championship happening life here at EWC in Paris, France.
We're standing in front of the L'Octetrieu, next to the
key wall, 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 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 front of there 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 a later today. And of
course, in the OWCS mid-season championship, it's going to go down today. But first, let's recap what
happened last day. Okay, we had some elimination matches. And man, the story line and the script
Riders 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. I mean like what's how?
What does that even look like? Crazy Raccoon just come off of a hot win in Tokyo and then T1 bring him down like this at a LAN
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
But still a lot to give in their careers and see why the organization's 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 clean representatives
Why not Zeta like why not another chance for this young Korean squad?
I don't I can see them riding the momentum into the day. They're already are playing with house mom yet
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 as the map here for eSports in Overwatch
and they took SSG down finding themselves in the semifinals now.
That's the second time they've eliminated SSG in a LAN so yeah, maybe they had the easier run
but 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 today.
Shai is on form though, from the eye test watching some of those clips, it's like, whoa, that is some in-game performance.
I feel like seeing SunZo 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 Guthrie.
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 points, because all the four 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 able 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, you know, beyond just in an individual game,
right, to compete really across the world, the universe of Esports.
I mean, here with the Kiwa, 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 right this 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
So I'm gonna go with T1
And they're gonna make that sort of thing.
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 LAN 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 LAN
under the bright lights, under the biggest pressure.
They just get better.
You know, I think they came in last minute swap
and changed this guy, I said almost one 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 squads, very different teams as well.
Each of them having so much to play for here at the EWC.
Now, are we going to 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, and that's
exactly why I'm going to give you a bit of an update because Falcons was struggling to
get any point, but somehow miraculously, their 15-year-old player in Street Fighter 6, Graeme,
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 it also were knocked out in Overwatch.
MLBB, however, was won by Team Sparice.
They're putting themselves currently in that seventh slot with 1,200 points,
which is a great spot to be in because their CS roster is coming at the end of Week 6.
So Week 7, they'll be around here, and that's another 1,000 points, maybe potentially,
that they could get, but they're in a good spot.
So Overwatch is also what we really need to keep our eyes out for today,
because there are a lot of flip championship teams competing that overlap with Cod.
And you might be wondering, what are those teams?
as well. Falcons, Vitality, AJL, 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 Champions League Sunday of Week 4.
Thank you so much, Jenny. What's up, everybody?
I'm here to join by Mitch, who is going to be helping out, talking about what happened
throughout the week here at EWC for the mid-season 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 midseason 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 crushed.
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 Zed 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?
Okay, let's say if I'm T1 for example, I'll use that because I think that's great.
They're definitely putting Falcons inside their totem.
I honestly think they might take Kraser up here and put them there as well.
Donghak was saluting the Kraser up here 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 them from the midseason championship, right?
They lost two crazy raccoons in the second place.
So I feel like Twisted Mind, if 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 Esquia,
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?
Thank you very much for your time today.
We have a lot of points to share, but please tell us about the strategy that has reached this far.
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.
It is very different than last year. Was there anything you learned from last year that you implemented now?
Congratulations.
That's it for us.
Back over to you.
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. Rex Merrill.
Matt, welcome to the studio.
How's it feel to be in front of a camera?
Yeah, we bring the big gun and then the littlest gun we have.
The tiny one.
Oh, the little gun.
The small one. Yeah, it's huge. Yeah, 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 that division
We're going to see t1 in the mix. How did t1 pull off the 3o?
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 played second to set a division
in Korea now taking down Korea yesterday in the dominant 3-0.
They have an opportunity today to take out all the Korean teams with set-up division.
Those results pocket though. That doesn't smell good for T1.
Hey, I see one win there. It goes 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 check in 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?
And Dio, how are we feeling?
Hello!
Welcome to the stream, guys.
Thank you so much for joining us.
We have a few questions for you, but let's start here.
Dio, 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, 3-0, 3-1, or 4-1, I think,
But T1 looked very strong this tournament, so I think it's going to go 3-2.
I don't know which team's going to win, but of course, I got to cheer on my boys.
That is a humble post-treamer.
Yeah, you have a little bit too humble.
Poco, we can't echo that humbleness.
Like, you got to come out, you know this, game day.
You got to show up 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 because you're a crew, T1,
and I think it's going to be the same for Zedah.
It's really in tail, but Theo and the boy's gonna 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're on the door and they like that spot.
And yeah, I don't know, like the team is so good, the coach are like so smart and everything is like...
So chill, so calm.
Tio, this one's for you.
Talk to me about who you'll play in the Grand Final.
Will it be Wave-O 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 Wave-O 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.
All right, 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 head but I'm sorry like I'm
down yeah let's get it going we're gonna get
spicy gentlemen thank you so much for joining us we'll let you go back to
your coast room knowing that your back could be beaten by a baguette in just
a bit that's a look 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.
Did not have enough butte on it.
I fixed that this morning.
We threw some bacon.
That's why 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 gotta take a look here at our teams
that have been playing so phenomenal.
T1 versus Crazy Raccoon was a 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 cards, but it was P1 who like I said Matt like they just leveled up
Like I was at it yesterday if you're making a tier list of the damage players in the tournament on the one side
I got he sang and stalker and on the other one you get proud and says you're like a proud and says like
I don't really have a case but yesterday
I thought they were difference makers like they won their jewels and that had like trickled on 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 TV
Yeah, I mean he probably the extra just kind of no confidence after that game is really kind of snowballed
So I think you're gonna need to see don't have like an unbelievable game today
If they're gonna get by Zayn the division Johnny do you agree is don't have your player to watch for this game?
Yeah, I mean he's definitely like the hero on this team I'd say like and he's the main character as well
Josh was telling me and I don't know he knows Korean or something
But one of the teammates in comps was saying like oh, it's okay if we die like just you know stay together
We got this and don't get 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 throughout the whole practice, ever since the team T1 has been formed, we have really good scrim results.
All our practices went really well, and we just were missing the one thing, which is translating the scrims and practices and showing the same results on stage.
And I feel like that has been shown at EWC, and I am very happy about that.
And talking about being on stage, you guys will be facing another 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 can do better and what we can grow, we'll definitely get the results.
I feel like taking down the Xeta Division is going to be our main mission because we're not going to think too much about beating them and going into the finals.
We want to take it step by step. They are a very difficult opponents to beat, but by defeating them, that means we will have been improved and grown as a team to that level.
So we will be focusing on that so far.
Alright, please. That is it for the interview. Thank you so much.
Fighting!
Thank you.
A very smiley Blitz behind 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 Blitz's favor.
Let's talk about his opponent on the other side of the stage. We have Zed a division who has been the top dog since day number one. Johnny, are they the best team in the tournament?
Best team in the tournament, I'd say, but also, Matt, I was saying a couple of days ago, like this could actually be the best team we've ever seen, you know?
Ever seen?
see my older watch 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 play
whatever we'll play Ellari back like we'll play with the Symmetra we'll play
without the Symmetra we'll play Jeff back cat we'll make the Morgabro work like
they could just play any composition and they just got an insane individual Matt
how long is this five some vintage together 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 have 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 so, 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 capable
of keeping an entire team alive on his own regardless of like heroes. 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 the
DPS lineup. Yeah, well, he's a newer name to the scene that he's been around. It was some team liquid for a little bit
He wasn't crazy raccoon for a little bit and they were like, what a great hitscan player
So we'll we'll we'll team up with nice. He's a relatively new name and this is arguably like his first great opportunity
Yeah, 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 with like shoe and violet is just so silly
Well, we know about these names. Yeah, we know that by what 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 vs. 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
to 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 beatdown, Taiwu.
He's more confident.
I'm siding with these guys.
Go send it down to the stage.
Teams from all over the world arrived here.
Can't get up in the space.
It's hard, but the changes, everything.
It's a bit of a relief to make it, because it doesn't exactly feel good, we expect to be there.
Release a little bit of pressure on our shoulders, because we know what we should be.
I think my heart is very happy today.
I still have a lot of confidence in the next game.
I'll take your back, you'll never get out of it
You're a delivery boy
But please, again
He ain't got anything else to ask
He's got nothing
of the history of the regions which 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 for
Filmen 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 our two grand finalists are going to be.
It's hiding 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,
The Titans from Korea and the legendary Japanese Colors, they've shown dominance and trust
day after day and now they have their eyes on a ticket to Grand Finals and many
word of view that it's already theirs and their opponents please welcome T1
this organization 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. Every 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 Korea versus
Korea. This is the team designed to win this championship against the team that might have
have transformed quickly enough to take it from them.
Ladies and gentlemen, set, two, three!
A roster that was handcrafted by the Overwatch guards
in Zeta Division versus T1, an organization that hasn't
had the same level of success on an international stage.
Now take to it in this semi-finals.
And T1, Moxie, come off an absolute heater yesterday,
taking down Crazy Raccoon in a 3-0.
Yeah, no one for sore 3-0.
No one.
You did place T1 ahead for your pickings,
but you still thought that Crazy Raccoon,
just like all of us for sure, would pull maps.
But T1, they've been pulling up, upset after upset.
This has to be the greatest upset of all of us,
that's a roster that simply
just saying the names all
together feels unfair to put
into the competitive ecosystem.
It's like when you do a fantasy
and you just by adding extra
points so you can have everybody
that you'd want. That's what
Zeta division feels like.
And a good metaphor that to
right shoe gets to Anna back
proper gets the tracer. We're
that's what they're putting around that Kat and Ana pick up.
And they got eliminated by Twisted Minds.
Back in the lower finals of Champions Clash.
The 3-1 to TM then TM took Crazy Raccoon all the way to 7 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 provision. A Mercy ban to start, and then a D.Va ban from T1 in response.
And a Busan map pick too, right? So you're going here, you're wanting to get maps like downtown so that you can play Shoe 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.
stage two of Korea in July so literally a month. Yeah. Um, who saw is going to be the
first map we go to.
Nepal last time that was chosen by satan.
The audience is getting more and more packed by the day, but championship Sunday. It's
a whole new beast. T1 and Zeta.
Gonna get her after each other's roast.
Violet and Shoe. 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 nades will hurt when they find connections onto Malgo.
Gotta be nervous if Liz is playing this Cat, though.
Look at the performance from yesterday.
Oh, yeah. The amount of value
he was getting on the Cat.
The best cap for whispers. Yeah, right. I think the Dexter is talking about it too, like the best cap format of the tournament.
Maga, obviously. Maga vs Maga.
I don't think there's any lower issues, though. Him and Pena are just trading that cardiac overdrive.
And now, Viola paying attention to the front line here.
Cap Bastion on a T1-style of things.
Mike rocking the M-Ray as Pena finds first blood.
Myp is gonna get Antean as Prouse swoops over his head and gets betrayed.
proper trying to find any way of flipping this but T1 having some really good
hit especially taking Viola down.
Goodnay though wants to banar has to get out, use the charge to get a leg, Zeta still
maintain control but T1 trying to get that flicked Munder and noses but
after that a refresh on the charge is going to 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 Donghaek is who 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
it then Lee. Good nade onto Burner Violet so they can't chase for more. T1 successfully
secured Donghaek's exit, which means a fast setup to make use of this nano boost. Tue will have to
the match though.
He's blizzking, he has to get away with murder, murder again.
He's only 10% away from the ult, Vile's already got his, it's going to be on the nanos I'd
imagine for this fight.
Brown holding a trunk right now, he's a don't have, yeah he's in a little bit of trouble.
Zess has been getting nanos while hiding around the corner but our proper already found kills
too so a swift reset for T1's they've already lost.
Nice just doing so much work as well, putting pressure onto Donghae who does fall late actually.
Taken down by Violet, which means that T1 will have to wait.
Yeah, no time, last fight, territory, no nano-boost engage to be able to do it.
Instead you're relying on Bliss, Tragging, Zest and T1's chances back into the light.
But Zeta Division, look at the horde of ultimates that they have.
Mauga Cage combined with that overrides protocol.
Easy picking, should imagine, for Zeta Division here.
Zeta's going to be hard to lock down, still elevated up into the sky.
Proper taking the 1-2-1, versus the honor, oh, the stick is nasty!
Skiw, definitely didn't see that one coming, Poe Cage is going to get pot too.
I mean, this round was anything but close, and here's Zeta Division.
Honestly demolishing T1.
Opening nerds, they've got to be settled here.
I mean, the cat Anna just becomes more problematic when you head to these later maps of Busan
too.
If you're T1, you're really hoping to see Mechabase show up, there's the next sub-map,
as yeah, Bernard, is just able to perfectly track the player, this stage here is wild,
proper.
It's so good that once you get that kill onto the Anna, 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
more of that stun to that place. They'll just try to overrun Zed divisions, and Garza will be
sure to hand it over to the rest of his team, he's hitting the back line. And I'm gonna go
Oh, plan here. Oh, shit.
Where's the heals up out there for Blitz and Skew?
Nunch just took his one.
Yeah, he was just too good. Missed the shots too quickly.
T1 not ready, expecting all of that incoming damage.
Offer of the Cat Curico onto the Lucio Curico,
just trying to run to a saiyan division before Knight finds the pick.
Keeping on top of the box a little right for Keaton Violet there.
Blitz already dead.
Different comp here to T1 with the Lucio instead.
Yeah, Vest tried to TP T1 forward, she read it, and he maintained the space though.
For T1, this is gonna get back in a second, but you cannot force the force to reset again, and that's what they're gonna do.
Yeah, both M-Race trading, sure, but wow, Satan, we're gonna hold your game today.
Aw, Prop has read the rotation too from T1. No ease of access for a cliffside, she's already rotated to the untouchable within this fight.
Hey, yo, good. Not a problem.
Little tunnel for high ground here.
By just going to be able to spot that out.
Now the rotation is just trying to get on top of a shoot.
It's going to take an alternate angle here down lower,
but Zest doesn't want to chase him down there.
He doesn't want to get slept or made him or anything,
so focus attention on the NAR.
Pure gold. Is this Arissa down here?
He's already managed to kill Proud. They get the trade, of course,
but it's actually going to be enough.
The individual stall is going to be pretty scary.
And Violet with the cap now.
See you later, Zest! No tank, no problem!
And proper with the Pulse Bomb too, just gets the one-click on Stude.
Oh my word, it is all falling apart for T1.
Yeah! Oh, Donghax just has to slam off map,
so he does not get Sagage using the charge to have the CEC immunity.
Zeta Division holding off T1 with it.
Ouch, folks!
Four out of five off T1, lacking even the Kirikur Rush to be able to send them forward.
You're relying on a sound barrier.
You're sleepy because you keep all time.
All right, they're going to try and use it anyway.
And now you're trying to get into...
There's the terror surge.
And guess who's split?
It's Doc Hags.
Zest ends up getting taken down first though with that pole 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 button.
Oh, this is a wrap, guys!
So Matt, he's gonna be able to get the touch, so there's no sound barrier, and there's just no hope.
Pena's already taken his two.
What an absolute fumble here from T1.
No roar.
No enthusiasts almost from T1.
They're just flattening a 200 to 0 for state of division.
Well, in fairness, we get to see the advantage of higher seed, right?
Not choice, but not just that, the opportunity to forest back.
You have to ask yourself, how close would it have been if T1 had had the opportunity to ban the ammo?
Because almost every fight that Zeta are able to set up so cleanly for outside looks like insane plays,
like that opening kill, first light mecha base from knife just sets all of those dominoes in motion
but outside of that Shoes Andes, every Symmetra teleport that T1 tried to take
one person, two person hit with Ande killed before Suzu has the chance to hit the ground.
Tyre's going to be happy with that one for sure. Oh dear.
And there were some nerves coming into yesterday versus Crazy Raccoon.
Did you hear about Donghaek 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 data 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 fuck.
Well, there was one shining moment where Bliss on Sanctuary wins the 1v1 vs. Proper as the
Jetpack Cat, and that's very hard to do because Tracer's 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.
T1 as well, there's this some movement here in terms of this being first to free in place
of the first to two. I feel like facing down Zeta, when they have the chance to save God,
that Anna within the first to two format, far too 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 coast element mystic, coach players like Sparkle, in fact,
a lot of the Overwatch players that you see on the stage, right, that's all of them. Rush
has coached at one point or another.
Let's jump down to Lou and Tyre
and get his thoughs on the first map.
Thank you very much, guys.
I am also extremely pleased to join Tyre once again.
And as you know, Tyre has become my colleague
because he takes care of the translations for his answers,
of course.
Tyre, you've been playing Overwatch 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?
Why do you think Overwatch is the best game in the world?
Overwatch is a game that requires both individuality and team play, so I think it's very attractive.
First question, I think Overwatch is the best game in the world.
Can we express both the team and the individual?
insane in in land right so probably twisted minds are going to take the next
semi-final once again interview second at the other time I must thank you so much
once again and let's get back to the game to see if that is going to zero thank
you very much Lou there with Tio for languages you can speak Lou the legend
fantastic work so far this event and same could be said for say division to be
fair. Only a single map loss 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 twice, both for the ban first and also for the map pick as it will be
flashpoint. Now they had the opportunity to try to target out some of the
proper hero port, taking a 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 T1. This has looked at his best, I feel, on things like that
Jetpack Cat. Xated Division targeting Dong Hac's best hero, that being the
Malgoth, which in the past has forced him onto the hazard.
Hang on a second here, Malgoth.
What about the Donghaek ball?
Come on, you can't say Malgoth's the best.
Yeah, but when you have Violet...
The Doomfist! Hang on a second.
When you have Violet in Lobby, there's no way you play Wrecking Ball into Noob.
No, I know. I know.
Oh boy, you can dream that.
I mean, press W is the name of the game here.
Their division is hold S and hopefully just peel back slightly.
Sorry, that's very confused to sort of good.
Yeah, problem on the T one side.
Now have to press W before proper catches onto them because we got to see where exactly that traitor was playing and it sure was not main.
because we got to see where exactly that traitor was playing, and it sure was not main.
He's already trying to wrap side to be able to push through onto one of those squishies.
So, T1's deep guess line, they'll have their hands full trying to get the attack of where the traitor is.
That is my favourite.
That's your favourite sign?
That is my favourite sign.
New favourite sign just dropped.
Perfect.
That is a good one.
I think with how. Successful to
want to be. Not to say that
they're locked into that kind of
calm, 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. Well, as you
look at Zeta and how their
flexibility is violent can play
anything else. So then you also
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 gonna 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 this symmetric
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, to 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 chained by Viola on that Mizuki,
you at least have your whole team there to be able to support him, plus Mizuki can only
chain one person, thankfully.
What are you saying?
Imagine.
Yeah, just wait.
If Kosta has his way, I'd like you right now to be like a new patch and a new patch.
Perk when Mizuki, for Major Perk, gets A.O.E. Chain, if you're a new player.
Don't say that.
Hey look, I am a support player, I'm just saying.
If GPS players will have an annual report, that happens, okay?
We can't be having that.
Oh, wow, Milmire Academia, okay, okay, I see you.
Incredible eyes in the audience today.
Right, every single day to be fair.
Quick in-ear 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.
Should be good.
It's like it's just on the supports of T-Con over there.
Yeah.
Let me just bliss. Not entirely sure, but it looks like it won't take too long.
We should be back in map by the time that you can finish reading that sewer sign
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 Junction versus GK.
It was a 3-1 overall score at the very end.
So, T1 hoping to recreate that moment to give themselves an in back into this series.
See, that's my favourite sign.
When they double up when when they make a whole like almost comic yeah
Of science 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 overwhelm 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 one versus one
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 tonight on the
which is also entirely possible, because Hazard does not have any way of letting his team mitigate any of those fully charged Braille shots,
and if you're already dying to scoped in Emre on your walks through mecha-based chokes,
trying to get past the fully railed Trojan will be rough.
That was a little slip-up on the Emre 1v1, surely. Broden's didn't get hit.
I hit my 3 or 4 shots, didn't get healed.
Alright, we'll get back into gaming just a moment.
Not too much longer.
Again, just a quick in-eat issue with T1.
In fact, let's jump down to Luke with some fans.
Thank you very much, guys. We love a little bit of housekeeping.
When there's a tech post going on, I'm with Tom and Theo, or Theo and Tom.
Yeah, that's it. Two French fans from T1, so we'll continue the interview in French.
I wanted to ask you first because I saw the famous Poco Bomb.
I heard that it was a signature move, once again, with a Kallabar constreamer.
Can you tell me a little bit about why this Diva was legendary?
It's Diva's utility, a tank character.
His utility is very complicated to use, to make kills.
And Poco is really well known for that, he's really the boss, he has set ups, he used everything, it's incredible.
In a few years of training, I can catch him, right?
Yes, of course!
Here you go, my great garatois!
And now I turn to you, I see that Donghax on your banner, can you talk to me a little bit about him?
So who do you play the same role? What do you inspire?
Well, by seeing him, I always want to play the same role, but it's a main ball and an office.
I have a lot of trouble with him, but seeing him play the ball is always nice and it makes no one laugh.
So I love seeing him play.
Oh yes, the ball is the crazy character who puts himself in the ball and who plays everywhere?
Exactly, he plays everywhere, he confuses everyone.
I discovered some ingredients this week on Overwatch.
but he's clear, he's a model for me, and I'm going to give you a reason for which 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 go up, I have no doubt about that.
Give me one good reason, sorry about why T1 are going to come back,
because the first game was looking a bit hectic, I am 100% confident they're not going to give up,
and for you, my brother, Donghak, what else are you going to do?
Like everyone else, he has to play a warm-up game, and after that, it's easy to win 3-1.
still a chance. Yeah. There was an attempt on the Doomfist lead versus twisted mines on
Route 66 attack, but yes, that's probably best left in the past.
That's so sad. Come on. We've got to have some wrecking balls and Doomfist.
Even if it's an emergency swap.
They've gone defensive. We want to hold, we want to poke.
You dive on us, the 2 key chains, they're going to catch you.
Let's jump back in. Map 2, T1, Zed of the vision.
T1 just waiting for that jump opportunity,
properly getting into position,
looking to hit the backline.
T1 HP already actually forced to use that suji super early on.
So this begins for Popper if you can find another entrance in.
This again, half HP, it's just so free for Popper.
Right now, it needs to be looked at by somebody.
The proud and zest are going to put up some numbers,
But unfortunately, it is going to be Panarko in down, Zedah Division, only the DPS players left, so T1 can take control.
Yeah, heavy trade fight for both sides, proper pulling so much attention from the backlines that Blitzkud both absent from healing Donghak.
Tanks traded, but Zedah losing both of their backline players too. T1 are able to pull through, but not on this Arista now.
Really wanting to be able to hold that ground steadily versus this Hazard.
But yet again, it's all about trying to figure out where exactly Proton is before the fight begins.
Mike Shreggit dong hacks back, he's got that spike guard so he can now push on forward and hopefully lock someone down.
Looks like Zest is going to separate the team by fighting a solo kill onto fire, swinging straight off the knife too.
Oh, Zest!
This last come from T1, so much of a departure from that last map, they feel way more at home now.
Oh, you waited for the Mizuki to teleport, and this catches him with the overhead fling.
I mean, it's been death here, it's just Mizuki's worst enemy, right?
You, Sanctuary, you see all of the values punched away by the Sundering Plate, which is already his fault.
Trying to come really early, so Zayac's vision follows the fight, a 5v4, the Terrasir goes from B'Nar.
Okay, it puts a dent into those plans and they are going to get the cap halfway through as well.
Scoot a couple HP, didn't a stagger for a little bit, there might be a little too much.
Team kill for Zeta Division. 99% are picked up for T1.
One fight away from taking this for a flash point.
Rush for rush match, but Zest can combo off of things like that.
Downfall with the Sundering Blade and rip the Zeta Division stability.
According to the perfect combo, no one can run away.
Downfall, Sunnery, Blade, you're done.
Oh, can Donhack set it up?
Gonna try to push the wall straight behind Bnarr to start with the crowd,
he's entering hot pursuit, there you go, straight in.
Sound barrier.
Oh, but no, the downfall, actually denied by the Mizuki sanctuary.
Donhack still just trying to force the CDs out of the shoe,
and he wants to pull him in, he's in the division right now,
his zest is shut down by Bnarr.
He refused to fall on the Erisa.
Just so damn tanky, I just bite the old throat in from T1, at the end of getting routed.
Yeah, T1 just not able to use DPS ults within that fight,
Bernal doing so much work keeping Zest at bay.
No touch.
Last fight territory for T1, Spree might just be used to touch.
Yeah, they got it, no all good.
It was long ago they got a touch of the M,
but now he's separated from the rest of the team.
This is the last spree from Brown and of course Zest.
Oh!
Yeah.
Mark, that's a mistake, best left avoided.
No touch.
Unfortunately for T1, that's a little bit shell-shot as they get team-killed off the back of it.
Yeah, that might be some coordination issues there, rearing head from T1 as Donghack, off of the hazard,
no more going fast, walk the tank, now it's Zarya bubble, sends Zest up right forward,
so that they can't have their ult shut down.
Just hold up, charge up at the post for pilot.
They're going back one meter or so ago with Zest, Vendetta, and then Donghak on Dazzaria.
Yeah, but he's too fast split from his DPS.
State Division baited Dazzaria 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 DPS, oh by the way, they still have the pick.
Not used to find a win in a fight.
Zed Division.
And proper in the backline already.
There's the fight. Blitz so damn low.
Oh, this is an easy kill for proper surely.
I mean, Blitz is gonna be out of the fight in the very least.
Double-noggle's used.
Coastbomb.
Shropped off the shield, but yeah.
An execution from Knife, clean to an off.
Proud!
Doesn't end up getting two of the Screamers' own.
They can get more even of that.
Bernard proper versus Zest.
Now on the point for Zest.
Just lops his head off.
get over head strike, takes the orisa down, finds the flip for T1
proud actually, comes back on the soldier
since they've spotted that Zeta Division will just be relentless running at that backline
you have to find a way of just taking advantage of proper knife being behind you
so you can free from up of an hour and look for the heads of pilot and shoot
rush-for-rush match, T1 can potentially overwhelm with Sambar to survive
Yeah, see exactly that. Oh proper. Takes a rail gun and headshot. We'll see how long Z-A Division actually wants to stay in this fight though with the player down.
Proud pretty low, that's the dash back playing in his own little disruptor shot there to avoid some damage, but it's all on night.
That's free to separate the rest of T1. Easy pickings on the point as well as Proud with no dash to get away.
And they're going to even storm out the Vendetta too.
That's quite literally one HP.
Yeah.
As they envision, make it final fight on this point.
That sound barrier might as well have been put on mute
with the amount of time it lasted within that spree rush combo.
T1 have a combo for Ongo.
Grab Sundering played.
You can't Sanctuary to shut it down.
Let's get Bubbles to get on the point to trigger OT.
They're going to be back!
Not again!
Oh no. This is becoming a passenger's.
Oh ho ho ho ho!
How does that not trigger OT? I can imagine T1er rather confused about that one.
2-0 surely they don't go down like this.
But honestly, I'm 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.
State of the vision as well. Got one more fight.
So if Paul or Don hack was left could use ult which means that they're pushing towards having
ults to stop and shut T1 down before they can use theirs. Vesta's been hunting this Sundering Blade.
It feels like since the start of this map. Yeah, I think it basically has been. He's
gonna get in there at some point. Terror Surge is going to get Popsundering Blade coming out.
Okay, there is a flank tree right in their way though, so the Sundering Blade not doing too
much. But our nice little javelin tossed at Zestui creates more distance between himself.
Proud already dead too, plus 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 Skued or Rush at this point.
Donhack's just taking some folk damage, but no one's looking at proper, except Broud,
and he loses for 1v1 so close to OCE.
War players on the point, Skued puts the rush down.
Now Violet is going to have a teleport to get away, and Bliss dies first here on this engagement.
Dong had scored the Krabaton Surge, as Zess finally makes his mark, yet again, the Grapp 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!
Because they did the vision, since you've got Rush and Spree combo, Proud has to find something before this fight can start.
Rushed advantage, they're going to pop it, but since they're glistening trouble, need help.
Prop is going to get the solo kill again, and I say, as soon as you try me there from
Sugu, keeps them alive in the fight.
Ground has managed to get an O.C. off, and a little bit of damage in that.
Backline is Sugu, it's just crumbling in the face of Longhack.
It's Sam Barre from Blizzard, good for T1 to surge them forward.
And Zayac Division, now they're starting to bleed.
Yeah, but that's Sam Barre to keep proud up for the duration of Overclock,
not defensively versus the ultimates that 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 sparrth, and T1 don't have an answer to it.
My pastor, maybe even come out there with his ult.
This screen with the terror search from Zeta, might be all that they need in this game.
This is giving too far forward, straight into Knifes lap.
And now Donghae manages to get the trade and there will be Zeta vision players trying to
get the flip.
Donghae ends up getting two though.
Three before on the point but proper just continues to be a menace.
Now he's just gonna go for the kill on the skew.
Properly solo carrying this fight.
Zest you gotta run.
He gets another one, but very even touches the health back.
One more fight for T1 though.
There's an opportunity with G-drudge, but they have to touch.
But for real this time, you actually have to touch for real T1.
But it's so low, double bubble on the Lucio,
but they don't get there again.
That smirk from Proper tells the entire story.
3-0.
In fact, look at the flashback.
2-0, 200% to 0.
Then you go flashpoint, it's a 3-0.
Not just 3-0.
It's a flashpoint 3-0 because 3 times.
3 times once, that's a mistake.
You can sort of chalk that up to nerves,
potential miscommunication.
Second time, maybe you get body blocked.
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 had to play from Zeta because the last
person that they killed on that last fight, you see this kill here, it's the Tracer. Yeah.
you deny the opportunity possessed to be able to use triple blink recall. Someone has to physically
get past 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
of their players, of course, so for me, my first question is with Romain and Corentin.
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?
What does it mean to have the Overwatch mid-season championship at home,
to welcome everyone like that, to be here in Paris? What does it mean?
It's a great pleasure for the Overwatch sport that I've been following since the Overwatch League.
And the last big event we had was the World Cup here in Paris too.
It also allowed us to move.
It's a pleasure to be able to support 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 game, because the last event that we had here in Paris was the Overwatch World Cup,
and I'm really, really super excited and happy to be here.
I also ask you the question, what does it do well?
First, the Overwatch time in Paris?
It's exceptional. It's still an exceptional event, in an exceptional city, an exceptional
audience, an amazing atmosphere. It's incredible.
What you said to the audience, it's an amazing time, an amazing city, an amazing crowd.
Of course, so I am also very glad.
Second question, I'm going to talk a little bit about your team.
Let's talk about the team.
Who's your favorite player in T1?
And why? Who's your favorite player?
I'm a big fan of TPS, the clips, the incredible actions.
I... it's just amazing.
So you're a star player, aren't you?
Exactly.
OK, very good. So who's your favorite player?
I just love TPS in general.
Like, 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?
Because it's always hard to support your team when you lose.
Yeah, well, it's often the mentality that drops.
1-2-0, it's not necessarily the end.
We can always come back in a 3-1 Ft.
We must not lose hope and we must continue to win against the State Divisions.
Let's go!
It's never over until it's over.
In an Ft3, we can still come back.
Let's get it and let's see if T1 have what it takes to reverse sweep Zeta Division back to the game.
And that's what it takes, a reverse sweep from here on out for T1, yet to claim a single point in this series.
We're going to Esperanza, 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 T1'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 Jetpacka ban, that's interesting from T1 because we were talking about the fact that
That's Bliss's best hero.
Especially when you sort of look at how he was performing on the Lucille 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 Cat Bastion.
The Cat Bastion's been so good on this map as well.
Yeah.
And also Bliss like, I'm a little shocked here.
That T1 ended up banning this.
I'm sad. I wanted to see the Blizz vs. Violet cast side.
Yeah.
Big a chance for, say, a division there, and I wouldn't be too shocked if we have some T1 fans maybe
Having a little five-storey satyr at this point. Two and oh already. A chunk of queen from gank two.
Okay. Into Violet, Woo-Yang, Polk with Ana. I mean, I guess if you're T1 you take out the
GF, that cast a shoe, loses that mobility and T1 can try to one him down with this matra.
Here we go. Shea of Tyranon. Oh, what a maid. Decent planes, but still proud and troubled.
Back swing on top of Shuva, can they actually sustain through this fight?
His prop has already found a couple.
Oh, Dongpack, you're all alone now, buddy.
Ring around the Rosie.
Gets Violet somehow, sure, with the shotty.
But a very fast team like that from Saaya Division.
Now, does Dongpack switch? Surely.
Seeing this comp, you've got to switch on to something else.
Yeah, okay, there we go. Diva.
And there's the counter swap from Violet.
Violet is basically just saying, okay, I got picked.
I use this as an opportunity to count us off to win the 3-feet to change the D.Va.
Oh, and Tess just gets...
Okay, TB up to the high ground, BNR pushes them away against the pick-up on Tess.
This is a very fast push here from Zeta Division. You can't really push in now.
They're claiming that space is so tough about the Sim. This might just be checkpoint.
This could well be checkpoint, as T1 have to rewrite, pretend to just hold corner.
She was untouchable as well, in case T1 tried to push up the high ground with that D.Va.
Yeah, he's waiting in the wings.
But no, they're not even going to go for the charge, that's checkpoint for Xator already!
Wow.
Tier 1, just trying to fight in spaces where Xator Division have to give up that high ground hold, there's the symmetrical teleport.
Trying to set up that pick on to Shu.
Yeah, I mean, you know Shu's going to be on that height, so they end up seeking under the high ground to kind of circumnavigate all the poke.
Hard, just not finding angles on the Sojourn though, because Zayda's vision with those poor checkpoints has very little reason to actually peak this.
Alas, he gets Beranta, honestly. We have the high ground, we have the checkpoint, you have to come to us, you have to try and find the fight.
There's the rush, Spear, Spear, Spear, Spear Stun as well as the Donghans who tries to create space for the rest of his team.
They've actually scored the bot towards mid though, so now Zayda have to get on the hills and start running over towards that bot.
I think they took your words to heart. Quite literally. Jag, run over? Okay, say less.
Let's NanoBoost proper with 3 and send him sprinting at T1's whole team.
Donhack's split from the team was not there with defense matrix would absorb the damage and Zeta division allow T1
Some space on the objective for tour they recap it and play yet again back onto the high ground except this time
T1 they can't just burn off to a rush to be able to force the fight. Proud has to come up huge with this overclocked
Look at this angle that she's on as well. Luckily for T1 there's never a chopper yet.
Yeah. Unluckily, if you're proud though, he's facing down on Mizuki with Sanktree towards Opio's team.
Not the best spot. An unembodied spot, I would say.
Donghae very low. Oh, South barrier from Blizz to try and close the gap now.
A wall as well to push them forward. There's Sanktree and Terracer.
It's just ginormous, though, as Fnar eliminates Skiu.
A self-destruct from Donghaeg takes care of Nye for the chains, end up killing Donghaeg anyway, and T1, they've got no players left.
And if Fnarr and Shu are alive here, I mean look, he does go down shore, but you need clean fights if you're T1. This bot isn't going anywhere.
Yeah, and T1, they're not building ults to win this next fight too.
Pride so low now, bot left in main, until now T1 will be able to regroup and finally
start pushing towards their own forward check point, do 25% off barrage for, it's a race
for Shue to get the nano boost and allow Zed to division to set the wheels of motion first.
Shue is not going to give pride an opportunity here, in fact pride ends up having to back
up a little bit.
Good TP though once and I made on the ground too, yeah not going to happen, really good
rotations from T1. Memento not quite in their favor just yet, the bot is still escaping them as
Panar tries to go for a hero play, he gets a solo kill. Proper gets his one, but the bot is going
to get reset. Oh, Mila. Insulter injury here. It's running the bot all the way back to the checkpoint.
Yep. Oh, that's devastating, but she won. Time spent having to track that bot back to where they
were when the fight started means that by the time the Zeta Division had the Nanoboots good to go,
G1 have zero extra ground. They basically reset. Yep. Now we have rush versus nano boost.
Rob has got the spree though. Thankfully for T1. There's the rush. Okay now she has to play a little bit more careful.
Cautious, waiting in the wing for a nano perfect timing. Well the Nathan Donhack's gonna be good.
Nano wants a break. Now Fyler can get in there. Straight up, back straight behind Bliss.
Coxham on the head, he'll be feeling that one in a few days.
Sator Division, walking over T1, that bot barely moving.
Four and a half minutes to go, yet another team kill for Sator.
Yeah, Violet has just been counter swapping.
T1 for Dongak 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 Zeta Division, this is a situation we've seen before, pulled 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, what?
It will be knife.
It will be knife instead, yeah.
the teleport away for Donghaek and now Zeta Division can really just wrap things up.
What was that?
She can't say I ran ahead for too long with my son.
Soundbarred?
They're going to beat it again.
There's the rally from Fyla though.
Already set pretty low, it's the break and now they're going to shoot Banar in the back.
Fyla ends up going down.
Terrorist starts to separate the fight as Banar tries to keep himself alive.
It's Donghaek's turn.
First the fall and with the fall, surely they get the kill onto Banar.
Eventually they do.
It was a costly fight.
Not only in terms of ultimates but also bodies. Not a clean one again for T1 here. As Proud said dangerously low is 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 Zeta Division, they've still got the buttons alive. Popper keeps the bot in play and yet again T1 have to clean up the shield before pushing more space.
since now, Nydra may even the score here with Popper going down, just playing in the front lines, currently C-Sess, completely out of position.
Nydre fall short but still a scrappy affair as they intervene, they will fall.
Popper's making a swap, he's going on to far and out, two and a bit minutes.
They'll have the Nanogust as well, to engage this fight forward.
Pository decision and T1 don't have Donghae.
Surely, Popper dies.
Nope. He holds up by Violet, goes back into the ball.
They're going in, powder's in trouble here, he's just gonna get run over by Saga Division.
They're playing a tempo T1 and not expecting.
At least T1 though, for that duration, had Blitz pushing point.
That's why you're okay.
Well, not okay, but it's all forgivable that you're losing players on the sidelines.
Donghak will return to push his team up with the Annihilation, but Zayac Division,
They've got Nano Boost to set onto proper all-night to be able to rip all the health off the LAN.
Just counterwatch the moment. Zessas have also got Bahra.
I hope you can show proper how it's done.
So they're proud. Double slide, rail, gun in hand.
No, hit Arcus though. They're not giving him a chance to get a hit.
There's the Nano on the D.va 2, straight to the backline. Luckily Prada and another dash to get away.
Skiw, not quite so lucky though as now they're just hounding them down.
Look at the dashing from knife 2 using Pinar's neck as cover.
Proud falls, no checkpoint for T1.
And they're not going to give it to him either. Look at this,
Blitz the only one left alive, a minute and a half to go here for Zeta to find themselves in the finals.
That's brutal too, Violet pops the rally so no trades onto Zeta's division 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.
early. Listen to the sound down is that Donkac has more survivability with his ultimate but
tail as old as S for answer times. Zayac's division up on the high ground will force Donkac to have
to use his ultimate before they react.
Zaid onto Donkac, sleep goes wide, annihilation, T1's fat pocket but there's a barrage for proper.
Just gonna wait here to almost throw T, it feels like. Rafa's in a sport,
X already uses, could be a good opportunity for proper to get in there.
Looks like he's gonna maybe even think about it, takes a little bit too much damage though,
So there's the beat again from Bliss, can they actually make this clean fight?
Knife dead first, Ravnir's vortex missed, still with a barrage.
Is proper, just hiding in the skies, pilot now.
This game focused down by Donghae 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 gonna give them checkpoint, they're not too worried about this right now.
Or maybe they're not in fact, they're just gonna jump straight on it.
Garage available from Proposal, Donghack's got the annihilation in this garage.
Reproposal might be what they need, Proposal already killed, Blizzard, Nannaboo's ulted, life as well.
An absolute immortal beast in the front line.
Pratt's going to get his two shots,
but the boy is going to move away from that checkpoint.
And T1 shoved away.
Satanavision's doing it in three.
Arosta crafted by the Overwatch gods.
Find themselves with the first class ticket to the finals.
T1, the one ultimate that was required to win that overtime fight.
The sound barrier has to be exhausted the fight before Zated 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.
it 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 I've got Shu
and Lou down on the stage thank you very much you Kielsen
Chinchukai congratulations Omelette Bravo
I'm sure you've joined Zeta very recently, you know you're 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?
It's your first time in the team, and you've made it to the finals.
What has 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 a gift to our CEO, Nizhara.
of Zeta Division 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 GK.
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?
I think it's because of Kim Jin-seo.
What was your arm?
How do you feel about playing in the stadium?
I'm very happy because it's a stadium with so many fans.
Of course.
So, the second question is what is the key to this success,
that you played extremely well.
Do you have confidence that you lost a single game against Glické of the whole tournament?
What is the key to this success?
Well, it's already me, the key, Shu.
And then, yes, it's been so nice to be here in Paris
and to play in front of the audience.
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.
Taja, time again.
Let's get it. It's an important moment for the Zeta division player, Shu, who's gonna get to crush another fellow Korean team.
They are going to eliminate C1 from the Renter Finals.
They are tied in the Club Championship points.
But Sita stands strong once again with your signature post.
Here in Paris, I'm going to welcome you back to the stage.
Shuh, this guy is just iconic.
Shuh, you're going to be defending the Koreans' region in the finals against either EMEA Twisted Minds or Chinese Weibo, so what do you think of these teams like strength and who are you expecting in the finals?
Last but not least, you will be defending the title for the Korean region.
Next up, we have Tristid Minds and China's Wave.
What do you think of both teams?
And what team do you want to compete against?
I personally respect both teams, but I also respect the understanding of the TMA rush comp, so I think TMA is doing better.
So I think TMA will come up, and when it comes up, each of us has a very different style.
I think it will be a game where you can prove who is right, what is the right style, and what is the meta.
I respect both teams honestly, however, 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 through the finals, I think it will be a very interesting match
because we have very different comps with each other and play side of each other.
So yeah, it's gonna be really interesting imagine it will decide which one is the best the best in the world
Basically, yes, and we're very curious for that of course the only question you have for us or twisted minds the Liemie
So weibo de la Chine
What do you think of these teams that you think you're going to find in the final?
I have a lot of respect for both of them obviously but this is extended twisted minds the joules compo rush and the
Mastery is extremely good
So I think they have a big asset maybe to go to the final and if we're going to find in the final
I think it will be a very interesting match-up because we have very different style of games
and it will be the opportunity to see who is really the best team in the world.
Packin at the hand of that man this salute on the way out Jake. Have you seen a finer way to send somebody packing?
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
They did 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% in the point two, so we
There is just literally no in for them. They are absolutely a road like it doesn't get much more dominant than that
And I think throughout the series it was just clear that they it's there an open book to them, right?
That's what did you say they read them like a children's 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
But you know what, instead I 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, 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 0% on the scoreboard for Johnny.
Have we seen dominant to 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 semi-finals, but it's just true dominance their setups are so beautiful
If I can like succinctly describe how they're winning these you wonder playing as a stat. They're playing like five
They want to move around the map. That's why the users metal 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 flank so you're gonna fold into whatever T1 is trying to use here
Okay, we're gonna push the honor great stuff
You got the honor frag now the rest of our damage pairs are a reason to do a backline and so set of this have a
Fantastic positional understanding of how to just play around
Whatever T1 is trying to do and you saw the results yourself T1 just outclass in this one Jake when we got the game 3
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 the lights got too bright for T1
I got a 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 champions are Sunday and to have to do it again arguably something even bigger taking on Zeta
I think the scope of the challenge gots them. I mean you look at the strength of these two teams
I wouldn't have said this was gonna be back. This was an obliteration. I mean it just doesn't get less
most unless you play this match a thousand times, we'll 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 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 right 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 in so many different metas, 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 going to come out on top.
We're having a blast here in Paris. Lock in because we still have three more games to play,
including this 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.
The thing came from a ring, you know what I mean
You see my name on the lights, better than you ain't my champion
I'm a twisted mind fan from 2031, I was in the Saudi League, I saw them, I loved them,
It's actually insane.
TwistedMinds loves the community.
Doesn't love the droopies only.
To be honest, they are like 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.
EWC is the best thing that happened to me, to be honest.
From SENS Turial to here 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, West is the best.
We are going to be here and there.
To be honest, Baris 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 cheering, the feelings, if you sit there, you're near the players.
So you figure in the game, you know, it's so fun, so fun.
We all know that, VB is the best team in Europe, left, twisted minds, it's the best team in the whole world!
Let's go!
Let them cook, but don't eat the fillets.
But don't eat the food here is 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 wabo gaming that has a ton of fans out here in Paris
The way the fans have been loud and for good reason who's way playing an MVP form has been one of the main stage of the region
Since day number one. How do the numbers look though?
Well, we welcome so eat Jake and a very special guest CJ into the booth from Dallas feelin CJ
Twisted Minds is at their number seven and two are their staff so far. They've looked incredible
How would you describe Twisted Minds? I think Twisted Minds is probably one of the best games
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 gonna have this one in the bag
And on the other side Jake we got to talk about Weibo who is the big surprise of the tournament if you looked at the quarterfinals 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 wave loss having for them a massive tournament
But for these players, this is maybe your return to form right?
These are all players that have lifted trophies in the past in 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 the top four placement
But I would argue this is their toughest test yet and by far
Twisted minds are a team that they're just better under these high pressure moments
They continue to improve through the tournament and so for Wable
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 sigma play in here
What are some of the cops you're hoping to see from this squad representing China?
I mean honestly, I loved whenever Sunsen was coming in
I think with Sunsen in the mix it just adds a lot of different layers and a lot of different looks for that team
and really unable to leave and try 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 quarter-finals, 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?
What did you guys talk about after the match?
We didn't plan to lose to Gumi, so we thought we'd win without any hesitation.
We thought we'd prepare for the next match.
Going into the match, we had this mentality that we're not going to lose to North America.
So we definitely knew that we're going to beat SSG and we wanted to focus more on the upcoming match,
which is happening right now, versus Twisted Minds. So that was our focus for yesterday.
Talking about Twisted Minds, I mean, they are a scary team, Makka.
Do you feel like there's a weakness that you guys could exploit to get the win today?
They're definitely a great team. They're really good at playing as a team. As a one team.
They're definitely a great team. They're definitely a great team. They're really good at playing as a one 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 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.
Let's go, let's go!
best hitscan in the world, in my opinion.
Wow.
And the sim really enables him to do what he does best.
Number one hitscan on the planet.
That's high praise, Jay.
I think it's fair to say he's been, I think,
the most consistent player at that level.
I mean, hitscan 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.
But Quartz just doesn't 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 semifinal kicking off
and 85% of the fans are leaning with Twisted Minds.
Where are you going in this matchup?
I think Twisted Minds,
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, they've been on the right trajectory.
Jake, great result for WaveO to be top four,
but it ends here. Twisted mines all the way.
TK.
I twist mines, 3-0.
3-0!
Court 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 semi-final at
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
Are you?
I am.
Let's welcome our next team onto the stage, Weibo Gaming!
Women's 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.
Webo Gaming is here.
You know them, the best in the MEA,
South East Pride, Twisted Minds.
The reigning OECS World Championships hit the state.
They've proved through the tournament that they are the best in the EMEA.
The one about proving once again that they are the best in the world.
The World Champions have just looked for a final place.
Ian, China versus the EMEA.
Is it time?
Is China's champions versus the world champions?
It is indeed time.
Who's taking that spot in the grand final?
Paris, fast, two, three!
Champions clash, Sean lied on this rivalry where Twisted Minds walked away with the win,
knocked Wavell out of the tournament, but Wavell walked away with a bit of belief.
In two months they've been stewing on it 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 that way from winning that event.
By the way, just stage two was a little bit rough for them.
But now here at EWC, they look lights out and for Waybo, you know, obviously they
know it's kind of the Waybo 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 cup team with not a podium one.
Today they've got the chance to give everything they've got.
Gotta keep that pen to paper, keep writing stories for themselves in this tournament,
and go all the way.
It's always emotional with Wayburg Gaming.
It's always emotional with Twisted Minds.
But only one team walks away with some exaltation today and also just that group 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 Weibo early.
The vendetta band used right away.
This is one that's pretty powerful in a series like this, right?
Weibo potentially wants to bring that hero out really good against the Symmetra comes.
TM wants none of it here early on.
I think the D.Va ban is also, you know, Goochwae using play a ton of MAGA throughout this.
They don't want to have to deal with any kind of counter.
Looks for this series to get quite competitive when we head over towards our payload-based maps.
When these two teams last played, there was Kings Road Draw, and a dominant circuit-royal finish from Waveo Gaming.
Control has been a bit more of a concerning part of their map pool.
Frankly, that's where Twisted Lines look their best, and Waveo, they're sloppiest.
They're going to start with Goochwae here, in the liner.
And I mean SunZo, the other tank for Weibo has been really great at this event, I think still has the 100% map win rate.
So, we'll see Twisted obviously they play a ton of Reinhardt, nobody else really kind of doing this here at the tournament.
We'll see obviously a lot of time here for Weibo to potentially make some changes.
comes out on the Doomfist. This is the prescribed response from Wavehall against
Huff to work for the Twisted. Yeah, and they're also going to be playing the
Pharah here. The Sim cannot really interact with the Pharah at all, right?
They did not expect this. I mean nobody at this event's doing anything like
Gooch right here on the Doom. That's not fun to deal with this Ryha. You are gonna
get just throwing around a match right? Yeah, Roadhog here, that's a
the direction ball and how they do fist those more high high-mote heroes.
Importantly, they can break power block by hitting a chain hook.
They'll also match the cat bastion, which is something that TMS does not do often.
They've been one of the teams that even when they play bastion, they wall-up to be funny after on the Lucio.
So, the first time we've seen TMS really been forced to make big adjustments.
Now, you just have to stay away from TBMT if at all possible.
Cortes actually can take it down as shy.
Very commandy view of the situation!
The Chopped Lagana being flown around, picking off the priority targets.
Ubi is gonna go to Tracer. Now we're gonna ditch this Sin completely.
This is obviously uncharted territory for Twisted Mind.
And the game has just started!
Yeah, I mean, look, with the Fahra in the mix, obviously it's no bandetta.
But still, no way for Ubi to really interact with it.
They gotta try and force leave off of this hero, potentially.
I just wanna stress that the control map has been a problem for Wayba Gaming in the past.
But they've already come up with an answer to the Swisted Mines cop, power block.
He's barely able to stay alive through, and as soon as the walls were had to be used,
but he stays in the game and try and get the chance to step up and show his quality.
And the quality has been varying spades from this guy.
Yeah, it wasn't Katsune rush they're used by Swisted Mines, but able to put the point back to GenD,
not even at a hard barrage. Doesn't do anything in the road on there, is GenD fully healthy.
This try was a split second from being able to get away with a medial strike,
now he's going to be brought down, Lee thought he's still at large.
However, a decent matchup for Bunny Astro, all things considered.
And he'll take Lee to task.
And typically you worry here right where you just have the jetpack cat available for the healing.
But with the Roadhog, who cares, right?
Roadhog just can't be able to keep himself alive.
Pretty much the entire time Bunny Astro goes back to spawn, grabs some players,
come on back, it'll be the artillery here for Quartz trying to
Just delay the push in from Weibo.
Yo respect this wheelsmall!
TNT!
Take a breather!
Not enough kick for life!
Quartz trying to dance on top of the pillar!
And he's going to have to get the heck on out!
League of pick up!
League of trying to chase that elimination!
But shy!
Double the double down and get a staggered elimination on the Bastion!
It's huge as...
Leib now goes over and plays Tracer.
I wonder, you know, Yubi Yabi says he has 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 wave on gaming.
It's going to be the artillery here for Shai.
He's going to deploy that as a jump, maybe get the TP out, which he do.
Oh, dangerous.
Felicia Nian has the drop below the sideline, and Shai is going to be chasing him off.
Shai got taken down.
That's interesting.
Shai may be separating the two.
It's unclear, but during the bastion ultimates, you can't see it yourself.
Who's trying to push you?
He's still here.
He's back.
He's still quite healthy, but he's been dragged away, kicking and screaming. Wave-O now.
Or 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 when you actually get rid of simple, the hard though, out of a hook, the cat.
Get her off the cat now.
Clever indeed. Simple, able to find a pick-up mark, and that is huge, huge way down.
Lee Sumim, they already play to keep the total on the points.
The Twisted Vines are going to win this feverish exchange to stay in the rounds.
We get a mage head-to-head now as TVN team makes Swap Gushwe
willing to take the duel. I'm surprised, Mitch. This has evolved into cat fashion for both sides
pretty early. Have we already been trained to 2026's greatest hits in the first round?
Off the first map.
Oh, I mean, we got a Doomfist early on, right?
Obviously, the bar pick was great for Wave-o.
Kind of eliminates that sim-rime that they wanted to play.
Which were going to be charged out of the way.
And they wouldn't potentially run for a rush there,
but everybody backed out.
I tried to try to dive there.
They tried to go wheel-sport, maybe punish TVNT for charging up,
but it doesn't really pan out the way.
You would have drawn it.
Guse was very low here, and yeah,
there's two straight out rushes,
and he's going to have a couple things over there.
This is now for Wave-o.
I mean, you have all, like, you know, 92% here in County.
Forts is going to use your artillery. You're going to see exactly where these players are trying to get a touch
It's be a brutal round for Wabo to lose man
I think they might have dropped this one they submit and can touch at least be a present
But it can't afford to be picked off here and he knows it playing ultra safe back on the high sideline
So last year under was the Kiriko now course and you'll be a boi down
Here come Wabo!
For him if he's this your red look like they would have lost this round
Christopher had to cut down the three
Catman for Fonny Astro leaving dragged away, but the lip of the wall is going to save him and Gushley
gets his two, Labo gaming, pop their feet early, showing us some of their best looks
and already an answer to Chris Divine's bread and butter.
Labo makes it really interesting here early on.
The nice use of far cap fashion, right, making it very difficult for the Reinhardt.
Maybe it's sitting to really engage with anything.
Oh, a lot of changes there, yeah, that's cool.
Further kind of knocks them off the side, detached.
I think what's the issue is, maybe you need to detach to try and use that AoE skill.
You're worried your Bastion's gonna get punished?
Yeah.
Just really heads up there by a funny asteroid, so it should go off to the ulti Bastion.
Some Bastions will ult 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 Sim for Twisted Mind.
Woo-Yah, Wave-O!
Yeah, they'll continue to play this Doom with the Pharah.
No fashion into it, but now you have the extra poke of the Woo-Yah.
Leap has the environmental kill potential and obviously...
...fushway does too.
Laka's gotta be pretty careful on that right there, besides that late APP right on top of him.
It's a bit of a squishy spot to be.
You'll have to surf very quickly on out of there.
You have to see this though, this is still a telegraph now from Twisted Minds.
And we have a response, they get it back up, Marka a little below, he was going to be picked up first and now there's no way to get on that, but Juice Waze, a little trapped, no worry, he's got the smooths.
Got for me to get a bit of motion going on here.
TBNT isolates himself trying to chase that elimination, twisted minds are looking a little frustrated off the break.
I think they just need to make changes off of potentially even this Reinhardt as well, we'll see what they decide to do.
There'll be SIGMA.
Quartz gonna have a better time here dealing, you know, with that Bora in Doom, potentially.
Obviously some extra CC added with the Cassian SIG.
Once first with the point, sees GUSHWACK. Again, very vulnerable Doom.
GUSHWACK is through that back grenade while power blocking.
I'd do anything about it.
Will always be hinted there.
Now, it can shut the way by down heavily.
You get to get a switch up towards the SIGMA here.
Again, another form of craft control that it goes power block.
So on a really shy as today you're going to be able to kind of just pull them back into the choke is usually over on the Ramatra.
At the moment, it's such an important map for twisted minds, right? They end up using that Vendetta Man, which is pretty big in a series like this.
We're rolling on, it'll be a rush here from Tiet, they just can really ignore a marker who's on the point capping behind them.
You know, death by death.
I assume we maybe make some swaps.
It's gonna be a dead-eye.
They're gonna try and TP this in.
Maybe get to that high ground there.
It looks like they're angling for that there.
Maybe they're gonna TP up to the high ground, but...
Too much damage coming in.
Gonna deny that spot, so...
The only way you can get in here to retake against the Sigma,
you need to st- OOOOOOOOH!
We got a capacitive blast!
Quads!
Screams Geronimo as he heads down the mountain the fast way!
He gets it now, the Groovidic Flush is right in the number, shy, caught inside, but should be kept alive.
Suzu, well timed.
Marko, Tidal Blast on himself, ostensibly, to stay in the game.
Wave-o now, move back up to the point, it's gonna be a simple drag-down.
Twist device, hand over fist, handing over ultimates to try and stay in control.
Gush was in isolation though, he's not really finding purchase and the healing is desperate.
Nice wave that comes out from Marko, it's gonna air fix healing, Akrishin misses.
Only a little bit of damage on shy, but the follow-up from the Hyper Steers was good,
And Guzhe feels like he can't advance.
He's too low, too early, too far for being able to put this point back.
And twisted minds have settled in quite comfortably here
after the shock of the Doomfist Culp.
You know, really just destroyed it around from Wave-O Gaming.
TM, they make some adjustments.
They played that last thing really well.
You know, quartz gets conked off the side, like you mentioned.
And they use that Simwalt to just kind of buy some time for Team VNT on the point.
They also then use a Kitsune rush, ports back in the equation there towards the end.
Even with the annihilation of the Ramatra, it's not really a matter of being sick.
It's just unmovable at times.
It feels like in those setups.
So it was absurdly powerful.
Yeah.
The line of sight and wall denies it for the opponents.
It was full-time demonstration.
What's the lead?
I'd like to see, okay.
I was going to say, I'd like to see Wave-O go back and play this Mog'ed here, I think that's probably their path against something like this.
And we'll see also here how Twisted deals with this Cap-Bash and set up, but a lot of pressure on Quartz here.
Well, she's comfortably all of the passes they lose, close to Quartz. Simple play after just getting picked up on the periphery.
Nice shot.
He's still with their right-click perk.
The damage of time is actually...
Also, you never get what you might otherwise think.
Shai was not knocked down. He stepped down and he caught Sv'Gor to follow,
because we want to quick reset into Twisted Nights.
We could start here for Wavo, getting nice kicks off the rip.
But what's good about this data card from Wavo is you kind of know Twisted.
I mean, they're not going to play, obviously, with a far on the other side,
but Twisted's not going to pull something out like a reburr, right?
They're not going to try to, like, map something like that.
that so like you kind of have an idea this is how the game is potentially going to be played maybe they go
rematch or something like that but try out at the point you can twist your mind they're not going to
fight here underneath this roof otherwise the fire is going to chuck them down slowly
Chai just found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time there's a decrease in connected
and so he doesn't really want to be here even he's getting a lot of hot charge off the big bulky
body of the mauga yeah it crucially does make it out though Lee has to be careful you still have
He's so nasty on this Cassidy, he's got to play very tight lines, he's got to move quickly.
Oh, he's got to leave down at a tough altitude, hit a pinch, cause he had his eyes turned in the wrong direction.
There was a chance for Lee, she needed to cost him.
Bassie now returned to the fray, he's seeing that stop, it's a big stop!
Funny as for taking down there by shy, might have been a combination with the Malgus stop to set up some CC
and now Lee, uncontested, pouring rockets into the aperture.
TBMT can only fight one person at a time and all the way over there in force.
Yeah, they've been able to find, funny ass show at the start of the last two fights.
That one off the back of that mog, mog of stuff that comes on in artillery there for shy.
As TM note, Kitsune rush and Simwala available.
So some pretty good ultimates here coming into this next fight.
We'll see where Ubi decides to take the team here.
TB directly on the point, Simwala dropped right away.
Oh, danger zone for Ubi.
That charge is something you don't want to deal with.
Catnap is well on Ubi, they're going to drag him out into the sun!
Jai finds chords and funny 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 a move to Lucio.
Yeah, Catnap, barrage here, used the barrage.
Where'd you go?
Put down a lot of damage and then go to the players.
Now we're stomping a barrage.
This player, she's end up on the right side of the wall.
there for a lead to put away some damage. Just map number one would be an enormous confidence boost here for Weibo gaming.
72 and counting. Alright we cannot overstate how massive it would be for Weibo to give the control map in this series against this opponent on a day like today.
Hatchfights in play. Do you think being clear is a priority there for a lead? It isn't what I would commit to this fight.
The Hatchfights might not be gone but a continued rush has to be used here.
The increase in from T.B.N.T. though, that is dirty.
Maga, get by Silicates!
Here comes T.B.N.T. now trying to push back against Gushwe.
Leesu Min is very, very low.
To survive to the down to three themselves, but healthier.
Much more in fighting form, and there's the flip.
Yeah, maybe if Leesu Min is able to live there, you're able to kind of keep that one going.
Gushwe actually with the help of Maka, they're going to come right back.
They have the one player down at the moment.
We'll see both teams get the full strength here in just a second, yeah, as Core 2C 12
just kind of fumbling out of the high ground there with Symple.
Can they get Sharia on an angle here?
They do a huge Malga stop into backstreet ult for little 1-2.
That was the only thing that dies, it looked pretty good for Waco so far.
Wheels both first, wards.
Suzie's out.
She tried to make Symple a little bit low.
TVT!
Dice in the barrage!
Clearly he didn't have a given across to mitigate that damage whatsoever.
What so ever simple now down and all the twists of mind force the power inside the side room
That could not be a worse time down to face Lee that is best
Barrage comes in a way more gaming know it and so should you
Very to do chapter
The first map has been secured
Huge there for Wave-O.
I live a week of the Vendetta Van Gaan as well.
This might actually be more of a Gouchouay series than a Sun-Zo one.
When you kind of think about it, right, you don't really want to play.
If Sun-Zo comes in to try and play a single Diva, that's when the Reinhardt Pulse, right, are going to come out and be quite aggressive.
It might end up being, you know, Doom, Maga, things like that.
It's like, get the job done.
If I belong in the Unjunction, but also Santo has been something to play that matter, and he's been playing Sigma.
Yeah. But I think the reason I'm to be happy to see the Sigma on the other side,
something that they feel a little bit more comfortable playing against slower pace.
You can get me through running away with the narrative prematurely, but is it possible that
Grishmore might be still capable of trying to 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 Gushway is tremendous, but
I think for me, it's more of like the flexibility of leave and shy and just their ability.
It feels like also like for Gushway to just kind of play on his own, right?
Just be so, I know he doesn't take up any of the resources for the rest of the team.
All right, gonna head down to Ian on this stage, give us a temperature check, young man.
Yeah, I'll tell you what, I can already give you a bit of a heads up, it's hot.
that's where 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 lock in that grand final spot, looking to join them, either
or, of course, Twisted Minds.
Webull 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, come on, Samar to 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 Weibo Gaming?
Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice.
That's good, that's good.
So 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 Weibo Gaming?
This is your last chance guys, alright, you're going to get loud, who's here for Twisted
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.
We have ever wondered why we care or why this is more than a bunch of pixels colliding.
I think you've got your answer.
We've got two of the most passionate fanbases in Overwatch.
Two of the most passionate regions.
And two clubs that are fighting to get their names up in the club championship lights.
Weibo Gaming have always pulled up short, close but no cigar, always an emotional exit
in third or fifth.
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 were 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 be world champions and I think they might like to step into that spotlight
again today.
And we have a sub here for Weibo Gaming.
So there'll be sons of who come in here for Gushley.
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 Jamie Shinsunday.
Like, oh, it's China, watch back, and they back.
It's like, okay, but I'm like, yeah.
But now, I mean, hey, they looked, that was very good.
Map number one there for Weibo.
And then, for Twisted Minds, right, how do you respond?
They've been dead a band, used there early on.
Seems like they have a lot of good answers,
those Wave-O for potentially these Reinhardt-based setups
that Twisted Minds has been using.
That a lot of teams have been caught up guard
and not have played well into, so.
The Iterious here.
The words saying though, all were on that topic.
The Farrers looked really good,
but not for everyone against this tournament.
No, Lee has been out and do some pretty special stuff.
the past and on that map, because again, village on the pool, 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.
Least didn't give them an option.
So with Sunzo coming in and being a TM map pick, maybe it's, you think about the escort
pool, right?
a lot of Route 66 in Shambali so maybe it's like 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 fashion
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 leave
into the opponent so we saw Sunzo play I think in Thailand, a champions clutch he was, sort
of the go-to for this team and Circuit Royale was a great map for Weber gaming, right there
to likes, to play those pretty static looks, the ones that were really shy seeing him trying
to dominate a hit scan matchup, let Lee continue to be a disruptor.
Kings Road between these two was a draw, but yeah it was a shutout on circuit so that's
It does feel like Wayba have evolved somewhat since then because they looked horrific on
control at that tournament.
It was just like, it was far and away the worst map fight.
Right?
I think if you're T.M., do you consider banning Bastion here, potentially?
It allows Quartz to kind of play that Cassidy's soldier.
It also eliminates potentially like a sim ban coming in here, right?
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 a few different options right you could uh
that 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 like cat curie if you're weibo even without the fashion that would
would be like a pretty viable option here if they wanted to go that route yeah
I mean that you had this issue banning jetpacking against them yesterday on
Sir Varsity's route. Yep. What a huge shock to me as Weibo
seems like me on junction from up to. SIG ban here from TM so that's obviously
targeted at some zoe as he comes into the game and then SIM ban gone here so
Go ahead and have to see Ubi flex over play maybe tracer farra himself, right?
I think if you can set up a tracer duel between leaving Ubi, you're feeling pretty good about that as way of a gaming
But what do you think of some of those options here?
Now you're gonna like diva potentially right? No uh,
rematcha as well. It's always tricky when you reveal subs before bans
so you give your opponents an opportunity to
to disrupt the play that's coming in off the bench.
Go after it.
The sit-down though is quite brutal.
That comes in here, right?
The UB you think could play,
I mean, most likely it's gonna be Tracer, right?
We've seen May as well, but like, Root is not a,
I mean, maybe at the end you can kind of go to May,
but not like through the first parts of the map.
Still lets you shortcut so much of the nonsense
on this map as an attack site.
Yes.
Getting big girls for free.
getting up on the high ground, basically from any position, you 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, don't get easy access to the top of the saloon,
and you don't get easy access to the high ground platforms in that last phase of the map.
let you circumvent that. Now you have to get it done without it. It's obviously a
muslin map though. Oh yeah we are already there aren't we? We're already there.
It's our best of five, our first three. But the shock is that we put in here one
map up. We used to then start in series sort of from behind. Yeah they get it
against space station. Swept after losing control. So this is uncharted
for us and potentially for this.
And I think this ban actually works out quite well for Wavo.
Now, obviously, it kind of hurts Sunzilla a little bit,
not having that sigmo, which he's been so good on
throughout this tournament.
But a lot of pressure on courts in UB to deliver.
UB here, especially a focus, right,
without that Symmetra in play.
Now you talked about, right, the Symmetra's
so good on offense here, right, being able to kind of close
the gap around that corner get under big
Earl's right kind of horse players down
as you had to move the car just from
underneath like really really rough ban
here for twisted minds to deal with.
We'll take a look here.
We'll be way bow gaming on defense first.
We'll be a player here.
So we're a mantra for Sunza.
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.
It doesn't feel awesome. I mean, you know, the
May can obviously like you know wall off the Remantra, but like you know
Shy is gonna be able to use that movement ability of the Fridge kind of get it with the top of those walls put down some damage
It's not it's not as easy
We've got a big job here
Some sort wants to play that part of the hairpin and just stay there this key twisted minds in place
At least you mean it's gonna have to get those binding chains on the TV and team are often than not and leave is the one that needs to find
these
Final blows.
He's capitalized on the coach damage, the explosive bolt that Shy is gonna be throwing out.
It's still in condition.
We're about to make great use of cover here, but you need to be careful, because May can.
I saw someone like Lee deny him his escape route.
And now Max and the Ramatra.
So, the Ramatra is when they kinda wanna brawl out together.
That's when the Ramatra with the May can actually be pretty potent.
Although that's what it is you feel, it's very difficult to deal with, right?
So that close-quarter AoE healing, being able to put down some extra damage.
Whoa! This should be...
He's gonna TP right on out.
Okay.
Why don't we get a touch?
Why are you both...
What if a reason I'm not comfortable meeting to a fight yet?
They're using a lot of ground.
I think they want to like get around this corner so things open up where the maywalls aren't
going to completely isolate Sunzone.
Nice shot there from shy.
I put some pressure down as DVNT diverts the ball.
There's too much young pressure on this Lucy Curicult,
the fact that, I think, simple like to turn around there
and just get what's of dark meant,
but DVNT was really isolated there.
You know, Prey obviously gets a buff recently
to just 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 can see a fault there into UB, UB end ports are already taking some serious damage,
at least you've been using obviously the new cooldown ability, no tire, of Mizuki's TP.
That gets adjusted recently as well.
It 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 within that window.
Mizuki costs a pretty decent damage.
What are you doing damage?
Got the shot there, you'll be able to skirt around him for the most part.
Simple dust takes some residual damage from him.
Sunzo awkwardly, caught in that high ground.
They've been waiting on an eviscerate spawn called out.
I've got to admit, even in annihilation.
Here's the overclock for Quartz.
He's sunzo, but not having to draw a beat on him just yet.
And then eviscerate spawn Mirage is going to push on him.
Shieeey!
Jagers himself a little bit too long in front of the Goat's purview.
The Quartz punches him accordingly.
Check that sanctuary on the higher ground.
He gives Sunzo somewhere to play from.
It's punished by a blizzard.
The mark is able to keep their tank standing.
Quartz always makes me meet up on this low ground as leave is not able to keep them cause for concern
Quartz here is just dishing out his own brand of authority and no one seems to be able to stop him
Now you mentioned it, Webo 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 Webo, no, just gonna be
Marta getting a little bit of a speed booster, players getting out of the spawn here.
Denialation plus three.
Now Cheyenne's 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 courts to hit.
Well, stronts off the high-graph for now. It's definitely a disadvantage spot for the soldier and the VEF.
Of course, there's options.
Okay, he's going to take this high ground by Storm,
Marcus is going to TP away beneath a very low right now,
and they need to benefit from Lee Soo Min's AOE healing.
Joy, right?
Lee gets a limited info about the high ground presence
and he's waiting on this spree.
Of course, he's still on the mission now,
but Lee's striking first and striking harder,
and that should be enough.
Tender with the annihilation key, he respects TDNT,
he's going to back up, give a bit of ground here to the Rematra.
Lee Soo Min is trying to least and found a way,
a great binding change to cover his retreats.
Weaver gaming in this case blinking first is favourable.
The full shot available here for Shy is...
Twisted is gonna try and funnel out through one of these chokes.
Could be pretty gnarly to deal with this.
He explodes upon hitting the UDs and how much damage that player puts down.
I think they were choked as well.
Look at him, just like so impressive.
The right of fire is squaring, so oh that is a great evil shot!
Ah, he's out of the finish to jump, just as Quartz was poised to buck Shy!
You knew he would've been boosted by that shot!
You see Shy in midair, right? Just kind of like turned his body and looked down, just trying to deny a headshot there.
I'm watching like Quartz's fist descend to the sky, oh my shit!
That's a high make, though, that never hits.
Two fights in a row, one here by way of a game, and Shy is a problem.
And this is where Sid would be awesome. He might close this gap, get to the high ground, really just kind of get that rush rolling. A huge fan.
Simpacted this game this far.
And a continued rush gives you a seat at the table.
But does he give you the ability to command attention?
He's got a little bit low there, had to evade away.
Beauty, respectful of shy's damage, who noted that off angle is actually going to hit that ice block real quick as the Bolshock came through.
Alright, can't know what's actually going to play here.
I'm really being overly utilized by Webo Gaming's many people who have dropped to the low ground, but they avoid this visit perfectly.
They submit always in the backfire, but always with an escape plan.
And here's the fight from Shai!
That's the ball of shot we were looking for, but as Hushik quickly answers that, and now Shai has to hastily correct his positioning.
He loses his life for it, but Yubi was picked up amidst that chaos, and that's acceptable here for Webo Gaming.
One minute, 10 seconds left, but he survives!
They're gonna regroup!
Oh, I mean a huge to do there from simple keeps himself alive as you be over to the Reaper here Reaper
Moga now over to tracer supply to the TP to the front of the spawn and then swap so
See leave with a spray you're also gonna have an annihilation of really get set up here
For Waybo the one thing they have to worry about though is allowing course. Maybe gonna farm this OC
Big spree!
Funny Astro couldn't quite slip away.
This is deadly stuff here from Leed.
Who doesn't want to let shy take all the spotlights.
Interesting minds, 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.
4TN.
They have UD, TD and DU.
on touch a point and you know quartz with an OC symbol with a rush yeah you're
playing for that what I don't know
they zoom in there just fell simple doing a bit of everything healing
puff between eyes coming out because of the perk right right in front of the
card look how low look how low quartz is but I can't finish the job quartz looks
away back to full health bowl shot now under the arm for shy but what's the
timing. Where's the window? Quartz is playing as a Lucent and here's the
Annihilation, but Sunder's already quite low. Somebody heal that guy!
Ubi's taking down Lee, fights finally a connection with the motorbike.
Shai try to dodge them and Hinder, and Sunder claps Quartz!
A very left hook here from the Ramatra, and now DBNT is
beleaguered, but Sunder all sides by opponents and forced off the cards.
Not what I called an inspirational push there for twisted minds, but I'm seeing
a certain contention of this crowd really starts to believe.
So you know you lose, at least you've been early on.
The Sun's so low coming out there with the annihilation gets onto the point.
Take a look at some of the highlights.
It's shy, it was pretty tremendous here in the second part of the map on the player.
You're gonna have to get away with this, man, in the corner!
And some constant picks.
You know, a few times, of course, got players dangerously low.
There's just no follow-up there.
I mean, we'll leave.
Playing at Shion.
We don't see Twisted Minds gonna play that hero.
Really, at all.
But obviously, very strong in Asia.
A lot of teams going over to the Shion.
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.
We're gonna be digging deep in the pocket series, Twisted Minds, as they have to pull off, excuse me, an even full of hole.
I think if you told Twisted Minds before the series starts, like, hey, you're gonna get rid of that Vendetta, map number one in blues.
You're gonna go to root get rid of Sigma. They're still gonna bring in Sunzo
And they end up using the Sim band and you're in this spot. They they feel again
This is a really rough start to a series
Simple now a little bit of a different look here for TM. They're gonna get your simple on the Hilarie
Cap fashion
For Wayvo cap 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
on it this event. We don't see this often from simpores for a while, but it's very very dangerous for the jetpack to have fast air.
He already has another, you know, virtual hitscan presence. With the ability to rip the tech police turrets,
it's hard to clear them out which means it's simple to focus most of the time on hitting M1 for the boys.
I wonder what the... how long it'll take to go over to this setup, see a police unit
who can kind of get shy in a position to make a big impact, you know when I end up burning
the turret and just kind of humbling it into the ramata 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 the spawn, perhaps for a bit longer.
His twisted minds moved out to try and dominate the sight lines as soon as that switch comes out.
Quads here just scored the choice in terms of targets.
Suns are constantly half healthy tries to round this corner.
Yeah, they built up a nano though.
Nano for the fashion here over the top.
Oh dear. Everybody gets inside.
Outside 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 two-chamber brought down.
Quartz so quickly, even if he's in a ledge of art,
Leeb has perched up on this high ground.
This is dangerous now for Twisted Minds.
The grip on map control, being rested free.
Quartz though an overclock would be astonishingly important.
Simple's taking matters into his own hands,
trying to go for that captive son,
trying to catch Leeb, soon minimum he's found him.
Fencing the mobility more than the burst damage I feel,
then fighting back on Twisted Minds,
Leeb here, trying to play at long range,
playing back with a bascule,
but Quartz slots two quick kills, silences the Chinese crowd.
Yeah, even though you didn't really connect with any of the captive sun,
just the extra mobility for the Elari being able to kind of fly through the sky there,
Maka going to ditch the honor once you end up using that Hano, the cat Curie,
so getting closer to the cat now.
This is going to be good though for Twisted,
to be able to kind of roll out with this, the Juno Rey, the Rematra,
And also the mage. It's going to be very strong if they can survive some of this fashion damage.
They've done a great job of doing this far.
They do have to group around those braids or him out of that.
We're shot!
And I'm going to eat it.
I mean, they end up losing lead.
You're early on. It's nice going around the corner there from Yubi.
This is a comp that Yubi are pretty sure fucked up immediately at the end of that last round.
You already have a plan for this.
That simple has been taken down.
That's a yari out of the picture now.
Things get a little bit dicey up.
The Astro couldn't tell Palpatine quickly enough.
And Quartz is gonna be brought down. A powerful cop, but it has some fragility.
And the brilliance of Twisted Minds eventually is put on display.
I like the idea for Twisted Minds there though. You're gonna be able to get another fight, right?
Juno's speedering back into the action.
You're gonna have all these other boots.
And there's some stall potential here out of this.
A little dangerous. Simple as the outburst of light.
The touch is gonna be there surely.
Fire! Oh no!
Take it down for Mormon!
Good job! It's about before he had a chance to contest!
That's not what you want to see at all!
3 here might have been overkill, believe, 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 Orville Array.
Brooo!
That skill is massive, it looks like 6th.
Yeah, you've used all of his cooldowns there.
I mean, that's the annihilation you use around the corner with the Blizzard there as well.
You don't have the Orville Array to use.
That last rainbow to get that first checkpoint in, get some high ground here.
Out of another showcase but Twisted Binds has been uncomfortable, but they will filter through with the second phase of the battle.
Captain Sun, Orbital Ray, two very important support ultimates at the disposal.
I'll twist it by, here comes that Captain Sun.
Shia have a great time for that. First damage is going to be very hard for Amelia and it looks like it was a suit that cleansed off the debuff and Quarters taken down.
taken down simple now realize this is question the better part about her
especially when TVNT is under extreme duress is it over the right will it be
enough at this point that we're shy about her is our best team flanking
England Sunzo has the annihilation oh boy it's ugly for twisted minds TVNT is
gonna be brought down and there'll be a chance to touch that but a scene one but
you're gonna be playing into a consumer rush the artillery as well it's gonna
put down a lot of damage as they come out from this high ground show TVNT
gonna go over to Diva here. That's gonna be the artillery sound of the fashion.
Oh god, this can be devastating. That's one. Looks off the support. Here's the others.
Slows things up, spreads the maps. You'll be a little bit low. That third one comes in in the
vortex. Also gonna waylade them further. They're close. Fighting Astro and Zipola. The first to
go down in the running as well. And Trini on the wall. Wayba Davis is Astro. It's far from done.
We'll keep on riding! We'll keep on playing! We'll keep on believing!
Sunzo's just been perfect at this event. I mean, he's just unbeatable!
So he comes in for Wayvo in map number two. TM and their fans searching for answers here at the moment.
Just amazing play from Shai, with these Artilleries in the Bastion.
We usually don't see them be that impactful.
Obviously it gets them point-boy.
It puts out some serious damage, you know, to Ubi coming out of the spawn.
Also, they're just going to split-swisted mines as they go there to get a touch at the end.
That, you know, that Artillery plus in the Annihilation, enough that they could do at that point.
It's a Wave-O, putting themselves one game away, man, from being able to go to the final
inside stuff.
Let's check in with Ian and see what's going on down to the floor.
It is Mayhem out there.
It is absolute Mayhem down here.
The Wave-O 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.
question 3-0 like the keys. Wow like the keys he's already rated a question of the key now we've got
the Waveboat fans on this side of the arena the Twisted Minds fans looking a little bit
dilated but 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 to pack up. Oh wow you
think it's too early to start to 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 write themselves off.
They know what it takes to win a world championship, let alone come back in a semi-final.
They back themselves.
Question is, can we get a little bit of a fun interaction here?
Okay, drummer versus drummer.
How you doing?
Hello, hello guys.
I want to ask you only one question.
Do you trust you're gonna win?
Well, we're going to win, one, two, three, go!
Okay, okay.
One day in America, I will tell you a little story.
One day in America, he did it once.
But guess what?
Then I first assumed coming once
And we're coming twice. We do it in America. And we will do it in bodies.
Do it stand now, huh?
Well, well, well. Only time can tell. We all believe it.
We all win. Walk up to the street. That's our history.
Now's the future!
History almost remembered.
And one little beat. I would say only one thing.
You can't speak if you're winning.
But when we lose it, I'm speaking because I trust my team.
We will come back anyway, when it goes up down.
Right, right, right, right, right.
There's just a bit clear.
There's like 20 of you and 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!
Let's pop it up.
Woo!
One fan base is chasing 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, we had Ian there on the floor about the dude who's like a
being a white celebrity of press conference, where they get the fighters together,
get in the middle, hey, hey, hey, let's break this up real quick.
He's all my style. I love it.
I love it. For these dudes.
Yeah. For these fans.
Well, Twisted obviously has an opportunity to get to another final called Championship Points,
right massive for the org.
Wave-O, it's like, they're just like, oh, what is this happening?
Like, they've been in this situation before and then it doesn't work out for them, but
it is the Unjunctions.
This is a really good, you know, Reinhardt solution here for Twisted Minds.
Up, up, no, we don't have a sub, I believe.
So it'll be Sunzo saying in the game as he plays on a map like this, Bastion is a fan
here for Waybo 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 a Fury band on the other side
as we've seen Waybo do a little bit more in terms of flexibility in that backline.
Yeah, it would be interesting if they like get forced into a bestie and was
did Pac-Cat scenario or something like that, right, go up to Lucio.
Should expect to see, you know, sons would try, you know, rematch on this map in the past,
Also the Sigma so you don't have the Sigma Mizuki look to lean on when we're in Kiryu Lucio world
It's obviously amazing utility offered by their team
But those big bits of burst damage that don't translate you feel straight away. Let's say like shy
It's a couple of explosive balls better mean kills in the moment
But they cannot be out into them when the Lucio Kiryu desperately trying to top that one
I are up and lose the its roots their attention on others to have them taken out my leave or something
So it does matter that damage isn't just feeding support all to us
One thing I think that's hurt twisted minds here at this event, which is...
No, they don't obviously love playing the Jetpack Cat, or we've seen a lot of teams, even without fashion, play Jetpack Cat.
And like, the cat is just really strong in terms of like, with this kind of damage-gealing support, even nuisance to deal with.
BTM, Sim, D.va set up here.
I think the view here is pretty interesting honestly. Twisted Vines, Steve M.T. is going to have his work cut out for him.
But it can control the player if he gets fed to fence matrix up on the correct sideline.
Chai's playing pretty far forward here though, and the poke damage is pretty extreme on TN.
There's a huge shot though there from Core, it's just going to back down around the corner for a while.
Core takes lots of view players in place.
Hey, little TP, this is trying to give Twisted Minds a better position to play from.
Looks like that TP though has been removed.
TP and TP's up on that high ground.
They can't join him right now, but still in the fourth position to hold.
Alright, careful. Lee has help there in the form of listening.
Jido is lowed.
Oh, 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 they've started the TP on the point.
They're gonna be confident.
I mean, you see the D.Va right there, that's a big gamble.
Yeah, the, uh, then Quartz obviously finishes shy off.
I was gonna say, it's a little bit easier for WaveO to try and retake as opposed to
teams we see through this with the Sigma.
Quartz with two, though.
He's up to the challenge.
At least it looks like he's shed a little bit of light there.
Okay, Quartz in opening.
On that.
Oh, really, miss.
Well, look here for Twisted Minds.
I feel like this is a cop that is certainly leaned on their ability to get a sick truck
done.
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 human?
Yeah.
Like, you just don't have a cop that can top up your main tank when he's 1v5.
Now, maybe you get a Suzu there, you're able to kind of, like, blast him with healing,
if you think about rushing.
Well, they had rushed in their previous fight, but yeah, it's...
Now, when Maka gets there around the corner, I mean, SunZo is basically dead.
There's no reason to kind of throw that in.
Great.
Obviously this would have been an awesome spot for Mizuki, right? But, uh, Greg will be the response here
for Lissimena and Labo Gaming, so...
Twisted Minds are a great opportunity to snowball a little bit here, right?
Been looking good so far.
Greg Lissimena, pretty reasonable answer to the big one.
Gotta watch out for that. So slow in these several hairpacks, they didn't have to be having to pick it fast.
Sonzo now's, he's got to face down the 160 charge, well done, from Quartz.
I think I'm gonna go much swin now.
Nice little burst of pace there from Weibo gaming behind.
Three very powerful ultimates. I was gonna say it's a lot. You're cringing.
That is a fight. You'd expect to look that way if you
used Katsune Rush in Islaytion and Spree into
just the overclock. A massive adjustment here for Weibo.
Shai built an overclock pretty soon and that's a great pick up to find. Simple down but still
twisted by 25 minutes. This is extremely brazen from the Shai's little slide straight
through. A lot of shot on Yuumi, that's dirty stuff. Navigating the wall pretty well but
Sansa is down. Self destruct between me and Tiki. This is because his core's been picked
up at least. I like the 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. Here's the rally. Police
Simeon Raphos activated, and a lot of twists and binds.
Gonna have to back it on up.
He 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 Weebo.
That was the most incredible navigation
of a scene wall that I've seen from the Soju.
And Shai had to hop up there.
He couldn't just let the ultimate shut his down.
He took it into his own hands, man.
That is Championship Caliber.
That's a good Suney rush here use.
We have to be safe away from that.
Yeah, they high tailed here.
The train guys.
You players are caught split there.
Actually, they'll at least zoom in and leave.
Actually get split by the train.
You may have to get away from the train to go on by.
We think we just watched Swistened Mines capitalize beautifully on Waco Game
and crossing their wires for a moment.
Oh, absolutely.
Wabo, let's see if they can manufacture another touch.
Shy here.
Over to the Sim, they're also gonna have Lee Sume in here to go for the cat.
They desperately wanna try and get another fight here.
Now you got no hitscan though.
Okay, watch out!
Kors is hunting.
Pressuring here for Lee Sume, but he's having to care for Kors will line him up pretty quickly.
BAM!
There goes Sunzo!
Beautiful headshot, now Lee has to try and salvage the fight.
Quite nothing though, lock that screen.
He is very exposed after the fat Ubi.
Will dispatch him, and twist his fives.
You get three minutes and eight seconds.
Just felt like they're throwing bodies at the cart.
You know, typically you would never see Shai go over and blaze him like this, Tim.
And if you feel like every now and then,
we also saw this at the start of Sanctum in that first map,
is that there was just this call to chop the silly souls from most of Wabo Gaming.
Yeah.
For about 80% of that point.
They were coming.
Oh, this is an interesting comp, right?
You're going to be playing Mei here.
For Waybo, you really want to slow down ports though, and not want to go down here.
There's a lot of ports that's coming in right, but the sound barrier here, the Twisted Minds,
means that you're all going to get straight or not.
Quartz is going hunting for Maka, and they submit.
The latter, who is still soaking about up on the rafters.
That's Dominant.
Q and simple.
Dominants from Twisted Minds, and they hold the rush to try and end the round.
Well, I know they have a support ult advantage, right?
So the Katsune Rush comes down from Maka.
They end up dropping the sound barrier, just running on into it with the annihilation.
Now it hits Sune Rush here at the end.
Lavo just trying to find anything that'll work. Here comes the rush.
Steam able there from Lee trying to deny poke opportunities as Lavo get out onto the point and fight.
Back of O very very low, heads of gas back into the sport but Sanzo has an annihilation and play is going to be leading.
Sanzo couldn't hold up in the heat!
The twisted mind post a very respectable almost two minutes on the attack side. Left over.
That's a haymaker there from Twisted Minds on offense.
Swayba just never looked like they got comfortable there throughout.
You know, like an ADF in May there towards the end, you know, really good kind of choke.
It's a screen. Yeah, but just a massive ult of damage,
but really entirety of that run from second to third point.
I feel like the protocols for Waveo just look very sloppy after they lost that first point.
We can allow them to just divine so they can stagger, keep it fluid, right?
Not really give them a chance to fully set up and just get in formation.
So it makes a weak position kind of fuzzy.
You play 45, you might fight back, right?
You're in a 4-D4 but you lost the hang of it.
That's what I thought.
Lost a lot of the tools.
They say that no planes are by his first contact with the enemy, or the translation being,
everyone's able to plan to get punched in the face.
So he's seeking a little bit of our lead there.
In at the twisted mines,
that war room is a little dicey there for its activity.
One, one, one real first half on the D.Va, just a master at that hero at this point.
Force 20 and 2.
Wait, it's definitely been 9.
Quantum after force.
Ooh!
Yes, this is what I wanted to see.
The Vendetta here.
Four leave.
Amazing at heroes like this.
Very difficult to play.
The stim against something like this.
You want to TP the entire team that's going to be
Leave their waiting with like a whirlwind into a headshot
We'll do all the ground we're giving
Head to the property on the left side. I like that idea
Trying to fame retreat and then dive back in. They got marked up for it
Let's leave up to now
We're not going to build up too much resource, too much extra attack speed
I think just losing simple and newbie though is a decent amount
You've got sportive carnage to work with here, but what can wash them away?
You can stack around some of these last couple of plays and there'll be time for just mines to be back in numbers
Oh, no good!
I mean, now your player's kind of back up.
This is why I'm sure you lost shy, but...
No, you've got to play to lose quality, man.
Essentially, a lead coming back on Tracer, right?
Look at this, it's just going to put so much pressure...
back through the choke.
Almost got two ticks.
Yep, gonna be a second kick here.
No!
That is still...
at least he's been jumped on by the accretion.
Rizz past TVNT,
as the diva has no way of stopping him.
No shield to put up, nothing to throw in the way, except for him, buddy.
Still, no capture yet though. Sunto is down.
I can't believe my men are going if you Wabo are going in here, but GVM team ties forward.
This is very aggressive and it's going to lose against me.
No chance for the self-destruct here, so this is just a desperate time-buy.
Yeah, I mean, you just absolutely need to keep ports alive there. Losing a nice explosive ult there.
From shy, that'll be first checkpoint here for Wabo gaming.
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 get a barrel down on course.
Tristan Lyons usually does such a great job protecting him.
Just kind of leaving chives different in the server today.
Listen to this arena.
That's just something else.
Okay, we go past the, uh, the train crossing.
But French, who were a group of the clocks.
Fine pan and the fire type thing.
Who needs a double kill with the pulse?
They're gonna be sent back in real quick 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 time is so good. He left the bag of down on the ground. I'm just stepping. What the heck?
But that's double support all these rain you're gonna continue Russia from markets
We get right back into the action, but Susan was really hurriedly used their bikes
It was desperate, it was trying to take warts down, and then they've recovered really well.
Walden play now, gives him a way to fan on Al, and turns into a micro picked up.
Ah, simple! Really held the resurgence in that fight for Twisted Mind. That is insane resilience.
I think it also just shows you how strong of an ultimate Simwall is, right?
That's like, you know, like a shooting rush coming in the end of using the Simwall there,
and it just denies 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 Soldier map battle, just yet.
Is that why not? I mean, the Freya, blinding him at range.
It is so free. What is it self-destruct about?
Okay, it's Nuts 4, they've been trying to make use of it.
See, here with the BWB, just got clapped, there is Lee.
Sailed on through.
Funny Astro, Carnivore, and Shai for too long, and now,
Now, DBNT will be caught out of position.
It will be time to stall things out.
This is still a decent bit of twisted minds though.
I think winning a five hero, winning that previous fight,
is pretty crucial for this game.
But I think if you're twisted though,
if you were to ask them like, hey, what is the comp,
you're like worried about most potentially kind of coming in
and really just watching what you do,
it's exactly what we're seeing here at Wave-O right now.
I guess if you're getting alerts on a fusion,
you're gonna have to be stopping tower against the Vendettics.
And what's up with Malga, that's for sure.
It's dangerous, but I mean, they're winning at the map and can't get unconvinced.
Tune Rush there, absolutely needed.
To get in, just kind of pulling out that Maga, so.
They'll also get Lee Sin, just back on a flank.
Lee Sin, how he's able to make it out, I don't know.
So, okay, they don't have anybody to kind of chase him down to that point, so they'll trace him.
Okay, so this is about where...
This reminds me of how to take the second checkpoint.
So, we're ever getting too far off the cusk.
But either win this next fight. No one kind of goes without saying. They lose here, we get dragged out.
He starts to get uglier and uglier.
I'm very bleep, pretty nasty against Sambar, right? Gonna rip a lot of that.
Yeah, it's just overheld all.
But having the chance to hang suspended there frantically, like Damocles, is a little...
Well, unlikely.
If Kutuna rushes coming down straight away, so is the chances in the TBMT Sambar and the prescribers spot.
There was a stopping blade, but a wall in the way potentially.
Eventually, that was protected.
So there's the first to fall yet again.
A twisted mind who can comfortably get the mountain look.
LVNT surges forward, notices lead.
Sheepishly trying to back away with the blade up to block.
And that means that Waco Gaming are in deep trouble.
That was the fight.
The inflection point in this map.
The twisted minds have withstood the test again.
This TDNT on the Sigma feels like
just every time hitting these accretions.
Sigma also a pretty difficult hero
to play into the Vendetta, right?
and then it doesn't really care about the kinetic grasp
and just starts swinging on the Sigma.
The TVNT kind of proven now to be one of the best tanks
in the world of the last year.
Train gonna delay the cross here for Wave-O.
Soundbar has to be good here.
It was massive for Funny Astro in that previous fight,
but it's gonna have to be used to answer
the defending once man.
I don't think you can use it proactively here,
too risky, here's the Ola into the back line,
Cipollar gonna go for Kitsune Rush, and there it is!
Destruction!
Rain Supreme!
Lee Sinem Sunja already off the map,
and I don't know where Michael thinks he's going to go.
Lee's picked off by Quartz,
and that's the straw that breaks the Cavals back here
on Neon Junction.
Waveboard Gaming just don't have an answer to this one.
It's pretty impressive they're able to keep TVNT 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.
Port's obviously contributing heavily in that.
We too, me and Will, get a touch, but...
Pays the ultimate price as Sun Doh gets back up to the high ground.
And that holds too much!
Finally!
On their final chance to pick a map in this series,
Twisted Mines come up with the goods.
It's important, maybe an inflection point in this series,
but more of a matter of 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.
A lot of teams are really going to go over and play probably Esperanza instead of Coliseo.
Maybe if you want to try and play Skor with some sort, you can play Coliseo and then you
think about some of those flash point maps.
If you want to play something fast and play like an Atlas, maybe you think about bringing
bushwing again because a lot of the other ones like New Jump City which we've
seen a ton of this again great for rush style of play you know twisted mines
right there's SIG, Rematra, D.Va any of those heroes you feel great about playing
them in these comps. One thing to note is that a comp we thought it would be
troublesome for twisted mines. They've been deader. They got the look. They
were stood up. They had the answer. Yeah those switch over towards the Sigma. One
had my eyebrows raised that have worked out.
Curious to hear from their experts here,
so let's cross over to the studio with Puckett and Joe.
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.
And then the Diva Band on map one was critical.
It let them get so much mileage out of the far Abastion
and Twisted Minds. Although this map was incredibly close, this is a crucial one.
Webu needed to win this map, and so they were able to deliver great D. LaBan 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, Goosey on the doofus came up. Clark absolutely was some crucial hero folks here,
as well. Me and Jake talked about it. Everything needed to go right for Webu Gaming,
and it felt like things really did great for Russia from leave as well.
I think Lee cemented a tremendous job on the jetpack cap.
So this is a series with very limited room for error for wave of gaming
and everything's gone right so far.
So what did you see out here in the crowd?
And it was wave of 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 they're being loud and proud and really cheering their teams on.
And Twisted Minds needed, I think, that boost because, quite frankly, the first two maps were going into Webo'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 Webo looking strong. Jake, was it the compositions or individual plays?
What did you see? You know, this is the sim band, right? This is something that always, it not just gives you an edge against him.
It's almost a must win for Webo. But honestly, this map came down for me to exactly one moment.
Okay, after a great defense like yes, it was looking good for Waybaugh
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
The 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 we're so close on this map though
We have to talk about the backline because we're surviving so greedy with that Iliar in the mix there as well
So that they take a gamble in this one
At the end, it is Waveo jumping out to a 2-0 lead, but then it was Twisted Mind's turn.
Johnny, let's talk a little bit about what just had this fan crew on the right side of the stage for a while.
Yeah, look, Twisted Mind's the claw one back on me on Junction.
It's a map that really plays well with Twisted Mind's composition.
But again, now you're getting into a territory where you're like, yeah, you clawed one back,
but Waveo Gaming, they get to dictate where we go for the next two maps.
They get to dish out the first hero band themselves.
himself great getting back into shape here playing Dramatra playing with the
Symmetra but this time they have to do this for two more matches 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. So how often does
that happen in the Overwatch universe? Quite a lot actually especially if
Twisted Binds is involved I think Twisted Binds 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
protection going to this is Jake can you call it now who do you have winning I
still think Tim 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. Wable has full control if they want to
attack those picks and I think they likely will because yes, just in
mind they can be replaced they can maybe be played in different ways but the
Lucio and the Curie are their bread and butter so Astro and Syphil are gonna be
pressed to adapt as we go deeper in the series. Let's talk a little bit about the
Take swap that's happening on stage Johnny. I don't know if he 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 helps me that they're gonna play brawl
They want to get on top of twisted minds in this one
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 boo gaming team with an opportunity to seize a grand final spot for China something that they haven't done
and 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 TwistedQuantz is 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 their swing.
Jake, you mentioned that it's going to be Wayvo 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 Push and Flashpoint. And for me,
these are the least valuable map picks of any game modes because the maps are the most similar
to one another. So yes, you have map picks. We're going to 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
when they come out on the Cassidy, the Sheehan, I still think TM are going to be a threat.
So, Weibo, 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 are your players to watch?
Leave and shy. They are carrying the hopes of a nation in this very next couple of maps here.
maps here and they have the opportunity. Twisted Mines are allowing them to space to go and make
place and if they can make the place required to seize this series that would be a massive moment
in the Wachisport 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 Webo
they are on match point. I could see if we do go map 5 call a CO being a pick that Webo want to
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. CM though, 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. Yeah, 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 Coons in the grand finals in Tokyo, Japan. So they have the tenacity. We
We 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 Waveau 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.
Just listen to this arena.
On one side, it's thundering drums, rage, desperation to get back into the series.
And the other side, it's years of belief.
Graspik for a reason to celebrate something truly special feels like it's brewing
That's arena the way both side feels
cautiously confident
Like oh, hey, we've seen this before it's only one
But then you lose this one then you're like, oh
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 get jumped through the roof
for their style of play because like Jake was talking about I was talking about
it when we were talking about the map selections it's a really escort and
hybrid where you get the most value out of those selections right so to get
deeper into this series Sigma pretty big fan right because Sunzo on the
Malga struggled to get through TVNC when he switched off towards the end of
Now we have Gushwey coming in, someone who in theory reportedly is the main sort of ball
player on this team and there's no sign of him standing his way.
Attention, speak.
The soldier ban is quite interesting as well.
Nishai is obviously been playing, you know, whether it be the soldier or the Freya.
Probably puts Quartz in whether it's B-Fashion or Cassidy, could be the options there.
Discussion on the disc about going on to the Lucio Fury, sort of conflict for Twisted Mindtimes.
I think they also referenced earlier in the series.
They probably save one of those for a push in a game, five.
Obviously in the last series of Zeta, when we saw Milet, she played a lot of different
heroes on Esperanza in terms of support lines.
Like Mitchell Ludwig, Gushuang is back in the game here.
Ramatra, Volga, I think that's the play.
Atlas, we have seen teams play wrecking ball.
You did wrecking ball, Doomfist, very good for these six of you heroes.
count that out, right? It does feel like eventually Twisted Mind's cottoned on to
answering their dreamfist, but it did require a wholesale adjustment in their
composition, which included the Sigma. Exactly. That accretion to disrupt the
doom on his power blocking won't be an option. Yeah, you could, like Asti, you played Roadhog?
Well, that will put you up for a couple of other lines, that.
You know, you'll feel great toward them in life on the line, rolling out road hard capacity.
Well, this is the reality of losing control. In fact, losing this first two maps,
normally twisted minds are the ones who are ahead.
Normally, they're the ones who are poised to win this series, to win the mid-season,
rather, to win the Champions' Clash, to win playoffs and in the A.
And then they get reverse swept. That's been their story so far.
So this is uncharted territory.
We have both bad visas just on edge going into this one.
It means more to these two clubs than maybe any I could imagine in a game like this.
Fighting in a club, Championship as well Matt, they're very much in the race in the grander
scheme of the youth sports world cup.
But for those focused on the mid-season Championship, it's at the side of Matt.
We have a pause.
I believe it's just like that.
I want to remind them as well that the prize for winning this is gaming in Xenon Division.
I think it might be better to reign on their parade by the end of frame.
There's a chance to take it all here at the mid-season championship.
Yes, that is 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 because 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.
Yeah, I mean, Wave, you've been here before, at different points in different tournaments,
right?
But, you know, up against one of the powerhouse teams in the world, you get advantage, you
get reverse swept, twisted minds.
Obviously, a lot of adversity the last few months, but they've been battling it on the
This would be the hallmark example of that.
Ooh, a Reese's episode.
This is something we don't see as much from Mystic Minds,
but we've actually seen a ton from Zeta Mission at this event.
Dinkist, Vendetta, Shion, Jetpack Cat.
Quite the look here for Weibo.
Mystic Minds playing a pretty restrained sort of look.
It's a deckball style copter trying to look for you.
Every early season will come but there might have been a javelin problem leave guys on him, 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 rough, but the Eresa has been really strong at this event. Difficult deal
It's like a CDNT jumps down and can test the point
That allows Gushling and code just run through the rest of the team. But you see what's the place here
You can see he's being ignored.
Wave again into doing whatever they can to train a boy to fight against the Orisa.
And we give him T 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 play as a unit.
Yeah.
I would say so. You like to ask for a full 5 on 5 out in the open, but then you've got to do with the high ground sparrow.
What?
Hey, you'd be just backhands Lee's humidity emerges.
Wave again into them and answer.
Yes they do! It's an entire backline like waste!
There's a matter of time before Goonfist comes for Quartz.
That TDNT does take out Shy, but...
TDNT's not going to team kill every fight. Yeah, yeah.
Don't get me wrong.
We'll see you now.
That Goonfist comes in, we were talking about, maybe it's Sadoo, maybe it's Maga.
Reckyball has been prevalent on this map in the past, but it's the Goonfist here.
a lot like in map number one nobody else out there really doing this move just
barely missed a huge punch there through the TP. This is what Twisted Minds want though.
The fight is now falling off the high ground to the point itself and this is
where they feel like they can have the edge. Mark is likely to be alive. He
disengages fully the wave over 98% by the time Twisted Minds actually get a take.
They can sooner rush it something that is respected by the Chinese one. They're
going to fall away from it.
His dead eye though, he's so avoidable.
Not go, oh my goodness!
What a response!
Lee Swimmin had the only answer that gets him out
of that situation alive.
And the rest is a landslide.
Weibo gaming run over, twisted minds.
And they're going to have themselves the first class point.
Pretty clean there from Weibo.
Great use of the cat nav.
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.
It's Shy getting in here, it's this time Shy on the Shion, with the spray coming up massive.
Wavo, 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,
shabbling from the Orisa and your round can be over,
straight away.
Leave a little bit low,
Sunring Blade has been developed in Dushwey,
has to follow away from this,
this is no escape.
Look at that speed.
Bloody Astro left to clean up the best the TVNC made.
It was devised, come on, attention here on the second point.
Yeah, they need a use sound barrier there,
obviously with the Katsune rush rolling,
Sipwall invested as well,
But, nice spear on the exit from TDNT, that is going to get right on Maka.
The change here, it will be Gushley over to the Maga.
Maga a little bit of an easier time into the Orisa.
And then the Bastion here as well, right?
Up in the sky here with the cat, Orisa obviously, once the armor is off, does not have a ton of damage mitigation,
becomes a target that can easily fall over.
Try and pops up, that grenade is a non-insignificant amount of damage.
Grab the corner, clear the CT, always a priority for these DPS and the Weibo.
SIDE! And there's Hubee describing it's wall! Give it nowhere to go!
The response of the Terrasurge there from a TVND, but Weibo struck it off quite happily!
Looks like a suicide for just that moment.
Oh, Quads find some success on lead, but it's going to be released from the cat-napping now
all the twisted minds fight through as a death hole, and a run waver over.
Maybe this, Arisa has been pretty shrunk on this tournament,
that as we see Zeta playing it a ton,
which another team's gonna pick it up.
This time, TVNT grabs it here.
Obviously, Arisa's got the spear to the stun and just lay it displacement,
but the spear spin has a damage reduction.
And then also just kind of like knockback, right?
Like knocking the vendetta off course after using cooldowns, four to five.
Obviously becomes very difficult, they can even stand there and fight, TD&T.
A lot of times have that disruption, but a Risser is uniquely hard to disrupt.
So like to stop from Gushwe, Lee diving in, there's all these things you can see at the door, but there's a fortified.
Deadeye catches up at least a min before the turret shots come in.
Shy finds his second off the fight, but it's still overgaming, fighting from behind and Shy does not have the helpful to hang.
You know, the dead eye comes in from quartz, he ends up falling, but they get two kills
right off of the back of that, so worthwhile trade.
Wabo's going to have Lee go over and play Tracer here, and now back over going to play
Pharah, so they've been dead up, not working as well.
This is where TBNT would go over to something like a diva, potentially, right?
With all this damage coming in from that Pharah Bastion.
One thing I've note though, right, when we saw this in map number one, Twisted was now playing the Cassidy, they were playing a lot of that bash in can as well kind of match.
There was always some full of hitscan, but Lee has to be ultra careful now because of that Cassidy who would love to work around this point. This is really where he shines in terms of effective range.
Goochies engage there for WeiboGaming, come to the right time when a sim wall in play, they can't really fight back in the poke battle.
And Twistedbinds have gotten to 70% on his second flashpoint.
They're threatening to run away with the game.
Click it, running away. Goochwae, through the opposite.
In fact, a costly Twistedbinds in the sound barrier is just perfectly timed.
Cannae withstand this though, it's Goochwae, loses his cage fight and market to the terror surge.
Every answer, particularly crafted by Twistedbinds, to unravel the WeiboGaming plan.
The beat could not have been better time there by funny astro
Let's take a look here. It's gonna be a terror search in combination with a dead eye
We assume it actually was in there with a cat nap gets kind of
sucked into the middle there is TV and T
finishes off the far at the end
I am watching a contingent of fans you need to get Ian over there to console the wave of
Yeah, starting to believe, man.
Chai here trying to be a second Farah.
The Rocket Barrage is real.
He pushed him in the mid to the back and just gets plucked out by TB&T.
I'm fighting this close quarter, but Chai's got the answer.
Got him away here, look from the Sim Turret, and this way being alive is kind of unnecessary.
Chai and Lai's about one at a bloody time, they're low.
His aim is true.
TB&T gonna go over to the Diva, I was talking about how that's what they went to.
They went to, and just take off, early on.
Shy, I mean, what is this, huh?
It's a little, a little casual fighting here from Shy.
He's up, everybody there.
Pretty exciting moment.
Perking, of course, into the Rockets.
Beautiful done, can he do more?
I don't love twisted China match the Cap-Bash,
and I feel like this is gonna favor Wave-O slightly.
40% though, for Weber gaming.
I think they're happy with the matchup.
They're right, courts it down to the Rocket Barrage,
here's Lee looking for more.
Desperation now as he saw Simple trying to slip away
and it wasn't to be Weber gaming.
I think they might just be back.
Yeah, I mean, this is not for the strength of Twisted Minds.
So they're kind of trying the toe-to-toe with Weber,
who Lee, Sumit, and Chai have looked
really comfortable on this, this extremely risky,
but they probably feel like they kind of need
to match that damage output and the threat.
And then with the D.Va, they have a slight advantage.
Dangerous for Shine. Just an awkward spot.
I don't think he's ready for Quartz to descend that quickly.
Just the slightest calculation for Weebo Gaming.
They're all grouped up off the point, though,
and happy to come back in. They just need one more fight.
Easiest set to done, though, folks.
Especially, I believe, he's just caught in the neutral like that.
I mean, if you're at Weebo, you cannot allow these staggers to happen
just kind of I'll just let them just kind of waltz on in
just taking this map just a sloppy moment there yeah you can't have that as a
weave now i'm gonna ditch bar i go over to tracer
far as seems fine but perhaps against the cat bastion it's a bit ugly
Grisha we're here just want to get too low he's drawn out the consumer rush from twisted minds
this feels like a great exchange for weber gaming they trade ult for ult and now
shy it's going to use his i tell you strike coming to the back line now cage five who's caught
He looks like he's in a danger spot, the Kavna is going to come down, and the best in-off here for Twisted Minds.
Off the map goes Yugi, dragged down to his deep demise, and he's swimming, gets his hands dirty.
Zympus picked up, and Fonny Astros got a Kavna from his own, and looks like a TDNT remake is on the cards.
He's back, this way, taken out of the action, and Shy Falling means that we were gaming are going to fall flat in this last fight.
And Twisted Minds start to give their fans something really true to believe in.
Something real, a chance here, a reverse sweep in the series, but we've still got overtime.
Lee still has a chance to touch and he will, but we'll be soon being taken down.
The captain off there and Mark are too far from the action, it feels like a full-on hope.
Good show that we'll try. Weibo have been here time and time again.
They'll throw everything out there to fight for their right to compete.
We're going to have to go to a bad fight for that.
Twisted Mines! They're back!
Oh, no Waymo fans are crushed.
Not over just yet, but man, feels like we've seen this.
Twisted Mines trying to pull together. The reverse sweep, another final.
Yeah, one more map between these two teams and we take a look at some of the highlights.
Such a fantastic start for Weibo, right?
Playing this Doomfist, obviously getting a massive advantage early on in terms of comp.
The Orisa swap from TD&T was great.
Seemed to really tend to turn the tides of the map.
And then I thought on that last flashpoint, Weibo had a great start and then I think they
just kind of fumbled the bag.
He just let T.M. just get right back into it, even the last fight.
The last fight, man.
Like, it's one thing for Shire to maybe get overwhelmed,
not expecting to run into Twisted Minds for their work.
But every 98%, like, they could just take the point.
And then Quartz is able to find a random kill
just in his, like, normal Sentry mode on leave.
Brutal stuff. 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.
So what are 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 run but you can't hide.
Where do you think?
I didn't see it on there.
Where do you think the belief comes from in this team? Where does the belief come from in this team?
Where is the belief? Because we come from South. We come from each country. To believe in this team.
Do you think we're going to lose now? They trust us like we trust them. We're going to fight for them like they fight for us.
Can you wish one day, say,
La, la, la, la, wait till I get my money right.
Next fight, I will get my money. Let's go!
Right, come on, make some room.
I'm going on stage, right? Hold on a second.
I did not expect Broder to start singing Kenya West,
but that's where we are.
It's the East Wales World Cup, expect me 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
giving 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, a bang-it semi-final for all the marbles, a shot at this trophy
in the grand final. One more map to play, let's do it.
Wave a game in, came looking to avenge champions clash, and Twisted Binds 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 reverse at the receiving end of these reverse sweeps in recent
today it's time to deliver one of their own making and we get Colosseo is the final nap
selection in this series and like we talked about at the receiving whether it be the Kiri or the
Lucio Pan for the end it is Qiri gone
And interesting enough Mitch is the Moga gun on the other side
Gushui stays in the game. I believe we can get word that there's a sub thing going on this stage
It's really far even with my new enhanced eyes for me to see but yeah, no, who should we still end so?
the Moga gun I guess it's gonna be
Look at our mantra here potentially. This is gonna be like
Wuyang versus Chunon looks simple doesn't they don't really play the Wuyang they'll probably play
there's simple to play the map right yeah play something like that he's I don't know it has
some lateral mobility now with the perk upgrade but it seems like a non-pic oh man what an insane
game way by have spent years living with the pain of heartbreak their fans are very familiar with
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 Cury Band is also the right one there from Wave-O.
Because if you were to just ban the Lucio, a funny Ashro could play Juno at a really high level,
can also play Jetpack Cat, right?
Allows Cury to stay in the game.
That with 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-Battees composition versus
Jetpack, Kat, Bastion and Duryfist. You know the Bat is 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 gonna give them a lot of,
it's gonna say some answers here against the Pharah, right?
Now, obviously, Sin can't really interact that much
with the Pharah.
Wow!
And typically, neither can the Reinhardt,
but CB and Tees is to watch this.
But the BAP, obviously, can put out a lot of damage
towards some of those Flyers.
So, gonna make up for some that they lack in that
in terms of the Kong.
They just could poke damage overall.
But Diffus does not love that,
And especially when he's forced some of those longest straightaways, I mean a big slammer
or a punch from the dude, like the regen burst there on the back is going to be pretty strong
against it.
In mortality field they're used.
Gushray gets a bit of a meow there, bit of a heal boost, and he dives on in.
Very successful foray in the enemy territory here for Weibo Gaming.
They have given 40% and now they need to play back in the long straightaway once more.
I think it's very well to meet Gushray with a fire knight there.
I also wonder if that's going to be the end of the Reinhardt.
Looks like potentially going to come out with another game of it here.
I'm going to try it one more time, but...
They were pretty fast up the Reinhardt.
The last time, some serious damage down here from Shy.
And it was harder for him to come pretty early in the day, didn't it?
And it was washed away in seconds.
Tilted with the mire, trying to run away with the bag.
Shy doesn't have a way to chase them really.
That's out of the jetpack capsule instead.
He rages for his Q key and COUTS!
Oh, we need him to shield him, he uses a gun.
He's still there, but Funny Astro is running away with the COUTS!
You know, it's all fun, right?
Wave-O is obviously coming up with some kills, but it's actually...
just a nice game progress out of that fight.
Because the payload goes all the way back the other direction.
The report's now over to the Cassidy.
We take a look here.
Shy's POV with the artillery.
He's been really good with these throughout the series.
He also gets the kills here on a funny asterisk TVNT to finish it off.
The Capacity is getting some serious violence, but now we will have to push into Twisted Minds territory.
That's looking a little uncomfortable for them so far.
Meteor Strike has just come in their position. What a biotic grenade from Maka!
Just to die, any healing opportunity!
Quarters of Funny Astros, certainly priority targets found first and found wanting.
This time it'll be Wave Old.
Getting the bot moving, that's going to be the ant matrix used there by twisted mines.
That's 20 or so meters behind here for Weibo gaming nano boost available for either LEED
or GUSHWEI most likely.
We're mocking here on an AWPing nano boost!
They can't swim in the entire time!
Behind this, Weibo gaming smacker nations are coming to fruition at GUSHWEI!
Simply knocking heads together!
Not one for starting this one, but leave the game playing to the big brains.
Aw, that's gonna be Weebo taking the lead, and they catch them completely off guard.
Maka on an off angle, Biogradid, Dano.
It's so far forward!
Yeah, into Gushwe.
Into Gushwe.
What can you get out of Twisted Minds now in order to get them stabilised?
Can you make this expensive at your Weebo Gaming?
Fifteen meters, a lead, that is massive!
Lead coming in the barrage, that makes me wonder if he's not switching off the Faray here, of course.
Does the deed?
Twisted Minds 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 soundfire out.
Basically, at the same time, they get Gushwe,
then that ultimate is huge, right?
As Lee gonna ditch the bar over the tracer here.
Maybe he feels like just towards just too much of a threat.
Put some more pressure on the back line here with Gushwe.
That you don't want to find in the symbol at all.
Okay, they're getting a lot of ground.
How much is the question?
Here comes Sebastian ultimate.
Gushwe trying to set up some eliminations theoretically.
See if one of them have an M matrix, but there's no spot to make use of him, and the Bride of Grenade knocks him down!
The fellow building it off back to, he's certainly being displayed there.
Revocating, Scott twisted mines from equalizing, but they let them once they're closer to the total.
Simplable build up towards these M-Mitrixes really fast.
There, tries using a mortality field.
He's able to save.
Oh, hey, you know, they kicked it back with like an empty corner at all this event.
That'd be simple. This is really like Death Ball.
He also has a more, a little bit more survivable, right, than the Baptiste.
This is what a Kiriko van does to a van.
So, quick mobility, decent healing and a pinch.
I'm not sure about it, though. I won't lie.
It lacks utility, something that's simple spin-out to really lean on.
Over the run.
You also do lose some of that extra poke that the Baptiste provides.
But if this hasn't gotten any value out of it, nice big punch there from Grishwaite.
Disruptive, but it's not deadly, yes.
He'll have the devil back to the cart now, we can't be conceiving this lead if we're
wayward gaming.
Maka, Sathcustra, please stand on my line as I please, Yubi's down.
Leib is delivered, such an important collection of kills here with simple fall to the pulse
spot.
He must have waited out the fade, and wayward gaming continued a whole twisted mind at
bay.
It's not halfway through this game now.
This is the UBC here.
Oh, nice.
Pulse bomb.
Simple.
Doesn't have to fade there to kind of wash that off, live another day as...
Gord's got to get some more of that water on that mouse pad.
Get that coal fishing of friction just right.
Holy, wait a minute.
Hang on, way more gaming.
Out of the gate again.
This time.
Deeper into enemy territory.
Deeper into enemy territory, Maka has fallen though.
He's actually no support on live, but with the gaming,
they might have the damages to force TVNT away.
Even if it's for a couple of seconds,
some extra push progress would be acceptable.
Leeb has to really pick at the edges
if they start with the 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.
Coalescence 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 well.
You just get right to the high ground, get rid of Shai.
They're gonna catch up.
Shai now taking down the lacer, if the damage lead would have to do something.
Ridiculous to try and get them back and twist the lines.
I've gotten into the lead.
A massive pick on the Bastion.
Paves the way forward for them now and a sim wall could make this even more painful.
Two Shwets lost his grip on the fight.
And Wave-O might have locked stairs on the map.
DBNT gets a free remake here. Quartz is a dead-eye.
Paul Lesson'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 TP's in combination with the dead-eye.
There's a Lee Sinin falling.
Dead-eye sound barrier.
Wave-O fallen apart here at the end, Mitch.
Now, Tm, they've blown it open.
I feel like anything you get out of this is just icing on top of the cake for twisted
minds.
Not really looking for a map completion, but 2 minutes 30.
This gives him a nice buffer.
Yeah, you turn it from 1-5 to a way where to catch up into 2, and that's when it starts
to feel impossible, especially with only 2 minutes on the clock.
Hushway gets a nano boost, but he's gonna be brought down by Foddy Astrow.
He cannot deal with the face full of damage leveled at him.
Leib is trying to contest, trying to find a way to act like someone.
He gets a remix too.
Yeah, he's back in the fight.
Up here for Lee, so remember, Quartz has found Leib, 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.
And you want a map completion, Shai though.
Neath then an artillery shell, finishes off Quartz.
Yuvi will 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. It's 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 minute and twenty-three.
There's multiple fights. I'm thinking three fights they have to win to match this total.
They'd have to be simply perfect from here on out.
And twisted minds. They're not going to give you a free lunch.
You be though. Moleshop turned into an easy snack.
Leave, able to 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.
The most important part is that it's not costly.
Meteor Strike, right?
If you're Twisted Minds, you're trying to take a fighter to like that, that forces out some more of these ultimates.
How would a Weibo kind of stacking something for big one last fight at the end?
Try playing forward, looking for an early pick. This is dangerous. It's a big risk to take, but he's committed to it.
Here is Kishwae turning up, Shai is down, and he's pretty charged up.
I think Kishwae's in trouble. He's down, and that's going to give control to that. Back to Twisted Minds.
Weibo 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.
Marketize late here, Mitch.
Astral gonna move on back. They're not even gonna touch this cart, right?
I don't see where the touch is supposed to come from.
Two maps down. They will rip it 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 Webber on their last legs
is a 60 meter deficit court sitting comfortably behind the wall.
We're going to get a dead eye.
He freaks the house down!
He wants to put two off the dead eye and Mark is being hunted just for sport.
The result doesn't even matter.
These minds twist Webber's game extreme into another chapter of their own championship legend.
Legend, the reverse sweep in the semifinals.
The twisted lines with Nova Crack at glory in Paris.
Another devastating loss for Wave-O gaming.
We were talking a little bit in that previous fight.
I was mentioning how good Twisted is.
We like these dead eyes with the TPs.
lead, 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 file for them at the international stage.
Really did the most consistent team, the best team in the world over the last year.
We go 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 here in Arena is powerful.
We're going to collect up some of it, including some quotes from our victors with the annual
stake.
Wow, I could barely hear myself down here.
The Twisted Minds fans, as you might expect, losing their minds.
I'm standing by with funny Astro man when you were to oh down
I think everybody was sitting here thinking you're cooked. What was it? Was it strats?
Did you switch things up or was it just sheer belief?
Map one they kind of surprises with their combat some good strats. So what play to them map to
Again, they played pretty well. I like we were playing before game and they had some good counters to us
But yeah, we managed to turn it around when you were gonna win in the end
You know who else knew you were gonna win these guys down here and they're in such close proximity to you
Can you hear that support? Can you feel it as you're going along all the whole time when we're down too long?
Hearing these guys in the background sharing a long process. It's incredible
Just
It's clear for one second. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm going off piece there a second guys make some noise for funny extra 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,
anywhere you go 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?
Oh, we feel no pressure when we play.
We play like when we're at home sat at our desks, 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 for the Astra.
Legend come with me
Are you ready to crush a kid?
Yes, I'm ready
Did you imagine that this could have happened?
Yeah, it's only what's happened against Team China
Okay, get in there
Huge moment here as we
Crush what is a pivotal key a semi-finalist
Is 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 gaming 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 you've now secured yourself in the grand final Zeta division
come and see your fans are you gonna be quiet now guys you've got him right here make some
How do you beat Zayta Division in the Grand Final?
I mean we beat them in Japan Major but now they're getting stronger and we don't know
where they are coming from like Weibo.
But we will try our best and maybe we will surprise them with a new competition.
You'll be quick message for your fans here.
May God help you all.
Thank you very much.
Best of luck in the Grand Final.
It is locked in.
Zeta Division vs. Twisted Minds who will take the trophy.
I know who's going to take the trophy but I know I want that plushie.
Congratulations to Twisted Minds on the most ridiculous reverse sweep of the weekend.
I've got Jake, Zoe, and reinforced to break it all down.
This was 7 minutes of Gushua 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, and TVNT's D.Va 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 the 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.
How do you shout out to Makka on the other side?
I think Makka was a big playmaker helping Gusha, enabling Gusha to land those kills,
because those nades once again were absolutely unreal.
I am a big fan of that Makka on, and I hope to see more of that in the future.
I thought having the honor was going to give them the edge.
Johnny, let's talk a little bit about Quartz though in UB, because you heard Mr. X saying
that the teleport high noon combination has got so many players off guard.
That was the exclamation mark on the final map.
Yeah, I mean, we've seen so many teams play this metro, 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 Overwatch World Cup 2023, same thing, Team China up 2-0.
And then Saudi Arabia, the reverse sweep on the back of UBN courts, 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 it through to
the next round.
Twisted Minds will be in the grand final.
If you're a Webo Fando, you gotta 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, Webo Gaming were 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 Webo showed not only today, but through this tournament.
I think they're going to be a fierce contender and for T1 we got to remember they got bulldozed to start the day
Are they really going to 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 semi-finals today
Right on that twisted minds that kind of rolled over a
DK they're very early on and then wave was surprised us all would have very convincing victory over space station gaming
which we're running out of gas very quickly.
Santa Division, absolutely annihilated Dallas Fuel.
Like that was a brutal beatdown.
And then a brutal beatdown also from T1 over Crazy Recruits,
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 they did a vision 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 are 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 they're going 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 fourth.
And obviously, you want the club championship points here at the
Aspous World Cup too.
So a look on the line for these two teams still.
We're getting in front of mom by moms here at EWC.
You love to see it, Jake.
Before we go to commercial break,
We're going to see T1 against Wevo.
Why should people stick around for that third place matchup?
I think this is a huge mental test for T1 in particular.
Wevo, 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, that was a hopeless first match
to start that day.
destroyed. If they can pick themselves back up, that would be a serious feather in the cap with those young players with stuff, 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 going to 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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It's time your chair evolved.
This is Secret Lab Titan Eva.
The ergonomical engine needed for you.
Gamers.
Hybrid workers.
Artists.
You are back in your every move.
Hi everyone, I'm Kitty and I'm here at the EWC Arena 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.
of PlayStation 5 computers. If you're spinning the wheel, you can do challenges, you have
the balls. Why would you not come here? Speaking of activities, you can do here at the EWCR
and you can like play games and speaking of gaming and the game addicts myself so I'm
just going to drop the mic and stop playing. You can come in here and have a lot of different
activities learning about Kedia 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 horns. Vitality right behind me. You have Carmichord, Gentleman. You can
maybe meet your favorite players. Sometimes this place is packed, so make sure you're
coming in.
Yet 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 modern areas, so please bring your friends along because after sitting here all day,
you might want to play some games, basketball, football, and actually in a while, I'm gonna play as well.
We are displaying the best esports in the world here at the EWC Arena. We had
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 their key crushed in being in the sand right next to me.
But I have one more question.
Who is going to lift that precious club championship trophy?
We'll 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 what
let me go around and take a look at some of these amazing signs together. Amazing
drawing, I love the trace of 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. What's your name?
Natalie. Okay, so can you explain what I'm seeing right now? I'm guessing you are 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
other players. So of course Anna for Shue, Lucio for Violette, Dila for Bernard, Tracer
for Pepper 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 D.Va the only one that is crying?
It's crying. Everyone else is happy and Bernard's is crying here.
The tank is always the one that suffers the most.
Pretty much.
I mean, fantastic drawing. Now I have to give my rating.
I'm going to give you, honestly, 9 out of 10. Fantastic drawing.
It's cute. They have personality. You even have the player's names on it.
Fantastic job.
Can you guys explain me what I'm looking at?
Okay, so this one is Azaria 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 all right I have to rate it now it's usually drawings on the signs
but I will give you guys both ladies eight out of ten happy and they say and
they say and they say and they say and they say it's Chinese overwatch really
back I do you believe I have hopes I truly believe this time we have broken
the curse with Falcons so I think we have the strength to do this.
And where did you find this?
I think it's from the cinematic.
If I'm not mistaken right?
Yeah, it's the Overwatch to cinematic, Muncio is Overwatch back, so I think I tried to do
the Chinese version.
Pretty clever, pretty clever.
Alright, my rating for this one.
I'm gonna have to give it 7 out of 10.
Alright guys, I found another amazing artist.
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 right there do you know look at that beautiful drawing oh my god peps fans are
there's a lot of great
you
First, consider alleviating pain points for players with an updated layout before handing
the map off to the art team to work their magic on the new canvas.
And when possible, we'll be updating our maps to support major story beats.
But that's enough of me talking about the map reworks.
Let's actually take a look at them together.
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 Vishgar Corporation's Eris.
Although Domina may paint herself as the generous benefactor of Pariso, I assure you,
friendly faces are fighting back to. As we continue on to point to, the people of Puriso
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, Sinesthesia.
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 will 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. Making 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 focus 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 an 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 Mecha 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.
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 of Iconvald, or full site in Priso, we look forward to
seeing you when Season 4 launches on August 11th.
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 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. No, but I think the
Maraiso rework looks really good.
That map has been really unpopular
and top competitive play.
And honestly with the rework,
it's gonna 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 Ikenvald came around.
Is that just kind of brought back
to run hard Gory days?
Or what are you excited about there?
I mean, attacking second on Ikenvald.
They're just like, yeah, throw the castle right above us.
And now we have to like unprotected walk towards
the car like some changes to that map was much needed I'm really happy they're
watching stuff that showy the pig had me giggling what has your excited I mean
yeah jiddy pig definitely a strong contender but I'm with Jake here at
Pariso adding more coverage to that map is just so needed especially when you
play Roddy like me it's time to talk about our third place matchup or as they
call it here in France la petite finale T1 versus Wavo gaming this should be a
a fun one, especially if you just watched Wave-O, 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 beat. Then I'd love to start with
T1 and let's talk about where they struggled at the start of the 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
And we hyped up, we said that Proud and Cess, 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 Webu 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 Webo?
To be honest, I feel like you just don't want to think too much about this first match
Okay, 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 racoon 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
It is just wasn't the T1 that we've seen elsewhere in this tournament. This is for me
I don't 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 way beginning
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 with T1 was finding their win?
Well, honestly, I think it's the DPS line for them, right?
I think Proud and Zest have been stepping it up each and every single series that they've 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 a favorite in this one.
Zest was looking great on all the hits, Gam. 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 soon for the third and fourth place.
Zest, I got to talk really quickly about your match against Zeta Division. What's an unfortunate loss. How are you feeling right now?
It's been some time since our first match, we can say it has happened.
I'm trying to just forget about it and focus on what is left, which is the third-fourth match.
And I think I'm going to just focus on that, and that is what I'm trying to do.
All right. Do you have anything that you want to say to your fans before your third and fourth place match?
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 Zeta Division. 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 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 foe.
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, interested 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 and overlapped
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 with you and our 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 Lisa Min's cat has been phenomenal for them.
We talked about the positioning and repositioning that Aliso Minna 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, their
star players, the veterans, they're back to former glory to that kind of form and now
they have those new pieces with Sunzo in the mix as well.
I love seeing the Cat Bastion shy with the Bastion with Tarenthroop 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 to join 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 T
I was so close, but you guys fell short just a little bit
But you guys I mean for Chinese overwatch and weibo gaming coming into 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's game was very intense.
You almost lost a little bit of your victory.
But no matter what you say,
our team of Weibo has still become the first place in the game.
At least the previous four players have a position like this.
For you, do you still think it's a huge breakthrough?
Is it a success?
I think we can stand here. It's our team, our team, the players, the coach, and the management,
working together to get this position. 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.
your days just not over just yet you guys have one more match for the third and
fourth place you guys are going up against T1 shy how confident are you for
that match
So you actually didn't finish this game and you have another game to fight against T1
What are you looking forward to in the next game?
I think as a team, since the result is like this, we can only accept a little bit
just to be happy to win the next game
So I think her IZ team will accept now we lost to the play lost to the match we just had but then
We will calm down and then we will do the next match better. Okay. All right
Shai June, thank you so much best of luck in your match against T1. Jio
That is Shai from WayVogue 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 way boo was too mentally tolling
I got a way bow
I believe channel number one. Let's go. Let's do it. This is a year
Way bow 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 force of my line, let's go way bow 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.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, let's be honest, the third place is rarely the match that competitors
want to play.
Let's be dead honest, it's rarely what a competitor wants to run for, third place
match.
Yeah, absolutely, neither of our two competitors here work up this morning wanting to fight
for a bronze medal, but here we are, it's a tough old game, Lou.
Yeah, indeed, indeed, but this match, it imported a lot for the clubs, there's a lot
There is a lot on the line for their organization.
Absolutely. Another big chunk of change is up the grabs. Huge club championship points.
And of course, the honor of leaving Paris on a W.
Ian le dit mieux que moi. Effectivement on peut partir de Paris sur une victoire.
Avoir plus de points de championnat et également évidemment l'honneur.
And I think it's time for us to welcome our two teams.
I think it is a beat. Let's welcome first.
Wave-O Gaming!
Here they are again.
They 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, 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
T one going down in a three O
beatdown versus data. Wave of
gaming on the other hand a
grueling map five reverse
sweet, but like they mentioned
down on the stage, they want to
leave here with their heads
held high and find that podium
teams as well. He was more than happy to call themselves one of the best at fighting into
those sim teams, but Wayvo had counter sim 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, I have 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 dive. T1 obviously they would have seen that so maybe
expecting some Gooshway Doomfist 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 reposition
opportunities plus it's the surprise factor so better that secrets more out in the open it's
likely that we see who play go things like the rematch truck or the battle truck.
Also kept courts heavily occupied right even when the sojourn band was thrown,
he couldn't go to the sojourn because the dinners 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 DMEA teams.
And some of the Korean teams now that that strategy has widened out to the rest of the
world.
Yeah, this one it feels like it's going to be a heavy presence on the DPS.
Zest 2 has been very flexible over the last tournament.
Played us so many, even we've seen Venture from Zest which is a whole bunch from him
and proud.
A lot of the Vendetta.
A lot of Vendetta.
It's always been target banned as we head to our first control map, which will be no surprises, Nepal.
Oh man, they're fanning the Donghaek Ball! Come on, Shion at the head for D1 on the other side.
Donghaek Racking Ball, it's always a safe call on Nepal, especially up against like maps like Trine.
It's so problematic to split your attention and Dunghack is one of the best.
It's hardly rivaled by Jumben in that regard when it comes to the Riding Ball, if you've been following the Wolf Cup scene,
some would say potentially the rising star of Golden Pants as well.
But the ball has been taken out back, sadly as has that she on something else,
else, which is heavily targeted versus Wabo. So Zest will be able to play the bandetta
if he's so chooses. Donkak can go for the Mauga to match Gushwe if he wants.
Go on, Bliss. Yeah, you could just go to play the cat here, surely. It's been the secret
source with a quick speed ring
out here. No advantage for both
of these teams. The only
change will be proud on that
I think it's very good at, yeah, you know, chunking out obviously shy, he's zooming, first to go down to Bliss.
They do trade their tank for it though, but numbers of Vantage here for T1.
Proud jumps into the backline, hardly takes the thought, he's in that straight, you see that on lead?
Nasty stuff there from Proud to start us off with, but despite Gushway surviving in that fight,
as soon as that cardiac overdrive runs out, that's his life soon to follow.
Who'll be the point for T1 first?
But POP does fall, but MAKA goes down for the side of WEBO late, so T1 first cap, WEBO 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, GUSHWE did not!
Oh whoa, all good though, might've just got a TP so it's fine.
Teleports to the high ground there for Zest now, Shai's getting into stun though, it's probably Donghae just charging him.
Gushui is going to do exactly the same thing to Braalbert.
So an even trade you've got to say.
It's up to the Reapers to get into the business now.
Skiu got the rush super early.
Can you just grab it?
Just grab a quick team fight.
Yeah, Gushui ends up going down too.
Shai is going to try and make a difference with the ult.
Although with stationary targets like this,
they've all been funneled in to Lee.
Lee takes two kills of his own, as Webo Gueming still in this fight.
Although saying that, the point is still in the favor of T1,
plus Braalbert on high ground.
Yeah, he's a tough cookie to deal with.
Yeah, but Weibo do have that rush, that's he won't have to respect so far.
Pride, about to come online with the Override Protocol.
You can pair that into the rush, you should have done it.
Yeah, perfectly timed rush there.
Bliss is going to go into that nap on Indian.
Susie from Marker is going to make sure no one is dragged out of the fight.
Living Weapon Override Protocol does absolutely nothing to Brown.
This is great for Weibo as well, because now you can scout out
which lane crowd tries to take. And yeah, you know, the M-Ray is so much more difficult to put into
positions once you have to play the retake, because you get to see how he started that one-sided rush.
Benefitted shy on the Bastion. So much high damage I put. Not enough sustainability to be able to
survive directly into the face of it as T1 caged deathblotting combos. But you have to first get
past the backstab that is.
Oh, there's the cage, death puzzle from Desk and the kill marker instantly.
There he comes, the artillery barrage.
Leaves gonna rip one of his own two and kill Bliss.
One-to-one, leave, Desk.
Gentleman's screaming here, maybe, maybe not.
Oh, Cez.
Narrowly, narrowly killed Leaves there.
Just a couple of shots, but all good.
Waveboat Gaming's still in control.
They should be for the foreseeable future.
Just need to clear Zest off the cycle.
Oh, T1, don't die so soon!
Oh, that brutal skewed goes down.
She's the one that T1's looking to to have the Russian fan to go over Makar.
What are you saying?
That shyce ended up going down in pole.
Least of them go to the cabinet there on the Batch,
and Proud is kind of dangling around currently.
No focus fly though,
but maybe again,
it couldn't get in a position to actually punish.
Nice flip yet from T1 to 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.
T2 at least have been leave already dead.
T1 with a quick flip.
Okay, Q1 now brought up artillery strike to keep Wave-O gaming off their backs
for when this next fight happens, so they should be able to support the Point Percent
and put us into Final Fight territory.
Wave-O though, they'll take that little bit of time required to board off Rush to Match.
I like how proud the positioning right now,
but this is kind of dangling over this choke point, shy on the other side, though.
I'm gonna wait to take the duel, I'd imagine.
Take a little bit more safe, or try to go for a surprise tactic here.
It looks like Braav's got different ideas.
They end up swinging into the choke point for Braav, doesn't end up going down.
Shieshies through the back, the whole time.
Hear that crit spot.
Oh, big stun though from Blitz again.
It's Gushui and Lee in the front line.
They still end up coming out with kills though, with OT in session however.
T1 still got the catch on the point, trying to defend.
Lee Swim in, chased away.
Blitz healed up all the way to full.
They're going in for the 1v1.
Oh, Blitz ends up winning it.
Gooseway though dips his head in, a declaw splits, Donghak drops down the cage, he's not
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 say your chance is here if you're
the Malga any day of the week, Donghak, barren if just shreds. Oh, long range going as well,
from proud onto the point. I might know if you need it to prepare his zest, I think he's already done
have enough. Oh, he still gets a kill. All good. Teleports by ground possessed as they
just managed to wrap Wabo. I need to go straight left, but I didn't go last too much longer.
My guy not happening. Yeah, this round is done. Great use of Dappos on there from Zest.
Managers to see where exactly that Reaper will be teleporting. He has to just go past
the choke, past the Malgo 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.
Very into this series, Moxie, I've had to set it up in the beginning, but I mean how
would you begin, what position would you rather be in?
Weibo's or T1's?
Weibo obviously, Matt Fibre, Reverse Sweep or T1, who got kind of stopped by Zayac.
What mental position would you rather be in?
Oh, it's rough because you have to reset. 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 had sort of like,
sit with the knowledge that they did not make it, but did have that time to be able to sort of coach the coaches,
look at the boards, as we instantly get ready to go into Sanctum, and the Label have swapped up their comp.
Shai is on that frayer, trying to be problematic to Zestin Prime.
Oh, nice stuff by Marca there, throws the nade and is going to be able to dodge out of the way, receives the Suzu,
both supports under a heavy caress here, Webo gaming turning their attention to Donghak who's acting like a rather large tracer in the backline.
Very quick springboard back in for Webo gaming is Marca, ends up staying alive.
Yeah, Webo's in very aggressive as well with the composition, despite the lack of lute or tuna to be able to push them forward directly into Q1 spaces.
Let's pry it down. Good anti-on-to-gliss as well. T1 have to pull the shots off of this, but Wabo, they just take the black planks, and T1 get blocked totally out of space.
Nice positioning from Lee. Beast mode on the tracer.
Well, 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 Proud and Zest can't get past, right?
And then you just hold down the fort with things like your Pulse Bomb, your Bowler's, to stop Q1 from pushing in, until Naka has none of it.
Right, Zest, no Pulse Bomb on hand, just trying to head out the honor in the neutral.
Very close to Nanna. Looks like Doucheway not receiving the heals required there as Mark was preoccupied by Zest.
Forced to hit the recall anyway. Job's done honestly. Marker can't move here at all.
Eventually Zest finds his mark. Really good. Kind of like pacing there from Zest.
Yeah, we're controlling one lane, but not keeping that eye on where that should just pop up with that double blink to put the burst on the Ana, and take the resources that we're keeping, just put on the Arista.
I still just fighting.
Yeah! Gooshway ends the spin,
and he's just into the sidelines,
and he's also into the trade there. Gooshway pretty low.
He's got a spear spin straight into the spear
downtown, but no, it goes a little wide.
Not a problem. Donghack's still in the backline though, somehow.
And the HALPRO is still alive, I'm going to be honest here.
Someone needs to take care of him. Nice spear into the wall,
Proud ends up flooding away with the golden Gooshway.
Ends up taking him out regardless.
Here's the KX2. This fight has gone off
way too long here.
It's not quite sure if I hit last this long.
Both rushes used on top of each other as well.
Bonhag is still alive!
Kill this man!
Please zoom in.
Find him in the end.
T1, silly control of the point 2.
So Wavo 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 Wavo winning the previous ones
and holding you at choke.
Please, with the pulse on,
but now has to walk into T1
one who will be able to see him coming and sues Lilith to all eyes full to show him.
Don't guys really just playing the bigger Tracer here?
Oh, the Valka! He's taking it off! He's running into the back eyes again!
Valka's gonna go really low there! Is the overrun kill on the least two men?
I really like the way Don't guys play him right now.
He's playing with anger, fury, vengeance, maybe? That is what's filling his heart right now.
You're also playing safe with the knowledge that Wave will have no way to disengage Nile with land.
There's no Lucio, there's no Sim, there's no Juno.
If he gets to that backline, and Maka does not have things like the anti for the self-heal, he's dead.
So he goes onto the cat instead, much harder for the Maka to summon top two.
Yeah, I mean, nothing with Donghax if you're gonna do that a moment longer.
Not with the cat, like you said.
No chance here, I should connect with the backline.
So he can return from being the big Tracer to just the big Maka instead.
Although saying that is for that, obviously, so what do I do?
There we go, Proud.
Alright, eventually Proud is taking care of what Donghax,
taking him to spawn again.
Gushways is going to get run over.
It's Herosurge in the middle of no man's land at this point.
Donghae's just going to go in there anyway.
A free charge for my supports.
Thank you very much.
Takes a tickle in the damage as T1 goes for the spawn ball touch.
A slide out from Shai to try and get into the fight once again,
but there's nowhere nearby for Waybo 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 don't have taken full advantage being able to mag us on forward.
Like, Maka last fight actually goes for the Icer Cat to drop him close enough behind enemy lines
so 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 hits 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 at just a moment,
but we're a very special couple of guests down in the audience.
Lou with a couple on their honeymoon.
Indeed, very special guests here in the City of Love,
and I'm so glad to be with Kevin and Peyton,
who have very important news to share.
We're on our honeymoon.
Honeymoon here in Paris, coming to see the Overwatch
season 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 when you started gaming together,
when he started gaming together.
So, we are in our honeymoon.
We just got married and we started playing together
overwatch as soon as we started to date,
since 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, can we make noise, please?
I love that friendly people. Effectivement on se regale à Paris. Les gens sont incroyables.
La vie est trop belle. On mange trop bien. And last but not least, you know, your story is
fully moving to, you know, couple of gamers. So is there anything you want to share with
maybe gaming couples that are watching us?
If your PC is from the same room, get good headphones. Your friends will thank you.
Si vous jouez dans la main, yeah, that's so accurate man. Si vous jouez dans la main
If you play in the same room, be sure to have a training camp,
a good microphone, and your friends will thank you.
We can say what we want.
The gamers also find their way back.
to get back on track. Yeah,
honestly, a really nice story.
See gamers can find love. It's a
meet you. Gamers can find love.
There it is. It's wonderful to see
them here at mid season
championship. As we get back
So, um, that's going to be neon junction, right?
Most probably.
That we return to second with, let me, let me guess, spicy gouchouay sub-out for Sunzo.
Garing today, are we, Lavo?
That is a very good line, so excellent.
Seven look. Are we gonna see Sunzo? Yes we are!
Okay, gouchouay out, Sunzo back in, all righty.
Now we can see the Gooshway Doomfist, sadly, but a little bit more telegraphed here from
some time.
We saw 0.5 seconds of it 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 Gooshway Doomfist
that we had previously.
Like I said, it's more kind of symmetric strategy, also of course in quotes to have to hold onto
the cast as a person. Sojourn, which is a good way outside of the band draft of keeping him
off his best hero. Speaking about the band draft, earlier on we did get to see Sons of Band Art of
the Sigma and have to flex onto that Rematra. Some teams as well have tried since way before
having been playing Neon Junction all along. All you're happy with is trying-
Two signs I can clap my little hands to and slap my belly.
More alarm skins, yes, enough malware, but we'll never save it.
Thank you very much.
I don't think any of us would fight on a potential battle.
No one is going to complain.
No, not even the tank players as well, probably.
Absolutely, and nobody.
So W sign.
W sign.
Now, Sun's out in.
New Junction? Ah, let's take a peek. Give me a shot on the screen.
We'll see where we end up going. Look, your other choices are Paris, so before it gets its lovely
little map overhaul. That's never getting chosen, I'm sorry. And I convolved also before it gets
its new season map overhaul. So let's pretend to be surprised when we zoom out. No way!
Need on Junction? You don't say!
Wow, they're keeping the produce up. Wow!
Vendetta ban and Tifa ban here for map number two.
I'm sad they're taking away the Vendetta.
I think that comp has been so good for team one.
Asheon Vendetta just all out brawl 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 SEM. You have no reason to target out SEM.
You don't have to worry about a team being teleported outside of Choke.
What you do have to worry about is that then get a Shion 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 can simply walk them down.
To realign the stakes here for this series two, winner comes out with the third place, that podium
finish here in the mid-season and at EWC that's a lot more club championship points that you want
to earn for your team as a whole, whether that's Wayvo Gaming or T1 across all games here.
Well, least to the men, 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 pokey 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,
the vendetta, the Shion 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 defence this time around. Kat Vassion
with SKUZ sticking on this Ana so really good nano potential and also pride on the
prior we know that he'll hit the ult first even before a support as there's
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 smart of mine 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 Marlowe?
Yeah!
It's a classic, it's a classic.
Now who's the one who's got the jiggly pig?
It's even better!
Alright, where'd we get me?
Sunzone, no shot.
Straight over to the sigma.
But without this vendetta,
Looks like D1 are going to pivot back to the cat bastion with Zest.
There's also a lot of pressure on Shy, and prior to being able to win that Freya versus Freya's lead actually,
Force just bike away by the cat bastion.
Oh, wow, that was close.
One more take-age shot there from Shy would have been an easy kill on Zest to open things up with.
Oh, to sweep the ante onto Sunzo.
Wave her, just can't move forward.
He's taking a lot of damage there, has to fast back and use the bike there for some additional damage.
Good rock by Sunzo. Donghack fell, falls to his back, and that will be, in theory, this first point.
Yeah, T1 could potentially go for a retake, but since they got shy so wave over a huge chunk of damage,
Donghack's coming back on Malga. T wants to take the fight.
They're saying this was Sunzo who's doing a heck of a bad damage himself right now.
He's gonna try and force Sest off that high ground, here comes the stomp from Donghack,
Leave now in trouble. Just get a cat scratch there, you've got to be careful.
Blitz appearing out of nowhere most of the time, just scratching your face off here for your opposition.
Nice double from Dong, that's going to keep him competitive here. Only two ticks for Waybo getting.
Yeah, and T1 have been able to board up a good nest egg of ultimate.
Bola's a proud nanoboost for Skewed and a killer strike from Bess to slow this next fight down.
Wave-o, they're close to that rush, but close if not enough to commit to the fight.
And that allows T1 the opportunity to find these pits and force them back.
Why do I at least human thought his TTP was there?
Ooh, what's it, 80?
That's not a good start, though.
Way too far off, it felt like.
How does that make statue?
I wonder how much a LOS is he was at.
Well, there's the follow-up.
There goes White. Not an issue, though.
Shy's gonna build that one up real quick.
Now we're going, only 33% needed.
Yep, one kill onto the tank, one tick left.
That will be enough to waive him, and they hold on to so many of the ults to scooch the tank.
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, nading himself.
Here comes the Flux!
Ends up getting one.
I'll tell her to rise from the stairs,
because if you don't try to make it a little bit more difficult here,
the gonghack instantly focused down.
Good Flux from Sando.
Whips him around the corner, gets the payload, going some more.
2-1 have just been denied the opportunity to take the fights and use the arcs the way they want to.
They've had to play reactive to Wayvo pushing forward and taking more space for us as them.
They at least will have this nanoboost to be able to try to put the price onto Wayvo,
but if Donga goes too far forward and is split from the rest of his team once more,
Leesha-men just drop for Sanctuary and there's not any opportunity for Sku to be able to keep them out of that.
Let's put this guy again, Nanna boots on to Zest himself, here comes the Sancho and Lee
Shubin, good anti-naked hits, both a DPS and a support there, Puebo gating, now Donghack
wants to get into the mixture, but a scream from Lee is going to send T1 really.
This is tight done.
Oh, you've got to hit that shot though.
Oh!
You've got to hit that shot though.
Okay.
Try this game with 1 HP, there it is, the shield basically running him over at that point,
he was so damn low.
Team kill.
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 allow Donhack to use the cage.
It should be fairly trivial for Donhack to get to the point.
Just an overrun in, there's the cage, Sando and Trouble.
Katnaps gonna come in too, from Bliss trying to get a Stunner.
Tuzu to save Sando's life as well.
All defensive Tees have already been used to try to throw in the Bola to sustain some of the damage in this frontline against Donhack.
The gonghack is just full HP, running and gunning, mark it down and that's going to be a nice clip from Zest to get a team kill for T1.
T1 identified Wavor used both support ults to have to deal with that nanobastion rush and sanctuary, which means if gonghack's cage comes out,
T1 will be able to find the picks even if they get players traded, they have the closer respawns to refresh their numbers before Wavor can walk once more.
you're taking precious time off the bank and you're setting up opportunities for
zest and pride to find kills before we both can close up onto the defense and
put pressure on the Kirikou the way the train first with the barriers and then
you can push on why is my bad why is the enemy I brought that why is brought
there all right there's all slamming that's the fight pretty much done
I mean realistically if you're Waybo, unless you're...
To the train, Sunzo! To the train!
Well, the train won't carry you out, but the kill will take you back to your respawn,
but look at how far up to you one will place Zash, who has a pulse bomb.
Waybo, likely not expecting the tracer to be here on high ground,
He shoots with the false pistols, gives his position away, but still, we're down to almost one minute left
and T1 will have a rush to meet Webo when they decide to forge forward.
Play for the train again.
Slide bit of delay.
Zesla looking like proper from this angle.
Violet and proper doing that in the match earlier.
Cold-tearing me, shy, caught out completely.
It's not on that, it's also on this high ground.
I mean, this is just an absolute crushing right now in this second point.
Wabo can't get a single bit of space.
A flux thrown in by Sunso too.
50 seconds to go and Wabo are faltering.
Yeah, T1 will just hold super close up to Wabo too to try to force things like that
sanctuary from Lucy Moon, 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.
T1 have all of the space.
Right, there's the TP.
Straight across, straight onto the high ground.
Train's not coming just yet.
Gotta take your backs, though, that's got a false box in that for an hour.
Okay, swing and a miss from Zest.
Not an issue, though. 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 Skewed.
A goal or on top as well, it's just a sherry on top of this game.
Five seconds to go.
Is this defense from T1 on 2nd? A rare 2nd hold, Moxie!
As Waybo gave it, struggling to find their feet on the injunction.
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 STRANGLE hold that the defense has been able to establish versus you, HIGH GROUND, CONTROL, LANGE, CONTROL.
But the moment you start taking that fight in the frontline, strategy gets pulled early by the maverickage,
it's not there to be able to absorb the rush rather, and it's not there to be able to absorb the after-effects of the blow up.
Yeah, they tried a couple of different approaches, but something that Doktaz 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 it's a three-man
wrecking club.
It's also a great way to overwhelm the Mazuchi, right?
You can only change one of them.
Unless you add your weight and you get the whole team.
True!
That's why you don't...
That is why you don't balance the game.
I would balance a brilliant April Fools patch though.
You know it would be a really good April Fools patch if they removed all the pigeons from
this map.
But don't tell anyone.
And no one would blink an eye.
Way bow bow.
How well will they be able to have the three princesses?
You get your way.
Here comes the Donhack Racking Bull. Leasing them in those dark areas.
No, he's got them back to spawn. They're playing safe. And they're playing between G and B.
Yeah, we've got Ram as G1. Okay, Farah, Wooyang, Freyja, Ram, they just want to be able to put so much pressure onto Lebo from afar,
and then walk Donhack forward onto point one to leave and try to be fully off of these positions.
Looking at my email inbox for the span.
So they're poking down this front line, they're so good, they obviously hit the direct too.
On to Shine.
It's a hard person hit, backs to be certain. Bliss already dead to leave.
This is getting out of there. In fact, this might even be sloppy too.
You see? Yeah, okay, it opens a main.
So make a little bit more statement.
Yeah, it's also a good way of just being able to punish the split from Sando.
Since Lee, Suman and Maka don't want to play too close to that sigma
because if they play out of the open it allows pride to be able to find far more value with that
player as to one ultimate time to just run fast one forward. Malga Reaper get into Wayboat base.
All right crowd, you're not shy in this duel that is the question.
One of the greatest of all time versus not so much in up and karma it's been around for a hot
minute or so, but since the dawn of time it's been such a hot shot on the
Hiss gang. Obsess is dead now, this is again, it's kind of looking like
Wave-O's off in spirit. Not really T1 finding a foot here and now becomes the
problem Oxy where you change your pop a couple of times and now Wave-O is just so far ahead and old.
Yeah, Skewed are so close to rush but they lose Zest early which means that they
can't commit forward which also Mark and I gets the opportunity to build a hatching
Like you said, whatever happens, what's their comp at all, which means that they have all supported by the value of the rush.
Alright, don't have Crenlubos basically instantly spree used by Lee.
They're gonna be in big danger there. He has to get out of there with that bite, end up dashing away.
And yet, still, Marker ends up going down as Lee gets a bowl of straight to his head.
Nice little shot and connection from Proud there.
As they finally open this up again, didn't it?
I can't believe what he was saying, but despite them having such an old disadvantage here, T1 was winning the neutral.
No sanctuary, no flux spots either from Weibo Gaming.
Well, T1 did what they absolutely had to, which was one directly at Maka, use the rush when Leeve could only react with the spree.
Maka did not have match, he versus QT, he gets it, but it's uncomfortable positions that Weibo can't capitalize off of.
So T1 just bully out with Pride playing on the point looking into side room with the bowler shot off to the side.
As Wave-O will have to be able to hold T1 off. Pride already up on the high ground, getting pushed out by Shy,
blowing up the leafing so he can fall through.
Ooh, that's a one-pot.
Volunteer Hills there.
Now holding this corner is going to be good for Wave-O gaming.
Donk wants to get it, trying to mind and not, Michael.
Well, he's going to try and force the TP from Lee Soo Min, done so very successfully.
Soundbaric comes in, hits five, Sanctuary pop, nice little stop slam, but unfortunately Lee Soo Min's just going to retreat to the Sanctuary of the, well, Sanctuary.
Should Lee Soo Min do it, they're going down, there was Sandoz trapped in the corner, that cage perfectly plays, Sanctuary fell, and the cage went up, and that'll be a team kill.
T1 with the payload moving.
Yeah, Donhack has been such a problem for Wayvote to have to stay on top of.
as now we head to 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 death blossom, oh they found him
I believe there's the Suzu and the shield too to make sure he stays up
James on Donghae but an unrelenting amount of damage coming from the Maldor
eventually he is slain
where the game is trying to clear off the backline of all these T1 players
It's so far deep.
No one's contesting the point push.
T1 pushed the whole time.
Okay, hang on. Shai's also dead.
He's still in there.
This isn't his spawn.
He's gonna try to spawn, Cambly.
You can't do this. Not this range.
Already used his race, but here comes the backup.
Here comes the cavalry.
T1 are already back on the point.
And you still gonna clear his S.
Here comes the rush as well. The moments you get, sir.
He's in the back. He's going to try and find an off-angle.
Oh, the one-tab on to the back line.
No more outs, no problem.
D1, what's their support? Good tracking from Lee too.
Ops on the bike, that's a 4k. Almost a bit.
What a hero play from Lee to save.
Yeah, that was a requirement.
We'll see this flank from here.
Yep, throws out the bike into the execution.
And then just base damage when Donhack has been chained down
time by Lee Su-Min preserves this career as well because you're one fight away from
being able to push this cart to that checkpoint and T1 with this Lucio character they will
want to play fast. We're trying to shut out that rotation first though.
Gets checked real quick though by Bliss, they're just great. How about some of this then Lucio
player trying to disrupt me? Bliss ends up training for shy there in the front line
Sunso's got his eye on Zest. Sanctuary pop to honour the point now and now T1 have got a fear.
A rock connects with Donghak. Is that with 45 seconds to go? T1's attack attacks here are diminishing.
Yeah, but forcing that Sanctuary is huge for T1. Why? You don't have it to absorb the impact of death
loss and combos with the cage. Waybo have to play preventative instead of reactive. If they play too
close to the point, Donghak just cages them and Zest kills them.
That would have been a clip of the day.
Well, their death loss in the off-screen right now from Zest.
Sunzo trapped in the cage, 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, but the rest of the team is split.
A teleport forward there from Zest as he isolates the kill onto Sunzo.
And in OT, T1 are pushing.
Can Wevo get one more touch?
Least of me, he's been found out already.
He's done with the 1v1 of his Zest, but it ain't going to happen.
A nice little loop away on a Varepa.
Raythorn's getting another touch.
Lever's 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 points in the series too.
Yeah, if you're way better, 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 turner I am.
That this team have looked you outside of winning control versus TN earlier.
That T1, that defeat, that beatdown 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?
And Newjunk City was one of the uglier ones that we've seen this tournament, I'd say maybe
even all year to be fair.
But this is a brand new T1, logged in.
I've already got one more map to go, and he finds himself on a podium finish.
Oh, this was where the death block went.
Okay, that's where it went.
Nice bait to be had.
Yeah, baited just by Lee Soo then.
A half-teleport active pushes up, just clearing up the high ground skyside.
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 Webo's side.
See, Webo here, we just talked about how discombobulated T1 looked on that new junk city early.
If you missed that match, by the way,
Like, 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 wave-o, 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
T1 like that to New Junk City.
do it to them. Hey, psychic damage. Do it.
To effect it 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 Ajax.
Surely not. Surely not.
the game. I mean, you heard
the interview earlier. Yeah,
like what match did we play?
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 I in? Of
course. Way bow gaming still
to a map 5. I've already been in one today. Although there might be a little bit of exhaustion
maybe especially after that map 5. There's still going to be a lot of adrenaline pumping
through their veins. Yep, there we go. Perth in the pudding. Gushwe subbed in for Sansa.
flexibility of heroes that he can play, Flashpoint, Push. It's likely that you're going to be
swapping your tank around them. Sigma can be outpaced a fair bit, run down by things
like Symmetra and Malga. And Romatra as well. So, Guxue, 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 where it started so promising.
For them, we'll have to see if that's the play that Weber decided to make as they are one map away
from losing out on a podium finish here at mid-season within the EWC.
Yeah, hold out a lot less points for your team overall in the competition too. So
So, T1 wanna 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...
Can you jump to it? I hope so.
See, T1...
There's something spicy here, if I'm T1.
Hey, go back on the vendetta. You wanna go to the jet? Go back on the vendetta.
Yeah, it's open now.
Go back on the shield. It's open now. Yeah, I mean, to be honest with you,
That map was so quick, it don't matter.
Oh, it would be Atlas instead, it's just a flashboy, but it's going to be Atlas.
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 shape, because even if you lose point one to the Doom first,
That's only one out of the three required teams to be able to finish this map mode.
Cat Band 4-T1.
So we get a little bit more quick.
The Lucio action, the Ocaraca action.
And then Donghaek can play the ball.
A menifest.
Well, Donghaek will likely play the Malga and run directly at that four backline
since Mac and I can't swap onto the cat to escape the slap.
Yeah, you can't play something that's lacking in the mobility department.
If you're a maca, 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.
Which is very strange, since Kiriko is, you know, teleport,
and should not be in situations where your Malga simply runs past your tank and
Stands you up
Just resetting Goosh race PC. It's got an SSD though, so it should be fine
First time I was about to say the most unc-centered of all time
Okay, first time I got an SSD my brain exploded. I was like damn. We really living in the future now
Rodden here
You know, that's not that on you know my first PC right was one of those really big ones I could barely wrap my arm
Yeah, the wide ones where your PC. Yeah, like a tower. Yeah, we had we had like a computer and then you have like the stack, right? I
Don't know
She's got this I'm like
What colour was the case?
Was it that? Yeah.
It was like grey beige.
It was like a grey beige.
Yeah.
Grey beige.
And then the outer shell was also grey beige with like the black setting screen.
Sure.
It was about...
People at home won't be able to see this, but from about here...
She's climbing it to me?
To probably here.
It was a chunky one.
Yeah.
You know about the the width of a hot water bottle's length?
What? 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
Right just your your basic average hot water bottle
That's universal for all countries lost people bro
You've lost people Moxie. As thick as a water bottle as lengthy as water. Ah, it doesn't matter.
You should wait and get in the game. Get in the game. You should wait and go on to Atlas. Thank you.
Look, my measurements are wonky, okay?
Clearly, you're measuring things in the hot water bottle sizes?
Yeah, back at uni, I used to do currency conversions off of bags of pasta.
Get this guy out of here.
Get her out of here.
But currency conversions in terms of bags of pasta, so like, oh, what a bag of pasta is like a pound or whatever.
Yeah.
So what is that in like USD?
Well, no, it would be like, oh, that's 30 pounds. I could buy 30 bags of pasta. Is it worth it?
Not the craziest thing you've ever said.
True, my mind is a very strange, labrymphian 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 by way.
Who's way a little stuck?
Yeah, a little bit stuck at the moment, I guess.
We've got his passwords.
I'm not sure what we're doing.
It was not as simple as simply switching out the SRC card.
Ah, they're good, but it's fine.
It should be good, Guthrie's going to load in in just a moment.
And then we will hop into map number three, Atlas, and then Moxie can measure how quickly
it takes for Webhug Any to take the first point, in reference to bags of pasta, so apparently
just what you do.
You don't use bags of pasta as time measurement.
To be honest, do you moxie at this point?
I don't know what you make your time units in.
I'm gonna be honest.
Songs from my playlists.
Your watch probably looks like a sundial.
She pulls out the watch, but it's just a giant sundial on a wrist.
I just look up at the sky, you see how high the sun is.
And you're like, yeah!
You must be around about 9pm.
I think the craziest thing said on Overwatchcast so far this tournament might have been crazy
raccoon 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 like 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 is not the same kind of vibe here, too
I know I 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, that itself can't be in the stage.
Now they actually have time-sprimming with UV again, right?
Because, for Japan, if you don't know, they literally said the night before,
hey, let's try putting UV back onto the stage.
And then they made a final run.
And then they made a grand final run, and almost won the whole thing.
Now they're actually playing with UV back full time.
Alright, well, we get Gushua'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 our devia 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 it's up because I've been pulling them for their identity the like
And then I discovered that they also have another watch one and I was like hell
Yeah, I'm gonna also like hype them up. So yeah, they haven't needed much hyping up
They've been so good here. Of course, they've got such
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, finger crossed, but I trust them completely for the final.
Whereabouts in France you 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 could because my friend is living in Paris and like I asked and she was like,
hey yeah, she's behind us like truly.
Bring her in, do you want to come in?
What's your friend's name?
Noreo.
No, 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's 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?
Yeah, we made a lot of friends, we met new people that we cannot wait to play Overwatch with.
Do you like that community feel?
Yeah, I love the community here.
Like, everybody has been so nice ever since like 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 lie, because everybody is so nice.
So cool.
We've got people here on their honeymoon and all sorts of stuff celebrating.
But are you going to remember this for the rest of your life too?
Yeah for sure, that's quite a nice experience.
I was back then on the 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!
You agree?
Oh yeah, totally.
I love it.
Can I just say these two have been phenomenal.
So Paris, can we make some noise, fett de bruit for our lovely guests here?
Thank you for talking to me.
Quick one. What's your prediction for the final?
I think Zeta is going to win.
I agree, of course. Did I win? Trust? Did 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.
So, Atlas, is that number three?
They slowed the tempo down to be fair from T1.
They were kind of a hot streak second to go on that last one.
So, see if they can pick this one up.
I am in agreement with you with them, Octi.
I would have loved to see the mental warfare
according to New Junk City, but Atlas, help me.
Yep, I think they know there's a potential
that they have to deal with the dealing first
on this first point, at least, what will be the pivot after this fight?
Because for Atlas we've seen a variety of tanks use,
Malga obviously still open, Romatro also still open,
Sigma, Hazard has started really coming into play on this map type as well,
especially versus the Romatroes.
Right.
Walking past that tank, waiting for him to be totally away from a position where he can
help out his backline, picking your target and absolutely mugging them.
Or mugging. You pick. You pick. Alright, looks like Gushwe a little thumbs up there from
the legends. We should be rocking and rolling. Look at that hit scan, player, keyboard, player.
See that? Perfectly straight and then zest on the angle.
Yeah, do you go straight?
I am kind of 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
That's good. That's good. I've got a lot.
It just feels more comfortable. Yeah, I don't know what it is. Here we go
Let's yapping more playing atlas map 3 t1 and a lebo gaming t1 up two maps already
to go to repeat the what happened
to that earlier on against Zeta.
Although we will hope to repeat
what happened to it against them.
It's just a minute ago. Hopefully
that fight a reverse week in this
series. Let's get into this
grand finals coming up later.
That's a twisted minds Zeta
division match of the century
here in the midseason. EWC. How
does Mac a deal with Don Mac
is the big issue that way both
Do you know just for the speed range, likely swapping onto QRACOA Phillips?
Oh, no Doomfist. You said there was a slight chance, but it looks like Gushway's 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 comp.
One of the only teams that's really piloting this permanently.
It's been tough to deal with for a lot of squads.
Both mags have fallen very low at this point. No one's been able to find a plan for them.
Oh yes, yeah, pick up the first blightpile. It's going to soon follow afterwards.
Niko's in a picking up an easy kill, but unfortunately the rest won't be as easy.
Look at this, shy back and up already, and that'll be the point half 41.
Yeah, 2-1 will be very happy to take that too, because now you can look for more and catch leaves
Let's leave before he can disengage off the high ground.
That's the root of the Waybo.
If you're T1 now, it's so much easier to keep track of where your backline can play safely from.
This is probably how they wanted to play in their Zeta 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.
Waybo gaining now, having to force to hit the restart button, reclaim a lot of this space, in fact.
Yeah, but look at SKU's rush charge. Because they got Maka earlier in the fight,
SKU just been alive the whole time building the Boltzmann.
Q1 don't have to worry about a rush mirror.
SKU's just...
I'm so much healing and damage out already.
Here comes the charge.
Guys that were starting to goosh wait already.
SKU 90% towards that hole.
Lee's gonna be the main focus here.
There's the next stop. Ends up hitting Lee, but goes down to Shai.
Both DPS there from where they're beginning.
Focused down the mount.
Now, he's still gonna deal with Zest, too.
Sweetfair is attacked 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, Lee should be not too far behind either, that's one point, do you want?
Oh, Wayvo, bleeding players out as well, Gushmei does pick up both of the back one from C1 though,
but they're still alive, still taking Wayvo's players down.
He doesn't feel fair, I'll say sometimes watching Good Vendetta plays.
Yeah, at least there's not least Vendetta when we had Vendetta's Aurea meta.
Now you get a chance to be able to react before the Vendetta kills.
Yeah, you can actually interact with the hero. 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.
Yeah, ten ult on the board.
Just dump them all into the wall and wind off.
Zest is gonna try and go for it and overhead swing, stroud, to mark.
Already does end up popping down the rush there and it does connect with the ground.
Cagefire is going to come in too, Zest still with the Sundering Blade, chasing after Lee.
Already the fight is done and Dustin in the front line, the only little slash and a dash
he's going to be able to get the kill too, fade away, shot on to Lee, and that will be
a team kill.
Only two ults expended there for T1.
Wave only got the chance to use the rush before they get caged into place on T1, so three
ults are still good to go for T1 and pride in the backline, wasting for the wall.
Oh, at least he's not going to get quite out here as well.
Here comes the Spree, proud just on the spot.
Acting like a death possum, but Shy's got one better.
Old but gold.
Shy is the key. A little bit quicker there as Proudon skewed and they're getting deleted.
Look how I put this fight while Shy is like,
oh, you've got a shooter death possum, you've got three of those?
Ah, no problem.
Hit Q's down there, and a weird nice little cap from Waybo Gaming.
Cap, potentially losing shy though, as he has to rape him back to the rest of his team.
Spree up from lead, no sandbar from blitz, no cage from Donnac. This, she or not, could be deadly.
Oh, there it is. He's going to pop the spree. Zess is already dead. He ended up taking to the sky there, trying to insert himself into the path line again.
Yeah, just go first before Zess can find a good position to set out this sundry blade.
That's free also allows them to be able to hold the fort down force to one all the way back
So that you can start trying to find this point percent and leave get this taxi ones approach
You're really problematic for bliss and skewed to get the old place to walk through
the new blade test
For a hide from this one do so fairly successfully shire to get to a group of
Uphilliers in control the point now see wants to get away the weather gaming is they're just trying to one
But they're just getting chased.
They're getting chased at each pole and back.
I mean, they're going to north and south pole,
they're going to their sport, they're 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 second point over to T1.
One point away now from taking the series,
and they're clearly tweaking.
Yeah, Atlas is just so brutal,
because there's so many spaces for that vendetta
to be able to climb over those rooftops
and slide down onto your support when she has all of her cooldowns available.
Rush for Rush, Dong Haek approaching that cage, which allows you to overcome Weibo at last time.
Gushui's gonna die shortly. Nice little rush there from Arkage, trying to sustain him up.
The cage is gonna get dropped and there you go.
Call me a truth sayer, Gushui is dead.
And the rest of Weibo will follow.
Once again, Zez taking the fight against Lee.
Well, alright, that's fine. We got gone now, gone.
In the case, easy trade, easy point cap, T1 in pure control.
Yeah, Bliss will have Sandbarra as well, to be able to survive Gushway's cage,
as Webber will have Cumble yet again, Shy's death blossom, but surely T1
will be looking for price three to shove down Gushway's... oh!
That's a good idea. It's going to try and chase the Lucia.
At least, it does, and they're playing the B, it looks for Bliss to do the same thing here.
I better be here for blizz, the cage gets deployed, the deathboss from shy shut down by proud!
Zest still surviving 6 HP on the Benderna, but still stands tall!
Don't act so insane as well.
Wavebot won't find the flip.
All those who spend for Wavebot gaming in Zest still with the Sunner and Blade.
Surely they chased out Benderna, back knows 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, second release to Min, split the fight up completely, T1 play this cop
to perfection.
Late kill on to Pride, but Zest still alive, Weber totally split, they have to reset, they have to
regroup, this is last fight territory, and you have to walk in with no ult, Maca close to a rush,
That's what you're playing for, is lose those onto the Vendetta to match.
As soon as there's a TP from Market, he is going to die to Zess.
I'll tell you that right now for free.
Vendetta for lead now, wants to try and match Zess.
Thundering Blade in his back pocket, now to the point he goes.
Proud, already taken down Chai, the Thundering Blade looking straight towards Gooshway,
trying to find a target if he's limited damage there.
Onto the Goosh, but now Donghax got the cage.
OT ticking down and Wave-O 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 this.
It's so hard for MACA survivability rates.
that. As T1 knew exactly where
to twist that night, though,
the supports stick to that
vendetta and absolutely
eviscerate any chances that
way, though, had to form a
response. Good to see they had
quite left in them as well after
that heartbreaker versus data
Locked in here at the mid-season taking that fourth home
However on a brighter note
labor 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 T1 down on the stage
You're absolutely standing by with Bliss here and now a translator Maddox, you just 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?
But today's match, how would you rate the match overall?
Well, I think I showed a bad side of myself before the match.
I'm sorry to the fans who didn't watch the match.
I didn't do my best to repay them.
I'll do my best to win the next match.
Again, Sada was actually unexpectedly lower than Low, so yeah, I mean, there's a regret there.
However, that being said, in the third or fourth third place match, I really wanted to reimburse that disappointment to myself and all the team as well.
So yeah, I think just 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?
What would you like to say to the fans in Paris?
We will do better. Thank you for cheering for us.
We had a great experience in Paris.
I think it was a special experience for the fans.
And a big thank you to your fans who've been cheering you on all the way.
One more question. 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 for real 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 now at the beginning.
Yeah, I mean, this just came out, how did they get strong?
T1, they clearly, you know, a statement was made that 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 we had 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 like, 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,
loss here today.
Whereas they feel like Waybuu 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 three.
Did you have an MVP from T1 for the entirety of the series though?
Honestly, I think I'd lean maybe towards Proud or Donghak.
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 Donghak as well.
because he kept pushing the pace through the series.
Here on map two, when Sunzo came in,
I think this was like the closest fight for Wabble gaming.
So again, Sunzo really proving his value to this team.
So on the other side, I heard Moxie talking
Dong-Hak, Dong-Hak, Dong-Hak.
In fact, on the field of the map,
Sirusen, he's playing like a giant tracer.
What is Dong-Hak 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 already because he's been on the grind
for such a long time, he's been doubted in the past, right, in his Overwatch League days.
He's been criticised a lot and I think ever since then, like he's stepped it up tremendously,
added 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 he did criticise but now I think he's showing
the poise of an actual veteran player.
And even though you only got third, I think that this 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,
Chris Ratoon Falcons, right?
And now they can build on this moving forward for the rest of the year.
We got the finals coming up.
Layer this year, of course, as well.
And now this is a team that has 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 month.
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.
Right.
So many teams are looking to bring players out of this region.
She's got to give their teams a boost.
And there's a good reason for that.
It's because Korea is 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 gonna dish out
580 grand to our top two finalists in just a few minutes.
and its 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, they were second in the East West World Cup
and going into this tournament,
and they massively failed in the groups as well.
you take a look here at the club championship rankings you can see team
poutes there 2400 points obviously they would have benefited so much from their
team advancing even further and it's drawing to its final stages 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 midseason championship and when we come back it's
gonna be Z division taking on a fantastic squad going by the name of
Twisted mind, stuck anywhere.
We were there.
For every click, every clutch, every respawn.
We were there for the years of grind, and we're here.
Now, the proud founding partner of EWC.
Powering the biggest event in gaming, shoulder to shoulder with the world's best.
Making history.
Greatness deserves a stage.
Lenovo Legion.
Reach your impossible.
Hey, why don't you come and tag along, I'm going to show you around as I'm getting ready for a broadcast.
But that's too late.
Either we see you or you have to hear what's going on?
Okay, that's the last thing I'm going to do.
We'll see you in a minute.
Okay.
Bye.
So you have G or what's your name?
Yuki.
It's not so easy.
There's a moment that you're not going to want us around you like for a minute or two.
Just let us go.
I have no secrets.
I'm not going to do this.
Yeah, I'll just do my prep work until they arrive.
So something told this morning that I'm also recording on the show.
At 8.00 am, yeah?
Yeah.
Makeup done, now it's time to shoot our day 1 recap with Danny and Johnny.
Uh, down in Tokyo.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're aligned.
America!
So, um, do I have to act like I'm, like, moving close to you?
Ah, younger best friend.
Johnny, come here!
Johnny, we need to discuss this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we need to talk about work.
I was about to say, won't you fly here for now wearing denim?
Because you said yesterday was today's denim day.
Did I? I couldn't remember what was denim day.
You're actually wearing denim day?
I mean, we decided I wouldn't want to wear denim under this.
So I brought like 7 outfits.
So I have denim for a lot of people.
I'm here for Wikipedia and your hearts.
I'm here to schedule a story of the day into Ginny's standing by 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 tiptoe?
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.
championship we now have Ginny standing by the special guest
I just I just said I just said the way because you said upper breath it sounds like
It works. That's right. That's right. I was like, are we gonna do a Team Liquid Towerspear?
Just go bro!
Welcome today to Mitzi's championship coming to life from the EWC here in Paris, France and Sainte-Dôve
My two friends, Johnny and Danny, to talk a little bit about what went down yesterday.
That felt good, thank you.
Thank you very much.
I must say that I preferred this last take better.
Okay, well then, we did it for you.
Thank you very much, I appreciate it.
Thank you very much, guys.
Thank you.
Have a great day today.
Thank you.
A little chat on the way back and we're in the green room again.
Yeah, we're gonna lose him.
I was still walking.
Oh my God, the kids.
He gets the treats?
Oh, Danny has fans.
Hello, how do you say delicious?
Delicious.
Wow, delicious.
Oh, hello.
How's it going?
Good morning.
Sure.
Thank you.
What is this?
It takes food from strangers.
It's French delicacy?
No, no, it's just...
Is that French?
I'm sure it is, huh?
It's French, but it doesn't make it a delicacy.
It's just...
Desnay, Desnay in 1905.
Car, really?
And no colors are like preservatives, so...
Oh, so good.
Yeah, so...
Is this a little statement?
I think it's sugar.
It's just sugar.
Yeah.
Oh, okay, cool.
See you at that parking lot.
Get him out of here!
Kill it!
Kill it boy!
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.
They bring the characters to life.
I am literally standing next to Juno and Ash
and Ryan in the back, Reapers.
We got Brig and Curie as well.
This is insane.
All right, 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 well as everybody else.
Was there a specific reason why you chose Ash?
Because she's the best maybe.
Because also I love Bob.
It's a character I'm playing a lot actually.
So I'm playing a lot of GPS.
And Ash is one of the better characters I think again.
So when you guys are coming to these events,
do you tell either we see that like,
hey, I'm going to do this costume.
And they just pick and they say yes?
I mean, there's several reasons why you choose a character.
Of course, because you like this character,
you're playing a lot but also because of the design and I think 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 just perfect for cosplay anyway so whatever
character you want to choose you have lots of things to do on it. I'm gonna talk to you later because
you
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, particularly.
So yeah, I'm trying a lot of stuff.
It's my first time doing casts and analysts,
especially with Ben Best.
We are, we know the game, you know, even you.
So, yes, 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 fans from Weibo, the Saudi from TM.
The French fans cheering for many teams, for instance, Pakistan Minor, Soho, 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 team first finished first in the group stage.
We beat Spain, it was one of the favorite teams in Europe, I mean.
We have some good players, like Xerox, for example, he's my favorite player, he's a great support.
And 14 pips, we do like 45 maps win, zero loss on the facet league, we're doing a promotion soon in a few weeks.
So I'm really excited and looking forward for the century.
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 have Shoe, we have Quartz, TVNC, even Violet, he was insane.
But I would say for me, it's still Quartz.
This guy is popping off on the last match.
And on the last match, he shows 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, the 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 this 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 Shu, who is a pop-in-off 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 to check in 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 Brayde.
Everybody say hi to Brayde. Hi, Brayde.
Hello, Danny. Hello, everyone. Nice to meet you guys.
All right. All right. I gotta ask, I mean, you're here in Paris. We're 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 at Paris. I'm enjoying my time.
I'm seeing crazy matches. Twisted Mines are on the final, so I'm happy. Yeah. Talking about
just Twisted Mines, I mean, were you kind of nervous when they were going up against Weibo?
Because they were down 0-2, and then they had to reverse sweep. Up until the third map,
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 well I know there's a
lot of fans your fans and of course either we see all those fans on your
chat what were they going what were they saying they were saying we did it once
we're gonna do it twice and with it we did it twice we won against China with
a very sweep we have the finals now and we're gonna make it chat I got you all
right I mean now twisted mind they're in the finals and going up in Zeta
division, who do you think is going to win and why is it twisted minds?
Because EWC 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 thousand points
and the first ever trophy for EWC. 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 going to open the floor for you, say whatever you want.
I just want to say thank you all for coming to my mother's house.
She's watching right now.
We're happy to be here with you.
Alright, thank you so much Bray. Have fun.
Fuck it, back to you.
Awesome stuff there from Brayn as well as Danny Lim.
Danny's been crushing it this weekend.
He's been running all over the place.
And speaking of running all over the place,
two professionals that were out in the crowd. I'm getting one of them mic'd up right now.
The others are already seated. Kellex and Psycho are going to be joining us in the studio.
And Jake, this was a duo that wanted to come on together. And they said, if we're going
to 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 of all, I want to get your impressions. Psycho, we've
had you on the show a little bit, but Kellex, 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 could have even more LANs,
especially in Denmark.
I want to try that too, because the French crowd is amazing
and they are very passionate about everything.
You know, I just love it.
I want to do it all the time if I could so I go I want 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 is it being 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. Awesome. It's super nice, you know, they really enjoy 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 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 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 also,
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
that 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. Galaxy is 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.
It's multi-task. Get someone to pay for you to play eSports 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.
We'll talk about twisted minds and, of course, their opponents on the other side in Zeta Division.
Twisted minds, able to power through Wave-O. Any surprises in that matchup for you, colleagues?
Wave-O jumped out to a 2-0 lead.
I was surprised to see them taking the 2-0 lead because I thought team were going to run the mobile quite easily,
quite easily but you know what it'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
hits can play in the world by far so he's just great. Yeah I gotta give a lot of
credit to Wave All. I thought they were exceptionally well coached in this series
like that Diva Band on the ball combined with this super aggressive
Doomfist dive strategy and that caught Twisted Minds off guard they win the
sim band map which feels like a must-do right if you want to beat this team you've got to win in
the sim band 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 Zeta Division they have the Lucy band and the Kiriban
and the Simban against Tien.
Yeah.
Those are must-win maps, but we know, like, speaking historically,
winning the Simban against UV and Tien, it's not an easy thing to do.
But at least in Lucio and the Curio Dan, they're a must-win.
But I think when there's no bans in the series,
push-the-minds comps and their matchup, the Simcombs, Diva, Ram...
They're the best comp in the game.
I heard a comment, that's simple, is the best Ellari in the game.
Is she worth using in the grand final?
Potentially. If there's a Kiriban, I could see Larry being played, but as Saiko said, you know, they said I have to win the Lusha Kiriban.
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 Zeta have just annihilated everyone, right?
Like, they've not really even shown the demo.
Which is to the mass respect, right? To the map that you guys could actually test them.
I mean, man, like seeing some of the matches against some of the even the top Korean teams, it's like, oh my, is it on another level?
But now they go up against a very different opponent. I think he's actually telling maybe that you guys take a map playing the fast rush style, showing the strength of the NBA.
How do you think they're going to handle twisted minds here in the grand final with Seta's unique style?
I mean, it's two polar opposites, you know. Seta want to play for the individual strength, the carry heroes, Cat, Ana, Tracer, and team want to play Sim and Roadster around player BX, but I think it's going to be a very interesting match.
It really depends on the bans I think to see how this goes
Cycle as 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 in their division?
Sorry proper because this is a guy that was an MVP last year with the Falcons now playing for ZD
And it seemed like he kind of had his pick of the litter who he wanted to play with this year
Yeah, I mean everyone knows this prop is the best DPS player in the world
So, seeing him go against Quartz, the best hit skin in the world, it's obviously a matchup.
Everyone wants to see different styles, different matchups, but the proper is a guy to watch
out for and I'm sure he will deliver an amazing performance.
Yeah, the Zed division team, I mean, they were built to win and 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 in 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 have I from the Shuu Ana.
You know that's a dangerous experience.
How do you think he's going to play into this particular series?
Okay, I mean, I think Twisted's style is the worst possible matchup for Zedah Division.
I think when they go against these Korean teams like T1, it's like more mechanical matchup, you know,
and that's the Zedah Division style.
No one's going to 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 Zedah Division the most, and we did see that from Geekier already.
They were the only team that made say the division somewhat bleep by taking off a map.
Kellex, 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 teams 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, the tilt will always come
if you start losing but they have a strong mental so they can turn around but
Can you give us a hint? Is it front line players, back line players, or maybe tank players that work together?
There's like some beef between the tanky PS at times, but that's naturally you know they are very passionate and it's normal to see
Alright so passion goes both ways you know when you're winning it's 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 two summons that kills
Final question for you guys real quick
is playstyle psycho who do you think has the lead in this matchup who do you have winning it and
what is the playstyle difference playstyle difference i already mentioned a little bit
earlier obviously the sim comes with twist of mind's playing more teamwork say the division
playing more for mechanical skill individual value my opinion i'm maybe i'm biased because i'm from
europe but i think the sim matchup is a very good matchup into this style and i think twist of mind
We went 4-2.
4-2, Kellogg's.
I'm rooting for TM, but I have a feeling
that they will take it.
4-1, maybe?
4-1, Jake?
Ah, it's such a tough one to call.
You know, I think back to Japan where I felt,
hey, you know, 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 gonna get the full experience here in Paris. Let's get the fans what they deserve in the meantime
We got a check in with Jenny to see what's going on with the club championship over at warzone
Thanks bucket. We're over here at the kiddos city grid where we got some hot action going on
I'm junior join with glitter who's gonna 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
We're 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.
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 have did well heading into a twisted mind.
If they're going to be able to bounce back because they're still in the same situation
when it comes to national finals or 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 can't beat it.
We go again every time.
We can beat it all night.
If that's the case I will be gone but I'm sure little will keep you guys updated.
I hope that was useful.
Again.
We stay here.
Hello everyone.
Zoe down here on the floor in the middle of the crowd, joined by Johnny as my personal
bodyguard as well.
Listen, I want to ask you for predictions, but I'm worried because we're kind of very
much in the Twisted Minds area.
If I'm asking you, are you going to Twisted Minds because we're an enemy territory or
are you a realist in going to Twisted Minds?
Yeah, there are a lot of Twisted Minds around there.
look everywhere around us and it's just covered in blue and pink that being said
I'm going with cell division in this one but they'll never know and there are no
designs do a great job and I love the science as well we get a sign they
try to borrow this one we got a hold sign I love to see more of that next
thing you here as well I'm a big fan of the U be a UB I got a Philadelphia
I'm sorry.
Oh, go back.
Deep cut, Milo.
I'm sorry.
Come on.
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 Seto division, and they will be going
up against the Sim team.
And the Symmetra 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 cell divisionists, 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 play-making, you
will have members spread out all around Quiston Minds.
You will need biodecranate timings, you will need individual hits, camp players, you need
proper to show a big time and rack up those strikes because those opportunities will exist
But, twisted minds, for them it's all about rotating around the map and punishing individual
setters and players.
And with this car running behind them, I think they could get it done.
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 with an incredible close series.
Not to have to do that again, though.
Do the hand-demental 42, the energy to do it.
It's really difficult because when you play a series like that already, you got so much
adrenaline.
It's so loud here that all this energy from the crowd feeds itself into the players that adrenaline has been already been used against weibo gaming
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 to the distance. Let's go with a 4-3 start of the vision.
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 have Danny 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.
3, 2, 1, go. Zeta? Twisted Minds? Zeta? Why Twisted Minds?
Yeah, I don't know, it's 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
Also Zeta fan as well. I'm more of a crazy recon fan, but since they got eliminated kids, so I have to change
All right, two Zetas and twist of mine. All right, three two one
Twist and twist is data. Why I've got funny asterisk to go UK Beth Lucio ever. I'm true
I think that you're a much better at Kat Bastion. I think I'm the best Kat in the world and I think that's why they're going to win.
Fair!
I'm kind of 3, 3, 2, 1, up!
Zeta, Zeta, Zeta! Oh, let's go Zeta!
Kind of 3, 3, 2, 1, go!
Zeta, Zeta, Zeta, wow, let's go!
I feel like Zeta's going to win!
3, 2, 1, let's go!
that feels kind of scripted because they are wearing twisted mind uniforms
but hey who's gonna win Zeta division versus twisted mind on count of three
three two one go twist it twist it twist it let's go three two one left all
Oh, one twisted, two Zeta.
All right, ladies.
Twisted.
You don't know?
Do both.
All right, 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 mid-season championship.
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 dressed as the Joker, the other as Penguin.
Gentlemen, how it feels about this grand final, Super X?
Ah, man, I'm trying to figure out which one of those I am.
Yeah, I agree with that.
I don't have to go to the moment
if we don't give any too many more one-liners for yours,
truly.
Yeah, no, I mean, hey, Puget,
I think this is going to be a pretty epic game, right?
A lot of people, obviously, high on Zed Division,
rightfully so, uh, twisted minds though. I mean, they have the crowd behind them.
And then they think a lot like how you guys talked with Psycho and Kellex,
there's an opportunity to really punish Zeta for some of the things they do
without putting you 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 so 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 over 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. All right, you guys
I'm a little violent. We here on the desk
We got to put our reputation on the line call some specific spreads and I'm gonna put you guys to the test as well
Who do you got winning this grand final and I want to score prediction as well?
I'll say
I'll say we get a seventh game and I'm gonna say twisted minds does it? Oh
Yeah, I'm in a game seven bitch. Yeah, it's a division in seven and there's gonna be an honor band that really
See, I'm I'm curious cuz Jake I almost think that
that there's a world in which TM would want to leave the honor in in some of
these situations because an easy target the 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 and 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
in the way that they bring this huge versatility. I do think that Zedas are
very hard team to ban against them because they play just about everything, you know,
it's like you could take one tool away from them, they're going 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 seven, if we kind of get past the early phase, if Twisted
Mind is starting to get success with the SimCom, I feel like they get the edge down 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.
To me 5-1 she's fought with Matt Foley Jack. I'll see you down here in just a sec
I mean hey me and Jake have had a lot of success. Yeah, Jake. I think you look to me
Thank you places buddy don't worry about it. They 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 cast for now
We got a check it with Danny Lim. He's with one of the highest pet tanks in the game paid tanks. He goes by the name 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?
right now. I feel like our opponents, Trist and 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?
I feel like not only for me, I don't want to focus too much on myself. I want to get the win. I want to lift that trophy. Not for myself, but for myself.
I feel like I'm going to win the trophy. I feel like I'm going to win the trophy. Not only for me, but for myself. I want to lift that trophy. Not for myself, but for myself.
I feel like, not only for me, I don't want to focus too much on myself.
I want to get the win, I want to lift that trophy, not for myself, but for the team.
And to do that, I have to do my best.
And that is how we are going to win.
Bernard, that is it for the interview.
Thank you so much.
Fighting.
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?
What 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 type of 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 individual, 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 Mines got there and he might have a bias but it's infected me too so yeah go with Twisted Mines.
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 these sports 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 fallen in that in that journey because there's been such incredible moments mean way
But I've 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
win 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 gonna see if this man can keep clutching up and dropping the beat at the perfect time Danny caught up with funny astro from
Yeah, 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 by the you guys had a nice reverse sweep against Wable gave me and now only one enemy awaits
Twisting minds. It's none other than Zeta. How are you feeling right now?
Pretty pretty knackered to be honest. I think I need one more coffee and then I'll be ready for grand finals
I mean, 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 Anna, 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 answer, 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 Mines is gonna get it in here. Twisted Mines
It's gonna be a 4-3 for set of division Bernard and knife have never won a major tournament before this will be a career-defining game for them
I'm looking forward to it and who in MVP
It's got to be shoot.
If they go across the finish line, it's got to be shoot.
It could be shoot. It's up to you guys.
Let us know online for now.
71% of you are all winning towards Zedad Division
in our Grand Finals match.
It is time for your mid-season championship Grand Final.
We lost to Maiden in the Champions Clash,
But this time, we will win.
I was so happy when I won WC in 2014.
I never felt that feeling again.
After this tournament, GMA is going to look the best he's ever been.
We're going to have a rolling in the finals and show the world how good we are.
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 about standing overwatch
all week long, it's time to settle it.
It is time indeed, because we say it very well at home.
The winners write, the winners tell the story.
So Ian, who's finishing the job?
The teams are ready. The players are ready.
Paris is time for the grand final.
Next up, NICE!
CHEERING
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, their opponents have looked unbreakable.
It's time to find out which matters more.
Korea's champions, the world champions.
One last battle, it's Zeta 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 Threat 2-3!
The Esports World Cup is built on one not-defining belief. Nothing is given. Everything is earned.
Tonight, two of the world's greatest teams decide who has owned the right to call themselves mid-season champ.
And for Zedavision, it's kind of a, look, it's a mechanical skill.
It is just firepower to jump like an unlike we've ever seen before.
And for Twisted Minds, their game is, you know, obviously they have some great mechanically skilled players here, but it's really based on teamwork.
How can we get courts in different positions to succeed?
I think you're going to see how obviously those things collide for a very long time here today.
It's the makings of a great final.
If 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 Minds arrived here because they just refused to die.
Wasn't a victory lap. It was an active 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 bootcamp,
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 kind of win this.
Not many teams in Overwatch 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,
verified air if they were able to get the win today.
It's been a long time since the same day,
such an era of dominance from a team not from South Korea, Matt. It is truly novel in this world.
And Busan is our first map selection. There's a bunch of player head-to-heads that I'm watching,
and the Tracer already banned. It begs the question, is tonight going to be about proper?
The player, anyone would build a perfect team around? Or is it about Quartz? The player,
the Twisted Lines, already built a championship around. The Lucio Band is really impactful.
Jake was talking about it when we were talking with him in pocket like the tracer
No, yeah, the Lucio the Keery the sip probably the strongest fans you can have
Against twisted minds they use this Lucio off the rip. Milo wants to play jetpack cat anyway
He doesn't really want to go over towards that Lucio
Funny ashore can play the cat
He doesn't really play it the same vein that Milo does like nobody else, right?
The Cupra pick here for Twisted Minds in the past have been Juno in these sensitive situations.
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. A little flozier, a little more susceptible than Dovon,
but still offers a team-wide speed boost that you'll be looking for, Elu of the Lucio.
An iconic battlefield to begin an iconic series.
series. Well, like I said, the
pocket earlier feels like the
defining stylistic matchup of
this era. Oh, oh, oh, watch
battle of regions about the
box is about a philosophy
battle of game plans. You name
it. These two sit on other
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,
We had a little bit of a run, you and I, not seeing that pause screen pop up, but
you know, hey, this match is too important.
Got to make sure everybody
in the best of spots to do it.
It looked like at the start, we will get maybe a Juno here
out of funny Astro as that seems 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 course's mouse pad could be too dry.
We don't like dry mouse pads up in this.
It sounds like we'll get this one sorted pretty quickly though as we've had some...
I feel like we've got some normal concepts and mouse ones.
The Korean, by the way, on that shield reads, nothing is given.
Everything's earned, I'm wondering about that old wheel, makes sense?
And for me, like, when I look at Zeta, like, the, it's really the backline, like, Violet is playing
Jetpack Cat in a way that, you know, nobody else is doing, like, he would be kind of my skin down player,
am I like, MVP 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 maneuvering all of his teammates around the map, right?
He's not just kind of locked on to the Bastion, flying him around, moving the Ana, moving other players.
And then also the amount of damage he'll kill potentially has.
Put him on another left.
Here we go!
Tonight's editor vision, Twisted Byes decides where the era ends and whether another is ready yet to begin.
The Super Team versus Team who's team play sets them up off the rest.
Krustman is already making use of that Sinti, Peter trying to angle the decent positioning unsurprisingly.
Prop is gone to the shield, and we have Emerith tonight.
I think you've requested mine, but you're just trying to figure out how you can make use of this TP.
Take out some of these targets that are not as mobile, and there goes Nite right away.
Heavy Trace, you be somehow not getting flattened despite trying to fight a deal with Blood vs. Blood.
Eventually Valekar has enough attention to get the elimination.
The TDMT is still at large, and simply lacks teammates though.
to bolster his claim.
But it's still picked off by TVNT,
and maybe it's asked to filter with a few more players
to crack in, but it looks like Zeta will be
first cap off the rank for capture.
You're going to see a lot of fights like that though, right?
Zeta not able to rotate as fast as,
let's say, a twisted mind. Obviously, Juno's
speed rating is in TP.
Available to kind of get them into positions.
At that time, they actually just c-knife,
you know, just collapsed onto the M-Rae.
And you look at this, look at this, the playmaker potential caught!
Oh my goodness, he was a buyer, but it looks like Zyphus actually has the Suzy just in time.
Caught still falls, but it's a big commitment for Zeta into that one position.
It comes with the cost of the NAR and his mech.
Usually NAR had to commit to something green now as well to try and sell Vinceness,
but she was traded for funny Astro.
Zeta Division though, for now, would have to give it a space up here.
Notice that TBMZ shappered everybody onto the point here to try and get Twisted Minds in position to contest it properly.
It's not going down, I feel like that's gonna come through.
I mean, you just see how different that Zeta plays, right?
It's an off angle that Shoe has through the biotic range in there.
You see Pinargo in, but who's really the first one leading the charge?
It's Pylite getting in the mix there.
Hort takes out Shoe with a Railgun.
Now, of course, Zeta, back up a bit here.
Now, with the Cat-Ault here, he's really just gonna try and break.
A lot of psych-dive in, but for what?
Okay, he's gonna...
Ha-ha! The evil that is self-destruct here is triggered.
Zed had to respond by spreading out, taking cover away from the blast.
Wicked mines completely under swaps and their bottom get back to ultimate being committed.
Hairs dive right into the ground.
EVNT throws him in the dust.
The propaganda nanophoose here has just been a little bit conservative about how he wants to make use of it though.
No commitment and twisted mines are allowed to continue to get up to parity.
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 a DMG there on the Bernard.
Violet takes another railgun shot there from Quartz. Gonna play off the mega here,
wrap around, you gotta put some, try and put some pressure on point.
Pipe be looking to threaten the backcab. He doesn't want to link your two longing Quartz's line of
sight. He's the override protocol from Extreme Range and it's a pretty comfortable Symmetra
the wall to answer this. Wow, GVMT heads up from him.
Season 9 is going to be an easy target and he runs him into the ground.
Oh, the rail guns! 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 dry, but Chris Devine still have a comfortable lead now.
And Benaz being staggered.
He's going to get staggered now. Let's take a look at this from Quartz.
This is POV again, the OC.
Oh, just does not miss.
Unreal play there.
One more shot, and actually, Quartz going over here
and playing the she-on.
That's Licky, the OC.
That's often, really, at all.
They're trying to turn the heat up onto the pilot, potentially,
or shoot, especially.
Well, backline pressure, government
let this honor do whatever.
I guess Quartz, Carver, Lyon, Ray de Rouga,
headshots to prove them to fight.
The best TD&T though, they finally shoot, the honor is taken down, get it again, oh, TD&T, love that from you.
Knack would fall as well, and twisted mines, as soon as they go back into the round they get a grip on the point that cannot be broken, what knack winners that may have been?
This has been sublime from them.
TvNT has been the best team in the world for about a year now and shows you why they're
in round number one.
This is such an important map for Zeta as well.
This is the Lucio Band.
That's like Funny Astros' bread and butter and it doesn't matter, I mean a lot of these
This highlight is going to be TVNT and Quartz, just carving them up.
To match up with the best hitscan player in the world, there's the best DPS player in the world.
But so far, this is all about Quartz.
The fact that Twisted Minds don't have to play a backline dive component and still punishes you,
positioning on Ana.
It's not something you see every day, Matt.
You know, if you can keep punishing the positioning of the Ana, right,
that's going to force Zeta Division to get off this comp.
We'll be Reapered here, and yeah, we've done a few Zed Division games and like they're pretty you know Reaper obviously you can be impactful
But it limits kind of the the skill ceiling here of brap or in his ability to take over the round
I feel like forcing too of honor would be more than just a moral victory man
If you feel like the surrender of Zed Division's idea, their old value composition
He was the first tragedy here though, as Smith's allies haven't quite made their way out into the open
Let's slow it again in position.
Although look at TDNT making that space, but now it's trying to fly past, trying to ignore it, trying to get in the back line.
And he trains Quartz for his mech.
With Violet picking up from the Estruals, it might be enough, but it's very, very scrappy, very close fight.
TDNT, they DMEC Pernar here as well. You're gonna have TDNT 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.
TvNT is gonna have to back up just a bit. You're gonna get both supports back.
The whole Watt Pickle can't shoot. Finally getting some revenge!
Hasn't quite been out of spec into that second perk that allows him to hit critical shots.
We still can now trade these Meta for forces like earlier on.
Collected late a half of Twisted Minds positionally though, not having a debuff.
Tm's gonna farm up this rush here just off of TvNT. He's taking some damage in the choke.
I'm trying TP and use it on top. Look at how safe this position is from Shu though, I mean, no...
Nobody on top of him yet, but look at this fast rotation from Tm.
I like this idea. Tm might need a TP to really close the gap in the front blue zone.
It's Katsune Rush now. Tbnt just trying to control the midfield with his back left being pressured.
Fire over the top of the cap now. Tbnt dragged out of the way, making it hard for him to peel full of his own teammates.
Now Tbnt's got another plan. Upstairs he notices Knight bleeding in the darkness and he wants to go for him.
but Bernard has struck at the core of twisted lines before TVNZ can do the same and Zeta at 70%
are on the run home in this round. Much better look from Zeta here. Bernard improper putting
a ton of pressure on the back line and I think also it's a little bit of the weight and the map
here the round that Bernard is designed to just allow his shoot to play so safe. He's still
Still chilling, sitting right on back, knifed in the other block, now spending most of the damage on GVMT.
It looks like Zed and Division have decided the Diver is the core of their opponent's strategy.
GVMT's not going to survive this, folks. He got slept. He won't be allowed to get back into his mech.
Not that the stagger was necessary, but the Diver falls last and Twisted Minds won't be able to get in position.
We're going to the side, they're on Busan.
Round two, just an absolute rubbing there.
Xayah, they just kind of dominate TM is you just see the position that Shu is able to play from at such a distance that they're never able to, you know, the TP lane is not that long, right?
You're not able to just go cross map with it, put pressure on the honor right away.
The main map was most stupidity because he didn't see getting flagged out of a position with guilt for his teammates.
Why is that catnap me?
Bananas runs in against three kills, and that feels like that's where it crumbles for just in mind.
It wasn't even like an environmental kill, it wasn't anything flashy.
It was just stop D.B. from protecting your back.
Yeah, I mean, they're just playing on such back foot defensively is now it'll be...
...Roper going back to the reefer there, just a TP out.
The game is very tricky out, they'll be nice playing the Bastion here as we've seen them put Shu up on this high ground, also makes them a very difficult target.
There'll be Cassidy to swap here, for ports. Nothing could be more twisted mind versus editor vision than this kind of lineup.
It doesn't profit on the Reaper, so he gets less of a headlining role but a very important job nonetheless.
And also you see the threat of Shu up there on the high ground, so the Yuvi fires some
shots at him as well.
A little ground, if it's people down with Yuvi, who has the damage here?
Watch with some eyes, if they fall back on this, there's nothing to fight, that's crap,
but that should be a matter of course now that I've got Finaa properly decented.
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 is 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?
Up shoe on the honor be a nano here they'll
Actually fall proper or the Bastion. That's a nice open sideline for the wards, but it is under assault
This wall though is going to make it all too easy.
You might quickly have to drag, or get dragged out of the way
because his cast is going to take the game over.
Now of course the Royce back to the high ground and Adilio views it dead-eyed.
Really, full setter of reaching the way.
They're simply going down, and with Grenadier, Nipers starting to cut deep.
He's using his straight, straight off the map.
It's quite clear to see who's probably going to be number one for Violet, this anyway.
Tune in, Rosh invested there by Twisted Minds.
It'll be both support ults used with the artillery
Horses data division
They're planted the science. Yeah, you see that pushing up a little bit
I don't know if you decide to take a fight pretty quickly here with Crawford's
That's awesome. Maybe you kind of get that reaper working like you saw in the last map
It's gonna be a 2p straight to the point. They're gonna try and set up this bunker with these simchords yet again
It's exciting
This is about as fun for as it gets now with the all the right being thrown in and it still does the magic
Proper as the damaging spades!
Caught some funny astro a run off the map
Is that a division? Very quickly! Snap back into control!
Yeah, this Reaper is definitely paying off. Obviously,
Stim very squishy, so
Reaper able to kind of deal with her
relatively quickly.
The one-cabuster.
Let's see what TM decides to do. It'll be cat-bashing for them.
Okay.
A little bit of a rare look at what we've seen.
Twisted Mind's going for a shoot. Yeah, he's got his critical hit perv now.
Biotic grenade.
Oh, it wasn't even needed necessarily.
Twisted Mind is struggling here to hold on. 81% and counting.
Fortunately, they all fly 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.
Thor is used here by Knight trying to deny them the touch.
An awkward pilot gets brought down to the end of the front of the jetpack.
Kept a huge opening if it's Twisted Mind.
Away! Back into the round perhaps!
A lot of pressure on Shu.
No supports remaining here for Zayna Division. This is a good look for Twisted Minds.
And it comes back a moment to SOOBEN ASPINA!
Fanned himself a couple.
DDNT on the D-shoot of the move here.
It's of course in simple.
The former can only right away.
They at least got the flip.
There's going to be some touches here though that aren't a trace that it worked with.
Remember that? That was banned down by Twisted Minds.
So the touch won't come in.
And the defending world champions have put on the back foot.
We want a full.
Kims found themselves in this spot before they end up losing early to Wave-O.
There's a huge map for Zeta Division right that Lucio van,
one of the really impactful ones against Twisted Minds.
You need to win this map.
They pull it out in the end.
One round that's pretty dominant for Twisted Minds.
The other two.
Very strong for Zeta Division.
I gotta say, the bunker look for Twisted Bytes was pretty decent.
This is quite a wide open, proper death blossom.
Look, it's nothing.
It's not pretty strong to pick up, but it's still an important one.
Nonetheless, nightkeeping out of Perth, obviously, into firing those Portia rounds.
It's pretty dangerous to too far play into that as a collective.
Round one, they were doing a great job of just kind of going at Shu constantly.
We're not able to do that in the next round.
Let's go down to the stage with the Twisted Minds crew.
Yes, I'm very glad to be with the co-owner and extremely good human being Fancy and the
Twisted Mind boys who are 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 gonna lie to you, the semi-final was a little bit nerve-wracking, but if they can pull a diverse sweep once, they can do it again, and that's what's gonna happen here, even if we lose that one, it's fine.
Especially with that kind of support, of moi, je suis pas du tout inquiets. Si ils ont pu faire un river sweep en demi-finale, ils peuvent le faire en finale également.
I'm 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 DPS squad for the past five, six years.
And 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.
Quartz, the best player in the world.
I'm very proud of my player, for me he's the best player in the world, he's very consistent.
It's been years since I've been so proud to see him on stage, and there's a reason why he's playing in the grand final.
TWISTED! TWISTED!
TWISTED!
I've covered a lot of Overwatch lands. We've been around for a while, Matt.
I've come up for my tenth year of doing this, and...
Crowds like this, fan bases like this...
You don't see many like that. It's quite a boon for Twisted Minds to have.
these dedicated supporters in their corner and frankly Matt they're going to
need them today. Yeah it's gonna be a obviously a really tough game here
against Data Division. So you see of course kind of going over everything with
comp-ups here as we 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 started to rack up some
the wins. It's a division 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 looking on 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 there, probably Paris, so what I can
vault until those cool reworks come out.
I'm Mizuki and then the Reinhardt band. So yeah, this is a good read from Dave Division.
They use the Reinhardt here a lot. Mizuki band is going to empower TVNC on the Diva
a lot.
We've seen the Mizuki figures of fallback option here, but again, you know, you're not
going to go there. We've seen more recently, most of us try that Diva look. Frankly, behind
you know, the sim playing, I feel like this is such a classic look for Twisted Vines,
Sim, Diga, Sojourn, you name it.
I don't think they need the Reinhardt, but I certainly think they need to ban here.
It's been a highlight map, I think of this entire event so far,
that everyone wants to go to every hybrid map.
We've been near a dungeon.
And everyone's on tape on it too.
Yeah.
I do think Twisted Vines is the most striking book.
Is that even an open shoot with DeVarisa?
Hmm...
DeVarisa has been...
They've seen way more playtime than I think anybody expected.
At this tournament, it looks like Popper's gonna go back and make a change of winner if this is like Tracer or Reaper...
...instead of Shion. We'll see...
...what he decides.
Nope, gonna go out with the Shion. Okay, so...
Looked like he was going back, maybe making some changes, gonna go with the Shion here.
Twisted Minds, this is the bread and butter comp, right?
This is them, this is how they become world champions.
This exact setup right here, so.
They've been faithful to it, and it has treated them very well over the last 12 months.
Running another championship chip with it, wouldn't hurt either.
Shoot here on the auto.
It's sick that you look for this team, but Banana and Violet are both struggling.
Violet can't get any healing from anybody right now.
And that is a nice, like, swine HP, just to be alive there.
A little fortunate, Zed.
We're gonna get the arch as well.
Both supports here for T.M. here with a bio.
Proper time to commit into the bio, backflank, E-MAT, sort of, but now they're running at them,
but I think that we don't want to close T.M.T.
No, they still have it a fine duty.
But have there been a fall that they can shoot?
Nice javelin's been there for a few hours, the pressure comes down on him.
T.M.T. eventually crumbles.
And Zedivision looked on the voice early in this fight.
Actually come out looking pretty cool.
Yeah, it's a beautiful follow-up there of that Biogrenade.
It takes a little bit, but Pernar 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 Zed, they're at nap available.
We go looking for the way to drop on in.
and catching up here for simple, and Violet is going on a long mission behind enemy lines.
Almost two ticks here.
Zed divisions seem like they're planning to allow this to finally just get caught out.
I don't know what he's doing back there, but of course it's not going to let that stand.
Now the catapult approach is done.
You've got to throw what you have at this fight and see if he can get it out.
That's insane.
Now Popper and Shune are already down.
This is very good news for Twisted Minds fans.
Now they can just run it on him.
And that's how Violet's 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 into backlines, lurking,
now he's going to have proper to work with, so...
This, you know, maybe not with the Mawg in the mix,
but this, like, Tracer with the Cat has been probably the best.
Oh, they actually go with the Cat map here, he's going to drag TD&T into the Mawg of Blender.
There's no... Wait, okay, I was going to say,
no point go for the self-destructed TD&T.
No, it's over.
What could he do with this stuff? How do you really set up?
Maybe it's just about a step of seeing a football that's somewhat deeper so you can play the melga up on this corner
He talks 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 plate earlier. It's pretty huge
Override protocol meets the Symmetra wall
Not trying to play both sides of the coin here. They seem to have a thing put down
But it's just not happening quickly enough
Funny Astro, the only catcher that he dares to use, he's at least getting picked off, but Knife desperately tapping away with the Siphon blast to surround him by enemies, it's not a good look.
He twisted mines, but plenty of time up there, Sleeve, are well and truly on the way.
Yeah, Tm end up holding on to both of their support ults, which is pretty massive there, right?
His ninth is going to switch over and match the soldier, and I think that's kind of what they're playing for there.
They're division, you're trying to like put that pressure on the Funny Astro, maybe feel the need for them to call out a beat.
You're going to give yourself some chance here in our next fight.
Robert just putting some pressure here on this simple gets healed up right away you be fine Tyler. That's you
Yeah, not enough attention to get heads turning there for proper
and course as overclock
Forget to fast lead louder over chip
I think it's simple on the end but again, this is just takes you too long
You know it's good for one map, but does that need more? Yeah, I mean he's just trying to dance this way out of this here
So it looks like we're still gonna get very close.
Do you have a sound barrier here for them to use?
Rob is still in the back line, very deep.
Looking for Sizzle yet again.
Hoping to spawn, can't put them in the meantime.
His team are struggling.
Nice, in a very awkward position.
They're getting all the run by TBMT.
He doubles back and shoots down, yet again by Quartz.
Nobody, and I mean, nobody's doing it like this guy right now.
One after another.
He lays waste to this super team.
And I mean, it's massive, right?
I mean, Prober's pulse bomb gets eaten there on the courts
when he had the benefits of the sound barrier
just pushes on through, clicking heads,
just doing what the courts does.
But something you may have noticed right now as well
is like, Symbol doesn't fall too proper there at the start.
It's 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 Vendetta,
so Vendetta Maga, Violet now off of the cat.
So this is, it tells you that TN
is definitely causing some problems here on Neon.
Junchin.
Delegate rock solid man.
Okay, cage fight comes out from Vendetta, but isn't it whole?
Him trying to act overdrive, pop pretty much instantly, but the cage is now down.
Yubi's having a bone through it, finally.
Now, release from the confines, the ties that fly in.
Quartz is looking to punish this Vendetta.
Can Junior Rushwood get his respect from Mr. Dines?
They know they've got a bit of room to work with, so they're just TPR'd and wasted ours.
We'll see how good proper is on the Vendetta.
And they have to kind of like manage those big movement full downs as you're trying to play around this team TP
Right now with an OC it's gonna be courts using his high ground then TP's back low
One headshot gonna change the fight just one foot knife is searching and probing and coming up with nothing
Who said nice again funny mini disengaged now a sound barrier and that's gonna herald a renewed conflict
If they die this court will assume this high ground now
He's got a lot of space but he's gonna make something off it and that's a nice little run there from Violet
but of course his tendencies always take him very deep behind enemy lines.
But one for one though, Vinar is having to control this space effectively.
Bay alongside Pogba will clear some of these targets away
and they will continue to put up a decent defense.
But Pogba's gonna double back.
Vinar's also low and he's being chased, he's not gonna be allowed to get away.
Surely TVMT finally warded away by the broadside of the blade.
The Pogba's over extended.
Yeah, just goes in way too deep there.
See it's sort of backed up because he just had Bayo on a wide shoot coming off the spawn.
And then I think proper things are going to be able to get TBT in size to go for Narm.
With a stop, it does take out UV. It'll be a Russian response here for CM as they feel like they can close themselves.
And Twisted Mind's having their hands dirty apparently. It is utter chaos, pandemonium.
But that's a standard vision of the only design and Twisted Mind's have decided they thrive there too.
Shoe is run down, caught away by the front door.
And over 90 seconds still remaining around, but Twisted Mind's to get this done.
But Ah, it's going to be healthy. Hale and Hardy, hit of the cart, but Metshi drops the low.
I called to try a huge Suzu use, there's nothing left to keep him standing.
Sundering blade from a little off angle there, no real connection, it's Benar falling.
TVNT though down an adventure in play.
They gonna dig up some dirt here on Twisted Minds,
fight and fight to Ubi and somehow this defensive side of the business found the winner of the fight!
Sundering blade, the damage is pretty good.
TVNT forced to use, self-destruct, shoot comes back.
With Sune Rush, that's enough to do it.
Zeta might be able to hold your mix, which would be tremendous.
I mean, cage fight available, all out aggression from Zeta, with the Vendetta in Bensharka.
This is the answer we thought we might see to this Metra.
And now, a cage fight. Look at that quickly.
Burds down the delivery, just insane.
Wards 5-5 with a railgun headshot.
A proper mind of God.
She is in the fight for just one Wards Cusset.
Twisted Minds a little belatedly, get a map completion with time to spare.
And the Bedetta usually a really strong kind of counter to the Sim.
We also saw a lot of time for Pernar is actually waiting for the TP to come through to then start the charge.
And then Tm's doing an eye travel like kind of baiting. They all take the TP, the charge is coming through.
charge coming through they know they'll TP back out, leaves the Mawgah without charge
and then just kind of miles away while it shows the true force of the nice great play
towards the end. It's a great beat from Funny Astro, Bernard just burned down instantly and
I mean look, proper has all his eyes on Quartz, finally gets him but turns around and all
his teammates are dead.
It's unbelievably difficult to manage your health pool as Mawgah at this level, especially
when you sort of run out into field.
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 before the on the clock,
but now it runs out and somehow the turns will fight.
And for me, that, if they win, it's because of that.
Let's take a look at some of the stats, courts.
As usual, getting the better of the hitscan battle.
I wonder now if you are Zeta Division, right?
like what's your go-to here on offense twisted minds we obviously know what
we're gonna see on D do they feel confident enough in their vendetta
playstyle to potentially play that on offense Sonic era over the top here if
anyone is gonna do it it's so how about a little venture here stand up all the
vendetta venture was a very good seem kind of go-to against it before
more than that it was added to the game.
It's going to be Xayah!
Sorry, I can't. Okay.
We saw this a lot from Team Liquid, primarily.
It's like a kind of Xayah through these games.
A lot of reasons to like it.
Popper gets bubbles, right?
Which is in turn going to give an hour-long charge.
And he properly has no access to that high ground though.
I mean, I think they're trying to force this advice to come to them.
Okay, will you say that, Matt?
I see Copper and Lava.
They're shunning on him right out. He's using all the cooldowns to get up there.
He's on me though. Copper gets there.
Interesting. See how Venture can shape the face of this series.
Still no limitations though in this pick.
And Copper just has to play safe for the time being.
Of course he's just gonna dominate on that sideline.
Twisted mines can bounce back to that higher ground.
Whatever they kind of need to.
It's also tough off an out of play in this situation.
It's around about a lot of people that out-ranged them.
No damage, charged up, well and truly.
But, how did he lose Shu? I thought of you to get Shu alive, and he fornars so much charge on the Zarya.
Barely going to make it out.
Steven T is going to come back on the Divi again.
Going to keep trying with this Divi. It is two ticks.
Game here by Zeta.
Continue to rush, going to be mirrored here, too. Let's his go as soon as possible.
Ventures still looking for an off-hang, you see Kropper there at the top of your screen, now on that left-hand side it's not one in, both side-journs have found picks, and they've both been under DPS.
Nifo at the trade-out, there's Leif through his opponents. Horses just stands inside their scrubs, got no one else to beat him to, eventually he's going to excise him with a kunai.
The second shot will be saved, ideally.
No problem to keep him right now, he does fall.
That's a pretty important peak in terms of tempo,
but we're almost catching him as they're in the vision.
Eventually, they've pulled and bullied their way into the map.
Twistin holds on to just about everything there.
Coming into the next fight, Bernhardt.
As soon as I had OC, he gets popped by Quartz up on the high ground.
He decides to just throw the grab up there, solo grab him.
Just make him an easy target.
It's gonna be 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, it's a pretty stuck in awe.
I'm afraid it's ready, forget the TP coming in, it's a tonic shock, but this wall dissipating
could be huge, but again, still unnecessary.
I like the game, but from Twisted mind, they are concerned about giving the Zayac too much
time to charge up.
Hit the mic for a quick fight, they've got quick eliminations.
They want War Cobas.
They do not want to allow Bernard to build in strength over the course of a longer fight.
So you're going to be around this first corner here now for Zeta Division.
There's no changes here.
For Twisted, they're going to continue.
Obviously with the D, but with the self destruct, you probably want to try and at least get use of that extended fight.
Or just kind of giving it up.
Tech shock available for proper.
So yeah, he decides to use this. It looks like Twisted wants to set something up, maybe go and try to get her.
Let's see if we're just going to try and start it up for them here.
Geek on the shot, now going to come through, Proper.
Dangerous game, you're playing my friend.
Sandbarrow from Funny Astro, drawn out.
There was a rally some play for Byakshuna, goes for a rush of his own, a look at Twisted by it, very quickly about facing.
They respect it. They also throw...
Oh dear, they're going to be dangerous.
Little deep piece of distracts for you.
You don't look like you just got plucked out there proper, has kept this pressure as fever picks.
And Manar now looks to join him in a symphony in the front lines.
Kraviton is available, let's it 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 Bernard, there's no way that TVNT can kind of step up and take that position.
I was going to say Ramachur has to be the call here.
4 TDNT, 340 on the time bank, 4 Zeta, fantastic run through the map, proper over to Althara.
Interesting call here at this point in the map, not like a great skybox to Althara play
through and then also the board text available.
That doesn't mean to the venture anymore, that's put him off it.
Now for the note blocks here, plus that poke damage to proper is good but what's it just
betting for a matchup like that and taking any day of the week?
He does get too close to Vida who's surely operating a full charge right now and building
towards his next Graviton Surge.
Now, of course in the game, but now,
cautiously, he's trying to forge ahead.
The car is still on the move.
The sim T.P. looks like it was just
a ruse, maybe, to bait something.
The Romatra
put him off the idea of the venture.
Feels like Vernora's dominated this half.
This eye has just been
hitting quite a different man. I'm going to be
old for this juby. Again, paking down,
but now, somehow, find a way
through the Romatra shield, and now, it's happy to
face him down.
Properly picked off yet again, that's been the story of these last couple of fights,
but it hasn't really been enough, it's twisted minds, Quartz has got gold, but it's always
trading his life for proper, and it's like smaller than that, this team is far more than
just proper.
Five bonafide, stone cold killers, all ready to run you down at a moment's notice.
I mean, Bernard is absolutely feasting here.
First with CDT on the D.Va, just easy charge there, working towards another grab, third
or fourth of the half.
He's so low already
This grab will be a game-ender it could pull people off the card if you fly them all together make it easy to burn them down
Either way you feel good about Zyus prospects
Here's the grab on the card with the rally with Violet running into the backline sees that sound barrier and the annihilation for TVNT
It's gotta be a respect of a unique horses got stunned up heavily
Popper's trying to dive in but Violet's gone down and he's not respecting you be trying to lends him out onto the game
He eventually falls for TVNT the annihilation an absolute godsend for twisted mine
And they're gonna hold that graph for now.
And they finally get rid of Vanar.
It feels like that's the first time he's died in this half.
It's a huge investment from Zeta, very close to being able to take it.
Obviously Twisted dumped into it as well.
Vanar gonna go over and play Rematra.
The proper obviously on the Vendetta now, haven't felt that like kind of dominance from him
on the hero just yet, but.
We're gonna hear for Knight to close us out with an O.C.
Kill on the simple here as we're getting towards a rush.
Could be huge if they're trying to farm Shoes.
Put Stunia Rush as well, I feel.
Yeah.
Both teams take a beat, is that it?
No, they still have to lead.
Ashley, who's gonna get close to be here?
No.
Knight, looked like he's closing the frontline there.
Matt got a little too close.
Walker's out of the back away here and Shoe and I are going down.
That is such a heads-up identification from Twisted Minds.
To see a chance to punish to poor positioning.
Oh, and then they try and stagger.
Bernard looks like he's going to get the kill.
He's going to blow onto Ubi.
And Ubi just TP's out.
Oh, that is a brutal stagger.
Just in mind.
One more fight to be able to hold here on defense.
They able to hold on and build up this sound barrier of Viola getting nowhere close to the rally.
You're TM, you didn't think about getting aggressive here, right?
Sound barrier annihilation.
You know that Shure already burned his rush in the last fight.
Not a lot of movement out of that backline, so...
Mion Junction comes to his conclusion with 10 seconds left on the clock.
Zeta Division have to be absolutely centre-in perfect.
Life with a step back.
Then sees PBNT with another annihilation, by the way.
I just feel like this is too much to go into.
Twisted minds have an insane bank of ultimates.
Here's a Sundering Blade being held, and then let go.
The Frenchman just missing.
Proper finds no connection.
Now at overtime, he's gonna find a way to get a touch here.
Zeta, half presence on the card though.
on the card though, it's Pinar, close to an annihilation eastbound, he can match TVN's
season five that has already gone down, respect for the Rematres here, the Twisted Vides have
the sound barrier to disregard the milesome of damage! We're no proper ways, is Crownsman!
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, but what I just
saw right there, I wouldn't be too scared of Zayda Division trying to play that.
They looked really destroyed trying to make that work.
Honestly, the scariest part was for Nara on this Aria, 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 Romantra and forced that Romantra head-to-head,
you're properly not really able to make that big of a difference there on the sim.
I feel like probably I have to switch off to Vindetta at that point.
Yeah, I mean, like...
But 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 force
like a vendetta. Let's go down to the stage with Ian to get the pulse of the crowd.
I'm actually in the Kurshrym area right now, it's Hayao of Zeta Division. I've just been
talking to him about his viewership right now. Pushing somewhere in the region of almost
20,000 viewers watching along here. And you said it's nice to have you over here. Thank
you for being here. This is
great. Um this has got like a
long series written all over it.
What do you think? I think it's
going to go all the way forward
of three. I don't know who's
going to win, but it's going to
go all the way. How are the
meds right now because you know
in any sport, a sport when you
watching your team in a clutch
series like this, the hats
pounding. Yeah, of course, I
thought I mean, I'm not playing
or anything. I'm just watching,
but I still got the sweat. I'm
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 in
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 three stars? I mean,
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
did you manage to catch the twisted mind series before the semi-final coming into this of course you did you're right here for it
Did you see that crazy fans? Yeah, dude their crew fans are crazy
It 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 this bands and of course it gives 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
Who's it actually I guess they affect your performance at all. I mean
Not directly maybe but mentally I think that having someone push your back is always good. Yeah, what's your final prediction give it to me?
Four to three Zated division that's what I'm gonna go with
Love it
If 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 don't know what to do.
Man.
The Viper here is pretty insane.
Viper ain't wrong.
Great team that his co-stream is popping off.
Yeah, Ian's got the view.
It's no different.
Ian's not going to shout at anybody.
He's like, well, I have 20,000 people watching right now.
So yes, I would like to shout all of them out.
Everyone 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 Moga gone. I think look
from the way Twisted is looked thus far like the Moga gone. I think that's a pretty decent right?
You can now play what? Ramatra. 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, you know, a cheery band can look like.
Simply did end up on the moira.
Oh, of course. So, you know, I don't know if that's exactly going to stick against a team like Zed and Division.
Which is the minds were able to come up with an answer.
It was about T-Sat first.
Now...
This is...
What do you think about the thing?
It's exploitable, I think.
If they really sing here...
The line on the other side, I mean that feels like some of that TNT I'm just going to eat
so hard.
I mean there are some parts of the map obviously where it looks a little bit better, a longer
straight away run if you can buy the time, but Twisted Mind's a pain with a sin.
So Ryan can always get that much closer without having to give up his shield.
You better hope these equations are absolutely perfect from Bernal, I feel?
Yeah, I mean even so, right?
You can't do anything with the damage that TVNT has, then he also plays inside of the immortality field.
It's proper over to the Xion.
Simple is the link here.
So they're going to try and dive the Baptiste early and off with their composition.
The longer, simple lives.
The easier it's going to be for TVNT to manically take space and charge ahead.
The Bastion wheels will just kind of backs them up here.
TP, where's this TP set off is it?
Just kind of fade here.
Simple as using mortality build already, that's gone.
That's how to build out of the wave.
I'm excited to be pressing on the absence of it.
Yes, that's him now!
Trouble's able to make his way into the backline.
Warts has been removed.
TvNZ probably feels a bit uncomfortable here
and you'd be trying for an off angle, but buddy.
No TvNZ shall mean you can be slept right on down.
down. That TDNT charges gets right up in the mix is a
structure shot there placed on the turret, the TP. So that'll
be a Zeta division fight win. They'll get the bot now.
Leeds a TM territory as sports goes over to the Cassidy. This
is a lot like how that last series we had with Wave-O started
up.
Bara for proper hours, I could interact. Again, some parts of
the map she's great.
It's a little uncomfortable to their step into the castle's sightlines.
You've got to play around the damage fall off of the castle, which is pretty significant if it's on the rangers.
Violet is going to be banking on that as well.
Violet is going to be careful, it's going to be an air matrix user that's trying to push out the SIG.
Okay, well Kinetic Craft is a bit shady of that.
Damage that would have been coming their way, but I had to disengage, but Xaver have been playing pretty safe,
He's safe, pretty, pretty passive over the course of this map.
Oh, he's gonna be down now.
Got the S.I.M. as well.
beauty somehow untouched until just now.
She's gonna finish the job.
See that sound barrier come in,
but it was too late to save the Symmetra.
Oh, the flux comes in from Bnara,
but he gets taken out by Quartz,
so T.V. and T.
went through full HP.
Gonna be able to keep that Rhyne in the fight.
That's huge. I mean, no one's really gonna be able to shift him
and T.V. out.
Oh, the fire strike on the Violet.
Twisted by, it's slightly behind.
Opposite of the vision, got back into the game.
The knife is down.
Looking to be satisfied.
Shatter, but not before Simple had a hold for it through his body.
Two kills for a knife, masses, but what matters more is a twisted mind.
Still have a foothold.
Albeit they trail by full.
Now I'll re-segear for Brunar.
I imagine we'll eventually see TB&D make a swap, maybe over to the ram.
Or even Nazaria, deal with something like this, chords.
Bernardo has been practised, he's going to be very careful.
TP, dead eye, the opportunity here as well.
Stunning shots there from the court.
Here comes a simple, over the top goes Violet,
but most of the twist of mind has still proved up a Bionade though.
It's doused by it.
This is felt that way.
Here he's balling is important now,
Bernardo finds himself on the wrong side of it,
and a dead eye, unassisted by TP.
This is more of a defensive look.
Or almost had Violet there.
What's really trying to make sure he lines up that elimination?
Look, where Pop is playing.
It's unlike Settedivision to look so discombobulated, but they are very spread.
I mean, he's like on the other side of the map, thankful for Knight that he takes out the simpel,
and then you probably have to back up here, if you're TM, TP set up.
Actually, they're stinking out there, so yeah, they're not able to make it out here.
This Settedivision copy's designed to really appease that defensive high ground.
Look at it, they just sat back. Wissetbites knew it, too. They didn't really want to come forward,
But they had to advance the game. They are ahead. So now, they're running for a
grip wall there on the other side of the map.
Either here or TVNT. This will be driven to the far of proper. So wouldn't be
surprised if proper's gonna play mystery heroes throughout this to see him go
make a change.
Oh, we've got... Oh, he did the same time. Great response. If you didn't go down, who was looking at the far of the two-piece
ingoring about feline menace?
The Zed division still makes short work of Twisted Mine, didn't he, Slyther, 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 Ports.
Simple, without T's putting up some shots towards proper, gonna force him back.
So not checkpoint just yet here for Zeta Division. They get hell there. Maybe an opportunity for Twisted here, right?
Sound barrier, no support ultimaeol for Zeta. Just nice OC, simple, serious damage and non-proper.
Yeah, this nice focus is going to be a problem now. Look at the TP play though, this is Twistered Minds getting themselves together.
Knight is going to be buried out of trouble, but this is made space now for TM behind this application, mate.
It's a knife. Just can't peek.
Shoe was taken down by S1mple.
Oh, that is nice looks to Twisted Minds. Now it's their turn to start to take deep strides in the enemy territory.
Well, they should think so, but they've just lost their backline.
TBMT starts to nudge this up a little bit because that division did struggle in that fight.
But I don't see Twistered Minds getting ahead of Zed on this push.
No, definitely not, it's just O'Aila just lurking and stall there.
Just gotta clear out these sims, get us back towards mid map as proper now.
That's talking about playing all different types of heroes over to the Shion.
Quartz is dead, aye.
The old pilot again, just with a very audacious drive by Watch out for the TP.
Pee!
Nice!
Barely alive, Quartz had to pull the shot either way, the final goes down.
Simple found him.
A lot of good poke pressure with his Baptiste.
That's a good combination.
Yeah, Shuri gets right-clicking the next Tuesday in proper.
Watch out, buddy!
Got to scout those turrets.
Now just divides mean business.
Now they're in position.
And Bernard's going to get staggered here for a little bit.
Ubi's turrets end up doing the job as they push right up.
Oh, Milo wants a canaphe here.
He's going to grab the baptiste.
OK, that's a massive play.
I mean, well, canaphe's going to not
going to get massive insane value in a lot of these fights.
You can just get one and to get about T's mean that's massive. So denies to a survive really from getting
Any much more of a lead huge plate potentially there from violet. Yeah, that one pick focusing age. Yeah
Just a month full back though with some confidence to make sure all is still here
So they get quarter pretty insane advantage over night and that hits there fight
That I'm gonna be talking about our ton of guy past the wall first target look how to kill you be trying to dance
It gets slapped by the Nard. This is like good look that was a division
The Lucio gets stripped up, but ours are self-destruct, but those little audacious, he gets picked off, lies out of mech.
GVMT, handful bowed by Shu, and the pendulum swings back.
It's a twisted mind, side of the map.
Yeah, I wonder if Twisted, they can get out of spawn fast enough to be able to fight this, which they most certainly do.
If I deny Zeta potentially getting close, sports taking that lead back as we are down
almost 2.30 on the clock.
And I hear his pilot pilot is on in 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 best sound barrier here as well.
So fairly big investment, four twisted mines, but still you get that bot deeper into Zeta's
territory and it's all worth it. Yeah we're getting to the red zone in terms of time and
the Twisted Vines still have a lead I think spending that sound barrier to maintain it
seems pretty reasonable. In this amount of time Funny Astra has enough time to build another
beat and it's not as if Zedra are playing delusio so it's not a matter of trying to keep
yours up to match your opponents and so on. In fact if there's nothing against a catnap
of there's environmental kill potential there. All of that dire on the high ground for TVNT
what's he looking to dig up there? Immortality killed had to be deployed for simple and co-with
the backlight of Shelf Run to it until they can't, it's Knife with that overclock.
Quartz down as well, so no TPS up for Twisted Minds, a nice little slip away there for Knife to get himself a health pack.
He can virtually ignore Simple, and this is a stagger.
Simple, just try to take one out.
On the road, as you can see now, Popper moves up.
You're gonna get three firecrackers here for Twisted Minds.
TVNT the most important, right? He's gonna be able to contest even if he dies.
Self-destructs here, it's gonna be huge.
Milo goes deep there.
That's where he sprays in play, though.
Funny, that strike just caught up by the Higgins.
Doesn't seem to bother, proper.
I think torpedo died straight through them.
Here comes Zaynardivision!
We've got ourselves an equalizer with one minute left in the round!
How does this all transpire?
It's a little cardical that's cleared so early.
No one's gonna 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 Biogrenate Connection 3 there!
Dude, commands the sidelines, he commands this yellow battle, sitting back down but simple has no ticket!
He's down enough though, 90 meters, 30 seconds left in the round, Zed of Division's bad pick finally seems to be going their way!
In the dying moments, Chris defines a straight up being spawncapped.
Simple back on a timer.
Insane division, sit back and save.
Your move.
Another two player buyout here.
From Shu.
Simple over to the Moira.
That was the heroics.
The last match is...
My ult's got a teammate getting ready to airdrop somebody.
Yeah, now they finally deal with Shu.
Get him out of the squad, but maybe too late.
We're in OT.
like that TVNT trying to get this robot out of the way,
but DMX knowing that the game is virtually over
and Zed and Evision strike back with another big win.
The greatest series in Overwatch
are built from these kind of back and forth,
so both teams so far have obliged this neck and neck
Colosseum, a telepore.
Started out fairly well for Twisted Nines.
They kind of play that on even footing
for most of the game,
by Zeta, makes some appropriate swaps here towards the end,
get a nice, old advantage.
Proper with the Spree.
Shuge is too much.
All-Matt Wall.
This represents a good chance, Matt,
to take stock of things as the proper gets his team ahead
in the series.
It's hit over the pocket and the crew
to break down the action.
What a way to start this series.
We have a 2-1 lead in the first to 4th percentage of vision.
And it all started with GM on the right pace.
Johnny, let's start talking about that Lucille band that affected the Astro.
And then of course, what happened in game two?
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 Senate division getting the first map pick.
And they went to Busan with that high ground,
able to expose the cement composition of twisted mines.
And that has been just the story of the game so far.
Let's take a look at some of the highlights.
And 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 this
Gion, on the far, whatever it's called for him to flex to.
However, I think it's worth noting, powerful bands 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 TVNT is also really hurting the screws on Zeta.
I mean, they play these tricky comps,
but TVNT keeps fighting their number.
Yeah, it's TVNT in quads.
Parts is definitely turning it up right now as well.
I think this is the most pop-up performance
we've seen from him thus far in this tournament.
So I think they're really going toe-to-toe.
It's going to come down to the map.
Bernard having an enormous play on the diva towards the end,
and then of course you see Propper switching over to the reaper.
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 divisions step up in a moment like this.
If Twisted Minds decide to push for an individual,
the rest of the team has to step up and make up for that.
As good as that first map was for Senna Division, map number two belonged to their opponent.
Let's take a look at our second highlights as this came from Mion, Jokes and 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.
It's just a much tighter angle situation.
There's not as many cheeky options for Shu in particular to make the plays.
And he felt that Zeta was kind of forced to match the rush and some of these scenarios.
And that's exactly where Twisted Minds want to keep this series, get Quartz firing on all cylinders, torqued up with the Sojourn, farming rails off the mage.
Is it the Sojourn that is his most dangerous character? Is it the Cassidy?
No, that's the problem. It's literally all of it. So like Quartz is one of those players who can't really plan him out because he has options and he's performing equally well on all of those, not to 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 quartier, 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 Set of Division to allow space and time for someone like Quartz
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.
It's the final three minutes though, belong to Zedah as we take a look at some of the best highlights.
There was a display from Propaganda, I kind of feel like sealed the deal, Sally.
It's filthy, like Anana, who's the proper, should be actually relieved.
Alas, she just got found out, like I don't want to be on the other side of that.
It's incredible, he can do notches with Anana, but also in the neutral.
Are we going to get rid of the Ana? Has she been banned yet, Jake?
I don't expect her to be banned, I think just in mind they're going to believe that they have to overcome this era.
I mean here on Coliseo without the Kiriko 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 Kiri in that matchup that though
I think was we look back to Coliseo that was a map that
Tristimines 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
were able to take an edge that others could not.
That series changing game three, Jaddy.
Yes, it did change in game three and I think now we could 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 Syrra Valsa here.
If you want to protect ban this 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 up, because when
all those valuable bands are gone, it might be a reticent mic.
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 they can play in terms of composition, so I don't
really think... like the whole...
There are going to be more jetpack gaps?
Well, okay, maybe...
I think for Zeta, probably yes, right? They like the playscops. Obviously,
he's actually seen a lot of proper tracer on this map. I'm curious, I don't know how we approach
you
catching the newbie out. Now you're going to retake into the Sigma. Yeah, that's when the
SIG can start to get strong, right? The constant poke and damage within Shokes. The accretion,
the shield, accretion comes out there from Bernard. See Violet also just kind of lurking above you
there on the cat raid again at pounds at a moment's notice. The low damage open up. Simple though,
he just keeps the paper out of Qnade. What's the lock convinced about? His side-line is
20 spots proper, lurking off to the side.
As simple as fall with a knife has the better position to play from.
Dangerous here for Quartz, he needs that healing, but it's only the Lucio, Lucio the Curico early.
The devastating blow for Twisted Minds, and it feels like it's being exacerbated now.
Yeah, there's TM though, in control of the coin.
Good stall on the Astro, yep.
Gets them a lead, but lead will swing right back for Z Division.
So early on in map number one on Boussons, you did a really good job of like every time those railgun shots are going to violate, like TNT would be there to finish him off, just, it's not really happening as Violet's certainly dominating on the cat.
Pistomize don't have another DPS that could follow up on that poke damage because UD is limited in range.
The one that has to break position to chase them down.
Proper is hatching a scheme.
Sitting here on their staircase now.
What's up around Gopi?
But TDNT is kind of spooked by his presence.
Those gleaming red eyes.
Look at that.
It's just kind of lurking here.
Oh!
Not much lurking now.
He's certainly made an enemy of himself.
Of course he's been dragged out of position, but not to secure an elimination.
Just trying to disrupt him.
He still can't shoot.
They just didn't stop.
He must have been dragged out of position, but not to secure an elimination, just trying to drop him.
He still can't shoot. I just didn't stop him.
And now!
Now Bernhard's in a lot of trouble, right? I mean, just Jetpack has kills.
Where Jetpack struggles with a lot, knife with one.
We do still have Quartz here, 2B and T as well, so although you get to 99,
Violet eventually finished off. It'll be just in mind. Still have an opportunity here.
I mean, dude, Violet, right, that hits Quartz, you mentioned, he does get one, and then just
tries to, like, put Quartz up on the high ground, maybe then, of course, a 1v1, also
take him out of the line and say to him, I'll beat the other healers, right?
I think having a high ground also makes it easier to spot Violet.
Yeah.
You have to use the high ground with Quartz, use the overclock, and the sound barrier.
And Twisted Minds can turn this into a winning formula.
With the mana boost, it's a bit of an unknown variable here.
Is it proper to run in trying to get a spree?
Yeah, it looks like it's for proper, potentially, you may end up all on him, but now he gets it.
I think they've really had their hand force team up.
Just Quartz find a fighter with an overclock straight away.
Now he's having repositioned away.
Proper was heading towards the back line, heading after Quartz, but he was out of there.
Heads up TP there by giving it out.
A wall in play.
And there's just no way forward for Xenon Division.
Twisted Minds, an unbelievable job of battling back on that Flashpoint, right?
They're able to get control of the high ground, yet again, right through ports on some better angles.
Good soundbar there from Bunny Ashrow Yubi with that Simwall proper angle getting the benefits of the nano.
There's no need to end up using the spree there.
We about to get deep into our Doomfist.
We saw the Doomfist used by Koochway earlier in that Wave-O series and he definitely gave Twisted some trouble.
I think the issue is that the answers to the Doomfist were Twisted minds and really he had come from what they are on right now.
The Doomfist is finally against it, he just tries to avoid him.
It's been nice and proper, Ladi at the shell feed!
And I think if I would have been in that spotlight for myself, kind of always stood in the shadow of very known names.
Now the understudy is proper, trying to garner a bit of the attention for himself.
Now how does Zeta bring the aggression, right?
But Twisted Minds, how do they deal with that Doomfist, Sheehan, Jeffpatcat combination,
and now you're starting to find these kills on the Violet, and for me, that's like the
series.
Yeah, in a nutshell, feels like Violet has dangled himself a little too close to Twisted
Minds on occasion.
Of course just doesn't miss those, he'll chase Nify, yep, well spotted, TVN team opportunity
to go after a down position sojourn. But this is a lads out of division to stall into quite
a healthy lead show on the second place point.
Bnarr gots in, that's a lot of symptoms, I would not be a fan of that. But Aida's powered,
punched it, doesn't even have to be charged very long. Bnarr just un-utileable in that
moment, but now being chased down by a fully charged up UB, where do you go from here?
Ideally up, but without teammates. It's not worth the expenditure of that Nibbius strikes.
Aida had me in upward 80%. I mean the nano used there on the Brunner, but I mean between
the sin turrets, the damage, there's no opportunity to really get up into just really taking up
space and the damage reduction coming on through. It's proper over to Tracer now. For me, it
really feels like if you can just deny Violet, like just working into your backline, constantly
swooping in, going at players, that's where Zeta becomes very beatable.
Yeah, it's the one to punch with Copper that I'm watching closely now, because Zet Copper's
never too far from Violet and fights Versa. They're always trying to get a local player
but knife to straight up wins against Quartz.
Here's Bnarr dropping on it!
A funny ashram!
Flat as it gets!
Here with that meteor strike and there is such a high value elimination
to park down a seemingly thin air.
Bnarr, low as he is, will have support for the rest of his team.
Proper and violet, the two player tour de force are still in full effect.
The twisted minds are climbing 74% and counting.
TDNT could score to get back in his mech.
Now Quartz comes back with this overclock.
But it's not a target, Richard. Fire on that shoe!
And Costa, as soon as Quartz rounds that corner and Violet has to dodge away from this sojourn damage.
Quartz barely alive, something having topped back up was desperately simple, gets into the fray.
99% on Catnap, a twisted mind, they stole this out for long enough, but there's a Catnap around the corner.
Quartz is going to be wary of that, and Violet just headbutts the railgun.
What a connection! And Twisted Vines taking another big step towards an equalizer.
I mean, Corpse makes the highlight plays there, but TVNT is the only reason they have the ability to come back and fight this.
Why?
As TVNT does a great job there with Bunny Astro just being able to kind of juggle the point, stay alive forever.
He just turns the corners, Corpse just deletes Shu.
DM on the verge of just sweeping sort of Ase here.
A lot of playing from the Rostus now.
Only aware of where to surmise the plane, there's environmental field potential here, of course,
but it can happen, it connects!
Oh, we got the Sim, dropped over the drink, and there it goes, uni!
Sleepin' 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 Zeta comes in, they make a flashy play, everybody goes crazy.
It's a nice, actual power punch there, connects with a few butters, gets a stun through the TPs, so that's where that follow kill of the Funny Astro comes from.
And now there's a real moose since here.
He'll be a big part of a resurgence, because they had a vision on this map, they have two punch points to zero down.
This defines a fight-dead time, sit on a sound barrier.
Another wall from UB.
Yeah, it wasn't, Ana used there on a Bernard, and then you lose Funny Astro who has a beat, so you're not going to continue to fight that in any serious manner.
an arc. Just gonna block in the doorway there, it'll be SIMTP across. Not a bad buy-off,
but who says so? The sound barrier is gonna inoculate Twist of Binds until it expires.
He's at wall-boat. You didn't even see this guy with an empowered punch by Benar, but
he has to fall back. Twist of Binds will be committed to take control. I think if he's
done enough to earn it. Quartz is gonna get an OC, and you also have the Kitsune rush
here, so great opportunity punch. There's nothing at Quartz, but an arm of world of
trouble here. Oh, what a throw though, just a drop into the wall, the damage has been
disrupted, shut him up, the dune is getting in, Yubi's also low, but now he looked a little
maladroit and he's landing at the start of the fight, but since then, he's been pretty
terrifying. He'll stretch, pretty telegraphed here and surround it now by a twisted mind.
Play it! Cropper delivers the double! That'll do it. If you've been simple out, forget about it.
Unbelievable pulse from from proper. Let's take a look at this. He's working with for an hour
They go through it probably trying to dodge that doon fist and it's literally lighting the bag of dumb and bringing the doorbell
Just give up on this
That's in there
Capillary honestly, but they're not giving much of a choice
Should've gov'n time, his pilot made sure QB was the first out.
Still a pretty big hill to climb here if you're Zed a division, right?
Gonna take the next two flash points.
TM's gonna, like, win the rotation here.
Maybe get here a little bit faster.
Shoe just kind of looks like setting up maybe an off angle.
Shoe does not have line of sight of the player.
Yeah, so you're already invested though, you're being first in the punchy amount.
Hey, honestly, to survive, throw themselves into that fight.
They think they got the better end of it, but Nile is playing so safe, they took far away.
The final is just a decoy, dang, with the front of him, he was the catnip.
You know, what do you do, right, against the doom?
It's going to be chords, it's going to go with a Cassie, that's going to be the response.
There may be, if obviously, Ramacho was, you know, in this game, Ramacho gets banned.
Maybe that's a go-to, right? Vortex was slow, trying to keep that doom in place.
Another night of for Benart here.
Reef feels like these have been for survivability.
Just to try and tie your opponents up as long as you can.
Pompous Pulse Bomb goes by the wayside.
TVNT able to get the Korean future Dyson onto it.
Benart made a heck of a lot of space with that Hano.
It's just a big investment for something that didn't involve directly an elimination.
It also feels like for a while,
the Twisted Ion is the team that was heavily on the offensive,
like aggressive here in this game and as soon as
Bernardo has gone over to the Duke base then it's just flipped where
every time we're seeing Spice of Mind just moving backwards.
Oh okay nice to see that principle. Sam Barrett came out there as well and she
was running to the ground. Spice of Mind's see a moment to go up
10 points for a try and the Quartz has found final.
There's more defensive look at the Cassidy. Pretty important in those moments.
Spice of Mind is trying to get the map ended here and starts with a cap on this point
and that has been eluding them that spot.
But now there's been more than just the nuisance.
He's been the spanner in the works.
Now they come out on top.
That's another full spot I'm eating here.
From TD&T.
Finally you get a fight win.
You can breathe a little cyber leap.
Your board twisted mines.
And they're in a pretty decent spot in it, right?
A lot of ultimates invested.
Violet with a good spot gear though
to get like a catnap, maybe grab some play
or drop them into the drink.
I also think this Doomfist switch has been great for Knight, who no longer has to take a soldier and a mep.
Quartz has been forced onto the Cassidy, favouring the longer range with those two hitscapes.
And this is the camp, just kind of parading, shoot around.
Yes, I mean, an air drop by a nade.
Oh! Could be good!
That shit was...
Mitty game.
Here's Vyda now, Katnab.
Quartz.
Oh! What a save!
Love to see that!
Vyda is taking it down.
Quartz lives to fight another day.
And Badaar has to cover and duck.
I mean, Miley, hey look, going for those hero plays, just can't drag him low enough to be able to get that kill.
Proper on the flank, he's gonna be the one here who's relied on to get a touch, but T.M. knows this.
I'm ready for it, like he said.
Ports, land of proud on the point. Flying away with the peacekeepers. He's been
asked to slide on past the nose. He might have a window here. Does he get the
doofus done? He does get stunned up briefly, but it's really not
damage that he's running home about. Banner comes in and takes the trade, but no.
The rest of the hard work has been done in for Twisted Mind. They're to the
backseat for much of this flashpoint. The patience pays dividends. And there, here
to chase the back!
This series made us go back and forth, back and forth until we hit that game 7.
Twisted mines, the swap over to the Cassiade, do with that Doomfist.
I think I saw UD on Twitter saying that Gushley is the best Doomfist of all time.
No Doomfist like Gushley in the mix.
and Ardrey's best impersonation.
Krabber was in sick place as well.
But overall, outside of snow,
some moments at the beginning of these flash points,
the Twisted Can't Arow that one home, start 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.
Also a little authenticity.
It's great 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 we're going to try.
So let's go and talk with it.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're on stage.
We're already at the fifth game of this BO.
Ladies and gentlemen, who is here for the State Division?
What do you say?
I think we've got some fans over on my side.
should I check? Go for it. Hey, who's here to see Twisted Mines? We got good back and
forth going on, we got series. Yeah, we got to do better, guys. We got to do better. You
have an insane team here. So once again, who is here for Zeta Division?
Twist it.
Guys, are you going to let them take this trophy?
Seriously.
Well, let them hear you!
Twist it, man!
I want you to start a chant right now.
Let's go.
Twist it.
Twist it!
What's up?
There you go.
Come back here.
Let's get real guys.
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 game.
Absolutely. Just a reminder what's at stake here of course.
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, only the deeper team will remain.
This is where Instinct takes over in the preparation, the deliberation, the 4-4 takes a back seat.
And it's going to be his 8th division of map pick route 66.
I wonder if this is the sim banner here. We'll see.
Not a bad time to find it now.
Yeah, it's going to be sim sigma ban here for twisted mines.
So now, I mean, this is one of the more powerful bans you have against twisted mines, right?
So it's all the pressure on Yubi.
Ubi, Ubi plays a ton of sim, probably 99.9% of his playtime on the Symmetra.
Gonna be gone here, I know we've seen, what Twisted goes to here is actually typically
the May, so we'll see if it's May, obviously Tracer available for somebody like Ubi, but
from what we've seen in this tournament, they've gone to May here in a lot of situations because
seems to take them here and then ban the Sim quite often.
Got the Sigma in play.
One of the good answers to Romantra, for example, is May, right?
It's one of the most direct answers to annihilation, direct as it gets anyway.
So it is stress on Benaz, here at Port.
It also removes the necessity of Zedr 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, what they're comfortable with,
it's straight to it, sojourn, it's Shion in the mix, maybe Farry if you need it.
They don't have to stress about twisted minds appearing in their midst every 10 to 12 seconds.
Oh.
The Torbjörn.
I can't, sorry Fyze, that's...
We have not seen it, I mean we have not seen Torpeo in the entire time, but why the hell not?
No, this is D1 hiding a proper price.
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,
TBNT does such a great job of putting pressure on Shu a lot of that time.
Being able to utilize the TP's at 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 was going to get you Cat here, playing Mizuki.
That's probably going to throw C.N. for a little bit of a lose.
I think the Jetpack Cat is getting locked on too by 12 Taras roundlies.
They're actually a big problem.
So Mizuchi here to punish TVNT, those binding chains. Pretty potent.
Gonna watch out for this very heavy post damage oriented defense side, though.
Probably one of the only maps you can actually kind of play toward on this first point.
There's, oh, okay, half fashion.
Okay. I wonder what it is that Violet sees today.
Feels safe to go back for this hit.
Here's Yuvi now, encountering Vinah.
I'm countering Vinar, hoping to throw a couple of dicks on the sheen of the mech.
Very quickly naturally, Vinar just opts out of that encounter.
Just want to bar the tour, but close. Dring is on dry.
AWP there. Nice damage from TD&T.
Biogrenade hits there from Shu, but TD&T doesn't care, he just pushes up.
Gets that kill onto Naifus.
the battle, the flux supports wins this time taking out a simple...
...renarphite, a lot of space here in the big girls.
This also has been uncomfortable for Quartz here, forced to the low ground.
Now, forced to try and defend this pylon, that's another removal of it.
Sure, we're trying to do most, mostly the same thing as Simple is, right?
We damage him around really consistently healing through Quartz without a pylon.
That's much harder for the Iliari.
This Vangara actually gets pretty UV, so not going to have that poor turret.
Force gets hit with a biogranade, dangerously low.
That's an easy kill for Vangara to finish off, then gets a mega.
Everybody else dies by the payload there.
Force twisted.
It's a pretty easy offense there, Presided Division.
Yeah, it feels like the Simbae map is proceeding as you sort of might 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 Zedadivision certainly have them beat.
That's been the talking point. It's individual talent versus team-wide strategy, coordination, cohesion.
But it is a must-devert on this map. The Twisted Minds even start to threaten the comeback here. I'd be getting nerfs.
I mean, TNM were winning this map, they would view that as like a luxury, right?
I think that divided as a introduction my brother an invitation up to the dais man. Oh, oh, yeah
I mean if you win this for Tristan minds you
You feel like you got one hand on that trophy. Obviously you go to match point, but probably the strongest band
Still a carry band. I think no, I'll lose you then he's actually gone as well, right? So all the pretty impactful bands gone here
for
Zedah division
Oh, okay.
She was coming at damage out to fall off on the biotic grenade,
but by the way, down to Quartz.
He's playing pretty safely at the moment, but there's that captive sun angle.
You mentioned that Yari, great to sort of, you know,
enhance the damage output of your roster.
She went to take matters into her own hands there,
but it took you far too close to her.
We're gonna see Simple Swap, yeah, they're gonna ditch this,
they're gonna go back, basically play their, you know,
Try intrusive comp, just minus the sim.
And it looks like this will actually cause a response here, so...
It'll be cat-bashing yet again.
You'll be on the trace, and this is obviously a huge assignment for him going up against...
Probably one of the best to do it.
And not very thoughtly comfortable. That's a biotic grenade to follow up there for true.
He just straight up wins that fight. He's on a really weird off angle, but you can't try and chase him down because...
the rest of his team are having strips torn off of him by night, we've got it.
You gotta get DMG'd here, say alright fine, I'll stand here, yep, I'll still eventually
gotta move me, they do, maybe one more at 10 tier, four twisted mines on defense and
this is gonna be rough, right, moving into some of this Bastion Damage to Grenade, coming
through the choke here, only so much defense matrix, it's gonna be UB actually here, I'd
be the one to touch from the low ground, the pulse club would give them a chance to move
on out and get a foothold but the pressure is already being applied on that high ground
but I found quarts 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.
There's no reaction because it is like get me up Tracer guys. Yeah get me up thousands of times
This is the big look, uh, knife here on the bastion, just clean up through.
Oh, this shoot is so nasty there.
On the honor.
Then no one's doing like it, no one's borrowing to do it like it.
When you get back in, it's gonna be Bernard, actually, the benefits of the nano.
It's gonna be UB.
That ice block is already used.
Yeah, look at that, that's going in.
Good defense makes it seem to try to protect Violet,
but it's a quite an up-to-squads.
It's a sharp shoot up.
Alright, Adam Egg, self-destruct this year,
or do a simple just left milling about.
This is pressure on another level from Zeta Division.
They'll happen to take these exchanges if they stay ahead in them.
Tempo rests with them.
And that was a pretty sick play by Yubi.
Didn't have the ice block up right away.
Used the manual that just kind of blocked the self-destruct.
Then ends up trying to dual proper with the help of funny Astro.
Just not able to live.
If you're twisted, you can get just a hold here.
Not a map completion.
You would feel amazing.
Slow the game down by any means possible.
That's a good start. Proper pulling into a trap that many less attrace players have done in their time
It's just even get a little bit too much damage from a plucky
Chirico player and I think the benefits here for twisted minds, right?
This is not a great point here at the end for jetpack count
No, 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 me
Two minutes on the clock as well with some changes coming out of Z division
Gonna kind of get a nice ultimate advantage of Twisted Minds
You're probably like two three fights, but they may have a chance to do it
But not to the Orisa, so basically demanding that the fight take place on the cart and then commanding that space
Gotta give Twisted Minds significant incentive though to fight in a bit of an advantageous spot
Yeah, high run Cassidy though, kinda nasty, but it's gonna work through
Those javelins sometimes can harrow big kill opportunities.
Good protection for TVNT though.
That was a very head-up fire.
Next matrix.
And there's Knight down.
Quartz is re-painting that kill with interest.
Knight picked up and it's a one-for-one at best.
And now Propagod might have a chance to break through.
Simple run down.
Well, the spawn there on TVNT is going to account for enough.
And the damage of Propagod sticking around recalls out of the self-destruct.
Now in the blizzard, TVNT trying to shelter.
Final Trader for Yubi though, the mate is out of the game and TBNT once more is
distracting, but he gots you out of final ball together. This is a huge way to
slow, stay to 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 TBNT to get bring to me mech yet again. I think Funny Astros also had a
great map niche here since going over the Lucio being able to kind of protect
ports. They're just knocking Kronpor off course at any time.
2-0 rush coming out, also kicked by Sanctuary to really dominate this left side of the map.
Zed inhibition has set up here just to usher the cart forward in this last push.
On their attack side, then I make some space.
Zed got ready at the time to lose here though, that's the issue.
Pying in a line of sight as much as they can, they get a little pocket down behind course,
it's a little bit uncomfortable I'm sure.
Nice little overclock to the high ground and TP and Tita's left the call-down to get to him.
All pulls up short on the mega health pack and there's the mech dealt with good damage from up on high and Quartz will be smashed by an overclock
It's not pretty. It's not easy. It's not quick
This end of vision
Finish to that
TV NT 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 were for Twisted Minds. Really pretty awesome
scenario they find themselves in. I obviously would have loved to get a hold but still having
to finish with no time in the time bank. Really important. I do feel though that the side of
of the map where the absence of the Sim is gonna be that much more palpable?
Yeah.
He's a Rattaxi.
I think that's where they heard that much more.
Mei's not gonna be an awesome option here.
Although we've seen them do it.
Can you try Farra here off the rip?
But then I think if you know, they play Cap Bastion, it's Gigi on the Farra, right?
It's playing Ana.
It's playing Ana and something like Sojourn into that, I would not like to be the Farra.
4 CS, 7.5k damage done, 9th about equal, we can note.
9 deaths for simple.
Look at the support damage from Xayah.
I mean they're basically ahead in healing and then like, you know, almost 10k damage
amongst the two of them as well.
Oh, a domino here from Xayah to do this, so.
We've obviously seen teams play more domino than we have throughout the whole of the, I know, OWCS this year at this event.
This time it'll be Zeta Division's chance to play it.
She'll really slow the game down, and with the jetpack that, she'll always be returned to this high ground, which is really annoying.
Yeah, I mean, she can also just kind of like disrupt players from coming off this high ground, right? The knockback. Really strong.
Oh, what is this, bro? Like, dead out.
Being able to kind of like farm up
They need my ability to bounce that. Yeah
You got a nice one we could just circumvent this whole docking hoddy show but no we better play the game got convinced
So much damage from every direction
We might as happen to linger around as well because Benar is still
Hacking as a fulcrum point for the rest of said addition spots like that build a little bit uncomfortable, but very quickly
So Violet is so fast with those grapples and then just kind of like launching them up using their momentum.
Violet there just, yeah, couldn't quite get back to the dominant position.
T-V-T with the Violet, I throw some tears for now.
He'll be healed up, going off tonight.
The Emra off the field, Banana now very deep in enemy territory in an awkward spot.
This will be a twisted by slightly.
They're already here with the Dominoes.
Can up-slot!
Can throw it in there on top of UB.
Probably tells me we are going to have a swap here for Bernard.
Yes!
Sorry, I was just hitting and cropping at that time, or maybe they say, hey, it's working,
we're going to stick with the Nile.
They're going to go over and play Dedeva here, so the Submines finally get the cart moving.
Luckily for them, they don't have to use anything to do it.
The Snake Spike is going to be massive.
They need to set a good time through this first part of the map.
And I think that individual is happy just to slow this down as much as they can.
They'll give up the checkpoint at some point, sure.
They don't want to let Quartz and Coasts slow down their game out of control.
Get used to by the massive time, mate. That's just not acceptable for them.
Here's Bnarr. Look at how this control Quartz is damaging.
Snake is playing at the top of big urls and Sibyl's spotted on that low ground.
That's a very important post-bomb out of cover.
But try as Bnarr might. He couldn't stop Sibyl from taking a trade there.
At least, blatantly. He gets his Kirigal out of the game.
of the game, but it's back in for stuff.
Zed inhibition out down to just two players left.
And you're hoping that Shue could give you some healing.
That's why they're now playing up on the high ground,
but there's too much coming his way.
Yeah, they almost are like, hey, we have no chance
of closing the gap with Shue.
We are just going to ignore him.
And hopefully just going to get rid of Bernard,
or Shue, and keep himself alive there.
He's going for a vertical over the top pilot as well,
trying to hold him still.
It doesn't work at all.
Again, he's punished.
This helped to start to some problem.
Knife was dead anyway.
He wouldn't have been able to escape from that,
because it really lacked the mobility in that fall.
Okay, they kinda go for that at the end.
Trace of Genji here.
Okay, now it's gonna be nice going back,
playing the Sildren.
Why read or write?
You cannot let Twisted Minds win the Simbaen Mat.
Ah, yeah, I mean...
It would be just a...
a colossal waste here from Zeta Division.
Twisted is able to escape this with a win.
Three minutes, ten on the clock.
Healthy time back.
Zed Division work quick on their attack side in fairness. Twisted mines have been slowly but shorty. Excerting their dominance here.
Defense magics coming up there though to keep simple alive. Nice push up for Zed Division. On all views it naturally advantages defense side high ground.
Looks like we're gonna get proper just gonna air dropping in a pole spawn. We get back into game but...
He's got a nice job of kind of controlling him 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 problem.
Not too bothered about it. Still trying to find a kill within these tight confines.
Ubi's down here with that continued rush.
She can play, but probably not be able to make a health play.
That's a pretty big pick up there for Fanny Astro.
Able to draw reveal on the superstar. They neutralize him for the next 10 or so seconds.
Yeah, I mean, they're so worried about proper, right?
they actually, TDNT, not able to live there on the payload, gets de-macked,
while it eventually, basically playing as DPS,
tries to constantly check me as six.
Of course, yeah, I mean just players constantly circling around.
TDNT here gonna go over to the Zarya here, just trying to bully Bernard off the cart.
Looks like the 180 turn becomes part of his nerves tick.
From the recall, continuing off to my next spot.
The DMT has gone over to the side of the sign, that's a crazy look for this twisted mines team.
Can they pull in the way through this choke?
Myland has Benar out of there, can they get him back to health?
Yassas, yes. Benaras has a self-destructive guarantee that he can go once more, and that's funny, Astro!
I mean, it would have been Benar or a knife either way, but they find that Lucio elimination.
They put some deep thought into striking this into some of the like quartz, but yeah, tensions are high.
90 seconds left for twisted mines, a big bleed of clock.
I mean, every time we're on board with Twisted Minds, simple and courts looking behind them,
looking in front of you and just players coming in every which direction.
Just not been able to get comfy here on offense on Route 66.
Sorry, here up on the high ground, no way.
Obviously, Stim out here, no able to get any mobility.
Bio hits funny Astro, will be overclocked here from courts.
Well, it's like a double back down, as he's piloted, just a peer out of nowhere.
She was low for a moment, thought TDNT was coming after her, but the Zayin of the quite made it there.
Now, slept. Should have taken him down when he had to charge, TDNT.
Pulled on away now, TDNT hoping to turn these 50 charges into something,
but he'll be reset to zero as Twisted Minds.
From 35 seconds left to play.
We're on with Khorz, and you see that POV. You don't even see Violet on your screen when he just kind of comes on in.
in. The dry buys by the jetpack half, obviously the division now trying to just bring in proper
over the top. Miley gonna drag him back out to the rest of the team here.
Simply knows he's under some pressure but it's Katsune Rasha all the same. Miley's trying to get
back in position at the top of your screen there. Tinsenia Division out, maneuver right now because
TVNT is in the middle of the map, an important place to be and sees Violet this entire time.
Some charge would be nice though, he's not hitting particularly hard right now, but Violet was delving in the end.
Here's a grab, proper held in place, an easy target also you'd think eventually brought down,
but up before Xu extracts his toll. Funny Astro, off the map now.
Who with Knife and Proper having fallen, Zedah Division running out of options, asleep on the court here.
And Xu will go down, kicking and screaming, but go down all the same.
And Twisted Binds will have a shot and a time bank extension.
TVNT is back and Zedah Division are in tatters.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think, you know, Violet's gonna be able to clutch this.
You do get proper back here with the pulse bomb.
Violet with a catnap, he is lurking.
You're also gonna have Nip here up on the high ground.
You can win the map here, why not try?
Gonna be tight. Well, proper gets the stall.
Here's Violet, knocking people away.
Catnap in! Not really there. Here we go.
We'll give it up. Violet will save that ultimate for later on.
If he even sticks to the jetpack cat in his last phase of the map,
Mr. Byte will be offered the opportunity to play us into extra innings here on Route 66.
66. Yeah, I mean maybe a proper lives and you get one with a pole spot you think about
going forward there. It looks like a violet at least for now going to continue with that jetpack 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 comes to the press
Dropping down into the backfiner looking to try and take an easy elimination.
Even a hard one.
I mean, you also have, you know, Violet playing from this position, but for Nars switching over to the Zarya,
I mean, you're putting bubbles onto your jetpack cap as they get aggressive.
But I mean, you also see Violet third-person, they're probably making the call-outs proper exactly where these players are going.
Big pulse in the war, looks like Hanfield.
Oh! Oh, my God! That's funny!
Astro!
He picked the bomb in a luchio!
That'll be that fight.
Twisted by itself, he forced to the last legs, forced to one knee.
Look at how he's just moving around the map, right?
Just trying to launch Prenor, maybe up to the high ground, you get Shu there.
I think they have no idea that Shu is going to be pulling up on this high ground here,
potentially Bayo coming on through.
Doesn't really connect with anything though.
Yeah.
Like the idea, but...
timing wasn't quite there.
Still, Knife is unconscious to the backline with his overclock.
Now trying to turn his attention to the rest of the fight,
because Prenarctic get burned down in the frontline in the Zygobattle.
My knife is gone. Here come twisted mines. A player who vanished to work within a chance to take a breath.
They see the end of the map beckoning. They see an opportunity to take this back to one minute to one minute extra innings with their own even footing.
That would be absurd.
Oh, I mean it would be...
It felt like a dream of four twisted mines to make that happen.
Two grads gonna be available. Most likely two pulse bombs as well. We hit OT.
The brats here for both sides could be massive but our and TVNT both with the
keys to the city it's going to be the other strikes first, but for TVNT there's not enough to save him
Zaynardivision strikes first the strike hardest and now probably needs to clean up
it's simple down Violet Menard did fall but she got the going on Tracer
Fuck it out about it!
They only get to that, no longer carefully approaching the throw and bowing the scraping.
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 fan is used and they put up a valiant effort,
somewhat expected result there on route 66. Take a look at some of the highlights.
Violet on the cat, just being a nuisance, putting Shu in the best possible position.
That is just a filthy ball-spot there. Holy proper can hit those.
Quartz almost makes it interesting here towards the end. He finds two somehow.
That guy is just, he's running on instinct at this point as I'm sure many of us here in the room.
room. Let's check in with our experts to try and give some sense to the madness that we're witnessing.
Thank you so much. Mitch and Natalie 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 there.
But let's talk about Suravasa first here, Johnny, what went right, what went wrong, because Twisted Minds,
they took that one fairly convincingly, yet.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy that we find ourselves here after five maps, and neither of the teams have really flinched.
They've won the maps, they needed to win, rather, and you saw here how comfortable Twisted Minds were on Suravasa.
I actually sat behind the scenes that, ironically, this is a map where if they played Crazy Rapoons,
Jun Bin would have loved to play something like the Wrecking Ball here, he really made that work, but instead Bernardo forced over onto the Doomfist.
And this look, this wasn't as powerful as the set of the game, just in my opinion, they've dealt with a composition like this so many times before and they felt really comfortable here on the serve also.
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 niche?
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 teams read us. Don't know for example but
Doomfist after you're receiving a couple of nerfs, you notice Proton anymore
and you can see in a matchup like this that makes a world of difference as you head it
over here to Route 26. Yeah Route 26 of course there is where the big Symmetra
ban was utilized by SETA and they abused it because we now have to have you be going against
proper's tracer, one of the best to ever do it, that's a tall order for any great tracer
we have in Elite.
Yeah, 100% UB obviously, he has a great senator player and he also is a pretty decent tracer
player, but it's not like he can hang with the lights off proper in a matchup like this
and even Violet on the jetpack cab 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 cab, really volatile players,
sometimes make game winning plays but sometimes as well, get ahead of himself when he saw
Modern Neon Junction a couple of times Violet getting deep into the back line 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 plate.
Players like Violet on the cat, Fanny Astro needing to make sure that in every single moment gets value from that sound barrier.
One Ajax could make a world of difference in a series like this one.
But so far neither team has really clinched 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 here?
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 Swiss and Mainz, they like to play this consistent composition of the Symmetra, the Soldier, the Diva delusio, the Kiriko.
But as set a division as they spell those vans, use them already.
Suddenly, Tristan and Mainz are able to play their own game, and they grow into the series, so
3-2 scenario here for Settledivision, but Tristan and Mainz, 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 we 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 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 ban 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 Twisted Minds, rather, where do they want to go? You can control Flashpoint.
Regardless if you already played that map vote already.
And so the Reinhardt might come out to come through the Domino, and that is a hero, and that Settled Division will have to plan for accordingly.
That's right, so Twisted Minds get to choose the map, but then also we're going to look at the bands that they can utilize against Setter because I think they have not banned Jetpack yet, so that will 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 cat, so that is a band that they can use if they need be.
Yeah, let's send it down to Deflora, we have a JGM Pocket soaking it all in. Let's hear their thoughts on how this series progresses.
You smell that, Jake.
Passion.
A whole lot of gamer passion in this venue.
It's been incredible. The fan support out in here in Paris is amazing.
The crowd is showing up, not just for the teams you'd expect right,
but really the global audience is here.
It's an amazing moment here at the Esports World Cup.
And, bucket, 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 him 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 7th?
They have to, but this is their best chance to do it, because now that the map opens back up,
there's a lot of opportunity for them to strike back hard in map 6.
But honestly, from here on out, it's anybody's game.
I mean, it's huge setting in, not only for the fans,
but for the players too.
Like, this has been a long day of overlocks for everybody.
This is the true test though, where champions are crowned,
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 N.A. Jersey.
We got a team liquid member here.
So as an unbiased fan, are you going Senate Division or TM?
You know, I'm sitting on the TM side, so I kind of feel overwhelmed that I got a I got a rough TM on this very smart thing.
There's a lot of people watching that answer from you and who has been the best player on TM throughout this match up?
Obviously Quartz.
Jake, I feel like this guy knows ball.
I mean, look, it doesn't take a team just to spot Quartz.
What he's doing on the server is a monstrous incredible performance from both sides.
you
well also my warden are away from
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Some effectiveness of the course of this series
Ubi though just again. It's pretty tough to create that space in your way from these dangerous enemy front lines
But this is kind of pretty dominant defensive display off the bat
So they try and collapse on shoe and then all the sun shoes are going flying through the sky
Take a look here from choose POV
Pyelgrenade there, pretty huge as soon as the pressure comes in, here I go.
What's going on?
That is so hard to do!
Nasty stuff there.
From Shu.
Alright.
Yeah, okay, let's hear it again.
Our astonishing moment.
What a surface job.
Pistabines, you've taken the most secure of his fruit to try and get towards him.
He's gonna get the next one.
Yeah, not even gonna make it back.
He actually kind of gets body blocked by that doorway.
They're trying to up the moves here. Matt, they're trying to, you know, get into a decent rotation, but on the way, you're taking a ton of damage.
They're getting hit by a biotic grenade, and, until you get the thing back, 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's going to take us to control if we get a step in the map.
Oh, what an open up. What's this down?
I mean, TNT just turns to go, trying to chase Violet, just drags them all the way back to the spawn.
This is not where you want to be at all.
We are halfway through the Attackers' time bank here.
Crystal lines are in this array. They picked this map, thinking maybe it's an X for them.
Maybe they've been working on something, and I think this theory has already met some stiff opposition.
Yeah, I mean, Quartz over to the Cassidy here.
You need to punch Violet with a hinder as he kind of comes on down to get close.
There should be an annihilation here for Vanara.
Catnap here.
It's not pretty healthy.
Father Bunny could heal, but not...
No, he says, you know what?
The best defense is a good old offense.
I'm gonna buy these poor blasters.
Oh, it's not that gone for the male.
That's just rude.
And you know why you need to go on the cat?
Why don't you need to heal Vanara?
Because you need to do the damage.
Before they can do enough damage to Vanara.
Yeah, he's got block. He's got annihilation. He set up perfectly to succeed.
Climb is getting a little short, folks.
And Hubee trying to get through again with the body, but N8 shoots,
just waits for him to come down.
It was pretty important, he got to get the gun, or she will be a little slow
to get back into the frame.
TVNT was throws 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, stone-faced.
A minute to go, and those supportals to work with, Simwalt, available.
TBNT finally actually gets into the backline, deals with Nile.
He may end up losing his map, but got self-destruct.
That was big, yeah, Bio didn't really matter in the end, map.
They kept TBNT alive long enough, and he did.
It's a very important work.
Nice switching over the walls again here for a moment,
but I think that I've realized in here there's just no chance of contesting this way in a minute.
Maga!
Oh, there he goes.
Let's just take a breath.
Looks like, uh...
Here's some more charge.
Yeah, cheers.
We're not gonna be an over-the-top.
Now we remember this.
Since the Maga fly into his death.
Don't mention it.
Suck me so much right now. You've got to create a mini snowball. You can.
But that body could, if you shoot, might have extinguished it in a heartbeat.
Does that now have this high ground control?
No chance that this mines to the enemy. They push out forward and look at another free-play of body could I.
That is going to be a regularity. You don't unseat shoes somehow, Matt.
Yeah, it's going to be the sim wall here, the deep nano-boost on the Bernard that tries
to buy them some space.
Bernard's in a lot of trouble.
Obviously the one thing with Bernard is not going to be able to kind of heal Bernard through
that sim wall, so it kind of splits him off from the honor of Shu.
Now they're able to just kind of burn him down as a must-needed fight when they're
forced to sit in mines.
That map here comes on in.
Oh, there he is!
Violet knows he himself has to go down there in that exchange.
That's a- it's a one for one you'll take, right?
I mean, it ends the fight instantly.
Yeah?
We've seen that a couple of times from Violet, just to find these, like, real tempo killers.
Oh, I mean, that sucks.
You would have had control over the bridge here, maybe forces on the high ground, it just stopped everything.
TP.
There, boy, the Pulse Bomb dropped in there, wait there by proper.
All twisted minds, there, I put my card right now, but for the next five or so seconds, they can't TP away from this spot.
So what's the response? Zayna Division is going to come up with an answer and come up with it soon now.
The Vortex destroyed the card, but it is still hurling towards those doors.
Zayna Division has to have a plan and the ball shoots, shooting towards to the face, apparently.
Life is life and safety here.
And DVNT 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 Zayna Feds everywhere.
The only one playing really any Anna in this tournament, shots there on the boards, TNT gets in the mix, Biogrenate nasty, just a little jump shot over the top, the tracking of Shoe is unreal.
He just might be him. Oh, right, he don't really use.
Now, you'd be down here as well. This is getting a bit rushed, I already hit the twisted lines, I realized, through at the end of the rope, 22 seconds left of Bernard and I, I think Sean is gonna quench the map.
And now we're in the fire inside.
I know you stuck there on tonight when he has the overblock.
You be over the treacher. I wonder if he can feel like anybody can get a touch here. I mean, you, he's in a world of trouble.
I don't think he's going to be able to make it there.
Five seconds left to play TVNT, desperately running and rolling.
Trying to touch, it's not to me!
And the Wicked Dispersion Division has been established.
One checkpoint and change will get you home and get you the championship.
See if they can seal the deal.
The players have all been champions before, but not with Zeta Division in this new look for this season.
Dude, stop that shoe and file it are able to do.
Yeah, it's just, you know, nobody else can match this in terms of support line.
No one else is trying.
I mean, they would be crazy to it, right?
We would be laughing at like, if you saw their teams and supports trying to do this,
and the Jetpack Cat blocks out the ball there.
That's 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 deep end send us to a game seven
The sim probably feel pretty potent on defense right gonna be annoying work through here in the choke
See how Zeta deals with it
TM he goes down with the comp that they are the best
And, eventually a different look here for Zeta.
Yeah, they're gonna go all out and get Shion Reaper Maga.
Kiri can't get in the mix.
Typically you don't see the Maga come from this angle.
Now moving off the scene, and they're dropped on Inputter.
Straight on into the hunting lodge.
If on the Astros or Awkwip, these haven't stayed alive there, importantly.
importantly, Ubi-Dok is the lost, that's the casualty for twisted minds, but the TVNT is still alive and kicking and quarks filled, doing his thing.
So far the house stays intact.
It's one way to get through the choke, right? Just airdrop the Moga directly over it.
Everybody has to back up to respect that hero, proper waveform is used here.
to your pilot, yeah, and that's what you need to be doing there consistently if you're
TD&T. Or text behind him, 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 for the Suzu client gives you so much time to get him to a backup. TD&T knew he
was on the no threat there, just freeze kill to push up and get on pilot. It's really
The rush is coming in about the same time, though.
Shewin's simple hampers both your villager and they're going to be caught straight away.
Simple first, shoot, second, doesn't matter.
We've got loads of overlapping.
Pumper taking down very early.
Talked about how the reaper can stifle the skill expression.
Here is just Quartz with his own brain of skill.
On display, Shoe's knocked down the side.
Big headshot.
Forces are coming out of the fight.
Quartz doubled back for the rest of his meal.
Always a potential path to victory for Twisted Minds.
This course is just dominating the game.
It'll be the Catnap here, it's gonna get Ubi all the way into the spawn.
How's the eyes still okay? Defense makes a step to TBMT. Now the Deedah has to get out alive.
And now we just drop an R into the backline.
Yeah, this is gonna be too quick as well.
And then Mr.Spawn from Banana, nobody ready.
Cat amongst the pigeons now is all of Twisted Mind's scatter.
But our little bit isolated here on account of being deep in enemy territory, still healthy enough though and still found simple twisted minds, killed that grip on point A, loosening.
And it's the jetpack count. Yet again, Violet diving on in on that hero, grabbing Yubi, bringing him back to spawn, somehow able to live, then dropping Bernard into the backline.
There's no other heroes who can give you that type of advantage.
No other player playing this hero can give you this type of advantage.
He gets in a high ground, tries to go with a knock there, somehow able to live.
He's just wrapped around behind him, this guy.
It's just sidelined, dude.
He came back out such a nuisance.
Fire is everywhere all at once, now proper.
He's up, we're bottom left off.
Three damage on an enemy D.Va, I'll take that, dig into his loom.
How are they gonna get healed up in time?
TP him away.
Quickly tender with wounds, but this is all time that Zed division can use to set up to progress.
3 minutes 20 is their time bank. Simple, stretch himself in to try and keep Quarters alive on that off-bangle now for 2 damage, comes on down, a 1v1, but now another annihilation, needs healing, needs it badly, tries to hide out of line of sight, but eventually brought down as twisted minds, weather the storm.
A huge fight in there.
Bernard gonna go over to the D.Va, trying to match TDNT here.
It's a huge fight, Zeta. Obviously Catnap could soon a rush.
You can weather this storm with your 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.
If it's even that long.
Catnap here for Violet. He's got his eyes on only one target.
He catches out, calls, tries to drag it down to the depths!
What's going to slide back up?
He won't be down so easily!
He's down to a slight knife on the return,
but it's not going to be enough!
Sandwiches break through, twisted minds get again,
it were two minutes 20 to go!
Victory is within their grasp!
He's going to be by like going back to spawn,
think to go grab the knife, bring him over the top,
get him back in the action rather quickly.
Still a little bit more to go.
Bernard is gonna try and deny some of the exits here proper of the pulse from here up the high
Window get already. They don't know what's coming now
Terrorist is arrival gets rid of the TP at the very least. This is a bit open up and twisted my for that commit if they know
There's any one way out of this fight and that is through Zeta division
Stay there clang 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
They know that by lesson of Ethel
I'm gonna be able to kind of get really good on the edge with the cat.
Nothing like the pitter-patter of little paws to give it away, Matt.
No, he's gonna be there.
Oh my God!
He has the knockback perk now available, so oh yes, the slash burst, excuse me, so still dangerous.
Get a 1v1.
They're running out of time here, and if he dies, they're in a bit of trouble.
Minute 15 on the clock.
Walsy very mindful about profits, turning up at a moment's notice and that could be it.
He opened up from Knife and he twists it in the back of these mines.
Now, simple, just flattened 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 Meg back, but it's not to be.
But now it's time to serve a couple and Talents will jump these guys at the seat of the table, but it never promised them a championship.
Nothing was given, everything was earned.
San Francisco, you're 20-26, it sees the champions.
He's just an unbelievable display of skill, match with teamwork, the coordination really
came together there for Zayn and Division and Twisted Mind 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.
You see Naive, just how happy he is to get one under his belt.
Spent a long time on this same 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 stay 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 permanence. The Zeta division will ascend to the throne and yes, the newly
arrived Overwatch begins tonight. South Korea. Back on top and 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 our champions. Before you raise your trophy, there's something we need to do.
One more key crush.
Now, we have one last thing to do before we lift the trophy.
We only have one last chance to break the trophy.
One person will go over there and break the trophy.
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 there to the division.
mine's key is crushed and will be sent to the graveyard with the rest but what
to 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 midseason
champions at the eSports World Cup. It's... hold on.
Sets of Division!
Incredible, you can see the tears in their eyes of the emotion.
You guys did amazing, this is an insane performance, see here, a lot of people in the French crowd
were rooting for you, congratulations for this title, 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 worse waiting for it?
Congratulations on your victory, Mr. Bernal.
You've been through a lot for the past four years.
You've been winning the championship in the past four years.
Do you have any expectations?
I've been playing for a really long time, but I've won a lot of tournaments like EWC.
I don't think I can really feel it yet.
Our team has done so well.
I'm very happy, but I'm also very grateful.
I think I'm playing pro-gamer like this.
I have a great team mate out there, I have 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 feel 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 enough.
It's been four years that you haven't been able to take part in an international trophy
for the last time in Overwatch League.
What does it feel like?
Does it feel like it's going to be worth waiting for these four years?
It's literally for this kind of moment that I play Overwatch.
It's been a long time, frankly, I didn't believe it anymore, too much.
But I still have confidence in playing with teams that are incredible.
And I'm so happy to have come 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?
I think that the roster was the strongest of all the 19 and 20 years I've been in.
I think that if I do well this year, I can definitely win.
I think I was able to win in the end.
is 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, I did.
So, very nice response from Violette, of course.
Do you expect to do the same performance with this Rostora?
Well, honestly, when I arrived in this team, I thought it was at least the same caliber.
in the first quarter of 2019, my first teams, and I said to myself that if I can do my part
of the job, we're going to raise trophies, and he was right and you were right Violette,
and don't think that I'm forgetting our MVP here at the SEC, in our Sony MVP, guys.
Do you have any guess? Because I heard his name and you hear it now, it is you,
Shoo, Gaya, congratulations!
Shoo, 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?
I think our team did the best because of Krusty.
Beautiful words once again.
I want to thank my CEO, my manager and Crosstie as well, because without them, I wouldn't have been able to do what I did here.
Ladies and gentlemen, once again, for your Sony MVP, I'm pleased to turn up applause.
Make some noise!
Now, the last thing you have to do is to take this trophy and head to the top of Totem.
Can we encourage the fans to follow them, too, please?
Let's go with the fans.
You will take your way with the EWC.
To the top!
Please 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 Champions Series.
Mid-season champions of 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.
Shu also will bank $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 face
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 at Atota, please welcome your Overwatch champions, Zeta Division!
An incredible achievement for this team at Overwatch once again, Trav.
What a tour of the red front of these guys, please congratulations.
Give it up for Zeta Division one more time.
Guys, please take to the tour.
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
see the tears in his eyes, the emotion that comes with the glory. $400,000 banked this
week in for their efforts, but more importantly, they're going to walk away with the trophy
and the memories that come with it.
Trouble and sacrifice, it's an inevitable part of the journey. Long road for all of
these players to arrive here at this moment and so well deserved. A superstar squad, backed
with incredible confidence by Zedah Division.
So well deserved.
Absolutely.
The couple giants along the way this very season was theirs.
They were so close last year,
but this organization just couldn't quite
get over at the final hurdle.
They assembled a super squad
and now they get to lift the EWCU 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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