Sugar free coaching in green there with the sound power from Admiral will help them win this engagement
but not if Shy's got anything to say about it.
Overclock gets a couple of walks next on the chopping block.
They are just running over them at this point.
The advantage for Leeson and two, this is how Shy was able to find the thigh with that overclock.
Despite Sambar, you're being invested, we get to see the nerf to Sambar, the decay,
The duration of that ultimate is running out while OC was still active and Shai could still find impact here, much better.
And this is going to slowly get away from them now. If Waver could pace out their ult, Spree, KHV, then it will rush later on.
The space station, they have to find the turnaround and now.
Good page already. Oh, sugar free just gets deleted.
It's a sheer out. They're gone.
Or they're going to try and leave.
Shai's going to make it a little bit more difficult.
Ultra Violet, you've got to be careful.
They're running for the hills. Tell between their legs.
Straight back to spawn.
Space station. They've got the cage. They've got the spree.
A devastating combo, but one last chance to be able to use them.
And Wabo, what's the top?
Spree, Belito's going to try and be a difficult mega.
They're going to try and get the flip. Apple's already gone down.
The support from SSG had already dead, the cage pop, it means absolutely nothing to Waco gaming.
The crown jewel of Chinese Overwatch, making it as far as they've ever done.
They eliminate NA from the competition.
Such a difficult shot, it makes it look so easy.
The hit on the Kellex here, double side over the top.
Quartz is the only one that can really interact with the enemy's soldier and the fire at the same time.
Yubi's job becomes trying to control the enemy tank.
That is really going to overload your band with any lester.
Hits again, players. What a trouble in that scenario.
It's going to be so difficult to get on defense, right?
Like, you're going to play this Vendetta.
The Vendetta with a player. Interesting enough.
Like you can only play them and get aggressive, you can't just kind of sit back so you're
going to have to take a lot of risks here.
I think the idea is that hopefully Laptic can be less of a drag on the healing resources
of GK that can really invest in trying to set Alpha E up to be aggressive.
Find success.
You have to play close here.
This is going to give you at worst two fights.
If you get any more than that, you're starting to slightly lose some very potent support ults.
Simple thinking here on this in Yasuo.
Pretty powerful against the Mauser, but a little bit vulnerable to die.
He switches off just as well, because I just saw the helpline at 25.
Almost disappeared for the first hit!
I mean, that's your main source of healing as well.
Absolutely, you now lose skin off the start.
They're going to run in the spager now. They are trying to get something, but even a one-for-one pier is still good enough.
I mean, if you have lost any player that would have been worse, I mean, maybe Zia there at the start, but like...
Yeah, that's bad as it gets.
Yeah.
Loosen the carry, and a carry to lose your calm, Vincely, is about as bad as could be.
At this point, you can start to forget about stage 2.
Two reverse whips in one weekend.
It's brutal, but it doesn't matter.
These are the games that matter.
The lights are bright as well.
The fans are louder.
Some of the stakes are highest.
Two minutes for Twisted Minds.
to basically get this first checkpoint, even less than that.
It is very doable, especially when Klaus creates a path forward for you with a pick on Kelley.
Lads are not even bothered to look at him right now.
Why would you? The Sun is too bright as well. A virtual rise.
Because Klaus is in charge. Alphys, pummelled into place, and Ziad is in no man's land.
There's no where he's supposed to be.
He just revolts his stuff inside that tunnel.
And the dying sectors of GK's claim to glory here in Paris
will see Kellex death really for himself at the problem.
Not a subtle, nor effective solution, I must say.
That's a try to step up.
He'll give it a go, but it won't be enough either.
Twice!
Just in mines, let GK escape.
Tonight's, now World Champ is finally
finished what they started.
It's the EWC spotlight.
Hello everyone, we're here for eSports.
I'm Avaly, I've got Mirko with me as well as Blaze.
Gentlemen, I am so glad that I have you two here
because there is so much eSports going on.
I guess we're starting the show, aren't we?
We're starting the show, what, you didn't get the memos?
Oh, you scooped the heck out of me,
I was out of nowhere, it's okay, I'm in league.
Oh, it was okay.
I'm just happy to be back with you on a Saturday,
not a Tuesday.
I know, it's like why do we have to be in Paris
in order to see each other again?
Mirko, unfortunately, it's the first time
that we really get to meet.
That was a great first impression, great first impression.
Fantastic, fantastic.
But dude, we have to jump straight in
because we got to talk a little bit about MLBB, MSC
that we just saw, the grand finals finishing up.
Where did we even start with this?
Because it was such an incredible story for Team Spirit.
That's a good question.
I don't even know where to start, man.
Firstly, this is by far the best international ever
for MLBB with the results,
with the quality of the matches as well.
I think we got to go all the way back
if we want to talk about it, man.
The journey of all these teams,
Firstly, just the upsets that we got to see.
I think a little bit of a spark already at the start of the tournament,
where we got a little bit of a tidbit, foreshadowing of how crazy it would be.
With TL, the defending champions, it's to beat the team that everybody thought
we're going to go back to back, losing, getting eliminated by E7.
A team that many think are probably the worst team coming to the tournament.
So that set up the entire storyline all the way into grand finals.
Young Gone Galacticos, they made it, it's been six years since they made it to an international
major final.
So crazy storyline there, amazing plays, amazing sweeps in the series as well.
Then we have Spirit.
Two other members, they played MLBB competitively all the way from 2019 from the first ever
world championship to see their journey as a caster who's just been in the scene for
such a long time going through that and now seeing them every single time being rebuilt
around.
Finally, they finally tracked the goal, and I guess with Sauer Ego is here, and Hiko,
they made it to the Grand Finals still.
A lot of people doubted that, a lot of people didn't think they would get it done.
Most of the Southeast Asians as well thought it was going to be Yangon.
It's always been Southeast Asia who's been dominant in MLBB, but finally, Team Spirit
have put the West on the map.
Exactly, because again, they were the first non-Southeast Asian team representing the
EECA.
There we go.
Hey, we're in Europe.
You got to represent Europe a little bit.
But as you said, seven years these players have been playing.
But I also know that one of their moms was in the crowd
as well, cheering them on.
You said you're following their career.
What's it like for mama bear in the crowd?
Oh, mom bomba.
We're calling her mom bomba.
And the player's name is Kid Bomba.
Kid Bomba's been with us from M5.
That was the first time we saw him in an international stage
at the time with Sawa, with Sunset Lover.
So it's already a bit of history there.
And then the team got picked up by Team Spirit.
Then they just continued to develop,
getting newer players, developing all throughout.
And it's just really cool to see that story for Mam Bamba
and even for some of his best friends
who came to watch in Paris, obviously,
because you know, they're all European.
They live in Germany, so they just flew over here.
And I got this one word or a sentence from his best friend.
He said,
Bamba told me that he was gonna win a championship.
Four years later, here we are in the grand finals.
and he told me right before the match, this is the day.
Same goes for mom, mom, mom.
She walked up to the caster desk and said,
today is the day.
Dang, I got chills off that one a little bit.
You know that?
You translate that one really well, okay?
Yeah, you brought that right over to us.
But those are the beautiful storylines
that I absolutely love following.
And again, huge congratulations to Team Spirit there.
But okay, okay, Blaze, come on.
You know that we gotta talk a little bit
about Call of Duty and Warzone.
I know that this has been your game, your stage over on stage two.
It has been.
Right now we're currently looking to lock in those top six for the grand finals tomorrow.
How's it going?
I mean, it's been absolutely wild.
We got some teams in a survival round that we did not think were going to be there.
Like Falcons, Vitality, Levy and Ty.
And so these squads in the group stages over the last two days didn't have the performance
in which they wanted to.
But hey, they get a few extra matches currently.
They're looking good.
They're in the top three.
They got about like two more rounds left on the survival.
But I mean, you're going to get the Falcons out there.
You're going to get Vitality and Levitton.
But the bottom three teams, they're kind of getting mixed.
So, you know, we got GK up in the mix.
We got Heretics trying to make it through.
We got teams like Four Fun all on that bubble one on the cusp.
But hey, we'll see when we get it done because making it
to Championship Sunday is going to be everything.
Now, I wonder, because right before we started this show,
we were kind of looking at some of the standings.
And as you said, we saw Falcons, Levitton,
Vitality, Novo, GK, Team Stallion potentially, but as we know, those standings could be shaking up.
They could be shaking up right now.
They are currently shaking up.
You guys, yeah, have to go over there and watch the Warzone stream because, as I've already said,
like even squads like GK, they dropped down when I was just checking 20 minutes ago.
They was dropping down out of that and you had another squad come up and kind of reached.
Stallion's went up a few spots, Novo dropped down.
So it's getting real mixy.
It's Warzone, everybody.
All right, it can get crazy out there.
You have like one underdog squad that you've kind of been watching or like a secretly cheering for
Four fun e-sports, you know, maybe my bias is coming because I got a chance to eat some frutini
Well, I don't know if you guys know about frutini, but they take fruits and they fill them up with sorbet, right?
And the actual fruit skin and so I got to eat a lot of frutini and sorbet fruits with them
So we kind of bond it. All right, we share some spoons together. So I want to see you for fun
Make it a championship Sunday. Okay, so all I'm seeing is that blazes love can be bought with sorbet
Which you know what? Same here gets me. Just give me a jersey, and I'm all yours, man
Get that eSports swag it and we are good to go
But all right and just again there are a lot of these games that are still going on across these stages
So make sure that you are checking in,
but let's move straight on to Street Fighter
because I believe they just wrapped up their quarterfinals.
You and I were watching backstage going like,
what is happening?
And I got a chance to even go over there
towards the stage and check it out.
You know, we got so many prominent figures
in a Street Fighter and fighting game community
hanging out over there.
And you know, we got a chance to watch Karmie,
the young prodigy, turn up, plan for team Falcons,
looking to get Falcons, their first win of EWC.
And he's going to those semifinals looking fierce,
I saw Steve in a back in a hype in him and a few other boys back there.
Three fighters, six man finals this day and you guys don't want to miss out on that.
Oh, absolutely. As soon as I mean, listen, don't don't go anywhere.
We're still doing our show. Come on. But as soon as we're done,
oh, you have to go hop over to those semi finals they're jumping into.
And then the grand finals later on. I know we have Hibiki and he now,
I believe coming up soon. And then as you said,
crimey and Yamaguchi as well. And actually we could take a look at the tournament bracket
and look at those. Yes, exactly. So the first semi-final Yamaguchi from Zeta and Crimey from
Falcons. Then we have Hibiki and Hinau. And I mean, listen, we've got the final as well
as the third place match, but please at first that I just want to say that first set in
a semi-final is going to be amazing. I watched Yamaguchi clutch up a series five three going
up against Bootsy Lee and Bootsy has some great defense in that series but Yamaguchi's
offense was just proved to be a little bit too much and he's on high fire right now.
Yeah I'm just gonna ask you, actually I'm gonna ask you this question, what were you
doing at the age of 15?
15?
Playing league.
The same, the same brother, same, same, same, same, same.
I was gonna say, well I was gonna say 2013 was my league year, season two, season three,
I grinded, that was my strength right there.
Yeah but I'm just saying, Cryne is 15 years old.
the stage right now. Gentlemen, we may be washed 15. I wasn't even online gaming yet at 15.
I was online gaming. I'm still playing with the locals in the neighborhood at 15. 16 is
also sour egoist age winning MSE earlier. So yeah, that is absolutely ridiculous. But
okay, for our final stage that we've got place, we got to talk about overwatch. I mean, listen,
man, they're currently in the quarterfinals right now. Tomorrow is going to start with
the semifinals and wait a second do we have no okay I can't read that that far
away but I don't think we have all of the teams locked in but what I can say
some of the biggest things about Overwatch for us to really know is that
Falcons in VP they got eliminated early all right so they're not even in
the tournament no more so it's gonna be some mix-ups over there and you know I
want to say Falcons in VP even when it came down like club championships there
was a lot a lot on those Overwatch squad so they may have to look at some of
these warzone teams to help them get those wins that you need.
And actually we have the bracket that we could take a look at
just to see how all of these quarters shook out
because I know we had like what, T1, 3-0ing, here we go.
Twisted mines in the building still, Zeta Division,
T1 as well, and Weibo.
Twisted mines taking on Weibo,
then we got Zeta Division taking on T1.
Those are both going to be incredibly fun semi-finals
watch started tomorrow my good do you have any favorites I'm just gonna say
weibo gaming well yeah for no reason at all weibo gaming that's cool cuz I was
gonna say twisted minds all right twisted minds been having a great year
folks so I mean miracle I'll go against you I put a bet down on that all right
and I'll be the first in Street Fighter next take on it all right there they're
getting the love and they're getting all of that fun stuff in but we do have to
talk a little bit about the club at championship because as we said Falcons
meeting that surprise exit. They don't have as many points right now as they did in previous
years. So kind of like what's going on? I mean that's a great question. You know maybe they
don't have the home field advantage anymore. Maybe it's them being in Paris. I don't know what it is
but I will say this. If you are a Falcons fan make sure you tune in to Championship Sunday because
Falcons currently are the back-to-back land champions for Warzone. So on Championship Sunday
They're looking at 3p and have a perfect season at EWC and be able to
hoist that trophy yet again.
Well let's talk about this for a second. I was going to say Navi was in that
top spot and I think it was VP right underneath but the team that has been
missing for me is where's team Liquid? They've been the runner up two years in
a row and yet we are looking at the top 24 right now.
I'm seeing heretics on the right. I don't see no Liquid on there.
I do not see Liquid.
They were there in the top 10 earlier but it was pretty low but again it's
It's the same, right? It's the same story, a big contributing factor of how they were able to get top two in Japan.
Last two years was because of their MLV team as well, being one of the strongest teams and they dropped out early, so no points.
Bang.
No points whatsoever.
Bang. Bang, indeed.
Bang, bang.
But, I mean, listen, in addition to all of the amazing esports that we have going on throughout this entire expo hall, we also have the fan fest.
lot of people kind of hanging out there as well as the schedule for tomorrow that we
could take a look at starting with the overwatch as well as warzone.
Basically popping up there.
It's gonna be a banger of a date, man, I'd say you'd have.
What has the crowd been like in the warzone area for you?
We got so many drums, we got so many cosplayers, the ghost have showed up from Call of Duty
Ghost, they got their face masks, they're all throughout the crowd.
I mean, you know the gentlemates fans, the Paris gentlemates?
I mean, we had tons of Gentleman's fans,
Falcons, Leviton fans as well.
Like everyone is showing up for their squads.
Championship Sunday for Warzone
is gonna be the loudest stage in this venue.
You can pull me on that.
I'm excited to see it.
But listen, again, I wanna go watch the Street Fighter games.
So Mirko, last things from you.
Uh-huh.
MLBB is amazing.
MSC continue to surprise.
I think that EWC is gonna have a crazy turn of events.
I mean, watch out for VP, Virtus.Pro, all right?
It doesn't matter the game, Virtus.Pro,
as far as an organization,
I got high hopes for them, this EWC.
All right, and everyone, this was the first ever
EWC spotlight in Paris,
and I don't know about you guys,
but I'm gonna go watch the Street Fighter games.
So, let me know, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, bye.
Do you want that?
Let's go.
I'll write paper scissors, let's go.
They're not just playing for themselves. They're really playing for their entire family.
They have defeated their demons! They have crushed the curse!
Hey, I'm Kafa. This is Winta. I'm here from Team Secret and we're playing Translation Mayhem.
We're on a good start.
Let's not waste anything.
Who would have thought you'd give me a heart attack?
I thought we were done, but we're not.
I'm a Junkrat.
I'm giving that one a pass.
You're giving me a Junkrat.
Here it comes.
Oh my god.
I was never getting that.
We're all born mad, some of us are dying.
Okay, that's Zarya for sure.
What's she saying?
I can't remember Zarya's words.
What?
We're so charged. We're going to get at least one.
We're going to get at least one.
What?
That has to be hard.
Yeah, that has to be right up.
Right up.
We got one.
We didn't get what he said.
We got the correct answer. That counts as one in my book.
Yeah.
I'm saying, I'm going to give Morgan.
I'm going to Rhyme.
Oh, that makes sense.
Yeah, it actually makes sense.
You never had the impression of being a simple gilet who would be a dental chef from Doomfist?
Doomfist for sure.
Are you going to Doomfist?
Yes, I'm saying it's Doomfist for sure.
I think it's Soldier.
You think it's Soldier?
I think it's Soldier.
Yeah.
I'm going to Soldier.
What?
I've never, you know, heard much French in my life, let alone play the game in open
and French.
I feel like some of those I was really confident in, I just didn't get.
Yeah.
I think myself with two, probably, I think three.
This is Winter and Kappa from Team Secret, and we failed, translation mayhem, terribly.
Are there any really strong rivalries that maybe are a little personal, maybe not?
Yeah, it's like gentlemates, right?
I knew that was coming.
We can't lose against gentlemates, just like it's impossible, you know?
They will burn the venue, so...
I was like, is that blue?
I was like, they are ruthless out there.
But I love that energy.
You need that rivalry, right?
Actually, we have a lot of rivals.
Each time KC is winning, we are the best org in the world, you are so bad, etc.
So everybody is hating us.
That's why when we lose, there are so many people that are happy, especially M-Coy, Gentlemates, Vitality, G2, Fnatic.
All the EU orgs?
Exactly, but when we win, they are crazy bad with the other orgs.
So that's how it works.
But no!
Tyler and Wife, you're done.
This is my ladder. You can climb it.
It's better than being a hard-sucking master.
You're going too far now.
Your eyes, your elbows, ashy.
That's an airline? That's an L airline.
Somebody, hold me!
Okay, yeah. Do something, then.
Raw, raw, raw, raw, L&T.
I'm the one out there.
Is it nervous?
You look short.
Everything's good?
Light.
Okay.
Do we really need the wraps?
Yeah, it feels like an overkill to me.
Hello guys, I am thrilled to welcome
Cam and Peyton
here in Paris because they have something very important to tell you guys. Can you
quickly tell me about the reason why you're in Paris watching Overwatch EWC right now?
Me and my wife got married recently and we are here on our honeymoon. We spent the first week
exploring the city and now we are here to watch our favorite team play.
That's bloody lovely. I want to ask you, Peyton, first how did you guys meet? Well,
What's that story with overwatch? Tell me about it. We met in 2020 online, two weeks,
COVID shut everything down, so we needed to find something to do. I always wanted to play
Overwatch, Cam played a lot of it, Cam got me into it, and then the rest is history.
And the rest is history, right? But I want to know, I want to ask you an important question.
Who's the better player between you and I, and what do you guys play when you play together?
Well, I'd have to say she's my better half in more ways than one, and in the Qs, nothing's
different. I used to play tank a lot, main tank, and when I started dating her, we got
a new off-tank main tank duo. Lotta Rhinesaria. Unfortunately, no more 6v6. We're very
sad we're missing the event this weekend to play it. But now we do a lot of main support
for me and the flex support for her. Herkiri, impeccable.
The only thing I will keep in mind is that she's better than you, by the way. A quick
question. Who's taking the trophy here, the mid-season championship?
Oh, Zeta, Zeta all the way. Proper is the best player in the world.
Do you agree?
I listen to my wife.
You know, this is the perfect answer.
And last but not least, how have you been enjoying Paris?
Because this is my city. I hope you're having a good time.
It's amazing, gorgeous.
Everyone here is so nice. The food, amazing.
I love it here. I'll have to go. We'll have to come back.
Merci, and what about you?
Having good food sightseeing. How's it been?
The food is incredible.
The city is incredible. The people is incredible.
And if I can take a moment here, I would like to thank all the staff who are making this possible,
the people who are casting, the people who are hosting, even just the floor staff.
Everyone's been incredible and welcoming, and I just really want to thank them all for the dedication and making this possible.
That's really sweet. Thank you so much for joining me, guys. Can we get a fist bump and a hug, maybe?
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What's good everyone this is championship Sunday for us here at the OWC mid-season
championship happening live here at the EWC in Paris France.
We're standing in front of the lofted tree of next to the quay while looking down the
Champs Elysees.
Jack, Jake, what a time to talk about eSports.
I'm so happy you didn't get me to say all of those things.
I got you covered. Don't worry about it. I got you covered.
No, you're not wrong. I mean, it's been a good time.
We're on the final day already, which is kind of crazy.
I mean, the matches, they've been incredible.
We've already had some really historic upsets here in Overwatch,
and I'm just excited to see what breaks down on Championship Sunday.
I feel like any of these Final Four teams could potentially make a run for it.
Absolutely. And yeah, this wall here is constantly being updated as well
to keep up with all the things happening at EWC.
The Esports Festival will also be taking place later today.
And of course, in the OWCS mid-season championship,
it's gonna go down today.
But first, let's recap what happened last day.
Okay, we had some elimination matches,
and Man, the scriptwriters have been cooking for this one.
Let's start with T1 taking down Crazy Raccoon
in a really convincing fashion as well.
Like, that was crazy.
3-0. What's how? Is that even what like crazy racoon just come off of a hot win in Tokyo and then T1 bring them down like this at a land like
Unexpected to say the least considering T1 were
What could be said with the weakest Korean team coming into this event?
I mean, this is a watershed moment for a lot of those young players on T1
You know, it really has felt like they've been that third fourth place team, you know, maybe happy just to qualify out of Korea
That's been good enough for them
But they've also been hungry for more these are young players with still a lot to give in their careers and T1 the
organizations faith in them has now been vindicated with the top four placement
up against Zeta. I mean that's a pretty scary one to be going into but hey they
defeated the other two Kramer's. Why not Zeta? Like why not another chance for
this young Korean squad? I can see them riding the momentum into the day. They
already are playing with house money. I don't think they expected to come this
far and I think we can say the same thing about Weibo. Weibo finally bringing
China back on at the map here for esports in Overwatch and they took
guys is she down finding themselves into semi-finals now.
That's the second time they've eliminated SSG at a LAN.
So yeah, maybe they had the easier run.
Well, I disagree.
I think taking down Falcons 2 was just
a ridiculous historic moment for Chinese Overwatch.
And I'm happy to see them back.
Can they make the run continue?
That is the big question for them.
Shai is on form though, like maybe from the eye
test watching some of those clips, it's like, whoa,
that is some insult.
That's the old Shai, yeah.
I feel like seeing Sunso now into the lineup
has introduced this new complication for other teams,
where this is not just a one-note team
that plays these fast comps around Goudre.
They can slow things down, play more tactically,
and also have success.
So they definitely leveled up.
It's what was required to make it here to the top four.
Yeah, we talked about that.
Something strategy between the tanks,
so often the last few days,
and it's really been working for them.
How far can they take it?
Can they make it all the way to the grand finals?
We will be finding out very soon.
I think for me, the Sony story of the day,
is that this is actually going to be a four way fight for club championship point because
all of our teams which are still in it are eligible to collect those points and I mean
those clubs are fighting for 30 million US dollars.
Yeah, the gap is like increasing as well.
Like as the days go by, as the games you know complete and I think for teams like Zeta,
yeah, they want to be up there in terms of club championship points.
I mean Falcons have taken it the last two years in a row but it doesn't look like they're
going to be out to take it for the three-piece.
So yeah, exciting times, and we'll
see who ends up coming out on top.
I mean, for a lot of clubs, I feel like here at the Esports
World Cup, this is a huge opportunity
to compete beyond just an individual game,
to compete really across the world,
the universe of Esports.
I mean, here with the key wall, it's like there's
a lot more opportunity.
But Overwatch is going to maybe be a key decider,
as it has been in the past, where sometimes the Overwatch
winner has gone on to become the eventual club champion.
So a lot on the line there in the club championship.
All right, predictions then for those four teams,
which of them will be making it.
Call the winner, Jack.
Do it!
Call the winner, Jack.
Stayed with your heart.
Okay, no.
Too much heart, too much heart.
I want to say Zayn Division,
although I think a lot of people underestimate T1.
So I'm going to go with T1.
Okay, you're a man of the people.
What about you?
Oh, I just think there might be something
in the air for Twisted Minds.
This is a team that consistently has
their best performances on land under pressure.
Yes, the online stage, it wasn't what they'd hoped for.
If you'd watched just the online,
you'd think I'm crazy for saying this,
but come watch this team play on land,
under the bright lights, under the biggest pressure,
they just get better.
You know, I think they came in last minute swap
and came in last, and almost won there.
I feel like this team is on the war path
and they might be able to make a run
for the first place here in Overwatch.
I think this is really tough to call
because we have four absolute power squats,
very different teams as well.
each of them having so much to play for here at the EWC.
Now, are we gonna send it over to Ginny
to talk a little bit more and give you updates
on our club championship?
Overnight, the story of EWC changed from
is Falcons going to make it here in Paris
to who's going to be Falcons?
I don't know, you're probably wondering,
how did we actually get here Ginny?
That's exactly why I'm gonna give you a bit of an update
because Falcons was struggling to get any points,
but somehow miraculously, their 15-year-old player in Street Fighter 6,
Crane, actually managed to get them a thousand points,
with it the club championship eligibility to lift in the trophy once again.
Regardless of the fact that they were knocked out in MLBB,
regardless of the fact that they also were knocked out in Overwatch.
Now, MLBB however was won by Team Sparrow.
They're putting themselves currently in that 7th slot with 1200 points,
Which is a great spot to be in because their CS roster is coming at the end of week six.
So week seven they'll be around here and that's another thousand points maybe potential that they could get.
But then a good spot. So Overwatch is also what we really need to keep our eyes out for today
because there are a lot of club championship teams competing that overlap with Cod.
And you might be wondering what are those teams? Well, Falcons, Vitality, AGL, T1, as well as Twisted Minds.
every single one of these teams are here up looking to make as many points as humanly possible.
Yes, this is the last day of Championship Sunday of week four.
Thank you so much, Jenny. What's up, everybody? I'm here joined by Mitch,
who is going to be helping out, talking about what happened throughout the week here at EWC
for the midseason championship. We started with 16 teams, Mitch, right? And now we're down to four.
Let's talk about some of the teams that were eliminated and got their keys crushed.
I mean, some of the most notable teams to find on this wall as Crazy Raccoon.
True.
Obviously, your mid-season championship champions, they were downed by T1 of all teams, so actual
a bit of a rivalry story there.
Virtus.pro also find themselves on this wall already, which is a surprise, considering
if they are the best team or were the best team in EMEA, but Dallas Fuel got to them
before they themselves had their keys grabbed.
And also, we can't forget about the EWC 2025 defending champions, Team Falcons.
They also got knocked out by T1.
T1's been looking pretty scary.
Yeah, dangerous. They're a team that have stuck together for quite some time, a core four that have just been believing in themselves in the process and it's been delivering so far.
But they're going up against Zayn and Evision today, which will be their greatest test probably ever.
I mean, and also, EWC is very interesting, where if you win and become the champions at EWC, you get to pick three of these crushed keys and put them in the trophy base.
So if we were the champions, Mitch, who would we pick?
OK, let's say if I'm T1 for example, I use that because I think that's great.
They're definitely putting Falcons inside their totem.
I honestly think they might take Crazy Raccoon and put them there as well.
Donghak was saluting the Crazy Raccoon team as it was being crushed.
So I imagine they'd fill their base with other full and Korean teams as a side of respect,
but also a reminder that they've overcome their region here in the international stage.
If I was part of Twisted Minds, I think I would have to put in Crazy Raccoon because
just to get back to them from the mid-season championship, they lost two Crazy Raccoons
in the second place.
So I feel like twist of mind that they do get the win.
They should definitely put a crazy raccoon.
All right, that is all we have for now.
Throwing back to Ginny, who is standing by
with a special interview with Zeta Division.
Ahead of the matchup today from Zeta against T1,
I'm Ginny and I'm joined with SK as well as our lovely translator
to give us a bit of an inside
when it comes to the club championship points.
So first of all, thank you for joining.
I do appreciate it.
So far this year, you guys are getting a few points
For the club championship, what was the strategy coming into this year?
We made sure that we are going to bring the divisions that we are sure will be able to
aim for the higher ranking.
So yes, we are steadily moving up the ranking this year.
Yes, you are.
And it is very different than last year.
Was there anything you learned from last year that you implemented now?
significant changes from last year, but like we have luckily great players, great crew, and great everybody, so we are still on their path of challenging.
And today is another challenge, semi-finals in Overwatch against T1. Are you gonna win this?
Yeah.
Okay, thank you so much for your time, and thank you as well for your translations that you get to give us.
That's it for us. Back over to you, Puckett.
Thank you, Jenny. And it's awesome to hear from Zeta division. It's championship Sunday here for another overwatch weekend
And this is our midseason championship joining me in the studio today to open up a championship Sunday
We have Johnny reinforced Snowden and of course Matthew mr. X Merrill Matt welcome to the studio
How's it gonna be in front of a camera? Yeah, we bring the big gun and then the littlest gun we have
The little gun the small one. Yeah, it's huge. Yeah, you know, it's a it's an awesome time
We have four great teams left. They're gonna be some sick matches today Johnny some huge surprises on date number four
So let's get into what we have in store for us today instead of crazy raccoon versus ed division
We're going to see T1 in the mix
How did T1 pull off the 3-0 and what does that mean for them now in a rematch against a very familiar
Yeah, it's the little brother leveling up at just the right time T1 that has always paid second to set a division increase
Korea. Now taking down Chris. Yesterday in the dominant 3.0, they have an
opportunity today to take out all the Korean teams with set of divisional
weapons. Those results pocket though. That doesn't smell good for T.
Well, I see one win there. It was in a race to three. So we'll see if they can
get it done because reminder when we get to that grand final, it'll be even
longer. It'll be a race to that fourth win for now, though. We got to checking
with our friends. We have two fantastic human beings who are joining us live
from the co-streams.
Polko, are you there today?
I'm, of course, the, can you guys hear me?
Hey, Tyo, how we feeling?
Hello.
Welcome to Stream, guys.
Thank you so much for joining us.
We have a few questions for you, but let's start here.
Tyo, why is your team going to crush Polko's squad today?
Okay, crush might be a little bit of an overstatement,
but I think it's gonna be a very close match.
Recently, Zeta beat T1, 3 to 1, or 4 to 1, I think,
But Q1 looked very strong this tournament, so I think it's going to go 3-2.
I don't know which team is going to win, but of course, I got a tier on my plate.
That was a humble post streamer.
Yeah, you're a little bit too humble.
Poco, we can't echo that humbleness.
Like, you got to come out, you know this game, Dave.
You got to show off with confidence.
And like, we're going to destroy the opponent.
Exactly.
I don't think it's going to be a close one.
I mean, just yesterday, I've seen the game, Khajiroku, Khyo,
and I think it's going to be the same for Zedah.
Sorry in T1, but T1 and the boys are going to go in final.
Alright, alright.
What is it, Poco, about T1 at the moment that makes you so confident?
Obviously playing at a really high level.
Yeah, I think they are on the dog and they like that spot.
The team is so good, the coach are so smart and everything is like...
So chill, so calm.
T1, this one's for you.
Talk to me about who you will play in the Grand Final. Will it be Webo or will it be Twisted Minds?
Alright, I think it's gonna be a 3-0 for Twisted Minds. It's gonna be a sweep, it's gonna be fast, it's gonna be violent.
I don't think that Webo have the manpower right now to stop Twisted Minds.
Do you guys feel like this is a match about who will win the tournament?
Do you think that the lower bracket is just way better than what you're seeing on the other side with Twisted Minds?
Or how do you feel about the four remaining teams?
I mean, I think in the finals, whether T1 or Zeta, whoever goes and meets Twisted Minds,
it's going to be a close match.
I think those three teams right now are the teams to beat, and I think one of these three
will be able to win the tournament.
Alright, we were talking a little bit over here.
We need something extra on the line for this game.
Baguette to the back.
If Chris Puckett were to get you guys a baguette, would the winner of this series allow the
other to hit them?
Break the baguette over.
I mean, I said their hand, but Americans, guys, I'm sorry, like, I'm down.
I mean, yeah, let's get it going.
We'll get a baguette.
It's champs somewhere around here.
We're going to get swicy.
Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us.
We'll let you go back to your coach from knowing that your back could be beaten by a baguette in just a bit.
Best of luck.
Bye-bye.
We love them so much.
Thank you for joining us and thank you for enjoying the French fun.
I think it was a bad baguette that took me out yesterday Matt. Uh, did not have enough boot there on it
Uh, I fixed that this morning. We threw some bait. So you gotta go to Danny, right?
You just gotta eat the butter, bro. No bread. Just eat the butter. It's been great
Speaking of great Johnny, we got to take a look here at our teams that have been playing so phenomenal
T1 versus crazy raccoon was the surprise of yesterday
I was watching from the hotel room and I expected it to go at least four maps. This was done in three
How did they get it done?
Yeah, this was surprising to everybody.
No one had a 3-0 on their cars, but it was T1 who, like I said, Matt, they just leveled up.
Like I said yesterday, if you're making a tier list of the damage players in the tournament,
on the one side you got Heesang and Stalker, and on the other one you got Proud and Cess.
You're like, ah, Proud and Cess, they don't really have anything.
But yesterday, I thought they were difference makers, like they won their jewels,
and that had like trickle-down effects on the entire matchup.
I also think you know pocket like dong hack is really leveled up at this event like you knew how great that took out his former team
Yeah, I mean he probably the extra just kind of no confidence after that game is really kind of snowballs
So I think you're gonna need to see dong hack have like an unbelievable game today if they're gonna get by Zayn the division
Johnny do you agree is dong hack your player to watch for this team?
Yeah, I mean he's definitely like the hero on this team I'd say like and he's the main character as well
Jaws was telling me, and I don't know, he knows Korean or something, but one of the teammates in Combs was saying like
Oh, it's okay if we die like just you know stay together
We got this and don't act in the coach was like no, it's not okay if you died
That's not okay like this is life or death. We're not dying
We're not losing well
There's been a bunch of confidence from the tank and the rest of the team seems to be vibing on a championship Sunday
Danny caught up with T1 bliss behind the scenes
What's up everybody, I'm here joined by Bliss from T1. Bliss, I mean you guys have been fantastic, phenomenal throughout the tournament.
You guys beat the Falcons were the defending champions. You guys also beat Crazy Raccoon yesterday, 3-0 victory against them as well.
So what do you think the key to your success was in this tournament currently?
I think T1 is showing a great performance today.
We won the 8th quarter last year, and we won the 8th quarter last year.
We won the LACUN game yesterday, and they are doing a great job.
What are the secret to your success?
Since our team was formed, we have been practicing with the top teams.
I've always wanted to be on the stage, but I'm happy to be on the stage this time.
very very difficult opponent which is going to be Zeta Division. How do you feel like that match is going to be played out?
If we focus on what we're doing, of course, we'll get the results.
Thank you.
the scenes will he be smiling at the end of game one only time will tell and if
you've been looking at the stats well they're not in bliss his favor let's
talk about his opponent on the other side of the stage we have said a division
who has been the top calls since day number one Johnny are they the best team
in the tournament best team in the tournament I'd say but also that I was
saying a couple days ago like this could potentially be the best team we've ever
seen you know for ever seen because like okay that's a high bar but you look at
all these individuals and mechanics and they're like yeah we're gonna say
Whatever we'll play a lorry bath like we'll play with the semester. We'll play without the semester
We'll play jetpack cash. We'll make the more Gabriel work
I think it just played any composition and they just got an insane individual Matt
How long is this five something together at this year, right?
They kind of like you know you get some big pieces from other teams you come together and I think you're
Somewhat right Johnny in the sense that like we see other teams that are formed in the past and you can always
Like look at maybe one spot as like a weakness or a path to victory
You kind of look at this roster and there's no I mean, it's just so nasty
I mean Violet can play so aggressive like he likes to play on the support because she was just able to keep an entire team alive on
His own regardless of what hero so just a really difficult team to beat now proper of course was an MVP candidate last year
Knife has gotten a lot of the highlights that we just witnessed. Who is this knife guy?
What do I need to know about their DPS lineup? Yeah, well, he's a newer name to the scene there
He's been around it was some team liquid for a little bit
He wasn't Chris Joakoon for a little bit and they were like, what are the great hits cam players?
So we'll team up with nice. It's a relatively new name.
And this is arguably like his first great opportunity to showcase it.
And he's lived up to it, just taking over games and, you know, even better than proper at some point.
Yeah, I mean, that's a great story, Chris, but the back line though, which like shooting violet is just so silly.
Well, we know about these names.
Yeah, we know that Violet has been an MVP candidate in his own right doing it from the back line.
But I was talking with Ben Vest, one of our French talents.
And he was saying that his favorite player to watch is Shu.
And I asked why Shu?
He said he's not missing anything.
And in fact, he could be more dangerous than some other front lines.
Let's take a look here at the numbers from Shu going up against
Skewed in the 1v1.
Johnny, the numbers are pretty even across the board.
The top hero though, Anna versus Kiriko, who's going to have a bigger impact in game.
It's got to be Shu.
I mean, he's a leader for their team and he has so much impact on the heroes he plays.
Matt, 30 seconds before we get into this matchup, 63% of our fans are siding with Zeta Division.
37 with T1.
Where do you lean?
Yeah, I think that's about right.
I would lean towards Zeta Division in this one, probably like a 3-1, maybe a 3-2 if T1
wants to keep it a little spicy, but I think Zeta Division is just so strong.
Johnny, in the one win, we saw it go to a game five for T1.
Do they do it again today?
No, they don't.
Set up T1.
T1 has Poco.
He's ready to do the baguette, beat down Tywoo.
He's more confident. I'm siding with these guys. Let's send it down to the stage.
It's a bit of a relief to make it, because it doesn't exactly feel good.
We expect to be there.
Relieves a little bit of pressure on our shoulders, because we know what we should be.
Ladies and gentlemen, it was once overwatch, a scene full of history, regions that dominate,
great favourites, but here in Paris, the script is changing.
Yesterday, this tournament has stopped following the script for good.
Absolutely, and we're now down to our final four, and it's four teams with very different
stories. One is chasing fulfillment. Another hunting a breakthrough. One is
looking to put their region well and truly back on the map and the final team
is looking to get back to championship winning ways here in Paris. We're gonna
have two semi-finals, one grand final and I feel very excited not to know yet
who are two grand finalists are gonna be. It's adding an extra layer of suspense
But by the end of today, we'll crown our new Overwatch champion.
You know what else we've got here?
We've got a phenomenal crowd here in Paris.
How we doing?
That's what I'm talking about, you're here for Championship Sunday
and we cannot wait to get started.
Let's get started starting with Korea's superstar,
Zeta Division!
the titans from Korea and the legendary Japanese colors.
The titans who are carrying with them the hope and the confidence of two nations at the same time.
They've shown dominance in trust day after day.
And now they have their eyes on a ticket to grand finals and many would agree that it's already theirs.
And their opponents please welcome T1!
This organisation has never lacked expectation.
What it lacked was the defining international performance.
That changed here in Paris.
Every time this tournament demanded an answer, T1 found it.
time the pressure grew so did they and here they stand one victory away from
the biggest Overwatch final this organization has ever reached this is
not simply career versus career this is the team designed to win this
championship against the team that might have transformed quickly enough to take
it from them.
Ladies and gentlemen, set to bleed!
A roster that was handcrafted by the Overwatch Gods in Zeta Division versus T1, an organisation
that hasn't had the same level of success on an international stage.
Now take two in this semi-finals and T1, Moxie, come off an absolute heater yesterday, taking
down Crazy Raccoon in a 3-0.
Yeah, no one foresaw 3-0.
No one.
You did place T1 ahead to your pickings,
but you still thought that Crazy Raccoon, just like all of us,
for sure would pull max.
But T1, they've been pulling up upset after upset.
This has to be the greatest upset of all both,
because Zeta, that's a roster that simply just saying
the names altogether feels unfair to put into this competitive ecosystem. It's like when
you do a fantasy and you just keep by adding extra points so you can have everybody that
you'd want. That's what Zeta Division feels like. It's a good metaphor, too, right? Shoe
gets his ana back, proper gets the tracer. We're really starting to see Zeta find their
putting around that Kat and Ana pick up.
And they got eliminated by twisted minds.
Back in the lower finals of Champions Clash,
the three won to TM, then TM took Crazy Raccoon
all the way to seven maps, where CR
were crowned that champion.
CR aren't here anymore.
Falcons are not here anymore.
T1 and Zeta jumping into this first map.
We're going to see what we saw yesterday
from T1 Division, a Mercy ban to start and then a D.Va ban from T1 in response.
And a Boosa and Map pick too, right? So you're going here, you're wanting to get maps like
Gantai so that you can play Shu on that Ana up on the high ground. Mercy, not a hero that
we would see played, but you're using it to log out the support roll ban so that T1 can't
take the Ana out of that equation.
Diva back from 2-1 as well means that that Cat Bastion or the Cat Ana, if you're playing
from Zeta's perspective, has one tank that will not be able to easily chase and especially
with the Cat Bastion you won't be able to use things like defense matrix to nullify
the threat level of that flyby.
The last time these two teams met as well, Z1, it was a 3-0 multi.
That was in Stage 2 of Korea in July, so literally a month ago.
Yeah.
Busan is going to be the first map we go to.
Nepal last time, that was chosen by Zeta.
The audience is getting more and more packed by the day, but Championship Sunday.
a whole new beast. T1 and Zeta.
And again, after each other's growth,
Violet and Shu, back on the Anna and the Cat.
But T1 are gonna do the same.
Yeah, skewed how well can you keep up
with the Anna God himself?
No diva, no defense matrix.
Those maids will hurt when they find connections onto Malgo.
Gotta be nervous if this is playing this Cat, though.
Look at the performance from yesterday.
The amount of value he was getting on the Cat.
Yeah, right. I think the Desmond is talking about it too, like the best cap formers of the tournament.
Maga obviously. Maga vs. Maga.
Look at the low issues though.
Him and Panar just trading that cardiac overdrive.
And now Viola paying attention to the front line here.
Kat Bastion on the T1 side of things.
Rokken the M-Ray as Panar finds first blood.
Naip is going to get Antean as Prouls swoops over his head and gets betrayed.
proper trying to find any way of flipping this but 2-1 having some really good
hit especially taking Viola down.
Good name though, Octopanar has to get out, use the charge to get away, Zeta still
maintain control but T1 trying to get that flicked under the nose is
but now with a refresh on the charge he's gonna get to the point in time but
quickly dealt with by Donghae. They stop into the ground, there's a bit of an issue here now for Donghae
Attitude is eventually going to be able to get out of there.
A lot of his DPS aren't in the best of sorts.
Zest and Proud forced to reset, save the division, maintain their lead.
Good nade on the Burnout Violet so they can't chase for more.
T1 successfully secured Donghax exit, which means a fast setup to make use of this nano-boost.
Two will have to match though.
He's blizzking, he had to get away with murdering him.
He's only 10% away from the ult while it's already got his.
Going to be on the nano, I'd imagine, for this fight.
Crowd-hunting drunk, flying down.
He's a little bit of trouble.
Zessas are getting nanoed while hiding around the corner,
but are a proper, already found kills too.
So a swift reset for T1 as they've already lost.
Yeah, nice just doing so much work as well putting pressure on to dong haku does for late actually
Taken down by violet which means that T1 will have to wait yet more time last fight territory
No nano boost engage to be able to do it
Instead you're relying on bliss tracking zest and T1's chances back into the light
But say the division look at the horde of ultimates that they have mouth a cage combined with that overwrite portable
easy picking to the magic was a division here
this is going to be hard to lock down still elevated up into the sky
proper taking the one-to-one first the honor of the stick is nasty
she definitely didn't see that one coming both pages gonna get popped to
I mean this round was anything but close here's a division
honestly demolishing T1 opening nerves
They've got to be settled here.
I mean, the cat Anna just becomes more problematic when you head to these later maps of this M2.
If you're T1, you're really hoping to see Mechabase show up this next sub-map of the Adrenal.
It's just able to perfectly track the cryophistics here as well, proper.
It's so good that once you get that kill onto the Ana, you're free to just send knife in to finish the fight.
Magikit locked down all the time, T1 can't disengage it, have to hold their ground.
But here's a big change, okay?
T1 potentially thinking about running the Reaper, wanting to walk up front to back playstyle just to try to overwhelm Sader Division since
Rota will be sure handed over to the rest of his team, he's hitting the back line.
Oh shit! Where's the healer so proud there from missing skew?
Nikes just took his one!
Yeah, he's just too good. Hit the shots too quickly. T1 not ready, expecting all of that incoming damage.
Off of the cat, Kiriko, onto the Lucio Kiriko, just trying to run to a saiyan division before Nifo ends the pick.
He'd be on top of the box a little right click, beat and pilot there.
Lucio already dead.
Different comp here to T1 with the Lucio instead.
Let's try to TP T1 forward, she read it and he maintained the space though.
For T1, this is going to get back in a second but you cannot be forced to reset again and that's what they're going to do.
Yeah, both M-Race trading, sure, but wow, Zaita bringing a whole new game today.
Ah, Prop has read the rotation too from T1. No ease of access for Eclipse side, she's already rotated to be untouchable within this fight.
this fight.
No tank, no problem.
And problem with the Palm Squab 2 just gets the one clip on skewed.
Oh my word, it is all falling apart for T1.
Yeah.
Oh, Donghax just has to slam off map,
so he does not get staggered using the charge to have the CC immunity.
And Zeta Division holding off T1 with it.
Ouch, Mug4!
Out of 5.
Oh, T1 lacking even the Kirika Rush to be able to send them forward.
They're relying on a soundbar.
Usually people fine. All right, they're gonna try to use it anyway. And then you try it as well.
There's the Terrasurge and guess who's playing? It's Don Pag.
Zest end up getting taken down first though with that old spawn. Straight back to spawn goes proud.
And this is not what you want to see on Championship Sunday. Not the opening game. Not like this.
9% off. No sound barrier. No choice but to walk.
Oh, I'm blitzed, I'm dead.
Don't know how he's gonna be able to get the touch though,
but there's no sound barrier.
And there's just no hope.
Benar's already taking his two.
What an absolute fumble here from T1.
No roar.
No enthusiasm almost from T1.
They're just flattening a 200 to zero horse-hated division.
Well, in fairness, we get to see the advantage of higher seed, right?
Map choice, but not just that. The opportunity to forest back.
You have to ask yourself how close would it have been
if G1 had had the opportunity to ban the armor?
Because almost every fight that Zeta are able to set up so cleanly for outside of some insane
ways like that opening kill, first light mecha base from light just sets all of those dominoes
in motion but outside of that shoes aunties every symmetric teleport that T1 tried to take
one person two person hit with auntie killed before suzu has the chance to hit the ground.
Tyre's gonna be happy with that one for sure. Oh dear.
And there were some nerves coming into yesterday versus Crazy Raccoon. Did you hear about Donghaeq a little bit nervous?
You would be, of course. It's Crazy Raccoon. They just won the last make-up. One of the most feared teams in Overwatch, but this 8 Division looking like a different beast entirely.
T1, not off to a hot start, and it didn't feel like there was ever a point where you're like, okay, maybe they win the f**k.
Well, there was one shining moment where Bliss on Sanctuary wins the 1v1 versus Proper as the Jetpack Cat, and that's very hard to do because Trace is very good at being able to track the movements of heroes like that, and Proper is arguably the best to ever have done it and still be doing it.
I feel like facing down Zeta when they have the chance to safeguard that
Anna within the first two format, pretty much secured control point for them.
While I am rush on stage right now, deciding where they want to go,
Rush is such an old figurehead of Overwatch 2.
Back-coach to element mystic, coached players like Sparkle,
in fact, they're not the only ones who have the chance to get to the top
to. That goes to Ellen. We
missed it. Coach players like
sparkle. In fact, a lot of the
overwatch players you see on the
stage, rather than rush has
coached at one point or another.
Let's jump down to Lou and
Tyre and get his thoughts on the
first map. Thank you very much.
Guys. I am also extremely pleased
to join Tyre once again. And as
you know, there has become my
colleague because he takes care
of the translations for his
for like 10 years. This is such an insane passion that you have for the game. So can
you tell me quickly why for you Overwatch is the best game in the world? So,
中年にあってる オーバーウォッチ 何で正解一のゲームだと思う?
ジャファン?
English and then in Japanese. You're good?
Okay, okay. English first. Okay, so I think Overwatch is the perfect balance between
team play and like individual skill. And it just expresses how I like to play games
Overwatch is a game that requires both individuality and team play, so I think that's very attractive.
You gotta step it up man, you said it's gonna be a 3L bro, it doesn't look that, it was a 200-0 on Busan, I don't know about that man.
And that's pretty wild currently, you want to translate the benzer?
Yeah, Poco-san, Busan was 200x0, so it's a bit dangerous, right? Is it okay?
I don't think it's okay, but...
Yeah, indeed, Poco-san, you have to work because your medic is 3-0 and it looks like it, not just for the moment, and last, but not least.
Who do you think is the winner of the next semi-final?
I think the winner of the next semi-final will be off-line.
there with Tio. Four languages, Luke and speak, Lou the legend. Fantastic work so far, this
event and the same could be said, there's eight divisions to be fair. Only a single
map was so far, moxie, and that was against GK.
Yep, one slight hiccup as we get ready to head into map two. This obviously is two ones
choice, both for the ban first and also for the map pick as it will be flashpoint.
Now they have the opportunity to try to target out some of Prophecy's report
taking out the Tracer, but instead we go for a Wu Yang ban. So taking out some of
those poke potential compositions but also safeguarding your backline as
as T1. This has looked at his best, I feel, on things like that jetpack hat. Zeta Division
targeting Donghack's best hero, that being the Malguk, which in the past has forced him
on to the hazard.
Hang on a second, Amy. What about the Donghack ball? Come on, you can't say his Malguk is
the best. Yeah, but when you
have violet in lobby, there's
no way you play wrecking ball
into my mind. Oh boy, can
dream that a boy can drink.
So look at hazard though, a
very all in comp from T one has
it been dinner and the shield.
I mean, press dubbing is the
name of the game here.
Division is hold X and hopefully
just peel back slightly.
Sorry, that's where confused
students will be. Yeah, problem
to be able to push through onto
one of those squishies. So two
on Steve's line. They'll have
their hands full trying to
attack of where the trace is.
It's my favorite. That's your
favorite. That is my favorite
sign. New favorite sign.
I'll have to press W before
proper catches onto them because
we got to see where exactly
that traits that was playing
and it sure was not main. He
is already trying to wrap
that is my favorite sign new favorite sign just dropped perfect that is a good one
Stone cold killer expression on five I'm on a twilight's face there. We just saw
Look, that's awkward T1 fan right besides Zeta fan
They will be at each other's throats in a moment
Look, it's a 200 zero that first map. It felt like it didn't even happen. It felt like a bit of a fever dream Moksy
Yeah, I'm thinking how
I mean, how well these teams, in my head, coming into today, were so well suited up with their
cat bastions. I think with how successful Tia would have been, not to say that they're
locked into that kind of comp, but look, this has just been doing numbers on the cat, so
you're like, okay, we just want to continue this. We want to make sure we can drill this
composition home. Or you look at Zeta and how their flexibility is. Violet can play
anything of course. But then you also have Shu, who best he wrote definitely the honor,
but also the flexibility is kind of crazy there too. They're not as I would say rigid coming
into this series. I think they're going to be a little bit more open with how they want to approach.
You also look at how all of those fights were won by Zeta on control and it was off of early picks
onto T1. T1 like lost people on the Symmetra push forward and still committed to the fight.
Flashpoint, if that happens, if you lose a person before the fight starts,
well you're going to be giving up a whole lot of point percent and not able to rebuild your
ultimate economy to match your opponents to actually force them. Despite no kills coming
for early, so you have to give up a point so that you get the opportunity of fighting back.
This could be a snowball into a full-blown avalanche if T1 are not careful. So I do like the fact that
they're going for this very all-in composition. If everyone's with the hazard, right? If the
hazard is changed by Viola on that Muzuki, you at least have your whole team there to be able to
support him, but Mizuki can only chain one person, thankfully.
What are you saying?
Imagine. Imagine.
Yeah, just wait. If Kosta has his way, I bet you right now there'll be like a new patch and a new perk when Mizuki,
for major perk, gets AOE chain if you're in place.
Don't say that.
Hey look, I am a support player. I'm just saying.
The TPS players will have an annual...
That happens, okay?
We can't be having that.
Ooh, wow.
Little minor acrobatic...
Okay, okay, I see.
Incredible eyes in the audience today.
Alright, every single day to be fair.
Any replacement, by the way, that's what's happening.
Shouldn't take too long.
We've got a bunch from our bag.
It should be good.
Looks like it's just on the supports of T...
On...
Yeah.
Maybe just bliss?
But it looks like it won't take too long.
We should be back in map by the time you can finish reading that suicide map that was floating
around yesterday.
That was too long.
It was too long.
It was three paragraphs worth of the O's.
This is the only map that they've lost by the way.
It was the New Jungshin versus GK.
It was a 3-1 overall score at the very end.
So, T1 hoping to recreate that moment to give themselves a in back into this series.
See, that's my favourite sign.
When they double up, when they made the whole, like, almost comic books, of signs, it does go kind of crazy.
Okay, so expectations. We know what compositions both of these teams are playing.
As we've talked about, hazard, very much all in, do or die composition, you don't have
a lot of ranged pressure, but you do have a lot of overwhelmed pressure.
So being able to collapse onto Zeta and push forward before proper is in position, right?
Before the tracer, like who does the tracer try to take a 1 vs 1 with if there's no one
left to 1v1 if everyone's just 5v4 walking your whole team when one player is down.
Unless someone just dies early to knife on the soldier, which is also entirely possible
because a hazard does not have any way of letting his team mitigate any of those fully
charged drill shots, and if you're already dying to scope in Emory on your walks for
Mechabase Chokes trying to get past the fully rail closure will be rough. That was a little slip up on the end mate
One day one surely
Brogens didn't get here. I hit my three or four shots didn't get here
There we go. All right, we'll get back into gaming just a moment
Not too much longer again just a quick in issue with T1. In fact, let's jump uh jump down to loot with some fans
Thank you very much guys, we love a little bit of housekeeping when there's a tech post
going on and with Tom and Theo or Theo and Tom.
Yeah that's it.
Two French fans from Taiwan, so we're going to continue the interview in French.
I wanted to ask you first because I saw the famous Poco Bomb.
I heard that it was a move, a little signature, once again, from the market.
Can you tell me a little bit why this Diva was legendary?
It's a different kind of utility, because he's a tank character.
His utility is very complicated to use to make kills,
and because he's really well known for that,
he's really the boss, he has set-ups to use, it's incredible.
With a few years of training, I can catch him, right?
Yes, of course!
Here, Garatois, my grand!
So yeah, I wanted to know a little bit about the Poco-Bomb lore,
because he's known for having a very specific move on the ult from Divine.
and he was like mastering it with perfection.
I'm really impressed by him, he plays 10 but he plays ball and I'm really struggling with that hero so I couldn't really exactly play like him but yeah he's clearly a model for me.
And I'm going to give you a reason why T1 is going to come back because on the first game it seemed a bit complicated.
Yeah it's a bit complicated but I think they're going to come back, I have no doubt about that.
Give me one good reason, sorry about why T1 are going to come back
because first game was looking a bit hectic.
I am 100% confident they're not going to give up.
He just told me I was just a warm-up game, basically, for T1.
So we're going to see if they manage to come back in that Korean derby.
See you there.
Thank you very much Lou down on the floor with a couple of the French fans there in the audience
Yes, don't have a master at all not seen any crazy doofus like them sad so far
But they try still a chance. Yeah, there was an attempt on the doom. There's always a twisted minds on route 66 attack
But yes, that's probably best left in the past
That's so sad
We've got to have some wrecking balls and do business.
That's what I have to. Even if it's an emergency swap.
Alright, looks like the in-ears have been placed successfully in the ears of the T1 supports.
Looks like, yeah, we're all good. We're all chilling.
We should be able to get into this map very quick.
There you go. The little tech pause little thingy at the top right is gone.
So we should be good to go.
Wu Yang ban here for T1.
One, break fast, calm, Vendetta, Sheehan, Hazard, Lucio from Bliss, and obviously, the
Kiroko.
They want to run the Z-Division down, the Z-Division complete opposite.
They've gone defensive.
We want to hold, we want to poke.
Do you dive on ice?
The Tsuki chains, they're going to capture.
Let's jump back in.
Map two, T1, Z-Division.
T1, just waiting for that jump opportunity, properly getting into position, looking to
hit the backline.
1 HP already actually forced to use that Suzu super early on, so this is easy to pick it for proper if you can find another entrance in.
This again, half HP, it's just so free for proper right now, it needs to be looked at by someone.
For Proud and Zest, they're gonna put up some numbers, but unfortunately, it is gonna be Pinar going down.
Zeta Division, only their DPS players left, so D1, you're gonna take the Tron.
Yeah, heavy trade fights with both sides, proper pulling so much attention from the backlines that Blitzcued both Absent from healing Donhack.
Tanks traded but Zeta losing both of their backline players too. T1 are able to pull through but not on this or Wister now
Really wanting to be able to hold that ground steadily versus this Hazard
But yet again it's all about trying to get where exactly Kofi is before the fight begins
Fight striker, thong max pack, he's got that spike guard so he can now push on forward
Hopefully like lock someone down. Looks like Zeta's gonna separate the team by buying a solo kill onto fighter
to swing it straight off the knife too. Oh Zest! This last comp from T1, so much of a
departure from that last map. They go way more at home now.
Oh, he waited for the Mizuki to teleport and just catches him with the overhead swing.
I mean, Vendetta is just Mizuki's worst enemy, right? You use Sanctuary, you see all of the
The value crunched away by the Sundryn plate, which says already has thought.
Trying to go this one really early, so Zed Division fast to fight a 5v4.
The Terraso's low from Bnarr, okay, it puts a dent into those plans and they are going
to get the cap halfway through as well.
Scoot, couple HP, they're going to stagger for a little bit but won't mean it will be
too much.
Team kill for Zed Division.
99% are picked up for T1, one fight away from taking this for a flashpoint,
rush-for-rush match, but Zest can combo off of things like that.
Downpour with the Sundering Blade, a rare preposited vision stability.
According to the perfect combo, no one can run away.
Downpour, Sundering Blade, you done.
Oh, Kandong had set it up.
Gonna try to boost the wall straight behind Bernard to start with a Brown Zephyr in hot pursuit.
There you go, straight in. Sound barrier. Oh, but no, the downpour actually denied by the Mizuki sanctuary.
Donghax still just tried to force the CDs out of the shoe, only once upon a many percentage division right now, his zest is shut down by the gnar.
He refused to fall on the IRISA, just so damn tanky. Despite the old-thrown income, T1, he ended up getting routed.
Yeah, T1 just not able to use DPS ults within that pipe, Bernal doing so much work keeping Zesta bay.
Last fight territory for T1, Spree might just be used to touch.
Yeah, they got it. No, all good. It was Dong-Ai that got touched the air,
but now he's separated from the rest of the team.
This is still a spree from Brown, and of course, Zest.
Oh!
Yeah.
Well, that's a mistake, best left avoided.
No touch, unfortunately, for T1.
That's a little bit shell-shocked as they get team killed off the back of it.
Yeah, that might be some coordination issues there,
their rearing head from T1 as Donghaek off of the hazard no more going fast walk with tank now
it's Zarya but it sends Zestor pride forward so that they can't have their ult shut down.
Hold up charge up at the post for pilot. We're going back one meter or so ago with Zest,
Ben, Dena and then Donghaek on the Zarya. Yeah but he's too fast split from his DPS.
State of Division, they desire to chase them, and then jump on the squishes left alone.
I hope there's no crack showing in the T1 mental here, because that last one, that last point,
something that's going to be living in their head a little bit rent-free unless they're careful.
Still with Double TPS, oh by the way, they still have the thing, not used to find a win in the fight.
State of Division, and proper in the backline already, there's the fight, they're so damn low.
Oh, this is an easy kill for proper surely. I mean, this is going to be out of the fight in the very least.
Double bubbles used, post bomb, dropped off the shield, but yeah, an execution from Nive, please, we're not proud.
Doesn't have a getting two with a spree of his own. They can get a more even affair.
Bernard proper versus Zestal on the point for Zestal, just lops his head off.
Get over head strike, takes the Eryssa down, finds the flip for T1.
Proud actually comes back on the soldier.
And since they've sorted the state of the vision, we'll just be relentless running at that backline, you have to find a way of just taking advantage of proper nice being behind you, so you can free-form off a banana and look for the heads of Viola and shoot.
Rush for Rush match, T1, can potentially overwhelm with Sandbar to survive.
Yeah, feet exactly that. Oh, proper.
Takes the rail, going to headshot with Ciel, long stay at the vision, actually want to stay in this fight though, with the player down.
Crowd pretty low, asks the dash back, playing in his own little disruptor shot there to avoid some damage, but it's all on knife.
That's free to separate the rest of T1.
Easy pickings on the point as well as Proud with no dash to get away.
They're going to even stall out the Vendetta too, just quite literally 1 HP.
Yeah, as they had the vision make it final fight on this point. That's time. I might as well have been put on mute
With the amount of time it lasted within that spree rush combo
He won't have a combo that own those grab sundering blade. You can't sanctuary to shut it down
Let's get bubbled to get on the point to trigger OT
Not again. Oh no
This is becoming a passenger's
Oh ho ho ho ho ho!
How does that not trigger OT?
I can imagine T1 are rather confused about that one.
2-0, surely they don't go down like this.
But I'm just trying to farm a little bit of Donghaek here.
Sure you've won the fight but you haven't won the point.
Ah, that's brutal.
Sada Division as well, got one more fight for poor Donghaek.
could use ult, which means that they are pushing towards having us to stop and shut
T1 down before they can use their Zest has been halting the Sundering Blade.
It feels like since the start of this map.
Yeah, I think it basically has been.
He's got to get in there at some point, Terrasurge is going to get Hobb Sundering Blade coming
out, okay.
There is a sanctuary right in their way though, so it's not going to be doing too much, but
our nice little javelin toss to Zest to create more distance between himself.
Rav's already dead too, let's say that they actually have control of the point.
I mean T1, they need to fight away into this game.
Yeah, they think it will come off of Skewed or Rush at this point.
Donhack's just taking some poke damage from the picker card, but no one's looking at proper
accept pride and he loses the 1v1 so close to OC.
Four players on the point, Skewed puts the rush down.
Now's Violet, he's gonna have a teleport to get away and Bliss dies first here on this engagement.
Donhack's got the Graviton Surge as Zess finally making his mark, yet again, the Grav hits two.
The Blade will do the rest.
T1 again, find a semblance of control.
But honestly, Moxie, I'm counting how long this will actually last, as Nite takes a clean kill onto Zess.
Yeah, potentially. Next fight!
To Zeta Division, since you've got Rush and Spree combo, Proud has to find something before this fight can start.
They've got a rush advantage too and they're going to pop it over, but since they've listened
trouble, the Intel prop is going to get the solo kill again, a nice little shoo-shoo timing
there from SKU keeps him alive in the fight.
Crowd is vanishing, get an O-se-off and a little bit of damage in that, backline is
shoot, ends up just crumbling in the face of Dong-Hak.
A sound bar from Blizzard is good for T1, just so much to the forward and Zayn division.
Now they're starting to bleed.
Yeah, so that sound bar to keep crowd up for the duration of overclock, not defensively
versus the ultimate Zeta Division will have in pocket to be able to walk this next fight.
Skewed 40% off Rush, can T1 hold Zeta Division off before they can close up the distance
to put Knife's Spree into the spot and T1 don't have an answer to it.
I like Aster, maybe even come out big with his ult, this spree with the terror search from Zeta.
Might be all that they need, the fact that this is dipping too far forward, straight into my slap.
And now Donghae manages to get the trade and there will be Zeta vision players trying to get the flip.
Donghae ends up getting 2 though, 3 before on the point but proper just continues to be a menace.
And now it's just gonna go for the kill on just skin
Properly solo carrying this fight. Yes, you got a run. He gets another one
But very even touches the health back one more fight for T1 though. There's an opportunity
With two drugs, but they have to talk to real this time. You actually have to touch for real T1
So low double bubble on the loose you but they don't get there again
That's smart from proper tells the entire story
3-0
In fact look at that, 2-0
200 percent to zero
Then you go flashpoint, it's a 3-0
Not just 3-0
It's a flashpoint 3-0 because three times
Three times once that's a mistake
You can sort of chalk that up to nerds potential miscommunication.
Second time, maybe you get body blocked.
Maybe your opponent outplays you.
Three times, Jack.
You had the ult to win the fight.
You had the Kitsune rush. All you had to do was touch the point to let the fight play out.
Look at this.
It's also just really heads of play from Zeta because the last person that they killed
on that last fight you see this kill here it's the tracer so you deny the opportunity for Zest to be able to use triple blink recall
someone has to physically get plus Zeta throw their body onto point and that is preventable
look at those smiles on the faces of the Zeta players right now let's toss it down to the floor though with some T1 fans
Thank you guys. You may be a bit tired of seeing me because the games have been so quick
but I am standing by with T1 fans and I think they know the resilience and the courage of their players of course.
My first question is going to be about having the Overwatch mid-season championship here at the EWC in Paris.
How does it feel? Can you tell us about your love of the game?
So what does it do to have the Overwatch Mid Season Championship at home,
to welcome everyone like that, to be here in Paris, what does it do?
It's a great pleasure for the Overwatch sport that I have been in since the Overwatch League.
And the last big event we had was the World Cup here in Paris.
It also allows for greater ease for us to move.
It's a pleasure to be able to remember great players who have been here for a while.
It's a great pleasure to be here.
I'm also delighted.
It's a huge pleasure for us to have our game here, not having to travel around the world to see the biggest players, the biggest names in the game.
The last event we had here in Paris was the Overwatch World Cup.
I'm really, really super excited and happy to be here.
I also ask you the question, what is the good of it?
First, the Overwatch Temple in Paris?
It's exceptional, it's still an exceptional event, in an exceptional city, an exceptional audience, an amazing atmosphere.
It's incredible.
You speak to the audience, it's an amazing time, an amazing city, an amazing crowd.
Of course, I am also very glad.
Second question, I'll talk a little bit about your team.
Let's talk about the team.
Who's your favorite player in T1?
And why? Who is your favorite player?
I'm a big fan of TPS, the clips, the incredible actions.
It's just exceptional.
So you're a star player, right?
Exactly.
Ok, very good.
Who's your favorite player?
I just love TPS in general.
They are the star players.
And my last question for you is going to be,
is there any message that you want to send to the players, to the fans?
Because it's hard to keep rooting for a team that is down 0-2.
So what do you want to say to the fans?
It's always hard to support his team when he loses.
Yes, it's often the mentality that goes down, 1-2-0, it's not necessarily the end.
We can always come back in a Ft3.
We must not lose hope and we must continue to win against Zeta Divison.
sweet from here on out for T1 yet to claim a single point in this series. We're gonna ask
Baranza not seem too much push over the last few days with a JetPapCat ban but a Vendetta ban
for Zeta. Yeah Zeta very happy to take that Vendetta off to one's table. It's been something
that they've been very well lying on they love to run the Shion Vendetta this go fast kill you
before they kill them composition. As Jetpack-Cat Ban, that's interesting from T1 because
we were talking about that, like, that's Bliss' best hero. Especially when you sort of look
at how he was performing on the Lucio, having to deal with that constant pressure, the paranoia
of proper showing up and free people having to turn to look at the tracer. But you yourself
take out the prospect of the catbastian.
The catbastian's been so good on this map as well.
Yeah.
And also Blizz like, I'm a little shocked here.
That T1 ain't a fan in this.
I'm sad, I wanted to see the Blizz vs Violet cat fight.
Yeah.
a chance for us a division there and I wouldn't wouldn't be two shots if we have some T1 fans maybe
having a little buy store satyr at this point to an O already a chunk of Queen from Donkatsu
okay into violet woo yank poke with Anna I mean I guess if you're T1 you take out the jet pack
out so Shu loses that ability and T1 can try to one him down with this matra
Oh, what a mid.
Decent claims to be still proud and troubled.
Axe swing on top of Shuva.
Can they actually sustain through this fight?
Because Popper's already found a couple.
Oh, Donghaek you're all alone now buddy.
Ring around the Rosie.
Gets Pilots somehow.
Shaw with a shotty.
But a very fast team like that from Saita Division.
Now does Donghaek switch?
Surely.
Seeing this comp, you've got to switch onto Summik Elves.
Yeah, okay.
There we go.
the game. So, you know,
Diva. And there's the count
is watching Violet Violet is
basically just saying, okay, I
got picked. I use this as an
opportunity to count and stop
to them and through to change
the Diva. And says just gets.
Okay TV up to the high ground
when our pushes them away
against the pickup on to says
this is a very fast push here
from say division. You can't
really push in now. The key
claiming that space is so tough
out, potentially just hold corner. The shoe is untouchable as well in case T1 try to push
up the high ground with their fever. Yeah, he's waiting in the wings. But no, they're
not even going to go for the touch. That's checkpoint for Zeta already. Wow. T1 just trying
to fight in spaces where Zeta Division have to give up that high ground hold. There's
the Smecha teleport, trying to set up that pick onto shoe. Yeah, I mean, you know, shoe's
going to be on that height, so they end up seeping under the high ground to kind of
circumnavigate all the poke I'm not finding angles on the social though because
state of the vision with those poor checkpoints have very little reason to
actually peak this classic Esperanto honestly we have the high ground we have
the checkpoint you have to come to us you have to try and find the flight there's
the rush this bit the sphere's done as well as the dog actually tried to create
space for the rest of his team they've actually scored the pot towards me
So now Saita had to get on the heels and start running over towards the hot.
Too much of an issue though, that Spree is going to separate the team.
Good, shut down onto Zess from proper.
As he gets another one, spots bliss out.
The nano Spree is just so devastating.
I think they took your words to heart.
Like literally, Jag, run over.
Okay, say less.
Let's nano boost proper with Spree and send him sprinting
at T1's whole team, Donghax, split from the team, was not there with defense matrix to
absorb the damage and Zeta division. Allow T1 some space on the objective before they
reach half it and play yet again back onto the high ground, except this time T1 can't
just fall enough to a rush to be able to force the fight. Proud has to come up huge with
There's over one.
Look at this angle, like Shoes on as well.
Luckily, 41, doesn't have a headshot, like, yeah.
Yeah.
And he keeps picking up.
Unluckily, for pride, though,
he's facing down in Mizuki with Sanctuary towards Orphe and Osteen.
Yeah.
Not the best spot.
An MV...
An MV from the spot, I would say.
It's all got very low.
Oh, South barrier from Bliss, try and close the gap now.
A wall as well, to push them forward.
There's Sanctuary and Terracid, it's just ginormous, though.
As Banar eliminates Skiu.
A self-destruct from Donghae takes care of Nife with the chains, end up killing Donghae anyway, and T1, they've got no players left!
And if Fnarr and Shu are alive here, I mean look, he does go down, sure, but you NEED clean fights if you're T1, this part isn't going anywhere!
Yep, and T1, they're not boarding ults to win this next fight too!
Pride so low now, bot left in main, until now T1 will be able to regroup, finally start
pushing towards their own forward checkpoint.
2-25% off Barajfa, it's a race for Shu to get the Nanoboost and the Life's Ager Division
to set the wheels and motion first.
Shu's not going to give Pride an opportunity, in fact, Pride ends up having to back up a
little bit.
Good TP though, what's it like, made on the ground too?
Yeah, not going to happen.
good rotations from T1. Momentum not quite in their favour just yet, the bot is still
escaping them as Panar tries to go for a hero play and get a solo kill. Proper gets his
one, but the bot is going to get reset. Oh, Violet. Insulter injury here. He's running
the bot all the way back to the checkpoint.
Yep. Oh, that's devastating, but you won. Time spent having to track that bot back to
where they were when the fight started means that by the time they should have the Nanoboost
good to go. Do you want to have zero extra ground? They basically reset. Yep. Now we
have rush versus nano.
Rob has got the spree though. Thankfully for T1. There's the rush, okay. Now Shu has to
play a little bit more careful. Cautious, waiting in the wings for a nano perfect timing. Well,
the nade on Donhack's going to be good. Nano wants a brick. Now Violet can get in there.
Straight up, back straight behind Bliss. Coxim on the head. He'll be feeling that one in
in a few days, Sator Division, walking over T1,
that's not barely moving.
Four and a half minutes to go,
yet another team kill for Sator.
Yeah, Violet has just been counter-slopping.
T1 for Donghak has to deal first with Mizuki,
then with Brigitte.
Yeah, he's had enough of the D.Va.
He's onto the Rematra.
Violet might actually swap back to the Mizuki
after investing this rally as Sator Division,
This is a situation we've seen before.
Fold up on the high ground, forcing T1 to come to them.
The more time it takes to unseat them, the less time T1 have to be able to match the distance Zeta already set.
Don't give proper an opportunity to get solo kill.
Oh, there's one! It will be nice!
It'll be nice instead, yeah.
There's the teleport away for Donghae.
And now Zeta Division can really just wrap things up.
She can't stay around here for too long, my son.
Sambarra, they're gonna beat it again.
They've arrived from Pylor, though.
Already set pretty low is the Brig, and now they're gonna shoot Pinar in the back.
Pilar ends up going down, Terras first to separate the fight, as Pinar tries to keep himself alive.
His longhack starts first to fall, and with the ball, surely they get the kill.
Onto Pinar, eventually they do.
It was a costly fight, not in terms of ultimates, but also bodies.
Not a clean one again for T1 here.
As Proud said, dangerously low, it's from downtown, Popper finds the pit.
That's huge. Proud has the overclock. That's something that T1 have to have set up for this next fight.
But say the division, they've still got the fires alive.
Popper keeps the bot in play, and yet again T1 have to clean up for Shion, but we're pushing more space.
Since now, Knight trying to even the score here, with Popper going down, just playing in the front lines currently, C-Seth completely out of position.
Knife fall shore but still a scrappy affair of Z-Division. They will fall
The proper staking the swap is going on to far and out two and a bit minutes
They'll have the nanoboost as well to engage this bike forward for Z-Division and T1 don't have done that
Surely proper dies
Nope
She holds up by pilot, goes back in for more!
They're going in, powder is in trouble here, he's just gonna get run over by Z-Division
They're playing a tempo T1 are not expecting
At least T1 though, for that duration had less pushing points.
That's why you're okay, well, not okay, but it's all forgivable that you're losing players on the sidelines.
Donghae will return to push his team up with the Annihilation but Zeta Division,
they've got none of those to set onto proper online to be able to rip all the help up the ramp.
Just counterwatch the moment, Zess has also gone farer.
I think he's getting in the show for how it's done.
Well they're proud, double slide, rail gun in hand, no hip arc as though they're not
giving him a chance to get a pit.
There's an added one, the D.va 2, straight to the back line, lovely proud of another
dash to get away, skewed up quite a lucky dose, as now they're just hounding them down.
Look at the dash here from knife 2, using Pena's mech as cover.
Proud falls, no checkpoint for T1, and they're not going to give it to him either.
they've spliced the only one left alive and they're in half to go here for Zeta to find themselves in the finals.
That's brutal too, Violet pops the rally so no traits onto Zeta Division's side.
Zest though, he's already forward, might run into Shu in a moment, decides to reposition,
does not want to go down in this fight early.
Bliss of the sound barrier means that Donghaek has more survivability with his ultimate,
but tail as old as Esperanza times.
From Zayac's division up on the high ground, we're forced Donghak to have to use his ultimate before they react.
Paid on to Donghak. Sleep goes wide. Annihilation. T1's back pocket, but there's a barrage for proper.
It's gonna wait here to almost O.T. It feels like Ravenous Vortex already uses.
Could be a good opportunity for proper to get in there.
Looks like he's gonna... Maybe you can think about it. Takes a little bit too much damage though.
They defeat again from Bliss. Can they actually make this a clean fight?
Knife dead first, Ravenous Vortex missed. Still with a barrage. Is proper, just fighting in the skies?
File it now.
Let's get focused down by Donhack for the time being, and there we go, a clean fight for T1 at last.
Yep, but we're about to hit the overtime, Jack. And Zeta Division, they took that fight dry.
T1 had to invest sound barrier. They have to be able to start the fight out before Zeta Division can find picks.
They don't even have forward checkpoint yet. One fight will determine if T1 continue in the series.
They're going to give them checkpoint, they're not too worried about this right now, or maybe they're not in fact.
They're just going to jump straight on it.
Parage available from proper steal, Donghack's got the annihilation in this,
Parage from proper just might be what they need,
Rob is already killed, Bliss and Nanoboosh don't survive as well.
An absolute immortal beast in the frontline.
Perhaps going to get his too short, but the boy's going to move away from that checkpoint,
Checkpoint and T1 shoved away. Satan Division do it in three. Arosta crafted by the Overwatch gods.
Find themselves with a first class ticket to the finals.
T1 the one ultimate that was required to win that overtime fight. Siren Barrier has to be
exhausted the fight before Zeta Division, all the cards up their sleeve. To be able to throw down
on the table the moment the time bank turns against T1, knife from the sidelines, Nanoboost
overclock, rips through T1 like a knife through hot melted butter. Just like that key will be
absolutely destroyed. When
Zeta pull that we've got. What
goes around comes around to one
the three old crazy racoon
for taking division water. A
different game here today on
the championship Sunday. This
team is just so down clean. And
he's got to be said it felt
a fair few times they're not able to get a touch on the points but it is all
Zeta's day here a finals placement on championship Sunday and in such a
confident manner as well I want to hear from the main man himself we've got
Shu and Lou down on the stage thank you very much you kill since you're
archive congratulations oh my little bravo I sure you've joined Zeta very
recently you know you're yet already marking the history of the organization
because it's the first time Zeta Division ever reaches an international major
final on Overwatch so it seems like you joining made a big difference why do
you think is that?
You've made it to the finals of the second half of the season.
I wonder what you've changed as you joined the team.
I'm pretty good at it, but I think it's a big influence on me.
I think our team has improved a lot.
One of the reasons why I want to win the Zeta division is that I want to give my boss, Nishara, a gift to him.
to give a trophy.
Wow.
And I think he's very proud of you already reaching that final.
The première question,
tu marques déjà l'histoire de l'organisation de Zeta
puisque c'est la première fois qu'ils atteignent une finale
d'un major international.
Pourquoi est-ce que tu penses que ça a fait la différence
que tu as rejoint le roster?
Eh ben en vrai, il y a énormément de facteurs.
Je pense en faire partie un petit peu.
Mais ce qui compte surtout pour moi,
c'est mes teammates qui sont incroyables
et aussi mon CEO, le CEO de Zeta Division
à qui j'ai envie vraiment de ramener un trophy.
The second question I wanted to ask you is that you guys stomped pretty much every team apart from DK.
You only lost one map during this tournament, so it seemed like you were getting more confident stage after stage, match after match.
What is the secret for such dominance? Is it crowd buff? Is it land buff? Tell me about this success and how does it feel to play in Paris?
How do you feel about being in Paris and showing us a good game?
I think it's because of Kim Jin-seo, who is a secret agent.
What was Paris?
How do you feel about being in the game?
I'm happy because I'm in a good game with a lot of fans.
I mean, of course the recipe here is my self-shoot.
And speaking of which, playing here in Paris and with the really big crowd here actually feels really good.
And we're very happy to have you here, of course.
So the second question is what is the key to success, that you played extremely well.
You took confidence, you lost only one map against Geeky from the whole tournament.
What is the key to success?
Well, it's already me, the key, Shu.
And then, yes, it's so nice to be here in Paris and to play in front of the audience.
So ladies and gentlemen, we can applaud Shu if you please.
Because it's time to get together to the key crusher.
I know it's not the first time because we've done it in the past, but let's go.
Kaja, time again.
Let's get it. It's an important moment for the Zeta division player, Shuh, who's gonna
get to crush another fellow Korean team. They are gonna eliminate T1 from the run to
finals they are tied in the club championship points but Sita stands strong once again with
your signature pose here in Paris. I'm gonna welcome you back to the stage. Shu, this guy is just iconic.
Shu, you're gonna be defending the Koreans region in the finals against either EMEA twisted minds
Chinese Wave, so what do you think of these teams like Strength and who are you expecting in the finals?
I respect both teams, but I also respect the understanding of the TMA rush comp, so I think they're doing better.
So I think TMA will come up, and when they come up, each of us has a different style.
I think it's going to be a game to prove who's right and what's right.
Twisted Minds, they use the rush comp and they are very actually skilled at it.
So I think they have a really good understanding of that comp.
So I think Twisted Minds will be better at this matchup.
But that being said, if Twisted Minds gets to the finals,
I think it will be a very interesting match because we have very different comps with each other.
And they play silent with each other.
So yeah, it's going to be a really interesting match and it will decide which one is the best.
The best in the world, basically, yes, and we're very curious for that, of course.
Simon, thank you so much for joining me.
Sure, congratulations against Kyle.
Thank you Maddox for the translation.
And we're all, you can say that in a microphone.
Merci.
Merci, and he gives us the merci in French.
Thank you so much again.
And we're moving on to our next semi-finals
after a short break.
Stay with us.
Farewell, little brother T1 sent packing
at the hand of that man.
This is the loot on the way out.
Jake, have you seen a finer way
to send somebody back in.
It's an honorable death for T1.
They fought hard to be here.
It's a great result for them, but it's clear today
which of these two teams deserves a chance
in the grand finals.
Zeta, this team was built to win
and they delivered a spectacular one here
in this first semi.
Are we sure they're not cheating?
Because Knife didn't die until game two,
58% into point two, Zoe.
There was just literally no in for them.
They had absolutely a role.
Like it doesn't get much more dominant in that.
And I think throughout the series,
it was just clear that they're in open books to them, right?
That's what did you say?
Like I read them like a children's book.
They read them like a bedtime story.
Yeah, but the thing is like,
those teams are just so familiar with each other
and they've been screaming against each other a lot as well.
Yep.
But you know what?
So I fallen comrades.
Seda came in as the favorite to win it
and I think we just got carried away a little bit
by what T1 did previously.
Yeah, cause Crazy Raccoon was a favorite against T1.
yesterday. So we didn't know if you would be able to strike twice if you were T1. The answer
was kind of short and sweet though at the end of game one there was zero percent on the scoreboard
for Johnny. Have we seen dominance in control like that all tournament? No, no we haven't. I mean
this was maybe one of the most dominant maps of the entire tournament which is crazy because this
is the semifinals but it's just pure dominance. Their setups are so beautiful. If I can like
to simply describe how they're winning these. T1, they're playing as a stack. They're playing like
five, they want to move around the map. That's why they use this melee teleport. Set a division,
their positioning is so flawless, split around the map. So whenever we see T1 try to engage on
top of someone, try to get to shoot, then the rest of proper knives, they're gonna go on the flanks,
they're gonna fold into whatever T1 is trying to use here. Okay, we're gonna push Deanna.
Great stuff, you got Deanna fragged. Now, the rest of our damage players are resins in your
backline and so Settledis have a fantastic positional understanding of how to just play
around whatever T1 is trying to do and you saw their solstice out, T1 just outclassing
this one.
Jake, when we got to game three, I saw a little bit of swaps coming in and we thought maybe
the D.Va was the right answer against what you saw from Zedadivision.
Then a Brigitte came out and it got nano-boosted and devastated everyone on the map.
Is Zedadivision out-thinking their opponents?
Are they out-playing their opponents?
How are they walking away with clean victory?
I think you could easily say yes to both of those questions,
but for me today, I feel that life's got too bright for T1.
I got to calm as I see him.
I think T1 looked way stronger yesterday,
but I think honestly, you get a huge win like that
for a young team that has been struggling
for these top results.
You know, there's just this incredible release.
You've done something that no one really believed
to come back tomorrow.
Right.
You know, the next stage, championship Sunday,
and to have to do it again,
arguably something even bigger taking on Zeta.
I think the scope of the challenge got to them.
I mean, if you look at the strength of these two teams,
I wouldn't have said this was going to be that.
This was an obliteration.
I mean, it just doesn't get less close to this.
You play this match a thousand times,
it will see the same result every time.
So for me, T1, I want to see more from them
the next international event, but this was a tough one.
This was just not a competitive series.
And I don't think T1 showed us their best.
So at the very beginning of this tournament,
Johnny said Zeta Division may be the best Overwatch team
in the history of the game.
You've been working on it since Tracer was first released.
What do you think of the team right now,
and was Johnny Wright calling it on day one?
I honestly, right now, in this side of the game,
I think it is, because individually,
those players just have an incredible depth
and a wealth of experience.
They have the hero pools to back it up,
and so many different medals,
and they really came together.
And I think it's one of those things
where you can get a little worried
because there's so much star power on the roster,
but it's meshing well, and they're gonna come out on top.
We're having a blast here in Paris.
Lock in, because we still have three more games to play,
including the semi-final.
Weibo will be taking the stage representing China
against EMEA's Twisted Minds.
We'll have CJ from Dallas Field joining us after this.
I'm a twisted mind fan from 2021. I was in the Saudi League, I saw them, I loved them.
That's actually insane.
Twisted Minds loves the community. Doesn't love the truth, it's only. To be honest, they
We are like a brothers, we know them since three years, we come every year together.
Now in Paris, it's something impressive, I'm super happy to be one of the community.
The best thing about us is we are loyal, we came from Saudi Arabia.
We support the team since the start, we've been through a lot and this team deserves to win.
AWC is the best thing that happened to me to be honest.
Since to Real, to hear to Paris, it's insane.
The eSports community, in one hand, to watch eSports,
I love this thing, I really love it.
Actually, yesterday I had the time to visit Paris,
it was insane, that was my dream since I was a kid,
to see Evel Tower, to see a lot of things here,
and yeah, I hope I have more time to visit Paris again.
East or west, Duistit is the best.
We are going to be here and there.
To be honest, Paris did a really good job here
for the AWC, and it's fantastic, I love it.
And I love it also in real. It's fantastic.
The crowd, the cheer, the feelings.
If you sit there, you're near the players.
So you think you're on the game.
You know, it's so fun. So fun.
We all know that VB is the best team in Europe.
But Twisted Mind is the best team in the whole world!
Let's go!
Let them cook, but don't eat the food.
Twisted Minds making their way back into the STC arena. Are they the favorite today? Well, if you ask the chat, that is a clear yes
They're going up against Wable Gaming that has a ton of fans out here in Paris
The Wable fans have been loud and for good reason. Doucheway playing an MVP form has been one of the mainstays of the region since day number one
How do the numbers look though? Well, we welcome
and so Jake and a very special guest CJ into the booth from Dallas feeling CJ twisted minds
is at their number seven and two are there steps so far they've looked incredible.
How would you describe twisted minds?
I think twisted minds is probably one of the best teams.
I think their sim comp is like unbeatable.
Like you saw DK try to mirror the sim and didn't really work out that well for them.
So I really think that twisted minds is going to have this one in the bag.
And on the other side, Jake, we got to talk about Waybo who is the big surprise of the
tournament if you looked at the quarter finals in theory they had the easiest opponent but they've
looked incredible in their wins despite their opponent sending teams like the Falcons packing
earlier in group play. Yeah you've got to look at Waybaugh's having for them a massive tournament
but for these players this is maybe a return to form right these are all the players that have
lifted trophies in the past when the Overwatch League era fans have been waiting a long time
for them to deliver a solid international performance they've done that already with
with the top four placement.
But I would argue this is their toughest test yet
and by far, Twisted Minds are a team
that are just better under these high pressure moments.
They continue to improve through the tournament.
And so for Waybo, this would need to be a generational effort
if they want to make it to that top two.
Yeah, so when I'm looking at the highlights
and see some signal play in here,
what are some of the comps you're hoping to see
from this squad representing China?
I mean, honestly, I loved whenever Sansa was coming in.
I think with Sansa in the mix,
it just adds a lot of different layers
in a lot of different looks at Port-A-Team,
and it really enables Lief and Shai to play on the level
that we've seen yesterday.
They're back to Final Four.
Space Station Gaming setbacking to the delight
of all the fans as they were cheered on,
Makka and crew able to celebrate a huge win
in the quarterfinals, keeping their key alive
into a championship Sunday here at EWC.
Speaking of...
Danny Lim behind the scenes, here's what he had to say.
What's up, everybody? I'm here joined by Makka from Weibo Gaming.
Makka, you guys had a fantastic match yesterday. 3-1 victory. Great stuff.
What were some of the things you guys talked about yesterday after getting the win?
First of all, we didn't have the intention to lose to the Korean people, so we thought we'd win without any hesitation.
And we wanted to prepare for the next match against TN.
Do you feel like there's a weakness that you guys could exploit to get the win today?
They are definitely a great team. They are really good at playing as a team, as one team.
They are really good and well respected, but if we could be a part of them, we could be a good team.
They're definitely a great team. They're really good at playing as a team, as a one team, really grouped up together. That is their strength. I feel like we're as for weakness. I feel like if we could push them out of their comfort zone and sort of force them to play our style, I feel like we could definitely get the benefit from their Maka.
That is it for the interview. Thank you so much. Best of luck!
Thank you.
Great ear for Mock, a best of luck to him and Weibo, but on the other side of this fight, they have to deal with TV and T who has been looking like a study sport on everything, including the Reinhardt CJ.
What makes this team terrifying and who is your player to watch?
Uh, TM is, they just like have a good understanding of the macro they've been playing together for, I think like two years now.
They really understand like what each other wants to do.
I think that's like the edge that they have over other teams.
I think obviously the key player to watch is sports.
Okay, what is the best hit scan in the world in my opinion? Wow, and this didn't really enable him to do what he does best
Number one hit scan on the planet. That's high praise. Jake. I think it's fair to say he's been
I think the most consistent player at that level. I mean hit scan is this role where yes
You can have these huge moments every single player at this tournament in that role can produce those kind of opportunities
The course just does it over and over again. It seems like it doesn't matter how much pressure you put on this guy
It doesn't matter how much you try to attack him. He'll just deliver a better and better performance
So I have huge expectations for him, but it feels like at this point he never disappoints them
So as we take a look at the numbers we are 36 seconds from our semi-final kicking off and 85% of the fans are leaning with twisted minds
Where are you going in this matchup? I think twisted minds that you have to consider them the favorite just based on the pedigree
They had the last few years and I think Chinese Overwatch is still catching up
But so far, that's been on a right trajectory.
Jake, great result for Waymo to be top four, but it ends here.
Twisted mines all the way.
TJ.
I got a twist mine, 3-0.
3-0!
Courts is our player to watch.
Can he stay on fire?
Well, my guess is yes.
Let's lock in for the second semifinal and find out
who is moving on to the championship match.
I want you to for a second imagine how daunting it must be to be playing in a
semifinal at the e-sports World Cup with so much on the line but then add to that
you've got a demon behind you in Zeta division waiting in the wings oh my god
in the grand final I wouldn't even want to win that semi-final to be honest Ian
I'm cooked it's going to be epic are you ready to go again I am so ready for it
Ian are you I am let's welcome our next team onto the stage
Weibo Gaming!
Living China was never the end goal.
It was an invitation to prove this region belongs back with the top dogs.
And here in Paris, they've done exactly that.
Calm under pressure, clinical when it mattered.
Every victory bringing them one step closer to history.
Weibo Gaming is here.
You know them.
The best in the MEA, South East Pride, Twisted Minds.
The reigning OWCS world champions hit the state.
They've proved through the tournament they are the best in the MEA.
The what about proving once again that they are the best in the world?
The world champions are looking for a final place in China vs. the NBA.
Is it time?
It's China's champions vs. the world champions.
It is indeed time. Who's taking that spot in the grand final?
Paris, third to three!
Champion's clash shot a light on this rivalry where twisted minds walked away with the win and knocked Waverly out of the tournament
But we've been walked away with a bit of belief for two months
They've been stewing on it Matt and now they've got a chance to overcome the ghosts of their past
Yeah, there's one thing in believing though and then another in actually getting it done and twisted minds
Looks like they're kind of getting there, you know putting back underneath themselves, right?
They made the finals of champions clash. It wasn't even a great meta for them
They didn't look awesome at that event but still able to make it really interesting one map away from winning that event by the way
But he's just stage two was a little bit rough for them. But now here at EWC. They both lights out and for Wabo
You know, obviously, they know it's kind of the Wabo classic, right? They lose early. Everybody freaks out
They go on a bit of a run
It's just can they get through twisted minds who's really been a thorn in their side for years their story
Feels like it's ended too soon like a top-up team, but not a podium one
Today they have a chance to give everything they've got kind of keep that pen the paper keep right the story for themselves in this tournament
And go all the way. It's always emotional with way both gaming. It's always emotional with twisted minds
But only one team walks away with some exaltation today and also just a grim determination to take that one last step into our grand final.
We're starting on the pole here, Matt to shock nobody.
Yeah, and it'll be a diva band there for Wave-O early. The Vendetta band used right away.
This is one that's pretty powerful in a series like this, right? Wave-O potentially wants to bring that hero out really good against the Symmetra comps.
TM wants none of it here early on I think the diva ban is also you know
Gushway using play a ton of Morgan throughout this they don't want to have
to deal with any kind of counter look for the series to get quite competitive
when we head over towards our payload based maps when these two teams last
played it was Kingsroy draw and a dominant circuit royal finish from
Waybo gaming control has been a bit more of a concerning part of their map
ball frankly that's where twisted minds look their best and Waybo their
sloppiest. They're gonna stop a Gooseway here in the line-up. And I mean Sunzo the other tank for
Waybo has been really great at this event. I know, I think still has the 100% map win rate.
So we'll see Twisted obviously they play a ton of Reinhardt and then nobody else really kind of
doing this here at the tournament. We'll see obviously a lot of time here for Waybo to potentially
Make some changes.
Surely not the Doom 60, although it is a Gooshway pig.
The Rematrescy wasn't enough for GK to unravel this twisted mind's loop,
and so Gooshway comes out on the Doomfist.
This is the prescribed response from Wave,
but we get tough to work through the twisted.
Yeah, and they're also going to be playing the Pharah here.
This sim cannot really interact with the Pharah at all, right?
They did not expect this.
You know nobody at this event is doing anything like Ushui here on the Doom.
That's not fun to deal with his right hand. You are going to get just thrown around a mantra.
They get TKed up behind that.
Yeah, Grodhok here, that's a directing ball, and Pamy Dufus, those four highly moded heroes.
But importantly, you can break Pow Block by hitting a chain hook.
They'll also match the Kat Bastion, which is something that TN does not do often.
They've been one of the teams that even when they play Bastion, they love to keep on the Astro and the Lucio.
So, the first time we've seen Tm really been forced to make big adjustments.
And he just went, he starts to stay away from Tp and T if at all possible.
Clawt has actually been taken down and shy!
It's a very commandy deal in a situation!
The Chopper gunner being flown around, picking off the priority targets.
Ubi is gonna go to Tracer.
Now we're gonna ditch this scene completely.
This is obviously uncharted territory for Twisted Mind.
And the game is just not it!
Yeah, I mean, look, with the far in the mix, obviously it's no vendetta, but still, no way for you to really interact with it.
They've got to try and force leave off of this hero, potentially.
I just want to stress that the control map has been a problem for way more gaming in the past.
They've already come up with an answer to the Swiss Devine's combo.
Cowblock, who's barely able to stay alive through.
He had a Suzy also had to be used, but he stays in the game and shy gets the chance to step up and show his quality.
And the quality has been there in spades from this guy.
Yeah, it wasn't Katsune rush there used by Twisted Minds, but able to put the point back.
TDT not even in a hard barrage. Doesn't do anything to Roadhog there.
TDT, fully healthy.
This try was a split second from being able to get away with a medial strike map,
and he's going to be brought down.
Lee thought he was still at large.
However, a decent matchup for Fanny Astro, things can sit in.
And it looks like Lee's the task.
And typically you worry here right where you just have the Jetpack Cat available for the healing.
But with Roadhog, who cares, right?
Roadhog just can't be able to keep himself alive pretty much the entire time buddy after goes back to spawn grab some players
Come on back. It'll be the artillery here for force trying to just delay the push in from webo
Respect this wheelsmall
Take a breather not enough kick the line course trying to dance on top of the pillar
He's gonna have to get the heck on out
Please don't pick up the leaders trying to chase that elimination the shine double the double down against stagger elimination on the basket
It's huge, it's...
Leed now goes over and plays Tracer.
I wonder, you know, you'd be obviously as pulse bomb
or probably would consider trying to move back,
trying to bring the Sim back into the mix, but...
You could not have asked for a better start
if you're Waybo gaming.
It's gonna be the Artillery here for Shy.
Gonna deploy that to the trope, maybe get the TP out, which you do.
Oh, dangerous, Felicia.
Me and Master Trope below the sideline,
and Shy, Fun Astor's gonna be able to chase him off.
Shy got taken down.
That's interesting.
Funny as for maybe separating the two, it's unclear, but during the Bastion ultimate, you can't see yourself, but who's trying to push you?
He's back, TDMT is going to have to soak their damage up in this pulse bomb, and he's still quite healthy, but he's being dragged away, kicking and screaming.
Wave-O now, we're able to flip the point back in 92%.
Yes, massive, we see the two kills from Twisted Minds, but the one that happens off-screen, which is enormous, is Lee actually gets rid of Syphil.
The hard way of the hook, the cat, get her off the cat now.
Clever indeed, simple ever fun to pick up Mark and that is huge Guichui down.
They're already playing to keep the pole on the points.
If we survive, they're going to win this beaver-ish exchange to stay in the rounds.
We get a mage ahead to head now.
This TVN team makes this one Guichui willing to take the duel.
So I'm surprised, this has devolved into cat fashion for both sides pretty early.
Have we already been treated to 20-26's greatest hits in the first round of the first round?
I mean, we got a dune fist early on, right?
Obviously, the far pick was great for Wave-O.
Kind of eliminates that sin grind that they wanted to play.
Which we're going to be charged down the lane.
They let them potentially go for a rush there, but everybody backed out.
I tried to straight up die there!
They're turning a wheelspot and maybe punish TD and T for charging up and it doesn't really pair down the way you would have drawn it.
This was very low here and yeah, there's Kusuto Rush, he's gonna cover things up and I'm gonna...
This is to after Wabo. I mean, you have like, you know, 92% here in counting.
Quartz is gonna use your artillery, you're gonna see exactly where these players are trying to get a touch.
This will be a brutal round for Wabo to lose.
Man, I think they might have dropped this one.
Leason in can touch. At least it'll be a presence, but he can't afford to be picked off here and he knows it.
playing ultra safe, back on the high sideline, slashed here, under was the Kiriko, now courts
and you'll be a bow down! Here come Wave-O! From the position where it looked like they
would have lost this round! Twisted mind to come down the 3, can't have a funny Astro
leaving, dragged away, but the lip of the wall is going to save him and Gushley gets
his 2, level gaming, part their feet early, showing us some of their best looks and already
an answer to Twisted Mind's bread and butter.
Wrable makes it really interesting here early on.
The nice use of Barakap Bastion, right? Making it very difficult for the Reinhardt.
And this isn't really engaged with anything.
Oh, a lot of changes there. Yeah, that's the fur that kind of knocks him off the side, detached.
I think also the issue is, maybe you need to detach to try and use that AoE skill.
You're worried your Bastion's going to get punished?
Yeah.
This really heads up there by a funny asteroid, so to go off the ulti Bastion.
Some bastions will all, as they're being pulled back towards the point,
so they don't have to be stationary and lose tempo as a result, but,
again, they don't have an awareness of what's happening directly around them.
Yeah, Maka with only one get there and that round. Enormous.
As we'll go back to Reinhardt here with Simpher, Twisted Mind.
Ooh, got Wabo!
Yeah, they'll continue to play this Doom with the Pharah.
No bastion intent, but now you have the extra poke of the Wuyawn.
Leith has the environmental kill potential and obviously, Gooshway does too.
Maka's gotta be pretty careful on that right there outside though.
They may seep right on top.
It's a bit of a squishy spot to be.
You'll have to surf very quickly on out of there.
You have to seep this one.
This is Daily Telegraph now from Twisted Minds.
A way to respond.
They get a back up.
Maka!
A little bit low.
He was gonna be picked off first but now there's no way to get on out but Gooshway is
a little trapped.
Don't worry, he's got the sprues.
Not for me to get a bit of motion going on here.
DnT isolates himself trying to chase that elimination.
Twisted Minds are looking a little frustrated off the break.
I think they're just gonna need to make changes off of potentially even this Reinhardt as well.
We'll see what they decide to do.
It'll be Sigma.
Hort's gonna have a better time here dealing with that Bora and Doom potentially.
Obviously some extra CC added with the Cassian Sig.
Once most of the points these gooshs were, again, fairly vulnerable, doing just the
insta-shoot at mancrenate while power blocking.
Can't do anything about it.
Will always be hindered there.
Not many shots way below down heavily.
You get to be able to switch over to sigma here.
Again, another form of craft control that ignores power block.
It's awfully shy, it's now you're going to be able to kind of just pull them back into
the choke is usually over on the Lamatra at the moment. It's such an important map for
Twisted Minds, right? They end up using that bandit-a-band, which is pretty big in a series
like this. Early on, it'll be a rush there. From Tien, they just completely ignore Marker,
who's on the point, capping behind them. Not a full cap yet, though. Marker eventually
is taken down. This does split Twisted Minds a bit, but the sim chart allows them to regroup
pretty quickly. They've been really disjointed, though, from
I mean, this is the issue as well.
Gushra is being forced into a more conventional pitch.
The Client of any Sun-Zoy Mark is coming to play.
Oh, then Mark is so split the entire time.
Some nice shots there from Kord's finish it off.
They have to stabilize the amount.
Yeah, so split on the supports.
You know, you're never able to get Gushui.
I know, they're just kind of staggering.
You know, death by death.
I assume Lee maybe makes a swap here.
It's going to be a dead-on.
They're going to try and TP this in.
Maybe you have to have high ground there.
high ground there. Looks like they're angling for that there. Maybe you can kind of keep
you up to the high ground, but there's too much damage coming in. You're going to deny
that spot. So the only way you can get in here, the retake against the Sigma, you need
to st- OHHHHH! EEEE! WHAT A COCUSSED BLAST! Quartz screams Geronimo as he heads down the
mountain the fast way! He gets him out of the Groovinik plush to try and even up a
Shai caught in side but should be kept alive. Suzu well timed.
Marko title blast on himself. Ostensibly to stay in the game.
Wave over an hour. Move back up to the point. It's gonna be a simple drag down.
Just advise hand over fist. Handing over ultimate to try and stay in control.
Gushre's annihilation though is not really finding purchase and the healing is desperate.
Nice wave that comes out from Marko. It's gonna end for healing. A Christian misses.
Only a little bit of damage on Shai. But the follow-up from the hyper-steers was good.
And Gushre feels like he can't advance. He's too low. Too early.
2-5 for being able to flip this point back, and twisted minds have settled in quite comfortably here after the shock of the Dune Fist Culp.
You know, I've really just destroyed it around from way above gaming.
TM, they make some adjustments, they play that last wave really well.
You know, quartz gets conned off the side, like you mentioned, and they use that sim wall to just kind of behind some time from TD&T on the point.
Ah, they also then use a Kitsune rush, courses back in the equation there towards the end, even with the annihilation of the Ramatra.
Doesn't really matter, I mean, Shingesh is unmovable at times. Feels like in those setups.
So, the ball is absurdly powerful.
Yeah.
The line of sight and the ball denies it for the offense.
There's 4k damage reports, and Lee...
I'd like to see him retucking into it.
What is it? I'd like to see Wabo go back and, you know, play this mage here. I think that's probably their path against something like this.
And we'll see also here how twisted deals with this cap-mashing set up, but...
A lot of pressure on ports here.
Well, she's constantly on the path, saying those pros and cons.
Simple point, and she's just getting kicked off the periphery.
Nice shot.
Port's obviously still with their right-click perk.
That never took time, it's actually all significant that you might otherwise think.
Shy was knocked down, he stepped down, and Corks were gonna call it,
because we were on a quick reset, it just was a nice good start here for the Weibo game.
He nice kicks off the rip.
Well, what's good about this game, I can't from Weibo, is you kind of know Twisted,
I mean, they're not gonna play obviously with the afar on the other side,
but like Twisted's not gonna pull something out like a reaver, right?
They're not gonna try to like match something like that.
So like, you kind of have an idea, this is how the game is potentially gonna be played.
Maybe they go Rematra or something like that, but...
Right out of the point.
You can twist the dice.
They know they're gonna fight here underneath this roof.
However, the barra's gonna chuck them down slowly.
Chai just found himself in the wrong place in the wrong time as an accretion connected.
This man doesn't really want to be here, even.
He's getting a lot of off-charge off the big bulky body of the Malgo.
Okay, crucially, it does make it out, though.
Leave. Has to be careful.
You still have the Force alive, and he's so nasty on this pass, dude.
You gotta play very sidelights.
Gotta move quickly.
Oh, Sakali! Double the dump altitude.
He had a pinched course, had his eyes turned in the wrong direction.
There was a chance of unleashing him into the costume.
Basin now returned to the fray.
Basin, oh, he's seeing that stop. That's a big stop!
Funny Astral taken down there by Shai.
Might have been a combination with the Barber Slop
set up some CC and now leave.
Uncontested pouring rockets into the aperture.
DBNT can only fight one person at a time.
And all of Wave over there in force.
Yeah, they've been able to find Funny Astro at the start of the last two fights.
That one off the back of that Maga Stump that comes on in artillery, therefore shy.
It's TM though, Kitsune Rush and Simwall available, so some pretty good alternates here coming into this next fight.
We'll see where Ubi decides to take the team here. TV directly out of the point, Simwall dropped right away.
Oh, dangerous over Ubi. That charge is something you don't want to deal with.
That map is willing you to drag him out into the sun!
Jai finds Khorz and Fanny Astro.
That's not enough here at this point in the fight.
And Lee is elegantly able to navigate the barrier.
Work on the other side.
And the move goes yo.
Yeah, Katnapparaj here used the barrage.
Where'd you go?
Put down a lot of damage and then you go to the players.
The map is stomping about.
The players just end up on the right side of the wall there for Lee to
Put away some damage, his map number one would be an enormous confidence boost here for Weibo Gaming.
72 and counting.
We cannot, we cannot understand how massive it would be for Weibo 2 being a control map in this series against this opponent on a day like today.
K-Spike's in play.
Do you think he clears a priority there for Lee, but he doesn't want to over-commit to this fight?
The K-Spike knight might be gone, if the T-Rush has to be used here.
The accretion from TVNZ, no, that is dirty!
MAGA, DEATH BY CILLICANTS!
Here comes TVMT now trying to push back against Gushre,
Lee Summion is very very low.
Tristin finds her down to breathe themselves, but healthier.
That's more in fighting form than there's the flip.
Yeah, maybe if Lee Summion is able to live there,
you're able to kind of keep that one going.
Gushre actually with the help of Mata, they're going to come right back.
So you have the one player down at the moment.
You'll see both teams get the full strength here in just a second.
Yeah, as chords you see, as well just kind of funneling out of the high ground there,
with simple can they get show him an angle here
Malga stomped into backseat onto the little 1-2
most of the Nikola dies in a pretty good way by so far
wheels by first, quartz
he's trying to make simple a little bit
low, TGT, dies to the Barrage clearly didn't happen
and can make grass so he can get the damage whatsoever
simple now down and all the Tristabites lost the power inside the side room
there could not be a worse time to have to face Lee that is best
The Farage comes in, Waybaugh, Gaming know it, and so should you!
Ready to do chapter!
The first smack has been secured!
Huge there for Waybaugh.
They never really drop the Vendetta Van Gaan as well.
This might actually be more of a Gushui series.
Then a Sunzo one, when you kind of think about, right, you don't really want to play.
If Sunto comes in to try and play a single with Diva, that's when those Reinhardt comps, right, are gonna come out and be quite aggressive.
It might end up being, you know, Dune, Moga, things like that.
It's like, get the job done.
I belong beyond Junction, but also Sunto has been subbed into play-down now, and he's been playing Sigma.
Yeah, but I think who's in mind to be happy to see the Sigma on the other side,
so that they feel a little bit more comfortable playing against slower pace.
I think we're going to be running away with the narrative prematurely,
But is it possible that Gushwe might be silver bullet to try and topple our world champions, just based on his hero pool and play style?
I mean, I think it's just a little bit...you know, obviously Gushwe is tremendous, but I think for me, it's more of like the flexibility of leaving shy and just their ability.
It feels like also like for Gushwe, they're just gonna play on his own, right? Just be so...I know he doesn't take up many of the resources for the rest of the team.
I'm going to head down to Ian on the stage to give us a temperature check down there.
Yeah, I'll tell you what, I can already give you a bit of a heads up.
It's hot. That's what the temperature is in here right now.
There's nothing like a championship Sunday at the STC Arena at the Esports World Cup.
So many reasons why there's a little bit of anxiety in the air.
One of the key ones of course being club championship points.
In particular, we've seen Zeta Division locking that grand final spot,
looking to join them either Weibo or of course Twisted Minds.
Weibo Gaming getting off to an incredible start.
Twisted fans are going to be feeling nervous.
They really want to secure the win here,
not just to get another step closer to the trophy,
but of course to get their hands on some more crucial,
very expensive club championship points.
Now I also want to say bonjour Paris, comment ça va tout le monde?
We've got an incredible crowd here in Paris
and I need to see who's here for who
as we're in this semi-final. So fans, who's here for Waybaugh Gaming?
Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice. That's good, that's good. Some big support over here.
What about Twisted Minds?
I'll tell you what, we've got a good crowd out here, of course we have because the ultimate prize
is up for grabs. Let's check again. Who's here for Waveball Gaming? This is your last chance guys,
all right? You're going to get lounge. Who's here for Twisting Mines? Hey, as you look at the players
here, I just caught some smiles from the players. They can hear you, so make sure you keep those
noise levels loud as this semi-final continues.
Have you ever wondered why we care or why this was more than a bunch of pixels colliding?
I think you've got your answer. We've got two of the most passionate fan bases in Overwatch.
Two of the most passionate regions and two clubs that are fighting to get their names up
in the club championship lights.
Waveberg gaming have always pulled up short, close, but no cigar.
Always an emotional exit in third,
and all fear in the quarters of the semis.
The third place match sent off with some bittersweet vibes.
Twisted minds have pulled up short a couple times this year.
Yes, they've all one map away from winning our champions clash,
but they've not quite forgotten the taste of glory.
They've not quite forgotten what it's like to beat world champions,
And I think they might like to step into that spotlight again today.
Yeah, we have a sub here for Weibo Gaming.
So it'll be SunZo coming here for Gushui.
Curious where TM is going to take us in terms of map selection.
But then I also think for Weibo, right?
You know, kind of a little bit of a meme every time we see them get a win,
kind of getting there to change from Sunday.
Like, oh, it's China, watch back, and they back.
It's like, OK.
Yeah, but I'm like, yeah.
But now, I mean, hey, they look, that was very good.
NAP number one there
for Waybo and then now for twisted minds, right?
How do you respond the Vendetta ban use there early on?
Seems like they have a lot of good answers does Waybo for potentially these Reinhardt face setups that twisted minds been using
I've had a lot of teams that have been caught off guard and not have played well into so
The I curious here worth saying though while we're on that topic the faras looks really good
But not for everyone, I guess, this company.
No.
Leave has been able to do some pretty special stuff in the past and on that map, because
again, Village on Nepal, a lot of teams can sort of group up, play inside the low ground,
play on the point, play out as far as sight lines as possible, leave them to get an option.
So with Sunzo coming in and being a tier map pick, you know, maybe it's...
So you think about the escort pool, right? It's been a lot of route 66 in Shambali
So maybe it's like the route you want to play something like you you know open things up to play like diva if you're TM
You can maybe ban cat bashing get that out of the game
And you feel a little bit better about that. It does seem like in terms of you know
Value right teams have been picking out of that hybrid and escort map pool because like some of those picks could be really
devastating for your team if you lead into the opponent. So we saw Sons of Play, I think,
entirely, the champions flush. He was sort of the go-to for this team. And Circle Royale
was a great map for Weber Gaming, right there to likes. To play those pretty static looks,
the ones really shine seeing the prime dominator, it's can match up. Let Lee continue to be
a disruptor. King's Road between these two was a draw, but yeah, it was a shutout on
circuit so that's not a bear in mind it does feel like we both have evolved
somewhat since then because they looked a little bit horrific on control at that
tournament it was just like it was far and away their worst bad time right and
I think if you're TM do you consider banning fashion here potentially no it
allows courts to kind of play that Cassidy soldier it also eliminates
Potentially like a sim band coming in here, right? So that kind of protects you in that regard
That could be something that potentially you look at here if you're twisted minds is I know for
Weibo obviously
Few different options, right? You could uh
And we've seen obviously funny astro go to Lucio a ton, right?
You can get rid of Lucio if you feel confident, right?
Now you could play a cat curie if you're weibo even without the fashion that would be like a pretty
a viable option here if they wanted to go that route.
Yeah, I mean, they had SSG banning Jetpack out against them yesterday on Survassan.
That is rude.
Yep.
What a huge shock to me, as Waybo, uh...
Okay, things like neon junction for that too.
Uh, SIG ban here from TM, so that's obviously targeted at Sunzo as he comes into the game,
and then SIM ban gone here, so going to have to see Ubi flex over, play maybe Tracer Farah
himself, right? I think if you can set up a tracer duel between leaving Ubi, you're
feeling pretty good about that as we're gaming. But what do you think of some of those options
here? It's, hey, are you looking at, like, D.Va, potentially, right? No, uh, Remacha
as well. It's always tricky when you reveal subs for whole bands, so you give your opponents
an opportunity to disrupt the play that's coming in off the bench. Go after them. The
The Symban though is quite brutal, that comes in here, right?
The Yubi you think like could play, I mean most likely it's gonna be Tracer, right?
We've seen Mei as well, but like Rude is not a, I mean maybe at the end you can kind of go to Mei,
but not like through the first parts of the map.
Sim lets you shortcut so much of the nonsense on this battle is an attack song.
Yes.
Getting big girls for free, getting up with a high ground, basically from any position,
can access it. 66 is designed to, you know, disadvantage attack side teams by
forcing them to take longer routes that are fraught with more peril to actually
get on that even footing, to get on that high ground, right? You see it on every of
the three stages of the map. You don't get easy access to the girls, you don't get
easy access to the top of the saloon, you don't get easy access to the high ground
platforms in that last phase of the map. Sim, let's you circumvent that. Now, you
You have to get it done without her.
It's plus they are muscle in that though.
Yeah, right?
Oh yeah, we are already there, aren't we?
We're already there.
It's up best to five at first to three.
But the shock is that we're going to be a one map up.
We're used to them starting series sort of from behind.
Yeah, they did it against space station,
swept after losing control.
So this is uncharted territory for us
and essentially for them.
And I think this band actually works out
play well for Wave-O.
Obviously, it kind of hurts some dough a little bit,
not having that sigma, which he's been so good on
throughout this tournament.
But a lot of pressure on courts in UB2 delivery.
UB here, especially a focus, right,
without that Symmetra in play.
Now you talked about, right, the Symmetra
so good on offense here, right, being
able to kind of close the gap around that corner,
get under big girls, right, kind of horse players down
as you get to move the car just from underneath,
like, uh, really, really rough ban here for Twisted Minds to deal with.
We'll take a look here.
It'll be Weibo gaming on defense first.
It'll be a frayette here.
So, Rematra for Sons of Not All Too Surprising, Mizuki Kiri.
Like, this would feel bad for Twisted, right?
If you just played a hit scan in this, this is something they could play.
But it doesn't feel awesome.
I mean, you know, the may can obviously like, you know, wall off the Rematra, but like, you know,
Shai is going to be able to use a, you know, movement ability of the Fridge, kind of get
over the top of those walls, put down some damage. It's not, it's not as easy.
Leaves got a big job here. Sunsut wants to play that corner, the hairpin, and just stay there.
This key twisted binds in place. Leaves, who means going to have to hit those binding chains
on the TVN team or off in the middle, and Leaves is the one that needs to find these final blows.
And he's capitalized on the post damage, the explosive bolt that Shy is going to be throwing out.
It's the win condition.
We'd have to make great use of cover here, but he'd be careful because May can.
Someone like Lee, deny him his escape route.
And they all match the Rematcha.
So, the Rematcha is when they kind of want to brawl out together.
That's when the Rematcha with the May can actually be pretty potent.
Although, those under Zuccy are very difficult to deal with, right?
Yeah, that close quarter AoE healing, being able to put down some damage.
Whoa, let's submit!
He's gonna TP right on out.
Okay.
What are they gonna touch?
Why are you both, for whatever reason, not comfortable committing to a fight yet?
They're keeping them on the ground.
I think they wanna, like, get around this corner, so things open up where the, you know, the
main walls aren't going to completely isolate some, though.
Nice shot there from Shai.
Putting some pressure down as TDNT to burst the ball.
Too much health pressure on this Lucy Curicote, promises you.
The fact that, I think, Zipline had to turn around there and just get quartz topped up,
meant that TVNT was really isolated there.
You know, Freya obviously gets a pop recently to just the,
the actual just kind of like consistent primary fire of the weapon,
which kind of takes her damage to like another level, pretty consistent.
You see a fault there into UB, UB end ports already taking some serious damage,
at least you've been using obviously the new cooldown ability, no timer, of Mizuki's TP.
That gets us just recently as well, becomes a lot more of an offensive cooldown.
It's just nice, it's kind of like Swiftstep in the same way that you can play aggressively
weakened that window.
Mizuki does some pretty recent damage. Also, what are we doing damage?
From the shot there, you'll be able to skirm around for the most part.
Simple dust takes some residual damage from it.
So those are awkwardly, caught in that high ground, but we're waiting on a nemesis form call, they're not going to even annihilate you.
Here's the overclock for Kourts, he's Sunzo, but not able to draw a beat on him, just getting a nemesis form,
Mirage is going to push on him, shy!
Genghis himself a little bit too long in front of the Goat, thank you!
The Kourts punches him accordingly, KK Sanctuary on the high ground, they give Sunzo some way to play from his punish,
go fight, a blizzard, and Mark is able to keep their tank standing.
Kourts is making mid speed off them on this low ground, his lead is not able to give him Kourts for concern.
Quartier is just pissing out his own brand of authority and no one seems to be able to stop him!
You mentioned it, Wave-O gave up a ton of space on first corner, allows TM to get in a little bit of a better position.
See if more changes are in order for Wave-O. Nope, it's just gonna be...
Maka getting a little bit of a speed booster, players getting out of the spawn here.
Denialation plus three.
Now Shia has to be careful, right? Obviously Freya can have some pretty nice vertical mobility,
but she's very floaty through the air, very easy railgun shots.
Potentially for Quartz to hit.
Well, struts up the high ground for now. It's definitely a disadvantaged spot for the soldier to be here.
Quartz has options.
Okay, he's going to take this high ground by storm, Mark is going to TP away, but they
are very low right now and they need to benefit from Lee Sin Min's AOE healing.
Joyride, Lee Sin Min gets a little bit of info about the high ground presence and he's
waiting on this spree.
Of course, the skill of the mix, you know, it's about Lee's striking first and striking
harder.
And that should be enough.
Something with the annihilation key, it respects TDMT, he's going to back up, give him a bit
of ground here to the Rematcha.
Lee Sin Min is trying to leap and down the way, a great binding chain to cover his retreat.
The way we're gaming in this case, blinking first is favourable.
Nah, all shot available here for shy as...
Twisted is going to try and funnel out through one of these chokes.
Could be pretty gnarly to deal with this.
See, explosive on hit the UBs, you know, it's going to freak us down.
Into a choke as well.
Looks like I mean, just like it's so impressive.
The right of fire is squads. Oh that is a great evil shot!
He's able to finish the job! Just as Quads was poised to box shy!
You know he would have been good for that shot!
You see Shy in midair right? Just gonna like turn his body and look down trying to deny a headshot there.
I'm watching like Quads's fist descending.
That's a highmaker though, but never kids.
Two fights in a row, one here by Wager Gaming. Shy is a problem.
And this is where sim would be awesome.
I close this gap, get to the high ground,
really just kind of get that rush rolling.
A huge fan.
It's impacted this game this far.
Okay, because Simi rush gives you a seat at the table.
But to give you the ability to command attention.
He's got a little bit low there.
Had to evade away.
Respect for the shy's damage.
The off angle is actually going to hit that ice block real quick as the ball is shot through.
Alright, check that sanctuary now to play in.
Not going to be a really utilized by Webogammy.
They even dropped to the low ground, but they avoided this blizzard perfectly.
Least of them, always in the backline, but always within escape plan.
It's a fight from Shy! That's the ball of shot we were looking for,
but Asushi quickly answers them, and now Shy has to...
How are you still in corrective positioning?
He loses his life for a bit, Yubi was picked up amidst that chaos,
and that's acceptable here for Weibo Gaming.
One minute, 10 seconds left, but who survives?
They're gonna regroup!
Aw, I mean, a huge Tuzu there from Simple keeps himself alive
as Yubi over to the Reaper here.
Reaper, Maga now over to Tracer, surprise the TP to the front of the spawn and then swap, so...
Let's see...
Leave with a Spree, you're also gonna have an annihilation, really good setup here.
Four Wave-O, the one thing they have to worry about though is allowing force to be kinda farmed.
This OC...
Big Spree!
Funny Astro couldn't quite slip away!
This is deadly stuff here from Leave!
Who doesn't wanna let Shy take all the spotlights!
Tristan, mind, this is unexpected. A very quick push through the first part of the map, but Matt, they've been more than just way late. They are stuck in the mud. We're 24 seconds left to play.
You do have another fight though, right? So, the spree invested there. Another fight available here, 4TM. They have UBTDZ, you can get on touch of points, and they have Quartz with an OC symbol with a rush.
Yeah you're playing for them. What? I don't know. At least him in there just fell. Simple doing a bit of everything.
Dealing, Pust the two guys coming out because of the perk. Going right in front of the cart. Look how low, look how low Quartz is but I can't finish the job.
Quartz looks away, back to full health. Full shot now, under the arm for shine. But what's the timing? Where's the window?
Quartz is playing as a Lucid and here's the annihilation but Sunder's already quite low. Somebody heal that guy!
He'll be taken down, Lee finds finally a connection with the motorbike.
Should I try to dodge on that high ground?
Sunzone, class quads!
A mean left hook here from the rematcher.
And now, DBNT is belated,
percent on all sides by opponents,
and forced off the cards.
Not what I called an inspirational push-back from Twisted Minds.
But I'm seeing a certain contention of this crowd really starts to believe.
So you know you lose Leeson early on, the Sun is so low coming out there with the annihilation
gets on to the point.
Take a look at some of the highlights, Shai was pretty tremendous here in the second part
of the map on the tryout.
And some constant fixes.
You know, a few times, of course, have players steam to those, just no follow-up there.
I mean, we're playing that Sheehan.
And we don't see Twisted Minds going to play that hero really at all.
But I can see very strong in nature, a lot of teams going over to the Sheehan.
Still very good.
You'd be already moving on to the next part of the plan, but I don't know if this is a contingency he accounted for.
They're going to be digging deep in the pockets here.
It's twisted mines.
They have to pull off, excuse me, and even pull a hole.
Why, I think if you, you told twisted mines before this series starts,
and you're going to get rid of that, then get a map number one,
and lose, you're going to go to root, get rid of Sigma.
They're still going to bring in Sunzo,
and they end up using the Simdan, and you're in this spot.
They'll be like, yeah, this is a really rough start to a series.
It's a simple now, a little bit of a different look here for TM. They're gonna get simple on the Alari
cat fashion
for Wayvo, cat fashion here for Wayvo in the sense and they're also going to have the honor here as well
Something we really only seen from Zeta
Calling it this event. You don't see this often from simple. It's been a while, but it's very very dangerous for the jetpack cat bastion
He already has another, you know, virtual hitscan presence.
With the ability to re-protect these turrets, it's hard to clear them out.
It's been a simple focus most of the time on hitting M1 for the forwards.
I wonder what the, how long will Tueido kind of go over to this setup.
See if Tueido can kind of get shy in a position to make a big impact here
You know when I end up burning turrets and just kind of homilying into the rematcher there around the corner, it wouldn't really go for much.
It's crazy to say this, but this is actually a moment where Widowmaker could have been kept out of spawn.
Perhaps for a bit longer.
As Tristan Mines move out to try and dominate the sightlines, as soon as that switch comes out...
...what's here to squads for choice in terms of targets?
The Suns are constantly half health as he tries to round this corner.
Yeah, they built up a Nano though.
Nano for the fashion here, over the tower, oh dear. Everybody gets inside.
It's like the 300 Spartans, the option is to fight in the shade, but TVNT doesn't have that luxury.
He's low, trying to keep the ducs up and brought down.
Quarzo quickly evens the lecture, but Leib has perched up on this high ground.
It's dangerous now, but to his good minds, the grip on map control, he rested free.
Quarzo and Overclock would be astonishingly important.
Simples taking medicine with his own hands, trying to go for the captive sun, trying to catch Leece,
humidity's found him, fencing the mobility more than the burst damage I feel, and fighting back our
twisted minds, Leece here, trying to play at long range, playing back with the Bastion, but Quartz
slots two quick kills, silences the Chinese crowd. Yeah, even though you didn't really connect with
anyway, the captive sun, just the extra mobility for the Elari, being able to kind of fly through
through the sky there, Mata gonna ditch the Ana once you end up using that Hano, the
Cat Curie, so you're getting closer to the Catnap.
This is gonna be good though for Twisted, to be able to kind of wall out with this Nejuno
Rey, the Ramatra and also the Mei.
It's gonna be very strong if they can survive some of this fashion damage, but they've done
a great job of doing this hard.
They do have to group around the right or in the middle of that, swish shot!
They're not gonna need it.
I mean, they end up losing lead, you're early on, it's nice going around the corner
and they're from UD.
This is a comp that UD are pretty sure barked out immediately
at the end of that last round.
You already have a plan for this,
but Zipalak's been taken down.
That's a yari out of the picture now.
I think he's getting a little bit dicey up.
But Astro couldn't jump out the tube quickly enough.
And Quartet's going to be brought down.
A powerful comp, but it has some fragility.
And the brittles of Twisted Minds eventually
just put on display.
I like the idea for Twisted Minds there, though.
You're going to be able to get another fight, right?
Juno's speedering back into the action.
You can have all of these old boots and there's some stall potential for you out of this.
All dangerous, simple, has to outburst away.
The touch is going to be dash all the way.
Oh no!
Take it down from Auburn.
New duck for Matt before he had a chance to contest.
That's not what you want to see at all.
Spring here might have been overkill for Lee, but he just wants to make sure there's an insurance policy in place.
And there's the first checkpoint for Webo.
You're playing around that orbital ray.
Bro, those pillars are massive.
It looks like six.
Yeah, you'd use all of those pillars down there.
I mean, that's the annihilation you use around the corner with the blizzard there as well.
You don't have the orbital ray to use.
That allows Wayvo to get that first checkpoint and get some high ground here.
I don't know if not the truck here, but we survived.
It's been uncomfortable, but it will filter through with its second prize in the map.
Captive Sun. Orbital Rave. Two very important support ultimates at the disposal.
On Twisted Vite, he comes at Captive Sun. Giant great target for that.
Burst damage, that'll be very hard for Amelia. It looks like it was a suitor that cleansed off the debuff
and Quarters taken down. Simple now. Realizes discretion. The better part of Alra,
especially when TNT is under extreme duress.
Here's an Orbital Rave. Will it be enough at this point though? It's Shiesfader.
His arm basking and flanking Angle of Sanzo, having an annihilation.
Oh boy! It's ugly for Twisted Binds!
TBNT is gonna be brought down!
And there'll be a chance to touch map!
Bit of a slim one!
But you're gonna be playing into a Kutsune rush to Artillery as well.
It's gonna put down a lot of damage as they come out from this high ground choke.
TBNT gonna go over to D.Va here.
That's gonna be the Artillery sound of the fashion.
Oh lord, this could be devastating.
There's one.
Watch out for support.
There's the others.
Slows things up, spreads the match.
Give me a little bit of a glow, that third one comes in and a ball takes, also get a waylade in further.
They're close, fighting after one simple and the first to go down and the writing is well and truly on the road.
We will give you disaster, it's far from done.
We'll keep on writing, we'll keep on playing, we'll keep on believing.
Sando has just been perfect at this event, I mean he is just unbeatable.
He comes in for Wayvo in map number two, TN and their fans searching for answers here at the moment.
Amazing play from Shy.
These are Tillerys from the fashion. We usually don't see them be that impactful.
Obviously, it gets them point one. It puts out some serious damage, you know, that up to Yubi.
Coming out of the spawn, also going to just split twisted mines as they go there to get a touch at the end.
That you know that our Tory plus in the annihilation enough and they could do with that point
So webo putting themselves one game away, man from being able to go to the final and sign stuff
Let's check him with Ian and see what's going on down to the floor. It is mayhem out there
It is absolute mayhem down here the way both gaming fans are delighted
Of course, they are just one map away from moving into the grand finals
The atmosphere down here is just electric. Felix, do you think that you can finish this in three?
Absolutely. Will Crescent 3-0 like the keys?
Wow, like the keys. He's already ready to crush another key.
Now we've got the Wayboat fans on this side of the arena.
The Twisted Minds fans looking a little bit dejected over on the other side.
I've got to ask, what's your message right now to the Twisted Minds fans?
I'm not sure. Maybe it's too early to start the pack up?
Oh wow, you think it's too early to start the pack up?
Well, I mean, it'll be not too early for us, but not too early for them.
You know what? Do you want to go for a walk?
I think we can go talk to them personally. Do you want to come with me?
Right, let's go for it.
Because this guy has been leading all sorts of big chants.
Look, he's their leader.
But the question is, has he got the bravery to say it to the Twisted Minds fans?
Because I know that they are so vocal as well, they've never wrecked themselves off.
They know what it takes to win a world championship, let alone come back in a semi-final.
They back themselves. The question is, can we get a little bit of a fun interaction here?
Okay, Trumma vs Trumma. How are you doing?
I know. Well guys, I want to ask you only one question. Do you trust you're going to win?
One way or the other, you're going to win. One way or the other, you're going to win.
Okay, one day in America, I will tell you a little story, one day in America, we did it once, but guess what?
That versus we've got coming once, and we're coming twice, we do it in America, and we will do it in bodies!
It was damn not, huh?
No, no, no, only time can tell. We all believe it.
You're a brave man, come back and we're going to be sat down.
Let's just be clear, it's like 20 of you are one of this guy.
You're a brave man.
Can we get a handshake?
Come on, it's all fun and games.
Good stuff.
Let's get right back into the action.
You go and join your fans over there.
They're right with you.
Guys, that was amazing.
Woo!
It's popping up.
Woo!
One fan base is tracing the future.
The other is defending a legacy and leaning on history.
Tonight in Paris, it's a meeting place for both worlds
and the Sparks have been flying.
Yeah, I mean, we had Ian there on the floor
about to do his like a,
Dana White celebrity of, you know, press conference
where they get the fighters to go to get in the middle.
Hey, hey, hey, let's break this up real quick.
He's always so emotional for these teams.
For these fans.
Well, Twisted obviously has an opportunity
to get to another final,
club championship points, right massive for the org.
Wave, oh, it's like, they're just like,
oh, I think this is happening.
Like, they've been in this situation before and then it doesn't work out for them, but it is the Unjunction, so this is a really good, you know, Reinhardt solution here, who works with SidMinds.
Uh, of note, we don't have a sub, I believe, so it'll be Sunzo singing in the game as he plays on a map like this.
Bastion is a band here for Webo Gaming, it's Mizuki, the band here, for TM.
Obviously, the Mizuki helps the D.Va.
I also wonder if they were potentially scared of like a Lucio or Kiriban on the other side?
Have you seen Wave or would you do a little bit more in terms of flexibility in their backline?
Yeah, it would be interesting if they like get forced into a Bastion-less jetpack cat scenario or something like that, right?
Yacht and Lucio.
Should expect to see, you know, Sons of Tri in a Rematch on this map in the past, but also the Sigma.
So you don't have the Sigma-Mazuki looking to lean on.
When we were in Kiri Lucio world, it's obviously amazing utility offered by their team,
But those big bits of burst damage that don't translate to kills right away.
Let's say like shy hits a couple of explosive bolts.
They don't mean kills in the moment, but they can often burn into the blend.
The Lucio carry are definitely trying to top that one higher up and lose their rotation on others.
And have them taken out by leave or something.
So it does matter that damage isn't just feeding support onto this.
One thing I think that's first-missed minds here at this event, which is...
No, they don't obviously love playing the jetpack now, or we've seen a lot of teams
even without fashion like play Jeff Hackett and like the cat is just really strong in terms of like
But it's kind of damage dealing support. Just leave the nuisance to deal with
ATM
Tim diva set up here
Here's pretty interesting honestly twist of mind student is gonna just work out for it
But can control the prayer if he gets that defense matrix up on the correct sideline
Chai's playing pretty far forwards here though, and the program is pretty extreme on TM.
That's a huge shot though there from Quartz, he's just going to back down around the corner for a while.
Quartz attacks lots of new players in place.
Nice little TP, and this will try and give Pussy Mind a better position to play from.
Looks like the TP Dirk has been removed.
TP ATT's up on that high ground. They can't join him right now, but he's still in the fourth position to hold.
Alright, careful. Lee has health there in the form of Lissumid.
I assume it, Jai though is low, well don't get too greedy on that sideline, he definitely feels the pressure of needing to keep this damage poured on to try and keep Twisted Minds quiet, but it's starting to get real on the point, get a bit confident.
Ah, I mean you see the deeper right there, that's a big gamble.
Yeah, the uh, and then Quartz obviously finished his shy off.
I was gonna say it's a little bit easier for Wayvote to try and retake as opposed to things you see Dukas with the Sigma.
Quartz with two though.
And he's up to the challenge, at least for me it looks like I should have a little bit of a leg there.
Game quarts and opening.
On that.
We'll rarely miss.
Well, look here for Twisted Minds.
I feel like this is a comp that is certainly leaning on their ability to get such a truck valley.
Where's their master? They want to come out and maybe try and install this a little bit longer.
I don't know, who's here for support?
Where's the healer?
Yeah.
Like you just don't have a comp that can top up your main tank when he's 1v5.
Now maybe you can get a Suzu there.
able to kind of like blast it with healing the thing about rushing if they had
rushed in the previous fight but yeah it's no end market gets there around the
corner I mean Sunzo is basically dead there's no reason to kind of throw that
in great so obviously this would have been an awesome spot from Mizuki right
but Greg will be the response here we'll lose him in a wave of gaming so
this reminds me of the great opportunity that just snowballed a little bit here
right been looking good so far the breakfully cemented pretty reasonable
answer to the deal up which happened at so slow and these are repair packs that
have to be taken fast so now he's gonna face down the hundred fifty charge
well done from course I don't know what the system says I think a lot swim now
about that nice little burst of pace there from way both gaming behind three
very powerful ultimate I was gonna say it's a lot you're pretty you know that's
That is a fight, you'd expect to look that way if you use Katsune, Russian, Islaytion and Spree into just the overclock and massive in-nest and care for Wave-O.
Oh.
Shai, building overclock pretty soon!
And that's a great pick up to find.
Simple stab, it's still twisted by 25 minutes.
This is extremely brazen from the-
Shai's gonna slide straight through the water!
Shot on UVM's dirty staff!
Navigating the wall pretty well, but Santo is down.
Self destruct for TBNT.
Can this be punished?
Gorgon's been picked up at least.
A likely attempt there from Funny Astro
to set up a self destruct kill,
but he exposed himself to danger and lead.
It's his middle name, he's the rally police, he's been raid boss activated, and once he survives, you're gonna have to back it on up.
Feels like when you get the rally going, just bring an extra tank out.
You're not gonna be able to challenge that, right? So, now you get back at full strength. That's actually a pretty impressive fight for Webo.
That was the most incredible navigation of a scene war that I've seen from the soldier, and Shai had to hop up there.
He couldn't just let the ultimate chuck his down.
That is Championship Calibur.
That's a Kitsune rush you're using.
We positioning for everybody.
Yeah, they high-tail it here.
The train guys, you play with a hot split there.
At least for me and Leed, you get split by the train.
They have to get away from the train to go on mine.
We think we just watched Mr. Mines capitalize beautifully
on wave of game and crossing their eyes for a moment.
Absolutely.
Wabo, let's see if they can manufacture another touch.
Shy here.
Over to the Sim.
They're also gonna have Lee Sumim here go for the cat.
They desperately want to try and get another fight here.
Now you got no hit scan though.
Okay, watch out!
Horse is hunting.
Pressuring here for Lee Sumim.
He's gonna be careful.
Horse will line him up pretty quickly.
Bam!
There goes Sunzo!
Beautiful headshot.
Now Lee has to try and salvage the fight.
It's like nothing go off that screen and he is very exposed after the fact you be will dispatch him twisted minds get three minutes and eight seconds
Just felt like they're throwing bodies at the car
You know typically you would never see shine all over and blaze in the light. They seem
I do feel like every now and then we also saw this at the start of sanctum in our first map is
That there was just this call to chuck the silly source
Most of Wavo gaming, for about 80% of that point.
And we're coming.
Hold on, this is an interesting comp, right?
You're going to be playing May here.
For Wavo, you really want to slow it down.
Quartz though.
It's not going to go down here.
There's a lot of puts that's coming in, right?
But the sound barrier here, that's just too much.
They just fuel all of it up straight on up.
Quartz is going hunting for Marcus.
And they submit.
The latter who is still skilking about on the rafters.
That's dominant.
Kill and simple.
Dominance from Twisted by to hold the rush to try and end the round well
I know they have a support old advantage right so the good Suney rush comes down from Maka
They end up dropping the sound barrier just running on anyone with the annihilation
Now a kid Suney rush here at the end
Wave oh just trying to find anything that'll work here comes a rush
She may well they're from Lee trying to deny and poke opportunities as way
But get out onto the point and fight back a low very very low has a tough back into sport
But sometimes an annihilation in play it's gonna be Lee getting hit back up
Sometimes I couldn't hold up in the heat
Twisted Minds post a very respectable almost two minutes on the attack side, left over.
River Riot.
And that's a haymaker there from Twisted Minds on offense.
Swayvo just never looked like they got comfortable there throughout.
So like the A.D. of May there towards the end, you know, really good kind of chokes.
It's a scream, yeah, but just a mouth of it all to the nitch, but really
Entirety of that run from second to third point
Like the protocols from
Wayvo just look very sloppy after they lost that first point
Yeah, that's just it mine. So like you can stag it keep it fluid, right?
Not really give them a chance to fully set up and just get information
So it makes the wind conditions kind of buggy
You're playing 4v5s, you might fight back right before you're in a 4v4, but you've lost a tank.
That's right!
You know, you've lost a lot of the tools.
They say that no player survives first contact with the enemy, or the translation being,
if everyone's got a player, they get punched in the face.
So you see just a little bit of a relief there.
And if you're christian in the mines, it's going forward.
a little dicey there for his activity on and on. Unreal first half on the diva. Just a master at that hero at this point.
Oh, it's 20 and 2.
Wait, it's definitely been quite a map before.
This is what I wanted to see. The Vintetta here, four lead. Amazing at heroes like this. Very difficult to play.
The Sim against something like this. Where you want to TP the entire team is going to be leave there waiting with like a whirlwind into a headshot.
I like that idea, trying to feign retreat and then dive back in, they got marker for it.
Let's leave up to now.
We've been able to build up too much resource, too much extra attack speed.
I think just losing simple and you know it's a decent amount, you've got spawn advantage to work with you,
but if Wards can wash them away, you can stack around some of these last couple of plays
and there'll be time for Twitch to find stuff, be back in numbers.
Oh, not good!
I mean, now your players coming back up the spawn.
I'm sure you lost shy, but...
Nah, you can't afford to lose quarter there, Matt.
Especially at Lee, coming back on Tracer.
Right, look at this. Just gonna put so much pressure.
Back through the choke.
Almost got two ticks. Yep, gonna be a second tick here.
No!
That is good!
He's been dropped on in by the accretion, who is past TVNT,
but the D.Va has no way of stopping.
No shield to put up, nothing to throw in the way.
I mean, you just absolutely need to keep ports alive there, losing it nice, explosive ball
there.
From shy, that'll be first checkpoint here for Wabogunin.
They do a nice job of just putting pressure onto the hitscan, they kind of make it look easy at times, right?
Hey, let's just kind of barrel down on poor, it's just a nice, really does such a great job protecting him.
Just kind of, the leave and charge is different in the server today.
Listen to this arena. That's just something else.
Okay, we got past the train crossing, but French, who were a good, really close, five-pan into the fire!
Five-thing! Please have a double kill with the post!
And that is... that is awful there from Twisted, you know, it's a huge flux.
The sound barrier connects, but they just get right inside.
The timing is so good, he left a bag of gun on the ground, he's stepping, what the heck?
But that's double support on Twisted, right?
You're going to have to use your name, actually, from Mark as we get right back into the action.
Susan was really hurriedly used there by Twisted Mind,
it was desperately threatening to take Quartz down again.
They're recovering really well.
Walden Plainak is in the way to fang on out,
and Santo Marco picked off.
But a simple, really hurriedly resurgence in that fight
for Twisted Mind, that is insane resilience.
I think it also just shows you how strong
of an ultimate sim wall is, right?
That's like, you know, a consumer coming in,
they end up using this sim wall there,
and it just kind of deters all the damage.
Now, I like this here, from Webo.
Let's go past here, Maga, plus Vendetta.
Pretty awesome combination.
Shai not gonna take the Sodorant battle,
just yeah, there's a line out of him.
The Freya, finding him at range.
It is so free.
What is that self-destruct about?
Okay, it's Nuts, Toro trying to make you split CP
with him, you've just got clapped there, his lead,
sailed on through,
but the Astro kind of avoid Shai for too long
and now TP and T will be caught out of position.
We'll be playing to stall things out. This is so easy to twist and find, so I think winning a 5-hero, winning that previous fight is pretty crucial for this meeting.
If you're twisted though, if you were to ask them like, hey, what is the comp you're like worried about most and potentially kind of coming in and really just something what you do, it's exactly what we're seeing at a rainbow right now.
I guess you're picking a hurts on a creation here that could be stomping tower against the Vendettics. The one's got the map, and that's for sure.
It's dangerous, but I mean, if they're going to get the map, the comp's been unconvinced.
Sunei rush there, absolutely needed.
Get in, just kinda fully out that Maga, so.
They'll also get Lee Sumin just back on a flank.
Lee Sumin is able to make it out, I don't know.
So, okay, they don't have anybody to kinda chase him down to that point, so.
I'll trace him.
Okay, so this is about where Christian Mindtrap is able to take the second checkpoint.
So, we're ever getting too far off the cusk.
But need to win this next fight.
That one kind of goes without saying they lose here to get dragged out
He starts to get uglier and uglier
Thunderingly pretty nasty against somebody right kind of rip a lot of that. Yeah, it's just it's over help all yeah
They're having the chance to hang suspended there trainingly like Damocles is a little
Unlikely
If you see the ones coming out straight away, some of the chances in a TV NT sound barrier to strike a spot
There was a something play but a wall in the way potentially that was protected
Sentos the faster fall yet again a twisted mind which is comfortable against the mountain look
PBNT surges forward notices Lee she's just trying to back away with the blade up to block and that means that Waco
Danny are in deep trouble. That was the fight the inflection point in this map and twisted minds have withstood the test again
This PBNT on the Sigma feels like
Just every time hitting these accretions Sigma also a pretty difficult hero to play into the vendetta right vendetta
doesn't really care about the kinetic grasp. He just starts swinging on the sigma, the TD&T
can approve it now to be one of the best tanks in the world over the last year.
Train gonna delay the cross here for Wave-O.
Soundbar has to be good here. It was massive for Bonnie Aster in that previous fight,
but it's gonna have to be used to answer the derivative clock-smack. I totally think you
You can use it proactively here, it's too risky.
Here's the bowline to the back line.
Stickler now going to go for continued rush.
And there it is, destruction!
Rain Supreme!
Lee's been turned to already off the map.
And I don't know where Mark thinks he's going to go.
Lee's picked up by Quartz.
And that's the score that breaks the tables back here
on Neon Junction.
Wave of gaming just don't have an answer to this one.
It's pretty impressive they're able to keep TDNT alive
through that cage.
They didn't have a TP to kind of get him out of there.
They end up trying to break the cage.
Ports obviously contributing heavily in that.
We too men will get a touch, but
there's the ultimate price as Sun Doh gets back up to the high ground.
And that's what we'll make it.
Finally, on their final chance to pick a map in this series,
Twisted Minds come up with the goods.
It's important, maybe an inflection point in this series,
but more than that, it's a foothold to begin to fight back
The problem is that every map from here on out will be selected by their opponents.
If you look at the map selection, you get the flash point maps, you get the push maps, right?
A lot of teams are really going to go over and play, probably, East Peronso instead of Colosseo.
Maybe if you want to try and play slower with something, you can play Colosseo,
and then you think about some of those flash point maps, right?
You want to play something fast and play like an Atlas,
maybe you think about bringing Douche Week in because a lot of the other ones like New
Jump City which we've seen in a ton of this event, great Perus style of play.
And you know what? Twisted Minds, right? You know, Stig, Ramatra, Thiever, any of those heroes,
you feel great about playing them in these comps. One thing to note is that a comp we thought that
would be troublesome for Twisted Minds. They've been deader. They got through, yeah. They were
still dead. They had the answer. Yeah, there was a switch over to Wolf of Sigma. One that had
my eyebrows raised but it worked out.
I'm curious to hear from our experts here so let's cross over to the studio with Huck and Petro.
Thank you very much and great casting from Uber and Mr. X but we got to break down some
excellent gameplay from Wave-O Gaming. They take the first map and Jake you're giving them massive
credit for the compositions they were rolling out. The coaches coming out with some crucial
bands already. The diva band on map one was critical it let them get so much mileage out of
of the Farah Bastion and Twisted Minds. Although this map was incredibly close, this is a crucial
one. Wave-O needed to win this map and so they were able to deliver great deal of ban
to get this done on map 1.
As we take a look at some of the best moments here from our first map, it was a dominant
showing at the start, a very close finish. Johnny, what was the difference maker here
as it was 99.99?
Well, Goose Ray on the deal first came up, Clark Chaps, there was some crucial hero folks
here asked well me and Jake talked about everything needed to go right for
Weibo gaming and it felt like things really did great barracha from leave
asked well I think Lisa member a tremendous job on the jetpack cap so
this is a serious with the very limited room for error for way beginning and
everything's gone right so far so what did you see out here in the crowd and
it was way both striking first the surprise of almost everybody I mean
listen I think both of these teams have a massive fan base here in Paris and
and they're being loud and proud and really cheering their teams on.
Then Twisted Minds needed, I think, that boost because, quite frankly,
the first two maps were going into Weibo's favor.
You can see it on the server and on those player camps,
just how frustrated Twisted Minds were.
Let's take a look at Route 66 because, again, it was Weibo looking strong.
Jake, was it the compositions or individual plays? What did you see?
You know, this is the same ban, right? This is something that always,
it not just gives you an edge against Tian, it's almost a must win for Weibo.
but honestly this map came down for me to exactly one moment.
Okay, after a great defense, like yes, it was looking good for Wave-O,
but ultimately it was their attack where they needed to clutch up,
so they win a key fight, and then it's an artillery from shy that denies the retake.
If the retake goes off here, this is a full, this shot wins the game.
If you don't connect this, you actually lose this map almost for sure.
But Swiss Abynes, on this map though, we have to talk about the backline,
because Twisted Minds came in so greedy with that Ilyari in the mix there as well, so they did take the gamble in this one.
At the end, it is Waveo jumping out to a 2-0 lead, but then it was Twisted Minds' turn.
Johnny, let's talk a little bit about what just had this fan crew on the right side of the stage going wild.
Yeah, look, Twisted Minds, the claw won back on me on Junction.
It's a map that really plays well with Twisted Minds' composition, but again,
Now you're getting into a territory where you're like, yeah, you clawed one back, but
way before gaming, they get to dictate where we go for the next two maps. They get to dish out
the first hero band themselves, and so great getting back into shape here, playing Dramatra,
playing with the Symmetra, but they have to do this for two more maps, and it's going to be a
very difficult task. In other titles, they use the term reverse sweep. That's when you go down
to and then have to win three straights. Zoe, how often does that happen in the Overwatch universe?
Quite a lot actually, especially if Twisted Minds is involved. I think Twisted Minds
have played more Game Fives than most other teams that have taken the stage this tournament.
We thought it would be a bunch of 3-0s potentially as we saw the initial schedule.
This one potentially going to distance Jake. Can you call it now? Who do you have winning?
I still think team can come back but they're gonna have to overcome some very significant
hurdles. For me it's the Lucio and the Curie bands that really threaten the core of their
composition. Waveball has full control if they want to attack those picks and I think they likely
will because, yes, Twisted Minds, they can be replaced, they can maybe be played in different
ways, but the Lucio and the Cherry are their bread and butter, so Astro and Syphil are
going to be pressed to a depth as we go deeper in the series.
Let's talk a little bit about the tank swap that's happening on stage, Johnny.
I don't know if you caught it over your shoulder, but Gush Wei just made his way back out here
to the delight of the fans.
What does that mean composition-wise?
What are you expecting from our Chinese team?
That tells me that they're going to play a role.
They want to get on top of Twisted Minds in this one.
And I wouldn't be too surprised to see a Mauga come out, for example, try to get on top of the Symmetra.
This is now a way of a gaming team with an opportunity to seize a grand final spot for China,
something that they haven't done since the Overwatch World Cup in 2023 against Saudi Arabia.
So this is a huge moment for Chinese Overwatch, and they are just one map away.
And I hear you guys might end up in China at some point in front of all these fans.
I'm excited to see what's going to happen here in the Overwatch universe.
For now, Sully, final predictions.
Who do you have coming out into the grand finals?
Just twisted minds battle through.
Yeah, I think twisted minds are going to bring it back.
They just need to play together again.
It looked a little bit too disconnected.
Too many Euro plays attempts there from them.
But I think if they just rally and get back on the same page,
it's theirs to win.
Jake, you mentioned that it's going to be Wave-O
choosing the maps from here on out.
So what is their strength?
What are you looking for them to call
if it does go to a game five?
I mean, the tough thing is the final two picks
are on a push and flash point.
And for me, these are the least valuable map picks of any game was because the maps are the most similar to one another.
So yes, you have map picks. We're gonna see a soldier band come out. That will limit courts.
But this is a guy like I don't know how much the bands really affect him whether he comes out on the Cassidy
This she on I still think TM are gonna be a threat. So we both they need to finish this quickly
This takes me all the way back to the Blizzard arena days. We have a jam-pack crowd. They are loud
They are proud and they of course have their signs galore Johnny
give me the final thoughts as we're jumping into map number four do we go
to a map number five and who your players to watch leave and shy they
they're carrying the hopes of a nation in this very next couple of maps here
and they have the opportunity to see minds are allowing them the space to go
and make place and if they can make the place required to see this series that
would be a massive moment in a board she's for history Jake as you can see
we're missing one player there from twisted mines before this one kicks off
So walk me through what we have remaining. It is a 2-1 series for Waybo. They are on match point
I could see if we do go Matt 5 call a CO being a pick that Waybo want to bring it to they've looked very strong with a
Cat fashion style on that map they boxed out Falcons in a huge upset earlier on in the tournament
It could be a place that they look to return to at this key moment
See I know they have been here before they have been in this spot under this pressure
And I still believe in this team. They are not out of this yet
They've literally been in this situation just a few weeks ago when they were fighting it out in the lower bracket and
Ended up against crazy twins in the grand finals in Tokyo, Japan
So they have the tenacity you know, they have the great to bring it back and do a reverse sweep on it
It is championship Sunday. This is your semi-final can webo finish it here or are we going the distance?
We find out as we send it back to the casters. It's uber and mr. X on the mic
It's a lesson to this arena.
On one side it's thundering drums, rage, desperation to get back into the series, and on the other
side it's years of belief, grasping for a reason to celebrate.
Something truly special.
Feels like it's brewing in this arena.
The wave-o-side feels cautiously confident.
Uh-oh. Hey, we've seen this before. It's only one. But then you lose this one, then you're like,
uh-oh. Okay. We've seen this. I've watched this movie before. Twisted Minds gets, you know, I think
obviously you win this map. The confidence level just jumps through the roof for their style of
play because the, like, uh, Jake was talking about, I was talking about it when we were talking about
the map selections. It's, uh, really the escort and the hybrid where you get the most value out
of those selections right so to get deeper into this series, Sigmund Gahn, that's a pretty big
fan right because Sunso on the Margo struggled to get through TVN2 when he switched off towards
the end of the injunction. Yeah now we have Gushwe coming in, someone who in theory reportedly is
the main sort of role player on this tape and there's no sign of standing in his
way. Retention. Speak. The soldier band is quite interesting as well. If Shai is
obviously been playing you know whether it be the soldier or the Freya,
probably puts Quartz in whether it's be fashion or a Cassidy, would be the options
there. Discussed on the disc about going after the Lucio Kiri. Sort of comfort for twisted minds.
That's something they also referenced earlier in the series. They probably save one of those for push
in a game. Probably. You know, we've, uh, obviously in the last series, Zeta, right? The,
you know, we saw Mila, she played a lot of different heroes. That's Bronson,
in terms of support lines.
So like Mitchell Ludovic, Ruchway is back in the game here.
Ramatra, Moga, I think that's the play.
You know, Atlas, we have seen teams play Rucking Ball.
You've been playing Rucking Ball doing this, right?
Very good for these types of heroes, so.
Can't count that out, right?
It does feel like eventually Twisted Mines
cottoned on him to answering the doing this,
but it did require a wholesale adjustment
in their composition, which included the Sigma.
Exactly.
That accretion to disrupt the Doom while he's kind of
locking might be an option.
Yeah, you could, like Asti, you could play Roadhog,
but that opens you up to a couple of other lines then.
You know, you'll feel great toward him in life on the line
rolling out Roadhog Cassidy.
Well, this is the reality of losing control.
In fact, losing those first two maps,
normally Twisted Clients are the ones who are ahead.
Normally, they're the ones who are poised to win the series, to win the Champions Clash, to win playoffs in EMEA, and then they get reverse swept.
That's been their story so far. So this is uncharted territory.
I mean, both fanmeas is just on edge going into this one.
It means more to these two clubs than maybe any I can imagine in a game like this.
So both of them fighting in the club championship as well, Matt, they're very much in the race, in the grander scheme of the eSports World Cup.
But for those focused on the midseason championship, it's at the side of Matt.
We have a pause, I believe, in the side of Matt.
I want to remind them as well that the prize for winning this is Game Against Zeta.
I think it might have been better framed.
They're being on their parade, but...
It might have been better framed.
There's a chance to take it all here at the midseason championship.
But yes, that is, it's a factor too.
Perhaps one you're a little bit more ready
to overlook at the moment.
The crowd is astonishingly quiet at this time.
I might point it out, there's a lot of nails being chewed,
there's a lot of grimaces.
It's the fear of losing almost seems greater
than the prospect of winning in a game like this.
Any way of a right, you've been here before,
sorry man, at different points and different tournaments,
But, you know, up against one of the powerhouse teams in the world, you get advantage, you get reverse left.
Twisted Minds.
Obviously, they have a lot of adversity the last few months, but they've been battling on through it.
This would be kind of the hallmark example of that.
Okay?
Ooh, at least so.
So, this is something we don't see as fun from Twisted Minds.
But we've actually seen a ton from Zed's edition at this event.
Doomfist, Vendetta, Sheehan, Jetpack Cat, quite the look here for Weibo.
Mr. Mines playing a pretty, um, restrained sort of look, it's a deathball style cop
they're trying to look for here. That's a very early Suze wonk market,
there might have been a javelin problem, Lee dives on in, but that's something she's finding connection.
I like this setup though for TM, you know, obviously you lose courts now, that's quite
But the Orisa has been really strong at this event. Difficult to deal with, but a CDNT jumps down and contests the point that allows Gushui and Kona to just run through the rest of the team.
If you see what's at play here, Divinty's being ignored.
Way by game you're doing whatever they can to try and avoid fighting against the Orisa. And when Divinty drops down to the point to contest, that's the opening.
Yeah, they're almost better up giving up control of the point they're early on and continuing to kind of fight as a unit.
Yeah, I would say so you'd like to ask for a full five on five out in the open
But then you're gonna do with the high ground to spare. Oh, what?
Hey, you could just backhands least of it as he emerges
We begin into there and answer. Yes, they do. It's an entire backline late waste
There's a matter of time before you fist comes for course
TV and he does take out shy, but
But you can tease out the team at every fight.
Yeah, yeah.
Don't get me wrong.
We'll see you now.
Zack Gouche comes in.
We were talking about maybe it's a do, maybe it's Maga.
Over no wrecking ball.
It's been incredible on this map in the past.
But it's doofus here.
A lot like in map number one, nobody else out there
really doing this.
Oh, God, barely.
This is a huge punch there through the T.P.
This is what twisted lines want, though.
The fight is now falling off the high ground
to the point itself.
This is where they feel like they can have the edge.
Mark is likely to be alive.
He disengages fully the Weibo at 98% by the time Twisted Minds actually get a take.
They continue to rush to something that is perspective by the Chinese squad.
They're going to fall away from it.
This dead eye though, with this so avoidable.
Oh my goodness!
What a response!
Lee's Swim in at the only answer that gets him out of that situation alive.
And the rest is the landslide.
Weibo gaming run over Twisted Minds.
And they're going to have themselves the first flashpoint.
Pretty clean there from Weibo. Great use of the Catnap. I'm sure that's what we're going to take a look at here.
Dead Eye comes on through. Catnap, the rest of the damage. Shy getting in here.
This time Shy on the Shion with the spray coming up massive to Weibo.
only two flash points away from making it to another final.
Now it's going to keep a respectful distance to start this off.
One wrong step and getting on the wrong end of that,
Chavilland from the eraser and Jor-Ran can be over, straight away.
Leave a little bit of low, Sundering Blade has been developed in this way,
has to fall away from this, this is going to escape.
Look at the speed boost!
to clean up the best the TVNC made.
So it's good minds command attention here on the second point.
Yeah, they need to use some air there, obviously with the Katsune Rush rolling.
Simwall invested as well, but nice here on the exit from TVNC.
That is going to get rid of Mokka and
a change here in nature will be Gushui over to the Moga.
Moga a little bit easier time into the Orisa and then the passion
here as well, right?
Uh, no, up in the sky here with the cat, Aresa obviously, once the armor is off, does not
have a ton of damage mitigation, becomes a target that can easily fall over.
Try and pop south, that grenade is a non-insignificant amount of damage.
Down the corner, clear the CT, all the priority for these DPS and the Weibo.
SIDE! And there's Ruby just planning it's wall! Give him nowhere to go!
The response of the Terrasurge there from a TVNT, but Weibo, struck it off quite happily!
Looks like it's usually the same for just that moment.
Oh, Quads find some success on Lee.
But it's going to be released from the cat napping now
as all of Twisted Minds fight through as a death ball.
And then Run-Waver over.
Maybe this, Orisa's been pretty strong on this sort of thing.
That as we see Zeta playing it a ton,
which another team's going to pick it up.
This time, TD and T grabs it here.
Obviously, Orisa's got like the spear, you know,
for the stun and just like this place.
Sort of like the spear spin as a damage reduction.
And then also just kind of like knockback, right?
Like knocking the vendetta off force
after using cooldowns, fortify.
Obviously it becomes very difficult
to even stand there and fight TBNT.
A lot of tanks have that disruption,
but Arissa is uniquely hard to disrupt.
So like the stop from the douche way,
lead time again, there's always things
you can see in the order of this fortify.
Dead eye, that's the least you've been before.
The turret shots come in, Chai fights the second off the fight,
but it's still later gaming, fighting from behind and Chai.
This is not the helpful hack!
You know, the Jedi comes in from course, he ends up falling, but they get two kills right off of the back of that, so...
Worthwhile trade.
This Wabo's gonna have Lee go over and play Tracer here.
Now back over gonna play Pharah, so they've been getting outworking as well.
This is where TVNT would go over to something like a debuff, particularly, right?
With all this damage coming in from that Pharah Bastion.
One thing of note though, right, when we saw this in map number one,
Twisted was not playing the Cassidy. They were playing a lot of that fashion can as well as
kind of match. There was always some sort of a glitz scan. I believe has the ultra care for
now because of Cassidy who would love to work around this point. This is really where he shines
in terms of effective range. Good disengaged there for Weber Gaming kept for the right time
and a symbol in play. They can't really fight back in the poke battle. And Twisted minds have
have got to 70% on his second flashpoint.
They're threatening to run away with the game.
Spick it and running away.
Gushwe.
Through the opposite.
In fact, a constant twisted mind
that the sound barrier is just perfectly timed.
Had an aim with Stan Lisbo.
It's Gushwe losing his cage fight
and market to the terror surge.
Every answer particularly crafted by twisted minds
to unravel the wave of gaming plan.
The beat could not have been better timed there
by funny Astro.
Let's take a look here.
There's gonna be a terrorist search in combination with a dead eye.
Least of me actually was in there with a catnap.
Guess gonna...
Sucked into the middle there as TBNT finishes off the Pharah at the end.
Uh-oh.
I am watching a contingent of fans.
We need to get Ian over there to console the wave of...
Yeah, starting to believe, Matt.
Should I hear trying to be a second Pharah?
The Rocket Pharah is real.
He moves him in, in the mix, the bastard just gets fucked out by TVNT.
Hard fight in this close corner, the chimes of the arse.
Got to get away here, look from the sim turret, and this way being alive is kind of necessary.
Shy and Light above, what a bloody time, they're low.
His aim is true.
TVNT gonna go into the D-Vy, I was talking about how that's what they went to in this second half.
Early on.
Shy, anyone, is this a little casual fighting here from Shy?
Shai cleans up everybody there, pretty incisive in mines.
Perking of course into the rockets.
Beautiful done, can he do more?
I don't love Twisted trying to match the cat bash,
and I feel like this is kind of favorite wave-o slightly.
40% though, but wave-o gaming.
Again, I think they're happy with the match-up.
You alright?
Quad's here down in the rocket farage, here's Lee, looking for more.
Desperation now is he saw simple try and slip away and it wasn't too many for the gaming. I think they might just be back
Getting this is not for the strength of twisted minds
so to kind of try and
Go toe-to-toe with wave. Oh who leaves you mid and child was pretty comfortable on this
This extremely risky, but they probably don't they kind of need to match that damage output and the threat and then with the fever
They have a slight advantage
Dang this for shy, just an awkward spot, I don't think he's ready for quads to descend that quickly.
Just to slide his calculation for Weebo-Kating.
They're all grouped up off the point though, and happy to come back in, they just need one more fight.
Easier said than done though, folks, especially if you believe he's just caught in the neutral like that.
I mean, if you're Weebo, you cannot allow these attackers to happen and just kind of, well, just let them just kind of waltz on in.
Just taking this map. Just a sloppy moment there.
there. Yeah I mean you can't have that as uh we've now I'm gonna ditch bar I go
to tracer. Barra seems fine but perhaps against Kat Bastien it's a bit ugly.
Grisha we're here just want to get too low he's drawn out because soon a rush
from Twisted Minds this feels like a great exchange for weaver gaming they
trade ult for ult and now Shai's gonna use his ability strike coming in the
back line now. Kage fight who's caught on that? Yuji looks like he's in a danger spot.
The Kana gonna come down and the Bastien ult here Twisted Minds. Oh the map goes Yuji!
Drag down to his deep demise, and he's zoomed in, gets his head dirty.
Simpul picked up a funny ass who's going to catnap up his owner,
looks like a TVNTV neck, it's on the cards, he's back.
Hussweig, taken out of the action and shy falling,
needs a weebo gaining, are going to fall flat in his last fight.
And Twisted Minds start to give their best, something really true to believe in.
Something real, a chance here, and a reverse sweep in the series,
but we've still got overtime.
Leafs still has a chance to touch, and he will.
The police should have been taking down the captain off there,
and Marker too far from the action.
It feels like a full-on hope.
This way they will try.
Weibo and Pince here, time to time again.
They'll throw everything out there to fight for their right to compete,
but we're gonna have to go to a match fight for that.
Twisted minds, they're back!
Oh, no, weibo fans are crushed.
It's not over just yet, but man, feels like we've seen this.
Twisted minds trying to pull together.
Reverse sweep, another final.
We have one more map between these two teams as we take a look at some of the highlights.
Such a fantastic start for Wayboat, right?
this Doomfist obviously getting a massive advantage early on in terms of comp
the Orisa swap from TD&T was great seemed to really kind of turn the tides of
the map and then I thought on that last flashpoint we've all had a you know a
great start and then I think they just kind of fumbled the bag they just let
TM just got to get right back into it even the last fight the last fight man
like it's one thing for Shadow to get over the world not expecting to running
to Twisted Minds where they were, but they were at 98% like they could just take a point.
And then Quartz is able to find a random kill just in his normal Sentry mode on leave.
Brutal Staff, let's head down to the crowd Ian, this is the right time I think to take
a temperature, what do you think?
I've never been hotter than right now, it's crazy down here, Twisted Minds fans, how you
doing right now?
You said, I came over here and you said we're going to see a reverse sweep.
You said all the reasons why.
What's your message and what are your thoughts right now?
I see it and I mean it.
I want to say only one thing guys.
You can't run but you can't hide.
Where do you think?
I didn't see it over there.
Where do you think the belief comes from in this team?
Where does the belief come from in this team?
the belief because we come from Saudi we come from each country to believe in
this team do you think we're gonna lose now they trust us like we trust them we
gonna fight for them like they fight for us
and I was can you can you wish one day say la la la la wait till I get my money
I will give my money! Let's go!
Wait, come on. Make some room just for... I'm going on stage, right? Hold on a second.
I did not expect Broder to start singing Kanye West, but that's where we are.
It's the Esports World Cup, expect the unexpected. I've still got this teddy.
I was going to send this off over there somewhere. Sorry.
Wow! It is loud! That guy, everybody needs a hype man like him in their life. That's for sure.
But I need to hear from the Weibo Gaming fans.
If we can get a shot of them, they are just as passionate.
They are not given up by any means here.
They are ready to take this to a fifth and final map.
Hey, who's taking it?
What about Weibo Gaming?
The belief is there, and I feel like as fans, everyone here
and everybody watching at home, we got just what we wanted.
We wanted a banger semi-final for all the marbles, a shot at this trophy in the grand
final.
One more map to play, let's do it.
Waymore Gaming came looking to avenge champions clash.
And Twisted Bines are now one map from making this rematch so much more cruel, so much more
painful than the original.
They're the ones that have been on the river at the receiving end of these
reverse sweeps in recent today and it's time to deliver one of their own
making and we get Colosseo is the final map selection in this series and look
we talked about it they were saving whether it be the Kiri or the Lucio
ban for the end it is Kiri gone an interesting enough niche is the Moga
down on the other side Gushway stays in the game I believe you find we can get
where there's a sub thing going on the stage.
It's really far, even with my new enhanced eyes.
For me to see, but yeah, I know,
it's usually still in, so.
The Moga gone, I guess it's gonna be,
we're gonna have our mantra here, potentially.
Is this gonna be like the Wu Yang versus Shunang?
Looks not simple, doesn't,
they don't really play the Wu Yang.
They'll probably play,
they're simple to play the map, right?
You play something like that, geez.
It has some lateral mobility now with the perk upgrade, but it seems like they're not picked.
Oh man, what an insane game.
Way by I have spent years living with the pain of heartbreak.
Their fans are very familiar with it.
Now one bottom up separates them from that feeling, or the breakthrough that their fans have been waiting for.
It could go either way, Matt.
It's about leaving it all out there because this could be their last chance to speak for their country
Well, I think the Curie ban is also the right one there from Wayvo because if you were to just ban the Lucio
Funny Ashro can play Juno at a really high level can also play
Jetpack cat right allows Curie to stay in the game
That was Reiner it's quite interesting
Obviously the Doomfist would give it a lot of issues so
Here we go folks, the final map in the final chart for Twisted Minds or Weibo Gaming to
book their ticket into our grand finals and I'm in season championship. It's a Reinhardt
Battee's composition versus Jetpack Cat, Bastion and Doomfist. You know the Battee's gonna be able
to kind of like, if the Doom comes in and does some serious damage, gonna be able to heal everybody
up right away. The BAP is also going to give them up. I was going to say some answers here
against the Pharah, right? You know, obviously, Sib can't really interact that much with the
Pharah. Wow! And typically neither can the Reinhardt, but CDND says to watch this. But
the BAP obviously can put out a lot of damage towards some of those Flyers, so they're going
to make up for some that they lack in that in terms of the comp. It just could poke damage
overall. But Dufus doesn't not like that, especially when he's forced some of those
longer straightaways. I mean a big slammer, you know, punch from the dude, like the
regen burst there of the battle is going to be pretty strong against it.
The immortality build they're used. Guishui gets a bit of a meow there, bit of a heel
boost, and he dives on in. Very successful foray in the enemy territory,
hip away by gaming. I have given 40% and now they need to play back in the long
straightaway once more. Locked it very well to meet Guishui with a
bayonet there. I also wonder if that's going to be the end of the Reinhardt.
Looks like potentially gonna come out with another game of it here.
They're gonna try it one more time, but they were pretty fast up the run.
The last time, some serious damage down here from Shy.
And it was hard for him to come pretty early in the day, didn't it?
And it was washed away in seconds.
Dill Twistamai is trying to run away with the bag.
Shy doesn't have a way to chase them really outside of the Jetpack catch, so instead,
he reaches for his Q key and COUTS!
Oh, we needed the shield to be used as a pistol, David.
Funny Ashford running away with the cards.
Yeah, you know, it's all fun, right?
Wave-O is obviously coming up with some kills,
but it's actually twisted minds of game progress out
of that fight, because the payload goes all the way back
the other direction, but he ports now over to the Cassidy.
We take a look here.
Shy's POV with the artillery.
He's really good with these throughout the series.
He also gets the kills here on a Funny Ashford TB&T
to finish it off.
Capacity is getting some serious fighters, but now Wave will have to push into Twisted Minds territory.
That's what's a little uncomfortable for them so far.
Radio Strikes is just giving their position. What a biotic grenade for Maka!
Just denying any healing opportunity!
Quasimodo Fariasso certainly priority targets, found first and found wanting.
This time it'll be Wave ult.
Getting the bot moving, that's gonna be the ant-hatred fuse there by Twisted Minds.
20 or so meters behind here for Weibo Gaming Mana boosts to bail off
for either lead or Gushwe most likely. So Makka here on an offing.
He can't move in the entire time behind this. Weibo Gaming's machinations
are coming to fruition and Gushwe is simply knocking heads together.
Not one for suppressing this one, but leave the game playing to the big brains.
That's going to be Weibo taking the lead and they catch them completely off guard.
Makka on an off angle, Biogrenade, Dando.
So far forward. Yeah into Gushway.
Into Gushway.
What can you get out of Twisted Mines now in order to get them stabilised?
Can you make this expensive if you were gaming 15 meters a lead?
That is massive. Lead coming to the barrage.
That makes me wonder if he's not switching off the Ferrari here, of course.
Does the deed, the Twisted Mines looking pretty grim and determined after that?
I don't feel like that was too bad though, right?
Because you end up obviously you get the sound barrier out.
Basically, at the same time, they get Gushwe, but that ultimate is huge, right?
As Lee is gonna ditch M'Farah over the tracer here.
Maybe he feels like just...
...forced just too much of a threat, puts him more pressure on the back line here with Gushwe.
You don't wanna find him simple at all.
Okay, they're gonna get a lot of ground. How much is the question?
Here goes Sebastian Ultimate.
He's trying to set us some eliminations, theoretically.
Simple now with an M-M, he explorees, there's no spot to make use of it!
And the body grenade knocks him down!
The fellow building up back, he's certainly being displayed there!
And we're gaming! Stopped twisted minds from equalizing, but they let them once, they're closer to the total.
Simbling all the build up towards these amatrices really fast.
There tries to use the immortality field to be able to save.
Oh, hey, you know, Jake in the back was like, hey, we haven't seen Moira at all this event.
At least simple. This is really like death ball. He also has a little bit more survivable than the Baptiste.
This is what a Kiriko man does to a man.
Look at my ability. Decent healing and a pinch. I'm not sure about it though, I won't lie.
It lacks utility, something that simple's been out of really lean on.
Over the run. He also do lose some of that extra poke that the Baptiste provides.
But if this hasn't gotten any value out of his nice big punch there from Grishwaite, it's disruptive, but it's not deadly yet.
Yes! You'll have to double back to the cart now. We can't be conceding this lead if we're
way above gaming. Marker, since Kusra, please stand up alongside, please!
Yuppie's down! Leibniz delivered such an important collection of kills here with simple
forward to the pulse bomb. He must have waited out the fade, and way above gaming continued
to hold twisted minds at bay.
About halfway through this game now.
It's a lead you see here, aww, nice pulse bomb, simple, doesn't have to fade there to
kind of wash that off, live another day as...
Ward's got to get some more of that water on that mouse pad.
Get the mouse pad, get that coefficient of friction just right.
Oh wait a minute, hang on, way more gaming!
Out of the gate, hit again, this time, deep into enemy territory.
Marker has fallen though, he's actually known as support on live for way more gaming, but
The mind of the damage is to force TVNT away. Even if it's for a couple of seconds, some extra push progress would be acceptable.
Leave has to really pick up the edges of this tower to spawn advantage for Twisted Minds. This way, we'll be dragged out.
And losing Maka is quite brutal. I feel like this is an opportunity for Twisted Minds to get the lead.
Call us in sound barrier. The ability for TVNT to rematch.
And also most likely gonna end up with that sim wall dead eye
Everything to work with here
It's gotta be like a big biograin maybe from Maka as all he just get right to the high ground get rid of shy
They're gonna catch up
Try now taking down the lice here if the damage leave without to do something ridiculous to try and get them back
It's twisted minds. I've gotten into the lead and massive pick on the bastion
Paves the way forward for them now and a simple could make this even more painful
Goose Twist lost his grip on the fight and Wave-O might have lost theirs on the map.
GVNT gets a free remake here, Quartz has a dead eye, Colesson's got used to great effect.
And there's a sound barrier in the back pocket. This is the moment for Twisted Minds to come alive.
And one of the things Twisted Minds is great at is using these TPs in combination with the dead eye.
There's Lucio Minth falling. Dead Eye sound barrier.
Wave-O fallen apart here at the end, Mitch. Now Tien, they've blown it open.
I feel like anything you get out of this is just
It's great on top of the cave her twisted minds not really looking for a map completion, but
But it's 30 this gives him a nice buffer
Yeah, you turn up from one five away going to catch up into two and that's when it starts to feel impossible
Especially with only two minutes on the clock you try gets another boost
But it's gonna be brought down by funny after he cannot deal with the face full of damage level Adam leave
It's trying to contest trying to find a way to get to the next to yeah
He's back in the fight. Catnap here for Lee Sinmin. But Quartz has found Lee. He's taking down China's superstar.
And that distance continues to get larger.
And the pit in the Weibo Gaming stomach continues to feel deeper.
Feel more visceral.
Because they've lost their grip. They're out of control.
They do want a map completion. Shy though.
Neath then an artillery shell. Finishes off Quartz.
You'll fall as well. We assume in here gonna try and protect Shai with his life.
Shai ends up falling there towards the end but still the damage is done.
Twisted mines man. An unbelievable three minutes from them to be able to get that
lead. We might just have seen Weber lose their way into this map. They only have a
of a minute and 23, there's multiple fights.
I'm thinking three fights that have to win
to match this total.
They'd have to be simply perfect from here on out
and twisted minds are not gonna give you a free lunch.
You be no, mulch up, turn into an easy snack.
Leave, I'm gonna find quads in the end
and that's the start.
That's the first step for Wayboat.
It's not a revelation, that was a necessity.
But the most important part is that it's not costly.
If you're twisted mines, you're trying to take a fight or two like that, that forces out some more of these ultimates out of Wevo kind of stacking something for big one last fight at the end.
Drive lane forward, looking for an early pick. This is dangerous. It's a big risk to take, but he's committed to it. Here is Kyushui turning up. Shai is down and Yubi's pretty charged up.
I think this way's in trouble. He's down. That's gonna give control of the map. Back to Twisted Minds.
We will have to take risks. They've got to go aggressive. They've got to get creative, but that one falls flat.
And they're gonna have one more chance to salvage this series.
Maka dies a late year, Mitch.
Astro gonna move on back. They're not even gonna touch this card, right?
I don't see where the touch is supposed to come from.
Two maps down. They were wistened off. Everyone thought it was over.
Weibo fans on their feet, already thinking of the next step.
The twisted minds, tooth and nail, fought back into the game.
And now Weibo are on their last legs.
It's a 60-meter deficit.
Kord's sitting comfortably behind the wall looking to get a dead eye.
Oh, no! He's through it! He breaks the house down!
Kord put two off the dead eye, and Mark is being hunted just for sport.
The result doesn't even match up!
These minds twist Waveo Gaming's dream
into another chapter of their own championship legend.
The reverse sweep in the semifinals
has twisted minds.
Another crack at Glory in Paris.
It's another devastating loss for Wayvo Gaming.
We were talking a little bit in that previous fight, I was mentioning how good Twisted is
with like these dead eyes with the TPs.
Lee, Lee Soo-min, don't see it coming, massive dead eye to finish it off there from Quartz.
So I mean, twisted minds, right?
Another grand pile for them at the international stage.
Really get the most consistent team, the best team in the world over the last year.
We were so close!
Yet again!
Oh, devastating is it'll be a long wait for them to get another shot.
Another international championship here in the OWCS.
It's going to take a while for them to get back to this moment.
The emotion in the arena is capable. We're going to collect up some of it including some thoughts from our victors with Ian on the staff
Wow, I could barely hear myself down here the twisted minds fans as you might expect
Losing their minds. I'm standing by with fully astro man when you were to oh down
I think everybody was sitting here thinking you're cooked. What was it? Was it?
Stratz did you switch things up or was it just sheer belief?
just quit for one second. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm going off piece there a second guys make some
money for the Astro right now now we can go back. I'm sorry. I just want you to have that moment
real quickly here. You've got a target on your backs. Any way you go is it when you're a world
champion in any e-sport. Did you feel that and how impressed have you been with how your teammates
have handled that pressure? We feel no pressure when we play. We play like when we're at home
Even better than that, to be honest. We love the pressure.
Look, I know you've already crushed a key.
Speaking of pressure, we're going to crush another one.
But we're going to head over to Ubi to do this for us.
So thank you so much. One more time, Funi Astra.
Legend, come with me.
Are you ready to crush a key?
Yes, I'm ready.
Did you imagine that this could have happened?
Yeah, it should have happened against Tim Chai.
OK, get in there.
Huge moment here as we...
Crushed what is a pivotal key. A semi-finalist.
It's about to exit the competition, they conquered China, they challenged the world,
but one final step proved too far. As twisted minds reverse sweep,
and Christian Piafueva gaining along with their championship dream. It ends here.
Can I ask you one question? Do you mind? Come with me real quick. I've got one quick question for
You've now secured yourself in the Grand Final. Zeta Division, come and see your fans.
Are you going to be quiet now guys? You've got them right here, make some noise!
How do you beat Zeta Division in the Grand Final?
I mean we beat them in the Major, but now they're getting stronger and we don't know if they're coming like Weibo.
But we will try our best and maybe we'll be surprised within your competition.
You'll be quick message for your fans here?
May God bless you all, guys. May God bless you all, God bless you all.
Hopefully, we get the money from the White House today.
sweep of the weekend. I've got Jake, Zoe, and reinforced to break it all down.
This was seven minutes of Gushwe Doomfist domination and smile on my face watching the
Doom play. What was the swap towards the end that gave Twisted the Edge? It's the Moira,
right? It's simple having that read that what's more important than what he can produce on the
Baptiste is what he can prevent on the Moira. Just being too slippery, being unkillable,
that let the rest of the team really get to work once they sunk their teeth in TVMT's
Diva was just eating Weibo alive. So the character we haven't seen all week comes into play in the
final three minutes so he gives them the dub. Yeah I mean these are kind of these other risks you
have to take right in order to come out on top here but also on the other side I think the
individuals played so very well and have adapted throughout this series so it's overall just been
a really impressive performance from both of these teams. I want to give a shout out to Maka on the
other side. I think Makar was a big playmaker helping Gusha, enabling Gusha to
allow those kills because those nades once again were absolutely unreal. I am a big fan of that Makar
and I hope to see more of that in the future. I thought having the honor was gonna give them the
edge. Johnny, let's talk a little bit about Quartz though in UV because you heard Mr. X saying that
the teleport high noon combination has caught so many players off guard. That was the exclamation
mark on the final map. Yeah, I mean we've seen so many teams play the Symmetra,
But they can't execute like UB and Quartz can.
And this is a rivalry that goes way back.
You heard UB say, this always happens against Team China.
And that was because in the Eurovision World Cup 2023, same thing.
Team China up two-wo, and then Saudi Arabia,
they reverse sweep on the back of UB and Quartz.
They're used to taking down these storied players from China.
They always make the reverse sweep happen, and they do it once more.
Resilience is the word for me.
That is what Twisted Minds is all about.
Mama Rack Attack.
Did you enjoy that game?
Was it a good one?
They're cheering on their former Team Liquid teammate
as they will power through to the next round.
Twisted Minds will be in the grand final.
If you're a Weibo fan, though, you
got to stay in the venue.
Don't leave yet, because you're still
playing for a place on the podium in our third place match
a little bit later, Jake.
Yeah, that one could be pretty spicy.
I mean, Weibo gaming, we're really tried and tested.
But to bring Twisted Minds to five,
I mean, we talk about them pulling off these reverse sweeps,
but they also drop a lot of brutal 3-0 beatdown.
So I'm very impressed with what Weibo showed,
not only today, but through this tournament,
I think they're gonna be a fierce contender.
And for T1, we gotta remember,
they got bulldozed to start the day.
Are they really gonna be able to pick themselves up
and come back to show us something competitive
in the third board?
So if you're just joining us,
we need to catch you up on all the action.
Walk me through our quarterfinals
into the semifinals today.
Right on, yeah, Twisted Minds kind of rolled over a DK
there very early on.
And then Wave was surprised as all
with a very convincing victory over Space Station Gaming,
which we're running out of gas very quickly.
Set a division, absolutely annihilated Dallas Fuel,
like that was a brutal beatdown.
And then a brutal beatdown also from T1 over Crazy Recruitment,
which probably is the biggest, biggest surprise here for sure.
And then of course, you just saw the game five
after a 3-0 beatdown started their day as Zeta Division was the first in the championship matchup.
Johnny, will we get to a game five in that series? It'll be first to four in the grand final.
I'd love to see it, but me and Jake were actually talking about it. Now, if you're away from gaming,
you went to map five. That's a lot of adrenaline expended in that series.
Meanwhile, T1, maybe the men are due to go grab lunch, get rested, prepare for this third place
match. This is a really important map, though. The difference in price money is huge for third and
and obviously you want the club championship points here at the Aspen's World Cup too.
So a lot on the line for these two teams still.
We're getting in front of Bob by Moms here at EWC.
You love to see it, Jake.
Before we go to commercial break, we're going to see T1 against Wavell.
Why should people stick around for that third place matchup?
I think this is a huge mental test for T1 in particular.
Wavell, I call them the heavy favorites right now.
They look good.
I think they can come out of that last match with their heads held high.
It's their heads held high, right?
It's not the result you wanted, but you still prove it.
I think to a lot of fans here in Paris and back in China that these players can still do it
They can still hang with the best of the best and for T1
I mean it was a hopeless first match to start that day
They were destroyed if they can pick themselves back up
That would be a serious feather in the cap with those young players was thought a lot more in their careers to show us
Serious money on the line and of course those club championship points two more matches still to go and let me let you know right now
You're gonna want to stay tuned because when we come back it is a special dev segment from Blizzard right here from EWC after this
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Hi everyone, I'm Kitty and I'm here at the EW Serena to show you arounds.
For those who didn't know, if you're coming here at the EWC Arena, you have a chance to
win some very cool stuff.
PlayStation 5, computers, if you're spinning the wheel, you can do challenges, you have
rewards.
Why would you not come here?
Speaking of activities, you can do here at the EWC Arena, you can play games and speaking
of gaming, I'm a game addict myself, so I'm just going to drop the mic and start playing.
You can come in here and have a lot of different activities learning about Kadea and the culture,
the things you can do over there, you have VR, you have PlayStation right behind me.
It's just awesome.
You also have different booths for French orgs, Vitality right behind me, you have Carmichael
of Gentlemates, you can maybe meet your favorite players.
Sometimes this place is packed, so make sure you're coming in.
another place where you can go and you can have nice little setups where you can
game you can rest over there this place evolves every week most likely it's gonna
evolve next week as well so make sure you tune in. The more the merrier so please
bring your friends along because after sitting here all day you might want to
play some games basketball football and actually you know what I'm gonna play as
well. While displaying the best e-sports in the world here at the EWC Arena we
We had Barlaments on the first week, we had League of Legends on the second, we had EAFC
now Overwatch, and we're gonna wrap it all up with CS2, I'm so excited.
We are here at the trophy area where the champions rise above.
Speaking of champions, every week we have different champions for each game finishing
and the losers get the FT crushed in being in the scent right next to me.
But I have one more question.
Who is going to lift that precious club championship trophy will know by the end of August.
If you want to finish your journey the best way, you can buy souvenirs here, jerseys and other stuff that are very cool.
I have myself some jerseys I prefer more than others, so make sure you're coming here and experience EWC yourself.
what's up everybody I am here at the STC arena it is a packed house we got fans cheering
for their favorite teams and I thought because there's so many clever signs like this why
Why don't we go around and take a look at some of these amazing signs together?
Amazing drawing. I love the Tracer, Reaper, Zenyatta as well and Jetpack Cat as well.
If I had to rate this, I would give it 7 out of 10. 7 out of 10. Hey, what's your name?
Okay, so can you explain what I'm seeing right now? I'm guessing you're a Zeta Division fan
And you are an amazing artist, what do you have to say?
Well, first thank you so much.
And then I drew pretty much all of the main heroes of the players.
So of course, Anna for Shuu, Lucio for Violettes, Diva for Bernard, Tracer for proper and Soju for life.
Because I think they are absolutely amazing and I'm so happy to see them in real life.
This is absolutely amazing.
I just saw something. Why is Bernard crying? Why is Bernard's Diva the only one that is crying?
It's crying. Everyone else is happy and then Bernard's is crying here.
Is it thank you? It's always the one that's the first and most.
Pretty much.
I mean fantastic drawing. Now I have to give my rating.
I'm gonna give you honestly 9 out of 10. Fantastic drawing. It's cute. They have personality.
You even have the players names on it. Fantastic job.
Can you guys explain me what I'm looking at?
Okay, so this one is Azoria Burg, like it's a voice that she stays when she's in the spawn
and the voice was kind of like robotic and so it was really funny and it became like a meme
And you as well, that is something I'm very familiar with, can you say it in your own voice?
And they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say.
Very funny, alright. I have to rate it now. It's usually drawings on the signs, but I will give you guys both ladies, 8 out of 10s. Happy?
And they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, it's Chinese Overwatch really back. Do you believe?
I have hopes. I truly believe this time. We have broken the curse
With falcon so I think we have the strength to do this and where did you what did you find this?
I'm I think it's from the cinematic if I'm not mistaken right? Yeah, it's the overwatch to cinematic
Munchio is overwatch back. So I think I
Try to do the Chinese
Pretty clever pretty clever all right my rating for this one
I'm gonna have to give it
Seven out of ten
All right guys, I found another amazing artist. She's like locked in right now
So I don't want to bother her but take a look take a look right there right there right there
Do you know look at that beautiful drawing? Oh my god
Peps fans are there's a lot of great artists. Yeah
By the bundle maybe yeah support her
you
You'll look at them together, starting with Pariso.
When exiting the Attacker spawn, make sure to swing by the new poolside.
After basking in the view, let's head towards the capture point.
Right away you'll notice a brand new statue of the Vishkar Corporation's Eris.
Although Domina may paint herself as the generous benefactor of Pariso, I assure you, some friendly
faces are fighting back too.
As we continue on to point to, the people of Pariso are preparing for a parade.
From a level design perspective, we've made targeted layout updates to add new routes,
improved flanks, and high ground access to help relieve pressure at the main choke.
And the art team had an absolute blast decorating for the parade and adding new music.
But the party is really happening on point three.
Step into the upgraded club, Synesthesia.
The art team added more music, a frog, pallidarium, and a brand new dance floor.
By the way, if you're playing Lucio, you'll discover the club really reacts when you drop
the beat.
Next up, we'll be traveling to the outskirts of Stuttgart, Germany.
Eichenwald was originally released in 2016, but it's always been a little too defender-favored.
The goal of this rework is to make the map more attacker-friendly with a primary focus
on the area outside of the castle grounds.
Coming out of spawn, we'll follow along the right and take the elevator up to the new
attacker high ground.
Or, if you want a more exciting rollout, you can take the right flank.
We've extended the platform on both sides because, well, a lot of players were falling
to their deaths trying to take it.
On point two, we've added a staircase to help attackers summit the ramparts.
And we've added a jump pad, because level designers love jump pads.
If you find someone is taking advantage of the jump pad, we've added a very discreet
window for you to keep an eye on them.
Taking our way into the castle interior, we've added a unique spawn room window, so defenders
have a new way to join the chaos for a brawl on Final Point.
And last, but certainly not least, let's take a look at Busan.
For Downtown, we focused on opening up the map more to avoid choke points where players
were getting stuck.
We also changed up some of the longer sight lines.
We'll start in the Downtown karaoke spawn room.
When you come out of the door, you'll notice the city has been attacked by the Junkers.
On every corner, there's more destruction, graffiti, and keepsakes the Junkers left behind.
I'm so relieved that the cow didn't get popped in all the chaos.
The tower on the capture point has been taken over by the Junkers and modified with a brand
new look.
And of course, that means another jump pad.
Our intention here was to change how the point feels to play.
We'll be listening closely to feedback for how it's received.
As we approach spawn, you'll notice Jiggly Cow has a new friend, Jiggly Pig.
Next up, we're headed to Busan Sanctuary.
Starting at the Tiger spawn room, we'll take the main route to peer into the new window
overlooking the capture point.
To match the summer season, the trees and foliage have it updated to a vibrant green.
Next, we'll take a right to admire the new Mineral Spring.
Our art director felt this added a layer of specificity and authenticity to the map.
The Mineral Spring is a place where the water is abundant and used for fulfilling wishes.
Then, we'll pass by the wooden drum and head to point.
But it seems even sanctuary isn't safe from the Junker attack.
On the horizon, you can see the Junker mothership.
We've also made some updates to the playable ground, and okay, they also took out the suspension bridge.
Let's go to Mecca Base.
Starting in the training room, we'll follow along the clearly marked yellow road passing where an experimental EMP is supposed to be.
We'll swing right, and it looks like Daehyun isn't working on any more upgrades at the moment.
We'll exit the capture point, through the exterior door, back along the new flank route,
and return to the other spawn room.
And finally, our tour concludes in the living quarters for the Mecha Squad Pilots.
Whether you're spending your summer vacation in Sunny Busan, the renovated castle at Iconbald,
or full site in Priso, you look forward to seeing you when season 4 launches on August
11th.
Umm...
No, no, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Not today. No.
Oh come on! Let's fast-forward to August 6th. I need to know what's gonna happen. Let's react, though.
to what we just witnessed because season four is about to get spicy. Jake, your biggest
smile came from the jump pads. Yeah, I mean, come on, who doesn't love a good jump pad?
No, but I think the Briso rework looks really good. That map has been really unpopular
and top competitive play. And honestly with the rework, it's going to look a lot more
interesting. I think we'll see a lot more people, teams really trying to go that direction.
Those reworks all look pretty exciting. So I'm curious to get my hands on them in this
upcoming season. Johnny, you piped up most when I can vault came around. Is that just
because it brought back the Reinhardt gory days or what are you excited about there?
I mean attacking second on Ike and Valder just like yeah throw the castle right above us
and now we have to like unprotected walk towards push the cart like some changes to that map was
much needed and I'm really happy the Overwatch team stepped in.
So the pig had me giggling what has you excited?
I mean yeah Jiggy pig definitely a strong contender but I'm with Jake here at Pariso
adding more coverage to that map it's just so needed especially when he played Rady like me.
It's time to talk about our third place matchup, or as they call it here in France, La Petite Finale, T1 vs. Weibo Gaming.
This should be a fun one, especially if you just watched Weibo, they were taking the absolute distance by twisted minds.
On the other side, T1 with a crazy upset over the raccoon yesterday, then they fall in a brutal beatdown.
I'd love to start with T1, and let's talk about where they struggled at the start of their day, because this was a one-sided affair.
Johnny, they scored 0% in control.
I mean, a lot of people asked, did this team go missing?
Because that was not even remotely close to what we saw from them.
Yesterday, when they took down the crazy racoon, we hyped up.
We said that Proud and Sess, they were looking like players
that could compete with the very best.
But they were pretty quiet today.
Now it was a really difficult compositional matchup.
But I think they'll have an easier time here against Wayboo Gaming.
So I think that T1, even though they looked so poor going into today,
now they have an opportunity to secure third place.
I felt like they got bullied by the Ana.
Are they getting bullied by all supports?
Is there anything you can ban out if you're T1
this time around against Wayvo?
To be honest, I feel like you just don't want to think
too much about this first match.
This first match, it was not about comps.
It was not about strategy.
This was a question of veteransy
and a question of experience.
You know, I think beating Crazy Raccoon
was a huge performance, a huge moment for T1,
but maybe almost too big, right?
Because then they come into the Zeta match,
that lights just got too bright.
This just wasn't the T1 that we've seen elsewhere in this tournament.
This is, for me, I don't even think about strategy here.
This is just about can you mentally reset and actually bring your best self here up against Weibo Gaming.
We've seen that that's possible for T1.
They can compete with the best, but they didn't today and that match was just a couple hours ago.
So it takes a lot to mentally reset.
The good news is you played first.
You have that time to reset and when you were playing well, you looked incredible.
Let's take a look at that crazy raccoon matchup.
So what caught your eye yesterday when T1 was finding their win?
Well, honestly, I think it was the DPS line for them, right?
I think Proud and Zest have been stepping it up each and every single series that they played this tournament so far,
except from the last one we saw where, as you said, they kind of went missing.
But other than that, I think if Zest and Proud can play on the same level,
and then some, they could be considered the favorite in this one.
Zest was looking great on all the hitscan.
And the reaper though was my favorite. We caught up with him before the match. Here he is with Danny Lim.
What's up everybody? I'm here with Zest from T1 getting ready for his match.
Happening very recently for the 3rd and 4th place. Zest, I gotta talk really quickly about your match against Zeta Division.
It was an unfortunate loss. How are you feeling right now?
I'm trying not to think about losing as much as I can, and I'm just trying to play as well as I can, and I'm just thinking about doing well in the 3rd or 4th match.
Now, we have only one last match left for the fans. We have only 3 matches left, but if you have anything to say to the fans, please say something.
I won't show you any of my previous matches, and I will do my best to show you as much as I can.
Please support me.
Thank you for all the support and continue to support us.
I promise that our play on stage will be very different from what you guys saw from our previous match against Zedadivision.
This one is going to be very different. I am going to give it our all.
Alright, Zest, thank you so much. Best of luck.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Zest, for taking time before this third place matchup.
On the other side of the fight though, we have a team that is very familiar with this
flow.
Weibo still looking for a major upset.
Do they get it now?
Do they place on the podium here at EWC for the mid-season championship?
You know in that last series guys, I was so confident in Twisted Minds and they did bring
it home in the end.
But honestly, just seeing this tournament, the way that these Chinese players have brought
it back together, have resurrected some of these great moments in their history in Overwatch
to deliver impressive performances.
I want to see this Chinese team on the podium, of course, looking ahead to the World Final.
So I have a lot of faith here in Weibo Gaming.
T1, they need to be completely 180.
You know, for Weibo, if they can just play as they did in this last series, I have every
confidence that they'll be the third place team today.
So back when you and I were diamond players, we got there with you on the diva, and me,
of course, playing Pharah and the Doomfist.
I love seeing that from these guys, but what is your favorite part of Weibo Gaming?
Honestly, I think it's the background that's stepped it up.
I think Aliso Min's cat has been phenomenal for them.
We talked about the positioning and repositioning that Aliso Min has shown us.
And it just adds so many layers of threat from that roster.
And then, of course, the tanks as well.
Just overall, I feel like the team has leveled up tremendously in like every category.
They're the star players, the veterans, they're back to former glory to that kind of form.
and now they have those new pieces with Sunso in the mix as well.
I love seeing the Cat Bastion, Shy with the Bastion was tearing through competition on Route 66
and we caught up with him before his matchup. Here's what he had to say.
Hey guys, I'm here joined by Shy from Weibo Gaming and of course June here to help with the
translation as well. Shy, I just want to say your match against Tia was so close but you guys felt
short just a little bit but you guys I mean for Chinese Overwatch and Weibo Gaming coming into
to top four, I feel like that is a big achievement.
Are you still proud of that result?
Welcome everyone, we are here to give a shout out to the players, today the game is very intense, you almost won the game, but no matter what, our team has still become the first place in the game, at least in the previous four places.
Do you still think it's a huge breakthrough? Is it a success?
I think we can stand here. It's the position that our team, the players, the coach, and the management work together.
So I'm very proud of them.
Yes, I'm still very proud of everybody in this team. Our team players, our coaches, everybody have worked so hard.
And we are here now today. So I'm still very proud of everybody.
And your day is just not over just yet. You guys have one more match for the third and fourth place.
You guys are going up against T1, Shai. How confident are you for that match?
So, I think as a team, we accept now we lost the match we just had, but then we will calm down and then we will do the next match better.
Okay, alright.
Shai, Jun, thank you so much. Best of luck in your match against T1.
Yeah, that is shy from weibo gaming and with 45 seconds before this match kicks off
I need the official prediction starting with the tall one. I got to you one of this one
I think that loss from weibo was too mentally tall in I
Go away, but I believe channel number one. Let's go. Let's do it. This is a year
Weibo is gonna finish on the podium according to so we and Johnny. What about you? Jio, baby Jio
And what does that translate to for all of us watching the
or some other on let's go wave of gaming baby I think I think three one or three
all I think they're gonna bring the heat in this shy has been around for as long
as I can remember it's time for him to get at least a bronze in the paycheck
that comes with it let's jump into the match on the main stage
The third place is rarely the match that competitors want to play.
But here we are, it's a tough old game, Lou.
Yeah, indeed, but this match, it matters a lot for the clubs, there are a lot of games.
There is a lot on the line for their organisation.
Absolutely, another big chunk of change is up for grabs.
Huge club championship points and of course the honour of leaving Paris on a w.
Ian says it's better than me, we can leave Paris on a victory,
having more points of championship and obviously the honour.
And I think it's time for us to welcome our two teams.
I think it is indeed.
Let's welcome first, Wave-O Gaming!
Here they are again.
It came within a second single map of the grand final.
Two maps up against the reigning world champions,
only to watch that series slip away
in a heartbreaking reverse sweep.
Now comes another tough test, you've got to reset, you've got to respond
if you want to leave Paris with a place on the podium.
Again, and one last time please make some noise for T1!
They brought us an insane show here in Paris, taking down big favourites, showing insane resilience.
They have created upsets, they have created many surprises, they are their fans, still like in France.
teams with very different journeys to make it to this third, fourth match here, Moxie.
T1 going down in a 3-0 beatdown versus Zeta.
Waybo gaming on the other hand, a grueling map 5 reverse sweep.
But, like they mentioned down on the stage, they want to leave here with their heads held high
and find that podium finish.
Two very different play styles from both of these teams as well.
We want more than happy to call themselves one of the best at fighting into their sim teams,
but Wayvo had counter-sins strategies of their own.
The Gooshway Doomfist.
The Goosh is loose in 2026.
You know I bumped into TVNT behind stage after that win there, and I said,
did you actually expect Gooshway to rock the Doomfist?
He was like, no.
No idea that was gonna, he was just slamming into us and it felt like we could do nothing.
I even pulled the hog out and I couldn't even hook the cry.
T1 obviously, they would have seen that, so maybe expecting some Gooshway do this if it requires.
Yeah, I mean, I feel like the Doomfist has more counters in strategy, right?
Be able to just disrupt before the team can find those read position opportunities.
Plus it's the surprise factor.
So, matter that secret's more out in the open, it's likely that we see you play go-things like the Rematra or the Malga.
Also kept court heavily occupied, right? Even when the Sojourn Band was burnt,
he couldn't go to the Sojourn because the Dimpest required the Cassidy to keep in check instead.
But both of these teams were prepared to take down Smetra teams.
Both of these teams don't really use sim struts themselves.
Yeah, leave that to the EMEA teams.
And some of the Korean teams, now that that strategy has widened out to the rest of the world.
Yeah, this one of those legs is going to be a heavy presence on the DPS.
Zes2 has been very flexible over the last tournament.
They're so neat, even we've seen Venture from Zes, which he's a whole bunch from him and proud.
A lot of the vendetta. A lot of the vendetta and it's always been target banned as we head to our first control map which will be no surprises, Nepal.
Oh man, they're banning the Donghaek ball. Come on, Shion.
That's the D1 on the other side.
Yeah, DUNHACK RECKINGBALL, it's always a safe pull on the ball, especially up against like,
perhaps like, Trine. It's so problematic to split your attention, and DUNHACK is one of the best.
Kind of rivaled by JUMBEN in that regard when it comes to the RECKINGBALL, or if you can follow in,
you know, what cup scene, some would say potentially the rising star of golden pants as well, but...
there's a lot of good ball players. Her ball has been taken out back sadly as has that she on something else
which is heavily targeted versus Waybo so Zest will be able to play the Bandetta if he so chooses.
Donak can go for the Mauga to match Gushwe if he wants.
Don't want this yeah you could just got to play the cat here surely. It's been the secret source.
I think it's very good at, yeah, you know, chunky now obviously shy, assuming first to
go down to bliss.
They do trade their tank for it though, but numbers advantage here for T1.
Proud jumps into the backline, Hanley takes the door, hitting that straight.
You see that on lead?
Nasty stuff there from Proud to start us off with.
But despite Goucheway surviving in that fight, as soon as that cardiac overdrive runs out,
that's his life soon to follow.
It'll be the point for T1 first.
Proud does fall, but Macker goes down for the side of Wave on the way.
So, Q1, first cap, Waybo Gaming having to wait for all of their players to push back through.
We just see the outline of Zast, hold up around corner, we see him, Gushui did not.
Oh, whoa, all good though, Michael's got a TP so it's fine.
Teleports to the high ground there for Zest now, Shai's getting a stun,
there's probably Donghae just charging it, Gushui's gonna do exactly the same thing to Brawler.
So an even trade you gotta say, it's up to the Reapers to get into the business now.
You've got the rush super early. Could you just rip it?
Just grab a quick team fight. Yeah, Goosh ran up going down too.
Shy is going to try and make a difference with the ult.
Although, with stage 3 targets like this, they've all been funneled in to Lee.
Lee takes two kills of his own.
There's Weibo Gelmin still in this fight.
Although, saying that, the point is still in the favour of T1, plus propping on high ground.
Yeah, he's a tough cookie to deal with.
Yeah, but Weibo do have that rush that T1 have to respect so far.
Proud about to come on line with the override protocol pair that into the rush you can shut it down
Yeah, for many times rush there. This is gonna go and pick that up in Indians
Suzu from markers to make sure no one is dragged out of the fight
Living weapon override protocol does absolutely nothing to crowd
This is great for weibo as well because now you can scout out which lane Proud tries to take and yeah
He knows the M-Ray so much more difficult to put into positions
Once you have to play the retaker to get to see how exactly that one-sided rush
Better fidget shy on the blastion
So much high damage output
Not enough sustainability to be able to survive directly into the face of it as T1 cage death boss and combos
But you have to first get past
the back
Oh there's the cage death boss from Desk and the kill marker instantly here comes the artillery barrage
Lee's gonna rip one of his own two and kill Bliss one-to-one leave Zest
Gentlemen screaming here maybe, maybe not, or says narrowly, narrowly kill Lever.
Missed a couple of shots but all good.
Waybo gaming still in control.
They should be for the foreseeable future.
Just need to clear Zest off the site.
Oh T1 don't die so late!
Oh that brutal skewed goes down.
He's the one that T1's looking to to have the Russian band to go the mack up.
They say that.
Scheiser ends up going down as well.
He's sending those to the catnap there.
All the Bastion crowd is kind of dangling around currently.
No focus fire though for Maverick, he couldn't get in position to actually punish.
No flip yet from 2-1-2, now the objective...
No, I say that someone else is still contesting it!
Nice little stun, stop there from long hat, that'll do it!
He's released him in leave already, dead T1 with a quick flick.
Okay, T1 now brought up artillery strike to keep Weibo gaming off their backs.
But when this next fight happens, so they should be able to surpass the point percent
and put us into final fight territory.
Wave-o, though, and I'll take that little bit of time required to board off rush to match.
I like how proud the positioning right now.
Bliss is kind of dangling him over this choke point.
Chi on the other side, then.
Should've waited to take the duel, I'd imagine.
I'm playing a little bit more stable.
Trying to go for a surprise tactic here, but Bliss like,
Browse's got different ideas.
They end up swinging into the choke point,
but Browse doesn't end up going down.
Chi shears through the back the whole time.
Here, that crit spot.
Oh, big stun, though, from Bliss again.
It's Gooseway and Lee in the front line.
They still end up coming out with kills though, with OT in session however.
T1 have still got the cats on the point, trying to defend.
Lee Sumin chased away, Bliss healed up all the way to full.
They're going in for the 1v1.
Oh, Bliss ends up winning this.
Gooseway though dips his head in.
A declaw's Bliss.
Gonghak drops down the cage.
He's got Ksh, skewed in his back.
It should be a fairly easy fight, but shy from downtown.
End up deleting him with the artillery barrage.
And now two miniguns versus one.
You take your chances here if you're the Malga and you tear the weak thong and tearing him to shreds.
Oh! Long range always low, top crowd, onto the point.
I might know if you need it to repair Zest, I think he's already done enough.
Oh, he still gets a kill, all good.
Teleports behind ground for Zest, as they just managed to wrap Wave-O.
I didn't go to trade that, but you don't go last too much longer, my guy. Not happening.
Yeah, this round is done.
Great use of death loss on that from Zest.
Managers to see where exactly that Reaper will be teleporting. He has to just go past the choke, past the Malga, onto point to keep the overtime in play.
So, when he does show up on point, he's instantly met with both barrels of that deck, awesome.
Probably into this series, Moxie. I've had a set up in the beginning, but I mean, how would you begin? What position would you rather be in?
Wabos or T1s? Wabos obviously, Mach 5 bangers, Reverse Weave or T1 who got kind of struck by Zayac.
What mental position would you rather be?
Well, Wabos, it's rough because you have to raise it. You came so close to finals,
you probably did not think you would find yourself in this position.
And it was instantly off of that last match, as opposed to T1 who has sort of like
sit with the knowledge that they did not make it, but did have that time to be able to sort of
approach the coaches, look at the boards, as we instantly get ready to go into Sanctum
and Wabo have swapped up, their comp Chai is on that thrower, trying to be problematic
to Zestin cry.
Oh nice stuff by Marker there, throws the nade, it is going to be able to dodge out of
the way, receives the suzu, both supports under a heavy duress here, Wabo gaming turning
their attention to Donghae, who's acting like a rather large tracer in the back line.
Very quick springboard back in for Wabo gaming is Marker, ends up staying alive.
Yeah, Waybo's been very aggressive as well with the composition despite the lack of Bluetooth or
Tune-Up to be able to push them forward directly into T1's face savers.
Pry down. Good anti-on-to-gliss as well. T1 have to call the shots off of this, but Waybo
ever saved the Black Plank and T1 get bot-chunked on face.
Oh, oh, oh, not his positioning from Lee. Beast mode on the tracer.
It's so tough trying to push into a tracer with a Kiriko pocket, because for Weibo you're
happy to just hold that lane so that pride and zest can't get past, right?
And then you just hold down the fort with things like your pulse bomb, your bonus,
to stop T1 from pushing in until Naga has nano boost.
Right, zest, no pulse on hand, just trying to head out the honor in the neutral.
Very close to mana.
I don't look like Doucheway, not receiving the heals required there as Mark was preoccupied by Zest, forced to hit the recall anyway.
Job's done, honestly. Mark can't move here at all. Eventually, Zest finds his mark. Really good.
Kind of like pacing there from Zest.
Yeah, way though, we're controlling one lane, but not keeping that eye on words that could just pop off with that double blink to put the pressure on the Ana
and take the resources that were keeping Gushui on the arrest up.
Oh, uh, they are still just fighting.
Yeah, Gushui ends his spin, getting zests into the sidelines,
as Leib also ends up going for the trade there.
Gushui pretty low.
He's got a spear spin straight into the spear downtown,
but now he goes a little bit wide.
Not a Bob Donk accent in the backline though.
Somehow?
I don't know how pro still alive, I'm gonna be honest here.
Someone needs to take care of it.
Nice spear into the wall,
Proud ends up flooding away with the golden Gushui.
Ends up taking him out regardless.
Here's the cage, too.
This fight has gone on for way too long here.
Who was the last time you saw a fight here last this long?
Both rushes used on top of each other as well.
Bong Hage is still alive!
Kill this man!
These two men find him in the end.
T1's silly control of the point too,
so Wave will have to clean this one up
and then run 700 miles to the point.
That's the thing for T1, right?
You're happy to keep that fight going
because you're fully in control of the point,
so that makes up for Wave
winning the previous ones and holding you as a choke.
Please, with the pulse bomb, but now has to walk into T1, you'll be able to see him coming and soothes the wet, so all eyes fall to shine.
Donkai's really just playing the bigger Tracer here.
The Falca! He's taking it off, he's running into the backlight again!
Now, Falca's gonna go really low, there is the overrun kill on the Lee Soo.
Then, I really like the way Donkai's playing right now.
He's playing with anger, fury, vengeance, maybe that is what's filling his heart right now.
He's also playing safe with the knowledge that Wave will have no way to disengage the Margot's land.
There's no Lucio, there's no Sim, there's no Juno.
If he gets that backline, and Maka does not have things like the Anti for the Cell Field, he's dead.
So he goes onto the Cat instead, much harder for the Margot to slam on top too.
Yeah, I mean, nothing we don't actually do in that, uh, a moment longer.
Not with the Cat, like you said.
No chance, you actually connect with the backline, so he can return from being the big Tracer to just the big Mami set.
Although Saiyan that is in the back of the game, obviously, so what do I...
There we go, Proud. Right, eventually Proud is taking care of the Donghaek taking just one again.
Gouge Wage is going to get run over and Terra Surge in the middle of No Man's land at this point.
Donghaek's just going to go in anyway.
That's free charge bought by support, thank you very much.
Takes a tickle and a damage as T1 goes for the Spawn Door touch.
A slide out from Shai to try and get into the fight once again, but there's nowhere nearby for Wayvo Gaming.
No chance to touch the point, and T1 in the first map 2-1.
A very strange sanctum. I think we can both agree on based on where all of those fights were occurring.
Just Dong had taken full advantage of being able to map a sample. Like, Maka last fight actually goes for the tracer character to drop him close enough behind enemy lines that he can go jump proud,
At which point the communication is just like,
here I have two on me, one of them's the cat.
Let's just push forward when the Ana is vulnerable.
They look completely unfazed, honestly.
Moxie, T1, this is looking like the team
I was expecting against Zeta Division.
I want to see if they can continue this.
Now, map number two coming up with just a moment,
but we're a very special couple of guests
down in the audience.
Lou with a couple of them, honey.
We did very special guests here in the City of Love,
and I'm so glad to be with Karen and Peyton,
who are very important news to share.
We got Mary.
We're on our honeymoon.
Honeymoon here in Paris,
coming to see the Overwatch Meet Susan Championship.
We're very honored to have you here, of course.
Can you tell us about the story,
the story that you have with that game?
Yeah, so we started playing together pretty much
as soon as we got stating, because it was COVID.
so had a lot of that to do.
A lot of free time and he started gaming together.
But effectively, we are in our honeymoon.
We just got married and we started together
overwatch as soon as we started dating
because it was Covid and there was a lot of free time.
And I want to know how has been Paris?
Have you done any romantic stuff?
How's the food?
Oh, everything here is amazing.
Gorgeous city, friendly people, amazing.
We'll definitely come back.
Friendly people, I'm very happy to hear that
because we don't often get that feedback.
Guys, we can make noise, please!
I love that friendly people, we are really enjoying ourselves in Paris.
People are amazing, the city is beautiful, we eat so well.
And last but not least, you know, your story is truly moving to a couple of gamers.
So is there anything you want to share with gaming couples that are watching us?
If your PC is from the same room, get good headphones. Your friends will thank you.
If you play in the same room, be sure to have a headset, a good microphone and your friends will thank you.
We can say what we want, gamers also find their other half, obviously.
But there's no more time for
love here because on the server,
the teams need to get back on
track. Thank you very much,
Lou. Yeah, honestly, a really
nice story. See famous can find
love. It's a meat. You gamers
can find love. There it is. It's
wonderful to see them here at
taking that first map against weibo gating. So um that's going to be neon junction right?
Most probably. That we return to second with let me let me guess the spicy gushue
survived the sun's uh garing today are we weibo? Because of very good blood sign, excellent.
Let's have a look. Are we going to see Sunza? Yes we are! Okay, Gushwe out. Sunzo back in.
Alrighty. Now we can see the Gushwe doing this. Sad.
Wow. We...
But a little bit more telegraphed here from Sunza.
We saw 0.5 seconds of it.
Oh sure.
When he panicked and realised that they had to try to find a way past he wanted to touch the point.
But yes, no. Not as much value from the Gushwe doing this that we had previously.
hat bridge. Like I said, it's more of a counter-symmetry of strategy, with of course in quotes I have
to hold onto the cast as opposed to Sojourn, which is a good way outside of the bandwrapped
of keeping him off his best hero. Speaking about bandwrapped, earlier on we did get to
see Sons of Bandwrapped out of the Sigma and have to flex onto that rematch. Some teams
as well have tried since way back when we've been playing Neon Junction War. Oh, you lot.
You're happy with two signs I can clap my little hands to and slap my belly more a lot of skins. Yes
No, I'm out of it. Oh, never say
Thank you very much. I don't think any of us would play on a pretend no one
No, not even the tank players as well
Absolutely nobody so W sign
Now
Sun's out in me on junction. Let's take a peek. Give me a shot the screen
We'll see
Look
So before it gets its lovely little map as never getting chosen. I'm sorry
And I can bolt also before it gets its new season map overhaul
So let's pretend to be surprised when we zoom out
No way
You don't say. Wow.
Vendetta ban and T for ban here for map number two.
I'm sad they're taking away the Vendetta.
I think that comp has been so good for T1.
Does she on Vendetta just all out roll up in your face,
not letting you breathe for a single moment?
It has been what they've relied on a lot throughout this entirety of this tournament.
In all honesty, it has been their signature flavor of this map.
Yeah, these teams don't play sim, you have no reason to target out sim, you don't have
to worry about a team being teleported outside of choc, what you do have to worry about is
the vendetta sheen walking to those spaces and literally just taking over those side
lanes, holding the high ground on the left, holding that hallway on the right.
It's so important for the defensive teams to be able to just still have those barriers
of the tank being in front of the rest of the team before the attack constantly walk them down.
Freeline the stakes here for this series two winner comes out with a third place that podium finish here in the mid season.
At the EWC that's a lot more club championship points that you want to earn for your team as a whole, whether that's Webo Gaming or T1 across all games here.
Well, at least two minutes, you're free to play both the Mizuki, which sometimes gets
target banned on this map, but also the Wu Yang, if you feel like you have to go for
a hokey backline to be able to do a whole bunch of damage.
It can be vulnerable, though, to the walk-down potential of things like that tracer that
then get it.
on getting up in your faces, you're trying to hurl and bend those orbs around as we'll
have a look and see T1 on the defense this time around. Kat Bastion with SKUZ sticking
on this Ana, so really good nano potential and also pride on the player. We know that
he'll hit the ult first even before a support as there's bot.
Bruh, what is this?
Final day and we're going to do this!
Just for you Jack, just for you.
I know the odds are smiling right now.
Thanks guys.
I'm so happy I'm not the only one who does this in a tax form by the way.
Always with the jiggly Merlot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a classic, that's a classic.
Now who's the one who's got the jiggly pig?
It's even better.
Alright, clever game.
Sunzo, no shock.
Straight over to the sigma.
But without this vendetta,
looks like T1 are going to move it back to the cap action of Zest.
zest. There's also a lot of pressure on shy and prior to be able to win that
prayer versus prayers we've actually forced a bike away where the cat
bastion. Oh wow that was close. One more take aim shot there from shy would have been an easy
kill on to zest to open things up with. Oh the sleep the ante onto Sunzo. Way
about just can't move forward. He's taking a lot of damage, he has to dash back and use
the bike there for some additional damage. Good rock by Sunzo. Don hack fell
falls to his back and that will be, in theory, this first point.
Yeah, T1 could potentially go for a retake, especially since they got shy, so Wave-o with
a huge chunk of damage, Donk Hacks coming back on Mal'Goth. He must pit the fight.
You're saying this was Sonsa who's doing a heck of a matter, damage himself right now.
He's going to try and force us off that high ground, here comes the Stomp from Donk Hacks,
he's leaving now in trouble. Let's get that Cat scratch, there you go, be careful.
Blitz appearing out of nowhere most of the time, just scratching your face off of your
your opposition. Nice double from Donghax, gonna keep him competitive here. Only two
ticks for Weibo Gaming. Yeah, and T1 have been able to build up a good nest egg of
ultimate, Bola, the proud nanoboost, rescued, and artillery strike from Vest to
slow this next fight down. Weibo, they're close to that rush, but close is not
enough to commit to the fight, and that allows T1 the opportunity to find these
He's fixed and forced them back.
Why do at least you've been thought his TK was there?
Oh, whoopsie Daisy.
That's not a good start, Tom.
Way too far off, it felt like.
I don't know how much of a lousy he was at.
Oh, there's the follow-up.
That goes wide, not an issue though.
Shy is gonna build that one up real quick.
That was wide, only 33% needed.
Yep, one kill onto the tag, one tick left.
That will be enough to waive it.
Oh, look at that damage.
You've got to clear shy of this high ground. You can't just wait for the train to do the dirty work for you.
Skewed, knaved himself. Here comes the VLOX! Ends up getting one!
I tell her to rise from his S, he doesn't try to make it a little bit more difficult here, but Gormac instantly focuses down.
Good snikes from Sunder, whips him around the corner and gets the payload going some more.
Q1 have just been denied the opportunity to take the fights and use the ult the way they want you.
They've had to play reactive, K'Wave are pushing forward and taking more space first of them.
They at least will have this nano-boost to be able to try to put the flash onto Webo, but if Donghae goes too far forward and is split from the recipe once more,
Leesha may just dodge the sanctuary and there's not any opportunity for Skute to be able to keep the mouse up.
Just put it in the sky again, nano-boost onto Zest himself, here comes the sanctuary of Leeshu, make good anti-nate hits both the TPS and the support there for Webo gating.
Now Donghae wants to get into the mixture, but a spree from League is going to send T1 really.
This is fight done.
Oh, you gotta hit that shot, though.
Oh!
You gotta hit that shot, though.
Okay.
Transgates 1 HP.
There it is.
The shield basically running him over at that point.
He was so damn low.
Team kill.
Team won one more chance to be able to fight this out.
Zest swaps onto the Tracer just to be able to blink past Wave-O
and to lie Dong-Hack to use the cage.
It should be fairly trivial for Dong-Hack to get some points.
Yeah, just an overrun in.
There's the cage.
So I'm doing trouble.
to come in too from place to try and get a start as Suzu just saves on Suzu's life as well.
All the defences he's already been used to shy throws it in for Bola to sustain some of the
damage in this frontline against Donghack. But Donghack is just full HP, running and
guarding, mark it down, and that's gonna be a nice clip from Zest to get a team kill for T1.
T1 identified a way they'll use both support ults to have to deal with that nanobastion rush
and Sanctuary, which means that Donghack's cage comes out. T1 will be able to find the picks,
Even if they get play of trade if they have the closer respawns to refresh their numbers before waybook and walk once more
You're taking fresh as time off the bank and you're setting up opportunities for zest and pride to find kills before waybook
You close up onto the defense and put pressure on security. Oh, wait for train first wait for barriers and then you can push on
Why is my man? Why is the enemy matter up there?
Why is brought?
All right, let's all slam in that's the flag pretty much done there. That's a miracle happens here, but whether they're not to be
Realistically of your way though, unless
Well the train won't carry you out, but the kill will take you back to a race bomb
But look at how far up to you one will place this who has a pulse bomb
Wavo likely not expecting the Tracer to be here on high ground but he shoots with the pulse pistols, gives his position away but still
We're down to almost one minute left and T1 will have rushed to meet Wavo when they decide to forge forward
Wave the train again
Slight bit of delay. That's looking like proper from this angle. Violent proper doing that in the match earlier
Oh, Terry me shy caught out
completely as long as it's also on this high ground. I mean this is just an absolute crushing right now in this second point where they can't get a single bit of space.
A flux thrown in by Sunsoh too. 50 seconds to go and Weibo are faltering.
Yeah T1 will just hold super close up to Weibo too to try to force things like that sanctuary from losing them.
just so that you know that you have the chance of not losing someone as you rotate leave actually onto the sim
To be able to teleport the team fast as T1 have all of the space
All right, there's the TP straight across round to the high ground trains are coming just yet
But to take your backs those that's got a false box in that for an hour. Okay, swing and a miss from Zest
Not an issue that they managed to flip the map
The rush is going to be the first thing to start the fight off with an instant sanctuary in there to try and save Lee,
but he gets absolutely deleted by Skewn.
A bowler on top as well, it's just a cherry on top of this game.
Five seconds to go.
Is this defense from T1 on second? A rare second hole, Moxie.
As Waybo gave it, struggling to find their feet on the adjunction.
That's brutal for Maka as well. 93% to rush.
Just not given the opportunity to keep the team alive long enough to build the ultimate, like 70p, just to get away.
From the stranglehold that the defense has been able to establish versus you, high ground, control, lanes, control.
But the moment you start taking that fight in the frontline,
Sanctuary gets close early by the maverickage,
it's not there to be able to resolve the last battle,
and it's not there to be able to resolve the actual effects of the war.
Yeah, they tried a couple of different approaches, but something that Doc Hatch was doing in the previous map even,
just playing so far up, he is playing as the tracer again.
He's playing on that high ground with the cat and the tracer, and yes, a 3-man recon for up there.
It's also a great way to overwhelm the Mizuki, right? You can only change one of them.
Unless you add your way in, you can change the whole team.
True, that's why you don't balance the game, Oxy.
Oh no, man. That's why you don't balance it.
I would balance a brilliant April Fools patch, though.
You know it would be a really good April Falls patch if they removed all the pigeons from this map.
But don't tell anyone.
And no one would blink an eye.
Way though though, how well will they be able to have the three fencers?
You get your way, yeah.
Here comes the Donnack Racking Ball.
We assume in those...
No, he's going back to spawn.
They're playing safe.
And they're playing the D&D, fair enough.
Yeah, we go around there's two one. Okay far off will you and prayer Ram?
They just want to be able to put so much pressure on to wave I promise off and then walk down hack forward on to point once
Even shy have been bullied off of these positions. Look at my email inbox for the span
There's broken down this front line is open. What is it the direct to onto shine?
It's a hard person to hit that's to be certain bliss already dead to leave
This is getting out of there. In fact, this might even be swapping two.
You see? Yeah, okay, over to me.
So make a little bit more state.
Yeah, it's also a good way of just being able to punish this split from Sonso.
Since Lee Summon and Maka don't want to play too close to that sigma,
because if they play out of the open, it allows Fry to be able to find far more value with that Freya.
As to one ultimate time just run fast one for with Malga Reaper get into Waver's face
All right crowd
You match shy in this duel that is the question
One of the greatest of all time
Versus not so much in up and come I've been around for a hot minute or so, but
Nice since the dawn of time has been such a hot shot on the piss game
Zest is dead now, he's kinda looking like Labo's offense too, it's not really T1 finding
a foot here and now it becomes the problem obviously where you change your comp a couple
of times and now Labo is just so far ahead and holds.
Yeah, Skewdor's so close to Rush but they lose Zest early which means that they can't
commit forward with ult so Maka now gets the opportunity to build a match and like he says
Whatever happens, what they can't at all, which means they have a supporter by the value of the rush.
no sanctuary, no boxbox either from Labour Gaming.
Well, T1 did what they absolutely had to, which was one directly at matter,
use the rush when Leaf could only react with the screen.
Maka did not have match, he versus Goody can see he gets it,
but it's uncomfortable positions that Labour can't capitalize off of.
So T1 just bully outward,
pride playing on the point, looking into the side room
with the bowler shot up to the side.
As Wayvo will have to be able to hold 2-1 off,
Fiser already up on the high ground, getting pushed out by Shai,
blowing up the leaf into he can fall through.
Ooh, that's got one pot.
Call up the hills there.
Now holding this corner is going to be good for Wayvo gaming.
Don't want to be playing trying to mine that angle.
Ryo's going to try and force the TPE from Lee Sumin.
Done so fairly successfully,
Sanbaric comes in, hits five,
Sanctuary pop,
nice little stop slam,
but unfortunately Lee Sumin's just going to retreat
to the Sanctuary of the Love Sanctuary.
Shia, Elise, you've been doing them going down though.
Isondo's trapped in the corner.
That cage perfectly placed.
Sanctuary fell and the cage went up
and that'll be a team kill.
T1 with the payload moving.
Yeah, Donghack has been such a problem for Weibo
to have to stay on top of.
Now we had huge second last fight
if T1 are able to keep Weibo on their toes.
And on their toes they have to be
because Zest has that dead blossom.
Oh, they banged him.
Oh, they missed the Suzu and the shield too to make sure he stays up.
James on Don Hagger, an unrelenting amount of damage coming from the Mauga, eventually he is slain.
We're beginning trying to clear off the backline of all these T1 players that are so far deep.
No one's contesting the point push. T1 pushed the whole time.
Oh, what? Okay, hang on. Shai's also dead. His test is still in there.
This isn't his spawn, he's trying to spawn Camille.
You can't do this, not this range.
Already used his raise but here comes the backup, here comes the cavalry.
T1 are already back from the point, and you still gotta play this S.
Here comes the rush as well, the moments you get, sir.
He's in the back.
These guys can try and find an off-angle.
Oh, the one-tab on to the back line.
No more Oaks, no problem.
T1 have lost their supports.
Good tracking from Lee too.
Pops on the bike, that's a 4k.
Almost a fib.
What a hero play from leave to save
Yeah, that was a requirement. We'll see this line from here
Yeah, throws a bike into the execution and then just base damage when don't heck has been chained down by Lee
Sue Min preserves this free as well
Because you're one fight away from being able to push this car to that check point and T1 with this Lucio character
They will want to play fast
We're trying to shut out that rotation person gets changed real quick though by bliss
They're just great. How about some of this then Lucio player trying to disrupt me
Lizen's a training for shy there in the front line, but Sunso's guys are I obsessed
Sanctuary pop to honor the point now and now T1 have got a fear a rock connects with dong hack
Is that with 45 seconds to go? T1's attack attempts here are diminishing
Yeah, but forcing that Sanctuary is huge for T1, right?
You don't have it to absorb the impact of Deathbloss and Convode with the cage.
Waybo have to play preventative instead of reactive if they play too close to the point.
Donhack just cages them and Zest kills them.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
That was all booted into the train.
That would have been horrible.
That would have been a clip of the day.
Well, the Deathbloss are off-screen right now from Zest.
Sunzo's trapped in the cave, still manages to hit the flux though.
It isn't going to be enough damage to actually see them through this fight.
It's already hit that grasp and Lee, once again, comes up with a kill onto Proud.
He's on the high ground behind him, currently for the rest of the team is split.
A teleport forward there from Zest as he isolates the kill onto Sunzo.
And you know, T, T, what a push it.
Can Wevo get one more touch?
Lee Sumin has been found out already, he's done with 1v1 of Zest, but it ain't going to happen.
a nice little boop away on the repo. Rayford's getting another touch. Leave us back here too, but
they haven't got enough bodies on the point. Zest a little excited look on his face. T1
up 2-0 in the series. Match point in the series 2. Yeah, if you're a Wave-O, this is when you start
to worry. You're accustomed to losing control. Usually, you always land on your feet when
you sub Sunzo in and take us to Neon Junction. That's always been the turnaround that this
team have looked to outside for winning control versus TN earlier. But T1, that defeat, that
Be damned versus Zeta, that has fueled them, you can tell.
They have come out here to play with a point to prove.
Where was this team when they were playing Zeta earlier on today?
That new junk city was one of the uglier ones that we've seen in this tournament,
and I'd say maybe even all year to be fair.
But this is a brand new T1, logged in.
I've only got one more map to go, and he finds himself on a podium finish.
Oh, this was where the death plot went.
Okay, that's where it went.
That's baited to be back for a few seconds.
Yeah, baited just by Lee Suman, and had the teleport active,
pushes up, just clearing up the high ground scout side of the Reaper,
instantly teleports back to his team before he gets overwhelmed,
and can be taken down by that death blossom.
I see a tank player moving on Wavo's side.
See, Wavo here, we just talked about how discombobulated
T1 looked on that new junk city earlier.
If you missed that match, by the way,
three times T1 did not touch the objective
to activate OT, despite multiple times having ultimates which would have afforded them likely
to win those fights. So if you're Wabo and your back is against the wall and you have
your choice of maps to take us to, I could honestly see them going for that trauma inducing response
and pulling to your back to new junk city. Do it to them. Psychic damage. Do it.
You're quite effective against certain players, especially if the very same day you're playing,
you lost the chance to go to Grand Finals.
Little Ajax as well happening that one too.
Can't forget about that.
I'm sure Lucio players always want to forget about the Ajax.
Surely not.
You probably want to forget that New Junk City actually happened.
I mean, you heard the interview earlier.
Yeah, they were like, what match did we play? We don't we don't want to think about that.
Don't need to remember they had some time to reflect or not reflect and maybe forget.
Who should we in? Of course.
Webo gaming still in with a chance to take it to a map five.
Already been in one today.
Although there might be a little bit of exhaustion, maybe,
especially after that map fight. There's still going to be a lot of adrenaline
pumping through their veins.
Yep, there we go. Perth in the pudding. Gushway, subbed in for Sunzo.
More flexibility of heroes that he can play. Flashpoint, push.
It's likely that you're going to be swapping your tank around, and SIGLA can be outpaced.
just a fair bit, run down by things like Symmetra and Malga and Romatra as well.
So Gushwe, we've seen the Doomfist, potentially you play the Doomfist, maybe you go to Atlas
and use the Doomfist to be able to overwhelm the first point the way you did earlier versus
Twisted Minds.
But it started so promising.
For them, we'll have to see if that's the play that Wayvo decide to make as they are
one map away from losing out on a podium finish here at midseason within the EWC.
Yeah, a whole lot less points for your team overall in the competition too. So
T1 want to lock this one in and then cheer on the rest of their teams in the other titles.
can't quite see but it's looking like... I hope so.
See, do you...
There's something spicy here if I'm T1. Hey, go back on the vendetta. You want to go
to the... Go back on the vendetta. Go back on the shi-on. It's open now. Yeah, I mean,
to be honest with you, that map was so quick, you know. Oh, it would be Alice instead. We're
Flashboy, but it's gonna be Alice.
Okay, do they ban Doom?
No.
Okay, I was going to say, Doom works on point one is much harder to work on the rest of them.
So I think removing something like that tracer where you really will find the value all the way through is a much better shot,
because even if you lose point one to the Doom first,
That's only one out of the three required for teams to be able to finish this map note
Cat Van, though
41
So we get a little bit more quick
The Lucio action, the Kiriko action
And then Donghaeg can play the ball. I'm manifesting it.
Well, Donghaeg will likely play the Malga and run directly at that poor backline since Mac and I can't swap onto the cat
to escape the flank. Yeah you can't play something that's lacking in the mobility department if
you're marker. I don't think we're going to see an armor but there's always a chance. Well the
Kiriko was falling prey to it as well. Yeah that. Which is very strange since Kiriko had you know
teleport and should not be in situations where your Mauga simply runs past your tank and uh
on you up. Just resetting Gushreys PC. It's got an SSD though so it should be fine. First
time I was about to say the most unkscentive of all time. First time I got an SSD my brain
exploded I was like damn we really live in the future now. Right in here in the car drive.
You know, that's not that un... You know, my first PC, right, was one of those really thick ones?
I could barely wrap my arm around it.
Yeah, the wide ones!
Where your PC, like, your tower?
Yeah, we had, we had, like, a computer, and then you had, like, the stack, right?
I don't know PC's phones, okay?
She's got this, I'm like, yeah, it's a stack, sure.
What color was the case?
Was it that? Yeah, it was like grey beige.
Grey beige, yeah.
Grey beige, and then the outer shell was also grey beige with like the black set in spleen.
Sure.
It was about people at home won't be able to see this, but from about here.
She's miming it to me?
To probably here.
It was a chunky one.
It was a chunky one, yeah.
You know about the the width of the hot water bottles man, what a what kind of measurement is that?
That's like Johnny saying something crazy Swedish and like I'm just sitting there like I have no idea
Look everyone knows
He's like, yeah, you know that
The height of a water bottle
Right just your your basic average hot water bottle
Get it right here
currency conversions in terms of bags of pasta so like oh
What a bag of pasta is like a pound or whatever? Yeah, okay?
So what is that in like usd?
Oh, it would be like oh, that's that's 30 pounds. I could buy 30 bags of pasta. Is it worth it?
Not the craziest thing you've ever said
haha true my mind is a very strange
labruntian place and I am awful at
directions so sometimes I navigate it
well sometimes I get stuck looking at a
total dead end speaking about stuck
way but he's way a little stuck yeah a
little bit stuck at the moment I guess
his password it was I'm not sure it was
not as simple as simply switching out
the SRD card.
Ah, they're good, look.
It's fine.
Should be good.
Goochway's going to load in in just a moment.
And then we will hop into map number 3, Atlas.
And then Moxie can measure how quickly it takes for Webogaming to take the first point
in reference to bags of pasta.
Apparently, just what you do.
You don't use bags of pasta as time measurement.
To be honest, if you moxie at this point, I don't know what you made your time immunity.
I'm gonna be honest.
Songs from my playlists.
Your watch probably looks like a sundial.
She pulls out the watch, but this is a giant sundial on a wrist.
I just look up at the sky, see how high the sun is.
And you're like, yeah, it must be around about 9pm.
I think the craziest thing said on Overwatchcast so far this tournament might have been crazy
racoon being sent out before they could get grand finals.
Yeah, I mean look, look at how close that Tokyo game was, the finals in Tokyo between
them and Twisted Minds.
I think people were kind of almost saying look look this this could happen again
There's a realistic world where this happens again, but now it's twisted minds without them. It's Zeta
Twisted minds lost that Grand finals two in seven. It went all the way
Which isn't like the same kind of life here, too
I know like say that even though say it looks so clean. I think twisted minds especially how pumped up
They would have been after that reverse sweep. I mean
But also cell can't be understood now. They actually have time swimming with UV again, right?
Because the pan if you don't know they literally said the night before hey
Let's try putting UV back on and then they made a fun
And then they made a grand final run and almost won the whole thing now
They're actually playing with UV back full time
All right, well we get Gougeway's PC sorted. Let's jump down to Ian on the stage with a fan
Yeah, we're gonna get that PC sorted soon, but I'm standing by with Evia right now who's from France
Can I just say first things first? You look magnificent. Thank you so much. So you're a big Overwatch fan, right?
Yes, sir. How long have you been a fan of this game?
Since the first Overwatch like you know when you had to buy the like physical copy ever since that.
Wow, so now you're a big fan of the e-sport as well itself, so you're following the teams
You've got a favorite team. Who is it and why?
Why?
They tell me because I've been following them for their identity TV like team
and then I discovered that they also had another watch one and I was like hell yeah
I'm gonna also like hype them up
So yeah
They haven't needed much hype being up
They've been so good here of course they've got such a phenomenal fan support here as well in Paris
How do you think they will perform in the grand final?
I trust that they're gonna win
Quite easily leaping across
But I trust them completely for the final
Whereabouts in Francie from?
From the north?
The north of France.
So how cool is it?
Look, you get lots of different e-sports events here throughout different years, but like,
the e-sports world cup coming to Paris, how quickly did you book a ticket?
I cooked because my friend is living in Paris, and like, I asked, and she was like,
Hey, yeah, she's behind us, like, Julie.
Bring her in, you want to come in?
What's your friend's name?
Noryo.
Noryo, come on in here.
Everyone's dressed so well, I need to step up my game.
Who are you here to support?
I'm here to support Zeta too.
And how do you think they've been performing here this year?
Everyone has been performing so well, the matches are really great.
We had really close calls, that's really amazing to see today on Paris.
One thing that I really enjoy about the Esports World Cup, especially here at the STC Arena,
is you see fans from all over the world coming out here to support their teams.
Have you made any new friends here?
here. Yeah, we made a lot of
friends with new people that we
cannot wait to play Overwatch
with. You like that community
feel? Yeah, I love the
community here. Like everybody
has been so nice ever since
like the the World Cup
actually started and every
interaction we had with other
people were just simply like.
I'm gonna remember it for the
rest of my life, not gonna
like because everybody's so
nice. So cool. We've got people
here on their honeymoon and all
sorts of celebrating. But are
Yeah, for sure, that's quite a nice experience.
I was back then on Overwatch 1, it's been a while I played,
and right now I really want to play Overwatch 2 back again.
So out of you two, who's the better player of Overwatch?
Oh, that was quick!
Do you agree?
Oh yes, totally.
I love it.
Can I just say, these two have been phenomenal.
So Paris, can we make some noise,
Fett de Bruyne for our lovely guests here?
Thank you for talking to me.
Quick one, what's your prediction for the final?
I think that's going to win, okay?
I agree, of course.
That's going to win.
Trust that I win, guys.
That's a win.
I'd like to hear it.
Go and take your seats.
Thank you so much.
Let's get back into the third place match.
All right.
Gooshway.
We rewrote the bootloader and we are in.
Here we go.
Atlas is mad.
Camp number three.
They slow the tempo down to be fair.
to be fair from people on there. I'm kind of a hot streak a second ago on that last one, so
see if they can pick this one up. I am in agreement with you with Ermoxie. I would have loved to see
the mental warfare over which New Junk City, but at least I'll take it.
Yep. I think they know there's a potential that they have to deal with the Doomfist on this
first point at least. What will be the pivot after this? Because for Atlas we've
seen a variety of tanks used, Maruga obviously still open, Romachra also still open,
Sigma has it has started really coming into play on this map type as well,
especially versus the Romachra. Right. Walking past that tank, waiting for him to
be totally away from a position where he can help out his back line picking your target
and absolutely mugging them.
Or mugging.
You pick.
All right.
Looks like Gouchouay.
A little thumbs up there from the legends.
We should be rocking and rolling.
Look at that.
Hitscan.
Player keyboard layer.
I see that.
Perfectly straight and then zest on the hang.
Yeah.
Do you go straight?
I am.
I'm an angle type gamer. I will say I'm more like a zest of all people
Are you when you straight? Are you completely like vertical not completely straight?
slightly tilted
Here we go
Let's yapping more playing atlas map 3 t1 and a way bow gaming t1 up to maps already
to get into this grand finals
coming up later. That's a
twisted mind. Zeta division.
Match of the century here in
midseason, EWC. How does
Mac a deal with donghaek is
the big issue that way, though
will be facing right now.
I think it's going to be a
big issue. I think it's going
to be a big issue. I think it's
going to be a big issue. I
think it's going to be a big
issue. I think it's going to be
a big issue. I think it's going
right now. Do you know just for the speed range, likely swapping onto Kyroko afterwards?
Oh, no doofus. You said there was a slight chance, but it looks like Ushua is opting for the safer routes with the Mauga instead.
But there it is. That is why I wanted to see Zest on the Vendetta. Very hard and fast combat.
One of the only teams that's really piloting this permanently.
It's been tough to deal with for a lot of squads.
Both magas falling very low at this point. No one's been able to find a slam foe.
Oh, yes, yeah. Pick out the first blood. Friar's going to sooner follow afterwards.
He doesn't have a picking up an easy kill, but unfortunately the rest won't be as easy.
Look at this. Shy back it up already, isn't that? That'll be the point cat for Team 1.
2-1 will be very happy to take that too because now you can look for more and catch leaves before he can disengage off the high ground.
And for Wurzel, for Waveo, for 15-1 now it's so much easier to keep track of where your backline can play safety bombs.
This is probably how they wanted to play in their ZZ Division game, just really quick, super fast, get up in your face because they were more on the passive angle, a little bit more submissive if you will.
We're both gaining now having to force to hit the restart button, reclaim a lot of this space in fact.
Yeah, but look at Stu's rush charge, because they got Maka earlier in the fight,
Stu's just been alive the whole time building a ultimate, she won't have to worry about a rush mirror.
Excuse us.
I'm so much healing and damage out already.
Here comes the charge, nice little stun on Tegu Shui, already skewed 90% towards that ult.
Lee's gonna be the main focus here, there's the next stop,
I'm hitting Lee, but goes down to shy. Both CPS there from red again, he's focused down the mount,
now he's still going to deal with Zest, dude. To be fair, his attack is in his own right on the
vendetta. Up to the sky, gets healed up, Lee does kill Proud in the end, and the touch is going to
come through. No, it's not! Lee not going to get there, at least she may not be too far behind either,
that's one point C1. Oh, way both bleeding players out as well. Gishway does pick up both of the
backline from T1 though, but they're still alive, still taking wave of players down.
It doesn't feel fair, I'll say sometimes watching good Dender the players.
Yeah, at least it's not least Bendetta when we had Bendetta's Aryan, that's it.
Now you get a chance to be able to react before the Bendetta kills you.
Yeah, you can actually interact with the heroine, that's always fun.
Well, speaking by fun, this next fight will be very fun for you to play by play.
Five ult, ready to go from both sides.
Get 10 ult on the board, just dump them all in one, why not?
Zest is gonna try and go first, go over the head swing, Strat's marked already,
nothing, they're popping down the rush there, and it does connect with the ground,
K-Files gonna come in too, Zest deal with the Sundering Blade, chasing off the lead,
already the fight is done, and Dustin in the frontline though, little slash and a dash,
he's gonna be able to get the kill too, fade away, shot on to leave, and that will be a team kill,
and only 2 ult's expended there for T1.
Wave-O only got the chance to use the rush before they get caged into place on T1.
So, three ultimates still good to go for T1 and pride in the backline waiting for the wall.
Oh, Lee Sin is going to get caught out here as well.
Here comes the spree. Proud just on the spot.
Acting like a death boss and the shy's got one better.
Old but gold.
Shy hits the gear a little bit quicker there as Proud and skewed and they're getting deleted.
Look how bootless fight was, Shai!
It's like, oh, you got a pseudo death wassen?
You got three of those?
Ah, no problem.
Pick two, stand there, and win.
Nice little cap from Wayba Gaming.
Cap, potentially losing Shai though as he has to rape him back to the rest of his team.
Spree up from lead, no stand-by from Blitz, no cage from Donnak.
This, she or not, could be deadly.
Oh, there it is.
He's gonna pop the spree, Zest is already dead.
He ended up taking to the sky there,
They're trying to insert himself into the backline again.
Yeah, just go first before Zest can find a good position to set out this Sundering Blade.
That's free also allows them to be able to hold the fort down, force Q1 all the way back,
so that you can start trying to find this point percent and leave.
You can just tax Q1's approach.
You're really problematic for Bliss and Skew to get the Orcler to walk through.
100 blade test, got a hide from this one, do so fairly successfully, Shirely there to a booth of Uphilliers, in control of the point now T1, sneak it away from Weber Gaming, they're just trying to one, but they're just getting chased, they're getting chased to each Poland back, I mean they go to north and south, they go to their spawn, they've got like, how aggressive and how deep T1 are going, it's a little bit overwhelming for Webo, they're not even able to touch, and that is the same thing.
Second point over to T1, one point away now from taking the series in a clean sweep.
Yeah, Atlas is just so brutal because there's so many spaces but that's been
debted to be able to climb over those rooftops and slide down onto your
supports when she has all of the cooldowns available. Rush for rush,
Donghack approaching that cage which allows you to want to overcome Webos last time.
Gushui's gonna die surely.
I said rush there from Mark which is trying to sustain him up, the cage is gonna get dropped and there you go.
Call me a truth sayer, Gushui dead and the rest of Weibo will follow. Once again, it's taking the fight against Lee.
Alright, that's fine, we got Long Agon. In the case, easy trade, easy point cap, T1 in pure control.
Yeah, Bliss will have Sandbarra as well to be able to survive Gushui's cages.
Weibo will have combo yet again, Shai's Death Blossom, but surely T1 will be looking for Frize 3 to shut down Gushui's ult.
That's a good way. It's gonna try and chase the Lucio. At least he doesn't appear in the B. Look at Blitz to do the same thing here.
I better be here for Blitz. The cage gets deployed. A death boss from shy shot down by Proud.
Tess still surviving 6 HP on the Vendetta. But still stands tall.
Don't act stupid. As well. Wavo won't find the flip.
All ulti expended for Weibo gaming in test, deal with the sonar and blade
Surely they chase up and death effect, no he goes forward
Going in, oh enemy number one, Lee wants to get him out of this game, wants to get him out of this competition too
Lee getting chased, same release to mid, split the fight up completely, T1 play this cop to perfection
Play kill on to try and put Zest still alive, Weibo totally split, they have to reset, they have to regroup
this is last fight territory and you have to walk in with no ult.
Maka close to a rush, that's what you're playing for,
as Lee goes onto the gendett, it's a Maka.
As soon as there's a TP from Maka, he is going to die to Zess.
I'll tell you that right now for free.
Gendett for Lee now, wants to try and match Zess.
Thundering blade in his back pocket, now to the point he goes.
Proud, already taken down Shy, the thundering blade looking straight towards Gooshway,
trying to find a target, at least a bit of damage there.
Onto the Goosh, but now Bonghatch's got the cage.
OT ticking down and Waybo don't get another touch.
T1 overcome their demons and find themselves a podium finish.
T1 redeemed themselves.
I think it's fair to say we get to see the potential of they get so hard
for Macca's survivability rates.
As T1 knew exactly where to twist that knife go,
that's the only way to get
back into the game. So the
supports speak to that then
data and absolutely eviscerate
any chances that way, though,
had to form a response. Good
studio fight left in them as
well off that heartbreaker
versus data division. Way bow
home. However, on a brighter
note, way more gaming and
Chinese Overwatch as a whole,
like, look, they're looking up.
Wild Finals is just around the
corner over in China. And like
at the end of the day, I
expect them to pull out big
things yet again. Let's have a
little word, though, with
bliss, your cat player from T
put together a phenomenal performance to secure third place but I know reflecting on the day it's not
what you wanted you wanted to be in that grand final how do you reflect on today as a whole
What would you like to hear from the fans?
I think I was in a very bad position before the match, so I would like to apologize to the fans for their support.
I think I went to the 3rd or 4th place to give them the best I could.
I will work harder to get the best results in the next game.
I mean, there's a regret there.
However, that being said, in the third place match,
I really wanted to reimburse that disappointment to myself
and all the team as well.
So yeah, I think we just focused on the game.
And now we have more competitions ahead.
So we'll just try again and just go for the next one.
We saw some really, just brilliant performances
Throughout this tournament, you knocked out some big names as well.
When you look back on it, do you feel like you gave T1 fans something to be excited about when it comes to the future of Overwatch?
We'll do better. Thank you for your support.
And thanks to the great stadium in Paris,
I think it was a meaningful experience for the fans.
Who will win the final?
Honestly, I don't really care about who wins. I just really hope that it goes all the way to 7.
I think we all do. Thank you very much. And we can't wait for that grand final.
Thank you, Bliss. And shout out to T1 for a clean 3-0 in front of all the cosplayers.
Let's take a look back at the highlights.
Jake, this was domination. Devastation from start to finish.
Let's start, though, at the beginning.
Yeah, I mean, this just came out out of the gates strong.
T1, they clearly, you know, a statement was made.
They were able to bounce back from that tough loss earlier in the day.
I think playing first certainly gave them that opportunity,
but they were able to seize it and really show a lot more strength in this third place match.
I mean, overall, I think throughout a lot of this match, we were measuring apples to apples, right?
Like, they played a lot of similar composition, and it was just T1 looking so much better as individuals.
Yeah, I think they actually had time to process the loss as well, because so much pressure on both of these teams.
Like, Bliss had all the right answers in that interview, and me and Jake would look at that and be like,
he wasn't happy with getting third. Like, he wanted to win the entire thing.
but at least they had time to process that earlier and lost here today.
Whereas they feel like Waybu gaming, they came in kind of flat.
They didn't have that same amount of time to recover from the disappointment against with the mind.
And already here in Nepal, it just felt like T1 had more energy and made more place.
As we take a look back at some of the best moments here, I feel like Zest was incredible in Game 3.
Did you have an MVP from T1 for the entirety of the series though?
Honestly, I think I'd lean maybe towards Proud or Dong Haek.
I think Proud came out really strong out of the gate, which is an important moment, right?
Like, I think if Wable had been able to just get maybe one map win and start to believe
again, start to get some win back in the sales, they maybe had more to show us in this match.
But T1 was just all on the gas from the very beginning, and that's why I put so much credit
in Proud's camp, in towards Dong Haek as well, because he kept pushing the pace through
the series.
map 2 when Sunzo came in. I think this was like the closest fight for Wable Gaming. So again Sunzo
really proving his value to this team. So on the other side I heard Moxie talking,
Dong hack, Dong hack, Dong hack. In fact on the field the maps they were saying he's playing
like a giant tracer. What is Dong hack bringing to the table for T1 and how big was this weekend
for him in particular? I think this was a huge week for him in his career really because he's
He's been on the grind for such a long time, he's been doubted in the past, in his Overwatch League days.
He's been criticized a lot and I think ever since then, he's stepped it up tremendously and so much flexibility into his hero pool and he also added a lot of...
Now he's considered a veteran. Back then he was that rookie player which we could criticize but now I think he's showing the poise of a national veteran player.
And even though he only got third, I think his team learned a lot this tournament and they're not like the little brother anymore in the region.
like they took down some really good teams for the 2000s, right?
And now they can build on this moving forward for the rest of the year.
We got the finals coming up,
Lair this year of course as well.
And now this is a team, but it's kind of earned the respect from the other big teams in the region.
And you can utilize that to advantage,
bring that confidence to the future tournaments
and make sure that maybe you have a better chance to make the grand final come next time.
Is it fair to say they're the second best team in Korea, Jake?
I'd say so for now.
I mean, holding on to that title for long,
has proved to be remarkably difficult.
I mean, Korea produces such an obscene level of talent
for the rest of the world.
Like, so many teams are looking to bring players out of this region
to kind of give their teams a boost.
And there's a good reason for that.
It's because Korea, just the best Overwatch in the world,
generally speaking, I mean, they've always produced
the lion's share of the elite professional players.
And T1 is further proof of that.
This is a team full of young players
with a really exciting potential future ahead of them.
The fact that Donghak is kind of the veteran leader of this team is a real statement about the fact that Korea just continues to produce elite level players.
How much did they make with that win? Well, it was a bonus $40,000 as they break into the top three.
Six figures goes to T1 and we're still going to dish out 580 grand to our top two finalists in just a few minutes.
Falcons were able to finish with 20k, but outside of the points, they got a big win over on Street Fighter
and they still have a team in Warzone. If you're looking at some of the top dogs in this tournament though, Johnny,
you're running out of time to earn some club championship points.
This could be a big win, especially for Twisted Minds.
Yeah, for Twisted Minds, a great opportunity here to see some of those points.
And as we look at some of the other teams like Virtus.Pro, like they were second in the Esports World Cup
and going into this tournament and they massively failed in the groups as well.
So as you take a look here at the club championship rankings, you can see team five is there 2400 points
Obviously, they would have benefited so much from their team advancing even further and it's drawing to its final status here pocket
Just a couple of weekends left
We've got a lot of action still to come here live from Paris
It is the mid-season championship and when we come back
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Hey, why don't you come and tag along and I'm going to show you around as I'm getting
ready for our broadcast.
There's a moment that you're not gonna want us around you like for a minute or two, just let us do it.
Have no secrets, someone open the door.
Yeah, I'll just do my prep work until they arrive.
Because I've been told this morning that I'm also recording, I'm going to check over.
At 10 am, yeah?
Yeah.
Makeup done, it's time to shoot our day 1 recap with Dani and Johnny.
Uh, Dani and Johnny.
Yeah.
We're aligned.
America!
So, um, do I have to act like I'm like really close to you?
Ah, yeah, we're best friends.
Haha, super.
Johnny, come here!
Johnny, we need to discuss this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we need to, we need to talk.
Johnny, come here!
Yeah, yeah, we need to talk about work.
I was about to say, won't you fly here from over in Denim?
Because you said yesterday was today's Denim date.
Did I? I couldn't remember what was Denim date.
Is it actually Denim date?
I mean, we decided that we're going to like end them on the desk.
So I brought like seven outfits, so I have Denim tomorrow to tell you the details.
I'm here for the video and your vibes.
I'm going to schedule into story of the day into Ginny standing by the club championship.
I'm just gonna like how we did in the best.
I could tiptoe if you want, I could do this.
Why does he need to be taller?
As you can tell, we're just excited for all the Overwatch to come.
And of course it's not just about winning it here for the mid-season championship.
No, it's all about getting some points for the club championship.
We now have Ginny standing by, what a special guest.
I just said I just said the way because you said upper brackets. I was like
It works. That's right. That's why I was like, and we could do team liquid
Just go for all
No
Welcome today to midseason championship coming to life from EWC here in parry surprise
I'm sitting down with my new friends, johnny and danny to talk a little bit about what went down yesterday
That's all good. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm gonna say that I prefer this last
take better. Okay, well then, we did it for you.
Yeah. It's very much appreciated. Thank you very much, guys.
Thank you.
A little chat on the way back and we're in the green room again.
Do you have a gun, Aluza?
I'm still walking.
Oh my god.
He gets free?
Yeah.
Oh, Danny has fans.
Hello.
Hello!
How do you say delicious?
Delicious!
Delicious?
Wow!
Delicious!
Oh, sure, there's a miss!
Hello!
Good morning!
Are you sure?
Thank you!
What is this?
He takes food from strangers.
Is this what French dogs eat?
No, no, it's just bread and bread.
Is that French?
Sure, it is.
What?
It's French.
No, no, it's just a friend of mine.
Is that French?
Sure, look at this.
It's French, but it doesn't make it a delicacy.
It's just like...
Desnay, Desnay in 1905.
It's far, really?
And no colors are like preservatives, so...
Oh, so good.
Yeah, something like that.
Is this not famous?
It's sugar, it's the sugar.
Is Johnny already out?
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
See you at that pocket, okay?
Alright, ready to log in? Ready for action.
What's up everybody, I want to say something, the coolest thing about Lan are three things,
matches, fans and of course the cosplayers.
Look at these guys, it's amazing!
bring the characters to life. I am literally standing next to Juno and Ash and Ryan in the
back. Reapers, we got Brig and Kiri as well. This is insane. Alright, I mean, I gotta ask you this,
how long did it take for you to come up with this amazing costume? Way too long. Honestly,
we spend like hours on these costumes, weeks, months, even for some of us. I know that some
of us also entered cosplay competitions with these costumes, so much way too much time.
And Ash fantastic cosplay as I mean as well as everybody else. Was there a specific reason why you chose Ash?
Because she's the best maybe
Because I love Bob. It's a character I'm playing a lot like Chase. I'm playing a lot of DPS and Ash is one of the better characters in the game
So is it when so when you guys are coming to these events do you like tell I guess either we see that like hey
I'm gonna do this costume and they just pick and then they say yes
I mean there's a real reason why you choose a character of course because you like this character like you're playing her a lot
I mean a lot, but also because of the design and I think our overwatch is such a very rich
Costume like in detail you have so many things you have craft you have sewing you have wigs you have everything
I mean overwatch is this perfect for cosplay anyway
So whatever character you want to choose you have lots of things to do on this
I'm gonna talk to you later because I want to get into cosplay. I would definitely do Bob if you if he could help me out
Yes, I'm a little bit shorter side, but I'll be a shortfall. Yeah. Yeah. All right, Juno.
I mean, I'm sure you play Overwatch as well and you're cosplaying Juno today,
but if you have to choose another hero, who would you want to do?
I am currently eyeing Kiriko. I'm eyeing the witch skin from Kiriko because I think it's
gorgeous. The timekeeper one as well. Yeah. I mean, I think Kiriko and both Juno and Kiriko
have beautiful skins. All the Overwatch heroes have beautiful skin. So thank you guys so much
Thank you so much for cosplaying our heroes, and yeah, thank you guys!
Hello one and all and welcome back to the STC Arena with a
We are gearing up for the Grand Finals matchup.
Zeta Division about to take on EMEA's twisted minds.
And for twisted minds, this could be a huge opportunity
to raise a trophy and earn 1,000 points
towards the club championship.
While we wait for our players to get ready on the main stage,
we want to welcome in a very special guest.
He's been on the French broadcast since day number one soon.
One of my favorite traces of all time is in the building.
And so are the fans soon.
First of all, did you see this on our show?
yesterday. We've had, you know, the endless soon sides all week and long.
Good, good. They're crazy. They always do that now. This is crazy.
I love seeing it. Now, are these people that are in your stream on a regular basis?
Are they just French fans? Because I know Overwatch hasn't been in France for quite a while.
Yeah, yeah, we have a huge fan base in France, with two friends.
I saw Rob back in the days and some players in the Watch League.
Yeah, soon I got to ask you, it's been a long time since we've played against each other back in the day in Overwatch League.
But now we have you here on the talent team. I even talked with some of the first founders saying, hey, they've really been impressed with your work.
What's it been like for you to kind of be on the talent side now and be telling the story to the fans?
Yeah, recently I moved as a coach now. My career is finished as a player, unfortunately.
So, yeah, I'm trying a lot of stuff.
It's my first time doing casts and analysts, especially with Ben Best, we know the game,
you know, even you.
So, yeah, I really like it.
It was a good experience.
Tell me a little bit about the fans here in Paris, because I see twisted minds have been
super loud.
Weibo crowd has been insane.
T1's fans have been on their seats, and we even see a lot of people here supporting
PEPs, squads that haven't even made it to the event.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. We have many fans around the world.
The Chinese fan from Weibo, the Soli from TM, the French fan cheering for many teams,
for example, just a minor. So, Weibo, they have their own team preference, but of course,
their favorite is Team PEPs. Unfortunately, they are not here, but maybe soon.
Yeah, I think a lot of fans were really excited about Team Peps this year and they have shown
some good stuff. I'm very curious to see if they can make a resurgence of course in Stage 3,
maybe making a return to form and competing at the highest level. How do you think about French
Overwatch, maybe especially thinking about the World Cup team right now, which is of course,
you know, coming up soon. That's kind of like the next major event in the Overwatch calendar.
Yeah, the difference finished first in the group stage. We beat Spain, what was one of the favorite
team in Europe. We have some good players, like Xero for example, he's my favorite player,
he's a great support. And for Team Peps, we do like 45 maps, win, zero loss on the face
it league. We're doing a promotion soon in a few weeks, so I'm really excited and looking
forward for the next week.
That is going to be incredible. What also is going to be incredible is this grand final
coming up and our producers have been asking, do we have any front runners for MVP? This
is the time of the tournament where we start prepping the videos, all the graphics. I want
you to be my official answer. Who do you think deserves MVP consideration for their play
so far in this tournament from Zed division or Twisted Minds?
Difficult question. There's so many participants. We are sure we have QoAZ, TVNC, even Violet.
He was insane, but I would say for me it's still Quartz, this guy is popping off on
Soyeon especially and on the last match he shows us his level back.
Is he the best hit scan in the world?
He is the best scan in the world.
I have to agree, I mean for me I've been really impressed this tournament in particular by
simple because right in this meta with the cat hitting you from all sides, you know,
But far out of the Bastion, there's so much to worry about on the support line.
For me, I've just been blown away with his ability to stay alive in these incredibly
high pressure scenarios.
I'm curious if you think about the support play in this tournament, who you've been
impressed by with his crazy meta.
Yeah, you're right.
Like most of the people sleep on the flex supports, it's an underrated role.
And for me, it's the most important role in Overwatch.
So you talk about Simple, but there's also Shook, who is the pop-up on Ana with crazy
slips soon I am told you are needed back on the French broadcast for about 25
minutes from that match going live thank you so much for joining us here on the
English stage for now we got a check with Danny Lim who is there with another
global content creator take it away Danny thank you so much fucking yes I am
here with the biggest overwatch content creator from Saudi his name is braid
everybody say hi to brain hybrid hello Danny hello everyone nice to meet you
guys all right I gotta ask you I mean you're here in Paris for either we see
how are you enjoying the the festivity the the action are you having fun actually
insane atmosphere here at Paris it's my first time here it's Paris I'm enjoying
my time I'm I'm saying crazy matches Twisted Minds I won the finals so I'm
happy yeah yeah talking about just Twisted Mind I mean were you were you
kind of nervous when they were going up against Wabo because they were down 0-2
and then they had the reverse three but like up until the third map were you
how are you feeling? I was super nervous, super sad but after that I remember 2023 World Cup versus China
I got the flashback so I believed again and we won. I know there's a lot of fans, your fans and of
course EWC Overwatch fans on your chat, what were they saying? They were saying we did it once,
we're gonna do it twice and we did it twice, we won against China, we're very sweep,
We are in the finals now and we are going to make it.
Chad, I got you.
All right, I mean, now, Twisted Mind, they're in the finals.
They're going up in Zeta Division.
Who do you think is going to win and why is it Twisted Minds?
Because AWC is a Saudi thing.
And today, a very Saudi player going to lift up the trophy
today.
They're going to win and they're going to get the 1,000 points
and the first ever trophy for AWC.
Brian, one final question.
I know you said before this interview happened behind the
camera you're like I have something to say so I'm gonna open the floor for you
say whatever you want
I'm gonna say I just want to say
Thank you all for coming to this world
hi to my mom she's watching right now
All right thank you so much Bray have fun
pocket back to you
awesome stuff there from Brayn as well as Danny Lim
daddy's been crushing it this week and he's been running all over the place
and speaking of running all over the place,
we found two professionals that were out in the crowd.
I'm getting one of them mic'd up right now.
The others already seated.
Kellex and Psycho are gonna be joining us in the studio.
And Jake, this was a duo that wanted to come on together.
And they said, if we're gonna do it,
can we do it before the grand finals?
Only fitting to have them here with us now.
I personally love to get more players on the broadcast.
Guys, thank you so much for joining us.
And just to open this up,
first I wanna get your impressions.
Psycho, we've had you on the show a little bit,
But, Kalex, what's been your experience here in this event in Paris at the Esports World Cup?
It's been great. I've been enjoying my time. We had some great games going, playing as well.
We had just overall a very nice experience.
And you seem to be kind of pandering to the French fans incredibly well.
When you did your interview, you gave a shout out to them. They all gave a roar for you.
What is it like seeing the European audience showing up at a LAN event for Overwatch?
I mean, I love it. I wish we can have even more LANs, especially in Denmark.
I want to try that too because the French crowd is amazing and they're very passionate about everything. You know, I just love it
I I want to do it all the time if I could so I go I wanted to ask you about your experience so far in Paris
I know you guys didn't get as far as you wanted to in the tournament
But what has it been like playing here in one of the major cities one of the capitals?
I love any land, especially if it's in Europe as a European. I had my family here. I showed them around yesterday
It was super nice, you know, they really enjoyed it first time in an eSports event and even my little brother
He wants to go pro and Valorant so for him to see that and you know kind of show him how it goes
Everything goes I even showed him backstage, you know, so that was very nice to do so cool
Yeah, it's a great experience, you know, just this is what the eSports is all about right getting the people
You know we have so much passion online playing the game dedicating really your life, right to be able to play at the level
you do. But when you come here, you get to share that with other people. And, and, and you know,
that's the unique magic, right? Everyone, I think thinks about gaming as this solitary
activity. But then when you're here together in person, it's, it's the different level, right?
It's the community experience really shown to the world. I'm wondering, you know, is there
anything you guys have felt in this experience coming, bringing everyone to Paris, being here
with your teams, with your family, with your friends that you'd like to share to the fans?
Well, I just want to say, like, my little brother being here, he was able to see the
good sides of esports and also the bad sides, you know, with obviously with me being eliminated
early.
Like, in one day, you know, you just have one bad day and you're out of the tournament.
It's super punishing, but you know, it's a dream for every little kid to be a professional
esports player.
But then he was able to see, you know, it's not that fun all the time, you know, like
it's a real job, it's a real thing, we have to sacrifice a lot.
And he was able to see both sides of the industry.
since the job pay well though is it worth sticking with it if you're a good
player I think it's worth it but stay in school kids multi-task get someone to
pay for you to play e-sports at school it's a way to go these guys don't have
to worry about school anytime soon a lot of them have already graduated others
are playing professionally at a high level for multiple years let's talk
about twisted minds and of course their opponents on the other side in Zeta
Division twisted minds able to power through Wable any surprises in that
matchup for you, Kellogg's. Weibo jumped out to a 2-0 lead. I was surprised to see them taking
the 2-0 lead because I thought CM were going to run the mobile quite easily, but you know what,
that's a great game, so it was enjoyable to watch. And who do you think deserves some of the flowers
for Twisted Minds in the comeback? Of course, of course, it's just the best he's been in the
world by far, so he's just great. Yeah, I got to give a lot of credit to Weibo. I
bet they're exceptionally well coached in this series, like the diva ban on Nepal combined
with this super aggressive Doomfist dive strategy that caught Twisted Minds off guard.
They win the Simban map, which feels like a must do right if you want to beat this team.
You've got to win in the Simban map. But tell me guys a little bit more about the strategy.
I mean, a best of seven is a rare thing in Overwatch, right? It's really only for these
grand finals. How do you think that plays in to these series, especially against a team like
Twisted Minds? I think the best of seven favorites Twisted Minds a lot. Obviously,
They have the Lucy ban and the Kiriban and the Sim ban against TM.
Yeah, those are must-win maps, but we know, like, speaking historically, winning the Sim ban against UV and TM,
it's not an easy thing to do.
But at least the Lucy and the Kiriban, they're a must-win.
But I think if when there's no bans in the series,
push-the-minds comps and their matchup, the Sim comps, Diva, Ram, they're the best comp in the game.
I heard a comp that simple is the best Illari in the game.
Is she worth using in a grand final?
Potentially.
If there's a QRIP fan, I could see you are being played, but as Saiko said, you know, they said I have to win the Lusha QRIP fan.
Fans, otherwise, it's going to be a quick series, I think.
Yeah.
For me, guys, I mean, I'm looking at this series, I feel like this one is almost uniquely hard to call because they don't have just annihilated everyone, right?
Like, they have not really even shown the double.
You guys took a map that you guys could actually test them, but I mean men like seeing some of the matches against some of the even the top Korean teams
It's like oh my it is it on another level, but now they go up against a very different opponent
I think it's actually telling maybe that you guys take a map playing the fast rush style and showing the strength of the NBA
How do you think they're gonna handle twisted minds here in the grand final with Sada's unique style?
I mean it's too polar opposite, you know
Serra want to play for the individual strength, the carry heroes, Cat, Ana, Tracer,
and Tm want to play Simon, Rosa, Rampley, Abbey, Xeva, I think it's going to be a very interesting match.
It really depends on the band, I think, to see how it goes.
Cycle has a top tier DPS player who has been scouted out and hired by a number of general managers.
Can we talk a little bit about Proud and Xeva Division? Sorry, proper, because this is a guy that was in MVP last year
with the Falcons now playing for ZD and it seemed like he kind of had his picker the litter of who he
wanted to play with this year. Yeah I mean everyone knows this proper is the best DPS player in the
world so seeing him go against Quartz the best hitskin in the world it's obviously a matchup that
everyone wants to see different styles different matchups but proper is a guy to watch out for
and I'm sure he will deliver an amazing performance. Yeah the Zedokovision team I mean they were built
to win. And I mean, I think really they came together in a way first to win in Japan, which
they weren't able to accomplish. But now here at the eSports World Cup in Paris at the Missy's
and Championship, it feels like they finally hit their stride and have just been incredibly
impressive to watch. I feel like Shuu has like maimed Ana this tournament. I was completely
shocked by right like no one was playing Ana really coming into this event. He's been the
one making it happen. And I mean, you guys have both played on the other side of that field as
survive from the shoot on and you know that's a dangerous experience how do you
think he's gonna play into this particular series okay I mean I think
Twisted's style is the worst possible matchup for Zeta Division I think when
they go against his Korean teams like T1 it's like more mechanical matchup you
know and that's the Zeta Division style no one's gonna beat these players in a
1v1 or like mechanical match the Twisted minds they play for like more the
teamwork, you know, UB's leadership, and teeping around the map, playing the objective, and
I think that's the style that hurts Seta Division the most, and we did see that from Geek here
already. They were the only team that made Seta Division somewhat bleed by taking off
a map.
Kalex, I wanted to give you major props because you seem to be the vibes guy, the one who
kind of sets the tone, the emotion for the rest of your team on the stage. Is there anyone
that could potentially go on tilt in this grand final? Can you get in the head of any of
the 10 players in this first control?
I think if it doesn't go to you, it's where I can imagine some of the players getting a bit upset, you know, I've heard some stories, but you know, that's naturally not there.
The tilt will always come if you start losing, but they have a strong win. So they can turn around.
Can you give us a hint? Is it front line players, back line players, or maybe tank players that we're going to have?
There's like some beef between the tanky players at times, you know, but that's naturally not. They are very passionate and it's normal to see.
Alright, so passion goes both ways, you know, when you're winning, it's good.
And when you're losing, it goes the other way as well.
But yeah, it is.
My pick would be that it would be Twister Minds that kills.
Final question for you guys real quick is play style.
Psycho, who do you think has the lead in this matchup?
Who do you have winning it?
And what is the play style difference?
Play style difference.
I already mentioned a little bit earlier, obviously,
the Simcoms with Twister Minds playing more teamwork,
say the division,
playing more for mechanical skill, individual value.
My opinion, maybe I'm biased because I'm from Europe,
but I think the Simm matchup
It's a very good matchup into this style and I think Twisted Mind will win 4-2.
4-2, Kelly.
I'm rooting for TM, but I have a feeling they will take it 4-1 maybe.
4-1, Jake.
It's such a tough one to call.
You know, I think back to Japan where I felt, hey, maybe TM, I thought in the end there were some different bands,
I thought they could edge it out, but Zeta's on a whole different level, maybe better than we've ever seen out of Korea before.
I almost can't predict this one, but I think I'll lean towards Twisted Minds.
I think it's going to go to 7 though.
I think we're going to get the full experience here in Paris.
Let's give the fans what they deserve.
In the meantime, we got to check in with Ginny to see what's going on with the club championship over at Warzone.
Thanks bucket, we're over here at the Kidia City grid where we got some caught action going on.
I'm Ginny joined with Glitter who's going to give us the update because what is this madness?
So we're in our match point finals today.
It all comes down to this.
There's a 150 point threshold where four matches in heading into match number five right now
And our teams are about halfway there on that threshold
But the big story of the day is who is at the top of the leaderboard
That's what I want to know not what we expected at all
We have G2 and
JDG at the top of our leaderboard after four matches so far and believe it or not gentle gentle mates are in fourth as well
Well, so the crowd is very hyped about that, but we have seen some insane clutches and
we're waiting to see if any of our expected teams that did well heading into a twisted
mind's falcons, if they're going to be able to bounce back because they're still in the
same situation when it comes to matchup finals where even if they hit the threshold they
then have to get a win after that.
And there is no cap this time around.
No, we go again every time.
We can be here all night.
If that's the case, I will be gone, but I'm sure Glittle will keep you guys updated.
I hope that was useful, back in.
in blue and pink that thing said I'm going with television in this one but never
know I'm doing a great job and I love the science here as well we got a
science they quite a bore with this one we got a hold sign I love to see more
of that next to me here as well I'm a big fan of the you be you be I got a
I've got a Philadelphia Fusion fan right here, I'm sorry.
Throwback, deep cut, Milo, I'm sorry.
Come, maybe next time.
Okay, but for real though, like how do you feel they will match up?
Because statistically, of course, there is a bit of a difference.
They already talked about it on the desk.
We have the mechanical prowess that we see from Zedah Division
and they will be going up against the sim team.
And the Symmetra still works, still works.
It works. And also, I'd say it is easier to execute on LAN, right?
You know what your game plan is, you can listen to Yubi who will be pivotal with the communication about
Where do you want to teleport to and how do you explode out of that teleporter?
The big kind of question for set of vision is do they have the mechanical prowess to
Execute in an environment like this when their composition is way more demanding on the individual skill and playmaking
You will have members spread out all around twisted mind
You will need biodec grenade timings
You will need individual hitscan players
You need proper to show a big time and rack up those strikes because those opportunities will exist
But twisted minds for them is all about rotating around the map and punishing individual service and players
With I mean this car running behind them. I think they did get it
That's what I'm thinking. You know, they got the crowd behind them the crowd showed up as much as they showed up as well
And they already treated us to an incredible close series
Now don't have to do that again though
Do the hand movements support it to the energy to do it?
It's really difficult because when you play as soon as I got already, you got so much adrenaline.
And like it's just so loud here that all this energy from the crowd feeds itself into the players
that adrenaline has been already been used against Wabogame.
And then to recover and get into a grand finals and do it all again.
It's going to be even so much more difficult.
So we'll have to see if they can do it.
Okay, what's the score line if I'm asking you?
Let's go with this, let's go with a 4-3 set of divisions.
We don't have to be right. We have to just manifest it.
These people are manifesting a close match, not just that, but they're manifesting a victory
for Twisted Minds who has the crowd behind them.
And I've done it somewhere in here, so let's send it over to him.
It's time for the finals, everybody.
Zeta vs. Twisted Minds. Who's gonna win?
Let's ask some fans.
Three, two, one, go.
Zeta? Twisted Minds? Zeta?
Why Twisted Minds?
Yeah, I don't know, just like, contradiction.
I mean...
Fair, fair, fair!
And are you a Zeta fan?
Yes, I am a Zeta fan.
And shoe supremacy, let's go, supports!
We got this!
Also, Zeta fan as well?
I'm more of a crazy Recon fan,
but since they got eliminated, so I have to change.
Alright, two Zetas and Twisted Mind.
Three, two, one!
Twisted, Twisted Zeta, what?
I've got funny asterisks.
O, D, E, K, Beth, Lucy, whatever.
True.
Uh, TVNC and Quartz.
Uh, I think Xayah are much better at Katmastion.
I think, uh, Violet is the best Kat in the world, and I think that's why they're gonna win.
Fair!
I'm kinda 3, 3, 2, 1, up!
Xayah? Xayah, Xayah, oh, let's go Xayah!
Kinda 3, 3, 2, 1, go!
Xayah, Xayah, Xayah, wow, let's go!
I feel like Xayah's gonna win!
3, 2, 1,
WIZZAAAAY!
That feels kind of scripted because they are wearing twisted mind uniforms, but
Who's gonna win Zeta division versus twisted mind on count of three three two one go twist it twisted twisted let's go
Three two one left all one twisted to Zeta
All right ladies
I feel like we've interviewed a lot of people. It's pretty split. We'll have to find out when the match starts grand finals coming your way soon.
We're having a great time here with the fans in Paris. It is EWC and it is the mixed season championship. We're about to jump into the grand final before we do.
We got to jump in with the caster check in. I'm told we have two beautiful men
One dresses the Joker the other as penguin gentlemen. How are you feeling about this grand final super X?
Oh, man, I'm trying to figure out which one of those I am
Yeah, too many more one-liners wheels truly. Yeah, no, I mean hey Puckett
I think this is gonna be a pretty epic game, right a lot of people obviously high on Zeta Division, rightfully so
So, uh, Twisted Minds though, I mean, they have the crowd behind them and then I think
a lot like how you guys talk to Psycho and Kellex, there's an opportunity to really punish
Zeta for some of the things they do.
Without putting it to sleep, I'll say this is probably the defining stylistic matchup
of this era of Overwatch between these two.
I love that call out.
Um, Mitch, I see you guys are standing right in front of all the Twisted Minds fans.
So does that bug you guys when you're trying to do play by play?
I mean, he doesn't do any of that.
I would love if they just hit the drum more and louder, to be honest.
It's honestly, it's a lot, it gets loud because it will echo through our microphones back
into our headsets twice, or you might hear it on the stream itself.
So it could be a bit disconcerting, but the booming thunder is kind of part of the atmosphere
here, so I'd rather have it than not at all.
More pianos, less drums, I got it.
Alright you guys.
A little violence.
We here on the desk, we gotta put our reputation on the line, call some specific breads and
I'm gonna put you guys to the test as well.
Who do you've got winning this grand final and I want to score a prediction as well?
I'll say we get a 7th game and I'm going to say Twisted Minds, does it?
Oh, TM in a game 7, bitch.
It's Xyde Division in 7 and there's going to be an honor band that really hit the streets.
See I'm curious because Jake, I almost think that there's a world in which TM would want
leave the honor in in some of these situations because it's an easy target to TP on top of without
playing like a lucio to kind of get it out of dodge what's your thoughts on that yeah i think the
band strategy for twisted minds is really interesting for me i think they're going to be more focused on
what they can do to protect their core strategy maybe limiting for me like really key characters
like the jetpack cat and the way that they bring this huge versatility i do think that zayda is a
very hard team to ban against though because they play just about everything you know it's like you
You could take one tool away from them to be able to replace it with something else like the Bastion, for example.
They'll just throw in the Emra and kind of do much the same strats.
So for me, they're a very hard team to ban against.
I do agree though, if we go to 7, if we kind of get past the early phase,
if Twisted Mind is starting to get success with the Simcomp,
I feel like they get the edge down in the stretch.
For Zeta, I think they kind of need to come out swinging and just rack up the maps early on with the big bans this year.
Give me a favor, why don't you swap with Matt for me, Jake?
I'll see you down here in just a sec.
I mean, me and Jacob had a lot of success.
Yeah, Jake, I think you and me and Jake look good together.
You're like the Turkey places, buddy, don't worry about it.
Jake look good together.
We can barely afford to get Uber on set with Matt,
let alone Uber on set with Jake.
We'll take what we can get, gentlemen.
Best of luck with the Grand Finals, Cass.
For now, we got a check-in with Danny Lim.
He's with one of the highest-paid tanks in the game,
paid tanks, because by the name of Bernard.
Hey, guys, I'm joined by Bernard from Zeta Division
just before his final match at the EWC.
Bernard, you guys have one more match. You guys win this. You guys will be crowned the champions.
How are you feeling right now? Are you nervous? Are you excited? What's going through your head right now?
I believe that if we do well, we will have a good result.
I feel like our opponent's twist in mind is definitely a very great team, but I do feel like we are the stronger team.
So what we have to do, we just have to play our game, be focused, and then we head into the match and do our stuff and get the win.
That is how focused I am.
Alright, Bernard, like I said, this is the final match. We're in the finals.
For you personally, what would it mean to get the win and lift that trophy?
What do you think?
I will try my best to win the trophy, not my personal wish, but my heart to give the trophy to the team.
For the trophy.
Thank you Danny and that is of course the podium where you will see a key place at the
end of the night.
Who is going to walk away with the lion's share of our million dollar prize pool, time
is going to tell.
We welcome Zoe and Reinforce back up here first Reinforce, what was it like being out
in that sea of people?
I mean it felt like Twitch chat manifested in real life and then I realized that Twitch
chat is actually just real people typing messages in chat so hasn't been taken over by AI yet.
It was great to be around all that energy.
So a lot of people were chewing on baguettes out there.
Everyone seems to be well-fed and happy.
Will they be happy at the end of this matchup?
You know, listen, I initially thought
Settar got this in the back because they're just so good
and just individuals so skilled.
But I think the crowd and then also Cycle kind of influenced me.
Like he was telling me, he said it with such confidence
like Twisted Minds got there and then he might have a bias
but it's infected me too.
So yeah, go with Twisted Minds.
Jake, as we take a look at some of the best players
and best plays of the tournament from both of these teams,
Who has given you the most highlights, do you think?
Who has been on the screen for the biggest moments?
I've just been, I'm just so impressed and proud
of so many players here at the Esports World Cup in Paris.
I mean, it's been an incredible showcase
of the highest level of the game.
And as a former professional player,
I want to show love to a lot of the players
that have fallen along the way,
whose peas now stay crushed in the back there,
who've fallen in that journey
because there's been such incredible moments.
I mean, Wayba brought us so far,
some great performances out of NA,
showing that the region is still alive.
But of course, it comes down to this.
There can only be one winner in the end.
And I'm just so excited to see how it breaks down.
I really can't predict it.
It's two completely different styles.
You know, strategy, preparation,
it kind of goes out the window.
I think this is going to come down to who shows up
on the stage today.
We're going to see if this man can keep clutching up
and dropping the beat at the perfect time.
Danny caught up with Funny Astro from TM.
Here he is.
What's up, everybody?
I'm here at the totem joined by Funny Astro
from Twisted Minds. Great stuff. That was a nail biter. You guys had a nice reverse sweep against
Wable Gaming and now only one enemy awaits Twisted Minds. It's none other than Zeta. How are you feeling
right now?
I'm feeling pretty knackered to be honest. I think I need one more coffee and then I'll be ready for Grand Finals.
I mean, talking about Zeta Division, they are also a very strong team. Is there something that you are sort of
looking out for your finals game against Zeta Division?
We're aware of a lot of their stuff.
They're going to be playing a lot of Cat, a lot of Ana, a lot of Tracer.
They're a very highly mechanically skilled team, and we know that we're going to have to play around it.
All right. In mechanical terms, because they got some great players,
you guys have great players, just mechanically.
Would you say you guys are better than Zeta Division?
I think it's probably even, but as a team, we're definitely way better.
Talking about team, I mean, like I said, you guys have one final match.
You win this, you win it all.
Funny Astro, what would it mean for you to win at EWC for mid-season championship and lift that trophy up?
It would mean the world. We've been prepping for the last two years for this moment.
It's all we want as a team. It's our big moment and we know we need to get it now.
You're about to go up on that stage. Funny Astro, one final question.
Do you have anything you want to say to the fans or to your teammates?
Make sure you cheer as loud as you can, even if we're down 1-0, 2-0, 3-0. We'll make it.
Let's go.
I don't think he has to worry about that the fans are ready to be loud and so are we Jake
I'm starting with you final thoughts. We got 45 seconds before this kicks off
I think TMR are gonna find their way through but I think it's not gonna be easy Zeta or fierce right now
So a official prediction where does it go? How many maps?
Lanimals will go all the way, but Twisted Minds is gonna get it in the end. Twisted Minds
There's gonna be a 4-3 for set of the vision Bernard and knife have never won a major tournament before this would be a career
Here's the final game for them. I'm looking forward to it.
And who will win MVP?
It's gotta be Shu.
If they go across the finish line, it's gotta be Shu.
It could be Shu. It's up to you guys.
Let us know online for now.
71% of you are all leaning toward Zedad Division
in our Grand Finals match.
It is time for your mid-season championship Grand Final.
I lost to my teammates in the Champions Clash, but this time we will win.
I can tell you Zed is a crazy team. They're a mechanically skilled, but their team play just isn't on the same level as ours. I think we'll take them by surprise.
To be honest, when I won the GWC in 2014, I was so excited. I felt like I only had a day left to feel that emotion once more.
This is going to look the best it's ever been. We're going to evolve them in the finals, and so we'll talk to each other.
Wow! Amazing!
Now, every great tournament asks the same question.
Who's the best team in the world right now?
And I feel like at different moments this week, we thought we had the answer.
We were more or less certain to know who was the best Overwatch team in the world, but it kept changing.
It did, and after hours of standing Overwatch all week long, it's time to settle it.
It is time indeed, because we say it very well in our country.
The winners write, the winners tell stories.
So Ian, who's finishing the job?
The teams are ready, the players are ready.
Paris is sound for the grand final.
Make some noise!
One team has arrived in the final without dropping a map today.
The other had to survive one of the greatest escapes. We've seen all tournament one looked inevitable
There are opponents have looked unbreakable. It's time to find out which matters more
The seasons defining match
Korea's champions the world champions one last battle it's
It's Satan Division!
It's Twisted Mines!
It's the Overwatch Champion Series Mid-Season Championship Grand Final.
The Finals are ready and so are their grand finalists.
Paris, French, Dupin!
The Esports World Cup is built on one net-defining belief.
Nothing is given. Everything is earned.
Tonight, two of the world's greatest teams decide who has earned the right to call themselves mid-season champions.
And for ZDeVision, it's kind of a, look, it's a mechanical skill.
It is just firepower to Joe, unlike we've ever seen before.
And for Twisted Minds, their game is, you know, obviously they have some great mechanically skilled players there, but it's really based on teamwork.
How can we get courts in different positions to succeed? I think you're going to see, obviously, those things collide for a very long time here today.
It's the makings of a great final.
It's the team built to be the best versus the team that already proved it could.
But for me, the journeys are so different to this game.
For Zeta, it's just been dominant. It's been perfection.
But Twisted Mind's arrived here because they just refused to die.
Wasn't a victory lap, it was an act of endurance.
This win also takes them to like another level, if they're able to pull this off, right?
Now you win our World Championship last year, you win the preseason boot camp.
You don't have a great event in Japan, but you make it to the finals and then to come back and be able to win this.
Not many teams in Noborwatch have ever been able to do that.
And any you go outside of Korea, no other team has been able to do that, right?
So they put themselves in, you know, rarefied air if they're able to get the win today.
It's been a long time since we've seen such an era of dominance from a team not from South Korea, Matt.
It is truly novel in this world.
If Busan is our first map selection,
there's a bunch of player head-to-heads that I'm watching, but Tracer already banned. It begs the question.
Is tonight gonna be about proper? The player, anyone would build a perfect team around?
Is it about Quartz to play the Twisted Minds?
Already built a championship around.
The Lucio Band is really impactful.
Jake was talking about it when we were talking with him in pocket.
It's like the Tracer, uh, no, the Lucio, the Kiri, the Sip,
probably the strongest band you can have against Twisted Minds.
They use this Lucio off the rip.
Milo wants to play Jetpack Cat anyway.
Doesn't really want to go over towards that Lucio.
Funny Astro can play the cat, and it doesn't really play it in the same vein that Violet does, like nobody does, right?
And the comfort pick here for Twisted Minds in the past have been Juno in these situations.
And maybe that's why you get rid of the Tracer as well, because the Tracer would kind of feast on Juno.
It's not the most nimble of supports, they're a little flozier, a little more susceptible to the endo,
but still offers that team-wide speed boost that you'll be looking for in lieu of the Lucio.
An iconic battlefield to begin an iconic series.
And like I said in the pocket earlier, feels like the defining stylistic matchup of this era of, oh boy,
battle of regions, battle of ideas, battle of philosophies, battle of game plans.
You name it, these two sit on other sides of the very same spectrum.
Best of seven Matt. First to four. Whichever way you want to say it, we're hoping we've
got a series on our hand that goes all the way. Hey, this is a good start. We had a
little bit of a run, you and I. I'm not seeing that pause screen pop up, but yeah, hey, this
match is too important. Gotta make sure everybody's in the best of spots to do it. It'll look
like at the start we will get maybe a Juno here. Out of funny Astro as that seems to
to be kind of the go-to with that Lucio gone and, you know, for proper, I mean, he would
just be hunting him constantly on the tracer.
You mentioned it.
You know, Juno can kind of, it doesn't have like the greatest mobility and then the mobility
is very floaty.
It sounds like this is a mouse pad.
It might be too dry.
The closest mouse pad could be too dry.
We don't have dry mouse pads on this.
It seems like we'll get this one sorted pretty quickly though, as we had some...
I feel like we've got some...
We've got some novel concepts.
We've got some wild ones.
The Korean, by the way, them, that shield reads, nothing is given in these eras, so
I'm wondering if that old wheel makes sense.
And for me, like, when I look at Zedah, like the...
It's really the backline.
Violet is playing Jetpack Cat in a way that you know nobody else is doing like
he would be kind of my standout player my like a key for me yeah like a lot of
teams are playing Cat they're playing Bastion but the way he's like you know
kind of moving maneuvering all of his teammates around the map right not just
gonna lock down to the Bastion flying him around moving the Ana moving other
players and then also the amount of damage and kill potentially has put him
on another lap.
Here we go.
Tonight's editor vision, Twisted Byes,
the side where the era ends and whether another is ready
yes to begin.
The super team versus the team.
The team play sets them above the rest.
Twisted Byes already making use of that Sinti Peter
trying to angle the decent positioning up surprisingly.
Prop is going to the shield.
We have Emeryp and I.
I think you've requested mine.
You're just trying to figure out how you can make use
to this TP. Take out some of these targets that are not as mobile and there goes Nite
right away.
Heavy Traits! Ubi somehow not getting fight into the spot! Trying to fight a D.V.B first
as one! A bit too violent, come on, with enough attention to get the elimination! The D.V.
and D.V.
is still at large and simply like teammates go to bolster his claim.
Vada's still picked off by D.V. and D.V.
and maybe it's just a filter that a few more players pack in there. Looks like Zeta will
be first cap off the rank for capture.
You're gonna see a lot of fights like that though, right?
No Zeta not able to rotate as fast as on say a twisted mind. Obviously Juno's speed rating sin tp
Available to kind of get them into positions
But that time they actually just see nice, you know, it's just collapsed onto the Emory
Playmaking potential court. Oh my goodness. It was a five
It looks like simple actually has the Susie just in time court still falls, but it's a big commitment for Zeta into that one position
He comes at the cost of vanilla and his neck.
Even Knight had to commit to something green now as well to try and salvage this,
but Shu was trying to put Bunny Astro.
Zeta Division though, for now...
Don't have to give it a space up here.
It knows that TDNT's shappening everybody onto the point here to try and get Twisted Minds
in position to contest it properly, with Knight going down.
I feel like that's gonna come true.
I mean, you just see how different that Zeta plays, right?
It's an off angle that Shu has throws to Biotic right in there.
You see Fenerbahal in, but...
Who's the- who's really the first one leaving the charge? It's Violet!
Getting in the mix there.
Horses takes out Shun with a Railgun.
Now for Zeta to back up a bit here.
Stylen with the Cat-Aul here.
He's really just gonna try and break-
What a side dive input for what?!
Okay, he's gonna-
Ha ha!
D.Va let us self-destruct here.
It's Triggy.
Zeta had to respond by spreading out.
Taking cover away from the blast.
Triggy's alive completely understructed there by the jet-back.
That ultimate being committed.
There's Nite!
Right into the ground!
Higienty grants him into dust!
The proper get-to-nano-to series just be a little bit conservative about how he wants to make use of it, though.
No commitment, and twisted minds are allowed to continue to get up to parry.
And their teamwork is so good, you're able to just constantly punish, right?
They take the early fight, they punish you off the rip.
They also get his e-mech there onto Bernard.
Violet, he's another Railgun shot there from Quartz.
Gonna play off the Mega here.
Ramp around, he's gonna put some Tramplets of Pressure on point.
He might be looking at Fred from the backcab.
He doesn't want to link him too long, he quarts his line of sight.
He's the override protocol from Extreme Range,
and it's a pretty comfortable Symmetra wall to answer this.
Wow, GDNT heads up from him.
Caesar Knife is gonna be the easy target, and he runs into the crowd.
Oh, the Railguns!
Perfection from Quartz, and he has a bit of room to breathe,
But Violet takes that space and takes the fight.
The jetpack can again.
Silas' quartz is right, but twisted by.
He'll have a comfortable lead now,
and Bernal has been staggered.
He's going to get staggered now.
Let's take a look at this from Quartz's POV again.
The OC, oh, just does not miss.
Unreal play there.
Just one more shot.
And there'll actually be Quartz going over here
and playing the she-on.
Something we don't see at Arthur really at all.
I think they're trying to turn the heat up onto Violet, potentially a shoot.
Especially for backline pressure.
Don't want to let this honor do whatever.
I guess Quartz, Carver, Lyon, Rainer, Raiden, Raiden, end shots don't ruin the fight.
There's TD and Tito, they found shoot.
The honor is taking down again.
Oh, TD and T, love that from Duke.
Michael Fall as well, it twisted minds.
As soon as they got back into the round, they get a grip on the point that cannot be broken.
Why not?
What it may have been.
This has been sublime from them!
TvNT has been the best team in the world for about a year now, and it kind of shows you why they're in round number one.
This is such an important map for Zeta as well. This is the Lucio family, right?
I mean, that's like Bonnie Astros bread and butter and it doesn't matter. I mean a lot of these highlights gonna be TV and tea and courts
Just carbon am I
So match up of the best hits game player in the world this best PS player in the world
But so far this is all about courts
The fact that twisted minds don't have to play a backline dive component and still punished shoes this is positioning on honor
Yeah, you see every day man. You know if you can keep punishing the positioning of the honor, right?
That's going to force Zeta Division to get off this comp.
There'll be Reaper here, and we've done a few Zeta Division games and they're pretty, you know,
Reaper obviously you can be impactful, but it limits kind of the skill ceiling here,
off-ropper and his ability to just kind of take over the round.
I feel like forcing Shuravana would be more than just a moral victory, man.
It would feel like the surrender of Zeta Division's idea, their whole value composition.
Use the first catch of the year, go, and it's supposed to make their way out into the open.
A little slower to get in position.
Oh, go, leave it to TMT, make it out of space, but now it's trying to bypass, trying to ignore it.
Trying to get out of the back line.
And it trades, calls for it's mech.
We finally picked it up by the estuary that might be enough, but it's very, very scrappy, very close fight.
The TMT goes to the side.
The DMEC Bernard here as well.
You're going to have TMT pretty healthy.
You be here as well.
I don't know if without any matrix you're gonna be able to kind of just stand here and take it.
TD&T is gonna have to back up. Just a bit. You're gonna get both supports back.
Oh, what? Why are you getting some revenge?
Hasn't quite been out of spec into that second perk that allows him to hit critical shots.
This open up trade is meant for forces like earlier on.
You're wrong, but like it made a half a twist of mine to positionally though, not having a debuff.
TBM's gonna farm off this rush here just off of TBMT taking some damage in the choke.
I try and TP and use it on top. Look at how safe this position is from Chu though. I mean, no...
Nobody on top of him yet, but look at this fast rotation from TBM.
I like this idea. TBM might need a cheat sheet, but when you close the gap on a full play though,
it's Katsune Rush now. TBMT just trying to control the midfield. Is this backline being pressured?
They're firing over the top of the cabinet, TBNT dragged out of the way, making it harder for him to peel for his own teammates.
But now TBNT's got another plan, upstairs, he notices Knight, bleeding in the darkness and he wants to go for him.
But B'narr has struck at the core, but Twisted Vines, before TBNT can do the same.
And Zeta, at 70%, are on the run home in this round.
Much better look from Zeta here.
Bernard and proper are putting a lot of pressure on the back line.
And I think also it's a little bit of the wave and the map here, the round that Baran is designed.
It just allows you to play so safe.
Now he's still chilling, sitting right on back, knifing and other stuff.
Aspeni, most of the damage to the GVNZ.
It looks like the division has decided the dealer is the call of their opponent's strategy.
GVNZ is not going to survive these folks. He got slept.
He won't be allowed to get back into his mech. Not that the stagger was necessary.
But the Deva falls last and twisted mines won't be able to get in position.
We're going to a decider on Busan.
Round two, just an absolute rubbing there.
Zed, it just can't dominate.
TM is, you just see the position that Shu was able to play from at such a distance that
that they're never able to, you know, the TP-length is not that long, right?
You're not able to just go cross-napped with it.
Put pressure on the honor right away.
So, me and Matt were supposed to finish, because he didn't keep getting dragged out of the position to feel for his teammates.
Why'd that catnap me?
But out of front, then he gets three kills.
And that feels like that's where it crumbles for Tisted Minds.
It wasn't even like an environmental kill. It wasn't anything flashy.
It was just, stop D.B.A. from protecting the battle.
Yeah, I mean, they're just playing on such back-foot defensively.
But defensively is now it'll be
Robert going back to the reefer there just a TP out will be night playing the bastion here is
We've seen them put shoe up on this high ground also makes him a very difficult target
It'll be Cassidy the swap here reports
Nothing could be more twisted by persons at a division than this kind of lineup. It doesn't crop his own degree pop
to get less of a headlining role but a very important job nonetheless.
Flying low is nice, shopper gunner active.
We've been out of trying to control that space in between, making it harder to run up on the jetpack that combination!
And there's that, you've just been taken down, it's going to remove your mobility but Violet got a little bit too aggressive there
and Nautz is always going to punish that.
They're going to go back to the choke here.
They're going to force it through this way.
It's going to be very difficult though, now UB's TP, right?
And then also you see the threat of Shu up there on the high ground.
UB fires some shots at him as well.
PoppyKib's playing in that middle ground.
I bet you thought that you could have the damage here.
Watch with some eyes over the full back on this.
It's only to fight a cap, but that should be a matter of course now that I've got Phenar properly desuited.
And you see why they take this position when we get on Shu's POV. Shu up there on the high ground, right?
All he has, once they cross under and they're under that bridge to the ability to throw like one bio, where Zeta has to fight?
He's not able to get any line of sight there, so it's a really nice idea from Twisted Minds, can I take the fight on their terms?
Breaking LLS
Upshoot on the honor be a nano here available
Eventually full of proper or the Bastion
Clutch and ice open sideline from the board so that it is under a salt
This wall though is gonna make it all too easy
You might quickly have to drag or get dragged out of the way because this cast is gonna take the game over
Now of course the rotate back to the high ground and ideally abuse a dead ice
Just really force that a bit in the way
And as simple as going down to a Grenadian knife is starting to cut deep
Excuse me, the strike's straight off the back. It's quite clear to see who's probably gonna be number one from while it is anyway.
Continue to be rushed invested there by Twisted Minds. It'll be both support ults used with the artillery.
Poor Zedah division. Wonder if Zedah decides to... You see that pushing up a little bit. I wonder if he decides to take a fight pretty quickly here with proper death blossom.
maybe you kind of get that Reaper working like he's on the last map is
gonna be a TP straight to the point they're gonna try and set up this
bunker with the same turret kit again.
I'm gonna go this is about as fun for as it gets now with the old little right main throw
and it still doesn't matter.
Hopper has the damage in spades!
What a funny astro!
A run off the map!
It's out of vision very quickly!
Snap back into control.
Yeah this Reaper is definitely paid off.
Obviously, Sim very squishy so Reaper able to kind of deal with her.
Relatively quickly is...
Bunker Buster!
Let's see what TM decides to do. It'll be catapation for them.
Okay.
A little different rail. Look what we've seen.
Whistamine's going for it. Sure, he's got his critical hit perked down by a grenade.
Oh, it wasn't even needed necessarily.
Whistamine struggling here to hold on. 81% and counting.
Fortunately, they all died really quickly.
Yeah, they've got another fight here.
But this round has been pretty bad for them as well.
Quartz over to the Shea.
Probably for the extra mobility.
So already used here by Knight and I denied him the touch.
Then all four Violet gets caught down, TVNT just runs into the jetpack,
kept a huge opening in the twisted mines, away, back into the round perhaps.
A lot of pressure on Shu, no supports remaining here for Zedah Division.
This is a good look for twisted mines.
And a couple of moments to Shu, but as we are!
Zed himself a couple, TVNT on the D-Shoot, removed here.
It's of course, and simple.
The former can only ride away. They least got the flip. There's gonna be some touches here though
They're not tracin' of work with remember that that was banned down fight twisted minds to the touch won't come in
They need a fending while champions are put on the back foot early that we might have thought
The ends found themselves in this spot before they end up losing early to Waybo
There's a huge map for Zeta Division right that Lucio band one of the really impactful ones against twisted mines you needed to win this map
They pull it out in the end one round. That's pretty
dominant for twisted mines the other two very strong for Zeta Division
Gotta say the bunker looks for twisted mines is pretty decent
This
Wide open proper step blossom. Look at stunning pretty strong pick up, but it's still an important one nonetheless
Nightkeeping out of purpose obviously into firing those quarter rounds.
Pretty dangerous to do that and play into that as a collective.
Round one, they were doing a great job of just kind of going at shoot constantly.
We're not able to do that in the next round.
Let's go down to the stage with the Tristed Minds crew.
Yes, I'm very glad to be with the co-owner and extremely good human being.
And the twist in mind, boys, was fancy. What happened on that semi-final before? That was insane.
Can you tell me about your nerves? How are you handling all of this? Do you think you're going to be chilling on this final?
I'm not going to lie to you, the semi-final was a little bit of nerve-wracking, but if they can pull the diverse sweep once, they can do it again.
And that's what's going to happen here, even if we lose that one. It's final.
Especially with that kind of support, I'm not worried at all.
If they can make a reverse sweep in the semi-final, they can do it in the final as well.
And talking about a little gem in your team, there is a player that was appointed the best in the world last year.
Quartz, can you tell me what you think of this little gem in your team?
Are you feeling a bit like a proud dad when you see him play?
I mean, Quartz has been one of the most consistent players in the DBS tour for the past five, six years.
It's just, it makes me so happy to see him improve year by year and then right now, he is crowned the best player in the world and it shows.
He's in the grand final for the eSports World Cup. Can't ask him for anything more honestly.
Who are the best players in the world?
I'm really proud of my player. For me, he's the best player in the world. He's really consistent. It's been years since I've been like that.
I'm really proud to be on the stage and there's a reason why he's playing in the grand final.
And last but not least guys, I've understood that your favorite host is not me, it's Ian.
It's Ian because you've been teaching him chants and everything so can you teach me anything go ahead Tom?
She wants us to show how we chill and I will say we don't need an explanation
I've come to a lot of Overwatch lands. We've been around for a while now. I've come for
my 10th year of doing this and crowds like this, fan bases like this, you don't see many
like that. It's a plethora for Twisted Minds to have these dedicated supporters in their
corner and frankly Matt they're going to need them today. Yeah it's going to be obviously
a really tough game here against Zeta Division. So you see Forts kind of going over everything
with comp-ops here to get ready for game number two but yeah I mean their fan base has been
awesome right you know travel in the world and obviously growing with the success they've had
as their Overwatch team will start to rack up some of wins.
It's a inhibition though.
I mean this team was built to kind of take tournaments like this, right?
Obviously fell short at Champions clash, but coming into this event,
obviously kind of look at on a different level, I think,
obviously with shooting Violet and Proper, you can do things that a lot of other teams just can't do, right?
So give yourself a little bit of a tactical advantage.
Always in the server.
I'm curious, okay, so TM Staple, right, Neon Junction, it's also like you never want to go to Pali Paraiso and I can vault.
Contelo's cool rework, he's come out there and saw.
I'm Mizuki and then the Reinhardt band, so yeah, the Sugurit from Day Division, they use the Reinhardt here a lot.
Mizuki's band is going to empower TVNT on the Diva a lot.
Seeing the Mizuki see it get a fullback up from here, but again, you know, you don't want to go there.
seen more recently. Let's try that deeper look. Frankly, behind the sim play, I feel
like this is such a classic look for Twisted Mind. SimDiva, Sojourn, you name it. I don't
think they need the Reinhardt, but I certainly think they do need to ban it here.
It's been the highlight map, I think of this entire event so far, everyone wants to go
Every hybrid now believes the Neon Junction and it was a take on it to get I do think twisted lines is the most
Striking is that one opens you with the orisa?
Three says been they've seen way more poly times. I think anybody expected
At this tournament looks like copper's gonna go back and make a change of winner if this is like tracer Reaper
Instead of she on we'll see
what he decides. Nope, gonna go out with the Sheon. Okay, so look like he was going
back, maybe making some changes, gonna go with the Sheon here. Twisted Minds, this
is the bread and butter comp, right? I mean this is them. Yeah, this is how they
become world champions. This exact setup right here, so.
Yeah, they've been faithful to it and it has treated them very well over the last
12 points. Running another championship chip with it. Wouldn't hurt either. She's here on the island.
It's sick that you look for this team, but Banana is Violet of us,
Trugny. Violet can't get any healing from anybody right now. That is a nice,
like, shiny HP. Listen to that there. A little fortunate,
though. We're going to advance as well. Boat supports here for TN here with a bio.
And then proper time commiting to the biode backline, Keymatch, Soda-Bernard is running up in front of him, thinking we don't want to close him for Sade Division.
No, no, I still have a fine duty.
And have they been approached and they can shoot? Nice Cavalry's been there for Bernard as the pressure comes down and TDNT eventually crumbles.
And Sade Division, looked on the voids early in this fight, actually come out looking pretty flawless.
Yeah, it's a beautiful follow-up there on that biode grenade. It takes a little bit, but Bernard...
on the Orisa. Just so disruptive right when the Orisa gets in the mix. It's going to be a fast push here for TM.
Going to just get the TP set up. Everybody else going to back up here.
Or Zeta. Catnap available.
We go looking for the way to drop on in. Kitsuneirashi up a simple and Baila is going on a long mission behind any lines.
Almost two ticks here. Zeta Division seem like they're planning to allow this to Baila just get caught out.
I don't know what he's doing back there. The course is not going to let that stand.
Now the catapult approach is done. You've got a throat you have at this place he peed it out.
That's insane.
Now proper and shoot all ready down. This is very good news for Twisted Mind's fans.
Now they can just run it on him.
And that's how Violets played the entire tournament though, right?
That's the biggest weakness you can exploit on this team.
Yeah, I mean he's just been so good throughout it.
But, you know, getting in the back lines, lurking, now he's going to have proper to work with, so...
This, you know, maybe not with the Mog in the mix, but this, like, tracer with the cat has been probably the best.
Oh, they actually go with the cat down here, he's gonna drag TDNT into the Mog of Blender.
There's no... wait, okay, let's go ahead and go for the self-destructed TDNT.
No, it's in Tolgo.
What can they do with this stuff? How do you really set up?
Like, maybe it's just about a step of seeing a football that's somewhat deeper, so you can play the Mog up on this corner, he can't.
Absolutely, and you know that they're gonna have somewhat of an ultimate advantage.
you're making four changes with your comp, right? So basically just kind of using that catnap there,
allowing them to take a pipe earlier. It's pretty huge.
Overriding protocol meets the Symetra rule. Not trying to play both sides of the coin here.
They seem to have been put down, but it's just not happening quickly enough.
But Astro, the only chance to beat this, could be at least getting picked off. But knife
desperately tapping around the Siphon Blaster surrounded by enemies. It's not a good look.
The Twisted Minds, plenty of time up their sleeve, are well and truly on the way.
Yeah, and TM ends up holding on to both of their support ults, which is pretty massive there, right?
As the NIC is gonna switch over and match the Sojourn.
I think that's kind of what they're playing for there, of Zed division.
You're trying to, like, put that pressure on the front.
The Astro maybe feel the need for them to call out a beat.
Kind of give yourself some chance here, in our next fight.
Robert, just putting some pressure here.
On the symbol, gets healed up right away.
You'll be fine, Milo. That's huge.
Now, now potentially, you can hit, turning there for Coppert.
And quacks it as overclock.
Bring it to fastly, louder Openshut.
Hope it did get simple on the end, but again, this is just taking too long.
I know it's good for one map, but does that need more?
Yeah, I mean, he's just trying to dance his way out of this here.
It looks like we're still gonna get very close. Do you have a sound barrier here for the Muse?
And I mean it's massive right? I mean Prober's pulse bomb gets eaten there on with chords
when he had the benefits of the sound barrier, just pushes on through, clicking heads, just
doing what Quartz does.
But something you may have noticed right now as well is, like, simple doesn't fall too
proper there.
The search is like, you know, forces recall by so much time, doesn't allow that tracer
to get back in the fight.
It's proper over to the Vindetta, so Vindetta, Maga, Violet now off of the cat.
So this tells you that TM is definitely causing some problems here on Neon Junction.
They're looking rock solid man.
Okay, Kage might come down from the banana, but who's gonna help him?
Kage is out down, Yubi's having a bone through it finally.
Now, release from the confines, the ties that bind, Quartz is looking to punish this Vendetta.
Kage's really rushed, Kage's respectful to his good lines, they know they've got a bit of room to work with,
so they just TP out and waste his house.
We'll see how good proper is on the Vendetta.
And you have to kind of like manage those big, moving full-downs as you're trying to play around this in TP.
Right now, with an OC, it's going to be Quartz using his high ground, then TP's back low.
One headshot, gonna change the fight, just bump at night, researching and probing and coming up with nothing.
This reminds again, funny, me need to disengage. Now, a sound barrier, and that's going to herald a renewed conflict.
In they dive, this Quartz will assume this high ground now. He's got a lot of space, but he's going to make something off it.
And that's a nice little run there from Violet, but of course his tendentees always take him very deep behind enemy lines.
But one for one though, BnR is able to control this space effectively, playing alongside Prop will clear some of these turrets away,
and they need to continue to put up a decent defense, but Prop is going to double back.
BnR is also low and he's being chased, he's not going to be allowed to get away.
Surely KVNT finally warded away by the broadside of the blade, but Prop was overextended.
Yeah, it just goes in way too deep there, so he's thrown it back up because he just hit Violet alive,
Shu coming off the spawn, and then I think Propper thinks they're going to be able to get TDT size to go.
Bernard, with a stomp, does take out Yuvi.
It'll be a Russian response here for TM as they feel like they can close the cell.
Now, Twisted Mind's having a bit of a hands dirty apparently.
It is utter chaos, pandemonium, but that's a set of visions of over-design,
and Twisted Mind's have decided they thrive there too.
Shu is run down, caught away by the front door,
and over 90 seconds still remains around for Twisted Mind to get this done,
but now it's going to be healthy.
Hale and Hardy, hit of the card but eventually dropped to the low.
Kari Akon to drive, Yu Suzuki Yu's there's nothing left to keep him standing.
Sundering blade from a little off angle there, no real connection, it's Benar falling.
TNT though down with a venture in play.
They're gonna dig up some dirt here on his twisted mind,
finder finds Yuubi, and somehow this defensive landing division has found the winner of the pride!
Sundering blade, the damage is pretty good.
TVNT forced to use self-destruct, Shu comes back,
Katsune rush, that's enough to do it.
Zeta might be able to hold here, which would be tremendous.
I mean, cage fight available, all out aggression from Zeta,
with the vendetta in venture calm.
This is the answer we thought we might see to this metro.
But now, a cage fight, look at that, quickly, it burns down,
and the damage is just insane.
Both Spines follow with a rail down, headshot, and Pokémon have got his in the fight for just one.
Wards cut it!
Just in mind, a little belatedly.
Get him out of completion with time, which is spare.
And the Bedetta usually a really strong kind of counter to the Sim.
We also saw a lot of times where Bernard is actually waiting for the TP to come through to then start the charge.
And then Tm's doing a nice shot of like kind of baiting, they all take the TP, the charge is coming through, they know they'll TP back out,
leaves the Moga without charge and then just kind of miles away.
Spilet shows his big force of nice brick play towards the end.
Right feet from Funnyastro.
Bernard just burns down instantly and I mean look,
Ropper has all his eyes on quartz, finally gets him but turns around and all his teammates are dead.
I think it's unbelievably difficult to manage your health pool as Malga at this level, especially when you sort of run out into the open.
Suzu, cardiac overdrive, everything. I mean, it's astonishing to me that Zeta Division made up that one minute at the end of the round.
It was like a minute 40 on the clock, but now it runs out and somehow they turn it into a fight.
I mean, for me, if they win, it's because of that.
Just take a look at some of the stats, quartz.
As usual, getting the better of that hitscan battle.
I wonder now if you are Zedah Division, right? Like, what's your go-to here?
On offense. Twisted Minds, we obviously know what we're going to see on D.
Do they feel confident enough in their Vendetta playstyle to potentially play that?
On offense. Sonic Arrow over the top here.
If anyone is going to do it, it's Zedah Division.
So, Papa wants to go to Venture here instead of the Vendetta.
The venture was a very good scene kind of go-to against it.
Before Vendetta was added to the game.
Zaya!
Sorry, yeah.
Okay.
We saw this a lot from Team Liquid, primarily,
playing a ton of Zaya through these games.
Lot of reasons to like it.
Propagate's Bubbles, which is in turn going to give an hour-long charge.
And he proper really has no access to that honey ground though, I mean, uh...
I did the direct trying to force this device to come into the vent.
Okay, well you say that, Matt, but I see proper and all that.
Yeah, that's shown right up. These normal cool guns to get up there.
Call me though, proper gets there.
Interesting, see how Venture can shape the face of this series.
Still a lot of limitations though in this pick, and proper just has to play safe for the time being.
There you go, Forts is just gonna dominate on that sideline.
Twisted mines can bounce back to that higher ground,
but every kind of need to, it's also tough of an out-of-blades situation,
surrounded by the little people that outranged them.
No damage charged up, well and truly.
But the kind of...
I mean, you lose Shu, I thought of you to get Shu alive,
and you've been in for so much charge on this area.
Barely going to make it out.
CVNT's gonna come back on the DV yet again.
Gonna keep trying with this Diva. It is two ticks, getting here by Zeta.
Continue the rush, let me be right here to let's his goal as soon as possible.
They're just looking for an off angle, see proper there at the top of your screen.
Now on that left-hand side, it's going in, both sojourns have found ticks, and they've both been on the DPS.
Nifer, at the trade-out, is left for his opponents.
Borsig stands inside this grab, he's got nowhere else to be, and he will eventually go to excise him with a kunai.
The second shot will be saved, ideally. No problem to give him right now, he does fall. That's a pretty important pick in terms of tempo.
But we're almost catching here for Zed and the vision. Eventually they're brawled and bullied their way into the map.
Just twisted hold on to just about everything there.
Coming into the next fight, Bernhard as soon as that OC gets popped by Quartz up on the high ground, he decides to just solo grab up there, solo grab him.
solo graven to make him an easy target difficult though or twisted to push
into this right sim wall here but it's gonna be this rally it could be quite
nasty it's gonna be the overclock and the sim wall tonight backs up here for
the second all pretty pretty free empathy coming in it's a tonic shock but
this wall dissipating could be huge but again still unnecessary I like to
gamble from twisted mind they are concerned about giving desire too much
time to charge up. They want quick fight, they want quick eliminations, they want
walkovers. They do not want to allow Bnarr to build in strength over the course of a
longer fight. So you're gonna be around this first corner here now for Zeta
Division. There's no changes here. For Twisted they're gonna continue. Obviously
with the D.Va, with the Self-Destruct you probably want to try and at least get use
of that, extend the fight, or just kind of giving it up.
Tech shock available for proper
CFD decides to use this it looks like twisted ones. He said something. I mean he goes to your
Dangerous game you're playing my friend
Sam Barry from funny Astro John after with the values of paper by the shoe now goes through a rush of his own
And look at the survive very quickly about facing they respect it
They also drop. Oh dear, that could have been dangerous.
Oh, TVC self-destructs for you.
You know, looks like you just got plucked out there.
Proper has kept this pressure at fever pitch.
M&R now looks to join him in a symphony in the front lines.
Grappetop is available. Let's go audaciously at the diva.
TVNT doesn't have the matrix to stop it.
And that's another checkpoint for Zeta.
And if they don't kill Vernar, there's no way that TVNT can kind of step up and take that position.
Rematcher has to be the call here, 4 TDNT, 340 on the time bank, 4 Zeta, fantastic run
through the map, proper over to the Pharah, interesting call here at this point in the
map, not like a great skybox to the Pharah to play through and then also the Bortechs
available.
He doesn't think it's an adventure anymore, he doesn't have to put him off it.
Alright, for the no-block here, plus that poke damage is proper as good, but Quartz is just begging for a matchup like that,
and taking any day of the week.
He does get too close to Vinar, who's surely operating at full charge right now, and building towards his next Graviton surge.
Vinar quarts in the game, Vinar cautiously is trying to forge ahead.
The card is still on the move, the CMP looks like it was just a ruse maybe to bait something.
The Ramatra put him off the idea of the venture.
I feel like Bernard has dominated this half.
This IS has been getting harder and harder.
I'm going to be also the Jumi again, taken down, but now some time.
By the way, through the Ramatra shield, it has happened to face him down.
Ruffalo peaked off yet again. That's been the story of these last couple of fights,
but it hasn't really been enough, but Twisted Minds' course has got gold.
It's always tracking his life for proper, and it takes more than that.
This team is far more than just proper.
Five bonafide, stone cold killers!
Oh, we're gonna run you down at a moment's notice.
I mean, Pernards is absolutely feasting here.
First with CDNT on the Diva, just easy charge there,
working towards another grab, third or fourth of the half.
Dude, it's so hot already.
This grab will be a game-ender.
It could pull people off the cart, it could fly them all together,
make it easy to burn them down.
Either way, you'll feel good about Zion's prospects.
He has prospects, he has the grab on the card with the rally with Violet running into the backline, sees that sound barrier and the annihilation to TBNT.
It's got to be respectable, Ubi Kostas got stunned up heavily, Prokhorst trying to dive in, but Violet's gone down and he's not respecting Ubi trying to lance him out of the game.
He eventually falls to TBNT. The annihilation, an absolute godsend for Twisted Mind.
And they're going to hold their ground for now.
And finally get rid of Pinar. It feels like that's the first time he's died in his half.
It's a huge investment from Zeta. Very close to being able to take it. Obviously twisted,
dumped into it as well. Pinar gonna go over and play Rematra.
The proper obviously on the vendetta now. Haven't built that like kind of dominance
for him on the hero just yet, but opportunity here for Nite to close us out with an OC.
They kill on the simple here as we're getting towards a rush.
Could be huge if they're trying to farm Shuz.
Shuz, they rush as well, I feel.
Yeah.
Both teams take a beat.
I don't know, they still have to lead.
Kashiho's gonna get close to P here as well.
Guy, little exposure to the frontline there.
Matt got a little too close.
Walk us up the back away here and shoot an Ika blow down.
That is such a mess up.
Identification from Twisted Mind to see a chance to punish to pull a position in.
Oh, now they try and stagger.
Bernard looks like he's gonna get the kill on to UV and UV just TP's out. Oh, that is a brutal stagger
Just in time to hit one more fight to be able to hold here on defense
They able to hold on and build up the sound barrier vial and getting nowhere close to the rally
Your team music about getting aggressive here, right? So very annihilation, you know that you already bowed is watching the last fight
Not a lot of movement out of that backline
And so, Neon Junction comes to his conclusion with 10 seconds left on the clock.
Zeta Division have to be absolutely scenaried, perfect.
Life with a step back.
Then sees TVNT with another annihilation, by the way.
Just feel like this is too much to go into.
Twisted Minds have an insane back of ultimate.
Here's a Sundering Blade being held, and then let go.
The French are just missing.
Proper finds no connection.
Now, an overtime.
He's going to find a way to get a touch here.
Zeta, half presence on the cart.
Now, it's Pinar, close to annihilation.
He can actually see the NTs, but Violet has already gone down.
Respect for the Rematres here.
The Twist divides, had the sound barrier to disregard the mailsome of damage.
We're no proper ways, he's crowned.
What's a kingdom of God anyway?
We've got an even series.
Obviously, it's a TM map win, but I also think it is a great sign for them moving forward.
We've seen a lot of teams do some nasty work with Vendetta into Simcomps.
From what I just saw right there, I wouldn't be too scared of Zed and Division trying to play that.
They looked really disjointed trying to make that work.
Honestly, the scariest part was Bernard on the Zarya, but you were basically just kind of
sitting on the diva for two or three fights waiting to use that self-destruct.
Once you went over to the Rematra, and of course that Rematra hit the head,
improperly not really able to make that big of a difference there on the Sim.
I feel like I probably had to switch off to Vendetta at that point.
Yeah, I mean, like, where do you go, right?
I mean, you know, I think if you play Tracer, I think that is a clear TM advantage.
Venture works with the Zarya a bit, but, you know, not a really kind of dominant course like a Vendetta.
Let's go down to the stage with Ian to get the pulse of the crowd.
I'm actually in the
right now, it's I love Z to
division. I've just been
about his viewership right
pushing somewhere in the
almost 20,000 viewers
watching along here and you
over here. Thank you for b
great. Um this has got like
written all over it. What
it's going to go all the w
know who's going to win, b
way. How are the nerves r
the next map. I'm not. I'm not
playing or anything. I'm just
watching, but I still got the
sweat. I'm nervous. I can't
wait to see the next map. Did
this surprise you Zed division
because they came in as, I guess
one of the favorites here, but
the way they've performed to get
to this point, the shock you
are. Is this what you expected?
Honestly, I thought that they
would be in the finals, but you
never know what's going to
happen. So I'm just going to
keep cheering them on. What are
the vibes of the game? I'm
going to happen, so I'm just going to keep cheering them on.
What are the vibes from your viewers right now?
I'm seeing some of the comments and the chat popping up right now.
Well, how are they feeling about the series?
I mean, everyone's hyped.
I'm glad that it's already one-to-one.
So it's going to be a close series.
So we're all happy to see this match.
Did you manage to catch the Twisted Minds series before?
The semi-final coming into this, of course,
you did your right here for it.
Did you see their crazy fans?
Dude, their fans are crazy.
I know, personally, because I've been a professional player.
fans like those are like the reason why we play. It's so encouraging to watch those fans
and of course it gets them energy. Yeah, because we were talking about how the players can
hear it, you can feel it. As a former player yourself, when you hear in that sound and
you feel in that energy, does it actually, I guess like affect your performance at all?
I mean, not directly maybe, but mentally I think that having someone push your back is
always good. Right, what's your final prediction? Give it
me. Ah, four to three Zed division. That's what I'm going to go with.
A little bit. Have you got anyone you want to shout out right now before I let you go?
No, all the fans watching from home, whether it be from Japan or France or wherever,
thanks for watching. Let's watch some amazing overwatch.
Thanks for being here, man. Enjoy the rest of your stream and enjoy the final.
I have 20,000 people watching right now, so yes, I would like to shout all of them out.
individually. Colosseum. Map selection. So we saw this in the previous series with
the Kiriban as well. It was like Baptiste they tried to play and then we saw Moira
from simple Maga gone. I think look, from the way it twisted is, look thus far
like Maga gone. I think that's a pretty decent right? You can now play what
Rematra. I wouldn't even be surprised if they try and play Reinhardt here, like off
the rip and then kind of see where that goes. We kind of saw in the last game what the Kiriban can
look like. Simply did end up on the moira. I don't know if that's exactly going to stick against
your team like Zed of Evision. Which is to my mind if I'm able to come up with an answer.
It was a Batista at first. Now this is... What do you think about it? It's exploitable I think.
If they ran the SIG here, the line on the other side, and that feels like something that T.M. just going to eat us.
I mean, there are some parts of the map obviously where it looks a little bit better.
The longer straight away, right, if you can buy the time, but Twisted Mine is a pain with the SIG.
So Ryan can always get that much closer without having to give up his shield.
You better hope these equations are absolutely perfect from now, I feel.
Yeah, I mean, even so, right, you just can't do anything with the damage that TDNT has, then he also kind of plays inside of the immortality field, upper over to the sheon.
Simple as the limbs hit here. Taderoy are going to try and dive the Batistele in offense with their composition. The longer, simple lips, the easier it's going to be for TDNT to maniacally take space and charge ahead.
head. Sebastian wheels, we'll just kind of axe them up here. TP, where is this TP set
off is it? Just kind of bait here. Simba wants to use a mortality build already,
that's gone.
It's out of the way, guys. I'm excited to be suppressing on the absence of it. Yes,
until now. Trouble's out of the way into the backline. Warts has been removed.
TVNT probably feels a bit uncomfortable here and you'd be trying for it off angle, but buddy.
No TVNT show means you could be slept right on down.
That TVNT charges gets right up in the mix is a
structure shot there placed on the turret, the TP, so
that'll be a Xenia Division fight win. They'll get the bot now.
Into TM territory as ports goes over to the Cassidy. This is a lot like how that last
series we had with Wave-O started off.
Far off the problem, how's that going to interact?
Again, some parts of the map she's great!
Alice is a little uncomfortable to their step into the Cassidy's sidelines.
She's going to hide around the damage fall off her Cassidy, which is pretty significant
in these local ranges.
Violet is going to be banking on that as well.
Violet is going to be careful, it's going to be an Amitri too, they're trying to push
out the SIG.
Okay, well Kinetic Grass just eats the entirety of that.
It would have been coming in there. Wave and R had to disengage, but Xaver had been playing pretty safe.
Pretty, pretty passive over the course of this map.
Ooh, he's gonna be a man now.
Got the Sib as well!
Yubi somehow untouched until just now.
She's gonna finish the job.
Sees that sound barrier come in, but it was too late to save the Symmetra.
Oh, the Flux comes in from Benarva. He gets taken out by Quartz, so TD and T land to full HP.
Gonna be able to keep that Rhyme in the fight.
That's huge! I mean, no one's really gonna be able to shift even T now at all!
Oh, the fire strike on the violence!
Twisted mines are slightly behind!
The opposition got back into the game, and nice this now.
Look at him, he's actually right this further.
Shatter, but not before Simple had a hole bought through his body.
Two kills for knife.
Messes, but what matters more is that Twisted mines
still have a foothold.
It'll be if they trail by four.
Now a re-segear for Granar.
Imagine we'll eventually see a GVD
make a swap, maybe over to the ram.
Or even the Zarya.
You can deal with something like this, Gordz.
But now that I've almost been tracked, he's got to be very careful.
TP, dead eye, the opportunity here as well.
Stunning shots there from the core.
He's got the same wall, over the top goes Violet,
but most of the Twisted Minds are still proved up.
A bayonet though, gasp by it.
This is felt that way.
Maybe his wall is important now,
but now he fights himself on the wrong side of it,
and a dead eye, unassisted by TP.
This is more of a defensive look.
what's really trying to make sure he lines up that elimination look where
Poff is playing. It's unlike Zedavision to look so discombobulated, but they are
very spread. I mean he's like on the other side of the map, thankful for
night, they meet takes out simple. Now you probably have to back up here if you're
TM, TP set up. It looks like it's taken out there, so yeah they're not able to
make it out here. Zedavision, what is designed to really increase that defensive
high ground? Look at it, they just sat back, Twisted Fights knew it too, they didn't really
want to come forward but I have to advance the game they are ahead for now
they're running through a brick wall there on the other side of the map even
here for TVNT this will be good into the far of proper so wouldn't be surprised
as proper is going to play mystery heroes throughout this to see him go make a
change
oh we forgot oh he did the same time great response if you could go down
no one's looking at the fire they're too busy worrying about feline menace
So that division still makes short work of twist of mind in this line, and that is a big fight to win.
Already 48 meters and counting. They're already in enemy territory, so winning a fight here is crushing.
Yeah, getting very close to checkpoint as well. Nice rockets there from proper around the corner.
Takes out Bortz.
Simple. LeBaptiste putting up some shots towards proper, gonna force him back.
So not checkpoint just yet here for Zeta Division. They get hellbare. Maybe an
opportunity for it's twisted here right? Sound barrier, no support all
available for Zeta. Just a nice O.C. simple, serious damage and unproper.
They have to start focusing on the problem now look at the T.P. pay those
interests of mine, getting themselves together. Knife is gonna be buried out of
trouble but this is made spate staff at the T.M. behind his application made
Sixth of 9th, just can't peek.
Shoe was taken down by Simple.
Oh, that is a nice look to Twisted Binds.
Now it's their turn to start to take deep strides
in their enemy territory, unless you think so.
But they've just lost their backline.
TDMT still wants to nudge this up a little bit
because they had a bit of a struggle in that fight.
But I don't see Twisted Binds getting a head
of Zeta on this push.
No, definitely not.
It's the Stoila just lurking and stall there.
He's going to clear out these Sinjords,
get us back to its mid map as proper now, talking about playing all different types of heroes over to the Shion.
Horses dead, aye.
All pilot again, this is with a very audacious drive by Watch Out for the TP!
Barely alive, Quartz had to pull the shot either way, but Violet goes down, simple found him.
A lot of good compression with his Baptiste.
He's got my next shoot, he gets right-click into next Tuesday and proper Watch Out, buddy!
Gotta scout those turrets.
Now Twisted Vines, mean business, now they're in position to get in front.
And Bernard's gonna get staggered here for a little bit.
Ubi's turn, it's end up doing the job as they push right up.
Oh, Vilo wants a canap here, he's gonna grab the baptiste.
Okay, okay, that's a massive play.
I mean, look, canap's gonna not gonna get like massive, you know, the same value in a lot of these fights.
You can just get one and you get the baptiste, I mean, that's massive.
So, denies to a Submise really from getting any much more of a lead.
Huge quake, essentially, there from Violet.
Yeah, that one picked full disengage.
Yeah.
Submise fall back though, with some confidence.
Symmetra wall is still here.
He's gonna give quarter.
Pretty insane advantage over Nike in a hitscan and flight.
Man, every time I've been out, I try to die pass the wall.
First target of a counter kill.
You be trying to dance and get slapped by Benard.
This is a good look now for Zed and the vision.
Let the Lucio get stripped up, but I was a self-destruct,
That was a little audacious, he gets picked off while he's out off-net.
GBMT, handled by Shun.
NGM swings back.
So Twisted Mind's side of the map.
Yeah, I wonder if Twisted can get out of spawn fast enough to be able to fight this, which they most certainly do.
And when I deny Zeta potentially getting close,
Twisted's taking that lead back as we are down almost 2.30 on the clock.
Not here, his pilot play is on air and that is where he may get too aggressive at times.
You find Violet going into the back line.
You did end up having a sound barrier here as well.
So, fairly big investment for Twisted Minds, but still, you get that bot deeper into Zeta's territory and it's all worth it.
Yeah, we're getting into the red zone in terms of time and with Twisted Minds still have a lead, I think,
spending that sound barrier to maintain it seems pretty reasonable.
In this amount of time, Funniestra has enough time to build another beat, and its promising
data are playing delusional, so it's not a matter of trying to keep yours after natural
opponents and so on.
In fact, there's nothing against the catnap of this environmental kill potential there.
Oh, look at that.
Gyro to high-grave at TVNT.
What's he looking to dig up there?
Immortality killed had to be deployed for simple and go over the backlight on the shelter
under it until they time.
It's nice with that overclock.
Quarters down as well, so no TPS up for twisted mines, and Nicelyle slipped away there for
to get himself a health pack. He can virtually ignore Simple as this is a stagga.
Simple. Just try to take one out.
On the road is...
See now? Proper move, though.
You're gonna get three players back here for Twisted Minds.
TVNT the most important, right? He's gonna be able to contest. Even if he dies, Self-Destruct here,
it's gonna be huge.
Tyler goes deep there.
That's what's great in play though. Funny Astro just caught out by the Hinderance.
Doesn't seem to bother, proper. As he torpedo dies straight through them. Here comes Sam in a vision!
We've got ourselves an equalizer with one minute left in the rounds!
How does this all transpire? It's a little technical that's cleared so early and no one's going to answer to this from proper.
Nice, Robert just carved them up there with the spree.
To get back in the game. A 10 meter lead now. Huge biogranate connects with the ring there!
He commands these sidelines, he commands this yellow battle.
Sittin' back down, but Symbol has no to him.
Is that enough though? 90 meters, 30 seconds left in the round.
Zedalivision's mage pick finally seems to be going their way.
In the time and moments, Trist advise us straight up.
Being spawncapped, Symbol back on a climber.
Zedalivision sit back and say, your move.
Another two player bio there from Shu.
Simple over to the Moira. That was the heroics the last matches
My oh, it's got a teammate getting ready to airdrop somebody in now. They finally deal with shoe
I came out of the spot. There might be too late. We're in OT definitely too late
TVMT trying to get this
Robot out of the way, but the match snowing that the game is virtually over and Zed and a vision
Strike back with another big win
The greatest series in Overwatch to build from these kind of back and forth.
Both teams so far have obliged this neck and neck Colosseum until it was started out fairly well for twisted minds.
They kind of play that on even footing for most of the game, but Zedah makes some appropriate swaps there towards the end.
nice old advantage, proper with the spree.
Shoo, just too much, all that long.
This represents a good chance
about to take stock of things
as Thruppa gets his team ahead in the series.
It's head over to Puckett and the crew
to break down the action.
What a way to start this series.
We have a two-one lead in the first
to four presented division,
and it all started with TM on the right pace.
Johnny, let's start talking about that.
Lucio banned that offensive by the Astro, and then of course, what happened in Game 2?
What happened in the first half of the series?
Yeah, this series has gone as expected so far.
Neither team has really flinched, which means we're bound for a long series.
This could go all the way.
It started out with Southern Division getting the first map pick,
and they went to Busan with that high ground,
able to expose the cemented composition of twisted mines,
and that has been the story of the game so far.
Let's take a look at some of the highlights.
Jake, there were highlights galore from both sides of this fight. Who has caught your eye for MVP running early on in this grand file?
It's hard not to think about proper. He has been putting in an absolute monster of a performance here on the she-on, on the far, whatever it's called for him to flex to.
However, I think it's worth noting, powerful bans have been expended, and still CM has been fighting back, keeping these maps extremely close.
So I still think there's a lot more to be seen in this series because TV and D is also
Really hurting the screws on Zeta. I mean they play these tricky comps, but TV and D keeps fighting their number
Yeah, it's TV and G in quartz quartz is definitely turning it up right now as well
I think this is the most pop-off performance we've seen from him thus far in this tournament
So I think they're really going toe-to-toe. It's gonna come down to the map
I'm Bernard having an enormous play on the diva towards the end and then of course you see proper switching over to the reefer
We talked about maybe this isn't his highest ceiling still has a pretty darn big impact there Johnny
Yeah, 100% you expect all of these guys to be playmakers especially come a grand final like this
And I feel like time and time again
We're seeing different individuals from set of division step up in a moment like this if twisted minds decide to push for an individual
The rest of the team after step up and make up for that as good as that first map was for set of division map number two
Belong to their opponent. Let's take a look at our second highlights as this came from neon jumps Jake
Walk me through the play, what was different this time around?
I mean the sim, right, this is able to have such a big impact, this is a comfort map for Twisted Minds.
In just a much tighter angle situation, there's not as many cheeky options for Shoe in particular to make the plays.
And he felt that Zeta was kind of forced to match the rush in some of these scenarios.
And that's exactly where Twisted Minds want to keep this series, get ports firing on all cylinders, torqued up with the Sojourn, farming grails off the maulgah.
Is it the Sojourn that is his most dangerous character?
Is it the Cassidy that's what he likes to see Corka?
It's literally all of it.
So Corka is one of those players who can't really fan him out because he has options
and he's performing equally well on all of those.
And that's what makes him so dangerous because his aim is just unlike anything that you've seen before.
Johnny, when do we get a melee game?
Is anyone going to take away the hitscan and just bring out big sorts again?
I think if you have a Corka here, you really need to enable him to play that long-range hitscan.
And the Symmetra Teleporter is part of that.
You want to teleport away from Settledivision to allow space and time for someone like Bois to really pop off like that.
So I think we're going to keep this one long range.
And then of course, as you saw just recently in game number three, it was back and forth for the first seven minutes.
The final three minutes though belong to Zeta as we take a look at some of the best highlights.
There was this play from Prophet that kind of feel like sealed the deal slowly.
It's it's filthy like a none of who's the proper should be actually leave the lecture just get found out like I don't want to be on
The other side of that it's it's incredible. You can do not just with the none of it also and really like in the neutral
Are we gonna get rid of the the honor has she been banned yet Jake? I don't expect her to be banned
I think just in minds are gonna believe they have to overcome this year
I mean here on Coliseum without the cure go right there's no cleanse to take off that bio
Nade to wake people up from the sleep dark and so on is able to get a lot more done
but generally through the course of the series I'd expect simple to be quite confident on the carry in that matchup that though
I think was we look back to call the CEO that was a map that
Twist and Mines were able to win earlier in the day right against Wable gaming in a very similar matchup
So we could be looking back on that map as maybe being a bit of a bellwether in the series a place where Zeta
We're able to take an edge that others could not that series changing game three Johnny
Yes, it did change in game three
and I think now we should see Twisted Minds actually start getting a couple of these maps.
Moving ahead here now looking at the next map pick, Symmetra is yet to be banned
and this might be an area now where you want to go towards a Flashpoint map
and maybe you want to actually, we're going to see Suravossa here.
If you want to protect Bandit Symmetra here, make sure that here's in the game,
maybe remove something like a Venture. This is a must-win map for Twisted Minds here.
Tie things up, remain in the series and like Jake said, drag this series out because when
all those valuable bans are gone, it might clear Twisted Minds.
What do we need to know about Suravasa? What kind of play styles are fitted well for this map?
Well, honestly, there's a lot of viable things that you can play in terms of composition, so I don't really think...
The whole...
There's going to be more jetpack cats?
Well, okay, maybe...
I think for Zeta, probably yes, right? They've liked the playscops.
I mean, I think Zeta's in a lot of proper tracer on this one.
you
It's going to be odd to kind of move into this with the SIG.
That's where SIG struggles, right?
Once you kind of get control of an area with the SIG,
it becomes very difficult to move as Violet to railgun there.
Some are able to live and then Knight finds UB.
That's a brutal loss.
That course has just been backtracking this entire time.
Not realizing that it's Morgan.
Just for now, a prompt.
There are flanking elements here to save the division.
One of them is actually UB out.
Now you've got to retake into the SIG.
Yeah, that's when the SIG can start to get strong, right?
The constant poke and damage within chokes the accretion, the shield, the accretion comes out there from Bernard.
See, by the way, it's also just lurking above you there on the cat, right again, it counts.
At a moment's notice, he's going down the top, and ah, simple though, he's here, but they've got a grenade.
He wants them not convinced about his side-line to swatch proper, lurking off to the side.
As simple as falling, a knife has the better position to play from.
Dangerous here for Quartz, he needs that healing, but it's only the Lucio, Lucio to Kiriko early, the devastating blow for Twisted Minds, and it feels like it's being exacerbated now.
Yeah, it is TM though, in control of the point. Good score on the Astro, yep.
Gets them a lead, but lead will swing right back for Z division.
division. So early on in map number one on Boosom, these are really good jobs. Like,
if every time those railgun shots are to win the violet, like, team and team would be there
to finish him off, just, it's not really happening and violet's certainly dominating the cat.
Just in case they don't have another DPS, they could follow up on that poke damage,
because UD is limited in range. GVNT is the one that has the right position to chase them down.
Proper as hatching a scheme.
You can hear on this stand case now, it's not even go pie, but TDMT is kind of scooped
by his presence.
The gleaming, red eyes.
Look at Violet, just kind of lurking here.
Oh!
Not too much lurking now!
He's certainly made an enemy of himself.
He's also been dragged out of position, but not to secure an elimination.
Just trying to disrupt him.
He's still choked you.
They just didn't stop him.
Ow!
Wow!
Now for Nars and a lot of trouble, right?
I mean, just Jetpack Cat's heals.
Where Jetpack Cat struggles and a lot.
Knife with one.
You do still have Quartz here.
TVNT as well.
So although you get to 99,
Violet eventually finished off.
It'll be Twisted Mind.
Still with an opportunity here.
I mean, do Violet, right?
He hits Quartz.
You mentioned he does get one.
And then just tries to put Quartz up on the high ground.
Maybe he had a Force of 1v1.
Also taken out of the line of sight of all the other healers.
the other healers right? I think having high ground also makes it easier to spot
the pilot. Yeah. You have to use the high ground with Quartz, use the overclock and
the sound barrier. The Twisted Minds can turn this into a winning formula, but
the mana boost is a bit of an unknown variable here. Is it proper to run in trying to get a
spree? I mean it looks like a turn. Rapper potentially may end up holding on to it now.
Now, he gets it. I think they really had the hand-force to get back to his quads flying
fire with an overclock straight away. Now he's having reposition away.
Purple was heading towards the backlight, heading after Quads, but he was out of there.
Heads up, TP there by Union out. A wall and then play into this.
There's just no way forward for that individual.
Quist advised an unbelievable job of battling back on that flashpoint, right?
They're able to get control of the high ground yet again, right?
put ports on some better angles.
Good soundbar there from Funny Ash or Yubi with that sim wall proper.
I end up getting the benefits of the nano.
Just no need to end up using the spree there.
Are we about to get D.B. Carr doing this?
We saw the Doomfist use, like, usually earlier in that Wave-O series,
and it definitely gave Twisted some trouble.
I think the issue is that the answers to the Doomfist were with Twisted Vines
and they really did come from what they are on right now.
The Vibra is fine though against it, she just tries to avoid him, but it's the nice and proper Ladi of the kill feed!
And I said to him, I want to be with that spotlight for myself.
Kind of always, stood in the shadow of very known names.
Now the understudy to proper trying to get on over to the attention for himself.
And now how does Zedah deal, I mean Zedah bring the aggression, right?
But Swiss in mind, how did they deal with like that Doomfist, Shion,
jetpack-cap combination and now you're
certain to find these kills in the
violet for me that's like the series
yeah in a nutshell feels like Violet
has dented himself a little too close to
twisted minds on occasion of course just
doesn't miss those he'll chase knife
you yep well spotted TV NT and
opportunity to go after a down position
soldier but this is a lot better
division to stall into quite a healthy
lead on the second last point
now drops in that's a lot of symptoms
I would not be a fan of that but a
The Powered Punch there doesn't even have to be charged very long, but ah, it's just unkillable in that moment
but now being chased down by fully charged up UB, where do you go from here? Ideally up, but without teammates
it's not worth the expenditure of that meteor strike. So either are happy enough with 80%.
I mean the Nano used there on the Bernard, but I mean between the Sin turrets, the damage,
there's no opportunity to really kind of get off into just really kind of taking up space and the damage reduction's coming on through.
it's proper over to Tracer now. For me, it really feels like if you can just deny Violet,
like just kind of working in your backline, constantly kind of swooping in, going at players,
that's where Zeta becomes very beatable.
Yeah, it's a one-two punch with Topper that I'm watching closely now, because you see
Topper's never too far from Violet and by Tversa, they're always trying to get a local
play revived into some of these individuals, but now he just straight up wins against Quartz.
Here's Bnarr dropping on it! And a funny asteroid!
What does it get?
Here with that meteor strike and then a such a high value elimination to park out of seemingly thin air.
Bnarr, low as he is, will have support for the rest of his team.
Proper and violet, the two player tourniquet force are still in full effect.
The twist of mind, the climbing, 74% uncounting, DDNG can store to get back in his mech.
Now Quartz comes back with his overclock, but it's not a Tiger Richard.
Fire of a Tune!
It drops in as soon as Quartz rounds that corner and Violet has to
dodge away from this sojourn damage. Quartz barely alive somehow,
being topped back up is desperately simple, gets into the fray.
99% uncounting now for Twisted Minds, they've stole this out for long enough
but there's a catnap around the corner. Quartz has got to be wary of that!
And Violet just headbutts the Railgun. What a connection!
And Twisted Minds taking another big step towards it equalizer.
I mean Quartz makes the highlight plays there, but TVNT is the only reason
and they have the ability to come back and fight this.
Bye.
As TBNT, there's a great job there with funny Astro,
just being able to kind of juggle the point,
stay alive forever.
He just turns the corners,
which forces the late shoe.
DM on the verge of just sweeping sort of Ossivir.
By the plank for the rafters now.
Pull me aware of where Twisted Mines applying
this environmental kill potential.
The air force gonna get back there in the clicks.
Oh my god, Sim dropped over the drink and there goes Udy!
Sleep him with the piranhas!
Which I don't recommend.
It doesn't sound great.
A lot of the fights on this map like the points have kicked off this way, right?
Where Zedna comes in, they make a flashy play, everybody goes crazy.
It's a nice actual power punch there.
Next with a few players getting stunned through the TP, so that's where that follow-up kill, the funny Astro, comes from.
Bernard is a real loose and seer, could be a big part of the resurgence because they don't get it on this map, they have two first points to zero down.
Twisted finds a fight there, time, sit on a sound barrier, and another wall from UB.
Yeah, it wasn't Anno used there on a Bernard, and then you lose to Anno who has a beat, so you're not going to continue to fight that in any serious manner.
Bernard, he's going to block in the doorway there, it'll be SIMTP across.
Not a bad buy over, do say so.
The sound barrier is gonna inoculate Twisted Binds until it expires.
Here's that wall blow.
Udint, Udint, Udint is going with an empowered punch by Banaba.
He has to fold back.
Twisted Binds will be permitted to take control.
I think Udint's done enough to earn it.
Quartz is gonna get an OC, and you also have...
the Kitsune rush here, so...
great opportunity.
Punch does not connect with Quartz, but Arnav will all the trouble here.
Oh, what a throw though!
Just a drop into the wall, the damage from the disruptor shot enough to do shit in!
Yubi's also low, but now look at little Mala-Joyce and he's landing at the start of the fight, but since then, he's been pretty terrifying.
He'll strike, pretty telegraphed here and surrounded now by a twisted mind.
PLAYER EYES!
PROPER DELIVERS THE DOUBLE!
Now he'll do it!
But if you being simple out, forget about it.
It's an unbelievable pulse bomb from proper. Let's take a look at this. He's working with Bernard.
On the top as well!
On the TP.
They go through it, probably trying to dodge their Doomfist and it's literally lighting the bag of dung and bringing the doorbell.
This should just give up on this.
I don't think that's in their vocabulary, honestly, but they're not giving much of a choice.
Shortly over time, as Violet makes sure QB was the first out.
Still a pretty big hill to climb here if you're Zed a division, right?
They take the next two flash points.
T.M. is going to win the rotation here. Maybe get here a little bit faster.
Shoe just kind of looks like setting up maybe an offing or a shoot.
It does not have line to say to the player, just, yeah.
Yeah, we're really invested though. We're being first to the punchy man.
Hey, honestly, just to mind throw themselves into the fight.
They think they've got the better end of it, but the knife is playing so safe,
they're so far away.
Valor is just a decoy, dangling in front of him. He was the captain.
You know, what do you do, right, against the Doom?
It's gonna be Core, it's gonna go with a Cassie, that's gonna be the response.
Now maybe if obviously Remacho is, you know, in this game, Remacho gets banned, maybe that's a go-to, right?
Vortex in the slow, trying to keep that Doom in place.
Another Nanna for Benart here.
Reef is on, these have been for survive ability, just to try and tie your opponents up as long as you can.
Pup is pulse bomb, goes by the wayside, TVNT able to get the Korean future Dyson onto it.
But now, by the heck of a little spice, we're at a big investment for something that didn't
involve directly an elimination.
It also feels like for a while, the Twisted Minds is the team that was heavily on the
offensive like aggressive here in this game, and as soon as Bernardo's gone over to the
Doomfist, it is just flat, where every time we were seeing Twisted Minds just moving backwards.
Oh, okay.
Guys, there's Bernardo from SimpleSat.
There was Bollinger, he was running to the ground, Twisted Minds!
to your moment to go up 10 points for a time.
The Quartz has found Violet.
There's more defensive look with the Cassidy.
Pretty important in those moments.
There's the mind to try to get the map ended here.
It starts with a cap on this point,
and that has been eluding them thus far.
But ours has been more than just the nuisance.
He's been a spanner in the works.
Yeah, they come out on top.
That's another Quartz bar I'm eating here.
From TD&T, it's finally you get a fight win.
You can breathe a little cyber leap.
here, four squisted mines, and they're in a pretty decent spot in the trade. A lot of
ultimates invested, pilot with a good spot here though, to get like a catnap, maybe grab
some player, drop them into the drink.
They also think this Doomfist switch has been great for a night, we no longer have to take
a sojourn at meh. Quartz has been forced onto the Cassidy, favouring the longer range of
those two hitscaps.
And this is the cat, just getting parading, shoot around.
Yep, I mean an airdrop, pionade, oh, could be good, but shit it was, gonna get him. Here's
bottom now, captain ab, courts, ooooh, what a save, love to sing that, violence, take
it down, courts lips are fighting on the date, but Arr has to cover and duck, I mean,
Milo, hey look over those hero plays, just can't drag him low enough to be able to get
that kill, proper on the plank, he's gonna be the one here who's relied on to get a touch,
Tm knows this
I'm ready for it like he said
What's plan of proud on the point flying away the peacekeepers?
He's been our slide on past the nose he might have a window he doesn't get the doofus done
He does get stung up briefly, but it's really not damage that he's writing home about
Well, it comes in and takes the trade but no the rest of the hard work has been done in but twisted mind
It took a backseat for much of this flashpoint that patience pays dividends and they're here to chase the bag
This series we just go back and forth back and forth until we hit that game seven
Twisted minds the swap over to the Cassie to do with that doom fist
I think I saw you be on Twitter saying that I usually is the best doon fist of all time
No doon fist like Gushray in the mix for Nara try his best impersonation proper with some sick place as well
And overall, outside the skill, some moments at the beginning of these flash points,
uh, and Twisted Can't Arow that one home, started to finish.
Really competitive map in the end. There's always adaptations, little tweaks that you can make
to get an edge at this part of the series. Fought over towards the Cassidy.
Trying to have a more defensive, a safer option to try and pick up here. Now guys,
It's insane in this room, I can't begin to describe the energy to you, but I've got some people who will get a try, so let's go and talk about it.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are on stage, we are already at the fifth game of this BO.
Ladies and gentlemen, who is here for the State Division?
I think we've got some fans over on my side.
That's right. Go for it. Hey, who's here to see twisty?
We got good back and forth going on we got serious
We got to do better again as we get to do better. You have an insane team here
So once again, who is here for Zeta Division?
Twisted!
Guys, are you going to let them take this trophy?
Seriously?
Well let them hear you!
Twisted Manz!
I want you to start a chunt right now.
Let's go.
What?
Twisted!
Wester! Wester! Wester! Wester!
There you go.
Come back here. Let's get real, guys.
Yes.
Who's taking it? Is it Twisted Minds or is it Zeta Division?
Sounds pretty solid to me, and I think we're going to have a blast on this grand finals, Ian.
Absolutely. Just a reminder, what's at stake here, of course.
becoming the next champion here at the eSports World Cup.
A huge prize pool and Vital Club championship points.
Before you know it, this will be all said and done,
and it'll be over.
Because nothing is granted and everything is earned
here at the EWC.
It's time for me and Ian to toss it back
to our lovely casters and get back to business.
See you.
Four maps in now.
So we've accounted for the preparation, the surprise factor, and the mythology.
The two teams sitting on stage now are real.
They do bleed, they do fight.
From this point onwards, over the deeper team will remain.
This is where Instinct takes over.
In the preparation, the deliberation, the forecourt takes a back seat.
And it's gonna be his aided division at map pick Route 66.
I wonder if this is the sim they have in here. We'll see.
Not a bad time to find a path.
Yeah, it's gonna be sim.
Sigma ban here.
For...
Twisted Mines.
And now, I mean, this is one of the more powerful bans you have against Twisted Mines, right?
But it's all the pressure...
on Yubi.
Yubi plays a ton of sim.
Probably 99.9% of his playtime on the Symmetra.
Gonna be gone here.
Now we've seen what Twisted Ghost in here is actually typically the May.
So we'll see if it's May.
Obviously Tracer available for somebody like UD,
but from what we've seen in this tournament,
they've gone to May here in a lot of situations
because teams take them here and then ban the Sim quite often.
That the Sigma in play, one of the good answers to Romartre for example is made, right?
It's one of the most direct answers to annihilation, direct as it gets anyway.
So it is stress on Fennar's hero pool.
It also removes the necessity of Zed and Division having to create this frontline pressure on
the sim, right?
This need to go over towards the Vendetta and such, it's just not a factor here.
They can go back to you know, what really got them here in the first place
But they comfortable with it straights with sojourn is she on in the mix maybe far if you need it
They don't have to stress about twisted mind
appearing in their midst every 10 to 12 seconds. Oh
The tourbure so baster
I mean we have a seat or beyond the entire time with why the hell not but this is D1 hating of profit price
said yeah I mean this is like protect you know ports at all costs you also have
simple playing the Alari right so maybe that's where you feel like you're making
up some of your damage overall I think the biggest thing you're kind of
worried about here right is like TD&T does such a great job putting pressure on
shoe a lot of that time being able to utilize the TPs of the sim and then not
have to use the flying cooldown of D.va you're obviously not going to have that
luxury here. Hey, Mirabatchev tank. Oh, that's been pretty rare in this series. Oh, I thought
it's gonna ditch Cat here, playing the Zuki. That's probably gonna throw him for a little
bit of a lose. Now, I think the Jetpack Cat is getting locked on to by 12 Taras randomly,
so actually a big problem. So the Zuki's here to punish TBM team through binding chains.
Pretty potent. Gotta watch out, but it's very heavy. Post damage only to defense side though.
One of the only maps so you can actually kind of play Torb on this first point is oh, okay cap action
Okay
What it is that by it seems to be feels safe to go back for this kid
Here's you be now encountering but I hope you don't drop a bit on that
Sheen of the neck
Very quickly naturally tonight is off south of that encounter. It's gonna fire the tourbook post during these old right
Nice damage from TDNT.
My overnight hits there from Shu, but TDNT doesn't care, he just pushes up, gets that
kill onto Naifus.
Shu in the battle of the Flux supports, wins this time, taking out Sympold.
He's been arcfriiting a lot of space here under big girls, yeah.
This else has been uncomfortable for Quartz here, forced to the low ground, now forced
to try and defend this pylon.
another removal of it she was trying to do most mostly the same thing as
simply as right we damaged him around really consistent healing through
couples without a pylon that's much harder for the Iliari
Bernard actually gets pretty UV so not gonna have that
four of Turric, Quartz gets hit with a biogranade, Dienersley wall that's an easy
kill for Bernard to finish off then gets the mega everybody else dies by the
the payload there for twisted really easy offensive proceeded division yeah
it feels like the Simbae lap is proceeding as you sort of like expect
right twisted vines don't have the same sort of macro game plan to lean on
anymore we start focusing much more on the individual and that's where Zed
a division certainly have them beat that's been the talking point it's
individual talent versus team-wide strategy coordination cohesion
But it must convert onto this map, and Twisted Minds, even start to threaten the comeback here, I'd be getting nervous.
I mean, TM winning this map, they would view that as like a luxury, right?
I think that'd apply to it as an introduction, from an invitation up to the day, I suppose.
Oh, oh yeah, I mean, if you win this with Twisted Minds, you feel like you got one hand on that trophy.
Obviously, you go to match point, but probably the strongest ban.
still a curie band I think. No, I'll lose you then. He's actually gone as well, right?
But all the pretty impactful bands gone here. Or Xeada Division. Oh, okay.
She was pumping that damage out, could fall off in the biotic, but Violet went down to Quartz.
He was playing pretty safely at the moment, but there's that active sun angle.
Dimensionally, Ari, great to sort of, you know, enhance the damage output of your roster.
She went to take Madison to his own hands there, but it took him 5-2 blocks to get to the birdie.
We're gonna see a simple swap.
Yeah, they're gonna ditch this, they're gonna go back, basically play their, you know,
Tri-Intrustive Conk, just minus the Sim.
And it looks like this'll actually cause a response here, so...
We'll be cat-bashing yet again.
You'd be on the tracer, this is obviously a huge assignment for him, going up against...
Probably one of the best to do it.
And nowhere is he gonna be comfortable!
That's a pilot grenade to pull off there.
True, he just straight up wins that fight.
He's on a really weird off angle,
but TBRT can't try and chase him down
because the rest of his team are having strips torn off them
by knife and code.
TBRT gonna get DMAC'd here.
Say, all right, fine, I'll stand here.
Yep, I'll stall.
Eventually gotta move me.
They do.
Maybe one more attempt here.
Four twisted mines on defense,
and this is gonna be rough, right?
moving into some of this bastion damage to grenades coming through the choke here.
Only so much defense matrix. It's gonna be you be actually here.
Might be the one to touch from below ground.
A pulse bomb would give them a chance to move on out and get a foothold,
but the pressure's already being applied on that high ground.
Fana found Quartz right in the beginning, and the pulse bomb was unsuccessful ultimately there for you.
Not good signs at all for twisted minds and they collapse.
Oh, that's so bad! I just can't be doing that on a stage like this.
It's just no reaction because he was like get me up Tricey guys.
Yeah, get me up thousands of times.
If you take a look at a knife here on the bastion, just clean up crew.
Oh, this shoe is just so nasty there.
On the honor.
No one's doing like it. No one's borrowing to do it like it.
When we get back here, it's going to be Bernard, actually, the benefits of the nano.
It's going to be Ubi. That ice block is already used.
Yeah, look at that not going in.
who defense makes it easy to try and protect by the best of quite enough to score to that sharp shooter.
Alright, Alpegg, self-destruct this year, or at least if we're just left milling about this is pressure on another level for Insane Division.
They'll happen to take these exchanges if they stay ahead in them, and Tempo rests with them.
And that was a pretty sick play by Ubi.
Didn't have the ice block up right away used to me while I was just gonna block this self-destruct.
Then it ends up trying to duel proper with the help of funny Astro and just not able to live.
If you're twisted, you can get just a hole here, not a map completion.
You would feel amazing.
Slow to getting down by any means possible.
That's a good start.
Cropper pulling into a trap that many lesser-traced players have done in their time.
It's just, you can get a little bit too much damage from a plucky chimico player.
And I think the benefits here are four twisted mines, right?
This is not a great point here at the end for a jetpack hat.
Now it doesn't have like a lot of flanking angles, can't take advantage of ton of verticality.
It's a pretty good point for May.
Two minutes on the clock as well with some changes coming out of Z division, gonna kinda get a nice, ultimate advantage here at Twisted Minds.
You're probably at two, three fights, but they may have a chance to do it.
Then after the Arista, so basically demanding that the fight take place on the cart and then commanding that space.
Gotta give Twisted Mind significant incentive though to fight in a bit of an disadvantageous spot.
Yeah, high ground Cassidy though.
Kind of nasty for Twisted to work through.
Those javelins sometimes can harrow big kill opportunities.
Mid-protection as a TVNT though.
That was a very heads-up by a fence matrix.
And there's Nite down.
Quartz is repaying that peel with interest.
Nite picked off and it's a 1-4-1 defense.
One at best and now proper go might have a chance to break through simple run down
Blitz gone there on TVNT, he's going to account for enough for the damage and proper stick it around
recalls out of the self-destruct now in the blizzard TVNT trying to sell to
Finan Trader for Yubi though the mate is out of the game and TVNT once more is
Destructing but he got shoot and Finan ball together. This is a huge way to slow Zeta down
Yeah, I mean Zeta obviously can't move forward here
without either of their supports
Yubi does a nice drop dropping that blizzard actually allows CBNT to get
bring to mech yet again I think funny Astros also had a great map that
she has since going over the Lucio being able to kind of protect ports and just
not being proper off course at any time to the rush coming out also check our
sanctuary to really dominate this left side of the map Zedadivision has set up
here just to usher the cart forward in this last push there attack side then I
I make some space, so I don't have the time to lose here.
Now that's the issue.
I get a line of silence.
I can't, I get a little pocket there,
but high course gets a little bit uncomfortable, I'm sure.
Knife with an overclock to the high ground,
and TP and TP doesn't have the call-downs to get to him.
Oh, pulls up short on the mega health pack,
and there's the Mets dealt with.
Good damage from up on high,
and towards, will be smashed by an overclock.
It's not pretty, it's not easy, it's not quick.
The same division, finished with that.
This TVFT was really hunting for that mega, right?
Gonna wrap around that side, try and get that mega health pack, then make it double back to the point.
Maybe you end up building up towards a self-destruct.
With how bad the first two points of defense that were for Twisted Minds.
Really pretty awesome scenario they find themselves in, right?
Obviously would have loved to get a hold, but still, having to finish with no time in the time band, really important.
I do feel though that the side of the map where the absence of the Sim is gonna be that much more palpable.
Yeah, easier attack side. I think that's where they hurt that much more.
Mei's not gonna be an awesome option here, although we've seen them do it.
Can you try Fara here off the rip?
But then I think if you know, they play Kat Bastian, it's GG on the Fara, right?
Playing Ana.
Playing Ana is something like sojourn into that, I would not like to be the Fara.
Cs7.5k damage done, 9k about equal, we can note.
9 deaths for simple.
That division moves by out of the pot.
Look at the support damage from Zeta.
I mean, they're basically ahead in healing, and then like, you know, almost 10k damage and looks like the two of them smell...
Oh!
They domina here from Zedadivision, so...
We've obviously seen teams play more domina than we have throughout the whole of, uh, you know, OWCS this year at this event.
This time it'll be Zedadivision's chance to play it.
She'll really slow the game down, and will the jetpack actually always be returning to this high ground, which is really annoying.
Yeah, I mean she can also just gonna like disrupt players from coming off this high ground right the knockback really strong
Oh, but it's this pro like that. Yeah, being able to kind of like farm up
They need my ability to stack. Yeah
I can actually get to see
We got a nice right we could just circumvent this whole docking party show but no we gotta play the game
what the bitch
So much damage for every direction
I mean, Violet's having to linger around as well, because Banana is still acting as a fulcrum point for the rest of the outside of the vision.
It's what's like that, feel a little bit uncomfortable, but very quickly.
Dude, Violet is so fast with those grapples, and then just kind of like launching them up, using their momentum.
Alright, Violet there, just, yeah, couldn't quite get back to the dominant position to get in team with the Violet.
He cares, but now, he'll be healed up, going off tonight!
He'll be ember off to the field, banana now very deep in enemy territory in an all-kick
spot.
This will be the reason why it's finally going to get Vanara already here in the dominoes.
Vanara's up to come!
She can throw it in there on top of UB.
Probably tells me we are going to have a swap here for Vanara.
Yes!
So I was just him and proper at that time, or maybe they say, hey, it's working, we're
going to stick with it now.
over and played the D.Va here, so the Sidmines finally get the cart moving.
Luckily for them, they don't have to use anything to do it.
The Snake's fight's going to be massive.
They need to set a good time through this first part of the map.
And I think they don't have to be so happy just to slow this down as much as they can.
They'll keep up the checkpoint at some point short.
And they don't want to let Quartz and Coast slow this game out of control.
They can't use it by the massive firemate. That's just not acceptable for them.
Here's BnR, look at his control course, his damage at stake, he's taking something big,
O's and simple spot on that low ground, that's a very important call spot out of
problem, but try as BnR might, he couldn't stop S1mple from taking a trade there at
least, blatantly, he gets his QR out of the game, but it's back in for a stuff,
so they need to be some down, just two players left, and you're hoping that
Shu could give you some healing, that's why BnR's playing up on the high ground,
but there's too much coming his way. Yeah they almost look like, hey we have no
chance of closing the gap with Shu. We are just going to ignore him and just hopefully
just going to get rid of Bernard Shu and keep himself alive there.
They're going for the vertical up in the truck. Violet as well. Trying to hold them still.
It doesn't work at all. Again, he's punished. This self-destruct is a problem. Knife was dead anyway.
He wouldn't have been able to escape from that because he really lacked the mobility in that fall.
They kind of go for that at the end. Tracer Genji here.
here. Okay, now it's going to be nice going back, playing with soldiering.
I reiterate, you cannot let Twisted Minds win the Sim Bear map.
Ah, yeah, I mean, it would be just a colossal waste here from Zeta Division.
Twisted Minds is able to escape this with a win.
Three minutes, ten on the clock. Hell of a time back.
Zeta Division worked quick on their attack side in fairness.
Twisted Minds have been slowly but surely
Exerting their dominance here. Defense matrix not enough there though to keep
simple alive. Nice to push up to Zeta division. What all views that naturally
advantage is defense side high ground. Looks like we're gonna get proper just
air dropping in a pulse bomb. We get back into game but it's been a nice job of
kind of controlling it a little bit on the tracer. Now he's starting to heat up a
little bit. It'll be a continued rush here for a simple.
Tromper? Not too bothered about it. Still trying to find a kill within these tight confines.
Ubi's down here with that continued Russian play, but of course not having to get the mega health play.
That's a pretty big pick up there for Funnyastro.
How about a draw or a beat on the superstar and neutralize him for the next 10 or so seconds?
Yeah, I mean, they're so worried about proper, right? They actually, TNT, not able to live there on the payload, gets de-mecked, while it eventually...
...basically playing as DPS.
Tromper's constantly checking his six.
Of course, yeah, I mean just...
Please, constantly circling around.
TD&T here gonna go over to the Zarya here to strain a bully, Bernard, off the cart.
Looks like the 180 turn becomes part of his nervous tink.
What about the recall?
Continue it off the right, this is spot TD&T, he's gone over to the Zarya this time, that's like,
crazy looks for this twisted mind's team.
Can they bully the way through this chunk?
Violet has Bernard out of there, can they get him back to health?
The answer's yes.
Bernard has a self-destructive guarantee that he can go once more, and that's funny Astro!
I mean, it would have been better or not either way, but they find that Lucio elimination.
It puts them deep though. It puts them in striking distance to some of the like courts, but yeah,
tensions are high. 90 seconds left for Twisted Minds. A big bleed of clock.
I mean, every time on a board with Twisted Minds, simple and courts looking behind them,
looking in front of me and just players coming in every which direction.
Just not been able to get comfy here on offense on Route 66.
Sorry, you're up on the high ground, no way. Obviously sitting out here, no able to get any mobility.
Bio hits Bunny Astro, I'll be overclocked here from Quartz.
Well, time to double back there, is he fine? It just appeared out of nowhere.
She was low for a moment, thought TDNT was coming after her, but the Zion never quite made it there.
Now, slept! Should have taken him down when you had the chance, TDNT.
Hold on away now, TVNC hoping to turn this 50 charge into something, but it'll be reset to zero as Twisted Minds.
About 35 seconds left to play. We're on with Quartz and you see that POV.
You don't even see Violet on your screen when he just kind of comes on in.
The drybys by the Jetpack tank, Obscaded Division now trying to just bring in proper over the top.
Finally gonna drag him back out to the rest of the team here.
Tinker Bear knows he's under some pressure, but it's continued rush all the same.
Byleth's trying to get back in position at the top of your screen there.
Tinsane a division out for Nuba right now because TVNT is in the middle of the map,
an important place to be and sees Byleth this entire time.
Some charge would be nice though, he's not hitting particularly hard right now,
but Byleth was dealt with in the end.
Here's the grab, pre-op for Hell, end place, an easy target or so you'd think,
eventually brought down, but not before Shue extracts his toll.
He's told funny Astro off the map now with the life and proper having fallen Zed of the vision running out of option
to sleep on the court here a shoe will go down kicking and screaming but go down all the same and
Twist the minds will have a shot at a time back extension TV NT is back in Zed of the vision
Are in Tatas?
Yeah, yeah, I think you know while it's gonna be a clutch this you do get proper back here with the pole slob
Milo with a catnap, he is lurking. You're also going to have Nape here up on the high ground.
You're going to win the map here. You're going to have a big stun.
Gotta be timed well. Proper get to the stall. He is fine. Not keeping people away.
Catnap. BING! Not really there. We'll give it up. Milo will save that ultimate for later on.
If he even sticks to the jetpack catnap in his last phase of the map.
Just be mindful. We'll be offered the opportunity to play us into extra innings here on Route 66.
And he maybe a proper lives, and you get one with a pole spot,
and you think about going for it there.
It looks like a violet, at least for now,
going to continue with that Jeff Pack hat.
Switched off of it on offense here,
because the way the map is laid out here towards the end.
Not ideal for proper wins at the tracer battle there with UV.
We are already under a minute to go.
And he's been doing it all game.
He has been ever present and constant threat.
Dropping down into the back line and looking
to try and take an easy elimination. Even a hard one.
I mean, you also have, you know, Viola playing for this position, but for Nars
switching over to this area, I mean, you're putting bubbles onto your jetpack
pack, as they get aggressive. I mean, you also see Viola third-person there.
Probably making a call on us to proper exactly where these players are going.
Big poll, see, that works. I can't feel it.
Oh, my gosh! Funny abstract!
To pick the bomb of the Lucio!
That'll be that flight.
Twisted by Adele, he falls to their last legs.
Falls to one knee.
Look at how he's just moving around the back, right?
Just trying to launch, Prenar maybe up to the high ground.
He gets shoot here.
I think they have no idea that Shoe is going to be playing up on this high ground here.
Essentially, a bio coming on through.
Does it really connect to anything though?
Yeah.
Like the idea, but...
Tiny wasn't quite there.
Still, ninth is un-consisted in the backline with his overclock.
Now trying to turn his attention to the rest of the fight,
because Prenar didn't get burned down in the frontline in the Zygoth battle.
My life is gone. Here come Twisted Minds. A player of bodies to work within a chance to take a breath.
They see! The end of the map. Beckoning. They see an opportunity to take us back to one minute to one minute extra innings with the run-even footing.
That would be absurd.
Oh, I mean, it would be...
It felt like a dream of four Twisted Minds to make that happen.
Two grabs gonna be available. Most likely, two pulse bombs as well.
We hit OT.
The grab here for both sides could be massive, but R and TBNT both win the keys to the city.
But it's going to be another strike first, hop on TBNT and it's not enough to save him.
Zaynard in the vision, strike first, the strike hardest.
And now proper needs to clean up and simple down.
Violet Menard did fall, but he got the guard on Tracer.
Fuck, get out of there!
No, they're here to seize the title before Twisted Minds can reorganize themselves.
That's a rough map there for Twisted Minds.
Look, one where the Symmetra Band is used and they put up a valiant effort, but somewhat
expected result there on route 66. Take a look at some of the highlights. Violet on the
cat, just being a nuisance, putting Shoe in the best possible position. That is just
a filthy fall spot there. Only proper can hit those. Quartz almost makes it interesting
here towards the end. He finds two somehow. Got it now. He's running on instinct at this
point as I'm sure how many of us here in the room. Let's check in with our experts to
to try and give some sense to the madness of our witnessing.
Thank you so much. Mitch and Matthew called us experts, Johnny.
Now we have to deliver. There's a lot of pressure.
I can handle it. We've done this for a while.
You can? Okay, okay. Let's lock in. Just like our teams are currently doing,
because, listen, Twisted Minds, they tied up the series,
but now the Simbun came out on Route 66.
And just like expected, they started to struggle in there.
Let's talk about Surabasa first here Johnny. What went right? What went wrong? Because Twisted Mines,
they took that one fairly convincingly and yet. Yeah, it's pretty crazy that we find ourselves
here after five maps and neither of the teams have really flinched. They wanted the map,
they needed to win rather and you saw here how comfortable Twisted Mines were on Surabasa.
I actually sat behind the scenes that ironically this is a map where if they played Crazy Rock
or to ruin them. Jindun would have loved to play something like the wrecky ball here.
It really made that work. But instead Bernhard forced over onto the Doomfist and this look
just wasn't as critical for set-up division. Just in mind, Stid got to get a composition
like this so many times before and they felt really comfortable here on the show of Asa.
What are your thoughts on Doomfist in the meta? We've seen it a few times now in this tournament.
Is he in? Is he out? Is he too... too leash?
Well, that's the problem, right? Like a lot of these teams, they default to Doomfist as
a Symmetra counter and we've seen many things like that. So we had for example
but Doomfist has been receiving a couple of nerfs, not as potent anymore
and you can see in a matchup like this that makes a world of difference as we
headed over here to Route 66. Yeah Route 66 of course there is where the
big Symmetra ban was utilized by SETA and they abused it because we now have to
have UB going against the proper Tracer, one of the best to ever do it.
That's a tall order for any great Tracer we have in the league.
Yeah, 100% UB, obviously, he has a great similar player, and he also is a pretty decent tracer player.
But it's not like he can hang with the likes of proper in a matchup like this,
and even Violet on the jetpack cap came in and added some extra pressure.
I think Violet has had a really good series, and as I look forward to the rest of this series,
this series might come down to Violet's performance on the jetpack cap.
Really volatile player, sometimes make game-winning plays, but sometimes as well,
get ahead of himself when he saw it in a Neon Junction a couple of times.
Violet getting deep into the backland, but getting punished for it.
So this is a real back-and-forth series, so far everything kind of going as expected for both teams,
but it comes down to the individual play. Players like Violet on the Cat,
Funny Astro, needing to make sure that in every single moment gets value from that sound barrier.
One Ajax can make a world of difference in a series like this one,
but so far neither team has really flinched and we're coming down to the final two.
Okay, so no real individual mistakes or not that these big ones are being made,
so is this really just going to be a compositional chess game in the end?
This is going to be a chess game, but as the series progress, you dispose a hero van, you can't use it later on in the series.
So now we're getting to map 6, map 7 and set a division.
Their vans are so powerful because Twisted Mines, they like to play this consistent composition of the Symmetra, the Soldier, the Diva Delusio, and here it goes.
But as set a division as they spell those vans, use them already, suddenly Twisted Mines are able to play their own game and they grow into the series.
So, three, two scenario here for Settledivision, but Twisted Minds, they definitely are confident in this one yet.
I do like that we do see some different books from those teams. I mean, very early on, on Route 66, you even saw the Dominar.
Yes, we switched off of it very quickly, but do you still feel like that's a viable pick in any situation here?
Like, the Dominar has actually been like a bit of a sneaky pick so far, so I'm not going to count it out.
But the problem is, Twisted Minds have played a lot of Reinhardt so far, and Reinhardt might come into the mixer as well.
That's another band that Settled Division already used on Neon Junction.
So now, when we go to map 6, the map pool is going to reset,
which means that a lot of these maps open up again.
The game modes open up for Settled, or for Twisted Minds rather.
Where do they want to go? You can control Flashpoint,
regardless if you already played that map already.
And so the Reinhardt might come out to counter the Domina,
and that is a hero that Settled Division will have to plan for accordingly.
Right, so Twisted Minds get to choose the map,
but then also you're going to look at the bands
that they can utilize against Settler because I think they have not banned Jetpack yet.
So that would be in my opinion the next logical step for them.
Yeah 100% and like I said Violet has been so critical so far on that cap.
So that is a band that they can use if they need be.
Yeah let's send it down to Deflora.
We have a Jake and Puckett soaking it all in.
Let's hear their thoughts on how this series progresses.
Smell that, Jake.
Passion.
A whole lot of gamer passion in this venue.
It's been incredible.
The fan support out here in Paris is amazing.
The crowd showing up.
Not just for the teams you'd expect,
but really the global audience is here.
It's an amazing moment here at the Esports World Club.
And I'm lucky, you know, this match, these first five,
they feel like almost formality.
For me, this one has to go to a distance of seven.
Can I go ahead and call them out, though?
Please.
Twisted minds fans have been silent. I haven't heard any noise from this whole section
Probably because they don't understand my English right now
But it's been a little bit softer than it was at the start of this matchup
Can they get back in the series and force this to go all the way to the seven?
They have to but this is their best chance to do a bucket because now that the map will opens back up
There's a lot of opportunity for them to strike back hard in map six
But honestly from here on out. It's anybody's game. I mean fatigue setting in not only for the fans with the players too
Like this has been a long day of overlocks for everybody
This is the true test though where champions are grounded, you know for the second-place team a key to be crushed one goal
One trophy we got some fantastic art. We have some fantastic audience members
I found a guy repping in any jersey. We got a team of liquid member here
So as an unbiased fan, are you going to set a division or TF?
You know, I'm sitting on a TN size, so I kind of feel overwhelmed that I got a I got a rep TN on this.
Very smart thing. There's a lot of people watching that answer from you.
And who has been the best player on TN throughout this matchup?
Obviously Quartz. Obviously Quartz.
Jake, I feel like this guy knows ball.
I mean, look, it doesn't take a genius to spot Quartz.
you
The gate is open, nothing too surprising here from Twisted Minds.
Grimatra is the pick here for Bernard.
It's not even about hit the twisted mines as well, it's about Ward Bernard away from
the direction.
Just seeing some effectiveness from the course of this series.
UB don't just, again, it's pretty tough to create that spacing away from these dangerous
enemy frontline, but this has been a perfectly dominant defensive display off the bat.
So they try and collapse on shoe and then all the sun shoe starts going flying through the sky
Take a look here from shoes POV
I out grenade there pretty huge a student pressure comes in
Nasty stuff there from shoe. All right. Yeah, okay. Let's see what he gets
Ha ha ha, our astonishing moment. What a super star.
Twisted Minds give TK the most acutious route to try and get towards him.
He's going to get Dmet here, yeah, not able to make it back, he actually kind of gets body blocked by their doorway.
Twisted Minds are trying to out the movement here, they're trying to, you know, get into a decent rotation,
but on the wave, they're taking a ton of damage, they're getting hit by a Bionic Grenade, and...
And TK Dmet, this is a terrible start for Twisted Minds on a must win map.
You know, if you would have asked me, I would have thought maybe they'd gone back to control and played like Nepal.
We've seen them obviously have great results on Nepal.
But they've said, I can follow this. The answer maybe they think that Xayna is going to take us to control if we get a 7-man out.
Oh, what an opener! What's this down?
I mean, TVNT just turned to go try and chase Violet, just dragged them all the way back to the spawn.
This is not where you want to be at all. We are half way through the attack as time bank here.
Thank you.
Chris and Lyons have been disarray.
They picked this map.
I think it may be...
It's an edge for them.
Maybe they've been working on something.
And I think this theory has already met some stiff opposition.
Yeah, I mean, courts over to the Cassidy here.
You need to put your firelight with a hinder
if he kind of comes on down and gets close.
There'll be an annihilation here for Bernard.
Catnap here.
It's going pretty healthy.
If I don't mind if you shield Bernard.
No, he says, you know what?
The SP fences are good old offensives.
I'm a fire these poor blasters.
And you know why you need to do the damage before they can do enough damage to the NAR.
Yeah, he's got block, he's got annihilation, he's set up perfectly to succeed.
This one is getting a little short folks.
Man, he's trying to get through.
We get him with the body.
United shooters waits for him to come down.
It was a pretty important pick up to get to the other one.
She will be a little slow to get back into the frame.
TDNT discloses himself off the map to avoid being staggered.
We're down to the last minute.
Twisted Binds.
These fans never quite heard them quiet.
Yeah, they are silent here in Paris.
Stormy face.
Minutes ago, no support ults to work with, sim wall...available.
TDNT finally actually gets into the backline, deals with knife. He may end up losing his map, but gots off the shrunk.
That was big gap. BIO didn't really matter in the end, man. They kept TDNT alive long enough and he did.
He's a very important ward. Nice switching over towards Genji for a moment, but I think Zayda realized here there's just no chance of contesting his way in a minute.
now guys let's just let's just take a break looks like uh here's some more charge
here's I'm not gonna I'm gonna be at over the top that we remember there's a
since the Moga flying to his death momentum something so much right now
you've got to figure out a mini snowball even if you can but that body
By the way, the shoe might have extinguished it in a heartbeat.
Does that now have this high ground control?
No chance for Pissed Minds to move forward and look at another free play by the way.
That is going to be a regularity if you don't unseat shoes somehow.
Yeah, I mean, it's going to be the simple all here.
The Nanoboose Ana Bernard that tries to buy them some space is Bernard's in a lot of trouble
Obviously the one thing with Ana right is not going to be able to kind of heal Bernard through that sit wall
So kind of splits him off from the Ana of Shu
They're able to just kind of burn him down as a must needed fight win there for twisted minds
Here comes on in
Violet knows he himself has to go down there in that exchange.
It's a one for one you'll take, right?
It ends the fight instantly.
We've seen that a couple of times from Violet.
Just to find these little tempo killers.
Oh, I knew that stuff. You would have had control over the bridge here.
Maybe he forces on the high ground and just stops everything.
TP. They avoid the boss bomb and dropped in their wake there by proper.
All two survive stand up on the card right now,
but for the next five or so seconds they can't TP away from this spot.
Zed division are going to come up with an answer and come up with it soon now.
The ball takes the throw into the card, but it is still hurling towards those doors.
Zed division have to have a plan and the ball's shoot should have caught to the face.
Apparently, his life is not in safe here.
Steve the NT won't be given a chance to rematch,
because if the shoot fits, it's going to get stuck with the Sun, don't shine.
That is disgusting.
Three for shoot, uncontested.
Fighting to deliver a championship to Zed, Feds, everywhere.
the only one playing really any honor in this tournament shots there on the
courts
D&T gets in the mix, Biogra's a nasty little jump shot over the top, the
tracking of shoes on real. He just might be him. Oh, he already used. Now he'll be down here as well.
This is getting a bit rushed, he's already been twisted by, he's realized, he's doing it at the end of their rope. 22 seconds left of
Banath and I, I actually surely is gonna quench them that and that one in the fire inside
Yeah, I know you stop there on tonight when you have the overclock
You be over to the tracer wonder if they feel like anybody can get a touch here. I mean you use it a portal in trouble
I don't think he's gonna be able to make it there five seconds left to play TV and he desperately running rolling
Trying to touch it's not to me
And the win condition for Zaylor Division has been established
One checkpoint and change will get you home and get you the championship.
See if they can seal the deal.
Players involved in the champions before, but not with the Zedah division in this new loss for this season.
I mean, it's just that you didn't know what else to match this, in terms of support line.
No one else has tried.
I mean, they would be crazy to, right?
We would be laughing at, like, if you saw their team's support trying to do this, is
The Deathpack cat bounced out the ball there.
Set a clear path to victory for Zeta Division.
Does TM have one more trick up their sleeve?
Being able to get a hold here on defense, send us to a game seven.
The Sim probably feel pretty potent on defense, right?
Gonna be annoying to work through here in the choke.
See how Zeta deals with it.
Tm, he goes down with the comp that they are the best at.
Actually a different look here for Zeta.
Yeah, that is all out there, bitch.
Sheung, Reaper, Maga.
Kiri, Cat in the mix.
Typically, you don't see the Maga come from this angle.
Now, a little bit off the seeding in there, dropped on Input-R, straight on Input-R.
Even to the hunting mode, he has to go to Orcwood, he's having to stay alive there importantly.
Gubidon is the lost, that's the casualty for Twisted Minds.
But do you think he's still alive and kicking and quads still?
Do anything.
So far the house stays intact.
That's one way to get through the choke, right? Just airdrop the moga directly over it.
Everybody has to back off to respect that hero, proper waveform gets used here.
Violet, yeah, that's what you need to be doing there, consistently, if you're TD&T.
Or attacks behind, I'm gonna try and wait it out there.
Nice use of the defensive matrix from TD&T, you're gonna get back to the choke, but...
Yeah, that little invulnerability window to the suicide flag, it gives you so much time to get him top back up.
TD&T knew he was under no threat, there's a free kill to push up and get on Violet.
Kitsune Rush is coming in about the same time though.
Shuin Simple has the both of them here, and they're going to be caught straight away.
Simple first, shoot second, doesn't matter.
We've got loads of overlapping.
Proper taken down very early.
Talked about how the Reaper can start with a skill expression.
Here is his Q with his own brand of skill.
On display, his shoes knocked down to side.
Big headshot.
Forced with the carry out of the fight, Q doubles back for the rest of his meal.
is a potential pack to victory for Twisted Minds.
His course just dominating the game.
I mean, the catnap here is gonna get beauty
all the way to the spawn.
How's the eyes still okay?
Defense makes a snap for TDMZ.
Now the D either has to get out alive.
Now we just drop an R into the back line.
Yeah, this is gonna be too quick as well.
Members to spawn from Benar.
Nobody ready.
Cat amongst the pigeons now is all of Twisted Mind's scatter.
But Benar, a little bit isolated here
on account of being beaten in enemy territory.
Still healthy enough though and skills found simple, twisted mines, kills that grip on point A, loosening!
And it's the jetpack cap. Yet again, Violet diving on in on that hero, grabbing Yubi, bringing him back to the spawn, somehow able to live, then dropping Bernard into the backline.
backline. No other hero can give you that type of advantage. No other player playing
this hero can give you this type of advantage. Gets in the high ground, tries to do it and
knocks him out. Stuff's how he's able to live. He's just wrapped around behind him.
This guy, he's just tiled him. He's just back at such a nuisance. Fire is everywhere all
at once. Now, proper. Pick us up. We're finally left off. Freeze damage on an enemy D.VaR.
I'll take that TvNT as low. How are they going to get healed up in time?
TP him away, quickly tender with wounds, but this is all time that Zedadvision can use to set up, to progress.
3 minutes 20 is their time bank. Simple stretching himself in to try and keep Quads alive and then off angle now for 2-0 rush, comes on down.
Oh, onto one, but now another annihilation beneath healing. He's a badly, tries to hide out of line of sight, but eventually brought down as Twistedbinds wet at the storm.
A huge fight in the air.
Bernard gonna go over to the D.Va, try and match TDNT here.
This is a huge fight, Zeta, obviously can't have a Kitsune rush.
You can weather this storm if you're twisted minds.
Dream starts to become real of getting this hold.
I can't even imagine what awaits us on the other side of this 2 minutes and 40 minutes.
it's even that long.
Hadnap here for Violet, he's got his eyes on only one target,
catches out, pause, tries to drag it down to the depths,
Quads over to side, back up, he won't be down so easily,
he's out of five-knife on the return,
but it's not gonna be enough.
Sandinavision break through, twisted minds, yet again,
it was two minutes 20 to go.
Victory is within their grasp.
It's gonna be Violet going back to the spawn,
think to go grab Knife, bring him over the top,
Get him back in the action rather quickly.
Still a little bit more to go.
Brunnar is gonna try and deny some of the exits here.
Proper of the pulse block here on the high ground.
He's gonna come through the window.
They're already... they don't know what's coming.
Now, proper...
Peril is arrival.
Get rid of the T.P. at the very least.
This has been awkward after this device, but they can get him.
They know there's only one way out of this fight,
and that is through Zedah Division.
Stacked their claim to the high ground, up on the castle,
and that will be enough to buy them some moments to breathe,
a chance to set up.
I think they know their violets underneath him.
Not gonna be able to kinda get really good engage with the cat.
Not to like the pitter-patter of little pause to give it away, Matt.
No, he's...
Look at this.
Oh my god!
He has the knockback perk now available, so...
Oh, yes, the slash perk, excuse me, so.
Still dangerous.
Gonna 1v1.
They're running out of time here, and if he dies, they're in a bit of trouble.
Get a good thing on the clock.
Of course he's very mindful about profits, turning up at a moment's time as to that could be it!
He opened up from Knife and he twists it in the back of these mines!
Now simple, just flat, nowhere to go at all!
Twisted mines in desperation know they're going to pull TVNT out of there, but if he dies here, it's all over!
He's going to get back to the card, he's going to go for a self-destruct and he needs to get his mech back!
But it's not to be! But now!
And now, stands itself a couple, and Talents will gift these guys a seat at the table, but it never promised them a championship.
Nothing was given, everything was earned.
Zanib and Bishanay in 2026, which sees a champions.
He's just an unbelievable display of skilled match with teamwork, the coordination really
came together there for Zayna Division, twisted minds so close to yet another championship.
Two finals back-to-back, they're just not able to get it done.
He gets Korea's best.
We see Knight just how happy he is to get one under his belt.
He spent a long time on this San division roster through multiple eras of that team.
Waiting for his chance to be called up to play alongside these giants.
But he didn't stand on their shoulders.
He stood on his own two feet and towered over the competition.
Five extraordinary careers were brought together for a shared purpose.
Here in Paris, purpose has become permanent.
The Zail Division will ascend to the throne.
And yes, a new year reign on the watch begins tonight.
South Korea, back on top, let's head down to Ian on the floor.
High Emotions! What a win for Zeta Division here at the eSports World Cup.
They are your champions. Before you raise your trophy, there's something we need to do.
One more key crush.
Now, we have to do the final round before the winner gets the cup.
We only have one person left to destroy the final round.
One person will go and destroy the final round right away.
Everyone, let's go this way.
Every team comes here believing that this can be their moment.
Twisted Mines came closer than all but one, and that one is into their vision.
mine's key is crushed and will be sent to the graveyard with the rest but what a
run it was gentlemen the time has come please raise your trophy in front of
this crowd
This is it
Ladies and gentlemen your Overwatch Champion Series
mid-season champions at the Esports World Cup! It's... hold on...
SACRED INVASION!
Incredible, you can see the tears in their eyes and the emotion.
You guys did amazing, this is an insane performance, see here, a lot of people in the French crowd
I know you haven't been very lucky since your last title in the Overwatch League in 2022.
Four years in the making, why do you think it was worth waiting for it?
I've been playing for a long time, but I've won in a big tournament called EWC.
I don't have any real feelings yet.
Our team has done so well.
I'm very happy, but I'm also very grateful.
I think I'm doing a professional gamer like this.
Yeah, we have a great team mates out there, I have a great team mate with them and I've played a lot better this time, but it's just that this is why I play as a pro, this is why I compete, this is how I'm feeling right now.
This is beautiful and that's what you deserve Bernard, I'm telling you.
So obviously this question, you haven't been lucky, it's been 4 years that you haven't been able to take a tournament,
an international trophy since the last time in Overwatch League.
What does it feel like? Does it worth waiting for these 4 years?
It's literally for this kind of moment that I play Overwatch, it was long,
frankly I didn't believe it anymore, of course too much,
but I still have confidence, I play with amazing teammates,
and I'm so happy to be here.
Ladies and gentlemen, can we applaud?
Bernard, please!
Violet, you came here as Korea's champions. You leave as the mid-season champions here in Paris.
When this roster was assembled, did you always believe you could achieve this?
This year's roster was the one that I had been thinking about since the 2019-20 years.
I thought it was a really strong roster.
I thought that if I do well this year, I can definitely win.
I think I was able to win this year.
What I have experienced since 2019, 2020 or even stronger than that.
So yeah, I felt myself that if I get to do my part, then yeah, we'll definitely get to lift the trophy.
And you did. Congratulations.
Of course he did.
A very nice response from Violette.
Did you expect to do a similar performance with this roster?
Honestly, when I arrived in this team, I thought it was at least the same caliber.
in the same caliber as in 2019, in 2020, my first teams, and I said to myself,
if I get to do my part of the job, we're going to lift trophies,
and he was right, and you were right, Violette, and don't think that I'm forgetting our MVP
here at the STC Arena, our Sony MVP, guys, do you have any guess?
Because I heard his name, and you hear it now, it is you!
Shouj Gayo, congratulations!
Shouj, wow, wow, wow, wow, congratulations.
I imagine how much it must feel for you.
You are used to winning trophies.
This is not your first one.
This is probably not your last one either, but I want to know, with this roster, why is it special winning two titles at the same time here in 2026 in Paris?
Actually, as much as Mr. Seul has won a lot of matches, he is a very familiar spectator.
Nevertheless, what is more special about this roster, as you are joining these two trophies this year?
As I always said, I want to say thank you to the CEO of Nizhara and the CEO of TangTong.
And I think our team has become the best because of Krusty, who worked the hardest from the back.
and also the third name, Krusty, for supporting beneath our team.
So, yeah, because all of them, I could stand here now.
Beautiful words once again.
Je n'ai que des remerciements à la bouche.
Ici, j'ai envie de remercier mon CEO,
j'ai envie de remercier mon manager et Krusty également,
parce que sans eux, je n'aurais pas pu faire ce que j'ai fait ici.
Mesdames et messieurs, une nouvelle fois, for your sunny MVP.
Shoo, please, a turn of applause.
Faites du bruit.
As a victor here at the Esports World Cup, there's one last piece of business to conclude.
You all need now to grab your trophy and head on over to the Totem.
And Max, can we encourage the fans to follow them too please?
Let's go with the fans.
You're going to make your way with the State Division.
To the end, please guys take the trophy with you.
We're going to go this way for your last step in the history of the EWC Overwatch.
Paris, make some noise one more time for your Overwatch Champion Series,
mid-season champion to the Esports World Cup.
Zeta Division!
What an epic run by Zeta Division here at EWC 2026.
They are our mid-season champions and that man at the front walks away not just with MVP honors.
Shew also will make $25,000 for his efforts this weekend.
It's not always that supports get the glory.
It was well deserved tonight.
And in a roster full of stars, it's hard to pick out individual stories,
but for me, there's one that shines through knife.
He started his journey into top tier professional Overwatch,
asked to do the impossible to turn around the fates of a struggling team.
He played on 200 ping, a team that could barely get a win,
and then he still distinguished himself.
He still made us believe that there was something special about this player now to see him lift the trophy in Paris.
It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful moment.
And for this organization of Zeta Division, they took a gamble heading into this year.
The let go of the entire roster except for Bernard.
They gave Shu the keys to form a new one and it all paid out.
Everyone in the total, please welcome your Overwatch champions, Zeta Division!
An incredible achievement for this team in Overwatch once again, Charles.
What a total from these guys. Please congratulations. Give it up for Zeta Division. One more time.
Guys, please take to the total.
Cement your name in the history of the eSports World Cup.
Paris, put your hands together one more time and make some noise for your EWC 2026 Overwatch
mid-season champions.
What an effort from these young gentlemen, champions once again and for Knight you can
You can see the tears in his eyes, the emotion that comes with the glory.
$400,000 bet this weekend for their efforts, but more importantly,
they're going to walk away with the trophy and the memories that come with it.
Struggle and sacrifice, it's an inevitable part of the journey.
The long road for all of these players to arrive here at this moment
was so well deserved.
A superstar squad, packed with incredible confidence by Zeta Division.
So well deserved.
Absolutely.
The top of Giants along the way this very season was theirs.
They were so close last year.
Because organizations was quickly quiet to get over to the final hurdle.
They assembled a super squad and now they get to lift the EWC youth trophy.
Last year, Proper wins MVP this year with a new team.
He gets another trophy.
Congratulations to Zeta Division, our EWC 2026 champions.
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