of the ultimates of things like the OC in the same way that
Sanctuary can.
Yeah, I think Germany also rely on Akku a lot for her playmaking on the Mizuki, and
we could kinda see the difference on that point, not necessarily that she's bad at the cat,
it just takes away from the other potential that she has to offer the core team, and with
Great Britain finding a sudden cure to their cat allergies, things can get a little sticky
on the first part of the map especially.
Yeah, I think you're very concerned about that. You also have to sort of like feel, okay, what's Kai going to be up to in these matchups too as, oh hey look, Germany banned out the Ana. Who could have foreseen that one?
As this now forces the issue, right? You sort of do have to play the Kiriko, do have to play the Mizuki or the Lucio with it,
and we do get the second ban of the Sig coming on through from the side of GBR, so likely going to be wanting to try and force a Rematra mirror.
And I think this is, uh, what's the lesser two evils here? Because if you don't, I don't think you don't ban the Ana, one, great Britain are going to play it,
And two, your Mizuki's probably gone.
I think you want both of those on this map,
but you do it at the cost of the Signot,
which is, and this is probably one of his best maps,
but you can pull out and knowing that Tread
doesn't really like to lean in that direction.
And now you have to mirror him in his own game.
I'm a little more scared for how the tank matchup
is going to look in this map in particular now,
just because of that asset.
And again, going to look back onto Akku and what she's going to be able to accomplish on this Mizuki to help them keep their bearings together as we had him keep throughout.
It'll be the name as well. For SXJ, when I'm sure Germany play on their defenses, GBR will be starting off and okay, Crispy is going to be on the Mizuki.
This time around for him, Kai rolling out not on the Sojourn, but on the Ash instead, so still really good hitscan potential and also potentially forcing Suzu early with some very strong TNT placements.
I like this idea a lot from Great Britain. We've seen like a little more Ash played by a select few players and Kai, and this is kind of here where he built his name on.
on for the hits again way back in the overwatch league days.
We're excited to see that come back. Hope damage potential is real.
What are Germany cooking up? Is the real question? I clearly haven't taken a
floor right now. Yep. Can you get anybody? Are we reviewing silly?
Well, here's the thing. You can't hide. You can't hide from the widow,
from spawn, if she's being towed by the cat. So I like the approach from Germany, but thankfully
Kiwi is able to keep his head and we go back to the Cap Bastion. So this is sort of what we expected,
right? Use the Cap Bastion to try and force your way through the first choke, which can be very
problematic. So you have to navigate around all of the incoming pressure from the defense,
but once you swing around that statue, GPR can still kite. I think kite is now a chance,
and Maven's wall is just useless. Half the team can fly over it, because we're not too
concerned about that, right? We'll drop down just to make sure that everybody can live successfully,
I saw them though make sure it wasn't straight too far away from his support and docking LVR and UTX 8
Or his team straight Britain slowly start to regroup up on an adventure
It's changed and somehow get that with their life. I mean this angle from Epic J is nasty
And that's just it right Britain lose out on trend
Yeah, kill me just wait cut wait a minute may my one GVR clutch
Watch. That shouldn't happen. That shouldn't happen at all. Kai is using his own base ice block to get through.
Asaka was doing her darkness to keep your ex-fuelled, and she manages to do so, SXJ is back from the spawn.
Tread, turning on D.Va, it forces more Ultimates to be committed.
Right Britain would really see a wing condition in this fight, but SXJ haven't absolutely none of it.
Braz on out. And there we go. Now German has the point.
Yeah, great Suzu as well from Dockly to be able to keep QRXU up in that fight as Akku attempts to catnap.
And GVR just won, but like the fact that they're getting so much space in streets is really good for Germany
because now you get so many more rooftops for QRXU to be able to hide around while you're waiting for that drop to fly by of the sentry formers.
Tread on the D.Va, at least with the defense matrix, can try to mitigate a little bit more of the damage as opposed to the ramp.
I think the D.Va is much safer, even if the main can be scarier.
It's under a bit of pressure, but eventually we'll be relieved as Fred retreats to defense
Matrix the Bastion in the skies.
There's only kind of fog of the cashing of the unmatched Sune Rush in Germany, but they're
happy with it.
Well, not much space, though.
But Fred being forced to deal with the Cap Bastion means that the rest of Germany's frontline
and just have so much more place to be able to walk,
Maimon might have to just use Blizzard to zone away
Ice's walk when the Annihilation comes on through.
He kind of, it almost looks like he wants to use it
aggressively here.
And you can tell Ice Nom is afraid of that,
not pushing up too, too far.
You can bait it out of Maimon.
Dividing their time, their wallet is back.
There is the opportunity you're looking for,
Ice Nom does not have a way out of that one.
This actually grabs Doki too, want to get over the wall as soon as it won't happen.
Observing it, have to get a regroup in.
The best defense is a strong offense, especially for GBR because like we've talked about it,
playing the retake cap Ascian is going to be so much harder, especially with guys swapping
onto the Cassidy and being able to two tap.
So it looks like Germany, they'll keep Cure XU on the Ascian for now because of having
that artillery strike and also the sentry turret damage to be able to shred down this
joke but crispy with the science we can avoid a whole lot of it ice with the
annihilation can walk the team forward but kiwi with the rush can potentially
mean that they lose the run early.
They wanted to go fast! It's a great chain there!
Onto trends we can't just run through the team and ice wall though it's ice on black
it's just nothing you can do about it and once you break me into the bastion
so good fast fight there from Great Britain that's costable spirals.
Yeah, both support ults burned, which means that SXJ free blizzard, that's what we expected from QXU,
onto the sojourn to try to pop-tread out of this mech as much as possible.
For Germany, you have your win condition, which is rush.
Long-sighted rush.
GBR, like, they'll have ultimates to try to offset it if they get them up in time,
but Dockley, I think, gets rushed up before Maemon or Kai hit blizzard or dead eye.
And this is all the grace for Germany to steal a food-brain brain top right now.
If this isn't a shred, it doesn't want to be near this may, or the monster chain doesn't
really give him a choice.
He's forced backwards a name on, and the falling before the ice block can even come out.
It's also struck to use to re-mech.
That'll be successful, but in the downtime of the diva, Ice Nom can push forwards however
he pleases, and add his puddling tie into the ground.
Germany, we're gonna get this second point right here and right now only two players remaining out of this great great squad
That can thrown away from dread. They'll get across the finish line three minutes on the clock
Yeah, great power slide as well from QRXE when the blizzard comes out
Against that rush just power slides away from getting frozen is able to fully play off of all of GVR's planes
stuck in one side of Kirikou Ultimate.
High with the Deadeye can buy GBR's face back,
but what you're really looking at is both the support ults coming online, right?
That's the sort of silver lining of using two of them in the same fight earlier,
as Deadeye, this is not about getting kills, this is literally about Germany being forced back,
and Kiwi getting the opportunity to farm Rush, which will actually win you the fight.
Hoho, or you can just farm Raku.
If you're dying, that works too, but you're in a Kiwi, and I think that hurts a lot more.
Actually Chris Crispy just got the sanctuary up, you don't have that opportunity to use it within the blizzard in Great Britain.
Still losing all these key components despite a great length of play out of the pie.
That's actually a little bit far off, goes down to Crispy, but you're actually with the OC, should just be mitigated fully by the sanctuary coming out from Crispy.
So Germany doing everything they can to find Pilsen as the ultimate early.
Ice already going for the nemesis, but we might extend it with the annihilation.
There's the OC, there's the reaction sanctuary, but all great person used for rush and sanctuary and Germany now gets second wind of rush of their own.
And this communication here, Aisman has this annihilation, he wants to pay everything in purple, it's a shield, they'll end up zoning it, plus the bay wall, everything cooldown is down, and guess what, Cucky?
There's that unmatched shooting rush you were talking about, and there's just nothing to stop the barrage of damage that is to come on through.
Ideally if you get this down below a minute or just stay alive, ice-knot him, do it as best as you can.
They just cannot get the damage in.
Needs that 6J for the follow-up and the far damage.
Is enough to do the trick.
They're gonna go ahead, grab a full completion, minute 10, still on their time bank.
Yeah, Germany taking advantage of the fact that Great Britain double-supported two fights.
So you sort of feel when they invest the OC,
They have to know that Sanctuary is up for the team of Great Britain, and they just make sure that everyone's outside of it
It's almost sort of like a bait and switch. The OCs the bait to force the Mizuki ultimate
You pull back you wait for rush to be done
You come back in with one of your own you swapped for farra
So you have even more suppressive damage being just
Thumped the way of the defense which means that you can't play the closer respawns and try and chip away at the time bank
That's all they can do is see how much they can play this poke and see if they can deny
that space to Germany on the start.
I do wonder if you are going to stick that Katvastion when the doors open, which honestly
would work really well into what Germany seems to be said in the defense.
Germany going for this Mizuki comp yet again, but QRXU I think very much expecting the Katvastion
from the side of Great Britain right rolling out on the Cassidy, making sure that you have
the two-tap potential. I don't believe Tread will be the doom first, but the fact that
we could have both Avara and the Bastion in this guy means that QRXUs time will be split
double duty because who else from Germany is actually going to be able to deal with
players. Outside of the cast they have no other hitscan.
Maybe a stray iceball from SXJ if you're walking, that is asking for a lot. Like Mamon can basically
sit in the spawn and just launch these rockets long range. You can't peak this.
Yeah, Tread just using Power Block on the ledge to be able to body block for some of
his players before swapping to the actual mattress. Mamon, Spotsite, SXJ and the Naples
which means that GBR, a Rhyme Shulk, will hide any water being rolled off.
I have a feeling SXJ swaps either the tracer or the sparrows, it'll be the tracer.
So get back a bit faster.
A nice chain there by Akku, but she just can't get away.
It went all in on the Bastion with no follow-up, and 2x already gained.
In Germany, they could try to contest it, but it's gonna be down at least one support Bastion swing now.
Poor Kai. He zones off everyone else. They're not risking it.
Yeah, SXJ coming back on the tracer as well
Like there's no time for you to be able to get into the back and try and take the fight versus Kiwi
That's ideally what you want to be able to do keep the Kiriko occupied to put the resources towards the rematch
And take the tank down then be able to look at the cap bastion
There's Germany going to be very worried about how Great Britain will try to get around this choke
SXJ all the way through
Looking for that hit into the back line
It's the Kyureko that they're looking for the one clip potentially like look at the caution and the patience to not shoot to get the position away
And you can't in one rocket or a kunai
The line is enough just one shot like three calls gone the second name on turns his tension
But the positive attention he brought well there goes red on the front side
His Aisunon can walk on in and this is the nice part that the tracer
Yeah, that's exactly what you want to do right you're playing your life
Good recall as well means that you're able to continue living on this off angle being very problematic
for GBR to have to deal with to the point that they've swapped off with the Cap Bastion,
crispy onto the Mizuki, Kai onto the Sojourn to just be able to follow the rail,
but also use things like disrupt the shot to try and shut down where exactly this tracer can blink to,
as you can see, SXJ living rent-free in GBR's backline at the moment.
I think he gets a lot harder now for SXJ to get the same amount of value, but Kai is fighting
demons back here. He does not want this tracer to just show up just knowing Pulse Bomb is likely
a part of his brain. He's behind you. Watch out, it's looking at you. It's like the scariest game
of peekaboo. Well, especially with Pulse Bomb now available for SXJ, I'm queuing using our rush.
The Germany just get the first blood.
Maymon falls later rush from Dockley.
Great Britain, they got the first rush.
They didn't get the win condition to be able to play it.
And Chris B. Glomstar late to falls.
Yeah, and the Tretzel popping annihilation in this fight,
and that's, you see, I can keep them alive,
but they're really not gonna get space or not get anything
unless you just blow up SXJ, shot in the back there,
like hi, returning from the squad.
Roj is now in for Maymon to clear the field.
Oh, what a swift step.
That could have been so bad if Dockley went down late in that fight.
Great Britain's so close to having the OC, but I mean, Akku, you have to feel it, she'll
just hold Sanctuary to be able to absorb it, as Germany, they've got the annihilation
if they want to try and force the issue and take the space away from Great Britain, SXJ,
going to be spotted before he can get past that left lane.
You have to drop the shop as well just shutting the traces mobility down and leading up into the first round shop
That's exchange in now. He wants to be all kinds of tension could actually take his life
He's not careful beautiful like mainly finish it off
The cost of his life before before enough for Germany is that you know what we're pressing to go
But he's walking in crispy doesn't have cool down to translate. I'm out of here
They take all of the space away from great Britain too, right?
It's a very aggressive use of Sanctuary coming on for her from Akku, which means that she won't have it for the OC.
So, Germany prioritizing taking space from the soldier, which means that even if the OC comes out,
Germany won't go down to it. They can simply kite away from it. And as QRXU, what are you up to?
Waiting for people to die?
Oh boy! Excuse the power slide and catches the soldier.
Guys looking for the tracer, he's not on the lookout for QRX, you ratin' around the
corner.
There's one for one though with the unmatched Katsune rush, he'll be the wincon here, or
a Great Britain.
QRX, you're still in this back-aligned and finding kills.
I wouldn't say it's completely over, but he's kinda goin' in without the rest of his team
and now there's enough players to turn around for him.
Yeah, just tryin' to stall, split the attention of Great Britain because despite those two
massive picks from the cast, well, Great Britain invested one-sided rush, which means that
pushing towards the point, bought the attention that the cast bought, allowed Jeremy to put players
back onto the point and now falls to Kite to close our side. ROC from the top ropes, Jeremy not
having a great answer to this except just resolving the damage but Dockley peeks a little bit too far
on a swing, looking for that rush build up and goes down and rush will have to be saved for when
we have deferred. A great friend, we'll be able to move through this point and the fact that they
do have three is going to be great. You have to finish with over a minute here to make sure
not left to know who's draw situation how do we use this that I from cure X
zoning potential I'm sure since GB are already this far up taking basically
Germany's approach having all of this incoming damage just splitting across the
lanes maymoan and Kai both falling low but no all accommodated damage on one
specific player so no one going down to Seattle's cure X use being scouted out
They know that the cast is there with dead eyes.
Oh!
Hey, Mon.
This has life-loss for his eyes.
We need support also.
Germany.
Can't be huge, but look how patient they're being.
They want to build down this time bank as much as they can,
so even if they lose the fight boxy, they can't lose the map.
Yeah, they've got rush as well, which I think is the reason why GBR aren't wanting to go now,
despite having Ultimate's good to go.
They won't keep me to have match for Darkly.
Dead Eye comes on through.
Tretch should be able to dodge away from all of that damage, and yet, no one will be taken down, but that's what GBR was waiting for.
There's the Raj, forcing the Murph.
These are the ults that you wanted to play through, Maimon.
Lots of lineup up for Raj, but seems to block out of Ice Snow.
Ops to wheat, he seems to be so cautious knowing what's on the line, but great Britain, you're running out of time here.
I'm careful.
Move through the barrage, looking for the flank, backs out of it last second, hearing the sanctuary sound.
The Kai still gets the porting shot on it to Daki, Great Britain.
It's just their time to shine, they're gonna approach around.
Just found a corner, there's the wrap around, barrage on through, but the fantastic cleanse will keep them alive.
And not from Kai, your ex-you though, is much more of a threat.
Somebody needs to do something about him, it's just these two firing back at each other, but your ex-you comes up with four!
EVERYBODY FALLING TO THE CASSIDY AS GERMITY! HOLD ON!
That might be round.
That was GBR's big ultimate investment fight. If they're able to finish off this map, it will be off of clutch picks alone, and Germany being too far forward, and overconfident.
But like, they'll just do a couple of shots.
They've got Deadeye to be able to sit in and tax GBR's time bank yet damn more to force the issue of OT.
Nice out, trying to force them back, I mean OT is a fairer real concern for Great Britain,
in fact they don't finish this with client on the clock.
I mean Germany are just not doing a lot of plonk as well, which means that QRXU is not
boarding up to Rush, QRXU trying to take advantage of GBR Panicking, not clearing out their angles
but Kaifan is in line with the disruptor, but QRXU does one better, takes out Mimone.
This guy is just too good at the clutch potential.
From Germany's it's good player.
Your ex-you is unstoppable, life-sex-j, lending a helping hand, and cleaning up the rest of
Great Britain.
And a sentence I wouldn't think I would be saying today, Germany are going up to match
point.
A series for the ages, like, even though it's seeding on the line, you can tell it's so
much more.
Like, Germany, I think a lot of people just did not expect to be able to keep pace with Great Britain, right?
When all of the rumblings was going on power rankings-wise, everyone was saying like, GBR's so far ahead.
Who is going to be able to shut them down? Will it happen in their group stages?
Or will it have to wait until we sort of mix and match some of the other regions in?
and it looks like Germany have the skill and then some to be able to keep pace with this team.
QRXU 14.4k damage on the cast, 30 and 4.
SXJ as well, I think deserves massive props to the amount of time he was able to take from the side of Great Britain,
just forcing them to have to turn around, look at where the tracer is playing,
split the attention because you're so worried about your backline being sniped.
This is the map QRXU and no doubt about it and really found himself there on the Cassidy and a map that, again, Prey Fritten picks, or excuse me, Germany picks, will manage to go their way even with that Sigma ban and that's me raising some red flags and plays like this.
You're just not expecting the unpredictability out of Germany, their understanding of how to play the payload, how to play the time bank is just so far and above every other team in their group.
Well, it's also the fact that you get Kai with OC in hand, right? So if you don't get that kill onto Sojin, Great Britain for sure are pushing forward with the OC when they know there's no support ultimates to be able to stop it,
and Street Space goes a very different way. It's like those really crucial picks where Germany are
able to identify these are the players on the side of Great Britain who have ultimates and who can
win them the fight and these are the players that we absolutely have to kill before the fight starts
because we just don't have the means to be able to survive if it breaks on out. Really good stuff
coming from them and you sort of have to ask yourself right when it comes to the band draft
How do you try to take QRXU down because he's been so problematic on so many different heroes?
He's flexible, like you can ban the cats, he's gonna play so, you ban the so, I don't know,
he's gonna play cats or ash or something along those lines and the only map types we have left
are what, Flashpoint and Push, and these are gonna be faster or more in your face maps.
I was wondering if you would see like a new clean shoot for Wrecking Ball, but no, it will
will instead be New Junk City likely going for a repeat and hopefully banning the cast
if not the Mizuki.
Yeah, I'm worried about the SXJ Tracer though.
I think like for Great Britain right?
I think if you go to Flashpoint you're trying to force Germany onto the Mizuki May composition
so that you don't have to worry about a Tracer.
Just popping up when you least want her to and forcing all of your team to have to turn
around and deal with her because as we said the Tracer is not the one physically getting
the kills, it's more about the focus of turning the supports away from being able to help
out that front line. As we get the Mizuki ban from Great Britain though, which means
that Germany likely will be on the tracer, since you're not going to play the Mizuki
Composition with Great Britain taking it off the table themselves.
Yeah, they don't want to mess with that at all. I think that the Mizuki Comp is much
more of a comfort for Germany than in its Great Britain. You'd much rather have Chris
Do we think Iliari potentially?
Yeah, I mean we'll have to see, because like the Iliari has good dueling potential against
the Tracer, the Pylon as well, like we have to talk about how good Pylon is as just a
base cooldown, especially if you're in control of this base, it becomes very difficult for
the enemy team like they have to extend so far in to your position to be able to break
up as it becomes very problematic. But like you said, giving up the loose here removes
some of the kiting potential from the rest of the team, and you sort of have to weigh
up the benefits with the drawbacks. You're going to be better equipped to be able to
duel out the tracer, but against other things, especially if you're only trying to play aggression
against you, you could be a little bit too slow to be able to react.
with W. Mame on there. He still don't have a tracer necessary to work with in that regard.
And I think that gets kind of scary. You're trying to match up all these calls.
Especially with this first point where they get that first glimpse of each other,
I'm feeling we're going to see quite a few swaps from whoever is in that fight.
I feel like we're going to be seeing Cap Ashton swaps, for sure, from both of these teams at a
point in this map. No first point. I think the first point, the role I on something like the
and now go or potentially the Sigma and then when we go to the more open space of the maps
we'll be able to see some more of that Cap Bastion coming on for but I mean with the show that
QRX you put on the Cassidy just then on Kings Row it's a gamble it's a huge risk going for an aerial
unit which if you don't have control of that space off of a fight one previously the cat will just
be able to like the castle be able to hold his ground and take your cat and bastion out.
I just had a thought moxie. Ice nom Zarya.
It did come out yesterday and he came up with like over half of his team's final blows.
He was an animal. It was really scary. Do you do that against Great Britain?
available, but I wouldn't like write it out of possibility just yet.
Especially against the sick, right? Because the sick very, very slow and also can't really
stand up to the Zarya damage the way that you can defend against a diva because beam
does not care about your shift. And if sick tries to rock you back to just give him a
little bit more space to be able to react, Zarya just self bubbles and absorbs the incoming
damage and channels it right back at you.
I mean maybe if you had like a just for swag and maybe a bubble battery, that would be kinda convenient, but I'm not quite sure.
The options are open, I think that is the point that we are trying to hit at.
No substitutions either, so Tread will be staying in, which makes a ton of sense considering the brawl like nature of this map.
is teasing the Zarya right now, whether that actually sticks or not is the better.
Yeah, especially into this D.Va though, it could do very, very well. Like,
Tread, we have seen though, D.Va on this map being very, very strong, being able to just lock
on to those squishies and track down things like the Sojourn as well, keeping up with the mobility
from Bowerslide with the frequency of those boosters. As I don't think the Jena will say,
This is just for the speed ring out of spawn before you swap onto the Kira cone and the Zarya is staying
SxJ actually going for the Reaper so very much in front of that comp coming on for from DVR
Shred has to be extremely careful
I don't really want to mess with Germany heads up it is Germany on the left right
But what happens when the fight becomes more concentrated on the objective?
Maimon goes down, D.Va trying to equalize gets a pick on to Akku which is actually huge.
Germany now missing their main engagement to get Ice on Nazaria forward and Ice is low but
they've got the damage and the bodies to be able to cap for us and this is my concern.
Tret can flip about the fight right being in so many different places but when you're actually
forced to fight on the point itself for first cap, Ice is absolutely going to pop you out.
And I think this is where it gets really hard now for this team to win games like how do you get back into this point against the Zarya give Tread that room to just run somebody down and I think they're gonna wait for either the speed amp maybe see if you can pull up and get some of these bubbles out
I don't know if you can see it, but it is the Kitsune-Roshanakum-Baki, here to match it.
Make sure the flick doesn't happen, just get it, stick as it, stay there, no one wants
to contest it.
I don't look at the rage standards, but there's the Graviton Surge on to two.
That might just be point.
By the way, Germany are playing. If they can handle this, D.Va, no problem, and that will go ahead and do it.
The Zarya comp, better on this objective, but Moxie, that could change going forwards.
Yeah, I mean, perfect kite from Germany. Like, understanding Kiwi will have to first rush up with the amount of damage that Germany have been outputting,
which means that rush just has to be kited. You can come in with one of your own, and then grab Ki for the OC to set up the kill onto him.
But like we said, that was the first fight where it's much more close quarters fighting where the czar will be able to
Excel close up to you as we do have OC for cure XU
Crispy should have the same barrier Great Britain can't get aggressive or they can just hide behind Mamo's wall
The problem for them is that Germany are already on the point forcing the issue and having to walk into
having like an established setup for
as much as we can.
Here we go.
Move on it.
You can just walk down this corner and blast your pickaxe or health bar while you're with
it.
They have those ray forms, but it is the expected trait of the Symmetra Wall and Overclock.
Germany don't want to fight into that.
You have such a disadvantage going forwards, but they do keep everybody alive.
Yeah, we're going to have the Rush Mirror as well, but Potential QE actually gets it online
first.
She gave up the cap, so Great Britain currently having 0% on the board, waiting for the sound barrier to come on through from Germany.
Kai goes low, Cuey's got the ultimate online, goes before Dockman gets 4th, and the swipe and D.Va boosters takes the FXA down so quickly.
You really did not feel like Germany had a mirror to rush.
No, and I think Great Britain's consciousness is better in a Katsune rush.
between Tread and Vayne on? What do you do? I guess that's happened. Sorry, I can't match it.
Yeah, Crispy still has beat, so does Akku.
Likely will see the bubble from Iced onto SXJ for the blossom, but you have to get
Tread out of mech first, or Defense Matrix just eats him a lot.
This is Germany. Yes, they have the tools to win this, but they have so many like things
they need to check off that's doolist before they actually press their shiny buttons and hey,
Hey, that's a nice start, in fact, you might not need shiny buttons if you can just find the pics in the neutral.
Uh, will the town barriers exchange though?
Then we'll swap to Krispies, I mean, a temple beat back into the point.
Death Blossom, without seeing the threat is nowhere in sight, so you gotta save for Germany.
Holding onto this grab? That's a good flip.
Yeah, D.Va can only be in one place at once, which means that Dockley baits the D.Va,
and SXJ's Death Blossom claims the lives of two.
Germany with the flip, but Great Britain closer spawns and one fight away.
Kai has the OC as well, no sandbar in sight for Germany. This has to be kited perfectly.
In Teleporter it makes it difficult, right? And you're always going to get outpaced when it comes to these rotations.
It's Great Britain. And flip the map, safely you've walked away to this high ground.
Germany is left in a low after seeing the teleport.
There is that reference on surge thrown on to wouldn't be overclocked as I guess that is one they had kited but you don't have the necessary wind conditions.
Both are on the splat.
XQRXU can come up big.
You can pop a donut overclocked in the main angle.
Kai, a lot of trouble.
Fantastic Suzu there.
Atakeeery keeps him alive for now but SXJ, great Duke of the Sojourn.
What should have been allowed by Great Britain and Germany?
This is kind of like them now on this point.
They want to make this fight last tread.
Rose the self-destructs an attention to get back in the mech, but SXJ denies him, acts as a door!
That's the second point now for Germany!
Oh, probably a third point as well.
Great Britain invested Rush down two players,
which means that Dockley now gets his entirely for free on this next one,
which means that like, Maimon has to use the Sim wall up against the Kiriko, so you won't have it for the OC.
This could very quickly spiral out of control for GBR.
It's...
Oh, the company is so wacky right now for this team, and this is scary,
because it's not only just map point, it's match point series.
Could very well end here if you do not play your cards yet.
Yeah, Jeremy already had that back to the point as well,
which forces Great Britain to have to walk into them,
so you can just use Rush to be able to bully them.
There goes the Rush.
similar in response, SXJ taking all of the brunt of the damage, but getting out alive with Rayform.
I'm just going to open your grouping on the side of the point, some barriers out, but not in twirling to stay in fine.
As Germany have the better beats, therefore the better fights.
Plus, side with Rayprate, when you do get about 30% on this point before the point.
Yeah, so now you give yourself a little bit of time to be able to build up to your own one-sided rush.
The problem is like, are Germany going to allow Great Britain any space to be able to set up these simTP flanks?
With how close the SXJ currently is holding, trying to scout Iowa GVR will come from,
teleport away so that you're not dealing out damage which Kiwi would then be able to heal,
as they want the graph to come through before the cure comes off.
But you also, like, if you see that teleporter, it kind of just goes frapped.
There won't be a way to get out of it, necessarily.
You can get the setup needed in German, it's very good about this fight.
Great Britain playing slow, Kiwi is now building up to do that.
Kitsumi, Rache, tell me the one who let that one go.
It's a Graviton surge, and they don't know, never mind the red!
Eat it for lunch!
And Germany, that's when condition one gone.
Great Britain don't have the best of Hellfars right now.
In fact, Mamelon doesn't have one at all.
And Germany, this could just be that right here and right now.
Well, QRXD, hunting for Crispy begins the Mega Pack. That's okay. The distraction is enough.
The real flight is on at the point where the kills are coming through Germany.
They want to pull off the upset. They want it so Great Britain.
What they are made of as they are going to claim the number one seed from EMEA Group B.
Yeah, Graves gets eaten, but they got the crucial pick on Decay,
which means that even though you lost the Graves shutting down one of the two options
of rush and oc you still actually shut down the oc for great britain to be able to translate
the one-sided rush into a clean pipe win and flip and germany i think catch a lot of people
by surprise with how composed and coordinated they were the amount of different compositions
they could play both netta both somewhat slightly off netta as well very much showing that it
It feels like ICE's leadership is really allowing this team to flourish.
We came into this matchday thinking, well, Great Britain, they're the best team on paper.
How well can Germany match up against them?
The better question is, how can Germany dismantle this team of established pro players?
It's the real thing.
Yes, you have the likes of Ice Nom on the side, but people like SXJ, who's also on the
the Telesey roster who just qualified.
Akku has been rising to the same same with Daki and QRXU.
And this is a team Germany that I think surprised
a lot of people today.
And I am so excited to see them compete
in this Busan stage, having climbed this number one scene.
Yeah, I'm so excited to see like what a little bit more time
allows this team to be able to work towards, right?
Because if they're already this strong,
and we've already talked about the fact
like the interference of other Overwatch circuits, the overlap, especially the fact that ICE was
literally in Japan what three weeks ago is for sure impacting Germany's time and being able to
like plan and get scrims through. So it's honestly like insane to get to see the improvement coming
further from them and think about where they'll be when they do have that extra time, how strong
they will look, the fact that they were able to overcome Great Britain, how many more teams
will they be able to overcome when we look on paper and see them excel past expectations?
The leftists, at least for now, like this team has had the advantage, again, of those conference
cup things. I think they're the only team that is qualifying from the conference cup within,
at least within this group, perhaps the entirety of EMEA that they are just having that additional
time to practice together meant a lot and I think that next time we do see Great Britain
in Busan they will look a lot different but to see the potential that Germany has now
is kind of ridiculous how they can keep growing and Moxie I think that they have the potential
to be the underdog story coming out of this region. I mean beyond a cat I guess because we
did we did see the cat composition coming from both of these teams I think we sort of expected
that Germany would break it out, but Great Britain, catching them I think a little bit
by surprise on Dorado, which was the only hiccup when we have a look at how this match actually
panned on out a free one score line to the team of Germany and Flashpoint, yeah, like the moment
that Ice was able to get his hands on that Zarya and pop the diva. He just looked so at home being
able to walk forward and do what he wanted.
Yeah, so any team who was watching this knows that if Nujan City is in the map pool,
the person should probably be at the Zarya, only for my son.
And that is just insane.
I think there's very few players that would be able to pull out that pick and play it to
that degree, especially in the current state of the meta that hacks off to Germany for
their performance, only dropping one map.
that was to Great Britain today and the entirety of the group.
Yeah, we can see here how all of the groups worked on Group A with Sweden and Denmark,
Group B with Germany and Great Britain moving forward, and France and Spain moving their
way forward as well.
So these are the teams qualified for the EMEA region and we now have our seeding determined
as well.
So very much looking forward to when we get to see some of the heavy hitters match up against each other
Especially with my strong France have been looking in their group C2
I think France are
France being in the group that they did
I think it's hard to see what the potential of that roster actually can be but again looking ahead to this
International stage of your sign is going to be the first real test for that France squad and other than that
I think the speeden roster is absolutely ridiculous.
I think they have the potential to have one of the best performances
out of all of our EMEA teams going on to Busan and maybe even BlizzCon.
Yeah, I mean, EMEA has always been a very strong competition
when it comes to the Overwatch World Cup.
We have a lot on the line to make sure that we get the same results
that we have in the past.
Once again, a huge congratulations for Germany being able to beat out Great Britain.
That for sure has messed with some of the power rankings, but Molly we're not done yet
We still have two more matches on the board to come
We are done with EMEA, but we're going to be moving along to the teams in the NA regions as well
So before we throw a break, I'll quickly throw to you out of those two matches. Which one are you looking most forward to?
You know, I really want to see the US play against Chile
I think a team that's at the top versus a team that is on the rallies and the only group, Moxie, that is still up for grabs, Mexico and Chile, hunting for that second spot.
Oh, I will admit I'm looking forward to Mexico. It's been so long since I got to see some good Genji play.
Elemental Guy for sure has been a breakout on the scene that a lot of people are very quickly discovering and it's been an absolute joy to get to watch.
slightly off meta DPS who we haven't got to see for a long time be as formidable as he has in
his hands but like we said it will be back with those matches after this short break.
You
to get back to the game.
Hello everybody and welcome
back to the 2026 Overwatch World
Cup qualifiers. I'm got moxie. I'm
joined by tiny shiny. We've sent
our EMEA teams forward and now
we secure American. We have two
and we know which teams go through and there is potential here Molly for things to get somewhat
funky when it comes to who exactly will be able to secure that spot right? Yeah I know the United
States already in for this group but between Mexico and Chile is where things get interesting.
They had their one match yesterday now that was a three one in favor of Mexico but
and to move on past this group stage or to advance to the group stage,
Moxie, it's going to take a lot out of Chile and the Dictator.
Yeah, here's your format rundown as we have a four team round Robin, which means that all of
these teams will play each other. All of these matches are also first two free,
and we've seen a lot of them actually go the distance with the top two teams
advancing from each of those separate groups to the group stage.
tie breaks, and this is something that could come into play, are first determined by the
head-to-head series record, and then we also have our map pick, which is determined by my
favourite way to go through this. The sort of breaking of the seeds, which is the one versus one,
so you'll be seeing that one come through a whole bunch, Anna versus Anna, Widow versus Widow,
or Doomfist versus Doomfist as we already have Canada and Columbia confirmed their spots to be able to advance forward.
Yeah, those teams, that group all secured throughout the day yesterday.
Columbia, a very dominant win over Brazil to confirm their spot after a little rock paper scissors happened.
Team Puerto Rico, everything is set and done there, so not at all surprising on that side of things.
of things. I think we kind of knew from the start that Canada would be the one to move on.
Columbia had a great performance in 2023, bringing back a decent chunk of that roster.
To be able to have the performance that they did, that was pretty darn cool. So
I'll have those two moving on. And of course, as you can see,
one to one between those two and three seats with only a single map of difference.
Yeah, Argentina sadly already going to be knocked out from Group B,
but they still have one match left, which could still spoil Chile or Mexico's opportunity to be
able to move forward, so that last match of the day is going to be very important for two of our
teams to make sure that they actually secure that second seed spot within this group. As we can see,
yeah, it goes to the head to head, basically with map differential between tight teams,
then if that is tied it goes to the overall map differential before we look at overall map score
percentage differential and then the strength of victory ratio and I mean that's a lot of
separate conditions which we might actually end up having to rely on as Argentina could potentially
send Mexico forward or they could send Chile forward even if Chile lose against USA in this
first match of the day. So to lay it out as clear as we possibly can, Chile, if they beat
the United States in their match right now, they move on at their guaranteed spot in Busan.
That sounds like a mountain times three, but you're gonna have to get over. If you do end
up losing this match though, the ball is in Mexico's court. If they end up winning that
series, Mexico is in, but if Argentina sweep the series, then Chile is in. If it gets weird
where Argentina still win, Mexico take maps, that's where all those weird tide breakers
are going to come into play. But we'll cross that bridge when we get there, and it looks a little bit
more on this present match. The United States have not dropped a single map so far in this
tournament, and are going to keep that flawless streak as they take their final match in the
the group stages. Yeah, there's a lot of pedigree for Team USA with very noticeable players who we
are always seeing within the tier one scene. They've been getting a little bit silly with it,
potentially with some of these compositions, like Infected was on The Rhine yesterday on Runa Safi,
which was like, it sort of was an actual composition they once played. Some teams have done this,
even in the OWCS, right? We got to see some of The Rhine come for because it's not about being
a tank and swing the hammer. It's about holding the shield and holding the space and not dying
so that the rest of your team can actually get the kills required to close the fights.
We're glorified punching deck, to put it plainly. For a lot of these things, but yeah. And we have
a lot to look forward to today in Mawksu, both our teams and something else that we have for you
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Either needing a win here to control their own fate, otherwise things will be left up to Team Mexico.
Well, Moxie, let's get started talking about these rosters. Team USA, they already secured their spot in Busan,
and it's very clear why we look at this roster.
that. Yeah, this roster. Very
impressive. Lots of flexibility
and lots of experience being
able to play underneath the
stress and pressures of
performing at this level when
required. We got to see a little
bit more looks coming on through
from tree yesterday is you can
actually play that Freya use
that yesterday on Ilios, which
worked out really, really well
of that a lorry and look we know as well potentially going to be running out on the we hang from one of these maps since he's going to be starting to yeah and we'll see him come back in it's been a lot of landed this weekend so nice to see him in the lineup and kind of synergy that goes behind this roster is important a lot of team liquid players in several playing for Winthrop University who was by far the best collegiate team that we have here in just North America in general.
And it's we kind of we look at this roster. They haven't had as much time to sprint is one thing
They had their very first scrim last Friday before their first match in the online qualifiers
But have clearly been shaping up just fine at least in this current stage
So I'm excited to see how more of that preparation and practice does pay off because team Chile is one of the stronger
Opponents that you're gonna find in this group. Yeah, Chile have been I think impressing a lot of people when you sort of compare
Their performances, even the losses that they take, have been very, very close.
Very much looking forward to seeing what Fracke is going to be playing for this team,
as we've been seeing a lot of Mauga come from the team of Chile,
just trying to play for sustainability, maybe a little bit of that Bastion Cat as well.
Yeah, I think a lot of the Chile team is going to thrive off of how well can we allow Fracke
to purchase Pit in this game.
If they're getting beaten up a lot,
it's going to be difficult for Chile
to keep these fights going.
Just look, we also have Ram that is starting to wind up.
We haven't seen him so far this turn yet.
No, Burton, it's kind of that,
Bert's been that hitscan guy for this team so far.
So him coming out, Ram in for the first time,
Bracks, Chile have come up with something
within the last couple of days.
batting cat I feel like if you're subbing a DPS it will be the batting cat way
moment we've got the cast for the side of NA for that DPS deal as Lucmino is
off-rolling wow that's he can aim with his support heroes
Flashbangs around the corner, so much easier.
Oh boy, so engaged as cast.
Well, there you go then.
Maybe that's why Burt's in.
He needs a break after that seeding 1v1, but team USAG will go ahead and get the first
pick there.
Ilios is their selection.
This like, reeks of infected wrecking ball perhaps?
Coming in, and this is one of the better maps for it, and because you get that first map
pick, it does mean the ban is up to Team Chile.
whether they decide to take that away or not.
Yeah, I want to see like what Ram will come for and play, right?
Because even there for the one, this is one matchup,
Bert was coming in and playing the Cassidy for this team.
If Infected gets the ball for the draft,
you are for sure wanting a hero in the server
who will be able to slow it down.
But Cassidy actually banned out from Chili's own accord
as USA go for the Diva ban
so make sure that the infected ball makes it fur.
Okay, I'm not gonna like fully well listen to existence.
One of the things Frack is known for,
they tend to pull up Roadhog.
Moxie, you've seen it on this map in particular,
love the well, to see what you can pull out.
And it is one of those kind of like hard counters
into a wrecking ball, if you wanna play
that kind of strategy.
Chile are gonna pull it out.
It is certainly the map to do it.
But every time I see Elios,
But even just this roster of players on Elios, they know how to do it so well and it's probably
one of their most confident maps.
I mean, taking out the Cassidy, knowing that Infected will be able to play the Wrecking
Ball is a choice which makes me think that they want to play something up in the air
to take away the hit scan potential of two tapping.
The theory of the Bastion Cat that Ram is coming in to play for this team is starting
to sprout a little bit more legs as we get ready and you get your wish.
If there's any map for Frac to play the Roadhog, it will be well to start things off.
I did hear from the Chile coach, Zion, saying that they have specifically constructed strategies to play against the US roster.
And I wonder if that's why we're seeing Ram come in, or probably Kat Bastion, to be played, if we have to guess.
I highly doubt we'll see them dead up at this point in time.
But Team USA, I think this is very expected, putting infected on his wrecking ball, ultra-flying
on the auto, very few players would try this, but if you're as good as you are on a pick,
I don't blame them.
Wait, Kat with our bastion?
Well, well, no, flying pig!
Flying pig!
Pitch fly now!
Yeah!
They fly now!
As Frag is put onto the high ground and rolled promptly off of it by infected.
I mean, that's one way to fight against a Kat fashion, does actually let the hook onto
tree!
will take him out of the sky anyway so I guess when pigs fly and miracles can
happen for Team Chile they are set to get the first cap and now they won the
farra! Zera he was not prepared for that at all. Chile innovators. Waterhook coming on for
on top of Zera. Good pressure on to infect it so that he can't just stall at
the point and Chile will be able to pick up first cap.
Let me worry about how to work with more peregrine's Diana, but that's if he's actually playing on the grind to kill him at night!
But that will see us just carry him all off, closes up the distance, hooks Tree out of the sky, and Eli closes up and completes the kill!
Like, what do you do at this point? I don't think you can play Kagebasket anymore. I'm sure he's done with that last one.
Tree agrees! Because he's done. It's Friar time.
Less, less value out of the flying thing, but I think the poke damage is going to hurt much more.
This tiny frack over the well there, a little sketchy.
In USA, looking for their next engage, in fact, it's existing on their own, it's not a threat for them to be cautious.
I will say though, this is allowing USA to sort of just like treat the Roadhog as an alt battery,
As we can see tree just turning back essentially into a pincushion. Right now Freya Crossbow will be able to take down LCS and DUSA finally complete the flood.
I just come up with two though. One of those being Ultra Violet. DUSA has the point for now. That might not last so long.
There's the Katsune Rush, there's the Cat in the app, but no! Frack is taking out Lupmino before he can drop them into the well. And Team Chilling are back in control.
Yeah, what goes down, but you still got the rush for which allows Chile to be able to hold that position like
Luke me know goes on to the Zen
Likely so you can just have the discord damage to try and chunk this road hog down
Which Chile have been able to anchor onto the point infected with the mines close up the high ground
But the catnap from LC as yeah, you just drop him low enough, but oh
Slight misplay for melty s mischarges the distance and goes down as well
So, what your support plan every single coolhead on frack?
So there is no tank on the side of Team Chillipe either.
But what is actually happening in farming?
He's going up quite a few in the nation.
He courses the nano onto tree just to make sure
DBSA don't go past this one fight territory.
It is a Winston swap though from frack
so that they can get back to the point a bit faster.
Pressure on to ultraviolet, but it's UV.
Still has a sleep dart, nap time for Winton.
No capital.
Well, there's the flip, but it comes at the cost of a few feet.
Oh, it's the blind death blossom code by AXIOS!
It is a chandelier above the heads of Team USA, and a prompt flip back.
As Chile, in overtime, USA having to put everything on the line for Trees' bowler shot to be able to come on proof.
And you have Wrecking Ball, you have Tracer and the Cat.
There's so many ways that the USA could stall this out,
but finding a clear win condition is going to be challenging.
Graham, putting pressure on the Ultram's Violet with the help of LCS in the back.
There's that full shot we were talking about.
Tree, point blank, onto LCS and by-by Kitty.
Chile, looking away from the clutch, this one threw and Tree doesn't have health,
drops down low enough and cracks Snipes in out of the sky with the Winston.
The cap almost bearer for Team USA if they can just clear players out.
For even a second, it would give them some breathing room to work around.
But that's because sooner or later, you don't have one of those double-edged ears as you just swapped.
But that doesn't matter, he's still gonna get those two nice shots.
There's just no clear wincon in Cypher Team USA.
Yeah, there's a minefield.
But who's that necessarily going to stop?
I guess the minefield is enough to zone the point, and it's cap for now.
Yeah, USA will be able to complete the cap.
Yuvi's so close to having one-sided rush, but LCS gets tree, and Frac picks up Xero, which means that it's all down to Infected to stall onto this point, which means he's going to be closer for the Reaper to start to do the damage.
Out comes the Primal onto the back line, Yuvi can't teleport out of that one, and Chile have just more players in the fight. They should be able to just tear USA's players one by one off of the point itself, and get the flip right back.
If you do not have a solid frontline,
I mean, Luke Meadow also highly takes
a good stay alive against the pressure
of this Winston Tracer,
and Sarah caught himself on his own
in a pool spa on tragedy strikes here.
For Team USA, this is a counter catbap, cat for cat.
And he's like, you're going down,
you're coming with me, Luke Meadow,
at least it's one for one,
but it's still chilling.
Getting the flip back over,
they have another death ball,
so without LCS, it won't be a flying one.
What's to make do on the ground,
ends up with a tree. Infected is back in the fight, albeit with a rather low health bar
that is going to continue to get chipped away by Eli. The stall from Team USA is great,
but you can't just not up the flow and find the eliminations when you need to.
Chile is defending this overtime for quite a bit. Sometimes it's going to burn away so fast.
If you step off for even a second and there are the final picks, Team Chile, they've been cooking.
Oh, they absolutely have been. LCS tried to go, by the way, for the repeat of the Death
Lawson from above, and that's what Luke Meno just shuts right down. He sees that lifeline
go towards Eli and says enough of that. No more whimsy as we move on to ruins, but potentially
still, a very whimsical composition coming up through from Chile as Frac off of the Winston,
of the Marga goes back onto the Roadhog and honestly like having that tank just not die
take so much damage but not go down, allow Chile to be able to hold onto that point for
so many fights, Ram as well did a masterful job of using Tracer Blinks and Recall to hold
onto the point long enough for Chile to be able to regroup. As USA, they've had it, they're
like if you want to play Roadhog, we're just going to go full damage. Our backline can
can kill you. A frontline can kill you. A DPS can kill you. This is all about shutting
down the sustain.
In frag landing, Hustle gets a lot more. With the Sigma Shield, the Recreation, and doing
the effective damage. So, we'll see how long this mix ends up laughing. Still going to
the high ground, but maybe a bit of miscommunication there between Frag and their Jetpack Cat.
I don't see him killing. He won't have that many vision, and I'm going to z like far too
far more good. LCS is kind of chilling, kicks up the robot, you attempt to clear high ground,
it's like I don't, excuse the UBs, I don't want to be here, eventually we'll have the
support of this team and USA, give first cap.
You know what, imagine going back in time, like three years and trying to tell someone,
hey, Roadhog can be a dive tank. If you can play with Jetpack Cat, like trying to go for
for this really early aggression towards you,
reinforce the lamp, but it's not working out now
that Infected is able to anchor his own position
and keep USA's point control.
So Frack off of the hog, still onto a different animal,
onto the wrecking ball, wanting to put the pressure
onto Tree so that Chile's players have a little bit
of safety to be able to work around these jokes.
Yeah, I know how, you can see how the poke damage
affects Frack, and you already got him to heal.
I flew too close to the point, and I guess
wasn't prepared for the boot from the reality 6 and just poke Sam and Trump in the support
line isn't saying like it honestly feels like Luke Meadow and Ultra Violet are more of a
threat than the DPS.
Yeah, they're DPS.
Straight up.
USA has a 4 DPS composition.
We've moved away from Rollock as it is going to be literally just Luke Meadow trying to
work out where Chile will play from.
Fractwork types that the Wrecking Ball won't do.
You have to be able to just have the Winston dive, try to isolate a player from USA.
With things like that win some bubble, but bubbles already done and that means that you say just ice off the pressure of the initial
Bye for Bob right into Chili's back which sends them running right forward to where trees holding his life
What to say that Bob is in there, but she just like song the future apparently it forced me into that position
close the final fight territory 14 USA
Almost half the world's on one in Chile. They're gonna act. I can do it now
will be a bit of a clock solo on to the Winston, but of course it's LVS so far on it's mission
that he doesn't really have a way out of it. Still Team USA with the picks, look at me
now. Very accurate on the C-O-D, just great for dueling these tracers. It's not when there's
a Winston at your back. Still let them get into kill though, make that two! Blizzard comes
in, brings the temperature down, Team USA saying no more shenanigans, we're playing
this seriously to take it to round three.
go all the way to lighthouse. Does the roadhog come back? Like, do you literally just dangle
the roadhog around the cliff and look to hook people off? By playing off of the map itself,
we'll have to see what Chile decides to feel towards if they go to continue this dive with
things like the Winston or they go for the wrecking ball. Look the way they're infected.
we'll roll back onto that pick now that you can just environmentally push people off of the map
constantly every time they try to walk to point. And this is the most effective point to pull out
that wrecking ball kick and it seems that Chile, I don't know if they would play that themselves
or the Grosjean, but no it's actually Frac. Sticking on this Winston, still check that
cat though for LCS. Yeah I mean you've got the Winston for the dive but I feel like Lukmino and
and UV can just survive it themselves,
so they're really pulling all that much attention.
Tree if he gets jumped on by Winston, just coach guns away.
As we do see Chile use the force of their dives
to try to take some of this high ground position,
but in fact, just peels it off,
and so it actually gets the pick onto LCS.
And the Pratt uses that opportunity
to counter dive onto Tree,
who was the main target of the previous round,
and because all that space is cleared,
well, Eli is already in there on the back line,
and that is kind of the weakness
this back TCRT supports, you're so vulnerable if you like to get your face.
Yeah, lack of mobility, right? High damage output, really good poke, but no good pipe
buff really. If the dive is on top of you, as Tree actually moves on to the
Sojourn, so you have more mobility. If the dive comes your way, plus the snipes.
Since Tracker Winston means no consistent shielding for Chile, if someone's
out of position, Tree takes the head straight off.
You don't even have the practice used to bubble in the first place either.
How long can Eli stall this ejected out to wait for the Winston and the Jetpack cancer is not long?
Effective rolls on Fruz as see ya later Eli.
And I'll be the best captain in the US.
Oh what a sad play.
Tree uses the Disruptor Shot to push Eli away from fighting his position around corner.
And Infected knows that he's close enough to the cliff to be able to knock him off.
Now you've been able to knock the Dive off Kilter as well.
as well. Ryan's going to be much harder for Frac to be able to get into a position to jump someone onto USA because the first one's likely going to be used just getting into position. But hey, you've got to check that cat to mobilize your wintly. Oh no. He's back in spawn.
It kind of works and then in fact it just threw Frac into the sight line the entirety of Team USA. It is his poke damage. They can't find a way to get through him. Honestly, swapping to the Roadhog here, why not?
Why not? Yeah, like try to get the hooks, try to stop this racking ball,
ramp hiding in a bush with Pomp's Pomp. I guess for the ambush play if USA tried to go
a little bit too far forward. That's all he's sneaking, double blink, potentially available.
If he can stick this onto Tree or Potential UV, this would be huge.
The mortality field's there and it's hiving there for three, it's shot onto LCS, it's just too good.
Three whips right back around, gets a second and frapped.
Once again, line yourself off the map, you can't ask for a cleaner fight than that.
Kids sooner rush up for Chile, but I feel like that can just be fully tempoed out
by things like the Blizzard or the mines.
As we can see in fact, so the Cheetah's scouting where exactly Chile will be
the pall drive to be able to get the damage off onto the hog, and then he'll be able to
play back with his team while having stock frags engagement with the cap.
This is great, I didn't see the advantage of the wrecking ball, you can be everywhere
at once if you feel like overfucking tree. On the high ground in track you might not
know, but that damage drop down a point only to be met with the Blizzard out of Zera tree.
Yeah, he's gonna take a death blizzard for his crimes, but you're gonna need one of those
for everybody on Team USA if this point is going to extend over time. Burning on down
is expected. Flames is third of the fight. Team USA looks a little rocky from the start
but they're showing us at the end why this team looks so dang strong.
Oh, Malga moment. Charge on to point but yeah, not enough agility to be able to fight back
into this and I really wish we'd seen the Racking Ball ban come from their side. Being
able to just take infected off of that Racking Ball would have been so huge.
I wonder if it was just wanting to do it yourself or like thinking of that possibility.
You might pull it out if you were hesitant but just knowing that that's kind of one of
the biggest win points we're doing on this map is a little strange. I want to give Chile
credit they did cook they tried to do something new that we have not seen before and I can't
admire that uh it just seems like some of the decisions outside of it were a little too rocky
to make it stick yeah and also like it was some sort of exposure therapy for the side of Team USA
right yeah you get caught out a little bit you're running far a jetpack at bastion as your dps line
and then all of a sudden you have to deal with a roadhog flying up towards you with a hook distance
which he would not normally be able to use to actually get on top of your flyers.
So it's a sort of adaptation period I think that USA go through where they sort of incubate their
options. This is, see, disruptor shot, and then I push his E like just back enough that
Infect is able to push him off of the map. And yeah, the one-sided ball on Lighthouse very much
just set the story for Team USA to do what they wanted with their DPS line. Infect is too good.
As simple as that and to have that matchup go on focus nice little bit sector
That's a good pile for I'm off as well. I'm only look ahead to our next map hits and fans
I highly doubt Chile are gonna do a repeat of the flying pig
But if we if cat-bashing I think it's off the table now knowing that that's does exist
So where where do you want to go? What do you want me into?
for the rest of the series is the question. Is it more on you want a reaper, you want to brawl this out with like a Malga, go to like a Westeros-y type of thing?
Do we see Burt get subbed in as well because I feel like like Ram's coming in to play that tracer, right?
But because you're playing this really with like DPS lineup of both the tracer and the reaper, Burt's obviously not there to be able to play traditional hit scans.
scan, so no casts, no sojourn options, and I think that sort of limited a lot of what
Chile were able to do in terms of their DPS line, the way that USA was sort of able to
just go through so many different looks of heroes and work out what actually would be
able to play into it. But, Chile decided to take us to an unbawning, so potentially the
Jetpack Cap Bastion has not gone out of disguise just yet.
Yeah, I'm feeling there's more experimentation in mind for this particular map, and I think
D.Va being available is also helpful, although Frac is more of a traditional quote-unquote
main tank player.
Let's prefer that Winston as we just saw.
I think you have to ban Ana here.
Is that weird to say?
For UV on this map, we've seen how threatening just leaving it on an uncontested can be.
Okay, we've got two subs coming on through, so this is I'm expecting, yeah, Bert's being
subbed in for Ram, and then we have Hawk subbing in for Infected.
So different tank lineup, and as we expected, now that you're moving on to Nimbani, you
want to be able to play that Tracer still, but you want to have your options open in
terms of hit scan.
Things like the Ash, the Sojourn, all going to be very strong options for Bert to be able
to play, as well as that potential cast.
Yeah, and I think the the previous comp that we saw there from T-Chile, it's like you're playing with T-Rex arms
You can't exactly reach out and poke people back, you know?
And if that will help and un-poke your body, you kind of need that extra chip.
And same thing with seeing the tank swap out.
Infected as a tank that can cover so many bases, the one thing that we don't see him in is the deca.
It has hawks like bread and butter.
As I have a feeling they want to have that here as an option,
or at least part of that ban has already come into place,
but it was the one from Team USA, not Team Chile.
So, D.va, off the table,
but USA are done with the shenanigans.
Yeah, the Jetpack app has been banned out,
which I do like this, right, because if you're removing the D.va as one of your tank options,
she's one of the tanks who actually has the means of getting on top of the Cap Bastion,
being able to fly up into their face with boosters and use the defense matrix to be able to shut a lot of it down
or she can even set up to be able to jump on the hitscan options who are trying to bring the cat bastion down.
And as we said with Hawk being subbed in, it does feel like USA wanted to play towards that diva composition and Chile are able to rewrite it.
I think this leaves the option open for Chile to play the Winston as well as the Sigma map.
This feels more like a Sigma map with the D.Va being taken away.
Highly doubt we see Hawk break out the wrecking ball for this point.
So that feels very safe.
The Romatra is another safe option.
Malga.
That's to kind of post up on defense.
Oh, Malga, don't say the Malga word on this map.
If we get a Malga mirror on this map, I'll be very impressed.
not on first, but likely on streets or on third. I feel like Maga always is a very strong option,
especially for the attacking teams. It's so hard to full push for Numbani with how much space or
how little space that the attack is given the moment that they lose one of those fights. So
having a tank who can literally just brush off all of the incoming damage and walk your team
forward to actually give them space to play into the other side's DPS. Can be oh so valuable.
But here we go, we're getting ready to head into map. Team USA will be on the defense
as we have Hawk coming in to play the Sigma and Luke Mino opting for the Mizuki.
This is two things from USA. This is one saying you want to dive, try me. I think that would be
miserable if Frack were to attempt to play the Winston into this. And then number two, if you are
expecting the Malca or Amatra or something to roll your side, this also covers a lot of your bases.
The Sigma has the Accretion, your very safe, you have the Maywall, plus the Cassie Maywall. Like
there's so many things that stop this comp in their tracks that Chile often learn how to play
around those cooldowns and avoid this really poke damage. Yeah, potentially a bunker style as well
from USA if it's up against a dive composition. So we can actually see Luke Meadow sets up with
the teleport to scout the composition to inform them of how they want to position. If it was a dive,
then you would want to have to try to bunker. If it's up against Mauga, then you have to take
multiple angles against it and be ready to shut the first land down. That is an angle from Frack.
Ran in, did a full loop-de-loop, got out. Unfortunately for Eli, doesn't quite have the
legs to move as fast as his tank buddy there. Team Chile, down to keep part of their co-op
and we're not just going to knock off.
Oh, potentially good rock sets up a pick on to let you, but no. And Eli's actually coming
from the far as great Mizuki chain onto frack, but it's now the moment. You know, he just
shrugs it off, they're able to survive and walk onto point, and USA, currently down the
tank don't have a means of mitigating the fire damage unless the outright
kill you like that was a boot from LCS to chuck a hawk into the team forcing a
swap and every I ground everything to one is in Chile's hand this should just
be points with those late pickups on Azera and the Lufonino unless hawk is
feeling real gutsy pretty smart those are up to play in this first quarter and
Well, the M-word has been invoked, MAGA MAGTIME!
Eli going to be trying to thump damage on Fur, but maybe actually going for a swap.
Okay, while we're playing Reaper?
Yeah.
Okay, so we're going to try and chunk damage into Hawke.
Both of these sorens will be looking to soak the Magus out, but to build up rail shots
and try to snipe out squishies.
Eli just wants to be able to close up the distance to Hawke and shred him with the shop phones.
And around this corner, it's pretty easy for Eli to blast off as much as he wants.
He's hitting a straight A, I suppose, rail to the shot.
But the sooner rush, though, first from red, Vimal slows him down, and while he's in USA,
enough time to back off.
They're out of immediate danger.
But in essence, when it's ship damaged, he likes to tip his end back, looking for the stomp.
Now there's smooth moves there.
From within, he'll keep him alive, and Vimal can't.
Yeah, but it gets them angles, right?
It's a costly fight, but it's one that secures Tree a brilliant position at shutting down
bar and allows you as well to be able to kite away from Fax Malgoogage.
USA should not be finding themselves caught out by this at minimum it will be Hawk holding close
But you can already tell they've done that old tracking. No one's close enough to corner for frack to walk off
Yeah, the maywall as well from Zera in case Hawk goes low
because UV was not able to get the heals off through the cages confines us.
Frack, off of the Mauga, goes to the Sigma.
They don't have a lot of angles, but he was actually very concerned about walking into an OEC when Tree is entirely uncontested,
so very long rotation coming on through.
Frack holding his own on corner.
The rest of the team know our insight. They're trying to walk on Tree.
This is about to be Sanctuary as well, from Lutmino up and available.
There's the rush from Chillate to force open that wall on corner, but USA's kite's perfect.
No one goes down, and the moment Rush drops, they're just walking with OC.
At OC, she's going to reclaim his cloth on the eye ground.
There you go, Icicle. Over to Eli to punish the Reaper.
And you might not even need any more ult at your team, USA.
They only use the overclock.
Yeah, and back to square one you go.
Or I guess the square's formed.
As Chile this time, don't have the Kitsune Rush to be able to force the issue open.
Even USA can stay as close as they want, leading time and opportunity for LCS to get a good
beat off when the regroup comes out.
I think you're going to need it for this cage, no, but like all I think about is you throw
the cage, there's a blizzard on top of it, and that's kind of VG's, no?
So, LSFRAC can come up big on this as soon as it was perfect, just play from the violence.
just survive that brush it off try to move on to the next thing and well your sigma isn't a place of old time
some barriers there are some
scooting out the corner from the LLX of the alt
Xuria is now placed in the center but everybody's already in it
it doesn't even get the volume that it needs to look me down going down
it's much better 14 Chile but as frack falls the shield being misplaced well that's USA
rolling on through but it costed everything
Yeah, double support ult there, coming on from UV, which means there's an opportunity for Chile here.
But we'll have OC, USA likely have to kite this, unless they can simply shut the sojourn down as the ult starts.
So a little bit of pressure looking for the Ice Pick lobotomy from Xera up into the high ground position,
as Eli's actually swapped off of the Reaper onto the mate to provide additional cover,
and that's one way of being able to shut down the threat of the OC.
At least for Team Chile, that had not ripped the cord, you still have the R in your pocket.
And they have to lift it, if you do not get like another full reset after this point, like further stackers are just hair brother.
Yeah.
They're on this team and you get what, one more good shot and USA built up Rosh.
Yeah, Tree has matched for OC, Zera can use the Blizzard to just honestly go onto Objective because we're about to hit OT.
Like, if you're Chile, if you wait to farm upwards, rush, you're going to have to push
round corner in overtime, and no one's cleared their angles, no one's kept ahead of where
Trey is, Eli goes down, true of the power slide, readjust the position to the point,
blows it onto the objective, Chile has to go into the damage if they want to keep O.T.
in play, and they have no answer to it.
Not at all.
And in USA, once they swapped to this composition, it was just pure confidence radiating from
them.
out so many fights were stopped just because of the singular pick offs we
could see from Tree and Zera and even when those larger flights happened Moxie
they knew exactly what to commit when to commit it and how to make the most of
their resources and it is clearly reflected in the stats 21 and 1 for
Hawk, 21 for Tree and Zera alike like from I think a fundamental level of how
these this match is played it seems like the team USA are so far ahead. I mean it's the angles as
well right the understanding of yeah we're torching our ultimate economy to guarantee that we win this
fight and that no one goes down but that sets us up perfectly to have all of the angle control
in the fight that happens afterwards we don't have to play all the way back because we're waiting
for one crucial player like a support to come back in and it meant that these approaches from team
Chile like a lot of the fights when they had ultimates they'd gain space but when they did not
they just weren't able to peek their heads around corner for fear of us a taking off
which meant that that time bank dwindled really quickly despite Chile actually picking up first
fairly fast for a nambani halt yeah and this is that's not too bad all things considered like I
think the options are still open for team Chile like this first point can be difficult to break
through. Okay, tree. Nope. Cut away, please. Can we not? You do realize what, you know,
I saw this, they made a post on their social piece about this. Yeah. Today the date is
apparently six, seven. I just thought about that. Isn't that crazy? He's actually gonna
roll out on it, probably for that exact reason. Yeah, now I have to cast with the knowledge
of that. Sometimes ignorance truly is bless Molly, as Team Chile will be trying to hold
USA off at the pass. Great melee from Eli actually cuts the team fully off. It gets broken before a kill can come on through and
USA simply disengaged, have hope, soak the damage and channel it back into charge.
Hey, I mean they used my ice block, wall, cardiac overdrive, every important cooldown on that push though.
This is shortly said, Bert, he's barely hanging on to life there, eventually gets some cares.
LCS is red out of Guiyang, here we go backline. Just notes that, with some additional poke.
This is USA. We're dropping down actually using Eli's Maywall's cover. I just get close to tech.
There we go. Eventually, the support line actually will come get these picks.
I'm clear the two players, we're chilling on the point.
Yeah, USA drops down from high ground and then Frac just drops on them.
Because they made them the sake of being close enough for Maggot to be able to slam on top.
Trees done with the soldier experiment onto the sojourn so you can just soak up the maga channel it into good whale shma
Snipes to be able to try and pick apart one of these players from team chelacent
You don't really have a lot of ultimates to be able to rely on UV with the rush
Which is ahead of weds actually so USA could decide to just intrude directly onto point with the one side of curate
Like look how low
already are. I feel like it's going to do its best to slow down the push with the blizzard.
But everyone from Team USA usually can move through it or just chill in on the high ground
behind it. Fuck. Made its way all the way through it's the burn!
That was getting hurt at the end of the day. Yeah, you can do it with the second rush and
title block. They're layering the ultimate, but the ice block is forced just how low it
gets. Frac is in the middle of nowhere. It's going to speed up Team USA players. That should
to just be pointing to USA and get this last one on to Eli.
Oh yeah, wait for ice block to melt and then pick up point.
With how long that fight went as well,
like it was a risk for Chile to rely on the double support ult,
sustaining them through USA's damage fall off
once Russia ended.
And that risk is going to cost them in this next fight.
Because the fight going long has allowed USA
to build up four out of five ultimates.
And there's no rush from Chile to bully USA back for FIFTH AS FRACAL, the Ajax.
That, that's a cage jacks. Is that what we call that? Caged jacks?
Yeah, cage jacks.
That sucks.
That really does suck for FRACUS.
You are not swapping either.
And the desperation to live there, and you cannot afford to stagger.
Like that payload was already half-full into the Golden Box of Victory.
I mean, that was also no alts from USA.
You trade no alts for Mauga Cage,
Which means that yeah, you're just taxed in Chile here hold them up through the chunk trap them with the mizuki cage
I don't think anyone can actually get past that sort of maybe but with a power slide
The blizzard. Yeah, this goes on to the objective and you say walk the point to the finish line
Starts finish clean other than that that one fight that they think they struggled with on like a very start of
of the first point because of the compositional differences, it was Team USA from there and out,
they are confident in this novel here, out of position, and more importantly,
storm out what we're seeing from Team Chile, all three teams, space in terms of cooldowns,
and just overall, the effectiveness that they're able to have.
Yeah, I mean, I really wish we'd seen just a hold on the rush from WED in that point fight,
so that you know like okay we'll lose the point but we still have one side of Kitsune
rush which even if USA disengage it they still have to give up the space they
still have to give up corner and then you get additional cover for your
mauga to actually play around when you're trying to set up the cage as
opposed to having to do it out in the open when tree has maximum charge.
You have to be able to identify like not only when your team is ready to take
the fight but is the other team ready for you to take a fight at that point are
Are you really just playing into Team USA's hand?
And that is what a lot of this map felt like.
And again, this first fight went really, really well.
You had the advantage over Hawk on the Sigma.
The Eli Pharah was getting a ton of value.
But once we got past this first corner,
the Team USA's ability to cycle ultimate more importantly
when these fights completely in the neutral off of these
kind of pixelated left field.
No.
That's for a lot of the difference fate.
There's no way that is how we're ending the highlight.
That's not a highlight, that's a low life.
Yeah, I'm down for that one actually.
I'm glad for that about that.
Thank you for that one Tree.
So much, truly, truly appreciate it.
If it wasn't June 7th, any other day, I think.
Wait, is it still June 7th? It might not be June 7th here in the UK.
Maybe not, maybe not, but at least for Team USA, it's, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's like, it's 1 30 after the 3. It should not be.
I can't do that. But, Team USA up to 0 on the verge of sweeping this series and for Team Chile, again, win here, would secure their spot in top 2 to Busan,
loss not the end of the world, but it is out of their hands and more so on Argentina beating out Mexico.
I don't know if they're going to pick Rialto for what could be their third and final map here.
Okay, if we're going to Rialto, what are we wanting to play?
Bastion Cat is very problematic with the amount of positions that Cat can catnap you
and dunk you into the river against your will.
You also have to worry about hits that are like the Cassidy, the Ash, the Sojourn making a play,
but it's also going to be Aspog.
So maybe Ram comes back in, plays that tracer role,
is able to select the car,
can go put pressure on Team USA's backline,
because that was when I think Team Chile
looked the most in control.
When they had ways of being able to split USA's attention
into multiple different pockets,
as opposed to always having to walk into the setup
that USA felt was sort of just baiting them into.
I would like to see the far again,
I think from Team Chile, while we really did just see it for a couple of fights, the poke
damage was huge and very good for these setups, as we get the bands coming in Ash, that does
tell me they want to play the Jetpack Cat Bastion, so I think that Ash also protects
the Bastion band to make sure that that is possible, but with the Roadhog being taken
away, we don't get any of that type of spicy cheese today.
Yeah, that's that's going for frack as we can see yeah first band was on to ash
So that did save the bastion now if USA had wanted they could have banned the cat
They're still dismantle the composition
So it's interesting that they go for the Roadhog instead
We'll have to see no subs it looks like coming out from Team Chile's end
So you might get your wish to see a return of that farra?
I would really like it. I think that the
the additional pressure that it applies in making sure that, again, you're not just
springing Team USA's trap. It is a big thing. When you don't have to get too close, you
don't have to force yourself out of position. If anything, it just plays the space control.
If you can manage to play away from tree on these hit scans as much as possible, then
hey, you're kind of okay. Problem is, it is tree. This guy can't aim if you are not careful.
I'm fully expecting a sigma mirror.
I'm not gonna be honest, maybe something like that.
I'm also expecting Team Eosai to give this
like very greedy backline, right?
It won't be the Kirka Lucio, I feel like,
especially when it's up for defense.
The Ellari is potentially coming out,
the Baptiste as well,
just because if you are expecting the Pharah,
being able to take out the Pharah in the sky
with additional poke from your backline
could be absolutely huge
being able to ice off a lot of the pressure that Team Chile will be relying on to just push USA back.
Yeah, I think that's where Team USA are going to land. UV being on the Kiriko, I think it's kind of
necessary if you're going to run the mouth up, don't really know if there will be an honor or
something on the other side. Plus it's just more chip damage, whatever else you could want with the
Suzu. And then the Pharah from Zara, I feel like that's going to be an issue. It makes the sky battle
I think a bit harder and also like working with are you going to stick Eli on like a
flexi-fiest because Bert is your hitscan player in this situation.
Yeah, Bert potentially picking up the reins of the bastion as
Hawk's stalling point. Okay, there we go. Just sleds away in a state of whimsy. Eli does think
about going for the far, thinks about going for the reaper because of the Malga and decides to
to go for these tracer instead so you're going to have to duel out the Kiriko and the Hilari
if you can get through the gauntlet of the Pharah damage without burning your recall as
yeah, USA are having a little bit of fun with it, I think it's fair to say.
And that's one way to get your support's all charged, and it's kinda working.
I mean all the Bastion shows up just like, wait a minute, this might not be the best
thing ever, they'll eventually stand back up and start blasting shots into the opposing
and frack, because they've kind of just been chilling. They zone off a part for the most part with the hitscan from tree, and Hawking just kind of chill.
Oh, uh, tree? It does get run onto by frack though, because Hawke abandoned his post in the Malgamere, and tried to shoot at the Capastian,
Which means that Brack got past enemy lines and on top of Tree and Burr is unleashed.
Here comes the Bastion damage and USA without the Ellari going to be relying on playing the retake into the Utterly Strike.
I mean, I'm all the else you could have, I think I'm the one who needs to trade up.
I'm interested if this fight continues to go long.
I'm more terrified of this form.
That Burr's just gonna get over the root and just take a headshot from Lutminino, I believe.
I believe. These the portals, I think, Moxie, are the real concern.
Yeah, Rush Mirror, available for both these teams, fly by sentry, form, trying to capitalize on USA being stuck on bridge,
and Luke Minow goes down, no opportunity to use the captive sun. That's absolutely huge for Team Chilly.
Now it's just the Kyariko heals for USA.
Oh, but the Kyariko Ultimate Plus trees, Actical Visor, and it inspires so fast, he's gonna go for a triple kill on the soldier,
And I knew it was gonna happen before that play I'm like oh he's gonna pop off and we get to stick seven. Oh
Wow, we get helicopter POV
Six seven
Okay
Teen USA holding the space no rush for team Chile to be able to break into courtyard
I
fear the team Chile having to walk into this cage combo off of barrage or captive son like wed on this
Kiriko will be doing overtime with Susie.
I feel like you need to accept that this is a fight you won't win, just being outmatched
in resources.
If it lacks a time bank, do you have enough time to go for a waiver?
Because you can't actually fight out.
I mean, Hawk does just waste the cage, so perhaps there is a chance to go for another
fight because everyone else gets cleaned up so fast.
Yeah, Cage used, Barrow used, Captus on the only ultimate for USA to be able to play with.
Ooh, potentially Dead Tracer.
No, Eli's able to get out all the control off of the map.
Oh, but what goes down?
That's brutal.
Now you really do have to whip your Kiriko to come back for her.
I'd rather have a Dead Tracer.
In that situation.
Yeah, she comes back fast.
Yeah, she'll be back.
It's kind of the fight for Team Chile, USA, over-expended in that last one.
And relying on this Captain Sun can be pretty huge, that's a huge bit.
As long as Wed has his Suzu, I don't think Chile will worry about it all that much.
There's an H5 though, something out for Crack Hot, it's melted down between the combined efforts of first Crack.
Captain Sun just isn't going to come up with all that much first as the classic Fast and Furry maneuver with the extra over health.
And that should just be the point there for Team Chile.
Yeah, Chile able to pick up the first point, move into second.
They still have to actually dispatch Lucbino, who at least is able to get frack into position.
They'll pull LCS goes down, wait, there's no way, support by the way.
Lucbino and GV just killing the whole of Team Chile while still playing on first.
They're just patty-kicking each other.
Okay, eventually Lucbino does go out of the LLS there, so.
The mountainous ends.
Does it?
Okay, there's only one guy that I can see on my screen, so surely.
It's breathing time.
I mean, that buys Team USA the opportunity to match Rush with Wet though.
Frack actually moves off of the Mauga onto the D.Va since now you're going to be pushing into second.
There's a little bit more verticality that you have to traverse as, uh, are we having the flank play?
It's taking a little bit of damage.
Pylor should be working pretty quickly too with the Bastion Flank.
I wish I could slide up here.
That'd be so nice. I'd actually go sliding if I could slide up.
Oh my god. All the way down.
I used to see what I rushed as.
See how there's a plate. It was coming up with trees,
Tac-Fies, and last time Save was attended at, but again,
but the TIGRAP was just getting to the team shillies.
It's too good. You just stick Word in there as the protection.
Suzu plus the defense made for the crack while the mech lasted.
Katnap on the Hawk.
to take a nice dip in the river of Rialto.
Yaps, on its out.
Right, Suzu timing there.
It might just be point for Chili.
They can clean this up fast enough.
LCS is so drunk, Xerath, wait a minute, comes up with two.
Might get a third gear onto WED.
Dodges out of the artillery strike,
and the enforcers are back for Team USA.
Yeah, walked back.
That was your main concern for Team Chile, right?
Catnap the Malgo so that USA could not let the fight go long
and play to the closer respawns
to get their players back in if trades went down.
And they are coming up with two,
comes up trumps for Team USA to be able to hold on.
Hawk has the cage, two minutes on the clock,
Chile being very cautious that Frac does not get caught out
because you don't have the self-destruct
to get your remake back if you do end up trapped.
Hawk isn't backing off, and that's point.
They snuck that away.
Okay.
We push into first.
You know, that was just, I actually just blinked and I'm like, why are they moving forwards?
Why did they have to like, well, I guess for Team Chill, like, this point is very difficult to move through.
We're already seeing why she's posting up on the capacity as it's also worked off of.
Eventually, yeah, taken down by Eli, fighting a literal uphill battle with the Viva on this objective is going to reflect on this.
Well, the Bastion Cat also suffers in two-thirds, but off of the Bastion goes on to the Sojourn.
LCS, I'm imagining, is going to stick with the Cat to try to get the alt with how far up U.S.A. you're holding
and trying to take Hawk off of the map again before swapping, but one minute left, out comes the Blade.
Baby D.va into Kiriko. Oh, the Deflect of the Kunai takes blood down.
That's worse than just getting hit from the Blade. That one hurts.
I have one more solid attempt before they go through, but look at the old combos the
team USA can have right now.
And LCS is still stuck on Kat despite giving up the bastion.
You're not even close enough to be able to play for Kat grabbing your soldier.
What you can do though, is Kat bomb, here we go, self-destruct, pull it on through,
USA can not but not hide.
Oh, I guess they can hide.
Use three altars rooms and I live.
But Frank eats up the captive son. That's a big tool gone for this cage fight. Makes it less deadly.
This thing's Zera doesn't have a health bar. The problem is with the cat.
You just don't have to sustain. The cat map doesn't get any value.
And suddenly, you'll have to 15 seconds less and Luke Mino is climbing head.
Here comes Loning Deadly as well from Tree.
Looks like to know what Luke Mino lost captive son. Let me take some damage.
So nice, a generous tank to his team to take all of their hits so that Luke Mino gets a chance at getting captive Sunbaak.
absolutely be taking the result okay you say what's the whimsy comp what's the
whimsy comp on attack are we into the woods of life weaver or are we going to
play a full actual composition let's let's see what they're up to it's a
bad that I'm scared.
Me too, Loli. Me too.
What could possibly happen? You can't roll swap halfway through a map,
so you can't have one of your support players go DPS.
That part is true. And I will say, for Team USA, they're very confident in their gameplay,
which I think is obvious with how much sledding we're seeing from Pock.
But between Zera and Tree, those two are doing an excellent job of just shoving down most
of the Chile DPS place.
It's only on the ones where they get a little too silly.
Hawke gets a little too in there that we actually see Frack Eli Burt come up with more of these
pick offs.
They're actually going to start on a diva this time, actually, instead of Mirror the
Malga.
Yeah, I sort of like the diva approach if you're not going to Mirror the Malga, right,
Oh Elias mirroring hawk with a little bit more aura. I will say that
Pretty menacing but going back to that deal that like being able to in matrix a lot of the damage coming in for a from both the Bastion
But also the mauga denies a lot of the sustainability plus if you get cage
You just bring yourself back with the remake as opposed to forcing your team to extend into the cage to try to bail you out
As USA actually running a Symmetra bastion
so it will be on the bastion but it will be moving around a whole lot as the
horse falls off of the high ground yeah that's absolutely you can tell you wanted to run there
but you couldn't get it the map has been flipped sort of we've done like a full circle USA
right you've done your scheduled scenic tour how about you actually start moving the payload now
it is the bastion cycle too from Chile so they do a spin so in in the Scottish dance circuit
That move is what we call a dozi-do, as USA go forward and then back, very much sounding
like some of my old Kayleys, and Zera taps the heal and taps lead, taking down the Kiriko
and the Bastion, and that means that Team Chile just do not have any damage to be able
to stop USA taking all the space.
Yeah, Zera practicing the grounding maneuvers with the Bastion has definitely helped about
And Hog is just in the spawn right now, but Team Chilling moves back off now, seeing the team starts to spawn.
And there's a farm from Eli. I like that swap of log, how much is going to help you at this point?
Not at all, they don't have any one to get there to be guessing.
Yeah, but on second it'll be really good, and Rika would not be able to sort of keep up with the mobility
that this Maga has since the simtv is very much problematic as well.
Zera just propels himself forward with the nade to be able to catch Eli.
Oh no!
That's brilliant save from LCS.
That could have been so bad as Bastion being part electric does not mix with Waterwell.
Oh man, and Burton's definitely accidentally pressed Spacebar there or something.
That was not intentional.
I can only imagine the comms, but 18 USA having a Symmetra,
no way I was safe for Chile, even the Skywalks.
Here comes the rush as well.
when Team Chile show up or UVU will just try and just turn his head to look at the grind
to obscure the hitbox to try to get some extra survivability instead of using the rush,
which means that Team Chile will be able to dismantle the back line and push Team USA
all the way back into spawn as here comes the flyby of the Bastion Cat, good little bit of
poke damage coming out so that Team Chile can't properly commit to it, but you're just waiting
for Team USA to be locked on bridge.
Yeah, you don't really, like, commit until they're in their normal position.
But just like the Symmetra Teleporter,
14 USA, plus 4, almost 5 whole spins.
This is what they can do as the Consider Rush comes on out,
and Sarah, as the advantage that gets sooted in rush,
plus those extra heals will ultraviolet.
Sarah will not get in the win in 1v1.
Katnath will be cancelled, I believe,
just because of the cage fight coming out, great timing from the hop,
And you get the mech of frack on top of it in USA already through that second point mind you payload is clear over here
They're right with the point for victory. Yeah, we had to third one fight away from USA taking the series fully
True will have the same wall artillery strike from zero likely to what's in chile's walk up
So no one can get close enough to the point and it's just sound barrier aggression chasing team chile's players off of the point
And Frac trying to live gets three lives!
Frac was empty structs into the cat drag, which means that UV goes down, and Chili actually
gave the opportunity to come back in the fight.
Frac was getting a couple here with the assistance of LCS, of course, and no support, it's 14USA.
They're gonna go back to spawn and you know what, stick Lithipino on my paper.
And Sierra.
Wow.
Okay so we've got grapple mobility and life grab to be able to just like pull
players away from death blossom. I guess if Hortho also goes too far forward,
Lifeweaver just grabs him right back as well. That's a new way to use
petal platform. Umbrella from Lukmino. I like that strategy if only Tree was
under the umbrella, not on top of it. I think that would have been a bit nicer.
Oh yeah, Team USA. Getting creative with their composition. I don't think I've seen Sierra be played. Well, okay, we don't see her anymore. It's just a bad thing to guess.
Yeah, well, one-sided rush available for UV at the moment. Hawk trying to just give USA the space to close up and use it on the objective.
Team Chile just have zero defenses to be able to hold their ground against it.
But, tries for the extra life off of the armor plating brought on by the Ultima, but that
means you're not in position to touch, and USA pushed the payload forward to claim the
series win for Ito.
The synergies they have outside of this in both Legion Blink Rift University, Team Liquid, SSG, you name it.
And it really does pay off and allows them to do this much.
But also Moxie shows us why they're the best considered team coming out of the Americas.
Yeah, I think everyone expected Team USA in their group stages to go undefeated as we have a look at some of these highlights coming out.
Like the fact that we got the Cap Ascian team Chile did a really good job of putting up a fight, right?
They had some really good moments. It's just that team USA always sort of fell in control
They knew that they could lose one fight come back into the next one with things like the rush
There are here even getting to go past the diva defenses with the blade and then the deflect kill on the kunai
Is always a rough one frack as we talked about at the start of the series was a standout
I think in terms of performance right both the Roadhog and the Mauga did a really good job of allowing team Shelly a lot of
Placements to be able to play around with
It was just that team USA with all of the experience that they have and also the pure skill of each of their players
We're able to just break away at all the fights
Yeah, it's team USA in true team USA fashion
They get that 3-0 and 1,000% secure, the highest seed for the upcoming Busan group stage, whereas
for Team Chile, it's not technically the end of the road yet.
They still have the next match to be up and decided if you're a Team Chile fan, well,
you better become a Team Argentina fan to see if they can take a win away from Team
Mexico.
But yeah, I think when you're Team Chile, I liked the creativity.
really tried to cook up some strategies for this matchup but it just was not enough I think against
the likes of the infected ball the tank caliber and from from top to bottom in Team USA are just a
stacked roster and I don't think anybody expected them to even lose a map throughout the entirety
of this tournament. Yeah I think it would have been considered an upset right if they had as they
were so dominant like when we were watching the trials of this team being put together,
they had so many options to be able to choose from. The players that they took forward very
much have the potential to go all the way, not just to Busan, but also to BlizzCon as well.
And that truly is like the peak, right? You want to be able to compete at the home of Overwatch
itself. It really is a true honor, I think, for a lot of these teams and a dream for many of these
players who might have grown up watching the earlier stages of this Overwatch World Cup.
I mean, that's how long we've seen this iteration of the event go on, and it's been an inspiration
to many players.
In fact, this was the first eSports tournament I ever watched, and I think the opportunity
to play here, get the opportunity to showcase your talent on a larger stage and perhaps
let it lead to future opportunities in Overwatch. Esports is still fantastic on its own. Even if
Team Chile do not qualify for that next Boussons stage, we still got to explore the talent that
they have to offer and what a lot of these South American teams can really bring to the table.
Yeah, it's a great way to get your name right, why you don't have to sort of qualify up for
OWCS or FACET league, you can just instantly show off like, hey, I'm a really good player,
and if you have a really good performance, maybe in the future, like you said, some of those teams
when they're looking to pick up players will look your way as well. But we knew that USA versus Chile
would go to likely a 3-0. In terms of the direction of this one, though, I really want to sort of
find out what USA feel about it because they've obviously played back all of the teams in their
groups. I've been able to get a really good read on how strong their opponents are as we get ready
to bring one of them in for an interview. I know who I'm hoping that it is after his performance,
maybe playing, it wasn't so fitting that he was sledding around. I feel like Rialto as a summer
theme map is the last place in the Overwatch universe that you'll find some snow. But sadly,
Winter Wonderland maps aren't in rotation in tournament play, even if I do believe Winter
Wonderland Kingsrow would bring their spot of whimsy and maybe a new happiness to see Kingsrow
of the frequency that we have that map come through. It would have been fun for sure, but
you know, I think it's good that these players are able to let loose, enjoy themselves, and that
that is a big part of team synergy.
But also I just like watching the Malgo sled.
The fun thing about that sledding mechanic though
is you actually go a lot faster when you're going down.
I love that they added that.
There was no need to do it,
but it was super fun to watch
and we still have a lot of great things to look forward
from this team USA.
Well, we will be joined by the one,
the only sledding Malgo himself.
We have Hawke here in the voice booth with us.
Congratulations, Hawke, as the team completes the full undefeated run here in your group stage.
Thank you. That was a fun match.
A little bit of fun and potentially some surprises along the way.
Before I throw over to Molly, I want to really know what was it like when you ran out on Ilios
and run into a flying roadhog.
Was that expected?
Like how did the team overcome having to adapt around it?
I think they got stunglocked a little bit.
I was like watching from a,
I was watching from the bench.
So I was in there in live action of being,
we'll see the glorious flying hog,
but I think they got stunglocked a little bit.
They got stunglocked a little bit yesterday
too at the flying maga.
So they may be a little bit prepared for the flying tanks,
but I'm not sure.
Hey, you're able to recover from it just fine and, of course, took that series away.
No maps dropped throughout this tournament qualification either, and it does make sure
that you do move on to that next stage of Busan as that number one seed from the Americas
Group B. I want to ask you, are there any teams you are looking forward to playing off against
in that Busan stage?
Honestly, any of them are kind of just excited to play at anybody.
I don't know when the groups are going to be made, so I can't really say what I think we're going to play, but I'm not sure.
I think probably some of the EU teams that I've never played against would be cool.
So obviously we know that you've secured your spot. We're still waiting to find out which team is going to join you. You've obviously played both Argentina and Mexico. So who would you say Hawk is going to come out on top of the next match?
of Mexico, probably. I think Mexico. They have Elemental Guy and you'll probably just
chop up any team, so I think probably Mexico.
Awesome. I think there's a lot of teams that are, or not even teams, like fans that have
been made from Elemental Guy this weekend, Washington Play. That's some crazy highlights
for sure. And I kind of want to direct this back over to you and Team USA Hawk. Obviously,
your first time on this roster, but where do you think the potential is at for this
team?
Do you think you can make it to BlizzCon?
Can you go all the way to the very top of the World Cup this year?
Yeah, I think we'll go all the way.
We're definitely going to, we're definitely probably going to get, I mean, yeah, I think
we're going to go to BlizzCon for sure, but obviously we're remain confident, but we don't
know what the meta is.
So like, nobody knows how the games are going to look like in three months with like a couple
new heroes probably.
So we'll see how it is back then.
Maybe the game gets flipped on set
and just a brand new team that's top dog.
But we'll see.
Well, thank you so much once again for joining us, Hawk.
Congratulations on the win.
We'll send you off on your way to celebrate with the team
and get ready for that trip to Busan.
Think around me.
Oh, there we go, Molly.
I think that's somewhat expected win,
what a whimsical way and journey that we had to be able to get there. Before we go though,
let's have a look and see how that's impacted. The group B standings as we get the confirmation
USA remain undefeated, will be able to pick up the first seed and Mexico put themselves ahead
of Chile off of that defeat as well. So this next match is all to play for, but it's not one that
team Chile will be able to play themselves. Yeah, balls out of their courts and in Mexico's hands
now Mexico can take the win over team Argentina, then that second spot will be theirs in Busan.
Here we go. Mexico, Chile, Argentina potentially playing the spoiler and that's it's always a
rough position to find yourself in right as a team where you're sort of looking on the in outside
trying to work out where it will go, especially off of the fact that Elemental Guy will, I'm for
sure, be bringing a national pride with his usage of that Genji, but if you want to show your
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can Mexico make it through, or will Argentina kill their chances? We'll be back with that one after
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influence it. As Molly, it will be Mexico trying to preserve their tournament life, and
Team Chile on the sidelines desperately hoping that Argentina take this one.
Yeah, it has to, if order for Team Chile to qualify, it actually must be a sweep by Argentina,
pending some of the other map results. Although as we get into the nitty gritty of tiebreakers,
if Team Mexico can win, well, it is as good as theirs, and this team has been a fan favorite
throughout the weekend, Moxie is Vantana, I think the head of this team force on the
tanks line of things, Anja Volado and Karmus will be the two starting players for the DPS
line, but perhaps a substitution for Elemental Guy later.
Yeah, that sort of informs the lineup, right, of DPS that Team Mexico want to play. You
very much know what you're getting in for when you see Team Mexico's lineup. If Elemental
guys in, it will be the Genji. If Anja Volado is in, it will be things like the Tracer and
especially the Reaper as well. So that's sort of the lineup that they've had comfortably
to play all of these control point maps. And as we have a look at Argentina's lineup, Persona
very much has been a big part of this team, trying to secure as much of their sojourn as possible
for the draft and onto these maps.
Yeah, I think the most known name is going to be Lec on this roster, of course coming
in from DSG, from NA OWCS, but and being on the main support with the experience that
he does have, I think it is an asset to this team, but like in terms of the pop off place
that we have watched from Argentina, a lot of that has come from Persona getting set
up in the right positions and, again, Argentina, unfortunately, won't be able to qualify, but
really comply spoiler to Team Mexico's plans. Should they manage to take the series?
Yeah, maths might get a little complex, and I'm very happy that I'm not the one handling
it. I'm just the one speaking into the microphone. If we don't see a full sweep come through.
Like, if Mexico win, but it's not a sweep, then we're going to have to sort of go down
that long list of conditions that we talked about a little bit earlier at the start of today,
but we do have to decide who's actually going to pick which control map that we go to,
and we do that with our 1 vs 1, and it'll be the back vs back, no surprises,
that it will be Lep fielded on the side of Team Argentina already getting his first
elimination onto his opponent. Yep, Lep, typically the main support player,
kind of crying, but Bresky knows Slouch himself either coming in for Team Argentina, but he
actually ended up taking this one. The distance by the looks of it left running for his life.
I could not get through it, ever even throughout the immortality field, but eventually, let's see,
does he get this one. First seeding, still very important for this map, beating the map pick and
first ban, and let's go ahead and snag that one away for Team Argentina. Yeah, now I would
team Argentina as well because we look at the lineup from Team Mexico and Taylor how they want to
pick these control maps around it. So it's Oasis that will be coming on through as it looks like
a Mexico was actually able to pick that one off. Yeah, so they must have deferred the map pick so
that Argentina get the first ban and it is going straight onto that jetpack kit. We saw
some experimentation from LEP on this strategy way back in the second way back. Last weekend
against the team Chile but did not work out. I don't blame them for taking that one away
just to be safe even though this roster tells us it's probably not happening.
Yeah and that means that likely down the road when we go to our second map Bastion unless it's a DPS
protect coming through from Mexico would be on the Cards for Argentina to next
ban as we get ready to head into Oasis. Really good just sort of the synergy of
tanks that you can play here like you can play the Mizuki composition with
the Sigma or the Rematra if you want to. You can play the Mauga, Santana they
played a whole lot of Mauga both this year but also with that past experience
coming through when Maga was initially released,
but it looks like the comfort will land on the Mizuki composition for Team Mexico
and Argentina are the ones that will actually be playing the Maga themselves.
Hmm, interesting. Okay.
I don't hate this at all.
I think I'm a little puzzled by the Roadhog Band from Mexico, perhaps a throwaway,
and they wanted to leave their options open for the most part, but...
Over now, Team Argentina, they're looking to steamroll and keep steamrolling.
Ideally, they can change is Saxon sticking on the Sim?
Will it be a swap over to the Reaper or Tracer?
How about neither? We're gonna play Quarra!
Yeah, do you know how it swaps to Kyroko? Saxon swaps to the Quarra, and all this sort of feels like Argentina were expecting a Malgamir
to come out from both of these sides, especially for Sona rolling out on that Sojin, but Anhabalado on the Reaper
going to really want to get on top of Tizzy is why Lef actually goes on to the rig. This is a very
much counter-reaper composition coming on through from Argentina's backline to give Tizzy as much
space as possible. Which is interesting because you'd think that kind of a lot of people mostly
be sticking with Sigma like we're seeing now and just to make sure that the world, Tizzy's amalgam,
for points. It gives mexico a bit of a capture. That's just easy though. We'll arc to charge in,
but to his own demise. Kind of goes in without the team. Let the suck at the chocos and kind of push
themselves forwards. Persona's having to dualite the Kirika, which means that Sturfeel is able to
walk away with the win, and mexico might be able to hold on to this point despite being down one
of their key backline players because Argentina were down pretty much everyone else. Tzuzi now
off of the mauga because of both the sojourn and the reaper shredding him out, even with that
break, the armor facts are just so few and far between. Ghost but a matra to try and just run
atop of Mexico's composition. Matra or Tzuzi, you see this workout in a way to kind of ward off
the Sigma, make sure that you can kind of push in your fate. This is not what you can do,
a Belt and Shield. Only the unmasked Kitsuneirush stuff. Rusky has his much faster than the opposition
in Harvest and the Volado in a small room, happy to fight through any player that manages to find
their way into the crosshairs. Serial will have one side of Kitsuneirush, but Santana, they should
just be able to offset the tempo with the flux cutting right on ours and have the Volado holding
close wanting to try and read out when Argentina are going to try to forward
get spotted on it, but it's okay you've got waveform.
Peek-a-boo!
I was dizzy, so I just actually give the Nemesis out rather early,
Zantana wants to take advantage of the necraps, three players, all except Persona,
will manage to live them, resulting in a one-for-one, the surreal consumer rush is the best chance
for Argentina to get this fight, to get on the objective, Zaxden, making this a lot more
winnable, losing out on Santana with Team Mexico.
Carmas, working in the back room here, will be dealt with more materially.
No, she's not.
Yeah, flip comes through, but yeah, Sergeant has to be dealt with.
Persona turns around, dispatches Carmas, and Santana actually comes back on Mauga, as
opposed to playing the Sigma, so you have a little bit more survivability and run-on
potential to get in and out away from Tizi's annihilation.
As you're looking for a Death Blossom opportunity, but you have to have the space the distance to be able to use it.
OC from Persona, but they should be able to cover that with the Sanctuary.
It's just how close the point Mexico can actually use to get to it.
Persona was on a high ground, dropped down, spotting out any of Elado.
Force use the Rayform plus Zuzo defense's commitment to keep the Reaper alive, but the stun from Lepis Fantastic
cancels the Death Blossom. Before, you can even hear a fraction of the voice line, and Argentina
will lose control of that point. That was all of their main resources, completely gone, and they just don't get another
touch. Team Mexico slipped that one away right under their noses with Rayplay from Lep.
The OT comes into play. Oh my goodness, so much of as well that OC is just baited out
by Anja Volado on the Reaper. Like yes, you lose your ultimate because you're getting
breakbashed out of it, but you still absorb all of personas, which is absolutely huge
for the rest of the team to be able to just go onto the point, complete the flip, force
the OT, Argentina all out of position trying to upkeep their rematra, not in a spot to
be able to contest it as we head to city center. Any changes coming out, Tizzy? Onto the diva,
and Lech actually will be matching Le for the Mizuki.
Huh, okay. We haven't seen a ton of Le, Mizuki, but I am excited for what this has to offer.
But being with the diva, you're not as much of like a bunkery composition, right?
And you're more so gonna sit with persona on this high ground as Tizzy
drops down to touch the point of the wall for a while.
You have to be very careful about contesting Santana though, because you can't defend Matrix Rock.
So, Mexico, when they decide to actually move on to this point, can be a little bit more static.
So, if you're Argentina, you're relying on what persona can do on this high ground position,
and then Tizzy just being able to use the boosters and diva mobility
to get in and out of Mexico's composition, and give the sojourn Uncle Otlos face to work with
Great Chain from Leap, catches onto Santana, brilliant boosters as well to dodge the rock,
so that the Scyther can try and push the D.Va back, and Argentina are making great inroads into Mexico's bunker.
I have a persona over steps, just a bit, like they were doing so good gating our resources,
not gonna get hit by them more importantly, but there you go, Santana major over steps,
I mean waiting for your tank as well means that you don't have that big body to absorb the damage and let Peruski try to match Kitsune rush charge looks for real, Tizzy is still up still in mech, Saxon still on the field, uses the recall after dodging away from all of the incoming damage from that sojourn, but get a light pick off on that.
Oh, comments that we tried to, yeah,
got hit by a car likely trying to wrap back to the team
on that far left side.
But speaking about other steps,
Argentina go two steps forward
and is Rush self-destruct?
Uh, well, I think the Rush was to go in,
not realizing Tizzy was just gonna lose mech.
Anyways, that didn't get me with a nice chain out of way
and it's just all falling apart.
Argentina have the overcommitments onto this push.
That's what Mexico's composition is about. It's punishing you.
For these plays, if you don't respect the cooldowns, you'll be the flip.
Yeah, I feel like that was the panic because of how early LAP went down,
so surreal knowing that just the Kiriko Heels alone would not be enough to keep Mexico at bay,
tries to use the rush to buy Argentine or a little bit of space to wait for Mizuki to come back,
but that just comes out the cost of one-sided rush available for Mexico in this next hike.
OC, from Carmen, from that hiding away,
blows up the sanctuary just in time to start absorbing the shots,
and Argentina can still hold their position,
but the moment they try to walk closer to the point, Wally,
Mexico will beat them into it and then hit them with a rush.
I already tried to take their own new position, persona.
I didn't get a new angle.
There's just not any body stare at this,
and all of a sudden, Saxon, who actually ends up going down
on the approach, and that's rather tough.
For this Argentina team, is Tizzy, attempting some parkour, but left their team high and dry for Santana, who's stuck in a couple of boulders and inevitably stuck in a diva.
Yep, this one alright, here it comes.
Bunny Blaster, well maybe we get back back, okay!
Great take turn from Thomas, that got real dangerous with how close Tizzy got to a remake right on top of Leigh's position.
as Argentina have to wait for Diva to come back into the mix,
which means that Mexico can still hold their position,
and Carmas can try and board up some of this rail charge before Argentina can approach.
Saxon with the pulse bomb could be a big difference maker, but
if it's used too early in the fight, Suzu will be available.
I think even just getting to a business interview with pulse bomb,
I saw how quickly Saxon's been to get picked off last time, and
it matches the other tracer who finds the valley and has a lot of
close for someone up to a few bits, and it forces so many cool-downs.
Santana is just working her way through the back line, knowing there's no one there to stop him.
But if Flux, though, will go wide, you don't really need it.
The back point is backcapped short, but how much team do Argentina actually have to keep this fight going?
Tissie got up to self-destruct, so he'll have this rematch potential,
but you just don't have the numbers for the rest of your team, but Santana, in danger,
has to be careful to cause this extra point.
Everyone gets out alive, Argentina.
Still, technically, have control of the objective.
It's not like Team Mexico need that much more time. They've seen percent left.
Yeah, Tizi's coming back from Malga and left trying to build up Sanctuary.
Big pick from persona, honestly.
Why is the fight wide open for Argentina?
You're worried about walking into OEC on the OT because you don't have the time to be able to clear the surgeon off of the angles,
but now you have to worry about where the trace it could be.
Look at the Polskam charge up off of shooting the Malgo, and that will go directly on the back line.
Yeah, there's light in the back, but, I mean, Disney just topples over. What are you supposed to do with that Katsune Rush plus the Sanctuary?
Not much of anything. If you are a team of Argentina, I can't find a way to break through. It'll be Team Mexico taking the laces.
Yeah, Argentina, I think there's a little bit of a panic moment when Mexico hit the cusp of 90% of that point.
The Pulse bombs are able to take down Persona, and they still try to use the rush because of the back cap coming through from the diva.
And they're trying to make sure they can still use the rush when most of the team are still standing to be able to take advantage of it.
But Santana shuts that down with the flocks, and it means that you get a little bit more opportunity for Mexico to play to that strength.
up some of those ultimates, smack down the Mal'Ga and then look to be able to hit the
backline once the tank is out of position because they're just gone from the fight.
Look at Freski though, 9-0, the amount of uptime that Kiriko is able to have drastically helps
just the chances of this team staying alive in these longer fights especially since Tizi
prefers these brawly matchups, whereas Santana may not be too happy if they don't have the
cooldowns, but it did feel like that even when Argentina had those couple of
flight wins, the Mexico were in control for the most part, and they had a solid
plan of how they wanted to push in, how they wanted to perform these pinches and
kind of take advantage of Tissie just jet-boosting away from the rest of his
team. I think there were mistakes though that both teams were able to take
advantage of, and that was honestly the same for both sides over extensions,
Right? So if you're Team Chile, what you're thinking about is okay if this is not a clean sweep, if Argentina actually find the opportunity to punish Mexico when they do walk forward and make it stick on some of these maps, there's actually a higher chance for them to be able to make it further.
Yeah. I think this is more confidence for Team Mexico, like from these maps. It's not like Argentina or far behind, but it feels less like, oh, we can't find a way to make it.
the plays that, oh, whoopsies, we shouldn't have done that.
And it's things that are, I'd rather have that,
because that's fixable.
You can change that within the span of the series,
versus they just have a fundamental outmatch
of what our play style is.
You still have time, and you still have options,
picking of options, you have your next map pick,
and the band that you can consider it.
Okay, is it Bastion?
They use the cap on, is it Bastion?
as where do we head to?
Suravasa.
Suravasa, okay, so Malga Mirror and a very strong Bastion Cat map
so likely going to be seen in the Bastion map.
Yeah, I think that would make sense.
We've seen it more from Team Mexico as of recent,
but for me, this also just seems we could play Sigma again.
I have a very strong Sigma, the Zuki map.
You could do the Malga if you really, really wanted to, but that seems like more of an Argentina type of thing.
The Bastion, it just depends on how scared you are of it.
If you're going to play the Malga and you don't want to play Kat Bastion, then I think you need to take it away,
because if there's just not a chance you will survive.
It's just a matter of, does Argentina prioritize doing a counter pick,
or just making sure what they want to do in the first place would be safe?
And do we see subs comfort, right? Because as we've talked about, Mexico have liked to run
Anjel Volado on control, but then when we've moved into later down the line, we've been seeing things
like the elemental guy Genji swap coming out from their camp. So maybe we get a swap coming out of
their team, or they want to keep Anjel Volado in because of, well, Flashpoint being a very expansive
type of map, you can play the tracer, you can be really problematic at splitting hairs
and pulling as much attention as possible, plus being able to get past well-set-up defences
if you're sort of losing control of the point to actually hit OT, and from the sands of
it, yeah, no subs from the side of Mexico, which means that Anja Velado will stay in.
And have a lot of stays in and I think that makes sense especially bad in the
Sigma we're Malva mirroring this map I don't see it way we're not and having
and have a lot of on that I'm Sumably Reaper potentially tracer and it feels
good into that matchup this is where Mexico's identity has come from is
playing that Reaper alongside the Malva even Azoria at times if you're you're
feeling and a little extra fun from Santana and a hyper flexible tank. I am not too worried
about their ability to move to other options as has been seen in the past. It's more
so Argentina. What specifically are they wanting to cook up on this point? Can they get Anxaxon
in the scheme a bit more? Continue to enable Persona with the wind conditions that they
were able to find.
Okay, I don't think Santana will be rolling out on that pick of Domina, especially since
Sackstons already played some of that Pharah, and Domina gets hard shot down by Pharah because
you just send the rockets above the shield. There's very little that Domina can actually
dare. It will just be the expected Mangamurra, and we do get the Reaper coming on through from
Angel Volado, no Bastions in play for both of these teams. It looks like just both opting for
for the sojourn instead, so rail fight between Persona and Carmez and the Mauga faceoff for
who will blink first for these teams to be able to pick up first gap.
Complete and total mirror between these teams, although Mexico did get to the point slightly
faster just because of the pullup quarter.
Now the lot of fans are going down before that fight starts, is he not afraid to engage
now knowing that he cannot be chunked in Santana and to run down below?
to grab another health back, leaving the rest of their team, and it's a two-fand for themselves,
which all things considered, Santa Ana's managed to get their team back together and
on the point, Argentina left that one slip away despite having a player advantage.
Yeah, Mexico down the reefer, still pick up the point cap, you have to worry about persona,
full rail gun charge at the momentous, and have a lot of not-calling-propressure on the
mag, or going for pressure on the back line to force Argentina off of that high ground
position which frees up calmness to try and pick up players on the disengagement as Mexico
have been able to just shade off all of the pressure from Argentina's angles and hold
on to the point just refusing to die right on top of it.
I mean that shouldn't have happened flat out.
Argentina at that point was there for the capping but it took too long to try to chase
the miniminations and suddenly where close to the final fight territory, all the pets
are coming up every single support alt you could possibly imagine plus there are four
overclocking Carmez, he's not allowed to do too much, does see players exit the sanctuary though,
and he'll find to go pick in Persona, that's just the point for Mexico. I mean, big pick from Carmez
as well, picking up Persona so that you can't have Argentina later with that OC once the sanctuary
has fallen. Also, even though they use Sanctuary of their own in that fight, Santana has Malga Cage.
You can, if you want to, just use it to take cover away from Persona's ultimate, as Argentina
at least will already be on the point, entrenched in that space, forcing Mexico to have to walk directly
into the position Persona plays, so instead of walking onto point and caging, we have to sweep
the Soju Knight past.
And I think that's much more of a threat. I guess the Death Boss and Combo is there, but that's
Susie Force. Pretty early. That could go by force, Antana, and you're gonna hold the Death
You don't even need to worry about that, to go down between the combined efforts of
Angel Lado and his tank player, Mexico will sweep that.
I mean that's Mexico's plotting mistakes that Argentina made on the first point, right?
Argentina got the first pick, tried to chase Mexico for more, and Mexico, they baited them
out the call, have Angel Lado play behind, wait for Argentina to chase, and then cage
on top of persona, so no chance for the Sochi to live to use the ultimate. Now, you're just
picking them apart before they can even use the OC because you've got a Reaper right on top of persona's head.
There's a good combo. Tizzy pulls the cage, attracts Antenna, and just wishing they had
like 20 more bolus there to finish off Tizzy, but will it back to being him to come out on top of
Mexico? I just gotta forfeit this objective without your big ol' meatball stand in front of you.
You don't want to fight that.
Wait, lay gets out?
No.
Okay, there we go.
That's honestly huge.
Like the fact that Argentina were able to pick lay out means that you delay Mexico's win group.
You don't want to take the mirror rush when you're missing your Mizuki, especially because you know that left has lead for Sanctuary.
This is Argentina using the overclock to just buy time and point percentage to push Mexico back.
But that's a big ultimate invested for a precious point percent.
Yeah, and Chizzy gets stomped on for blasted times four by Carmes, with the remainder of his overclock.
And the Sanctuary just doesn't do anything.
Ever left is a little too late, and to keep the tank alive, and Mexico shouldn't be able to steamroll over this,
although they do lose intel for Wado, so it'll be a bit dicer than they want, even Carmes.
Just getting the fight taken out of his health bar.
It's one of the sets that I'm engaged.
Had to wait on Argentina.
Did they get another full fight?
Yeah, they did.
I mean, Mexico could play for just the first stage of this fighting, though, since the
OC was used from Argentina earlier, they does not have to worry about being very defensive
with the sanctuary.
Like, Saxton has the death loss, but Mexico should be able to hear the sanctuary of the
Reaper teleporting in to be able to shut that ultimate down, as they're respecting the space,
the sporting Argentina to have to walk into the one side of Mizuki Elf.
Yeah, and you don't want to play into that if you are a team Argentina, but it's actually going to be both that plus the H-Fight coming out, a bit of a Venn diagram on the objective and an attempted death blossom for sure.
Nice accent, just doesn't do much, but all your bullets are absorbed. That's viewpoint down for Team Mexico.
map point up from Mexico, any swaps coming through from Argentina's end looks like they're going to stick with this mirror composition.
As now you have to worry about scouting out Anjel Vlado's angles on the death loss.
Do we see the fighting in mid for both of these teams to just, yeah, cut the rotation,
make it harder for one team to be able to set up a point, and also give you the opportunity to pick someone off in the fight early.
Persona with a huge kill on delay sets the tables for Argentina to turn on Mexico
I said this before if you give persona the opportunity to land the shots
They'll actually point in and Argentina just get the first cap off the back of it for some Mexico
Playing to them and it's even bigger to moxie because they get to save their ults fast rush potentially though from for us here
If Mexico identify the weakness that surreal is missing this rush
They will go first and they do.
Out comes the Kyra Koal into the OC as Argentina tried to disengage.
Karazzo is in the back line, that's two!
Do his name, make that a third in Saxton Gage Fight combo there, but that blinder might be broken.
You should take that one back to the shop, Argentina.
The Wampo combo, shut down.
Mexico will get the flip.
Serial invests the rush in that fight as well, which means Argentina stall to 49%, but like what do you engage in with now?
You can't use the Sanctuary, you don't want to rely on the OC because Mexico will just disengage it
if Persona is not close enough for their shots to actually count, as Lei has been scouted on by Argentina's team
but still has the shift, will be able to get out and Persona gets shut down mid up by Kalmas
Yeah, that one hurts. You need a persona to clear the path for your Valdez actually get to this point and without him
You should just try to leave. It's gonna be allowed to car guys is pushing off the chambers wide
Let's go to Sanctuary and live!
Oh, that's huge they for Sanctuary
Argentina know like that's their one chance of getting a regroup for they cannot afford to let Mexico get another late kill
So I've come sanctuary which means one side of my cage and no opportunity if it's easy to live up
It's a map by the looks of it Argentina falling like dominoes now
After needing a desperation play to live. They don't have the one resource
They need to get through a final fight team kill Bell rings true along with Mexico's second map victory
Take them up to match point. I have to say like Mexico's mechanics have been on point
but so too has the ult tracking. Like the fact that they were able to pin down Surreal was 12% off Rush to use theirs first,
force the disengage, like everyone from Argentina has to kite the Rush and play the second retake Rush of their own,
and Kama's is just there. Palace Light, OC, cuts off the kite, cuts through the whole team. Brilliant play coming through from them.
Also, Freski, no desk this series so far, zero on Oasis, zero on Sera Vasa, and I think
it really does show.
Yeah, and a lot of explain-grabers, he's gonna die, that's just how it goes.
But the fact that you're keeping these stable parts of this composition on their feet as
consistently as they are, it's a statement to how confident Mexico are in a variety of
compositions, working with each other, having this communication between the front line
and the back line.
it pays off in the best ways. You're now up to match point and they get this next one.
They're going to Busan.
Yeah, and the shutting persona down as well. Like so many of these highlights you can see
just the full target focus. This here is the moment when I was talking about Kamez with
such a good overclock coming out from him being able to absolutely dismantle Team Argentina
and like hindsight is 2020. I think you wanted to hold on to that Katsune rush because it
just gave Mexico the go ahead to get as aggressive as they wanted chasing for more, forcing it
the Mizuki Sanctuary which outside of some clutch picks coming from that team, that was
just map decided in that moment then and there.
It's how clutch point goes, it can be very snowbally if you don't track ultimates or
even use your own in a safe manner so it is going to hurt in the long run as you know
Last chance now, I think for Argentina to see if they are able to pull together another map win off of this team, but from where I'm standing now, I think it's going to be really difficult to get the momentum back into your step.
Yeah, Mexico, one map to be able to close it out. They'll be feeling very happy. They'll be feeling confident. They still have Elemental Guy as well sitting on the bench, which like,
Honestly, the fact that you have to worry about that means that Argentina, in terms of the maps that they're looking at, very much have their hands tight if you want to be able to avoid the issue of the Genji dive.
So you're going to be avoiding maps like Surke, you're going to be very cautious of maps like Numbani.
It very much funnels you into this set position of that Mauga Reaper mirror, which Mexico, in my opinion, just feel a little bit more drilled on.
The reps are absolutely there, I think, for Team Mexico, when they're watching that.
I'm still amazed that Trusky's saved a lot of this entire time.
That is an impressive feat, especially when your team just fully dies around you.
But yeah, for Team Mexico, there aren't too many situations that you're going to be unhappy with.
Even in a Melga band here, you just go back to the Sigma, you're kind of chilling.
In any of these brawl mirrors, the only thing that could change it is if Argentina for some reason
wanted to commit to more of the dive as we see what they're thinking about. You can tell that
they're absolutely taking their time on this pick. There we go, we have it in. It's going to be
ruinous soppy and likely a dose of what we got with Suravasa. And the substitute for Team Mexico
has come through. Elemental Guy joins the server. Now, do we see a ban on Genji? I think like,
Honestly, you might be able to go for it.
I mean, you have to.
And that's kind of the risk, I think, of taking, of putting in Elemental Guy on something that isn't your map pick,
because you don't have First Band at any of these times.
So, Argentina are aware of that substitution being made.
I think for the people, let the Genji stay, but if you're Argentina, I think that guy needs to get the boot.
Okay, let's let's see. What's that ban going to be Argentina? Like it is the problem as
well because Mexico a 2-0 up. If Argentina use the Genji ban here and they win the map,
great, but you're just delaying the issue. Like you get one chance at banning out the
Genji and if you win the map, you know that it will be waiting in the wings for you as
there it is, we have the confirmation, Elemental Guy will be subbing in for Angel Volado, which means
that we're likely going to be seeing that Genji blade unless Argentina shut it right down in the
van. Again, for the people, let it stay. If I am an Argentina fan, that guy needs to go. It's a delay
of the issue, yes, but you gotta pull the trigger at some points, and they're gonna let him stay.
take away the Bastion instead,
to ensure the second half of the Castian duo will not make an appearance,
and the Malga Band to follow from Mexico,
they really want to force Argentina out of the comfort zone.
Yeah, they really want to be able to just like force either a Ram or a Sigma,
potentially a Diva, maybe even Sauria.
Honestly, if you're going to be playing close quarters brawl,
especially for that first fight of Runa Sappy,
But for Argentina, like, we already know the issue that they're about to face.
It's Genji. How are they going to be able to shut this one down? Will it come in the form of giving
up the sojourn so that you put the cast in and can try and keep the Genji away with things like
flashbang? But that then allows commerce to get much more value being uncontested. Like,
this is the issue for Argentina. If they look at solving the problem with Elemental Guy,
Well, multiple other issues rise up for the rest of Team Mexico that they can then put all of their resources into instead.
It's debate, right?
I-I-I just imagine having a guy, like, elemental guy on your team, to just...
have this weird pocket pick, best- one of the best Genji's that we have in the Americas region.
Hmm.
Like, what do you do?
De-counteract it. We know Mexico will want to play through their own strengths in Santana to pull out their Zarya.
That's even more scary.
Or bubble genji.
That's terrifying.
Yeah, this means that like even if Argentina tried to go for something like a cast to curb the genji,
Flashbang won't land because Zarya bubbles that.
Yeah, I mean even that. Go stand up and strike the shot, Elmetsal Guy.
Give me some bubble charts.
It's in the back line.
Forces Suzu.
Like, completely by himself.
Gets out a lot.
Great start.
Fourth team, Mexico.
Saxon.
Well, wishes he had a Suzu.
Right about then, it's only because of that
growing shot out of Persona that this is still an accessible fight.
You're actually going to chain together a second bolt, of course.
End up falling during a fight in Mexico, no confidently about.
Ooh, great chain into the deflect.
That Tizzy is able to take Elemental Guide down.
And do you know what? That might just be the answer.
No cast, just put Persona in, and have them kill two.
this is literally a bite to be whose DPS can clutch up the most and more
resources will be invested I think into Mexico's DPS just because the nature of
Zarya existing but Argentina have the threat of leps chain or that's a very
early Zarya bubble yeah I think they wanted to go first like early charge
so you can get them back up like this or the second part of the fight but it's
not really working out leps doesn't have health though easy brawl that's a guy to
dashed through, but he gets dipped by the stairs, has to go away, but Tzennie doesn't quite give him that choice.
He doesn't want for one to reel, and they want to win, as this consumer rush has to come out, but you're just gouging out some of the players.
Tzennie raised the pace with an overclock, drafts an oversight from the squad.
Since Tana back up against the walls, they're gonna commit down for as well, maybe a swap coming in from Tzennie.
It still gets them point progress, Moxie.
Walk on the Kirika.
Box antenna, I would jagged wall them, walk on the Kirika, but Proski still has the TP available,
so we'll escape into one sided rush, and Argentina still locked on the hazard composition,
having to run for the hills.
Over in the sappy right now, as Mexico uncontested, look for Elemental Guys blade,
and there's no looser, no beak to shut this down.
This is coming, and this will get kills.
Yeah, bye-bye persona and he's gonna be okay with the one the first to keep his life
Don't think that his team has got the rest his Argentine just kind of funneled in to the core of team Mexico
Away from the dragon's life. So meaningful point progress now for them
something to talk about as well as that calm as is always going to have the OEC ahead of persona because persona has to break
the Zarya bubbles first. Right, there's also a lot more moving parts of Mexico's composition
as opposed to commerce, who can literally just shoot the hazard. He's a pincushion for
the surgeon to generate this ultimate as quickly as possible, as Graf and Satana could be
big here, but Leap can defend against it with Sanctuary.
Well, not this time. Sanctuary is out incredibly early. Latest use of the sound barrier, I think
is more of a uh oh, they can shoot me, I can't shoot them, panic, it doesn't get much. There
Where is that Graviton Surge solo onto Persona and it's Constantana's flight?
Things are going to work here for Team Mexico.
Downpour layered it on top of it, just a close two down, then positioning it.
They're really Argentina.
That's all the space they have to tank presence to push forwards and still have to leave.
What's the answer to Persona's OC as well?
Like that's why Santana sort of has that panic moment, right?
Where they're like, okay, we used the B.
We now don't have B against OC. I have to step up to the plate and try to grab the sojourn
So we take persona out you do
But the rest of Argentina's team are still up to finish the job
And now persona has an OC and Mexico don't have a good answer to it
And Argentina already have to this point to board spawns are unlocked for someone's just doing this to see how much space
They can get for the team. We'll get a chunk there
from Karma's, and besides that is enough. The fear has been instilled in Team Mexico,
but I guess not in lay specifically. Just walked straight into Saxton, was chilling up in this
room, and yeah, blasted again. Soon they rush off the high ground. Cactus doesn't quite deny the
escape, but Tizzy forced the Santana into an awkward position. Down they fall. Argentino,
Moxie, are making this work. Yeah, that was a solo rush, actually, towards Elemental Guy.
To shut the Genji down, Mexico will have Rush to try to walk their players forward in this retake.
Santana off of the Zarya onto the Arista. A little bit more defensive capability.
Maybe Javelin pro to shut the step blossom down as well as Kalmas opens up with one before taken down by Tizzy.
Slashed across the back, our team with the soldier, of course, will favor Team Mexico with the spawned P. Insight.
Now, Frosty lays down the Katsune rush with the backpedaled out for the Elemental Guy.
They're doing their gourdest to stay alive, and then Tana has to play finding the post
shots needed, but that is three players grounded in a small room, you don't play that!
They're going to send it out, and there's the Beach Blade, the Elemental Guy, great
chain out of left, and down he shall fall!
Every resource for the Argentina is invested to make sure Elemental Guy cannot live, and
Team Mexico bumple the bag on their big ult fight!
Yeah, Mexico wanting to use the blade to punish Sanctuary because it absorbs projectiles.
It does not absorb melee damage, right?
Genji Blade is an absolute free fall.
The Argentina just bait the blade and then take the Genji down to the point that Elemental
goes off of the Genji and onto the Reaper.
If Mexico desperately tries to hold Argentina off, Terror Surge is available here for Santana,
who will challenge Tizzy.
Being able to stand up to the hazard, break some of the defences
will be really big for Mexico to get a little bit more space back, but it feels temporary.
As surreal comes on out, we have that rush and that siren's personas all see fully into swing
as Mexico might find themselves down runes happy.
Sent out a hat to try to force a play, but they never saw the window.
That's one for elemental guys, but you need to touch the point.
Less than a meter left remaining for Team Argentina.
You close out the map and they're gonna do just that.
We aren't seeing a sweep here today.
They're at least taking one home with them.
Okay, we might have to start doing some complex equations to work out the chances of Chile
versus Mexico as Argentina take runosapi.
I mean, we talked about it, right?
Persona being able to play that really solid pick of the sojourn, 16 kills coming on out
of Persona, 6 deaths.
I think as well the fact that they had such a good plan of being able to shut the Genji
down, like obviously when elemental guys stopped in, you have like two options, ban the Genji
or shut it down in the actual game and very much felt like they were prepared for that
opportunity.
You don't stop at the hazard from Tizzy for a second, I also went 20 and 1, but I think
that was also a huge part of it.
He stalled the point forever, 2v5, and still managed to find all of these outlandish picks,
set things up with the jagged wall, and you can't really do that when the Malga is available.
So yes, I think it works this time around, but if we do find ourselves back in a Malga
near as he will be on band, is that something that can be scarier?
Because Moxie, the success is fantastic, but I question whether it is replicable.
Yeah, that's the issue, right?
When you're coming in with a composition that's reliant on certain heroes being playable,
and we have the band now, right?
So you're very much looking to see, is that still going to be up?
As where are we headed off to Circuit Royale?
So that's one way to try to force the Sigma Mirror.
Yeah, that is something.
I think it can, it will play into the Sigma.
You can protect the Genji.
This is kind of an Elemental Guys map throughout the course
of the event, where he's had some insane Dragon Blade pop-off
plays, but what do you want to play?
I think if you're Argentina here,
The sycnomere is one that Sissy has shied away from quite a bit, and he is fantastic
on the hero, but I think the pieces that go around it feel a little less comfortable,
or Argentina, especially against teams who have dedicated most of their time to it.
Well, we have a new sub coming out of Team Argentina, or rather Team Mexico, and it will
actually be Pau Lett, subbing in for Leigh.
So maybe we're going to be seeing something like an Illari come out from their end, especially
on their defense, since they want to just try and drain off as much time as possible.
Illari, very good at poking as well.
There's an option for the Bastion Cat to be able to make it through the band draft, which
Mexico has been trying to move away from as much as possible.
So having extra options to be able to snipe and deal out damage, because while Genji is
very, very good when we get to actually see Elemental Guide go in with all the cooldowns,
the dashes, the shurikens. It's not the greatest for upkeeping high amounts of damage all the
way throughout a brawl fight, right? Something that Ellari can make up for.
Yeah, and it's not only just common on this map, but having the double flex support is
just much more of a threat, I think to the team that is approaching. Having the range
is great. And Palette, whenever we've seen her join, it's usually been for the Iyati
or sometimes the Juno even, to kind of take the space that way. As we finally have our
bands in place, and if I'm a Genji player, I'm very happy about this. May going down
from Mexico, both I'm assuming to protect the Genji and just get rid of a very potent
pick. And Argentina, Orgiz, the Zarya, even if it didn't work out for Mexico, it can still
be very obnoxious into the sigma.
Yeah, it can be very obnoxious and it also supplies elemental guy with a lot more resources
To get on top of your composition because like you can play the range of circuit royal
Right, you can try and take the Genji down before you get to the top of you
But once he breaks through those ranks
He's a lot more annoying to have to deal with and highly likely it comes at the cost of a trade of one of your backline
or a resource, the way that we saw Elemental Guy being able to force things like the Suzy very early on, so I think smart ban on that Zarya.
Yeah, very much needed to set up more for this hoke type of strategy. I do worry for Argentina, because again, all of those pieces that we saw work so well for you back under Nusapi, it just doesn't exist on Circuit Rail.
This is one of the more solved maps in the game and in the case of Mexico, this is their map
This is the thing where they pull out the elemental guy Genji like hey look at this guy. He's pretty dang cool
He'll smack you with the dragon blade a couple times and
Gigi's go next like Mexico want to end the series in four
Yeah, I'm Mexico as well with that first ban on me save the Genji
All right, you have to feel like Argentina
they were sort of looking at the long-term when they went to that band draft on Runosapi because
they could have banned the Genji there, but I feel like they would try to get the Genji ban
actually for on-circuit with how impactful Elemental Guy has been on this map in the past,
and they're not able to do so because of that Mayban.
Which is kind of unfortunate, but as you expect Mexico to get their own map pick,
It probably unprotects that game, G-Gardless will be Argentina on the defense.
I want to see what these DPS are going to pull out.
There'll actually be an M-Ray from Persona.
We haven't seen a lot of M-Ray this tournament, and if we have, it's been from the likes of Burt of all players.
Yeah, getting to see that M-Ray, like you give up the one tap potential of the Sojourn, but what you do have is range.
Ooh. No M-Rave. So Jen instead. Okay, there we go. One tap potential, really good pressure
on the cross as well, with things like the Disruptor Shot making it hard for Mexico to
move around those angles, and with Saxon picking up the Pharah, a lot of crossfire damage as
they want to just try and get Elemental Guy as low as possible before he can find an in
to that backliner's pallet, not on the Elari just yet, maybe on the defense, but right
No, she's on the Juno.
I don't mind the Juno for this first point, because it can help you get to this high ground.
Much easier than if you're just kind of walking normally,
but you're not really going to contest these quarters anyways.
And maybe it's that elemental guy up, right?
You can move faster to get to these backlines,
close the gap to see the pressure.
The rockets are flying toward the front.
You want to follow up on that accretion.
That is the Susan out, and Karma is...
Hermes, a friend from Sonos, this is already a great start.
You're seeing Mexico losing on that main player if you wanted to see him over this back.
Yeah, Argentina now without a good option of just pushing Mexico back off of this night
from that sojourn.
So, speed ring from Paola, pushes Santana forward, elemental guy so far not displaced
from his position on the high ground, waiting for someone to go low, close up the distance,
the teleport in the Mizuki, and leave the Sigma vulnerable on the front line.
I'm still holding on though, because Juno Rush is basically not force-real and that
huge advantage will greatly affect how this fight goes.
In fact, it should just turn around and Kairi and Sakatana put on a leash nowhere for them
to leave, and I'll be a good hold for Argentina to fall back on.
What a rock onto Palette midair Juno.
That is style point for Tizzy.
There's Argentina push Mexico back, that's sort of one of the issues from an attack going
so well, right?
One side of damage sets up, one side of rush for the defense, and Tizzy is able to live
on that point for so long that it gets pulled up to push Mexico back, but Mexico now have
a rush of their own.
Tizzy trying to stop it from coming out first, uses the flux, takes pallet down, and Mexico
will have to bite their time and wait until their second support goes back.
Oh fuck.
This is so good.
I remember this from the match against Team Chile.
This was like the carrot.
I'm surprised we haven't seen it until now, but it is seriously paying off.
This fight though, Moxie, is looking pretty hard to do.
Yeah, Mexico bites be coming through with all of their ultimates up.
So you have to feel that they'll win the fight.
The question is, how much resources will it cost because that will then impact what they
have available headed into a snowball on second rush.
It's first, Tizzy already overwhelmed, letting not in time with the Sanctuary to be able to
save the SIG and Mexico just trying to win this final support ult alone it looks like.
And we'll do the trick, without Tizzy, normal to Rai was just making sure, hey, no sneaky
BPS plays please, and yeah the rest of Mexico will push on up, see if they can grab any
more statters but everyone else seems to be safe and sound for now. Yeah pushing Argentina
all the way back as well means that Mexico actually get a lot of cart push for free.
That's one of the things that you're worried about though if you're the attack like you have to
keep snowballing these fights. If you lose one, trying to close up the distance on that punk,
the fire and the sojourn will be so painful. And you don't want to be stuck like indoors,
You need to be able to get an angle and to move through this point and that's the goal of Persona's overclock or recognizing
It probably won't hit any shots. Just gonna say you know what we got that and I'm gonna buy rush
It does get time for rush time
But you don't have tizzy so I don't know if you want to rush in the first place like harness
Getting that last shot plus socks in at the end like that's just
Yeah, I don't think we're that sick there.
Can anyone live long enough to actually be able to stall this?
I know.
That is full point picked up from Mexico.
We had to third.
Elemental guys still not use Blade of Lones.
Flocks from Santana brings everyone rolling off.
The Genji Code close up and get the eliminations, which this really uses the rush to force Mexico
back.
They don't really have the same lines that push up past that border and all the clubs down.
You know, that is kind of why we don't play Genji in 2026.
Sometimes it goes great, sometimes it looks like that.
It's Argentina and they're fighting their win cons, but it's taken quite a bit for them to get through.
Mexico will have Rush, but Argentina have the ult to be able to slow it down.
Flux, Sanctuary, take your pick.
We actually use science tree very early on a good pick on to calm us, but that's the most if you ultimately you're wishing you still have
Yeah, kind of strange
We'd hope you like just stick that in the middle and help me. Hey, that's essentially a very large circular shield, right?
You have to flux the rush
You just get over one bar
Okay, so how do you deal with Rey from Palette, which could combo with Kames as OC, Mexico,
Spartan Absence, who have absence and Tina's presence on the high ground, so Saxon's tasked
with cutting off the rotation long enough for the team to rotate and meet it, and Kames
It goes down, big pick from the Kirikou, Mexico puts back.
Hell it's still moving though, we'll need to put a stop on that, about final flight territory.
Or this team by Elemental Guy, he eats a rocket midair, courtesy of Saxon.
Argentina can start to push off into some of this space, Tizzy still has his critic flunked
but the boulder almost has to fell out, there we go, who thread the needle around the kinetic grasp
and take the staggered course.
will have the combo of their dreams though. But do they go too fast?
Oooh, Saxon!
So long, saunter elemental guy! Far goes unchecked!
I do what you got as your lid! I guess the mentality from Saxon is
verdict-plexed art exchange and the action of losing Palette
through the orbital ray. Problem is that Tana's flex is just a bit
better. You had the extra health to work with. After the Junimals, it's going to
to get you around this corner, Force Argentina would be one final fight.
Great late pick on the surreal as well, Argentina reliant on Russia or OCE to push Mexico back
and it will have to be this sojourn ultimate to start things off.
Persona tries to take an off angle to drop the shot to cut off the disengagement.
As Argentina get ready to go, Mexico with the sick, not just managed to kite.
Persona's having such a rough map of the target priority
on the soldier, making sure they can't play the game
and Tizzy being on his hazard,
and it's not gonna do you much good
once that block runs on out.
It's had a scene to have a health bar for days,
and left, and you're only open
so you can get up to the sanctuary in climate.
It won't be there for Tizzy
at the bare minimum, elemental guy,
almost up to a dragon blade,
no pull as soon as he gets in.
That's the highlight play he wanted to see
taking four down with them, Santana steals the fifth,
and Mexico will cross the finish line
for 39 seconds of the clock.
The Santana just like grasp onto the OC
and the shield placement as well.
Like that was what everyone was sort of hinging
their retake potential on, on the side of Team Argentina.
The fact that everyone from Mexico
used so many ults on the Juno Obito Rey,
Kitsunera, Flux, Mira face off to be able
broke pause for a choke meant that if the fight went long, if Argentina got to be able to use
closer respawns and two all advantages to pick apart T-Mexico's players, because they were down
to a minute remaining, that could have translated to a halt. But OC finds nothing as Santana just
shuts it all down. Yeah, it's been the game of persona isn't allowed to do stuff. And for Argentina,
Especially with a map of this nature, that's who you need to be setting up.
That's who you need to have popping off and to their credit.
I think they've had some good shots lined up, but between Elemental Guy being on this Genji,
some interesting uses of support ultimates have made it difficult for them to get to the full
potential. They would like to see them operating on. As he sideswap on the same comp here,
14 mexico with the speed ring which is kind of an necessity for the genji at this point
see if saxon looking for an opening shot off a spotted elemental guy he's actually there
i mean you don't want to risk shooting the genji though because elemental guy has deep luck
yeah look at saxon staying on widow for a really long time though this could actually be
oh nope barely got onto the reaper instead so from okay far i think is a better pick
In this instance, right Reaper would not be able to close up the distance to put pressure on to the Sogge or the Sig,
so you're just relying on thumping the damage first, fading out the D-Flight, taking the Genji down.
Well, while Saxon was doing all that, Mexico just got a free pick on the left, and basically won a 4v5 off the back.
So they're gonna get at least to this first corner.
I think if he blocks it from Saxton, you can put him on a further angle, or just get some chip damage, force another pick off to come on through how much ground Mexico are giving. This is much better setup for a farm.
Yeah, Saxton just having a lot of breathing space at the moment. Mexico giving up space so they can play their backline around the corner and don't go down to that far.
She's got a little bit of a stalemate coming through at the moment, both of these teams
just waiting for the Kitsune rush unless they get a first pick to signal their entrance.
Yeah, but Senfana can't hit with this chain on an island away from their team,
and that's easy for Argentina to punish and a big mistake there.
I've seen Mexico really wishing they had the tank presence right now,
because this is just Argentina's point.
Yeah, they can't hold their ground without the sick right,
which means that we don't see the Kitsune rush mirror.
that gets delayed to determine who retains tempo.
On second, will it be the defense
able to push Argentina and box them back into spawn?
Or will it be Argentina able to get the better of Mexico
when they're able to use something like this barrage
right through the rush?
That one's gonna hurt, and Saxon doesn't really care.
If you are hurt, they're in the Tetsune rush.
I think it's more so gonna be, because all of them are right.
I recounted that out.
No, these are gonna be mirror to Saxon! Just one-shot combos!
Rusky!
And it's about the Periscope, and the Vox is gonna do infinitely more damage.
Hmm.
Xantana! And you're just dead! Argentine are snowballing!
Mexico have really good aggressive capabilities with the Juno, but without the Mizuki as well,
when we match up the OCE on paper, personas will get more value because commissives will just be absorbed.
Flux from Santana, as they spotted our high-fall forward Argentina off, and wait a moment,
Hicks coming through from both sides, they have a chance for Mexico to make room.
Yeah, look at Hope, our main tizzy and Serial with sub-20 hit B for a second there.
Mexico should be able to recover, and the Sun should.
Letting Serial might be supports, but they can still hurt Persona alive to back them up and
ask Wing 5 minutes, Moxie, that Mexico have to go ahead.
Okay, Mexico, we have to cycle our ults. We can't burn them all in one go.
Saxon with the sparrows as well. Like, you don't really worry about the damage that barrage can do,
especially since Mexico has so much room to be able to scout out where the fire is coming from.
It's much more about just the pressure neutral that those rockets provide as
Argentina, they're pushing high ramp, but they also have presence on point.
Mexico, our village after one take, no one's clearing the fire!
Saxes in the back line and gets one.
But that is an investment, I guess, from Mexico.
Even though the Dragonblade doesn't do all that much
because the focus is in the back line.
Argentina still has to push through this choke point.
And I think that's exactly where Mexico wants to pull.
Because they promise.
Yeah, obviously, ready, good to go.
The moment that Argentina are a little too deep to disengage.
Very much feels though that they won't walk into one-sided OC without having one side of Rush.
It's kind of, them looking for the angle on that one to support for Sona in their adventures.
And that should just go ahead and do it now.
And Mexico still gets their call after an interesting play from Artifida.
Yeah, great patience from Sontown.
It's a way for Titi to be out of the rock cooldown,
so you don't have to worry about your ult being steed-seed out.
For Sona trying to build up this OC,
This OCEA Saxon actually swaps both of the Pharah onto the Tracer, so avoiding the main choke hold that Mexico currently have.
Being able to worm your way into some of those flanks and look for the Wanker Punter Palad.
There is a decent way of responding to the QA rush, and it gets Argentine a stable.
The damage taken out of Palad, in fact all of it. Saxon swaps over to the Tracer, it's turned out to be successful.
in mapping up the remnants help parts from that gravenic fox. He's actually coming for
wheat as a result. This is the final quarter now for Argentina.
Yeah, big pick from Saxton because like taking Powlett out early means that she doesn't have
rape. From Mexico to try to brute force their way out of these spawn doors and get on top of
Persona with the OC. Santana wants to just get onto point and roll and hold the space as long
as possible, which means that they're moving onto the ram. Then here comes the OC from Persona.
Mexico usually shut this down, but no one's on top of persona's position right now
You're playing for me and orbital ray here if you are a Mexico
You at least get one of them up second is available persona has so much support on this high ground
You are not contesting them at least safely. I'll let thought about it for a second decided to back on out
Mexico playing the tempo slow. Never mind. This is elemental guys time to shine there go to
I see y'all. I hope never mind. Get titty. With the one final swing in Mexico, that is to keep
third feet unplanted. One-sided OC versus one-sided Rush. I mean honestly for Argentina, with the
time bank that you have, like you don't want to lose this next fight. You don't want to take it too
early because you won't be able to get a safe three-foot hurt. So I think you wait for left to
have Sanctuary in hand to defend against this OC. Problem is that if Mexico identify that you
fishing for Mizuki, they'll just go first with OC.
And by that time, they'll also do any rush.
So it's kind of a double-edged sword of what you're going to want to do.
End of the last push to Mexico, because they're the ones who want to take the fight fast,
harness, pop some out the choke, and make sure that Argentina can't step forward yet.
Yeah, now you have that rush from Poroski.
Argentina have to rely on using a double support,
potentially in this fight just to get through the door.
And comes the Rush Mirror, let not having the Sanctuary could go down before you get the ultimate online to use it.
As Santana's just clearing the space with annihilation, Audentina have to win the fight or lose it fast. This is lost by territory, if not...
And they're not really winning or losing anything. It's just... stop. No one goes down and I guess they're waiting for Persona to build up an overclock.
build up an overclock, but look how much pressure they're under, Santana is sinking it into
Argentina's spawn. They might pay for that with their life, that's the overclock. Now
online, the great shield dancing Corbett ends up getting the final blow, but at what cost?
Mexico overclocked it, perhaps, in their picks. Let Alpha-Vapis-Hailers move Moxie, there should
be another chance for Mexico to regroup.
Rayblade, potentially that. Or Ray-1st to Boldblade, sacked in the earth with the pulse bomb.
You have to worry about Suzu, but the Trace has been so good at taking that you know how early if you can stop Palette now
You might be able to finish them up
Ray we'll still end up going out and down it goes
Saxon late online now four elements of guy he wants to be the hero for his team and he's gonna go ahead and
Do it team of Mexico take the victory 3-1 and put themselves a ticket to Busan
on. Little shaky on some of those maps, but Mexico come out on top in the end. It's very
risky when you go for the Juno into the Tracer. We saw so many times like Saxon getting the
best there of power, but having the Ray in the Overtime fight allowing Elemental Guy
to hold up that blade so much faster and it being OT, which means that you can't just
disengage. There's one side of Juno ult and you have time in the bank. Normally you can
just back off and wait for it to be done. If it's overtime, you have no choice. You
have to go directly into all of that damage.
Yeah, I think that's why Mexico played so far up, right? They wanted to force Argentina's
hands and they had so many opportunities. They steamrolled their way. They were the
first two points, Moxie, but it got held for five minutes plus on this third objective
and in huge plays again from elemental guy to barely not only keep the minute, but also
make sure Mexico could get the full cap to secure the round where it was.
I mean, it's the circuit where I'll special, right?
Go all the way into Ferret with five minutes on your clock.
And then the defense just a hold for the whole time.
We get to one fight territory.
We get to overtime and the defense just win it out with great ultimate economy
in that last fight, because like you said, they played super far forward.
They broke first out all of the support alts on the side of Argentina.
So there was nothing to be able to match Paul at Ray,
and it was just a case of tying up
all of the ends at that point.
Yeah, I think in the case of Argentina,
you're happy you got the map that you did.
They had some great signs of life,
and I hope that we do get to continue
to see this team compete.
In fact, we will see a lot of them,
they qualified with 9Z for the Esports World Cup
from the South American face at Masters Tournament
for the core of that roster.
but again, the case of Mexico, you get to return
to the next stage of the Overwatch World Cup.
They made it all the way to BlizzCon last year.
I'll see if they're gonna be able to do that again.
Yeah, I think there's a lot of expectation on Team Mexico.
I think there's also a lot of questions
about like how far can you run this Genji composition?
There's a reason we don't see Genji
all the way up in the top of pro play,
and that's because he's very easy to shut down
with the coordinated efforts of your team.
So it'll be interesting to see if they continue
to try to push towards the Genji
when you have Elemental Guy in for the team
or if he maybe picks up a different hero
and plays something slightly different
when we see them next in Busan.
I think Mexico making it strong team nonetheless,
but one of the ones that we'd have to put as an underdog
Heading into the next stage of this group play.
I drank them probably fourth, honestly, out of the four teams that we are having that
qualify behind the US, Canada, and Columbia.
There's the potential.
I think they have the opportunity to upset.
Even Santa Tana said themselves being the underdog is OP because teams aren't prepared
for you.
Teams aren't necessarily ready for what you have to offer, and I think that is the mentality
that Mexico are going to need to have as they move on to this next station.
Yeah, they did such a good job as well of like scouting out their competition and
understanding where Argentina's win conditions were. Right, we talked about
persona being that player on the soldier and who would always be trying to find picks,
come through with really clutched ultimates, and everyone tried to shut that one down. But
Speaking of our clutch picks for the DPS lineup, we are joined of course by Elemental Guy.
So first of all, congratulations on being able to qualify.
I feel like it's a fairly obvious answer, but I have to ask, how do you feel knowing
that you booked your ticket to Busan now?
I feel amazing, bro.
I'm so grateful.
I've been playing this game for so long, so I feel like I kind of deserve it, but at
At the same time, it's my effort that I put in.
And what does it mean for you?
Because obviously, you sort of came out of nowhere.
We haven't really got to see you previously
in the Overwatch Esports scene.
And a tournament like this allows you to instantly have
that platform, right?
What does it feel like being able to step up
onto the world stage?
I feel like now I'm going for real.
I really have to practice now, like for real, for real.
I'll have to put some things aside.
But yeah, I'm going to practice hard.
And we can believe it.
And we saw the effort that was put into prepping for this match
against Argentina today.
And I'm sure it feels fantastic to get the win.
But I can imagine there was still
kind of this pressure that was in the back of your mind
heading into the match.
What was kind of the overall team mentality
as you approached this game?
We just do what we practice in scrims.
something goes south, we adapt. But specifically for this last match, I got put in RuneSappi.
But of course, it didn't go well, but we still played well repractice and it went well because
we practice it every time. So as the Genji player for your team, obviously we don't get to see a
whole lot of Genji in like the OWCS circuit. I have to ask, what actually goes into being able
to make that DPS pick work? How much resources are your team giving you for you to be able
to have that space?
It needs to feel natural. At the beginning it wasn't natural, but now I feel like my
team trust me. They finally see the results and all those thousands of hours of ranked
are finally giving food.
And then, you know, qualifying for Busan, being on a much, much larger stage against
teams from all over the world, I'm kind of curious to know from both you and Team Mexico's
perspective, is there a team that you are looking forward to face off against?
I want to go against Colombia.
I feel like we've been holding each other's hands because we warm up each other and we
play against each other.
We have a cool relationship, so I can't wait to play them in officials and see them in
person.
Well, thank you so much for joining us Elemental Guy and as we said, because it's sort of one of the first times that we're really getting to see you before we send you on away, do you have anything that you want to say to all of the fans that have been tuning in wanting to see more Genji in the Overwatch eSports scene?
I'll keep giving him the Genji. I'll play even better than this series. I'm not going anywhere.
My personality will always be around that character for now.
I might pick up new heroes like Tracer, but the focus, at least for me, is going to show the world what I can do with Genji.
And thanks for helping me around these years, because I know there's a lot of friends and coaches that have seen the potential on me.
And I got to prove them right.
Well, thank you so much for joining us.
We will send you away to celebrate with the team
and get ready to go to Busan.
Congratulations and enjoy the celebration.
Thank you.
Okay, Molly, there we go.
We have our group stage teams.
All of it is decided
and we can see who will be matching up.
I love as well the mention of like the teams they want to go up against because they've
been helping with like warm-ups.
You always feel like you have this sort of companionship with the teams that warm you
up and you want to sort of move away from your groups and be able to actually fight
each other because you scrim people that aren't in your groups for a reason.
If you go up against them in scrims, they're not going to be able to be prepared for the
compositions that you play because you don't play each other.
How we widened that up though, there's going to be a lot of really fun matchups on paper
that I think have the chances of catching the people a little bit maybe unaware of how
strong certain teams can be.
Yeah, and that's kind of the beauty of blending all of these regions together.
They have vastly different play styles and preferences, and just understandings of how
do we play the game as a team.
It's always so fun to watch them meet on a stage and having all 16 of these stacks rosters from around the globe
It's gonna be a treat to watch Busan.
Oh, I cannot wait to get to see as well what the meta could potentially be because like that's probably going to change
I don't foresee being around when we see our teams off to Busan, so I think it's also going to be about who can adapt the fastest, right?
Who can work out very quickly where the strength of new compositions are and where you're going to be able to expose the weaknesses of your opponents coming from.
Plus, I think some of these teams that don't have players tied to the OWCS circuits could actually have a big advantage
With the frequency of scrims that they're going to be able to find so they can sort of work on that team
Synergy angle as opposed to trying to hone those talents and be able to take their opponent down
And it's a narrative that we have seen all week and long the ones who have had the time to prepare
care the ones that have had the coaches to work with and to build out their practice for their
better work off meta even are the ones that can come out of top and there's a lot of time between
now and august moxie yeah and unfortunately speaking about time that's ours up it's been one heck of
a stream hopefully you've all been watching so that you can get your hands on those viewer drops
it's been an absolute pleasure. Before I send this out, Molly, any parting words to say to the wider world?
Thank you all so much for tuning in to support the Overwatch World Cup. We have developing
new regions, we got the strong ones, and I'm so excited to see everybody back for the
Busan stage in just a couple of months. Well, thank you so much everyone for spending your
evening with us. Once again, congratulations to all our teams that make it to the group stages,
and we'll be back with more Overwatch eSports action when we see these teams off to Busan. Goodbye everybody!
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