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The final onslaught season and the annual cycle will launch with some exciting new features.
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by Banter.
I hope you're excited Banter because we're going to be starting it off with an absolute
banger of a match.
It will be Cashback vs Mafia to start it off with, which will be absolutely incredible
looking at it.
That will be a battle for the top of the charts.
Yeah, apologies my sound wasn't working.
I noticed, I noticed.
Yeah, I wasn't here at you to talk yet.
I said we're starting with a banger, with Cashback and Mafia. That was a TLDR.
I mean, it's me and you. We always get the bangers, right?
And we give the rest of the games to Keyhent and the other casters.
But yeah, it's a really good one today. I mean, Mafia, they started strong until they hit and run yesterday.
In the last playday, sorry, they got absolutely owned by hit and run.
Cashback have been, they were decently consistent in the beginning, but they've been struggling a little bit in the last few play days.
Yeah, so far not doing that hot side of cashback, but then OLS, price pool 46,121 euros, you can still boost that price pool.
Of course, the bundles, which we're going to talk about in just a second, 100% of the proceedings going towards the price pool at hand.
And of course that Oracle bundle netting you that I've weighted badge and style as well if you do end up predicting the correct team, do not worry however the Oracle bundle is still going to be available for a little while longer.
That's basically the play of the start.
I would also not know who to support right now to be honest.
Is still anybody's game.
Have you not bought Lotus bundle yet?
No, no, I have not bought Lotus bundle yet actually.
I have, I believe, listen, any day now, going to the moon.
Any day? Yeah, well, Mountain seems to be a believer, but I don't know, you're more likely to be a believer than a believer.
What can you expect at home? Of course, well, you can expect five tokens. It's that simple.
It's very straightforward. Five tokens today available until 1AM European time,
And then you can spend those on the token store, of course, where the E75TS is the main reward.
But of course, if you already have an E75TS or you join us a little bit late,
or you just feel like getting the Scorpion in SU, some styles, premium day, consumables,
or personal reserves, that is also still a possibility.
Yeah, no poodle this time, but that's the 100 wire packs a punch. And E75TS is a really nice
tank actually it's like it's almost like a medium with a bit of armor like decent speed decent dpm
the hole is quite well armored so it's these listen it's completely for free right so you might
as well get it and of course looking at the standings hidden run surprisingly in the first
place position i don't think anybody would have really signed up for them to do that while in the
beginning of the season yeah they didn't perform that well in the first play day but since then
They've been solid obviously they fought a weaker opponent, well I'd say weaker opponent,
just looking at the list. They fought CTR, Cashback and Mafia, those are some decently
strong opponents so they're doing really well. Weekend, the pick that we, I think they're even
more surprising considering last season they've performed incredibly well actually in the deserved
second place. Cashback in third, Mafia, look so strong in previous players so yesterday but
looking at the bottom of the list. It's not looking that great for W at the moment.
Yeah, no, they are not that hot, but of course when we look down, I mean, Sakai or CTR Lotus,
NW, they're fighting for those top six positions right now. Anybody's game at this point in time,
I mean, one win here or there, and Lotus is literally back in it as well. The one difference
with them is not great, but the possibilities could be there. I mean, you never know what happens
on that bottom half of the leading board, right? Yeah, very true. I mean CTR, their position looks
a lot worse than they are because they've fought a lot of the very good opponents. I think they've
fought a different weekend cashback and hit and run, I think, if my memory serves. So they've had
most of their opponents and they're going to want to be picking up points later down the line today
against Sicarios, but also in the next week, next playday is against Lotus as well. So they want
picking up points there as well, and even the matchday after that, they're having W from what
we've seen so far. W seemed like the highest likely of the top four teams to drop some points to
the lower four teams. Of course, but they could still get into the season as well. They're going
to have a matchup against LoL that's later on, then hit with Ziggars, because you see there are
all matchups where you would say every team kind of has a chance, I think it's fair to say. LoL that
mid-stage, mid-table standings could be shaken up after this, but yeah, Mafia versus Cashback.
Cashback normally very dominant in the regular season, so far not that great.
Yeah, not to the normal level, but not horrific either. I mean, the performances they've had are
not that bad, there's no like concerning ones, like Mafia against hit and run, Mafia against hit
That was a concerning one for Mafia, how meekly they rolled over and kind of submitted to their Polish other half.
But we'll need to see, because Mafia coming into this match wanting to instill some confidence because they started the season so well,
but that result yesterday, it's shaking, you know, because it's the Polish derby. You want to try hard.
Or sure, I mean this is also a thing between those two, you always had that rivalry and
when you just walked away with it, guys back in the turn, you know, they're banded back
up to basically the original core that they had and now they got to make this work, right?
This is the best Ukrainian team you could feel because they always have the pick of
the litter in terms of who they want to add since they're the top dog and now they really
got to make that come true for them as well.
so far maybe a little bit of a bombing issues but that could still change we're
still kind of early in the season Barbarian of course highlight player
always very very high performance coming out from Batman yeah Dean game leader I
mean we saw in the last season it was little who was who's taking the reins
and he was also the highest on damage Barbarian now I think he's also the
the highest on average damage in this season obviously he's playing before the
the high damage TDs, but that kind of lead from the front leadership, it's very valuable.
It's not like my style where you die and then you can lead better once you're dead.
Well, thinking about it, he's going to have to do a big game here to take down Mafia a team.
Maybe Cashback's style fits Mafia a bit more.
It's going to be a slower kind of game against Hidden Run, they kind of got run over.
Community prediction, slightly favoring Mafia, 53 versus 47%.
So maybe the style that Cashback plays
that will be more favorable for Mafia.
Cashback not really known for their super all-out aggression.
Yeah, I think the maps are gonna be quite telling
to see the picket bands, so we'll see it here.
Cliff being banned, Pilsen being chosen by Mafia,
didn't even need to see the teams to know that they choose.
It's one of their favorites.
Cashback bands goes down, chooses Ensk.
Ensk tends to be called a high player skill map because it's so small, there's a lot of lanes,
a lot of sidescraping, peeking and positional play. So I think that will go into Cashback's
favour with the high player skill lineup and a tiebreaker of Himmelsdorf. I think that could go
either way. It could indeed go either way. I mean, client agree on that one. Now maps, yeah, we talked
What about Pilsen and... Pilsen is such a highly played map this season.
I feel like we have it every single match almost.
Yeah, we do. I'm not.
I've seen enough Pilsen for a lifetime this season already.
I want to be seeing more Cliffs and Himmelsdorfs, but it's a map that they're really strong on.
So they obviously want to pick it every single time.
It's quite an interesting map just because of the positions.
It looks open, but it's kind of not because of those co-piles.
It requires a lot of precise timing and positional gameplay that Mathia hit and run, they're well known for, but looking at the predictions here, all of us going 3-2 with Phil going for a 3-1 scoreline, he is winning at the moment by one singular point, and I know you don't care obviously, but you are below sign-ups at this point.
How do you feel?
in different absolutely in different to be honest
yeah but we all look we don't mafia is gonna win though that's the interesting
part here like the fact that we all think that mafia is gonna win while the
community prediction is 50 50 either we know something they don't or they know
something we don't yeah but we've I mean most of us except Phillip I've chosen
quite a close scoreline. The thing is that I think before the previous playday,
before the previous playday we had a bit more of an idea, but in the last playday
with Mafia performing so poorly, it kind of throws it away. I would have gone with a 3-1 scoreline before yesterday.
But with that poor performance by Mafia, I think it's, it means, you don't really know.
Like to be honest, this season, most of the teams have been pretty inconsistent.
know fully start performance. I don't really know, I don't really have a
favorite for the entire season, let alone this match just yet.
Well, I mean in the best of five a lot of things can still happen, go right away.
Hard to predict just exactly where this will go, but like I said, I think this
kind of match upsuits Mafia a little bit more than the Hidden Run match, where
you know they end up getting rolled over very quickly. Cashback will not be
playing like that most likely. Yeah, really, in a perfect world, we'd be able to see the
win rate overall the season between Mafia and Run2C, but either way, we have to go into
this one. Rhyme atop Panzerwagen being banned by Mafia, EBR by Cashback, and she's both
team spanning the lights, that's pretty telling. Yeah, I mean, bots don't want to play with
an Archimere or an EBR. Mafia, of course, knows they have Liberty and Cashback knows
that they have Kono on the other side so things to be afraid of so we end up in
this battle where Liberty's in the T100, not a bad light but of course at the
same time it's not really such a high damage dealer either. Yeah I've been
playing it a lot in random onslaught. My opinion of it has increased but it
really struggles in fights that loaded game. Another thing to look at is
proof was in that K921 airstrike the K921's ability being buffed in the
most recent iteration of onslaught. Now start with the ability which means more decaps able
to be done with those strikes. He has binos as well, so he's going to have that extra
view range. Double K91 on the cashback side, Ken into one of pretty awkward tank with the
rear turret with such high DPM.
Extremely high DPM. I mean, Profus is also playing there with the binoculars activated
and Squeezy is the one to feel the pain because of that as well. Profus with his favorite
equipment the binoculars and it actually pays off yeah it's a really nice one
using the binos to spot out squeezy obviously maximum view range being 445
but it always lowers camera rating and those bomb binos he's probably got about
at least 550 meters view range so that squeezy is gonna have minimal camo on
that crossing and you know it's a kind of Trojan horse strat it only works
once but it works to great effect but if that damage was on something like a
430 you were a fosh be much more useful than a canine to one because again into
one can always retreat to the back line and snipe with its good camera rating
and accurate down so not decisive but very nice damage nonetheless miss who's
is gonna have to play very carefully now what is it thousand forty nine HP but
yeah he's not dead just yet the mafia in return pushing up the two line using
taking some damage corner taking some damage as well at 50 be seemingly
losing about a thousand and now Barbarian and Mainbaker sending to push down zero line
and T100 of Liberty does take the strike but will be able to take the info at some point.
They can't really keep denying him in the corner and they can still throw Mafia at 90.
So Gashback doing a very good job at doing damage.
Yeah, doing a good job of doing damage.
Mafia bled a bit on a few tanks.
That 50B losing HP is quite important because obviously you want your clip is very healthy.
the aspect, progressing down this one line and Barcus is very exposed, don't even prove
who's covering him. And if these double foshes bounce on Barcus, Barcus will go down very
quickly and those foshes will be able to heal a lot of that back. So I think obviously
we can see it because we're the observers, but if they did decide to bounce on Barcus,
that would be probably a very positive net trade.
I mean, Rex is solo capping, but at the end of the day, there's a lot of mini strikes
available on the cashback side. It's easy, little, have a strike, Liberty has a big strike as well,
he might even opt to use the big strike at some point. It's a small strike actually to
de-camp Rexar. Liberty does not get a replay out of that. The big strike in the east is back up
though, so Liberty could opt to use his strike and then retake that one and he did end up doing
that. So it is a good show of advantage, but now I'm starting to feel like they're doing a little
bit worse. Yeah, obviously it's a lot better to get Squeezie down to low HP. The damage
is very spread on the mafia side, but I think obviously some of it's on the type, some of
it's on the K921, that's a bit backline. I think the damage on Oz and Chakono is a
bit more important. Music takes another one. But yeah, they do need to stop bleeding in
this kind of, it is double cap now, but Cashback do still have that strike on Liberty. And
Squeezie also has a level 2 strike, so pretty big circle radius on that one.
That was a shot into Orzic. I feel bleeding a lot more than we would have normally expected.
Yeah, that's what I mean. Cashback is doing a very good job at dealing damage towards the Mafia side,
even though Mafia got to the initial advantage with the damage on towards Squeezie.
But now the cap is back on, you can see Barbarian, Minebreaker coming back in with their first beast.
pick up Orchard, but how much bloods? Absolutely unnecessary play there, they really felt like
they had to do something with these Forged Bees and what do they do? Barbarian is dead.
Yeah, it's not just that, he dies for nothing. There's no, you know, if you lose a tank on one
side, it means you have to normally do a reaction on the other side. Otherwise, you know, how to
word it, it's action and reaction, but there is no reaction for cashback and now 6000 HP down,
mindbreaker takes another and he's not healing that one back. It's almost 7,000 HP disadvantaged now.
Or, cashback is so well and then now Liberty pushing on Tabak, because that's not an engagement
he can win, because he just doesn't have the DPM for that one. The K921 of Squeezie is only on
600 HP and far back. And all this time the cap is going on. Rexal does get decap. And from bad to
worse for Mafia, the bleed is insane. Well, this game is done and dusted to be honest. Double the HP
four mafia yes cashback has six things left alive but those are going to start
falling very very quickly like dominoes because they're all so so low at this
point and this is one shot all the rest of them are below half HP
perfuze is going to come in finish off squeezy the job he said it earlier now
was going to be completed after daddy goes down a car to follow and it's just
over at this bit of the crossfire at least but it was cashback that drove
into it. Yeah, this is this is a concerning one, to be honest. I'm concerned for our predictions,
because, you know, you lose, but sometimes it's the way you lose. And, you know, they take all
that damage in the beginning, or squeezy, it's not really decisive, and they bleed Matthew really
well, but then that it just collapses. And this is not close. It's seven zero with an 8k advantage
as I said sometimes you lose but sometimes it's how you lose a cashback lost in a bad way here
yeah this was not a pretty round to put it that way for for cashback I mean I'm not sure
we're how about Bane and the mindbreaker thought that would go but yeah yeah not the best and you
spoke about it before in the last playday they take RHR IRM IRM IRM sorry for the for the faster
turning speed because Fosh is very awkward when turning corners and in this in this kind of factory
hangar there's a lot of corners there so it's very awkward for him to play but look at that by
bearing with zero that's just that's not good yeah for a man that has nearly 4k average it's pretty
bad when he ends up doing zero you know because the mafia though like i said i feel like honestly
this cashback slower style suits mafia really really well in a way because i think they prefer
playing against it all together as well they had the great opening we're gonna even perforce you
you can see the assist damage as well.
And afterwards, their trades were a little lackluster,
I think that's fair to say,
but maybe they put just the right amount of pressure
to make Cashback kind of lose the plot there for a second.
Yeah, I mean, looking at the accuracy as well, right?
Mafia with 95% and Cashback with 71.
Music, 2.5K block damage.
Every member of Mafia's team has a block shot,
apart from the 50B that's mostly made of paper.
It's not a good look for Cashback, it really isn't.
It's, again, right?
We're the commentators, we're the casters.
We watch these games in 10th lane
and we see the little micro plays
and we can see this was a bad loss for Cashback
and it doesn't look good.
Sometimes you can lose,
but you lose in a way that doesn't look bad
and it instills kind of confidence in us
when we make the predictions,
when we talk about the more casting,
but this is not a good look for Kasperk
rolling over this meekly against the mafia side
that didn't do anything really special.
They applied cat pressure with one e4,
and obviously they were taking the double strike.
So Kasperk kind of felt they had to do something,
but this just wasn't good.
No, this wasn't good.
And this time around, it seems like we got the same bands,
TBR and RHM being banned, Liberty back on the T100,
but look at this mafia lineup,
the amount of 40 to use four of them.
Yeah, this is like a low-disk lineup,
kind of proof was opting for the binos yet again.
Quite a surprise for that one on a 140.
140 tends to be a very mobile tank.
You always want to be shooting and moving,
but personal preference on the Casigut one type,
triple Fosh B and T100.
It is interesting that they're sticking with these Foshes.
I've started to have a feeling that Foshes
gonna fall out of favor a little bit, but Cashback still sticking with them.
For now, LiquidGL changed up, we had the 430U is moving towards the east, Profuse, you had
those binos again, right?
So he is gonna be setting that one up, will not be able to spot all the T-102s who sneaks
across another 430U, maybe pushing down the center of the map.
Yeah, I mean Pruvus tries to do the same thing twice these 430s on spotter for now
Kono does get spotted using Rex all three of the mouse spotters the jig is up
and there's no one they can really bounce on no one close Akka's the closest that
he's behind that building and I feel gonna need to adjust pretty quickly if
they want to make this work because right now they're driving into a crossfire
They're setting up and just holding down the lane in that regard and that seems
to be quite alright for cashback. In the meantime though Conrad, Varquez, Rexar, Kono, they're
pushing on towards the 1,2,3,4 line, can they find something there? There's another
Forged B waiting though in position, they're trying to swarm now, Mafia trying to play
the 5-2k, Mindbreaker is in trouble but these Forged Bs are having a field day so far.
Yeah but the Foshers are now on reload so even though that initial HP bleed there is
They will find mindbreaker in the 100. They will with almost certainty find Barbarian before he reloads
But he is pretty close on that one. Proofless doesn't connect it.
Barcus needs to connect this part of his reload off and that's gonna be really important.
Akka has backed away so he's more safe, but I think he's in a bit of crossfire from music there.
Barbarian is loaded. He should get off his entire clip. This really hurts into Barcus. That's easy.
Obviously, I think Barbarian would prefer to be shooting those 430s, but
But those get Parkes down to low HP, it's a thrush, they head now off there reloading,
they might be able to snipe some damage here, they harshly have Parkes right now.
And Parkes Perfus is hiding behind that building for a dear life, trying to stay alive, but
they gotta be careful, you know Liberty's taking back another information tower, the
strike will come up at some point, and I think right now Mafia is the one that is on a little
bit of a timer, right?
The longer this game goes on, the more impactful that light will come and its ability to go
really anywhere across the map. Yeah, Conan this crossing takes just yet proofers goes
the back way, but the thing is, at this point, they're kind of forced to put on triple cap
pressure. Obviously, it's double full HP, Fosh on the cashback side. So that's a lot
of burst potential. They need to kind of speed this game up if they want, because the longer
it goes on for the higher chance that cashback are going to get these strikes in the middle
and on the field, that could takes a little bit of damage there on that crossing. Little
little takes it on time, you know, little doesn't take it on time, you have to go body block
in that first beat, he's doing it as well and that will halt the cap attempt with Aphrodite
then in the meantime going towards that strike and now how does Mafia react because that
will be double strike for Kaisback pretty soon.
Yeah, up to abandon it which I think is the right play here but if they go on this side
then far more than or far sooner than Matthew would spot him and he's running as well to take
that strike. Barcus goes down to squeeze in the Fosh, he made the repush, took no damage for that as
well. So we have Gunparity now, Ozychan Rexard, they are trying to peek on Little and they do have a
little bit of a hold down which forces Little to go forward and bear in mind Little's ability is
almost up. Conrad optic the fire before the ability went down, not sure about that one but Little has
He has shot one shot, he is healing back now.
He is in trouble right now, he is going to get feed by Conrad Wexar and Hordek.
If they all have their shots, he is basically dead and that happens.
Wexar thinks a lot though and there comes the Arsenal.
One, two, goodbye Wexar.
Squeezie then coming in from behind as well.
Finding a little bit of an angle again.
Yeah, the Kasmak regains control once more.
Yeah, I'm debating internally if that was a good trade.
on HP but I think trading 1 BZ for a full HP Fosh is worth in that scenario. Bear in mind,
Cashback may be up on HP by a lot but a lot of that's on the T100 which has quite low penetration
and very, ooh, hard right here. He thought Squeezie was on reload. Squeezie puts one into the house
but shouldn't pick it up here. He does. He pan and it's... Armour's not great. Proof was
opps to run. He thinks Squeezie's on reload but Squeezie isn't so now Squeezie puts two more in
on reload, Squeezy pops ability. I'm sure Profus makes the kill here with strike he should
and Kono coming in from behind. Kono comes in, finds the kill, so Squeezy goes down,
so 3 on 3, but now another strike being taken and that is usually doom here because Profus
is down towards a one shot and Orchek needs to run away, takes one from Liberty after DiDi
did end up missing his, but with that strike on the east being available, Liberty, all he
he needs to do is go collect that one and Conan perfused there in a trouble here
because if you think about it this way one of them has to die and Orchek kind
of takes a very long time to decide on how to do it and perfused will fall
against Akka, Liberty kill Akka right now he's gonna go for it he's gonna try
but it's gonna be difficult and Orchek missing Aphrodite, Aphrodite missing
Orchek, Kono missing Akka and all this time Liberty just taking the strike
Strike normally speaking, Kono wants to try and trade it out here as well, but it's unable to.
Yeah, Ozi's up to run, but he is spotted on that one, we need to see. Strike plays, I'm not sure if that's going to hit him, actually.
It misses, so Strike does not connect, Kono wins the 1v1, which was kind of likely.
Really nice by Kono, and Bearman Kono is not a one-shot for that strike after an Ivy up to run.
Kono could hit a timing here, playing used.
No strike. That's just for information. What's the plane onto Kono so they know where Kono is going after that
He's gonna take this mid strike
It's playable for both teams really is even with Liberty on such high speed just because of the way that
How awkward that T100 is that is
Not bad. He survives yet again
Another dodge and Kono finds Liberty a little bit and Orchard has him from an alternative angle as well
And now it's a little bit of trouble for the side of Kaif, like Liberty wants to get out
He takes one more, Koro actually misses, but Liberty forced out in the open, Orcik dies
Against Aphrodite, a good peek, Koro now, can he find a kill? He can, he doesn't even take a shot from Liberty
And it's one on one, and Koro actually has the info, needs to just peek this at this point in time
Aphrodite, what a good search, but Koro finds the angle on the side and
somehow
Mafia ends up winning it. This was a
Dayline robbery that played it all well
Nonetheless, but that should never ever even get close again
Yeah
I'm just replaying the round in my mind the double strike missing by Liberty. I'm a cono dodge two strikes
There at the end so small mistakes by Liberty, but this really was cashback's game
and as I've said
You know in the first round is the way you lose in the second round
It's also the way you lose and this was not good considering what Matthew did they drove into a crossfire?
It's two fosh B clips then another fosh B clip and of course at that time
Matthew is focusing out the 100 and the fosh of
Barbarian but Barbarian off office clips this really shouldn't have been loseable for cashback
They had every advantage going for them
All right for sure and then in the end
And even then, if you think about it, the way that it ended there, Stryk's missing, Liberty
getting caught in the open by double 40 to the U. I think there was two strike misses
in total, right?
Yeah, there were Liberty missed both.
And the thing is as well, if you guys are thinking, why didn't Liberty just go for the
318 HP 430, I can't remember which one it was, the 200s Alpha is only 300s, we wouldn't
be able to kill me at one shot. But yeah, there was just a lot of there was a lot going
on in that round. There was like 14 different engagements that will kind of one view ones,
two view ones, two v twos that just kept happening all over the map. So there's a super interesting
round to the technical and individual gameplay perspective. But pretty wild, to be honest.
And really never end up going the way that it did.
With that much HP advantage. I don't know why Liberty goes so close
Yeah, I honestly could not tell you with the plane as well. They knew where Osis was going. It's on 500 HP. They knew it. I
Could not tell you I honestly could not tell you
That's the thing as well with little in the Fosh in the cap
Like how quickly he just got deleted just being in such a poor position and being so poorly covered by the rest of his team
They had the double strike though, that kind of made it a lot easier.
It equalled it out, but if there was no double strike, even then I think what?
A full HP Fosh for a BZ and maybe a thousand HP off the 430U?
I think that's right. That was a full HP Fosh.
Well, onto Enzo, it's going to be in a very interesting line-up here again from Mafia.
Look at that amount of Bliska Witz. It's four of them, a 140, a BZ and a Fosh B.
Yeah, on the cash and we've started seeing these mouses when types of band and one bz double mouse 140 triple fosh again with these foshes against gliskovitzas
I have started thinking you know I've had some thoughts in the regular season I felt like it's been seen more can into once we are and I really fosh should be being taken like sticking with it here so it's going to be foshes versus gliskovitzas and mafia
that's an aggressive lineup right then they're going straight for cashback's
face if it looks right yep they will find double mouse in that part of the
map though let's have a lot of DPM so I mean mouse is not really a bad target
for them to be honest yeah I think they have the highest DPM in the game on close
range something above 5,000 so very I forgot in mind break you should go down
very quickly Kono leading the charge of bearmind they're all in spotter that
I don't think they've destroyed many, many buildings or anything like that.
I think while bearing it little in those foshers, they started turning,
but now they've turned again and they're going into the city,
lane taken, so there's going to be info in a moment,
and they're going to know these mouses are for free.
Uh-oh.
This could be over real quick.
I mean, that's what it all now, they have to go, they see it.
Yuzek will just drive in, he's the BZ, he's supposed to take the damage.
Minebreaker's going to be the first one to get focused in the mouse.
He's dead already. Konrad should hit this one.
Music blocking a little bit, but Korma does not end up missing it.
Rek'Sar to pick it up, that's one down, and now Cashback trying to get back in.
Yusek sitting a little bit in the open for the 4 Bs, but there's already one dead mouse.
That's a good shite, to be honest. Hitting on 2 could have been 3,
but it's minus 1 tank already from Cashback, minus 1 of the mouses,
and now they still have to face the music here on this.
It's just Bs sitting out in the open, and the Aphrodite is not in safety quite yet.
Rekstar gets the first or check looking for the finish but instead he's actually
gonna go past and it's gonna be Kono to pick it up and Mafia is now just going
to roll like a sledgehammer through this wall that is cashback absolutely no
problem bringing it down it's gonna be a very very harsh 3-0 to be honest where
Mafia gets it all and cashback really this is gonna be such a fashion this
This, this, you know, back in the day, like maybe 10 years ago, do you remember, we used
to play T57s for the 50Bs because the reload was quicker.
The thing about Fosh is Fosh has such good burst, but that long reload is so, so long.
And they did their good here and I just knew Matthew weren't going to stop because why would
you stop?
The Fosh is on reload, you just go straight for the mouses and you keep the pain train
rolling while these Fosh's are on reload and it's just, it's not, normally cashback
They tend to pick tanks that get picked later on by other teams because they kind of normally see things that other teams aren't seeing, but these foshers are simply not it.
And I said it in the first round, I said it in the second. Sometimes it's not that you lose, it's how you lose. And this was not even close.
This was like Mafia yesterday against him. This was one-sided boys to men. Back to the drawing board.
It was a really tough matchup for them and, well, Mafia takes all three points, I would say.
But this round, you know, they played the Altsin, I think they were very happy to see Double Mouse waiting.
I mean, it was literally the perfect scenario, right? They have six tanks stacked on that corner,
and then the info comes in, oh, Double Mouse and the Foshers are miles away. Nice, free real estate.
mindbreaker only doing one shot and that was against a blitzker with abilities, so he doesn't even get the full damage after Daity gets two, but
it's not much better, and yeah, the rest of the foshers, they all might have gotten off more than one clip, but
it doesn't make a difference in the ground scheme of things if everyone else is dead.
No, it doesn't.
I mean, the one mouse dies and the second one tries to make it out, but he gets stuck in a
Not such a great rail. They could always go back and just kill him from behind, right?
So it's like no matter what happens your minus two tanks. I think that's
It's the outcome nonetheless. Yeah, it's lost on opening and it's it's it's simply that mafia's opening counters cashbacks, right?
This is the perfect scenario for cash back. You couldn't
For Matthew, sorry
You couldn't plan it any better double mouse on your side of the map where you have seven tanks isolated
And obviously, you know, in an ideal world, their mouses, they should survive longer than this, but it's like five Bliskovitzas. They're not surviving that.
No, indeed. Well, that was a very quick match of the day, I would say, because I thought the mafia versus cashback was the match of the day, in terms of evenly being matched up in that regard.
regard and it didn't end up being that's the danger of a best of five right you
end up throwing one round away and then before you know it it's 3-0 and my
fair shows us just how quickly it goes that was match number one we have two
more coming your way and they have a very needy kitty I will we will see you
guys right after some replays
I don't think he's making a snipe.
There'll be a lot of CTs, and this will be a hard one to mob yet.
They're looking good.
Two games have disappeared.
But he's back.
He's dead.
They're doing damage, but they're not stopping this train.
I'm talking to them.
Push forward, he's a watch on Ipons with all four kills.
Hello gamers and welcome back to the AMD OnSword Legends Series League Season 6.
We've replaced Banther for a worse prediction master called Kihan.
Hey Kihan, how you doing?
Oh, I mean, you were the one to bring it up.
You would have mentioned something about it anyways,
because you were at rock bottom the entire last season
and you're just happy that somebody else is drowning instead of you.
Oh, let's just say that is not a completely unfounded opinion.
Anyway, though, upcoming match W versus Lotus.
I think a clear favorite cut out with the team of W that ended up actually with an upwards trend.
They didn't start the season so well, I would say, but Lady 3 was okay for them and for Lourdes, I mean, Dire Straits.
Dire Straits, but they've beaten that straight before, you know?
So you're saying at least they have experience with the situation.
It's not an unfamiliar feeling.
It's probably doesn't make it better to be honest for sure, but you know it cannot get worse, you know
It's already been that bad. I guess that's the silver lining like if you're at the very bottom of the table
Then at least it can't get worse, but we'll see first of all W
Standout player Ios 3.3 KDPG. I believe now we have the stats from this season from the past three
3 play days. So, yeah, KD1.4 as well. He's kind of a standout player for his team, playing
those Soviet mediums mostly, 140, K91. Yes, they're both Soviet mediums, but they play
completely differently.
For sure, for sure. Now, W hasn't been doing, like we're talking about Lotus, but W hasn't
been that hot either, Kian.
No, although the prediction kind of crazy, 96% for W, then again with Lotus' performance so far,
I can kind of see where it's coming from, but it's still very, very harsh.
Yeah, I think with the way that W is playing, there is an opportunity here for
Lotus to do something, right? First map is going to be cliff.
No Pilsenkian, big surprise.
Yeah, we will have Cliff into Himmels, into Sandriver.
So pretty iconic maps that are going to get played.
I mean, W's Cliffclick, I see where it's coming from.
They just want to win on reactions and play skill.
And for Lotus, Himmelsdorf, it can be a very, very technical map to play it.
So, let's see if Lotus are able to withstand whatever W is going to throw their way, because
realistically I don't think W is going to play passively here, instead they will probably
try and dominate the games immediately just to snatch up a quick three points that they
are probably planning with.
I mean for W you need a clean three points here, right?
I think that is the order of business and anything but like a dominating performance
them would just raise more question marks to be honest. So we need to really, really see them
come out strong, look like the W of all, because if not, we could start wondering what is really
happening. Yeah, and I mean, for Lotus, for them, it's just about realistically getting anything
from this at all, not getting clean sweep, maybe, maybe getting one point if possible too, but
it'll be definitely a reach.
If you notice, we're supposed to take the full three points here, that would be amazing for them,
because if we put them on the same amount of points as W, which is exactly why, you know,
that bottom four is very undecided, you have your idea of who should pull away with it.
But if W keeps on the performance they've done so far, they're not going to run away with anything
except for disappointment from the fans.
Well, let's see what's going to happen because I think we're just about to load into the
first round of the match here. It will be on cliff, as I said, so there once again the
question is going to be, is either team going to ban the BZ? I think this is the most prominent
ban option. And after that stuff like CS, for example, RHM 430
use all of those are options that are on the table. But of
course, it's up to the teams to decide. So let's see where we
are going to go with this as Lotus bans the BZ and so does
W that makes it pretty straightforward for either team
Lotus coming in with the triple 50 B double Dravitz and double
CS. In return, WRHM, WCS, a bad and triple 50 B. So, notice that extra firepower, but
W could have that information, right? Yep. Let's see how this one goes. I mean, keep
in mind that CS with the Minestrike is able to generate information by itself just by
going into Artistrike mode and checking if anything gets destroyed. I think on Clip that
can be particularly useful and there's a lot of stuff that you have to drive over in order
to actually get to where you need and want to be.
What does the plane get in the beginning?
It's nothing.
One CS.
Sorry.
It was Jordan was moving towards the rock.
So-called twist and took are going to be covering Jordan does reveal the 50B is waiting from
W.
Now the CS is crossing with the IHM.
So W has some sort of a crossfire setup, mental speaking, to reset, we'll not be able to do
it, we'll take two to the face for that.
And now though Jordan revealed everything, and that is going to be Lotus crossing from
the top with double dragons and ACS in crossfire.
I would say that they have the better tanks for this.
I would say so as well, because a Dravid's rushing and RHM is never going to be a fun
time for the RHM as Glurf gets found, he is shot by basically everyone, he tries to
make it to the crossfire position.
once, track twice and that means he's not going to make it the double 50B from W in
the meantime coming in through the low side but Twist and Touka immediately repushing
as well however the Dravitzes they have paid dearly and Portions goes down.
Paul repushing as well, I also had a good crossfire looking and pushing around the corner
and the Dravitzes maybe went a little bit too aggro on that part because Eittorx and
his secondary CS are going to be killing it, there was Eilis to pick it up and now Nipal
trying to drive through with the 50B trying to get Twist but it seems like Nipal is actually
disconnected sadly for him too late into the round to do anything about it. This kind of stuff just
happens. W may have gotten the top part in their favor but the HP is horrible. Mentals dead, Nepal
dead as well. They still playing from the top and I also might even get Tuka with a little bit of
luck with Tarkovsik facing off against Lukin. Lukin cannot win that. Jordan, so-called Twister
all starting to repush and the first round here where W wanted to look strong is not going to be
going their way, it's going to look wrong as Lotus will come into cliff picking up the very first round.
Yeah, I think the problem for doubly here besides the timeout of course was that it felt like
Lotus just had the better tanks for the engagement that double drudits are able to soak up a lot of
shots, able to really put the hurt onto the RHM that I guess didn't see them in time. But yeah,
Lodis coming into the match, putting the first round on the board, and this is, once again, a problem if you're a W fan,
because W this season, this time around, they've not looked very stable so far,
and once again, you have to allow the question, like, in which state this team is currently.
Whatever state they were in, you know, this round is not going to be helping them.
Pratt removed back into the lineup as well, so that was an interesting move to see.
He was playing, I think he's taking a brain breaker spot, right?
I think it was a brain breaker that didn't play if I'm not mistaken.
But nonetheless, Lotus is in the first round, man.
They can do this again on Cliff.
You know, Cliff is the kind of map where you really could take two rounds, to be honest.
Any team could have given the right day, to be honest.
And we can see here the damage numbers.
I think for Lord is exactly going how they wanted it to with really the CS tanks as well
as the 50 Bs coming in with damage in the drafts.
To be honest, all they did was just tank the damage, which is kind of what, you know, those
heavy tanks are supposed to do at times.
A lot of teams use BZs for that, but as we can see BZ was banned.
So dravets, I guess, next back next best thing when it comes to this.
So, looking at it, unbelievably enough, Lotus wins the very first round.
So that is amazing, to be honest, for them.
Good stuff. I think even with Nepal being in the round, they would still win that, to be honest.
So, you know, all good. All good from Lotus's side. They went out, they got it through it two more times.
So, if they could take a second round and take a point of W, even that would be a miracle.
I mean, shout out to Jordan as well, right? Because realistically, he, by taking the Info Tower,
not getting reset by Mentos, and then also getting the Quad Strike with his own, like,
inherited ability from the tank, getting 1000 damage with that is a very good opening, puts
team in a very advantageous position and Lotus not fumbling in this round so yeah for W we were
talking about dire straits for Lotus but it feels like it's the same thing for W now.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet though. Your prediction is completely out of the water,
good job, congratulations Ki. Thank you very much. Always here to remind you.
you. But but apparently, you know, you're the one not caring about the bridge. I don't
but I just find it funny when you know, you know, you end up failing, you know, that's
the worst part. It sounds like I don't but I do. I mean, all I know is right now you
and Banthro are wrong. Well, yeah, I mean, that is quite obvious. Let's see if yours
comes to pass there is a possibility but for that to happen W would need to start playing here.
Let's see what they will do Nepal with the timeout not in the team right now so it seems like
Brainbreaker has replaced them first of all BZ and 50 B bands coming in leaving the quadruple
drudges double CS 63 and 140 combination open follow this.
In return, a little bit of a mix here for W, Guerrilla T191, double bat, IS-7 and a Dravetz.
And the equipment on the Guerrilla, low noise is diabolical on Cliff.
You can just place some positions where the enemy might not suspect you,
and then, of course, this time around, Lotus doesn't have a plane available,
available, because, well, they didn't take a light tank that could do it, but yeah,
Mentos in that Grille, he will be very, very hard to spot.
Klerf, in the plane, or sorry, in the T100, gets a lot of information if you're wondering
why he's playing T100, well, the lower profile on the ramp can sometimes work in your favor.
Let's see if Mentos in that Grille is going to connect his shot, activates the ability,
taking aim and boom, minus 2.5k and if Braembreaker picks it up, yes, Mino Starks.
Mino Starks indeed, they all end up hitting the shots and Tark's a little bit of fail
driving as well, I think you could say that, I think it's fair to add.
Ended up hitting the rock, Mai has survived on a one-shot, or Lukin could have built him.
Nonetheless, it's a good start here for W slowing the game right down and immediately
Crossing over where the Dravitz is, Lodis Bocian is going to be crossing over together with David.
They want to establish back, they want to control, but Lukin already stole the strike in the meantime.
And now he's even driving away with the batch towards the opponent spawn.
As many resetters are going to come out on towards the infotower that Jordan is trying to take,
they want to reconfirm whether that actually was a Griller or possibly a Stage 2.
It cannot be clear for Lodis at this point in time.
Let's see how the repush from Lodis is going to go on the 1-2 line though.
as Sokol immediately taking a lot of damage, I believe the Grailer was able to maybe use its ability here,
even as Luke can still clipping out onto Sokol that now is in big problems.
Mentors doesn't care about the added alpha from the ability now,
goes in and shuts it down, two unanswered kills to W.
Strike coming out as well, on Botsund and David.
I mean, to be honest, this round was in the dumpster.
The moment that Tarx relegated there, W.
Play a little bit of a counter shot here.
don't want to play to high grow, take it slow, take it steady, ends up working as well, make it all even 1-1
coming out of cliff, a little bit more like it from W, up in the importance from the beginning.
No real way back in for Lotus to be honest, after that. And even Luchen went to the sound corner instead of his own corner back in the north.
That was a good move as well, got Sokol and that pincer, you know, all in all, good stuff.
Now it's just a clean up at mop up operation time here as W read the rewards of this initial
really good fire support onto the crossing CS that ended up taking Tark's down to the
garage quite immediately and 7 tanks remain for W as you said that's a little bit more
like it but questions remain.
remain especially because you know they had to resort to camping in the back to
win the rounds disgraceful but you know one one coming out of cliff not what
W wanted but this one was much much better of course and like if they
when this 3-1 no harm is done they could just you know go up and say that
Lotus played some counter after you know so it's not ideal still but you know
One-one, could be worse.
First of all, a stats here coming out from either team, and the Griller is actually going to find itself on top of the scoreboard,
which is, well, to be honest, exactly where the Griller needs to be.
Otherwise, why would you pick it?
It is just a pure damage dealer glass cannon sniper.
Mentos this time around, doing exactly what his team needed him to, and, yeah, W able to equalize the scoreline,
But as this is a best of five, absolutely nothing is decided yet.
The only thing we know is that after the next round, someone is going to be on match point.
But before the match, I would have immediately given it to W.
But once again, that tactic that went horribly wrong in this round number one,
it doesn't inspire too much confidence here.
Indeed.
But, again, it was one round. We can't get hung up too much on one round, you know?
No, it wasn't ideal, but it happens. Let me look at Mafia and Kaz back, right?
Well, Himmlestorf is going to be the second map of the day, and Himmlestorf is played quite differently than Cliff.
I think Cliff is a very, very unique map in the map pool when it comes to play style.
And so on Himmels store, the teams will need to demonstrate completely different skills
than Cliff.
So let's see where this one takes us.
But as I said, it is a very technical map and for a team that realistically has less
experience than W, this could be a problem, but they must have a plan.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have picked it.
Well, let's hope that they got something to cook in on handles because it is indeed a pretty difficult map to play properly, so can Lotus do that?
Like you said, it's a highly technical map still in a way, because there's a lot of possibilities on how to play it.
Yeah, I mean, the hill is always a big option, the cap also, but because the cap is so small,
the resets with those strikes can end up to be very, very effective.
So I think also Himmelsdorf is one of those maps to make it together maybe with Ruinberg,
where the bands can be very influential, like a question always remaining, is E4 band,
which right now it is by Lotus. Interestingly enough, W banning out the CS63, not a super priority.
I mean, it does get picked on Himmelsdorf, but like, not in force.
And, well, Lotus, it seems like they have a plan, Ducky. It's quadruple B and three dravets.
In return, W gonna be playing 60p, IS4, IS7, type 5, 140, Bliska in our first piece of seven different tanks.
A lot of different abilities as well, which is really good for the 60p, right?
Yeah, the energy ability, I believe, that it has, it profits off of a diverse lineup, essentially.
So, yeah, the i7 as well as the 60p's ability is going to be pretty spicy this round, to put it mildly.
First of all, the Lotus immediately driving in towards the 1, 2 and 3 line,
And that might be a problem for Ios in the 140, who is going to be the first one at the front line against those
Dravci and he immediately starts trading it out, wants to generate Rolex P to give the inspire to his team as Tarx drives up, drives over and
Piot will have a problem here because that is a lot of tanks that are very very close
He also sees the 50Bs coming around, but that is good coverage on Tutuka. The bleed is substantial
And Tristan taking a lot of shots as well, but he will survive, Klorith now pops the ability, but he's dead, he's about to get absolutely destroyed by 50Bs in this A-Mir second.
And this is not good for W to be honest, they're down a gun, they gotta react now.
Piotr is not that healthy either, the 50Bs are coming back in, I also sneak in on the K-Lines, move that I can appreciate.
He's gonna be annoying, torn in their sights, but now can Lotus convert this tank advantage into an actual round win, trading blow for blow.
140 pushing back across, Mentos finds twist, evening it out and Sokol and Jordan are now
going to go hard for Ios, but not before Tuka ends up going down and now these tanks on
the cap, they're a little bit isolated, they could be pinched from two sides and you can
see that movement come out as well, Itoks, Amentos and Piotr now coming in for the killing
blow on them, they do manage to make that one happen, Tarxik in the meantime is going
to go down here as well, he does miss that shot, might be even his last one, David in
return also in trouble the 50 bees may have cleaned up the 140 but in the
return they're losing everything else. Jordan, Sokko gonna be the last two
styling but W, they may have lost the first tank. They definitely made Lotus
Bay quite a lot for that. I think what W did well here was realizing
immediately what Lotus was up to which was basically a blind all-in onto the
1-2-3 line and then the damage, the punishment coming out from the W tanks
on towards all of those Lotus players that were trying to cascade down the 1-2-3 line.
It was too much, essentially.
The Vosh B getting out the full clip against Bb, I would say, is...
You could already consider it to be a success because, realistically, he's never going to go in towards the second clip.
And so the rest of the W players really are reacting well here, against this all-in strategy from Lotus,
and rewarding themselves with the second point in this match which is going to put them on match point
but as the saying goes, I don't think they're out of the woods yet.
No, not out of the woods but you know, taking control of the match, that was a good recovery after losing the very first tank
and you could see the problem there is that there's so many tanks in this gap area.
I also actually made a good move back across the Ki and made a distraction, ended up getting some position that may not have died otherwise
But those tanks in the cab they end up getting pincers by the type 5 by the blitzka and blitzka is a good tank
But a type 5 and a blitzka witzek combining on towards you. It's usually not an engagement. You can win
No, and especially if the focus fires on point, right?
There was the possibility for the players to to split their fire even in the cap, but that didn't happen
They just immediately
Went for the removal of I believe it was David or a botcherns in the cap
leaving Tarix relatively unharmed until well it was his time to die but here I
think it is very easy to analyze the the problem that Lotus put themselves into
and that basically was that throwing those 50 bees it was a long shot into
the 1-2-3 line if they could spot it early which they did then it's just so
much ground to cover and the 50 bee is so squishy that if the opposing team is
is just aiming in towards all of those little openings that present themselves when crossing,
then you're not going to come back from that.
Well, don't expect himos, so they're going to make it work.
They have another opportunity here, they said it was strong,
but nobody's going to remember that if you end up losing 3-1, to be honest.
That is certainly true as well,
So W are already rewarding themselves with a singular point that they now have secured and basically
This round here. It's worth two points two additional ones for them and for Lord is right now
They're realistically playing for the single point that first of all going to tiebreaker
Would award them, but I think W they have spent
enough matches
giving points to other team that
teens that
Considering stuff like phase two as well
They need to stop doing that in order to then be able to progress to playoffs
Second round here for Lotus. Is there a point in store? Was it going to be leaving empty-handed?
That is going to be the question, but the good thing is that question is about to be answered.
First of all, of course, we are still waiting for the ban phase to complete here,
complete here but that should be the case pretty much immediately there we go
one second and in come the bands once again it's gonna be e4 band from Lotus
and W not with the CS band but instead the 50B taken out.
Lotus double drive at C100, double T57, double 4-spice so very aggressive and W
again playing this little mix of everything right?
Yeah for W once again we have that 60TP together with double PZ, E100, CS 140 and
and for Spie, we'll have to wait and see.
I think the T57 kind of counters the BZ in a way
if it shows up in enough numbers,
but we have to keep in mind from Lotus
that is actually a very, very bursty lineup
with those four auto Lotus.
And there again, going towards one, two line
with that group of tanks,
but W will be in the center of the map.
It should be Sforado by this driver, so thanks.
He doesn't end up getting the spot on the double BZ, and I haven't seen nobody cross.
I mean, it might be an opportunity here for the C57s to peek out against Pjotr, who's
going to maybe try to take the info, if he would, then it would be a lot of damage to
command, but he's not going to go for it right now.
So, the 4GV is now getting spotted on 1-2-line as well, so Kola and Tuka, they are having
a freebie into that.
trying to take a strike, takes one from Jordan, got their look-in that is in a pretty safe position,
but not start taking the info, but it will back off from it immediately, because it's
just 63 on the hill, we'll take the info as well as Mentos and they will see what's happening.
Well, some trades going back and forth right now, but Lucan able to take the artillery strike here,
that is going to be favoring W slightly, low risk response with a strike as well,
but arguably for W it's more important right now to always have this 100% safe decap option
because the I think it's Davit in that Dravitz has gone onto the cap and now here Brainbreaker
getting a little bit of info seeing a T57 puts some damage forces botchance to activate and burn
through the ability with without generating anything in return so quite the success for Brainbreaker
We just have to wait and see if W is actually willing to commit Klarv in that 4-Spie
into what's the fangs of the Wolves because there would be a lot to punish.
David has a good position though.
Against Piotr, Jordan now as well, getting a little bit of damage to us.
Lukin, Mentos took some damage on the hill as well when he tried to peek that E-100.
Of course, he does have a mini strike, so they will be able to reset this gap.
No problems whatsoever.
Even doing 250 with that, but Lord is starting to bully a little bit here, Kian.
You know, send us some damage against these GZs, but the CS on the hill is of course very annoying for them to try and deal with Jordan.
Face-on-off against Braembreaker. Of course, Braembreaker has the issue that if he rolls back, he's getting peaked by these drowards on the hill.
Re-push coming out with Eytoks and Eios on towards David, but he's covered relatively well bubble-fush behind him and a T57 heavy.
On the CS on the hill has started shooting a G now mentors that is to try and definitely get resets
However, he does get punished for it and David with a good shot in towards mentors and as time progresses
I think the trades here really are favoring Lotus at this point in time signaling towards W
They need to do something differently
Than what they've done so far. I mean they have rotated the Foshby out of the eight line
but considering that Lotus actually have a double Fosh B on that one too, it would be
extra costly trying to repush there. Once again the issue being that is a lot of open ground to cover.
Jukka facing off against the tanks crossing over, Pilter taking some more damage now.
That's from David from behind. Eitox is pushing up, well potentially peaked this in the 60p.
It's actually looking for the Fosh B instead and Eitox got to be careful as well.
Of course, he is close to the cap now. The strike coming out from Mentos on the hill resets
That Dravetz and now Jordan Braembreaker just trading it out and so far Lotus doing a really good job in this battle
For making some really good trades and now watch the same line watch Braembreaker
He's got to be really careful David wants to go back takes one from Piotr
Takes one from the not from the hill that one didn't connect and Braembreaker is now backing up smart move because he was about to get a
lot of pressure right on him
Well, he does see Jordan once again, they end up trading, but in come the T57s.
They would have loved for that E100 to stay a little bit longer, but now Borchans once
again has to cover ground before he can actually start shooting and reliably penetrate and
Luke in already there to back up Brainbreaker as well.
And Borchans taking a lot of damage without dealing any so far.
Finally, he starts clipping and Twist comes with the second T57.
should be enough for Braembreaker as the shot start coming in. Braembreaker goes down, but
Lord is over pushing the middle of the map in the meanwhile.
Oh yeah, you're looking not that great for W, but they can still hold on. They're down
a gun, I took some of the 60p to get over. Mentos has a pretty nasty crossfire on them,
and I think that is the saving grace right now, because you can see all of these things
kind of stuck in the lower area. A strike for Miles as well, gonna be put on the Wersockel
and Tark Starks. It's trying to dodge, will not be able to do it, so it's gonna hit for
850 in total, Tark's taking in one from the 60p and thankfully for W they have this crossfire
because they see us from the hill. I feel like together with that 60p is winning the
game right now for its team. Mentos has a mini strike, pops it on towards Sokol. Sokol
cannot survive. Mentos finds the kill and it looks for a second again, really tired
from W's side but they will hold on and Lotus will win one but it's not looking like they're
going to win another. No, it doesn't look like it meant us
starting to trade with Jordan is going to get a strike
momentarily as now and the reset peaks come in by twist, but
he cannot sustain standing against this kind of firepower
cap is down to 10 seconds. No straw. Actually a baby strike
available, but it's for mentors. No one on Lotus has one
currently at the cap takes down. It's two seconds. It's one
second toxic looking for a desperate reset. He doesn't get it. And W, it was a bumpy ride,
but they make it happen. They take the three points that they needed.
Yeah, in a 3-1 fashion as well, Keyhand. It's a good stuff there from W, nonetheless, you know,
coming back in it after a quite rocky start on round number one. 3-1 scoreline. Nobody's really
going to remember too much about this particular match in a few play days except for the fact
that W took three points, which is really all that matters at the end of the day. They take all
of the points that needed to be taken, notice how opportunities they weren't able to bring back
home at least the point, and so B and W makes a little bit of a lead away now, right? They're on
six points, so they're getting a little more comfortable in those positions. They need the
the points at this point to start looking at phase two, right?
Yeah, I think the problem still remains for W, though, that it
wasn't really confident in the way that they did it, right.
And while W takes those three points, I think it's just going
to add to this feeling of W can really be heard this season,
the reigning champion, regardless. But yeah, Lotus taking
around, but not much else. And here, we do see mentors from
that hill, he really was able to trade favorably.
Yeah, he did so much with that.
Yes, I think him and I talks that Crossfire, they had on the
eight line rebush was so important.
Also, I think the T 57 push through the eight line as soon
as they still had to do it, even when they saw that the one
hundred of brain breaker had backed off.
It's kind of one of those, you know, it's going to be bad if
we do it, but it's going to be worse if we don't.
So let's do it, even though it's not the best call.
Honestly, if there was a little bit more consolidated
and they didn't give up every angle for it, who knows?
But they gave up the entire one-two line,
which could be taken very quickly.
Then the crossfire came in with the hill.
I think it's an oversight to leave the hill uncontested.
Maybe FHB going back on the hill, whatever,
would have to look back.
But leaving Mentos just to sit there
to establish a two-way crossfire between the cap and him
was always going to be an almost impossible task
to overcome.
All right, it seems like we're a little bit ahead of schedule, because W versus Lotus
and Mafia versus Cashback essentially being pretty short-bass of 5s with 3-0 and 3-1 respectively.
But maybe the coming match is going to change that.
And while you were talking about Mafia versus Cashback as the match of the day, arguably
it could be hit versus weekend as well, because considering the leaderboard, I think it's
first again second place. It is indeed the case it's a very close matchup and
it will make a little separation in the standings but before we get into that
match let's take a quick stand back give a moment to refresh to ourselves and
to the people at home very much a little bit of replays.
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I think I'm doing pretty well so far.
Hit versus weekend.
hope will be better than our first supposed match of the day so weekend is apparently
doing very well in training from what I've heard and I would like to see them put up
a good fight because Hitch played very well against Mafia in one of the previous matches
so maybe we can get a bit more of a you know like longer more intense closer game and Hitch
I just want to see him doing very well this season as well. The loss with barbarian doesn't seem to impact him that much so far
Which I think many of us had as a potentially impacting
Point for that team
But I think it's just that Deja came back right like yeah for sure man
He basically said like he if he isn't a roster he wants to play and now he's back playing and he's playing pretty well
but yeah so sunshine he's also back and I think we can edit paradise who has
also been playing yeah quick comparison obviously both those teams having won
quite a lot over 70% each both of them also among the top damage dealer KD
ratio obviously with a 140 always pretty high if you're standing in the back
lower alpha gun picking up kills and we'll have to see which of those KD
ratios will be ruined today. Yeah well somebody's gonna lose right that is the
downside here. Committee protection 75% in favour of hidden
Mundo not feeling the weekend high train too much. Yeah I mean if you
remember we had the weekend match against Lotus which ended up 3-0 for
weekend and kind of all of the casters were saying yes they won but they were
quite sloppy so this match against W I think it also has shown that both of
those teams are definitely willing to do some mistakes here and there. Westfield
picked by hit-and-run we didn't see it for one season but the season before it
was among their best maps so definitely something to look out for and I think
Cliffs also map where both of those teams have shown promising stuff.
I mean, Westfield can be played in many ways, right?
Can play for the cap, can play for the middle, can play for the start, can play controlling even.
But knowing weekend, I'm not sure if they're going to be going for that.
Cliffs, again, less options I would say than Westfield, but we saw even W put their foot on the break
and slowed down the game with a gorilla, that's possible as well.
I mean, do you remember we had this match, CTR versus Hit tiebreaker, where Hit was actually playing Cliff with double 6 TTP.
That was the very first matchday.
That was the match where CTR played with double light tank, like pushed an EBR on the hill, pushed T100 around.
So, I mean, Cliff is still being explored, I would say.
Four.
But yeah, Westfield.
Westfield is the one we're showing off with predictions. We all went for a 3-1 for a hit-and-run.
Even you that went like that, we can see really good in training, apparently.
I had him on 3-2, and then I hit 1-3-0 against Mafia, and I changed it to 3-1.
Maybe you'll end up regretting that.
I credit where credit is due.
Maybe you'll end up regretting that one.
Yeah, I mean I did so for the W match, but it's fine.
And my biggest hope is that we see a good match, the rest, I think, is secondary.
I think one thing that we have not seen yet, I'm not sure if we will ever, is the RS on
Westfield.
It might be something interesting to consider if you get someone offside, but I don't know.
It feels that it's one of those niche gamble things where teams will kind of wait to see
if someone is willing to try it out, let's say like this, and then maybe if it works,
more teams will play it.
Yeah, I mean, anything's a possibility here.
I'm just curious if hidden one, and we can go in to go for it, slugging it out, or for
a little bit longer kind of game.
This is a possibility of course, but the amount of mini strikes you could play in the beginning, you can play the longer game, right?
You have to hit the mini strikes as well, of course, but they do provide cap resets.
No, no. I mean, I've seen very interesting stuff as well in the OCS. The bandface is nearly over. We have Yo and PZ band. Is this 550Bs?
Yes.
this is a very interesting and 140 and at the sack they're gonna be facing off
against drowitz's four of them and the x of 430 you and an iron chimp
tanzerwein I mean I remember that it played this combination of a x plus 430
you a bunch of times before I usually they had it supported by briska witzers
and type 5 so obviously Dravak is a new addition to onslaught. 50 bees have basically all gone back
I guess successfully avoiding the plane I mean good for them and now we see five of those auto
loaders with turbo and grausers each of them moving towards the base. I mean for 30 you might have
not a great time there. Or in this case monster for all that matters. Let's see if monster
is able to dodge these 50 vehicles and look like they're picking up. Hellrap is the first
one, gotta be careful with the damage taken. Minus 2.1 on that one, now they're gonna go
for the clean up against monster and potentially the swarm after monster will fall in the dravettes
and now they're continuing and T-Sec is not doing that much better, dropped towards 500,
They had the shells, maybe the ram coming out, it is going to be the ram, but now is this moment of a downtime where they need to disengage and they need to survive and that will be the big problem here.
You can see those 50Bs are scattering left, right and everywhere, some HG shells coming in as well, they got to survive, they got to play the long game, the accident crossfire position, and so is the RHM.
Yeah, I mean, Dasha there in a very important position being Amorek, obviously not helping him out, but puts a good shot into Trashpanda, who's also awfully low now.
The crossfire is still pretty much there. Pansfuri and Franek in the back, also Hidden Run has the kind of the advantage that the pushing tanks of weekend do not really exist in this match, because like, you can't play Halvon with the Tessac.
The 140 has a bit of gun depression, but not really effective against the Dravak.
And let's not talk about 50Bs playing Haldan.
No, the 50B in Haldan, it's not something that really works.
They took a bunch of damage, but I think it was worth it.
I mean, yeah, it takes a bunch of damage, but the 50Bs ran out of steam.
They got the kill, they got the second kill, but then Hidden Run had a really, really good crossfire.
It's really hard to recover from that, so we can try something here, try the surprise.
I liked that they tried it, but Hidden Runs Crossfire will not be broken.
And with that being said and done, we have our first point on the board for Hidden Run.
I would say this is one of those things where if it's the first round and you try something,
that's alright, but now you need to kind of like,
Play something extra careful, extra well at least to compensate for the fact that you just gave up, I would say fairly easy point.
Sure. First round on the board, four hit and run, two to go for them to win out the match.
There's going to be two 50 Bs that don't end up doing that much, which is Harap and Paradise.
The Tessac also really not getting a foothold in this battle, you know, 977, not fantastic.
But in return you can see the crossfire tanks from Hidden Run do exactly that, especially
that Panzer Fury tank which was in the back, and of course Franek as well in that AX, in
the back lines, always hitting the shots, probably getting some HG shells in as well.
He's shot 13-13, same for Panzer Fury.
Yeah, so solid stuff from them, that's what you expect, good job to the both of them.
you know, monster anti-sector can't really do much in a battle like this.
Now, I mean, in the end, it's also a matter of like,
who is the first one to take the load of damage?
Monster did two shots at least.
I guess he got a bit of ramming or maybe two high rolls, not sure.
Either way, first round in favor of hit, we will switch sides.
Not that it matters that much on Westfields,
But I'll have to see if something else creative is coming from their side.
I mean, this was the creative opening, right?
I don't know if we're going to see it in one try, something similar.
But I would not be expecting it.
Did your cat knock something over?
Probably he's crazy.
Let me tell you, maybe you haven't a dog.
You understand what I'm talking about.
But he's he's like an extra level of crazy.
No, it's always the youngest, you know, speaking from experience.
Okay, we are loading into the game, and I see some E50Ms on the side of it, but let's not talk about it too early, because the ban phase is not yet over.
Do you think there's anything like crazy that we could still maybe see? I don't know, a Kranweim or something like that?
I mean, I feel like your tanks have definitely like a reason to be there was not like a crazy
pick, you know, I mean, we haven't seen them that much, but we'll have to see.
Looks like there might be a small delay because we just switched to the caster scene.
But everything is fixed by our amazing video team.
And we are back in the game.
Looks like we have a band tanks busy and busy.
So both now picking Dravak and your tank, there's a K91 obviously that has a strike.
No light tank for weekend against basically one Inspire on each side and the RHM, how
do you feel about those?
I mean weekend is going to have to play a lot more aggressive, you know, while hit and
run has the lineup, but I feel like hit and runs the lineup versus weekend, you know,
they have the light, they'll get the early info, and because of the early info, they also have
six kms of light. They also have quite a bunch of, maybe it's on their own, you know, with the
three of them, so they're able to hold all positions. Plus their Dravak, I mean, not that it's such a
big difference, but their Dravak has a bit more, no, it's actually the same, never mind. I was about
to say more different roles but they have the arty strike medium as well. So both arty strikes are
being taken by Hit and Run. The small arty strike from evil was not used to prevent that. Kano will
be able to pick up the radio. Basically Hit and Run got the early info immediately so they don't
really rely on that radio. And now we'll have to see how the crossfires work in both teams favors.
T-Sync there is being pressured but has some support from the Dravik in the back
and the 140 also put in a good shot to get the level 3 Inspire now.
Important to say is the Inspire has 12 seconds cooldown now, so the timing is a bit more important, right?
Crossfire coming in as well, Panek, CatSyme, Pan the Fury of course on the backline as well,
send you a good amount of damage here against the tanks from weekend and I think that's a problem
The problem for Weekend right now is that they are still playing against a line up that can pretty much hold these positions, no problem, no questions asked.
They have their own movies as well, and on the IH7 and the 140 of course still holding onto that double strike as well, which is a weapon you cannot underestimate, especially if Pyrolasm and Sunshine decide to gather up in front.
You've got to be careful though, in that dravet, but still, Franek and Ketsai holding onto those strikes, they know that they might need them to decap or anything else.
still holding now Kano and evil is coming push on to respond to fury that's the
first try coming out and evil will actually not touch it just about
drives back into it and Panzer fury is actually gonna pick up kind of as well
in that 140 he's dead oh fury misses the shot and you will not be getting it
because of that no I mean he got a bit of a ram in the end so the tank is
dropped down to below strike damage but there is right now no strike available
The positions obviously give Dexar and Monster the higher ground right now, but they need to pick up some kills because you can see
the scattered HP of all the tanks kept all the guns from weekend alive and it would be really important to reduce the effective DPM of all those tanks right now.
Hederman is going to make a kill or two though in this regard. Sunshine, Hel-Rap, Gano, they're all very low in this, and Clownsik not down towards 8 HP as well.
Deha finds one, Sunshine looking juicy as well. Deha might even reload towards HG to get Clownsik.
He can know he's going to go for Sunshine. He ends up missing that one, takes a lot of damage from the turn for that though.
Seems like three shots. Ketzai is now going to pick it up at the IHM, DJ coming in as well, finding a kill and Hederman stabilizing out the round.
It started off so bad for Weekend, they found a little bit of luck there even to find Panther
Fury without losing a tank in the turn, but not enough, just not enough.
Now I mean, I liked the idea, I think it was quite interesting round, but as you mentioned,
the HP gain at the very beginning from hit and run was just so helpful to set up the
tanks correctly and the lineup was just good in receiving that push as well.
Yeah, they have almost an ideal counter-lineup, I would say.
You know, they have their own Inspire,
they have the light to get initial info,
and then they have all holding things behind it.
So they're not really in danger of losing any position for free
and to get pushed very quickly by this lineup.
Like I said, Fury missing the shot.
That was like the one downside there,
because the 140 would have been dead, which is the Inspire out,
which would have been pretty impactful throughout the game,
like the remainder of the game.
But so the initial advantage they took,
it was too much to really overcome.
I mean in the end it might also just come down to like the higher ground which helps the pen rate
You can see it 71% is quite low especially on this distance, but then you have so much armor
in the held downs with a Dravak and
your tank so
this
Damage in the end blocked there. You can see it today. Yeah monster. We talked about those higher ground positions that definitely mattered
Yeah, for sure and they're in the right. Thanks for it as well. Yeah
The blocked is also, you know, if you compare it to teams, just how many blocked shots there are on the head and one side.
How does a monster have 3.2k strike damage? Is that correct?
Wasn't it blocks 3.2k?
Yeah, he hit both.
Yeah, I think that was incorrect. I mean, I just checked the battle record. He did not have that much block damage.
he had to block damage but not the strike damage sorry
uh... that leaves us going into cliff though which is of course we can speak but they're gonna have to put up a big big result here
to really bring it back
hit him one on two zero on cliff as well
no i mean
we saw some good approaches against it and run as well on
cliff earlier
But they're a team that is quick to react, and if you give them an inch, they will just take the whole distance,
and you mentioned it, it's not that far away from the finish line now that they have already secured two out of three runs.
Well, they already got a point, right? If nothing else.
But it will be very hard for me, I think, to win two runs of Cliff, because, you know, Cliff,
Hidden Run could play a coinflip strategy and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't,
it only going to work once.
Yeah, I mean so far it was more weekend that played, I would call it experimental strats
or like, you know, creative stuff, the 50B thing especially.
I'm not sure if Hidden Run is willing to risk something because yeah, they're usually the team
that tries to place it safe.
Looking at the bands, I think that will give us a first indication.
Hidden Run banning the 50B, which we saw a lot of them
in weekend, and an RHM being banned on the side of weekend.
I guess that is an advantage for Hidden Run,
because they banned one of the most important tanks
for weekend.
But interesting to see, double 57 and triple BZ, not something we see that often.
No, indeed. Also from the north.
No light available for me, the team in a run triple BZ, WCS 144, seems very standard.
We have 57, an interesting pick, right? Not the fastest tank whatsoever.
No, I mean, we saw different stuff from both teams, even like I mentioned at 60TPs.
Weekend is having the T57s available for this, like, snipe onto the ramp.
Obviously you have the stability boosting ability at the beginning already,
so maybe they can give a good salvo into Monster, who is the CS that drives up now.
We'll have to see that first shot coming in.
Monster stops, gets a second shot into his back.
The shot from Becher onto Paradise Fluffs and Monster sets to not go further.
I would say the damage was not crazy, but it's still a victory because you get up a tank
I get the information tower as well, but obviously T-SAC in the meantime took the nice
position there of
F3 and has now the strike available as well. A good timing for monster actually, you know
Could have taken a lot for that but ends up getting away
I'm not even initial by the BZ or the double T-57 I would say for his part really really really solid timing
from the Fury and we'll take the strike that's dodging it.
So at least there's that, a good peek from the top of the hill,
being a nuisance, this paradise.
And we can't, you know, they have established at least
that top of the hill and we know how powerful that top of the hill is.
Especially with this shortened spotting time,
you can kind of like pop here, see there and so on.
You have a bit more flexibility in the timing
of when you shoot and come back.
You don't have to shoot exactly on on this 10 seconds timer, but yeah, we can has
Quite significant 3k HP advantage
But you mentioned that the T57s are not the fastest things and rotating them back all the way from G2
It's a is also a bit of a task
10 seconds on the cap now, it's double cap obviously and they have a strike
first target gets decapped that was pan's fury and I think they will be able to get the CS
strike onto Dexia because Paradise dodged the strike from Tizek. Tizek has the small strike
as well so he prevented it from Paradise but I think Clownsik could just boost into it right
or Trashpanda can do that. Yeah Paradise can reset again they really don't want him to take the
info and get a strike on towards the caps is gonna have to be trash panda to
block it manually the BZ coming around the hill the sunshine takes one from
DJ that I just get spotted out this I can stick in another strike but like you
said the cap is being just blocked by trash panda 57 one of them is on one two
lines spotted out yeah and it does take some damage but my main thing to note
is the 57s have left this cover from below for tanks to go up on the hill
right once on the five line once on the two line but the g5 position can still
fire at the at the ramp it's not four shots because you don't have the time
but if DJ decides to boost through there I'm pretty sure he will take at
least one shot from the T57
yeah that was back on though another pack on five seconds now nearly
trashpander should have easily enough time to block it once we get strike
Treshpanda drives out back to 30 seconds. The HP is still up roughly 2k in favor of weekend,
but Paradise is also able to really keep the pressure there. And yeah, I mean we see it. The
HPs are rambling on both sides. It's 15 seconds now. Paradise has another strike. Treshpanda has
another option of locking it. Katzai decides to get the info tower, but I think everyone
was spotted anyway already.
DJ Fluster's shot takes a bunch of damage now from Kano and that puts it back to weekend's
advantage because Hidden Run had regained some HP with a good strike onto both of the
PCs.
Right, it will be available yet again for T-Sec as well on the true line, get some moving
back and it's a stalemate here, and the Fury will again together with Deja boost his cap
But trash balance indeed just able to body block that and there's not much happening outside of that from my routine
Just kind of having this little bit of a scrimmage on the cap. Look at look at the 430 you know coming in there
You know trades are coming in hell rep is there as well with the t57 now
We get is approaching panz here who takes quite some damage a bit of locked here as well
Strike is coming in also fire from the back
But monster is in a heap of trouble both sunshine and evil are there she's like picks up the first kill on to trash
Panda who is blocking the cap the HPs are still pretty even but if evil is able to pick up monster
They will have decent positions to backfire into the
Defending busy stare right? Yeah, but in the meantime this cap over push has not worked out whatsoever for a weekend
It's actually gonna be them losing it out altogether already minus trash panda
Her up is now next in Clansic will also join him the top of the hill still controlled by a weekend
But they have an entire 57 heavy on the lower side. Clownsic does manage to take down DJ as his final hurray
DeSec will probably start climbing the hill back now with Dekha and
Honestly, this is pretty good for hit-and-run like yeah, they lost monster. Yeah, they lost DJ
But they've cleared the cow they're now putting themselves in a position to retake the hill with Dekha
And that's a very healthy BZ in the meantime kind of repushing 1-2 line
That's Katsai raiding there
I mean even if he gets the full clip against his 430U
He's going to take a lot of damage in return for that and the 430 will not just give himself up for free
The Shrike is missing on towards that BZ of Panzerfury on the lower side
Ketzai just trading it out, which is what he's okay with
Cannot even missing one the Shrike comes out and because that one missed they're not able to kill him either
So that's pretty impactful in the end evil and
Panzerfury kind of with and against each other
But the 430 of course has the advantage because of the DPM
and on top of the hill T-Sec will clean up Paradise and you know Gatsai is in the meantime running down this T57 heavy
Yeah, I mean the reload is pretty quick there and Kano will be able to pick up one more kill
But you mentioned the very high HP
Inspired tank and the support from the hill evil will be likely the next one to fall puts in one more shot into the
140 and now it's T-Sec hopefully with his fifth kill
Nope, lost the shot.
Locks, Ranek.
Ranek picks up the kill and with only a one shot T57 left, I guess Hidden Run is defending
the top of the table with a pretty solid 3 and 0.
Yeah, quite a surprise, right?
We have a 3-0 here.
A lot of these matches which we think we're going to be close are just complete blowouts
in that regard.
Hidden Run.
Gonna be bringing it home, but the 3 is 0.
Oof, Ragnarok might die here to Venice.
Oof, just about gets the reload.
Wouldn't matter anyways, that guy was coming in.
But nonetheless, 3-0 for Hidden 1.
After dominating Matbjörn 3-0, they're now doing it to weekend as well,
and they have really stormed into the season 1 disappointing game.
Well, disappointing.
They ended up winning it 1.
Close gaming against CTR, but outside of that,
just absolutely stellar performances from Hidden 1 throughout the season so far.
Really, really good stuff. Congratulations to them. Another 3-0, which is good for the round difference as well, solid points there.
Not good for the ego, not good for the ego.
Yeah, well, that's of course the downside. But nonetheless, you know, ego has to come from somewhere, right?
If you have nothing to back it off, then you're just like, you know, the messier of all the tanks.
Yeah, and we can see right now, pretty good damage there from the two tanks in the back,
Franek and Tizek, and...
They overplayed their hand in the middle.
I mean, Paradise did what he could.
Yeah, I know, he did fantastic, but like I think they overplayed their hand in the middle,
this 9-0 line push on towards that one guy was fine, but it has to be very much synced
even with the mid and the mid, cannot pressure D's heart, it's just enough, they should be
gathering attention right on the middle. So the BZ is don't blast the guys pushing and
then you take the mine line, you kill the CS of monster, you take the buildings and you cross fire
the middle. Does it make sense what I'm trying to say? Yeah, exactly. And I mean they had the T57s
there as potential backup if they would have gotten pushed. So it didn't work out for them. I have
to say the busy push there as well I think sunshine and evil onto monster took a bit too long I mean
the busy did two shots of damage it's a bit underwhelming he just missed one and the other one monster
was able to kind of like drive around the big rock either way we can obviously still in a fairly
alright position when it comes to the overall table we have one more match left and to be honest
I also think this could be a very close one.
Zikarius versus CTR.
CTR had a super strong strength of schedule at the beginning.
They played against, I think, Mafia, Hit, and Weekend, right?
So against some of the best teams, we'll have to see, yeah, after the Weekend, after the
replay, sorry.
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Well, hello there, and welcome back
to the last match of the day.
It is between two teams that are kind of struggling,
but CTR arguably more so.
They're playing against Cicarios.
Yes, CTL after really nice performance in the previous season. This season they've been a little bit more tepid. However, they have fought mostly teams in the top half of the bracket. So this is where they really need to start reclaiming points.
This is, we can't really overstate how much of an important game this is for placement in the lower half of the bracket, right? We're anticipating those top four teams to go up.
up, but whoever takes that fifth automatic qualifier spot next season plus also the extra prize money,
these types of matches in the was a lower half pound town, it's going to be really important to
see wins this one. Yeah, I mean, it seems like a low stakes match in like the grand scope of
things. But for those two teams playing here right now, it is actually a very high stakes match,
because essentially, you're playing against a direct competitor. And while I hate the notion of
like six-point games and for example in football, it is worth more than that
because not only are you generating points for yourself if you win you're
also denying them from your opponent in that kind of way. So it is indeed very
very... yeah it's gonna be very interesting to watch how both of those
teams approach this kind of match here as well because I think in those matches
If you're playing against someone that realistically is kind of around the same
Area in the table then you have a good shot at winning. So maybe spending some of your best strategies might be
Wise to be honest
Sikarios are coming in with a 3.2 K DPG 1.1 KD. Those are not bad stats for a team
That's you know, not performing the greatest because well if your team falters around you
you have less time to deal damage and you get to do very little kills usually.
Yeah, but he's not playing as well, he's playing regular fighting tanks, but the damage is still
decent. It's over the HP of most tanks, so he's at least dealing his own damage, you know.
Or was it back in the day when I first started playing with the tanks, it was if I do my own
tanks HP worth damage, I've had a good game. But yeah, predictions are very, very close.
But yeah, I think at this point in the season, it's really important just to survive that first stage, right?
I think both of these teams are anticipating they're gonna survive the first stage from what I've seen so far
I think Lotus is the the weakest team at the bunch, but this is kind of
These types of matches the points that these teams get now will be very important of who gets that automatic qualifying spot
So, yeah, looking at the lineups here, some well-known players, the CTR, the Czech team,
Cikars, the Polish team, it's going to be difficult. But I think this is where, you know,
today we've seen a lot of the weaker teams play like out-of-the-box strategies, right? We've seen
low-display the 430U rushes. We saw we can play the 50B rushes on Westfield to try and catch your
opponent out. Here, I think it's going to be a much more measured affair. And I think that's
also underlined by the maps that we are going to be seeing with Cliff and Ensk. Those are
two pretty fast and action packed maps taken out. We're going to start on Ghost Town, so likely
it's going to be a slow start and that is going to continue because the second map is Ruinberg,
which historically is not a map that features the most aggressive gameplay by teams. Although
there can be aggressive strategies employed in CTR, I mean kind of spotty performance so far
in the season, but Ruinberg kind of is their map, so I'm very interested what we are going to see here.
And if it goes to a tiebreaker, that one would be on Tundra, which would be a considerable
a switchup of pace, because Tundra, yes, some people like at the start, it kind of settles
into a stalemate, but then one side feels pressured into doing something and it all
explodes into action. So we'll have to wait and see if we get there. But first of all, Ghost Town,
of course, also one of those very, very technical maps where having competent light tank players
can be a definite step up for any kind of team. And we've even seen teams play more than one light
tank on Ghost Town, although that has fallen a little bit out of fashion recently. I wonder
I wonder why that is, because to be honest with the CS level 1 strike now available at the start of the game, you could think about going maybe into the direction of Larata again. It is a possibility.
Yeah, I mean in the previous season, in, what's it called again, OCS, Sakarios did play there, and I think they performed pretty well on Ghost Town, so it's quite a good map for them, they've got some good light tank players.
As you mentioned, CTR, they're really strong on Ruhnberg. They were last season, they have been this season.
I think they took two rounds off W or his cashback on Ruhnberg, but it's hard to predict if you look at the predictions.
I think Phil actually voted 3-1 for CTR to win, but I was a real tosser. I thought I went for CTR to win.
I mean, with Phil changing his predictions basically five times in three hours, you can never be sure.
So far it's served him well. I gotta admit credit where it's due, but...
There's definitely some cheating on Phil's half, I refuse to believe.
I mean, he's also counting the points and you know, a very well-known man in history once said it doesn't matter who votes,
it matters who counts the votes, so we'll have to look into that one.
First of all, let's look into the match though as the band phase is all about over and that one is going to determine a lot of what's going to go on here.
Sikarios banning the EBR while CTR don't want to see the 430U, leaving triple 50B, Dravitz, IS-7 and double RHM on the side of Sikarios.
Yeah, double RHM on that one. A lot of light tank potential.
They are fighting light tanks as well on CTR side as you mentioned 430 you banned one Dravik one tight
Double CS one 431 lepid to a lot of strike mediums. So if so carios do go for that
That cap rush, it's gonna be a lot of decaps there. I'm one T100. He does have CVS
So he's gonna spot those RHM's coming a little bit
sooner than
Normal, but the big thing to mention is these light tanks on the car is bear in mind RHM second any CS
Yes, it's got good BPM and decent penetration, but the 2100 really lacks it, but it's gonna
be a really hard game for Sakarios, because CTR have an arms-length lineup, right?
They have a type of front, lots of sniper mediums behind, and Sakaris have a 5050 view,
and those things want to catch something.
I think the main advantage for Sakaris right now is they have this double light, but in
the beginning, Floke takes the strike.
The drive-thick is all the way on the red line in B for 7, so that's quite interesting.
T100 in the middle, he's playing a dangerous game. I'm not sure how much info both these teams got in the beginning. I didn't really see it, did you?
I think they actually got none. Herman didn't use his plane at the start, and Milo didn't hit anyone with the plane, which you can see because he doesn't have any Rolex on it.
on it and so now the triple 50b actually getting spotted and that is a lot of info herman though
he needs to be super uber careful with that t100 as he does get spotted because he saw the 50bs
but that info it was relayed and the plane goes down that is a lot of rolex b for herman in the
t100 but it is even more for i believe miku who now has the level three plane so it was probably
him who spotted it and that lot of assistance damage. Lucky for Herman, he does make it
out alive, but just about down to 582. That's a two shot.
I need to explain something that's actually hilarious. That is a fantastic strap as a
car. They planted the 50Bs on that corner and the moment they got spotted, they knew
that Herman had driven far enough up. So they relayed that to the light tank. The light
tank puts a blind flame because that's the only place that Herman can be. And Herman gets
triple pinks by the 50 B's. If that was by design by Sakarios, that is really high Q actually,
and to be honest, Herman should be dead for that. Like it's 350 B's, then they should 100% be dead
for that. But the game continues, click pressuring, Lanta here, he's going to run away so he doesn't
get shot by Alex, he's taking a clip in the side, Alex pens three, doesn't connect the last one,
but takes another from click on the way out. Not great by him, shouldn't have been that far
forward he's gonna get pound stomped by these 50 bees if he's not careful well
he does have a little bit of sniper support but a plane once again landing
there spotting out the K-91 as well as the leopard both of those need to duck
back now and cannot really support against the Dravitz of Klick as Milo
now driving very aggressively in that RHM but he can afford to do so he
suspects that T100 on the other side and he takes an extremely aggressive bush
for now. He does get spotted because of the info tower though, so needs to be careful for the time being could even be permanently almost
revealed by the level 3 plane ability that Herman has at this point in time.
Herman hovering in the T100 around the eastern part of the map that now is firmly in CTR's control,
but for now, Sikarios have managed to actually get the HP advantage and also on the important tanks with Herman still being very, very low HP.
Although now CTR finally trading back a little bit with damage, but if you take a look at the lineup
They're nibbling at basically every tank whereas the damage from Sicario is on towards the CTR tanks has been much more focused
Yeah, Francois is a pressure point that they could push on but he does he is covered from behind
It's a very interesting game by both of these teams because Sicario is such a light lineup
There's not that much meat in the lineup. It's only really like a click
Click is fairly
not in the center. So, ooooh, Flanta, he, he takes a shot from Klick plus double strike
and I think that was kind of inevitable with Sicario's taking the multiple strikes. So
Miku is getting punished for that one but now the ball is in CTR's court. They can't
just sit here based on the draw rules.
Definitely, CTR need to get back into the game and the way that they want to do it at
least right now is by taking a lot of the neutral utility that is scattered around the map goes down
also one of those maps with a lot of POIs five of them in total three of which are strikes but two
of those are now getting taken by Sicario. Sicario is I think one of them already was taken and the
second one it ended up getting interrupted for now but for how much longer is the question.
It's a really hard game for C-Charl at the moment. The thing is that Sicario's lineup is quite nice
for them because it's very light, which means you can do a lot of poking damage, right?
Not that many hold down tanks, but the fact that they have double light, where CTL have
one and their one is quite low HP, it just gives them a lot of options.
That they can really work with.
The CS is now pressuring the south, Mayo takes the pot shot at him but doesn't connect.
We'll see if Koyli decides to keep going.
Yop's knocked too.
Mayo gets spotted, takes a bit of damage for that, a bit unnecessary by Mayo.
He needs to be careful because these light tanks, if these light tanks are in the middle
They have to get to low HP and they have to pull back to more defensive positions.
That opens to 50Vs to get spotted.
Milo there definitely playing a dangerous game as he tries one more shot against the CS,
but if he takes damage for that every time, then it's not going to be a good trade,
especially against a CS that is higher HP.
However, Kojicic realising that the opposing team could be rotating to essentially overrun him with 50Vs,
East probably, he does draw back in the full rotation coming out from CTR giving up a little
bit of the map control that they had in the South East, Woodock smartly also repositioning,
he realises a lot of those angles that were being held by his team in the South will not
be much longer, so he's going to go to the Eastern outside of the city, outskirts, and
he's going to try and cover from there the Type 5, of course, the heavy linchpin of the
CTR tactic.
Yeah, I do feel a bit bad for Herman. He's now like kind of forced to just play how many
Info Towers can I pick up in one round game, which isn't very fun for him. But, you know,
big rotation coming out from CTR. I think what they might try and do is they might try
and kill him last minute and try and make a kill or two on Alex and Light, and then
try and win it on draw rules. That's going to be quite a difficult one. Three and a half minutes.
I don't really see much of an opening for CTR. I think CICarios is realizing this as well,
right? That CTR might be gambling on the draw rules at this point. And so obviously they're
going to reshuffle the positioning of their tanks. They're going to put the lower HPs in
the back where it's less likely that they could actually get sniped. They have to be careful,
though with Miku who is on a two-shot that also means a two strike and well if CTR managed
to pick up one more and then come out with the info tower from Herman then Miku is indeed
in big trouble however CTR not putting all of their X in to one basket they send Wudok
into the cap now to at least put a little bit of pressure but with Sekarios building
up the nuclear arsenal that's probably not gonna last.
Yeah, no plane for either the light-texted Sakura's side, which is important.
It means that they will need to face Spot into Wudok.
But CTR do need to do something. They can't sit in these positions. They're not going to win by cap, not with the arsenal that Sakura's are building.
They're going to get a third strike as well, and there's the fourth one that might be taken by Light there.
Well, first of all, Herman does use the Infotower here as Alex peeks into Wudok, a single shot
connecting so far.
He takes damage from the backlines as well, but the punishment on Wudok is indeed very
problematic.
445, that is not a one strike, but regardless, Sekaroth, they do have one that they could
put on Wudok to reset as well.
And Kordiček, he's not going to be happy about that peek.
Yeah, he tried to overpeak the support Wudok, but it took a lot in reverse, in return.
sorry. RHM of mile not penning to Wodog. If he penned that, it would make Wodog a one strikeable.
Bear in mind Alex does still have one strike. He can't take that strike on the low ground. I
think he might place his strike but no, Lyko's from bad to worse. Four CTR at the moment. A play
being made in the south. Alex might go down here for that if Floke can pick that up. The small
strike doesn't connect. Floke doesn't connect either. It's going to need to be Frolou. Connects
I think Alex knows he's playing his seals, he's trying to pick up.
What Alex to do that for he dies?
One gun returned, but this is not a winning engagement for Froli at the moment.
It's a traffic that's above him. The traffic's underpass, he's not that bad.
Click doesn't connect it, but Rejak is coming in and Rejak is gonna pick this one up.
He's gonna take a lot of damage for this, even opposite North, probably.
Montreux down was the play, but Loki down to a one-shop and now 50 seconds left, 3v6.
It's all but over for CTR in this one.
Sikarios with more HP, more guns in the game as well.
Like is going to swoop in against the CS around to make him a one-shot as well.
And yeah, Evo with that Leopard is trying to do what he can like.
Actually losing a lot of HP in this engagement, but as soon as Adi with that 50B will be able to swoop in again,
then it should be all but over the strike, even by the Leopard 1 missing.
and the Leeschek with the 50B to shut it down, landing on CTR and it is Herman after all this time.
I mean, he has played a pretty good game here after essentially getting outplayed right at the start.
He kept all of his HP, he's going to get a pick up onto Leeschek,
because now time running out, Zikarios confirm their first victory today.
Yeah, and I think pretty deserved by Zikarios, they always looked a bit in control of this game.
because the thing is is that
Sakaris had more fighting tanks
and see long range of play against them.
It really struggles for CTRs.
They had no pushing tanks.
But if that was by design by CTR,
having the triple 50 be hidden there,
and then the moment the T100 crosses
the threshold of spotting the 50Bs,
then the lights put down the plane.
They plane the T100 and the 50Bs can peek
and shoot the T100 without getting shot in return.
If that was by design, that's really high IQ gameplay by Sikarios.
I think it's a, like, I think it was by design by a Sikarios,
but of course you have to keep in mind that only works if the enemy team
is actually playing the way that CTR did, right?
If they do not, then all of a sudden you have, like, for example,
if the enemy team plays heavily one, two line, or for example, middle control,
then all of a sudden you have a line-up consisting of double light tank which isn't really that good at fighting
and three very flimsy 50Bs plus Drabitz and IS-7 that all of a sudden need to play anchors
so yeah it worked out beautifully for Stikarios even though they didn't get the kill pick up onto Herman
which is kind of concerning in itself but yeah it was certainly very cool to see
Well the 50Bs don't have ability so it's quite hard and there's a lot of terrain
It's a bit low ground to an under very low. I'm not surprised. I'm in the time. But the thing is, I think even if
CTR play that one line, they send the traffic over there in the beginning. So what's going to happen is the traffic is going to anchor on like
F1 right that like little balcony is gonna have 250 bees behind him on the red line balcony in their own base
And they're gonna have double light tank to make moves. I think I
Think secarios could foresee a lot of eventualities
I think it's not necessarily that if CTR played one line, Sakaris would be in a problem.
I think that they thought of a lot of things if CTR would have played the one line, if
they played the field.
I think they had a very nice lineup, especially with what CTR brought with no real pushing
tanks and they did it really well.
I mean, yes, there was a mistake by Frantar.
I think if Frantar doesn't lose that much HP in the beginning, maybe they kill him over
time it strikes but it's going to make for a much easier game. The moment Franthar dies, I think
that's the point where CTR is kind of screwed because that was their one good pushing tank
above the tide. The tide can't push flanks, they can only really put the pressure in the middle.
Well, we find ourselves now in round number two between both of those and if anything,
the fact that it went to a very long game in the past round shows that both teams are not afraid
of of basically going for this long game and are comfortable with the thought of
trying to play it out over time which of course on Ghost Sound is a very useful
thing to have and do. Tankpines now CTR doesn't want for the 50 B trap to happen
again so they ban it right out. Zikarios don't want to see the EBR so this leaves
us with triple Dravet's E100 patch at K91 and 430U for Zikarios.
It over type is an interesting choice, but on the CTL lineup on Dravik
Two types two CS as a K-91 and they T100 so sticking with the light tank
I think this is going to be a much more difficult game for Sakarios here
They do go back with the Draviks in the beginning to avoid the plane
But I mean having
Please go ahead
The fact that they have these triple-dravics, it really forces them to play a capstrap,
but the fact that CTL have so many of these strike mediums and the changes,
I think that's one of the biggest changes.
I think the ES430 and 50 beginning buff is massive.
Irwin uses the play now, but he sees nothing.
But the fact that these CSs start with a play, I think is absolutely huge.
The 430 U of R, are you getting spotted on the cross now?
this is actually very good for Herman because he was the one spotting it means he gets another plane
to secure himself but now the Sicarius tactic is starting to become obvious and that is the move
with the triple dravitz plus e100 through the middle they are going to be met with resistance
by the type 5s but now Sicarius with a dooprong detect actually tagging Woodock heavily with the
mediums that they have on the field the k91 of klick now advancing towards Herman who has to move
away but click getting heavily punished for this as well so does Wudok though
who gets absolutely overrun Sicarius are going to secure the first kill of the
game. Yeah big mistakes by CTR, they saw the line up but they went too close to
the Sun. Koidi gets caught, Wudok gets caught, Trit goes down in the middle but
that's two of them have to do about 10k. Bio can just keep peeking in front of
doesn't connect though, he needs to connect those shots on this close range
But now they're all peeking and his cover probably just doesn't have the DPM here tries to focus on Miku
I vote doesn't connect it
He's gonna start getting clipped in the back from Alex small strike coming out
It's not the big one is the small strike from the K-91 front that doesn't connect to Miku
He goes down and now as the dust sort of settles
We have a 60 this is as tactic we saw in the previous seasons where bees ease normally boosting over the seven line
The Sakharos opted to go for Travis and the CTR types were just too close.
They weren't able to back away so Wudog goes down and Koytecek on that zero line.
He went too far forward and got pounced on by those 430Us.
It's not over just yet.
They are driving at the open a little bit.
A bit overconfident here by Sakharos.
There's potential here that they pulled us back.
I think the problem for CTR here regardless is that the T100 of Hormann
just is not participating really in the game.
Yes, he's spotting, but he's not really able to shoot that much, Rieschek now good shot into the K91
Afroly, who does retaliate but ends up going down and now with only two tanks remaining,
I think see the most important resource in World of Tanks and that is obviously the guns
that you have in the game. Adi here might be going down to Herman, but the problem is that
after that there is three more tanks for Sicarios. I mean, there is a world here that is extremely
difficult. Not necessarily. Miku being a one-shot floke he's just gonna rotate to
that one line, pick up the striking kill him. I think we've got a long game here.
I think this is gonna go down to a 2v2 momentarily and that's not an easy one
to win for Sikarios. You know we've seen instances before when we've had like one
type 5 on 4k HP remaining against a light tank that just decaps him over and
over and just wins on on damage dealt. Herman takes the info he won't use that
when he does opt to use that one actually. Surprised he didn't save them, save Loki doesn't have a
small strike so the Zakaris are not putting in three three cap and Reject is pressuring that one
line which will deny Loki the strike. Really nice play by Reject knowing anticipating the play
that CTR would make to get this decap in the middle. Loki will go for it but he will be called
by Reject but it's no guarantee that Reject wins this one if he won actually. Oh, Loki doesn't go for
it. That's massive. We'll have to see how the pathing goes as a Visek actually drives
in towards the middle. He doesn't expect the flank coming out of the CS. However, cap is
an issue at this point in time. Milo gets spotted by, I believe, I'm not sure, maybe
by Herman. Yeah, by Herman in the T100. But now double cap starting to get employed. Visek,
However, he is below 900, but that doesn't mean anymore that he is actually two strikeable 13 seconds remaining.
And this is now the problem for the team of Sicarius.
If they can put the third tank on the cap, yeah, then the reset actually needs to come from a gun as home and drives in.
He tries to desperately rescue it for his team, but it's not going to be enough.
The base has been captured on this.
And here I think we have to say the biggest problem probably for CTR was A that the Type-5s were too close and B that
Essentially they were playing a gun down because Herman deeply committed with that T100 was not able to fire and even the little
Contributions that his gun would have made they didn't happen
Yeah, the end game you saw that shot at the end from Flowkey missing. That means he doesn't generate a plane
doesn't generate a strike sorry to de-cap on. I don't think that's the
biggest issue actually the tax on that zero line to the 430s and got jumped on.
I think Koidecek is further back and he farms to Dravex pushing. It's fine if the
types get jumped on as long as your team is dealing damage while they're being
jumped on and Koidecek he went too far on that zero line got pounced by the
double 430U and because he dies all of that crossfires is only on Frolhe and
Frolhe is a rear turret to tank with not much gun depression to make over peek so
I think the game was actually lost. It's not nice to say, but lost by Koytaczek. Just going a bit too close
Herman did play a good game there
They managed to pick up click going for the middle click on some decent damage out considering he basically exploded, but
So CTR just going too close
I've we've seen this strap many times in previous seasons. We saw hit and run do it
Quite a few times with BZ's and it works well initially because you get like the first kill pretty close, which is
what Sakarios did, they got Udok. But then after that, there's a lot of open ground and
peaks you need to make to make more kills. But because Koydorcek goes down on the zero
line, it's just it's one less piece of crossfire that just means Sakarios can bring it home.
So it's a high risk Koydorcek was strapped. But yeah, as well, having to see 100, if it
was an RHM or something like that, this would probably be a different game, it would dealt
a bit more damage. But I do have to say, I think the blame does lie with Koydorcek going
a bit too close.
Well, all of this means that now Cicarios have converted their own map pick at the end
of the day.
And now we're going in towards CTR's territory.
I think you could call Ruinberg that at this point, because they have found a lot of success
on this map this season, last season already.
So leading it open against CTR is always, I think, an interesting choice if you're not
basically banning your own perma-ban anyway. But yeah, let's see what CTR have cooked up on Ruinberg,
because now they are kind of almost fighting against tournament elimination already. I mean,
it is only the fourth day of phase one, but this means that after this day concludes,
more than half of the matches of this phase will have been played. And here against direct
competition as we outlined at the beginning of the match they definitely need to make something
happen. Yeah CTR really needed to try and pick up clean points against Zikario and Lotus. They
haven't played Lotus yet but Zikario's it is concerning. Let's have a look at the lineups.
Zikario's banning 57, CTR banning the e-force. We might have a heavy type game. Zikario's one
mouse triple type 140 blitz kind of fush the types are there the types indeed are there especially
for CTR with the quintuple not sure if koide checker still going to change it doesn't look like
he has equipment in that tank also crown bang would be a weird choice and indeed koide check goes
for the 430u and the 140 together with five typefives to complete the lineup on the other
the side, Cicarios with a little bit less, they're trading it for a bit of burst and
DPM, especially with the Bliskavitsa. The mouse also, I'm not sure how much of a nice
game this one's going to have, because normally it loses the trades against the Types.
Yeah, it's a heavy type game by CTR. We've seen this before. I think Cashback played
a heavy type game, same with Hit and Run when they played each other. I think CTR as well
when they played against. I think this is quite a similar strategy, what CTR are playing,
what they played against. Cashback Flowkey, the other type behind them, Ivo, I think,
are spotted now. So that's Alex who spotted them on the crossing. Strikes traded from
both team terminators, take a shot. That's the Fosh B on that red line. Fosh B does struggle
against types, it doesn't have that much penetration, so that might be a pressure point
that CTR can exploit, but where he takes a big one there by my own, you know, you really,
in a game where you have five types, you don't want anything except the type taking hits.
And I like this by like going for the reload and backing away. I do like this.
Well, he is going to have to reload rather quickly because CTR starting to encroach upon
him good shot by clicking towards evil. A rather nice straight home and taking one more
by the 140, which at this point, no, Froli doesn't have any charges here, but yeah, like
the problem for him is the actually increased HP that the tanks have in onslaught because
he's not able to fully clip out Froli if he doesn't get, for example, a fire or a very
lucky would be an onslaught, Amorak, so he needs to be increasingly careful, but the
street that Froli still has to cross is the problem for this one because if he takes damage
on the cross. All of a sudden, he is a one-clip for the 140. They spot each other out either
only, no, actually both of them, ending up dealing a shot of damage, which obviously
favours the single-shot medium tank, but he also has the info now, and Kojicic starts
to come good strike onto Frawley as well, now, like with five shells, and that is, on
average, 2,000 damage.
It's important to say that the tank that's covering like at the moment is a Bliskavica.
and the Liskavitsa loses damage on distance.
So he might only deal 3,400 on this crossing
instead of the 800 he would if he was in their face.
So it's not the greatest tank to cover like,
but likes in a really nice position at the moment.
And BearMind CTL have bled a non-inconsequential amount
of damage about each of the types
has had negative trades against another one as well.
Probably this is just not it at the moment.
I mean, if they're gonna make a move,
it kind of needs to be now
like is a bit low on shells, but Rijek has come to reinforce. He will be able to spot that crossing.
It's going from bad to worse for CTR at the moment. Rijek does take a hit there.
I think by the time Kudo takes one on the crossing, takes another, a bleed.
It's now a 3K, a 4K advantage for Sakarios. It's not looking good for CTR at the moment.
Especially considering that CTR actually started with more super heavy tanks on their lineup,
This means that the trades have absolutely not gone their way as
Ivo in the type 5 takes another shot
Maybe even a prompting click into yet another peak but Ivo fades away before
Before click reloads. Is he gonna re-peak into this is the question. It's not advisable
He's peeking into multiple guns here
Ivo that is as Herman has come in the type 5 and now Cordechek is going to find out that like actually did reload the full clip
He even repairs the fuel tank, so that is good for him, but Leica has another shot of damage, and Koiti Check goes down, now Froli has to exploit the reload.
Yeah, he's exploiting the reload, but bear in mind, as it's going on, CTR have a completely full HP type out of game, and because of that, Sikarios, they smell blood in the water, Herman is just pondering around, and while he's doing that, Sikarios are pouncing on these tanks of CTR.
Frantar goes down, Flowkey's already dead, Ivo is next to the grave, and after that it's
Woldog in that central street. You've got to say it. This was a poor showing for CTR,
less than what we saw in the previous season. A disappointment, it's got to say, CTR were
one of my favourite teams in the previous season. They played very nice, dynamic, aggressive
strategies that could catch out some of the big boys, but in this current season, you
You know, maybe hit and run in Mafia are not direct competitors, right?
CTR need to be kind of aiming for that middle area, fifth place.
Maybe pushing into fourth.
Right now they're scraping sixth, maybe even seventh.
So it needs to be better by CTR, but a deserved win by Sikandru Berg.
Yeah, indeed.
I think the 3-0 scoreline here definitely outlining who was the better team today.
CTR not able to hold a candle to what Sikarios was doing, I think here on Ruinberg, in trying
to overcook a little bit with the medium rush against the 140, I think that was, sorry,
against the Fosh B. I think that was very, very well played by the Fosh B to also then
take the timing windows, recognizing exactly when to reload, when not also the individual
positioning revealing when he was Sikarios in the city, of course, able to kind of overwhelm
CTR in the connection with the Bliskovitsa as well and yeah, it was just overall well done and for CTR
It's kind of back to the drawing board. What do we do now because?
Whatever they tried today, it certainly wasn't it and for Sikarios
It just goes from good to better right because the tanks that you want to have the damage dealt on
That is exactly where they come in the 140 permanently coming in with the inspire the fosh be able to get multiple
reloads adi with their blurskabitsa as well I mean all of those tanks will have dealt a lot of damage because well
There was just so much HP in the battle, but overall just sicario's outminding CTR
After the first stage is over how many teams go out is it one or two?
Two that is concerning for city after there's only one
You'd think that CTR would be able to beat Lotus, but
Who else are they gonna be who else is down there at the bottom with them?
It was Zecharios. They need to hope that basically Zecharios lose all their of the games.
Zecharios have already played Lotus. They took points from Lotus.
So this is Alambels for CTR if they want to stay in this competition to the second stage.
Because Lotus is taking the vulgar spot from the previous season.
There's not a high likelihood that they're going to make it to phase two.
But CTR, that team where you'd expect them to at least be
testing for stage 2, but now, currently testing a 7th place.
I think they're on one point, maybe two.
Yeah, I think one point currently.
And interestingly enough, they got that one against HIT, I believe, no?
Oh, it's double.
2-0 on Ruinberg, I remember.
They went down 2-0, then it was 2-0 on Ruinberg, and then the last one.
I'm not sure. Could have been cashback either.
Well, I was ready to defend CTR to hold their stronghold on Ruhenberg, but at least today
Sikario is absolutely able to dismantle it, and this leaves us with the standings where
hit are the smiling first place here, unbeaten so far when it comes to match wins.
That's why they are on the four-match streak.
Mafia in second place here, directly followed though by the team of W, who are only one
point behind, so starting to make a little bit of a journey back to where they found themselves at
the start weekend from second to fourth today due to losing against it. Cashback still in fifth though,
chasing off the weekend. Sicario is on the same amount of points as Cashback interestingly enough
and well, CTR and Lotus, yeah, it is what it is I guess. Cashback I think being that low is going
under the radar a little bit, to be honest. I think it's a concern, because Kasperk,
they're gunning for place one, they've got Mafia next week, they've got W next week actually,
which is quite a difficult one. CTR have Lotus in the next playday as well, that's important,
but it might not be at this point, but either way, Kian, you take it away.
Well, yeah, it actually does conclude the playday off today, but of course that's not all of AMD,
OLS season 6. We'll be back on Thursday, same place, same time, twitch.tv slash worldoftanks.
And of course you haven't been able to claim the OLS tokens for today. That's why we are going to be
rating Ducky, who probably had a little bit of a small break, so he'll be ready to go when we rate him.
And that's all. And thank you very much. See you on Thursday.
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