[2023] EVE Online | Alliance Tournament XIX | Day 1 | EVE Online Dev Tracker

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3s	foreign
30s	hello and welcome to Alliance tournament
33s	19 I am CCP overload and we're here once
36s	again for some guaranteed spaceship
38s	explosions I have been looking forward
39s	to this for so long I am joined on the
42s	desk by Blackboard pirate and moderator
44s	we have so many amazing matches for you
47s	in this coming couple of weeks uh we had
49s	the feeder tournaments a little while
50s	ago winner stays on it was a super
53s	exciting thing this year most
56s	importantly only the top four teams from
58s	last year got the direct invite there
60s	was no more flexing the Plex and buying
62s	your way in so the feeders every single
64s	team had to go through that meaning that
66s	this year's selection of competition 32
69s	teams 32 of the best teams in all of new
72s	Eden are going to compete for that
73s	number one spot in Alliance tournament
75s	19. Bart how excited are you I'm so
78s	excited I love the feeders we're a
80s	little bit over a month away from uh
82s	having just finished them off they were
84s	fantastic matches every single team
85s	that's in like you said they deserve to
87s	be here they all played fantastically I
89s	think we're gonna maybe have one of the
91s	best Alliance tournaments we've ever
92s	seen with some of the best play we've
93s	ever seen this is awesome I'm so glad to
96s	be back here too I'm overview motivator
98s	I'm so excited to be back here in lovely
100s	Nottingham with the crew for another
102s	amazing Alliance tournament just like
104s	BBB said the teams are stacked this year
106s	I'm ready for some excellent matches
108s	yeah I mean just in our round one
109s	matches we have a couple of really cool
111s	ones so we have temples calcif versus
113s	boundary experts we have we form Volta
116s	versus Darkseid hidden Leaf Village
118s	Ninja Assassin Squad Esports versus
120s	rotcapel and exodus versus platinum
122s	sensitivity that's four incredible
124s	matches and we're gonna see them all
125s	today uh bar any of those do you think
127s	are going to be really exciting oh I am
129s	always always so happy to watch the team
132s	that I will not say the entire name of
134s	because I will not say it correct but uh
136s	Esports uh just because I know that uh
139s	the Baza hopes so much for them to win
141s	and I love seeing his reactions so I
143s	like to see it for maybe slightly evily
146s	reasons but I do love watching those
147s	guys play they always do some
148s	interesting stuff before we get to that
150s	match we have our first match which is
152s	going to be truth on a light versus
154s	lazox truth on the lights last year's
156s	defending Champions uh this is the first
158s	match of the year they had to go up
159s	against laser Hogs historically they did
161s	pretty well in Alliance tournament 15
163s	but since then a little bit of a
164s	struggle for them let's have a look at
165s	the bands and see what these teams have
167s	chosen to ban in our first match of
169s	Alliance tournament 19.
172s	okay so truth on a light here Banning
174s	out the curse the executive Navy issue
176s	the Scorpion Navy issue and the Jesus
179s	whereas laser Hawks Banning out the
180s	oniros the guardian the Blackbird and
182s	the Sentinel moderator what do you think
184s	of these bands here yeah truth honor
186s	light basically saying hey we don't want
188s	to deal with getting damned out really
189s	hard we don't want to deal with tracking
191s	disruption in newts both teams really
193s	opting to deal with getting rid of you
195s	know jams getting rid of tracking
197s	disruption and Laser Hawks going heavy
199s	for Logie first time we've ever seen the
201s	four bands ever for each side get played
204s	and we're seeing a lot of comps get
206s	pushed out of the way as a result yeah
208s	we've gone up to four bands this year
209s	from three last year so it's definitely
211s	going to make more depth in some of
213s	these uh these comps that the teams are
215s	gonna have to field I guess we're going
216s	to see a lot of Blackbird bands it's
218s	always a popular band and now with four
220s	available bands it's almost going to be
222s	for some teams so easy just like hey get
225s	rid of that thing ECM we don't want to
226s	see it I think it's really interesting
227s	to see the executive Navy issue get
229s	banned it was a very popular ship last
231s	year in the max threat comp which was
233s	one of the Apex comps of the year and
234s	it's still a generally very good ship of
236s	course it's also discounted this year
238s	it's a point reduced due to the galenti
240s	Federation sponsoring this year's
242s	Alliance tournament uh Bart do you think
244s	we're gonna see a lot of afternoon of
246s	issue bands I think we will it is
248s	probably one of the most uh cost
250s	effective ships you can possibly have
252s	right now uh it was we saw a couple
254s	people would like fly two to three of
255s	them last year to really good effect
257s	like you said it's cheaper this year uh
259s	Mass amounts of damage and in all
261s	honesty we're gonna see a lot of these
264s	like medium gun High DPS setups in the
266s	executive issue is like
267s	kind of a key to that awesome well it is
270s	time for us to head over to the Vina for
272s	our first match of Alliance tournament
274s	19 it's going to be truth on a light
276s	they're going to go against laser Hawks
277s	and your casters are firvana and the
279s	Basilisk
283s	hello everyone welcome to the arena and
285s	this isn't just any Arena this is in
287s	fact the Bernie NATO Arena so laser
289s	Hawks truth unlike are going to Christen
290s	it here with some blood some fire some
292s	explosions
293s	um bringing us all the joy of the
295s	tournament realm um so I'll ask you all
297s	in twitch chat to spam your 07s you're
298s	less than three is your rips for those
300s	that we've lost over the past year and
302s	let's enjoy the explosions that are
303s	coming our way fear what are we looking
304s	at here
305s	on the red side it is truth honor light
308s	bringing a comp we have not seen in a
310s	long time it is genuine fly killer with
314s	artillery nearest and hurricane
316s	Fleet issues meanwhile on the blue side
319s	what do we have from laser Hawks looks
321s	like a fairly conventional sort of
322s	pseudo dad that we're calling it here
323s	with a bunch of uh you know battle
325s	Cruisers with medium guns all girl
327s	navies as well so they're just going to
328s	be trying to project from range here I
329s	think and the arbitrator hoping to just
330s	disrupt those um artillery boats on the
333s	other side
334s	there's a firearm mall is doing a lot of
335s	work off the start from truth on our
337s	light look at all those damps going out
339s	uh as well as their celestes all the
341s	stamps and tracking us up there's and
342s	they immediately delete a Confessor off
344s	the side of laser Hawks laser Ox has to
346s	burn in to make anything work but they
348s	are up against a shield setup who's
350s	going to be faster and has a lot of
352s	volley with these medium artillery
353s	cannons yeah that's the power of this
355s	artillery comb is what they want to do
356s	is just frag off anything small that
357s	comes in to confess of the Hecate uh
359s	they are actually going for the astarte
360s	now which surprises me a little bit but
361s	I'm not gonna doubt these guys in their
363s	target calling we obviously know what
364s	they're doing
365s	um we do see we don't see any webs
366s	actually applied here so
368s	um I'd expect Caba to be able to catch
370s	reps on this assatee and the Old Navy
371s	taking damage as well but they are
373s	getting in in closer here but not
375s	actually I mean they're going to be
376s	lacking on tackle in their comp they're
377s	up against a higher they don't have any
379s	range webs themselves Navy auger getting
381s	painted by the hyenas as well as webs
383s	landing on the Absolution Navy auger so
385s	this is devolving into a brawl my
386s	favorite of the pseudo dad who has a
387s	little bit more DPS overall but this OG
389s	Navy issue uh is going down very very
393s	quickly from laser Hawks and they have
395s	not been able to trade onto this Fleet
396s	hurricane quite yet only getting a paint
398s	right now from the laser Hawk side and
401s	they lose their ognavius Baku yeah I
404s	mean there's not much tackle on that
405s	side and of course they've got damp
407s	control on the on the truth on the light
408s	side as well with the Osprey and the
409s	mawlers gonna be making it very
410s	difficult for anything that does get in
411s	range to actually lock
413s	um and you know apply those webs so
414s	laser Hawks continuing to get kites
416s	around here are still there they are
418s	shooting the fleet hurricane he's going
419s	into low Shield but he's still not
420s	actually tackled down at all so he's
422s	just going to keep burning and uh you
423s	know
425s	barakas going down under the structure
428s	already these medium artilleries do a
430s	lot of volley and they just aren't able
432s	to hold them up with just an auger from
434s	the laser Hawk side uh this is a
437s	complete surprise I think no one
438s	expected to see fly killer especially
440s	first match from truth on or light but
442s	they're showing a comp that we haven't
444s	seen in years and they're flying it
446s	really well into the comp that a lot of
448s	teams thought was going to be the top of
449s	the matter this is going to change a lot
451s	of uh teams thought processes going into
454s	the rest of the day yeah with the
456s	arbitrator going down there that makes
457s	it just even easier for these
458s	artilleries to hit as we said the heck
459s	to get the lead straight through no
461s	chance of the auger catching him he was
462s	gone and I think there reason they chose
464s	fly killer is because it's I mean it is
465s	a hard comp to fly but if you can do it
467s	right and they definitely can you can
468s	reap the rewards of it
470s	um you know it they trust in themselves
472s	in each other to execute the trans
474s	matching the positioning the kiting
476s	that's necessary to make this come work
478s	and they're showing against laser Hawks
479s	here they've still got it
481s	yeah I mean expect nothing less from the
483s	defending Champions I think one thing
485s	that we saw a lot of from them in Cedar
487s	dad last year when they brought it was
489s	they had uh tracking disruptors and
491s	damps on a lot of their mid slots you
493s	can't do that this year because those
495s	modules are now only allowed on chips
497s	that are bonus to them and we see uh
500s	they're still using the crucifiers the
501s	losses the mollus to their advantage but
503s	just taking straight into we are faster
506s	than you we do more volley than you and
509s	our projection is just better because we
511s	can fight and fall off unlike you
513s	they're onto this Oracle as well this is
515s	going to be a hundred zero to truth on
517s	our light to start off the match I
519s	expect nothing less of the defending
521s	Champions yeah for sure this was always
522s	going to be a doomed bracket for laser
524s	Hawks to be honest I I would I mean I'm
526s	not surprised at all to see them with
528s	that bring a com without a flagship in
530s	the first match because you come into
531s	this matchup against the reigning
533s	Champions you know that if you bring
534s	your Flagship odds are it's probably
536s	gonna die and you maybe want to save it
537s	for the lower bracket it is an
538s	unfortunate bracket draw for them but
540s	you gotta you gotta so sometimes it
542s	comes your way sometimes it doesn't on
543s	this occasion it hasn't come their way
544s	for laser Hawks
546s	no not at all
548s	I mean laserox is a team that hasn't had
551s	a whole lot of success since uh at 15 at
554s	16. uh they do have some very good
557s	placements in those tournaments but have
559s	really been trying to claw back uh their
562s	uh once winning ways and this time
564s	they're gonna have to claw back through
566s	the lower bracket they are going to face
567s	the loser of barcode versus ancients
569s	which is the next matchup as our star
572s	Day falls I mean this is just absolute
574s	perfect execution from truth on our
577s	light on what is a comp that I might
579s	stress we have not seen this compy meta
581s	in quite some time
583s	yeah I like their adaptations of putting
585s	you know sprinkling some Eeyore in the
587s	low end as well now that we've got the
588s	whole restrictions as to what ships can
590s	actually fit you or they've opted to use
591s	their basically their entire low end for
593s	ewall you know they've got a decent
594s	spread there of dance
596s	um of tracking destruction of you know
598s	they've got uh receiver support probably
601s	from the jackdaw they've got webs
603s	um and it means that this match this com
606s	which tends to play quite slowly it
608s	still has a very sort of snowbally feel
610s	as you concentrate that you are on the
612s	remaining targets
614s	yeah I mean perfect control I mean we're
616s	seeing some uh Jam drones going out as
619s	well uh from some of these chips with
621s	drum Bays uh from truth on the lightest
623s	they chew through one more ship it is
625s	the Absolution five minutes remain left
627s	in the match they're gonna go to Cava in
629s	the Agra and then uh blurby burgundy in
632s	the OG Navy and that will be all she
635s	wrote for the first match Baza uh we're
638s	back in the 18. we all ready to start it
641s	out yeah I mean Hydra obviously coming
643s	into this uh we're just such heavy
645s	favorites obviously you know their
647s	incredible team and obviously you have
649s	to think first match you know your first
651s	up to the plate you're giving your
653s	presentation first in class would there
654s	be any nerves probably not from them is
656s	the pressure on laser Hawks maybe lower
657s	though maybe they maybe feel you know
659s	we're not expected to win this can we
660s	perform an upset would that be how
662s	awesome would that be they're probably
663s	pretty hyped yeah it was it was a good
664s	match to skip things off for sure Hydra
666s	still got it
667s	Hydra definitely do you still got it as
670s	we wait for the arc Navy issue of blurry
672s	burgundy to fall these are artillery
675s	accountants uh begins to ship that has a
677s	buffer bonus so uh it does take a little
680s	bit of time to chew through the Agra
682s	Navy issue especially if they have to
683s	deal with artillery reloads they're
685s	finally back on in the structure and uh
688s	as soon as this goes we're going to send
689s	it to their desk to uh bring us or a
692s	break excuse me then bring it to the
694s	desk for barcode versus the Ancients you
696s	won't want to mess it we'll be right
697s	back after this
719s	thank you
739s	ass
749s	there's nothing back there for you and I
751s	see
752s	full control
755s	help
757s	where are you guys
760s	something went angry dude they weren't
762s	angry before kill him
764s	it's on the clock I'm gonna get owned by
768s	Reds not like this kill the rats
776s	I was yellow to these it's dead
780s	rat meeting they were white a second ago
782s	and then they just got all Angry
784s
788s	truth honor light there the defending
790s	Champions showing why they are the
792s	defending Champions as they annihilate
794s	laser Hawks 100 to zero in a just
797s	commanding Victory but we saw a lot of
800s	interesting things going on a lot of uh
801s	Throwbacks to last year's meta some new
803s	stuff as well uh talk to me about what
805s	happened in that match oh a whole lot
807s	happened so we we saw fly killer um
809s	which for those who don't know is when
811s	you get uh generally it's artillery
814s	based ships we saw Fleet hurricanes and
815s	slipkners which just go from the bottom
817s	up and they one shot things and they do
819s	uh absolute damage I think we saw you
822s	know immediately truth honor light got
824s	ahead they one shot the enemy and then
826s	they kind of just slowly popped up their
827s	wiping out the entire setup of uh the
830s	bottom in there sorry I just got
831s	distracted slightly
833s	um but yeah no they played it really
834s	well uh they brought a lot of ECM and
838s	different types of ECM which is
839s	something interesting because of the way
841s	that the rule set works this year
842s	yeah we saw uh what looked like a bunch
845s	of ec300 drones flying around there and
847s	causing absolute Havoc the laser Hawks
849s	team lots of ship just getting hit by
851s	those jams moderator uh ec300
854s	yeah they could be that or they could be
856s	the uh Vespas the medium drones you
858s	combine those um EC drones with uh you
861s	know the dams they had target range and
864s	Target and Lock speed so you get jammed
866s	and then you're like oh crap and then I
868s	have to relock it takes forever maybe
870s	you get another Jam cycle in like the 20
872s	seconds it's going to take that auger
873s	who was getting damped down everywhere
875s	and that's why we see a lot of those
877s	laser Hawk ships not being able to get
879s	get any reps yeah we really saw the
881s	lasauce team struggle to get reps from
883s	that augural onto almost any pilot
885s	really like we were standing watching at
886s	the Modern you were pointing out like
888s	Lucas Oracle still not got raps don't
889s	look at reps and that auger he was 50 m
892s	n a b so he was just struggling to keep
894s	up the rest of his buddies and with the
895s	amolis and the celestes on the field
897s	from truth on the light chances are he
900s	could not lock very fast and he could
901s	not lock very far away at all but I mean
903s	how powerful do you think is this method
905s	going to be uh I think we saw this is
907s	that team fly killer has been
908s	traditionally very very difficult to fly
910s	so whether or not it's going to be the
913s	meta or maybe it was just the truth on
915s	her light meta I don't know but we still
918s	saw dams are incredibly powerful
919s	tracking disruptors are incredibly
920s	powerful and the reason why you
921s	generally don't bring ships like amalus
924s	is because all of the medium guns on the
927s	laser Hawks team
928s	theoretically should be able to outfit
930s	but their medium guns were damped down
932s	they were tracking disrupted down they
934s	couldn't kill anything a very very good
936s	play on truth on her light side and
938s	they're showing that despite these kind
940s	of slightly different rules you can
942s	still bring similar setups and still do
945s	really really well with them I think one
947s	of the interesting changes this year to
949s	the rules is the Restriction of ewar to
952s	ships with the bonuses on the hulls so
955s	last year we saw a lot of armor jackdaws
957s	people just you know jacked obviously a
959s	shield chip so it has lots of mid slots
960s	people would take those mid slops and
962s	just Ram them full of jams track and
965s	disruptors guidance disruptors damps
966s	whatever they really wanted and just
968s	armor tank this little jackdaw super
969s	powerful super popular last year this
972s	year you can't do that you can only
973s	bring dams on ships that have the bonus
975s	so that things like the celestes things
976s	like the malice and of course if you are
978s	offended by those personally you are
980s	more than welcome to ban them
982s	bar do you think we're going to see a
984s	lot of uh Banning of damp ships dabs are
986s	powerful uh I don't know if we're gonna
988s	see a lot of banning of them all this
989s	like so we have four bands this year
991s	which is
992s	there's a potential of up to 12 bands so
994s	you're kind of doing the math in the
995s	background there if every team bans the
997s	exact same ship and everyone team bands
999s	a different one that's a lot of bands
1000s	but I think that at the end of the day
1002s	like do you use one of your bands on a
1005s	celestis when they can just bring a
1006s	malice or maybe in a razu or you know
1009s	something else like it carries um I
1011s	don't know if damps are the things to
1013s	ban maybe tracking disruptors and we did
1015s	see a curse band and curses have
1016s	traditionally been for years and years
1018s	one of the best ships in the at
1020s	um but then again you know this is the
1022s	first match the meta evolves throughout
1024s	the whole thing uh maybe maybe truth on
1026s	our light will get Target banned who
1028s	knows who knows and moderate did you
1029s	agree with that in terms of uh band
1031s	strategies around things like damps
1032s	guidance disruptors tracking disruptors
1034s	yeah I mean we saw one of the Bands
1036s	being used on a logistics I Believe by
1038s	the hydro side and what do they do they
1040s	just bring uh you know carries or sorry
1043s	uh celestis and then a mollusk the tech
1045s	one version instead of the tech two ship
1047s	that's much more expensive and they used
1048s	it very effectively so it can be very
1050s	difficult to ban you know an entire
1052s	higher class of ecmship or you know
1055s	e-warship
1056s	and one last thing uh Bart do you think
1058s	there's anything really that lizards
1059s	could have done against that now you
1060s	talked about how they should have been
1062s	able to just Alpha off or volley off uh
1064s	that that's less is uh the most right
1066s	the very start and they were not
1068s	well because they've done differently
1069s	with what they had there uh for what
1071s	they had I mean they could have pushed
1072s	in better um but that hyena on the tree
1075s	thunder light team was just like
1076s	constantly swapping webs around and
1078s	slowing them down uh I don't necessarily
1080s	want to say that the game was lost from
1082s	the start but I do feel like the laser
1083s	Hawks team setup was very much based
1086s	around bringing a Navy executor because
1088s	we saw Navy augers which are not the
1090s	same ship as Navy executors in any way
1093s	shape or form beyond that they are a
1094s	Navy armor Cruiser I think that if laser
1098s	Hawks had been able to bring Navy
1099s	executors that gives you so much more
1101s	projection damage and range that they
1103s	could have pulled it off so you kind of
1104s	have to like when you're designing your
1105s	team comps assume they might ban your
1107s	key ship and have a replacement for it
1110s	that is similar and a Navy auger it's
1112s	just it's like not the same range not
1113s	same speed not same Tracking not same
1115s	damage
1116s	not the same equivalent ship mods what
1119s	do you think about bringing auger so
1121s	laserbox were the ones that banned out
1122s	the nearest and the guardian both to
1124s	Tech Two Logistics Cruisers in armor
1126s	band and then they choose to bring armor
1127s	of the tech one Logistics Cruiser I mean
1130s	it's a lot weaker it doesn't have those
1131s	Tech Two resists
1133s	what do you think yeah I think that's
1135s	one of the risks that you run into when
1137s	you end up deciding hey we're going to
1139s	be bringing a very heavy you know battle
1141s	cruiser core you run out of points and
1142s	then you're like okay we either need to
1144s	bring frig logic we need to bring tech
1145s	one Logie and we saw that you know with
1148s	the weaker sensor strength they just got
1150s	completely outplayed the auger just
1152s	wasn't fast enough being an after
1153s	burning ship to keep up and Hydra just
1155s	absolutely played around that and you
1157s	know picked them apart bottom up yeah
1160s	this is one of these teams they've been
1161s	doing this for a very long time uh 2008
1163s	again last year's defending Champions
1165s	you can actually see them if we cut to
1166s	the white shop by the way uh this is uh
1168s	the alliance tournament monument in
1170s	Monarch this does Exist in-game by the
1172s	way you can fly to this right now in the
1173s	high side custom of Monarch and see this
1175s	so there's the main statue in the middle
1177s	which is uh pretty cool and then there's
1179s	a beacon for every team there's everyone
1181s	in Alliance tournament we have banded
1183s	Brothers right at the very start we have
1184s	some historic teams like pandemic Legion
1186s	we've got the tuskers co we see Vedra
1188s	vilalded we see the alliance open that's
1190s	temples right there and then of course
1193s	your truth on a light so it's a pretty
1195s	cool Monument I recommend heading over
1197s	to Monarch if you feel uh feel like
1198s	checking it out
1200s	so let's move on to look at our next
1201s	match so it's going to be the entrance
1203s	versus barcode Alliance and let's take a
1206s	look at the bands and see what those
1207s	teams have chosen to avoid
1210s	okay so barcode uh Banning out the
1213s	balgorn the curse the abandon and the
1215s	Nighthawk whereas the Ancients are going
1217s	for bar guest the indicator oniros and
1220s	Scimitar Bart what were you thinking
1222s	here it's uh it's interesting to see all
1225s	of those kind of Amar based ships being
1227s	banned out by barcode uh the abaddens is
1230s	an incredibly High DPS sort of laser
1232s	Rush ship curses you know we're gonna
1234s	we're gonna see them appear and be
1236s	absolutely dominant at some point so
1238s	that getting banned has been a staple
1239s	for years and years and years
1242s	um Nighthawk you know the classic Rush
1244s	there I don't really know about a
1245s	balgorn band though I think that in sort
1248s	of the modern times the balgorn's points
1250s	are so high that bringing one is like
1252s	you're kind of all ining with the
1254s	balgorn at that point yeah I kind of
1256s	agree with you there I mean they're bad
1257s	like you say really good laser
1259s	projection you do see them quite a lot
1261s	in those laser Rush comps barga is a
1264s	very powerful ship last uh two years ago
1265s	in fact it was uh down pointed because
1267s	we're responsible by more just Legion
1268s	this year it's kind of more expensive
1270s	still a very very good ship as a
1272s	battleship a lot of comps based around
1273s	it's very kite it's got the long range
1275s	scram uh I mean what kind of comps you
1277s	think you would base that around here
1279s	moderator well the bar guest is a ship
1281s	that very much can fill into Arthur and
1284s	armor or a shield roll we see that you
1287s	know that's one of the reasons why
1288s	people take it as a flagship so much
1289s	this year is because you can really Flex
1291s	around the modules to do whatever you
1293s	need in a given setup and with that
1295s	bonus long range scram you get from the
1297s	mortise bonus it is very effective at
1300s	defensively preventing anyone from
1301s	getting on top of you and it's you know
1304s	a lot of utility and those High slots as
1307s	well besides the rapid Heavies that are
1308s	commonly used it's you know going to be
1310s	one of the most banned ships throughout
1311s	the day yeah I mean that flexibility is
1313s	definitely one of the reasons why the
1314s	Ancients are going to choose to ban that
1315s	here but what about the Vindicator uh
1317s	but it's usually not the strongest
1320s	tournament ship it's kind of got uh it's
1322s	great if you set right if your enemy
1323s	sets right next to you and lets you web
1325s	them and then you press F1 and they kind
1328s	of vanish but if you stay more than that
1330s	you know 20 kilometers away from that
1331s	Vindicator you're probably gonna be okay
1333s	I think the thing with the Vindicator is
1335s	it's really really scary to teams that
1338s	aren't maybe necessarily prepared to go
1340s	against it you can't you can tackle a
1343s	Vindicator but your tackle is going to
1345s	get Vindicated like at that's basically
1347s	how the ship works is no matter what you
1349s	tackle it with it's going to 90 webview
1350s	and switch to it if the Vindicator
1351s	Pilot's being you know smart
1354s	um there are ways to deal with it I mean
1355s	ecm's always great on it uh tracking
1357s	disruptors work fairly well but
1359s	interestingly enough it's a little bit
1360s	harder to bring those this year so I
1362s	could see uh you know at the end of the
1364s	day these teams practice and maybe their
1366s	practice partner has been rolling in
1367s	with the Vindicator well sorry at the
1369s	end of the day I hope these teams have
1370s	been practicing and maybe they've been
1372s	getting rolled by a Vindicator so they
1373s	could be scared yeah sometimes you see
1375s	teams uh they have a practice partner
1377s	sometimes multiple practice partners and
1379s	they almost develop their own metas
1380s	within their little uh group and you see
1383s	these telegraphed on day one of an
1385s	alliance tournament where the bands can
1387s	be a little bit weird as people haven't
1388s	really figured out the true meta yet and
1390s	it's just sort of what they think the
1391s	matter is what the meta is in their
1393s	practice Partners sometimes we see this
1395s	work to great effect I think Alliance
1396s	tournament uh 15 or 16 was the the rise
1399s	of Octodad which didn't come until right
1401s	at the end and suddenly it was unveiled
1402s	and then that was then the Apex comp
1404s	that was developed uh how to reload and
1407s	video exclusive practice Partners
1408s	discovered that basically themselves and
1410s	then next year suddenly everyone was
1412s	bringing it because it was it very very
1414s	good
1415s	now they've also banned a bunch of bunch
1417s	of stuff there but what what are your
1419s	predictions for what we might see oh
1421s	gosh
1422s	um well so what they didn't ban unlike
1424s	the last one was
1426s	the executor Navy and the ability to
1428s	bring that you know Max threat pseudo
1432s	dad whatever you want to call it I'm not
1433s	gonna use the other one because I hate
1434s	that one
1435s	um but they didn't bring the ability
1437s	they did not ban out the ability to
1438s	bring a medium gun spam and obviously
1441s	this is match two so we can't say well
1443s	as we've seen in this tournament so far
1445s	uh but what you did see in the feeders
1447s	the uh Max DPS long range gun setups
1451s	just wiped the floor with some teams so
1454s	I think that that's
1455s	I think one team is going to bring that
1457s	I don't know if both of them are going
1457s	to do but somebody's bringing that and
1459s	they're going to do a ton of damage
1460s	awesome well I'm super excited for it so
1463s	we can pretty much get ready to go to
1465s	the arena for this one so it is going to
1466s	be barcode and they're going up against
1468s	the Ancients with your casters Wagner
1470s	cross and gintan
1488s	welcome to the last time with the ever
1490s	globally ever glorious ever golden
1492s	gintan and we have what looks to be an
1493s	absolute bloodbath of a match this is
1495s	barcode versus the Ancients and it's
1497s	either going to be an absolute Landslide
1499s	or an upset and I'm honestly excited
1501s	either way what are you thinking
1502s	it is absolutely amazing look at all of
1505s	the DPS we've got here from the blue
1507s	side team bringing a Macario here to
1510s	kind of anchor around that Rush that's a
1511s	very unusual ship and on the other side
1513s	we've got a redeemer so there's a lot of
1515s	interesting uh uh chips we do not see
1519s	very often what do you think that
1521s	Macario is going to be attempting to do
1522s	in this match Wingnut murder things as
1524s	fast as can the good thing is it's got
1525s	high speeds we can catch things all run
1527s	away but I'm very curious with the
1529s	choice of macaron over maybe a tempest
1530s	Fleet or even just a tempest on its own
1532s	this is a very surprising call but I am
1534s	a fan of a Makara it is a big thick
1536s	heavy machine it's good for DPS underway
1539s	here we go it's got so much utility as
1541s	well but I'm not sure if it's going to
1542s	be enough versus all of the medium guns
1545s	that are being brought here by barcode
1546s	they should be able to eviscerate this
1548s	low end and those scalpels shouldn't
1549s	sorry the scalpel killer and shouldn't
1550s	be long for this world but it looks like
1551s	they're focusing that fire on the
1553s	skyfleet issue of Ikea just trying to
1555s	take the fast tackle effectively Off the
1557s	Grid here uh and uh give themselves the
1560s	complete tackle Advantage they're gonna
1561s	be up to you tank the size of the
1564s	easiest thing to kill on that grid for
1565s	them that will provide the most DPS lost
1566s	remember going for the Oracle the other
1568s	side this is the obvious call and it
1569s	might have been it could potentially be
1571s	the bad one if for instance people start
1572s	overtanking their oracles but at the
1574s	moment he's tanking very nice but at the
1576s	moment that sci Fleet is not looking
1577s	very happy
1578s	and it just doesn't look like this Rush
1581s	team from the Ancients is putting a hell
1582s	of a lot back down range they're only
1584s	just getting about halfway through that
1585s	punish and now and they're already on
1587s	their way to losing their first chip uh
1589s	why are they not able to to apply here
1593s	I just don't think they're close enough
1594s	for the moment and that Oracle is just
1596s	playing really well it's staying as far
1597s	away as he can meanwhile opponential
1599s	just tackles down the mccarrel for a
1600s	while there and now I see it's so
1603s	Fleet trying to get in as well they're
1604s	just they're not being able to get there
1606s	just yet
1609s	barcode just sniping that zipple had
1612s	really low transversal and they were
1613s	able to take quick advantage of it the
1615s	safely issue now has uh it looks like
1617s	he's broken attack a little bit managing
1618s	to get away here uh Survivor for just a
1620s	little bit longer but they are quickly
1621s	and moving on to Sierra sin taking a
1624s	different ship off the grid here this is
1626s	great not tunnel visioning not getting
1628s	uh locked down on that first Target you
1630s	shoot and they are going to take a kill
1632s	for it here and losing nothing in return
1635s	that's the problem right here they have
1637s	gone for the circle hard this Oracle is
1639s	really tanking at this point that road
1640s	Diva I don't think that Oracle is going
1641s	to die with that Redeemer holding him on
1643s	they gotta switch and pick something
1644s	else quickly and just start really
1645s	breaking up the redeemer's Reps at the
1647s	moment they're not doing anything
1647s	they're just they're putting all DPS
1649s	into one ship and it's not dying
1653s	yeah I got to call out uh start my link
1655s	here the Old Navy issue pilot from
1656s	barcode because he's doing a great job
1658s	just tackling down this uh Macario he's
1660s	a big chunky ship he's not gonna be able
1661s	to catch anything else but he is he's
1663s	got his objective and he's just holding
1664s	on there then mccarrel isn't turning to
1666s	Newt him out yet and because of that
1668s	he's just completely useless in this
1670s	match
1672s	can you also tell that uh Barker is
1674s	being really smart this as well because
1675s	at the moment they've actually got an
1676s	Old Navy just staying next to their Ro
1677s	Diva and just playing defensively in
1679s	case this team manages to break away and
1680s	charge and remove the lodgy he's there
1682s	ready to go he's firing for his distance
1683s	at distance distance as well so he's not
1685s	in a bad spot that team is just getting
1686s	obliterated now that just can't do
1687s	anything
1688s	wrong he's going for the back line the
1691s	desperation play trying to catch that
1692s	Redeemer but he just right click
1694s	approached spiraling now chasing him and
1697s	I think he might have gotten tagged by
1698s	the org Navy issue there very briefly
1699s	lost a lot of speed
1701s	gonna eventually catch that Redeemer but
1703s	it's not gonna be enough and his
1704s	teammates will not be able to reject
1705s	enough to uh kill him although that's a
1707s	slightly chasing after as well
1711s	Jaguar we'll talk about the slept new I
1713s	believe is currently free he's gotten
1714s	away from the Old Navy so he might get
1715s	there but honestly by the time he does
1717s	what's that Gonna Change he'll kill the
1719s	logic for sure but they've already lost
1721s	their entirely they can't they're big
1722s	ship the mccarrel is about to die as
1723s	well this has just been just pulling
1725s	this team apart
1728s	yeah absolutely they weren't able to use
1729s	that initial push they weren't able to
1731s	use that initial slap of DPS and I think
1733s	honestly barcode have been applying more
1734s	DPS throughout the entire fight really
1737s	great piloting from them
1738s	this was basically a Minotaur Rush with
1740s	a macarial but they kind of started at
1742s	range and weren't able to really rush in
1743s	time and when they killed courts I mean
1745s	they caught the ship which when you look
1747s	at it oh it's an article you kill that
1748s	but I'm obviously starting to see more
1750s	really tanked oracles or even
1752s	pre-wrapped oracles because they are
1754s	just the obvious targets so this Oracle
1755s	actually outlasted their entire team
1758s	yeah not only that you also lose the
1760s	broadsword for bringing the Macario in
1762s	this composition and that is so brutal
1764s	the fact that they don't have any sort
1765s	of long range scrams to hold things so
1768s	that they can get on top of them in that
1769s	first burst of speed it looked like it
1772s	just crippled them in this game yeah
1773s	that had to rely on the simple one as
1775s	you saw and as you said the simple diet
1776s	instantly for that the second yeah
1779s	keeping perfect transversal yeah
1781s	yeah the Jaguar did survive which is
1784s	good that's you know Jacobs are
1785s	incredibly tanky little frigates they're
1788s	actually one of my favorite assault
1789s	fragrance because they can be an
1790s	absolute nightmare to even attempt to
1792s	kill but he didn't really manage to do
1795s	anything until the end here
1796s	and even then they could not get the
1798s	Redeemer kill it's too late his uh just
1800s	died that's it
1804s	yeah and now we're just watching us let
1806s	me get very very quickly killed uh not
1808s	even his xlasb can sustain through this
1811s	much DPS
1812s	they're a tanky ship not tanky enough no
1816s	no
1817s	still I think this is uh the comp here
1819s	from barcode is something we're going to
1820s	see a lot during this first weekend it's
1822s	so versatile it's so hard to ban out and
1824s	as you can see it is brutally effective
1826s	if well piloted so with that let's hand
1829s	it back to the studio and find out about
1830s	maybe what could possibly stop it
1852s	thank you
1884s	foreign
1918s	welcome back to Alliance tournament 19
1920s	IMC speed overload and that was barcode
1922s	defeating the Ancients in our second
1925s	match of the tournament on our first day
1928s	of four four full days of these
1930s	fantastic spaceship explosions moderator
1932s	what happened there
1934s	yeah so it felt like the side of
1937s	ancients they definitely wanted to bring
1939s	a bit of a minotaur Rush comp but the
1941s	problem was uh they ended up putting way
1944s	too many points it felt like in the high
1946s	end so they had a Macario double slept
1948s	near they wanted to bring something like
1950s	a Nighthawk which was banned and then
1953s	they had so few points in their low end
1955s	uh they were failing to deal with kind
1958s	of the rush concept of getting on top of
1959s	one thing
1961s	except they tried they got on the Oracle
1963s	which people think oh you know it's an
1965s	oracle it'll die easily not at all in
1967s	the at you put you know a proper brick
1969s	tank on that it's going to have near 85
1972s	90 resist if you Max it out so they went
1975s	all in on that and it was not the right
1976s	target yeah I feel like Oracle is one of
1979s	those ships that you always have to get
1981s	rid of it pretty quickly because of the
1982s	DPS Potential from a ship like that
1984s	especially the projection especially if
1986s	you're bringing a shield comp like we
1987s	just saw there bar I mean do you think
1989s	maybe Target fixation on the wrong ship
1991s	there is there a better Target they
1992s	could have gone for I think that it's
1994s	always worth trying because what if it's
1996s	like you said like what if it's an
1997s	oracle with three heat sinks and it just
1999s	explodes immediately because that is
2000s	massive damage uh the problem is is that
2003s	they stayed on the Oracle and normally
2004s	if the ship's not breaking like
2006s	sometimes you want to hang out on it for
2008s	20 30 seconds just because maybe it's
2010s	not breaking because the logic has its
2012s	wrappers fully heated and they just
2013s	could all burn out now you win maybe
2015s	it's not breaking because the Oracle has
2017s	its hardness heated except in this
2018s	specific case they stayed on a ship when
2021s	when the other team had a ro Diva and so
2023s	they had a ramping triglevian lodgy that
2026s	continues to get higher and higher rough
2028s	amounts and they just were like oh yeah
2029s	maybe we'll break the Oracle well the
2032s	other ship reps it more and more and
2035s	more
2036s	this is an uphill battle at that point
2038s	yeah yeah so the Redeemer for those of
2040s	you who maybe don't know uh it's one of
2042s	the trigolivian lodgy ships it's tech
2043s	one lodgy ship still but it has the
2046s	spilling mechanic that we see in other
2048s	triglavian ships at this time instead of
2050s	DPS it spills the rep amount but if
2053s	you're shooting something and you're not
2055s	already breaking it it's just going to
2057s	get harder and harder as you say Bart uh
2059s	one of the things that people will do
2060s	against a Divas perhaps switch targets
2063s	because then it breaks its spool but we
2065s	didn't really see that much there I mean
2066s	the mercario in the first place uh mode
2069s	bit of an interesting choice not a
2071s	common ship that we see in the alliance
2073s	tournament why not yeah the problem with
2076s	Macario is that it's basically worth the
2078s	same as other pirate faction battleships
2080s	at 23 points but what do you get out of
2082s	mercario you get some optimal range
2084s	bonus but you don't get like the scram
2087s	that you would get on a bar guest you
2088s	don't get the you know the web of The
2090s	Vindicator it just doesn't that do that
2093s	much damage or have that much utility
2094s	for the point economy and you know if
2097s	you put 23 points into one ship that's
2099s	other points you're not putting into the
2101s	rest of the team that's why we saw uh
2103s	you know they had to bring you know
2105s	those Fleet sites and those uh you know
2106s	lodgy frigates is they spent all their
2108s	points on three ships so I was just
2110s	looking at the bands for that last match
2112s	there was ships like the the typhoon
2114s	Fleet issue where it was available Bart
2116s	do you think maybe that would have been
2117s	a better choice in this case no why not
2119s	typhoon Fleet is deserved not that great
2121s	um but the tip of sweet issue is really
2123s	good and a tempest is actually really
2125s	good and we saw uh a couple it was
2128s	either last year the year before we saw
2129s	this kind of resurgence of the mimitar
2131s	rush where they would use a tempest like
2134s	just a bog standard Tempest as the sort
2137s	of key Battleship which it's not the
2139s	same as a material but it's very very
2141s	similar to a material um and maybe if
2144s	you use that you just freed up several
2145s	points well that's another maybe that's
2147s	another simple maybe that's another
2148s	tackle ship maybe that's another you
2151s	know Fleet site there uh and if they had
2153s	done that instead of using you know
2154s	playset 23 Point material
2156s	there's not that much that a material
2158s	gives you like all the things that make
2159s	them good on Tranquility aren't really
2162s	as effective in the at we also saw the
2165s	engines there bringing uh Jewel
2166s	slatner's Jewel Fleet sights and maybe a
2169s	good time more to talk about the point
2170s	inflation rule how does that work in the
2172s	last tournament yeah so if you bring
2174s	more than one of a ship every other
2176s	subsequent ship is going to be two
2178s	points so for example a swept near is
2180s	normally 18 points as a command ship but
2183s	now you bring two of them and now
2184s	they're both worth 19 points so it's 38
2187s	instead of 36 so that's two less points
2189s	you can bring somewhere else so you run
2192s	into that issue where you know maybe I
2195s	wanted to bring Nighthawks well now you
2197s	can't because they're banned or maybe
2199s	you you know have trouble and then you
2201s	have to bring some you know much cheaper
2203s	ships on the lower end and that's we're
2205s	going to see a lot of with four bands
2207s	you know on each side maybe your company
2209s	gets banned out and you just have to
2210s	pick something else
2212s	and Bart when teams are coming up with
2213s	uh these comps and things how much are
2215s	they taking into Point inflation like at
2217s	what point do you say no I'm going to
2219s	take 10 completely different ships even
2221s	though one of them is slightly less good
2222s	versus spending more points to bring two
2224s	of the same like what's the trade-offs I
2226s	I don't think we really will see that
2228s	too much except for
2229s	um with these setups where you're doing
2230s	like maximum medium gun range but we
2233s	have seen since the point inflation
2234s	rules put into place you'll almost never
2236s	see three of the same ship anymore like
2238s	that's been a it's a very rare thing
2239s	because even if um like last year we saw
2241s	a couple teams bring three Navy
2242s	executors and it's six points each but
2245s	with three of them now they're eight
2246s	points each and that's at that point
2247s	like that's basically another ship so uh
2250s	you'll still bring two of the same ship
2251s	we'll see it a lot but you're not gonna
2253s	bring three unless you have some like
2254s	really wacky crazy plan I don't think uh
2257s	I know that one of our ATS in the past
2258s	you could only bring one of each ship
2261s	which was crazy
2263s	um but there's a reason why people like
2265s	were really angry about that rule and
2267s	it's specifically because like sometimes
2269s	you want to double up like two seconds
2270s	is better than one three slept news is
2272s	maybe too many points though yeah I
2274s	believe one time we saw a forward Daimos
2276s	comp uh from from our friends and
2279s	snuffed out yeah
2280s	um who actually made it through this
2281s	year into alliance tournament 19 uh in
2284s	the feeders they got to the final
2285s	galante Gambit uh and managed to just
2288s	squeak through by the Skin of Their
2290s	Teeth uh into alliance for 19. the very
2292s	last team team 32 of 32 to secure the
2295s	replace in the last tour at 19. I hope
2298s	for the sake of all snuff members that
2299s	they have moved on from the Four
2300s	Diamonds meta but we will find out later
2303s	on when we see them see them play Bart
2305s	is there anything really else that maybe
2306s	the Ancients could have done in that
2307s	particular uh I I just think that um and
2310s	it's similar to like last match
2312s	they brought a bad Shield rush and
2315s	something that you can kind of tell like
2317s	especially after you've watched this you
2319s	know watch the at for a while is you
2321s	know the attack defense and Etc bars
2322s	when those attack bars in a shield Rush
2325s	is like really small that's bad like
2328s	because your entire purpose of your team
2329s	is to get on top of them as fast as
2331s	possible and just like pump an insane
2333s	amount of DPS into them and if you show
2335s	up in your attack bars like you know
2337s	smaller than the other persons and
2339s	they're not flying a rush you're screwed
2341s	like you're not gonna be able to DPS
2342s	rush them down and you can kind of just
2345s	look at that and say oh something's
2347s	wrong here and then they lost and it's
2349s	like ah something was wrong there so
2351s	yeah we also saw the defense bar of
2354s	barcode was just Phil girth maxed out uh
2357s	so for those of you maybe new to the
2358s	tournament you'll see on the UI
2361s	um at the bottom of your screen during
2362s	the matches there is the list of the the
2364s	the two teams all their ships their
2366s	speed things like that you see the
2368s	points you see the pilots and above
2369s	those uh you see three bars attack
2372s	defense and control uh attack is
2374s	basically just DPS uh so the size of the
2377s	bars the potential DPS if everyone's
2379s	applying fully with the ammo they have
2380s	loaded if the bar is much smaller than
2382s	that they're not applying or they're not
2383s	shooting for some reason that's
2385s	considered bad and then above that you
2387s	have your defense bar so that is all of
2390s	the ehp the little purple bit at the end
2393s	that's super cool that is actually
2394s	active local reps so if you're running
2396s	an ancillary armor repairer you will see
2398s	this purple thing appear so that's
2400s	someone wrapping themselves locally and
2402s	in the control bar that is things like
2404s	e-war things like guidance disruptors
2406s	tracking disruptors ECM modules that
2409s	will affect someone in a way that to
2411s	control their ability to do stuff
2413s	whether it be locking whether it be
2415s	tracking someone even energy
2416s	neutralization which controls people's
2418s	ability to just exist basically in the
2420s	tournament field uh so it's a super
2422s	useful assault huge amount of
2424s	information uh that we can watch and you
2426s	also see the different effects being
2427s	applied to each ship so you'll see if
2429s	someone is being dragging disrupted is
2431s	being damped is receiving repairable
2433s	repairs from from their Allied ships so
2435s	make sure keep an eye on those bars you
2437s	can kind of see what's going on as the
2438s	match unfolds
2440s	um it's just a lot of information but
2442s	super super good
2443s	uh bar Anderson to add to that
2447s	um yeah just the one thing is sort of
2448s	like and you'll see it as I believe that
2450s	there's been you know lots of posts
2452s	about it but as the meta evolves you'll
2455s	kind of get used to looking at some
2457s	setups and like as a viewer you can
2458s	actually be like oh something like I
2460s	said something's a miss here
2461s	um when you see a rush that has less
2463s	damage than the guys that they're trying
2464s	to rush
2465s	you probably need to adjust your setup
2468s	and it is hard
2470s	um because ships get banned out like I
2471s	think that sort of mod touched on it but
2473s	I think when the Nighthawk got banned
2474s	out they were like oh crap we'll just
2477s	bring slapners instead but maybe we
2479s	should mess with things at the last
2480s	minute and if your team gets banned out
2482s	at the last minute and you're not like
2484s	ready to handle that
2486s	um you're kind of screwed but also we
2487s	have four bands now so you need to be
2489s	like even more prepared than last year
2490s	for that to happen yeah it's definitely
2492s	gonna weed out uh the the true 3D
2494s	Crafters now let's look at our next
2496s	match which is going to be drakaris
2497s	versus pandemic horde and see what they
2500s	have chosen to ban in this great
2502s	Gauntlet of Champions so drakara's
2504s	Banning out this Scimitar The Vindicator
2505s	the balgorn and the Deacon it's our
2507s	first Logistics frigate ban uh pandemic
2510s	horror choosing to Banner the slept near
2512s	the night talk the Loki and the
2513s	Armageddon Navy issue so a game see the
2515s	Battleground band a game seed of
2517s	indicator and the the Nighthawk is a
2519s	popular ship of course uh mod what do
2521s	you what do you think of these bands
2522s	here
2523s	well we see that pandemic court is very
2525s	clearly saying hey we just don't want to
2526s	get rushed down we see slept near
2528s	Nighthawk Loki is the core to a good
2531s	Shield Rush Armageddon Navy issue is
2533s	just a generically good Battleship uh
2535s	this year we see a lot of teams choosing
2536s	it as their Flagship uh balgorn
2539s	Vindicator again the faction Battleship
2542s	you kind of utility that you get uh with
2545s	that and then Deacon is the best of the
2547s	t2
2548s	um armor frigates and Scimitar says I
2550s	don't want to see a kite comp it's the
2553s	shield Tech 2 Logistics that is by far
2556s	the fastest the most mobile the hardest
2558s	to pin down
2559s	uh and Bart Loki ban is a kind of an
2562s	uncommon one what do you think there uh
2564s	it is a it is an uncommon ban um but
2566s	like moderator said if you get rid of
2569s	the low-key and the Nighthawk and the
2570s	slap mirror you've basically
2572s	cut the generic Shield rush out and
2574s	Loki's uh usually they're flown as heavy
2577s	assault missile ships which is a little
2579s	weirder than people usually see them on
2580s	TQ but the long range webs they have
2583s	massive Shield buffer and they do a ton
2584s	of damage so
2586s	Penny McCord is like really scared
2588s	whatever they're bringing it probably
2589s	loses to Shield Rush unless they're
2592s	doing some really weird mind game stuff
2593s	here which you know that if you start
2596s	trying to predict that you're just gonna
2597s	sit there and run it around in circles
2599s	yeah my my advice uh is never get into
2601s	the the Mind Game Banning system because
2603s	it's just an endless spiral to the depth
2606s	of insanity you're like five band
2607s	they're still ban that so I should ban
2609s	this but then they'll ban that and then
2611s	you end up Banning like a Oracle or
2613s	something which isn't even a legal Band
2614s	by the way uh but you're like yes I have
2617s	a I have five headed my way into uh
2619s	Banning just complete nonsense and then
2621s	you then start bringing just complete
2623s	wild off the off the wall stuff to try
2625s	and counter your own bands and they turn
2626s	up on a perfectly normal comp and you're
2628s	like ah
2629s	so I mean you've done this mod
2632s	like not the the struggling but you've
2634s	been part of the team that's like trying
2635s	to like come up with a Banning strategy
2637s	how easy is it to start thinking that
2639s	way
2640s	so the difficulty is basically you have
2644s	to understand what your comps can do
2647s	when they are banned out you need to
2649s	have substitutes for you know your band
2652s	ships and realize you know if these are
2654s	my bands what can my opponent bring if
2656s	my bands are this what can they bring
2658s	and basically make a matrix of you know
2660s	the different comps and how they fare
2662s	against each other that's why you
2663s	practice to know what's good against
2664s	each other and as a result you just have
2668s	to work around that that's a lot of what
2669s	we see throughout you know the theory
2672s	crafting we're going to talk a lot about
2673s	what was and was not good theory
2676s	um you know last match not so great
2678s	Theory we'll see how our upcoming match
2680s	they do awesome well it's time to go to
2682s	that match so let's head over to the
2684s	arena for two cars versus pandemic horde
2687s	with the casters fear vinum and the
2688s	Basilisk
2694s	welcome back to the arena my name is
2696s	sirvana joined by the Basilisk and on
2698s	the red side it is dracaris from Chinese
2702s	time zone bringing a pseudod comp and on
2706s	the blue side what do we see from
2708s	pandemic or do we see a rather more
2710s	interesting controlling focused comp
2712s	here lots and lots of points being spent
2714s	on the evil the curse the celestis the
2716s	arbitrator they've got range web support
2717s	from the Confessor they're kind of I'd
2720s	say maybe lacking a little bit of damage
2721s	but they have managed to sneak in an adx
2723s	echo as well obviously lots and lots of
2724s	damage from those ships very very
2725s	popular
2726s	yeah I mean if you look at the control
2728s	bar it's almost in the maximum length
2730s	but the defense bar and attack bars are
2733s	larger for jakaris this is a team a lot
2736s	of people didn't expect to even make it
2738s	through feeders and they made it in one
2740s	match so I'm excited to see how they
2742s	pull up against horde who uh has uh
2744s	ended up being the merger of two teams
2746s	this year is Fancy Pants uh his merch
2748s	into the main horde team that said this
2750s	hyena of dindel being absolutely deleted
2752s	off the start from the side of uh
2755s	drakaris yeah this is what happens when
2757s	you come up against one of these um
2759s	pseudo dad gun spam console they do
2760s	manage to catch him this is what you're
2761s	at risk of happening if you haven't if
2763s	you're not running sort of damp controls
2764s	to spread across those
2766s	um battle cruises and try and control
2767s	them from fragments until they are going
2769s	to fracture this Confessor Brad Admiral
2770s	Akbar though he goes down but yeah
2772s	that's what they're trying to do at the
2773s	start they try and volley something very
2774s	very squishy and just break it in a
2776s	couple Cycles before the Reps can really
2777s	land
2779s	yeah I mean the range control Advantage
2781s	definitely goes in favor of pandemic
2783s	core just because of the amount of
2783s	e-board they have on this comp remember
2785s	that control bar is absolutely massive
2787s	but look at this attack bar it's so
2789s	girthy uh from the side of jakaris and
2792s	they're able to burst through a lot of
2793s	things even with the oniros Reps they're
2794s	onto this EOS now as their exact Navy
2796s	has been held through only an auger to
2799s	rep them some damages going on the
2800s	profit maybe of Scott J right now and
2802s	maybe under the auger of fish DK who I
2805s	believe yeah it's just damped out he's
2807s	not uh being webbed right now and
2809s	dindale goes down yeah they're trying to
2811s	spread these tracking disruptors from
2812s	the arbitrator but it's clearly not
2813s	enough as they are just losing ships the
2814s	hyena goes down there
2816s	um the EOS of Atticus has been wrapped
2817s	back up I believe but
2819s	um I mean it's not it's not going great
2820s	and they're only really putting damage
2821s	into Scott Nate Scott J in the prophecy
2823s	Navy which is not really an attractive
2824s	Target he's gonna be very very tanky
2825s	they are putting shots into fj5000 as
2827s	well though I think they need to deal
2828s	with those XX navies as quickly as
2829s	possible they give so much damage if
2831s	they can kill them they could swing this
2833s	on air illicondo and the curse is being
2835s	taken down very low that new pressure
2837s	and the tracking of suffers can be so
2839s	potent uh as well with those wrong range
2842s	newts and tynero down almost in a
2844s	structure he has no neroes to try to
2846s	wrap them back up and they do have range
2847s	control from some of these dams and some
2849s	of these tracking disrupters but this
2850s	curse is solo finally catches reps just
2854s	at the end of that as he dips into half
2856s	structure and the damage from dracarus
2859s	is swapped onto the abaddin yeah this is
2861s	the tough thing about flying the ineros
2862s	is you're going to fit large armor UPS
2864s	which Cycles slowly and you need to wait
2866s	because you're an armor company to wait
2867s	till the end of the cycle that they're
2868s	already on so you've got to decycle them
2870s	cycle them on your target so switch them
2872s	and then wait for the end of that cycle
2873s	and they'll actually rep so you can have
2874s	difficulty catching things as we did see
2876s	the Confessor and the hyena go down
2877s	earlier and match he does just about
2878s	manage to catch Pioneer in the curse
2880s	um reps him back up and fj5000 is still
2882s	going down here but they've switched
2884s	onto the Baton of run act he's going to
2885s	catch reps as well I think now from Hoya
2887s	but are they going to be able to apply
2888s	better to him bigger Target compared to
2889s	the curse much bigger Target that said
2892s	has a lot of resists just being in a an
2894s	abaddin has the uh resists per level in
2897s	Amar Battleship as well as just being a
2900s	really uh normally tanky Battleship and
2902s	have the play bonus as well and just as
2903s	we see the abandoned catches reps
2905s	they're back to the EOS of Atticus so
2907s	they're really trying to string this on
2908s	Euros uh between the ships and burst
2910s	someone down before the large drops can
2912s	catch the next Target yeah and of course
2914s	when you're under some sort of cap
2915s	pressure just from cycling your reps
2917s	permanently like you're constantly
2918s	trying to catch things there's mental
2919s	strikes you're trying to manage down to
2921s	the curse are they going to be able to
2922s	switch the Reps in time is hollyo gonna
2923s	be able to catch him I think I saw a rep
2925s	cycle go off there I think he is going
2926s	to catch him again but this is edge of
2928s	your seat stuff for horde if they lose
2929s	this curse they know that this match is
2930s	going to absolutely collapse on them
2931s	with the loss of those TDS the battle
2933s	creatures on the other side will
2934s	absolutely blast through them they need
2935s	to keep this curse alive
2937s	they are keeping the curse alive dear
2939s	the musan currently being the target
2941s	from horde but once again horde has not
2943s	killed anything from the suit or not
2945s	setup just because they don't have that
2947s	much damage it's really only abandoned
2949s	in drones of EOS uh to help them out uh
2952s	some damage is now going on this oniers
2954s	of Hoyer he is not tackled at the moment
2957s	but uh neither is really anybody on the
2960s	side of dracarus or hordes so both these
2962s	teams playing their distance right now
2963s	but FJ 5000 finally going into structure
2966s	perhaps but he might be traded for the
2968s	other exact Navy now yeah be incredibly
2970s	named I eat paper bag is going into
2972s	structure here they might be able to
2973s	make this trade at the same time there's
2975s	just exact Navy's all gonna die all
2976s	three of them are going to die in short
2977s	succession here unless they can keep
2979s	these reps on and kill over enough
2980s	damage the first one goes down are they
2981s	going to be able to keep paperback alive
2993s	is now being taken down low as well into
2997s	about one third armor remaining now
2999s	damage is going on to the celestis from
3001s	the strikara's side this is a really
3003s	tight match but if they can get one
3005s	control ship off the grid they can maybe
3008s	snowball a little bit harder they've
3010s	only lost one trip now and it wasn't
3011s	even trade but they have of course got
3013s	the control on their side that's going
3014s	to be more oppressive against them the
3015s	arbitrator and this Curse still totally
3017s	alive still applying those TDS and
3019s	there's one less ship to spread them
3020s	across now um and their momison is still
3022s	slowly going down here
3024s	um this is going to be very dangerous
3025s	both these teams have seen well you know
3026s	we've both got exact navies they're
3028s	they're killable they do a lot of damage
3029s	that's just both focus on killing these
3030s	exact neighbors and we see the third
3032s	exec Navy off the match going into
3033s	structure here he is finally gonna die
3036s	here they all grow and I can't quite
3037s	catch him and they haven't made the
3038s	logite trade at this point in the match
3039s	which probably you know I I feel like an
3042s	arrows though I feel like this is
3043s	okay
3048s	he's also webbed so this the scenarios
3052s	is still going to keep speed tanking
3053s	here he's gonna have a decent local tank
3054s	600 meters per second in the nearest
3056s	until we get webs and now they get a web
3057s	applied on him so he's gonna start slow
3058s	down we're going to track a bit more but
3060s	he's still got a very small Sig these
3061s	TDS are going to be raining hell on them
3062s	and Demon son is still going the heck he
3065s	goes down as well of cmff or does he yes
3067s	he does he does
3069s	stays alive this is a really tight match
3072s	15 points to 11 and this has been a lot
3075s	of DPS swapping between targets but
3077s	there's a mirrors now so low he's in the
3080s	16 armor remaining with this tackle
3082s	going on to the scenarios that might be
3085s	all that it needs to uh for jakaris to
3088s	win this match yeah that Nero starring
3090s	is going to be really really dangerous
3091s	from here the curse obviously now going
3092s	to have no protection the arbitrate to
3093s	Celeste is their support wing of control
3095s	is just going to fall apart here unless
3096s	they can clear off this exact Navy the
3098s	Old Navy so quickly but they've still
3099s	got the Reps to pump through the old
3100s	girl and this is suddenly looking very
3102s	bad yeah remaining
3107s	and it's all over jacarus a team that
3111s	has never competed in the at before a
3113s	member of the Imperium from uh the cntz
3117s	region only three teams uh cntz autz in
3120s	the tournament it is uh fraternity
3123s	dracaris and of course Platinum
3125s	sensitivity uh this is a team I don't
3128s	think anyone expected to do well in the
3130s	tournament and they're taking down horde
3131s	in the first match in a well flown match
3134s	from drakaris yeah this was I mean this
3136s	was a great match from both sides just
3138s	as a spectator experience this was so
3139s	close
3140s	um so many points there were so many
3141s	pivotal moments in this you know I mean
3143s	it could have gone either way the curse
3144s	living now he is going to see his
3145s	fateful end
3146s	um at the hands of these gun battle
3147s	cruises but for the aniros to keep those
3149s	three targets alive for so long juggle
3150s	his reps was a really really impressive
3152s	showing even though they are going to
3153s	come away with a losser
3155s	yeah I mean I'm excited to see how horde
3157s	works in the lower bracket they are of
3159s	course up against a loser of a band
3160s	apart versus goonsworm Federation uh
3162s	which is our next match but uh still
3165s	dracarus well played to you first a t
3167s	and uh already uh kicking ass and taking
3171s	names as it were they will be up against
3172s	truth on our light though or sorry
3174s	winner of a bad apart versus goonestorm
3176s	Federation and then uh probably truth on
3179s	her light uh in the next couple of
3181s	matches we'll see how well they do
3184s	moving forward as they take down the
3185s	stork uh something we didn't talk about
3187s	stork in a uh armor match uh I believe
3190s	that's probably just a triple info stork
3192s	though yeah I think that's quite likely
3193s	I think it's more likely that the the
3195s	EOS is just there
3197s	um you know to run uh armor and Skirmish
3200s	and you can bring the store can get some
3201s	info on there as well
3203s	um you know I'm not 100 sure why they
3205s	wouldn't go for a Ponte I guess they
3206s	just wanted more receivers in one slot
3207s	and then that allows you to bring more
3209s	control elsewhere in the com and sort of
3210s	back it up with the receivers to avoid
3212s	against getting damped out by you know
3213s	if the enemy brings a celesticism might
3215s	be trouble if your TDS can't look
3216s	anything
3218s	yeah I mean still I mean two exciting
3221s	matches thus far that we've casted I'm
3224s	excited for the next one we're casting
3226s	tuskers versus Soul control that one's a
3228s	bit of a grudge match so I'm looking
3229s	forward to that one we'll talk about
3230s	that a bit more once we get on grid for
3233s	it but now it's just this final celestis
3234s	with a minute 42 to go once he goes down
3237s	we're going to take a quick break you're
3239s	going to see some ads and then we're
3240s	going to go back to the desk any final
3242s	words to closes out Baza no I think yeah
3245s	I mean just want to Echo your props to
3246s	dracara it's obviously coming in as a
3248s	first time theme and you know people
3250s	don't really have that many expectations
3251s	they haven't got that they haven't seen
3252s	that much before they saw one match in
3253s	three years I think they Advance after
3254s	one matching feeders that was that you
3256s	don't have really much to go on so
3258s	come in and you know horde is a fairly
3260s	decent team so to come in and have a
3261s	really close match not lose your nerve
3264s	um and carry it through and get the win
3266s	is really impressive
3281s	that was a fun match
3284s	all right back up
3290s	oh
3303s	yeah
3304s	are you ready yeah see somebody's house
3307s	on the way what do you think it would
3309s	feel like if a ship worked through your
3312s	house I might have some weird effect
3314s	like imagine
3315s	sneezing like they get explosive
3317s	diarrhea or something like that
3319s	I like the sneezing more yeah if he's
3323s	out of your ass
3328s	hey what you started with the all right
3333s	you know what jump there's never
3334s	happened let's move on
3336s	here's our secondary Target this is me
3338s	broadcasted if they're jumping now then
3340s	we can
3344s	I want bubbles all over this with me
3347s	guys
3366s	jakarovs there finishing off pandemic
3368s	horde in that exciting match the best
3371s	one we've seen so far today uh of course
3373s	today is Young there are many more
3374s	explosions coming in the next few hours
3376s	but that was a particularly good one
3378s	black part pirate talk to me about that
3380s	match there what kind of went wrong for
3382s	pandemic horde because at the start it
3383s	was kind of back and forth back and
3384s	forward but then once it started to go
3386s	wrong it really went wrong I think that
3388s	uh what we saw there is the first like
3390s	good massive damage application set up
3393s	from jakaris and pandemic horde they
3396s	actually piloted very very well I want
3398s	to kind of do a pseudo shout out to the
3401s	curse pilot um the curse pilot did their
3403s	job they got in they took damage they
3405s	flew out and they got repped back to
3407s	full which that is what you do if you're
3409s	not tackled you try and avoid taking
3410s	damage really really smart uh the
3412s	problem was is that once the curse is
3414s	out of range it can't apply its newts
3416s	and the thing that makes a curse good is
3418s	the tracking disruptors are awesome but
3420s	they had an arbitrator so they already
3421s	had that covered the newts of the curse
3423s	are absolutely insane and jakaris was
3425s	able to kind of swap damage around make
3428s	sure that they were applying it to
3429s	proper tackled stuff and if dracars had
3431s	a massive amount of damage like you saw
3432s	the attack bar
3433s	like 75 of the way full like that's what
3435s	you want to see uh I think Penny McCord
3438s	maybe went a little too heavy on trying
3439s	to have control and so they didn't quite
3441s	have the damage to take anyone down
3443s	where jakarus was like oh we want to
3444s	delete that ship all right tackle it
3446s	Target paint it delete it done
3449s	and moderator any any further comments
3451s	on that one yeah I mean you have to use
3453s	the newts of the curse like bbp was
3456s	saying
3456s	um the problem they ran into is that
3459s	um if you don't shut down the guns you
3461s	know of those Amar laser ships or you
3464s	don't shut down the Reps of the auger
3465s	when you're in a relatively lower damage
3468s	uh composition you're never going to
3470s	punch through it and we saw that P horde
3471s	throughout the entire match just had
3473s	trouble really punching through much of
3474s	anything and as a match went on jakarts
3477s	just kind of ground them out and
3478s	snowballed
3479s	um you know once you start you know
3482s	losing ships against a setup that's got
3484s	that much more damage and you're in kind
3486s	of a sort of control
3487s	it's really hard to recover if not
3490s	impossible from there yeah especially
3491s	when one of those ships is the oniros we
3494s	saw that ship just holding on for dear
3495s	life and once that went down that was
3497s	kind of the end of it we were watching
3498s	that live Bart and uh you commented uh I
3501s	think it was the the Absolution you were
3503s	saying he just needs to control space he
3505s	just needs to control space because so
3506s	often we see a ship ramming in to try
3509s	and uh kill its uh declared enemy and
3512s	they outtrack themselves because they
3513s	they like bounce off them or they fly by
3515s	and one of the best things you can do
3517s	about what is it just control space
3518s	press F1 it's you know it's you see it a
3521s	lot with battleships it I will say that
3523s	um we used to see it a lot more back in
3525s	the day the piloting and Eve online
3526s	especially for the alliance tournament
3528s	has gotten significantly better over the
3530s	years but every once in a while you'll
3532s	see like uh an Absolution go flying past
3535s	at maximum nwd speed and he actually saw
3537s	the lasers missing like on the screen
3539s	you can see these lasers missing so it's
3541s	not just me being like Oh I think he's
3542s	missing because he's piloting a little
3544s	rough it's
3545s	yeah you're missing like we see it
3547s	everybody sees it just control space
3548s	press F1 overheat your guns apply
3551s	maximum DPS
3552s	awesome now I'm actually looking really
3554s	forward to our next match uh it features
3556s	two teams with uh a very different
3558s	tournament pedigrees so we have a band
3561s	apart uh led by Rex javix uh that team
3564s	has been competing for a very long time
3566s	we've always referred to them as
3568s	aggressively mid-tier they've also been
3569s	one of those Defenders of the top 16 you
3572s	know if you want to make it to be a true
3573s	top 16 team you're definitely going to
3575s	have to get through a team like a band
3577s	apart like they are definitely solid
3580s	roadblock if you're not a good team they
3581s	will stop you and they're going up
3583s	against gunsworth Federation now
3585s	historically goodons have either failed
3587s	to get into the alliance rate for one
3588s	reason or another or just not done very
3590s	well this year they managed to get
3591s	through the feeders and we can see here
3592s	uh the historic performance of goods run
3595s	Federation in Alliance tournament
3597s	overall so over 70 Pilots have played
3599s	for goonsworm Federation with rent
3601s	hacker being the most experienced
3603s	playing 14 different matches but look at
3605s	this matches played when lost so 10
3606s	losses only three wins really struggled
3609s	in Alliance tournament uh we've been
3611s	lost twice last year lost twice the year
3613s	before we have to go back to Alliance
3615s	tournament 16 where they won a single
3617s	match against lumpy and then back to
3619s	Alliance tournament 15 where they won
3620s	the second match and then the previous
3622s	win I don't even know but we're down to
3624s	Alliance tournament 11 at that point so
3626s	it has been some time uh I do remember
3628s	of course I think it was the lumpy match
3630s	uh the matani on field in a polarized
3634s	augural Navy issue it was a a great
3636s	moment in the livestream history I super
3638s	enjoyed it and I always like back in my
3640s	mind I'd always root for the goons uh
3642s	they've just always fall flat in their
3644s	face I mean do we think they're going to
3645s	do any better this year Bart uh I I hope
3647s	so I feel like they I mean most of these
3649s	teams actually had really good
3651s	performances in the feeders and that is
3653s	a good indicator I think last year the
3655s	team that Odin's call who was the team
3658s	that ended up in the crazy Minotaur
3660s	tribal you know finals of the feeders so
3663s	they had to play a ton of games actually
3663s	got second place so teams that dig in
3666s	the feeders it shows that you have the
3668s	ability to play well uh I think goons
3671s	it'd be cool to see them win at least a
3673s	couple matches maybe not win overall
3674s	there would be uh actual rioting in game
3677s	if that happened but it would be nice to
3678s	actually see them make it you know a
3680s	little bit farther because at this point
3681s	we've been kind of punching bagging on
3683s	them for 10 years
3685s	I want to see them win actually that'd
3687s	be awesome I mean they got to the point
3689s	they just made their own tournament uh
3691s	the anger games which has been super
3693s	successful uh soft Russell and Dirk been
3695s	running that for a while I believe a lot
3697s	uh anger game six has actually not been
3699s	officially confirmed I know I've been
3700s	confirming it for best part of sex
3702s	monster probably getting DMS right now
3703s	but I believe I believe it is actually
3705s	confirmed uh so before we do anything
3708s	else let's take a look at the bands for
3709s	this upcoming match uh between goods
3711s	from Federation and the band apart see
3713s	what these teams are choosing to to ban
3714s	out so band apart blaming out back
3716s	Blackbird Griffin so ECM not their
3719s	friends uh Scimitar and curse whereas
3721s	the goons Banning out Le Shack
3723s	abandoners and bar guest very different
3726s	Banning strategies here modulator what
3728s	do you think yeah so goons worm is just
3730s	saying I don't want to deal with super
3731s	heavy armor composition so that's going
3734s	to be your Le Shack and the abaddin the
3736s	owneros is just generally one of the
3739s	better Logistics uh you know Cruisers a
3742s	bargist is just going to be a generic
3744s	good armor and shield Battleship banned
3747s	throughout the entire tournament and ABA
3750s	is basically saying if you want to bring
3752s	ECM you have to commit to a rook or a
3754s	falcon and we also don't want to get
3756s	controlled by a curse you know another
3758s	band we're going to see throughout the
3760s	tournament
3761s	foreign
3771s	just so powerful in a tournament format
3773s	it it's not as bad as it used to be but
3776s	it does shut down your ability to play
3778s	your ship the way you want to uh if you
3780s	get jammed you can only target the
3782s	that's jamming you
3783s	um which sometimes doesn't matter I mean
3785s	if you're shooting the Blackbird already
3787s	with your ships it doesn't matter if the
3788s	Blackbird jams you but if you jam like a
3790s	logistics Cruiser or frigate it can't
3792s	rep the people that you're shooting at
3793s	if you jam their ECM their ecms to focus
3796s	on you uh ECM being any of that like it
3798s	forces you to Target a specific ship
3801s	which maybe is not necessarily your plan
3803s	and while it is RNG there's a lot of
3806s	ways to make that RNG very high in your
3808s	favor and it also like actually enrages
3810s	people and they get mad and then they
3812s	play badly so very very powerful and
3815s	sometimes being tilted or tilting your
3816s	enemies is enough to you know to secure
3819s	the W yeah we can see that you know
3822s	black pirated also with that knowledge
3824s	also probably a black bird pirate as
3826s	well no no I don't think I've ever on a
3829s	blackbird hope we can change that yeah
3831s	we can we can fix that we'll uh we'll
3833s	we'll sort that at some point yeah the
3835s	Black Road has a disgustingly low at
3837s	long range as well so you can just set
3839s	the opposite side of the Arena so wave
3841s	at the guy that you're jamming and be
3842s	like if you want to shoot someone you're
3844s	going to have to burn all the way over
3845s	to me uh which of course he doesn't want
3847s	to do he does not want to do that so he
3849s	has to just sit and wait that 20 seconds
3850s	and hope you miss your next one
3852s	which you know if that doesn't happen
3855s	that's kind of hockey's cookies oh Keys
3858s	yes yes so Bart what what you kind of
3861s	anticipating for this particular match
3863s	then what do you think we'll see between
3864s	these two teams I mean both of them
3866s	actually do have a lot of tournament
3867s	experience like I know we meme a little
3868s	bit on on the goons but they've been
3870s	running in tournaments for a while
3871s	especially recently with the anger games
3873s	uh they went through the theaters we
3875s	have seen them perform a lot better in
3878s	my opinion in the last 12 months than
3880s	potentially for a while at a band apart
3882s	under new leadership I believe Rex is
3883s	retired uh the new captain smudge 245 uh
3886s	you know is the change of the Guard
3888s	going to be enough to to help propel
3889s	them up from that sort of mid-tier to
3892s	the top teams what do you think uh I'm
3894s	hoping goons does really well uh the
3896s	cool thing that goons has always done is
3897s	because it's such a large Alliance they
3900s	will often develop their own meta uh
3902s	We've not really ever seen it do
3904s	particularly well but maybe this is the
3906s	time maybe they're going to come out
3907s	with something wild that we haven't seen
3908s	in the feeders and we haven't seen today
3910s	yet so kind of hoping for that
3912s	awesome uh well I mean I'm always
3915s	interested to see like new and exciting
3917s	matters especially uh from uh goons like
3920s	you say there's such a huge group in the
3921s	game that they can easily just do their
3923s	own internal practices if they wanted to
3924s	they can easily get 20 Pilots I'm sure
3926s	uh 20 decent Pilots it remains to be
3931s	seen but we can find out if they can get
3932s	at least 10 decent Pilots immediately
3934s	now as we head to the arena with the
3936s	casters uh working across and jintan
3947s	hello everyone and welcome to the arena
3950s	where we are about to watch an amazingly
3951s	interesting game here with Amanda par
3954s	and goons Federation both bringing very
3956s	similar ideas just trying to Ram into
3958s	their opponent and project a lot of DPS
3960s	in uh but taking completely different
3963s	methods of bringing that to the field
3964s	with uh goonsville Federation having
3966s	brought a Max threat slash pseudo dad
3969s	slash whatever we're calling that
3971s	composition uh going up against a three
3973s	Battleship core from a band apart
3976s	uh well what can you tell me about these
3978s	three Battleship cores what's going to
3979s	be the difficulty for them in applying
3981s	all that DPS getting to the opponent
3984s	because the thing about the team the
3984s	versing a team doesn't have to be at
3985s	zero that 10 F5 it could be at 30 and 40
3987s	and still apply to them meanwhile this
3989s	uh double uh Blaster Battleship at
3991s	Armageddon core has to basically get it
3993s	zero and honestly trying to get two boss
3996s	Battleship to zero it's not easy when
3999s	the team knows you're trying to do it
4000s	you can already see that Russian and
4002s	they're getting of course getting
4002s	long-range news which does help apply to
4004s	stuff but that is there's a lot of you
4007s	know well-applied well-damaged ships on
4008s	the other opposing side they're going to
4009s	make this a really hard fight you see
4011s	look at the notes spreading everywhere
4012s	he's noting four different targets
4014s	yeah and just to keep an eye on things
4016s	you can see that both of both teams
4017s	attack bars are relatively the same size
4019s	in terms of the gray portion and that
4021s	means that they are going to be able to
4022s	put out theoretically the same amount of
4024s	DPS but goon swarms they're already
4026s	ticking up they're already sitting
4028s	around you know one-fifth one sixth
4030s	utilization whereas a band apart have
4032s	yet to put almost anything down range
4035s	now opposed to the last team where our
4036s	team brought a lot of control and no
4038s	damage this team has brought a lot of
4039s	control moles Sentinel RB they've got
4042s	the control there they've actually
4043s	brought a lot of damage to back it up if
4045s	they can get that damage at zero so the
4048s	potentially can make a good mix here but
4050s	it's all going to rely on can you get a
4052s	Hyperion or a mega Navy at zero okay
4056s	so far look at where that Hyperion is
4059s	he's right in the middle of things uh he
4061s	is webbed now so he's going to be
4062s	slowing down but all of his buddies are
4064s	cowering around around him and uh
4066s	goonestorm's getting pushed up against
4067s	the edge of the Arena here obviously you
4069s	can only move 125 kilometers away from
4071s	the center Beacon before getting
4073s	explorated
4078s	was the Confessor because that is
4080s	basically the only tackle on this team
4082s	they've got a lot of control but they're
4084s	basically they need to catch things on
4085s	their own you see the mega neighbors
4087s	you're taking a little bit of armor
4088s	damage now
4089s	but what if they if they caught anything
4091s	yet no have they done any real damage no
4093s	it's
4095s	just a spot on the bouncing off one
4097s	another here you can see both of them
4098s	doing roughly the same amount of damage
4100s	to each other but not enough oh no oh
4103s	that's not good that's really not good
4108s	how exact Navy is in trouble
4111s	yeah it's not as crippling as you think
4113s	it's not as crippling as losing one of
4114s	those Navy executors would be for the
4116s	goonsworm side here because it's not
4117s	going to affect their ability to
4118s	actually apply they just need to use
4121s	their ability to get into position here
4122s	they need to lock one thing down and
4125s	start chewing their way through the
4126s	abandon part team
4128s	but they haven't yet been able to force
4129s	a screen that's the real issue here they
4131s	have been because they only have that
4133s	Confessor here for tackle they've got
4135s	nothing to run in there and force that
4137s	skybreaker to come in the only thing
4139s	they have really for tackle for this uh
4141s	Battleship Rush is the base of the
4142s	Armageddon has no guns it is a full
4144s	neutrageddon so if they can stack eight
4147s	heavy notes or whatever they've got onto
4149s	one ship and bring it it's my warp drive
4150s	off they can definitely get on top of it
4152s	and I think they might actually got the
4153s	Merm Navy with the strategy because he's
4155s	starting to slow down by the looks but
4157s	it's still like okay you might get
4158s	managed to make this work but it's
4160s	taking you how long and how much have
4161s	you lost yeah they've lost that
4162s	arbitrator now as well so that's both of
4164s	their guidance disrupting and tracking
4166s	disrupting ships off the field they're
4167s	no longer going to be able to prevent uh
4169s	the greensworn Federation chips from
4171s	concentrating DPS down on those thaliers
4173s	and deacons and yep we see that going
4174s	right away for it just killing off all
4176s	that low end now they get perfect
4177s	application towards it so they'll get
4180s	this Navy which is good that's
4181s	definitely a good start what's next and
4183s	if you look around for where these
4184s	battleships are there is nothing nearby
4186s	them this the it's opposing team is
4188s	playing this very well by it they don't
4189s	need to be next to each other they can
4190s	be as far as they need because no damage
4192s	will get to them as long as they're at
4193s	range so if Navy will go down but it's
4196s	gonna I think they're gonna be the exact
4197s	same spot we were five minutes ago
4198s	whereas these ships are chasing things
4200s	and can't really kill them while their
4201s	team is falling apart behind them yeah I
4203s	think their best shot now actually is
4204s	just to burn towards the center of the
4206s	Arena after they get done with this um
4208s	Navy issue and then try an mjd onto
4211s	something because that's what exactly I
4212s	hope they need to grab onto the
4214s	Absolution the prophecy Navy one of
4216s	those major DPS ships because they're
4218s	never going to be able to catch those
4219s	cruises at this point and then just hope
4221s	and pray that they can last until timer
4223s	runs out and that's doing some math at
4226s	the moment right and but looks of it
4227s	they could mjd on some targets some
4229s	targets are almost perfectly within 20K
4230s	if they do an mjd play but do they even
4232s	have mjds I hope they do but each of
4234s	these ships has four or five mid slots
4236s	so that is obviously a pretty heavy
4238s	thing to put on these ships well they're
4239s	only 20K away from the beacon so one
4241s	pulse of an mwd would get them in range
4243s	into Central Beacon
4245s	and the murmidon's about to go down too
4248s	and that's now going to be three
4248s	battleships first as the world and it's
4250s	a world of DPS that they live in
4252s	unfortunately uh it looks like they've
4253s	grabbed the Navy prophecy so they're
4254s	probably going to move on to that here
4255s	but that's just gonna spread they're
4257s	just going to continue to get slowly
4258s	picked away here
4260s	because that thing is yeah it's drifting
4262s	out of grapple range
4265s	the newts are going as well but I'm not
4267s	seeing really any functional notes I see
4268s	notes on the exact Navy and notes on the
4270s	org it's not really doing all that much
4274s	I don't know they're the prophecy maybe
4276s	has pulled out has Paul Ranger is
4278s	leaving this area
4280s	and we also see smart bombs occasionally
4281s	from his battleships they are trying to
4283s	remove the drones on the opposing team
4284s	but they're basically just removing like
4287s	trends at the moment there's a few
4288s	infiltrators and valks in there but I've
4289s	seen a lot of acolytes and warriors
4291s	getting popped
4293s	yeah get into a federation here just
4294s	playing it really really calmly playing
4296s	it really safe you can see if we zoom
4298s	out just how far away all these ships
4300s	are from one another meaning that even
4302s	if by some miracle one of them does get
4304s	caught now it's still going to be game
4305s	for them that Armageddon is going to
4307s	take a while to go down but once it does
4308s	uh goonson have nothing to frighten them
4311s	with uh absolutely brilliant execution
4314s	here not something we we normally say
4316s	when we're talking about games for
4317s	Federation exactly that they know
4318s	exactly what they had to do against us
4319s	comp and they immediately did it and
4321s	that's usually like the first half of
4322s	the fight is knowing what you need to do
4324s	and then executing that perfectly
4326s	and honestly I'm kind of sad I love my
4330s	battleships I love aggressive Battleship
4331s	parts you've bought three battleships
4333s	and I haven't seen a single mjd yet
4338s	though luckily so no we might get that
4342s	that's an Absolution never mind my
4344s	apologies wrong ship I just made an
4345s	assumption
4346s	yeah it'll be interesting to see if we
4348s	do have any of these 3bs cores uh do
4351s	well in other matches uh they're very
4354s	very points intensive to bring and I
4355s	think you get a lot they could work yeah
4357s	but it's
4358s	they okay bring I love that's a ship
4360s	that I think really just provides a lot
4362s	of aggressive utility but bringing twin
4364s	Blaster battleships
4366s	like bring a tempest Fleet please at
4369s	least you can shoot at range then you
4370s	know like going full Blaster rush I I
4372s	love it it makes you feel like a man but
4374s	there there's a time and place there's a
4376s	comp deflated this wasn't it
4378s	yeah absolutely absolutely it was it was
4381s	an attempt at a control company you
4383s	really need one of the the higher end
4385s	control comp control ships I think for
4387s	that curse Blackbird something in that
4389s	respect so that's just going to
4390s	completely disrupt your opponent's
4391s	ability to concentrate fire
4393s	whereas here it was a lot more range
4395s	control mixed with a ship that wants to
4397s	be right well the three ships that want
4399s	to be right on top of your opponent's
4400s	face and that just seems like a moving
4403s	in two completely different directions
4404s	here right you want to make them so they
4407s	force them to come close but the problem
4408s	is if they don't want to you like look
4409s	at me ships are shooting them you've got
4411s	one two three four five six seven
4413s	different ships all shooting at range
4415s	can you really control all of those for
4417s	the entire flight enough so they they
4418s	have to get close to you the answer is
4420s	no you can't
4421s	but if you had to say maybe a tempest
4423s	Fleet you could at least be harassing
4424s	them back and hurting ships and causing
4425s	some trouble these Mega this Mega Navy
4427s	are Hyperion are just being entirely
4429s	cooked at the moment there's no chance
4431s	of doing anything
4433s	ah
4436s	we're gonna see we're gonna see a lot
4437s	more Mega Navy issues I think as we go
4439s	through but Hyperion probably less
4444s	does so much DPS for its points it's
4446s	it's a great little pocketbook it can
4448s	use an mjd why is it not got an M chain
4453s	it's the captain of course Left Behind
4454s	to last as well smudge 245.
4462s	oh he's gonna die
4464s	pretty well Hyperion is really good at
4466s	that but uh you ain't gonna matter to
4468s	you if you're gonna go down
4470s	this is uh
4473s	just give me a just give me a matter of
4474s	how long can smudge you know protect his
4476s	team's honor there's no way he makes it
4478s	to that team to the uh to the one minute
4480s	Mark here
4481s	not a chance in a billion years
4484s	well actually they've been smart bombing
4486s	for most of this match there's still
4488s	drones on them they're still medium
4490s	storm so they have a lot of drones just
4491s	being sicked on these ships
4496s	yeah uh you know there's a lot of
4498s	interesting choices here and I hope that
4500s	the desk does go over them I I've got to
4502s	say the mum Navy issue being brought in
4504s	one of these pseudo dads is very odd
4506s	because you don't get the instant
4507s	application uh but we'll go over all
4509s	this in the studio I'm sure so let's
4511s	hand it back
4531s	thank you
4570s	thank you
4593s	thank you
4599s	you are one of two people that couldn't
4603s	listen and couldn't check bookmarks and
4605s	find your own way out the route the
4607s	entire route was literally bookmarked
4609s	out to losac a bookmarked the 10 minutes
4612s	in advance
4613s	good and swarm Federation
4615s	following the advice on my hat or just
4618s	don't be bad and taking the W there over
4620s	a band apart uh you love to see it goons
4623s	form well done we're all very proud of
4625s	you here at Alliance tournament 19. I am
4627s	CC overload and I'm joined on the desk
4629s	by two brand new faces I have CCP
4631s	convict and I have mystical mites uh Mr
4633s	how are you today yeah not too bad I'm
4635s	glad to be here what did you think about
4637s	last match I think it was a very
4639s	interesting match I'm glad that goons
4640s	have managed to ecow to win you know
4642s	it's not something that they're used to
4643s	so it's it's great to see this happening
4645s	on the desk
4646s	um yeah no it was some good piloting I
4648s	think we have some things to talk about
4649s	later
4650s	awesome and CCP convict uh enjoy that
4653s	match as well very much so uh band apart
4655s	obviously low SEC Pirates door warts and
4657s	participated in so many Alliance
4659s	tournaments and greenstone Federation
4660s	that was a match to me no matter who won
4662s	I was going to feel good because
4663s	somebody you know got another feather in
4666s	their cat and you feel good yeah I do
4668s	feel good goons deserve it awesome we
4670s	all feel good then I think we're all
4671s	very happy about that so thank you for
4672s	joining me uh here on the desk today csb
4674s	convict uh you are here to talk a little
4676s	bit about some of the cool giveaways are
4678s	going on in twitch tell us all about
4679s	them yeah so obviously all the the main
4681s	action is happening on the live stream
4683s	itself
4684s	um but uh in twitch chat we've got a
4686s	whole bunch of people who are watching
4686s	we've got some things we want to give
4688s	away to you guys over the weekend as is
4689s	tradition so every day of the alliance
4692s	tournament prior to the break we'll do a
4693s	raffle where we'll give away um a stack
4696s	of the weekend Fleet packs which is like
4698s	three days a meager and 50 Plex so you
4700s	can go in the hunt for that during the
4701s	breaks we'll do a quiz which you can
4703s	interact with on the stream itself just
4705s	by clicking in the window we'll throw up
4706s	instructions on the screen when that
4708s	quiz starts during the break uh first
4709s	price for that is 1000 complex second
4711s	place is 500 third place is 250 Plex and
4714s	then we'll do another raffle after the
4715s	break sometime later in the evening
4717s	where we will be giving away either one
4719s	of the Eve online 20th anniversary
4720s	Collector's Editions or an Eve online
4723s	watch I'm actually super excited for
4725s	that collector's edition the megathron
4726s	model is looking uh hashtag poggers I
4730s	believe is the official description of
4731s	it yeah of course the little Federal
4732s	plushie uh that that model though like
4735s	yeah yeah I mean ship even online is a
4738s	game about internet spaceships so I'm
4740s	told and uh Eve online spaceship models
4743s	people have been like clamoring for them
4745s	for years and years we had the really
4746s	cool integral reality Labs models for a
4748s	while that we were giving away in
4749s	previous Alliance tournaments
4750s	Unfortunately they they're no longer
4752s	producing them because they've decided
4753s	to go and do other things and so to get
4755s	another opportunity to get a really cool
4756s	ship model into people's hands
4758s	especially something as iconic as the
4759s	megathront is really cool yeah and it's
4762s	quite a substantial size model as well I
4764s	believe it's it's a good size I'm told
4766s	it's not life-size I hear no no no it's
4769s	not the same size as well it's actually
4770s	eight inches long okay yeah yeah so not
4773s	not the same size as a real magazine so
4775s	it's smaller yeah that's right that's
4776s	right okay and it's dehydrated
4777s	megatronics dehydrated magnesium Just
4779s	Add Water yeah and you too could be
4781s	flying around in your very own spaceship
4783s	that's right and of course in addition
4784s	to the the Raffles and giveaways all
4786s	throughout the alliance tournament you
4787s	can accumulate uh Channel points on our
4788s	twitch Channel just by watching the
4790s	broadcast when you get 10 000 Channel
4791s	points you can claim a gel net skin from
4795s	the uh Eve to twitchbot which is in our
4797s	Channel but you must make sure to
4798s	register your in-game character name
4800s	with your with the bot so it knows what
4802s	your Twitch name is and how that
4803s	corresponds there's instructions for
4804s	that if you just scroll down underneath
4806s	the stream window there's a section on
4807s	the galnet skins on how to do that and
4810s	if you're coming up a little bit short
4812s	just by watching the stream with Channel
4813s	points obviously we're having the
4815s	predictions running before every single
4817s	match so if you're Savvy and you predict
4820s	wisely you can increase your channel
4822s	points much much more quickly and be
4824s	able to get your hands on more of those
4825s	skins faster yeah I do love it when we
4827s	get one of those big upsets and I
4829s	believe we've had one so far uh was it
4831s	jakaris versus pandemic horde most
4832s	people putting their points on pandemic
4834s	horde yes 60 9-31 was the actual uh
4837s	split of the um of the channel points on
4840s	that one and of course Jakarta is
4842s	bringing it home means that anyone who
4843s	put their Channel points into them
4844s	essentially doubled up so um it was if
4846s	you bet onto carus you did pretty well
4848s	and if you can keep that up for the rest
4849s	of the tournament you can get as many of
4851s	those Galaxy skins as you want yeah
4852s	those glass guns are pretty nice so uh
4854s	definitely make sure you slap all your
4856s	Twitch Channel points on the The
4857s	Underdogs always put them in The
4859s	Underdogs that never ever goes wrong if
4862s	you actually if you do exclamation mark
4863s	schedule in the chat and you look at the
4865s	schedule something I've noticed watching
4867s	through all the feeders is really weird
4869s	but like one one column either red or
4872s	blue seems to win overwhelmingly
4874s	interesting yeah and if you can if you
4876s	sort of see which way it's going you
4877s	just keep betting on red or blue you'll
4879s	win more than you lose you're giving
4881s	away yeah I'm gonna have to get chat GPD
4884s	to update the script here yeah that's
4885s	right if if we're doing it that simple
4887s	then people are going to start gaming
4888s	this yeah well this is that's literally
4890s	terrible advice but I'm just waiting to
4892s	see who just decides to take that on
4893s	board speaking of gamer uh we are all
4896s	Gamers and you can come meet fellow
4898s	gamers in Nottingham where the studio is
4900s	on Thursday tell us about that yeah so
4902s	um for this for this at several of us
4905s	from CCP uh traveled from Iceland to
4907s	Nottingham and because uh you know
4909s	they're obviously in subsequent weekends
4910s	we thought well why don't we just sort
4911s	of like stay Nottingham for the whole
4912s	week we can work remote uh and then we
4914s	don't have to travel back and forth and
4916s	we figured while we're in town we could
4918s	set up a player meet and invite people
4919s	from in and around Nottingham uh to come
4921s	and hang out with us and it's happening
4923s	this Thursday
4924s	um at 6 pm at uh bunkers Hill but we
4927s	only have limited capacity at the venue
4928s	so we're asking if you would like to
4930s	attend to please uh pre-register and you
4932s	can do so by going if you go to
4934s	Eventbrite and look for CCP games you'll
4936s	find our Eventbrite page where that
4937s	event is listed or if you go onto the
4939s	official Eve online Discord at the top
4941s	of the channel list on the left there is
4943s	a uh events section you click on that
4945s	you can see the eve Nottingham meet up
4946s	and the Eventbrite linkers and that so
4948s	we're very close to actually capping out
4950s	we've got room for 80 people we've
4952s	already got 70 people who have signed up
4953s	wow so if you live in and around 9 them
4955s	or you're just willing to make the
4956s	journey to come and hang out with us if
4958s	you live a little bit further afield go
4960s	ahead and like register for the event
4961s	we're gonna have some we've got like a
4963s	private space to ourselves we'll have
4964s	our own private bar in this venue uh
4966s	we'll have um like snacks and finger
4967s	food and stuff like that and we might
4968s	even put in some I saw them at replays
4970s	on the screens in there awesome and just
4973s	to get right to add tickets are free you
4975s	just have to register so we kind of know
4976s	roughly the idea of the capacity and you
4978s	get to meet in person such Alliance
4980s	tournament Legends as the mystical
4982s	Knights Blackboard pirate and moderator
4984s	as well as of course uh some some
4985s	glorious CCP games over you there I will
4988s	be there CCP Swift CCP Kestrel CCP
4990s	zealous and ccpb yeah we'll be there as
4994s	well did you see CP Swift I did I think
4995s	I said him first well he may be there
4997s	twice we'll never know uh now let's
4999s	quickly look at the bands for the next
5000s	match because we've only got a few
5001s	minutes and this is going to be the
5002s	tuscaras versus Hull control tusker is
5004s	one of the teams that went top four last
5005s	year getting a buy straight into this uh
5008s	particular room and we see our first
5009s	trickle bands finally I get to talk
5010s	about these so tusker is called baling
5013s	out the oniros the Scimitar the Loki and
5015s	the EOS Hull control Banning out the
5017s	slat near at the ineros the Scimitar and
5019s	the curse now because each team gets
5021s	four bands he's a blind band and there's
5023s	two duplicates here the Scimitar and the
5026s	oniros both teams Banning those they get
5028s	told hey you both Ban two identical
5030s	ships so you get two more bands we call
5032s	these trickle bands so in this case and
5034s	they don't have duplicate issues so in
5036s	this case the dusker is choosing to
5038s	Banner also the balgorn and The
5040s	Vindicator whereas Hull control batting
5042s	out the bar guest and the Armageddon
5044s	Navy issue mystical might what do you
5046s	make of these bands here I actually
5048s	quite like some of the Bands we're
5049s	seeing here the slept near and the curse
5051s	I think are just time old bands that
5052s	we're gonna see tournament to tournament
5054s	uh we've seen them previously the slept
5056s	near is one of the essential ships for
5058s	things like fly color which was brought
5059s	in the first match of this tournament by
5061s	the truth on a light team and we also
5064s	have the curse which is just a really
5066s	strong tracking disruption guidance
5068s	disruption newting amount and range mix
5071s	which is fairly difficult to deal with
5074s	and it can bring armor rep box as well
5076s	which just solidifies difficulty when it
5079s	comes to trying to kill that team so
5081s	standard bands on that or on that part
5084s	but um I think the nearest and Scimitar
5086s	bands are also fairly interesting they
5088s	are both the more mobile varieties of
5091s	their respective rep types so the
5093s	aneroses are fast difficult to kill
5096s	um armor rep armor remote rep boat sorry
5099s	and the Scimitar is like a really fast
5102s	fairly decently tanky Shield rep boats
5105s	so if they want to be kiting around the
5107s	grid and moving quickly they're going to
5109s	need to either adapt a guardian from
5111s	like warp drive or bring a Micro Drive
5112s	augura or maybe his arm or a diva for
5115s	the armor or they're gonna have to lean
5117s	back on something like a scythe for the
5120s	mimitar so it's fairly limiting I
5122s	suppose when it comes to
5124s	kiting setups and being able to move
5125s	around the grid with that logic what I
5127s	think is interesting as well here is uh
5129s	both teams with a kind of similar
5131s	Banning matter
5133s	um I mean tusker is like a top four team
5134s	last year so they're they're probably
5136s	going to be quite well versed with
5137s	what's going on this year as well you
5139s	would like to think I believe a lot of
5140s	team members uh have moved have retained
5143s	from previous years uh whole control I
5145s	can't remember exactly how they did last
5147s	year but I'm sure they've been around
5148s	and doing okay for a while so if they're
5149s	coming up with a similar Banning method
5151s	to a top four team like the tuskers then
5154s	that's going to be a good sign for their
5155s	theater Crafters what do you think about
5157s	that I think the theory crafting this
5159s	year is going to be fairly interesting
5160s	we know that tuskers have relied on
5162s	their unique Theory crafting Styles in
5164s	previous tournaments so they are one of
5166s	the teams that brought a basically
5167s	Shield setup which had no tank in the
5169s	mid slots and it was just tracking
5170s	disruptors and guidance disrupters so
5172s	they really do think that outside the
5174s	box when it comes to their approach to
5176s	matches and throwing their opponents on
5178s	the back foot with like really strange
5180s	that no one's expecting
5182s	um I don't know how well they're gonna
5183s	fare in The Meta with the fact that the
5186s	track and disrupters and fence
5187s	disruptors are now limited to e-war
5189s	bonus ships I think that's one of the
5191s	struggles that they're going to need to
5192s	overcome based on like some of my chats
5194s	with Mira who is the captain for the
5196s	tuskers team
5197s	um but on the other hand I also think
5199s	it's fairly interesting that they're
5201s	approaching this match in the same way
5202s	with their band setups
5204s	um I think the key difference that I'm
5205s	seeing here is that whole control banned
5207s	the boggiest an armed Navy issue both of
5210s	which are
5212s	like commonly picked flagships this year
5215s	um so I don't know if they're trying to
5216s	force a flagship pick
5218s	um by Banning those two ships or if
5220s	they've practiced against them and think
5221s	they're like super strong if uh if
5223s	they're fielded but I feel like they're
5225s	kind of replaceable at least the
5226s	Armageddon Navy issuers
5228s	interesting well we will find out in a
5231s	couple of minutes uh when we do go to
5232s	that match uh CP convict there's been a
5235s	couple of really good matches obviously
5236s	spoke earlier on about the drakaris
5237s	pandemic horde one
5239s	um and I think when you we were talking
5240s	about it you said that should be your
5241s	favorite one so far
5244s	um are you looking forward to any and
5245s	teams in particular that you're going to
5247s	see this this tournament yeah there's a
5248s	couple of teams coming up um later today
5250s	who are I'm really looking forward to
5251s	I've got a soft spot for platinum
5253s	sensitivity who are playing later in
5254s	this evening um B-side is out there uh
5256s	Brave of course you know you know
5258s	they're always like adorable underdogs
5260s	that you sort of root for when they come
5261s	on so the actual range arrangement of
5265s	teams for this first days is phenomenal
5267s	it's really really really good matchups
5269s	um and this one's no exception because
5271s	you were talking about tuskers you know
5272s	being a top four they're also Alliance
5274s	tournament champions formerly they've
5276s	been very consistently strong for the
5277s	last few years in particular but um
5285s	so they've shown what they've got what
5287s	it takes and so I I I'm sure they're
5289s	going to make it deep in this tournament
5291s	but um I I actually think uh it would be
5293s	great to see some well you know for them
5295s	to renew their reign as Champions
5297s	um uh just to sort of like shake things
5300s	up a little bit from the last uh fewer
5302s	last tournaments yeah yeah it's been a
5304s	it's been a couple of really dominant
5305s	teams for the last last few years but I
5306s	mean we've had errors of domination from
5308s	other teams pandemic Legion of course uh
5310s	winning a whole bunch in a row uh and
5312s	you're just going by and of course the
5313s	last one was one two and three we're all
5314s	won by a Band of Brothers so we have
5316s	seen uh dynasties in the past uh but
5318s	it's time uh to see if the tuskers can
5320s	start forming a new Dynasty as they go
5322s	up against Hull control with your
5323s	casters free Viner and the Basilisk
5330s	Hello everybody welcome back to the grid
5332s	we do still have whole control and
5334s	tuskers Just landing and me and fear of
5336s	seeing these ships landing and we've had
5338s	a little chat we don't really know what
5339s	to make of either comp here two very
5340s	unusual comments too why don't you pick
5342s	and choose one that you want to start
5343s	talking us through
5344s	on the red side it is the tuskers co who
5348s	have brought their flag Navy Armageddon
5350s	issue as the Navy Armageddon was bounds
5352s	they've gone for that but they've got uh
5355s	armor Logie with a claymore a fleet
5357s	cyclone and a hugin so I'm very
5359s	interested as to what they're doing
5360s	they're warped in at 50 so I assume
5362s	they're cutting yes it's got quite
5365s	controlling low end as well on both
5366s	teams here the black brother Sentinel to
5367s	crucifier and more or less for tuskers
5369s	on the other side from hole control we
5371s	see uh you know Logistics couple
5372s	blackbirds in there as well so they're
5373s	leaning more into ECM and we're going to
5375s	be we're gonna have to see if the damps
5377s	from tuskers can keep that ECM under
5378s	control blackbirds very very annoying to
5380s	deal with if left uncontrolled as we do
5382s	get the 30 second countdown starting
5383s	these teams are gonna have to pretty
5384s	quickly figure out what they want to do
5385s	here these are two fairly unconventional
5387s	looking comps I'd say
5389s	yeah I will say it's a rapid heavy Army
5391s	got a Navy issue I assume these are
5393s	going to be officer rapid Heavies and
5395s	all the other stuff this dies of course
5397s	we will uh see the kill Mill and the
5399s	desk will be able to analyze it but at
5401s	the same time the attack bar not very
5403s	large for either of these teams it's
5405s	mostly in control as uh this is also an
5408s	armor uh varker not really a ship you
5410s	typically associate with the armor rep
5412s	but it has enough low slots that it
5414s	could work
5415s	um something to note about these teams
5417s	whole control have taken two players
5419s	from the tuskers Coalition Jita and to
5421s	Abel one are now on Hall control and we
5424s	do see them in uh the Magus for to Able
5427s	one and Jita in the hakate uh meanwhile
5431s	tuscars have capped a lot of the same
5432s	core from last year and they are one of
5434s	the teams that went for the Navy
5435s	Armageddon Flagship instead of the bar
5436s	guest I'm excited to see how this works
5438s	out especially with the two newts these
5440s	could either be officer or X-Type there
5442s	isn't a whole lot of difference between
5443s	them but they are very very long range
5446s	as damage was going on in the Sentinel
5448s	and Blackbird at the moment
5449s	yeah I mean both these comps are fairly
5452s	heavy in control so we're going to see I
5453s	think the battleship of vld the
5454s	Armageddon may be pushing forward here
5456s	and I would have expected to see the
5457s	Varga of Carib pushing forward as well
5459s	but he's still just sort of sitting
5460s	fairly compact both these teams just
5462s	sort of probing each other out looking
5463s	for weaknesses it's going to be very
5464s	difficult to you know break apart
5466s	targets there's going to be interplay
5467s	between the jams the damps all the evil
5469s	going on here uh you know whether they
5470s	can break the logic both teams fairly
5472s	low on DPS as you mentioned so the
5474s	guardian on one side the auger on the
5475s	other probably going to be able to keep
5477s	their comrades up although whether they
5478s	can keep themselves up is going to be
5480s	maybe a different issue once they get in
5481s	range
5482s	yeah I will say uh there is one
5484s	Blackbird on the side of the tuskers
5487s	versus two typically that means that you
5490s	can jam off the Blackbird that's jamming
5492s	your other Blackbird and stuff like that
5493s	uh but at the same time uh any Jam being
5497s	used on blackbirds is a jam not being
5499s	used on a DPS or potential other utility
5502s	ship as we've seen you know Sentinel
5505s	Crews fire lots of tracking to stop
5506s	there's got long range newts uh as well
5508s	as long range news on the get Navy and
5510s	the lucchesis with those damps uh can be
5513s	pretty potent right now although we do
5514s	see them just full damping on the enemy
5517s	moss and the Armageddon Navy at the
5518s	moment yeah the Vengeance of sowey has
5520s	come out to actually tackle down this
5521s	arm again and maybe I think they want to
5522s	stop him pushing in because if those
5523s	officer news or X-Type use can get into
5525s	proper range on the guardian and start
5527s	capping them out that can be a very very
5528s	dangerous situation they've said okay
5529s	you know the kittens coming in Vengeance
5531s	you need to go and deal with him and
5532s	he's holding him well as I say that the
5534s	Guardians tackled and being taken out
5536s	very low yeah that's not good I mean
5538s	there's so many bots on him at the
5539s	moment as well there's a absolute swarm
5541s	of red uh hop goblins and Valkyries just
5543s	pumping DPS into them and that's damage
5545s	that you can't really mitigate obviously
5546s	through TDS or jams or you know
5547s	reallocating your control those drones
5549s	are just stuck there unless you're gonna
5550s	allocate your own drones or your own
5551s	guns killed and they're going to keep
5552s	shooting
5553s	yeah the target disopters are lending
5556s	pretty potently uh from the side of
5558s	tuskers they focus them all under the
5560s	Varga and the Navy myrmidon uh actually
5562s	as uh the match has gone on the augura
5565s	has gotten uh not caught but he is being
5568s	painted right now the guardian still
5570s	holding about two-thirds armor uh half
5572s	to two-thirds armor so uh really we're
5575s	just waiting for one team to find an
5576s	opening and they may have found it onto
5578s	Jorma as he seems to be the DPS primary
5580s	uh from the side of the tuskers
5584s	yeah uh this all girl is taking chunks
5586s	as well I think both these teams realize
5587s	they're pretty low DPS and it is going
5589s	to have to come down to a lottery trade
5590s	first if they try and break through you
5591s	know an AV Armageddon or a Varga on the
5594s	other side you know with jams in play
5595s	one Jam cycle can just ruin if you're
5597s	shooting your clip you get 15 missiles
5598s	in and you get jammed your attempt at
5600s	killing that ship is done and you've
5601s	wasted all that time you've got to get
5602s	the jam off you've got to reload and
5604s	start again so they're saying we need to
5605s	deal with the logic first both these
5606s	teams are trying to deal with the logic
5607s	at the moment Jacob Moritz is looking
5609s	worse for wear here I think the
5610s	Armageddon Navy may be approaching the
5611s	end of his clip the guardian is still
5613s	holding Jager is not
5615s	yeah Jager might be the first one to
5618s	fall uh we see sometimes going on the
5620s	drama vsera and the Blackbird as well I
5622s	will point out uh tuskers did bring a
5624s	hue gun so the long range webs are being
5626s	put on various different targets the
5628s	Vengeance smaller the Varga I wouldn't
5630s	be surprised if this Armageddon Navy had
5631s	a gotens or Pi Tobias web on it either
5634s	which would be a 30 kilometer webs uh
5637s	with links uh that's uh this auger of
5640s	Jagger mortis is actually down to uh
5643s	half structure but they're not actually
5644s	chewing through him right now I'm
5646s	interested to see why they're not able
5648s	to apply their damage I mean he is
5650s	really really far away I think is the
5651s	main thing this Varga maybe 100
5654s	kilometers away from him obviously not
5655s	much DPS else that can project the Navy
5657s	meridon maybe if he's got bouncers can
5659s	shoot that far on a couple homies but
5660s	it's unlikely so damage gonna be pretty
5662s	anemic from this point out on the ogre
5663s	he may still take a little bit of
5664s	residual maybe some drones falling in or
5666s	something but it looks like
5668s	but the Blackbird yeah the Blackbird
5670s	just goes down there
5675s	there it is
5677s	and he goes yeah that's it the org is
5679s	down so this means now that um hold
5681s	control here can start choosing some
5682s	other targets but have they lost too
5683s	much already the heck he goes down the
5685s	Blackbird already lost the Vengeance
5686s	into low armor they have made the logite
5688s	trade will they be able to use the rest
5689s	of their upper end core and take make
5692s	some progress here maybe the center or
5693s	the other Blackbird that's trying to
5694s	look through this control here
5696s	or control now or the Blackbird of
5698s	Katarina uh illumination as uh they saw
5701s	their Guardian up they're not able to
5702s	hold on to the low end it is nine points
5704s	to 15 still relatively low scoring game
5706s	as we approach the halfway point but
5708s	this could snowball either way very
5710s	quickly remember the Sentinel the
5711s	crucifier on the ball is still up for
5714s	the side of the tuskers CO as the
5716s	Blackbird is down a half armor but he is
5719s	uh able to stabilize a little bit right
5721s	now doesn't have any reps from the rest
5722s	of his team but if he just burns away uh
5724s	from this Varga from this murmidon Navy
5726s	uh he can stay alive and live to win
5729s	potentially
5737s	and it looks like my co-host has dc'd so
5740s	I'm Gonna Keep solo casting for the time
5741s	being uh Katarina elimination still in
5745s	half armor there's damage from the
5747s	tuskers going out to a couple of targets
5749s	but it looks like they're still holding
5750s	on a long range webs they have a scram
5752s	on the Mahler uh of uh yente Tasia at
5757s	the moment I'm gonna look at this Muller
5758s	right now is it a full new Mauler it
5760s	looks like it is so uh those newts off
5764s	the table are pretty nice to have they
5766s	also have some damage into stavlad in
5769s	the Blackbird at the moment he is down
5770s	about one-third armor remaining this
5772s	Guardian gonna try to keep him up but he
5774s	might be jammed out right now by
5775s	Katarina uh actually the yeah the
5778s	guardian is probably gemmed out we see
5779s	the gems being cycled and the Blackbird
5781s	goes down from hole control and this is
5783s	starting to snowball in favor of the
5785s	tuskers co uh Wingnut has joined me to
5787s	replace back uh how are you look feeling
5790s	looking at this match right now
5792s	I was surprised it was getting this
5794s	close but uh they're going back for the
5796s	guardian now which is probably the right
5797s	call but without Blackbird going down
5799s	those are the controls are going through
5800s	a lot of DPS left it's it's kind of
5803s	surprising how close this is it looks a
5804s	bit messy but losing your logic makes it
5806s	really hard
5807s	yeah Katarina elimination
5809s	down finally so 22 points to 15 with uh
5815s	313 left in the match sandals two minor
5818s	also being taken down pretty low right
5820s	now remember the only projected DPS I
5822s	really have is this Varga and maybe the
5823s	murm Navy issue we see the guardian uh
5826s	just cashkin uh currently being webbed
5828s	down by this hugue and as the damage
5830s	finally goes on to the hugin uh from the
5833s	side of pole control but I think it'll
5835s	be too little too late this Guardian is
5837s	falling rapidly uh through the rapid
5838s	heavy clips of the vld
5841s	I'm actually honestly surprised the
5842s	guardian did so well earlier now he's
5844s	just gonna get ripped apart quickly and
5845s	like Tusk is without that logic earlier
5847s	on I'm going to pull this back really
5848s	quickly and yeah avaga's good DPS so is
5851s	a mom Navy but when you verse in
5853s	Claymore Claymore Fleet and they uh
5856s	and armaged navy sorry it's it's not
5859s	that much honestly it's not very well
5861s	applied
5861s	damage going on a little Jesus now of
5864s	brain Bashi uh obviously The Damp
5866s	pressure of lucchesis can be very uh
5869s	nice to have uh it didn't see any real
5871s	scram Scott so I assume this is just
5873s	full damn mid slots no scrams he is
5875s	finally down though and Flack Inquisitor
5877s	staying alive right now on this hug and
5878s	the DPS is still alive and available
5880s	from the side of tuskers are from Whole
5882s	control excuse me but they just haven't
5884s	been able to burst through anything
5885s	since they took down that auger
5889s	now a lot of the ship's gone as well
5890s	that's uh crucifier is able to
5892s	constantly ruin the vagus tracking as
5893s	well it's making it even harder for that
5894s	basically the last DPS they've got left
5895s	to do work Cuban wouldn't potentially go
5898s	down but honestly when it goes down
5900s	what's going to be changed for this team
5901s	and honestly I don't see anything
5903s	there's damage coming after them they've
5904s	lost their support link it's just the
5906s	core with a magus
5908s	yeah I mean the Oregon control from
5909s	tuskers this is a very tusker is US
5911s	can't uh kind of weird which uh ships
5913s	you don't see together all that often uh
5916s	but they make it work uh using you know
5919s	an armor cycling flute an armor Claymore
5920s	something that we would have seen last
5921s	year when they were able to fit uh
5924s	tracking disruptors and uh and the damps
5928s	in the mids oh nice we saw a couple
5930s	comps one I called hammer time where we
5932s	saw Shield chips fit with armor in doing
5934s	that but this year I assume since these
5937s	are armors like Claymore and Cyclone
5938s	Fleet issue uh these are probably uh
5941s	remote remote tracking computers on them
5944s	to help out their team mjd to try and
5946s	get away he did get away from it now the
5948s	drones are back on so you will still die
5949s	but the mjd bought him a good amount of
5951s	time until they finally croaked it
5953s	so respect of the hugin jump there man
5955s	cool thinking outside the box
5956s	immediately getting away with it
5958s	yeah I'm also you know these are two
5961s	constantly didn't really
5963s	yeah we didn't really have a great idea
5965s	of what they were doing other than their
5966s	armor and their control at the start of
5969s	the match and I think uh this is just
5971s	kind of the the creative uh Theory
5973s	crafting that tuskers are known for and
5975s	maybe some of that being brought on to
5977s	whole control with their acquisition of
5979s	Gita and able one uh that said they will
5982s	get knocked down into the lower bracket
5984s	and uh face uh abandon wait no not a
5988s	band apart excuse me the loser paper
5989s	numbers versus Deepwater Hooligans which
5991s	is our next match uh still tuskers still
5995s	a great team I assume this is just
5997s	something that they wanted to show in
5999s	the first match versus hole control
6000s	bring something creative against their
6002s	former members uh but they will be
6005s	moving on to the next round where they
6006s	face the winner of paper numbers versus
6008s	Deepwater Hooligans as this Fargo goes
6010s	down we are to send it to the desk as
6013s	time has run out we'll be right back
6015s	after this break
6036s	thank you
6044s	24 times
6071s	guys stop being casual they're really
6073s	bad we should not lose anybody to this
6076s	warp off warp off take the fleet warp
6078s	everybody warp off this is a really
6079s	really bad execution I'm very
6081s	disappointed
6086s	rain are you in the armor Vagabond or
6088s	something no um I've got axle ISP
6093s	and polarized guns or what
6096s	laughs
6101s	there you are at the tuskers court as
6103s	for your viney would say still a great
6104s	team uh beating out whole control there
6107s	in their first appearance in Alliance
6109s	tournament 19 and the mystical might we
6111s	saw some interesting uh ship decisions
6113s	there in a shield comp talk to me about
6115s	it yeah so as I mentioned just before
6117s	the match tuskers are well known for
6119s	some wacky Concepts when it comes to
6121s	using typically Shield tank ships in
6124s	armor setups so as we saw we had the
6126s	Claymore and the Cyclone Fleet issue
6129s	both typically used with Shield
6130s	extenders and involves because they're
6132s	fairly quick and they do decent damage
6134s	out to range I think we don't actually
6136s	get to see the tuskers fits but what I'm
6138s	assuming they fit were a bunch of
6141s	guidance computers in the mid slots
6142s	along with maybe a Target painter or
6144s	sense booster or something like that
6145s	which allows them to counter the
6147s	potential for damps on the Hostile team
6148s	so they can still lock out and apply the
6151s	damage but it also means that they can
6152s	apply their damage further with the
6154s	missile guidance computers and hit
6156s	things better so pairing all of that
6158s	together it means they can sit very far
6160s	away they're very hard to catch and it
6163s	means that they're still applying decent
6164s	damage even against the team that brings
6166s	something like a leakisis that has
6168s	multiple damps in the mid slot so I
6170s	think it was a very interesting setup to
6172s	see and I'm glad that they're still
6173s	finding ways to bring off metash I was
6176s	gonna say
6179s	um to the tournament yeah yeah I think
6180s	it was a great first you know match for
6183s	this year awesome
6184s	um and we saw some of the first usage of
6187s	the micro jump beacons in the arena and
6189s	I believe we can just take a look at the
6191s	layer of the arena with this uh quick
6193s	primer video so the the teams are
6195s	teleported into the system at these
6197s	different staging beacons and they just
6198s	choose one at random and they get
6200s	teleported there automatically by the
6202s	referees they're then told to warp into
6204s	the arena at a range of their choice
6205s	between 0 and 50 if they warping at a
6207s	different range outside of that they
6209s	will probably be teleported to Zero by
6211s	the referees and they have to stay 0 to
6213s	50 for their War pins once they're in uh
6216s	the arena itself is 125 kilometers in
6219s	radius and if you go outside that as you
6220s	can see the kill little boundary you
6222s	just immediately explode there is no F's
6225s	but oh you know can I maybe think about
6227s	it nope as soon as you cross that
6228s	boundary by one meter you just explode
6230s	of course some people do that more often
6232s	than others cough Casper 24 model to be
6234s	fair to Casper he's been better in
6235s	recent years some people strive to do it
6237s	some people get as far as I can yeah
6239s	currently the boundary held by gun from
6240s	Federation as you're an argument 232.5
6243s	kilometers which is quite something and
6246s	maybe we'll see that uh beaten this year
6248s	and who knows I actually look forward to
6250s	it so see if you can get past that now
6252s	we have only a few minutes before our
6253s	next match uh because the last match was
6255s	a little bit delayed so let's take a
6256s	quick look at the bands and see what uh
6258s	paper numbers versus Deepwater hooligans
6260s	are choosing to ban out
6261s	so paper numbers Banning out the curse
6263s	The Sentinel the EOS and the carries
6266s	Deepwater Hooligans Banning out the
6268s	slept near the Nighthawk The Sentinel
6270s	and the Blackbird both of course Banning
6272s	those Sentinels both get a trickle ban
6274s	uh paper numbers choosing the Deacon
6275s	whereas deep water uh Hooligans going
6278s	for the crucifier mystical might a quick
6280s	30 second analysis on this uh these
6282s	teams hate e-war so they were like
6285s	the Blackbird don't want jams we want to
6287s	be able to lock ships The Sentinel and
6289s	The crucial fire bands were both
6290s	targeted against the dragon disruptors
6292s	against disruptors at range they're
6294s	really difficult to kill really hard to
6296s	hit but they do a lot for a team and
6298s	then the curse is just a standard band
6300s	The slept during the Nighthawk were
6301s	basically to prevent Rush which we've
6303s	seen worked really well in previous
6304s	years this year probably not going to
6306s	work so well because there's a lot of
6307s	other options that do a lot of damage at
6309s	range like the pseudo dad but we'll
6312s	maybe see the match up later on in the
6314s	day awesome well let's head over to the
6316s	arena now for paper numbers versus
6317s	Deepwater Hooligans with your casters or
6319s	Wagner cross and The Intern
6325s	and welcome back to the arena meds I'm
6326s	of course Winger joined by the
6327s	everglorious gintan and my favorite boys
6330s	are here we got uh riferson and paper
6332s	numbers yes they're separate versus uh
6334s	Deepwater Hooligans and honestly I'm
6337s	surprised the battleships on the
6338s	Deepwater hooligan side what do you
6339s	think
6340s	I've got to say I love it the double
6343s	Shack the amount of potential DPS that
6345s	Deepwater kilograms can put out here is
6347s	unbelievable but they're gonna have to
6349s	live for that uh for a very long period
6351s	of time for that to become reality and I
6353s	think paper numbers are going to do
6354s	absolutely everything they can to avoid
6356s	that look at how close they've warped in
6358s	and look at the DPS
6361s	this is going to be an absolute wham bam
6363s	thank you man of a match and watch that
6365s	low end from Deep Water Hooligans it's
6367s	not going to exist for very long
6369s	they exactly they're going to try the
6371s	best the Magus the Celeste uh the
6373s	swipple the Confessor they're going to
6375s	try their best to tackle never mind
6376s	moles went pop now you need to try and
6379s	Tackle these uh runaway ships because
6380s	yeah the Shack's gonna be at zero and
6381s	the entire comp from paper numbers are
6383s	going to try and keep their distance
6384s	they don't need to be at zero they don't
6386s	care and yeah pop second one pop Griffin
6388s	pop just brutal
6392s	run away I just dc'd for half a second
6395s	please take over keep over oh man that's
6397s	easy right okay they've gone for the
6398s	executive Navy at the moment I don't uh
6400s	it's quite a distance away I'm actually
6402s	very excited going for that meanwhile
6403s	the Ripple of kclp is also being primary
6406s	we also see the maggots also been shot
6407s	so they're just ripping apart the small
6409s	side of this Fleet not even bothering
6410s	with all the Shacks just yet and they
6413s	honestly actually don't want uh Theology
6415s	of luck Aramis is trying to keep them
6416s	alive and doing pretty well
6418s	though uh Confessor is down to one third
6421s	armor as well they all they're starting
6423s	to hold now this Lisa the ships that are
6425s	left are actually quite tanky the
6426s	Confessor the Magus they did quite well
6429s	but uh they're kind of a threat to them
6430s	hello there how you doing now it seems
6432s	like new traits are striking left right
6434s	and center today no I'm I'm still here
6435s	don't worry I just I just dc'd
6442s	I mean these double the Shacks are just
6444s	getting kiked around like crazy let's
6445s	just do a little trichost let's do
6446s	something a little bit experimental oh
6448s	no
6449s	we're certainly gonna need him over the
6452s	place
6455s	yeah look the universe of lock has now
6457s	been caught and with that go on these
6458s	little sharks lose their longevity here
6459s	and they're gonna start getting killed
6461s	pretty quickly as well as a simple and
6462s	Confessor which I assume we're going to
6464s	be tackling things but I'm looking
6465s	they're not doing that they're not
6467s	tackling at all they're just sitting in
6468s	the middle of the Arena just doing
6469s	something I don't know eating lunch or
6471s	something
6473s	yeah I was seeing some weird decisions
6474s	as well for me to the Shacks though
6475s	spooling up currently on a frigate is uh
6478s	uh Erica now
6479s	um whilst Crimson I believe is also
6482s	doing the exact same thing they're just
6483s	trying to focus down on a frigate rather
6484s	than ramping up their DPS on their
6486s	target which would actually matter
6488s	yeah the books that they're both moving
6490s	towards the British Navy Captain Shinken
6492s	but uh brother you are not catching that
6494s	another Shack not even Tula Shack she
6496s	couldn't even Corner him if you tried so
6498s	I get what they're trying for but they
6499s	need they should have been using their
6500s	professor in their simple as soon as
6502s	they're able to tackle things down you
6503s	can see actually this football uh was
6506s	tackling down the uh hyena and then
6508s	immediately died for his troubles
6512s	yeah this is surprising
6516s	sorry man just get caught at boys it's
6518s	nothing you can do about it confess it
6519s	goes pop now you just got two big
6521s	thickler Shacks unable to do anything in
6523s	this Arena well done well played
6526s	yeah I think it's worth noting that you
6528s	know Deepwater Horizon uh sorry
6530s	Deepwater hooligans are not a bad team
6532s	they executed incredibly well when they
6534s	were going through the theaters for this
6536s	tournament and um you know took out a
6538s	lot of good teams uh whilst they were on
6540s	their path to this at Birth but they
6544s	were just absolutely controlled the the
6547s	uh the tackle from paper numbers here
6549s	was just absolutely suffocating I don't
6551s	think they got a single match up where
6553s	any of their ships had an advantage
6555s	after the start of the match
6557s	yeah they put a lot of points and a lot
6559s	of their team in these Tula shacks and
6561s	honestly it's kind of similar to that uh
6562s	triple Battleship call where you've got
6564s	these really heavy good DPS newling
6566s	ships but then you can't get them on a
6568s	Target to do anything like the left
6570s	Shack actually is kind of in range of
6572s	this hyena and look at that these it
6574s	looks like a shooting iron just doesn't
6575s	care you can't apply please control
6577s	space ergonaut called uh please control
6579s	space
6581s	even if you did the uh the
6584s	the signature bonus on that hyena is
6586s	probably going to keep him safe which is
6588s	why Shield has not yet been breached on
6590s	an armor tank chip uh whilst Aaron Gaul
6593s	is going through the last final scraps
6595s	of a hole here
6596s	yeah an absolutely dominating Victory I
6599s	believe that's our first 10 100 zero of
6601s	the day it might not be potentially
6603s	because a crimson Serenity has now
6604s	Switched Off to go after the arbitrator
6606s	so he was actually not even trying on he
6608s	thought that was a bad idea so he might
6610s	get the arbitrator but yeah 100 zero
6612s	it's gonna be that no matter what I'm
6614s	just hoping
6617s	though because paper numbers decided
6619s	they didn't even need to bring their
6621s	full 100 points allowance to this match
6624s	that's a 99 Point comp there for paper
6627s	numbers the disrespect
6629s	yeah that's a good comp though it's I
6631s	like this it is
6633s	but a surprise surprise a matching paper
6634s	numbers where Ryerson did not use an mjd
6637s	this is incredible they're breaking new
6639s	ground and with that we'll go back to
6640s	studio and see what they think on this
6641s	one
6666s	oh
6687s	okay you guys are are looking at the
6690s	planets
6692s	control
6697s	help
6711s	kill the rats
6715s	relax
6716s	I'm gonna die dude I was yeah I was
6719s	yellow to these it's dead
6723s	they were white a second ago and then
6725s	they just got all angry dude
6730s	well looks like Deepwater Hooligans
6731s	forgot their water wings as they got
6733s	dismantled by paper numbers there
6736s	um only getting one point by paper
6738s	numbers just not bringing a full hundred
6740s	Point comp they only brought 99 9 19
6742s	points they're like okay so we need I'll
6743s	need to beat you and that turned out to
6745s	be in fact entirely correct uh mystical
6747s	Knight what happened there
6750s	effectively uh paper numbers brought a
6753s	bunch of medium weapon systems like
6755s	rails and presumably beams because they
6757s	were shooting quite far uh they coupled
6759s	that with a few Target painters and they
6761s	deleted the Deepwater Hooligans team
6764s	that is
6766s	it was it was quick it was good it was a
6769s	very efficient dismantling of a
6774s	maybe mid 30
6776s	okay yeah and we saw we saw a lot of use
6778s	there of Target painting
6781s	um and I believe we have a video we can
6783s	show you about the mechanical Target
6784s	painting mystical might take us through
6785s	it so what you want to be doing with the
6788s	target painter is you want to be using
6790s	it to bloom the signature on fairly
6792s	difficult to hit ships when you apply
6795s	the target pin to to your target what it
6797s	does is it makes the so the signature
6800s	radius is something that's used in the
6803s	code of Eve to determine how hard you're
6806s	going to hit a ship or whether you can
6807s	actually track a ship at all with your
6809s	guns it helps a little bit with missiles
6811s	as well and making it a little bit
6812s	easier there's a explosion radius and
6815s	tagged with missile so it's a little bit
6816s	easier to determine like how hard you'll
6818s	hit harder with the tracking formula
6821s	because that's
6822s	a mythical code thing it's it's math yes
6825s	but essentially what you can do in a
6828s	tournament setup is you can put it on
6829s	something like a logic frigate or on
6831s	demolishes for example and it will just
6833s	ensure that you'll be applying
6836s	maybe not full damage but really good
6838s	damage to a Target and if it's got low
6840s	ehp so small hit points then it's just
6843s	going to evaporate really quickly
6844s	awesome now you may have noticed we are
6846s	joined in the desk by none other than
6848s	CSP Swift CP Swift how are you today I
6851s	am doing great Alliance tournament is
6852s	one of my favorite things to do
6855s	um both as a player and a CCP here uh so
6858s	watching the teams explode and shoot
6859s	each other and also listening to kind of
6862s	like uh twitch chat a 10 out of 10.
6864s	they're always right I don't know how
6866s	they do it
6867s	I mean I'd love to know how to Twitch
6868s	that sometimes I get some of my takes
6870s	from twitch chat I mean I'm looking at
6872s	twitch chat right now to see if there's
6873s	any any fantastic tics in there
6876s	um at the moment people just uh people
6878s	just saying hello to you please be swift
6879s	people saying some some nice thing if
6881s	anyone has any uh some great hot takes
6883s	uh for me then we might see if we can
6884s	use them uh at the moment
6887s	um people just people say nice things
6888s	which is very very like normal twitch uh
6891s	honestly
6893s	always very nice a very mannered
6896s	positive gamers
6898s	one person saying Pop Tarts or ravioli
6900s	opinions
6902s	I don't I don't like that wow why not
6904s	both together no they're saying that Pop
6907s	Tarts are ravioli oh
6909s	I agree with that that's weird well
6911s	actually no I disagree unless the pop
6913s	tart is maybe like a pasta shell type
6915s	thing well that would just feel like
6916s	that would be ravioli then well maybe
6918s	he's onto something I don't know these
6920s	are the Deep cuts that we're looking for
6922s	in uh Alliance horn and commentary I
6924s	feel like using this logic train you
6925s	could then say like a cheese toasty is
6927s	ravioli
6928s	could you have like a sweet ravioli
6931s	I don't know would that be good do we
6933s	have any Italians on set I think they
6935s	just got offended and just left so yeah
6940s	it's ravioli still I'm incredibly
6943s	apologetic to our Italian viewers
6946s	um for this deep offense I believe that
6948s	we may be causing right now yeah no c2b
6951s	Swift
6952s	at CCP you're one of our wonderful
6954s	Community developers and one of the
6956s	things that you do a lot of work with is
6957s	the Council of Styler management the CSM
6960s	what is the CSM and what's happening
6962s	soon uh cool so it's hard to say it in
6965s	words real quickly but essentially the
6967s	CSM or a group of players that we at CCP
6970s	like speak with we give them an NDA we
6973s	show them all this cool stuff that we're
6975s	working on uh and we just kind of listen
6977s	to their feedback
6979s	some people think that the CSM get to
6981s	decide what CCB work on that's not quite
6984s	how it works uh we have a path that we
6986s	are going on the cesm just gets to kind
6989s	of move the till of the ship a little
6991s	bit
6992s	um and also provide really great
6993s	feedback uh stuff that players kind of
6995s	present sometimes they don't want to
6997s	present it to CCP or don't know how but
6999s	they do know like someone in their
7000s	Alliance or someone that they can kind
7002s	of see on the CSM they go up to them and
7004s	say hey this is an issue that like I'm
7006s	facing with gameplay I don't think it's
7008s	very good for the game here's like some
7010s	some pain points can you please show
7012s	this to CCP and they'll bring it to us
7014s	through their CSM and csm17 has been
7018s	incredibly powerful and Incredibly
7020s	useful as they usually are but part of
7023s	the reason that csm17 is different from
7025s	CSM 16 and 15 before that is because
7029s	there were term limits installed uh from
7032s	csm13 so basically we've got a whole
7034s	bunch of like fresh views fresh faces
7036s	and fresh areas of space that were being
7039s	represented uh now we're coming up with
7042s	elections for csm-18 the next CSM and
7045s	we've actually expanded the CSM because
7047s	they've been so great from 10 up to 12.
7051s	uh and kind of the elections are still
7053s	going to work very similarly so you'll
7055s	elect your top 10 and then from the next
7058s	10 so basically if you finish top 20 uh
7061s	CCP will uh kind of pick two members
7064s	that finished in the top 20 based on
7066s	what aligns with like the direction that
7068s	we're going for
7070s	um so this kind of gives us a little bit
7071s	more power to put players and candidates
7074s	who might be from underrepresented
7076s	groups but we still really want to hear
7077s	about them
7079s	um for example like lossec or pakven or
7081s	npsi or wormholes and stuff like that
7084s	historically wormholes haven't really
7086s	been able to get a candidate on the CSM
7089s	Mark resurrect this says change that but
7091s	that's kind of what that rule is in
7092s	place for and so we're super excited
7095s	voting begins soon right now candidates
7098s	are putting their applications in
7101s	so if you want to run for CSM
7103s	you can do it so if I was a capture
7105s	leader and Eve online going by the name
7107s	mystical Knight and I wanted to run for
7109s	CSM what would I do to be able to run
7110s	for TSM uh so you have to put in an
7113s	application
7113s	uh you don't need a passport anymore you
7116s	used to need a passport you just need
7117s	some sort of ID that says you can enter
7119s	into a legally binding contract
7121s	um and then you send that to us and then
7123s	we like we we Mash on the keyboard for a
7126s	little bit we're like oh this guy's
7127s	great uh and then we kind of you know
7130s	talk about you as a candidate and we're
7132s	like oh man this is what he would do on
7133s	the CSN would be so nice but even if it
7136s	isn't going to be nice we still say okay
7139s	now you can run and then you are allowed
7141s	to put in your uh campaign Forum Post
7145s	Run for the CSM and try and trick as
7147s	many caps layers to put you in the first
7149s	place spot as you can do naturally yeah
7152s	yeah yeah it's definitely that's
7154s	definitely the way forward now uh when
7156s	you talk about like uh people bringing
7158s	these pain points through the CSM to CCP
7160s	we were talking today about some some
7162s	good examples of this and you were
7163s	talking about like the recent faction
7164s	Warfare changes and before that the the
7166s	apocryphan changes talk to me a little
7169s	bit about that what happened there yeah
7170s	so um ever since Uprising we've been
7172s	kind of uh tinkering with uh factional
7174s	Warfare space uh the ecosystem's been
7176s	incredibly healthy but there are some
7178s	pain points that the players identified
7180s	uh such as like victory points The Meta
7183s	they were feeling was a little bit stale
7184s	they weren't you know they didn't kind
7186s	of um provide us the exact changes that
7189s	they wanted to make but all these groups
7191s	who are usually shooting each other came
7193s	together and said hey here's an issue
7195s	that's kind of bothering us here's
7197s	another one and they gave us this great
7198s	document and they reached out to us also
7201s	with through the CSM but also to us
7204s	directly and said hey you know we shoot
7206s	each other but this is what we think are
7208s	some issues and our designers were able
7211s	to kind of look at that and say oh this
7213s	is an issue cool we can we can make a
7215s	design an iterative change and that's
7217s	what we did last week so there were
7219s	about I don't know a dozen or so changes
7221s	uh to the faction Warfare ecosystem
7223s	based on that feedback and um yeah it's
7226s	been great so we're really really
7227s	excited whenever we get feedback like
7229s	that because that's something that we
7230s	can work with and that's something that
7232s	we can make changes with
7234s	awesome uh so we look forward to hearing
7236s	anything like that from from you guys
7237s	out there you know we we're all we are
7239s	always listening uh we'd love to hear uh
7241s	your suggestions uh a lot of them I mean
7243s	I've read a lot of your suggestions guys
7245s	a lot of them are really bad uh but the
7247s	good ones we will probably at least
7248s	consider now uh we have about five
7251s	minutes to go to our next match so let's
7253s	look at the bands uh for white squall
7255s	versus snuffed out
7258s	okay so white squirrel Banning out the
7259s	carries the curse the bar guest and the
7262s	Blackbird Blackbird already a super
7263s	popular band we see a lot of them and
7265s	snuffed out Banning out the balgorn the
7267s	Scimitar executive issue and the Osprey
7270s	Misty Banning the Scimitar and the
7271s	Osprey uh interesting
7273s	yeah I think it's a fairly interesting
7275s	take on the bands um it looks like
7277s	they're trying to weaken some of the
7278s	shield setups you still do have the
7280s	option to bring the Scythe which is the
7282s	tech one version of the Scimitar or the
7284s	Basilisk which is the tech 2 version of
7286s	the Osprey but it also looks like
7288s	they're trying to weaken some of the
7289s	armor setups they might go up against
7290s	I've advocated for Banning the exact
7293s	Navy multiple times today already it is
7296s	one of the ships that has been reduced
7298s	due to the gallante sponsorship of the
7300s	tournament which means that instead of
7302s	it costing the same price as any other
7304s	Navy Cruiser it costs I believe one less
7307s	point so you can bring more of them
7310s	so it's and it's also an incredibly
7313s	strong ship due to the fact that it has
7315s	the medium rail weapon system that
7317s	applies fairly well to some of the
7318s	smaller ships that we've been seeing in
7319s	the tournament so far on the other side
7322s	I would say that the curse and the
7323s	Blackbird are just standard bands so
7325s	yeah I mean the crash is such a popular
7327s	uh weapons disruption platform it gets
7330s	uh usually be seen with either game
7331s	disruptors or Dragon disruptions
7333s	sometimes times both it just depends
7335s	like how confident you are that you can
7337s	you know trick someone into bringing a
7338s	full missile comp and you you just Stack
7340s	Up on guidance disruptors other times
7342s	you won't maybe hedge your bets you
7344s	bring a little bit of both uh I mean if
7346s	you're trying to fill the team uh Misty
7348s	how do you decide like how many of each
7350s	are you going to bring
7351s	when it comes to trying to decide
7353s	between the split of track and
7355s	disruptors and guidance disruptors that
7356s	you bring to a field you have to take
7358s	into account the bands um that are laid
7360s	out so you know if a lot of these strong
7363s	uh missile ships are banned then you're
7365s	probably less likely to see missile
7367s	ships brought against you so you don't
7369s	need to skew towards guidance disruptors
7371s	that much especially with the changes to
7373s	evil being only allowed on ships with
7376s	bonus ewar we're also less likely to see
7379s	things like jackdaw sitting at the edge
7381s	of the arena with track and disrupters
7382s	so you don't need to have the one or two
7384s	GDs to lower their range and protect
7386s	some of your smaller ships
7387s	however I think screwing too far towards
7390s	a track and disruptor or a guidance
7392s	disruptor heavy comp means that you're
7394s	basically gambling and while snuffed out
7396s	did win the glente gamble to get into
7398s	the tournament I wouldn't advocate for
7400s	gambling your entire tournament run on
7402s	I'm just not going to bring any of this
7404s	disruption because that's a great way to
7407s	sit on the grid and have some of your
7408s	fleetmates just do nothing while their
7410s	entire team gets ripped apart so yep
7412s	look at the bands think about what
7414s	people have fielded historically but
7416s	still bring a couple of the other
7419s	guidance disruptors if you have the
7421s	slots for them which is a little bit
7422s	harder now that we have equal limited to
7424s	burnerships only
7426s	um because it still protects you and
7428s	they're still likely to be one or two
7429s	that you can focus on because one of the
7431s	things about ewar like uh ECM track and
7434s	disruptions guidance disruptions
7436s	anything like that is the more of the
7438s	enemy ships that you take down over the
7439s	course of the match the more powerful
7441s	Euro ewar becomes because there's less
7443s	targets for it to be split across so if
7445s	you start with maybe four targets and
7447s	you're for tracking disruptions and then
7449s	two of them are are dead you can now get
7452s	two on each I know that sounds pretty
7454s	obvious it can really start to make a
7456s	match snowball
7457s	um and you see that's not to happen
7458s	where they just really start to just it
7460s	starts to go and then it just goes
7462s	really quickly all the way to the other
7463s	side but I do believe we are ready to
7465s	head over to the arena for white scroll
7468s	white squall vs snuffed out with your
7470s	casters foo fighter and the Basilisk
7481s	welcome back to the arena my name is
7482s	kirvana joined by the Basilisk and on
7485s	the red side we have white squall who
7489s	have brought pseudo Dad up against one
7490s	on the blue side knocked out who have
7493s	also brought a kind of weird pseudo dad
7495s	but I think their adaptation here is one
7496s	that I like when they come up against
7497s	this arbitrator they come against the
7499s	battle cruises and they say we're going
7500s	to bring a bunch of damps with these two
7502s	celestances backed up with an aerial
7503s	store hopefully be able to keep them
7504s	alive
7505s	um so I think I prefer snapped out
7507s	slight variation here let's see how it
7509s	goes I mean this is this is going to be
7510s	a very a very interesting and I think
7513s	target calling Focus match you know
7514s	whichever team has the more experience
7515s	and can call the right targets when
7517s	you're up against two comps that are
7518s	very very similar knowing what you need
7520s	to take down in what order is very very
7521s	important and it's going to come down to
7523s	you know who they're going to have
7524s	similar DPS similar tanks and other this
7526s	that and the other
7527s	um so yeah it's going to come down to
7528s	making sure they get those Target calls
7530s	right the first time
7531s	yeah double celestis versus an
7533s	arbitrator they've also got a sentinel
7534s	on the side of snuffed out and really
7537s	they don't have anything uh from white
7539s	squall that's going to mitigate that
7541s	Sentinel
7542s	well teams starting out I mean they've
7544s	got similar ranges similar engagement
7546s	profiles I assume they're going to go
7547s	straight for the low end and in fact uh
7549s	snuffed out going straight to this Hound
7551s	not a ship we see all that often uh
7554s	basically since the days of of Tinker we
7556s	haven't seen a whole lot in the way of
7557s	uh in the way of bombers in the at but
7561s	uh still ship that's not gonna apply
7563s	damage very well but still has quite a
7565s	bit for a ship that's only worth three
7567s	points yeah it does a decent amount of
7569s	damage but I have to question why you
7570s	would bring a Hound instead of a
7571s	purifier here the only thing I can think
7573s	of is you know they're concerned about
7575s	two too much of a homogenous damage
7576s	profile when they've already opened the
7577s	Navy Harbinger the Navy Omen and the
7579s	harbinger so they don't want to index
7581s	too much into em damage but from my
7584s	theory crafting my opinion is that the
7585s	purifier is basically in an armor comp
7587s	just better in every way than the Hound
7588s	there's there's no way to make the Hound
7590s	as tanky as the purifier
7592s	um you have to sacrifice quite a lot on
7593s	the Hound it's just a little bit short
7594s	on power grid so it's an interesting
7595s	choice here they've gone to go for him
7596s	but he has actually just tanked here
7598s	he's not actually broken through Shield
7600s	um still a very slow match from both
7601s	these teams
7603s	yeah we see uh
7605s	snuffed out actually I'm in trouble
7607s	killing this Brooks Navy this year they
7609s	swapped onto the harbinger Navy issue as
7610s	well I will say the attack bar is a
7612s	little bit bigger uh from the side of
7615s	white squall so that does help them a
7617s	bit uh I think really what's going to
7619s	happen is take a look at the logic of
7621s	this game both teams have a neuros logic
7623s	which is very difficult to deal with
7625s	when both these comps have opted for a
7626s	little bit extra e-war compared to the
7628s	typical student setup that we have seen
7631s	yeah it may just come down to whittling
7633s	down with cap charges and waiting for
7634s	the cap pressure
7635s	um or it may come down to one of the
7636s	nearest is getting tackled
7638s	um but I think with the amount of
7639s	disruption that's on the field it's
7640s	going to be it's going to continue to be
7642s	a fairly slow match as long as both
7643s	these seams just sit here and and you
7645s	know posture at each other but don't
7646s	make any outright aggressive moves or
7648s	charges in um it's just going to be the
7650s	logic you know doing what they need to
7651s	do and wrapping up a little bits of
7653s	damage that come through
7654s	yeah and the arbitrary has been
7656s	completely nullified by these
7657s	celestances we see no truck interceptors
7659s	going on to snap that at all so they're
7661s	gonna have as much damage as they can
7663s	apply uh reasonably without any
7665s	disruption on their guns but they just
7667s	can't get very close but these teams
7668s	kind of staying around 50 kilometers
7669s	away from each other poking and prodding
7671s	unfortunately for both the teams I think
7673s	you do need to burn in eventually if you
7675s	want to break lodgy the Sentinel of your
7677s	Millennium uh now being taken down a
7680s	little bit Low by the side of white
7682s	skull but it is finally caught by the
7684s	ineros so they're not going to kill that
7686s	I mean if you look at the scoreboard
7688s	white school are actually in a one-nil
7689s	lead here from it from snuffed out only
7691s	bringing 99 points so if I'm white
7693s	school I'm actually saying yeah okay
7695s	we're fine you know let's chill let's
7696s	see what happens let's run it to time
7698s	you know they the onus is on them to
7700s	make the first move both these teams are
7701s	clearly willing to play it slow they
7703s	know that they are you know set up for
7704s	range DPS they've got fairly similar
7706s	comps if you've got a one-point lead and
7708s	you think the other team might be forced
7709s	into making a mistake to try and right
7711s	that wrong as they perceive it then yeah
7714s	power to you do it
7716s	out versus sooner or not I feel like you
7718s	kind of got to play like a shield Rush
7719s	matchup though just go in at zero and
7721s	make efficient trades this kind of like
7723s	poking a product at long range I mean
7725s	you're using longer range ammo it
7727s	doesn't do as much TPS you're dealing
7728s	with on an Eros uh who's gonna be able
7730s	to rep up that amount of DPS especially
7733s	because once again both these teams have
7734s	brought uh quite a bit in the way the
7736s	war Cruisers uh so they're missing out
7738s	on a DPS Cruiser and a comp that's
7740s	supposed to have a DPF ships typically
7743s	uh in fact in snuffed out the case they
7745s	brought two uh e-war Cruisers so that's
7747s	double that they finally have a bit of
7750s	damage onto this harboring or navy
7751s	issues it looks like snuffed out are
7753s	finally burning in uh to krapotkin Peter
7756s	at the moment he's down to half armor
7759s	remaining and the ineros hasn't quite
7760s	caught up to him yet uh the ineros is
7763s	not being targeted by this e-war at the
7765s	moment but he is not able to deal with
7768s	the close range damage that snuffed out
7770s	of bringing at the moment this is the
7772s	attack from snuffed hair this Vengeance
7773s	of lateral is charged angle scram and
7775s	webble Miss harbingers you're saying
7776s	reportkin is going into low armor here
7777s	with now the full night of these snuffed
7779s	out guns bearing down on him he's not
7781s	going to be able to keep this up this is
7782s	going to be very difficult in this
7783s	Harbinger Navy Republican is going to go
7785s	down are they going to be able to get
7786s	anything in return can they get tackle
7787s	near us they've tried to web off this
7788s	Vengeance and stop him tackling down the
7791s	harbinger but it's not going to be
7791s	enough obviously the vengeance is going
7793s	to be a very very sticky Target to get
7794s	off him once he's once he's on and he
7795s	goes into Hull krapoken into Hull
7797s	yeah he's not getting any reps right now
7799s	we see uh lots of the damn pressure
7801s	going on to yabi in the oniros and
7805s	finally with uh krapokkin Peter going
7808s	down this does leave snuff out with the
7810s	uh same size attack bar but still much
7812s	more control and much more ehp available
7815s	to them there are maybe Omen as well as
7817s	Slim Jim Tim who has been webbed by the
7820s	Vengeance as well who did not die to the
7821s	initial volleys that came in from white
7824s	squall yeah that was a very nice switch
7826s	and push from snuffed out there at the
7828s	same time coordinating the movement of
7830s	the Vengeance going in to grab something
7831s	with the damps onto the an arrow
7832s	stopping them from getting reps and
7833s	being able to punch through him before
7834s	those reps can land they are going to do
7836s	the same sort of trick on the Navy
7837s	Airmen of slim jim he is featuring on
7839s	the edge in Hull here probably going to
7841s	go down very shortly and the aniros will
7843s	probably be the target after that yabby
7844s	in the nearest scrambling webbed down so
7846s	he is primed for the picking here
7850s	yeah I mean it's
7852s	enough to out pulled the trigger and
7854s	they just had uh the better option when
7856s	they finally did they're also getting
7858s	some damage on the spitball of Hillary
7859s	uh kenned
7861s	um
7862s	really they just have their pick of the
7863s	litter now that they've devolved into a
7866s	brawl and they are just stronger at the
7870s	moment in terms of raw DPS we see their
7871s	attack bar has not changed at all
7872s	meanwhile the attack bar uh from white
7875s	squall keeps getting smaller and smaller
7877s	and smaller and once the simple goes
7878s	down it's going to be smaller again so
7880s	it does 500 DPS unheated uh 600 DPS
7883s	heated uh if it's Shield fit does a bit
7885s	less of its armor fit simple goes down
7887s	they can now maybe focus on another
7888s	sound maybe go on to one of the larger
7890s	ships they have their picket of litter
7891s	really
7893s	yeah it's going to be a slow bleed out
7895s	from here for white school
7896s	um yeah as you say snuffed out just
7898s	pulled the trigger very very effectively
7899s	managed to communicate there's different
7900s	elements of their comp and yeah well
7901s	execute to switch those damps across I
7903s	like this adaptation of the comp here
7905s	bringing these two damp chips seeing
7906s	that the white school band The carries
7908s	and said well you know they've zoned in
7910s	on that and said you don't want to see
7911s	damps we can we can work with this we
7913s	can we can work some celestances in here
7915s	and yeah a good choice for a good comp
7918s	adaptation to the bands coming out and
7919s	and encouraging for their route forward
7921s	for sure
7923s	yeah this is the team that made it in
7924s	through the gallante gamble I will uh
7926s	also point out that last year
7929s	um the team that made it in through the
7931s	last chance to qualifier in feeders I
7934s	believe that was Odin's call ended up
7936s	playing uh to second place in the
7938s	alliance tournament uh so we'll see how
7940s	well snapped out does with those extra
7942s	matches and feeders uh that said they're
7944s	under this arbitrator of dab statsarik
7947s	should be an easier Target to kill than
7949s	the Hound just because the bomber seg
7950s	radius is so small they also have a bit
7952s	of damage onto the Confessor of uh hey
7956s	I have no idea how to pronounce that
7957s	yeah
7959s	the average Tiger goes down and uh just
7962s	working on the low end as you do instead
7964s	or Dad yeah I'm a little bit surprised
7965s	they didn't go through the nearest but I
7967s	mean if they've got him scrammed they've
7968s	got them held there and they're punching
7969s	through the small the slow end just fine
7970s	you know they're killing off the slip or
7971s	the arbitrator
7972s	you know why not keep doing it if it
7974s	ain't broke don't fix it and they're
7976s	clearly making progress in the match not
7977s	really losing anything infinitas you
7979s	know going to be saying there's not much
7980s	damage coming in they're all damped out
7982s	obviously as we said at the start of the
7983s	match as the e-board gets more and more
7985s	concentrated it becomes more and more
7986s	difficult than Navy brutics the Estates
7988s	probably having great difficulty
7989s	actually locking anything at all here so
7991s	you know just take the three kills take
7992s	clean up slowly methodically and you
7995s	know cleanly no need to try and make any
7997s	rash decisions try and maybe you know
8000s	burst through the nearest local tank
8002s	just
8003s	keep bumping DPS get get off the hand
8005s	get rid of this vipple
8006s	I have spot DPS between the hound and
8008s	the verdicts Navy issue which is keeping
8010s	yabby and the ineros Very occupied right
8012s	now he was able to get half the armor HP
8015s	back of Ram uh gadreen
8018s	um earlier on but he is losing his
8020s	Britax Navy of a lieutenant alter who is
8024s	now in a structure some damage going on
8026s	this Vegas and the Sentinel view
8027s	Millennium actually hitting structure as
8029s	well so this won't be a completely clean
8031s	uh match from snuffed out but they have
8034s	snowballed sufficiently and I wouldn't
8035s	be surprised if they're able to keep the
8036s	Sentinel up and they do an Eros and
8039s	finitos doing very well in this instance
8042s	yeah and at this point for snuffed out
8044s	the alliance tournament this year at
8045s	least has been a success I mean they won
8047s	40 skins through their run through the
8049s	feeders from four wins there they get
8051s	another win today that's another 10
8052s	skins 50 wins for the team they haven't
8054s	risked their Flagship they've lost some
8056s	ships on Thunderdome they're free
8057s	they've lost no ships here on
8058s	Tranquility so you know it's all profit
8061s	margin for snuff so far and props to
8063s	them for for coming in strong at the
8064s	start
8066s	Confessor going down as well
8069s	and it's just an a star day and an Eros
8071s	and Harbinger I mean clean Victory from
8073s	snuffed out uh that's what we want to
8075s	see in a lot of these mere matchups is
8077s	uh if the team has the cleaner Victory
8079s	they obviously uh uh make a strong case
8084s	for themselves moving further in the
8085s	tournament especially because we've been
8087s	seeing a lot of pseudo dad today they're
8089s	finally onto this harbringer of Carl to
8091s	zash and I think they're just going to
8092s	ignore the ineros for now kill the
8094s	harbinger kill their start eye and then
8095s	finally the neros maybe not times 34
8098s	seconds remaining so we might not even
8100s	uh get to full wipe before the end of
8103s	the match yeah I think the ineros May
8105s	well be muted out by this point with The
8106s	Descent long grid
8108s	um you know just pumping us into the
8109s	Navy Olga as well and it's gonna be very
8111s	difficult for him to really keep
8112s	anything alive that Eeyore is going to
8113s	be so overwhelming and yeah it's just
8115s	gonna be a a quick wipe up here for
8117s	these last 20 seconds of the match for
8118s	snuff that will be able to celebrate
8119s	their Britain but what does this mean
8120s	for white school I mean they are going
8122s	to have to go up against the loser Brave
8124s	Collective your own team versus White
8125s	Flag which is coming up next
8127s	um that's going to be a pretty dangerous
8128s	position for them I think yeah
8130s	yeah I think Brave uh if they lose that
8133s	they were a top uh 12 team last year uh
8136s	made two and two uh two through the
8139s	upper bracket two through lower bracket
8141s	so uh can be quite scary for white
8143s	squall at the same time if White Flag
8145s	ended up getting upset by Brave
8146s	Collective uh it would mean they're up
8149s	against what a lot of people have said
8151s	is the number two team in the tournament
8152s	as they are hydra's practice partners
8154s	with that though we're gonna take a
8156s	quick break when we return the desk will
8158s	break down that match and bring us into
8159s	the next one
8172s	oh
8212s	foreign
8246s	with a commanding victory over white
8249s	squall mystical might we were watching
8252s	that match it looked kind of a bit
8254s	stalematey at the start we were actually
8256s	questioning is it going to happen is the
8258s	team going to win a match without
8259s	killing a single ship is a team going to
8261s	lose a match they're killing a single
8263s	ship by virtue of Simply Having one team
8265s	bring a 99 point com but that does not
8266s	be that's what I ended up however during
8268s	that match
8269s	we were taking notes and you as a note
8272s	to my note sheets and it just says basm
8275s	is wrong yeah can you please elaborate
8277s	uh so I disagree that the purify would
8281s	have been a better choice as a bomber in
8282s	that match one of the things that we
8284s	need to consider is that damps are going
8286s	to be more prevalent in this tournament
8287s	alongside you know track Interrupters
8288s	all that kind of stuff and with the
8290s	Hound I believe you get an additional
8292s	Med slot over a purifier which means
8294s	that you're able to bring more in the
8296s	way of things like remote eccm if you're
8299s	going up against jams remote lock range
8301s	or scan res depending on whether you're
8303s	being damped by you know scammers damps
8306s	or lock range damps from the celestees
8308s	that we saw on grid and also importantly
8310s	it allows you to bring one of those
8311s	Target painters that we just spoke about
8313s	which allows you to apply your damage
8315s	more effectively to smaller targets so I
8318s	I think the Hound is a fairly decent
8319s	choice I know Baza did mention that the
8322s	Hound also allows you to bring
8323s	explosively bonus damage to a comp where
8326s	a lot of your damage is tied to Thermal
8328s	because of the railguns and the lasers
8329s	but also em as well a little bit of
8332s	kinetic so explosive is really one of
8334s	the damage types that they didn't have
8336s	much of and I think that filled the hole
8338s	quite nicely awesome now CCP Swift
8340s	during that match I mean this is just
8342s	taking on from most people talking about
8343s	all the different damage types you were
8344s	just commenting how good all the
8346s	different damage effects are on the
8347s	missiles talk to a little bit about that
8349s	what's new yeah so with the Viridian we
8352s	changed a few things with missile
8354s	effects in game so when you are firing
8357s	for example mjolnir missiles you can see
8360s	those blue explosions and it's really
8362s	the the teams that are responsible for
8365s	this are really trying to make it so
8366s	we're not just making visual changes for
8368s	the sake of changes right we're doing it
8370s	so you can learn a little bit of more
8372s	information based on like how these
8374s	explosions go so you might be seeing
8376s	like oh there's some red explosions over
8378s	here there's some blue explosions over
8379s	here but now you know like what damage
8382s	type these people are firing their
8383s	missiles for uh you know like oh maybe I
8386s	have to overheat my thermal hardener if
8387s	they're shooting thermal at me without
8389s	trying to like look at the damage log
8391s	and just try and like hyper focus on it
8393s	so it's a really nice way to you know
8396s	just get better at the game by looking
8397s	at the game of course it has a lot of
8399s	color to the universe as well uh we see
8401s	even more color coming in uh with the
8403s	skinner too uh I think it was three
8405s	minutes 14 seconds from when that
8407s	launched until we had our first pink
8408s	structure in space I believe the Holy
8410s	Roman Empire uh Mark resurrect is his
8413s	Corp they had a pink fortizarre in just
8415s	over three minutes which is uh I guess
8417s	we should have expected that yeah pretty
8419s	much
8421s	it looks like when you travel through
8423s	space you see so many like pink uh keep
8425s	Stars pink Ford is ours of course the
8428s	players would just pick pink for
8429s	everything yeah of course now we can uh
8432s	we can actually look at one of our
8433s	graphs right now so we have this kill
8435s	chart which is going to show us the top
8437s	10 battle Cruisers in Alliance
8439s	tournament uh this goes back all the way
8441s	to Alliance tournament seven this is
8443s	individual fieldings of those battle
8445s	Cruisers so we can see the top one the
8447s	slept near by far uh almost 700 Slackers
8451s	have been fielded in the livestream
8452s	matches the second one I probably
8453s	wouldn't have guessed that myself but
8455s	it's the EOS it's a chunk darn from the
8457s	slept near but that's still a
8458s	criticizable amount of them I guess of
8460s	course the business years where drone
8462s	comps were super popular and it's a
8463s	super valuable ship for that but then
8465s	the British Navy issue and then the
8467s	British starting to really like Chase up
8468s	uh into the top four as well Mr Kumai
8471s	anything else can I jump out at you here
8472s	I actually
8474s	quite like seeing the damnation down
8475s	towards low rent I mean it's one of the
8479s	command ships that isn't really known
8481s	for doing a lot of damage but it is just
8484s	a brick so it's like just the chicken
8486s	that sits on top of you and you can't
8487s	move it tackles you down it plinks away
8490s	at you with its damage but it's not
8491s	going to be like breaking your tank
8493s	alone probably
8494s	um so I think it's quite nice to see
8495s	that up in there
8497s	um but the Britax Navy being so high up
8498s	already before we go into a galente
8501s	sponsored tournament where
8503s	galante Navy ships are going to be a
8505s	point reduced compared to their
8507s	counterparts I think we're going to see
8509s	that bar Surge and maybe overtake the
8511s	eels you know the slept near is
8513s	definitely one of the sort of iconic
8515s	ships of Alliance tournament over the
8516s	years It's featured in in many comps
8518s	like uh fly killer for example it's
8520s	basically built around the slept near
8522s	and if you go back long time ago it was
8525s	pretty much the the hull people would
8527s	associate with Alliance especially back
8529s	in the days
8531s	um Elise Randolph when you were playing
8533s	a part of a part of course part of
8535s	pandemic Legion there uh the slept near
8537s	was a super super powerful ship still is
8539s	we still see it being used all the time
8540s	but just not quite as often as uh as we
8543s	used to yeah there's a lot more parity
8545s	in those Hills uh recently we've seen
8548s	like the Resurgence of the Nighthawk uh
8550s	you were talking about the damnation
8551s	like it paired really well with the
8554s	sacrilege uh thing we just couldn't kill
8556s	anything and these guys would slowly
8558s	pick you apart
8559s	um yeah EOS as you mentioned uh during
8562s	that everyone's favorite uh drone era
8566s	where you just dropped drones run around
8567s	the arena and hope you don't get caught
8569s	and then every once in a while you make
8571s	a turn and then all the drones hit and
8572s	explode like a linchpin and then the
8574s	game game's over yeah that was even
8576s	worse when you had one drone bunny who
8577s	so you just as a player you just
8579s	undocked and just burned around you
8580s	didn't even have to lock people and
8581s	press F someone did that for you so I
8584s	I'm glad that the Drone meta has
8586s	slightly passed us on now
8588s	um we have just a couple of minutes
8589s	until our next match which is brave
8591s	Collective versus White Flag so let's
8593s	take a look at the bands for these two
8594s	teams and see what they have chosen to
8596s	avoid facing here in the last term at
8598s	19. any moment now we shall look at the
8600s	bands here we are okay so brave
8602s	Collective Banning out the executive
8603s	Navy issue already becoming a staple
8605s	band as is the Blackbird nothing
8607s	surprising they're sentinelawn carries
8608s	again I feel that's not super unexpected
8611s	powerful e-warships for a little amount
8613s	of points White Flag going for the
8615s	Ishtar the Armageddon the Bargas and the
8617s	curse curse mystery you spoke about that
8619s	before what do you think about the other
8620s	three bands uh the Ishtar I think is a
8623s	fairly wild one to throw out there I
8625s	don't think we've really seen any drone
8627s	comps fielded much at all so far in the
8629s	tournament I mean we're only so many
8631s	matches in but most people are screwing
8633s	towards just like lots of medium guns so
8635s	the Ishtar is a strange ban I guess it
8638s	does offer you a little bit in the way
8640s	of heavy tackle that's fairly difficult
8642s	to dislodge but if you were Banning out
8644s	a drone comp you might want to ban the
8646s	EOS for example or you know vax navies
8649s	or something that's a little bit harder
8651s	to replace because there's no like for
8653s	like ship that you can replace it with I
8655s	think the itch does fairly replaceable
8656s	the bar guest band is also fairly
8659s	interesting I can't quite remember what
8660s	was picked for the brave collective's
8662s	flagship
8666s	so if it's not the bar guest it means
8669s	that they can't feel well guess at all
8670s	see Armageddon Navy issue interesting
8673s	which is unbanned
8674s	I mean so a thing with the flagships is
8677s	that if for example with Armageddon Navy
8679s	issue were banned in this case they
8682s	would still be able to fill their
8683s	Flagship Armageddon Navy issue because
8685s	it can be used to circumvent bands
8688s	um which is why I was asking whether the
8689s	barges was what their Flagship so I
8692s	guess it just limits their choices I
8694s	don't know why they banned the
8695s	Armageddon
8696s	that seems like a fairly strange one as
8699s	well it's annoying to get new
8700s	today just it looks like they went
8702s	through the strategy of banned stuff
8703s	that's annoying to fly against yeah
8706s	but I don't know if it's necessarily a
8708s	ship that would prevent you from winning
8710s	a match so I don't know I mean we'll see
8713s	maybe they were practice Partners at
8714s	some point and they know what each side
8715s	can bring or maybe they've just been
8717s	traumatized in their own practices
8718s	against Armageddon and ishtars for some
8721s	reason I believe again does get a newt
8724s	range bonus so it's one of the longer
8726s	ranged uh Newton chips that you can
8728s	field of course the curse if you go full
8730s	Meme and stick a large Neutron that you
8732s	can mute out to like 80 kilometers of
8734s	course you you die if anyone even looks
8736s	at you the wrong way because you have to
8738s	sacrifice everything else to fetch your
8740s	one meme mute on it but it's kind of
8742s	cool I guess uh well I guess it's time
8744s	to find out as we head over to the arena
8745s	with the casters Wagner cross and yentan
8753s	hello everyone and welcome to this match
8756s	and we are about to see a brave
8758s	Collective go up against White Flag here
8760s	two relatively good teams this is a
8763s	match that we normally expect to see
8764s	much much later on in the brackets but
8765s	we're getting curated to it day one and
8768s	we have Brave Collective here in a I'm
8771s	not entirely sure what that composition
8773s	is uh but what have white flag brought
8775s	here uh for a swing nut they've brought
8777s	one of my favorite comments to shout out
8779s	because they brought Boom headshot I
8781s	love it so much they've got four ships
8783s	all with artillery and all it takes is
8785s	one lucky volley and a ship gets
8786s	obliterated with brave kind of bringing
8789s	I don't know armor I guess is the word
8792s	entire little bit of control with the
8794s	Army in the celestes but I really feel
8795s	it's not going to do much against this
8796s	Con match underway it looks like a
8799s	slower version of the pseudo dad setup
8801s	and that novel is taking a pounding but
8803s	his ADC has been clicked he's gonna
8806s	probably live through that he just needs
8807s	to get a bit of transversal and be able
8808s	to survive and the rest of the Brave
8811s	comp here is pushing in so it looks like
8812s	they want a brawl they need to be
8813s	utilizing those Cruisers to lock some
8815s	things down those Old Navy is going to
8817s	be critical here and it looks like a
8819s	white flag have noticed that pounding
8820s	DPS right back into bracus there what do
8823s	you think uh they should be focusing on
8825s	tackling down here from the White Flag
8826s	team
8828s	uh sleigh I don't know because it's very
8831s	much gonna be much of a game of catch
8833s	something I don't really care what it is
8835s	to begin with but catch something first
8836s	and then decide what to do from that
8838s	point onwards because at the moment they
8839s	kind of need to go do that because
8840s	otherwise they're just going to be kind
8842s	of shot to hell to be fair though
8843s	they're organized their their battle
8845s	Cruisers pretty tanky stuff so is the
8847s	guardian and they're supporting the
8849s	noble Avengers pretty tanky is what I
8850s	think the weak spots here might be the
8852s	ones that get obliterated is the RB and
8853s	the celestis they T1 resists and a lot
8856s	of volley from these battle Cruisers
8857s	could really remove them but that'd be
8858s	said the vengeance is being shot rather
8860s	hard right now
8861s	yeah both of these frigates are doing a
8863s	good job though they're staying behind
8864s	the main the front line of those Old
8866s	Navies they're making sure they have the
8867s	ability to pull back into the guardian
8869s	whenever they start getting shot and
8871s	also that crucifies taking a ton of
8872s	damage now finally the uh the pseudonym
8874s	nature of this setup just working really
8876s	in their favor the crucifier is going to
8878s	slowly get a bit more yeah getting his
8880s	transversal up reducing the amount of
8882s	DPS that can be applied but that was a
8884s	great little swap there keeping white
8885s	flag on their toes it's gonna be a
8887s	positional game
8888s	all it needs is for one team to set to
8891s	mess up all it needs is one of these
8892s	frigates to not have transversion for
8894s	long enough or one of these battle
8895s	Cruisers from White Flag to get caught
8897s	and things will turn instantly
8900s	yeah and uh well one of the great parts
8902s	around is what Tim Baron is going to do
8903s	some amazing work you're trying to keep
8904s	his team alive especially because these
8906s	were the crucifying the Moors not much
8908s	buffer to play with there you're really
8909s	going to be on the ball with that and at
8911s	the moment he's doing well the chrisfire
8912s	is holding he drops the three oh he
8913s	drops in the armor some damage coming in
8915s	the venture's now going into low armor
8917s	as well these might just go
8921s	there we go
8924s	no that's not good we're gonna get the
8926s	crucifier and trade but OJ Deeds the
8929s	crucified MJ deed away from the DPS
8931s	amazing little play there from Monkey
8933s	onlin enough to keep him alive for just
8936s	a little bit longer in this game and
8938s	meanwhile they've only got one frigate
8939s	now the nurkaline he just gets you why
8941s	are you say that why'd you say that
8943s	why'd you say they're gonna frigate they
8945s	heard you
8947s	oh my God that's the power of artillery
8950s	ladies and gentlemen Boom headshot two
8952s	ships gone took him a little while to
8953s	get to it now Chris fire is still alive
8955s	and now it's the only thing is now it's
8957s	pretty chunky stuff but I think the
8958s	obvious lessons might tend to still be
8960s	the right cool but who do I what do I
8961s	know these guys are doing way better
8962s	than I can say
8964s	Absolution okay
8965s	yeah it's not it's not close to game
8967s	over yet but now it's going to be really
8969s	really difficult like I said it's down
8970s	to just these two organ AV issues the
8972s	only things that can potentially land on
8975s	one of those slept nears and lock them
8976s	down and they need to do that at this
8978s	point they need to take some of this
8980s	long range DPS off the field or they're
8981s	not going to survive look at dujac now
8983s	in about half HP there's probably a bit
8985s	of bait tank in there there's a there's
8987s	no reason to wrap him up until he gets
8988s	relatively low although Ali Aras is also
8990s	taking DPS look at that it doesn't look
8992s	like they're quite on top of her yet but
8994s	they are getting close and that is gonna
8996s	be terrifying they're just pulling
8998s	around the back line and without no
8999s	frigates to threaten it oh no
9002s	the point is about the sheer amount of
9004s	ECM drones currently on the Absolution
9006s	of do Jack I'm seeing at least three
9009s	maybe four flats of hornets on it I've
9011s	lived that hell do Jack I feel your pain
9014s	through and through the garden goes pop
9017s	and at this point they're going to get
9018s	picked apart really aggressive they
9020s	haven't caught anything they're being
9021s	kited unless they pull a miracle out of
9024s	their hat I fortunately I think this is
9026s	gonna go Only One Direction
9028s	yeah all the rep Bots just left on
9030s	xandar who was taking you know some DPS
9032s	I guess
9033s	um not swapped over to Ali Harris quick
9035s	enough and that alone just let her die
9037s	unfortunately
9039s	great Logistics pilot but just not quite
9041s	able to run away from the sheer levels
9043s	of long-range DPS that uh hoodie Mafia
9046s	and the rest of the White Flag gang have
9047s	brought to the grid here
9050s	I'm trying
9051s	to way around this for this team they're
9053s	not really fast enough to catch anything
9054s	and they're not really being able to
9056s	kill anything either because they're
9056s	being uh just Kylie entire way through
9058s	maybe an mjd player could maybe adjust
9061s	this board a bit but I feel like this
9063s	was going to kind of go the same way at
9064s	least on wallpaper if dread pirate
9066s	Roberts could intercept on
9069s	uh the sleptner hoodie Mafia maybe but
9071s	he would have had to start moving in
9072s	that direction a good while ago they are
9075s	going to eventually catch the hurricane
9076s	Fleet issue of grunt Cato here it looks
9078s	like but it's not going to be enough now
9080s	at this point that they're just not they
9082s	don't have enough DPS left on the grid
9084s	to start burning through all this ehp
9085s	especially as the arbitrator and the
9087s	celesters get taken off the grid yeah
9089s	even if they're at the BPS unfortunately
9091s	it's just going to be like a losing race
9092s	the Osprey will keep repping as hard as
9094s	possible to keep the hurricane flee up
9095s	just for long enough whereas their team
9097s	has lost their logic all they can do is
9099s	basically just rely on the experi
9101s	arbitrator they can't
9103s	yeah we were uh we were both serenaded
9106s	by the Lamentations of fear weiner in
9109s	the moments leading up to this match
9111s	um we can only hope that he has uh
9114s	survived watching this with his sanity
9116s	interactors Brave now just gets slowly
9118s	picked apart here
9120s	the trick is to never be sane to begin
9122s	with but they've gotten some damage on
9124s	the Osprey but uh unfortunately he is
9126s	also a billion trillion miles away from
9128s	every single Target this team initially
9130s	the um White Flag team was sticking
9132s	together kind of moving as a group but
9133s	now at this point the scale themselves a
9135s	little bit because it doesn't really
9136s	matter anymore they can kind of move
9138s	into different spots and sit where they
9139s	want to sit
9140s	there's literally nothing they can do
9141s	about it
9143s	yeah and plus they're flying a Max
9145s	threat team that doesn't have the
9147s	maximum amount of threats you know I've
9149s	never been a fan of the uh the mixing of
9151s	those two archetypes if you're bringing
9153s	the maximum amount of medium guns you
9155s	want to just focus on that strength and
9158s	use it to crush through the fact that
9160s	they couldn't break a crucifier a tech
9162s	one ewall frigate with a composition
9165s	whose main advantage is the ability to
9166s	be able to do that and then brawl which
9169s	is the main differentiator between it
9170s	and fly killer it just says a lot about
9173s	the comps construction here
9174s	unfortunately
9175s	exactly that's a little should be a lot
9177s	of medium targets that can destroy
9178s	basically any small ship and the fact
9181s	that they couldn't get the Chris fire
9182s	the moles a high in oil Jack they
9184s	couldn't really break any of these small
9185s	scale stuff and just kind of got
9186s	controlled kited and killed
9188s	it is man I just hate to see it but you
9192s	know there are chances perhaps a team
9195s	like this could uh definitely pull it
9196s	back in the losers bracket right in the
9200s	past
9201s	they didn't have a Target painter I'm
9204s	not gonna lie I wasn't looking for it
9206s	throughout the match but you know just
9207s	one TP probably would have been enough
9209s	to tip tip them over the edge when
9210s	trying to shoot that crucifier too and a
9213s	quick note as well is that whenever you
9214s	see um Boom headshot There is almost
9216s	always
9217s	always without fail a hyena in the comp
9220s	and sure enough White Fire border and
9222s	hyen is basically the perfect ship to
9224s	bring into boot match shot because it
9225s	both slows them and boot blooms they're
9227s	sick it base makes any ship just dead
9230s	meat
9231s	so very good uh pretty much the standard
9234s	pick there but it's still a very good
9235s	pick to bring and knowing how to use
9236s	your comp
9238s	yeah and I think profits the prophecy
9240s	Navy issue is going to be one of the
9241s	sneaky overpicked trips of the
9243s	tournament it's the first tournament
9244s	where it's been legal to pick it
9246s	obviously last year if they didn't exist
9248s	and uh oh sorry
9252s	they had just existed uh but they were
9255s	Exempted from being picked in the
9257s	tournament because we weren't sure about
9258s	how to balance them and you know we're
9260s	just going to see these new this new
9263s	section the murm Navy issue already has
9266s	been picked a ton in feeders and expect
9268s	we'll see that continue but the prophecy
9270s	Navy issue is just so so powerful it has
9273s	all of the Drone Bay for utility which
9276s	is key in these tournament matches and
9278s	then it does you know 500 600 even 700
9281s	DPS with its turrets it's good to see as
9284s	well the old dogs of um of the lights
9286s	tournament pedigree the slept near being
9288s	the old king of fly killing the old king
9290s	of mimitar Rush there may be some new
9292s	dogs in the arena with the Navy battle
9293s	quiz but I tell you right now the slept
9295s	near does not care
9298s	absolutely it is gone through pit Peaks
9301s	and troughs Peaks and troughs as All
9302s	Ships do but uh whenever the
9306s	whenever we see memital rush I slept
9308s	near as the key is the key part of it it
9310s	moves fast and it hits hard and what
9311s	more could you ask for in a ship
9314s	anyway with that uh torment over let's
9316s	hand it back to the studio
9343s	are you ready yeah see somebody's house
9346s	on the way what do you think it would
9349s	feel like if a ship worked through your
9351s	house I might have some weird effect
9353s	like imagine like sneezing like they get
9356s	explosive diarrhea or something like
9358s	that
9359s	I like the sneezing more
9362s	if he's out of your ass
9367s	hey what you started with the all right
9372s	you know what jump this never happened
9374s	let's move on
9375s	here's our secondary Target this is me
9377s	broadcasted now then we can
9384s	I want bubbles all over this bit nice
9387s	I'm done now do it now
9405s	White Flag bear with a solid win over
9408s	Brave Collective uh who need to hook up
9410s	their trousers now because they are down
9411s	into the elimination bracket uh in I
9414s	mean a systematic dismantling there of
9417s	the Brave Collective team
9419s	um by White Flag who are basically
9421s	comprised of the members of lock range
9422s	enjoyers from Alliance tournament 18 who
9425s	uh I believe joined fifth place which is
9428s	pretty respectable finish uh just
9431s	outside the the threshold to get a
9433s	direct invite so they had to go through
9435s	uh the feeders this year of course they
9437s	went through with relative ease they are
9439s	a solid solid team I believe they're
9441s	practice partners with truth honor light
9443s	the current defending Champions and you
9445s	can see that in the comp that was
9447s	brought there exactly the same as the
9449s	comp that we saw truth honor light
9450s	bringing in match one and we were
9453s	talking a little bit about these sort of
9454s	archetypes during the match Blackberry
9455s	pirate you've rejoined us tell me a
9457s	little bit about what we saw fly killer
9459s	so the flight killer setup is generally
9462s	you bring a lot of artillery ships and
9464s	you try and Alpha something right off
9466s	the bat we did not see that happen there
9468s	because Brave actually flew really
9470s	really well and uh it's kind of set up
9472s	to just like one shot something and
9475s	didn't quite happen like that they kite
9477s	it around for a while dodged a lot of
9479s	hits and then eventually
9481s	um some things happened quite a lot of
9483s	things happened but it ended up uh that
9486s	brave was unable to keep their small
9488s	ships alive because that is what fly
9489s	killer is really good at is blowing up
9491s	your frigates and then they slowly got
9492s	dismantled over time yeah we saw a
9495s	really interesting thing it looked like
9496s	the crucifier on the White Flag side
9498s	made a mistake and burnt out his prop
9500s	mods but uh he and the team recovered
9503s	really well from that what happened so
9505s	it seems like the crucifier at some
9507s	point in the match burned houses brought
9508s	mod and instead of just sitting on the
9510s	grid and allowing himself to eventually
9513s	die because he was much easier to hit he
9515s	slow boated towards one of the mjd
9517s	beacons that we have dotted around the
9519s	arena and then decided to mjd from
9522s	Beacon to Beacon to prevent the brave
9524s	team from actually being able to catch
9526s	up and destroy him so that allows him to
9528s	remain on grid still effectively apply
9530s	his tracking disruptors to a largely gun
9532s	focused team which minimized their
9534s	ability to threaten anything else in the
9536s	fly killer setup it takes a lot of
9538s	situational awareness
9541s	um of what's going on in the arena
9542s	positioning uh I mean in a good team you
9545s	have nine other people usually
9547s	um and you've got 10 enemies potentially
9550s	and you have to kind of know roughly
9551s	where everybody is at all times you have
9553s	to know what you're doing you have to
9554s	communicate it's not like a lot of
9556s	fleets on Tranquility where you'll have
9557s	maybe like NFC you'll probably when you
9559s	warp in have one or two people who are
9561s	discussing the strategy but once the
9563s	match starts it tends to be just a lot
9565s	of like talking communicating as
9567s	everyone kind of knows what they need to
9568s	be doing
9569s	in a situation like this where someone
9571s	has made a mistake and they have burned
9573s	out their prop mod uh like how does that
9575s	get communicated like what's the team
9577s	Vibe when something like that happens
9578s	Mister you've been in like these
9580s	high-end teams like this yeah so I guess
9582s	the the key thing to take into account
9585s	whenever a mistake is made is assessing
9587s	really quickly how much this actually
9589s	impacts the strategy that you're trying
9590s	to play with so the crucifier in this
9593s	case burning is prop mod isn't as
9595s	disastrous as it might seem since he was
9598s	close to one of the beacons if he was in
9600s	the middle of the arena with no beacon
9601s	in sight then it's a little bit harder
9603s	to play around but it's not
9605s	necessarily damning to your team if you
9607s	lose the crucifier because it is
9609s	effectively a couple of tracking
9610s	disruptors that you're losing at that
9612s	time it's not crazy as like your one
9615s	Flagship balgorn burning its prop model
9616s	webs out because then that really does
9619s	hamper the comp that you're that you're
9620s	trying to to play so effectively
9623s	communicating that you've burned your
9624s	prop mod assessing your options
9626s	understanding where you are in the grid
9628s	versus where they are and what you can
9630s	do to try and minimize or at least
9631s	extend how long it's going to take for
9633s	them to kill you
9634s	and then just implementing that strategy
9637s	now sorry about that uh the uh the key
9641s	is that communication needs to be done
9644s	without blame so if someone says that
9647s	they've done their prop mod you can't
9648s	spend like 10 to 20 seconds complaining
9650s	that they burn their prop mod because
9652s	it's already happened so you need to be
9653s	spending that time effectively
9655s	understanding and communicating a new
9657s	strategy based on the information that
9658s	you have
9659s	instead of just saying like oh you're
9661s	crap because you burn your front more
9663s	than an at match and you've really lost
9664s	the game right so I would say Keep Calm
9667s	remain collected
9669s	play to win and then after the match you
9672s	can assess what went wrong and why and
9675s	then take steps to actually adjust your
9677s	strategy or adjust piloting because that
9679s	these mistakes don't happen again later
9680s	on when you're going up against even
9681s	more difficult teams that have proven
9683s	that they can win matches yeah and those
9685s	micro jump uh beacons are in the arena
9688s	there's uh nine of them there's one in
9692s	dead center and then there's eight
9693s	farming e-cube which is 100 kilometers
9696s	across on each uh each side and uh that
9699s	one in the center is like 87.5 thanks to
9702s	our good old friend Pythagoras and they
9704s	obviously ping you 100 kilometers
9705s	straight forward so you can sort of move
9707s	around in this Cube if you get on top of
9709s	it we sort of a lot during drone comps
9711s	or we might see it um if a team loses
9713s	their um their Logistics Cruiser you
9715s	might see them spread out to beacons if
9717s	they can apply at range and they know
9719s	they're not going to get reps they can
9720s	just activate one of those beacons jump
9721s	to somewhere else and get out of uh get
9723s	out of Dodge as it were
9725s	so let's look forward to our next match
9727s	which is going to be Odin's call versus
9728s	plug and play and see what these teams
9730s	have decided to ban so uh Odin's call
9733s	Banning out the Deacon the curse the
9735s	Scimitar and the hyena uh nothing super
9738s	outrageous here I don't think Plug and
9740s	Play Banning the Deacon Natalia the
9742s	Bargas the Le Shack and the trickle
9745s	bands we see Odin's cult Banning the
9746s	nearest and plug and play Banning the
9749s	Nighthawk uh Blackboard pirate uh Le
9751s	Shack I mean is that is that a
9753s	bandworthy ship in your opinion it's
9755s	super weird
9756s	um we've seen Le Shacks be really good
9759s	in the past but they are so high points
9762s	nowadays so Le Shack's being 25 points
9764s	means just bringing one is a quarter of
9767s	your setup right
9768s	um I don't know there's so many ways to
9771s	counter them like when they first came
9772s	out there was a tournament where they
9774s	were discounted to insanely low points
9776s	and they were oppressively overpowered
9778s	uh since then we've kind of seen them
9780s	for several years now where it's like
9782s	okay well you know if you need it or you
9784s	ECM it or you track and just to Oblivion
9786s	they stopped being as powerful it's kind
9788s	of a ship that I wouldn't necessarily
9790s	say it's been solved like it's still a
9791s	threat but it's not the same threat as
9793s	something like a Vindicator is where
9796s	even if you tackle a Vindicator it can
9798s	kill your tackle like the shack we kind
9800s	of know how to beat it and it's a
9801s	massive Point investment uh last year we
9803s	didn't see them do particularly well
9805s	this year we have seen one lose so far
9807s	I'm not sure if that means anything but
9809s	I don't think that it's really it's not
9811s	the ship that it was it's not this
9813s	Powerhouse where if they bring a Le
9815s	Shack we lose we're several years ago
9817s	you brought alishak where you lost I
9820s	think this ban might be coming from a
9823s	place somewhere up here because uh
9825s	Odin's call last year were one of the
9827s	few teams that did bring the double the
9829s	shack comp and did actually do
9831s	relatively well with it I mean they've
9832s	got to the the grand finals uh where
9834s	they they lost on the end to truth on a
9836s	light so clearly they like Villa Shack
9838s	they've always liked the Le Shack
9840s	um and this might be the reason why Plug
9843s	and Play have chosen a you know he's
9844s	always call guys they do favor that the
9847s	shack we have one extra band here with
9849s	four bands this year's maybe we just uh
9851s	we just banned that that old boy out but
9854s	as you mentioned we saw two the Shacks
9856s	in a compelling run that's 52 points
9859s	with point and flesh that's more than
9860s	half I would go as far to say 52 of your
9863s	available points uh being invested into
9864s	just two ships I mean mystical Knights
9867s	what's your thoughts on that it depends
9870s	there are more efficient ways of using
9873s	your points and being able to spread
9874s	your damage out across eight ships as
9876s	we've seen with some of the pseudo dad
9878s	setups which is effectively just a bunch
9879s	of Navy Cruisers and navy battleships or
9882s	normal battleships at Battle Cruisers
9884s	sorry that are being brought to the grid
9885s	all with medium guns versus having all
9889s	of your damage focused into two ships
9891s	the issue with having
9893s	you know a large majority of your damage
9895s	being focused into Tula Shacks is that
9898s	it's easier to neuter Tula Jackson is to
9900s	new to eight damage ships that are
9903s	across the arena from you so you can pin
9905s	down one the track and suddenly half of
9907s	the team's damage is stuck in one
9909s	position whereas if you tackle down one
9911s	Cruiser you've still got seven other
9913s	battle Cruisers and cruisers pushing in
9915s	towards your lodgy so it's a lot harder
9917s	to screen effectively
9919s	um but on the other hand the Le Shack
9922s	again with a nice little bit of wacky
9924s	Eve code there's a thing called a
9925s	wrecking shot in even line and the
9927s	lashac has a single gun and the more
9929s	that it shoots at you the more damage
9931s	that gun does sometimes if you're
9933s	extremely lucky
9934s	you can get a wrecking shot and it
9936s	basically just deletes a ship if it has
9938s	11 off hit points because it I think it
9941s	multiplies the damage that you would
9943s	have done by a certain amount so it
9945s	really does benefit from that little
9946s	mechanic but it's not enough to want to
9948s	gamble your entire 80 life on it well
9951s	we're not going to see that now because
9952s	they have banded and we are ready to go
9953s	to the arena Odin's called bringing a
9956s	flagship bar guest by the way so let's
9958s	head in with our casters fear and Baza
9965s	welcome back to the arena my name is
9966s	Sarah Vonda joined by the Basilisk and
9968s	on the red side we have Odin's call
9970s	filling the first Flagship of the
9972s	tournament in their flag bargast but
9974s	unlike a lot of other Vargas costs the
9976s	rabbit heavy Berg they have hams on
9978s	their Loki's and navy caracal this is
9980s	Shield Rush with the flag Berg what half
9983s	Plug and Play brought but Plug and Play
9985s	Very interestingly have also brought
9986s	what looks to be a very Shield rushy
9988s	comp pair with these sleptness you know
9990s	naked mermaid on broadsword there's not
9991s	going to be some easy targets here
9993s	although they may find the uh the
9994s	jackdaws getting picked apart here if
9995s	they're not like miss outfit I think
9997s	they have worked in at range so they are
9998s	probably going to be like myself it so
9999s	there is going to be a bit of a brawl
10000s	probably between these heavier end ships
10002s	the barges though
10003s	um not wanting to risk that Vlog
10004s	bloggers bringing it in close obviously
10006s	he's got the range of the rapid heavy so
10007s	they are going to try and pull away here
10009s	the Osprey Navy issue from Odin's
10011s	burning and straight away
10013s	um well the rest of his team kites out
10017s	for the time being the Salisbury Navy is
10018s	rapid light fit so we will be able to
10020s	deal with these uh LML jackdaws that we
10023s	actually saw from uh plug and play in
10025s	feeders as they were able to knock down
10028s	uh I keep want to say Nano fiber tokens
10030s	whatever their new name is uh that said
10032s	their Shield exec Navy is being taken
10035s	down pretty quickly right now by the uh
10038s	rapid Heavies of Melinda one in the bar
10041s	guest of course uh Shield bar guest
10043s	Shield Flagship Bargas does something
10045s	like 1500 1600 DPS uh just out of Rapid
10049s	heavy Club so all alone can take down a
10052s	field exec Navy which is not a ship that
10054s	typically you see in Shield yeah I think
10056s	this is really smart piloting from
10057s	Odin's here they're using their low end
10059s	to just sort of uh drive by scram drive
10061s	by web where there was a web on gravity
10062s	for a little bit there that's now
10063s	dropped
10064s	um but we're seeing this this Shield
10067s	Rush comp as we called it but they are
10068s	actually kiting around they're using the
10070s	effect of the missiles they see what
10071s	they're up against and it's a bunch of
10072s	sleptness that want to come in close
10074s	they need to round with those Auto
10075s	cannons to apply reasonable damage so if
10077s	you burn away you can effectively
10078s	increase the range of the hams on those
10079s	low Keys you can screen them off you're
10081s	still doing decent damage at 20 30k the
10083s	slept news are not so this is
10087s	in taken down pretty low I think that
10089s	was just the rest of the rapid heavy
10090s	clip being used as well as some of the
10092s	rapid lights from the Osprey Navy issue
10094s	of graves Grace but he is going to be
10095s	wrapped back up there's more damage now
10097s	going on in this rupture of Nymph as it
10099s	looks like the ham boats of uh of Odin's
10103s	call have gotten on top of the uh Shield
10106s	spray
10109s	oh that's actually pretty big it's
10111s	pretty important they could Frank that
10112s	if they're all close to it but he's
10113s	actually quite in the in the distance
10115s	here there's a jackdaw next to him but
10116s	there's not much else from Plug and Play
10117s	actually on top of them here obviously
10119s	with the two sluttoners the broads are
10120s	not going to have the best damage at
10121s	range but I think they are still
10122s	shooting the Osprey they are doing some
10124s	decent damage to the shield
10126s	uh trying to do some damage to toast
10128s	prop 995 but meanwhile they've already
10130s	lost quite a bit of the uh low end or
10132s	mid-end DPS from plug and play and
10134s	deciph Lead issue gets deleted as the
10136s	rapid heavy Clips come through with the
10138s	hams of these double low case empirical
10140s	Navy issues owns calls yet to lose a
10142s	ship they're keeping their jackdaw alive
10144s	right now uh which I believe yeah this
10146s	is a tackle jacked all uh currently
10148s	being tackled by a near but he is
10150s	able to survive using that kaldari uh
10154s	Hull or uh resists up against uh what is
10157s	the tech 2 ammo of the nears uh to
10160s	his Advantage remember not Navy issue of
10162s	dentessi calden also going down and this
10165s	is just an absolute Massacre from Odin's
10168s	call
10168s	yeah it's really difficult to play it
10170s	when you've only got the Osprey for reps
10172s	and you're trying to rep against what is
10173s	actually a very high DPS company maybe
10175s	kiting away from you but the way you're
10176s	dopplering yourself into the missiles
10178s	the rapid Heavens barges the hands from
10180s	the low-keys the two other cruises as
10181s	well there's gonna actually be a lot of
10182s	DPS and it's very very difficult if it
10184s	name possible for the Osprey to actually
10186s	absorb that and keep stuff alive and if
10188s	you get screened off as we saw these
10190s	threateners get consistently do
10192s	throughout the match just drive by
10193s	scrams you know the Jack Dory guns and
10194s	he gets a web on you he drifts out of
10196s	range he goes to the next one you know
10197s	it's very very difficult for the
10198s	sleptness to get into meaningful damage
10199s	range and we are going to see radicoss
10201s	in the broadsword team captain goes down
10205s	and now more damage going on a tank Plus
10207s	in the osprey I think it's just a
10209s	spiffle and maybe the rapid Heavies of
10211s	Melinda going in and I'm at the moment
10213s	toast part 995 in his own Osprey now
10215s	dipping into armor
10216s	he's not long for the world will be
10218s	first Blood uh for Plug and Play so at
10221s	least they'll have points this match
10224s	they've lost pretty much all their DPS
10226s	just two LML jackdaws and two slept
10228s	nears versus the world their Osprey goes
10230s	down as well and uh yeah Odin's called
10232s	just putting on a clinic uh using Shield
10235s	setups to their advantage and this is
10237s	actually something we saw from them last
10238s	tournament they were one of the teams
10240s	that preferred The Shield bar gust over
10241s	the armor bar gust
10243s	um and one team that we see use the
10245s	flagship quite often uh last year so as
10249s	they make their way in through the
10250s	winners bracket they will be up against
10251s	the winner of temples calcif versus
10253s	boundary experts uh as the one slapnaire
10256s	goes down they're gonna go on a tour on
10257s	gorp as well and maybe they'll let the
10259s	jackdaws go for the edge of glory
10261s	yeah I think we should just take well
10263s	we've got a couple of minutes to spare I
10264s	think we should just take a closer look
10265s	at this Odin's called comp because it is
10266s	quite an interesting setup they've got
10268s	here with the two Loki's they sort of
10270s	they they land on it gives them a very
10272s	versatile aspect right because they can
10273s	land or grid and they can say we can web
10275s	you we can rush you know we've got ham
10276s	lokies we've got ham cruises we've got
10277s	rapid heavy Burgers we can rush you but
10278s	they've also got that range control from
10280s	those two Loki's if they need to kite in
10282s	this situation if they come up against a
10284s	Russia rush they've got that insurance
10285s	they can still say we can range control
10287s	you know we can keep those letters at
10289s	range and with the Nighthawk band
10291s	um the Claymore does a lot less damage
10293s	you might think okay we're gonna go for
10294s	the slept near and that's a good call to
10296s	sort of sense out this adaptation from
10298s	Plug and Play say you know we ban the
10300s	night we're gonna bring sweaters
10302s	um we can screen them off with two
10303s	lokies
10306s	yeah but uh as I said this is uh the
10309s	type of thing that install has done very
10311s	well they've uh been very good at these
10313s	kinds of Shield setups as we see jacked
10315s	off Chris Pronger going for the Edge of
10317s	Glory don't think they'll live he does
10320s	get tackled so uh won't be able to go
10322s	for a boundary unfortunately but uh
10325s	still with that we're going to take a
10326s	quick break when we return temples
10328s	calcif versus boundary experts
10351s	thank you
10371s	foreign
10388s	thank you
10412s	all right
10417s	okay Sig you you are one of two people
10421s	that couldn't listen and couldn't check
10423s	bookmarks and find your own way out the
10426s	route the entire route was literally
10428s	bookmarked out to losac I bookmarked it
10430s	10 minutes in advance
10433s	well unfortunately for plug and play it
10435s	looks like the drivers were not
10436s	installed this time as they get handily
10438s	dismantled by Odin's call uh in what
10440s	looked like a rush versus Rush matchup
10443s	Holden's call just executed it super
10445s	well uh Plug and Play maybe a little bit
10447s	a bit of a stumble for them there uh
10449s	mystical might where did it go wrong for
10451s	plug and play it looked like that you
10453s	know should have been a pretty solid
10453s	start for them uh so we thought it was a
10456s	fairly interesting matchup I think Plug
10458s	and Play actually had the advantage to
10460s	begin with when it came to what they
10463s	should have done to execute at the very
10464s	beginning of the match we had the Navy
10466s	Osprey of the Odin school team burning
10469s	in
10470s	to the middle of the plug-and-play team
10472s	and then managing to turn around and
10473s	burn away with absolutely no tackle
10476s	being aimed in his Direction so first of
10478s	all if plug and player had to managed to
10480s	pin down the Navy Osprey they'd been
10482s	able to quickly and easily kill it
10484s	already minimizing damage that they
10485s	would have to later on tank on grit the
10488s	next thing that they really struggled
10489s	with was managing to burn in as a
10491s	cohesive team we saw that Turin gorp got
10494s	tackled off to the side often like a
10495s	little corner of the screen by a rocket
10497s	jackdoor no one else was next to him on
10500s	his team which meant that he wasn't able
10502s	to effectively clear the Jack door from
10504s	tackling him which means that he can't
10506s	contribute any of his damage to
10509s	any of the target studies teamed in
10511s	later on decides to shoot so what they
10513s	should have done is have all of their
10515s	brush strips group up they should have
10517s	moved towards one target together if any
10520s	of them get tackled by the speeple and
10521s	the jackdaw they can then turn their
10523s	weapon systems onto those two ships
10525s	clear them really quickly because
10526s	they're not going to tank against the
10528s	rush that they had and then they can
10529s	continue on their little journey to try
10531s	and wipe out the Odin school team they
10533s	didn't do that we saw them picked apart
10535s	quite effectively by odden's call making
10537s	the right calls to burn away when they
10539s	landed on grid and noticed that they
10540s	were also a rush team
10542s	um and yeah it really showed that one
10545s	team was just better than the other yeah
10546s	of course Odin's call last year uh
10548s	coming second in the entirety of the
10550s	tournament so definitely a solid solid
10553s	team they brought their Flagship bar
10555s	guys here evading that ban uh let's talk
10557s	a little bit flagships so Blackboard
10559s	pirate what's a flagship what does it
10561s	mean
10562s	so the flagship
10564s	you know first off as you just said it
10565s	allows you to evade a ban they can only
10568s	be battleships and it can be any
10570s	battleship in the game besides a
10572s	rattlesnake a valgorn a widow or a Le
10576s	Shack and obviously you can't be a
10578s	nester either as nesters are banned from
10580s	the alliance tournament since then you
10581s	could refit your stuff in the mid thing
10583s	and that'd be way too cool and
10584s	overpowered um but they allow you to
10587s	evade certain module restrictions uh the
10590s	key ones is guns and there's a couple
10593s	tank mods not all of them there's a
10596s	couple damage mods not all of them
10598s	nowadays I don't believe that it's
10601s	anywhere near as oppressive as yield in
10603s	days but that's kind of a combination
10604s	two of us not having you know uh
10606s	hakeem's modified balgorns webbing you
10608s	at 60 kilometers but generally they're
10610s	just very powerful bargists are
10612s	traditionally a very very common one I
10614s	think that this year once again they are
10615s	the most picked of uh flagships whether
10619s	or not we'll see lots of them will find
10620s	out you don't have to bring it in fact
10622s	this is the second time we have seen
10623s	anyone bring about uh a flagship but
10626s	yeah they're very very powerful clearly
10629s	Odin's had a plan here like they got the
10631s	bargasband uh they chose to bring a
10634s	Vargas but I actually was kind of
10635s	looking at the Plug and Play team and I
10638s	feel like their setup might have been
10639s	set up to kill a flagship because it had
10642s	a absolutely massive amount of
10644s	short-range DPS and they brought a
10646s	Hector so I'm kind of wondering if they
10647s	banned the Bargas to try and like snipe
10650s	the Odin's Flagship and Odin's are just
10652s	like yeah nice try if we're better than
10654s	you but I like when I first thought I
10656s	was actually like oh crap they might get
10657s	on top of it and just blow it up right
10658s	away I was kind of thinking that as well
10660s	when they came in I was like a rush comp
10662s	against your Flagship sometimes you will
10665s	see teams just like hey this this comp
10668s	probably will beat us but we could just
10670s	all in on this Flagship and get a very
10671s	expensive uh kill meal especially if
10673s	it's against one of the top teams you
10675s	know they're going to invest in their
10677s	Flagship they're going to put a lot of
10678s	expensive modules on them sometimes you
10680s	see these pop up on on zedcal and people
10682s	who are maybe not watching the
10682s	tournament they get the little
10683s	notification in their feed like what the
10686s	heck why someone lost 140 billion is uh
10689s	Bargains like what the heck's going on
10691s	just Flagship uh the cool thing as well
10693s	but flagships obviously as you mentioned
10695s	as I mentioned uh the Dodge bands you
10696s	could just bring them but once they are
10698s	dead
10699s	you can no longer bring it that's it for
10700s	the whole tournament so if you lose your
10702s	Flagship on day one that could be uh
10705s	that could be pretty bad for you
10707s	depending where you come up against
10708s	later it's always super handy to have
10710s	one in your back pocket
10712s	bicycle Mike we saw at the start there
10714s	you know brush versus brush we saw
10716s	Odin's pilling away
10717s	but how did the other team not get on
10719s	top of them anyway
10720s	so I guess it kind of cools back to the
10723s	fact that they weren't playing as a
10724s	kikisive team so Plug and Play
10726s	realistically should have been able to
10727s	burn towards anyone on the audience core
10730s	team and that Target should have
10731s	eventually died the Plug and Play team I
10734s	believe was faster than some of the
10735s	ships on the Odin school team I don't
10737s	think the Navy caracal is necessarily
10739s	known for its speed especially when
10741s	especially when compared to things like
10743s	the broadsword you've got the slept
10744s	nears as well also they're very fast
10747s	ships
10748s	but again they were just picked apart by
10751s	the fact that the Odin school team had
10752s	two Loki's which meant that they could
10754s	effectively web the two slapners when
10757s	they tried to burn in we had these
10758s	people and the jackdaw that were able to
10760s	secure some hard tackles on the
10761s	sleptness when they were out of position
10764s	and away from the rest of their team and
10766s	then Plug and Play just never really
10767s	made the call to actually clear those
10768s	ships that would have allowed them to
10770s	execute their strategy properly I think
10772s	if they'd done that they would have
10774s	actually been able to win the match they
10775s	would have been able to get on top of
10777s	the bar guest kill that they would have
10779s	been able to burn off to things like the
10780s	Osprey and kill that really quickly
10781s	instead of killing it later on in the
10783s	match like we saw they had much more
10786s	damage they just did not play as well as
10788s	they could have
10789s	okay now before we move on to our next
10791s	match which is Templars calcif versus
10793s	boundary experts I want to take a look
10794s	at the Templars team so templates have
10796s	been around for a while now competing in
10798s	various tournaments and here's their
10799s	history in Alliance tournament
10801s	specifically so the Last Spartan uh has
10803s	been with them for pretty much most of
10804s	this uh as is still answering a couple
10806s	of the other guys uh 39 people have
10808s	flown with templates calcif and they've
10810s	had a pretty solid success for it uh a
10812s	lot more wins than losses and look at
10815s	this the last time they they lost a
10817s	match uh last year was to truth honor
10819s	light which is again pretty respectable
10821s	uh they won against a lot of pretty
10822s	solid teams there including Odin's call
10824s	I believe knocking wooden's called her
10826s	into the lower bracket at one point
10828s	um and of course they famously upset uh
10830s	Hydra reloaded in Alliance term I
10833s	believe 15 and one of the first week
10836s	matches everyone expected uh had to just
10838s	walk straight through it and they did
10840s	not uh 10 plus Cal so if that was the
10842s	sort of them bursting onto the scene
10843s	they then went on to win the alliance
10845s	open which was the event run tournament
10847s	in the gap between last year 16 and 17
10850s	where we used a rule we called the Wild
10853s	Card rule where because it was on uh
10855s	London you could bring unique ships as
10857s	in Atlanta price ships either two
10860s	frigates or one Cruiser
10861s	they stormed through that entire
10863s	tournament they did not bring their wild
10865s	card at any point they did not lose a
10866s	single match I believe they lost
10868s	something like five ships the entire
10869s	tournament they defeated everyone just
10872s	one two three four all the way straight
10874s	through it was a phenomenal run uh since
10876s	then we've been uh looking for them to
10878s	do great things in their lives
10880s	tournament proper um they are in the in
10882s	the monument that is their logo there a
10884s	line in the alliance tournament monument
10886s	in Monarch so you can see them there but
10889s	they're looking to get like the alliance
10891s	tournament win or at least higher up and
10893s	we definitely want to see that but now
10895s	let's take a look at the bands for uh
10897s	templas Castle versus boundary experts
10900s	yeah so templates Banning out the curse
10903s	The Sentinel the guardian and the
10905s	universe boundary experts going for the
10907s	curse the arbitrator the Deacon the
10909s	Nighthawk and then with trickle bands in
10911s	temples aside we have the crucifier and
10913s	in Behringer expert side we have the
10914s	abandon so uh Bart what do you see here
10917s	I mean this is starting to look like
10918s	curses you know let's get that thing
10920s	right out of here Sentinel as well it
10922s	seems fairly understandable those small
10924s	newts can be really devastating on a
10925s	logistics Cruiser and it's not really
10927s	jump out to you here uh every single
10929s	tracking disruptor ship has been banned
10931s	there will be no tracking disruptors uh
10934s	I'm sure somebody's about to be like you
10935s	missed one but like almost all the
10937s	tracking disruptors and guidance
10938s	disruptorships have been banned so
10940s	because of the rules you cannot fit uh
10942s	tracking disruptors or guidance
10943s	disruptors unless the ship is bonused
10944s	the curse is Sentinel the crucifier and
10946s	the arbitrator are banned
10952s	that would be weird so that you could
10955s	bring a pilgrim um I don't think you
10956s	probably will they're not particularly
10958s	great ships but maybe definitely have
10960s	seen them in the live stream them yeah
10961s	to do the band evasion but uh the thing
10964s	you see is both teams got rid of these
10965s	so maybe both teams are thinking Pilgrim
10968s	math yeah this is this is the big five
10969s	head this is the band meta the band
10971s	spiral where they're like okay if we ban
10973s	every ship but the pilgrim they're not
10974s	gonna expect us to bring a pilgrim and
10976s	then we'll bring it let's see four
10977s	pilgrims now oh yeah I mean you could do
10981s	four pilgrims on both teams and have
10982s	eight pilgrims okay I mean that's that's
10984s	that is
10986s	to get four of the same ship
10989s	um what do you think we will see here
10991s	other than obviously pilgrims uh I think
10993s	that we're probably
10995s	if both teams are Banning this out I
10997s	think neither of them want to see
10998s	perjection against each other so I'm
10999s	almost sort of feeling a kite thing and
11001s	templas has been uh traditionally a team
11004s	that excels at these like light missile
11006s	and heavy missile kite setups so uh
11008s	We've sort of seen one today if you want
11011s	to call whatever tuskers flew a heavy
11013s	missile kite comp but
11015s	um that's kind of I feel like somebody's
11017s	bringing a missile kite this time yeah
11019s	boundary experts finished last year uh
11021s	uh tied 13th templates ties seventh
11025s	place so two top 16 teams here so this
11027s	this is going to be a tough match for
11029s	either of them let's go by any kind of
11031s	projections going on here in terms of
11033s	which team I think is going to win or
11035s	composite they're going to bring to the
11036s	grid anything I mean you can you can
11037s	predict anything you want doesn't even
11039s	have to be about you online like there's
11040s	anything oh okay well in that case
11044s	um it's preferable for the country that
11047s	we are attempting to deliver if it's
11049s	related we'll save the Pop-Tarts ravioli
11051s	thing for later then yeah that's fine um
11053s	I think that and I I'm gonna agree with
11056s	bot here that we saw the abandoned band
11059s	as well I Believe by bandra experts
11061s	which also makes me think that they're
11063s	looking to minimize as much projection
11064s	as possible and looking to kite around
11067s	the edges at the arena whether they're
11069s	going to bring something like heavy
11070s	missiles I'm not sure it's equally
11072s	likely that they'll just look to bring
11073s	battle Cruisers and cruisers again we
11076s	didn't see really any of those bands so
11077s	they could bring the Navy X secures they
11079s	could bring the absolutions they could
11081s	bring
11086s	so there's still a variety of different
11089s	types of e-war on the grid you've got
11090s	the ECM you've got the damps
11093s	and you got the damage all right it's
11095s	time to find out uh as we go to the
11098s	arena with your casters uh Wingnut and
11101s	Yin tan
11107s	hello ladies
11108s	not joined by the golden one gen 10 and
11110s	we have a beautiful match quad BC versus
11111s	Triple Battleship and it's going to be
11113s	very curious to see does Temple
11114s	castleder Mojo or is it going to be
11116s	absolute upset for boundary experts Jin
11118s	my man tells what we've got going on
11119s	here well but he was absolutely correct
11121s	when he predicted that we were going to
11123s	see some form of missile kite with uh
11125s	boundary experts having brought a three
11127s	Battleship Shield flight uh sorry King
11130s	Slayer here with three rapid heavy
11132s	missile uh battleships uh making up
11135s	their top end and they're going up
11136s	against this modified version of pseudo
11138s	dad from templar's calcif so temples
11140s	calcif here they're going to want to try
11141s	and run in grab one of those typhoon
11143s	Fleet issue or bar guests and just crush
11146s	it down as soon as humanly possible
11147s	maybe even try and stop them getting
11149s	their first clip out meanwhile boundary
11151s	experts just trying to spread out trying
11153s	to live and oh no they're not even doing
11154s	that they're moving head-on it looks
11156s	like they're both going for the center
11157s	of the Arena it's just going to be a
11159s	bloodbath and we're going to see whose
11160s	HP bar runs out first some man
11163s	screamingly right the August fine blog
11165s	is getting absolutely obliterate we've
11166s	got four by the way but Navy Cruisers
11168s	two Navy's two Orca navies so that's a
11170s	lot of like Cruiser's support as well as
11172s	of course the main core of four battle
11173s	Cruisers but the augura there is no way
11175s	you can run my friend he's just holding
11178s	on for dear life actually might they are
11179s	rapid Heavies he could maybe do it oh my
11182s	Lord when you see two teams running into
11184s	each other at the start of the match one
11186s	team is making a poor decision and right
11187s	now it looks like it's temples calcif
11189s	who's made the poor decision that type
11191s	of Fleet issue is already in low armor
11193s	and it's a shield
11195s	oh this could be the biggest upset oh
11198s	because he has a lot of deepest about
11200s	800 plus DPS removed instantly but that
11202s	that tell everybody's still going down
11203s	no
11205s	there we go that's one of the three main
11207s	DPS ships off the field here for
11208s	Temple's Castle now they're down to
11210s	about two-thirds of their DPS whilst
11211s	boundary experts look at that attack bar
11213s	it's so big and it's so red it might as
11216s	well be Cliff of the dock
11218s	meanwhile they all go swim block is
11219s	still being hit occasionally they're
11220s	still trying to kill this auger with
11222s	something there's no drones on it it's
11223s	just someone is shooting at him and they
11225s	could be shooting other ships around the
11226s	entire core is right next to them and
11228s	this auger is still absolutely living
11230s	and he's gonna just wait till the end
11232s	and come back at the very end of this
11233s	match meanwhile killer in the burgers
11235s	already going through Shields down to
11236s	armor this is not looking good they
11238s	might have thrown this one so much on
11239s	the table boundary experts here just
11242s	seeing their route to Victory and taking
11244s	it full force ignoring the usual way
11246s	that the play pseudo dad uh of going
11249s	after these frigates trying to snap them
11251s	off trying to get your aggression in
11252s	they saw the hesitation from um
11254s	templar's calcif they saw their
11256s	opportunity and they pounced on it here
11258s	look it's just gonna be clean up after
11260s	this bar guest goes down because there
11262s	will be nothing left to threaten them
11263s	even with their Logistics down and you
11265s	can tell them reload you still got bugs
11268s	are stuck on reel right now because they
11269s	can't kill anything the Orca just pops
11270s	so finally they got really all good
11271s	congratulations unfortunately you're
11273s	already dead
11274s	as the Park's about to go down at least
11276s	one block of DPS this is they throw this
11279s	infection through this is like I get
11280s	some collusions in chat please oh my God
11283s	what in the world is this yeah they're
11286s	gonna take down this brutex Navy here
11287s	that'll be the final gas from Last
11289s	Spartan but it would take some
11291s	absolutely God tip piloting to pull this
11294s	one back Spartan would have to somehow
11296s	manage to Juke their his way out of the
11299s	rest of this game with that said he is
11300s	free he isn't tackled right now there is
11302s	a chance he could kite the rest of this
11304s	out but the projection from all of these
11306s	medium range ships is going to be enough
11308s	to tickle him down he needs to have
11310s	these frigates these frigates they need
11311s	to screen for him they need to just die
11313s	to give him a few more seconds a few
11315s	more inches of HP just so that maybe he
11318s	can get that reload off at the late game
11320s	that's what they're playing for here
11321s	they're playing to get an xlasb reload
11323s	that's their only possible route to
11325s	Victory
11327s	this the Spartan is pulled back for more
11328s	Spartan can activate and absolutely ruin
11330s	this but it's it's a very hard to kill
11332s	to climb the scaffold and Kieran are
11333s	still alive providing him more time but
11336s	that is that is gonna be such a hardcore
11338s	four Navy Cruisers two one a Navy battle
11340s	cruiser and then a command ship that is
11343s	a giant wall of DPS and armor to rip
11345s	them okay there we go all the frigates
11346s	have now committed all the frigates have
11348s	now committed they're trying to make
11349s	this turn with the Bargas but he is
11351s	scrammed and webbed that's that's almost
11353s	certainly it because they're all within
11355s	range nothing isn't tackled off uh in
11358s	the 50 60 kilometer Mark where it would
11359s	probably matter to his tank oh God they
11363s	made it close though it it it's it's not
11366s	entirely over yet but pretty much
11371s	it's very unexpected
11374s	I I honestly I am surprised to see the
11377s	three battleships running in there was
11378s	no in my opinion there was no reason to
11380s	do that when you can engage while
11382s	they're rushing towards you the fact
11383s	that they charged and gave the um
11385s	Banning experts basically that extra
11387s	time they could have had they gave it to
11389s	boundary experts for that moment and
11390s	that just kind of ruined it it just kind
11392s	of threw it all on the table that being
11393s	said the hard Navy will should go down I
11396s	say that as I'm watching the buggers go
11398s	into Hull please kill the harp Navy
11400s	first please come on Spartan
11402s	one last spot and one last kill please
11406s	there we go one last piece of Victory
11408s	and now it's just gonna be mop up Duty
11411s	um
11412s	I I what a game though um I hope to see
11416s	some more of this triple Battleship comp
11417s	uh it seems like that's probably
11419s	intended to be the apex predator of all
11422s	kite comps considering so much of the
11424s	the kite uh was left open by both teams
11427s	that would be my suspicion is that
11429s	Templars Kels have expected boundary
11431s	experts to bring some sort of HMO kite
11433s	which they then could have absolutely
11435s	curb stomped with the sheer amount of
11437s	ehp in range an application really that
11440s	you get out of those three battleships
11441s	whilst you know sacrificing their low
11443s	end to the wind
11445s	but you know boundary experts they saw
11448s	what their opponents were trying to bait
11449s	them into and they moved in the opposite
11451s	direction they zigged when their
11452s	opponents expected them to zag and that
11454s	takes some real real skill we shouldn't
11456s	take that away from boundary experts
11457s	this wasn't just a choke from temples
11459s	calcif this was them uh skillfully
11463s	picking the picking rock over uh
11465s	scissors and honestly a big big respect
11468s	goes to spin Block in that order he was
11471s	basically dead but he made them kill him
11473s	at the end whether they had someone one
11475s	of them firing at them or maybe one of
11476s	the small ships tried he made them pay
11479s	for him and in doing so they lost their
11481s	typhoon Fleet and then we're already
11482s	losing some of their Bargas so a big
11484s	respect to Sven that honestly bought all
11486s	the time 8 18 potentially needed
11489s	but bloody hell that is a bloody matched
11491s	four Navy Cruisers that's a lot
11495s	yeah you love to see it like the points
11498s	Valley that you get out of these ships
11499s	is just insane though that the I believe
11502s	the Old Navy is the highest amount of
11504s	ehp per points you can get in the entire
11506s	tournament
11509s	and adding on top of that the fact that
11511s	it can run in and do it's surprisingly
11512s	fast too you always think the Old Navy
11515s	is slow until it's mjding into your
11517s	black line and suddenly you realize it's
11519s	fast enough to grab that frigate before
11520s	it can react I mean if a no prop
11523s	Battleship can mjd onto your comp
11525s	anything can catch you if you SM if
11527s	you're thinking outside the box enough
11528s	so yeah that's you scared of the Navy
11531s	org
11532s	thank you very much to tampus calcif
11534s	there for walking gently out of the
11536s	Arena rather than making us wait the
11537s	whole time so we'll hand this back to
11539s	the studio and uh yeah
11566s	foreign
11598s	guys stop being casual they're really
11600s	bad we should not lose anybody to this
11603s	warp off warp off take the fleet warp
11604s	everybody warp off this is a really
11606s	really bad execution I'm very
11607s	disappointed
11612s	rain are you in the armor Vagabond or
11615s	something no um I've got Axel ISP
11620s	and polarized guns or what
11622s	laughs
11628s	well are there any uh upset enjoyers out
11631s	there in twitch chat because that was an
11632s	upset occurring to you guys at only 14
11634s	of you picked boundary experts with your
11637s	Twitch Channel points 86 percent of you
11639s	going for 10 plus calcium 2.5 million
11643s	Channel points just got redistributed uh
11646s	over to the people who had faith in the
11648s	boundary experts there uh one person put
11650s	a hundred thousand Channel points on
11652s	templar's calcif and they're all gone uh
11655s	I cry every time that was a heck of a
11658s	match from both teams uh we love to see
11660s	a really good match any quick highlights
11662s	from from you there Misty
11663s	yeah uh boundary experts played it
11665s	really well they decided to headshot one
11668s	of the three battleships that was
11669s	dealing damage and yeah we just see that
11672s	many ships doing damage better than few
11674s	ships doing damage okay well I mean with
11678s	that top tier analysis I really don't
11680s	think there's much more to be said so
11681s	we're going to go for a short break we
11684s	will be back in about 30 minutes for
11685s	more spaceship on spaceship action so
11688s	stay tuned
11690s	foreign
11745s	welcome back we have loads more
11747s	spaceship explosions for you here in
11749s	Alliance tournament 19 live from the
11751s	event issues and Nottingham don't forget
11753s	there's a Meetup here on Thursday so we
11755s	hope to see you there there's not many
11756s	tickets left and they are free so do try
11758s	and come down if you're in the local
11759s	area
11761s	um we have like I say more matches so
11763s	let's just start talking about them our
11764s	first match is going to be till Doomsday
11766s	versus no vacancies so let's see what
11768s	these teams have chosen to ban out in
11770s	this upcoming match
11772s	so tell doomsday Banning out the
11774s	guardian the Blackbird the curse The
11775s	Sentinel no vacancies Banning out the
11777s	Bargas the carries the mollusk and the
11780s	Scimitar so Novak basically being like
11781s	hey those small ships that can uh they
11784s	can dampers no thank you uh moderator
11786s	what do you think here
11788s	yeah so Novak clearly um they feel
11790s	better about having to deal against
11792s	maybe illegesis or a celestis you know
11795s	some of the larger ships more mid slots
11798s	but maybe also a little bit easier to
11800s	get on top of and Tackle uh till
11802s	doomsday also on the other side of
11805s	things says Hey Novak says no damps but
11808s	we're gonna say no tracking disruption
11810s	so a lot of that e-war being taken out
11812s	the only thing really still open I would
11814s	say would be in ECM but we already see a
11816s	blackbird band so
11818s	um makes a lot of sense to me just
11820s	people not wanting to have to deal with
11821s	that
11822s	and what do you think here bbp this is I
11825s	mean scimitaring band is obviously a bit
11827s	of a killer for any Katie Shield comps
11829s	but there's still Lots open here there
11831s	is uh we still see the sort of however
11834s	you want to call Max threat uh set up
11836s	being open here uh we're not seeing we
11839s	were seeing a curse span that's pretty
11840s	normal
11841s	um I think we've been seeing we've been
11842s	seeing a lot of these like very medium
11844s	gun Focus teams and so I'm kind of
11846s	feeling like we're gonna see that again
11847s	because no curse so there's no TDS from
11850s	that ship though we did learn that
11852s	there's things called pilgrims uh
11853s	actually about an hour ago so if you
11856s	didn't know that there are pilgrims in
11857s	this game uh yeah I'm feeling like we're
11859s	gonna see just
11860s	kind of what's developing as this meta
11862s	is these like very battle cruiser heavy
11864s	setups coming into this next match yeah
11866s	we saw that Char Aaron showing uh the
11868s	the top battle Cruisers over over time
11871s	since last tournament seven when our
11872s	data goes back to uh we saw the slatner
11874s	obviously number one EOS number two and
11875s	then the British Navy and the brutics
11877s	critically three and four and I think
11879s	we're all expecting to see those numbers
11881s	rise substantially throughout Alliance
11883s	tournament 19 just due to the the points
11886s	uh reduction so the galante Federation
11889s	sponsoring Alliance tournament 19 thank
11890s	you very much Clinton Federation
11892s	um so the prize ships are in fact uh
11894s	gallante based and all the points are
11897s	reduced for those ones as well and also
11899s	there's these phenomenal skins so every
11901s	team who wins
11903s	um a match including in the feeders gets
11906s	10 of these uh these skins for every
11908s	match they win so uh you know if you win
11910s	one match you get 10 skins to share
11912s	amongst your team these these can go for
11914s	for quite a lot of money sometimes if
11916s	you win five matches you get 50 of these
11918s	skins so that's pretty darn good I think
11920s	look incredible I'm super excited to get
11922s	my hands on some of them now I believe
11924s	we are ready to pretty much to go to the
11926s	arena for until Doomsday versus no
11928s	vacancies uh but I'm being told they're
11931s	just landing at the minute so let's just
11932s	hold off for just a moment I've also uh
11936s	uh nope we'll talk about that in a
11937s	moment
11938s	any predictions while we're here I mean
11940s	till Doomsday versus Novak who do you
11942s	think mod I felt like Novak showed
11944s	themselves pretty well in the galante
11945s	gamble so I'm gonna have to give him the
11947s	edge here
11948s	and Bart uh I feel like Novak's been
11951s	doing pretty well too so let's let's go
11953s	with it we'll cast records them right
11954s	now okay right here right now sure why
11957s	not I'm also going for Novak get the
11958s	full three nail curse on the go
11960s	um and let's uh let's send it to gal
11962s	Mill's cutest tag team Alec and Chad
11969s	Alexa card and Chad flame here with tilt
11972s	Doomsday versus no vacancies do not let
11974s	that uh ticker there on the stream
11976s	confuse you
11978s	Chad what do we have here for till
11980s	Doomsday
11981s	uh tool doomsday we're looking at a
11984s	lecheck Absolution uh Navy Yard Navy
11988s	Magus vexer Navy Talia Deacon and
11991s	Confessor
11993s	meanwhile for no vacancies we have a bar
11996s	cast armaged Navy EOS double arbitrators
11999s	being a Core theme of their comp we're
12001s	gonna see a lot of drones a lot of
12003s	upfront damage
12004s	and quite a bit of control here for no
12007s	vacancies it'll be very interesting to
12009s	see whether those arbitrators are in
12011s	fact tart disruption fit if they are
12013s	they may have a commanding advantage in
12016s	this matchup
12017s	yeah we're gonna have to see if those
12019s	arbitrators are going to make a play on
12021s	this match shutting down a lot of those
12022s	uh turret-based guns uh is going to make
12025s	this match very bad for the lashac and
12029s	medium uh
12030s	uh guns on the other team
12033s	yeah we're seeing
12035s	it's all doomsday doing a variation on
12037s	the max threat set up with these OG Navy
12039s	issues prophecy Navy Absolution but
12042s	instead of investing more into the low
12043s	end they're putting a lot of eggs in the
12045s	basket of this little Shack
12047s	it'll be very interesting to see how
12048s	that plays out for them they're really
12050s	up against a nightmare comp with this
12052s	double arbitrator setup that is going to
12054s	be a lot of disruption on much fewer
12056s	ships than they otherwise would and
12058s	they're responding accordingly by
12060s	primary the arbitrator and it's now in
12062s	deep Shield about to hit its armor
12065s	hey we're already seeing those weapon
12067s	disruptors out on the lecheck as well as
12068s	the top end of the Doomsday team
12070s	wrecking their tracking and or range
12072s	that LE shark's gonna have to get in
12074s	there to be able to actually use its 25
12076s	points that it's costing to do anything
12078s	as well as Novac screening off a lot of
12080s	these battle Cruisers
12083s	yeah you're seeing this team's streak
12085s	toward each other now kind of clumping a
12087s	little bit
12087s	uh the no vacancies arbitrators have
12090s	pulled range successfully their command
12092s	ships and electronic warfare Corps are
12094s	fairly safe with the vectors acting as a
12097s	screening Force meanwhile their
12099s	Armageddon Navy issue right there in the
12101s	middle of things uh getting pounded on
12103s	pretty harshly possibly the only
12104s	valuable Target that lecheck can
12106s	actually reach and track simultaneously
12109s	uh in return the vexer Navy issue of
12113s	hornet being primaried and taken down
12115s	pretty drastically vexer is not
12117s	necessarily known for their tanks
12119s	although the vni does have a rep bonus
12121s	we'll see if that comes into play
12123s	yeah if you're trading a vni though for
12125s	this you know Navy getting that that is
12127s	a trade I'd make any day and it seems
12129s	like the uh get a Navy put himself out
12131s	front trying to really buy time for
12133s	those arbitrators to get range you might
12135s	be losing a about a 30-year damage if
12137s	not more than that just to try and keep
12139s	those arbitrars on you're not doing
12140s	enough work to really trade evenly for
12142s	that right now and again there's a huge
12144s	huge aspect of their comp it's not just
12146s	damage it's also newts it's it's helping
12148s	keep things within reach of that bar gas
12151s	massive damage
12153s	and they're having a really okay smart
12155s	bombs popping off now you're seeing
12157s	distributed damage across a large amount
12159s	of the till doomsday team but it's Chip
12161s	damage don't let it uh don't let it fool
12164s	you here The Inquisitor of no vacancies
12166s	and the no vacancies Armageddon Navy
12168s	issue are the ones really under threat
12170s	here they're getting absolutely shredded
12172s	uh they start maintaining their hit
12174s	point bars so just barely The Inquisitor
12177s	now taking a lot of damage that's a tech
12178s	one frigate it's providing a lot of
12180s	value for reps but does not have much
12182s	tank of its own and it's falling fairly
12184s	rapidly he's trying to hold on here the
12187s	more time he buys the better but it's
12189s	it's tenuous
12191s	on top of that though smart move by
12193s	chill doomsday shooting that frigate
12194s	getting some reps off of that getting
12196s	Navy as well there's forcing the Deacon
12198s	and or rep Bots to be splitting their
12200s	reps and The Inquisitor still does not
12202s	look to be holding and they're still
12203s	just damaging into that get a Navy
12204s	hopefully those sucks getting some spool
12207s	on it and their damage is starting to
12208s	get uh applied better but it seems like
12210s	everything is holding us the vexer Navy
12213s	actually for Tool doomsday is about to
12214s	go down
12216s	oh he's he's getting shot they've
12218s	re-allocated their drones onto that
12220s	vexer and he is down that is a vexer
12223s	down that is a pretty sizable chunk of
12226s	damage and utility but that Armageddon
12228s	Navy still very much under threat as it
12230s	dips to about one-third getting
12231s	perilously close to 25 armor it looks
12234s	like they're going to try to trade
12235s	another faction Cruiser in return as
12237s	this OG Navy drops into half hit points
12240s	and that is a big hit point pool to be
12242s	taking such huge chunks out of it
12244s	indeed like I said you can kill off
12246s	those two factional cruisers on the till
12248s	doomsday team but they have a lot more
12250s	uh evenly distributed damage between
12252s	their whole team as no vacancies as
12254s	putting a lot more damage and utility
12255s	and a lot of those top end ships is
12257s	getting Navy looking to enter structure
12259s	and if it goes down to trade for this
12261s	live Navy it still might not be the
12262s	greatest trade in the world
12264s	no that is a that is a fairly terrible
12266s	trade OG Navy's fantastic ship I love
12268s	them but not nearly as valuable as an
12270s	Armageddon Navy issue
12272s	and that Armageddon Navy is hanging on
12274s	by a threat he's in half structure now
12275s	this is not a galenti ship that
12277s	structure is thin oh he's he's trying to
12281s	claw back some armor it's not going to
12282s	be enough he is going to go down and he
12284s	is he is down that Inquisitor is still
12287s	taking Firepower that was not even the
12289s	full DPS of the Tilt doomsday team and
12292s	inquisitor's still under pressure and
12294s	now a huge amount of Firepower and
12296s	utility off of the new vacancies team
12298s	they're starting to struggle here even
12300s	though they still have a slight
12302s	advantage
12303s	yeah the points differential is not too
12305s	far off each other as we're someone
12307s	approaching the halfway point through
12309s	this match it seems as though until
12311s	doomsday have a lead but vacancies is
12314s	doing a good job still controlling them
12316s	and slowly picking away damage off their
12318s	team the question is can they continue
12320s	to do this for another five minutes and
12322s	15 seconds and try to pull this back I I
12326s	don't know if that's going to be very
12327s	possible
12328s	uh the the geta Navy is a big pile of
12331s	points however No Vacancy still has a
12333s	ship advantage and I think given their
12335s	comp they still have a slight advantage
12338s	in general it's now this OG Navy issue
12340s	is going down you can see they still
12342s	have a tremendous amount of damage on
12343s	the field the vexers are going to be
12345s	putting out a lot of damaged arbitrators
12347s	do some damage in their own right they
12349s	might wind up trading for their
12350s	Inquisitor here yes they've lost that
12352s	Inquisitor for an OG Navy that is a
12354s	pretty serious blow for them is now this
12356s	Deacon has no support the Deacon of No
12359s	Vacancy is sure to join his partner
12361s	shortly and you can see them immediately
12363s	react by trying to go after the till
12365s	doomsday Thalia trying to even out the
12368s	logite trade
12369s	yeah at this point the match going for
12371s	that larger trade seems to be the right
12372s	call uh it now vacancies is a little bit
12375s	behind on that and with that Battleship
12377s	being done as well it just seems like
12379s	the only thing they can do is go for
12380s	this large trade and hope that their uh
12382s	arbitrators put in work on what is
12383s	remaining of those gunboats now being
12386s	less gunboats on grid
12388s	um the arbitrator is going to be doing
12389s	more work on those ships though so that
12391s	does work in their favor while a lot of
12393s	other factors are not working their
12395s	favor this is still a close match even
12396s	though it might not look it it's also
12398s	even in points as well at this point
12400s	now we can see the new vacancies drawer
12402s	is starting to take a significant amount
12404s	of damage and doesn't have a way to pull
12405s	those hit points back the drug is just a
12408s	chunk of their damage
12410s	looks like the partner says webs on it
12412s	oh that's gonna be tough me Model A Shaq
12415s	he's getting absolutely pounded here but
12417s	he's hanging tough at about half armor
12419s	they're splitting fire between him and
12421s	the Deacon you're likely seeing the the
12423s	larger caliber weapons go after the
12425s	Little Shack while the smaller caliber
12427s	guns and drones try to take out the
12428s	Deacon but the Deacon is tanking really
12430s	really hard
12432s	he is surrounded by an absolute cloud of
12435s	Imperial Navy acolytes but he's tanking
12437s	like a champ
12438s	still hanging in an armor is going to go
12441s	down they might trade him for the
12442s	dragger here that is actually a pretty
12444s	good trade for till Doomsday
12447s	if their Le Shack was looking healthier
12449s	I think they would feel more confident
12450s	about this match but as it stands it's
12452s	out on knife's edge and it really is
12455s	that lecheck does not look to be tanking
12457s	the Vargas could clip at any moment now
12459s	and that little shot could pull back a
12460s	little bit it's all going to come down
12461s	if that little shot can hold as long as
12464s	possible and put out as much damage as
12466s	possible but it does not seem like that
12467s	damage is being fully applied as the
12469s	strutters starting to look like a stop
12471s	taking massive chunks and the Bargas is
12474s	semi-stable
12475s	yeah the Drucker has a cloud of
12477s	hobgoblins chasing it hobgoblins the
12480s	slowest of the light drones so they are
12482s	oh okay the the hobgoblins have been
12484s	reassigned we're going to see what their
12486s	next Target is shortly they have given
12488s	up attempting to kill the jogger that is
12490s	a huge and pivotal decision it's not the
12493s	Le Shack dips into structure it doesn't
12495s	have any armor wrappers it's purely
12497s	passive Tanked oh it ends dropping much
12500s	much faster than the vexer here the
12502s	vexer will probably go down but they'll
12504s	trade the Le Shack that is a fantastic
12506s	trade for no vacancies
12508s	no vacancies looking to pull it back
12510s	since that get in loss you know they've
12512s	only lost a few low end ships that
12513s	aren't really worth a lot of points and
12515s	that Bargas was webbed at one point and
12517s	has gotten free it looks like it was the
12519s	Le shark that was holding that down but
12520s	it seems like they're starting to
12521s	stabilize without any logic on grid for
12523s	either team you're looking at two um gun
12526s	battle Cruisers versus a bar guest in
12528s	EOS with all those weapon disruptors on
12530s	grid I don't think till doomsday is
12532s	going to be able to bring this back
12534s	now I think the door is closing pretty
12536s	rapidly on this now that Confessor
12538s	succumbs to the Drone cloud and they're
12540s	moving on to their next Target which
12541s	looks to be
12543s	uh the barcast and the Absolution are
12547s	going to be taking the Lion's Share of
12549s	the damage here that barg has a
12551s	extremely thick tank at this point it is
12554s	active wrapped it's pulling its hip
12555s	points back the Absolution also passive
12558s	till doomsday has no active reps
12560s	remaining on their team the Magus is
12563s	probably there for utility it will have
12565s	some drones to contribute but is not
12567s	doing much he's hanging out about by the
12569s	mjds he's looking to just live to win
12572s	here he's popping links for no one
12574s	because he's out of range
12577s	an interesting note too neither teams
12579s	choosing rep Bots here which is a
12581s	interesting choice usually you see at
12583s	least one team running some rep bots so
12585s	what you see is the rappers on their
12587s	ships as well as their ehp no support
12589s	from any rep Bots to help people crawl
12592s	back you're not you're not going to see
12593s	a rough back Cloud save them from the
12595s	minuscule amount of damage that seems to
12597s	be coming out from both teams as they're
12598s	not dying overly fast but the rapper on
12601s	the bar doing more work than it seems
12603s	the passive tank app solution is able to
12605s	do
12606s	that's a great note Chad and probably a
12608s	very pivotal call from no vacancies in
12610s	the planning stage of this match they
12611s	invested a lot of points in control with
12614s	those double arbitrators but knowing
12616s	that they'll still need to get some
12617s	kills they invested the rest of their
12619s	team into damage drones which may have
12622s	given them just the DPS they needed if
12625s	they had gone rep Bots that LE Shack
12627s	probably would have Smart Bond them off
12629s	and we'd be looking at a very different
12630s	match
12632s	exactly and it goes both ways too you
12635s	know the other team having smart bombs
12636s	might have been able to survive through
12637s	the uh Argus plus EOS damage it's not
12641s	very high damage that the Novak team had
12643s	but they were able to crawl through
12644s	things slowly per se this Absolution as
12647s	we see that go down now and time has run
12650s	out in the match
12652s	throwing this back to the desk
12660s	all right
12697s	ass
12704s	there's nothing back there for you and I
12706s	see
12707s	full control
12712s	where are you guys something went angry
12716s	dude they weren't angry before kill him
12718s	which which one's grabbing this one on
12720s	the clock
12721s	owned by Reds not like this kill the
12724s	rats
12727s	relax
12729s	I'm gonna die dude I was yeah I was
12731s	yellow to these it's dead
12735s	they were white a second ago and then
12737s	they just got all Angry
12742s	Novak there handily I say handily just
12746s	clawing a victory there from till
12748s	doomsday in one of our most exciting
12750s	matches uh that we've seen thus far
12752s	that's probably my favorite of the day I
12753s	really enjoyed that one uh it was super
12755s	close we saw till doomsday with that LE
12757s	Shack spilling for ages on that uh that
12761s	again just trying to get it done trying
12762s	desperately to kill it took them I think
12764s	four minutes and 10 seconds to kill that
12767s	ship meanwhile Novak just trying to
12769s	apply DPS trying to just get some of the
12771s	little things at the bottom end of uh of
12773s	until doomsday side we saw them go for
12775s	the logistics figures near the start
12776s	they recognize hey that's not working we
12779s	need to swap targets and it was just
12781s	it's back and forth back and forward and
12783s	Bart I think you were saying you don't
12784s	think Novak wins that they didn't bring
12786s	the flagship so good good decision there
12789s	by Novak to bring that Flagship then it
12790s	was and it's always a risk especially on
12792s	day one to just like basically set up
12795s	and say all right cool we're doing this
12797s	um they've almost lost it
12799s	so if they had lost it then we'd say oh
12801s	they were dumb for bringing their
12802s	Flagship because you know that's that's
12803s	how it always is uh yes they were
12804s	incredibly smart and skilled and
12806s	talented because they didn't lose and if
12808s	they had lost you'd be like haha they
12810s	lost their Flagship day one look at
12811s	their look at their kill mail look how
12813s	bad he could have fun but yeah I don't
12814s	think they won that without bringing a
12816s	flagship
12816s	um the bargist is probably one of the
12819s	best scaling flagships in the game uh
12823s	just because of the way uh officer rapid
12825s	Heavies which is I'm guessing they're
12827s	probably using that's sort of the reason
12828s	why you bring a Bargas um officer rabbit
12830s	heavy is like drastically increase your
12832s	damage uh and so much so that you can
12835s	actually bring an armor bargist fitted
12837s	incredibly tanky uh like model Saints
12840s	probably had double low slot reps and
12843s	still do drastically more DPS than a
12845s	shield bargist and just stomp stuff
12848s	um I think that without that that extra
12850s	couple hundred DPS the extra fire rate I
12853s	don't think that Novak won that because
12855s	it was a super close match yeah it
12857s	really really was well done to those
12858s	teams I was I was super questioning of
12861s	the the the value of bringing a tech one
12863s	Logistics frigate with your Deacon I I
12866s	don't like that I always find that if I
12868s	if I'm your opponent and I see you have
12870s	one Tech too they just expect one tech
12872s	one Logistics frigate well I just killed
12874s	attack one one because it's quite easy
12875s	to kill and then your attack two
12877s	Logistics has nobody and it is easy to
12879s	kill it just doesn't seem to to work for
12881s	me but this time we saw till doomsday
12883s	really struggling to kill that
12884s	Inquisitor so excellent Logistics
12886s	piloting by both of the uh both teams
12888s	really to be honest to make it as close
12890s	as it was uh but especially uh with a
12892s	Inquisitor for one point uh pretty good
12894s	value the fact that it kept that alive
12895s	for so long uh it was one of the reasons
12898s	along with the flagship of course that
12900s	Novak were able to eke out that W uh
12902s	let's look forward to our next match
12904s	which I'm looking forward to because
12905s	it's fraternity versus bright side of
12906s	death two alliances with very similar
12909s	experiences in the alliance tournament
12911s	let's see if we can throw up their uh
12913s	their team sort of stats over the years
12916s	so we're looking at fraternity first 40
12918s	pilots and just a little bit more in
12921s	terms of wins and losses uh it's
12923s	actually super close eleven one and uh
12926s	eight losses there for Fraternity uh
12928s	they lost last year to the network and
12929s	literally triggered other than that so
12931s	it's more than more than 50 I say it's
12933s	pretty decent now let's have a look over
12935s	at uh bright side of death now and you
12938s	can see again 44 not that many more
12940s	pilots have played this time 10 wins and
12943s	nine losses so both teams just right on
12946s	that the cusp of each other in terms of
12947s	a number of Pilots number of matches
12950s	played number of wins number of losses
12951s	so this is uh two very very evenly
12954s	matched teams so I'm very excited to see
12957s	how this one goes
12960s	like my pirate what are you thinking
12961s	they make what might happen here I think
12963s	uh something to look at is that faffi
12965s	wafi is like one of the most tournamenty
12969s	Veterinary uh Pilots of all time and if
12971s	you saw in the little list there uh he's
12974s	played 50 rounds which is a lot like
12976s	most teams you know if you go zero two
12978s	that's two rounds if you go zero two for
12980s	every Alliance tournament that's maybe
12982s	like what 38 38 nice good job
12985s	um so he's played at least 50 rounds uh
12987s	and I believe it's the team captain of
12989s	bright side of death and they've been
12990s	performing pretty well for the last
12992s	couple years I think they've kind of uh
12994s	people really like to say like oh I got
12996s	a hard bracket and that's why I lost but
12997s	I think that bright side of death has
12998s	actually been getting really hard
13000s	brackets recently and they're a very
13003s	very scary team
13005s	um also because they sort of have uh
13007s	generally the people that they practice
13009s	with are maybe a little bit more off
13011s	meta like you're not going to see public
13012s	practices from Bright Side of death so
13014s	they might bring something weird like
13016s	they've always brought weird stuff well
13017s	let's take a look at the bands for this
13019s	match and see if the bands perhaps are
13021s	also a little bit weird so if fraternity
13023s	versus both of the death fraternity
13025s	Banning out the balgorn the Scimitar the
13027s	Osprey and the arthrus whereas bees are
13030s	choosing to ban out the curse the
13031s	arbitrator at the Sentinel and the
13033s	crucifier so that says to me we do not
13036s	like weapon disruption moderator what do
13040s	you think of this
13041s	yeah I mean it says to me that I want to
13044s	bring either one of two things I want to
13046s	bring a cop that can kite very far out
13047s	and weapon disruption is going to
13049s	basically completely shut that down or
13051s	they want to bring maximum threat here
13054s	meanwhile fraternity saying hey uh we
13056s	also don't want to deal with some kiting
13057s	orthos being kind of a kite ship uh
13060s	Scimitar being kind of the ideology and
13062s	if you're forced to bring
13065s	um the Basilisk
13067s	um not just a but an excellent
13068s	commentator for the alliance tournament
13070s	team it's a lot slower
13073s	um so that would be difficult and also
13076s	the balgorn has been banned as well
13078s	which is does a good job at having its
13081s	long range web bonus to you know get on
13083s	top of any sort of a kiting ship I find
13086s	the Osprey ban here kind of an
13087s	interesting one because it's not the
13088s	tattoo basilisk it's just the tech one
13091s	Logistics Cruiser bar any any reason why
13094s	you might find that I think that if
13096s	you're still going to try to do a shield
13098s	kite you can't really use the logistics
13100s	frigates because they're too slow
13102s	um obviously you can't use the scimitary
13103s	because it's banned and generally uh
13106s	Ospreys are actually very fast for a T1
13108s	lodgy ship so you could theoretically
13111s	run an osprey with a shield kite instead
13115s	of using a scimitar but you can't really
13117s	use a bassless because again basilisks
13119s	also slow so I think that
13121s	they're thinking is like we want a band
13123s	Shield cut out completely
13125s	um but I don't really think that we're
13128s	going to be seeing that because they
13130s	tell you what we will see a pilgrim nope
13133s	a flagship Vindicator on the fraternity
13136s	side as we are ready to head over to the
13138s	arena with our casters uh mizir and Mark
13141s	resurrectus
13147s	hello everyone and welcome to Arena this
13150s	is match number 12 and I miss and
13151s	Whitney is a Marcus erectus and this is
13154s	a fraternity in red versus the bright
13156s	side of death in the blue so there's a
13158s	lot of big guns on this field you can
13160s	tell me about them
13161s	yeah miss working at a a flagship
13164s	Vindicator from our team from fraternity
13167s	we have fabuki waifu in the vindi and
13170s	then not a ton of other DPS we've got
13172s	the oniros as their soul logy and then
13175s	double Pilgrim a lot of control Magus
13177s	Pawnee Blackbird carries Sybil Professor
13180s	Ms tell me about the team from Bright
13182s	Side of death
13184s	they're called onion and big guns with
13186s	two abandons at Redeemer and two Oracle
13188s	so all these big lasers that's why they
13190s	wanted to bend our tracking disruptors
13192s	but the red team just brought some
13195s	pilgrims so let's see if this play is
13197s	going to pay off them as the game has
13198s	begun yeah half the ships uh from Bright
13201s	Side of death are Fielding are Fielding
13203s	Battleship lasers uh so this is a ton of
13206s	DPS if they can get to apply and right
13208s	now going in early on the Blackbird
13210s	trying to get rid of some of that ECM
13212s	that can cause some problems especially
13213s	for that for their uh you know for the
13216s	frigate lodgy down below
13218s	yeah these leadership usually can shoot
13220s	very fine Reach Out And Touch that black
13223s	bird but the pilgrims are going to make
13225s	it difficult for them as they're trying
13226s	to like apply a real amount of damage
13228s	they're trying to switch to confess or
13229s	taking some armor damage but will they
13231s	be able to finish it off you can see the
13233s	three battleships from Bright Side of
13235s	death Mosey across the field they're
13236s	trying to close some range uh that being
13239s	said they get within range of The
13240s	Vindicator The Vindicator again Flagship
13241s	Vindicator from fraternity you gotta
13243s	think that things got a little bit of
13245s	the old drip uh so it would be a it
13247s	would be a dangerous spot to be in but
13249s	at the same time if you're that
13250s	Vindicator you're looking at you're
13251s	looking at five different sets of
13253s	Battleship pulse lasers has a lot to
13255s	deal with yeah it looks like there's a
13257s	team that's going to go back to a
13260s	microgram Drive pick and then like
13261s	Channel out maybe waiting for a play
13263s	there they're being patient as you do
13265s	see two of the battleships from The Blue
13267s	Team burning one that only one routine
13270s	by the enclosed the third uh Battleship
13273s	coming in
13274s	yeah frat team really playing this smart
13276s	I mean they're playing it slowly they're
13277s	they're being careful not extending
13279s	themselves too much and and to be clear
13281s	letting these three battleships just
13283s	kind of come in if they get too far away
13285s	from the rest of the team that you know
13287s	and give them a little bit too far
13289s	extended they can really kind of spring
13290s	the trap on them uh if they want to
13294s	yeah for the pulling off a micro drum
13296s	Drive move is going to be difficult so
13298s	it's going to be high risk play Let's
13300s	see if they're actually going to do do
13302s	it or they're just chilling out here
13303s	they're not really all on the beacon
13305s	there still have the S3 pool and the
13307s	confess on the front
13309s	we're starting to see the Oracle of
13310s	kirilako coming down to join his friends
13312s	in the battleships uh and and again
13315s	they're not now the team is sitting
13316s	quite on the beacon so you think that
13318s	they may be you know not quite in the in
13321s	the right area where you want them to be
13322s	able to be to make that play but uh you
13325s	know the Vindicator taking a little bit
13326s	of damage the spiffle of chess player
13328s	and the frat team taking a little bit of
13329s	damage now but none of this is too much
13330s	nulls being everything's being held up
13332s	just fine at this point
13335s	yeah we're having some damage drones
13336s	from the red team on the blue uh lucky
13339s	frigate but wrapping up easily and I
13341s	think the other support chips are like
13343s	just killing off these damage Thrones so
13345s	just throwing away that damage don't try
13346s	absolutely nothing
13348s	yeah I it's an interesting position here
13350s	because the the Fret team doesn't have
13352s	it we mentioned this fight team does not
13353s	have a ton of DBS has a lot of control
13355s	opposite situation for the team from
13357s	Bright Side of death so if you're fret
13359s	you really need to be you have to be
13361s	careful because you need to be you have
13363s	to make sure that I can all of that
13365s	control you've got all of those Cruisers
13366s	all those those uh Desi's and frigates
13369s	are are you know are staying up that's
13371s	the way you win this game if you can
13372s	keep those ships alive and apply Max
13374s	images you see now a lot of damage going
13376s	in here on silent 2000 in the avadon has
13379s	he dips into uh oh he's getting into
13382s	armor
13383s	yeah so it looks like he's actually
13384s	being whipped by The Vindicator now and
13386s	they're just shooting at each other and
13388s	indicators not going in hard right now
13391s	just keeping a bit of a distance like
13392s	shooting at each other uh I think
13394s	they're really really scared of
13396s	committing because they have that
13397s	disadvantages when it comes to Raw
13399s	damage
13400s	yeah I would certainly I mean again it's
13403s	just a lot of damage there's a lot of I
13404s	mean you can see the difference on the
13407s	screen right now between the Frat attack
13409s	part and the bright side of The Deck bar
13410s	it is more than half or more than double
13413s	sorry as much available DPS it's all
13416s	about what they're going to be able to
13417s	apply how much control they're gonna be
13419s	able to maintain across this grid if if
13421s	they can and that's the thing if the
13422s	Vinny gets close enough then a lot of
13424s	this track instruction isn't going to
13425s	matter so he's he's being careful he's
13426s	keeping his he's keeping assistance here
13431s	you're not seeing a lot of damage going
13433s	on there's still a lot of new things
13435s	like the blue team having that Redeemer
13437s	with the bonus new sliders and the red
13440s	team having two pilgrims so they're like
13442s	trying to to put pressure on each
13444s	other's capacity and trying to win out
13446s	that their new team wall
13448s	oh the Navitas of Burden Burden for X
13452s	Shanna of bright side of death goes down
13454s	got caught a little bit out of position
13455s	coming up to try and help out the homies
13457s	now they might try to make a make a
13459s	trade here for chess player in the
13461s	snipple chess player he moved up to to
13463s	to grab that kill there is a little bit
13466s	but you're trading Logie for a t3d it's
13469s	probably a pretty good most people
13470s	probably take that trade yeah let's take
13472s	that trade any day so this chess player
13474s	actually knows how the trading Works in
13476s	chess as well like sacrificing just a
13478s	pawn for a important piece uh this could
13481s	be what uh brings the uh and Red Team
13484s	fraternity team in the leadership finish
13486s	off they quit somehow with no one else
13488s	to prep him up yeah The Inquisitor is
13490s	going to go down you can see the
13491s	Confessor as well of Casimir exhusai
13494s	exercise uh taking a little bit of
13497s	damage but again well done so far by the
13499s	owneros pilot again keeping plenty of
13501s	range keeping the keeping the boys up
13503s	keeping everybody healthy uh all the
13505s	while this confeder this uh this this
13507s	Vindicator sorry goodness this
13509s	Vindicator is still trying to keep a
13511s	little bit of range but you can see that
13512s	they're starting to close in on him uh
13515s	Desi keys in the avadon is getting with
13517s	not quite there but he's getting within
13519s	range close enough to be a little bit
13521s	spooky
13522s	yeah he's getting close enough to
13523s	actually apply some damage to that black
13525s	bird but when you should be able to talk
13527s	him off easily so that looks like the
13530s	personality team is a really good uh
13532s	comfortable position as they're like
13533s	fishing off the pontifex taking off
13535s	those links making it easier to kill the
13537s	big guys yes yes they're doing this
13539s	exactly the way they needed to exactly
13541s	where they need to they they're faced
13542s	with overwhelming damage and when you're
13544s	in that position and you don't have
13546s	nearly as much you have to string them
13548s	out be careful that being said I say
13550s	this fabuki waifu is taking quite a bit
13552s	of damage now you can see those lasers
13554s	are starting to apply as they've said to
13556s	come into range and he is tackled by
13558s	this malediction uh and uh it's gonna be
13562s	a lot of effort on the oneros now to
13564s	keep him up
13569s	the blue team is losing more and more
13571s	ships and they have to like really do
13573s	something quickly because
13574s	uh even though the Vindicator is like
13576s	the only real DPS the red team have they
13579s	the blue team just doesn't have much
13580s	control so it's not sure if they can
13582s	actually finish that one off because
13583s	they can just get harassed by everything
13586s	else trying to make your life difficult
13588s	and I said that and immediately the
13590s	malediction got smoked they must be
13591s	listening to our comms uh but yeah again
13594s	still more damage going in on Cylon 2000
13596s	in the Abaddon the Magus of kinwaru from
13599s	Bright Side of death also now taking a
13601s	lot of damage swarmed by drones
13603s	currently and he will go down leaving
13606s	just the large laser battleships and
13610s	battle Cruisers remaining but now fabuki
13613s	waifu in that flag vinty is half armor
13616s	half armor if he can't stay up that's
13618s	going to be that is almost all of their
13621s	DPS they have almost nothing left
13624s	yes the blue really need to finish off
13626s	that Vindicator right now as the only
13628s	hope to actually get something done in
13630s	this match today I was trying to
13632s	accommodate in the Oracle of clearly
13634s	cool got in too close but he's doing the
13636s	right thing he's like burning back
13637s	pulling back forcing them to go in close
13639s	if they wanted to kill
13641s	uh just a heroic effort by copper CN and
13644s	the ineros right now uh to try and keep
13646s	this his his homie fabuki waifu alive
13649s	long enough to take down this Abaddon
13651s	try and clear some of this DPS it's just
13654s	so much DPS and the effort is being
13656s	rewarded the owneros putting him back
13658s	over the halfway point of armor what a
13661s	play here so well done yeah if we did
13665s	the right thing like this is something
13666s	that could be really hard to do as an
13668s	indicator pilot but actually pulling
13669s	away sort of like Get topped off and
13671s	then turning back in when you're like uh
13674s	at full HP again
13676s	we've got two minutes remaining and
13677s	again in this position you don't have to
13680s	make a play you don't have to dive in
13682s	try and kill the Abaddon you don't have
13684s	to dive in try and go for the Oracle you
13686s	can do exactly what they're doing right
13687s	now keep your distance keep pulling back
13688s	make forcing to come towards you and use
13691s	those strong Vindicator webs to keep
13693s	them at range if they can keep this up
13694s	for the next two minutes the score is
13696s	not very I mean the score the the number
13698s	of kills right now are pretty low we've
13700s	only it's four to 17 right now but frat
13702s	does have that Advantage if they can
13704s	keep this up they're going to take this
13705s	match
13707s	they're being extremely patient they're
13710s	not trying to like get greedy or
13711s	anything they're still being extremely
13713s	defensively and just taking what the the
13716s	blue team is offering them and uh that
13720s	same swarm of drones from earlier has
13722s	now come down on kyrillico in the Oracle
13725s	who is getting this is smoked smoked I
13729s	say by a cloud of drones that will
13731s	reduce significantly the outcoming DPS
13734s	from the team from from uh bright side
13736s	of death
13737s	yeah in the meantime silly on 2000s
13739s	getting so low armor there's not much to
13742s	keep him alive so even then can get a
13745s	grinder down slowly even if it's just a
13747s	single ship they're doing it well you're
13749s	absolutely right Ms and you can see
13750s	right now he seems to realize that he
13752s	has done an about face and is burning
13754s	away from The Vindicator he knows he
13757s	knows he does not is not long for this
13759s	world if the Vinnie can apply keep
13760s	applying to him at range he is in whole
13763s	essentially against remaining today
13764s	running out of times they actually want
13766s	to kill him but they don't have to but
13767s	it's still like I could like final uh
13770s	trophy yeah yeah just get one more for
13772s	the road just a little taste just a
13774s	little bit you know just a little
13775s	something something for the folks back
13776s	home
13779s	really well done
13781s	yeah yeah really well done by fret five
13785s	seconds remaining
13788s	absolute hero played by the years people
13790s	to getting that the
13792s	logic Killers we see fraternity taking
13794s	the win against the right side of her
13798s	death and uh with that we'll send it
13800s	back to the boys in the studio
13832s	thank you
13865s	foreign
13887s	to their turning the lighter on bright
13889s	side of death as they take that
13891s	well-fought Victory uh our number one
13894s	fraternity FC mystical Knight will be
13897s	extremely pleased to see his team taking
13899s	that dub in a hard-fought match there
13902s	both teams just flew excellently I think
13905s	we were all in agreement on that there
13908s	um beside at the start mod you were
13909s	pointing out they did the right thing
13911s	they just balled up I mean The
13912s	Vindicator was 90 long range webs
13914s	especially a flagship Vindicator
13917s	you're going to get screened off so they
13919s	stuck all together and moved in like
13920s	tell me a little bit about that strategy
13922s	yeah so the idea is that the bad ends
13925s	want to try to stick together with the
13927s	Redeemer as well if you get one ship you
13929s	know pulled away from everyone else The
13931s	Vindicator can really kind of pounce on
13933s	that and take it out especially a flag
13935s	of indicator like fabuki waifu so
13938s	um they did an excellent job of also you
13940s	know protecting their oracles as well
13941s	but
13943s	um the fraternity side they did you know
13945s	an even better job of using their
13947s	pilgrims the only unbanned guidance
13950s	disruption ship and they completely just
13952s	shut down the range of you know those
13955s	Amar lasers
13957s	super interesting to see if we see more
13960s	pilgrims start to appear I do feel like
13963s	of all the all the ships that can bring
13965s	tracking and guidance disruption Bart
13967s	the pilgrim is probably the least likely
13969s	one to be brought if the other ones are
13971s	all available
13972s	um so it's only ever really going to
13974s	come up in these situations where
13975s	they're all banned do you agree with
13976s	that yeah I mean it's it's so unlikely
13978s	that a couple about an hour ago I
13980s	actually forgot that it existed um and
13982s	you know misty misty was able to you
13984s	know actually there's a pilgrim uh I
13987s	don't know if that's what happened with
13988s	uh bright side of death maybe they
13989s	forgot pilgrims assisted too but I do
13991s	think that you know when you get into
13992s	something like Band Theory
13994s	um
13995s	obviously we talked about the spiraling
13997s	and The Madness of like well if they if
13999s	I ban this what if they ban that but
14001s	there's a certain point where if you ban
14002s	four of the five tracking disruptorships
14004s	you're probably saying I really don't
14006s	want to see tracking disruption and I do
14009s	think that maybe if you are going to do
14011s	that maybe we should take out the
14013s	pilgrim because the pilgrim has it's a
14015s	dual role and actually it's almost like
14017s	three rules because they actually do
14018s	decent drone damage which we saw there
14019s	it wasn't just the Bendy doing damage uh
14022s	they knew really really well and they
14024s	tracking guide assist rep really really
14025s	well so ban the curse ban the pilgrim
14028s	ban The Sentinel
14031s	maybe leave the crucifier up
14033s	putting that out there arbitrators
14035s	should probably ban that one too but
14036s	like of them all I mean we did see a
14038s	crucifier kind of sort of won a match by
14040s	doing some weird mjd plays after they
14041s	burned their prop mod but that's
14043s	probably less likely to happen your
14045s	Shield crucifier somehow surviving
14047s	versus like 90 PS ships than uh we saw
14050s	earlier today but hey strange things
14051s	have been happening today so here we are
14052s	I've got pilgrims also have uh drone Bay
14055s	as well so we saw what looked like a
14058s	large clouds of red bots on top of that
14060s	Flagship Vindicator probably one of the
14062s	key things that kept it alive towards
14063s	the end there where it looked like miso
14065s	had got into position and they're like
14067s	hey we need to all in on this it's been
14069s	because they had tackle on it near the
14070s	start and it you know it slipped away
14073s	and then later on we saw that the uh I
14076s	think the Redeemer was getting screened
14077s	off by that Flagship Vindicator with 90
14079s	webs you ain't getting close to anything
14081s	and one of the abandons came in gave it
14083s	a dunk knocked it closer which is a
14085s	really good way of moving ships around
14086s	under 90 webs if you're uh you know uh
14089s	wrinkly enough to be able to do
14091s	something like that
14092s	screening as well moderator we saw um
14095s	return to do a really good job of
14096s	screening off that Besar team talk to me
14098s	about what screening actually is
14100s	yeah so screening is basically the use
14103s	of typically frigates or Cruisers these
14106s	more faster mobile ships to either
14109s	defensively protect your key ship so
14112s	that's usually going to be like a lodgy
14113s	maybe defending something like a curse
14116s	or in this case a pilgrim and the idea
14118s	there is that you're using you know your
14121s	support your lower cost chips to
14123s	basically defend the most important
14124s	pieces so you know like a chess player
14127s	uh you know sometimes you know you use
14129s	your pawns to protect your queen so
14133s	awesome thank you for that wonderful
14135s	analogy there uh let's move on to our
14137s	next matchup which is another one I'm
14138s	looking very much forward to it's we
14140s	form Volta versus Darkseid so let's take
14142s	a look at the bands for this match
14145s	we from Volta uh Banning of the EOS the
14148s	Deacon Italia and the Loki so really
14150s	taking out both of the armor Logistics
14152s	uh Tech 2 frigates Dark Side banning at
14155s	the hyena Osprey Navy issue caracal Navy
14157s	issue and a badon character Aviation is
14160s	an interesting one here Blackboard what
14162s	do you think about this uh the caracal
14163s	Navy issues this kind of weird ship
14165s	where it can be both a ham Rush ship or
14168s	a rapid light ship but kind of both ways
14170s	they do a substantial amount of damage
14172s	actually and um weirdly enough if you
14175s	want to do a rapid light kite nowadays
14178s	some of the main ships you want to ban
14179s	is an osprey Navy issue and a caracal
14181s	Navy issue because just the way the
14183s	points have kind of worked out over the
14185s	years you know you're not going to take
14186s	cerberuses because they take way too
14187s	many points so seeing a hyena bin and
14190s	Osprey Navy Band and a caracal Navy ban
14192s	that's like it's really hard to do a
14194s	rapid light kite and I think uh you know
14198s	Volta traditionally very very good
14200s	Pilots
14201s	um one of the uh maybe not necessarily
14203s	this year we haven't seen it yet but
14205s	kind of one of the old tactics was if
14207s	you knew a team that you were like we
14210s	don't necessarily think you're as good
14211s	as us you would just hit them with like
14213s	the kite stuff the the rapid light kite
14215s	ships blow up their small end and then
14217s	just fly around in circles with them so
14218s	maybe Darkseid is not prepared to fight
14220s	up against that and so that's why
14222s	they're like hey what if you can't bring
14223s	it yeah I like the hyena band here from
14226s	Dark Side uh hyena has a very very good
14228s	screening ship uh very good uh
14231s	assistantship with his uh bonus Target
14233s	Panthers as well and flown a lot by
14235s	teams like Volta using to see Pilots
14237s	like toxic flying around in that hyena
14240s	extremely powerful for a very small
14242s	amount of points moderator why is hyena
14244s	just so powerful so the hyena is so
14247s	powerful because it costs very little as
14249s	an electronic attack frigate but it has
14251s	a bonus to its uh painting and also its
14255s	web range so for very few points you get
14257s	kind of the almost equivalent of what
14260s	you would have to spend a balgorn or a
14262s	hugin's point on and the problem with
14264s	getting any of the Minotaur kind of
14268s	heavy Cruisers is that they're so
14270s	expensive so the hyena very difficult to
14272s	Pilot but when flown correctly it's one
14274s	of the most powerful ships for the point
14275s	value in the game of course one of the
14278s	downsides of a ship with like a hyena is
14280s	because it's an electronic attack
14281s	frigate it is not very tanky whatsoever
14283s	so you do need to be really on the ball
14286s	with your positioning
14288s	um your your awareness if you get caught
14289s	up by a flight of drones like if you
14291s	come in and as a hyena and you see like
14293s	a worm on the other side you really got
14295s	to be careful because you can just you
14296s	can chase you down he's quite fast you
14298s	can drop his drone so you can press F
14300s	and you're in trouble so you got to be
14302s	as close really as possible to your uh
14304s	Logistics pilot without being caught and
14306s	that brings a little bit of a topic but
14308s	positioning so Bart we talked time to
14310s	talk about the teams making a
14312s	positioning mistake or a pilot being out
14313s	of position what does that really mean I
14315s	think it's a at the end of the day you
14317s	know Eve is very much a slightly slower
14320s	paced game and once you commit to these
14322s	big fights especially in an at situation
14324s	sometimes you can be locked down um we
14326s	saw in this specific match or the last
14329s	match we saw really good positioning on
14331s	bright side of death where they kept all
14333s	their battleships together they kept
14334s	their back line in range of their
14336s	battleships and they moved in as a unit
14338s	which meant that even though they did
14340s	get screened eventually and they got
14341s	neuted and jammed and all those fun
14343s	things they were still kind of all
14345s	together whereas earlier today we saw a
14347s	team that kind of messed up their
14348s	positioning and they got screened really
14349s	split apart and just picked apart and
14351s	100 to zeroed and there was you know no
14353s	contest on that so making sure you're in
14355s	the right spot is super important
14357s	because once you're tackled a lot of
14360s	times you're going to stay tackled
14361s	especially if Nobody's around you to
14363s	actually save you yeah I mean both these
14366s	teams here Volta and dark side have two
14368s	really good Logistics Pilots uh you're
14370s	likely to see them flying Logistics just
14372s	continuously they're never going to swap
14373s	around it's one of those positions in
14374s	the alliance tournament team that you
14376s	get someone or maybe two people who are
14378s	very very good at it and those are the
14379s	only things that they do is just fly
14381s	those and both like I say Walter Android
14384s	said have excellent Logistics Cruiser
14386s	pilots and great examples of people to
14388s	watch their positioning you'll probably
14390s	see them moving around staying so their
14392s	team is between them and the enemies
14394s	they're going to keep themselves in
14395s	range to be able to wret their buddies
14397s	if someone overextends you might see
14398s	them sometimes die for just enough
14401s	um as opposed to maybe a slightly less
14402s	experienced pilot they see a friend
14404s	getting a hit on who's been screened
14406s	further down they come flying in they
14408s	over commit the other team just switches
14410s	straight onto that Logistics Cruiser so
14412s	positioning very very important and
14414s	really good teams are sort of just
14416s	keeping aware situational awareness of
14418s	what's happening in the arena to take
14420s	advantage of these positional mistakes
14422s	moderate or any any sort of uh comments
14424s	on the positioning and the importance of
14426s	it yeah I mean if you uh you know you
14428s	see for your friend getting hit on
14430s	usually you want to wingman them but
14432s	literally in this case if you're um a
14434s	logic Pilot We were talking about
14435s	screening earlier and they're like one
14438s	of the key ships that you have to screen
14440s	I had the kind of the pleasure of
14441s	speaking to ryload earlier for an
14443s	interview he as you were referring to is
14445s	probably one of the better lodgy pilots
14447s	in the game uh playing now for Volta so
14450s	uh definitely a player to look out for
14453s	absolutely
14454s	um so we've got about two minutes for
14456s	this matchup and um I I know this is
14459s	this I think has been one of those
14460s	matches that uh I know the Volta team
14462s	have been you know trying to prepare
14463s	themselves for Darkseid is a tough
14465s	opponent they're a really experienced
14467s	team they've been uh a team that's had
14469s	great success in last tournament in the
14470s	past they have their video winner um but
14472s	I believe they've got definitely top it
14474s	a number of times I think last year
14475s	there were top seven for example which
14477s	is pretty good uh Volta last year uh
14479s	came third year before they came second
14481s	uh and of course a number of the pilots
14483s	still in the team uh one Alliance
14485s	tournament in Alliance tournament 10
14486s	with Roger collapse so this is to
14488s	extremely experienced teams going up
14490s	against each other here so I expect we
14492s	will see some excellent piloting uh some
14494s	excellent ship fittings some excellent
14497s	compositions I just think this is going
14499s	to be a really good match
14500s	um anything further to say before we
14502s	hand this one over I feel like you're a
14503s	little biased yeah no no no no no no I'm
14506s	completely and utterly unbiased
14508s	um in this particular thing go Volta all
14511s	right let's hand over two Alex and Chad
14514s	in the arena for beef on Volta versus
14516s	dark side
14521s	welcome to the arena I am Chad flame
14523s	here with Alex I have card watching the
14525s	we form Volta vs Darkseid match Alex
14528s	would you like to go over the dark side
14529s	comp for us
14530s	dark side has brought a modified pseudo
14533s	dad set up investing in those long-range
14535s	medium guns but with a bit of a tweak
14537s	they have a Vigilant here which is a
14541s	smaller version of The Vindicator it
14543s	gets a very powerful web bonus which
14545s	will be really helpful for any ships
14547s	that are coming in
14549s	and on the reform volatile side we're
14551s	looking at a heavy armor control comp
14553s	with the shock Widow Guardian as well as
14555s	a blackbird for some more damps and some
14558s	tackle Cruisers to hold back the dark
14561s	side team and the match links are going
14563s	up Matt's going to be going underway in
14565s	a second let's see what these opening
14566s	moves are
14567s	there you see Volta kind of uh balled
14570s	themselves up into two distinct balls
14572s	whereas dark side oh my gosh that Magus
14575s	is gone
14576s	absolutely gone a very key Target called
14579s	taking links away from the Volta team
14582s	they still have a pontificon grid you're
14584s	gonna see how they split those links up
14586s	I'm sure that all the armor links are
14588s	not necessarily on that pawn fix so that
14590s	is definitely going to make a big
14591s	difference as we see these fitbull being
14593s	the next Target and Volta has not
14594s	applied any meaningful damage to the
14596s	dark side team yet
14598s	it's definitely one of the most
14599s	consequential and effective initial
14601s	volleys we've seen from one of these
14603s	long-range teams very popular comp today
14605s	but never quite as dramatic as that
14608s	taking that Vegas out almost immediately
14610s	uh meanwhile the vexer now of zebediah
14613s	crane taking a lot of damage while Fern
14615s	Scorch carries is about to drop for
14618s	Darkseid
14620s	uh seeing gems split really well between
14622s	the uh Volta uh Widow and Blackbird as
14626s	damage seems to have fallen off a little
14628s	bit from the Dark Side onto the Volta
14630s	team as well as damps though coming from
14633s	the Dark Side teams carries as you said
14635s	that could go down that would free up
14637s	some of the vaults was damaged to
14638s	potentially get a few other targets down
14640s	just when it looked like he would drop
14642s	he's pulling the armor back almost to
14644s	full now both teams applaud their
14646s	electronic warfare fantastically with
14648s	the jams going out from the Volta side
14650s	Dark Side just applying a whole range of
14653s	damps and as soon as those damps went
14655s	out you saw that damage drop off like a
14657s	rock
14658s	both teams are going to have a hard time
14660s	concentrating their fire with this much
14662s	electronic warfare on the field you see
14665s	the Vigilant taking a lot of focus from
14667s	the Volta team now that is a high
14669s	priority Target with those webs it also
14671s	does a pretty fair amount of damage on
14673s	its own right meanwhile the vexer is
14676s	still under Fire and whatever ships can
14678s	hit it are shooting that blackbird
14680s	interesting you point out with all this
14682s	e-word
14683s	um Dark Side taking advantage before the
14685s	e-board could land instantly deleting
14687s	that Magus getting the one crucial hit
14689s	just uh get the match started but from
14692s	that we have seen two minutes of just
14694s	picking at each other's team with no
14696s	meaningful damage being done and just
14698s	you were swapping all left right and
14700s	center but what I say that the vexer
14702s	actually about to go down
14703s	yeah he is dropping very rapidly now and
14706s	he is down that's the loss of a pretty
14708s	sizable amount of damage that wasn't
14710s	even with the webs
14712s	that was just a raw man mode with these
14716s	long-range medium guns High tracking
14718s	high damage uh the hulls that they've
14720s	brought are are fairly well bonused for
14723s	that kind of thing now they're going
14724s	after the Confessor of pretorius
14725s	momentous and he is dropping rapidly
14728s	trying to get some reps from that
14730s	Guardian which is a very powerful
14732s	logistic ship but will it be enough it
14735s	seems to possibly be it's really going
14737s	to come down to Planet Six and how well
14739s	he can adjust because it seems like
14742s	whatever Darkseid wants to shoot if they
14744s	don't get that logy rep in time it will
14746s	go down
14747s	yeah Planet Six known for being one of
14749s	the really high tier lodging Pilots
14751s	showing right here keeping that
14752s	Confessor alive in half structure also
14755s	noting though Volta is heavily relying
14757s	on these jams Landing to shut down these
14759s	mid-range medium turret um Cruisers and
14763s	battle Cruisers which are effectively
14764s	tracking and doing damage at whatever
14766s	range they choose and picking apart
14768s	these targets it really puts Focus uh to
14771s	that Guardian pilot you never know
14772s	what's going to be next the amount of
14774s	value they put out is extremely high and
14776s	shoot very fast being armor ships they
14778s	have to wait for the end of the cycle of
14780s	that armor wrap to go off to receive
14781s	those reps if you live that long it
14784s	comes down to that kind of and those
14785s	jams heading yeah and being in the
14788s	meantime dark sides carries has dropped
14791s	which will drop the dams from the Volta
14793s	team they're now going to be able to
14794s	coordinate their fire a lot more
14796s	effectively we'll see how that affects
14798s	this match here but you're absolutely
14800s	right if they get a window where the
14802s	jams don't land again it's it's a roll
14804s	the diocese to whether the ECM will
14806s	actually break the locks of these ships
14808s	if they can coordinate their fire they
14810s	have clearly shown the ability to punch
14812s	through one of these ships before Planet
14814s	six's reps will land
14816s	and they're trying to do that with the
14818s	Mauler here it's one of the tougher
14819s	Targets on the Volta team but they're
14822s	still giving Planet Six a run for his
14824s	money here meanwhile Sky Keller's
14826s	Harbinger Navy is taking tremendous
14828s	amount of fire not known for the tank
14830s	the hard Navy and it is dipping
14833s	the Confessor now getting shot again it
14835s	looks like they switched targets uh
14837s	Confessor down instantly that's another
14838s	tactic a lot of teams team tend to use
14840s	uh against these when these pseudo dad
14842s	setups is because you can shoot a Target
14844s	switch quick enough before the latch can
14846s	trade but now that hard going down
14848s	that's a fair amount of uh damage coming
14850s	from the Dark Side team going down yeah
14852s	and that is the power of the Le Shack
14854s	Annie gardett Le Shack was on top of
14856s	that hard fully spooled up and you could
14859s	see it cut through those hit points like
14860s	butter and unfortunately not many of the
14863s	dark side ships are gonna fare much
14865s	better once the lecheck gets on top of
14867s	them but can it will it lose too much of
14870s	its surrounding team before it does it's
14872s	it's quite far from the next available
14874s	Target and we'll see what happens here
14877s	uh he's currently motoring toward the
14879s	Volta ball excuse me toward the dark
14882s	side ball as they quite quite dutifully
14884s	move in the exact opposite direction and
14887s	begin to spread out a little bit moving
14889s	like a school of fish evading a shark
14891s	here
14892s	there's only so much Arena to do that in
14894s	so it's going to really come down to
14895s	piloting by both teams of cornering
14897s	teams or getting away from being
14899s	cornered uh one thing to note that
14901s	carries going down uh he was definitely
14903s	causing issues for that Blackbird and
14905s	Widow it seemed like only one of them
14906s	was able to jam at a time now every
14908s	single ship almost on the dark side team
14910s	has active jams on it we don't know if
14913s	they're hitting every time but that must
14915s	be a absolute pain for Darkseid as we
14917s	start to see their lodgy pilot taking
14919s	damage
14920s	now if you're the dark side FC you are
14923s	looking desperately for a way to
14924s	position your Fleet to get around that
14927s	Central that Central area of control
14929s	that LE Shack get to the other side of
14931s	it so you can hit the blackbird with the
14934s	Blackbirds tank and their damage output
14937s	they definitely have enough to kill it
14938s	in one shot and it would be a huge turn
14940s	but unfortunately the Blackbird is
14942s	taking advantage of its range it's very
14944s	far away and it's got the entire rest of
14947s	its team between him and all of the dark
14949s	side damage
14952s	it definitely is going to come down to
14954s	uh positioning here it seems like Volta
14956s	has them cornered and they're gonna have
14959s	to try to make a play outside of this as
14961s	they are down by 15 or sorry down by
14964s	about 15 points right now you got to
14966s	turn around and get something down and
14968s	it just seems like everything is stalled
14970s	out since that curious has died
14972s	yeah that may change now that the auger
14974s	is down for dark side that is a huge
14976s	component to them staying alive in this
14978s	match they've got about three minutes
14979s	left to go if they want to just run the
14982s	clock out but they need to actually make
14984s	some progress because they're behind on
14985s	points and not having Logistics means
14988s	any chip damage any drones any glancing
14990s	hits it's all going to take its toll
14992s	they have no way to really pull that
14994s	back at this point and the Vigilant
14996s	desperately needs to as it's dipping
14998s	into about one-third armor they're
15000s	trying to go for a logic trade now
15001s	shooting Planet Six is Guardian but
15003s	that's a much tougher nut to crack than
15006s	the T1 auger
15007s	also the more ships that are dying for
15010s	this dark side team the more focused you
15012s	can make those gems from the Widow and
15013s	the blackward making it harder to commit
15015s	onto this Guardian as you're going to
15017s	have your target lock just canceled out
15019s	where you can only lock the window on
15021s	Blackbird due to these ecms they might
15023s	be able to take them down but that trade
15026s	might be too late because their damage
15027s	is going down just as fast
15029s	absolutely right that job just got a lot
15031s	harder for them losing that Vigilant and
15034s	now they have two fully specked out ECM
15037s	ships attempting to jam only six ships
15039s	on the enemy side they are probably
15042s	gonna have two jams for every pilot the
15044s	chances that they're going to miss both
15045s	of them are not great and you can
15047s	already see that Guardian beginning to
15049s	stabilize he's he's teetering close to
15051s	50 armor but every couple seconds you
15054s	see him pull back a nice big chunk of
15055s	hit points meanwhile The Harbinger he's
15058s	about to drop to half and he has no way
15060s	to bring those hit points back
15062s	and he is tackling he is not going
15064s	anywhere as well as the Absolution being
15066s	scrammed this little shuck is probably
15068s	about to have a field day going in I
15071s	want to shoot that Target I'm going to
15072s	shoot that Target next I just want to
15074s	spool and do damage is tackling coming
15076s	out and starting to tackle down the dark
15078s	side team to allow the shock pilot to do
15080s	whatever it pleases yeah and he's now in
15084s	perfect position for the harbinger you
15085s	can see that full spool taking its toll
15088s	absolutely shredding through the
15089s	structure hit points of Sam Punisher as
15091s	he explodes in a glorious ball of fire
15094s	along at the chances of Darkseid coming
15096s	back into this match they now only have
15099s	five ships left against a blackbird and
15101s	Widow backed up by the damage of villa
15104s	Shack the logistics still alive for
15106s	waveform Volta he stabilized at about 50
15109s	percent it's been about a minute and
15111s	they haven't been able to make much
15112s	progress past that 50 percent line
15114s	they're trying to now pivot to the Widow
15117s	and testing its tank which doesn't seem
15119s	to be that great but it's going to be
15121s	too little too late as the British Navy
15123s	issue is getting spooled on by the Le
15125s	Shack and will soon join the rest of his
15127s	Navy battle cruiser friends in The
15128s	Dugout he is getting absolutely
15130s	brutalized right now and they're not
15133s	going to be able to do enough damage
15134s	quickly enough to come back there's less
15136s	than 30 seconds remaining this British
15138s	Navy will go down they will get nothing
15140s	in trade congratulations we form Volta
15143s	on this thrilling Mash
15145s	you might see Dark Side here getting
15147s	Planet Six done by the end of the game
15149s	but I don't see 15 seconds left them
15151s	doing it it's kind of interesting the
15153s	e-war match play up both teams having e
15156s	wore a very slow start to this match but
15158s	as the e-war went down first on Dark
15160s	Side Volta collected used their lashac
15163s	and the power of their ecms to take
15165s	control of this match winning by e-war
15168s	as well as a lashac and Tackle doing the
15170s	damage it's expected to but that though
15172s	the match is over and we are going to
15173s	send it back to the dusks
15202s	thank you
15207s	are you ready yeah see somebody's house
15210s	on the way what do you think it would
15212s	feel like if a ship worked through your
15215s	house I might have some weird effect
15217s	like imagine
15218s	sneezing like they get explosive
15220s	diarrhea or something like that
15222s	I like sneezing more yeah if he's out of
15227s	your ass
15229s	guys
15232s	you started with the all right you know
15236s	what jump this never happened let's move
15238s	on
15239s	here's our secondary Target this is me
15241s	broadcasted they're jumping now then we
15243s	can
15247s	I want bubbles all over this big guys
15251s	undock now do it now
15269s	we form Volta there with the hard-fought
15271s	w over dark side in a very tense very
15275s	exciting match there uh the the Widow
15278s	from Volta plus the Blackbird just
15280s	managing to hold on stabilize for long
15282s	enough until you know those dice rolls
15284s	started to land exactly as intended and
15287s	allowed them to really start to Snowball
15289s	the match and we talk about ECM
15291s	snowballing sometimes uh where once you
15293s	you take out one ship you can focus that
15295s	ECM power onto less and less and less of
15298s	them and I think we saw that in action
15299s	there also what we saw was uh the power
15302s	of a well-flowing electronic attack
15304s	frigate the carries there from dark side
15307s	which you can tell as soon as that died
15309s	it all started to swing back towards
15310s	Volta like that ship with its damps was
15313s	really able to
15314s	um uh hurt the logistics pilot uh Planet
15317s	Six there reload it was able to hurt the
15318s	Widow is it the heart the Blackbird it
15320s	was just flying around Volta tried to
15321s	hit it really hard they recognized that
15323s	threat but it minus to survive excellent
15325s	piloting there from that that carries
15327s	pilot and it really just shows how
15329s	strong it is I'm joined by CP Kestrel
15331s	how are you hi I'm good
15333s	did you enjoy that match oh yeah that
15335s	was a really good match it was uh a
15338s	great match for showing what like one of
15340s	the ships that you can fly really early
15342s	on can do it's really a cheap ship
15344s	slightly 30 million-esque but it that
15346s	his role in that match was pretty much
15349s	what decided the whole thing exactly
15351s	like if he'd say the light a little bit
15353s	longer I really could have just started
15355s	to uh to have even further and further
15356s	towards Darkseid uh bar any other
15358s	comments about that match
15362s	out of the park but uh I do think that
15364s	you know one thing that is super
15366s	interesting that is the first Widow that
15368s	we've seen for the at obviously we've
15369s	only done so many matches but that is
15371s	also one of the first times I've seen a
15373s	widow win in years so really good job
15376s	devolta for successfully taking kind of
15379s	what I thought is a curse ship and what
15380s	many have and actually doing something
15382s	with it and succeeding in a really cool
15384s	match with a really cool setup yeah it's
15386s	really not as not a super common ship at
15387s	all uh and I don't know perhaps we can
15389s	get a graph at some point probably not
15391s	right now about uh Widow usage in
15393s	Alliance tournament that'd be pretty
15394s	cool so maybe come back to that but for
15396s	now let's look at our next match up
15398s	which is going to be rusty Hyena's Clan
15399s	versus arrival so let's take a look at
15401s	the Bands so rustyness Clan Banning out
15404s	the Nighthawk the curse the Blackbird
15406s	and the Scimitar I feel like that's
15408s	fairly straightforward bands right there
15410s	and then a rival going for executive
15411s	Navy issue or grow an avsu osprey and
15414s	hyena
15416s	um talk to me he's be careful what do
15418s	you think about these bands here yeah
15419s	these all look fairly standard to me the
15421s	extra Aviation or navy showed the two
15423s	most common Cruisers we've seen just
15425s	because they're really powerful navy
15426s	Cruisers the Osprey is probably one of
15429s	the more popular uh Shield Logistics
15431s	Cruisers and then the hyena is just a
15433s	pivotal ship because of the website it
15435s	brings so yeah they all look fairly
15437s	standard to me
15439s	Telegraph anything to you in terms of
15441s	what these teams plan to bring arrival
15443s	have done pretty well over the last
15444s	couple of ATS they I don't think they've
15445s	broken into top eight let me check what
15447s	they did last night last year they went
15449s	ninth which is pretty decent so they're
15450s	just like cusping on that top nine any
15452s	any predictions of what we might see
15454s	from these teams uh I'm kind of feeling
15455s	like a shield rush out of arrival here
15458s	um it sort of looks set up in a way to
15459s	maybe encourage the other team to bring
15462s	like a kind of Battleship heavy setup
15465s	um getting rid of those uh specific
15467s	Cruisers the executor Navy and the auger
15469s	Navy actually makes it very difficult to
15471s	do this like high projection medium gun
15472s	Max threat setup
15474s	um I would love to see a really well
15476s	executed Shield rush I don't think we've
15478s	actually seen one with the exception of
15480s	Odin's call which they
15482s	played that in a slightly different way
15484s	and if you did not watch that match you
15485s	should go watch it because it was a very
15486s	interesting Shield Rush setup but I'm
15488s	kind of feeling like a rival bringing a
15490s	shield rush and just trying to roll
15491s	their opponent right here
15493s	all right so uh we do have a chart
15495s	that's going to show uh the the weather
15497s	usage I see this on my screen here I
15499s	don't know if it's right attached to
15500s	throw up on the screen so I'm going to
15502s	talk as if it is and see if it will
15504s	appear I know it's literally just been
15506s	posted by viter Nara our incredible
15507s	tools guy in the back end who's been uh
15510s	just working with our great database and
15511s	here we go look at this this is the
15513s	Widow usage in tournaments I mean that's
15515s	pretty phenomenal when you look at the
15517s	usage obviously spiked way back in
15520s	Alliance tournament 13 and then the
15522s	users has just kind of dropped off right
15524s	there and then and almost uh exactly 50
15526s	46 have survived 46 have died uh and
15530s	teams like hydride Factory one of the
15532s	top uses of the Widow so not the most
15535s	common ship 44 wins the 48 losses means
15537s	it does die more often than it does lose
15539s	more often than it wins but there you
15542s	are that is the Widow in Alliance
15543s	tournament so pretty cool to see that
15545s	and pretty cool to see that ship being
15546s	used all right let's head over to the
15548s	arena now with Messier and Mark
15550s	resurrectus Clan versus
15558s	Hello friends and welcome back today we
15561s	have on the grid Rusty hyenas Clan
15564s	versus a rival and we have Rusty hyenas
15567s	running an IHOP setup yes that's right
15570s	folks IHOP that's the International
15571s	House of Pancakes for you Europeans with
15574s	double Bargas double arthrus Osprey Navy
15577s	stork bifrost scalpel Kieran and vigil
15580s	Nazir what do we have for our friends
15582s	from arrival yeah it looks like they're
15584s	right with the even more rust than the
15586s	rusty hyenas did they have like one clay
15589s	mod two Cyclone fleeties you said Loki
15591s	and some killari ships some
15595s	two lucky figures and a jackdaw and
15598s	character so like a all right like Heidi
15600s	said about Russia
15603s	so they're going to go hard oh they are
15606s	Russian no they do they do be Russian
15609s	though Museum they are coming across
15610s	hard with the Osprey Navy we can see the
15614s	both Oscar navies are burning across the
15616s	map trying to get in within their ham
15617s	range uh and taking quite a bit damage
15619s	on the way over zags and the Oscar Navy
15621s	from arrival now dipping into low Shield
15623s	but they are going to pick up the stork
15624s	from Firestarter are you who will go
15626s	down but trading the stork for the
15628s	Osprey Navy I'm not sure that's a decent
15630s	trade but it is stock went into screen
15632s	and that put him in a really
15633s	uncomfortable
15637s	positions meantime
15640s	but they're still going in still rushing
15642s	while the red team or the hyenas are
15643s	like trying to burn back they're not
15645s	really applying uh or they're actually
15647s	giving you the Aspen Navy second
15648s	entrepreneur issue down really quickly
15650s	yeah they are getting the second half of
15652s	Navy issue then but at the same time a
15653s	toner asked them a sick for however in
15656s	the world he's supposed to pronounce
15657s	that uh uh is dipping into or taking
15661s	some Shield damage now but again being
15663s	uh you know using those those local reps
15665s	to to stay up just fine you've got some
15668s	uh some rap drones over there as well so
15670s	he seems to be doing okay and at the
15671s	same time they're just picking off DPS
15673s	now we see larynx austrine in the
15675s	caracal from arrival uh is gonna get
15677s	clapped here in just a moment in fact he
15679s	might be able to hear it
15681s	if he goes down here
15683s	I was gonna make a good joke but he is
15685s	staying up uh so they must have they
15687s	must be he's either out of range or they
15689s	are out of clip
15690s	I mean you start out of things because
15692s	it's right into the problem yeah he's
15693s	because he's right there
15695s	seeing the swarm of repair drone's eyes
15698s	so damage drones on him uh but there's
15700s	not enough to like they're wrapping him
15702s	up
15703s	at the meantime the red team lost one
15706s	attack here in so the scalp is cooked to
15708s	follow after okay is just getting torn
15712s	apart by the arrival team
15714s	scalpel does go down for the for the the
15717s	rusty Haynes team and now they are out
15719s	of a lot of frigates uh so but but again
15723s	you're making decent trades here the
15725s	Bargas of atona uh Austin Sixth is oh
15729s	man taking a lot of of Shield damage
15731s	right now a lot of damage from all these
15733s	hams you can see Hampton is getting
15735s	devoured oh it absolutely
15739s	structure you hate to see it but it is
15742s	so beautiful thanks to these lovely
15744s	missile effects courtesy of the CCP art
15747s	team oh and that Vargas does go down
15749s	this is turning quickly first Pancake
15752s	getting served and didn't even have any
15754s	game for it uh and then we didn't even
15756s	have butter Messier we didn't have
15757s	butter we'd have time to butter it or
15759s	apply a little bit of syrup and it is
15760s	down they devoured it quickly the
15762s	bifrost goes down this is turned almost
15765s	in on a head away from our friends from
15768s	Rusty hyenas and they are they might it
15771s	looks like they're going to get this
15772s	Cyclone Fleet issue which is good it's
15773s	important but they're down to I mean
15776s	penis here is trying to burn away which
15778s	might not be the best choice since he's
15780s	burning out the Reigns of his lucky
15781s	figures uh and these missiles can reach
15784s	him anyways but it looks like the second
15786s	pancake actually far away so it could
15788s	get out of range now yeah he is far away
15790s	but he has been tackled there is a
15792s	jackdaw over there right on top of him
15794s	now in fact the entire team is right on
15797s	top of him they did not quite figure out
15799s	how to run these Vargas I'm going to
15800s	tell you we're gonna be a little secret
15801s	the secret to running these Vargas is to
15803s	get away from things uh because when
15806s	stuff gets right up on top of you it
15807s	will not it will not be a good time uh
15810s	he is not having a good time right now
15811s	the second Bargas low Shield very low
15815s	Shield yeah
15816s	yeah so the rival team they did a really
15818s	good job with rushing these things down
15820s	they didn't hesitate they ran straight
15822s	for the throat and they got these uh
15825s	juicy pancakes and stuff they did lose
15827s	the ejector but at this point they're a
15829s	five commanding leaders they take down
15831s	that bag and stuff and they said racer
15833s	absolutely absolutely and again you know
15836s	these these double Bargains are strong
15838s	it's easy to become intimidated when you
15840s	see setups double faction Battleship uh
15843s	you know triple Battleship these these
15845s	big you know these these really strong
15846s	comps fear Viner would call them King
15848s	killer cops or King Slayer or whatever
15849s	he says but again all you have to do is
15852s	have a plan attack and you will be
15854s	successful in this case the team from
15856s	arrival has done exactly that they said
15858s	Shield rush they Shield rushed and now
15861s	they've got our friends from Rusty
15863s	hyenas on the ropes
15867s	really quickly with this rush like
15869s	boosting up so many ships right away at
15872s	the at this point I just don't have the
15874s	damage to break anything the uh arrival
15877s	team still hang both the largest alive
15879s	and having like four tanky uh DPS
15883s	battleships
15885s	yeah
15887s	but still thinks like a battle cruiser
15890s	you know you can see the uh the orthos
15892s	of bazinga Mungus Bazinga Bazinga mogas
15896s	sorry vizing mogus is trying to kite
15899s	away from a swarm of drones and he
15902s	quickly approaching Loki of drinty uh or
15905s	drink to rather
15907s	um but again it's just it's it's without
15909s	those Bargas that the compass flipped
15911s	upside down this is just everything that
15912s	has this point is just a formality
15915s	it's like a really quick crucial but the
15917s	thing is the lucky got the long range
15919s	web defiers and this is like a really
15920s	strong acid to have when you want to
15922s	rush something down you can reach up and
15924s	drop those uh juicy Pancakes there and
15927s	now also the offers which I believe is
15929s	the name of the Hound from or something
15932s	but I'll tell you I'll tell you miss the
15934s	thing about pancakes and what they don't
15936s	you know you a lot of people just assume
15938s	you want to make sure the batter is nice
15939s	and thin nice and smooth that's not the
15942s	case you don't want to over mix it if
15943s	you overthink it you mix it up too much
15945s	you're gonna have flat pancakes you got
15946s	to leave a little bit of batter and then
15947s	a little just just give it a little bit
15949s	of a mix make it make it nice you know
15951s	you just have to act on instinct which
15953s	is not what not quite what happened here
15954s	they were a little over you know they
15956s	they thought about it too much they got
15958s	tackled uh they you know they didn't
15960s	play to their strengths and by doing
15962s	that they just I mean again there's a
15964s	ton of damage coming out of these these
15965s	uh cycling plates in the Claymore
15966s	goodness gracious yeah it looks like the
15969s	second offers gotta run down
15972s	so this project is just a cleanup job
15974s	for these uh arrival team like they
15976s	develop the pancakes and now they're
15977s	doing the dish just keeping the
15979s	Everything clean just need to like
15982s	remember to wipe off the drones to make
15984s	our cleanup crew extra happy you were
15986s	exactly right Nazir in fact I've often
15988s	said the authors kind of looks like a
15989s	space Fork you know what so does the
15991s	vigil too this is an apt metaphor better
15993s	than my pancake metaphor so uh really
15996s	well done by the team from arrival
15997s	they've played this one very well I want
15999s	to see if either of these uh go for the
16002s	Edge of Glory here you can see the vigil
16004s	is just burning straight down well maybe
16006s	not quite straight down
16008s	hanging around down there just just just
16010s	chilling
16012s	yeah he's just enjoying the view of his
16015s	friends getting Davao at the
16017s	yeah yeah maybe he's just waiting for
16020s	the rust to really settle there I don't
16022s	know like uh this point there's not much
16024s	to do as a Bacardi desire of the rival
16027s	team saying a GFS in a local so he's
16030s	pretty confident they have the Victory
16032s	and I can
16033s	really I agree with him
16036s	yeah I mean they can try and wait this
16038s	one out if they want to we still have a
16039s	couple minutes left in this match this
16041s	this went by pretty quickly so if the uh
16043s	you know I'm I'm sure the oh yeah the
16046s	team from arrival is trying to track
16047s	down that orthos trying to get some uh
16049s	some damage on them so they can wrap
16051s	this thing up the check is on the table
16054s	they have asked for the bill the server
16057s	has come over and given it to them and
16059s	they are ready to head home and take a
16062s	nap so you have to we have to go aim him
16065s	fall from a twitch chest saying that
16067s	hyenas team didn't even bring a hyena
16069s	but that's true like did they bring a
16071s	ghetto hyena like
16075s	you say
16078s	yeah I mean yeah they did do that you're
16080s	correct
16082s	it's like the uh you know it's the
16085s	oh man that's that was really really
16088s	funny yes they have finally caught valid
16091s	gallic uh in the orthos uh have you know
16095s	are now applying damage to them the the
16097s	the the the ghetto vigil uh or the the
16101s	ghetto hyena rather uh is still you know
16104s	casually nosing around the bottom of the
16106s	map just waiting to uh waiting for his
16109s	his time really if you think about that
16111s	way
16112s	yeah so tell me market like how do you
16114s	like your pancakes served uh I so I
16118s	here's the I'm gonna be I'm gonna be
16119s	real with you for a second is here I
16120s	don't actually like pancakes I live in
16122s	Georgia uh in the great state of Georgia
16124s	the United States and the thing we're
16125s	known for the most are the old waffle
16127s	house so I'm a bit of a waffle guy
16129s	myself and I perform with just a little
16130s	bit of butter and some and some syrup
16132s	and a peanut butter if you if you do
16134s	just swap the uh swap the syrup for
16137s	peanut butter beautiful it's it's
16139s	delicious
16143s	still exists like there used to be like
16146s	a affiliated with the pandemic uh Legion
16148s	like a snake waffle and they had this
16151s	really awesome advertisements with the
16153s	with the waffles oh yeah yeah I do
16155s	remember those man it was a long time
16157s	ago uh yeah you know I'm sure they're
16159s	around listen Eve online is one of those
16161s	games where nothing ever really truly
16162s	dies uh they just kind of go into
16164s	irrelevancy for a while and then time
16166s	passes and they come back so maybe one
16168s	day we'll have the waffle Resurgence who
16170s	knows
16172s	who knows but still getting a pancake
16175s	served and this offers is slowly going
16178s	down it's like 30 second remaining the
16180s	video might actually survive this match
16182s	like saving like
16183s	a few few million days ago like this is
16187s	some TQ so this is real isk so they're
16189s	doing the best to save that freaking so
16190s	you can use it for later maybe orthos
16193s	might survive too we're at five seconds
16194s	the game the match has ended valdictald
16198s	did Sir oh I said that Andy it was
16200s	immediate killed uh so what a match well
16202s	done by the team from arrival uh and you
16205s	know extremely well played Shield Rush
16207s	uh we will head back to the desk with
16210s	our friends over at even t
16232s	thank you
16259s	thank you
16287s	thank you
16299s	casing you you are one of two people
16302s	that couldn't listen and couldn't check
16305s	bookmarks and find your own way out the
16307s	route the entire route was literally
16309s	bookmarked out to losac I bookmarked it
16312s	10 minutes in advance
16314s	press the Hyena's Clan there could use a
16316s	bit more WD-40 as they get taken apart
16319s	by arrival in a pretty close match at
16320s	the start but it really did start to
16322s	turn as the match progressed uh CP
16326s	casual what happened there for both
16328s	teams really we saw a rival on the back
16329s	50 lost those two in Ospreys but then
16331s	they started to really pull it back yeah
16333s	so uh Rusty hyenas Clan bought a rapid
16335s	light set up and it was like they had a
16337s	pretty good like initial part of the
16339s	fight because they killed two Hammer
16341s	sprays they did lose their links the
16342s	stalk but then their bifrost kind of got
16345s	tackled and got away and it looked like
16346s	uh or I've actually wasted quite a lot
16348s	of hand DPS trying to kill him but then
16350s	arrival able to catch on to the bar
16353s	guests they were able to kill it it died
16355s	super fast I'm not sure how it was fit
16357s	we think it might be like super greedy
16359s	with like double guidance computer or
16361s	something like that because it just died
16362s	Mega fast and then they kind of just
16364s	fell apart after that that's one of the
16366s	problems with uh rapid Heavies and Rapid
16368s	lights right this is if you can't kill a
16371s	lot of their comp in that first initial
16372s	clip the second clip then and you just
16375s	kind of fall apart at the end yeah so I
16377s	just found the um the kill Mill for that
16379s	bar gas here so em Shield hardener a
16382s	multi-spectrum and Exile uh ancillary
16385s	Shield booster uh looks like the extent
16387s	of the tank uh bar any thoughts I mean
16389s	that died so quick did he just forget he
16391s	had the xlasb because it didn't look
16394s	like he used it I don't remember I'm
16397s	peeking over here so it does look like
16399s	he had all these blisters located so the
16401s	button was not hit
16403s	um I don't know if maybe he accidentally
16406s	used it and was reloading but you know
16409s	the button was not hit so I don't think
16411s	I don't think I saw that Vargas but
16412s	really shot before then that's died very
16415s	fast utterly devastating uh if you fit a
16418s	pro tip
16419s	for me to you if you fit an XL ASB as
16423s	your tank
16424s	please do activated while being shot it
16426s	is much more likely you will survive
16428s	than if you do not uh I mean CP Castro
16431s	seems like good advice yeah it could
16434s	also be that he got caught out with
16435s	hardness like one thing that you'd often
16437s	do right is you pre-overload your Shield
16440s	hardness and maybe he just like got
16443s	jumped on and he's like oh no and like
16445s	to hit them like five seconds after like
16447s	his shield HP is already all gone
16449s	because he had no buffer with no large
16450s	Shield extenders oh that's uh it's
16453s	utterly devastating to hear that but
16455s	that because we were watching that go at
16457s	the time and that bar gas died so
16459s	quickly that we were wondering if
16460s	perhaps it's some sort of you know
16462s	untanked Meme fit with just more utility
16464s	in the mid slots uh just because of the
16467s	speed of its demise but in this case
16469s	nope just the uh minor minor piloting
16473s	error so I mean it happens it does it
16475s	does happen it's a stressful situation
16477s	like a lot of people I know that there's
16479s	a lot of people that play the at because
16480s	it's one of the only things in Eve that
16482s	still gets their like adrenaline going
16483s	and get you that assignment where it's
16485s	like you know after after you've lost
16486s	you know several hundred billiona ships
16488s	trying to like solo PVP your PVP et
16490s	cetera you're kind of like oh no I lost
16492s	my orthos but if you go into the at it's
16494s	like oh this is there's some real prizes
16496s	on the line here like you losing that it
16498s	matters yeah I mean it's it's so easy to
16501s	to point and look haha but you're right
16503s	the the stress and like the like the
16505s	heart rates goes you get the combat
16507s	shakes I remember one time flying in a
16508s	match uh in the mark Championship where
16511s	I went to for some reason I went to
16513s	click with my mouse to turn on my guns
16516s	which were in my my first slot I missed
16518s	and uh collect the unstack all my guns
16521s	so they unstacked across the top and I
16523s	panicked and turned them all on one at a
16525s	time of course then you can't restack
16527s	them because they're all cycling so I
16529s	was like overheating each one
16530s	individually to try and like manage the
16532s	heat it was kind of chaotic and real
16534s	building them was a bit of a nightmare
16535s	as well but I didn't want to lose a time
16537s	to turn them all off again so I spent
16539s	the whole match just doing them all like
16540s	that so yeah I I actually I understand
16543s	Mr Vargas pilot I forgive you in this
16545s	case you have my forgiveness you have my
16547s	permission to go to your team and say
16548s	it's okay CCP overload said I was fine I
16551s	did well so all right let's look at our
16553s	next match which is uh hidden Leaf
16555s	Village engine whereas it's root Coppell
16557s	so hidden Leaf Banning out the Blackbird
16559s	the executor Navy issue the guardian and
16562s	the abaddin Rook Capel banning at the
16564s	EOS the Osprey the executive shoot the
16567s	Osprey Navy issue and our trickle bands
16569s	are the Scimitar for hidden Leaf Village
16571s	ninja and uh the Ishtar for rotcapel
16574s	please be Castro what do you think about
16575s	the Ishtar band second time we've seen
16577s	one of those a very strange band in my
16579s	opinion yeah the Ishtar is a ship that
16581s	has been really strong in past 80s when
16584s	we've had drone comps normally when it's
16586s	been super strong is when we've had
16587s	tattoo drones be enabled the Estuary is
16590s	actually really powerful and the arena
16591s	especially if you're able to like
16592s	utilize the mjd beacons because you can
16594s	kind of drop drones like assign your
16596s	drones over to someone else it has like
16598s	a really long lock range as well and
16600s	then you just like go over to an ndd
16601s	Beacon and you just constantly MGD
16603s	around so it can be like super strong
16605s	against comps that don't really have
16606s	like mini scrams or any way to like
16608s	really deal with that
16610s	and bar and you're seeing anything
16612s	really jumping out here I feel like
16613s	we're starting to see a very obvious
16615s	trend and meta for Banning a lot of
16617s	these ships we're seeing get banned
16619s	regularly uh anything anything different
16620s	here for you I think the big difference
16622s	here is that we're seeing in EOS and an
16625s	Ishtar Band by the same team and if you
16628s	ban an EOS and initial
16630s	um nowadays that's functionally Advanced
16632s	most drone setups like there's some
16634s	weird stuff you can do with Dominic's
16635s	but there are a lot of points and
16637s	they're not really that good so uh we
16639s	haven't seen a drone setup yet I believe
16641s	we saw one in the feeders that did
16642s	pretty okay but Road Capel is actually
16646s	functionally banned drones out
16648s	which is kind of weird because you know
16650s	like CCP Castro said they're not that
16653s	good anymore but maybe there's something
16655s	we don't know maybe Rock Pell has been
16657s	having trouble against your own teams so
16658s	this could be them saying hey like if we
16660s	have an extra band let's just get rid of
16662s	this entire archetype by itself yeah I
16664s	mean you can kind of start to infer that
16667s	by the fact it's one of the trickle
16668s	bands so they run and test necessarily
16670s	anticipating guessing that ban they got
16672s	an extra single ban and decided hey
16674s	Let's uh let's get rid of that star uh
16676s	in case you just tuned in trickle bands
16678s	the way they work is every team gets
16680s	four blind bands so the referees convo
16682s	the captains and they ask for the bands
16684s	the captains provide four ships
16687s	um and you can only ban I think three of
16689s	a particular size so you could only buy
16691s	three battleships for example not four
16693s	um those bands are done blind so each
16695s	Captain is converted individually they
16697s	referee receives those bands they put
16699s	them on the spreadsheet and if any of
16701s	them are duplicates in this case there
16703s	was at least one duplicate the captains
16705s	are told hey you have one additional ban
16707s	if there's two duplicates you have two
16709s	up to four additional bands so if all if
16711s	both teams ban the same four ships then
16713s	there's four tracker bands so potential
16715s	I believe for 12 bands in these
16718s	particular matches
16719s	in this case we didn't have 12 we had
16721s	much less than that
16722s	um but we can go pretty now pretty much
16724s	to the arena to see who wins between uh
16727s	hidden Leaf Village Ninja Assassin Squad
16729s	Esports versus rotcapel with your
16732s	casters Alec and Chad
16737s	oh Alexa cart here well we have a very
16741s	interesting match ninja Lee Village
16742s	ninja assassination Squad Esports has
16745s	brought a best of rapidly rapid heavy
16749s	missile Battleship set up with a
16750s	broadcast type and Fleet issue
16752s	Armageddon Navy high-end backed up by a
16754s	double purifier pick in the low end with
16758s	their sights firmly set on that
16760s	Nighthawk Chad breakdown Road Coppell we
16763s	are seeing Nighthawk double Loki Cyclone
16766s	Fleet Osprey Navy Carol Navy stork
16768s	double lodgy frigs and a sky breaker as
16771s	you said it seems like those rapid
16773s	Heavies and torps are going to have a
16775s	fun time trying to shoot that Nighthawk
16776s	no this is a flag Argus brought by
16780s	hidden links
16782s	really putting the money on the line
16783s	here and it's pimped out it's got an
16786s	amazing looking skin it's got rapid
16788s	Heavies on it you can imagine probably a
16791s	lot of uh very expensive low slots with
16793s	ballista controls
16795s	and that is going to look to take a big
16797s	chunk out of the high end of the row
16798s	Capel setup but it's also a very
16801s	tempting Target for them if they can
16802s	bring it down that is going to be a huge
16804s	loss for the ninja Leaf Village
16807s	with the opening moves are if they do
16809s	attempt to try to headshot the flag bark
16811s	or if they try to get rid of some of the
16813s	control or bombers on this hidden Leaf
16815s	team a lot of things looking nice to
16817s	shoot as this is an armor comp by the
16819s	way if anyone hasn't seen that yet but
16820s	The Argus and typhoon matching the
16823s	gedden and we are seeing a cyclone Fleet
16825s	be the primary by hidden leaf
16827s	yeah they're doing the narrative run in
16829s	the other direction but unfortunately
16830s	the typhoon Fleet issue has been webbed
16833s	down by those Loki's the Cyclone Fleet
16836s	issue is paying the price for it though
16837s	is it is going to die well ahead of the
16839s	typhoon Fleet issue which is yet to
16841s	reach Armor
16842s	and a hyena also looks to be maybe a
16845s	target for the small end as the top end
16847s	shooting the typhoon Fleet of hindley
16849s	Village Ninja Assassin Squad Esports
16852s	um the Cyclone Fleet barely holding but
16854s	I don't think very much longer
16857s	yeah he is dropping very rapidly the
16859s	damage output of the broke Capell team
16860s	cannot be underestimated and there is no
16862s	mitigation to be had in those
16864s	battleships once they get into range of
16866s	the road Capel damage they're gonna drop
16869s	pretty fast uh meanwhile the Osprey Navy
16871s	issue is getting taken down pretty
16875s	quickly he's going to do his best to try
16876s	to mitigate and buy some time but he
16878s	really can't drops there they're going
16880s	to trade for the typhoon Fleet issue
16882s	that is a great trade for Road Capell
16884s	this batch is still very much
16887s	competitive here as the Basilisk taking
16890s	a break from Alliance tournament count
16891s	showing analysis to rock the hyena he is
16894s	being primary but is so far definitely
16896s	evading death here as the Thalia of
16899s	slimatics gets switched onto and is now
16902s	already into about 80 percent armor
16905s	dropping slowly but just gets caught by
16907s	the Deacon reps and that has stabilized
16909s	and as we see on the other team in the
16911s	carical Navy being the primary about
16913s	half Shield bouncing slightly up and
16915s	down but fully tackled new painted
16918s	webbed and
16919s	um going to probably go down soon
16922s	depending on the reload times of these
16924s	battleships being rapid Heavies but also
16926s	we see webs down in the get in Navy and
16928s	that seems like they're switching off to
16929s	that being the target
16931s	that's going to be a key factor of this
16933s	match the rapid heavy Clips once they're
16936s	out there's going to be no appreciable
16938s	damage incoming from the hidden Leaf
16940s	Village into assassination Squad Esports
16942s	so that we'll give the opportunity for
16944s	Road capell's logistics team to prepare
16947s	the shields of the affected ships which
16949s	will then have to go back through to
16951s	just hit all those hit points again
16954s	but at the same time Road Coppell has a
16957s	very similar restriction a lot of their
16959s	ships have a similar mechanic here the
16961s	reload times are going to be pretty
16962s	equivalent
16964s	oh it is tough but the purifier still
16967s	remaining alive on the side of the
16969s	Hidden leaf that is providing a lot of
16971s	uh additional damage the Thalia is now
16974s	dipping below half armor they seem to
16976s	have gotten onto it and gotten a bit of
16978s	web and painting onto it it's now taking
16980s	a lot more fire and really struggling to
16982s	hang in there
16984s	yeah we're watching the road Capel team
16985s	losing a lot of their DPS ships as well
16987s	not being able to seem to take down this
16989s	Armageddon Navy and you know they're
16991s	bouncing onto this lodgy now to maybe
16993s	try and help themselves get ahead in the
16996s	you know using their DPS effectively and
16998s	breaking things but like I said that is
17000s	a flag bar guest on grinning and if
17002s	they're having trouble killing things
17003s	currently I don't know if they're going
17005s	to be able to kill that or much other
17007s	things on grid yeah that Loki is uh he's
17010s	bleeding armor pulling back Shields but
17012s	it's not enough he's losing armor every
17014s	time and if that goes down they are
17017s	going to really struggle the thali can
17019s	already tank the entirety of the rest of
17021s	their team
17023s	it is very very low
17032s	could be crucial but I don't know if
17034s	it'll be enough to mitigate the loss of
17036s	this Loki as it drops meanwhile the
17039s	scalpel of Rima abramalk seems to be
17042s	like that's going to be the next primary
17043s	target here either that or the caracal
17046s	Navy issue which is still sitting at
17048s	about two-thirds Shield they have
17049s	options here
17052s	they have options but it seems like
17054s	their damage isn't really breaking much
17056s	things on grid whereas hidden Leaf is
17058s	might not be instantly breaking things
17059s	on grid but slowly whittling things down
17062s	and taking more of an advantage in the
17063s	match as it progresses
17065s	yeah the torpedo Jutsu from these
17067s	purifiers is really starting to come
17069s	into play here is they're just
17070s	relentlessly pounding this team uh the
17074s	the lower Sig weapons are tearing into
17076s	the scalpel he's drawing all of the
17078s	Kirin reps but it's not going to be
17080s	enough it's trying to stabilize but
17082s	meanwhile the Loki is now dipping into
17084s	two-thirds Shield the damage from hidden
17087s	Leaf is just too much they're able to
17090s	spread it onto multiple targets the
17092s	short range of the Karen and scalpel
17094s	repair is not able to properly keep up
17096s	with the target calling and they're
17098s	really struggling to match the damage
17100s	output here with any kind of repairs or
17102s	even return fire the bar gases started
17105s	to take some fire they're going for the
17107s	headshot of the of the flagship but it's
17109s	just hitting armor now
17110s	it seems they do have tackle on this
17112s	flag Burgess and it seems like this
17114s	might be their only hope to walk away
17115s	with at least some sort of victory in
17117s	this match you know taking out these
17119s	expensive black Vargas means you can no
17121s	longer field these um battleships ever
17123s	again in the tournament you take it out
17125s	it is gone and it cannot be fielded with
17127s	those blingy modules again so they're
17129s	looking for one last hole but maybe not
17131s	a victory in the match but a victory in
17133s	the isk wallets
17136s	supreme or go out like Jiraiya we're
17139s	about to find out it is it is dropping
17141s	slowly but I think too slowly because
17144s	the character Navy issue has been
17146s	re-primaried and it's now in the
17148s	structure they're trying to catch it
17149s	with some Shields but it's not going to
17151s	do it the structure bleeds through and
17153s	that's down that is
17157s	looking in those Shield two probably not
17158s	going to hold very long either they can
17159s	probably get rid of enough damage to
17161s	save this flag bargist
17164s	oh they're doing it the flag bar guest
17166s	is slowly clawing back those hit points
17169s	bro Capel trying to adjust Now by going
17171s	back after the Thalia but they weren't
17173s	able to break it before and this Loki of
17175s	proxy is about to drop oh my God this is
17179s	falling apart for rocapel
17181s	and now also the Nighthawk being the
17183s	only ship left which is going to be the
17185s	easiest for those bombers to apply to
17187s	probably going to go down extremely fast
17188s	in itself that it's just going to be
17190s	clean up with a small and they're going
17191s	to have no meaningful damage left to
17193s	kill anything on this grid
17195s	yeah the Nighthawk is their sole source
17197s	of remaining damage the stork is
17199s	basically there for links Karen and
17200s	scalpel repair team the sky breaker is
17202s	doing what it can for drones but it's
17204s	not going to be much of a threat to a a
17206s	full tank ship
17208s	and the Nighthawk is now starting to
17210s	take primary fire and you can see the EM
17212s	damage from these purifiers just cutting
17214s	right through it the purifier is finally
17217s	getting around to being primary by the
17218s	road Capel team but it's going to be too
17220s	little too late they don't have a lot of
17222s	kill pressure left the Nighthawk does
17224s	get an application bonus but it alone is
17226s	not going to be able to overpower the
17228s	Reps from the Deacon Thalia repair team
17230s	the hidden leaf
17232s	yeah usually you see most teams try and
17234s	get rid of those bombers right away
17235s	they're pretty squishy that do high DPS
17237s	slow points sometimes they're free kills
17240s	but it does seem like with the setup
17241s	that rokapo brought they do not really
17243s	have the option to clear those bombers
17244s	and they were free to just sit off in
17246s	the distance the entire match just
17248s	putting those torps into whatever ship
17250s	they chose
17251s	yeah you got to believe those purifiers
17253s	are about seven to eight hundred DPS
17255s	each
17256s	uh just raining missile stem for the
17259s	entirety of that match that is an insane
17261s	amount of damage to leave there and
17263s	their tanks are not awesome you've got
17264s	to believe if they had primary them
17266s	earlier it would have been an easy kill
17268s	I think they uh
17270s	overestimated their ability to mitigate
17272s	the damage coming out from the hidden
17274s	Leaf Village ninja assassination Squad
17276s	Esports team and just weren't able to do
17279s	it they were hitting them like trucks
17282s	exactly I think rockapel realized you
17284s	know they were not breaking things uh
17286s	part of the way through that match and
17288s	they saw that flag Bargas and said maybe
17290s	we can get a kill on this but I think
17292s	they said that a little bit too late if
17294s	they did that slightly earlier in the
17295s	match they might have been able to break
17297s	a flag Vargas which also could have been
17299s	a Difference Maker in this match but the
17300s	amount of damage it puts out but also
17302s	the fact that even if you don't win the
17304s	match you walk away with a nice Flagship
17306s	kill that is always a great feeling even
17308s	after a loss
17310s	yeah unfortunately they are not going to
17312s	enjoy that feeling
17314s	as both the Gated Navy and the broadcast
17316s	are alive and quite safe
17319s	this Nighthawk is doing what it can but
17322s	it there's just no way it's going to be
17323s	able to claw back the Deacon and the
17325s	Thalia are going to be able to easily
17327s	repair the damage you can see the hyena
17328s	here it is taking some fire but it's
17331s	tanking even easier than it was early in
17332s	this match if the Nighthawk were to
17335s	Pivot and primary the Thalia or the
17337s	Deacon it still would not be enough the
17340s	Deacon will be able to rep the Thalia
17342s	the Thalia will be able to rep the
17344s	Deacon I feel like that Nighthawk is at
17346s	this point fairly well contained where
17349s	less than a minutes ago it might survive
17351s	to the end of the match but I think that
17353s	is it in terms of kills for Road Capell
17355s	they're going to close this match out
17357s	with just 27 points which is a far cry
17360s	from what they needed to advance here
17362s	they did a good job in getting on that
17365s	typhoon Fleet issue and they did take
17366s	that down you know fairly fast they're a
17369s	high DPS comp but it did seem from that
17371s	point on that hidden Leaf took out
17373s	enough of those factional Cruisers and
17374s	battle Cruisers to mitigate that damage
17376s	and then just pilot it around to not
17378s	allow them to be on top of them or not
17381s	get webbed because those uh low end does
17384s	have a lot of Sig to uh Lo Sig to avoid
17387s	this and it just seemed like rocapel was
17388s	not able to put enough damage on things
17390s	to actually finish them off well they
17393s	had the damage on grid
17395s	Yeah in our closing seconds here you saw
17397s	the Kieran go down the scalpel will fall
17399s	I might be able to grab another kill
17401s	before time they're five seconds
17403s	remaining we're gonna throw this back to
17405s	the analyst desk for a breakdown
17445s	crazy
17450s	wow
17464s	guys stop being casual they're really
17467s	bad we should not lose anybody to this
17469s	warp off or pause take the fleet warp
17471s	everybody warp off this is a really
17473s	really bad execution I'm very
17474s	disappointed
17479s	rain are you in the armor Vagabond or
17481s	something no um I've got axle ISP
17487s	polarized guns or what
17494s	our head and leaf found their Village
17498s	um as wrote cafel at the end of that
17501s	match uh giving the W to Hidden Leaf
17503s	Village Ninja Assassin
17506s	Squad Esports that is their full name
17509s	good job guys uh Bart what happened in
17512s	that match there uh it was it was a very
17515s	good match
17516s	um we saw kind of a pseudo Shield rush
17519s	it was a shield rush it was maybe a
17521s	little lower on damage um try and take
17523s	out what I feel like that one's kind of
17525s	safe to say it was a kingslayer it was a
17527s	triple rapid heavy launchers
17529s	um they did uh rockapel
17532s	almost pulled it off I think it was very
17534s	very close at a couple of moments there
17535s	but the uh sort of kingslayer Rapid
17538s	heavy has this ability to pick a Target
17540s	and just blow it up in the clip of the
17542s	rapid Heavies and hidden Leaf team was
17545s	able to very very well uh intelligently
17548s	Target down and take out the ships from
17550s	the bottom up pulled it off uh we were
17552s	sitting there talking like oh he should
17553s	have been shooting this oh he should
17554s	have been shooting this oh he should
17555s	have been shooting this at the end of
17556s	the day they shot the right targets and
17557s	they won I think there was some
17559s	confusion of whether it was a flag
17560s	bargist or a flag Navy getting but uh
17563s	regardless uh good piloting on both ends
17566s	no neither of them died uh shout out to
17568s	virion because we used to fly together a
17570s	whole bunch back in the day and that's
17572s	good to see that he's on a team that's
17573s	winning this time yeah we'll hear from
17575s	Varian in just a moment but before we do
17577s	CC Castro anything you wanted to say
17579s	about that match
17580s	uh yeah it was pretty nice to see like
17583s	how well executed it was just being able
17586s	to keep those like low-keys and The
17587s	Nighthawks at Bay and just slowly
17589s	whittled down killed the right targets
17591s	with rapid heavies
17593s	it's also nice to see the Armageddon
17595s	flag up again Navy issue be used again
17597s	after it got buffed in uprising
17600s	uh
17600s	I'm not too sure like what making it a
17603s	flagship really brings other than
17604s	getting like a bit more tank like I know
17606s	you get the like faction rapid heavy so
17608s	you have like two more in the clip or
17610s	something like that if I remember
17611s	correctly yeah it's been a pretty
17612s	popular uh Flagship actually this year
17614s	so I'm sure we'll see when the first one
17616s	goes down uh what the the secrets to the
17619s	the flag get an AVR but um we're gonna
17621s	go check in with moderator who's been
17624s	conducting interviews with uh captains
17626s	and cool captains for the teams in
17628s	Alaska over 19. this time he speaks to
17630s	Varian sunshard from the hidden Leaf
17633s	team I'm not saying that name again
17637s	ultimately get involved with the at even
17639s	as new pilot and then grow into a team
17641s	captain pretty much as far as I can
17644s	remember I always watch the at with uh
17646s	absolute Fascination and eventually the
17649s	original Captain for spectrafleet who
17651s	was very well known for doing nothing
17653s	but YOLO hole rushes which ended up
17655s	being a bit of a meme perspective Fleet
17657s	for quite some years at the very last
17658s	minute the year that I wanted to join he
17660s	decided to quit so I had one week to set
17663s	up a team and suddenly figure out hey
17665s	how do you even run an alliance
17667s	tournament team obviously that run I
17669s	mean we still won two matches
17671s	um but you know didn't go too well after
17673s	that yeah just year after year after
17674s	that kept doing the same thing kept
17676s	trying to figure it out the hard way and
17677s	that's also part of the reason I wanted
17679s	to try something different this year
17680s	instead of uh running my own team try
17682s	and get a feel for how other people do
17684s	an alliance tournament team last year
17686s	hidden Leaf Village assassin Esports
17688s	Squad managed to qualify through the
17691s	theater event and then you went uh one
17694s	and two out in 24th this year year you
17697s	qualified after beating x877 in the one
17702s	and done and now you're into the at how
17704s	does it feel to be back in the mix I
17705s	have to admit that the feeder match we
17708s	got was a bit of a mixed bag no offense
17711s	to the other team but it definitely feel
17713s	like it was a bit of a violo let's see
17715s	what happens uh kind of a team because
17717s	the setup that we came across was unique
17720s	certainly obviously I'm glad that we're
17722s	in but I can't really say that it felt
17724s	like a a big achievement to get through
17726s	the feeders for us not a major major
17729s	achievement yeah of course we're super
17731s	happy to be in and uh for us I mean a
17733s	free win in Eve is still a win you're
17736s	gonna take but you know a little bit of
17737s	a challenge is also fun so speaking of a
17739s	bit of a challenge your very first round
17741s	match is against Rogue hell how do you
17744s	feel about that draw I don't want to be
17746s	that guy and uh immediately get to uh
17749s	ahead of myself but you know doing some
17751s	digging into uh how they like to fly
17753s	their matches over the previous years
17754s	and and all that kind of stuff behind
17756s	the scenes yeah yeah too we have a
17758s	decent chance and do you have any
17759s	rivalries in the alliance tournament
17761s	either through Specter Fleet or now in
17764s	the hidden Leaf Jutsu I'd say the the
17766s	two you I wouldn't immediately call it a
17769s	rivalry but for respectively and myself
17772s	personally uh going up against snuff is
17774s	always a fun one we just have a
17775s	long-standing history of uh respectfully
17777s	messing with snuff out and the other way
17779s	around and another personal favorite is
17781s	uh Brave this year they used a setup
17783s	that was quite similarly based on a
17785s	setup that we used against them in the
17788s	anger games and they use that setup to
17790s	smash through their first match as well
17791s	so that was quite fun hoping we can
17793s	fight against them and see if we can get
17795s	a little bit of a mirror or something
17796s	along those lines going what do you feel
17798s	the strengths of your tournament team
17800s	roster are
17801s	um I'd say as low SEC Pirates this year
17803s	we have a lot more pilots that are
17805s	already more individually capable so we
17808s	have a lot of people that are already
17809s	used to doing a bit more solo PVP
17811s	whereas respectively the people that I
17813s	had in my team were more used to just
17815s	being a fleet member which is great for
17818s	fleets but in the alliance tournament
17819s	obviously you need to have a little bit
17821s	more individual knowledge on how to fly
17823s	your ship and how to make the right call
17824s	outs do you have any Star players that
17826s	you'd like to kind of out that you think
17828s	we should look out for well sadly our
17830s	dear original Captain basilisk has
17832s	decided to abandon us for commentary
17834s	instead this year but luckily we still
17836s	have our leader figure at boltram flying
17839s	with us so as long as he's there and we
17840s	obviously can't lose all right well it's
17842s	been a pleasure to speak to you and best
17843s	of luck on grid thank you
17846s	moderator speaking to variant Stone
17849s	chart there from the hidden Leaf team uh
17852s	some pretty insightful comments uh we
17854s	look forward to seeing more of them as
17855s	they progress through the the brackets
17857s	uh speaking of we have one more match in
17859s	the winners bracket before we move on to
17861s	our final three matches of the day in
17862s	the elimination bracket uh our last
17865s	match of the winners bracket is
17866s	happening in just a few minutes so let's
17867s	take a quick look at the bands between
17869s	Exodus and platinum sensitivity
17872s	extra choosing to Banner the lucky the
17874s	curse the B Frost and the executor Navy
17876s	issue whereas Platinum sensitivity going
17878s	for the bar guest the abaddin the curse
17881s	and the Deacon we then have some trickle
17882s	bands with X disbanding at the stork and
17885s	platinum sensitivity Banning out the
17886s	Sentinel CP Kestrel uh thoughts on this
17889s	one The Exodus bands are actually pretty
17891s	interesting with them taking out the
17893s	shield command destroyers so definitely
17895s	trying to force them to either bring
17898s	armor commanders uh armored come on
17900s	commands Destroyers I can't say that
17902s	word or just like Shields like a shield
17904s	set up like Nighthawks and certain is
17906s	which is interesting so maybe they're
17908s	trying to bait them into like a shield
17910s	rush and then they have a decent counter
17911s	for it yeah uh bar any any final
17914s	comments on that as well uh honestly
17916s	that's pretty much what I saw too it's
17918s	like if you're Banning both Shield
17919s	command destroyers that actually really
17921s	forces you to either bring Shield battle
17924s	Cruisers which means you're going to
17926s	probably be rushing or not bring Shield
17929s	okay well I mean let's go through and
17930s	find out uh as we go for X this verse
17933s	Platinum sensitivity with mizier and
17935s	Mark resurrectus
17940s	hello everyone and welcome back to Arena
17942s	this is the last match in the upper
17944s	break before we're going to move on to
17945s	the liver break it's uh
17947s	and and this and with me is Mark special
17950s	actors and this is uh actually doesn't
17952s	red versus platinum sensitivity in blue
17954s	so can you tell me about these uh setups
17956s	they have a lot of similar assets yeah
17959s	the uh the team from uh Platinum
17961s	sensitivity is doing a what we call in
17963s	the business like kinda father set up or
17965s	with uh four uh turned battleships sorry
17970s	battle Cruisers uh with dual log navies
17972s	because they are strong hog for lodgy
17974s	carries uh for uh damps of course and
17978s	then Confessor Mueller for tackle and
17980s	other support and and miss what we see
17982s	here for the team from uh Exodus Above
17985s	Top
17986s	yeah extras actually brought two years
17989s	our nearest slot here at each time two
17992s	arbitrators the vaccinated hyena tears
17994s	and confessions would actually being the
17996s	first like drone heavy comp receiving
17998s	this year
17999s	well it's funny because these are both
18001s	obviously Rush camps and they are both
18003s	rushed and they are just crashing
18004s	against each other here in the middle of
18006s	the Arena you can see the OG Navy's
18008s	diving in the both of the eos's from
18012s	Exodus crashing in and the the the uh
18015s	oniros from eggs is taking a lot of
18017s	early pressure as is the the hurricane
18019s	Fleet issue of nightcap from Platinum
18022s	sensitivity
18024s	yeah we've seen him going straight for
18026s	that lucky trying to get the the
18029s	Exodus the nearest but it looks like he
18031s	actually managed to get fun of a way to
18033s	for them to switch as they're like
18034s	trying to go for the vaccine ABC of uh
18036s	Jr fatal
18039s	oh yeah and the auger Navy or the auger
18041s	by itself sorry of platinum sensitivity
18044s	is being swarmed and battered down there
18047s	that is their only Logic on grid right
18050s	now and they cannot keep it up that OG
18051s	is in structure and now in the uh or on
18056s	the kill board rather
18057s	team opted to bring damage to him so
18060s	they didn't have any luck James to
18061s	assist that the augural so they're just
18063s	going early in for the damage and they
18065s	manage the kill of that eviction Navy
18066s	issue and also
18068s	uh Curious but I don't think it's a good
18070s	trade when you're losing your own lucky
18071s	for it yeah we just nightcap of the
18074s	hurricane Fleet is you now taking a lot
18075s	of armor damage has no no rep Bots no
18079s	rep ships no rep nothing looks like
18082s	they're getting that to our nearest town
18083s	that she might be good for the year that
18085s	would actually be a pretty good trade
18086s	that is that was a decent trade they do
18089s	lose uh you can Fleet issue but all they
18091s	still got more DPS chips on the grid and
18093s	trying to get the death wind and the
18094s	aperture down getting rid of these
18096s	checking to shropters a lot of much more
18098s	flexibility when it comes to like a
18099s	phasing of targets it's just it's a race
18102s	now it's a race who can do who can out
18104s	DPS who you can see heinkel Al bullet in
18107s	the Harvey Navy taking a lot of armor
18109s	damage right now from all these drones
18111s	as he's trying desperately to run away
18113s	uh but you can't run he's tap oh sorry I
18116s	lied look at the wrong ship he is tackle
18118s	he's not moving he's just uh laid there
18120s	to accept his fate yeah he's pinned down
18122s	not much he can do about it at the same
18124s	time
18125s	and trying to get a lot of these support
18127s	ships on The Exodus team I'm not really
18129s	sure if that's a good choice they should
18130s	maybe go and get this DPS off the field
18133s	there two years on HT are still a good
18136s	chunk of DPS well yeah and it looks like
18138s	it you know because of so many ships
18140s	have died so far but the team from
18142s	Platinum City still has quite a bit of
18143s	DPS left the British Navy the Absolution
18145s	of course doing a lot of damage both as
18147s	OG Navy's very strong we've seen so much
18149s	of them in the tournament already uh the
18151s	hyena about to drop as is the Ishtar of
18154s	Exodus they need to hang in for
18156s	application uh or to help you know slow
18159s	down anything that's trying to kite away
18160s	uh and they need the you know the extra
18162s	because a third of their DPS and it's
18164s	also gone so that sucks
18167s	yeah and now the actions team only got
18169s	two years and arbitrary has remain but
18170s	these years got a really chunky tank so
18173s	they are doing their best to last as
18175s	long as they can as they're trying to
18176s	finish off these uh belly Cruisers
18182s	like living on trying to fight away from
18185s	the drones
18187s	it's an interesting setup here an
18189s	interesting setup
18191s	because in the exit or the the EOS of
18194s	sabotage uh as it were you can see he's
18197s	trying to stay up as much as possible
18198s	this brutex Navy of Luke
18201s	um
18202s	uh I'm LTL Bazaar LTL Bazaar uh is gonna
18206s	go down here it will die to those drones
18209s	and then we're at an interesting point
18210s	can the EOS stay alive long enough I'm
18213s	going to look at the points just want to
18215s	do some quick math here I wasn't a math
18216s	student oh they're not quite over it
18219s	they still need they need to kill one
18220s	more thing and they will be in range of
18223s	pulling it out again if they can keep
18225s	the EOS alive
18226s	yeah and they're actually going sabotage
18229s	is doing his best right cut away but
18231s	these uh
18234s	yeah he dropped some accurators uh I've
18238s	been trying to like sniper of someone
18239s	they're going for a mic bridges in the
18241s	Absolution but uh I don't think they can
18243s	kill him in time
18245s	yeah at this point I mean it's it's
18247s	tough to say what the best Target is I
18249s	don't know if I personally would go for
18251s	the uh the t2 battle cruiser what T2
18253s	resists
18255s	um but you know this is what the team
18256s	for platinum sensitivity is doing it's
18258s	working out pretty well for them so uh
18260s	this EOS of sabotage will go down that
18262s	will limit half of their remaining DPS
18264s	and that what me this is basically in
18266s	the bag at this point for the team from
18269s	Platinum sensitivity
18272s	yeah that's right they're just having so
18274s	much more DPS on the grid like I'm both
18276s	command ship and to uh or navy issue
18279s	like there are powerful relationships
18281s	all three of them are still having like
18283s	the confess on mola for supporting them
18285s	I actually haven't checked if them all I
18286s	have any guns I've just for nudes
18289s	yeah both these uh both these Rush comps
18292s	you know are are capable of doing quite
18294s	a bit of damage
18295s	so it does have a extra GPS so just yeah
18299s	just having too much DPS uh for the
18302s	access team to put ahead now
18304s	yeah I mean you know the this this
18306s	Platinum sensitivity team has just top
18309s	to bottom the comp was really
18310s	well-rounded uh having those kind of of
18313s	Cruisers in the middle like the OG
18315s	navies like the exec navies that we've
18317s	seen can really help to round out a comp
18319s	like this uh and it's it's done it's
18321s	worked Spades for them today this is
18323s	this is really well done
18324s	yeah I've seen gifs and local and this
18326s	was a really bloody match like a it
18329s	could have gone both ways I believe I
18330s	guess
18331s	a lot of ships are dying in the
18333s	beginning but in the end the Platinum
18335s	sensitivity did pull ahead and secure
18338s	the victory as they're trying to finish
18339s	off sir excellent light blade in the
18341s	areas he's trying his best to like take
18344s	Mike Bridges with him but uh
18350s	Excel knife blade knows that he is
18352s	destined for hell and he's doing
18354s	everything he can to drag Mark bridges
18356s	down with him if they can get this it
18358s	might not be a victory but it will be a
18360s	moral Victory and really at the end of
18362s	the day isn't that what matters
18365s	I mean it's not it's points matter but
18367s	you know more victories are nice too
18372s	yeah it looks like mine is going to
18373s	survive that sister actually does go
18375s	down to the ears and with this we're
18377s	having Platinum sensitivity securing the
18379s	victory
18380s	and let's uh send it back to the boys in
18382s	the studio
18405s	past
18415s	there's nothing back there for you
18418s	and I see full control
18423s	where are you guys
18426s	something went angry dude they weren't
18428s	angry before kill him
18430s	it's on the clock
18433s	owned by Reds not like this kill the
18435s	rats
18442s	I was yellow to these it's dead all
18445s	right
18446s	they were white a second ago and then
18449s	they just got all Angry
18453s	Exodus they're dropping that match to
18456s	platinum sensitivity uh who I mean it
18459s	looked pretty close at one point but
18460s	they really just took command of of that
18463s	uh spaceship versus Spaceship Spaceship
18465s	combat simulation uh and uh took the the
18468s	final W mystical might you've joined us
18471s	again what did you make of that match I
18473s	mean as a
18475s	as the owner of the mark Bridges fan
18477s	club alongside disc I think we are both
18479s	ecstatic with the performance that we've
18481s	seen today from Platinum sensitivity
18483s	another excellent win from one of our
18485s	favorite teams no bias by the way this
18487s	one awesome good to know uh now bar I
18491s	want to talk to you about a couple of
18492s	things that from Exodus there one of the
18494s	first times we've seen a drone comp
18496s	fielded this year uh talk to me a little
18498s	bit about why people might feel drawn
18500s	comps I mean they used to be super
18501s	popular but they're not So Much Anymore
18502s	what can happen there so what is drunk
18504s	up why aren't they as popular anymore so
18507s	a drone setup is when you fly mostly
18509s	drones uh which they did they have been
18511s	on and off over the years uh I want to
18514s	say I'm not going to say the 18 name
18516s	because I'm going to be wrong about it
18517s	but about 10 years ago plus or minus a
18519s	little bit of time uh there was a very
18521s	very powerful setup where you would fit
18523s	a bunch of damps in your drone ships and
18525s	then kite around and have your drones do
18527s	damage to them while they couldn't lock
18528s	you uh that was nerfed
18531s	um several of the ships have been nerfed
18533s	you know extra Navy's I'm sure there's
18534s	people that probably used to writing
18536s	them back in the day when you could
18537s	field five heavy drones which you can't
18538s	anymore with the extra Navy uh drones in
18541s	general have taken a decent amount of
18543s	nerfing over the years and most
18545s	importantly we don't do Tech 2 drones in
18547s	this tournament uh we did them a few
18549s	years ago and drones were a lot more
18552s	popular then but they still never have
18553s	been sort of back at that Peak
18555s	amazingness that they were back in the
18557s	day we kind of saw it here like this is
18560s	a case where I think if there were Tech
18561s	2 drones Exodus won this because tachy
18563s	drones are way way way way stronger than
18566s	their Navy variants we only allow the
18568s	Navy variants OR tech one if you wanted
18570s	to be really cheap you could use those
18572s	but not using Tech 2 drones not a choice
18574s	Exodus made they couldn't do it but the
18577s	Drone just ships do significantly less
18579s	DPS and that's why we don't see them
18581s	that much
18582s	missing normally with a team like Exodus
18585s	they're known for basically being more
18587s	of the execution uh teams like they are
18590s	they're very very solid Pilots they will
18592s	they will kite to run they're almost
18593s	always flying uh fly killer type ship
18597s	comps like really kite like high skill
18600s	piloting is this a bit of a bit of a
18602s	surprise to see them Fielding a comp
18604s	like this or what do you think is going
18606s	on here I still think to a certain
18609s	degree some of the Drone setups that we
18610s	see require some degree of skill it's
18613s	not so much a case of you just land on
18615s	grid anchor up on somebody assign your
18617s	drones to somebody else and go AFK
18619s	there's still a degree of considering
18621s	your positioning on the grid you need to
18623s	make sure that you're actually in range
18624s	of the targets that your drum bunny is
18626s	going on to because if you're not in
18629s	range then your drones will not aggro
18630s	even if the drum bunny the drum bunny in
18633s	this case being somebody that you assign
18635s	all of your drones to so that they can
18637s	trigger on a Target and then all of the
18639s	drones will approach and aggress that
18640s	Target at the same time which gives you
18642s	a significant degree of alpha which is
18645s	just a lot of damage applied at the same
18646s	time right so it makes it a lot harder
18648s	to actually catch reps on ships that
18651s	you're you're selecting and it makes
18653s	sure that everyone is doing damage at
18654s	the same time to the right ship
18656s	so in those circumstances you still need
18658s	to be in range with your drumbo even if
18660s	you aren't the one picking which Target
18662s	you're shooting you need to be
18664s	considering
18665s	um how else you can be using your ship
18667s	sometimes in these drone setups we have
18668s	local tackle or like scrams and things
18671s	like that on these ships so that they
18672s	can start screening for their Logistics
18675s	or like other key ships in their setups
18678s	it's not as execution based as some of
18681s	the other comps that we might expect
18682s	next just to bring things like fly
18683s	killer for example I think are a bit
18685s	more execution based because you need to
18686s	consider your transversal to different
18687s	ships but
18689s	I I don't think it's surprising to CX
18691s	just bringing it I think they're always
18693s	going to go for something that's not
18694s	necessarily always matter
18696s	they're going to rely on execution a bit
18698s	more
18699s	and also I think they've lost some of
18700s	their key players over the years so
18702s	they're falling back on things that they
18703s	may be more familiar with to make up for
18706s	what may be a lack of theory crafting
18708s	know-how and and stuff like that from
18710s	actually playing on TQ for the last few
18711s	years yeah X is one of those teams
18713s	they've been around for a very very long
18714s	time speaking of drone comms that we've
18716s	just been talking about it's very often
18718s	don't come to a sentence around galenti
18720s	ships they're the ones that tend to
18721s	carry the Drone bonuses across other uh
18723s	ships do have drum points as well but
18725s	glenty do favor them this particular
18727s	tournament is sponsored by galente and
18729s	we can see here the top 10 galenti ships
18731s	as used in the alliance tournament so
18733s	pretty obvious number one the neros one
18736s	of the best Logistics Cruisers in the
18739s	game from when it comes to tournaments
18741s	um is your number one choice for armor
18743s	and armor control comps have been quite
18745s	dominant for the last couple of years so
18747s	very unsurprising to see that there the
18749s	vexer super low points especially
18752s	um when it's a tournament sponsored by
18754s	the glante Federation is a very useful
18756s	ship it has those drones you can fit it
18758s	as a heavy tank boat so you fed it with
18760s	tank you fit it with newts in the high
18763s	slots and you just send it in to latch
18765s	onto something like a little limpid and
18767s	stay there and mute it for as long as
18768s	possible then of course we start to get
18770s	into more utility ships like the EOS
18772s	bringing your links the models with
18773s	those damps and then kind of interesting
18776s	to see the ishker this high up uh
18779s	Blackberry pirate why do you think I'm
18780s	gonna see the ishkra there this must be
18782s	a throwback to the old proper drone spam
18784s	days yeah I think so I think it was
18786s	probably from
18787s	um before my time but I more importantly
18790s	it's probably from before the days of
18792s	the command Destroyer where bringing an
18795s	ishkar would give you a assault frigate
18797s	that still has drones and we've seen
18799s	that drones are just like this insane
18801s	utility where you know you can use light
18803s	drones and sit it after their little
18804s	tiny like mollusk somewhere and just
18806s	fire and forget you can send EC drones
18808s	after anything you want or you can fill
18810s	it with reptrone so the ishqer just
18811s	gives you kind of a tanky version of you
18814s	know a full flight of light drones you
18815s	can use and some teams we've seen not
18818s	really any today there's been a couple
18820s	of rep drone teams but like having the
18822s	ability to put 50 rep drones on a Target
18824s	is actually kind of insane so it's
18827s	probably from back in the day I don't
18828s	think we've seen industry yet but hey
18831s	maybe it'll make a comeback maybe uh I'm
18833s	going to guess not
18835s	um is kind of garbage uh so I wouldn't
18838s	expect to see one uh in a Matt giant
18840s	time soon but hey you know maybe maybe
18842s	we do see one you never know uh so let's
18846s	look at our next match which is going to
18847s	be an elimination match so we're now
18849s	into our final three matches of the day
18850s	these are elimination matches so if you
18853s	lose this you are going home first one
18855s	is laser Hawks versus the Ancients both
18857s	these teams are on one one of them will
18859s	go uh Owen two and be out of the last
18861s	tournament 19. so these are expanding
18863s	out the abaddin the Blackbird the
18865s	executive Navy issue and celestis the
18867s	ancient spanning out the bar guest the
18869s	executive Navy issue the ogre Navy issue
18871s	and the curse of course two executive
18873s	Navy issue bands here gives us trickles
18875s	which are oniros and the balgorn
18878s	mystical might your thoughts here
18880s	I'm thinking that the Blackbird is a
18882s	pretty typical band that we've been
18884s	seeing over the the course of the day
18885s	alongside the curse uh so there's no
18888s	real surprises there I think the
18889s	celestis is a great one to see because
18891s	we've seen the celestis really pay off
18893s	in some of the setups that we've seen
18894s	earlier where we've seen double
18895s	celesters really preventing teams from
18897s	being able to put their damage out
18899s	simply because they lack the lock range
18900s	to do so and I think with the celestis
18904s	on grid you also have the issue of not
18905s	being able to burn too far away from
18907s	your logistic ships which means that
18909s	you're Tethered to a central point in
18911s	space which you then have to move slowly
18913s	with which really limits some of the
18915s	comps that we've been seeing the abaddin
18917s	is a typical one I'm not sure how many
18918s	people watching at the moment remember
18920s	some of the previous setups from things
18922s	like the alliance opens maybe the first
18925s	at back after the break but we had like
18928s	a Providence type setup where it was
18930s	oracles and patterns and it just vomited
18933s	DPS and much as we love that term across
18936s	the grid out to like 80 kilometers it
18938s	was very difficult to to mitigate you
18940s	couldn't really Sig tank it so I think
18942s	that may also be a call back to some of
18945s	the high DPS setups that we've seen in
18947s	previous days there are other ships that
18949s	can do similar things but not quite as
18951s	well as the abandoned Oracle combo could
18954s	so the next thing I want to talk about
18955s	bar is as I mentioned this is an
18957s	elimination match so I mean these teams
18960s	haven't got themselves skins at this
18961s	point they've got some skins through the
18963s	feeders and so they're going to want to
18965s	probably get some more
18966s	um but I mean how all end do you go now
18968s	like this is this is the match that
18970s	you're playing to stay in the alliance
18971s	tournament uh is this like feel that
18973s	Flagship bring your your best comp you
18975s	know what do you think these teams are
18977s	thinking I mean the correct names is you
18979s	all win otherwise you're a giant coward
18980s	and you deserve to lose uh that being
18983s	said uh depending on how much these
18985s	teams have practiced it's possible that
18987s	so generally when you're Fielding a
18989s	flagship you will have specific Flagship
18991s	comps around it like you don't just be
18993s	like oh
18994s	I'm just going to bring my flag bargist
18996s	because I feel like it and just try and
18998s	Slot it into whatever you can I mean and
19000s	to be fair Vargas are one of the ships
19002s	you can almost do that with but
19005s	um you should bring your Flagship here
19007s	unless like your specific flag set up
19009s	like let's say you only had one which
19011s	you shouldn't but that's okay
19014s	um if that got banned out maybe there's
19016s	a good reason to do it like I can
19018s	understand not all inning at this point
19020s	if you are super unconfident about
19021s	winning and you're like yeah maybe we
19022s	don't want to lose our multi-billion two
19025s	multi-tens a billion is Flagship
19026s	personally though for myself and for the
19029s	sake of the viewers we are the most
19031s	important people uh you should all in
19034s	it's it's for the entertainment like
19035s	this is your moment if you lose then you
19037s	just go down in history as a loser but
19039s	if you win you're less of a loser
19041s	because just on the lower bracket but
19042s	you're like a winner of the lower
19043s	bracket true and you get skins
19046s	um and you get 10 more skins just by by
19048s	taking a taking a win uh and everyone
19050s	loves skins Misty you love skins yes
19053s	Bart do you love skins
19055s	except for pink keep Stars
19058s	terrible test yes
19061s	so yeah these are the skins you can see
19063s	right now I think these ones are
19065s	incredible uh the gold the green the
19068s	pattern oh they are so good uh I'm
19071s	definitely going to try and pick one of
19072s	these up uh the cool thing about these
19074s	Victory skins is they apply to multiple
19076s	ships uh you see here of course uh you
19078s	got like the Dominic's Navy the the mega
19080s	Navy you go to EOS I think in there or
19083s	remember the Navy I can't remember
19084s	they're neros uh executive I mean it's
19087s	just such a a cool range of ships uh
19090s	with with all those dope AF skins so uh
19095s	I mean I would go on almost just for the
19097s	Skins because if you take the when even
19098s	if you lose your Flagship depending on
19100s	how you fit your Flagship you might come
19102s	out uh it's positive and I am being told
19104s	that the engines are indeed feeling a
19107s	flagship bar guest so uh I mean based on
19111s	their age they call themselves the
19112s	ancient they're all wise experienced
19113s	players of course giate runs uh the fun
19116s	Inc uh group and they do uh Eva's fun
19120s	with friends believe or better with
19122s	friends and they did lots of npsi fleets
19124s	super good Community stuff I highly
19126s	recommend checking it out I'm sure
19128s	someone somewhere is posting the link
19130s	into twitch please do it if you uh if
19132s	you have it uh because it's a really
19133s	really cool service I highly recommend
19135s	checking it out
19136s	um can they win though well we'll have
19138s	to find out as we head over to the arena
19140s	for laser Hawks versus the ancient with
19142s	Alex and Chad
19148s	oh well I in for a treat
19153s	we have the Ancients versus laser Hawks
19155s	ancients with the Flag barcast fleet
19157s	typhoon Navy Armageddon they are uh
19161s	gonna be putting out just an absolutely
19163s	insane amount of damage Chad what do we
19165s	have for laser Hawks we are seeing a
19167s	shield set up with Nighthawk Claymore
19169s	double Loki double caracal Navy and some
19173s	lodgy frigates
19176s	these are variations of teams we've seen
19178s	before as we have about 10 seconds until
19180s	match start how are you predicting this
19182s	match to unfold
19184s	I I'm excited to see what this flag
19186s	bargast can put out as this is an
19188s	elimination match do we see it go
19190s	bye-bye do we see it make a turn in the
19193s	match and it's all going to revolve
19195s	around that I feel like
19197s	and here we go laser Hawks charging
19200s	forward ancients holding their ground as
19202s	both teams clash in the center of the
19204s	Arena it looks like laser Hawks has some
19207s	of their tacklers flying past the
19209s	battleships uh potentially looking to
19211s	get into that back line but now they've
19213s	turned around and they're now settling
19216s	on a Target looks like they're going
19218s	after this and it is already in half
19220s	armor as we see it looks like we are
19222s	going to see our first Flagship down of
19225s	the alliance tournament this year
19227s	oh he's under so much pressure and
19229s	they're not returning fire with much of
19231s	anything the character Navy issue is
19232s	tanking the forecast goes down kiyaki no
19237s	and there it is the official first loss
19239s	of a flag bargist or any Flagship this
19241s	at everything on the line This is an
19243s	elimination match we're seeing the
19245s	caracals slowly go down but the damage
19246s	is overwhelming as we see tackle being
19248s	spread across multiple ancient ships
19251s	excellent will drop here that is a
19253s	terrible trade a terrible terrible trade
19256s	for the Ancients they're they're proud
19258s	Flagship is gone ruined the Thalia of
19262s	zero cool is tanking my podcast co-hosts
19265s	showing his worth here unfortunately the
19267s	Armageddon Navy issue cannot say the
19269s	same as it is now dipping into
19271s	two-thirds armor trying to claw that
19273s	back but not doing a great job of it as
19276s	they are facing an absolutely Relentless
19278s	pounding of missiles here
19280s	yeah both uh running three battleships
19282s	we're about to see two of those down one
19284s	being a flag you're losing over
19286s	two-thirds of your DPS in those ships
19288s	that are going down
19289s	and they just evaporated from the grid
19291s	just they were there and now they're not
19293s	and you just you don't think that they
19295s	have the damage to to really kill many
19296s	other things on this Grid at this point
19298s	and if things couldn't get any worse you
19300s	now see the phalia dropping after having
19302s	been heavily tackled that means the
19304s	Deacon will shortly follow as the
19305s	Armageddon Navy issue goes down this
19307s	Deacon will drop leaving the typhoon
19309s	Fleet issue without support he's got
19311s	tackle but not enough damage to crack
19313s	anything and his team will slowly fall
19315s	apart around him
19318s	at this point you look at the match and
19320s	it just seems like the laser Hawks team
19323s	is just spreading damage a little bit
19325s	but they don't really have to focus
19326s	their damage much seems like the Deacon
19328s	is what they're shooting at this point
19329s	it's just cleaning up what is left on
19331s	grid those battleships went down so fast
19334s	to the high DPS that laser Hawks team
19337s	has brought in this Rush shut up they
19338s	got on top of everything instantly and
19341s	just applied that damage absolutely
19343s	laser Hawks with a laser focus here they
19345s	knew exactly what they wanted to do
19347s	exactly which key parts of the Ancients
19349s	team that needed to go after and they
19351s	methodically
19352s	spectacularly
19354s	dramatically punched through every high
19357s	priority Target they needed to do with
19360s	very little wasted motion very little
19362s	wasted time and now they're just running
19364s	down the remainder of the Ancients team
19365s	trying to close this match out
19368s	yep and and with that being said it's
19370s	only one ship was taken down so far very
19373s	much they might take this caracal Navy
19374s	with them as well but that they traded
19376s	away everything and only took one ship
19379s	out they were not even able to get to
19381s	reload on those rapid Heavies and it
19383s	just showed instantly everything seemed
19385s	to instadie laser Hawks bringing a
19388s	massive attack bar in their defense bar
19390s	is still not shy as we start to see the
19392s	Ancients typhoon Fleet go down
19395s	yeah ancients is trying to split their
19397s	focus here trying to get the caracal
19399s	Navy or the scalpel but they won't take
19401s	neither as clarity's drops
19404s	oh now just the three remaining
19406s	electronic warfare ships for the
19408s	Ancients as they try to kite to win
19410s	unfortunately there is a massive cloud
19412s	of drones chasing them all down the
19414s	Sentinel drops the mollusk will follow
19416s	shortly leaving just Freya Gray's
19418s	arbitrator alone surrounded by enemies
19423s	yeah we're about to see the rest of
19425s	these guys go down everything is tackled
19427s	and cleanup will be happening I'm sure
19428s	we'll be sending it back to dusk and
19430s	they'll be breaking down a flagship
19431s	Vargas for us here in a second but we
19433s	got to stay here and watch these amazing
19435s	explosions and uh thank you to the
19437s	ancients for coming sadly you otude and
19439s	you will not be able to move on farther
19441s	hopefully next year is a better year for
19443s	you
19444s	um and hope that Flagship wasn't too
19446s	expensive laser Hawks making the most of
19449s	the remaining time of the match they've
19450s	actually wrapped the arbitrator so that
19453s	they can go loot the field
19455s	all of these matches taking place on
19458s	Tranquility this is the live server
19460s	they've paid for these ships with isk
19461s	out of their own wallets and they're
19463s	gonna take some of that isk back out of
19465s	the hulls and corpses of their enemies
19469s	exactly just trying to waste a little
19471s	bit of time get some screen time get
19473s	some Loot on grid like you said
19475s	everything is actually Worth real-isk to
19477s	these players as it is on the live
19479s	server and just sitting here getting
19482s	camera time getting Loot and making sure
19484s	they uh give us more things to talk
19486s	about
19486s	uh speaking of things being on the live
19488s	server we do have a look now at the fit
19490s	of the broadcast and as the arbitrator
19493s	still has full Shields we're gonna run
19495s	it down real quick uh oh maybe not we'll
19498s	throw it back to the desk for the
19500s	breakdown
19532s	foreign
19586s	foreign
19593s	laser Hawks they're thriving in their
19595s	natural habitat arranged fights as they
19598s	take that W over the entrance securing
19600s	themselves continuation in Alliance
19602s	tournament 19 they left to fight another
19604s	day the engines Unfortunately they do
19607s	depart us today we do we won't see them
19609s	anymore they have gone on to they lost
19611s	their Flagship as well right to the end
19613s	there he actually Fielding that bar
19615s	guest uh we salute you sir and we we
19617s	look forward to seeing you uh in space
19620s	in in the future mystical might
19623s	talk to me about that match we're really
19624s	gonna go wrong for uh uh the Ancients
19627s	there I would say that the major issue
19629s	with that match for the Ancients was
19631s	just the match-up so I think it was a
19633s	case of bringing three battleships into
19635s	what was essentially just a full high
19637s	damage Rush
19639s	um or ham Rush
19640s	there's no real way for them to prevent
19642s	the ships from getting on top of their
19643s	battleships because the battleships are
19645s	slow
19646s	and the ham ships are fast I think
19648s	that's fairly basic deduction there but
19651s	also the sheer amount of damage means
19653s	that they couldn't be held up with reps
19655s	so it was a simple case of getting on
19656s	top of the bar guest it evaporates you
19658s	move on to the next Target it dies so on
19660s	so forth and by the time that you lose
19662s	your third Battleship you have nothing
19663s	left on grid besides some support and
19666s	that's it that's the game so it's just
19669s	laser Hawks bringing a really good setup
19671s	we've seen Rush do fairly well so far in
19674s	the tournament
19676s	it's a shame that the Ancients decided
19679s	to bring three battleships I think
19680s	that's performed less well
19683s	in this tournament but there's still
19685s	potential for it to pull out some wins
19686s	as we've seen with other matches so far
19688s	it's just not as good yeah I mean it was
19691s	a valiant effort I'm just looking at the
19692s	the kill meal for cactus Flagship it's
19695s	listed on zedco at 3.2 billion so not
19698s	not uh not super high end uh I guess we
19701s	probably didn't really expect to see one
19702s	of these monster 140 billionaires
19705s	flagships I mean we were speculating
19706s	Misty during that fight it was probably
19708s	going to be mainly faction maybe a
19710s	couple of Dead Space ones here and there
19711s	and that's pretty much exactly what we
19713s	see but you know they fielded it they
19716s	brought it they they don't live to win
19718s	as people like to say they in fact did
19720s	the opposite of that but I'm sure they
19722s	had fun and if I know those guys which I
19724s	do I've met some of them in real life as
19726s	well they definitely had fun I know
19728s	character is coming to Fan Fest as well
19730s	this year so uh hopefully we'll see him
19731s	there uh so once again thank you guys
19733s	and see you next time moderator any
19736s	final comments about that match yeah I
19738s	mean just piggybacking off the the three
19740s	Battleship comp we started to see these
19742s	in kind of the lower bracket and frankly
19744s	like Misty and I had been talking about
19747s	these kind of um in the Green Room a
19748s	little bit they're not quite as good as
19751s	it used to be the tournament rules have
19752s	changed so you can in fact not put you
19755s	know 60 65 points and three ships you
19758s	need you know a quart to round out your
19759s	team and you know when you lose one of
19761s	those ships like it did it just snows
19763s	both so quickly and then you lose your
19765s	Flagship and go 0-2 in the tournament
19767s	yeah that is uh usually not uh not what
19769s	we call a winning strategy uh now we
19772s	have about 10 minutes to go until our
19773s	next match which is going to be pandemic
19775s	horde versus the band apart another
19776s	elimination match uh but we can cut to
19779s	our very own moderator who's going to be
19781s	interviewing uh the captain of pandemic
19783s	horde so let's check that out now
19785s	let's tournament Captain this year 4p
19787s	horde so I was the captain last year and
19790s	kept on the roll this year as well
19793s	um originally I became the captain
19794s	because no one else was willing and I
19797s	had some Captain experience in some
19799s	previous tournaments I basically got
19801s	handed the keys so how did you get
19802s	involved in the tournament scene to
19804s	begin with originally it was adronix's
19806s	5v5s they were just it was even before
19809s	that like League Play became a thing
19811s	they were just they put it on Reddit at
19813s	one point I want to say and just had a
19814s	bunch of people getting on CC and just
19816s	ramming some ships together in like a
19817s	draft format and that's how I originally
19819s	got into tournaments do you have any
19821s	advice for players who might be new to
19823s	the tournament space for how they could
19824s	get involved it's probably different for
19827s	each organization
19828s	um I can say that I can tell you for our
19831s	organization I recruit heavily from our
19834s	small gang Sig that is run by my
19836s	Corporation it's called goblins and I
19839s	generally will see you know some really
19841s	solid Pilots built out of that small
19842s	game shake and be like hey I think you'd
19844s	be a really good fit here you want to
19845s	try to Come Aboard it's not the only way
19847s	but that is probably the best way that
19849s	we've done it through my organization
19851s	other organizations are probably
19852s	different it seems to be kind of a
19854s	common theme that a lot of people who
19855s	end up doing small gang content end up
19857s	moving over to you know kind of the
19860s	structured tournament play we have like
19861s	an awesome guy leading it a paper bag
19863s	he's super awesome he's pretty well
19866s	known in the community I think and um
19868s	yeah he does a fantastic job do qualify
19870s	for the main events you had to go up
19872s	against only cows in the very first
19874s	round of the feeder and you ended up
19875s	winning that match I'd say fairly
19877s	soundly how did it feel to play in that
19879s	match and then to qualify for the main
19881s	event having a good win is always good
19882s	it was definitely a little more Rocky
19885s	than I would have liked we definitely
19886s	had some hiccups on our end but overall
19887s	we were able to pull it through this
19889s	very first match you're going to be
19890s	going up against Taurus and then it's
19893s	quite possible that you may be facing
19895s	goons one Federation in the second match
19897s	what would that mean for you guys to uh
19899s	potentially fight and take down your um
19902s	Rivals I mean it would be phenomenal
19905s	because is I mean having like the
19907s	in-game rivalries you know come across
19909s	to the tournament setting is always a
19911s	lot of fun so yeah there'd be a lot of
19913s	hype behind that at least for the for
19915s	the entire organization do you have any
19916s	choice words for your Rivals I'm not
19918s	typically a smack talker
19920s	um but I look forward to the opportunity
19922s	to uh put our skills against theirs what
19924s	are some of the strengths of the
19926s	pandemic Award Team we actually have a
19928s	lot of really good Pilots we you know
19930s	the small gang stick has created and
19932s	developed a very sizable chunk of solid
19935s	Pilots across the board and so we've
19938s	grown a lot and become a pretty
19939s	effective organization in that side so I
19942s	would say our biggest strength is
19943s	honestly our execution we need players
19945s	of course to execute well who do you
19947s	feel are some of the star players or
19948s	people we should really look out for on
19950s	grid I mean honestly people on key ships
19952s	you know well I'll just use for example
19954s	like our feeders match like you know the
19956s	hanging and making good plays and that
19958s	match right occur you know curves curses
19959s	you know have the potential to make your
19961s	living Place basically Lynch paying
19963s	ships people flying those are typically
19964s	the ones that you make your math last
19966s	year you went up against some pretty
19968s	strong teams both in your very first
19971s	match and then in the lower bracket do
19973s	you have any goals for pandemic horror
19975s	this time around my biggest goal and
19977s	this is gonna be my last year running
19979s	the organization because of real life
19981s	obligations my goal so leaving a winning
19984s	Legacy in horde and then hand this
19986s	organization off with this with the
19988s	winning Legacy on top 16 is really
19990s	really important to me we have the
19992s	potential to go better but we'll see top
19994s	16 to get some of those prize ships
19996s	what's it like recruiting you know
19998s	outside of the Sig do you guys have any
19999s	mercenaries or do you keep everything
20001s	internal most of the mercenaries that
20003s	we've picked up over the last couple
20005s	years have ended up joining like
20007s	sometimes or Corporation or Horde proper
20009s	we do have a couple mercenaries really
20011s	like I said recruiting is almost
20012s	exclusively through the Sig there are a
20014s	few exceptions well best of luck on grid
20016s	okay thank you
20018s	there you are moderator talking to the
20021s	captain of the pandemic or team there
20023s	mod he did a bunch of these interviews
20024s	uh over the the last couple of weeks uh
20027s	how's it been doing them yeah no it was
20029s	really good I just was able to you know
20031s	just hop off the desk get on a call with
20033s	densar and just get his thoughts
20035s	um but no in all seriousness I was able
20037s	to interview uh with my colleague here
20040s	around you know 20 8 29 of the 32 teams
20044s	and it was really good to get the
20045s	perspective of you know where all these
20047s	teams are from not just in space but
20049s	also throughout the world and their
20052s	different views on the tournament how
20053s	they got here you know we have vets that
20055s	have been here for all of you know 10 15
20058s	years eve is a 20 year old game and then
20061s	we've got people who you know were
20063s	saying hey you know I'm a 20 million SP
20065s	new player I'm here to have fun and
20068s	that's been a wonderful experience
20071s	awesome well I look forward to hearing
20072s	more of these as we progress to the
20073s	tournament
20074s	um they've been super interesting about
20076s	the inside definitely you can hear
20077s	people uh really excited to be part of
20079s	the tournament uh which again we we love
20081s	to see especially newer players coming
20082s	in so let's move on to our next match
20085s	which is one of these elimination
20086s	matches where we do see pandemic hard
20088s	we're going up against a band apart so
20090s	let's take a look at these Alliance
20091s	profiles uh maybe let's see if we can
20093s	look at all right operator's choice but
20095s	everyone comes up first we'll look at uh
20097s	we have both pandemic horde here we go
20099s	pedemic word first so uh pandemic horde
20101s	uh have one one match and lost five so
20104s	they've struggled a bit in Alliance
20106s	tournament over the years 26 different
20108s	uh Pilots have flown for them
20110s	um with one person flying for 10 rounds
20112s	but only everyone else reaching four so
20114s	clear a lot of high turnover and you can
20116s	see uh in the last couple of years they
20118s	haven't had too much success they did
20120s	eke out a win back in Alliance
20122s	tournament 18 against Arcos core but
20124s	then they lost to Volta which is you
20126s	know a pretty respectful team to lose
20127s	against they lost against Dark Side a
20129s	good team to lose against and then of
20131s	course the cars earlier on today let's
20133s	see if we can swap over to a band apart
20135s	and have a little comparative look
20138s	so a band apart they've got more
20139s	experience just as a team uh they've got
20142s	some veteran Pilots uh you're saying uh
20144s	Rector not actually flying with the team
20145s	usually left a while back and Rex is uh
20147s	retired from Alliance tournament
20149s	competition he says uh they have uh 13
20152s	losses to nine wins so they have managed
20155s	to uh eke out some success over the
20157s	years but I mean we can see there on on
20159s	the right uh it's not been recently uh
20161s	their last win in fact coming against
20163s	Fraternity in Alliance tournament 16 so
20166s	a while back now uh since then they've
20168s	lost a number of matches to teams like
20170s	cast about Volta uh fraternity uh
20173s	interestingly enough the last few have
20175s	been quite quite solid teams uh Platinum
20177s	sensitivity and of course good and swarm
20178s	Federation earlier on today let's now
20181s	look at the bands for these two teams as
20183s	they go up against each other in this
20185s	elimination match
20187s	so pandemic horde Banning out the bar
20189s	gas the slept near the Nighthawk and the
20191s	Loki a band apart going for the
20194s	Blackbird the Griffin the bar guest and
20196s	the curse and with our trickle bands we
20199s	get the shack for pandemic horde and the
20202s	Scimitar for a band apart mystical might
20204s	what are you what are you thinking here
20205s	I'm thinking that the pandemic called
20207s	bands all seem fairly targeted towards
20210s	rush so they've seen how Russia's
20212s	performed over the course of the
20214s	tournament so far maybe also a little
20216s	bit with fly killer with the slept near
20217s	band it kind of touches on both and
20219s	they've decided that they are either
20221s	unable to deal with it due to their
20223s	practice setups and the fact that they
20224s	either haven't practiced against it too
20226s	much or they haven't found a way to beat
20227s	it with the setups that they have in
20229s	mind
20230s	or
20231s	or they're trying to bait the the team
20233s	in to bringing something that's they're
20235s	weaker with right like if we think that
20237s	Panda part is going to be really strong
20238s	with rush you remove rush they have to
20240s	bring something that they're perhaps
20241s	less comfortable with it's a little bit
20243s	easier for you to outplay them at that
20244s	point so that there's a couple different
20245s	reasons why they might abandon and then
20247s	a band apart has just decided that ewall
20250s	sucks so they're gonna ban that too
20252s	you were does sometimes suck unless it
20255s	works for you in which case is a
20256s	fantastic fair and balanced mechanism
20258s	that does not need to be changed at all
20260s	but it never does
20268s	no bias whatsoever we're fair and
20271s	unbiased here just like ECM uh as he
20273s	hoarder bringing their Flagship
20275s	Armageddon Navy issue to this match so
20277s	again they're following uh Bart's rule
20279s	of go big or go home in this case like
20282s	uh the entrance it could be go back and
20284s	go home uh we'll certainly find out in
20286s	the next couple of minutes
20288s	um I mean the flagship Navy getting we
20291s	see a lot more of them this year than
20292s	we've ever seen before historically kind
20294s	of are not a good ship but they got a
20296s	bit of a buff recently and now it's uh
20298s	either the second or third most popular
20300s	Flagship this year more than any
20301s	thoughts on that yeah so we see it kind
20304s	of as the second behind the bar guest
20306s	overwhelmingly the first but we see some
20309s	decent teams have brought the Navy get
20310s	in just the added damage it's received
20313s	but also the bonus Newt uh kind of feels
20315s	like the range of a curse but on a
20317s	battleship so you can even have more
20319s	range and more power hour and it's kind
20323s	of been in this place where you can also
20326s	Flex it between having all those on our
20328s	lasers or not being locked to that
20330s	damage and going with rapid heavy so it
20333s	just brings kind of a lot of utility and
20334s	it makes sense if you're a team that
20336s	says hey I want to play Heavy Armor and
20338s	that's what we're good at and we're just
20339s	going to play bar not bar guest which
20341s	can be kind of a kite or kind of a
20344s	control armor setup awesome well it is
20347s	time to head over to the arena to see
20349s	pandemic versus abandon the casters
20351s	Miser and Mark resurrectus
20358s	welcome back everybody to the second of
20360s	today's three elimination matches I am
20362s	Mark resurrectus with me of course is
20364s	mazier we have Pandemic horde in red and
20368s	a band apart in blue horde has chosen
20370s	the big boy comp Bal Gordon getting a
20373s	Navy which is a flagship of course thank
20375s	you CCP overload Abaddon a couple of
20378s	command destroyers for links celestis
20380s	friglaji and Thalia Deacon and then
20382s	Sentinel and Confessor for support Miz
20385s	what are we looking at for the team from
20386s	a band apart yeah so they have brought
20389s	one less Battleship and only having like
20390s	a background on the bed and butter in
20392s	return they're having a stronger
20393s	supportive with like it remember the
20395s	Navy issue and Oracle which set your
20397s	name is just Lester's arbitrator Talia
20400s	Deacon and Confessor so they're trading
20402s	one Battleship for getting like two
20404s	really strong bad YouTubers and some
20405s	cruises on top of that
20407s	we can already see track and disruption
20409s	being thrown across the map right now uh
20412s	very important for these teams to you
20414s	know especially with so many turrets on
20416s	the field if you can if you can apply
20417s	that tracking disruption keep them at
20419s	you know either force them to pull in or
20421s	keep them at range to to negate some of
20423s	that damage you've got to be putting
20424s	yourself in a strong position here miss
20427s	yeah and looks like a panda part team
20429s	are going in they're keeping close
20431s	together so that I'm actually not going
20432s	uh to stay apart they're going to stay
20435s	close instead
20436s	yeah yes they are not a bad apart they
20439s	are a band together in many ways uh but
20442s	horde here now quickly going in on the
20444s	Oracle storm father you know oracle's
20446s	not known for being particularly tanky
20448s	that Oracle is dropping rapidly uh as is
20451s	they have a handful of things being shot
20453s	at the same time tier near elecon in the
20456s	celestious four horde is also taking
20458s	damage now if they lose it celestious
20460s	that that that might hurt
20462s	yeah so despite actually having the
20464s	arbitrator for the training disruption
20465s	day yeah the whole team did manage to
20469s	like kill after the Oracle where the
20471s	long range production of the battleships
20473s	there it's actually a bit unrespected
20476s	that the Oracle should have a tank ever
20478s	again if at least they're fitted
20480s	probably
20481s	foreign
20491s	having that arbitrator on grid uh you
20494s	would think the opportunity to be able
20495s	to mitigate a lot of that damage we see
20497s	now damage from The Horde team going on
20499s	to dark caveman and the exec Navy and
20502s	Rachel and Dashi in the murm maybe both
20504s	strong ships especially that executive
20506s	we've seen so many of those fielded over
20508s	the last couple of hours they are a
20509s	popular choice in this tournament
20514s	a lot of ships just piled on top of each
20518s	other like shooting and cross on the new
20520s	thing and the big pile of mess and I
20523s	think like this is what these abandoned
20524s	apart guys normally like on the TQ but
20527s	in this case actually getting out prone
20529s	by The Horde yeah and especially with
20531s	that get with it with a flag get a Navy
20533s	on grid those newts can do you can can
20536s	project out so far into so much damage
20539s	uh and honestly it's so is it has so
20542s	much ehp uh and they're playing it well
20544s	they're keeping it kind of you know
20545s	they're keeping it back a little bit and
20547s	they did pick off some of the logic
20548s	already I think it was lodgy maybe I was
20550s	wrong let's see what went down just now
20553s	um
20558s	yep it was a Navy exit yep
20562s	team hadn't managed to break anything
20564s	yet at the same time that own team is
20567s	like falling apart losing Natalia as
20569s	well so that Deacon is easy to follow as
20571s	well
20572s	yeah Chad's pointing out as well there's
20574s	a huge thick control bar for pandemic
20577s	hoarder now you can see so much e-war
20580s	flying back and forth across this map
20581s	and they're doing very well to apply as
20584s	much as possible to try and give
20586s	themselves the advantage over what is
20587s	left of the team from a band apart yeah
20590s	so these uh the whole team having a
20593s	really strong new presence like you're
20594s	having both far gone and get a Navy
20597s	issue like this is a gunball gun so it
20599s	does doesn't have all Newton High slots
20601s	but since I get on the Navigator and
20603s	also got new slices they have like this
20606s	combined neuting power they're going to
20608s	make it really difficult for the band
20611s	apart team to actually do much since
20612s	manifestatives do rely on that capacitor
20615s	yeah if the camera can zoom in over here
20617s	there's a a tense battle going on right
20619s	now back between smudge 245 in the
20621s	Abaddon and chosen one air cannon in the
20625s	balgorn back and forth they're basically
20626s	just sitting right on top of each other
20628s	giving each other a good blast and
20630s	giving each other a little bit of a suck
20631s	if you're the Battleground is known for
20633s	second uh capacitor that is and the
20637s	abbottom smudge 245 dropping quickly
20639s	into into uh into hole rather and
20642s	there's not much left on grid that is
20644s	going to be able to keep him up
20646s	yeah at this point like I don't think
20648s	the event apart team really can do much
20650s	like even when there was four strength
20653s	they couldn't really pressure the whole
20655s	team that marched on the disc rate like
20657s	they passes I was just going to like
20659s	take its toll on the band apart team
20661s	like they're going to feel those nudes
20664s	as their capacitor starts getting
20665s	trained uh
20667s	yeah especially with especially with
20669s	setups like this where these these ships
20670s	are so capable we hadn't chosen one
20672s	getting a heavy amount of damage but he
20675s	he's getting a like getting the Reps on
20677s	him right now so I think they'll catch
20680s	him like I don't think he'll break yeah
20682s	he's got a lot of armor maintenance
20684s	spots around him right now they still
20686s	have both their frig lodgy up I'm not
20688s	quite sure yep they are still they're
20689s	they're pretty close so they can apply
20691s	as much as possible I mean and there's
20693s	just not a whole lot left of this uh
20694s	this team from Banda Park can do Devin
20696s	shardo in the balgorn is quickly
20699s	dropping into and the Deacon goes down
20701s	yeah that that'll be the end of it for
20702s	the balgorn he doesn't have any more
20705s	lodgy to keep himself up and he is I
20708s	mean aside from whatever the mermaid you
20709s	can pop out and the Confessor really the
20711s	last of the DPS
20713s	yeah and that's a hard control bar just
20715s	remains being as chunky as the chunk as
20718s	they ever chunked it oh it's so chunky
20720s	just to steal if it has a word so we
20723s	can't they're using himself like this is
20725s	like real Chunk from these Holdings it's
20728s	very chunky exactly extreme and really a
20732s	lot of chunking going on here too as as
20734s	their this armor is being chunked
20735s	through from the murm Navy of Rachel and
20738s	Dashi uh this one will go down quickly
20740s	and after this point it's just a matter
20742s	of mopping up whatever is left well
20744s	played by the team from pandemic horde
20746s	uh came out with a strong showing so far
20748s	in this match they will advance to the
20751s	uh the next round however our friends
20754s	from a band apart unfortunately will go
20756s	home they will be eliminated at the
20758s	conclusion of this match uh which you
20760s	know is not nothing to be listen at this
20762s	point there's nothing to be ashamed of
20764s	so many of these teams are are so good
20766s	and so much of this is a is a coin flip
20769s	too about who Which comp you run into so
20771s	everybody who who's made it this far and
20773s	is participating in these matches should
20775s	feel good about what they've
20776s	accomplished this is it's a it's a lot
20777s	of fun to do and it really means a lot
20779s	to a lot of these people who come out
20781s	and watch you know what I mean
20783s	yeah it happened they're doing really
20785s	good didn't they
20786s	I get really excited to see if I didn't
20789s	record to do this well like uh now
20791s	they're like the pl a team like uh yeah
20794s	these these guys are doing better than
20796s	the pl one day they are doing well and I
20799s	we saw the interview before with that
20801s	Captain Darren uh sorry I think you've
20804s	done a banasi and I'm really hoping
20807s	these guys uh to do well so they can
20809s	like hand over the team on a big fire so
20812s	the chunky is the trunk controlled bar
20815s	took a band apart and uh I love that
20818s	well we are done here today for me and
20821s	mazier we'll head back to the desk with
20823s	Mod Misty and CCP overload thank you
20826s	folks and we'll see you tomorrow
20828s	thank you
20852s	Planet are you ready yeah see somebody's
20855s	house on the way what do you think it
20858s	would feel like if a ship worked through
20860s	your house I might have some weird
20862s	effect like imagine
20864s	sneezing like they get explosive
20866s	diarrhea or something like that
20875s	what the hey what you started
20879s	with uh all right you know what jump
20882s	there's never happened let's move on
20884s	he's our secondary Target this is me
20886s	broadcasted I jump in now then we can
20893s	I want bubbles all over this big guys
20897s	do it now
20915s	pandemic over there taking the win over
20917s	a band apart who sadly depart Alliance
20919s	tournament 19 uh that is it for for them
20922s	we won't see them again they joined the
20923s	agents uh in the elimination bucket I
20926s	guess they've been eliminated from the
20928s	tournament pandemic World left to fight
20930s	another day there are Flagship survives
20931s	as well which is uh which is pretty good
20933s	for them
20934s	now I'm actually quite excited the fact
20937s	that we played the interview with the
20938s	pandemic World captain and then pandemic
20940s	horde one this is in start contest
20943s	contrast to last year uh jintan one of
20946s	our commentators this year he did a
20947s	bunch of interviews with a bunch of
20949s	captains and we played a number of them
20951s	throughout uh the tournament and it's
20953s	just so happened that gentan
20955s	Barney's hobby was also the Grim Reaper
20957s	because he was just like every time he
20959s	played an interview that team then
20962s	immediately went out immediately without
20963s	fail it was like eight in a row or
20965s	something it was brutal teams were
20967s	almost asking us not to play the
20969s	interviews and I remember Jim time
20970s	almost big on his knees like begging for
20972s	one of the teams to win so that the car
20974s	should be broken so it's good that we're
20976s	starting off positive here with uh we
20978s	play the interviews and the team of wins
20979s	so excellent good job moderator you
20982s	don't have the the dark touch like uh
20983s	like jintan had
20987s	uh let's take a look at some of the
20989s	stuff that happened in that match so one
20990s	of the things I want to talk about is
20992s	occasionally we see teams bringing 99
20994s	points more often than not teams bring
20996s	100 points because that's what you can
20998s	bring all the ships have points values
20999s	you can bring up to 100 and up to 10
21001s	Pilots however you combine that really
21003s	is up to you but 98 points is a is a
21007s	strange one because two points isn't one
21010s	point in fact it is twice as much and in
21013s	this instance we saw a band apart
21014s	bringing uh Italia and a deacon if they
21017s	for example brought two Deacons
21020s	that's 100 points I think you also
21022s	pointed out that the abaddin could have
21024s	been upgraded to a Navy Armageddon and
21026s	there are 100 points what's happening
21028s	why do you think that they left those
21030s	two points and those potential upgrades
21031s	on the table
21033s	it feels like it could have been either
21035s	they didn't you know do the math
21037s	correctly someone might have gotten on
21038s	the wrong ship at the last minute like
21040s	it happens all the time where there's a
21041s	lot of nerves and stress you know you're
21043s	in the lower bracket you're like hey you
21044s	know I gotta do the thing and sometimes
21046s	you get in the wrong ship and then you
21048s	get teleport and you're like hey guys
21050s	sorry uh I did the thing and then
21053s	everyone hopefully doesn't tilt and get
21054s	mad at you but in this case yeah it's a
21057s	bit of a kind of a a question mark
21059s	sometimes
21061s	um there's a reason some of the teams
21063s	are in the lower bracket is because they
21065s	don't think of you know how to comp
21067s	these ships and the best and then they
21068s	go O2 so I mean your hat
21072s	yes that's true uh pay attention to the
21075s	hats ladies and gentlemen it's uh it's
21076s	always solid advice uh mystical mate
21078s	have you ever done the thing
21080s	I have not done the thing but I my most
21084s	memorable almost
21087s	screw up was being in a malice in a
21090s	match and then hitting 50 packet loss
21093s	for the entire duration of it so that
21095s	was fun yeah like just half the things
21098s	that I was doing weren't sending maybe
21100s	gonna boundary of malice because I can't
21101s	double click it's fine I can't hear
21103s	anything on comms I'll just fly in it's
21105s	okay yeah it was a good time nice I
21108s	think for me my one was I was capturing
21110s	a team in the MRI championship and I was
21112s	so focused on making sure everyone else
21114s	remembered all the different ammos I was
21116s	flying an auto Cannon Muller
21118s	um and whatever other accounts I had at
21119s	the time it was uh 120 rounds in them
21122s	and I was making sure everyone had all
21123s	the animals and we get teleported and
21125s	like this ammo I have loaded is not the
21127s	optimal ammo for this uh this match I
21129s	shall reload to Superior Auto can enamel
21131s	right click to reload I have forgotten
21134s	all of my ammo I only have the rounds
21136s	that are in the weapons I have no ammo
21139s	in my hold uh luckily we we won the
21141s	match
21142s	um and when we won I think I had
21143s	something like three rounds left in all
21145s	the guns so if anything it was 3D craft
21147s	imperfection no more than needed in fact
21150s	I could have probably hit just into
21152s	three three extra shots didn't need them
21154s	it was all planned from the beginning
21155s	right exactly planned from the beginning
21157s	that's true Brilliance I was amazed at
21160s	the depth of my own 3D crafting
21162s	knowledge at that point that even though
21163s	I had it
21165s	uh the other thing that Mr you pointed
21167s	on that match we saw two balgones uh we
21169s	haven't seen very much of them so far
21170s	why aren't we seeing Battlegrounds as
21171s	much as we maybe we used to
21173s	I think balgon works really well in some
21175s	of the control setups that we've seen
21177s	again in yesteryear of the alliance
21179s	tournament where you'd have about gone
21182s	typically Flagship pushing out from
21185s	their team and it would essentially just
21187s	go out and grab something with its long
21188s	range webs apply a bunch of notes to it
21191s	so it can't go anywhere maybe nude out
21192s	some of the logistics as well and you
21195s	can nibble away at the ship that you
21197s	have tackled until it dies
21199s	with the rise of so much long-range
21202s	damage coming out we've seen I think
21204s	really balgorn fell off when things like
21206s	Octodad first came around in its proper
21208s	Carnation where you had just battle
21209s	cruiser spam and okay you have a balcon
21212s	but you can't web down all the ships you
21214s	can't nude out all the ships and they
21216s	shoot you from ranges that you can't do
21218s	anything in right and we've just seen a
21220s	similar Trend kind of Carry On from
21222s	there where we've seen various
21224s	iterations of Octodad turn into Cruiser
21226s	spam we had drones as well which kind of
21229s	goes against the balgorn because newts
21231s	don't matter so much against drum boats
21233s	you did sometimes see smart bombs fit
21235s	there were a few variations of the
21236s	background that we could see but in
21238s	general they became weaker ships as the
21240s	evolving matter of the alliance
21242s	tournament
21243s	kind of moved further and further away
21245s	from them and in similar setups nowadays
21248s	where we have things like the black
21249s	birds where you need control and you
21251s	only have a couple battleships of the
21253s	upper end to act as your damage ships
21254s	the balgorn doesn't actually do that
21256s	much damage and other ships can do the
21259s	same thing better the Redeemer for
21261s	example does a lot of damage it nukes
21264s	less it doesn't have the long range webs
21266s	but it projects further
21267s	it fills that damage hole a lot better
21269s	same thing with the Le Shack
21272s	fills the damage hole much better than
21274s	the balgon does again lacks the utility
21276s	a bit but you do have I think three
21278s	newts which is still fairly decent there
21281s	are a lot of other ships to choose from
21282s	basically and the background just
21284s	doesn't cut anymore
21285s	yeah the balgarh famously was one of the
21287s	the more Apex flagships for a very long
21290s	time uh back in the pre-abistle days
21293s	um when you could fit pretty much
21294s	anything to a flagship and any ship
21297s	could be a flagship the Battleground was
21298s	normally chosen by a lot of the top
21300s	teams because it scaled so well uh with
21303s	officer Webbs specifically if you had a
21306s	high-end officer web then you could warp
21308s	a battle Garden at zero and it could
21310s	with links and overheat it could web
21312s	anything within I think it was 54 or 58
21314s	kilometers from the center of the arena
21316s	and as you saw earlier on today teams
21319s	must warp in between 0 and 50. so your
21321s	enemy Logistics Cruiser which comes in
21323s	at 50 is in immediate range of your
21326s	balgorn so the match starts you lock up
21328s	that uh that Cruiser and you put a web
21331s	on it and a bargain web is going to be
21332s	pretty strong that is of course unless
21334s	you get jammed immediately before you
21335s	have the opportunity to do so mystical
21337s	night I believe that happened to you
21338s	once oh no yeah what what a shame uh
21342s	let's look at our next match which is
21343s	our last match of the day and again
21344s	another elimination match so it's whole
21346s	control versus deep water Horizon uh
21350s	Hull control Banning out the oniros and
21353s	the Scimitar uh the slept near and the
21356s	bar guest add deep water burning out
21359s	Armageddon Navy issue Blackbird curse
21361s	and Carries
21363s	um mystical Knight what do you see here
21364s	so I think it's interesting that deep
21366s	water Horizon has banned out the
21368s	Armageddon Navy issue I can't remember
21370s	exactly what the whole control Flagship
21372s	is
21373s	um if you could draw that up while I'm
21374s	also going to talk about the other bands
21377s	um the curse again just a standard band
21379s	The carries is fairly interesting
21381s	it's a fairly strong damping boat I
21385s	don't know if I would favor over the
21386s	mola since the moles is cheaper on
21388s	points and still gives you the same
21389s	damping utility
21391s	and then on the whole control side we
21393s	see again the kaiti
21395s	skirmishy fast Logistics being banned
21398s	out in the nearest and the Scimitar they
21400s	are fairly hard to pin down the slept
21402s	near preventing again a little bit of
21404s	the rush setup but also trying to neuter
21406s	the fly killer that we've seen earlier
21408s	on in the day and then the bargasban
21410s	again not sure what the Deepwater
21412s	Hooligans Flagship so deep water have a
21416s	um Flagship bar guest and Hull control
21418s	have a flagship Vindicator okay well The
21421s	Vindicator not banned at all that's fine
21423s	but it does mean that if the water want
21425s	to bring our guests they need to filter
21427s	Flagship which is an interesting
21430s	maneuver considering they're both in the
21431s	lower bracket so you are encouraged to
21433s	bring your Flagship anyway
21436s	awesome
21437s	um and mod any any further commentary on
21439s	those particular bands and maybe what
21440s	might go on here
21442s	yeah no I I feel like Misty kind of uh
21444s	hit on a lot of it that you know
21446s	Deepwater Horizon if they do bring their
21448s	Flagship in and dies it will be a very
21450s	very expensive wreck
21452s	um so I mean that's kind of one of the
21454s	risks of banning a bar guest and then
21456s	you realize oh hey we're in the you know
21458s	the lower bracket so maybe the band just
21461s	doesn't matter because we bring a
21462s	flagship which evades the band anyway
21465s	awesome uh we've got just a few minutes
21467s	before we go to that match and as I
21469s	mentioned uh this is our last match of
21471s	the day elimination match uh so make
21474s	sure you you stick around uh for that
21476s	and then tomorrow we will be back for
21478s	more spaceship on special violence I see
21481s	that deep water are bringing in their
21483s	Flagship bar guests so this should be
21485s	exciting
21486s	um it would be extra exciting full
21487s	control also about their Vindicator and
21489s	we see Flagship versus Flagship but I
21491s	don't think that's gonna happen uh based
21493s	on what I'm seeing on my little
21495s	townscreen down there
21496s	um as I was mentioning uh tomorrow we
21498s	are back same time uh same place the
21501s	internet uh twitch.television four slash
21504s	CCP uh make sure you do too then of
21506s	course CP conflict already told you
21507s	there is plenty of uh Channel points to
21510s	be won and you can redeem those for all
21513s	sorts of cool prizes and of course the
21514s	gal net skins as well
21516s	um we will speak with more of uh the CP
21519s	guys who are here tomorrow uh talk about
21521s	some more cool things but before that
21524s	let's go to our last match of the day
21525s	whole control versus Deepwater uh
21528s	Hooligans with our casters Alec and Chad
21536s	welcome to the arena I'm chadwin here
21537s	dogs live card and we are here to see
21539s	the final match of today it is a
21541s	elimination match between Deepwater
21543s	Hooligans and Hulk control
21545s	a team run it through
21548s	Deepwater Hooligans is rolling the dice
21550s	bringing their Flagship bar cast with
21552s	two typhoon Fleet issues going for that
21554s	King slayerish comp of Rapid heavy
21556s	missile launchers they're supported by a
21558s	pair of command destroyers and a small
21560s	frigate repair team the hyena they're
21563s	only real tackle there although that
21565s	jackdaw could have some surprises for us
21567s	what about hold control chat
21569s	we are seeing what looks to be more like
21572s	a I can't tell if this is going to be a
21574s	range fit or if they're going to try to
21575s	get on top of things but a medium turret
21579s	comp with a belgorn at its head with
21582s	Guardian reps and a small tackle Wing
21584s	this is going to be an interesting match
21585s	to see to end the day off
21588s	indeed indeed and teams are in fact
21590s	charging toward each other
21591s	if they weren't long range they're
21593s	looking to adjust that slightly
21596s	uh it did look like railguns to me but
21598s	it could be they're trying to get into
21599s	antimatter range the other probably
21601s	trying to get in there and deal as much
21603s	damage as possible because it does not
21604s	matter their range but these missiles on
21606s	grid as long as the missiles can shoot
21608s	them it does not matter if you are at
21610s	zero or at 50 so they're probably
21612s	getting there to do maximum DPS
21615s	absolutely and we're seeing both teams
21617s	take their time with positioning neither
21619s	opening up yet as both teams are fresh
21622s	no Shield damage yet but you can see
21624s	some Target painter effects going out
21630s	taking lead here for his team as the
21632s	rest of the whole control sits back a
21634s	little bit and waits to see how deep
21635s	water postures for the match deep water
21637s	holding their Clips to see if any of
21640s	Hull control are at a position and try
21642s	to take advantage of that
21644s	yeah basically what we see is the
21645s	Battleground bullying effectively the
21648s	Deepwater Hooligans team forcing them to
21650s	react to him because they don't want to
21651s	get tied down and muted but now we see
21653s	deep water opening up they've targeted
21656s	one of the execure Navy issues they've
21657s	already stripped out of its Shields and
21659s	more to come
21661s	yeah it seems like the typhoon Fleet is
21664s	burning in a little bit ahead of the
21666s	group and and the damage was going on to
21668s	the exact and now it seems like damage
21669s	is going on to the balgorn
21671s	yeah the background is the more logical
21673s	Target it's far in front it's the
21675s	battleship it's what they're going to
21676s	apply fully to and if they take it out
21679s	that is a ton of the kill pressure off
21680s	of the whole control team with those
21682s	newts being a
21684s	pretty much their only way to
21686s	successfully hold down a Target outside
21688s	of that nurgle which while it's very
21690s	tough it can only do so much we see that
21692s	bad we're now dipping into about half
21694s	armor having trouble staying alive here
21697s	I I believe they're probably going to
21699s	clip by the time that the uh the bar the
21702s	ballroom will live through the clip most
21703s	likely as it is being webbed down
21705s	currently by the sky breaker which is
21706s	the target of the whole control
21707s	attempting to clear off the tackle from
21709s	their battleborn so he could pull back
21710s	and hopefully reset by the time the
21712s	Rapids are reloaded and or clipped but
21714s	as we said the Belgian is going into low
21717s	armor he is losing huge chunks and it's
21720s	hard to know exactly when that clip
21721s	happens when it does we should see him
21723s	pull back a significant amount of armor
21725s	but it might not be the whole thing
21727s	despite that Guardian trying its hardest
21729s	here
21730s	uh the sky breaks meanwhile still has
21733s	some Shields it's hanging on there and
21735s	the stroke taking a bit of Chip damage
21737s	now we see the sky breaker really taking
21738s	a pounding that'll go down here but not
21741s	an essential part of their comp they're
21743s	still very much in the mix
21745s	exactly as we see they clipped on the
21747s	deep water side and the belgorn is
21749s	slowly pulling back armor and the
21750s	question is is it going to be enough the
21752s	nurgles seeming to be the primary now
21753s	from the small end of deep water the
21755s	hyena goes down very fast
21757s	yeah that hyena is a bit more of a
21759s	significant loss for deep water they're
21761s	now going to have a little bit of
21762s	trouble applying to some of the smaller
21763s	ships here as you can immediately see
21765s	that nurgle's starting to pull back some
21767s	armor as the guardian gives it some love
21769s	and it is uh it's a very tough ship it's
21772s	basically a hack and an assault
21773s	frigate's body it puts out a ton of
21775s	damage and it's extremely tough now the
21778s	uh the barcus of the fleet typhoons
21779s	they've reloaded that Battleground is
21781s	back on the menu it barely got up to
21783s	half hit points so it is unlikely to
21786s	live through this clip assuming they're
21788s	able to empty all of the missiles into
21790s	carob
21791s	we might not see all the missiles get
21793s	emptied us I see a tackled typhoon Fleet
21795s	on grid and we might see him go down and
21798s	they might be trading a belgorn for one
21801s	of those rapid heavy missile ships which
21802s	could work in their favor but it does
21804s	not seem to be breaking as fast as you'd
21806s	expect as the scalpel seems to now be
21808s	the primary target
21810s	yeah he's getting some local reps as
21812s	well on top of his repair team that
21813s	ancillary Shield booster work in
21815s	overtime to try to keep Alex excuse me
21817s	Akon stows in this match meanwhile
21820s	Locker Rasmus and the scalpel he is
21822s	getting absolutely brutalized trying to
21824s	hang on here as they really need to take
21826s	this Battleground down before they lose
21828s	any more of their comp meanwhile the uh
21831s	the nurgle seems to have pulled range
21832s	and he's doing much better he's actually
21834s	beginning to recover some Shields and is
21836s	now going back into the mix to try to
21839s	chase down the Kirin and scalpel team
21841s	from Deep Water Hooligans I know from
21843s	experience having flown that ship in the
21845s	at environment it is scary effective at
21848s	killing enemy Logistics frigates if he
21850s	can get on top of them he's currently
21852s	getting kited pretty hard
21854s	as we see the Bell uh the Belgium has
21857s	lived again through another clip but is
21859s	not really pulling back much health if
21861s	we don't get the health of that belgorm
21862s	up soon it will be breakfast on that
21864s	next clip and it looks like home control
21867s	is going all in on this typhoon Fleet
21869s	issue now the nurgle has broken off it's
21871s	no longer pursuing the logistics
21873s	frigates it's tackled one of the typhoon
21875s	Fleet issues and the other one is
21877s	getting absolutely slammed right now
21879s	meanwhile a drone cloud surrounding the
21882s	logistics fragrance it seems like that's
21883s	how they want to approach this puzzle as
21885s	the type and Fleet issue has run out of
21887s	charges and run out of support it's
21889s	going through armor at a terrible Pace
21891s	this will be devastating for deep water
21893s	Hooligans if Alex stoves drops
21896s	also note the Bargas is also scrim so
21899s	they now have a follow-up Target ready
21900s	to go once they get this typhoon down
21902s	and are eliminating as many of these
21904s	rapid heavy ships as possible to attempt
21906s	to save this battleborn
21908s	oh and it is down that nerd will push it
21910s	over the edge
21911s	and that is a huge pile of their
21914s	missiles they might not be able to even
21915s	kill that Battleground under the
21917s	guardian reps I don't know what his tank
21919s	looks like but it's terrifying meanwhile
21921s	that scaffold just caught unaware or
21923s	dropped immediately just absolutely
21926s	shredded with no reaction from the Kirin
21929s	I'm sure that kieran's going to be next
21930s	getting rid of as much of this lodgy as
21932s	possible but it seems like they're going
21934s	all in on this Bargas trying to go for
21936s	the 100-0 sweep as the battleborn has
21939s	seemed to pull back and be able to tank
21941s	grid as the British Navy is the new
21944s	Target of deep water
21945s	yeah the Battleground has uh his maybe
21948s	micro jumped away it looks like
21950s	he's at the far edge of the Arena now
21953s	quite safe no one around him he's not
21955s	contributing to the mansion anymore but
21957s	his armor hit points will remain as the
21959s	kieran's Armory points go to zero
21961s	structure hit points about to follow the
21964s	Kirin is down that is all the logistics
21966s	off of the Deepwater Hooligans team they
21968s	still have some local reps but as we've
21970s	seen that is not nearly enough to stay
21972s	alive against this the whole control
21974s	comp
21975s	yeah no that earlier in that match that
21978s	uh hyena going down very fast allowing
21980s	the nurgle to actually put in work and
21982s	go to whatever Target it desired and
21984s	pester and spawn anything it wanted to
21986s	as you said the nurbal a very strong
21987s	ship for what it is worth in the assault
21989s	frigate role putting out damage as well
21990s	as tackle as well as having tank to do
21992s	whatever it pleases and it really showed
21994s	in that match
21995s	yeah and now it is parked right on top
21997s	of that bar cast which is trying to
21999s	Shield boost its way to the end of this
22001s	match not very successfully as its
22004s	bleeding armor every cycle meanwhile the
22006s	British Navy issue still looking
22007s	relatively healthy I mean it's got a
22009s	third of its armor it is unlikely to go
22011s	down before this Marcus drops and that
22013s	typhoon Fleet issue does not have the
22016s	oomph to get through this Guardian
22022s	is absolutely a hero for his team
22025s	keeping that Battleground up under
22027s	absolutely withering fire from three
22029s	Rabid Heavy missile battleships and it
22032s	seems like they're gonna wrap this match
22034s	up
22035s	yeah definitely uh keeping everyone up
22038s	through the eclipse of those rapid heavy
22040s	ships that's one thing that you worry
22041s	about is sometimes when you have to clip
22043s	damage falls off and that allows the
22044s	other team's Logitech to play catch-up
22046s	you'd have to kill something with your
22048s	clip if you do not you really fall
22049s	behind fast in this match and it showed
22052s	here good work by the logic team as well
22054s	as positioning of hole control to keep
22055s	as many ships alive
22057s	and while we've seen a lot of uh gun
22060s	balgorns in this tournament this appears
22062s	to be full nude I'm looking at them I
22064s	don't see turrets which meant he was
22066s	able to fully commit his low slots to
22068s	tank not needing any damage mods
22070s	probably the only reason he's still
22072s	alive right now
22074s	yeah he's very crispy uh as I look at
22078s	his ship as well doing an amazing job
22080s	staying live mgding out good work to the
22082s	guardian pilot keeping him up through
22084s	all of that damage definitely carried
22087s	that match to him and the guardian I
22089s	don't know if our our camera team can
22091s	get a zoom in on that Battleground but
22093s	it's it's sizzling baby you could really
22096s	see the Battle Scars here as that uh as
22099s	the Battleground is beginning to get
22101s	ripped just to make sure he's nice and
22102s	topped off but the typhoon Fleet issue
22104s	no such luck doesn't have any love for
22107s	the rest of its team as it is The Last
22109s	Ship to fall here
22111s	and that is it that is a great way to
22114s	end the day of seeing ships barely
22116s	surviving in Hull as we see whole
22118s	control taking out deep water Hooligans
22120s	deep water great tournament hopefully we
22122s	see you next year and with that we will
22124s	send it back to the desk
22139s	all right
22182s	thank you
22207s	foreign
22215s	people that couldn't listen and couldn't
22218s	check bookmarks and find your own way
22220s	out the route the entire route was
22223s	literally bookmarked out to lossec I
22225s	bookmarked it 10 minutes in advance
22228s	you know deep water had the blower and
22230s	they are out of the tournament as Hall
22232s	control come in to clean up and go 100
22234s	to zero uh was that 100 to zero yeah
22240s	spill of a Bargas but you know before
22242s	that was too expensive we cleaned up the
22244s	the gulf in score there between 100 to
22247s	nil let me just check Zed kill and see
22249s	if that Vargas has come through yet I
22250s	don't think it has uh which is a crying
22253s	shame because we'll have to talk about
22254s	it tomorrow uh so that was our last
22256s	match of the day we are back 1500
22258s	tomorrow uh uh Eve time which is the
22262s	same time as we started today for our
22263s	first match white squall versus Brave
22265s	Collective another elimination match so
22267s	we will continue with the elimination
22268s	bracket uh we are here twitch.tv forward
22271s	slash CCP 1500 tomorrow uh thank you
22274s	very much for watching I hope you really
22276s	enjoyed it uh you guys why we do this uh
22278s	and of course thank you to all of our
22280s	teams even more so especially the guys
22282s	we said goodbye to today
22284s	um we hope you had a great time and yeah
22286s	see you tomorrow
22288s	foreign

[2023] EVE Online | Alliance Tournament XIX | Day 1

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