how we all do and welcome to the culmination of the year. This is the Calling All Heroes
Radiant Series 2026. And of course, this is the championship. Absolute anger to be here. My name
is Ari here with the rain will be your yapers for today rain just generally how you're feeling
going into today. Hey Ari, I'm excited to be here championships. Like you said, we've been building
up to this since about mid year here. And so far, the competition I think in Calling All Heroes
this year is stronger than it has ever been, so I'm expecting this to be our best championship yet.
We definitely got some rivalries out there, some players that have things to prove, but
for those of you that may not be super familiar with the scene or what goes on here,
Calling All Heroes is an Overwatch tournament. It's a circuit for women and marginalized
genders. The goal is to continue building an inclusive environment for everyone,
focusing on equity, visibility, and community support. Radiant, as you may see around the
broadcasts and graphics is the women led gaming production agency that has
partnered with Overwatch to produce Calling All Heroes. And for again those
that might have missed what happened earlier in the year things were a bit
different when it came to this kind of circuit format that we've kind of
developed as opposed to last year. This year there was one open Swiss for our
regular season consisted of six rounds and the top team the top eight teams
advanced to the playoffs. The playoffs were played out, three thousand
dollars were given away.
Seating was granted for this championship.
And here we are now in that calling off heroes championship.
Teams will face off in a double elimination bracket,
where the total prize pool is $37,000.
And our first prize, the lion's share $10,000.
Here are our matches for today.
Take a peek, because this is what you're gonna be seeing.
Yeah, so we're in the top eight knockouts here.
So we're gonna get lots of overwatch action
on the stream.
We are going to be starting out in the this knockout stage with our first match being the one versus the 8th seed here
So we're definitely gonna have lots of time for everybody to get some great
incentives here because Ari I heard that twitch chat really likes drops
What are drops? I've never heard of them. Do we for chance of a graphic? Oh, we do look at that rain
Letcha take it away. Give us the the big bang. Yeah, I mean these are some pretty asked for drops
I think now the icon of the spray obviously is super cute
We love to rep a patch of Mario around here
But I know the twitch chat is also going to be very excited about some eSports
Loot box drop so make sure that your twitch account is connected to your battle net account
So that as you watch the stream support car watch some good overwatch you also get a little bit of a something for your time
Yeah, I said certainly to see those drops going effect, but as well for the games
We've got teams up there that are eager to play
We have four total matches on the day two will be with us who will be with some different
Yappers so it'll be somewhat of a longer stream for those of you that are gonna ask throughout the stream
We know who you are
You know who you are as well, but to get into our first matchup. We can also meet the teams
We can also talk about them. It's gonna be like a Virgo versus timeless X
Missing and for these two teams by the way, you have to be careful that timeless X missing is not confused with missing X ray
Those are two different teams
We're gonna say it again just to clarify because they're part of the same more partially but partially not so just keep that in
Mind as we're going through. Yeah, so this is gonna be a pretty tough matchup here
like a Virgo actually coming in from that tiebreaker match that happened yesterday between themselves and
Nightmare Eclipse. So like a sneaking in as the eighth place here and having to go up against a timeless missing this number one team
That has been pretty dominant throughout the season. It's definitely a tough ask here for like a but this team is going to show
Why they deserve to be in the top eight of calling all heroes today
And not to mention that if you think about it, that tiebreaker matchup was actually a $3,000 game, because the minimum prize for this event is $3,000.
And if they had missed out, I don't think they would have received any prizes.
So already they're feeling good and they get to have what you call a free roll going into today.
But let's focus on the one seed, the team that we expect to be doing really, really well, making potentially that grand finals.
If they can, timeless X missing.
Yeah, fantastic group of players here.
players here. Sniper piece whips Z and men why so you're going to be familiar with these
players, whether or not you're calling all heroes kind of follower or even in the regular
circuit of things, of course, going to recognize and then why from OWCS playing for a lunax
here. And this is the core of the 2025 CAH championship team, which was me and my friends
gaming. So peace, men why scuffed and sniper. All of these players have so much experience
playing together already and they have been showing that that synergy very very strong right now
Yeah, I mean a lot of these players you might recognize may be one you might memorize a couple but
You're gonna be learning today. What exactly those players are notable for there's gonna be flashy plays
There are going to be things that you just don't expect to see but it's not all one-sided
Of course, they do have their opponents. They're here for a reason. It's like a
And I'm telling you as much as you may not know these players
You're certainly gonna remember them after this game because they will definitely put up a fight, and I love the support for I love it
Also a big fan of the support Torb the tank Kierkegaard as well
I think really a big opportunity there to make some plays here, but yeah, canada elku natnip pingoo and HR tree
So this is actually interesting because it's a primarily European based roster
except for HR tree, who is based in North America here.
And these players, although maybe having their kind of first
a little bit of a debut here,
they've also got a lot of synergy from some previous teams.
So the core of this team being Pingu, Unlucky,
made in Mattnip, actually coming from quick Esports Nova,
which competed in Ka Spring 2025.
And then some pretty well known names
if you've been following along
with the Overwatch World Cup as well.
Elku was actually a sub before team Finland
in the Overwatch World Cup.
So lots of talent on this roster.
So super excited that they made it into this top eight
and that we're gonna get to see them here on the screen.
I also also have to point out that as much as we're saying,
support Torb Tank Hieraco,
that is the role that the characters
or the people are playing
and the character that shows up
is simply just who they want to showcase on their profile.
Not necessarily their agents that they're gonna be playing,
but we also do like to joke,
well, maybe this is a team comp.
I don't think this will be the team comp
considering there is no actual tank.
Sorry, Hieraco.
Yeah, unfortunately, Kirko can fill a lot of roles, but tank is not going to be the one going to have to stick to the support and doing a little bit of DPS on the support as well.
So it's definitely going to be a tough match, like I said earlier here for Leica, especially going up against some of the talent from timeless missing.
I mean, these are players that are playing in some of the top leads of facing league and OWCS, of course.
But everybody on the side of like a Virgo has a lot of experience playing on teams
I think every single player that's scheduled on that roster is also competing on another team
So lots of experience there to come up against this kind of juggernaut of a team that is a timelessness
Yeah, I don't know what it says about like all these players to be kind of split up into multiple different teams
But I can tell you that this means they are determined
They are determined to play overwatch at the highest level. They want to get a nice chunk of change from this event as well
I can't lie there, but as well, I mean, they're all fighting to be the best of the best and I'm happy that we could have this sort of platform this tournament circuit that is here for these players.
I am going to ask the all-knowing producer though in our ears if we do have a map pool graphic, if not totally okay.
Oh, sounds like we do, and we are going to get it.
So we get an idea of what exactly are going to be chosen.
Oh, well, this isn't the map pool, but those are the map picks, but yeah.
This is gonna be so of course a timeless miss me coming in as that number one seed is gonna have the little bit of the
Advantage here of being able to select kind of the first map that we go to it is of course going to be a control map as is quite
common with all of these
overwatch matches and leagues and looks like they already know exactly what control map we're going to so we're gonna be kicking things off on
Nepal I
I feel like Nepal, we just started to see a lot more edges.
You kind of strayed away from like the lesions and the Ilios just a little bit and Nepal seems to be
like everyone's favorite just because you have free reign so many different sightlines to kind of just
go with whatever play you want to go for. And this allows of course for different comps to be
thrown in the mix. Of course one comp that we will not be seeing on this first map involves a
certain jetpack cat so no jetpack cat no diva all right i the jetpack have been not too surprising for
me i find the teams right now are leading kind of one of two ways when it comes to bands on control
maps you're either banning the lucio and trying to force the jetpack cat or you are banning the
jetpack cat and trying to force more of kind of that's that standard or once upon a time
standard lucio kind of cure go back flying here so right away timeless saying that they
I don't want to bring out the
Jaffa cat just yet and then the
band on to Diva here coming through
from like a so I know that like I do
like to play a little bit of wrecking
ball every now and then so that Diva
of course can really kind of hinder
the aggression that can come through
from that wrecking ball.
You're saying they like a wrecking ball.
Yeah, like a wrecking ball. Yep.
I'm sorry I had to do it at least once.
I can't promise it won't happen again.
But yeah, definitely the dive has
felt like a strong piece to
piece to a lot of these teams and you can kind of work it around given the
various comps that players like to go for especially when we see a lot of like
I feel like cask, Freya, those are things that we kind of see as a lot of staples
and so if you can find a consistent way to deal with those critical pieces well
then yeah you're gonna be having a lot of good luck in these maps but here we
go map number one excited to see how it plays out in Nepal.
Alright and of course I'm leaving
keep in mind with these bands is that the teams will not be able to repeat fans as
this series go on. This is a first to three here so you know you have the
potential to go the distance to a map number five. So that does of course mean
that Jetpack Hat going to be on the table for the next few maps unless it
is like other decides to ban her out. So we'll see what these teams are
going to cook up on Nepal of course. A pretty, I think a pretty flexible map
here where as some of these points you're gonna lean more towards kind of that
brawl style and picking village. I'm even thinking of kind of the center point, but
Zankton, that's where things kind of open up a little bit. You can go for a bit more of a poke comp, you can go for some dive comps here, but I
definitely would not be surprised if we see like a kind of forcing the dive comp
more or less whichever sub map we go to. Yeah, sounds pretty reasonable. Of course, we've said all we can really say or just excited to see
what exactly they show up to the table with obviously these two teams we know
them by reputation we know what they are comfortable with but maybe that's
changed right and maybe that's the beauty of having a break between that
seating stage and having this championship stage because now strategies
might have changed you might have seen something in the World Cup we were like
ooh I'm gonna steal that and so this is the copper running now I hope it's not
a C9 that you might have saw in Spain versus Germany but hopefully they can
learn to stay on the point here contested through and hopefully we'll
get ourselves a fame of matches. It's such a big ass to ask Overwatch players to stay on
the point sometimes. You just really want to chase those alums. But yeah, I totally agree.
Learning as we go through watching some of these other compositions and strategies that
have really been coming through on the world stage, very much going to benefit these calling
all heroes teams here. So we will get headed into Sanctum to start out here on Nepal.
And of course, doors are still closed, so it's not necessarily these comps that we're
going to be sticking with.
We at least get a little peek at maybe some thoughts from the comps here on these teams,
as, alas, we'll have to wait just a little bit more.
It seems like we need to sort out some hero bands.
Yeah, I mean, the two-band thing might be coming in the future, but I don't believe
we're setting that up right now and said we'll just have a quick reset and get
things going for you but hey it's good to get the technical difficulties out
earlier because then you know grand finals the players can just go absolutely
ham and not have to worry about logistics and maybe demon will be banned at
first map given how holding that character has become over just its
short lifespan. I think it's a pretty good show you know I demon definitely
after some kind of fine-tuning some hot fixes that came through increasing
her damage a little bit more. Definitely feels like she's in a much more unviable state right
now and honestly fairly kind of balanced when it comes to tanks where she does have some nice
counters being any of that kind of long range damage or I dare say even some dive as well as
long as you can kind of navigate around that demon. But if you were trying to take a face-first
battle against a woman with a giant sword and shield, you might be in for a bad time here.
So, time for us to might be showing us that newest hero.
Yeah, we'll see if the demon is the Elo Poison or the Elo Potion.
Really just one of those things you got to see how it shows up onto the match.
But here we go, timer finally dwindling down as you can see those comps.
Pretty speedy on the side of Lycavergo.
Pretty speedy on the side of time.
The sex-missing of Jericho and Lucio.
So, should be a fun first fight.
We'll see as well as Kanata in the sky.
that you're looking for. Certainly looking for big slam to engage, find a sort of isolated
player, get things done. So I just decided to go all through, test the waters, find out
who exactly he is, and spot that he's possible. Big slam on high ground, but back rolling away
we go. It will be that sort of first point touch that you see. But it's LQ that goes
down to the on of a whisk, that is, whisk, not whisks, just for clarification. And there
you go, already first elimination for timeless X-missing. That feels pretty good, and
And that'll be only, you know, two eliminations needed to count this game.
It's a lot fresher onto Kanata and Kingu to really kind of open this map up for the side
of Leica so that HRT really kind of finds the targets that she's used for on this Sojourn.
Unfortunately for Leica with this comp, you're not really going to have the staying power
on the point when you're up against Sahil on this D-mon and then Wisps on the Freya.
I mean, look, Freya absolutely incredible in the hands of a strong player here and
It's already almost a 90% to work that whole aside, you know you gotta be worried about that
Looking maybe to find that out
Actually a lot of damage dealt on out just
That's gonna find two although one is the final blow the second one falls just after that
And although the wrecking ball is doing if they can on the point it seems lackluster as soon as this fight begins
Timeless X missing to find a pick and although one player is still left around this point
Okay, it's the pulse, but yeah, the Susan is gonna be there
So you're gonna shut that tracer down and once again, it's going to be timeless
You can control here. You can see that risk is even position over on the sky
They're looking to find a pick before like they can even get set up
And that's the issue that like this hobby right now is that timeless is just moving so quickly that by the time
Leica is ready to go for a dive. There's already one following.
He's very low, honey. He will have to kill Mana.
And there we go. Here's the Wall Fruit.
Again, I'm waiting to see some sort of follow-up off of this Leica.
I'm on it. It just hasn't really happened quite yet.
But maybe they'll start to search for Mana.
You know, these backline battles seem to be the name of the game.
The timeless X-Men scene seem to be winning all of them.
That is until this thugs fall.
So maybe a way into this fight,
but then George Lee just falls down again.
And now you start to wonder, where is that success that you would be able to find with the buildup?
There's at least the mines.
My oh, beautiful, little pulse bomb in the mix.
Those mines are on point, but it's not exactly going to pass the point for you.
Nice little shot, and it's beautiful by a whisk.
He's as well in on the action, and it's 100 to 0 clean for Timeless X missing.
Yeah, that's pretty much as clean as I think it's going to get.
I'm pretty sure with the only death on the side of a timeless missing here
So, you know, maybe a bit of a warm-up here for like I do feel like of all the sub points that you have on Nepal
That probably would have been the strongest one for this wrecking ball composition is yeah
We get a little confirmation there only going to be one death on the side of
Timeless so it's definitely gonna have to be a bit of a change of the strategy here
for Leica to try and come back in to this map and like you mentioned Ari I
feel like the follow-up on the wrecking ball is kind of struggling right now and
it is really about this aggression and the tempo that's coming through from
the side of timeless missing just they're just never allowing for that
setup so hard
Well, the follow-up on the wrecking ball will not happen in this fight, my source is saying,
given that somebody isn't exactly in the fight.
Do you have, they say, Hindu as well falling down, and this is just going to be a fight over and everyone else.
Practically just fighting for all charges.
Yep, just looking for a little bit extra damage here.
If you are like trying to survive as you do a bit of poke,
it is of course going to be the point flipping on over to Timeless here to start things off.
And it's gonna be so hard for Leica to push into this plane when you have whists on this frame
I'm just putting in so much damage from under what joke point Leica's fly up here
I shot it then and just looking for an elimination
I might just quite get in this pressure on my time around this
Phenomenal, no one is even willing to step into the box
Maybe take a fight with the gloves up
An HR tree will receive a blow that sends them back to the spawn room
Goodbye, Ana, as well, we assume, and yes, no sleep dart out there, pingoo as well, down
to the count, and a wrecking ball down in air spawn, I believe that was, so, like a Virgo,
still grasping at straws to find some success.
Yeah, they're not really making great progress on the alt charge either, because they're
just not able to stay in these fights long enough to build up that charge, and timeless,
I mean, they have been putting in the damage here, pretty much everything ready to
go, save for those support ultimates here.
I like this from Kanata. She's trying to port the point. I am draw some of that tank attention from timeless to work the point
to make space for the defense.
I'll spawn Mountain, and that one's gonna go up here.
I'll ride. Peace will be sent after the spawners.
This is the damage that my server were looking for out of the question.
Can they find a flip? Can they find a little bit of elimination?
And no, team you.
Instead of the one falling down again,
Lines used as a last-ditch after...
Oh, be careful. You're between your own Bola and the Lines!
Okay!
Little interesting on the spike, but at the end it looks like time was interesting, a skill hanging on,
H.R.T. back to at least find the one, and a flip maybe even coming through.
There is that, and the break that I'm kinda eyeing up, wait to see if it gets harsh down.
I keep on failing maybe, and the fight, and yes, there's at least one slice, no dice though!
As it seems, only one kick is found, like the Virgo find the flip, and now it's timeless of kissing, actually, in the back book.
If they could D-Max saw him here, that would be massive for Lightna.
It could take forever for Lightdemon to get back into the mech.
So this is gonna allow Lightna to build some percentage on the point,
which is so desperately needed.
The late kills onto Saw Hill and Peace,
and alright, Lightna coming alive here.
They are gonna have to play it very, very careful though.
Only one fight is needed here for Timeless to pick up Village
and pick up Nepal as a whole,
as a whole, and they have both these support ults to try and make it happen.
We're gonna have to see some aggression coming through from Leica with the support ults
out there all to try and draw out some things here from Tyra's.
I feel like we always see a tracer being the first blood in every single one of these fights.
It's either finger, it's piece, either way, but one of them seems to be falling down,
and that lets the go button fly.
It's the beat arms from through the nano as well.
Mine's just a little bit away, but again, that flip's gonna come through,
most likely will be the mines just for the contest at the end if they can be found with the poof.
The way it comes through Hall of Spawn finds on a menly, but here comes that Jericho ultimate
balloon shredded down Kanata, back to the spotter room, and it's bees that has come back from
the grave like something I saw in Hilda, and a clean fight win in the end. A clean nap win
with Timeless X missing. Yeah, a really strong start here. I think what we were more or less
expecting coming into this. This is the number one team here and they are looking very, very
practiced even on this team on composition. The newest hero here in Overwatch, but I feel
like we have these shining moments coming through from like this, especially towards the end of
this second point here. So that's something that they can try and channel as we move into
the next map because of course first of three it means that their back is not quite up against
the wall just yet. I was I was watching the play of the game and I was like is that really the
flashiest play we had? But then I was like I mean honestly there weren't many like multi-frags. There
was no player that really like stood up and just turned the fight for themselves. So honestly that
goes to show that Lyca Virgo are just getting outmatch in the team sense right? Obviously if
someone can step up and find that fight win then absolutely they are still in this game. But
for right now it seems like the systems going at each other one versus one is going to have
timeless hex missing on top at the moment. For now, there is still time here for Leica to come
back into this, and they are going to have the power of the map selection as well. So that's going
to be really good, especially for a team that is more kind of leaning into this more kind of a
dive kind of pick style. Of course, I'm sure Kanata, she's able to play other tanks, but
when you have a favorite tank, you know, you want to try and play that as much as possible
here so being in control of that map pick means that you can take us to a map where that wrecking ball
is going to be a little bit more favorite the issue comes in is that if you don't protect
ban the tank it could very well be timeless taking that wrecking ball out of her hands well i
think i mean you kill two birds with one stone you take down the demon and find the wrecking ball
protect and i think that's a pretty fair site i don't want to call it a prediction but something
that would make sense given the certain circumstances of this series especially as you saw even in that
sort of little first whoopsie doopsy the the demon being asked for on the first point and so it makes
me think that this timeless x-missing style wants to kind of lean on the demon as long as they can
not quite to maybe the same degree as like a jetpack cap but it certainly is one of those
new characters for teams still are struggling to find every which way to min max against.
Yeah, and that's a really good point is that, you know, it can be kind of hard to figure
out how to play the demon kind of on your own, but all the other teams are going to
be kind of struggling with this new hero as well.
So if you get a good handle on how to kind of navigate compositions involving this demon,
you could really catch people off guard with it.
So looks like we may be getting a flashpoint for map number two.
And I'm always interested to see when a team will pivot straight off of a control
map over onto a flashpoint especially if they kind of struggled on the control map where these
these map types are going to play fairly similar to each other but that being said definitely do
think that there are some really good flashpoints that can more play into a dive style here because
there's such bigger maps compared to these control maps that you can get people set up on angles a
lot easier and without taking some of that poke damage that I really think Leica was kind of
falling to in Nepal.
Alright, good vamp there, thank you, because I was trying to find the map pool that we could go through, and seeing this flashpoint
that gives us an idea that there's either New Junk City, Atlas, or Sturavasa up next, and as well, this is, of course, what
Lycopedia is saying, so I'm going off of that.
So just, if I'm wrong there, forgive me, but that's just what I'm going off with. The research is available, and
yeah
Yeah, and we're hearing from Proud that it is going to be Surabasa, so we'll go ahead and share that with everybody
and yeah, I mean all the Flashpoint maps feel like Surabasa has been the favorite for a pretty long time even after the rework
Which I mean, I guess that was quite a while ago now
But definitely one of these maps that teams are all very very familiar with
Do you think that it can be really nice for the wrecking ball?
But that being said with all of the corners that there are in Sarabasa
You can very easily run that demon as well
Especially where you have the boosters to work moving corner to corner
So we'll see if that is what we're gonna get from these two teams
But we do know that we are not gonna get to see any Freya here. I
mean
I'll give you a fair is where it's due cuz like honestly every time I'm in a rank game
I am banning cat and I'm banning Freya and I'm calling it a day
So I can completely understand why the Freya band does come out here
I mean it's one of those pain points that you have to deal with with the team
Maybe they're saying hey
We can focus the demon a little bit more than we can focus this Freya because the movement is nuts the
Raw damage output is insane and it's forcing our tracer to basically basically go down
Every single time off the rip whether it's by the Freya's hand or not the damage and pressure enough to scare us away
With that being said of course that leaves the wrecking ball band on the table if they do wish to use it
Honestly, I feel like they're not gonna go for it
Don't know why I just feel like it wasn't enough of a problem to where they want to ban it and forcing them on a different tank
Could actually like jostle them in the right way that is like a burgo
So I think you almost want them to stay on the wrecking ball
Yeah, I'm kind of thinking that as well as that you sometimes if you're winning up against a composition
You maybe don't want to ban that composition out and try and kind of force them on to something else here
So looks like okay getting a ping here that it is actually gonna be the demon that is banned here
So fascinating to see um and that you know makes me question like what are timeless mixing going to pull out here
Are they gonna pivot maybe over onto the diva that was Vandal map number one?
Racking both the the wrecking ball
I'm down for a little mirror.
I don't care.
Yeah, it's possible.
It is a possibility here.
Saw Hill in
usually a little bit more
kind of leaning towards some of the
kind of like brawl style tanks.
But of course, remembering
that Sniper also available
for Timeless Missing to come in
on that tank roll, which would have
a little bit more kind of the dive style
They did mention the D.Va was more of their preferred heroes, so that's probably why we didn't see Sniper in for map number one.
So as we move into Suravasa right here, I do think that D.Va could be a really nice option for them, and banning that D.Mod will make it much easier to play the D.Va.
We're about to find out in approximately three seconds.
Yeah, well, we'll see if Leica are going to still stick with the wrecking ball.
We are going to still have Saw Hill in for the side of Timeless as well, so it will be
interesting to see what they opt for with the demon out of the picture here.
No surprises here from Leica.
It's very likely going to be the same composition that they ran on Nepal with Pingu over
on the Tracer.
I suspect the Symmetra teleport out for these teams, but Surabasa is going to be really
grid like I mentioned for getting set up kind of on these angles for Leica so hopefully going to be
able to survive a little bit longer into the mid-fight than what we were seeing on Nicole
thanks to the the topography of the map. Now on the side of the timeless missing this is a much
different look for them than what we saw on Nepal where they are going to be bringing out that
Sigma so very strong tank right now and has the CC and the form of that accretion to deal with
canada on this wrecking ball not to mention then lie over on the musicie and
wisps on the pacities of the timers are very much expecting this wrecking ball.
Already of course the beauty of the signal that you can just kind of walk on at this
point and hang on for first controller is the wrecking ball really can't otherwise
you're letting the team behind you just get shot so there you go.
Be careful soldier gotta make sure you drop up the
by the time is right one HP yeah we all see the vision we all thought it was
gonna happen but no instead turn out a fault and oh boy I mean as much as I
want to hype up the rest of the fight I feel like we all know what's gonna happen
like a Virgo running for the hills yeah once you lose that tank you really can't
afford to stay in the fight for two too long unless you get a quick trade but
everybody on the side of timeless very healthy not gonna give that trade
over to you like us so marketplace even control of timeless right now and
Of course the poke damage that's available from the Cassidy and the Sigma is going to be a lot for like in a Triangeloist
So they need to get set up on these angles so for very quick hits
Shields being gained, but still damage not being dealt out
So they're spinning around hoping to find something and no one's going to walk into that same man
I'll let you do your thing
Hello, nice shot there
Each of them going on down, the hinder applied and yeah, good luck with that one
It's just a nightmare for anyone playing wrecking ball in this moment team kill comes through
It's gonna be tough to find a touch here although like a Virgo should have enough time yet aggressive pressure from time was actually come through
Yeah, but there's a little bit of control so much of the space here on Sirifasa that even though like I have some very high mobility composition
They're not gonna be able to touch this point for three
But they're gonna have to do just that if they want to trigger over time
They don't manage to do it though, so he's gonna be timeless because he's got that first point 100 to 0.
I feel like the right word here is stubborn. I feel like Kanata is
trying to make this ball work and it's not like I'm gonna say that it's not going to work,
but I feel like given what we've seen so far something needs to change whether it's just some sort of place down around this ball,
whether it is some sort of character, I just want to see something different because right now we keep seeing the same thing.
It's carried over from control into this flashpoint now
If this whole scum well that one's gonna go a bit of a ride with this force
Somebody to run away and this will be back to the spawn room unlucky for them
But it's so happens like that as well the grubitic flux online
Desire to lose. Ooh, they rush from both sides
You should have hopefully cancelled out for the side of like the Virgo so that they can find some sort of advantage
to get front wave, but this pressure off angle keeps down to 1 HP before the recall.
These melee's are coming through, but it's the accretion that deals the final low.
Elkoop falls on down, the Wisp down as well, but still the point control he favored,
final sex missing.
This is a trouble for Maka, is that there's so many cooldowns available that every time
they go for it, I can't go hitting.
Kanata caught up in one of those cooldowns here, so although you get the mines out on
the point, the answer in that flux and like it just ends up getting so misplaced
that they're not able to hold for the one-dive turn.
Maybe this is felt like a one-fighter like Virgo the entire time, but no point with this come through.
And honestly, the numbers haven't as well.
Very low, I think.
Here's the Nano Wrecking Ball, though.
Night Chas, you at least find the elimination, but somehow still not a fight win.
That felt like the best chance they found so far in this particular map,
and it just doesn't happen.
Yeah, nothing materializing for them, and you can see every time Kanata goes in,
He's getting hit with the chain with the accretion.
Losing Pingu is devastating here for Leica.
It's so tough when Leica's going up against the piece on this tracer as well,
because you want Pingu to be available to go to these sides with Pinata,
but they have to put pressure on to piece or piece without plays like that.
Very nice. Very nicely done.
I mean, what elimination of winning a fight is not something to see too often,
but here it does indeed happen.
Now one more point needed.
Timeless X missing to win out the map, take a 2-0 lead, and of course that would not be the series.
You need 3 in order to find the W, but it's looking dire for Lyca Virgo, and again, we're still looking to see something else change.
Yeah, they need to start baiting out some of these cooldowns before they go for a hard engage.
They need to do kind of like a soft engage mid-ship to keep Panada alive and then go in for your hit on the target,
but it's still very hard to do that when Timeless is just so patient with their cooldown music.
They always have some form of CC to use, they're never using both CCs on that Wrecking Ball it was.
Holy rocks!
Sofil! Okay, uh, well this fight is over, that's for sure.
The damage applied to both of you, yes, I mean the 9th season's roof, the shield available, the accretion,
is that all stayed, any which way closer, and peace is just having the world as their oyster.
I mean, yeah, there's a little bit of pressure on the point for the Wrecking Ball staying alive,
is not enough to contest anything at any real gravity.
I like the idea there from Leica.
They want to try and catch Timeless as they're making out rotation to work point,
because once they get set up on the point, it's much, much harder to try and single out
one of these targets from Timeless.
But, unfortunately, it just doesn't work out for them, because Timeless,
ready for the engagement, they know that Leica want to hit them as they're making these rotations,
which they don't have any form of speed to work with here.
So once again, the key point is to swing up timeless.
The formation big group as well.
It actually sends the cast away from the points
and away from anyone that might have been in their sights.
There you go Kanata, having a big point for themselves this round.
She is absolutely popping off.
And in the end, like a Virgo, we'll get their first fight of the map.
But now, how do you snowball it? How do you keep it going?
It's going to be very difficult, especially where timeless
Are gonna have to be all coming into this right now again. It's about catching timeless in these rotations here
So I like the position from Kanata. She's hanging waiting to go for the pile drive and Pango is already set up to try and follow up
Zuki also knows where he's gone to but we still see the pressure of the flip coming through for time,
unless we're missing the end. The days die are straight for like a Virgo, especially if they get
hard staggered out here. And that's the Pulse Bomb invested as well. PewDiePie falls down.
Surely this isn't a Saga fight for the win, right? Well, Cosbaum invested, Kanata still falls down 10% left, everyone just running over to their deaths.
In the end, this is Timelix's ass-missing all day, every day, map 2 done, dusted, and over.
Again, I mean, like, a little bit better. Got some percentage on Garden here, but it's so hard for them to play into Timeless, what Timeless knows, what Lyco wants to do every time.
Kanata though, she's gonna pick up play of the game again. Definitely some shining moments here for the Wrecking Ball, especially when she's able to live in the mid-fight here, we can see.
She gets so much value here because all of those CC pull-downs are used early in the fight and she manages to steam the lab through them.
Apparently Kanata, the play of the game merchant already, two for two there, but you know, we'd like to see them sort of have that resurgence actually get a map on the board.
because although, yes, statistically, one seed versus eight seed given the histories of this team,
it should be Timeless X-missing all day, you still gotta believe in the underdogs to read just a little bit.
They're here for a reason, and so for them to kind of show the success that they've had on the stage
would be really, really nice, although it is tough to get going given the system that's on the other side.
I mean, it's just like clockwork, and it feels like anything that Timeless X-missing does,
it just works out in their favor in the end.
Yeah, and it comes down to not only the individual plays that we're getting to see from Timelessness,
but just their overall kind of understanding of how to play against this comp that Leica is playing.
They know the strengths of the Wrecking Ball comp. They know that you want to separate out
individual members, get the pile drive on, follow up with the Tracer. So they're playing fairly
close together, despite being on this kind of Sigma Tracer composition, which you can control
angles fairly well, but they don't want to get caught out, singled out. So it's just
really fantastic play from Timeless and really just kind of showcasing why they are the number one
seed here. It's not just the mechanics, it's also the understanding, the macro of the game.
Yeah, I would argue that maybe even though we didn't see again those sort of flashy highlight plays,
maybe we saw it a little bit higher in this map for Timeless X missing. Again,
they're just sort of playing as like a death ball, and when they do get separated, I mean,
that is the fight where they end up falling a little bit short, but this death ball has been
working. There's no reason for it to change because the amount of CC they have is enough to
just deny any sort of wrecking ball that's trying to come through. You're not going to get isolated
against like a railgun shot because there's a shield in her face. The only one that's really
going anywhere is the tracer and that's, I mean, the very few eliminations we see that maybe go the
way of Lyca Virgo and then maybe that's no well-sufficed win, but even then, I mean,
it's the tracer's job to go find an angle, do what they can, and then recall back to the
team. And it's just this same rinse and repeat that we've been seeing that has allowed them
to get out to this very largely.
All right, well, there is one more opportunity here for Lyca Virgo to try and at least grab a map here.
They are once again going to be in control of the map type.
Now, we aren't going to be able to repeat any of the modes that have already been played,
so we won't be going to do a control or a flashpoint.
Instead, are going to opt for the other symmetrical map mode being pushed.
So this is going to be last chance for Leica and having only two push map options here
They are going to opt for East Veronica here, which compared to Coliseo
I would argue is the stronger dive map of the two
Yeah, I like the Esperanza for the wrecking ball. I
Just worried that the high ground is just gonna be abused by this time like timeless X missing side
And I feel like unless something is done where there's more support for this ball
that isn't just like ranged like soldier or tracer like tracer is fine
But I want to see a little bit more air. I say like a Genji or something like that and
Sigma band coming through on a band on the other side often. Do you see an on a band?
I have the question and the only time I see an on a band is when a team wants to run jetpack cat and they
don't want to have a sniper
poking them out of the sky so I
That other than that we don't see it very often
I mean maybe if you wanted to try and force a Malga and you're worried that you don't want to run the Kiriko
But yeah, this is a fairly uncommon ban
But it does signal to me that we could be getting a little bit of a jetpack connection. I
Notice how you didn't say Roadhog there
You know what I mean you could I don't think we'd see it here
But that's a good show as well if you want to play Roadhog you probably don't want to get hit with that
I mean, in theory it's an additional CC for a ball, it's just another pain point, so in
theory, it could be a world.
It might be a little bit of wishful thinking on my part, but in the end, yeah, this is
something that we kind of expected with that Sigma band coming through, it makes sense.
What does that mean?
I feel like we might just be getting a theme on back in the mix, and then it's going
to be, I don't want to say repeat of map 1 in terms of how it went, but at
least maybe the compensation.
I would, I would say East Brawns I think would, it would be a little bit harder for the Demon just because it would be long sight lines and if she doesn't have any access to the high ground easily.
But I definitely think that as talented as Timeless is, if they really wanted to force the Demon here, they could probably get away with it.
And that being said, if you end up on this more kind of stationary kind of brawl composition for a Timeless,
I do think that this ball comp will get the better of you on this map.
I feel like if I said that about Nepal, you have some good dive spots.
Okay, Sarabasa has some good dive opportunities as well.
But East Theranza really does feel like kind of the last chance here to really force this dive composition,
especially where if, even if, like, are able to pick up the wing here,
They're going to be going into the mouth pick of Timeless, so it would definitely be pretty rough to try and go into an escort or hybrid map, when you have zero control over it.
Really just here to kind of watch this one play out, because again we've said all that we really can about what maybe needs to change or the implementation of this wrecking ball with the comp that they're looking for.
looking for, and now it's just on the players to really show up on the day and make it work
to land the shots, to have the proper execution.
But if there's just an inkling, and maybe it's in the back of their minds, a set of the
front, well, maybe it won't be going too well for them, we could be seeing that 3-0.
But that's the beauty of why we play the game, we get to see what happens.
I see Zenyatta, and I'm excited, but I feel like it may or may not stay.
I just can't imagine that if I have a very good time on this.
Especially with the ad.
You really can't do it.
You're going to be the number one target here.
And with Elko over on the Jetpack cat,
it's not really a whole lot of fuel potential from your other support.
So, interesting that we are going to see the Jetpack cat puff from the side of Laika,
where I was more expecting to see it come out from Timeless, where they banned the Ana.
But, Timeless are going to stick with this D-Von.
They're going to work with this Kyuriko and Yuzuki backlight.
So we don't have any speed for Saw Hill to really work with, so that means that Leica with this really high mobility cough, as long as they can keep rotating around the map, they have a good shot here at at least getting a few more migraines in at what we see going on.
Well, I expected that if the demon picker comes here, it would be a death attack not as well as it is.
But it doesn't happen, in case instead, I'm just kind of playing as that high movement tank that goes in and out of the fights.
A little bit quicker.
And they would like, traditionally, on making other tanks, but there you go.
First elimination, he falls down and looking for that slam doesn't decide to pop it.
So instead, we'll have ourselves another spin, and then...
Be very careful, that's a lot of HP just reduced after the first sign of any engagement coming in from Tanada
But again, she's just gonna keep on rolling around, crossing chaos, keep on slamming until someone else finds the damage
But it's not Hindu, Hindu is that sparring, so someone else will need to get the hero in this round
It could of course be Tanada
But, look how much skulls come in through the 30 meters and how many times it's missing on the spot
And especially now the tank elimination that comes through for their side
Even though an NY goes down, there should still be Timeless Exmissing
continuing control of the spot even though the numbers are about the same.
Another two picks and now you can start to call it for real.
Yeah, and Timeless are gonna get themselves set up on this bridge here.
So they are pushing towards that first checkpoint, so they are gonna grab that.
They're gonna grab the forward spawns as well.
I like what you're saying about Kanata.
She's trying to cause the chaos here and it is working fairly well,
but the follow-up is just not quite there.
saw hill on the deep on a demon pick up controlling the space making sure that hr
tree and pinkie are going to have to push through her before they can get to the
squishy backline targets of z and then
this landland it does come through no mines
it's gonna be a rush and the one that's gonna be gone out so certainly doable
although hr tree will fall down and maybe now that i say that maybe it's a
less doable especially than this land. oh my gosh you're going for the slide
Okay, you wanted the highlight reel. I see the vision. It doesn't happen here, but you're at least still winning the fight
So I'll give you credit for trying to steal.
Yeah, good stuff here for Timeless. They're still in control. Like, they have to wait for Elcubus to get back on the fight now.
The news for them is that Nathans DOES have this continued rush to work with, but you're pushing into so much power here from Timeless.
And then what? With that sanctuary, it's going to be able to block so much of that damage that would come through from the use of that continued rush right now.
Like a
Team is dying without you canada you gotta do something no you're getting chased in the end
I think you're gonna follow this short as well. Don't forget. There's a cap going on soon full cap on the map. Hello
It's just over canada in the back lines, and it does not matter timeless ex-missing
They just take it away. Maybe the fastest push map ever
Something something overwatch players and objectives darn it. But I play the game. I mean see
That was a super quick push map timeless
I mean they sat themselves on the plane and they just walked it all the way in so a
fantastic job here from our number one seed and
Uh, yeah, unfortunately for like, uh, they knew it was going to be a very tough match
coming into this, but, uh, yeah, just getting a little taste here of what that number one
CT was really capable of.
I love, again, how the play of the game was one elimination, and it was off the back
of a Mizuki chain on a tracer, which I feel like at that point I almost wanted to see
the Mizuki chain because that would have been really clean to land, especially given
how movement-heavy the tracer is.
But yeah, the series done and dusted I think a little bit quicker than we thought it would
go.
Maybe you thought like a Virgo would get a map, maybe you're thinking they would just
kind of push Flashpoint a little bit further or control, given the availability to move
around with all these comps and the ability to adjust to whatever they were trying to
go against.
But they decided, hey we're going to stick to our identity, and at least they committed
to a play and they went for it.
I can't fault them for that, just GG well played in the end.
Yeah, and of course, like that's not going to be out of things entirely here, double elimination bracket, they will get to have another shot at things, but definitely going to be a lot harder for them moving forward here.
So that's it for round number one, but we are going to get to have a little interview here, so we're going to throw it to a quick break so we can get that interview set up.
Don't go anywhere. We'll be back with the victors after this.
Hey folks, how we all do in the conclusion of
our first series on the day was pretty dominant you had a 3-0 and like Virgo
well they fall a bit short but timeless X missing the favorites of
potentially even the tournament you could say are moving on into the next
round and so we decided hey we're gonna grab somebody from their team have a
little interview about what they thought went right and what they are
looking forward to with the rest of the tournament come on in who do we got
for our interview. Hello. How are you feeling? I'm pretty good. Right, this match was a little
bit of a quick 3-0. Definitely quick on that ending map as well, but if you have to give
the opposing team credit where credit's due, what was like the most annoying piece of
their comp to deal with the circle the wrecking wheel I don't like
I mean you guys had it out in the end so I think as much it was annoying I think
you'll take the result no yeah that's fair I'm so I'm interested in kind of
looking forward here so of course top eight there's some pretty strong
competition here in it calling all heroes championships what team are
are you most looking forward to playing out of the top 18s?
Probably Cat Cafe.
Yeah, pretty strong team, that one as well.
So I definitely expect if you guys go up against each other,
it will be very, very close.
Yeah, also like with the new demon character,
like obviously the meta shifted
and like anytime there's like a new meta or whatever,
like we only started like screaming this week
and like we didn't even fully know what tank
we were gonna start on demon until like yesterday.
And I know Cat Cafe was like, literally doing like double blocks every single day with like
Team Canada and like, for like the fast like three weeks, so they've had like a lot more
practice on like Demon and like the new, the new meta and we're kind of like just getting
into it.
Okay, I love that.
I want to kind of follow up on kind of Demon since yeah, we are getting to see her for
the first time here and calling all heroes specifically.
So your team does have two tanks that can kind of swap in and out.
So we saw it was saw Hill that was playing mostly today.
Can we expect that saw Hill is more
going to be kind of the demon player here,
or has Sniper gotten any time on that here as well?
Honestly, it's been pretty even in scrims.
Sniper just like, I don't know, there's a couple scrims
we're going to play Sniper, and Sniper is just asleep.
And like Sniper has like more time conflicts and stuff,
but I'm not too sure.
I feel like that's still kind of in the air.
I don't really think we have like one designated one.
We just like only got to play with saw Hill yesterday.
So we kind of just said like it for tomorrow. We'll just play saw hell, but that definitely could change
Well, I mean you guys had a quick day yet one matchup you win it out and you're done
So but I do gotta ask you have some sort of like rematch routine and post-match routine
Maybe a little bit changing a few win versus lose
Before any match or like even just like no more and I always like shower and I put on like
like sweatpants or pajama fans and like have my socks on like even when I've played like or
UCLA like at the land tournament. I like took off my shoes on stage
like I always play in socks and like comfy pants and then after like any map loss, I always like wash my hands
Yep, yep wash the loss away. I love it. Yeah, I can get behind that
Well a quick match on the day we're gonna keep the interview shorter than the map itself
So we're going to send you on your way and enjoy the rest of the day.
And we'll see you tomorrow.
Thank you.
Thanks.
All right.
Well, that's it.
Rain, any closing words on that series?
No, just make sure you all have your Twitch account connected
to your Battle.net account.
Drops are happening here.
And there's so much more overwatch to be seen.
So don't worry.
There will be time for you to grab those drops of Twitch chat.
make sure that you have that done.
All right, well, next matchup is going
to be Exjoblivione or Exjoblivione,
depending on where you look.
I promise it's the same team.
They're just labeled differently.
OK, Exjoblivione versus Valentine will be up next.
So stay after this break, because that's a Bayer matchup
you're not going to want to miss.
We'll see you then.
You
and
a folks welcome back to overwatch calling all heroes this is of course the
championship
that we are going to continue rolling with and we've got a banger matchup
I know I said that the last time but this one is even closer the four seed versus the five seed
It's extra blivione versus at Valentine's set up to be one of the matches of the tournament. I think
I mean I have to agree with you Ari
These are two teams coming in kind of middle of the pack here of that four and fifth seeds
So definitely expecting a pretty close series between these two and of course still going to be a first to three here
potential and maybe to get into that map number five.
Here's the thing though if you follow the caucine you might think oh four be five
seed I mean the players aren't gonna be the grats you know the names of these
players this Valentine roster I'm pretty sure it was like the number one team in
the caucine for like multiple years until everyone started to in this new age
started just absolutely popping off and everyone's just all of a sudden
absolutely insane but these players still very much insane Valentine the
the Russell are going to be looking at first Kindred H key benevolence Bernice and AJMR.
Yeah, and you're totally right already. This is a team that has been consistent in
car for many seasons here and in the 2025 championships. It was Valentine that came
second place overall and that is a continuation of the core here that we're seeing in 2026
being H key benevolence Bernice and Kindred all playing on that second place team in
the 20-25 championship.
So although they are coming in kind of middle of the patch
here, this is very much a top contending team.
Yeah, I mean, you just got to believe
that any one of these players can stand up
and can have those flashy moments,
as well as the system that we saw kind of in the first map
of just absolutely rolling with and keeping it smooth.
But of course, the other side, extra blivione
or extra blivione card, depending on where you look,
I promise, again, it's still the same team.
But the players are coming as Santy, Winter, Joel,
Envy and Paulette. Yeah, so lots of talent on this team. Of course, you might recognize Paulette from the Overwatch World Cup
playing for Team Mexico, but also actually the only just an incredible amount of talent on this roster.
And they actually did win out against Valentine when they played them in the Swiss rounds here.
So they are coming in as the favorite team here, but it was a very close series between those teams.
So expecting it for another one here today.
And of course, I'm going to say it every series,
but the damage mercy absolutely popping off here as well.
These are just the characters that the players want
to show on their portrait, but those roles are most likely
accurate to what they will be playing during the match.
Yeah, and we got to see some decent interesting
compositions coming through in the last match.
So I think that as we kind of heard from Wiss,
the introduction of Demon did change the meta a little bit here so it's fun to get to see these
teams try and figure that out as we move on through these co-championships now extra blivione
coming in as that fourth seed they are going to be in control of the map pick and we are once again
going to be heading over to napal to start things off yeah the map pool consisting of
Busan napal and Samoa I personally I like Samoa but maybe that's just giving my hero pool
specifically Zenyatta don't ask me how it works on the map I just make it work
but Nepal definitely a lot more consistent with what we expect and quote
the meta of just how everyone starts to like to play these but Lucio band coming
out and I believe that's a demon band as well so we're very strong and aggressive
bands if I had to say for control map. Hey I love I love to see you know when
I saw the Jetpack band in the last series on Nepal I noted that there's
kind of there's two heroes that tend to get banned out on these control
maps to see if there's a Jetpack Cat or the Lucio. So seeing the Lucio Band come through
definitely is going to open the potential for us to get to see some of that Jetpack
Cat instead. And then the Demon Band coming through really early on in the series is interesting
to me for Valentine as well because this is a hero that is in a pretty good spot right
now. And of course, banning out a hero in the series does mean that you won't
be able to use that band as we go through the next set of maps here. So they're
definitely gonna want to make that fan count. Yeah I mean I know that we saw a
wrecking ball in the previous map and previous series but I do feel like all
things considered we could actually see a wrecking ball kind of come through again
and I would assume find a little bit more value just maybe given the nature
of how close these two teams are but as well I think we know I think it was
Santi as one of those ball players who enjoys playing the ball and as well
like kind of has that team to follow up we've just seen some nasty plays
from that team as a whole when that Rackywell Composition is the case, but of course, that does not mean they are entitled to only go in that one specific comp.
We could very well see something else.
Yeah, that's exactly it, and there's so many kind of opportunities right now for different comps to be played.
No longer are we kind of locked into a really, really hard meta, you know, the Lucio-Kiriko backlight.
We've kind of been freed from those shackles with the introduction of Jetpack Hat and Musici,
as teams have kind of been figuring out how to fit Demon into some of these compositions as well.
Really has changed kind of the look that has been the meta for a pretty long time. So excited to see
what these teams are going to bring to the table. It of course is not going to include Alucio,
it's not going to include a Demon for map number one, but still lots of opportunity to play
Are there a brawl comp dive here?
There's so many options when we head into Nepal.
Unfortunately, do not think it's going to include
a jump crab from Shell.
Yeah, I'm eyeing that as well.
I don't think that will be the case.
As well, the mercy probably not going to happen.
But I do have to as well point out that like,
any one of these players is absolutely insane
with what they do.
Like you could see, I know Kindred,
Like it's one of those names where we don't remember at the front of your mind
But as soon as you see them play and the style that she is absolutely capable playing it is
absurd like we don't typically see Zarya a whole lot just because a lot of these things like to
Favor the sort of dive style, but kingdred on this Zarya
I promise you is something to look forward to
Indrid please don't make me eat my words for saying
No, I totally agree. She is really really strong and Valentine
We have seen them run this Zarya Vendetta composition
Which is really fun to get to kind of see a reemergence of where it was pretty strong when vendetta kind of first came out
But then kind of faded away as we moved towards some more kind of like mobile tanks instead of that Zarya
But I think that the the H key plus kindred at the synergy between these two really does kind of favor
That aggressive vendetta that can go in and kind of secure a limbs early on in a fight here
So we'll see the doors are still closed so the team you're still gonna be able to kind of just
Just click and choose what they end up on, but regardless, do you think we are going to get to see Bernice over on that Jetpack Cat?
I'm very interested on, yes, Palette, she is going to swap over on to the Jetpack Cat as well, and Winter is actually going to give us the she-on here, so high mobility, high damage out for a hero here, as both these teams are going to be fighting for control of this high ground.
But they made themselves known they decided this is what they're going to go for and HT is going to go back to the farm.
That's going to be an interesting spot for them to this game, but that may be how the cards fall.
HT will have to say hi to the rest of the...
I was going to say their team, but no, it's actually the opposing side of SuperBionic.
Loose 2, and it's a quick swap over to the Houser.
Actually early in this game, well I guess I'd rather it early than late.
Half of that percentage starts to burn, but if it flips for a long time, they'll get point control fast.
Yeah, they're gonna get set up on the high ground as well. This is a great place for benevolence on that sojourn to be.
And same thing, making this flop over on the hazard, which you're gonna have a lot more mobility than you would have had on that Seatball,
which is gonna be really good for trying to work around this Zarya.
You don't necessarily want to take the duels straight against the Zarya.
You want to put pressure on to the movement on that sojourn.
There you go, the joy ride sent on by not going to find the elimination, but it's Shull
and Santi that are doing their own work in the end.
It's a T-Royce actually, five straight on down, no staggers in the store, but looks clean
on the kill feed at least.
Yeah, you get the little bell for your actions there.
Exiglibione also gonna pick up some percentage on the point here.
36 is not too bad for Valentine especially where they are getting close to some really impactful alternates.
I'm keeping an eye on that Katsune Rush from AJMR, but Envy has already built up her Katsune Rush.
So there's an opportunity here for Exiglibione to go aggressive in this fight.
I'm sure that they can gain lead here on the next turn.
They jump in for Sancti, looking out for the punch finger for an aggressive space take, but oh no, the rest of the team
gone on down so
Enter envy both back to the spawn room all those santi hanging around lying this fresher
It might just be a kind of elastic effort to maybe salvage some sort of fight the HK
That's a very comedic death there if you will but the point still flipped over to Valentine with a
hazard in the back line
Somehow managing to kind of survive things
In the down form here, so actually the only thing
Yeah, overclock as well in the mix. Bernice goes down and the grab-torn surge, it's green as ever, lands onto a few targets enough to win the round.
It doesn't need to be flash, it does need to be all five as long as the eliminations come in at the end of the day.
Extra bluvion is still kind of fighting to get some stability. It felt like they maybe got one fight, felt good,
but I really still need to see them kind of bounce back in this game and convincingly show that they can do these hard takes at the point.
And unfortunately for them, it's gonna be hard on this next fight where they just give it in so many alts into a losing fight here.
So it's gonna be the spree and the catnap ready to go. The good news though, you're only up against that Sundering Blade from HD.
However, approaching 90%, that looks like very much in the driver's seat.
I think that's a mean spree that's launched on through, and benevolence, they will fall to the hands of Sansi.
There you go, the Blade as well, launched through, but it is all extra for the only this time.
I mean, I guess it was the favorable positioning that was enough to win things through.
Just eyeing the point to make sure somebody touched there at least for the final moments.
And we did have a touch indeed, so actually we'll be on a hang on for a little while longer.
But again, Valentine, what do they have to say?
Not exactly any alts for it.
No, and they are going to have to swap though, so Kendra is going to move over
onto the Malga, so off of that Zarya, so you're going to have a lot more presence
on the point.
So if you're Valentine right now, you could really just try and force a fight
on the point. Actually, they don't quite have any ult online. It's really going to be on
Envy to try and build up this consuming rush, though, that you could also have a good fighting
chance on this objective.
Very low on the player, and a slash might have found the elimination, but no, instead,
it's the spike guard to use, kind of, hold on and make sure the sentry does not go down.
Sooner rush limits, and we'll see exactly what becomes of that. Well, it's just a one-for-one
trade, but as well, that additional stability, really, really important.
Let this come through though. So Valentine forced someone to stay on this point, and then actually go to the other way as well.
So again, you're kind of waiting to min-max the situation.
It's the downpour, the elimination that come through, and they should be the fight over, especially as Kindred falls, the tank players.
Usually the ones that propel the rest of the team in, that's a catnap launched on through, and not exactly gonna find the victim either.
This might just be a full run, and I'm gonna steal the point away, steal the sub map away as well.
Very low on time to work with one player trying to touch, but no, not gonna happen.
The Doomfist, you saw the vision, but instead it's Extra Blivione back from a deficit.
Yeah, our fantastic turnaround here for Extra Blivione.
I mean, it was the quick swap over onto the hazard.
Excellent kind of swap to try and force a fight against Nisarya,
But it's really the positioning from extra with Yone that brought them back into things
We had a fantastic job keeping winter set up on an angle. She was such a consistent presence here and palette
I mean, she's got zero desk. That's absolutely what you want to see from your jetpack cat
Cat players am I right?
As somebody who plays support and or characters that do not target a jetpack cat. Well, I
Feel for the other side but at the same time I don't because they're also running jetpack cat
So maybe you could argue Catif, maybe you could argue the system is working for one side better than the other.
But we've still got more time before this map is over and of course the series is still plenty to go.
Start with a quick engage over towards the other side if you're looking at it from the Valentine's point of view.
And Sansen picked up onto the high ground but certainly dropping back to point for sort of that HP.
And to make sure they can take a fight that is more desirable for the team.
Looks like that'll be solid though positioning for Exibio Vione.
And they have found a perfect setup on where they want to play.
The dash comes through in and H key, well, we'll feel the front of the bullets, not exactly ideal.
Especially as Santi slicing and dicing the front line.
It feels as though this is just a push of sheer will,
as the extra Vlodiona have already won the fight for themselves and are simply cleaning things up.
Yep, and okay, I mean, I was wondering if we were gonna see a swap come through for Valentine.
They tried to Zarya Vendetta again, but it just didn't quite work out from there's so much kind of burst damage
They can come through from this hazard from winter on the she-on and even through Shoal over on that soldier
So over on to the Malga again here for Kindred and HD
She's gonna make this wap of her onto the Reaper so this is gonna be a bit of burst damage of your own to work with
Unfortunately, she is only back at the spawn
So the Jor-Li ride may be a chance to find elimination one HP
There's a player as well helping out but it's a JMR that as soon as they get back out of the spawn is sent to the spawn room
So not ideal, but the end it looks like extra building on a again will clean this one up even a spawn pressure coming through
Much spawn door. Oh, I thought they must fell off the map for a second. He's still alive
Okay, the pressure still maintained for extra building on a and a cat in the sky that is just holding on for dear life as a
Jack-in-wall comes up to the side of them
She's somehow still alive. Okay, Bernice won't end up getting staggered out there.
That is massive here for Valentine's. We're gonna get a full regroup.
They are gonna be building up to that catnap, but actually they only hasn't made any stop-stops.
So they are much more ahead in the alt economy here, which is gonna be very hard for Valentine to push towards that way.
Yeah, I definitely saw the vision with that spree there. I know it's winter that finds three.
And that might be why you, A, Ultrack and B, do not go in a tiny corridor when you know the spree is on a line.
Extra Blivionator Star, they were a little slow to start in that sub map one, but in the sub map two you'll feel a lot more dominant.
Yeah, they definitely are in control and overclocking this guy nonetheless.
Ari, I mean, actually Blivionator, feeling it right now.
Absolutely. First elimination comes through. Katsune Rush, I think, just a kind of hangout for dear life
and it doesn't even save HG.
This is three players remaining that need to find a touch.
And I guess you could with the overclock
if you could find your way there.
But I don't think that's going to happen.
Katnaps is a good measure to take care of.
Santee, nope, not going to happen.
And nor is the point cast either.
There you go, extra blivionae, winning a map number one.
And it was at first a little shaky
as to who was going to come out on top.
But a statement made in sub map two.
Yeah, fantastic bounce back here
for all the extra blivionae.
Santi I mean after she got off the sigma it was locked in here for the tank of extra blivione
and you can see just how powerful the hazard can be when you're able to really cycle through these
cooldowns effectively you are constantly putting pressure on to valentine forcing out cooldowns
from them and then it's just the violent leap to get out santi did a great job just kind
of staying alive and and being the tank for the team yeah i mean we we kind of joked that
Oh, you know tanks they have a role that when you die your whole team loses and that is a very simplistic approach to it
But it's a lot of the time true that can be what happens if that what line presence isn't there
Then you have a cat that decides you know what I'm just gonna ignore the tank because it's not there go into the back
Line have free reign as well. There's an overclock in the sky
There's a Cassidy half the time as well
And so you just start to wonder how would you approach these things when your tank is down the answer a lot of
times you don't, but first map up on the board and I want to say a bit surprising maybe in
the conclusion of how it went. I wanted to see maybe a little bit more back and forth on the
second self map, but I guess extra will be only kind of just locking in a big
ingredient. I want all of the tiebreakers including on control, but I still think we're
going to have Valentine come back into this. They are in control of the map pick here.
so big opportunity for them.
We did see some different looks from them.
So I like the approach of trying to play
that Zarya Vendetta.
I also like that they swapped off of it fairly quickly
when they knew it wasn't working,
but getting to see a little bit of Malga,
a little bit of Reaper as well.
So definitely seems like Valentine is a team
that's quite flexible here.
So they're going to be able to really tailor this map pick
to work with whatever they are most comfortable with.
And I'm wondering if that is the Zarya Vendetta
that we've seen a decent amount from them.
And if it is, I do feel like Flashpoint actually could be maybe a nice map to pivot over onto,
even though in the last series I just said, you know, surprising to see teams go for kind of back-to-back controls of Flashpoint.
But I think Nepal was close enough. If you're Valentine, you're not feeling too disheartened just yet.
Yeah, the beauty of them, the Valentine side going and finding those top switches is that you can find at least what works on a similar style.
And so you might have tried multiple things and said, okay, this is what we saw the best results with.
This is what we didn't find the best results with and then you can kind of adjust accordingly while it's still fresh in your head
Yes, if you kind of let it go to later in the series you could go for the element of surprise
You could maybe let them feel a bit too comfortable on the other side
But at the same time you also want to keep in your head. This is what we can target and if you lose sight of that fact
You might lose the leverage that you have against the opponents and so instead of maybe winning the round
Winning the map to back you're instead of letting it fall later and actually potentially losing it
but that is all just discussion for a later date.
We've got Neon Junction, a hybrid map coming in for map number two.
Ooh, our newest map in Overwatch as well,
and I think just judging from the amount of times
that I seem to end up on this map in competitive,
the community seems to like Neon Junction, so love to see it.
I do feel like there are some pretty hard choke points
to work on this one,
especially the first point of Neon Junction on the defense.
It's a pretty hard choke point
for the attacking team to walk through, but definitely some just really kind of interesting
interactions. We of course will have that train that will come through that will be an instant
olimp for anybody standing on the tracks. And then just overall a really beautiful map as well.
I love to see the design come through on these hybrid maps and on the newer maps in general.
Absolutely gotta love it. Shapes and colors of abundance in this mapping as well even just
overwatch as a whole but we will see the Freya removed and I was gonna say with
this map being brought up I was gonna say okay so you're seeing longer sight
lines the soldier and the Freya the cast well no more Freya so that's not gonna
be the case obviously we don't really see Freya cat I don't know that's just
not really been a thing that people do given the mobility of Freya just as as
their own character but now as well do you ban the cat that's the bigger
question is now that you're off control but you can still just decide to do
it if you want it, or do you feel that mirror is capable, or do you just want to ignore it
entirely and see what happens?
Yeah, I feel like you're seeding a cat ban for another map might be the play here.
Neon Junction, I mean, you definitely can play the Jetpack cat here, but it's much
more of kind of a narrower map compared to, you know, the push maps and the Flashpoint
maps that are going to be coming down the road, but, alright, extra Viviode, they
are agreeing with you, Ari, they are going to take the Jetpack cat out of the
mix here, so we are going to be a little bit more ground based for the supports for this one.
Yeah, I'm still thinking about, okay, soldiers in the mix. I mean,
we see a decent amount of M-Ray on this map. Do we not as well? Maybe I'm just...
It's about that spam. It is about that spam damage, right? If you have kind of a small
choke point, any of those heroes that are going to be able to just put out kind of
consistent damage and make it really hard to walk through those choke points,
definitely viable here, and those M-Ray needs get really, really hurt if you get trapped in
in a corner with them.
You said junkrat?
I mean, I would love to see some junkrat.
I really would.
And I mean, hey, you got Freya banned out,
so you don't have to worry about that long-range damage
coming in.
This could be the moment for Shull.
This could be the moment to lock the junkrat.
Hang down.
Give me junkrat mercy.
I saw it before the loading lobby,
and it put a thought in my brain where it's
got to come through now, surely, right?
Yes, yes.
I mean, do we see the Lucio come back in?
I know it's not control, but does that kind of help the tank line,
maybe a Lucio for Kindred to kind of speed around
and do that high dealing damage with that particle cannon?
It's definitely possible.
I do think that having speed of some form, especially
for the attacking team, is definitely
going to be favorable, whether that's
going to be the Lucio or potentially even the Juno.
I do think that if you want to run Azaria, Vendetta,
or even Azaria Reaper, you're
going to want to have speed of some form here because although it is you know
hybrid map with some nice choke points and nice corners to walk around like we
mentioned it's a pretty long range map so the Freya band coming through really
does kind of speak to that and you don't really want to have your Zarya just
kind of walking up long sight lines with minimal mobility here so maybe not
the Lucio but Valentine thinking maybe they will show us the Juno they are
going to be on the defense here so we are going to get Kindred on not
Malga as well. So definitely some strong point presence here between Kindred and
then Benevolence over on that Cassidy as well. But, extra blivione, can have the
opportunity to think about their cop just a little bit longer.
I like it. I want to see more Baptiste just in general, but I don't think it's
gonna happen. I saw the immortality field already displaced, which makes me
think that it will not be the final choice of the support player. It looks like
Shull on the Widowmaker, Shull at Opting for the Yari, and there are the final
swaps indeed after getting a little bit of a sideline as to what exactly the
defense is on about. It'll be Shion, it'll be Kass, and a first engagement to come through.
Don't forget about that Maga that has just a centerpiece, just launching of a wide variety of bullets
into next with Tracer Surprise!
For those in the backline, and that will be a quick recall.
Saw the vision almost to one click, but no.
He's up and out, and he stays up and falls.
And that is the one player that you don't want to lose.
Well, that's multiple more that you don't want to lose.
Santee Shaw, both falling on down.
I'll let you at least find one that fits their life.
Straighten it on out for it.
Breeze, she finds one on a wing cure, but again, this is just so chaotic that
nobody really has any sort of momentum into this fight,
and so it just kind of feels like an unbekeeling that of course Twitch stands and falling early.
That means that X-Tigo will be on a really tannoy pushing.
Yeah, X-Tigo will be on a kind of gall Valentine off guard there with the early pick from Powledd,
but once Valentine is aware of all this poke damage that's coming through from X-Tigo,
they really gotta just adjust their positioning, right?
They're playing the corners, they have already used the speed we're in here,
so they really can afford to kind of be aggressive under these more stationary targets of Powledd and Shawl.
Shion in a very aggressive position and the shoulder fall for it. Winter actually does find one on that Shion.
Sansi flying again, no. So again you see at least a decent fly-white on the X-movie on the side but they just are not able to convert it all the way to the point where the team can fully capture this point in the end.
18 and it would get us to push on forward. In Evelynce, they're in the mix and at least
hoping for the best, but I shot me in there until we banged down at Wing 30.
Where is that full pressure? The people can't respond, they're a little bit
too late on the signs. Especially with that Kitsune rush now. In the mix from both sides,
both bombs combined, we're all looking for it. Soldier in the middle, an idea of where
it is behind them with the best bomb going to the side as well as the rail she on with
The spree, Sandy, with the flocks and that kill feed,
staying orange, extra Blivione finally find that cat
that they were looking for so direly.
And it's just an excellent combo of ultimate there
for next to Blivione.
Sandy, she locks all of the players up
in that dramatic flocks.
Winter, ready to go with the spree.
OK, looks like, yeah, we're going
to get the tracer to come through as well.
So I like this.
You're going to have a little bit more kind of survivability
to hold on these angles.
HB, she's actually a couple rounds of the Genji as well as a nice ability here, but she's got to use that ability to level up.
You should care where you load there. Please put that, you know, for the driver to be able to...
at least, at least enough to stay alive in spite of her defense.
They were really strong, I like that. Would have been a big snowball. Let's see, Yari-Alts.
Well, that's a shield. That's a big cage in your face that will not be the up-finding its mark, is that the time is true?
So, you can help us again. Thanks, Slam. Kinder finds fun.
Again, a lot of players go to deal with them, that's what we'll be on a-
And even Balling does leave some sort of a reset button that needs to be happening for this attacking side.
And well, if you so, if you want to have all your members, you can do this.
I really need to have some numbers here if you're actually moving on.
I can't see a little bit on the D.Va, so I can't eat up so much of that overclock and even send it to the spec.
Hey, so actually a lot of ults invested there. I didn't think that many would be used, but actually they're moving on.
I feel the overclock is needed given you early engagement from the Nebulance on that overclock.
And you just decide, hey, we're going to clean things up quite nicely and keep kind of pushing this cart.
So I feel like maybe you could have held on if you were going to have been able to do that overclock.
But uh, but it should have a hood up.
Yep, exactly. And we're gonna see a little bit of a counter swap coming through here as Kendrick is gonna move over onto the Zarya as a signature hero for her.
And of course, going to be extra damage here against Sandy, Pitch, the defense nature, any of that primary fire you are.
Actually, we only have so many ults to try and push forward here.
They have the opportunity to use this Kitsune brush first even.
HMR coming out on a very fast speed though, but it is going to be the match that comes through.
Bubble look for the false notice that onto the back line! There you go, bonk!
Fixed down, odd pulse spawn, and as well, Kindred getting absolutely fried of winter,
finding two elimination on the fights is looking darn good.
And this should be a nice clean fight, that Exiglivione can clean up, just pleasantries.
AJMR, just the last Kunai before eventually they find themselves back in the spawn.
Alright, that's the second point.
Capped up here, actually, Vionni with a very healthy time bank as well, more than 3 minutes.
However, they did have to invest heavy into that fight to run out,
so just gonna be banking on this captain's son from Kaolette and Valentine,
and now they're gonna have the blade ready to go, he has to open as well,
and they wanna go with him!
Abe Slicing nice, maybe we expected it to be the Vendetta.
That was the choice of melee characters that take the on that bendy.
the one Powelette, finding a big back two, and actually LeBionne, you thought maybe they were on
the back flip for this fight, but no, instead Kindred at least, that last breath of light,
and maybe salvage anything, that she can, but no, instead it's the support line,
the bragging duo apparently, and actually LeBionne, keep on walking.
That's such a good point. Powelette and Envy have been showing up in the kill feed
consistently here. I mean, Powelette on this, you know, has been absolutely incredible.
So it's hard to stay alive as an Iyari up against this top that Valentine has been running.
HP is going to move over onto the tracer now, so it's going to be on Winter to try and make
sure that Powlett is not getting attacked by HP over and over.
You know like you grabbed for the only real saving, Gracer, Valentine in this fight, given
that it is the only ult they have online at the moment, but no exact combination just
like yet.
Oh no, that's not ideal.
It's not ideal. Well, I guess it's ideal enough to find the one, but no elimination instead of Santi.
Not that he would have picked up one winter as well.
Just being an absolute menace in the back line, finds a second. The calls come available.
If the need is there, it's just the overclock, holding the spawn door.
Santi applying the pressure as well. It seems all but lost, and it will be the case.
Valentine hit full gap down and have their hands full for this side swap.
I mean, Kendrick, she's got to be so worried about that grab being eaten up by the defense
matrix.
So she tries to go for the grab.
Well, Santee house her back turned and just doesn't quite work out the way that she intended
it.
So that is a great full cap here and doing it with time in the bank does mean that if
we go into the overtime rounds, actually, Fiona is going to be guaranteed another
round here.
And look, I got to step out palette again.
I mean, she's just been so deadly she is almost leading in
eliminations on that.
Yeah, I got to point out one of the key differences.
Obviously there are many between this series and the last, but one of the main ones I'm
noticing is that the tracer players are not dying off the rim and that seems to be
a very key piece to success here as both teams at least having that off angle pressure
for the majority of these fights are leading to some success that is transitionable into
like snowballing, big staggers, and we're finding at least some sort of value that makes
even the next fight easier for you.
And in the end, I mean, it has felt like a really key piece now as well.
I guess you could argue that winter is kind of along that same line.
Not exactly a tracer, but a she-on kind of functioning the same way that off-angle
flink.
Yeah, exactly.
It's about creating the pressure from that off-angle, taking some of that damage
that would be going towards your tag over towards the sidelines instead.
So actually the only, I mean this composition that they're on in strong an attack,
I think they're going to be equal or stronger on the defense now because they have so much pro
damage to put in to this choke point as Valentine are trying to walk through.
However, they are going to have Gris over on the Lucio here,
so you have some speed to try and walk on to actually the only quick move that was made.
It's crazy that Winter is out of character that can get out of dodge with same ability
and in that same use of the cooldown find an elimination onto a backline character.
That's just something you don't get with any other characters.
So, she on maybe the pick for Winter, she's absolutely popping off with it.
Of course, Ex-Dublivione clean up the rest of the fight and yeah, pretty flawless.
Yeah, very, very good start for the defense here for Ex-Dublivione.
In order to get down in time, we're going to readjust the way that they push into this point.
They need to make sure that they aren't getting caught in this rotation.
They have birdies on this museo. They need to make use of that speed and hit it on the mouth.
Once you get up close and personal against them, then you should on paper win that fight.
Well, I gave Winter Grace in the previous fights, and unfortunately maybe it's a bit de-recipt in this one.
At least straight it out, so one for one.
The problem is that that Miles are still alive, and I worry that that big slam is going to cause a lot of chaos, especially as SamT falls down.
At all times, should have no problem cleaning things up here, especially off the back of that tape elimination.
Should be like for a mayor, maybe just a bit of all speed for the rest of the fights.
Alright, yeah, this point going to get capped up. Now, everybody from X to Brunei E is going to get this forward spawncast.
So they're going to be able to hold up probably underneath kind of this bridge here trying for some time off this block
It is Valentine just under five minutes here
They got a lot of time to walk their way through the school space of neon junction here now
They don't necessarily have enough online just yet
But going to have that all-sponged in the continue rush to work with here
Actually, we'll be able to match with a continued rush of their own
So I am very much expecting a big home fight to be coming up on this
I was going to say just don't get taken down by the trainer.
I don't know when it spawns in, but just don't get taken out.
That would be one way to lose a fight that you just maybe don't calculate for.
You probably don't see often in the screens, but actually we'll be on a, and they find
you pretty quick.
And it looks like Valentine, they just wanted to farm up a bit of all, it felt like they
weren't fully invested into that fight.
They didn't really take a hard engage in advanced positioning.
Yeah, that's exactly it.
And yeah, actually the only because they all reset kind of just at that point was being kept
They're in a really good spot right now to bring this time back down and they're a really good spot alt wise as well
Ballot time with fire coming online as well. It's all about who's gonna find the voice quality with your phone
Let's try with both thumbs all the vision unfortunately does not come through winter santi
Guess once they've taken down you and the rest of your team. So good luck
responding from that one it's gonna it's gonna burn it's gonna hurt and that
least you bait out two worlds that used to want any other signs yeah the consumer
rush plus three is just a good combo
okay yeah before the fight even starts it's just over somebody gets a little bit
too aggressive the cooldowns forced out and nothing left to really salvage so
Extra Volvione, they really have a good floating set and they just decided, you know what, we want to make this a little bit more difficult for ourselves.
Let's have some more fun in this map.
Uh, the spawn door does not count as a valid choke point to get set up on, and now Valentine are going to be able to push through that bridge,
which is such a strong point for a poke composition to hold over.
Extra Levina is going to make the swap over, so Santi is going to move around to the Zarya here,
I hear, but it's all about these stop-in-game games.
Aw, crazy game. At that point, no, it's the tips and kicks that are going the other way, actually.
Livione somehow finding their mark for elimination.
Total Ajaymar finds the one, but that's it.
If you didn't kill, you hear the bell, and this time, it's a little bit longer of a stack.
It's a very decisive fight there from extra Livione.
They said that Kindred is not immediately in the vicinity.
have to expect that that stop is going to be coming in onto the back leg,
so they all in on the members of Valentine's Day that are grouped up with Kindred.
It's a fantastic trade for X for the Yone,
and the means are going to be able to push up once again to this set of aggressive points.
I always get nervous anytime anyone's up there and everyone knows why,
but Kindred looks like it's going to fall down.
We should be a bit extra for the Yone,
happy with this fight.
The tank there is still alive for their side,
so should be able to clean things up.
but as well the DPS have been popping off, I mean yeah there's a blunder in this thing here or there,
but like just so reliable that Winner knows 1v1 fights that they are knowingly trying to take.
Yeah, it's like Shell and Winter heard us praising the support light of
Enki and Palette for being in the kill feed so much and they just had to step it up and show
why they are the DPS players. They're supposed to keep no extra points, they only push in
every part into the spot and that point just opened up a door here for Valentine to
I have to get some more progress on this card.
Yeah, I don't know about that one. That was a really aggressive position.
Like, I mean, really aggressive. You lose all charge, you lose positioning on the card, or desire.
I mean, I guess maybe you're fighting for that final choke point, or you're just trying to farm up your halts and you kill them,
just so you can have some sort of eating ground with an enemy, but still,
that's something you'd have to now win through, considering you might come back against it all for this, at least particular choke points.
The answer goes down again, maybe trying to farm off that charge.
Not only are we all trying to get the Zarya charge itself,
and now it's just ult Skullor that are gonna be released.
Kitsune Rush, Gaki Overclock as well, Spree Online,
if you can choose to beat it.
That Joyride, almost enough to take down the Tracer,
no very low on the Shea on Claire,
and so you're just hoping that the no-waste of one for one HP
will show that he's traded.
There's the Spree on in, and it's gonna be a lot of damage
still coming up, but where are those eliminations?
Maga finally just drops to the ground.
Kingdred will not be seen in the light of day, and Lucio just having to watch in the hills.
It actually pops to beat, given the time that is left on the clock and not much at that.
Bernice burning at the moment.
courtesy of all of the players on the other side.
Santa with that grab ton surge finally farms it up, drops the T-Bag for good measure.
But still a fight in each of the one Dunefists can be denied the touch.
Here goes, with the cleanse open for the best, there is at least some sort of touch.
Where is this pandemonium gonna stop?
Bernice taken down by the overclock.
Eventually, this should be enough.
Tracer left one standing,
and it will not be a resurgence.
Extra Livione, finally take map number two.
Yeah, a couple of little oversteps there for Extra Livione,
but they did a really good job coming back into these recon tests
with a plan in mind.
And I mean, winter surviving on that angle
So the longest time at the end of that fight really didn't save Exublivione.
They're fantastic plays from the Shion and definitely helping put Exublivione now at a serious point.
Yeah, I mean it was really good when they locked in for Exublivione.
Like, yeah, you can get a little bit silly, but if the whole point is you're only losing when you get silly,
you gotta feel pretty good going into this mess.
Of course, this is a 4C versus 5C. We expect at least maybe one map to go the other way.
You mentioned at the beginning this could even go 5 maps, but at the rate that we're seeing this,
is it almost just extra bluvionae? Have their take on the series and whatever they say goes,
right? If they want to have fun, well then everyone else is going to have more fun and you
might see a map go the other way. Are they fully in control? I'm going to say 90% yes,
but I feel like of course we know that the underdog down two maps just last-ditch effort
to stay in this upper bracket. I feel like they could go away with anything and find success.
Yeah, Valetai definitely have all of the tools to try and pull this back. They have had some very clean
fights and some really nice recontests as well. Really just come to extra plivione. It feels like
they are getting more value in their combos, whether that is going to be an alt combo with the
Katsune and Russia in the spree or even just the cooldown combos, especially getting kind of
of these Zarya bubbles out and making sure that you can engage
and not be worried about having a last second kind of save
on your squishy target here.
So right now, extra blivioni is just looking
a little bit more synergized as a team.
And that is gonna be so important,
not just for those big alt fights,
but for all of those little neutral fights
that are happening too.
I mean, do we want to hindsight look back
at the bands from the previous map and say,
okay, well, would they have done anything
a little bit different?
I feel like, for Valentine banning the Freya,
I feel like they had still too many problems to deal with.
On the other side, the cat.
I mean, maybe you opt for the cast
instead of one of the other characters
that was being played,
and maybe there is a little bit more backline pressure,
or just an ult that could be cycled through
for quote, free fight wins.
We know that's not necessarily the case,
but I just, yeah, I feel like the cat ban
really did make its mark in that case.
And so I will say, you know, great ban, good job,
but is it used a little too early now, right?
What are they gonna do in this next map?
I mean, I'm sure they've got some sort of plan considering
they did a map too.
They've got a plan for the rest of the series,
but what is it?
Yeah, it's gonna have to involve a map mode
that hasn't already been played.
So it's not often, I think,
that we necessarily see hybrid come in map number two,
but this does open up the board for, of course,
a Flashpoint, an Escort, or a push map here
for Valentine to try and turn the series around now.
They want to have their revenge
from losing against extra Blivione in that Swiss stage.
They also want to try and stay in this upper bracket for as long as possible, even knowing
that the winner of this team is going to move on to face off against that number one seed.
So it's definitely going to be a tough road through this upper bracket, but of course,
you want to have those two lives to work with for as long as possible here.
So, Valentine, going to have to figure out some map mode that is going to really
kind of help them bounce back from this damage that has been coming through from
extra blivione looks like they are thinking a flashpoint new junk city is
going to be the map to turn the series around I was gonna call it I promise no
one's gonna believe me cuz I didn't say it like give me new junk city give me
new junk city because I've seen these teams play on this map before and I was
like I like how this matchups gonna go it may not work well for Valentine or
extra blivione I'm not saying like which team is more favorite I'm just
saying I love when these two teams play on this map because it feels so
comfortable for them the flights are a lot closer said maybe just a five-man
sweep and domination it's not exactly a team kill every time it's mulch being
used he critical points that are just min-maxing the value and it's like oh so
good but we end up here you just say soldier in ban up first feels pretty
reasonable given how the series is gone but what is that extra biblionet ban
that we were highlighting before what's it gonna be yeah it's a it's
of course gonna have to be a tank or a support here I will say I do think that
okay a Malga band coming through yeah I guess that that's fair you you don't
want to go up against Kindred on that Malga especially on these flashpoint
maps where it's going to play much more like a control map you really want to
have some some presence on the point and not have to deal with a hero that
can stay alive for sometimes just really absurd amounts of time I think as
as well knowing Kindred as a player really does help the extra oblivion a side on this map because
you know Kindred loves to play Zarya, but they can obviously flex around like she's good with other tanks.
But the only two tanks that you've seen in this series really from Kindred that were like sort of
comfortable and stayed more than a life were the Zarya and the Maga.
And so if you're forcing Kindred off of that Maga you're saying hey we know you're going to play Zarya
at least you're gonna try to for you know half the map maybe to start each point off before you decide
maybe it's not working in switch and because of that they must have some sort of cop or plan
that is comfortable around playing that Zarya I'm thinking tracer because there's no soldier I'm
thinking maybe a she on just again that off-angle pressure gonna be so potent against Zarya because
then you have to physically turn your camera look around the back line which means you
aren't dealing enough damage in the front line I like the show for the she on because that was
something I was a little bit surprised I guess that Valentine didn't go for the
Sheon ban here. I know I do think that the Sojourn is a very valid ban. She has
some strengths here on New Junk City, but that Sheon was pretty devastating as
well and I think that the mobility that the Sheon has, I mean we saw how impactful
it was on a hybrid map, Neon Junction. It is going to be twice as impactful here
now that we head over to the Flashpoint map of New Junk City. Much bigger map,
many more angles to be concerned about. So having a DPS that can be on many angles in just one fight,
I mean you've got to be pretty worried about that. So interested to see if we are still going to get
this Zarya comp that comes through from the side of Valentine. I'm kind of expecting that
extra blue bionae might pivot Santi over onto hazard that we saw a little bit. I do think
that having the mobility of the hazard up against the Zarya is going to be nice in any
kind of not but again these not for you have kind of this wide open space you can really just avoid
taking a fight against Azaria at all if you're the tank. Yeah I mean definitely the question of the
tank line that was coming okay what's gonna be comfortable uh what are you gonna kind of opt for
as well but remember in the seeding matches I granted it wasn't the championship you did see
Junker Queen Boyra mirror it was like kind of like a almost a standpoint that I agreed to
ahead of the map now we don't believe that to be the case but like that's the
capability that we could see now obviously these comps seem pretty legit
seems like that's gonna be the case but you never know maybe there's some
comes to be on this map
traditional or I just something that the guilt or specific to this map I am
surprised that Sandy is on the diva here but you see what actually the only
is going to be able to get done with it. There might see us walk them through once they realize
that they're not going to be able to de-an any of the damage from Kager 4.
Well, I think the damage is enough to really take down the Netherlands, so that's
not so saving grace, but yeah, Santhe, you might want to get out of there. You can't
get out of there. Don't run, run now! Okay, well, made it out in the end, but
NB falls for it. Maybe trying to TP in to save Santhe, and just unfortunately
CPs into Azaria and maybe have a decent amount more of damage.
And since we're walking all the way back to spawn, is that what's happening over there?
Yep, that's exactly it.
I'm excited about that.
Yeah, this is a great swap.
I like that they're the over onto the team on here.
I'm going to pair nicely with Shull over on this.
Toss it to your top.
Some nice kind of follow up on this consistent damage that Shull was able to put out.
And of course, whether or not I shield the dragon, shield with that damage from Kendrick,
You also have to be concerned about benevolence and HP to kind of duo through where those TBS can be able to get a single on you pretty quickly.
Joyride distance? I'm not ideal, but still, the picks and revelations come through on the fight just like that.
I mean, again, the fragging backline takes care of the first few and then the rest of the players on the team decide to take the rest.
But of course, with those swaps taking a little bit longer, that's 70% up for Valentine,
But at least actually, Lové and I made quick work of the fight when they did swap in.
That kind of elemental surprise being pretty pokey.
Yeah, yeah, they did a really nice job with it to retake this.
Now, of course, at 70% Valentine's, Lové and I made one clean fight here to take this first point they have.
This underground gauge work, but trying to walk into the pit so they can watch is not going to be a good time.
Yeah, considering the rush combined with Demon, just the Slice and Die is so powerful.
It's been Evelyn's just deciding to give up at that point, just to run into the team
as both two away, because you are not making it out, very aggressive positioning, and I
don't know if it's going to stay this way, but that's Santhi might be tabbed out right now.
Is Santhi typing right now?
I mean, nope, okay, locked in, ready to go, but this is good for XWV Yone where they
have these alts coming online, both DPS ultimates to work with and Valentine, I mean, they
I want to try and take a slow fight to build up some of her ulti, but above 80% for extra
viota.
I have some transition there by overwatching game, I like to see that, but the spree that
doesn't exactly find the ideal point, considering your original target went down, uh, there's
no touch here.
Oh!
Uh, there's no touch here.
Um...
Yeah, hey.
Go Matt!
That's so unfortunate!
That was very much inconsistent.
Yo, Meg, that's so unfortunate. That was very much in control of that fight here.
What? Extra Grivione? They had their feet on the point, so that is going to come out on top there.
Now, it's not a long walk into the next voyage, but already the team is both matching here with three of Brawl for this first battle.
Charlotte looking for that high noon, but yeah, it's winter, I'm sorry.
And of course, Lightworth's pleasant race after that, but I was going to say it like crazy C9,
but I also didn't realize that the point was that high anyway, so I can't blame them in that way.
Unfortunately, hopefully not too demoralizing for Valentine though, they're going to have to
keep their spirits high because of course, this is our last map here if extra blibionae are able
to take this. They are going to get the first cap going, they only have the beat to work with
and Valentine, they have a little sleet of ultimates, they can do that very quickly.
about the surge launch in the mix and eventually about to take down Shull, even with the beauty
of 500 times the one, and that a lot of the melee swords before HP will fall victim there.
Again, Winter has just been one of these keys to success in my Super Mario Land, and it's
almost like a matter of time before they find more success with the Kindred.
At least having a save for the moment, and he falls down to almost full HP as well.
You see, Santa trying to buy that pressure,
just kind of a solo, trying to deal with the hand.
She just, he's not enough for the moment, I'd say, though,
as the flip has still not come in,
the foes are starting to come back,
and there's actually work that the Rockin' Test comes through.
And the problem is, if the D-Mec does happen,
no, the season comes in, one for one trade,
there's still not a flip on this point.
This is the salvage of a lifetime,
but AJMR, finally, is the key to success.
Question mark, I see that it's two eliminations,
and it's right back the other way.
That's Jigglypionne.
He somehow just keeps staying on in this fight in the spring.
Santee is somehow victorious after it looked like 1 HP,
so close to the D-MAT King.
Hey, wait a minute.
You're so...
It is him, sir.
You just cannot tell if the fight is out of status
to alive on this team on enough.
She has that little break.
Look at this incredible position he was again coming through.
I mean, Santee, very known for being aggressive on this tank role,
And that's for better or for worse. A lot of the time it's pretty good, especially in a character like Dimon.
And especially here, even though that she goes down, just let no punch in sight, and this time it's not a C9.
It's just a good old-fashioned, aggressive pressure to where no one can touch the point. They're not fast enough.
And three players went down anyway, so the fight was won. Actually, Bovione now set up to maybe have a flawless half number.
Yeah, right there. I mean they're walking towards the dust or we're finally we're just going to be our next
I was just gonna get me motion sickness with this twitching. There we go
But both these DPS all ready to go
I mean you have everything to work with to try and get this first half now Valentine get the positioning set up first
They do have this suffering day which could be really nice for everybody from extra million
It should do this small point but we already actually really have got to be through that your point
still there for extra Levione, especially with that Kitsuneirash, and to find this two, I'm telling you that hurt with the head, and you got three, and the piece of that break of fire, and the damage that it deals, just absurd, the hinder falls on, and shull, one tap to the head, benevolence above the eye,
it's extra Levione, they use two ultimates, and well, the remake was technically there, so three if you want to argue that, but Valentine, about in the same stance, is their bonus now.
Yeah, a big thing being, okay, the aggressive Jedi here, I mean, look, we have to expect this from extra blue Vione.
They're gonna push up as far as they can when they're in control of the map here.
So, Valentine, it's on them to try and punish this over aggression,
but they're actually just making a beat line for the point because they have the big combo of grab by the skin.
There it is to be applied, but is it enough? Yes.
It is going to be the damage that Osha's on through, just denies that beat entirely.
He saw the vision of maybe trying to apply pressure onto that fan that hoping it couldn't get the slam off,
but it does in fact come through. And so a fight at least one for Valentine, two ultramanning,
none for Ex-Tubavionic. This is the best chance they're going to get at looking towards his first flashpoint.
Yeah, Valentine, they need to try and reverse sweep your on New Junk City so far.
They have done a really good job of punishing exo-plivione.
One exo-plivione is making very specific mistakes, like pushing too far forward.
But Valentine had not been successful in winning out on the fight where extra-plivione isn't making those mistakes.
Each one gauge here, backline.
The add-on seems to be even-evilence.
He's trying to the one pulse bomb to the side, but it doesn't matter if it's been found.
And there you go.
This is the benevolence that we have known and have loved.
This is just an insistent tracer gameplay that's good for finding the next end they come through.
In the end, this one will just be a fight that goes very clean the way of Valentine.
There is a close bond with that game.
I'm sure that it's gonna be about it for the investments, although I'll let Pete as well.
I believe that the beat did come through there, so I mean, this is gonna be looking like a point on the board here for Valentine.
Yeah, they will pick up Revitary, excellent Stark here, but they gotta keep that momentum going as we move over next door, heading to the dock.
We're at 4th point here in Valentine. You need to get themselves set up on the high ground, and putting your pick on the show is a fantastic way to start this fight.
Absolutely. I was looking for the kind of success of this thing that is already a combo, and we'll have to go through here once again.
That's a DMG blind yes it was that's gonna get a big stagger on it's fight
Yeah, Santhi's just gonna go down for it and the reset should come through power lead
Alas to Jeffery's farm up to malt charge, but this is all just a dry fight
Get set up for the next one
Yeah, and I'm going to leave it there, not only onto Kindred here
But HG is gonna live room momentarily on this Vendetta
If it's a little bit rough here for Valet I need to be an extra for the only
They want to push onto the point you have to use that rush
That's absurd. Like, it has big pressure from the X2 of Yone to force that out.
I'm thinking that maybe that part of the game is just gonna come through, based off the tracer, but no.
Instead, it was open-crotting, leading percent of the game back in under 22.
That is not being able to match them up.
In GMR, as well, both dents are not even the ultimate available.
But not even their life available in the mix.
How that goes down on the high noon as well.
Pressure being applied, multiple different angles, shawl very low on HP.
It's pretty scrappy from them, but I think finding these alims onto Kindred has really
been kind of a saving grace for Exiglid Ione to come push into these fights.
Sending that Zarya back to the spawn and leaving the rest of Valentine to just try and hold
onto the objective is really, really tough, we don't have any speed, you can't send
Brunei's back to taxi Kindred here so it is a good percentage on the board for Valentine at 60%
but you're walking into Shawl on this capacity than set up on the high ground already so if you're Valentine you have no choice but to force this high ground here at the end of the game.
Look how winter is here, come on that situation, you just need to not use cleanse because you know the fall spawn is coming, you just have to hope that you hit the shot.
That power lets me go down and again, we saw it being earlier with like the Lucius having trouble that was in the playoff stage and Chris I think would be kind of falling a little bit suit here in this one.
It's Valentine making a good run of things, winning out another fight, maybe even a point here if they can just have that aggro pressure extra little down, it might be fax against the wall and could be bleeding this reverse sweep.
I'm looking good for Valentine, especially that kill onto Santee.
I mean, she's coming back from the spawn here.
Looks like there is going to be maybe an opportunity.
Extra Blue Leona is going to release Trigger the overtime of the opponent.
It's still in control.
Even Gage, no crowd left.
You can take down Pinter, that would be good.
Given the wide variety of ults that they're coming up close to,
and there you go, Rinter,
how all that code could define their mark on history.
Now, just making sure this point is etched into theirs as well.
And yes, the full team kill cleanup comes through, which is really good for the Valentine's side because no staggers equals a hard contest to come through for this potential final point.
Not true, but it's so stressful for them because they're walking into so many ults from Exjibli, the Ode, both the DPS ults, the Kitsune Rush, you really are begging on AGMR, I hate clutch Kitsune Rush, and HG, no, you needed that blade!
Oh no.
I don't think that was a C9, I think that was a bit far, but it still is very unfortunate
to see that being the end.
Not only map 3, but our series.
There you go, it's gonna be extra boobies, you know, and the first thing you can play
the game is, Sancti-Boom Sancti-Beam on the Absolute Powerhouse Damage Dealer.
There you go, chop that one up.
I am very impressed with extra blivionae and how clean they play.
Yes, they made some mistakes here and there that was capitalized on by Valentine.
But more or less, actually, the only came into every fight knowing how they
wanted to take the fights, how they wanted to get the advantage in the fights.
And I, of course, got to say that I love getting to see some demon
game play here in championships.
It's been such a treat to get to see these top level players
showcasing the newest heroes, so extra glivione picking up the wind, they're gonna move on through the upper bracket.
Yeah, my only, I guess, kind of final pain point was like, we were really expecting one map, I think, coming in from, I think, well, just the losing side in general, based on who the,
whoever the winner was, and it's like, it feels like something's missing, and no, that is not upon that I meant to make, given the other teams in this tournament.
But my point is, you're like, OK, this hype was all built up,
and it's like something just didn't feel right today.
Maybe it's just not meshing well, maybe not sleeping well last night.
I mean, we could read into it as much as we want or as little as we want.
But the point is, it's like, you feel like they've got more to prove here.
And so at least the beauty of this tournament and the structure
is that they are not going all the way home.
They are just down in the lower bracket,
and they have at least some sort of way back into this tournament.
It's going to be tough, or don't get me wrong.
But if they truly have what it takes to propel themselves in the end and can leave up to those expectations that we know of them, it's going to happen tomorrow.
I have faith here in Valentine and they just got to clean up their act a little bit and they're going to have a chance to run through that lower bracket.
Now, we are going to have an opportunity to speak with somebody from the side of Extra Blivione.
So we're going to throw it to a quick break, get our interview set up, but please stick around because we're going to have a chat with someone from Extra Blivione.
day after that.
We all do in conclusion of series number two on the day
Don't forget we still have two more
But we do have an interview with the winning side of our previous series. It's gonna be someone from extra blivione
I'll let them introduce themselves, but here we go. Welcome to the stream. Hello
Hello
Who are you know, what did you do? What did you do in the game? So everyone I didn't wear I
I play hits gun for ex-joblivione or ex-joblivione calling all heroes, I'm not sure how we're
called exactly in it.
Yeah.
Love it.
Welcome, Shell.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Congratulations on the win.
Thank you so much.
We gotta know, though.
You said in your fun fact on the team sheet that you are the only French player
player in calling all heroes that we are aware of and you have a degree in is it
quantum physics I lied it's just because I have nothing so I just I straight
applied I don't have a doctorate in in quantum physics I'm sorry we could have
gone along with it shell it's okay you could have said it we would have
totally backed you up a hundred percent I try to like there is nothing I'm lucky
for us rain well I want to talk a little bit about so this series this was
actually a rematch you guys did play against Valentine back in the Swiss
stage now you did win against Valentine in that match as well however it was a
little bit closer so coming into this match were you expecting the series to
closer than what it was today? Yeah maybe I was expecting it to be closer but I mean
maybe the underperformed it happens and we just got to keep on that streak that
we have right now this energy and I just win. Yeah I love it yeah talk to me a
little bit about the the team dynamic here so of course extubly the Ode you
guys have been playing together for a while now I know that there is some
pre-existing synergy on the team as well so have you been taking time to get lots
of scrims in? I know some teams are kind of hard to find enough time to really get
scrims in for cause. Is that something that your team has been able to do?
Yeah, we've been struggling to scrim recently as a plate because of
World Cup because Santi is on team Spain and Paul is on team Mexico so they
were both in Korea and before Korea there was bootcamp so we couldn't
scrim but like with today after today's and tomorrow's matches we'll be able to
scrim a lot more going into next week so hopefully we'll catch up to them.
Yeah that's awesome. Yeah big expectations coming in for this team I mean how do you feel about the
team you're going up against next I believe it's a team hold up let me make sure I don't say the
wrong on timeless x missing there we go how do you feel against them and they're
the favorites for the tournament but I mean we still have some surprises about
speed we didn't show everything we can do today and junkrat mercy maybe maybe
maybe something in the closure maybe they don't know maybe they will not be
prepared I mean I won't say too much I won't say too much we got some secret
strategies brewing and we'll try to I love it
amazing right well I guess I got one final question the next match on this
stream is gonna be cafe Fika which is a cat cafe for those who don't know about
the rebrand versus magic moshies do you have a prediction can you give us a
storyline prediction for the next match up coming through I think it's gonna
to be a trio for Cat Cafe. Oh, you're already here. Yeah. I think that might be the prediction.
Yeah. Thank you so much for that, Shalyn. And congratulations again. Thank you for
joining us for the interview. And we very much look forward to seeing you in the
future matches in the upper bracket. Thank you so much. Thank you for casting. Thank
you for everything. Thank you for having me.
They had a quick end of the interview there, I guess, but yes, thanks for coming in.
And thank you guys, the viewers as well.
You guys are sticking around here for two series, and guess what?
You got two more.
However, there are going to be some different yamper's on your screen when we come back
from the break.
So make sure to say hi to them.
Make sure to give them some love as well, because they will be doing just as well,
if not better, because they're amazing.
You got to say hi to them.
So I'm going to keep piping them up.
They're the goats.
You'll see who it is on the other side of the break, but that's been our
first two series.
And we'll see you guys after the break, the continuation of calling all heroes.
We'll see you then.
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And welcome back to the Colonial Heroes at Championship First Day.
All of our teams are getting ready to go and uh, Jesse, we've seen four of them so far.
Now we have four more that are yet to take the stage.
Get this double elimination bracket started.
Yeah, we get the bottom half of this open quarter final and then we get into the lower bracket and upper bracket craziness tomorrow
But it's it's been a little bit of three overwatch today
Molly a lot of our teams that we expected to be pretty dominant out the gate are proving just that
We have potentially another one of those contenders here in this next match hoping to kind of show their stuff once again
Yeah, that's kind of the the nice part really halfway through our day
We still have half the teams to see and for our viewers
So that's the stream to claim some of the fantastic drops that we have going on for both of our weekends of competition
The ones you see today though can only be claimed both through the stream now and the one tomorrow
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I'm again a huge fan of purple so and the fact that all of these calling of heroes
Cosmetics continue to be the best color ever. I'm totally here for this. Oh
Yeah, I love the little pot tomorrow with the crown, right like
Gotta have you know the champion on their pedestal
But also, okay, do your eSports loot drops ever a eSports loot boxes everybody like get the loot boxes
I had like four saved up from World Cup just last week
And it's always like crazy to kind of get a little bit of everything
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there'll be different drops next weekend. These drops are throughout this weekend,
so in case you're joining us a little bit late, you're fine. As long as you hang
around today, hang around tomorrow, you should be good. Absolutely. We'll take a
peek too at our bracket for our last two matches that we have going on for
the day-to-day. As I said, Jesse, there are three Overwatch happening for our first matches.
I think it's kind of to be expected, at least with how dominant we've
seem dimly sex missing the throughout this tournament so far.
I'm a little shocked about the result of extra bovian versus
Valentine. I feel like that had some potential to go the
distance of the form that jubilion was in. Doesn't shock me.
Question is Jesse, will this trend continue into the back
half? Yeah, we'll have to wait and see. I thought Valentine
was gonna be a little bit closer than that last game. I
can't lie. A lot of those maps did have that feel but no
actually to believe you own a with the clean sweep and now our first match up
for us today at least is cafe fika and magic mushy's
cafe fika they have a score to settle this event runner up in the radiant series
just a few weeks prior they lost that grand final three to two the time was
missing so they're looking a little get a punch back but they have a long
ways to go until they get to that final compared to magic mushy's who
trying to get their first win in a playoff format like this.
Yeah, thanks for Cafe Fika, which did have a name change,
by the way, were the Cat Cafe prior.
But we still a cafe and a cat, just a very specific one.
Now in the form of our beloved Jet Cat cat
has been taking over the meta.
But I think from top to bottom,
the veterans between every single player that we have here.
And the big difference that we will see, of course,
from that previous seeding tournament
is the introduction of demon
coming into play and if all of the players that i think have the potential to
pick her up and show a strong performance hitory is at the top of my
list
yet or she's got to be up there right like she's been around for so long is
that success pretty much everywhere she's gone
and if it screams to me the similar style that she loves to play
uh... so what the way to see here
there's been a lot of demon bands
uh... not even not just here calling our heroes there's a bunch and woke
up
for the group stage as well so I wouldn't be shocked if we saw
it be a little bit a longer wait to see some demon action
but it does scream to be right up at Toria's alley
and we will have the cinnabar and Juno starting today after a bit of shuffling
around in
previous tournament
but I'll take a look at the magic bushes and this is a team of
brand new faces with the exception of one and open has been around the scene
as a flex support is now stepping into the DPS role
and you might notice a bit of similarity
between our two rosters.
There is a Juno on this team as well,
but of course they will be in the tank position.
So she'll be taking up the reins of that role,
whereas Juno, as we will see them on the other side,
for Cafe Fika is on flex support.
So bear with us, we're gonna do our best.
We'll make sure that you know who is who
going on forwards, but I think these are
two drastically different tales
of the teams that we're looking at.
Totally like we look at it for moony
This is her first event like this
So that's a crazy thing to say like you're looking at the other side
You have some odyssey s greats over there on cafe Fika. So moony
Definitely has a quite a total hill of a climb here in this first series
But I'm excited to see what the magic mushy's have up for grabs and again because that radiant series that got us a lot of the
seeding for champs. That was before Dmon dropped. So there's been a lot of changes in the meta.
Granted, a lot is still the same. But Dmon has really thrown everything, at least around the tank
category, into a bit of a mix. And we're seeing more of a dead up because of that.
Curious to see if we see that. Maybe from Magic Muscle used a try and claw in advantage here.
Yeah, it's so hard though, especially for Juno, her opponent in this is Tori.
And arguably the most flexible tank that we have here in calling all heroes and it being their first
Tournament for the magic mushy's at this level and they get to scary site
They played a couple of the teams that we have in playoffs throughout that Swiss stage
But couldn't take a map off of them
And I think that that's a kind of show of the upcoming talent that we do have within this scene
But it seemed that there still is a bit of a gap that can be closed and this matchup today
We'll show kind of where that currently stands and perhaps some of the growth that magic mushy's have had over the past couple of weeks
Yeah, I'm a really excited to see where the mushy's line up in this series as we look at our first map of the day
I didn't start nine control like we always do and we're gonna at least a hint of where we're going
It's going to be in Nepal
Expect to see a lot of Nepal first maps
I think that's kind of been the
The assumption is that there's gonna be a lot of Nepal seems to be the most practiced
Among the three control maps that we have to pick from and it's going to be that initial ban
From cafe Fika and get rid of one half of that cat bashing combo. That's still pretty prevalent
And demon will be the answer
So we'll take a little bit longer for us to get at least our first look here after new year
Yeah, so we'll be taking our time on that wasn't really sure how the magic mushes would
want to approach this because again, other than open who has made a roll swap here.
This is the first time that we're seeing every single one of these players on broadcast
and getting an idea of how they like to play.
We have been told by open that they are very whimsical and magical and a positive
group that kind of loves learning how to play as a team taking this experience for
what it is. So I'm excited to see what that could look like, but it just won't be with
that new hero. And it's even hard to say what Cafe Fika is going to do Jesse with. How flexible
that roster is from top to bottom.
Oh, we could see a lot of weird looks from Cafe Fika. Like that, depending on how
this series continues to develop, that's a real possibility here in this one. And
especially in Nepal, again, we're going to see a lot more than Rush. I would expect
You saw a lot of Zarya in that last series.
You've seen some of Rissa even slowly kind of re-enter the mix a little bit.
Pretty much doors wide open for these teams.
What do they feel most comfortable in right now after a few weeks of scrims
from the Radiant series?
And now where can we land now in this meta?
Again, it's going to be a rough task here for Magic Mushes.
It is probably not who they were wanting to play in the quarterfinals
run away the runner-up that's you know very hungry to get that revenge but I am
really excited to see what they have to show as we get through this tournament.
I think this is the the first like actual what we're going to get I'm saying
it's more from Cafe Fika and we've kind of implied it they are the extreme
favorites heading into this game it feels like a three-overwatch repeat
that is coming to show, but the question is are Kaby Fika going to choose to keep some of their cards up their sleeve for this match?
Are they going to be more
experimental, see what they're able to get away with and potentially push into later dates of this tournament?
Yeah, I would be shocked if we don't really see everything that they want to show in this series, right?
They're gonna want to kind of keep their cards a little bit close to the chest because they're looking very long term in this event.
They may not want to show all of these things for comps right away
But it is an interesting twist so far and Tori doing the good old
Malga impression not her favorite hero, but one that she can clearly work well with especially with Juno
She after the growing on that Arissa not an ideal match up is a Tori
Already steamrolled over two members of the magic machine is a big queen sweep or cafe Fika
Let's take it the first cup
Yeah, Captain Fika, hey, this is going to be how you want to start this off, right?
I think if you're Captain Fika, you want a very clean series here to start off,
and like we said, maybe not showing too many cards.
And this is just kind of cheeky.
Lift the fire up so they actually still have that boost up whenever this one needs it.
But really won't need a ton of it right now.
Juno will actually stick on the Orisa for the time being.
The Jasmine time is going to be really important,
but you're already down one.
And in Caffe Fica, look at this pinch if they set up.
Mission is basically in the small inventory, ran through the small room with Cinnabar at her tail.
So, and this is kind of the experience we expect to see with Caffe Fica making his walk-ups hard.
Oh my god, Tori's just...
She's doing a little bit of a ride here, just trying to get some scouting out before this fight starts up.
Uh, and meanwhile, Ivory, able to fly the kill, does lose Cinnabar though in the process.
Yeah, and that's when she's like, you know what, baby? I can't slot anymore.
I don't have my favorite tech cat at my side.
Willa Vincent Bobbob is two picks now.
Now between a slate and open and fine.
Caffe Fika, they're trying to hold as much space as they can
to prevent Magic Mushes from getting to this point fast.
They're suddenly missing.
Is she garage here?
It looks like she's thinking about it.
She wants it.
Yeah, it's just, I don't know.
She's probably going to wait for the rest of her team
to get here, will be the flip for the Magic Mushes who
are able to kind of punish that aggression here
from Caffe Fika.
But now you got a very awkward pinch. You got soads in the air far as behind with Barra's this could get dicey
Yeah, and a cafe fika have the wombo combo to between Mrs. Barra's and the ploy's cave flight
She might look for soon sing the javelin and the four fire gone. Oh, you know right now
I read looking to make themselves known in the kill feed and will slide right on out of the parasurge
keep them all in the flight going, and I get a lot of space for the match of mushy's.
They just don't have the stain to get through this pure poke damage.
All of both Ivory and Missin' Barrage.
I didn't really need it. The Cafe Fika. They're gonna push up.
Fettet is like a celebratory barrage. I would say more than anything else.
Gonna do some fireworks. Yeah, some fireworks to get the game going here as Slade.
Trying to at least fend off a little bit, and Cinnabar takes that award.
It takes that war to get it. Yeah, I would want to fight that item.
Uh, yeah, that was in the spawn. It's still a very respectable hit-scan player.
Uh, when she has the room to work, clearly,
she'll have to go in from Cinnabar, not sure how much value that got,
and just go more of a spun within the cage flight itself to stop the charge,
but you know, and just sort of crack, we'll get another contest,
but it will be very short lived.
Matchmushies seem to be out of players as mine.
It's the deck.
Cafe Fika, take round one.
Yeah, relatively clean there from Cafe Fika, 100 to 27 to win the first round.
And you know, maybe a little overzealous, right? Field themselves pretty well here to start off.
But no, this is kind of the Cafe Fika that we were expecting to see. We look here. Yeah, Missa has not died.
17 and 5 is a little egregious here for the farmer.
Uh, Farah may have a little bit more issues here on the second round, obviously a little more insulated.
Uh, but I wouldn't expect that to kind of force Missin' into any other position.
Uh, even though she may actually change, going on the Symmetra for now, to get her team out of spawn.
What? Yeah, it's such a crowd. Missin' in general, too, Jesse.
Like, you're a member from that seeding tournament, or Tracer, after shielding.
It was just disgusting. Yeah.
Hello.
Just let me do it now, though.
Listen to Farah.
I was wondering how allergic the ceilings actually are you, but it is still a decent point to
pull out her favorite rocket-chucking hero.
Instead of just in magic, was she spawned, taking it to do all against Open?
Well, it's absolutely nothing to do with her.
Just like a whole cliff.
But predicts the blink ahead.
When did the do all that?
You know, we just didn't expect to see that.
That was my question.
If Ness is not playing the Tracer, who deals with Open?
the cat apparently it's in a bar you know exactly who we thought it was going
to be answering that call is missing actually goes back over to the far so
cafe Fika there's gonna hold up close this is gonna be rough here for magic
machine is you obviously want to use and to strike your team across this joke
but after that it's gonna be a little tricky is this walk by a Tory
they found there eventually but she's just going in cafe Fika holy flip to
the map. The magic mushy is like, you know what, you're not here. We'll just take the point for free.
Dory does matter to run back just before the flip comes on through. Unfortunately, Juno, given the
fortify, did not withstand that amount of focus fire, and you're just in the pigeonhole. Four
fly rings, ivory, claims the life is two, and they peek out, resuming this close hole.
Yeah, peek out. We're just very content with, oh, you want to flip map, that's fine.
We'll just wait for cooldowns to get back, and then take care of the fight from there.
You know I bet she's like all right. I don't want to but the mahogany I guess it's the way to go
And it will match the one from Hitori
Tori just trying to get some assistance in the area of my brain, but I don't know if she really needed it
This fight
We're good. We're good. I can feel the adrenaline start pumping their finals like
No, what a grab who's sitting bar just
Saving ivory there for a moment magic buses now making some changes slaying going back over to the soldier and only the pulse bomb here from open to work
Tori which is one
for the magic mushy's and Juno is going out of the health bar
to sustain against the lights of Juno.
Oh my god.
There's a port in the back line,
got the Juno dip and she's still going.
Gatsumi rushes into the spawn
despite a hit on her magic mushy's.
Being on the point, I can only presume it's mine.
Yeah, yeah, it's mine.
Uh, and she's like, all right, I flipped it.
Now I gotta wait for the rest of the team
to get here and Juno,
that is a rough welcoming home present.
That is, geez.
She's got 50 HP, it's doable.
Except for, oh well, never mind, a little bit of the half the ball was sticking out, so.
This matter nearly as much, missing an ivory out to this point under Locke, and that'll
be all we see of Nepal today, Cafe Fika, showing their strength early.
This is the Cafe Fika that we were expecting, uh, this tournament, and
Sean off strong right off the rink. A clean 2-0 on Nepal to get their bracket run started.
Is this the 3k from the Tori? I'm good at guess.
Uh, give us a little bit of an adventure. Smashdown 1, get to the 2nd, and maybe if you're gonna run towards me, I'll take the omen. I appreciate you very much.
And uh, pretty much how that entire map went in one fight.
Yeah, and I think this is the, this is the Cafe Fika we were expecting, uh, to kinda show off and the, the strikes that they do have.
And again, a lot of that is going to lie in Hitori, but also their comps like a lot of the positioning rotations that they made
They're ready for any movement that the magic mushy's could make
I will give the magic mushy's credit
They made a lot of sneaky trips to get past those close holes and let's have a peek and look around like where did
Yeah
Magic whimsy if you could say as I like to call it but I just wasn't enough to pull cohesive fights together unfortunately
And they did at least have a few times to where, when Kavifika was really pushing on, they were able to find an answer and flip it around.
They're going to have to find a little bit more of those, obviously, to kind of get the ball rolling and not let this momentum become a mountain in front of them.
But there was some good signs there from Magic Mushies to get everything going.
Now it's, again, their power. They don't need to pick a specific map type.
They have the other four map types available here to choose from.
I'm not sure exactly what I would go. It's not like, oh, we think they want to go dive.
They want to go poke.
It was kind of just rushed from both teams, and it was just annihilation from cafe.
So maybe they want to go to a poke in a like a circuit or a dive.
And maybe see one of those dive hybrid maps come out.
But it's pretty wide open for the time being.
Yeah.
Well, see, I do I say this is like a wacky map pool
just because of how many reworks there have been to the maps. We have new Icon Wall with new
Panadiso and then new Hybrid Map Neon Junction in the Hybrid category. All three Flashpoint maps,
which like never happens. And then an assortment of Escort maps that are like almost never picked.
But they're all together. So now you have to pick one. I mean Roots, Shambali, and Junkertown.
It almost feels like a Flashpoint or a push angle. I think if I'm Magic Mushes, but never
mind we're gonna go to some Bali maybe some poke I would honestly like if they
leaned in to slate a bit more as well are just roots here we go that works so
maybe more the dive we're going to see then as we head over to route 66 we'll
await that initial ban here from the magic mushy's let me try to play around
the dive a little bit and then you also leave open like you said I give up
how to sell both those reworked maps are still dive friendly after their
changes came through and that is a very based ban. Considering some of the
plays we just saw Cinnabar make on Nepal, that is completely fair to take out the cat.
Yeah and this is a very strong cat map as well and if you don't want Cinnabar on
that hero, I highly recommend stopping it up. And because the Magic Mushes too
didn't want to pull that out themselves, I think is a very telling
selling that it's just not a strat that they are super comfortable with running, which in
our current day of Overwatch, it can hurt you pretty bad. And I think that was a pain point
for them in the last map. Making that ban here kind of makes sense. Let's leave the door
pretty open though for Cafe Fika, depending on what they want to run. And Dimon is available
once more. Is this really a map that we would see her come out with the exception
of like third point it's a little tricky right because normally you'd want to
have that jet pack cat to lift the demon like on top of gas station on top of the
saloon like you want to have that verticality as an option and then once
the demon gets that high ground you know she can run around with propellers
and kind of get everywhere she needs to be but those propulsors can only
really go straight they really can't go up very much so that would be a
little bit of a tricky spot i expect us to maybe be more
you know the diva wrecking ball winston that's probably more the angle we're
seeing even some hazard
uh... could get played
we're still waiting this cafe if you can actually uh... they're taking a long
time here malibu think about
maybe what do they want to take away here from the mushy
and you know and there may be some confusion of the communication of the
lobby and there's this that both the juniors are the ones communicating for
their team, but there's no way to differentiate it. In lobby chats, they have to type two
or one before they speak so that they know which do you know there is. It's a really
situation that we never see. Our production chat is dying at this right now.
No, it's such a fun occurrence, but it's not so fun if you were planning to play
Tracer, which open did pull that a little bit in the previous map, and honestly,
and i think we're getting a return of the missing pharah
all yeah
i think that is easily coming here uh...
missing
so see the tracers away again here that she's been excellent with the past
yes going to the far
force uh... slayed
to do a little bit more on the headscan
and see if
slayed can't step up to that challenge to knock out that far
and then try and pay it from there
and i don't think this is a
it seems that there are options for the magic must use to try to counteract that
a slave i think was standout
i just for the pics that she was able to get
uh... onto either the far or
even i agree when they flew a little too close to the spawn rooms
i think she's there
uh... yeah and we'll go ahead and see
not entirely sure who is attacking and who is fending
which
in matchups like this where there is a bit of a difference in
uh... experience here
can be pretty telling of how that map will end up going.
We'll find out, we're at 66, I really can't expect Escort to be picked at all, Jesse,
just with these three maps.
I'm kind of excited that we get to see this one more often.
Yeah, usually when after a map like that on Nepal, the losing team will pick usually
like a New Junk City, a Saravasa, because they want those very quick modes that you're
not really having to worry about it too much, like, oh, we're just going to win this
fight.
Next the usually flash pointer the one is the map type that has the most upsets
Just because one or two fights can change the entirety of the map compared to like a score to where you have a whole
Half-time break kind of that minute to reset figure out what you're doing and go into the second half
Whether that be attack or defense so curious to see how this is going to work out here for the magic machine
And also curious
Cafe Fika, I'm assuming they just picked defense first
if i had to guess
uh... kathy pika action attack
did confirmation from production so they want uh...
wanna run it down and then they wanted to do it
uh... by sound of it's uh... and they think is what that seems really good at
is setting
the tempo playing too
uh... the piece they want to have putting teams on the back for it if
they are not ready to play against it
uh... but you know
It gives me hope here for our fans of the magic mushy is that have a fika have a history of
Extremely long series unless they have been on the holes
Every single match has gone at least four maps not to mention in our seating tournament for the first time ever
We had back-to-back six map series because there were two draws on hybrid
So they like to make it long for quote-unquote the love of the game
so
See, I don't know if that love of the game was uh...
That was one of the weirdest things I think I've ever seen.
I will say it's not a coincidence. Both maps that were drawn, King's Row and Hollywood,
not in the map pool for champs.
So I wonder if the map gods were like,
do we want this again?
Like, what's happening?
I'm sorry, is that a widowmaker?
That is a widowmaker.
In 2026, on defense!
On defense that is not an attack widow and almost condescent offer
This was not expecting that I guarantee it
So the okay for the time being in cafe Fika
Will end up sticking Cory on this demon as you said the verticality can be a bit of a challenge
But I never like more on this hope at to push them back. So now it's worry and get to the gas station for free
Yeah, not really too much to push against a magic mushy. They just want to try and hold this high ground.
It can be a little bit tricky, especially when the Tori is up here.
Yeah, Slade just got slashed across the back before she could figure out what was going on, and every hill or angle too.
They have set up, and this is more the pace that we're kind of expecting.
We're kind of expecting that they beat the World Outlets.
How would the magic mushes meet their deep gas plump and a Sigma?
Push through a demon? The answer is good, though.
Especially Vibrate keeps it in shock like they are.
Yeah, I think this is just a little bit scuffed for now,
for magic mushes to get some swaps going.
We even saw it there at the end of First Phase as already.
It will be capped, but it sort of just kind of runs up,
holds down shield, blocks off the healings from Juno.
And the Sigma as soon as you know they're trying to get away from that position
And she can't get any healing and then just get slashed up because the sword does not care about the shield or the grasp or anything
It's a rough situation here
For the magic mushy tank to deal with but for now
Zero changes here for the mushy's a cafe Fika has continued to roll on for
Also, our team's lit up comedians because you know how many Junos we have on our lobby now?
I got four.
Both teams decided to lock in Juno for the bid.
This is both the five players.
They have Juno on the teams.
Even they grab third point right now with what's going on.
But Juno, the flex support player, has brought the light inside the dark storage Juno,
whatever you want to call it there.
I mean this payload is still low than credit to ever from cafe Fika. That's just a moment on the car
Hey, it's missing. I can only tell by the officer say
She this is when we say freeload this is she has that had to do basically nothing
This map she's just letting her team
Play the game and maybe just you know catching up on a good book or something over on that car
You can see the outline there as second phase completed here five and a half minutes Molly
Going into final phase
Yep, and the Tori's still just out of I'm in at the strong doors not much the magic wishes can do to break out
I just this fight though. They actually have the old commits to move through this
And I'd love to see how mine can use this orbital ring
As long as it's not a ring
Bring that into existence. I'm just I have to point it out. This is just how this map is gone so far
But that is a bullshot out that lands dead center on the Ivory, good start there.
Missing, eventually, we'll roll up in.
Here's the one pick off though, just isn't enough with the angles that Kafe Fika have.
But still, both support ults here Molly.
Uh, Gizuna Rush and the Rey, probably just used the rush to get out.
Rey disolidified the fight, as the Tori's still out of mana.
Uh, so Kafe Fika, not really wanting to fight this too crazy quite yet.
I'll auditory to get back in and then take the fight from there.
Mushies will take that easily and just try to relax all four seconds.
And now, oh my goodness, Watchout Open! It is not a great room for you to be in.
Yeah, nobody wanted to really play into that rush. Missle's still just kind of chilling trying to control that side of room is Juno, the flex support, and well that all gets caused to land.
Juno the Fox supports specifically wait for Juno to take a mine on Magic Dushies with
that gap of sun as well.
We'll leave a limit right there.
Or excuse me, does the cat have a katori instead?
The Slicks are coming up with a pick.
You're in there missing.
She finally built up the best boss of the moon.
It is time for her to do a little dance of Death's sending Juno the tank.
Do an early grave.
I'll be full cap three minutes and four seconds.
scat
in this is wild
that we got that the junos
having fun both teams and we did a confirmation on that uh... from our
wonderful
observer here in greeno
both teams went to you know the hero on purpose
uh... just have some fun with it so
it is definitely a map of overwatch
so far in this way to look at the scoreboard
uh... ivory yeah they've had a reason number here in there twelve and three
For the hits game, but you look at everything else Cinnabar Hattori missing have yet to die granted missing kind of chilled
for 70%
That is that's those are the kind of members I put up when I'm tried, you know, like that's that is true
I can you can't confirm. Yeah, the other day was not great
That's okay. Hey as long as you're on like support
Hey, my support is clean.
You're carrying the game pretty strong.
Mostly that's just because you can play carry and then I can play whatever the heck I want.
Yeah, you can play cat.
Exactly. I'm a cat abuser and ranks won't lie, but we don't see as much cat, at least in this match.
Magic Mushies, I think are the one team that we actually haven't seen want to touch the Jetpack cat at all.
With the exception of course, and this map.
But we'll see that Juno, the tank player, wants to give Demon a good ol' shot, and I see what she will be able to do with that as open as on a Hanzo, too.
Alright, we'll see how this one goes here. Having a Sona might-
Well, it allows Juno a little bit more information when she's going in, and well, lines up the shots as well. Okay.
I think Juno might be the word we speak the most. They're at the entirety of today's cast, and it will not even be close.
Yeah, that was a pretty decent fight. It was just as soon as Juno the tank went in, the
The rest of the back line for Mushy's kind of just got disintegrated so Kaffa Fika will continue just to hold on to top gas station Slade
Just trying to find some opening shots here on the front. We've seen time and time again
Just people could get deleted if those explosive shots line up so far though. Has it really been able to make it happen?
And her aim has been really solid in Slade 2. The passive experience competing in face and open
Another player is kind of getting into the competitive scene
alongside Mooney, but it's just a big group of friends, you know, that decide,
hey, we want to compete in this tournament, and the fact that they managed to make it
to the championships is already an impressive feat.
Oh yeah, like I can't imagine just talking with our buddies and be like,
hey, you want to enter this tournament? Now we're in shame. It's like, what?
It's a crazy story here for the Bushies, but they're running into a bus stop,
it feels like, in this one so far, but it's already out of mech.
Okay, I just buzzed saw our bus stop.
I don't know which bus stop.
Buzz saw.
So I think that might have been the Midwestern kind of merging the two.
Ooh.
Okay, let's find another pit.
I ran into Hanzo, if you remember, back in the day when Hanzo was like meta for a while.
Was it good counter to a lot of the action gameplay that was happening?
And it seems to be the case now, see if open to side sees the dragon strike to clear
out the high ground.
But I think they have more concerns than that, if Dorian misses, you can link up in the back line when that break out to confirm that Elin's a beautiful play from Cafe Fika as we are now on Sierra for some reason, which helps well.
I don't know if I've worked for that one, I think the moment of silence that was given by both Juno's speaks volumes.
Yeah, I think the silence is enough like that. That's a whole story right there
We even get a little bit of Sierra actually except from ivory
Yeah, giving us a little bit of every hits game that we have to offer gear for all for the mushes
But love to run here as cinemas orbital ray is the red carpet for the rest of those kills apply on in
And now just one minute remaining here honor roots for the mushy to get this car going
But again, four ultimates just can't really use everything because you need at least one or two ultimates to try and finish off this point.
Yep. I think that is the nice part with the magic mushes that they know that if you gotta want to fight, Dump is your best best.
Start it off with Bolvin Ray out of my mind and you struggle to stay alive, but it does force everyone back.
Leeds open, just form, Tori and her mech along with it.
along with it. Your tank now in the way the back line is more free to move around. They
do know where Mison is working this time and we'll get some more space towards this hydra.
The Anisona arrow will be saving a few members there. All of the Mushies is a tank. Juno,
the tank, they were the best. Juno, the support. Ten seconds that were made in here
for the Mushies, but they're getting some great staggers. Juno got two Junos. That
is a great push here for Magic Mushies to possibly get the point.
The only concern is the deathblast of Orchid's mission.
The last thing she had her time was just chilling on the bailout
before, and now she wants to be her time to shine.
And look, wait for the opportunity,
Snipe's mind from the gas station.
Not even the old, I wasn't even
want to risk going down yet knowing the dangerous situation.
This still could turn out to be.
The driving streak is good from open,
but the bodies that Magic Mushies can throw
the cart are diminishing way too fast to bring them back in Cafe Fika move up to match point
and Kana Fika just continued to roll on through and again there's a reason why this roster one
of the most feared ones in the competition and we were talking about it earlier Hitori it's
demon is a fear of that screamish Hitori you know I think we're seeing that in real time to
to be the case here. Yeah, and this is a winning from the start with the caliber that the entirety
of cafe Fika but what Tori in particular has on any tank hero that we have seen her put any effort
into I think just speaks to how strong this team can be their ability to calm and their ability
to just have hands to play the game is just so so strong and it shows the rifts that we do have
within some of our top eight teams
yeah and there definitely has been some tears that we saw maybe starting to form
uh... during that city tournament i think we're really starting to see kind of
those
you know
pushed out even more right those are getting amplified right now
uh... cafe peak up just on a roll it seems like nothing can stop the scene
i will see what the mushy's have
maybe thinking about for this third and potentially final map
all of this series and
granted we see this all the time reverse weeps sometimes is pop up out of
nowhere series that you think
are dead and gone
you know that we can think about france south korea the other day
uh... in the world cup groups i don't think anybody saw that coming
uh... so you never know what can happen
let's see where the mushy's would like to take a snack
but a little biased on this one
the party's a pic
i have that i think party so since it's reworked
has become like a top three map
Honestly for me, I haven't got enough yet
It's like the one time I played it. We got held on first point
So I didn't really get to see you know all the stuff they did in third phase
But it's been I loved are the Icon ball changes that they put on through I think yeah
Yes, I am a fan at least on first point especially I still have my issues with Icon balled, but I think
The changes were a good step
I would really like to see these teams pull out a hybrid map just because they're the
new ones that we could be getting some of our first looks of competition at here.
But it doesn't seem that either team is too inclined on playing Dive, and so part of
ESO, honestly, might just be out of the ring because of that.
I think focusing more on a poke comp for this magic mushy team would be the ideal
situation if Sigma just didn't get chopped the bits because Demon exists.
Yeah, Sigma was actually a pretty decent spot for a long time and then Demon got introduced
into the game.
Just another counter there for the scientists and Sigma's really struggled to find his place
in this meta other than like if Demon's banned and we go to a circuit or a Havana.
You know like those types of maps. Yes, he is still very good
But there's a lot of maps now where he just kind of gets run over
If there's a demon or even Azaria or a few other tank options can really start to bully him
So I really think we're kind of slowly fading away from that traditional poke
But and then we were in for a while and we're in a lot of these kind of
Rush poke hybrids or even just the full-on dives
I have a feeling Sigma is kind of going to get left to the sidelines here for a bit
Yeah, I think that also seems to be Juno's preferred tank pick
If she had her way all of the time
A lot with the Urisa and again if D1 had not been released
I think that that would leave them in a much stronger spot like just as a team
Playing around their strengths and I think that did lead to them getting to this top eight to begin with
is that a lot of their strengths lined up with what that meta was at the time just about a month ago
and they got them as far as it did but I think having the cafe fika being the first matchup
it just seems way too much for them to handle on top of it but it seems like we do get a treat
up a newer map after all hybrid is at least confirmed to be the selection isn't gonna be
I think this has been the most picked map, actually, out of our hybrid choices, just because
teams have been screaming it in other map pools so far and want to transfer it over to this pool as
well. And I love this map. This is at least what I've been playing ranked, I think the most picked
map whenever it pops up. Like it is crazy. I think you baby just saw the message that I just
saw. And I'll just I'll read this word. Can we get confirmation? Which one's Juno2? I'm
I'm trying to think which one you should change.
I think that is Magic Mushy's Juno.
We're getting confirmation right now, but I believe it.
Juno 2 is Cafe Juno.
OK.
It says, quote, the casters figured out a system,
so I have to break it.
They're saying Juno the Tank, Juno the Support.
So now we have both Junos on Tank for Neon Junction.
This is absolutely, I will say, brilliant from their point of view.
And they have to be on the same tank.
Oh my god.
Juno, I don't even know which one you are anymore.
How could they do this turn from?
What are we doing?
We're going to have fun, we're going to win.
This is going to be great too.
Let's see how much we can make, how difficult we can make the casters' jobs today.
And you know what?
I respect it.
With all of the games that I think we have casted in terms of names,
this might be number one.
If we're going into this, both Juno's on tank flying the same tank, plus Juno's on support.
But it won't be Zarya being the tank played.
That is going to be banned out from the Magic Mushies.
And then we'll see what Cafe would like to ban out instead.
I just can't get over what we're seeing right now.
If somebody has enough time as we're going through, it can go back through this series.
How many times have we said the word Juno this series?
Um, I can count just for the bit. It's it's gotta be in the hundreds by the time this series is done
I want to hear guesses. Hey, I want to chat take your best guess how many times
If we have enough time later to figure this out
Just for fun just for the bit but uh speaking of for the bit
We're taking their time is the cat cafe and because they do have a roll swap and maybe things are a bit closer
Perhaps it feels like a lot of hope from my end.
I think these teams are just here to have fun, to get the experience being on stage, and
to have their names highlighted within the scene.
We'll be a Freyja band to the dismay of Slade, who's had quite a bit of luck on that hero
so far.
I say luck.
A lot more skill than luck, if you get what I mean, so that will be gone perhaps
more sojourned to be played.
Yeah, I think honestly for the Mushies as soon as they saw what this bracket was
I have a feeling they weren't really looking at this to be like oh my god
We're you know, we're gonna take down cafe Fika first game
I think this is very much a learning series here for magic Mushies
But I can't wait to see how they do in the lower bracket
I think this is a team that's going to be able to learn very quickly
Off of what went right today, maybe for cafe Fika what went wrong?
And how they can progress into the rest of this tournament they would play the loser of team missing x-ray and fable
Which is our final series today everybody that'll be after this match concludes
But I think they really have a chance to kind of get something going in that lower bracket
But I think right now it is just learning as much as you can
from arguably one of the favorites in this tournament and
And maybe test out a little bit of comps here on the newest map in the rotation of the Unjunction
Again, I think this series is a very good representation of calling all heroes as
Hope like the two sides that were really starting to see you have the players on
Cafe fecans been around the scene for a while and because of the spotlight that they got in calling all heroes a lot of them
We're able to make it onto top-faceted masters teams or even O2 BCS at certain points
And now we have a lot of newcomers that are continuing this cycle and show the skills that they have and it's going
To be this uplifting pipeline almost that calling on heroes has managed to build. Yes
It does sometimes lead to matches like this
Where there is just that experience differential that we see between our teams
But the facts that we have the magic mushy's here and we will probably be seeing a lot of these players more frequently
Just based on performance and the continuation of the Colombo Heroes units.
Yeah, no, don't be shocked if we see a lot of these players continue to progress, whether it be here in Colombo Heroes, whether it be in the Facet system.
And we're going to be seeing a lot of these names over the next few years, I would guess.
But that's already been the case with Colombo Heroes players.
And I guess Cinnabar is a great example of that.
She's been everywhere it feels like.
Like every stage competition over all G sports. She's been all over it and I'm excited to see as we go right now
That tank agreement though really isn't the case. I had Tori will go over to flex supports in the meantime
And with the cat not being banned cinnabar will go back to I just I don't say her signature
But it's been her signature as of late
Breaking my brain
It's normally when I'm like trying to look and make sure I get the team names with everyone assigned I default to the tank player
Well, she met that just doesn't all this is gonna break my brain. Oh, I think I would like a magic, you know cafe Juneau
Yeah, I think that's maybe the best way to go out of here. You can't let them best us
We cannot let the players win. No, we cannot
Although Cathy Fika has played pretty un-little maker and missing on Sombra two years that one should not be played on this map and
Two don't usually exist, but do you know Magic Juno? There we go. Figured it out
Doesn't look falling at first what the hack that came in from missing there couldn't get the party up off in time
I mean, I mean, Cathy Fika is on the point. They're pushing up seeing if we can get more picks
Did you see, Cinnabar's just lifting ivory up in chokes
And he's holding ivory still so that they can get some pick offs like without that is
Chilling I think the may here from open does help a bit like in these jewels
But you still have ivory who's ripping heads off like nobody's a business and it's just a hero
They are so good at just as much in this day and age of overwatch
Caprica though will take the first objective a little over five minutes
progressing to second point
Yeah for a while with ivory it's been a lot of the Freya and a lot of the sojourn
Over the last year or so maybe even seen them on some ash here in there
But it is nice to see the widowmaker
here is Jino
Uh, getting some help, I should say Cafe Geno, getting some assistance from Cinnabar, and now just everybody trying to chill out is open, it's like why not?
Let's have a little bit of a widow duel here on the end of the show.
Okay, I'm here for this.
Go for it.
Speaking of respects, nobody from the Magic Mushes is there in the peak while Scythe's are up.
The asses are down!
They don't have the information!
There's a big old meatball lurking above their heads.
Geno dropped down from the skies.
The target locked.
Uncle Mind is doing her best to get away, but without retreat, not much that she can do to escape from that situation.
Cafe Fika, predicting your roll on boards.
And, uh, Kamadru is like, you think you're getting away? That's what's coming for you.
But, I don't think that's happening, uh.
Burnt Damage almost finds hope, but if it's Hori, on the off-roll,
trying to go in, beautiful maid, and the cage fight seals it away.
And another, I don't even want to say queen,
I don't know if that's really the word for it,
but a fantastic fight here for Kafei Fika.
Second phase will be complete, I don't know,
the minute and a half into the time bank,
five, 20 for Kafei Fika entering final phase.
So if anyone ever needs a flex support sub,
Tori might be involved.
If you need a ringer, there you go.
She's right here.
Actually he's playing like Juno, a flexible portans currently on Deck of the Higa.
Her signature hero as well.
Has a nano boost by the feeling it's either going up to Juno or if you're feeling frisky,
we'll get them a little extra attack going into the small corner.
Probably the more reasonable option onto Tank, which will help her live through this cage fight
that Juno, the Magic Mushes, was hoping to set up for her team.
But just in pay off, you're a small brew with two hit scans that can't exactly get up close and personal there.
Library continues, rain fired down, headshots only from them.
This point, looking to be caught shortly.
Yeah, it will be the sanctuary available here for Mime with the casino rush as well.
So there are options for the magic pushes to fend away the attack,
but they also have a mahogany in their face, so that's a little tricky.
And the Tori is sneaking around, looking for a bi-onator, even just somebody to sleep.
There we go, Tori gets acquired, do it, break it, and cripple.
Shots!
Don't really need to land the way that she would like, and it opens the door, literally,
for the venture swap out of the magic mushy's.
Get a couple picks in and stop Kamehfika from capping at least for now.
Yeah, for the time being, it has stopped open, realizing that maybe that's just a connector over there, exactly.
Oh, they remembered it, but a great kill near the end from open.
And now, Kamehfika, for the first time in this map,
Uh, have to kind of chill out for a second, as I say that.
The Tori just goes in. Not Tori.
Uh, Cafe Juno goes in.
Oh lord.
We're getting mind games in a completely different way now.
Tori though, it is still in the kill feed.
That is the good old grandma.
Instead of the Malga running it down,
that will be the team kill coming on in.
Celebratory EMP from this end.
And it goes 3-2-1 to finish off the map.
And uh, a pretty, pretty exciting attack.
You gotta say, a lot of things that you don't see everyday.
That, that is very true.
This is, a lot of things you don't see.
Uh, take a look at the scores here.
You have 16 ellipses, hello?
What?
That is an insane stat line.
Yeah, I think it's just a third DPS right now.
Uh, for Café Fica.
She's more damaged than both of her DPS.
missing what's happening is this is like a repeat of
Yeah, I think she was on payload duty again, so I respect it
If you put like her stats from this map and route together it is
You'd confuse a lot of people I think of what the score of that series was
And the can fika just continuing to throw some curveballs at us. It'll be the doom fist and mirror
With
Cinnabar Zen Hitori Lucio.
No, we're not.
We're not good.
I think we are.
Okay, well.
We need to buy some more.
I can't swallow you.
Okay, no, no.
We need to drop back over.
Juno will take up the demon.
I would be impressed if Juno could play the Doomfist, especially as a non-tank player.
Oh, so I think some tank players in this day still struggle.
Do you let alone a support-play tank?
So it will be a little bit interesting to see how this goes, but Ivory will remain
on the window, but it's scanned out right away from open on the Hansen, which was one of the bright spots
on Brutus D6 here for the Mushes.
Yeah, and they were able to find a lot of arrows just shut down mid.
They were like tree trunks on how well they can feel at times, but with the Demon Mirror,
another lot of healing, which is kind of scary, I think, for Cafe Fika.
You have to plan your damage and burst your alloying on headshots from Ivory to get in,
because magic mushy sustain is like 10 times better than theirs.
Yeah, you need to bank on ivory and maybe lighten up some of these shots, and so far,
that's not been the case. You can already see, look at the health bars for Cafe Fika.
It is taking a long time for those to go back up.
Like, you're just not gonna get back to the well. It's not gonna happen.
At least in the next business day, we'll move over to the point to get a contest.
That's the thing that you're looking for.
Slate does fall, but as mine decides to push up,
get the kill. That didn't even case drawing on Juno of Cafe Fika, which that is the support player that's playing.
Okay, there we go. Moving on in against Fimek. Uh, but it's a bit more dicey. I think that Cafe Fika would have liked it to be.
And it gives Nacho and Mushi a chance to push back into this.
As if the Tori did absolutely steeple. They could be alive.
Oh my god, that's crazy.
Okay.
That's a nice style, boys.
Because I'm like, there's no way that's gonna happen.
like this fight's done right it's yeah it is now the oh yeah it really is now uh i've been talking to
that that was a little close for comfort slay it will swap over to the far up instead of putting
a little more pressure down on this already squishy backline of cafe fico
that's it i think it's a difficult choke to get through as well i just mean i free
Existing on one angle, Senna bar on the other, and the main source of healing with the Magic Mushes is now at Bori.
Want to send it forwards wouldn't be shocked if we saw a pimple beat, but it seems they want to save that for another occasion, unlike her teamplay.
And look at this, uh, Cap'nage, you know, not wanting to take any, uh, leave any survivors, they're just already, I don't want to say, emptying into the spawn.
Uh, but being pretty aggressive with it, just trying to deny any sort of push, Opens learning
that in a real time, but eventually, too much of that damage is going to go through dragons,
trying to cut off people by point, and separate a little bit of Cafe Fika.
And not the most useful ultimate in the game here, and neither is Opens, since they
no longer have a head.
I'm just pushing pretty far there. I mean, it's bloody insuring to both transcendence and style here online.
And it's just vibing at this point. Only a minute left now.
One minute left. Open. It's like, alright. Where's the next one?
It was fun. Well, and it's no longer fun.
Uh, that was disgusting, I agree.
I agree. I was waiting for this.
On that first shot, you mean, I gotta walk in? There's a second on the sleigh.
Looking for the highlight clip. Only five to ten.
And so, some like have it Fika Arsus staining with Zenri.
Like that might be one of the most impressive things about this.
So far, they're actually making it work.
EMP is available here from this, they're trying to go on the back line and finds it.
Yep, buy open, did not stand a chance.
There is the tank now, 4 Cafe Figa as that, you know, ends up with spawning.
My note just cannot get to the point of doing a get-to-tory when Cinnabar comes
in on the assist to make sure her tank player on-sport won't fall in vain.
is just good old Juno from after pushy's holding down this point doing her best stall for somebody to get back
Jesse it seems like Cafe Fika have this situation under control they want to move on into those upper
semi finals and imagine doing it with the Juno's the fourth lane faking through his fist to close it
out Cafe Fika give us some free overwatch did it their own way that that can be definitively
said about this one, Cafe Fika, this stroll right on in, and it's Cinnabar on the Zen who
gets play of the game. Maybe not since you thought you were here during Colorado Heroes
Champs Day 1, but here we are. A few assists on those elimination as well as the invitations
here near the end, but it is Cafe Fika. They'll stroll their way into the next round
they will await the winner of our next series of team missing x-ray versus
fable but again this is a roster
we're kind of expecting to make a very deep run
uh... this is just obvious start to that
i think the cafe peeka came into this expecting to win today
ununderstandably out but we have a really fun match i think it's
sometimes when you have
like a second and seven seed
type of match up it can be just a stop or start the finish but
Hey, credit to the players, even if they intentionally tried to make our jobs difficult.
We had fun.
I hope you guys had fun watching that one as well.
So again, congratulations to Cafe Fika for moving on.
Magic Mushies, though, are not out of this.
They do have a chance to redeem themselves in the lower bracket.
Yeah, they will play the loser again.
Team is the extra versus Fable.
And I'm really excited to see how they do when they're not playing a juggernaut, right?
That is Cafe Fika.
So I cannot wait to see that series tomorrow. We're gonna go to a quick break
And then we have a quick interview with potentially a Juno
But we won't know quite yet from Cafe Fika. Make sure you stay tuned
And
that we are back after another set of three overwatch here, Cafe Fika.
Took the win over the magic pushies, and what we can only describe as a tongue twister
of broadcasts with our slew of Junoes.
But a good match, a great showing so far for Cafe Fika.
And the expectations that we have for them, I'm very glad that we get to get
an insight, too, from Cinnabar, who is joining us for a winning interview.
Here in a second Cinnabar, gotta ask, how are we feeling?
you're back in champs once again
uh... getting ready to compete
uh... feeling pretty good feeling pretty good
excited for this time that
all right i think it definitely look like you are feeling pretty good uh...
what was the kind of the vibe entering this first weekend is there anything
you are trying to do is there a certain type of comps you guys are trying to
like play around what was the plan for this weekend
uh... once that you much about the comps right now but and definitely say
going into this weekend we were just thinking about having fun and getting
through the weekend and just going on to have more spams than hub matches.
For sure and obviously when we had the kind of the seating tournament for this
event, D-Bone was not in the picture. Now we have that new season patch, we've
seen her kind of everywhere. What is your interpretation so far of the new
hero? I think it's the best hand character at the moment for sure and
And especially when cat is in the game. It just becomes like just so oppressive
Also, and speaking of cat we saw some
Tracer dueling that you were doing
Earlier on in the day is that kind of like are you more of a battle cat these days if you get the option to do it
Is that kind of the vibe we're expecting?
Yeah, I would say so. I like the battle cat
I'm looking forward to potentially seeing more of that later, which looking ahead a bit,
you guys obviously made it all the way to the finals in our seeding tournament there as well.
Is there a opponent that you're kind of expecting to be a bit of a challenge or somebody that
you're looking forward to facing later on into our bracket?
The team that I want to play the most is definitely the time-listing or the missing
team.
I just, I mean, no grudge against them, but because they beat us, I just, I want to get
our get back.
I want to know that show badly.
Totally fair.
You get to get your revenge in there, have the final say, and hey, you may have an opportunity
to do that, as you will be facing the winner between team missing X-ray and Fable tomorrow
potentially.
So we're looking forward to that, but of course, Cinnabar, any final words here
before we wrap up our interview.
Um...
Just thank you for the people that watched and came out to support our team.
Awesome.
I'm sure we will see plenty of support coming your way.
We're off the course of both this weekend and the next one.
Thank you again, Sina Bar, for taking the time to speak with us.
And we're looking forward to watching you and Cafe Fika perform throughout the weekend.
Of course.
Bye-bye, thank you for having me.
Of course.
Thank you.
I'm cool and collected. I think that's just where Happy Fika is is that they know that they are one of the top teams and they
I think it's reasonable
But then the how that much especially after going six maps, it's both finalists and team is in X-ray. Oh
Especially like they're one map away from having the one seed in this tournament, right in that seeding tournament
So kind of you guys obviously gonna feel pretty good and awesome
I think the balance pass that came in and
And D-Mon be entered into the game is more of a benefit to them than I think any other team in this tournament
So I yeah, it's completely understandable that
They've got to be feeling pretty good about where they're standing right now
Absolutely, and they have a bit of a rest time too. So that is their only match that they will be playing tomorrow
But we are not done here on the calling all heroes broadcast just yet
We have fable versus team missing x-ray coming up for a final game of the day
So stay tuned make sure you have a battle that counts connected for drops as we will continue with our final match shortly
I
versus the fifth team mixing x-ray taking on fable for the third time jesse in this matter of a month
Yeah, these two teams pretty aware of each other and familiar at this point
That team missing extra has gotten the better of fable both times in
In that previous seeding tournament both sweeps. So let's see if fable can maybe at least bring that score a little bit closer
closer or pull the upside here to advance to that upper quarterfinal.
If we can take a look at our bracket here as well as we are still in our
upper quarterfinals, every single one of our matches has been streamed so far.
And I think because of that, what we kind of expect again is matches tend
to be not as close, but expecting a fourth and fifth seed to maybe bring
it back. I think that fable have a lot of potential to show up.
But then again T missing x-ray is do I say they're almost like the underdogs of our top four I
Would sell our top four. I would say yes
Because at first like oh, I thought they were fourth, but then they'd be extra by the on a during the seeding tournament
So they started to feel better
So I think they are a very dangerous team depending on the form that they were in we've seen a lot of different looks
I will say the maga meta kind of sliding away a little bit more and going back
into this demon may hurt them a tiny bit axe was great on the maga so I'm kind of
curious to see if it's going to be axe or if it's going to be somewhere else here
from missing x-ray to kind of fill in that gap we believe it's going to be
amity will at least start on tank first here in this series so I'm curious if she
picks up that mantle I mean it's not super common these days to see
substitutes come in unless it's like a oh we don't actually have the players so
we're gonna play our sub. Just because it's hard to slot other people in and I
think that particularly applies to the tank role and Amity is a player I think
who can really show up in a position where she might not be nearly as I
say playing with the team nearly as much. We did see her a little bit again
in our seating tournament expecting her to pick up the mantle of that
Demon heading into today. Um, but yeah, I think this is a team that has been, I mean,
not a Kato, McMahon had been around for a while. Amity crumb Cameron, a slightly newer
to the scene by comparison. But I think they've had by for the strongest, unexpected performance
from these teams that we have in top eight. Yeah, I'd say we've seen the battle. Kato
, McMahon duo for a long time. If you've been following calling our heroes, they are
are two names you know. I think Dada Kato has been one of the, at least for me personally,
one of the coolest stories to see her grow over the years. She's been killing it over
and face it as well. So really excited to see what this team has up to offer. But on
the other side, it's one of the oldest organizations in Calling Out Heroes. It's fable. This
is, we were talking in the green in the forehand, 13th event for this organization
in calling our heroes
obviously not for all of these players but for the core of this team
they've been together a very long time they have a history of getting top six
and let's see if they can break it here in chaps
yeah i mean every panther and fiery obviously like the core of this team
that have been around
in the fifth six cars just it's always working right there they have the
potential they can pop off their highest placement has been third
and that happened I believe last year
and one of our summer seasons, if I remember correctly,
but it's been a middle of the road team for a while.
I mean, these players know the game pretty well
and having the additions of Kaisa Cole and Ray,
who have absolutely been rising players,
they had to compete in Colonial Heroes Rising
for a little bit as well,
if I remember correctly, we're seventh and eighth
in last year's championship.
So it's a lot of these players that have been there,
they've been around the scene,
But they can't quite break through that glass ceiling just yet
And maybe this is the tournament that it will finally happen here for some of these players
I would I guess I'm we don't even know and Nepal is probably where we're going to first
Maps because everyone's just picking the ball. Yep. Yeah, and I still don't know the other control
The chances of us seeing Busan or Samoa
Pretty low
Especially Samoa. I think there's a chance to maybe see a Busan later on this tournament
I think it is a near-zero chance
Samoa gets picked during this tournament and that is interesting
That is something the Freya bad firm team is the extra a lines up pretty well
The life weaver ban, however for favor that is
Something different. Yeah, that tells me that they just didn't want to ban anything else. It's a throwaway ban
I don't they don't want to limit their options. I guess
And D-Bone is open, Cat is open, Bastion is open, like a lot of these heavy hitters that
have been so defining of the meta, even Symmetra, since we're on the Paul as well, are all
very valid options for this team.
I think the Freyja ban actually hurts both Nato Kato and Rey, I think it's Penn, one
of their strongest heroes that we have seen them, both of them compete so far.
So other Hitscans will likely be deployed there, it's not probably soo shh, if I had to guess.
At least that seems to make the most sense.
Maybe some Ash.
Cassidy?
Maybe!
I feel like the only Ash we've seen though has been Bump Ivory.
True.
Which is sad, because I feel like Ash is such a fun character, but as soon as we've
gotten some of these new characters in, she's kinda got pushed to the side, unless
You're doing one of those like super burn comps with like honor on ash maga
That you really she doesn't have too many great places right now
In organized play, I think she's still great in ranked, but maybe not here and calling our heroes
We'll get right settled in here into Nepal and again
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Well, there's some demon being teased
Don't don't mention it. It's not gonna happen
That the flying pig maneuver is an illegal one
But I think if anyone's gonna do it, Avery is... I think Avery's pretty high on that list.
You know, Avery couldn't do it. I think though, when we see Avery in particular, I think it has a smaller pool of heroes, but the pool that she is good at is so good.
And if she even set herself up, that if I can play my D.Va, my Zarya, my Sigma, I look great.
Yeah, we haven't really got to see too much of Avery on the new hero.
Well, we may not gonna see a ton of them right now.
Gets the escape, but Ray is not going to have that same outcome.
And once you're on the Viper in a rather difficult spot at Shion, it's easy for a tracer to go ahead and chase you down.
Let the flank angles wide open for Mickman, and kind of run people over, because you're mixing X-ray.
You get that first half.
Yeah, cheeky little 3K there for the cute intro of Cameron.
Now it's you're missing X-ray.
They can just chillax for a little bit over on this point.
It's still going to be this double flanker here from Fable with the Shion tracer.
It's a lot for an avocado to do this kind of why, uh, you gotta lift it up a little bit over there.
So, look at a bit of a stroll here from Quick Prom.
Just, just seeing what's going on, uh, over on the angle, and so Bray's able to do on the she-on.
It's a typical plump that to stay alive in, there's the likes of Mickman and avocado together.
Everyone's very slippery, easily shut you down if you don't have your bike, speaking of which,
Fiery already had to pull the trigger onto the purr and is in a small room where Natakano wants to be dropped on top of a great shot
straight into her head. No more cat available but the rest of the team is getting run down. Great opportunity spotted by Amit or by Avery and Pycecloth.
But isn't it enough to close it out? It seems that at will Z-Path are taking things into their own hands and they will get the flip.
Yeah, but kind of stretching that fight out a little bit, and the enmity will just get
d-backed as this fight concludes.
That is going to be a very long stagger, I'm not sure if enmity is just going to jump off,
I'm not sure what.
She's not moving, she's just over on the angle, she's going to try to get the mag.
Bad, that's rough for her.
She's going to have a pretty long push, and then the pulse bomb is here, and you're
right as she gets that rematch off.
They're hoping that the cat I buy is client
Or he can get the mech inside of icicle
and have her pixel on it
Oh my god!
is just gross
Every time we see her on the screen, Jesse
She manages to pull up these insane mechanical plays
Like, I feel like every highlight I really can pull
is just for her
We're just gonna have to work extra hard
to make sure that this fight ends
the way of Team Missing X right here
to do it. And mind you, we found a mech demon
Uh, and Avery used the linen break
little break as they were being sent off the edge yeah I don't know if that was
a misclick or if that was just a very ballsy play but that was the one that
fables gonna walk back and so is that pulse barely missing the crumb down or
kind of do over there by cost
Yow yow yow
here and now right while I sit down with the stats that are spree but halted just short of
points to missing x-ray taken
Yeah, missing x-ray
Pretty smooth here on the first round of Nepal as we get over to our next round and
Yeah, this is like a standing at the scoreboard here. Yeah, dana kato 11 and two. She's been nasty already so far
During this series and amity again, we're kind of curious and the joke last event if you missed it
acts
Felisley
The other tank here for a team missing x-ray so amity played
And also she did a pretty decent job in the position, but you could tell it wasn't necessarily heroes
That she was more comfortable in that is not the case right now with people
This is like peak Amity where she can play very aggressive but has enough escape. She knows when to get out
This is a very dangerous team of Amity's able to keep this tech form
And I don't remember too and when she plays in collegiate for a player clip at least last season semester
She was on DPS like a lot of them down some similarities
I guess the demon combined with her experience on the threking ball
that I highly doubt will see after off the course of this day, but Fable got it throughout
in this plot.
Team isn't x-ray, just have all of the angles to poke them out before they can take space
and most of that is not a cut-off from being that threatening duo, swapped from Ray to
the soldier in health that we're here just can't move in here.
Yeah, as much as it's nice to have a little bit more of a challenge for not a cut-off
at range, you need the space to be created to have that range and so far, it's not
And that has just not been the case. Every is able to find one, and so is the Panther on the exit, but it's not going to be enough to see this in X-Rite.
Cap first once again, and already, Amity's 15 away from a limit break.
That is an egregious pace, and from...
Just gonna say, that was a little bit scary.
I lost sight of that Akata, and that freaks me out. Okay, sorry.
We've already had a few scares of this today on stream.
Nice.
It's closer. Especially on this map too.
Something about Sanctum of Nepali.
It's just a lot of cliffs you can fall off on.
A limit break is up though.
Along with Cat Eye combo.
Or Team Missing X-Ray.
Dude, Amity decides to do with it.
The more Panther and Cat Eye see if there's Suzu,
he's enough to cleanse curits.
There it is. And the Suzu to cancel it.
Out of great play there.
From Fable Support Line.
You didn't account for Nahtakato.
That's crazy, you know tank favoritism maybe a little bit bearer of...
Oh no, actually it's out 25% away from stealing away Nepal.
Let me break it still here for Avery, but you have to worry about it. Can't do it
Just go back and swap. That's your only option. There is enough cover
There's not really be two concerns here now all fighting with small rooms
That's the only spot that you were at least safer and it works out for Avery. Amity ends up getting D-necked.
I just might have been suing a rush. That team missing x-ray has. That is the point.
Missing x-ray absolutely should have won, but it's falling apart to them. Fable, especially Ray and Avery, game alive.
We'll clutch the spawn up and get the cells more of a chance and tank them
You got a little too comfortable in the spawn of fable there
Did missing x-ray just a nice little pause there for fatal and now they can chill over by points
As they've reduced taking some pop shots still the overclock in the hand of
Ray and some more of these ultimates popping up
So if they look and win this fight they have you know consuming rush even that sense to regroup spree coming up
It could line up
Pretty much on the pace that they started and they ended on I should say the last event.
clean map here and that'll be just a quick 1-0 start and again quote the
overcaffeinated amity a little name card there and this I will say for anybody
calling our heroes amity playing in this form is a scary sight this could
spell trouble for any other team trying to break into that top four I would be
patch five honestly seeing that kind of play but now we can see fable where
Where do they want to go, right? Do we want to kind of lean into a little bit more of some
of these other styles and ban out the demon and enforce some other looks out for Max Ray?
I mean, reminder to you, this is the third time these two teams are playing each other
and they have to take a map off of team missing X-ray. I think with the pool being drastically
different, that does help. And I think Freya coming back to will be a big asset for Ray.
I think that's kind of been her hero when we've seen her pop off as much as we have to get Fable to this point.
That is going to be a great help to the team.
I think more of the question is, what is the pan necessarily going towards?
Because Fable, they just threw it away.
They went for Lifeweaver, wanted to leave their options open.
Because they feel like that they can pull out or counter anything.
Yeah, at this point, they're like, oh, we can just counter whatever we need to.
And sometimes that is the case.
Sometimes it isn't.
But we'll get to see now from Fable where they would like to go next again all four map types hybrid flashpoint push escorts are
Available we haven't really seen a ton of push
Flashpoint it's been a lot of New York City as of late
If we do go to that mode and then I say for hybrid escorts, you know at least a little bit more of a mix of everything else
Other than Junkertown, we had the one time
time. During the seeding tournaments. I think we had our one Junkraton map and then it won't
get played probably until next champs.
I'm smelling a neon junction though. I see this hybrid come up. I would love if you
must party so. But I can smell it. I can basically taste it at this point. We're so
close to getting that neon junction map in. There it is. So it will be more focused
again on that demon, these ground tanks. Maybe some may to be pulled out if you're
feeling feisty there but I think a lot of what we just saw back on Nepal is
going to remain the same on the injunction. Yeah and now we can wait for
that band again. If it's not Cat or Demon, which it isn't. I don't mind it
though. Okay. I don't mind it at all. The Kitaka will be the band here from
Fable now leaving the door open here for demon to remain in which I don't think team missing x-ray are going to complain about it all
Okay, I've thought about this are they gonna put Z panther on the on
They could I think they definitely could
We don't see it too much at least with the demon in play because I feel like you get run over
over. If you can position yourself very safely, I think it has to be at all a cat angle, if
that is the case, but it is a hero that Deep Hathor has been known to pop off on in the
past.
Yeah, it is one of the heroes that they kind of grew on the scene from, was Diana. So having
that as an option is great. Sigma will be the answer to ban here from team mixing
SRA. And like we said, one of the few heroes that is great for Avery is that
Sigma and she will not have that option here on the end junction
Yeah, that is unfortunate. I don't think you're planning on playing that anyways
I think as long as demon's available
I feel like it has to come out and she just feels like she's miles above the other tanks and even a match up into
Sigma does not feel good
Yeah as that Sigma player as we got to see a little bit earlier on so
Essentially the support line is the one that is in question
I feel like the Kirikou is just in every single composition that we have so it's an opportunity for Z-Panther and Fiery, Chrom and Cameron to make it a bit creative with what they're doing.
Yeah, well, I've got a little bit more, a little more different looks going on, but like you said, Kiriko, as soon as she pretty much entered the game, has been in a grand majority of comps.
Just because that cleanse is so useful and she has the mobility, she has great damage and heals
Everything you could possibly want to support, that is what Kirito is and has been since she entered the game
So having that piece out, again we're going to lean more into probably the Ana here from C Panther
You could also see, you know, any of the burn heroes to honor on
Probably not the Malorah since demons can get played
Or even that Ash is going to have a lot more value because you don't have the instinct plans to shed those negative effects
You really want to see Ash play today, don't you?
I do, I do.
I've already got me going on the Ash trail.
It's because we're talking about Ash so much and I can't even remember the last time I've seen it other than
for he pulling it out.
He's just not a super common pick.
I think it has potential in the right hands, but there are better options.
which is why teams lean towards it.
But at this good point, the cleanse not being a factor
can make that a possibility.
But on this map in particular,
I don't think that feels nearly as good
as some of the other picks of just Sojourn
or the Franck that will come into play.
I really do want to see as DPS lines are capable though.
Starts to show up.
I think they are now on some of their strongest picks that they can be.
Ray in particular.
It is her time to shine.
Yeah, I'm really excited to see, like if Fable are going to snatch a map it feels like this has to be it.
With the bands that have gone into place, it is going to be the Demon Mere here on Neon Junction.
And another widow being ushered around by the cat, but this time, McMahon gets shot up a lot.
I will have to make that swap pretty early.
Near Mirkobs here the only difference being not a kato on Soge and Ray on Freya
Stretch a little bit dual of the shields the bikes will collide the support of Cronin has given Rickman up
Look what for the narrative we should have so many resource though thrown into the small room from fable
And they don't have the support to give Avery in the frontline amity not just to run it down
I'll just be the first point captured doesn't seem like fable will time to regroup for
No, they won't have any time as anybody's already
Waiting for the bus. There's like the train. I should say
Through maybe just a pit stop earlier today. I I don't know if I'd want to fight up there
I'm just gonna be honest that screams
Disaster written all over it
The player getting hit by the train yet. Yes, but emphasis on yet
This could be the time especially with some touch navigate happening and camera just chilling up here
I don't know players fighting in the tunnel, but you do have to get the control over it
And I think that's important to have camera in front of the positions if they were in
It's just a very dangerous boost to the player there one missed audio queue when it's over
But a lot of pressure over here by a point, but it won't matter when making it
Getting the job done in the back, able to find one, and from that point, Fable,
yeah, just kind of, everybody falls to the wayside, and there's going to be a continued push here for missing X-Ray.
I think for Avery too, I think there's been a lot of moments that Avery will go in, but
isn't exactly on the same page as the rest of Fable.
Is there a fight with other people on team missing X-Ray like McMen, like Naotokato?
Well, not Naotokato anymore.
Well, yeah, it used to be Nanocado, I'm not kind of just the shallow outline that we just see on the floor there for a moment.
The limit break isn't able here for Amity, it's waiting for all the squishies to go through this joke.
This point is just about to be a cab, it's just a catnap a dev from Fiery, and to keep this fight going,
we just wanted the physical bodies to go out of the point in the way that you want to,
amity is holding it down, and an insuffable force can happen.
People don't want to give up.
Nato has an icicle, so it's not going to be screened, which is anti-less fencing 50 HPs
and easy shots without a poto to line up.
People, they definitely wanted to keep that point, Jesse, but it cost them four ultimates
Ultimates to be able to do it in team missing x-ray are still checking resources on to the objective at least you get amity out of the
Picture of bottom line where you bring it back, but no mech
It's just the cats up through the screen out from make them to return and my goodness
That was a crazy fight that you would not expect here with the time bank that was remaining this team as an x-ray eventually get
Neither team wanted to give up on that fight at all pretty much any ultimate that was built up in the relative last minute
Got popped, the only one left is the Bola shot here from Ray, but what an insane sequence.
X-Ray land on top, Amy is down on this high ground, and Ray may have a special visitor,
but instead, Amy decides to tip out.
Yeah, an upgrade timing though, and the thing we're seeing with Fables, they're trying
to set up their own angles.
The team that's saying X-Ray are taking the Engagers, but they're off to an angle
much quicker and getting the value from it.
Down in these fights, most of them ran, but there's not too much value in games from
hovering over on at the opposite angles.
Tell us what minutes to do.
Maybe I'll have to manage a little bit of this one now.
There's just so much timing, you can see Z-Panther is stuck over here.
Eventually does get a little bit of a lift from their support.
Juvo, being up on the high ground, but now you gotta worry about a nanoteab on.
I think it's the same sort of tempo sitting that we saw in the previous map.
Yeah, just a lot of the same here is
Fable trying to create their own opportunities, but the pace of which missing x-ray is
Organizing their set plays it has been so good so far. Amity leads the way
19 eliminations for the tank that is not doesn't even sound right
That is barely less than the combined eliminations right now of
fable
Just too off. If that just you know puts it into the context a little bit more
I feel like this honor setup has worked fine
For fable, but I feel like the pace of play with the honor you have to play so much slower
And you really that was just not an opportunity that was given and I guess crumbs just over it
Do they hear
Are they listening in I wonder it was not
Let's try to prove a point.
Perhaps, perhaps.
Hmm.
Well, like it's...
Especially like the stat that stood out to you was the difference in healing numbers as well.
Granted, Fiery and Deep Panther, I think are under a lot more pressure
than Crumb and Cameron.
And it's made it difficult for them to sustain Avery taking the space.
They will also be getting pushed back, but being on the defense,
not a bad way to hold your ground.
Yeah, I need somebody to at least like stabilize the fight. You don't necessarily need to reclaim all that space right away
But you need to be able to still hold down an angle and just feel safe about it for a few moments
To keep the rest of your team alive
But now fable what can they do on the attack can they kind of hold it down?
But now it's needing to push up Cameron isn't such a cool spot up here above point
It's gonna need some really nice play shots from Ray to really do much
as well. And Fable, yeah, it's really just Ray, unless firey can manage to fly
across the open carrying one of her teammates with her. That is a massive
risk to take. I mean, working, especially in these sign rooms.
Pikmin, he's got a chilling, holding it down, or it's tight to hold. Working more on the
opposite side against the statue. The BioNate is out. I think it's gonna go by, and if Fable
want to see, they just don't have the cooldown. Like they're using most of
They're having to use a lot of their big cooldowns, just to survive.
Instead of trying to be very proactive with it, it's having to be very reactive.
This is kind of the result of that. You get very static.
And it is trade one for one, but Amity isn't a much better position right now.
To be able to push back, I mean, still don't have the space.
The advantage of Avery getting beaten up is he Panther has the fast tornado.
Yeah, Nato's already alive here, and that could help build up the rest of this limit break for Avery, but Amity already has her own.
Yeah, the limit break is there. Like, you know what the Suzu? Either way, that's the nerdy part of the band. You have to find a way to make this work.
work it is a trade of the sheums in the back and amity is out of the mech the
nano perfectly placed before Catherine get their own off the setup will go on to
no cut-overs facing Avery at like a point to be arranged basically hugging each other
that didn't last very long at all. Fable never get at least a couple ticks on this point.
I expect though a recon test here from Max-Ray still the overclock and the
Let it break ready to go
Okay, it's not going to be a great start to that, however.
What a great time-bang, too.
Again, you don't need to finish with 3.26, right?
I don't know if that's a realistic expectation here with Fable, but having some solid time left if they're able to finish this map is a great start to at least get some momentum going, give yourselves still a decent chance to pull out this map in overtime.
And that is a great way to start off. Still the catnap, and would there be like a catnap into the train?
I would be cool. That's how I'm calling up. I feel like how do you do that when I'm getting killed as the cat?
I think there's other priorities though for fables. They are much more worried about not cuttles over clock
They out there as keys who aren't there getting away from the time
But they still have the advantage and how those just to sleep that from camera will shut those that down
Avery can't engage at all
The cat out those wide not a cuttle, breaking some ankles
Even if she ends up falling in the end, Avery is a much more spot, not having Fiery to heal
her up out of the mech and will be either a sag or a Swap Lizzie Old Church.
Yeah, that's gonna be rough for Avery.
Yeah, they don't really have much to really go about in.
Eventually, Cameron will just find the elimination.
And Krum can't nap the wall.
Yep.
I don't know if it was her that pressed the taunt clock in her fiery either way that was really funny.
A great sequence in events, telling how friendly these teams can be with each other.
Yeah, I don't know if it really would be a wallhugger, necessarily.
Oh, here we go!
Now you do! You are going to start away from Pikmin at the open, as they are going to sit on right in the sky.
That's two picks down, or the Shion will turn into a third great setup there.
And I saw a 4k there from Nicknit and now that time bank that was looking pretty decent
here for Fable is starting to look a little worrisome.
Only 31 meters, less than 2 minutes remaining now on the clock and you only have a bowl
of shots on the board for now.
This is the type of position that actually want to be in is holding a close jump.
I think you're banking on T-Pen they're building up another nano accepting that this flight is just watch for you
It's the one advantage that they're going to have consistently just from the start of the map even if it means they get wiped in this next fight
It was the least able to find one and the D-Map on the amity before this fight concludes
And also we see it a little bit of sticking around here from this man
But it will not be enough so far.
So just one minute now, now I don't care how much it goes,
I'm going to the tracer to finish out this map.
Yeah, just to get back a bit faster, I think.
And I've been doing this for the last 10 minutes,
I think you do get the room back before Amity.
So less of a concern.
But this is a big fight, right?
Having that nano up for Ivory.
It's either use the limit break
or something else of that guard.
Oh.
Just have enough of it for her.
At least she gets out alive.
I hope it was. I really hope it was. Right, we got a catnap into a wall, we have a lift
break into a wall. Walls are taking a lot of damage. And this one on the junction, 15
cigarettes remaining. Missing S-ray. They understand they don't need to win that fight.
They just back on up. 10 cigarettes remaining. Somebody's gonna stick on that payload.
Four fable. And then you can take at least one more fight during second phase
with the nana to put on the amity to build up the rest of this little break.
That's the unfortunate part for Fable is because he died so early, they've lost that Nanobusy Vantage.
Now, Cameron will have one of their own, dropped it on the Amity, and that's two already down,
then Amobus at least made it to Avery, but it's just Avery and Fiery fighting for their lives on this point.
So much closer now for sure, but at the end of the day, Team missing X-ray, especially Amity in particular,
is in peak form. They'll move up to 2-0.
2-0 for missing S-Tor-A, one more map remaining to get into that top four, at least here in
the upper bracket, top six guaranteed in Mickanon, again, this felt like X-Ray, we saw it a lot
during that seeding tournament to where if they're in their groove, especially during
against a lot of these mid-table teams, there is nothing that could be done on the
up to see on gameplay from making it really took a step up during that map and
now again another reverse sweep is needed here and we've had a lot three
overwatch today and if I had to have my bets right now I think we're probably
leaning towards that here fable not really having much luck there with that
here go bad I think it was a good shot and he wanted to have the Z panther
Alma I kind of show up and I think it did there was a lot of times that it
did work out, especially more on the attack than the defense.
But unfortunately, it just wasn't enough to get through.
I mean, Amity, as well as Mickman on the she-on,
both of those players have picked up these new heroes so well
and have looked to be in some of the best form that we're
going to see in this tournament.
And honestly, the team missing extra stocks,
I feel like, are going up even further,
just watching the performance of these two players,
in particular, putting on.
Yeah, for me, I see them right now probably
as our third best team and that could even go higher
um... but in the stocks are definitely
on the rise here for team missing x-ray
now just one map away like we said
we still have a good flash wall back here in the flash point
right
at least
all notes on uh... that's a really good way i got baited there everybody
let's
analysis map though
we actually have three flash point maps finally in a pool
Can we do it? But that was just kind of how it was. Nobody wanted to play Atlas before
Unless they had a specific strat. But I think Demon works really really well on that map
If you wanted to throw a bit of a curve ball into the mix that would certainly be one of them
But I think it doesn't make sense. We kind of talked about it a bit earlier Jesse about how flippy
Flashpoint can be especially when teams don't seem like they're too terribly off
Yeah, especially like again, that's the type we see a lot more of these upsets whether it be OWCS
World Cup, here in Carlyar Heroes as well, is typically going to be the flash point. It'll be New
Junk City, which is kind of overtaken Cervosa. As a primary flash point map as of late,
I wouldn't even blame them if they pulled a Demon Van here from Fable. I think it's just been that
kind of day. At least so far, Amity has gotten the better of Avery on that hero,
So maybe try and mix it up a little bit here from fable, but again, there is other avenues that could be gone down as well
Yeah, and I think that's the
the hard part of
Kind of being a situation that fable are in is you know, you don't really want to ban out the comp that they're running but
you know
something's clearly not connecting the way that it should be and
You got to find a way to slow it down
I think the Cassidy is a very safe band doesn't really too much impact on what high school or break or likely was trying to run
And so it's not a condom. I think that that's a player in particular on the hit skin
I contend to pop off with even if she was a bit quieter on a previous map
Yeah, it may be a little quiet, but I don't believe the Cassidy bad as well
At least allow that flanker lineup to get the work done. Oh, well, and it's actually the kid it go from the other side
Uh, it's actually like, you know what, back here, no Kiriko plan, it worked out pretty well for us. Let's just do it again. Why not?
Do you, I don't think you're on Ana here.
No, this map is...
That sounds awful. Like there's so few places, especially on Arena, that you can hide,
you just get walked on and chopped to bits by a Dima on or a She-On or anyone who's working in the Dark Shits there.
So, uh,
probably, like, I don't even know. Do we do Juno Brig?
Is that what we're going to pull out?
Maybe.
We could do some Juno break.
I'm trying to think what else can even get played with the cat.
Because like you said, the Ana is just
going to get ran over on a lot of these flash points.
If you still want the speed, you can go Lucio.
But then, can we see something like the Lucio Moira?
We've seen that occasionally.
I can't believe I just said Lucio Moira out of my mouth.
Like you're a re-in right now.
What?
Yeah, I am.
back a little bit here. I think that could be an opportunity if you don't want to play
that Juno Brig, which could face some similar worries, at least the Brig, that an Ana would
play in that map.
And using Citi is typically the pick that teams will do if you don't want to deal
with the cat. The majority of the points here have ceilings and cats are allergic
to ceilings in the game of Overwatch, particularly if they are carrying a jetpack. So it
It makes it very difficult to get the value, especially safely, on this map.
So I wouldn't be shocked if we were not pulling that hero at all.
Maybe you pull it out on like junkyard or bomb flats, the two outdoor objectives.
But otherwise, it seems like we're going to lean more towards a cohesive, brawly type
of anger that starts out.
It's just so weird not having Kiriko.
Like how are we floundering to figure out what support comps there are?
one hero was bad. Yeah, well, I think it's more just because we're on Flashpoint as well.
It's where you're so used to these speed comps that Kiri kind of melts right into. She goes
great with Lucio, obviously. Still goes pretty well with Juno, depending on what else is banned.
So yeah, definitely an interesting spot for these teams to be in. They're pulling out
some extra stress, and it is going to be a Lucio Moira here for Fable.
There's no way never doubt me
Jesse I owe you an apology. I'm sorry. I ever doubted you that way. We got cat play rough
My entire weekend this has been made
Doesn't get better than this
No, I mean, this get better for Amity too.
I like the reason you bat in something like the Kiriko
is so things like the Rampage get infinitely more value.
I'm not too many answers, but you can come up with that.
Other than a sound barrier from Fiery,
that nailed the bike in a couple shots
and Mikbin finished her off.
Missing S3, you need to rotate to deploy Amity.
You have to get healed often.
Rotated around the Avery is struggling
with some cat allergies.
He's constantly peppered from above
the likes of Kraut and Mikman while I'm at the ground there and he continues to show up on the Shia.
Yeah the Shia gameplay from Mikman has been fantastic so far during this one. They've just been
all over the place and this stagger, oh this is rough. This is rough. And Avery has the remake
and yeah perfectly done from Missing X-Ray who's stalled us out even further and now
you know maybe some changes here from Fable are in order and it will be Avery.
Again, up to another one of their actually better tanks here is the Orisa which can't help compete with Amity on this JQ
Playing Junker Queen in the Orisa is like trying to headbutt a brick wall
You don't really get too many places and during a lot of pain while you do it
And she immediately gets stapled
The first Javelin hits, and she can't get out of this room either, is grappled by the cat
She's stuck, even the coalescence layered on top of it
Like this is a fable special if I've ever seen one with the Moira or Rissa
Jetpack. This is not on my bingo card today. Watch the letter.
Not for the week, not for the year. We're strengthening the archives a bit.
It will be the 99% reached year for missing x-ray, but the flip is contained
here by fable. And now what is the answer to this? Obviously, a bunch of all
It's coming up or already online here for missing x-ray some of those still coming up here for failing
Yeah, this is a team missing x-ray fine
And they just have so many resources to pull out but the fact that cancel hammering the ultimate
I mean things a lot more feisty you have to pop the rampage and I didn't want to do it
So get all the value needed 14 missing x-ray to close out this objective entirely remove up
Yeah, great javelin
Uh, I'm from Avery, I'm on a camera and just does not enough missing x-ray.
Get the first and they still have that spree as well from Mickman going into next
Bacodamn or some sightseeing. Uh, trying to play avoid the orb and a little bit
of a failure at the end. It's alright though.
Trying to melee the orb way like, like you're getting like a volleyball or something.
Playing some tennis.
Tennis? Yeah. Tennis is hard.
I don't know that type of hand-to-hand coordination.
But anyways, Fable, hopefully they do. They got their own, and a lot of them, but Nickman is getting airdropped into the back of the line with the top 30 for Spray or the next one to absolutely nobody.
Basically, Ray instead are the ones to come up with the eliminations. Nickman got a dick, does not have the health bar.
I just keep this one up. The hover from the crumb certainly helps in supporting these angles, and Fable is the point behind these indy shiny buttons.
That's a big win, odd as we fail, because now you have 4 ults and 4 rhythms, not like
cool unless it's really going to take that long to fill it up.
So this is what we're talking about here.
On Flashpoint, 1 fight goes your way and you can really snowball it into an entire Flashpoint.
But we'll see if Fable can actually make that happen here, as you can't use everything
all at once or it really shouldn't.
All five shiny buttons now are available compared to just the Catnap here from Chrom with no
auto-bounds area really to be dragged into some orders to be dragged, what were they
they cast into the rest of Fable.
Maybe you can cancel coalescence with it.
I might be good at spelling you, but...
I mean, if it's Panther's phase, it's just not really gonna happen here.
So the option is, hey, for definitely taking their time, giving Team Missing X-ray quite a bit of space.
Walk on one.
There's the coalescence and the Terrasurge, just to secure the elimination.
On to Mickbin.
Team Missing X-ray, drop this one up to a lost fight, and a lost...
Wait, very efficient from Fable.
There you are. Like I said, two ultimates.
We still have three going into the next fight, granted you would have loved to maybe drag out
an ult or two from missing X-ray in the process, but still
a pretty decent round there.
Four fable, and now
we can start to get some events and go in the way. I think it's the first
real set of fights they've won consecutively this series, so
now it seems they can get a little bit more done.
Oh, I mean, unfortunately for fable,
team missing X-ray have an auto win flight button, aka rampage, humanity,
Oh my god.
Yeah, nothing committed and yeah, that was just a disgusting
hit there from Nickman
That's right. No, they have that rampage here from AMD the pulse from now to powder with again
no Suzu, which I think we're all just kind of used to having a lot of these duels and having that
Suzu to get rid of the pulse. They literally have that luxury.
But I don't know if that's really a guarantee right now, both tanks fall, a little bit of
a TDM going on by the point, right, they're able to get the long distance shot down and
now all these reinforcements are coming back into the fight.
I think that was about damn it, are there two lessons, but the spree's gonna shut that down.
Ohhhh...
Yeah, they would have won the fight, maybe get to a 2-1 on the opposite storyline, but now x-ray.
one around away now Amity she's like well as much I want to stick the doom she
might I think she's well I don't think she's gonna stop yeah this point
sticking for a fight see if it works out you are playing into an orisa that's
not great I'll let you get your major perky chump up the job on the block
there but tricky you can make this work it is not working at least your name
is Nickman so far. Catnap went in from front on a Z-Pathor. So that also means you don't have that
good sustain for your tank. It's only Fable running around the map and it's gotta just let this game
spin. Running around the map, TDM as you called it. It's Fable already controlling the point but
it doesn't really feel like it. Yeah, Amity is able to shut down Fable who used the Catnap
and everybody right now is so low on fable.
It's just gonna be a young fight over here.
There's a little bit of a stall job from Avery,
but this will flip right back over.
And his Doomfist has actually worked okay.
Once it got a little bit more to that chaotic part of the fight,
meteor strike, now available to...
I love Emily! Just to get out of any sticky situation she may find herself in.
And she could do that pulse bomb here from Heisticle.
She's just looking at me in a situation.
She's not the last Flashpoint.
We're not even at the current one right now.
But she has four players on her tail.
Like the percentage is taking up for Team Missing X-Ray.
She's just wasting so much of their time and crumbling and getting caught out.
So that's more of a sign for concern.
Hopefully she can get back in time.
Just because it's called far apart.
This fight is taking place.
Team Missing X-Ray want to prevent Fable from getting a touch as long as they can.
And Nickman, plus this doomfist stun of Amity is a combo I don't think Fable are ready for nor do they know what to do about it.
No, it's just such a scuffed fight. Like High School tries to run over that plunge who's a meter away from nailing Z-Pathor and it actually will help.
The Flex supports stay alive here on this point. It won't be enough though to keep Avery up.
Nickman is such a problem for Fable. It's final fight now and they managed to call for three picks on their own.
And if we ever see these battles come to an end, it is always the She-On from Team Missing X-Ray.
It has the last word and indeed, McMinn will elegant series Team Missing X-Ray sweep Fable for the third time.
Three in L with three sweeps throughout that process here from Missing X-Ray against Fable just has Fable's number.
And it'll be again one of our kind of dark horse favorites of this tournament also moving on to that opera bracket
Semi-finals, which will be played during the back half of our matches tomorrow
I had a lot of things we did not expect to see during that final map
Oh, we got to see the Lucio Boyra some cat boy red Junker Queen entering the mix
But through all that the consistent thing remains and that is missing x-ray continuing to perform when asked upon
Hey, you got your best prediction that you are ever going to get with that Moira showing
up to at the end.
A lot of things to take away from the series and, you know, team missing x-ray in those
seeding matches, they are, I think, are easily a top three team and in a beating cat
cafe in six maps in order to go even further into the game.
So I think that when we see the potential that this team has, especially on the demon,
form that Hamity is in right now is kind of ridiculous to partner that up with the support
line that knows exactly how to support these DPS and get Nickman and Naughtocato into positions
where they can also join in on the action. This is a very scary team to look ahead to.
Yeah, this could be a team that causes some of the favorites problems. That is a dangerous
team especially right now like that DPS to a Nickman the second half of that series.
Oh my goodness, they're like just deleting people on the she-on.
So we're really excited to see how they do.
Again, they get to play tomorrow.
I don't want to say cat cafe,
but that was the previous turn of it.
That team at Cafe Fika.
And I honestly think like at first like,
oh, it should be Cafe Fika, but I don't know, man.
That is, that's going to be a real good game.
I think to finish this off tomorrow.
Hey, last time they played it with six maps,
So close enough said of a series enough said are we gonna get that again?
We're gonna find out but first we still have an interview coming on up for one of the players of team missing x-ray
We're sending it to a quick break get that set up. We have to hear from our wing team
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full day of sweeps here for the first day of the Collingle Heroes Championships and expected results.
And to say the least particularly in our matchup today is Team Missing X-Rate,
got their third consecutive sweep over Fable.
And we can hear from the players themselves, the demon monster in Amity is joining us here for an interview.
Amity, first of all, how are we feeling being back in the Collingle Heroes Championships?
Uh, hello, I am not at this is
I already had to go unfortunately.
Oh, I was going to.
I'm subbing in for Amity, but yeah,
it feels great.
Well, it's nice to see you in
Thank you. Sorry about that.
All good, all good.
So obviously you all had a pretty
impressive seeding tournament run.
Uh, how are you all feeling
going into this champs?
Obviously a great start here
with a sweep against Fable?
Yeah, we're very confident.
I think a lot of the teams this year are really strong.
But I have a lot of faith in all my teammates.
And we're very confident going into the day.
I think last week we had two scrims.
So today might have been pretty shaky.
But we're hoping to iron it out before tomorrow.
Yeah, for sure. And obviously we've seen kind of the meta adapt a little bit since last time we were seeing you all play a lot more of the Maga with Axe in it.
Now it's been a lot more of Amity in on the demon. How is the introduction of demon changed how you all are playing?
Oh, I think I think Amity is like probably the best demon in the tournament. She's been playing really well.
And yeah, I think I think demon being like hard meta is a really big advantage for us because
You know how many just like the type of player to like go for plays
Amity's just like yeah, how many is a winner? You know how big goes for the place to win and yeah
No, like she's been she's been doing fantastic like every game basically
Okay, those are some strong words there and you'll I will get to test that out
Actually pretty soon is you're going to get that rematch against cafe Fika tomorrow
Which you went six maps against in your previous meetup. Where do you kind of the thoughts heading into that game?
Honestly, I think we should have won last match. It was just
You know
Probably just a nervousness gap. I think we got pretty nervous on that Hollywood which led to us getting
Fuller held which led to the draw and then which led us to a new Queen Street, but
um
No, I'm very confident going into that match. I think
I think they're all very good players obviously, so we have to play better than we did today,
but I think we can definitely win that match and get our revenge against them.
Awesome.
That's going to be very exciting.
Are we going to 6?
Are we getting another sweep?
I think if we come in ready to play, we can definitely get the 3-0.
All right then.
You know what, honestly, after you got how you guys played Degay, I could totally see that happening, so I am very excited for that match.
That might be the one to watch tomorrow, if we're thinking about it there, but...
Pikmin, thank you so much for joining us here on the desk.
I'll give you one more chance here.
Any shout-outs, final words you'd like to say here on the broadcast?
Uh... just shout-outs to everyone on the team, you know.
It's been a rough week for us, availability-wise,
so I'm glad we can come in today,
barely any practice, and be able to show our stuff.
And hopefully we'll be able to lock in for tomorrow
and get the win.
Awesome, hey, you're making it work.
You're popping off, you're looking great.
You're gonna keep it up tomorrow.
I believe in you guys.
Very excited to see that match up too.
Big Red, thank you so much again
for joining us for an interview.
Give us a little bit of insight
on the team missing X-ray.
go ahead and let you go and we'll see you compete tomorrow.
Awesome. Thank you. Have a good night.
Thank you.
That was the first one. That doesn't sound like Amity.
We've interviewed Amity before. That is not Amity.
Hey, one of the players that honestly has been calling all heroes the longest that we have,
I remember some of the very first tournaments,
McMahon has been around and I think hearing that level of confidence from them heading into tomorrow too,
I think we take a lot more seriously just because that better and see oh
Totally and especially the way they were playing today my goodness that the so much she on plays that were popping up or insane
But yeah, I don't know that might be the match you said it the bats for me tomorrow
It could be cabin feaker versus missing x-ray like that is that's juicy
As I think we're gonna take one quick look at the bracket to get give you a little bit of a preview
you on what we are seeing tomorrow so obviously the upper bracket is set a lot
of three overwatch going on but it's timeless X missing come on against the
extra blue the only on the top side and on the bottom side for two teams you
just saw over the last few hours with us cafe Fika against team missing x-ray and
that game I could not wait to cast like that is I won't lie very happy that we
on the call for that game. I could always see that game.
No, that's gonna be great. And Title Six Missing, it's gonna be cool too, but
Title Six Missing is in a league of their own at certain points, and yeah, that's
gonna be a scary team. Let's look out for tomorrow. Also in the lower bracket,
we'll have Leica Virgo and taking on Valentine, as well as the Magic Mushies
against Fable. So those teams fighting for their life as we are in a double
of the game. We have a lot of
fun. And of course, you get
your drops as well. That's to
make sure that you guys are all
tuning in for that. But, you
know, see, that's going to go
ahead and do it for us here on
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