The
Lunar New Year is almost upon us, the time when the boundaries between worlds fade away.
The celebration is filled with incense and the light of lanterns, heralding the start
of the Great Trial.
The Jade Emperor lays down the gauntlet to the most worthy commanders.
He has captured the mystic spirit of the Fire Horse in ancient coins.
Whoever seizes them will receive many rewards and acquire incredible might that can change
the balance of power in the celestial world.
From February 12th through February 23rd, charge into the Jade Emperor's Challenge Event.
Expect dynamic 7v7 battles in Tier VIII vehicles of any type, apart from SPGs.
The Great Confrontation will unfold in four maps.
Your mission is not just to destroy enemy vehicles, but to seize coins containing the
spirit of the Fire Wars and deliver them to the drop zone in the enemy base.
This will award you lots more points and bring your team closer to victory.
If your vehicle is destroyed, you can respawn in the next round after one of the teams
delivers the spirit to the other base or destroys all enemy vehicles.
In this mode, each vehicle type has unique passive abilities.
Heavy tanks temporarily slow down opponents with shots and cause greater ramming damage.
Tank destroyers knock the spirit off enemy vehicles.
Medium tanks get an accuracy boost.
When light tanks get boosted view range and concealment.
Award make your actions, use your vehicle's strength and protect the coin barriers.
Complete missions, earn jades and get through the nine event stages.
And claim days of World of Tanks Premium Accounts.
free XP, unique 2D styles, and an exclusive commander.
You'll also get two free blazing treasures.
These contain guaranteed rewards, being 3D customization elements,
and the chance to get rare premium vehicles,
including the brand new Yong Bing and Kanonan Yagponser II.
In addition, completing the whole progression will give you a commemorative medal.
The Jade Emperor awaits heroes, harness the spirit of the Fire Horse,
and gather all the treasure from this celebration. Good luck on the battlefield.
The Year of the Fire Horse is racing to us at full tilt.
Get ready to celebrate and make new discoveries.
Valuable resources await you in blazing treasures, like credits, personal reserves for credits,
a set of 3D attachments, vibrant 2D styles, and unique premium vehicles including some
new ones.
Let's start with the existing vehicles.
The ISU-122-2 is a lightly armored and dynamic hunter that chooses the rhythm of battle itself.
You can ship 390 HP per shot from opponents or unleash the power of two guns at once,
while good mobility lets you quickly get out of harm's way.
The AAT-60 is a master of fire support.
It has great gun depression and penetration that often doesn't notice armor.
If you're flexible and adapt to the situation, you can turn any fight into a firing range.
The T-44-100 is a universal soldier that can do it all.
A fast firing gun and 52 km per hour top speed let it engage in combat everywhere
and all at once.
from aggressive raids behind enemy lines to skillful defense.
The UDES 0303 is a real Swedish ninja.
Its three-show auto loader and hydronumatic suspension make any hill a kitted out firing position.
The VZ58 Med Viet is a bona fide predator.
Its four-shell auto loader deals a devastating 1760 HP of damage in 12 seconds.
The German Erich concept forgives no mistakes.
It's selfie, incredibly fast and precise.
400 HP of damage per shot and 270mm of penetration with standard shells are the tools of a real
professional.
Take the high ground, spot your opponents, and then destroy them one by one while staying
elusive.
Now onto the newcomers.
The first is the Kanonen Young Ponsner 2.
It's a comfortable vehicle for causing damage.
Siege mode, good concealment, high penetration with standard shells for tier 8, and 370 HP
alpha damage make this German tank destroyer an excellent hunter and creditor.
And finally, the Real Jewel and Mystery's collection, a Chinese Double Barrel Heavy Tank
with Jet Boosters.
The Yong Bing.
Two guns, each causing 440 HP of damage per shot, let you flexibly combine cyclic firing
and powerful salvos, keeping high firepower in any situation.
And the Ten Boosters, each of which works for 4 seconds, not only allow you to move
around fast, but also provide tactical advantages.
Let's let you perform sudden maneuvers, quickly change position, or catch opponents off guard
with an 880 HP salvo.
The Yong Bing is a heavy tank for active attacks.
Celebrate Lunar New Year and enjoy the riches of Blazing Treasures.
You can get two of them for free by completing stages of the Jade Emperor's Challenge
Event.
into the year of the firehorse with new vehicles in your collection.
Hey there tankers, Captain Tidal here and welcome back to another What Monthly episode.
I'm here to bring you important dates, news and updates coming up this February.
Let's start off with a community favourite, Frontline Returns between the 2nd and 9th
of February. For those unfamiliar with the mode, it is a special game mode where players
fight it out on extra large maps, fighting sector by sector, with the ability to respawn,
giving you the opportunity to grind out your tier 8s and even play your premiums with
same tier matchmaking. I hope you've been enjoying the current
Onslaught Season with its new detailed session statistics and Erlenberg map.
Don't worry if you've fallen behind on any of the weekly missions,
you'll still be able to catch up after the mid-season update coming early February.
Also, starting this season, once you reach Goldrank,
the LTC2 will become available to purchase in the Onslaught Bondshop.
The Onslaught Legends series has a new sponsor, Surfshark.
Tune in on Twitch throughout the season to earn OLS program store drops,
Where you can claim prizes such as a cannon, the cannon and...
...cath...
...canon yakpanzer 100 philometer.
Thank you.
You can also pick up new OLS bundles to show your support for your favourite team.
If they win, your star will be automatically upgraded.
Mark the 21st and 22nd of February in your calendar for the finals.
It's going to be all to play for this time around.
Let us know in the comments who you think is going to win,
and be sure to check out the article for further dates and details.
Halfway through the assault season, you will also have the chance to take on the Megapartoon
with some of your favourite content creators on February 7th.
If you're feeling up to the challenge, why don't you try to defeat them?
Otherwise, there are always Twitch drops to be earned.
Spring has nearly sprung, which means that there will be a new round of Twitch drops
for the Spring token stall, including the opportunity to pick up the German Tier 7
heavy tank, the VK45.03.
into anyone in the World of Tanks category to start earning your drops.
Once earned, clay them in your Twitch Drops inventory, then find the spring token store
in-game and go spend your tokens.
Beverly brings a brand new Lunar New Year event, the Jade Emperors Challenge, returning
for February 12th until the 22nd.
This fast-paced, limited-time 77 mode has teams fighting to capture and deliver the
spirit of the Fire Horse across a specially decorated map.
You need class abilities and quick rounds, encouraged teamwork and constant action.
And of course, there will be rewards available for the event.
We'll be sharing more details closer to launch, so keep your eyes out.
A new boosteroid bundle is arriving on February 1st, perfect for commanders who want to keep
playing World of Tanks even when they are away from their usual setup.
It comes with a brand new, culinary themed commander ready to serve perfectly cooked
anorak alongside guaranteed musty rewards jump into battle wherever you are and
check out the world of tanks portal for all the details
roses are red camo's in green this Valentine's Friday there's streams to
be seen roll out your tanks bring friends along
head on to the battlefield who will you be supporting root for your favorites
follow their journey and stand by them with you on their side they'll be
unstoppable you take hits together with them and that means you go all the way
behind every vehicle is a personality whose quick thinking and precise
Nice actions can change the outcome of battle.
Victory is a hundred shots and maneuvers, plus a thousand emotions on the other side
of the screen.
Support your favorite OLS team, be by their side, together, until victory.
Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Surfshark Onslaught Legends Series Season
5.
Banter, another day, we're getting closer to playoffs.
Yeah, that we are.
We've seen some, I feel like the players are into playoffs, so we've nearly decided.
So today we'll need to see if the lower team of Citiak can get a bit of luck with
other teams losing.
Yeah, I'm excited for the playoffs.
I should be. But before we get into those play matches today, a quick shout-out to our sponsors.
Surfshark is the official sponsor of the OnSouth Legends Series League Season 5.
We're very happy to have them support in the tournament and bolstering the prize pool for the players to take away a little bit more winnings as well.
Surfshark is a VPN that helps to keep your connection secure and private, whether you're gaming, traveling or browsing online.
It works on unlimited devices, and is fast and easy to use exactly what gamers need.
For you guys at home though, Surfshark has prepared a special offer specifically for you.
Just go to surfshark.com slash OLS or use the quote OLS upon checkout to get four extra months of Surfshark VPN.
You can find all of the details should be clickable Surfshark banner on the official model thanks Twitch channel.
Now let's get back to the action.
We already know a few things about the banner, right?
we know that the four themes we know load us. Yeah, but now on the top things
could still change. Yeah, and that could affect some things. So first thing
let's have a look at the play days. So obviously we have one more play day in
this group stage coming on Thursday the 19th of February. And then we're going
through to the playoffs this weekend. But yeah, load us out down and out. A bit
of a shame for them, but there's still a possibility, I believe there's
still a possibility for CTR. It's a slim one, but there still is a possibility by the intervention
of the Lord above.
I don't know if the Lord is going to want to intervene that much, though, to be honest
with you.
I'm inclined to. I mean, CTR have shown some good showing in the LS so far. And here
we can see the bundles, the LS supporter base, the LS advanced, and the Oracle bundle,
which of course you get to support whichever team you want by choosing their bundle.
Have you chosen yours yet?
I think I'm going with Hidden Run this season.
Yeah, it's the logical one.
I'm sticking with my Volga, so I feel like they can have a comeback in this, I think.
So, I can always dream.
You can dream, of course, but...
No one else can.
Those are going to stay dreams.
Tokens, of course, today on Tuesday, five Tokens, but do keep your eyes tuned for the end of the week.
week. On the weekend we are going to have a 5 plus 5 and 5 plus 5. That's going to be the
lion's share to your tokens, especially if you may have missed a stream or 2, 4, Dakar
and Yakpanzer, the KV122, the Puddle, the 2D Styles, the Premium Days, the consumables
or of course the personal reserves, a little bit for everybody.
Yeah, do a little bit personal reserve. But yeah, I mean if it's completely for
free, why not earn it while watching some fantastic OLS. But looking at the standings
we can have Volga's already out Lotus they're being shown the door and CTR after actually
no no it's it's over yeah it's fully over they can only get 16 points maximum so W's
victory yesterday guaranteed it so the biggest question is first or second if
it's gonna be hit in one or catch by it because Masha going back there while
they could still score eight points right it's you know it's been unlikely yeah
I mean cashback brought they had a bit of a shaky start at the beginning of the
season but they brought it back strong and now second place contesting with it
and run it's a real toss up between those two but we've got some really as
as with every day we have some fantastic matches for you cashback versus mafia
up first real heavyweight low for blow but after that W versus hit again
doesn't make that much difference. I don't think HIT can catch Mafia at this point, but if HIT wins that, they will be crowned first in the group stages and the battle for the last place.
I think Lotus can get equal on points with CTR, right? But I don't know about matches, it depends on matches.
Round difference.
Yeah, round difference. But I'm not sure. I still think CTR will probably be beating them on round difference. CTR have performed very well in this or less with some nice and interesting tactics.
It's a bit of a shame for them to go out. I did, uh, I rated them yesterday to my detriment, but
Yeah, we've got some interesting we got an interesting match right here
We should uh cashback. They haven't looked all that flashy, but they've been very very solid
Twilight of course would like to win this for his birthday as well
Although last time we saw somebody have a birthday. I think they got smacked like
Taks 4-0 with Lotus, but so hopefully the birthday luck is
more favourable this time, but Kasperak have been quite interesting. Like you said, they
haven't been very flashy. There's no victories I can really remember. I think the start of
the season was quite shaky, but they absolutely spanked W. Since then, they've been on a bit
of a roll, but Mathieu also being quite consistent. They did lose their last playday against
Hit and Run in fantastic fashion with that last minute sand river. You remember it,
The monster with the RHM picking up on the lower sides. That was a fantastic game. I rewatched it yesterday actually
But yeah, that was a crazy game
Yeah, it really was to it less than 200 HP difference between the teams. That's how that's how you know like the margins
That's a busy heel the busy heels of teammate or two. That's the difference between when you're losing
But yeah, look at the stats that average damage by both of these is really high
Especially because proof was displaying the inspire tank which should really get on more damage than the E4
was nice damage in the E4, but as you can see, little hat has played 12 tanks, so he plays
a lot of different ones, but Cashback's win rate is really good, look at that, 70% almost.
Yeah, I mean, they're all across the season being very, very solid Mafia, however the team
that play against is not the most flashy team either, but they can still perform a
matters for them, however against Hidden One, that run on 7 river will hunt them
a little bit, that was a throw of the ages.
Yeah, it really was. Especially like these teams, you know, you get to a level where you're so consistent that any any late game where you have such an advantage should never realistically be loseable.
Teams like Loader, CTR, they'll make mistakes in the late game. We saw that with CTR against Cashback on the Runeberg and it was a cliff.
I'm not entirely sure what the map was. Oh no, no, no, it was Pilsen, where they threw it away in the late game, but these types of teams shouldn't be doing that.
and Mafia really did do a massive throw against Enron.
Especially, you know, it's like, you can lose games,
but you don't lose the Derby in that fashion.
No, that's under a game.
I mean, it's well played by Monster,
but Mafia is not gonna be too happy about that.
Losing out some points there for sure.
No Sand River in this one until the tiebreaker.
At the very, very end, there may be
some developer appearing, but first up,
it's gonna be Himmelsdorf between Cashback and Mafia.
neither team known for its all-out aggression, right?
No, not really.
Not this season.
We've seen it in previous seasons with Cashback
absolutely spanked W on it.
So they can perform well on it.
Mafia choosing Tundra.
That's an empty banning ghost town.
These are some interesting map picks.
Tundra being chosen.
We saw it a lot in the beginning of the season,
but it's peaked it off as we go ahead.
But now it's making its return.
Then Ruinberg, Kelsom being banned by Cashback.
Quite surprised.
Mafia, I think they're kind of out of ideas on Kelsom.
They don't want to play anymore.
We haven't seen much of them.
Yeah, but they banned it after Mafia didn't pick it.
Yeah, sure, but maybe they've got something cooking for Tundra.
It was interesting.
As I said, it was one of the most chosen maps in the beginning,
and then it just, you know, the past two weeks we've barely seen it.
But, yeah, we're going to need to see what they've got on Himmelsdorf.
What was the last map that Mafia chose after...
Roomba, Roomba is an interesting one to choose, but predictions, all of us going for a 4-2,
except Phil, looking with that 4-2-4 cashback, we need to hope he's wrong, he's running away with
it a little. I threw some points yesterday, so we haven't checked what the standings are actually,
I think I'm one, if I'm right, I think I'm one point behind you, Keyhand is somewhere down the
well, but Phil is quite far in front, so we need to be catching up a little.
I don't know how far up front he is. Not that much.
I'll do the calculations when I'm on replays.
Then for the last games we can see what the scores are between all of us.
Yeah, we'll need to see. I don't think there was a massive difference
between our predictions and all of the games today actually.
I just kind of went for a bit of an even one.
even though mafia have less points I do still think they're a little bit more consistent than cashback
but it's a really hard one to predict here
lineups no cashback coming in
bz75, is4, is7, 140, blitzka, fushby and an e4
yeah mafia
bz, is7, 140, double fushby and double e4
these lineups not telling us that much the double fushby and mafia side does indicate some form aggression
and the IS-7s on both teams mean they will be a little bit cap-orientated
because when you see this IS-7, the only good position it can really play
is that cap on the hold-downs, but in the beginning the BZ,
boosting Braembreaker into the middle in that IS-4,
Foschbeer Blitzker on the 8-line, but Aafir going for that 4-1-2 aggression,
whole team.
The first lead in the try, so the 1-40 he will get
with the strike, Braembreaker in the mean,
I'm already pushing down the middle in the S4.
Roll spot Conrad, how much damage is he gonna take?
Minus one key already on that IS-7.
He will give one shot back,
and now Mafia will be forced to continue through on towards Akka even in that E4.
The first gets a shot, that's an important one.
Means he can pop the Inspire, Conrad and Braembreaker trading it out a little more.
And for Mafia, oh, music.
They can 1 and a half key actually to the face.
Quick shooting, it gets tracked again in that E4,
but I think he just about got safe and they will go for Akka, but it's been very costly so far for Mafia.
Yeah, those foshes. I think they were spotted quite late on that one line. Akka's now pulled back into safe,
but Rek'Soth does have enough to put them out if he goes for it. Conrad forced to move out because he was kind of stuck behind that building.
Akka, there should be the last shot that he does, and he will heal quite a lot from this.
We need to see what the reaction will be from Cashback, because they can't lose this E4 for free right now.
In the meantime, Liberty, brain-maker pushing towards Orchek, he is pulling back to a using
missing, whipping the shot there in that E4, an important one, Orchek is forced back,
but he's getting flanked by a Bliska with a Purpose in the meantime, lands a standard
strike, Orchek getting flanked by the Bliska, not much he can do about that one, but Mafia
is still in its squeezy now, maybe a little late on running away, takes a lot of damage
there from that force B, from Rekstar and Kono, and Orchek is hogging against
He bounces as well. Yeah, that's not a great thing to face hug in Mafia
Sorry to close the gap ever so slightly in this one music does go down or check looking for liberty doesn't get the role
Liberty will survive ability activated as well
It was a hero play that it did not end up working today two things down for mafia over cashback
Poono however looks to want to make a difference
But minebreaker with the BZ will put himself back into safety now mafia looking in trouble
Yeah, Kono tries to get the tracking shot on mine breakers, so we can keep the plumber
tracked in the middle, but ooooh, big HE connection, and I think that was after the heal was popped,
so Kono will not heal that back.
A little in a bit of a conundrum right now, gives one to Rexar without ability, so little
might go down here, but Kono falls in the meantime, Aphrodite is closing the distance,
Yolo down to a one shot, Rexar gets round to death, and now it's all over, Mafia.
a bold play, but they just couldn't get that catch, you know?
It took them too long to pick up Akka on that one through three line, and Afia did do good reactions to it.
Yeah, and especially that initial damage on the crossing was very, very, very good against Mafia.
some tanks taking the 1k like Conrad and 1.5k taken on for example
Uzek as well on the E4 which ended up costing him later.
So all in all, good stuff there from Cashback, good preparation,
good initial damage, just solo run.
Yeah, I think Cashback kind of predicted Mafia might go a bit aggressive.
We have seen them, they're not the most aggressive team on Himmels,
but we have seen them play this 1-2 line before, quite aggressive.
So Akka was very far back, he didn't do that much damage
But he bought a lot of time for the team
So his death not the worst and you can kind of see I'm the line of cash back like everyone except that car has over 2k
Like the BZ over 2k a little over 5k little over 5k as well screeds with four
Yeah, nice and solid use like getting a bit cord currently do one shot 94
You miss one as well. Yeah, but the person in that car so I could do the long range shot
you know how himmels can be with all the fences and things like that.
I mean, Yuzek's shot was like 100 meters, I'm not sure how he missed out.
I can miss those, alright.
When I'm talking about it, I think it happened on himmels.
There's a reason why you're in Gipsy, you know?
Excuse me, I was in fame at one point.
To recall you wanted to kick me, but anyway,
yeah, Yuzek not connecting the shot.
I mean, it doesn't make a difference, right?
Like, in this game, one extra shot,
Even 2 doesn't make the difference when it's a 6 to 1 scoreline, or a 7 to 1 scoreline, so...
Nobody, I want to take everybody at some point, so it's fine.
I adjust from my side, so it's all good.
Yikes. Unlucky.
First round of Himmels, so you know Cashback, they are not known for its hyperaggression.
They set up pretty solid to counter Mafia's initial aggression.
Get success out of it as well, find the first round.
We saw this before, the mafia tried it against Hidden One as well, the segregation on Himmels
did not work whatsoever, got school level.
Talking about the 8 line one, that one was just a... I call that an anomaly.
The 1-2 line one was a bit, it was kind of the same story.
Yeah, this is the thing about that 1-2 line in the 7V7, if you take those positions
you can do punishment, but with the abilities and things, and with the level these guys
play at, they know when to pull back into defensive positions.
they take that it's kind of if you're going to take a position and bleed for it you're
doing bleed for position right but that position needs to be advantageous and in that game where
mafia took the one two it wasn't in this game it wasn't because they got Akka but after
that they couldn't get any more free picks and yeah we need to see a bit better like
cashback just doing the good reaction you know they pushed the one two they sacrificed
but they made Mafia bleed for this 1-2 position
and then what?
This 1-2 position is not that strong on this map
just because of all the angles and things
Yosef was caught in the south
and we need to see a little bit better from Mafia
Second round though, Mafia
double flush B, 140 CS and S4, BZ and a 60 TP
60 TP coming back into action
but on cashback side, little in the IS-7, type 5 heavy 140, 430U, double Blitzker and a Fosh.
Interesting lineup by cashback, a good mix of tanks, Blitzkers for the aggression,
430 for the DPM, type 5 for the meat, the IS-7 for the cat pressure,
but Afia with that CS probably going to want to play a little bit of a slower game on that hill.
Uh, I think so. I mean it says usually, unless he's pushing somebody, you know,
But since he's just going towards the hill, they were the double fosh as well. Maybe trying to do what hit and run did
Still don't like this 60GP though
We saw Lotus
Hit the double CS on the hill earlier
In the week and that was pretty good, but now Conrad and Yolo
Challenging this one to line. They cannot show the damage each. They're kind of exposed here
Yeah Conrad can't stay there
There's no backing way you can when there's double blisker and fosh up here Conrad's gonna need to go up and over to the left
And I don't think a fosh is quick enough nice force quick enough that you see that is not the way to run
He's exposing it's complete behind and he gets absolutely shredded for it. Deleted
And now one tank disadvantage
Kind of a similar game to the previous one where now cashback have that one too long
But they get that pick so much quicker, and I don't think the hill is gonna be worth it for this
The problem here is that YOLO is pushable as well.
They could shoot him from the window but little ensqueezy and flank him but Aka Aka puts 800 from behind
and then you can see the damage starting to chip in, the 140, the i7 YOLO will die
and it will be two tanks down for Mafia.
I'm sure he's surviving a little bit longer but he will not be able to last that much time in that window
and he doesn't. He dies, he goes down.
Two tanks for the side of Mafia.
leading down leading for cashback up an HP by 6,000 up double guns I mean if
you keyhand you probably still believe in the remontada in this round but if
you're a realist it is going to be very tough I mean rex or an orchek will find
brain baker they've been on the prowl with those first V so they do find this
type 5 but again they cannot really miss any shots to kill this orchek
once they get past rex are decided to clip out if they can find this kill
but anything really coming back then who knows anything could be possible liberty
mind-breaker in the meantime coming back rex or in the healing part the healing
segment good shooting there from the mafia for speed but now the chase comes
from liberty in his own first be in you know you can see the fatty they make it
a block in the gap quite a bit and good shooting from liberty gets rex our
numerous times as well a good strike go from mafia and all of a sudden it's
been in 2000 HP yeah well you're saying about the remantata always
will now hunt down Liberty. But that 430, Beliska is coming in from the north, the strikes
being taken, music might be able to take out little, but that's going to be all about
who does when the 430 of Aphrodite gets behind him.
Also, it's actually ignoring Liberty. Going for that, Beliska Vitsa instead, trying to
take him out. There is a possibility for Mafia here, but it's a real slim one.
They need to take him out, but Orzic goes down to Akka, and that really should
at the end of the game here. Rek'Sar doesn't have enough shells to kill Akka, and he will
go down when Akka reloads. Pufas will give one, but that should be about all they wrote
for Rek'Sar and now in a 2v4. Dashback making it a little closer than it needed to be, but
I feel like after those first two kills, there was no real going back from that bit.
I don't think Orcish's play was a little ugly as well. They aren't forced to blisk,
it doesn't get the first shot, so it doesn't get ability, then ends up taking a lot of damage.
Come close it at some point, but not really that close.
Mafia is going to leave Himmelsurf sad and disappointed with a 2-0 deficit.
Yeah, I mean, they try. What was it? You can't have your cake and eat it.
You can't have two foshes up the hill and also play the cap.
Not expected to be pushed. This was Mafia's fault, you know?
You can't overplay your hand
Which they completely did putting two tanks in the cap three tanks up the hill you're too out of game for those fosters to support
I disagree with the way
One right brand for the cap. I don't think he runs in the way back towards his own base
I think he goes left. You know what I mean? I think if he does that it probably lives like he doesn't live on much HP
But he lives
But yeah catching that eyes for I mean it was a beautiful counter by cashback
They they had the perfect tanks in position to catch this eyes for and they played with no fear which you can really respect but
This is mafia over playing their hand. It feels like the first himmels
I feel like they need to stop playing himmels off and start choosing maps that they can actually perform on because this was poor
And train place on my games here, you know playing one two line and playing the hell at the same time
It doesn't work out. They get clapped for it. What was the second map coming out?
Tundra. I mean it will be interesting between these two.
Yeah, we haven't seen Tundra for about a week, you know, unless at least. I don't remember seeing
Tundra for quite a while, so we need to see if math has something spicy prepared for this.
Because you know Tundra is one of those maps, it's a small map, double strike in the north,
it's quite difficult to push because of the crossfire angles. I feel like,
and as well, it's not a well established map, right? It's no Himmelsdorf cliff,
It's like it's a map that's not been in competitive for that long.
So the these juggernaut these old older teams who have played OLS and WGL and whatever else for years,
they don't tend to choose those maps. Same with like Live Oaks in 15 to 15. So we'll get
to see if Mafia like Mafia choosing Tundra is quite interesting. What can they do with a draw?
You say in the 60p getting 5 for one or no ban or ban altogether. But in return, you know,
you see down the bottom of the leaderboard, scoreboard, Conrad, Yolo, even Profus in the
140 not really getting that much done, a hard game for Mafia, they need to recover on Tundra
but it will be hard as well.
Yeah, definitely, Profus was hunted down in the north so it's just gone from bad
to worse, he just had minimal support, CS on the hill, not much strike damage either
actually, expected them to do more than one strike, but Kono doing 4.5 from the
hell 60tp a lot of this was in the late game as well he's the last to die so it was quite
inconsequential damage but yeah solid by cashback they they punished mafia for a risky player i feel
like this is a strat that can work against a team like lotus or ctr but when you're playing against
cashback or hit you know these are experienced teams that they pun you know you try and take
an inch they will take a mile well sorry sorry for you if you take a centimeter they'll
take a kilometer. What the hell is a kilometer? No, I mean, Tundra is Mafia's pick, so they obviously
have something cooking here, prepared, ready to play it as well. What it is is a good question.
We don't really see those brawls on Tundra. I've talked about this a few times and I
don't even remember either of these two playing Tundra at any given point, so that makes it
really interesting. I think they have, in Mafia I remember playing Tundra. We had some games
where it was, I remember we can load it since CTR would pick this quite a bit in the beginning,
CTR played a lot of games on this map, because you can do some mind games with it, but it fell out
of favor. Yeah, it's an interesting map, you know, because you've got the north with the double
strike, the south with the three info points, but it kind of means you're kind of forced into
playing for that north, and you see the phase one score 31 to cashback probably should have
have come with Phil for the prediction but yeah it's that map so they've got to
cook something here. Everybody predicted mafia but I feel right. Yeah well unlucky.
Yeah unlucky. One of those things. One of those days. Line up so cash back. Oh it had to be
four select with the switch to the way from it. WBZ, W50M, 140, SDRB and at the
SAC.
Mafia, triple BZ, W50M, 140 and 430U.
We have seen that Tessac once before on this map.
I think it might have been Lotus versus Volgas.
I can't remember who it was.
But I've definitely seen it as a SAC on this map.
But STRV is an interesting choice.
There's not that much cover on this map.
It's not a very big map.
So I'm quite curious what they want to put this STRV.
I mean, you guys should just put him on the F2 position, huh?
Yeah, he doesn't have that great shots from there, it's a good for holding, you know.
He has really good shots on like A3 and people peeking though.
Yeah, if that's if you peek.
Yeah, but if you're playing control, I guess it works for that.
Although I'm not really a fan of the Tessac in the, you know, in this, SCIV or PAY,
but...
I love Tessac, little machine gun shit though.
But yeah, the plane coming out in the beginning, 430U being spotted, same as the double BZ.
Rufus tries to take the infill point in their own base, gets decapped, gets it on the second,
but that's gonna mean that Cashback gets this northern double strike and we have seen
it before.
If you give up these northern strikes, you need to make sure that you make a move
in the south or you do something because as time goes on the arsenal of strikes is
going to come through. I think mafia when I apply this cap Russia because they
know that cashback don't have the best fighting tanks they have the STRV and the
Tessac not good tanks for fighting in close quarters so need to see. Well
double strike is available for cashback Liberty puts the plane it goes
into the cap they will put one of the strikes every maker taking some of the
BZ he peaked against Konrad and they ended up getting pretty good retaliation there little though getting blasted minus one and a half
K that's gonna shot against you second does reset the base but that was very expensive for the STV
Yeah, it was good bear in mind when these strikes get dropped. It's gonna be expensive. It's gonna at least hit two
Didn't hit Conrad. He was just out of the circle. So that's 900 onto these BZ's. Yes
They will heal each other because they are getting
They are building up their ability points by sitting in this cap circle, but
Cashback
Saving these strikes they will place one more, but then they won't be able to get another this will hit all three of them
You know, that is a good one. You said tried to dodge it there, but now there are the strikes for now
The real game begins 27 seconds. Is that enough refered daddy to take his and put it just about a big slow
That's the ball. I think just about
No, actually no, because it takes 15 seconds to take it, so we're making it to reset against Conrad, that's not enough either.
They need to find another reset, it's not going to be enough with just one reset.
Liberty spots out in Bono, there is a guy leaving the cap though, that's Conrad.
So now after 30 we'll have enough time.
Yeah, but they are making this play in the north, the Tessac is forced to be pushed off.
He does complete the cap with the DMR after that, he gets placed onto YOLO and Yuzek.
So that does get done, but...
Rexhawn now can take this ball to strike and repress Yuzek, and bear in mind that SRV is not a factor right now.
I mean, it's covering, though. He's getting some shots out as well.
If they decide to peek out, we're in Raker pushing forward, Apka pushing forward as well.
They want to get Yuzek out of the game, they don't have a strike available.
They gotta be careful, they still have the worst fighting line-up.
Little does have some shots there, and that's...
Yes, there we are, he might be not the healthiest anymore at this point.
We can still cover, he's taken the end floor as well.
I kept peeking out, trading it out against Yoroh.
Mine Baker pushing forward as well, but I would say that Marker currently
still has a pretty decent position, especially because he got control now over the double strike.
Yeah, bear in mind these BCs, they're triple healing each other,
but they decide to go for the push, risky going into this S2-RVP.
They want to get brain break out strike gets play so to be sure of the finish off brain breaker
Hacker will go forward, but what is there?
It's gonna be for boost and use it to meet him so actor will go down
Once who first gets out this DPM down to a one-shot
We need to save a strike come out in the meantime in the north
We have a fight between the E50M that's a second the 140
Little one V1s going on all over this map right now for dining face enough against Kono
He says we find squeezy in Liberty are gonna find rex or though Kono back enough
He realizes the Nord has been lost and the gates have been broken.
Good body block there from Rekstar, but doesn't get the shot out in return, so it doesn't drop speed to a one shot.
Conva in the meantime, getting shot by Lill, and the rest of you suddenly feel a little bit annoying here.
Maki is suddenly to the fire. Yes, they have six tanks left, but the HP is almost so low.
Make it five. At this point, still two one shots available for Fuse, and Conva and Liberty is hunting on towards Conva at the Saga.
It is good if they can have those low HP targets.
You know when they start to come in one clip of all the time becomes a bit better at it
You're not taking a shot from little as well, and I think the rest of you has actually been very annoying still
Yeah, the biggest cashback not taking any risks that take you both these strikes, so
If my break it doesn't finish to the double strike will need to see if they put the strike on the group who's gets placed
Osage gets shot in the front clip from behind gets taken out. Oh, no clip down the sack MVP tank here
Now Conrad just left on his loan, so little Mike want to go and pick up that one himself.
No more sniping.
He's a 268 before, recently promoted.
But yeah, this is always a hard game to play in Mafia.
To play this triple cap, it's very difficult to pull off, actually, just because of
a double strike in the north.
Matchpoint though.
Matchpoint at this point for Cashback.
I mean, the way it's going right now is looking like a 4-0.
Yeah.
This game was a bit more convincing than the previous two Himmelsdorfs, but I think that's
kind of because the mafia wrote, you know, they get the info point because they play
South and then they try and punish Cashback's lineup for not having that many fighting tanks,
but yeah, Cashback 3-0 are up and you can't say it's not deserved.
They have been playing bad.
That's going to be, man.
Still 5.6k damage.
Yeah, Tessac, okay.
I mean, a lot of this is in the late game, but I mean, not that much of that
a strike damage actually only 440 strike damage that's interesting no I mean it's
a really good game here for for the stock even but many that SRV you know got
punished in the beginning but still comes out and does a pretty good amount of
damage right for that stv 5% I don't think anybody really expected him to be
that high on the leaderboard after the initial trades that were made there
and right now it's looking like a 4-0 to be on a scratchback so far just
seems to have read Mafia like a book. How much do we take away from this match is
going to be a different story of course? Yeah I mean I don't think we're gonna see
that much tundra later in the playoffs and things but I think Mafia also
realizes I mean it's not it's cope in a way but also like their position is
unlikely to change too much. Yeah yeah that's a good point. The proof was
getting out so little damage in that one. Again it's a bit worrying. Again and
In the Himmels, it wasn't his games either, to be honest.
Yeah.
No, but like the 140, especially on a map like this,
in this game, where all of the heavies are stuck
in this holopine cap pressure, all the mediums need to eat.
Because you need to be punishing cashbacks
for getting these decaps.
And 1,300 on an Inspire medium is just not enough.
Like, it really is not enough at this level.
Well, can they recover?
I mean, Mafia, four rounds in a row to win this match,
it would be impressive.
They ran Montana, the W special,
but yeah, it's a tall order,
especially they've lost their first game on their own map pick,
which is never a good thing, you know?
And especially when it's such a niche map pick,
like if they choose Cliff or Himmelsdorf,
I'm gonna be like, okay,
it's a map they've played a million times,
but it's Tundra, you know?
If you take Tundra,
I think it's because you have something on it, but we need to see more from Mafia in this one.
We really need to see, it's Duodai right now, obviously it's the last one,
but Duodai to show us something, because if it's 4-0 that's not a good luck.
No, it would not be a good luck, I completely agree with that, but again, you know,
Mafia, neither Mafia nor Cashback is probably showing too much.
I mean actually no, Cashback would be showing more than Mafia because that's the fight there for first.
Well, yeah, 4-0 for first is strong, but I think at this point you're kind of...
Because they're playoff spots are guaranteed, you know.
As you get to the edge at the end of the group stage, you kind of want to not show much.
Yeah, that's about the money for the regular season.
Well, yeah, but I don't know if the places can change anymore.
On the first and second it's only one point difference.
Yeah, on the first and second, yeah, but I'm talking about Mafia.
Mafia is like four points ahead of W I think, so they would need to leave both their matches without picking up any points, I think?
Yeah.
However, we're not there yet. Mafia coming out, RHM, 4-3 U, 140, E50M, 3rd PZ.
Yeah, on the cashback side, 2PZ, IS-7, E50M, 140, Bliska.
I don't know, RHM. Do you like the Bliska on this map actually? I like the one that you can use on these regions, but IS-7 is an interesting pick.
often see it picked on this map just because of the lack of gun depression. The speed is
not great. There's a lot of swampy terrain on Tundra. Obviously it's based in a swamp,
so the soft stats can be not great for it. But in the beginning, YOLO boosting that 432.
Plane comes out, full tank spotted. Plane on the other side, almost everyone except
Liberty spotted, so both of these light tanks do have a rebind.
Liberty will be first on the middle stride, they're a minebaker, a little stopping to
try and do some damage, but it's a split here from Mafia, playing with two tanks in
the south and then three EBCs playing close, Yolo Conrad Yuzek.
They know that the entirety of Cashback is here, Liberty, ooh, driving into the
building.
Not seen that one from Liberty before.
Yeah, a bit of panic might have been pinging the map, takes another one from the 50m, a lot of damage on this light, nobody want to see it.
Cashback's seed control of this strike to Yolo, they will take the North one of course, and it's only that 430 up there.
Cashback, do we need to, Mafia, do we need to be careful here? They can be overrunning these positions due to the double tank in the south.
Yeah, KSW doesn't seem to be pulling the trigger on that, I agree that there would be a possibility for them to run over this northern area, the 43U is stuck there, but instead they're gonna go for the rotation, so E50M on 40RHM rotating out, and Brembeck does have an angle on YOLO to reset the strike over and over.
No damage, but back.
That's more of an annoyance than anything though.
Yeah, no, but it stops them from taking it at least.
Yeah, true.
true. I mean the issue is now Liberty took so much damage that making this rotation is not
going to be that easy and obviously if it goes to draw rolls which is highly unlikely
that damage dealt could be a factor but
Rexha play against Akka ability used and Rexha didn't get one in return so Rexha is now out of
of his body button ability.
I was settling in for a bit of a long game.
YOLO did manage to take the strike.
The strike in the north can be taken at any time
once it backs up.
Mafia can't deny that one.
Gonna be a slow one, definitely.
Definitely, apparently there seems to be trying
to figure out what move they can make
because they're the ones that currently as it stands
need to actually make the move
just because they have
felt less damage than what they have. It's so early days for this
but
if something doesn't get in the mind
they don't have the map control either
like even though it's one phone strikes but
Aphrodite does get spotted going in, Squeezie doesn't so
important information for
flashback at the moment, 140 not being spotted
Cuono gets spotted out, takes one, takes two, Cuono let's say greedy there and the IHM is gonna take another one, take one more even down towards 1.4
I mean Liberty made a mistake but Cuono's mistake evens out this game altogether.
Rufus not taking some as well, Liberty on the top of the hill will take the Info Tower, won't get reset for it either so gets an snatch as that away in front of Mafia
but all of a sudden we're just back even Cuono push forward and I don't know why.
Yeah, I mean the 15 was spotted, you don't want to face any of them at the best of times with my gem, so that was quite a bold decision.
Cashback, happy with the damage they've dealt, opting to retreat, that's an interesting choice.
I think they realized that they've pulled Matthew out of position and they have a unique window of opportunity where they can make this northern refush.
Old one by Cashback, I like it.
I mean, let's see the BZ of Conrad Rotated Sound, which not by Ragsar yet again.
Playing this position very well, the forted used size and shape.
Advantages there over the E50M potentially, forward out position.
By now, the cashback does realize, okay, we pulled the BZ away from the middle of the map.
It pulled himself. We could potentially overrun the north ourselves, but they're stopping.
They're actually just holding.
Yeah, but obviously Cashback don't know it, we do, but there's a unique opportunity here for Cashback to push on to Mafia while they're out of position.
Rek'Sa backs away, he smells something coming. Aphrodite, Akka, Squeezy, Breakbreaker, they're making the play in the north with Liberty and Mafia completely out of position right now.
Strike comes out on Torsi Yolo, Aphrodite looking for the backside of that BZ.
and he got a far mindbreaker taking a lot of damage for this though and that bz taking even more damage
not really what you want to see from him and that bz 75 but now yolo suddenly get crossfired a little
pushing across as well in the is7 and yolo going for the five against uh little but in return i think
mindbreaker actually made a shot towards the bridge so he's not paying attention towards yolo
is doing the north now getting pushed as well on towards rexar yolo goes down can they pick up
rexar without too much hassle it does seem to be the case akka might explode for this though
is barely alive on 481 but he will survive so two tanks down now for the side of mafia who are in
an hp leap slightly but they're losing the north positions and if cashback slows down the game now
with five minutes to go double strike control as well dropping gizek load don't worry about a
little since the third bug and i think cashback will now reset into taking the strike and slowly
weathering down mafia's resistance yeah the punish there wasn't anywhere near enough yes ak is
on a one-shot yes brain break is on a one-shot but complete strike controllers with cashback
in the north so they're not able to get these low HP picks squeezy hunting down orzic goes
until he's unspotted and then runs away nice play by squeezy forces conor to rotate over
even though squeezy's already backed away really nice play and as you said cashback now gonna
reset to these northern positions and they've got everything to play for 75 HP disadvantage
but with double strike that evens out real quick.
Oh no, there's double strikes about the rune mafia.
I mean they're down in guns already.
New seconds to be really careful because he's too strikeable.
And I think Leviticus can go back to the hill slowly.
And this is a tall order of mafia right now.
They really don't have anything working on them.
All of their HP essentially is on Pufus and Conrad.
But yes, Pufus is a nice thing to have it on, but 3K and then 9K should be a third of their team on Conrad.
It's not what you want really in a late game scenario.
Well, Pufus is starting to move towards the hill.
Mafia has to make the move. If they wait for the second round of strikes to come out from the cashback it's game over.
Or you think it's been a game over, but if those strikes reset and they get taken once more, they're not doing anything.
I think that is too much damage, that will be 2k damage from strikes alone, that is 25% of their HP, a bit less but you know.
What's your opinion on how Mafia can get back into this? What side do they need to push? Cause I'm rolling it over now.
What's your first insight on your lane?
Really?
Yeah, the country push onto...
I think it needs to be a 7 lane play.
The light's got 7.5 on 9 lane.
The light doesn't see it though.
see it though no but like they have this too much it's from behind later there's
also a narrow angle to who's gets strike so that's 450 it's a narrow angle to
push from and I think after daddy's spotting it really enough they used
to like right after daddy's position he will spot them and back off 20 he
Damage is a little important.
Yeah, they see Conrad, those guys spotted now by Aphrodite.
And I do agree that this is the play that Conrad should make.
Not without the zero line.
Just him pushing up here is not enough, but I think they need pressure from A9.
Like him is not enough.
They needed Profusa, A9 as well, to put some pressure to get crossfire on Aphrodite.
Now Conrad just seems to have taken three shots for free,
and in the meantime he says,
Hello guys, I've taken your hill, I've taken your
Complications tower and I've given Kono some damage to the face as well.
Trading is perfect for us. Orchic is repushing with a thousand HP.
There is double strike however from cashback and Orchic is about to face the
music because Squeezy is not gonna give himself up for nothing. There comes the
strike, there comes the second strike. Orchic down, music now coming in. But
that is a BZ75. That thing does not have the VPM needed to kill a 140.
Little with another strike I guess will pick it up there goes
The hopes and dreams of mafia it's a disaster for them today for zero for cashback absolutely rolling over
Mafia towards the end of the regular season. They're very happy with that. I mean a mafia still pretty good so what that's winners
Raining WCI champion. So, you know for cashback, it's also really good for the round difference
Yeah, just four zero by Matthew
I played a very solid series of World of Tanks. A lot of openings they did countered Mafia straight and you know that's good, it's really good.
in every single season. This is not just a chink in the armor, this is a blatant hold, 4-0, but it was not on the menu.
It's not from Kastra. Yeah, Kastra played a very solid series of World of Tanks.
A lot of openings they did countered Mafia straight, and that's good.
It's really good. 4-0, well deserved, taking a lot of points, taking a lot of round difference,
putting the pressure back on Hidden Run, of course, as well, which is always nice.
It was the pressure back onto them, really nice round difference for Cashback not losing
a single round, which can make a difference as you said in the regular season, as he pushing
them up a bit higher.
But yeah, I don't know what else to say.
I think Cashback are just reading what Matthew are doing so much better.
This Northern repush, I think the Northern repush was even slow.
I thought there was a window of opportunity, but it didn't feel like a window.
feel like a gaping hole that cashback just walked through they didn't even
repush immediately they took their time with it and mafia just didn't seem
aware at all they really just fell two steps behind cashback in in each of these
games well I mean I think there is some something about 40 I was talking to
Ios yesterday about the stallings and something about four zeros I don't know
What about 4-0s, what do you mean?
There were some scenarios in which the standings changed, they were very limited scenarios.
After the stats later on today we'll have a look at the standings and see what the difference
is.
What more is there to say about this match?
It's so strange, Cashback has such a slow start to the season, but 4-0-W, 4-0, Barthia now, it's complete dominance to be honest, and in the next playday they play hit-and-run, so that's going to be the real game to watch.
I mean, that will be the one that decides everything, as long as you're in one wins.
Even then, even if they lose, there will be three points gap, depending on how they lose.
So the last match will decide everything, but before that, we still have two more matches
today.
But before that, let's take it away with a little rubbery place.
Well hello there ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to the Surfshark Onslaught Legends
series season 5, phase 2, day 4, match 2 and hopefully it's going to be a banger, W against
Hit but to be honest Ducky, W this season they've shown some signs of weakness against
some of those top teams.
Especially in the second half of the season I would say.
I feel like they look better in the beginning than they do now.
They're in position 4, it's unlikely to change as well but Mafia losing however,
it's possible, anything can still happen but they would need to be ahead and run
first days. Yeah, I mean, we are going to be seeing two teams here that are going to be making it to
playoffs. That is secure. However, compared to last season, I think also the spots that the people
want to claim for for the playoffs here are going to be important for the seeding, but also for
the money that they are going to take home. So maybe they're not going to be showing all of
their a strats that they're saving already for the playoffs, but they're definitely going to
showing there a game here today and I think it is very fair to say that uh yeah the team that this
guy Ketzai is on should be favored coming into this pen rate above 90 percent that is on the very
very high end of the stats that we see yeah Ketzai really jack of all trades as well you know plays
a lot of different tanks uh plays almost anything and everything does it well high dpg solid all
around for Hidden Run. He also plays those lights from time to time so very important player.
Yeah and also stage 2 as we saw I believe last playday. The dude really does it all. And
to be honest with very good success 3.5k DPG is nothing to scuff at.
No no no for sure not so solid gameplay from Cat's side and his team is going to need that
in this match as well.
Give me these predictions in favor of hit and run.
Yeah, expected, right?
I would say so.
Yeah, 75, maybe even a little bit on the low side actually, because yeah, W ended up stomping
CTR I believe on Sunday, 4-0 if memory serves correctly, but I think we're not going to be
talking down about the CTR players here if we say that the hit ones are made of
a little bit of a different material currently.
Yeah, for sure. It's just like Hidden Run has been looking really, really, really good.
And I think that this might actually be their season.
It could be, right? And the thing is, the crazy thing is that I think Hidden Run,
have they ever won a season? I don't know. I think so.
Like they've won WCI twice, but never all less.
No, they haven't. So that is the interesting part. That's why, you know,
I'm thinking that this is their season, finally, you know.
I thought last season was going to be their season because they looked really dominant
in the regular season and then they didn't really perform in the playoffs, so we'll have
to wait and see.
But first of all, what we are going to watch today is going to be W versus hit on the following
maps.
Cliff is going to start it off.
Interesting choice by W considering that hit, really like playing the map as well.
Ghost Town to follow it up, very technical map.
So I can see why HIT ended up picking it into Sand River and I think they picked that.
Because W ended up looking kind of shaky on Sand River and some of the rounds that they played before it.
If we go to it, which I hope Ruinberg would be the tiebreaker.
Potentially we'll get there all the way to the end.
There's a chance for that.
But between these two, we've also seen blowouts either side.
With Bremontatas, but also blowouts.
Yeah, I think both of the teams are definitely capable of walking away with the victory today.
I think the daily form can be a big decider, but let's say the weekly or the monthly form
is definitely favoring it at the moment.
However, WR8 team that's known to really sometimes surprise, and they do it both ways,
right?
Positively, negatively.
At the moment, I think they have more potential to surprise positively.
I mean, I wouldn't even be surprised if this is a hit-and-run blowout, one way or another.
It could be. It could actually be.
Then again, I think between the top teams, it's quite unpredictable what we will get each playday.
For example, before today, I think no one would have said that we are going to see a 4-0 between Cashback and Mafia, but it happened.
And yeah, what we were talking about with Hit and Run being on a roll and for W it's all going downhill a little bit currently also reflected in the cast of predictions.
You're actually saying it's going to be a quick 4-1, everyone else 4-2, but yeah, no one really sees W going to tiebreaker.
What a long way we've come.
Yeah, I don't know. This is kind of how I feel.
You know, I think Hit and Run might run over them.
And that's going to be the case.
I mean, only the gameplay can tell us the story, right?
Absolutely. And talking about gameplay, I think that one's coming right up.
We are about to load into game number one here between Hit and W.
Cliff, it should be, hopefully, an explosive one.
And Hit and Run coming in with the quadruple BZ75, double batch at and 140.
W watched the OCS earlier, double 50B, double bar, a CS 63,
however there was no gorilla there, there will be one now, and an Aishan.
W also not playing with Chaki, not playing with Ja'kefa,
so I guess it is their standard lineup at this point in time.
Let's see what we're going to get.
W definitely trying to trick it and run a little bit,
the griddle being an indicator of that and also we have to talk about the fact that their line up is extremely squishy.
None of the tanks have armor really.
No, none of the tanks have armor and they have a griddle behind it as well.
It's going to be really hard to make this line up work in my opinion.
I'm willing to see it and give it a shot and see how it plays out.
But it'll be hard.
Double-batch it's going to be double-batch it around the hill as well.
And that's how the game could end immediately for W or could in one even whoever wins that could be at a very best.
big disadvantage.
Let's see, both of the Batchart crews pop out each other.
Nepal taking the first damage of the game, Monster as well.
But Ketzai making a move around, not seen yet, and Nepal is less than one clip.
This is absolutely tragic for W.
Coming into this one, Ketzai is going to completely clip out on towards Nepal.
And after that, it's Ios in an unwinnable 1v2 as Monster already on the reload.
This might indeed be a blowout.
This round is over. To Venice. The hill has been taken by Hidden One.
Mentals is not even at K5. The strike has taken. Ios is in the middle of the map.
The cap has started. I'm sure W has a strike on the two-line, but they have no positions anymore.
And the thing as well with the Info Tower on the hill getting taken now, that is, oh my god,
a clerk driving into Lucan as well. It doesn't get punished for it,
but the problem now for W is they're a man down. They have no front-line tanks to speak of
And the secret of the Griller that was supposed to like, you know, hail Mary shoot them back into the game has been revealed by the infoteller.
Well, I guess I'm also around the hill. The cap has been started. They will need to use the strike unless W doesn't have a strike anymore.
They do have a mini str- the big strike, I guess, used them towards D-seg. But now what? What do you do now?
Well, you start the long and painful march eastwards into the cap. And that one, I mean, we've seen it time and time again in
15 D 15 in what seven in wgl every single time that you try to refush the middle and your tanks are spotted doing it
You get absolutely slaughtered. I don't think it'll be any different for w in this one down
3000 HP. I mean the light is flanking sure. Did they take some damage for the cap?
Will continue going out the strike gets taken by Peter in about 15 seconds and monster finds Ios as well
Mentals did make it okay five, but
Does Piotr actually take this on time? No, because they're going to strike him. He does dodge it
So good job there by Piotr, dodging the strike, but who's we saying?
No one probably three seconds remaining
They're not going to be picking up the strike the batch at is not going to arrive in time
And that means that hit and run they're going to cap out against W. They make it look oh so easy
It's fight around the hill is very decisive one, you know, that's that's the story of the game and
and Head and Run also send double bots and play it all better.
Yeah, just the timing, the positioning of the individual players, the fact that Ketza initially didn't get spotted as well,
just better played by the players on hit.
And I think a round like this can also be problematic for a team like W, like they come into this,
show some cool stuff with the gorilla, right? But, well, that's not what ended up happening.
And I mean, you can't really fault the gorilla in here because the game was decided kind
of before, yeah, before the gorilla was even able to have any kind of impact.
Yeah, that's exactly that. So, well, kind of a non-factor, right? I mean, what do
On the other hand, I guess if you're a W and you have essentially a game like this, then you, I guess, can say, well, we lost an opening, Gigi go next.
But, yeah. I mean, the DPGs for all the players are not going to go up either.
And yeah, I mean, italks just doing damage with a strike, nothing else really, and completely dying for it too.
It was just horrible by W from start to finish.
I mean, damage can't read too much away into that, you know?
No.
I mean, just lost on opening. W tried to do something fancy, but it was like, nah, bro.
I don't know. Not much to say. You know, the beginning, I'll play from hit and run, and then afterwards the game is just over.
and W try solution I would call this shenanigans right and it just doesn't work
no and I think for W there is currently a lot to play for because well
while the fourth spot makes you advance to the playoffs you start in the lower bracket
immediately and so you don't have the safety net that all the other teams get right
On top of the money that you additionally get for being placed higher in the regular season?
Yeah of course. At the end of the day I don't think this is the way to beat here in Rwanda for W.
These gimmicks are not going to bring them across the finish line.
This is one of the strategies like if they do this and this, we win.
If they do that and that, we just lose.
Yeah, and they ended up running into one of the options in which they just use you know
Mm-hmm and
Like it it simply looked too easy for a hit like they didn't really have to do after the initial batch at engagement
Hitman didn't have to do anything except wait for
W to make the mistakes and of course one of them can be well not resetting the cap now
However, HIT are going to switch it up with the triple 50B, BZ75, IS7 CS and RHM.
In return W, quad BZ, double bad, then a 140, back to basics. Love to see it.
Back to basics, I think this is exactly what W need to be honest because like the fancy stuff
we could see how much it was getting shut down. HIT run actually slightly switching it up,
So it's only going to be a double B with a slightly heavier front line double BC 75
Um, I don't I don't hate it, but then again those
50 B's and auto load ahead of times in general can be a problem because like yeah you
Do your magazine and then you're kind of useless for the next 20 seconds good plane as well coming out by monster
Mentors in the park may go on today meet panther fury panther fury is gonna go up
Those matches are going to chase him, double 50 B, will probably come into 1-2 straight as well
and pass the fury, I think now, going to the realisation, like, uh-oh, I gotta go, I gotta go.
Takes one, takes two, is it taking one more from the bats? No, it doesn't end up taking one.
And here comes the IS7 and the 50 Bs, and here, pass the fury, taking some more,
but this time around W needs to cross over, they're crossing over with BZ's,
Barbarian is already bailing out, Frenik as well, opting not to go for this up and fight.
Barbarian trying to turn around to run away, that is a long distance he has to cover,
It would almost be better for him to go back towards the other corner, so he's going to cross over.
He's going to take a relatively decent amount of damage on that 50B down towards 146.
You know, in the meantime though, Mentos is dead.
Yeah, Mentos dying off-screen in the Batja at Nepal also not faring much better,
because the CS 63 is the constant threat here.
Now W coming in with the Ray push on towards T-Sec, and he has the BZ 75s.
They have a lot of alpha damage, so they're chipping away at the ISM,
but at the same time, they have such a long reload.
You can see how long it takes W to take the IS-7 out of the game,
and in the meanwhile, Nipal has died to the CS,
so it is two kills for it, not only one for W,
and hit already, repushing with the BZ-75s
into what's the middle of the map, and the 50Bs are reloaded.
Frenek already turning around, shooting Barbarian,
trying to get his full clip out,
filter looking for the shot.
I don't think he's going to get it, so all the BZs reloading,
at least Frenek, which I play, made it to Barbarian,
We got this full clip out, he's probably gonna die for it though, which is the worst factor
because Barberian's dead, Frenek is gonna follow and now Hidden Run has the tank advantage.
Belter needs to die here, he can get side-get it, it looks good for him, he finds the shot as well.
In the meantime, the 140, chasing the RHM.
That is a two shot against a two shot there on the hill, which Ios is advantaged in.
But now the CS63 is farming alto and so far W looking good in the second run.
W looking good, so far it would take only one more shot from one of the Beezys to finally remove Ketzai from the game in the wind while Klerf desperately trying to heal up above a one-shot for those Beezys.
I believe that was looking bouncing on towards Ketzai that enabled him to get the last shot on towards Klerf here and finally, Pantheon might be coming into the game to bring in some much needed DPM, but in the meanwhile everywhere else hit and run her Falter.
Currently 3 vs 2, but one gun really out of the fight. 4W.
Panthefury is chasing Eidog's DJ, will make his shot on towards Luken, Luken needs to hit this one.
Bouncing again! The second bounce in this match from Luken already could be very crucial.
Good shot there from Eios actually from the middle of the map.
Panthefury will be hiding behind this 50B Recto, can look and get this shot.
It would finally be very important for his team if he could do so.
He's looking for a can he get it.
DJ trying to body block in that DZ-25 Eios is coming in.
Panthefury hits the shot.
DJ will hit it as well.
Panzer Fury needs to stay alive somehow for the steep to win and he's gonna go
forward now because of the shot from Ios comes in nonetheless.
Luchen is probably gonna die here if DJ finds this angle and Ios in the meantime
has hit some stunners in this battle to be honest. Ios is the thing that's
keeping W in this round right now. Another shot is going to connect so
DJ is gonna be a one shot for the time being so we're left in a one
versus one that realistically speaking it should have never come to. The BZ75 of course doesn't
have any boosters remaining at this stage of the game which means that the 140 normally should be
on the strike faster and that is going to be a detriment for DJ who has the more iffy gun,
who has less camo with both players being on a one-shot. So at this point in time question
Who's dealt more damage?
I think if you're a DJ try to take the strike anyways to get us you cannot surprise with a BZ without
boosters, so you gamble on that like what is he gonna do go towards the middle of the map and some bushes I
Don't know I
Personally say he should gamble on the strike, but he's opting not to do it
Let's see. I mean for Ios the wind condition now
of course is going to be getting up on towards the hill to take the infotower as well and from there on just you know
Infotower in to strike in to kill because
Like who has dealt more damage that is actually the biggest question and I think it might actually be it should be
It should be hits because they have an orange and it's yeah
So even though Ios has
Because the perfect set of tool is in his arsenal to win the round currently, he's playing against defeat.
I guess right now the teams are also taking stock of the damage that they dealt,
but the problem is they can never really accurately know how much damage they've actually received because of all the heals.
Well, I think it's hidden run easily to be honest, like easily easily, because it's four
BZs versus only two, so little heals for hidden run, four BZs for W, hidden run wins this
and damage dealt.
Yeah, probably, and I think Ios is starting to realize that.
I mean, he still has a lot of time to work with, he for example also could try and
go for the cap there's some bushes as well in there which of course would pressure
DJ but then again DJ would know exactly where the 140 is Ios. If Ios goes on the
cap he wins actually this shit up wins if Ios goes on to line he wins but that's
risky if he goes on the hill he might get spotted out and then he could lose
but if he goes onto the cap I don't think he can lose. DJ will not spot him
he'll play a bush if the DJ starts to block the cap at any given point Ios
will know and yeah I don't know I don't think I don't like this position from
DJ at all I don't even know if he spots him going on the hill no I think if he
takes a south route to the hill then he doesn't spot him because there were like
trees in the way but of course like we know that but I just doesn't
jump in here I asked who doesn't get spotted it is not really spotting
anything from there let's see yeah DJ okay I mean of course he has the time
to do it so I would be careful about it as well I mean if I also takes the hell
at some point it's gonna be a game over for DJ he's not dodging with a busy
I have still spot checking trying to see if DJ is spotting the approach onto
the hill and he's not so let's see he's now continuing up and over drives against the
stone but I mean he has made the crucial cross now and that is going to enable
him to go into the strike also even improving his camel by popping the
inspire I mean this painless is sort of
to be honest like I really don't like DJ's position for an end game it doesn't
It doesn't spot anything. It doesn't recover anything.
It doesn't allow you to spot the hell. It doesn't even allow you to spot the radio tower.
And when this gets used, it's random just over.
And I think DJ, you know, he needs to start moving now, but if he has no boost, who's left?
He's dead.
Yeah, I don't think he has any boosts left.
And well, in comes the strike. Let's see if he placed it well.
trying to reverse nope it's not gonna happen another shot in frustration from
DJ but he ends up dying. This is not the end game you want to go for if you're a
DJ at all like I think because of the strike you can gamble left you can
gamble south and you can gamble east he has a one out of three
opportunity to kill you if you're taking the strike instead you go to a
position where you don't spot anything you are isolated you have no
cover on towards the hill, we let him drive. I honestly don't like the way that
they didn't play it out in the end. I think VJ should gamble for the strike.
If he dies, he dies because in the long game he's losing anyways. And then also
we should notice that basically it should never come to this. Like there
were a couple bounces in the shootout. If they don't happen, then well we
don't even get to the 1v1. Yeah I mean looking, Benresio there from
I'm looking 11, 10, 7.
It's too little.
I mean, sure, it does 1.7, but it's not good enough.
Yeah.
But yeah, I was carrying, I guess,
looking at the rest of the team to victory here,
which means that the map pick of W, which was Cliff,
is going to end on a 1-1 all even.
But, I mean, hit, they surely made them work for it.
Yeah, for sure. I mean, Panthefir is 7k.
Not bad. A few things here or there that go different than...
This is a win for Hidden One, you know?
And this means that after Cliff, we are now going to Ghost Town.
And I think things are not going to get easier here from the doubly perspective,
because Ghost Town just such a very, very technical map and hit...
They are very, very adaptive playing it.
Gosa, kind of an interesting one between these two as well.
A lot of different styles can be played, so hit and run, try that 6-7 line push quite
a few times.
It did not work and it was pretty bad altogether.
Looking for more standard gameplay here.
Yeah, also if you're a W, I wouldn't like to see some super specialist lineup coming
out now just because of what happened in run number one.
just, you know, box standard tactics and execute them well, which we mostly saw in the past round.
Oh, phase one score actually was close. Three to two, four W as well.
Yeah, well, if you predict this four one, you already need a blowout here, you know.
Who was it predicting four one? Was that you?
I mean, I shouldn't talk smack this season actually about predictions because it's been going absolutely horrifically for me, but I'll take the little victories where I can, I guess.
You're so far behind it doesn't even matter.
Yeah, exactly. Maybe we can go with like daily wins as well.
Daily wins.
I'm trying to grasp at anything here.
But yeah, hit and run, actually, 60TP has become a lot more popular together, never mind.
He switches away from it, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it has been
picked recently.
IS-7 type 5 batch at E50M 140, E4 and RHM.
return w i7 type but time to see yes if we're in this you want to hand it again
not the greatest one but you know let's see if we're also going to have some
weird interactions on the 8 and 9 line again with that T100 and the RHM
because with the low noise exhaust with which both of them realistically
they realistically are gonna be running there can be some very very very
funny occurrences with late proxy spots etc. Nepal though opening up on the seven line strike
with that CS he is going to arrive there long before T-Sec which is entirely normal. Piot also
following up will probably try to support but Klerf actually getting spotted in the Q100 probably
by Monsters plane but he ends up sticking it and this nets in the info tower. Crazy that no
one by hit and run was able to reset. Yeah the Monsters plane is gone because of this as well
So now W bailing with the Bad Shards, bailing with the T100.
They have that strike with Nepalese bailing as well in Hidden 1.
They have nothing for their troubles and not even a plane of monster.
And I like this reaction from W as quick as fast.
They may put a lot of pressure on Hidden 1 very early on.
Yeah, I mean this is essentially the perfect opening for W at this point in time.
They walk away with the strike, they walk away with the Info Tower.
monster walks away without the plane that obviously is going to recharge over time but
for now W I guess with the better start
when katsai is coming closer to 140 if he comes into the strike it will be a game over
he hit the M covering as well but he's just going to play up front so anyone is reinforcing
these positions katsai gets himself spotted out with the blind but he doesn't know there's
there's somebody there at least yeah mentors in that batch at was I believe
the one spotting him and now clerk is driving into the strike I mean there are
some bushes that you can use as the T100 to capture it but that makes it also
kind of obvious where you are even though like even when you're not spotted
italks in the meanwhile has taken some damage in the city same can be said
for pjot on that seven line strike that is about to come back online but
But in the meanwhile, Klerf able to take the strike on the one line.
To double strike for W.
And they can play the game on this Eastern side for sure.
I mean, yeah, T-Sek has taken the strike, but he has not taken the strike at the same time.
No, I think, yeah, Nepal just used the strike here, and indeed now it's going to be Pjot.
That will be taking it here. Pjot though, taking a bit of HE.
So that is going to reset the priority.
T-Sek is going to be taking the strike again.
Now, do you... ah, never mind, the mini-strike coming out by the CS63 once again
should be resetting T-Sect, who actually dodged it, but, you know, still Piotr is going to be the one capturing it.
At this point in time, T-Sect, he came very far, does take a shot of damage for his troubles,
and wants to finally able to reset the ISM.
Here comes the Badchats again, but Hidden Run is mimicking this movement.
I won't say that, I mean, they've done a very good job at moving across the maps themselves as well.
They're all back on the Sleezering side, but these Badchats are clipping out.
But where you might be the damage that's taken back on towards them
because they said will immediately signal that this is happening guys.
For now the Bachelors haven't opened fire quite yet
but that might be about to change this.
They're still looking for a position here and striking down on towards Claref
that's going to give a plane.
Level 2 even back to Monster, so Claref kind of locked out.
The Bachelors are going to be dodging the plane
but Claref cannot really do anything at this point in time as italks
and Lukin are going to get pushed upon by a Type 5 and 140 as the E450M hits,
Gawdplay hit does arrive on the 7th line.
Then they're pushing over Piotr with DJ leading the charge, the batches are starting to clip out,
though they're in position to deal with this DJ and an E50M, maybe a little too far,
he's going to die, I don't see him live through this one, Eytos might even put a shot in as well.
They will find Piotr in return, but it's going to be a very costly one in other batches,
so spotted out, Banzer Fury, in the meantime getting flanked as well by Nepal from behind,
and W so far in the advantage aisles. Yeah, takes a lot of damage in that battle.
Minus 2.2, great shooting from the side of Hidden 1.
Looking for Ketzai. Ketzai as well.
Who will drop back into the hole, but not before getting Amuracked and down towards 500 HP?
So it's still W, very, very much ahead.
Yeah, Ministrike also puts Ketzai down towards less than one shot.
Four Nepal here as the Tidefives keep on trading,
but I think Nepal has now set his sights on towards the 140,
He does one more shot of damage, but now ends up dying, and this opens Pansfury up to a crossfire as well.
Maybe the E4 in the background should be able to help. Pansfury here as Lukin and Pansfury once again end up trading.
Meanwhile, those zero line, another push coming out of W, who are now with less HP, kind of trailing a little bit, but they have to get an advantage.
And they also have the strike with Piotr. The second I started to get clipped up by Mentos and the second it's a barbarian pushing up.
and it's right now, they might have the HP, but they need to start making some kills, T-Sec
a little bit of trouble as well, Fronic will find, Klurv does he commit on this,
no he backs around the corner immediately, Fronic was nothing to do with that,
Banderfury and Luke in trading it out in the meantime though,
and Piotr will find the kill against T-Sec, Monster finds Zytox though,
so all across the map some kills being made, but still the advantage for W in both HP
And in thanks, well, the bayonet says goodbye clue. That's a very important pill.
That removes the light tank for W. That removes all planes that were available. And all of a sudden
the field is wide open for a monster that still has 2000 HP in his RHM. He's going to be the
playmaker currently trying to capture a strike. I believe he was reset somehow. Ah, that was the
baby strike coming out of Nepal here but as it currently stands not a lot of
abilities up and available for W Meanwhile Monster level 2 plane that can
really change the title battle especially since Lukens position is known
about and he is very low HP.
Piotr is spotted out as well that's Franek giving one to Piotr. Piotr tries to retaliate
doesn't find it using the buildings as cover. Franek bouncing has one more
doesn't have the spot on Piotr anymore, don't mind.
Mento's content on the flank against Panther Fury finds the kill as well,
a brave play with a good play on top of that.
Mento also sees Barbarian, who doesn't really have a lot of HP available,
but if Mento commits that is going to mean that he will open himself up
to a lot of punishment coming in from the field here.
Currently the Bat Chat is still reloading, so Mento's is going to completely assassinate,
not one, but two players as Piotr on the field falls as well.
Finally, in that ISM towards his former teammates.
It's very playable I would say for Hidden Run, especially with monsters HP in that bush line.
Being annoying, he can even take the strike in front of Frannick.
And with Frannick covering, and he'll do just that.
When they do that, that means Luke and Dice.
And then, they have a 2v3, a playable 2v3.
Yeah, I think the problem here for hit and run is that once there is actually one clipable
normally for the Badchats, finally the Info Tower gets used, so all of the W tents were
spotted here, Lukin immediately gets replayed, I do believe, and yeah, out comes the strike,
the kill comes in, two versus three, and Monster immediately gets a replay and probably
will take the Info Tower as well.
All W can do is, I guess, play for a lot of strikes and wait for a mistake by hit-and-run that still have to detank this advantage to make up for.
Yeah, but they have the lights. They have that sneaky light. Mentos is coming closer now and they're following as well. They're going towards the cat.
I mean, they want to force the hit players close, which I guess is the correct move, because there are no strikes available for the team of hit-and-run.
they have to use that on a luken and the type 5 so I guess the perfect point to apply pressure to
is the cap monster uses I guess the infotower now in will come the plane as well that's going to
spot out mentors and Nepal for fronic here who risk realistically doesn't have a lot of HP to
play with monster peeking investing some of his HP and now the bat chat is going to peek
Mentos going down towards one shot good play by Franek. He goes down to a one-shot. Yes
But he takes a player out of the game
He's probably going to die for it because Nepal is going to peek and monsters whereabouts not known as well
So the 1v2 for the team captain himself
Yeah, this one 600 HP Nepal is chasing monster will make it out
Ios is coming from the other angle though. I think they know that monster is running away
I think they're gonna catch him as well
IOC's monster out in the open, monster gives the shot, but IOS will finish before monster gets over another nail-biter, but this time W coming out ahead.
Yeah, better end for W in round number three in between both of those teams, and now W actually ahead in the match-up.
It wasn't an easy round, but they end up in the late game here out playing hit.
I guess the light tank just not finding enough impact in the late stages of the game.
And so, yeah, I think W reward themselves with a hard earned but well earned.
Thinking back about it, killing Luken early with the Shrek was a mistake.
Yeah, because then they had no resources available to reset the cap with.
I guess it was a logical thing to do, and maybe not even the wrong thing to do, but the reaction by W, yeah, blowing hit out the water then.
Well, nonetheless, it's wonderful W.
Did you say when you overpushed her against Piotr, how that was...
Yeah, I think the whole play by hit on towards Pjott was a little bit of desperation
because they were getting outplayed in the neutral objectives so they needed to do something,
they needed to surprise W but of course those guys had enough guns then available on the field
to just punish it for that and there was so much damage taken in the push.
I mean monster getting 1.8 I felt like you know it's not that much actually for how long
he was alive.
No, he gets 2k assist I guess because he was planning out like the light tank so the
assist that he actually got was extremely valuable but yeah for how long he was alive
that's not a lot of damage.
I mean, it would be something if W steals this one away.
Yeah, then again, you could say that, you know,
round number two and round number three here,
they, it was close, don't get me wrong,
but I think W was the right team to win them.
We'll see if we continue the zone and go Sando.
It's funny that this could have been a lot different.
All these rounds have been pretty close
outside of the first one, right?
Mm-hmm.
Well, let's see. I think if you're hit, then you probably want to wake up at this point in time, because I guess for both teams, it's true that they need all the points they can get for the placements in the regular season, but I think they're still in contention, I guess, for first place.
And that one, of course, is very valuable as well in terms of seeding.
I mean, for a hit and run it doesn't change that much, though, even if they lose this
because it will all be decided in their final match against Cashback, right?
Then again, four points is four points.
And what happens if W wins today and the next day and hit losers today and losers
tomorrow. Sorry, it loses on Thursday.
I would have to look at the standings. Yeah, I don't think it
changes much because match I lost already.
Yeah, but it would be eight points for W then maybe they
would overtake someone. Anyway, though, that is all theory
crafting. Let's get down to some gameplay hit and run coming
out after two defeats in a row with an IS-7, a type, a
Bachat, E50M, 140, E4, and RHM. Everyone getting to play their favorite tank.
W50B, I7, maybe, W50M, Bliska, LNRH. I'm looking a bit more aggressive, especially that Bliska, right?
Yeah, the Bliska, the W50M. W definitely want to initiate the fight, also Pjot coming in with the 50B.
So W really looking for the brawl, whereas Hit and Run, I mean, maybe extended kind of brawl-ish,
But yeah, I'm also quite curious where exactly that MBY is going to go.
I'm not a fan of the bleeding, isnt' it?
Me neither, but maybe W has figured something out.
Three tanks immediately, going with the whole cap as well.
Yeah, I guess, I guess, oh, Piot with the 50B getting found by Monster in that RHM
And well with the 50b you're not a tank that wants to get caught out in the open because apart from your frontal hole
Your turret armor none exist and then got is going to get pushed by the ISM here
Of course, he's a very tall tank so he can retaliate into the ISM
But now he is all spent 140 getting found as well and in comes the W hit squad on towards pans fury
But to be honest, that's a chunky type 5. There's a chunky type 5
But some more things are happening in the offside.
Kruif is winning against Monster, but not with Ketzai.
He has something to say about a good track shot coming out.
Kruif is getting pushed by Ketzai, Ketzai with the ram as well.
140 took a lot of damage being spotted in that bush road,
but it's not going to be damage enough as Kruif will die now against Ketzai.
They are finding retaliations, however, in return.
Panzer Fury is dead. Ketzai still spotted out for a while.
Monster down towards the one shot, but there will not be a finish.
I think Vanessa is a very, very long play monster.
Is he still spotted?
Yeah, he actually is in some very long place in level 3, Plane Isles finds the kill!
Monster does not escape, so light for light, Barbarian will make a peek against Mentos and slap him with an E4.
He will not be back enough, because not before he takes a little bit more damage from both sides, get signed E50M as well.
And it's playable for Ryder's side, 5v5, but Light Tanks are dead.
Light Tanks are dead, looks like one of my random onslaught lovies.
Let's see which one of the teams is able to salvage the situation here.
Of course, hit and run with the problem that T-Stack is one strikeable in that IS-7, also the Inspire Medium, pretty low HP on those Inspire Mediums as a resource that you don't really want to spend early.
Now, taking a shot from Cat-Scires in the bushlands, playing a good game of World of Tanks there.
But I want to put in my Baron, finding a good shot against Ios as well, who's forced out of position.
Nepal and Luka are splitting up on the Car. Mentos will join this to put some more pressure on the Gring to try and dodge the strikes,
but it's not going to happen. Nepal, getting found by DJ Lukin, getting found in return as well,
and the damage is stacked up and Lukin has to push down. Nepal is dying in the meantime as well.
This dodging of the strikes is going to lead into a bad situation as DJ finds that kill rather easily.
Barbarian is tracked off, so I also have an opportunity now, but Barbarian will get one more out.
Good job to Barbarian. Finds the kill. 4v4.
4v4 indeed, and now Lukin has to push against DJ here. He needs to make something happen with the 2.2k HP of his
because elsewhere his team is diameters getting pushed by Fronic in that full HP bad shot.
The Blisko of Itox is going to come in against DJ here as well, who doesn't find the track shot.
DJ going to get completely sandwiched in between the Blisko and the E50M. Good strike placement though, it's going to hit the home.
On two tanks here, but DJ is not long for this world, gets one more out, we're left with a 3v3.
3v3, but I think everyone is leading this, especially the Batchard as well as a very powerful tool in Assetketsai with a good relocation, let's get one more shot, no.
He doesn't, he does spot them out there now, they're kind of chasing into nothing, because Fronic is out already.
Fronic out already, and also the IS-7 of T-Sec is able to make a difference here with capturing the artillery strike.
I think this is prompting W in towards a push. Ios goes down one strike before the strike now as well
I think Lukin might continue on against the batch at here
Does he get a shot in on towards him? It looks like it as Ios actually dodges the strike, but barely
Dutch dodge from Ios though. I talks and Lukin they're now chasing. Tisek is stuck on the wrong side
But they're not gonna peek that and I think W is starting to shed a little bit here
Ketzai gets spotted by the IOS, IOS gives him a shot.
Does he have enough to get a heal off? No, it's not.
But Lukin needs to somehow find T-Sec, I think, and that's the tough one.
Or Ketzai, he needs to take the 50m and drive with somebody.
Yeah, he does get spotted, however. By, I believe, the 140 of Ketzai,
who drives on the outside, is going to revert back into the bush line.
Is he going to take more damage for that one? Is the question looking?
Does see him? Good shot, 395. He's going to be reduced to one shot.
One shot, DSEC also getting spotted now with the ISM, but the blindshot by Lukin actually not connecting.
I'd have to sit in the cap again now, trying to go around towards the one line. If he takes a strike he will kill Iosun.
I think that Pw would be the end of this game, so somehow they need to use Lukin and Itux.
They need to get their HP into the game. Ketzai spotting out Lukin chooses not to blindfire because of the risk that he gets blindfire back.
Itux in that Blisker is going to get spotted by Frannick who puts a shot in to reset the artillery strike as well.
And of course these kind of ranges are not what the Blisker did so once because of the damage drop off.
Hethers using ability, trying to cut off Frannick won't happen.
They're now cutting back across the open. Hethers is spotted out.
The cap gets started by two so they know that for a second there was two tanks.
And now what?
I mean Ios has the problem that with the buff 140 alpha he is a possible one shot for that tank as well
as he makes his way towards the IS-7 gets spotted on the cross however
Lukin coming in as well, Franec the playmaker with that very high HP bat shot
coming in to Ketzei one more shot into Lukin all of a sudden italks is here
with the Bliska but W there bottled up with those three tanks can't really push
He won't have a choice anymore, because Fronic has taken the strike and that leaves Ios as a one-shot train to survive.
He's going to have to run away somehow. He gets spotted out.
Not only Dodger and Ketzai, but Ios is in that hold and Fronic has a strike, so I think he's dead.
Yeah, he's just going to die to the strike.
Fronic to pick it up with the Batch-Up.
Now all of a sudden it is a 3 vs 2 hit and run, more HP available and they have this very high HP batch at
Op-Franek that is probably going to fortnight dance his way to win victory as T-Sec ends up trading
Well spots with Luke in but not shots as both of them end up not penetrating the target
Really clean endgame from the head and one to win. It's really really clean
playing around the map, not really ever getting caught, the Akatai took a shot, but in return they extend the match for long enough to find that your tank and his batch are with high mobility, the crucial asset to that.
And also the constant threat that the Batja could just solo any of the tanks remaining.
Because, well, that is just what the Batja is built for, late game assassinations of enemy tanks that are single out.
So W kind of needs to stick together, but at the same time they don't want to, but they do.
So yeah, it's a case of being damned if you do and damned if you don't.
When I've taken another strike and have Eitocs and Luker, I feel like they've driven across
the city like 17 times so far.
Yeah, I mean checking out the streets of Ghostown, but they're not really finding any new openings
and that is the problem for them.
T-Sect also is going to take a secondary strike and as soon as that happens, Eitocs
in the Bliskavica is one strikeable because he doesn't have or one salvo level by
the strikes.
If that makes sense because he doesn't have ability up right now,
Lukin is going to spot the IS-70, he finally takes him out of the game,
but you know, the problem is still remaining.
Like, it doesn't change that.
Tronic has a lot of HP and a fully loaded magazine.
Lukin dodges Tronic though.
And he doesn't dodge the spot from Ketzai.
Ketzai might even look to shoot and now moving to try and get that spot,
Popsi inspires as well and he has Tronic in quick support.
You can get their unspotted Frenek, in the meantime you'll be hunting for the Blitzkirftzak shot from Frenek, good shot from Katzai, the 1-2 combination, Eiter's last one standing, and it's going to be hit and run in a long game, but it deserved win for them.
Who to do?
2-2 and hit and run finally.
Getting the victory in one of those close rounds here against W.
So they show that they're not out of it.
And to be honest, they're providing us with a very, very entertaining match.
Yeah, extremely close.
And I think it's very rare on Ghost Town to see a match in which the Light Things are dead this early.
Both of the Light Things.
Both of the light tanks die, and I think the match goes on for a lot shorter.
Because having a light tank and the other team doesn't have it anymore, that's just like a crazy disadvantage.
Yeah, that's last lane from Cliff. The long one kept Monster spotted long enough, he ends up dying, so all in all, successful game.
I guess for both teams W probably happy with the fact that they took a map of hit and hit
I guess after two unsuccessful rounds happy that they are finally able to close one of
the close games here.
Yeah, I don't know, it's really really well played at the end you know, especially from
hit and run side like very well played at the end.
Yeah, I feel like W was always like this close to committing, but then they always called it off.
Like, the fact that the IS-7 survived for so long on like 100 HP was crazy.
Uhhh...
No, just the endgame movements were really really solid, but I guess everyone also just had a bit better thanks for the end, right, as well?
Yeah, if there is one tank that you want to be healthy at the end of it, it's kind of the bat shot to be honest because like if you have a say 2000 HP IS-7, that's kind of nice, but he lacks the engage potential a little bit that the bat shot has, the mobility, the chemo, etc.
All of those factors.
But that means Cliff and Ghostown are over and we are headed to the dusty dunes of Sand River.
I feel this match almost deserves to be with the tide maker, right?
As I said, I was hoping for it, but it remains to be seen if we're actually getting there.
If I was hoping for my prediction, I would go with the clean hit victory now for Sand River,
for Sunriver but I mean if we keep getting those kinds of games then I don't mind my prediction
being wrong. I mean I just like it if you were wrong to begin with you know. Hostile. Hostility
detected. Is it hostility detected though? Yeah yeah I tell you why. Because you just
want me to be wrong for no reason? I've been doing it the whole season so what's the problem?
Well...
The problem's been there the whole season, like it doesn't just go away.
That's the issue. Like my prediction season has been absolutely scuffed.
Worse than that. I don't think you've ever done this bad, you know?
Yeah, I don't know what's happening. Anyway, both of the teams are playing field-leveled.
We are essentially in a best of three so one map can decide it are bringing double BZ75 CS63, triple E50M and an RHM.
W, double BZ, ISM, W50M, full 3DU and an UDES, so no light tank for W, where he wants to needs to pay off his life pretty well.
Well, let's see. W bringing that UDES that we've seen Prefus take purple binos on.
So I'm pretty interested if that is the case for him this time as well.
But I don't think he does.
From the western side you can get away without playing with the lights though, right?
Right.
Oh, monster getting spotted now in that RHM, but in turn,
Lukin taking a truck ton of damage in that 430U for a pretty,
pretty normal cross, but hit and run immediately,
taking the crown with double BZ75 as well.
And there is a double E-50 hit squad.
We've seen that one fail a lot of times previously,
but the problem for Lukin now is there is absolutely no one covering him.
He needs to be very careful.
in the 430U, but the teammates are relocating in the meantime though and he does have a little bit
of a pocket to play behind, but I think Hitterman is going to pounce nonetheless. DJ Franek, they're
coming for Luken. He cannot sit safe everywhere, but the damage taken in return is pretty high.
Is there a strike from Hitterman? There is Franek shooting me to peek this anymore.
Do you have a strike? It's not needed for like minus 2k, a little bit over eager,
minus 2.4, it's not necessary. He was within the necessary range to kill him.
that is a lot of damage unneeded.
At the same time it is dead looking so currently hit with the tank advantage but W looked to turn this around.
The BZ75 speaking over the middle in towards the crowned pans fury, the one to take the brunt of the damage so far but he's not down.
Not Alphranic finally dying off screen in the E50M as TSEC tries to shield pans fury but there is an UDAS as well.
a lot of W tanks with a lot of angles and pan-spirit bites the dust just before pjopt.
Every push is still in full effect, autistic is going to die there in that BZ75, but the
UDES of IOS, look how much damage he took from back in the way, we saw him at 2k's
at 700, Mentos will find the kill, they're continuing on towards DJ with Nepal leading
that charge, but the damage is picking up and the question is going to hit and run
through enough to somehow play out the endgame with the light tank alive, Klurof
concerned, finds the kill. Now will continue on, Mentos will take a strike,
Itox will push forward. In the meantime, Katzai is already on this middle strike.
They need a long game here for Hidden One. They need this Lighting to stay alive
and they need to somehow pick up Mentos as well. The good thing is that the
Inspire Tank is pretty low as well, but Varian does get spotted out.
Kluhr finds a great shot there against Monster, tops him towards 900,
drops the plane on him in return, takes the first,
monster might even find the second. Some blinds going on, Itox might
even boost him to the base to try and make this final punch.
No, instead he's going to go hunting for Ketzai in the middle of the map.
Well, Clarev takes another strike to the face.
That's also going to be removing a lot of the buildings there.
So maybe the E 50m is going to be running all out of cover.
Yep, another strike that is destroying the building.
So Clarev on 1300.
Not sure what he can do, but in the meantime, Ketzai getting spotted in the middle of the map
takes a lot of damage for that as well, Clurf towards 600 as Nepal tries to cover Clurf but
I don't think he's going to be succeeding against a full HP Barbarian.
Barbarian will probably end up repushing this missing on the first though.
Clurf getting some support, that's the first shot coming out, Ketsai in the middle of the map
called out by the UDAS, I asked for a good peak, Mentos coming as well and so is itox,
Ketsai getting hunted down, carried it into a corner as Frey comes out as well.
Now he's a one shot for Mentos, I think Mentos might even peak this to be honest
But ideally he should make for itox, but itox however is standing around, I have spots it out,
Mentos now knows that Katsai is not looking, finds the kill, Gleif in the meantime training
at Barbarian, not doing such a bad job at all, finding another miss and one more shot
on towards Barbarian, Barbarian now will finish him off. But when we look at the situation
it's all over basically, four hit and one, Nepal needs to play it out cleanly though,
needs to wait for itox. He is the one with all the HP.
Well, but W they still have four tanks to play with and Ios now taking an artillery strike as well
is going to make the situation worse. The good news for monster is he's not one
strikeable but that is kind of where it ends to be honest. Ios has to be careful against barbarian
but I think mentors should be able to pick up the strike here because monster has used the
the plane he doesn't have one available barbarian's ability also timing out
actually zero abilities available across the ball fire the team now
Barbarian's starting to be pushed down towards Nepal though going for the 1v1
Nepal gets the first barbarian unless he rolls he doesn't even hit it Nepal
will shut him down eventually getting the kill and now it's just monster in a
1v4 I don't think you exist no normally 1 versus 2 is already
Really a tough ask for anyone if you don't spot with like ampliments of HP against a couple
low HPs but 1 vs 4 you don't win those I don't think.
I mean you never know but he would somehow have to kill the remaining 3 targets that
are low HP and then I don't know.
You know let's not do it.
It's gonna be double my low up italks you know in onslaught when he has rep kits
etc. I think W are just going to keep building up a nuclear arsenal here and now. And Monster,
I guess, hits. They're already talking about the next game. He's just extending the time that
his team has to talk about what went wrong possibly and what they want to do better next round.
Well, hopefully they will win in the next round, right?
Yeah, I mean all of our strike number one misses strike number two connects
but yeah all of our predictions essentially in the dust if W manages to
close this round which seems rather likely
I mean surprising the first round for W looks really bad and then they came in
really strong yeah and I mean so far w for them it's it's working out well that
they essentially switched away from this weird comp with the gorilla and the
double badger the opening on on cliff yeah monster finally getting spotted out
has extended for long enough and W once again in the lead and this time
around on match point on Sand River. Yeah, solid all together from W. The three-push was really strong
as well and I think this comes down a little bit too hit-and-run. They can too much damage in the
beginning. Frannick did not need to lose 2.5K. The 40 was 442HP if I'm not mistaken, which means
that you know the strike would always go in. If he's held here, this game could be different.
Yeah, I think you could characterize the the E-50M's with one word and that would be over eager
to deal the damage against the 430U and while you know W they had no one on in their spawn to cover
the 430 it seems like a lot of guns were still trained towards the 430U because they really
expected that W50M overpush and to be honest we've seen so many E50Ms getting
absolutely shredded there you've got a wonder at some point is it really worth
it? Well this would have been worth it if they just you know took the damage made
him a one shot and then survive from that point on you know they did a bit
more than that. Yep also
Uncharacteristic bounces coming out by barbarian. I think normally he's one of those players with like 92 95 even percent hit rate, but not in this game
22 16 13, I guess we essentially saw all the shots that he bounced
Yeah, I mean he was doing really well outside of that, but he's also in an impossible situation though. Yeah
And thus, I think the script that we all have in mind kind of gets flipped a little bit.
W have got hit on the ropes here.
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's interesting, but I guess between these two, you always
get some sort of a magic, etc., blow others and create a competitive match.
And for W, this is going to be a real good for the confidence as well for the players.
Apart from the first round, every single one has been close here, which is kind of crazy to think,
considering as well the trajectory on which both of those teams were coming into this, like hit and run,
where they're looking super stable, and W were absolutely struggling,
but none of that is actually really showing here, because if you think about it,
of the four rounds that were close, W managed to close out three of them.
But can they close out this one yet?
That remains to be seen.
All of our predictions in the dumpster anyway.
So yeah, let's just hope for some good games now.
I mean, I like that production is essentially robbing it in our faces, right?
Like, yeah, now all of you are wrong.
Now you're going to get to see your predictions.
That's OK, I can live with it.
Remember who won last season again?
Who cares about last season?
You guys are such copers, it's crazy.
But yeah, if you're hit and run, I think what do you fix?
Because normally, there are teams that
strives or thrives rather off of the aggression coming out.
So really telling players to be less aggressive in the case of last round, the E-50Ms,
or do you just get even more aggressive? And I think that is what Hit and Run looks to do this
round because BZ75, ISM, double E-50M, and then UDES, that looks like a Brawley lineup.
There's W in return, BZ, Mithy, 277, BF57, and 140. Brawling is the name of the game for them too.
Yeah. I mean, MVY, I don't really like it on Ghost Town. I can see where they come from
on Sand River, but overall, I'm not the biggest fan of the tank.
Five times K-Line, two times middle. Only limited times for the middle, for us. K-Line,
We're hit and run though.
Yeah, they're sending double BZ75 through the middle with the UDAS playing the normal crown position.
DJ in that IS-7, I guess, is going to hurry towards the artillery strike.
TSEC though, taking an immediate shot of damage.
They inspire. Already popped four.
The team of W and Monster taking a secondary one.
Good shot from Piotr in towards TSEC as well.
More dimes converging now towards the middle.
middle, let's see if he ends from W being peeled off, they're chasing down towards T-Sec and Monster,
the damage so far on these tanks, not that significant at all, W can make this chase and
can continue on, looking in the meantime a little bit out in the open, he's strangled behind
to try and pick up the last BZ, but is there going to be where to, that's a different story,
he's down towards a thousand monster down, T-Sec down, Frenek is loading from above,
there needs to be some pressure from W on other parts of the map now, because otherwise these
if he ends in the middle, might still be in trouble, Eithers wants to go and make this
play with the BZ. Piotr is already in, the communication there is maybe a little bit lacking,
Piotr is in but Eidocs and Klurph are not going, the 140 is helping, but Eidocs and
Klurph have decided to abandon Piotr right now, then again though Piotr is still covered by the
140, so he is alright but it's not ideal either for the side of W. Now they finally
pull the trigger, Piotr is the one to run even! Right before his dead finds the kill
together with the 50ms and now DJ going down and out as well and look at it now
it's three things down for Hidden Run just one for W which is Piotr which said the
Ram Mentals hiding behind a busy wreck and somehow W make this match one of
great fortune for them a 42 scoreline I don't think anybody really saw this one
coming absolutely not W with this very very simple to be honest over push in
towards the cap the immediate abandoned from Hidden Run but I don't
think that it was the right call to make actually with the BZ75s because as soon as you go into the
dried out riverbed how are your allies actually supposed to help you with the BPM that the E-50Ms
admittedly have like if they can't shoot the enemies that are engaging you in your BZs then
well there's not going to be any help coming out and so W make this a very quick and decisive
round they claim all the four points and it run probably left wandering a little bit what went
Well, for W, Phenomenon Rhan, they've got a little worried there with a bit of play.
You know, Peltver is in, the other ones are like not going, but it ended up working out.
They chased down those BZs so early on. It was already a big lead though.
Yeah, exactly. The reason I think why the E50Ms weren't coming in was they were very worried about getting shot behind
and then just throwing the game by trying to make that play.
But yeah, it ends up working out for W beautifully, 4-2, as I said,
that is going to be all four points that they claim here
and zero for Hit, who've had a really stellar season, but I guess not today.
Not today, and the pressure is on for them.
Cashback won their match, Hit lost their match,
and now they're going to be looking at a tough match for Fyre,
for first against Cashback on the final playday
and not going in there with too much confidence either.
No. And to be honest, what's worrying as well is like, yeah, you can try to save tactics,
etc., but the fact is that four rounds were extremely close between both of those teams
and Hit was only able to win one of them. Like the first and the last round, I guess,
kind of win on calls, win on strategy, win on opening, but the other four, W straight
up outplaying the Hit players.
Yeah, I mean, you know really good stuff there from W solid match
You know they stopped the one round of shenanigans and then just solid little things gameplay after right?
Mm-hmm
Which is very comforting if you're a W fan to be honest
What's even more comforting is that we have yet another match coming up
We'll see you right then after the replays
the last match of the day it's gonna be between in between CTR and Lotus and
it's actually gonna be quite the important one because they're battling it
out for fifth place who directly gets to stay in the OLS for next season but
before we jump into the action a quick shout out to our sponsor that is if
you haven't heard it yet and you've been living under some rock somehow
Surfshark they're the official sponsor of the onslaught legends series
season 5 and we are extremely happy to have them supporting the tournament.
Surfshark is a VPN that helps keep your connection secure and private whether
you're gaming, traveling or browsing online. It works on unlimited devices
which is kind of crazy and it's fast and easy to use exactly what gamers need
and maybe banter as well because I heard recently in the UK it's become
kind of problematic to call someone a bot-head online. Surfshark has
prepare the special offer specifically for you for our viewers you can go to surfshark.com
slash ols or just use code ols app checkout to get four extra months of surf shark vpn
you can find all the details of course via the clickable surf shark banner directly below the
stream here on the channel and now let's get back to the action yeah from china to the uk never
friends, but going to this next match, CTL vs Lotus, as you said, direct qualification
to the next season of OLS is on the line, more prize money, higher reputation, you know,
you don't want to be that one going out without a win, but one of these teams will win today
and, you know, we all have our favourites, but it's going to be a competitive one,
you know, because this is this important for both.
Yeah, whereas all the other teams might be already like saving strategies.
I think for CTR and Lotus both, this might actually be the most important match of the season here,
because it's the most likely one to be honest, where either of them might be taking points.
And I just checked the difference here between both of them.
It's currently three, but we all know with a clean victory here in phase two, you can actually take home four points.
That only applies to Lotus here because they are the ones trailing with seven.
Meanwhile, CTR is on 10, with a tiebreaker victory, it would still be CTR ahead, like tiebreaker victory load is.
Now, Floki, he's been actually showing up for CTR above 3K DPG and well, the KD is kind of low, but if your team is losing a lot, you're going to be dying a lot.
Yeah, exactly. The average damage is not that bad, especially if he's playing type regularly, you know, it's not the highest DPM tank.
It's a meat shield, KD, as you said, not great,
but when you're losing it, KD is never going to be great.
But yeah, my man Floki showing up and performing.
But as you said, this game, hyper important
for both these teams.
It's going to be interesting to see, because if Lotus take
these points cleanly, the score
is going to be based on the match difference,
the scores between the matches they've played.
CTR, I'll probably say, are a bit favored over Lotus
in that regard. I think they've taken more rounds for the big boys and their losses, but
yeah, CTR have also looked like cleaner doing it. Like some of the strategies have been really
good. So I guess shout out to Kodicek and possibly Patras on CTR. Whereas Lotus, I mean,
yeah, they they ended up, you know, beating up bogus, etc. But against big boy teams,
I think everyone beat up bogus. I think everyone beat up bogus. I mean, I don't
I mean, saying I beat Volgas is going to get you a job on a resume, you know, but the percentages
they show it, Czech versus Polish, Polish, but yeah, CTR, you know, I even voted them
to be W. That was a low moment, but CTR have really, you know, on a tactical level, CTR
have played some really nice rounds of Wuletanks in the WLS this season. I've really liked
a lot of their tactics. The Ruhmberg ones, some of the Pilsen ones come to mind. But
yeah, it's kind of do or die here. The maps Ruhmberg banned, picking Tundra. Same time we see
Tundra from today, Lotus choosing Cliff in Sand River with its highbreaker of Pilsen.
Any thoughts on these maps? I mean CTR, if we think back actually to the first day
of the first phase, they immediately opened with a Tundra pick.
Not sure who it was against, maybe Mafia, and they ended up taking two rounds there.
Or was it Cashback? I actually can't remember. I just know that was Tundra and CTR ended up
looking very, very good. Lotus responding with the Cliff pick, I mean,
that shows that they're not afraid, definitely, because Cliff is a map that you pick only.
If you're confident that on an individual player-skill level you can beat the opponent,
and I mean, yeah, after that we'll have to see if we get to it.
According to our CASA predictions we are going to see at least one round of the third map being played.
According to me we're going to see two, according to you we're even going to tiebreaker,
but all of us hold it with the check-line.
Yeah, it's very hard to predict. I mean we all are on the same level as CTR
perform better this season, not only in the points that they picked up, but also the way in which
they're playing World of Tanks in these matches. I was very much debating. It could be like this
could be 4-0, it could be 4-3. I don't know, I just went for the 4-3, feel low this, it's still a
die, brothers, get something done. But yeah, I don't think there's no easy prediction here.
But I remember the game you're talking about with CTR. I mean, we saw Tundra today,
but the last time we saw Tundra was CTR as well. So they have been picking this map.
I think it's a map where you can do a lot. It's a lot about posturing,
a lot about chess pieces on the board. So you can do a lot. The only issue is the
map is a bit small. Well, first of all, maybe CTR is going to switch, but first of all,
loaders coming out with a BZ75, double I7 CS63, double E50M and the 140 is so far so normal
but no light tank to spot what might be going on on CTR's lineup. Yeah CTR, double BZ, I7,
140, Bliskovica, RHM and 183 millimeters of British steel gets removed. I am highly upset.
We get an E50M instead of that one teasing us until the last second.
Yeah, the players probably re-watched the streams and they see us speculating about the line-ups
so he definitely was baiting there.
But in comes Herman, gets spotted as well, but that was a very, very good plane by him.
Sees a lot of the tanks from Lodis coming out right away.
He also possibly saw the CS63 as he gets reset immediately.
That's a problem here for Herman because Boček now has priority over the strike.
Yeah, Herman getting out of there immediately. Definitely a good decision.
It's a nice shot by one of the Lotus players hitting it between that small gap.
But opening-wise, Botswik does take that strike, CTR rotating to the north.
They'll take that one. Lotus quite heavy in the north here, only keeping the 140 back.
I think they know because of the light, they can be a bit more aggressive with their posturing here.
And I kind of like it. Botswik peeks, takes one, doesn't keep on to Flo,
Kim return, Adress is taking the shot.
Pretty standard opening with both teams essentially entrenching themselves a little bit on the
three and four line respectively, slight reshuffling going on, by Lotus as well, bit of rotation
because Floki is going to be able to take the strike with the IS-7 now, I don't think
anyone really can reset him from over there, so that's not going to get contested.
Good shot by Woodock into Sokol as well, but so far I think we see how seriously
Both of those teams are taking this match here.
No one wants to be the one to make the first mistake,
but here in Lourdes, forming up for a push,
that's going to be a lot of DPM, a lot of firepower,
that spotted immediately.
Evil in that blitzka with a good first shot.
Yeah, he delivers a really nice first one.
Tuka stops there for a minute, but they're jumping onto Floki,
but the pen rate is just not there at the moment.
Floki might make it around the corner,
and then Tuka's going to be in a problem.
Face of me, that is 7.
Tuka try to block, give some shots in the back,
but that force is toxic to go back over onto the sides.
It's not look one the meantime I vote picks up Jordan has a brawl going on in the middle
between going to play check in Bots and from probably and Herman arrived in times not the play that
Lotus really wanted but they're kind of forced into it now
Way to check in a sandwich in the north getting repushed. It's not going well for Lotus at the moment
Absolutely not as to get singled out with that e-50m takes another shot by Herman evil with the blitzka coming in to clean it up
He gets the shot as well, and all of a sudden three players by-loaders have been removed from the round
Still six guns available for CTR that are even able to peel a little bit
Wudok getting chased, has no loader, hopefully for him he has
Jack of all trades on the commander is able to peel the loader as well as twist with the 140
Coming in with that DPM as well, making Wudok a one shot for some of the high HP or high alpha guns
But they end up bouncing as well, but Wudok falls nonetheless, but in turn botjons gets felled too
Yeah, you can see Taksik, he was all the way in the north and managed to run all the way south, but that means leaving 2 could have died.
What looked like a very good engagement by Lotus, they just didn't get those pen rates on the IS-7 and because of that they had to turn the turrets and Taksik had to run, which meant the other things got caught.
Now you see, not penning these initial shots really came down to hurt them because they just get taken out one by one the north and that...
It looks close on HP, but this was a rollercoaster by CTR, that they just rolled over the tanks of Lotus.
Really nice reaction.
And, I mean, Twist doesn't even get to finish Patras here. CTR just with the better focus fire, also very nice reaction
against the North Overpush coming out from Lotus. And overall, I think we see the emerging team that we had
had kind of throughout all of the season where both of those teams do end up making some of
the player mistakes, but CTR I think on the tactical level just very well set up to deal
with the push as well. A lot of guns were able to deal damage onto the tanks that were
trying to remove the IS-7 from the map.
Yeah, I think replaying the game over in my head, I do like the fact that how bold
Lotus were to make that play. I think they had a good timing. Bear in mind in that
north it was a 4v4 and that's 250m to 140 in an IS-7 versus an IS-7 and Blitzkirr 140 in an E-50m
so it's pretty equal but Lotus do get that initial the other two tanks weren't there in the beginning
for CTR I think just bouncing those shots I don't know if can you check how many shots were
bounced on the Flokey? Yeah give me a second Flokey ended up bouncing well. Oh you can see
only one shot. Yeah, you can see it on the screen right now. Yeah, damage dropped by 90,
by almost 390 only. But he received two non penetrations in total. So actually the
pen rate, I guess, was okay. That means just in turn that the focus fire was not there from
Lotus. I think it was. I think a few of those initial shots, I saw what initial shot was
about. And I think another one was a non connection. And these things can make a difference.
You know, you they needed to delete flow key before the rest of the tanks arrived.
and they just didn't which meant they just got focused out. It was a bold play by Lotus. I like
the fact that they're bringing the aggression to CTR and not being worried about it. You know,
it's the best of seven, so you have some opportunities to make mistakes and still come
back. I don't think this is the end of the world for Lotus, but yeah CTR they went to the
storm well and they made it work. I mean also shout out to Herman actually immediately
realizing that his play at the start wasn't going to be working out because the 140 of
Lotus hit that stunner shot between the rocks, like he ended up not being able to get the
strike, but he readjusted immediately, took one more shot on the way out, but in the grand
scheme of things that's better than sticking it and dying for nothing.
It was a bit of a mistake by Herman though, he could avoid that shot. The CS was spotted
going, he had enough time to drive a little bit wide to get it.
I think it was not the CS actually, but the 140 from the Infrared.
No, it wasn't the CS that gave him the shot, but what I'm saying is the CS was going into the strike, so Herman had to get there first.
I think if Herman goes slightly to the right, he doesn't take the shot, and he doesn't get spotted as well, like he went left, so the CS saw him.
But these are marginal things that don't make a difference in the grand scheme of things.
All right, Lord is trailing a little bit after this first round coming out now with double BZ75, CS63, W50M 140 and an RHM this time around.
I was just looking at both the lineups, I didn't actually hear which one you read out.
I'll go with this one.
God, I'm such an unprofessional, but CTR double BZ, I-75, E50M 140 and RHM E5, the interesting pick here.
What a surprise. We all like the tank, right? It's a good tank. It just has that Kapala, which is the main issue.
And this is a map of a lot of little hills and undulations, which can cause an issue for that tank.
Once again, good plane coming out from Herman. And by Bocek as well, both of those light tanks are going to be ending up with a replay.
Of course, like the players on both teams are going to communicate how many got spotted.
so they are all going to be aware of this fact.
Immediate try for the Info Tower by Boček,
but he ends up only doing a shot of damage
in towards the five of Kojdiček,
who was trying to blind reset him,
but now this means that Herman's plane has been spent
and Boček did not get tapped.
So Herman can't replay and Boček might be able
to take the Info Tower together with double strike
that Lodice is actually gobbling up right now.
Yeah, really good of them to take this double strike.
It's a nice early advantage who... who just gets it.
By the way, Herman takes a blinding return.
Nice shot by Tuka.
Stealing these strikes away and retreating.
It's a nice open up by Lotus.
They're getting away with it, Scott Frick.
And the fact as well that Twist, you know,
is the only one to take damage so far.
Borchik, though, did get tapped here.
So Herman will have the replaying available.
That means no info tower as of right now for Lotus.
Oh, Flokey. Oh, Flokey being caught here really badly. He's going to take a lot. Jordan takes a volley on the side, but it's definitely going to be worth it. Flokey, track, no rep kit, ability active, but that's not going to make a difference.
He will probably get away here. The Beezys are going to need to heavy overpeak because of that slow reload. Does get away, Lotus don't overplay their hand.
I mean, isn't that worth it when you look at it? Jordan down to 1500. I mean, it's not a massive advantage.
They took a lot of damage for that actually and Floki even with a good shot in towards so-called
There is going to be an artillery strike on towards Floki 477
But that means he's not one strikeable at this point in time twist also taking another shot here
secondary strike coming out so Floki is down to a sliver of HP 26 more than needed currently though
Yeah
So, no advantage, Molf being repressed and they're doing it on a pretty good timing toxic, only thing is about it now and he will be able to decap.
Boy, the check, he makes that peek.
Our champ peeks from the side, he does decap it.
They're making the rotation, I think Lotus are going to be a little bit faster on this one if they use those boosts on the VZs.
Well, do they want to use them now as the question Herman, obviously pressured off the
angle.
Cannot really peek against Tuka because Tarkz is there in that CS63.
I think Kojdecek will be able to take the artillery strike here and that might be a problem
for the team of loaders because they're all bunched up for this push.
Wudek also trying to take the secondary artillery strike.
Kojdecek finds himself flanked by Tuka now.
A lot of damage actually in towards that E5 plane going down as well and Tuka in
the IS7 position from last round.
There's just not a lot of tanks that are able to shoot at him.
They cannot remove the E-50 MS quickly as they need to.
Instead, Koytecek, the FC, ends up falling.
Yeah, but it's really good at the moment.
Bear in mind that CTR are one tank out because of Floke, Rooldog, Obst to take the
strike instead of getting his HP in the game.
Yes, that strike is good, but in the meantime, your friends are dying and you're going
to be full HP at the end of the game.
And this Lotus train, it's not stopping.
Sokkel will go down for this, but Pajas will fall in return.
Twist doesn't opt to block frolly wood out getting 2v1. I'd be able to make the kill toxic goes down wood out
Then goes down probably keeps running to try and keep his gun alive
But it's only the 140 Herman and bloke you're remaining and a nice move by Lotus
they pushed in here and
The tanks on e3 by CTR. They couldn't make the peaks
Yeah, John now just chasing frolly down even the ram coming out. I believe frolly also has
has the Ramscale on his 140 but gets shut down and now only Floke remains in that IS7.
He drives away to buy a bit more time for the possible tiebreaker conditions so can't fault
him there. Also still alive on 27. The question now for Lotus is just how to close the
game the quickest and Boček is probably going to be arriving very soon at Floke's position
here and well, there is not really anything that Floki can do anymore to slow this down
budget might even be using a G against the RHM, a G comes out from Floki as well but
the ram is going to finish it off and Lotus equalizes the scoreline, it's one all.
Floki pads his damage a little bit in the end there just to be on the front screen
but nice by Lotus, they caught Floki, bled a fair amount for it but the rotation
was on point. And they did it perfectly. You know, two BZs pretty close and the more
mobile tanks more wide, they could isolate that E5. The BZ boosted off the cap, but it
wasn't enough. And I can't remember which BZ it was who took the strike while the fight
was going on, but that's a mistake. Yes, a strike is really useful in those scenarios,
but you're a full HP BZ without your HP in the game. The whole point of a BZ is
that you have a lot of health and you heal it back. If your E5 games are dying,
while you as a BZ are taking the strike, it's a mistake, it's not worth it.
Exactly. So I guess Lotus this time around adjusting very, very well,
because in game number one it seemed like CTR was just set up for whatever Lotus was doing.
Here though, Lotus with the initiative, just ending up catching out CTR in multiple positions.
I mean the IS-7, the E-5, the E-50Ns, all of them got gone.
Yeah, I mean Lotus played this super nice.
They took both the strikes, they made the rotation, caught Floki, made the rotation again.
It shows good gameplay if you're making those multiple rotations.
The only mistake I'd say by Lotus is using the strike on Floki.
Double strike wasn't enough to kill him, what's the point, you know?
You might as well save it for the north if you're going to make that repush.
I think it's a mistake to put Floak in a one-shot and then do nothing with it, but apart from that, Lotus were the stronger team here.
I really like that play of taking the double strike in the beginning. It's cheeky, but they made it work.
Well, let's see.
Tontra getting split, that means we should, if memory serves correctly, be headed towards Cliff,
which is a very, very interesting pick in my opinion by Lotus, because they
They struggled throughout a lot of the season with making their own place work, but the
second round of Tundra here gives a little bit of hope.
And then of course, Sandriver, a very, very open map to play.
We know now that we're getting at least one round on it, if not more.
But first of all, Cliff, do you see any of the teams here doing some stage two shenanigans
or is it just too meamy in such an important match?
I mean we saw some wacky stuff in the OCS round, last playday, we could see some of that here,
I mean Cliff is one of those maps, it's a lot about luck, you know, it's a lot about the opening 30
seconds, how many tanks go up, how many tanks go down, you can catch opponents out pretty well,
I remember when I used to play inville in 15-15 I was just Cliff because it can be a bit of a
50-50, if you'd send all your tanks lower and they send five tanks lower you killed them all
and then there's just two tanks out of the game. So you can get a lot of luck on Clif.
And on the flip side of the coin, you can get very unlucky.
Well, of course, but that's why the coin has two sides, right?
And Lotus being the weaker of the two, you know, when you're doing a coin flip,
the person who is the weaker of the two teams is always in the advantage of a coin flip.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, because they get like the odds shift more towards a 50-50, I guess.
Yeah, like I could play inville on the rails of ends can get out traded or I can go 50-50 fight within bill either way
But lineups CTR 50 be easy. I seven butch at CS 140 and a posh be and for Lotus
It's more straight up five bees ease and double CS
So I have to say personally. I'm not the biggest fan of the posh be on cliff
Ah, neither am I. Too long of a reload and you can't really use that ability as much
But and it's a bit awkward because you know the cliff's on those maps where you want to do quick peeks peek and shoot peek and shoot
We're first you can't really do that
But load is going for that more simple lineup in my opinion when you're a weaker team on paper
You always want to take more single shooter tanks because
auto loaders
Require auto loaders are some of the highest skill tanks in the game
And if you're just playing you know tanks with armor that are single shooters you can peak shoot go back
It's a more simplistic gameplay. So I like this by Lotus keep it simple
Jordan going to take that balcony position, but Herman's boosting Patras. We need to see if I trust can get any shots in on Jordan here
First one Amrak insta repair bold one by Jordan things to repair that three shots taken but the end of the world
Well over push coming in by Lotus
they realize now that if they stay CTR is gonna have them cornered and in a crossfire
WBZ is actually gonna drive over towards Wudok, but so called taking a lot of damage by that
Fosh B Wudok is probably gonna get pushed upon, but Evo should still be able to support with
the batchet as well if they overpushed that is here. Herman was sent to clean out Jordan,
but in turn he gets completely obliterated as well. Wudok still trying to hang on here
as Evo gets pushed upon by the BZ of Tuka, has to drop off, doesn't take a lot of damage for it,
but he's going to be out of the game for an hour, even pulled for pull reload.
This is masterful by Lotus actually, only crossing two for the BZ because they know they had enough.
The triple BZ, they tapped Herman on the crossing, which means Jordan can make the kill.
Yes, Jordan is dead now, but this is full control for Lotus.
They need to make sure they're not overextending here a little.
They're pushing in, but that hosh is on reload better, and mind he's clipped out.
And now that these ulti loaders are on reload, we're gonna see the HP swing back into Lotus' favor.
Flokey's trying to run and extend his life. They don't wanna shoot Koita check.
Parkside gives him a shot because there's no one else to shoot up.
Oh, woulda put bombs.
Back off into 1v1.
Yeah, but that 1v1 is less consequential here, because you can see Koita check is pushing forward.
He's loaded now. It could make a difference. We need to see that donut fight right now.
We need to see Poich.
He does pen it.
Koita check flipping out, but goes down.
Flokey needs to go down here, actually.
He's going to be on their side.
Floke is going to be able to dp him out.
Wudok here with the bounce against Boatjans.
And this means that the possibility is here for Boatjans to die
as he actually keeps him in the strike.
Boatjak with the kill as proly has it all to do with that 140.
But from lower on cliff, I don't think that's going to happen.
Boatjans now of course has the crossfire, puts one in towards Floke
who goes down towards a one shot as well.
And as the dust settles, Luda is still 5 tanks available.
5000 HP as well, CDR only 3 left, Evo taking another big one to the face in his bat chat
as well, has been a non-factor throughout basically the entirety of this first round
gets cleaned up too and now Patras and Froli are not going to be able to salvage it, Lodis
turn around the match.
Yeah, like on Stackey's prediction, but Lodis, this was masterful actually, double
BZ boosting over the mid you know in this game you don't want to overextend if
they send three it's too much and that crossing by Herman I watched it while we
were watching the other side of the map I saw one two three on that crossing
leaving him on 500 really nice by Lotus actually a little bit of mistakes I
think after you give that volley to Herman and you push down the BZ you
don't really need to do anything anymore I think they made this game
unnecessarily close. Like you tap herm and on the crossing you let the two PZs deal with
Wood Dog and then you just triple cap and there's nothing, you know, the CS is dead
so that's no mini strike. They have one big strike but that's not going to make a difference
and they're going to need to repush the cap and the tank that's going to have to
repush a cap is the Fosh in Crossfire. So nice by Lotus, I think they made it
unnecessarily close maybe a bit of an experience but apart from that really nice
moves and makes decisions. Yeah, I think the fact as well that they took this I would say very easy
comp to execute with the quintuple BZ double CS 63 there is not really a whole lot you can do terribly
wrong with those tanks whereas it felt like for CTR a lot of the timings were off the tanks
weren't properly able to support each other when it was actually needed I mean Herman going out
with 900 damage here again like trying to you know peel off Jordan from the position he was in
also Loda is just pushing out the the batch up making it a non-factor like yeah Evo ends up with
3k damage but realistically how much of that was dealt when the game was already decided so
CTR I think trying to play a too difficult composition here whereas Loda is for them
It was like, all right, that's how the opponent opened.
Well, if we just push here, because we can, because we have the HP too, then it's won.
Did you see the meme from the Summer Olympics, where it was the Turkish guy with the pistol,
he got shot in the place with nothing?
That was Lotus in this game.
One goes to the balcony on the left, one CS goes up the hill, five tanks mid,
and whatever the enemy does, we'll figure that out later.
That was the most, it's like British spice, it's flour.
There was no spice, there was nothing.
There was simple, good decisions.
And then CTR tried to do all this fancy stuff.
They put some camera on when they were shooting
and they just collapsed.
This is, Lotus had such a simple strat.
One CS left, one CS up the hill,
five thanks a minute and we'll see what happens.
And it worked perfectly.
The only disagreement I have
with your previous statement is that you said that, you know,
British spices work and they are flour.
Like apart from that, everything else was correct.
Flour is a spice. We put it in pies.
Beyond redemption, beyond salvation. It's a lost cause.
Beans are a spice as well actually.
Oh, Jesus.
Anyway, anyway, let's see if this next round is gonna be spicy as well, because realistically, if I was not
speaking for CTR, it's kind of time to show up. Otherwise, they're going to get shut up.
For Lotus, the win condition here is essentially, you know, take home all four points.
If CTR is able to do that, then Lotus won't be able to catch them anymore, but if Lotus wins this cleanly, then CTR have the problem that both of those teams are going to be playing one of the top four next playday on Thursday,
and well, it's going to be a hard, it's going to be a tough ask to get points, but now, for now, nothing is decided.
Lotus this time around with a pretty difficult comp.
Double 50 BbZ75 BatChat, CSE 50M and an RHM.
Yeah, it seems Lotus are using all their RQ with this one,
but CTR are a bit more simplistic.
Triple BZ, triple CS and a 140.
Just looking at the play days next week,
CTR will play Mafia and Lotus will play W.
So I'd say at the moment,
Lotus arguably have to ease your opponent,
CTR are a little bit better team if we look at recent history.
But then again WB hit today 42, so...
Yeah, they also clapped my cashback, so I don't know.
Phil, I don't know.
Anyway, good plane coming out from Boček hitting six tanks, only missing the Inspire Medium.
Talking about Inspire Mediums, there isn't one on the lineup of Lodis, which is always
a decision to say it like that.
The CS and the E50M are going to be absolutely booking it towards Frolley in that 140.
The E50M, they find nothing.
He turns around.
There were a lot of guns trained his way and now Jordan is going to get peppered by the 140
with his shots flocking.
Has taken the balcony position as well.
But Koitiček, the FC, gets absolutely found with that CS 63, gets clipped out.
That is two crew members not there and the gunner that as well.
This means that, well, he won't have the jack of all trades to, you know, remedy the situation.
Yeah, the commander's dead. I feel like Koytaczek's brain might be dead as well. I don't know why you'd stick
in that position, but he goes down. Lotus do bleed a bit for it. In the meantime,
I think more importantly, CTR do take the hill here. So I feel like it was a little bit worth it.
Isle is stuck. But in the meantime, Tuka is pushing on Frally. Flokey is dropping around,
I'm coming in. Tuka is a little bit blocking, but taking out this Inspire medium is really good.
Jordan needs to give one more shot to Floke. No, he'll actually use the strike for it.
Jordan will go down here unless Tuka can give him a shield.
And that is no problem. I think here for Floke, yes, the strike is going to pick up Jordan,
but Tuka about to be reloaded in that 50B. He's going to make mincemeat out of the hurricane
if he stays. So it's very much all over the place currently, but CTR has the problem
that Woodock in that BZ75 is still stuck in G6. That is a lot of HP that is not doing anything.
Floki good shot in towards Touka is also behind I guess a bush so the 50B isn't really able
to to find him currently as Herman is probably trading it out against Botchans. But Tarik's
stick has found evil with the Bat Chat is going to isolate and assassinate the CS63.
Yes, it's a strange game. Patras is applying no pressure here. I think he was afraid the batch up still an a5
But Patras just let I vote die around this hill such a strange one. He was a full HP VZ on this hill
He's now a thousand HP and CTR just letting this slip
in such
strange
ways
Patras should have been pulling this RHM point of check should have left the
the donut when he saw the CS and E-50M coming on lower I really don't know what
I mean but us has HE loaded so he's going to pick up the RHM takes a shot of
damage for it but I would say that's definitely worth well not so much
anymore as he takes artillery strikes to the face but is able to dodge the final
one so he stays alive for now not even needed toxic makes to kill good shot
by him and now in a 3d5 flokey stock double BZ in the mid it's not realistically winnable anymore
for CTR such a strange round some individual plays coming out on these CTR players it's not it at the
moment. Well butchern's healing himself up a little bit is also going to be reloaded against
Herman here but realistically both of those BZs probably lacking a little bit of gun depression
But you can see the game plan coming in from Lodis. They have the cross shots from Twist.
Also Tarkzik arrives with the Badger. He's going to be instantly tracking Herman here,
who goes down towards one shot. Flopsit's shot on towards Boatjans.
And I think CTR are admitting defeat.
Lodis are going to be putting themselves up on a match point here.
A very important one as well, because CTR do not...
Yeah, they're not on three points yet themselves.
This means they need at least two more rounds to steal that point away from Lotus
Yeah, my prediction was
becoming more to fruition
Lotus with three points
More to fruition. Yeah predicted tiebreaker win CTR. That's gonna be three consecutive rounds for them and
And I'm still alive in this, right?
Well, who's mad in here?
I didn't believe in you against
I believe in you against W, I need to believe in you against CTR, against Lotus, c'mon.
Well, they're gonna cap it out here just to not draw it out for an unnecessary amount
of time.
Twist is going to find Woodock here, but it does end up getting capped out, so Lotus
put themselves on match point.
They absolutely wiped the floor on Cliff with CTR.
Yeah, this was such a strange one, way to check going to...
I'm not sure if I'm pretty sure the 50 piece was spotted going in or maybe the 140 didn't see no
I see because the CS boosts the 50m and because the 140 sees that he runs away and because he runs away
The double 50p go in unspotted, which maybe that's why Quidditch X stayed
So I'm not sure if that was by design if it was it's like a thousand IQ by Lotus by the way, but
Yeah, I think that should have done more against the light on the hill
leaving Iof to get pushed by the batch head completely for free is a massive
mistake that does need to be talked about because Iof dies the structures
completely collapses so yeah I mean I really can't tell if that was a 500 IQ
strap by Lotus or if it was a 2 IQ strap the one with the CS boosting E50M to
push away the 140 so the 50Bs can get in unspotted I can't tell if that was
If it's by design, it's brilliant.
If it's not, then...
You know, sometimes two things can be true at the same time.
Maybe they didn't plan it initially like this,
but then they understood essentially the opportunity that it provided,
and then they went in after it.
I feel a bit like a counter, but yeah.
I mean, we look at the damage flow, he's the only one with anything.
Some of this was in the late game against that 50B,
but a little bit disappointing damage on the CTR side.
two tanks above 3k and I see like Patras on the hill like he's a busy 75
against an RHM he should also be playing more aggressively somehow against our
and like not really lost all of his HP well what he did was he boosted into the
the RHM gave him a shot but then the bat shot on the red line in the in the
was it like a five position clicked him out I think that's why Patras lost
a lot of his HP and because he'd taken those shots he wasn't peeking the
hill, which meant he didn't spot the bat-shot pushing high off. So some mistakes by Patras,
I think on this hill. I believe that's what happened. We were watching lower side at the time.
That's the logical thing that happened, but yeah, it's just not good enough. A team that we've seen
that maybe haven't converted the points, but we have seen individual rounds of brilliance
against the big boys against them. So like sometimes, you know, sometimes it is how you
win. You know, maybe they don't get any points for it, but there's a black eye or two given to the
Giants and it's not just luck, it's actual tactical brilliance. So there needs to be more from CTR.
Well, maybe this map is going to be it because if there is good news to be found for CTR is that
they're not out of this match yet. In theory, they only need that singular point for now against
lord is that means however winning cleanly on sand river we saw a team today that won cleanly on sand
river that was uh w against titan run so it's not impossible but the way that lord is have presented
themselves so far at least today i don't know maybe not their day i mean tendra is one of those maps
where it's kind of just like you know a lot of things can happen cliff is is again like i said
it can be a bit of a 50-50, it depends on your opening. The Sand River is less so, there's not
bushes, you can't do anything sneaky. I think we're going to see CTR pull some rounds back,
actually. For my prediction, I pray so, but yeah, lineups CTR, double BZ CS, double 430U and UDIS,
an STR-V. And for UDIS, we have a BZ-75, IS-7, MBY, Centurion AX, E-50M, K-91 and
RHM in what is possibly the most important round for Lodus in this entirety of the Surfshark
Onslaught Legends Series Season 5. Yeah, and if you live in the UK,
Handcake Day is coming up and we can see Patras is playing for STRV again, so...
And also Lodus also kind of flat. Yeah, but that was the key hunt.
Don't let me have anything, do you?
Not a flower is a spice, no.
Anyway, a double BZ75 going towards the cap right now and to be honest, all of those shots
that went their way ended up being fluffed interestingly enough, Wudok and Termin also
with different kinds of HP, so maybe different modules mounted, different personal preference
and artillery strike being picked up by Igbo as Borchik with that light tank is going
to take a lot.
I mean a huge chunk of map control.
They are too good at getting that strike but he doesn't have time, there's gonna have
to be some decap coming in here.
Ah, right now and I don't see where it's gonna come from, I think the IS-7 needs to
peek this, he has to go in but there's no guarantee he actually makes this in time.
Two seconds, one second?
Oh, that was a last second reset, my goodness.
Yeah, well sure it's, he actually would have made that in time but now the reaction
comes in. Nice shot there by the BZ, by the K91. The Tarsik is forced to run here, takes
one by Wudok. Nermin gives another one. Test Tarsik on fire. I don't think he'll...
He does burn to death actually. Some good luck on CTR's side and now they're just resetting a little?
A lot of damage in the meantime though. I think he has a peek for the decal.
Orchans in the middle on the ground taking an absurd amount of damage.
just probably probably has the radio equipment just blipping in and out of existence with that Uda 75 as
CTR just going to reset back onto the cap
they are in prime position to win this one because they are also able to take up board chance with that artillery strike off the
CS 63 now three tanks on the cap with flokey spotting out tuka coming in
What the 430 you hungry for more hungry for down the German and who dog also aiming towards that E 50m
that now is left with what less than 1000 HP floccy coming in hungry for the
kill Herman instead gonna pick it up with that busy 75 and just like that CTR
managed to turn around at least this round here they need at least one more
to make it to tiebreaker but signs of life coming out from the team from
Czech Republic yeah I think Lotus were completely unaware where this line
It feels like they're completely unaware of the strapped and even of the nothing thing.
Like, there was no plan for decaps here. Absolutely none.
Ocians was forced to make an overpeak in which he took about 2k damage.
You know, he takes shots from the 140 in the north, he takes shots from the STRV,
he takes shots from the UDIS for this, so if that's not worth it, you have to send in the IS-7
close against two PZs and a full 30 for full safety decaps. This simply was not it by Lodus. I mean
CTR played what is essentially a complete counter strat to what Lodus wanted to play
and it worked out perfectly. Lodus had no answer and it's not even close. Like the only person who's
low HP is Patras. It's like literally not even close at all. 13k HP remaining. That's kind
kind of embarrassing like HP's whole life.
I mean that just means that whatever Lotus was trying to do, they just got completely, like, countered out.
But it checked missing an HE shell here, but it doesn't really matter for him because he has the ability active,
they're going to be loaded into the gunlock quicker, throwly to steal away the kill, and 7 nil the score here.
this means that something with the Lotus Strat was catastrophically flawed.
Yeah, they had no plan for the Caps there. Absolutely none. This was throw the kitchen sink at that Caps
Circle and hope for luck and I don't know, from that side, from the western side of Sun River,
Caps is a real possibility. We've seen it so often. This is not a Strat you should be surprised
I don't know, I feel like maybe Lotus were a bit of a confident, they thought CTR might want to go for a K-Line brawl or something like that, that's why they took the K-91, K-91 has a small strike but it has to generate it and it's just poor by Lotus, really really poor.
It really feels like they didn't think this was even a possibility, but in reality this is a strat.
played about maybe 40, 50% of the time from west side sand river, initial boosting 2 BZs into the cap for immediate pressure
to force a mistake from your opponent, just poor.
Yeah, a lack of preparation maybe from Lotus here when it comes to such a strat,
but maybe what they did was designed to counter like 5 other kinds of strats and they just got unlucky in...
A thousand IQ.
Yeah, they just got unlucky in the way that CTR opted to go with this one.
A lot of us were playing 4D chess.
I didn't even notice there was a Centurion in that game to be honest, I didn't even see him
in any of the part of the map. But Patras, 7k, finally make it up for that
Rolly Poli. But yeah, I mean everyone on CTR 8, except UDog, the highest damage,
I don't know really what happened to him, but I mean it doesn't really matter.
This was dominance by CTR and Paul Balotis again, sometimes it's not how you win, but this is definitely how you win.
Well, definitely some tactical preparation coming out from CTR here, and that has been what has kind of carried them throughout the season.
So it's good to see that they're bringing this in their most important match here, but as it stands right now, they are still down in points.
So I guess it's really coming down to the wire in the second round of Sand River because essentially if Lotus wins
Then they are going to be one point in front of CTR if CTR wins
They take this single point added to them themselves
And then it doesn't matter in the end who wins the tiebreaker in the sense that CTR is going to be in front of Lotus
Anyway, and on the last playday of the season of the regular season on Thursday
Both of them are facing opponents where they are
almost certainly not favored
What is the Tide Raker map? Because I have a sneaking suspicion that it's called a Tide Raker map.
Oh, that is a very... I've never heard of that map.
That is a very good question. But yeah, production coming.
Hearing my ear. Yes, exactly. It's got to be Pilsen.
I thought it was Ruinberg for some reason, but yeah, Pilsen it is.
I'm going to believe the absolute chats that we have in production here.
I love them, that made me look handsome somehow.
But yeah, Sand River is a map that's so open
that it's hard to do these like kind of,
it didn't struts a little bit what,
like we saw some interesting cliffs
where it was like Lotus were just better
on the technical level, they made better decisions
on the first one, the second one,
maybe it was a thousand IQ, maybe it was two IQ,
but it worked out.
Sand River is a bit more simple.
You can't hide anything.
And I think CTR are going to exploit that.
You saw this in the previous Sand River.
They applied maximum pressure, and Lotus just collapsed.
And I feel like if they do something similar,
I have a strange feeling this will go to Tiberica.
Well, my prediction, I pray.
Let's see if your feeling is going to become a reality,
or if Lotus managed to beat the odds here.
WBZ75, triple E50M, UDAS and RHM seems like they're going to take a page out of CDR Stratdok
and well, is Patras going to stick that one? It's not the Stage 2 that he usually starts with.
Yeah, CTRI 7, double M5Y actually. We all normally see that as a solitary beast but
140 430 you run into a punter lagen sp2 114 is a bold decision
again not a fan but realistically i mean what does that 114 sp2 bring to the table he
immediately gets spotted by the plane as well so uh yeah the thing is that the tank is so slow
you can't even touch the plane you know no it's it's literally it's like a four thousand five
I wouldn't necessarily say world's gun especially with ability but a lot of shots
they're coming in towards Tartzik and Bočjant so they are being bled for going
to the cap but now of course it's up to CTR to stop this one would have already
in an artillery strike and I don't think loaders have taken one so they have no
way to to really reset this as twist with the Wudas destroys a house but he
is not able most importantly to stop the artillery strike from getting
taken Plane coming out as well, and I think Orchans and Tarkzik realize that they can't stay in the cap.
Instead, they want to support the E50M overpush, but it's kind of mistime, Tuka taking a lot of damage to the strike coming in as well.
Finally though, the BZ75s arrive and they put some damage in towards Floki in that NBY,
who probably wants to be healing up a bit just to survive one more BZ75 shock as Evo trying to pour in DPM.
It is an all-out brawl, but the first kill is actually gonna go the way of Lotus immediately responded to Pondo as the CTR players are scrambling to get their GPM into this fight as it stands, one kill for each team, but CTR with the HP advantage.
Their patras delivers another 1,900 because of this tank.
Lotus can't play in the high ground with their 5th game, so they're force-lowered.
They didn't make the kills.
Hermann's next to no damage, but now even now he can still over-peek to deny that strike.
The M5Y is just a better tank for this position.
He can peek and give shots into Tark's sick.
Twist has to be the playmaker here.
He's the only one giving map control, same with the Light Tank of Lotzig.
Oh, Hermann.
That's a mistake.
What a mistake it's to make.
He was 2k HP a minute ago and now he's dead.
Ivo Peaks delivers 2k down to a one-shot, him and Sokol, but Poxy has a lot.
He could over boost this if he chooses to CTR.
They're not in such a good position as they were a minute ago.
But I'm going to let a lot of that HP is on Patras in that 1-1 floor.
Well, the RHM of Lotus is going to go for the artillery strike.
Meanwhile, though, the over-push from Twisty takes so much damage for this,
for Peebking onto Udok, but now Koordichek coming in with that RHM
takes another one and two from Jordan, a quick one-two combination and the HP advantage that CTR has.
It has almost all but withered away.
Tarkzik trying to form a frontline here against the MBY that obviously is in the most comfortable position
he could ever be in with it as he removes one of the players without taking any damage.
Good play by Evo that equalizes the kill department as well.
But this shot going wide here somehow CTR need to figure out a way to get that MBY
Sorry, that 114 SP2 into the game, but it's going to be difficult. The tank it is not very mobile
It doesn't really have any armor to speak of as evil one versus four in here
But finally for only coming in with the 140 that is the inspire medium getting committed to the fight CTR
They're looking for the knockout punch. Tark sick bowing out of that one
Just such a scrappy dirty
nasty game by both of these teams. It's not pretty at all. Patras finally going in.
Parkzik not able to convert that one. Wudal gonna one-shot for a strike.
Koine check and one-shot from a strike. There's a possibility for both teams here.
Botzik does take the strike so we should be able to delete one of them.
It's really hard to get Patras into this game. This tank is so slow but it's
just massive mistakes by both teams. That peak by Koyticek was not it. It took so much
damage for this.
Oh, Bočić strikes Koyticek here with that RHM. This means that not only are the kills
now equalized, Bočić is also the singular remaining life tank on the board as Tarkovic
takes another shot by Froli in the 140, the second one going amiss though, as Evo
is going to pick up the artillery strike so the Lotus players need to be a bit careful
about not taking more damage, Patras, finally rolling up and around with that 114 SP2.
Is he going to be able to find Tarksec here?
Tark's almost expecting that one, but he does end up getting picked up here.
Once again, CTR has more guns, but Lord is they have the light tank.
Yeah, quite a check going down.
That was just not it for the light.
You need to stay alive in this late game, regardless of your HP.
You already made the mistake with the ping.
Now it's made the mistake with his death.
And that can cause really big problems for CTR. Big strike going down onto the UDES. It will connect.
So Twist now down towards a nice peek by Patras.
A really strong peek there. And now it gets a little bit awkward.
Yeah, it's getting a bit hairy here. Jordan is also taking a shot of damage. This means he is one strikeable from now on CTR.
They do not have an utility strike right now, but they have control of so much of the map that surely they will be able to pick up
to pick up one somewhere.
Boček, he's going to be the playmaker for his team.
Level three playing available as well as Evo
is capturing an artillery strike.
And remember, he is the MBY 960 HP.
So, well, even if Boček resets him with the artillery strike,
that's still going to be a rather healthy heavy tank.
Astrolij with the 140 is trying to find any kind of opponent.
And he spots out Jordan.
Is he going to take him out?
That is the question.
the 50m had gone unspotted, but now Boček to win it all for his team here in this season,
one before the stakes couldn't be higher for him, but 1v4 is also normally a situation
that you don't come back from.
Yeah, Jordan giving a little bit of a gift in the late game, but you know, we got spotted
and you kind of saw him drive around a bit confused and just died.
It was a pretty strange late game there, but yeah, Lotus in this late game, just
not it.
there were mistakes by both of these teams there and the fact that the 50m didn't go up and over
they let the 1.4 the timing wasn't there the bz's have to go first take the 1.14 shot then the 50ms
go in and that just didn't happen so that just probably has about five five thousand damage probably
it should never happen with a 1.14 well the artillery strike is going to miss a bocic but
But yeah, he's probably trying to delay the game for as long as possible and your wish
is going to come true.
We are most likely headed to a tiebreaker as he's probably been driving for the past,
I don't know, three minutes straight with the 140 is going to single out Ocek in that
RHM, both of them getting striked here, but the 140 as the medium tank obviously
with vastly more HP is going to finish it off and CTR managed to stay alive they go to tiebreaker
and this most crucially means that both of the teams are getting a point so far but this in
turn also means that it only helps one of them which is CTR. I think in those points maybe
I'm going to be level with back yet for this one but yeah this is wasn't it by both of these
teams like there were mistake call you check with that peak you know it's the late game
and you're the light you don't peak like that to get 300 damage and take 700 in return
and that makes your one shot for the strike as well. It just wasn't it. This K line was
played poorly by Lotus they had an overmatch they had better tanks and they didn't take
it and this was just scrappy really really like poorly played by both sides but
He jogged the points, will move on and forget about how bad this game was and will focus on the whole match, but yeah, tiebreaker, Pilsen, both of these teams have shown decent 6k by Patras, you see?
Like, I saw him hit, I saw a 50m take a thousand, I saw both E50ms took 1k, VZ took 1k, and there was obviously other damage as well.
I think the problem as well was that the timing was a bit off for Lotus, like the E50M started peeking before the BZ75s were there.
And that means they both peeked, they both delivered 800, and then they take 900 in return for normal 4, so it's a negative trade, you know?
So yeah, Lotus kind of playing into CTL's hands, timing was off, the BZs weren't there quick enough.
low key got focused out nice and early, you won't see more damage from that light tank in like a near 10 minute game, but yeah.
Well, first of all, it's going to be Lotus who will be selecting the side for the tiebreaker because they had the fastest win, tiebreaker on Pilsen, and Lotus actually choosing to go south.
I don't think necessarily that on Pilsen it makes like a crazy big difference.
I prefer, I think self spawn is like 51% better, you have a little bit better call piles, I think, but it's not disastrous.
They won't be decided by side of the map basically.
What is disastrous for Lotus is that singular point that CTR have now taken away from them, but CTR looking really crappy on Cliff
cliff and then looking scrappy I guess on Sand River as well, but it was just about enough
in the second round.
Yeah, I mean, now what is it?
Guaranteed Lotus will be on 8, CTR on 11, that's still a three point difference.
If CTR wins this, Lotus have no way back.
If Lotus wins this, they have a way back, but CTR would need to lose without taking
any points for the big boys, which is likely.
And Lotus would need to take at least a point
or maybe like win two and lose four two
because of the much difference.
It's still a tall order by Lotus.
They had an opportunity here.
Listen, I have like thoughts in my mind at all times, all right?
I calculate a thousand things a minute.
That's why whenever it's like a draw,
I let Daki without the abacus and calculate it.
So I'm thinking about every other possibility.
Alright, anyway though, CTR Lotus here on Pilsen, of course, stakes are high for both of those teams.
You would probably prefer CTR to win, just to make your prediction come true.
But, I mean, they have made kind of a return into this match.
I really don't understand some of the plays that CTR did on Cliff.
But, yeah, here on Sandro the first round beautifully played, Lotus have no answer.
second round um let's say it was a wrestling match in the mud both of the teams got very very dirty
uh but yeah let's see if we get some clean gameplay now on uh on pilsen there's two dudes in
hot pants wrestling in the mud yeah i'm gonna let that in munchalinga in your mind oh do you
You like Pilsen? I like Pilsen. No, I hate Pilsen, actually. When I play it, I hate it.
When I watch people play it, it's okay. Yeah, looking at the lineup to CTR, double-time 140,
430, double-fosh b, then all right, champ. And for Lotus, no light tank. It's going
to be all shooter shooty power, BC75, BatChat, AA50M, CS63, 430U and an E4. Yeah, CTR, I guess.
Looking to surprise, Lotus a little bit with the double flash B if they can get the engage
off and of course the type 5s as a frontline. I don't hate it.
I mean, this is a really hard line of Lotus to pull off, to be honest. No lights but
heavy medium on a map that favours life tanks. This is a really hard one to pull off actually.
Like CTL's line-up is a bit more standard. You have two heavies with me, two cautious.
I'm kind of surprised they're going to the field actually. I expected them to play the one or two line, but yeah.
Well, let's see. Harman driving towards the call piles. He's obviously going to be the most nimble
tank that also makes him a prime target. A good shot in towards the call followed up by a secondary
won by Evo. This means Sokol needs to turn around, but I think the problem for CTR might be that
LDE 50M's haven't been spotted yet, but in they go, Boecek trading it out with Evo here,
Crawley to support as well, Koidecek with the ability active, trying to get himself into fight,
but this hitscourt by Lotus is what makes or breaks the game here for them. Evo still alive,
able to get out, Herman spotted out as well in that RHM, taking a lot of damage, but he
should normally be able to get safe as the Type Vs start the march of the elephants.
Yeah, but Lodus, CTR didn't do a bad one. They kind of pull back to more defensive positions.
Lodus needs to make sure they're picking up Frawley and Ivo pretty clean here.
Frawley's gonna go down, say with Ivo, Herman goes down as well. It's just collapsing for CTR.
Lodus, they took the time. They took the slightly longer route. So CTR didn't spot them
with these light tanks and now the foshes are on reload. Two tanks disadvantage for CTR
and these type 5s. They have a lot of HP but they have a lot of HP doing absolutely nothing
at the moment. Lotus performing here. Lotus, phenomenal job I think with figuring out
that the type 5s are not the wind condition, it is everything else that CTR has and they
just completely bully the tanks of CTR on the coal piles here with all that DPM that they had
coming out as Patras finds Tuka a good second shot as well, but I don't think the Foshbi has enough
shells in the clip to really take out the Bat Shad and this is only going to activate the
tanks of Lotus here. They approach the Foshbi like a swarm of angry hornets and they're going
gonna come in and clean out Patras, he might be able to heal a little bit back with the
Forge B but not that it matters because the E50M with the ability is just going to feast
on the Forge B's HP.
Yeah, it's nice by a lot of them.
They completely nullify CTRs like thing.
I mean I, the Hermit didn't go aggressive enough so we didn't see anything but those
50ms and 430 they like hugged the ridge on H7 so they were as far back as they could while still getting to the totals pretty quick
They took the longer route with the 50ms, so they were unspotted. I mean, it's a little bit lucky
I think if Herman goes more aggressive this could have been a different game
But he didn't and that means Loader's got all of their mediums pretty close unspotted and
They got their teeth into CTR and they never let go, you know, so yeah solo performance by Loader's
They deserve to win this round.
They deserve to win the round and with this they also win the match, but of course in tiebreaker.
This means that CTR will still be ahead of them in the points in the standings department.
So, well, at least the consolation for CTR there.
But yeah, Lotus showing a good last round, bringing this all the way to tiebreaker, ruining all of our predictions as well.
But hey, at least not the first time today.
Yeah, very true. But I mean, it was logical predictions, but yeah,
congratulations to Lotus. They are now still alive, which is
something to get that, or less, automatic qualification. But
yeah, so that's going to be Lotus on nine points, CTR and
11. There's a two point difference that can't be made up
if Lotus pull out the performance of a lifetime
against W. So yeah, it's doable.
It certainly makes the last matches on Thursday interesting.
They need a tiebreaker win or a clean win.
If it's a tiebreaker loss, loads are out.
But yeah, CTR did well to get back into it.
The Sand Rivers were the first one was solid,
the second one shaky, but they'll take the point.
But I like the cliffs, actually.
I thought the cliffs were quite entertaining.
Same with the Tundra.
So yeah, a solid match.
match, solid match, and I think at least the better team today won.
Like Lotus overall convinced me more in this match, and that also means that this team
has done quite a bit of, let's say, development throughout OLS, which is always nice to see,
because if we think back to phase one there, well CTR also had three points, but Lotus
had zero.
Yeah?
Very true. But yeah, I mean, Lotus, I think this is their first win in season two, not season two, sorry, stage two, which is good.
So coming out strong at the end, you know, it's the last dash, but you look at the difference, minus 17.
Yeah, there's no way, like, Lotus need to beat W for all three points if they want to stay alive.
No, they have more points than I thought they did. I thought they only had 9.
No, no, 10.
I have 4 points total in Phase 2 and Tiebreaker gives 1 to the opposing team.
I thought it was only 3 points. Okay, so they're on 10.
So they could draw with W and still, and if they draw and win, or just straight win, they can stay alive in this.
Yeah, exactly. And on the flip side of the coin, if CTR gets a tiebreaker win or just a straight up win, then they are safe.
So both of those teams are going to be playing very, very important matches and to be honest, I mean
W for them the stakes are pretty high as well. If they manage to get a win
They would be on third place which well, it does give more money, but what it most importantly gives you above
Place four is the seeding advantage for
For the playoffs right because place four starts in the lower bracket while
place two and three start off against each other in the upper bracket semis.
Yeah, but I mean it's really hard for Hit and Rump to catch Cashback at this point.
Oh, the full point, they need to keep lean against where they're playing.
Cashback haven't really looked like they're in the mood for losing, to be honest.
Like if you...
About five win streak looks a bit menacing, you know?
Yeah, the thing as well is right, five win streak means that
they have won all the matches so far in in phase two because we're on day four of
phase two so they haven't lost a single round sorry a single match here but this
next one is is the hardest like in this group it's in run this is this is the
the hardest match they're going into so but cashback this this week and last
week they look so strong and I don't know if they've actually lost a
I think what they 40 W they for zeroed mafia. I don't know if they for zeroed each other loaders
I think they probably did yeah, they for zeroed Lotus and
they for zero I
Mean, let's just say they're not in the fourth year. They for zero CTI. Yeah, they haven't lost a single round in
They so though they have 16 straight wins of of like games
so that's that's quite a
That's quite menacing, you know, quite daunting to come up against a cashback that has won for 16 out of 16 games
Well anyway
This means that we have a one final look at the play days of the season
Which is at least the regular season nearing its end today is the 17th of February
Thursday is
Gonna be the 19th the last playday of the regular season where as we just outlined with a lot of words a lot of
important decisions will still be made moving forward towards the finals and grand finals
as well. They are going to happen this weekend, February 21st and 22nd. A lot of decisions
are going to be made there as well, most importantly about the price pool that has
grown to well almost 55,000 euros. I think there is still a lot of people waiting though
because until Thursday you can still wait and make a decision as to which prediction bundle
you're going to buy I believe Thursday evening or Friday morning.
The prediction bundles are going to be deactivated, so need to buy before then, because after
then you will only be able to buy the base or advanced bundles.
But of course if you manage to hit the correct prediction then you can upgrade all
of those styles that you bought, not only the one that was in the bundle.
You're telling me you haven't bought the Lotus Bundle yet?
The Lotus Bundle? No.
My Lotus Bundle can still pay off.
It's like buying Apple stock in the 80s.
You know?
Predicting it's going to the mood any day now.
All right, anyway, here you can also see the token earnings.
Today you were able to get five, on Thursday you'll be able to get
another five if you haven't accumulated enough yet for example for a Kanoniak
Panzer 105 millimeter or all the other goodies that are available in the token
store yeah immediately we get them on screen here thank you for the guys in
production you could get a kv-122 I believe that is or for example is
that no that's not a poodle poodle the mighty poodle some 2d styles 3d styles
as well. Consumables, premium days, expirable reserves, so something in there for everyone.
And if you joined us late and you haven't been able to get the tokens for today yet,
we're going to be rating, well, a person that's not on screen right now, but a beautiful ducky
and there you should be able to claim them still. That being said, thank you very much for watching.
See y'all on Thursdays, same place, same time, twitch.tv slash world of thanks.
Thank you to Surfshark once again for sponsoring and see you day after tomorrow.
See you guys.
Thank you.