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5s foreign
11s [Music]
29s welcome back to Alliance tournament 18
31s IM CCP overload and I am joined on the
33s desk by mystical Knight and Blackboard
35s pirate we have a whole bunch of matches
37s for you today explosions guaranteed I'm
39s sure there's plenty of explosion
40s enjoyers and chat today uh we started uh
43s we start today with 18 teams remaining
45s uh 14 of them will be eliminated today
48s uh two of them still waiting to try and
50s get prize ships because price ships go
51s all the way to 16th place and we have 18
54s teams remaining so there's some teams
56s going to go home very disappointed today
58s um and I looked at the matches earlier
60s on today from the upper bracket the
61s winners bracket and there's some
62s absolutely hashtag POG matches coming up
65s in that Winners bracket Mr combat
67s anything you're looking forward to
68s seeing today I'm looking forward to
70s platinum sensitivity winning the upper
72s bracket match today against we from
74s Walter I believe I'm also really
76s interested to see how the brave match
77s goes because I think fear has been
80s selling themselves short I think they
81s could really make an actually deeper on
83s here so uh let's see what they do I I
85s actually agree with you um I think
87s that's a super interesting match as well
88s fear the one of the core captains spent
91s a long time telling everyone how bad
92s Brave was and brave have been very very
94s solid so we're certainly looking forward
96s to seeing them uh we have truth on our
98s light going up against the tuskers call
99s oh yeah that should be a very exciting
101s match
102s um I think truth on the light obviously
103s that's Hydra reloaded from last year the
104s current defending Champions the tusker
106s is also a championship team at one point
108s in their history
109s they're a good team this year they have
111s been performing really really well so
112s they could give truth orally a solid run
114s for their money like they can't
115s underestimate them Bart what do you
117s think might happen in that match oh in
119s that match well you know
121s I think we actually talked about it a
122s little bit before this because we were
124s sort of uh hyping ourselves up and
125s getting ready for it but uh I think that
127s this is one that tuskers definitely
129s could take if they're able to not out
131s meta themselves which we've seen in the
133s past before
134s um
135s it was a very interesting match when
137s they did it last time so I'm very
138s excited for that one I'm also very
140s excited for platinum sensitivity because
141s uh if I if they get knocked down I get
144s an L next to my name on the Eve Discord
145s and I will be very sad
147s yeah the um the tuskers call a solid
150s execution team really really really
152s fantastic at running comps especially
153s mirror matchups I'd love to see them in
155s the mirror match up against truth on a
156s light I think they could really push it
158s and but last year we watched them uh
160s outmeter themselves as you say get a
162s little bit too deep into their own head
163s and bring essentially the wrong comp
164s mystical mate you have a comment I'm
166s just gonna say I know you want it to be
167s really exciting but I hope it's not too
169s exciting for my heart's sake thank you
171s okay I'll pass that on to the script
174s writers yeah if we could get that just
175s commented let me just make sure that
177s it's a nice and easy win for tuskers
178s please thank you that's perfect yeah
180s let's look at our first match of the day
182s it's coming up in only five minutes and
184s it's going to be no farts given versus
185s boundary experts
187s um let's see what they've chosen to ban
188s so no Forks given Banning out the EOS
190s the slept near and the balgorn uh
193s boundary experts Banning out balgorn as
194s well uh curse and arbitrator the trickle
197s Bands then being the Nighthawk for
199s norfolks given and Boundary experts
201s Banning The Sentinel mystical might
203s curse arbitrator in balgar and lots of
205s them are stuffing band there hell curse
207s arbitrator and Sentinel as well yes
209s being a really interesting set of bands
211s it looks like they really want to remove
212s disruption it seems like it's less about
214s the newts themselves although the
216s balgorn was a suggest that perhaps they
218s don't like newt but it seems like they
220s really are looking to project their
221s damage this time around and uh they've
224s basically removed everything they're
225s still the crucifier in the pool so there
227s is still the option for no folks given
228s to bring the crucifier but they're very
231s limited in their options now yeah Bart
234s um that Nighthawk and the slept near
235s band taking out a bunch of bonus link
237s ships what do you think of that sing I
239s think that uh this entire tournament
240s we've been seeing this like massive
242s Resurgence of the kaldari ham rush and
245s sapners are also very very good in that
248s so even if you ban the Night Hawk out
249s you can bring a slapner both are
251s extremely high DPS ships very versatile
253s both of them can actually be flown
254s either as a kiting setup or a rush setup
257s so I think it's like a it's just a good
259s like we don't want to see this and it
261s kind of hurts the shield setups by a
262s significant amount so pretty smart bands
264s I still question the balgorn band I will
266s always question about going been but
268s that's okay maybe they all know
271s something I don't I mean the
272s Battleground is obviously a fantastic
273s ship long range webs even though they
275s can't use them as flagships so they're
277s only Tech Two fitted they're still
278s pretty long range they don't get a newt
280s range bonus but they get a new amount
282s bonus so if one of them gets on top of
283s you it can really just let you know
284s until you have to go home yes yes quiet
291s mystical my bow guard is do you think
293s it's worth batting even though you can't
294s bring it to Flagship I
297s I've we've only seen a few teams really
299s rely on the balgorn I think this
300s tournament and I don't know how well the
302s battle necessarily does when you're
304s going up against so many different types
306s of Rush comps there's so many high
308s damage setups that want to sit on top of
310s you and most of them don't really have
312s cap using weapons so even if they're
314s fully neutered out it's maybe their tank
316s that may go off but even then some of
318s the modules cycle for a really long time
320s so it's really easy to try and get that
321s back online because we have to remember
323s that the Bal gun is using heavy newts
325s which have a 20 24 second cycle time and
328s you don't need that much capacitor to
329s run an invol so I don't know I don't
332s think it's necessarily something that
332s needs to be banned all that much
334s it does pair well with the Vindicator
336s though which we know some teams do have
338s their Vindicator flagships and you can't
340s really ban Out The Vindicator in those
341s cases so removing the balcony does
343s weaken what you can bring with The
345s Vindicator yeah and if you want to bring
346s a Vindicator then the Battleground
348s probably one of the worst things you
349s could see because it can effectively
350s shut that Vindicator down we've seen it
352s all right a couple of times teams
353s bringing vindicators and just getting
355s muted zero and just sat useless a big 23
358s Point hole in the team doing nothing so
361s this first match we have no flex given
363s they are one and one so far in the
366s tournament dropping a match to lock
367s range enjoyers and winning against cast
369s abouts these are elimination matches so
371s that means that these teams are fighting
373s to remain in the tournament if they lose
375s they go home this basically sets up the
377s final 16 so if you win this match you
380s become a prize ship enjoyer you get to
382s go home with at least some price ships
383s which is definitely better than going
384s home with no price ships Bart I I am
388s looking for a prediction from you in one
389s word looking for a prediction for me in
391s one word
392s you may use multiple words if the team
394s names okay good I was like uh this is
396s gonna be tough so I'm gonna say no Forks
398s given okay I'm mystical Knight
400s no folks given interesting so I'm gonna
403s have to balance this out and go for
404s boundary experts but let us go to the
407s arena and find out right now
413s all right welcome to the arena
415s just start off the day with a double the
417s shot comp asses what looks like a
418s galante drone Rush kind of thing like
421s what do you think about this one swift
422s this looks interesting uh yeah uh I
425s think the uh the Double lash X now we
427s see why they banned out the balgorn
430s um unsure why uh no Forks giving men at
432s the balgorn too maybe they just hate
433s balgorns uh they're gonna be kiting
435s around uh like maniacs in their drones
437s so it's gonna be really really close for
440s this uh boundary experts team they're
442s gonna have to grab something quick and
444s lock it down
445s uh
450s yeah it's kind of as you can see the the
452s old king of DPS versus the new king of
454s DPS in terms of dummy Navy versus Le
456s Shack so I'm kind of amused to see
458s what's gonna happen there I feel like
458s dummy Navy is going to have a really bad
460s time with Twila Shacks on his face but
461s he does have it on yours backing him up
463s as does the shack so if to see where
465s this match goes
466s yeah the no Forks giving team uh you'll
468s see them in red they warped in all in a
470s ball at 50 kilometers from the arena
472s center uh no boundary experts they
475s worked in between 30 and 50. uh at quite
478s a quite an obtuse angle so they're it's
480s probably about 90 kilometers between uh
483s their backlines respectively
485s the only thing I'm going to be finding
486s very curious about this match is the
488s extra support of control that boundary
489s excerpts were brought because they
491s brought quite a blood of a small size
493s support uh control ships but no Forks
495s does have ships that can go kill them so
497s we'll just see how long those ships last
499s as the match is now underway yeah
500s crucially no Jack thoughts in this match
502s uh so there's mollus and and Griffin and
505s Kitsune uh they're gonna have to try and
507s do something here it's tough because
508s they're up against the Drone boats drone
510s boats don't really care about being
512s damped or anything they can just assign
513s their drones to the trigger and we see
516s this exact Navy leading the charge uh
520s rushing right in to the no foreign
527s is the first primer at the moment
529s getting beaten down
531s and yeah I'm trying to figure out what's
533s shooting him probably little Shacks I
534s guess uh Clive is is definitely taking
536s some damage here uh ekan in the exec
539s Navy he has gotten uh really really
540s close he's right up in the no Fork seven
542s team uh taking quite a bit of damage
545s here and now it looks like he's scrammed
546s as well uh so no Forks given team is
548s gonna have to charge it or rather
550s battery experts they're gonna have to
551s charge in Gonna Save their boy over here
554s but likewise the Dominic's Navy of uh
557s konkel has now been held down which
558s means that both the Shacks will get on
559s top of him and start applying that
561s ramping DPS so now at this point I
563s believe uh no Forks are kind of on a
564s time limit here they got to make some
566s damage quick before their dummy Navy
568s goes down and a big chunk of their DPS
569s gets removed
571s exactly and this is not this will not be
573s a good trade if they traded Domino Navy
575s uh for an exec Navy here uh that exec
577s Navy still holding on for remarkably
579s good time uh recently bonus in Uprising
581s uh so we can be a little bit more
583s tankier
584s and interesting as well is that little
585s Shacks of Avery Lewis has a small bomb
587s fitted and he's right next to his
588s friendly exec Navy so he's gonna start
589s smart bombing off these DPS drones and
592s even the lodgy drones on the nearby Le
593s Shack because uh Dominic's Navy
596s so he's going to remove a lot of the
598s both the DPS and the tank ability of
601s this no folks given domics Navy oh it's
603s ripping up that damaged Army Navy is in
606s a half armor here exactly also in a half
608s armor uh no for example they're swapping
610s over to uh Captain James Sparrow uh
613s maybe trying to do a chunk of damage
615s while they still have their Navy Domi
617s alive uh but it's not gonna be enough
618s this dummy Navy is going down
621s and that is the power of Tula Shacks
623s like there's just so much DPS on very
625s tanky platforms surprisingly the exit
627s Navy is still alive I honestly thought
628s they would be able to break the room but
630s it's she he's just holding very
631s comfortably the pump fix just gets nuked
633s The Alchemist date goes down losing the
635s armor links but uh I think boundary
637s experts don't care too much uh they just
639s trade for a Navy dummy that's a huge
642s chunk of DPS down and as you mentioned
644s Avery Lewis does have Smart bombs
646s running uh so these drones are gonna
648s have like as this game goes longer and
650s longer
651s these drones are going to go away
654s they're going to lose a lot of their DPS
655s today because this is our drone comp so
657s losing their drones is just not a fun
658s experience just traffic with the Shacks
660s going for next I think they're going for
661s the murmidon next which is definitely a
663s very fair cool next biggest thing
664s uh yoyas in the boundary experts uh his
667s owneris is tackled uh he did battleball
669s in with the rest of his no boundary or
671s boundary experts team and uh you know he
674s doesn't mind too much there are some rep
676s Bots around him that no Forks given will
678s have to deal with
679s um but this actually could be a pretty
681s decent way for them to come back in if
683s yoyaz does go down
685s very much they definitely have to kill
687s him to try and make this match swing the
688s other way because at the moment no Forks
690s are kind of on the back foot right now
692s and they just can't I don't think
693s they're going to be able to break
693s through the onions to be honest he's
695s holding well enough I think the momentum
696s will go down first
698s yeah it's so tricky because you see so
700s many uh of these armor rep Bots you're
702s like oh maybe I can go through it uh but
704s once the reactive kicks in on the oneros
706s Assuming he's got a reactive fit uh he
708s can tank so much better and yeah it
709s looks like they are uh potentially
711s moving off of yoyas right now well
713s that's because yo-yo has managed to
714s break free
716s so not only can they not break through
718s the tank they also can't hold on to the
720s guy as you said yes last week this is
722s the power of the uh dual proper nearest
724s we had a pretty much self-escape with a
726s little bit of help
727s yeah yeah it's breaking free still
729s getting uh Bots uh reparts uh from the
733s uh lashacks so he's doing just fine and
736s we see boundary experts just making
737s quick work uh of anything else that they
739s can catch here it does look like they've
741s now uh caught up to you and caught Rogue
744s clone uh in the no Forks given on arrows
747s this will be uh definitely a great
749s primary for them to go through
750s uh we'll see if it pays off or we'll see
753s as as soon as they catch up
755s you gotta get the checks over there
757s first but it's been great to watch these
758s exact navies from both sides kind of
760s running around being very aggressive
762s tanky fighting platforms you see a
764s kitsuno just getting nuked but these are
766s just I'd be great to see these ships
767s becoming honestly very interesting picks
769s in this uh tournament
771s uh dice verpio on the norfolks given
773s team uh he is dying right now in an
775s ishkar but he's doing a great job right
777s now he is pinning down uh one of the
780s leshacks trying to keep them separated a
782s little bit uh you know when you come up
784s with a comp like this you have to
786s execute perfectly uh so daiserpio doing
789s a really really good job uh admirable
791s piloting on that side
793s definitely the power of a single assault
795s frigate can just tackle and hold down
796s one big ship and looks like at the
798s moment no one's even trying to really
799s shoot him they're just kind of leaving
800s him there now I said they're actually
801s priming the vexer instead and that's
803s obviously a very good cool it's much
805s easier to hit and much less tanky
807s you can see boundary experts exerting
809s almost all of their control bar right
811s now uh that's damn uh that's newts uh
815s that's jams from the Griffin now that
817s the katsune is dead
821s a lot of control in this comp and
823s they've been able to like wield that
824s throughout the entire match it's been
826s honestly just I must honestly surprised
828s the Griffin and the moles have survived
829s as long as they have when there's an
830s issue in the grid that could easily go
831s kill them
835s yeah you can say that
837s the exact Navy issue uh is the one
839s that's tackling the oneros right now
842s um you know the fact that he's still
844s alive he's just a testament to uh how
846s this boundary expert team played they
848s knew exactly what they were getting into
849s uh all around in the beginning of the
852s match usually the first one that charges
853s in is at a disadvantage but boundary
855s experts were confident they knew what
857s this matchup would do and they just
859s rushed in and applied all of their DPS
863s yeah I'm honestly uh happy to see a twin
865s lashac comp win I always tend to find
867s they're a bit Lackey on the support Wing
868s but this one has brought a lot of some
869s good support ships as well as a really
871s strong logic to back it up so this is
873s all looks like a potentially very strong
874s little shot comp but hopefully we'll see
876s a few more of it
877s yeah and as you can see it's so powerful
880s um they're just able to get uh spot jams
883s on the no for example no neros and then
885s just clear off uh the small ships during
887s that one Jam cycle uh so the UI as you
891s see
891s um on your screen it will show an
893s attempt of a gem but not a successful
895s gem we don't know if it's successful or
897s not we just have to kind of glean that
898s based on what's Happening uh but based
901s on how fast how fast some of these ships
902s died I have a feeling that onerous was
904s jammed for a huge chunk of this match
907s that's the the economy Griffin picked
909s doing a lot of work as well as the
910s Kitsune as well
911s it's again we've seen this up from a lot
914s of teams even like Brave is most well
915s known for having that single Griff and
916s just managed to win them the entire
918s match uh I think it was a great last A.T
919s indeed that Pilot's name is jinx to care
922s is now the new leader of Brave uh you
924s know they just find the best Griffin
926s Pilots they can uh and just put them in
928s charge of the alliance
929s carry the entire team when you're back
931s once guess what mate you can do it again
934s where's the sister hiding a good
936s distance away
937s all right cred knows does have a
939s relationship with the boundary experts
940s team uh they were
942s um you know all previously on well some
944s of them were all previously on uh PL
946s teams some gold medal winning teams uh
949s so you know just a little bit of respect
951s going on here letting their boy die last
953s or just making him watch until the very
955s end and it's super disrespectful who
957s knows but I'm gonna say that they're
958s very genuinely like on this one
961s yes gentlemanly and Eve that is
963s definitely a thing I expect to happen
965s yes quite uh boundary experts with this
969s win over no Forks given will actually
971s now be prize ship enjoyers they are
974s guaranteed uh Alliance tournament
976s probably ships uh so they're gonna be
977s really really happy with this one uh no
980s Forks given unfortunately they're one of
982s the last teams eliminated before the
983s priership round uh but we'll send it
985s back to the boys in the booth to analyze
987s everything that you just saw
1011s spark could be anywhere
1013s [Music]
1039s [Music]
1045s did it
1049s [Music]
1055s welcome back as boundary experts take
1057s that victory over no thoughts given and
1059s kick them out of the tournament boundary
1061s experts as CCP Swift says are now prize
1063s chip enjoyers they have confirmed
1065s themselves into the top 16 of the
1067s tournament uh eliminating no Forks given
1069s in a pretty solid match we saw at the
1071s start of that match mystical night and
1073s the executor Navy of the boundary
1075s experts team we were all thinking he's
1077s way overextended that he was quite
1079s separate from his Logistics uh the rest
1081s of his team he was just getting dunked
1083s upon by a bunch of drones uh we'll have
1084s what is overextending and like kind of
1086s what happened there yeah so
1087s overextending refers to the positioning
1090s of your ships versus the enemy ships
1092s fantastic
1093s um overextending would be putting
1095s yourself out of the rep range really of
1097s your Logistics ships and you're not able
1099s to get support when you overextend
1100s because the rest of your team is
1102s probably going to be over here somewhere
1103s in a nice little Cloud the enemy team
1106s will be down here and this will be you
1109s um so that will be the overextending uh
1111s the reason we thought the uh the Navy X
1113s I could overextended was because he was
1115s in the middle of the enemy team tackling
1117s down I believe the Navy Dominics
1119s um we thought that he would die a lot
1120s faster than he did but it seemed that
1122s that was actually part of the plan was
1124s just to get in there get that Navy
1125s Dominic snailed down and then make sure
1127s that the two of the shots could get on
1128s top of it
1129s um and one thing that we didn't really
1130s consider when we were talking about it
1131s is that one of the recent changes is to
1133s the mass
1135s um
1136s on Navy XX which means that they are
1138s super quick and they can also be very
1140s tanky as well so yeah I think a really
1143s good use of the Navy exact as a taco
1145s boat though yeah that had the effect of
1147s almost pulling in the universe for the
1149s Brandy expert we were watching that ship
1151s fly in Bart and we were like oh no don't
1153s get too close don't get too close and
1154s then he got webbed and then I think
1156s someone said GG that said but then he
1158s just kept holding on they took down that
1160s Navy Dominics which was a solid trade
1162s flame at that point and they also
1163s managed to kill that EOS before they
1165s lost their uh oniros so they've taken
1167s off a lot of DPS from the field a lot of
1168s logistics and they still have those two
1169s Shacks so is there anything else that
1172s the norfolks given team could have done
1173s in that situation not really
1176s um honestly like they probably could
1177s have done some swapping a lot faster I
1179s do think that like they got baited into
1182s going after the Navy executor because it
1184s did Ramen and it looked out of range but
1186s uh we did see like just how powerful a
1188s Tech 2 Logistics is there versus like
1190s logy frigates because the logistics
1192s freaking soda had to get right in there
1193s as fast they could so if you tried to
1194s ram in when it caught them boundary
1196s expert season oniros they're able to
1198s keep them alive their Universe almost
1199s died but they got like a clutch Jam off
1201s at the last second and so he lost
1203s tackling was able to get away uh yeah
1205s really good job with boundary experts
1207s planning um also no Forks didn't spread
1209s out ever so they're like oh no my domi's
1211s tackled I have to stand next to it and
1213s save it
1215s oh well big brain tactics mystical
1218s Knight yeah I just wanted to add that
1220s while it did work out for them this time
1222s with the Tula Shacks telegraphing that
1224s you want to bring something like the
1226s Shacks by Banning every other tracking
1228s disrupting ship in the game apart from
1229s the crucifier does mean that people may
1232s be able to anticipate your moves and
1234s then try to counter that in other ways
1236s so ECM for example I think would have
1238s been a decent counter to the Lush acts
1240s breaking their spools instead of just
1242s limiting their range and they would have
1243s run into similar issues
1245s um as they would against the track and
1246s disruptors so something to think about
1247s perhaps for the boundary experts team
1249s but I'm glad that they are now price
1250s ship enjoyers I'm pretty sure the
1251s biringer experts have been a team that
1253s has favored the uh the Double The Shack
1255s more than more than most I think Odin's
1256s as well are a team that like to use it
1258s yeah it's not a very common comp uh the
1260s teams tend to use quite heavily
1262s um but 52 points though in two ships
1264s that's uh those are big numbers what do
1266s you think no yeah 52 is a pretty big
1268s number um it is actually over half the
1270s amount of points you can have and over
1271s half is a very good number as well uh I
1274s do think Tula Shacks is very strong
1276s um
1277s the ship hasn't actually been changed
1278s much since we saw it's like overwhelming
1280s dominance back in I want to say a t16
1283s where they were like 21 points each
1285s because it's like oh it's Strickland
1286s sponsored so they were super cheap uh
1289s obviously that was realized to be maybe
1291s not the best idea ever
1293s um they're still very strong uh we saw
1295s it like if they once they get on top of
1296s you you're done like they just sit there
1297s and they ramp and eventually their
1299s damage becomes unreparable and you go
1300s down they are however very very slow uh
1304s hence why I was like oh just kite away
1305s with your drone setups and no Fork said
1308s no we will not we will stand and fight
1310s which is uh not a good idea so double
1312s Shacks are strong but again like Misty
1314s said there's so many little things you
1316s can use to stop it
1318s they just weren't used in this match
1319s well that is unfortunate for them and
1321s they have left the tournament uh and
1323s with that we move on to our next match
1324s which is going to be big yikes versus
1326s Deepwater Hooligans so let's take a look
1327s at the bands for this match
1331s so a big egg spanning out the Le Shack
1333s the Claymore and the Armageddon Navy
1334s issue Deepwater Hooligans Banning Out
1336s The Vindicator of the Nighthawk and the
1338s Loki mystical my interest in sets of
1340s bands here yeah I mean the Armageddon
1343s Navy issue again teams seem to be
1344s thinking that it's extremely strong we
1346s saw a lot of teams bringing it last
1348s weekend
1349s um not everyone did well with it a lot
1351s of teams seemed to try and cram it into
1353s their setups
1354s um favoring it because of the recent
1355s Buffs that it's received
1357s um but I never panned out for them so
1359s interesting to see that it's banned here
1361s the Le shark band makes sense again
1362s because it is still an extremely strong
1364s ship as demonstrated by boundary experts
1366s just now and then we have the typical uh
1368s bands coming out on the Nighthawk and
1370s Loki to try and get rid of those strong
1371s Rush elements that we've been seeing but
1373s the sleptness still available so there's
1375s other ways that they can go about it if
1376s they want to
1377s yeah again this is another elimination
1378s match so one of these two teams is going
1380s to go home with nothing the other one's
1381s going to get at least some price ships
1383s let's take a look at some of the
1384s background of these teams
1386s um whichever one the production crew
1387s wants to put up first we'll have a look
1388s at that
1391s there are so Deepwater Hooligans 21
1394s Pilots have flown from for them a bunch
1396s of Veteran Pilots to moxa zero believe
1397s the captain and Dano I last match they
1400s have played was against ahil now which
1402s they won and prior to that they lost to
1405s arrival so that's how they ended up
1406s getting uh put into this lower bracket I
1408s believe uh local is primary lost against
1410s them ride my turtle they beat and then
1413s good and swarm Federation Hard Knock
1414s citizens unlocks to Esports Petopia so
1416s they've had reasonable success in the
1418s alliance tournament thus far four wins
1419s the three losses let's take a look at
1421s their opponents here and I just wanted
1423s to quickly say regulio Smith I think did
1426s excellent work in one of the previous
1427s matches I just wanted to give him a
1428s quick shout out nice so here's the big
1430s yikes team a little bit less uh varied
1433s so far as the newer team this year but
1434s no less experienced Pilots KitKat the
1436s captain with 11 matches played in
1438s Alliance tournament uh they won against
1440s hidden Leaf ninja Village and lost
1442s against Brave Collective uh who dropped
1444s them into this lower bracket here where
1446s they are right now we can also look at
1448s some of the top pilots in these teams
1450s and see what they like to fly in let's
1451s see if we can throw that up right now
1457s okay we cannot throw that up right now
1459s but I can tell you that uh there is a
1461s flagship bar gas coming up in this next
1463s match which should be super super
1464s exciting
1465s um mystical Mike what do you think we
1467s can look forward to here
1469s oh tricky question when there's so many
1471s ships available in Eve online
1473s um who can say
1475s um I don't know big yikes I don't think
1477s have really demonstrated that much depth
1479s when it comes to their Theory crafting I
1481s looked back at a couple of their
1482s previous matches and they ran the same
1484s thing twice they won with it and then
1486s they lost with it so I'm wondering if
1488s they're just going to bring the same
1489s thing again maybe this is the extent of
1491s their Theory crafting and it's just look
1492s to crush the execution of it which is
1494s what some teams do and it obviously gets
1496s some people fairly far they are on the
1498s second weekend now Within Reach of price
1500s ships so it's not necessarily a bad
1502s strategy but again if your opponent is
1504s able to anticipate what you're going to
1505s be bringing it does make it a little bit
1507s harder to execute
1508s um but yeah no idea what they're going
1510s to bring
1511s okay let's take a look at one of the
1512s player graphs this is the flagship uh
1514s and Captain
1516s um of uh Deepwater hooligan so this is
1518s Dano I uh you see normally he likes to
1521s fly in the larger ships we see the uh
1523s apocalypse Navy issue the Absolution
1525s typhoon Fleet issue uh Golem he's a he's
1528s a Chad Gollum pilot and an EOS uh wins
1531s more often than he loses which is always
1532s good and you can see he's been playing
1533s for a bunch of Alliance tournaments so
1536s very experienced pilot here at Deepwater
1538s hilligans last couple of times and prior
1539s to that Nelly and Good Fellas so this is
1542s a definitely someone who knows a little
1543s bit what they are doing
1546s okay I hear ships are landing on grid so
1548s let's talk about our predictions at this
1549s point though Mr Clement who are you
1550s going to go for between big yikes and
1551s Deepwater Hooligans uh hmm
1554s I'm gonna have to go with big yikes here
1557s big yikes and black Pirate no I'm going
1560s with Deepwater Hooligans because that's
1562s where my heart tells me to go
1564s my heart hopes they lose well that makes
1567s me want to also go for deep water
1568s Hooligans to the mystical might is wrong
1570s so uh let us go to the arena uh for big
1573s yikes versus Deepwater Hooligans
1580s and welcome back to the arena we have a
1582s very interesting match obviously as said
1583s by uh Mr overload that there is a flag
1585s bug but it's in a very interesting comp
1587s what do you think about this one Swift
1589s uh yeah this is uh this is gonna be good
1591s the old armor Bargas uh that's a real
1595s thing uh the bark obviously gets quite a
1597s lot of mid slots uh it is a very flimsy
1600s ship though for your Flagship so we'll
1602s see how Dano does this uh as the desk
1604s pointed out this guy has a ton of
1606s experience in the alliance tournament uh
1608s and kind of uh you know all eyes are
1610s definitely going to be on him
1612s interesting on the other side we have
1613s another very honestly quite interesting
1615s comp full projection Navy apoc Fleet
1617s Tempest a starry Absolution comp so
1619s there's a lot of uh DPS at range
1622s and obviously a very good support Wing
1623s in terms of t3ds and Jack Jones football
1626s so this is this is a very like I would
1628s say DPS heavy comp but that attack bar
1629s does not say that at all
1632s oh yeah this should be actually
1634s incredibly interesting uh obviously I we
1636s kind of glossed over it but there's also
1637s a battle going on the Deepwater Hulu
1639s inside a lot of control out there uh you
1641s can't fit officer webs or anything on
1643s this thing or even faction webs so it's
1645s just gonna be standard balgorn webs
1646s there uh so they're gonna need those
1648s people and uh flee vigil to kind of
1651s tackle something in order for the
1652s balgorn to kind of lock on and hold down
1654s forever uh so we'll see how this goes
1656s real quick uh keep an eye on the owners
1658s for the Deepwater hooligan side I think
1660s tamox is going to be put under quite a
1662s lot of pressure here early on uh we'll
1665s see
1666s indeed indeed it's also very interesting
1667s to see a bow go on top uh paired up with
1669s a Bargas they're both kind of control
1670s ships but on different sides of the
1672s spectrum and they've just decided let's
1674s just bring them both this is this is
1675s fine
1676s but as you said that our nearest is
1678s definitely going to be the one that gets
1679s uh probably pressured immediately by
1680s these ranged battleships but we'll have
1683s to see how many rep drones get thrown on
1684s them to try and give them some more life
1685s as the match is about to be underway
1687s yeah also uh want to shout out Deepwater
1688s Hooligans who you'll see in Blue uh they
1690s brought a Hound a bomber a lot of
1692s battleships in this meta so uh huge
1695s value there uh three points 600 damage
1698s let's see if he can stay alive though
1701s honestly I'm just watching a lot of
1703s e-warp going out immediately I believe
1704s the uh jacked up from both sides have
1706s just dumped out their uh their damps yep
1709s and you can see the big Yanks team is
1711s charging into the Deepwater Hooligans
1713s team who are just kind of holding back
1715s and waiting a little bit and as you
1717s mentioned the support wings are the ones
1718s going to be taking a lot of the damage
1720s so far
1723s just keeping an eye out on the Jackson
1725s triple demand looks like that's gonna be
1726s the primary simple as being beaten up
1728s quite handily at the moment
1730s yeah Tomatoes is way back there he is oh
1734s this people just gets deleted instantly
1737s gone there as soon as the webs apply
1740s I'm just double checking as well I
1742s believe yep that is a rapid heavy Burger
1744s so that with the webs from a bowel gone
1746s is going to apply very well even to
1748s these T3 destroyers so this could
1750s honestly be a surprising amount of DPS
1752s coming from this bug because I see that
1754s tyrannus about to go down too yeah the
1756s tyrannos was tackling uh tamoxa all the
1759s way in the back lines there at least got
1760s the initial tackle there uh but he just
1762s way outplayed his the rest of his team
1765s and they could not keep him alive no way
1767s no how uh this big yags team uh is uh
1771s just losing a little bit too much of the
1772s support too quickly here on that initial
1775s charge in an amazing work as well but by
1777s the uh balgorn and the Bargas the
1779s bargain has an Absolution held down
1781s permanently and the bogus has an astada
1783s held down which means tomoxo can also
1785s just run away and be safe while still
1787s repairing his uh his friends there's
1789s honestly some great screen where from
1790s the battleship of all things yeah this
1793s is a super control team here the the
1795s starter as you mentioned abso Thalia
1797s they're all webbed down held down and
1799s this Fleet temp is too he's just
1801s scrammed with his heavy scram uh by this
1804s bar guest so he is not going anywhere uh
1807s this team is just being kept at arm's
1808s length and they want to get in a little
1810s bit closer but they just can't
1812s yeah the Tempest Fleet can shoot and
1814s he's not even being tracked but it
1815s doesn't matter you can't do it on his
1817s own you see actually he's tracking shop
1818s is going to the Navy ipok enter the a
1820s star day and to the episode so all those
1822s ships are are kind of neutered at the
1824s moment so the only [ __ ] that can really
1825s fight back is the Tempest Fleet and
1827s that's just not going to be enough
1828s against an aniros this is well flown and
1830s controlled by Deepwater Hooligans here
1831s who are just dominating this match uh
1833s BB's bbp's heart was right here it looks
1836s like as the Thalia goes down deacons are
1838s going to fall down with it really
1839s quickly as it is painted by the sleet
1841s visual uh webbed down nuded damp there's
1844s nothing this poor Deacon can do
1846s especially with his Thalia buddy down
1850s I see sometimes going to the bugs but
1852s again I do not see them breaking through
1854s this Flag bug under a neros reps that is
1857s that is a very tall ask for a comp that
1859s is rapidly losing teeth
1861s yeah the estarta is also going down of
1863s KitKat uh losing quite a lot of uh
1866s damage here as he goes down uh no local
1869s tank on this has started you could see
1871s uh the defense bar would have a nice
1872s little bit of purple if there was uh but
1874s no p is just all buffer and damage uh
1877s tracking disrupted uh he's not able to
1879s apply anything here uh big yikes are
1882s having a really hard time they're
1884s chewing through the bar guest a little
1885s bit but I have a feeling deep water
1887s hooligans are just kind of baiting uh
1889s they're not really worried too much here
1891s they've got full control of this grid
1894s exactly and they've also got a lot of
1896s newts in both the balgorn and the
1898s utility hires of the Bargas so they are
1899s constantly newting out this apoc Navy
1901s and also the Absolution so they can't
1903s shoot enough to actually kill this bug
1904s as you see his armor is now going up so
1906s honestly again even even on their High
1908s slots they have got amazing control on
1910s this team and are using it to the
1912s absolute perfect effect
1914s okay we didn't talk about this
1915s stormbringer here on the Deepwater
1916s hooligan side uh this is a ship they
1918s brought last time and we kind of
1920s questioned it a little bit but it is
1921s incredibly tanky uh it's a shield uh
1925s resistance bonus uh and also is great at
1927s clearing some drones here uh and wow
1930s just great Target calling on the sea
1932s water hooligan side they've
1933s systematically gone through every ship
1936s that they need to uh their jackdaws
1938s people uh and flea vigil are just kind
1940s of working as their own separate unit
1942s killing the big egg support team as it
1944s comes through uh incredibly flown uh and
1948s just well well executed
1950s I'm having a bit of a giggle with myself
1952s at the moment this storm bringer with a
1953s shield bonus is being brought to an
1955s armor comp and is still kicking butt
1960s this is yeah this is just how what do
1962s you say to this besides well done
1963s Deepwater Horgan's well flown indeed the
1965s Bargas are still holding comfortably
1967s tamoxa was threatened at the start but
1969s he flew his part perfectly as well as
1971s his entire team like it is it looks like
1974s it's entirely one-sided but it honestly
1976s could have gone the other way with a few
1977s maybe some potentially better flying
1979s from Big yikes or some unlucky moments
1981s with deep water it's it doesn't look
1983s like even though it'll be a hundred zero
1985s it was not a hundred zero at the start
1987s it was looking a lot more uh
1989s what would you say risky
1991s yeah I could have been quite painful
1993s there uh you know this is one of those
1995s matches where you're like oh if I could
1996s do this again here's what I would do uh
1998s and maybe just if you have like uh best
2000s of five there's an entire possibility
2003s that the big eggs team can pull out the
2005s the dub on that one but you only get one
2008s chance in the alliance tournament uh
2010s especially in the elimination bracket
2013s so they're gonna have to uh
2015s unfortunately exit on big yikes but for
2017s deep water Hooligans these guys are will
2020s be a prize ship enjoyers with this win
2023s uh so they just kind of squeaked into
2025s the top 16 now as they finish up the
2027s sleet Tempest uh interestingly enough
2029s match is completely over uh they're
2031s still playing this one perfectly uh
2033s newting out the apoc and killing the
2035s Tempest
2036s um just a great execution
2039s very much I also noticed that there was
2041s a tracking shopping both temples and the
2042s Navy a plug they're not letting anything
2043s happen at the last second they're being
2045s very careful about it but this Tempest
2047s Fleet is dying incredibly slowly so can
2050s someone please just nude them out remove
2051s his hardness please he's taking so long
2053s to die
2055s and you can see where they went for him
2056s last there they knew that they could uh
2058s keep these ships from applying their
2059s damage uh onto their uh onto what they
2063s need but
2065s I wonder if someone's doing a little bit
2066s of cheeky Looting of the field right now
2069s so kind of just keeping him alive to do
2070s a little bit of looting who knows this
2072s is of course on Tranquility so all these
2075s losses are are like of course real
2078s losses and the loot does matter so you
2081s know the flag bark it's not exploding so
2083s no one needs to grab that loot but
2084s everything else you know a few hundred
2086s mil here and there it adds up
2089s very true it looks like the Flag bug is
2091s not finished reloading and it's finally
2092s finished off this Tempest Fleet leaving
2093s with just an apoc Navy who I said like
2096s last week The Vindicator hates when it's
2097s being fully e-board down I think the
2099s Epic Navy hates it more because he has
2101s less tools to stop that from happening
2103s the guns can't even fire that's just the
2106s super feels bad man like you just can't
2107s do anything and you're just stuck on
2110s grid kind of saying trying to maybe
2112s doubting yourself working that I've done
2114s differently uh but there's really
2116s nothing to do in this match uh with the
2118s way it panned out uh Christian moon in
2120s the Hound I'm sure he's going to be top
2122s damage on a lot of these battleships
2124s really well flown there these ships are
2126s hard to keep alive uh specifically when
2128s there's a jacked off people tyrannis on
2130s the other side uh expected that guy to
2132s take a little bit more damage there but
2134s bam Navy apoc explodes uh wing night at
2138s night we're gonna send it back to the
2139s boys in the booth uh where Bart's heart
2141s is going to grow three sizes this day
2161s [Music]
2165s thank you
2169s guys stop being casual they're really
2171s bad we should not lose anybody to this
2174s warp off warp off take the fleet warp
2176s everybody warp off this is a really
2177s really bad execution I'm very
2179s disappointed
2183s another great haul back from Omar damn
2187s I'm thirsty
2196s [Applause]
2205s Yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP
2208s collectively so that's why that Alliance
2210s logo is in the game of course you could
2212s change your alliance by leaving but that
2214s would be kind of a jerk move that kind
2216s of oh you don't like it though it's Lego
2218s sucks I'm gonna go join
2220s foreign
2234s [Music]
2237s exiting the tournament as deep water
2240s Hooligans take that final spot in the
2242s top 16 thus securing themselves at some
2244s price ships in a very interesting match
2247s they had it pretty much locked down from
2249s the start we saw some interesting ship
2250s choices on both teams and we saw the use
2253s of a hound we haven't seen very many
2254s stealth bombers this Alliance tournament
2256s now usually they're a staple in the
2257s tournament very low amount of points
2259s very high DPS especially against
2260s battleships mystical might why do you
2262s think we're not seeing as many as we
2263s have in previous years it seems like
2265s teams are prioritizing control and
2268s tackle a little bit more than just raw
2269s damage from the lower end we are seeing
2272s some jackdaws coming out for example
2273s some sequels that we as we saw in this
2275s match which double as effective damage
2277s boats but also ships that you can send
2279s in to actually pin down the enemy team
2281s the reason that we might not be seeing
2283s some of these stealth bombers a little
2284s bit more I hypothesize at least is that
2287s we're seeing a lot of Rush setups and
2289s bombers are going to suffer greatly from
2291s these raw setups because they aren't
2292s able to go and attack with these Rush
2294s ships down so it allows their full team
2295s to get onto View and then work their way
2298s through your core so even though they do
2300s a lot of damage not always the best
2301s option to bring because it's fairly
2303s risky leaves you open to uh yeah being
2306s rushed Bart speaking of rushing we saw
2308s that tyrannus there we kind of expected
2310s him to just rush in for that bomber and
2312s try and remove it especially as big X
2313s brought a couple of battleships for
2315s which uh the bombers will be applying
2316s perfectly too but he ran in and he
2318s tackled the unitos I think and it was
2320s Euro pointing out that he's done it too
2321s rarely that the team wasn't there to
2323s capitalize on it like what was going on
2325s there I think uh what was it it's like
2326s the it's the over extension that
2328s actually was an overextension not one
2330s that kind of baited us into thinking it
2331s so uh the trainous was going at about
2333s close to 5000 meters a second which is
2335s very very fast compared to pretty much
2337s every other ship on there because there
2339s was you know heavy armor battleships uh
2341s he just went straight for the nearest
2343s tackled it immediately blew up and the
2345s rest of his team was like 50 kilometers
2346s behind so it was kind of like like you
2348s said if you'd gone after the bomber
2350s which is probably six to seven hundred
2351s DPS maybe tried to solo PVP it down
2353s stress out the logistics especially when
2355s using Logistics frigates
2356s that might have worked as uh much better
2358s or just hung back and waited until his
2360s other ships were in range because he he
2362s did get the oniros tackle the oniros did
2364s a great job
2365s they're just with no follow-up so yeah
2368s sometimes we see teams using uh suicide
2370s tackle their job is to just run in hold
2372s something down and survive long enough
2373s before you inevitably die for the rest
2376s of your ships to trundle in but if you
2377s just get too far ahead of them then you
2379s know that's not gonna work no one can
2380s save you at mystical might we also saw
2382s another armored jackdaw not the most
2385s common chip on TQ but very popular in
2387s the tournament uh why would you bring an
2389s armor Jack doll yeah so as mentioned an
2392s armor Jack door does two things really
2394s well I think one is that it is able to
2397s project damage so it's a constant stream
2399s of like missiles that come into pressure
2401s either the lower end of the enemy team
2403s especially useful if you are using a
2406s thing like or if you're fighting against
2407s something like a zom or logifrix because
2410s having to make the decision on what you
2412s rep is actually fairly difficult in
2414s those two circumstances so they do
2415s damage which is great and they project
2417s it really far and the other thing that
2419s they do really well is that they have a
2420s lot of mids and if your armor fit you
2422s can use those mids for things like
2424s tracking disruptors or missile guidance
2425s filters which means that you can
2427s effectively shut down one or two of the
2428s ships on the enemy team the only real
2430s downside of an armor Jack door is that
2432s if it gets shot it disappears so the
2434s trick is to not get shot
2436s and by disappears uh Bart do you think
2438s he means cloaking no I don't I think he
2440s means it explodifies
2442s um but yeah like the other thing about
2444s the arm projectile is when it goes in
2446s defensive mode it has there's no bonus
2448s to it it's like oh the signature gets
2450s reduced a little bit so even if you fill
2452s those two low slots with as much tank as
2456s you possibly can yes your it has no
2458s chance so it's it actually becomes a
2459s pretty piloting intensive one because
2461s you have to be very aware of
2462s where you are compared to the enemy but
2464s uh I think especially with this new uh
2467s with the changes allowing scripts it has
2469s become even more powerful because now
2471s those uh those stamps track and
2472s disrupters whatever are like twice as
2474s good
2475s awesome now our next match is going to
2477s be arrival versus Exodus so let's check
2479s in with gentan and an interview with the
2481s captain from Exodus
2483s all right so first of all can you just
2485s introduce yourself to the audience both
2487s who you are and what team you represent
2489s uh yes uh I am a zaraxel Nightblade I'm
2493s with a team Exodus I've been an eve
2495s player since 2007 I'm currently the
2498s captain of the at team this year and
2501s I've been a member of Alliance since
2503s 2013.
2505s so what do Exodus typically do on drag
2507s quality outside of the tournament
2509s currently uh well currently we do a lot
2512s of small gain PVP solo PVP not quite as
2516s uh active as in the past uh most of us
2520s um have been playing for years and we
2523s just really focus on the at
2525s um that's when we become active and then
2527s we go in our little holes uh when we are
2530s not playing
2531s um but uh mainly uh small gang PVP and
2535s solo PVP
2537s all right so what uh exodus's
2539s competitive history have there been any
2541s major results from the team in the past
2544s um you know give us some idea of your
2545s tournament pedigree of course
2547s um you know exit that first uh played in
2550s at-10
2552s um and we've participated in every at
2553s since then
2555s um you know we have uh current members
2558s of our alliancee team participate in
2561s um the newly Eden open tournament we
2564s also had uh one of our members win the
2567s mar Championship says the name is awasa
2569s QC
2571s um we actually took account of our team
2573s members and found that we have almost
2575s 100 Years of at experience Among Us
2579s um eight of our T our team Corps members
2581s have been in Exodus since uh the first
2584s tournament run
2586s um we finished third in the first uh and
2589s the second ATS we were part of you know
2591s so 18 10 and 11. and then since then we
2595s finished second and multiple times in
2597s the top ten
2598s um one year we didn't practice at all
2601s um and we finished in the top 12 which
2604s was uh pretty fun uh we also uh were
2607s made aware of this uh I want to buy one
2610s of our practice partners that among all
2613s U.S teams Exodus uh has finished the
2617s highest in history in 80s at second and
2620s third the fact that we've never really
2622s even considered representing n a yep
2625s representing any I can't believe Eve is
2627s the only esport where n a is actually
2629s good
2630s big facts can you give me some idea of
2634s where you would hope to or expect a
2636s place within the alliance tournament you
2638s know are you expecting to compete for
2639s that top four this time or maybe even
2641s take the trophy itself
2644s um I think that with the the group of
2646s guys that we have this year
2648s um and just uh the the general
2651s atmosphere of the team
2654s um I think that we definitely have a
2657s very good chance to get into the top
2658s four
2659s um as long as we uh don't uh beat
2662s ourselves and do something uh stupid I
2664s think we uh we should we should very
2667s well be competing for the top four
2674s are you argentan talking to the captain
2675s of Exodus a very experienced team uh
2678s with a lot of Pilots I think he said was
2680s it eight years or 100 years or something
2681s that combines experience that's just
2683s mind-boggling let's take a look at some
2685s of the most experienced pilots in Exodus
2688s and see what we can look at there
2690s foreign
2692s Maybe
2695s there we go
2697s all right so uh Walter Uber snow of
2699s course now flying with truth honor light
2700s I believe uh 61 matches uh when he flew
2703s with Exodus that's uh that's something
2705s in itself I'm pretty sure uh one of the
2707s more experienced pilots in my Instagram
2709s history right there uh and this this is
2711s just a who's who of experience here
2713s we've of course got a zaraxel there we
2714s just heard from him uh nixar Mr Falcon
2717s some amazing names in there anyone
2719s jumping at you mystical knight uh I know
2722s sabotage I think from my days back in
2724s faction Warfare so it's nice to see that
2725s he's been doing well with the 18 getting
2727s involved I've seen him quite a bit it's
2729s been years now since we flew together
2732s um yeah I mean next door as well water
2734s Uber snow like you said a few members
2736s there that have left Exodus and moved on
2738s to other teams
2739s um and they've also had good runs as
2740s well with those teams so really high
2742s school Pilots I'm a big fan of uh Snow's
2745s win rate there uh is a solid solid
2748s number
2749s um let's look at the bands for this
2750s upcoming match
2754s so a rival choosing to ban the arthrus
2757s oh I can see myself again hello uh the
2759s Arthur is the caracal Navy issue the bar
2761s guest X to spanning out the Nighthawk
2763s the Bargas the Armageddon and then the
2765s trickle bands we have an osprey and a
2767s curse uh Blackberry pirate what do you
2769s make of this I think that a arrival has
2772s finally done something that I have been
2774s suggesting for like at least three ATS
2776s now which is Van caldari kaidi type
2780s stuff out against Exodus and also thanks
2783s to the current modern meta that we're
2785s starting to see the orthos and the
2786s caracal the issue are both like key
2789s ships for the Calgary rush so somebody
2791s finally actually studied their playbook
2793s and was like ah we think we have a way
2795s to defeat them
2796s um
2797s yeah they're just very very smart and
2799s then the Osprey as well is like kind of
2800s key to these calorie Rush setups because
2802s it's so few points but still reps very
2804s very hard so I I really like arrivals
2806s plans they definitely thought about this
2808s and uh
2809s yeah just just really really good play
2811s on their part mystiko yeah I just wanted
2813s to add that uh one of the talking points
2815s that I had about arrival as a team is
2818s that they seem to actually go back
2819s through and watch some of the matches
2820s that their opponents have played and
2822s then try and put their band strategy
2823s together based on what they've actually
2824s shown so with truth on the light as an
2827s example they banned the exact Navy issue
2829s which is I think the first and only
2830s exact Navy Band that we've seen maybe
2832s there's been one or two other ones but
2834s it's interesting because it shows that
2835s they're actually taking the interest in
2837s understanding what the matter of the
2838s other team is instead of just assuming
2840s that everyone shares the same
2841s understanding of what's good and what's
2843s not excellent uh well it's time to find
2845s out you know can arrival pull one over
2846s on Exodus or will Exodus try and rise to
2849s the top
2850s um being one of the first n a teams
2852s potentially to win the alliance
2853s tournament in itself
2855s um let's go to the arena and find out
2862s and welcome to the arena and we have of
2865s course a rival versus exit and we have a
2866s very interesting match with a um
2868s honestly it looks like a bit of a uh
2870s kite Rush maybe versus Belgian Navy apoc
2872s this is very interesting what do you
2873s think about this one uh
2875s Swift I think it's crazy that arrival or
2878s almost a three to one Underdog here uh
2880s as you mentioned they've got the
2882s Claymore slip their Loki uh double Navy
2884s Osprey this is definitely going to be a
2885s nice little uh Rush team over here
2887s against Exodus taking in a bad Navy apoc
2891s balgorn core oh that is uh that is
2895s definitely a bunch of tanky boys uh
2897s sitting right up there uh augmented by
2899s an arbitrator Confessor crucifier and
2901s Punisher so a lot of uh missile guidance
2903s disruptors potentially uh we'll see how
2905s this plays out
2907s yeah it's a very heavy core indeed just
2909s checking around the ships at the moment
2910s seeing if the slept near it would be
2912s artillery for some reason it's not but
2914s you know I can hope
2916s um yeah this is going to be very
2917s interesting to see how this match uh
2918s develops but there's a very heavy core
2920s from Exodus that's going to be a pain to
2921s break even with the rivals big massive
2923s chunk of DPS yeah and they're actually
2925s fairly close to one another here so uh
2927s probably a little bit of Advantage uh to
2928s arrival we see their Navy Osprey is
2930s already webbed down by this Exodus
2932s belgorne and he's going to be deleted
2934s off the field here let's see how fast
2935s they can apply that damage
2939s it's pretty good at the moment I'm
2940s waiting to see if it slows down but
2942s they're actually kicking his butt real
2943s hard right now and these of course the
2945s uh apoc Navy and Abaddon can apply at
2947s range so as long as he's web they can
2949s apply them as a Punisher is getting
2951s absolutely ripped open but he actually
2952s managed to survive maybe yeah he's hold
2955s he's old 15 structure easy uh that you
2958s only need a little bit of structure
2960s right so he's totally fine and we see
2962s wasik you've seen now taking quite a bit
2963s of damage here uh on the Exodus side uh
2966s he is right up in there
2968s uh but now it looks like he might be
2970s trying to save himself a little bit uh I
2973s think this is probably one of the most
2973s individually skilled pilots in the
2975s tournament uh so let's see how long he
2977s can last if he can Outlast uh for this
2979s Navy Osprey who is slowly about to enter
2981s armor here quickly about the Under Armor
2983s here
2984s being the intelligible Indies he's
2986s currently in defensive mode which makes
2987s that Confessor even harder to kill as
2988s you see he's now sitting at 100 armor
2990s and not moving as Osprey Navy is now
2992s going through armors they are starting
2994s to punch through the ship and that will
2996s start swinging this match towards
2997s exodus's way yeah one of the things you
2999s can't see here is the arrival dot uh
3002s they have a cloud or at least had a
3003s cloud of light Shield maintenance spots
3005s uh that The Exodus support Wing was
3007s actually shooting off there uh so that's
3009s where you saw the kind of the damage die
3011s there a little bit more uh Claymore and
3013s slept here are pinned down oh my gosh
3016s this Exodus team uh maybe they are maybe
3019s a rival should have been a three to one
3020s Underdog but we'll see as another Navy
3022s Osprey is pinned down here uh this guy
3025s is double webbed uh larynx is not moving
3027s anywhere and this balgorn Navy apoc and
3030s abandon are going to throw their em
3032s damage right into his face it's not
3034s going to be pretty to be a Navy Osprey
3036s on this day
3037s it looks like a rival is not committing
3039s fully and trying to kill the bowel gone
3040s the Battleground is obviously very tanky
3041s and they've got a reactive arm hardener
3042s but then again they've got missiles so
3044s they could fire the rainbow with this
3046s guy but that is not going to change
3047s anything he is tanking incredibly well
3050s his notes aren't really going to hurt
3051s anything on the grid except for maybe
3053s removing their tank but he you just they
3055s just don't have the DPS to make this
3056s work
3057s I love the confidence of Mr Falcon here
3059s in the Punisher uh when you are flying
3062s around with like 30 structure maybe your
3064s instinct is to kind of hide in the
3066s background he is not having a background
3068s look at the Auger the auger's been held
3070s down now he's being absolutely pounded
3072s that's going to be their lodgy gone and
3074s maybe they can break this bar they need
3075s this may potentially go for another big
3077s ship or maybe go for the lodgy trade now
3078s because they they are now on a timer oh
3081s my gosh a Rivals are swinging this one
3083s back here with that auger trade uh they
3085s still have their cement are sure he's
3086s being neuted down uh but he is being
3088s neuted down by the Bal Gordon newts so
3090s he should be able to kind of get some
3092s reps off here and there uh as we see a
3094s speeple is now tackled on the arrival
3096s Dart side uh let's see how these guys
3098s are smart they're gonna have to clear
3099s off all the tackle that's clipping their
3101s Claymore and slept near down then they
3103s have to start moving around there's a
3104s unit
3106s I think they're going to recommit to the
3107s burgling yep I'm already seeing the Loki
3109s back on the balglin now just keeping an
3111s eye out for the other ones and I think
3112s they're going to fully commit this but
3113s we're going to try and get one of these
3114s big ships down the bug one's probably
3116s the biggest uh
3117s biggest Center of uh control for Exodus
3120s on this grid right now
3121s Scimitar look at the Timmy Simmy is now
3125s tackled uh all right Exodus ice water in
3128s their veins saying hey we got that logic
3129s trade we can do this they're about to
3131s lose their Magus which is going to be a
3132s lot of their links uh but the semi for
3135s arrival is now tackled uh let's see if
3137s the apron gets tackled by
3139s The Punisher
3142s Mr Falcon MVP of this match if Exodus
3145s can kind of take this one back uh riding
3148s with no Logie a sliver of structure left
3150s uh pinning down linchpin ship after
3153s linchpin ship this Scimitar is dropping
3156s Exodus are pulling this one back uh just
3159s a back and forth match here you see the
3161s Scimitar is repping he has an xlasb he's
3164s got nine charges that can go up and down
3166s so when you see it just every time it
3168s goes up count and as soon as nine is
3170s over then it's gonna start dropping he's
3172s doing his show because he's buying time
3174s as his team has now killed the battle
3175s going and they are starting to slowly
3177s maybe call this back if he can survive
3179s just a little bit longer he can buy his
3181s team that extra bit of time they can
3182s maybe start working on maybe the apoc
3183s Navy and start breaking apart the DPS
3185s core here this could honestly flip to a
3187s rival's way even with a scimitar loss
3190s yeah and we see this uh it looks like
3192s Wasa was trying to kill this flycatcher
3194s here oh Mr Falcon finally goes down no
3198s oh my gosh all right I mean this is
3200s incredibly back and forth here uh this
3203s is almost a dead even heat uh arrival
3205s still have their DPS Coral alive Exodus
3208s have two of three uh now it's just uh
3210s decision making what are you gonna do
3212s are you gonna take out the support Wing
3213s that's what Exodus wants to do uh they
3215s just killed a jackdaw from the
3217s arrival.team uh as uh arrival kind of
3220s working on this abandon they say who
3222s cares about the small ships let's kill
3224s the big boys get them off the field now
3226s uh my gosh that will be the center of
3228s this match for them at the moment you
3230s can see obviously they're all right on
3231s zero and but something is loaded hail
3232s this claim was probably firing rage they
3235s are putting everything into this Abaddon
3236s I was confused why they're going for the
3238s Abaddon first but turns out the apoc
3239s Navy is actually quite a distance away
3240s so they had to go for this guy which is
3243s not not usually the best of cools but
3245s his armor is not that much like he's
3247s taking massive chunks
3249s yeah generally when you see in a bad you
3251s don't want to uh to shoot it so maybe he
3253s kind of baited a little bit uh we see
3255s Exodus kind of swapping their strategy
3256s over they say yeah we don't need the the
3258s small ships let's try and get the logic
3260s or DPS trade going uh they're shooting
3263s yeah oh my gosh handsy babes uh in the
3267s slept near is very tanky a very high yam
3269s resist I think he's gonna Outlast this a
3271s badon though
3272s in Abaddon this should not be the case
3275s in any world the other one is now going
3277s through structure he's going to go down
3278s before the slip knee and this is
3279s honestly a painful blow for Exodus the
3283s Rival core still exists and this letter
3284s is still holding and all they've got
3286s left now really is an apoc Navy for real
3288s damage
3289s my got a rivalry doing it oh this is
3292s great uh the slept near uh is still
3294s tanking of handsy babes uh let's see
3297s what they're gonna go for next obviously
3299s they can now break off if they want to
3301s start clearing off some of this tackle
3302s uh they have a lot of control on vitones
3305s Navy apoc so not too worried and that's
3307s exactly what they're doing uh Washington
3309s QC is now tackled they're gonna try and
3311s uh clear up some of this uh back end
3313s here and survive a little bit uh just
3317s both teams going back and forth back and
3319s forth uh incredible match
3322s and notice that the slip new is now
3324s tanking comfortably he's actually run
3326s away from the um from the Navy apoc and
3329s is also the neighborhood's been tracking
3330s the truck so they can't even shoot him
3331s so that slept near Will Survive relay is
3333s xlasb can go straight back in this is
3336s honestly a surprising Victory from a
3338s rival hoop honestly I think they've got
3339s this completely I think you're right a
3341s handsy and that's left near uh he's
3343s reloaded his ASB are in the process of
3344s reloading so that's why he's kind of out
3346s of no man's land here doing a little bit
3348s damage uh clearing off some of the
3349s smaller ships uh but exit is they're not
3352s throwing in the towel uh they want to
3353s keep this one going they think they've
3355s got a pretty good chance to win here uh
3357s so they're just clearing off a little
3358s bit more of the back end going after the
3359s caracal
3361s yeah
3363s should have picked that Target a lot
3365s earlier like these T1 Cruisers are very
3367s easy to kill and they obviously provide
3369s a good amount of DPS this kind of comp I
3371s think you might maybe kind of rip apart
3372s the uh DPS that you can but it's a
3375s little late unfortunately but they might
3376s maybe be able to kill something else
3378s oh look I mean if I invite someone right
3381s now I am flipping my desk I have been
3383s pinned down this entire match damped or
3386s tracking disrupted unable to shoot
3388s anything at all uh what a frustrating
3391s thing this must be to be the one guy
3393s singled out uh you see the Claymore and
3395s something right now playing and laying
3397s into him uh as the Loki is kind of going
3399s around uh webbing anything he can and
3401s shooting it uh mag is about to go down
3403s Navy apocal down arrival showing that
3406s they shouldn't have been three to one
3407s thugs uh get some respect on that name
3409s uh they're going to knock Exodus out
3412s here
3413s like this is honestly the surprise of
3416s the entire day for me that I don't think
3417s they're gonna be our top there's X's
3419s being taken out by arrival in a match
3420s honestly look like it was going Exodus
3421s way at the start but that clutch uh
3423s lodgy trade for arrival just really just
3426s put them into the driver's seat and they
3427s just they capitalize immediately I know
3429s I was gushing over a Punisher uh while
3431s watching an auger getting uh pinned down
3433s or just glassing over dog or getting
3435s pinned down glad I'm joined by you
3437s Wingnut uh for catching that one uh that
3439s was the pivotal moment of this match I
3441s mean it was back and forth back and
3443s forth but as soon as that auger went
3445s down uh just huge huge uh win for
3449s arrival that was just really well played
3451s Exodus though they didn't Panic they got
3453s the logic trade uh but you know
3455s composure arrival nailed that battleborn
3459s nailed that a badon kept the Navy apoc
3461s pinned down uh and now they're just uh
3463s reaping the rewards of that composure uh
3466s congratulations to a rival thought uh
3469s taking down Exodus apparently the N.A
3472s Kings I had no idea uh so long
3478s so I'm just going to piss off all the
3479s North American viewers here and it's the
3482s most gold medals of anyone in the
3484s alliance tournament just dropping that
3485s out there uh might not be here real yeah
3487s that I could have just made that up
3489s we'll never know uh Pawn effects going
3492s down by then Tessie arrival get that
3495s sigh of relief my gosh their hands must
3498s be shaken here uh this was as we were
3501s saying back and forth back and forth all
3503s match long I think I'm gonna watch this
3505s one again I'm actually going to leave
3506s after this just to watch this match
3508s again uh let's find CCB Castro to uh to
3511s kind of take over the Reigns uh what an
3514s amazing amazing match very much all the
3518s guys in chat saying uh good fights as
3519s well the match is now over so thank you
3521s very much to Exodus for an amazing match
3522s unfortunately you are out but with that
3524s we'll head back to studio and see what
3526s they think
3542s [Music]
3546s thank you
3553s sino's up
3574s pump it up a little more get the party
3577s going on the Dance Floor
3599s foreign
3613s victory over Exodus who are now
3615s eliminated from Alliance tournament 18.
3618s the interview curse continues uh pretty
3620s much every time we play a captain's
3622s interview they immediately get
3624s eliminated from the tournament as so
3626s apologies there uh there's some some
3628s poor lazy script writing from from the
3630s team here in the back but wow I mean
3633s arrival played that super super well uh
3636s that could have gone many different ways
3638s they could have lost that many different
3639s ways the the one with bands essentially
3641s the the forced uh XS to bring something
3643s that they maybe rent is comfortable with
3645s they brought their own counter to that
3646s and then they just executed it super
3648s well we saw some amazing piloting by all
3650s those team members to to pull that
3651s Victory off we also wanted to shout out
3653s to Mr Falcon on The Exodus team because
3655s he was in The Punisher and he went
3657s flying in got tackled on something and
3659s then started to die pretty quickly he
3660s was unable to extract himself get back
3662s out of a damage room range get reps and
3665s then reposition and come back in and get
3667s tackle on the Scimitar of howling wind
3669s to enable his team to take down that
3670s Scimitar and put them back into Fighting
3672s Chance one of the most experienced
3674s Pilots we can see here he's flown in a
3677s bunch of matches 23 wins to 15 losses
3679s which is a pretty good ratio obviously
3681s flying for Exodus all the way back here
3683s to Alliance tournament 10
3684s um flying in a bunch of different
3686s tournaments flying a bunch of different
3687s ships usually the smaller ships the high
3689s scale ships sometimes the nearest a
3690s bunch of them a bunch of basilisks and
3692s then a whole bunch of people's so he we
3695s were very impressed with his piloting in
3696s that particular match uh unfortunately
3698s we won't see him again because he is
3699s eliminated but well done you good job
3702s um so mystical might we saw the slept
3705s near of arrival uh starting to Boost
3708s after that Scimitar went down and you
3710s were sitting here and you were counting
3711s boost charges as it was happening walk
3713s me through what you were looking for
3714s yeah so one of the things that we'll
3716s typically see with ships like the slept
3718s near and the Claymore because there are
3720s active tank bonuses they'll usually have
3721s an extra large ASB fit which allows them
3724s to self-sustain their tank for a short
3726s time I mean ASB is an ancillary Shield
3729s booster which uses cap charges to give
3732s you back your Shields without using your
3734s own capacitor now when those cap charges
3736s run out because there's only a limited
3738s amount in these asbs it then starts
3741s using your ship's capacitor to regen
3743s your Shields it's extremely expensive
3745s cap wise so it's not something that
3747s really can be sustained once those
3749s charges are gone which is why I was
3750s counting to see how many charges he had
3752s already used because that gives us an
3754s idea of how much more tanky's actually
3756s got left remaining to him and it was a
3759s race between killing that abaddin and
3761s whether that slapnel was going to die
3762s before then once the abandon goes down
3764s though sleptner is pretty free to burn
3766s away reload that Shield booster because
3768s you can reload it it just takes a really
3771s long time so you can't really do it in
3772s combat
3773s awesome and uh I'm told by the
3776s production team we have a Graphic uh for
3777s you some hard-hitting deep analysis of
3780s the alliance tournament let's see let's
3782s see if we can throw that up and take a
3783s look at it
3787s so this is the win rate after uh playing
3789s the interviews for the teams
3791s um as you can see here not very many
3793s wins in fact I would call that a goose
3795s egg e0 zero wins for teams after playing
3797s interviews so if you have been
3799s interviewed by Jin tan and you don't
3801s want us to play it then perhaps perhaps
3804s reach out
3805s it will cost you you know incidentally I
3808s believe that uh Volta has an interview
3810s with I've already deleted it just and
3813s Truth honor light does not I I have made
3815s one I I pretended to be Dexter and I did
3818s the interview myself ah perfect
3820s excellent play it whenever we're ready
3823s um
3824s let's look at our next uh next match now
3827s which is nanofiber tokens versus root
3828s Capel and have a look at the bands for
3829s that one
3831s so nanofiber tokens Banning out the bar
3833s guests the Loki and the balgorn whereas
3836s Rook Capel Banning out Scimitar
3837s Blackbird and EOS uh Blackberry pirate
3840s what are you seeing here well
3842s interestingly enough I believe this is
3843s actually the same bands that root Capel
3845s has used several times now
3847s um so uh they are clearly not adjusting
3850s them based on their opponent they just
3851s don't want to see scimitars blackbirds
3853s and eoses I don't think we've seen a lot
3855s of Blackbird play we did see that one uh
3857s kind of disgusting one by Darkseid as
3860s their potentially trump card of magic
3863s Jam just spread everywhere and making
3864s the game hard to play but uh nanofiber
3867s tokens one is a little bit more
3868s interesting
3869s um I don't understand bargasbands
3871s because we're really only seeing them as
3872s flagships which can in fact evade the
3875s ban uh though the Loki and the
3876s Battleground are starting to become very
3877s very standard
3879s um again have opinions on belgorns but
3881s you know maybe I'm wrong even though we
3883s just saw one feed really hard who knows
3885s who knows and um I think we have some
3887s graphics for the teams as well so let's
3889s see if we can throw up the root Capel
3891s team graphic and take a closer look at
3893s them
3894s so Rockpile 94 Pilots that flown with
3897s them over the years a whole bunch of
3898s veterans uh flying in this team pretty
3901s good pretty good ratio of winning uh to
3903s not winning which is kind of what we
3904s like to see
3905s um they've won recently against Rusty
3907s heinous Clan and Arcos core losing
3909s against Volta and Hydra and also beating
3912s Volta recently as well so this is a this
3914s is a solid team like definitely not to
3915s be discounted
3917s um I know lady labia a very experienced
3919s pilot flown uh in many Alliance
3922s tournaments also been a desk Caster over
3924s in Iceland at some previous Alliance
3925s tournaments uh many many years gone so
3928s again very experienced team another U.S
3930s time zone team I believe so we'll see if
3932s they do well at all Nano fiber tokens
3934s bit more uh of a newer team in terms of
3937s uh the core experience but the pilots
3940s themselves obviously uh relatively
3942s experienced and the astronaut with seven
3943s rounds played and reasonably good uh
3945s good ratio here two to one uh beating
3948s both pandemic Legion and Esports Petopia
3950s and just dropping to the losers bracket
3951s against Odin's call who had a top eight
3953s run last year so very respect to be
3955s dropped down by them so Mr Gourmet who's
3958s going to be this time nanofiber tokens
3959s are rocker pal hmm
3961s I'm gonna have to go with a rote I'm
3964s gonna I'm gonna put my Caster curse upon
3966s them and we'll see whether they can
3968s break it Blackboard pirate I am also
3970s going with throat because I am a
3971s mademoiselle enjoyer
3973s I am a Mademoiselle spammer so I will
3976s also be going for Road Coppell so let's
3977s go to the reader and find out who can
3978s win for nanofiber tokens versus Road
3981s Coppell
3987s and welcome to the arena with nft versus
3989s uh Road Capel we have a very interesting
3991s match coming up ahead we have twin Navy
3993s armageddon's versus what I believe is a
3995s coyote Nighthawk uh comp what do you
3997s think about this one zitonia
3999s uh I'm really excited for this one uh
4001s it's nice to see the new Armageddon Navy
4003s issues on the field that were recently
4005s buffed uh just uh last week
4010s good timing for the buff indeed uh it's
4014s gonna be very interesting I'm having a
4014s look at what weapons they've got I
4015s believe yep they are rapid heavy
4017s armageddon's again so luckily they did
4019s not verse any ECM here because that
4021s could have really broken their Clips up
4022s Meanwhile we're seeing a triple BC plus
4025s uh French full-on support uh DPS support
4028s sorry comp from uh throat so I suspect
4031s they're gonna run away what do you think
4033s are these uh I think they are rapid
4034s Heavies aren't they uh I'm sorry yeah on
4038s the uh authoris and the on The
4040s Nighthawks they look like hams to me oh
4042s no I haven't had a chance to look at the
4044s author so I just looked at them oh no
4046s tell me this is a ham sandwich
4049s it that might okay this is gonna be very
4052s interesting then so they're going to
4053s potentially Rush oh
4055s okay so uh that everything's out the
4058s window now boys
4059s I could be completely wrong though they
4061s could be uh HML as uh uh let's take the
4064s carpet lights they're definitely not
4066s rapid lights they're either HML or ham I
4068s can't tell which so uh okay here we go
4071s The Party Starts Now
4077s okay yeah looking at what they said in
4079s local saying witness me this is
4081s definitely a ham rush I don't need to
4083s look at the ships anymore no that's a
4084s ham Rush 10 seconds to a match underway
4086s we're gonna watch them go running and
4087s screaming I think
4089s yeah who do you think's gonna have the
4091s edge here because like these uh I'm
4092s again Navy issues they have the bonus
4094s new range that you can mute out pretty
4096s well but they're not really going to
4098s shut down like the weapon systems from
4099s the Exiles and the offices and they're
4102s coming together there's too much dam
4104s look at that look at that attack bar
4105s from rote there's not a single blast
4107s shipped here and the attack bar is
4108s girthy the control buffer 905 tokens is
4111s quite nice but unfortunately I think
4113s once they get on top of these
4114s battleships it's not going to matter
4116s actually see damage onto an arbitrator
4117s first just keeping an eye on targets
4119s yeah no there we go they're going on to
4121s kante in the Army and the Armageddon
4123s Navy and just watch how fast this guy's
4124s gonna go down
4125s Jack door verdeck is already gone
4127s however Road capella are in now they're
4129s putting some DPS on compassos uh failure
4132s we're also seeing a bit of DPS go on to
4134s the Sentinel as well where it looks like
4136s Hall County is the main Primary in the
4138s armaged Navy issue there's a lot of
4140s split damage here for some reason though
4143s yeah I'm not sure what's going on there
4144s I I'll just keep an eye who's shooting
4146s the failure
4148s I think fairly is just uh DPS drones on
4150s him at the moment that is not split DPS
4151s that is just a drone way when the valley
4153s forcing his uh teammate to try and save
4156s him
4157s uh psycho hexanals uh office is down now
4160s but Hawaii Kanti is in half armor that
4162s navitus as well can passo is also pretty
4165s low it's really interesting I think
4167s you're forcing the uh Deacon of Andy
4169s astronaut either to save the Thalia or
4172s like don't just don't rep her the
4173s Armageddon Navy issue which has just
4175s five ham ships shooting it so that's a
4178s pretty pretty interesting tactic it
4179s looks like it's working for them kind of
4181s right now though
4183s interesting thing as well is that the
4184s rapid Heavies has managed to kill off
4185s the uh authors of cycler but I think the
4188s Osprey they should be able to say the
4189s Osprey Navy I think these all these
4191s armaged names will have to reload
4192s whereas the ham sandwich will not reload
4194s it will just keep on pounding the ship
4196s as they do take down the Thalia so they
4198s have broken half of the lodgy frigates I
4200s suspect they'll put the drones on the
4201s Deacon perhaps or maybe on the
4202s Armageddon Navy
4204s yeah so now the uh now the navitus is
4206s down it looks like any astronaut is
4208s going to have the drones on him and they
4209s will be able to get through this Deacon
4211s probably but have they lost too much at
4213s this point I mean they still do have two
4215s Nighthawk strike Navy they're two
4217s caracal navies and the Osprey but they
4219s have lost like a lot of their DPS now I
4221s do think they're going to kill the
4222s Armageddon Navy issue probably the
4223s Deacon but they're probably gonna lose
4225s at least the character Navy issue I
4227s think before the Armageddon Navy goes
4229s down they might lose character Navy I
4231s was surprised they managed to get
4232s through the Osprey Navy before but um
4233s honestly if they get rid of the
4234s Armageddon maybe they might be able to
4236s hold there because they still got their
4237s Osprey on grid who was definitely
4239s helping him out he's getting neutered a
4240s little bit but you should better keep
4241s wrapping his team at the moment but I
4244s keep saying that and then things keep
4245s dying can you please stop Elmo please
4247s don't die the armaged Navy goes down to
4249s another down to one left
4251s as Elmo's about to die he's already in
4253s Hull
4254s yeah so I'm just gonna go down but so is
4256s Angie astronaut which will get rid of
4257s all of the logistics from the nft side
4260s we still have Chadwick alive he's not
4263s going to get reps anymore but he's
4264s probably gonna at least take down at
4266s least a character Navy possibly
4267s something else down before he dies I
4269s imagine and then it's going to be
4271s damnation that's the Navy issue versus
4273s two Nighthawks potentially in an osprey
4278s sounds like the Vixen Navy tried to go
4280s over to kill off the Osprey I believe
4281s he's actually just new to him at the
4282s moment which double check that
4284s yeah it looks like the Vex the Navy is
4286s actually newting the Osprey out the sky
4288s breaker's trying to scream off but
4289s nothing he can do about that so it's
4291s going to be a race now the Osprey Navy
4293s is not out of the fight but he's pretty
4295s close so now it's just going to be a
4296s race between Chadwick and well honestly
4298s most of the uh Road Capel team
4301s it's really interesting that the Vex and
4303s navy issue doesn't have any drones at
4304s all I mean that's probably one of the
4306s main upgrades from going from a vexer to
4308s a Vex and Eve issue right it's getting
4309s those uh Stronger medium hybrid turret
4312s uh damage bonus as well as the tracking
4316s Sentinel goes down that's actually going
4318s to help quite a bit these Nighthawks
4320s probably been gimped the entire match
4321s their application being hurt by the uh
4324s Sentinel so maybe they start putting out
4326s even more damage you see the Drake Navy
4328s being shot next shadwick's doing great
4330s work picking off the better DPS but less
4332s tank ships slow but surely ripping this
4334s team apart at the end it might just be
4336s two Nighthawks versus a Navy Armageddon
4338s if he can survive long enough but I
4339s don't think he will I think they're
4341s going to break through Chadwick here and
4342s that there is honestly going to be the
4343s end of the match I think because what
4345s DPS does magnified tokens have left
4348s they do still have the damnation and the
4350s vaccinated issue but as you uh pointed
4352s out the vaccinated issue is a full new
4354s fit so he doesn't have turret DPS he
4357s only has drone DPS there's like 400 DPS
4358s and the damnation is probably about 600
4361s so yeah the Armageddon Navy issue is
4362s gone Alice is about to go down as well
4364s but it is still two Nighthawks and an
4367s osprey although the Osprey might be
4368s neuted out at this point but I think two
4370s Nighthawk speeds of a damnation and a
4373s Vex Navy issue and an arbitrary honesty
4374s yeah even if the Osprey was dead I think
4377s they'd still have us with two Nighthawks
4378s that is a lot of tank and great DPS
4379s platforms all you have to do is kill for
4381s damnation in the next Navy in their
4383s match is entirely over Alice is slowly
4385s dying in the direct Navy he's done his
4387s job in survival if the pontifex just got
4388s deleted holy crap
4393s well now they're doing damage to the
4395s osprey
4396s yeah
4398s it is a ham damnation so it is going to
4401s have some DPS but damnations are still
4403s probably only putting out maybe 600 DPS
4405s total Nighthawks are probably doing
4407s about double his DTS they are taking
4410s down the Osprey now though um which is
4412s interesting uh the vaccinators yeah like
4416s I think he was probably knitted out to
4418s be honest with the Vex and navy issue on
4419s him
4420s oh so he said it's a ham damnation right
4422s so it's a ham Nation
4424s thank you thank you I feel very smart
4426s for saying what someone else has
4427s probably said a thousand times
4431s yeah as long as you don't make any jokes
4433s about one of them that whole character
4434s names
4438s I I don't want to get myself kicked out
4440s so I'm gonna keep my mouth shut on that
4441s they are slowly killing off the Osprey
4443s but I don't think it's going to do
4444s anything of them at the moment these
4445s nigh hooks are just gonna honestly just
4447s dominate this match in this point
4448s onwards
4450s is there an angle where uh where the nft
4453s team can maybe kite it out like the
4455s arbitrating vaccine issue don't have to
4457s be at zero they can just put drones on
4459s people and sort of burn away maybe
4461s extend the match with an mjd Beacon and
4463s try and take down one of The Nighthawks
4465s or they'll get a word no because a
4467s skybreaker is still on grit and there's
4469s a great tackle ship in this scenario
4471s yeah and the damnation is also tackled
4473s and I think even if the Vex and navy and
4476s the arbitrator cut away the damnation is
4478s tackled so it's gonna die and I the next
4481s issue an arbitrator are less points than
4483s one of them Nighthawks so
4486s yeah it looks like yeah well done to
4488s broke Capel here uh Nighthawk Rush lives
4491s on except it's not going to rush without
4493s the usual support
4494s we saw no Loki no hyena these Nighthawks
4497s were left on their own with their uh DPS
4499s wings so this is honestly great to see
4501s Nighthawks kind of uh break the mold
4503s sort of
4505s but so yeah nanofiber did a great job
4507s here but I just feel like they kind of
4508s uh well got rushed down to let's be
4510s honest
4511s yeah it was a super close match
4512s especially at the starter to really like
4514s uh Nano fibers were actually winning
4516s because they killed about free ships
4518s before they started getting their own
4519s ones killed but the ham Rush was just so
4522s powerful they just went for the high-end
4524s ships the armaged Navy issues and just
4526s went straight through them
4528s yeah and they also didn't make any make
4530s any bad Target calls either they went
4531s for the ships that they could kill
4533s quickly and remove DPS
4535s but Nighthawk is slowly going down I'm
4537s actually kind of surprised
4540s that's you should not be going down that
4543s fast
4544s it looks like there's a bit of split DPS
4546s here we see the Vex and navy issue of 10
4548s arrest is webbed and yes oh it just
4550s broke the web now and uh ovix damnation
4554s is not taking damage so it looked like
4556s maybe there was like a bit of a split
4557s call to maybe go after the the
4560s vaccinated issue which broke tackle his
4562s webbed again now but if this makes a
4564s Navy issue can extend it out to the
4566s point where one of The Nighthawks dies
4568s what the hell what in the world how's
4570s this notebook about to die to a
4571s damnation wait I'm sorry hold on
4575s sister ham Nation baby
4578s oh my God I honestly did not think the
4581s handmation was even [ __ ] but mildly
4583s functional but here we go he's actually
4584s gonna kill the Nighthawk and at that
4585s point is this I think his team's
4587s actually going to be ahead there that's
4589s not looking good now for rogue well the
4591s time yeah the time is on road now I
4593s think they're gonna get this next Navy
4594s issue but crucially a damnation of the
4597s arbitrator is more points than a
4599s Nighthawk and a skybreaker so if this
4601s arbitrator can make sure he just doesn't
4602s get tackled in this damn thing survive
4604s rhoten has already knows this and is
4607s already tackling the arbitrator in that
4608s skybreaker a really good call there
4610s they're still trying to kill that victim
4611s but but scrammed he has survived he
4614s escaped he's free he's run away oh my
4618s God this is this I will think this is
4619s gonna be over but it's gone the entire
4621s other way and now wrote I've got a time
4623s limit they need to catches back to Navy
4625s and catch the arbitrator within what is
4627s it a minute
4628s this one this might have been a disaster
4630s they pulled the sky breaker off for 10
4633s to go on to the arbitrade it was really
4634s smart but 10 wasn't finished off and he
4636s got away from the Nighthawk and now he's
4638s just cutting away he's gonna survive I
4640s think he can survive outside ham range
4642s and now I think Roca Belmont actually
4644s lose this the Skype they're about to go
4646s down and the noise can save this you can
4649s spam all you want you cannot do bring
4650s enough mademoiselles to save this match
4652s this has been an absolute upset from
4654s nanofiber tokens oh Road Capel obviously
4657s had this match as far as I'm concerned I
4658s don't know how they kind of just thrown
4660s it away a bit
4661s it's not over yet it looks like the
4664s Nighthawk is gonna be able to kill 10
4666s he's pretty close to him he hasn't wept
4668s again 30 seconds I I don't see how they
4670s can kill it I'll be in 30 seconds
4673s I think 10 is going down here but you're
4676s not killing a damnation of arbitrade in
4677s 20 seconds so I think this might be nfts
4681s as long as as long as it's no like
4682s crucial piloting mistakes at the end
4684s here
4685s my channel points no
4691s I think is over
4694s oh my God that is an amazing match so
4696s then if I was like is clawing it back in
4698s the end Bravo I I'm gonna go back to the
4701s studio and see what they think because
4702s that is amazing
4704s That's All She Wrote
4722s [Music]
4725s [Applause]
4731s [Music]
4737s thank you
4749s [Applause]
4762s connected Channel switched well it would
4765s have been an easy fight right but guess
4766s what dude I'm not seeing it people can't
4768s get together
4774s crash our enemies your temps are
4777s completely damned out Crush I'm dumped
4779s out I'm downtown you don't like Travis
4781s boys
4788s I'm jammed
4791s nanofiber tokens that are proving that
4793s nfts can have value as they eject
4796s rotcapel from the tournament along with
4798s over 1 million Channel points uh for all
4800s of you there on Twitch you mostly
4802s predicted that it was going to be a
4803s solid rock appellate Victory 79 to 21.
4806s unfortunately you were all wrong and uh
4808s all those Channel points have gone good
4810s by that was an incredibly exciting match
4812s we thought it was going to go back and
4813s forth back and forward I'm joined on the
4815s desk by Jin tan and CCP Swift Jin tan
4818s you had your head in your hands at one
4819s point uh take me through what was going
4821s on uh yeah that was just an incredible
4823s match there we saw the kind of Advantage
4825s go between the teams back and forth and
4828s it eventually came down to
4830s um at the start of it really good drone
4832s usage from Road Coppell you saw that
4834s they were splitting their damage using
4836s those light drones to harass the
4838s logistics frigates whilst then applying
4840s their main DPS to the Armageddon Navy
4842s issue and just forcing a split decision
4845s the uh the team of nanuary tokens
4848s decided to keep their Armageddon Navy
4850s alive for as long as possible and then
4853s later on in the match they did much the
4855s same thing putting all of their light
4856s drones on that skybreaker they
4858s recognized that it was the only piece of
4859s tackle the only thing that could go out
4861s and grab something
4863s um left on the road capower side and
4865s once that was taken care of there was no
4867s way that that range stamped Nighthawk
4869s could do absolutely anything to actually
4871s win the match he was just running around
4873s spewing missiles that you know ran out
4876s of fuel about two seconds after leaving
4877s him
4878s and CSP Swift do you think uh like where
4880s did it kind of go wrong for road like
4882s they started to lose it could they have
4883s pulled it back uh it's really hard to go
4886s back against uh when you start losing
4888s your Logistics like that I think if they
4890s had the chance a do-over I think uh the
4893s Road Coppell side would be pretty happy
4895s and pretty confident uh in their
4896s execution they do a lot of things the
4898s same way they just maybe kind of spread
4900s out a little bit more uh take out some
4902s more linchpins a little bit earlier on
4904s that arbitrator went untouched uh
4907s through the match and it was just
4909s wreaking havoc against those uh
4910s Nighthawks really really annoying when
4913s you're damped down and as Jen was saying
4915s your missiles just go boop boop
4918s is that the technical term yeah yeah
4919s that's exactly how that works it has a
4921s sound in game now where it just goes if
4924s you're uh it's disrupted yeah uh one
4927s other thing 10 uh in the vexer Navy
4929s issue lived way too long uh right wrote
4932s uh kind of did that cool guys don't look
4934s at the explosions maneuver uh and 10 was
4937s able to kind of sneak away uh if you
4939s want to know how he did that you can
4940s always listen to the less than 10
4941s podcast small gang podcast uh it's a
4944s cool cool podcast it is a cool podcast
4946s I've got one of the little wooden chips
4948s he gives uh the guests have come on his
4950s show so I recommend it uh if you're not
4952s you've not got one you didn't give me
4953s one what the heck it's a entry to the
4956s kill Club I think he said as well well
4957s don't listen to that podcast uh it's a
4960s garbage podcast no I'm just kidding it's
4962s a great podcast I probably have one of
4963s those one things I'm a good at stealing
4965s swag from players nice let's take a look
4967s at the patterns for our next match Dark
4968s Side versus paper numbers and see what
4970s these teams are choosing uh not to face
4974s so dark side Banning out the Scimitar
4976s the curse and the balgorn paper number
4978s is Banning out the shack EOS and orthos
4980s Jin tan what are you making of these
4981s bands here yeah these dark side bands
4983s are very similar to uh to what we've
4985s seen in the past from them Darkseid
4986s targeting off that Scimitar making sure
4988s that there's no real potential for a
4990s heavy mic uh a heavy missile kite comp
4992s which we saw paper numbers I believe
4994s lose with in their first game
4997s um whereas paper numbers are just
4998s throwing out a couple of power bands
4999s there they're taking out the EOS which
5001s is the central linchpin of the Drone
5002s kiting comp the Le Shack which has been
5004s very very powerful in two Battleship
5006s control and then the authoris which is
5008s useful both in kite and in ham Rush
5010s which is something we've never really
5011s seen before it used in before but has
5013s performed very very admirably it's one
5015s of the highest win rate comps in this
5017s tournament so far yeah obviously that
5018s curse and that balgar and very powerful
5021s muting ships and for those of you who
5022s maybe are a bit newer to Eve online CP
5024s Swift can you take us through uh energy
5026s centralization uh yeah as you can see
5028s here once you're in optimal range these
5030s energy neutralizers will remove
5032s capacitor from the target Chip it'll
5035s cost some capacitor on your own chip but
5037s not nearly as much as it takes away so
5039s as the match goes longer and longer
5042s these ships will start losing capacitor
5044s and that gives your team a late game
5046s Advantage as you can see there are
5048s things you can do to circumvent this
5050s right you can use a cap injector you can
5052s use a capacitor battery which kind of
5054s sends some of that bad juju of energy
5056s sucking back to your opponent but yeah
5059s as these matches go on it is very very
5061s painful and hard to deal with I love
5064s those bands from faffy waffy those are
5065s like very like very faffy waffy bands
5068s right he he really strongly values the
5070s curse thinks it's a great platform for
5072s the points and it is incredibly Point
5074s efficient uh the Scimitar pretty much
5077s kicks out any uh Shield Rush team with
5080s like obviously you can't take uh
5082s anything uh major outside of logic
5084s frigates uh and then just the balgorn
5086s because you know no one wants to deal
5087s with those newts and webs gen time we
5090s don't normally see
5091s um the pilgrim get much use here but we
5093s were talking about this last week and
5095s you think the Pokemon is a bit
5096s underrated in some of these situations
5097s why might that be so the program doesn't
5099s have quite the same ability to actually
5101s impact the capital of their game as the
5103s cursed does that's what really makes it
5105s a unique ship however those TDS and GDs
5108s are incredibly potent they allow you to
5110s control where your opponents are able to
5112s position themselves on the grid and also
5114s has the ability to turn off the shacks
5116s and stuff and very very effectively
5118s however the Sentinel and other similar
5120s ships kind of fill that role a little
5122s better uh I just I think we'll see at
5125s least one team try and get tricky bring
5126s the program and probably find out maybe
5129s why it isn't used quite as often
5130s somewhere down the line in this
5132s tournament
5133s so dark side obviously a very
5135s experienced team
5136s um this year CTP Swift are they going to
5138s be able to pull this right over paper
5140s numbers here
5141s I think so I mean this team is stacked
5144s with talent I think they probably fly
5145s under the radar for a lot of people uh
5148s you might not think that they're like a
5150s top two Contender but they absolutely
5152s are fatty waffy one of the most
5153s experienced captains in the at an
5156s incredibly solid Theory crafter and they
5158s actually picked up a few key members
5160s from the vigra reloaded team so uh you
5162s know stacked with Talent stacked with
5164s area crafting this is a scary team to
5166s come up against and Jin tan who would
5169s you put your uh your Twitch Channel
5170s points behind this time uh given that we
5172s haven't played darkseid's interview I
5173s put my money on Dark Side excellent uh
5176s let's go to the arena and find out as we
5178s go to Dark Side versus paper numbers
5185s and welcome back to the arena we have a
5187s very interesting match again we have I
5189s think it actually is a form of fly
5190s killer because that's definitely rapid
5191s light Navy Ospreys this time from dark
5193s side and then we have kind of the same
5196s thing but a bit more confused from paper
5197s numbers we have a lot of missile ships
5199s today and all of them bring in Shield
5200s this is going to be very interesting
5202s what do you think about this one so Tony
5203s I'm really happy to see a raven Navy
5205s issue that's such a such a great shift
5208s out of left fielder for sure it's gonna
5210s be interesting we also see Osprey versus
5212s basilisk here so that again is just I'm
5215s loving the choices these teams have made
5216s I keep saying the same it's bloody
5218s interesting to see what they're doing
5220s I wonder which one's gonna come out on
5221s top of this one this is awesome I need
5223s to interrupt you for something very
5224s important here the Raven native shoot is
5227s torpedo fitted
5228s uh tons of damage
5231s uh
5233s um I feel like he's come to the wrong
5235s Arena
5237s I feel like he's in the wrong place okay
5240s it's also tough here
5243s we might see some mjd plays I'm actually
5245s getting very excited now come on I want
5247s to see an MGD play with torpedo
5249s battleships
5253s so yeah we're gonna see a ton of DPS and
5255s if you look at the uh oh the DPS bar
5258s doesn't look that impressive on the uh
5260s fancy UI but I assume that they're gonna
5263s do a ton of DPS
5265s oh my God torpedo battleships versus
5269s what I think is basically fly killer
5271s this is going to be very very
5274s interesting I suspect we can see the
5276s support when getting nuked very quickly
5278s it's going to question if these
5279s battleships can get on target they need
5281s to grab something anything hold it down
5284s and rip it apart
5285s yeah crucially yeah crucially there's
5288s not really a lot of great targets for
5289s Torpedoes on their team I mean sure you
5291s can kill the bar guest on the Drake Navy
5293s issue but everything else is not really
5296s going to apply that well like dark side
5298s have invested a lot of their points into
5299s their support Wing here with the you
5301s know jackdaws stalk Osprey Navy issues
5304s so they might actually have a hard time
5306s applying with these torpedoes and
5309s they're actually running away initially
5310s they're not running straight they're
5311s actually running back to mjd because
5312s they may almost definitely be trying the
5314s mjd play here now also trying to maybe
5316s uh break up these rapid light clips from
5318s their opposing team make them reload and
5320s maybe find opportunity here but yeah the
5322s team's backing up the rapid light flight
5324s team is currently just doing the usual
5326s thing of spiraling in
5329s it's interesting that Darkseid bought
5331s three Jack doors because they're playing
5333s a lot of points for them
5335s three Jack doors wow yeah that is uh
5339s that definitely balloon they cost quite
5341s a bit but it looks like that comp looks
5342s pretty solid even with that uh that cost
5345s if you've got a they've got a Splurge
5346s for a basilisk in this comp
5348s yeah paper numbers are now all sort of
5350s congregating around this MGD Beacon
5353s although dark side looks fairly out of
5356s range so it might be hard for them to
5358s pick off anything here we'll have to see
5360s if they decide to go in
5363s just keeping an eye out it looks like
5365s potentially just keeping an eye the
5367s Bargas might be a spot they can mjd it
5369s but it looks like at the moment they're
5370s just lining up
5371s yeah okay there we go mjd here we go
5374s they're all going in
5376s that's what Russian I think did in Anger
5377s games he was just constantly mjding and
5379s he goes being pro at typical again is
5382s doing it once again
5386s but not quite close enough at the about
5388s 30k off I believe
5390s I'm watching this swivel and bifrost who
5392s maybe try and go for a tackler but
5394s they're still up at the uh Beacon they
5395s have not jumped down with them yet
5397s there's their jump now they've finally
5398s arrived but I think that might have been
5400s a bit too late the support needed to
5401s arrive first as the Osprey is now
5403s honestly about to die
5405s yeah Park Bank mjd down with his team
5408s but he's just taking so much damage from
5410s from everything here that he looks like
5412s he might go down him he's not he's an
5414s armor already and uh paper numbers
5416s aren't really getting anything for it
5417s they're about to tackle the bug I think
5419s they're getting pretty close to a sky
5421s killer and uh hold on are they not going
5425s Sky killer now moving off the Drake
5426s Maybe
5429s I see a caracal Navy issue was pretty
5431s close but I think he got defensively
5433s scrounged off of it there is a drake
5435s Navy issue with Pandy who has been
5436s caught who's like a little bit behind
5438s not sure if that's a tactical decision
5440s from them to just let them have the
5442s Drake Navy issue and so that the Bargas
5445s can escape here 's the power of a fly
5447s killer setup as well they've deleted
5449s this couple in seconds they're
5450s destroying the bifrost the Osprey can be
5452s hit very easily rapid lights and Rapid
5453s Heavies as well so they've been able to
5455s pull apart of some of the small side of
5457s this comp already
5459s and we're waiting for a doctor to try
5461s and make something they either need to
5463s try and make something out of this at
5464s the moment
5465s I'm gonna pay the numbers lost their uh
5467s buy Frost now which is unfortunate they
5469s are putting pretty good DPS into these
5471s Jack doors but it's getting wrapped up
5472s because uh they they still have the but
5475s the Basilisk alive and he's relatively
5477s uh untouched here well it's taken a lot
5480s of damage now though
5482s what from he has been caught by
5484s Nighthawk by uh jelfie yeah you're right
5488s yeah that's just in the night hook I
5489s managed to get tackle on the bassless
5491s they'll try and go for the logic trade
5492s here but I think even then it's going to
5493s be an uphill battle I don't think the
5495s battle actually the Raven Navy can
5497s definitely hit him so yeah they are
5498s bringing the DPS onto this uh onto this
5500s battle as the Bargas I believe has been
5502s screened or is he screaming
5505s he's screening he's got the Drake Navy
5507s held down so they're going to go for the
5508s battles then the direct Navy they could
5509s honestly keep put they could pull this
5510s back they've caught the uh the core ship
5513s for their opposing comp and then they've
5515s picked off one of the belt the DPS ships
5516s as well this is honestly starting to
5518s head towards darkseid's way
5522s I I think Darkseid have control of this
5525s match pretty much like if they lose the
5526s Basilisk it's still two Osprey Navy
5529s issues to drink Navy in the bogus versus
5532s Fleet Nighthawk Raven Navy Bargas with
5535s with dark side having more support
5538s I think they need to keep this cycle
5540s alive the CEO CEO is the last tackle
5542s ship left on this grid they need to keep
5544s him alive if he dies they've got
5545s basically two slow battleships and a
5547s Nighthawk who's also slow trying to
5549s catch fly killer that is going to be a
5551s painful experience but the cyclic will
5552s die
5553s that is going to make it even again even
5555s harder yeah panty Pandy died pretty fast
5558s I I guess it's gonna it's gonna depend
5560s on whether they can catch anything looks
5562s like the Jack door is taking damage from
5564s something and it looks like it's gonna
5565s die I'm not sure what is hitting him I'm
5567s just keep an eye if no one tackles
5569s rifles I believe he will be able to
5570s tackle the bogus of Sky killer he's
5572s pretty fast in his own he might be able
5574s to catch him I'll just keep an eye out
5576s stuff like the song bringer the
5577s Stormbreaker doing anything nope he's
5578s running away jackdaw's being nuked this
5580s this is surprising I did not expect to
5582s be able to do this much with this comp
5584s yeah this Jack though is dying to uh see
5587s some combat drones although I think they
5589s actually moved off of him now that the
5592s Bargas is in pretty big danger I think
5595s Nighthawk got the tackle I believe on
5597s the burger soon
5599s come on you're so close you're so close
5601s I said it and then he didn't get it I'm
5604s so sad
5607s arrival since Vargas is uh having a lot
5610s of trouble here as well uh so and I
5612s think if Ryerson goes down it's
5614s completely over for uh for paper numbers
5616s very much agreed yeah I believe nope
5620s never mind I was about to say sky
5621s killers on reload but he is still
5623s shooting rifles just holding out in the
5625s like into armor now he's he might he
5628s could potentially survive in Hull but I
5629s I don't know if that's actually going to
5630s work
5631s they're chasing this uh Sky killer
5634s buggies with everything they've got and
5635s it's just not going to be enough I think
5640s no
5642s he's he's just cutting them out I think
5644s he's faster than everything and he's
5646s doing a great job of just using the
5648s defensive scram to keep them like Hawk
5650s off him whenever it gets close enough
5654s oh no there we go okay so I think at
5657s that point darkseid's lost the oh
5659s sometimes people always lost the last
5660s tool in the shed that nothing they can
5663s really do now this bug will control that
5664s Raven Navy all day long
5666s that is so I'm so sad for that mjd play
5669s was definitely ballsy but it's just
5671s nothing you can do
5672s Striker is taking a little damage for
5675s some reason I think the Navy Raven is in
5676s range it it the the Bargas is not
5679s tackled but I believe he's in torpedo
5681s range and he is actually taking quite a
5683s bit damage it's possible that Sky killer
5685s might actually die here
5687s if he does I will cringe internally
5689s because there is no way he should be
5690s getting shot by this raven Navy unless
5692s he wants to he should have all the speed
5694s in the world to outrun this ship and
5695s even outrun the Nighthawk
5697s and see the Stormbreaker coming actually
5698s stormberg has gone in and tackled The
5700s Nighthawks and now that hook could
5701s definitely not uh chase after him
5704s so yeah that's that's not where it comes
5706s in at the last moment tackles uh one of
5708s the two ships remaining so you can't
5709s chase off the Bargas
5711s I personally would have liked him to
5713s come in a bit earlier but looking at how
5714s quickly his tank is going down maybe
5716s that was probably a very smart idea
5721s yeah and dogs that have really good
5722s positioning here like the bar guest is
5724s moving away from the Raven Eve issue and
5727s you can see the stalk Jack doing
5728s Offspring Eve issue kind of moving into
5730s a position where they can screen for him
5732s if they need to if the Raven is like
5735s going to get a scram on him so I think
5736s this is definitely darksides now at this
5738s point
5739s absolutely yeah
5741s I I I have a bit of a bit of a bit of a
5744s fan of riferson's work both Hunger Games
5746s and in here the man loves his mjds and
5748s he's been honestly quite terrifying with
5750s him but bringing a torpedo Cup against
5752s fly killer that is a hard selling amount
5755s of the pilot
5757s yeah I think they were hoping for
5759s Darkseid to bring out the flagship
5760s Armageddon and you know bring a heavy
5762s armor comp and they probably would have
5764s had a really good shot of killing that
5765s with this
5768s definitely would have made it hurt if
5769s nothing else Raven Navy's now being put
5771s into Hull so he's not along for the
5773s world unfortunately
5775s very sad
5781s it is it is a great shift I know I'm
5785s glad to see they got changed I actually
5786s need to go fly one again now because
5788s they actually might be useful
5791s but with the Raven Navy going down okay
5795s never mind rest in peace there we go now
5798s he's down Bravo to Dark Side well flown
5801s and well that will go back to Studio see
5802s what they think
5825s [Music]
5828s thank you
5833s [Music]
5843s [Music]
5855s foreign
5864s [Music]
5873s [Music]
5892s foreign
5893s [Applause]
5895s [Music]
5897s [Applause]
5905s [Music]
5909s numbers there they're gonna have to find
5911s a new accountant as that one has filed
5912s them straight into the shredder as they
5914s are now eliminated from Alliance
5915s tournament 18 but in a incredibly hard
5918s fault match the that CP Swift that one
5920s went back and forth back and forward we
5922s were standing there talking about like
5923s wow what an incredible match we were
5925s watching it go and you finish with I
5927s have a raven story uh yeah I do have a
5929s raven sword but yeah all these matches
5930s today have been incredible I mean you
5932s see these teams fighting for their life
5934s quite literally uh and Darkseid just
5936s kind of eeking that one out uh but
5937s earlier before earlier today csb
5940s convicts seems to be BNI uh because last
5942s week's meta had a lot of caldori rush so
5944s we were standing by the window in our
5946s room kind of like rehearsing caldari
5948s ship names and stuff like that and a
5950s little Raven flew by and gave us like a
5951s side eye and we're just like yo your
5953s ship is garbage in the meta go away and
5955s that Raven was super mad uh so I'm
5958s pretty sure that Raven's gonna try and
5959s kill us so I'm really really happy that
5962s paper numbers took a raven so at least I
5964s can say yeah there was some Raven he did
5965s real good and I'll just give him like a
5967s little wink and we'll live
5969s oh wow thank you the fates of Our Lives
5972s hang in the balance thanks uh to that
5974s paper numbers Raven well they are
5975s literally saved Our Lives all of us the
5978s number of curses in this Alliance
5979s tournament is seems to be increasing by
5981s the moment Dark Side of course won
5982s because we didn't play the uh the
5984s interview gentan that you have uh
5985s produced by the way again thank you for
5986s producing those they were super cool I'm
5988s sure the teams are now very regretful uh
5991s having seen the uh the results they've
5992s been having but before we just get
5994s completely off topic let's talk about a
5996s little bit more about that match one of
5997s the really cool things we saw there was
5999s uh paper numbers making excellent use of
6001s the MGD beacons in the arena they all
6003s got together on that Beacon they were
6004s facing a team that they couldn't catch
6005s and they started to propel themselves
6007s around uh multiple times eventually
6009s managing to lock down on uh the Basilisk
6011s with a navy Drake I think I can't
6013s remember talk to me about this yeah so
6016s as you said there are nine mjd beacons
6019s um kind of situated all around the all
6021s around the edges of the arena and these
6023s will allow you to fling yourselves at
6025s 100 kilometers in whatever Direction
6026s your ship is facing and it's a very
6028s risky maneuver because all it takes is
6031s for you to not angle yourself correctly
6033s you can get yourselves in all sorts of
6035s hot water or if in the worst case
6037s scenario you can actually just run into
6039s the object of the beacon bounce yourself
6041s backwards and just jettison yourself
6043s completely out of the Arena which
6044s happened a couple of times when I was
6046s practicing
6047s um uh but there we saw
6050s um paper numbers use it really
6051s effectively managing to get that
6052s Nighthawk on top of the Basilisk and
6054s that really gave them their chance to
6056s get back into the match you know they
6057s didn't look at the comp a kind of uh the
6060s comp match up and go okay throw our
6062s hands up we've lost you know this is an
6064s 80 20. let's just take the L and go out
6066s for beers as soon as possible no they
6068s really fought for that match and and
6070s you've got to hand it to them they did
6071s excellently
6073s um I think all it would have taken is a
6075s couple of uh a couple of bits of
6077s mispiloting or maybe even the ec300s
6079s that they'd managed to throw on the
6080s Basilisk taking effect a little earlier
6082s and and they could have walked away with
6083s a win there yeah they could have indeed
6086s but unfortunately they did not now uh
6088s CCP Swift as you said so many good
6090s matches uh thus far today is there any
6092s matches today you're really looking
6093s forward to seeing we're coming up to the
6095s winners bracket very shortly
6096s this is gonna be tricky um the tuskers
6099s match uh later today is going to be
6100s incredibly good uh those two teams they
6103s could easily be in the finals in fact a
6105s lot of people are predicting those two
6106s teams to be in the finals uh ever since
6108s my team got knocked out I have picked
6110s the brave newbies or the brave
6111s Collective is my team uh very sorry to
6114s all the brave fans out there I might
6115s just be cursing you all to Doom uh but
6118s I'd really like to see them go far I
6119s think they're an awesome team uh they're
6121s a great story in Evil 9 as well they
6123s started as a bunch of little newbies and
6124s atrons that would undoc and Zerg you uh
6127s their motto of like fun for hour fun per
6129s hour uh good stuff I'd like to see them
6132s go far I would too for somewhat the same
6134s reasons I specifically I enjoyed earlier
6137s on today I could hear giggling coming
6138s from the corner and uh CP Swift was
6140s sitting there working Ms pain expertly
6143s to produce some high quality memes he
6145s then spent the next half hour just
6147s looking at it and then giggling more you
6149s were laughing at your room this is a
6150s great great meme yeah it's like a c plus
6153s meme but I made it myself so I made it
6154s better uh I was thinking about you can
6157s go to twitter.com CCP underscore Swift
6160s and see my dank meme uh it's okay yeah I
6165s give it a solid eight out of seven uh so
6168s let us look forward to the next match up
6169s which is going between boundary experts
6171s and Deepwater Hooligans so we are still
6172s in the elimination bracket both these
6174s teams have already played and they have
6175s to play a game so they didn't have much
6177s turnaround time uh between their last
6179s matches uh which obviously they won
6181s tickets remain in the tournament
6183s um I think we have the bands available
6184s that's what I'm currently waiting for
6186s here they are
6187s okay so boundary experts banning at the
6189s balgar and the curse the Nighthawk
6191s Deepwater Hooligans Banning out the
6192s Nighthawk the Griffin the Kitsune saying
6194s hey ECM no thank you uh the trickle
6197s bands the Scimitar and The Vindicator
6199s Jin tan uh Griffin and the kitsuni uh
6203s they are really scared of small kite ECM
6206s so they're not Banning out the uh falcon
6209s or Blackbird which is another couple of
6210s ECM ships that we've seen various teams
6212s ban and we also saw used to create
6214s effect by dark side previously
6216s kind of implies to me that I want to use
6218s a Shack or maybe a vedmack something
6220s that's going to spool up in damage or or
6223s they just don't have the ability to deal
6224s with frigates that's the other thing
6226s that this could indicate to me is that
6227s whatever comp they're bringing doesn't
6229s have a lot of projection maybe they're
6230s trying to bring some sort of armor
6231s control comp themselves I don't know
6234s those are some Curious pants
6235s what do you think about these bands here
6237s uh I think they saw what the battery
6239s experts team did in their previous match
6241s uh they had a Kitsune and a Griffin and
6244s they're just like
6246s screw those ships I don't want to see
6247s them take something else uh which
6249s actually does put you a lot put a lot of
6251s pressure on the team right you just
6252s mentioned it boundary experts played
6254s like an hour ago uh they're gonna be
6256s panicking they're gonna be a little bit
6258s of spaghetti falling out all over the
6259s place and if you have to make them make
6261s some substitutions they might just make
6263s a different comp altogether and uh might
6266s miss play a little bit uh this boundary
6268s experts team if I had to choose like a
6270s second team to support it would be them
6271s a lot of Legacy PL pilots on there uh
6274s people who kind of remember me when I
6276s was relevant so I have to still give
6277s them a little bit of love uh but these
6279s guys have a lot of talent and it'll be
6282s interesting to see how they uh how they
6284s react to this yeah now gen time one of
6286s the questions that we had in twitch chat
6288s earlier on was in that last match we saw
6290s I jacked at the start and not moving for
6292s about 15 seconds or so something we also
6294s saw yesterday last week in the boundary
6296s experts team where one of their pilots
6298s radicals Dead Set stationary for almost
6300s a minute to start the match what can
6301s cause that like why aren't they moving
6303s um so when you start when you load into
6305s grid on a match that's being run by the
6309s tournament tool no inputs are accepted
6312s from your ship until the timer hit zero
6314s so if at one second before the game
6316s starts or in the tick between it saying
6318s one second uh in local and then go go if
6322s you double click in space that won't do
6324s anything and I've off I've often found
6326s myself in practices just sitting there
6327s with my mwd on being like wow why am I
6330s not catching this ship I'm in a Punisher
6332s and then I realize my velocity is at
6334s zero MMS because I have not you know
6336s clicked a couple more times just to make
6338s sure it went through it's a very easy
6340s thing to do especially if you don't have
6341s a huge amount of experience obviously we
6343s wouldn't expect that hugely from the
6345s Dark Side team but they do have some new
6347s pilots they aren't like the vide loaded
6349s teams that have been kind of fielded
6351s previously they are bringing alongside
6353s some slightly newer Pilots although they
6354s do have a lot of people with experience
6357s and other times you know spaghetti you
6359s know these matches are really intense
6361s especially when you've got to fly them
6362s once you know uh right after each other
6364s the adrenaline Island builds up and
6366s builds up and eventually
6368s um you know people start to make
6369s mistakes at the end of the day it's
6371s pretty much impossible to play a perfect
6372s at game it's always a battle who makes
6375s the least important mistakes
6377s yeah it is one of those moments when you
6379s warp in it and then you're like
6380s everything is cool and then the
6381s countdown starts in local and you feel
6382s your heart rate just suddenly shoot
6383s through the roof and you start making
6385s mistakes I remember one time
6387s um I accidentally instead of clicking to
6389s turn on my guns I accidentally
6390s spaghetted and clicked the unstack rack
6392s and then I panicked and then I turned
6394s all the guns on individually but then of
6396s course you can't restack them while they
6397s were running so I'm trying to manually
6399s overheat every single gun to try and uh
6400s try and avoid uh burning them out but
6403s anyway let's go for some quick
6405s predictions from you guys so boundary
6407s experts uh gentan or will it be deep
6409s water
6409s uh I'm gonna say that I think Deepwater
6412s uh Hooligans have this you know they
6414s played excellently in their first match
6415s and yeah I I don't have any deeper
6418s reason than that and CC Swift uh
6420s Deepwater Hooligans was incredibly
6421s impressive in their win but my heart
6423s goes with boundary experts uh so I'm
6425s gonna I'm gonna give them a little bit
6427s of energy okay I think I will as well so
6429s let's go to the arena and find out who
6431s will take this this Victory between
6432s boundary experts and Deepwater Hooligans
6439s welcome to the arena boys and Deepwater
6440s Hogans we're Banning out the ECM
6442s frigates for one reason they wanted to
6443s bring an ecn Cruiser instead they've got
6445s a blackbird and grib with a double a
6446s shack comp and reversing a triple
6448s Battleship double armored Navy and
6450s typhoon Fleet and of course I am joined
6452s by my favorite B nerd in the world
6454s beyond my man good to see you how you
6457s doing man how's it going
6458s my I'm so happy this is a dream but we
6462s had to focus on the match I'll uh I'll
6464s be happy about that later but uh yeah
6466s triple Battleship comp with two Navy
6467s Armageddon plus a fleet typhoon against
6469s a double the shack core I'm just double
6471s checking these armaged names if they are
6473s rapid heavy I believe they are indeed
6475s they are
6477s so okay this is gonna be very
6479s interesting they need to try and break
6479s two Le Shacks under a neros reps with
6482s their rapid Heavies this is going to be
6483s a very hard match for these Armageddon
6485s navies especially with a blackbird
6486s providing gems to break up those rapid
6488s heavy clips
6490s I think we're in for a very interesting
6492s match and we see the uh the links
6494s popping here it's about to start
6496s yeah I'm gonna wait to see where the ECM
6499s drops from that black but what do you
6500s think what do you think is going to go
6501s for first of the ECM
6503s honestly I have no idea let's see what
6505s they do
6508s all right I've seen damage go out to the
6509s exact Navy at the moment
6511s and yeah damage until the shackle so
6512s they're gonna try and go to kill off the
6514s big ships first I don't think that's
6517s gonna work I mean I'm hopeful but I'm
6519s not sure on that
6522s well Chuck's taking a lot of damage
6525s thank you so much for catching reps yeah
6527s but actually the heavy drones on the
6529s Army good Navy hadn't arrived yet they
6530s were just about to arrive and then
6531s they've been recalled so they're
6532s actually potentially with the rapid
6534s Heavies plus drones could have broken
6536s through the shack there that is honestly
6538s quite scary for uh people with Hooligans
6540s here if their last shot gets caught
6541s underneath one of the armageddon's it's
6543s gonna die
6546s I think with this uh Le Shack had
6548s something really working I think of
6550s course the Armageddon is now we're gonna
6551s have to go on to reload uh what do you
6553s think is going to happen with the Shacks
6554s now I think we're going to burn in go
6555s get some proper damage on
6558s range it's hard to tell somebody seems
6560s something like to wait a little bit and
6562s see what's going to happen sometimes
6563s wait for their team to make a mistake
6564s but at the moment they're kind of just
6565s chilling
6567s but they're moving towards each other
6569s now a lot more yep here they go they're
6571s starting to move in are they have they
6572s got a tackle ship in their comp not
6574s particularly all they've really got is a
6575s high enough application and maybe some
6577s webs so honestly their tackle is
6579s basically the little shacks and maybe
6581s the Magus so or the male addiction I
6583s suppose
6584s as you say that the checks are burning
6585s in together it's going to be pushing in
6587s towards the deacon I'm not sure what the
6590s Deacon's doing there uh having a good
6592s time he's just enjoying himself
6594s we've seen lots of damage happening onto
6596s the Blackbird now oh like maybe just
6599s maybe clip through them quick maybe
6601s that's things going I think this guy's
6603s going to try to rip and at the same time
6605s the hyena is taking a ton of damage
6606s blackbird's about to hit Hull as well
6608s one rep cycle if it doesn't gonna matter
6610s yeah
6612s it's so much damage he's still he's
6615s still bleeding ah he's going down for
6617s sure
6618s oh my God
6620s how much is that hold on uh that's six
6623s percent structure
6626s he's actually holding he's actually
6628s catching it Meanwhile we're seeing a
6630s deacon on the other side taking a bit of
6632s damage but not that much
6633s oh my God he actually survives it there
6636s with six percent Hull and that is
6638s honestly not the same time though the
6641s hyena just went down
6642s yeah not only did he survive that
6644s situation it also means the armageddes
6645s now have to reload and cannot headshot a
6647s battleship and that is honestly gonna be
6649s the painful point right there I think
6650s I'm gonna get maybe I believe it's
6651s already tackled down so yeah they have
6653s to reload and then pick on a big ship
6655s that's just not gonna work with them at
6656s the moment they're gonna be at a
6657s disadvantage
6658s if they get their visual Fleet down here
6660s as well and both the long range webs are
6661s down it's going to be kind of rough for
6662s them
6663s but the original fleet seems to be
6665s tanking quite fine
6666s yeah you should be all right so yeah
6668s it's going to be a race Tula checks onto
6670s an Armageddon Navy and the good navies
6671s and typhoon Fleet have to do something
6673s that wants to have to reload first and
6675s do you think he's gonna survive to
6677s reload
6678s I'm not sure we're seeing Liam here now
6680s in half armor I think he's gonna catch
6683s this is going to be rough as soon as the
6685s shack starts pulling up proper damage on
6686s him exactly he might catch with reps
6689s from The Valley in the beacon but that
6690s is not gonna be enough rep power to
6691s survive even one wish I could let alone
6693s two this is gonna be really pain we see
6695s some damage now go on to that little
6696s Shack I believe that is heavy drones yep
6698s Freighters from the Armageddon navies if
6700s the rapid heavy is reloading time they
6701s can start putting in that clip they
6703s could probably break him before the
6704s logic can even save them
6708s we know that Deacon is also just about
6710s tinkering over death here they're both
6712s sitting there in like 20 armor look look
6714s at look at the endless Jack of Dino he's
6716s dropping remarkably quickly goes down as
6718s well leader yeah I mean this is a rush
6720s they gotta they gotta rush to get the
6722s DPS landed there get the check down
6724s before the Armageddon Navy goes down
6727s I think they're gonna make it it's so
6729s close the shack is losing Health firstly
6731s I'm a good Navy is still holding in 15
6732s ah but he could maybe just eat this out
6736s at the same time the vigil Fleet and
6737s Thalia get deleted as well
6740s yeah both coms are brought a very robust
6742s support Link in terms of being able to
6744s kill small ships two Jack doors versus
6746s another jacket on the malediction they
6747s can rip apart small chips rather easily
6749s the Armageddon Navy's now and how the
6751s shack is starting to tank a bit better
6752s now I think it's starting to go to the
6755s Shack's way
6760s oh my god
6761s um
6762s that's that right there is honestly the
6766s end the match is still going but it's
6768s going to be an incredible Hill to climb
6770s the shack is still surviving the nearest
6772s is still alive that is I just don't see
6775s it happening I mean if the the oneris is
6777s still out there rapping and the other
6779s guys have lost both of their wrapping
6780s ships now we're seeing the pontifex hit
6782s High farmer acts like Navy's about to
6784s hit half armor they're trying to Black
6786s Parade again but he already like proved
6788s he's a champion he's not gonna go down
6790s now I think this uh this match is over
6792s exactly that it's going to be a slow
6794s painful death from this point onwards
6796s that's uh black but it's also going to
6797s be incredibly annoying now he's
6798s basically just gonna jam out one of the
6800s two battleships and leave him there
6802s unable to sync their rapid Heavies with
6803s their their friendly ship as now one of
6805s their support ships also dying so yeah
6807s that's
6807s well flown by deep water here they're
6809s very well controlled and charging at the
6811s right moment
6813s I think it just came down to the uh the
6815s rapid light cycles and syncing them up
6816s together there and not being able to
6818s punch that black bird I think that was
6819s the the losing defining moment of this
6821s match
6822s exactly that once that Blackbird
6824s survived and then they had to reload
6825s with the Shacks coming at them that was
6827s just game over he said look at the black
6828s one he's actually might still die they
6830s might get the Revenge yeah no way
6834s just to prove a point
6840s yeah oh well Bravo they managed to get
6842s their revenge on the Blackbird
6844s bye
6846s it's like the party called a champ
6850s but this match is basically over they're
6851s just going to be spending the rest of
6852s the match now most likely just chunking
6855s down the jackdaw here and then working
6856s on the Armageddon
6857s uh I think this is this is done
6860s exactly that's funny because actually it
6862s basically a lot one on loss on a single
6864s rapid heavy clip and we've seen
6866s situation before people have not been
6867s willing to fire the rapid Heavies at all
6869s because the moment they fire and not
6870s kill something they lose
6871s but this team was willing to fire
6873s probably a bit too early potentially and
6875s managed to fail the kill at that point
6877s it was Game the moment they didn't get
6879s the kill on the Blackburn they wasted
6880s their clip it was just ended
6882s yeah there's a bit of posturing there at
6883s the start but then as soon as the shack
6885s started getting closer and closer you
6886s might be right they may have started to
6887s go a little too early but at the end I
6890s don't think there's much they could have
6891s done there
6892s just didn't land the black but didn't
6894s die and then suddenly wasted in you know
6896s a couple of minutes
6898s basically the only win scenario for them
6899s was probably to like once Shack is close
6901s enough all in it immediately with all
6902s their heavy drones plus rapid heavy and
6904s maybe break through but beyond that it's
6906s it is a hardcore with a blackbird on
6908s grid and then on euros
6912s I very much respect to Tim oxer there
6914s and the oneros keeping that Blackbird
6915s alive in six percent structure just that
6918s that there is honestly the moment that
6920s pretty much broke uh boundary experts
6922s probably broke their backs and their
6923s hearts
6926s now we're going to see them working on
6927s Avery
6928s Last Man Standing he's been scrammed
6931s held down and he's just gonna get
6932s chunked
6933s yep that'd be so you have to wait for
6935s those checks to get there first bloody
6937s slow things
6941s I don't think everything's gonna do
6942s anything anyway yeah this is this is
6944s over they realize that it's two and a
6945s half minutes left on the clock but
6946s that's not not really what matters he's
6948s just gonna get held down
6950s and slowly chunked
6954s it looks like the the Shack's actually
6955s just looting instead
6957s why not we've got some time mate well
6960s while we've got that time welcome to uh
6961s welcome to CCP everyone doesn't know
6964s this is beyond B now ccpb just making
6966s sure everyone knows that because he's
6967s the best nerd around
6970s thank you for that warm welcome man I've
6972s been having a blast here with the people
6974s it's been it's been super fun seeing the
6976s entire uh the production Team all the
6978s people working on this
6980s has been crazy experience so far
6982s I was gonna say like congrats on being
6983s the newest CCP member but then Mr Ithaca
6985s overload replaced you there and with
6987s that uh Deepwater horgins gets the win
6989s very cleanly and without go back to the
6991s studio with the newly minted TCP
6993s Overlord have a look
7011s [Music]
7015s [Applause]
7018s I remember
7026s YouTube
7036s [Music]
7061s foreign
7062s [Music]
7076s s there taking the Victory and
7078s eliminating boundary experts from
7080s Alliance tournament 18. it's not all bad
7082s for them though of course because they
7084s do win price ships they only win a few
7086s compared to winning more than a few
7088s which obviously is considered preferable
7090s but they are eliminated in a relatively
7093s hard-fought match by both teams I'm
7095s joined on the desk by CCP Kestrel CB
7097s casual how are you hey I'm good thank
7099s you
7103s tons of damage
7105s chunks whatever that whatever Shady's uh
7108s thing is I think it was a chunks and the
7109s tangu is breaking of course being the
7111s famous ones excuse me Castro how does
7112s that match for you uh that was a super
7115s enjoyable
7116s um mostly just seeing uh
7118s uh boundary experts win more 80 pirate
7120s ships than radicals was the highlight
7122s for me
7124s and uh jintan I wanted to ask you a
7126s little bit about the damp war on that
7127s and what's your favorite topic and we
7129s have a little bit of a video about the
7130s mechanics of that but can you just run
7131s us through it again yeah so um Center
7133s dampling allows you to control the lock
7135s Ranger Lock speed of your opponents um
7138s and these are going to be incredibly
7139s powerful in this tournament because you
7141s can now utilize the script for them
7144s which means that you can either make
7146s things look really really slowly or you
7148s can make things look uh really really
7150s shortly and which will prevent your
7154s opponents from being able to project out
7155s onto and that's especially useful when
7157s used in conjunction with things like the
7159s Le Shack which if it can sustain a lock
7162s for a long period of time
7164s um within around the 70 kilometer range
7165s that it can fire its weapon it's going
7167s to be able to ramp up and just burn
7169s through anything even under you know
7171s Tech 2 Logistics reps
7174s um and tons and tons of rep Bots which
7176s is what makes it such a powerful ship in
7178s a tournament format and it's also
7180s interesting to see that I think we saw
7182s some
7183s um uh some of the scan res scripts
7185s actually being used there as well on
7187s that Jack door as it was able to
7189s synergize really well with the Blackbird
7191s the Blackbird was causing something to
7192s have to lock it and then
7195s um the Jack door from the Deepwater
7197s hooligan side was using scan resolution
7199s scripts on whatever was jammed so that
7202s once the Blackbird dropped its jam on it
7204s because obviously that's RNG based it
7206s then took them more than the 10 second
7208s title cycle time to re-lock any Target
7211s which meant that effectively things were
7214s being perma-jammed off the boundary
7216s experts team uh effectively breaking up
7218s that rhml clip and stopping them from
7221s being able to break anything pretty much
7223s now before we go and talk about the next
7225s match which is when we go to the winners
7227s bracket and there's some really exciting
7229s matches CTP Kestrel
7231s um tell us what you do at CCP yeah so I
7234s I'm a QA analyst at CCP I work on team
7236s raw although I've been doing a lot of
7238s work with the living Universe team which
7240s is essentially like the live gameplay
7241s team on Eve so for example I did a lot
7244s of testing for the new Navy ships that
7246s came out in Uprising last week
7249s excellent and now what kind of testing
7250s do you do with these ships oh yeah just
7253s make sure the bonuses are working
7254s correctly making sure like the traits
7256s and the descriptions are working make
7258s sure they have the right LP costs in the
7260s Loyalty Point store making sure the
7262s blueprints work for the capital ships
7264s especially there's a lot of extra tests
7266s that we need to do like making sure like
7268s doomsdays work on them making sure that
7270s they spawn the sleeper escalations in
7272s class 5 Wormhole space and a few other
7275s things too like making sure you can't
7277s build the blueprints in portrait for
7278s example just all these like extra little
7280s tests just to make sure there's no uh
7283s big bugs with them all the super
7284s important things that basically keep the
7286s game from breaking completely out yeah
7288s so CP casual our QA analyst at CCP games
7290s now I want to talk about this next match
7292s because I am looking forward to this one
7294s um this is the tuskers call versus truth
7296s honor light truth on a light being the
7299s members of Hydra reloaded from last year
7300s the defending Champions tuskers not a
7302s bad team whatsoever let's see what
7304s they're doing with the bands so truth on
7306s the light Banning out the jackdaw Osprey
7307s Navy issue and Deacon tusker is Banning
7310s out Jack Dart guardian and Loki uh just
7313s on the lake the trickle ban is the
7314s Osprey and for the tuskers it is the
7316s uniro so both teams choosing to use
7317s their trickle bands for the uh the
7320s logistics Cruisers jintan what do you
7322s what do you think of these bands here uh
7323s the thing I'm noticing most of all is
7324s that both teams have brought uh have
7326s brought a jackdaw band to play here and
7328s what that effectively signifies to both
7330s uh to me is that both teams want to keep
7332s some form of damp control comp on the
7334s field uh those Jack doors with their
7337s Sharpshooter mode have an incredible
7338s resistance to ewar uh which makes them
7341s super effective at shutting down your
7343s hostile uh damping ships without really
7346s being that useful in a pure control
7347s setup themselves
7349s awesome and uh I mean some of those
7351s experienced teams in the history of
7353s Alliance tournament right now about to
7354s go up against each other let's take a
7355s look at some of the pilots for uh for
7357s these teams so first up uh we have truth
7360s honor light so uh Pilot's famous pilots
7363s such as Casper 24 uh previous holder of
7365s the boundary record before it was
7366s snatched from his grap by Azure and
7368s Argan from goons from Federation uh nick
7371s domar uh Kadesh Priestess Lucas these
7373s are just like this is a who's who of uh
7375s incredibly experienced Pilots
7378s um so you speak Kestrel uh what do you
7380s tell us something about some of these
7381s Pilots here
7382s yeah I mean a lot of the uh two funnel
7385s light Pilots are sort of X hydropilots
7387s who have been playing together for a
7388s very long time uh Hydro came second
7391s place in 88 which is when the the team
7393s first sort of
7394s was on the field and then since then
7396s they've always came uh second mostly
7399s although the they won the last previous
7401s Alliance tournament so they finally
7403s broke the curse so a lot of these Pilots
7405s are incredibly talented they've been
7407s around in the tournament scene for a lot
7410s of them for over a decade
7412s so tons of experience especially when it
7415s comes to fairy crafting kadash Priestess
7416s is the person who uh maintains pytha the
7421s uh python fitting management tool so he
7424s knows a ton about fittings like he knows
7427s more about fittings than me even so yeah
7429s and that's saying something like that
7430s guy is a wizard when it comes to fitting
7433s uh let's look at the tuskers pilots now
7435s uh and compare them
7438s foreign
7441s he's not flown with him for a while he's
7443s kind of returned this year the last
7444s couple of years I think last two years
7445s he's not flown and yet he still has
7447s flown in 46 matches so he's been flying
7449s with them for a significant period of
7451s time you then have electronicus he is
7453s probably one of the better uh Logistics
7456s Cruiser pilots in the game in the last
7457s term history and he certainly was with
7459s them when the one Alliance tournament 14
7461s I believe and then again another who's
7463s who we have hoodie Mafia who is on the
7465s uh I think runner-up of our championship
7467s team uh along with uh his captain lysis
7470s back then and then people like uh Tebo
7472s Skyler jaxley uh all really experienced
7475s Pilots that have flown in just I mean
7477s you can see here the lowest ranking of
7478s them is 27 matches uh which is
7481s incredible when you think about it
7482s because a lot of teams go maybe two and
7485s two one one two for example so to get to
7487s 27 matches and still be like just
7490s creeping into the top 10 in a team then
7491s that's how you know that team has got a
7494s lot a lot of experience
7496s now let's maybe talk about some
7497s predictions because we're only a few
7498s minutes away from this match
7500s CCP Kestrel um who would you put your
7503s Twitch Channel plus buying truth on a
7504s light or the tuskers call well going by
7506s history I believe every single time
7508s taskers and Truth on are light or hydras
7511s they previously were known as have gone
7513s up to against each other in the
7514s tournament they've always lost tuskers
7516s have never beaten Hydra actually in a
7518s match in 80. so I'm probably going to be
7521s putting my points on truth on a light if
7523s I had to
7525s a sentiment that you share uh no I think
7527s this is a time that you know tuskers
7529s relive their Glory Days of at13 and come
7531s out with the win here if they do they
7533s should pretty much have a clear run into
7535s the winners finals yeah I think this is
7538s one of these matches where
7540s um truth or like cannot sleep on this
7542s like this is not just any other team
7544s that they can go up against bring
7545s something middle of the road comp and
7547s then hope to oh execute and win I think
7549s they're gonna have to still bring their
7550s a game respect the tasker's team they've
7552s uh tuscaros have shown a couple of comps
7554s so far in the tournament they performed
7556s extremely well with them uh I have I if
7559s I had a bit Channel points which I don't
7560s want to do because I I find this match
7562s so hard to predict I would probably put
7564s them on the tuskers because I think the
7566s return might be slightly better if they
7568s make a win and I would put this match
7569s somewhere like 70 30 in you know 700
7572s times out of ten I say truth on like
7574s maybe you could win this one but you
7576s know given the right set of matchups the
7577s right set of piloting and the right
7578s execution I think the Tasker is cool
7580s have the ability to pull one over on
7581s truth on the light here
7583s so you've grown your protection you've
7585s given your protection I've given my
7586s production I'm told the teams are
7588s landing right now so let us go to the
7590s arena and find out who will win between
7592s truth honor light and the tuskers call
7600s and welcome back to the arena and we
7601s have a flag pancake in the arena uh vld
7604s minome in the uh for taskus has brought
7606s the flag bargest and we have a very
7609s honestly a lot of the control on both
7611s these teams considering what they're
7612s brought what do you think about this one
7613s big
7614s I'm gonna be honest with you uh I I I'm
7617s not gonna be neutral on this match uh I
7620s was meant to be in this match or at
7621s least with this team with truth on the
7623s light and they're absolutely gonna
7625s dominate this I can tell you that
7627s ah fair and unbiased reporting indeed
7632s but yeah this could be honestly there
7634s was a lot of this match that's going to
7635s make the flip in the entirely different
7637s directions we have double Blackbird from
7639s a tourism like they're going to provide
7640s a lot of control tuscles with that Flag
7642s bug plus a lot of support and DPS it's
7645s gonna be very interesting to see as well
7646s this is gonna be a match that's gonna go
7648s down to piloting I'm pretty sure and
7650s maybe a bit of dice roll look
7652s never seen the double Blackbird and the
7654s carries from the truth on the right uh
7657s we have double web uh visual Fleet hyena
7659s on the other side I'm not sure if
7661s they're gonna go top down or or bottom
7663s up but uh that flag Bargas is something
7665s they need to respect and be careful
7666s about
7667s I'm just double checking as well that's
7669s definitely a rapid heavy bug just going
7671s over the rest of the strips to make sure
7672s they are where they think they are
7675s I believe that's definitely a hand my
7676s hook so it should be all right but yeah
7678s these are going against a triple uh
7680s battle cruiser setup with uh ECM support
7682s it's going to be a very interesting
7684s match for tuskers to try and fight
7685s through and hopefully they don't lose
7687s the dice roll I want to point out one
7689s interesting thing here as the match
7690s starts that we have claimer Nighthawk
7692s barges and then an auger
7694s it's kind of an interesting setup
7696s bringing the Cheapo
7698s I think we should see a bunch of uh logy
7701s joins getting dropped on that augura
7702s tuskers tend to be pretty good at doing
7704s that are seeing no DPS drones never mind
7707s as a stalk is now being a primary First
7710s stuck is not too bad
7714s this is an armor cup my dude yeah my
7717s brain just clicked that's that's an
7719s almond Nighthawk and Claymore and Bob
7721s yes sir hold on a second
7723s hold up wait a minute
7726s something right it's something that's
7728s very not right here so we have two
7730s armacos both bringing augers but one's
7732s auger with a a Nighthawk Claymore okay
7735s all right we're seeing uh Amelia ducks a
7737s dust space now being primary but I think
7739s he should be left alive with the auger
7741s reps and defense mode
7744s yeah the Confessor is an incredibly
7746s tanky ship and I believe this should be
7748s able to pull through at the same time
7750s we're seeing a vigil Fleet go almost
7751s into half armor here
7753s manufacturer is holding strong meanwhile
7756s the vigil Fleet this is one web ship
7758s down and is going to put uh in a better
7760s position where's the Reps from the organ
7762s okay there's a cycle you're gonna get
7764s another one there we go the visual pitch
7766s should survive now he's now pulled back
7767s away from the posing team and is still
7768s receiving reps but if they leave him
7770s alone and focus on the later he will die
7772s before the order can even save him
7776s the moment is not really much going on
7778s towards truth on a lot like uh tuskers
7780s haven't really been able to project much
7781s at all except to maybe without Confessor
7783s who's now sitting at full armor they
7785s need to find something to do this
7785s Nighthawk is now being primary the rare
7788s armor Nighthawk
7790s when you see the art he's been caught
7791s where if they've been pushed to the back
7793s and have to kite up again uh he's been
7795s held down now
7796s which means that uh him going into the
7798s they're going to apply a lot better I
7800s think this nighthawk's gonna go down
7801s there you go I'm not even surprised
7803s there's an arm and no hook he's gone he
7805s was tackled down by the Confessor by the
7806s way the thing they tried to primate the
7808s star confessions could be incredibly
7809s dangerous as I very well know and they
7812s are like they're just gonna fly around
7814s pretty much uncontested shoot down lodgy
7816s drone shoot down DPS drones tackle ships
7818s willingly that is honestly a painful
7820s loss for tuskers and that's only the
7822s first ship they've lost that's a big
7824s chunk of DPS going as the controversial
7826s tried to go for the claimer he got
7827s scrounged by the bariest uh he's gonna
7829s be pushing in the game we can see a
7830s couple Executives pushing in with him
7832s too they're just chasing him with a
7833s Blackburn carries at the very back oh
7836s Lucas Quan and the auger is going down
7837s fast
7840s honestly if they killed that ogre they
7842s could start pulling this match back
7843s towards their own side like that ogre
7845s has been keeping ships alive but if he
7846s goes they can remove the tackle quickly
7848s then start beating all these black birds
7850s this can entirely flip again that means
7851s the Claymore for tuskers is now about
7853s time and he goes down oh no yeah same
7856s time claimers down yeah what damage
7858s tuskers have left they've got a Bargas
7860s and caracal Navy and that's really bad I
7862s guess I've got a fleet Scythe actually
7863s but like this is gonna be painful warp
7865s out now being Primary getting rid of the
7867s ECM this is honestly I don't see tuskers
7870s winning this they've managed to like
7871s kill the lodge and start maybe breaking
7873s into this team but they've lost so much
7875s too quickly
7876s they've also got their Bargas scrammed
7878s held down by that same Confessor who's
7880s not going to let go exactly that and
7882s don't forget this is also a flag bug
7883s this is the special brand of pancake
7886s and it's just they'll be able to buy
7888s more time but I don't see them breaking
7891s through they've killed one of the
7892s Blackbirds I don't know what they're
7893s going for next look they're going after
7893s the confess next try and break the bug
7895s is free
7897s and I mean we're seeing the bar gives
7898s you a hit half armor he's gonna mean
7900s he's knocking out he's not gonna hold
7901s here interestingly though he does have
7903s the ogre support and with with the flag
7905s bark he's going to have some pretty
7907s shiny stuff on that [ __ ] to keep him
7908s alive he could survive long enough for
7911s this team to pull back pull it back I
7912s wonder if trifling was going to see that
7914s and maybe pick on the organ next the
7915s auger is kind of on its own maybe remove
7917s him now you can focus on this DPS chord
7919s because at the moment that bug is
7920s holding comfortably
7924s maybe I'll be seeing Amelia hit here
7926s lower and the same with the other
7928s Blackbird Durant is almost going into
7930s Hull
7932s yeah and we see also the ECM drones
7934s getting put into the auger and
7935s immediately destroyed by the uh
7937s stormbringer of Jason showing why he is
7939s the best pilot in all of Eve
7941s and yeah the uh professor's about to go
7943s down the August it looks like they
7945s listen immediately and they went
7946s straight for the auger auger is down but
7948s meanwhile Emilia is also going down in
7950s the Confessor
7952s honestly bought them an incredible
7954s amount of time I think truth might have
7955s reacted a little slowly there but that
7957s being said they were in a commanding
7958s position they had the room to do that
7960s but now it's going to be a race and I
7962s think at the moment that race is so
7964s squarely interested on the light side I
7966s don't see that Flag bug surviving long
7968s they've got two potentially Blaster
7970s exact navies and three battle Cruisers
7972s that's a lot of DPS with no support to
7974s help you for
7976s you say that in kadash's executive Navy
7978s hits Hull no stop doing this to me I say
7981s a thing and they immediately proved me
7982s wrong this is unfair
7984s but let's not forget we still have a
7986s hard Navy Absolution and a starter here
7988s they're all fully health except for
7990s Dexter's absolutions a little bit in
7992s armor I think they're gonna have enough
7994s to push the Bargas into Hull and finish
7995s them off
7997s indeed I'm seeing if the bug is gonna
7998s try and break away but the Absolution is
8000s holding him permanently meanwhile the
8001s bug is actually screaming off the uh
8003s executive Navy instead
8006s they've actually got a good amount of
8008s DPS left and support on tusker's fleet
8010s they've got their character that's a
8012s good amount of damage plus these web
8014s support from the Vigilant hyena they
8016s have a chance but that chance is about
8018s to vanish the moment that Bargas goes
8020s from being present to past
8024s now we're saying the bark is just
8026s hovering over the Hallmark where Casper
8028s in the exact Navy is now going into
8030s about 60 armor
8033s meanwhile the Vargas starting into Hull
8035s yeah that's bits about how here and
8037s they're getting removed
8039s I think this bar gets going down the
8041s next next 40 seconds oh bogus is
8043s actually being away he might be able to
8045s pull a little bit of rings and get
8046s another rep cycle off he's actually
8047s making the tackle he's loose yeah but
8049s all these are these are ranged battle
8050s cruises they can definitely still apply
8051s for a good distance but he can maybe
8053s pull some distance away and buy a little
8055s bit of armor
8058s meanwhile the caracal Navy and the uh
8060s site Fleet will not keep pounding upon
8061s that executive Navy and maybe kill off
8063s another ship before the bogus goes down
8064s he's got they've got a chance again vld
8067s with the amazing party you're trying to
8068s break free
8070s I think this may have been a just a game
8072s changer that he got away here Casper
8073s going down into Hull
8076s vld in the uh the flag bark is still
8078s holding while we see Kane in the caracal
8080s Navy taking some damage
8082s yeah this is this is obviously starting
8084s to go towards VOD side now he can
8085s obviously keep repairing back up he can
8086s if you've got an absolute armor up he
8088s can reload that as well caracal Navy's
8090s now being primaried he will not last
8091s long
8092s what are they gonna go for next because
8093s everything is very tanky it's the hard
8094s Navy is probably your best option but
8096s it's still incredibly tanky ship
8099s I mean the character Navy is going to go
8100s down now in the next couple of seconds I
8102s think hard Navy is definitely the best
8104s compared to an Absolution and an astarte
8107s oh the character navigation managed to
8108s survive by getting away he's still alive
8110s he might still get killed but he's got a
8112s bit of room to play with left and buy
8113s even more time so this the tuscus team
8116s is flying incredibly well with the tools
8118s they have that being said yep character
8120s is about to go pop as you said he bought
8121s a little bit extra time actually look at
8123s the Absolution how is he so low
8128s how is the absolutely so close to dying
8130s that that's that's not what I expected
8131s to see
8133s I think they would have had a better
8134s chance Killingly hard Navy if they if
8136s they held him down
8139s but look at the side Fleet is about to
8140s get killed as well he's trying his best
8142s again they're buying time trying to get
8144s this Bargas back online he is back the
8146s full Army he's probably reloading his
8147s answer if he's got one and the hard
8149s thing is about to go down hard Navy's in
8151s Hull meanwhile the Scythe fleetish is
8152s taken down we got two minutes 20 seconds
8154s left here roughly and it's uh this is a
8157s nail biter exactly if that Hub
8159s navigation I'm pretty sure tuskers will
8160s be ahead on points I believe if the
8161s Sci-Fi goes down it will probably go
8163s back but this is this is honestly quite
8165s incredible flying from tuskers they went
8167s from a position where they're looking
8168s like they were going to lose this and
8169s they're slowly but surely clawing this
8171s back with some amazing piloting and
8172s their teamwork
8175s it looks like they're gonna go down at
8176s the exact same moment here hard Navy is
8179s about to eat it and the same time with
8180s the Scythe Fleet issue
8183s yep there he goes side fleet's still
8185s alive for a little bit longer he's
8186s actually trying to pull away honestly I
8187s wouldn't have bothered with that I would
8188s have gone straight in and try and get
8190s your damage in make your ship worth the
8192s points
8196s hitting about 20 percent
8198s never seen ggs and local from Dexter and
8200s Kadesh I think the truth or not I don't
8202s think they've got this and honestly I'm
8203s with them the episode can't do anything
8205s the I started can't do anything this
8206s Bargas this flag is gonna pull ahead
8208s with the win from they were about to
8210s lose
8213s they've managed to call this one back
8218s I'm I'm immeasurably gutted
8221s oh we're seeing Dexter here go down in
8224s his Absolution merome and the Vargas I
8226s mean that just getting away was was the
8228s game changer here 58 structure pulling
8231s away suddenly wrapping to full
8233s forcing truth on the light to swap
8235s targets to other things and it just it
8236s didn't pan out
8237s exactly that do you think they would
8239s have won a fewer in the team that if
8241s this match don't ask me that bro
8247s I surely I can't put you on the spot
8249s there
8250s [Laughter]
8252s I just think it was that the carries has
8253s been left on grid this entire time he's
8254s been damping that bogus and trying to
8256s remove his lock range the entire time
8257s and honestly the bogus has not suffered
8260s too much for it so this carries has not
8262s really really been worth the points here
8268s they pulled back there they killed the
8271s the two ECM blackbirds and then they
8273s somehow managed to slip that Bargas out
8275s of being tackled and held down we had
8277s the confession holding it down
8279s it might have just been that it might
8281s have just been the fact that this is a
8282s flag bargist
8284s and so it is what it is man what can it
8287s is
8290s oh man like yeah again as you said that
8292s bug escaping was the the end that was
8294s the end point once that happened THC THL
8296s sorry we're just gone
8298s I'm loving that the carries are still
8300s alive uh where's this starting there he
8302s is
8304s oh matches over never mind then
8307s and with that go back to studio and see
8308s what they think
8326s [Music]
8329s [Applause]
8333s guys stop being casual they're really
8335s bad we should not lose anybody to this
8338s warp off warp off take the fleet warp
8340s everybody warp off this is a really
8341s really bad execution I'm very
8343s disappointed
8347s another great haul back from Amar damn
8351s I'm thirsty
8356s that hits the spot
8360s [Applause]
8369s uh yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP
8372s collectively uh so that's why that
8374s Alliance logo is in the game of course
8376s you could change your alliance by
8377s leaving but that would be kind of a jerk
8379s move that kind of oh you don't like it
8381s now sucks I'm gonna go join
8399s match of the day so far for me holy crap
8402s that was incredible uh the tusker is
8404s called pulling out a victory over truth
8406s honor light in just the most exciting
8409s match that I've seen this tournament in
8410s my opinion uh we saw a little of
8412s everything we had jams we had dance we
8414s had that bar guest just going down we
8416s had trades for ships and then he managed
8418s to get away in fact we saw um that the
8420s uh the small ships on the tusker side
8422s able to both web down and track and
8424s disrupt uh the remaining battle cruisers
8426s on truth on the light a living vld in
8429s that bar guest to just Cruise out to
8431s safety reload his armor repair and then
8433s come back in again incredible Mr come
8436s out how are you feeling uh I feel great
8438s yeah I uh I actually made some Channel
8440s points uh in that match I bet on tuskers
8443s of course as you do
8445s um so I got a pretty good return
8447s I suppose that way at least if your team
8448s loses the match you get the channel I
8449s always get something it's fine
8451s any any highlights in that match for you
8454s um I think it's just interesting to see
8455s tuskas pull out the same kind of
8457s strategy that they always have which is
8459s just loading their mids with track and
8460s disruption and missile against
8461s disruption to a an extreme degree flying
8466s a typically Shield setup with an arm and
8469s Logistics to allow them to fit more
8470s e-war into their mids and it really
8472s showed that it does it does kind of work
8474s well if they can fly it properly yeah
8476s and I mean we were kind of discussing
8477s that was pretty much an execution win
8480s um the truth on the light guys obviously
8481s flew incredibly well really made Tesco's
8484s have to work for it and then just a
8485s little stresses the piloting the the
8487s evasion to get that Bargas out that was
8489s a flagship Bargas as well I imagine if I
8492s know the Tasker is it's probably Giga
8493s expensive
8495s um and if that's not a flagship CC
8497s casual I don't think that uh tuskers win
8499s that
8500s yeah I think the I think the Bargas
8502s would have died if it didn't have the
8503s extra Flagship power of having the extra
8505s powerful rep
8506s like uh being a flagship it's allowed to
8508s fit you know an extra special uh X-Type
8511s armor repairer so it probably had maybe
8514s had one of those if it wasn't a large
8515s ancillary and also the extra power of
8518s having like a longer range scram more
8520s powerful prop mod meant that he was just
8522s better able to escape better able to get
8524s out of range and I I think he definitely
8525s would have died if it was just a tattoo
8527s Bargas yeah and at one point we thought
8529s we were going to see a really expensive
8531s Flagship kill meal before he did pull
8532s off that uh The Great Escape and get out
8535s away from truth on a light so well done
8536s the tuskers score that was a incredible
8538s incredible match
8541s um I want to also ask you mystical my
8543s the truth and light team they had a
8545s couple of black birds we don't see them
8547s super often this year and we saw a dark
8549s side flying with the twin Blackbird
8550s pilot
8551s um and I think we can throw up a little
8552s graphic about ECM can you just take us
8554s through it yeah absolutely so my
8556s greatest Nemesis in Eve online is ECM
8558s the ECM module uh effectively what ECM
8561s does is when a ship like a blackbird
8564s um puts its ECM module on a hostile ship
8566s it prevents that ship from locking
8568s anything else apart from the Blackbird
8570s if the jam is successful now it is a
8573s dice roll so there is the chance that
8574s the jam actually doesn't go through
8576s which means that nothing happens you
8578s have to wait for the 20 seconds cycle to
8580s go around and then you can try again to
8582s get that jam off
8584s um it used to be that ECM was a complete
8588s block unlocking so you couldn't even
8590s lock the jamming ship back but now with
8593s some of the ECM changes that came in a
8594s few years ago you're able to at least
8596s lock the ship that's jamming you which
8599s kind of helps you feel like there is a
8600s little bit of counter play to it it's an
8602s extremely strong type of e-war but it's
8604s not something that we see used that
8606s often because
8607s it's kind of difficult to execute it
8609s doesn't always work out and
8611s guidance disruptors and tracking
8613s disruptors are a little bit more
8613s reliable when it comes to the actual
8615s effect that they have on the enemy ship
8617s awesome thank you let's look ahead now
8619s to our next match so again we're going
8620s to stay in the winners bracket here
8622s um and look at Odin's call versus
8624s Templars calcif so the bands for this
8626s upcoming match are Odin's called banging
8628s out the Nighthawk the guardian and the
8630s pontifex Templars kausif with the Le
8632s Shack the EOS and the Healer CCB Kestrel
8635s what do you see here in these bands
8638s oh that's fairly interesting bands here
8640s um I'd say that the pontifex is a pretty
8642s specific band I'd say like they're
8645s forcing them to either go with the Magus
8647s which is a lot less tanky if they do
8649s choose to go armor or they have to go
8652s into more Shield stuff or have like
8653s heavier armor command ships which is
8655s typically not how you fly it armor
8657s normally you have like a triple
8658s Battleship core or double slack the
8660s shark although templates actually banned
8662s on the shack so it seems that they want
8664s to try and force uh templates into like
8666s Shield rush or like a a head like
8670s provide problems for uh templates if
8673s they go for like a heavier armor core
8675s yeah and mystical mate this uh Nighthawk
8677s band against Templar seems kind of
8679s targeted they use that to great effect
8680s during the lines open last year as well
8682s in the last tournament 17. um do you
8684s think that's the best of them saying we
8685s don't want to see that Nighthawk rush I
8687s think it's very much a case of the
8688s Nighthawk is a strong ship both in the
8690s rush and the kiting setups so if we do
8692s see Heavy missile kite typically it will
8694s be with Nighthawks and then direct
8695s navies and standard Drakes uh in the
8698s rush setups the Nighthawk typically
8700s trumps the slept near now although the
8701s sleptner is a good second it's a kind of
8703s easier to deal with you can limit its
8705s range a little bit more it's a little
8706s bit harder to apply that paper damage
8707s that you'll be able to get in EFT or
8710s pifer I think Piper's now the more
8712s modern one EFT I think is uh probably
8714s gone away to dodo but anyway
8717s um it's a bit harder to actually apply
8718s that damage so yeah I think it's just a
8720s case of they don't have to deal with
8721s that awesome audience call um perhaps we
8723s have a sleeper team for many people I
8725s think they're kind of underrated just
8726s looking through some of their history
8727s here the last two matches they've lost
8730s in the last two years are only against
8732s vidra reloaded
8733s um that is a championship winning team
8735s of course running twice in a row here
8737s you can see this year they've won uh
8739s twice paper numbers and nanofiber tokens
8741s and then last year having a pretty solid
8743s run getting knocked down immediately by
8745s a video reloaded into the the lower
8746s bracket on the first day and then going
8748s through a tear in that loser's bracket
8750s versus also main Esports Petopia Exodus
8752s boundary experts and then coming back
8754s against video reloaded after they were
8756s knocked down themselves and then losing
8757s so a very solid team and I'm hoping to
8760s see them do very well let's have some
8761s quick predictions so CCP Castro Odin's
8764s call or Tempest Castle who's your
8765s channel points on
8767s um So based on recent history it'll
8769s probably be Odin's call because the last
8770s the last tournament I think templates
8772s were definitely a little more shaky
8773s although I think templates have looked
8775s very strong in the past especially
8777s winning the alliance open winning the
8779s anger game shortly after like in the
8781s space of the a year they won two out of
8783s three of the like big tournaments so I'm
8785s gonna go votings just because of their
8787s more recent pedigree but both of these
8789s teams are very strong and Mr hamart well
8792s you see
8793s not Hydra has just lost so now I have to
8795s go back to templates number one so I'm
8796s gonna vote templates that's number one
8798s all right well I'm a big fan of the
8799s audience call boys so I'm gonna go for
8801s them so let's go to the arena and find
8802s out in Odin's call versus templar's
8804s calcif
8810s hello ladies and gentlemen welcome to
8812s this next match of the upper bracket of
8814s Alliance tournament 18. I am joined by
8816s my colleague Alex Day of card Odin's
8818s call have opted to bring a flagship bar
8821s guest supported by a pair of heavy
8823s missile claim or it's going for the
8825s tried true traditional
8827s not very tanky fly killer
8831s meanwhile Temple is calcif saying we
8833s still have armor in our pockets rolling
8835s the double Magus for links supporting a
8837s balgorn fleet Tempest Battleship Corps
8839s arbitrator Thalia Deacon hyena crucifier
8842s making up the lows giving them a lot of
8844s rep and control
8847s yeah and the control is definitely going
8850s to be interesting to see here
8852s um balgorn is kind of the
8854s um classic Nemesis of shits that want to
8858s you know kite away uh in this fight
8860s killer setup so one of the wind
8863s conditions for campus kausif will be
8865s being able to use those long range webs
8868s really you know get on top of something
8871s catch something that maybe misplaced
8873s gets out of position within range of
8875s those webs and go from there because we
8878s don't really see a lot of really tackle
8881s ships from calcif that can get on top of
8883s Odin's yeah you maybe have a Magus
8886s um
8887s Board of a hyena but hyen is going to
8889s get deleted by heavy missiles if it
8890s extends
8892s yeah crucially and if they can't tackle
8894s anything they're going to have a
8895s difficult time Landing damage because
8897s their setup does not have a ton of
8898s projection the flight Tempest is a good
8900s Battleship has does have a lot of range
8902s but it's going to be doing only partial
8904s damage at that range you can immediately
8906s see the Odin's call team
8909s spanning out kind of pushing themselves
8911s away from calcif while his calcif is
8913s rearranging their back line to make sure
8915s that they keep their smaller ships out
8917s of range
8918s this is going to be crucial because that
8920s Magus is already taking the brunt of
8922s Odin's call aggression
8924s yeah we see that we feel a lot of
8926s tracking disruption from what I presume
8929s to be the mid Slots of things like a
8931s hook bill from the jackdaws onto the
8934s balcorn fleet Tempest
8936s um really just limiting how much
8938s meaningful projection they can get out
8940s meanwhile we see an absolute cloud of
8942s reptrones getting on top of the uh
8945s magazine so we see a slip now onto
8947s Aurora work holes Magus he was getting
8949s it down to low armor and he they save
8952s him and now he goes down just in a
8954s little bit of uh
8955s um structure but now
8957s um we see that uh orthodist of hodar is
8961s having to run his ASB getting a little
8962s bit too close to that Tempest Fleet
8964s issue yeah quite pivotally uh you have a
8967s Templars cast of battleground Fleet
8968s Tempest charging forward trying to bully
8970s out the Odin's call team Odin's call at
8973s one point was approaching them head on
8974s they've now pivoted away but they're
8976s going to pay for it here by losing this
8978s orthos most likely uh I mean they're not
8982s going after the logistics frigates of
8984s temples calcif maybe this was a
8986s calculated decision saying hey they're
8987s not going to let us get in range unless
8989s we take some risks but will it be worth
8991s it for trade we will see they've brought
8994s down one they're going after the Thalia
8995s this orthos will pay for it with his
8997s life but what can calcif do to mitigate
9000s if they lose both of their Logistics
9001s frigates they're going to get chipped
9002s away will they not
9004s yeah I mean I don't think they're going
9006s to lose their Logistics frigates just
9007s yet I think if you're in the position of
9010s Odin's um you know you try to kite
9012s around it seems like they're just trying
9014s to maneuver around to the back side
9017s um Behind These slower battleships you
9019s know we see that the abat and the
9020s Tempest Fleet issue the Battleground are
9022s all balled up but now that the links are
9024s gone uh crucially those template ships
9027s are going to be less tanky they're going
9028s to be slower and they're not going to
9029s have the bonus uh web range on that
9032s balgorn to really uh meaningfully catch
9034s things so uh stainless now and the
9037s crucifier they're just swapping targets
9038s between these frigates trying to catch
9041s the logistics sleeping
9043s now you can see the temples calcip
9046s battleships trying to own the center of
9047s the Arena trying to match the movements
9049s of the Odin's call team what they're
9051s looking to do here is pressure Odin's
9054s call to keep the moving force them to
9056s make piloting errors and every time
9058s Odin's call has to turn there is a
9061s window where that bow guard can
9063s potentially land some long-range webs or
9066s even a long-range Newt which would cap
9067s out and turn off the micro warp drive of
9070s some of these kiting ships enabling them
9072s to get more on top of it it's a
9074s dangerous long game for them because
9075s they're going to be taking fire the
9077s entire time but it's their only way
9079s forward in this match and they might
9081s have success here as they're closing in
9083s on the Claymore of Colonel Kurtz
9085s yeah um this Claymore of Kernel carts is
9088s getting way too close to this uh Fleet
9089s Tempest and it looks like he's going to
9091s get held down he's going to get grappled
9093s um webbed and scrammed and that's a
9094s major misplay from one of these command
9096s ships in a claimer you should never ever
9098s be getting caught by an armor Fleet
9101s Tempest so uh we see that the arbitrator
9103s is now the primary they're going to try
9104s to get rid of the tracking
9106s um disruption from templates not sure
9110s why they're doing that it doesn't seem
9112s like the arbitrator has been putting out
9113s any guidance disruption but I mean
9116s you're not happy losing a command ship
9118s for that it's the target they have
9120s available what you're seeing here is
9121s Odin's flanking around the back end of
9124s temples calcif which has kind of strung
9126s out their formation as they would kind
9127s of have to do in this in this match the
9130s arbitrator is the thing hanging around
9131s in the back side and so now you're
9133s seeing all the odins called sweep in
9135s behind the temples calcif battleships to
9138s try to go for the squishiest ship and
9140s the arbitrator is what they landed on
9142s but they're not having a ton of luck uh
9145s the arbitrator in the hyena they're
9147s somewhat splitting their focus here and
9148s neither one is dipping below half armor
9151s yeah I mean you're losing a claim when
9153s an authoris hurts you a lot that's
9155s roughly in the vicinity of a thousand
9158s damage that you just don't have anymore
9160s and it's pretty tragic for Odin's
9162s because both of those were pretty severe
9164s misplays
9166s um just being significantly faster
9167s kiting ships getting
9170s um muted and then scrammed by a
9172s tempestory issue it wasn't even the
9173s balcorn that was getting on top of
9175s things really
9176s yep and now temples is kind of reacting
9179s to that play they're rearranging
9181s themselves putting the battleships at
9182s the front once again and grouping their
9184s smaller ships behind them this is now
9186s forcing Odin's to figure out another
9188s direction to go Odin says a lot of Arena
9189s to play with they own the center right
9192s now and Temple's Castle is coming from
9194s the edge back in but crucially to
9196s something you said earlier moderator
9197s losing links from a team the mega
9200s scissors are down from Temple's calcif
9201s but now that Claymore is down from
9203s Odin's call in another couple seconds
9205s we're going to see the link that he was
9206s providing fall off which should make
9208s them either a bit slower or reduce their
9210s tackle range
9212s yeah and right now the crucifier is just
9216s very well in the back line getting held
9218s up by these heavy armor Bots uh
9220s meanwhile The Tempest and the
9222s Battleground are doing a pretty good job
9223s of just zoning out uh this side of
9226s Odin's trying to put them in an awkward
9228s situation uh Odin's needs to find a way
9231s uh to kill these logic frigates because
9234s if they don't
9235s um they're just going to run out the
9236s clock they have you know four minutes
9238s and 20 seconds left I mean if they don't
9240s really burn down
9242s um one of these logic they're going to
9244s go up in the cloud of smoke
9246s yeah for the audience Temple's Castle
9248s has the point lead here 28 to 14 so the
9251s the onus is on Odin's call here they
9253s need to take the initiative they need to
9255s make a move if things stay exactly as
9257s they are if Temple's Castle continues
9259s maneuvering as they're maneuvering with
9260s no change they will win this match in
9263s about four minutes a little less than
9264s four minutes so the clock is ticking
9266s here for Odin's call they need to make a
9268s play they need to find a hole so far
9270s they've tried the crucifier the hyena
9272s the Thalia and the arbitrator and they
9275s haven't found any success now it looks
9276s like they're going after the Tempest
9278s Fleet issue but if anything that will be
9280s a more challenging Target for them to
9282s break down
9283s yeah I not sure if we're doing that just
9286s yet
9287s um it looks like they still have a fair
9288s amount of drones onto uh the arbitrade I
9291s really don't like the Tempest Fleet
9292s issue as a call if anything what they
9294s should be trying to do is use those Jack
9296s balls to clear off the heavy armor Bots
9299s and maybe once there's a little bit less
9301s rep support try to make some snap calls
9304s kill a deacon kill aphalia once you kill
9306s one of those two you can eek away
9308s because with three minutes on the clock
9310s with what you have left you're not gonna
9311s kill a battleship you have to work away
9314s at the support side and hope that you
9315s can get something out of that
9317s well they're gonna have to get more than
9319s one thing out of that no single Target
9321s on the temples calcif team aside from
9323s those battleships is going to be able to
9325s afford them the points they need now
9327s they've just killed the crucifier here
9329s that is good
9331s that's the first step uh it looked like
9333s it might have been putting out the loan
9335s uh guidance disruptor on the devil's
9337s gossip team but the Battleground Fleet
9339s temp is the bad and still untouched
9341s they're being tracking disrupted a
9343s little bit which will be inconvenient
9344s for them but they don't need to kill
9346s anything else right now it's all about
9348s Odin seeing what Odin's can put together
9350s here they're going to need to string
9352s together three small ship kills if they
9355s don't want to go after one of these
9356s battleships uh kind of an odd Advantage
9358s from the temples House of setup where
9360s they've put so many points into their
9362s top end with the balgorn fleet Tempest
9364s the Baton core that they could lose a
9367s lot of their low end but if they're
9368s still killing a lot of the enemy they're
9369s going to be fine
9372s they trick the arbitrator into um
9374s thinking he's a primer they snap and
9376s kill the hyena that makes it a six point
9379s game so if they can kill the arbitrator
9381s that would make it tied on points
9384s however The Offspring though of toast
9386s um uh 995 took a fair amount of fair
9390s amount of damage earlier but now he's
9392s outside of that Scorch range so again in
9395s the next minute or so you really only
9397s have one clip reload left on your
9399s bargist you have to reload between your
9402s jackdaws and everything else I mean this
9405s is where you might have to go For Broke
9407s and it
9408s gonna come down to them being able to
9410s force snap and the folly or the Deacon
9412s being asleep at the wheel
9414s yeah the hyena play was very crucial it
9417s really brought this match into range for
9419s them if they can do a repeat of that it
9422s looks like they might be going after one
9424s or both the logistics forgets here
9425s starting to put some damage into the
9427s Deacon while they've got electronic
9428s warfare on the Thalia
9430s this would be the points they need
9432s critically most of the heavy armor Bots
9434s are on top of the arbitrator and they're
9436s going for the Deacon we see all the
9438s paints are on top of that Deacon the
9439s Thalia however is 100 on top of the ball
9442s getting all of his reps on top of his
9444s bro however
9446s um now it looks like they're swapping
9447s back to the arbitrator and the Deacon
9450s might have burnt out of range of this
9452s arbitrator oh no he's actually coasted
9454s out he's not going to be in range to get
9455s to the arbitrator and if he breaks the
9457s arbitrator we're tied on points with 40
9459s seconds left
9461s huge huge play they just repeated the
9463s magic that they put in with the hyena we
9465s are now tied with 30 seconds left we
9468s might be going into tie-dye a tie-dye
9470s tide breaker yes so for those of you who
9473s are you know unfamiliar to these more
9475s esoteric tournament rules what will
9477s happen is we have time dilation which
9480s many people know wait this carries this
9482s carries is in armor as the seconds are
9484s ticking down can they kill him before we
9486s go into time
9487s uh I don't know why that carries this
9489s anywhere near there he is rammed way too
9492s close that wait no he's trying to force
9494s a um he's trying to force a um jam by
9496s getting closer
9499s he gets the he gets the the uh follow
9501s you down but the carries
9503s uh okay so we are in tie-dye okay so
9506s um right now so the time is actually
9508s going to spool forward it's gonna go
9510s faster as opposed to slower like you're
9512s used to so with that follow you down the
9515s Deacon will have no rep power left they
9517s can kill the Deacon I think they take
9519s this
9520s I think they take this as well what an
9522s amazing final minute of play here this
9525s is absolutely incredible this Deacon
9527s will drop he has no one to help rep him
9530s oh he's getting some love from arm
9531s robots that it's not gonna be enough
9533s here the carries meanwhile back to full
9535s Shields that Osprey coming back in and
9537s being a hero for his team this Deacon is
9540s dropping very rapidly I can't overstate
9543s how goaded Martin Conrad is when he
9545s pushed in he forced he got into closer
9548s optimal so his
9549s um damps were more effective and he
9552s essentially made um fafoy much less
9555s effective and unable to rep his buddy
9557s when he did that
9559s um it was enough time for the Thalia to
9561s go down and I mean we are at 225 tie-dye
9565s so ships are effectively moving at
9567s roughly 8 000 meters a second in real
9569s time so if you're not careful you can
9572s accidentally boundary yourself however
9574s the balgorn is going down carries goes
9576s down
9579s is falling apart at an alarming Pace
9582s here
9584s yeah I mean this is probably a little
9586s bit of an upset I'm however very glad
9589s that I put 30 000 points on Odin's call
9591s I'm feeling somewhat uh Vindicated what
9593s that decision is Killa and the last of
9596s his armor goes down and I don't see any
9598s way for temples to come back at this
9600s point
9601s no this is Signed Sealed Delivered for
9603s Odin's call what a thrilling what a what
9606s a thrilling final minute of play
9607s everything turned on those last couple
9610s pilot decisions forcing us into this
9612s tie-dye situation and obviously Odin's
9615s call reacted to it much more
9617s successfully they were
9620s they have their game plan in mind and
9621s they had to pull it
9623s they had to pull it out in like twice
9625s three times the rated which you would
9627s normally think and act and Eve
9629s incredible Temple Scouts if not able to
9631s keep up
9633s well I say not able to keep up but now
9635s that we're at 350 tie-dye I think that
9638s is the fastest I have ever seen a
9639s claymore go in my life he's just zoom
9641s zooming around the arena uh well out of
9644s range of this Sabaton The Last Spartan
9646s the last member of his team and it looks
9649s like he's going to die on his shield as
9652s he goes down into hole and he drops and
9654s with that thrilling match I'll send it
9656s back to the studio to break that
9658s exhilarating match down
9677s [Music]
9680s thank you
9688s sign us up
9709s pump it up a little more get the party
9712s going on the Dance Floor
9733s foreign
9748s I said at the end of the last match that
9750s was one of the most exciting matches I'd
9751s seen and then I think I might have to
9752s say it again because that was incredible
9754s uh what we saw at the end there is
9756s something that we haven't seen in many
9757s years in the Lions tournament in fact I
9759s can't remember the last time we actually
9760s saw one it's been a good few years but
9763s when a match gets to time at 10 minutes
9765s it goes into reverse time dilation so
9768s normally when we have tie-dye on TQ it's
9770s when the server is super overloaded and
9772s everything has to be slowed down to
9774s allow the server to catch up so
9775s everything is the effect of running
9776s slower reverse tie-dye happens at the
9778s end of 10 minutes where we say hey
9780s you've had 10 minutes to kill each other
9781s you have failed uh we're gonna make you
9783s now do it faster so everything starts to
9785s move faster and faster and faster your
9786s modules cycle quicker your modules
9788s overheat and burn out quicker and then
9790s that keeps ramping up and ramping up
9792s every minute we saw it go from 150 to
9794s 225 percent to 350 before the end of
9798s that match there so it's quite chaotic
9800s I've flown in a match where it goes to
9802s reverse tie-dye I can tell you it gets
9804s very panicky very quickly because I
9807s guarantee you pretty much none of these
9808s Pilots will have had any chance to
9809s really practice that
9811s um the fact that everything moves
9813s quicker you move quicker if you make a
9815s mistake it's over quicker you have less
9816s time to correct it absolutely wild CP
9819s casual how does that match for you oh
9820s man that was just uh super exciting it
9823s looked like Odin's had it at the
9824s beginning
9825s uh pretty solidly but then they got to
9828s claim or call tackled it looked really
9830s dire for them for a very long time after
9832s that but they were they're able to do
9834s like a really they were really good I
9836s think with their shot calling where they
9837s would like put a little bit of damage
9839s onto one target force uh templates to
9842s put the heavy rep bots on that Target
9844s and as soon as they saw the Red Bulls
9845s going over to the new Target they would
9846s swap back to a new Target or swap back
9848s to the old Target they were doing so
9849s they're playing mind games and they were
9851s able to over time just slowly break
9854s through things like they got the
9855s crucifier then they were able to go like
9858s get through the arbitrator after like
9860s tricking them into like putting the red
9862s button the Deacon for a while and then I
9864s think the Deacon burned out of range uh
9867s of the arbitrator because it's just
9868s trying to mitigate as much damage as
9869s possible and so he just wasn't in range
9871s of the arbitrator for a crucial amount
9873s of time and then just died so yeah and
9876s then that's that's the point where we
9877s got into the first hiding owners were
9879s able to clean up yeah that was a an
9881s incredible match I'm sure those Pilots
9882s were very very stressed during that part
9884s now let's look forward our next match
9886s which is going to be between V4 and
9888s Volta and platinum sensitivity so let's
9890s take a look at the bands for this
9893s so Volta banging out the abandon the
9896s pontifex and the Magus Platinum
9898s sensitivity bang at the jackdaw the EOS
9900s and the Loki uh mystical might what do
9902s you make of these bands here oh fairly
9904s interesting bands coming out from both
9906s teams I will note that having looked
9908s back through some of the Platt sense and
9910s the we form vaulted comps it does seem
9912s like we form Volta have essentially just
9913s run Shield Rush each match whereas
9916s Platinum sensitivity have just been
9917s running 3bs core each match I don't
9920s remember if Platinum sensitivity have
9921s actually been using the abandon so it's
9923s interesting to see that band coming out
9924s here it doesn't seem like it's a
9926s targeted ban it might just be the fact
9928s that we from vulture are changing up
9929s their plan a little bit and the abaddin
9931s Apparently as as the amazing utility
9935s mode that it is
9936s um it's not something that they don't
9937s want to come up against
9938s um abandon's known for being High Dam
9940s High DPS but it doesn't have any e-war
9942s bonuses so it's purely a damage and tank
9944s ship that they're that they're banging
9946s at a banding out here yeah it doesn't
9948s have the most projection out of the book
9949s with Scorch uh it can project quite far
9952s the greatest animal in the game I'm told
9954s the teams are on grid so we can go to
9956s the arena now and find out who will win
9958s between Wi-Fi and Volta and platinum
9960s sensitivity
9966s hello everyone and welcome back we are
9969s here with we form Volta vs Platinum
9971s sensitivity
9973s we form Volta coming in with a bar cast
9975s two Navy Drakes Osprey two Navy Ospreys
9978s and navy caracal stork hyena and
9980s skybreaker a very caldari heavy missile
9983s setup from we form Volta what does
9985s platinum sensitivity bring to the table
9987s yeah they've brought interestingly
9989s enough a redeemer their Flagship
9991s Vindicator a typhoon Fleet issue and
9995s um double laundry freeze with some
9997s assorted
9998s um support interesting to see a bifrost
10001s and a stork
10003s um in an armor composition possibly uh
10006s going with all e-ore mids not unlike
10008s with what we saw in the tuskers versus
10011s uh truth on a light match
10015s we're definitely going to see a bit of
10016s Rush from the Wii form Volta team they
10018s are Geared for close range combat
10020s they're gonna look to get right in there
10022s which could be a dangerous proposition
10024s for them with the Vindicator there
10026s that said they've got the DPS to
10028s absolutely headshot some of this
10030s Platinum sensitivity team yeah to be
10033s clear these are heavy missile Drake Navy
10035s issues and Vargas so
10038s um they may want to actually be keeping
10040s away at range rather than just closing
10042s in on zero and brawling outrageous Lee
10046s with uh Vindicator and Redeemer here
10053s it will be difficult however to do that
10055s kiting when you're facing against a
10057s stork and a bifrost as well as an
10059s arbitrator that are sure to be full of
10062s mid slot e-war that will greatly reduce
10065s the effectiveness of these heavy
10067s missiles to projected range
10070s yeah I think you might be right I'm
10073s looking more closely at those Drakes I
10074s thought those were ham Drakes
10076s I think you are right though we are
10079s seeing some heavy missiles so they will
10080s attempt to kite
10082s the Platinum sensitivity team doesn't
10084s really have a ton of projected damage
10086s although that said the Redeemer can fit
10088s some long range even if it's pulse fit
10090s Scorch hits far
10093s yeah and uh of note it looks like this
10096s typhoon Fleet issue is torpedoes so they
10099s are definitely on the Platinum side
10101s wanting to fight in at close range
10104s um and not really wanting to fight at
10107s distance if that typhoon was fit with
10110s Heavies oh and I don't know if it's
10112s going to matter because that stork is
10114s already
10115s um kind of eating [ __ ] right now it's
10117s getting put down into low armor uh it's
10119s getting hit and now it's down
10122s fabulous call from waveform Volta you
10124s know the stork is going to have the
10125s weakest armor tank on the enemy team the
10127s bifrost will not be much better as it's
10129s now getting its Shields taken out and
10131s the armor will go relatively fast now
10133s their Logistics should be more prepared
10135s this time around but you can still see
10137s it's steadily dropping they're getting
10138s in some rep Cycles but it won't be
10140s enough the bifrost just does not have
10142s the low slots to fit a respectable armor
10144s tank as it goes down and that's the
10146s links off for platinum sensitivity yeah
10149s and crucially it's also going to be a
10151s lot of the mid-thought E War uh I can't
10153s help but feel like this match was very
10155s much lost in the draft phase for
10158s platinum sensitivity you have a
10160s Vindicator you know a tour typhoon Fleet
10163s issue and a redeemer they're all very
10165s very good at fighting in at close range
10167s but I mean there's really nothing on
10170s this Volta side that's going to be in a
10172s close range typhoon Fleet is getting
10174s fairly close to control freak and
10176s thrantha's uh Drake Navy issue but
10178s they're doing a better job than their
10180s counterparts in Odin's call at not
10182s getting caught by battleships so we'll
10184s play to both of them
10186s and unlike templar's khalsif's triple
10188s Battleship core from one of the previous
10190s matches fighting a missile kite comp
10191s Platinum sensitivity does not have the
10194s projected newts or projected webs to
10196s snare one of those ships as they're
10198s trying to turn they really don't have an
10201s answer for this The Vindicator might get
10202s lucky it might be able to microwave
10204s drive around and get on top of someone
10206s and land one of those webs but it's it
10209s it's almost down to chance I think he
10211s has managed to run down one of the
10213s Drakes here control freak is now tackled
10215s and webbed but it might be too little
10218s too late here their arbitrator is
10219s already taking damage the sky breaker is
10221s taking some damage they've lost all the
10223s shields off of their Logistics frigates
10225s are also taking damage it's just too
10227s much for them to keep track of and the
10228s arbitrator goes down
10230s yeah uh control freak or thrawn thrather
10233s is was a little bit out of position
10235s um uh
10237s so now they're gonna lose a Thalia and
10240s an arbitrator at the same time yeah I
10243s mean they're gonna get the strike Navy
10244s issue but that's all your Logie down and
10246s at this point it's just gonna be a slow
10247s death it'll be well very likely a 16 to
10251s 100 game hate I hate to call it with
10254s seven minutes remaining on the clock but
10255s that's kind of what it is when you lose
10257s uh your laundry this early in the match
10259s and don't have projection
10261s yep I think you're right as the sky
10263s breaker now also goes down these
10265s battleships are starting to look more
10266s and more lonely they've got a storm
10268s bringer for company but that will not be
10270s long for this world either They're Gonna
10271s Come Away with this Drake kill but
10273s already the we form Volta team has kited
10275s away from that Drake so now they've
10278s killed one thing there's really nothing
10279s else for them to turn around and shoot
10281s they've got a microwarp drive all the
10283s way across the other side of the Arena
10285s practically to get on top of something
10287s and that is looking less and less likely
10289s as their support continues to vaporize
10292s yeah I mean unfortunately for platinum
10296s sensitivity it feels like they got a
10298s little bit predictable with their
10299s compositions bringing essentially three
10302s armored BS every time and Volta finally
10304s called their Bluff
10306s um a faction bar gift or Flagship at
10309s Argus rather with those uh essentially
10311s officer scrams is the very last thing
10315s you want to run into as a Vindicator
10317s you're just never going to be able to
10319s close range against what will be 40
10321s kilometer scrams and we see that The
10324s Vindicator is just not able to get
10327s anywhere near anything as this redeemer
10329s is already down into half armor
10330s the Redeemer is an interesting choice I
10333s wonder what their game plan was bringing
10334s the Deemer in it has been buffed but
10337s it's still a lot of points for what it
10340s actually brings to the table compared to
10341s cheaper alternatives like the Armageddon
10343s what do you think they were hoping for
10347s um to be perfectly honest
10350s um I'm not
10351s 100 on top of the meta as far why you
10355s would bring a redeemer over the
10357s Armageddon uh they must have seen
10359s something in their training and testing
10361s that made them feel like uh perhaps The
10364s Tech 2 resists were more worth it over
10366s the tech one that you would have in a
10370s you know a Faction Armageddon but uh I
10373s don't think it's going to matter too
10374s much uh both
10376s teams are about to good fight here
10379s um typhoon Fleet issue already down into
10382s mid to what will soon be low armor
10388s yeah I think Platinum sensitivity maybe
10390s just didn't keep up with the patches to
10392s the Navy ships they just seemed dead set
10395s and bring this comp they had the pawn
10397s effects and the mega spanned out and
10398s they replaced them with a stork and
10400s bifrost rather than alter their setup
10402s uh just some strange choices in the
10405s drafting phase from Platinum sensitivity
10407s and they're paying for it here we've got
10409s this typhoon Fleet issue he's into half
10411s armor he's dropping slowly he's trying
10413s to hold on but there's really not much
10415s he can do in response there's no targets
10418s there tackled down for him his Torpedoes
10420s will not reach effectively
10422s uh there is a web now on the sky breaker
10424s the sky breaker looks like it may have
10426s been vindi Webb that is dropping speed
10428s rapidly
10430s but that will not change the course of
10432s this match in in any material way
10435s yeah I mean I don't want to make too
10438s much fun of platinum sensitivity what
10440s they brought would have done very very
10442s well in an armor versus Armor match
10444s where control would have been
10447s um a key factor that's probably why you
10449s would be bring the Redeemer again for
10450s those who resist you would but
10453s um and maybe they felt like they had to
10455s go for kind of an all-in
10456s raid there in order to have a chance
10460s against Volta team that they're an
10461s underdog against uh the sky breaker does
10463s go down for reasons I don't totally
10466s understand at this point they're just
10469s killing off the typhoon Fleet issue at
10472s this point and we'll see if Mark Bridges
10475s is an honorable samurai warrior or if
10478s he's going to try to micro jump drive
10479s and spool himself out of the arena and
10482s take his Flagship loot out with him
10484s because zero and Michael jumps right
10487s into the arena
10489s you just get a loose though he's near
10491s another micro jump unit we'll see if
10493s he'll go two for two
10495s yeah uh he's turning around so he's not
10497s trying to uh take his loot out of the
10500s arena with him he's trying to survive
10502s the next three minutes of the match
10505s which
10506s you know it's understandable uh you want
10508s to keep all of what is going to be
10511s presumably very very expensive uh
10513s faction and probably officer Webb's the
10517s hyena however doing a pretty good job of
10519s getting a drive-by web and paint that's
10521s gonna be Tick Tock one of the better
10524s Alliance tournament Players for the
10526s Volta roster
10528s we've seen calls and local to Kill The
10530s Vindicator and not to let him boundary
10532s violate he is doing his best to Mosey on
10535s over to that other micro jump he's
10537s heavily webbed though his speed is
10539s dropping
10540s it's crawling he has managed to get into
10542s range though we're seeing the activation
10544s animation and here he goes
10548s he's microwork driving toward the other
10550s side of the Arena he's not going for the
10552s boundary here
10553s yeah shot himself forward well away from
10556s the enemy team but they're rapidly
10558s repositioning to get tackle on him again
10560s two minutes left in this match
10562s yeah and one of the things about being a
10565s Vindicator is that you're not going to
10566s outrun what are heavy missile
10569s um you know heavy missile boats the
10571s heavy missile bolts are going to have no
10572s trouble projecting to essentially all of
10574s the Arena now that there's two minutes
10576s left in the match he's about half armor
10578s he's trying to burn for one of uh the
10581s far micro jump drive beacons but I don't
10583s think he's gonna get there uh Tick Tock
10585s is too on the ball getting the web and
10589s he's gonna slow him down that's going to
10591s be X-Type rappers but I don't think that
10593s Marcus gonna be able to hold out for the
10595s next minute in 40 seconds and his local
10598s defense bar is is pretty girthy for
10601s being one ship so he has some I can't
10603s even begin to imagine how expensive
10605s those rappers are uh but it's still not
10608s enough there's just too much of the
10610s waveform Volta team still alive they've
10611s got damaged drones they've got uh high
10614s damage High projection missiles they
10616s don't really have to worry about kiting
10618s around so they can definitely swap to
10619s rage here and do everything they can to
10621s try to put him away there's one minute
10623s left he does have a pretty thick
10625s structure he's still pulling back armor
10627s it is conceivable that they just don't
10630s have the DPS to bring him down within
10632s the time limit of the match and that's
10634s really what he's playing for here he's
10635s playing for time this is all taking
10637s place on Tranquility this is real isk
10639s it's not a test server so there is a
10642s considerable incentive for him to try to
10644s stay alive here but he is now hitting
10646s structure and it's going away much more
10648s rapidly than mark would like yeah that's
10650s going to probably depend if any guard
10652s debt is or is not on a Reload and he is
10654s not on a Reload he is clipping him out
10656s and that'll be the end of that so uh
10659s Tick Tock and the rest of the Volta team
10661s is rushing to try to scoop that loot
10664s hopefully the referees give them enough
10665s time to pick up that very expensive
10668s Flagship kill
10670s um
10671s I really don't think Platinum
10673s sensitivity really could have done
10674s anything differently in that match
10676s unfortunately but let's see what the
10677s desk has to say about that as we send it
10679s back to them
10696s [Music]
10700s [Applause]
10708s so I was up
10722s Pump It Up why your team is stumping and
10726s today I'm so pumping look here at the
10728s ground is jumping pump it up a little
10731s more get the party going on the Dance
10733s Floor
10734s foreign
10763s Volta there taking the victory over
10765s Platinum sensitivity Platinum
10767s sensitivity still in the tournament they
10769s are knocked down to the lower bracket at
10770s this point unfortunately for them they
10772s could not retain the uh the last
10775s remaining one structure hit point which
10777s is the most important hit point in the
10778s game of Evon line of their Flagship
10779s Vindicator and that has gone down I'm
10782s told we will get to kill me as soon as
10783s possible is 55 no more than that 75
10786s billion isk Flagship Vindicator that is
10789s a spicy meatball right there uh yeah
10792s there's a core Max modified damage
10794s control in the low slots there 36
10795s billion alone so Mark Bridges did a
10798s great job trying to survive at the end
10799s there he managed to pull it out for
10801s about three minutes or so unfortunately
10802s he needed three minutes 40 seconds uh
10804s which was a bit of a shame Mr come out
10806s you were talking uh during well he was
10808s jumping from Beacon to Beacon uh that he
10810s got his angles wrong one of them what
10811s happened yeah so we've kind of brushed
10814s over it a few times in some of these
10816s matches where we say that they're
10817s burning back towards an mjd beacon in
10819s the arena in the arena there are a bunch
10821s of MJG baby can set out in a square
10823s formation with one in the middle if you
10826s jump from one corner of the square to
10828s another there are exactly 100 kilometers
10830s apart so you can effectively chain mjd
10833s around the arena constantly which does
10836s allow you to
10837s if you're in this case trying to run
10839s away from the enemy team with your
10840s Flagship Vindicator avoid the damage
10842s what Mark ended up doing is that he went
10845s for an mjd at a poor angle which sent
10848s him in between four different mjd units
10850s but none of them were Within Reach and
10853s Tick Tock in the hyena is able to burn
10855s in and web mark down so that he can't
10857s get to those mjd beacons to continue
10859s jumping around so yeah I think with a
10862s little bit less Panic a little bit more
10863s planning on that initial mjd that we saw
10866s um he would have just lived for the
10867s entire time but it's a 75 billionis
10870s mistake yeah that is a expensive mistake
10874s um speaking of not mistakes CCP cash or
10876s you really liked after we saw that match
10878s the bands that Volta had done you
10879s thought they were very targeted tell me
10880s about that yeah so really full it really
10882s felt like Volta had their number they
10884s only bought the triple armor core team
10886s over and over again so Volta decided to
10889s ban out the pontifex and the Magus which
10891s are the the armor command destroyers
10893s which meant that to bring that same
10895s setup
10896s Platinum sensitivity bought a buy for us
10898s on a stock instead but the buy first on
10900s the stalker just you know they don't
10901s have much of a tank at all right the
10903s stock only has two low slots the buy for
10905s study has free low slots both of them
10907s have pretty huge explosive holes so and
10910s that are pretty hard to hard to feel
10912s when you only have two weeks lots and
10913s three low slots so it feels like they
10916s force them into bringing that they knew
10917s that they were going to bring that and
10918s then they just blew those ships up
10919s straight away at the start of the match
10920s and then without links it was just so
10922s hard for them to pin anything down and
10925s Volta aside from you know a few ships
10927s getting tackled and killed they've
10929s pretty much executed it almost perfectly
10931s and just completely destroyed them
10933s yeah I was just going to say in terms of
10935s the bands that we saw as well I would
10937s have liked if the Platinum sensitivity
10939s team had perhaps targeted their bands a
10941s little bit more towards what Vault had
10943s actually been flying earlier in the
10945s tournament as they have effectively
10947s flown kadari Rush
10949s in both of their other matches and now
10951s they've flown kadari kite in another one
10953s so a couple of targeted bands towards
10955s that setup would have also impacted this
10957s setup as well
10958s excellent well as I say we will see
10960s Platinum sensitivity again uh this was
10962s the winners bracket match so they
10963s dropped down there is one match
10965s remaining in the winners bracket uh to
10967s get the uh the four remaining in that
10970s particular bracket the rest of the
10971s team's all being knocked down and we
10972s will see some elimination matches after
10974s the break but first let's go to jintan
10976s with a quick interview with the captain
10977s of Brave Collective
10979s first of all can you introduce yourself
10981s to the audience please I am doing I and
10984s I represent the brave Collective
10987s Alliance and what does brave do on
10989s Tranquility outside of the tournament we
10992s fight people for fun uh we're a
10994s reasonably large uh Null Sec Alliance we
10998s were
10999s founded seven and a bit years ago and we
11004s live in pure blind where we're currently
11006s at war with uh fraternity we are known
11009s for having a good attitude towards
11013s fights and a lot of people come to our
11016s uh solve systems in order to fight us
11019s and our standing Fleet we are a
11022s mid-sized Alliance compared to the
11024s largest ones but uh yeah we we enjoy
11028s fighting a lot
11030s so what's Brave collective's competitive
11033s history are there any major results that
11035s you've had or you know players from
11037s teams you've done well in the past
11039s we have a pretty unbroken line of
11043s tournament Players
11046s I was on the team
11049s for an 80 many many years ago
11053s and
11055s after that I was not very engaged with
11060s um
11060s that aspect of Eve despite the fact that
11065s I got into Eve in order to play
11067s tournaments in the uh the first time I
11070s tried
11072s but I think we have an unbroken line of
11076s tournament Players all the way back to
11078s our first tournament more or less
11080s currently
11082s on the team we have now we have our
11086s previous Captain who is sandor Vol and
11091s he actually took over for
11093s um the person who is currently CCP
11096s Aurora
11097s so
11099s we've um we've had a tournament team for
11103s as long as I've been in Brave and
11107s our best result I think is
11111s I think we got top eight one year that's
11113s before my time
11115s other than that we
11117s are probably more a mid-tier team
11121s are there any teams that you're excited
11123s to face either as a chance to get
11125s revenge or to prove yourself we have uh
11128s a lot of Frenemies in the tournaments in
11131s people who we compete against measure
11134s ourselves against and practice with
11137s and anyone who's ever knocked us out of
11141s a tournament is always on the top of our
11143s list of teams that we want to face again
11145s and prove that that time was a fluke and
11148s this is the time that really counts like
11151s last year we were knocked out by um
11154s bsod and we'd like to fly against them
11157s again and show that we can go
11160s head-to-head against the people we like
11162s to fly against
11166s AR Brave Collective no cursed by jintan
11169s uh so just a quick Amendment on the
11172s flagship Vindicator we just lost in the
11173s last match we've reviewed it a little
11174s bit closer there was a Tobias modified
11177s status webifier on it which is
11178s approximately 60 70 billion at the
11180s minute so the total value of that
11182s um Flagship indicator probably more like
11184s 120 to 140 billion ISC that is many many
11188s isks now let's take a quick look at the
11190s bands for this match coming up lock
11192s range enjoys versus brief Collective
11195s so lock range enjoy is Banning out the
11197s bar gas the EOS and the Osprey Navy
11199s issue with brave Banning out the curse
11201s the Drake and Aviation the hyena
11202s mystical Knight what do you see here uh
11205s hmm I think it's interesting that we're
11206s seeing an osprey Navy issue band since
11208s it's been essential for a lot of the
11209s kardari rush comes that we've seen
11211s um so typically with the kadari rush
11212s you'll see Navy caracals and navy
11213s Ospreys since they do quite a bit of
11215s damage and they're also fairly cheap
11217s points wise the Drake Navy Band on the
11219s brave collector's side makes me think
11221s that they're trying to remove kiting a
11222s little bit especially when paired with
11223s the hyena since uh Drake Navy issues
11226s less common in the rush rolls and more
11228s common in the kardari kite setups that
11231s we've been seeing earlier in the day and
11233s uh also last weekend but yeah I mean the
11236s curse ban is always a standard
11238s and CPS or anything to add to this no I
11240s think Misty has pretty much spot on here
11243s um I don't really see these bands being
11245s super specific other than Brave probably
11247s trying to avoid kiting if they can
11250s especially combined with the curse band
11252s as well they might be trying to bring
11253s something like double the shack uh get
11255s it get rid of the like Fast cutting
11257s stuff get rid of the curse which is the
11259s major biggest obstacle to bring a double
11261s check then you can bring just a little
11263s shark or a big armor core and boss at
11266s least force them to run like a more
11268s sub-optimal cutting setup if they are
11270s going to yeah so it's time to go into
11272s three and find out who will win between
11273s lock range Enduros and brave Collective
11275s as we could know
11283s hello I am moderator joined by my
11286s colleague Alexander for yet another
11288s Shield kite versus uh armor brawling
11291s matchup we see that lock range enjoyers
11293s is going to enjoy targeting things at a
11296s long distance with that triple Navy
11298s executor comp we've seen get used along
11301s with what appear to be artillery slept
11306s nears and hurricane flit issue against
11309s um the armor comp of Brave uh walk
11311s through that armor cop for me here
11313s Brave's armor comp is Senator Iran a
11315s leshack Navy getting in a fleet Tempest
11318s they've got Magus Ponte for links to
11320s Logistics frigates and simple heretic
11322s vexer giving them some tackle that some
11324s of the previous armored Battleship comps
11326s have lacked
11328s so we've seen this kind of triple
11330s executive Navy
11331s um so far in the event why would someone
11333s to choose to use that many points on
11336s those ships
11337s well they have been recently buffed they
11339s are quite good
11341s um they are extremely fast so if you
11344s want to talk some kind of kiting setup
11346s they're already fantastic for that
11348s they've got an intense speed and with
11351s the railguns the amount of damage bonus
11353s they get gives them a pretty respectable
11354s Alpha which works well with the fleet
11356s Kane Seffner they have going on as we
11358s see that heretic it's sniped out
11360s immediately yeah that's going to be the
11362s power of 720 artillery uh backed by
11365s railguns and they're still able to track
11368s things that they're putting damage onto
11369s a vexer they're putting damage onto
11371s athalia and just now while Retros are
11373s getting on top of that Thalia I mean if
11375s this Thalia goes down already it's going
11378s to be probably game but uh he is
11380s apparently stabilizing we see that
11382s Adrian is uh on top of things getting
11385s reps to his friend uh meanwhile the
11388s vexer
11389s um taking a lot of drone damage
11391s yeah the locker engine jar is making the
11393s most out of the surprise of their
11396s artillery and Alpha strike comp taking
11398s that heretic out that is one half of the
11400s fast tackle for brave now they've
11401s switched over to Omega it's an
11403s absolutely evaporated him you're seeing
11405s a theme here where they're able to kill
11406s these destroyers with uh alarming
11409s rapidity as the spiffle now stripped of
11412s its Shields half armor dropping into
11414s structure these ships are dying so
11416s quickly the logistics frigates from
11418s braver having a difficult time reacting
11420s and being destroyers they are easy
11422s targets he's dipping ever so slightly
11426s now is oh he's gone oh yeah that's harsh
11429s That's The Power of 720 artillery we
11432s haven't seen a lot of it in this
11433s tournament so far but uh Locker range
11435s enjoyers uh reminding us why it's
11437s effective why it's been brought in so
11438s many events and uh that's going to be
11441s one link shift down I can't help but
11442s feel like the pontifex of Arcos that's
11444s being primaried is definitely going to
11447s be the next kill Target here we're just
11450s gonna wait for that artillery to keep
11451s loading and seeing if the Folly and
11454s Deacon which are in range can apply to
11458s that however blue morpheme is getting
11460s applied to as well uh this vulture
11462s that's not very fast is being chased
11465s down by a lecheck that slowly but surely
11467s spooling up on him yeah the lock range
11470s enjoyers have moved to the edge of the
11472s range literally to the edge of the Arena
11474s they've found themselves in a position
11475s where they had to turn around but as
11477s they did they found the triple
11478s Battleship core hot on their heels
11480s they've pinned down this vulture he's
11482s getting neuted out and now he's down
11483s that is a pretty significant chunk of
11486s links off of law grade enjoyers as well
11488s but critically not the Skirmish links
11490s they're going to want the most
11492s demanding position here as they pop the
11494s phalia from Brave Collective that's
11496s taking out half their lodgy that means
11498s the other Deacon will be sure to follow
11500s quickly yeah however speaking of that
11502s we're going to see a logic trade the
11503s vexer of Aaron Gaul has been on top of
11506s 10 Baron for the last 20 seconds or so
11508s and that's going to be essentially
11510s trading out
11511s an osprey for the entire support wing of
11515s Brave I think lock range is going to be
11516s pretty happy to take that as we see the
11520s vexer go down and the Deacon continue to
11523s have a cloud of drones and railguns on
11526s top of him so 10 drops at the same time
11528s but it's three battleships versus a
11530s world right now
11531s yep and uh the lock range team has
11533s already kited away from those
11534s battleships there's no immediate clear
11536s Target for them to turn on as I say that
11538s though the hurricane Fleet issue from
11540s Lock range enjoyers barreling straight
11542s toward them in a very curious decision
11545s uh he is slowed down I think he's
11547s realized this error and he started to
11549s turn it doesn't look like they are going
11551s to make him pay for it although okay so
11554s they're going after the striker Eric's
11557s Navy extra they've landed a long range
11559s nude on him what they're going to hope
11560s for is that that Newt turns off his
11562s micro warp drive but you can see him
11563s speeding along at 2300 meters a second
11565s and Rising the speed of the Navy X
11568s occurred not to be underestimated
11570s meanwhile you ever again a Navy issue is
11572s about to pay the iron price he is going
11574s down and that is a tremendous amount of
11576s their remaining long-range tackle
11579s yeah they may very well kill Striker
11581s Erica with the uh cable utas
11585s um
11585s entropic
11587s um well damage dealer
11589s um now actually out of range of him the
11591s slept near we see a lot of ships from
11594s um lock range getting to mid-range
11597s trying to apply more damage instead of
11599s going to
11601s um you know kite at
11603s um you know all full distance but with
11605s lower damage ammo uh lock range realizes
11608s that they can fully win the DPS trade
11610s comfortably with what they have trying
11612s to break any sort of active tank that do
11614s check and now laid in head and with that
11616s I think we're what 043 maybe over four
11620s on uh interviews that Jim Thomas had
11623s before a match
11625s and also my point betting
11629s that said uh the fleet Tempest now he's
11631s now dipping into half armor it looks
11633s like Striker Erica's Navy Exeter is safe
11635s they've switched over to grunkata's
11637s schleffner he is grappled and neuted now
11641s he's broken the grapple it's hard to say
11643s if he'll be able to escape with his life
11645s the Seffner has a very thick tank
11647s uh he is going to be able to hold on for
11649s a while the fleet Tempest meanwhile
11651s cannot say the same as he dips into
11652s structure here leaving cable it is the
11654s Shack by itself The Shack a fantastic
11657s ship both in the tournament and in
11659s Tranquility but not enough to one-man
11661s Army against a kiting cop like this
11664s yeah I mean the lock range enjoy your
11667s team is something that I think a few
11669s people have slept on uh they were
11670s essentially the uh what we now know is
11673s the better half of um only need uh two
11677s comps that made it to top four in the
11680s previous Alliance tournament
11681s um the French half or portion of that
11684s team getting eliminated whereas lock
11686s range enjoyers you know getting into top
11688s eight with this victory over Brave
11691s Collective
11692s um showing that they very much belong in
11695s this upper echelon of teams
11697s yeah Loch Ranger jurors are a higher
11699s class of gentlemen uh you know you
11702s they enjoy the Finer Things in life they
11704s enjoy locking from long range primarily
11707s and their comps that for the most part
11709s reflected that and it's brought them a
11711s lot of success here it looks like
11712s gruncato's leftner will probably go down
11715s here he's in very low armor that said Le
11719s Shack has stopped applying any
11720s meaningful damage to him likely because
11722s of that tracking disruptor just out of
11724s range breaking the spool
11726s uh you've also got Striker Erica's
11728s executor probably in range now the Le
11731s Shack switching targets and bringing him
11733s down but it's going to be minor
11735s consolation as cable UDA himself drops
11738s into structure and he will die presently
11741s this was a very exciting match these
11743s triple armor Battleship cord not doing
11746s well against the kite cop meta that has
11748s been dominant today as this Le Shack oh
11751s yes I was gonna say as he dies he gets
11753s one last gasp of armor in and he goes
11756s down we'll throw it back to the desk to
11758s break this down
11775s [Music]
11779s [Applause]
11784s [Music]
11791s thank you
11802s [Applause]
11815s connected Channel switched well it would
11818s have been an easy fight right but guess
11820s what dude I'm not seeing it people can't
11822s get together
11827s crash our enemies your temps are
11830s completely damned out Crush I'm dumped
11832s out I'm dumped out get on that Travis
11834s boys
11844s there you are so lock range drawers
11846s taking the victory over Brave Collective
11848s uh in a very convincing win there uh
11851s we've actually gone through during that
11853s match and updated some of our graphs uh
11855s to bring them totally up to date let's
11856s take a look now uh so as we can see here
11858s the win rate after displaying gentile's
11861s interview remains a solid zero percent
11864s um that is a pretty effective curse if
11867s I've ever seen one uh so again captains
11869s if you want us to hold back your
11870s interviews uh please do get in touch so
11872s we can ignore you uh now we are going to
11875s go to a break and then we'll be back for
11876s some more explosions shortly
11882s welcome back to Alliance tournament 18 I
11885s am TCP overload joined once again by
11887s mystical mate and Yin tan and we have
11890s more matches more explosions uh and I'm
11892s an explosion enjoyer mystical matter
11893s you're an explosion enjoyer if they're
11895s the right type of explosion I might not
11897s be an enjoyer of explosions in this next
11899s match interesting you should say that
11900s this next match is going to be truth
11902s honor light versus dark side so we are
11905s now in elimination matches because truth
11907s on a light dropped a match aileron to
11909s the tuskers co and now they're fighting
11911s for their lives now they're in a
11912s situation where if they don't win this
11914s best of one series they're out and the
11916s dark side team is a good team Mr I was
11919s going to say actually we're fighting for
11920s skins because uh the more matches you
11923s win the more skins you get it's not
11924s something that we typically mention and
11926s going through a loser's bracket run
11928s means that you play more matches more
11930s matches equals more wins equals more
11932s skins awesome then where exactly are you
11934s hiding the rest of your corpium because
11935s I can't see it from here I've used up my
11937s Supply there are a few empty cans under
11940s the desk I'm gonna have to run to get
11942s more during the next match let's take a
11944s look at the bands for this upcoming
11945s match and see what these teams have
11946s chosen to ban out
11951s so truth on a light binding out the
11953s Ishtar Stratus and bar guest and
11955s Darkseid Banning out the slept near
11956s jackdot and Scimitar interesting clips
11958s of bands uh jintan the Stratos we saw I
11960s believe Dutch said using asratios but is
11963s it bandworthy
11964s um I don't know but it seems like truth
11965s on a light maybe either haven't prepped
11967s against it or have prepped uh have done
11969s enough testing to know that it beats one
11970s of the comps that they really favor what
11972s I find interesting about this band
11973s choice is that Darkseid have gone for
11975s something completely different for what
11976s they've previously banned
11978s um historically they've banned the
11980s balgorn Scimitar and the curse that's
11983s been their band for their previous three
11984s matches
11985s um so it's going to be you know maybe
11987s they're planning to use one of those
11988s ships or maybe they just think they have
11990s a read on what truth on the light are
11992s going to bring and want to completely
11993s shut that down
11995s let's commit is that true did they have
11997s a read on you
11998s uh I will confirm or deny any comments
12002s and statements after this match okay
12004s we'll see all right we'll see all right
12006s so uh predictions I know what you're
12007s predicting yeah Dark Side of course I'm
12010s going to protect Tristan a light then to
12012s character in my circle my jintan uh yeah
12014s I'm gonna predict truth on a light as
12016s well you know ducks are a great team but
12018s uh I think truth on will I have this and
12021s do you have an interview with uh truth
12022s on the light by any chance no I do not
12024s that's a shame oh well let's go to the
12025s arena and find out who's going to win
12027s between truth on a light and dark side
12033s foreign
12035s back with my broadcast partner moderator
12038s as we unveiled truth honor and light
12041s versus Darkseid truth honor and light
12043s has brought a flagship bargast EOS a
12047s neros orthos double Blackbird pontifex
12050s Sentinel carries vexer the armor orthrus
12053s by Kadesh Priestess very interested to
12056s see how this works out for them
12057s moderator what if Darkseid brought to
12059s the field
12061s uh well Darkseid has chosen to bring a
12065s heavy missile kite comp with two healers
12068s supported by a Loki for some webs and a
12071s scalpel Kieran for their Logistics it'll
12074s be interesting to see
12077s um
12077s how these teams choose to kind of Face
12080s Off against each other with
12082s um Bargas you know we usually think of
12084s that as a essentially a shield ship but
12088s it does really work well in armor comps
12091s as well especially if you bring a flag
12093s bar gift like Dexter axio has that will
12097s essentially have a 40 kilometer scram
12099s that will be pretty effective at chasing
12101s down these kiting ships
12105s yeah the distributed scrams on the truth
12107s honor Light Team certainly I would think
12110s hoping to keep these teams at range or
12111s if they're against a kite comp it'll
12113s greatly increase their ability to pin
12114s them down when they try to turn we're
12116s about to kick this match off as links
12118s have popped and we'll see how this match
12121s develops Darkseid likely looking to stay
12124s away do you think or do you expect them
12126s to try to go in
12128s uh I mean I think they have to stay away
12130s you're in a Kai cop you have to do that
12132s even if
12133s um circumstances make that difficult you
12136s still have to play to the strengths of
12138s your setup and go with that off the bat
12140s we're seeing that there is some
12143s disruption coming from The Sentinel of
12146s knife hiking that will be onto the
12148s Nighthawk and the Navy drink makes sense
12151s it's the two heaviest damaging
12153s um heavy missile ships in the entire
12155s Dark Side comp meanwhile Nick domar is
12158s having his Shields chipped away as he
12161s along with his bar guest buddy is
12163s closing in
12164s against that dark side kite comp
12167s and looked for a moment like the
12168s broadcast might have been going for the
12169s micro jump unit but it will instead
12171s decide to Barrel into the dark side team
12173s and more conventionally it's looking for
12175s its initial scram hasn't quite found it
12177s yet but you are seeing these ecms the
12180s damps it's all being distributed out to
12182s the dark side team meanwhile Darkseid
12184s concentrating all the control they have
12186s on the bar guest trying to isolate it
12189s and insulate themselves from its damage
12191s and Tackle as much as humanly possible
12193s yeah they do have webs that will be the
12195s hyena of Eva Zen or possibly the Loki of
12199s fafi wafi we see that knife is a
12203s brainstorm rather is using his carries
12205s to try to
12207s um you know mitigate the range of those
12210s long range ships we see uh the carries
12212s taking a little bit of damage but that's
12214s just from
12215s um with some drones and possibly a
12218s little bit of missiles he's pretty safe
12220s at the moment uh Dexter's taking again
12223s Shield damage but
12224s um he's been able to hold down this Fly
12226s Catcher And it looks like hydra's just
12228s going to try to play against the low end
12230s now that they've got that scrammed
12232s aheen and the Loki are playing a very
12234s dangerous game here their web range is
12236s not going to be much further than the
12237s Bargas scram range they are at risk of
12240s getting scrammed at any moment looks
12242s like the fly catcher of tick tocks has
12244s been caught he's gonna drop very rapidly
12246s there uh that is the first Blood over to
12249s truth honor light but they are not in
12251s that commanding of a position both teams
12253s kind of jockeying around for that
12254s Advantage right now
12256s um that said we have a scram onto the
12259s Loki that will be Dexter axio so I mean
12262s that's pretty pivotal if you can break a
12264s Loki and even if brainstross carries
12267s which is taking damage from again a
12269s cloud of light drones you're pretty
12271s happy with that uh the lookie going down
12273s into about half
12275s um shield and the hyena getting in maybe
12278s a little bit too close and will go down
12280s to uh rapid lights
12283s not even tackle the hyena just being
12285s deleted the Loki it is a shield tank
12288s Loki it's got about half of its Shield
12289s remaining a little bit over it is
12291s getting some reps so it's not I mean I
12295s wouldn't be panicking if I were the Loki
12297s pilot but he's definitely not in a great
12298s position with that scram from the bar
12300s guest he is going to be absolutely
12302s isolated there the team kind of has to
12304s play around him because he's pinned they
12307s have to decide if they're going to get
12308s into range of the Bargas and commit or
12311s leave him to die and now we see truth
12313s honor light going after the scalpel
12315s which has come in to rep the Loki
12317s scalpel not necessarily going to have a
12320s micro warp drive there so he was not as
12323s much risk from the bar guest but still
12325s dangerous if they go down then the uh
12328s Karen will go down followed by the rest
12329s of their team in short order yeah so um
12332s Hydra is just ignoring the low key so
12334s Dexter axio still has a scram on it from
12336s range and now the vexer of China Tech
12338s has to pass it off but what they've done
12339s is completely isolated the Loki with the
12341s scram and now the bar guest is free to
12343s get on top of uh targets of opportunity
12346s they have a scram Newt jams on top of
12348s the Kirin of recorder us they're going
12350s to continue applying damage to him and
12353s I'm thinking he's going to go down
12354s pretty soon the scalpel doesn't look
12356s like he has enough Red Power with what
12359s heider is putting out to really keep
12361s that Kieran up uh excellent job of uh
12364s orante that'll be Jordan and warpout uh
12367s putting on jams and putting pressure so
12369s the Cure goes down scalp will soon to
12371s follow yeah the scalpel was jammed out
12373s for the majority of that kieran's damage
12375s cycle they are going to try to trade
12377s some damn image back on the Sentinel
12379s vexer and pontifex the Sentinel may even
12381s go down here but that is not worth it
12383s for Dark Side losing that Kieran was a
12385s huge huge loss their Nighthawk is also
12388s tackled Down The Gila scrammed down and
12390s webbed they're losing considerable
12392s chunks of their team not yet Perhaps but
12395s they are lined up in queue for truth
12397s honor like to pick off at their Leisure
12399s because without that second Logistics
12401s forget how it's a scapula is very easily
12403s controlled and they can kill it anytime
12405s they want meanwhile The Gila is taking
12407s significant fire he's down to one-third
12409s Shield trying to claw back but it's a
12411s losing battle Yeah if you look at
12414s darkseid's control bar they have nothing
12415s left in the tank
12417s um General Hungary is completely safe
12419s right now and truthfully with what dark
12421s side has right now if they don't kill
12423s General Hungary somehow or new to life
12426s him from the fight hydra's just going to
12428s run away with this 100 to know oh I say
12430s that his brainstra gets rather low and
12433s might even die if he's in about half
12435s whole but now getting wrapped up
12437s um that said the Gila down into low
12441s Shields continuing to be the primary
12443s um the pontifex now getting on top as
12446s the bar guest is scramming the stork so
12448s Hydra just very surgically picking apart
12451s uh different targets of opportunity
12454s holding things down and look at the
12456s e-war that's being applied to Dark Side
12458s truth on our light maxing out that
12460s control bar
12461s yeah and you mentioned General hungary's
12464s aniros he is not under threat right now
12466s a couple Dark Side ships have a direct
12468s line to him but they're not going for it
12470s this healer will drop
12471s followed perhaps by the Blackbird he is
12474s taking a lot of fire blackbird's not
12476s exactly known for their tank but the ECM
12478s is going to be breaking up a lot of the
12480s ability for Darkseid to be coordinated
12482s with their fire and they are losing
12484s their DPS core now
12486s yeah and I mean again this is the power
12488s of a flagship Bargas I think Hydra was
12490s absolutely 100 right to bring that
12492s you're in the lower bracket match you
12494s know you need to win this in order to
12496s get into the best out of eight
12499s um for Hydra anything less than first
12501s place they consider to be something of a
12503s failure so this is where you go For
12505s Broke bring your kind of your end game
12507s Flagship uh setups and what they had is
12511s very effective as we're seeing them just
12512s completely shut down dark side
12514s yeah at this point the entire Dark Side
12517s team is tackled down ironically except
12519s for the Gila that they're currently
12520s shooting
12521s uh that Gila is jammed he's painted he
12524s is taking enough fire to break his tank
12526s so that's a matter of time
12528s uh meanwhile not a not effective trading
12531s going back from Dark Side they're trying
12533s again for the carries of brainstra but
12535s General Hungary zaniris has brainstra
12538s covered he's been on top of that the
12540s entire match right so I had a bit of a
12542s scare getting into half uh structure but
12544s he got pulled back pretty quickly and
12546s now there's even less for the truth
12548s honor light Logistics pilot to worry
12550s about as dark side is losing their DPS
12553s core they're losing it quite rapidly
12555s although the Gill is actually to his
12557s credit is beginning to stabilize and now
12559s it seems like Darkseid has gotten the
12560s memo and they are pivoting to try to
12561s kill the nearest of General Hungary a
12564s little bit too late but if Hungary is
12566s poorly tanked I doubt it from truth
12567s honor light but if he is that could be
12569s their window back into some semblance of
12572s a competitive match but they're going to
12574s be paying for it here is the Drake Navy
12575s issue of Sam Punisher is taking tons of
12578s Fire
12578s I mean we look at the ships like
12580s everything either has a jam on it a damp
12582s or a scram I mean that's pretty
12584s traditional
12586s um Hydra for you uh General Hungary the
12588s damage on top of him was a pair of
12591s Valkyries that are no longer within
12593s targeting range and we see a cloud of
12596s armor maintenance spots trying to top
12598s him off as Sam Punisher continues to dip
12600s lower into armor now Holland will be
12603s popping any second now
12605s um I don't know if truth on the light
12606s will kill all the ships with only two
12608s minutes left on the clock but uh showing
12610s a very effective control setup against
12612s this dark side roster
12616s uh truth on our life perhaps on reloads
12618s is the Drake Navy issue is still hanging
12620s around at about one-third structure
12622s pulling back some Shields but that Drake
12625s uh much thinner than I think most of us
12628s would expect this Shield bar went away
12630s quite quickly perhaps trading out some
12632s of those mid slots for electronic
12634s warfare or tackle he's now pulling back
12636s Shields that'll be from the scalpel it
12639s will not be enough as soon as the bar
12640s guest is off reload that will uh I will
12644s tell you I will do it for Sam Hunter if
12645s he's gonna head back to the locker room
12646s uh
12648s but after that it's really truth honor
12651s lights uh call as to where to go next
12653s the logistic file is just kind of
12655s showing off spreading reps throughout
12656s the entire team signaling to the
12658s audience that they are not concerned at
12660s all about what Darkseid has left in the
12662s tank here they have their team well
12664s controlled both of their blackbirds are
12667s still alive they still have a sentinel
12668s for newts and tracking disruption it's a
12671s guidance disruption
12673s um they haven't even lost their vexer
12674s the carries and staff structure uh the
12678s best case scenario for Darkseid not
12681s quite enough to kill that carry as
12683s they're trying again to Pivot back to
12685s him but it's just not doing it yeah I'm
12687s not quite sure if that attack bar is
12688s glitch we just saw a stork recently go
12690s down and Sam Punisher uh is continuing
12693s to take damage now Sky killer Russian
12696s um appears to be something of a primary
12698s Sky killer being much closer to the rest
12700s of the truth honor core and Sam Punisher
12702s uh to his credit has burned to the
12705s literal opposite side of the Arena away
12707s from the truth honor light so uh that
12710s Drake Navy issue will survive
12711s unfortunately
12713s um
12714s darkseid's tournament run will not they
12717s will be eliminated
12719s um you know good fights in local this is
12721s something of a kind of a Demi uh Grudge
12725s Match you know with some of the Vita
12727s core against Hydra the tournament
12730s um you know typical one two between that
12732s uh but you know we'll send it back to
12734s the desk to break that one down
12754s [Music]
12757s [Applause]
12761s yes
12763s [Music]
12777s [Music]
12794s [Music]
12800s thank you
12802s [Music]
12822s down
12824s here
12825s [Music]
12826s [Applause]
12835s well unfortunately for Darkseid the
12838s future is bright for truth honor light
12840s uh what's your thoughts mystical might
12843s not even close
12845s never doubted never doubt it easy no use
12849s again I told you more skins
12851s it's easy
12852s straight to the finals talk to me about
12854s that comp there so we saw um just want
12856s to like bringing a bunch of ECM ships
12858s there with a couple of blackbirds and it
12860s looked like uh they were able to do some
12863s good work especially when we saw the
12864s logistics frigates of Darkseid get split
12866s up one Jam one knot and then done like
12869s what's the thought process behind
12870s bringing ECM chips I mean the the
12872s thought process is that you don't really
12873s need as much damage if you have a lot of
12875s control
12876s um so we saw here that the truth on a
12878s light team wasn't necessarily one of the
12879s most high damage comps that we've seen
12881s in this tournament in fact most other
12882s comps that we've seen would have more
12884s raw damage coming out but it's about the
12886s application of that damage it usually
12888s it's a fight between how much damage
12890s we're doing versus how much they're
12891s repping which is typically what we've
12893s seen so far but with blackbirds you
12896s remove their ability to rep which means
12898s that the small amount of damage that
12899s you're doing is going to remain the
12902s content on that Target so it's less of a
12905s battle to break through reps and it's
12907s more about man making sure that you are
12909s effectively tackling down your opponents
12912s making sure they can't get on those
12913s black birds and then just taking that
12915s team apart bit by bit
12916s gentan I feel like in this case the ECM
12919s um can be a much more devastating
12920s against Logistics frigates because the
12922s logistics Cruisers tend to have a very
12924s strong local tank they tend to be more
12925s mobile able to get around the grid quite
12927s well if they're jammed then usually that
12929s means they can't wrap someone on their
12930s team but you know that isn't necessarily
12932s the end of the world because you're
12933s talking religious ships however in a
12935s logistics frigate if one of them gets
12937s jammed the other one is almost certainly
12938s going to die because they rely on each
12939s other
12940s um for for tank
12942s what's your thoughts here on on bringing
12944s Logistics frigates versus Logistics
12945s Cruisers so Logistics forgets have the
12947s advantage of being able to kind of uh
12950s they allow you to bring more points what
12952s we've typically seen is we've seen these
12953s Logistics frigates be used in
12955s compositions which require a heavy
12957s investment in the top end either these
12959s rushes or um three Battleship controls
12962s it's especially good in through
12963s Battleship controls because you have a
12965s absolute ass load of repair for drones
12968s to put on them so that even if it's
12971s little buddy gets uh you know jammed out
12972s or damped out or it gets tackled a
12975s little too far away it gives that that
12977s ship enough survivability that it can
12979s survive for its friend to either get a
12982s recycle or get back on top of it but
12985s it's uh another reason why they are so
12987s weak against ECM is that they actually
12989s have a much more a much lower sensor
12992s strength than the um the t2 Cruiser
12996s counterparts and not only that but when
12998s you're looking at these Shield ones they
13000s don't have the spare mid slots to fit
13002s sensor boosters so they're relying on
13004s remote sensor boosters and when you've
13006s got you know multiple black birds along
13008s with carries and all other sites types
13010s of just you know disgusting control
13012s being applied to you it's very difficult
13014s to utilize those effectively to stop
13017s them from getting jammed awesome well
13019s there you are disgusting control brought
13021s by truth on the light and taking it to
13023s find effect over Darkseid who are sadly
13025s eliminated from the tournament as that
13027s was indeed a elimination match now let's
13029s look forward to our next elimination
13031s match between templar's castlev and
13032s Deepwater Hooligans and let's see if we
13034s can check out the Bands
13036s so templates calcif Banning out the Le
13039s Shack the EOS and the jackdaw whereas
13041s Deepwater Hooligans banning at the
13042s Nighthawk they're locating The
13043s Vindicator relatively standard bands Mr
13045s glamite I'd say so uh I think the Jack
13047s door is probably the one that we've seen
13048s the least of out of these six ships that
13050s are shown
13051s um we have seen a jackdaw ban I believe
13053s last weekend where they wanted to remove
13056s armor Jack doors from the pool I think
13058s they had a bad experience in their
13059s previous match uh the team that banned
13061s the director in that case uh and we've
13064s discussed the perks of the armor Jack
13065s door
13067s um earlier on in this in this broadcast
13069s so it is a strong ship it definitely
13071s allows you to do a lot more than perhaps
13073s you'd expect from an armor Jack door as
13076s long as you can keep it alive so it
13078s makes sense to see it banned here by
13079s Templars they're a good team
13081s one would expect they've made it to the
13083s the second weekend they're playing for
13084s Price ships
13085s um they're going to know what the
13086s strengths are of the armor jackdawg I
13089s think they're also playing in this case
13090s for pride and one of the things that
13091s makes the line stream a little bit
13093s unique compared to a lot of other
13094s Esports is uh these alliances are based
13097s on obviously the Tranquility alliances
13098s the server we're all playing on and
13100s these two groups are essentially at war
13102s with each other right now uh templar's
13104s calcif currently flying around with the
13105s Wrecking Crew guys and being invaded by
13107s Deepwater Hooligans so this is like a
13109s pride and a grudge match it doesn't
13110s really have any bearing on the war but
13112s like as a morale point of view it's kind
13114s of cool
13115s um jintan what do you think of this I
13117s think you're wrong when you say it
13118s doesn't have any bearing on them all you
13120s know in on the war
13122s um Wars and Eve online are fought so
13123s often about things like morale things
13125s like Pride things about belief or
13126s whether you can win and not only that
13128s but they're playing for Price ships here
13130s you know if Templars calcium get knocked
13131s out or Deepwater Hooligans get knocked
13133s out that's a couple of hundred billion
13135s is that they're now missing in their
13136s coffers and that's also gone to their
13138s enemies you know if you don't think that
13140s people both to the this uh War are now
13143s going to be spamming each other in local
13144s depending on who wins I think you're
13146s you're wrong
13147s do you know what I actually agree with
13148s you I think that is in fact true uh
13150s mystical mate let's talk predictions
13151s though um who do you think is going to
13153s build this one out is it going to be
13154s temples or do you think Deepwater are
13155s going to be able to pull one over here
13157s uh see remember it's always templates
13159s number one so I'm gonna go Templar sir
13161s and jintan what are your thoughts
13164s um I think temples templar's Calif is
13166s probably going to win this uh but they
13168s just have too much pedigree I think for
13170s uh Deepwater to take over yeah I'm just
13173s gonna check who these guys got knocked
13174s down to the lower brackets by so
13176s templates uh lost to Odin's call earlier
13179s on and again Odin's call we've discussed
13181s a few times essentially the only matches
13183s they've dropped in a live stream in the
13185s last couple of years have been up
13186s against reloaded a championship team uh
13188s so very respectful uh to be dropped down
13190s by them and uh Deepwater Hooligans uh
13193s got dropped down by
13195s boundary experts so another pretty solid
13198s team
13199s um and I find this one really hard to
13201s decide but I think I had to put my money
13202s on the uh The Tempest Cals of boys is 10
13205s plus calcif number one so let us go to
13207s the arena and find out who wins
13215s welcome back to the arena I am moderator
13217s joined by
13219s Alexander Hooligans is going to be
13222s Fielding triple armor
13224s Battleship and they're going to be
13227s supported by a pair of logistics
13229s frigates but they're going to be up
13231s against a very scary temples comp
13234s yeah temples cows have bring a balgar
13237s and Fleet Tempest the bad and kind of a
13239s repeat of their previous setup
13241s um they've got omega's Pond effects your
13242s links Thalia Deacon for logic arbitrator
13245s hyena Sentinel for control
13250s yeah unfortunately it looks like
13254s um in the Stream the teams are reversed
13256s on colors because that is in fact uh in
13260s the red the bar guest belongs to
13262s Deepwater Hooligans and uh Dano I so uh
13267s we'll be having to call that reversed
13270s um so the bar guest and we see that be a
13273s flagship that uh basically about half of
13277s the teams maybe a little bit over chose
13278s as their Flagship why has it been so
13280s popular in this and other ATS Alexander
13284s well there are a lot of faction battle
13286s fish battleships that scale well with
13288s isk and when we say scale well with this
13290s we mean that the unique abilities they
13292s have are greatly enhanced the more money
13294s you put into it and that makes a good
13296s Flagship because the advantage of having
13298s a flagship is that you can stuff it to
13299s the gills with faction and in this case
13302s the barcast benefits from the faction
13305s damage mods so it can put its lows into
13308s an armor tank and still have good damage
13311s it benefits from the range of its scrams
13313s it also has a lot of utility highs that
13315s you can invest a lot of money in to make
13316s it hit harder farther and tankier
13319s yeah I mean it is in fact like the Daft
13322s Punk song harder better faster stronger
13324s because you know uh the bar guest is
13327s already very fast I mean you can get
13330s office or scrams because you're on that
13332s uh Flagship uh restriction and we'll see
13336s how that plays into things as disciple
13338s of Thomas wild duck is
13340s um just sort of slow boating uh now in
13343s defensive mode as he's being primaried
13345s down into about half armor as this
13348s abandoned Tempest Fleet in battleborn
13350s are projecting onto him and he pops
13352s already interesting yes a little asleep
13355s at the wheel there he did not get off
13357s the Jump and managed to get pinned down
13359s by Temple's cow stuff like taking an
13361s early First Blood here it's also going
13363s to be interesting to see how the Newt
13364s battle plays out between this Navy
13366s Armageddon and the balgor and the Navy
13368s getting getting a bit more range but
13370s sacrificing some of its new power for
13372s extra damage while as the balgorn has
13375s much more powerful newts and also some
13377s long-range webs to help hold things down
13379s speaking of they managed to get a brief
13381s web on the prophecy of akov but that has
13384s now shredded off and he has escaped
13386s tackle he is taking some damage but it's
13389s not catastrophic yet meanwhile deep
13391s water is primering the hyena from
13393s Temple's Castle
13395s yeah um our production team has now
13397s corrected the uh
13399s sides that both teams are on uh the
13402s prophecy has now kind of balled up with
13404s his uh Bros uh Stalin says hyena
13407s continues to be
13408s um the primary that's going to be a
13410s cloud of light drones however there is a
13413s smart bomb from Ariana kamarsky's
13415s Tempest Fleet issue that has cleared off
13417s all the damage on top of that hyena so a
13420s hyena bro will be safe right now
13422s um so far we're not really seeing deep
13424s water do much of anything for the moment
13426s trying to figure out uh what they want
13430s to do against this balgorn that's up in
13433s front as the barges is getting
13435s uncomfortably close to that balgorn at
13437s the moment
13439s interesting by Temple's calcif to bring
13441s the Tempest lead issue back and have it
13443s focus on Smart bombing they're chasing
13446s to sacrifice a lot of their projected
13447s damage to do that playing the long game
13449s on this match looking to get an
13451s advantage in the later minutes here
13452s speaking of advantages uh that's a cloud
13455s of drones that are on top of the
13456s Sentinel very well played by Temple of
13459s calcif realizing that the Sentinel was a
13462s little bit out of position still within
13464s a rep range of his own Nero's buddy but
13466s that's going to be a lot of drones on
13468s top of him forcing a little bit of
13469s stress from tomok's zero
13473s and they have now decided to Target
13475s paint the flagship bar guests they've
13477s taken it past Shields but it is an armor
13478s battle so he's doing just fine they're
13480s throwing more of more of their focus on
13482s the low end now as the Sentinel
13483s continues to be pressure and the vexer
13486s of Sid the Kid has been webbed not sure
13488s if that is a hyena web or a Battleground
13490s web but he is snagged
13492s yeah that will be the balgorn of Killa
13494s 542 up in front
13496s um putting webs onto that Vector The
13499s Sentinel now coming back a little bit
13500s safer but again FID the kid uh vexer is
13503s not known for their uh tank we see it
13506s being used often as kind of a
13508s inexpensive uh drone bow and something
13511s that can bring a lot of Utilities in the
13513s high slot for new pressure as well
13516s um acid continues to drop but
13518s um
13519s not sure he'll hold on too much longer
13522s as the Sabaton and balgorn are closing
13524s range on him
13526s well they're closing range quite fast
13528s Battleground is a very scary ship it
13530s controls a huge sphere of the
13532s battlefield you really have to play
13533s around it and they're doing what they
13536s can to try to stay out of range of its
13537s newts that said their team isn't very
13540s capacitor dependent so as long as the
13542s ownero stays safe they're going to be
13544s doing just fine now they have lots of
13546s vexer the Sentinel is also struggling
13548s here he's not pulling back his armor as
13550s effectively as he was just previous that
13553s said he just gets a big injection of
13555s armor from the nearest and goes back to
13556s full Sentinel uh trying to ride the line
13559s there he doesn't have a great tank
13561s speaking of not great tanks the vigil
13563s Fleet issue of Pixie Thief is down yeah
13566s so between the bar guest and the um
13568s digital flea they were trying to go for
13570s a snap call onto the Thalia the vigil
13572s Fleet of Pixie Thief got deep into the
13574s back line trying to get webs on the
13575s Thalia but now that she is dead that
13578s will no longer be an option that was
13579s probably the only win condition uh for
13583s Deepwater Hooligans and now their bar
13585s guest is uh kind of in the back line
13588s being scrammed down by that pontifex and
13591s the prophecy getting low The Sentinel
13593s getting even lower uh tempo's starting
13596s to run away with it
13598s yeah they're building up momentum here
13600s this Sentinel is once again taking a lot
13602s of fire they've split fire now between
13603s the Sentinel and the prophecy probably
13605s trying to optimize their damage here and
13608s it's a great decision because it forces
13610s the iners to make some calls and the
13612s Sentinel it just has a very thin buffer
13615s they can pivot to it if it's low and
13617s potentially get through its structure
13619s before the veneers can react prophecy is
13621s going to be more of a long-term grind
13623s for them but not as able to mitigate
13625s with speed and they are slowly working
13627s their way through him so nearest is
13629s gonna have to make some hard decisions
13630s very soon
13631s yeah I mean I I like what deep water
13634s tried to do realizing that they were on
13636s the back foot they needed to do
13637s something to get a snap kill onto some
13640s of the frig lodgy in order to come back
13641s into this match but uh as they lose the
13644s prophecy and now you know more of the
13647s length that they would have more of the
13648s damage they would have from the drones I
13651s don't really see a good way back into
13652s this match they really need to break the
13654s Foley a deacon uh combination to really
13657s continue to push anything else but
13660s um failing that they're just gonna
13661s slowly get whittled down as the
13663s Armageddon of crimson Serenity uh is
13665s getting down into about half to one
13669s third armor and the power effects on
13671s temples calcif has tackled that Flagship
13673s bark so that kill is there for them
13675s whenever they want to do it they can
13677s crowd out the sceneros and make sure
13679s that the bar guest actually make sure
13681s that the bow guard is positioned between
13682s it and the bar cast that will force the
13685s nearest to either let their Flagship die
13687s or get killed himself and now the anerus
13690s has been neuted and webbed they have
13692s tackled tamoxa he is it will probably be
13696s primaried after the get and they may
13697s just decide to hold him off with the
13700s newts and get through the getting of
13702s crimson as that tank is getting tested
13704s very hard right now and it is failing
13706s we're getting D's at best for the tank
13708s of crimson Serenity he is dropping
13711s rather fast for a faction Battleship now
13713s bleeding into structure he's trying to
13715s pull it back the owner is trying to cap
13716s loose through the newts but it will not
13718s be enough as the Magus and Armageddon
13721s Navy issue go down nearly simultaneously
13723s here Magus Bites the Dust first but
13726s Serenity will follow
13727s now if you're a Dano I um what you were
13730s trying to do earlier is you know you
13732s were trying for a snap call but in doing
13735s so they really went all in they said hey
13737s we probably know we're going to lose our
13739s bar guest if this doesn't work but we're
13741s going to try to go for the win which I
13743s think was the right call needed to do
13745s that earlier unfortunately that play
13747s didn't work out and with three minutes
13749s left and I scrammed Bargas courtesy of
13752s this pontifex of stoesh being completely
13754s on the ball and on top of Dano templates
13757s will kill The Spar guest with only two
13759s minutes and 40 seconds remaining in the
13761s match plenty of time as Danos already
13763s bleeding armor rapidly
13768s oh that barcast will be interesting to
13771s see how much isk Deepwater Hooligans is
13773s about to lose here the previous
13775s flagships that have been killed so far
13777s today have been
13778s breathtakingly expensive we will see
13781s what the kill mail looks like I'm sure
13782s the desk will have the full breakdown
13784s but that is going to be painful no
13785s matter how well you cut it for deep
13787s water Hooligans they are a rather Rich
13789s Alliance but they're that much poor
13791s today as the flagship Park goes down and
13794s now this storm bringer is looking a
13795s little lonely
13797s I mean they are going to be a little bit
13800s poor for that Flagship but at the end of
13802s the day
13803s um they did still make top 12 in the
13805s alliance tournament which is you know
13807s very respectable they're going to get a
13809s fair number of uh ships and that are
13812s going to be probably in this we've got a
13815s boundary attempt
13816s yeah jump activated will he break the
13819s record he's got a lot of speed
13821s yeah that's gonna be reglio Smith
13822s unfortunately he's just a cruiser so he
13825s will boundary but he is nowhere close to
13827s the record of I believe 227. he gets to
13830s 191 as he jumps out of the arena and
13834s Deepwater Hooligans is out of the
13836s tournament as temples wins it cleanly
13838s 100 to nil
13857s [Music]
13861s thank you
13864s I remember
13872s apart
13882s [Music]
13906s foreign
13908s [Music]
13922s a leak as they sink out of the alliance
13925s tournament 18 Templar Scouts of with the
13927s big fat dub they're gonna be very happy
13929s with that one and of course that means
13931s that they and they win the war so
13932s congrats to them
13934s um jintan you were talking during that
13936s match about the Newt War talk to me a
13937s little bit about that yeah so the new
13939s war is something that we kind of tend to
13941s talk a lot about when we see two ships
13943s that have uh bonuses to Newts or even
13946s ships that just have a lot of utility
13947s High slots like little Shacks or Tempest
13949s Fleet issues which have been very
13950s popular throughout this tournament
13951s matter and what we're talking about
13953s there is the fact that both of these
13955s ships can spend capacitor to remove
13956s capacitor on their opponents whilst
13958s pressuring the amount of charges that
13960s they have in their cargo bay however
13962s there is basically a cheat code
13964s um to winning the new wall which is
13965s bring a bowel gone because the
13966s Battleground can utilize its bonuses
13969s um which allow it to use noses even when
13972s its opponents are out of cap
13974s um or have a lower capacitor than itself
13976s to continue generating cap whilst
13979s removing cap from all of their opponents
13981s so so if a balcony is able to get the
13984s advantage any point in a new war it can
13986s practically shut down your ability to
13988s you to have space mana and cast space
13990s spells with your space modules
13992s and mystical about you've uh you know uh
13994s stranger to flying in a balcony in the
13996s Lions tournament
13998s um you've flown with a number of teams
13999s over the years including with myself in
14001s the vaulted team where you flew our
14003s Flagship balgorn this year we don't have
14005s any Flagship Battlegrounds because they
14006s are banned one of the few ships that are
14008s banned from being flagships mystical why
14010s is that ship banned from Big flag I
14012s think it's because teams found it
14014s historically pretty oppressive I think
14016s is is the general idea
14018s um it gets a bonus to its web range and
14022s the neutralization amount of its
14024s neutralizers so what you'd effectively
14025s have is a full new balcon
14027s so you can already imagine there's about
14029s seven buttons in the highs and then
14031s you'd have two webs a mic warp drive a
14034s cat booster
14035s um so that's already another like four
14036s or five buttons here and then you'd have
14038s full active tank in the lows so it is it
14041s is about 20 different buttons that you
14042s kind of have to imagine press manage
14044s your heat on apply them properly to
14046s chips around it's a lot to do it's
14048s really intense to fly but it's even more
14051s intense to play against because of just
14053s the sheer area denial that it provides
14055s you because a flagship is able to fit
14059s um better newts and better newts
14062s typically go a little bit further and
14063s nuke more so um yeah it's just really
14065s difficult to play against not fun for
14067s many teams indeed not fun whatsoever
14069s what else is not fun is being in an
14071s elimination bracket match and being
14073s kicked out of the tournament and that
14075s might happen
14076s um well it will happen to one of the two
14077s teams coming right up which is going to
14079s be platinum sensitivity versus arrival
14080s so let's just take a quick look at the
14082s bands for this match
14084s so Platinum sensitivity Banning out uh
14086s what has now become a relatively
14088s standard set of bands here jackdaw EOS
14090s analoki will arrival Banning out the
14093s orthos the caracal Navy issue and the
14094s bar guest jintan what are your thoughts
14097s I'm a little curious about these rival
14099s bands these seem like three bands kind
14101s of focused in the same general vicinity
14104s of one another uh the authoris and the
14106s caracal Navy those are both headed
14108s towards that ham Rush we've seen quite a
14110s lot of as well as potentially working in
14111s the kite and then the bar guest is a
14113s little more kite focused but we've seen
14115s it in in both stars of those comps so it
14117s just seems like a rival don't want to
14118s face a missile comp maybe they're
14120s waiting their mids really heavily
14121s towards tracking disruptors and they
14122s just want to avoid the possibility of an
14124s all missile comp
14125s mystical night your thoughts here yeah I
14128s agree I mean I think the character Navy
14129s issue and the authoris
14131s um they've reappeared time and time
14132s again in some of the kardari rush comps
14134s that we've been seeing
14136s um the bar guest I think is also a
14137s decent band because the Platinum
14140s sensitivity team had had a flag
14143s Vindicator so they won't be able to
14145s bring bar guests in any fashion now that
14147s it's been banned against them so that
14149s really limits their choices if they did
14150s want to go for a kiting setup of some
14152s sort they still do have the plethora of
14155s you know kiting battle Cruisers that
14157s they could still run in an armor comp
14159s which I think is probably what they're
14160s leading towards anyway just because they
14162s seem to be armor enjoyers not so much
14164s the shield enjoyers that we've seen from
14165s other teams
14166s awesome now uh jintan when you are in a
14170s team maybe you're the captain and um
14172s first of all you've read all the rules
14173s you've understood the meta and you're
14174s ready to go what exactly uh do you do
14177s when you're getting your team ready to
14178s perform to the arena
14180s um what you're generally doing when
14181s you're waiting to warp into the arena to
14183s just keeping everyone calm you're making
14184s sure everyone knows their General role
14186s you're making sure everyone's checked to
14188s make sure their models are active you
14190s know 10 15 times before you finally do
14192s walk to the arena is sometimes that can
14195s bug out a little bit and people have
14196s subsystems go offline and all sorts of
14199s wonderful occurrences like that and then
14202s once you land on grid though that's when
14203s things get really intense you've only
14205s got one maybe two minutes whilst the
14207s commentators are going over the
14208s compositions to figure out what everyone
14211s needs to do in this specific matchup and
14213s that is what really
14215s controls the actual game like if you
14218s cannot assign your evil properly and
14220s we're seeing that especially now when
14221s you've got something like two black
14223s birds you've got a carries a sentinel
14225s you're talking about maybe 20 25 modules
14229s that you then have to assign and spread
14231s correctly around your enemy's comp to
14233s stop their game plan from taking effect
14235s and that can take up so much mental
14237s energy
14238s and Mr Jim's taking us through some of
14240s the stuff that's just happening before
14241s the match once it starts uh how
14243s important is things like Target calling
14245s Target priority that kind of stuff I
14247s mean generally your target calling and
14249s Target priority is going to be part of
14251s that pre-match plan where you land on
14252s grid and then you have to figure out
14254s okay what are we going up against what
14255s are we doing and then it's really about
14257s just adapting to things that happen
14259s during the match so if you go up against
14261s the kiting team and then suddenly they
14262s have a bunch of tracking disrupters that
14264s you weren't expecting you then need to
14265s take that into account and adjust your
14267s game plan accordingly so there's a lot
14269s that goes on and it really is going to
14271s benefit teams that communicate well if
14273s it's you know if you if you have 10
14275s people on your team that can all
14277s communicate really clearly and explain
14278s what's happening what they're doing ask
14280s questions on whether they should do
14281s something without being told to do so
14283s you know instead of putting all the
14285s burden on one person you share that
14286s around the team and that really helps
14288s some of these top tier teams progress
14290s warranty these tournaments yeah a lot of
14292s times people ask like how do I get
14294s involved with these kind of tournaments
14295s and in general the alliance tournament
14297s is great because you've got the feeder
14299s rounds this year we had the mandatory
14300s public trials and that happens on
14302s Thunderdome which is a completely
14303s separate server from tranquility and uh
14306s you don't lose anything so if you don't
14307s make it through the feeders you get your
14309s Plex back that you've submitted
14311s um and you know you don't lose the ships
14312s on TQ it cost you anything uh those
14315s ships when you fly them on Thunderdome
14317s you have maximum skill points so you
14319s don't have to worry about being oh I've
14320s only got you know five million skill
14321s points I've only got 20 million skill
14322s points whatever everyone is equal it's a
14325s really good way of getting into uh
14326s tournaments and giving it a go and who
14328s knows maybe you come through maybe you
14330s win some cool prizes uh so thank you
14333s very much to the the guys in the
14334s community team like cease to be zealous
14335s who's been an absolute hero getting that
14337s all set up running all the uh the the
14339s trials and just managing on the teams
14341s like without him doing things like that
14343s and of course people like CCP Aurora who
14345s can carry that torch before him
14347s um then we wouldn't be where we are
14348s right now with you know this this
14349s incredible incredible tournament
14351s um Mr you'll let you had some thoughts
14353s yeah I just wanted to add I mean you're
14355s talking about the the Thunderdome
14356s portion where everyone's equal on score
14357s points but you know you could have five
14360s million skill points all dedicated
14361s towards flying a frigate and we've seen
14363s how important some of this frigate
14365s tackle is in these matches you don't
14367s have to be the person flying the bar
14369s guest or the bowel gone you can be the
14371s support Wing that's helping your team
14372s actually secure the objectives by
14374s tackling down the targets that they need
14375s to get onto and really that is as
14377s important as anything else so yeah
14379s there's no reason not to get involved
14380s you just have to find an alliance to
14382s take part with yeah I mean some of my
14384s earlier tournament memories was flying a
14386s new tackle vexer in my job will just go
14389s sit on someone and be incredibly
14390s annoying and then wait not appear in any
14392s kill males and just wait to be killed
14394s myself now let's go some quick
14396s predictions here for this upcoming match
14397s it's going to be platinum sensitivity
14398s versus arrival mystical mate who are you
14400s thinking Platinum sensitivity and jintan
14403s I think the Rival might have this
14405s they've been looking really strong
14406s they're not a team we had super high
14408s expectations for but they have
14410s demonstrated a really good level of
14411s execution so far in this tournament well
14414s they have indeed and I have super high
14415s expectations for arrival so I'm going to
14417s go for them let's go to the arena and
14419s find out who will win
14426s like Safeguard and moderator here for
14428s platinum sensitivity versus a rival
14430s Platinum sensitivity bringing a widow
14432s Vindicator a bad end with the
14435s stormbringer for anti-drone support
14436s Mega's Pawn effects for lengths Thalia
14438s Deacon for Reps crucifier skybreaker for
14441s more control and anti-drone damage
14445s yeah meanwhile a Rivals want to he's
14448s going to want to get on top of things at
14449s zero we see that those Osprey navies the
14452s slept near and the klamer are all fit
14454s with auto cannons and heavy assault
14457s missiles respectively so it's going to
14459s be an all-out brawl as uh the Widow is
14462s going to try to do it's very level best
14465s to jam things out and try to mitigate
14467s incoming damage Mark bridge is having
14469s lost his Flagship Vindicator in the
14472s previous round has not been deterred and
14474s will bring the tech 2 variant of that
14476s supported by an abandon and forget
14480s support
14482s still a fabulously scary ship even if
14484s it's fit like a poor still very good and
14488s against a team that intends to brawl a
14491s very scary proposition that said a rival
14493s has a fantastic amount of damage on
14495s their team it's entirely possible they
14497s could headshot this Widow and Vindicator
14499s before taking too many losses themselves
14501s that is definitely their win condition
14503s for this match
14505s yeah I can't help but wonder what jams
14508s are going to be on that Widow if it's
14511s um Amar and galente uh then Kentucky was
14514s going to be a very very sad individual
14517s however if they rolled correctly and
14519s have caldarya ninatar then that's going
14522s to change the dynamic of this match very
14524s heavily in Platinum sensitivity's favor
14526s we see that Platinum sensitivity has a
14528s control bar that is nearly off of the
14530s screen
14532s and here we go we see both teams
14535s starting to kite away from each other at
14536s the start of this match I guess the uh
14538s Platinum sensitivity team not too
14540s confident in their damage and a rival
14542s not too confident in theirs we're seeing
14545s a lot of control thrown out from
14546s Platinum sensitivity they predicted
14548s correctly and they have a lot of missile
14549s guidance disruption going out onto the
14551s arrival team with one dragging disrupter
14554s for the sleffner uh that just kind of
14556s worked out for them
14559s yeah um given that this is a shield
14561s composition that a rival has brought
14563s they probably have a lot less overall
14567s um
14568s Lots to have e-war against Platinum
14571s sensitivity likewise like you were
14573s saying I can't help but feel like the
14575s crucifier might have
14576s um rolled in correctly with
14579s um what's going to be in their slots and
14582s maybe they just have a series of
14585s tracking disruptures they can put on the
14587s sleptner and maybe not a lot of guidance
14589s um at the moment we see that
14591s the sign of arrival has chosen to ball
14594s up on one of the micro jump drive units
14597s and platinum sensitivity is happy to
14600s just sit in the very center of the Arena
14602s as both teams decide to figure out what
14605s exactly it is they want to do as both
14609s teams are just kind of staring at each
14611s other right now
14612s and platinum sensitivity the clustered
14614s around the micro jump unit they seem to
14616s have begun to have picked a direction
14618s they're Loosely all pointing toward the
14621s Platinum sensitivity team is now both
14624s teams seem to be rushing toward each
14625s other they're neglecting not to micro
14627s jump it seems
14629s oh wait nope corrected they've all
14631s activated simultaneously
14634s yeah that's gonna be fooled from all of
14637s the arrival team they're going to try to
14638s catch um something for platinum
14640s sensitivity out of position and they are
14641s now Landing in the back line let's see
14643s what they go for they are on top of the
14645s Vindicator the Widow and the pond
14646s effects I could feel Widow call here
14649s rather shortly that would make a lot of
14650s sense to me and it will be the call
14652s they're going to go for Kentucky in the
14654s Widow very well played by a rival
14656s perfect timing and execution
14658s and we talked about wind conditions
14660s earlier that's arrivals they've got to
14661s go for this Widow blow it out of the
14663s water and then Focus their damage on The
14665s Vindicator if they can take down both of
14667s those battleships they have a pretty
14669s good chance of winning this match
14670s moderator what does platinum sensitivity
14672s hoping for
14673s Platinum sensitivity is hoping that they
14675s can string out some of these heavy
14676s assault missile boats it turns out they
14678s do actually have a lot of guidance comps
14680s they do actually have a lot of jams and
14682s they're putting their jams onto that
14684s Scimitar using it to try to put damage
14687s into the Osprey Navy issue they might
14689s lose their Widow for it but they're
14691s saying if we're going to lose our Widow
14692s you're going to bleed an osprey Navy
14694s issue or more before we lose anything
14697s major but that Widow is holding just
14698s fine whereas larynx is not at all
14701s yeah it seems I'm seeing some split fire
14704s here from the arrival team they have
14705s spread their damage out to some of the
14707s logistics frigates from Platinum
14709s sensitivity and the Widow which is not a
14712s fantastic call as they're losing their
14714s Osprey that's the first of their damage
14715s Cruisers down they only have so many of
14718s those and they need to use their uptime
14719s very wisely and focus on head shotting
14722s here they're not doing that they're
14723s spreading damage on the Magus they're
14725s spreading damage in lethalia they spread
14726s damage to the Deacon they're wasting a
14728s lot of their time they totally wasted
14730s the uh whatever surprise Advantage may
14733s have come from that micro jump play as
14735s both of these teams have tackled each
14736s other down and they're just somewhat of
14738s a static Brawley mess in the middle of
14741s the Arena now yeah
14746s unfortunately for arrival they don't
14748s have a choice because uh Platinum
14750s sensitivity has done a very good job at
14752s stringing apart those ships that jumped
14754s they didn't all land together and when
14756s they went from Kentucky they split up a
14758s little bit
14759s um on the way in and we can see that all
14763s of the ships from arrival are really
14764s guidance disrupted they're being webbed
14766s down scrammed this is actually perfect
14768s execution from Platinum sensitivity
14772s um having their Sky breaker having their
14774s pontifex Magus stormbringer hold things
14776s down and spread them apart yeah a rival
14779s has a ton of damage but they can't apply
14781s that to any one Target because they're
14783s all split apart from each other and the
14785s guidance disruptors are wreaking havoc
14787s as the two Navy Ospreys drop
14790s yeah Platinum sensitivity not having any
14792s trouble at all applying their damage is
14793s another Navy Osprey goes down it looks
14796s like they're going to go after the
14797s stipple now of black tooth Tony about to
14799s get those teeth punched out as he has
14801s webbed down he's getting some reps but
14803s it will not be enough and the Widow is
14805s highly likely to land gems on the
14807s Scimitar as it can focus all of its
14809s jamming power on that one ship now a
14812s rival is trying to return fire it looks
14814s like on the sky breaker now uh they're
14817s having a little bit of trouble getting
14818s themselves into the same page here the
14820s sky breaker not really a high priority
14822s Target for them the Widow is taking sun
14825s damage but not dying nearly as fast as
14827s they need to they are rapidly running
14829s out of time to win this match
14832s yeah and I'm gonna be uh definitely uh
14835s in Platinum sensitivities uh Camp here
14838s um just the way that a rival is spread
14840s out uh none of their targets are none of
14843s their target calling is able to actually
14845s apply damage uh they have on top of
14848s Kentucky they have a total of a caracal
14851s and a fly catcher maybe a claymore that
14854s can do anything uh meanwhile another
14856s disciple dies and Mark Bridges uh team
14860s is doing work here the Widow can tarp it
14863s definitely has called RH jams
14865s um we've seen those continue to stay on
14867s top of the Navy Drake in the caracal so
14869s definitely packing something called Ari
14871s uh just really mitigating the amount of
14873s incoming damage yes he is in half armor
14875s but another caracal drops and even if he
14878s dies it's very worth it for the 24
14880s points of platinum sensitivity is killed
14883s so far
14884s and you can see with the Widow here the
14886s amount of damage that it's taken once
14888s they've all gotten onto the same page
14889s you've got to imagine a replay of this
14892s match where they do that right at the
14893s start and use that all in micro jump
14896s play to just headshot the Widow it would
14898s be at a much more successful position
14900s than they're at now as their schleffner
14902s struggling to cling to life with his
14904s ancillary Shield booster clawing those
14906s Shield hit points back
14907s but it's gonna be a losing battle that
14910s has a very finite time to give him that
14912s additional tank boost and once it runs
14914s out they're gonna grind him down into
14916s dust
14918s yeah and I mean this is something that
14920s we're seeing out of platinum sensitivity
14921s that you have to demonstrate if you
14924s really want to make it into the top a
14925s and then top six and then top four you
14928s know grinding your way through the lower
14929s bracket you have to very effectively
14931s apply your scrams apply your e-war
14934s um just like jinton and Mr Cole might
14936s were talking about on the desk uh
14938s Platinum sensitivity has a ton of e-war
14941s has a ton of tackle and they have to
14942s very effectively and quickly assign
14944s who's going to do what when they're
14946s going to do it and how they're going to
14947s execute and platinum sensitivity is
14949s executing right now with the very best
14951s of them uh hats off to them
14953s yeah very clean well-run match from
14956s Platinum sensitivity they knew what
14958s their comp did they showed a lot of
14959s restraint and not just charging forward
14961s after arrival they saw the micro jump
14963s play coming as the sleffner goes down
14965s and they were fully prepared for it they
14968s kept their composure and just not a very
14971s acclaimed performance from a rival here
14973s they are getting slowly picked apart
14975s their fly catcher goes down their
14978s Scimitar is well controlled at this
14980s point he's putting out some occasional
14981s reps but the sustained repping power he
14984s can bring to the table is not enough to
14986s keep up with a full Platinum sensitivity
14988s team that is totally unfazed by what a
14991s rival brought to the field here
14993s yeah we don't even see any remote repair
14995s effects so that's likely going to be uh
14997s you know those 20 second Jam Cycles up
14999s wreaking havoc on the Scimitar not being
15002s able to rep up our time Hardy's Drake
15004s Navy issue as the Drake Navy issue goes
15007s down into armor and will drop shortly
15010s um one of the difficulties with these
15011s micro jump drive plays is that when
15014s you're as far away as a rival is is you
15017s can jump and you'll be right on top of
15018s people but you still have to acquire a
15021s look and that can take time and what
15024s Platinum sensitivity did in that time is
15026s Just Adjust all of their tackling nearly
15029s perfectly so that as soon as
15033s um the arrival team landed they had
15035s their tackle Wing assigned to each of
15038s the mean core ships and were able to
15039s pull the Widow apart far enough that
15043s only maybe one or two could actually
15044s apply meaningful damage uh really I
15047s can't overstate how brilliantly executed
15049s that was uh as Bacardi desire is
15052s dropping down into Shield looking like a
15055s clean sweep as there's a minute left on
15057s the clock
15058s yeah this claimer is definitely gonna
15060s die the Scimitar has pulled some range
15063s there's not exactly a lot of tackle on
15066s the Platinum sensitivity team but they
15067s do have the sky breaker trying to chase
15069s him down a little bit and the sky
15071s breaker I don't know if he's giving up
15073s and trying to come back it looks like he
15075s is they might just leave the Scimitar B
15077s for now
15078s oh no it's because he's boundary
15080s violated there he goes yeah he he
15082s decides to uh you know just uh end it
15085s that way
15086s um it looks like the hyena of zags is
15088s attempting to do the same let's see if
15091s he can try to go for the world record uh
15094s mjd Play Here hyen is known for being
15096s very very fast
15098s um so he might actually be able to do it
15101s uh both teams good fighting and local as
15104s uh Platinum sensitivity moves on from uh
15108s their lower bracket and gets themselves
15110s into top eight
15112s now it's not just about the speed it's
15114s also about the angle of the hyena is
15116s coming he's not coming from toward the
15118s center of the Arena if he doesn't change
15120s his angle I think he's gonna have a hard
15122s time hitting it but that said he's in
15124s position
15127s unfortunately he's out of time that said
15131s let's look at him he is a 120 dick as
15135s micro jumped off spools
15138s he is 241 wow 246 251 256.
15143s this might be a record I'm not sure if
15144s he's not exploding because we're after
15146s time but uh I think that might be a new
15149s record
15150s it might be the boundary record but the
15152s time is over he's gotten some extra
15153s micro warp drive ticks in there I don't
15155s know if that's going to count for the
15156s Guinness World Records but we'll turn it
15158s back to the desk to break this down
15176s [Music]
15179s [Applause]
15183s guys stop being casual they're really
15186s bad we should not lose anybody to this
15188s warp off warp off take the fleet warp
15190s everybody warp off this is a really
15192s really bad execution I'm very
15193s disappointed
15198s another great haul back from Amar damn
15201s I'm thirsty
15206s that hits the spot
15211s [Applause]
15220s uh yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP
15222s collectively uh so that's why that
15224s Alliance logo is in the game of course
15227s you could change your alliance by
15228s leaving but that would be kind of a jerk
15230s move that kind of oh you don't like it
15231s now sucks I'm gonna go join
15249s arrival have now departed from the
15251s alliance tournament in a exciting match
15253s uh we saw a pretty cool mjd play from
15256s the whole team they all lined up on that
15257s mjd Beacon they all align down towards
15260s their target after moving around joking
15262s for possession being careful then they
15264s jumped in right on top of that Widow but
15266s ccbb you're drumming the desk what
15269s happened why didn't it work as we as we
15270s thought it was going to I think they
15271s landed a little too scattered and as
15274s they mentioned they had to lock the
15275s target up when you land maybe not in
15277s lock range as you're pumping that mjd
15279s from from the beacon and then when you
15281s land you're kind of out of position you
15282s can't properly apply all that damage it
15284s would have been super interesting to see
15285s if they just sat on that Beacon for a
15288s while and didn't do anything what if
15290s they just waited until you know three
15291s minutes left of the match and just
15293s headshotted one of the frigates that
15294s would have been a very like boring match
15296s to watch but like an attack that maybe
15298s could have worked out better yeah we're
15300s seeing
15301s um teams favor more sort of control
15303s heavy setups now as we're getting deeper
15305s into the alliance tournament uh comps
15308s that reward execution in patients and
15311s you know Soul solid piloting speaking of
15313s solid piloting let's take a look at the
15315s player profile of howling wind one of
15317s the key members of the arrival team he
15319s was flying in the logistics uh Cruiser
15322s I'm told now we don't have that
15323s available we'll have it in just a minute
15325s we'll come back to that uh Blackberry
15326s pirate what else could the arrival team
15328s have done I mean it's so hard to
15330s practice a maneuver like that but in all
15332s honesty just kidding wind has arrived
15336s just a few minutes late so howling went
15338s uh flying currently obviously with
15339s arrival previously with that he was in
15341s The Weekend Warriors uh going back to
15343s Alliance tournament 11 when he was in
15345s Rainbow Dash friends as we can see he
15347s normally flies the logistic ships for
15349s these teams flying in the Scimitar a
15351s bunch of times the newest the Basilisk
15352s and the scalpel he has once been allowed
15355s to fly in the bar gas but clearly took
15356s that off him and put him back in the
15357s logistics ship uh four wins nine losses
15360s so they've struggled a little bit but I
15361s mean you can see here just looking at
15363s matches played every time they go
15364s further and further and further they're
15366s definitely a team that is improving
15367s consistently as far as I remember even
15370s like the alliance open anger games and
15371s some of the other uh competitions
15373s they've competed in this is a team with
15375s the core of people who are just getting
15377s better and better and better and I would
15378s expect to see them again next year doing
15380s very well no Bart what else could they
15382s have done ah well they could have won I
15385s got totally distracted there um I do do
15387s agree I actually think Misty said
15388s something about out them earlier that
15390s this team is they definitely look back
15392s and learn from their mistakes for this
15394s specific one honestly like the only real
15397s mistake was maybe not practicing that
15399s maneuver and like Landing everyone
15400s together because they did end up spread
15402s out and I think it was less that a rival
15404s made mistakes and more that uh Platinum
15407s sensitivity just capitalized so well
15409s like as soon as all those ships landed
15411s they noticed they were spread out they
15413s split their uh webs and scrams and
15415s whatever to tackle everything away from
15417s the Widow because like clearly Platinum
15419s sensitivity saw what was happening he's
15421s like they're going to try and kill our
15422s Widow we need to not let that happen and
15425s then they executed it perfectly so I
15427s Gotta Give Them props for it it did look
15429s really good when it had it because like
15432s the chord looked like it landed
15433s perfectly and then they sent me to the
15434s side and I was like oh what a move but
15436s then nothing came out no damage it was
15438s just kind of like where is it you know I
15440s think bars right though that that was
15441s more down to platinum sensitivity just
15444s defending it super well than arrival
15445s doing anything wrong uh but that's it
15447s arrival argon from the tournament so no
15449s more about them all right our next match
15451s is an exciting one uh Brave Collective
15453s versus Nano fiber tokens again these are
15455s elimination matches so these teams are
15456s fighting to avoid going home and for of
15458s course more prize ships uh Brave
15460s Collective uh at least Randolph AKA CTV
15463s Swift's new favorite team as pandemic
15464s Legion sadly departed uh last weekend
15467s Blackboard part uh what do you make of
15470s this match up I think this is uh it's
15472s been really really interesting because
15473s Brave has just been consistently better
15476s at the alliance tournament than really
15477s they should be I guess as a way to put
15480s it where we've had like so many people
15481s go in the Fantastic captains go to
15483s different teams sometimes team CCP uh
15486s but again like you see in this this band
15489s setup that they've done that they are
15491s paying attention to what other teams are
15493s doing and that is like one of those big
15494s highlights of what makes a good team is
15497s they're actually spending their time you
15499s know going back researching
15500s understanding and they even actually
15502s went back and saw what nanofiber wrought
15503s last time and are targeting it which is
15505s really good so in this moment where we
15507s have an hour hour and a half between
15508s matches they're still like on top of it
15511s and ready to go
15512s yeah on a ccpb we're seeing here that
15515s the 95 tokens Banning Bargas looking
15517s balgorn and brave Collective Banning
15519s curse hyena executive Navy issue the
15521s executive Navy issue is not something we
15523s see super often get banned uh do you
15525s have any thoughts on that I mean it's
15526s one of those ships that we reworked and
15528s now has a ton of damage on top of a lot
15530s of speed that he can just ignore being
15532s played it because of that um what's it
15535s called again that bonus that it has
15536s where it doesn't lose plate Mass bonus
15538s there you go so it's a it's a very
15540s different chip than it was a month ago
15542s uh so it's interesting to see how the
15544s meta has developed into seeing a lot of
15547s the ship and then also seeing it banned
15548s I don't think a month ago people would
15550s have bothered to ban the exact Navy from
15552s anything I think we're going to be
15553s seeing a really interesting match here
15555s the match before with uh with NFTA
15557s against Road Coppell was incredible
15560s we have a lot of people uh who obviously
15562s looking at Brave like you said I think
15564s they're a lot stronger than what I guess
15566s their reputation has
15568s um this is going to be a super
15569s interesting match it is exactly going to
15571s be a super interesting match uh I know
15573s CC Swift is uh is hoping for for a solid
15576s Victory from the brave Collective right
15578s now
15579s um let's do quick predictions and see
15581s what we actually think so Bart who's
15583s gonna win this uh I'm going with brave
15585s just because I've I've been watching
15586s them and I've been loving watching them
15588s get better and better at the 80 over the
15589s last couple years and ccbb what do you
15592s think I have to say nft I mean that
15594s match with wrote before I I thought
15595s they're out and then they just kind of
15597s clotted back I I've got a root for them
15599s 100 yeah I mean this is a hard one I
15603s feel like I agree with both of you
15604s especially like NFC really did claw that
15606s back from Rook Capell in a super
15608s exciting match but I think I have to do
15610s it for dunk as well uh he's he's such a
15613s bro he always brings his briefcase of
15614s friendship uh you know I'm a big dunk
15616s fan so let us go to the arena and find
15619s out as Brave Collective face off against
15620s nanofiber tokens
15628s hello I am moderator joined by Alex AF
15631s card for the final match that the two of
15633s us will be commentating and we're going
15635s to get a good one we see double
15637s Armageddon Navy issue uh EOS Dexter Navy
15640s pontifex going for a bit of a mixture
15644s between that
15646s heavy rapid missile setup and a little
15651s bit of drones what are brave running
15655s Brand family double Nighthawk Claymore
15657s sleffner it looks like they might be
15659s going for Rush here scalpel Karen for
15661s lodgy jacked off simple fly catcher a
15664s lot of Destroyer damage on their low end
15667s very interesting to see if these are
15668s tackle control or just all-out damage
15671s destroyers into that Moa
15674s yeah I would not be surprised if this is
15677s going to be very much a rush comp I can
15679s see that these jackdaws are running uh
15682s Rockets the heavy
15684s um you know command ships are running
15686s heavy assault missiles and auto cannons
15689s as well so they're really going to want
15690s to close range get on top of something
15692s and just delete it I really like though
15695s that they have a solid support core in
15698s the Jackal flycatcher as well as a MOA
15700s that can really uh pressure you know say
15703s like the Thalia the Deacon the fentanyl
15705s while your main ships would go after
15708s either one of these heavier ships in an
15710s EOS or get a Navy
15712s yeah if I'm brave Collective I'm looking
15714s very hungrily at one of those getting
15717s navies as the primary for my ham ships
15719s while I send the rest of my low ends to
15721s go right after the Thalia Deacon combo
15723s break one of them and you'll break the
15725s other in quick fashion and then it's
15727s just a matter of a grind
15728s meanwhile in that if I were tokens I
15731s don't think they have that much of an
15732s answer for the uh Kieran scalpel other
15734s than to try and nude them out
15737s yeah we see that a lot of these drone
15741s boats are very often not running any
15744s guns they just go well full newts just
15747s because they choose to go for drone
15749s damage amplifiers and therefore
15753s um you know guns might not be the most
15755s effective option usually neutralizing
15757s things is a bit more we see that um one
15761s of the players has been disconnected and
15764s so they're going to attempt to log in
15766s before the referee start this match so
15768s we might have a little bit more time
15769s here
15770s um something that cannot be understated
15772s though is the control bar of nanofiber
15775s tokens being maxed out whereas Brave
15777s doesn't look like they have any real
15780s neuting power or disruption on their end
15783s but what they do have is triple the
15785s attack bar which is going to be the the
15787s key counter play here they can cut
15789s through that control with their
15791s overwhelming damage and they're going to
15792s be in a good position here they do have
15794s a bit of an uphill battle as those
15796s get-ins are exceedingly tanky and we see
15799s twitch chat investing in Nano coins as
15801s we speak
15803s yeah uh team do you support the wave and
15806s brave or do we want some Nano coins uh
15808s fortunately uh the disconnected player
15811s has rejoined us so both teams will be
15813s playing with their full 10 person roster
15816s and we are off
15819s we immediately see the brave team
15821s streaking across the field as nanofiber
15824s tokens is desperately trying to
15825s rearrange their ball so that they have a
15827s proper back line and make sure that
15829s their get-ins are doing some screening
15832s for their low end just desperately
15833s trying to pull range here got the pawn
15835s effects vexer Navy arbitrator uh as well
15838s as the Thalia all trying to pull away
15842s uh the Nighthawk is getting some
15844s guidance disruption they're putting
15845s newts in the Claymore tracking
15846s disruption on the sleffner you can see
15848s the nanofiber control bar spiking to
15850s about half its full girth whereas the
15853s five Collective has not yet really put
15855s their damage down they're they're trying
15857s to put some damage onto the Thalia of
15859s nanofiber tokens but not nearly what
15861s they could be doing
15864s so the Claymore is going to be the
15865s primary meanwhile we see that the
15867s jackdaw of argonal has gotten on top of
15869s the Sentinel of Asura chem so they're
15871s going to pick off the Sentinel with the
15873s Jackal disciple of aliphil is going to
15876s support so I really like that call put
15878s your low end chips kill off the Sentinel
15881s that's going to be doing disruption onto
15883s your main core you get a lot of utility
15885s off of that and once you do that you
15888s kill the Sentinel maybe you can move on
15890s to the logic
15891s um speaking of waji Chadwick is going to
15894s need a lot of reps and so will cast out
15896s if both of them are taking an
15898s appreachable amount of damage from this
15900s Max damage uh Brave Collective Rush
15902s however the fly catcher goes down of cat
15905s zero
15906s an acceptable loss for brave flycatcher
15910s is a great ship it's putting out a lot
15911s of damage for them but it's not the core
15912s of their setup they're gonna trade that
15914s fly catcher and possibly this MOA for
15916s the geta Navy
15918s uh they make it the Sentinel as well
15920s which would be a fantastic trade for
15921s them the more of that Sentinel is on the
15923s field the more value is adding to the
15926s Nano team is the Moa does indeed go down
15928s and the Sentinel will join him shortly
15930s unless he can get a little bit more
15932s lodgy it's tough oh Brave might lose
15934s their Brave just lost their Keurig that
15936s is a huge loss for brave oh you don't
15940s want to see that they may do a logic
15942s trade here
15944s yeah that's the Thalia unfortunately the
15947s Thalia is gotten a cloud of drones on
15950s top of them it's a little bit less tanky
15952s than the Deacon buddy uh the Deacon was
15954s a little bit out of range trying to save
15956s the Sentinel and uh they've readjusted
15959s to get on top of
15960s um the Deacon nanofiber tokens
15963s um their Armageddon is getting rather
15965s rather low but if they can keep up the
15968s Thalia losing a single get a Navy issue
15970s if they can get another jacked off they
15972s can get another stifle it might just be
15974s worth it I think it is well well worth
15977s it nanofiber the stock is rising
15980s investments in Nano coins looking very
15982s pressure in here as they are getting a
15985s pretty firm grip on this match now uh
15987s their Thalia not entirely out of the
15989s woods yet and they still have a ton of
15991s top end damage might be able to kill
15992s this other get in Navy but without Logic
15995s on their field they're going to slowly
15996s lose more and more of their low end and
15998s that Claymore is it's just not long for
16001s this world the spiffle goes down that's
16003s a big chunk of Their Own and damage it's
16004s completely cleared off at this point
16006s they've got four battle Cruisers four
16009s command ships for their DPS and that is
16013s it and they are loaded for bear they're
16015s not really going to be able to impact
16016s this low end they're trying to kill the
16018s vexer Navy they're going to apply
16019s relatively well to Cruisers but they're
16022s they're not going to change the match by
16024s killing this Vector Navy they need to
16025s get more points and they need to be able
16027s to hold themselves on the field which is
16029s going to be very hard with the damage
16031s coming off of nanofiber right now
16034s yeah I mean it's good well in all good
16036s that you're killing a vexer Navy issue
16038s but you really need to be applying that
16039s damage right now to a get a Navy issue
16042s or failing that in EOS they need to just
16044s all death ball up together and really
16046s get this Armageddon Navy out of uh this
16050s existence because they're really trying
16053s to just trade out damage right now Brave
16055s and nanofiber they're equal on points
16057s but all of the points are so heavily
16059s concentrated into just this top end
16062s whereas nanofiber tokens has most of
16064s their team I say as the heretic does
16066s finally go down
16068s yeah the The Narrative goes down but
16070s it's a bit of a time waste for them it's
16072s a red herring they get the kill but
16073s they're losing valuable time meanwhile
16075s disclaimer is in half armor and dropping
16077s rapidly they're putting a respectable
16079s amount of damage into this EOS but that
16081s damage will slow pretty noticeably once
16083s this claimer finally dies
16086s yeah and it'll be difficult possibly to
16089s kill an EOS they're known for having
16090s excellent kinetic resist and
16094s unfortunately uh Nighthawks really only
16096s do meaningful kinetic damage so once the
16099s Claymore and flepner die that have
16100s selectable damage it's going to be
16102s really really difficult to push through
16104s anything
16105s um and once they lose a claymore they're
16107s really going to have to kill a deacon
16109s failure
16110s um to break anything I think the EOS is
16112s safe at this point given how kinetic
16114s locked these Nighthawks are they've been
16117s splitting their damage between the EOS
16118s and the Thalia not enough to break
16120s either one of the Thalia is not really
16122s at risk at this point they do not have
16123s the tackle to really allow the hams from
16126s these Nighthawks to apply to a Target
16128s like the Thalia so it's fairly safe it's
16131s going to take some damage but that
16132s damage will get wrapped they needed to
16134s just try to bust through the high end of
16136s nanofiber tokens not able to do it here
16139s not able to execute as Xander Vale
16141s getting into low Shields here doing his
16144s best the tank but dropping very rapidly
16146s deadly and he has disrupted painted
16149s nuded the other Nighthawk is also
16151s knitted down and cable to sleffner is
16153s tackled so all three of these ships are
16156s exactly where nft wants them as soon as
16158s they decide they want to take those
16159s kills they are there
16161s yeah for the last 30 seconds to a minute
16164s or so uh Brave has desperately been
16166s trying to put damage into the Deacon of
16168s Andy and we've seen Nighthawk missiles
16170s apply but they're just not doing any
16172s damage to the Deacon uh you know very
16175s signature tanks if you don't have a web
16177s on top of top of a deacon and you are
16180s guidance disrupted your Nighthawk is not
16182s going to do meaningful damage to these
16184s lodgy frigs that have such tiny
16186s signature and still have links from that
16188s Pont effects and EOS Laden is down into
16191s about half armor and I can't help but
16193s feel like this is the last hurray for
16196s brave as their active bar is now somehow
16198s larger than their Total Defense bar
16201s that is that is the uh it's really shell
16204s boosters coming off the sleffner I've
16205s got to wonder maybe he has two of them
16207s that bar seems extremely swollen
16210s for a defense bar uh the the purple
16213s swelling is is overtaking the rest of
16217s their bar uh the Nighthawk goes down
16219s cable UDA the last man standing here
16221s three minutes to go in this match
16224s not looking great for him he is scrammed
16227s he's been tracked disrupted for quite
16228s some time and now we're seeing the
16230s neutralizers and Target painters from
16232s Nano being applied to him here as he
16235s will get ground into Pace we'll see what
16237s a fantastic tank he's packing but with
16240s the newts on him with the inability to
16242s return fire in any meaningful way it's a
16245s matter of time here once his charges
16247s drop he will drop
16249s yeah I mean that said um I wouldn't be
16253s too ashamed uh if I was do Jack uh like
16256s you described we thought that this might
16258s be kind of a mid-tier team maybe a price
16260s ship enjoyer possibly but they're going
16262s to go away from this event with two
16265s excuse me four Gary's and four baskets
16268s so um a total of eight uh Alliance
16270s tournament prize ships that's gonna be
16272s well worth uh over a trillion isk
16276s um if I'm brave I don't feel too bad
16278s about my performance in this event
16280s no they did Fabulous especially compared
16283s to previous Alliance tournaments and
16284s fitting that dunk dinkle the retiring
16287s Brave executive should be here to see
16289s his team's Swan songs cable UDA drops
16291s below half Shields now we can see them
16294s all in the chat giving their Brave
16295s salutes to these Brave Pilots as cable
16298s drops to one-third 25 soon to be zero
16302s percent Shield the armor will absolutely
16305s evaporate under the withering fire from
16307s Nano here as they are shredding him
16310s right now and walking on their way to a
16312s fabulous and very interesting matchup
16315s this really could have gone either way
16316s at the start but cable Utah will bite
16319s the dust as we throw it back to the desk
16320s for a breakdown
16342s [Music]
16347s thank you
16350s guys stop being casual they're really
16352s bad we should not lose anybody to this
16355s warp off warp off take the fleet warp
16357s everybody warp off this is a really
16358s really bad execution I'm very
16360s disappointed
16365s another great hall back from Omar damn
16368s I'm thirsty
16371s ah that hits the spot
16377s [Applause]
16386s Yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP
16389s collectively so that's why that Alliance
16391s logo is in the game of course you could
16393s change your alliance by leaving but that
16395s would be kind of a jerk move that kind
16397s of oh you don't like it now this Lego
16399s sucks I'm gonna go join
16408s thank you
16415s nanofiber tokens they're pulling the rug
16417s out from underneath Brave Collective and
16419s sending them out of Alliance tournament
16421s 18. black part pirate what happened
16423s there to Brave
16425s well unfortunately I think that brave
16427s brought a rush setup without a lot of
16431s DPS and I know that that seems kind of
16433s counter-intuitive and that's how I felt
16435s when I looked at their Rush setup we've
16436s been seeing these like almost eight
16439s ships worth of DPS Rush setups where
16440s they're these like really heavy caldari
16442s Navy Osprey Navy authorizes with hams
16444s Brave actually kind of went like a
16446s throwback from like
16448s I would almost say the alliance open
16449s where they're running almost pure
16451s Command Ship DPS which is really high on
16453s paper but you still only really had four
16456s major DPS ships they did actually have a
16458s rocket jackdaw which I talked about I
16459s love rocket jackdaws because they do
16461s Insane damage but they also suck and um
16464s it was very unfortunate to watch it do
16466s nothing
16467s yeah CPP why is it rocket Jack does suck
16469s in this case I mean in this case it was
16473s not to be rude probably how it was being
16475s flown it kind of overshot its Target a
16477s little bit and maybe should have just
16479s orbited 500 and probably would have done
16481s more we saw just zooming around and uh
16484s yeah we saw some of those smaller shapes
16486s the Thalia and the Sentinel just kind of
16488s get tickled and then nope just gonna not
16490s die here never mind yeah yeah I think
16493s that's Sentinel surviving in I don't
16494s know how many Hull points but he had a a
16496s small number of them remaining
16498s um and then was able to be wrecked back
16500s up by his lodge Bros uh and then it's
16503s one of those things Bart when you're in
16504s a in a match and you're shooting someone
16506s and they're just not dying and then you
16508s think you're about to kill them and then
16509s they get wrapped again then you spend
16510s more time shooting someone in the longer
16512s you're shooting this person who has
16514s decided not to Die the longer you uh
16516s can't go off shooting someone else and
16518s keep working your way through something
16519s memo you're being shot uh like how are
16521s you filming some teams obviously uh NC
16523s DOT being the the main one
16525s um what is going through the captains of
16527s the team's mind in those situations
16528s where something's just not breaking yeah
16531s uh well the worst part about it too is
16533s that Eve has a mechanic called
16534s overheating which you can only do a
16536s certain amount and so sometimes if
16537s you're sitting there and you're like
16538s okay well we're barely barely barely
16540s breaking the ship
16542s are we beating it because their logius
16544s overheating and what if we have cat
16545s pressure on their lodgy and what if we
16547s have new pressure on their ship we're
16549s trying to take down what if there's jams
16550s and what if there's this and this and
16551s this so I understand why a lot of the
16553s times teams will like triple down on
16555s this but then at the same thing your
16557s weapons are overheating as well
16559s um it's tough uh I think that when
16561s you're in like these really high damage
16563s Rush setups it is kind of worth it to
16565s say we're not breaking switch
16566s immediately just because that snap
16568s effect of switching over especially
16570s against an armor comp where they do have
16572s to actually spool the Reps back up on
16574s you uh has a chance but yeah I mean you
16576s never know like you hate to say it but
16578s you don't know what's going on on their
16579s ship and their comms hopefully I mean I
16582s guess you could but that doesn't really
16584s happen anymore I think it's technically
16585s illegal uh yeah no you're you're having
16588s to calculate their capacitor their heat
16590s their e or your capacitor your heat your
16593s e-war what if their pilot decides
16595s randomly to walk away we've seen it
16597s happen a couple times where people are
16598s like oh he's going zero Ms three minutes
16599s into the match as a tackle ship
16602s so yeah it's it's crazy I mean like
16605s there's a reason these schemes are so
16606s good and especially as the weekend goes
16608s on or we're starting to seem like
16610s the really top tier teams doing really
16612s top tier plays or not well we shall see
16617s um speaking of top tier teams um we are
16619s going to go soon to truth on the light
16620s versus templates calcif now you will
16622s know this is match 53 and nanofiber
16624s tokens have to fight again in match 54.
16626s so they have a short turnaround time now
16628s they have to go away recompose
16629s themselves make sure they've got all the
16631s ships and stuff they need and get ready
16632s but we'll get to them later let's look
16634s at the balance between truth honor light
16635s and template Council so I just want to
16638s like banning at the stratus Ishtar
16639s Nighthawk Templars cast of banning out
16641s of the EOS the Bargas and the Blackbird
16643s Blackboard pirate what do you make of
16644s these bands here
16646s oh all right uh truth on our light is
16649s Banning the stratus again again yeah
16651s which is really weird
16653s um because I don't think they're good
16654s ships and I don't know if they think
16655s they're good ships uh it actually looks
16657s like it's almost the same bands that
16658s they did against Darkseid but templas
16660s khalsif is not dark side like I don't
16662s think anyone has ever been like oh yes
16664s temples calcif and dark side play very
16666s very similar
16667s um so I don't know what's going on here
16669s maybe they're trolling a little bit or
16671s maybe they're just like whatever full
16673s send but the temples calciphans
16675s especially with those blackbirds we've
16676s seen truth honor light one with
16677s blackbirds twice today
16679s so that makes perfect sense like they're
16681s like oh oh no iwor is here again
16684s and ccpb um Bart mentions the
16686s stratosphere like tell us about that
16688s ship like you see it being used like for
16690s solo stuff on uh Tranquility a lot but
16693s not usually in tournaments
16695s no it's a it's a drone chip which can
16697s cloak uh which kind of makes it a strong
16698s ish Hunter it's a weird chip because it
16701s does not enough damage to really justify
16704s what it does you know the right now it
16706s costs way too much for what it actually
16707s brings
16709s um in the tournament scene like you said
16710s it's not really the strongest there are
16712s lots of other drone comp ships that
16714s could work a lot better but I'm not sure
16715s why they twice in a row ban the stratus
16718s itself I don't know I might ask him
16719s earlier well also back in the day the
16723s Stratos for like I think one tournament
16725s was actually a really good ship to use
16726s because it could fly a full set of heavy
16729s drones now it can no longer fly a full
16730s set of heavy drones so it used to be
16733s this like okay this ship is worth
16734s Banning to get rid of an armor drone
16735s setup
16737s now I don't think it is
16739s okay so I'm gonna have to ask you guys
16740s for some predictions now so black Bart
16742s pirate truth on a light or template
16744s Council fear
16745s um I'm gonna go attempt this calcif
16746s because I've been wrong every single
16747s time today
16748s and uh ccpp obviously truth analytic
16752s what I said before when I shot casting
16753s the match like I was kind of beaming
16755s right they were playing to feed so they
16757s can get more skins so that you know in
16759s the whole run you win more ships more
16761s skins and everything obviously they're
16763s gonna win
16763s interesting so uh this is basically kind
16766s of a grudge match because uh in Alliance
16768s tournament 15 uh templates counts of not
16771s Hydra reloaded into the losers bracket
16773s in the first weekend of the tournament
16774s back when it was a four weekend
16775s tournament as well uh Hydro had to go
16778s three losers bracket run to get all the
16780s way back up to the final and then lose
16782s um so as far as I understand they
16784s haven't played again since so this would
16786s be interesting to see if Tempest Castle
16788s can pull it out once again so I'm going
16790s to put my money behind 10 plus calcif
16791s let's go to the arena and find out
16795s three two one
16798s hey everybody welcome back to the arena
16800s I am the Basilisk known by some as the
16802s most skilled even line pilot to never
16804s finish top 16 in the alliance tournament
16805s I'm joined by Fair weiner a man who with
16807s that last match with brave Collective
16809s unfortunately losing did still secure
16810s top 12 in the alliance tournament fear
16812s how are you doing are you are you happy
16813s it happened are you sad it's sorry sad
16815s it's over or well you know what I'm
16817s trying to say it's over but I'm looking
16818s forward to truth on her light versus
16820s temples calcif uh seeing some already
16823s slept nears already HFI is coming in
16825s from the truth on our Light Side uh
16827s bringing a kite set up meanwhile what do
16830s we see from temples calcif
16832s uh templates calcif seem to have brought
16834s this fairly standard triple armor
16835s Battleship call but I think we've seen
16836s from them a couple of times before and
16837s I'm curious to see how this is going to
16838s go obviously truth on light as you said
16840s bring in a fairly fly killer setup and
16841s that is not a fly killer a fly filled
16844s comp that they're up against in that
16845s Templars calcium side mainly those three
16847s bulky battleships so I expect them to
16849s just try and take out the small wing on
16851s that ship see if they can Alpha through
16853s the Sentinel behind the logic frigates
16854s that sort of stuff and just try and play
16856s it slow and Whittle down the Templars
16858s comp over the course of the match here
16860s you know it's not a quad battle cruiser
16862s comp lose last time around it was quad
16863s brawl battle Cruisers this time it's
16865s quad kite battle Cruisers with that
16867s shield with those uh ever important 720
16870s millimeter artillery cannons we are
16873s waiting for the tournament tool to uh do
16877s what it needs to do at the moment as uh
16880s we are still waiting for that countdown
16883s I you know this triple Battleship armor
16885s control setup we've seen a lot this
16887s tournament and I've noticed a bit of a
16889s rock paper scissors going on where we
16890s see these kind of Rush setups typically
16892s do well into these triple battleships or
16895s into like these kite setups and the or
16897s sorry into these triple Battleship
16899s setups and we see these triple
16900s Battleship setups project well against
16902s certain kite setups but other kite
16904s setups have been doing very well against
16906s these triple Battleship cores as we saw
16908s in the uh earlier match between Brave
16910s and lock range enjoyers yeah and I think
16913s this kite set up in particular from
16914s truth on the light obviously a very very
16916s high skill
16917s um group of players here on this team
16918s they're definitely capable of pulling
16919s off mechanics that are necessary to
16921s maintain the Ranger and I'm going to
16922s keep an eye personally on stalants in
16924s the hyena because I think the ranged
16925s webs on that hyena are basically the
16928s only real window that templates have of
16929s actually controlling the truth on the
16931s light and actually getting hold of
16932s something they're not going to get
16932s caught by a bowel gone we've seen lesser
16934s teams get caught by it but I just don't
16936s think it's going to happen for templates
16937s here with those ranged Belgium ones
16939s unless it's some sort of heroic mjd play
16941s but even then I mean truth on the light
16943s are good enough to just look at the MGD
16944s look at where he's going play with the
16946s range play the positioning and just get
16947s out of the way
16948s and as you can see on the uh fancy UI
16951s lots of dance being put out uh double
16954s moles plus a carries I've got dual
16956s jackdaws as well those are going to be
16957s putting out uh damps in their mid slots
16960s we saw them go for the Sentinel off the
16961s start they weren't able to Alpha it now
16962s going for this Magus he is living
16965s through these reps right now I believe
16967s this is just dual logic figure up so
16968s Deacon Thalia so wrecking shots should
16970s be enough but they haven't killed
16972s anything quite yet yeah as you said on
16974s the fancy UI 10 plus calcif are
16976s definitely not lock ranging Joys at the
16977s moment their support Wing can lock
16979s basically nothing and I think that's a
16981s really good allocation of the damps here
16983s um these these battleships they've got a
16984s pretty short range and they've got the
16985s tracking disruptors on them so they
16987s don't really need to worry too much
16988s about being locked by them the main
16990s concern is the webs from the hyena as I
16992s said and if you damp down that hyena he
16993s probably hasn't got a sensor booster 50
16995s might not have like a signal amp in the
16996s lows so it's going to be very very
16997s difficult for him to actually get into
16999s web range tracking interceptors going in
17001s onto blue melon and onto dextrogeo at
17004s the moment although I will say grapple
17006s and web has actually come on to melon in
17009s the sleptner so he is now taking some
17010s damage uh who actually has them grappled
17013s it is the balgorn uh got him with the
17015s long range web so true thunder light
17017s just gonna leave him to die and
17019s hopefully try to take out this Magus
17020s which they do do they do but yeah blue
17022s melon this is not good from him
17024s obviously as I said at the start the
17025s sleptness should really not be getting
17026s caught by a bow gone but Kayla 542 is
17028s pushing in but the orianna in the
17030s Tempest split is actually moving away
17031s from him so I mean there's a significant
17033s chunk of their damage there in that
17034s Battleship they need to kill the slept
17036s now although you know I guess they can
17037s take their time with it they know the
17038s truth on light and this claycomb aren't
17040s going to come around they're not going
17041s to turn around and come back to save him
17042s as long as they can keep this balcon on
17043s top of him which would you know the
17045s newts and the and the webs they
17046s definitely can and the abandon's closing
17048s in now as well they probably are going
17049s to be able to secure this lepner kill
17050s it's just about what can truth on alike
17052s get in the return
17054s they're gonna try to go for this
17055s arbitrator originally they went for the
17056s Sentinel but once again holding under
17058s those frigate webs the 720 is not
17060s tracking him
17061s at this range at the moment
17063s especially with those tracking computers
17065s from the arbitrator and Sentinel doing
17067s what they can do Bluebell and finally in
17068s a structure he will fall now things been
17070s traded by truth on our light at the
17072s moment and uh temples calcif off to an
17074s early lead
17075s yeah they are and of course as we've
17076s seen other matches that have played out
17078s slowly before this also puts the team
17080s that's behind at this you know they have
17082s they have the onuses on them to do
17084s something they need to make something
17085s happen and seeing that slapney get
17087s caught is disastrous maybe they should
17089s have split some of their damps on that
17091s battle gun just in case just as a safety
17092s measure
17094s um because you know the Bal gun on the
17095s hyena were the only ways they can really
17096s get caught here and they've got so many
17097s dams in this comp that the Jack doors as
17099s we mentioned the carries the two
17100s morrises there's just going to be
17101s overwhelming air pressure but they do
17102s manage to take down the Sentinel of
17103s whaling six names there
17106s and that is very important because the
17108s Sentinel has better e-war than the
17110s arbitrator uh in terms of the
17112s effectiveness of those tracking
17113s disruptors that have been uh running
17116s through these h5s and 3D [ __ ] nearest
17117s are now going to go on nostalia who is
17119s down into very low armor they nearly
17121s volleyed them through it one more set of
17123s uh gun cycle and it will do uh what they
17126s need to do and they take out the Thalia
17127s so now true thunder light are actually
17129s in a better position after taking that
17131s e-board off the table and one of the
17132s lodgy frigs the actress on a light have
17135s really shifted into gear here by taking
17136s out that Sentinel because in this kite
17138s comp they need to keep moving around so
17139s they they've got to keep range so they
17141s need the optimal range on their
17141s artilleries they need the tracking
17143s because they're burning around their
17144s opponents obviously burning around after
17145s them as well they need both of those
17147s critical stats for those artillery guns
17149s which obviously have decent range have
17150s pretty poor tracking taking that Central
17152s Off the Grid sort of solves that issue a
17153s little bit for them and lets them start
17154s chipping away at the failure as we saw
17156s they pop that pretty quickly now we're
17157s looking at the Deacon of safoy
17159s and if we take a look at the control uh
17162s on the side of Truth on our light beside
17164s them it's just Shield wraps those are
17166s the only effects going in onto them none
17168s of this e-war is hitting from Temple's
17170s calcif and they don't have anyone tackle
17172s truth on a light taking out another ship
17173s there I believe it was the pawn effects
17175s and now they are in the lead in terms of
17177s points of the match and they should just
17179s be able to live to win now
17181s yeah I mean it was a good start from
17182s Templars catching that [ __ ] now but
17184s lightning doesn't really strike twice
17186s and you know it's going to be tricky to
17187s catch Dexter or either of the fleet
17189s hurricanes in those battle cruises as
17191s well especially after you've lost for
17193s example the links on the Magus Skirmish
17195s links obviously very very critical for
17196s the web range on the balgon on the hyena
17198s and yeah now they're just going to
17199s continue chipping through the support
17201s Wing I mean I think they pop the pawn to
17202s fix they seem to have stopped on the
17203s Deacon I think now they're going back on
17204s to Oriana in the Tempest but yeah
17206s they're just gonna happen
17208s around come here for the 10 plus you as
17211s a template Fleet issue
17214s anyways uh gotta cover this Temple issue
17217s he doesn't have any logic frigates
17219s actually I should say he has one Deacon
17221s onto him which isn't a whole lot of
17222s rapping power
17223s um and the 720 artilleries they have
17225s decent DPS uh All Things Considered
17228s considering they are mostly an alpha uh
17230s style gun so they're taking them down
17233s they're burning through his armor reps
17235s and they should be able to take him uh
17237s as they've decided not to touch any of
17239s the rest of temples calcif's comp
17241s yeah and just sort of have a a slightly
17244s broader discussion here based on these
17245s comps
17246s um obviously when you you know you're up
17247s against truth on a light you know
17249s they're very highly rated execution team
17251s you know they can every pilot on this
17253s team is good at manual piloting they
17254s know where they're going they know their
17255s role what do you think about the
17257s Templars comp which is very sort of
17259s sort of one note I suppose you know it
17261s can either get on you with these three
17262s battleships and pump through you or it
17263s just gets kited around which is
17265s basically what we're seeing here do you
17266s think maybe like I think a little bit
17267s more versatile might have been a better
17270s play I think this is the type of comp if
17272s you don't you bring if you don't think
17274s you know what the other team is bringing
17276s and you're just like we'll hope they
17278s bring some sort of triple Battleship or
17279s armor control mirror match setup but
17282s that's not really something you can do
17283s up against teams like truth on our light
17285s who have myriads of tournament
17288s experience they won the last at they got
17290s knocked down the lower bracket yes but
17292s they still are a very scary team and
17295s they can bring in whatever comp they
17297s want and fly out very well so if you
17299s think oh I'll take this and hope that we
17300s got an armor control mirror match you're
17302s basically just shooting in the dark and
17304s hoping that maybe you can make something
17306s happen uh later on in the tournament but
17308s it doesn't matter what truth on our
17309s light flies here really because I think
17311s even if there were a mirror match they
17313s probably executed better over Temple's
17315s calcif yeah I mean trying to take this
17317s sort of coin flip that your armor
17319s control comp is either a theory crafted
17321s better or B piloted better than truth on
17323s a light is is a weighted coin I think in
17325s my opinion
17326s it's not great
17328s no it's not and also you brought armor
17330s control without high projection so you
17332s don't actually deal with uh these types
17335s of kite comps all that well even without
17336s the amount of e-war that they brought
17338s and you don't deal with uh you don't
17341s deal with rush very well because as
17343s we've seen time and time again these
17345s armor control comps unless you have like
17347s a flag Vindicator with very short-range
17349s guns still have trouble dealing with
17351s Shield rush because Shield Rush has
17353s overwhelming amounts of damage that
17354s you're not able to rep past when you
17356s take two Logie freaks
17358s so just going back to this hydrocon or
17361s truth on Alliant Justice League whatever
17362s you want to call them
17364s um throughout the tournament so far I
17365s think we remarked on day one and two
17366s that we didn't really see a huge amount
17368s of damp Supremacy we saw you know a fair
17370s amount of control more than obviously
17371s more than we saw last year when scripted
17373s damps weren't a thing but do you think
17375s this now where truth on lights sort of
17377s reaching the late stage of the
17378s tournament we're getting to top eight
17379s top six sort of area do you think now
17380s this is where truth on the light sort of
17381s starts to reveal their true power level
17383s and says look we've got this comp that's
17384s got five just absolutely ram-packed with
17387s damp ships you cannot play the game and
17389s other teams gonna follow suit here
17391s I think every team has dabbled with
17394s damps and with tracking disruptors one
17396s thing that we noticed is that the only
17398s team that was really bringing it early
17399s on in the tournament was paper numbers
17400s they were bringing it in the shield kite
17402s setup and then bringing some damps in
17404s the mids making the ships less tanky but
17406s able to kite around now we saw starting
17408s with tuskers and now with truth on our
17410s light a different take on that kind of
17413s damp and our control setup from either
17415s Shield kite or in tuscar's case armor
17418s kite
17419s um I called the armor kite one uh hammer
17422s time because he can't touch this very
17424s similar kind of idea from temples calcif
17427s bringing so much control in a shield
17429s setup so you're way faster than any of
17432s these armor control setups can really
17433s deal with yeah I actually had a chance
17435s to look at some of those kill mouse from
17436s the tuskers match like the Claymore
17438s um and I think he had literally a prop
17439s mod and then he had like two guidance
17441s disruptors true tracking disruptors and
17442s a damp or something so I imagine the
17444s rest of the ships the armor Nighthawks
17445s and all that the stalks Etc were just
17447s again just absolutely rampacked and of
17448s course that actually worked out in favor
17450s for them against truth on a light in a
17452s match that I thought at the start looked
17454s sort of a little bit a little bit
17455s questionable I thought was was that
17457s tuscus comp the ramblings of a Madman
17460s but actually it turned out to be the the
17462s scriptures of a genius
17464s and we're seeing what true thought on a
17467s lot has brought with that too I do think
17468s we're gonna see more damps show up as we
17470s are later in the tournament now that
17471s these teams are forced to play their
17473s hand truth or light in lower bracket now
17475s forced to play their hand against teams
17476s that they deem to be threats uh they
17478s will be up against either we form Volta
17480s or lock range enjoyers in the next match
17482s and those are teams that Volta second
17486s place in the at last time and then lock
17489s range enjoyers they were uh first place
17491s in the anger games earlier this year
17494s yeah I mean at the start of the day I
17496s was saying you know 18 teams left 16
17498s after the first two matches you can't
17500s swing a cat in either bracket without
17501s hitting a good team and now we're down
17502s to just what is it eight teams I believe
17504s or seven after this match sorry so I
17506s mean every match is obviously very very
17508s difficult there's a lot at stake here
17509s we're really getting into the higher
17510s tiers of the science tournament but that
17512s is I think going to be just about it
17514s from the arena here with 10 seconds left
17516s on the match there's gonna be truth I
17517s like taking it 71 points to 19.
17528s uh we're gonna send it back to the desk
17530s to break down that mattress and bring
17532s you into nanofiber tokens versus
17533s platinum sensitivity but don't go
17535s anywhere we'll be right back after this
17553s [Music]
17556s thank you
17564s sign was up
17585s pump it up a little more get the party
17588s going on the Dance Floor
17619s truth honor light bonking templar's
17621s Castle right out of the tournament uh
17623s with that incredibly piloted fly killer
17626s setup I have we saw at the start of that
17628s match uh it looked like they took their
17630s shot and they missed then they went for
17631s another ship and then they missed and we
17632s were sitting here thinking oh hang on
17634s our Temple's going to pull this one off
17635s are they doing it uh and then we saw a
17638s Magus just get volleyed off the field
17640s and then critically blue melon in uh one
17643s of the Arty select news got tackled and
17646s he went down pretty quickly because
17647s these ships were kiting trips are
17648s designed to be you know super tanky
17651s um and it started to look like temples
17652s were going to pull this one off and then
17654s Bart it looked like we saw the truth on
17656s the light guys do some what we usually
17658s say transversal matching talk to me
17660s about what happened there uh yeah so uh
17663s Eve online tracking is complicated
17665s um but not as complicated as missiles
17667s and uh basically you want to have your
17669s ships flying in the same direction
17671s or flying directly away from each other
17673s so that the shots will hit and Truth on
17675s her light was able to pull that off uh
17677s and start alfing through things which
17680s sounds a lot less impressive Until you
17682s realize you are in a 125 kilometer
17684s sphere so you can't just do what you do
17686s on TQ where you're like oh I'm just
17687s going to go in a straight line
17688s indefinitely and they'll chase me and
17689s I'll blow their ships up you actually
17691s have to continue turning continue
17692s dodging they were dodging hyena webs
17694s ballgorn webs I believe the attempts
17696s Fleet issue MJ deed into them at least
17698s once but the big thing that I think
17700s happened is when that Magus went down uh
17703s the links dropped and as soon as that
17704s happened I don't know exactly what links
17707s the mags had on them but I think that
17708s was the difference of ships tanking and
17710s ships not tanking and I think the mag
17712s has had the Speed links on it as well so
17714s everything slowed down a little bit just
17715s enough truth on the lights able to land
17717s their shots very very well played on
17719s their part except for the sleptner that
17720s got tackled yeah unfortunately he was
17723s tackled and he did go down cpb
17726s um when you're flying things like RT
17727s ships like how hard is it to actually
17728s like make use of them
17730s it's something that you definitely need
17732s to practice
17733s um I think when you're starting out
17735s learning how to kite I think it's easy
17737s to do that in missile ships to begin
17738s with and then slowly graduate towards
17741s other things like turrets
17743s um I think practicing with rail guns is
17745s probably better before you start
17746s practicing with with the RDS because of
17748s how rarely you get to shoot the RDS
17751s basically you fire and you have to wait
17753s like 10 15 seconds depending on what
17754s what platform you're using uh whereas
17756s with um with railguns you get to fire
17758s more often and realize oh I'm hitting
17759s now oh I'm not hitting it now and you
17760s get to understand how to fly how to to
17764s actually apply your damage yeah we also
17766s saw a Liberal Liberal use of the damping
17769s ships in that last match from truth on a
17772s light a bunch of them five in fact uh
17775s Bart take us through the damping
17776s mechanics
17777s so with sensor damps you have two
17779s different scripts that you can use one
17780s of them which either will make you lock
17782s much much slower and the other which was
17784s much more Irrelevant in this match was
17786s one that reduces your lock range uh we
17789s saw that most of it I don't think that
17791s anyone was using the sensor uh the lock
17794s speed amps it's possible but the locker
17797s range stamps are incredibly powerful
17798s especially when you have bonus ships
17800s like molluses and Carries and they were
17803s probably some on the jackdaws as well
17804s but that was what it was able to allow
17806s truth honor light to prevent themselves
17808s from really taking any more damage uh
17810s the hyena was definitely like damped out
17812s the entire fight probably had a lock
17813s range of like five which is not
17815s enjoyable in any way shape or form and
17818s just by doing that it made the kiting so
17820s much easier like a hyena is so good at
17821s grabbing ships but not when it can't
17823s lock anything
17824s yeah so our next match we're going to go
17826s to talk about now if Platinum
17827s sensitivity versus nanofiber tokens so
17829s interestingly enough um when you fly in
17832s a match uh the actual match sort of
17834s simulation starts quite far before the
17835s match itself as you're contacted with
17837s the referees you have to do bands it's a
17839s which is what we're looking at here is a
17840s blind band system whereas Platinum
17842s sensitivity would have submitted their
17843s three bands nanofirus tokens there are
17845s three bands and then if there's any
17846s duplicates they have the trickle bands
17847s Platinum since uh sorry nanofiber tokens
17849s played only about half an hour ago so
17851s they would have finished that match and
17853s they would have had a conversation with
17854s the GMS pretty much immediately and so
17857s no time to unpack stuff they have to go
17858s through and say hey watch your bands in
17860s this case they went for Bargas Loki
17861s balgorm and platinum sensitivity going
17863s for yield Classics at this point uh EOS
17866s jackdaw and the hyena Bart what do you
17868s think uh I think that you know
17871s what you said about them having so
17873s little time probably starts really
17875s playing into this uh nanofiber tokens
17877s that like that's like kind of the
17878s standard basic like uh these ships are
17881s strong don't get rid of them bands um
17883s but yeah Platinum sensitivity is
17884s definitely like realized how good this
17886s jackdaw ship is and we've been seeing it
17888s uh Banning out an EOS pretty much bans
17890s drones out you could still try it but I
17892s wouldn't suggest it and uh hyenas are
17894s just very strong ships but uh
17896s yeah it's a it's pretty rough for
17897s nanofiber tokens 30 minutes is not a lot
17899s of time unless you're ending up in a
17900s best of three and then at which case
17902s you've already won so much that you're
17903s probably okay with it yeah CCP you've
17905s been uh practicing and playing uh with
17907s the truth on the light team you were
17908s telling us about
17910s um what's it like having to turn around
17911s matches pretty quickly
17913s I think practice is way different than
17915s this you know on the day actually
17916s competing in practice it's very relaxed
17918s you're you know you're just following a
17919s schedule you have X many things you want
17921s to test out that night and you're just
17922s running through it and a lot of time you
17924s know I'd be waiting on the other team to
17926s show up to even practice with you but
17927s with this this is like this is game time
17930s you know it matters a lot what you're
17932s going to be banning this is now like
17934s this is what they've been practicing
17935s from months and months for but I think
17937s that nft have just been warming up today
17939s and I think they're ready for this much
17940s interesting let's take a look at some of
17943s the um Alliance uh details for some of
17945s these teams let's see if we can pull up
17946s uh where everyone comes first
17949s plan of sensitivity so 15 Pilots have
17951s flown for platinum sensitivity in the
17953s alliance tournament uh some veterans
17955s clearly playing in over 20 different
17957s matches
17959s um and they've been relatively
17960s successful winning a chunk more than
17962s they've lost which is pretty good the
17964s matches that they have lost against
17965s recently have been against we form Volta
17967s the tuskers call and then we Farm Volta
17969s again so you know that's two very strong
17971s teams
17972s um they've won against a rival bright
17974s side of death a band apart laser Hawks
17976s the network and exodus so very strong
17979s victories as well so this is a good team
17981s uh certainly not to be underestimated
17982s let's take a look at nanofiber tokens
17986s so 95 tokens a bit smaller roster only
17988s 12 Pilots have uh have flown with them
17991s so far
17992s um again a couple of veterans here nine
17994s runs from Andy astronaut and they've had
17996s a good record as well I only played five
17998s matches but they have won four of them
17999s dropping only once to Odin's call who
18002s are currently still in the winners
18003s bracket and being very very strong so we
18005s expect a lot of things from them and
18006s nanofiber tokens beat Esports Petopia
18008s pandemic Legion wrote Capel and brave
18011s Collective so Esports is a good team PL
18013s is a team rockapel is a good team and
18015s brave Collective is a solid team
18018s okay I'm told the teams are now on grid
18020s so let's go to the arena for this match
18022s between Platinum sensitivity and Nano
18024s fiber tokens
18031s some point
18037s hey everybody welcome back to the arena
18039s um I'm again joined by Fair weiner
18041s um nanofiber tokens I'll start with them
18043s because I think this is a comp we've
18044s seen from them multiple times in the day
18045s and I think actually me and fear were
18047s pretty critical of it during that brave
18049s match that we were watching we really
18050s didn't like this concept of having two
18051s rapid heavy battleships but obviously
18053s they won the match it worked out for
18054s them and here they are bringing
18055s basically exactly the same thing again
18057s against this Platinum sensitivity which
18059s also looks a little bit familiar if you
18060s want to tell us a little bit about that
18061s now they brought the window vindi abedin
18064s once again worked against Shield Rush
18066s last time around this time uh instead of
18069s being all blue and uh red gems it is
18073s yellow and green that got a far figure
18075s out
18076s who you are jamming and why this is dual
18079s logic frags they don't have a whole lot
18080s of scam res I expect this Widow to be
18082s able to basically make them useless this
18084s entire game and we are about ready to
18086s start the countdown I'm excited what
18088s about you oh I'm very excited but I also
18091s think the key aspect of this match is
18092s going to be the Widow's jams as we were
18093s saying into logic figures but not only
18095s that if he can at some point you know
18097s say the name Navy Armageddon say okay
18098s we're gonna shoot
18099s you know the pontifex let's try and clip
18101s that pontifex maybe they get five Cycles
18103s into their clip and the Widow says okay
18104s I'm gonna cycle a jam on the get and he
18105s jams that getting that getting stops
18107s shooting for 20 seconds and now for the
18108s rest of the match unless those gettings
18110s commit a significant time investment to
18112s getting their Clips back to sync they
18114s will be out of sync and they they will
18116s be reloading at different times they'll
18117s be firing at different times and that is
18119s one of the critical weaknesses of Rapid
18120s heavy comps is they rely on these ships
18122s firing at the same time to out for a
18124s primary target
18126s yeah and this time they brought a
18127s damnation instead of an EOS uh last time
18130s we saw them bring anything else this
18131s time they brought a damnation just uh
18133s thinking that they want the Skirmish
18135s links this time around they do have
18137s quite a bit of range on those nudes
18139s might be able to keep this Vindicator
18140s which is not a flag bendy so 10
18142s kilometer webs instead of uh however
18145s long purple webs are like 30. so very
18150s long uh 10 o'clock never loves the four
18152s lengths it's got a mega so it's really
18153s like 13 but uh either way potshots being
18157s taken out this arbitrator Thalia and
18158s Sentinel right now uh buy this window
18161s and and uh avidan The Vindicator really
18164s not in range yet to really do anything
18166s but as we take a look jams going all
18170s over the nanofiber tokens team yeah and
18172s platinum sensitivity you're trying to
18174s push in here as well with this Fendi of
18175s course they want to try and utilize the
18176s strength of this Fendi and obviously the
18178s strength of the Abaddon as well short
18179s range battleships to try and get into
18180s range and start shooting something
18182s um just going back to what you were
18183s saying about the damnation pick I
18184s believe they they as you say they did
18186s field on EOS last time but the EOS is
18187s banned um but I'm not sure how how
18189s weaker how much weaker it's going to be
18191s losing those Skirmish links they may
18192s have wanted the speed links or siglinks
18194s to help the Thalia and Decon tank and
18195s indeed The Sentinel and swipple as well
18197s they're small and benefits greatly from
18198s the extra tank from that speed but
18200s damnation obviously not getting those
18201s same bonuses
18202s yeah the input Lakes are nice to have at
18205s the very least when you have kind of
18207s higher production comps such as army gun
18209s Navy such as uh in this tournament where
18212s you scripted the war exists and it's so
18215s powerful but we see uh the scripted D
18216s war of choice renowned fiber tokens
18218s missile disruption
18220s and one damp it looks like
18223s well Platinum sensitivity brought a lot
18224s of missile disruption
18226s and these armaged navies and this
18227s damnation really aren't doing a whole
18229s lot we see split damage uh mostly from
18231s drones across the entire team on the
18234s nanofiber tokens but no one has really
18237s died yet this match I think from this
18238s point nanofiber tokens are going to
18239s start shooting this Vindicator of Mount
18241s Bridges because he's burned right into
18242s the middle of them here and I think he's
18243s got a web on that first night Navy
18244s getting of Chadwick I saw him burning
18246s towards 10 RS in the vexil Navy 10
18248s obviously keeping his eyes open burning
18249s away from that bin he doesn't want to
18250s get tackled down he's in big trouble if
18252s he does but I think that sort of took
18253s Mark bridges in this Vindicator pretty
18255s close to these get-ins close to this
18256s damnation and he's got them tackled but
18258s I'm not 100 sure this is actually what
18260s he wants to do here he may have sort of
18261s tackled him just as a matter of
18262s opportunism rather than because it's
18264s actually his plan here because now both
18265s these Navy guidance I can see a cycling
18267s there newts on him significant new power
18268s from these gettings the vindi is a very
18270s cap Reliant boat with those guns and
18271s obviously he needs his prop as well to
18273s stay in range and now he is kind of
18274s eating [ __ ]
18276s kind of is the opportune word there
18279s though because remember he does have a
18280s widow and just like that Mark Bridges is
18282s taking no more damage so it looks like
18284s uh the Widow landed the golden gems on
18287s the Armageddon navies and stopped them
18289s from killing his Vindicator bro in Mark
18292s Bridges who still has a web still has
18293s tackle and remember uh when you jam off
18296s somebody they can't Newt you either so
18298s now his guns are working uh there is
18300s some damage going on on the Sully right
18301s now but once again looks mostly like pot
18304s shots uh con peso has to be close to his
18306s Armageddon Navy's uh so he is relatively
18309s close to this Vindicator but he doesn't
18310s have a web on top of him yet and just as
18313s I say that there's the web there's a
18314s scram and uh I mean it's a 10-month
18316s ollie I don't know how good the scram's
18318s gonna be but he will go down and maybe
18320s be traded for fgi too yeah the drones
18322s are switching over to the Thalia here I
18324s can see a swarm of blue drones just
18325s pewing away at that failure and The
18327s Vindicator of mock Bridges is actually
18328s still slowly bleeding through armor he's
18330s just about to hit 50 here
18332s um and I feel like this is not where the
18334s windy wants to be I said a bunch of
18335s times and concert we saw of indicators
18337s last week the key to have indicator comp
18339s is you need to have a setup that
18340s facilitates the vindi doing what it
18342s wants to do and the targets on this grid
18344s looking at them the damnation is
18346s probably the thing The Vindicator would
18347s like to shoot the least it's very very
18349s tanky but if that damnation just sits on
18350s him and holds him down
18352s um you know he he he can't shoot
18354s anything else because the rest of his
18355s team the getons the vexo Navy all that
18358s sort of stuff can just stay away from
18359s The Vindicator and the Vinnie has no
18360s choice but it does actually seem to be
18362s here that The Vindicator is chasing
18364s after the damnation the damnation seems
18366s to be running away from the Bindi
18367s whereas I would have thought the
18367s damnation would actually be trying to
18368s hold the windy in place and say you know
18370s shoot me leave everyone else alone
18373s well I mean they are shooting the
18374s damnation right now and he is down in
18375s half armor he got to a logic for X but
18377s he also got a widow uh and Screen gems
18380s between a vexer navy and Nathalia I
18382s guess which one is going to be uh jammed
18386s out by the Widow it's probably the
18387s Thalia so the damnation going down now
18390s into 25 armor remaining and Mark Bridges
18393s he stabilized in his armor thanks to
18396s this Widow jamming out the damage from
18398s the side plot or some side of uh
18400s nanofiber tokens and now damnation
18402s finally in a structure this will be the
18404s first kill of the match it will I think
18406s yeah this damnation is going to go down
18407s and this is I just want to bring Focus
18409s here to the fact that both these teams
18410s have bought lodgy frigates this match
18412s once you get into the later stage of the
18413s tournament as well this is a very very
18415s difficult environment to fly Logie
18417s Ferguson on the side of Nano fiber
18419s tokens you've got Kano Paso and Andy
18421s astronaut trying to keep people up but
18423s they can't go into the range of that
18424s Bindi web or they will just get blasted
18426s and on the other side You've Got fgi 2
18427s and nightcap again trying their best to
18429s keep the Vindicator up but they don't
18430s want to go in range of the Navy
18431s Armageddon newts and just get instantly
18432s cut out so very very difficult juggling
18435s act for both for all these lodgy
18436s frigates here trying to do their best to
18438s keep people up without sort of hinting
18440s but that damnation of obix does go down
18441s and they haven't really got much in
18442s return of India still sort of bleeding
18443s again he's down to 40 armor
18446s yeah but importantly this Widow is now
18447s tackled uh Kent larkis has been webbed
18450s down by these Navy Gardens and scrammed
18453s uh as well so he is not going anywhere
18456s these Navy Gardens right on top of them
18457s alongside the vexer Navy but Mark
18459s Bridges is coming in wants to save his
18461s widow uh friend at the moment not a lot
18463s of damage has been put onto Kent as he
18465s starts putting some damage I think on a
18467s Chadwick uh in the star we got a Navy or
18469s maybe the specs are navy of uh 10
18471s arrests and in fact that is his primary
18473s target yeah they have got this bit of
18475s tackle down but they don't seem to be
18476s shooting I think they've said well with
18477s you know 70 of the way through this
18479s Vindicator we've got to keep killing
18480s that or else these frigates might come
18481s in wrap them back up again they are
18482s going to lose 10 arrest but they're sort
18483s of saving this window for afterwards and
18485s they've still got these two get a Navy's
18486s pumping out the damage but he's this
18488s Vindicator 30 armor now he's so slowly
18491s dropping but the more they bleed DPS
18493s that vexil maybe goes down it's gonna
18495s start it's going to get even slower and
18496s even slower I might actually see Mark
18498s Bridges start to pick back up here the
18499s failure of can passo is going to go down
18501s in a second here as well
18503s being loved by a Vindicator will do that
18505s to you but uh yeah 90 words doesn't
18508s matter about the Tanner man they will
18510s eventually track you just load
18511s antimatter and uh get what you get that
18515s said uh some damage has also gone under
18517s this arm again of Hui kante I would
18519s assume that's the that's the abandon uh
18521s shooting on him though because the
18523s abandonment doesn't really track logic
18524s freaks all that well there's some damage
18526s going on to Andy and the Deacon but he
18528s doesn't have a brother to help him out
18530s uh might just be all under the snave
18532s again though there's the web under the
18534s Deacon so the Deacon will fall
18536s it will but I'm we're getting late into
18538s this match now seven minutes in both
18540s these teams have brought elements that
18542s snowball the longer the match goes of
18543s course the ECM gets stronger the more
18544s targets there are only seven ships left
18546s on the nanofiber side it's going to be
18547s more concentrated on the other side the
18549s two newts the bonus newts from the Navy
18550s geddens surely they've they've
18552s obliterated that vindicator's cap by now
18554s he can't have many cat boosters left his
18555s guns are going to turn off soon enough
18557s surely and will will it last long enough
18560s to deal with Hui kante in the Armageddon
18561s Navy or will they in fact actually be
18563s able to even kill him he's still just
18564s teaching about 40 armor in The
18565s Vindicator
18566s yeah and they've actually split the
18568s newts between the window and The
18569s Vindicator they want to turn off these
18571s uh Vindicator guns but they also want to
18573s turn off the uh jams from the Widow
18576s right the Widow has bonus to jam
18578s strength that is why it is a better ship
18580s than the Scorpion at jamming people and
18582s not taunting people uh in addition to
18584s its tag bonus which is kind of useless
18586s considering it's mostly flown as an
18587s armor ship unless you don't put any jams
18589s on it and you're just solo dropping
18591s people either way Deacon has been taken
18592s down and thus far no one has died from
18595s Platinum sensitivity Mark bridge is
18597s staying alive he's living to win Hui
18600s kante's almost down into structure and
18602s he's gotten a lodgy frigates to help him
18603s out yeah 13 armor ten percent armor he
18606s is going to go down here we can't say
18607s and of course this is as we said
18609s elimination match the loser of this is
18610s going to go out um with a top eight
18612s placement which is obviously a strong
18613s performance but both these teams would
18614s love to go further but this is this is
18617s what this is what makes or breaks the
18618s top tier team here the decision making
18620s in these in these critical moments have
18622s they decided incorrectly to split the
18625s new say would it have been better to
18626s pile all the news on The Vindicator to
18627s stop his guns pile you know all the
18630s newts on the Widow stop the jams and
18631s just keep their DPS flowing I don't know
18632s I don't know I mean this I'm not a top
18634s eight pilot um but this kind of
18636s situation is is where teams are made
18638s make or break themselves here
18641s yeah and we see them committing onto
18643s Mark Bridges I think he was just fully
18644s beating right you say oh it's a mistake
18647s an over extension from the veteran
18648s you're playing too far forward but
18649s remember you have a Widow on your team
18652s the strongest championship in the game
18654s and so long as he doesn't get tackled
18655s he's going to stay alive because you
18659s know are we got navies They Don't Really
18660s project all that far yeah they got rapid
18663s heavy so probably like 50 60 right but
18665s they don't really have a range bonus uh
18667s either way this Widow eventually got
18669s tackled but then you have Vinnie and
18670s Abba just going at it and the Widow uh
18673s prevents the vindi from really getting
18675s anything on top of them it's just this
18677s one arm again Navy and the arbitrator
18679s left from nanofiber tokens and I do
18681s think Platinum sensitivity will walk
18684s away with a clean victory yeah I think
18687s so too I don't see any Avenue where they
18688s kill mark Bridges here now or indeed
18689s anyone else
18690s um and it's going to be obviously a sad
18692s time for Nano fiber tokens strikes the
18693s tournament like this and it I guess it
18695s comes back to at the start of the match
18696s excuse me
18699s um sort of questioning this two Navy
18700s getting comp does it have enough damage
18702s to break through battleships they spent
18704s so long with Mark Bridges just barely
18706s holding on 40 armor 30 armor and these
18708s faction battleships have so much base
18709s ehp that it can be very difficult to
18711s actually get through them in a
18712s reasonable period of time when you've
18713s just got these two rapid heavy comps but
18715s as it stands they're not gonna they're
18717s not gonna lose everything but they are
18719s in fact gonna lose the match 72-0 in
18721s favor of platinum sensitivity and just
18723s as time ends we're going to send it back
18724s to the studio for some more analysis
18742s [Music]
18746s thank you
18751s [Music]
18758s thank you
18769s [Applause]
18782s connected Channel switched well it would
18785s have been an easy fight right but guess
18787s what dude I'm not if seeing it people
18788s can't get they're fit together
18795s enemies your temps are completely damned
18798s out Crush I'm dumped out I'm dumped out
18800s you don't like Champions boys
18809s Platinum sensitivity there showing that
18811s perhaps nanofiber tokens were overvalued
18813s uh in this tournament uh as we say
18815s goodbye to 905 tokens uh they do win
18817s prize ships which is great for them uh
18819s Platinum sensitivity continue their run
18821s through the lower bracket of the
18822s tournament looking perhaps to make it to
18824s the lower bracket final where they will
18826s then go up against the winner of the
18827s upper bracket final as is Tradition now
18830s um Blackboard pirate we noticed um that
18832s Vindicator seemed to be surviving for a
18834s very long time able to run his boosters
18836s for a long time despite being underneath
18838s pressure and uh you pointed out that
18840s they seem to be dropping some some cans
18841s or something what was going on there
18842s they did uh so
18845s eventually you will run out of cat
18846s boosters if the fight lasts long enough
18848s and that was a 10-minute fight
18850s um and I believe that Mark Bridges said
18852s hey help me
18853s I'm tackled and I need capacitor and
18856s somebody drove up and they dropped some
18857s cans for or a cans filled with catfishes
18859s for him he looted them quickly uh you
18861s sometimes you'll actually will be fast
18863s enough to blow the can up before they
18864s loot uh don't think we saw that we don't
18867s see that very much anymore it used to be
18868s more of a tinker setup thing but got
18870s those was able to keep his new or keep
18872s his capacitor going and can you do
18873s damage and they did have two Navy
18875s guidance which is a lot of newts so The
18877s Vindicator was able to continue shooting
18879s and that's always bad for its Target
18881s factually correct there Blackboard
18882s pirate
18883s um CVB you were talking about the Widow
18886s during that uh that match in fact I
18888s believe the word used to describe the
18890s video was disgusting it is disgusting
18892s yeah uh it's a ship that we even buffed
18894s recently as well um it now has even
18896s stronger ECM power than it before and I
18899s mentioned that I I fairly recently found
18901s out that you can actually have an ECM
18904s burst Widow that can burst through a
18906s Bastion Marauder which is uh like I said
18909s disgusting
18910s so the jams on that window they're
18912s probably doing a lot of work in this
18914s case obviously they're not using an ECM
18915s burst um they're using directed jams but
18918s dealing with that the entire match like
18920s that must have been really rough
18922s indeed it is now speaking of being
18924s incredibly rough I'm told that we have
18926s an interview with the captain of Odin's
18929s call and that we are going to play it so
18930s let's find out if this uh introduce
18932s yourself to the audience please hi I'm
18935s I'm Michael sobar I'm the 80 Captain
18937s officially for audience call
18940s um being audience.tcrs we have a couple
18943s of NC palettes with us I've been playing
18947s e for about five years I've been doing
18950s small gang and solo stuff for three I
18952s was co-captained for audience during
18954s last year's 80 and 85 and this is my
18957s first year as a captain and what do you
18959s and your team do outside of the
18961s tournament oh so we are a wormall group
18963s we live in a C2 with a no sex static so
18967s we do a lot of like I mean we used to do
18969s a lot of no sex stuff there have been a
18972s couple changes to the game that kind of
18974s nerfed us but that that's still what we
18976s try to do
18977s uh yeah we were like a a medium
18980s medium-sized woman group I would say and
18983s we're having fun
18984s what level of experience does your team
18986s have okay so yeah we got the all kind of
18989s pilots from at veterans to uh completing
18993s your Pilots to that home
18995s uh last year we ended up sevens in the
18998s 80 we got some anti-pilots that were
19001s like third a few days ago
19003s and then we got yeah company newcomers
19005s that were just discovering the
19007s tournament format
19010s um we are like a pretty small team and
19012s that's why I recruited all these NC
19014s stackers in the first place
19016s turns out they are as active on third
19018s room as you'll actually on TQ so I mean
19021s didn't really help uh and that's how
19023s like we ended up like nine people online
19025s 30 minutes before our
19028s final group match in the trial
19029s tournament
19031s and we have to like send messages around
19033s to get people online and first time log
19036s into ethereum and play the 80 match
19039s and that's how you end up like having to
19041s win seven or eight matches to go through
19042s the feeders
19044s you managed to get your place in the at
19045s by going through the Redemption round of
19048s the trials tournament can you tell me a
19050s little bit about what that was like
19051s oh well it has been stressful I won't
19053s lie it I've been extremely stressful but
19056s winning an 80 match which I imagine it
19059s is even if you lose it's like extremely
19062s um like an extremely good experience so
19064s we really enjoyed it uh obviously even
19067s while we went through the feeders
19069s um and yeah it was like a pretty hard
19072s experience but I I loved it I really
19074s loved it
19075s are there any teams that you're hoping
19077s to have the opportunity to play against
19079s oh yeah I got like one thing I want to
19081s face it's East Bob Utopia
19083s I'm very good friend with a captain and
19086s we got like a history of facing each
19087s other in in all tournaments we are all
19089s part of
19090s uh it's like I got the four last
19092s tournament the AG uh Island tournament
19094s last year uh the Chinese tournament
19096s every time we face each other and it was
19099s always like interesting matches so I'm
19100s really looking forward to face them in
19102s our second match
19103s is there anything you want to say to the
19105s audience just to wrap this up yeah about
19107s tournaments and Eve I think tournaments
19110s are great they are like the the peak the
19113s end game of pp or PP enjoys and never
19116s tried them you should go for it find a
19118s team do some practices
19120s even if you think you're not good enough
19121s you'll be good enough don't worry uh
19123s it's like a completely different style
19125s from from what to do on on track energy
19129s and uh yeah it's good to have people
19131s investing their time in in tournaments
19133s again
19134s I really appreciate it
19136s um so
19138s yeah do you want a tournament team
19141s and find tournaments it's like VDB great
19150s there you are jintan speaks to the
19152s captain of audience call uh my
19153s commiserations uh now let's take a quick
19155s look at the bands for this upcoming
19157s match and see uh what these teams have
19158s decided to uh ban out
19165s so a Tesla School Banning out pontifex
19167s Magus and bifrost Odin's called Banning
19170s out the hyena the stormbringer and the
19171s Nighthawk uh Blackberry pirate your
19173s quick thoughts here uh this is the first
19175s time we've seen somebody ban out a whole
19177s bunch of command ships and that's really
19179s cool and clearly tusker just does not
19180s want to see armor command links so or
19182s sorry Commissioners knock-manships that
19184s one awesome well uh with a quick look at
19187s the bands there let's uh head over to
19188s the arena and see who will win between
19190s the tuscaros call and Odin's call
19197s welcome back to the arena guys um as was
19200s just observed I'm actually a little bit
19201s surprised to see those bands because
19202s usually I've noticed this Odin's call
19204s that decided to ban the magazine pontino
19205s those are two of their favorite bands
19207s I'm gonna be honest I am totally rooting
19208s for audience here because one of the
19209s production guys uh went on a computer
19211s that I'm logged into and went all in on
19212s Odin's all my 12 000 points are now
19215s resting on this Golem scorpion Navy 2
19218s Raven comp the Odin's abroad which is
19220s something very unusual I don't think
19221s we've seen them bring and uh how about
19223s tuskers
19225s they've brought Shield kite and this
19228s time around
19229s uh they have an osprey so they will not
19232s be having a bunch of Shield kaidi ships
19235s that aren't using shield and her instead
19237s uh full V War mids they might still have
19239s you ward mids I'll have paper numbers
19241s earlier in the tournament but either way
19244s they actually are shield ships with
19247s shields tank up against what is
19250s unfortunately for them I believe a crew
19252s set up let me take a look at these guns
19256s yeah this is not gonna be fun uh unless
19259s they have a lot of missile guidance
19261s disruptors which is actually rather
19263s hilarious because on weekend one I
19265s suggested that some sort of variant of a
19267s full Battleship Cruise comp could be a
19269s final weekend setup and here we are
19270s Odin's clearly listening into my secret
19272s strats I've decided to bring it with a
19274s position in guaranteed top three on the
19277s line top three to the winner of this
19279s match
19281s yep cruises you see one point on the
19284s model that is cruises three points as
19285s torps we saw earlier in the tournament
19287s uh torp set up with very similar looking
19289s battleships so this time around it is
19292s cruises the ruse Cruise everybody's
19295s favorite uh weapon system if you happen
19298s to be uh someone who likes running 10
19301s out of 10s although some people still
19304s prefer torps boo either way 30 seconds
19306s Little Match start uh make that 15
19308s seconds until match start I'm excited
19310s but I also think tuscars have their work
19312s cut out for them if they don't have
19313s enough e-war yeah I'm very excited for
19316s my channel points here to be honest I
19317s think this is a very very good matchup
19318s for the setup they're not against any
19320s Tech Two resist ships so
19322s um you know there's sometimes the damage
19323s lacking of cruises can be a problem if
19326s you're up against something that's got a
19327s good resist profile I can just tank
19328s through it with reps they've got a tech
19329s models prey and they've got a bunch of
19330s tech one Chips technical resistors play
19332s Navy caracal maybe Drake's
19334s um so these Cruisers are gonna be able
19335s to apply they've got the range they can
19336s hit the whole Arena but it seems
19338s actually like tuskers here are just
19339s ramming in despite being a more sort of
19341s kite comp I think they're saying well
19342s there's no point really kiting here
19344s let's just try and pump onto whatever we
19346s can and maybe in fact use the bumps to
19348s try and break uh the Tinker setup of
19349s these four battleships which I believe
19350s is what they are going to do
19352s yeah we saw these Cruise Sinker setups
19354s earlier in the tournament some of them
19355s won a lot of the times they lost this
19357s time around they delete the osprey
19359s historic gonna be the primary target for
19361s Odin's call at the moment but
19363s you know taking these Shield kite setups
19365s to kill the stork uh into crew setups
19368s you're bowling at zero and they're
19369s actually getting through this Golem
19370s pretty effectively even with the bonus
19372s rep that the Golem gets yeah and the
19374s stalk actually boundary there I don't
19375s really know why I mean he was gonna die
19377s anyway but he did actually just jump out
19378s of the arena there but yeah let's go
19380s with kind of is absolutely melting here
19381s he's going to go down and quickly now
19383s Odin's need to deal with this DPS they
19385s are looking at JJ yakin in the caracal
19387s they had to spend you know 10-15 seconds
19388s at the start of the match killing off
19389s the OS prey to make sure we couldn't
19391s tank how much damage can they clear here
19393s these are as I said tech one boats here
19395s caracal maybe is just about going down
19397s there he goes they're going to start
19398s clearing this damage and I mean like I
19400s said no command ships on the field here
19401s the Golem is still just about living of
19403s Colonel Kurtz he's still going to keep
19404s on squeezing a few more Cycles out of
19405s his out of his shield booster here how
19407s much can they get in exchange for him
19409s I don't know if they can actually get a
19411s whole lot more they got first caracal
19413s maybe second Care Old Navy they've lost
19415s their bursts they're gonna lose their
19416s bands on their tech one lodgy frags in
19418s this particular thing and we saw the
19419s Golem had all the repping power in the
19422s world at his side but this is
19423s overwhelming damage coming in uh even
19425s from these hm elbows these aren't even
19427s hams uh and you can see the attack bar
19430s of testers actually were these hands did
19432s I actually just look at this wrong no I
19434s think I think they are heavy missiles
19435s and that's why
19437s um you know the damage is just not as
19439s good I think I'm pretty sure they're
19440s heavy missile models no it's so so it's
19443s hands on the Cyclone the Drake navies
19446s looked like they had hmls is this mixed
19448s weapons I'm actually yeah those are hmls
19453s regardless of that we're in a situation
19455s where neither team has lodgy and it's
19456s just going to be a pure DPS race and I
19458s have to say with the just pure HP of the
19461s three battleships on Odin's side I
19462s really favor them here there's no
19464s command ship with any staying power they
19465s are absolutely melting through them the
19467s second Navy caracal goes down now
19469s they're looking at the Navy Drake of vld
19470s they've still got the vigil for bonus
19472s paints to help those Cruise applications
19473s they've got the fleet video for webs as
19474s well Odin's I mean this is going to be a
19477s very very close match here the Raven of
19479s the Paradigm is going to go down here
19480s how how is this DPS race going to turn
19482s out in the end I really have no idea to
19484s be honest with you and it's cruises
19486s versus mixed heads hmos I mean once
19488s again I could just be reading that model
19489s wrong but you saw it too they're gonna
19492s go on to the strike Navy issue and the
19493s Raven I mean he's tanking for quite a
19495s bit it doesn't even look like he has a
19496s shield booster actually he does have
19498s Shield booster but just not an ancillary
19499s Shield booster he will go down into uh
19502s low armor trading for the Drake Navy
19504s issue now they have to deal with the
19506s raven and a scorpion Navy with a drake
19508s Navy a Drake and a cyclone
19510s they do but they've still got these
19512s frigates here and it's up to tuskers to
19514s say I mean for Odin's here I think the
19515s target calling is pretty easy you just
19517s say we clear as much DPS as quickly as
19518s possible now we're looking at the Navy
19519s ospread they can hit anything with these
19520s Cruisers but tuskers have the difficult
19522s decision to make here they say do we
19524s commit you know 15 20 seconds killing
19526s off the fleet vigil killing off the tech
19527s one vigil in fact the tech one vigil of
19529s Hodor is actually miles away across the
19530s arena they can't really look at him
19531s except with the heavy missiles that
19533s requires splitting DPS but the vigil
19534s Fleet of ethyl is going to go down here
19536s but I mean they're taking chunks on
19538s Christina and the Osprey Navy this is
19539s still going to go to the wire
19542s indeed it is toast brought and Raven I
19544s mean he's got some cap transfers to help
19545s him uh stay alive but with that Golem
19547s down they have significant amount of
19549s their tank off the field they're gonna
19550s try to go for the Salisbury Navy as you
19552s mentioned Christina now 65 kilometers
19554s away from the arena center he is trying
19556s to move away from these missile boats at
19559s the moment he's not tackled down but
19560s still cruise missiles they hit
19562s everywhere in the arena and he is about
19564s to dive into armor yeah and of course
19566s the vigil's still got him painted as
19567s well and with this Tinker setup that
19569s Odin's have brought here the more DPS
19572s they kill sort of the exponentially
19574s longer it takes to deal to break through
19577s this raven he's receiving cap transfers
19578s as you saw his Angel Shield is going to
19580s keep going they are going to take
19580s another Salisbury Navy
19582s um and eventually they'll get to a point
19583s where it's going to take more time than
19585s the match has left to deal with this
19587s Raven and this sort of attritional comp
19590s here from Odin's where I've taken clear
19592s DPS they can actually sustain through
19593s through a reasonable amount of DPS
19596s whereas the tuskers at this point is
19598s just pure ehp they have no attritional
19600s power they either make enough progress
19602s in time or they don't whereas the the
19604s Odin's call comp sort of stalls things
19606s out by they prove their chances they
19608s store things out by killing off
19610s um more and more DPS to the point where
19611s they'll be able to tank and now the Navy
19612s Drake the second one of mirror achieve
19614s is going to go down here I think this is
19615s looking Odin's cool favored but that
19617s first Raven of toe Sprite is slowly
19618s breaking can they kill Mira in time
19621s I don't think they can toast product
19623s he's inner armor mirror down to about 60
19626s Shield remaining sorry 35 Shield
19628s romantic 60 gone not a 24 but look toast
19631s brought he's already in the structure
19633s right now and he doesn't have a whole
19634s lot of structure on this raven they're
19635s gonna take out the strike Navy perhaps
19637s but then it's a Drake and a cyclone
19639s versus a scorpion Navy issue scorpion
19641s naked very tanky ship we'll see he
19644s doesn't have cap transfers to help him
19645s stay alive though yeah that's the
19647s problem when you're stuck in this
19648s situation where you've only got one
19649s Battleship these setups are obviously
19651s built around having the cap transfers
19652s between two battleships to try and keep
19654s the ancill running when it's just him on
19655s his own he's got his nine charges and
19657s then that's it so it's still going to be
19659s him he's probably gonna kill a strike
19661s Navy but then he's going to be against
19662s the Drake and the cyclone and of course
19664s the flycatcher I I still don't really
19666s know if he's going to be able to deal
19667s with both of those they are going to be
19668s buffer fit as you say there is a lot of
19669s the HP on the Scorpion Navy I'm I'm
19671s still questioning who's going to come
19672s out on top here I don't really know
19674s yokon about to get into half uh Shield
19677s but he is taking down the strike Navy
19678s issue then he's got a Drake and a
19680s cyclone probably goes for the Cyclone
19681s first I would have to imagine as he is
19683s doing more damage right now with those
19684s heavy assault missiles I still can't
19686s believe they mix the weapon systems on
19688s this comp that Drake Navy of Mira though
19690s he is finally into structure 21
19692s structure remaining he goes down the
19694s Scorpion Navy might actually be able to
19695s hold now but he has to take out the
19697s cyclone and then the Drake in that order
19699s if he goes for the Drake first it's a
19701s huge mistake
19703s yeah we'll see what she chooses I think
19704s the target painter is on the Drake so
19706s they are actually going to go for the
19707s Drake first maybe they feel the Drake
19708s has their CHP compared to the Cyclone
19710s with his xlrsb charges but yokan's going
19713s into 40 Shield her three and a half
19715s minutes left on the match this is going
19717s to be very very tight still I mean they
19718s are yeah they are shooting toaster in
19719s the Drake I'm not sure whether damage
19720s has stopped was he reloading for a
19722s second now he started firing those
19723s cruises again this is crazy
19727s Drake's an absolute brick he is taking
19729s damage from the Scorpion Navy with no
19731s reps with no anselor Shield booster I
19733s think this actually might have been the
19734s wrong call can contrary to what I said
19735s even though Drake has a brick for aehp
19737s cyclone has the active reps and should
19739s be able to deal with this crew setup
19741s from the Scorpion Navy issue the visual
19743s taking a bit of damage at the moment as
19744s well but keeps those paints on that
19746s Drake yokan now into armor toaster in
19750s the Drake only at 60 Shields I think
19753s they might actually do it and take out
19754s the Scorpion Navy issue yeah it's just
19757s it just seems to be just enough damage
19758s here and I'm really mourning my points
19760s here 12 000 points down the drain thank
19762s you very much Kyle I I would have
19764s gambled on Odin's anyway to be honest I
19765s believed and then we screamed with them
19766s a lot but obviously very very
19767s comfortable
19770s he's ripping again oh my goodness and
19774s he's still killing this Drake 50 Shield
19776s are my points coming back to me
19778s two and a half minutes left in the match
19780s toasted her in the Drake down to 50
19782s Shields remaining and yokon he's able to
19785s Ansel rep all the way back up to half
19786s Shields he's got nine reps in the Ansel
19789s charges Heating and believing he got an
19791s Ansel reload off through the armor I
19794s can't believe what I'm seeing right now
19796s yeah and this is really good play from
19797s yokan as well Min maxing this xlisb
19800s charges every time he Cycles he's
19802s keeping his health at about 33 he's
19804s maximizing that passive regen and when
19806s he kills the Drake it's just gonna be
19807s the cyclone and the Fly Catcher left
19808s will they be able to bake through the
19809s passive region of this scorpion Navy
19811s issue oh my goodness
19813s a minute 50 seconds remain in the match
19815s toasted her in the Drake now diving into
19818s armor this is going to be extremely
19820s close because yokan he's out of
19821s ancillary charges now he's just working
19823s on just the cap from his ship onto the
19827s Raptor he's into structure he goes down
19830s now he has to go for the Cyclone his
19832s caller now 83 points to 76 minute 30
19835s remaining they have barely any Shield
19837s health left on yokan but it's just a
19840s cyclone left for uh tuskers can he
19843s reload the xlasb does he even need to
19845s here it's just the cyclone and the
19847s flycatcher I think actually doubts the
19849s wire Odin's are going to take this by
19850s the points margin here yokan is still
19853s just about cycling I don't think there's
19855s enough damage here on the other side to
19856s kill him what a fantastic match but
19858s Odin's I'm I'm sure of it at this point
19860s actually conversely to what I said
19861s earlier Odin's are actually going to
19863s take this and wow what a match what a
19865s comp what a fight Drupal cruises
19868s quadruple cruises you were saying hey
19871s this might be a thing and I'm like ah
19873s nah No One's Gonna spring quad
19874s Battleship that's so many points on
19876s battleships and you don't get anything
19877s else not only did they bring a Golem
19880s which is the most expensive not the most
19882s expensive Battleship but the most
19883s expensive uh for non-le-shack Battleship
19887s non-balgor not special battleship in the
19889s game but also
19892s you're winning with just a scorpion Navy
19895s left alive after all that is said and
19899s done I cannot believe it Odin's call are
19901s gonna go to the upper bracket finals and
19904s face the winner of we form Volta and uh
19907s lock range enjoyers it is and this is
19909s absolutely fantastic and I look forward
19910s I mean I said earlier day three is
19912s always full of absolute bangers and this
19913s match was no exception and I just want
19915s to give another shout out again to yokan
19917s here for optimizing those Shield reps
19918s just to put his shield at the right
19920s point for the maximum region I think
19921s maximum Shield regen is like three times
19923s as high as it is uh you know like 70 80
19926s it's a really important fact when you've
19927s got so much Shield HP and they are going
19929s to do it here as time Runs Out
19930s congratulations to Odin's locking in a
19933s top three finish in Alliance tournament
19935s 18. we're gonna send it back to the
19936s studio for some more analysis on that
19937s one but wow what a match
19954s [Music]
19957s thank you
19963s [Music]
19967s thank you
19976s foreign
19981s [Music]
19994s [Music]
20002s foreign
20004s [Music]
20021s [Music]
20022s [Applause]
20024s [Music]
20027s [Applause]
20035s [Music]
20036s the curse is over gentan it's over and
20040s we've made it out the other end Alton's
20042s call despite the curse despite the odds
20044s have pulled it out with a big win over
20047s the tuskers call in the most exciting
20050s match that I've seen today like holy
20052s crap that uh just everything I read that
20055s match like I thought it was back and
20056s forth back and forward he got that ASB
20058s reload off just at the last minute you
20060s were literally dancing around like
20062s panicking that no one would ever talk to
20064s you ever again for interviews
20068s yeah I'd like to thank priest yokan for
20071s exercising me
20075s Blackboard pirate talk to me what
20076s happened in that match so many things
20079s um I think it was a well we heard it
20080s with the commentaries uh basically
20083s uh there was a combination of heavy
20086s missiles and heavy assault missiles
20088s there and then they just rammed the
20090s entire fleet directly into it because I
20091s think they recognized okay these four
20093s ships are probably a tinker we need to
20094s split them apart they actually kind of
20097s sucked at bumping them apart even though
20098s they had 10 people Ram which is why
20100s everything lived for so long and then I
20103s mean it just got whittled down like the
20104s cruise missiles apply pretty well to uh
20107s Shield battle Cruisers they play
20108s decently well to the shield chips and
20110s the big thing that kept happening was
20112s Odin's calls vigil Fleet issue was left
20113s alive for so long so they actually had
20116s that extra application of the target
20117s painters and the webs that let four
20120s cruise missile battleships which
20122s questionable I mean obviously it worked
20125s but questionable still let them apply
20127s ended up being a Navy scorpion basically
20130s I won't say 1v1ning because there was a
20132s vigil there and that definitely helped
20133s but pretty much solo pvping down that
20136s last four minutes yeah I'm also actually
20138s told by some of our observers in the
20140s system uh that the scorp Navy ran out of
20143s missiles during that fight and actually
20144s had to loot some from the wreck of his
20146s teammate so that's why we might have
20148s seen the damage drop off for a little
20149s bit as he was looking for more missiles
20151s that's how long that match went on like
20154s oh absolutely incredible match great
20156s performance Odin's calls securing
20157s themselves third place at worst now so
20160s they will go forward to face
20162s um the winner of our next match Volta
20164s versus lockrange enjoyers in the winners
20166s bracket final uh the winner of that of
20168s course going into the Grand Final and
20170s the loser dropping down to the lower
20173s bracket final so even if they lose twice
20176s and they're coming up then they get
20177s third place which is awesome that's a
20180s whole bunch of ships we spoke about this
20181s in our tier list and at the start of the
20183s show Odin's have been a team on the
20185s ascendancy for for quite some time uh
20187s they're going to be of course super
20188s happy with that and they should they
20190s that absolutely deserve it from that
20191s performance there the tusker is cool
20193s we'll we'll be back they are not
20195s eliminated they've just been dropped
20196s down into the lower bracket they still
20198s retain their Flagship crucially very
20201s crucially so they'll be able to use that
20202s in those lower bracket matches uh and
20204s make make a difference now I'm told we
20207s have an update to our graph and we can
20209s throw to that uh Jen it's happened the
20212s win rate after the Gin interview oh can
20214s I get this oh no I can't
20216s um as uh is no longer just a big fat
20218s goose egg it's happened people will talk
20220s to you next year you'll be very pleased
20221s with that yeah and I imagine now thanks
20223s to that you'll be happy for us to play
20224s the voter interview after this right
20226s absolutely not uh let's move on so let's
20229s look at the bands for this upcoming uh
20231s match
20235s okay so we from Volta batting out the
20238s abaddin the Magus and the pontifex Loch
20241s ranging jar is banning at the Osprey
20242s Navy the EOS and the Osprey uh
20245s Blackberry pirate what do you make of
20246s this
20247s it's kind of strange uh we haven't
20249s actually seen Locker engine joists
20250s really doing anything with the bad ends
20252s maguses or pontifexes so either Volta
20256s knows something about them that none of
20258s us including the people watching
20259s analyzizing and commenting do or they're
20262s trolling and Volta says we don't care we
20264s know we can Crush you no matter what you
20266s bring uh lock range enjoyers though
20268s bring pretty classic uh the EOS band
20269s very very standard at this point very
20271s strong ship helps with drones helps with
20273s armor and Osprey Navy and Osprey are
20275s both like classically targeted at Volta
20278s we've seen the Osprey Navy become this
20280s incredible sort of multi-tool ship that
20282s fits into so many different shield
20283s setups and I think that a very very
20286s smart choice on lock range enjoyers
20288s yeah I'd like to see if we can put up
20290s some of the pilots graphs of Volta and
20292s lot ranging jars uh if we if we may
20297s um I'm told that we are sorting that
20298s right now until then
20300s um let's do our little predictions
20301s actually now so Blackberry pirate what
20304s do you think uh we form Volta or Locker
20306s engine doors I think we form Volta
20308s definitely absolutely unequivocally
20310s cannot possibly lose this because they
20312s are just so so good can we mute his
20314s microphone please
20316s yeah I think I'm mostly going to go for
20318s lock range enjoyers here uh you know
20319s you've got a shout out to the homies
20321s mute too please
20323s um and clearly it's going to be uh
20325s lockrange enjoyers um we are we have to
20327s retain the Captain's Curse
20329s we do have long range Players let's
20330s throw them up on the screen and have a
20331s look at that
20333s so uh lock range enjoy is captained by
20335s Damascus a very experienced tournament
20337s pilot not only has he played 27 matches
20340s in the last tournament itself he
20341s captained a team in the Mario
20342s championship and a number of teams in
20344s things like the anger games and the
20346s alliance open so uh very experienced
20348s pilot um and really really cool dude uh
20350s Canadian very very pleasant I went
20352s climbing with him at Fan Fest nice guy a
20354s bunch of other experienced Pilots as
20356s well uh including Gorski car of course
20358s former CSM and Tin Baron do we have the
20363s uh Volta one of this we don't have the
20365s Vault one of this well we're pretty much
20367s almost ready to go to the arena
20369s um I am hoping obviously for the Volta
20371s Victory here
20372s um that's my that's my boys
20374s um
20375s whatever part is your mic unmuted
20378s yes
20380s yes it is what can we what do you think
20383s we can expect here like this is a very
20385s interesting matchup between these two
20386s teams Volta have been undefeated
20388s obviously to have lock range enjoyers
20390s we've seen both teams bring interesting
20391s things uh Walter bringing that Flagship
20393s Bargas a couple of times
20395s what do you what do you maybe expect
20397s here I think it's a it's going to be
20398s interesting because I think Locker
20400s Engineers has actually been playing sort
20402s of their own game a little bit we've
20403s been seeing this sort of like triple
20405s executive Navy sword of a fly killer
20408s range control maybe even octodad-ish
20411s setup and nobody else is really doing
20413s that so uh we'll see if voltage is like
20415s figured out how to counter it because
20416s block engine doors have been winning
20418s very very well with it
20420s and then you've also been doing a bunch
20421s of analysis of what people are bringing
20423s and things uh what are your thoughts I
20425s know we've seen so many new comps today
20427s that we haven't seen over the previous
20429s weekend so that it's hard to really
20430s understand what we should expect
20433s um but I'm given voters banned it seems
20435s like they are worried about sort of a
20437s control setup coming out from uh this
20441s Locker engine joyous team which is
20442s surprising because we haven't seen that
20444s brought yet
20446s um I don't know I really don't know and
20448s I'm excited to see what they do bring
20449s well I mean let's go to Arena and find
20451s out as we go for we from Volta versus
20454s lockrange endures
20465s welcome back to the arena looks like my
20467s co-caster uh might be having some audio
20469s issues right now so I'm solo casting for
20471s the time being my name is here Vina the
20474s Basilisk will be joining us eventually
20476s uh this is gonna be fun lock range
20478s enjoyers have decided to once again
20480s bring some variation of Octodad uh that
20484s is not Octodad but relies on Navy
20485s Cruisers instead uh those being uh exact
20489s navies and on the flip side Volta also
20493s bringing some variation of Octodad
20495s perhaps they've brought four battle
20497s Cruisers instead of the three uh but
20500s still having high projection Anis uh and
20503s an auger for Reps for them as the Reps
20507s for the side of lock range enjoyers are
20509s also inaugural so very squishy not
20513s really but still T1 reps uh not as much
20516s as in or near us we are about to get
20517s ready to go as a moderator I'm belief
20521s has stepped in perhaps or maybe Baza is
20523s back I'm not sure we are starting the
20525s match Baza if you're here please say
20527s something
20529s yeah unfortunately it seems like bath is
20531s having trouble oxidad is well in back
20534s but just Cruisers and battle Cruisers
20536s Edition augur of a ryload is taking a
20539s good amount of damage not a lot of
20540s tracking disruption really on grid and I
20543s mean these long-range uh mid uh size
20547s platforms are able to project quite far
20550s yeah and we do see some tracking
20552s disruptions go in the way of lock range
20553s enjoyers uh we form Volta bringing those
20556s in their mid slots while lock range
20558s enjoyers it looks like have been
20559s preferring the damps they are able to
20560s take Planet Six also known as reload off
20562s the table though so Volta without their
20564s lodgy off the start of the match
20567s yeah that's pretty disastrous for Volta
20570s you would expect them to get some damage
20571s or something in return but an auger down
20574s that is the worst possible outcome right
20576s now
20577s um volt is losing an executive Navy
20578s issue Tim Baron is being primaried in
20581s his auger but he's burning away uh the
20584s hyena of tick-tock has gotten on top of
20585s him and Tin will eventually drop
20588s um e-box in his exec Navy is
20591s doing a good job of getting on top of
20592s tin Baron enforcing The Kill
20595s and they keep on uh trying to take down
20599s that auger they finally do a box in the
20602s exact Navy trying to pull range at the
20604s moment uh is down to 14 armor but hasn't
20607s really taken a whole lot now just kind
20609s of getting plinked at and they are
20611s swapping over to Melinda in this
20612s harbringer but eibach's now into
20614s structure barely surviving they might
20616s get another good couple of shots and put
20618s striker in the opposite exact Navy is
20621s going down fast
20623s yeah I mean they're gonna trade again
20624s but I mean right now it seems like the
20627s DPS race is you know fairly even right
20631s now but look at the jams from the
20632s Blackbirds um onto we formed Volta
20635s um that's going to be really the key
20637s here is are those jams actually
20638s effective I mean maybe not because Mr
20641s Rambo uh in his exec Navy is down at the
20644s hall and drops uh meanwhile Melinda is
20646s the primary for Locker engine joyers and
20648s uh
20650s being held down but not quite
20654s yeah not quite being held down I mean we
20657s see there is a web onto Xiao Yi in the
20660s Navy harbringer and a web on to Annie in
20663s the native birdex as Harvey though he's
20665s only being scrammed so uh doesn't have a
20668s web on top of him but no prop mod as
20670s there is some damage now going on in
20672s this Blackbird of Jamal uh we saw
20674s blackbirds being used to some effect
20675s earlier in the tournament there's still
20677s more damage being put onto xiaoi so they
20678s will trade a Harbinger for harboring our
20680s Navy perhaps Volta still in the lead so
20683s far in this fight uh as soon as they
20686s take down shall we
20689s yeah I feel like Volta is actually
20691s starting to run away with this now even
20692s though they started on the back foot
20693s with rylo going down first I mean look
20696s at what Volta has left they've got two
20698s OG navies a hurricane Fleet issue and
20700s brutics and a harboring for damage
20702s meanwhile lock range has just two
20704s command ships not good
20707s no it's not good at all Absolution in a
20710s star day I mean we see these Navy battle
20712s Cruisers pulling their weight the
20713s spirit's Navy issue of antidote is
20715s tackled and they are now down to half
20718s armor remaining these blackbirds doing
20720s some work there's a whole lot of damage
20722s coming out from we form Volta at the
20724s moment although this Absolution now down
20726s in half armor just as I'm saying that
20729s you have the Absolution down into half
20731s armor they're trading out for the brutix
20733s Navy issue of antigr debt but just
20734s looking at the DPS bars right now reform
20737s Volta is solidly winning the trade right
20739s now
20739s um blue morpheme and mass Cadets are
20741s going to go down before any guard that
20743s does once it happens it's only going to
20745s be grunt versus world and Volta in a
20748s commanding position
20751s take down the Blackbird now taking down
20753s the Absolution there's one Blackbird
20754s left of Jamal Annie gardetto into
20756s structure 50 structure remaining but you
20758s got a hurricane Fleet issue a hard Navy
20760s and all girl Navy and another ini on top
20763s of that they're gonna go for granting
20764s the estar day now and that is pretty
20766s much all she wrote We form Volta going
20768s back up and getting top three once again
20771s they will be in the winners bracket
20773s finals tomorrow
20776s yeah that'll be an exhilarating match uh
20778s lock range enjoyers getting knocked down
20780s we haven't seen the last of them they
20783s will have to play uh truth on light in
20785s the lower bracket uh not an enviable
20788s position uh to be in uh meanwhile uh
20791s voltage is continuing to churn through
20793s the remaining armor of grunt Cato he's
20795s doing his best to Hero rep but I mean
20797s it's not going to be enough against two
20799s faction Cruisers and uh two faction
20801s battle Cruisers
20803s and yeah not not nearly enough damage I
20807s think uh pseudo Octodad is now what
20810s we're calling this one because it's not
20812s eight battle Cruisers but it's pretty
20814s dying close with these Navy Cruisers and
20816s we form Volta uh coming up with the
20818s better version of that setup against the
20820s team that has constantly been bringing
20821s it
20822s and just has been waiting for the right
20824s moment to use it they will trade control
20826s Fleek for this astarde but it's just a
20828s black bird it carries in the Confessor
20829s which do pitiful damage compared
20832s two we're from Volta
20836s yeah unfortunately I'm in pink lock
20838s range enjoy is choking slightly more
20840s than my co-host uh as major Jenkins uh
20844s goes down leave the control freak live
20846s just in a sliver of whole but uh no
20850s damage left the attack bar for lock
20851s range has gone to zero just like their
20854s lifespan in this upper bracket
20856s absolutely no attack and uh they will go
20859s down to the lower bracket they are going
20861s to face truth on her light not a matchup
20864s you really want to get uh necessarily
20866s truth honor light kind of uh absolutely
20869s demolishing templates we are going to
20870s send it back to the desk though to bring
20872s us into the final two matches of the day
20874s don't go anywhere we will be right back
20892s [Music]
20895s thank you
20899s I remember
20917s [Music]
20921s foreign
20943s [Music]
20953s thank you
20956s we form Volta there taking the victory
20958s over lock range enjoyers as we of course
20961s knew they would now Jin tan uh super
20964s interesting setups there from both teams
20966s at almost a mirror match a little bit of
20968s difference one side bringing a bunch
20970s more battle Crews the other side I'd
20971s like him to bring the command ships but
20974s also blackbirds we heard fear referred
20976s to it as the pseudo Octodad what is the
20978s oxidation why is that not the name of
20980s this comp
20981s um so the Octodad all traces its lineage
20983s back to Alliance tournament 15 where we
20986s didn't have any limits for the amount of
20988s classes of ship you could bring for
20990s those of you unaware you could only
20991s bring four of one type such as four
20994s Cruisers or four battle Cruisers
20997s um and currently
20999s uh
21001s um and this is effectively trying to do
21002s the same thing that that was doing which
21004s is just abusing medium guns medium
21006s turrets and later on medium missiles but
21009s that was a specific medical
21012s um what you're trying to what you're
21013s trying to do is just be able to project
21015s DPS all the way across the arena you
21018s know um medium guns have the best kind
21020s of
21021s uh
21023s cross between tracking and ability to
21025s apply to Long ranges you can hit up to
21026s 70 80 kilometers with some of these
21028s ships and they still do a tremendous
21029s amount of damage when they get up close
21031s and personal
21032s speaking of tracking Bart can you just
21034s take us through this I can we have a
21036s Mauler getting shot at by a hurricane
21038s and going fast but not fast enough so it
21042s gets blown up however when you get a
21043s smaller ship or a faster ship the guns
21046s can't uh turn as much according to the
21048s calculations to actually hit the target
21050s this can also be based off of things
21052s like signature radius uh so like when
21055s you're micro warp driving your ship is
21057s considered bigger by The Game and
21058s therefore is hit easier and also range
21061s the farther away you are you know the I
21063s guess slower your ship moves and
21065s relative speed to your target so like
21067s ginton said about the medium guns they
21069s have very very good tracking
21071s um from a massive distance of range so
21074s they pretty much can hit anything
21075s assuming the piloting is pretty well I
21077s think we saw some slept nears that were
21078s hitting things that they probably
21079s shouldn't have been able to do too good
21081s piloting earlier today
21083s and Jen do you think that uh lock range
21085s enjoyers could have done something
21086s different in that match to maybe pull
21088s out a victory over we from Volta
21091s um no it's always going to be very
21092s difficult for them just because of the
21094s construction of that composition
21096s um
21097s uh Volta was able to kind of spread out
21099s they were and still be able to actually
21102s project damage onto those black birds
21103s onto those control ships from their uh
21106s from the lock range enjoyer's side with
21108s relative ease I think the only thing
21110s they could have done is maybe use those
21111s command ships a bit more effectively I
21113s don't know if they had tackle modules
21115s fit um but if they did if they could
21116s have maybe held them together or pinned
21119s them in closer at the start of the fight
21120s pushed them towards a corner uh maybe
21123s that could have worked but it was always
21124s going to be quite an uphill battle it
21126s was kind of one of those things that was
21127s lost a little bit of pick and bans from
21129s my opinion and Bart with those
21131s blackbirds instead of more DPS ships
21134s um and do you agree with that choice do
21137s you think that they'd been better off
21138s just taking more straight up DPS ships
21140s in this case uh I I like their setup
21143s um I think that uh jyn is right in that
21145s so while you're jammed obviously you
21147s can't lock anything besides the
21148s Blackbird so you keep the Blackbirds far
21150s away and then if like Jen said he pushed
21152s the command ships in super close use
21154s that Medium gun close range of ammo
21156s um that might have been sort of the big
21158s difference here because I feel that uh
21160s it was kind of like a skirmish from like
21162s a bit of range and
21164s if you have jams you know that you have
21165s like the faster you get stuff down the
21167s more effective they are just because
21168s then there's less ships you you can
21170s start doubling up tripling up on the
21171s same ships there and I think that they
21173s just had to be a little more aggressive
21174s in that case
21176s um it looked like they were starting off
21177s really really well but then it just kind
21178s of Volta slowly cut up just because
21181s seven chips is a lot of damage and four
21182s is not as much yeah uh reload AKA Planet
21186s sex AKA new Eden's finest Logistics
21188s speed bump went down fairly quickly at
21190s the start uh and there was a small
21192s amount of worry from my my perspective
21194s but then that was uh quickly quashed by
21196s the uh the great performance of the
21198s Volta team there I'm very proud of you
21200s guys
21201s um let's have a look at the bands for
21203s our upcoming match which is going to be
21204s the telstra's court versus platinum
21205s sensitivity so uh tuskers choosing to
21208s ban at the Scimitar the Basilisk and the
21210s jackdaw whereas Platinum sensitivity
21212s Banning out the EOS the jackdot and the
21214s hyena because they both banned out the
21215s jackdaw we have some trickle bands and
21217s uh Tesco's Banning a deacon with
21219s Platinum sensitivity Banning out the
21220s Osprey jintan what do you make of these
21222s bands here
21224s um well obviously the taskers don't want
21225s to face a shield kite setup Banning out
21227s the Scimitar and the Basilisk uh those
21230s are very very key ships to that setup
21232s normally we just think of that as being
21234s a scimitar comp but we did see another
21236s team I can't remember which one off the
21237s top of my head use a basilisk kite set
21240s up fairly effectively earlier today
21242s um does make me wonder what they're
21243s bringing though that is so vulnerable to
21245s a kite setup perhaps some sort of double
21248s or triple Battleship control setup
21250s yeah it's very interesting that they're
21252s running at that Osprey as well it's not
21253s the Super not a super common band so
21255s we'll see how that goes for them uh
21256s we're looking at it the tuskers uh Team
21259s over the over the years so 55 Pilots
21261s have flown from them electronicus being
21263s one of their most senior uh along up
21265s there along with Suleiman sure uh the
21268s tuskers executor and CEO they've been a
21271s very successful uh Alliance over the
21273s years they first competed in fact as the
21274s tusker bastards uh back in the day
21276s before they went independent and uh that
21278s led to them winning a live stream at 14
21280s uh in a solid Victory against pandemic
21282s Legion
21284s um they have not been as successful over
21287s the last couple years but you can see
21288s there they won a whole bunch of
21289s difficult matches against uh good teams
21291s and this year we're seeing them perform
21293s super super well Platinum sensitivity as
21296s as we've seen before a bit of a smaller
21298s team core 15 people have flown for them
21300s uh but again a whole bunch of veterans
21302s Mark Bridges there with 10 matches
21304s played in nightcap with 17. uh they've
21307s also been quite a successful team
21308s winning more than they've lost which is
21309s always good you get more practice says
21311s you get better and only dropping this
21313s time against nanofiber tokens and Volta
21315s which is a you know pretty respectful
21317s run thus far
21320s um Volta of course will join Odin's call
21322s in the witness bracket final at some
21325s point later tomorrow uh where they also
21327s guarantee themselves no worse than third
21329s place uh the Tasker is called Platinum
21332s sensitivity this is a elimination match
21334s so these teams are now fighting not to
21336s be eliminated from the tournament
21338s do you think we might start to see We're
21340s not gonna see a flagship from Platinum
21341s sensitivity because it's dead but do you
21343s might think do you think we might see
21344s one from the tuskers here I mean I hope
21346s so like you would always hope that you
21348s know they've that's their their you know
21349s their secret sauce their linchpin
21351s whatever you want to use and I would
21353s hope that they'd bring it out um it
21355s maybe won't happen depending on uh how
21358s much respect there is I think we did in
21360s fact see Volta has been not bringing it
21362s and not needing it because they think
21364s that you know a lot of times if you
21365s think that
21366s we don't need it to win maybe you're not
21368s going to just in case something weird
21370s happens like we saw a stork decide to
21372s boundary earlier that almost cost a
21374s match and what if you do that in your
21375s Flagship like a pandemic Legion pilot so
21378s you never know you got to be super
21379s careful at this um I don't
21382s I don't know if the flagship Choice here
21384s will matter as much because it seems
21387s that Platinum sensitivity
21389s kind of has been bringing the same thing
21390s over and over again and I think that
21392s that's a lot more like figuring out how
21394s to beat that is probably more important
21396s than being like Oh yes we'll save our
21398s Flagship though so we'll see what
21399s happens Jim what do you think about the
21401s choice of a bar guest and a Vindicator
21404s as flag hits from these two teams like
21406s they clearly have a different
21406s understanding of the meta and what they
21408s want to do with their flagships The
21410s Vindicator usually doesn't scale as much
21412s as ships like the bar guest so you have
21414s any thoughts on this
21416s um yeah I think it just generally
21417s depends on what you're trying to do with
21419s your Flagship you know the fin uh the
21421s flagship Vindicator especially when it's
21422s as expensive as The Vindicator that
21425s Platinum sensitivity lost does open up a
21428s lot of unique power especially if you
21430s expect it to come down to some kind of
21432s armor control mirrors uh the 90 the 90
21435s plus percent webs that they can uh shoot
21438s out to like 22 24 kilometers with boosts
21442s and officer webs is just so so potent it
21444s allows you to get in there grab a
21446s logistics forget and just remove it from
21448s the grid with without you know Nary a
21450s problem whereas a T2 fit Vindicator
21453s wouldn't be able to achieve that whereas
21455s a bar guest itself is it's just a better
21458s version of a regular bar guest it
21459s doesn't offer that a different way of
21462s doing things that said we have seen this
21464s bug SB flow very very effectively by
21466s teams previously it gives you such a
21468s wide wide catch radius all you need to
21471s do is have one ship you know forget that
21473s the bar guest is a flagship and then
21474s it's caught and then it dies and that
21476s can turn an entire match yeah we
21478s speaking of that actually we saw vld
21480s from the tuskers flying his bar gas as
21483s Flagship bar gas to great effect against
21485s truth on a light earlier on in a super
21488s exciting match uh so if you guys had
21490s haven't seen that one make sure you go
21492s back and watch it when the vods become
21493s available but
21495s um have you had any like favorite
21497s matches today this has been such an
21498s insane day with Incredible matches I
21501s really liked uh we've had a couple ones
21503s that have come down like to that last
21504s wire I mean I love the Odin's call match
21506s that was awesome like
21507s literally you didn't know where it was
21510s going to go until maybe the last minute
21511s and not in a way where you're like well
21513s they could come back it's like no you
21514s actually did not know which way this is
21516s going to go uh the truth honor light
21518s match versus tuskers was awesome
21520s um just because I was talking about it
21522s earlier and the last time the tuskers
21524s fought them when they were under Hydra
21526s they actually did the same kind of like
21528s we're gonna met a super hard
21530s specifically against this team this time
21532s it worked last time it didn't so that
21533s was really cool liked both of those and
21535s uh
21536s yeah those are my two highlights so far
21537s I'm a big fan of the reverse tie-dye
21540s match as well uh it's been so many years
21542s I was talking with CP Swift and we we
21544s couldn't figure out exactly when it last
21546s was and I think gentan you suggested it
21548s was probably when we had uh the bomber
21550s Tinker year uh it was probably when it
21552s last was there let's have our quick
21554s predictions uh before we head over to
21555s the arena Blackboard pirate who do we
21557s think between Telstra school and
21558s platinum Sensitivity I think I'm gonna
21560s go with two screws this time
21561s engine 10. uh I've got I've got hope for
21564s my boy Mark Bridges you know Misty's not
21567s on the desk so I've got to sing his
21568s Praises for him well I mean after the
21571s way we saw vld fly that Flagship Burgers
21573s later on I'm gonna have to put my
21574s channel points behind the Tasker school
21575s but let's head over to the unit and find
21577s out let's go
21583s welcome back to the arena my name is
21585s Tirana I'm by moderator and are into our
21589s final two elimination matches of the day
21592s winner of this will be top four and go
21596s into the lower bracket semifinals
21597s starting off tomorrow's stream on the
21600s red side it is the tuskers once again
21602s Fielding their Flagship Burgess comp uh
21605s with a Nighthawk at Claymore and uh and
21608s auger which means uh they are playing
21610s can't touch this with the mids
21614s yeah and they might have gotten that
21617s right it's going to be difficult for
21618s platinum sensitivity with what they've
21620s brought to really get any sort of tackle
21622s on the auger
21623s um we see that the Deacon band may be
21626s actually fairly effective here as uh we
21629s now see that
21630s there are two thalias being forced to be
21633s brought by a platinum sensitivity so
21635s it's going to cost a bit more points and
21638s um volley is not quite as tanky as a
21640s deacon
21641s yep and as I have liked to call this
21645s competence hammer time from The tuskers
21647s Shield ships fit with armor and all the
21650s e-war mids Platinum sensitivity they got
21653s their work cut out for them but they do
21654s have a widow which has been very useful
21656s for them through their lower bracket run
21658s Mark Bridges and The Vindicator has been
21660s able to bait people uh in previous
21662s matches but tuskers are a different
21664s breed and they want to continue some at
21667s success that they've perhaps been
21669s locking the last couple years moving
21671s into this meanwhile Platinum sensitivity
21673s I just want to make it into the top four
21676s yeah this is going to be you know an
21679s incredibly Deep Run for platinum
21680s sensitivity and uh better than they've
21684s done in the past that they're you know
21685s relatively new up and coming uh Team
21689s Japanese uh Community
21692s um going deeper than they've ever really
21694s done before deeper than some of the
21696s other International communities like say
21698s the German or Russian teams
21701s and I think this is really the time for
21703s toskers like you were discussing
21705s to bring their uh bar guest it did well
21708s against Hydra I think it will do well
21710s against this armor comp of platinum
21711s sensitivity
21713s a dozen we'll get to see another flag
21715s bar guest kill and see how
21717s to uh this flag Bargas is from tuskers
21720s I'm expecting uh some very blingy
21723s modules some purple launchers uh among
21725s others so the match is now underway and
21728s both teams starting to cut a little bit
21730s but Platinum sensitivity is going to be
21732s the one that's burning in towards the
21734s tuskers as the bar guest five bar
21736s against the vld will say in the front of
21738s his team players front line as he is the
21740s slowest of his team ships
21742s yeah we're starting to see the e-ore get
21745s applied to The Vindicator and the
21746s abandoned tracking guidance to the Widow
21748s and to the Nighthawk into the bargift
21750s that makes a lot of sense given that we
21752s see the Moa and uh the stork The Shield
21755s you know ships being brought into an
21757s armor comp using mids for e-war here uh
21760s at the low Point cost the megas will be
21762s primary to try to get rid of any sort of
21764s links off the Jump
21767s but the links are staying alive for the
21769s time being this Magus got dual Thalia
21772s reps
21773s extra points on the Dual Thunder two
21775s extra points having to uh move into that
21778s uh armor MOA which will be fairly
21780s squishy with a number of low slots it
21782s has it is now being primaried and should
21784s be able to be taken off the field pretty
21786s quickly by this rapid heavy bar guest
21789s yeah Randall Sykes is taking some damage
21792s uh in his control from drones but the
21794s real story here is the Moa
21796s um is taking all of the missile damage
21798s and it's only got a four slot tank
21801s um in those low slots and
21804s I the Bargas still has enough rapid
21806s Heavies it might break through it
21808s between that and the Claymore Nighthawk
21810s yeah a little bizarre now down in to 20
21814s armor remaining and he is getting broken
21816s through these revs but now a visual
21818s Fleet issue of Stew getting some drone
21820s damage on top of it as well I mean this
21822s kite set up from the tuskers they used
21824s it to some effect uh earlier well as you
21827s mentioned up against truth on her light
21828s knock them down in lower bracket uh
21831s Platinum sensitivity though they brought
21832s a brawl to a kite game and they still
21834s haven't lost any ships this mode is
21836s actually now repping up through I think
21838s the clip ran out for vld
21842s um just looking at vlv morome uh Vargas
21845s continuing to apply missiles but
21847s probably not for too much longer
21849s um some damage going on to the Thalia of
21851s FNG and and MOA should get fully wrapped
21856s up here in the meantime while the bar
21858s guest is on that 40 second clip
21862s no blood in the first two minutes of the
21866s match
21867s and uh Platinum sensitivity they just
21869s need one kill we'll see if they can get
21871s it this Mega savosot will be at least
21873s the primary for the Claymore and the
21875s Nighthawk and the other HML ships on the
21877s team while the bar guest is reloading
21879s how's that taking low but now a lot of
21882s these missiles not hitting their marks
21887s yeah I mean that's just going to be the
21889s effect of guidance disruption is it not
21892s only makes your missiles um less
21894s effective when they do hit it also
21896s shortens the flight time such that
21898s um it makes your Missile Range
21901s significantly shorter uh much like how
21903s tracking disruption makes your optimal
21906s worse but it can also make your tracking
21909s speed even more so you don't even hit it
21911s um
21912s right now we're just seeing that Mark
21914s Bridges team but the Vindicator is
21916s trying to go
21917s um a little bit above the tasker's cow
21921s now they are staying within range of
21923s their logic frigates and they are or no
21925s laundry focus of their auger and they're
21927s keeping them alive now the Magus is the
21929s primary from the testers they've hit the
21931s reload on the bar guest and they're
21933s gonna try to take this links off the
21934s field get the long or get the web links
21936s away from that Vindicator because that
21938s is so important uh The Vindicator did
21941s get actually drive by webbed earlier by
21942s the vigil Fleet of Stu Miner who stayed
21945s alive osato will be able to rep through
21947s this HML damage which don't really apply
21949s all that well to armor uh destroyers and
21952s now looks like this abaddin might be the
21955s target from uh the tuscars
21958s yeah that a badon
21961s um is going to be kind of leading the
21963s charge right now along with the
21965s Vindicator The Vindicator we do see long
21967s range webs that's going to be Randolph
21968s Sykes doing drive-bys in the crew or on
21971s the crew we don't really think of it you
21973s know in the same way as a high note but
21974s it is still
21975s um that bonus rain ship and then it's
21978s you know just pulling away
21980s um when it realizes it might be in
21982s Danger trying to buy time as the mo is
21985s still back into low armor
21988s we'll see if they'll be able to take out
21989s little bizarre you only need to kill one
21991s ship uh to win if no other ships die
21995s and we'll see if tuskers are able to do
21997s that they do so they finally kill
21998s someone with that rapid heavy clip of
22000s vld but still lots of action and by
22004s action I mean lots of poking and
22005s prodding but no deaths quite yet this
22007s Pawn effects uh got a good chunk of a
22010s shield taken out of him but not a whole
22012s lot left uh from Platinum sensitivity in
22015s terms of damage on top of them
22017s yep we can see these scrams flickering
22020s off and on of the Baton and Vindicator
22022s at times that's going to be the bonus
22024s scram from vld murome
22026s um one of the benefits of that Flagship
22029s is that you get those officer or high
22031s tier faction scrams and heated you have
22033s no trouble with links hitting close to
22035s 40 kilometers
22037s yep Skirmish links on that Claymore
22040s very very nice to have when you have a
22043s bar guest either way some more damage
22045s going on with us make us of osat some
22047s damage onto heinkel and the abaddin as
22049s well split DPS but I was sat now going
22052s into low armor and he's finally taken
22053s off the field so
22055s links off the field from Platinum
22058s sensitivity this is dire for them now
22061s yeah they still have ayaka aruta's um
22064s pontifex but you know who knows how they
22066s distributed the links between the two
22068s um when those links do eventually wear
22071s off in the next minute or so it's going
22072s to make the Pont effects and the belly
22074s is just that much easier to kill and
22076s speaking of easy to kill the sky breaker
22077s if NYX goes down
22079s one more kill in the tusker's cap they
22082s still haven't lost anyone as their e-war
22084s mids have just been so effective and
22086s their kiting has been so effective they
22088s haven't been caught at all on any of
22090s these ships this bar guest of vld doing
22093s the screen that he needs to do to make
22095s sure the rest of his team can stay away
22097s from the Platinum sensitivity
22101s this is almost comical from veal di
22103s morome he's just like holding out his
22104s arm with the scram against this
22107s Vindicator of Mark Bridges just holding
22109s him away being like haha you can't touch
22112s me it really is Hammer Time the pontifex
22115s is trying to close range get on top of
22117s something uh but it looks like he's now
22120s been webbed by the crew of either Stu
22123s minor or the
22124s leadership
22127s yep now the pawn effects very slow can't
22130s get away he's got info Links at the very
22132s least but uh info links are only so
22135s useful when you have a ship that needs
22138s web range it's got damaged drones now on
22140s top of them uh you see the Drone Cloud
22142s now swarming as uh nosuko and the
22145s crucifier is taking damage from I
22146s believe hmls at the moment no that was
22148s drone Cloud as well and both the pot
22150s effects and the uh what was that the
22154s crucifier got taken down very quickly
22158s and I almost hate to say this for
22160s platinum sensitivity it's just that
22161s they're uh their attack bar has been
22163s close to nil the entire match and now
22166s that um all these other support ships
22168s have dropped tuskers is able to
22170s concentrate all of their e-war uh mid
22173s slots and those Target painters that NOS
22176s onto all of platinum sensitivity and
22178s it's snowballing look how fast Le
22180s quartus in the Widow is dropping with no
22183s links the thalias just can't keep up
22185s yeah Kent larkis I mean he's in a widow
22188s not a super tanky ship if you uh fit it
22190s with armor yeah you got Shield resist
22191s bonuses but that's not really helpful
22193s he's now in to structure and should end
22195s up falling it's all but over and the
22198s tuskers co will move on to be a top four
22200s team playing tomorrow sorry a top uh six
22205s team top four top four team uh playing
22208s tomorrow
22210s yeah I mean you're surviving to the
22213s final day that's always kind of the goal
22215s tuskers
22216s um
22217s in recent memory they've had somewhat
22220s unfortunate bracket positions they've
22222s lost some of their team members uh to
22225s hydro reloaded or just to inactivity and
22228s now they're really coming back into the
22230s form that they were at in Alliance
22233s tournament 14 when they beat pandemic
22236s lesion to you'd win that for the first
22238s time ever and really showing that they
22240s do truly belong with the elites of the
22242s elite
22243s and they will face the winner of lock
22245s range enjoyers versus truth honor light
22247s lock range enjoyers the winner of last
22248s year or of this year's anger games truth
22251s honor light the winner of last year's a
22253s t that's going to be an exciting match
22255s hopefully we're gonna have Baza back on
22257s in time for that he is fixing some tough
22259s and hold difficulties that are
22261s preventing him from joining we have a
22262s minute left in this match moderator
22263s anything else you'd like to say
22267s yeah
22268s um I like Mark Bridges he's a good guy
22270s I'm glad to see that they
22272s um made as deep a run as they did I
22274s won't take anything away from a top six
22276s performance that's better than I think
22278s um
22279s anyone when we were doing these
22282s prediction shows thought they would do
22283s uh right now both teams good fighting
22285s and local as only the abaddin and
22288s Vindicator remain on grid for platinum
22291s yep yeah two battleships but uh I mean
22295s they've just been kept at arm's length
22296s unless you were makes them and if they
22298s are not at Arts length uh pretty much
22302s useless 20 seconds left in the match now
22304s and GFS have already been called in
22306s local I mean it's a nice run for
22308s platinum sensitivity uh constantly
22310s getting better and better as tournament
22311s season progresses we saw them in ag as
22314s cutting a niche on actually make a
22315s pretty deep run there as well so I'm
22318s excited to see what else comes from the
22320s steam what else comes from the Japanese
22321s Community as uh they are a very small
22324s number of players for Eve online
22327s yeah and coming in top six again they
22330s will get eight of each the Gary and the
22332s Bestia the prize ship from the minmatar
22335s Republic who's sponsoring this event
22337s um but that's all for myself and fears
22340s we send it back to the desk
22357s [Music]
22361s [Applause]
22365s guys stop being casual they're really
22367s bad we should not lose anybody to this
22370s warp off take the fleet warp everybody
22372s warp off this is a really really bad
22374s execution I'm very disappointed
22379s another great hall back from Amar damn
22382s I'm thirsty
22388s that hits the spot
22401s uh yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP
22404s collectively uh so that's why that
22406s Alliance logo is in the game of course
22408s you could change your alliance by
22409s leaving but that would be kind of a jerk
22411s move that kind of oh you don't like it
22413s now sucks I'm gonna go join
22430s the tuskers coat with the solid victory
22432s over uh Platinum sensitivity in a very
22435s hard fault match in order to pull out
22437s Victory out I do think that if uh
22439s Platinum sensitivity had that Flagship
22441s Vindicator it would have been maybe
22442s something that made the difference we
22444s saw we went almost five minutes with
22445s only only one ship going down just a
22448s match all about positioning and control
22450s and just waiting till the right moment
22451s to strike as a unit rather than you know
22453s sort of just running in or running out
22455s of the Arena very very uh top end
22458s piloting from from all those players uh
22460s black part pirate we noticed that the
22462s crew and the visual Fleet issue seem to
22464s be driving in
22465s hitting with a web and then getting out
22466s of there what's going on uh yeah so they
22468s were they were going into slow the ships
22470s down um specifically they would fly in
22473s and put a web on it and then the target
22474s painters would swap from tuscars onto
22477s the Target that was recently webbed and
22478s then they try and blow it up and uh it's
22480s pretty dangerous move to do especially
22482s when you're in a setup like tuskers was
22484s which is a very slow burn setup and by
22488s doing so you slow your target down
22490s enough that your missiles start applying
22491s a lot harder um I think genton made a
22494s comment you slow down Eve way faster
22496s than you speed up most of the time so
22497s just coming in and webbing for a couple
22499s seconds and then flying away with those
22500s uh longer range bonus webs which like we
22503s see on occur which I think that's the
22505s first time we've seen one it can be
22506s really effective and sort of to uh to go
22509s off that I think you're right if they
22511s had had the flagship Vindicator there's
22513s a few times where I saw the vigil Fleet
22514s issue get within about 20 to 15 of The
22517s Vindicator
22518s would have been able to grab it with
22520s those 90 webs because they didn't it was
22522s safe to just be an amazing pilot and not
22524s have to worry about any of the uh maybe
22526s slightly more toxic mechanics of you
22527s online
22528s Jen why don't we see more occurs it's
22531s very unusual ship in the last tournament
22533s um yeah we've only ever really seen them
22535s used heavily when they've been
22536s discounted in points uh they are
22538s relatively effective they have a lot of
22541s uh things that we normally do quite
22542s value quite heavily in the alliance
22544s tournament obviously they have a web
22545s range bonus they have a neutralizer
22547s bonus the problem is really just where
22549s they sit at in terms of points they are
22551s four points so that's the same cost as
22553s an assault frigate which can do much the
22556s same sort of role of tackling something
22558s or holding something down but we're in a
22561s more durable shell and with
22564s um and in a way that's easier to
22566s actually use you know it doesn't take as
22568s much skill to fly a Jaguar hit approach
22570s F1 scram web and then slam on that ADC a
22574s second you get shot flying a crew or
22576s normally requires a lot of skill and it
22577s requires a very careful setup around it
22580s you know you need your Logistics to
22582s really be on the ball to have you know
22584s three four small reps so that you can
22585s keep your tiny little buffer topped up
22588s whilst you're going in and using those
22590s Maneuvers uh it's something that we'll
22593s probably see used a little more as we
22595s get to this end game especially if this
22596s tuskers comp kind of catches on uh you
22598s know we do have a day before the final
22600s uh weekend uh sorry the final day of
22602s matches and I'm sure these teams will be
22605s screaming throughout the night trying to
22606s figure out how their opponent's comps
22608s work and uh trying to find ways to
22610s defeat them yeah speaking of that
22613s um we uh started today with 18 teams uh
22616s competing to win Alliance tournament 18.
22619s right now we are down to five just five
22621s teams remaining
22623s um tomorrow we will see our top four go
22625s up against each other to see who can be
22627s the grand Champions and those top four
22630s will be Volta Odin's call the tuscress
22633s court and the winner of our upcoming
22634s match lock Ring enjoyers versus truth
22636s honor light so this again is an
22638s elimination match we are in the
22639s elimination bracket the winner of this
22640s will go forward to live one more day
22644s um and try and compete to get into that
22645s Grand Final lock range enjoy is here
22647s Banning out the Osprey Navy issue the
22649s EOS and the Osprey whereas truth on a
22651s light Banning out the Nighthawk the
22653s executor Navy issue and the scalpel
22655s black power what do you make of this
22657s I think that uh the especially on the
22659s true thunder light side we've seen
22660s Locker engine doors win a lot with this
22663s executive setup that they've been doing
22665s uh now they can't do it and I think that
22666s executive navies are actually a ship
22668s that there isn't really
22670s an equivalency for which you'll see a
22672s lot in these is that you know like if
22674s you ban the Osprey Navy out people can
22676s bring like a caracal Navy if you ban uh
22679s if you ban a no set you could bring a
22680s guardian I don't personally think that
22682s there is an equivalent of the executive
22684s Navy so truth honor light is saying hey
22686s we don't want to deal with that three
22688s times executor Navy ship which is kind
22690s of pretty cool and interesting and
22692s jintan what do you make of the scalpel
22693s ban yeah that's a that's a really
22695s curious one I don't know uh if I'm gonna
22698s be perfectly honest we haven't seen a
22700s huge predilection of them in this
22702s tournament and when we have it's mostly
22703s been in Rush setups uh that said maybe
22706s they were just trying to make that a
22707s little weaker uh especially with luck
22710s range enjoyers Banning that out that's
22711s pretty much taking that off the table
22713s unless they want to run some sort of
22715s weird Scimitar based Rush which normally
22717s isn't going to work because you don't
22718s have the points then to dedicate into
22720s that top end DPS
22722s awesome and uh what what are you
22724s expecting in this match bar like to see
22726s these teams feel do you have you've
22727s experienced a bunch of matches with uh
22728s with both of them now
22730s um you know give me your give me your
22731s thoughts uh so normally if the executive
22734s Navy wasn't banned I would kind of
22735s expect Locker Engineers to sort of fall
22737s back and be like okay we've won with
22739s this several times and we lost last time
22741s we didn't use it let's go back to the
22742s tried and true um but it is banned so uh
22745s I do believe that these two are uh
22748s relatively interconnected in regards to
22750s being practice Partners
22753s um spoiler alert probably gonna get
22754s pinged like what the hell uh so when
22758s that happens you have absolutely no idea
22761s um we've talked about Band Theory and
22763s that a lot and honestly being practice
22765s Partners does not help you it makes it
22767s way way worse to go up against each
22768s other so
22770s I'm gonna say I have no idea we're going
22772s to find out what they do when they put
22773s it on grid and it's probably going to be
22774s weird
22775s yeah practice Partners going up against
22776s each other you have that situation where
22778s you know that team super well you know
22780s what they like to do you know what
22780s they're strong at and you've worked with
22782s them to develop that meta so you know do
22785s you just bring something you think that
22787s you personally as a team are like
22788s incredibly executing or do you try and
22790s encounter them gentan like what's the
22792s captain's thought process usually in
22793s these well actually Bay art Jay the
22795s producer of this stream was telling me a
22797s really interesting story about something
22799s he ran into when he was uh a part of
22802s when he was playing in the alliance
22803s tournament where they practiced a match
22805s up between their practice Partners you
22807s know 10 12 times they kind of knew the
22809s ins and outs of how everything worked
22811s kind of what they needed to do and
22813s they'd found that it was something that
22814s was very advantage to their opponent's
22815s favor and then when they saw the bands
22817s come in on the day they thought okay
22819s well we think we know what they're going
22820s to bring let's just put take away all
22823s the tackle modules on our tackle replace
22824s them with damps and we'll crush them and
22827s then they did that and their practice
22828s Partners were very salty about it so it
22831s will be interesting to see if any team
22832s sort of attempts something like that and
22834s uh what the outcome of that might be
22836s diplomatically which I think is always
22838s fun there's always drama Behind These
22839s matches that unfortunately we don't get
22841s to see very much on the desk yeah before
22843s we go to our last match of the day
22845s trying to take a moment to shout out the
22847s people down at the eve London watch
22848s party right now uh they are in the
22851s Oyster shed in London and they're
22853s watching us on on the big TV hello
22855s um I hope you guys having a great time
22857s it is uh 20 to 10 I'm sure you've been
22859s having a great time for many hours now
22861s um and then yeah I hope you continue to
22862s have a great time in this last match so
22864s we're going to go to the arena now for a
22866s lock range enjoyers versus truth honor
22868s light
22873s welcome back to the arena my name is
22876s firvana joined by the Basilisk and on
22878s the red side it is lock range enjoyers
22880s and what have they brought it is a flag
22883s Vindicator and a widow for the ultimate
22886s in Ardmore control and uh I have to ask
22889s ibaza what have
22891s two thunder light brought so truth AKA
22894s Justice League spearheaded by Dexter AKA
22897s it's the open man in that Flagship bogus
22900s they've brought a slightly strange wonky
22902s armor comp but I mean I say wonky I'm
22904s sure it's exceptionally gonna pull me
22905s exceptionally well here two rapid heavy
22907s battle two rapid heavy missile
22909s battleships here the Armageddon Navy and
22911s the bogus I remember they flew a comp
22913s early with ball guest
22915s um authoris and something else which I
22916s thought was pretty low in damage but
22917s they actually managed to make the picks
22918s they needed and make those critical sort
22919s of kills and get a win on points there
22921s so I think they're going to be similarly
22922s slow here it's going to be about finding
22924s the targets they can actually kill and
22925s we've got
22926s Oodles of control in the low end
22928s gentleman's agreement was made in local
22930s not to shoot any Flagship wrecks uh
22933s we'll see if that holds true
22935s the teams are underway one team wants to
22938s brawl the other team wants the kite and
22940s in the middle we have the a t or I
22945s should say it's it's it's actually just
22946s a bunch of opooks Dragoon Yachts that
22949s are cloaked up and uh observing what's
22952s going on and some Polaris frigates
22955s we've got a Confessor on one side of
22958s Amelia dusk space and uh sort of
22960s conversely on the other side the stipple
22961s of damasis Kadesh obviously two very
22963s well-known Pilots two very big names in
22964s The Alliance tournament scene and
22966s they're the sort of leading the charges
22967s or say leading the charging the team's
22969s really charging in here but they're the
22970s the front line at the moment for their
22971s team but they're just sort of no real
22973s damage going across this sort of control
22974s War at the moment
22975s yeah no real damage there are a bunch of
22978s uh jams going out
22980s and some tracking and missile disruption
22982s but otherwise not real damage no one's
22985s really done anything this is just a
22988s poking and product match this is just
22989s like the armor control matchups we've
22991s seen previously what is going on here
22994s yeah and I saw something in the in the
22996s even line disco the other day discussing
22998s some of the matches about how one of the
23000s I believe it was one of the Hydra
23001s members sorry truth on the light Justice
23002s League whatever saying oh you know these
23004s armor control comps they just sit around
23005s for seven minutes before the battle
23006s starts we'll go on then get on with it
23009s get on with it yes exactly uh we do see
23012s this Armageddon Navy issue of Nick
23013s burning in a little bit maybe trying to
23015s force an over extension uh Confessor of
23018s Amelia also doing the same burning
23020s towards uh looks like this spiffle at
23022s the moment or maybe the Sentinel from
23024s the side of lock range enjoyers remember
23027s one of these teams is going to get
23028s eliminated and they are the last two
23030s tournament winners uh for the game so
23034s really excited to see who actually comes
23036s out on top but now the Magus gets
23038s volleyed by truth on her light and
23040s that's the power of those two rapid
23042s heavy heavy missiles I can't say that
23043s anymore those two rapid heavy missile
23045s battleships here they can pick a Target
23046s and when there's a window where they're
23047s both unjammed of course the fat Cy shows
23049s us Jam attempts not successful jams and
23051s they were able to just absolutely frag
23052s that Magus right off the bat now we're
23053s looking at damages condition the
23054s stripper as well he's going into mid
23056s armor
23057s yeah the push forward and the pull back
23059s working out well for truth honor light
23061s and they only need one kill if they're
23063s in the kite setup the Damascus to dash
23065s though uh is now in uh defensive mode
23068s and has the extra armor resists and the
23070s uh Shield or not Shield resists uh the
23073s uh
23075s um
23078s I was trying to look for Sig radius
23081s there sorry about that it has been a
23082s long day The Sentinel ajao Yi also
23085s taking a bit of damage at the moment but
23086s uh not a whole lot left and just like
23089s that the teams are staring each other
23090s down once again
23092s yeah but as you said truth on a light
23094s scoring first blood in this match and I
23096s think you know we've seen Lockridge
23097s enjoys bring this comp a couple times
23099s earlier in the day with the window Widow
23100s and The Vindicator but I think every
23102s time they've brought it they've been in
23104s a position where the enemy has pushed
23105s into them and this is now a situation
23107s where they're behind on points they need
23108s to make something happen they've got
23109s this Vindicator they want to use it and
23111s obviously Truth All Out are not going to
23113s come into them so a lot range of noise
23114s need to be the ones pushing forward here
23115s and it's a totally different Dynamic for
23117s a comp whether you're sort of pulling
23119s back kiting away from opponent who's
23121s pushing into you or whether you need to
23122s be the ones going aggressive and at the
23123s moment the pressure is on lock range
23124s enjoys to be going aggressive
23126s and they need to find something that
23129s scary is playing forward at the moment
23130s uh doesn't really have a jackdaw on the
23132s enemy team but uh to uh deal with at the
23136s moment but he does have to deal with uh
23138s dual blackbirds we mentioned this Widow
23140s but also these dual blackbirds from the
23142s side of Truth honor light are going to
23144s be putting out bonus jams as well
23146s although not uh strength bonused uh just
23149s in terms of range shall ye in the
23151s Sentinel not taking a bit more damage
23153s but it looks like just drone blob on top
23156s of them yeah it is just a drone blob and
23157s as long as tin Baron obviously a very
23159s competent pilot in his own right is
23160s going to be able to just deal with that
23162s no problem at all but it's still just
23163s poking and prodding we see the Confessor
23164s of Striker Erica push forward here but
23166s immediately I believe gets scrammed by
23167s the flagship bar guest of Dexter and
23169s that's a very dangerous place for him to
23170s be there's no getting out of that
23171s situation he's going to get absolutely
23172s obliterated here by these missiles
23174s coming out from the battleships that is
23176s a very long scram range and Striker uh
23179s now still scrammed up now the Armageddon
23182s Navy issue also got some tackle on top
23183s of him I'm taking a look at the fancy UI
23185s right now he was scrammed actually by
23187s that Confessor but now he's broken free
23189s the spiffle of Damascus Kadesh now
23191s wanting to get himself with this
23193s argument getting Navy of Nick domard but
23195s we see the screen perhaps coming in this
23197s carries uh might have a scrim on him
23199s although I doubt it uh look at this
23201s Vindicator
23203s in the center of the screen here they
23204s were just on the left of the screen a
23206s second ago but now Vindicator from bogus
23207s these two battleships just sat right on
23208s top of each other I'm not sure who
23210s really wants to be in this position
23211s obviously if you're in a Vindicator you
23212s think great I'm right on top of the
23213s Bargas but Dexter has a history of
23215s surviving at very very low HP in these
23216s Flagship bogus and I think he got here
23218s of his own accord so maybe he knows
23220s something that grunt Kayla doesn't
23222s he's got the damage of the Dual rapid
23224s heavy competent at the moment The
23225s Vindicator staying in a place we saw the
23228s one Armageddon Navy maybe get tackled
23230s earlier on but now he's broken free so
23232s Nick domard doing just fine Xiao you in
23234s the Sentinel though is now the primary
23236s and has actual missile damage on top of
23238s him at the moment but the Reps keep on
23240s coming through from tin Baron and the
23242s guardian yeah and I have to question
23244s just how powerful that Sentinel is he
23245s must be very very powerful with only
23247s really two damage ships on the other
23249s side the boggiest and the Navy gedden if
23251s he has any guidance disrupted at all he
23253s can just totally obliterate their
23254s application here and now we see Dexter
23256s starting to go into armor here it's
23257s going to be up to Lucas Quan to keep him
23258s up but he may get damped he may get
23260s jammed obviously there's a lot of
23261s control on both sides it's hard for us
23262s to tell we've only got the fancy UI
23264s icons they tell us a lot but they don't
23265s tell us what's successful they don't
23266s tell us whether the universe is actually
23267s locking
23268s um you know it's it's this is going to
23270s be tricky here there's a lot of stuff
23272s taking damage here the sensors taking
23273s chunks the carries is taking damage
23274s Dexter still slowly going down here the
23275s lodgy's working their asses off here to
23277s keep everyone alive
23278s logite MVP for both these teams right
23281s now Dexter now in to 55 armor he has in
23285s our nearest on top of him but he still
23286s has to deal with the flag of Indy they
23288s do take down the Sentinel finally so
23289s that frees up uh the missiles from the
23292s Arvin getting Navy significantly as they
23294s move on to this carries of Zale he has
23297s been tanking quite a bit now he's got
23299s the full rep power of the Guardian
23300s behind him but he is slowly slowly
23303s breathing structure right now A Dexter's
23305s burning away here from this Vindicator
23306s so I think he must obviously with those
23308s newts that he's going to have on that
23309s Flagship August I think he managed to
23311s cap out of India and tally and stop his
23313s way but the web goes back on the ball
23314s gets just slowing down again but he's
23315s already caught reps up to philama here
23317s and in the meanwhile lock range enjoys
23318s are slowly bleeding ships they lost the
23320s Sentinel as you said the carries is
23322s starting to take her grow here as well
23323s and I wonder if this control from truth
23324s or like might be too much to bear at
23325s this point yeah these jams doing work
23328s from this Widow blue morphism uh trying
23331s to get the chance he can get but
23333s unfortunately he's up against two
23334s blackbirds and warp out and or run to or
23336s uh or on test OVA ovassi have been able
23340s to counter Jam this Widow and do the
23344s work that they need to do to keep the
23345s rest of these ships off of Truth honor
23347s light they are now up 16-0 they have
23349s three minutes left in the match and
23350s they're on to Damascus Kadesh in the
23352s Sipple now
23353s yeah and as you say those two ACM ships
23355s jamming each other but the the point
23356s investment of the Widow and the
23358s Blackbird let's say they're both
23358s successful against each other they can
23360s still lock each other but they can't
23361s lock anything else but the points
23362s investment 14 points for these two
23364s blackbirds from truth on a light 25
23366s points for lock range enjoyers on that
23368s Widow so the rest of their comp is just
23370s going to be that much weaker those extra
23371s 10 points not going elsewhere and you
23374s know the Widow may be neutered here
23375s although we do see the ecmi can come off
23376s him but maybe now he's just being damped
23378s instead by the carries they feel they
23379s can keep it under control with that and
23380s the swipple was that the circle that pop
23382s know it was the Blackbird of jail does
23384s go down
23385s yeah both teams brought Blackbird once
23387s brought two the other brought one and
23389s unfortunately for lock range enjoyers
23391s this should be all she wrote for the
23393s match that blackbird's dead they're
23394s gonna move on to this Pawn effects now
23396s of Nora they've got plenty of damage on
23397s top of them maybe then Tim Baron in the
23399s guardian who is rapping quite
23402s effectively onto this Pawn effects uh
23405s the guardian versus the ineros it's an
23407s uh age old question which do you bring
23409s to the a t and it looks like the ineros
23411s is letting out this particular time as
23414s the DPS moves on to Tim Baron yeah so
23417s this was quite slow burn at the start
23418s but they did eventually kick it off but
23419s with just two minutes left you know I
23421s want to sort of talk about some of the
23422s some of the plays we saw in this match I
23423s want to call out Dexter specifically
23425s obviously being entrusted with piloting
23428s a multi-multi-billion flagship I can
23430s assure you that barges on truth on a
23432s light is not going to be a cheap ship
23433s being entrusted with that you need to
23435s know what you're doing and the fact that
23437s he burned into that Vindicator and said
23438s I'm not worried about his damage I know
23440s I can mute him out before he kills me
23442s and then was able to pull range again
23444s and actually catch reps it it
23446s demonstrates such an intricate and
23448s in-depth knowledge of the situation is
23451s it's got to be second nature even like a
23453s language to him and he speaks it so
23454s fluently and both these teams have been
23457s extremely potent over the course of
23458s today and the and last week
23461s um it's a shame that one of them has to
23463s go out but it is unfortunately going to
23464s be lock range enjoys I believe they will
23466s secure a top six finish with this loss
23468s and Truth on a light will lock in a top
23470s four position obviously aiming to
23472s continue all the way to the final
23473s tomorrow
23474s now they will be facing the tuskers Co
23476s in the first match of the day it is the
23479s only bo1 tomorrow the only best of one
23481s will be truth honor life versus the
23483s testers Co and then we will have two
23485s best of Threes in the upper bracket
23487s finals and the lower bracket finals
23488s followed by a b05 for the grand finals
23493s baz and I will be casting that
23495s particular match and I'm excited for it
23497s tomorrow anything else you want to say
23499s for these last 30 seconds of the match
23500s before we hand it back to the desk I'm
23503s just gonna give another shout out to
23504s Nick tomorrow I call him out every time
23505s casting the tournament this guy
23506s basically taught me the game uh I was in
23508s his in his Corporation back in like 2012
23510s 2013. I got demoted to our training win
23513s which was kind of funny and then brought
23514s back up again and yeah this guy
23516s basically taught me everything I know so
23517s Props to Nick tomorrow I know he shows
23518s up to basically every match that Hydro
23520s truth on the light whatever you want to
23521s call them play and yeah a great
23523s performance from both teams is going to
23524s be in full-range enjoys and yeah with
23525s that we'll send it back to the studio
23544s [Music]
23548s thank you
23555s Sonos up
23559s foreign
23601s foreign
23610s there we have it just over a week ago we
23613s started with 32 teams here in Alliance
23615s tournament 18 and now we have our final
23617s four teams remaining uh Odin's call and
23620s we from Volta in the upper bracket still
23623s remaining they have guaranteed
23624s themselves at least third place and in
23627s the lower bracket we have tuskers and
23628s Truth honor light so incredible teams
23631s today has been some of the best matches
23632s in uh in a day I can remember just so
23635s many highlights so many like swinging it
23637s back and forward so many close calls we
23639s had a reverse tie-dye match for the
23641s first time in years we had we had Odin's
23643s bringing it back and getting rid of the
23645s Gin interview curse uh we had uh tuskers
23648s beating truth on a light down to the
23649s lower bracket and then going to face
23650s them again tomorrow it just it's such an
23653s exciting series of matches today
23655s um make sure you stick around for the
23656s raid we are going to go off and get
23658s ready for tomorrow and we will be back
23660s for the final four teams see who can be
23663s Alliance sermon 18 Champion see you then
23668s foreign
23670s [Music]