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| 29s | welcome back ladies and gentlemen to |
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| 31s | Alliance tournament 18. we have finally |
| 33s | made it it is old enough to drink we're |
| 35s | going to share mimosa |
| 37s | and we're going to look forward to some |
| 40s | exciting matches over the next four days |
| 41s | we have 32 teams that's quite strong uh |
| 45s | 32 teams 70 matches and I personally |
| 48s | guarantee all the explosions that you |
| 49s | could possibly ever ask for I'm ethical |
| 51s | Hawk I've got a whole crew here with me |
| 53s | that to help bring this incredible feat |
| 55s | of Esports to your very eyeballs and we |
| 58s | are basically ready to get going we have |
| 60s | our first teams in the arena ready to go |
| 62s | it is truth honor light and they're |
| 64s | going to be going up against a hill no |
| 66s | I'm super excited to see what happens |
| 68s | with those two teams truth honor light |
| 70s | of course the defending champions in |
| 71s | their previous guys has Hydra reloaded |
| 73s | uh can they make it a twofer can they |
| 75s | win two in a row will we form Volta |
| 78s | manage to take gold this year instead of |
| 80s | silver or will it be some other team |
| 82s | that no one knows about just yet well I |
| 84s | mean we've got four days to find out |
| 86s | um but I mean I think we should get |
| 87s | started I want to see all these |
| 89s | explosions |
| 90s | um we're apparently not ready to go to |
| 92s | the arena |
| 93s | um so let's just uh let's just look at |
| 94s | twitch chat hello twitch chat how are |
| 96s | you guys doing today I see see many of |
| 98s | you in there getting ready to to watch |
| 101s | these explosions which |
| 103s | to find out guaranteed guaranteed |
| 106s | um here I think where is Nash Nash is |
| 108s | through there so let me introduce some |
| 110s | of the other people that we have |
| 111s | actually so we've got a whole bunch of |
| 112s | people you will see on the desk we're |
| 113s | gonna have mystical might we're gonna |
| 114s | have Blackboard pirate we're gonna have |
| 116s | the Basilisk we're gonna have jintan I'm |
| 118s | joined by some incredible CCP guests |
| 120s | ccpb CCP Swift CCP zealous is here uh we |
| 123s | have Bay art J behind the scenes |
| 125s | biohazard uh we have Nash cadaver we |
| 128s | have so many people making this happen |
| 129s | and we have this incredible venue I mean |
| 131s | we're sitting right now in GTA 404 all |
| 134s | the way in space looking out the window |
| 136s | and I this isn't this is an incredible |
| 139s | incredible set I'm super happy to be |
| 142s | here |
| 143s | um I'm just going to ask our production |
| 144s | crew are we ready to go to the arena |
| 148s | we're going to throw a next match |
| 149s | graphic instead let's do it let's have a |
| 151s | look at what's what's coming up next |
| 155s | so here we see truth honor light versus |
| 157s | our Hill no so the uh the red team truth |
| 160s | on a light Banning out the Deacon the |
| 162s | Ishtar and the stratios whereas ahil not |
| 165s | Banning out the Blackbird the carries |
| 167s | and the jackdaw the trickle bands uh are |
| 170s | ship ship and ship as well as ship ship |
| 172s | and ship uh interesting choice of bands |
| 174s | right there I personally would ban ships |
| 176s | as well uh that's probably a good good |
| 178s | move I see what looks like a Maelstrom |
| 180s | and uh five Dickens being banned there |
| 184s | um so the captain of Truth on a light is |
| 186s | a Dexter AKA from Hydra reloaded last |
| 189s | year and for ahil not it is Daniel |
| 193s | um the oh we're back to me um there's so |
| 196s | many uh experienced Pilots here |
| 198s | um I'm I mean |
| 200s | we have mystical Knight he's a we're |
| 202s | ready to go to the match let's go let's |
| 204s | go see some explosions |
| 212s | ah welcome to the match boys uh looks |
| 214s | like some of the ships haven't quite |
| 215s | arrived yet I think they're having some |
| 216s | trouble warping in but we have a triple |
| 218s | BC core with an osprey versus well at |
| 221s | the moment it's a single Nighthawk who's |
| 222s | ham sitting at zero wondering where his |
| 224s | friends are I'm of course joined by Zoo |
| 226s | mate how you doing brother ah good and |
| 228s | yourself interesting here I'm just |
| 229s | wondering if it is just a failure to |
| 232s | show or if we're having some technical |
| 233s | difficulties out there |
| 235s | um it seems by local chat they're having |
| 236s | some difficulties in forapping referees |
| 238s | will sort that out but so long we can |
| 240s | just take a look at the comp here from |
| 241s | truth honor light I've seen a attack |
| 244s | battle cruiser tornado I'm always |
| 246s | interested to see those because they |
| 248s | have more of a rep of being kind of |
| 249s | glass cannons |
| 251s | um what weapons are we seeing on that |
| 252s | NATO and what do you think about it will |
| 254s | you not uh we're seeing some interesting |
| 256s | stuff for sure I'm more looking at the |
| 257s | fact that we have a harbing a Navy with |
| 259s | an osprey but yeah those should be Auto |
| 261s | Canon natives I believe that doesn't |
| 263s | look like artillery to me so I thought |
| 265s | that's a lot of DPS in that team to be |
| 266s | fair that's a lot of DPS and look at the |
| 268s | rest of the ships are finally arriving |
| 269s | because uh |
| 271s | I thank goodness since we will actually |
| 273s | have a good match to start off this |
| 275s | tournament luckily so uh teams will just |
| 277s | be storing themselves so rest we'll sort |
| 278s | that out if there's any penalties to |
| 280s | apply which I assume is happening |
| 281s | considering a bunch of warped to zeros |
| 283s | there right now but we will have a match |
| 285s | on the way and we are seeing gilas I'm |
| 287s | excited to see if these things are gonna |
| 289s | um follow through with that absolutely |
| 291s | uh awesome reputation they have right |
| 293s | now do you think the Gill is still in |
| 294s | strong position right now wing that |
| 295s | deals are always strong that's just the |
| 297s | nature of the Beast unfortunately I'm |
| 299s | not a fan of them really please Nerf but |
| 301s | they're honestly going to be very |
| 302s | interesting interesting to go against |
| 303s | this uh opposing comp I I'm not sure |
| 306s | what's gonna happen to be honest this is |
| 307s | interesting |
| 308s | is going to be interesting um I like |
| 310s | seeing the stuff now I like seeing the |
| 312s | Nighthawk I like command ships in |
| 313s | general so that bear is always a tough |
| 315s | cookie to crack in general teams |
| 317s | normally you face a bit of a dilemma |
| 318s | once there's a slept in Iron field |
| 321s | um some teams think like you know kill |
| 322s | the sleptner once you have the most DPS |
| 324s | on field because that they're having a |
| 326s | ridiculous tank bonus and making use of |
| 328s | xlsb Shield boosting to supplement its |
| 331s | tanks while there's lodgy still on grid |
| 332s | so some teams think hey that's cracked |
| 334s | while we have the most DPS some teams |
| 336s | leave it for loss thinking why bother |
| 338s | but then obviously you're going to be |
| 339s | sitting there for stepner with a lot of |
| 340s | self-tang stone field and we've seen a |
| 342s | couple of matches before in the past |
| 343s | where uh selection just carries the |
| 345s | match but we do have the match underway |
| 346s | here |
| 347s | indeed we do yeah let's see what goes |
| 349s | first this is going to be a lot of DPS |
| 351s | from the uh truth on a light team but |
| 353s | there's also a lot of GPS on that are |
| 355s | held natives they charge in within the |
| 357s | ham Hawks |
| 358s | so I've seen the T1 Osprey here on the |
| 361s | uh true cider backing off there they're |
| 363s | all retreating back to that engine in |
| 364s | the back being rushed right now by all |
| 366s | hail now |
| 367s | um tornado left the glass Cannon they're |
| 369s | definitely going for it but a lot of |
| 370s | pressure on that free Lodge of the Kirin |
| 372s | right now Ducks there so it looks like |
| 373s | they're trying to get rid of the lodgy |
| 375s | support first before taking out any big |
| 377s | thing bigger trying to see what else |
| 378s | they're shooting are they just shooting |
| 379s | the kid okay they're good they're |
| 380s | shooting the deal now NATO is about to |
| 382s | die already that's way too late they |
| 383s | finally got to Target onto the gear but |
| 384s | they've already lost a massive chunk of |
| 386s | DPS that is not a good start for them |
| 388s | but they are ripping through the Skiller |
| 390s | still looks like they were probably |
| 391s | trying to try their luck on Ducks there |
| 393s | in the Kirin there so freak Lodge you |
| 394s | obviously having a little Sig seeing |
| 395s | what they could apply seeing that they |
| 396s | couldn't apply and going for the Killer |
| 398s | and successfully falling through on that |
| 399s | so let's also removing a lot of damage |
| 401s | uh on the opposition side there of all |
| 403s | hail na going for the second gear now at |
| 406s | obviously at the advantage of getting |
| 407s | rid of these gilas is the longer the |
| 409s | match goes on the more kite potential |
| 410s | these gearless might have to just live |
| 412s | to win at the end but getting rid of |
| 413s | them now uh they can just make this a |
| 416s | full-on brawl if they need to uh |
| 417s | pressure being split there as well now |
| 419s | to the scalper as the second gear goes |
| 420s | down yeah Gil is actually painful not to |
| 423s | crack through it looks like a scalp was |
| 424s | being ripped apart as well but the uh |
| 425s | the random unicorn of a shield half Navy |
| 428s | is currently surviving a lot longer than |
| 429s | the NATO did and we see Nighthawk taking |
| 432s | damage as well as a scalpel and Kieran |
| 433s | so they're trying to go for the |
| 434s | Nighthawk now trying to remove the last |
| 435s | big chunk of DPS except for that slap |
| 437s | yeah but uh bad situation here I might |
| 440s | say for uh oh hell no I mean they're |
| 442s | only now working on their second DBS |
| 444s | ship the tornado went down obviously |
| 445s | that's a lot of deep air stuff the great |
| 447s | Harbinger art Navy is like looks like |
| 448s | he's pretty much secured the killing |
| 449s | them um so good job on there getting a |
| 451s | lot of DPS off the field once more the |
| 453s | Nighthawk of Daniel getting a bit low |
| 455s | there um but the frig lodgy on uh all |
| 457s | hail now side doing a good job of |
| 459s | holding themselves up even if they'd |
| 460s | split damage so we're gonna have to see |
| 463s | here although you know lodgy's up still |
| 465s | on both sides so if this uh command ship |
| 467s | of the Nighthawk goes down here on all |
| 468s | hail on our side I think it could be a |
| 470s | pretty good shot Here For Truth honor |
| 472s | and considering no pressure is coming |
| 473s | onto that Osprey of theirs |
| 476s | it looks like they're now switching on |
| 477s | to an exact maybe but that Nighthawk is |
| 478s | not going into Hull he's lost his |
| 479s | massive Shield bones and he's about to |
| 481s | get killed and that's going to be |
| 482s | honestly a pretty painful death metal to |
| 485s | this comp they're going to try and kill |
| 486s | his exec Navy under Osprey raps Osprey |
| 488s | does have two Flats of uh Hornet ECS on |
| 490s | him might buy them a bit of time back |
| 492s | don't think they can rip through that as |
| 493s | a stalk just gets deleted boom |
| 495s | absolutely gone interesting we can note |
| 498s | here the hakari on true side of nif um |
| 501s | looks like he's just plain dedicating to |
| 503s | that screen position making sure that |
| 505s | Osprey stays safe so you know a lot of |
| 507s | people might have spelled blood in the |
| 508s | water and maybe dedicated themselves in |
| 510s | but he's playing his role they're |
| 511s | keeping it Osprey safe unfortunately |
| 512s | truth does lose another ship here going |
| 514s | down but I feel like they're in a quite |
| 516s | comfortable position here as all hail |
| 518s | now loses their Sky breaker |
| 520s | yeah that's absolutely pretty look at a |
| 522s | slept here look like there's a lot of |
| 523s | DPS but unfortunately that Osprey is |
| 524s | actually said is being protected by the |
| 527s | um by the heckony but then again |
| 529s | that's also a friendly sci-fi also |
| 531s | protecting the Osprey so they are really |
| 533s | they know exactly what this team needs |
| 534s | to win and they're going to not allow |
| 536s | that to happen |
| 537s | well we say protected the fly catcher |
| 539s | there of bulky uh dive down no one moved |
| 541s | to intercept him he could have probably |
| 542s | actually made a b line right for the |
| 544s | Osprey but he seems to be more focused |
| 546s | on a rupture there right now I think not |
| 548s | too sure what's happening there he had a |
| 549s | pretty clean sweep there that Katie |
| 551s | actually didn't move to intercept and |
| 552s | now probably only waking up now but |
| 554s | um not sure if this is really self |
| 556s | solves your position but we do see the |
| 558s | vulture of Nick getting a bit of damage |
| 560s | here what do you think about a vulture |
| 561s | actually being on guard here right now |
| 562s | Wingnut thank you boy very tanky boy I'm |
| 566s | honestly I'm not entirely sure it |
| 567s | probably does got a lot of DPS with the |
| 569s | uh I'm just double checking if that's |
| 570s | the originals or blasters pretty sure |
| 572s | that's rails |
| 574s | but it's obviously a very very brutal |
| 575s | Tanki ship and the instant applied |
| 577s | damage compared the Nighthawk could be |
| 578s | very useful also doesn't require that |
| 579s | much application help so my hook does |
| 581s | almost uh almost religiously require a |
| 584s | Loki to provide the webs to give it the |
| 586s | actual punch it needs |
| 588s | issue yeah I think here we just seen |
| 591s | truth on our light going for um you know |
| 593s | not looking to mismatch their weapon |
| 595s | system so you know uh dedicating to the |
| 597s | tourists to just you know make sure they |
| 599s | have that instant application like |
| 600s | you're saying you know get the good |
| 601s | transversal get the good lineups so not |
| 603s | really a boom headshot comp but you know |
| 606s | just instant application if everyone's |
| 607s | doing their job requires a lot more |
| 609s | skill and dedication versus just |
| 611s | missiles or drones but uh can get the |
| 613s | job done as we see the scope will |
| 614s | finally go down there so the first Lodge |
| 616s | you should die on today |
| 618s | yeah it's a weird shadow of the old uh |
| 621s | Octodad battle cruises there's only four |
| 623s | of them they've got a good support wing |
| 625s | with it but it's a lot of DPS in these |
| 626s | battle cruiser hulls that make them very |
| 628s | strong and yeah Loki's down they've left |
| 631s | the slept until last which I think is |
| 632s | the ultimate disrespect because that is |
| 634s | usually one of the most dangerous ships |
| 635s | around it has just been ignored oh |
| 638s | unfortunately there's this you know we |
| 640s | spoke about this right at the beginning |
| 641s | of the match the sepner's not gonna be |
| 642s | able to carry much against you know what |
| 644s | seven ships here right now especially if |
| 646s | the lodge is still up I mean the Ospreys |
| 647s | got a bit of damage on him but of note |
| 650s | we do have to say uh hell oh hell no um |
| 653s | was going to look for more EC drone |
| 655s | spread up so relying on some RNG which |
| 657s | probably didn't cover them |
| 658s | um but truthfinder like going more for |
| 660s | the DPS drones which probably would help |
| 662s | them just split that Focus between the |
| 664s | frigology for the win here |
| 666s | yeah well truth and I like us to win |
| 667s | there so we'll send it back to the |
| 668s | studio see what they think |
| 671s | another great haul back from Omar damn |
| 674s | I'm thirsty |
| 676s | [Music] |
| 679s | that hits the spot |
| 691s | Farmers bar could be anywhere |
| 695s | [Music] |
| 706s | thank you |
| 707s | [Music] |
| 714s | [Music] |
| 730s | there you have it so the first match of |
| 733s | the day the victory goes to truth honor |
| 736s | light there in a what looked like it |
| 738s | could have been a bit of a controversial |
| 740s | match going the other way I know a young |
| 742s | mystical might over here joins me on the |
| 744s | desk I was somewhat stressing during |
| 746s | that match uh I believe the exact words |
| 748s | you said were oh oh please stop dying so |
| 752s | what was your thoughts here mystical |
| 753s | mind uh I may have said those words |
| 755s | there may have been a few curse words |
| 757s | thrown in in between a little bit I'm |
| 760s | not going to repeat exactly what I said |
| 761s | uh watching the match but yeah no I |
| 763s | think it was a solid win I don't think |
| 766s | that it was even close I never doubted |
| 768s | it wasn't close I had full face full |
| 770s | face full face full face and you still |
| 772s | have full faith the truth I like gonna |
| 773s | go all the way yeah of course yeah yeah |
| 775s | yeah yeah we're not going to lose any |
| 777s | more ships I'm sure |
| 778s | interesting all out of the way now no |
| 781s | more so that we can we can blaze through |
| 783s | zero to 100 every single time it's fine |
| 785s | okay and |
| 786s | um are you willing to put some Plex |
| 788s | absolutely not okay absolutely not so |
| 791s | I'm joined by mystical Knight and of |
| 792s | course black Bart pirate Bart how are |
| 794s | you today oh I'm doing uh super good I |
| 796s | am here in this amazing space station |
| 799s | that we're in uh traveled all the way |
| 801s | from Earth it was quite tiring so but |
| 804s | you know I made it you guys live here so |
| 805s | it's super easy for you guys you don't |
| 806s | understand what's like to get on |
| 807s | spaceships and uh fly through the sky so |
| 809s | that's true we do live in Utah 404. |
| 811s | we're actually coming to you uh live |
| 813s | from Nottingham in the UK this year um |
| 815s | so this is the evante studio uh it |
| 818s | belongs to us it's completely utterly |
| 819s | ours it's not rented whatsoever and even |
| 821s | seems to do in Nottingham is also in |
| 823s | g244 |
| 825s | um and yeah I mean the the guys who |
| 826s | built this whole set and everything is |
| 828s | absolutely incredible uh I don't think a |
| 830s | lion's term has ever looked this good |
| 832s | least in my opinion so black part |
| 835s | which teams are you looking forward to |
| 836s | seeing in Alliance tournament this year |
| 837s | I'm kind of looking forward to all of |
| 839s | them honestly like I know it's a little |
| 840s | bit of a cop-out and I kind of cheated |
| 842s | there but like after watching the |
| 844s | feeders and seeing like the quality of |
| 846s | the players that made it through the |
| 847s | feeders and like the struggle that they |
| 849s | had to do |
| 850s | I know that everybody that made it |
| 852s | through the theaters deserves to be here |
| 853s | most of the teams like we're seeing so |
| 855s | many old names we're seeing not Hydra |
| 857s | we're seeing Volta we're seeing |
| 858s | templates we're seeing triumvirate we're |
| 861s | seeing PL apparently is back in maybe |
| 863s | this time they'll reclaim their former |
| 864s | glory so I I really am looking for |
| 867s | looking forward to all the teams I think |
| 868s | all the matches are gonna be really good |
| 869s | uh just really excited about it I mean |
| 872s | this is going to be I think it's gonna |
| 873s | be really good like we already started |
| 874s | off with an amazing match so when the |
| 876s | first one's that good like we'll see |
| 877s | what goes down I'd I'd hope that's less |
| 880s | amazing next time so you want like 100 |
| 882s | to zero victories just boring so you're |
| 884s | not interested in making these guys have |
| 886s | a good time |
| 887s | keeping my heart rate at a reasonable |
| 890s | level |
| 891s | I'm a very selfish individual true |
| 893s | doesn't want entertainment doesn't want |
| 894s | explosions just once uh his own Peace of |
| 897s | Mind Peace of Mind exactly |
| 900s | so we have um the next match is going to |
| 903s | be arrival versus Deepwater Hooligans |
| 905s | um but actually tell you what Misty |
| 906s | let's break down a little bit what |
| 908s | happened in that last match so you were |
| 909s | watching very closely very closely |
| 911s | extremely closely could say I was |
| 913s | slightly invested slightly invested um |
| 914s | Talk us through it like talk us through |
| 916s | what we just saw yeah so what we saw was |
| 918s | a kiting team on the truth on a light |
| 921s | side |
| 922s | um going up against a mimitar rush team |
| 924s | so as you'd expect with the Minotaur |
| 927s | Rush team they rushed in |
| 928s | um secured tackle on the tornado and the |
| 930s | Harlingen Navy which meant that as we |
| 933s | saw at the very beginning of the match |
| 934s | the tornado goes down extremely quickly |
| 936s | it's a high DPS ship but it's not |
| 939s | necessarily known for its tank it's more |
| 941s | of a projection glass cannon that you'd |
| 943s | expect to sit further back in the in the |
| 945s | back lines but with the limits of the |
| 947s | alliance tournament you have to begin |
| 948s | within 50 kilometers off the beacon so |
| 951s | if a team comes in at zero on the beacon |
| 954s | you're starting 50 kilometers away and |
| 956s | it's not really enough time for a |
| 957s | tornado to be able to to pull away from |
| 959s | a rush comp as we saw kind of |
| 962s | demonstrated by the all hell now team |
| 963s | but |
| 965s | thankfully for me the logistics for it |
| 968s | gets on the Ohio now team decided that |
| 969s | they were going to go on a little |
| 970s | Adventure by themselves because they |
| 972s | took a little bit of damage at the |
| 973s | beginning and that allowed the truth on |
| 975s | a light team to kill the gilas which put |
| 978s | out an incredible amount of damage |
| 980s | um but they weren't in range of their |
| 982s | Logistics to get reps so that I think |
| 984s | really helped the truth on the light |
| 986s | team kind of pulled through towards the |
| 987s | beginning of that match awesome and uh |
| 989s | Bart do you think that the Ariel now |
| 991s | team could have done anything different |
| 992s | in that situation uh like as Missy says |
| 994s | they brought in this moment to a rush |
| 995s | team they clapped that tornado really |
| 998s | quickly but then it started to slowly |
| 1000s | fall apart they looked like they were |
| 1001s | pulled it back at one point Mr Clement |
| 1003s | incredibly invested staring at the |
| 1004s | screen almost shouting and in fact some |
| 1006s | would say and but what could uh oil now |
| 1009s | have done in that situation |
| 1011s | I mean honestly like it was hard to tell |
| 1013s | but it looked like the lhanel team got |
| 1015s | warped at zero which I don't know if |
| 1017s | that was their intent or not but uh if |
| 1019s | that was their intent uh they were in a |
| 1022s | position like they grabbed the tornado |
| 1023s | but I think they really needed to go |
| 1024s | after that Osprey I'm not sure how well |
| 1026s | they would have been able to pull it off |
| 1027s | but the Osprey did actually manage to |
| 1029s | keep so many ships alive as a Tequan |
| 1032s | Logistics Cruiser which is pretty |
| 1034s | impressive I mean it's very solid |
| 1035s | piloting um |
| 1036s | you know it is hard like it's hard to |
| 1038s | see like where they've been able to get |
| 1040s | on it or not but there was like I feel |
| 1041s | like there's a little bit of overlapping |
| 1042s | like over tackling going on where they |
| 1044s | were just focusing on okay we got the |
| 1046s | primary everyone tackle the primary and |
| 1047s | kill it okay let's go to the next |
| 1048s | primary everyone attacked the primary |
| 1049s | and kill it which is I think everybody |
| 1051s | in Eve has had a moment where they did |
| 1053s | that and everything got away so but I I |
| 1056s | don't know it's hard to say like Hydra |
| 1057s | did a really good job splitting sorry |
| 1059s | truth honor light and uh yeah they just |
| 1063s | got outkided I mean kiting team versus a |
| 1065s | Minotaur rush I guess |
| 1066s | it works there you go so our next match |
| 1069s | is going to be arrival versus Deepwater |
| 1070s | Hooligans and we have some graphics to |
| 1072s | throw up and let's have a look at it uh |
| 1074s | so arrival Banning out the Armageddon |
| 1076s | Navy issue the arthrus and the Ishtar |
| 1079s | whereas deep water choosing to ban out |
| 1080s | the EOS the curse and the slept near now |
| 1083s | if you're new to the alliance tournament |
| 1084s | uh when we see these trickle bands what |
| 1086s | this means is uh each team gets three |
| 1088s | blind bands for a total of six if |
| 1090s | there's any duplicate bands let's say |
| 1092s | here both teams had banned the Ishtar |
| 1094s | that both teams would be given one |
| 1095s | additional trickle ban each if all three |
| 1097s | ships were the same uh so let's say both |
| 1099s | teams banned Armageddon Navy Arthur is |
| 1101s | Ishtar then each team will have another |
| 1103s | three bands so Mr komari the Armageddon |
| 1106s | Navy issue that's just recently been |
| 1107s | buffed in the uprising expansion |
| 1110s | um is that it's going to be a popular |
| 1111s | band you think in this uh this Alliance |
| 1113s | tournament so the Armageddon itself has |
| 1116s | always been |
| 1117s | um kind of a scary ship in the alliance |
| 1119s | tournament setting because it gets a |
| 1121s | bonus to its newt's Effectiveness |
| 1123s | um so both the optimal range of those |
| 1124s | newts actually I'm not sure if it gets a |
| 1126s | strand bonus maybe it does a small one |
| 1128s | if any I think it's just an optimal |
| 1130s | range bonus which means that it's a very |
| 1132s | difficult ship to fly against because |
| 1134s | it's denying you an area within that |
| 1136s | Arena where if you don't want to get new |
| 1138s | to doubt you can't fly within that that |
| 1140s | space the Armageddon Navy issue has been |
| 1142s | recently updated to bring it more in |
| 1144s | line with the tech one counterparts I |
| 1146s | think a lot of the faction chips have |
| 1148s | been because they were kind of lacking a |
| 1151s | couple of the good qualities that the |
| 1152s | tech one versions had |
| 1154s | um I'm gonna have to interrupt you there |
| 1155s | because the teams are in the arena and |
| 1157s | we are ready to go to see a rival versus |
| 1159s | Deepwater Hooligans uh with your casters |
| 1162s | working across anzu |
| 1168s | and welcome them back to match two |
| 1169s | arrival vs Deepwater Hooligans and we |
| 1171s | have a double go on scorp Navy comp |
| 1173s | versus a uh well it looks like another |
| 1176s | no hook rush but it's a little more I |
| 1179s | don't know exotic what are you thinking |
| 1181s | about this |
| 1182s | I'm allowing to see a double marotta |
| 1184s | comp of Golems obviously the Bastion |
| 1186s | module is not allowed but these Golems |
| 1188s | uh look to be set up for Crews |
| 1190s | um so we've seen I think looks like a |
| 1191s | ham Rush versus a crew setup so you know |
| 1193s | uh gonna be interesting to see what the |
| 1195s | position is uh unfortunately it's T1 |
| 1197s | freak lodgy on the uh Golem side so deep |
| 1201s | water Hood against a better time |
| 1202s | disadvantage there but |
| 1204s | um maybe I can use that right Edge |
| 1205s | Advantage use some MGD beacons split up |
| 1207s | and you know spread the rush around I I |
| 1209s | think that's what they're Curious by the |
| 1211s | looks of it that triple Battleship plus |
| 1213s | Nighthawk I wonder if this is one of the |
| 1214s | pseudo tanker uh Cruise comps we've seen |
| 1216s | in the past it's looking like this might |
| 1218s | be the case we'll have to keep an eye on |
| 1220s | it that's uh yeah 36 to the match in the |
| 1223s | way this very interesting to see if this |
| 1225s | Rush can break that if that is the case |
| 1227s | actually a good call there so we'll look |
| 1228s | after this energy transfer is happening |
| 1230s | that's the case so Russia is still in a |
| 1231s | good position to go because you can |
| 1232s | always go bowling and knock them out of |
| 1234s | energy transfer range that ET has only |
| 1236s | been between 9 and 10 kilometers not |
| 1238s | having any bonuses but the match is |
| 1239s | underway |
| 1241s | I'm just keeping my eyes on the |
| 1242s | battleship let's be honest I'm not even |
| 1243s | looking at the what I'm assuming is a |
| 1245s | massive Rush yep there's the rush uh |
| 1247s | let's see yep they are balling up this |
| 1248s | is almost definitely a pseudo Tinker |
| 1250s | combo let's go |
| 1251s | see so let's say the pressure coming in |
| 1253s | here now direct Navy issue on the |
| 1255s | arrival side getting that pressure first |
| 1256s | nice little pickle up there always um |
| 1258s | but it looks like they're just gonna be |
| 1259s | looking to strip on the Deep order side |
| 1261s | the T1 lodgy I mean they're easy |
| 1263s | pickings if you've got a Russian you got |
| 1264s | the double Loki webs no reason to not |
| 1266s | clear those things off the grid |
| 1267s | absolutely first |
| 1268s | yeah they're going for the Drake Navy |
| 1270s | first as well so that could potentially |
| 1271s | quick as a kill birth goes down that's |
| 1273s | the last of that logic removed so now |
| 1274s | it's just the self rep on these three |
| 1275s | battleships and the Nighthawk I suspect |
| 1277s | the support Wing has now been left |
| 1279s | entirely out to dry well I'm not seeing |
| 1282s | any logic Bots or any energies you |
| 1284s | transfers so no real signs of a tinker |
| 1285s | comp yet they might just be going for I |
| 1287s | don't know some other ballsy player here |
| 1288s | right now but it's full damage drones on |
| 1290s | both original right now uh the Drake |
| 1293s | Navy issue on uh arrival side it looks |
| 1296s | to speed up in no armor but still living |
| 1297s | to win right now energy transfers go |
| 1299s | through the Nighthawk there we go it is |
| 1301s | definitely a pseudo tanker now because I |
| 1302s | have to try and survive the world now |
| 1304s | it's getting given all the capacity it |
| 1305s | needs but can he survive this massive |
| 1307s | Rush Drake Navy goes down that could |
| 1308s | maybe be enough here but he is just |
| 1310s | taking off a bit of armor |
| 1312s | oh no he's he's not I don't think he's |
| 1314s | gonna hold this he's trying his absolute |
| 1316s | best oh it's getting spicy now if I'm |
| 1319s | just they need arrivals uh I need to see |
| 1321s | if they can pressure through this now |
| 1322s | because obviously that'll be the links |
| 1324s | as well which is going to be crucial for |
| 1325s | keeping this Tinker going right now so |
| 1327s | uh doing enough pressure to make him |
| 1328s | believe and he does go down so give it a |
| 1330s | minute or two those links will expire |
| 1332s | making everything else a much softer |
| 1334s | Target to break here right now |
| 1336s | it looks like they're going after the |
| 1337s | Osprey Navy now with Cruz it's probably |
| 1339s | not the worst of all calls but um they |
| 1341s | can't kill the the opposing logic so |
| 1342s | they need to quickly kill the city ships |
| 1344s | before they start losing more DPS see a |
| 1346s | Merlin now just being being clobbered |
| 1348s | because it can okay where's that Merlin |
| 1350s | wait hold on where's the Merlin over |
| 1352s | there I'm sorry I just noticed very |
| 1354s | interesting that we have double Golems |
| 1356s | here paint bonus with split damage going |
| 1357s | onto the Kirin but not a single paint is |
| 1359s | being applied to that Karen right now on |
| 1361s | a rival side I mean if you got two |
| 1363s | golems and you're not applying any of |
| 1365s | those awesome ridiculously bonus paints |
| 1367s | to occurrent while you're trying to kill |
| 1368s | it I think you're doing something kind |
| 1370s | of wrong here I believe that's because |
| 1371s | they're going for the Osprey Navy so |
| 1373s | they're putting all their paint onto |
| 1374s | that there's also is this a Golem of |
| 1376s | rilio moving |
| 1378s | I think he's moving away |
| 1380s | yeah he is |
| 1383s | oh let's see this other thing you're a |
| 1385s | whole good job here holding their et's |
| 1386s | not trying to give their cards out right |
| 1388s | at the beginning you know obviously if |
| 1389s | the ETS goes right off the bat everyone |
| 1391s | knows right for sure it's a tinker but |
| 1393s | then again just like you said the ships |
| 1394s | are super the big giveaway here |
| 1396s | um logic side for the current uh and |
| 1398s | scalpel doing a good job of keeping that |
| 1399s | Osprey up but unfortunately deep order |
| 1401s | is losing too many of their crucial |
| 1403s | ships especially without the links and |
| 1404s | all that support um these golems and |
| 1406s | scorp Navy is just not going to do much |
| 1408s | on their own right now I feel they need |
| 1409s | to kill more DPS if they can get The |
| 1411s | Offspring Navy and maybe a lucky I think |
| 1412s | they can almost definitely tank this |
| 1413s | because they'll still be getting |
| 1414s | transferred by their friends but it's |
| 1416s | gonna be a really brutal fight for a |
| 1418s | while but that being said the scorp Navy |
| 1420s | is actually holding pretty comfortably |
| 1422s | I thought he was gonna start losing a |
| 1424s | lot harder but actually he's he's pretty |
| 1425s | much chilling over at 60 70 well and now |
| 1428s | we've seen some good volleys coming |
| 1429s | through onto the Osprey Navy issue uh |
| 1431s | might just be them coordinated as far |
| 1432s | these could cause Osprey Navy does go |
| 1434s | down and especially like you said |
| 1435s | stripping off some DPS putting the |
| 1437s | battleships back into a really good |
| 1438s | position here so now I'm just to see if |
| 1440s | they're going to switch those paints |
| 1441s | over to maybe a frigology or and try and |
| 1443s | get those off or if they're confident |
| 1444s | now in the DPS just keep hitting these |
| 1446s | high DPS ships and just keep putting |
| 1448s | themselves in a stronger winning |
| 1449s | position because obviously yeah |
| 1451s | so what a rival needs to now do is to |
| 1453s | bump the scorp Navy away from his |
| 1455s | friends at the moment they're not I |
| 1457s | think they're trying but they're kind of |
| 1458s | failing at it they need to get their |
| 1459s | school maybe out of ET range of his |
| 1461s | friendly battleships or he will not go |
| 1462s | down that be said again I say that too |
| 1463s | early as he starts getting lower in |
| 1465s | Shield |
| 1466s | but he's really tanky well the Nighthawk |
| 1469s | also getting a lot of pressure here on |
| 1471s | arrival side |
| 1472s | um I am really interested to see what |
| 1474s | would happen if they put paints on those |
| 1475s | free glossy and maybe take a snapshot at |
| 1477s | them obviously they don't have any webs |
| 1479s | or grapples right now just really having |
| 1481s | newts and paints unfortunately so uh if |
| 1484s | that Sni goes down that's a loss of uh |
| 1486s | damage that's a loss of energy transfer |
| 1488s | that's a loss of a buddy to keep this |
| 1489s | whole Tinker going |
| 1491s | yeah he's the Scorpion Navy is starting |
| 1493s | to go down he's he's run out he's trying |
| 1495s | his best he's repping as hard as he can |
| 1496s | but that's too much DPS and they're |
| 1498s | going for the night hook I don't know if |
| 1499s | I like that it's probably possibly the |
| 1500s | most tankiest thing on grid right now |
| 1502s | and they've gone straight for I |
| 1504s | personally would have maybe gone for one |
| 1505s | of the locus to try and remove something |
| 1506s | but this unfortunately it looks like the |
| 1509s | Tinker won't or the silver Tinker will |
| 1510s | not hold |
| 1511s | yeah that's unfortunate looks like most |
| 1513s | of the DPS that's coming onto the Karen |
| 1514s | right now is just the light drones that |
| 1516s | I've been splitting up there right now |
| 1517s | let's get a big oh yeah maybe there's a |
| 1520s | chance there's a chance come on get them |
| 1522s | quickly okay can they survive now that |
| 1525s | he's got such a sliver lift |
| 1528s | that is a really big hit there right now |
| 1530s | oh it might be able to recover here |
| 1532s | right now but |
| 1533s | no he can't he's still losing that he's |
| 1536s | gonna go down 11 structure there he goes |
| 1538s | that was so much closer than I expected |
| 1541s | wow |
| 1543s | you'd almost assume they were packing |
| 1545s | torps the way these Follies just |
| 1546s | suddenly come out of nowhere but that's |
| 1548s | also what happens sometimes when a |
| 1550s | shield cracks and suddenly all that |
| 1552s | armor and hell just gets stripped off |
| 1553s | right away two Golems is still quite a |
| 1556s | scary uh situation to be in obviously |
| 1557s | they can still support each other but |
| 1559s | you know with loss of that extra energy |
| 1560s | transfer uh any sort of newts it's just |
| 1563s | gonna slowly get eat away at this |
| 1565s | capacitor the xlisb requiring a serious |
| 1567s | amount of capacitor if it's not getting |
| 1569s | supplemented by something else |
| 1571s | if they can hold and kill a Loki I think |
| 1574s | they'll have it but as you can see with |
| 1575s | that Golem he's gonna have to be repping |
| 1576s | for his life to stay alive |
| 1578s | so that's going to be a really tall last |
| 1579s | not to mention the actual DPS from the |
| 1581s | support Wing even like as simple as to |
| 1582s | make sure like two or three hundred and |
| 1584s | you got whatever's left from the stalk |
| 1585s | in the bar for us like it's it could |
| 1587s | honestly add up honestly I mean we're |
| 1590s | sitting in about half inch of the match |
| 1591s | about four minutes left I know these |
| 1593s | Golems aren't in the best position but |
| 1594s | the points are quite close 48 to |
| 1596s | arrivals 40 obviously the sky breaker |
| 1598s | goes down uh only a bit more to rival |
| 1600s | side but you know if if these Golems can |
| 1602s | actually hold out and maybe just look at |
| 1604s | getting rid of something else like maybe |
| 1605s | take some shot at this fifth a little or |
| 1607s | the bifrost you know they could be uh in |
| 1609s | a good position to still win on points |
| 1611s | here if they manage to push through she |
| 1612s | also just saw a smartphone go off from |
| 1614s | the other Golem removing EC drones DPS |
| 1616s | drones potentially even lodgy drones |
| 1618s | so that goal is trying to remove what's |
| 1620s | on him that which might again buy a |
| 1621s | little bit of time I didn't see him up |
| 1623s | the other Golem yet the primary of uh |
| 1626s | Dana I don't think I've seen him fire a |
| 1627s | smart bomb yet but look at his tank he's |
| 1630s | actually holding very comfortably I |
| 1632s | honestly thought he was going to get low |
| 1633s | there but no he's he's doing quite all |
| 1635s | right and they're just grinding away at |
| 1637s | the Loki right now of uh archm Hardy |
| 1640s | um so it looks like they're just |
| 1641s | dedicated on getting rid of this high |
| 1642s | end not reading carrying much for the |
| 1643s | support taking more advantage of their I |
| 1646s | like DPS drones to get ridless care and |
| 1648s | I'm actually surprised that this fiddle |
| 1649s | of black tooth hasn't gone and maybe you |
| 1651s | know gotten rid of all these DBS drones |
| 1653s | on the Kirin so uh the scalpel can just |
| 1655s | dedicate all these reps to you know |
| 1656s | keeping this Loki alive instead of his |
| 1658s | freak lodgy why is this again so close |
| 1662s | why is this still so close the goal is |
| 1664s | dipping down a bit lower and the Loki's |
| 1666s | not going past 30 why is this because |
| 1668s | the Golem has just dropped down to 10 |
| 1670s | he's back up to 30. he's just bouncing |
| 1672s | and I mean what the Loki is getting ever |
| 1674s | so closer Dino needs to overheat every |
| 1676s | rep he has or whatever he's got to |
| 1679s | survive that extreme like 10 20 seconds |
| 1681s | to maybe break through this this lucky |
| 1682s | but I think I think the scaffold has |
| 1684s | finally stopped bothering to save the |
| 1686s | Kieran perhaps and is now putting |
| 1687s | everything he's got into the goal |
| 1688s | because notice that Kieran is slowly |
| 1689s | starting to creep down so I think every |
| 1691s | single rep is now on that Loke you're |
| 1692s | trying to buy them an extra seconds of |
| 1694s | time well I'm sure we've seen some spicy |
| 1696s | High slots here on both sides on you |
| 1698s | know for reps on energy transfers |
| 1700s | everything DPS modules um if that Loki |
| 1703s | goes down I mean these Golems are going |
| 1704s | to be in a spectacular position points |
| 1706s | and position wise right now we only have |
| 1708s | it's only about two and a half minutes |
| 1710s | left so I think it's going to come down |
| 1712s | to a lot of heat management because one |
| 1713s | wrong move one wrong cycle an inval |
| 1715s | burns out or something like that it's |
| 1717s | just all downhill the low Keys went down |
| 1720s | 15 Shield there so he's gone past Peak |
| 1722s | reaching he's slowly taken down the reps |
| 1725s | are going as hard as they can to buy to |
| 1726s | buy more time they're holding them just |
| 1729s | at about 30 then he dips back down the |
| 1730s | back up to 30. Meanwhile the Golem is |
| 1732s | now into Hull I think the logifrix might |
| 1735s | have saved this |
| 1736s | oh it's spicy now |
| 1740s | he's gone that's painful pretty much I |
| 1743s | think they should be able to wrap this |
| 1744s | up now in the last two minutes of the |
| 1746s | match here |
| 1747s | um so you know just grinding with the |
| 1748s | Golem absolutely spectacular to show you |
| 1750s | my deep water Hooligans I didn't really |
| 1752s | give it to them you know right at the |
| 1753s | back but uh showing some strong Choice |
| 1755s | I'm a bit uncertain about their choice |
| 1757s | of Target prioritization how did you |
| 1758s | feel about that would neck with them |
| 1759s | focusing purely on the high-end ships |
| 1761s | and not really touching support I'm |
| 1763s | pretty sure we cruise that would |
| 1764s | absolutely struggle to shoot the scalpel |
| 1766s | and carry even with Target paints and a |
| 1768s | web from the uh from their support I |
| 1770s | think they would still struggle going |
| 1772s | for the big end with the big ship was |
| 1773s | definitely the way to go I think but I |
| 1775s | know personally I wasn't the biggest fan |
| 1776s | of the Nighthawk pick that is |
| 1778s | potentially one of the tankiest things |
| 1779s | around I guess it does have the |
| 1780s | signature of a large Moon so you can hit |
| 1782s | it pretty easily but I don't know I want |
| 1784s | to ask the guys at the desk on that one |
| 1786s | because I'm not sure on that but |
| 1787s | meanwhile the Golem is still holding |
| 1788s | here but unfortunately as you see by the |
| 1790s | Loki of art Arch I'm just going right |
| 1792s | back up yeah really really strong show |
| 1794s | you we're just seeing the absolute |
| 1796s | devastation that these uh Marauders can |
| 1797s | bring |
| 1798s | um I'm interested if anyone's going to |
| 1800s | bring Vargas Vargas obviously not doing |
| 1801s | a tinker just more rolled Firepower and |
| 1803s | how they can do in like a rush AC comp |
| 1805s | um but spectacular show here with the |
| 1807s | double golems and this is also why we do |
| 1809s | not allow Bastion because just Bastion |
| 1811s | would have made that even more |
| 1813s | ridiculous as we finally do see Smith |
| 1815s | here getting ground down |
| 1817s | yeah man good fight's all in local as |
| 1818s | well I think both teams have realized |
| 1819s | that was an amazing match yeah one guy's |
| 1821s | saying that's nail biting |
| 1823s | absolutely beautiful we got less than 30 |
| 1825s | seconds left so thank you so much to |
| 1826s | these two teams would be just honestly a |
| 1828s | beautiful match this might end up being |
| 1829s | my highlight but then again these |
| 1831s | matches always get better the later the |
| 1832s | night goes |
| 1834s | um because yeah I'm always going to be |
| 1835s | excited for any little wild card we see |
| 1836s | throughout the day um what are we going |
| 1838s | to be seeing in flagships but without |
| 1839s | that the battleship does go down and the |
| 1841s | match is done and we will be sending it |
| 1843s | back to the studio with arrivals taking |
| 1845s | the win |
| 1847s | uh yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP |
| 1850s | collectively so that's why that Alliance |
| 1853s | logo is in the game of course you could |
| 1855s | change your alliance by leaving but that |
| 1856s | would be kind of a jerk move that kind |
| 1858s | of oh you don't like it now sucks I'm |
| 1861s | gonna go |
| 1868s | [Music] |
| 1878s | welcome to leave Pandora |
| 1883s | Pandora Pandora |
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| 1910s | taking that Victory there over at |
| 1913s | Deepwater hilgens in a very exciting |
| 1915s | very tense match that one could have |
| 1916s | gone either way at so many points one |
| 1920s | part of the match it was 40 points to 50 |
| 1922s | but uh the Deepwater crew were trying to |
| 1925s | kill that Loki worth 17 points if they'd |
| 1927s | done that maybe their Golem had survived |
| 1928s | but then arrival managed to just break |
| 1930s | through kill off that uh that tanker set |
| 1933s | up and take the W with one second |
| 1935s | remaining on the clock when they took |
| 1937s | the the final ship down mystical might |
| 1939s | uh we that's our first Tinker basically |
| 1941s | of uh of the alliance tournament the |
| 1943s | snap curve pseudo tanker what is a |
| 1945s | tanker and why is it so powerful I mean |
| 1947s | first Tinker of the tournament second |
| 1949s | match of the day or second match of the |
| 1951s | tournament Am I Wrong it you are right |
| 1953s | you are right thank you very much so um |
| 1955s | a tanker or a pseudo Tinker in this case |
| 1957s | is fitting a large energy transfer on I |
| 1961s | think three or four of your Mainline |
| 1963s | ships so in this case it was the double |
| 1964s | Golem Scorch Navy issue and the |
| 1967s | Nighthawk that would all have energy |
| 1969s | transfers when you get shot you run |
| 1972s | through some extra large ASP charges so |
| 1975s | that's a short booster that you can load |
| 1976s | with cap Chargers so that you don't have |
| 1979s | to use your own capacitor to boost your |
| 1981s | Shields but eventually it runs out and |
| 1983s | then it costs a lot of capacity to run |
| 1985s | it again but with the energy transfers |
| 1987s | what you do is that all of the ships |
| 1989s | that aren't getting shot give capacity |
| 1992s | to the ship to the ship that is getting |
| 1993s | shot and it can run that extra large |
| 1995s | show booster without the Chargers and |
| 1997s | that's kind of what the Tinker setup now |
| 1999s | is |
| 2000s | um in the modern day and age |
| 2001s | I'm Bart one of the witnesses we usually |
| 2003s | see for Tinker setups is they're really |
| 2005s | not very mobile like those uh that |
| 2007s | remote cap transfer is maybe like six |
| 2010s | seven kilometers you have to say super |
| 2011s | close to each other so sometimes we see |
| 2013s | teams attempting to bump those ships out |
| 2015s | of the way we saw arrival uh try and |
| 2017s | bump the tanker setup apart they did not |
| 2018s | succeed on that however |
| 2021s | um tanker setup chose to shoot at |
| 2022s | kieran's with uh cruise missiles at your |
| 2026s | thoughts on this this decision yeah it |
| 2029s | was a pretty bad call on their part um I |
| 2031s | think that actually they would have won |
| 2033s | if they had at any point chosen to not |
| 2035s | shoot at kieran's uh they only did it |
| 2037s | they did it for about a minute and they |
| 2039s | did it for another minute like as they |
| 2040s | tried to break something but we saw that |
| 2042s | Loki was so close to dropping before the |
| 2044s | Golem and there was a couple moments |
| 2047s | during the match where uh before the |
| 2048s | Scorpion Navy issue dropped when they |
| 2050s | had all three battleships and they chose |
| 2052s | to try and take a Kieran down and you |
| 2053s | know Kieran is a not only is it a |
| 2054s | frigate that is a logistics frigate so |
| 2056s | there's a ridiculously small signature |
| 2058s | radius and cruise missiles just they |
| 2060s | can't apply to frigates that one well |
| 2062s | they're made to take out battleships and |
| 2064s | battle Cruisers we actually saw them |
| 2066s | take a Nighthawk down with them very |
| 2067s | easily uh it's just really unfortunate I |
| 2070s | mean it was like a little bit of Target |
| 2071s | calling that I feel like if they had |
| 2073s | gone after the Loki instead of akirin at |
| 2076s | any point they probably would have won |
| 2077s | but trying to put cruise missiles on a |
| 2079s | logistics frigate |
| 2080s | pretty much doesn't work pretty much |
| 2082s | doesn't work we also saw um essentially |
| 2085s | the Nighthawk Loki Rush which was super |
| 2087s | popular during Alliance open and it's |
| 2089s | been less successful of late simply |
| 2091s | because of the points increase for some |
| 2093s | of these ships during Alliance open the |
| 2095s | points values were very different it |
| 2096s | meant it was a very Point efficient comp |
| 2098s | to bring |
| 2099s | um what do you think about bringing that |
| 2101s | comp in this particular Alliance |
| 2103s | tournament with the current points I |
| 2104s | mean |
| 2105s | I guess it's not a terrible comp to |
| 2107s | bring there's certainly better comps |
| 2109s | that you could bring if you wanted to do |
| 2110s | a rush setup it depends on the bands and |
| 2112s | what the bands were in the previous |
| 2113s | match |
| 2115s | um it's a strong setup it was stronger |
| 2117s | and the alliance opens because you could |
| 2118s | bring the two battle Cruisers or the two |
| 2120s | command ships and three Cruisers right |
| 2124s | that a lot of damage coming out we saw |
| 2127s | here you can still get a lot of damage |
| 2128s | out of these ships but it's a little bit |
| 2130s | more like hodgepodge because the more of |
| 2133s | the same type of ship that you bring the |
| 2134s | more the points cost and then you know |
| 2136s | the point values were changed anyway so |
| 2139s | they already cost more |
| 2141s | um so it's a little bit less effective |
| 2142s | like you said to bring that same setup I |
| 2144s | don't think it's the best type of Rush |
| 2145s | that you could bring I think we've seen |
| 2147s | better ones during the feeders that |
| 2149s | perhaps they could lean on |
| 2150s | um but yeah I mean I guess it's |
| 2152s | something that they're comfortable with |
| 2153s | based on the fact that it's an old comp |
| 2155s | yeah they just did pretty well with that |
| 2156s | during the alliance open if I remember |
| 2158s | correctly the arrival team |
| 2160s | um let's look at our next match so it's |
| 2161s | going to be the tuscaras call versus try |
| 2163s | and uh we can actually throw up a |
| 2164s | graphic uh about the tuskers and take a |
| 2166s | look at them as an alliance tournament |
| 2168s | team of course they've had various |
| 2169s | successes over the years including |
| 2171s | winning Alliance tournament 14 and |
| 2174s | taking home a bunch of blood Raiders |
| 2175s | ships the rubisu and the KDs uh for the |
| 2178s | prizes there tuskers have fielded a |
| 2180s | total of 53 pilots in their time in the |
| 2182s | alliance tournament and some incredible |
| 2184s | veterans there electronicus of course uh |
| 2186s | very very good Logistics pilot usually |
| 2188s | you see him in things like the scimitars |
| 2190s | Suleiman uh the CEO has flown for years |
| 2192s | he didn't fly for a bit but he is back |
| 2194s | now this year and look at that like last |
| 2197s | matches won against try actually so |
| 2199s | they're they're facing try right now and |
| 2201s | the last time they played a match in one |
| 2203s | it was against try I feel like this |
| 2206s | might be |
| 2207s | rigged because I believe it says that |
| 2209s | they are beating try in at 18. oh is |
| 2212s | that oh no are we licking the script the |
| 2214s | script has been linked the script has |
| 2215s | been leaked so there you have it so I |
| 2216s | guess we could just skip this match and |
| 2218s | go straight on the tusker is co there |
| 2219s | taking a commanding Victory uh 100 |
| 2221s | points to zero over try uh so |
| 2224s | potentially a bit of a bit of an issue |
| 2226s | there uh Platinum sensitivity the last |
| 2228s | team they actually beat and then prior |
| 2231s | to that snuff there dark side and we |
| 2232s | form Volta so those are really strong |
| 2233s | teams that um that tuskers have faced uh |
| 2236s | all of them very strong team well you |
| 2238s | say all of them really strong teams but |
| 2240s | I will remind you that snuffed out did |
| 2242s | bring four damos's yes let's let's talk |
| 2245s | about some other time so let's go on to |
| 2247s | our next graphic now because the teams |
| 2249s | are about to land in the arena uh so |
| 2251s | this is the try team so 69 Pilots nice |
| 2255s | um and some some veterans there as well |
| 2257s | uh playing in a whole bunch of matches |
| 2259s | including Annie gardett interesting |
| 2260s | enough that was from uh when the Volta |
| 2263s | team was in try uh so Annie despite not |
| 2265s | even being in try one of their most |
| 2266s | valuable pilot |
| 2268s | um and you can see here the vidra |
| 2270s | reloaded in Alliance tournament I |
| 2272s | believe that is 16 uh then NC DOT twice |
| 2275s | sorry Bart uh Brightside death and |
| 2276s | temples calcium again very strong teams |
| 2279s | the try team has managed to pull off uh |
| 2282s | uh victories against unfortunately for |
| 2284s | them they are scheduled to lose this |
| 2285s | match to the tuskers coal |
| 2287s | uh which is somewhat unfortunate for |
| 2289s | them and we hope that fate will will |
| 2291s | prevail and maybe they will actually |
| 2293s | pull out a w we never know teams are |
| 2295s | landing right now in the arena I'm being |
| 2297s | told let's have predictions I feel like |
| 2299s | the fact that the script might have been |
| 2301s | linked might solid as prediction but |
| 2302s | mystical man I'm going to come to you |
| 2304s | anyway what do you think here I'm gonna |
| 2305s | have to say tuskers based on the script |
| 2308s | writing for this particular match |
| 2310s | um I think I think they're a strong team |
| 2312s | in general |
| 2313s | um if they've managed to bring back a |
| 2314s | few of their players |
| 2316s | um with some of the recent changes to |
| 2318s | the game perhaps sparking the interest |
| 2319s | in the tournament again I think they |
| 2321s | have a strong chance of taking this but |
| 2322s | I also know to try team strong so it's a |
| 2324s | 50 50 for me but tuskers excellent |
| 2327s | non-committal answer there from uh from |
| 2329s | mystical my bar are you any more |
| 2330s | committal sure I will say that try is |
| 2333s | going to win |
| 2334s | because of the script and maybe we're |
| 2337s | just trying to mess up people's twitch |
| 2339s | Channel points here so it's all this |
| 2340s | like mind game to make sure that the |
| 2343s | right to people get skins which one that |
| 2345s | is you know we'll find out but no I I do |
| 2347s | like tries team |
| 2348s | um I think last year they didn't do |
| 2349s | particularly well but it's looking like |
| 2351s | they maybe have some of their you know |
| 2353s | original group back together and uh |
| 2355s | tuskers they haven't performed |
| 2357s | particularly well in the last like |
| 2358s | couple days so a couple of couple |
| 2360s | tournaments so kind of going for try I |
| 2363s | just kind of want to look at that like |
| 2364s | something different yeah I also like |
| 2366s | seeing tuskers loose so well I'm going |
| 2368s | to put my money behind the tuskers if I |
| 2370s | could |
| 2371s | um but let's go to Davina and let's find |
| 2372s | out who's going to win between the |
| 2373s | taskers call and try |
| 2380s | and welcome to the arena tuskers versus |
| 2382s | try the battle of the teas we're not |
| 2383s | talking about British uh problems here |
| 2385s | we're talking about a flagship bar guest |
| 2387s | it looks like Troy have decided you know |
| 2389s | what we want to beat tuskers this time |
| 2390s | we are not having this and they have |
| 2392s | brought in everything and honestly both |
| 2394s | teams have brought very similar cops |
| 2396s | we've got Battleship triple battle |
| 2398s | cruiser plus support Wings both teams |
| 2400s | have brought in well forms of lodgy |
| 2403s | the second Osprey today which I quite |
| 2405s | like but this is honestly going to be a |
| 2407s | beautiful match what do you think about |
| 2408s | this one Zoo uh interesting to see the |
| 2411s | rapid heavy uh Flagship bar guest there |
| 2413s | but we've seen uh with tuscos here |
| 2415s | scorpion Navy issued Cruise fit and |
| 2417s | warped in at zero unsure what happened |
| 2419s | there but we're gonna see maybe it's |
| 2420s | gonna uh be a bit of a bait uh you know |
| 2422s | a ridiculous uh tank bonus obviously on |
| 2424s | Sni but you can see both teams obviously |
| 2426s | going for their triple battle cruiser |
| 2428s | setup like you said and diversifying to |
| 2430s | avoid that duplication Point penalty |
| 2432s | that they need to take if they spam the |
| 2434s | same ship over and over again so just by |
| 2436s | versifying they come slightly just so |
| 2437s | they can take you know more optimized |
| 2439s | choices here right now but uh I'm very |
| 2441s | interested to see if a flagship's |
| 2442s | actually going to be able to give them |
| 2443s | the edge here interesting thing as well |
| 2445s | is that the scope Navy is cruise and |
| 2447s | warped at zero the bar guest is flat a |
| 2449s | flagship and is rapid Heavies and |
| 2450s | spawned right at the back of its team I |
| 2451s | mean if I'm flying a billion or more |
| 2453s | worth of ship or multiple billions I'd |
| 2455s | probably warp at the back as well but |
| 2457s | interesting to see the rapid heavy is |
| 2458s | being further back than the cruises are |
| 2460s | but then Cruz does get Full Arena |
| 2461s | control as the match will be underway in |
| 2463s | 10 seconds |
| 2464s | I wanted to see if they're actually |
| 2466s | going to go into the Scorpion Navy issue |
| 2468s | right at the frontier but uh once again |
| 2470s | an osprey like you said gonna be |
| 2471s | interesting if that lives to win if the |
| 2473s | bar guys might just go for that headshot |
| 2474s | off those Rapids right now uh the battle |
| 2476s | Cruisers are all AC fit as well as we |
| 2478s | see the match go underway and we see |
| 2480s | trying for diving right in looks like |
| 2481s | they're just ignoring that Sni going |
| 2483s | right from the back line right now let's |
| 2484s | see if they're going to go for that |
| 2485s | hospital sink their teeth into something |
| 2487s | else going for a caracal Navy at the |
| 2489s | moment looks like a sky fix tackled that |
| 2491s | actually they was tackled safely of |
| 2493s | looters now being absolutely pounded |
| 2495s | upon they're trying to return the favor |
| 2497s | back the caracal Navy so they're going |
| 2498s | for these uh reasonably lighter tank but |
| 2500s | better good DPS ships both the safely |
| 2502s | and the caracal Navy and yeah one goes |
| 2505s | down immediately the character Navy is |
| 2506s | still alive |
| 2507s | that's that's a very painful start but |
| 2509s | the character Navy is about to follow |
| 2511s | second sci-fi is now being primary bit |
| 2512s | of damage going to a hurricane as well |
| 2514s | oh we do see the Osprey being attacked |
| 2516s | up there right now by a jack door so |
| 2517s | let's see if they're going to follow up |
| 2518s | for that right now or if they're just |
| 2519s | going to commit to this character or |
| 2521s | that seems like both teams going full in |
| 2523s | on the damage challenge right now we're |
| 2524s | just seeing a bunch of like Navy uh |
| 2526s | damage drones right now just to support |
| 2527s | that DPS right now Cruisers are still |
| 2529s | being the prime application for both |
| 2531s | teams the side Fleet issue going down |
| 2532s | there in the caracal Navy issue as well |
| 2534s | on the tusker side so let's see with |
| 2536s | this awesome trade again the exact same |
| 2539s | trade Navy Crews have been destroyed |
| 2541s | they are honestly my opinion the best |
| 2542s | Target they are lightest tank with the |
| 2544s | best DPS to kill so now that both are |
| 2546s | done what are they going for us |
| 2548s | going in for that Oscar it seems they |
| 2551s | spell blood they're going for they're |
| 2552s | not going to make the mistake a lot of |
| 2553s | teams make where you just let the T1 |
| 2555s | Lodge again |
| 2556s | gets absolutely deleted on the driver |
| 2558s | side I swear that like I swear there's |
| 2561s | like one guy calling like both teams at |
| 2563s | the same time he's saying kill lodgy and |
| 2565s | both teams have done the same thing |
| 2566s | lodgy has now died again so again we |
| 2568s | have an exact trade to the logic two to |
| 2571s | two Navy Cruisers and their lodgy both |
| 2573s | deleted at the same time this is a race |
| 2576s | with both teams playing from the exact |
| 2578s | same Playbook I love this all right it |
| 2580s | is just an absolute blood buffers |
| 2581s | hurricane of Andrea going down getting |
| 2583s | absolutely shredded now no support |
| 2585s | doesn't have the tank all the HP of a |
| 2586s | hurricane Fleet or a sleptner right now |
| 2588s | delete it uh right now it's looking |
| 2590s | quite strong for Tesco's dress because |
| 2591s | just slightly ahead and points here |
| 2592s | right now but not to be denied as this |
| 2594s | Vargo it might be off on rapid reload |
| 2596s | once it comes off we might seen a lot |
| 2597s | more things suddenly getting deleted on |
| 2599s | the tusker side but for Ronald |
| 2600s | triumphant support is getting shredded |
| 2602s | as the swivel goes down as well |
| 2604s | don't forget it's all the Bargas in the |
| 2606s | back is a flagship Burger so he should |
| 2608s | put out all our DPS when he's finished |
| 2609s | reloading Osprey Navy's now being |
| 2610s | pounded looks like the support Wing has |
| 2612s | now been deleted now we have Burgers |
| 2614s | slip their Fleet uh hurricane versus the |
| 2616s | world and this is just this is chaos I |
| 2619s | love it I reckon Fleet is now being |
| 2620s | primed and he will not last long they |
| 2622s | are not the bit tankiest of ships |
| 2623s | especially when they're Shield tanked |
| 2625s | absolutely just a bloodbath we'd love to |
| 2627s | see it we'd love to see explosions we |
| 2629s | love to see all the Mayhem right now but |
| 2630s | I have a funny feeling we might be |
| 2632s | seeing a flagship going down soon uh but |
| 2634s | they're gonna be in a bad situation if |
| 2636s | they even the bar gas they lost a kill |
| 2637s | they're not going to be able to quite |
| 2638s | loot it are they the buggest is tackled |
| 2641s | so they will be able to kill him I |
| 2643s | suspect they'll probably go for him next |
| 2644s | because there's no reason not to |
| 2646s | then again they could just kill the |
| 2647s | slept near but they are also quite tanky |
| 2649s | actually there is a mile away so yeah |
| 2650s | they're gonna go for the bug as I |
| 2652s | suspect and you can see actually |
| 2652s | Cyclone's already there |
| 2655s | that's true they're just gonna get rid |
| 2656s | of that bar gas leave the stuff now live |
| 2658s | Luther and do a bit of Victory lapse but |
| 2660s | you know not to be underestimated still |
| 2661s | the DPS coming their way with Logie of |
| 2663s | grid so we're probably going to see a |
| 2664s | bit more casualties on the tusker side |
| 2666s | but looking quite strong the broadcast |
| 2667s | getting shredded we'll be taking |
| 2669s | advantage of those Flagship bonuses it |
| 2670s | has for modules right now uh but it |
| 2673s | might still be able to secure a bit more |
| 2674s | kill males at least |
| 2676s | yeah that Bargas that is unfortunate |
| 2678s | they'll be our first Flagship down the |
| 2679s | direct Navy does go down I believe that |
| 2680s | was the slip near dueling it on its own |
| 2682s | so honorable 1v1 in the arena do I do |
| 2684s | like those but yeah this bug will go |
| 2686s | down and that's I don't know how much |
| 2688s | that's going to be that's going to be a |
| 2689s | lot of esque Lost |
| 2693s | but we'll see right now let our teams |
| 2695s | sometimes just skimp lightly you might |
| 2696s | use more of a flagship to dodge bands if |
| 2699s | need be |
| 2700s | um I don't think the flagship has so |
| 2702s | much powers used to in the old days |
| 2704s | um with you know limitations they always |
| 2706s | do for rules which modules are around I |
| 2708s | don't think this year they're allowing |
| 2709s | abyssals though so that's sorry um I |
| 2712s | just noticed the cycling I think it was |
| 2713s | it just ejected some cat boosters in a |
| 2715s | cargo container so we could pick up the |
| 2717s | loop from the park |
| 2720s | well played well played good tactical |
| 2722s | awareness though making sure you got the |
| 2724s | space to get the goods |
| 2726s | um but the Cyclone might actually go |
| 2727s | down unfortunately |
| 2729s | I mean he has massive boosts when he |
| 2731s | wraps from xlas but as you can see there |
| 2733s | he does Outlast the Bargas he's I bet |
| 2735s | you he's going for that Loop I'm just |
| 2736s | going to keep an eye on him I don't care |
| 2737s | about the slipper anymore let's see uh |
| 2739s | yep |
| 2741s | stepner is trying to get in there he |
| 2743s | might be looking to kill this uh Cyclone |
| 2745s | so that'll be funny if he kills the |
| 2746s | cycle and they're gonna see two kill |
| 2747s | males here that's being Tranquility kill |
| 2750s | males are generated and we might see a |
| 2751s | double loss of whatever that Argos had |
| 2753s | fitted could be quite hilarious but um |
| 2757s | what the Cyclone is Jason osrin |
| 2760s | where's the Jason Hudson chat boys come |
| 2763s | on |
| 2764s | for weeks come on let's hear it |
| 2768s | but absolutely good wrap up here by |
| 2770s | tuscares unfortunately the bar gas that |
| 2772s | didn't do quite that well here |
| 2774s | um what do you think gave tusker is the |
| 2776s | advantage here you know teams had quite |
| 2778s | a similar setup I'd say you know |
| 2781s | in my opinion bulk they had bulky DPS |
| 2784s | ships that could take the punishment and |
| 2786s | what was trying but brought some very |
| 2788s | heavy DPS ships but they're not known as |
| 2789s | the most tankiest of options so and also |
| 2792s | the Bargas honestly might have been more |
| 2794s | cursed than blessing but we will see |
| 2796s | nonetheless and this was honestly a |
| 2798s | wonderful match from both from both |
| 2799s | parties at the start again thank you for |
| 2801s | the awesome flying from both teams as uh |
| 2804s | it looks like I think actually yeah the |
| 2806s | celebrity was trying to kill the cyclone |
| 2810s | oh this will be hilarious if we can see |
| 2811s | another loss I would love to see the |
| 2813s | last mails for this match right now so |
| 2814s | take a look at those kill boards off the |
| 2819s | matches does take the wing over trying |
| 2821s | very killing a flagship in the process |
| 2824s | absolutely spectacular show here an |
| 2827s | absolute bloodbath and with that we'll |
| 2828s | send it back to the studio |
| 2831s | guys stop being casual they're really |
| 2834s | bad we should not lose anybody to this |
| 2837s | warp off warp off take the fleet warp |
| 2839s | everybody warp off this is a really |
| 2840s | really bad execution I'm very |
| 2842s | disappointed |
| 2849s | [Music] |
| 2855s | [Music] |
| 2859s | crash our enemies your attempts are |
| 2862s | completely damped out Crush I'm dumped |
| 2864s | out I'm dumped out you don't like Travis |
| 2865s | boys |
| 2868s | everything down I've not been able to |
| 2870s | look at something again |
| 2873s | I'm jammed |
| 2892s | the tusker is cool they're taking that |
| 2894s | victory over try as we knew would happen |
| 2898s | thanks to the the brief script leak |
| 2902s | um black pirate um that looked like an |
| 2904s | expensive loss for try their first match |
| 2906s | of the tournament are our third match of |
| 2908s | the day and I am told that was a |
| 2910s | flagship bar guest we are hoping to try |
| 2912s | and get the kill mail for you |
| 2914s | um what is a flagship and why is that |
| 2916s | kind of a big deal so a flagship is a |
| 2918s | that lets you ignore a significant |
| 2920s | portion of the fitting restrictions that |
| 2923s | we have so generally almost every ship |
| 2925s | in the at can only fit up to Tech Two |
| 2928s | modules |
| 2929s | except for the flagship which has a |
| 2931s | specific list of them |
| 2933s | um they can pretty much fit anything |
| 2934s | officer besides like you know the big |
| 2936s | tank mods because you know something |
| 2937s | like a a-type and vulnerable or an |
| 2940s | estimable to be just absolutely |
| 2942s | overpowered but other than that you can |
| 2944s | fit whatever you want and a lot of teams |
| 2946s | will do things and obviously we'll see |
| 2947s | what it is eventually uh probably in the |
| 2949s | next couple minutes of Z kill updates |
| 2951s | but uh you often will see these like 50 |
| 2954s | 60 70 billion isk officer flagships |
| 2957s | especially with Vargas because people |
| 2958s | really like to put a rapid heavy officer |
| 2960s | launchers on them and rapid and officer |
| 2963s | ballistic controls so it has a potential |
| 2966s | of being a complete Game Changer |
| 2968s | um if your ship is doing like 20 or 30 |
| 2970s | more damage or tanks harder or goes |
| 2973s | faster or scrams longer it's just |
| 2975s | absolutely incredible and try just lost |
| 2978s | their ship on the first match that they |
| 2981s | played the third match of the day uh and |
| 2984s | they can't bring it again like once it's |
| 2985s | gone it's like okay you're done with |
| 2986s | flagship |
| 2987s | even if you could replace it you can't |
| 2989s | you're not allowed to fight for the rest |
| 2990s | of the tournament so not a good start |
| 2992s | for them and I actually think we |
| 2994s | probably just got the kill mail oh did |
| 2996s | we oh excellent let me fill it up uh so |
| 2999s | 27 billion isk I am being told uh for |
| 3002s | this Flagship |
| 3004s | um which seems rather on the on the |
| 3005s | cheap side let's have a look here so at |
| 3007s | cormax modified large Plasma Smart bombs |
| 3010s | uh we get officer rapid heavy missile |
| 3012s | launchers yeah it's pretty reasonable |
| 3014s | actually |
| 3016s | um |
| 3016s | that's a big loss for them like one of |
| 3018s | the important things about having that |
| 3019s | Flagship available is it makes you it |
| 3021s | gives you the ability to dodge bands and |
| 3023s | that's super important and the fact that |
| 3024s | you've even got it means that people |
| 3026s | have to have a slightly different |
| 3027s | Banning strategy against your your team |
| 3029s | because they know if you have a flagship |
| 3031s | podcast if they ban your uh the bar gas |
| 3034s | you can still bring your Flagship and |
| 3036s | that means that comp is still an option |
| 3037s | you have to plan around that |
| 3040s | try luster of our guests so they can't |
| 3042s | do that anymore they're going to be |
| 3043s | everyone knows they can't bring that bar |
| 3045s | gas because it's dead and that is very |
| 3048s | difficult to bring now let's go quickly |
| 3050s | on flagships again um last year we had |
| 3052s | Abyssal modules on flagships and this |
| 3054s | year we've not we've gone back to |
| 3056s | regular officer mods which regular |
| 3058s | officer mods uh faction mods and things |
| 3060s | like that |
| 3061s | um what's the kind of the key difference |
| 3062s | there |
| 3063s | I think it's a question of availability |
| 3065s | I think is a really key one when we're |
| 3068s | talking about officer modules it's not |
| 3070s | like there's a massive market for |
| 3072s | officer modules in non-at times and the |
| 3076s | availability of certain modules is going |
| 3077s | to be very very controlled when an at is |
| 3081s | announced there's certain modules that |
| 3083s | suddenly go up like 10 15 bill because |
| 3085s | people know that it is essential to make |
| 3087s | their Flagship strong so with Abyssal |
| 3091s | modules anyone had the ability to take a |
| 3093s | standard faction scram and roll it until |
| 3095s | it was the best scram that they could |
| 3098s | possibly get and that puts everyone kind |
| 3100s | of on par a little bit which is a nice |
| 3102s | thing to have for the teams that perhaps |
| 3103s | newer to the tournament but it does mean |
| 3105s | that there's a little bit less |
| 3106s | investment going into these flagships |
| 3108s | than perhaps we'd like to see because |
| 3111s | expensive explosions always the best |
| 3113s | type of explosions so I think that's a |
| 3115s | key change that we're going to be seeing |
| 3116s | here and also fitting restrictions as |
| 3119s | well on certain modules so a heavy |
| 3121s | officer scram I think takes four |
| 3123s | thousand power grid to fit whereas an |
| 3126s | Abyssal scram takes one power grid which |
| 3129s | means that it's very easy to fit a |
| 3131s | flagship with abyssals much harder to do |
| 3134s | so with officer modules exactly and also |
| 3138s | um Abyssal mods don't show up properly |
| 3140s | on zedco because it's impossible to see |
| 3142s | what the original module is just an |
| 3143s | Abyssal warp Scrambler you don't know if |
| 3145s | it's like a 40 billion isk officer |
| 3148s | module that has been rolled to something |
| 3149s | just Giga good or if it's just some |
| 3151s | cheap tech one thing that's been rolled |
| 3153s | like you cannot tell |
| 3155s | um whereas with officer mods we can see |
| 3156s | what you've lost we can see very clearly |
| 3158s | that it's quite expensive uh so unlucky |
| 3161s | for try there uh it's definitely going |
| 3163s | to make an impact on uh their planning |
| 3165s | for matches uh going forward at tuskers |
| 3167s | though executed super well I've also |
| 3169s | been told uh to say to Sully Nash says |
| 3172s | hello and he's still waiting for an |
| 3173s | autograph |
| 3174s | um now what what did tuskers do in that |
| 3176s | match that executed so well for them |
| 3177s | there well they uh they brought a kiting |
| 3180s | setup which we were kind of joking about |
| 3181s | it in between were like oh shocking |
| 3183s | tuskers brought a kiting setup because |
| 3185s | tuskers are extremely well known |
| 3188s | for in the at bringing basically what |
| 3191s | they brought obviously the points got |
| 3192s | changed a little bit so the exact setups |
| 3194s | are a little bit different but tuskers |
| 3196s | is extremely well known for being able |
| 3197s | to fly these sort of long-range missile |
| 3200s | kiting based setups and they've been |
| 3202s | doing it for years they are |
| 3204s | traditionally extremely good at |
| 3206s | executing it and they did it and they |
| 3210s | actually beat a Minotaur Rush with it or |
| 3212s | at an equivalent thing which was really |
| 3213s | cool because |
| 3215s | you have to be so careful like and a lot |
| 3217s | of stuff it's like okay well I'm kiting |
| 3218s | versus an armor setup it's easy you go |
| 3221s | faster than them what they were going up |
| 3222s | against is at about the same speed so |
| 3224s | just like really incredible piloting and |
| 3226s | really good Target calling and I think |
| 3228s | that that's you know we're seeing |
| 3229s | customers as still a team to be reckoned |
| 3232s | with |
| 3232s | um or you know the script said that they |
| 3235s | were supposed to be depending on which |
| 3236s | which one you want to talk about on that |
| 3238s | side but yeah they just did a great job |
| 3239s | like perfect Target calling never got |
| 3241s | caught really just well played yeah |
| 3244s | tuskers usually a team that we consider |
| 3247s | to be more of an execution team uh they |
| 3250s | will take something and they will fly |
| 3251s | super super well other teams uh the old |
| 3253s | pandemic Legion um tends to be more of a |
| 3256s | meta team they're very good at theocrats |
| 3257s | and coming up with things maybe they |
| 3259s | would fall down on a mirror match up |
| 3260s | against a team with better execution uh |
| 3262s | other teams uh like Exodus we usually |
| 3264s | put into that bracket as well |
| 3266s | um mystical might what's the kind of |
| 3267s | like the main differences between these |
| 3270s | execution teams and meta teams well |
| 3273s | before I answer that I was going to say |
| 3274s | with mirror at the helm of tuskers I |
| 3276s | think they moved slightly towards being |
| 3278s | more of a meta team in the sense that he |
| 3279s | came up with some weird wacky ideas that |
| 3282s | people weren't really used to in some of |
| 3284s | the matches that we saw previously and |
| 3285s | like Alliance opens things like that |
| 3288s | um but an execution team is a team |
| 3290s | that's going to be focused on |
| 3291s | predominantly executing whatever setups |
| 3294s | they're flying really really well what |
| 3296s | that means is that they need to be |
| 3298s | flying to the best of their ability |
| 3299s | because the setups that they're actually |
| 3302s | flying are going to be |
| 3304s | fairly difficult to execute properly and |
| 3306s | one mistake can mean the difference |
| 3308s | between winning or losing that match |
| 3310s | right being out of position or not |
| 3312s | effectively managing your pastor because |
| 3314s | flying around constantly at high speeds |
| 3316s | using your like warp drivers cap |
| 3318s | intensive all of these things need to be |
| 3320s | taken into consideration whereas The |
| 3322s | Meta team is looking to completely |
| 3325s | confuse and then also counteract |
| 3328s | whatever the enemy team is bringing |
| 3329s | right So Meta historically may have also |
| 3332s | included a bit of spying and knowing |
| 3334s | what the other team is actually bringing |
| 3335s | ahead of time so you can bring the |
| 3338s | perfect setup to counter nowadays it's |
| 3340s | more about just knowing okay people |
| 3342s | aren't really going to expect this type |
| 3343s | of setup from us they're not going to |
| 3345s | really expect us to have a lot of |
| 3348s | tracking disruptors for example on our |
| 3349s | armor tank phantasms that we saw in the |
| 3351s | previous at right like that's not really |
| 3353s | a defined matter that we'd expect but |
| 3356s | it's something that in the right |
| 3357s | circumstance can perform really well so |
| 3359s | that's the difference between these two |
| 3360s | teams one really creative |
| 3362s | can fall flat the other ones |
| 3365s | sometimes not that creative but really |
| 3367s | skilled can also fall flat and it's |
| 3369s | slightly easier I think |
| 3371s | to uh screw up flying well |
| 3374s | very uh glass half empty take there from |
| 3377s | mystical mode you mentioned uh track and |
| 3380s | disruptors Bart the rules have changed |
| 3382s | on on scripted e-war what is the fact |
| 3384s | change and how do you think that's going |
| 3385s | to impact this tournament well I think |
| 3387s | so far we haven't really seen it yet but |
| 3389s | we are also on match three out of 70 |
| 3391s | something so uh the big change is that |
| 3394s | you can now put Scripts |
| 3396s | into your ER modules specifically |
| 3398s | tracking disruptors guidance disruptors |
| 3400s | and sensor dampeners that has not been |
| 3402s | allowed for several tournaments now |
| 3405s | um I believe specifically the change was |
| 3407s | back like way back in like 80 11 or 12 |
| 3410s | when there's these uh drone Rush sensor |
| 3412s | damp setups where you would just have a |
| 3415s | lock range of five kilometers and you |
| 3418s | couldn't do anything so now that they're |
| 3420s | back I think that we're going to see a |
| 3422s | lot of a lot of that moving forward I'm |
| 3424s | actually surprised we haven't but it's |
| 3426s | the the specific scripts basically |
| 3428s | double the effectiveness at one thing as |
| 3430s | opposed to it being you know okay well |
| 3432s | we can cut your range in half and cut |
| 3434s | your tracking in half now we can cut |
| 3435s | your range in half times two which is |
| 3437s | not one |
| 3440s | the math works out trust me uh or do the |
| 3443s | other way around so it does make them |
| 3445s | much more powerful and then especially |
| 3446s | like the bonus ships like a celestis for |
| 3449s | instance or laches much much more |
| 3451s | powerful so I think that it'll be |
| 3454s | we should be seeing it I hope |
| 3457s | um if not maybe everyone just |
| 3458s | commitmentar rush each other but I don't |
| 3459s | think that's what's actually going to |
| 3460s | happen well we've got plenty of time to |
| 3462s | find that I should say this is just |
| 3463s | match four coming up uh so plenty of |
| 3466s | matches where people can bring both |
| 3467s | damps and mimitar rush and just run into |
| 3469s | each other's faces |
| 3471s | um speaking of mimitar this tournament |
| 3473s | here sponsored by the minitar Republic |
| 3475s | so the pride ships this year are |
| 3477s | essentially rebuilds of the old frecky |
| 3480s | and the mimir from Alliance tournament |
| 3481s | eight uh some stats were released |
| 3483s | yesterday the models have been yet to be |
| 3485s | shown uh but I am assured they are |
| 3488s | pretty hashtag poggers so I'm looking |
| 3491s | forward to that let's take a look at our |
| 3493s | next team coming up here Polaris |
| 3495s | nationally Alliance versus uh the |
| 3498s | boundary experts and see what these |
| 3499s | teams are choosing to ban so Polaris |
| 3501s | Mercury Banning out the bar guest the |
| 3503s | curse and the Scimitar whereas boundary |
| 3505s | experts Banning out that Armageddon Navy |
| 3507s | issue seeing that band once again the |
| 3509s | balgorn and the curse so they really |
| 3511s | don't like news they're like hey news |
| 3512s | you know go go leave go somewhere else |
| 3515s | the trickle bands here are Sentinel and |
| 3518s | Talia mystical mate what are you seeing |
| 3521s | here from these uh these team bands I |
| 3523s | mean it's interesting to see that so we |
| 3526s | see a curse band coming out from both |
| 3527s | teams right so that would suggest that |
| 3529s | both teams don't want to see nukes |
| 3531s | because the curse is an extremely strong |
| 3533s | Recon ship able to project newts out and |
| 3535s | it gets a strength bonus as well |
| 3537s | um to those medium and small nudes |
| 3539s | making it a super strong ship in an |
| 3540s | alliance tournament setting but the |
| 3542s | difference between these two teams here |
| 3543s | is that Polaris mercenary Alliance also |
| 3546s | opted to ban The Sentinel which suggests |
| 3548s | that they're not really worried about |
| 3549s | the newts so much as they perhaps are |
| 3551s | worried about the tracking disruptors |
| 3553s | and guidance disruptors that Bart was |
| 3555s | just talking about so I'm not sure if |
| 3557s | they're going to be going for a sort of |
| 3558s | projection setup I'm not really sure |
| 3560s | what they're aiming for with these |
| 3562s | current bands it might be that they |
| 3563s | actually want to use the Shacks |
| 3565s | um of which you know uh track and |
| 3567s | disruptors are extremely effective at |
| 3569s | countering |
| 3570s | um The Shack projection and damage |
| 3572s | because you can break their spool which |
| 3574s | we'll probably have to explain later |
| 3576s | um by applying the track and disruptors |
| 3577s | well let's let's find out because we're |
| 3579s | ready to go to the arena and see if we |
| 3581s | are going to see the Shacks between uh |
| 3582s | Polaris Management Corporation and |
| 3585s | burner experts so let's go |
| 3592s | welcome back to the arena mates and we |
| 3594s | have another Flagship on the field flown |
| 3596s | by Avery Lewis it looks like it is |
| 3598s | potentially another pseudo tanker versus |
| 3600s | Triple Battleship but guess what they're |
| 3602s | the laser boys it's abaddon's plus sort |
| 3604s | of date Redeemer so this is going to be |
| 3606s | again a lot of DPS and also a lot of |
| 3609s | tank on both of these comps potentially |
| 3611s | what do you think about this one Zoo uh |
| 3613s | we have the countdown happening |
| 3614s | interesting to see another Tinker set up |
| 3616s | here as well and the flagship just in |
| 3617s | fourth match and we're just seeing |
| 3619s | spectacular shows here but um this |
| 3621s | avatar.com is probably going to love |
| 3622s | those juicy targets just sitting |
| 3624s | absolutely stationary just pummeling |
| 3626s | into them so I'm gonna see what they're |
| 3627s | going through probably an article's also |
| 3629s | just gonna love this lasers are |
| 3630s | absolutely loving status oracle's gonna |
| 3633s | hate the fact that it can't run away |
| 3634s | from the cruise hahaha |
| 3637s | true but we'll see the match on the way |
| 3639s | here I'm going to see Target |
| 3639s | prioritization here are they going to go |
| 3641s | for Nighthawk maybe strip the battleship |
| 3642s | or get rid of this freak lodgy as well |
| 3644s | turrets might have a harder time |
| 3645s | applying to this frequency but obviously |
| 3647s | you do want to get rid of them don't |
| 3647s | want to give them just free reps but |
| 3649s | yeah we see the Nighthawk being |
| 3650s | primaried and yeah look at the Oracle |
| 3651s | immediately as said that they're gonna |
| 3653s | have a lot of trouble under this under |
| 3655s | the cruise oracles have great DPS |
| 3656s | they're very good just like the NATO but |
| 3658s | unfortunately when you can't escape the |
| 3660s | DPS you will die quick and he's only got |
| 3662s | an Inquisitor and Navitas for rep so T1 |
| 3664s | lodgy friggs so this guy will not last |
| 3667s | long unfortunately but they're going for |
| 3668s | the Nighthawk trying to break the links |
| 3670s | off of this pseudo Tinker ASAP very |
| 3672s | interesting that we're seeing quick and |
| 3673s | the article trying to pull range I'm not |
| 3675s | sure what he's thinking like I think |
| 3676s | he'd rather approach and do as much |
| 3678s | damage because those Cruisers are going |
| 3680s | to hit him anywhere in the arena so he's |
| 3682s | just kind of wasted a lot of DPS time |
| 3684s | there as he dies I think potentially he |
| 3686s | could have maybe gotten far away off but |
| 3687s | it was not worth it but still he should |
| 3690s | just go in for I think but second |
| 3691s | article now being hit hard Nighthawk is |
| 3694s | being hit but he's tanking rather well |
| 3696s | at the moment |
| 3699s | unfortunately like you say we just got |
| 3701s | to see those articles being stripped |
| 3702s | right now um hopefully you're going to |
| 3704s | do enough the bursts going down like get |
| 3705s | rid of those free reps good show |
| 3707s | hopefully they can follow through into |
| 3708s | the Bantam and start working on |
| 3710s | something bigger because with the loss |
| 3711s | of the second article that's a big |
| 3712s | portion of a DPS gone obviously there's |
| 3714s | still three battleships and they still |
| 3716s | have their free logic it's a fantastic |
| 3717s | position but because tough to cookies to |
| 3720s | crack he keeps getting close they can |
| 3722s | always finally get broken through and |
| 3724s | then he bursts right back up oh hold on |
| 3726s | see do you guys just bouncing up and |
| 3728s | down like a yo-yo which is exactly like |
| 3729s | his name yo Yaz is barely holding up but |
| 3733s | there he goes there goes the links in a |
| 3735s | few more minutes but honestly don't |
| 3736s | think I'm finding crazy about this this |
| 3737s | is obviously a flag bug but he's not |
| 3739s | running away he is sitting next to his |
| 3741s | uh Tinker Brethren it's just gonna sit |
| 3743s | there which is not the type of bug I'm |
| 3745s | used to seeing interesting as well that |
| 3747s | is the flagship choice so um I don't |
| 3749s | know I love seeing some laser boys |
| 3751s | pummeling into uh kaldari ships I'm a |
| 3753s | bit of a fanboy of Amar but they're bad |
| 3755s | in getting to half armor a bad and |
| 3756s | obviously does have the resist bonus |
| 3757s | does a full free launcher but Inquisitor |
| 3759s | being the T1 variant there as well as |
| 3761s | being focused right now half armor |
| 3763s | probably getting a little spread of the |
| 3764s | DPS drones teams looking to favor the |
| 3766s | DPS drones right now just to give that |
| 3767s | split potential so even when you have |
| 3769s | these big heavy systems as a sky breaker |
| 3771s | goes down you can still do some |
| 3772s | applications to these frigates when |
| 3774s | we've seen that being quite effective |
| 3775s | here yeah I'm willing to bet that bad |
| 3777s | definitely has reactive armor hardness |
| 3778s | but then of course he's not fighting |
| 3780s | some CT team they know that these guys |
| 3782s | probably have these and are firing the |
| 3783s | rainbow of missiles at them because |
| 3784s | again missiles can fire anything so that |
| 3787s | reactive armor Harden will not provide |
| 3789s | the lengthening benefit that it normally |
| 3790s | does as he goes into Hull and is just |
| 3792s | not able to tank these triple Crews I |
| 3795s | must say you know obviously seeing DPS |
| 3797s | spots on the field is fantastic but |
| 3798s | normally you actually see this armor |
| 3799s | comes going for Redbox and the battle |
| 3801s | goes down and I'm feeling if they just |
| 3802s | went Redbox there they might have |
| 3804s | actually just had the edge they need to |
| 3805s | just survive that war of attrition with |
| 3806s | this S9 because S9 Stone structure if |
| 3808s | they can still push it through and have |
| 3809s | this equal trade on the battleships |
| 3811s | they're still in a very strong position |
| 3812s | although they lost all their lodging |
| 3813s | these battleships as a scorpion does go |
| 3815s | down the bar gas in the garden will |
| 3816s | still be self-repping so it is just |
| 3818s | seeing if these raw this raw damage from |
| 3820s | the battleships has enough to break this |
| 3822s | tank and if they have enough HP is it |
| 3824s | doing them being a slugfest here there's |
| 3825s | also a support Wing battle going on at |
| 3827s | the moment it looks like the jaguar and |
| 3828s | I believe the harpy of Chad hammercock |
| 3831s | and Sven block are trying to kill off |
| 3832s | the last logic frigate and they're being |
| 3834s | currently attacked by I think it's the |
| 3836s | sky Breakers so there's a little bit of |
| 3837s | a logic uh sorry a supporting fight |
| 3839s | going on there but I think the Jacob |
| 3841s | Harpy should come out on top so it's |
| 3842s | gonna be a question of this Battleship |
| 3843s | brawl but that Golem is aren't he |
| 3845s | dropping a lot harder than I expected |
| 3847s | them to uh we'll have to see yeah he's |
| 3850s | dropping pretty good if he can if they |
| 3851s | can do that oh that's pretty strong |
| 3852s | going to Army now getting actually |
| 3854s | shredded maybe he burnt out some |
| 3855s | we'll never know that well it could also |
| 3857s | be |
| 3858s | sitting and muting him true that's true |
| 3863s | navitus does go down all reps are all |
| 3865s | field now it's just battleships slugging |
| 3866s | into each other they don't know the |
| 3868s | advantage that we saw the battle cruiser |
| 3869s | Rush happy before where they can try and |
| 3871s | balance these battleships with each |
| 3872s | other more with iron just on Roll |
| 3873s | Firepower and hit points there but |
| 3875s | putting that Golem into structure good |
| 3876s | show |
| 3877s | oh no this is not looking good for this |
| 3880s | Flagship uh Bargas now he's not standing |
| 3882s | alone against a double Battleship comp |
| 3883s | and they've got the newts to turn him |
| 3885s | off so this this may not look good for |
| 3887s | this potentially incredibly shiny Bargas |
| 3890s | who's now also of course right in front |
| 3891s | of them he didn't even attempt to move |
| 3893s | well |
| 3894s | I would be looking to run but he |
| 3897s | probably oh |
| 3898s | so he probably has a local mjd fit for |
| 3901s | this situation that is interesting |
| 3908s | I was at the wrong wrong uh side of the |
| 3910s | Arena unfortunately so yeah he's still |
| 3912s | alive he's got crazy ship he's still |
| 3913s | going to hit the abbottom I believe he's |
| 3914s | a pulse fit too so he's actually out of |
| 3917s | their range I'm pretty sure very cheeky |
| 3919s | don't fit a local prop but the mjd |
| 3921s | doesn't get the broader bonus for this |
| 3923s | cooldown for images unfortunately so |
| 3924s | gonna be a while before we can do that |
| 3926s | again looks like he's slow boating |
| 3927s | towards another MJG there right now at |
| 3929s | the bottom there's a beacon um but he |
| 3931s | might be able to pick up this about end |
| 3932s | of being a really strong position then |
| 3933s | he can indeed there is no logic to wrap |
| 3935s | this boy back up anymore so yeah he can |
| 3937s | actually take the tablet on down and |
| 3938s | then it'll be him and then Harpy versus |
| 3939s | the world and there's only going to be |
| 3941s | an organ avian a redeemer for the damage |
| 3943s | this that jump might have actually just |
| 3945s | entirely again flipped this match again |
| 3948s | considering a very powerful position now |
| 3951s | Flag bug versus a redeemer uh there's |
| 3954s | Harpy unfortunately trying to approach |
| 3955s | right at the Redeemer and the Redeemer |
| 3957s | is just pumping into it so the Redeemer |
| 3958s | will be shredding this last support ship |
| 3959s | leaving the bar against the last man |
| 3961s | standing but you know I think by the |
| 3963s | time the original maybe gets there |
| 3964s | especially considering they probably |
| 3965s | don't have any scrabs left maybe this |
| 3967s | Mario guys can just you know do it again |
| 3969s | but uh I actually don't think there is |
| 3971s | even enough time left in the match for |
| 3972s | that MGD to come with cooldown |
| 3975s | yeah potentially he's going to try and |
| 3977s | go for the uh remote one but |
| 3979s | unfortunately he's not gonna get there |
| 3980s | in time so now he's have to kill as fast |
| 3981s | as he can |
| 3982s | that's I think he might have bought time |
| 3985s | but I think it's still going to end the |
| 3987s | same way he's behind on points he's got |
| 3989s | no friends and the opposing team is |
| 3990s | already on him |
| 3992s | oh man |
| 3994s | absolute good show though love to see it |
| 3997s | um how much time do we have left in the |
| 3999s | match here just under uh four minutes |
| 4001s | it's gonna seem |
| 4003s | um |
| 4004s | gotta be tight but I'm gonna say that's |
| 4007s | gonna be one for the history books right |
| 4008s | there awesome player you wouldn't expect |
| 4010s | that coming from a tinker comp so kudos |
| 4012s | to Avery for his little maneuver there |
| 4013s | uh securing some more kills uh not going |
| 4015s | down like a chump at least but um might |
| 4018s | still be death in the water here with |
| 4019s | this Redeemer getting on top of him now |
| 4020s | he's gonna try for the trade with the |
| 4023s | Redeemer try and get him before he does |
| 4024s | it's gonna be an interesting race it's |
| 4026s | going up against a armor ship with |
| 4029s | missiles and I think Redeemer does have |
| 4031s | a reactive so unfortunately he will |
| 4033s | slowly get better and better resist |
| 4034s | against this barrier so he will then |
| 4036s | have to reload waste time so |
| 4038s | this this is going to be close honestly |
| 4040s | I think the bug will go down very easily |
| 4042s | but there's honestly there was a moment |
| 4045s | in time I thought this could have been a |
| 4046s | lot closer yeah we've seen the sky |
| 4048s | breaker now of Felicia keeping a scram |
| 4050s | on Avery they're not gonna let that |
| 4051s | happen again that bargast is staying |
| 4054s | exactly where he is there's not going to |
| 4055s | be any awesome plays even if he manages |
| 4057s | to get on top of the beacon so he pulled |
| 4059s | this one trick there uh did his damage |
| 4061s | but he will be going down as he's |
| 4063s | heading to structure now hopefully we're |
| 4064s | going to be seeing another really juicy |
| 4066s | kill medal here uh which the studio will |
| 4068s | be able to analyze for us but |
| 4070s | um goodbye second flagship yep and we |
| 4073s | can also get to hear the cries of many |
| 4075s | Channel points being lost but congrats |
| 4077s | to uh Polaris there for the amazing win |
| 4079s | and with that we'll go back to the |
| 4080s | studio and see what they think |
| 4085s | [Music] |
| 4091s | [Music] |
| 4098s | [Music] |
| 4105s | foreign |
| 4130s | together |
| 4143s | foreign |
| 4154s | [Music] |
| 4163s | taking that Victory and fourth match of |
| 4166s | the day second with the flagship two |
| 4168s | flagships dead both bar guests uh Avery |
| 4171s | Lewis they're trying to survive at the |
| 4172s | End by himself the rest of his team not |
| 4175s | not strong enough not like Chad |
| 4177s | hammercock in that Jaguar |
| 4179s | um he just could not survive long enough |
| 4181s | to keep his his Flagship alive but |
| 4183s | looking at that bar gas and not the most |
| 4184s | expensive thing I'm a little bit |
| 4186s | surprised at that from the boundary |
| 4188s | experts team there only kaldar Navy |
| 4190s | cruise missile launchers Tech 2 uh |
| 4192s | Shield hardeners it's really not that |
| 4193s | expensive whatsoever but there you are |
| 4195s | it's dead who cares now I am joined on |
| 4198s | the desk by two illustrious guests uh we |
| 4201s | have Mr Jin tan uh you're looking |
| 4203s | absolutely fabulous at agentan and of |
| 4205s | course CCP Swift uh CC Swift how are you |
| 4208s | today I'm doing great uh a little I like |
| 4211s | the boundary experts team uh you know |
| 4213s | but I think they just wanted to go to |
| 4215s | the lower bracket to get more skins so |
| 4217s | that's probably what they were thinking |
| 4218s | there also the twitch Channel points |
| 4220s | they probably they bet against |
| 4221s | themselves |
| 4222s | got a lot of twitch Channel points easy |
| 4224s | yeah those twitch Channel pops could be |
| 4225s | incredibly valuable to get of course the |
| 4227s | galnet Skins uh they're pretty cool |
| 4229s | they're pretty swag skins but also there |
| 4231s | will be some cool prizes that you can |
| 4233s | get during the break for this uh for |
| 4235s | this stream so stay tuned for them a |
| 4237s | little bit later jintan |
| 4239s | um what did we see in that match there |
| 4241s | other than Avery Lewis fleeting feeding |
| 4243s | a flagship bar guest but yeah what we |
| 4245s | saw was actually a really amazing play |
| 4247s | from PMA they brought a laser Rush comp |
| 4250s | you know Fielding five ships which can |
| 4252s | use Mega pulses and just dump heavy DPS |
| 4255s | even to long range really abusing the |
| 4258s | power of The Scorch L Crystal probably |
| 4260s | the best ammunition in the game and |
| 4262s | using that to just present an incredible |
| 4265s | amount of DPS you saw how girthy that |
| 4267s | attack bar was even girthier than the |
| 4269s | the attack bar of four Dimos is just |
| 4271s | enough to blow its way through anything |
| 4273s | even after two of those uh you know more |
| 4276s | weak threats in the oracles got taken |
| 4278s | down early in the match yeah I mean |
| 4280s | scratch out obviously a fantastic stick |
| 4282s | piece of ammunition goes into many guns |
| 4285s | specifically laser guns but CC Swift is |
| 4288s | it better than uh hail you know because |
| 4290s | they always say load hail never fail is |
| 4292s | that true uh uh I think I've seen people |
| 4295s | fail with hail it's weird but I think |
| 4298s | that's happened barrage though also |
| 4300s | really good ammunition |
| 4302s | um but yeah the best ammunitions are who |
| 4305s | I mean whoever named the ammunition for |
| 4307s | the uh the Eden com yeah uh ships was |
| 4309s | just having a great time Electro Punch |
| 4311s | Yeah electrified they sound like energy |
| 4313s | drinks they're fantastic I love them |
| 4315s | um so |
| 4316s | PM agent and you did a couple of |
| 4317s | interviews with the different teams uh |
| 4319s | tell us a little bit about the PMA team |
| 4321s | unfortunately PMA did not respond to my |
| 4323s | request for an interview that's |
| 4324s | unfortunate it's been very nice if they |
| 4326s | had they were clearly busy training |
| 4328s | because they just took down I think they |
| 4330s | were probably uh favored to not win that |
| 4333s | match yes uh which is uh the very nice |
| 4336s | way of saying they were you know the |
| 4338s | underdog but uh yeah they were clearly |
| 4341s | busy training uh like Rocky they |
| 4343s | probably you know ran up and down some |
| 4345s | stairs punched some meat somewhere and |
| 4348s | uh brought a redeemer Oracle in the a |
| 4351s | couple of badons there you go so CB |
| 4353s | Swift says that they've been punching |
| 4355s | meat is that the correct term that's |
| 4357s | what you're supposed to do right right |
| 4358s | and it's coming from your time in |
| 4360s | pandemic Legion Alliance tournament team |
| 4361s | uh yeah we yeah punched a lot of meat I |
| 4365s | didn't want to say that out loud but I |
| 4366s | was thinking in my head uh but you know |
| 4368s | that team is is completely different |
| 4369s | it's kind of neat there's a lot of uh |
| 4371s | tweet teams in this tournament that kind |
| 4373s | of uh branched off from the the |
| 4375s | PL super teams from uh back when they |
| 4379s | had a very very attractive Captain |
| 4381s | uh co-captain a guy who they put in a |
| 4385s | ship who had no prep mud that guy was |
| 4387s | you know incredible |
| 4389s | I forget his name but you guys probably |
| 4391s | remember uh I don't know unfortunately |
| 4393s | the the times of pandemic Legion uh have |
| 4395s | long passed we will see pandemic Legion |
| 4397s | actually in this tournament for the |
| 4399s | first time in a couple of years I'm |
| 4400s | looking forward to seeing if they can |
| 4402s | bring it back take a couple of W's or if |
| 4405s | they will continue their recent trend of |
| 4407s | uh not being so good uh let's take a |
| 4410s | look at our next match though because |
| 4411s | paper numbers is a team that I do know |
| 4413s | gentan that you know plenty about uh |
| 4415s | you've been excited to see them they are |
| 4417s | Banning out the celestis the curse and |
| 4418s | the jackdaw whereas Odin's call who they |
| 4421s | will be facing in the next match Banning |
| 4422s | out the nearest the guardian and the |
| 4424s | Loki interesting sets of bands Banning |
| 4426s | both of the tech to armor Logistics |
| 4428s | Cruisers here from Odin's call Odin's |
| 4431s | called another team that did very well |
| 4432s | in a live instrument last year they came |
| 4433s | through the feeders they performed |
| 4435s | excellently and secured themselves a |
| 4437s | place in Alliance tournament 18. jintan |
| 4440s | what do you make of these bands here it |
| 4441s | looks to me like Odin's cooler really |
| 4443s | really focusing in on |
| 4445s | um Park Banks kind of ship pool he's |
| 4448s | historically been a very very very |
| 4449s | competent a logistics pilot probably |
| 4452s | easily one of the top three in the game |
| 4454s | and here Odin's cooler taking him out of |
| 4456s | his comfort picks the aniros and the |
| 4458s | guardian that's going to force him onto |
| 4459s | something a little different either an |
| 4461s | augura an Executor if they want to run |
| 4463s | an armor comp or you know maybe force |
| 4465s | them into a shield comp paper numbers |
| 4466s | have historically really favored running |
| 4469s | armor comps overshield as well so you |
| 4471s | know Odin's cooler really just trying to |
| 4473s | take out what park Bank does best and |
| 4476s | force them onto something else meanwhile |
| 4477s | paper numbers their Banning just control |
| 4479s | control the celestis and amazing damp |
| 4483s | ship the curse an amazing tracking |
| 4484s | disruption and new Ting ship and then |
| 4487s | the Jack door is actually surprisingly |
| 4489s | in this 80 an incredible damping ship as |
| 4491s | well with its Sharpshooter bonus giving |
| 4493s | it a resistance to um e-war effects |
| 4495s | allowing it to win out a damp war |
| 4497s | against things like carries is and even |
| 4500s | hostile celestances so paper numbers |
| 4501s | just really trying to take |
| 4503s | um you know a high execution options off |
| 4505s | the table for Odin's there maybe they'll |
| 4507s | be bringing something like a shot or a |
| 4510s | balgorn or something that's you know got |
| 4512s | that real heavy Focus onto one ship that |
| 4514s | they don't want it to be neutered |
| 4517s | awesome and then um this Loki of course |
| 4520s | being a very popular ship we're seeing |
| 4521s | quite a few teams already today bringing |
| 4523s | the low key obviously it's a Minotaur uh |
| 4525s | sponsored tournament this year uh so all |
| 4527s | the limited ships are down pointed to |
| 4528s | make them slightly cheaper to bring and |
| 4530s | Loki being the Minotaur Attack 3 Cruiser |
| 4532s | it has with long range bonus webs it's |
| 4533s | really good in both Rush comps and in |
| 4536s | more long range comps with just |
| 4537s | screening keeping people away c2b Swift |
| 4540s | what is screening tell us about that all |
| 4542s | right so uh screening is when you kind |
| 4544s | of control uh ships that are rushing |
| 4546s | towards you so if there are six ships |
| 4548s | rushing towards you and you kind of web |
| 4549s | or scram two of them then those guys are |
| 4551s | stuck in place and the other four |
| 4553s | battleships get to you and they might |
| 4555s | not have enough or the other four ships |
| 4556s | get to you so they might not have enough |
| 4558s | critical mass if you screen those other |
| 4559s | two off uh so that's a tactic you guys |
| 4562s | should be looking for quite a bit you'll |
| 4564s | often see a ship like a sky breaker or a |
| 4566s | jaguar or generally a smaller ship do |
| 4569s | the screening but you mentioned um the |
| 4571s | webs from the Loki those things can also |
| 4573s | come come out and reach and stop a ship |
| 4575s | in its tracks so very very important |
| 4578s | thing to counter against specifically |
| 4580s | Rush comps yeah a lot of times we see |
| 4582s | teams trying to split up enemy teams as |
| 4585s | well so if you have one chip that has |
| 4587s | been controlled down into one area and |
| 4589s | then you let someone else come through |
| 4590s | now you have two sets of ships in |
| 4592s | opposite parts of the Arena the |
| 4594s | logistics ship maybe has to make a |
| 4595s | decision hey do I stick with this guy or |
| 4597s | do I go over and try and save this guy |
| 4599s | at this point the guy who's just being |
| 4601s | controlled down has essentially been |
| 4602s | removed from the match like if you're |
| 4603s | out of range tackled like if you might |
| 4606s | be this like 25 Point The Shack and |
| 4608s | you've been tackled by a jaguar and you |
| 4610s | can't hit it and all the rest of your |
| 4611s | friends are like 100 kilometers away and |
| 4613s | there's nothing you can do you've been |
| 4615s | removed from that match without even |
| 4616s | being killed and that's that's super |
| 4618s | important jintan as a uh like you've |
| 4621s | captained you've flown a lot of teams |
| 4622s | how how much effort do you put into |
| 4625s | splitting up teams like that |
| 4627s | um you'll normally try and do it um as |
| 4629s | much as you possibly can but you know |
| 4632s | something to keep in mind here |
| 4633s | especially when we're talking about |
| 4634s | tackling is the shared difficulty in |
| 4636s | organizing it you land on grid and you |
| 4638s | have maybe two minutes to figure out |
| 4639s | what your opponent's comp's trying to do |
| 4641s | you what their biggest threats are to |
| 4643s | your comp and then figure out what you |
| 4645s | can do with the amount of tackle you |
| 4647s | have you know figure out do I do we have |
| 4649s | the tackle Advantage do we have enough |
| 4650s | people to look down with their tackle |
| 4652s | and then maybe send one other guy in to |
| 4653s | tackle this key component |
| 4655s | that's it's so hard that you can't |
| 4658s | really start from the start of a match |
| 4660s | split people up you have to go into it |
| 4662s | see the positions develop and then one |
| 4665s | of your tackle Pilots will likely call I |
| 4667s | can lock down this guy here out of range |
| 4669s | and then you'll sweep in with the rest |
| 4670s | of your Fleet and just take advantage of |
| 4672s | it yeah and then just add on that uh as |
| 4675s | as Jen was saying like those are very |
| 4676s | complicated decisions to make and you |
| 4678s | also have uh your e-war squad assigning |
| 4681s | damps at the same time saying put three |
| 4683s | dams on this guy if you lose the damn |
| 4684s | board do this uh so it's very very |
| 4686s | hectic out there that's why there's |
| 4688s | generally one or two kind of backup |
| 4690s | captains that are working the e-war |
| 4692s | squad and working the tackle Squad uh |
| 4694s | just kind of to make sure that they work |
| 4696s | in Tandem and achieve the goal of |
| 4699s | getting the the fat dub as the kids say |
| 4702s | that's what the kids say right yeah I |
| 4704s | mean I wouldn't know anymore I'm afraid |
| 4707s | um so we actually are pretty much ready |
| 4708s | to go to this match and I'm being told |
| 4710s | um that we have another Flagship on |
| 4712s | another Flagship bar guys Odin's call |
| 4714s | bringing Bears having just watched two |
| 4716s | other Flagship bar guests get uh turbo |
| 4718s | dunked upon uh by the teams that brought |
| 4720s | them uh flagships currently zero percent |
| 4722s | survival rate in the last term 18 and we |
| 4724s | are in match five match five with two |
| 4727s | flagships down a third one being fielded |
| 4729s | is this one going to survive our |
| 4731s | audience call gonna turn and turn this |
| 4733s | tide of a flagship just destruction uh |
| 4736s | well let's go to the arena and find out |
| 4737s | uh with pay for numbers versus Odin's |
| 4739s | call |
| 4745s | now welcome back to Duran with me and |
| 4747s | zoo and damn you Ithaca for ruining my |
| 4749s | fun because that's right you can on Odin |
| 4751s | side have brought a flag burgers and we |
| 4753s | have honestly what it looks to be a kite |
| 4755s | vs kite match we have a triple battle |
| 4757s | cruiser with Park Bank saying I don't |
| 4759s | care how many you banned I've always got |
| 4761s | more logic Cruisers versus a um well |
| 4764s | Gila Burgess kite comp so this is I want |
| 4767s | to see a very interesting match I'm |
| 4769s | going to be curious to who gets the |
| 4770s | upper upper hand on this one yeah so the |
| 4772s | bar guest on the um Odin side having the |
| 4775s | rapid Heavies |
| 4776s | um the battle cruiser hulls on the paper |
| 4778s | number side rocking heavy missiles so |
| 4780s | going for range I think this is also |
| 4781s | going to be the first game where we've |
| 4782s | seen a full commitment to dams as in the |
| 4784s | mawless and the carriers featuring on |
| 4785s | both sides and it might be seeing some |
| 4787s | utility mids also coming to uh |
| 4789s | application here to put some more dams |
| 4791s | damps not being restricted to bonus |
| 4793s | tiles only dams being allowed on |
| 4795s | anything and dams are allowed to be |
| 4797s | scripted fun |
| 4799s | exactly that honestly it's going to be a |
| 4801s | very interesting match to see who |
| 4802s | manages to position correctly in this |
| 4803s | one both teams have gone for full cut |
| 4806s | there was honestly a lot of damage on |
| 4808s | both teams even though the bars doesn't |
| 4809s | seem like much there's actually quite a |
| 4811s | bit from the gilas from the of the |
| 4813s | caracals they put out 500 plus a piece |
| 4815s | so this is |
| 4816s | like yeah it's gonna be a while the |
| 4817s | match is about to start momentarily |
| 4820s | what do you think's gonna happen anyway |
| 4822s | I'm really hoping we're going to see an |
| 4823s | osprey die obviously these dams are |
| 4825s | going to come into effect we're going to |
| 4826s | see what can happen here the EOS being |
| 4828s | bonus for info links even though it |
| 4829s | looks out of place it still is a |
| 4831s | fantastic Shield ship right now so don't |
| 4833s | be confused for that um right now the |
| 4835s | info link is going to be awesome we're |
| 4836s | going to see the match underway soon but |
| 4837s | I'm really hoping we're going to see |
| 4838s | some logic trades here otherwise we're |
| 4840s | just going to be seen it come down to |
| 4841s | Pilot scale and the kiting I think |
| 4843s | it's like it's part skill and Target uh |
| 4845s | selection is going to be very |
| 4846s | interesting you see damage being spread |
| 4847s | out I think that's actually from a small |
| 4849s | bringer hitting everything yep |
| 4852s | I mean look at this I can just see the |
| 4854s | damping going I think there's actually |
| 4855s | damps on the Drake navies although those |
| 4857s | are tracking disruptors I believe no |
| 4858s | wait no so we see most of our own team |
| 4860s | going towards mjd beak and they're going |
| 4862s | left opposite so both teams keep in |
| 4863s | range here low the EOS and the bar gas |
| 4865s | uh keeping out there we've seen Century |
| 4866s | Jones come out from the EOS so it looks |
| 4868s | like EOS just setting up for a screening |
| 4869s | position unfortunately that means on |
| 4871s | these next pulse of links the entire |
| 4872s | Odin's team is going to miss all of |
| 4874s | those links now a DC will be applying to |
| 4876s | his Flagship but that bar gas that yoken |
| 4878s | is uh sending himself forwarding to The |
| 4880s | Fray |
| 4881s | yeah there's an absolute wave of damps |
| 4883s | being put out on the EOS and double uh |
| 4885s | two gears there was actually a massive |
| 4886s | wave of tracking disrupters as well I |
| 4888s | think but they've all now been scattered |
| 4890s | a bit off I think some dams have |
| 4891s | definitely ruined that look at the |
| 4892s | authors of Captain should get already |
| 4894s | yeah I look up for a second and he's |
| 4895s | almost gone looks like uh they were just |
| 4898s | waiting for your cat to give the green |
| 4899s | light for him being in range obviously |
| 4900s | him being missile disrupt and once he |
| 4902s | gave the green light things just started |
| 4903s | getting deleted but we've seen colonel |
| 4905s | in the Gila going down as well on the |
| 4906s | Odin side both team training on the |
| 4908s | cruiser side and those support uh damage |
| 4910s | coming still there from the stormbringer |
| 4911s | so that's obviously annoying the |
| 4912s | Scimitar right now but luckily it has |
| 4914s | multiple reps to split up uh not being |
| 4916s | limited like a troglavian frigate but |
| 4918s | you see the caracal as well going down |
| 4919s | another cruiser being deleted I'm |
| 4922s | actually surprised I went for the uh the |
| 4923s | authors first because these characters |
| 4924s | are generally incredibly uh squishy and |
| 4927s | easy to kill see a second gear now being |
| 4929s | pumbled the character gets to lead in |
| 4931s | the second second character is now being |
| 4932s | primary Gila gets deleted this is again |
| 4935s | they're picking off the uh the mid-sized |
| 4936s | DPS ships here and just removing them |
| 4938s | see look at that character was about to |
| 4940s | hit armor he's just gonna vanish |
| 4941s | [Music] |
| 4944s | making any plays for the cruiser lodgy |
| 4947s | at all interesting just getting rid of |
| 4949s | much DBS Christina Melissa Martin on |
| 4951s | Odin side getting some pressure uh maybe |
| 4952s | just getting finally sick of that damps |
| 4954s | that's what I'm saying that Park bank |
| 4955s | and similar getting some light pressure |
| 4957s | now they might be looking to finally |
| 4958s | secure a kill there obviously the bar |
| 4959s | guest has to go through Rapid reloads as |
| 4961s | we do finally see our first e-warship |
| 4962s | actually getting removed off the field |
| 4964s | yep so now this Scimitar Park bank is on |
| 4966s | a timer he has only a number of Cycles |
| 4969s | to use in xlasb and then he is out so |
| 4972s | then they'll need to make his life count |
| 4974s | need a picture on Odin's side going down |
| 4976s | that's going to be a huge positive for |
| 4978s | paper numbers mean that Scimitar can fly |
| 4980s | around now again obviously the hyena |
| 4982s | long range webs being a prime |
| 4984s | application tool for anything with |
| 4985s | missiles and even these drones from the |
| 4986s | dealers but then again these killer |
| 4988s | drones are in hard Pursuit right now of |
| 4990s | this uh Scimitar still going to be |
| 4992s | applying pressure these xlb's charges |
| 4993s | are going to run out soon and then he'll |
| 4994s | be going down with no friendly redbots |
| 4996s | on him |
| 4997s | yeah EOS drones at the moment and uh the |
| 4999s | author says thank you very well he's |
| 5000s | repping very early he's actually been |
| 5002s | ripping himself over full so I wonder if |
| 5004s | that's either a uh not an xlsb or maybe |
| 5006s | his weight potentially wasting Cycles |
| 5008s | there |
| 5009s | uh we might be seeing a bit of a dead |
| 5010s | spot here I think some reloads might be |
| 5012s | happening once that Bargas comes off or |
| 5014s | no not some uh you are still being |
| 5015s | applied to the bar guys so some control |
| 5017s | but he's right there in the thicker |
| 5018s | thing so it shouldn't be too much |
| 5019s | influenced by the disruption uh Scimitar |
| 5021s | is probably going to start to get low on |
| 5022s | those charges so they're probably going |
| 5024s | to try and just smash through him the |
| 5025s | moment they get a chance but the fly |
| 5027s | catcher of new cannot on Odin's call be |
| 5029s | going down that's some more support |
| 5030s | flycatcher being a lovely little thing |
| 5032s | to pick off light support as well and |
| 5034s | just doing full application to that |
| 5035s | Scimitar is a surprisingly tanky little |
| 5037s | Destroyer that I was able to pick off |
| 5038s | its uh fellow brothers but at the moment |
| 5040s | it looks like paper number actually won |
| 5042s | the e-war war their carries are still on |
| 5044s | field who could now pretty much pick a |
| 5045s | ship and turn it off at the moment I |
| 5048s | think at the moment he just made the |
| 5049s | buggiest almost kind of useless oh the |
| 5052s | Scimitar goes down for paper numbers |
| 5053s | that's a bad call considering Osprey is |
| 5055s | still alive on Odin's call with that |
| 5057s | flag the stock does go down so that's |
| 5059s | going to be a little links although they |
| 5060s | still have the EOS to supply some links |
| 5062s | there so that's still good |
| 5063s | um but uh looks like Odin's corn is |
| 5065s | really strong position the Oscar finally |
| 5066s | getting some pressure onto it but now |
| 5067s | this bar gas is just filtered like |
| 5069s | doesn't need to coordinate any Clips the |
| 5071s | moment it's just sort of reload it can |
| 5072s | shoot whatever it wants yep and it's |
| 5074s | going straight into broad range of the |
| 5075s | Drake maybe pretty much making the |
| 5076s | carries now a non-factor so we've been |
| 5078s | damped fine then I'll just get right |
| 5079s | next to you and he's killed the drag |
| 5080s | Navy on his own there is there's not |
| 5082s | much DPS left on that field |
| 5084s | no Claymore Drake maybe an osprey Navy |
| 5086s | is a good amount but against a flag bug |
| 5089s | that might not be enough |
| 5091s | yeah uh go for the carriers I'd say |
| 5093s | that's a good call way still have the |
| 5094s | fly catcher uh make sure that bar gets |
| 5096s | that nothing can out-cut him yeah |
| 5097s | carries goes down very good call there |
| 5099s | and the Fly Catch goes down just in time |
| 5100s | because otherwise if that fly catch you |
| 5102s | get down went down there might not have |
| 5103s | been enough on Courage here till they |
| 5105s | get rid of that carries and that |
| 5106s | carriers could have just been an |
| 5107s | absolute nightmare for that Bargas so a |
| 5109s | really good call there finishing buffer |
| 5110s | he still had the things to finish more |
| 5112s | fun great another Spyro guys can just |
| 5113s | have the time of its life pummeling into |
| 5115s | some battle Cruisers |
| 5119s | and a fly of Echoes so the Stormbreaker |
| 5121s | isn't even trying to remove the drones |
| 5122s | he's picking on a Target and starting to |
| 5124s | shoot I believe |
| 5126s | so this is a very interesting match I |
| 5128s | believe this Flag bug is going to have |
| 5129s | the lead at the moment he's going after |
| 5131s | a drake maybe ripping through that |
| 5132s | quickly and they just can't really |
| 5133s | respond |
| 5134s | not much to do so uh while they're on |
| 5136s | them and also even if they switch to the |
| 5138s | EOS uh well I mean when stormbring goes |
| 5140s | down they're left with the EOS or bar |
| 5141s | guys but for other tanky ships not much |
| 5143s | to do more in DPS storm brewing does go |
| 5145s | down |
| 5146s | um kind of tying it up for points here |
| 5148s | quite close in paper numbers Advantage |
| 5150s | right now but with the Drake Navy going |
| 5151s | down soon Odin's call will rip ahead |
| 5153s | again end points with quite a |
| 5155s | comfortable lead and quite a comfortable |
| 5156s | thing in application hit points utility |
| 5159s | by just having two utility highs so a |
| 5161s | good position here for Odin's call |
| 5163s | bogus is stuck on reload just so that |
| 5166s | the Drake Navy got low enough so he's |
| 5168s | have to reload then finish him off and |
| 5169s | then go after potentially The Offspring |
| 5170s | Navy has these drones I think are |
| 5173s | picking on the Osprey Navy itself so |
| 5175s | I'm wondering if it's Jake of uh JC is |
| 5177s | going for no no he decided to not go for |
| 5179s | the mjd doesn't want to go out honorably |
| 5181s | by boundary the EOS of their thing on |
| 5182s | odd inside getting picked off there |
| 5184s | um I suppose they're doing what they can |
| 5186s | given what they got |
| 5187s | um but with the direct Navy issue down |
| 5189s | now yokan and the bargast is having an |
| 5192s | awesome game enjoying being the first |
| 5194s | Flagship to be fielded that actually |
| 5195s | lives |
| 5196s | indeed they have to go for the eels for |
| 5198s | sure it's it's probably the best Target |
| 5200s | there but then they have to figure out |
| 5201s | how do we beat a flag bug and I feel |
| 5203s | like they're running out of teeth and |
| 5205s | tools to make this work and that bug is |
| 5207s | going to start controlling the entire |
| 5208s | match as a flagship should do |
| 5211s | as a flagship should do so points lead |
| 5213s | here for Owens call we got about under |
| 5215s | four minutes left you up the match EOS |
| 5217s | is likely to be going down I'm not sure |
| 5219s | if that's going to put a point Advantage |
| 5220s | actually for paper numbers |
| 5222s | um but this barrier should be able to at |
| 5223s | least hopefully like corner and Osprey |
| 5225s | Navy and finish that off at the very |
| 5227s | least just secure a point Advantage |
| 5229s | still visual will be going down |
| 5231s | um not really necessary but obviously |
| 5232s | any free kills any free points just to |
| 5234s | make sure you're securing that Victory |
| 5235s | and that time cannot run out in |
| 5237s | disadvantage towards you |
| 5239s | interesting though as well is that the |
| 5240s | Claymore has been damping out the bogus |
| 5242s | even now I don't think I've seen the |
| 5244s | bugger shoot you could be potentially |
| 5245s | reloading or it could actually be |
| 5246s | properly damped out with the Claymore |
| 5247s | just running away I believe he's just |
| 5250s | unreal getting ready for the next clip |
| 5252s | very funny let's get these velocities |
| 5253s | borrow gas almost going as fast as this |
| 5256s | Claymore that's hilarious that is the |
| 5257s | power of a bar gas just cornering that |
| 5260s | claimer against the arena he's Kramer's |
| 5262s | going to have eventually decide to turn |
| 5264s | around as the skills goes down not put |
| 5266s | much more space left to run away from a |
| 5267s | bar gas charging at you |
| 5269s | yep and now the bucket says related and |
| 5271s | immediately firing you can just see the |
| 5273s | damage of these uh officer rapid Heavies |
| 5276s | can do just ripping this Claymore open |
| 5279s | well I know they could have cheaped out |
| 5280s | and gone for some faction you never know |
| 5282s | what they'd cheap out on these office |
| 5283s | ships you always expect the bling and |
| 5285s | then you get surprisingly disappointed |
| 5286s | when you see that kill mail but um then |
| 5288s | again it's more about the ship itself |
| 5290s | and the bonuses it brings that normally |
| 5292s | in the modules these days |
| 5294s | yeah oh the Claymore goes down and |
| 5297s | honestly there is nothing paper numbers |
| 5298s | can do they gave it one hell of a fight |
| 5300s | there's a few months ago I thought they |
| 5301s | could have had it parked bank's |
| 5302s | legendary lodgy does usually quite well |
| 5304s | but just can't beat the Flag bug I think |
| 5307s | what do you think it was a standard bug |
| 5308s | you think they would have won this or |
| 5309s | not |
| 5310s | I don't think the flag actually brought |
| 5312s | that much to be fair |
| 5314s | um I think it was just a good trade of |
| 5316s | things it seems I'm not sure if paper |
| 5318s | numbers could have done a better |
| 5319s | application |
| 5320s | um it seemed at one point paper numbers |
| 5321s | like you said was it set up in a good |
| 5323s | position on an e-war side they had no |
| 5325s | e-war coming their way they had full |
| 5327s | range advantage and I think maybe they |
| 5329s | put a pressure on that Osprey a tiny bit |
| 5331s | late um it's a bit hard to say Obviously |
| 5333s | positioning comes into uh play these |
| 5335s | logic Pilots being very good in their |
| 5337s | positioning coming this uh being in this |
| 5339s | uh tier of tournament |
| 5341s | um but I don't think a flag was a |
| 5342s | linchpin 4 Victory here |
| 5344s | well I think I might disagree a little |
| 5346s | bit but either way is well flown by both |
| 5349s | teams as well like both really gave it |
| 5352s | their absolute all in this and that bug |
| 5353s | is now just finishing off the Osprey |
| 5355s | Navy you can just see the damage per |
| 5357s | volley from this rapid Heavies that's |
| 5358s | where Navy was rapping and just can't |
| 5360s | hold it it's just too much |
| 5362s | some spicy stuff one thing you always |
| 5364s | got to be careful with an officer bar |
| 5366s | gas and running rapid Heavies is you can |
| 5368s | go through heat super super quickly so |
| 5371s | well done enough burning out your guns |
| 5372s | you can and casting your entire team and |
| 5374s | just being a lump of wasted points agent |
| 5377s | doing a good job of actually keeping up |
| 5378s | we've seen some xlsb charges coming |
| 5380s | through there so good job on just |
| 5382s | pumping up those numbers |
| 5383s | um maybe you survived from reload who |
| 5385s | knows |
| 5386s | I don't think so there he goes Bravo to |
| 5389s | um Odin's call well flown well find the |
| 5391s | paper numbers as well and with that |
| 5391s | we'll go back to studio and see what |
| 5393s | they think |
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| 5467s | thank you |
| 5475s | Odin's call there with the dub as the |
| 5478s | kids are saying as CCP Swift informs me |
| 5480s | with your can in that Flagship bar I |
| 5482s | guess overcoming all of the curses uh |
| 5484s | the first blue team to win the first |
| 5486s | Flagship to be fluid and survive the |
| 5489s | first Flagship two fields and actually |
| 5490s | win the match so showing their uh try |
| 5493s | and Venture experts how to fly a |
| 5495s | flagship Bargas as he basically carried |
| 5496s | that match to Victory by himself at the |
| 5499s | end there fantastic piloting well than |
| 5501s | Odin's called taking that very very |
| 5502s | clutch win right there paper numbers |
| 5504s | were super popular |
| 5506s | um coming into this tournament many |
| 5507s | people had them down as a dark horse and |
| 5510s | this match I remember being one of the |
| 5511s | hardest ones for us as casters to |
| 5513s | predict because both teams super strong |
| 5515s | uh owed into the Fantastic showing in |
| 5517s | the feeder tournaments they did a really |
| 5519s | great showing last year in Leicester in |
| 5520s | 17 pay for numbers of course as you |
| 5522s | mentioned before Jin another really |
| 5524s | strong team potentially going to do |
| 5525s | really well and what a match like what a |
| 5528s | fantastic match uh CCP Swift you want to |
| 5530s | talk a little bit about the carries in |
| 5532s | that particular match yeah so uh the |
| 5534s | carries is a great platform and |
| 5536s | specifically when you can script your |
| 5538s | damps it's a very fast Locker so it can |
| 5540s | win damp Wars it can stay alive it's |
| 5543s | incredibly fast it's probably the best |
| 5545s | damping platform outside of the Raiju |
| 5547s | which you can't bring so it might as |
| 5549s | well bring it Unfortunately they were |
| 5551s | met with Odin's call bringing a bunch of |
| 5553s | drones those are things you can't really |
| 5556s | damp so the gilas and the EOS really |
| 5560s | really good uh calling there by the |
| 5562s | Odin's call team I don't know if they |
| 5564s | just stuck those in at the end or if |
| 5566s | they had this in their pocket knowing |
| 5568s | that coming up against a control team |
| 5569s | those would be very powerful but it |
| 5571s | worked incredibly well for them eking |
| 5574s | out that win I think if they didn't have |
| 5575s | even one of those ships I think paper |
| 5577s | numbers would have won wow you think |
| 5580s | it's that that clutch that ship right |
| 5582s | there yep excellent fantastic you should |
| 5584s | you should bring carries no or don't |
| 5586s | bring carries I don't know it depends if |
| 5588s | we like you or not yeah if you're good |
| 5589s | bring a carries |
| 5591s | uh if we don't like you don't bring a |
| 5593s | kid I don't know how this works who do |
| 5594s | you not like I like everyone okay I |
| 5596s | think every team should win however only |
| 5598s | the best team can win |
| 5600s | excellent very interesting |
| 5602s | committal and very deep it's uh five |
| 5604s | deep for me uh jintan you wanted to talk |
| 5607s | a little bit about the difference |
| 5607s | between the Osprey uh brought by Odin's |
| 5610s | call and the Scimitar by paper numbers |
| 5612s | like what's the key differences between |
| 5613s | those two ships yeah so obviously the |
| 5615s | Osprey is a T1 logistic ship and you |
| 5618s | know you don't see those used a huge |
| 5619s | amount on T Cube outside of you know |
| 5622s | very very cheap rooms but in the uh |
| 5625s | tournament format the points that you |
| 5627s | save going to a T1 Logistics Cruiser |
| 5629s | over a T2 Logistics Cruiser can open up |
| 5632s | so much and you saw that in the Odin's |
| 5634s | cool comp whereas uh paper numbers had |
| 5637s | three or four battle cruises |
| 5639s | um Odin's cool were able to pair that |
| 5641s | battle cruiser core with a bar guest and |
| 5643s | that did so much work for them there |
| 5645s | right at the end of the match especially |
| 5647s | you cannot sober being able to clutch it |
| 5649s | out for his team you know I think both |
| 5651s | myself and the casters always thought |
| 5652s | paper numbers had won it you know maybe |
| 5655s | a little bit of an upset potentially but |
| 5658s | yogan was able to just fly around with |
| 5660s | the point you know in that the ship that |
| 5663s | bringing a T1 Logistics enabled them to |
| 5665s | do and you also saw Odin's be very aware |
| 5668s | of the situation and the fact that if |
| 5670s | they let their opponent Scimitar stay |
| 5671s | alive in the long run it would out-wrap |
| 5674s | their Logistics and therefore make it |
| 5676s | more difficult for them to achieve |
| 5678s | Victory so they opted into a logistics |
| 5680s | trade very very early on in the match |
| 5681s | and that's what led to all of those evil |
| 5683s | ships dying and eventually them having |
| 5686s | the DPS and tank advantage in the very |
| 5688s | very end game of that match |
| 5691s | awesome and uh CP Swift when it comes to |
| 5693s | these Logistics Cruisers |
| 5695s | um let's just talk about tech too so um |
| 5698s | the Scimitar is usually the more popular |
| 5700s | of The Shield ones and why so the |
| 5703s | cemetery is incredibly mobile it can run |
| 5705s | very fast it has a decent enough tank |
| 5707s | but it's mostly its survivability |
| 5709s | because if your logistic ship gets |
| 5711s | caught then most captains will just snap |
| 5714s | shoot and try and kill it straight off |
| 5715s | the bat so the Scimitar unlike its uh |
| 5718s | partner in the Basilisk basket is much |
| 5720s | slower much easier to catch you |
| 5724s | generally you use it when you have like |
| 5726s | that that really strong Battleship core |
| 5728s | like the Golem a Navy scorpion type |
| 5730s | thing then uh the Basilisk works well |
| 5733s | for you but in almost every other |
| 5734s | situation the Scimitar uh is really the |
| 5737s | the choice for these teams and Converse |
| 5739s | the Gin time when we look at Armor comps |
| 5741s | you have the nearest and the guardian |
| 5743s | and I think we see much more Guardians |
| 5745s | than we see uh basilisks but the most |
| 5748s | popular one is still almost certainly |
| 5749s | the neuros |
| 5750s | um why do people just tend to bring that |
| 5752s | on Euros so the neuros has a couple of |
| 5754s | key advantages over the guardian uh |
| 5756s | namely that it can fit a dual prop and |
| 5758s | uh enough cap to run and a sensor |
| 5761s | booster and especially in a tournament |
| 5762s | format like this where damps are so |
| 5764s | powerful that's a very very key aspect |
| 5766s | which means that you can put out Reps |
| 5769s | for a long time and if you get caught |
| 5770s | you have the potential to actually |
| 5772s | Escape by just running your afterburner |
| 5774s | getting some tackle in on your |
| 5775s | opponent's tackle ship and then just |
| 5777s | coasting out of the range of their web |
| 5779s | and scram that said the guardian does |
| 5781s | have a huge following especially among |
| 5783s | amongst kind of like top tier teams |
| 5785s | because the guardian can put out more |
| 5787s | reps than the neuros I know for example |
| 5789s | reload uh the logistics pilot for Volta |
| 5792s | heavily favors the guardian over the |
| 5793s | ineros |
| 5794s | yeah and speaking of |
| 5796s | um having a solid Logistics pilot is |
| 5799s | such such an important thing uh is |
| 5801s | probably like one of the single hardest |
| 5802s | things to do in an alliance tournament |
| 5804s | is to fly a logistics ship well because |
| 5806s | you are by yourself uh unless you are |
| 5809s | have a buddy with the frigates but if |
| 5810s | you're in a cruiser you're definitely by |
| 5811s | yourself |
| 5812s | um you are basically responsible for |
| 5814s | keeping your team alive while also be |
| 5816s | responsible for making sure they're not |
| 5817s | too far away from you but also being |
| 5819s | responsible to not fly out of the Arena |
| 5821s | while also not dying yourself there's |
| 5823s | just so much going on you have to be so |
| 5824s | situation situationally aware of where |
| 5827s | everybody is what's going on I mean have |
| 5830s | you ever done it have you ever tried it |
| 5831s | I have I've flown Logistics twice in the |
| 5834s | alliance tournament the ones in Alliance |
| 5835s | tournament eight |
| 5836s | um I died but my team won so I did my |
| 5839s | job copy |
| 5841s | um but yeah it is incredibly hard |
| 5843s | because you've got every small ship |
| 5845s | running after you you're the target of |
| 5847s | every e-war if you're out of position |
| 5849s | the team blames you instead of |
| 5851s | themselves for being out of position |
| 5853s | like you're the guy that screwed up not |
| 5854s | every everyone else |
| 5855s | not fair Logistics Pilot's always right |
| 5859s | they they at least should be yeah if you |
| 5861s | have a logistics pilot and your team |
| 5862s | make sure you say thank you to them |
| 5864s | because they're the one they're the |
| 5865s | absolute Heroes |
| 5867s | um is it's it's one of those ships where |
| 5868s | you always see the same person in that |
| 5871s | like if that's true Logistics pilot |
| 5872s | that's all they fly you won't see them |
| 5874s | in different ships you're usually in |
| 5876s | teams you try and organize people so |
| 5877s | maybe you'll have people who are your |
| 5879s | Mainline Battleship Pilots some people |
| 5880s | who specialize in the more like Fast |
| 5882s | frigates and ebore but still to this day |
| 5885s | I maintained that this most important |
| 5887s | person is pretty much the logistics |
| 5889s | pilot if they're good then the target |
| 5891s | caller that's also important yeah less |
| 5893s | important right because people will just |
| 5895s | go off because they've trained so much |
| 5896s | they'll generally go off muscle memory |
| 5898s | so even if the captain's calling a bad |
| 5900s | Target they'll be like I didn't hear |
| 5901s | what he said I'm gonna go do this more |
| 5903s | thing anyways but yeah the logistics |
| 5905s | file it uh probably one of the hardest |
| 5906s | things to do and uh you're absolutely |
| 5909s | right when when you have like a really |
| 5910s | incredible Logistics pilot you will see |
| 5913s | that name year after year after year |
| 5914s | here and he'll generally always reset up |
| 5917s | a couple months before the alliance |
| 5918s | tournament to kind of knock that rust |
| 5920s | off so he can you know you know be uh be |
| 5923s | the stalwart of the team |
| 5925s | yeah and then speaking briefly again of |
| 5927s | captains uh jintan you've flown in a |
| 5929s | whole bunch of matches and you've run |
| 5930s | some teams you've done this for a while |
| 5932s | and when you warp in on grid like how |
| 5934s | important is just situational awareness |
| 5936s | Target calling pecking the strategy and |
| 5938s | then executing it it's key uh |
| 5940s | understanding what your opponents are |
| 5941s | trying to do is the first stop first |
| 5943s | step in preventing them from being able |
| 5945s | to do it and you know you know Eve Eve |
| 5947s | tournament play tends to be very very |
| 5949s | game plan orientated you need to |
| 5951s | understand okay do we need to take this |
| 5953s | to an end game do we need to do a |
| 5954s | logistics trade can we do a logistics |
| 5956s | trade |
| 5957s | um what needs to be tackled down and |
| 5959s | stopped from coming into our core |
| 5960s | because you know maybe they have a |
| 5962s | Vindicator or a bowel gone or something |
| 5963s | that's going to cause them really cause |
| 5965s | you real issues if it gets to spool up |
| 5968s | um it is an incredible incredible |
| 5971s | process and normally you'll have other |
| 5972s | people on the team helping you so for |
| 5973s | example you have a couple people like |
| 5975s | your job is just to go and look at the |
| 5976s | ship models identify what guns |
| 5978s | everyone's using feed that information |
| 5980s | back to me so I can make a better |
| 5981s | decision uh your Logistics pilot will |
| 5984s | normally be calling out you know watch |
| 5985s | out for this tackle and that tackle |
| 5988s | um and then obviously as um I think |
| 5990s | Elise said earlier you normally have one |
| 5992s | of your more veteran Pilots help |
| 5993s | coordinate your e-war as well if you're |
| 5995s | running a uh ewall control comp there's |
| 5998s | a there's a ton of moving parts that go |
| 6000s | into it and only having two to three |
| 6001s | minutes to do it is why you need to |
| 6003s | practice so much of the tournament |
| 6004s | awesome and if I could happen I think |
| 6006s | the one thing that separates the good |
| 6008s | teams from the great teams is |
| 6009s | decisiveness even if you make the wrong |
| 6012s | decision but you like stick to it |
| 6014s | sometimes it'll give you a win-win like |
| 6017s | if you're indecisive and you swap |
| 6018s | targets a lot you're like oh maybe this |
| 6020s | guy's better uh you can I've seen teams |
| 6023s | lose just doing that swapping back and |
| 6025s | forth whereas a team that you know just |
| 6027s | makes the wrong call but sticks to it it |
| 6030s | generally gets that gets the win well |
| 6032s | let's find out if one of these teams can |
| 6034s | get a win because Esports Petopia and |
| 6036s | Nano fiber tokens are sitting in the |
| 6038s | arena waiting to go head to head and see |
| 6040s | who will be the victors so let's go to |
| 6042s | the arena and find that |
| 6048s | all right welcome back to the arena and |
| 6050s | I'm incredibly excited because my |
| 6051s | favorite ship is here and it's honestly |
| 6053s | a new variation on my opinion the |
| 6055s | Nighthawk Rush usually Nighthawks |
| 6057s | require a Loki they brought a Vindicator |
| 6058s | even better webs meanwhile on the other |
| 6061s | side we are seeing the first time now uh |
| 6063s | Armageddon navies both of them rapid |
| 6065s | heavy fit so five with the recent |
| 6068s | changes can be very interesting to see |
| 6069s | how these ships function in this Arena |
| 6072s | indeed so um well I'm gonna need the |
| 6074s | issue getting a bonus towards energy |
| 6075s | turrets Rapids or Crews and Torpedoes |
| 6078s | are actually getting a bit of like a |
| 6078s | Minotaur bonus there being able to use |
| 6080s | whatever weapon systems it once while |
| 6082s | keeping a new bonus while having a |
| 6084s | drawing bonus absolutely spectacular |
| 6086s | ships both teams opting for the freak |
| 6087s | logic here as we do seeing these things |
| 6089s | underway I'm excited to see who's going |
| 6091s | to be ripping each other apart but I'm |
| 6092s | excited to see how these night Oaks and |
| 6093s | Vinnie combo and look at the control bar |
| 6095s | look at the control bar for 95 seconds |
| 6097s | it is girthy it is massive there's a lot |
| 6100s | of control from this I got Sentinel |
| 6102s | they've got an RB they've got probably |
| 6103s | an ewos scattered throughout their |
| 6104s | entire fleet and of course we see what |
| 6106s | vinegars always do this is what they're |
| 6108s | known for just rushing in as fast as |
| 6111s | they can |
| 6112s | as fast as you can but being a bit slow |
| 6114s | for Kiko they're finally getting up into |
| 6115s | speed uh we see the Nighthawk there of |
| 6117s | yogurt leading the charge so The |
| 6119s | Nighthawks leading the charge right |
| 6120s | there follow up with the stabbers so |
| 6121s | hopefully that Vindicator is going to be |
| 6123s | able to apply but they've locked down on |
| 6124s | Chadwick they're in the Army getting |
| 6125s | Navy issue he looks like he's probably |
| 6126s | going to be the first primary as they |
| 6127s | come zeroing in on him |
| 6130s | yep I think they're gonna go for the |
| 6131s | head should hit remove the bigger ship |
| 6132s | first and then go go from there The |
| 6133s | Vindicator on a |
| 6135s | Omega maybe should be a reasonably easy |
| 6137s | win for the getting so for the uh |
| 6138s | Vindicator sorry especially with twin |
| 6141s | ham Hawk backup providing a lot of DPS |
| 6143s | we should do this I'm gonna get maybe |
| 6145s | suffer quite considerably but then again |
| 6147s | there is a lot of people in his team |
| 6149s | that could maybe provide what he needs |
| 6151s | unfortunately the father has been freak |
| 6153s | lodging here they're going to have to be |
| 6154s | quite close to wrap this Armageddon and |
| 6156s | quite closer even if they want to stay |
| 6158s | into Prime optimal range that means they |
| 6160s | can be quick follow-up targets for newts |
| 6161s | or webs here from that uh Vindicator as |
| 6163s | we see and the natharia actually getting |
| 6165s | a lot of pressure there so like I said |
| 6167s | coming into the danger zone to keep the |
| 6168s | getting alive and paying the price |
| 6170s | yep and I noticed the the stabber of |
| 6172s | Rift Anakin is sitting at the back I |
| 6174s | believe that's with his own lodgy |
| 6175s | friends yeah it is see maybe he should |
| 6177s | have been in the fight but I think he |
| 6178s | was protecting his logic freaks which |
| 6179s | are a bit far away absolutely massive EC |
| 6183s | Cloud we see there on the other of can |
| 6185s | Paso so they're dedicating all that EC |
| 6188s | drones to him that is an absolute |
| 6189s | massive Cloud sitting on him so I'm sure |
| 6191s | he's not being a happy chappie right now |
| 6193s | I'm not sure I fully agree with that if |
| 6195s | you've got that much ECM I would |
| 6197s | honestly put it on the other Armageddon |
| 6198s | Navy and break up the rapid heavy Clips |
| 6200s | make them fire off sync which means that |
| 6202s | honestly if that happens you have muted |
| 6204s | rapid heavy see another ship going down |
| 6206s | this Armageddon Navy is slowly creeping |
| 6208s | down I'm honestly surprised he survived |
| 6210s | as long as he had it this guy is getting |
| 6211s | pounded but there is honestly just a lot |
| 6214s | going on unfortunate choice of The |
| 6216s | Nighthawks here unless they actually are |
| 6217s | up opted out of that they are going to |
| 6219s | be bonus purely towards kinetic as the |
| 6221s | stabber goes down there and that kinetic |
| 6222s | falls in the same kind of damage as um |
| 6224s | The Blasters of The Vindicator leaning |
| 6226s | towards Advantage for the Armageddon and |
| 6228s | the Armor's reactive armor hardening |
| 6230s | there so that's probably why we've seen |
| 6231s | this getting damaged stalling out |
| 6232s | slightly and becoming a bit of a grind |
| 6234s | first it looks like they probably will |
| 6235s | be securing the kill here but that's why |
| 6237s | we've seen a bit of momentum lost there |
| 6238s | obviously if the side fleet's going down |
| 6239s | they had a bit more damage choice in |
| 6241s | them to spread that damage around but a |
| 6243s | lot more kinetic in the top hand heavy |
| 6245s | damage here and if they get they're good |
| 6247s | maybe another very hardcore what do you |
| 6249s | go for next do you go for the double |
| 6250s | head shot and try and win from top down |
| 6252s | or do you try and use the webs from your |
| 6254s | vindi to start just deleting small stuff |
| 6256s | with Nighthawk support with audio fight |
| 6258s | numbers down there let's see if they can |
| 6259s | even get it this guy is holding there's |
| 6261s | one thought it goes down other thought |
| 6263s | you have count is still up um these both |
| 6265s | free logic are still alive on these |
| 6267s | Esports side but to get inch will be |
| 6270s | going down now getting to structure |
| 6271s | still being a lot of hit points being a |
| 6273s | faction battleship |
| 6274s | yeah he was creeping down like one |
| 6276s | percent of the time on our sort of come |
| 6278s | up a few times but that's it he's gonna |
| 6279s | go down so now what's the next choice |
| 6281s | they've got no hook being hit now they |
| 6283s | have lodgies I believe are now in the |
| 6285s | fight they are indeed they're gonna try |
| 6286s | and save their Nighthawk but what's your |
| 6287s | next Target what are they gonna go I |
| 6289s | would be seeing what I can grab for |
| 6290s | Vinnie to just could do some quick pops |
| 6292s | off there give you support some |
| 6293s | breathing that they're going for the |
| 6295s | get-ons that team they they're |
| 6296s | comfortable in their position they're |
| 6297s | probably just being tackled there uh |
| 6300s | comfortable in what they have what's in |
| 6301s | range but that Nighthawk is going to be |
| 6302s | paying the price for this uh slugfest |
| 6304s | right now I am I'm personally I'm not a |
| 6306s | fan of that call but I can kind of see |
| 6308s | why they might go for it commit to the |
| 6309s | strategy but they they're losing DPS |
| 6312s | rapidly the Nighthawk is now gone |
| 6313s | they're now down to Anzac Navy and |
| 6315s | Nighthawk and Vindicator I can't see |
| 6317s | them breaking through this getting Navy |
| 6319s | with their logistical um intact yeah |
| 6321s | that's true yeah uh nanofiber has the |
| 6324s | most ships on grid right now but really |
| 6326s | when you look at it they don't have that |
| 6328s | much damage most of it coming from the |
| 6330s | get in obviously some drone support from |
| 6331s | the vaccinating the EOS execure Navy |
| 6333s | issue will be going down soon having a |
| 6334s | lot of structure so he'll be tanking |
| 6336s | there a bit |
| 6337s | um but we're seeing no stabilizing a bit |
| 6339s | of a comfortable position taking |
| 6341s | advantage of what control they have of |
| 6342s | the Sentinel the arbitrator and the |
| 6344s | newts coming from the get a Navy issue |
| 6347s | yeah they're now in a very hard spot the |
| 6349s | windy could maybe switch to the EOS but |
| 6350s | he also can be just as tanky |
| 6352s | I got options are small ships around him |
| 6354s | and like what can he shoot like a sky |
| 6355s | breaker it's not worth it he has to |
| 6357s | pretty commit to it and it's just not |
| 6359s | going to work I don't think unfortunate |
| 6360s | part here is also going for The |
| 6362s | Vindicator and Nighthawk combo splitting |
| 6364s | weapon systems like that that means if |
| 6366s | uh nanofiber was either let's say went |
| 6368s | all in on their disruption so all |
| 6370s | tracking disruptors show the Vinnie paid |
| 6371s | the price they went all in on guidance |
| 6373s | The Nighthawks paid the price if they |
| 6375s | split up I mean they can still hit both |
| 6377s | things so no matter what nanofiber is |
| 6379s | going to put in those e-roll slots from |
| 6380s | the arbitrary and Sentinel they were |
| 6382s | going to disrupt esports's uh weapon |
| 6384s | systems here splitting them up like how |
| 6386s | do we get you for sure but also I I love |
| 6387s | the idea of bringing the web support |
| 6389s | that's required for Nighthawks in a |
| 6391s | Vindicator just bringing more DPS of |
| 6393s | course I just love vindicators so |
| 6395s | honestly I am incredibly biased |
| 6398s | but I think unfortunately with jokes |
| 6400s | around about to go down soon as well |
| 6401s | this Armageddon Navy is slowly creeping |
| 6403s | down but it's not gonna be fast enough |
| 6404s | and you can see the the uh the newts and |
| 6407s | the e-wars slowly making this Vindicator |
| 6409s | more and more worthless |
| 6411s | no it's unfortunately a lot of these |
| 6412s | easy drones being dead in the water |
| 6414s | Heroes their pilots have been destroyed |
| 6416s | no one to control them being abandoned |
| 6419s | to the cold hardness of space here again |
| 6421s | and just being ground down so Nighthawk |
| 6423s | will be disappearing soon so as much as |
| 6424s | you love the vendi it will be featuring |
| 6426s | the most in this match being The Last |
| 6428s | Ship to be destroyed for Esports |
| 6431s | yeah and now you can watch all the ECM |
| 6433s | all the e-war all the notes all going |
| 6436s | onto this Vindicator and just that this |
| 6437s | is the worst uh the worst life I've |
| 6440s | indicated to live in it's great being |
| 6441s | the one Battleship versus everything but |
| 6443s | it's not great when it's all ewall |
| 6445s | maybe he can like make a lucky grab grab |
| 6448s | something and give a few pops just to |
| 6450s | get those fuel you know kill males to |
| 6451s | care swag a bit on some people here but |
| 6454s | he's definitely will be going down there |
| 6455s | not much Escape I don't think he can |
| 6457s | even pull off a heroic mjd hero he is |
| 6459s | scrammed in case for some reason he had |
| 6461s | one fit as well |
| 6463s | interesting I think the Vixen Navy |
| 6465s | actually just bumped him away from the |
| 6466s | Armageddon Maybe so I believe he can't |
| 6469s | even kill the Armageddon Navy anymore |
| 6470s | he's now left him he could maybe try to |
| 6472s | switch the vexing but he's also been |
| 6473s | tracking disrupted so again he can't |
| 6475s | kill anything and unfortunately this is |
| 6477s | how all good vindicators die they die to |
| 6480s | all the evil in the world boo hiss but |
| 6483s | honestly well played identify the tokens |
| 6485s | while playing Dean good use of the ewall |
| 6487s | here good use of just all your ships and |
| 6489s | horses are seeing why teams have been |
| 6491s | Banning the Armageddon Navy issue so |
| 6493s | we're really well played here by |
| 6494s | nanofiber tokens as they take a quite |
| 6497s | comfortable lead hero and victory over |
| 6498s | Esports Petopia and we will be sending |
| 6501s | it back to the studio |
| 6504s | foreign |
| 6520s | damn I'm thirsty |
| 6523s | [Music] |
| 6526s | ah that hits the spot |
| 6538s | former spark could be anywhere |
| 6542s | [Music] |
| 6554s | [Music] |
| 6561s | [Music] |
| 6569s | foreign |
| 6571s | [Music] |
| 6580s | ER tokens there taking the victory over |
| 6583s | Esports Petopia who it seemed to be |
| 6585s | fielded a shield Vindicator uh strong |
| 6589s | strong opening move for Alliance |
| 6590s | tournament 18. uh jintan The Vindicator |
| 6593s | not normally something we would see fit |
| 6595s | with Shield mods and we did see that |
| 6598s | Vindicator wrapping his shield |
| 6600s | um |
| 6601s | why |
| 6604s | um I I think a large part of that is |
| 6605s | probably coming down to the fact that |
| 6607s | you can put an absolutely insane amount |
| 6609s | of damage mods in the many lows that The |
| 6611s | Vindicator has if you do that I mean you |
| 6613s | saw at the end of that game The |
| 6615s | Vindicator actually still almost had the |
| 6617s | same potential attack bar as the entire |
| 6620s | nanofiber tokens team however potential |
| 6623s | damage doesn't really matter when you |
| 6624s | don't have the capacity to cycle your |
| 6626s | guns which is going to happen when you |
| 6628s | have to use your mid slots for shield |
| 6629s | tank as opposed to injectors and webs |
| 6632s | that's kind of the other reason you |
| 6633s | don't normally see Shield vindicators |
| 6634s | those webs on a Vindicator 90 they can |
| 6637s | slow absolutely anything down you saw it |
| 6639s | take that Thalia to almost zero MMS |
| 6642s | only for the team to not capitalize on |
| 6644s | it and kill it and instead swap onto |
| 6646s | Chadwick the tankiest chip on the grid |
| 6649s | there you are and TV Swift we saw two |
| 6651s | Armageddon Navy issues uh you must be |
| 6653s | pretty excited about about that there |
| 6654s | are the reason they've been buffed in |
| 6656s | the uprising expansion tell us about it |
| 6657s | indeed uh so they're good now well they |
| 6660s | used to be bad the balance team was like |
| 6661s | hey you know what would that be amazing |
| 6663s | instead of these being bad we make them |
| 6665s | good and then they just did it uh and |
| 6667s | that came out on the November 8th uh so |
| 6670s | they're very similar we talked about it |
| 6671s | before they're very similar uh to the |
| 6673s | standard get now uh so they are just a |
| 6676s | little bit more hit points uh a great |
| 6678s | newting platform a great control |
| 6680s | platform and two of them staring you in |
| 6682s | the face uh that's very very spooky and |
| 6685s | these teams didn't have a lot of time to |
| 6687s | prepare for these so uh Nano fiber |
| 6689s | tokens these guys uh very quickly when |
| 6692s | they saw the stats threw this team |
| 6693s | together and uh you know it got them a |
| 6696s | win and it looked very convincing no |
| 6699s | unfortunate Giga Chad picked the |
| 6701s | Armageddon Navy as the flagship of |
| 6703s | course because the flagships had to be |
| 6705s | submitted prior to the announcement of |
| 6707s | these changes uh and anyone who had |
| 6709s | submitted a flagship I haven't got a |
| 6710s | Navy issue prior to the changes would |
| 6713s | probably be considered utterly insane |
| 6715s | because as CCP have mentions they were |
| 6717s | pretty turbo trash uh now I'm super |
| 6719s | excited for this next match coming up |
| 6722s | um it's probably one of my favorite ones |
| 6723s | off to date it's gonna be dark side |
| 6724s | versus Templars calciv both Story teams |
| 6728s | with a loss of History a lot of success |
| 6730s | a lot of strife and some some failure in |
| 6732s | the tournaments 10 plus cancer last year |
| 6734s | I think they've got top eight after |
| 6736s | winning Alliance open they dunked Hydra |
| 6738s | reloaded and weekend one and Alliance |
| 6740s | tournament 16 uh much to everyone's |
| 6742s | surprise and of course Darkseid very |
| 6745s | experienced team uh thought of the |
| 6746s | Russian Community pilots flying in there |
| 6748s | let's take a look at some of the history |
| 6750s | of these teams let's pull up Darkseid |
| 6751s | right now and take a look at them |
| 6754s | uh so dark site another 69 pilot team |
| 6758s | nice |
| 6759s | um with a whole bunch of veterans fafi |
| 6761s | wafi uh they're they're a long time |
| 6763s | Captain I believe he's back with them |
| 6765s | again |
| 6766s | um and we will find out later if you can |
| 6768s | or cannot faffey the wafi |
| 6770s | um it seems to be that they more often |
| 6772s | win uh which is pretty solid pretty |
| 6774s | solid record for our lives tournament |
| 6776s | team uh their last matches they have won |
| 6778s | against bright side of death another one |
| 6780s | of those storied Russian teams uh Verger |
| 6783s | collapse back in Alliance tournament 11 |
| 6784s | so we haven't seen Darkseid do well for |
| 6787s | a while but the team has been rebuilt |
| 6789s | this year after they lost a bunch of |
| 6791s | matches last year to locals primary |
| 6792s | Volta and the tuskers and now let's take |
| 6795s | a look at 10 plus calcif |
| 6799s | so a much smaller team only 28 and of |
| 6803s | course you can in chat spam that carton |
| 6805s | to support the Last Spartan uh the |
| 6808s | captain of the team he's been uh the |
| 6810s | captain pretty much from the start he's |
| 6811s | been with him for a very long time and |
| 6813s | as mentioned they did really well in |
| 6815s | Alliance open winning it uh they didn't |
| 6816s | actually lose a single match that whole |
| 6818s | tournament and they didn't even bring |
| 6819s | their wild cards for that tournament uh |
| 6822s | in Alliance tournament 16 they they |
| 6823s | surprised everybody and in Alliance |
| 6824s | tournament 17. people felt it was a |
| 6827s | little bit |
| 6827s | um underwhelming I think they expected |
| 6829s | them to do better and if you come like |
| 6831s | top eight and people are like oh that's |
| 6832s | kind of not a good performance then you |
| 6833s | know people are expecting good things |
| 6835s | from you and I'm expecting good things |
| 6837s | with temples castlev again this year |
| 6838s | jintan what are your thoughts about this |
| 6840s | matchup yeah I think this is a this is |
| 6842s | one of those matchups you'd much prefer |
| 6843s | to see you know maybe this the start of |
| 6846s | the second weekend rather than here but |
| 6847s | it's going to set up some great |
| 6849s | storylines from later on I wouldn't be |
| 6850s | surprised if uh But whichever team does |
| 6853s | go down here has an Immaculate losers |
| 6856s | run you know there's a fair few teams |
| 6858s | that they're going to be trying to stop |
| 6860s | that but both of these teams have a |
| 6862s | really really long history of |
| 6863s | exceptionally good performance Dark Side |
| 6866s | especially I always have found a |
| 6867s | fascinating team they tend to come in |
| 6869s | with some really |
| 6871s | um interesting Theory crafting |
| 6874s | um and uh and alongside that have |
| 6877s | amazing execution they're one of the |
| 6878s | Russian speaking teams that have been |
| 6880s | with the game for an exceptional amount |
| 6882s | of time they uh competed under many |
| 6885s | different names as well they competed |
| 6887s | under afterlife for a while and they |
| 6889s | actually reformed basically just to |
| 6891s | compete in the tournament this year nice |
| 6892s | after they've actually put me out of the |
| 6895s | tournament in Alliance tournament 13 |
| 6897s | with my team the bastards they put us |
| 6899s | right out let's take a look at the bands |
| 6900s | for this upcoming match and see what |
| 6901s | these teams are choosing not to face so |
| 6904s | a dark side Banning out the Deacon The |
| 6905s | Gila and the Loki whereas Temple is |
| 6908s | choosing to Banner the EOS the bar guest |
| 6909s | and the guardian CP Swift what do you |
| 6911s | make about these bands here uh I I think |
| 6914s | these teams are just starting to uh |
| 6916s | rather these caliber teams can realize |
| 6919s | how annoying drones can be specifically |
| 6921s | if they predicate their comp on control |
| 6924s | with damps and stuff like that so |
| 6925s | getting rid of the Gila and the EOS |
| 6927s | really really strong moves the Deacon |
| 6930s | generally makes the uh the pairing of |
| 6933s | the logic frigates that much better so |
| 6935s | dark side saying I don't want to give |
| 6937s | you an advantage for Logie frigates they |
| 6939s | know templates can do really really well |
| 6941s | with that they've got two incredibly |
| 6942s | great Logistics pilots on their side so |
| 6945s | forcing them into a shield comp as well |
| 6946s | and templates have the a similar idea |
| 6949s | saying hey we don't want a Guardian |
| 6950s | we're just talking about it and we also |
| 6952s | don't want this bar guest this thing's |
| 6954s | too pesky it offers too much so get it |
| 6956s | out it doesn't really give away too much |
| 6958s | it just give it just reduces a lot of |
| 6961s | the potential uh archetypes that might |
| 6964s | uh throw a cog or a spanner in their |
| 6965s | cogs I don't know how you guys talk like |
| 6968s | that I'm trying to be more English |
| 6970s | because uh we're over here in Nottingham |
| 6972s | but whatever spanners cogs spanner in |
| 6975s | the works there you go hey there you go |
| 6977s | I thought like you've learned it for a |
| 6978s | while |
| 6981s | so the cool thing about the the Deacon |
| 6983s | ban here is um there's a rule this year |
| 6986s | in the last turn which is new for the |
| 6987s | alliance tournament which is point |
| 6988s | inflation so if you bring multiple |
| 6990s | copies of the same ship then each of |
| 6993s | them cost more points so if a ship is |
| 6994s | five points and you bring two of them |
| 6996s | it's not ten it is 12 points because |
| 6998s | each one increases by one point so by |
| 7000s | Banning the Deacon you're forcing them |
| 7002s | to bring maybe two taliers for example |
| 7005s | if they wanted to bring armor uh |
| 7007s | logistic frigates uh Tech 2 at least but |
| 7009s | then the add more points so then you |
| 7011s | have to readjust the rest of your comp |
| 7012s | if you had it predicated for one Deacon |
| 7014s | one Talia so that one band can take out |
| 7016s | a lot of ships which uh you pointed out |
| 7018s | there c2b Swift I don't actually know if |
| 7020s | these teams have bar guest flagships but |
| 7023s | that's a very popular Flagship this year |
| 7025s | I believe the most popular |
| 7027s | um and we do see that Burgers band so we |
| 7029s | might see one on uh one on grid but I |
| 7031s | mean I guess we could go to the arena |
| 7032s | and uh and find out |
| 7034s | um in a couple of minutes because the |
| 7036s | match is due in four minutes three |
| 7038s | minutes oh my God we're almost there in |
| 7040s | a minute it'll be two minutes it will be |
| 7041s | two minutes that is fantastic maths |
| 7044s | um let's do protections because we've |
| 7046s | not really done that very much |
| 7047s | um and this is a really hard to predict |
| 7049s | match in my opinion please be Swift |
| 7051s | uh so you mentioned templates has an |
| 7053s | incredibly great record uh when we were |
| 7055s | doing Alliance tournament 16 uh points |
| 7058s | we were kind of looking at templates and |
| 7059s | just nerfing all their comps that's |
| 7061s | essentially what we did uh because they |
| 7063s | were just so dominant there uh so I |
| 7066s | think templates will probably squeak |
| 7068s | this one out uh but Darkseid I mean this |
| 7070s | could be a finals match right these |
| 7072s | teams are both incredibly incredibly |
| 7074s | good uh and Darkseid has incredible |
| 7076s | Talent not only with faffy wafi but they |
| 7079s | have Pandy and a lot of members from the |
| 7080s | vidra team which does incredibly well |
| 7083s | each year so |
| 7085s | um anyone game but I'm gonna get slight |
| 7087s | Edge to templates I'm a card and spam |
| 7090s | red heart and jintan if you could uh if |
| 7092s | you could do it in 10 seconds or less |
| 7093s | who would you go for uh I would go for |
| 7095s | Darkseid in this match I think they're |
| 7096s | going to bring something that uh |
| 7097s | Templars don't expect and kind of get a |
| 7099s | little bit of an upset okay uh well I |
| 7101s | think I'm gonna go for templates I think |
| 7102s | that Spartan has got this I'm a carton |
| 7104s | spammer as well so let's go to the arena |
| 7106s | and find out in templar's Castle and |
| 7107s | dark side |
| 7110s | foreign |
| 7115s | here with moderator we are commentating |
| 7118s | Darkseid versus template's House of dark |
| 7120s | side coming with a very tanky drone comp |
| 7122s | anchored around this Armageddon AV issue |
| 7125s | a real heck of a ship the Temple's cow |
| 7127s | stuff is going to have to find a way to |
| 7129s | deal with moderator what tools do they |
| 7131s | have |
| 7133s | yeah so we're seeing |
| 7134s | um double Nighthawk Drake Navy issue and |
| 7137s | orthrus and Osprey caracal Navy issue in |
| 7140s | another pair Osprey Navy issue and |
| 7143s | jacked on we are seeing a lot of heavy |
| 7145s | assault missiles uh templates is going |
| 7147s | to want to close range very quickly |
| 7148s | brawl uh pick off that Armageddon Navy |
| 7152s | issue as soon as possible get rid of |
| 7154s | links in the form of the mermaidon |
| 7157s | and the remember that might actually be |
| 7159s | their best bet here it's of their heavy |
| 7161s | ships the least tanky and probably has a |
| 7163s | lot of impact with the links boosting up |
| 7165s | the rest of their Fleet font effects is |
| 7167s | also an option although given their |
| 7169s | missile Choice it might be tough to kill |
| 7171s | those smaller ships |
| 7174s | yeah um I mean looking at the attack bar |
| 7176s | off of the very get-go here we can see |
| 7179s | that templas has a lot of potential one |
| 7182s | of the sort of downsides of armor |
| 7187s | drone boats is that you can't really use |
| 7189s | any sort of rep Bots to support your |
| 7192s | team because if you do that means you're |
| 7195s | not using those same you know drone |
| 7197s | slots for damage and that can be a bit |
| 7200s | of a problem one of the saving Graces |
| 7203s | though is that both teams are pretty far |
| 7205s | away from each other I want to say about |
| 7206s | 50 to 60 kilometers at closest both |
| 7209s | teams coming in at opposite sides of the |
| 7211s | warp in here |
| 7214s | and the links are popping we're about to |
| 7216s | begin will be interesting to see |
| 7217s | Temple's Castle's Target Choice here and |
| 7219s | what did they decide to headshot first |
| 7221s | with that insane attack bar |
| 7224s | both of them are charging across the |
| 7225s | arena now and we're starting to see some |
| 7228s | of the missiles begin to fly as they go |
| 7230s | for the Confessor of tick-tock |
| 7232s | yeah that um you know kind of makes a |
| 7235s | bit of a sense he's the initial ship in |
| 7236s | on the screen we see that Safway is |
| 7238s | going to be the initial primary uh it |
| 7240s | makes a lot of sense to me that you'd |
| 7241s | want to get rid of those fairly weak |
| 7244s | links uh however the Vengeance instantly |
| 7246s | dying before he can even pop an ADC uh |
| 7249s | safoy continuing to take long-range |
| 7251s | Century damage we see uh kurators and |
| 7254s | other Sentry drones from that ball of |
| 7257s | you know ishtars and mermanons but |
| 7259s | centuries might not be the best choice |
| 7261s | going forward we see that now both teams |
| 7264s | have definitely closely Gap we're in a |
| 7266s | full-on brawl and Sky killer Russian |
| 7268s | will be the primary for templas |
| 7271s | yeah the centuries are an interesting |
| 7272s | choice at the start I actually think |
| 7274s | they're working well here for them they |
| 7276s | have managed to move the fight ahead of |
| 7279s | the century Germans the sentries are |
| 7280s | sitting there kind of in a sort of a |
| 7282s | second back line here and they're |
| 7284s | ravaging the Temple's Castle team as |
| 7286s | their FC The Last Spartan drops now they |
| 7289s | are going to trade this Army get a Navy |
| 7290s | for it and despite losing their logic |
| 7292s | and one of their best Pilots That's a |
| 7295s | trade you've got to be happy with if |
| 7296s | your temple scoutset that is a huge |
| 7298s | chunk of control and damage off the |
| 7300s | field I mean look at the attack bar |
| 7302s | right now between these two teams it's |
| 7303s | not even close right now I'm I'm almost |
| 7306s | tempted to say that temples calcif |
| 7309s | almost won this at the draft stage |
| 7312s | um this is just a very good comp for |
| 7316s | them to be coming up against in kind of |
| 7318s | a |
| 7319s | you know that kind of caldari Rush |
| 7321s | templas choosing to you know be role |
| 7325s | players not just in game but in the |
| 7327s | alliance tournament as well the caracal |
| 7328s | Navy issue of Devin going down but |
| 7330s | they'll trade out candies of star for it |
| 7332s | which is a great trade and very |
| 7334s | interestingly if they had gone with the |
| 7335s | same setup but more of a kite style |
| 7338s | setup I think Darkseid would a favorite |
| 7340s | would have gone much more favorably here |
| 7342s | but against them the high damage Rush |
| 7344s | where they're coming in up close they |
| 7347s | just weren't prepared for it I think |
| 7349s | I think they were expecting a kite team |
| 7350s | and they ran into |
| 7352s | a wall of hams that is just decimating |
| 7356s | them it's truly taking out their high |
| 7357s | end you see faffy wapis mervidon about |
| 7359s | to join his friends in the graveyard |
| 7361s | here as his armor is absolutely getting |
| 7363s | shredded he's trying to rep back but to |
| 7365s | no avail |
| 7367s | yeah we can see that Darkseid has a |
| 7368s | pretty sustainable large amount of |
| 7371s | active repping in their defense bar but |
| 7374s | template cows if their attack is just |
| 7376s | it's it's massive they just decided yeah |
| 7379s | um we're gonna put heavy assault |
| 7380s | missiles on everything we're not going |
| 7382s | to kite we're just gonna brawl in your |
| 7384s | face and |
| 7386s | be they had a very favorable mashup to |
| 7389s | do that they just got on top of this |
| 7390s | Navy getting they're getting on top of |
| 7392s | this so neros now with Rick Orris and |
| 7394s | once everything gets on top of him he's |
| 7396s | going to go down pretty quickly here |
| 7398s | yeah the big local defense bar for |
| 7401s | Darkseid that's the the purple bar there |
| 7403s | I'd have to imagine that is on the |
| 7405s | nearest and the stratiosis so we might |
| 7408s | see them take a little bit of time to |
| 7410s | actually get chewed through but actually |
| 7412s | as I say that the aniros of Rico is |
| 7415s | absolutely getting shredded I don't |
| 7418s | think there's any stopping this team or |
| 7419s | even slowing them down they might not |
| 7421s | even lose this orthos |
| 7423s | uh still wishes orthos will go down in a |
| 7426s | second here there's a cloud of drones on |
| 7427s | top of him he's you know doing what he |
| 7429s | can to kite away but it's gonna be too |
| 7430s | little |
| 7431s | um Sam Punisher will be the primary uh |
| 7433s | being held down at close range by uh |
| 7436s | Drake Navy issues and Nighthawks and the |
| 7438s | Pont affects the remaining link bout is |
| 7441s | being |
| 7442s | held by actually nothing the sky breaker |
| 7446s | is now burning for him trying to get |
| 7448s | some tackle but uh pontifex just being |
| 7450s | chased by a cloud of drones howitz's |
| 7452s | stratios is doing the very best he can |
| 7454s | to try to kite away but |
| 7456s | um armored drone ships are not known for |
| 7458s | their speed compared to kaldari |
| 7461s | um heavy missile ships and |
| 7464s | that stratios is going to be tackled |
| 7466s | right now actually so not going to be |
| 7469s | able to get away from anything |
| 7471s | the pontifex is he's doing his best to |
| 7474s | try to string it out here but he has a |
| 7476s | very very low amount of structure and a |
| 7478s | very big cloud of drones he will go down |
| 7480s | those drones will most likely relocate |
| 7482s | over to how it's and we'll start to see |
| 7484s | his armor drop very rapidly |
| 7488s | yeah the caracal Navy issue and the two |
| 7490s | direct navies are now just closing on |
| 7492s | top of him and uh that stratios is about |
| 7496s | to get his light switch turned off |
| 7498s | meanwhile uh Lily SG in the vexer is |
| 7501s | done everything he can to try to burn |
| 7504s | away to one of the other beacons as the |
| 7506s | last remaining ship he will have to be |
| 7510s | spooling that micro jump drive unit |
| 7512s | pretty soon |
| 7515s | that is the question |
| 7519s | um well either way I think he's going to |
| 7521s | get killed it's going to be whether or |
| 7523s | not he dies to the boundary or whether |
| 7526s | he dies to this rapidly approaching ball |
| 7528s | of heavy missile ships |
| 7530s | uh I'm zoomed in on him it looks like he |
| 7532s | is angling away from the arena if he |
| 7534s | activates this micro jump Beacon he will |
| 7536s | launch himself toward the edge of glory |
| 7540s | he is at zero velocity though so I don't |
| 7542s | think he's gonna be breaking any records |
| 7544s | but |
| 7545s | uh he's gonna start making that decision |
| 7547s | soon he they're gaining ground on him |
| 7549s | quite rapidly here and now he's turning |
| 7552s | yeah he may be choosing to go uh you |
| 7554s | know out on his shield we've seen good |
| 7556s | fights in local both teams realize that |
| 7558s | the match has been |
| 7560s | um over for some time now |
| 7563s | and surprisingly |
| 7566s | it's really only the Nighthawk of Killa |
| 7569s | 542 that's really approaching uh |
| 7571s | deciding that now he's going to end it |
| 7574s | we see a microderm drugs pull from |
| 7576s | Dexter trying to get to one of the other |
| 7578s | beacons laterally across from him |
| 7581s | and he makes it |
| 7585s | Lilo SG choosing life |
| 7587s | uh he has a very long game to play |
| 7590s | though there's almost four well about |
| 7591s | three and a half minutes remaining in |
| 7593s | this match that's a long time for this |
| 7595s | fexa to try to stay alive |
| 7597s | yeah I I don't think he'll manage to do |
| 7599s | it for the next three and a half minutes |
| 7601s | but I can't help but feel though |
| 7605s | you know some sort of mjd play or some |
| 7607s | sort of range control had to be |
| 7610s | something that Darkseid had to |
| 7613s | choose as their strategy instead of just |
| 7616s | deciding to brawl against heavy assault |
| 7619s | missile boats you're never going to win |
| 7620s | that DPS trade at zero against tamboats |
| 7623s | I think to one of your points earlier |
| 7625s | though they really didn't have much |
| 7626s | choice in the matter their Mobility |
| 7627s | versus these uh rapidly approaching |
| 7631s | kaldari ships quite limited again not a |
| 7634s | very mobile ship mermaiden not that |
| 7637s | great |
| 7637s | ishtars that has some speed but if they |
| 7641s | plated it up and you know maybe through |
| 7643s | an afterburner on it you're really not |
| 7646s | getting much out of it this vexer its |
| 7648s | top speed seemed to have been about 1600 |
| 7650s | that's just not going to cut it |
| 7652s | yeah he probably had 1600 plates and he |
| 7654s | chose to burn for the Edge of Glory at |
| 7656s | 125 kilometers that'll be it for us |
| 7658s | sending it back to the desk |
| 7674s | [Music] |
| 7677s | Yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP |
| 7679s | collectively so that's why that Alliance |
| 7681s | logo is in the game of course you could |
| 7683s | change your alliance by leaving but that |
| 7685s | would be kind of a jerk move that kind |
| 7687s | of oh you don't like it now sucks I'm |
| 7690s | gonna go join |
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| 7706s | welcome to Eve Pandora |
| 7710s | Pandora |
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| 7738s | template cows have taking the win there |
| 7740s | in what looked like a loss at first I |
| 7744s | think a lot of people are as included |
| 7745s | were like ah no it's all gone horribly |
| 7747s | wrong for Temple's Castle fear that |
| 7749s | opening move from Dark Side seemed to be |
| 7751s | super strong they stacked up with |
| 7753s | guidance disruptors they knew what |
| 7755s | templates was going to bring and then it |
| 7758s | just started to slowly go the wrong way |
| 7760s | attempt was elected to stop dying and |
| 7763s | start killing and then after that it was |
| 7764s | kind of a game over for the dark side |
| 7768s | team CP Swift like where did that whack |
| 7770s | I mean obviously I know why they made |
| 7771s | the change they wanted to win rather |
| 7772s | than lose which is bonus is the strategy |
| 7775s | to go for but what made the change uh so |
| 7778s | uh templates realized that the position |
| 7780s | they were in when there's a lot of |
| 7782s | control and a lot of news on the field |
| 7783s | you want to kind of get those newts off |
| 7786s | the field very early so you saw them |
| 7788s | even though they lost their Osprey |
| 7789s | pretty quick they said you know we have |
| 7791s | to all in get this Navy getting off the |
| 7793s | field it's going to screw us over if we |
| 7795s | let it sit there for too long so they |
| 7797s | all ended killed it uh and then you know |
| 7799s | killed off uh some of the uh tackle that |
| 7802s | was keeping them down and after that |
| 7803s | they were able to kite around uh the |
| 7805s | match and you know just apply damage |
| 7808s | willy-nilly it was uh really really well |
| 7810s | thought out by templates a nice recovery |
| 7812s | there uh they might argue that they |
| 7815s | never had to recover but you know they |
| 7816s | still recovered and they still did |
| 7818s | really well |
| 7819s | I'll tell you who didn't recover uh The |
| 7821s | Last Spartan he died |
| 7823s | um he was put in his cartoon as I |
| 7824s | believe you said during the uh during |
| 7826s | the match itself |
| 7828s | argentan said that I don't want to steal |
| 7831s | a really good joke that's real bad |
| 7834s | um gentan I'd like to talk to you about |
| 7836s | the stratios choice there so Darkseid |
| 7838s | banned out the Gila which is a pretty |
| 7840s | strong drone boat then they themselves |
| 7842s | brought drones |
| 7844s | um and the stratus is usually not as |
| 7846s | good as a gila some might say |
| 7848s | um what's what's the logic here well uh |
| 7851s | the healer is as one of those special |
| 7853s | case ships which is significantly more |
| 7855s | points than the rest of the pirate |
| 7856s | Cruisers just due to its raw power level |
| 7859s | I think it's priced very comparatively |
| 7860s | to a hack |
| 7862s | um and as such you wouldn't have |
| 7864s | actually been able to fit a Healer in |
| 7865s | that composition regardless |
| 7868s | um the stratios has a couple of uh |
| 7870s | bonuses which are really effective in |
| 7872s | this sort of comp especially one that's |
| 7874s | so control orientated obviously they |
| 7876s | were trying to utilize those missile |
| 7877s | guidance disruptors and their new to |
| 7879s | just slow down disrupt the ability of |
| 7881s | their opponents to apply damage to them |
| 7883s | and then when you're already doing that |
| 7885s | to some degree through your e-war those |
| 7887s | resistance bonuses when paired with the |
| 7889s | TT Logistics can make those stratuses |
| 7891s | live for a very long time and they can |
| 7893s | effectively work as basically heavy |
| 7895s | tackle you can throw your strategy or |
| 7896s | set something it can scram web dump |
| 7899s | newts onto something and make it easier |
| 7901s | to pick apart with the what you saw was |
| 7903s | actually a relatively low damage |
| 7904s | composition there from Darkseid their |
| 7906s | attack bar was almost half the size of |
| 7908s | Templars yeah but the size isn't |
| 7911s | important is what you do with that |
| 7912s | damage bar that makes uh makes the |
| 7914s | winner not |
| 7915s | um now we have a brief interlude so we |
| 7918s | can actually go to a quick video from |
| 7920s | CCP Roar to tell us a little bit about |
| 7921s | some of the new features in the uprising |
| 7923s | expansion |
| 7931s | coming in Uprising we have a number of |
| 7933s | updates to faction Warfare including new |
| 7936s | complexes for people to take part in new |
| 7938s | systems that impact the war zone and new |
| 7940s | ways to play around those systems as |
| 7942s | well |
| 7943s | by adding additional objectives Beyond |
| 7945s | just irregular complexes we're seeing a |
| 7947s | shake up to the complexes that we're |
| 7949s | adding to faction Warfare with new |
| 7952s | restrictions a large new number of |
| 7953s | complexes and a whole lot more variety |
| 7956s | for you to play with the faction Warfare |
| 7958s | system that you've become accustomed to |
| 7960s | is still there it's forming the |
| 7962s | foundation of the uprising expansion but |
| 7964s | we're adding new layers on top of it to |
| 7966s | round out the gameplay in addition to |
| 7968s | the complexes that you're used to in |
| 7969s | faction Warfare while there are more of |
| 7971s | them there are also additional |
| 7973s | objectives that you'll see in space such |
| 7975s | as Supply Depots there that are owned by |
| 7978s | the owners of the system or Supply |
| 7980s | caches by the attackers Rendezvous |
| 7983s | points where you can assault enemy |
| 7985s | fleets and more all of these things will |
| 7987s | factor into what is called the Advantage |
| 7989s | system the Advantage system simulates |
| 7991s | exactly which faction that is fighting |
| 7994s | over a system has an advantage how well |
| 7997s | are they doing in the war effort is |
| 7999s | there propaganda up to par in terms of |
| 8001s | turning the citizens of that system over |
| 8003s | to their side or are their fleets well |
| 8006s | supplied or are they being attacked at |
| 8009s | mid-transport all of these things are |
| 8011s | factored into the advantage score the |
| 8012s | better your faction does the higher |
| 8014s | their score the more victory points |
| 8016s | you'll earn when completing complex |
| 8018s | which means the faster you can capture |
| 8020s | systems with Uprising we're creating a |
| 8022s | healthy foundation for the faction |
| 8023s | Warfare ecosystem which will continue to |
| 8025s | build on going into the future in the |
| 8027s | future there will be more objectives as |
| 8029s | well as additional ways for people who |
| 8031s | are not actively in a militia today to |
| 8034s | join without having to leave their |
| 8035s | corporation or Alliance the faction |
| 8037s | Warframe system has long been beloved by |
| 8039s | many players and it's a very important |
| 8041s | part of the Eve online ecosystem and |
| 8044s | it's about time that we return to it |
| 8045s | give it a new facelift and begin to |
| 8048s | expand on the foundation that is already |
| 8050s | there |
| 8059s | yeah Uprising |
| 8061s | um it's fantastic I don't know if you've |
| 8063s | had a chance to go on and look at like |
| 8064s | the new hangers are incredible I spent |
| 8066s | some time just zooming around from ship |
| 8067s | to ship they're absolutely wonderful uh |
| 8070s | I've played a bit on Singularity during |
| 8071s | the war games for factional Warfare uh |
| 8074s | before it came out it was it's just such |
| 8076s | a cool revamp concept I'm super happy |
| 8078s | about it c65 |
| 8080s | um what's your favorite parts of |
| 8081s | Uprising |
| 8082s | um so the oh man let's pick a favorite I |
| 8085s | don't want to pick but the thing I like |
| 8087s | a lot again is uh faction Warfare uh |
| 8089s | when it first came out I had a ton of |
| 8091s | fun with the feature and now that it's |
| 8093s | been kind of rebuilt with a whole bunch |
| 8095s | of new systems uh it is incredibly fun |
| 8097s | uh even if you're not in faction Warfare |
| 8099s | you can get a lot of great fights out of |
| 8101s | it uh the propaganda structures that CCB |
| 8103s | Aurora was uh showing that works with |
| 8105s | the Advantage system they're an |
| 8107s | incredible way to get a fight you just |
| 8108s | plop went down and everyone in the |
| 8110s | system sees this like giant Target that |
| 8112s | they have to fight it's very reminiscent |
| 8113s | of like uh the sovereignty blockade |
| 8116s | units if you guys are remember that in |
| 8117s | the old soft system those you have to |
| 8120s | wait three hours this one is 10 minutes |
| 8121s | so it's way fast and a lot less ehp of |
| 8124s | course but it's a fantastic way to get a |
| 8126s | fight the front line systems are amazing |
| 8129s | as well you don't have to like wander |
| 8131s | around the map trying to find people you |
| 8133s | know exactly where they'll be because |
| 8134s | that's where the best rewards are |
| 8136s | um and it's it's so much fun it's also |
| 8138s | really good to see worms stuck outside |
| 8140s | of complexes unable to get in they're |
| 8143s | like oh I want to fight with my |
| 8144s | overpowered ship and then just like a |
| 8146s | Republic Fleet Fire tail would just go |
| 8147s | sucker just keep going it's great I love |
| 8149s | it I am I had to go on on Singularity |
| 8152s | and some of the new structures I didn't |
| 8154s | read Because reading is difficult and I |
| 8157s | took them and I dropped one down to see |
| 8158s | what would happen and all these NPCs |
| 8160s | came in oh cool and they just murdered |
| 8162s | me like it just wasn't even close like |
| 8164s | okay noted need to get better shapes or |
| 8167s | read the patch notes uh something I did |
| 8168s | not do now we have another match coming |
| 8170s | up in just about five minutes it's going |
| 8172s | to be rusty Hyena's Clan versus Alexis |
| 8173s | Matari another one I'm super excited |
| 8175s | about today's been so good with matches |
| 8176s | Alexis Matari or minitar role-playing |
| 8179s | Alliance |
| 8181s | um the only one that made it into the |
| 8183s | actual Lions tournament this year |
| 8185s | um we can look at their bands and see |
| 8187s | what they have chosen uh not to face |
| 8191s | Rusty Hyena's Clans Banning out the EOS |
| 8194s | the pontifex and the mega so they're |
| 8196s | saying we really don't like links armor |
| 8198s | links uh just don't bring any of them |
| 8200s | please that would be fantastic Alexis |
| 8201s | Matari um a bit of a bit of an issue |
| 8204s | with mutes here uh Banning out the |
| 8205s | Armageddon Navia through the Armageddon |
| 8207s | and the curse uh Jin tan what are your |
| 8209s | thoughts on this set of bands here |
| 8211s | uh I don't know this is a very |
| 8213s | unorthodox set of bands from both teams |
| 8215s | uh Rusty hike as you said Rusty hyen is |
| 8217s | there just taking out as many skirm |
| 8219s | viable Skirmish link fielders as |
| 8220s | possible uh and Alexis Matari there just |
| 8223s | deleting newts it I I have to assume |
| 8226s | that electors are going to fly something |
| 8227s | that's really really dependent on |
| 8229s | capacitor and that doesn't have a way of |
| 8230s | dealing with an Armageddon |
| 8232s | um maybe something like a kite comp uh |
| 8235s | you know I'm not sure how many hack kite |
| 8237s | comps we're really going to see because |
| 8238s | of the changes two hacks that were also |
| 8240s | recently implemented with the uprising |
| 8242s | patch which is drastically nerfed their |
| 8244s | lock range something that makes uh |
| 8246s | flying around with you know two three |
| 8248s | server cerberuses and just trying to pee |
| 8250s | on people from range pretty much |
| 8252s | impossible |
| 8254s | um but another interesting note here |
| 8255s | actually is the lack of a Gila ban so |
| 8257s | Alexis Matari could opt to be doing that |
| 8260s | and that's something that also struggles |
| 8261s | against the curse the Armageddon |
| 8263s | something with those long-range news |
| 8265s | uh sorry I'm going to jump in that's |
| 8267s | okay I I grant you permission thank you |
| 8270s | host |
| 8271s | um to me this screams from electus |
| 8273s | Matari I want to take a leshack which |
| 8275s | might be our first leshack of the day uh |
| 8278s | but uh yeah that that like it hates a |
| 8280s | curse it hates nudes get rid of a curse |
| 8282s | get rid of a whole bunch of nudes |
| 8284s | leshack I'm not sure if the left Shack |
| 8285s | is going to be very good in the |
| 8286s | tournament but um that's that's just |
| 8288s | what it screams to be maybe that's what |
| 8290s | they're trying to bait like they're |
| 8291s | saying yo we want to bring a leshack and |
| 8293s | the other guys are going to be like oh |
| 8294s | they want to bring a lecheck but they |
| 8296s | then they don't see I'm choosing to |
| 8298s | believe that they're leading into the |
| 8299s | Minotaur role play here Banning out Amar |
| 8301s | and they're going to bring a full |
| 8302s | Minotaur rush and just lean into it |
| 8304s | that's what that's what I choose to |
| 8305s | believe but we can probably go to the |
| 8307s | arena uh now and find out |
| 8310s | um can we go to 39 and find out |
| 8312s | that's a question for them we cannot we |
| 8314s | cannot go to the arena and send out |
| 8316s | so let's uh let's find out what our |
| 8319s | guests think instead of going to the |
| 8321s | arena and finding out ourselves uh CP |
| 8324s | Swift who's who's going to take this |
| 8325s | Victory electus Matari did really really |
| 8327s | well |
| 8328s | um in the trials uh they looked very |
| 8330s | convincing that's how they got in here |
| 8332s | and you know uh teams that fly a lot |
| 8334s | Under Pressure I think they do much |
| 8336s | better uh in the alliance tournament |
| 8337s | than teams that just buy their way in |
| 8339s | awesome narrow teams are on grid and we |
| 8341s | can go to the event and find out so |
| 8343s | gentan in a in as many words as there's |
| 8345s | uh in the team name who isn't going to |
| 8347s | win here I like this Atari I like some |
| 8349s | Atari I think I'm running for that as |
| 8350s | well so let's go through here and find |
| 8351s | that |
| 8356s | hello I am moderator joined by my |
| 8359s | colleague Alexa of card for this match |
| 8362s | between Rusty Heinz Clan and Alexis |
| 8364s | Matari Rusty hyenas choosing to go with |
| 8366s | nightmare double vulture ferrox scalpel |
| 8369s | Kieran double jacked off flycatcher and |
| 8372s | a sky breaker |
| 8374s | meanwhile Alexis machari betraying their |
| 8377s | Minotaur RP Roots as they're bringing |
| 8379s | two Nighthawks in addition to their |
| 8380s | typhoon Fleet issue as the top end we've |
| 8383s | got a Loki for control the brand new |
| 8385s | revamped communion and some interesting |
| 8388s | lower end ships including tech one |
| 8391s | Logistics frigates this is a very |
| 8393s | aggressive comp |
| 8396s | yeah of note it would appear that those |
| 8398s | vultures have fit railguns that's not |
| 8402s | particularly uncommon to see you know |
| 8404s | wanting to use the optimal range bonus |
| 8407s | that those vultures get and try to |
| 8409s | mitigate using range |
| 8411s | um interesting to see a nightmare |
| 8413s | brought here |
| 8415s | um but you know it makes sense is that's |
| 8417s | their Flagship I believe they're one of |
| 8418s | the few teams that did choose to bring a |
| 8421s | nightmare as their flag |
| 8423s | um |
| 8424s | nightmare will be you know have pretty |
| 8429s | good op options going against uh |
| 8432s | Nighthawks as em therm and will be |
| 8435s | pretty hard to hold down actually but |
| 8436s | interesting to see how this new revamp |
| 8438s | Union factors into the match |
| 8441s | yeah the nightmare is going to be very |
| 8443s | slippery the Loki on the electus which |
| 8446s | are team is going to be the MVP here if |
| 8448s | he can land some double webs on that |
| 8450s | Flagship and slow it down but the |
| 8451s | nightmare scares well with scales well |
| 8453s | with isk and here we'll go the Bantam is |
| 8458s | dropping very rapidly this tech one |
| 8460s | Logistics forget not long for this world |
| 8462s | they'll trade a fly catcher for it |
| 8464s | up in there if that's actually an |
| 8466s | electus matari's favor here |
| 8468s | yeah I'll say that one of the things |
| 8470s | that we've seen never scale well in any |
| 8472s | tournament has been this Taekwondo |
| 8473s | Logistics |
| 8474s | um the jackdaw is going to go down |
| 8476s | swipel getting some reps but swipel is |
| 8479s | about to pop any second now we see |
| 8481s | drones going after him into low hole |
| 8485s | somehow holding on but now popping as |
| 8487s | Aaron |
| 8488s | 007 is now one of the primaries yeah |
| 8491s | they'll trade the jacked off for it that |
| 8493s | was a good job by the uh by the simple |
| 8495s | pilot to just extend his lifespan a |
| 8498s | little bit it got them a little bit of a |
| 8499s | damage Edge on this jackdaw and now the |
| 8501s | jackdaws down while the burst of Kira is |
| 8504s | barely taking any Shield damage yet |
| 8507s | that'll keep their Logistics frigate |
| 8509s | alive for a little bit longer but now |
| 8510s | they've gone on to the the linchpin of |
| 8513s | this Electro swatary setup versus the uh |
| 8516s | Rasta Aina set up that Loki dropping |
| 8518s | into two-thirds shield and who was their |
| 8521s | Shield |
| 8525s | um this team with the vultures are |
| 8527s | definitely using their ability to kite |
| 8529s | and mitigate with railguns they're going |
| 8531s | to kill the Loki here but the vulture of |
| 8536s | um race at his or Nissan Riser has been |
| 8539s | pushed by uh this typhoon of Debbie Spar |
| 8542s | it looks like the nightmare actually is |
| 8546s | being held down |
| 8548s | yeah it's being held down by the Sleep |
| 8550s | typhoon right now on at zero so not |
| 8553s | where you want to be if you're a |
| 8554s | nightmare but typhoon Fleet issues are |
| 8556s | not known for their Shield tank at all |
| 8558s | no but they are known for their damage |
| 8560s | application particularly with the new |
| 8562s | Uprising patch that nightmare is not |
| 8565s | where he wants to be and he doesn't have |
| 8567s | a lot of tools to get out of there the |
| 8569s | electus Matari team is swarming on top |
| 8571s | of him he's got multiple ships kind of |
| 8573s | corralling him around and they're |
| 8576s | deciding to go all in on this tackled |
| 8578s | nightmare which will wind up being a |
| 8580s | great call if they can kill it it's |
| 8582s | currently a two-thirds shield and |
| 8584s | dropping fairly slowly the nightmare |
| 8586s | with isk has a tremendous tank even |
| 8588s | though it doesn't seem like it would |
| 8589s | have any bonuses for it the slot layout |
| 8592s | the fitting it can fit a pretty |
| 8594s | substantial tank and it's being tested |
| 8597s | right now as it dips to half Shields but |
| 8599s | it could take a Nighthawk with it |
| 8601s | yeah the Kirin and the scalp and the |
| 8604s | scalpel are doing a really good job of |
| 8605s | keeping after him while the nightmare |
| 8607s | continues to primary Arthur Elkins |
| 8609s | Nighthawk once that Nighthawk drops in |
| 8612s | the next I want to say you know 10 to 15 |
| 8614s | seconds maybe sooner uh the nightmare |
| 8618s | will be possibly stabilizing but it's |
| 8621s | going to be difficult with allatin and |
| 8623s | debus continuing to apply damage to his |
| 8625s | local tank |
| 8628s | he's got barely any Shields left he is |
| 8631s | dipping now even if he holds where he's |
| 8633s | currently at he'll start to bleed some |
| 8634s | armor but it looks like they're still |
| 8636s | able to get through his rep cycle so it |
| 8638s | might take considerably longer but that |
| 8640s | nightmare is going to die it's armor |
| 8643s | tank not nearly as substantial as its |
| 8645s | Shield tank that said he's overheating |
| 8648s | or he's doing something because his reps |
| 8650s | are seemingly getting him a lot more now |
| 8652s | could be someone's on reload he is |
| 8654s | hanging in there meanwhile Davis in the |
| 8656s | typhoon Fleet issue starting to drop a |
| 8658s | little low getting into 25 Shields |
| 8661s | yeah I'm not so sure that this nightmare |
| 8663s | is gonna die he's managed to get away |
| 8665s | from any sort of tackle yeah he's still |
| 8667s | painted but he's pulling range from |
| 8669s | these Nighthawks uh the typhoon Fleet |
| 8671s | issue is out of range and if the typhoon |
| 8674s | Fleet issue goes down |
| 8676s | um he should be able to easily solo tank |
| 8679s | against the night Hawkin and munin |
| 8681s | um the Nighthawk or nightmare rather had |
| 8683s | been pushed to the edge of the Arena had |
| 8685s | to make a hard turn but now he's been |
| 8687s | able to slip webs and I mean that's just |
| 8689s | the power of that afterburn or bonus |
| 8691s | ship |
| 8692s | yep that's the slipperiness you cannot |
| 8695s | scram it to disable its micro warp drive |
| 8697s | because it doesn't have one it just has |
| 8699s | an After Burner that makes it go pretty |
| 8700s | much as fast if not faster |
| 8703s | and he's just came down the typhoon |
| 8705s | Fleet issue that's a devastating loss |
| 8707s | for electus Matari as Rusty hyenas has |
| 8709s | taken themselves out of a very scary |
| 8711s | position stabilized this match and now |
| 8714s | taken a considerable advantage |
| 8717s | yeah I mean this was the perfect setup |
| 8719s | to be able to bring your nightmare into |
| 8721s | right none of those ships really had |
| 8723s | Grapplers that were able to hold it down |
| 8726s | uh typhoon Fleet issue doesn't have a |
| 8728s | lot of tank he was just able to mitigate |
| 8730s | and do what he could to you know survive |
| 8733s | with that you know faction tank that |
| 8736s | he's allowed to have from the local |
| 8738s | boosters and just chew through a |
| 8740s | Nighthawk then chew through while you |
| 8743s | know continuing to bleed through armor |
| 8744s | and it paid off for them |
| 8748s | paid off big time and also the lodgy |
| 8751s | from Rusty hyenas still alive the |
| 8753s | scalpel and Kieran coming in clutch |
| 8755s | there helping that nightmare tank |
| 8757s | through its Darkest Hour |
| 8759s | the electus matori bifrost goes down |
| 8761s | then to be followed by alteon's |
| 8763s | Nighthawk dripping into about a third |
| 8766s | Shield dying slowly but that is |
| 8768s | definitely going to accelerate now that |
| 8770s | the uh |
| 8772s | that's basically the only viable Target |
| 8774s | they've got on the field here this |
| 8775s | Munich the new munin it seems to be |
| 8778s | kiting around not doing a ton what do we |
| 8780s | think of the new munin layout moderator |
| 8785s | um it kind of remains to be seen one of |
| 8788s | the difficulties that a lot of these |
| 8790s | teams you know |
| 8792s | will be facing is that because Uprising |
| 8795s | the new patch just dropped in the last |
| 8797s | half week or so |
| 8799s | teams haven't really had a lot of time |
| 8801s | to fully act as much as they might like |
| 8804s | to with the new setup like yeah you can |
| 8807s | see the stats but you haven't really |
| 8808s | been able to trim with it until very |
| 8812s | very recently and it's going to be a bit |
| 8816s | of a shake-up I mean I know a lot of |
| 8818s | teams were expecting to be able to fly a |
| 8821s | Cerberus that would be able to punch out |
| 8823s | much further under the old setup and now |
| 8827s | it's not really the same and we'll be |
| 8829s | seeing how that affects themes and |
| 8831s | compositions as things continue as |
| 8835s | Smitty Ultras munin is being pushed by |
| 8838s | this cloud of Republic drones and now |
| 8841s | goes down |
| 8844s | wanted a thrilling match congratulations |
| 8846s | fresh tahini's plant Rusty hyenas Clan |
| 8849s | well flown throwing this one back to the |
| 8850s | desk |
| 8859s | [Music] |
| 8868s | guys stop being casual they're really |
| 8870s | bad we should not lose anybody to this |
| 8873s | warp off warp off take the fleet warp |
| 8875s | everybody warp off this is a really |
| 8876s | really bad execution I'm very |
| 8878s | disappointed |
| 8886s | [Music] |
| 8895s | crash our enemies your temps are |
| 8898s | completely damned out Crush I'm dumped |
| 8900s | out I'm dumped out you don't like |
| 8901s | Chambers boys again |
| 8910s | I'm jammed |
| 8929s | Rusty Hyena's Clan there with the w |
| 8931s | um |
| 8932s | hello Rusty Hyena's Clan there with the |
| 8934s | w |
| 8935s | um over Alexis Matari unfortunate for |
| 8937s | them they didn't get that Flagship kill |
| 8939s | it looked for a while to that nightmare |
| 8941s | which was a flagship nightmare was going |
| 8943s | to go down but he managed to hold on to |
| 8945s | his underpants and stayed alive pretty |
| 8947s | good for them of course that means they |
| 8948s | still got their Flagship going forward |
| 8950s | which unlike try and some of the other |
| 8952s | teams that just fed theirs they still |
| 8954s | have the option to bring that Flagship |
| 8955s | once again the nightmare a pretty |
| 8957s | popular Flagship not the most popular |
| 8959s | but it scales super well I'm joined by |
| 8961s | the Basilisk um he joins me on the desk |
| 8963s | with mystical mate once again basilisk |
| 8966s | what's your thoughts on nightmare |
| 8967s | flagships I kind of like it to be honest |
| 8969s | um I think it benefits quite a lot from |
| 8971s | all the all the bonuses you can get from |
| 8972s | having the flagship restrictions you can |
| 8974s | get really powerful guns you can get |
| 8975s | powerful Shield tanks all the damage |
| 8976s | mods so it's I think a damage focused |
| 8978s | Flagship is a really strong option in |
| 8981s | the current meta with obviously the |
| 8982s | bands on Golem and Le Shack and all this |
| 8984s | sort of stuff from being flagships |
| 8987s | um I I think I still overall prefer the |
| 8989s | Bargas just because the versatility of |
| 8990s | it you can feel it in armor kingslayer |
| 8991s | you can fill it in Shield |
| 8993s | but the nightmare also has some of that |
| 8996s | same sort of Versatility available to it |
| 8997s | I think we saw a bunch of armor |
| 8998s | nightmare comps come out last year |
| 9001s | we did and we saw a few armor nightmares |
| 9003s | die last year as well mystical might |
| 9006s | speaking of nightmare comps um we just |
| 9008s | saw what tahinas feel the nightmare comp |
| 9009s | and you had some thoughts on uh the |
| 9012s | origins of said comf well I was informed |
| 9015s | by bazza here that just looked very much |
| 9017s | like a comp that localist primary were |
| 9019s | perhaps running last year |
| 9021s | um I'm just thinking back to Rusty |
| 9023s | hyenas and the feeders |
| 9026s | um because they played through the |
| 9027s | feeders to get their place here in the |
| 9029s | alliance tournament they were also |
| 9030s | Fielding a lot of comps that we've seen |
| 9032s | from other you know well well to do I |
| 9034s | guess well-performing teams |
| 9036s | um like Hydra |
| 9038s | um thinking more about like the Tinker |
| 9040s | setup that they brought which they won |
| 9041s | with so it seems like they are Premier |
| 9043s | conflictives but they do fly them well |
| 9046s | which is always good to see it's always |
| 9048s | interesting because it does expand |
| 9051s | their options you know what they could |
| 9053s | potentially bring to a match it's hard |
| 9054s | to pin them down because they're not |
| 9055s | sticking with one particular archetype |
| 9057s | yeah being able to just pack up a comp |
| 9059s | that maybe you haven't created |
| 9060s | um that you've just seen and be like |
| 9062s | actually that's really good and then fly |
| 9063s | it to great effect is actually quite |
| 9065s | difficult I know I've I've been in that |
| 9067s | situation many years ago Alliance |
| 9068s | tournament I think 13. myself and Nash |
| 9070s | cadaver were the uh the co-captains of |
| 9072s | the bastards team and we had our comps |
| 9074s | and we were very very happy with them |
| 9076s | and then the day before day one of |
| 9078s | Alliance tournament we've practiced |
| 9079s | against Shadow cartel and they just |
| 9081s | dumpstered us with this bomber tanker |
| 9082s | which we hadn't even thought of so we |
| 9084s | immediately stole it and flew it the |
| 9086s | next day and then one with it so we were |
| 9088s | very happy with that uh comp thievery |
| 9090s | good job |
| 9092s | um if it wins if it wins who cares |
| 9094s | exactly so steal all the comps steal |
| 9096s | this comp |
| 9097s | um so let's look at our next matches |
| 9099s | because I think this some of these are |
| 9100s | going to be incredibly exciting exciting |
| 9102s | especially for me because uh we Farm |
| 9104s | Volta is going off against Rock Coppell |
| 9107s | um yes this is uh this is where I |
| 9108s | started to get nervous because we had a |
| 9109s | mystical mate earlier on just staring |
| 9112s | down at the laptop it's probably going |
| 9113s | to move me this time so we from Volta |
| 9115s | Banning out the balgorn the a badon and |
| 9118s | the Scorpion whereas root Capel Banning |
| 9121s | out the Scimitar the Blackbird and the |
| 9123s | Loki both of these teams very very |
| 9124s | experienced they've played in 35 and 37 |
| 9127s | matches respectively both winning almost |
| 9129s | 20 and with significantly large uh |
| 9132s | rosters uh Volta 35 man people have ever |
| 9136s | flown for the Volta team and 90 for Road |
| 9138s | Capel so a bit more return over there |
| 9140s | um Mr come out what do you make of these |
| 9142s | bands here from both teams I mean it's |
| 9144s | interesting to see that both teams look |
| 9146s | to be trying to get rid of some of the |
| 9147s | stronger EC M setups that perhaps could |
| 9150s | be brought I think the Blackbird is a |
| 9152s | staple for Volta I think volta's brought |
| 9155s | the Blackbird actually quite a few times |
| 9156s | in some of the previous tournaments |
| 9159s | um with mixed effect I think it manages |
| 9162s | to secure them second place last year so |
| 9164s | I wouldn't say that it's necessarily a |
| 9165s | bad move the Scorpion I'm not sure that |
| 9167s | I've really seen Roca pill bring that |
| 9168s | out too much perhaps they have and I |
| 9170s | just can't remember a time that they |
| 9171s | they've done so |
| 9173s | um but yeah it seems like both teams |
| 9174s | want to be able to lock the targets they |
| 9176s | want to shoot which is all obviously a |
| 9178s | good key thing that you need to do if |
| 9181s | you want to win yep but it also looks |
| 9182s | like rockapell wants to perhaps hinder |
| 9185s | the ability to bring some of the shield |
| 9186s | kite setups that you might expect as |
| 9187s | well especially Banning the low key |
| 9189s | which we see often paired with |
| 9190s | Nighthawks to great effect when it comes |
| 9193s | to rush so Ambassador Squad but there's |
| 9195s | a bad and Dan coming from from voltas |
| 9197s | not a not a super common ban why might |
| 9199s | you ban that ship oh I think we saw it |
| 9201s | used quite a lot last year in those sort |
| 9202s | of 48 gun salute comps with the three |
| 9205s | balance three oracles so I don't think |
| 9206s | we're going to see that same sort of |
| 9208s | comp come out as much this year with the |
| 9209s | point duplicate rules but it's still a |
| 9211s | very very strong just gunship you know |
| 9213s | it's tanky it does lots of damage and if |
| 9214s | you want to apply DPS at range the |
| 9216s | abandon's a pretty good choice for an |
| 9217s | armor comp just to touch on the ECM |
| 9219s | bands that you guys mentioned I'm |
| 9220s | actually a little bit surprised to see |
| 9221s | both these teams Banning ECM because I |
| 9223s | think with scripted e-ore in play |
| 9225s | ECM becomes a lot weaker because if you |
| 9228s | run ECM into damps and you try and jam |
| 9231s | something the dams just go onto the ECM |
| 9232s | guy |
| 9233s | and the ECM is then effectively sort of |
| 9235s | muted and the the ECM can go back onto |
| 9239s | the damps |
| 9240s | but then the dams just shut down anyway |
| 9242s | so the ECM against stamps is basically |
| 9244s | always a losing War I think so it's a |
| 9246s | sort of |
| 9247s | although we haven't actually seen that |
| 9248s | much sort of damp Supremacy so far so |
| 9252s | yeah I mean that's been somewhat |
| 9254s | surprising I guess because when the |
| 9256s | rules came out for uh Reliance |
| 9257s | tournament 18. everyone was like oh no |
| 9259s | damn so it's gonna be damped all over |
| 9261s | again oh okay cry cry and then we didn't |
| 9264s | see that much scripted damping uh it's |
| 9267s | definitely being used I mean you'd be |
| 9269s | silly not to use it |
| 9270s | um and we see things like the armor |
| 9271s | jackdaw which can of course just fill |
| 9273s | its mids with with uh with damps |
| 9276s | um but it's not being as like oppressive |
| 9279s | as previous uh tournaments when we've |
| 9281s | seen it I'm just gonna say I mean the |
| 9283s | the rule and the the I guess the lifting |
| 9286s | of the uh the ban on scripted War |
| 9289s | doesn't only impact dams but it also |
| 9291s | impacts guidance disruptors and tracking |
| 9294s | disruptors which we're seeing a lot more |
| 9295s | of now because you can be sure of their |
| 9297s | effect regardless of the range so with |
| 9300s | damps it's a little bit easier to |
| 9301s | counter where if you have a sensor |
| 9303s | booster because you're expecting to go |
| 9304s | up against an ECM comp because that's |
| 9306s | what you need if if you're trying to |
| 9308s | count easy ECM you use eccm |
| 9311s | extra C that's really important the |
| 9313s | extra C is really important but that can |
| 9315s | be switched to give you extra targeting |
| 9317s | range or locking speed which helps you |
| 9319s | to kind of deal with some of the effects |
| 9320s | that damps may be bringing whereas it's |
| 9322s | less likely that you'll have remote |
| 9324s | tracking computers on some of your |
| 9326s | friendly ships right so I I guess it's a |
| 9329s | little bit harder to counter the |
| 9330s | guidance disruptors and the tracking |
| 9331s | disruptors which is why people are |
| 9332s | leaning into it a bit more awesome let's |
| 9335s | see if we can take a look at some of the |
| 9336s | the team histories uh here so let's see |
| 9338s | if we can pull up the the Volta team and |
| 9341s | have a look at some of their last |
| 9343s | matches so a lot of Team size about 35 |
| 9346s | and Annie radet second time we've seen |
| 9348s | him today in one of these graphs uh we |
| 9349s | saw him for the try team he's played 51 |
| 9351s | matches with uh Theron viral act 46 and |
| 9354s | Alliance executor Starfleet Commander at |
| 9357s | 44. they've been relatively successful |
| 9360s | winning more matches than they've lost |
| 9361s | which is always good and last year they |
| 9364s | won twice against Hydra reloaded Dark |
| 9366s | Side cast about and immediate |
| 9368s | destruction uh the years before the hard |
| 9371s | reloaded matches of course were in the |
| 9373s | uh I think the third and fourth place |
| 9376s | and then the final uh they played twice |
| 9378s | um securing Volta second place as you |
| 9380s | can see they're lost matches against |
| 9381s | that would be the other ones which we |
| 9384s | don't talk about but that got um Volta a |
| 9387s | second place and crucially down there we |
| 9389s | also lost one against root Capel who |
| 9392s | they're going up against next spooky |
| 9395s | spooky stuff very spooky let's switch |
| 9397s | over to Rook Capell and have a look at |
| 9398s | uh their history here so 90 Pilots they |
| 9402s | certainly like people all the way |
| 9404s | through and uh look at that last matches |
| 9406s | won against |
| 9407s | we form Volta so can they can they make |
| 9410s | it a two for can they beat Volta once |
| 9412s | again uh and take themselves into a good |
| 9415s | start from day one here in the last |
| 9416s | tournament 18. uh the last matches |
| 9418s | they've lost against the pretty |
| 9419s | reasonable teams here like fighter |
| 9421s | reloaded in Atlanta 17. you know not no |
| 9423s | slouch team uh psychotic Tendencies uh |
| 9426s | did really well last year somewhat |
| 9427s | unexpectedly |
| 9429s | um and then forsaken Empire another |
| 9431s | fairly strong team although turbo |
| 9433s | funeral Glory they send it to Turbo feed |
| 9435s | so |
| 9436s | um losing I'm actually in trouble for |
| 9438s | Glory kind of shows the the dichotomy of |
| 9440s | rock cappell here |
| 9442s | um again very very historic team I've |
| 9444s | been around for many many years and I |
| 9446s | think a lot of people have refer to them |
| 9447s | the past as you know the uh aggressively |
| 9449s | mid-tier gatekeeper of the of the upper |
| 9452s | echelons of Alliance tournament if you |
| 9454s | are a good team and you can get through |
| 9455s | Rook Capel then uh usually you'll |
| 9458s | probably do relatively well because they |
| 9459s | are not an easy team to beat |
| 9462s | um mystical might do you have any any |
| 9463s | thoughts on this upcoming matchup I mean |
| 9465s | I think it'll be interesting either way |
| 9466s | I'm hope thing that it is going to be an |
| 9469s | exciting match in the best way possible |
| 9472s | where it perhaps comes down to two ships |
| 9474s | remaining one on either side you know |
| 9476s | real 50 50 just to spice up life a |
| 9479s | little bit get the heart racing I mean |
| 9480s | for me I would not like that however I |
| 9482s | am here for you dear viewers and I I |
| 9485s | want a a competitive match of course |
| 9487s | yeah all of Albert you guys uh you know |
| 9489s | I'm gonna put my ego to the side unlike |
| 9490s | mystical Knight who uh was calling for |
| 9493s | uh truth on a light to take the full |
| 9494s | victories I want something nice and |
| 9496s | close |
| 9497s | um |
| 9498s | but we can go to the arena and find that |
| 9500s | right now excellent uh so let's go to we |
| 9502s | from Volta versus Rook Capell |
| 9509s | hello and welcome back we're here with |
| 9511s | weaveform Volta versus Roe Capel Wii |
| 9514s | from Volta coming in with a strong |
| 9516s | missile comp we've got two Nighthawks |
| 9518s | Drake Navy Osprey two Osprey Navy issues |
| 9521s | two caracal Navy issues that is an |
| 9524s | insane amount of missile damage with |
| 9526s | some of those ships receiving Buffs in |
| 9528s | the latest patch moderator what do we |
| 9530s | have on the Road Coppell side |
| 9532s | brookpell has chosen to go Dominic's |
| 9534s | Navy issue get a Navy issue a Hyperion |
| 9536s | Magus pontifex double Thalia for tank uh |
| 9540s | Pand a pair of hyenas for webbing and |
| 9543s | crucifier and they are certainly going |
| 9545s | to need those hyenas |
| 9547s | as that is a team of entirely heavy |
| 9551s | assault missiles that is going to want |
| 9553s | to close range get on top of those |
| 9555s | battleships and just absolutely melt |
| 9557s | them |
| 9558s | um so it'll be critical to see verdict |
| 9560s | and vorian do the very best they can try |
| 9563s | they can to try to screen and mitigate |
| 9565s | uh oncoming damage |
| 9568s | very interested to see how the Dominic's |
| 9571s | Navy issue performs here one of the few |
| 9573s | times we see it in the tournament |
| 9574s | received a pretty sizable buff to its |
| 9576s | local tank in the next patch it's |
| 9578s | basically a better Hyperion |
| 9581s | yeah the Dominic's Navy issue had kind |
| 9583s | of languished as a ship that just was |
| 9587s | frankly almost worse than its uh tech |
| 9590s | one counterpart The Dominics and now |
| 9593s | with the kind of the changes that we've |
| 9595s | seen with Uprising it's been given |
| 9598s | just like the Armageddon Navy issue kind |
| 9600s | of a new lease on life getting you know |
| 9603s | put more in tune with its |
| 9605s | um other counterparts and being brought |
| 9608s | back into kind of the meta and relevance |
| 9611s | so uh would be interesting to see how |
| 9613s | Lady labia the team captain |
| 9616s | um of the roadside you know chooses to |
| 9620s | fly that |
| 9622s | also I've recently revamped in the patch |
| 9625s | the caracal Navy issue receives a little |
| 9627s | bit of an extra damage buff and we do |
| 9629s | see them sporting hams in this match |
| 9630s | they are going to be throwing out a |
| 9633s | sizable portion of DPS with great |
| 9635s | application to smaller targets which I |
| 9637s | think is not going to be good news for |
| 9639s | those values |
| 9642s | yeah |
| 9644s | um it'll be difficult Valley is still do |
| 9646s | pretty well against heavy assault |
| 9647s | missiles unless they're being webbed |
| 9649s | down volleys tend to be 10 amend fit so |
| 9653s | um they have pretty small signatures but |
| 9654s | we see already uh fly catcher the Osprey |
| 9657s | Navy issues trying to close range the |
| 9660s | Drake Navy issue of control freak |
| 9662s | leading in front and they're primary the |
| 9664s | highness to the surprise of literally no |
| 9667s | one |
| 9668s | um already the hyperians trying |
| 9671s | to you know close ranks |
| 9673s | um deal with some of these incoming |
| 9675s | drones and right now we're not really |
| 9677s | seeing reform Volta really try to push |
| 9680s | or get on top of anything they're just |
| 9682s | trying to position themselves and go for |
| 9686s | targets of opportunity the |
| 9688s | behind this their credit are doing a |
| 9690s | good job of webbing down these |
| 9692s | Nighthawks trying to split up |
| 9694s | um you know Volta and preventing them |
| 9696s | from really blobbing together and |
| 9698s | getting on top of them at zero |
| 9700s | some interesting piloting from the Volta |
| 9702s | team the Cruisers the the caracals and |
| 9704s | the Oscar navies they're flying in for a |
| 9707s | little bit and then they're turning and |
| 9709s | kind of cycling around to the back line |
| 9710s | I think they're trying to throw off the |
| 9713s | webbing and Tackle game of Road Capel |
| 9716s | trying to sort of obfuscate how close |
| 9719s | they really are which targets they need |
| 9721s | to be webbing potentially throw in some |
| 9723s | confusion on the fceing side meanwhile |
| 9725s | they're putting a lot of fire into Alice |
| 9727s | hecates Hyperion it is tanking because |
| 9730s | that is what hyperians do but it is |
| 9732s | losing that game the real question will |
| 9734s | be can they trade it for either supreme |
| 9736s | leader or control freak |
| 9738s | yeah so the phase of kind of |
| 9742s | you know |
| 9743s | the dance the dance of trying to get |
| 9745s | into positions very well and truly over |
| 9746s | else hakate is definitely the primary |
| 9749s | control freak is also being primaried uh |
| 9752s | the hyena of Orient is down |
| 9754s | um |
| 9755s | Volta is now getting on top of the |
| 9758s | entire team at zero and meanwhile a |
| 9761s | ryload at Planet Six in that Osprey is |
| 9764s | completely Home Free |
| 9766s | um interesting to see black uh Panther |
| 9770s | um going down here uh elephantate will |
| 9773s | be losing links but I don't think he's |
| 9775s | gonna survive long enough for that to be |
| 9776s | an issue however they do drop a Navy |
| 9779s | Drake for that |
| 9781s | oh and that Navy drag dropping was |
| 9783s | significant you immediately saw much |
| 9785s | more effective reps from the Hyperion |
| 9787s | it's also worth noting that theranath |
| 9790s | which is one of The Nighthawks is now |
| 9793s | broken free of what was tackling it it |
| 9795s | is now zooming in to replace that damage |
| 9797s | and we saw the Hyperion drop almost |
| 9799s | immediately |
| 9801s | yes cyclohexanol is going to be the next |
| 9803s | primary the pontifex key is getting it's |
| 9805s | got absolutely slaughtered by a cloud of |
| 9807s | drones and heavy assault missiles |
| 9809s | that'll be all the links out for rogue |
| 9811s | Capel and now they're going to lose |
| 9814s | verdict in the hyena the crucifier is |
| 9817s | probably going to be chased by drones |
| 9821s | because he's continuing to provide |
| 9823s | guidance disruption onto those |
| 9825s | Nighthawks uh lady labia will be the |
| 9827s | next primary and |
| 9829s | um I can't help but feel like Volta at |
| 9832s | this point is starting to run away with |
| 9834s | it we can already see that lady labia is |
| 9836s | getting absolutely smashed doing the |
| 9838s | best he can to try to rep but that is a |
| 9840s | lot of incoming damage |
| 9843s | yeah the only interesting Factor the |
| 9846s | possible wrinkle here in waveform Volta |
| 9848s | is they do not have any Logistics on |
| 9850s | their team which means it's only a |
| 9853s | matter of time before their team gets |
| 9854s | ground down and the more ships they lose |
| 9856s | the more chance that lady labia is |
| 9858s | Dominic's Navy issue is going to be able |
| 9860s | to tank it it has a tremendous local rep |
| 9863s | bonus and I guarantee you it's running |
| 9865s | double wrappers it could conceivably |
| 9868s | tank their team if they remove enough |
| 9870s | DPS from the field that said they're not |
| 9873s | doing a good job at removing that DPS |
| 9875s | very quickly as they just lost one of |
| 9877s | their Logistics frigates and are about |
| 9878s | to lose the other one |
| 9880s | that they're going to trade it for a |
| 9882s | caracal Navy issue the the damage output |
| 9884s | just not quite there for the road Capel |
| 9887s | team although they have potentially what |
| 9890s | they need to do well here they need to |
| 9892s | start applying this damage they need to |
| 9894s | get themselves back in the game |
| 9897s | yeah so lady labia apathetic Brent the |
| 9900s | captain |
| 9902s | um and Rory hashino are the two |
| 9903s | remaining members of this team we can |
| 9906s | see that they have a pretty sizable |
| 9907s | defense bar but I mean look at the |
| 9909s | defense part of that Volta has it's |
| 9911s | basically Max the screen out that's |
| 9912s | going to be these Nighthawks of theronth |
| 9915s | and Annie gardett and they're trading an |
| 9917s | offspring Navy issue for all of Lady |
| 9920s | labia's armor and that's going to be |
| 9923s | Brent going down leaving Marie as the |
| 9925s | only remaining ship and at this point I |
| 9928s | don't see a reasonable path for road |
| 9931s | back into the match even with this Navy |
| 9933s | Osprey going down |
| 9935s | it certainly is a very high road a very |
| 9938s | Steep Hill for them to climb they're |
| 9941s | holding on ever so slightly lady leave |
| 9943s | you just barely hanging on in structure |
| 9946s | just got another rep cycle in another |
| 9947s | rep cycle oh and it goes down oh to the |
| 9951s | wire you could see it pulling back huge |
| 9954s | chunks of armor with those bonus traps |
| 9956s | but it's just not enough ruri's |
| 9958s | Armageddon Navy is not going to have the |
| 9960s | closing power they need to have any |
| 9962s | remaining chance in this match I think |
| 9964s | The Nighthawks and the Osprey flycatcher |
| 9968s | Sky breaker they will overcome here |
| 9970s | correcting my earlier call I thought |
| 9971s | that was an osprey Navy issue that is a |
| 9974s | traditional regular logistic ship Osprey |
| 9977s | flown by Planet Six which has sealed the |
| 9979s | deal here he's managed to keep himself |
| 9981s | alive throughout the entire match flying |
| 9983s | under the radar did not even get tackled |
| 9985s | or pressure really in any way and that |
| 9988s | is going to cost Road Capell dearly here |
| 9992s | yeah both teams saying good fights and |
| 9994s | local the co-captain cyclohexanol saying |
| 9997s | White Flag reset I definitely feel that |
| 9999s | if you're real Coppell um you know |
| 10002s | um one upside of this is that wrote |
| 10004s | didn't lose their Flagship I guess |
| 10006s | that's something of a silver lining |
| 10009s | um they're gonna have a tough road in |
| 10010s | the lower bracket but this is probably |
| 10012s | what we had predicted in kind of the |
| 10016s | pre-show that |
| 10019s | Volta would win this and Roe just kind |
| 10022s | of a very unfortunate setup to be |
| 10024s | bringing against this Nighthawk Drake |
| 10026s | Osprey rush it seems to be a pretty |
| 10028s | popular |
| 10029s | composition and we'll send it back to |
| 10033s | the desk to talk more about why that |
| 10036s | match went the way it did |
| 10038s | foreign |
| 10054s | guys stop being casual they're really |
| 10057s | bad we should not lose anybody to this |
| 10059s | warp off warp off take the fleet warp |
| 10061s | everybody warp off this is really really |
| 10063s | bad execution I'm very disappointed |
| 10072s | [Music] |
| 10078s | [Music] |
| 10082s | because our enemies your temps are |
| 10084s | completely damned out Crush I'm dumped |
| 10087s | out I'm dumped out you don't like Travis |
| 10088s | boys |
| 10091s | everything down I've not been able to |
| 10093s | look at some of the things |
| 10096s | I'm jammed |
| 10116s | good job guys Volta taking the W there |
| 10119s | over at root Coppell um in a a good |
| 10122s | match to be honest um it looked like |
| 10123s | Volta at the start moving around uh Cool |
| 10126s | Cam collected I'm sure they were all cam |
| 10127s | collected on on comms as everyone always |
| 10130s | is during Alliance tournament matches |
| 10132s | it's uh Hey guys um if we can all just |
| 10134s | uh shoot this guy here nice and calm no |
| 10136s | shouting everyone is relaxed |
| 10139s | um and then they just started to slowly |
| 10141s | get into position apply that damage and |
| 10144s | uh the the real copel Team interesting |
| 10146s | set of comps there with two Navy |
| 10148s | battleships mystical mate what do you |
| 10150s | think about those Navy battleships here |
| 10152s | I mean the Navy getting I think we've |
| 10154s | mentioned a few times as being one of |
| 10155s | the strong ships with the recent changes |
| 10157s | because it gets that bonus to Newts now |
| 10160s | so it pumps out a lot of damage it does |
| 10162s | a lot of damage to capacitor as well so |
| 10165s | it makes sense as a ship that teams are |
| 10167s | going to want to bring and there was |
| 10169s | mentioned that you know if these changes |
| 10170s | came out before the roster lock for |
| 10172s | flagships maybe some people would have |
| 10174s | submitted Armageddon Navy use as their |
| 10176s | Flagship because they were just that |
| 10178s | good but one thing that we haven't |
| 10179s | really mentioned and my mind immediately |
| 10182s | went oh a Navy Dominics that's trash but |
| 10184s | I do forget that they've recently added |
| 10186s | the large armor wrap bonus to it or just |
| 10189s | the armor app bonus typically used with |
| 10192s | large armor reps on a battleship which |
| 10194s | means that it can actually tank a |
| 10195s | substantial amount by itself as we saw |
| 10197s | it kind of survive for a while against |
| 10199s | the double Nighthawk Navy Osprey long |
| 10202s | enough to trade a couple ships for it |
| 10203s | which is always good but not enough for |
| 10206s | them to win the match I don't know how I |
| 10207s | feel about the comp overall |
| 10209s | I would like to see something else from |
| 10211s | the rockabill team |
| 10212s | but I mean |
| 10214s | if this is where their their testing has |
| 10216s | taken them then uh hopefully they learn |
| 10218s | quickly yeah the Hyperion Baza was also |
| 10222s | an interesting choice um we don't |
| 10223s | normally see it in uh Alliance |
| 10225s | tournaments like it's a great ship on on |
| 10227s | TQ |
| 10228s | um it's got that armor rep bonus and it |
| 10230s | can just you know solo roam around and |
| 10233s | just like you know punch nerds in the |
| 10235s | face it's fantastic but in a tournament |
| 10237s | format what's your thoughts as you say |
| 10239s | on Tranquility you know if if you get |
| 10241s | tackled down with something you can fit |
| 10242s | in mjd and just jump off and you know |
| 10243s | anything else that gets in range to |
| 10245s | scram you you can scram them and kill |
| 10246s | them but on in Alliance setting I'm in |
| 10248s | ninth tournament setting I'm not really |
| 10249s | a huge fan to be honest I feel like it's |
| 10251s | kind of well I mean it's a blaster boat |
| 10254s | so it's kind of like a vindi but just |
| 10255s | without a web and it's I feel like it's |
| 10257s | way too Limited in what it does |
| 10259s | um |
| 10259s | that sort of ship like if you have a |
| 10263s | flag vindi I feel like they're best used |
| 10265s | in a comp that's sort of set up to |
| 10267s | facilitate the vindi where everyone is |
| 10269s | on the same page about saying you know |
| 10270s | we're going to serve up Targets on a |
| 10271s | plat to spin that he's going to get on |
| 10272s | top of what he wants to shoot and shoot |
| 10274s | and a Hyperion |
| 10276s | just I feel like doesn't have that sort |
| 10278s | of |
| 10279s | as non-flag ships go it doesn't really |
| 10282s | have that sort of same hitting power of |
| 10283s | a vindi can do it doesn't have those |
| 10285s | webs obviously and it's obviously it's |
| 10286s | capacitor Reliant it's got an active |
| 10288s | tank bonus which makes it extra |
| 10289s | capacitor Alliance so overall I'm just |
| 10290s | not really convinced on it in general |
| 10293s | awesome now out there in twitchland |
| 10296s | you've all been betting your Twitch |
| 10297s | Channel points on these matches and I'm |
| 10299s | here to remind you to keep hold of as |
| 10301s | many of them as you can build them up uh |
| 10303s | for during the break there's going to be |
| 10305s | a whole bunch of cool stuff you can do |
| 10306s | with the channel points so there will be |
| 10308s | a 80 quiz in uh in twitch which you |
| 10312s | interact with by simply clicking on the |
| 10314s | actual stream itself so you don't have |
| 10315s | to type the answers in Twitter chat |
| 10318s | um and you have to link your character |
| 10319s | in um in twitch so that you can actually |
| 10322s | win but uh the top three will receive |
| 10324s | 500 Plex each for that one and also |
| 10327s | there will be some special rewards that |
| 10328s | you can redeem with those Channel points |
| 10330s | so it's going to be two Eve store |
| 10332s | vouchers worth uh 50 euros 50 |
| 10336s | um for the regional Eve store which you |
| 10337s | can get for 50 000 Channel points and |
| 10339s | then there's going to be a finely |
| 10341s | crafted Eve online analog watch from |
| 10344s | Icelandic watchmakers Arctic for 100 |
| 10347s | 000 Channel points so I hope you've been |
| 10349s | betting uh and winning to get uh those |
| 10351s | pretty cool prizes but before we get to |
| 10353s | those next matches let's check in with |
| 10355s | CCP carker and hear about some of the |
| 10357s | quality of life things that she's been |
| 10358s | working on |
| 10366s | the little things is sonestif where we |
| 10369s | collect ideas from players on how to |
| 10371s | improve their everyday in life we do |
| 10374s | this on the forums we go through Twitter |
| 10377s | the Reddit and also in game some of the |
| 10381s | little things coming in Uprising are |
| 10415s | foreign |
| 10437s | foreign |
| 10469s | we hope those little things will have a |
| 10471s | big impact on your life in new Egyptian |
| 10480s | they are CP carco there with a whole |
| 10482s | bunch of quality of life improvements |
| 10485s | for Eve online in the uprising expansion |
| 10487s | some of them are incredible like being |
| 10488s | able to repair all of your modules at |
| 10490s | one in one click that's awesome it's |
| 10493s | fantastic like uh so many good little |
| 10495s | changes on like trashing all your ships |
| 10497s | um incredible like not trashing |
| 10500s | repackaging that's the same thing same |
| 10501s | thing okay the same thing trashing the |
| 10503s | rigs you're surrendering because you're |
| 10504s | like well I'm not gonna live here |
| 10505s | anymore so you're clearly surrendering |
| 10506s | that's what you're doing I see I guess |
| 10511s | I'm not going to stand for this |
| 10513s | um all right let's look at our next |
| 10514s | matchup it's gonna be between pandemic |
| 10515s | horde and Arcos core so let's see what |
| 10518s | the bands are for this uh upcoming |
| 10520s | conflict between these two great teams |
| 10522s | pandemic who are Banning the slept near |
| 10523s | the curse and the Armageddon Navy issue |
| 10526s | against super popular band uh thanks to |
| 10528s | the the Buffs that CeCe Swift talked |
| 10530s | about earlier on uh Arcos score Banning |
| 10532s | out the Tempest Fleet issue the |
| 10533s | background and the oniros so basilisk |
| 10536s | what are you seeing here well there's a |
| 10537s | lot of armor bands and a lot of armor |
| 10538s | Battleship bands the Bell go on the |
| 10540s | Tempest to eat the Armageddon Navy |
| 10542s | um of course the new pressure as well |
| 10543s | from the curse and the Armageddon Navy |
| 10544s | combined so I think this this set of |
| 10546s | bands with so many heavy armor ships |
| 10549s | gotten rid of I feel like leans much |
| 10551s | more towards a shield focused match for |
| 10553s | both sides coming up here |
| 10555s | um it would have to be something a |
| 10557s | little bit wonky perhaps for an armor |
| 10559s | comp to work like maybe we saw lost time |
| 10560s | from Rogue Capel but I would probably |
| 10562s | advise |
| 10563s | against that strategy of course we've |
| 10566s | seen all throughout the day so far lots |
| 10568s | of tried and tested |
| 10571s | um you know Nighthawk |
| 10572s | caracal Navy Australian Navy kind of |
| 10574s | Shield like missile comp so I wouldn't |
| 10576s | be surprised to see one or indeed two of |
| 10578s | those turn up and just have a bunch of |
| 10579s | missiles spew each other and see what |
| 10581s | happens |
| 10582s | awesome and mystical mate anything to |
| 10584s | add to that one here no I mean it's uh |
| 10587s | pretty standard I think panelist from |
| 10589s | Arcos here Daenerys is kind of an odd |
| 10591s | one because the guardian's always an |
| 10592s | option you have the tsarm you have the |
| 10594s | logistics frigates so I don't know if |
| 10596s | they've done some testing with their |
| 10599s | practice partners and found that they |
| 10600s | have a difficult time with the ineros |
| 10601s | perhaps because they are bringing some |
| 10603s | kadari kiting Cruisers that may be |
| 10606s | damage locked in some form to kinetic |
| 10608s | which is a bad damage type to use |
| 10610s | against naneros due to its native |
| 10612s | resists |
| 10614s | um but yeah I mean the Tempest Fleet |
| 10615s | issue and the Belgium ban I think is |
| 10617s | pretty standard based on some of the |
| 10618s | stuff we saw in feeders a lot of people |
| 10620s | favoring the three Battleship core |
| 10623s | um oftentimes using the Tempest Fleet |
| 10624s | issue one I think because they wanted to |
| 10626s | get some Rust points but two because |
| 10628s | it's actually a strong ship |
| 10630s | um it does decent amount of damage and |
| 10631s | it has those utility highs to put to use |
| 10633s | to really help neutralize I guess the |
| 10635s | threat |
| 10636s | um that they may be going up against |
| 10638s | and in this matchup who do you think is |
| 10640s | going to have the advantage here uh |
| 10641s | basilisk so uh pandemic horde not really |
| 10644s | that success from the Lion's tournament |
| 10645s | I think they've played two matches and |
| 10646s | lost both of them |
| 10648s | um Arkham score have no history in the |
| 10649s | last tournament but they seem to be |
| 10650s | quite a cohesive unit flying together on |
| 10652s | uh Tranquility sort of U.S time zone |
| 10654s | small gang roaming I believe |
| 10656s | um so who would you give this one to so |
| 10658s | I actually had a sneak peek at some of |
| 10660s | the interviews that Jin has done I |
| 10661s | actually listened to Arcos core |
| 10662s | interview and they describe themselves |
| 10664s | as a sort of small gang um |
| 10666s | quite competent low um sorry roaming |
| 10668s | group that were sort of battling against |
| 10670s | the block fighting the good fight |
| 10672s | um and it sounded like they were doing a |
| 10673s | good job of it so I against pandemic |
| 10675s | Hall gets hoard it's sort of the prime |
| 10677s | target really isn't it they're sort of |
| 10679s | out wailing in the united |
| 10682s | as well I mean I mentioned it in the uh |
| 10686s | tier list stream that we did I think |
| 10688s | pandemic horde is now the scary version |
| 10690s | of the pan fam group uh historically |
| 10693s | it's been pandemic Legion you know if |
| 10695s | you hear PL you expect a lot of |
| 10697s | experience and skill and skill points |
| 10700s | behind that group I think now it's more |
| 10702s | pandemic horde I think PL basically died |
| 10705s | and then maybe came back a little bit |
| 10707s | um off the coattails of NC horde and the |
| 10710s | 80. but I think you know they have a lot |
| 10712s | of Pilots to choose from there's a lot |
| 10714s | of potential there it just depends on |
| 10716s | whether those Pilots that are active in |
| 10718s | their standing fleets and actually |
| 10719s | engaging day to day in their small gang |
| 10721s | as well actually decide to take part in |
| 10723s | Alliance tournament I think that's going |
| 10724s | to be the make or break but I'd favor |
| 10726s | pandemic order |
| 10727s | awesome so I'm just looking back at some |
| 10729s | of the matches we've seen today this is |
| 10730s | gonna be our last match before the break |
| 10732s | um and it's been fairly even in terms of |
| 10734s | uh red and blue the first four matches |
| 10736s | uh all went to the red team and then it |
| 10739s | was uh four in a row for the blue team |
| 10741s | and now we've had two in a row from the |
| 10742s | red team so it seems to just be swinging |
| 10744s | back and forward |
| 10746s | um but we're actually we're just told |
| 10748s | we're ready to go to this one and see |
| 10749s | who's going to win between pandemic |
| 10750s | horde and our cost core uh in this match |
| 10759s | hello ladies and gentlemen welcome to |
| 10762s | this next match of the alliance |
| 10763s | tournament between Arcos core and |
| 10765s | pandemic horror pandemic horde bringing |
| 10769s | um that very heavy pointed Battleship |
| 10771s | core going with a paladin Vindicator and |
| 10776s | abedin supported by double link ships |
| 10780s | um some frig laundry a hyena Vengeance |
| 10782s | and crucifier on the low end |
| 10785s | meanwhile Arcos score with a rather |
| 10788s | unconventional setup uh Golem Claymore |
| 10790s | hurricane Cyclone double Fleet size |
| 10793s | stabber Fleet issues a sky breaker and a |
| 10796s | fleet vigil |
| 10798s | these Tranquility Rivals are squaring |
| 10801s | off for what's sure to be a very |
| 10803s | interesting matchup but I'm not quite |
| 10805s | clear what arca's core game plan here is |
| 10807s | it's kind of like a combination of |
| 10809s | mimitar Rush Torpedoes set up with the |
| 10812s | Golem |
| 10814s | yeah I mean it kind of makes sense in |
| 10816s | its own way because those Claymores are |
| 10819s | fit for heavy assault missiles Golem |
| 10822s | choosing to go for what appears to be |
| 10826s | Torpedoes as well they're going to want |
| 10828s | to close range and I mean if you're |
| 10830s | going up against a Vindicator and the |
| 10832s | Baton |
| 10833s | you're gonna have a good chance to be |
| 10834s | able to do that the Paladin might be |
| 10837s | able to pull range and mitigate but |
| 10839s | Vindicator is definitely going to have |
| 10841s | to be in the torpedo heavy sole Missile |
| 10843s | Range same with the abandon unless it's |
| 10845s | going to run away and use Scorch and |
| 10847s | already we see that the pandemic uh |
| 10849s | siphons never Fleet issues are getting |
| 10851s | across the field trying to pin down |
| 10853s | their targets and we see |
| 10856s | counter screens on top of them |
| 10858s | the Vengeance from pandemic court has |
| 10861s | already infiltrated the back line here |
| 10862s | not quite clear what he's going for or |
| 10864s | maybe he that wasn't intentional I think |
| 10867s | he's trying to pin down the Golem and |
| 10868s | keep it in place |
| 10870s | yeah he has and meanwhile one of the |
| 10872s | stabber Fleet issues of Taz gets deep |
| 10874s | into the back line but kind of feeds |
| 10877s | himself |
| 10877s | um before the rest of the Arcos core |
| 10881s | team and core can really catch up and |
| 10883s | support but I mean critically if this |
| 10884s | Golem continues to be held in the back |
| 10886s | by this hero Vengeance of Denville |
| 10890s | um that's going to be a lot of the |
| 10891s | damage from Arcos core not being able to |
| 10893s | really apply to anything because that |
| 10896s | Golem is still going to be outside of |
| 10897s | torque range meanwhile products in his |
| 10899s | side Fleet issue drops yep and ships |
| 10902s | dropping quickly is going to be a theme |
| 10903s | for this Arcus core team as all the |
| 10905s | ships they picked with the possible |
| 10907s | exceptions of the Cyclone Claymore and |
| 10909s | Golem are very thin tanks |
| 10912s | there was another site Fleet issue |
| 10914s | trading for effectively nothing here |
| 10917s | they've applied some Shield damage to a |
| 10918s | few ships but they're really having |
| 10920s | trouble pressing the advantage here if |
| 10922s | they had one at all |
| 10924s | yeah I mean you'd have to be able to |
| 10926s | push past those Thalia reps and part of |
| 10929s | the problem is that you're being |
| 10931s | linchpin ship the in the Golem is still |
| 10933s | being held on the back line by a |
| 10935s | Vengeance and the Golem just doesn't |
| 10937s | apply damage to that and they've lost a |
| 10939s | hurricane in the meantime uh honest to |
| 10942s | God the way we're headed I would not be |
| 10943s | entirely surprised if we saw a near 100 |
| 10946s | to nil sweep from pandemic horror |
| 10948s | they're just running away with it at |
| 10949s | this point |
| 10950s | yeah Arcos score lacking the damage here |
| 10953s | to really meaningfully push the |
| 10955s | advantage the Golem is not even opening |
| 10957s | oh wait no he's just started opening |
| 10959s | fire he's trying to shoot the frigate |
| 10960s | that's tackling him with those missiles |
| 10963s | that is going to be a very very tough |
| 10964s | call |
| 10965s | uh not really applying much damage of |
| 10968s | anything to the Vengeance here he's |
| 10970s | cackling comfortably he's also under |
| 10973s | reps on top of that there's really not |
| 10975s | much threat here the vengeance is |
| 10977s | shooting the drones possibly the only |
| 10978s | thing that could really hurt him |
| 10980s | Meanwhile we're about to see the vigil |
| 10982s | Fleet issue drop quite quickly on the |
| 10984s | Arcos core team he's run out of shields |
| 10988s | yeah and I mean that's kind of the the |
| 10991s | story of this match can we get some duck |
| 10993s | spam in chat honestly we need more horde |
| 10995s | a hawks the way that this match is going |
| 10997s | uh very decisively in their favor uh the |
| 11000s | sky breaker uh trying to do what he can |
| 11003s | to you know get some tackle but I mean |
| 11006s | really zebra Lily in this Golem since |
| 11009s | the very get-go has been you know okay |
| 11011s | now he's been able to pull some range |
| 11013s | and maybe uh getting on top of that |
| 11016s | Vindicator now but I mean he's already |
| 11018s | down into half Shields and Atticus |
| 11020s | Copernicus at this point and chosen |
| 11023s | aren't going to be under no real threat |
| 11025s | those |
| 11026s | um Follies the Deacon are going to be |
| 11028s | able to keep him up especially under |
| 11029s | links |
| 11031s | um yeah very underwhelming for Marcus |
| 11033s | core I thought that |
| 11035s | um what they would try to do is ball |
| 11037s | together and you know get on top of the |
| 11039s | main core of uh pandemic horde but they |
| 11042s | strung themselves off got picked off one |
| 11043s | by one and |
| 11045s | you know that's gonna essentially result |
| 11047s | in a hundred to nil feed you absolutely |
| 11049s | can't do that in your position |
| 11051s | yeah a challenging game plan for them to |
| 11053s | execute even under the best of |
| 11055s | circumstances and I think pandemic |
| 11056s | horror knew exactly what they needed to |
| 11058s | do to counter it they pulled the bulk of |
| 11061s | their Fleet back which Drew arkos Korean |
| 11064s | and then they sent their toughest |
| 11066s | tackler that Vengeance of dindil said |
| 11068s | I'm right back around to pin the Golem |
| 11070s | exactly where it was at then applied |
| 11072s | tackle to the ships that had rushed in |
| 11074s | they were cut off from their main DPS |
| 11076s | source and just shredded one by one |
| 11079s | yeah and I mean that's a perfect example |
| 11081s | of a four-point ship in the Vengeance |
| 11083s | completely and utterly just shutting |
| 11085s | down a 24-point Golem and I mean that's |
| 11088s | what you you know you have to see it |
| 11091s | from your tackle Pilots if you want to |
| 11094s | be able to win matches that's going to |
| 11096s | be how you do that you see your |
| 11098s | opponents be out of position you seize |
| 11100s | upon that you take the initiative and |
| 11102s | then you control the match from there on |
| 11103s | out I mean well played |
| 11105s | um to pandemic Court I have to give them |
| 11107s | credit for this one |
| 11110s | and they're just closing the match out |
| 11111s | now they've got Jacob Josh's Claymore |
| 11114s | heavily tackled down he is painted nuded |
| 11117s | disrupted scrammed grappled and was |
| 11120s | briefly webbed uh likely will be again |
| 11123s | there it goes |
| 11126s | uh he is absolutely shut down and to |
| 11129s | your point earlier the Deacon Thalia |
| 11130s | reps gonna hold their team strong really |
| 11133s | no kill pressure left on the Arcos score |
| 11135s | team as they are about to drop Jacob |
| 11139s | Josh is doing his best to tank the |
| 11141s | Claymore does have a very strong tank |
| 11143s | bonus but unfortunately it's not going |
| 11146s | to be enough here it might even punch |
| 11148s | through his reps before his ancillary |
| 11150s | runs out of charges as now they're into |
| 11152s | his armor and it's being melted like |
| 11154s | butter |
| 11157s | yeah I mean um we'll play to pandemic |
| 11160s | horde um Arcos core |
| 11162s | um I'm not entirely sold on their team |
| 11165s | competition I feel like they could have |
| 11166s | brought something |
| 11168s | um a little bit better maybe a little |
| 11170s | bit more thought out than what we've |
| 11172s | seen here |
| 11173s | um one of the problems with these |
| 11175s | torpedo comps is that they're very All |
| 11178s | or nothing and in this case it was |
| 11179s | definitely a nothing uh more on that |
| 11182s | from the desk as we send it back to them |
| 11199s | foreign |
| 11211s | guys stop being casual they're really |
| 11213s | bad we should not lose anybody to this |
| 11216s | warp off warp off take the fleet warp |
| 11218s | everybody warp off this is a really |
| 11219s | really bad execution I'm very |
| 11221s | disappointed |
| 11228s | [Music] |
| 11234s | [Music] |
| 11238s | Crush our enemies your temps are |
| 11241s | completely damned out Crush I'm dumped |
| 11243s | out I'm dumped out you don't like Travis |
| 11245s | boys |
| 11247s | I've not been able to look at the thing |
| 11249s | again |
| 11252s | I'm jammed |
| 11271s | Archos core cord like an apple there by |
| 11275s | pandemic horde as they take that 100 to |
| 11277s | zero Victory |
| 11279s | um and ten does it's pretty much |
| 11281s | straight into a break we're gonna take a |
| 11282s | break now and I will be back for our |
| 11284s | next match uh abandon Park versus |
| 11286s | platinum sensitivity at 1840 Eve time so |
| 11289s | in about half an hour uh so we'll see |
| 11291s | you then don't go away make sure you do |
| 11292s | the eve quiz and try and win some cool |
| 11294s | prizes but don't blame the watch I want |
| 11295s | to watch |
| 11300s | welcome back to Alliance tournament 18 |
| 11303s | I'm ethical Hawk joined once again on |
| 11305s | the desk by mystical Mite and Jin tan uh |
| 11308s | here for the rest of the day with you |
| 11310s | and a whole bunch of cool new matches |
| 11312s | coming up uh the next one I'm looking |
| 11313s | forward to already is gonna be a band |
| 11315s | the part versus platinum sensitivity uh |
| 11318s | I know you're a big plat sense fan Mr |
| 11320s | Coleman I am I am yes I uh support my my |
| 11324s | boy Mark Bridges fully yes and I believe |
| 11327s | they're going to win very easily and |
| 11328s | he's not gonna let me down right now |
| 11330s | uh Excellence there's confidence right |
| 11332s | there more confidence than you should in |
| 11334s | your own team true yes because I have |
| 11336s | faith faith all of Mark Bridges and uh |
| 11339s | and jintan welcome back what do you |
| 11341s | think about this matchup coming up I |
| 11342s | think it's gonna be a really interesting |
| 11343s | matchup it's uh versus two kind of fan |
| 11345s | favorite teams obviously Platinum |
| 11347s | sensitivity the uh Japanese uh |
| 11349s | representation in the tournament going |
| 11351s | up against Amanda Park who are uh |
| 11353s | captained by Rick's javix uh very you |
| 11356s | know very famous artist actually did |
| 11358s | some commissions that are up on my wall |
| 11360s | in my house uh fantastic guy to work |
| 11362s | with and if you are interested in buying |
| 11364s | his products he has a officially a CCP |
| 11366s | licensed store which you've probably |
| 11367s | seen a couple of adverts for yes running |
| 11370s | through twitch we've got some cool stuff |
| 11371s | on it especially like the new Eden |
| 11372s | fantasy map which uh all prophets go to |
| 11374s | charity let's take a quick look at uh |
| 11377s | some of these team charts let's pull up |
| 11378s | a band apart and see a bit of |
| 11381s | information about them |
| 11382s | foreign so abandoned part here 44 Pilots |
| 11386s | have flown for a band apart in their |
| 11388s | history Rick's flown 16 times uh Jose |
| 11391s | sampanna the old Captain uh went over to |
| 11393s | NC DOT uh flew 21 times uh the last |
| 11396s | matches that they have uh won against uh |
| 11399s | we form Volta |
| 11401s | um I remember losing to uh abandon Park |
| 11404s | in one of the things The Line Tournament |
| 11406s | 15 and it was uh it was a it was Strife |
| 11409s | Strife personified I believe you were |
| 11411s | there as well mystical mind I don't like |
| 11412s | to remember those days yes the the days |
| 11415s | of ECM yeah and then let's take a quick |
| 11419s | look at plant Platinum sensitivity |
| 11421s | as you mentioned the uh the Japanese |
| 11423s | contingent very small team but compress |
| 11424s | only 13 Pilots have flown for them and |
| 11427s | when you consider it 10 V10 and not very |
| 11429s | much redundancy there but they've done |
| 11431s | relatively well winning four matches uh |
| 11432s | losing one |
| 11434s | um which is interesting uh because we |
| 11436s | have to lose two to leave the tournament |
| 11437s | but we'll you know we'll gloss over that |
| 11439s | um and last match is the one against |
| 11441s | laser Hawks Volta this numbers are just |
| 11443s | coming in here |
| 11445s | um and network and exodus interesting |
| 11447s | who hasn't won against Walter I don't |
| 11449s | know |
| 11450s | rock Coppell today oh true true uh let's |
| 11454s | go over to the arena now and see who |
| 11455s | will win this time between a band apart |
| 11457s | and platinum sensitivity let's go |
| 11467s | [Music] |
| 11469s | versus platinum sensitivity band apart |
| 11472s | Rocking The balgorn Vindicator Hyperion |
| 11476s | top end combo of it's like a pick three |
| 11480s | of the best battleships in the |
| 11481s | tournament supported by a double |
| 11483s | Logistics free account and some control |
| 11485s | and Tackle |
| 11489s | yeah |
| 11490s | um we see that Platinum sensitivity |
| 11493s | um only Japanese team in the event |
| 11496s | captained by Hydro Affiliated Mark |
| 11500s | bridges in Vindicator got the little |
| 11502s | Shack supported by a Nero stormbringer |
| 11504s | double |
| 11506s | uh Tech to |
| 11509s | command destroyer and then we have |
| 11511s | arbitrator for some guidance disruption |
| 11513s | uh swipele and a Confessor and a |
| 11516s | vengeance |
| 11517s | so somewhat similar archetypes but |
| 11520s | differing a little bit in the low end |
| 11521s | choosing for a little bit more uh |
| 11524s | disruption |
| 11525s | and going forward noiros instead of you |
| 11528s | know two Tech two lodgy ships |
| 11531s | yeah the shack a very strong pick from |
| 11533s | Platinum sensitivity but it's up against |
| 11535s | the bow Garden which is possibly one of |
| 11537s | the worst battleships to see across from |
| 11539s | you when you're sitting in a Le Shack |
| 11540s | we'll see how it winds out playing out |
| 11543s | as the links are popping and we're about |
| 11545s | to get underway here |
| 11550s | both of these teams definitely want to |
| 11552s | be charging into each other however a |
| 11554s | band apart has started much closer |
| 11558s | yeah and I mean uh critically |
| 11561s | um |
| 11561s | The Vindicator |
| 11564s | um of both of these teams is in fact a |
| 11567s | flagship so it'll be interesting to see |
| 11569s | how that uh Dynamic plays into things uh |
| 11572s | we see that Mark Bridges and uh the Le |
| 11574s | Shack of heinekel are you know polling |
| 11576s | range they're kiting away they're trying |
| 11579s | to ball up and create good positioning |
| 11582s | not overextend themselves right now the |
| 11584s | Hyperion of smudge is pushing in the |
| 11587s | tyrannus of pertapurda is pushing below |
| 11590s | trying to get on top of possibly the |
| 11592s | owneros but he's going to get out of |
| 11594s | range his figure logic and we see him |
| 11596s | getting primaried right now actually |
| 11599s | yeah that Tarana is a very bold play |
| 11602s | diving very deep into the back line |
| 11604s | While most of the battleships are |
| 11605s | starting to Bunch up now around each |
| 11607s | other kiting in a battleship is always a |
| 11609s | dicey proposition as part of British |
| 11611s | tyrannus goes down |
| 11615s | yeah it'll be interesting to see |
| 11618s | um we |
| 11619s | know that these hyperians and the Le |
| 11622s | Shack The Vindicator they're all |
| 11623s | starting to fight each other at zero we |
| 11625s | see Mark Bridges and heinkel they're |
| 11628s | trying to primary uh this Hyperion of |
| 11630s | smudge off of the very jump not wanting |
| 11634s | to go up against the officer balgorn |
| 11637s | potentially of Rick's javix |
| 11640s | um interestingly enough though we see |
| 11642s | that Platinum sensitivity is using their |
| 11645s | arbitrator to track and disrupt the |
| 11647s | balgorn tracking disrupt The Vindicator |
| 11648s | and there's a little bit of kind of um |
| 11652s | wiggle room where if you |
| 11654s | can kind of really shut down that |
| 11657s | Vindicator with guidance you can kind of |
| 11659s | out kite with your |
| 11661s | um |
| 11662s | you know vindicate or creating range |
| 11665s | corruption um smudge though for his part |
| 11667s | is holding right now we see a cloud of |
| 11670s | rep bots on top of him |
| 11672s | now unfortunately the nearest for |
| 11674s | platinum sensitivity has been tackled |
| 11676s | down he's got a vexor Navy issue on top |
| 11678s | of him just joined by a stabber Fleet |
| 11680s | issue as you were breaking down that |
| 11682s | Vindicator Dynamic that is that's a |
| 11685s | dicey proposition now the cyberfleet |
| 11687s | issue is taking an insane amount of fire |
| 11689s | they're doing what they can to free up |
| 11691s | the ineros but that is clearly an alarm |
| 11693s | Bell for the Platinum sensitivity team |
| 11695s | they don't want their nearest pinned |
| 11697s | down they don't want the balgorn |
| 11699s | Vindicator Hyperion combo to get on top |
| 11701s | of it because they will absolutely apply |
| 11703s | damage |
| 11704s | and even the balgar and even if it |
| 11706s | doesn't shoot the ineros its nudes will |
| 11708s | be able to totally neutralize it which |
| 11710s | will spell Doom for that LE Shack for |
| 11712s | sure |
| 11714s | yeah right now the oniros is totally |
| 11716s | fine he has a cloud of medium armor bots |
| 11718s | on top of him and it's really only |
| 11721s | um the stabber Fleet issue and the vexer |
| 11723s | Navy we've seen that the Deacon and the |
| 11727s | Thalia have gone in far back to try to |
| 11729s | support the Stafford Fleet issue and now |
| 11732s | we see a bit of a snap call we see the |
| 11735s | Deacon being primaried instead now that |
| 11737s | he's really far deep in we see the |
| 11738s | Confessor and the swipe will get on top |
| 11740s | of him and this is going to be where the |
| 11742s | match turns in favor of platinum |
| 11744s | sensitivity once they've killed this |
| 11746s | Deacon they're going to go after the |
| 11747s | Thalia while they're also primary |
| 11749s | smudges Hyperion |
| 11753s | well the Battleground seems to be |
| 11754s | struggling to apply newts throughout the |
| 11757s | team and I'm not seeing guns firing on |
| 11760s | it it doesn't appear to have oh wait no |
| 11762s | I I S I stayed corrected that is a laser |
| 11766s | balgorn that could be where we are |
| 11768s | seeing some unexpected Behavior here the |
| 11771s | Belgrade is not laying down neutralizing |
| 11773s | pressure across the entire Platinum |
| 11775s | sensitivity team it is focusing directly |
| 11778s | on their primary that Vindicator |
| 11780s | which is good it will turn off the |
| 11783s | vindicator's guns but not good and that |
| 11785s | it's not disabling the logistics so |
| 11786s | they're not killing it fast enough they |
| 11787s | wind up losing their Hyperion the staff |
| 11790s | or Fleet issue will follow quickly as |
| 11792s | well as their Thalia which has no |
| 11793s | Logistics partner to support it Platinum |
| 11796s | sensitivity is running away with this |
| 11798s | match here |
| 11800s | yeah so with the belgorn of Watson was |
| 11802s | able to do was he was able to get on top |
| 11804s | of this Vindicator which is a little bit |
| 11808s | weird you really don't want to be on a |
| 11809s | Vindicator at zero because now you're |
| 11811s | getting shot with uh void |
| 11814s | um but eventually the Le chap just |
| 11816s | pulled all the way up and was able to |
| 11817s | break through the hyperion's active reps |
| 11819s | and they're losing the Thalia now the |
| 11821s | Deacon's been dead for some time and |
| 11823s | like you said it really feels like |
| 11825s | Platinum sensitivity |
| 11827s | um was able to use their you know |
| 11830s | disruption on The Vindicator and the |
| 11832s | balgorn with tracking to really hurt the |
| 11834s | output of the band apart and then once |
| 11837s | that you know Deacon and Thalia |
| 11839s | overextended to try to save their |
| 11840s | stabber Fleet issue both got picked off |
| 11843s | and |
| 11844s | really aren't going to be in a good |
| 11845s | situation you know lodgy versus no logic |
| 11849s | yep the ineros has totally broken free |
| 11851s | it's completely fine at this point |
| 11854s | they're attempting to throw some heavy |
| 11856s | drones onto it now it's going to be too |
| 11858s | little too late with the rep Bots it has |
| 11860s | it's not really under any threat and it |
| 11862s | has pulled safely far away from the |
| 11865s | balgorn nude so even if they switched |
| 11867s | over to that now they're really gonna |
| 11868s | have a hard time getting enough |
| 11869s | neutralizing pressure on it to take it |
| 11871s | out of the fight meanwhile they continue |
| 11873s | to bleed ships Watson Creek's |
| 11875s | Battleground is perilously low on Armor |
| 11877s | but it appears Novak's vexer Navy will |
| 11880s | likely die first as he's getting |
| 11881s | absolutely shredded right now despite |
| 11883s | having some pretty powerful local reps |
| 11886s | they may go down at the same time the |
| 11889s | damage output from the Platinum |
| 11890s | sensitivity team is staggering |
| 11893s | yeah I mean a band apart with trying to |
| 11895s | run um you know an armor control setup |
| 11897s | you know augmenting the |
| 11900s | um Flagship Vindicator that they brought |
| 11902s | but it really just didn't work and it |
| 11904s | turned out that |
| 11906s | um you know despite having a much larger |
| 11907s | control bar they didn't really have a |
| 11909s | lot of damage we've seen throughout the |
| 11911s | entire time |
| 11913s | um even at the very beginning Platinum |
| 11914s | sensitivities had a much larger attack |
| 11916s | bar being applied and you know |
| 11919s | eventually once that LE Shack spool from |
| 11921s | Heineken got all the way up and was |
| 11923s | applying damage to the battleships uh |
| 11926s | with you know perfect tracking |
| 11928s | you're not really going to be in a good |
| 11930s | situation I mean yes a band apart has |
| 11933s | the crucifier but we haven't really seen |
| 11936s | ninu be all that impactful compared to |
| 11939s | nosuku's arbitrator counterpart |
| 11943s | yeah the the crucifier not adding much |
| 11945s | when you have all your battleships at |
| 11947s | zero like that uh The Shack isn't going |
| 11950s | to have any trouble tracking a tackled |
| 11952s | Battleship even with tracking disruption |
| 11954s | and range disruption would be pointless |
| 11956s | because they're on top of each other |
| 11958s | so the the crucifier is an odd choice |
| 11961s | for this match maybe they brought it |
| 11962s | sort of as a contingency plan if they |
| 11965s | were up against more of a kite based |
| 11967s | team or a team with a lot of projection |
| 11968s | like paladins |
| 11970s | but for this particular matchup just not |
| 11973s | adding a lot of value now Platinum |
| 11975s | sensitivity had an arbitrator on their |
| 11976s | side which brings about the same as far |
| 11980s | as e-war but at least that is kicking |
| 11981s | out some damage as well |
| 11984s | yeah I mean arbitrators for six points |
| 11986s | you get quite a bit out of it |
| 11988s | um you know you get those bonus newts |
| 11990s | and you get you know four mid flots it's |
| 11993s | not a lot but it's enough where if you |
| 11996s | know you throw on a propulsion module |
| 11998s | you throw on three gun disruptors or |
| 12000s | three tracking disruptors you can |
| 12002s | significantly impact the ability of |
| 12005s | teams to really be able to apply damage |
| 12007s | but that's going to be all for us as |
| 12009s | Platinum sensitivity shuts out abandon |
| 12011s | part 100 to nil |
| 12024s | foreign |
| 12046s | foreign |
| 12064s | switched |
| 12066s | well it would have been a easy fight |
| 12067s | right but guess what dude I'm not seeing |
| 12069s | it people can't get together |
| 12076s | [Music] |
| 12093s | Platinum sensitivity they're taking that |
| 12095s | victory over a band apart as the band |
| 12097s | apart also loses their Flagship fit |
| 12099s | Vindicator Mark bridge in Mark bridges |
| 12102s | in his Flagship Vindicator survived to |
| 12105s | be fielded yet another time Rex flying a |
| 12108s | 3.9 billion-esque Vindicator there uh |
| 12111s | putting uh the the high damage webbing |
| 12114s | platform to pretty reasonable use we |
| 12117s | thought briefly there's gonna be a |
| 12118s | flagship indicator trade but unless it |
| 12121s | was not to be |
| 12122s | um |
| 12123s | we saw the plant sensitivity team there |
| 12126s | with a Le Shack that looked like it was |
| 12128s | just left alone to Spill and spill and |
| 12130s | spill and that seemed to just do more |
| 12132s | and more damage over the course of that |
| 12134s | match uh left almost completely |
| 12135s | unchecked in fact uh gentana I think you |
| 12137s | pointed out that the crucifier on grid |
| 12140s | from Vander Park didn't seem to have any |
| 12141s | tracking disruptors to to put on that LE |
| 12143s | Shack what's your thoughts there yeah it |
| 12145s | seems as though their crucifier was fit |
| 12147s | almost entirely with missile guidance |
| 12148s | disruptors |
| 12149s | um and this is a kind of the guessing |
| 12151s | game you've got to do it's something you |
| 12152s | especially see uh across |
| 12155s | um lots of teams rather than going for a |
| 12158s | mix of the two systems you go all in on |
| 12160s | one thing you expect to you know run up |
| 12162s | against something like a typhoon Fleet |
| 12164s | issue that's gonna be spewing rapid |
| 12166s | heavy missiles all over the arena or |
| 12169s | maybe a Cerberus or something like that |
| 12170s | where you know dealing with its range |
| 12172s | completely eliminates the uh ability of |
| 12175s | the ship to function in its game plan |
| 12176s | where uh but you know that does leave |
| 12179s | you open to matches like this where you |
| 12181s | have spent three points on a ship that |
| 12182s | is completely used useless and speaking |
| 12186s | of the opposite of useless very useful |
| 12187s | ship the shack left to spill mystical |
| 12189s | might why is that such a bad thing to |
| 12191s | just leave unattended yeah so we |
| 12193s | mentioned spooling earlier I knew that |
| 12195s | we'd come back to it |
| 12196s | um so spalling refers to the type of |
| 12199s | weapon system that elishak uses so with |
| 12202s | the super tidal disintegrators uh as an |
| 12205s | example I don't know if they're all |
| 12206s | super tidal but with these disintegrated |
| 12208s | weapons the more that you cycle them the |
| 12211s | more damage they do so when we're saying |
| 12212s | that the lashac was left unchecked it |
| 12215s | means that the balgorn wasn't |
| 12216s | effectively using its newts to try and |
| 12218s | interrupt the Cycles on the lecheck once |
| 12221s | you stop the Le Shack Cycles it resets |
| 12223s | the damage that it's doing ensuring that |
| 12225s | okay it's starting from 700 800 again |
| 12228s | instead of the 1.6 K that it may ramp up |
| 12231s | to which when you're in an active |
| 12233s | wrapping trip like a Hyperion |
| 12234s | isn't an ideal amount of damage coming |
| 12236s | in over a long period of time and we saw |
| 12239s | that eventually the Hyperion goes down |
| 12241s | because it just can't tank that amount |
| 12242s | of damage coming in from both the |
| 12244s | lecheck and The Vindicator when it |
| 12246s | manages to actually get its guns off I |
| 12248s | mean the balcon was pretty good at |
| 12249s | shutting that down but I don't think |
| 12251s | that was really the problem ship that |
| 12252s | they had to deal with |
| 12254s | the entirely also saw a platinum |
| 12256s | sensitivity bringing uh what appeared to |
| 12258s | be an armor stormbringer uh interesting |
| 12261s | decision perhaps they're usually fielded |
| 12263s | as Shield ships uh why might you bring |
| 12264s | an armor one |
| 12266s | um I'm not entirely sure to be perfectly |
| 12268s | honest with you at the cork but it |
| 12270s | seemed to have worked out really well |
| 12271s | for platinum sensitivity there you saw |
| 12273s | them use a lot of tracking disruptors |
| 12275s | taking what is already a weak point of |
| 12277s | the Blaster Rush comp in terms of its |
| 12279s | its inability to project over range and |
| 12281s | making that even worse you saw how close |
| 12284s | those the ships from a Vanderbilt had to |
| 12286s | be to do anything and that was event |
| 12288s | pretty much what costed in the match you |
| 12290s | know things were orbiting them at 10K |
| 12291s | and they couldn't do anything about it |
| 12294s | um equally having so many midsole allows |
| 12297s | you to increase your application quite a |
| 12299s | lot so you can use that Storm Dragon to |
| 12301s | really really effectively clear drone |
| 12303s | clouds especially rep drone clouds which |
| 12306s | in a three Battleship mirror like the |
| 12307s | one we just watched are so important if |
| 12310s | your opponents have two or three flights |
| 12312s | of heavy rep drones on a Target it can |
| 12313s | be almost possible to break them we saw |
| 12316s | that with the neuros later on in the |
| 12317s | game where it was just coated with those |
| 12320s | red Bots and that kept it alive for so |
| 12321s | much longer than it needed to be awesome |
| 12323s | now let's look at our next match up here |
| 12326s | it's gonna be breaks out of death versus |
| 12327s | pandemic Legion and we have some um some |
| 12329s | history of these teams but we'll get to |
| 12331s | that we're going to look at the bands |
| 12332s | first uh so bright side of death Banning |
| 12334s | uh slept near uh hila uh curse uh |
| 12338s | pandemic Legion banning at the balgar |
| 12339s | and Chris and EOS and then we have some |
| 12341s | trickle-down bands thanks to the Dual |
| 12342s | curse band of Loki for bright side of |
| 12345s | death and night talk for pandemic Legion |
| 12347s | and these are two very experienced teams |
| 12350s | pandemic region of course have won more |
| 12352s | Alliance tournaments I think than any |
| 12353s | other team I think they've won five of |
| 12356s | course today's pandemic Legion is uh not |
| 12358s | quite as um uh illustrious as the the |
| 12361s | pandem legion team of old of course |
| 12363s | um but still you know no slouch team uh |
| 12366s | you know underestimate them at your own |
| 12368s | Peril but you can see here over 100 |
| 12369s | Pilots have flown uh was it over exactly |
| 12372s | 100 Pilots have flown with pandemic |
| 12374s | Legion uh they've played 80 matches and |
| 12376s | 158 of them so pretty historic team Mr |
| 12379s | Mike what do these bands say to you I |
| 12381s | mean it's interesting to see the slept |
| 12383s | in Nighthawk and the Loki ban these are |
| 12386s | all commonly associated with The Shield |
| 12387s | Rush setups that we've been seeing today |
| 12389s | we haven't actually seen many schlepners |
| 12391s | I think but we have seen the Nighthawk |
| 12393s | quite frequently usually paired with the |
| 12395s | Loki so that makes sense these bands |
| 12397s | they probably don't want to be going up |
| 12399s | against a strong Shield Rush setup they |
| 12401s | probably pretty comfortable going up |
| 12403s | against a weaker version but showed rush |
| 12406s | in its Peak form perhaps not what they |
| 12408s | want to be going up against and of |
| 12409s | course we see the curse and the EOS |
| 12411s | bands coming out alongside the Gila |
| 12413s | which suggests again that they don't |
| 12414s | want that long range Newt and more |
| 12416s | importantly the guidance disrupters and |
| 12417s | tracking disruptors but also they don't |
| 12419s | want to be going up against their |
| 12420s | respective versions of uh drunkai |
| 12424s | awesome let's see if we can take a look |
| 12426s | at a bit more detail about some of the |
| 12428s | historical matches of pandemic Legion uh |
| 12431s | and bring that up so |
| 12434s | um you see here this is bright side of |
| 12435s | death we're looking at 36 oh this is |
| 12437s | looking at 100 Pilots uh destoria uh Dan |
| 12441s | cool of course very experienced people |
| 12442s | Sheamus Ortiz Lucas Quan flew a whole |
| 12444s | bunch of logistic Cruisers if I remember |
| 12446s | correctly and then the last time they've |
| 12448s | won matches here at a live stream at 16 |
| 12449s | versus templates calcif uh slice in 1950 |
| 12453s | and so it's been a while really since |
| 12454s | they've been a successful team we go |
| 12457s | right back to Alliance tournament 14 uh |
| 12459s | when they beat the tuskers and that |
| 12461s | would have been one of the matches in |
| 12462s | the Grand Final where they actually lost |
| 12463s | to the tuskers there uh in terms of |
| 12466s | dropping matches they dropped against |
| 12467s | barcode NC DOT Hydra uh initiative and |
| 12471s | then of course the tuskers again in |
| 12472s | Alliance tournament 14 and that would |
| 12474s | have been the the last match of the the |
| 12476s | Grand Final there let's switch over now |
| 12479s | to Bright Side of death |
| 12480s | take a look at them |
| 12484s | here we are so 36 uh Pilots for bright |
| 12486s | side of death overall their years of |
| 12488s | playing and fafi wafi we see him again |
| 12490s | of course right now he's uh with |
| 12492s | Darkseid I believe |
| 12493s | um and you know can you fight for the |
| 12495s | wifey who knows maybe |
| 12497s | um they've been pretty okay successful |
| 12499s | it's kind of 50 50 right down the middle |
| 12500s | uh last couple of matches that they have |
| 12502s | beaten include uh TNT cast about laser |
| 12506s | Hawks salt farmers and the Weekend |
| 12508s | Warriors they've also lost against some |
| 12510s | pretty reasonable teams including |
| 12511s | Darkseid Hydra templates and arrival so |
| 12514s | these are no no slouch teams of course |
| 12518s | so |
| 12519s | gentan what do you think about this |
| 12520s | matchup this is a historical matchup |
| 12522s | here yeah this is a a matchup that's |
| 12525s | going to be very interesting obviously |
| 12526s | pandemic Legion is a completely |
| 12527s | different team they're almost rebuilding |
| 12529s | from scratch they've got a lot of |
| 12530s | institutional Knowledge from you know |
| 12532s | teammate team members past but they |
| 12534s | aren't running with any of their |
| 12535s | previous captains with November taking |
| 12537s | the lead for them and meanwhile bright |
| 12539s | side of death are coming into this with |
| 12541s | a wealth of experience in this matter |
| 12543s | specifically uh they had to play uh |
| 12546s | sorry they got through the |
| 12550s | they got through the bracket in the |
| 12552s | trials tournament with Odin's call so |
| 12555s | they had to play some a very very |
| 12557s | difficult very high stakes games |
| 12559s | um to get here uh winning I believe all |
| 12561s | five of their games to do so uh so you |
| 12565s | know my money would be on bright side of |
| 12566s | death I've got to say like I feel like |
| 12568s | they're coming into this match warmed up |
| 12569s | they've won a lot of games already and |
| 12572s | pandemic Legion are probably going to be |
| 12573s | on it a little more shaky not gonna have |
| 12575s | the same Excellence of execution that |
| 12577s | we've seen from them in the past yeah we |
| 12579s | uh we said before that teams that came |
| 12581s | through the feeders and basically been |
| 12583s | like battle hardened already coming into |
| 12584s | this tournament like you have teams like |
| 12586s | PL they've yet to play at all they're |
| 12588s | literally just turning up to see if they |
| 12590s | can ride in their reputation we will |
| 12591s | find out very soon uh whereas bsod as |
| 12594s | Jen mentions have had to go through an |
| 12596s | absolute Gauntlet in the feeders and |
| 12597s | they did this did so with great applaud |
| 12599s | winning all of their matches uh most of |
| 12602s | them against pretty reasonable opponents |
| 12604s | including audience Carl uh who everyone |
| 12606s | thought would be straight through into |
| 12607s | the uh the main tournament they ended up |
| 12609s | having to go through the Redemption |
| 12611s | bracket and make their way in to this |
| 12613s | particular tournament itself |
| 12615s | so you're going gentan for B-side but |
| 12618s | what about you must have got mine I |
| 12620s | think I'd also lean b-sod just because |
| 12622s | we've seen a bit more of their |
| 12623s | performance recently so we have a better |
| 12625s | idea about what they're actually capable |
| 12627s | of compared to PR where we identified |
| 12629s | that they haven't actually been flying |
| 12631s | too much |
| 12632s | since at's way back you know |
| 12635s | um I don't know I I think I'll even be |
| 12637s | sold here just because peace odd why not |
| 12642s | I mean I kind of want to see PL do well |
| 12646s | simply because there's such a historic |
| 12648s | team like it feels that just feels like |
| 12651s | it'd be a cool thing for them to come |
| 12652s | back from uh mediocrity basically is |
| 12654s | what they've been in |
| 12655s | um I mean definitely they're a top 32 |
| 12657s | team this year |
| 12659s | um last year I think they made it to |
| 12660s | what top 24. uh they weren't in last |
| 12663s | tournament I believe the year before |
| 12664s | then must be thinking of 80 16 yeah yeah |
| 12666s | it's been a while since we've seen plb a |
| 12669s | successful team I know some of the uh |
| 12671s | the people involved are experienced |
| 12673s | maybe not as leaders in the team I've |
| 12675s | got radicals is in there as well and he |
| 12678s | previously flown with boundary experts |
| 12679s | and a couple of other teams in different |
| 12681s | tournaments the teams are landing on |
| 12683s | grid at the minute uh so we're just |
| 12685s | waiting to get confirmation that |
| 12686s | everyone is settled and ready before we |
| 12688s | can actually go to the arena and they |
| 12690s | are settled and ready so let's go and |
| 12691s | see who's going to win between brights |
| 12692s | of their death and pandemic Legion |
| 12701s | hello I am moderator joined my my |
| 12703s | colleague alexand we have an excellent |
| 12706s | match between pandemic Legion and bsod |
| 12710s | here we are waiting for The Last Ship of |
| 12714s | pandemic Legion that would be |
| 12716s | destroya to actually get on grid and he |
| 12720s | is appearing now it would appear that he |
| 12725s | made a mistake in the warping so the GM |
| 12727s | has moved him to |
| 12729s | um zero and I'm not entirely sure if I |
| 12733s | would want to be at zero and then I'm |
| 12735s | gonna get a Navy if I were him |
| 12740s | well he could do worse |
| 12742s | um good side of death coming in with |
| 12744s | Ayla Shack Navy Dominick's drakovic |
| 12745s | vedmack very triglavian heavy here they |
| 12749s | are one point short but they're doing |
| 12750s | well with their low end a pair of |
| 12752s | protective Logistics frigates and two |
| 12754s | extremely heavy tacklers |
| 12759s | yeah um interesting to see the dynamic |
| 12761s | where both teams are choosing to go you |
| 12763s | know Deacon Thalia to deal with the |
| 12765s | points and destroy you waste no time |
| 12767s | immediately running back towards his |
| 12769s | team uh not wanting to get held down by |
| 12772s | the smaller this will Shack this |
| 12774s | Dominic's Navy issue that all three of |
| 12775s | them are pushing together meanwhile we |
| 12777s | see Turon go in for a scream attempt as |
| 12780s | well as the executor of Chris Pronger |
| 12783s | now the double Armageddon Navy is gonna |
| 12785s | be very useful here the additional |
| 12788s | neutralizer range could help keep the Le |
| 12790s | Shack Dominic's drakavec at Bay |
| 12793s | the Dominic Navy is pushing a bit far |
| 12796s | ahead of his team |
| 12798s | he's not the primary target but they may |
| 12800s | do well to tackle him down and now it |
| 12802s | appears he is webbed down |
| 12804s | very good screening on behalf of bright |
| 12807s | side of death yeah I'm impressed to see |
| 12809s | the amount of damage that's been put |
| 12811s | onto the slash of amethyst I mean he |
| 12813s | only does have Tech Two |
| 12816s | um you know logistics for supporting him |
| 12817s | but even then you would think that he |
| 12819s | would have a little bit more in the |
| 12821s | active rep tank meanwhile |
| 12823s | um b-thot is trying to push damage onto |
| 12826s | the pontifex of Turon gorp who is being |
| 12829s | held down by the heretic of ayat 3000 |
| 12832s | meanwhile they're also putting damage |
| 12834s | onto the executive Navy issue of Chris |
| 12837s | who is sitting on top of the check at |
| 12839s | zero with a cloud of Repton supporting |
| 12843s | and listless Shack is getting absolutely |
| 12845s | pounded now Pia will lose their executor |
| 12848s | Navy issue which is a tremendous chunk |
| 12850s | of damage this may see the Le Shack |
| 12853s | begin to stabilize a little bit he's |
| 12855s | starting to claw back his armor ever so |
| 12858s | slightly but the get in navies the |
| 12860s | longer they're here the more their nudes |
| 12862s | are going to take their toll on the |
| 12864s | bright side of death team the Le Shack |
| 12866s | is pulling back a tremendous amount of |
| 12868s | his hit points actually but they're not |
| 12870s | making much progress anywhere else on |
| 12872s | the field here yeah and the reason for |
| 12874s | that LE chat calling back is the typhoon |
| 12877s | flit issue of November was on reload he |
| 12880s | just now has managed to get his reload |
| 12884s | back off and he has a smart bomb fit |
| 12885s | what he's trying to do is getting on top |
| 12887s | of villa Shack and clear all of the rep |
| 12890s | drones that are on top of him it would |
| 12892s | appear that radicos is on top with |
| 12894s | conflict pushing damage but he is |
| 12897s | running newts not a smart bomb so |
| 12899s | November getting very close and once he |
| 12901s | does these medium armor Bots uh yeah |
| 12904s | they're starting to get deleted they're |
| 12905s | in Hull meanwhile the Thalia of blast |
| 12907s | goes down and November's typhoon is into |
| 12910s | low armor as well |
| 12911s | November's typhoon currently smart |
| 12913s | bombing his own rep drones he's not |
| 12915s | quite in range of the Le Shack's drones |
| 12917s | he's been hitting his own support this |
| 12920s | entire time he looks like he may have |
| 12922s | realized it and turned it off as he |
| 12924s | tries to crawl ever closer to the shack |
| 12926s | but he may go down before he gets there |
| 12929s | yeah I mean he has heavy drones |
| 12931s | supporting him uh maybe felt like it |
| 12933s | would be worth trading a little bit of |
| 12935s | the damage |
| 12936s | um of on Heavies to kill the mediums |
| 12939s | that were on the |
| 12940s | um Le Shack but he goes down first and |
| 12943s | even if they lose the Le Shack at this |
| 12945s | point |
| 12946s | um the right side of death is still in a |
| 12948s | pretty good position they are going to |
| 12949s | kill the Sentinel they've killed all the |
| 12951s | lodgy |
| 12952s | um |
| 12953s | right now pandemic Legion doesn't have a |
| 12955s | whole lot left in the tank yes they have |
| 12958s | to get a Navy issues which are fearful |
| 12960s | by themselves but still they'd have to |
| 12962s | fight a Dominic's Navy issue a direct in |
| 12964s | the FED Mac which are pretty beefy ships |
| 12966s | especially supported by Logistics and |
| 12968s | links |
| 12970s | yeah once the pl Logistics Wing went |
| 12972s | down the rest of their team folded up |
| 12974s | rather quickly bright side of death |
| 12975s | doing an excellent job on target calls |
| 12977s | to take as many ships off the field as |
| 12979s | quickly as possible while still putting |
| 12981s | pressure on the top end killing that |
| 12984s | typhoon was absolutely essential once |
| 12987s | that went down the Le Shack was able to |
| 12988s | stabilize and bright side of death is |
| 12990s | going to look to be able to secure this |
| 12991s | match here the story is getting Navy is |
| 12994s | about to drop they're hitting |
| 12996s | essentially every Target on the pandemic |
| 12998s | Legion team at the same time and they |
| 13001s | are shredding here he'll go down the |
| 13003s | mollusk may join shortly although it's |
| 13005s | beginning to recover some Shields likely |
| 13007s | kiting out these drones that are chasing |
| 13009s | it looks like they're going to split |
| 13011s | fire between radicos is getting and |
| 13014s | archeles jackdaw |
| 13016s | yeah so we see that um Elise Randolph in |
| 13019s | chat complaining about or maybe not |
| 13021s | complaining but |
| 13022s | um you know missing his points in chat |
| 13024s | I'm feeling very good about having bet |
| 13026s | on uh be thought in this match we see |
| 13028s | the mollusk choose to go for the Edge of |
| 13031s | Glory |
| 13032s | um using that micro Trump Drive Beacon |
| 13033s | to get himself |
| 13035s | um out of the Arena at 200 kilometers |
| 13038s | um I can't help but feel like the |
| 13040s | turning point was when |
| 13042s | what I assume had to have been a |
| 13044s | reactive armor hardener shifted to full |
| 13047s | em therm and the clip on that typhoon |
| 13051s | Fleet you know ran out we thought the |
| 13053s | lecheck was going to go down he did |
| 13054s | after all |
| 13056s | um go into hole but eventually stape |
| 13057s | wise and pandemic Legion lost enough |
| 13059s | damage and eventually the match |
| 13075s | we see the jackdaw of Archdale dark |
| 13078s | um |
| 13079s | habitual euthanasia member being |
| 13082s | apparently euthanized by this heretic |
| 13084s | we're trading between two light missile |
| 13087s | boats as they're just Pew pewing each |
| 13089s | other |
| 13090s | um and that would be the jackdawg going |
| 13092s | down |
| 13094s | um along with pandemic Legion to the |
| 13096s | losers bracket |
| 13098s | um sorry Elise but uh bright side of |
| 13101s | death cleanly winning this 100 to nil |
| 13114s | thank you |
| 13120s | Yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP |
| 13123s | collectively so that's why that Alliance |
| 13125s | logo is in the game |
| 13126s | of course you could change your alliance |
| 13128s | by leaving but that would be kind of a |
| 13129s | jerk move that kind of oh you don't like |
| 13131s | it now just leave this logo sucks I'm |
| 13133s | gonna go join |
| 13141s | [Music] |
| 13144s | thank you |
| 13150s | welcome to leave Pandora |
| 13177s | [Music] |
| 13180s | foreign |
| 13182s | Legion there unfortunately unable to |
| 13184s | pull out the W they killed one ship for |
| 13186s | three points and lost all 100 of their |
| 13189s | own in return to bsod who take a very |
| 13191s | commanding win over pandemic region if I |
| 13195s | listen really carefully |
| 13196s | just about here CTP Swift somewhere in |
| 13198s | the building uh wailing uh in in a in |
| 13202s | grief but yeah what went wrong there |
| 13204s | mystical might for pandemic Legion apart |
| 13207s | from just some of their ships not moving |
| 13209s | for maybe nearly a minute but what else |
| 13210s | went wrong well we yeah we had the |
| 13211s | little joke about how long would it take |
| 13213s | for Radicals to actually begin moving in |
| 13214s | the match and then I made the joke that |
| 13217s | Destroyer actually stopped moving and |
| 13218s | the shack began dying again so perhaps |
| 13221s | you know the best thing that they could |
| 13223s | have done is just sit still |
| 13225s | um but I mean they traded |
| 13227s | the entirety of their team to get the |
| 13229s | lashac into half structure |
| 13231s | um I think they went on to reload uh at |
| 13234s | a point where the lecheck was almost |
| 13235s | dying I think it was dipping into |
| 13237s | structure at that time and then they |
| 13238s | went on to reload and that's really |
| 13240s | exemplifying the issue that you may run |
| 13242s | into when you're using rapid Heavies is |
| 13244s | that if you're just on the cusp of |
| 13247s | breaking something but you don't quite |
| 13249s | have enough missiles left then you're |
| 13250s | screwed and I think that showed pretty |
| 13253s | pretty convincingly in the pr match here |
| 13255s | yeah jintan do you think there's |
| 13256s | anything they could have done |
| 13257s | differently in that match up that may |
| 13259s | have maybe could have led them to taking |
| 13260s | the win or was it kind of almost a |
| 13262s | forgotten conclusion at that point uh |
| 13264s | there's definitely a couple of things uh |
| 13266s | first of all they could have had |
| 13266s | Destroyer War pin his allotted range |
| 13268s | rather than being teleported to Zero by |
| 13271s | the judges as a result of not warping |
| 13273s | fast enough uh to the arena yes just for |
| 13276s | those of you who may be new to the |
| 13277s | tournament |
| 13279s | um when the teams are teleporters into |
| 13281s | the system they are uh not able to move |
| 13283s | not able to warp they're in a very nice |
| 13284s | line all next to each other and they are |
| 13287s | told when uh warping is unlocked to warp |
| 13289s | to the arena at a range of their choice |
| 13291s | between 0 and 50 kilometers and they |
| 13294s | have a small window to do this if they |
| 13296s | fail to do this either because they just |
| 13297s | don't warp or they warp to the wrong |
| 13299s | thing like the sun which does happen |
| 13301s | um or warped a range outside of 50 then |
| 13303s | they are teleported by the GMS to zero |
| 13306s | uh which I mean depends on the ship if |
| 13308s | you're in like an Armageddon Navy issue |
| 13309s | it's not the worst thing but maybe if |
| 13311s | you're a scimitar and like a kiting comp |
| 13313s | going to zero that could be pretty |
| 13314s | catastrophic for your team so uh right |
| 13317s | click and warping can be difficult for |
| 13319s | for some people it can be yeah |
| 13320s | especially for a team that you would |
| 13322s | think is quite storied in the alliance |
| 13324s | tournament itself |
| 13326s | yes uh that's one way of putting it uh |
| 13329s | right let's check in for a few minutes |
| 13331s | with CCP Loki on how |
| 13333s | um story can Impact gameplay in Eve |
| 13335s | online |
| 13344s | narrative Terminus design is something |
| 13346s | that we started earlier this year we |
| 13348s | well we have done it sometime in the |
| 13350s | past in some shape so far but we sort of |
| 13353s | wanted to escalate it so like in the |
| 13355s | past in the lead up to for example uh |
| 13357s | epistle that space we had a story going |
| 13361s | on and kind of mystery and things for |
| 13364s | players to discover etc etc and we sort |
| 13367s | of wanted to apply that to basically as |
| 13371s | much as we can when we're creating new |
| 13374s | features for them online this summer we |
| 13376s | have had things happening around athenon |
| 13379s | where kalitarian galactir are like |
| 13381s | struggling it out we have things |
| 13383s | happening in Turner where the Amar |
| 13386s | started having just a little transmuters |
| 13389s | and and the minister trying to stop them |
| 13391s | we have Tech races between the empires |
| 13394s | and we want these player activities and |
| 13397s | events really sort of control how the |
| 13400s | features are rolled out then in |
| 13402s | whatsoever and then that players |
| 13404s | actually do affect the storyline and |
| 13406s | their history of of newita for example |
| 13409s | with the uh with the gate construction |
| 13411s | and often both the kaltari wanted to get |
| 13414s | into atanan and the galante and it was |
| 13417s | totally up to the players to determine |
| 13419s | when or if their empire managed to |
| 13422s | construct the gate into atan and we are |
| 13425s | quite willing if players do not manage |
| 13427s | to actually |
| 13428s | construct the gate you know meet the |
| 13431s | requirements for the Empire to actually |
| 13432s | construct the game into into ultimate |
| 13434s | they will never get the gate into atana |
| 13436s | she always totally and completely in in |
| 13438s | player hands |
| 13440s | what we are really trying is to co-write |
| 13443s | the story of new eaten with players and |
| 13446s | player input and make player input |
| 13447s | meaningful to that story have them |
| 13450s | actually affect the politics of music |
| 13452s | and the world of new items |
| 13462s | arctp located there with her story and |
| 13464s | narrative impacts gameplay and Eve |
| 13466s | online I don't know if you guys had a |
| 13468s | chance to get involved in some of those |
| 13469s | storyline events uh I was doing some |
| 13472s | Ninja Mining and an alpha all uh for the |
| 13474s | gal Mill you know come on the Federation |
| 13475s | trying to build the gate we failed |
| 13478s | um and the Kardashian were just super |
| 13480s | organized but it was super cool seeing |
| 13482s | all of the the stuff interact with each |
| 13483s | other then of course the star and Turner |
| 13485s | and all the players just getting you |
| 13486s | know blatted by the star exploding that |
| 13489s | was awesome I was hiding there in a uh |
| 13491s | he cloaked uh rookie chip basically to |
| 13494s | see what would happen and sure enough |
| 13495s | everything blew up it was a very |
| 13497s | exciting Mr Gomez did you have a chance |
| 13499s | to to get involved in any of this I went |
| 13501s | to the one in Turner with a Pete which |
| 13503s | is a long-range Loki that you'd use for |
| 13505s | sniping and a looting alt and uh when |
| 13510s | the star began to erupt and my Shields |
| 13512s | and my armor went down I thought hey |
| 13514s | I'll just enter warp so that I can skip |
| 13516s | all this damage and then it's still kept |
| 13518s | hitting me I was like oh I don't really |
| 13520s | want to die here thankfully it stopped |
| 13523s | in 25 structure I think which is great |
| 13526s | um great opportunity to finish off |
| 13527s | everyone else that was also quite low |
| 13529s | um but yeah no I've not had much of a |
| 13531s | chance to interact with the mining |
| 13533s | events that have been going on in the |
| 13534s | gate building that's been happening um |
| 13536s | around the various condos of Eve uh just |
| 13538s | just the the star stuff what about |
| 13541s | yourself in town we were talking a |
| 13542s | little bit about some of the uh like |
| 13543s | lower things during the break have you |
| 13545s | been involved with any of these uh no I |
| 13546s | haven't had the chance to I've been kind |
| 13548s | of screaming and trying to do as much |
| 13549s | research as I can about the alliance |
| 13551s | tournament coming into this year |
| 13553s | I mean that's perfectly Fair like it |
| 13554s | takes a lot of time and effort to to be |
| 13556s | in some of these teams and practice like |
| 13558s | mystical might obviously you've been in |
| 13559s | the hide reload and Volta you know just |
| 13561s | how much how many errors uh some of |
| 13563s | these teams can put into not just in the |
| 13565s | actual practicing themselves which you |
| 13566s | know some teams are doing two three four |
| 13568s | something even five times a week for a |
| 13570s | couple like maybe three four hours but |
| 13572s | also the 3D crafting and everything |
| 13573s | around it to support those practices can |
| 13575s | be a huge load on people |
| 13578s | speaking of teams that probably do |
| 13579s | practice a whole bunch to get ready for |
| 13581s | the tournament |
| 13582s | um that our next match is going to be |
| 13584s | lock range enjoyers versus Exodus dot uh |
| 13587s | jintan what can you tell me about these |
| 13589s | teams I mean this is probably along with |
| 13591s | the dark side Templars match that we |
| 13593s | watched earlier uh one of those matches |
| 13595s | everyone had underlined when the |
| 13596s | schedule dropped |
| 13598s | um for today you know log range enjoyers |
| 13600s | they are a team that effectively local |
| 13603s | is primary from last year a team that |
| 13605s | got fourth place |
| 13607s | um and had an amazing run from the lower |
| 13609s | bracket going up against Exodus a silver |
| 13613s | Place medalists multiple times uh team |
| 13616s | that's almost always historically done |
| 13618s | really well very Adept at using kiting |
| 13620s | comps and um other sorts of you know |
| 13624s | really really high execution intensity |
| 13626s | uh strategies |
| 13629s | I'm really excited to see this match up |
| 13631s | you know it's going to tell us quite a |
| 13632s | lot about where the meta is as well both |
| 13634s | these teams have really good theory |
| 13635s | crafters and we're going to get to see |
| 13637s | an absolute Joy |
| 13639s | Mr come out what do you make of these |
| 13640s | bands here so Locker engine jar is |
| 13642s | batting at the bar guys the EOS and the |
| 13643s | oneros with extras Banning the |
| 13645s | Battleground looking Armageddon I mean |
| 13648s | again I think these are probably the |
| 13650s | most common bands that we've seen this |
| 13652s | entire tournament so far for the first |
| 13653s | day I don't think we've really seen much |
| 13655s | that deviates from these bands that |
| 13657s | we're seeing here I think every team has |
| 13659s | banned this in some fashion or other |
| 13661s | um nice |
| 13665s | um yeah it's again just wanting to |
| 13667s | remove the ability to apply long-range |
| 13668s | news with the Armageddon |
| 13670s | um I can't remember exactly what Exodus |
| 13672s | is Flagship is I would be willing to bet |
| 13676s | it's probably a bar guest I would lean |
| 13678s | bar guest but I can't quite remember |
| 13680s | because I know there was a good |
| 13681s | selection of vindicators as well do you |
| 13683s | know who knows these things and is never |
| 13684s | wrong twitch chat tell us twitch twitch |
| 13686s | chat can you let us know who uh what |
| 13688s | ship they have chosen as their Flags I |
| 13690s | think it's the bar guest I want to lean |
| 13692s | back yeah so the bar gas band is fairly |
| 13694s | interesting if that is the case |
| 13696s | because twitch that doesn't seem to know |
| 13698s | Griffin it's the flagship Griffin yes |
| 13700s | okay you sure it's not the panther yeah |
| 13703s | Vindicator for lock range enjoys what I |
| 13705s | know that one yeah Exodus please team |
| 13707s | get it oh get it that's right yeah so |
| 13709s | Banning the gedden on The Exodus side |
| 13711s | yes would allow them to bring their |
| 13713s | Flagship again without fear of being |
| 13716s | counted yeah and it sounds like the |
| 13717s | flagship going to be fielded here thanks |
| 13718s | Shanna Al Bell uh for your uh your cool |
| 13722s | production on this tournament without |
| 13723s | you we couldn't have done this part |
| 13725s | exactly |
| 13726s | um so Flagship gedden |
| 13729s | um interesting choice um why jintan make |
| 13731s | my team take a flagship again |
| 13733s | um so the flagship again gains a huge |
| 13736s | amount of power from the ability to fit |
| 13738s | faction newts |
| 13740s | um I don't remember if you can use Dead |
| 13741s | Space ones or not I think it might just |
| 13743s | be faction I'll have to track the rules |
| 13745s | in a little bit but effectively you can |
| 13747s | uh project you know 50 60 70 kilometer |
| 13750s | newts out onto the field and that means |
| 13752s | that no matter where your enemy T2 |
| 13754s | Logistics warps in you can turn it off |
| 13756s | and that is incredibly powerful it lets |
| 13758s | you just have a massive rep advantage |
| 13760s | and key uh key to that is the fact that |
| 13763s | it will turn off your opponent's prop |
| 13764s | mods as well which means that you can |
| 13766s | quickly burn tackle over and you don't |
| 13768s | have to worry about anything other than |
| 13769s | your opponent's screening you off and |
| 13772s | that lets you lock up all of your |
| 13773s | opponents tackle very very early on in |
| 13774s | the match and then your DPS ships will |
| 13776s | have almost complete free |
| 13778s | maneuverability around the field |
| 13780s | awesome I'm just looking at the twitch |
| 13781s | points here it's fairly even extra 720 |
| 13785s | 000 twitch Channel points to lockrange |
| 13787s | enjoyers 880 000 twitch Channel points |
| 13791s | so not far off of 50 50 to be honest a |
| 13793s | little bit more favoring lock range |
| 13795s | enjoyers but I mean let's find out who's |
| 13798s | going to get all those Channel points |
| 13799s | and who's going to lose all of their |
| 13800s | Channel points as we go to lock range |
| 13802s | enjoyers versus Exodus |
| 13809s | hello everybody Welcome to the arena I'm |
| 13811s | the Basilisk joined by the wrinkly brain |
| 13813s | and buttery smooth voice of fear Viner |
| 13816s | Fair how are you doing how are you |
| 13817s | looking forward to this one |
| 13818s | I'm doing very well and today I see one |
| 13822s | of my favorite things ever which is |
| 13824s | Shield rush and uh double Nighthawk uh |
| 13829s | Shield rush and that all caldari except |
| 13831s | for that skybreaker coming in from the |
| 13833s | side of Exodus meanwhile what do we see |
| 13836s | from Lock range enjoyers well I feel |
| 13838s | like lock range enjoys a little bit of |
| 13840s | inside knowledge here I think they've |
| 13841s | been doing some strumming with Hydra and |
| 13842s | we see them loving the power of this |
| 13844s | Navy execro as Hydra did and it will |
| 13846s | truce on a light or the Justice League |
| 13848s | whatever you want to call them uh |
| 13849s | earlier in the day so they clearly think |
| 13851s | these ships are powerful in their own |
| 13852s | right and they've decided to bring three |
| 13854s | of these Navy executors of course |
| 13855s | rebalance someone in the uprising patch |
| 13857s | they now get a massive I think it's 25 |
| 13859s | per level bonus to gun damage and they |
| 13861s | only lost one gun in the process so I |
| 13863s | expect these Navy electorals to |
| 13864s | absolutely spew out damage |
| 13867s | yeah and it looks like a rush mirror |
| 13868s | matchup if I'm looking at the ship |
| 13870s | models correctly so it's going to be |
| 13872s | very broadly matching over pretty |
| 13874s | quickly looks like uh dual 180s |
| 13877s | potentially on uh that uh near so |
| 13881s | this does appear to be Rush |
| 13883s | yeah this is going to be a very high DPS |
| 13885s | compare I think this is going to be well |
| 13887s | both of these comps I think this match |
| 13888s | is going to be determined rather quickly |
| 13890s | off the match starts because obviously |
| 13891s | one team is going to start taking down |
| 13893s | ships faster than the other and then |
| 13894s | it's going to snowball a little bit so |
| 13896s | um yeah I think both these teams are |
| 13897s | gonna |
| 13898s | well they would both ideally of liked to |
| 13901s | rush into each other but maybe we'll |
| 13902s | sort of see one team decide actually |
| 13904s | that this match up against another Rush |
| 13906s | the other Rush might be Rush here and |
| 13907s | decide actually they want to try and |
| 13908s | kite it out but I'm not really sure |
| 13909s | which of these things that might be |
| 13912s | correction I misread the models so those |
| 13914s | are 720s on the uh |
| 13917s | on the slap nears uh so these are |
| 13919s | already slaps now I actually have to |
| 13920s | take a look at these exact navies and |
| 13922s | see what they I think these are |
| 13923s | rail execs so they may actually try and |
| 13925s | kite around here in this sort of rather |
| 13926s | unconventional Shield kite Compass may |
| 13928s | turn out to be |
| 13930s | yeah those are rails so this is actually |
| 13933s | a kite comp we said it was Rush on the |
| 13935s | start no it's not kite versus Rush uh |
| 13938s | faster kiting setup with these slipkners |
| 13940s | and these acts like navies versus the |
| 13941s | much slower Nighthawks but the Drake |
| 13942s | Navy and the orthos definitely on that |
| 13945s | faster side alongside the caracal Navy |
| 13946s | issue we'll see how that plays out as we |
| 13948s | begin the match and we'll see how the |
| 13950s | teams want to start it in The Kite back |
| 13952s | immediately from the sidewalk range |
| 13956s | enjoyers as the rush comes in from |
| 13959s | Exodus as expected |
| 13961s | yeah and this lock range enjoys comp |
| 13964s | it's going to be very very dependent on |
| 13966s | individual piloting to manage to kite |
| 13967s | out here because I mean they've got to |
| 13969s | deal their comp on the whole their top |
| 13971s | end is fast the slippers are faster than |
| 13972s | The Nighthawks but they're still going |
| 13973s | to deal with these cruises the Osprey |
| 13974s | Navy the caracal and they haven't |
| 13975s | actually got any control on their side |
| 13977s | in the form like a hyena or a Loki or |
| 13979s | some sort of long-range web that can go |
| 13980s | in and Tackle things down and stop the |
| 13982s | rush coming into them so it's going to |
| 13984s | be dependent on how well they can sort |
| 13986s | of assess their own position assess the |
| 13987s | incoming push of these Nighthawks and |
| 13989s | Drake Navy and figure out where they |
| 13991s | want to be on the field |
| 13992s | Professor Zale going for the stream |
| 13994s | potentially on this Nighthawk uh of |
| 13997s | vidtone from The Exodus side uh that's |
| 14001s | sad instead they're gonna try to get |
| 14002s | towards this back line maybe uh find the |
| 14005s | lodgies the Nighthawk has been |
| 14006s | completely Untouched by tackle no tackle |
| 14008s | months if you look at the screen right |
| 14010s | now the control bars are tiny and |
| 14012s | there's no tackle being shown just a |
| 14014s | little bit of weapon disruption towards |
| 14015s | Exodus now the Navy exec of lock range |
| 14017s | enjoyers of Striker has finally been |
| 14020s | wept and scrammed so Exodus should start |
| 14022s | shooting a primary target but look at |
| 14024s | the damage it's been split from Lock |
| 14025s | range enjoyers they've been poking and |
| 14027s | prodding and might be going towards |
| 14029s | Captain blast a hoe on this caracal Navy |
| 14031s | issue yeah he's burned in this they |
| 14033s | split all the DPS Trends onto tin Baron |
| 14035s | and the Osprey here obviously DPS drones |
| 14037s | he can't really effectively wrap himself |
| 14039s | in that type one lodgy but I thought the |
| 14040s | caracal maybe of Captain blasto might go |
| 14042s | in for a tackle there but um of course I |
| 14044s | know sorry that they're on the they're |
| 14046s | on the same team of course he won't |
| 14048s | um but yeah I mean this was probably now |
| 14049s | I think they are starting to take chunks |
| 14051s | from these rails and the artilleries of |
| 14052s | the slept near and the and the exact |
| 14054s | navies yeah Natori uh being the primary |
| 14057s | from the side of lock range enjoyers |
| 14060s | he's now volleyed through the armor into |
| 14063s | structure as well but Tim Baron will be |
| 14065s | traded and he goes down first so the |
| 14066s | Ospreys being traded off the start of |
| 14068s | the match but now look at the health |
| 14070s | Exodus has missing a lot more Shields |
| 14073s | than lock range enjoyers |
| 14075s | yeah they've got a lot more base stats |
| 14076s | with those command ships than Nighthawks |
| 14078s | obviously very very beefy and then the |
| 14079s | Navy Drake Tanki as well I know those |
| 14081s | Navy Executives of course they are going |
| 14082s | to be Shield fit which is going to be |
| 14083s | quite limiting in terms of how much tank |
| 14085s | they can field so it is going to be |
| 14086s | entirely dependent on how they can |
| 14088s | mitigate damage by staying away here and |
| 14090s | I think this is a good call here from |
| 14092s | lot range enjoys the way they're playing |
| 14093s | this out is just playing it slow dealing |
| 14096s | with the fast ships they're taking out |
| 14097s | the old spray they to deal with reps |
| 14098s | they take out the Navy oils prey now |
| 14099s | they're starting to work on this nibby |
| 14101s | Cara calendar jackdaw and once they get |
| 14102s | rid of those fall ships they'll be able |
| 14103s | to then essentially kite around the |
| 14105s | Nighthawk In Perpetual in perpetuity |
| 14107s | yeah really smart call from Lock range |
| 14110s | enjoyers bringing the kite comp and not |
| 14112s | bringing any dams right they had some |
| 14114s | missile disruption maybe thinking uh |
| 14116s | that this Nighthawk Rush might have come |
| 14118s | up from Exodus and we see here just how |
| 14121s | well fast kite works against slower |
| 14125s | Shield Rush this is why we talk about |
| 14127s | near rush in place of the Nighthawk |
| 14129s | rush because in a mirror matchup The |
| 14130s | Nighthawks beat the slapners into |
| 14132s | resistance holes but outside of that the |
| 14134s | Nighthawk is a much slower ship and |
| 14136s | we're seeing these giant Hawks not get |
| 14137s | on top of anything caracal Navy of |
| 14139s | blasto going down and next will be |
| 14142s | deathwind as well just beautiful |
| 14143s | piloting from Lock range enjoyers to win |
| 14145s | this match yeah blasterjoho goes in to |
| 14148s | get tackle on gruncado and I think he |
| 14149s | got a web on him for a couple seconds |
| 14150s | there but lock range enjoyed his |
| 14152s | immediately just turn around and blast |
| 14153s | him into outer space and say that maybe |
| 14155s | caracal is gone and deathwind is going |
| 14156s | to be next here |
| 14158s | for Exodus yeah it's translating for it |
| 14162s | but it's a little bit too little too |
| 14163s | late you got these real exact navies |
| 14164s | that have been completely untouched the |
| 14166s | other two slept nears far off the fight |
| 14168s | the only thing nearby is this hecatee |
| 14170s | but he's uh in structure and he's been |
| 14172s | able to burn out as well and so this |
| 14175s | orthos of Marcus Drayson going down |
| 14177s | they're gonna save these Nighthawks for |
| 14179s | a last and eat their uh cake after |
| 14182s | they've dealt with the uh main meal that |
| 14186s | is the low end of Exodus |
| 14189s | yeah so as this match is going to sort |
| 14191s | of slowly draw out to a close the points |
| 14192s | are still kind of close but I think lock |
| 14194s | range enjoys us we've been saying are |
| 14195s | just going to slowly Whittle down these |
| 14197s | ships to the left without much sort of |
| 14198s | recourse what do you think about the 3x |
| 14200s | secure navies I mentioned at the start |
| 14202s | do you think they've sort of flown under |
| 14203s | the radar a little bit we've seen lots |
| 14205s | and lots of bands and picks come out of |
| 14206s | the Armageddon Navy everyone seems to |
| 14208s | have jumped on that as then you know |
| 14209s | it's been rebalanced it's the new big |
| 14210s | thing do you think the Navy exec Hall |
| 14212s | could also sort of be potentially a |
| 14214s | really really strong ship that a lot of |
| 14216s | teams might not have noticed |
| 14218s | I think so as well I think the cruiser |
| 14221s | rebalance changes a lot of people were |
| 14222s | focused on the hacks and how oh no the |
| 14225s | Cerberus doesn't exist in our Shield |
| 14227s | kite setups anymore but we see they |
| 14229s | found a replacement in the exact Navy |
| 14230s | not only does it cost fewer points so |
| 14232s | you can field more of them with those |
| 14233s | Point uh with those Point penalties |
| 14236s | coming through but also you just have |
| 14238s | really strong damage on medium railguns |
| 14241s | which is not something a lot of people |
| 14242s | think about uh outside of the older kind |
| 14245s | of Octodad setups where you had |
| 14247s | you know medium rail guns on Battle |
| 14250s | Cruisers uh this time around medium rail |
| 14252s | guards on Cruisers with Artie's on the |
| 14255s | uh battle Cruisers has been how they won |
| 14258s | and uh we'll see if other teams decide |
| 14260s | to pick up on this uh this Army got a |
| 14262s | Navy still a very scary ship but also |
| 14264s | rapid Heavies we've seen only once today |
| 14266s | and it lost |
| 14268s | yeah we do see now they do finally |
| 14270s | managed to take down one of those |
| 14271s | overpowered Navy executors so maybe |
| 14273s | we'll be able to look at Zed kill in a |
| 14274s | couple minutes and have a look at that |
| 14275s | fit of major Jenkins and see what |
| 14277s | exactly it is that making is making |
| 14278s | those ships so powerful but I think you |
| 14280s | know vitone's going down the Nighthawk |
| 14282s | lot ranging Joys played this perfectly |
| 14283s | according to their wincon here they knew |
| 14285s | they could just kite around from the |
| 14286s | start and you know it wasn't it wasn't |
| 14288s | an easy match for them because dealing |
| 14291s | with a rush |
| 14292s | um you know when you haven't got that |
| 14293s | kind of long-range controllers can be |
| 14295s | very difficult |
| 14296s | um but they they performed it perfectly |
| 14299s | yep and the execution is very good from |
| 14302s | both these teams normally we talked uh |
| 14305s | in the desk beforehand how high the |
| 14308s | execution typically has been from Exodus |
| 14310s | start and how high it's been from low |
| 14312s | cost primary now lock range enjoyers |
| 14314s | that said this is the English-speaking |
| 14316s | contingent of that Alliance it's split |
| 14318s | off into two parts which is lock range |
| 14320s | enjoys what you're watching right now |
| 14321s | and big yikes who's gonna be up against |
| 14323s | your team in uh hidden Leaf Village |
| 14326s | Ninja Assassin Squad Esports got the |
| 14328s | full name uh later today |
| 14332s | yeah and I I'm a fiend for day three I |
| 14335s | love day three of the alliance |
| 14336s | tournament it's when you see you know |
| 14337s | like the wheat has been separated from |
| 14338s | the chaff you've got good teams all over |
| 14340s | the bracket you know every match is a |
| 14342s | banger but at this stage here in day one |
| 14343s | sometimes you have less experienced |
| 14345s | teams less Guild teams but this is quite |
| 14348s | possibly I'd say overall the highest |
| 14350s | sort of total skill of both teams of the |
| 14352s | matchups that we've had today both these |
| 14353s | teams as we say are very very competent |
| 14355s | unfortunately it is going to be extras |
| 14357s | dropping down to the lower back bracket |
| 14358s | of their first entry into uh this |
| 14360s | Alliance store on 18 lock Rangers |
| 14361s | enjoyers are going to continue on so |
| 14363s | with that we're going to snap back to |
| 14364s | the desk |
| 14374s | thank you |
| 14379s | Yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP |
| 14382s | collectively so that's why that Alliance |
| 14384s | logo is in the game |
| 14385s | of course you could change your alliance |
| 14387s | by leaving but that would be kind of a |
| 14388s | jerk move that kind of oh you don't like |
| 14390s | it though it's Lego sucks I'm gonna go |
| 14392s | join |
| 14398s | thank you |
| 14400s | foreign |
| 14436s | [Music] |
| 14441s | lock range enjoyers they're enjoying |
| 14443s | their lock range indeed as they take |
| 14445s | that victory over Exodus in what looked |
| 14447s | relatively comfortable and we saw Bart |
| 14450s | some really interesting ships being |
| 14451s | fielded there by a lot range enjoyers uh |
| 14454s | tell me about them uh the big one that I |
| 14456s | think we saw and uh super relevant |
| 14458s | because of the new patch is the Navy |
| 14460s | executor and uh I was I was watching the |
| 14463s | match and I saw that it's all three of |
| 14464s | theirs were like breaking about 4K |
| 14466s | meters a second in speed which is very |
| 14469s | very fast for a cruiser and when you |
| 14472s | look at the other things about them um |
| 14473s | so they just recently got buffed they |
| 14475s | lost a turret but they gained like so |
| 14477s | much damage uh they do about 800 DPS as |
| 14481s | a short range ship they do they're using |
| 14483s | railguns they're extremely quick and I |
| 14486s | think that's what we saw them just |
| 14487s | completely wipe the floor uh there was a |
| 14489s | moment where Tim Baron gets tackled and |
| 14492s | then the entire team of lock range |
| 14495s | enjoyers swaps over and blows up the |
| 14496s | other Osprey at the same time and that |
| 14498s | Offspring wasn't tackled it was kiting |
| 14499s | as hard as it could and it just didn't |
| 14501s | matter because Navy executive railgun |
| 14503s | tracking is like that good |
| 14505s | and uh we are joined here on the desk by |
| 14507s | the wonderful the Beautiful the |
| 14509s | Bountiful ccpb CBB how are you today I'm |
| 14512s | feeling very good glad to be here glad |
| 14514s | to have you here what do you think of |
| 14516s | these Shield kiting rail executive |
| 14518s | navies is that something that you may |
| 14519s | fly roaming around on TQ I absolutely |
| 14522s | will be I was looking at it the other |
| 14523s | day as a blaster platform but after |
| 14525s | seeing this I need to try it as a rail |
| 14527s | kiter looked brutal yeah it was uh I I |
| 14530s | just didn't expect to see it uh I just |
| 14533s | didn't even consider that really is an |
| 14534s | option but then seeing them go as |
| 14535s | PowerPoint 4K a second uh the only thing |
| 14538s | about that is in the arena 125 |
| 14540s | kilometers if you go outside of that |
| 14542s | you're exploded immediately there is no |
| 14544s | grace period you're out you're gone uh |
| 14547s | the faster your ships the quicker that |
| 14549s | boundary approaches uh some people of |
| 14551s | course much more familiar with that |
| 14552s | boundary and others and we saw some |
| 14555s | questions actually about the boundary uh |
| 14556s | during the quiz that CP convict ran |
| 14559s | um at the at the intermission and the |
| 14561s | current record holder is azure and |
| 14563s | Argent uh I think two |
| 14566s | 132 kilometers or something like that |
| 14568s | which when you consider the boundary is |
| 14570s | 125 is uh some some crazy space Wizardry |
| 14574s | to get that far out |
| 14576s | other than that crazy executive Navy bar |
| 14578s | what else did uh you think about that |
| 14580s | match there |
| 14581s | um it was just it was a really really |
| 14582s | well set up uh so it was a fly killer |
| 14585s | setup uh which is one of those terms |
| 14587s | that it's been being thrown around in |
| 14589s | every at since like at least beginning |
| 14591s | since I started doing it but basically |
| 14593s | this we saw sleptner's but they're |
| 14595s | running artillery in it so it's |
| 14597s | different than any of the other slept |
| 14599s | nears like traditionally I think at |
| 14600s | least for the last couple years you see |
| 14601s | sleptner's they're Auto cannons and they |
| 14603s | rush you these are artillery sleptors |
| 14605s | that they kite around and they try and |
| 14607s | do a large amount of damage so the |
| 14609s | entire Locker range enjoyer team was |
| 14610s | just a very high DPS long range kiting |
| 14614s | setup without using missiles and we |
| 14616s | usually see it with missiles we saw it |
| 14617s | with uh with railguns artillery Etc and |
| 14621s | it just did really good they were able |
| 14622s | to pick any Target that they wanted and |
| 14624s | just blast it yeah great job there by |
| 14626s | the lock cringe enjoyers |
| 14628s | um which great team name by the way |
| 14630s | um Damascus Kadesh the captain uh |
| 14633s | obviously uh he was also in the Amara |
| 14634s | Championship uh with myself he was one |
| 14636s | of the uh fellow title holders |
| 14638s | um uh winning some silver magnates back |
| 14641s | in 2014 uh since then he's gone through |
| 14643s | a whole bunch of different tournaments |
| 14644s | including the event ones aligned to open |
| 14646s | lines tournaments and done pretty well |
| 14648s | uh so excited to see how they do this |
| 14650s | year now ccbb before you became ccpb we |
| 14654s | uh we all knew you from twitch uh as of |
| 14657s | course bjornby uh tell us about your |
| 14659s | your Eve streaming career |
| 14662s | um well I started about six seven years |
| 14664s | ago streaming Eve |
| 14665s | um can I find myself streaming all kinds |
| 14668s | of other games before I went into Eve |
| 14669s | and then just found just a bunch of |
| 14672s | viewers enjoying the fight the fact that |
| 14673s | I was uh |
| 14674s | switching to Eve full-time |
| 14677s | um I've since then transitioned to being |
| 14679s | a CCP employee very happy to be that but |
| 14682s | I feel I'm a little bit out of my |
| 14683s | element when it comes to these uh |
| 14684s | tournaments here I could feel it I did |
| 14687s | go to practice with a bunch of the Hydra |
| 14689s | guys and I felt there as well that I was |
| 14692s | in you know |
| 14693s | surrounded by really really confident |
| 14695s | pilots and it's kind of Bittersweet to |
| 14697s | be here I was meant to be in the uh |
| 14700s | what are they called again |
| 14705s | help me out here I don't know where |
| 14707s | we're going |
| 14709s | like yeah yeah playing on the grid yeah |
| 14710s | sorry I just blanked out completely yeah |
| 14712s | that's why uh but yeah um |
| 14715s | absolutely fumbling here |
| 14718s | it's super hard uh flying in those |
| 14721s | matches like I've flown it as well I've |
| 14722s | flown in live tournaments uh the Mr |
| 14724s | championship and in uh like events uh on |
| 14727s | stage and things like that and you can |
| 14729s | be like a super competent super |
| 14731s | experienced pilot like yourself on TQ |
| 14734s | rubbing around I'm sure when you roam |
| 14735s | you're completely relaxed you're chill |
| 14737s | in my limit yeah exactly and then |
| 14741s | um you warp into an alliance tournament |
| 14743s | match and no matter how experience you |
| 14744s | are if you're new to Alliance tournament |
| 14745s | stuff like you feel your heart rate |
| 14747s | Rising you feel it like you get the |
| 14749s | shakes coming back and things like that |
| 14750s | so I absolutely I absolutely get that uh |
| 14753s | bar you've flown in a bunch yourself I I |
| 14756s | did um it's been a couple years I uh I |
| 14758s | figured out the ultimate secret to |
| 14759s | enjoying the alliance tournament is to |
| 14762s | sort of divest yourself from really |
| 14764s | being a team member and a pilot so that |
| 14767s | you're like like losing sucks so bad |
| 14769s | like everybody knows losing sucks but |
| 14770s | like losing in the at is like extra |
| 14773s | sucky and as somebody that is kind of |
| 14775s | like |
| 14776s | done a couple fourth place wins wins uh |
| 14780s | then like repeatedly you know the first |
| 14782s | time you get fourth and you're like okay |
| 14784s | that's cool second time you get fourth |
| 14785s | and you're like we should have done |
| 14786s | better and then the third time you're |
| 14788s | just like okay I'm done with this |
| 14790s | I moved over to the commentating |
| 14791s | analysis side and I have a lot more fun |
| 14794s | mostly because |
| 14795s | my piloting isn't being scrutinized by |
| 14798s | everybody so I don't have to focus as |
| 14800s | hard I don't have to like uh worry about |
| 14803s | being like a top tier pilot like at this |
| 14805s | point I'm just total garbage at the game |
| 14807s | like there's certain things I'm still |
| 14808s | good at but this kind of stuff not |
| 14810s | anymore so I can kind of still look at |
| 14812s | it and understand it but yeah it is a |
| 14814s | totally different gameplay style than |
| 14815s | anything on TQ yeah it definitely is and |
| 14817s | just the fact that it's it's equal |
| 14820s | basically on both sides so you have to |
| 14822s | excel in in the 3D crafting and the |
| 14824s | execution like on TQ you can do other |
| 14827s | things like bring more people or |
| 14829s | um just like have better stuff but |
| 14831s | you're you're limited to 100 points |
| 14833s | worth of ships no more than 10 people it |
| 14835s | has to be fit this way you can't bring |
| 14837s | more than one Logistics Cruiser just |
| 14838s | stuff like that that kind of like evens |
| 14840s | this playing field and you have this |
| 14841s | this great storied history you know |
| 14843s | great teams over the years like uh like |
| 14846s | bald back in the day |
| 14848s | um uh of course camel Empire Hydra |
| 14850s | reload the pandemic Legion the most |
| 14851s | winningest team of all time five |
| 14853s | victories in the 18 Alliance tournaments |
| 14856s | well this one included |
| 14858s | um just incredible amount of history and |
| 14859s | then being part of that and then just |
| 14861s | feels like there's so much gone before |
| 14863s | you and every year people get better and |
| 14865s | better and better like if you took like |
| 14867s | a mid-range team I think from this year |
| 14869s | and you put them into like Alliance |
| 14870s | tournament 12 or 10 or something like |
| 14872s | that I'm sure they would do like super |
| 14874s | super well like people have just |
| 14875s | continued to push the boundary and get |
| 14877s | better and better and better |
| 14879s | yeah we're seeing that everywhere in the |
| 14881s | game I feel um if you would take any of |
| 14883s | the pilots today the solo Pilots the FCS |
| 14885s | doesn't matter where they play if you |
| 14887s | take them and pit them against me from |
| 14888s | 10 years ago it's not even not even |
| 14890s | close you know what I did find though |
| 14892s | really interesting getting to you know |
| 14894s | do a bit of scrimming leading up to this |
| 14896s | uh is the fact that this like you talked |
| 14898s | about this equal back and forth there is |
| 14901s | no more equal fight you can get |
| 14903s | technically and it's just skill |
| 14905s | expression completely uh I thought that |
| 14907s | was really interesting when when getting |
| 14908s | into scrim with some high-level players |
| 14910s | awesome now let's look at our next match |
| 14912s | which is only a couple of minutes away |
| 14914s | it's going to be no Forks given versus |
| 14916s | cast about so let's take a look at the |
| 14918s | bands here uh for for these two teams so |
| 14920s | no Forks given Banning out the balgorn |
| 14923s | the Armageddon Navy issue and the EOS |
| 14925s | becoming bar relatively standard band |
| 14928s | there and cast abouts as well buying |
| 14930s | barges Loki and Scimitar |
| 14933s | um pretty pretty standards there |
| 14934s | anything here that's kind of creative to |
| 14935s | you you know not really uh this is it's |
| 14938s | kind of been what we've been seeing um |
| 14939s | at least for this first day and you know |
| 14941s | as the day goes by you know tomorrow's |
| 14943s | going to be a different minute next week |
| 14944s | it's probably going to be wild but uh we |
| 14946s | do see a lot of teams really afraid of |
| 14948s | like the balgorn and the Armageddon Navy |
| 14950s | issue you know post uh post changes is |
| 14953s | pretty much a balgorn that shoots |
| 14955s | missiles instead of lasers I mean it |
| 14956s | doesn't have the webs but it's still |
| 14957s | pretty strong |
| 14958s | um and then you know on the cast about |
| 14960s | side like the Scimitar band really hurts |
| 14963s | your ability to kite and then the Loki |
| 14965s | band also really hurts like some of the |
| 14968s | kiting stuff so I'm not seeing anything |
| 14970s | particularly different and crazy here |
| 14971s | but you're starting to see an a band |
| 14973s | meta evolve and I was talking to uh CCP |
| 14976s | Swift over in the other room and was |
| 14979s | like oh like you know it's gonna be |
| 14981s | really interesting seeing like even |
| 14982s | tomorrow just how the bands have started |
| 14985s | to form because I think we're going to |
| 14986s | see a pattern of like these balgorns |
| 14988s | these get navies these eoses and maybe a |
| 14990s | little bit of the Bargas too awesome |
| 14992s | let's see if we can just take a quick |
| 14993s | look at the history of the cast about |
| 14995s | team here because I just wanted to |
| 14996s | highlight them they're a really cool |
| 14998s | team so they are made up of members who |
| 15001s | are in the center for advanced studies |
| 15003s | the default starter Corp for uh one of |
| 15005s | the caldari Bloodlines and they never |
| 15007s | leave they just stay in that starter |
| 15009s | Corp they have never left it because |
| 15010s | once you leave you cannot rejoin it and |
| 15013s | they compete in the alliance room as the |
| 15015s | center for advanced studies it's a super |
| 15017s | cool thing people normally see someone |
| 15019s | in a starter Corp and think hey look at |
| 15020s | this Noob I'm going to gank them and |
| 15022s | then they just get wrecked by the Caster |
| 15023s | votes guys so they've been playing for |
| 15025s | for many years 55 different people have |
| 15028s | flown for them in the alliance |
| 15029s | tournament and they've lost a little bit |
| 15031s | more than they have one uh they've |
| 15033s | always been sort of like a mid-tier team |
| 15034s | I always like to see them they've won |
| 15036s | most recently against the band apart |
| 15038s | Penn is out uh Wormhole Poverty Law |
| 15041s | Foundation 404 Alliance not found and |
| 15043s | it's only pixels and the teams that |
| 15046s | they've lost against pretty reasonable |
| 15047s | teams here so Volta bright side of death |
| 15049s | Hard Knock citizens back in line student |
| 15051s | 15 when they were quite good actually |
| 15052s | Brightside to death once again and dream |
| 15055s | Fleet so really a really interesting |
| 15057s | team and a very unique part of Alliance |
| 15059s | to Urban history the the cast about it |
| 15061s | so always happy to see them now I |
| 15063s | believe the teams have landed on grid so |
| 15066s | we are ready to go to the arena and see |
| 15068s | who's going to win between norfolks |
| 15069s | given and cast about |
| 15077s | Hello everybody welcome back to the |
| 15078s | arena cast about and no folks given |
| 15080s | lining up in front of us here no folks |
| 15082s | given actually bringing a ship that we |
| 15083s | haven't seen so far today in fact the |
| 15084s | multiple ships we haven't seen today |
| 15085s | they've brought Chronos they brought in |
| 15087s | a shimu and they brought two arbitrators |
| 15088s | I don't think we've seen any of those so |
| 15090s | far in the day and I think uh I I I'm a |
| 15093s | big arbitrator fan I'll be honest I |
| 15095s | think they're pretty powerful fear what |
| 15096s | about Caster belts what do you think of |
| 15097s | their comp |
| 15098s | I mean they brought one of the bus ships |
| 15100s | Dominic's Navy issue alongside these |
| 15102s | dual hurricane fleets in the orthos site |
| 15104s | Fleet I would have to imagine uh that |
| 15107s | these are in fact autocannon uh fit uh |
| 15111s | wait are these never mind I said I |
| 15114s | imagine their Auto Cannon fit hfis they |
| 15116s | are not they're 720 fit uh much like the |
| 15118s | slump mirrors from last time around |
| 15119s | which is a little bit interesting |
| 15121s | considering you have a Dominic's Navy on |
| 15123s | your team |
| 15124s | yeah and these side Fleet issues I think |
| 15125s | are also rapid light fits so I imagine |
| 15127s | these Cruisers the authors deciph Fleet |
| 15129s | and the hurricane Fleet as you're saying |
| 15130s | are probably going to try and kite |
| 15131s | around but then that as you say that |
| 15132s | begs the question why then choose the |
| 15134s | Dominic's Navy it seems like a very |
| 15136s | oh it's an unusual choice for this comp |
| 15138s | and the other thing that we haven't |
| 15139s | really touched on here is this this is a |
| 15141s | comp without Logie from Caster belts |
| 15143s | which I think has perhaps been one of |
| 15145s | their trademarks in previous years they |
| 15146s | loved if I remember correctly they love |
| 15149s | bringing sort of whole Rush comps comps |
| 15150s | without a huge amount of logistic |
| 15153s | staying power that just that just |
| 15154s | charging and try and beat you in the |
| 15155s | first couple of minutes without getting |
| 15157s | attrition down but this is a this is a |
| 15159s | mixed bag they've got here with this |
| 15160s | Dominic's Navy it's a little bit sort of |
| 15162s | fish out of water situation here |
| 15164s | start of the match both teams burning |
| 15165s | away from each other but the tackle of |
| 15167s | cast about is moving in size Fleet issue |
| 15169s | going to be uh the first primary uh from |
| 15172s | the side no Forks given though as uh he |
| 15175s | dips into low Shields but as you |
| 15177s | mentioned cast abouts they're lodgy less |
| 15178s | so you can tank the Scythe lead issue |
| 15180s | however you want uh still dipping into |
| 15182s | armor and uh doesn't seem to be armor |
| 15185s | tanks didn't seem to have a whole lot of |
| 15186s | shields left in them we'll see if he has |
| 15187s | Hull doesn't look like it either uh |
| 15190s | actually he has some plates nope he's |
| 15191s | nope |
| 15192s | of course I guess the one upside you |
| 15195s | could say about this customer's comp of |
| 15196s | not bringing uh any lodges you're not |
| 15198s | particularly hamstringed by abiding by |
| 15200s | the usual rules of you know this ship |
| 15203s | goes with that ship they seem to have |
| 15204s | brought a real kitchen sink kind of |
| 15206s | Fleet here and I'm not they don't seem |
| 15208s | to have made too much impact so far |
| 15210s | they've broken the shields in the ashimu |
| 15211s | but of course that's an entirely armored |
| 15213s | tanked comp from the no Forks get inside |
| 15215s | and of course with the sort of well |
| 15217s | fairly standard Thalia Deacon combo they |
| 15219s | haven't really made much progress here |
| 15220s | and they need to start making some |
| 15221s | progress ASAP the longer this goes on |
| 15223s | the more DPS they're going to lose and |
| 15224s | the harder it's going to get yeah but if |
| 15226s | you note on the fancy UI right now at |
| 15229s | the bottom of your screen uh tracking |
| 15231s | disruptions going three ways across the |
| 15233s | uh two hurricane fleets on the Navy |
| 15234s | brutex and also missile disruptions on |
| 15237s | this orthos and Fleet site so these |
| 15238s | arbitrators having value right now |
| 15240s | making it harder for cast abouts to |
| 15242s | actually hit any Targets at the moment |
| 15245s | so far they've gotten zero points |
| 15246s | they're about to lose another side Fleet |
| 15248s | issue although he's able to break a |
| 15249s | little bit away from this high |
| 15250s | projection low tackle uh comp that |
| 15253s | norfolk's given has bring they're onto |
| 15254s | this orthodist though and he's got XL |
| 15256s | ASP charges but that's not nearly enough |
| 15258s | to deal with the Paladin and a Chronos |
| 15260s | blapping you |
| 15261s | yeah and at this point it's just really |
| 15263s | looking dire for Caster belts if you've |
| 15264s | played two minutes of the match with |
| 15266s | these comps and you haven't really made |
| 15267s | much of an impact it's just not going to |
| 15268s | get any better as this Fleet size for |
| 15269s | David is going to go down very shortly |
| 15271s | probably soon to be followed by the |
| 15273s | authors of Kai and I mean yeah these |
| 15275s | arbitrators as you say from the fancy UI |
| 15277s | these tracking disruptors will work |
| 15278s | wreaking absolute havoc on these |
| 15279s | hurricane fleets and I mean we we |
| 15281s | obviously don't have information as to |
| 15283s | how well they're hitting or not hitting |
| 15285s | but they don't seem to be well it must |
| 15287s | be working to some effect obviously |
| 15288s | they're not killing anything |
| 15290s | no they're not killing anything at all |
| 15292s | on the side Fleet issue finally goes |
| 15293s | down uh Burns a little bit back into the |
| 15295s | range of these Paladin guns and he gets |
| 15297s | blocked the authoris uh able to rep back |
| 15299s | up through those xlsb charges but look |
| 15301s | hurricane Fleet issue of Naz is the |
| 15304s | Target now for no Forks given they have |
| 15306s | lost zero ships thus far in this |
| 15309s | hurricane Fleet issue he's dipped in |
| 15311s | armor doesn't seem like he had a whole |
| 15312s | lot of tank and uh it doesn't seem to |
| 15314s | have those Hull uh Buffs either so |
| 15317s | instantly blapping through him and it |
| 15319s | looks like this one is all over for cast |
| 15321s | abouts |
| 15322s | yeah it's I have to question really I |
| 15326s | mean Ithaca said on the desk Caster |
| 15327s | belts they turn up every year so credits |
| 15328s | them for for consistently you know |
| 15330s | participating and as if they said it's a |
| 15333s | new player call from uh Center of dance |
| 15335s | studies so they they're welcome to you |
| 15337s | know NPC Court players |
| 15339s | um but I have to sort of question |
| 15341s | when there is |
| 15343s | you know like a sort of accepted |
| 15345s | standard of of logic is good you should |
| 15349s | probably bring it and they seem to so |
| 15351s | consistently Buck the trend and decide |
| 15353s | not to bring it and I I really wonder |
| 15355s | whether you know what evidence they have |
| 15357s | to suggest that this is a good decision |
| 15360s | now not only that I mean you had this |
| 15363s | dual arbitrator and we haven't really |
| 15364s | talked a whole lot I mean we've |
| 15366s | mentioned it we haven't really talked a |
| 15368s | whole lot uh outside of potentially that |
| 15370s | uh paper numbers Odin's call match about |
| 15372s | the effectiveness of scripted tracking |
| 15375s | disruptors and scripted uh unscripted uh |
| 15378s | sensor dampeners right uh those are |
| 15380s | allowed in the tournament they're not |
| 15381s | allowed to be tack two but they are |
| 15382s | allowed on a meta level with the scripts |
| 15384s | which makes them better than an |
| 15385s | unscripted Tech too and what we're |
| 15387s | seeing here is that if you don't bring a |
| 15390s | comp that has an answer to tracking |
| 15392s | disrupters on the other team brought |
| 15394s | tracking disruptors you're gonna have a |
| 15396s | really bad time especially when they're |
| 15398s | trying to kite out that's why we've seen |
| 15399s | a lot of Rush setups and we've seen kite |
| 15401s | setups rely more heavily on having their |
| 15404s | own e-war to stop the potential uh from |
| 15407s | uh these uh support Cruisers or these |
| 15412s | e-war Cruisers yeah and the other thing |
| 15414s | that that that's relevant to that |
| 15415s | discussion is cost about com also is |
| 15417s | lacking on links they had those three |
| 15419s | battle cruises but none of them actually |
| 15421s | have links bonus and most importantly |
| 15422s | none of them have info links bonus and |
| 15424s | if you look at the numbers the most |
| 15426s | effective way to deal with tracking |
| 15428s | disruptors is to run that info link that |
| 15429s | resists against evil disruption because |
| 15431s | against damps sensor boosts are actually |
| 15433s | pretty good because not only do they |
| 15435s | counter damps they counter ECM and it's |
| 15437s | like a 120 bonus to scan res or |
| 15439s | targeting range or something |
| 15441s | um with the sensor boost which is |
| 15442s | actually pretty good track and computers |
| 15444s | on the other hand kind of suck so if you |
| 15446s | want to deal with |
| 15448s | track tracking disruption I would say |
| 15450s | the info link that resists against evor |
| 15452s | is pretty much necessary and they really |
| 15454s | don't have a good boat to put it on |
| 15455s | there so they're just feeling the full |
| 15457s | force of these tracking disrupters from |
| 15458s | those arbitrates and it's really really |
| 15459s | difficult for these well it has been |
| 15461s | difficult for the hurricanes and brutics |
| 15463s | to actually do much of anything here |
| 15465s | the other option obviously is remote |
| 15467s | tracking computers uh being more |
| 15469s | powerful than local tracking computers |
| 15471s | uh but you have to really like know that |
| 15474s | you're going to get use out of them or |
| 15475s | you have typically it's a command Dusty |
| 15477s | with the ability to have that extra mid |
| 15480s | slot because I don't really want to be |
| 15482s | tackling anything and then get getting |
| 15483s | really close that is the ability to |
| 15485s | potentially deal with that as well but |
| 15486s | as we saw no bonus link ships no command |
| 15488s | SES nothing that could have brought rtcs |
| 15491s | even uh for cast abouts and as we see |
| 15495s | when you're up against a higher |
| 15498s | projection comp when you're in a kite |
| 15499s | comp that's forced to come close you're |
| 15501s | just going to end up eating the floor |
| 15504s | of course the other thing is as well if |
| 15506s | you bring let's say a command Destroyer |
| 15508s | you can put three links on it and then |
| 15509s | put a fourth link offline and then you |
| 15511s | land on the grid and you say okay well |
| 15513s | we don't actually need this info link if |
| 15515s | you come up against a comp you know |
| 15516s | maybe that doesn't have much control and |
| 15517s | you say okay well we don't need the or |
| 15519s | resist you Offline that one and then you |
| 15520s | can online something else and get that |
| 15521s | sort of extra trade-off of having that |
| 15523s | extra link depending on what you're up |
| 15524s | against which is it could be pretty |
| 15526s | handy but cost about here look like |
| 15527s | they're going to go down 100 to zero |
| 15528s | here no Forks given are just going to |
| 15530s | slowly squeeze them out of this match |
| 15532s | um with the three minutes remaining just |
| 15534s | to briefly touch and as we I mentioned |
| 15535s | at the start the Chronos what do you |
| 15537s | make of the Chronos in the alliance |
| 15538s | tournament |
| 15539s | uh it's a ship that exists I think one |
| 15542s | thing that we've been seeing uh a lot of |
| 15545s | even though they are not buffed for the |
| 15546s | at remember the Bastion module which is |
| 15548s | the big thing that allowed Marauders to |
| 15550s | be as prevalent as they are on TQ |
| 15551s | recently uh it does not exist but we see |
| 15555s | some teams decide to bring uh Marauders |
| 15558s | and why they do that is because |
| 15559s | Marauders all have projection bonuses uh |
| 15563s | and have eight guns worth of DPS right |
| 15566s | so uh with that and and they typically |
| 15569s | have a very good slot layout as well uh |
| 15571s | so with that they're able to uh then |
| 15574s | build a higher projection comp without |
| 15577s | getting some of the more damage lacking |
| 15579s | high production ships such as the apoc |
| 15581s | and the apoc Navy although the apoc Navy |
| 15583s | did get a little bit of a buff uh this |
| 15585s | patch |
| 15586s | um and being able to project out a bit |
| 15589s | more they're also very resistant to ewar |
| 15591s | they have very long lock ranges so |
| 15593s | things like sensor dampeners don't |
| 15594s | really affect them that much although |
| 15596s | once again they can be tracking |
| 15597s | disrupted even though they all have |
| 15599s | these kind of projection bonuses |
| 15601s | yeah I think in this company no folks |
| 15603s | given here it's like the centerpiece of |
| 15604s | their comp is these two armor Marauders |
| 15606s | and they've decided rather than bringing |
| 15607s | two paladins they've opted for a paladin |
| 15609s | acronos whether that's the right call I |
| 15611s | don't know I'd have to do some Theory |
| 15612s | crafting on the comp but uh it seems to |
| 15614s | have worked out for them pretty well and |
| 15615s | as you say as well both these Marauders |
| 15617s | obviously have a bunch of high slots for |
| 15618s | utility they can whack newts in there |
| 15620s | which obviously very effective against |
| 15621s | you know if you come up against a high |
| 15622s | period or a Vindicator or whatever |
| 15624s | something cap Reliant you can shut them |
| 15626s | down pretty easily |
| 15627s | um but this is going to be the end of |
| 15628s | the road here for well not the only |
| 15630s | gonna drop down to lower bracket but in |
| 15632s | this match uh cost about unfortunately |
| 15633s | are going to be shut out |
| 15635s | yep and one of the uh handful of new |
| 15639s | player-oriented alliances that are in |
| 15640s | the tournament the other one's of course |
| 15642s | being brave and pandemic horde uh Brave |
| 15644s | having a much longer tournament history |
| 15646s | uh as well much like Caster bouts |
| 15649s | um but the thing about castabouts is on |
| 15651s | TQ is that they pull from NPC corpse uh |
| 15654s | a lot of the time so uh something that |
| 15657s | you might see and in fact we do see some |
| 15659s | members uh have from this team uh being |
| 15663s | technically mercenaries from those MPC |
| 15665s | Corps as well who haven't quite taken |
| 15666s | the step forward uh into the rest of the |
| 15670s | game so it's a great starting place for |
| 15671s | people on TQ but when you have this kind |
| 15674s | of revolving door of people moving past |
| 15675s | uh later you not don't have a lot of |
| 15678s | institutional knowledge continuing |
| 15680s | through the team |
| 15681s | yeah I think that's a really good point |
| 15683s | but I think Caster belts is providing |
| 15684s | something really really valuable which |
| 15686s | is is sort of an entry point for players |
| 15688s | who maybe do want to try and get some |
| 15689s | Alliance tournament experience but um |
| 15690s | you know maybe not established in their |
| 15692s | own particular player court maybe if |
| 15693s | they think you know if they join you |
| 15695s | know if you join Brave you're competing |
| 15696s | with I don't know 110 billion other |
| 15698s | players for a slot in a 10-man team |
| 15700s | whereas |
| 15701s | okay you you may have a better chart a |
| 15703s | shot at actually getting some light |
| 15705s | storm experience before you then move on |
| 15707s | um or indeed don't |
| 15710s | yep moving on to the lower bracket uh |
| 15712s | they will be facing if I remember |
| 15715s | correctly they will be facing Exodus uh |
| 15718s | so uh not a matchup you want to really |
| 15721s | get into in the lower bracket but one |
| 15723s | that they're gonna have to take anyway |
| 15724s | we're gonna send it back to the desk uh |
| 15726s | before we bring up your team versus big |
| 15728s | yikes |
| 15730s | foreign |
| 15744s | [Music] |
| 15749s | guys stop being casual they're really |
| 15751s | bad we should not lose anybody to this |
| 15754s | warp off take the fleet warp everybody |
| 15756s | warp off this is a really really bad |
| 15758s | execution I'm very disappointed |
| 15766s | [Music] |
| 15773s | thank you |
| 15776s | Crush our enemies your attempts are |
| 15779s | completely damned out Crush I'm dumped |
| 15781s | out I'm dumped out you don't like Travis |
| 15783s | boys again |
| 15790s | I'm jammed |
| 15801s | foreign |
| 15809s | there with a commanding 100-0 victory |
| 15813s | over the cast about |
| 15815s | um in uh just pretty much excellently |
| 15817s | flown by no farts given there uh to |
| 15820s | secure themselves that Victory now black |
| 15822s | part pirate that looked like a a bit of |
| 15824s | a what we used to call a fly killer |
| 15826s | setup that Casper it's brought there |
| 15828s | what is a fly killer setup and um you |
| 15831s | you said that maybe that wasn't the most |
| 15832s | optimal flag color setup no uh what we |
| 15836s | actually just saw from Lock range |
| 15837s | enjoyers what is probably now a more |
| 15839s | modern one and then it's cool because we |
| 15841s | got to see it work and we gotta see it |
| 15843s | not work and a fly killer setup is like |
| 15846s | basically set up to be able to take out |
| 15849s | small ships very very quickly uh you |
| 15851s | know I think if you've been watching at |
| 15852s | since forever ago then you'd have seen |
| 15855s | the like original boom headshot ad |
| 15858s | um which I believe was Hydra reloaded uh |
| 15860s | where they basically had a bunch of |
| 15861s | artillery ships just alfing things off |
| 15863s | the grid every single cycle so it |
| 15865s | doesn't work quite as well anymore |
| 15866s | there's been a lot of game changes |
| 15867s | regarding like signature tracking cetera |
| 15870s | but what you saw instead is they're |
| 15872s | still using artillery ships but now |
| 15874s | we're using a lot more like railgun |
| 15875s | ships so executive Navy's is kind of the |
| 15877s | big one that we just saw one match ago |
| 15879s | this specific one we saw them try to do |
| 15882s | it with hurricane Fleet issues |
| 15884s | Scythe Fleet issues with rapid lights |
| 15886s | which is a little weird and orthosis so |
| 15889s | we got this like |
| 15890s | kind of a combination of a rapid light |
| 15893s | kite with artillery slope mirrors and it |
| 15896s | there are artillery hurting Fleet issues |
| 15898s | and it just didn't work like there |
| 15899s | wasn't enough application or damage |
| 15902s | um |
| 15902s | from any of it's like he kind of almost |
| 15904s | had it on one end you almost had it on |
| 15905s | the other end and then at the end you |
| 15906s | just kind of got rolled and also they |
| 15908s | brought a Navy Dominics which uh I asked |
| 15910s | you I was like has a single Navy |
| 15911s | Dominics won yet and it's an at |
| 15913s | tradition where Navy domics is never win |
| 15916s | ever because they look really good on |
| 15918s | paper but then they actually aren't and |
| 15920s | it seems like we may still be continuing |
| 15921s | that even though they have been buffed |
| 15923s | significantly I still believe in the |
| 15925s | potato I think it's going to pull on in |
| 15926s | for sure I think it's gonna I think it |
| 15928s | must do this year like it's been buffed |
| 15930s | enough and we're seeing a lot more of |
| 15931s | them it used to be so rare you would see |
| 15933s | one that you knew that whoever was |
| 15935s | bringing this probably just saw the |
| 15937s | numbers on paper went look how high the |
| 15939s | DPS and the ship is wow how could we |
| 15941s | possibly lose and then they lost because |
| 15943s | the chip is pretty garbage but now it's |
| 15945s | been buffed it's actually like |
| 15947s | reasonable so it could win it could |
| 15950s | happen someone do it please uh when |
| 15952s | prover's wrong I love being proven wrong |
| 15954s | but speaking of ships and new ships uh |
| 15956s | let's check in with CCP Aurora and find |
| 15958s | out a little bit about the new ships in |
| 15960s | the uprising expansion |
| 15969s | you've already seen eight new ships |
| 15971s | released last month and with Uprising |
| 15973s | expansion we're expanding the selection |
| 15975s | of navy ships even further with a new |
| 15977s | set of Navy destroyers for each faction |
| 15980s | as well as navy dreadnoughts we chose |
| 15982s | these ships because they'll fill some |
| 15984s | gaps in the existing Navy lineup as well |
| 15986s | as creating new and diverse engagements |
| 15988s | in the fashion Warfare ecosystem with |
| 15990s | the dreadnoughts we wanted to give |
| 15991s | players something that was really |
| 15993s | aspirational a large goal to work |
| 15995s | towards something really special and |
| 15996s | something that will help to mix up the |
| 15999s | capital ecosystem elsewhere in the game |
| 16001s | we want to find new and unique uses for |
| 16003s | these ships in the Eve online ecosystem |
| 16005s | that isn't just going to step on the |
| 16007s | toes of other existing vessels each |
| 16010s | faction has their own like kind of like |
| 16013s | mini guidelines regarding that the |
| 16015s | Phoenix is uh for example like a ship |
| 16018s | that uh needed to be updated the base |
| 16021s | Phoenix itself is getting all the uh new |
| 16024s | textures and model pieces that the Navy |
| 16027s | one has minus some details that we just |
| 16031s | uniquely made for the for the Navy |
| 16033s | version for every animation or if I |
| 16036s | stayed the ship can go in we've added |
| 16038s | more animations incorporating uh VFX so |
| 16042s | like if something is moving there's a |
| 16045s | really good chance that the zombie |
| 16047s | effects are involved the end and uh |
| 16049s | highlighting that I can't wait to see |
| 16051s | these ships get into your hands see what |
| 16053s | you do with them and look at the deaths |
| 16055s | on ziko |
| 16063s | thank you to CCP Aurora there uh those |
| 16065s | are some incredible new ships the new |
| 16068s | Navy dreadnoughts are absolutely |
| 16069s | fantastic I remember when I saw the |
| 16071s | video of that morals Navy for the first |
| 16073s | time just such an angry boy going all |
| 16075s | red and Smoky just oh they're so cool I |
| 16078s | can't wait to see some people using them |
| 16080s | on TQ and losing them I imagine they're |
| 16082s | going to be quite expensive uh there's |
| 16083s | going to be some some pretty dank kill |
| 16086s | meals coming from that now ccbb uh |
| 16089s | you're obviously well known for leading |
| 16090s | uh like public fleets and Rome's and |
| 16092s | things like that on your stream and I |
| 16094s | saw on zedco uh that you took what |
| 16097s | looked to be a bunch of ccpers out uh |
| 16099s | one day on a Roman to pockfin uh tell us |
| 16102s | about that how was that it was actually |
| 16103s | just an impromptu uh thing that I was |
| 16106s | asked to just do something fun with them |
| 16109s | um I ended up going into park to rent uh |
| 16111s | to just mine and wait for for content to |
| 16114s | come to us |
| 16115s | um I've been doing this a little bit |
| 16116s | every now and then going into parchment |
| 16118s | in mining ships just actually in |
| 16120s | vector's mining and you just sit there |
| 16123s | wait for Gunther to come to you it's a |
| 16124s | very different |
| 16125s | than hunting around like like I'm used |
| 16127s | to how was it like doing that with uh |
| 16130s | like a bunch of ccpers compared to say |
| 16132s | like on your stream with all the all the |
| 16133s | players and things like that uh it's I |
| 16136s | mean I've flown with CCP a lot over the |
| 16137s | years as a player first |
| 16139s | um and taking there was a little |
| 16141s | different it wasn't like uh we were |
| 16143s | streaming this we were just having fun |
| 16144s | in the office for an hour uh for a |
| 16147s | reason I'm not going to talk about but |
| 16148s | it was a it was a blast and uh I hope I |
| 16151s | can do more of that I want to see more |
| 16153s | CC peers in space yeah exactly more CCP |
| 16156s | targets for us to shoot that please |
| 16158s | um now let's quickly take a quick look |
| 16159s | at our next match because we're going to |
| 16160s | that in just a few minutes uh hidden |
| 16162s | Leaf Village Ninja Assassin uh esport |
| 16166s | squad team whatever they're called uh so |
| 16169s | many names uh going up against big yikes |
| 16172s | uh so uh hidden Leaf ninja Village |
| 16175s | banning at the Absolution curse |
| 16177s | Armageddon Navy issue and big likes |
| 16179s | bearing Out The Vindicator stormbringer |
| 16182s | drekovac I think this is the first time |
| 16184s | I have seen a Stormbreaker and a |
| 16187s | drekovic band Blackbird pirate what do |
| 16188s | you make of that uh I think you're right |
| 16190s | I think also with the Absolution so |
| 16192s | there's a lot of a lot of interesting |
| 16193s | bands here maybe not necessarily good |
| 16195s | you know we'll see who wins and then |
| 16197s | we'll decide oh yes they are geniuses or |
| 16199s | they are uh not but yeah I don't |
| 16202s | understand a Stormbreaker ban like I |
| 16204s | understand you know conceptually you can |
| 16206s | use a storm bringer to take out rep |
| 16208s | drones or DPS drones like it is kind of |
| 16210s | a counter drone ship |
| 16212s | um it's very very good at that but I |
| 16215s | don't know if it's good enough at that |
| 16218s | to be worth Banning I think we've seen |
| 16220s | it twice today and neither time I would |
| 16224s | say it was like particularly good like |
| 16225s | they're it could have been good they |
| 16227s | could have used it in some way or |
| 16228s | another but it just didn't seem to have |
| 16230s | actually done anything uh direct band |
| 16232s | same kind of situation like drekavex |
| 16234s | aren't a particularly strong Alliance |
| 16236s | tournament ship um they have all of like |
| 16238s | the weaknesses of Le Shack and none of |
| 16240s | their strengths like they don't have a |
| 16241s | mass amount of tank they don't have a |
| 16242s | bunch of high slots to do interesting |
| 16244s | utility stuff with uh well they do but |
| 16246s | they can't like do the same things uh |
| 16249s | that a shot can so I don't know I mean |
| 16252s | sometimes you see teams like do these |
| 16254s | bands |
| 16255s | because in their internal testing |
| 16256s | they've said oh no we get countered by |
| 16258s | this and then in hindsight it's like |
| 16262s | well your internal testing said that but |
| 16263s | the other you know 95 of the player base |
| 16266s | don't use their ships because they're |
| 16268s | bad and you're losing to them because |
| 16270s | you're worse so we'll see what happens |
| 16273s | I'm like I said kind of confused by it |
| 16276s | yeah I'm just very interested to find |
| 16277s | out what comp is counted by a storm |
| 16279s | bringer enough that you'd want to ban it |
| 16281s | although sometimes teams that have kind |
| 16283s | of generated their own meta that's a bit |
| 16285s | out of the of the blue and can go up |
| 16287s | against a team that has a more on like |
| 16289s | established understanding of the meta |
| 16291s | and when because they bring something |
| 16293s | completely off the wall that the team |
| 16295s | the experience team that is you know |
| 16296s | doing everything correct they're |
| 16297s | following the matter they're doing |
| 16299s | things bringing the right ships they get |
| 16301s | beat by some kind of like almost cheese |
| 16302s | comp it happens |
| 16304s | um just because that team has developed |
| 16306s | their own meta and the other team |
| 16307s | doesn't really know how to deal with it |
| 16308s | and it's one of the ways sometimes you |
| 16309s | can uh almost separate like the really |
| 16311s | good teams like they'll land on grid and |
| 16313s | see something completely crazy and |
| 16315s | they'll still be able to to react and |
| 16317s | win so we're just waiting to get |
| 16319s | confirmation the teams have landed on |
| 16320s | grid I've taught I'm told they are in |
| 16322s | system |
| 16323s | and we have a flagship on grid uh for |
| 16326s | one of the teams I'm not sure who at |
| 16327s | this point |
| 16329s | um Blackboard Pirates who are you going |
| 16330s | to put your uh your virtual e-money |
| 16332s | behind here oh my virtual e-money |
| 16335s | um I'm gonna put it behind big yikes |
| 16337s | because I'm gonna trust that they are |
| 16339s | actually like the wrinkliest of brains |
| 16342s | here and they're like yes we have |
| 16344s | figured out a setup that can only lose |
| 16345s | to a stormbringer |
| 16347s | I think I have to put my vote on ball |
| 16349s | terms |
| 16350s | I just wanna I wanna see their comes |
| 16353s | here there comes and uh I I really hope |
| 16355s | that they win well it's time to find out |
| 16357s | so let's go to the arena for hidden Leaf |
| 16358s | Village Ninja Assassin Esports Squad |
| 16360s | versus big X |
| 16364s | foreign |
| 16367s | body welcome to the arena and obviously |
| 16370s | as a member of hidden Leaf Village I'm |
| 16371s | hoping they win but especially so |
| 16373s | because 15 bill or so of my virtual |
| 16376s | e-money is in that Bargas fit so fingers |
| 16378s | crossed |
| 16380s | meanwhile big yikes French contention to |
| 16383s | locals primary coming out and uh trying |
| 16386s | to do what they can uh up against Henley |
| 16389s | Village Under assassin Squad Esports to |
| 16391s | the team is silent and we see hinley |
| 16393s | Village start to kite back at the moment |
| 16395s | I would assume this is a rapid heavy bar |
| 16397s | guest I hadn't gotten a chance to look |
| 16398s | at the other ship models though as this |
| 16401s | balgorn and Tempest Fleet issue seem to |
| 16402s | be the core for big yikes |
| 16404s | yeah they started putting some damage on |
| 16406s | Asuka in the hyena there and he takes a |
| 16408s | huge chunk through Shield so it's going |
| 16409s | to be up to the work of |
| 16411s | um Neo in the lobby he has flown lodgy |
| 16413s | every single scrum extremely competent |
| 16415s | logic pilot I can say that for him and |
| 16416s | he does indeed manage to catch Asuka |
| 16418s | just on time of course Shield lodgy said |
| 16419s | the Reps to happen at the start of the |
| 16421s | cycle so as long as he's got you locked |
| 16422s | he should hopefully as long as he's |
| 16424s | awake um be able to be able to keep him |
| 16426s | safe but there's not much damage being |
| 16428s | applied the other direction at the |
| 16429s | moment |
| 16429s | yep and if we take a look at the attack |
| 16431s | bar it's completely zero for hiddenly |
| 16434s | Village they're biting their time |
| 16436s | looking for an opening now moving |
| 16438s | towards this astarte of KitKat uh the |
| 16440s | captain for big yikes I mean they've got |
| 16443s | dual logic frags and it looks like |
| 16445s | hiddenly Village I mean we saw a lot of |
| 16447s | times in feeders they went for this Rush |
| 16449s | setup now they're in a shield kite setup |
| 16450s | with this bar guest rabbit heavy clip |
| 16452s | should be able to go through this to |
| 16453s | start I it just matters uh what big X is |
| 16456s | able to get out of this trade yeah both |
| 16458s | these teams I think are playing sort of |
| 16460s | quite controlled comps here where |
| 16462s | um you're not you're not aiming to make |
| 16465s | a huge impact in the start of the match |
| 16466s | you're okay to sort of probe it out and |
| 16467s | see how the match progresses what |
| 16469s | happens try and make progress but this |
| 16471s | Belgian of Aria yatalila does try and |
| 16473s | burn in there and try and web something |
| 16474s | down on this cake but I think the hyena |
| 16475s | of Azuka actually got webs on him in |
| 16477s | return and the shield kite comp is |
| 16479s | actually now making their way back |
| 16480s | around the arena and it's looking to be |
| 16482s | pretty difficult here for this uh big |
| 16483s | yike scene to actually pin anything down |
| 16486s | threat of Vengeance on the Navy Drake |
| 16487s | though has now been webbed by that |
| 16491s | balgorn but just like that he's out from |
| 16493s | underneath the webs these hyena webs |
| 16494s | doing the work that needs to be done to |
| 16496s | get this battle Gordon which is the big |
| 16498s | tackle ship from Big yikes uh away from |
| 16500s | his team he is being primary but as you |
| 16503s | mentioned the Reps coming in instantly |
| 16505s | from the Scimitar it's very hard to hit |
| 16506s | a hyena with battleships unfortunately |
| 16508s | it does look like dreaded Vengeance in |
| 16510s | the Drake Navy issue has been caught |
| 16511s | here by these belgon webs and now you |
| 16513s | see the the balcony closing in and the |
| 16515s | Old Navy's coming in the Tempest fleets |
| 16516s | on him as well and hiddenly Village have |
| 16518s | just abandoned him he's he's lost to his |
| 16519s | faith obviously you can't save him out |
| 16521s | of this situation here you can't bail |
| 16522s | them out they're just gonna have to |
| 16524s | accept that loss and hope to make trade |
| 16525s | in return and there's not too much going |
| 16527s | on still so far for the hidden Leaf side |
| 16529s | yeah I mean they've got some damage on |
| 16531s | this jacked up here uh shendory fine oh |
| 16534s | it just gets deleted uh from the face of |
| 16538s | the Earth but still a jacked off for a |
| 16539s | drake Navy not a trade you want to be |
| 16541s | making if you're hiddenly Village but at |
| 16543s | the same time uh right you sell the kite |
| 16545s | setup you still just have to keep on |
| 16548s | keeping on trying to kill what you can't |
| 16549s | from this low end they're on the |
| 16551s | compressor now of Jita and uh he should |
| 16554s | not be able to hold through these uh |
| 16555s | deconthalia reps but I'm saying that he |
| 16558s | actually is uh repping through it at the |
| 16559s | moment might see some reloads coming in |
| 16561s | from the suddenly Village side |
| 16563s | yeah it's not it's for sure not over |
| 16565s | because you've lost the Navy Drake but |
| 16566s | obviously it's not a good looking points |
| 16567s | but I think hidden Leaf villagers |
| 16569s | attitude here is switched to try and |
| 16571s | take out these low end first and then |
| 16573s | hope to control the big end just through |
| 16574s | its speed so they're trying to deal with |
| 16575s | the Confessor they're trying to deal |
| 16576s | with the Magus they're still just sort |
| 16577s | of probing perhaps Beltran is on reload |
| 16579s | and they're just waiting to unleash |
| 16580s | another volley onto what they deem to be |
| 16582s | a vulnerable Target here |
| 16584s | yeah they want to get that Confessor |
| 16585s | they want to get this tackle Off the |
| 16587s | Grid uh make way uh for the team to just |
| 16592s | kite it out and uh live to win uh we saw |
| 16595s | this a start day of KitKat being the |
| 16596s | primary off the start he has not been |
| 16599s | touched at all uh since that the attack |
| 16601s | bar is anemic right now from both of |
| 16603s | these teams as they continue to poke and |
| 16605s | prod and try to find the opening that |
| 16607s | they need to win the match |
| 16609s | yeah it's just a slow controlled match I |
| 16611s | think they're switching on to the Magus |
| 16612s | now again I've seen him just take |
| 16613s | another chunk he's going into armor |
| 16614s | they're just going to try and see if |
| 16615s | they can volley through him of course |
| 16616s | they've got rapid lights Osprey Navy |
| 16617s | Ultra maybe authoris and the bogus with |
| 16619s | rapid heavy so they have got enough |
| 16620s | quick damage here to shoot out and they |
| 16622s | do get rid of those maggots and that |
| 16623s | could be critical now they've got all |
| 16624s | those links obviously everything else is |
| 16626s | going to tank significantly less it may |
| 16627s | have had Skirmish links which was |
| 16628s | helping the balgon with you know web |
| 16630s | range with uh you know speed |
| 16633s | yeah but look at this baltrum has been |
| 16635s | webbed by the balgorn of Arya this could |
| 16637s | be a mistake uh being made potentially |
| 16640s | or just good piloting from hidden or |
| 16642s | from a big yikes to get on top of this |
| 16644s | bar guest and this is a shield bar guest |
| 16646s | it's got a scimitar on them he'll have |
| 16647s | some rapping power especially because |
| 16648s | it's a flagship but at the same time if |
| 16651s | they can get this Tempest Fleet issue if |
| 16652s | they can get this to start in this exact |
| 16654s | Navy on top of this bar guest they have |
| 16656s | a lot of damage that should be able to |
| 16659s | actually get through uh this potential |
| 16661s | officer rep or at the very least a dead |
| 16664s | space rep uh from baltram yeah I think |
| 16666s | it's gonna be an X-Type rep on the |
| 16667s | Bargas but they are actually breaking |
| 16669s | through KitKat and they're starting now |
| 16670s | they've realized they can't afford any |
| 16671s | more time just chewing through the |
| 16673s | support you know the bar guest is caught |
| 16674s | they need to clear this damage as |
| 16676s | quickly as they can bogus going into low |
| 16678s | Shield here 30 shield astarte in the |
| 16680s | KitKat is sorry I started KitKat in the |
| 16682s | Estates is going down into low armor |
| 16683s | he's starting to bleed Hull but I don't |
| 16685s | know if they kill him is it going to be |
| 16686s | enough |
| 16688s | these dual Audrey freaks doing exactly |
| 16690s | what they need to do at the moment in |
| 16691s | Beltran he's back up to 50 Shields I |
| 16693s | mean he's got the natural Shield reach |
| 16695s | on around that 33 Mark but they're |
| 16697s | breaking through it he's now down almost |
| 16698s | out of shields on this |
| 16700s | money Donald Trump there's no way for |
| 16704s | him to survive he's now in the half |
| 16705s | armor and he will die this Flagship |
| 16708s | getting caught by Arya in the balgorn |
| 16711s | and that should decide the match uh for |
| 16714s | big yikes yeah this is absolutely |
| 16716s | disastrous for my team and my wallet |
| 16718s | because |
| 16719s | there's no damage left now on the hidden |
| 16720s | life team they've got three rapid light |
| 16722s | boats and that's basically it up against |
| 16724s | two battleships |
| 16726s | um yeah |
| 16728s | I can't living to win one rapid heavy |
| 16731s | clip that's all you have to deal with as |
| 16733s | a star day they tried it at the start of |
| 16735s | the match they didn't get them and now |
| 16736s | trying again the bottom and a hole but |
| 16739s | not enough in time the flag Bargas goes |
| 16743s | down I'm excited to take a look at that |
| 16746s | fit uh later but with that as you |
| 16748s | mentioned not a whole lot of damage left |
| 16750s | for Henley Village they have I mean look |
| 16752s | at that attack bar it is just massive |
| 16754s | for big yikes compared to Heavenly |
| 16755s | Village and uh unfortunately for them |
| 16758s | they're gonna be knocked down to the |
| 16759s | lower bracket |
| 16760s | yeah and this is a strong performance |
| 16762s | from uh from Big yikes here I think this |
| 16765s | is not a comp that we've seen too much |
| 16767s | of today so far obviously with the bow |
| 16768s | gone being banned so frequently |
| 16770s | um but it's proved to be very powerful |
| 16771s | here with the astarter I'm a big fan of |
| 16773s | the astarte to be honest uh I like the |
| 16775s | ship a lot I think it does it's good |
| 16776s | projection it's obviously links that's |
| 16779s | pretty tanky but this is now just going |
| 16780s | to be a cleanup job here |
| 16782s | um and yeah I mean a strong shot from |
| 16784s | Big suddenly for going to go down to the |
| 16786s | lower bracket and face the loser of the |
| 16788s | next match which is going to be between |
| 16789s | Fancy Pants and brave Collective |
| 16792s | yeah and that one is a match I'm looking |
| 16794s | forward to as well not just as a uh |
| 16796s | co-captain of the Brave team but also |
| 16798s | because uh that is they were scrim |
| 16801s | Partners up until the point uh where uh |
| 16803s | the brackets were drawn Fancy Pants and |
| 16805s | brave had scrimmed quite a bit so they |
| 16806s | have inside knowledge of what the other |
| 16808s | team likes to bring potentially and that |
| 16811s | plays into uh The Meta gaming that |
| 16813s | they're gonna do against each other I'm |
| 16815s | really excited for that matchup uh still |
| 16817s | uh this was a team that a lot of people |
| 16820s | didn't really know too much about going |
| 16822s | into the tournament the new locals |
| 16824s | primary split into two different |
| 16825s | alliances big yikes being the French |
| 16827s | contingent and lock range enjoyers being |
| 16829s | the English-speaking contingent and uh |
| 16831s | yinton did some interviews uh with the |
| 16833s | vignette's captain uh before the |
| 16835s | tournament and apparently there were |
| 16836s | some Choice words uh to be said there |
| 16838s | maybe not an amicable breakup but either |
| 16841s | way uh if both those teams win their |
| 16843s | next matches they're going to be facing |
| 16844s | each other in the upper bracket |
| 16846s | yeah and of course when a team splits up |
| 16849s | like that there's going to be |
| 16850s | institutional knowledge that's carried |
| 16851s | over from from you know both both sides |
| 16853s | are going to gain it um but it's always |
| 16855s | difficult to determine who was sort of |
| 16856s | the core of the team who was actually |
| 16858s | behind generating these comps generating |
| 16860s | this Theory crafting but I mean we sell |
| 16863s | Lots or lock range enjoys win fairly |
| 16866s | comfortably over Exodus earlier on in |
| 16867s | the day and big yikes here uh winning it |
| 16869s | themselves fairly comfortably so you |
| 16871s | know it seems to be an even split in |
| 16872s | terms of theory crafting takeaway from |
| 16874s | the locals primary sort of breakup |
| 16877s | I mean and as we see like not a lot of |
| 16880s | ships are dying at the moment but both |
| 16882s | teams can just kind of or not both teams |
| 16884s | uh big X can just kind of hold back they |
| 16886s | killed the flag bar guest and there just |
| 16888s | is no damage left from hiddenly Village |
| 16890s | Ninja Assassin Squad Esports the team is |
| 16893s | silent uh and they're just plinking away |
| 16895s | at each other maybe some uh kills will |
| 16897s | happen but we might just head up into a |
| 16899s | points victory for uh big yikes yeah and |
| 16903s | I think this is actually going to be the |
| 16904s | first points victory of the day every |
| 16905s | other match so far has ended with one |
| 16907s | team scoring 100 but these as I said at |
| 16909s | the start these two teams both bring in |
| 16911s | Fairly sort of slow controlled comps |
| 16912s | trying to probe around and poke out and |
| 16914s | it is going to end in a big yikes |
| 16915s | Victory but it's not going to go to 100 |
| 16917s | but of course they got the loot from the |
| 16918s | barges which is what they were really |
| 16920s | really interested in here of course the |
| 16921s | Scimitar the authors all that stuff you |
| 16922s | know it's just Tech too fit nobody cares |
| 16924s | but the Bargas is the real that's the |
| 16926s | real juice that they were looking to |
| 16927s | drop |
| 16929s | and with that uh we have one minute left |
| 16933s | in the match sorry 40 seconds left in |
| 16934s | the match and uh they'd lose another |
| 16937s | ship I believe that was the Osprey Navy |
| 16938s | issue uh being taken down big yikes |
| 16941s | didn't make it a completely clean |
| 16942s | Victory they did uh lose a couple ships |
| 16945s | the megas the jackdaw but other than |
| 16947s | that have flown incredibly well and I'm |
| 16950s | excited to see how the desk determine or |
| 16953s | how the desk analyzes this match yeah I |
| 16956s | think what we've seen here is uh sort of |
| 16957s | a justification for why teams are |
| 16959s | Banning the Battlegrounds so frequently |
| 16960s | because this ship is damn powerful it's |
| 16962s | very very good |
| 16964s | it is very very good you got the webs |
| 16966s | you can't make it a flagship can't have |
| 16968s | the officer webs or the uh uh extra |
| 16970s | range news from officer Dead Space newts |
| 16973s | on it but still uh having that extra |
| 16975s | range webs on a battleship that is so |
| 16977s | tanky and relatively fast for an armor |
| 16979s | Battleship can be so powerful and you |
| 16981s | just need to get one Target and blows |
| 16983s | the match right open we're gonna send |
| 16985s | her back to the desk but when we return |
| 16986s | it'll be Fancy Pants Alliance versus |
| 16988s | Brave Collective |
| 17001s | thank you |
| 17011s | thank you |
| 17035s | connected Channel switched well it would |
| 17038s | have been a easy fight right but guess |
| 17039s | what dude I'm not if seeing it people |
| 17041s | can't get together |
| 17047s | [Music] |
| 17080s | I'm sure the Basilisk will be uh rather |
| 17083s | heartbroken about that he's lost a whole |
| 17085s | chunk of his investment there and of |
| 17087s | course losing your Flagship bar gas |
| 17089s | means that you cannot bring it again in |
| 17090s | the future uh and that means the rest of |
| 17093s | the term is just harder like you can no |
| 17094s | longer Dodge bands you can no longer |
| 17096s | threaten even the Dodge bands uh the |
| 17099s | people know that these guys have already |
| 17100s | fed that ship so rather unfortunate for |
| 17102s | them uh is they're still in the |
| 17104s | tournament this is a double elimination |
| 17105s | tournament so uh they can still fight |
| 17107s | through the losers bracket and see if |
| 17108s | they can get back up to the Grand Final |
| 17109s | but if they do so it will be Sans flag |
| 17112s | bargest now Blackboard pirate uh what |
| 17115s | happened there because it looked to me |
| 17116s | that that bar guest was caught but bar I |
| 17119s | guess we're pretty fast and Katie like |
| 17121s | what happened it's it's hard to say uh |
| 17124s | exactly what happened there because I |
| 17126s | don't want to be too toxic to somebody |
| 17128s | that just lost a 22 billion is |
| 17130s | Battleship as I'm sure they're very sad |
| 17132s | as is Baza |
| 17134s | um but |
| 17135s | baltrum did get tackled he got grappled |
| 17138s | which that doesn't really do all that |
| 17139s | much but then the balgorn webs were able |
| 17142s | to kind of catch up to him and the thing |
| 17144s | is is like a Bargas is a pretty fast |
| 17146s | ship it's compared to balgorn but you |
| 17150s | know thinking about it like it's really |
| 17151s | easy to say well how do you get caught |
| 17152s | when your ship is like significantly |
| 17154s | faster than the other one well the arena |
| 17156s | is a sphere so you do have to kind of |
| 17157s | like you can get cut off and I think |
| 17160s | it's more more likely to say that like |
| 17161s | the balgorn piloting like the Confessor |
| 17163s | potting the tackle on big yikes's side |
| 17165s | was actually very very good and as soon |
| 17168s | as that Vargas got caught like that was |
| 17170s | it |
| 17170s | um I do think uh actually actually B had |
| 17173s | a comment about uh Target calling a |
| 17176s | little bit and like missiles and you |
| 17177s | know over what was it tunnel visioning |
| 17179s | yeah I think they focused the uh the |
| 17181s | Confessor a little bit too long |
| 17183s | um we saw that in practice a couple of |
| 17184s | times where confides are just way |
| 17186s | tankier than what people expect it to be |
| 17187s | and if you clip half your clip into it |
| 17190s | and you have to go and reload you're |
| 17191s | kind of done for I think they wasted |
| 17193s | about a minute at least shooting the |
| 17195s | Confessor and I think that was what lost |
| 17197s | the the match for them yeah so you |
| 17199s | mentioned clipping there um can we just |
| 17201s | can you just explain a little bit like |
| 17202s | what that means in this context in this |
| 17204s | context it means using your rapid light |
| 17206s | which is kind of a pre-loaded damage |
| 17208s | system where you shoot a lot of missiles |
| 17210s | and you have to go and reload for a long |
| 17211s | long time and in a 10 minute match that |
| 17214s | is an eternity when you're having to |
| 17215s | reload again |
| 17216s | yeah in fact if you watch the uh Arena |
| 17220s | um scene you will see that there's bars |
| 17221s | above each team for attack defense and |
| 17224s | control and in fact the attack bar we |
| 17227s | were watching it as the astarte was |
| 17229s | about to go into Hull and we're waiting |
| 17230s | to see if they were going to clip and |
| 17231s | you can tell when rapid light and Rapid |
| 17233s | heavy ships clip because you see the a |
| 17235s | potential attack bar to jump down |
| 17237s | briefly as they go into reload then it |
| 17239s | comes back up um once they've uh once |
| 17241s | they've started reloading but you can |
| 17243s | tell that that is a ship that has just |
| 17244s | clipped and we were like can they break |
| 17246s | this before they clip five seconds later |
| 17248s | we saw it happen like oh that's it like |
| 17250s | they can't do this they have to try and |
| 17251s | save the bar gas but unfortunately it |
| 17254s | was not to be |
| 17255s | um so rather unfortunate for them as I |
| 17257s | said they are uh they're going to be |
| 17259s | seen again uh later on this weekend uh |
| 17261s | but for now let's look forward to our |
| 17263s | next match which is going to be Fancy |
| 17265s | Pants Alliance versus Brave Collective |
| 17267s | so let's take a look at the bands that |
| 17269s | we have here so Fancy Pants Alliance uh |
| 17271s | Banning the EOS Bargas and healer um |
| 17274s | which is again somewhat of a standard |
| 17276s | set of bands that point but if |
| 17277s | Collective Banning the cursed the |
| 17279s | Scimitar and the guardian uh bar |
| 17282s | anything like super interesting jump |
| 17284s | right here for you yeah both the uh both |
| 17286s | the Gila band and the guardian ban are |
| 17288s | really interesting so on the Fancy Pants |
| 17289s | side they've basically signaled to Brave |
| 17292s | that they really really really really |
| 17293s | don't want to see drones uh we did see a |
| 17296s | drone set up by I believe Darkseid |
| 17299s | earlier that did not have eos's in it |
| 17302s | um and it did have gilas but they died |
| 17303s | very very fast uh if you get rid of both |
| 17305s | the EOS and the Gila you're kind of only |
| 17307s | left with like ishtar's I guess |
| 17310s | technically Navy dominics's uh regular |
| 17313s | dominix's and like stratioses and a lot |
| 17315s | of those ships um and like vector navies |
| 17317s | but a lot of those have actually been |
| 17318s | nerfed over the last couple years to not |
| 17321s | have the ability to feel as many drones |
| 17322s | as they used to have so Fancy Pants is |
| 17324s | basically saying please don't send |
| 17325s | drones against us Brave banding the |
| 17327s | guardian is a little strange I think |
| 17329s | that traditionally we actually see much |
| 17332s | more eos's than Guardians and in general |
| 17335s | most people consider the uh not a yeah |
| 17338s | onerouses than Guardians most people |
| 17340s | consider the ineros to be a much |
| 17342s | Superior armor logistic ship so that one |
| 17345s | kind of questions like why did you ban a |
| 17347s | guardian instead of an oneros I guess we |
| 17350s | will find out at some point in you know |
| 17351s | the next five to ten minutes but yeah |
| 17354s | it's a little weird Let's uh let's take |
| 17355s | a quick look at the brave team history |
| 17358s | in the alliance tournament uh and say |
| 17360s | 7-0 to |
| 17362s | um dunk Dinkel of course who has just |
| 17364s | stepped down as the leader of Brave |
| 17365s | Collective handing over to jinx to care |
| 17367s | Brave Collective uh they flew in with 48 |
| 17370s | different pilots in the past |
| 17372s | um Yuki Yukiko sorry was a rather famous |
| 17375s | person he flew in the CSM uh captained |
| 17378s | with them and of course we had catalya |
| 17380s | Mist as well AKA CCP Aurora who's fluent |
| 17384s | as well so they've done all right in the |
| 17386s | in the past they've won more matches |
| 17387s | than they've lost uh fear Vina one of |
| 17389s | our Casters in Brave assures me that |
| 17390s | brave are going to do nothing but lose |
| 17392s | this tournament so we're waiting to see |
| 17394s | they've previously won against a bunch |
| 17396s | of good team to be honest uh I mean |
| 17398s | Weekend Warriors a decent team buying |
| 17400s | the park pretty good team uh test |
| 17401s | Alliance please know it at that time in |
| 17403s | line 315 we're a good team and as we're |
| 17405s | thermodynamics but I believe we are |
| 17408s | ready to go to the arena |
| 17411s | teams are landing uh so we're not ready |
| 17413s | to go through here just yet so let's |
| 17415s | have a let's have a quick prediction so |
| 17417s | black bear pirate uh do you believe fear |
| 17420s | when he tells us that brave are in his |
| 17421s | own words garbage or do you think we're |
| 17423s | going to see a good Brave team here I |
| 17426s | don't believe a single thing that fear |
| 17427s | says |
| 17428s | um I honestly Brave has consistently |
| 17430s | been at least some degree of competent |
| 17433s | in the alliance tournament regardless of |
| 17434s | how they are on TQ which they're not bad |
| 17436s | right now but like sometimes they are |
| 17437s | horrible the Braves generally pretty |
| 17439s | decent at the alliance tournament |
| 17441s | I'm over ucpb is it fancy pants are the |
| 17444s | pants fancy enough in this case or is it |
| 17445s | brief Collective do you think now even |
| 17447s | though I like their logo it's absolutely |
| 17449s | fantastic uh Brave I think is gonna take |
| 17451s | this |
| 17452s | um they have definitely grown over the |
| 17453s | years I've seen it myself and fighting |
| 17455s | them over multiple years they've gotten |
| 17457s | a lot better they're no longer Brave |
| 17459s | newbies I think they're just Brave now |
| 17460s | there you go so casters crushed |
| 17462s | potentially in full effect here as we go |
| 17463s | to the arena to see Fancy Pants Alliance |
| 17465s | can take it over Brave Collective |
| 17473s | welcome back to the arena and we are |
| 17475s | seeing Brave Collective bringing a |
| 17476s | triple Battleship comp here with a bunch |
| 17478s | of battleships that we've seen a couple |
| 17480s | times in the day and a couple times |
| 17481s | banned the Armageddon Navy has actually |
| 17482s | snuck through the band phase here again |
| 17484s | partnered with the little Shack and |
| 17485s | Tempest Lisa it's a fairly standard |
| 17487s | triple BS armor core here in fear what |
| 17489s | are you thinking about Fancy Pants the |
| 17491s | brass Shield Rush as armor control |
| 17493s | versus Shield rush and this time around |
| 17495s | it's worth mentioning do jack in the |
| 17497s | urban getting Navy that is a gun |
| 17499s | Armageddon Navy it's got lasers on it |
| 17501s | doesn't have rapid heavy missile |
| 17502s | launchers Grant you you can fit both to |
| 17504s | the ship we'll see how that one plays |
| 17506s | out in this particular tournament still |
| 17508s | has that powerful Newt available to him |
| 17511s | but Shield Rush we've seen at this |
| 17513s | tournament it's done particularly well |
| 17514s | against a lot of these cars look at the |
| 17517s | hair attack bar from Fancy Pants it is |
| 17518s | absolutely massive compared to Braves |
| 17521s | yeah that's a really good spot actually |
| 17522s | about the guns on the geta Navy because |
| 17524s | obviously everyone's Focus has been you |
| 17525s | know the Armageddon Navy now I can fit |
| 17527s | missiles and I think personally that is |
| 17529s | potentially the stronger configuration |
| 17531s | in this sort of uh setting where you're |
| 17533s | focused on taking down a particular ship |
| 17534s | and then moving on to the next Target I |
| 17536s | think rapid Heavy's burst of damage |
| 17538s | gives you that that sort of power and |
| 17540s | that win condition as it were |
| 17542s | um |
| 17543s | but yeah a gun get a Navy I don't think |
| 17545s | we've seen one of those before but it |
| 17548s | will at least diversify the damage types |
| 17549s | of course the shack is uh I believe |
| 17551s | thermal explosive and the getter Navy is |
| 17553s | going to be em so |
| 17554s | any reactives on the other side but of |
| 17556s | course they've come against the Shield |
| 17557s | comp so that is effectively moot |
| 17559s | yep Shield Rush from the side of phantom |
| 17562s | Panther moving in forward cold fuzz and |
| 17564s | the Muller gonna be playing screen for |
| 17566s | the rest of Brave as the battleships try |
| 17568s | to cut away they've got some damage onto |
| 17569s | reward Jenkins in this Scythe Fleet |
| 17571s | issue and he is diving uh pretty low in |
| 17574s | the shield already but the thought you |
| 17576s | have Aryan fellow uh appears to have |
| 17577s | been caught potentially by fancy pads |
| 17580s | yeah this is at the start just looking |
| 17582s | like a very similar to the match between |
| 17584s | Odin's and Laser Hawks at the end of the |
| 17586s | the feeder tournament here and this |
| 17588s | Maller is doing the perfect job exactly |
| 17590s | as he should as it has happened in that |
| 17591s | match cold fuzz sort of staying back as |
| 17593s | his team Burns away and just trying to |
| 17595s | tackle something down I think the slept |
| 17597s | near of Jeffrey might have got past him |
| 17599s | I think he went for him and he managed |
| 17600s | to get past him but he's instead managed |
| 17601s | to scramble scram on zarthal instead so |
| 17603s | he is keeping this sleptner uh sort of |
| 17605s | in no man's land which is exactly what |
| 17607s | you want to do with this Mala because |
| 17608s | that means the sleptner then can't |
| 17609s | really project anything except the |
| 17610s | mallard in a rush comp like this you |
| 17612s | want all of your DPS applied to the same |
| 17614s | Target at the same time and just with |
| 17615s | break things down very very quickly and |
| 17617s | if the sleptner is stuck in the middle |
| 17619s | of nowhere he obviously can't really do |
| 17620s | that yeah it's a higher burden of |
| 17622s | execution when you play the kite versus |
| 17624s | The Rush shot up but if you have the |
| 17625s | ability to screen off the rush it can't |
| 17627s | go well in your favorite Sim suit what's |
| 17629s | being primaried by brave for a little |
| 17631s | bit but it looks like they've swapped |
| 17632s | onto Lish syndolos in the Nighthawk the |
| 17636s | captain for Fancy Pants Alliance is now |
| 17638s | the primary for brave as lfl and simple |
| 17640s | goes low but looks like she's in |
| 17642s | defensive mode so uh she will be |
| 17644s | difficult to kill on the smaller of Cold |
| 17646s | Plus has been holding this near of |
| 17649s | zarthal off of the team and the attack |
| 17651s | bar even though uh they've got a really |
| 17654s | big one they can't use it all at the |
| 17655s | same time this Nighthawk of Lish now |
| 17657s | into very low Shields yeah this is |
| 17660s | really not looking good for fancy pants |
| 17661s | because when you're in a situation like |
| 17662s | this like I said you need all of your |
| 17663s | rush to be in the same place on the same |
| 17665s | Target and now that they ignored the |
| 17667s | Maller at the start they said okay they |
| 17668s | sort of committed to the fight they said |
| 17669s | Okay zaful's a lost cause but if he's a |
| 17672s | lost cause he's basically as good as |
| 17673s | dead so at this point in the match |
| 17674s | although they're both alive fancy pants |
| 17676s | are effectively down a slept near until |
| 17678s | they can kill off this Malla but the |
| 17680s | rest of the team already burned in onto |
| 17682s | Brave so they would now have to turn |
| 17683s | around and go back to deal with the Mala |
| 17685s | and then of course that would give Brave |
| 17687s | Collective more time to kite around |
| 17688s | which is exactly what they want to do so |
| 17690s | I feel like this is a critical error |
| 17691s | here from Fancy Pants and just accepting |
| 17693s | the loss of the slept near from from |
| 17695s | being in a useful position |
| 17697s | and the Scythe leadership gets deleted |
| 17699s | or staff of leadership excuse me gets |
| 17701s | deleted uh from Brave killing off the |
| 17704s | side of Fancy Pants now they're on the |
| 17706s | size Fleet issue this is something that |
| 17707s | we saw a lot earlier on in the |
| 17708s | tournament from a lot of good teams they |
| 17710s | take out the Navy Cruisers first before |
| 17712s | the battle Cruisers and the command |
| 17713s | ships Brave decided they can kill a |
| 17715s | Nighthawk and then they're right back |
| 17717s | onto these Navy battle Cruisers one |
| 17718s | remaining and there are high DPS for |
| 17720s | points the Scythe Fleet issue going down |
| 17722s | very very low remember only T1 frigate |
| 17724s | logic The Phantom of the birth they |
| 17725s | can't keep him up against this little |
| 17727s | Shack and it looks like Brave should be |
| 17729s | able to win this match from here on out |
| 17731s | yeah they are still going to have three |
| 17732s | command ships when this Mala does |
| 17734s | finally go down I think they are gonna |
| 17735s | finally break him but I don't think it's |
| 17737s | going to be enough against three |
| 17738s | battleships that are left plus the you |
| 17740s | know the tech two lodgy frigates but |
| 17741s | yeah I think as you say killing off |
| 17743s | those faction cruises is critical |
| 17744s | because they don't really have |
| 17746s | projection they need to be on top of you |
| 17747s | which makes them Prime targets they |
| 17749s | don't have Tech 2 resists so the ratio |
| 17751s | of DPS that you can get from them in |
| 17753s | terms of how long it takes to kill them |
| 17754s | is very very favorable to just look at |
| 17756s | them first and wipe them off the grid |
| 17757s | and now Jeffrey in the in the other |
| 17760s | sleptner is going to take chunks and I |
| 17762s | think he's actually going to die before |
| 17763s | zyfl even manages to get on the scene |
| 17765s | here |
| 17766s | finally killed cold fuzz but that Mauler |
| 17769s | did exactly what it needed to do playing |
| 17771s | the kite versus The Shield Rush setup |
| 17772s | you screen one they did not turn on him |
| 17774s | as you mentioned a big mistake Jeffrey |
| 17776s | goes down zarthel's finally into the |
| 17778s | fight but now where's the rest of his |
| 17780s | team |
| 17781s | yeah it's a really good read on the |
| 17782s | situation from Brave here at the start |
| 17784s | of the match of course in Alliance |
| 17785s | tournament settings matches tend to |
| 17786s | snowball and the target calling and the |
| 17788s | objective calling of what you want to do |
| 17790s | what your what Your different ships need |
| 17792s | to do in that first minute that first |
| 17793s | two minutes is so so critical and for |
| 17795s | brave to say cold fuzz you need to stop |
| 17798s | one of these sleptness and he does his |
| 17799s | job perfectly he just absolutely pins |
| 17801s | Downs off or stops him from committing |
| 17803s | helping doing anything in this match |
| 17805s | really until it's basically over |
| 17806s | fantastic job from Brave here really |
| 17808s | really good |
| 17810s | yeah and this is something I think a lot |
| 17813s | of people might not expect from the the |
| 17815s | brave team traditionally a team that has |
| 17817s | built uh itself up on these kind of |
| 17819s | lower execution higher meta uh style of |
| 17822s | comps but uh and a team that's been |
| 17824s | averse to kiting in the past we saw this |
| 17826s | time they're able to do that they've |
| 17828s | brought up a lot of Pilots that have |
| 17830s | been here since the AO uh a lot of |
| 17833s | Pilots that people might not recognize |
| 17834s | from Days of Glory past we don't have |
| 17836s | John LeBlanc we don't have uh yukikukami |
| 17838s | but at the same time good pilots on this |
| 17840s | team and uh now they're gonna be facing |
| 17843s | big yikes in the next round that's gonna |
| 17844s | be an exciting one to watch |
| 17846s | yeah of course I think their roster is |
| 17849s | bolstered here by the addition of some |
| 17851s | mercenaries as well of course cableuta |
| 17852s | very experienced pilot turned up last |
| 17854s | year don't think he did particularly |
| 17856s | well but you know he's got an alliance |
| 17857s | tournament experience |
| 17859s | um and yeah I mean I'm not sure |
| 17861s | I maybe you can offer some more input |
| 17863s | into who is sort of the theory crafting |
| 17864s | and Target calling and you know like |
| 17866s | yeah |
| 17870s | [Music] |
| 17871s | still uh I mean bringing mercenaries |
| 17874s | online I mean we see some members uh |
| 17876s | technically mercenaries from uh the uh |
| 17879s | alafil for example she's from uh Brave |
| 17881s | United so technically a mercenary even |
| 17883s | though she's part of the greater Brave |
| 17885s | family |
| 17886s | um and I'm really excited to see how the |
| 17889s | team does in the tournament I know I was |
| 17890s | downplaying our potential for success in |
| 17892s | the pre-show uh psyops worked where |
| 17894s | we're we're gonna go to the Moon I swear |
| 17897s | I'm kidding |
| 17898s | well I mean if this matches anything to |
| 17901s | go by I've got good expectations |
| 17903s | honestly because it's it's these sort of |
| 17905s | fundamentals that can help get a team |
| 17907s | through the early stages even if you |
| 17909s | haven't quite got the right grasp of the |
| 17911s | meta or you know you haven't got the |
| 17913s | perfect comps as we saw earlier in the |
| 17915s | day I mean in the very first match we |
| 17917s | saw truth whatever they're called |
| 17919s | Justice League bring what basically to |
| 17921s | me at the outset looked like a kitchen |
| 17923s | sink kind of comp |
| 17925s | um and just through Target calling and |
| 17927s | execution |
| 17928s | um |
| 17929s | bring out a commanding Victory if you |
| 17931s | can Master those aspects of Target |
| 17933s | calling and just identifying what your |
| 17934s | comp wants to do and what you need to do |
| 17936s | in a certain matchup to win the match |
| 17937s | that's a very very powerful skill to |
| 17940s | have and with that brave Collective are |
| 17941s | going to take it home 100 to eight and |
| 17943s | after this I believe we're going to |
| 17945s | start to see teams eliminated so we've |
| 17947s | got three more matches today before we |
| 17949s | send it back after we send it back to |
| 17950s | the desk |
| 17951s | um and yeah one of three of those teams |
| 17953s | are going to be going home |
| 17978s | [Music] |
| 17983s | Yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP |
| 17986s | collectively so that's why that Alliance |
| 17988s | logo is in the game of course you could |
| 17990s | change your alliance by leaving but that |
| 17992s | would be kind of a jerk move that kind |
| 17994s | of oh you don't like it now sucks I'm |
| 17996s | gonna go join |
| 18004s | [Music] |
| 18007s | thank you |
| 18013s | welcome to Eve Pandora |
| 18040s | [Music] |
| 18044s | foreign |
| 18045s | Collective taking a commanding Victory |
| 18048s | there uh over Fancy Pants Alliance and I |
| 18050s | knew it I said this during the tour less |
| 18052s | stream that we did Brave is going to be |
| 18053s | good fear tried to convince us otherwise |
| 18056s | I didn't believe him I was right to not |
| 18057s | believe him uh they're going to be a |
| 18059s | strong team uh this year for sure they |
| 18061s | flew very well there they had a good |
| 18063s | comp they executed fancy pants are not a |
| 18065s | bad team at all so being able to pull |
| 18067s | out a commanding Victory right there |
| 18069s | like that makes me uh have a high hopes |
| 18071s | for the brave Collective team now I'm |
| 18074s | joined uh once again on the desk by some |
| 18076s | incredible people and Nash cadaver uh |
| 18079s | Nash how are you today I'm very good |
| 18081s | thank you it's uh getting tired towards |
| 18083s | the end of the day now we're getting |
| 18084s | through it yeah it certainly it's a long |
| 18087s | day especially standing on your feet I |
| 18088s | think that's how small you were Nash |
| 18090s | it's a bad posture oh it's actually |
| 18092s | really tall but no Nash we've been doing |
| 18095s | this uh for for a very long time uh as |
| 18098s | part of evnt uh take me right back to |
| 18100s | when it all started the very first event |
| 18102s | here in Nottingham uh I'll skip all the |
| 18106s | boring details but yes it's been it's |
| 18107s | been a fair few years we're just trying |
| 18109s | to reminisce how long it's been but |
| 18110s | we've been involved with the alliance |
| 18111s | tournament since I think 8011 so that |
| 18114s | must be at least seven years ago right |
| 18116s | so started with uh with Bay RJ my |
| 18119s | partner in crime who's continued this uh |
| 18122s | and still does it you know especially |
| 18124s | he's in a great position now in the the |
| 18125s | college that he teaches at |
| 18127s | um where we now get to use some of the |
| 18129s | the students that he teaches in the |
| 18131s | Esports scene which yeah the team has |
| 18133s | been absolutely incredible other than |
| 18135s | the event team we're we're about 15 |
| 18136s | strong here today on top of that we've |
| 18139s | got about 10 students who've like |
| 18140s | literally made this a dream today I |
| 18142s | think best best production I've |
| 18144s | experienced so far yeah it's been super |
| 18146s | smooth like um these these students have |
| 18148s | come in they've helped set up all the |
| 18149s | lighting all the cameras they've been |
| 18151s | doing all the framing uh they've been |
| 18152s | doing all the heavy lifting I just stand |
| 18153s | here and they spent like about four |
| 18155s | hours on Friday like setting up all |
| 18157s | these lights there's so many lights it's |
| 18158s | such a challenge to light this room |
| 18160s | because we have a curved gigantic video |
| 18162s | wall |
| 18163s | um and no matter how you set things up |
| 18165s | there's like shadows and like blows out |
| 18167s | the wall or makes us not bright enough |
| 18168s | but they've done a really great job uh |
| 18170s | like making everything look fantastic |
| 18173s | um and there's like over 30 people |
| 18175s | working on this production right now so |
| 18177s | obviously we have about maybe 25 people |
| 18179s | here in the venue doing all sorts of |
| 18182s | things things Runners Sound audio |
| 18184s | lighting like all the tech stuff I've |
| 18187s | got people editing those those little |
| 18189s | replay Clips you're seeing stats refs |
| 18192s | we've got camera operators there's a |
| 18194s | host we've got some amazing desk people |
| 18196s | as well and then of course we've got our |
| 18198s | online casters so there's over 30 people |
| 18200s | bringing this this whole production to |
| 18203s | you which is which is incredible if you |
| 18206s | compare to where we start you know the |
| 18207s | whole uh doing it from the bedroom yeah |
| 18209s | this is a bit different exactly and ccpb |
| 18212s | how is this sort of production compared |
| 18214s | to like you know you've been doing your |
| 18216s | huge twitch streams at home like it's a |
| 18218s | one-man show obviously like what's it |
| 18220s | like coming into these huge Studio |
| 18221s | setups I was very impressed coming here |
| 18223s | I I didn't know what to expect when I |
| 18225s | was coming here I hadn't done any |
| 18226s | research on how many people would be |
| 18228s | here so I was blown away when I was like |
| 18229s | oh there's 30 40 people here I expected |
| 18232s | it to be like you know five six seven of |
| 18234s | us and then it's just this gigantic cool |
| 18236s | studio with the screen I was seeing |
| 18238s | videos of it coming here I was like okay |
| 18239s | okay this is a lot bigger than I thought |
| 18241s | yeah yeah awesome there's so many people |
| 18243s | who've made this possible and for me |
| 18246s | just like thank you to everyone who's |
| 18247s | been involved to make this happen uh |
| 18249s | National like I say you've been involved |
| 18251s | in this from the very start |
| 18253s | um and just like looking back like |
| 18255s | what's been like the the highlights over |
| 18257s | the last sort of like eight years of |
| 18258s | doing this |
| 18259s | um it's always the production production |
| 18261s | days are always the best uh I know the |
| 18263s | period leading up to the alliance |
| 18264s | tournament are incredibly intensive and |
| 18266s | there's uh an incredible amount of prep |
| 18268s | that goes into it and |
| 18270s | um uh I've been very fortunate to to be |
| 18273s | you know working these projects with Bay |
| 18275s | and he's been for the last three its |
| 18277s | been working very hard in the background |
| 18279s | and in the lead up to these projects |
| 18281s | that make this all happen |
| 18283s | um General Star days sorry uh CP zealous |
| 18285s | as uh has done a massive amount of work |
| 18288s | to make this one happen |
| 18289s | um and I'm very fortunate to just show |
| 18291s | up and uh and come on a day and do do a |
| 18295s | couple of bits and to manage the floor a |
| 18297s | little bit and try and keep everybody |
| 18298s | happy so yeah I've got a relatively easy |
| 18300s | job these days yeah I mean there's a |
| 18302s | important job like back in the day |
| 18303s | though one of your main jobs was running |
| 18305s | around changing the batteries for all of |
| 18306s | our our mic packs but now we've got |
| 18308s | these cool cool headsets because we're |
| 18310s | pro Gamers now so we have wires and |
| 18312s | that's what the pros use they don't use |
| 18314s | wireless anymore like that's one less |
| 18317s | thing to have to run around and do thank |
| 18319s | God now speaking of playing Eve you've |
| 18322s | uh you took a little bit of a break I |
| 18324s | had your back |
| 18325s | um last I saw you had uh your your |
| 18328s | fortune was still alive 300 |
| 18329s | billion-esque about like well a month |
| 18331s | ago how's that going have you been |
| 18332s | investing in it like has it has it been |
| 18334s | going |
| 18335s | um it's I mean I have to I didn't quite |
| 18338s | remember how difficult Eve was |
| 18340s | um I thought it was like you know it's |
| 18342s | going to be quite easy to get back into |
| 18343s | the swing of things |
| 18345s | um I've not necessarily invested a 300 |
| 18347s | Bill I've uh kind of pretty much sort of |
| 18350s | lost it all in the last four weeks just |
| 18353s | trying to learn the game again it's it's |
| 18354s | been a it's been a tough ride I have to |
| 18356s | say I tried a little bit most people try |
| 18358s | and Learn by doing nice simple cheap |
| 18360s | things what is it you've been doing with |
| 18362s | your your 300 billionesque |
| 18364s | well abyssals he's been doing a vessels |
| 18367s | stuff I have to say it's it's hard it's |
| 18371s | hard yes this man is 300 billion into |
| 18373s | the abyss |
| 18374s | Swift he put it you're stimulating the |
| 18377s | economy that's that's what I'm doing you |
| 18379s | know I'm Health in the eve economy you |
| 18381s | know I've learned a lot spending and |
| 18383s | blowing up my 300 bill in four weeks yes |
| 18385s | it's been quantitative easing for the |
| 18387s | eve economy |
| 18388s | all right let's have a look at our next |
| 18390s | match which is going to be our hill now |
| 18392s | versus Deepwater Hooligans and then |
| 18394s | let's see what bands uh these teams have |
| 18396s | chosen to to bring so I will now |
| 18399s | bringing uh are Banning locate scorpion |
| 18401s | Navy issue Scimitar and Deepwater |
| 18403s | Hooligans Banning Out The Vindicator |
| 18404s | typhoon Fleet issue and the Armageddon |
| 18407s | Armageddon Navy issue Nash what do these |
| 18409s | bands say to you here |
| 18412s | well it's a very interesting choice |
| 18415s | um I would certainly have bounced the |
| 18417s | Scorpion Navy issue as well you never |
| 18418s | know with all those uh gems I think it |
| 18420s | does so yeah that'd be uh yes good shout |
| 18422s | excellent choice and what would you |
| 18424s | bring again to say what Deep Water band |
| 18426s | here they've banned out a Vindicated |
| 18427s | type and Fleet issue Armageddon Navy |
| 18429s | issue what would you bring against that |
| 18430s | uh probably a shield card comp would |
| 18433s | work really well against this |
| 18435s | possibly I'm not 100 sure I'll I'll wait |
| 18438s | and see until the result is in okay |
| 18441s | nice nice commitment right there and uh |
| 18444s | ccpb |
| 18446s | um what what jumps out here like we've |
| 18448s | seen a bunch of Loki bands the semitar |
| 18449s | codes are very very powerful uh Shield |
| 18452s | Logistics Cruiser |
| 18453s | um which is certainly going to make it |
| 18455s | more difficult to bring that Shield kite |
| 18456s | income because everything it's the main |
| 18457s | Shield kiting Logistics Cruiser uh that |
| 18460s | has been banned |
| 18462s | um what do you what do you think we |
| 18464s | might see well what jumps out at me here |
| 18465s | is there's three Battleship bands from |
| 18467s | Deepwater I'm not sure what they're |
| 18469s | thinking exactly but I guess we're going |
| 18470s | to find out in just a few minutes |
| 18472s | yeah definitely uh let's take a look at |
| 18474s | some of the uh the history of these |
| 18475s | teams so uh let's look at deep water |
| 18477s | first |
| 18480s | here we are so Deepwater Hooligans uh 19 |
| 18483s | Pilots have flown for this team uh in |
| 18485s | their history in the alliance tournament |
| 18486s | and they've had one win and uh five |
| 18489s | losses I think that says five |
| 18491s | um and that is not the best record for |
| 18493s | them uh to Max zero uh has been around |
| 18495s | for a while |
| 18496s | um in a couple of different Corps I |
| 18497s | believe including Phil broadside back in |
| 18499s | the day and they beat uh Hard Knock |
| 18501s | citizens last year in Alliance |
| 18503s | tournament 17 uh losing to both arrival |
| 18506s | and local is primary pretty reasonable |
| 18508s | teams to lose against like a rival or a |
| 18510s | solid team uh we've lost against them |
| 18512s | earlier on today uh local is primary |
| 18514s | again last year did really well write my |
| 18516s | title |
| 18517s | um they were pretty reasonable last year |
| 18519s | they lost probably one of the most |
| 18520s | expensive ships uh none on tournament |
| 18522s | ships in either online history uh losing |
| 18525s | I think it was like a three or four |
| 18527s | hundred billion is uh faction uh sorry |
| 18529s | Dead Space Abyssal um bar guest uh yeah |
| 18532s | that was a very expensive one |
| 18533s | unfortunately we couldn't see it because |
| 18535s | it was Abyssal so everything was one-isk |
| 18537s | but uh I was told very explicitly it was |
| 18540s | incredibly expensive now let's take a |
| 18543s | look at our hill now I'm never sure how |
| 18546s | to pronounce but they have I also lost |
| 18548s | one match that is today uh they have 10 |
| 18550s | people fly which makes sense because |
| 18552s | they've they filmed one match and that |
| 18554s | was today as well and you can only have |
| 18555s | up to 10 people and unfortunately have |
| 18557s | yet to win a match uh but they lost |
| 18558s | against probably one of the best teams |
| 18560s | the current defending Champions |
| 18561s | essentially in truth honor light so |
| 18564s | there is no shame in losing to that team |
| 18567s | whatsoever now at csbb you've been |
| 18570s | flying and practicing and screaming with |
| 18571s | uh truth on the light essentially |
| 18574s | um taking me through all of their comps |
| 18576s | in great detail not a chance they'll uh |
| 18578s | they'll execute me |
| 18579s | it has been an eye-opener though |
| 18582s | um like I said I'm very new to this |
| 18584s | scene of of the whole tournament and |
| 18586s | just getting to sit there and watch the |
| 18588s | theory craft there's an endless amount |
| 18591s | of the same comp but tweak it a little |
| 18592s | bit it's it's eye-opening how How Deeply |
| 18596s | seriously they take this and I can |
| 18597s | understand why I mean they they they're |
| 18600s | really good at the game you can see this |
| 18601s | when they went and did a |
| 18604s | the nosec deployment that I was with |
| 18606s | them fairly recently as well |
| 18608s | um but then when they take it this is |
| 18609s | like a whole new level the depths they |
| 18611s | go to yeah and they have some of the |
| 18613s | best year Crafters in in history of the |
| 18615s | game uh I mean people like Kadesh for |
| 18617s | example I use a maintainer of pifer uh |
| 18619s | just an absolute wizard with uh with |
| 18621s | spaceship fittings |
| 18623s | um but anyway speaking of other teams |
| 18625s | ahil Now versus deep water hooligan the |
| 18627s | red squash the arena and find out who's |
| 18629s | going to win between these two teams |
| 18636s | welcome back to the arena everybody we |
| 18638s | got deep water Hooligans coming up |
| 18639s | against and take note Ithaca I believe |
| 18641s | it's our hail now |
| 18643s | um our hail now seem to have brought |
| 18646s | this lashac Armageddon comp with three |
| 18648s | pirate Cruisers and deep water on the |
| 18650s | other side fear have got |
| 18652s | all the shack with uh no pirate Cruisers |
| 18655s | but quite a bit of low end and some jams |
| 18657s | in a griffin |
| 18659s | and uh |
| 18660s | uh so are we getting the shack versus |
| 18662s | Doula Shack let's talk about this |
| 18664s | matchup a little bit because I've heard |
| 18667s | people like the Armageddon Le Shack more |
| 18669s | I've heard people like the Dola Shack |
| 18670s | more what are your thoughts |
| 18672s | uh I think it depends how the Armageddon |
| 18674s | is fit and this Armageddon doesn't seem |
| 18676s | to have any guns at all so I'm gonna |
| 18679s | assume this is like a full Newt and NOS |
| 18682s | Armageddon which is obviously very very |
| 18683s | dangerous for Le Shack to come up |
| 18685s | against |
| 18686s | um because if you can keep cycling those |
| 18688s | newts on them just Spam them you know |
| 18690s | heavy Newt Cycles 24 seconds if you put |
| 18692s | four newts on one Le Shack they're |
| 18693s | cycling every six seconds if you stagger |
| 18695s | them there's no way he can keep his gun |
| 18696s | running the whole time and you will stop |
| 18698s | his spool and he is then essentially a |
| 18700s | 25 Point bag of nothing |
| 18705s | yeah and uh this kind of armor control |
| 18708s | mirror match one that we've seen many |
| 18711s | times in aet's past not necessarily this |
| 18713s | particular version of the comps uh but |
| 18716s | still uh when you see armor control |
| 18717s | mirror matchups it typically boils down |
| 18720s | to execution less so than what exact |
| 18723s | ships you brought we'll see which team |
| 18724s | has that higher execution as the match |
| 18726s | is about to go underway |
| 18728s | yeah I think these kind of comps are |
| 18729s | actually really interesting because |
| 18730s | although the top end is pretty |
| 18732s | frequently similar you see you know |
| 18733s | three Battleship core or double the |
| 18735s | shack but the stuff you can do in the |
| 18737s | low end makes it very very sort of |
| 18739s | varied in that regard some teams like |
| 18740s | armor Jack doors we saw a hecatee |
| 18742s | earlier this team has opted for a |
| 18743s | griffin which I don't think we've seen |
| 18744s | at all so far |
| 18746s | um so all you can as Bjorn was talking |
| 18747s | about earlier on uh well just now |
| 18750s | um how truth on a light go through their |
| 18752s | comps and they make minor alterations |
| 18753s | there's so many different |
| 18755s | little twists and turns of the Rubik's |
| 18757s | Cube you can come up with and try and |
| 18758s | figure out what comp is actually the one |
| 18760s | you want to run with |
| 18762s | um and it makes it very difficult for |
| 18763s | teams to sort of nail down what the best |
| 18765s | variant actually is so you come up you |
| 18767s | can see two Not Mirror comps but similar |
| 18770s | sort of archetypes come up against each |
| 18771s | other and not really be sure who |
| 18773s | actually has the upper hand here because |
| 18774s | both of these teams think theirs is |
| 18776s | obviously better |
| 18777s | yeah and it is an armor jacket in |
| 18779s | addition to that green uh Griffin from |
| 18781s | the side of Deepwater Hooligans and |
| 18783s | having that hyena for the tackle so you |
| 18785s | look at the control bar both of them |
| 18786s | pretty much maxed out uh hell not a |
| 18788s | slightly more because I got more modules |
| 18790s | but still uh either way they're going to |
| 18792s | do some poking and prodding see what |
| 18794s | they want to do because neither of these |
| 18795s | little Shacks from Deepwater Hooligans |
| 18797s | want to get under the newts of lover |
| 18800s | zero in the Armageddon yeah to my |
| 18802s | understanding the control bar is |
| 18803s | basically just a number of modules and |
| 18805s | of course as we said the Armageddon |
| 18806s | seems to be full new fit so that's going |
| 18809s | to help them out pretty heavily on that |
| 18810s | metric as well as the webs and |
| 18812s | presumably news on the ashimu |
| 18814s | um so yes it's pretty controlling on |
| 18816s | that side but they their control seems |
| 18818s | to be more in the top end in terms of |
| 18820s | those newts on the Armageddon they |
| 18821s | assuming whereas the low end on |
| 18823s | um the Deepwater hooligan side seems to |
| 18824s | be where they've packed their control |
| 18825s | presumably going to have some damps on |
| 18827s | the armor Jack door there's going to be |
| 18828s | some jams obviously on the Griffin |
| 18829s | they've got webs on the hyena so |
| 18833s | yep very slow play though another team |
| 18835s | really wanting to commit at the moment |
| 18836s | uh and they'll just be planking away |
| 18839s | with uh High uh range ammo from these |
| 18842s | little sharks the further away you are |
| 18844s | on the little Shacks probably better |
| 18845s | against this Armageddon uh not willing |
| 18847s | to deal with the new pressure but the |
| 18848s | scenarios of tamoxa appears to be the |
| 18850s | primary uh at least for now from ahayana |
| 18854s | yeah the thing is they need to be at the |
| 18856s | start both these teams neither of them |
| 18858s | is a particularly sort of fast comp in |
| 18860s | terms of having a massive impact earlier |
| 18861s | then neither of them are really rushy |
| 18863s | comps they're both quite attritional |
| 18864s | particularly in terms of new pressure so |
| 18866s | I think it's going to be critical when |
| 18868s | the fight suddenly switches on |
| 18870s | um whether or not deep water hooligans |
| 18872s | are able to deal with this Armageddon |
| 18873s | they may want to focus both of their |
| 18875s | Shacks on and instantly get rid of it |
| 18876s | because if that new pressure continues |
| 18878s | to attrition over the course but the |
| 18879s | ashimu now of kavegi is |
| 18882s | yeah tackled by the ishkar cynical makes |
| 18885s | the dive for the rest of his team now |
| 18886s | the rest of his team's starting to move |
| 18888s | forward including those two Le Shacks uh |
| 18890s | he's got the ADC he's got quite a bit of |
| 18892s | reps on top of him as well so he's going |
| 18894s | to try to get as much value out of that |
| 18897s | dive as possible uh he is webbed off |
| 18899s | himself though and doesn't have any |
| 18901s | remaining webs uh onto any members of |
| 18903s | our hill now so they've been able to |
| 18904s | peel him off for the time being but now |
| 18907s | uh Senegal dives into structure he's |
| 18910s | gonna get one last rap in and probably |
| 18911s | gonna fall yeah this seems to be sort of |
| 18914s | jumping the gun a little bit here by |
| 18915s | cynical we can see timox is doing |
| 18917s | everything he can to trying to keep this |
| 18918s | is corrupt but the the ashimu of |
| 18920s | kabegi's totally fine he's been wrapped |
| 18921s | up by his frigates he's managed to make |
| 18923s | it out but of course the ishko once he's |
| 18924s | in the middle of this situation he is |
| 18925s | not getting out so his life is now |
| 18927s | forfeit and it's up to |
| 18929s | um deep water to try and make something |
| 18931s | of his sacrifice otherwise they've |
| 18932s | effectively lost anishka for nothing but |
| 18934s | the rest of the team doesn't really seem |
| 18935s | to be pushing in with him here so I'm |
| 18937s | not that there seems to be a sort of I |
| 18939s | don't know like a a random push there |
| 18941s | from the wasn't particularly coordinated |
| 18943s | with the rest of the the members of his |
| 18944s | team and meanwhile doxler and Nathalia |
| 18946s | he's getting plinked away at the moment |
| 18948s | uh some tracking disruptors on to one of |
| 18950s | the little Shacks from Deepwater |
| 18951s | Hooligans uh not exactly sure where that |
| 18954s | one's coming from it doesn't really tell |
| 18956s | us but either way uh getting track |
| 18959s | disruptors onto a shack is always a |
| 18962s | great thing to do and the Salia duck |
| 18965s | Slayer I mean he's going into low armor |
| 18968s | and he hasn't really been wrapped up all |
| 18969s | that much I'm curious to see like how |
| 18971s | exactly that has happened there are |
| 18973s | newts on one of the Le Shacks now |
| 18975s | Crimson Serenity under the pressure of |
| 18977s | either the Armageddon or the uh |
| 18981s | fashion Moon newts looks like the |
| 18982s | Armageddon from him yeah duck Slayer |
| 18984s | catches back up I actually saw |
| 18986s | um the whole team there recall their |
| 18988s | damage Bots I think they had damage Bots |
| 18989s | out to kill the ishka and immediately |
| 18990s | put out rep Bots and issue them straight |
| 18992s | on to dark Slayer and duck Slayer |
| 18993s | catches just fine obviously he's keeping |
| 18995s | pretty significant ranges keeping his |
| 18997s | speed up quite distance from the enemy |
| 18998s | Fleet here so those rope belts are able |
| 19000s | to to you know leisurely get him back to |
| 19002s | full health but it is now Shanna who's |
| 19004s | gonna need reps in the Phantasm |
| 19006s | event has some pretty fast ship uh with |
| 19009s | that afterburner bonus we'll see how |
| 19011s | it's fit afterwards uh I think some |
| 19013s | people don't necessarily like to see |
| 19015s | tenement After Burner phantasms that |
| 19017s | aren't blings but uh either way |
| 19019s | resistant to scrams at the very least |
| 19021s | neither team really doing a whole lot of |
| 19023s | damage at the moment if you look at the |
| 19024s | attack bars they are pretty anemic |
| 19026s | compared to the rest this is really a |
| 19028s | war of attrition as you have mentioned |
| 19030s | earlier on in the match and that one |
| 19031s | kill might be the only one we see all |
| 19033s | match we're about halfway done and no |
| 19034s | one else has fallen |
| 19036s | yeah I think these Le Shacks are both |
| 19038s | still scared about the Armageddon but |
| 19040s | obviously with that loss they need to do |
| 19041s | something the onus is on them to make |
| 19043s | something happen here and yeah they're |
| 19045s | gonna need to do something about that |
| 19046s | Armageddon or the ashimu because |
| 19047s | otherwise if this match goes longer and |
| 19049s | longer and they they're in new Range |
| 19050s | deal with it yeah it goes down they're |
| 19054s | going to plank him out with long range |
| 19055s | ammo with a Sipple of x rander x is the |
| 19058s | primary from the side of uh all hell nah |
| 19062s | and simple Scott defensive mode can |
| 19065s | reduce the Sig still tracking from or |
| 19067s | Shack is very difficult to deal with |
| 19069s | especially uh with the rest of the |
| 19072s | utility that the side of our Hill Nas |
| 19075s | brought but he's able to rep back up to |
| 19076s | full armor and I gotta start the cycle |
| 19078s | all over again yeah that was a good spot |
| 19080s | on the Magus that was a very good catch |
| 19081s | they just sort of were taking it |
| 19083s | leisurely and then suddenly the Magus |
| 19084s | dropped |
| 19085s | um the most part our hail now seems to |
| 19087s | be doing a pretty good job of staying |
| 19089s | fairly compact keeping everything within |
| 19090s | these reprick ranges but as you say I |
| 19092s | assume they loaded long range ammo on |
| 19094s | the Le shacks and just link that Magus |
| 19095s | out of existence very very quickly |
| 19097s | yeah they're under the scenarios though |
| 19099s | uh at the moment we'll see is the |
| 19101s | nearest tackled at the moment does not |
| 19103s | look like it uh just have newts on top |
| 19105s | of them though and new pressure on top |
| 19107s | of her Nero it's not something you |
| 19109s | really want to have happen to your soul |
| 19111s | logic Cruiser trying to figure out who |
| 19113s | exactly has the Newt going on to him at |
| 19115s | the moment I do believe that is getting |
| 19117s | newts on top of that as miros and he's |
| 19120s | not able to rap at all right now yeah |
| 19122s | and the shack is also beaming him and |
| 19123s | I'm going to hope for his sake that |
| 19125s | little shank has long range ammo so the |
| 19126s | nearest can't actually get out of range |
| 19127s | although I think the beam has stopped so |
| 19129s | I expect damage to drop off pretty |
| 19131s | dramatically but the hyena now does just |
| 19133s | get flapped as well |
| 19135s | you have webs off the table low ends |
| 19138s | slowly slowly dying from Deep Water cool |
| 19141s | against they found the Griffin as well |
| 19142s | volume to half armor now into half |
| 19145s | structure there's nothing left in the |
| 19147s | tank for that Griffin and he will die uh |
| 19150s | jams not going to do enough because when |
| 19153s | you jam someone you're just taunting |
| 19154s | them to him he is able to wrap back up |
| 19156s | to full uh armor however so the little |
| 19158s | Shacks have to get some lucky shots to |
| 19161s | kill that Griffin |
| 19163s | yeah and this is the other thing with |
| 19164s | the Armageddon is if it's sort of a |
| 19167s | protracted close range brawl then the |
| 19168s | new pressure becomes overwhelming but |
| 19170s | you can also use the long range of the |
| 19172s | Noose on the Armageddon to sort of alpha |
| 19174s | frigate capacitor and then use that as |
| 19176s | an opportunity to to gain an opening and |
| 19178s | just as we saw plink away at something |
| 19179s | and just take it out very very quickly |
| 19180s | before it has a chance to cap up and and |
| 19182s | get moving again yeah Daniel ellslash |
| 19185s | though very extended out right now |
| 19187s | they're finally deciding to commit with |
| 19188s | both of the little Shacks but they've |
| 19190s | turned the damage from this uh the shack |
| 19193s | from ahel na on top of Dano L as he will |
| 19196s | be the primary but they're gonna try to |
| 19198s | go for the Little Shack trade this |
| 19199s | Armageddon though should be smart enough |
| 19200s | to get the newts on top of at least one |
| 19203s | of these little Shacks yeah they've |
| 19204s | decided to flip the switch they've |
| 19205s | realized they need to make something |
| 19206s | happen here and both these the Shacks |
| 19208s | have burned in and they're trying to |
| 19208s | break through the first to check I don't |
| 19210s | know if that's the right call or if |
| 19211s | they're going to be able to kill him |
| 19212s | before these news from the get installed |
| 19213s | to take effect |
| 19215s | um we're gonna have a little look at the |
| 19217s | battleship piloting here as well are |
| 19218s | they going to be able to control space |
| 19219s | and do what they're tracking are they |
| 19220s | just going to burn around I think both |
| 19222s | of them have successfully slowed down so |
| 19224s | they are going to be applying pretty |
| 19225s | decently and this Daniel Sunkist in that |
| 19227s | LE Shack is actually going down pretty |
| 19229s | quickly here |
| 19230s | yeah but one of these Le Shacks has full |
| 19233s | new pressure coming in from lover zero |
| 19235s | on the Armageddon The Shack in question |
| 19237s | being Dano I in I said Daniel Shack I |
| 19241s | already said he was a little shock pilot |
| 19242s | so he's got no way to uh use an |
| 19244s | accelerator at the moment needs guns are |
| 19246s | turned off but full spool coming in from |
| 19248s | uh one little shock on his team and from |
| 19251s | Daniel I or from uh dangle Sunkist |
| 19253s | excuse me and he's into structure right |
| 19256s | now should end up going down without the |
| 19258s | shack down there's a whole lot of damage |
| 19260s | left from aisle na they might end up |
| 19262s | having this one slip away from them yeah |
| 19265s | it turns out in the end to be a good |
| 19266s | call from Deep Water Hooligans the power |
| 19267s | of those two Le Shacks in the right |
| 19269s | place at the right time very very |
| 19270s | decisive player to just charge in and |
| 19272s | break through the shack and of course as |
| 19273s | we've said it's a full Newt getting so |
| 19275s | there's not a huge amount of damage |
| 19276s | actually left on the field here |
| 19278s | um so that's that's a good pickoff from |
| 19279s | Deepwater Hooligans that's a very |
| 19281s | decisive move and that's the kind of |
| 19282s | thing they needed to do in this |
| 19283s | situation to to swing the match rapidly |
| 19286s | rather than you know sort of stay in a |
| 19288s | Range where they can where they're |
| 19289s | taking losses but they're not really |
| 19291s | making much progress very quickly it was |
| 19293s | it was a good decisive move |
| 19295s | just about a minute left in the match |
| 19296s | right now and I hail now that need to |
| 19298s | kill something but uh they've got |
| 19300s | nothing in the tank as far as DPS is |
| 19303s | concerned their team's kind of spread |
| 19304s | out at the moment trying to not give too |
| 19306s | many points over to Deepwater Hooligans |
| 19308s | not like that matters it is double |
| 19310s | elimination after Hall and their |
| 19311s | elimination's on the line the Thalia |
| 19313s | goes down not should be either the sash |
| 19315s | remember this Phantasm as the damage is |
| 19316s | split from Deepwater Hooligans so now |
| 19319s | we're just going on with the scenarios |
| 19320s | as well from Ohio now but it's too |
| 19322s | little too late Deepwater rule against |
| 19323s | 30 seconds left of the match should be |
| 19325s | able to one uh win this one and move on |
| 19327s | in the tournament yeah and it's going to |
| 19329s | be disappointing for our hail now |
| 19330s | because we saw the feeders they put up a |
| 19331s | very strong performance I think they |
| 19332s | went 4-0 overall and got entering sea |
| 19335s | lions tournament and then go 0-2 on the |
| 19337s | first day and earn the dubious honor of |
| 19338s | being the very first team to be |
| 19340s | eliminated from the tournament is it's |
| 19342s | got to be a little bit disappointing for |
| 19343s | them but I think they put up a good |
| 19345s | showing |
| 19346s | um it's just it's you know maybe this |
| 19348s | matchup was perhaps a little bit |
| 19349s | difficult |
| 19351s | um keeping that the shack alive is |
| 19352s | obviously going to be a Herculean task |
| 19354s | against two of them coming in |
| 19355s | simultaneously but with that we're going |
| 19357s | to send it back to the studio and we're |
| 19358s | going to say goodbye to our hail now |
| 19367s | [Music] |
| 19374s | [Music] |
| 19388s | foreign |
| 19409s | together |
| 19422s | foreign |
| 19432s | [Music] |
| 19441s | take the Victory and unfortunately I |
| 19444s | will now become the first of the 32 |
| 19447s | teams to exit Alliance tournament 18 as |
| 19450s | that was indeed a loser's Market bracket |
| 19453s | match uh we say goodbye we say thank you |
| 19456s | for competing and good luck next time to |
| 19458s | the ahilna team there and that match was |
| 19461s | uh it's just intense for both sides |
| 19464s | because that looked like one of those |
| 19465s | matches where it's just High APM like |
| 19468s | lots of piloting and changing decisions |
| 19470s | and moving stuff around and and kiting |
| 19472s | and when to committing things and then |
| 19474s | it was nine six until like a minute and |
| 19476s | a half to go and then those tourist |
| 19478s | action deep water did what you called |
| 19480s | from like like 10 seconds into the match |
| 19482s | it was just Barrel in and that one the |
| 19484s | shack and spool on it Bart take me |
| 19486s | through kind of what happened in that |
| 19487s | match yeah I think you're right that it |
| 19490s | was a lot of like high APM and piloting |
| 19493s | and skillful play that in all all |
| 19495s | honesty did not need to happen in any |
| 19497s | way shape or form like as soon as that |
| 19499s | they realized that Tula Shacks is more |
| 19502s | than one Le Shack |
| 19503s | they just pushed them in and blew up the |
| 19505s | other lecheck and I mean you know we |
| 19506s | know that math is something that works |
| 19508s | every single time and two is more than |
| 19510s | one uh so they were able to defeat it |
| 19512s | but you know it should be serious like |
| 19513s | there wasn't enough ability to shut down |
| 19516s | those Le Shacks unless they had gone in |
| 19518s | and tackled and so like well the teams |
| 19519s | are sort of flying around or perhaps |
| 19522s | jockeying for position as we uh are |
| 19524s | known to say over and over and over |
| 19525s | again at any point those Tula Shacks or |
| 19528s | tackled could have just pushed in and |
| 19530s | then just started ramping in DPS and the |
| 19533s | thing about the ahelna team is that they |
| 19536s | had a lot of energy neutralizers which |
| 19539s | are more effective as the match goes on |
| 19540s | I think we talk about it a decent amount |
| 19542s | but because of cat boosters cap booster |
| 19545s | 3200s you only have so many of them once |
| 19547s | you run out that's it so |
| 19549s | it was a 10-minute match it could have |
| 19551s | been like a probably two or three minute |
| 19553s | match like at least would have been one |
| 19555s | within two or three minutes and uh yeah |
| 19557s | I don't know I think Jin had an actually |
| 19559s | interesting comment about their piloting |
| 19561s | he was uh criticizing it in a much more |
| 19563s | interesting way than I am |
| 19565s | 10 uh no comment |
| 19569s | do you want to say the democracer |
| 19571s | actually played that game exceptionally |
| 19572s | well he's living a live um frigates with |
| 19575s | very very low ehp you're looking at like |
| 19577s | maybe three four thousand ehp on that |
| 19579s | Griffin |
| 19580s | um obviously the ishka went down early |
| 19582s | on and that was more due to the fact |
| 19584s | that the ishka decided uh to meet |
| 19586s | Valhalla in glorious combat rather than |
| 19589s | play things safe with the rest of his |
| 19590s | team but yeah especially with an armor |
| 19593s | comp like that you have to predict when |
| 19595s | the damage is going to be applied and |
| 19596s | cycle your reps beforehand or that |
| 19599s | Griffin's going to go bye-bye very |
| 19601s | quickly yeah super uh excellent piloting |
| 19604s | there from Tomoka in that aniros |
| 19606s | um it's keeping a griffin alive with the |
| 19609s | like armor reps land at the end of the |
| 19611s | cycle versus Shield which land at the |
| 19613s | start like it's just that's just super |
| 19615s | hard to do and uh he did really well |
| 19617s | like Griffin as well was flying away |
| 19619s | from the enemies when he was getting |
| 19620s | primaried he was like paying radicals |
| 19622s | attention and then bailing out and just |
| 19624s | really good really good pile thing from |
| 19625s | both sides is unfortunately for ahil now |
| 19627s | they didn't come out Victorious now we |
| 19629s | have another elimination match coming up |
| 19631s | in just a few minutes uh three try |
| 19633s | versus boundary experts so let's take a |
| 19636s | look at the bands for uh for this match |
| 19639s | so try Banning out the mollusks the |
| 19641s | carries and the Scimitar interesting |
| 19643s | bands there uh CC Swift came on and |
| 19645s | talked about how great the carries was |
| 19646s | and everyone should bring it uh try took |
| 19649s | that uh a personal offense to that and |
| 19650s | just banned it out boundary experts |
| 19652s | Banning the Nighthawk the Battleground |
| 19654s | and the curse uh jintan what do you make |
| 19656s | of these bands here |
| 19658s | yes these are buns are kind of we're |
| 19660s | starting to see a bit of a pattern with |
| 19662s | the generic bands the power bands |
| 19663s | normally you're Banning one Rush ship |
| 19665s | balgorn curse that's that seems to be |
| 19667s | quite a common Trend now but on the |
| 19669s | other side Triumph haven't played their |
| 19670s | part in it there's no bands on any of |
| 19672s | the Drone ships that we've seen quite |
| 19673s | heavily targeted no bands on the frigate |
| 19675s | logy instead they are just dealing with |
| 19678s | things that would probably be brought by |
| 19680s | kite so triumvira are probably going to |
| 19681s | be playing some sort of three Battleship |
| 19683s | setup or |
| 19686s | um something similar that wants to be |
| 19688s | close to wants to be able to project but |
| 19691s | is relatively immobile something that |
| 19693s | would be more heavily more heavily |
| 19696s | interrupted by The Game Plan of those |
| 19697s | dams that said the celestis is still |
| 19699s | open so boundary experts do have options |
| 19701s | if they want to read in too deeply into |
| 19703s | that bands now if I'm creating |
| 19705s | remembering both these teams earlier on |
| 19707s | in the matches which the uh they sadly |
| 19709s | lost both of them fielded their |
| 19710s | flagships and both of them lost their |
| 19713s | flagships um so what we're looking at |
| 19715s | here is the first match of the |
| 19716s | tournament I think we're not a single |
| 19718s | flagship could even be possibly fielded |
| 19720s | because they're all dead at this point |
| 19721s | uh bar do you think it would it would |
| 19724s | maybe make a difference right now for |
| 19725s | one of these teams if they still had |
| 19726s | that Flagship you know it might um I |
| 19729s | think that you know jyn is totally right |
| 19731s | about the triumvirate thing like they |
| 19733s | don't want to have to deal with a uh a |
| 19736s | team that can kite them because like if |
| 19737s | you throw like a mollusk and it carries |
| 19739s | in there and then you just fly around |
| 19740s | well they can't enjoy their lock range |
| 19742s | and they have like a 20 kilometer lock |
| 19743s | range um since they did have uh I think |
| 19745s | both teams had bargists I believe yep |
| 19747s | and now they don't have Argus anymore |
| 19749s | yeah it's like it's possible that maybe |
| 19752s | like with the flagship Argus you could |
| 19754s | do a kite team that would like |
| 19755s | counteract the fact that they banned the |
| 19757s | malices and the carries |
| 19759s | um but I don't I don't know it's hard to |
| 19761s | tell like I feel like both of them kind |
| 19762s | of lost their burgers in ways that the |
| 19764s | Vargas didn't matter in the match and |
| 19766s | now it doesn't matter because it's dead |
| 19767s | and you know election said they still |
| 19769s | have celestises and I think celestances |
| 19771s | are actually probably better than |
| 19772s | molluses and Carries |
| 19774s | so earlier on um the tri team lost |
| 19777s | against the tuskers call of course a |
| 19779s | very experienced team they look like |
| 19780s | they could be quite strong this year |
| 19782s | um and the boundary experts lost versus |
| 19784s | Polaris mercenary Alliance uh who again |
| 19787s | performed super well in that earlier |
| 19789s | match I think |
| 19790s | um maybe a lot better than some people |
| 19791s | had kind of given them credit for |
| 19793s | um especially compared to someone like |
| 19794s | the tuskers so what do we think here um |
| 19796s | who gentan do you think is going to be |
| 19798s | able to take this one here is it going |
| 19799s | to be try or boundary experts |
| 19801s | I don't know this is a really hard one |
| 19802s | to call |
| 19803s | um I think my money is on triumvira uh |
| 19805s | they're just a team that has a longer |
| 19807s | history |
| 19808s | um but you know I think uh boundary |
| 19810s | experts always have a chance to bring |
| 19812s | this out they've got so much tour and |
| 19813s | experience as well and despite |
| 19815s | everything they did execute fairly well |
| 19817s | in their last match uh they just needed |
| 19819s | to you know uh pick a better comp |
| 19822s | basically and varrobert used |
| 19824s | well now that uh now that we don't have |
| 19826s | the script anymore uh we accidentally |
| 19828s | burned it um I believe that this time |
| 19831s | try will actually win as opposed to last |
| 19833s | time where it was uh stacked against |
| 19835s | them from the beginning well let's find |
| 19837s | that as we go to the arena to see a who |
| 19839s | will win between try on Boundary experts |
| 19847s | welcome back the arena guys try it |
| 19849s | boundary experts both on the verge of |
| 19851s | annihilation here |
| 19852s | three bar guests coming up from try that |
| 19855s | is an unusual comp Herald and back to |
| 19857s | look to last year I think but |
| 19859s | yeah um a lot of boundary experts got oh |
| 19862s | King Slayer from uh the bar guests and a |
| 19865s | king Slayer uh from boundary experts |
| 19868s | they've got double arm and got an 80 |
| 19870s | Navy and a typhoon Fleet issue so triple |
| 19872s | rapid heavy from both of these teams one |
| 19873s | Shield one armor we'll see how they |
| 19876s | match up in this match I don't believe |
| 19879s | there are any flagships in this match |
| 19881s | either so it's do or die for both these |
| 19884s | teams I'm excited what about you |
| 19887s | yeah I'm curious about more specifically |
| 19890s | about the difference in lodgy here |
| 19891s | because you've got the Deacon and Thalia |
| 19892s | on one side it may actually be pretty |
| 19893s | difficult to take down for these bar |
| 19895s | guests who obviously are going to be |
| 19896s | spending their mid slots on tank and not |
| 19898s | particularly as much an application |
| 19899s | whereas on the other side you've got the |
| 19900s | Armageddon Navy's in the typhoon Fleet |
| 19902s | who obviously can afford to spend those |
| 19903s | midsults and application against the |
| 19905s | burst and the Bantam who are just going |
| 19907s | to get obliterated here I would imagine |
| 19909s | um if they do get looked at by you know |
| 19911s | drones from the pontifex or the |
| 19912s | executive Navy's guns or indeed of |
| 19914s | course the missiles from the Armageddon |
| 19916s | Navy so I I think on |
| 19919s | the surface level before the match |
| 19920s | starts I would actually favor the armor |
| 19922s | kingslayer in the situation |
| 19924s | I think I would as well they have hit |
| 19927s | points to go through but at the same |
| 19929s | time neither team really has any battle |
| 19931s | cruiser or cruiser holes which is what |
| 19933s | rapid Heavies are good against remember |
| 19935s | you gotta clip out somebody or you have |
| 19938s | to kill someone before your Clips are |
| 19940s | dead and both of these teams they only |
| 19942s | got three clips of Rapid Heavies uh a |
| 19944s | piece although those are bonus clips and |
| 19946s | they do quite a bit of damage no rate of |
| 19948s | fire bonuses because rate of fire is on |
| 19949s | Reddit but Heavies is bad either way the |
| 19952s | match is about to go underway and both |
| 19953s | teams starting to pull back from one |
| 19956s | another although one team much quicker |
| 19957s | off the line that being triumvirate |
| 19960s | yeah and I expect to win con for both of |
| 19962s | these teams based on my understanding |
| 19963s | would be that they need to deal with |
| 19964s | these battleships obviously both these |
| 19966s | teams have committed 60 odd in fact 75 |
| 19968s | on the side of tramva into these |
| 19970s | Battleship |
| 19971s | um setups and there's going to be |
| 19973s | obviously therefore very little DPS |
| 19974s | outside of those so whoever can Whittle |
| 19976s | through those battleships with their |
| 19977s | Clips pick the right target pick the |
| 19979s | right |
| 19980s | timing to to unleash those volleys and |
| 19982s | break through |
| 19984s | um the opposing battleships although of |
| 19985s | course in missile the missile matchups I |
| 19988s | think there is a benefit to being the |
| 19989s | team that's burning away as the other |
| 19990s | team is forced to run into your missiles |
| 19992s | and you're potentially able to get out |
| 19993s | of range of theirs as the missiles sort |
| 19994s | of expire uh by the time they get to you |
| 19996s | and it's triumvirate here in the shield |
| 19997s | comp who's running away |
| 19999s | and they're faster they're Shield fit |
| 20001s | they're going to be able to out kite the |
| 20003s | enemy team it's just whether or not |
| 20004s | boundary experts can actually catch up |
| 20006s | to them uh using better positioning |
| 20008s | either way the exact Navy is the primary |
| 20011s | from triumvirate they're like all right |
| 20013s | rapid heavy so good against Cruisers and |
| 20015s | battle Cruisers there's only one Cruiser |
| 20016s | on the enemy team we're gonna shoot him |
| 20018s | first uh they should be able to kill him |
| 20020s | within the clip although he is getting |
| 20022s | good reps in from the stekin anathalia |
| 20024s | combo yeah there's a lot of rep drones |
| 20026s | on them as well of course the typhoon |
| 20027s | Fleet Armageddon Navy both have ample |
| 20029s | drone based to spew out red bots on him |
| 20030s | although for the Armageddon Navy's |
| 20032s | perhaps less desirable than they'd like |
| 20033s | given the new uh drone damage bonus |
| 20035s | those holes have but he is now actually |
| 20037s | picking up total Ownage I think the |
| 20038s | Deacon and Thalia might have been a |
| 20040s | little bit awesome to the start but |
| 20041s | they've managed to sort of get in range |
| 20042s | and get those reps into optimal and now |
| 20044s | Alex Lennon on the other side in that |
| 20045s | Shield bogus is going into armor here |
| 20047s | and that's definitely not a good sign |
| 20048s | for him |
| 20050s | yeah he's got some repping power on top |
| 20052s | of him but the shield ehp from uh these |
| 20055s | bar guests is rather large if you fit |
| 20058s | them up correctly but they only got six |
| 20060s | mid slots uh to deal with and you have |
| 20062s | to have utility as well it does look |
| 20064s | like he survived the first clip in half |
| 20066s | armor should be able to rep back up |
| 20067s | pretty close to full but he's only got |
| 20069s | T1 lodgy friggs to try to help him with |
| 20071s | that |
| 20072s | yeah and as that happened the Jack door |
| 20074s | of course just got bullied as well I |
| 20075s | don't know if uh the exact Navy and the |
| 20077s | jackdaws on the other side match to plap |
| 20079s | at him a lot but |
| 20080s | um this is looking pretty good for |
| 20081s | boundary experts so far |
| 20083s | um they're staying pretty compact |
| 20084s | together which is exactly what you want |
| 20085s | to do when you've got these lodgy |
| 20086s | frigates which enables them to sort of |
| 20087s | stay in range and you know not not have |
| 20090s | difficulty applying those short range |
| 20092s | reps |
| 20093s | um as they as we saw that they caught |
| 20095s | the exact Navy and now they're still |
| 20096s | just sort of running around after this |
| 20097s | bar I guess but they seem to actually be |
| 20098s | in range the obviously the Bargas as you |
| 20100s | said are going to be a faster comp but |
| 20102s | they don't seem fast enough to actually |
| 20103s | outrun |
| 20105s | um these armor King Slayers set up |
| 20106s | yeah and Arena's a sphere right you have |
| 20110s | to be able to position properly if |
| 20112s | you're going to kite someone even if |
| 20114s | they are a little bit slower than you |
| 20115s | I'll explain in the rapid heavy Clips uh |
| 20118s | should be coming back up pretty soon and |
| 20120s | he should end up following there's some |
| 20122s | damage coming from the rest of these |
| 20123s | ships as well as he moves up into one |
| 20126s | third Shield is going to try to survive |
| 20128s | this but the clips are coming and they |
| 20130s | should be able to get the kill I mean |
| 20131s | all this exact Navy of tonal Ownage full |
| 20134s | armor he's going to be the primary once |
| 20136s | again we're gonna see if they can get |
| 20138s | him to bleed a little bit more whole but |
| 20139s | still that's not a trade you want Alex |
| 20141s | Lennon now to half Shield the clips are |
| 20144s | about over and I'm expecting to see that |
| 20145s | attack bar from triumviron or sorry from |
| 20148s | boundary experts go to the Moon |
| 20151s | yeah we are seeing that exit maybe he |
| 20153s | seems to be their sort of frontliner for |
| 20154s | their comp he's the one pushing in at |
| 20156s | the front leaving the charge and the red |
| 20157s | Bots were otherwise occupied um I think |
| 20159s | on the Deacon but they are now the |
| 20160s | executive he has now turned around and |
| 20162s | the redbots are being reassigned but the |
| 20163s | example does just go down before but |
| 20165s | they are going to take out this stalk in |
| 20166s | exchange and as you say they've reloaded |
| 20167s | those missiles are coming out again on |
| 20169s | the Bargas and he only was able to rep |
| 20171s | up to like a third Shield he is gonna go |
| 20174s | down on the second clip of these armor |
| 20176s | kingslayer ships |
| 20178s | I mean really well done with rapid |
| 20181s | Heavies there but at the same time |
| 20182s | they've lost their kind of primary |
| 20184s | engage tool in that exact Navy we're |
| 20187s | gonna see if that might actually shift |
| 20190s | things a little bit towards Triumph for |
| 20191s | its favor there will lose Alex Lennon |
| 20193s | it's just a matter of when they actually |
| 20195s | went for the sky breaker next I think |
| 20197s | they're going for smaller targets with |
| 20199s | these rapid Heavies now uh some split |
| 20201s | damage though between the low end and |
| 20203s | the high end |
| 20204s | yeah I think actually the hyena would be |
| 20206s | a good Target here to focus for these |
| 20207s | jackdaws because it is going to be |
| 20209s | basically their only application and |
| 20211s | they have invested the points into this |
| 20213s | Deacon and Thalia they have those |
| 20214s | technology and they've proven that I |
| 20216s | mean they were able to keep the exec |
| 20217s | Navy up for an extended period they |
| 20219s | would surely be able to keep the |
| 20220s | Armageddon maybe the Titan flipped the |
| 20221s | core of their comp alive and if they can |
| 20223s | deal with the application from this |
| 20225s | hyena that will provide that those webs |
| 20227s | and paints to the bar guests |
| 20229s | um it effectively saves their lower end |
| 20231s | from any real risk in this fight |
| 20234s | yeah jackdaws armor Jack does though |
| 20237s | they caught plenty of damps on them we |
| 20238s | see a lot of them going towards one of |
| 20240s | the uh or a lot of them being spread |
| 20242s | Alex London's got a damp on them Mr |
| 20245s | Rosen has a damp on him as well trying |
| 20247s | to keep these Bargas a bay but now Alex |
| 20249s | London he's been going through his armor |
| 20251s | through his Shields the attack bar about |
| 20252s | halfway up for boundary experts and they |
| 20255s | should be able to get this bar gust |
| 20256s | finally and take a significant points |
| 20258s | lead |
| 20259s | yeah and just going back to the armor |
| 20261s | jackdaws I'm actually surprised how few |
| 20263s | jackdaws we've seen I don't think we've |
| 20265s | seen it banned basically at all |
| 20268s | um and we've you know in this match |
| 20269s | we've got two but and I think there was |
| 20271s | one there was one for triumvira as well |
| 20273s | but I think most matches haven't |
| 20274s | actually had that many jackdaws but |
| 20276s | coming into the tournament I was |
| 20277s | expecting jackdaws to be everywhere |
| 20278s | because |
| 20279s | in a damp War the Jack door with its |
| 20281s | ewall resist basically automatically |
| 20283s | wins if you have a jacked or against the |
| 20285s | carries and they're damping each other |
| 20286s | the jackdaw wins because jackdaw has |
| 20289s | what is it 60 year old actually if you |
| 20291s | then stack that with ewall protection |
| 20292s | link it's basically undampable and armor |
| 20295s | Jack doors we've seen gets you know |
| 20297s | three maybe four |
| 20299s | um damps in those mids so you can be a |
| 20301s | real pain in the ass with it |
| 20303s | um and this now the second Bargas of |
| 20305s | course the ships get less on the |
| 20307s | triumvirate side these dams are going to |
| 20309s | become more and more oppressive |
| 20312s | but at the same time |
| 20315s | boner experts doesn't need to kill |
| 20316s | anything more |
| 20318s | their low end is working on the logic |
| 20319s | frigates right now this Bantam of chichi |
| 20321s | down to about one-third now one quarter |
| 20324s | shields uh and meanwhile rapid Heavies |
| 20327s | three sets of Rapid Heavies good enough |
| 20329s | to take down a lot of things two sets of |
| 20331s | Rapid Heavies you're gonna have a lot |
| 20332s | more trouble going through someone's |
| 20334s | entire ehp in one clip |
| 20337s | yeah it's all about having a critical |
| 20339s | mass and as we saw they were able to |
| 20340s | just about get that Navy executor but |
| 20342s | everything else on the grid here is |
| 20343s | going to be a very very tough ask them |
| 20345s | to take down with just these two Bargas |
| 20346s | soon to be one as Mr Rosen having |
| 20348s | already lost the flagship bar guest |
| 20350s | earlier in the day he's gonna add a |
| 20351s | second bogus kill male to his kill board |
| 20354s | here |
| 20355s | you have one more lost Mill for the |
| 20358s | books goes into structure and the attack |
| 20360s | bar fully meaty from Battery experts |
| 20363s | they'll be able to chew through him just |
| 20365s | fine we got about three minutes left on |
| 20366s | the match this one's gonna be a bit of a |
| 20368s | grind so uh let's talk a little bit |
| 20370s | about what we expect to see through this |
| 20373s | lower bracket right teams now they've |
| 20376s | got to pull out all the stops because |
| 20377s | one loss means that they are out of the |
| 20380s | tournament |
| 20381s | yeah and looking at the bracket I think |
| 20383s | boundary experts having won this match |
| 20385s | are likely to go up against well it'll |
| 20387s | be the loser of lock range enjoys |
| 20388s | against no Forks given and again that's |
| 20391s | a match that could go either way |
| 20393s | um in terms of no Forks given against I |
| 20395s | would expect no Forks even to drop down |
| 20396s | lot Ranger Joys look very very confident |
| 20398s | I know they've been screwing with Hydra |
| 20400s | um and Boundary experts here dropping |
| 20402s | down to the lower bracket in the first |
| 20403s | match |
| 20404s | um that's anybody's game to take and |
| 20405s | once you start getting through the lower |
| 20407s | bracket you start inching closer and |
| 20408s | closer those price ships but every match |
| 20410s | of course as you say is a must win |
| 20412s | yeah win two matches and they're |
| 20415s | guaranteed price ships placing in the |
| 20416s | top 16 getting a handful of ships for |
| 20419s | your trouble of each variety and all |
| 20422s | these teams I mean you're in it for the |
| 20423s | price ships you want to at least make |
| 20424s | back your entry fee and uh go into the |
| 20427s | next tournament uh is the thing but some |
| 20429s | teams end up being valued prize pool |
| 20431s | contributors and today that appears to |
| 20435s | be triumvirate uh we talked a little bit |
| 20437s | during the pre-view of the tournament |
| 20440s | about the split of vital reloaded and |
| 20442s | how those Pilots ended up going between |
| 20444s | dark side bsot and triumvirate |
| 20446s | triumvirate ended up getting the shorter |
| 20448s | and the stick in terms of those pilots |
| 20449s | and we're seeing this time around uh one |
| 20452s | of the three Russian teams is out of the |
| 20454s | tournament and uh dark side and b-sod |
| 20456s | still in the upper bracket I'm excited |
| 20457s | to see how they fare maybe if they go up |
| 20460s | against each other later in the |
| 20461s | tournament |
| 20462s | yeah of course those two teams generally |
| 20464s | more tournament pedigreed in the history |
| 20467s | um than triumvira has been I know |
| 20468s | triumvirate came I think it was third or |
| 20469s | fourth in Alliance tournament 14 or 15 a |
| 20471s | couple of years ago but overall I'd say |
| 20473s | dark side and bright side of death are |
| 20475s | the more sort of experienced teams so |
| 20477s | for those sort of displaced Russian |
| 20478s | pilots from vidary they may have seemed |
| 20480s | like the more attractive options to to |
| 20481s | join up and join forces with the other |
| 20483s | Russian groups and yeah there's a real |
| 20486s | chance that those two teams bolstered by |
| 20488s | those vydro Pilots could make a really |
| 20489s | strong run through the upper bracket |
| 20492s | yeah and through the lower bracket uh |
| 20495s | boundary experts you know radicos will |
| 20497s | be uh happy about that you'd think no |
| 20499s | he's not with boundary experts anymore |
| 20500s | he's with pandemic Legion who also have |
| 20502s | a lower Bracken match coming up tomorrow |
| 20504s | uh either way uh hats off to him for uh |
| 20507s | making the one veto that didn't make any |
| 20511s | sense whatsoever in the uh pre-alliance |
| 20514s | tournament show uh we're getting some |
| 20516s | boundaries coming out from triumvert |
| 20518s | they're gonna go for the Edge of Glory |
| 20519s | this burst 115 out about to hit that 125 |
| 20522s | Mark uh 30 seconds left in the match |
| 20524s | though this one should not go 100 points |
| 20527s | for boundary experts |
| 20529s | yeah it is going to be unfortunately the |
| 20531s | end of the road for triumvira they're |
| 20532s | going to be going home with nothing as |
| 20534s | you say valued price pool contributors |
| 20535s | and Boundary experts are going to move |
| 20537s | on |
| 20538s | yep 15 seconds left on the match one is |
| 20541s | down the burst 60 ish kilometers away |
| 20545s | from the center now getting taken down |
| 20548s | by the rest of boundary experts four |
| 20550s | seconds left on the match three two one |
| 20552s | and it is over |
| 20557s | we're gonna send it back to the desk |
| 20559s | break that one down bring us into the |
| 20560s | last match of the day which will be |
| 20562s | paper numbers versus Esports Petopia |
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| 20572s | Yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP |
| 20575s | collectively so that's why that Alliance |
| 20578s | logo is in the game of course you could |
| 20580s | change your alliance by leaving but that |
| 20581s | would be kind of a jerk move oh you |
| 20584s | don't like it now sucks I'm gonna go |
| 20586s | join |
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| 20629s | [Music] |
| 20633s | foreign |
| 20635s | they are the second team to say goodbye |
| 20638s | and we thank them for their valued |
| 20640s | contribution to the prize pool as they |
| 20642s | are eliminated from Alliance tournament |
| 20644s | 18 contention by the boundary experts |
| 20647s | team |
| 20648s | um Blackboard pirate uh I can't help but |
| 20651s | notice that that team fielded three bar |
| 20653s | guests and thanks to the point inflation |
| 20655s | rule they went from uh 23 points to 25 |
| 20657s | points so essentially by bringing three |
| 20660s | of them they just threw away six extra |
| 20663s | points uh what's your what's your |
| 20665s | thoughts on this |
| 20667s | yeah the uh not only do they throw away |
| 20669s | six extra points but uh looking at this |
| 20671s | historically like perhaps if we go back |
| 20674s | in time about a year-ish where we had a |
| 20676s | tournament that was uh sponsored by |
| 20678s | mortu's Legion where the Bargas were |
| 20680s | even less points and people were flying |
| 20682s | triple Vargas constantly |
| 20684s | and then we realized it wasn't that good |
| 20686s | of a comp because everyone figured out |
| 20687s | how to beat it |
| 20689s | um I was a little confused I was like |
| 20690s | why are you bringing something that has |
| 20692s | already been solved that is worse |
| 20694s | significantly because you are spinning |
| 20696s | so many more points on it uh the I don't |
| 20699s | remember what the exact name of the rule |
| 20700s | is this year but basically it's the |
| 20702s | duplicate rule points inflation ah |
| 20704s | points inflation yes inflation |
| 20707s | everywhere even in the alliance even in |
| 20709s | the alliance tournament we are suffering |
| 20710s | from inflation but uh every ship you |
| 20712s | bring in of the same Hull increases the |
| 20715s | point value by one so Vargas is 23 |
| 20717s | points you bring two Bargas another 24 |
| 20719s | and you bring three and now they are 25. |
| 20722s | math class is still in session for at |
| 20724s | least another about 20 minutes |
| 20726s | um but yes you spent uh 75 of your 100 |
| 20729s | points |
| 20730s | on three ships which means the other |
| 20732s | seven of them have to spread out a very |
| 20735s | small amount and uh I think we kind of |
| 20737s | saw the weakness of that like you're |
| 20738s | you're really lacking the ability to you |
| 20741s | know tackle uh ewar counter screen et |
| 20744s | cetera et cetera et cetera and they just |
| 20745s | really didn't work uh genton do you |
| 20749s | think if that comp had one of those |
| 20750s | ships is a flagship bar I guess it would |
| 20752s | have been a different |
| 20753s | um different outcome or do you think |
| 20755s | it's just the triple Bargas just not the |
| 20757s | right meta for Alliance tournament 18. |
| 20759s | no I don't think that was um there was |
| 20761s | much to do there in terms of DPS whilst |
| 20763s | we did see that Navy executor get very |
| 20765s | very close to dropping during the start |
| 20767s | that was more of an execution issue on |
| 20769s | trying for its part rather than |
| 20771s | um a lack of DPS uh they kind of blew |
| 20774s | their load early they started engaging |
| 20776s | all their rhmls before the webs and |
| 20778s | paints of their hyena had taken effect |
| 20780s | and that gave them just not enough DPS |
| 20783s | to break through the Reps uh before they |
| 20785s | needed to reload |
| 20786s | yeah that's a super important thing um |
| 20788s | being able to hold your DPS until you've |
| 20791s | got the right tackle especially in |
| 20793s | things with Clips because as gentan |
| 20795s | mentioned uh if you don't have the |
| 20796s | target web you don't have them tackled |
| 20798s | there and painted Etc then a bunch of |
| 20800s | that damage is just wasted it's |
| 20801s | mitigated and you rely heavily on those |
| 20804s | clips so you want to maximize the amount |
| 20806s | of damage one single clip will give you |
| 20808s | um so a lot of times teams will hold off |
| 20810s | hold off hold off and then just apply |
| 20811s | when they've got the optimal chance of |
| 20814s | killing something and we saw they're |
| 20816s | just uh unfortunately didn't work out |
| 20817s | for a try now let's look forward to our |
| 20820s | last match of the day which is going to |
| 20821s | be between paper numbers and Esports |
| 20823s | Petopia this should be a very exciting |
| 20825s | match but two very good teams who have |
| 20828s | found themselves here in the elimination |
| 20830s | bracket paper number is uh Banning out |
| 20832s | the lucky Nighthawk and the jackdaw |
| 20834s | interesting choice there and Esports |
| 20836s | Banning out a bit more of a traditional |
| 20838s | set of ships here at the Scimitar the |
| 20840s | curse and the slept near BART what do |
| 20842s | you make of these bands uh I think we |
| 20845s | have a I think this is officially like |
| 20846s | we haven't seen a single curse yet |
| 20848s | because they are banned so much and |
| 20850s | maybe we've seen one but uh you know |
| 20852s | it's it's kind of turning into like what |
| 20853s | jyn called Power bands is like this |
| 20855s | curse is like everybody's getting rid of |
| 20857s | it but |
| 20858s | um I think this is the first time we've |
| 20859s | seen a Nighthawk band uh we have seen a |
| 20861s | couple Nighthawk rushes today uh they've |
| 20863s | met with variant success |
| 20865s | um but it does look like the Nighthawk |
| 20867s | Loki was uh a extremely powerful Rush |
| 20870s | setup in the past like two or three |
| 20873s | tournaments I understand why they're |
| 20874s | getting rid of it uh it is not |
| 20876s | necessarily difficult to counter but if |
| 20879s | you aren't ready to fight it and it |
| 20880s | lands on you you are going to lose so uh |
| 20882s | paper numbers probably making a smart |
| 20884s | choice maybe you know they figured out |
| 20885s | hey we can't beat this |
| 20887s | just get rid of it pretty simple works |
| 20890s | as it is |
| 20891s | kind of I understand it I get it I |
| 20893s | appreciate it yeah and I think the |
| 20895s | mirror is probably one of the most |
| 20896s | fluent ships in the last term in history |
| 20898s | in general it was a staple for many many |
| 20900s | many years in various columns there's a |
| 20903s | command ship there's a high DPS ship |
| 20905s | there's a kiting ship just a super |
| 20906s | powerful ship we don't see it quite as |
| 20908s | much as we used to but it's still very |
| 20909s | popular and very powerful and of course |
| 20911s | it removes |
| 20913s | um a lot of skirmish and shield links |
| 20914s | from the field forcing teams to either |
| 20916s | bring one of the caldari ones bring a |
| 20919s | claymore or go down to uh command |
| 20922s | destroyers instead now gentana's jackdaw |
| 20925s | ban from paper numbers |
| 20926s | um what do you think about the the span |
| 20928s | that kind of implies to me that paper |
| 20930s | numbers is going to do something that |
| 20931s | involves a lot of damping from their |
| 20933s | side something I've talked about before |
| 20935s | is the power of the Sharpshooter mode of |
| 20937s | the jackdaw especially in a damp setting |
| 20941s | um so the that gives a resistance to |
| 20944s | ewall which enables you to counter damp |
| 20946s | carries his celestances and all manner |
| 20949s | of damp bonus ships really effectively |
| 20951s | so by Banning out the jackdaw that kind |
| 20953s | of tips paper numbers hand a little bit |
| 20954s | I would expect them to be bringing some |
| 20956s | form of damp control probably in support |
| 20958s | of a battleship core or something |
| 20961s | similar |
| 20962s | awesome now let's take a quick look at |
| 20964s | the Esports Petopia team history here in |
| 20966s | the alliance tournament |
| 20968s | um so they have filled 17 different |
| 20971s | Pilots over the uh times they've flown |
| 20973s | in the alliance tournament |
| 20975s | um with most of the the core being |
| 20976s | clearly hanging around for quite a |
| 20978s | number of matches uh they've went one |
| 20981s | match and lost three uh last match they |
| 20983s | won against today at Deepwater Hooligans |
| 20986s | um and lost against Nano fiber tokens |
| 20988s | again that was earlier on uh today sorry |
| 20990s | Depot to hook up was last year my |
| 20992s | apologies um the loss against Odin's and |
| 20994s | psychotic Tendencies so three pretty |
| 20997s | solid teams to lose matches to uh I mean |
| 20999s | nothing to be ashamed of there at all |
| 21000s | psychotic Tendencies of course did very |
| 21002s | well last year uh Odin's call a very |
| 21005s | strong team we expect to do well this |
| 21006s | year at nanofiber tokens uh doing really |
| 21008s | really really good so |
| 21011s | um I think we have uh I'm trying to get |
| 21014s | confirmation that teams are on grid |
| 21016s | um all right great great so we have a |
| 21019s | ship uh uh screen to show you uh one of |
| 21023s | these teams Fielding uh a ship we don't |
| 21025s | see very often in the alliance term it |
| 21026s | feels like a badger |
| 21028s | um so the badger in fact uh has got four |
| 21030s | wins to its uh its name which is great |
| 21032s | uh unfortunately nine losses but look we |
| 21035s | saw a whole bunch of uh usage in a |
| 21037s | tournament a couple of years ago and it |
| 21039s | tends to uh survive actually uh less |
| 21042s | than it uh than it doesn't basically so |
| 21045s | velora cars love to use it uh pandemic |
| 21047s | Legion perhaps they know something that |
| 21049s | we don't they're using it twice as well |
| 21050s | uh Blackberry what's your thoughts on |
| 21052s | the badger why would a team bring an |
| 21054s | industrial ship I take one industrial |
| 21056s | ship to a tournament it's not really a |
| 21058s | known for its combat abilities no it's |
| 21060s | not and uh it actually has functionally |
| 21062s | none but um it does have a lot of mid |
| 21064s | slots and it's relatively tanky and |
| 21066s | extremely low Point cost so in a uh in a |
| 21070s | world that we're in now or you can do |
| 21071s | scripted e-war or you know some of the |
| 21073s | things that you might use to counter |
| 21074s | scripted you were uh it's not a bad pick |
| 21076s | like it's super low cost you can throw |
| 21079s | like a bunch of remote sibo's in it you |
| 21081s | could throw like damps guidance |
| 21083s | disruptors uh counter damps counter |
| 21086s | guidance disruptors tracking things like |
| 21088s | there's a lot of stuff you can put in |
| 21089s | the mid Slots of it and just kind of use |
| 21091s | it as like a little bit of a utility |
| 21092s | knife ship |
| 21094s | um obviously it doesn't do a |
| 21096s | particularly good job according to the |
| 21098s | statistics but we did see it a lot in |
| 21099s | the feeder rounds and there were a |
| 21101s | couple teams that actually won thanks to |
| 21103s | it like you could tell that it's like oh |
| 21105s | they had this cool idea and then they |
| 21107s | executed it and it was great so it'll be |
| 21108s | kind of cool to see how they use it in |
| 21109s | this match yeah so let's see if that |
| 21112s | Badger can indeed take the win as it |
| 21114s | goes into a match against two separate |
| 21116s | flagships here Flagship Vindicator and a |
| 21118s | flagship bargeist as paper numbers go up |
| 21121s | against Esports Petopia as these teams |
| 21123s | fight to avoid elimination let's go to |
| 21125s | the arena and find out |
| 21131s | welcome back to theater everyone for the |
| 21133s | final match of the day as I think was |
| 21135s | just saying on the desk we got two |
| 21136s | flagships here both of these teams |
| 21138s | obviously in the lower bracket on the |
| 21139s | verge of elimination there's sunk cost |
| 21141s | here you know they've spent all the |
| 21142s | money building up these flagships |
| 21143s | presumably gonna have some fancy mods on |
| 21145s | them they want to use them before they |
| 21146s | go out otherwise it's kind of wasted |
| 21149s | um and both teams therefore have opted |
| 21150s | to bring these comps um this looks like |
| 21152s | a fairly standard shield kite come from |
| 21154s | Esports what about paper numbers |
| 21155s | pepper numbers the broad armor control |
| 21157s | the god of Indy flag vendi uh we'll see |
| 21160s | what type of webs he has on him if he |
| 21161s | ends up dying uh expect the purple |
| 21164s | though I would uh hope from this uh |
| 21168s | vindi so we actually see some uh a |
| 21171s | well-fit flag Vindicator unlike what we |
| 21173s | saw from ABA earlier in the tournament |
| 21175s | either way the saxack Navy of Captain |
| 21177s | Shin Ken is the primary from Esports |
| 21180s | Petopia as I continue to kite out of the |
| 21182s | way we'll see if they're able to catch |
| 21184s | up from paper numbers or if they're just |
| 21186s | going to get kited in this armor control |
| 21187s | setup |
| 21188s | yeah but so far Park Bank we all know |
| 21190s | Park bank is a very very capable |
| 21193s | Logistics pilot if you've watched lights |
| 21194s | on before he should be a name you're |
| 21195s | familiar with last year and literally |
| 21197s | triggered he put up some very very |
| 21198s | strong performances in his iconic |
| 21199s | guardian and yeah I mean going back to |
| 21201s | the Vindicator I think we were |
| 21203s | discussing earlier off air we agreed The |
| 21204s | Vindicator is really it really values |
| 21207s | really splashing the cash on those |
| 21208s | officer webs if you're going to cheap |
| 21209s | out and get some fed Navy webs don't |
| 21211s | bother if you're going to put some |
| 21212s | stinking zeros on it I don't know how |
| 21214s | much they cost God knows |
| 21216s | um that's when it becomes a really |
| 21218s | really valuable ship to field here |
| 21219s | because that range is so important for |
| 21220s | The Vindicator to get on top of what it |
| 21221s | wants to get on top of |
| 21223s | and some damage has been traded from |
| 21225s | both these teams we see some webs on top |
| 21227s | of this Claymore on top of this Navy |
| 21228s | Osprey Vindicator himself uh was webbed |
| 21231s | for a bit but now the webs are gone from |
| 21233s | him don't quite see who ravenson has |
| 21236s | webbed at the moment actually doesn't |
| 21238s | look like he has anyone at the moment I |
| 21241s | think it is declaim all they have |
| 21242s | managed and that was quite a far |
| 21243s | distance that he was having in webbed as |
| 21244s | well so this could be actually a fancy |
| 21246s | web on this Vindicator he's caught that |
| 21247s | claim on he's just going to start |
| 21248s | pumping into him here from close range |
| 21249s | that Claymore is as good as dead |
| 21252s | now the rest of this team has abandoned |
| 21253s | him to die potentially |
| 21256s | uh as they've completely and totally |
| 21258s | scattered needing to keep the rest of |
| 21260s | their team alive it's a kite setup they |
| 21262s | need to kill something in trade for this |
| 21264s | claimer because the Skirmish links are |
| 21266s | off the table now are going to be a |
| 21267s | little bit more difficult to kite |
| 21269s | without the rapid deployment lengths |
| 21270s | from that Claymore |
| 21272s | yeah and as we said earlier I think in a |
| 21274s | shield kite setup it's not the end of |
| 21275s | the world if you lose a ship but at the |
| 21277s | same time you don't have any sort of |
| 21278s | recourse of going back and getting them |
| 21280s | out of trouble you can't turn around and |
| 21281s | bail them out all the rest of you are |
| 21283s | going to die too but now this Osprey |
| 21284s | Navy alternative is also getting junked |
| 21286s | here he is going to go down as well |
| 21288s | yeah and he was uh caught by this exact |
| 21291s | Navy issue basically uh soloed him out |
| 21294s | so really well done from Captain Shin |
| 21296s | can to make that happen now they can |
| 21298s | continue to move in and try to catch |
| 21299s | more members from Esports Petopia Park |
| 21302s | Bank meanwhile he's currently dancing |
| 21304s | the dance uh with his armor reps at the |
| 21307s | moment as the hyena gets completely |
| 21310s | blabbed from Esports Petopia that's a |
| 21312s | huge amount of application off the table |
| 21314s | now yeah with that the webs come off but |
| 21317s | I don't know if he's just gonna be able |
| 21318s | to hold but don't seem to be any Red |
| 21319s | Bulls really on him there's only a |
| 21320s | handful I think the battleships have |
| 21322s | sentries out and punk bank is slowly |
| 21323s | bleeding into hole here he is probably |
| 21325s | going to go down from these volleys |
| 21326s | obviously he can't outtrack the missiles |
| 21328s | he can mitigate someone but he is still |
| 21329s | going to take some damage |
| 21331s | meanwhile uh fabuki in the orthos |
| 21334s | appears to be the tackled pilot now this |
| 21337s | visual Fleet issue right on top of him |
| 21338s | this Vindicator though diving towards |
| 21341s | this Osprey Navy issue on the backside |
| 21342s | of deer another pilot Falls from Esports |
| 21345s | Petopia this one Gemma Dawson and the |
| 21348s | Fly Catcher And now Esports Petopia |
| 21350s | they've scored zero points and they keep |
| 21352s | on losing ships they want to get Park |
| 21354s | bank but I don't know if losing all of |
| 21356s | their low end is worth it |
| 21358s | I don't think it is I think this is |
| 21359s | going to be another Bargas lost now |
| 21360s | we're going to see maybe towards the end |
| 21362s | of the match here but I'm sure paper |
| 21363s | numbers aren't going to let them get |
| 21365s | away scot-free they want those modules |
| 21366s | they want to find out what's on that |
| 21367s | kill mail the possibility of course of |
| 21369s | bolstering your own Flagship strength if |
| 21371s | you've maybe they've you know got a |
| 21372s | cheap damage control and there's a fancy |
| 21374s | one the Vargas for example they are |
| 21375s | going to take down Park Bank near us |
| 21377s | they've still got a reason amount of |
| 21378s | damage left with the flag by August and |
| 21380s | these three rapid ships but it's it's |
| 21383s | going to be a difficult job to deal with |
| 21384s | two battleships yeah they've taken them |
| 21386s | down I have t want two frigate lodging |
| 21389s | at least to help keep the rest of their |
| 21390s | team alive but you're staying balled up |
| 21392s | in a kite Side Up versus a brawl setup |
| 21394s | that's not exactly what you want to see |
| 21396s | happen and so uh these logic freaks are |
| 21398s | gonna be a lot further away than they |
| 21400s | would otherwise be the visual Fleet |
| 21401s | issue of CEO CEO does go down but they |
| 21404s | will trade for this Osprey Navy issue of |
| 21406s | dear moomoo-san as their exact Navy |
| 21409s | Captain shig Ken now without the nearest |
| 21411s | reps should end up falling |
| 21413s | yeah and I think this is actually a good |
| 21414s | demonstration of what a flag of Indy |
| 21416s | comp should do I feel like paper numbers |
| 21418s | have correctly set up a setup here |
| 21422s | um that is aiming at facilitating The |
| 21424s | Vindicator on getting on top of things |
| 21425s | they got the Crusader they had the exact |
| 21427s | Navy issue they had the fleet vigil and |
| 21429s | they are now going to catch the blog SDS |
| 21431s | you've spotted |
| 21432s | yep siren already into armor at the |
| 21436s | moment that is a bye bye flag bark gonna |
| 21439s | try to get sun damage out of rifosen but |
| 21441s | he's only got a drake Navy issue and a |
| 21443s | couple rapid light boats to help him out |
| 21445s | at the moment just absolutely deleted by |
| 21448s | I would assume officer blasters on top |
| 21450s | of rifles and we'll have to take a look |
| 21451s | at the kill mail to see uh what exactly |
| 21454s | has been shown to be fit to this |
| 21457s | Vindicator because I don't think it's |
| 21459s | gonna die and it's going to move on to |
| 21460s | the next round |
| 21461s | yeah hopefully paper numbers will be |
| 21463s | kind enough to link it in local and then |
| 21465s | we'll be able to just see immediately |
| 21466s | after the match on the desk what this |
| 21468s | bug has had of course we all love seeing |
| 21469s | juicy Flagship kill males but this is |
| 21471s | looking like it's going to be the end |
| 21473s | for response close in points but it |
| 21474s | won't be for long as bogus is going to |
| 21476s | go down they are trying to pump back |
| 21477s | into Rife ice and but it's going to be |
| 21479s | too little too late he can hold under |
| 21480s | the under his own local rep |
| 21483s | um and once the bloggers goes down |
| 21484s | obviously there's not much left |
| 21486s | fire nicaruka though is wrapping up a |
| 21489s | shield a little bit at the moment maybe |
| 21490s | able to get some tracking uh out is this |
| 21492s | Abba and vindia right on top of them |
| 21494s | they should be able to track him but uh |
| 21496s | Bargas of course a very fast ship |
| 21498s | finally dips in two five percent whole |
| 21501s | and he is dead rivason should be able to |
| 21504s | stabilize Now versus the remaining DPS |
| 21506s | from Esports Petopia and paper numbers |
| 21509s | this is a team that placed second much |
| 21511s | to everyone's surprise in the anger |
| 21514s | games some people were doubting whether |
| 21515s | the 7v7 will have any application into |
| 21518s | the 10v10 format they had a very close |
| 21520s | match versus Odin's call to start off |
| 21522s | the tournament and they had a very |
| 21524s | convincing match now against Esports |
| 21526s | fitopia going through this lower bracket |
| 21528s | yeah I think the most important thing is |
| 21530s | that this is a bunch of guys who've |
| 21531s | stuck together I believe they're on |
| 21532s | literally triggered in the last 80 and I |
| 21534s | can see some names here I can see six or |
| 21536s | seven names that I recognize from those |
| 21537s | literally triggered matches and when |
| 21539s | you've got people who are confident in |
| 21540s | each other's ability that you're |
| 21541s | confident in that each other understands |
| 21543s | your win conditions what needs to be |
| 21544s | done on a match how to fulfill your role |
| 21545s | that's a very very good strength in |
| 21547s | having that institutional knowledge |
| 21548s | maintained within an organization |
| 21551s | and uh on top of that you know Esports |
| 21553s | Petopia they |
| 21556s | improve I think a little bit uh over the |
| 21558s | last couple tournaments for showing up I |
| 21560s | think an alliance open if I remember |
| 21561s | correctly which doesn't get counted in |
| 21563s | the at Stats which is why we saw only uh |
| 21566s | last year's stats for them where they |
| 21567s | pulled off one win this time going out |
| 21569s | O2 but still respectable losing to such |
| 21573s | a uh very good team I think as paper |
| 21577s | numbers who uh we'll move on to the next |
| 21579s | round of lower bracket |
| 21581s | yeah I think that's one of the things |
| 21583s | that we've all noticed from the bracket |
| 21585s | this year is that there's just so many |
| 21586s | good teams and you have to be |
| 21587s | exceptionally lucky to actually Dodge |
| 21589s | any of the good teams to be honest |
| 21591s | because they're everywhere it's like a |
| 21593s | land mine out there like a Minefield |
| 21595s | um and yeah unfortunately Sports Petopia |
| 21596s | coming up against as you say the second |
| 21598s | place in the angry games are very very |
| 21599s | competent Squad here |
| 21601s | and uh they brought about a badger this |
| 21603s | is something Chad's been pointing out |
| 21604s | the entire time and I think was pointing |
| 21606s | it out on the desk that it would happen |
| 21607s | uh we can talk a little bit about that |
| 21610s | as |
| 21611s | you don't see the effect that a battle |
| 21612s | Badger has uh on the fancy UI because it |
| 21616s | doesn't tell you uh what type of boosts |
| 21620s | or or tracking boosts uh the badger is |
| 21623s | giving to the rest of his team and I |
| 21624s | assume this is an RTC badger |
| 21626s | yeah I think the situations where a |
| 21630s | badger is useful are very very Niche but |
| 21631s | I think this is one of them like I said |
| 21633s | when you're running a flag vindi you |
| 21636s | need to have that comp Focus around |
| 21637s | getting that vindi doing what it wants |
| 21638s | to do and you ain't when you've got a |
| 21639s | badger that can just stick three remote |
| 21641s | tracking computers or whatever it's got |
| 21643s | onto a Vindicator that is massively |
| 21645s | helpful for that Vindicator and for just |
| 21647s | two points it's an absolute bargain in |
| 21648s | that scenario I think a lot of other |
| 21650s | scenarios it's probably not great but in |
| 21652s | this particular one I think it's very |
| 21653s | very valuable |
| 21655s | and flag bendy we'll see how it fares |
| 21659s | throughout the rest of the tournament |
| 21660s | they're one of only handful teams that |
| 21661s | have brought it uh most teams favoring |
| 21663s | this bar I guess but the flag Bargas has |
| 21664s | only won once today uh unfortunately |
| 21668s | four at every other flight broadcast has |
| 21670s | gone the way of the dodo uh we spoke a |
| 21674s | little bit uh about the flagship choices |
| 21676s | in the alliance tournament preview show |
| 21678s | we saw a lot of flag bar guests why do |
| 21682s | you think that we have seen that |
| 21684s | throughout the tournament or or I've |
| 21686s | seen so many of them uh being picked up |
| 21689s | I think one of the strengths of the bar |
| 21690s | guest is it's just so versatile you can |
| 21692s | fit it into a bunch of different comps |
| 21693s | you can Rush with it you can kite with |
| 21694s | it but I mean as you say they've all |
| 21696s | died today except for one the one I |
| 21697s | spent 15 billion on included um so maybe |
| 21701s | um you know this this sort of idea of |
| 21703s | barges being the best choice is totally |
| 21704s | wrong although I know that a bunch of |
| 21706s | the top Echelon teams also have their |
| 21709s | flag Bargas they just haven't chosen to |
| 21710s | use them there so it on you know it |
| 21711s | could just be a skill issue in fact it |
| 21713s | probably is |
| 21715s | oh you're you're calling your own team |
| 21717s | out by saying skill issue what is this |
| 21721s | you're not allowed to do that uh |
| 21724s | either way 30 seconds left in the match |
| 21726s | this Kieran of rusan Saw uh no one's on |
| 21730s | top of him at the moment uh now the |
| 21732s | Mueller is he should end up falling now |
| 21736s | yeah so this is unfortunately gonna be |
| 21738s | the end of the run for useful I remember |
| 21739s | actually I think it was as you said |
| 21740s | Alliance open they had a pretty |
| 21741s | impressive run but unfortunately it is |
| 21743s | going to be zero two for them this year |
| 21744s | paper number's going to move on in the |
| 21745s | lower bracket that's going to be all |
| 21747s | from us today uh of course same time |
| 21749s | tomorrow more matches more explosions |
| 21751s | um I've been the Basilisk he's been fear |
| 21753s | Viner thank you very much for listening |
| 21765s | foreign |
| 21776s | Yeah we actually lost a bet as CCP |
| 21779s | collectively so that's why that Alliance |
| 21781s | logo is in the game of course you could |
| 21783s | change your alliance by leaving but that |
| 21785s | would be kind of a jerk move that kind |
| 21787s | of oh you don't like it now sucks I'm |
| 21790s | gonna go join |
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| 21800s | thank you |
| 21806s | welcome to leave Pandora |
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| 21838s | pay for numbers there taking the victory |
| 21841s | as Esports Petopia sadly exits from |
| 21844s | Alliance tournament 18 becoming the |
| 21845s | third team to leave we came in today |
| 21847s | with 32 we've gone through a whole bunch |
| 21849s | of matches and 29 teams remain going |
| 21852s | into day two tomorrow uh that was our |
| 21854s | last match of the day and what a match |
| 21856s | it was Park Bank the uh the nearest |
| 21858s | Pilot there four paper numbers just flew |
| 21861s | so well he managed to uh kite off and |
| 21864s | drag drones around and survive for two |
| 21867s | maybe two and a half absolutely critical |
| 21869s | minutes keeping himself and his team |
| 21871s | alive as the other team had to just keep |
| 21872s | shooting and shooting and shooting but |
| 21874s | how how important are just minutes like |
| 21876s | that when you just don't die I mean it's |
| 21878s | it's huge like we've talked about the |
| 21880s | tunnel visioning of DPS but like that's |
| 21882s | not a tunnel vision they just couldn't |
| 21883s | finish them off but especially when |
| 21885s | you're using something like a flag |
| 21886s | bargist right where you have a limited |
| 21889s | number of shots and then you have to |
| 21890s | spend 35-ish seconds reloading um maybe |
| 21892s | a little less depending on what the |
| 21894s | module is on it but uh two minutes is |
| 21896s | like when you add in the fact that you |
| 21898s | have the rapid clipping is just huge |
| 21900s | like potentially won the match for them |
| 21903s | so very very good piloting on parkbank's |
| 21905s | part absolutely and we've seen Park Bank |
| 21907s | a number of times before in different uh |
| 21908s | different tournaments uh he always flies |
| 21910s | super well one of those uh rail |
| 21913s | Logistics Pilots that we talk about |
| 21914s | being like a critical member of the team |
| 21916s | anyway as I mentioned that was our last |
| 21918s | match of the day uh so we are pretty |
| 21920s | much going to wrap up now uh we're gonna |
| 21922s | go to the pub and celebrate uh and we'll |
| 21924s | get we'll be back tomorrow for more |
| 21926s | explosions uh from 14 45 Eve time stick |
| 21930s | around as we're going to drop all you |
| 21932s | lovely viewers onto the alliance |
| 21934s | tournament after show hosted by dtm135 |
| 21937s | and 404 HD I've been ethical Hawk right |
| 21939s | now I've got with me Jin tan and |
| 21941s | Blackboard pirate and we have so many |
| 21942s | people we'll talk about them more later |
| 21944s | on thank you very much for watching and |
| 21946s | I will see you tomorrow |
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