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| 5s | Warriors of Legend |
|---|---|
| 14s | hallowed and venerated Among the Stars |
| 17s | themselves |
| 23s | [Music] |
| 26s | those bold enough to join this |
| 29s | Gladiators Pantheon |
| 31s | this gallery of Champions |
| 36s | there's only one rule |
| 41s | winner stays on |
| 56s | hello and welcome back to day four of |
| 60s | the alliance tournament 19 uh feeder |
| 62s | rounds we have 12 teams remaining |
| 65s | competing for just four spots in the |
| 68s | final tournament four direct invites |
| 70s | from last year's top four we've had uh |
| 73s | 24 teams have gone through the gauntlet |
| 76s | thus far and secured themselves a spot |
| 78s | in the alliance tournament and we have |
| 80s | 12 teams who have stumbled at various |
| 82s | opportunities haven't managed to secure |
| 84s | that spot uh but they have one final |
| 87s | opportunity today to secure it so we're |
| 89s | going to see a bunch of exciting matches |
| 91s | that are all elimination matches so the |
| 94s | first set of matches every single time a |
| 96s | team loses they are gone they are |
| 98s | eliminated from Alliance tournament 19 |
| 100s | contention after that we will have three |
| 103s | matches where the winner goes in and the |
| 106s | loser will drop into the galente gamble |
| 109s | uh CCP zealous went into a dark room one |
| 112s | day and came out with the rules for this |
| 114s | uh you can only bring galented bonus |
| 117s | chips there are no bands uh and it is |
| 120s | just a complete it's going to be Madness |
| 122s | it's going to be absolute Madness and |
| 124s | I'm super looking forward to it but |
| 125s | three teams will go into the glenty |
| 127s | gamble one of them will go through into |
| 129s | alliance tournament 19. I'm CP overload |
| 132s | I'm joined today by moderator and |
| 134s | Blackboard pirate mod how are you today |
| 136s | excellent I'm excited for a round of |
| 138s | exhilarating and elimination spaceship |
| 140s | matches |
| 142s | as am I on BART how about you how are |
| 144s | you doing |
| 145s | oh I'm I'm always fantastic |
| 148s | excellent and you did a fantastic job |
| 150s | yesterday I believe you uh you you |
| 151s | pushed me out to my seat you ran the |
| 153s | show yesterday uh it sounds like it went |
| 155s | very well |
| 157s | uh yeah I think it went pretty well uh |
| 159s | we had a lot of really awesome matches |
| 160s | too yesterday which was super fantastic |
| 163s | um day started off great I loved that |
| 165s | like I think it was like three |
| 166s | back-to-back really solid matches and we |
| 168s | ended on that just incredible like 46 |
| 171s | structure Cliffhanger where one of the |
| 173s | teams like almost flipped this uh |
| 176s | flipped the script as it were at the |
| 177s | last second so just really really good |
| 180s | yeah I love when we end on a super |
| 182s | exciting match like that so uh excellent |
| 186s | matches yesterday even more exciting |
| 187s | ones today especially because as we say |
| 189s | elimination matches like this is it like |
| 192s | if you do not win you have no way into |
| 195s | the alliance tournament in like at all |
| 197s | like that said you have to win today |
| 198s | this is the day where you put all your |
| 201s | cards on the table you bring everything |
| 202s | that you possibly can bring and you need |
| 205s | to pull out that W mod do you think |
| 207s | that's definitely gonna be weighing on |
| 208s | some of these teams here today |
| 210s | yeah I mean if you are one of these |
| 212s | teams and you think you have a setup or |
| 214s | something in your pocket that you feel |
| 216s | is you know like your win card |
| 218s | um you know you got to go For Broke or |
| 220s | you feel like you're an underdog you |
| 222s | gotta roll the dice and you know go all |
| 224s | in so I think we're gonna see some crazy |
| 226s | matches because people are definitely |
| 228s | feeling the pressure that if they don't |
| 231s | you know put up now they're gonna have |
| 232s | to shut up later |
| 234s | yeah I'm very excited for our second |
| 236s | match of the day pandemic Legion versus |
| 238s | boundary experts both of them uh lost |
| 241s | their matches yesterday PL against white |
| 243s | flag and then boundary experts against |
| 245s | Fraternity in what I believe is quite an |
| 247s | upset so they're going to compete today |
| 249s | in a elimination match only one of those |
| 252s | teams can advance both teams uh with |
| 254s | quite a lot of uh quite a lot to to to |
| 257s | uh to do basically and try to get |
| 258s | through now we have about five minutes |
| 260s | before our first match which is going to |
| 261s | be sons of Baden versus |
| 264s | x877 so before we go anywhere further |
| 267s | let's take a look at the bands for this |
| 269s | particular match so sons of Bane are |
| 272s | Banning out the bar guest and the |
| 273s | stormbringer at x877 Banning out the |
| 278s | balgorn and the Blackbird uh Bart what |
| 280s | do you make of this the Stormbreaker |
| 282s | we've seen a few people starting to ban |
| 283s | them um it's still a bit of a strange |
| 285s | one |
| 286s | yeah I don't I don't think the |
| 287s | Stormbreaker is a particularly good band |
| 290s | um there's a very specific team comp |
| 292s | that is like really really good with a |
| 296s | stormbringer which I don't think we've |
| 297s | seen it um I don't think we're going to |
| 299s | see it it's sort of at a the triple |
| 301s | cruise missile Battleship pseudo Tinker |
| 303s | with a stormbringer |
| 304s | um but I don't know like maybe that's |
| 307s | something sons of Bane is practiced |
| 308s | against and they're really scared of it |
| 309s | so I I don't get the Stormbreaker but |
| 312s | maybe they're smarter than me |
| 314s | yeah and mod I feel like the x877 bands |
| 317s | are pretty standard bands balgar very |
| 319s | powerful tournament ship Blackbird as |
| 321s | well you know it's an easy ship to ban |
| 323s | the power level on that ship is is |
| 324s | pretty high so if you don't want to face |
| 326s | it just just ban it |
| 327s | um what do you think we might see from |
| 328s | from these teams here |
| 331s | yeah I mean it's kind of hard to say |
| 333s | there's so much open right like |
| 335s | um you can do like all sorts of Shield |
| 337s | rushes you can do kind of the max threat |
| 339s | uh kind of Octodad comp uh you can do |
| 342s | basically most anything really |
| 345s | um a lot that you can still do with |
| 347s | those bands but people just saying hey I |
| 349s | really hate dealing with the you know |
| 351s | tanky long range bugs I really hate |
| 352s | dealing with ECM so common bands like |
| 355s | you said we're gonna see them today and |
| 356s | all throughout the main tournament |
| 358s | yeah quick explanation about the van |
| 360s | system for the feeders as well if you're |
| 362s | just joining us today |
| 363s | um the teams get blind bands so the |
| 366s | captains are uh convoed by one of our |
| 368s | GMS or referees and they say hey uh |
| 371s | which two ship do you don't want to see |
| 372s | and the captains will tell them uh and |
| 375s | then the referee will put them together |
| 377s | and if any of those bands are duplicates |
| 379s | so if both sides ban say uh the the ball |
| 382s | gorm then both sides are offered an |
| 384s | additional trickle ban uh which you know |
| 387s | they can pick anything else as well so |
| 388s | in theory it's possible to get six ships |
| 390s | banned if both people both teams ban the |
| 392s | same ship at the start uh then both |
| 394s | teams would get two more trickle bands |
| 396s | so you could get up to six total ships |
| 397s | banned or as low as four if everyone |
| 400s | just bans the same thing or just two |
| 403s | um so I'm looking forward to this match |
| 404s | I think it's gonna be very interesting I |
| 405s | know Wingnut cross is a big fan of Sons |
| 407s | of bean uh he is very much looking |
| 409s | forward to this uh him and Mark |
| 411s | resurrect is discussing tactics for for |
| 413s | this one |
| 415s | um any predictions for this match Bart |
| 418s | uh I I feel like sons of Bane actually |
| 421s | played relatively well in their other |
| 423s | match they just ended up going against a |
| 425s | sort of more pedigreed better team and |
| 429s | I'm feeling that they're going to be |
| 430s | winning this one so just twitch chat so |
| 432s | we always have to agree with twitch chat |
| 433s | because twitch chat is Geniuses uh |
| 436s | extremely wrinkly brains |
| 438s | indeed uh and speaking of twitch chat uh |
| 440s | do make sure you are collecting your |
| 442s | Twitch Channel points uh you get them by |
| 444s | watching any stream on CCP twitch |
| 446s | channel uh including this one and you |
| 448s | can wager them on the matches uh by just |
| 451s | looking on the twitch chat area if you |
| 453s | have not uh linked up your in-game name |
| 456s | uh to to redeem the prizes you can do so |
| 459s | by just typing exclamation mark IGN and |
| 461s | your character name so you get the the |
| 463s | codes will be mailed to you in game so |
| 466s | looking at the the Wagers here I'm |
| 468s | seeing x877 uh just under 100 000 sons |
| 472s | have been 300 000 so the twitch |
| 474s | Collective hive mind very much favoring |
| 477s | sons of Ben |
| 479s | so we I mean sounds like uh like you say |
| 482s | wrinkly brains Barbed uh they're |
| 484s | probably going to be right but we did |
| 485s | see some pretty substantial swings |
| 487s | yesterday in uh in twitch Channel points |
| 489s | with uh some some strong upsets how did |
| 491s | that go down |
| 493s | uh we definitely saw I think right off |
| 495s | the rip we saw castabouts |
| 497s | um do a massive upset which was really |
| 500s | funny uh other than that though I don't |
| 502s | know if there was I think I feel like |
| 503s | fraternity had a pretty big upset too |
| 506s | um I think that was like a it's like a |
| 508s | point seven points uh or like they were |
| 511s | it was like a 30 to 70 in fraternity |
| 513s | just like app absolutely stomped that |
| 516s | game so it could happen again here I |
| 518s | mean it's it's always funny because then |
| 520s | you see people spamming exclamation |
| 522s | point refund which does not work |
| 524s | um that was a that was a troll don't do |
| 526s | that or do it's up to you you can type |
| 528s | it |
| 529s | um there's zero guarantees that any |
| 531s | channel points will actually ever make |
| 533s | it their their way back to you but |
| 535s | you're more than welcome to type it uh |
| 537s | as much as you want into twitch chat I |
| 539s | think we're almost ready to head over to |
| 541s | the arena and it looks like our casters |
| 544s | for this match are going to be Mark |
| 545s | resurrected on Wingnut cross so let's |
| 547s | head in for Sons of vain versus x877 |
| 554s | g'day mates welcome to the arena and I |
| 556s | am bloody excited because my boys in |
| 558s | Bain have brought a Vindicator I'm so |
| 561s | happy then again they have ruined it |
| 562s | because they brought his arm out so |
| 564s | this is gonna be very interesting we've |
| 566s | got the uh the battle cruiser cool with |
| 568s | the Navy execs and a basilisk so a |
| 571s | shield battle cruiser cool |
| 574s | wait hold on she would have started |
| 575s | Shield prediction okay uh yeah I think |
| 577s | we're in la la land yeah this is an odd |
| 580s | situation here uh wingnet I'm looking at |
| 582s | a basilisk and then a lot of gallante |
| 584s | ships not necessarily known for their |
| 586s | good Shield tanks at all but again you |
| 589s | know I like brutix's I like a star days |
| 591s | I guess we'll see how this goes I |
| 593s | suspect they're hoping for some real |
| 595s | face melting levels of DPS but I I get |
| 599s | the feeling that might not be what |
| 601s | they're gonna get here but also a |
| 603s | redeemer on the sons of Bane side so |
| 605s | that's even another weird ship too |
| 606s | interesting choice the x8717 is starting |
| 609s | to pull back the Britax Navy of Tristan |
| 611s | getting that info a little bit late but |
| 613s | they are all starting to pull away uh |
| 616s | back towards the corner of the Arena as |
| 617s | the sons of Bane team moves in Shadow |
| 620s | guard in the Oracle taking a lot of |
| 621s | early damage that zarmas is going to |
| 624s | have to start schooling early to catch |
| 625s | him those oracles do not tank super well |
| 628s | that we can see The Vindicator of course |
| 630s | charging in as well as his smaller buddy |
| 632s | I'm just checking to make sure I believe |
| 633s | that mole is another nuke mower no one's |
| 635s | got guns never mind |
| 637s | that's a gun more my bad of course being |
| 640s | the first Target to shoot at I I agree |
| 642s | with that it also is the most obvious |
| 644s | Target to shoot so the zombies but |
| 646s | potentially even pre-wrapping male guy |
| 648s | okay damage spread as well interesting |
| 650s | yeah x877 choosing to spread damage onto |
| 652s | the exact Navy which odd choice to |
| 655s | spread damage we've talked about this |
| 656s | before never the optical play but the |
| 659s | exec Navy is a good Target oh yeah exit |
| 661s | Navy is a good Target to call uh they |
| 664s | are extra oh the bass he got caught mate |
| 666s | vindi and more uh |
| 668s | pop Vindicator range that's not a good |
| 671s | thing |
| 679s | a choice |
| 681s | yeah you know what you're actually right |
| 683s | I uh that's that blew right past my |
| 685s | brain it is still very early in the |
| 687s | morning uh but you're right making the |
| 688s | the Tsar Mass choose and it did work out |
| 690s | in that case but again swapping your |
| 692s | your lobby for the exec Navy I don't |
| 695s | know if that's a good trade uh but it is |
| 696s | the one they made and now we see a lot |
| 698s | of damage coming on Tristan in the |
| 699s | British Navy uh while the x877 team |
| 702s | still tries to find a way to break this |
| 704s | Oracle Shadow guard |
| 706s | also please don't talk about being early |
| 708s | in the morning it's 2 A.M here uh yeah |
| 711s | but these are these now logulis Shield |
| 714s | battle Cruisers |
| 715s | are going to die incredibly quickly |
| 718s | because they didn't have the best buffer |
| 720s | to begin with |
| 722s | and now their buffer is even thinner |
| 723s | without the lodgy so this Vindicator is |
| 726s | just going to have fun like you can see |
| 728s | I'm already shooting another ship it's |
| 729s | just |
| 730s | I I think J.A illusius is having |
| 733s | probably the best day of his life at the |
| 735s | moment I imagine he is we see erikai |
| 738s | warp being hard tackled by the Mueller |
| 740s | of Lord |
| 742s | um the genus Slayer okay uh down near |
| 745s | the bottom of the Arena that Assad they |
| 747s | probably won't be long for this world |
| 748s | either uh maybe has the most remaining |
| 750s | buffer of anything left but it's still |
| 752s | not very much |
| 753s | now I believe yeah the uh nurgle is |
| 756s | actually going over to his Ahmed brother |
| 758s | so I'm willing to bet this I might have |
| 759s | some backup smaller rappers for the uh |
| 762s | for the nurgle to try and keep him alive |
| 763s | but he's just being picked apart by |
| 766s | drones potentially also some um extra |
| 768s | Firepower from someone who knows I'm |
| 771s | actually seeing some uh skybreaker shots |
| 773s | as well going into that to nurgle so |
| 775s | they're trying oh no sir sorry yeah Sky |
| 777s | breaker that's right yep they're going |
| 778s | in to try and kill the drones off of the |
| 780s | noble and honestly it worked yeah |
| 783s | yeah we have a nemelk Abramovich in the |
| 787s | British Navy now trying to cut away from |
| 789s | this DPS uh towards the edge of the |
| 791s | Arena it's getting pretty close to the |
| 793s | boundary not right on top of it yet but |
| 794s | it is dipping deep into whole will |
| 797s | probably not be long for this world now |
| 798s | uh and at this point I really do feel |
| 801s | like some of the Bane are in the |
| 802s | driver's seat I'm very happy with this |
| 805s | these boys are good fun to fight and |
| 807s | take you like they've given me some |
| 808s | great fights so it's good to see that |
| 809s | when it comes to a tournament setting |
| 811s | they can bring the noise here too so |
| 812s | very happy with that also they brought |
| 815s | my favorite chip so I feel like they |
| 816s | were kind of sirens calling me to begin |
| 817s | with |
| 818s | I do you know I I like this setup from |
| 821s | 877 you know there there were some |
| 823s | questions about the the comp they |
| 824s | brought yesterday but there's something |
| 825s | to be said about these kind of these |
| 827s | these DPS heavy uh uh you know setups |
| 831s | that you know you can bring when you |
| 832s | have verdixes you have a star days uh |
| 834s | but that that logic going down so early |
| 836s | really crippled their ability to have |
| 838s | any kind of staying power in this fight |
| 839s | I I do like the idea of their comp |
| 841s | except for one glaring hole which is why |
| 844s | the bloody hell did you bring a Bassey |
| 846s | with these ships yeah not not the |
| 848s | optimal Choice here I don't think |
| 849s | Scimitar may be better Scimitar probably |
| 851s | better |
| 852s | yeah I think neither of those |
| 856s | I mean if you're gonna go for if you're |
| 858s | going for a full DPS all send then you |
| 861s | want all those low slots for as many mag |
| 863s | stabs as you can get and you know you |
| 866s | have to free up those low slots you |
| 867s | don't have the tank anymore I mean you |
| 869s | could fit Nanos but then you don't you |
| 870s | know that and I think what they were |
| 872s | doing here was not unsound uh but again |
| 875s | the passing going down so early was just |
| 876s | it's such a crippling blow and we see |
| 878s | now the assertive Attica warp is going |
| 880s | to be going shortly there's not a whole |
| 882s | lot of DPS on it but it is in structure |
| 885s | and has no reps left |
| 887s | I also could say big respect to the uh |
| 888s | sons of Bane sport Wing as well they've |
| 890s | got that obviously the mole going around |
| 891s | the sky breaker removing the drones to |
| 893s | the nurgle even though the amount was |
| 894s | already in the driver's seat for them |
| 895s | they were able to work together there |
| 897s | and keep the vehicle going it was you |
| 899s | know it's a little things like that here |
| 900s | and there like the noble recognizing |
| 902s | that he needs reps the Czar mat is busy |
| 904s | I need to fly to this arm and get him to |
| 906s | use his smaller wrappers on me it's |
| 908s | those little things that can win you a |
| 909s | match every once in a while absolutely |
| 919s | interesting |
| 920s | I wonder if yeah probably wouldn't have |
| 923s | mattered no definitely interesting I |
| 925s | mean they might pick off one more yeah |
| 926s | the sky breaker goes down uh here but |
| 928s | again the sky breaker at this point |
| 930s | isn't adding a whole lot of |
| 931s | functionality |
| 933s | um to this Fleet I mean maybe a little |
| 935s | bit of extra tackle maybe pulling off |
| 936s | some drones I just not a whole lot left |
| 939s | to do here at this point |
| 941s | yeah honestly like the sky breaker tends |
| 944s | to be used as I wouldn't say suicide |
| 946s | tackle but they definitely get used to |
| 948s | hold targets down and uh well The |
| 950s | Vindicator managed to get on top of |
| 952s | their lodgy so I mean it's in the nicest |
| 955s | way he didn't do his job no no you can |
| 959s | at least drive by scram the guy every |
| 961s | once in a while to try and slow him down |
| 962s | but that Vindicator looked like it was |
| 964s | entirely untouched the whole way in |
| 966s | yeah as a tackle pilot any kind of |
| 969s | tackle pilot you have to have that kind |
| 970s | of visibility to see when something big |
| 972s | and you know something that is going to |
| 974s | cause a lot of trouble for your lodging |
| 975s | like the uh Vindicator like a balgorn |
| 978s | would do like an Armageddon uh those are |
| 981s | the kind of things you have to |
| 982s | absolutely be right on top of keep on on |
| 984s | those even if you're not you know |
| 986s | hanging out in their Zone the entire |
| 988s | time putting yourself at risk at least |
| 990s | doing the absolute bare minimum to try |
| 992s | and keep them off of those extremely |
| 994s | valuable but also extremely fleshy ships |
| 997s | like the Basilisk uh you've got to be |
| 999s | Johnny on the spot with those yeah and |
| 1002s | it's important as well to kind of see |
| 1003s | what the win comes for your team is and |
| 1005s | basically one of the most obvious win |
| 1006s | cons is to not lose ships to a |
| 1008s | Vindicator so having someone try and |
| 1010s | stop The Vindicator from being useful |
| 1012s | which honestly I love the ship it is |
| 1014s | remarkably easy sometimes to keep a |
| 1016s | Vindicator locked down |
| 1018s | so you've got to kind of realize this |
| 1020s | needs to happen for us to win should |
| 1022s | probably be stopping the ship AKA |
| 1024s | skybreaker browger hell even when even a |
| 1028s | um |
| 1029s | even the hyena could focus on that yeah |
| 1031s | you got to keep the Vindicator uh locked |
| 1033s | down and that I'm in control but the |
| 1035s | rest of the team is now dying off got |
| 1037s | this uh Shield exec navies that are a |
| 1040s | billion miles away from everything |
| 1042s | yeah just a lot of work being done by |
| 1043s | drones and this nurgle now just anything |
| 1045s | they can catch up you can see the rest |
| 1046s | of the team from Sons of being have just |
| 1048s | outside the camp out in the middle of |
| 1050s | the Arena we see now one of the exec |
| 1052s | Navy is diving for the boundary |
| 1054s | uh probably will get there and it still |
| 1056s | has quite a bit of Shield buffer left |
| 1057s | and these are just drones chasing them |
| 1058s | so uh that one will go down and the |
| 1061s | other on the other side of the Arena |
| 1063s | just slowly boating around very casually |
| 1065s | chill you know I'm definitely gonna be |
| 1068s | curious what the guys think about the |
| 1070s | Redeemer pick here it's probably a |
| 1072s | really cool ship it's probably like |
| 1073s | there probably some reason for it but |
| 1074s | I'm just looking at going why did you |
| 1076s | spend the points on this |
| 1079s | yeah I mean with the benefit of |
| 1080s | hindsight obviously it was a winning |
| 1082s | comp |
| 1083s | um you know but I don't know if the |
| 1084s | Redeemer necessarily was the ultimate I |
| 1086s | mean again Navy in this situation would |
| 1088s | have been just fine |
| 1089s | um you know it |
| 1091s | yeah I kind of just question what what |
| 1094s | they spent the points on with this |
| 1096s | but again I would love to hear what the |
| 1097s | guys back in the list will think of that |
| 1098s | one go wait for these uh exact navies to |
| 1101s | you know admit defeat and explode yeah |
| 1106s | well they haven't yet uh they are still |
| 1108s | just voting around uh the sons of Maine |
| 1111s | team taking part shots from the middle |
| 1112s | of the Arena uh not getting too many |
| 1115s | hits but our zik is now getting close to |
| 1118s | armor will be probably the first one to |
| 1120s | go and then Maleficent's heart is again |
| 1123s | just casually boating around the outside |
| 1125s | of the Arena waiting for either the |
| 1127s | timer to tick down or something to come |
| 1128s | out here and Tackle these ships and call |
| 1131s | it good |
| 1132s | I think the problem is this is this is |
| 1133s | like the old uh solo Nano guy in null |
| 1137s | sick back in the day exactly he would |
| 1139s | just sit at range and just dare you to |
| 1141s | come after him |
| 1143s | especially the exact navies these things |
| 1144s | could actually just kill anything that |
| 1146s | tried to go after them that's fast |
| 1147s | enough so |
| 1148s | we're just gonna wait till this match is |
| 1149s | over we've got a minute left while these |
| 1151s | exact babies dancing around the grid |
| 1153s | that's true but you know he listening at |
| 1155s | the end of the match is like this you |
| 1157s | know this is an elimination match our |
| 1158s | friends at x877 will be going home after |
| 1161s | this if you have the opportunity to save |
| 1162s | for the last few moments then say for |
| 1164s | the last few moments you know you don't |
| 1166s | get to do this very often the the at |
| 1167s | only comes around once a year uh it's |
| 1170s | it's nice to see uh you know they're |
| 1172s | really enjoying these these last last |
| 1174s | few seconds they have before things wrap |
| 1176s | up I just want to point out that that |
| 1177s | one that just died there was nothing |
| 1179s | nearby him but the Vindicator |
| 1182s | so The Vindicator managed to Corner him |
| 1184s | and kill him with no |
| 1186s | today |
| 1188s | respect to the windy always respect the |
| 1190s | windy |
| 1193s | okay five seconds left so yep this match |
| 1196s | has been over congratulations to my boys |
| 1198s | sons of Bane sobs and with that we'll go |
| 1202s | back to the studio and see what they |
| 1203s | think |
| 1220s | could be anywhere |
| 1222s | [Music] |
| 1227s | foreign |
| 1248s | [Music] |
| 1258s | foreign |
| 1264s | x877 forgot to offline their plates they |
| 1267s | have rolled themselves straight out of |
| 1268s | the tournament we will not see them |
| 1270s | anymore thank you for playing sons of |
| 1272s | Ben Advance into the next stage of this |
| 1275s | particular bracket so they still are in |
| 1277s | with a shot of getting in through the uh |
| 1281s | either straight win in their next match |
| 1282s | or in via the galenti gamble but x877 no |
| 1286s | more for them now |
| 1288s | interesting matchup guys uh first of all |
| 1291s | I have to ask moderator we see these |
| 1294s | like traditional armor ships with a |
| 1296s | basilisk involved what's going on there |
| 1299s | well it seems that this match that they |
| 1302s | were actually Shield fit |
| 1304s | um the question that both myself and |
| 1305s | black bar pirate had was okay |
| 1308s | you take all of these chips that are not |
| 1310s | gonna have a strong tank but in exchange |
| 1312s | you just throw a ton of Meg's dabs and |
| 1314s | maybe some Nanos or some tracking |
| 1316s | enhancers in your lows and you pump out |
| 1318s | damage |
| 1320s | um the question that we had was where |
| 1322s | was the damage throughout that match uh |
| 1324s | it didn't seem like they were applying |
| 1326s | uh much too much of anything really on |
| 1328s | the French side |
| 1332s | yeah and bar uh Redeemer also a bit of a |
| 1335s | strange one uh it's it's a good ship |
| 1337s | especially after it's been buffed not |
| 1339s | too long ago but I mean the Armageddon |
| 1341s | Navy issue was available would that not |
| 1343s | been a better choice |
| 1344s | uh probably not redeemers are actually |
| 1347s | really really good |
| 1348s | um we saw them being used a bunch by uh |
| 1352s | truth.honor.light and uh with a specific |
| 1355s | double battleships event it was actually |
| 1357s | Vindicator Redeemer um it's very very |
| 1359s | powerful ship they do a absolutely mass |
| 1361s | amount of damage we're talking like |
| 1363s | about a thousand cold damage with uh |
| 1366s | conflag and then they also have pretty |
| 1368s | powerful newts so redeemers are better |
| 1371s | than Armageddon Navy issues except that |
| 1373s | they take a little bit more DPS |
| 1375s | um their tank isn't quite as good but |
| 1377s | it's it's a very solid ship uh they |
| 1380s | clearly worked here I don't think it's |
| 1381s | necessarily a one for one replacement or |
| 1384s | you can bring it every single time but |
| 1386s | they're very good like I I understand |
| 1387s | why they brought it um it's almost like |
| 1389s | it's like a better balgorn in a lot of |
| 1391s | ways uh just because it does so much |
| 1393s | more DPS so yeah like props to the |
| 1394s | Redeemer um and then again like kind of |
| 1396s | agreeing with moderator on the DPS from |
| 1398s | the other team though like you could see |
| 1401s | by the attack bars that their fits were |
| 1403s | weird because they should have had more |
| 1404s | DPS but they didn't |
| 1407s | yeah that's a good point actually uh if |
| 1409s | you've if you're just joining us if |
| 1411s | you've never really watched these |
| 1412s | tournaments before then uh let me |
| 1413s | quickly explain how the the UI looks in |
| 1415s | in the matches so what you're seeing uh |
| 1417s | we call it fancy UI because it is kind |
| 1419s | of fancy uh there's a couple of key bits |
| 1421s | of that and the big ones are there's |
| 1423s | some bars across the screen you'll see |
| 1425s | attack defense and control uh attack is |
| 1428s | essentially all of the potential applied |
| 1431s | damage uh that can be generated from |
| 1433s | that particular comp if you reload into |
| 1436s | a higher damage ammo your attack bar |
| 1438s | grows uh it's just how it works it's all |
| 1441s | calculated out in terms of potential DPS |
| 1443s | the defense is ehp and if you see a |
| 1446s | little purple bit that's active reps so |
| 1448s | if you're running until the armor repair |
| 1449s | you will see your uh your attack your |
| 1451s | defense bar have a little purple bit |
| 1453s | right at the very end and then control |
| 1455s | is uh black magic and Wizardry but |
| 1458s | essentially what it's doing is looking |
| 1459s | at things like er modules uh they're all |
| 1462s | weighted and they all go into that so if |
| 1464s | you have a couple of energy neutralizers |
| 1466s | some web some paints these all count as |
| 1468s | control modules so you sometimes we talk |
| 1471s | about armor controls are very popular uh |
| 1474s | sort of Mainline Doctrine where you have |
| 1476s | armor ships so big defense bars maybe |
| 1479s | not as much attack bars but a very |
| 1481s | strongest control bar so you control |
| 1482s | your enemies and you kill them slowly |
| 1484s | over time |
| 1486s | one of the things that is interesting in |
| 1488s | terms of control we saw in that last |
| 1489s | match the uh gun molar so Muller very |
| 1492s | popular to be fit with newts uh mod what |
| 1496s | tell me about the the new to Mueller in |
| 1498s | tournaments |
| 1499s | yeah so the new Mauler basically fills |
| 1502s | the role of saying okay |
| 1504s | the molar is Attack One Cruiser so it's |
| 1506s | very cheap to bring but it also has |
| 1508s | built-in uh resist bonus to that ship |
| 1511s | and instead of putting guns on it what |
| 1513s | you do is you basically throw |
| 1515s | um all the medium and small energy |
| 1517s | neutralizes you can and you treat it as |
| 1520s | kind of like a really inexpensive curse |
| 1523s | or |
| 1524s | um doll porn and you want to try to put |
| 1526s | that on top of either |
| 1528s | you know battle cruiser or |
| 1531s | um a YG if you can manage to catch it |
| 1533s | and you just sit on it and you say okay |
| 1535s | uh you're just not gonna have capacitor |
| 1537s | and we're going to pressure you out for |
| 1539s | the entirety of the match and |
| 1542s | um between the tank and kind of the |
| 1544s | fitting it has it's pretty good at that |
| 1546s | role and again very cheap for what it |
| 1549s | does |
| 1550s | yeah and so super popular ship is you |
| 1552s | sometimes you see it replaced with a new |
| 1554s | vexer as well for the same kind of role |
| 1555s | it's depending on the comp |
| 1558s | um but yeah anyway |
| 1559s | I realized we're only a few minutes out |
| 1561s | from our next match and I want to talk |
| 1563s | about it it's pandemic Legion versus |
| 1564s | boundary experts uh I think this is |
| 1566s | going to be exciting I think twitch chat |
| 1568s | seems to be undecided about who's the |
| 1571s | favorites here it's almost 50 50 in |
| 1572s | terms of uh Channel points uh probably |
| 1575s | some uh Channel Point wealthy PL people |
| 1578s | uh backing their team there somewhere |
| 1580s | but let's take a quick look at the bands |
| 1582s | so pandemic Legion Banning out the |
| 1584s | Nighthawk and the brutix Navy issue |
| 1587s | um boundary experts are spanning out the |
| 1589s | curse and the Deacon uh Blackberry |
| 1591s | Pirates what do you make of these bands |
| 1593s | interesting bands from PL |
| 1594s | they are interesting bands the um |
| 1598s | the Nighthawk is like I've always |
| 1601s | considered it pretty much a wasted van |
| 1603s | uh but Banning a Nighthawk is a really |
| 1605s | good I don't want to get rushed uh |
| 1608s | signal however you can replace |
| 1609s | Nighthawks with slipkners on a |
| 1610s | one-to-one basis uh brutix Navy issue |
| 1612s | though we've been seeing this ship be |
| 1614s | really really good this entire |
| 1616s | tournament and I think it's kind of one |
| 1618s | of the core ships of this uh you know |
| 1620s | Max threat High rail gun uh projection |
| 1623s | galente setup that we've been seeing and |
| 1625s | especially with its reduced Point costs |
| 1626s | like I think this is the first time |
| 1628s | you've seen a British Navy should get |
| 1629s | banned and I think that it's actually a |
| 1630s | that's a really solid ban on PL spot uh |
| 1634s | I do think that I would probably if you |
| 1635s | really didn't want to see that I think |
| 1637s | Banning a Navy executor and the British |
| 1638s | Navy would be smart but I kind of get |
| 1641s | where they're looking here and I think |
| 1642s | that this is you know pretty intelligent |
| 1644s | on pl's part |
| 1646s | yeah PL historically a very successful |
| 1649s | team you usually we consider them one of |
| 1651s | the the best in terms of the The Meta |
| 1654s | figuring out the meta uh and winning |
| 1656s | before they'd even walked into the arena |
| 1658s | uh they sometimes stumbled to more |
| 1661s | execution focused teams of course in the |
| 1663s | last tournament 14 finals where they |
| 1665s | lost to the tuskers uh PL probably with |
| 1668s | a better theater crafting team but they |
| 1669s | just lost out an execution this looks |
| 1671s | like mod a |
| 1673s | quite a Smart Band strategy they've got |
| 1676s | going on as far as Bart Singh |
| 1679s | yeah I like |
| 1680s | I don't like the nighthawker as much |
| 1682s | like what part was saying I think you |
| 1684s | have better options for what again like |
| 1686s | an Executor Navy issue as you just said |
| 1689s | um but also talking about the bands on |
| 1691s | the other team we saw boundary experts |
| 1693s | get rid of the deacon and getting rid of |
| 1696s | the curse so Deacon is going to be |
| 1699s | generally considered the better of the |
| 1701s | two um armor Logistics frigates so it's |
| 1704s | like yeah you can bring double Thalia |
| 1706s | but do you really want to um |
| 1708s | saying you need to bring either some |
| 1711s | sort of a tech one or Tech Two Cruiser |
| 1713s | if you want to bring armor |
| 1715s | um into that sort of setup and curse is |
| 1718s | just going to be a pretty common band |
| 1720s | um that in the arbitrator and Sentinel |
| 1722s | you're just kind of like your three main |
| 1724s | guidance and tracking disruption chips |
| 1726s | and the curse course being a bit heavier |
| 1729s | in terms of the tank and the new |
| 1731s | pressure can apply out to range |
| 1733s | yeah I'm one of the other things that |
| 1735s | makes me excited for this match is this |
| 1737s | is two pretty like seasoned good teams |
| 1740s | right now uh both competed last year in |
| 1741s | Alliance tournament 18. uh boundary |
| 1744s | experts going two and two and pl going |
| 1746s | one and two so they're kind of evenly |
| 1748s | matched in terms of experience uh and |
| 1751s | pedigree at this point this is an |
| 1753s | elimination match for them so only one |
| 1755s | of these two teams will be in |
| 1756s | potentially Alliance tournament uh 19. |
| 1759s | they have to start by winning this match |
| 1761s | uh so let's see who can take it as we |
| 1763s | head over to arena with our casters |
| 1764s | firvena and yentan |
| 1771s | welcome to the arena my name is firvana |
| 1773s | joined by yintan and on the red side we |
| 1776s | have Pandemic Legion |
| 1778s | bringing a Navy Dominics plus a bunch of |
| 1782s | drone boats on their team I'm interested |
| 1785s | in how they're actually gonna play this |
| 1787s | one I haven't taken a look at the vexer |
| 1789s | Navy issues quite yet uh to see how |
| 1791s | they're fit though |
| 1793s | yeah meanwhile we've got a bit of an |
| 1795s | interesting projection mix here from the |
| 1798s | other team from the blue side bringing |
| 1800s | an abaddin and a paladin both fit with |
| 1801s | pulses so they're going to try and |
| 1802s | project that hijacking High DPS uh uh |
| 1807s | through Scorch across the arena at the |
| 1809s | start of this match and hopefully take |
| 1810s | down one of those cruises before they |
| 1812s | can really get into position and start |
| 1813s | to lock them down uh void here are going |
| 1816s | to have such a massive control Advantage |
| 1818s | with all of those Cruisers which should |
| 1819s | be able to lock down ships from the |
| 1821s | Hostile team although right now and |
| 1823s | right now it looks like blue team is |
| 1824s | just running away |
| 1826s | yeah they have the ability to do that |
| 1828s | all this uh Paladin is uh burning in a |
| 1832s | little bit right now I need to fix my |
| 1834s | camera real quick so hold on one second |
| 1836s | uh but at the moment Navy Dominick's |
| 1839s | being jammed out alongside the ineros |
| 1841s | and the Confessor uh by this blackbird |
| 1845s | yeah I think this is going to be a |
| 1847s | relatively slow match here we see |
| 1848s | although I said we do see the red team |
| 1851s | here pandemic Legion just pushing |
| 1852s | directly into that it doesn't seem like |
| 1854s | boundary experts have been able to |
| 1856s | screen them particularly well and those |
| 1857s | battleships are in Prime position now to |
| 1859s | start hammering on the vni look at how |
| 1861s | fast that red attack bar is rising for |
| 1863s | them |
| 1864s | yeah dolcash Khan all the way down to |
| 1866s | the low armor already uh gonna try to |
| 1869s | get healed up by the arniros but |
| 1871s | immediately gets deleted from the map |
| 1874s | more damage now going on to Morgan l |
| 1876s | Johnson and this other vexer Navy issue |
| 1878s | as this has kind of started devolving |
| 1880s | into an all-out brawl this Navy Dominics |
| 1883s | trying to get on top of the pandemic |
| 1885s | Legion team right now he's not being |
| 1887s | held down by anything uh but just as I |
| 1890s | say that as he's on top of the Paladin |
| 1892s | he's going to try to put DPS into that |
| 1894s | but he's already lost one of his ships |
| 1896s | and I'll lose another one real quick |
| 1899s | yeah and losing those Vector Navy issues |
| 1901s | is going to be such a problem here for |
| 1903s | pandemic Legion they're no longer going |
| 1904s | to have anything that could really uh |
| 1906s | threaten uh the small the low end of |
| 1909s | this boundary experts Team without that |
| 1911s | new pressure it's going to be so hard |
| 1912s | for them to pin down the pontiflex in |
| 1914s | the Magus that right now is screening |
| 1915s | off that Dominic's Navy issue and that |
| 1917s | exact Navy issue is taking chunks as |
| 1920s | well this is just get a disaster here |
| 1922s | right now for uh pandemic Legion they're |
| 1924s | not putting any punches back |
| 1926s | no they aren't and this Dominic's Navy I |
| 1929s | mean he's onto the Paladin right now and |
| 1931s | it is worth noting for those of you who |
| 1933s | haven't watched tournaments before |
| 1934s | Marauders don't get to fit the Bastion |
| 1936s | module |
| 1937s | in the at but |
| 1939s | at the same time still has the wrapping |
| 1941s | bonuses is is able to to stay alive |
| 1944s | quite effectively as the damage from |
| 1947s | panel Legion just isn't there to chew |
| 1948s | through the Paladin as I say that Eric |
| 1950s | abstraight has been tackled and is being |
| 1953s | neuted in the scenarios he will not |
| 1955s | belong to the world already down to half |
| 1957s | armor and dipping very quickly |
| 1961s | yeah and that is a brutal loss hit for |
| 1963s | pandemic Legion they really needed to be |
| 1966s | able to kill off that Paladin here and |
| 1968s | then maybe stabilize off the back of |
| 1969s | that but that's not gonna be possible if |
| 1971s | that neuros goes down that said the Vex |
| 1973s | are here for pandemic Legion rear entry |
| 1975s | he is peeling like that confesses |
| 1977s | excessively there is a chance that the |
| 1978s | neros could survive here it's going to |
| 1980s | be close he's about three kilometers |
| 1981s | away from getting out of that scram |
| 1982s | range |
| 1984s | that structure and he goes down |
| 1988s | I mean it's a close play from pandemic |
| 1991s | Legion and it is worth nothing yeah |
| 1993s | pandemic Legion is a fairly storied team |
| 1995s | a very storied name in The Alliance |
| 1998s | tournament but uh part of the the thing |
| 2000s | about PL is that a lot of the players |
| 2003s | from back in the day aren't on the team |
| 2006s | anymore and we talk about tournament |
| 2009s | pedigree as kind of this like monolithic |
| 2012s | right we have this team has been really |
| 2014s | good in the at for so so long and then |
| 2017s | over time people change people change |
| 2019s | alliances people leave the game stuff |
| 2022s | like that there are a couple players |
| 2023s | from the pl team who have been around |
| 2024s | for a long time Mr Reef being a good |
| 2026s | example but as the team had to rebuild |
| 2028s | last year under radicos and then radicos |
| 2031s | left to made plug and play uh it's just |
| 2033s | turned into kind of one of these |
| 2035s | unfortunate stories where uh despite the |
| 2038s | pedigree and they just got some bad |
| 2040s | matchups in the feeders and it looks |
| 2042s | like they're gonna go O2 as destroy on |
| 2044s | the Dominic's Navy issue is in the half |
| 2045s | structure |
| 2047s | yeah what do you think about the fact |
| 2049s | that pandemic Legion didn't choose to go |
| 2051s | for a different game plan |
| 2052s | um during this match once they saw the |
| 2054s | Paladin wasn't breaking uh do you feel |
| 2056s | like they maybe could have leveraged |
| 2057s | their head drone Rush onto some other |
| 2059s | targets effectively |
| 2061s | that already lost both their Vex or navy |
| 2063s | issues so I think at that point they're |
| 2065s | already committed uh you really can't |
| 2067s | kill anything else with this Dominic's |
| 2069s | Navy issue other than the Paladin the |
| 2071s | abaddin and both are really hard to kill |
| 2072s | uh the abandon because of its resist |
| 2074s | bonuses uh and therefore more effective |
| 2077s | local reps that way and the Paladin just |
| 2078s | because a has got Tech 2 resists and B |
| 2081s | it also has uh a rep bonus and and one |
| 2086s | of the better rep bonuses in the game |
| 2087s | for armor reps it's probably a dual rep |
| 2089s | fit Paladin and once again even without |
| 2091s | bastard module very very difficult to |
| 2093s | kill so pandemic Legion unfortunately |
| 2095s | going zero two boundary experts I mean |
| 2098s | they're also on a bit of a rebuild as uh |
| 2100s | radicos left for PL last year and then |
| 2102s | it was on plug and play uh and that |
| 2105s | team's been through a bit of a shake-up |
| 2106s | but uh this year hey they're able to |
| 2109s | knock out PL they're going to be going |
| 2111s | on to the next round and they will be |
| 2113s | facing I believe it is Sons of Bane to |
| 2116s | determine who moves on to the uh final |
| 2120s | round of their bracket until it gets |
| 2122s | eliminated oh we do see November here |
| 2125s | though he is attempting to make uh Elise |
| 2128s | Randolph proud going for that mjd bacon |
| 2131s | near the edge of the Arena attempting to |
| 2132s | make some fireworks although it does |
| 2134s | look like Chewie's gonna try and stop |
| 2136s | him but he's not fast enough letting him |
| 2138s | just Waltz out of the arena there |
| 2141s | in many ways it's been quite nice for |
| 2142s | pandemic Legion though |
| 2144s | 197 kilometers that's actually pretty |
| 2146s | impressive |
| 2148s | does sound good for an EOS as well |
| 2152s | that is actually very good for anything |
| 2154s | else I mean we typically see like |
| 2155s | distances like that with smaller ships |
| 2157s | either way we're going to take a quick |
| 2159s | break and when we return the desk will |
| 2161s | break down that matchup and bring us |
| 2163s | into the next one |
| 2166s | guys stop being casual they're really |
| 2169s | bad we should not lose anybody to this |
| 2171s | warp off warp off take the fleet warp |
| 2173s | everybody warp off this is a really |
| 2175s | really bad execution I'm very |
| 2176s | disappointed |
| 2181s | another great hall back from Amar damn |
| 2184s | I'm thirsty |
| 2186s | [Music] |
| 2187s | ah |
| 2189s | that hits the spot |
| 2191s | [Music] |
| 2194s | [Applause] |
| 2194s | [Music] |
| 2203s | Yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP |
| 2205s | collectively so that's why that Alliance |
| 2208s | logo is in the game of course you could |
| 2210s | change your alliance by leaving but that |
| 2211s | would be kind of a jerk move that kind |
| 2213s | of oh you know leggings this Lego sucks |
| 2216s | I'm gonna go join |
| 2218s | foreign |
| 2232s | [Music] |
| 2234s | and with that pandemic Legion go all |
| 2236s | into and exit the tournament we will not |
| 2238s | see them in the main Alliance tournament |
| 2241s | this year there was no buying in this |
| 2243s | year if you're wondering why some of |
| 2245s | these more experienced wealthy Alliance |
| 2247s | teams aren't straight in you can no |
| 2249s | longer Flex the Plex and just buy your |
| 2251s | way into the main tournament as it's |
| 2253s | been possible in previous years everyone |
| 2255s | has to compete through these feed around |
| 2256s | with the exception of four direct |
| 2258s | invites for the top four finishers last |
| 2260s | year |
| 2261s | um pandemic Legion brought a comp which |
| 2266s | was questionable uh in terms of |
| 2268s | execution Blackberry pirate what |
| 2269s | happened there |
| 2270s | uh so pandemic Legion brought a drone |
| 2272s | setup kind of like they did have a |
| 2274s | little bit of some weirdness in there |
| 2276s | um and then they flew it like a kind of |
| 2280s | like a shield rush I would say like they |
| 2282s | rushed all their ships in and tried to |
| 2284s | all on a paladin and the thing is is |
| 2287s | like |
| 2288s | first off the Paladin has smart bombs on |
| 2290s | it the Dominic's Navy also had smart |
| 2291s | bombs on it so PL was kind of blowing up |
| 2293s | their own drones a little bit there I |
| 2294s | think they stopped pretty fast but you |
| 2296s | know we were kind of looking at like oh |
| 2298s | hey |
| 2298s | they're smart bombing their own drones |
| 2300s | as a drone setup that's a little silly |
| 2303s | um but the big thing with drone setups |
| 2305s | specifically in the at is you almost |
| 2308s | always want to go after the opponent's |
| 2311s | Logistics Cruiser uh what you don't want |
| 2313s | to do is Ram all your ships into a giant |
| 2316s | blob and then fight because using drones |
| 2318s | so you don't have to be an optimal |
| 2319s | weapon range your drones are the weapon |
| 2321s | range and they fly around we actually |
| 2324s | saw PL do a really good job using their |
| 2325s | eocena Dominics Navy to tackle down the |
| 2329s | boundary experts battleships and that |
| 2331s | was super smart like that was fantastic |
| 2333s | the problem is every other PL ship also |
| 2335s | was in range of those two ships that |
| 2337s | were tackled and then PL tried to all in |
| 2339s | a paladin which |
| 2341s | paladins are kind of weird in the at |
| 2343s | because they don't have the ability to |
| 2345s | Bastion but they still have those Tech 2 |
| 2346s | Battleship resists they still have |
| 2348s | really good self rep and there is no |
| 2349s | neros they was just like it almost |
| 2352s | looked like he was orbiting which is |
| 2353s | totally fine because it wasn't getting |
| 2355s | hit and the nearest was almost orbiting |
| 2357s | an optimal range of the Paladin just |
| 2359s | putting out maximum reps on it so you |
| 2362s | know there they could have played a lot |
| 2363s | better |
| 2364s | by putting the drones on the oneros |
| 2366s | which is kind of generally what you're |
| 2368s | considered supposed to do with a drone |
| 2369s | setup by all ending on a paladin I mean |
| 2372s | we saw what happened they got 100 zeroed |
| 2375s | yeah uh that was the tart questionable |
| 2379s | Target choice at the start I think going |
| 2381s | for for a pound of all the targets on |
| 2383s | field I just I wonder what the what the |
| 2385s | logic behind that was now one of the |
| 2387s | things that we wanted to talk about a |
| 2388s | little as well is the use of uh rep bots |
| 2392s | in a drone mod you had some thoughts on |
| 2395s | this |
| 2396s | yeah so one of the downsides of bringing |
| 2398s | a all drone comp is you've decided okay |
| 2402s | um I have to bring all damage or mostly |
| 2405s | all damage drones because if I bring |
| 2407s | logic drones I'm in the Drone comp I'm |
| 2409s | doing no damage uh what this means |
| 2411s | unfortunately is when Eric abstract uh |
| 2414s | in the onero skits caught he has |
| 2416s | literally nothing keeping him up and we |
| 2418s | saw how quickly he went down |
| 2420s | like they're being really not that that |
| 2423s | much damage on top of him |
| 2426s | um if there were laundry bots on top |
| 2429s | um he would have been completely fine |
| 2431s | and |
| 2432s | um that's kind of one of the reasons |
| 2434s | that |
| 2436s | um drone setups like Bart was saying |
| 2437s | have fallen out of favor a little bit |
| 2440s | um |
| 2441s | drones in the past |
| 2444s | um you used to kind of bring tattoo |
| 2445s | variants of them uh that's kind of been |
| 2448s | toned down a little bit since because |
| 2450s | they were too dominant and |
| 2453s | So Meta changes a little bit things |
| 2455s | shift out |
| 2457s | um and then again like not going for the |
| 2460s | owner earlier you have an ish a |
| 2463s | Confessor and affects her to go attack |
| 2465s | on that but you didn't so you lose |
| 2467s | fortunately |
| 2469s | yeah or do you think that with what was |
| 2472s | on field there |
| 2473s | um |
| 2474s | they could have won if they just went |
| 2476s | straight for the nearest at the start |
| 2479s | I'm not going to say they could have won |
| 2481s | if they went straight for the ineros at |
| 2484s | the start like 100 but I think that they |
| 2487s | could have done significantly better uh |
| 2489s | the and the thing about it too is like |
| 2491s | this is one of those cases where you |
| 2493s | know generally we say like okay oh |
| 2495s | there's new teams in the feeders they do |
| 2496s | silly stuff pl's not a new team like |
| 2498s | some of the people on that team have |
| 2500s | actually I believe I saw at least two |
| 2501s | people that I know for a fact have |
| 2503s | actually won the alliance tournament in |
| 2505s | the past on the pl team so |
| 2507s | hypothetically they should know how to |
| 2509s | fly a drone setup because they were like |
| 2512s | one of the top two teams in Eve online |
| 2514s | when drones were in a Heyday so it's |
| 2516s | really really interesting that they |
| 2518s | chose to do that drones in general have |
| 2521s | been like like moderator said they've |
| 2522s | been significantly nerfed over time uh |
| 2524s | like the vexer Navy can only fly four |
| 2526s | drones instead of five which it used to |
| 2527s | be able to do back in the day |
| 2529s | um there's not T2 drones so that's the |
| 2530s | significant damage loss but I do think |
| 2533s | that |
| 2534s | with a team-like pandemic Legion |
| 2537s | they should know that you use your |
| 2540s | drones to kite like you kite with your |
| 2543s | drone ships and use your drones to like |
| 2544s | headshot Cruisers not trying to go all |
| 2547s | in on top of a paladin |
| 2550s | awesome yeah there's a graphic we can |
| 2552s | throw up on the screen here which is |
| 2554s | showing uh some historic data for uh |
| 2558s | pandemic Legion in the alliance |
| 2559s | tournament this is a the event database |
| 2561s | that goes back to I believe Alliance |
| 2563s | tournament seven or eight |
| 2564s | um and you can see over the over the |
| 2566s | years 110 different individual Pilots |
| 2568s | have flown in the pandemic region team |
| 2571s | they've won 60 matches and only lost 24 |
| 2573s | matches uh just the sheer number of |
| 2576s | matches alone shows you how experienced |
| 2579s | uh like some of the people in these |
| 2581s | teams are like that is nearly it's 84 |
| 2583s | matches that's that's a large number of |
| 2585s | matches there's a lot a lot a lot of |
| 2587s | experience with some individual pilots |
| 2588s | flying in more than 50 different |
| 2591s | Alliance tournament matches and just for |
| 2593s | for reference like if you look at |
| 2594s | pandemic Legion this year uh going all |
| 2597s | into there's only two matches this year |
| 2599s | they played three matches last year so |
| 2601s | it kind of shows you how dominant they |
| 2602s | were in their Peak that they were just |
| 2603s | playing with so many matches by virtue |
| 2605s | of just continuously getting deeper and |
| 2607s | deeper into tournaments all the way up |
| 2609s | to Grand finals which are usually course |
| 2611s | best of fives so sad to see pandemic |
| 2614s | Legion go it's nice to see boundary |
| 2616s | experts moving forward into the next |
| 2618s | stage of the of the tournament |
| 2621s | now one of the other things I wanted to |
| 2622s | talk about briefly is these skins so um |
| 2626s | there are pretty cool Victory skins that |
| 2628s | you get uh by simply winning a match in |
| 2631s | the alliance tournament and this year |
| 2632s | also by winning a match in the alliance |
| 2634s | tournament feed around so just simply by |
| 2636s | turning up and playing and winning you |
| 2639s | get your team 10 of these skins which |
| 2641s | apply to all of these these chips and uh |
| 2645s | I believe they're known as being hashtag |
| 2646s | poggers they are incredibly cool looking |
| 2648s | skins |
| 2649s | um so unfortunately in this case |
| 2651s | obviously PL go home with zero of them |
| 2653s | um and uh we know boundary experts have |
| 2656s | at least 10 so that's fantastic for them |
| 2658s | I think it's super cool we were able to |
| 2660s | extend it this year to uh the feeders |
| 2663s | normally it's just in the main |
| 2664s | tournament so having them in the theater |
| 2666s | is super super cool now one of the |
| 2668s | questions that was asked is one or two |
| 2671s | teams had pulled out of the feeders |
| 2673s | prior to the start meaning that their |
| 2675s | opponents basically got a free buy |
| 2677s | either into the main tournament or into |
| 2679s | a later round and the question was hey |
| 2682s | does this count as winning a game to get |
| 2685s | a skin uh and in fact it does not count |
| 2687s | uh you you get a free entry into the |
| 2689s | alliance tournament instead I'd say |
| 2690s | that's probably a better reward so if |
| 2693s | you want these skins you have to |
| 2694s | actually win matches so uh do that don't |
| 2699s | lose now let's look at our next match |
| 2701s | which I can see uh twitch chat is |
| 2703s | extremely excited for based on the |
| 2705s | amount of moving uh going on in twitch |
| 2708s | chat hashtag moo |
| 2710s | um and let's take a look at the bands |
| 2712s | for only cows |
| 2715s | where I says I could do better so uh I |
| 2719s | could do better Banning out the |
| 2721s | near and the Loki with only carriers |
| 2723s | Banning out the universe and the curse |
| 2726s | uh moderator thoughts on these bands |
| 2728s | here |
| 2730s | yeah so um on University is going to be |
| 2732s | the more common of the armor Logistics |
| 2734s | at two level and just faster more mobile |
| 2738s | than its Guardian counterpart curse |
| 2740s | pretty common band and then uh Bart |
| 2744s | you're probably liking the slepner band |
| 2745s | as opposed to a Nighthawk and Loki being |
| 2748s | sort of kind of part of that Shield rush |
| 2751s | but again I don't even feel like it's |
| 2753s | the most important ship in that Shield |
| 2755s | Russian doesn't really do much outside |
| 2758s | of that maybe a bit of a wasted band |
| 2760s | there |
| 2762s | what do you think about that part |
| 2764s | uh so it's possible I think that banning |
| 2767s | a sleptner Loki actually does really |
| 2770s | damage the shield rush because generally |
| 2771s | you want to do Loki's with Nighthawks if |
| 2774s | you're trying to do that uh because then |
| 2775s | you get those long-range bridge and long |
| 2777s | range webs wow and uh lookies actually |
| 2780s | do a ton of DPS |
| 2782s | um the thing that kind of confuses me |
| 2783s | about this is so if you look back |
| 2786s | yesterday when we saw only cows go up |
| 2788s | against pandemic horde uh only cows |
| 2790s | brought this ridiculously tight-tuned |
| 2793s | ECM setup that was reminiscent of what |
| 2797s | truth honor light actually won several |
| 2799s | matches last at with in fact it was |
| 2801s | almost a carbon copy for it |
| 2803s | so I could do better is Banning out |
| 2805s | Shield Rush against a team that |
| 2807s | basically was confident to bring one of |
| 2809s | the hardest to execute setups in the |
| 2812s | entire game |
| 2814s | kind of you gotta like think about that |
| 2816s | it's like is that has the have these |
| 2818s | guys shown Shield rush at all no did |
| 2819s | they played something that is |
| 2820s | significantly more difficult than Shield |
| 2822s | Rush only cows was incredibly impressive |
| 2824s | yesterday I don't think that they're a |
| 2827s | team that's going to be like oh yeah |
| 2828s | we're falling back onto a Nighthawk |
| 2829s | Shield Rush which you know generally we |
| 2832s | see teams that maybe aren't necessarily |
| 2834s | as confident flying that uh because it's |
| 2836s | really it's like a three-year-old meta |
| 2838s | at this point like we've Shield Rush has |
| 2839s | been solved I think that maybe those |
| 2842s | weren't the correct bands |
| 2844s | uh so Lord Bart says Shield Rush has |
| 2846s | been solved uh what's the solution |
| 2851s | well I don't want to just give away |
| 2853s | everything there but um Shield Rush is |
| 2856s | best basically solved in that everyone |
| 2858s | understands largely at the kind of the |
| 2861s | top level of the game how to fly and |
| 2863s | what it's weak to so |
| 2866s | um the fact of the matter is that if you |
| 2868s | basically ban out certain things and you |
| 2872s | have certain comps open and then you you |
| 2876s | just beat Shield Rush it's very well |
| 2878s | understood comp people know how to deal |
| 2882s | with it and not get killed by it and one |
| 2886s | of the ways you can deal with it is |
| 2889s | just ringing out a lot of those ships or |
| 2891s | interrupting them uh preventing all the |
| 2894s | you know damage from being put on top of |
| 2896s | you while you deal with their logic and |
| 2898s | then you pick apart their uh either low |
| 2901s | end and then you work up to the high end |
| 2904s | so what do you think black farmer |
| 2908s | uh yeah pretty much I think we we saw um |
| 2911s | laser Hawks actually almost lose using a |
| 2914s | using like the perfect Shield rush like |
| 2916s | the laser Hawk Shield Rush was that is |
| 2918s | the quintessential Nighthawk Shield rush |
| 2919s | and they almost lost to a team that |
| 2922s | hypothetically they should not Rock |
| 2924s | Paper Scissors because there's not |
| 2925s | really rock paper scissors in this but |
| 2927s | pretty much rock paper scissors beat uh |
| 2929s | because the team they were up against |
| 2930s | did exactly what she said they spread |
| 2932s | out and they screened The Nighthawks off |
| 2934s | and that's what the team like with the |
| 2936s | setup that generally loses to Shield bar |
| 2938s | so if somebody knows how to beat it like |
| 2940s | I I think that this uh like eight DPS |
| 2943s | long range threat medium gun setup will |
| 2945s | just Crush sealed rush but uh I mean |
| 2947s | we'll see it's it's gonna be happening |
| 2949s | soon if I don't think we're gonna see a |
| 2951s | shield rush in this match anyways so who |
| 2952s | knows |
| 2954s | yeah the match is pretty much ready to |
| 2955s | rock and roll uh this this stake looks |
| 2958s | like it's about medium rare so I'm gonna |
| 2960s | serve it up and hand it over to Mark |
| 2962s | Gras rectus and magnet cross |
| 2967s | hello everybody I am Mark resurrectus |
| 2969s | with me is Wingnut cross and I will not |
| 2971s | be making any cow puns we are here with |
| 2974s | our friends from I could do better |
| 2975s | versus only cows I could do better bring |
| 2978s | a triple Battleship setup balgorn get a |
| 2981s | navy and avadon with frigate Logie in |
| 2984s | dual deacons an odd Choice Wingnut what |
| 2986s | are we seeing with our friends from only |
| 2988s | cows |
| 2989s | they have brought something that is I've |
| 2993s | been wanting to bet that control bar is |
| 2995s | that's the size of a farm at this point |
| 2997s | they've got two blackbirds celesters |
| 2999s | they've got even got a guardian backing |
| 3000s | up and assist and a sentinel and an |
| 3002s | arbitrator it's like most of your team |
| 3004s | is focused on just ruining the other |
| 3006s | guy's day and you've got like one bug in |
| 3008s | an episode for actual damage the |
| 3010s | Confessor should be able to murder these |
| 3011s | deacons the drugs are hopefully the same |
| 3013s | but this is such a it's an interesting |
| 3016s | choice in that Marcus interesting choice |
| 3018s | on that bargas2 Wing that because that |
| 3020s | is it has to be I mean I would hope |
| 3023s | not known for high DPS but they do have |
| 3026s | a lot of mid slots for control |
| 3029s | yes it's we've seen a few of them but |
| 3032s | most of them will like we've seen armor |
| 3033s | bugs and more thick comps this is um |
| 3036s | this is a whole lot of weird but |
| 3038s | honestly it's going to be a lot of |
| 3040s | control if they can weather the storm |
| 3042s | here remove some lodgy drones they can |
| 3044s | potentially win this |
| 3046s | but I I I don't want to be I wouldn't |
| 3048s | want to be the opposing team man I would |
| 3050s | not be amused by this no neither would I |
| 3052s | we see now the uh the triple battleships |
| 3055s | of I could do better or yes I can do |
| 3058s | better sorry coming across the middle of |
| 3060s | the map trying to push the team from |
| 3062s | only cows down into the corner keeping |
| 3064s | them from cutting away too quickly and |
| 3066s | we see the team for only cows not really |
| 3067s | doing much to try and push away from |
| 3069s | this like in fact a couple of these |
| 3071s | ships are getting caught kind of in the |
| 3072s | middle here |
| 3073s | I'm just watching uh some of the ships |
| 3075s | moving around just trying to spot |
| 3076s | anything particularly weird and honestly |
| 3078s | so far batches exactly as expected yeah |
| 3081s | and uh confess is up front trying to |
| 3083s | tackle down someone I believe he's going |
| 3084s | for the uh |
| 3087s | yeah that Absolution is uh is caught |
| 3089s | down here we can see the the abaddons on |
| 3091s | top of him we see the bowel growing on |
| 3093s | top of him as well |
| 3096s | can be attend the Absolution entirely |
| 3098s | off basically just leaving there |
| 3100s | are they gonna go for the episode |
| 3102s | they're going to go past them I think |
| 3103s | they're going to go for the episode one |
| 3104s | thing they can hold down |
| 3105s | yeah you can see the spreading damage |
| 3107s | just a little bit here trying to poke |
| 3109s | and pride and see what what the |
| 3110s | Squishies Target is but at the same time |
| 3112s | the DPS or the uh the lodgy now rather |
| 3115s | from Gideons in the car in the Deacon |
| 3117s | taking a lot of incoming damage uh that |
| 3119s | has that that you can see a swarm of rep |
| 3122s | drones around him trying to keep him up |
| 3123s | uh but he is now in half armor and |
| 3125s | dropping sorry I'm just I'm just I'm |
| 3127s | quite amused by this there's a spiffle |
| 3129s | basically dueling a drauga and both have |
| 3131s | like entire wings of lodgy drones |
| 3137s | just getting ripped apart I believe yeah |
| 3139s | Confessor has got him held down but look |
| 3141s | at the amount of lodgy drones on the guy |
| 3143s | like Fest is gonna go through like what |
| 3145s | 15 lodgy drones |
| 3149s | Deacon is actually going to survive he |
| 3151s | could probably survive purely off the |
| 3152s | rep drone power at this point there are |
| 3153s | so many of them on him yeah the Deacon |
| 3156s | is pulling back just a little ways away |
| 3157s | trying to get away from that Confessor |
| 3159s | too and you can see now the Deacon the |
| 3161s | other Deacon and the Civil coming into |
| 3162s | support that Confessor now taking a |
| 3164s | little bit of damage you see the |
| 3165s | Sentinel of uh or remedy Cruz yeah sorry |
| 3168s | the uh The Sentinel of crucifier uh had |
| 3172s | me for a second it was wild uh is is |
| 3175s | getting ripped up just a little bit and |
| 3177s | the Absolution so also taking some of |
| 3178s | that Battleship damage yeah he's got |
| 3180s | some luxury drones on him the Sentinel |
| 3181s | of crucify as you said he was pushed |
| 3183s | well off by the exact Navy so this point |
| 3185s | I'm pretty sure he's well out of range |
| 3186s | so the exactly may be doing well screen |
| 3187s | them off got him out of there made him |
| 3189s | useless then turned back in and I think |
| 3191s | actually might be the same exact Navy |
| 3193s | that is giving the Confessor an |
| 3195s | absolutely yeah that Confessor is |
| 3197s | regretting this decision now it still |
| 3199s | made the I mean the play was not a bad |
| 3201s | play to go in after that the the the |
| 3203s | Deacon try to pick off the one that was |
| 3206s | so low in the hall I mean it was down |
| 3207s | um we could see now he had like I mean |
| 3210s | maybe 30 whole left went in for the easy |
| 3212s | kill but has now got himself tackled and |
| 3215s | will be and he's gonna be cleared here |
| 3216s | before too long and they're very good |
| 3218s | unfortunately and honestly it's kind of |
| 3220s | sad that he did because um he was |
| 3221s | definitely pressuring the Deacon but he |
| 3222s | was also one of the few ships left on |
| 3223s | grid that could have actually started |
| 3225s | just Mass deleting these rep Trends |
| 3227s | because both teams invested heavily in |
| 3229s | rep drones |
| 3231s | to remove your planet reptiles it really |
| 3233s | does remove that whoa God I just went |
| 3235s | partying absolutely Smoked by heavy |
| 3239s | lasers was caught held down and just |
| 3242s | sent to the shadow Realm by this this |
| 3245s | Trio of armored battleships in goodness |
| 3249s | indeed yep uh that uh Guardian just got |
| 3252s | his high tanned meanwhile the celestes |
| 3255s | has also just not doing particularly at |
| 3257s | this point this absolute control comp |
| 3259s | this team brought they're gone there's |
| 3261s | nothing they can do the guardian was |
| 3262s | kind of holding them all together while |
| 3264s | they used their very mediocre DPS |
| 3266s | they're going to get pulled apart piece |
| 3268s | by piece it's uh |
| 3270s | it's not gonna go well no you see two |
| 3273s | more drop immediately I mean it was |
| 3275s | almost too fast to see the Absolution |
| 3278s | will probably be next maybe the |
| 3279s | arbitrator probably the arbitrator |
| 3280s | actually uh will go down you can see the |
| 3282s | balgorn sitting right on top and giving |
| 3284s | him the good old look |
| 3286s | that arbitrator is going to go and again |
| 3288s | there's just all this all the all the |
| 3290s | remaining DPS is still on this Deacon |
| 3292s | desperately trying to kill this Deacon |
| 3293s | and the Deacon is just the Deacon of |
| 3295s | Gideon's in the car just too strong has |
| 3298s | too much Deacon energy |
| 3300s | yeah I'll talk about chips that kind of |
| 3301s | like linchpins for the entire comp and |
| 3303s | um |
| 3304s | unfortunately for the guardian the |
| 3307s | stakes behind for him because if he went |
| 3309s | down this entire team was going to fall |
| 3310s | apart and you can just see immediately |
| 3312s | he's gone every single ship is going to |
| 3314s | be gone and uh do they even kill I don't |
| 3316s | think they killed a single thing as well |
| 3319s | yeah no not even I mean I mean it got |
| 3321s | close again it got really close with |
| 3323s | that with that Deacon if they'd gotten |
| 3325s | the Deacon a little bit earlier if |
| 3326s | they've been able to pick that one off |
| 3328s | maybe this changes but still there's a |
| 3330s | he I mean you can still see it on the |
| 3331s | map right now there's a swarm of logic |
| 3333s | drones that are just now starting to |
| 3335s | pull away from this Deacon who has done |
| 3337s | the God's work of trying to keep up his |
| 3338s | own team and uh and you know maintain |
| 3341s | maintain his own survivability |
| 3343s | throughout this entire fight |
| 3345s | yes unfortunate isn't there uh the the |
| 3347s | only casting got slaughtered here but |
| 3349s | big respect to the Deacon Pilots first |
| 3351s | for actually being able to call out that |
| 3352s | he's being attacked and then I have his |
| 3353s | entire team just send the entire lodgy |
| 3356s | wave over to him like you can see it |
| 3357s | again uh look at the exact Navy of uh of |
| 3360s | Vietnam he got targeted he's in half |
| 3362s | armor and immediately you can just see |
| 3364s | every single larger giant is now on him |
| 3366s | already |
| 3367s | every single set they've not a single |
| 3369s | set of water drones is Left Behind |
| 3370s | they're already all there yeah I mean |
| 3372s | every single member of the team who has |
| 3374s | drones saw that heard the call and put |
| 3376s | drones on within what five ten seconds |
| 3378s | that is very well flown and when you're |
| 3381s | relying on frigate forget largely not |
| 3383s | quite as robust in a lot of cases and |
| 3385s | and you know at the risk of going down |
| 3387s | if either one of those loses you need |
| 3389s | all the Drone launching uh or rather all |
| 3391s | the rep drones you can you have on grid |
| 3393s | to be as effective as possible if they |
| 3396s | don't do that we've T we've seen teams |
| 3398s | fall apart before because they they're |
| 3400s | you know their rep drones when people |
| 3401s | aren't paying attention to them they |
| 3402s | were getting split and you know you lose |
| 3405s | so much from that the last two ships |
| 3407s | here now will go down for the team from |
| 3409s | only cows who again you know I said I |
| 3412s | promise I wouldn't make any uh cow puns |
| 3414s | but we are going to have to do they were |
| 3416s | a bunch of bull a bunch of bull from The |
| 3420s | Slaughterhouse me Mark resurrected with |
| 3422s | wing neck cross back to the desk CCP |
| 3424s | overload moderator and black Bart pirate |
| 3428s | thank you |
| 3432s | [Music] |
| 3447s | [Applause] |
| 3449s | [Music] |
| 3452s | [Applause] |
| 3454s | no no no no no no no no no no no no no |
| 3456s | no no |
| 3460s | connected Channel switched |
| 3462s | well it would have been a easy fight |
| 3464s | right but guess what dude I'm not seeing |
| 3466s | it people can't get together |
| 3472s | Crush our enemies your temps are |
| 3475s | completely damped out Crush I'm dumped |
| 3477s | out I'm dumped out get on that Travis |
| 3478s | boys future hubs wow everything down |
| 3482s | I've not been able to look in |
| 3486s | I'm jammed |
| 3488s | and there we have it uh I don't think |
| 3491s | only carriers were aware that this Arena |
| 3493s | was in fact the abattoir uh the the |
| 3496s | other team serving up a well-fired |
| 3499s | selection of beef jerky there uh and |
| 3502s | just completely curdling all chances of |
| 3504s | uh only cows getting through into any |
| 3507s | further parts of the tournament but a |
| 3508s | good match nonetheless I raise my milk |
| 3510s | to you guys |
| 3512s | and I hope we see you another time |
| 3514s | Blackboard pirate what went wrong for |
| 3517s | only cars |
| 3519s | uh well they lost |
| 3522s | but you know the the real thing is they |
| 3524s | they played a very very very hard to |
| 3528s | execute setup that has certain things |
| 3531s | that it's not very good at and they |
| 3533s | didn't play it perfectly and if you're |
| 3535s | gonna play a setup that requires you to |
| 3536s | play almost perfectly you better play |
| 3539s | almost perfectly |
| 3540s | um you know we saw a deacon like live |
| 3543s | barely because it was taking no damage |
| 3546s | but the the DPS on the only cow setup |
| 3548s | was extremely low like you have to get |
| 3549s | you know your jam set up perfectly you |
| 3552s | have to get your notes set up perfectly |
| 3553s | you have to hold back until you charge |
| 3555s | in like there's so many little tiny |
| 3556s | things there and it's not that uh |
| 3560s | it's it's definitely not that the other |
| 3564s | team was better or played an easier comp |
| 3567s | um they just didn't have as many moving |
| 3569s | parts that they had to you know move |
| 3571s | juggle like they're not trying to |
| 3572s | balance 10 plates they're trying to |
| 3574s | balance two plates and only cows was |
| 3576s | trying to balance 10 plates and they |
| 3577s | balanced like seven they played pretty |
| 3578s | well but they really had to balance all |
| 3580s | ten otherwise you're like haha look you |
| 3582s | you failed and that's what happened |
| 3585s | and then a question for you uh moderator |
| 3588s | could they have done anything different |
| 3590s | in this particular uh instance like did |
| 3592s | they execute it kind of as well as they |
| 3595s | they could have or is there a different |
| 3597s | strategy they could have deployed and |
| 3598s | maybe it's been a bit easier to manage |
| 3601s | um I would have liked to have seen maybe |
| 3603s | a little bit more |
| 3605s | um nude spread across maybe um jams |
| 3608s | coordinated slightly better |
| 3610s | um you basically you have to solve for |
| 3612s | that many rough drones going on top of |
| 3615s | the deacon uh we saw that |
| 3618s | um that they did a very good job at |
| 3620s | coordinating like um you know with |
| 3622s | saying of getting like all of the Drone |
| 3623s | Cloud on top of that Deacon very quickly |
| 3625s | and that means you either need the |
| 3627s | Confessor to basically like almost |
| 3629s | unsplit your guns and like try to like |
| 3632s | cycle as many of them out or you need to |
| 3634s | find a way to neither Newt or jam out uh |
| 3637s | it's rep buddy so that it's not also |
| 3640s | receiving reps and uh rep drones at the |
| 3642s | same time |
| 3643s | um once it became apparent that that |
| 3645s | Deacon wasn't going to die it was |
| 3648s | basically uh the beginning of the end |
| 3650s | for them and like black pirate was |
| 3652s | saying I don't want to take anything |
| 3654s | away they flew the comp reasonably well |
| 3657s | but there are certain comps where if you |
| 3659s | can't do them a hundred percent |
| 3662s | um don't do it because it just won't |
| 3664s | work out for you |
| 3666s | and if you're if you're an aspiring team |
| 3668s | uh and you see comps like this that are |
| 3670s | you know very powerful but hard to |
| 3672s | execute bar what what do you say to |
| 3674s | these teams do you say just practice |
| 3676s | more with it or do you recommend that |
| 3677s | maybe they start with slightly easier to |
| 3679s | execute comps and go from there |
| 3681s | yeah I would say I'd say start with |
| 3683s | easier comps and it's this weird thing |
| 3684s | that um I know I've personally said it |
| 3687s | for like several years uh doing this |
| 3690s | whole commentator thing so you know |
| 3692s | sitting up here atop our Untouchable |
| 3694s | mountain and pretending like we know |
| 3695s | what we're talking about uh but |
| 3697s | generally we always give these advice to |
| 3699s | these teams that we see where it's like |
| 3701s | hey |
| 3702s | if you want a starting point go look at |
| 3704s | the last |
| 3705s | years tournament and grab some comps |
| 3707s | from that which is what only cows did |
| 3709s | the problem is that they chose like the |
| 3712s | most difficult setup to run |
| 3714s | um so maybe kind of look at it and if |
| 3717s | you if you see it and you understand why |
| 3718s | it works |
| 3720s | maybe do it but then even then uh you |
| 3723s | know you could do something like what |
| 3724s | fraternity did fraternity basically |
| 3726s | copied a very similar Navy executive |
| 3729s | Rush that we saw last year and they |
| 3731s | absolutely stomped with it and that's so |
| 3733s | much easier to execute here uh the other |
| 3735s | thing too is you really need to be |
| 3737s | careful only cows ran the exact same |
| 3739s | comp twice in a row right like it was a |
| 3742s | copy paste and I think that um |
| 3746s | you know looking at it it looked like |
| 3749s | that I could do better put a bunch of |
| 3751s | sensor boosters on their ships like you |
| 3753s | could see the sensor booster thing |
| 3754s | activated on every single ship so that |
| 3756s | makes ECM harder uh they brought the |
| 3758s | double uh command destroyers which means |
| 3761s | you know the podifix gives you the |
| 3763s | ability to do info links that makes it |
| 3764s | stronger there so like if you run the |
| 3766s | same comp twice you need to worry about |
| 3768s | like what if the people are like oh well |
| 3770s | we could put some modules on to make |
| 3772s | this better and I think that they maybe |
| 3773s | didn't necessarily get countered but uh |
| 3775s | I could do better was prepared for that |
| 3777s | setup and only cows was clearly not |
| 3781s | prepared for the other setup |
| 3783s | yeah when it comes to getting yourself |
| 3785s | prepared against the team like this mod |
| 3788s | you you've been in these situations |
| 3789s | before you see a team that has brought |
| 3790s | something how much do you skew what you |
| 3793s | bring to counter what you think the team |
| 3795s | is going to bring like at what point are |
| 3797s | you risking getting yourself stuck in |
| 3799s | this like 3D crafting hell hole where |
| 3801s | you just spiral |
| 3803s | yeah I mean that's definitely something |
| 3805s | that you have to almost kind of train |
| 3807s | yourself out of |
| 3808s | um you have to look at the bins that |
| 3810s | you've brought look at the bands that |
| 3812s | the other team has brought and you need |
| 3814s | to basically tailor the comp that you |
| 3816s | bring around a combination of what you |
| 3820s | know the comps that are available uh |
| 3822s | bring the one that you feel can beat the |
| 3824s | most of the possible comps that your |
| 3826s | enemy can bring don't just hyper fix say |
| 3828s | I'm like one or two complexing them |
| 3830s | bring because it's how you get yourself |
| 3832s | playing five-dimensional chess and then |
| 3835s | your opponent Brin plays Checkers and |
| 3837s | you lose |
| 3838s | um so playing what you're comfortable |
| 3840s | with playing what you fly competently |
| 3842s | like black pirate was saying that |
| 3844s | fraternity Rush that's a cop that you |
| 3847s | only have to play like I would say you |
| 3849s | know 80 percent of the way and it still |
| 3851s | absolutely will slap people just like |
| 3853s | they did in the last round |
| 3855s | um so you know don't overthink things |
| 3857s | when you definitely don't need to and |
| 3860s | just be confident what you have and |
| 3862s | you'll do so much better yeah |
| 3864s | awesome and then Bart what do you think |
| 3866s | about this format in the feeders that we |
| 3868s | have here with just two bands the |
| 3870s | alliance room itself has significantly |
| 3872s | more bands especially when we get into |
| 3873s | the usually the final stages sometimes |
| 3876s | there's things like Conquest bands where |
| 3877s | entire comps are banned out |
| 3879s | obviously in the the speed around we |
| 3882s | don't want to put too much the |
| 3884s | aircrafting pressure on on teams so |
| 3885s | there's only two bands per team where do |
| 3887s | you think that kind of Falls in in terms |
| 3889s | of like the theory crafting effort for |
| 3891s | bands |
| 3892s | so I I think that having only two bands |
| 3894s | in the feeders is actually a really uh |
| 3898s | good thing and I could talk about |
| 3899s | tournament practice for far longer than |
| 3903s | probably this entire stream would go and |
| 3904s | comp set up and all that silliness but |
| 3906s | uh you know to make it super succinct um |
| 3909s | only two bands |
| 3911s | makes it a lot easier for an entry level |
| 3914s | team that maybe doesn't have a |
| 3916s | ridiculous like several years of |
| 3917s | tournament Theory |
| 3918s | uh to be able to get in which is a |
| 3920s | really really good thing because the |
| 3921s | entire point of the feeders is for teams |
| 3923s | to be able to be like oh I want to try |
| 3925s | the alliance tournament out there's very |
| 3927s | very low entry you don't risk your ships |
| 3929s | in Thunderdome and you can just hop on |
| 3932s | and have fun uh so it's a good thing to |
| 3934s | have only two bands I will say that it |
| 3936s | is drastically different like three |
| 3938s | bands is a whole nother uh ball game |
| 3940s | because that's when you start seeing a |
| 3942s | lot more trickle bands too because |
| 3943s | people will figure out okay well maybe |
| 3947s | the Navy executor becomes like this ship |
| 3949s | that everybody bans and so now it's not |
| 3951s | three bands it's actually Four bands or |
| 3953s | you could get five bands so not even |
| 3955s | going into Conquest bands it is a |
| 3957s | totally different ball game uh but the |
| 3959s | actual tournament too has much higher |
| 3960s | Stakes |
| 3961s | so |
| 3963s | it's it makes sense that the way we do |
| 3965s | it |
| 3966s | um I I do like the barrier of Entry |
| 3968s | being lower for the feeders uh it does |
| 3971s | mean sometimes you have to worry more |
| 3972s | about getting like Shield Rush |
| 3974s | constantly because it's really hard to |
| 3975s | ban a shoulder side with two bands it's |
| 3977s | actually pretty easy to ban a shoulder |
| 3978s | shot with three |
| 3980s | and binding Theory becomes this whole uh |
| 3983s | like other dimension you see teams that |
| 3985s | have a really good understanding of |
| 3986s | targeted bands like Banning one |
| 3988s | particular ship to make it more |
| 3990s | difficult to build a particular comp or |
| 3992s | you force them to bring a weaker version |
| 3993s | which you know you can counter and you |
| 3995s | just like surgically apply bands in very |
| 3998s | very specific ways we just see newer |
| 4000s | teams they'll just potentially ban |
| 4001s | things that they just don't like or they |
| 4003s | that was good against them in practice |
| 4005s | so sometimes you will see strange bands |
| 4007s | coming in but speaking of bands uh let's |
| 4010s | look forward to the next one uh which is |
| 4012s | shut up I'm trying versus all lessons so |
| 4014s | shut up I'm trying Banning out the curse |
| 4017s | and the celestis and obvious and |
| 4019s | spanning out the Bargas and the typhoon |
| 4021s | Fleet issue mod I understand the you are |
| 4024s | bands from talking about trying here |
| 4025s | Carson very powerful guidance and track |
| 4027s | and disruption platform celestis can |
| 4029s | obviously damp the heck out of people |
| 4030s | but what's going on with this typhoon |
| 4032s | flu tissue here |
| 4034s | yeah so typhoon flea issue uh we were |
| 4037s | talking about it yesterday is it's a |
| 4039s | ship that used to be very good in |
| 4041s | previous metas but |
| 4043s | um it frankly hasn't kept up in the |
| 4046s | current year and the bar guest has been |
| 4048s | a ship that's |
| 4049s | good |
| 4051s | um you know throughout the last few |
| 4053s | aligned tournaments you can definitely |
| 4055s | fly Shield or armor and the ability to |
| 4058s | have the long range scram means you can |
| 4061s | play it very offensively or defense keep |
| 4063s | things off of you so |
| 4067s | um interestingly enough uh I don't know |
| 4068s | if shut up I'm trying will do it but |
| 4070s | Banning per celestis definitely would be |
| 4073s | things that you would want to ban if you |
| 4075s | were going to bring like a six or seven |
| 4078s | man tinker and if I recall correctly |
| 4081s | shut up I'm trying only had six people |
| 4083s | in their last match |
| 4086s | yeah um that will certainly be |
| 4088s | interesting uh |
| 4089s | Bart I want to push you for some |
| 4091s | predictions here what do you think we'll |
| 4092s | see based on these bands |
| 4095s | uh I think that based on the Bands I |
| 4100s | think I actually think of essence bands |
| 4101s | are very very smart because it bans out |
| 4104s | the ability for somebody to fly like a |
| 4106s | quad Battleship rapid heavy missile |
| 4108s | launcher Rush which is something we were |
| 4110s | kind of like hey if you got six people |
| 4111s | fly that |
| 4112s | um so I I really hope I don't I'm |
| 4116s | predicting |
| 4117s | that shut up I'm trying we'll bring a |
| 4119s | four Battleship setup because that's |
| 4120s | what I hope they bring and that is |
| 4121s | something that especially if they are |
| 4123s | still going under band that has a chance |
| 4125s | of doing a really wild upset just from |
| 4128s | having big holes and doing massive |
| 4130s | damage so that's what I'm hoping we'll |
| 4131s | see what actually happens |
| 4133s | yeah well I'm just looking at the China |
| 4135s | Point production it's very strongly |
| 4136s | favoring all that since uh over shut up |
| 4139s | I am trying but it's pretty much time to |
| 4142s | hand over to the arena for this match |
| 4144s | with our casters fear Vina and jinton |
| 4152s | hello everyone and welcome to the sign |
| 4154s | system of 6q5 I'm Yin tan here joined by |
| 4158s | fear Viner and on The Blue Team side we |
| 4161s | have a what seems to be a relatively |
| 4163s | common setup from teams here with the |
| 4165s | balgorn and Vindicator just try and use |
| 4167s | those really heavy battleships to punish |
| 4169s | an opposing composition and uh what if |
| 4172s | soup brought in uh return |
| 4176s | an under pointed uh comp that consists |
| 4180s | of an a star day two Navy verdixes a |
| 4182s | latch and an ABX Zack uh I haven't had a |
| 4185s | chance to actually look at the weapon |
| 4187s | systems here but I believe those are |
| 4190s | blasters that are on the suit team so |
| 4193s | they're gonna try to rush in an |
| 4194s | underband and underpoint to cop uh we'll |
| 4198s | see how that works up against these |
| 4199s | heavy battleships from uh the side of uh |
| 4203s | of us since |
| 4204s | yeah well we shouldn't underestimate of |
| 4206s | essence's ability to throw back in |
| 4209s | return considering a loss to recarus in |
| 4211s | their last game uh because they decide |
| 4213s | to shoot an uh a badon instead of an |
| 4216s | auger Navy issue with three minutes left |
| 4218s | on the clock |
| 4220s | yep I was wrong those are real guns I'm |
| 4223s | just bad they're shooting Alexander |
| 4225s | cardio and the simple right now and he |
| 4229s | is going down pretty quickly actually |
| 4231s | what the uh with logulis I would not be |
| 4235s | surprised if these were actually Shield |
| 4236s | fit just go ahead and bolster the walls |
| 4238s | DPS but this football now is catching |
| 4241s | reps and they've decided to swap onto |
| 4243s | the Punisher as little the Jesus is |
| 4245s | being taken on very quickly |
| 4247s | yeah they are applying a reasonable |
| 4249s | amount of damage here you've got a lot |
| 4251s | of DPS here I I suppose this is probably |
| 4253s | the better time best time of any to talk |
| 4255s | about why we're going to see so many |
| 4257s | medium railguns and it's not all just |
| 4259s | because of the points uh benefits that |
| 4262s | you get for running them these things |
| 4264s | are so empowerful at the start of a |
| 4266s | match you saw it with that zipper going |
| 4268s | right to like 10 armor remaining as an |
| 4271s | executor Navy just gets slotted out of |
| 4273s | existence boundary by cabal phytactius |
| 4278s | I that's very unfortunate uh |
| 4281s | no you see a lot of medium rails well |
| 4283s | it's because back in the day there was a |
| 4287s | setup called Octodad back before there |
| 4289s | were ship restrictions in eat or you |
| 4291s | would bring eight battle Cruisers and |
| 4293s | two smaller ships and with medium rails |
| 4297s | and medium uh beams you would basically |
| 4302s | have a lot of DPS and you were able to |
| 4304s | kite out fairly effectively even as |
| 4306s | armor ships uh and just kind of at the |
| 4309s | same time control your ranges you have |
| 4311s | better ranges than basically everybody |
| 4312s | else with medium long range weapons and |
| 4315s | wither the storm and take your opponents |
| 4317s | down now last year we saw a couple teams |
| 4320s | but most notably truth on our light in |
| 4322s | the finals bring a team comp that you |
| 4326s | like to call Max threat I call pseudodad |
| 4329s | which is for battle Cruisers with medium |
| 4332s | rails and medium beams and then uh |
| 4336s | two three four uh |
| 4339s | medium long range guns in the uh Cruiser |
| 4344s | variety |
| 4346s | and when you have all that it's very |
| 4349s | similar you do a little bit less DPS |
| 4351s | than the octodadable and you have a |
| 4352s | little bit less tank but at the same |
| 4354s | time you're able to still keep these |
| 4357s | range controls and have the option to |
| 4360s | play Closer or further away depending on |
| 4363s | how things go and your ships are fairly |
| 4365s | fast especially compared to Battleship |
| 4367s | comms so as we're seeing right now even |
| 4370s | though they have this Battleground this |
| 4371s | Vindicator and the simplest lead issue |
| 4373s | they're not actually able to catch |
| 4374s | anything from the suit team uh the exact |
| 4377s | Navy died tuned to a battery and the |
| 4379s | laches had some poor positioning but as |
| 4381s | we see uh suit just decided that they're |
| 4384s | going to split all of their ships uh all |
| 4387s | over the arena and just try to take |
| 4390s | things down as a group uh completely |
| 4393s | split off from each other and it's not |
| 4395s | working quite so well for them because I |
| 4397s | only have three ships on the field but |
| 4398s | they are staying alive for a lot longer |
| 4400s | than perhaps you would expect for |
| 4401s | another manned comp |
| 4403s | yeah and all honestly this shows like a |
| 4405s | fairly decent understanding of how they |
| 4406s | wanted to play the match out there's |
| 4408s | good piloting here they're all moving in |
| 4411s | pretty decent uh coherence with one |
| 4413s | another and very importantly they're |
| 4415s | also putting fire onto the Civil War the |
| 4417s | Mala kind of pressuring them away |
| 4419s | whenever they make moves in to try and |
| 4422s | Tackle something although we just did |
| 4423s | see an amazing mjd play there uh from |
| 4426s | elocon in the TFI mjding right on top of |
| 4428s | those bnis and that's probably going to |
| 4430s | be enough to close the game out for them |
| 4433s | yeah nice mjd play from of essence I |
| 4437s | mean this is a team last year uh as |
| 4439s | percussive Pizza Time diplomacy did |
| 4442s | fairly well uh for themselves |
| 4445s | um but this time around they got knocked |
| 4447s | down in the first round and what I think |
| 4448s | a lot of people thought was a bit of an |
| 4450s | upset versus drakaris uh but at the same |
| 4453s | time uh they're gonna keep on keeping on |
| 4456s | and they're gonna face I could do better |
| 4458s | at 1840 Eve time in match number 42 |
| 4462s | it'll be uh we'll be casting that one |
| 4464s | but sons of Bane versus Banner experts |
| 4466s | will come up first uh I also want to |
| 4468s | just give a shout out to shut up I'm |
| 4470s | trying uh last year they also played in |
| 4472s | the feeders with another man comp and it |
| 4475s | is worth noting that yes while underman |
| 4477s | comps typically don't do very well in |
| 4479s | the at uh the feeders as Bart had |
| 4482s | already mentioned they're about having |
| 4484s | fun uh getting a group of friends |
| 4486s | together very low uh entry it's only |
| 4488s | like 500 Plex and then using that uh |
| 4493s | team kind of thing just to get some |
| 4496s | guaranteed PVP which we all very much |
| 4499s | like I mean the scrums are a huge part |
| 4501s | of this too uh I don't know who has been |
| 4504s | scrimming but I assume they've been |
| 4505s | doing that because uh otherwise they |
| 4507s | wouldn't necessarily have the ability to |
| 4510s | come up with these comps uh and that do |
| 4513s | better than I think a lot of people |
| 4515s | would expect an underband comp to do |
| 4518s | yeah if anything I think we should just |
| 4520s | consider this an advertisement for all |
| 4521s | those out there who are on a in an |
| 4523s | alliance or a group that doesn't want to |
| 4525s | participate in the alliance tournament |
| 4526s | reach out to teams like uh suit who you |
| 4529s | know are going to be taking part in the |
| 4531s | feeders and ask if you can join that |
| 4532s | team because you know there are spaces |
| 4534s | here there are very clearly spaces on |
| 4536s | teams if you want to try your hand at |
| 4538s | flying you can find a team that will be |
| 4540s | interested in having you around for |
| 4542s | practices and flying in games |
| 4545s | yeah the mercenary role was a really big |
| 4548s | uh addition to the at rules and has |
| 4552s | really opened up a lot of teams to |
| 4554s | collaboration with smaller alliances uh |
| 4557s | players not having to leave their |
| 4559s | alliances to join teams just for a |
| 4561s | tournament and then go back to their |
| 4562s | other one unless you're in a very |
| 4565s | specific situation like fancy pants as |
| 4567s | in the past couple years uh either way |
| 4569s | four rounds left in the match this to |
| 4571s | start a finally gonna go down and then |
| 4574s | we'll send it back to a break and then |
| 4575s | back to the desk to bring us into uh the |
| 4579s | final two elimination matches before the |
| 4581s | break after the break we will have uh |
| 4584s | win and in and lose in gamble matches |
| 4587s | I'll be snuffed out versus Novak whole |
| 4589s | control versus cast abouts and the |
| 4590s | winner of Sons of band and Boundary |
| 4591s | experts versus the winner of I could do |
| 4593s | better and of essence uh this started |
| 4598s | actually tanking up a lot longer a lot |
| 4600s | more than I think we would expect out of |
| 4602s | a self-harp to start I but he will |
| 4604s | eventually go down and there we go |
| 4606s | dipping in a structure now |
| 4614s | and with that we're going to get to a |
| 4617s | break |
| 4618s | and the desk will bring us into the next |
| 4620s | match we'll see you right after this |
| 4627s | [Music] |
| 4633s | [Music] |
| 4640s | rain are you in the armor Vagabond or |
| 4642s | something no um I've got Axel ISP |
| 4648s | polarized guns or what |
| 4655s | casing you you are one of two people |
| 4658s | that couldn't listen and couldn't check |
| 4661s | bookmarks and find your own way out the |
| 4663s | route the entire route was literally |
| 4665s | bookmarked out to losac a bookmarked the |
| 4668s | 10 minutes in advance |
| 4670s | guys stop being casual they're really |
| 4672s | bad we should not lose anybody to this |
| 4675s | warp off work off take the fleet warp |
| 4677s | everybody warp off this is a really |
| 4678s | really bad execution I'm very |
| 4680s | disappointed |
| 4687s | of essence |
| 4688s | handily taking that match |
| 4691s | um in what will go down in history as a |
| 4694s | match of all time |
| 4696s | um |
| 4697s | not not a huge amount to say on this one |
| 4699s | uh we are actually going to refund the |
| 4700s | channel points uh for that particular uh |
| 4703s | match |
| 4704s | um obviously there's no specific rules |
| 4706s | in the live stream it says hey you have |
| 4708s | to uh bring 10 people and you have to |
| 4710s | bring 100 points sometimes you see |
| 4712s | people bringing 99 points |
| 4714s | um because they can't quite uh fit in |
| 4718s | the 100 Point comp but in this instance |
| 4721s | uh you know |
| 4723s | you you want uh you want people to |
| 4726s | actually try properly and I think uh |
| 4729s | shut up and trying didn't have the the |
| 4731s | people and weren't able to you know |
| 4734s | gather any mercenaries to join them |
| 4736s | um and decided to show up which is fine |
| 4738s | and I always appreciate that but uh I |
| 4741s | don't think that was a fully legitimate |
| 4743s | match so we have indeed refunded do all |
| 4745s | those points but this is a good |
| 4746s | opportunity to talk about moderator |
| 4749s | on-demand comps because occasionally |
| 4751s | underman comps do have success like |
| 4753s | we've seen people bring six-man comps |
| 4755s | usually with battleships uh very heavy |
| 4758s | top end and they can fill those hundred |
| 4759s | points out like what kind of other |
| 4761s | options were there for uh shut up I'm |
| 4763s | trying here |
| 4764s | yeah so we've seen compositions where |
| 4767s | it's basically you bring a Nighthawk |
| 4770s | um for some links and a good amount of |
| 4773s | Shield tank |
| 4775s | um you bring like three scorpion navies |
| 4777s | or equivalent like ships like a Golem |
| 4780s | and then you might have something like |
| 4783s | basilisk for Logistics and all you do |
| 4787s | basically with that is you have a series |
| 4790s | of cap transfers where everyone is |
| 4791s | breaking the laws of thermodynamics and |
| 4794s | generating more cap than they |
| 4797s | cost to transfer and you basically just |
| 4800s | fit a series of local tests and what you |
| 4802s | do with those is say hey you know we |
| 4805s | have a lot of cruise missiles we can |
| 4806s | project far and we're going to be really |
| 4810s | difficult to actually kill you know any |
| 4812s | one of our given ship |
| 4815s | so if one of the things that people talk |
| 4818s | about uh is Tinkers and pseudo Tinkers |
| 4820s | uh so a tinker comp is something that |
| 4823s | was very popular back in the day when |
| 4824s | you could fit uh your Tech 3 cruiser |
| 4827s | with a remote repair module so the Tengu |
| 4830s | for example uh was a super popular ship |
| 4832s | back then uh if you look at this graph |
| 4833s | which I believe we could throw up on the |
| 4835s | screen you can actually see pretty much |
| 4836s | when Tinkers were eliminated from the |
| 4840s | tournament uh if you want to have a |
| 4841s | guess which year that happened uh you |
| 4844s | can type your answers in chat |
| 4846s | um but it used to be that you would fit |
| 4848s | your Tengu with remote wrappers and |
| 4851s | you'd spark a bunch of battleships |
| 4852s | around it and then you would just |
| 4856s | sorry you would just rep everybody and |
| 4858s | it was super easy to keep everyone alive |
| 4859s | and very hard to kill that Tengu and it |
| 4862s | was just a ball up project over the |
| 4864s | entire Arena |
| 4866s | um people who've done to pseudo tankers |
| 4867s | when that was uh banned and that was |
| 4869s | taking something like a basilisk fencing |
| 4871s | a game with a very powerful local tank |
| 4873s | one a very cap heavy local tank and then |
| 4876s | parking it in the middle of a blob of |
| 4877s | pretty high uh projection battleships |
| 4880s | and just trying to stay together Bart |
| 4883s | what was one of the I mean pseudo |
| 4884s | tankers was obviously still a thing |
| 4885s | imagine some team right now had brought |
| 4887s | a pseudo tanker and balled up what's the |
| 4889s | what's a good character to something |
| 4891s | like that |
| 4892s | uh we actually saw it done really really |
| 4895s | well |
| 4895s | um so two tournaments ago uh the grand |
| 4898s | finals actually of uh Hydra reloaded |
| 4901s | versus Volta uh Hydra reloaded brought a |
| 4905s | quote-unquote suit or Tinker it was um I |
| 4908s | don't remember the exact ships I want to |
| 4909s | say it was like double scorpion Navy |
| 4910s | issue and then Golem and then like a |
| 4913s | Nighthawk and a stormbringer something |
| 4915s | like that |
| 4916s | um it's probably not exactly what it is |
| 4917s | and I'll probably get a DM from one of |
| 4919s | them being like well actually it was |
| 4920s | this but uh basically the the triple |
| 4923s | battleships and the Nighthawk were cat |
| 4926s | transferring to each other and then they |
| 4927s | were self-reving uh and they used cruise |
| 4931s | missiles to shoot from very long range |
| 4933s | and Whittle down the Volta team uh the |
| 4936s | Volta Flagship Vargus pilot actually was |
| 4941s | like oh I have an idea and rammed their |
| 4943s | pancake directly into the middle of the |
| 4946s | battleships and broke it up really |
| 4947s | really well |
| 4949s | um it was a little too late like if they |
| 4950s | had immediately right off the rip ran in |
| 4953s | and broken the battleships up they could |
| 4954s | have probably won that match it did not |
| 4957s | happen exactly like that but there is a |
| 4959s | really really good shot by our camera |
| 4960s | people of that ramming happening and |
| 4963s | that is kind of one of the big ways to |
| 4964s | do it because if you're not in a |
| 4966s | basilisker guardian your cap transfer |
| 4968s | range is only about 10 kilometers and if |
| 4971s | your battleships are slow and they get |
| 4972s | rammed out of range they can't cap |
| 4974s | transfer anymore and then they run out |
| 4975s | of capacitor really fast and then they |
| 4977s | die so that's kind of one of the the big |
| 4978s | ways the other way is obviously getting |
| 4980s | a ton of newts on top of them at zero |
| 4982s | but that's also pretty hard because |
| 4984s | there's a ton of DPS coming out uh |
| 4988s | there's cruise missiles they do quite a |
| 4989s | bit of damage to battleships |
| 4992s | yeah and uh that was a good example of |
| 4995s | an application talking Roman at random |
| 4997s | and tried to break up that tanker of on |
| 5001s | on the Fly basically changing the |
| 5004s | strategies of the match looking at |
| 5005s | what's going on a lot of times you see a |
| 5006s | team come in and Target fixate we kind |
| 5009s | of saw it with uh PL earlier on today |
| 5011s | where they just went all in on that |
| 5012s | Paladin and they just kept shooting and |
| 5014s | kept shooting it even though it became |
| 5015s | pretty clear relatively quickly that it |
| 5017s | wasn't breaking and you'll sometimes see |
| 5020s | teams just like it's like a sunk cost |
| 5022s | fallacy you've already put two minutes |
| 5024s | into uh you know shooting this thing if |
| 5026s | we stop shooting it now you just you |
| 5028s | wasted those two minutes you've done |
| 5030s | you've accomplished nothing except |
| 5031s | reduced the number of ammunition charges |
| 5033s | in your hold |
| 5034s | having the ability to sort of take a |
| 5036s | little step back change what you're |
| 5038s | doing and like hey this isn't working we |
| 5040s | need to swap good teams do that quickly |
| 5042s | they come in they assess what's |
| 5044s | happening and then they have usually |
| 5045s | backup plans like okay we're going to |
| 5047s | try and all in on this doesn't work |
| 5048s | here's the next step mod like how does |
| 5050s | that stuff usually work for these these |
| 5052s | teams |
| 5054s | so usually how that works is you land on |
| 5057s | grid right you have a certain amount of |
| 5059s | time |
| 5060s | um you look at what the enemy team has |
| 5062s | then you look at what kind of guns they |
| 5065s | have fit right so in that case you see |
| 5067s | oh hey they have a series of cruise |
| 5069s | missile tanker not rapid Heavies uh not |
| 5072s | rep you know not Torpedoes and that |
| 5073s | changes you know you see like what kind |
| 5076s | of threat profile that the enemy |
| 5078s | composition has and then you say Hey you |
| 5081s | know uh you know these frigates you know |
| 5083s | assign you screen up you know you're |
| 5085s | gonna protect our Logie things like that |
| 5088s | and then you say hey this is our plan |
| 5089s | and then you kind of have backup where |
| 5094s | you say hey like if this doesn't work uh |
| 5096s | we're going to swap onto this or you |
| 5098s | just called it on the Fly and people |
| 5100s | know from having scrims you know this is |
| 5102s | our backup and you get used to as you |
| 5104s | just have more scrims more practice more |
| 5106s | reps you know just having to call an |
| 5109s | audible on the Fly |
| 5111s | yeah and um if you've if you're watching |
| 5114s | the tournament you're thinking hey this |
| 5115s | looks fun and then you know we have this |
| 5118s | server the Thunderdome server |
| 5120s | um and you know for any future |
| 5122s | tournaments uh You'll Play Around ones |
| 5124s | for example the captain's cup |
| 5125s | um you know I encourage you guys to get |
| 5127s | involved with the the Grassroots level |
| 5128s | there's a lot of uh players starting to |
| 5130s | run different tournaments in tan ran |
| 5132s | that one it was it was awesome |
| 5134s | um there's obviously opportunities to do |
| 5136s | things like mercenaries uh you don't |
| 5138s | have to necessarily be in the alliance |
| 5139s | anymore uh at least in a tournament like |
| 5141s | this which again a fantastic opportunity |
| 5144s | to get into tournament play and give it |
| 5146s | a go it's way more accessible uh than it |
| 5149s | used to be it used to be you had to |
| 5150s | basically be in a team that could afford |
| 5153s | to pay into the tournament and then |
| 5155s | practice on Singularity which meant you |
| 5157s | had to spend a lot of time and effort |
| 5158s | setting stuff up and then when you lost |
| 5161s | your ships it was all on on DQ so now |
| 5163s | we've got Thunderdome it's super super |
| 5165s | nice all right we have uh I believe a |
| 5168s | exciting match coming up for you right |
| 5170s | now sons of Bain versus boundary experts |
| 5172s | so both of these teams already played |
| 5174s | today and again these are elimination |
| 5177s | matches so both of them have one but one |
| 5180s | of them will lose now statistically and |
| 5183s | go home the other one advancing into the |
| 5185s | the final stage where they might |
| 5187s | actually be able to secure themselves a |
| 5188s | spot but let's take a look at the bands |
| 5190s | so sons of Bane Banning out the bar |
| 5193s | guest and the stormbringer and Boundary |
| 5195s | experts Banning out the curse and the |
| 5197s | Deacon uh bbp what do you think about |
| 5200s | these bands here |
| 5202s | uh this is the third time that sons of |
| 5204s | Bane to spanned out the stormbringer um |
| 5206s | so |
| 5207s | yeah same comments as last couple times |
| 5210s | uh I don't really know what their plan |
| 5212s | is exactly here uh I haven't seen them |
| 5213s | fly a setup that the Stormbreaker would |
| 5215s | be a particularly counter to |
| 5218s | um so that's kind of weird I like I said |
| 5221s | maybe they know something we don't uh |
| 5222s | it's entirely possible uh boundary |
| 5224s | experts Banning curse Deacon again uh |
| 5226s | again these are the same bands for them |
| 5228s | uh it is important to note that the |
| 5229s | turnaround time between the matches for |
| 5232s | boundary experts was uh less than an |
| 5236s | hour and same thing with sons of Bane it |
| 5239s | was like about an hour so they might |
| 5240s | just have been like all right you know |
| 5242s | what we know what we're doing we're |
| 5243s | gonna plug in the same bands we're just |
| 5244s | gonna run it back uh I don't know if |
| 5246s | there was a particularly large amount of |
| 5247s | thought behind this |
| 5249s | um besides let's just do some I mean a |
| 5251s | deacon band's good a curse band is good |
| 5253s | like a Vargus band is good storm rear |
| 5255s | band's a little weird but those are all |
| 5256s | three like solid generic bands that |
| 5259s | honestly there's nothing wrong with them |
| 5261s | and I think it's more the turnaround |
| 5264s | time is probably why they did what they |
| 5265s | did |
| 5266s | yeah specifically on the turnaround time |
| 5268s | um if you've never been part of a match |
| 5269s | before although you see the guys |
| 5271s | appearing in the arena moving cut to |
| 5272s | them there's a whole bunch of stuff that |
| 5273s | happens prior to that |
| 5275s | um and that includes when you get their |
| 5277s | conversation started with the referees |
| 5278s | to submit their bans that happens about |
| 5280s | 45 minutes before the match time so if |
| 5283s | you have a one hour turnaround basically |
| 5285s | as soon as you finish a match you're |
| 5287s | getting a conversation from a GM being |
| 5290s | like hey give me the bands for your next |
| 5291s | match and you have a very limited window |
| 5292s | of time to actually submit those bands |
| 5294s | uh before they're just decided for you |
| 5297s | through the power of randomization |
| 5298s | luckily no one's ever actually had to do |
| 5300s | that |
| 5301s | um but once you've submitted those bands |
| 5303s | you now have to you know |
| 5305s | recompose yourself get yourself ready |
| 5307s | like okay we've just won that match it's |
| 5309s | good now you know Focus again get back |
| 5311s | into that mindset and although we don't |
| 5313s | see that much |
| 5315s | um in the feeders in terms of coming |
| 5316s | from a losing match just because of the |
| 5318s | nature of this format especially in the |
| 5320s | best of series The Best of Threes And |
| 5322s | best of fives and towards the Grand |
| 5323s | Final if you've just lost the match and |
| 5325s | suddenly you've got the immediate |
| 5326s | conversation for a setup bands for the |
| 5328s | next one it's quite intense uh you have |
| 5331s | to just play okay forget it we lost now |
| 5333s | we need to do uh better we need to win |
| 5335s | with the next one so you have to start |
| 5336s | really thinking about it and it could be |
| 5338s | Giga intense |
| 5340s | all right I believe we are ready no as |
| 5343s | soon as I said that the word delay |
| 5344s | popped up on my screen literally as I |
| 5346s | said that uh so we've got a few more |
| 5348s | minutes it seems to be some sort of |
| 5349s | problem |
| 5350s | um moderator let's go to you for some |
| 5352s | predictions what do you think in terms |
| 5354s | of uh sons of Bane versus boundary |
| 5355s | experts two pretty solid teams here |
| 5358s | yeah |
| 5359s | um with that said I feel like I'm gonna |
| 5360s | have to give the edge to boundary |
| 5363s | experts I feel like they've been a |
| 5365s | little bit more consistent throughout |
| 5367s | the event look at that literally as soon |
| 5369s | as I say that they change it to never |
| 5371s | mind let's go |
| 5372s | what is this what is this I can't work |
| 5375s | like this all right let's go to the |
| 5377s | arena with Martin resurrectus and Ragnar |
| 5379s | cross |
| 5383s | a lot of Yale Mike's welcome back to the |
| 5385s | arena yep there is no delay that just |
| 5387s | driving a poor overload mad and we have |
| 5390s | balgo on Tempest Fleet versus Paladin |
| 5392s | Abaddon this is just really thick uh |
| 5396s | Mario and Battleship showing up and it's |
| 5398s | gonna be a very very curious match |
| 5400s | there's a lot of DPS and control |
| 5401s | scattered here and there I'm let's see |
| 5404s | how this match goes looks very |
| 5405s | interesting |
| 5406s | yeah really interesting to see if sons |
| 5407s | of Maine can learn from previous |
| 5409s | failures by other teams and not just Ram |
| 5411s | the Paladin not always a winning |
| 5413s | strategy uh but there is a lot of laser |
| 5415s | DPS coming out of this team uh from |
| 5418s | boundary experts with that Abaddon and |
| 5420s | the Pally and man those dual execs have |
| 5423s | been so good throughout the uh the |
| 5425s | couple days of this tournament so far |
| 5427s | me I'm not entirely sure I'm a fan of |
| 5429s | the Oracle over just bringing another |
| 5430s | exec Navy and you can see almost exactly |
| 5432s | immediately why it was the very first |
| 5434s | primary because Oracle great DPS not |
| 5436s | exactly the well known for its tank |
| 5438s | yeah everybody goes for the Oracle first |
| 5440s | so BlackMart pirate I'm sure is it has |
| 5442s | plenty of the uh to say about this in |
| 5444s | the back right now everybody always goes |
| 5446s | for the Oracle which is not always a |
| 5448s | terrible move the oracles are pretty |
| 5450s | squishy uh but you know they you know |
| 5453s | this this Oracle specifically is holding |
| 5455s | on uh pretty okay I say as he dips into |
| 5459s | uh no no he's catching rips well okay |
| 5463s | yeah I was gonna say I'm gonna stop |
| 5465s | talking about let him do its own thing |
| 5466s | and the Confessor of back uh bakla back |
| 5470s | slack went straight in for the bowel |
| 5472s | going and I believe at this point he's |
| 5474s | actually held him fully down there |
| 5476s | should be a a nosed Confessor I believe |
| 5478s | and isn't dates that Confessor will not |
| 5480s | let go of the ball until he dies |
| 5481s | and a Confessor in defense mode has like |
| 5484s | 36 Sig and a really good resist so he is |
| 5487s | not going to die |
| 5489s | no it's really hard one's locked down |
| 5492s | I don't think that's the right choice a |
| 5493s | lot of DPS going in on this Paladin |
| 5495s | right now of Xander Adelis you can see |
| 5497s | there's a swarm of rep drones around him |
| 5499s | as well uh and the Tempest Fleet is |
| 5501s | sitting right on top of him just |
| 5503s | pounding him with those with those guns |
| 5505s | uh and he again we said earlier don't go |
| 5508s | all in on the Paladin but here we can |
| 5510s | see the Paladin not |
| 5512s | it suffered a little bit it's having a |
| 5514s | hard time winging that no he's doing all |
| 5516s | right he looks pretty bad but I think |
| 5518s | it's because Daenerys was I wasn't quite |
| 5519s | ready for that but at this point he's |
| 5520s | repairing him because he's holding very |
| 5522s | comfortably above 70. the Paladin will |
| 5524s | not go down meanwhile The Tempest Fleet |
| 5525s | already passing 50 simply well it may be |
| 5528s | a tempest hole can be made to be very |
| 5530s | tanky but unfortunately you are you are |
| 5533s | sitting perfectly in range of an Abaddon |
| 5535s | and a paladin as well as two executive |
| 5537s | navies who could shoot you when they |
| 5538s | decide to so that simple is going to die |
| 5540s | remarkably quickly I suspect if they |
| 5542s | continue shooting him |
| 5546s | yeah his web down to just about nothing |
| 5548s | here too he is barely moving uh you can |
| 5552s | see he's he's kind of locked in place so |
| 5554s | unless he's able to get you know |
| 5557s | you also see the nurgle on his team |
| 5559s | attempting to shoot the Magus off of him |
| 5562s | by just killing it out right The Tempest |
| 5564s | is now starting to tank a little more |
| 5565s | comfortably he's went up to 40 per |
| 5567s | second there he's yeah he's still |
| 5568s | solidified pretty well so now my crisis |
| 5571s | averted dead and Ergo may actually be |
| 5572s | able to kill or Force the mega soft but |
| 5574s | I suspect unless he's fully ramp it's |
| 5576s | not going to happen I think it's that |
| 5578s | Meg is actually nosing on nuding a nogal |
| 5580s | to try to stop him from doing that but |
| 5582s | Magus is catching reps now too I mean |
| 5584s | there's just the damage is kind of all |
| 5586s | over the place right here the Magus is |
| 5587s | taking damage the hyena was taking |
| 5588s | damage the Paladin damage the abaddon's |
| 5591s | taking damage while at the same time the |
| 5593s | team from Battery experts is all focused |
| 5594s | in on this Tempest Fleet right now I was |
| 5596s | I was wondering if the molar of Lord |
| 5598s | bigness of six layer was a full new one |
| 5600s | but no he's actually a gun Mauler who's |
| 5601s | holding the Abaddon down he's also just |
| 5603s | approaching him and just shooting him up |
| 5605s | the butt it's actually kind of funny but |
| 5607s | uh I was thinking to myself that if that |
| 5609s | mall is a full Newt Mauler he could |
| 5611s | maybe just keep moving the Abaddon down |
| 5613s | until he runs the 3200s but it looks |
| 5615s | like they're not going to be the case |
| 5616s | here |
| 5617s | inclusive to affect that Abaddon |
| 5619s | I'm pretty sure it's a proctology fit on |
| 5622s | that uh on that Muller which is great |
| 5624s | the balgorn also webbed Down From a |
| 5626s | Distance by this Confessor uh doing its |
| 5630s | best to try and put pressure on the |
| 5631s | Abaddon keep it from firing |
| 5634s | behemians he's been either caught or |
| 5636s | just being shot at I think he's just |
| 5637s | being shot yeah executive Navy just |
| 5639s | sitting on the side just blinking at him |
| 5641s | honestly it worked yeah that is not good |
| 5645s | at all and immediately things are not |
| 5647s | going to go well very quickly all these |
| 5649s | ships that were holding before are now |
| 5651s | incredibly squishy and uh unless they |
| 5654s | overheat and push the Paladin over right |
| 5656s | now they're done it's over they they |
| 5659s | need to make their move now and I think |
| 5660s | you can see the palette actually getting |
| 5662s | close to Hull damage in the Avatar as |
| 5664s | well what the hell |
| 5665s | quickly kill it kill it yeah they need |
| 5668s | to focus in on this Paladin right now |
| 5669s | they need they can't be splitting damage |
| 5671s | I don't know whether that damage is |
| 5672s | coming from I think the Oracle might be |
| 5674s | firing conflag or something it's |
| 5677s | down |
| 5683s | yeah Paladin's comfortably revving armor |
| 5685s | now the Abaddon also is uh just too much |
| 5688s | buffer to burn through now they just |
| 5689s | don't have a lot of DPS left the Tempest |
| 5691s | fleet has is pretty thick but they're |
| 5692s | losing a lot of their back end uh and |
| 5695s | without any laundry that Tempest is |
| 5696s | exposed it's so exposed at every single |
| 5699s | ship that dies means those black birds |
| 5701s | can focus the damn the uh jams on less |
| 5703s | and less ships they gotta pray for this |
| 5707s | also I think by the way people are |
| 5709s | worrying about the bands I'm going to |
| 5710s | say out loud just so you can hear it |
| 5711s | they Banning bogus and the Stormbreaker |
| 5715s | BS SOB is Banning BS I feel like it's a |
| 5718s | meme I don't think there's actually |
| 5719s | they're they're worried about the storm |
| 5721s | bringer I feel like it's a joke this is |
| 5723s | Wingnuts Pepe silvium with the with the |
| 5725s | uh the aluminum foil hat I swear man I |
| 5729s | swear the aliens the aliens man there's |
| 5731s | a tempest fleet's about to die |
| 5733s | this is that they had a chance we leave |
| 5735s | the Abaddon surprisingly close to death |
| 5737s | but I suspect they're just bait taking |
| 5739s | it because it isn't Abaddon it has an |
| 5741s | immense amount of uh resist and buffer |
| 5744s | yeah with the TFI down there's nothing |
| 5746s | really left that they can use to chunk |
| 5747s | through either one the Paladin or the |
| 5748s | avadon it's not going to get done with |
| 5750s | just a single exit Navy and a nurgle |
| 5752s | maybe the balgorn |
| 5754s | um but unless I am wrong |
| 5757s | the Ponte maybe might die as a sympathy |
| 5760s | death but it's it's over here |
| 5763s | Unfortunately they honestly did |
| 5764s | surprisingly well for there they managed |
| 5766s | to pull a few ships back from the brink |
| 5767s | and keep it going I feel like they had |
| 5769s | the tools to make this work and just |
| 5771s | didn't quite use like the nogal could |
| 5773s | have gone off and potentially ruined the |
| 5774s | the Blackbirds day could have maybe |
| 5777s | killed the hyen it could have done a lot |
| 5778s | of different things |
| 5779s | so could have other ships in this comp |
| 5780s | but I feel like they kind of |
| 5782s | they went too hard in the Paladin and |
| 5784s | did nothing really else besides that but |
| 5787s | I I'm I'll be glad to be wrong I know |
| 5789s | we've talked a lot about in the past |
| 5791s | about how you can't focus down something |
| 5792s | too hard if you see something isn't |
| 5794s | going to break but the problem with the |
| 5795s | with the battle was if Helen looked on |
| 5797s | several different occasions like it |
| 5798s | might go through and when you have an |
| 5800s | opportunity to get that many points off |
| 5802s | a single ship and push something that |
| 5804s | has I mean the Paladin is not a small |
| 5805s | amount of DTS either so I I understand |
| 5808s | the appeal I get it fully but in this |
| 5811s | case just not the right play I mean I |
| 5814s | also feel like the opposite happened as |
| 5815s | well like while they didn't Focus too |
| 5816s | much on the power they also had a molar |
| 5818s | tackling the Abaddon which had guns so |
| 5820s | that Maul could have been shooting the |
| 5821s | Paladin as well and pushed a little bit |
| 5822s | extra like it's like they focused too |
| 5824s | hard where it didn't need to and it |
| 5826s | didn't Focus hard enough when they |
| 5828s | really needed to yeah so just don't |
| 5830s | think it quite worked for them |
| 5831s | unfortunately I also like seeing uh I |
| 5833s | think uh who was that well it was the |
| 5835s | pontifex of Moki actually just dropped |
| 5836s | uh cat boosters for his Paladin brother |
| 5838s | so even now the matches in this on their |
| 5841s | side they've got the win already they're |
| 5842s | still playing at smart dropping cap |
| 5843s | boosters for their battleships and |
| 5844s | keeping this fight on going good fight |
| 5846s | Michael and I can respect it for sure |
| 5848s | yeah I mean it was not I wouldn't say it |
| 5850s | was probably a a poor play just a lot of |
| 5853s | positioning issues got the especially |
| 5855s | with the TFI getting locked in where it |
| 5856s | was I mean right in between the two uh |
| 5858s | the Paladin and the avadon that were |
| 5860s | both themselves locked down if it had |
| 5862s | been in a different spot maybe it lose a |
| 5863s | little bit long but then at the same |
| 5864s | time it's not nearly able to uh affect |
| 5867s | as much DPS onto that Paladin as it was |
| 5869s | so I'm pretty well I mean again across |
| 5872s | the board not too bad from the team from |
| 5873s | boundary experts I I'm uh I'm excited to |
| 5876s | see them do well here yep I'm sad my |
| 5878s | son's a baby boys you guys well done |
| 5882s | like uh honestly float flew very well |
| 5885s | and considered just again there's always |
| 5886s | a few critical mistakes here and there |
| 5887s | that kind of cost a match and hey this |
| 5889s | is how you learn right |
| 5891s | this is the only way to learn you go out |
| 5893s | you try you fail |
| 5894s | and then you come back and do it next |
| 5895s | year again and go better yeah you're |
| 5898s | right |
| 5899s | oh now we get to watch two uh come on |
| 5901s | destroyers die I don't think it'll take |
| 5904s | too long the uh the magazine is swarmed |
| 5907s | with the pawn effects the Confessor and |
| 5908s | the exec Navy right now uh it is Eve |
| 5911s | Wally down and out that will do it for |
| 5914s | myself and wing nut cross we send it |
| 5916s | back to the desks CCB overload moderator |
| 5919s | and BlackMart pirate for the final round |
| 5921s | of the first batch of today's games |
| 5925s | bro remember |
| 5941s | this could be anywhere |
| 5943s | [Music] |
| 5952s | thank you |
| 5967s | foreign |
| 5969s | [Music] |
| 5983s | experts keeping it within the lines this |
| 5986s | time as they eliminate sons of Bane from |
| 5988s | Alliance tournament 19 contention that |
| 5990s | is it for the embroidery experts move on |
| 5992s | they're still in the hunt for one of |
| 5994s | those final four remaining spots in |
| 5997s | Alliance tournament 19. uh pretty |
| 5999s | exciting match at the start you know we |
| 6001s | had to still meet back and forth back |
| 6003s | and forth in those situations where like |
| 6006s | you're shooting stuff and it's not |
| 6007s | breaking and you're being shot but |
| 6009s | you're not breaking your lodges keep it |
| 6010s | on top of things more what's it like in |
| 6012s | those situations like what do you do |
| 6013s | it's kind of a stalemate something has |
| 6015s | to change |
| 6019s | muterator strikes |
| 6024s | well that has never happened before uh |
| 6027s | in my life uh because I always call the |
| 6029s | correct primary and we always just win |
| 6031s | our matches um off the bat however |
| 6035s | um you know if for whatever reason |
| 6036s | something didn't work what you do is you |
| 6039s | kind of have to go and do what we talked |
| 6042s | about in the last break which is you |
| 6044s | have to adjust |
| 6046s | um and recognize okay |
| 6048s | um here's where we're at right now |
| 6049s | here's where the other team is at what |
| 6051s | are our win conditions for this match |
| 6053s | what do we have to do right now to exit |
| 6055s | that uh do we need to get something on |
| 6057s | top of the Logie do we need to apply |
| 6060s | um more ECM to this Logistics so it |
| 6065s | breaks do we need you know more time for |
| 6067s | newts to apply so cap passenger uh goes |
| 6071s | out and we end up winning that way |
| 6074s | um in this case I think it was something |
| 6076s | a little bit much more simple uh Shadow |
| 6079s | guard's Oracle was the first primary |
| 6083s | um on the side of Sons of Daniel and I |
| 6085s | think he panicked us for I think Bart |
| 6088s | and I were seeing that for a solid three |
| 6090s | minutes he was just shooting the wrong |
| 6092s | primer and had he shot the Paladin and |
| 6096s | not be |
| 6098s | at that end um that Paladin die |
| 6102s | you think that was a pretty key turning |
| 6105s | moment in the match there uh part like |
| 6107s | you know it's easy to point out and say |
| 6110s | hey why is this that guy not shooting |
| 6111s | you know the other Target but as uh as |
| 6114s | Morgan pointed out perhaps he he panics |
| 6115s | it's very easy that when you walk it |
| 6117s | warp into one of these matches and stuff |
| 6119s | starts to happen just you know kilograms |
| 6122s | of spaghetti can flying straight out of |
| 6124s | your pockets and you have to just |
| 6125s | struggle to shrive it all back in again |
| 6127s | while being shot well positioning |
| 6129s | yourself for will trying to do what |
| 6131s | you're being told by your FC it is quite |
| 6133s | quite stressful uh was that maybe the |
| 6135s | key moment there |
| 6137s | I think it was |
| 6138s | um and you know we try like collectively |
| 6141s | to not necessarily call out individual |
| 6143s | Pilots too hard in the theaters because |
| 6144s | we know that for some people this is |
| 6146s | their first at and we don't want you |
| 6147s | know their first at experience to be |
| 6149s | like oh some some stupid space nerds up |
| 6153s | on a panel are saying I'm bad and none |
| 6155s | of them are flying in the tournament so |
| 6157s | like what do they know uh but we saw |
| 6159s | that like when the Oracle did swap |
| 6161s | targets |
| 6162s | the Paladin almost died in like 30 |
| 6165s | seconds like it bled into like I think |
| 6168s | 40 50 structure or something like that |
| 6170s | so if the Oracle had been on the correct |
| 6172s | primary from the beginning boundary |
| 6174s | experts 100 loses that match like 100 |
| 6177s | that Paladin would have died in the |
| 6179s | first probably minute and a half and |
| 6181s | then just like that it's like oh cool 30 |
| 6183s | of the DPS is gone we win |
| 6185s | um I will say and I think uh I think |
| 6187s | Mark brought it up uh the Oracle getting |
| 6190s | shot sop did a fantastic job keeping |
| 6192s | their Oracle alive too like boundary |
| 6194s | experts kind of did the same thing or |
| 6195s | they went after the wrong Target and |
| 6198s | they kind of all in on the Oracle there |
| 6199s | for too long and there's it's hard |
| 6201s | because sometimes you don't know is this |
| 6204s | ship surviving because our tank is |
| 6206s | overheated or their reps are overheated |
| 6209s | because eventually you run out of heat |
| 6210s | right but in this specific case uh |
| 6213s | boundary experts swapped off could they |
| 6215s | swapped earlier I mean yeah but they |
| 6218s | still swapped they're like oh This |
| 6219s | ship's not breaking let's swap kill |
| 6220s | other ships you know they blew up in |
| 6222s | onerous and they won |
| 6224s | um sons of Bane had a different thing |
| 6226s | where they continued all in but nobody |
| 6228s | like took the time to see like wait why |
| 6230s | are the lasers from our Oracle hitting |
| 6232s | the wrong ship and that's something that |
| 6234s | like your FC's or your team captains or |
| 6237s | even the entire team is sort of like |
| 6239s | that's not everybody like somebody |
| 6240s | should have looked at it and said hey |
| 6241s | the lasers are shooting the wrong guy |
| 6243s | like |
| 6245s | just putting that out there you know you |
| 6246s | got to be really coordinated this it's |
| 6247s | hard 80's hard 80 is hard and a lot of |
| 6251s | like the the top teams as well will uh |
| 6254s | when someone dies like obviously you're |
| 6255s | in your capsule you can you can't lock |
| 6257s | anything but you are still on grid and |
| 6259s | you can provide a lot of extremely |
| 6261s | valuable information you can be like |
| 6263s | like hey your lasers are in the wrong |
| 6266s | person or watch out this guy's like |
| 6267s | approaching you like you sort of Zoom |
| 6269s | your camera and you start being that |
| 6271s | additional uh you know super important |
| 6274s | uh bit of Intel and honestly it's like |
| 6276s | it's so valuable having that kind of |
| 6279s | like team communication Dynamic if you |
| 6281s | listen to The Experience teams run if |
| 6283s | you ever get to fly with them or be uh |
| 6285s | or hear the recordings of their comps uh |
| 6287s | I recommend checking out on on YouTube |
| 6289s | there's a bunch of teams have put up |
| 6291s | videos over the years uh with their |
| 6293s | comms including the Volta team uh the uh |
| 6295s | Hydra reloaded team from Alliance |
| 6297s | tournament 17 and Truth on the light |
| 6299s | from last year put theirs out as well |
| 6301s | and you can hear this communication |
| 6303s | Dynamic uh it's not like one person |
| 6305s | calling you know I can FC in a fleet |
| 6307s | just telling everyone what to do it's a |
| 6309s | lot of everyone talking and people kind |
| 6311s | of you know sharing that information mod |
| 6313s | like |
| 6314s | how do teams develop that kind of uh |
| 6317s | sort of strategies |
| 6321s | yeah so that is |
| 6323s | basically comes through a whole thing |
| 6327s | first off at most of these teams |
| 6330s | um you have players specializing in |
| 6332s | certain roles so you're gonna have like |
| 6333s | your battleship pilot right uh you're |
| 6336s | gonna have the one or two people that |
| 6338s | you have fly Logistics you're gonna have |
| 6340s | a couple people that fly Cruisers |
| 6343s | and a lot of these roles are very kind |
| 6345s | of synergistic and |
| 6348s | um you know you kind of build a rapport |
| 6350s | understanding like how your teammates |
| 6351s | communicate and speaking very succinctly |
| 6354s | saying I'm on this like you go do this |
| 6357s | and saying hey like I've got this taken |
| 6360s | care of you can go deal with this other |
| 6362s | thing and then saying hey I've lost |
| 6364s | tackle on |
| 6366s | um this you know maybe I've been jammed |
| 6367s | or neuted off and saying you need to |
| 6369s | adjust to make sure you know that this |
| 6371s | frigate or whatever doesn't get on top |
| 6373s | of my logic and we lose the match |
| 6374s | because of it so a lot of that is a |
| 6377s | function of uh people who've known each |
| 6379s | other for years but um even if you |
| 6381s | haven't known each other for that long |
| 6383s | you just practice and you get reps in |
| 6385s | and over time these sort of skills will |
| 6388s | naturally develop |
| 6390s | exactly and getting practice |
| 6393s | is sounds super easy you can like do |
| 6395s | loads and loads of practice matches but |
| 6397s | then the second you're teleported into |
| 6398s | the arena in an actual match it's the |
| 6401s | intensity will just go through the roof |
| 6403s | and that type of practice only comes |
| 6405s | from being involved doing these |
| 6406s | tournaments and being part of teams so |
| 6409s | encourage everyone to give it a go it is |
| 6411s | actually quite difficult but a lot of |
| 6413s | fun very rewarding very intense all |
| 6415s | right we have one more match before |
| 6416s | we're going to go to a break and again |
| 6418s | this is an elimination match there to |
| 6420s | get our last |
| 6422s | team into the uh three matches after the |
| 6425s | break of which are win and ends uh lose |
| 6427s | and into the glancy gamble so this next |
| 6429s | match is going to be I could do better |
| 6431s | versus of essence and let's have a quick |
| 6434s | look at the band so I could do better |
| 6435s | Banning out the balgorn and the bar |
| 6437s | guest of essence Banning out the bar |
| 6440s | guest and the Armageddon Navy issue and |
| 6443s | then we have some trickle bands so I |
| 6445s | could do better at Banning out the Loki |
| 6447s | and of essence Banning out the typhoon |
| 6449s | Fleet but I feel like nothing here is |
| 6451s | particularly outrageous what do you |
| 6453s | think |
| 6454s | uh not particularly I think of essence |
| 6456s | is typing Fleet issue band is a little |
| 6458s | uh not that great typing flea cheeses |
| 6461s | are just it's it's like this old |
| 6463s | venerable like used to be really good |
| 6467s | ship and they've just not performed well |
| 6468s | in the last several years just because |
| 6470s | of all the different balance changes but |
| 6471s | yeah I mean bargasbans barks are great |
| 6474s | uh balgorns they've been pretty well and |
| 6476s | we've seen a ton of Armageddon Navy |
| 6478s | issues uh especially if you are smart |
| 6480s | and put lasers on you're getting Navy |
| 6481s | issues it is an incredibly formidable uh |
| 6484s | spaceship I think uh |
| 6486s | all of this makes sense um low-keys are |
| 6488s | also really good like these are these |
| 6490s | are intelligent bands they're banning |
| 6491s | out some of the key ships that are very |
| 6493s | very difficult to play around and aren't |
| 6495s | really showing any strategy so |
| 6498s | I'm not they're they're pretty smart |
| 6499s | it's a solid call we're seeing these |
| 6501s | teams start to understand the band meta |
| 6504s | and start to you know become real a t |
| 6507s | teams as this goes on |
| 6509s | are you ATT as well such praise from uh |
| 6512s | from Blackboard pirate there you're a |
| 6513s | real A.T team uh moderator what do you |
| 6516s | think we might see being brought in this |
| 6518s | particular matchup |
| 6520s | yeah I mean I still think that um heavy |
| 6522s | armor is uh something that both of the |
| 6525s | teams have been bringing throughout the |
| 6526s | tournament and there's more than enough |
| 6529s | ships for uh both of these teams to do |
| 6531s | that and successful with so I would not |
| 6533s | be surprised that direction |
| 6536s | awesome well I see teams are in the |
| 6539s | arena uh so let's go over to the arena |
| 6543s | four I could do better versus of essence |
| 6545s | with your casters fear Viner and Yin tan |
| 6551s | welcome back to the arena my name's |
| 6553s | sirvana joined by yenton and on the red |
| 6555s | side it is |
| 6557s | uh I almost said about the sense it's I |
| 6560s | could do better bringing a redeemer and |
| 6562s | a fleet Tempest at the top of their comp |
| 6565s | they like this Redeemer we'll see how it |
| 6566s | works out for them meanwhile what have |
| 6568s | of essence brought |
| 6570s | of essence have brought their own |
| 6572s | version of this heavy armor three |
| 6574s | Battleship core but they've brought up |
| 6576s | the shack to top things off as well as |
| 6578s | Vindicator to really help with that |
| 6580s | close range DPS so they're going to want |
| 6582s | to try and drag this match out for as |
| 6584s | long as possible hopefully get that |
| 6585s | little Shack spooling on some sort of |
| 6587s | big Target and then not have it be |
| 6589s | broken uh by anything from that hole |
| 6591s | punch site and they don't look like they |
| 6593s | have any e or either so there's not |
| 6595s | gonna be anything to disrupt that little |
| 6596s | Shack damage |
| 6597s | how powerful is that going to be in this |
| 6599s | match up there |
| 6600s | well it's gonna be fairly powerful but |
| 6602s | you also have to take a look at this |
| 6604s | Redeemer who I would have to imagine has |
| 6606s | to be the target from the Le Shack just |
| 6608s | do the bonus newts that it gets uh yes |
| 6610s | the Redeemer has uh full guns on it |
| 6613s | which is to be expected because it's a |
| 6615s | redeemer and unlike every other new |
| 6617s | ownership of the game actually get the |
| 6619s | bonus to its weapon system uh being |
| 6621s | lasers but |
| 6623s | at the same time Jason flamerad gonna be |
| 6625s | taking the beginnings of the damage but |
| 6628s | of essence really need to actually catch |
| 6630s | someone and get on top of them put a |
| 6631s | little Shack to start spooling so we're |
| 6633s | just gonna see pot shots for the time |
| 6634s | being as uh The Tackle of of essence |
| 6637s | Alexander cardio is being taken down |
| 6639s | pretty quickly but is being uh kept |
| 6642s | Alive by uh the Deacon the Nathalia |
| 6645s | right now |
| 6647s | yeah and I think of essence are moving |
| 6648s | in a really sane manner here though |
| 6650s | they're pushing with those battleships |
| 6651s | in the front trying to make sure that |
| 6653s | then that none of the backline of hole |
| 6656s | punches can slide around them and get on |
| 6658s | top of these tackle because if that |
| 6659s | tackle goes down it's going to make the |
| 6661s | late game near near impossible for |
| 6664s | Essence to actually win if they get into |
| 6666s | a position where they've got that the |
| 6667s | shack Left Alive and uh very little |
| 6669s | tackle they're not going to be able to |
| 6670s | keep the spool up that said the spool is |
| 6672s | working amazingly well on that Redeemer |
| 6674s | already we're starting to see it get |
| 6675s | chunked through even with the full |
| 6678s | attention of both those deacons onto |
| 6680s | them |
| 6681s | yeah the Little Shack just hasn't been |
| 6683s | screened right now I think this is a bit |
| 6684s | of a mistake uh from hole punchers just |
| 6687s | because uh if the shack doesn't get in |
| 6689s | range of your Redeemer he can't actually |
| 6691s | kill them remember the Le Shack doesn't |
| 6692s | have a fall off or Chuck Libyan ships |
| 6695s | don't have a fall off they just have uh |
| 6697s | a range for their guns and if you break |
| 6699s | that range you break their spool and you |
| 6701s | have to start back from zero we see |
| 6704s | elcon Amazon taking a little bit of |
| 6706s | damage right now and this Redeemer has |
| 6707s | been able to rep back up as Little Shack |
| 6710s | has I believe stopped |
| 6712s | nice I'll shoot egg uh but it's uh |
| 6716s | longer range ammo we see the Mueller |
| 6718s | going in for tackle right now alongside |
| 6719s | this Punisher so all that Essence are |
| 6721s | going to start committing to this right |
| 6722s | now uh Edward and gravonier uh currently |
| 6726s | sitting at 45 armor remaining and the |
| 6728s | smaller might have to turn back towards |
| 6730s | his lodgy but the Punisher is right up |
| 6731s | towards the front right now and looking |
| 6733s | to get on top of this deacon |
| 6735s | yeah we can see that the uh hyena of |
| 6738s | tattoo is doing the best he can to try |
| 6740s | and curb this Advance that's why the |
| 6742s | model is taking so much damage just been |
| 6743s | webbed off this whole time by the hyena |
| 6747s | um but the deacon now for Gideon is |
| 6749s | finally taking some DPS looks like it's |
| 6750s | just like dreads for now with that |
| 6751s | Punisher is right on top of him he's |
| 6753s | managed to sneak on through this vipple |
| 6755s | the executive Navy issue just completely |
| 6757s | asleep at the wheel letting him walk in |
| 6759s | past and now they're potentially going |
| 6760s | to lose their Logistics here |
| 6762s | yeah he was able to get tackle onto this |
| 6765s | Deacon which is very important but a |
| 6767s | Punisher doesn't really have all that |
| 6768s | much in the way of damage uh being a |
| 6771s | tech one frigate so really needs the |
| 6773s | rest of his team to support him as he |
| 6774s | holds down the enemy lodgy Wing at the |
| 6776s | moment uh the Mueller is being rubbed |
| 6778s | back up and we see yaspin Yoon in the |
| 6780s | simple actually taking quite a bit of |
| 6782s | damage at the moment as well as |
| 6784s | Alexander cardio and the septal from of |
| 6786s | essence |
| 6787s | yeah this is a really intense match now |
| 6789s | both teams just punching at each other's |
| 6791s | low ends just trying to find that one |
| 6793s | weakness once they start being able to |
| 6796s | um take out a key type or component for |
| 6798s | the others they'll be able to |
| 6799s | concentrate their tackle and then move |
| 6800s | these battleships around as they want to |
| 6802s | you can see there's some real attention |
| 6804s | going on to tattoo he is not tackled |
| 6807s | down though so he's just gonna be able |
| 6808s | to slip out the back here take advantage |
| 6810s | of that nwd and just reposition whilst |
| 6812s | Alexander is still getting beaten I bet |
| 6815s | his a b is running at 90 heat right |
| 6817s | about now |
| 6819s | yeah he's webbed and grappled so uh |
| 6822s | grappled by one of these fake |
| 6824s | battleships and we see actually Noel |
| 6825s | Sasson and the about and uh from hole |
| 6827s | punchers is finally taking damage |
| 6830s | as it looks like The Vindicator got |
| 6831s | right on top of him Chad flame making |
| 6833s | the move he needs to his simple goes |
| 6835s | down but they will take down the Sabaton |
| 6837s | now because with the 90 webs he's not |
| 6839s | going anywhere the little Shacks now in |
| 6841s | range and going against spooling on the |
| 6843s | abandoned this is a very good trade for |
| 6845s | of essence |
| 6847s | we don't really see any um newts coming |
| 6850s | out from this Redeemer I can't see them |
| 6851s | being applied to any of these |
| 6853s | battleships um from of essence so a huge |
| 6855s | part of the power of that ship just |
| 6857s | isn't being utilized here and because of |
| 6859s | that this DPS is just raining down onto |
| 6862s | the I could do better team that bad now |
| 6864s | sitting so so low in Hull and gone |
| 6867s | oh that's such a great counter punch |
| 6869s | here from of essence |
| 6871s | it's worth mentioning that the Redeemer |
| 6873s | has a uh neutralization amount bonus but |
| 6876s | doesn't have a range bonus unlike the |
| 6878s | tech one variant and the Armageddon so |
| 6880s | uh well he needs to actually be in range |
| 6883s | of these newts heavy nudes still have a |
| 6885s | decently long range but now damage is |
| 6887s | going on to the hole puncher's hyena uh |
| 6889s | who is webbed right now as well so they |
| 6892s | should be able to get some damage into |
| 6893s | him but meanwhile Nevada he's taking the |
| 6895s | brunt of the damage from The Tempest |
| 6897s | leadership and Redeemer now |
| 6899s | yeah yeah this is not even closed over |
| 6901s | both of these teams have Roots back into |
| 6903s | Victory if they can keep this hyena |
| 6904s | alive hole punches and push them okay I |
| 6907s | say that and there it goes down again |
| 6909s | but if they can kill off that the shack |
| 6912s | there's gonna be so so little long-term |
| 6914s | DPS on the grid here for Rob Essence |
| 6917s | they're relying at almost entirely on |
| 6919s | their Shack for the late game uh other |
| 6921s | than with the exception of maybe that |
| 6923s | Vindicator still it's not going to be |
| 6924s | able to break through stuff on its own |
| 6927s | yeah the unfortunate thing about the |
| 6929s | shack and The Vindicator is the |
| 6930s | birthbury good at getting things once |
| 6932s | they're held down uh and The Vindicator |
| 6934s | can hold something down once uh someone |
| 6936s | else got tackle on them but you really |
| 6938s | need low end to make those ships work |
| 6940s | right now they're currently dealing with |
| 6942s | a Mauler and a Punisher it's their low |
| 6944s | end who haven't really been able to get |
| 6946s | on top of the Tempest leadership or the |
| 6947s | Redeemer quite yet but if they can they |
| 6950s | should be able to turn this match in |
| 6951s | their favor but you got to be careful |
| 6953s | because the Le Shack into 60 armor they |
| 6955s | are getting a bit of damage on a Yasmine |
| 6957s | Yoon and the simple right now as it |
| 6958s | looks like he's helping uh down this |
| 6961s | Thalia but uh at the moment it does |
| 6964s | appear like of Essence still or having |
| 6967s | trouble actually pinning something down |
| 6969s | to kill |
| 6971s | yeah and of course are you going to give |
| 6973s | a shout out to hole punches here for |
| 6975s | being able to make keep that kite oh I |
| 6977s | say that there's one of those Ripple |
| 6978s | dies again every time I try and |
| 6979s | compliment them something seems to die |
| 6981s | but they've kept this kite up well they |
| 6983s | didn't get um balled up when that |
| 6984s | Punisher tackled their Deacon and they |
| 6986s | were able to extract it they've still |
| 6987s | got room to play into this game even as |
| 6989s | the exact Grand Navy takes a ton of |
| 6991s | damage here they just need to push |
| 6992s | through that the shack find some way to |
| 6994s | push off those deacons and Nathalia from |
| 6996s | their opponents it seems so difficult |
| 6999s | and The Punisher is right on top of Rick |
| 7002s | anduin and the Deacon as the acts like |
| 7003s | Navy Falls a little bit too far forward |
| 7005s | uh getting muted by the abandoned and |
| 7008s | the Little Shack but this Punisher I |
| 7009s | mean I understand the importance of |
| 7011s | keeping a deacon down but I feel like |
| 7013s | you really need to get on top of this |
| 7014s | Tempest Fleet issue or on top of this |
| 7016s | Redeemer to enable your team to actually |
| 7018s | Snowball the match because right now |
| 7020s | even though the low end War has been |
| 7022s | completely and totally won by of essence |
| 7025s | and the war of attrition they have the |
| 7027s | shorter Range Guns |
| 7029s | absolutely they've just been pushing |
| 7031s | through this entire match making sure to |
| 7033s | keep them on the run and just not really |
| 7036s | letting them get their teeth into |
| 7037s | anything nothing from this of essence |
| 7039s | side has been so out of position watch |
| 7042s | the molar though Tempest Fleet issue a |
| 7044s | paladin about to get yielded by The |
| 7046s | Vindicator of Chad flame and the baller |
| 7048s | of Edward and Graven air where are the |
| 7050s | webs is lit in a second there it is and |
| 7053s | the fleet Tempest has been caught and |
| 7056s | will now go down underneath the |
| 7058s | Vindicator Le Shack and a baton guns |
| 7061s | that should be enough to win the match |
| 7063s | for of essence |
| 7064s | yeah you can see here they're just |
| 7066s | giving up now they're trying to put DPS |
| 7068s | down on their bad and just realizing |
| 7070s | that all hopes lost at breaking the |
| 7071s | shack before it makes a significant |
| 7073s | impact |
| 7074s | and we're just going to watch that red |
| 7076s | bar from of essence just Spike through |
| 7079s | the roof here as it spools up on the |
| 7081s | Tempest Fleet issue you'll be looking at |
| 7083s | almost 6000 DPS when all three of these |
| 7085s | battleships get on top of something and |
| 7087s | apply perfectly it is there's no hope |
| 7090s | even if you had two anirosis you |
| 7092s | wouldn't be able to keep that alive let |
| 7094s | alone two Deacons |
| 7097s | yeah and meanwhile the deacons are |
| 7099s | actually being taken down by the of us |
| 7101s | since low end uh at present getting a |
| 7104s | car being taken on by them but uh The |
| 7106s | Tempest leadership of Paladin which is |
| 7108s | not flying a paladin interesting uh is |
| 7111s | going to go down once the Le Shack |
| 7113s | spools up appropriately he's currently |
| 7115s | sitting in 30 armor uh and the about and |
| 7117s | meanwhile 56 for money but once the |
| 7120s | Tempest leadership goes down you should |
| 7122s | be able to stabilize Gideon zendikar |
| 7124s | though 27 armor remaining on that deacon |
| 7127s | yeah do you think that there was any way |
| 7129s | that um I could do better could really |
| 7131s | have leveraged their slightly more |
| 7133s | potent low end better in this mansion |
| 7135s | and brought themselves to a Victorious |
| 7137s | position |
| 7139s | so there's this concept of the wolf pack |
| 7142s | I think as mystical Mike calls it where |
| 7145s | basically your low end uh can act as a |
| 7148s | completely separate unit to your high |
| 7150s | end and a lot of different match-ups so |
| 7152s | what we saw of essence do there is use |
| 7154s | their low ends kind of as a wolf pack |
| 7156s | and get uh the other the low end of hole |
| 7160s | punchers of I could do better uh into |
| 7163s | difficult positions taking them out |
| 7166s | while their battleships were able to |
| 7168s | supplement that DPS and once that |
| 7171s | happened once the low end and all the |
| 7173s | screen was gone from hole punchers of |
| 7175s | essence was able to use their low ends |
| 7176s | to then effectively get on top of these |
| 7179s | battleships uh that they weren't able to |
| 7181s | get on top of previously due to uh the |
| 7183s | low end of I could do better so I think |
| 7185s | I could do better uh if they spent more |
| 7188s | time focusing on coordinating their low |
| 7191s | end and actually using that to take down |
| 7193s | targets instead of just screening and |
| 7196s | this is like a more advanced comments up |
| 7197s | right is screening is kind of like the |
| 7199s | level to concept of low end the level |
| 7201s | three concept is basically using your |
| 7203s | low ends to kill the enemy's low end |
| 7205s | while keeping the enemy's low end off |
| 7208s | your high end |
| 7209s | um and we saw of essence was able to do |
| 7211s | that and hole punchers didn't really |
| 7213s | have that level of coordination quite |
| 7214s | yet but they looked pretty good this |
| 7216s | tournament and I hope we'll see them in |
| 7219s | the next tournament that's all for this |
| 7220s | match we're going to send it back to the |
| 7222s | desk to take us in to the first break of |
| 7224s | the day you won't want to miss it we'll |
| 7226s | be right back |
| 7229s | [Music] |
| 7236s | thank you |
| 7245s | [Applause] |
| 7249s | [Music] |
| 7252s | [Applause] |
| 7254s | [Music] |
| 7255s | [Applause] |
| 7258s | thank you |
| 7260s | connected Channel switched well it would |
| 7263s | have been a easy fight right but guess |
| 7265s | what dude I'm not if seeing it people |
| 7266s | can't get they're fit together |
| 7272s | crash our enemies your attempts are |
| 7275s | completely damned out Crush I'm dumped |
| 7277s | out I'm downtown boys |
| 7287s | I'm jammed |
| 7289s | of essence securing uh them their |
| 7291s | continuation in Alliance tournament 19 |
| 7293s | as I could do it better you know all |
| 7296s | seven they are they're done so they are |
| 7298s | out no more from them in this case their |
| 7301s | best was not good enough |
| 7303s | as of essence tick took that match and |
| 7305s | that was a great example of |
| 7307s | um one of those slow burning matches |
| 7309s | where it looks like not very much is |
| 7311s | going on but it's a fantastic uh |
| 7314s | piloting skill on on both sides really |
| 7316s | to keep the pressure up for a very long |
| 7318s | very long time obviously it's a really |
| 7320s | good job of just moving around the arena |
| 7322s | uh you know projecting keeping |
| 7324s | themselves uh relatively composed and it |
| 7326s | was only about uh so almost seven and a |
| 7329s | half minutes into the match when the |
| 7331s | first Battleship to the other side went |
| 7332s | down and really started to uh you know |
| 7334s | signal the end for I could do better any |
| 7338s | any final thoughts on that match Bart |
| 7341s | uh not particularly uh I would say that |
| 7344s | the Vindicator pilot on of essence's |
| 7346s | side which I believe was Chad flame did |
| 7348s | a really really good job uh using the |
| 7350s | taking advantage of the fact that |
| 7352s | vindicators are generally very difficult |
| 7354s | chips to screen because if you screen of |
| 7356s | indicator in web it it will rub you back |
| 7358s | for 90 and then blast you |
| 7360s | um so obviously it's hard to screen |
| 7362s | vindicators you still have to do it uh |
| 7364s | Vindicator is not being screened means |
| 7366s | it just runs around in the back line and |
| 7367s | blows up your entire back line by itself |
| 7369s | so good piloting on their part |
| 7372s | um |
| 7373s | I I feel like the other team probably |
| 7375s | could have leveraged their DPS a lot |
| 7376s | better like they had a lot of it but it |
| 7378s | didn't really ever reply uh you know |
| 7381s | whether that's just because of screening |
| 7383s | or range or who knows but of essence |
| 7385s | definitely played fairly well there |
| 7388s | that they did indeed so we'll see them |
| 7390s | after the break uh we're gonna have |
| 7392s | three matches each of those matches are |
| 7394s | win and in uh there's the you know for |
| 7396s | three of the four final slots uh and |
| 7398s | then the the losers will drop into the |
| 7400s | galante gamble later on today but we're |
| 7403s | gonna take a short break we'll be back |
| 7404s | in about 10 minutes or so to go into |
| 7406s | those matches so stay tuned |
| 7409s | welcome back to the alliance tournament |
| 7411s | 19 theater rounds we have only six more |
| 7415s | matches for you today we have six teams |
| 7418s | remaining and uh we have four spots for |
| 7421s | them so four of these teams will make it |
| 7424s | into alliance tournament uh 19 but which |
| 7427s | four we will find that out very soon a |
| 7430s | quick recap of who we've seen progressed |
| 7432s | today and who we've seen eliminated we |
| 7434s | see sons of veins boundary experts I |
| 7436s | could do better of essence uh all make |
| 7439s | their way through into this next stage |
| 7441s | competing for those spots and eliminated |
| 7443s | we saw x uh 877 pandemic region all new |
| 7448s | cars shut up I am trying |
| 7450s | um sorry sons of beans were in fact |
| 7452s | eliminated and I could do better as well |
| 7454s | so the teams remaining in the alliance |
| 7457s | tournament are snuffed out no vacancies |
| 7460s | hole control cast about boundary expert |
| 7462s | time of essence so we're gonna have |
| 7464s | three matches in a row now where it is |
| 7467s | win and in if you win these match |
| 7469s | matches you get yourself one of those |
| 7471s | four remaining spots this is the moment |
| 7474s | like once you lost that first match and |
| 7477s | dropped into this loser's bracket this |
| 7479s | is what you're aiming for you're aiming |
| 7480s | to get to these matches and get one of |
| 7483s | these very hard to get in our spots so |
| 7486s | when I'm actually and you're in you can |
| 7487s | go until uh August when the main |
| 7489s | tournament starts if you lose three of |
| 7491s | those teams will lose and they will go |
| 7493s | into the galante gamble uh which will be |
| 7496s | rather insane later on so I'm looking |
| 7498s | forward to that I I guess the teams |
| 7500s | probably are not looking forward to |
| 7502s | getting into that so I think they hope |
| 7503s | they're going to win but let's start |
| 7505s | talking about these upcoming matches so |
| 7507s | snap direct versus no vacancies that's |
| 7509s | going to be our first one and let's see |
| 7511s | what these teams have chosen to ban so |
| 7513s | snuffed out Banning out the Scimitar and |
| 7515s | the balgarm |
| 7517s | Novak Banning out the Blackbird and the |
| 7520s | Ishtar I'm joined by the Basilisk Baza |
| 7523s | what do you think of these uh these |
| 7524s | bands here |
| 7525s | this is pretty interesting especially |
| 7527s | the Ishtar ban is what I'm uh most drawn |
| 7529s | to because it's a ship that we haven't |
| 7530s | really seen at all |
| 7533s | um really I think maybe PL may have |
| 7535s | flown it and they're ill-fated uh drone |
| 7537s | rush earlier but just drones in general |
| 7539s | is a cop that we haven't seen a huge |
| 7540s | amount of so I'm quite curious as to why |
| 7541s | no vacancies deemed matters a |
| 7544s | that's worth Banning uh Scimitar and |
| 7545s | Blackbird are pretty much Mainstays |
| 7547s | we've seen teams of all sorts Banning |
| 7548s | those and the Battlegrounds pretty |
| 7549s | common as well it's just the Ishtar |
| 7551s | mainly that piques my interest |
| 7554s | yeah indeed that is an interesting band |
| 7556s | I think the Blackbird has as you say is |
| 7557s | very very good band uh Scimitar as well |
| 7561s | one of the strongest shield Logistics |
| 7563s | Cruisers uh moderator obviously the baz |
| 7565s | uh the Basilisk is still uh available uh |
| 7568s | not only for hosting on this desk with |
| 7570s | me but as a ship to be fielded in the |
| 7572s | tournament is how is that not as good as |
| 7574s | a scimitar |
| 7576s | well the battles gives an excellent |
| 7577s | tournament player but the ship |
| 7579s | unfortunately uh suffers from a bit of |
| 7583s | um theme issue that the guardian |
| 7585s | suffered for is that it's a little bit |
| 7587s | slower a little bit um less uh mobile |
| 7590s | and as a result it's kind of easier to |
| 7593s | get on top of so that's why we see a lot |
| 7595s | of teams choose to not bring it |
| 7597s | um |
| 7598s | so Scimitar typically signals um kind of |
| 7601s | kitecon comp or a lot of Mobility |
| 7605s | and yeah what do you think basilisk is |
| 7608s | your namesake |
| 7609s | yeah it's just a bit slower I think also |
| 7611s | one of the big things is the resist |
| 7612s | profile I think the scimitol resist |
| 7614s | profile Tech 2 Minotaur is really really |
| 7615s | good because with just a multi-spec you |
| 7617s | can get really good Omni resists on it |
| 7619s | with the damage control as well whereas |
| 7620s | with the Basilisk if you just fit a |
| 7622s | multi-spec you're going to have a |
| 7623s | massive em hole that you need to do |
| 7624s | something about whether that's with the |
| 7625s | rig slots or where the name hardener so |
| 7627s | uh you know to get the similar sort of |
| 7629s | survivability on the Basilisk combined |
| 7631s | with its slower speed requires a lot |
| 7633s | more investment |
| 7635s | awesome so we are ready to go to the |
| 7637s | arena for this win and in match between |
| 7640s | snuffed out and no vacancies who will |
| 7642s | get that slot uh we'll find out with uh |
| 7645s | your casters Alec and BTT |
| 7653s | Alec here with Brett Thomas Thomas |
| 7655s | snuffed has brought a very interesting |
| 7658s | setup we've got a broadcast making a |
| 7661s | rare armor appearance Navy getting EOS |
| 7664s | curse with a very impressive low end |
| 7667s | control setup a tech one Logistics |
| 7670s | frigates making an appearance here in |
| 7671s | the alliance tournament feeder rounds |
| 7673s | but Thomas Thomas what do we have on the |
| 7675s | new vacancy side |
| 7676s | no vacancies have gone with what we |
| 7678s | usually see which is the Armageddon and |
| 7680s | a badon but interestingly it's not the |
| 7683s | Navy Armageddon it's the street |
| 7684s | Armageddon which allows them to fit an |
| 7687s | Absolution and an EOS those command |
| 7689s | ships bringing those extra links with a |
| 7691s | vexer arbitrator for tackle and ewall |
| 7694s | with Deacon Sentinel Punisher and |
| 7696s | Inquisitor 1t1 lodgy and one T2 and it |
| 7700s | looks like it's starting as everybody's |
| 7701s | just starting to pull away |
| 7704s | yeah we see the snuffed out team kiting |
| 7706s | backwards a little bit particularly |
| 7708s | their low end trying to get some space |
| 7710s | here from the newts presumably ophiria |
| 7712s | adilis and the new vacancies getting the |
| 7715s | getting does get a range bonus it's also |
| 7717s | drone damage bonus as we can see now the |
| 7720s | no vacancies team slowly but surely |
| 7722s | making their way forward |
| 7724s | as it looks like snuffed out is pivoting |
| 7726s | to try to buy themselves a little bit |
| 7727s | more time |
| 7729s | yeah it looks like they're all just |
| 7731s | slowly pulling away you are seeing the |
| 7733s | Armageddon lead the charge but as it is |
| 7736s | an armor Battleship it is going to be a |
| 7738s | little bit slower they do have a lot of |
| 7740s | long-range damage between them so |
| 7742s | they're probably just going to be |
| 7743s | training damage looking for something to |
| 7745s | get caught out of position and then send |
| 7747s | those smaller ships in just to catch |
| 7749s | them |
| 7750s | and neither side really applying a lot |
| 7752s | of that damage yet drones have not even |
| 7754s | been deployed both teams waiting to see |
| 7756s | what the other does I like the decision |
| 7758s | to charge forward with the Armageddon it |
| 7760s | gives them a big sphere of control with |
| 7763s | those long-range heavy neutralizers |
| 7765s | anything that gets into range is going |
| 7766s | to get neutered out and slowly pinned |
| 7768s | down as it turns off the micro warp |
| 7770s | drive and it's gradually corralling the |
| 7772s | snuffed out team cutting off the arena |
| 7774s | and forcing them into a fight as we now |
| 7777s | start to see the first shots trade the |
| 7779s | curse from uh stuffed out beginning to |
| 7782s | be primary here he is taking a pretty |
| 7784s | heavy amount of damage but he is going |
| 7786s | to get some reps |
| 7787s | yeah it looked like the Armageddon just |
| 7789s | got far enough to hit it with that Newt |
| 7791s | all at once and turn off its prop mod |
| 7793s | until it can cap boost back up now and |
| 7795s | start to pull it away the damage is |
| 7797s | going onto the EOS which is one of those |
| 7800s | heavier ships sort of moved forward but |
| 7803s | they've identified it as one of the |
| 7805s | easiest of those larger ships to shoot |
| 7808s | yeah and we've already got maintenance |
| 7810s | spots going out for the EOS |
| 7812s | so we'll uh repair itself quite |
| 7814s | comfortably it has a very very heavy |
| 7817s | resist profile lots of hit points strong |
| 7819s | resists possibly even some local reps |
| 7821s | depending how they have it fit it's |
| 7823s | quite a tanky boy not usually the first |
| 7825s | thing you see primary but it might be |
| 7827s | the only target they have available as I |
| 7829s | say that though they're switching over |
| 7830s | to the vexer Navy issue of rain row a |
| 7834s | big DPS source and a pretty favorable |
| 7837s | DPS to hit point ratio |
| 7840s | yeah and oftentimes these vaccine Navy |
| 7843s | issues fill those top end with newts so |
| 7846s | while it's doing damage with its drones |
| 7847s | it can lock something down and mute it |
| 7849s | down if it's one of those smaller ships |
| 7850s | it is starting to try and pull back and |
| 7853s | get out of range but we'll try and see |
| 7854s | if it's enough |
| 7856s | sure enough it is a gunless vexer so it |
| 7858s | is packing extra dudes however not being |
| 7861s | tackled down it's going to be fairly |
| 7863s | easy for it to pull range here that said |
| 7865s | the projection on the on excuse me on |
| 7868s | the snuffed out team is pretty strong |
| 7869s | with that bar cast a lot of drone damage |
| 7872s | coming off of that team they can keep on |
| 7875s | that vexer Davey but if they can't put |
| 7877s | it down they're gonna have trouble |
| 7878s | applying and as it's pulled range you |
| 7880s | can see it getting rep back up to full |
| 7882s | meanwhile their vacancies have switched |
| 7884s | over to the magus |
| 7886s | yeah that maggots did get grappled for a |
| 7889s | little bit and muted so it was really |
| 7891s | quite slow but the fact that it was only |
| 7893s | a grapple allowed that when it capped |
| 7896s | boost the cycled it could burst back out |
| 7898s | of range they're just Feathering the |
| 7899s | edge of that range and trying not to get |
| 7901s | scrambled but as I say that the biggest |
| 7902s | of Newt Michael is scrammed and locked |
| 7904s | down |
| 7906s | yeah and this was kind of that |
| 7907s | inevitability with the Armageddon |
| 7908s | surging forward only so much room to run |
| 7911s | for stuffed out and they ran out of Road |
| 7914s | here the bar gets tackled down oh it's |
| 7917s | getting absolutely punished as an armor |
| 7919s | tanking ship it does not have a lot of |
| 7921s | hit points and resists to work with and |
| 7923s | it's getting absolutely withered folks |
| 7929s | 126 kilometers just drifted out of range |
| 7933s | they are fighting at 101 so a little bit |
| 7936s | of inattention while you're flying can |
| 7938s | result in something like that happening |
| 7940s | and with that boundary it seems like the |
| 7942s | entirety of snuffed out has just fallen |
| 7944s | off of a cliff as they are running out |
| 7946s | of ships here quite rapidly no vacancies |
| 7948s | now taking a numbers Edge All Ships |
| 7951s | dancing quite close to the boundaries |
| 7953s | there could be more boundaries on both |
| 7954s | teams given where these teams have |
| 7956s | chosen to have their fight but they're |
| 7958s | slowly wearing down the snuffed out EOS |
| 7961s | he is dipping into about 80 75 armor |
| 7965s | meanwhile the stuffed out trying to go |
| 7967s | after the logistics wing for no |
| 7969s | vacancies which would be a pretty big |
| 7971s | blow if it goes down |
| 7973s | yeah they are applying damage to Sierra |
| 7975s | KATU in The Inquisitor he is floating |
| 7977s | just outside a damage range but he is |
| 7980s | managing to just keep his speed up and |
| 7982s | stay alive and just manage to get enough |
| 7984s | mitigation that he doesn't get killed |
| 7986s | with his Allied logistics for guitar |
| 7988s | reps it's going to be rough for him he's |
| 7990s | nuded scrammed webbed and a tech one |
| 7993s | frigate he's not gonna have the |
| 7995s | resistances of its Tech 2 counterpart |
| 7997s | and see him getting dipped down it is a |
| 8000s | frigate though and there's a lot of uh |
| 8002s | heavier damage on the soft-out team so |
| 8004s | he's gonna be able to mitigate a bit of |
| 8006s | it |
| 8007s | yeah |
| 8008s | he's been getting a lot of it he's |
| 8010s | pulling back to full |
| 8011s | yeah the afterburner with overheat just |
| 8015s | managing to get him enough speed to try |
| 8017s | and get out of there |
| 8019s | um |
| 8020s | you're seeing him just about managed to |
| 8022s | survive here he's getting a big boost in |
| 8024s | speed as he gets away from one web and |
| 8026s | then drop down really hard when a second |
| 8029s | web goes on him and those new tit |
| 8032s | it looks like temporarily the vexer Navy |
| 8034s | issue for no vacancies opt out some |
| 8037s | repair Bots to keep him up but has now |
| 8039s | switched back to damage I saw him pull |
| 8041s | him in and put him out again so now |
| 8043s | we're seeing The Inquisitor dipping down |
| 8044s | again as he's struggling but meanwhile |
| 8046s | the curse from from snuffed is taking |
| 8049s | dangerous amounts of fire that would be |
| 8051s | a fantastic trade for no vacancies |
| 8053s | they'll happily go for it and the duck |
| 8056s | Slayer is down and they're not even |
| 8058s | trading for The Inquisitor The |
| 8059s | Inquisitor is stabilizing now this is a |
| 8061s | huge turn |
| 8063s | yeah with the cast down that also stops |
| 8066s | those tracking disruptors that were on |
| 8068s | the Abad and the abandon can finally |
| 8070s | start applying damage to something other |
| 8073s | than the EOS of the Armageddon now it's |
| 8076s | free to shoot whatever it can |
| 8078s | and it looks like it's happy to keep on |
| 8080s | shooting the ears just doing way more |
| 8082s | damage to it as now it's dipping below |
| 8084s | half armor struggling to maintain this |
| 8087s | hit point balance despite The Inquisitor |
| 8089s | and the Navitas no doubt putting |
| 8090s | overheated reps into it at this point |
| 8092s | meanwhile their Sentinel is also drawing |
| 8094s | some negative attention taking out its |
| 8096s | Shields |
| 8097s | yeah and while that EOS is desperately |
| 8100s | trying to stay alive with that bonus |
| 8102s | repair that it has it's going to really |
| 8104s | struggle because this Armageddon has sat |
| 8106s | on top of it for the past minute or so |
| 8108s | it has drained it absolutely dry |
| 8111s | yeah his capacitor is screaming right |
| 8113s | now he's struggling to hold on to any |
| 8115s | shred of armor to keep that structure |
| 8116s | protected it's now dipping into one |
| 8118s | third structure and it's down the EOS is |
| 8120s | down the product of a lot of hard work |
| 8122s | and capacitor management from the new |
| 8124s | vacancies team and now they're going |
| 8125s | after the one remaining big chunk of |
| 8127s | damage on the snuffed out team the |
| 8130s | Armageddon Navy issue of jaza bronikovic |
| 8132s | is now taking severe fire already as I'm |
| 8136s | talking dipping into about 75 armor and |
| 8138s | dropping rapidly |
| 8140s | I want you to notice as well on the No |
| 8143s | Vacancy side how all of their low end |
| 8146s | has a streak of e-war all along them |
| 8148s | that even despite losing three or four |
| 8151s | ships |
| 8152s | snuffed out all really well applying all |
| 8156s | their uh ewall here which is a very good |
| 8158s | sign for them going through into the |
| 8159s | galante gamble that they can apply this |
| 8162s | really well |
| 8163s | yeah this match could have gone either |
| 8165s | way at the start both teams seemed very |
| 8167s | hesitant to commit but once the commit |
| 8169s | did happen it was in the vacancy's favor |
| 8172s | the superior positioning there you've |
| 8174s | got to imagine that the loss of the |
| 8175s | pontifex links really coming back to |
| 8178s | bite snuff now that this match has gone |
| 8179s | into the deep end speaking of the deep |
| 8181s | end uh Jose bronkovic is drowning in |
| 8185s | laser and missile fire right now the |
| 8188s | Drone swarm around him is pretty thick |
| 8190s | it's mostly damaged and it's taking him |
| 8192s | into deep structure now |
| 8195s | yeah it looks like it's finally going to |
| 8197s | be dropping those armageddon's just |
| 8199s | trading blows at the end right next to |
| 8201s | each other now that all the larger ships |
| 8204s | are down there's not much snuffed out |
| 8206s | can do to pull this from pull this back |
| 8209s | they don't have any of that damage left |
| 8212s | the Magus has a little bit of drones but |
| 8214s | they're probably defunct this long into |
| 8216s | the match |
| 8217s | yeah stuff down sacrificing a lot of |
| 8219s | points to bring that bar gas to 23-point |
| 8221s | ship by far the most expensive piece of |
| 8224s | their team and I don't really feel like |
| 8226s | it delivered a lot of value for them I'm |
| 8227s | not sure what the game plan was but they |
| 8230s | did not execute it uh as the remaining |
| 8233s | manship goes down followed by their |
| 8235s | cares followed soon by this Inquisitor |
| 8237s | the stuff team is falling apart right |
| 8239s | now with no possible way back into this |
| 8241s | match latching lacking any source of |
| 8243s | damage on their team |
| 8245s | yeah the difference between the buggers |
| 8248s | and the Armageddon in these type of |
| 8249s | situations is the while they both do |
| 8252s | rapid heavy Clips you can fit the |
| 8255s | Armageddon with guns whereas the barges |
| 8257s | is a lot more about control with those |
| 8259s | bonused scrums you can scram any of the |
| 8262s | fast moving tackle off and keep them |
| 8264s | away from you but he didn't manage to do |
| 8267s | that he just got swarmed by the multiple |
| 8269s | tackle on the vacancy side and couldn't |
| 8271s | keep anything away from him yeah |
| 8274s | unfortunately the Newt range of the |
| 8275s | Armageddon far exceeds the scram Rage of |
| 8278s | the bar cast and that was the deciding |
| 8279s | factor here as snuffed out just their |
| 8282s | Sentinel remaining as the final seconds |
| 8284s | ticked down for this match it may |
| 8286s | survive to the end of match time but |
| 8289s | that is a very small consolation prize |
| 8292s | for snuffed out as they're going to be |
| 8294s | forced into the glenty gamble with the |
| 8296s | remaining seconds ticking down we're |
| 8297s | going to send it back to the analyst |
| 8299s | desk |
| 8303s | [Music] |
| 8310s | [Music] |
| 8312s | thank you |
| 8316s | Ryan are you in the armor Vagabond or |
| 8319s | something no um I've got axle ISP |
| 8324s | and polarized guns |
| 8326s | [Laughter] |
| 8332s | you are one of two people that couldn't |
| 8336s | listen and couldn't check bookmarks and |
| 8338s | find your own way out the route the |
| 8341s | entire route was literally bookmarked |
| 8342s | out to losac I bookmarked the 10 minutes |
| 8345s | in advance |
| 8346s | guys stop being casual they're really |
| 8349s | bad we should not lose anybody to this |
| 8351s | warp off work off take the fleet warp |
| 8353s | everybody warp off this is a really |
| 8355s | really bad execution I'm very |
| 8356s | disappointed |
| 8362s | well they may be called No vacancies but |
| 8364s | they have indeed found a vacancy in the |
| 8366s | Lions tournament 19. Novak moves into |
| 8369s | the main tournament in August we will |
| 8371s | see them then as they drop snuffed out |
| 8374s | down into the galenti gamble the first |
| 8376s | of the teams that are going to have to |
| 8377s | go through that brutal bracket uh |
| 8380s | snuffed out of course they're they're |
| 8381s | not out they're they're little flame of |
| 8384s | Hope still exists it has not been |
| 8385s | entirely snuffed |
| 8387s | um it still flickers gently and stuffed |
| 8390s | out have of course been practicing for |
| 8391s | the golden gamble all the way since last |
| 8393s | year when they brought Four Diamonds uh |
| 8395s | so they they've been you know doing 5G |
| 8397s | chess when the rest of us have just been |
| 8398s | playing internet spaceships uh the |
| 8400s | Basilisk what happened there like we got |
| 8403s | told that uh nuke Michael the captain of |
| 8405s | snuff and in the bar gas actually deseed |
| 8408s | uh prior to him dying obviously that's a |
| 8411s | pretty big thing and it's pretty |
| 8412s | unfortunate but what else could have |
| 8414s | been done differently there |
| 8416s | well I don't want this uh this lost by |
| 8418s | enough to distract you from jet 1X dying |
| 8420s | in towels Nestle |
| 8422s | um but regarding this match |
| 8425s | um the barges getting caught was for |
| 8427s | sure a big deal I think what we saw |
| 8429s | actually was I said before the match |
| 8430s | with the bands the Ishtar was |
| 8432s | particularly interesting I think we saw |
| 8433s | a little bit of five head play here from |
| 8434s | no vacancies Banning the Ishtar saying |
| 8436s | don't worry about drones we're not |
| 8438s | bringing any drones nothing nothing to |
| 8439s | worry about there's no drones coming and |
| 8440s | then they turn up against this snuff |
| 8442s | comp that's very heavy on disruption |
| 8443s | with TDS and GDs and damps and stuff and |
| 8446s | they weren't a drone comp per se but |
| 8448s | they had the Armageddon Scott drones the |
| 8449s | EOS has drones the vexal Navy has drones |
| 8452s | and they made really really good use of |
| 8453s | those both the damage drones and the rep |
| 8454s | drones keeping The Inquisitor alive but |
| 8456s | there was very little that snuff could |
| 8457s | do against |
| 8458s | you know they couldn't really disrupt |
| 8460s | those drone application that we saw them |
| 8461s | go on the curse at the start they didn't |
| 8462s | break through and then they got the |
| 8463s | Bargas held down and just absolutely |
| 8464s | went straight through it |
| 8466s | and mod there was one kind of key |
| 8469s | difference that I that I noticed in that |
| 8471s | last match is uh Novak they went for |
| 8473s | those command ships they went for an EOS |
| 8475s | and an Absolution for their links and |
| 8477s | DPS meanwhile snuff chose to bring the |
| 8480s | Magus and the pontifex obviously the |
| 8482s | links aren't as strong uh you know do |
| 8484s | you think this maybe played a part of it |
| 8485s | as well |
| 8489s | he's back it's the meter Raider hands up |
| 8492s | from you to Raider let's go the |
| 8495s | different difference there is so my new |
| 8497s | that it's uh basically next to |
| 8499s | importance of the link strength |
| 8502s | um the real downside was that one of the |
| 8504s | snuffed out Pilots |
| 8506s | um unfortunately uh boundary violated at |
| 8508s | 126 kilometers just I realized what he |
| 8512s | was doing at the very last minute but |
| 8513s | didn't turn it around so |
| 8516s | um |
| 8517s | yeah and when you lose a command ship uh |
| 8520s | it's kind of a big deal |
| 8523s | yeah I mean I was going to ask about the |
| 8526s | boundary actually because I know uh Baza |
| 8529s | has personally piloted his ships fitter |
| 8531s | to the arena in the past but based on |
| 8533s | either of him being incredibly still uh |
| 8536s | for fear or although he's gone now there |
| 8538s | you go he's definitely disconnected I |
| 8539s | was wondering if he thought I was like a |
| 8541s | dinosaur and I only I think I'm still |
| 8542s | here I think I'm still here on voice |
| 8543s | it's just me |
| 8545s | how did one boundary violate in the |
| 8547s | alliance tournament |
| 8548s | so you uh there's a sphere around the |
| 8551s | arena center of 125 kilometers and what |
| 8553s | you do is you expertly position your |
| 8555s | ship instead of inside that sphere you |
| 8557s | maneuver it in such a way that it |
| 8558s | actually becomes in its entirety outside |
| 8560s | of that sphere so there's no there's no |
| 8562s | overlap between your ship and that |
| 8564s | sphere anymore and that causes your ship |
| 8565s | to instantaneously explode |
| 8568s | it's a very high skill maneuver it's not |
| 8570s | one that you can really |
| 8571s | learn you know you're either born with |
| 8573s | it or you're not |
| 8574s | yeah and it used to be of course if you |
| 8576s | were one of these uh talented |
| 8578s | individuals you got and invite straight |
| 8579s | to habitual euthanasia but now the |
| 8582s | skills of boundary violating have been |
| 8584s | spread out across the arena stuffed out |
| 8586s | uh boundary violated in their very first |
| 8588s | match in fact uh we're also burning out |
| 8590s | their guns and a rather unfortunate uh |
| 8592s | incident uh but like I said they are |
| 8595s | going to be back in the gallante gamble |
| 8597s | let me just quickly go through what the |
| 8600s | heck the galante gamble is so normally |
| 8602s | you see these |
| 8604s | um these guys putting in bands they put |
| 8606s | in uh you know they had certain |
| 8608s | limitations of ships you can only bring |
| 8610s | say three of one particular size for |
| 8612s | example |
| 8613s | um and that you know that's kind of it |
| 8615s | but now in the going to gamble there are |
| 8617s | no bands there are no Hull restrictions |
| 8620s | so the points logic and inflation rules |
| 8623s | still apply so if you bring multiple |
| 8624s | copies of the same ship it costs more |
| 8626s | but you could bring 10 Cruisers like you |
| 8629s | could do it you could channel the |
| 8631s | ancient wisdom of star fraction and |
| 8632s | bring 10 Cruisers and just you know |
| 8635s | running in and only galante ships are |
| 8638s | allowed uh so ships with the galenti |
| 8640s | racial bonus and that includes pirate |
| 8642s | ships and I do believe that means that |
| 8644s | uh things like the bar guests and stuff |
| 8646s | are actually eligible because they have |
| 8647s | those bonuses uh moderator are you |
| 8650s | looking forward to seeing this |
| 8652s | uh yeah well I mean I'm going to have to |
| 8654s | right because uh my friends and snuff |
| 8657s | are in the galante Gamble and they're |
| 8658s | gonna have to make it out of that round |
| 8659s | robin secure the 32nd and final uh |
| 8663s | position in the Lions tournament but I'm |
| 8666s | ready to see all sorts of uh Clowny uh |
| 8669s | Shenanigans of teams scrambling uh that |
| 8672s | probably have practiced many of the |
| 8674s | actual tournament rules but I don't |
| 8676s | think anyone is actually practiced the |
| 8679s | galante Campbell I'd be very surprised |
| 8681s | to have so uh people probably making |
| 8683s | last minute setups to make that happen |
| 8686s | yeah I feel like if you're practicing |
| 8688s | for failure then you're probably going |
| 8689s | to reach it in the in the end so uh so |
| 8692s | actually probably a good point that |
| 8693s | these teams have not had much time to |
| 8695s | practice this uh you know they might get |
| 8696s | here |
| 8698s | um no let's look at our next match which |
| 8699s | is coming up in just a few minutes it's |
| 8700s | whole control versus cast About Now cast |
| 8703s | about had a bit of an upset Victory the |
| 8704s | other day uh Hull control I think did |
| 8707s | pretty all right |
| 8708s | um but I'm looking forward to see if |
| 8710s | they can pull this off versus cast about |
| 8712s | always been a very very good gatekeeping |
| 8714s | Dean cast about it so let's take a look |
| 8715s | at the bands all right so uh whole |
| 8718s | control Banning Loki and scimitar cast |
| 8722s | about sparing EOS and mollus disembodied |
| 8725s | voice of The Bachelors are you still |
| 8727s | with us I am still with you yes |
| 8729s | excellent what do you make of these |
| 8730s | bands |
| 8731s | uh the Loki Scimitar I mean the low-key |
| 8733s | is we most commonly see it is in the ham |
| 8735s | Rush setup so I think that's their |
| 8736s | attempt at either saying you're not |
| 8738s | going to fly hamross or if you are uh |
| 8740s | you know you may have to sort of face |
| 8741s | the reality that you're not going to be |
| 8742s | able to easily get on top of us and |
| 8743s | we're able to spread out and sort of |
| 8745s | mitigate the uh you know the impact of |
| 8747s | having all these short-range camera |
| 8748s | ships pushing at us scimitaries as we've |
| 8750s | said mainly for kiting EOS and mawlers I |
| 8753s | think the EOS is a really strong ban |
| 8754s | again we haven't really seen like I said |
| 8755s | in the last match we haven't seen |
| 8756s | particularly drone focused comps or |
| 8759s | bands but I think in general the EOS uh |
| 8761s | just by virtue of being able to sort of |
| 8763s | get its full DPS from using drones while |
| 8766s | also fitting three or even four links uh |
| 8768s | you know just makes it a really strong |
| 8770s | command ships even in non-drone comps |
| 8773s | and mod uh your thoughts on this as well |
| 8776s | uh you know what what do these bands say |
| 8778s | to you |
| 8779s | yeah I mean to Echo what Battlefield |
| 8781s | said about the Scimitar and the Loki uh |
| 8783s | itself hitting at any sort of a kiting |
| 8786s | setup or even the Drone or not sorry not |
| 8790s | drone the ham Rush setup uh it targets |
| 8792s | that we haven't seen very many mollusk |
| 8795s | bands so far uh largely because celestis |
| 8798s | carries are still available uh we even |
| 8800s | saw one team bring a what she said |
| 8802s | earlier uh something we might see in the |
| 8804s | main tournament but uh not haven't seen |
| 8806s | so much in the prelim |
| 8809s | awesome well I'm certainly looking |
| 8810s | forward to this match again to reiterate |
| 8812s | these are now win and in matches again |
| 8815s | whoever wins this match gets into Lance |
| 8817s | tournament 19. and that's what you want |
| 8818s | that's what we're here for like if |
| 8820s | you're if you're not doing that you're |
| 8821s | not doing well so I hope all these guys |
| 8824s | can indeed pull out a dub uh who will |
| 8827s | obviously have to find out but it is |
| 8829s | time for us to Slither over to the arena |
| 8832s | with your casters Alec and Brett Thomas |
| 8834s | Thomas |
| 8839s | greetings ladies and gentlemen my name |
| 8841s | is Brett Thomas Thomas I'm here with |
| 8842s | Allah we are here watching whole control |
| 8845s | in the red side with cast about in the |
| 8847s | blue Alec why don't you introduce us to |
| 8849s | what cast about have brought |
| 8851s | the astronauts have brought an extremely |
| 8853s | interesting setup kind of a variation on |
| 8855s | Max threat but bringing some ships we |
| 8857s | haven't seen before the drakavec and the |
| 8859s | Ika tursa own with some control from the |
| 8862s | curse also both teams sporting a nergo |
| 8864s | my favorite chip in the game |
| 8866s | yeah whereas hold controller brought a |
| 8869s | slightly more traditional one with a |
| 8871s | balgorn fleet Tempest Absolution with |
| 8873s | the Navy auger Navy exec in those |
| 8876s | Cruiser rolls with Thalia Deacon as evil |
| 8879s | as Logistics |
| 8882s | yeah this is gonna be a really |
| 8884s | interesting matchup the ecotursa is a |
| 8886s | massive points investment it's a |
| 8888s | forgiving hack coming in at 15 points |
| 8890s | but I would have to say the whole |
| 8892s | control team is one of the more ideal |
| 8894s | teams to have fielded for actually it's |
| 8897s | going to mitigate a lot of the damage |
| 8898s | from The Tempest lead issue as both |
| 8900s | teams go after what they think are going |
| 8902s | to be the uh more flimsier ships on the |
| 8905s | enemy teams the whole control executive |
| 8908s | Navy and the curse of cast abouts both |
| 8911s | taking primary fire here although some |
| 8913s | split damage we're seeing multiple ships |
| 8915s | in the castabouts team take fire |
| 8917s | yeah you saw this negle on the swivel |
| 8919s | immediately dive the back line with no |
| 8921s | hesitation they went right into the back |
| 8923s | line they have both been caught and been |
| 8925s | locked down miles away from that |
| 8927s | Guardian so you are seeing Guardian rep |
| 8930s | star to jump on but it has allowed all |
| 8932s | of the damage from hold control to |
| 8934s | immediately start firing on them |
| 8937s | oh the sacrifice play as this vipple |
| 8940s | goes down surrounded by just a cloud of |
| 8942s | damaged drones the whole control team |
| 8944s | very aggressive here |
| 8948s | yeah you're seeing a now that the naggle |
| 8951s | is finally starting to take damage it is |
| 8953s | dropped right on top of the Tempest |
| 8955s | Fleet issue I think they were hoping to |
| 8957s | hold stuff down while they Bend |
| 8959s | everything else forward and try to |
| 8961s | headshot some of the smaller things but |
| 8964s | those deacons have managed the Deacon |
| 8967s | and the Thalia managed to keep |
| 8968s | everything up while those medium guns |
| 8970s | haven't been able to do much |
| 8972s | yeah and unfortunately the balcorn is |
| 8974s | now nuding the guardian for cast about |
| 8976s | that is not the position he wants to be |
| 8978s | in and I don't think he has much chance |
| 8980s | of escaping it either uh the nurgle goes |
| 8983s | down |
| 8983s | unfortunately that Guardian is gonna |
| 8985s | have a really hard time keeping anyone |
| 8987s | else on his team alive under that |
| 8989s | massive new pressure |
| 8990s | and it's just gonna get worse from here |
| 8992s | it's it is not being screened so that |
| 8995s | organ Navy is bending towards it and so |
| 8997s | is the balcon it looks like the |
| 8998s | backgrounds just managed to get in range |
| 9000s | to drop those ball going webs on it so |
| 9002s | you should start seeing it slowing down |
| 9004s | and start taking a lot of damage |
| 9007s | I'm trying to see what the cast of mouse |
| 9008s | curse is doing here it looks like it's |
| 9010s | circled around to the back line it's |
| 9012s | trying to Newt the logistics frigates it |
| 9015s | doesn't seem to be doing a great job of |
| 9016s | it as neither of them are having trouble |
| 9018s | keeping their team alive the way that |
| 9020s | the guest abouts team is |
| 9022s | yeah it's using all of its e-water |
| 9024s | trying to stop the track and get the |
| 9026s | fully Tempest of the Absolution but it |
| 9027s | doesn't really matter because everything |
| 9029s | they're shooting is only going 30 |
| 9031s | kilometers per second |
| 9034s | oh and that's the guardian down oh |
| 9038s | not a strong attack on the guardian as |
| 9040s | you'd hope to have likely unable to run |
| 9042s | its local rep if they fit it with one |
| 9044s | and now the ikutarsa is coming we'll see |
| 9047s | if the points are worth it here but |
| 9048s | without a guardian to keep him up the |
| 9050s | high resist and signature tanking for |
| 9051s | the ecotursa not gonna be a huge Factor |
| 9055s | here it's not going to be able to |
| 9056s | replace the hit points that it's losing |
| 9057s | neither will the drakovic which also |
| 9059s | comes with a resist bonus and a ton of |
| 9062s | damage not a lot of deck on it though as |
| 9064s | you can see without the guardian to |
| 9065s | replace it the hit points are just |
| 9067s | getting ground down off of these ships |
| 9070s | yeah it looks like the Absolution and |
| 9073s | the drakovic when able to apply enough |
| 9076s | long-range damage that you usually get |
| 9078s | to see with these double Battleship as |
| 9080s | the top end comes |
| 9084s | very disappointing the actresses there |
| 9087s | is primarily the OG Navy issue not the |
| 9089s | ship you'd want to be primaring it's |
| 9091s | it's a big pile of hit points it doesn't |
| 9093s | do a lot of damage |
| 9094s | there's so many other targets for that |
| 9096s | ecotursa to choose from I'm not sure why |
| 9099s | he's priming the auger Navy issue and |
| 9102s | you've got the logistics frigates still |
| 9103s | alive the extra Navy issue still alive |
| 9105s | but it's not gonna matter soon |
| 9109s | he could have been he was in the perfect |
| 9111s | opportunity earlier to get on top of |
| 9114s | those smaller ships and get something |
| 9116s | that |
| 9117s | it can easily apply damage to like them |
| 9119s | I guess and get those links off the |
| 9121s | field but it hasn't and now it's sitting |
| 9123s | and dying at a fire underneath all the |
| 9125s | damage of everything else |
| 9127s | yeah the the high tracking of the |
| 9129s | drekovic and the Inca tersa not being |
| 9131s | leveraged here to clear out the low end |
| 9133s | and the spooling damage of both of them |
| 9135s | not being put onto the high value of |
| 9137s | Battleship size targets either kind of |
| 9140s | the worst of Both Worlds as far as |
| 9142s | Target calling for the triglavian guns |
| 9144s | leaving a lot of value on the table and |
| 9146s | they sunk so many points into them and |
| 9149s | they're really paying for it here it's |
| 9150s | now their Absolution is about to drop |
| 9151s | followed by the curse and crucifier in |
| 9153s | short order |
| 9155s | yeah the cast and the crucifier tried as |
| 9158s | hard as they could at the start of the |
| 9160s | match to mitigate the most amount of |
| 9162s | damage they could with those tracking |
| 9164s | disrupters but it didn't help that both |
| 9166s | the swivel and the Nagel were right at |
| 9169s | zero so that it didn't matter underneath |
| 9172s | the balgo webs tracking didn't matter |
| 9175s | they could just load to short range |
| 9176s | Amazon just pop them at the start |
| 9179s | yeah a lot of confidence on that initial |
| 9181s | charge from the cast about the team but |
| 9183s | in hindsight it was ill-placed as this |
| 9185s | curse is about to drop |
| 9187s | and unfortunately for them well to me |
| 9190s | fortunately for them they'll have one |
| 9191s | more chance at this in the galente |
| 9193s | Gamble |
| 9194s | and Cass may have an edge given their |
| 9196s | galenti pedigree but they're certainly |
| 9198s | not having an edge here the alliance |
| 9200s | tournament despite their tournament |
| 9201s | background whole control going to take |
| 9203s | this match as they |
| 9205s | forced me to keep talking is this curse |
| 9208s | is |
| 9209s | oh here let's see how far it gets out |
| 9213s | he's got a lot of speed I'm optimistic |
| 9217s | 199. |
| 9221s | very nice we'll throw this back to the |
| 9224s | desk |
| 9243s | could be anywhere |
| 9245s | [Music] |
| 9259s | thank you |
| 9272s | [Music] |
| 9286s | they are so whole control sliding |
| 9288s | straight into alliance tournament 19 |
| 9290s | with a couple of bumps along the way but |
| 9292s | they made it uh cast about Unfortunately |
| 9295s | they drop into the galante gamble as |
| 9298s | well they joined snuffed out there and |
| 9300s | there's one remaining spot in that uh |
| 9304s | that final gamble to see who gets that |
| 9306s | remaining spot in Alliance tournament |
| 9308s | 19. |
| 9309s | um the Basilisk you are back you've done |
| 9311s | your human skin once again how was that |
| 9314s | match for you |
| 9315s | yeah it was good I quite liked um whole |
| 9317s | controls come to be honest I think we've |
| 9319s | seen quite a lot of teams bring these |
| 9320s | multiple Battleship sort of heavy armor |
| 9322s | control comps and I feel like their |
| 9325s | variant was one of the best if not the |
| 9327s | best that we've seen just because it it |
| 9329s | all felt like it fit together rather |
| 9330s | well they hadn't over indexed into |
| 9331s | anything there wasn't too many |
| 9332s | battleships or you know not enough |
| 9334s | control I felt like it was quite a |
| 9335s | balanced comp and quite versatile uh |
| 9337s | setup they had |
| 9339s | yeah moderator is an interesting setup |
| 9342s | as well with |
| 9344s | um a number of ships we don't see super |
| 9345s | often uh you know we saw both teams |
| 9347s | Fielding narigals |
| 9349s | um we saw drakovic and ekitarissa you |
| 9351s | know talked about these ships how can we |
| 9353s | not see these as often as maybe we would |
| 9355s | expect |
| 9356s | yeah so one of the issues with that kind |
| 9360s | of point |
| 9362s | setup is that |
| 9364s | um the lecheck again very expensive a |
| 9367s | Couture's a very expensive direct back |
| 9370s | very expensive so the reason that |
| 9372s | they're more expensive than say like a |
| 9374s | normal one chip is because uh they spool |
| 9377s | over time and |
| 9379s | um that's a feature of the true Lobby |
| 9381s | ships where if you're an old shack |
| 9385s | start out maybe not doing all that much |
| 9387s | but by the time you're fully spooled on |
| 9389s | top of someone in a battleship brawl |
| 9391s | you're doing well over 2000 damage and |
| 9393s | to account for that uh CCP and their |
| 9396s | infinite wisdom has decided to make them |
| 9397s | expensive than say you know it Baden or |
| 9401s | attempt because of that ability |
| 9405s | yeah and one of the other thing was that |
| 9407s | Um this can impact |
| 9409s | um is sometimes we see people bring |
| 9410s | multiple of the same ships uh you talk |
| 9412s | about expensive ships but basilis can |
| 9414s | you explain the point inflation rule |
| 9416s | that we have uh going on in the alliance |
| 9418s | tournament |
| 9419s | sure so every ship has a certain cost |
| 9422s | right so eggs like navies that we've |
| 9423s | seen all the time they're six points |
| 9425s | um but if you bring a second exec Navy |
| 9427s | they both become seven points and if you |
| 9429s | bring a third one they all become eight |
| 9430s | points so every time you bring an extra |
| 9432s | copy of the same ship uh they each |
| 9434s | increase in cost |
| 9436s | um so it's I think I quite like it the |
| 9438s | rule in general I think it adds a sort |
| 9439s | of interesting Dynamic where teams need |
| 9441s | to decide you know is the ship good |
| 9443s | enough to bring two of them is it good |
| 9444s | enough to bring three of them in certain |
| 9446s | in certain circumstances |
| 9448s | um and I think we've seen you know it it |
| 9450s | adds a lot of |
| 9451s | um variation to comps because different |
| 9453s | teams have different opinions on whether |
| 9454s | or not certain ships are worth bringing |
| 9456s | multiple copies |
| 9458s | yeah I feel like I also can uh force a |
| 9462s | comp to have almost unintended changes |
| 9464s | so for example if you have a comp that |
| 9466s | has |
| 9467s | um like a deacon and Italia and someone |
| 9470s | bans out the Deacon sure you can replace |
| 9473s | it with Italia but they're both going to |
| 9475s | go up a point which means that you have |
| 9477s | to underpoint something else somewhere |
| 9479s | and so it's not just a case of swapping |
| 9480s | one ship out for another if you're |
| 9482s | swapping in a duplicate then you're |
| 9484s | going to end up with a situation where |
| 9486s | you're like oh heck I need to find two |
| 9488s | extra points maybe I have to take my |
| 9490s | curse and drop it down to an arbitrator |
| 9491s | and then change something else as well |
| 9493s | so it can be quite quite impactful just |
| 9495s | with a single band when you look at the |
| 9496s | the points inflation moderator how do |
| 9499s | you think teams tend to try and counter |
| 9500s | this |
| 9503s | um so we see it a lot kind of the |
| 9506s | maximum threat comps where |
| 9509s | um they don't all bring the same battle |
| 9511s | Crews at right you see we have like an |
| 9513s | Absolution we have our hurricane our |
| 9516s | Harbinger Fleet issue we have vertex |
| 9518s | Navy issue we have |
| 9520s | all these sort of um you know faction |
| 9522s | and then the tech one battleships and |
| 9525s | then of course you have the faction |
| 9526s | Cruisers so that's a setup where you |
| 9529s | don't see any duplicates of any real |
| 9532s | ships but |
| 9533s | they all do sort of the same thing they |
| 9536s | all have roughly the same tank same |
| 9538s | projection that's why conflict that are |
| 9540s | very hard to ban out |
| 9542s | um then there are comps where really |
| 9545s | there's only one ship of that type that |
| 9548s | does that and a lot of those are going |
| 9549s | to be your pirate faction ships where |
| 9551s | they have unique bonus like say the bar |
| 9553s | guest or balgo |
| 9556s | awesome thank you and then basilisk |
| 9558s | you're obviously uh working quite |
| 9560s | closely with uh one of the teams and I |
| 9561s | believe that you're running practices |
| 9562s | and scrims and stuff when you're trying |
| 9564s | to put together a comp are you fitting |
| 9568s | in alternatives for when this might |
| 9570s | happen like are you saying hey this ship |
| 9571s | gets banned out we replace it with this |
| 9573s | if this one gets manually replace it |
| 9575s | with that like how deep does it go when |
| 9576s | you come up with a a composition |
| 9580s | I am um so for the gun spam comp that we |
| 9584s | ran yesterday with all the battle |
| 9585s | Cruisers that we thankfully won with I |
| 9587s | think we had about nine or ten different |
| 9588s | variations to go just based on |
| 9591s | um you know what the opponents might ban |
| 9592s | what we feel like we're bringing what |
| 9593s | what the band's set up for |
| 9596s | um but to be honest I don't think it was |
| 9598s | particularly necessary because that comp |
| 9600s | in particular as Maude was just saying |
| 9602s | is very easy to substitute something in |
| 9603s | and out |
| 9604s | um that's more just sort of preparation |
| 9605s | for the 80 proper where as you said |
| 9607s | earlier on in the day four bands is just |
| 9610s | such a totally different environment |
| 9611s | there can be so much more pressure |
| 9612s | exerted |
| 9613s | um you know on a team and also it's part |
| 9615s | of sort of the exploration process of |
| 9617s | building a comp you know you might build |
| 9618s | a version and you say you know what |
| 9620s | happens if we trade this ship for |
| 9621s | another ship and sort of see how it |
| 9623s | turns out see how everyone feels about |
| 9624s | changing these ships how it performs |
| 9625s | differently what the different strengths |
| 9627s | and weaknesses are and you you might not |
| 9629s | rate it as the best version but you |
| 9631s | might still just sort of keep it on the |
| 9632s | side and think you know this might come |
| 9633s | in handy at some point maybe they'll you |
| 9635s | know ban the hob engine Navy so we need |
| 9637s | to bring something else let's just stick |
| 9638s | this one there and save it in the back |
| 9639s | pocket in case we yeah |
| 9642s | also remember you were preparing for |
| 9644s | these features with your your team did |
| 9647s | you consider or practice to do any form |
| 9649s | of 3D crafting should you end up in the |
| 9652s | gallante gamble or are you just banking |
| 9654s | on that not actually existing |
| 9656s | I absolutely did know I have no idea |
| 9659s | what's going to happen in the Glenside |
| 9660s | gamble I have no clue |
| 9662s | one of the other exciting rules about |
| 9665s | the Glen to gamble so is a round robin |
| 9667s | system uh there'll be three teams uh |
| 9669s | each team will play each of the other |
| 9671s | teams once uh so each team basically |
| 9673s | plays two matches but the match results |
| 9675s | in terms of win loss actually have no |
| 9678s | bearing on who gets through uh the the |
| 9681s | person the team that gets through will |
| 9683s | be the team that scores the most points |
| 9684s | by killing the most ships first and |
| 9686s | foremost so you could actually lose both |
| 9689s | of your matches |
| 9690s | and still in theory get in if you you |
| 9693s | know maybe lost by a point and you |
| 9695s | killed 99 and they killed 100 in one of |
| 9697s | those matches and you did that twice you |
| 9699s | get in with like 198 points or something |
| 9701s | like that's how you get in so |
| 9704s | just winning is no longer the objective |
| 9706s | like if you're if you're too timid if |
| 9708s | you're too backline and you let them get |
| 9711s | some points and you don't get any points |
| 9712s | you know maybe you win the match but if |
| 9714s | you win the match like five to Zero by |
| 9715s | killing one chip it's not gonna help you |
| 9717s | uh mod |
| 9719s | does this not sound terrifying uh for |
| 9722s | Pilots |
| 9724s | um yeah that's just absolutely |
| 9726s | the worst possible thing you're you're |
| 9729s | definitely thinking okay not only do I |
| 9732s | have to win I just have to win big |
| 9734s | because the last thing you want to do is |
| 9736s | give your opponents any point uh but you |
| 9739s | also have to try to you know turbo dunk |
| 9741s | so you have to think okay what are comps |
| 9743s | that we can not just you know win but |
| 9746s | win big with |
| 9748s | um and a lot of these Rush versus Rush |
| 9751s | comps I'm gonna let you know up front |
| 9752s | like those aren't going to be clean |
| 9754s | matches you are going to lose chips if |
| 9757s | you just decide hey we're going to bring |
| 9758s | like four megathrons or hyperions and |
| 9761s | we're just gonna run them into each |
| 9762s | other things are going to die and |
| 9764s | they're going to be very exploding |
| 9765s | they're going to go boom boom pew pew |
| 9767s | and you know you you better have an |
| 9771s | answer for them |
| 9772s | yeah it is going to be pretty chaotic I |
| 9775s | actually remember I think from Alliance |
| 9777s | tournament 16 when we had uh basically a |
| 9780s | brawl at the center of the arena and I'm |
| 9782s | sure stuffed out was involved in it uh |
| 9783s | with a flagship it was a flagship |
| 9786s | Vindicator around or something |
| 9788s | um and everyone worked in at zero on |
| 9792s | both sides and uh it's like oh no |
| 9794s | imagine warping into the arena and |
| 9797s | seeing yourself you know five kilometers |
| 9799s | away from two of indicators like uh this |
| 9801s | is not going to end well it's like quick |
| 9803s | spam lock spam F1 overheat your belief |
| 9806s | uh and you know hands off the keyword |
| 9808s | and hope basically how those matches are |
| 9810s | gonna go down so I'm excited to see are |
| 9812s | are there going to be tactics are there |
| 9813s | going to be uh just brawling into each |
| 9816s | other's faces who knows |
| 9818s | um we have one more spot available in |
| 9820s | the galante Gamble and we have one more |
| 9822s | direct entry spot in Alliance tournament |
| 9824s | 19. we have 30 of the 32 teams in |
| 9828s | Alliance tournament 19 now confirmed |
| 9830s | just those two spots remaining one for |
| 9832s | the winner one for the winner of this |
| 9835s | next match so boundary experts going up |
| 9838s | against all their Essence in this |
| 9839s | upcoming match |
| 9841s | let's take a quick look at the bands for |
| 9843s | this so boundary experts Banning out the |
| 9845s | Deacon and the Talia so saying hey no |
| 9847s | friglogy please thank you uh armor |
| 9850s | forgot you I should say and obvious in |
| 9852s | spanning out the bar guest and the |
| 9854s | typhoon Fleet moderator your thoughts on |
| 9857s | these bands here |
| 9858s | so all this essentially hasn't changed |
| 9860s | their strategy for literally all of |
| 9862s | today it's the same bands they've been |
| 9864s | going with |
| 9865s | um in again I still don't like the |
| 9867s | typhoon Fleet issue band bargasban is |
| 9869s | perfectly fine uh boundary experts has |
| 9871s | been previously Banning Deacon but also |
| 9874s | curse as well uh but they've decided to |
| 9876s | swap the curse band for Banning the |
| 9878s | other Tech 2 armor-free Logistics the |
| 9881s | Thalia as well so |
| 9883s | um what are your thoughts on that |
| 9886s | are you asking me or basilisk there you |
| 9889s | know I think I cut off I meant to say |
| 9890s | basil the uh uh yeah |
| 9893s | I think it's quite a smart adaptation |
| 9895s | from boundary experts because as as you |
| 9897s | said a lot of these teams not just in |
| 9898s | the bands but in the comps a lot of them |
| 9900s | obviously they haven't had much time to |
| 9902s | prepare their their in a situation where |
| 9904s | they lose and they're out so if you win |
| 9906s | you think you know let's just keep going |
| 9907s | with that it's winning right it's good |
| 9909s | and Boundary experts have looked to of |
| 9910s | Essences matches and said they quite |
| 9912s | like these logic frigate comps you know |
| 9913s | we've seen a couple different variations |
| 9915s | I think they had the Bindi one time and |
| 9916s | the Battleground another time but |
| 9918s | overall still pretty heavy armor control |
| 9920s | comps and they've said well if we ban |
| 9921s | the Deacon in the Thalia you you are |
| 9923s | going to have to severely this comp |
| 9925s | or you are gonna have to run something |
| 9926s | else so I quite like it from boundary |
| 9928s | experts to sort of put off Essence off |
| 9930s | on the back foot and make them fly |
| 9931s | something where perhaps not as |
| 9932s | comfortable with coming up you know for |
| 9934s | the first time compared to a comp |
| 9936s | they've flown multiple times already |
| 9937s | today |
| 9938s | yeah when we look at frigate logic uh |
| 9940s | like the ticket and Natalia are being |
| 9942s | obviously the the armor Tech 2 |
| 9944s | equivalent we don't see as much Shield |
| 9948s | frigate logic as we do armor frigate |
| 9950s | logic uh moderator why why might that be |
| 9955s | part of the reason |
| 9956s | um is just because |
| 9958s | um |
| 9959s | you get a lot more utility frankly out |
| 9962s | of |
| 9963s | armor Logie um then you do the shield |
| 9965s | one the the armor ones are a bit more |
| 9968s | difficult to kill frankly than the |
| 9970s | shield oblaji Arc and that's kind of the |
| 9973s | reason of what we do it's very common |
| 9976s | for the armor |
| 9978s | um Tech 2 forget logic to be fit with |
| 9980s | tenement afterburner and that's |
| 9983s | something that you can sort of kind of |
| 9986s | do with the shield forget Logie but it's |
| 9989s | much much more difficult to do and |
| 9992s | um the signature radius on the armor |
| 9996s | refrigerator logic is also notably |
| 9998s | smaller field |
| 10000s | uh buzzer uh mod just mentioned there |
| 10003s | about the 10mn AVS but correct me if I'm |
| 10006s | wrong isn't that a cruiser-sized prop |
| 10009s | mod please explain it is it is so in |
| 10012s | certain circumstances You may wish to um |
| 10014s | over prop because it's called over prop |
| 10015s | certain ships now obviously the benefit |
| 10018s | of this is you're going to go a lot |
| 10019s | faster at top speed the downside is it |
| 10021s | handles like a truck |
| 10023s | um so it can be very very difficult |
| 10025s | um for some players to sort of control |
| 10026s | especially in uh logic frigates where |
| 10029s | your range you know your rep range I |
| 10030s | think optimal range is like 15 |
| 10031s | kilometers you've got a little bit of |
| 10033s | fall off |
| 10034s | um so you're still doing decent reps out |
| 10035s | to like 30 kilometers but it just can be |
| 10037s | a lot more difficult to sort of control |
| 10038s | your positioning and keep your speed up |
| 10039s | because obviously that's where your tank |
| 10041s | is that's the important thing you need |
| 10042s | to keep moving but you need to keep |
| 10044s | moving in a Direction that's not |
| 10045s | completely away from the guy you're |
| 10047s | trying to rep and it's also not into the |
| 10048s | guy who's trying to kill you so it puts |
| 10050s | you in a very sort of action-intensive |
| 10052s | situation where you need to be perfectly |
| 10054s | in control of your positioning and it's |
| 10055s | quite difficult but I think it is if |
| 10057s | you're good at it you can definitely |
| 10058s | reap the rewards |
| 10060s | yeah you see that sometimes see uh good |
| 10063s | Pilots like that who will turn off the |
| 10065s | prop MOD turn then turn it back on again |
| 10067s | because obviously you get a lot of |
| 10069s | inertia when you have that oversized |
| 10071s | prop mod done so cycling it between |
| 10073s | essentially directions like sprinting |
| 10075s | stopping turning and sprinting again is |
| 10077s | what they're rather than trying to turn |
| 10078s | with it on which is like you say it |
| 10080s | handles like a truck |
| 10082s | um and yeah I've experienced that those |
| 10085s | Logistics frigates as well stiffer hard |
| 10088s | to to run effectively because you're |
| 10090s | positioning I mean positioning in any |
| 10092s | logistic ship Cruisers obviously |
| 10094s | um the the normal talk but positioning |
| 10097s | in those Logistics is so important and |
| 10099s | so difficult because like you say very |
| 10101s | short range like you have to get in |
| 10103s | right up next to people who are being |
| 10104s | shot and if you're wrapping someone |
| 10106s | who's being shot chances are the people |
| 10107s | who are shooting them are also in range |
| 10108s | of you now whereas uh you know they're |
| 10110s | just exclusive you're much more likely |
| 10112s | to be able to keep that to uh you know |
| 10113s | much much further uh away from from the |
| 10116s | enemies mod do you have a preference for |
| 10119s | Cruisers or logic |
| 10122s | um I think they serve two distinctly |
| 10124s | different roles in kind of uh different |
| 10126s | ops they do very different |
| 10128s | um with uh a lot of the cruiser |
| 10131s | Logistics here more vulnerable |
| 10134s | to |
| 10135s | kind of like heavy new pressure or |
| 10139s | held down uh like really far backline |
| 10142s | with uh some of the logistics frigates |
| 10145s | you're more worried about getting uh |
| 10148s | muted out by some intentional or um like |
| 10151s | a newt vexer or something like that |
| 10152s | where yeah you can inject but man it's |
| 10155s | gonna suck |
| 10157s | here |
| 10159s | [Music] |
| 10162s | I think it depends entirely on the comp |
| 10164s | how the rest of your comp is built I |
| 10166s | think you want to run the frigates where |
| 10167s | you're sure that you're going to have |
| 10168s | like sort of short-range new control |
| 10170s | where you're saying you know we're |
| 10171s | confident that if this devolves into a |
| 10173s | close range brawl that's where we want |
| 10175s | to be more than the other team and I |
| 10176s | think the Cruisers are better if you're |
| 10178s | saying you know we don't really want to |
| 10179s | brawl we want to keep our lodgy sort of |
| 10181s | safe and out of Harm's Way a little bit |
| 10183s | you know it's only going to be the heavy |
| 10184s | mutes that are maybe threatening in but |
| 10186s | their cycle time is so long you can |
| 10187s | effectively just cat boost and try and |
| 10189s | sort of mitigate it a little bit so I |
| 10191s | think it definitely depends on the |
| 10192s | content you're building around both are |
| 10193s | totally viable and of course it's also |
| 10195s | slight differences in point costs right |
| 10197s | I mean the tech one cruises are nine |
| 10199s | points two frigates if you take the two |
| 10200s | different ones or ten points Tech Two |
| 10202s | logic Cruisers are what 16 points so |
| 10204s | again it just depends what else you want |
| 10206s | to juggling around those pieces and make |
| 10208s | it all fit into 100. |
| 10210s | yeah you also have to consider that if |
| 10212s | you bring dual Logistics fragrance then |
| 10214s | you have two pilots doing that job |
| 10216s | versus a logistics Cruiser is One Pilot |
| 10219s | doing that job so you have an extra |
| 10220s | pilot to do something else obviously |
| 10222s | that's you know you're paying a point |
| 10224s | premium for that in in this case |
| 10226s | um but the difference between eight you |
| 10229s | know utility and DPS ships versus nine |
| 10231s | can be quite quite important I mean |
| 10232s | sometimes we see on demand comps |
| 10234s | historically they don't do very well |
| 10236s | simply because the power of having you |
| 10238s | know the full complement of currently 10 |
| 10240s | used to be 12 for example having those |
| 10243s | extra people those extra bodies on the |
| 10245s | field was super super important all |
| 10248s | right we have just another minute or so |
| 10250s | before we're ready to go to this match |
| 10251s | between I could do better sorry or |
| 10254s | boundary experts and or lessons and I'm |
| 10256s | just looking at the twitch Channel |
| 10258s | points right now so it looks like you |
| 10259s | guys are on the side of boundary experts |
| 10262s | right now I see well over a million |
| 10264s | Channel points going on to boundary |
| 10265s | experts uh to the 400k all of essence |
| 10269s | that seems like quite a strong uh |
| 10272s | preference for boundary experts but all |
| 10274s | of essence have been performing really |
| 10275s | well do you have a production for this |
| 10278s | buzzer |
| 10280s | I think I would lean on the side of |
| 10281s | boundary experts I think their |
| 10282s | execution's been maybe a little bit |
| 10284s | better I mean of essence looked very |
| 10285s | cautious particularly in the match |
| 10286s | against |
| 10287s | um sharp I'm trying and the five-man |
| 10289s | comp I mean it took them quite a while |
| 10290s | to I know they were kaiti and you know |
| 10292s | trying to get their minute in the |
| 10294s | Limelight but I feel like they could |
| 10295s | have been a little bit more proactive at |
| 10297s | maybe fine of maybe lacking confidence |
| 10299s | and also I think there's the chance this |
| 10301s | entire thing is rigged because let's be |
| 10303s | real snuffed out they got to go into the |
| 10304s | glenter gamble they fielded their four |
| 10306s | demos is only right Caster belts it's a |
| 10308s | glente Corp they've got to go into |
| 10310s | glenter gamble of essence also a galante |
| 10312s | Corp they've got to go into the glinte |
| 10313s | gamble so I think it's shaping up to be |
| 10315s | a three galente glente gamble which is |
| 10317s | going to be wonderful and that obviously |
| 10319s | means I think boundary experts are gonna |
| 10320s | take this one all right so before Basel |
| 10323s | leaks any more of the script I'm gonna |
| 10325s | hand over to the arena with our casters |
| 10327s | Alec and Brett Thomas Thomas |
| 10334s | welcome to this match of essence bring a |
| 10337s | very familiar setup at this point |
| 10339s | sticking with what got them here for the |
| 10341s | most part |
| 10343s | we've got a balgorn Vindicator a star |
| 10345s | day Absolution Exeter Navy pretty strong |
| 10347s | high-end DPS with some fairly |
| 10350s | conventional low ends we're seeing a Fed |
| 10351s | Navy Comet make an appearance in the |
| 10353s | tournament right Thomas Thomas what do |
| 10355s | we have on the other side |
| 10359s | we have at the top end as we've seen |
| 10361s | multiple times a paladin and an abundant |
| 10364s | getting brawl so they're trying for |
| 10366s | these long-range Lanes the damage with |
| 10368s | the ownerosa support and then the usual |
| 10370s | Suite of lows with the exact navies and |
| 10372s | the Blackbird the Blackbird is what is |
| 10374s | being shot first they're trying to get |
| 10376s | that down with those medium rails but |
| 10378s | they're training it by shooting The |
| 10379s | Inquisitor |
| 10380s | Inquisitor will be a tough loss for them |
| 10382s | if you lose one Logistics frigate you're |
| 10384s | pretty likely to lose the other one in |
| 10386s | short order and as we said in previous |
| 10388s | matches these tech one frigates the most |
| 10390s | fragile Logistics you can hope to bring |
| 10392s | that said Curran bergenberg is holding |
| 10395s | tough bringing back some of his armor |
| 10397s | here through his piloting trying to |
| 10400s | mitigate that damage meanwhile they're |
| 10402s | having some trouble focusing fire |
| 10404s | of essence spreading damage across three |
| 10407s | different people |
| 10408s | yeah you all seeing damage go on to that |
| 10410s | black bed because the Blackbird is |
| 10412s | trying to jam out the starter in the |
| 10414s | Absolution when it does get a jam off |
| 10416s | they will shoot it while they can but |
| 10418s | you're seeing damage try to get traded |
| 10420s | on what they want as they push forward |
| 10422s | but we are seeing that Absolution start |
| 10424s | to drop down now |
| 10426s | now we're starting to see things come |
| 10428s | into Focus here there looked like they |
| 10430s | were going for the extra Navy issue of |
| 10432s | badging experts team but now pivoting |
| 10434s | toward the rest of the low end is the |
| 10435s | hyena and Confessor take heavy damage |
| 10437s | the Blackbird continuing to get whittled |
| 10439s | down the hyena and Confessor might both |
| 10441s | die at around the same time meanwhile |
| 10443s | the uh of essence Absolution absolutely |
| 10446s | getting withered now in very very deep |
| 10449s | armor the logistics frigates are trying |
| 10451s | to reposition to claw that armor back |
| 10453s | but it's going to be a very tall order |
| 10455s | he is slowly gaining ground but it's |
| 10458s | going to be very difficult for him he's |
| 10460s | fairly well tackled so he's not going to |
| 10461s | be able to escape |
| 10462s | yeah it looks like the Blackbirds |
| 10464s | finally got down so you are going to see |
| 10465s | damage pop up a little bit full of |
| 10468s | essence but the one thing nobody's |
| 10469s | noticed yet is the mother is sitting at |
| 10472s | zero on the runeros it doesn't have any |
| 10474s | tackle but what it does have is the new |
| 10477s | teasing on the owner so you're gonna |
| 10478s | start to see their rep power drop off |
| 10480s | slightly |
| 10482s | and that could be what we're seeing here |
| 10483s | when the Absolution is getting reps he's |
| 10485s | able to hold but when he's not getting |
| 10487s | reps he's dropping and he does drop |
| 10488s | around the same time as their comment |
| 10490s | Navy the combination is a devastating |
| 10492s | loss for the of essence team that's a |
| 10494s | lot of their damage and a big chunk of |
| 10496s | their links |
| 10498s | yeah you are seeing damage go about |
| 10500s | we're seeing this battle going just |
| 10502s | popping damage where The Vindicator of |
| 10504s | Chad flame is being held off by this |
| 10507s | Confessor we are seeing stuff try and |
| 10509s | save it and get it moving again but the |
| 10511s | Vindicator is just going nowhere |
| 10515s | yeah that then vindi is pinned down by a |
| 10519s | lowly Confessor holding back this |
| 10521s | enormous Battleship of course it is |
| 10523s | counter webbing it but they're not able |
| 10525s | to apply a ton of damage to it yet it's |
| 10527s | not really drawing most of the of |
| 10529s | essence team's fire instead they're |
| 10530s | going all in on this a bad end which is |
| 10533s | one of the tankiest uh ships that they |
| 10536s | could be shooting uh maybe they're |
| 10538s | afraid they're not going to be able to |
| 10538s | bring it down if they lose more of their |
| 10540s | damage unclear but right now they're |
| 10542s | taking it to about half armor and |
| 10544s | they're having trouble pushing it much |
| 10545s | further than that you are seeing this |
| 10548s | matter of Quinn going down there finally |
| 10549s | swapping over to we get to get relief |
| 10552s | for that or near us because that one |
| 10553s | nearest is probably suffering really |
| 10555s | badly at the moment with the amount of |
| 10557s | cops that's been on it we are seeing the |
| 10559s | hyena of Sulu go down it looks like that |
| 10563s | Bal uh got managed to get a web on it |
| 10565s | and they shut it down relatively quickly |
| 10567s | and as soon as the new molar goes down |
| 10570s | you see that uh baton popping back to |
| 10572s | full |
| 10573s | of essence now switching their fire |
| 10575s | going after Jay Johnson's ex-gren Navy |
| 10577s | issue again though should have a better |
| 10580s | chance of bringing this down but they |
| 10581s | need to tackle it I believe it's still |
| 10583s | moving around quite freely at this point |
| 10586s | yeah it just looks like each team has |
| 10588s | realized they're not going to be able to |
| 10590s | break the high end so they're just |
| 10593s | swapping to these medium and these |
| 10594s | smaller ships and doing as much as they |
| 10596s | can to shoot it you are seeing this |
| 10597s | Inquisitor gets shot though that might |
| 10599s | be the breaking point |
| 10601s | unfortunately uh the railgun Exeter Navy |
| 10605s | and the starting on the of essence team |
| 10606s | most of their shots missing the |
| 10608s | Australia fairing slightly better but |
| 10611s | you're seeing a lot of their railgun |
| 10612s | fire just fly off into the distances |
| 10614s | they're having trouble tracking uh now |
| 10617s | that this extra Navy has been a little |
| 10618s | bit more heavily tackled they are |
| 10619s | applying a bit better but it's still |
| 10622s | it's gonna be a very tall order for them |
| 10624s | and I believe they've switched fire now |
| 10626s | they're going after the ineros |
| 10629s | is also being missed quite a bit by |
| 10633s | these not tracking bonus railgun ships |
| 10635s | it is taking some fire it's going to be |
| 10638s | difficult for it to tank but Bunny's |
| 10639s | balgorn is probably going to pay the |
| 10641s | price here it's dropping into very deep |
| 10643s | armor and it's going to be tough to claw |
| 10645s | back an interesting thing I would have |
| 10648s | liked to see is The Vindicator probably |
| 10650s | can't shoot that Confessor with how |
| 10652s | close it is but the balgone might have |
| 10655s | been able to shoot the Confessor get the |
| 10657s | Confessor off the vindi and get the |
| 10659s | Vinnie on top of something just slow it |
| 10660s | down because it looks like they're just |
| 10662s | being kept too far out of the fight and |
| 10664s | can't help at all |
| 10666s | oh and that is the Battleground for of |
| 10668s | essence that's a huge chunk of their |
| 10669s | control they're not going to be able to |
| 10671s | Newt down the ineros anymore it's got a |
| 10674s | big cloud of rep drones around it it's |
| 10676s | got a big clone of damage turns around |
| 10678s | it as well it is currently teetering at |
| 10680s | about two-thirds armor going back and |
| 10682s | forth meanwhile the logistics frigates |
| 10684s | above Essence now taking fire from |
| 10686s | boundary experts the Navitas seems to be |
| 10690s | perhaps taking the bulk of that fire |
| 10692s | getting down to about half armor but |
| 10693s | they're splitting damage between it and |
| 10695s | The Vindicator which is gonna force them |
| 10697s | to make some tough choices |
| 10700s | yeah The Vindicator is just trying to |
| 10702s | shoot whatever gets close to it but |
| 10705s | anything that it can try to hit it is |
| 10707s | swapping between multiple things and not |
| 10709s | able to hit much of them I telling a lie |
| 10711s | it is actually |
| 10714s | not shooting at all at the moment |
| 10717s | which is a shock could be on a Reload |
| 10720s | could be on a Reload but yeah its guns |
| 10723s | are silent at the minute which is |
| 10725s | worrying that is the bulk of their |
| 10727s | damage at the moment the Navitas about |
| 10730s | to drop the Vindicator about to drop |
| 10732s | both of them are in very precarious |
| 10734s | positions The Inquisitor of kurgen |
| 10736s | bergenberg also taking damage the of |
| 10739s | essence team is in danger of falling |
| 10741s | apart here if that Navitas Goes Down The |
| 10744s | Inquisitor will sure be followed and |
| 10746s | while The Vindicator does have a big |
| 10747s | pile of structure hit points it's |
| 10749s | clearly armor tanked here you're not |
| 10751s | going to see the big buffer that we've |
| 10752s | seen on some of the mega Navy's earlier |
| 10754s | in the tournament here we go |
| 10757s | so the windy is managing to fire again |
| 10759s | it's just a little too late as it goes |
| 10761s | down it the moment it started five |
| 10764s | moment it started firing it dropped that |
| 10766s | Magus instantly from low shield into |
| 10768s | about half armor |
| 10771s | oh and that's that's both the logistics |
| 10773s | fragrance now Justin astarde and Exeter |
| 10776s | Navy remaining they're both railgun fit |
| 10778s | and have had a hard time applying to |
| 10779s | untackled Targets in this match and now |
| 10782s | they have nothing to tackle with it is |
| 10784s | unlikely uh boundary experts are |
| 10787s | suffering any more casualties here as |
| 10789s | they can kite around and you're seeing |
| 10790s | it now with the Magus it's using its |
| 10793s | micro warp drive to just move around the |
| 10795s | map here and it's going so fast the |
| 10796s | astarte cannot track it it's now moved |
| 10799s | in to tackle the extra Navy issue and it |
| 10801s | has landed scrams and webs |
| 10804s | yeah the astate goes down and the exact |
| 10806s | Navy is just going to eat it all now |
| 10809s | that Paladin and a burden can reach out |
| 10811s | and touch you regardless of where you |
| 10813s | are on the field so getting that tackle |
| 10815s | is just going to allow it to apply all |
| 10817s | of its atrocious damage to you |
| 10820s | thank you of essence for providing the |
| 10823s | match to show for anyone that asks for |
| 10825s | rail executor navies to be a Doctrine in |
| 10827s | their Alliance is the best reason not to |
| 10829s | do it is my kids he and I finally goes |
| 10833s | down very shortly it's taking deep |
| 10835s | structure damage now boundary experts |
| 10838s | congratulations on making it in of |
| 10839s | essence we'll see you one more time as |
| 10842s | we throw it back to the desk for a break |
| 10845s | guys stop being casual they're really |
| 10848s | bad we should not lose anybody to this |
| 10850s | warp off warp off take the fleet warp |
| 10852s | everybody warp off this is a really |
| 10854s | really bad execution I'm very |
| 10855s | disappointed |
| 10860s | another great hall back from Amar damn |
| 10863s | I'm thirsty |
| 10865s | [Music] |
| 10868s | that hits the spot |
| 10870s | [Music] |
| 10872s | [Applause] |
| 10873s | [Music] |
| 10882s | uh yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP |
| 10884s | collectively uh so that's why that |
| 10886s | Alliance logo is in the game of course |
| 10888s | you could change your alliance by |
| 10889s | leaving but that would be kind of a jerk |
| 10892s | move that kind of oh you don't like it |
| 10893s | now sucks I'm gonna go join |
| 10910s | [Music] |
| 10913s | boundary experts securing one of the |
| 10916s | last remaining two spots in Alliance |
| 10919s | tournament 19 and relegating over since |
| 10921s | Darren into the galante gamble uh it's |
| 10924s | going to be essential for them there to |
| 10927s | to fight back through this win kill a |
| 10929s | bunch of stuff with galante ships and |
| 10931s | try and get that final spot and they |
| 10933s | have to do it against two pretty solid |
| 10935s | teams snuffed out and cast about so that |
| 10938s | is going to be something to watch the |
| 10940s | certainly going to be three matches and |
| 10942s | it's certainly going to be exciting I'm |
| 10944s | looking forward to it we're going to |
| 10945s | take a short break we'll be back in |
| 10947s | about 10-15 minutes with the galante |
| 10949s | gamble on Alliance tournament 19. |
| 10953s | welcome back ladies and gentlemen for |
| 10956s | the culmination of the alliance |
| 10958s | tournament 19 feeder rounds for one Just |
| 10962s | One Singular remaining spot in Alliance |
| 10965s | tournament 19. there are 31 teams we |
| 10968s | will see in August there are three teams |
| 10970s | remaining only one of them can be seen |
| 10973s | in August uh snuffed out casteroutes and |
| 10976s | all vessels have to now go through the |
| 10979s | galante gamble it is going to be intense |
| 10982s | it is going to be wild it is going to be |
| 10985s | galenti themed uh so to remind you of |
| 10988s | the rules now |
| 10989s | um winds no longer occurred they don't |
| 10991s | matter it's all about how many points |
| 10993s | you score by killing people and there |
| 10995s | are no bands there are no Hull |
| 10997s | restrictions so you can bring as many of |
| 10999s | a thing as you want but you know the |
| 11001s | points inflation still still kicks in so |
| 11003s | it will cost you more but you can do it |
| 11005s | and only galantis ships are allowed so |
| 11008s | ships with the galenti racial bonus and |
| 11010s | that does include pirate ships Mr right |
| 11014s | are you ready for this |
| 11016s | yeah I think so I think it's going to be |
| 11018s | pretty exciting we've been Theory |
| 11020s | crafting our own bad little comps for |
| 11022s | this galante gamble in the background |
| 11025s | um I forgot one of the rules already so |
| 11027s | one of the comps that I just pasted in |
| 11028s | the back channels is actually not valid |
| 11030s | hopefully it's teams landing on grid |
| 11032s | don't make the same mistake as I did |
| 11034s | because I think it's uh it's a departure |
| 11036s | from what we're used to |
| 11038s | that indeed it is a departure from what |
| 11041s | we're used to It's Gonna I don't think |
| 11043s | teams have had actually any time to |
| 11045s | practice for this because you know the |
| 11047s | only way you make it to the galante |
| 11048s | gamble is first of all you lose your |
| 11050s | first match then you win a bunch of |
| 11051s | matches and get right down to this stage |
| 11053s | the chances of making it here for a lot |
| 11055s | of teams obviously quite slim so you're |
| 11057s | just not going to practice that like |
| 11059s | you're not going to practice for this |
| 11060s | completely wild nonsense that's about to |
| 11062s | happen uh so you know I don't know how |
| 11065s | you prepare for this other than being |
| 11066s | like oh crap we're in uh start the year |
| 11069s | crafting boys let's go uh as I'm pretty |
| 11072s | sure that's probably what's happened so |
| 11073s | our first match is going to be between |
| 11075s | snuffed out and cast about so let's take |
| 11078s | a quick look at the bands for this |
| 11080s | upcoming match |
| 11083s | okay so it looks like uh interesting |
| 11085s | choices here snuffed out choosing to ban |
| 11087s | nothing whatsoever as our cast about |
| 11090s | it's Banning Banning no ships uh uh at |
| 11093s | all like really just nothing at all and |
| 11095s | that's intended because that's the rules |
| 11097s | you don't get any bands that's right no |
| 11100s | bands |
| 11101s | Bart what do you think of her no bands |
| 11105s | uh I think it's great I think that uh |
| 11107s | this setup is actually |
| 11109s | kind of wild |
| 11111s | um I think we're gonna see some weird |
| 11112s | stuff like this is going to be did the |
| 11116s | teams read the rules and prepare for |
| 11119s | this eventuality and if they did |
| 11121s | somebody might be about to Stomp the |
| 11123s | floor and if they didn't then well |
| 11126s | horrible things are going to happen to |
| 11128s | them but uh we'll we'll have so much |
| 11130s | time to talk about the absolute Madness |
| 11132s | that we're about to see so we'll save |
| 11134s | that for later oh boy I'm seeing already |
| 11136s | what's uh warping in uh this is going to |
| 11140s | be interesting that I can promise you we |
| 11144s | can we can cut to the arena in just a |
| 11146s | just a few minutes uh and also I've just |
| 11148s | been told turns out it's the this is the |
| 11150s | Atlantic Gambit I think I've been |
| 11151s | calling it The glenty gamble for like |
| 11153s | two two weeks now no one's ever bothered |
| 11155s | to correct me but now we get here people |
| 11157s | like hey did you know it's actually |
| 11158s | called the Glenda Gambit uh apparently I |
| 11160s | did not so these teams are ready to |
| 11162s | gamble on this Gambit and see if they |
| 11164s | can uh they could pull out a uh well |
| 11166s | actually they don't care about the |
| 11167s | double all they care about is points |
| 11169s | points points points and points mean |
| 11170s | prizes in this case the prize is getting |
| 11172s | into alliance tournament 19. all right |
| 11175s | let's head over and see what the heck |
| 11177s | happens with this match between software |
| 11179s | and casteros with your casters the |
| 11181s | Basilisk and jintang |
| 11186s | hello everybody Welcome to the arena for |
| 11188s | this the first match of the galento |
| 11190s | Gambit gamble whatever you want to call |
| 11191s | it I don't know what it's called I don't |
| 11193s | know what the hell is going on gin I |
| 11195s | don't think you know either these two |
| 11196s | teams are going to absolutely blast each |
| 11198s | other who's gonna win I have no clue |
| 11200s | well I can tell you what we have here |
| 11202s | from calcif though uh sorry not khalsif |
| 11204s | uh from The Blue Team here we have a |
| 11207s | rapid heavy missile set up from them |
| 11210s | with three bar guests this is a thrown |
| 11213s | back to an Ancient Ancient old setup |
| 11216s | back in the day although this time |
| 11217s | they're trying to run it with no |
| 11219s | Logistics as opposed to the Basilisk |
| 11221s | that would have been part of it normally |
| 11222s | that and near us if infinitas is sitting |
| 11225s | in is almost guaranteed to be dead right |
| 11229s | away what's the counterpunch coming here |
| 11231s | from the red team |
| 11233s | I mean they've got a lot of DPS here |
| 11234s | they have opted for a fairly drone heavy |
| 11236s | comp with the two eos's and the two |
| 11238s | ishtars um but they've also got two |
| 11240s | hecates in Eris who I imagine they're |
| 11241s | just going to burn in and start |
| 11242s | absolutely blasting as hard as they can |
| 11244s | so I think there are gonna be a lot of |
| 11246s | things dying here uh what exactly is |
| 11248s | going to die first yet to be seen Minton |
| 11249s | benadel in the hecti is going to be the |
| 11251s | first one going down here I think |
| 11252s | straight into llama is he gonna catch |
| 11253s | reps in time or are these rapid Heavies |
| 11255s | just gonna blind off there but he does |
| 11256s | catch reps from indinitas just in time |
| 11258s | here I imagine switch to defensive and |
| 11261s | uh you know he's actually keeping him up |
| 11262s | but they are still burning in here I'm |
| 11264s | going to start applying damage |
| 11266s | and look at all those centuries that |
| 11268s | they've dropped as well and they're just |
| 11269s | not tracking this and advertise that |
| 11271s | they're throwing them on they've got um |
| 11272s | Target painters on him but obviously |
| 11274s | with no ability to bring any uh mimitar |
| 11277s | ships you can't bring a hyena you can't |
| 11279s | bring any bonus paints but that has not |
| 11282s | stopped these rapid heavy missiles from |
| 11283s | taking out a ship there I believe that's |
| 11286s | the comet going down from stuff now and |
| 11288s | that uh Eris has followed yeah the RS |
| 11290s | goes down the other thing is though I |
| 11292s | mean you say you can't bring ranged webs |
| 11294s | but they've got a lot of drones so |
| 11295s | hopefully if they can you know maybe if |
| 11297s | they get out of range of the centuries |
| 11298s | abandoned the centuries drop heavy |
| 11299s | drones and chase them down get on top of |
| 11301s | something but at the moment they don't |
| 11302s | really seem to be pushing forward that |
| 11304s | aggressively uh their smallest Navy |
| 11305s | looks like he might be tackled I think |
| 11307s | he is getting focused but there's not |
| 11309s | too much else being caught here the |
| 11310s | eosity the Ishtar are pushing forward |
| 11311s | but these three Bargas are just kiting |
| 11313s | back and I think this is sort of an |
| 11315s | interesting |
| 11317s | um sort of consequence of this format is |
| 11319s | you know it's All galente Ships galente |
| 11321s | they're gonna have hybrid guns right so |
| 11323s | you're thinking well what's really good |
| 11324s | against cyber guns glenotec 2 |
| 11326s | you come up against a lot of railguns |
| 11329s | you're feeling great bar guests they can |
| 11331s | just load explosive missiles so this is |
| 11333s | maybe not what snuff had in mind of |
| 11335s | coming up against here |
| 11337s | again it's worth noting though that the |
| 11339s | these teams aren't playing for the win |
| 11341s | here they're playing to try and kill as |
| 11342s | much as possible so snuffed out still |
| 11345s | has a lot of incentive to go in and try |
| 11346s | and take out one of these Bargas rather |
| 11348s | than kite out play the long game and |
| 11350s | look for a mistake as they would |
| 11351s | normally and you can see that they're |
| 11353s | finally putting some damage there onto |
| 11354s | pleasure and it seems like they're |
| 11356s | making their move here chucking some |
| 11357s | newts onto him using the fact that those |
| 11359s | uh eos's can be gunless but losing a |
| 11362s | Hecate on the move-in and that's going |
| 11364s | to cut their attack bar down |
| 11365s | considerably even if they are applying |
| 11367s | reality really well that bogus is taking |
| 11370s | a lot of damage though do you think |
| 11372s | there's a risk it goes down here |
| 11374s | I think there is a severe chance it goes |
| 11375s | down here because I mean their game plan |
| 11377s | so far has been to chitin with these |
| 11378s | logic frigates they don't really want to |
| 11379s | come back in here and risk themselves |
| 11381s | getting caught as well and as you said |
| 11382s | it is about the points here it's a |
| 11384s | totally different environment it's not |
| 11385s | about getting the win it's about killing |
| 11386s | as many points as you can if if this |
| 11388s | match was to end now at 11 to zero this |
| 11390s | would be a very bad result for both |
| 11392s | teams because obviously there's two |
| 11393s | matches left to be played you'd expect a |
| 11395s | higher score in both of them as that I |
| 11396s | believe it was an Ishtar does just go |
| 11398s | down of Matthews but the bar gets to |
| 11400s | play Jordan is going into structure now |
| 11402s | he is gonna go down here but what are |
| 11404s | they gonna how many points are they |
| 11405s | gonna be able to rack up both teams |
| 11407s | before the end of this match I mean this |
| 11409s | bar guest is a huge chunk of points with |
| 11411s | the inflation 25 points from this one |
| 11413s | Bargas from killing pledge Allen when he |
| 11415s | does go down but he's still just slowly |
| 11418s | going through structure 60 structure |
| 11419s | this will be about a third of their |
| 11421s | incoming DPS that's off the field when |
| 11423s | he dies but you know they've got to go |
| 11426s | through this whole process again of |
| 11427s | catching another bar guest putting their |
| 11428s | significantly reduced damage into that |
| 11430s | bloggers and trying to kill us I'm not |
| 11432s | sure if they're gonna get a huge amount |
| 11433s | more if they go for a second Bargas here |
| 11435s | they may have to switch them looks like |
| 11436s | that's it as well they've clipped |
| 11437s | they've clipped cost about some clipped |
| 11439s | snuffed out has a chance to pull back |
| 11440s | into the match here and potentially kill |
| 11442s | maybe another bar guest or just rip |
| 11444s | through the support uh uh cats aren't |
| 11447s | gonna be putting out any damage for |
| 11449s | another like 30 seconds or so and they |
| 11451s | do have they do have the second bargain |
| 11452s | of Eli Stan tackled here he's got the |
| 11454s | ish on top of him the EOS is coming in |
| 11455s | as well so they're gonna start applying |
| 11457s | you start getting these drones on top of |
| 11458s | this bar guest of Eli Stan and that's |
| 11460s | going to be another huge chunk of points |
| 11462s | going snuffed out's way if they can kill |
| 11463s | this barges |
| 11465s | yeah you guys got counter tackle on |
| 11466s | Joseph so I imagine he'll be the next |
| 11468s | primary but that's only going to be one |
| 11469s | out of the three major DPS ships and |
| 11471s | don't underestimate what that vexer and |
| 11473s | that Hecate are doing that vexer is |
| 11475s | already flying around just dropping |
| 11476s | newts onto things and that will have a |
| 11479s | huge impact if he can land on some of |
| 11481s | that cast about small and uh sorry low |
| 11484s | end especially one of those navitases |
| 11486s | turning off those uh a little bit of |
| 11488s | residual reps they have left on the |
| 11489s | field be so impactful here |
| 11491s | yeah the other thing is with these comps |
| 11493s | that Caster mounts have brought with |
| 11495s | these three Bargas they're low in |
| 11496s | they've got what a Magus two lodgy |
| 11498s | frigates and then a bunch of tackle they |
| 11499s | have absolutely zero new pressure so |
| 11501s | infinitas is just going to be unloading |
| 11503s | these reps onto his allies and when this |
| 11505s | second bargest of Eli stand goes down |
| 11506s | there's not going to be enough damage |
| 11508s | left to break through the Reps here so I |
| 11510s | mean it's not gonna I think it's enough |
| 11511s | to this point are gonna win the match |
| 11512s | how many points are they going to be |
| 11514s | able to collect in the time how many |
| 11515s | points are cast about it's going to be |
| 11516s | able to collect from the time we're |
| 11517s | gonna have to do what is basically a |
| 11519s | Caster sin effectively and try and do |
| 11522s | maths on broadcast and figure out over |
| 11523s | the course of these matches who is |
| 11525s | actually winning who has the best shot |
| 11526s | of going through to the glinte gamble of |
| 11528s | course both these teams have another |
| 11530s | match to play after this |
| 11531s | um at the moment still very very close |
| 11533s | 25-24 uh not massive Point scores here |
| 11536s | if we're if we're totally honest I'm |
| 11538s | sure the second bargain stuff Eli stand |
| 11539s | is going to go down and bump snuffed out |
| 11540s | up to 50 points |
| 11543s | um but yeah I mean this is this is |
| 11544s | definitely an interesting first match of |
| 11546s | this galante Gamble |
| 11547s | yeah you can see though that they have |
| 11549s | finally finished that reload they're |
| 11551s | putting out a ton of DPS Back Off the |
| 11552s | Grid clearing off that Hecate just |
| 11554s | trying to make as much out of these |
| 11556s | remaining shots that Eli's gonna get as |
| 11558s | he dips low into structure there how |
| 11561s | many more missiles can he put out how |
| 11563s | many more ships can they potentially |
| 11564s | take down before |
| 11568s | they just take them off the grid here oh |
| 11570s | my God she's going to come down to them |
| 11571s | this is going to be the final kill I |
| 11573s | think for cut for cost about they're not |
| 11575s | going to be able to kill anymore with |
| 11576s | just the one Bargas left for damage it's |
| 11578s | going to be about how much can snuffed |
| 11579s | get |
| 11580s | um you know in return can they clear any |
| 11582s | of these frigates or are these frigates |
| 11583s | just gonna like sort of troll them and |
| 11584s | keep away a little bit you know it's not |
| 11585s | doing them a huge amount of good you |
| 11588s | know it's only a couple points but it |
| 11589s | might hurt snuff and in the end as we |
| 11591s | say the points are all that matters here |
| 11593s | um so you know you just need to try and |
| 11594s | deny it as many points as you can if you |
| 11596s | can't kill anything you just need to try |
| 11597s | and stay alive we saw in a couple |
| 11598s | matches indeed in my own you know end of |
| 11600s | the match less boundary in this |
| 11602s | situation no you need to live as long as |
| 11603s | you can give no points away for free |
| 11605s | because it's all going to come down to |
| 11606s | that final calculation who has killed |
| 11607s | the most this Navitas of Deadlock is |
| 11609s | gonna go down I'm not sure how the |
| 11611s | drones are chasing him but it is looks |
| 11613s | to be a bunch of Berserkers and prey |
| 11615s | tools and he's just outrunning them so |
| 11616s | I'm not sure and he's catching reps here |
| 11618s | from his Thalia body so I think he is |
| 11619s | actually going to be okay for the time |
| 11620s | being I'm not sure what else they can |
| 11622s | get on top of it |
| 11623s | yeah it's gonna be it's gonna come down |
| 11625s | here to uh how well that neg and Jose |
| 11628s | from this snuffed out team compiler |
| 11630s | they're the only two ships that really |
| 11632s | have a potential to catch anything here |
| 11634s | and hold it down to the point where they |
| 11636s | can kill more points they really want to |
| 11638s | get that 100 points or as close to it as |
| 11641s | humanly possible with the three minutes |
| 11642s | that are left on the clock here as |
| 11644s | that's what's going to propel them |
| 11645s | through to the final spot that's |
| 11647s | available out of the this uh upcoming |
| 11650s | Swiss round they've managed to get Nazca |
| 11653s | it looks like they'll take another |
| 11654s | couple of points there but that's not |
| 11656s | the big chunk they really want to grab |
| 11658s | that bar guest and see if they can |
| 11659s | Whittle him down although do you really |
| 11661s | think that they have the DPS to even do |
| 11662s | it if they can catch him at this point I |
| 11664s | don't know I do think nazgath has been |
| 11666s | doing God's work here with the scram |
| 11667s | range bonus and the mortise Navy I've |
| 11668s | just seen him flying around being an |
| 11670s | absolute menace to the EOS and iftars as |
| 11672s | you said they're trying to get on this |
| 11674s | bug if they would love to get on that |
| 11675s | Bargas and put all their drones on them |
| 11676s | for another 25 points but with that more |
| 11678s | or less maybe just constantly switching |
| 11679s | scrams between stuff he was making it |
| 11681s | very very difficult to actually make any |
| 11682s | progress of course towards that August 2 |
| 11684s | then he's gonna have his own scrams so |
| 11686s | you need to be fully committed as a team |
| 11687s | to getting him down so they are choosing |
| 11688s | to get rid of the support in the |
| 11689s | tyrannus now goes down as well I'm not |
| 11691s | sure if they're going to have time to |
| 11692s | deal with the Bargas they may be able to |
| 11693s | clear out the rest of the support Wing |
| 11694s | but |
| 11695s | this is this is not it's not the |
| 11698s | absolute bloodbath that some of us might |
| 11699s | have been expecting at the start you |
| 11700s | know with a bunch of Mega navys and |
| 11701s | vindies ramming into each other so what |
| 11703s | happens in these next two matches is |
| 11704s | going to be absolutely critical for both |
| 11706s | of these teams oh and another catch |
| 11708s | there from Joseph managing to latch on |
| 11709s | to uh Ivory in the Magus they're doing |
| 11712s | great work here just catching all of |
| 11714s | these little frigates pinning them in |
| 11716s | the into the well they weren't even |
| 11717s | pinning them into the center I'm not |
| 11719s | quite sure how that Magnus got caught |
| 11720s | did you see Basin I think I think they |
| 11722s | might have switched drones here I think |
| 11723s | they've said you know the heavy drones |
| 11724s | they're just not catching so I can see |
| 11726s | all the Berserkers and pretors that have |
| 11727s | abandoned them and they've switched to |
| 11728s | Warriors so the Warriors are just |
| 11729s | running down after these three gets an |
| 11731s | absolutely blasting through them the rep |
| 11732s | range obviously very limited now looking |
| 11733s | at the mawless of uh red house and those |
| 11736s | Warriors arrive onto him and he is |
| 11737s | probably gonna die pretty quickly |
| 11738s | there's a swarm of like 20 or 30 |
| 11740s | Warriors just all over that more or less |
| 11744s | yeah and you can see some of the heavier |
| 11746s | drones are just now trailing over this |
| 11748s | near-ass chipping away um as soon as |
| 11750s | they can spare a little bit of tackle uh |
| 11753s | that an eras will drop incredibly fast |
| 11755s | because they just don't have any rep |
| 11756s | drones left on the field to keep him |
| 11758s | alive |
| 11760s | is going to go down here as well but |
| 11762s | those those ships are so little point |
| 11763s | you know you kill the you kill the |
| 11764s | Navitas it takes 20 seconds to set the |
| 11766s | drones on and get them over there and |
| 11767s | have them kill them and you get one |
| 11768s | point for doing it you kill the mawless |
| 11769s | you get another three points it's the |
| 11771s | table scraps here that Snapper |
| 11773s | collecting here they're going for the |
| 11774s | Thalia that's another five points it's |
| 11776s | like you're spending so much time and |
| 11778s | you're just trying to get what you can |
| 11780s | you're trying to scrape the bottom of |
| 11781s | the barrel here we can't get the Bargas |
| 11782s | let's just get all the little juice the |
| 11784s | little crumbs out of this match that we |
| 11785s | can they might be able to kill the |
| 11787s | carries that's that's going to be it we |
| 11789s | see the drones going for the carries I |
| 11790s | think that will be the last kill they'll |
| 11791s | get snuff aren't going to lose anything |
| 11793s | else it is a gonna be a resounding |
| 11794s | victory in the match for snuff is it a |
| 11796s | hard enough Victory I mean that we'll |
| 11798s | have to see |
| 11799s | keep running keep yourself alive run out |
| 11803s | that timer |
| 11804s | he is really trying but I don't think |
| 11806s | it's going to be enough there's just so |
| 11807s | many drones left on the field they can't |
| 11808s | kill anything else they are trying to go |
| 11810s | through infinitas with the barges clip |
| 11811s | I'm not sure if he's gonna be able to |
| 11812s | clip obviously a drone comp they come up |
| 11814s | against not gonna have a huge amount of |
| 11816s | red Bots obviously especially not with |
| 11818s | all those Warriors currently chasing |
| 11819s | that carries and absolutely toning him |
| 11821s | to be honest |
| 11822s | um is the aniros gonna go down before |
| 11824s | time I think not less than 30 seconds |
| 11825s | remaining in the match |
| 11827s | um just over 10 seconds in fact so this |
| 11828s | is going to survive the carries will he |
| 11830s | live will he save those extra five |
| 11832s | points for his team and against snuffed |
| 11834s | out I think |
| 11836s | he does |
| 11838s | okay I'm ready for two more of those |
| 11840s | because I don't know what the hell just |
| 11841s | happened but that was that was a lot of |
| 11843s | fun |
| 11851s | [Music] |
| 11864s | [Music] |
| 11885s | thank you |
| 11891s | [Music] |
| 11909s | down here |
| 11912s | [Music] |
| 11913s | [Applause] |
| 11915s | [Music] |
| 11924s | snuffed out they're taking the W |
| 11927s | overcast about and securing most |
| 11929s | importantly 70 crucial points for their |
| 11933s | uh their attempt through the galante |
| 11935s | Gambit Castle boats gets 29 Points so of |
| 11939s | course they are very much still in it if |
| 11940s | they 100 to zero their next match uh |
| 11943s | then you know that will put them up to |
| 11944s | 129 points if enough wins or loses with |
| 11948s | maybe only 50 points they would have |
| 11950s | less at only 120 so it's all to play for |
| 11953s | still is anyone's game just because |
| 11957s | snuff have a good solid Advantage right |
| 11959s | now does not mean that that could swing |
| 11962s | completely hard the other way uh |
| 11965s | Blackboard pirate what did you make of |
| 11967s | that match that was uh quite intense |
| 11970s | yeah that was really wild |
| 11971s | um I I like when we do weird stuff like |
| 11974s | this kind of at the end of the feeder |
| 11976s | round because uh I think in the at it |
| 11978s | would be a little bit too crazy but for |
| 11980s | this like that's awesome |
| 11981s | um we gotta see uh a little bit of |
| 11984s | creativity I feel like cast abouts was |
| 11987s | sort of prepared and they had a good |
| 11988s | idea of like what the rule limitations |
| 11992s | were because I saw I saw twitch chat a |
| 11994s | lot of people be like oh why are there |
| 11995s | Burgers that's because Bargas have a |
| 11996s | glinte bonus which means you can bring |
| 11998s | them to the galente stuff castlebath |
| 12000s | clearly read the rules and were like aha |
| 12002s | we could bring three bargists um |
| 12004s | obviously it didn't work out too well uh |
| 12006s | which uh Missy Missy had a really good |
| 12008s | comment about why that didn't happen |
| 12010s | um if you would like to uh share that |
| 12012s | one |
| 12014s | yeah um just quickly on the uh a racial |
| 12018s | bonus there so the bar guest does as you |
| 12021s | point out have a racial bonus for the |
| 12023s | galenti battleship skill for every level |
| 12025s | of gleny Battleship you have you got 10 |
| 12027s | bonus to scram disruptor range that is |
| 12029s | why it is a illegal ship to bring pirate |
| 12032s | ships that have galante bonuses are |
| 12035s | legal in the galante Gambit |
| 12037s | um Mr Goma do you want to answer a bars |
| 12039s | question |
| 12040s | yeah absolutely |
| 12042s | um |
| 12043s | so over the course of the match we saw |
| 12045s | that the bar gas were pretty effective |
| 12047s | at clearing some of the lower end so the |
| 12048s | hecates that snuff brought Unfortunately |
| 12052s | they reached a point where one of their |
| 12053s | Bargas was pinned down and they invested |
| 12056s | a lot of time and importantly missile |
| 12058s | clips into things like the vexer and the |
| 12062s | Ishtar later on when the second Bargas |
| 12064s | got tackled both of which are ships that |
| 12066s | are going to be extremely difficult to |
| 12068s | burst through when the ineros is |
| 12069s | wrapping them I think a more effective |
| 12071s | use of that time and a better way for |
| 12073s | them to actually acquire some more |
| 12074s | points in the match since that is the |
| 12076s | overall goal not necessarily winning but |
| 12080s | doing as much damage as possible was to |
| 12083s | fire all three bogus missiles at the |
| 12085s | ineros we saw that one bogus was able to |
| 12088s | get the nearest down to about half armor |
| 12089s | over time if you had three Bargas |
| 12091s | shooting it I imagine it would probably |
| 12093s | die and that way your remaining |
| 12095s | battleships have a better chance of |
| 12097s | actually killing things like the vexer |
| 12099s | the Ishtar the rest of the lower end |
| 12101s | maybe even an EOS all of which are |
| 12103s | points that you can then hoard for the |
| 12106s | end of this little galante gamble thing |
| 12109s | um to give you a better chance of going |
| 12111s | through |
| 12112s | yeah the the bar gas is uh just a |
| 12115s | continuously popular ship really uh in |
| 12117s | the tournament since it was introduced I |
| 12119s | saw in that graph we just saw had a big |
| 12121s | spike up in Alliance tournament 17 that |
| 12123s | was for two reasons uh that tournament |
| 12125s | was actually sponsored by mordu's Legion |
| 12127s | so the uh murders Legion ships including |
| 12130s | the bar guests were uh Point discounted |
| 12132s | and the rules for flagships in the |
| 12135s | Atlanta tournament changed as well so uh |
| 12137s | the traditional uh choices for flagships |
| 12139s | like the balgorn and the lecheck uh were |
| 12142s | outlawed so many teams chose to pick up |
| 12144s | the bar guests there Misty looked like |
| 12147s | he has a had an opinion I I have a |
| 12149s | comment I I read something in twitch |
| 12151s | chat someone saying that the bar gas |
| 12153s | should have a primary Daenerys from the |
| 12155s | very beginning |
| 12157s | um that is often a good strategy to use |
| 12159s | especially when you have uh chips that |
| 12162s | can help with demo damage application |
| 12163s | and you have heavy missiles however in |
| 12167s | this case I think it's fine to clear |
| 12168s | some of the hecates if we think about |
| 12170s | them as fast tackle that you'll be able |
| 12172s | to burst through because it means that |
| 12173s | your bug SLS likely to be pinned down |
| 12175s | earlier on in the match so you have a |
| 12178s | bit more freedom to burn around a bit |
| 12179s | more time to burn around and put that |
| 12181s | damage to you so killing the headcakes |
| 12183s | first is fine I think but killing the |
| 12185s | Daenerys afterwards I think is very |
| 12187s | important to enable the the remainder of |
| 12190s | your comp once you've lost a ball guest |
| 12192s | or two to actually do some more damage |
| 12194s | to the to the enemy Fleet |
| 12196s | as I mentioned flagships and we have |
| 12198s | some time between these matches uh to |
| 12201s | make sure that the teams actually have |
| 12202s | enough time to prepare for the next one |
| 12203s | because they're all playing pretty much |
| 12205s | one after the other |
| 12207s | um let's talk about some of the |
| 12208s | differences between these feeder rounds |
| 12210s | and uh the main Alliance tournament |
| 12212s | which will take place in August the |
| 12214s | first one which is pretty obvious is |
| 12215s | that this is happening on the |
| 12217s | Thunderdome server not Tranquility so |
| 12219s | these these ships don't count uh they're |
| 12221s | free all everyone gets um max skilled |
| 12223s | characters so you don't have to worry |
| 12225s | about not having you know large Blaster |
| 12227s | specialization five you're just as |
| 12229s | effective as everybody else everyone's |
| 12231s | Level Playing Field and like I say these |
| 12233s | ships are free you can basically just |
| 12234s | spawn them on this server so it's you |
| 12237s | it's level of playing field as there |
| 12238s | possibly could be it's down to Pilot |
| 12240s | skill and 3D crafting one of the other |
| 12242s | big differences is uh the flagship rule |
| 12245s | Bart could you maybe tell us a little |
| 12246s | bit about what flagships are and uh how |
| 12248s | they work |
| 12249s | absolutely uh flagships are going to be |
| 12253s | battleships you can have a specific |
| 12255s | Battleship so you pick one before the |
| 12257s | alliance tournament even starts um I |
| 12259s | believe the uh time for them to be |
| 12261s | picked is coming up probably relatively |
| 12263s | soon uh once it's done it is locked in |
| 12266s | everybody who is participating knows |
| 12268s | what your Flagship is not necessarily |
| 12270s | the fit but you can kind of guess based |
| 12272s | off that uh and then you can use the |
| 12275s | flagship whenever you want but once it |
| 12277s | dies that's it and the flagship can |
| 12279s | ignore bands and certain fitting |
| 12282s | restrictions so uh like you can't put on |
| 12284s | an estimils Adaptive and vulnerability |
| 12286s | field on your Flagship because that |
| 12288s | would be really really broken if you |
| 12290s | know what that is it is a extremely |
| 12292s | powerful defensive but you could put on |
| 12294s | estable's lock uh rapid heavy missile |
| 12297s | launchers on your bargist and do more |
| 12298s | damage there's a couple little specific |
| 12300s | restrictions in there all the rules are |
| 12302s | up there but generally some of the uh |
| 12307s | mods that are really really really |
| 12308s | absurdly overpowered you can't use but |
| 12311s | you can definitely use damage mods uh |
| 12314s | guns uh generally self reps are okay but |
| 12318s | you can't there's some other rules on it |
| 12320s | so like you can't do a triple officer |
| 12322s | rep Paladin or something like that um |
| 12324s | it's a ton of rules you can go look them |
| 12326s | up I can't use the Bissell mods we tried |
| 12328s | that one year and it was interesting |
| 12331s | um it worked out fine but there's |
| 12333s | definitely a couple ships where you're |
| 12334s | like oh that Abyssal rolled record made |
| 12337s | it so that it lived versus three people |
| 12339s | and it probably shouldn't have |
| 12342s | yeah the other thing about the Bissell |
| 12343s | mods is when if a ship Flagship dies |
| 12346s | with say these stml launchers you see |
| 12349s | and that that pops up on Zed kill and we |
| 12352s | all get to point and laugh uh they're |
| 12354s | very expensive loss |
| 12356s | um if you Abyssal roll it it just shows |
| 12358s | up as an Abyssal World thing it could be |
| 12360s | Tech too as far as you know so it's |
| 12361s | pretty hard to tell exactly how it was |
| 12363s | fit obviously that only gets revealed |
| 12365s | once the ship dies and appears on dead |
| 12367s | kill |
| 12368s | um but yeah that's that's one of the |
| 12370s | reasons why uh you can no longer use |
| 12372s | Abyssal modules so uh there are some |
| 12375s | other restrictions as part mentioned but |
| 12377s | that's one of them |
| 12380s | um I hope you enjoyed the feeders uh the |
| 12382s | first round everyone winning in and then |
| 12384s | people lost into this this Gauntlet have |
| 12387s | culminated here how have you enjoyed it |
| 12388s | so far |
| 12389s | I think it's a good change from the the |
| 12392s | way of Entry that we had in previous |
| 12393s | tournaments |
| 12395s | um a lot of the teams that would have |
| 12396s | made it in with like the silent auctions |
| 12399s | um and like the random Raffles and |
| 12400s | things like that are teams that have |
| 12401s | already been knocked out in the feeders |
| 12403s | right |
| 12404s | um I think it's going to make the main |
| 12406s | event |
| 12407s | um High skilled that there's more |
| 12409s | potential for upsets to happen I think |
| 12411s | there's going to be more interesting |
| 12413s | matches it's going to be less like one |
| 12415s | team bring seven people because they're |
| 12416s | unable to feel default team which is |
| 12418s | absolutely fine |
| 12420s | um I think it's great that these teams |
| 12422s | can take part in the tournament |
| 12425s | um represent their alliances experience |
| 12427s | Eve online tournament culture and make a |
| 12431s | good shot of it right like some of the |
| 12433s | the on-demand teams sometimes do okay in |
| 12436s | the first couple matches of the 80. but |
| 12440s | you know I think it's going to be much |
| 12443s | more interesting that every single team |
| 12444s | has been battle hardened somewhat either |
| 12447s | by winning in previous tournaments or by |
| 12449s | having come through the feeders playing |
| 12451s | a number of matches especially the ones |
| 12453s | that have lost their first match and had |
| 12455s | to go through and run that Gauntlet now |
| 12457s | they've got matches under their belt |
| 12459s | where they've tried their comps they've |
| 12460s | practiced their execution in a natural |
| 12462s | environment where they have that stress |
| 12464s | and they have those pressures on their |
| 12466s | shoulders of if we lose we're out I |
| 12468s | think that's all very important for |
| 12470s | insurance that they can do well in the |
| 12471s | actual tournament itself |
| 12473s | they're also interesting to note uh last |
| 12476s | year's feeders which were mimitar themed |
| 12478s | and had a had a Redemption round so very |
| 12482s | similar to this Clemente Gambit where |
| 12484s | you know people who hadn't done bad |
| 12486s | enough to be eliminated they hadn't done |
| 12487s | good enough to go in kind of all |
| 12489s | collected into this uh this Final |
| 12490s | Redemption run competing for a single |
| 12492s | spot and the team that came through that |
| 12495s | and won uh was Odin's call who went on |
| 12498s | to eventually take uh silver medal in |
| 12501s | the alliance tournament overall so yeah |
| 12503s | just because the team hasn't just |
| 12504s | scooted straight through uh doesn't mean |
| 12507s | that there's not a huge amount of |
| 12509s | potential in some of these teams to you |
| 12511s | know really as you say cause some upsets |
| 12512s | I think people expected Odin's call last |
| 12514s | year to do well but I don't think anyone |
| 12517s | would have packed them for a finalist |
| 12518s | team so that was that was super exciting |
| 12520s | to see |
| 12522s | um so we have about eight moments before |
| 12523s | this next match up Bart what do you |
| 12526s | think we're gonna see this time so it's |
| 12528s | going to be snuffed out versus snuff |
| 12530s | obviously just did pretty well with what |
| 12532s | they brought |
| 12533s | do you think I'm going to bring the same |
| 12534s | thing or is it going to try something |
| 12536s | different |
| 12537s | I think that uh just because of the way |
| 12540s | like the low amount of time that snuff |
| 12543s | has for turnaround here that it is very |
| 12545s | likely that they just bring the same |
| 12546s | setup like this might have been their |
| 12547s | okay we made it to the glinte gamble |
| 12549s | this is our setup that we bring |
| 12551s | um for of Essences side I they've been |
| 12554s | flying a lot of like vindicators and |
| 12556s | things like that and this is kind of the |
| 12557s | moment uh I really really really want to |
| 12560s | see a team do a 10 DPS ship galente |
| 12563s | Blaster Rush normally we kind of would |
| 12565s | make fun of that um it's traditionally |
| 12567s | not done very well over the last few |
| 12569s | years but like this is the moment to fly |
| 12571s | like five executive Navy issues in a |
| 12574s | Vindicator and some vigilance and |
| 12575s | thoraxes and just you know approach F1 |
| 12578s | and Destroy someone so that's what I'm |
| 12580s | hoping to see I feel like snuff's gonna |
| 12582s | bring what they just brought I think of |
| 12584s | essence will probably bring something |
| 12585s | based around a Vindicator because that's |
| 12587s | been kind of the thing their theme for |
| 12589s | this entire feeders |
| 12591s | I'm I'm hoping to see I don't know I |
| 12594s | don't really even know at this point |
| 12596s | like I'm I'm almost second guessing |
| 12598s | myself when I'm thinking snuff probably |
| 12600s | should try and bring something different |
| 12601s | to avoid getting countered by |
| 12604s | obviousness just bringing something to |
| 12605s | counter what they just brought but then |
| 12607s | you're like well if that's the case why |
| 12608s | wouldn't we just bring something that |
| 12610s | counters what they would break the |
| 12611s | counter is and I could see this |
| 12613s | spiraling incredibly quickly especially |
| 12615s | with the the much more limited selection |
| 12617s | of ships available Misty like as a |
| 12619s | theory crafter when you get to this |
| 12620s | situation |
| 12621s | it's gonna be a lot easier to kind of |
| 12624s | put educate the guesses of what the the |
| 12626s | enemy is going to bring right |
| 12628s | I don't think you should really ask me |
| 12630s | about my my personal Theory crafting I |
| 12633s | think |
| 12633s | um Hydra has been terrorized with my |
| 12635s | ideas that they just see appear on the |
| 12638s | spreadsheet every now and then |
| 12640s | um whenever I'm coming up with them |
| 12642s | um I think that |
| 12644s | it is just going to be a case of |
| 12646s | whatever kind of speaks to somebody's |
| 12648s | heart |
| 12649s | um in Eve they're just going to try and |
| 12650s | bring that to the grid you know I I |
| 12652s | think that I want to see like four or |
| 12654s | five gilas four five worms on the grid I |
| 12656s | think that'd be great just like a full |
| 12658s | garista's drone comp |
| 12660s | um because it's really hard to avoid the |
| 12662s | damage and they can just run around the |
| 12664s | arena and they don't even need lodgy |
| 12665s | because you know just go sit on separate |
| 12667s | corners and throw your drones on |
| 12668s | something |
| 12669s | um but then you could also have a full |
| 12671s | Blaster rush you know that there's so |
| 12673s | many different options I don't think you |
| 12675s | can really try and calculate and figure |
| 12677s | out what people are going to bring |
| 12678s | because all of their previous concert |
| 12681s | they've brought are completely useless |
| 12682s | now |
| 12684s | the only thing that they can really tell |
| 12686s | you is their play style and the fact |
| 12688s | that we haven't seen drones used so far |
| 12690s | really is either because everyone thinks |
| 12693s | drones are which I mean they're not |
| 12695s | necessarily wrong or because they're not |
| 12698s | comfortable using them in the right way |
| 12700s | and that may also reflect on the |
| 12702s | composite they bring in this |
| 12704s | all right do you think the Drone comes |
| 12707s | there should or do you think the |
| 12708s | drumcoms have potential here |
| 12710s | I think in this specific moment drone |
| 12713s | comps have potential I think overall |
| 12715s | drone comps are really not that good uh |
| 12718s | the key drone comp ships have actually |
| 12720s | been relatively nerfed over the years |
| 12723s | and then also we don't have T2 drones |
| 12725s | this time um we've tried to I think even |
| 12727s | when we had TT drones like maybe it was |
| 12729s | two or three lines tournaments ago they |
| 12730s | still weren't that great but without |
| 12732s | Tech 2 drones |
| 12734s | you're losing so much damage |
| 12737s | um but in this specific instance when |
| 12739s | we're doing the galante Gambit I think |
| 12741s | that uh yeah there's a potential I mean |
| 12743s | we just saw them win so if it wins once |
| 12746s | then it can clearly win again I get I |
| 12748s | think that's how the math works right |
| 12751s | I believe that is indeed how the math |
| 12752s | works the more often you win the higher |
| 12755s | win percentage is uh which is which is |
| 12758s | good now one of the other things that |
| 12760s | you get by winning and this is good for |
| 12761s | the teams that made it to this Glenda |
| 12763s | Gambit if they make it through from this |
| 12764s | well winning a couple of matches uh they |
| 12767s | get more skins so the uh Victory skin |
| 12771s | this year sponsored by the galenti |
| 12772s | Federation uh is this awesome gold and |
| 12776s | kind of green uh setup as you could |
| 12778s | probably see and |
| 12780s | um every time you win a match including |
| 12782s | in the feeders |
| 12784s | you get your team 10 skins |
| 12787s | um which is pretty cool because these |
| 12788s | skins tend to have like a decent amount |
| 12790s | of value to them I normally you would |
| 12792s | only get them by uh winning matches in |
| 12795s | the main tournament so you've entered |
| 12797s | the the feeders you've not progressed |
| 12798s | you've not really gone home with |
| 12800s | anything you've not really lost anything |
| 12801s | now you entered You've Won some matches |
| 12805s | maybe you've been eliminated but you |
| 12807s | have a bunch of really nice skins to |
| 12809s | slap on your ships to sell for some some |
| 12811s | uh isk and just to like show off that |
| 12813s | you participated like you were here you |
| 12815s | did it uh I'm looking forward to trying |
| 12817s | getting my hands on one of these skins |
| 12819s | as soon as uh as soon as they hit the |
| 12820s | market uh Misty obviously you probably |
| 12822s | got a nice collection of uh of Victory |
| 12824s | skins where do you rank these ones |
| 12827s | I think these ones are one of the better |
| 12828s | looking ones for sure |
| 12830s | um I would be Keen to get my hands on |
| 12833s | some of the galante victory skins |
| 12835s | um unfortunately not part of a team so I |
| 12837s | won't be getting any like through that |
| 12839s | method but I might have to actually |
| 12840s | spend some risk this time |
| 12842s | um and it's important to note so you |
| 12843s | mentioned that teams will be winning you |
| 12845s | know 10 skins per victory that they |
| 12847s | score these skins can rate anywhere from |
| 12850s | like five Villa pop to like 15 bill |
| 12852s | right so these teams that are coming in |
| 12855s | and trying their hand at the at for the |
| 12856s | first time they may have won a couple |
| 12858s | matches but not made it all the way into |
| 12860s | the tournament they've still walked away |
| 12862s | with anywhere between 100 and 300 |
| 12864s | billionesque right to spread amongst |
| 12866s | their members so it's not just a case of |
| 12869s | you enter in you enter into the at with |
| 12872s | a Chance of just getting price ships |
| 12873s | which are of course very valuable but |
| 12875s | every step along the way you're getting |
| 12878s | that experience and you're also making a |
| 12881s | fair amount of risk |
| 12882s | um for every match that you win so |
| 12884s | definitely definitely worth getting |
| 12887s | involved in |
| 12888s | yeah and of course the the true prize is |
| 12890s | the friends we make along the way uh |
| 12892s | let's see if we can throw up a quick uh |
| 12894s | graphic that shows the current Point |
| 12896s | situation in the galenti Gambit |
| 12900s | um so as you can see stuff don't cast |
| 12902s | about both I've played one match uh all |
| 12905s | vessels have yet to play uh it's not |
| 12908s | currently on 70 points cast the votes on |
| 12911s | 29 Points and of course obviously is |
| 12912s | having not played uh sitting on zero so |
| 12916s | that's the current score line uh this |
| 12919s | currently as it stands snuffed out will |
| 12921s | advance to Alliance tournament 19. they |
| 12924s | are in a match pretty much right now |
| 12926s | against of essence this is their chance |
| 12928s | to put themselves into a commanding |
| 12930s | position so it is now snuff's position |
| 12934s | to lose the other teams are going to |
| 12937s | face an uphill battle or vessence of |
| 12939s | course if they if they 100 to zero this |
| 12941s | they're going to put themselves into a |
| 12942s | very strong position uh so it's really |
| 12945s | going to be super important for us |
| 12947s | enough to not only score some points but |
| 12950s | specifically try and avoid feeding any |
| 12953s | because if they can win this like 10 to |
| 12955s | zero or something or even lose it like |
| 12957s | 5-0 they will still be quite |
| 12960s | significantly ahead you know if they |
| 12962s | lost 5-0 they would be on 70 points and |
| 12964s | obviously on five and that's a quite a |
| 12967s | that's quite a swing so it's going to be |
| 12968s | more important for them not to lose |
| 12970s | ships than it is to score more points |
| 12973s | almost but I believe we are ready to go |
| 12976s | for match two in the galante Gambit uh |
| 12979s | snuffder versus of essence and your |
| 12981s | casters the vasilisk and Yin tan |
| 12988s | hello everyone and we're about to see a |
| 12991s | very unoriginal move from snuffed out |
| 12993s | bringing the exact same comp as before |
| 12995s | going up against of essence he brought a |
| 12999s | really interesting thing kind of in line |
| 13001s | with what bbp had Theory crafted take us |
| 13005s | through it about it what do you think |
| 13006s | they're going to be trying to do uh in |
| 13007s | this match I think I think their game |
| 13009s | plan can be summarized by the word Ram |
| 13012s | because they've walked pretty much |
| 13013s | everything to zero they've got a vindi |
| 13015s | here they've got a Domi Navy they've got |
| 13017s | a bundle of nexx Mike head's been flying |
| 13019s | the Navy executor all day this time he |
| 13020s | must have convinced his team just how |
| 13022s | powerful they are because boonie and |
| 13024s | Alexander cardio have jumped into them |
| 13026s | as well they've got a couple vexo Navy's |
| 13028s | a Magus and a vexor and they are mostly |
| 13030s | at zero the Magus and the exact sitting |
| 13031s | back a little bit but everything else I |
| 13033s | imagine is just gonna RAM and yeah like |
| 13036s | the last match I have no idea how this |
| 13038s | is gonna go so let's just uh strap in |
| 13041s | tight and see how this happens see how |
| 13042s | this goes I can confirm that all of |
| 13044s | those ships are fit with blasters as |
| 13046s | well including the Vex and navy issues |
| 13048s | which which is why you see that attack |
| 13050s | bar stretching so far to the right of of |
| 13053s | essence snuffed out are gonna need to |
| 13055s | run away and potentially even sacrifice |
| 13058s | some of that small tackle just to get |
| 13060s | off that said they're gonna be charging |
| 13062s | into all of these heavy drones and |
| 13063s | taking so much damage on the Russian and |
| 13066s | it looks like um the Eris is going to be |
| 13068s | the first primary here for them |
| 13071s | mjds on these two battleships here the |
| 13073s | Domi and the vindi are going to jump in |
| 13074s | but right behind them and immediately I |
| 13077s | imagine turn around and oh they they |
| 13078s | expect Navy got on the beacon as well so |
| 13080s | they're actually mjd from the center of |
| 13081s | the Arena here and getting in behind |
| 13082s | them plowing towards this oniros of |
| 13085s | infinitas but lunic in that uh xx4 of |
| 13088s | essence goes down there rapidly and now |
| 13090s | they're going to start losing destroys |
| 13091s | as well the heckity the heiress of |
| 13093s | duckslayer and Minton are going into low |
| 13094s | armor here they are taking heavy damage |
| 13096s | and this obesity team is just piling in |
| 13098s | from both directions so you've got the |
| 13099s | battleships and a couple cruises coming |
| 13101s | in from behind you've got the vexon |
| 13102s | Navy's pushing in from the front the |
| 13104s | heiress tried to wobble them I think at |
| 13105s | the start um that was uh Doc's layer in |
| 13108s | the in the Eris I think he burned in and |
| 13110s | just dropped to wobble on his way |
| 13111s | through that Battleship core but |
| 13112s | obviously the mjd they don't care about |
| 13114s | the Wubble they're jumping 100 |
| 13115s | kilometers straight behind you |
| 13117s | yeah and obviously the pain of they use |
| 13119s | uh about these cruises with all these |
| 13121s | plates on them is that they can't turn |
| 13123s | around very fast and even if they saw |
| 13125s | those mjds coming it wasn't enough a lot |
| 13128s | of these Cruisers now are tackled down |
| 13129s | for the snuffed out team you see the |
| 13131s | heiress the effects are being neros even |
| 13133s | all locked into position and the |
| 13135s | infinitas is going down here once he |
| 13137s | drops this is going to be uh basically |
| 13140s | just mopping up from the of essence team |
| 13143s | I mean neither team is going to have |
| 13145s | lodgy after this but this scenaris is |
| 13146s | lasting a lot longer than the exact |
| 13148s | crore did I think this is a bit more |
| 13149s | broadly that we were expecting this is |
| 13151s | going to be a much higher Point |
| 13153s | um game for both of these teams here |
| 13154s | obviously this is going to be in favor |
| 13155s | of snuffed out if they can just kill as |
| 13157s | much as they can I believe if they score |
| 13158s | what what was it you said like 59 points |
| 13160s | or something they're all mathematically |
| 13161s | eliminate cluster bouts obviously then |
| 13163s | obviousness will then have the game in |
| 13165s | their hands against cost about to try |
| 13167s | and claim the spot and steal it off of |
| 13169s | snuffed out with a particularly high |
| 13170s | scoring game themselves but at the |
| 13172s | moment it feels like they've taken too |
| 13173s | long to deal with Infinitis even though |
| 13175s | they got the Bindi webs on and the |
| 13176s | natural resists of that oniros and of |
| 13178s | course now following up the eoses and |
| 13179s | the iftars just so strong so even though |
| 13181s | the vindi webs landed on and they were |
| 13183s | shooting a huge amount of DPS into him |
| 13184s | that Cruiser Wing they brought those in |
| 13186s | XX and the vexal Navies is just getting |
| 13188s | absolutely eviscerated here |
| 13190s | yeah right now it really doesn't matter |
| 13192s | to other essence of how much points they |
| 13193s | lose it matters how many they kill |
| 13195s | because they are racing against the |
| 13197s | maximum of whatever snuffed out can get |
| 13199s | plus their previous score if they can |
| 13201s | beat that now they're pretty much |
| 13203s | guaranteed to win given what snuffed out |
| 13205s | is uh dropping on the field here |
| 13208s | yeah they just need to get these vindi |
| 13210s | webs on whatever they can and just try |
| 13211s | and chew through it as quickly as |
| 13212s | possible at this point the match is |
| 13214s | going to be lost they are going to lose |
| 13215s | the effects on maybe they're going to |
| 13216s | lose the Magus they just need to grab |
| 13218s | what they can maybe grab an EOS grab an |
| 13220s | Ishtar look at what is the most points |
| 13222s | on the field and just say we're going to |
| 13223s | kill this if we kill nothing else it is |
| 13225s | what it is but at least we can try and |
| 13226s | claim these 18 points from these eos's |
| 13228s | and that gives us that would give us or |
| 13230s | them a respectable sort of total going |
| 13232s | into that next final match |
| 13235s | yeah you've got to give a huge shout out |
| 13237s | to the hacker tape sorry all the three |
| 13239s | sorry four frigate Destroyer pilots from |
| 13242s | the snuffed out surviving for so so long |
| 13244s | even though it looks like Athena might |
| 13246s | be potentially caught here might be |
| 13247s | going down they've lasted for ages and |
| 13250s | because of that snuff that is going to |
| 13251s | have a huge points buffer to work with |
| 13253s | it's going to make the difficult job of |
| 13256s | of essence even harder coming into this |
| 13258s | final match in fact if the point to stay |
| 13261s | as they are I don't think they can win I |
| 13263s | think snuffed out of mathematically |
| 13264s | almost already won |
| 13266s | how how do you think these Dominic's |
| 13268s | Navy and Vindicator a tank do you think |
| 13270s | there is a chance of their whole tanked |
| 13271s | and they'll be able to just Whittle |
| 13272s | through something maybe get the Bindi |
| 13274s | webs on something |
| 13275s | um you know and just break through it |
| 13276s | and burn around maybe their extended |
| 13278s | capacitor compared to these Cruisers |
| 13279s | they might be able to whittle them down |
| 13280s | over the duration of this match I mean |
| 13282s | there's not a huge amount of tackle on |
| 13283s | the other side obviously nothing like |
| 13284s | the hyena is legal in this format with |
| 13286s | the glente ships only is now just those |
| 13288s | two battleships what can they do this |
| 13290s | Eris is parked up on top of the |
| 13292s | Vindicator and it's not really dying |
| 13296s | yeah I mean if you look at the defense |
| 13298s | bars of both of the teams of Essence |
| 13300s | still actually has the most HP left on |
| 13303s | the field even with eight out of 10 of |
| 13305s | their ships Dead that shows you just how |
| 13307s | much those uh the plate bonus has done |
| 13309s | for battleships uh in recent patches |
| 13313s | and that's going to give them the time |
| 13315s | to take down some of these destroyers |
| 13316s | but I don't know if that's going to be |
| 13317s | enough for them here yeah I did see a |
| 13320s | massive volley come out from Chad Flames |
| 13321s | that areas just goes absolutely melted |
| 13323s | the hecti of Athena the heckerty of |
| 13325s | Minton the Federation Navy Comet of |
| 13327s | manka they are all in armor but it's |
| 13329s | only really going to be the drones |
| 13330s | that's able to deal with those three |
| 13331s | ships obviously the battleships can have |
| 13333s | a really hard time actually you know |
| 13334s | getting on top of the number one and |
| 13335s | actually applying the damage to number |
| 13337s | two so I think it's just going to be DPS |
| 13338s | drones chasing them around they did Kill |
| 13340s | the lodgy earlier on and they are up |
| 13341s | against the Drone comp so there may not |
| 13343s | be that many rep Bots you know it comes |
| 13344s | down again what can these drones do in |
| 13346s | the later stages of the matches can they |
| 13347s | kill the hecates can they kill the comet |
| 13349s | can they then get the Vindicator and the |
| 13351s | Dominion may be on something maybe new |
| 13352s | pressure from the domain Navy maybe they |
| 13354s | can just snag one lucky cycle of a web |
| 13356s | onto something and that lets you catch |
| 13358s | it there's still plenty of time left in |
| 13360s | this match for all Essence to make some |
| 13361s | Headway here oh no The Vindicator speeds |
| 13365s | just dropped massively it's gone down to |
| 13367s | a couple of hundred meters a second |
| 13369s | hopefully he's just cycling so he can |
| 13371s | point yourself in the right direction |
| 13372s | and he hasn't burned it out because if |
| 13374s | he has that would be catastrophic if the |
| 13376s | other Essence team they need that |
| 13377s | Vindicator moving around the grid making |
| 13379s | a couple of catches with 24 points they |
| 13383s | would be nearly mathematically yeah they |
| 13385s | would be mathematically eliminated at |
| 13387s | this point against uh snuffed outs total |
| 13389s | of 127 currently that said with Athena |
| 13392s | going into low structure oh there they |
| 13395s | go down but I think you're right I think |
| 13397s | in the in the tenseness of this |
| 13398s | situation which obviously is so no Chad |
| 13400s | flame has maybe he was just neutered out |
| 13402s | and waiting for cap cat booster to |
| 13403s | reload and recycle something that was a |
| 13405s | good spot that his speed went down so |
| 13406s | low but he is accelerating back again |
| 13408s | now I think he must have just pumped a |
| 13409s | 3200 got neutered out and needed to wait |
| 13411s | for the whole cycle time and the reload |
| 13413s | to get going again so he does pick up |
| 13414s | speed again what are they going to be |
| 13416s | able to kill he is going into low armor |
| 13418s | 20 armor here and we are seeing the |
| 13421s | defense bar of essence is |
| 13423s | being whittled down here so I don't |
| 13425s | think this is going to be a holiday |
| 13426s | that's enough that's enough if they can |
| 13428s | kill if they can kill either of these |
| 13430s | two frigates they are no longer |
| 13431s | mathematically eliminated and they can |
| 13433s | come back in the second match of the |
| 13434s | series The comet's burning away they're |
| 13436s | looking at the heckerty and said one |
| 13437s | lucky shot of Indy shooting him the Domi |
| 13439s | I believe is also shooting him the |
| 13441s | heckerty is in two what is that two |
| 13443s | percent |
| 13444s | oh my goodness |
| 13449s | Minton is still burning away in four |
| 13451s | percent structure I think he is gonna |
| 13452s | live here unless he gets one lucky shot |
| 13454s | I can see the shot |
| 13457s | two percent Shield he is living to win |
| 13460s | here this is absolutely nerve-wracking |
| 13463s | for both these teams Chad flame going |
| 13464s | into low structure the entire hopes of |
| 13467s | of essence are going to be on elec on |
| 13468s | the shoulders here obviously when they |
| 13470s | lose this vindi that is going to be |
| 13471s | another 23 points going the way of |
| 13473s | snuffed out which I think may put them |
| 13475s | out of reach here goodness me this is oh |
| 13478s | and chat line does go down and Minton is |
| 13480s | gonna live I think Minton is going to |
| 13481s | survive and this is disastrous for |
| 13483s | obesity snuffed out their work is done |
| 13485s | here they've won both their matches |
| 13487s | they're going to win them fairly |
| 13488s | comfortably they're going to have a |
| 13489s | really solid point so I think we'll have |
| 13490s | to you know check check up with the desk |
| 13492s | to be certain obviously I said in the |
| 13494s | last match you know doing maths on |
| 13495s | broadcasters |
| 13497s | goes down minty goes down they claim |
| 13499s | Four Points back can they get anything |
| 13501s | else obviously the Domi Navy he's I |
| 13502s | think he mjd'd out there to get in range |
| 13504s | and just absolutely blast them and maybe |
| 13506s | the heckit he didn't notice that he was |
| 13507s | coming in he has got drones out he does |
| 13510s | have I believe |
| 13511s | um some DPS drones out so what can he |
| 13513s | stick them on what can he kill him yeah |
| 13515s | look at his positioning though he's |
| 13517s | right by that mjd Beacon and there are |
| 13519s | ships that might just be within range |
| 13521s | room to mjd onto and we've seen he has a |
| 13523s | grapple earlier this is his one chance |
| 13526s | if he can land onto something here he |
| 13528s | can maybe make this make a potential |
| 13531s | climb back they need to have at least 50 |
| 13534s | points out of this match to be able to |
| 13536s | win still and secure their place in the |
| 13539s | final tournament so what do they need to |
| 13542s | kill here they need to kill 26 points oh |
| 13544s | God |
| 13545s | no no just 16 so if they could kill him |
| 13548s | yeah I think that would leave them in it |
| 13550s | and but we can see elicon rails shooting |
| 13552s | at this Ishtar assume rail for maybe |
| 13554s | maybe blast of it and he's just you know |
| 13556s | hoping and praying for the lucky shot |
| 13557s | that he got on the hecatee doesn't |
| 13559s | really seem to be doing a huge round |
| 13560s | here no he is actually taking him |
| 13561s | through Shield I suppose obviously it is |
| 13563s | going to be an armor tanked Ishtar and |
| 13564s | obviously with the resist it's gonna be |
| 13566s | very very resilient to that hybrid |
| 13567s | damage |
| 13568s | it's just going to be so difficult for |
| 13570s | him to get on top of anything but he |
| 13571s | also is the ishtars they know he's gonna |
| 13573s | has mjd capability so just you know stay |
| 13575s | at 50 kilometers you don't want to be |
| 13577s | 100 kilometers away you obviously don't |
| 13578s | want to be on top of him just try and |
| 13579s | use that agility and stay at a range |
| 13581s | where he can't easily sort of maneuver |
| 13582s | himself on top of you |
| 13585s | yeah I know this is just this is so so |
| 13588s | heartbreaking here for Rob Essence they |
| 13590s | played this match out as well as they |
| 13591s | could uh but they just weren't able to |
| 13594s | break through the excellent screening |
| 13595s | here from snuffed out and they've |
| 13597s | somewhat redeemed themselves it's going |
| 13599s | to be very difficult for elacron to |
| 13601s | break it now with only 30 seconds left |
| 13603s | but he is trying he's put the mjd on |
| 13605s | let's see where he lands is he gonna be |
| 13608s | able to make it |
| 13610s | this is looking like a death by a |
| 13612s | Thousand Cuts here as there's just so |
| 13613s | many drones |
| 13615s | and he's a villain nowhere so those |
| 13617s | drones are going to burn across 30 |
| 13618s | seconds remaining elicon is going to |
| 13620s | live he is going to save his team 20 |
| 13621s | points but second in the glente gamble |
| 13624s | is just the first loser and it's looking |
| 13626s | like of essence are gonna be faced in |
| 13629s | that position here with snuffed out such |
| 13630s | a comfortable win here in terms of |
| 13632s | points 80 points for them added to the |
| 13634s | 70 they got last time that is a really |
| 13636s | really impressive score and I think as |
| 13638s | you're saying I think that does lock |
| 13639s | snuffed out into alliance tournament 19. |
| 13643s | yeah you got to give them |
| 13644s | congratulations here they came back from |
| 13646s | a very very rough uh you know first loss |
| 13649s | and then clawed their way back through |
| 13651s | only to take another rough loss before |
| 13654s | you know taking the match here I'm |
| 13657s | actually really excited to see what |
| 13658s | we're gonna see from the uh remaining |
| 13660s | team so with nothing to play for but |
| 13662s | Pride there's going to be some uh Beauty |
| 13664s | on display there I think but anyway |
| 13666s | let's send it back to the studio and uh |
| 13668s | talk some more about how this match |
| 13669s | played out |
| 13671s | thank you |
| 13679s | [Music] |
| 13685s | rain are you gonna armor Vagabond or |
| 13688s | something no um I've got Excel ISP |
| 13693s | and polarized guns |
| 13695s | [Laughter] |
| 13701s | you you are one of two people that |
| 13705s | couldn't listen and couldn't check |
| 13706s | bookmarks and find your own way out the |
| 13709s | route the entire route was literally |
| 13711s | bookmarked out to Lasik I bookmarked it |
| 13714s | 10 minutes in advance |
| 13715s | guys stop being casual they're really |
| 13718s | bad we should not lose anybody to this |
| 13720s | warp off take the fleet warp everybody |
| 13722s | warp off this is a really really bad |
| 13724s | execution I'm very disappointed |
| 13731s | there you go that's it we have 32 teams |
| 13735s | now in Alliance tournament 19 the final |
| 13737s | slot goes to snuffder they were I |
| 13740s | believe the very first match of the |
| 13743s | feeders uh back on day one where they |
| 13745s | lost to goons Farm Federation and they |
| 13747s | took that personally uh they spent uh |
| 13750s | the next couple of days just grinding |
| 13752s | their way through uh couldn't quite seal |
| 13755s | the deal earlier on today versus no |
| 13757s | vacancies uh and they took that |
| 13758s | personally as well and they came into |
| 13761s | the galante Gamble and they said we |
| 13763s | don't need all three matches we can just |
| 13766s | do it uh and they did they came they saw |
| 13769s | they conquered they scored a combined |
| 13771s | 150 points uh over their two matches |
| 13774s | scoring 70 and 80. and mathematically uh |
| 13779s | that means that no other team can |
| 13781s | actually uh could pass on the last match |
| 13784s | between customers and all of essence |
| 13786s | who are on 29 and 34 points respectively |
| 13788s | even if one of them goes 100 points |
| 13790s | that's a smaller number than 150. I I do |
| 13794s | believe uh Blackberry party your arm |
| 13795s | resident math expert is that correct |
| 13798s | uh that is correct it is in fact a |
| 13800s | smaller number uh by a decent amount |
| 13803s | um it was it was pretty close though so |
| 13805s | good good attempts but hey you know what |
| 13807s | they uh I think we're still doing the |
| 13808s | next match because oh yeah your Skin's |
| 13811s | like damn right we are there are skins |
| 13813s | there are 10 of those incredible skins |
| 13815s | on the line and as mystical might put |
| 13817s | out uh those skins go from anywhere |
| 13819s | between sort of three to 15 billion so |
| 13822s | you have 10 minutes to secure yourself |
| 13825s | and your team potentially somewhere |
| 13827s | between 30 and 150 billion isk if of |
| 13831s | course you choose to sell them and of |
| 13833s | course bragging rights you get to slap |
| 13835s | those skins on your ship and look cool |
| 13837s | in space and everyone knows uh adding a |
| 13840s | cool skin does indeed make your ship do |
| 13842s | more damage mystical might because done |
| 13846s | anything else there it was so close at |
| 13847s | the end with Chad flame in that |
| 13848s | Vindicator if he'd survived such a |
| 13850s | little bit longer they were just clawing |
| 13852s | their way back into mathematically |
| 13854s | feasible and then when that Vindicator |
| 13856s | died that was kind of it |
| 13858s | yeah I'm not really sure there's much |
| 13860s | else that they could have done |
| 13862s | um to kind of draw out their death there |
| 13864s | they the primary issue I think was |
| 13867s | pinning down the core of snuffed out |
| 13870s | right because they're drum boats and |
| 13871s | because they're long-range projection |
| 13873s | boats with the rails they don't actually |
| 13875s | have to stick together and they don't |
| 13876s | have to be close so every single time |
| 13878s | you pin one down like an EOS for example |
| 13880s | or an Ishita then the rest of this Fleet |
| 13883s | is just gonna burn out to 100K in random |
| 13885s | directions and then you have to spend |
| 13886s | that time burning again to catch up with |
| 13889s | them we did I think see uh rails on the |
| 13892s | Navy dummy so that kind of cuts out a |
| 13894s | little bit of the issue of having to |
| 13895s | burn after people |
| 13896s | but rails on a Navy dummy I don't think |
| 13898s | are necessarily going to swing a match |
| 13900s | by themselves so I think that was the |
| 13903s | primary issue it's just that drones in |
| 13905s | an organ take setup are apparently |
| 13907s | fairly strong |
| 13909s | yep who who would have thunk it |
| 13912s | um I've got one other short announcement |
| 13914s | for for you guys out there uh I know |
| 13916s | you've been you've been hankering to |
| 13918s | find out uh the seating for Alliance |
| 13921s | tournament 19 well now we have all 32 |
| 13924s | teams we know who they are now uh so |
| 13927s | make sure you stick around because after |
| 13929s | our final match today uh CCP zealous |
| 13932s | will be joining us and we will be uh |
| 13935s | announcing some seating details uh so |
| 13938s | you will know where your team if you |
| 13940s | have made it in is seated |
| 13943s | um within the next sort of 40 minutes or |
| 13945s | so by the time we do our last match and |
| 13947s | get c2b sales on so make sure you stick |
| 13950s | around |
| 13951s | um to find out those all that |
| 13953s | information uh Blackberry part this has |
| 13956s | been a very exciting feeders tournament |
| 13958s | uh any highlights from you |
| 13961s | oh yeah I uh I mean we've had so many |
| 13964s | good matches like I think I I have to |
| 13966s | say that I feel that every single year |
| 13968s | the feeders get better and then using |
| 13971s | that uh I'm guessing that the actual |
| 13973s | tournament will get better uh once we |
| 13974s | started doing the feeders we saw that |
| 13975s | the tournament itself became like the |
| 13978s | skill of the piloting involved was |
| 13980s | fantastic but even this year I feel that |
| 13981s | there is so many more like quality |
| 13984s | matches than maybe like last year's |
| 13987s | feeders or the first years feeders so uh |
| 13989s | teams are getting better that's which is |
| 13991s | super awesome |
| 13992s | um I know that yesterday we had so many |
| 13994s | good matches like we had one that uh we |
| 13996s | had a somebody live at like 47 structure |
| 13998s | and that won the game for them we had |
| 14000s | people uh have just some of the best |
| 14002s | back and forth so we also saw people |
| 14004s | just get shellacked out in two and a |
| 14006s | half minutes so just I don't know a |
| 14008s | cop-out but I've really enjoyed this |
| 14009s | entire one this has been probably my |
| 14011s | favorite feeders we've done so far |
| 14014s | yeah I agree just I'm just looking |
| 14016s | through the the schedule looking back at |
| 14018s | some of the matches you know we opened |
| 14019s | uh with gunstorm Federation versus |
| 14021s | snuffed out good and securing themselves |
| 14024s | uh a spot straight into alliance |
| 14026s | tournament 19 uh in a move that shocked |
| 14028s | the World by winning a match uh |
| 14031s | something that they're not known to do |
| 14033s | uh when it comes to tournament play |
| 14034s | we're all very proud of them and they |
| 14036s | will be in the tournament in August |
| 14039s | ready to you know be uh be one two kings |
| 14042s | uh so we we hope hope to see them then |
| 14045s | uh there was of course some fantastic |
| 14046s | matches uh later on that day moving into |
| 14049s | day two we we saw teams like barcode go |
| 14052s | up against test lines please ignore if I |
| 14053s | remember correct that was quite a good |
| 14054s | one plug and play versus youth Pray Love |
| 14057s | uh another another good highlight uh and |
| 14060s | a couple more matches on weekend two |
| 14062s | Bart yesterday you were just talking |
| 14064s | there about I believe of essence versus |
| 14066s | dracaris was a super super tight one of |
| 14069s | essence losing it by just the 20 seconds |
| 14071s | right at the end that's what catapulted |
| 14073s | them in to the galante Gambit today and |
| 14077s | you know has resulted in them |
| 14079s | unfortunately being eliminated so you |
| 14082s | know again incredible matches some some |
| 14084s | really fun teams to watch Misty any uh |
| 14086s | any highlights from you |
| 14088s | I mean I have to say the Frat match is |
| 14091s | always good uh glad to see the alliance |
| 14093s | making it on through into the main |
| 14094s | tournament |
| 14096s | um I think that the |
| 14098s | I think the second match that test |
| 14100s | played was actually also fairly |
| 14101s | interesting they um they brought and |
| 14104s | executed I think a decent comp in that |
| 14106s | match against was it literally triggered |
| 14109s | I believe yeah we also saw |
| 14114s | uh I think of essence have actually been |
| 14116s | one of the better |
| 14118s | who is it whole control played against |
| 14120s | someone uh that was interesting as well |
| 14123s | but I think of essence a really good |
| 14124s | multiple people including test lines |
| 14126s | please ignore who they defeated in an |
| 14127s | elimination match that may also be the |
| 14129s | interesting match from Whole control |
| 14131s | yeah so I would say them and I think of |
| 14135s | essence as well I think has been pretty |
| 14137s | cool to watch |
| 14138s | um they've done well I think to make it |
| 14141s | this far they've earned themselves some |
| 14142s | skins |
| 14143s | um and also Mike head I believe is a |
| 14146s | renowned BSB poster who uh yeah it's |
| 14150s | nice to see him in the tournament |
| 14151s | setting |
| 14153s | exactly |
| 14154s | um so let me see if we can just uh toss |
| 14156s | those skins up on screen one more time |
| 14158s | and this is what the teams are now |
| 14160s | competing for in this final match that |
| 14163s | we're going to see of essence uh versus |
| 14165s | cast about uh they are one of those |
| 14169s | teams is going to win uh that's a |
| 14171s | mathematical certainty uh Blackberry |
| 14173s | pirate can confirm that later but I'm |
| 14174s | pretty certain it is |
| 14176s | um and they will get these uh incredible |
| 14179s | skins the art team as always knocking it |
| 14181s | out of the park uh just some Skins are |
| 14184s | like super subtle I know like the blood |
| 14186s | Raiders Victory skin for example one of |
| 14188s | the only ways you can tell is you zoom |
| 14190s | all the way in and you see it says uh |
| 14192s | Alliance tournament on it and that's it |
| 14193s | uh last year's skins uh the mimitar ones |
| 14196s | were awesome as well it's a nice glowy |
| 14198s | bits but these with the the gold and the |
| 14201s | pattern I just think are superb I'm very |
| 14204s | excited for them |
| 14206s | um we have about 10 minutes until this |
| 14208s | final match |
| 14209s | um |
| 14210s | I have no more topics to discuss we've |
| 14212s | literally covered everything we we've |
| 14214s | basically finished the tournament |
| 14215s | completed it made uh so yeah thanks for |
| 14219s | joining us it's been very exciting |
| 14222s | um I'm looking forward to the main |
| 14223s | tournament coming in August uh Misty is |
| 14225s | there any teams that you're looking |
| 14226s | forward to seeing based on what we've |
| 14228s | seen in the in the theater so far |
| 14230s | yeah I'm looking forward to seeing the |
| 14232s | team that's staying at the gamer house |
| 14233s | in uh in Nottingham for the live |
| 14235s | production there's going to be some good |
| 14236s | stuff |
| 14238s | um I think it'll be interesting to see |
| 14240s | some of the top teams that got invited |
| 14243s | directly to the tournament so |
| 14246s | um I think it'll be interest got the |
| 14248s | invite right so I think it should be |
| 14249s | interesting to see how they fare without |
| 14252s | being able to lean on the Fairly unique |
| 14256s | trait that Tosca has which is bringing |
| 14258s | evil in their Med slots on ships that |
| 14260s | shouldn't necessarily have e-war and |
| 14262s | maybe have tank |
| 14263s | that has worked very well for them it's |
| 14265s | got them into that final weekend that's |
| 14267s | got them I think like fourth or third |
| 14270s | um I think it was dead |
| 14271s | I might be wrong on that |
| 14273s | there were fourth last year okay fourth |
| 14276s | I might be wrong on that |
| 14278s | um yeah so you know it's done well but |
| 14280s | they can't do it again this year so I |
| 14281s | want to see how their Theory crafting |
| 14283s | changes to reflect the new rules and see |
| 14286s | how they perform against some of the |
| 14287s | teams that have now had a bit more |
| 14288s | experience in the fire at The Crucible |
| 14290s | of defeaters rounds |
| 14293s | yeah and Bart coming to you as well uh |
| 14296s | any teams that you weren't expecting |
| 14297s | that have performed super well in these |
| 14300s | feeders that you're looking forward to |
| 14301s | see in the main tournament later this |
| 14303s | year |
| 14304s | uh after sort of learning so you know |
| 14308s | there's a ton of teams we're playing |
| 14309s | under different names that in hindsight |
| 14311s | were actually teams from last year um I |
| 14313s | think that like block range enjoyers was |
| 14315s | playing under I'm gonna say white flag |
| 14318s | and that might not be exactly what it |
| 14320s | was but like we found out it's like oh |
| 14321s | yeah it's those guys so |
| 14323s | um once you once you figure out like oh |
| 14325s | you see the same group of Pilots just |
| 14326s | under a different name every year uh at |
| 14329s | Hydro truth on or late |
| 14331s | um it does kind of get a little |
| 14332s | confusing but I think that |
| 14334s | um most of the teams that got through |
| 14338s | after seeing them play everybody |
| 14339s | deserves to get through like obviously |
| 14342s | we had one or two teams that got buys |
| 14343s | but generally I think that this year |
| 14345s | like the competition was again it was |
| 14347s | better uh it was a higher tier I think |
| 14350s | we're going to have fantastic matches uh |
| 14352s | I'm kind of in the same spot as Misty |
| 14354s | though where there's several teams that |
| 14357s | their meta kind of got shaken up |
| 14360s | significantly so when we get to the |
| 14362s | actual Alliance tournament like tuskers |
| 14364s | they're gonna have to completely |
| 14366s | redesign their play uh truth on or light |
| 14368s | same kind of situation Odin's too |
| 14371s | um all of these teams were being these |
| 14373s | very like heavy control setups with uh |
| 14376s | other things and you can't do that this |
| 14380s | year or can you uh you know I'm sure |
| 14383s | they're going to bring something wild |
| 14384s | out but I just I'm just excited to see |
| 14386s | what kind of new wild things people are |
| 14388s | going to choose in uh in August |
| 14391s | yeah now both of you mentioned the stuff |
| 14393s | about the the e-war changes uh so let's |
| 14397s | talk about them for for a few minutes so |
| 14399s | previously you could put uh ewar on |
| 14402s | pretty much whatever you wanted uh you |
| 14404s | couldn't necessarily script stuff but |
| 14405s | you could still put it on on things then |
| 14407s | we changed it last year and allowed |
| 14408s | script to D War uh offensive you were |
| 14411s | again and uh that's when you started to |
| 14414s | see Shenanigans like the arm rejector uh |
| 14417s | it's not traditionally an armor ship but |
| 14419s | it turns out it has a lot of mid slots |
| 14421s | and you can fit them all with things |
| 14423s | like guidance disruptors tracking |
| 14425s | disruptors uh you know sensor dampers |
| 14428s | and things like that uh Misty how is |
| 14430s | that different from this year |
| 14432s | so this year you can only fit evil on |
| 14436s | ships that have an equal bonus and I |
| 14438s | believe you can only use metaphor |
| 14439s | modules as well just to dampen down I |
| 14442s | suppose the strength that these E1 |
| 14443s | modules have in small gang settings so |
| 14447s | if you want to bring damps you need to |
| 14448s | bring a more or less or a carries for |
| 14450s | example jams would have to be fit on a |
| 14452s | blackbird Griffin kitsun those sorts of |
| 14454s | ships |
| 14455s | so on and so forth same for tracking |
| 14457s | disrupters Target painters |
| 14459s | um guidance disruptors things like that |
| 14461s | now it does create a fairly interesting |
| 14464s | environment because you can start Target |
| 14466s | Banning the type of ewall that you want |
| 14468s | to avoid some ships are hard to replace |
| 14470s | so if you ban the Blackbird there is no |
| 14472s | tech one equivalent for the kardari |
| 14475s | um in in the caldari line to bring that |
| 14478s | allows you to bring ECM in that Cruiser |
| 14480s | form you would have to then spend more |
| 14482s | points on something like a rook or a |
| 14486s | falcon which will ruin the rest of your |
| 14487s | comp basically right because then you |
| 14488s | have to change everything to adjust |
| 14491s | um so I think that's a fairly |
| 14492s | interesting development |
| 14494s | but also in this galante Gambit one |
| 14498s | thing that I don't think we mentioned |
| 14499s | was that snuff brought remote sensor |
| 14501s | boosters on their eos's because they |
| 14503s | knew that the only type of evil that |
| 14505s | they could encounter |
| 14506s | was damps so they could effectively fit |
| 14509s | to counter the only type of evil they |
| 14511s | would encounter |
| 14512s | which means that you know damps played |
| 14514s | no real role in stuff's uh in a |
| 14518s | potential stuff loss rather |
| 14519s | so I think that's also an interesting |
| 14522s | way in which the meta has developed you |
| 14523s | can more accurately fit to counter stuff |
| 14526s | then you would be able to otherwise |
| 14529s | yeah so I think it's gonna like like you |
| 14531s | said it's gonna shake things up we're |
| 14532s | gonna see it develops some teams |
| 14534s | um relied on that fairly heavily over |
| 14536s | the last couple of years uh tuskers is a |
| 14539s | great example uh they they love a good |
| 14541s | uh you are mid so they do those Tasker |
| 14545s | boys |
| 14546s | um so it'll be very interesting to see |
| 14547s | how that uh shakes it up the The Meta |
| 14550s | overall from last year to this year I |
| 14553s | suspect isn't going to be vastly |
| 14555s | different but these little changes are |
| 14558s | actually going to be quite powerful if |
| 14560s | you understand the the implications |
| 14562s | correctly and encounter it in in some |
| 14564s | way so you can probably pull out some |
| 14567s | some ship comps from last year and like |
| 14569s | massage them around a little bit and |
| 14570s | make them effective but the teams that |
| 14572s | are actually able to digest the the true |
| 14575s | impact of some of these rules will be |
| 14577s | the ones that uh bubble to the top of |
| 14579s | this cauldron of mediocrity as we |
| 14581s | sometimes called now if you've been |
| 14583s | enjoying the uh the adverts after each |
| 14587s | of the matches you could put your own |
| 14590s | adverts in as well that's the thing you |
| 14592s | can send us adverts |
| 14594s | um so the deadline for their adverts for |
| 14596s | the main tournament uh is towards the |
| 14599s | end of July I believe July 25th the |
| 14601s | rules are on the uh Eve online website |
| 14604s | under the launch tournament section uh |
| 14606s | along with the restylance tournament |
| 14607s | rules they are quite strict in terms of |
| 14610s | what we can and cannot put on the the |
| 14612s | broadcast so make sure you read those |
| 14614s | rules closely before you submit |
| 14617s | something uh because you don't want to |
| 14619s | do that and then have it rejected so |
| 14621s | make sure you pay very close attention |
| 14622s | to those rules but I encourage you guys |
| 14625s | to make some cool advertisements uh it |
| 14627s | can be for pretty much anything uh as |
| 14629s | long as it's eve related so I look |
| 14631s | forward to seeing some more of those so |
| 14633s | July 25th that's your uh that's your |
| 14635s | deadline for that |
| 14637s | uh we have three minutes until the the |
| 14640s | next match is ready to to go I believe |
| 14643s | um |
| 14643s | this is probably an interesting one but |
| 14645s | predictions because bearing in mind |
| 14648s | entry into the tournament is now off the |
| 14650s | cards but Skins are still so they're |
| 14653s | still going to be taking this seriously |
| 14654s | it's not going to be a cheese fest match |
| 14656s | it's going to be a proper match I think |
| 14657s | Bart any thoughts in this |
| 14660s | uh I really liked that of essence did do |
| 14664s | a semi-blaster rush |
| 14666s | um I just I'm concerned for them because |
| 14669s | if you know we saw snuff bring the same |
| 14671s | thing twice in a row if Bob Essence |
| 14673s | doesn't have another setup uh and the uh |
| 14676s | they've had time their opponents have |
| 14678s | had time to be like oh they're Blaster |
| 14680s | rushing we'll switch it up so I'm gonna |
| 14682s | I'm predicting that their opponent wins |
| 14684s | this |
| 14685s | um just because they've seen what of |
| 14687s | essence has in the lesson essence of |
| 14689s | essence has been like aha what if we mix |
| 14691s | it up completely so |
| 14695s | I missed it you you similar |
| 14698s | I'm hoping that cost about twins because |
| 14700s | I think cost about they've turned up in |
| 14702s | previous tournaments have they've not |
| 14704s | done well every time but I think they've |
| 14706s | put on an excellent show in the feeders |
| 14708s | and I'm actually sad that they didn't |
| 14709s | get through |
| 14711s | um |
| 14712s | they don't really get much of a chance |
| 14713s | after the first match where they weren't |
| 14715s | able to kill Daenerys or rather didn't |
| 14718s | kill Daenerys with them I guess if they |
| 14720s | had I think they'd have stood a much |
| 14722s | better chance of getting through at the |
| 14724s | end here |
| 14725s | um I'm hoping that they pull out |
| 14726s | something interesting hopefully it's not |
| 14728s | just triple bargest again |
| 14730s | hopefully they go with something fairly |
| 14732s | unique something that we haven't seen so |
| 14733s | far and uh execute it well |
| 14736s | awesome well um in terms of where these |
| 14739s | two teams are scoring in the galante |
| 14741s | Gambit of essence on 34 Caster votes on |
| 14744s | 29 so in in the overall score thing |
| 14747s | there's not very much in it so this is |
| 14749s | very much going to be whoever wins is |
| 14751s | basically the winner in general anyway |
| 14753s | but uh you will win the match you will |
| 14755s | get your skins it's going to be pretty |
| 14756s | awesome I see team members all appear to |
| 14760s | be pretty much on grid so let's let's |
| 14762s | just go straight to the arena and see |
| 14764s | this final match of the alliance |
| 14766s | tournament 19 feeders the last match of |
| 14768s | the galante game but it is cast about |
| 14770s | versus of essence with your casters the |
| 14773s | Basilisk and Yin tan |
| 14779s | welcome to the arena for this final |
| 14781s | match at the Glendale Gambit as we were |
| 14783s | saying both these teams sadly eliminated |
| 14784s | but there is pride on the line and to |
| 14786s | show |
| 14787s | this the pride that they have the honor |
| 14789s | that they feel in this situation both |
| 14791s | teams have basically walked to zero and |
| 14793s | this isn't going to be a match fitting |
| 14795s | of the final glente Gambit because oh my |
| 14798s | goodness there is about to be a brawl |
| 14801s | yeah and we're seeing three different |
| 14804s | Mega throw and holes being used here by |
| 14806s | castabouts we've got the rarely seen |
| 14808s | Kronos even making an appearance here so |
| 14811s | they're gonna have a ton of large hybrid |
| 14813s | damage I expect those The Vindicator in |
| 14815s | the dummy Navy from obvious and they're |
| 14816s | going to get obliterated here but how |
| 14818s | fast can they trade back in return look |
| 14820s | at all of those blasters from those |
| 14822s | Cruisers oh my God it's gonna be a |
| 14824s | massacre |
| 14825s | what's the what's the best primary I |
| 14827s | have no idea what are they going to |
| 14828s | shoot I don't know they are let's just |
| 14830s | see how it goes boonie and the XX Navy's |
| 14832s | the first primary Vindicator on the |
| 14833s | other side of Jay ambrell is going to |
| 14835s | take huge chunks into armor as well I |
| 14836s | think this is just they're going to go |
| 14837s | down at a rate of knots here this the |
| 14839s | xsec of booty is taking massive chunks |
| 14842s | of armor he's going straight through as |
| 14843s | is The Vindicator on the other side |
| 14844s | there's no second calling here no second |
| 14846s | guessing on the primary you pick |
| 14848s | something you shoot it booney dies |
| 14849s | that's it first blood in this match |
| 14852s | oh the disgusting the disgusting DPS |
| 14854s | going down and they're more or less it's |
| 14856s | cowardly running away from the fight oh |
| 14858s | my God the absolute cowardice here from |
| 14860s | cast about using something as disgusting |
| 14862s | as tactics in an in a brawl in a blaster |
| 14865s | brawl God |
| 14867s | the vexile Navy's not moving the Chronos |
| 14870s | aren't moving the XX movies aren't |
| 14872s | moving nothing's moving everyone is just |
| 14873s | fully onto guns screw propulsion we |
| 14875s | don't need to move we've got guns and |
| 14877s | Jay ambrell is taking massive damage |
| 14880s | through hull here he is just about |
| 14881s | catching reps I think from whatever the |
| 14883s | logic freak is I haven't looked down |
| 14884s | there I don't care about them they |
| 14885s | haven't got guns on them there is some |
| 14886s | logical but he does go down |
| 14889s | um so they've traded that first |
| 14890s | Battleship so it is now a 2v2 situation |
| 14892s | in terms of battleships how much DPS |
| 14894s | have they got left in the rest of the |
| 14895s | compo the one exact Navy of Alexander |
| 14897s | cardio and the two vexile navies both of |
| 14899s | X was taking large damage and armor here |
| 14902s | and losing our Vindicator is going to be |
| 14903s | so so painful for them as well because |
| 14905s | now they don't have anything to really |
| 14907s | help them track the Vex and navy issues |
| 14909s | and the executives from the other side |
| 14910s | but it doesn't seem to matter there is |
| 14912s | another Cruiser goes down that megathon |
| 14914s | navy red house though he is dropping |
| 14916s | really really quickly and once he goes |
| 14918s | down there's gonna be so little DPS just |
| 14921s | that Kronos really left for cast abouts |
| 14923s | to pull the game back with and look at |
| 14925s | how much HP of essence have left for him |
| 14927s | to burn through |
| 14928s | yeah there's going to be Newton coming |
| 14929s | into play here as well I think the |
| 14931s | Kronos is going to have newts to dummy |
| 14932s | Navy is probably also going to have a |
| 14934s | couple of newts here and there I mean |
| 14936s | it's very hard to look at look at the |
| 14937s | ships on grid and figure out what's |
| 14939s | happening it's all to do with the health |
| 14940s | bars right now because everything is |
| 14941s | shooting everything there's drones |
| 14942s | everywhere there's guns everywhere it's |
| 14943s | just an absolute mess of effects and red |
| 14945s | house is going into low hole here he's |
| 14947s | again trying to catch wretch from the |
| 14948s | two three hits that I don't care about |
| 14949s | but it's not going to be enough it's |
| 14951s | overwhelming DPS coming in they are |
| 14953s | going to trade I think for the second |
| 14954s | vexil Navy of korok but then it is going |
| 14956s | to be the two battleships against the |
| 14957s | Kronos Knight based on their previous |
| 14958s | Target calling I imagine they're just |
| 14960s | gonna say well you know it's worked for |
| 14961s | the previous two let's just go straight |
| 14962s | through pledgeab and as soon as red |
| 14964s | house goes down he is still holding in |
| 14966s | low armor here yeah correct's trying to |
| 14968s | do his best to Newt out those Logistics |
| 14970s | frigates but he's just died that's the |
| 14972s | reason why deadlock was going down so |
| 14973s | low without him they no longer have any |
| 14975s | Cruisers apart from Joseph to lock these |
| 14978s | things down it's gonna be so difficult |
| 14979s | but then the megaphone goes back oh my |
| 14981s | God this is so close spazzer and they've |
| 14984s | still got the exec of lunic spoons just |
| 14986s | sat out there chilling you know he's |
| 14987s | fine nobody is going to go 20 kilometers |
| 14989s | that is basically the other side of the |
| 14991s | universe for these guys in the in the |
| 14992s | battleships here so he's going to be |
| 14994s | pumping his full rep capacity onto these |
| 14996s | two battleships that are left the Magus |
| 14997s | may go down here the vexor of Joseph |
| 14999s | ghosty is probably going to go down as |
| 15001s | well but I mean there's still so much |
| 15003s | damage left on the field from the |
| 15005s | vindian the Dominion once you're at zero |
| 15006s | obviously both these teams getting their |
| 15008s | dicks out and saying we're going to park |
| 15009s | up at zero you're not getting away from |
| 15010s | him once you're in the situation this is |
| 15012s | it that's how it starts and that's how |
| 15013s | it's going to end in a massive blood bar |
| 15016s | oh and finally it looks like cast about |
| 15018s | to managed to hold on to that and it's |
| 15020s | Acura I've been wondering what that Navy |
| 15022s | Morse has been doing for the last couple |
| 15024s | of minutes but he's finally managed to |
| 15025s | latch onto him and look how quickly that |
| 15027s | executor is going down just from void |
| 15030s | DPS from a single Kronos the power of |
| 15032s | that fall off range but they are trading |
| 15035s | it for their own failure no more reps |
| 15038s | now on the field for both teams it's |
| 15039s | just gonna be a punching match but look |
| 15042s | at the tiny amount of the HP that's left |
| 15044s | the uh castabouts they're going to be |
| 15046s | relying almost entirely on the local |
| 15048s | reps from the Chronos to try and keep |
| 15049s | themselves in this match and I don't |
| 15051s | think that's going to last for six |
| 15052s | minutes |
| 15053s | thing is there is also the aspect of the |
| 15055s | resists here and there was so many |
| 15057s | warriors on that executor I think that |
| 15059s | is what did the Lions show the damage to |
| 15060s | him they're just absolutely pwning him |
| 15062s | just a swarm of like 30 Warriors |
| 15063s | absolutely blasting and this Kronos now |
| 15065s | is actually running away here blue |
| 15067s | Jordan has pulled a bit of range 25 |
| 15068s | kilometers so he's trying to get a bit |
| 15070s | of distance from his Vindicator he |
| 15071s | spotted the option and said the website |
| 15073s | on me this is my chance I need to get a |
| 15074s | bit of range to get a bit of time a bit |
| 15076s | of space to play with in this 1v2 |
| 15077s | Battleship matchup they are going to |
| 15079s | kill the Magus of Quinn Joseph ghosty |
| 15080s | and the vixel is going to go down next |
| 15082s | he's been surviving for quite a while |
| 15083s | here the Magus of batter Shin is going |
| 15084s | to be traded on the other side still no |
| 15086s | idea which way this is going Jim |
| 15089s | it's going right down to the wire we |
| 15091s | couldn't ask for a better last match to |
| 15092s | the thing uh to the evening we've got |
| 15094s | the Federation Navy Comet of NASCAR just |
| 15097s | holding on for dear life trying to act |
| 15099s | as a little putt two-point parking break |
| 15101s | to elecron in this domination uh |
| 15102s | Dominic's Navy issue not able to tap him |
| 15105s | with his drones really all his railguns |
| 15108s | uh The Vindicator of Chad flame he has |
| 15110s | got to do all the work now of cleaning |
| 15112s | up the remaining ships on this cast of |
| 15114s | outside |
| 15115s | yeah this is this is uh this is quite a |
| 15118s | funny looking Grid at the moment because |
| 15119s | you zoom in at zero and there's just so |
| 15121s | many wrecks so many stationary drones |
| 15122s | it's like if you you found this on TQ |
| 15125s | like you walked to a gate and you saw |
| 15126s | this you'd be like well you know some |
| 15128s | violence happened here a little while |
| 15130s | ago there's nobody left it is just a |
| 15132s | bunch of wrecks and drones but there was |
| 15133s | definitely some violence and uh we are |
| 15135s | now seeing Chad flame in this Vindicator |
| 15137s | with the help of that um fed Navy Comet |
| 15139s | who I believe is tackling down this uh |
| 15141s | this Dominator here oh no he's actually |
| 15144s | going to help you he's clearly he's |
| 15145s | clearing he's clearing spectacle off of |
| 15147s | the Dominion yeah he's saying you can't |
| 15149s | deal with him but don't worry I've got a |
| 15150s | 90 web I'm going to come and blast him |
| 15151s | for you and NASCAR is now going to go |
| 15153s | down I think now the Windy's arrived on |
| 15154s | the scene these two battleships working |
| 15156s | in tandem here and now it is just the |
| 15158s | 2V1 matchup I don't think the mawless is |
| 15160s | going to be able to uh you know swing it |
| 15161s | on his own in this 2-1 matchup what can |
| 15163s | the Chronos do outnumbered and maybe |
| 15165s | outgunned yeah Chad flame is informing |
| 15168s | Us in local that he is violently |
| 15169s | screaming in columns and I'm not sure |
| 15171s | why because he's got this match almost |
| 15173s | certainly sewn up here he just has to |
| 15175s | avoid uh feeding himself away and he has |
| 15178s | 10 more skins to his name |
| 15180s | and he's also uh Quinn Rhodes the |
| 15183s | captain of the appearsing team has like |
| 15184s | wants to uh inform our audience to |
| 15186s | remember to brush their teeth foreign |
| 15189s | there appears to be a lot of violence |
| 15191s | screaming going on in Columbus judge |
| 15193s | based on what these two teams are saying |
| 15194s | in local uh we are now seeing Chad flame |
| 15196s | burn in here and to be honest this is |
| 15198s | sort of a dream matchup Province you |
| 15200s | know you land at zero everyone else is |
| 15201s | at zero you get to just pump your guns |
| 15203s | into anything you want and uh you know |
| 15205s | he hasn't been primary does we've seen a |
| 15206s | lot of these matches for example against |
| 15207s | Shield Rush of Indy is there and just |
| 15209s | gets sworn by Nighthawks didn't happen |
| 15211s | in this case Chad flame has got to have |
| 15212s | the time of his life here firing those |
| 15215s | blasters into whatever he could and he |
| 15216s | is now pulling up on this Kronos gonna |
| 15219s | uh oh my woman shinduru and absolutely |
| 15221s | blast him into another dimension |
| 15224s | yeah it's just going to be at the last |
| 15226s | few shots here as we go into the final |
| 15229s | stretch of this match I suppose it's |
| 15231s | really just a question of Ken plus |
| 15232s | Jordan with those uh kin therm bonus |
| 15235s | resists and the amount of rep power that |
| 15237s | a Chronos has even without a uh Bastion |
| 15239s | survive until the end of the match |
| 15242s | place your bets now team |
| 15245s | I mean the stormy Davis |
| 15247s | [Laughter] |
| 15249s | yeah gambling is definitely legal after |
| 15250s | the match has started you can't be |
| 15252s | placing points on that that is called |
| 15253s | cheating and therefore CCP convict is on |
| 15255s | hand to make sure that the bets are |
| 15257s | closed at the start of the match so you |
| 15258s | know if you're wondering why that |
| 15259s | predict button is not working it's |
| 15260s | because it would be you know cheating so |
| 15263s | nice try uh is this Chronos going to |
| 15265s | survive to the end of match they don't |
| 15266s | care about them all a susapathetic |
| 15267s | little frigate he's free to do his own |
| 15269s | thing the Kronos now the Domino arrives |
| 15270s | on the scene I think the Kronos is going |
| 15272s | to go down here he's trying his best to |
| 15273s | Smart bomb drones but the pressure from |
| 15275s | The Blasters is just going to be |
| 15276s | absolutely overwhelming on them |
| 15278s | yeah shout out to kirchive though |
| 15280s | running away just as they uh they did in |
| 15283s | the last match against snuffed out |
| 15284s | protecting those final couple of points |
| 15287s | even though it's not gonna matter in |
| 15288s | this uh to the outcome of this match or |
| 15291s | indeed her cast about to tournament run |
| 15293s | unfortunately we won't see both of these |
| 15295s | teams progress through to the main |
| 15297s | tournament which is a shame because they |
| 15298s | did relatively well last year |
| 15302s | I mean they did relatively well this |
| 15304s | year to get this Farm I put on a |
| 15307s | brilliant show through this feeder |
| 15308s | tournament the Kronos is going into Hull |
| 15310s | now he is going down play Jordan is |
| 15312s | gonna go down it's just going to be the |
| 15313s | more or less left whether the how long |
| 15315s | this morlist is able to keep this match |
| 15316s | going I mean you know he could just play |
| 15317s | around against these two battleships |
| 15319s | forever |
| 15320s | um so he's going to enjoy his extra |
| 15321s | minute and a half in the in the |
| 15323s | Limelight here but yeah just props to |
| 15324s | these two teams for forgetting so far |
| 15326s | even though they don't make it in |
| 15327s | freelance tournament they've played a |
| 15328s | lot of matches they've put on a great |
| 15329s | show he does boundary actually for the |
| 15331s | Final Act of the alliance tournament |
| 15333s | feeders so congratulations to OB Essence |
| 15335s | for winning those extra 10 skins and we |
| 15337s | are going to send it back to the studio |
| 15338s | and we are shortly gonna engage in some |
| 15340s | marbling |
| 15344s | [Music] |
| 15351s | thank you |
| 15360s | [Applause] |
| 15364s | [Music] |
| 15367s | [Applause] |
| 15369s | [Music] |
| 15370s | [Applause] |
| 15375s | connected Channel switched well it would |
| 15378s | have been a fun easy fight right but |
| 15380s | guess what dude I'm not if seeing it |
| 15381s | people can't get they're fit together |
| 15388s | enemies your temps are completely damned |
| 15391s | out Crush I'm dumped out I'm dumped out |
| 15393s | you don't like Champions Boys Pizza hips |
| 15396s | yeah everything down I've not been able |
| 15398s | to look at the thing again |
| 15402s | I'm jammed |
| 15403s | and there you have it we are done the |
| 15406s | alliance tournament 19 feeders is over |
| 15408s | we have all 32 teams uh some people went |
| 15411s | home with a whole bunch of skins they're |
| 15413s | gonna be very pleased uh obvious since |
| 15415s | they're taking uh 10 extra skins as |
| 15418s | consolation prize for not getting into |
| 15420s | the main tournament I'm sure if they |
| 15422s | wanted to buy one of the new ships once |
| 15424s | they're sold someone will sell it to |
| 15425s | them but it will be expensive so you're |
| 15428s | gonna have to start selling those skins |
| 15429s | as soon as you get them and try and get |
| 15431s | some of that cash up and running |
| 15433s | um thank you very much everyone for |
| 15434s | watching make sure you stick around |
| 15436s | because we will do the main tournament |
| 15439s | seating in about 10 minutes or so 10-15 |
| 15443s | minutes uh but in the meantime uh just |
| 15447s | wanted to take a bit of time to to thank |
| 15449s | everyone who makes Productions like this |
| 15451s | possible uh generally you just see uh us |
| 15454s | nerd sitting on your screen but there is |
| 15457s | a whole lot of people in the background |
| 15458s | that if they weren't doing a lot of |
| 15461s | stuff uh we couldn't bring you this |
| 15463s | great content and so in no particular |
| 15465s | order uh thank you so much to CP convict |
| 15468s | uh CP arcades to be fabulous CCP |
| 15471s | chimichanga uh CCP Swift and CCP zealous |
| 15475s | uh for doing a lot of things in the |
| 15477s | background uh we've had a bunch of the |
| 15479s | GMS helping us with all the refereeing |
| 15481s | GM Tigris GM Kobayashi GM Lex GM |
| 15484s | Maverick GM starlard GM trogctor GM |
| 15487s | chaos and of course the one and only saw |
| 15490s | Brazil who has been helping us out with |
| 15491s | the wrestling crew as well thank you |
| 15493s | very much to all the isds have been |
| 15494s | helping out in chat ISD Forge fire ISD |
| 15496s | Chiara have been super useful |
| 15499s | um and then of course thank you to all |
| 15500s | of our incredible Talent not only the |
| 15503s | people that you see on this on the |
| 15504s | screen but the people that you hear in |
| 15506s | the matches the camera operators and the |
| 15509s | people in the background pushing the |
| 15511s | buttons like Mr brj of course there's |
| 15513s | also be a Blackboard pirate moderator |
| 15515s | mystical right Alexia of cardi the |
| 15518s | Basilisk Mark resurrectus Chad flame |
| 15520s | yentan fear weiner Wagner cross Thera |
| 15523s | valorax goodjack one eye disc reader |
| 15527s | torrentine biohazard and Brett Thomas |
| 15529s | Thomas |
| 15530s | it takes a lot of people to put this |
| 15532s | stuff together I have been CCP overload |
| 15534s | uh we will see you in a few minutes for |
| 15537s | the uh the seating and feeling that |
| 15539s | we'll see you in August for the main |
| 15540s | tournament thank you for watching |
| 15547s | how are you doing that was a fantastic |
| 15551s | wrap up to the alliance tournament |
| 15553s | feeders |
| 15554s | uh maybe possibly I don't think so |
| 15561s | there we go uh got a classic mutorator |
| 15564s | moment uh hope you've all been doing |
| 15566s | fantastically uh thank you very much for |
| 15568s | joining me for this live marble stream |
| 15571s | uh I've been fortunately joined by the |
| 15574s | wonderful uh CP overload and the |
| 15576s | Basilisk uh to give us a cast of the |
| 15580s | marbles match uh just to let you guys |
| 15582s | know we're just gonna run through the |
| 15584s | marbles to decide the seating for |
| 15585s | positions at 5 to 28 so the the top four |
| 15589s | positions were decided by |
| 15591s | um the winners from last year uh so once |
| 15594s | this is done I'll be able to plot these |
| 15597s | all into a nice challenge which I'll be |
| 15599s | posting over into the Discord after uh |
| 15603s | after we've seen what the results are |
| 15606s | um well enough with that let's get on |
| 15609s | with the marbling shall we |
| 15613s | I am born to Marble I don't know about |
| 15615s | you basilisk that I am oh I love novels |
| 15618s | oh look at that hidden Leaf Village |
| 15619s | Ninja Assassins called Esports starting |
| 15621s | right near the start there that is a |
| 15623s | optimal starting position I think unless |
| 15625s | of course you want to not finish first I |
| 15627s | have no idea how uh it's going to be |
| 15630s | allocated at the end in which case maybe |
| 15631s | a spot near the back might be better who |
| 15632s | the hell knows well goon's finished |
| 15634s | first and then they went straight |
| 15635s | through into the tournament so finishing |
| 15637s | first probably beneficial uh in this |
| 15640s | particular instance all right if you've |
| 15641s | never seen marbles before uh this is uh |
| 15644s | one of the top Esports currently uh |
| 15646s | globally |
| 15647s | um your alliances basically formed into |
| 15649s | the form of a sphere and then shoved |
| 15651s | down this giant run and that's it like |
| 15654s | you you it's all about belief like if |
| 15656s | you are sending the belief from your |
| 15658s | alliance to your marble it will be |
| 15660s | faster so make sure you are all |
| 15662s | overheating your belief and getting |
| 15664s | ready to watch some balls roll it's all |
| 15667s | about spontaneous gameplay as well |
| 15668s | because as we can see we can't see the |
| 15670s | rest of the marble track you're gonna |
| 15671s | have to take it as it comes you know we |
| 15672s | have no idea what kind of twists and |
| 15674s | turns await these little spheres so you |
| 15677s | know you can't come in with a optimal |
| 15678s | comp for a straight line track you've |
| 15679s | got to just uh you know see how it goes |
| 15681s | all right let's say armor armor tanked |
| 15684s | marbles are going to be slower so we'll |
| 15685s | see how they go uh zealous uh are you |
| 15688s | ready to rock I am ready to rock and |
| 15690s | roll let's see where these marbles roll |
| 15693s | all right well it's lights out and away |
| 15696s | they go uh immediately hidden Leaf |
| 15699s | getting into a good position but can |
| 15701s | they get through I see Brave Collective |
| 15703s | uh |
| 15705s | paper numbers as well and snuffed out |
| 15708s | going around the loop-de-loop bit and I |
| 15709s | don't know what these red bits are in |
| 15710s | the middle I don't know if they're holes |
| 15711s | or what but they're just zooming |
| 15713s | straight possum they don't give a |
| 15714s | they're going straight through round |
| 15715s | another loop-de-loop bit the quality is |
| 15717s | horrible so it's kind of hard to see the |
| 15718s | names |
| 15719s | um is that white school at the back no |
| 15720s | white spools at the front at the back |
| 15721s | sorry Brave Collective arrival coming in |
| 15723s | for the lead as well now I think that's |
| 15724s | white flag as well very very scary team |
| 15726s | you don't want to be matched up against |
| 15727s | them so team at the back instead of |
| 15729s | white flag coming up against white flag |
| 15730s | at the front there's a brief Collective |
| 15732s | looking like in a very strong position a |
| 15733s | rival right behind them uh ready to try |
| 15736s | and get into number one position no |
| 15738s | one's really lagging behind at the |
| 15740s | moment is the field is starting to |
| 15741s | spread out but I'm not sure when they're |
| 15743s | gonna uh pet to change marble tires but |
| 15745s | that might be happening uh unless this |
| 15747s | is a Sprint race of course in which case |
| 15749s | they're not obliged to change marble |
| 15750s | tires |
| 15752s | there might be pretty particularly sort |
| 15755s | of demanding on those what the hell |
| 15756s | those boxes exploded is that meant to |
| 15758s | happen |
| 15759s | look at that old stacking up what is |
| 15761s | this oh my God I have no idea just like |
| 15764s | a safety car equivalent yeah get out of |
| 15767s | the safety marble someone deployed the |
| 15768s | safety marble okay here we go it's we're |
| 15770s | all back on they've all bunched up |
| 15772s | behind the safety marble the track is |
| 15774s | green they're on their way right now |
| 15775s | getting ready to go this is this has |
| 15777s | changed everything arrival they had a |
| 15779s | commander lead now look how close |
| 15781s | everyone has behind them this is big |
| 15783s | they've got a skirt through I think |
| 15785s | those are like triglavian lasers or |
| 15786s | something that are spilled up and if you |
| 15787s | marble touches them you die but everyone |
| 15788s | seems to have made it through fairly |
| 15790s | safely we're going on to another open |
| 15791s | section with a bunch of red holy things |
| 15792s | I've no idea still what they are uh |
| 15794s | maybe they're like little bumps and |
| 15795s | everyone jumps through them into this |
| 15796s | giant thing that is absolutely ruining |
| 15798s | my graphics card I can't see any of this |
| 15799s | going on here because there's so many |
| 15800s | effects yeah it's it's fine it's fine |
| 15803s | there's going through this gigantic |
| 15805s | tumbly nonsense thing and white squall |
| 15807s | comes out in the lead this is massive |
| 15809s | they've suddenly just popped out right |
| 15811s | at the front where did they come from |
| 15812s | Templars in second bright side of death |
| 15814s | in third engines and platinum |
| 15816s | sensitivity it is all shaking it up this |
| 15819s | is just not what we expected uh White |
| 15821s | scroll getting right into that first |
| 15823s | position they are in good good standing |
| 15825s | yeah it's already oh this is the end |
| 15827s | actually so it was a disastrous Pit Stop |
| 15829s | phase for Reflections well what the hell |
| 15832s | is going to happen but the white school |
| 15833s | goes straight through white school |
| 15834s | finishes first but the rest of the teams |
| 15836s | are just gonna get caught by in here |
| 15837s | hiddenly Village comes second that's an |
| 15838s | excellent performance from till doomsday |
| 15840s | taking that final Podium spot the rest |
| 15841s | of filtering in now drakaris abandon |
| 15843s | Park fraternity Brave collected paper |
| 15846s | numbers and Rusty hyenas finishing out |
| 15848s | the top ten and at the back in the |
| 15849s | equivalent of the Hass or whatever slow |
| 15852s | fear is in Eve online plug and play and |
| 15854s | Laser Hawks slowly making their way down |
| 15857s | on the TV in the laser Hawks marble uh |
| 15859s | on his way to the final uh the final |
| 15862s | marble over the line closing us off and |
| 15865s | there we have it white squall are going |
| 15867s | to be that fifth seed in Alliance |
| 15869s | tournament uh it looks like fifth is |
| 15872s | white squall sixth hidden Leaf Village |
| 15873s | ninja then till Doom sutrikaras a band |
| 15876s | of part of fraternity Exodus Brave and |
| 15879s | paper numbers rounding out uh sorry I |
| 15881s | must think he has Clan rounding out the |
| 15883s | the top 10 so that's your seats right |
| 15885s | there 4 Lions tournament 19. wow which I |
| 15888s | believe means whole control Dark Side |
| 15890s | plug and play and Laser Hawks will be |
| 15892s | matching up against the top four Auto |
| 15895s | qualified teams so there's going to be a |
| 15896s | very scary matchup especially that dark |
| 15898s | side match I don't know who they're |
| 15899s | going to face but any of those top four |
| 15901s | teams against Darkseid in the first |
| 15902s | round that is a terrifying terrifying |
| 15904s | matchup yeah it certainly is uh but that |
| 15907s | was it that was the marbles that was all |
| 15909s | the marbles uh I'll hand it back to CCB |
| 15911s | zealous to to play us out that was some |
| 15915s | expert commentary there from our guest |
| 15917s | commentators thank you very much for |
| 15918s | helping me out with that it's uh greatly |
| 15920s | appreciated so as I say I will be |
| 15922s | posting this over onto the uh 80 |
| 15924s | announcements Channel over on Discord |
| 15925s | momentarily uh just so you can see how |
| 15927s | the settings lays out for the alliance |
| 15929s | tournament in August uh until then |
| 15933s | we'll see you in space |