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| 5s | Warriors of Legend |
|---|---|
| 15s | hallowed and venerated Among the Stars |
| 18s | themselves |
| 27s | those bold enough to join this |
| 29s | Gladiators Pantheon |
| 32s | this gallery of Champions the |
| 36s | only one |
| 41s | winner stays on |
| 55s | welcome back to Alliance tournament 19 |
| 58s | it is the final day 52 teams started |
| 62s | back at the start of the feeders four |
| 64s | remain four teams left in Alliance |
| 67s | tournament 19 uh we have barcode and |
| 70s | Fraternity in our upper bracket the |
| 72s | teams that have not lost a match yet and |
| 75s | in the lower bracket we have the tuskers |
| 77s | call and last year's Champion truth |
| 79s | honor light and those two teams will be |
| 81s | facing off in the best of one |
| 83s | elimination match in just a few minutes |
| 85s | I'm joined on the desk by mystical my |
| 87s | and CP Swift CP Swift how are you today |
| 90s | I am doing great I am so excited uh you |
| 93s | cannot believe it |
| 94s | um these matches are have been |
| 96s | incredible uh yesterday I was kind of |
| 98s | off camera but in the studio all day and |
| 101s | we were just standing every single match |
| 104s | it felt like was just like a stand |
| 105s | scream at the TV oh my God electronic |
| 108s | sports are the best uh kind of moments |
| 111s | these matches were just so good I think |
| 113s | my favorite was very in stone shirt like |
| 115s | just |
| 116s | winning with 22 seconds to go one ship |
| 119s | to kill uh ice water through the veins |
| 121s | killed it easy uh Baza went crazy it was |
| 125s | a fun moment it was I missed Annie any |
| 127s | big highlights from you yesterday I |
| 129s | think it's probably the same match I |
| 131s | think I'm not usually a motive when it |
| 133s | comes to like behind the scenes watching |
| 134s | the matches but for that one it was me |
| 137s | throwing my hands up in the air because |
| 139s | both teams were trying their best to |
| 140s | throw and it was very frustrating to |
| 143s | watch so uh it was a a lot of games |
| 145s | yesterday were like Games Adventures so |
| 147s | it was it was really fun to watch yeah |
| 148s | one team in particular that just |
| 150s | squeaked through so many times truth on |
| 152s | the light last year's defending |
| 153s | Champions knocked down into the |
| 155s | elimination bracket last weekend in a |
| 157s | bit of a shock upset the barcode also |
| 159s | losing their Flagship Vargas in the |
| 161s | process they then had to go through a |
| 163s | gun yesterday the who's who of Alliance |
| 166s | tournament teams of current and |
| 168s | yesteryear they had to go through Exodus |
| 170s | they went through Dark Side they went |
| 172s | through Odin's call and repeat of last |
| 174s | year's Grand Final they went through |
| 176s | templates calcif they went through White |
| 178s | Flag they're practice partners and now |
| 179s | they have to go through tuskers all of |
| 182s | those matches are like they could have |
| 184s | gone either way like some of them almost |
| 186s | did go either way and choose someone |
| 188s | like just managed to pull each one out |
| 189s | each one out that's got to be absolutely |
| 191s | grueling c2b Swift yeah I've uh played |
| 194s | on a team that's gone through the |
| 195s | elimination bracket and it is as you say |
| 198s | grueling like halfway through you just |
| 199s | you don't even have that much time to |
| 201s | think about what you're gonna do you |
| 203s | just react and you just like kind of |
| 205s | throw darts at a wall and be like okay |
| 207s | that's what we're gonna fly can't second |
| 209s | guess it can't like really have a long |
| 211s | discussion about it let's just go out |
| 213s | and win and really they did and all of |
| 215s | those matches that you mentioned they |
| 217s | could have been semi-finals or even |
| 218s | finals matches in other Alliance |
| 220s | tournaments like they're competing up |
| 222s | against teams that have won or gotten |
| 224s | very close to winning uh each and every |
| 226s | time that is uh incredible to go through |
| 229s | I think during the um Darkness match I |
| 233s | was kind of predicting if truth on or |
| 235s | light kind of can win here I think |
| 236s | they're going to go all the way through |
| 237s | to the finals because if anyone stands a |
| 240s | chance at beating them it would be |
| 241s | darkness in that run and um they just |
| 244s | handed it like it was nothing uh just |
| 246s | ice water in the veins again just like |
| 248s | yeah cool we'll just get some more skins |
| 250s | you know win why not |
| 253s | well this is the the last time they'll |
| 255s | have to win a best of one to avoid |
| 257s | elimination uh if they get through this |
| 259s | it is just three teams remaining and |
| 262s | they are best dogs will have the best of |
| 264s | three winners bracket final between |
| 265s | barcode and fraternity and then we'll |
| 268s | have the best of three losers bracket |
| 269s | final between the winner of our next |
| 271s | match and the loser of that Winners |
| 272s | bracket final and then finally the best |
| 274s | of five grand final to see who takes |
| 276s | home uh the the Ultimate Prize of |
| 279s | winning a last tournament 19. let's take |
| 281s | a look at the bands for this next match |
| 283s | up our first match of the day and our |
| 285s | final best of one elimination match in |
| 287s | the tournament the tuskers versus truth |
| 289s | honor light tuskers battling out Widow |
| 292s | hyena Sentinel zaromized truth on a |
| 295s | light going for hugin Rapier hyena and |
| 297s | zarmas both teams saying don't like |
| 299s | zarmas don't like long range webs uh the |
| 302s | trickle Bands then giving us Armageddon |
| 304s | Armageddon Navy issue from the tuskers |
| 306s | and Truth on the light with the crew and |
| 308s | the curse mystical Knight what do you |
| 309s | think of these bands here very |
| 310s | interesting yeah now we're beginning to |
| 312s | see some more targeted and because both |
| 314s | of these teams have had to play through |
| 315s | the losers bracket for a fair stretch |
| 317s | now I think so they've had to show quite |
| 318s | a few different comps and you know ways |
| 320s | of approaching different matches the |
| 322s | Widow we saw work especially well for |
| 324s | truth on a light yesterday along with |
| 326s | his arm so it makes sense that you want |
| 327s | to ban these out high inner and Sentinel |
| 329s | semi-standard bands as we're used to |
| 332s | most years I do like the fact that |
| 334s | tuskers have banned out the garden Navy |
| 336s | they I believe have a flagship which |
| 339s | means that they can still bring Theirs |
| 340s | to evade that ban but it means that |
| 343s | truth on a light can't make use of a |
| 344s | fairly strong ship in the storm yeah |
| 346s | just speaking of flagships as I |
| 348s | mentioned truth on a light lost their |
| 349s | Flagship on weekend one approximately a |
| 352s | quarter of a trillionesque bar gas that |
| 353s | went down the other three teams still |
| 355s | remaining in the tournament have their |
| 357s | flagships fraternity have a Vindicator |
| 359s | tuskers have an Armageddon Navy issue |
| 361s | and barcode have that bar guest so only |
| 364s | truth on a light without it and as you |
| 365s | rightly point out Tasker is battling |
| 367s | that armaged Navy issue means that if |
| 369s | they want to they can bring that flag |
| 371s | and I mean the tuscaras are our team |
| 373s | that will put top end money into it so |
| 376s | this could make a big difference C to be |
| 377s | swift how do you think truth on a light |
| 379s | are going to feel knowing they don't |
| 380s | have that Flagship in their back pocket |
| 382s | they've been there before they've gone |
| 384s | to |
| 384s | um kind of a semi-final match or like a |
| 386s | Make It or Break It match without their |
| 388s | Flagship |
| 389s | um and not having the flagship actually |
| 391s | has cost them in previous Alliance |
| 393s | tournaments so I think they're gonna be |
| 395s | a little bit scared they know that |
| 396s | Huskers really love control teams |
| 398s | obviously the Navy getting offers a ton |
| 401s | of control but if any team has like some |
| 403s | trick in the Playbook that they haven't |
| 405s | really uh wanted to show yet I think |
| 407s | it's truth on or light this might be one |
| 408s | of their |
| 410s | um like final weekends like when it all |
| 413s | never seen it before type of comps and |
| 415s | so I think they're just going to kind of |
| 416s | pull one out of the pocket and just stun |
| 418s | everyone with it it'll be very |
| 420s | interesting to see what the tuskers |
| 421s | bring they have been known to bring a |
| 423s | few Off the Wall comps uh we saw one the |
| 425s | other day when they got knocked down |
| 426s | into the elimination bracket when they |
| 429s | brought their top end was Guardian |
| 430s | double Pilgrim hugin a lot of points a |
| 432s | lot of troll very little in the way of |
| 435s | DPS and it cost them it meant that they |
| 437s | got knocked down Misty do you think |
| 439s | maybe there's a chance they haven't met |
| 440s | to themself in something like this I |
| 442s | think both of the teams that were about |
| 444s | to watch have at certain points in the |
| 446s | tournament felt like they'd maybe |
| 447s | outmetering themselves a little bit or |
| 449s | making things too difficult for them to |
| 450s | achieve because what you really want to |
| 452s | be doing is aiming for simple to execute |
| 455s | you know hard to screw up comps and |
| 458s | these teams are not bringing those in |
| 460s | their standard matches so I can't even |
| 461s | imagine what kind of theory crafting |
| 463s | nightmare is going on in the background |
| 464s | for both sides trying to outmeter each |
| 466s | other playing like 6D chess mostly |
| 469s | against themselves |
| 471s | um but you know with the image of the |
| 473s | other team in their mind I'm sure all |
| 474s | right well it is time to head over to |
| 476s | the arena uh with jintan and mizier for |
| 478s | the tuskers call versus truth honor |
| 480s | light |
| 484s | hello everyone and welcome to the arena |
| 486s | I am here to bring you an incredibly |
| 488s | spicy match between two teams that are |
| 490s | more often seen in the finals than they |
| 493s | are in these quarterfinal deciders |
| 495s | matches tuskers Co here in red have |
| 497s | brought a drone set up they're going to |
| 499s | be trying to utilize the 20 heavy drones |
| 501s | that their Ishtar Proteus and double EOS |
| 503s | can put out meanwhile war of Truth on a |
| 505s | light brought here miss |
| 508s | I think not |
| 510s | people would expect brought an all-in |
| 512s | Rush come with a rapid heavy missile |
| 514s | buggies |
| 516s | ham ships there's like two Nighthawks |
| 519s | and Osprey Navy if you're a careful Navy |
| 520s | issue uh caracal jacked off like Hashem |
| 524s | and supported by two Kirin so all |
| 525s | Kildare ships they've been expecting |
| 527s | some ECM and trying to keep it all you |
| 529s | can die to to offset the racial Jammers |
| 532s | but looks like justice didn't bring in |
| 534s | support and um so let's see how |
| 537s | brutal dispatch gonna be yeah you can |
| 540s | see there the truth on the light Pilots |
| 541s | headed up by Kadesh Priestess who is |
| 543s | burning as fast as they can into the |
| 545s | tuskers code blob they need to lock down |
| 547s | as many ships as possible because once |
| 549s | they spread out it's going to be so |
| 550s | difficult for these hams to apply you |
| 551s | can see the incredible girth of that |
| 553s | truth on a like potential attack bar |
| 555s | there but it's not just lit up yet |
| 557s | whilst tuskers Co they're going to be |
| 559s | able to apply their damage no matter |
| 560s | where they are on grid they need to |
| 562s | spread out and they need to distribute |
| 563s | this ham Rush as fast as possible |
| 568s | actually burned back maybe waiting for |
| 571s | some micro drum Cloud play but at the |
| 573s | same time the lucky face went with him |
| 575s | so a Cadets preachers and the ejectile |
| 577s | went down without any reps |
| 580s | oh yeah that's unsurprising though look |
| 582s | at all of the drones that have now |
| 583s | poured out all of these lights and |
| 585s | mediums from the ishka from these double |
| 587s | Vex and navy issues are so effective at |
| 589s | shredding tackle uh but uh truth on the |
| 591s | light there firing back killing off wax |
| 593s | SM in the ishka really quickly as well |
| 595s | all those light missiles from the |
| 596s | jackdaws and fly catchers applying so so |
| 598s | well but it looks like drontes is not |
| 601s | long for this world and gone that leaves |
| 603s | so little tackle left on the board here |
| 604s | for truth on a light |
| 606s | yeah it's interesting both uh destroyers |
| 608s | without having Giga Kevin's in close I'm |
| 611s | not really sure what kind of play |
| 612s | they're trying for when they're holding |
| 614s | a clearance back for so long but at this |
| 616s | time they really trade not trading that |
| 618s | well losing two ships already and like |
| 620s | kettlebell going down really fast and |
| 623s | still only taking out the ishika |
| 625s | yeah they do seem to have tackle on vld |
| 628s | in this Proteus uh that he's going to |
| 630s | die here very very uh very very quickly |
| 632s | once all of these Nighthawks get on top |
| 633s | of him uh but after that it's gonna be a |
| 635s | question of what else can they catch |
| 637s | especially with that caracal here now in |
| 639s | very very low Shields that's one of |
| 640s | their last few ships that can reach out |
| 642s | and grab things uh for the truth on a |
| 645s | light composition here it looks like |
| 646s | they're moving on to Skylar hawk in the |
| 649s | Thalia though maybe trying to take off |
| 651s | the long-term survivability here for the |
| 654s | tuskers team |
| 655s | yeah different times to take out the |
| 656s | lucky so that I can easily break through |
| 658s | things but at the same time these ships |
| 660s | are small signatures it's going to be |
| 661s | hard for their hams to apply they need |
| 664s | to like pin them down before they can |
| 665s | apply anything |
| 668s | yeah yeah they're just gonna they're I |
| 670s | truth or like are just swapping control |
| 672s | all over the place here now finally |
| 674s | moving over to an Ishtar seeing if they |
| 676s | can break that one down he must be in |
| 677s | range of all of their Nighthawks uh |
| 679s | possibly mispositioning from Katarina |
| 681s | there but the Osprey Navy issue of ferox |
| 683s | 2070 is down and that leaves only uh six |
| 686s | ships left on the grid here four truth |
| 688s | on a light with which of to craft their |
| 690s | Victory |
| 691s | Heritage |
| 693s | that is a really clever move like we are |
| 696s | not really seeing wobbles being used |
| 697s | that often in tournament settings but |
| 699s | that heretic went in and wobbled both |
| 702s | the clearance making it hard for them to |
| 703s | catch up with the fight and as we've |
| 705s | seen like the the true father light team |
| 707s | has been punished for it but they do |
| 710s | seem to be taking out that Ishtar with |
| 712s | them |
| 713s | and then Nick tomorrow here now really |
| 714s | in really low Shields he is going to get |
| 716s | traded away for Katarina the first sign |
| 718s | of life here really from truth on a |
| 720s | light as they actually do Implement that |
| 723s | hand rush they are going to get some DPS |
| 724s | downrange now it's just a question of |
| 726s | can anything break through and can they |
| 727s | hold on to anything |
| 730s | yeah this price is going to be extremely |
| 732s | hard for them they're having the baggies |
| 733s | on two Nighthawks remaining and these |
| 735s | are like the slower ships on the grid uh |
| 738s | and uh at this point like even if they |
| 741s | do take out the task as a logistics |
| 744s | don't make it hard for them to burn and |
| 747s | cast anything |
| 749s | wow that Kieran they're just getting |
| 751s | slapped all these light drones are so |
| 753s | effective at killing it and with no rep |
| 755s | drones left on the field there's nothing |
| 757s | left to keep these alive it's now just |
| 758s | bar guests double Nighthawk left on the |
| 761s | grid here for truth on a light you've |
| 763s | got to say magnificent execution from |
| 765s | tuska's code just choking this rush out |
| 768s | putting their ships in spreading it all |
| 770s | out and and locking them in place there |
| 772s | in in such a position that they were |
| 774s | only just you know four minutes into the |
| 776s | match able to lock down on one Target |
| 778s | and by that point the game was almost |
| 780s | over for them |
| 782s | yeah have you seen your TGs and local |
| 784s | and I believe this game is actually a |
| 785s | game of bamboozles like a true foreign |
| 792s | against the controllers |
| 796s | bringing anything control at all doing |
| 798s | all in drone setup instead and uh |
| 805s | did what I could to |
| 807s | see if they could take them out but uh |
| 810s | just this drone setup just proved to be |
| 812s | stronger of the two in this matchup |
| 816s | yeah it's really interesting to see them |
| 818s | finally come out the Drone set up |
| 819s | obviously very very weak versus the |
| 822s | Octodad Max threat setups that we've |
| 824s | seen coming through so far and that's |
| 826s | probably why we haven't seen much of |
| 827s | them but now the now that things are |
| 829s | getting a bit more into the Weeds now |
| 831s | we're facing people who are trying to |
| 833s | bring counters to that next threat which |
| 836s | is the sort of our level one setup it's |
| 838s | causing these teams so many problems |
| 839s | it's opening up really interesting |
| 841s | avenues for teams like tuskers which are |
| 844s | notoriously uh have interesting takes on |
| 847s | Theory crafting isn't that right Miss |
| 848s | yeah so I'm actually getting the report |
| 850s | that the task test team used to osis the |
| 853s | prop mods for like oversize after |
| 854s | burners which means they can't be |
| 856s | scrammed so they are extremely celebrity |
| 859s | ships where even long-range grounds on |
| 861s | the barriers and things like that |
| 862s | couldn't stop them as they could just uh |
| 865s | keep burning away and this just |
| 868s | something that |
| 871s | set up like this if you can't really pin |
| 874s | anything down like they needed webifiers |
| 876s | and uh |
| 877s | that didn't have enough webifiers to |
| 879s | slow these ships down as they were just |
| 880s | Coast out of their hembrains |
| 884s | yeah do you think there was maybe if uh |
| 886s | truth on a light had brought a flagship |
| 888s | fit Bargas that could have been |
| 890s | something that would have tipped the |
| 891s | match in their favor I mean you would do |
| 894s | a little bit extra damage but the uh |
| 895s | scramma is still not going to be useless |
| 897s | against these uh after the burner ships |
| 900s | so this is really a mirror Chief move |
| 903s | like completely out |
| 905s | one in the theory crafting and uh |
| 908s | really showing that tasker's team |
| 911s | there's nothing you should fear when it |
| 913s | comes to like |
| 915s | crafting |
| 917s | absolutely absolutely and not just |
| 919s | Theory crafting also execution you've |
| 921s | got to say that these comps these type |
| 923s | of compositions are not easy to pull off |
| 925s | they might look like you know just |
| 926s | double click away from the opponents but |
| 929s | there's a hell of a lot more that goes |
| 930s | into it than just that with drones |
| 932s | dropping off and all that that said myth |
| 934s | now entering low armor the bar guest |
| 936s | probably not long for this world and |
| 938s | with that truth on a light last year's |
| 940s | winners eliminated before even the |
| 943s | semi-finals can kick in I cannot believe |
| 945s | this Miz |
| 948s | yeah I don't think many people expected |
| 950s | this looking at the points being fed |
| 952s | like a two as a free quote because of |
| 956s | people have bet on the truth on the |
| 958s | light so that's going to be like a a |
| 961s | bunch of people with a lot of Channel |
| 962s | points there after this baggage goes |
| 965s | down as a |
| 966s | going to take the fourth place while the |
| 969s | touchless team are going to make it into |
| 970s | top three and maybe even be able to grab |
| 972s | the the big prize and with that uh we'll |
| 975s | send it back to the studio |
| 996s | oh |
| 1002s | yeah |
| 1003s | are you ready yeah see somebody's house |
| 1006s | on the way what do you think it would |
| 1009s | feel like if a ship worked through your |
| 1011s | house I might have some weird effect |
| 1013s | like imagine |
| 1014s | sneezing like they get explosive |
| 1016s | diarrhea or something like that |
| 1020s | boy |
| 1022s | if he's out of your ass |
| 1027s | hey what you started |
| 1030s | with uh all right you know what Jeff |
| 1033s | there's never happened let's move on |
| 1035s | here's our secondary Target this is me |
| 1037s | broadcasted it's a champion now then we |
| 1040s | can |
| 1042s | foreign |
| 1067s | it is truth honor good night for truth |
| 1069s | on the light last year's defending |
| 1071s | Champions are eliminated from Alliance |
| 1073s | tournament 19 uh they take the fourth |
| 1076s | position this year which is still pretty |
| 1078s | damn respectable getting top four of all |
| 1081s | the teams I mean the gauntlet they ran |
| 1083s | through to get to this stage alone was |
| 1086s | just immense uh so that team should be |
| 1088s | incredibly proud of of getting as far as |
| 1090s | they did after that uh upset in weekend |
| 1092s | one so you know well done but that was a |
| 1095s | heck of a heck of a performance from the |
| 1097s | taskers call they're bringing pretty |
| 1099s | much an off-the-wall com not something |
| 1101s | we've really expected uh almost fully |
| 1104s | galente comp uh Magnus that heretic of |
| 1107s | course meaning that you know jams if you |
| 1108s | break any sort of like racial jams are |
| 1110s | probably going to really struggle |
| 1111s | mystery talk me through it yeah we saw a |
| 1113s | similar okadari comp coming in from |
| 1115s | truth on and light as well uh |
| 1117s | essentially teams when they're unable to |
| 1119s | fully ban out ECM may decide to bring |
| 1122s | ships of the same eccm type or like |
| 1126s | signature strength type so you've got |
| 1128s | four different types in the game they |
| 1129s | relate to each of the different factions |
| 1131s | so if you bring an all galante setup it |
| 1133s | means that if you're going up against |
| 1134s | ECM they're probably only going to have |
| 1136s | a few ECM Jammers that block I guess the |
| 1139s | glente signal which means that fewer of |
| 1142s | your ships are going to be able to get |
| 1143s | jammed consistently across the course of |
| 1145s | the match which makes it easier for you |
| 1147s | to play against ECM setups and we saw |
| 1149s | the same from truth on the light bring |
| 1150s | in the ukhardari so if they're going up |
| 1152s | against DCM probably only got a few |
| 1154s | kadari Jammers it essentially has the |
| 1157s | same effect |
| 1158s | yeah let's also talk about the elephant |
| 1160s | in the room or the Proteus in the comp |
| 1163s | um we saw Proteus filter there by the |
| 1165s | task force not a very common ship in |
| 1167s | Alliance term in fact we can see here uh |
| 1169s | the last time one was fielded was all |
| 1171s | answerment 16 when a single one was |
| 1172s | fielded uh before that we had to go back |
| 1174s | to Alliance tournament 13 before we see |
| 1177s | even a smattering of protea five of them |
| 1180s | back then uh really a ship we have not |
| 1182s | seen for a decade in Alliance tournament |
| 1185s | competition uh I mean it seems like the |
| 1187s | Roman military inappropriate footwork |
| 1189s | and dead terrorists using them back in |
| 1191s | the day sort of Alliance tournament |
| 1192s | eight and things like that CCP Swift |
| 1194s | proteins in Alliance tournament 19 |
| 1196s | what's going on here why not it wins 100 |
| 1199s | win rate in the lines 2019 everyone is |
| 1202s | foolish for not picking it uh but no |
| 1205s | it's um you know in previous Alliance |
| 1206s | Hornets when we've seen it it's uh |
| 1208s | sometimes been used as a logistic ship |
| 1210s | uh for like tinker type setups uh |
| 1213s | whenever like a Tango or Loki were |
| 1215s | banned back in the day |
| 1217s | um it does have some uh drone |
| 1219s | capabilities it's also as Misty was |
| 1221s | pointing out very very heavy tackle |
| 1223s | which is what he suspects this uh |
| 1225s | Proteus was meant to do here but really |
| 1227s | if you're in a drone comp and you want |
| 1229s | something that's kind of more like an |
| 1231s | EOS produce kind of make sense |
| 1234s | um it does get those heavy four heavy |
| 1236s | drums so it can contribute a lot you've |
| 1239s | got a lot of mid slots to do some tackle |
| 1241s | and as we saw it was impossible to kill |
| 1244s | two thunder light went up against it |
| 1246s | they unfortunately tackled the Proteus |
| 1248s | and they're like well better kill this |
| 1250s | Proteus they tried and then we saw them |
| 1251s | lose most of their back ends and then |
| 1254s | they had to go swap to another Target |
| 1255s | yeah I feel like that's one of those |
| 1257s | comps that a bunch of the Tuscan City |
| 1260s | Crafters all went into a tent together |
| 1261s | with the theater crafting pipe and then |
| 1263s | came out a little while later with with |
| 1265s | this thing uh but it's it's got the dub |
| 1267s | so I guess that's all that really |
| 1268s | matters Misty do you think |
| 1271s | um a regular uh Tech Two Bargas they are |
| 1273s | fielded by truth on a light because the |
| 1275s | flagship is dead do you think if they |
| 1277s | have that Flagship bar guest that |
| 1279s | there's a material difference in how |
| 1280s | that match went yeah |
| 1281s | we were discussing that during the |
| 1282s | course of the match I think the fact |
| 1284s | that they don't have the flagship I |
| 1286s | guess means that they don't have access |
| 1287s | to long range tackle so one of the |
| 1289s | benefits of having a flagship I guess |
| 1291s | which has a bonus to tackle range on |
| 1294s | things like scrams and disruptors less |
| 1296s | useful in a tournament but the scram |
| 1298s | especially so very useful it means that |
| 1300s | it can reach out and pin down these |
| 1302s | ships like the eos's like the ishtars |
| 1304s | before they're able to get too far away |
| 1305s | and it should potentially outrange |
| 1308s | Proteus scram as well meaning that the |
| 1310s | truth on a light team would have an |
| 1311s | easier time moving around the Proteus |
| 1314s | which was acting like a wall of sorts uh |
| 1316s | scramming Down The Nighthawks and |
| 1318s | preventing them from moving away and by |
| 1319s | nature of being heavy tackle it means |
| 1321s | that it's really difficult to remove |
| 1323s | especially if you're using heavy |
| 1324s | assortment cells |
| 1325s | yeah speaking of missiles uh CP Swift |
| 1328s | the other thing that we were talking |
| 1329s | about during that match was the uh Light |
| 1332s | Team bringing basic kinetic bonus uh |
| 1334s | ships against galenti Tech 2 resists uh |
| 1338s | explain this a little bit for us yeah so |
| 1340s | they're going to take two resist type uh |
| 1342s | really hardens up for uh kinetic and |
| 1344s | thermal damage uh that's where they get |
| 1346s | the most of their Buffs a lot of |
| 1348s | effective hit points there so they've |
| 1350s | got the very high resists means that |
| 1352s | incoming damage gets mitigated quite a |
| 1353s | lot |
| 1355s | um truth on light they had ships they |
| 1357s | get bonus to kinetic damage if they want |
| 1359s | to fire kinetic damage they are not as |
| 1361s | long as even the little uh frigate logic |
| 1364s | able to rep a ton of effective incoming |
| 1367s | damage there and we saw it when they |
| 1368s | were shooting that Proteus Proteus uh |
| 1371s | very didn't really go down too much |
| 1374s | um even the ishkar took a long time to |
| 1376s | go down the Ishtar as well uh swapping |
| 1379s | over to the Dexter Navy issue it melted |
| 1380s | because it didn't have those Tech 2 |
| 1381s | bonuses but uh yeah just really well |
| 1384s | flown by the tuskers as well really |
| 1387s | I think they got away with one in terms |
| 1389s | of a comp I think they kind of tricked |
| 1391s | truth on our light a little bit into |
| 1393s | bringing that kinlocked called RIT yeah |
| 1397s | certainly was an excellent performance |
| 1398s | by the tuskers and they will move on uh |
| 1400s | to the the best of three for the lower |
| 1402s | bracket final later on today uh before |
| 1405s | that though we have to go back to the |
| 1406s | winners bracket for our winners bracket |
| 1409s | uh final these all the matches now are |
| 1411s | best of Threes so or at Best of five to |
| 1414s | the Grand Final uh but these have |
| 1416s | Conquest bands this is where stuff |
| 1418s | starts to get extra extra spicy |
| 1421s | um what this means is uh if you win |
| 1423s | match one of three uh great you're one |
| 1425s | nil up but you can't bring any of the |
| 1427s | ships that you've brought in that comp |
| 1429s | none of them they are in our band for |
| 1431s | you and then there's still the the |
| 1432s | regular Banning phase four uh match two |
| 1436s | as well the other team can bring the |
| 1438s | stuff that you're Banner at Conquest but |
| 1439s | the other team can bring those that's |
| 1440s | fine they're unaffected by those |
| 1441s | Conquest bands if they win the second |
| 1443s | match they take it to 1-1 both teams now |
| 1446s | would have have stuff banned out but for |
| 1448s | Match 3 it all resets and they can bring |
| 1450s | anything again and of course the teams |
| 1452s | remaining all have their flagships as |
| 1453s | well so this is so much potential for |
| 1457s | some some great matches coming up in the |
| 1458s | very near future I mean let's start |
| 1460s | talking about them we have about five |
| 1461s | minutes to go so let's look at the bands |
| 1463s | for the first match of fraternity versus |
| 1465s | barcode in our alliance tournament 19 |
| 1467s | winners bracket final fraternity Banning |
| 1470s | out the authoris the Osprey is slept |
| 1472s | near the executive Navy issue barcode |
| 1474s | going for the curse the infamous Pilgrim |
| 1476s | the pontifex and the Magus mystical |
| 1479s | Knights what do you think here I like to |
| 1481s | see a respect ban coming out they're |
| 1483s | slate into the tournament from barcode |
| 1484s | Banning out that Pilgrim |
| 1486s | um yeah I I think again these are fairly |
| 1488s | standard bands barcode not making the |
| 1490s | mistake of just Banning the curse but |
| 1492s | also Banning the replacement ship that |
| 1494s | we've seen fraternity bring a couple |
| 1496s | times now I think uh pontifex and Magus |
| 1498s | bands I think are extremely interesting |
| 1500s | we haven't seen too many of those over |
| 1501s | the course of the last four days but |
| 1503s | what it essentially means is that you |
| 1505s | don't have the armor Commander is |
| 1507s | available to you so if you do want to |
| 1509s | bring links you need to be bringing |
| 1510s | battle Cruisers which does limit the |
| 1512s | ship selection that you can choose from |
| 1514s | because battle cruises will cost more |
| 1515s | points meaning that your upper end will |
| 1517s | be skewed probably towards the railgun |
| 1519s | span that we've been seeing previously |
| 1520s | and less so towards multiple battleships |
| 1523s | uh CCP Swift has Messi points out here |
| 1526s | with these armor command destroyers |
| 1527s | banned out |
| 1528s | um it is going to force these teams to |
| 1530s | bring uh different ships drawer as a |
| 1533s | possibility technically it's also a |
| 1534s | command destroyer and then you get the |
| 1536s | Navy battle cruiser which also have uh |
| 1538s | links as well what's really the |
| 1540s | difference in the power of the links |
| 1541s | here |
| 1542s | uh so obviously when you're doing an |
| 1544s | alliance tournament uh comp you're |
| 1546s | really focusing on how many points can I |
| 1548s | spend for a mid slot how many points can |
| 1551s | I spend for Effective hit points and how |
| 1553s | many points can I spend for damage so |
| 1555s | when you're Banning out these uh slots |
| 1558s | for the uh Magus and the pawn effects |
| 1561s | those are really Point efficient for |
| 1563s | links so now you're gonna have to devote |
| 1565s | a lot more as you guys are saying for |
| 1568s | some sort of battle cruiser Hull the |
| 1569s | drogger is still actually quite |
| 1570s | expensive too for what you get out of it |
| 1572s | so this could really throw a wrench into |
| 1575s | a setup more so than Banning like a |
| 1578s | logistic ship because teams kind of have |
| 1580s | figured this one out uh if you ban like |
| 1582s | an onerous or guardian and maybe we'll |
| 1584s | just take the tech one version or I'll |
| 1585s | use frigate Logie and I'll up up some |
| 1588s | other uh of my damage but I think this |
| 1590s | one is one that kind of catches teams by |
| 1592s | surprise especially in the best of match |
| 1594s | where they're like oh we need a |
| 1596s | replacement for this and you absolutely |
| 1598s | need links in your comp they for a 10v10 |
| 1601s | format incredibly incredibly useful yeah |
| 1604s | this is likely to be the first time that |
| 1606s | either of these teams have flown in a |
| 1609s | best of format in a term like this |
| 1611s | there's plenty of experienced pilots in |
| 1613s | in these teams and I'm sure some of them |
| 1615s | have experienced it but as a team |
| 1616s | overall teams like truth on the light |
| 1618s | the tuskers uh Volta uh Odin's call all |
| 1621s | hitting those best off for the last |
| 1623s | couple of years uh you get that practice |
| 1624s | get that experience but but what's it |
| 1627s | like mostly going into a Best of You |
| 1628s | have to think quite differently it is I |
| 1632s | think Swift has alluded to it a little |
| 1634s | bit earlier it's similar to playing |
| 1635s | through the losers bracket where you're |
| 1638s | basically just turning your brain off |
| 1639s | and you're just like I'm just taking |
| 1640s | this I'm just taking this or you're |
| 1642s | trying to plan ahead or like draw out |
| 1644s | the matches that you're playing in so |
| 1645s | that you have more time to think before |
| 1646s | the match actually ends we've seen a |
| 1648s | couple teams say I would have liked |
| 1649s | those two minutes yesterday when the |
| 1651s | match ended uh slightly earlier because |
| 1653s | the other team decided to die or |
| 1654s | boundary |
| 1656s | um you make use of all of the time that |
| 1658s | you have available to you |
| 1660s | um because it is just overwhelmingly |
| 1661s | stressful you have to make snap |
| 1663s | decisions you have to think about the |
| 1665s | comps that you have available and then |
| 1666s | you can't make the decision what you |
| 1667s | want to bring until you see the bands |
| 1669s | and then from the bands being told to |
| 1671s | when you're actually going to be on grid |
| 1673s | it's not actually that much time so I |
| 1675s | usually just sit in a corner and spiral |
| 1677s | whenever I yeah I'm not the one that |
| 1680s | makes those decisions I just kind of sit |
| 1681s | in the channel and go I hate this all |
| 1683s | right well I guess it's time to see if |
| 1684s | any of these teams are spiraling or if |
| 1686s | they are uh full cam collected as we |
| 1689s | head over to the arena with Mark |
| 1690s | resurrectus and Chad flim |
| 1696s | welcome back everybody to the first |
| 1698s | match and the best of three winners |
| 1700s | bracket finals here between fraternity |
| 1702s | and barcode I'm Mark resurrect is with |
| 1705s | me is The Shining Chad flame Chad an |
| 1709s | interesting setup here fraternity has |
| 1710s | brought an Armageddon Navy an Armageddon |
| 1713s | and EOS and then looked at those bands |
| 1715s | uh of the curse and Pilgrim and said |
| 1717s | okay well we'll just bring double |
| 1718s | arbitrator as well double Deacon stork |
| 1721s | Vex Navy and vexer Chad what do we have |
| 1723s | for the team from barcode barcode has |
| 1726s | looked to have brought an Absolution EOS |
| 1728s | craft Navy wrote Diva for launching with |
| 1731s | the Oracle uh OG Navy vexer Navy pairing |
| 1734s | Confessor and a Mahler as time goes to |
| 1737s | the match begins yes we now see both |
| 1740s | teams starting to meander across the |
| 1742s | middle of the frat team looking to try |
| 1743s | and I think probably close that space |
| 1745s | but not nearly as quickly as the team |
| 1747s | from barcode that team from barcode has |
| 1749s | a lot of top end damage they do have |
| 1750s | sort of a pseudo dad set up with an |
| 1752s | oracle we've seen a lot of comps like |
| 1754s | that before where they bring that those |
| 1756s | tier 3 Battle Cruisers in that fourth |
| 1758s | slot they have a lot of availability DPS |
| 1760s | but let's not let's not sleep on this |
| 1763s | team from fraternity they have played |
| 1764s | extremely well to get to this point and |
| 1766s | I'm not expecting anything less right |
| 1767s | now |
| 1768s | yeah both teams have faced off against |
| 1770s | some uh what used to be considered uh |
| 1773s | Old Guard hard teams and have proven |
| 1775s | themselves to get to this winners |
| 1776s | bracket final as we see the brawl start |
| 1779s | to begin as the both Dexter navies have |
| 1781s | been tackled nuded scrammed and webbed |
| 1784s | yeah there's a uh this is interesting |
| 1786s | they've all kind of spread out |
| 1787s | everybody's gone for their own |
| 1788s | individual targets you gotta think this |
| 1790s | maybe favors the the Bargo team a little |
| 1793s | bit better than the fraternity team |
| 1794s | because the Bargo team has so much uh |
| 1796s | DPS that can apply at range |
| 1799s | um now that being said the we're seeing |
| 1801s | right now Pacey white devil in the Vex |
| 1803s | and navy issue taking quite a bit of |
| 1805s | armor damage immediately out the gate uh |
| 1808s | from the team from fraternity while that |
| 1811s | the the fraternity Beacon also taking |
| 1813s | quite a bit of damage he's going to I |
| 1815s | think he is just hard locked down right |
| 1817s | now by the Confessor of Zhang zuwin and |
| 1821s | may go down here |
| 1822s | it looks like the Deacon is not going to |
| 1824s | be holding slowly bleeding every shot |
| 1826s | same with the vexer but don't forget |
| 1828s | there's a radiva on grid slab vexer |
| 1830s | might start stabilizing before you know |
| 1831s | it but it does not look like it actually |
| 1833s | is as it's about to go into structure |
| 1835s | but the Deacon going down yeah treating |
| 1837s | the Deacon for a Vex the Navy is a |
| 1839s | pretty good trade those deacons offer a |
| 1842s | lot of utility a lot of Versatility |
| 1844s | obviously it's their you know their |
| 1845s | primary form of lodgy uh but you know |
| 1848s | the vexid Navy itself is a decent Target |
| 1850s | but again that every time that they get |
| 1853s | you know once this vaccinated catches |
| 1854s | these full spooled reliever reps it's |
| 1857s | going to be they're just spending time a |
| 1858s | lot of time trying to get it down uh and |
| 1861s | they're really gonna have to find some |
| 1862s | creative ways to put pressure on that |
| 1863s | rubiva in order to get him to make |
| 1866s | mistakes in the future |
| 1867s | exactly that vaccine maybe did go down |
| 1869s | but it took very long time as the Deacon |
| 1872s | other Deacon on that team is already in |
| 1874s | low armor and just barely tugging along |
| 1876s | and also they're putting some damage on |
| 1878s | the vexer Navy it looks like as well and |
| 1880s | the Stork it looks like them just |
| 1881s | getting split a little bit by both teams |
| 1883s | trying to either Force through a diva to |
| 1885s | wrap other targets and the Deacon to put |
| 1887s | a lot of pressure on him to position |
| 1889s | maybe a little improperly as that is |
| 1890s | about to go down yeah you can see right |
| 1893s | now just looking at our screen the |
| 1894s | control bar from fraternity is so |
| 1896s | immense right now those arbitrators |
| 1898s | doing so much work now to try and break |
| 1900s | up some of this the the the tracking of |
| 1903s | these guns from the Absolution from the |
| 1905s | uh the Oracle from the OG Navy uh |
| 1909s | definitely putting in work now we see |
| 1911s | doc the dumbass in the Redeemer taking a |
| 1913s | lot of damage there are a lot of drones |
| 1915s | around the radiva they've decided to |
| 1916s | forget the fact that this radiva can |
| 1918s | spool up to huge amounts on his |
| 1920s | teammates and just go for the redeema |
| 1922s | right away if they knock down this |
| 1923s | redeema and they do that's quite a bit |
| 1926s | of of |
| 1928s | it's huge it's a huge shift all of these |
| 1932s | battle Cruisers now are at risk Chad |
| 1934s | Flame 100 agree and that large trade |
| 1937s | happening right there they realize both |
| 1938s | their deacons were down and they did not |
| 1940s | want to be on a grid where the other |
| 1941s | team had a cruiser Lodge but they didn't |
| 1943s | have any log on grid at all and got that |
| 1946s | done very quickly as the entire barcode |
| 1948s | team by the way is being held down by |
| 1951s | the fraternity team yeah now we're |
| 1953s | seeing the play come into full scope |
| 1954s | here the this fraternity team |
| 1956s | immediately went out tried to grab as |
| 1957s | many things as possible all they have to |
| 1959s | do now is wait for these Berserkers to |
| 1961s | and walk all these heavy drones to get |
| 1963s | back across the the grid you can see now |
| 1965s | the next Target is lined up coconut |
| 1967s | water in the Oracle down into half |
| 1969s | struck or half armor already uh as |
| 1972s | Casimir xusile in the vexer goes down |
| 1974s | for uh fraternity but I won't matter |
| 1976s | because this Oracle is paper thin and |
| 1978s | has no lodging he will drop every time |
| 1981s | one of these battle cruises drops us |
| 1982s | just that much more DPS off the field |
| 1985s | exactly and it seems like the the team |
| 1988s | of barcodes going for potentially a |
| 1989s | headshot on the uh Armageddon Navy of |
| 1991s | fabuki waifu the captain for the |
| 1993s | fraternity team and really just trying |
| 1995s | to get rid of that top and while they |
| 1996s | still have the damage on grid but that |
| 1998s | Confessor is bleeding pretty low into |
| 2000s | armor into structure and he is down more |
| 2003s | damage off the grid for the barcode team |
| 2005s | yet you really have to wonder if the |
| 2007s | Armageddon Navy is the smart decision |
| 2008s | here I I don't know if they have any |
| 2010s | better options but the Armageddon Navy |
| 2012s | is going to take so long to go through |
| 2013s | at the same time you can see this huge |
| 2015s | swarm of drones all these heavy drones |
| 2017s | now going down you can see towards the |
| 2019s | uh the Absolution of Sid the Kid uh |
| 2022s | that's being held down by the vexa Navy |
| 2024s | and that Absolution will be the next |
| 2026s | Target I don't actually know this is the |
| 2027s | best new Target for this uh because the |
| 2029s | the Absolution has itself a lot of of |
| 2032s | ehp but it doesn't seem to matter it is |
| 2035s | dropping fast yeah the amount of actual |
| 2038s | damage being applied by this fraternity |
| 2040s | team it looks like they got you know not |
| 2042s | as much damage as you'd assume that bar |
| 2044s | is still pretty big for what they have |
| 2045s | on grid as we see that Absolution |
| 2047s | getting destroyed in a very fast pace |
| 2050s | and when slack goes down I wonder if |
| 2051s | they're actually going to have the DPS |
| 2052s | to break this get a Navy I don't think |
| 2055s | they will Chad flaming you can see just |
| 2058s | once again that that that green control |
| 2060s | bar from fraternity has not wavered once |
| 2063s | the entire match these arbitrators of |
| 2065s | chess player and F roo have been doing |
| 2068s | the gods work in this match for |
| 2070s | Fraternity even if they leave the |
| 2072s | Armageddon Navy issue which they may |
| 2074s | they still have quite a bit of damage |
| 2075s | left between the EOS the prophecy Navy |
| 2077s | and the OG Navy they're doing so much |
| 2079s | damage on the back end here now up into |
| 2081s | the mid-range that they're going to be |
| 2083s | able to take out the Vex Navy probably |
| 2084s | the Mueller and maybe even the OG Navy |
| 2086s | as well in quick succession without |
| 2088s | losing too much damage |
| 2089s | you would look at that if you're looking |
| 2091s | at the future in this match though |
| 2092s | you're looking at adios in Prophecy Navy |
| 2094s | from barcode versus potentially a |
| 2096s | battleship in the Armageddon EOS plus |
| 2098s | those Arbiters it's not looking good for |
| 2100s | barcode but I will say it does not look |
| 2101s | like it is impossible to crawl back from |
| 2103s | us it looks like they are losing that |
| 2104s | Vex Navy but might get a trade-off for |
| 2106s | this arm again Navy as that entered |
| 2108s | structure yeah if they can get the |
| 2109s | Armageddon Navy that will be that it'll |
| 2112s | go a long way towards bringing this back |
| 2113s | towards something decent they still have |
| 2115s | to get through the Armageddon they still |
| 2117s | have to get through the EOS but that |
| 2118s | after that point they don't have a |
| 2119s | you're right Jed fun they don't really |
| 2121s | have a ton of DPS left they really need |
| 2123s | to capitalize on the damage they have |
| 2124s | available while they still have it get |
| 2126s | rid of this EOS Vortex calendar uh |
| 2129s | otherwise they again once they're done |
| 2131s | all you have left is drone damage really |
| 2133s | from the EOS and the Armageddon and the |
| 2135s | vaccinating it's not going to be a lot |
| 2136s | and the get Navy a fabuki waifu does go |
| 2139s | down |
| 2140s | but it looks like they're going to be |
| 2141s | trading in EOS Florida EOS is breaking |
| 2144s | extremely fast |
| 2146s | yeah you can see all they have left now |
| 2148s | are rep drones trying desperately to |
| 2150s | keep the EOS of or that calendar up and |
| 2152s | it's not going to be enough the EOS does |
| 2154s | go down all that's left for the team |
| 2156s | from uh barcode the prophecy Navy of |
| 2160s | neck rocks the OG Navy of wild things |
| 2162s | and the Mueller of still Reddick and the |
| 2165s | next Target is going to be that OG Navy |
| 2167s | the obvious next choice those prophecy |
| 2169s | navies are pretty thick and you can see |
| 2171s | that cloud of drones does not seem to |
| 2173s | have diminished in any concern uh |
| 2176s | clearly has has diminished but not in |
| 2178s | the way I think that the team from Barco |
| 2180s | would have preferred and the odd Navy |
| 2182s | now slipping into half armor I would say |
| 2184s | this one is probably well in hand Chad |
| 2186s | flame oh I would 100 agree with that you |
| 2189s | know fraternity at this point is just |
| 2190s | picking whatever Target they want |
| 2192s | locking it up pressing up and having |
| 2193s | those drones go right over to it and |
| 2195s | once that drum swarm uh swarm arrives on |
| 2197s | that Target that Target goes down |
| 2200s | extremely fast for the amount of HP |
| 2202s | you'd expect them to have let's talk for |
| 2204s | a second Chad flame about this attorney |
| 2206s | team coming out of nowhere now ending up |
| 2209s | here in the driver's seat in the first |
| 2211s | match of this upper bracket finals they |
| 2214s | have cut they they have they have proved |
| 2216s | themselves time and time again that they |
| 2218s | can win in the clutch and against teams |
| 2220s | that that are no slouch this team from |
| 2223s | barcode has had a wild run to get to |
| 2226s | this point they beat uh uh they beat THL |
| 2230s | early on they beat jakaris which was |
| 2232s | itself a uh a bit of an upstart they |
| 2235s | beat White Flag in the uh the match |
| 2237s | before this they have they have proven |
| 2239s | themselves to be a great Contender and |
| 2242s | my goodness this fraternity team is |
| 2243s | absolutely dismantled the team from |
| 2245s | barcode |
| 2246s | oh I would 100 agree with that barcode |
| 2249s | going down in this first match this is a |
| 2251s | bust of three though you know some teams |
| 2253s | have prepared for this better than |
| 2255s | others and know this position uh and |
| 2257s | have confidence in this position also no |
| 2259s | both teams did not bring their flagships |
| 2261s | so this is a potential Flagship second |
| 2264s | match for Fraternity to guarantee their |
| 2266s | spot in the finals and barcode hanging |
| 2269s | on to their last life you know if they |
| 2271s | lose this next match they go down to the |
| 2273s | lower bracket against uh toskers which |
| 2275s | is not a team you really want to face |
| 2276s | you want to stamp your way into the |
| 2278s | finals right now you know and they need |
| 2280s | to pick up a win in this next game to |
| 2281s | have a chance at a uh immediate uh right |
| 2284s | to the finals but with that the Mueller |
| 2286s | goes down and we'll be sending it back |
| 2287s | to the desk |
| 2308s | thank you |
| 2328s | foreign |
| 2366s | thank you |
| 2369s | foreign |
| 2377s | people that couldn't listen and couldn't |
| 2380s | check bookmarks and find your own way |
| 2382s | out the route the entire route was |
| 2385s | literally bookmarked out to lossec I |
| 2387s | bookmarked it 10 minutes in advance |
| 2391s | fraternity they're up 1-0 in the series |
| 2394s | against barcode these teams don't have |
| 2397s | to go away and play again in just 20 |
| 2400s | minutes 18 minutes and 54 seconds to be |
| 2403s | exactly specific |
| 2405s | um so yeah the grind that we talked |
| 2406s | about earlier on with CCP Swift and Mr |
| 2408s | here it's fully on now uh you've just |
| 2411s | finished a match you've gone down uh one |
| 2414s | zero in the best of three you kind of |
| 2417s | have to start pulling it out now but |
| 2419s | thankfully your opponents now can no |
| 2421s | longer bring any of the ships they just |
| 2423s | fielded they are now banned out just for |
| 2425s | that team so uh fraternities Conquest |
| 2427s | bands for the next match will be EOS |
| 2429s | vexer arbitrator Deacon Armageddon Navy |
| 2432s | issue stork and vexer navy issue uh you |
| 2436s | can see it on the screen uh these are |
| 2438s | the the ships that were brought that |
| 2439s | means that they cannot be brought again |
| 2442s | a mystical might what do you think about |
| 2445s | these Conquest bands here well they |
| 2446s | can't be brought Again by the fraternity |
| 2448s | team right so uh for teams winning it |
| 2451s | means that like uh like was mentioned |
| 2453s | that banned out I think it it adds an |
| 2456s | extra level of complexity to 3v3 uh or |
| 2459s | the best of three stories uh it's it's |
| 2461s | very much a case of you can't just bring |
| 2462s | the same comp multiple times and hope |
| 2464s | that they haven't figured it out by the |
| 2466s | second match right it's a case of you |
| 2468s | need to have multiple different comps up |
| 2470s | your up your sleeve ready for a best of |
| 2472s | three scenario where |
| 2475s | you know |
| 2476s | um things are going to get very tricky |
| 2477s | it means that barcode can just ban out a |
| 2479s | few more ships they don't have to |
| 2481s | actually ban any of these now |
| 2483s | um they can stick with the magazpan the |
| 2485s | pontifex ban |
| 2486s | maybe even ban the bifrost and it bans |
| 2489s | out all of the command destroyers apart |
| 2490s | from the draw gear which limits their |
| 2492s | options even more it's going to get very |
| 2494s | crazy I think yeah speaking of command |
| 2496s | destroyers I'm joined by ccvb once again |
| 2498s | ccbb we saw in that comp buy fraternity |
| 2502s | e Stark an armor Stark yes sure can you |
| 2505s | maybe explain the thinking here I mean |
| 2508s | uh they banned both the other command |
| 2510s | destroyers which would have been able to |
| 2511s | bring armor links well well to be armor |
| 2514s | setup and tankier Commander storage the |
| 2517s | stroke does bring a bunch of mid slots |
| 2519s | which you can do for all you know use |
| 2520s | for all kinds of e-war yeah we were |
| 2522s | talking about during that match uh we |
| 2524s | saw fraternity bringing double deacon |
| 2525s | now with Point inflation the way it |
| 2527s | works is if you bring duplicates of the |
| 2529s | same ship they cost more so Deacon |
| 2531s | normally Five Points if you bring two HD |
| 2533s | can cost six points so 12 points total |
| 2536s | um Misty we were talking perhaps that's |
| 2538s | a specific thinking when it comes to |
| 2540s | Conquest bands because if you brought |
| 2542s | that Talia Deacon although it's more |
| 2544s | Point efficient you get two ships |
| 2547s | spanned out yes it's more Point |
| 2549s | efficient for that particular match but |
| 2551s | it's not series efficient because if you |
| 2553s | win with the failure Deacon it means |
| 2554s | that you don't have any logic frigates |
| 2555s | available to you of the tech 2 type you |
| 2557s | still have the Navitas and The |
| 2559s | Inquisitor but they're not as tanky and |
| 2561s | they don't put out as as much reps as |
| 2563s | their T2 variants so bringing the double |
| 2565s | Deacon means that now that they've won |
| 2567s | they still have the double failure to |
| 2569s | lean back on if needs be which again |
| 2571s | opens it up to potentially being a ban |
| 2573s | which is like the theory craft and that |
| 2576s | barcode now needs to go through to |
| 2577s | figure out okay how do we respond to |
| 2578s | what frat has brought the first time |
| 2580s | yeah it feels like that's a a move of a |
| 2583s | team that's really sort of been thinking |
| 2584s | about these Conquest bands and the best |
| 2586s | of three format uh they're not just |
| 2588s | taking perhaps the as Misty says the |
| 2590s | best points optimal setup for a one |
| 2592s | match they're thinking in terms of the |
| 2594s | whole series uh ccbb uh like you've been |
| 2598s | doing all the camera work and stuff like |
| 2599s | that what kind of stuff are you seeing |
| 2600s | in these uh these matches so far well |
| 2602s | with this match I was kind of surprised |
| 2604s | how long it took them to actually put |
| 2606s | drones out in this one I was zooming |
| 2607s | around going they're just repositioning |
| 2609s | at the start but they were so confident |
| 2611s | at it they suddenly just went all in |
| 2612s | their right directions caught the people |
| 2614s | they wanted to catch drones out and just |
| 2616s | started murdering it was beautiful yeah |
| 2618s | we saw a heavy heavy Reliance on energy |
| 2620s | neutralization in that match as well by |
| 2621s | fraternity uh the uh both gaddens the |
| 2625s | the Navy garden and the regular one full |
| 2626s | Newt so no no weapon systems in the high |
| 2629s | slots at all as well as the vexo Navy |
| 2631s | issue and the vexer all being fit with a |
| 2634s | maximum engine utilization mystical |
| 2636s | might why would you why would you do |
| 2638s | that why would you bring any more guns I |
| 2640s | mean there is the trade-off between you |
| 2642s | bring more damage you do more damage |
| 2644s | fairly simple fairly simple equation |
| 2646s | though but by bringing the newts and |
| 2648s | having a heavier Reliance on newts in |
| 2650s | this particular matchup especially with |
| 2652s | so many cap dependent ships on the enemy |
| 2654s | team it means that they're able to |
| 2655s | minimize the damage coming in on their |
| 2657s | side by setting the Vex Navy issue for |
| 2659s | example on the Absolution cycling medium |
| 2662s | and small newts the Absolution isn't |
| 2664s | going to be able to Output much damage |
| 2666s | consistently over the course of the |
| 2667s | match it might be able to do a burst |
| 2669s | here and a burst there every single time |
| 2670s | that the cap booster Cycles but it won't |
| 2673s | be able to consistently shoot into that |
| 2675s | Navy again which we saw slowly dropping |
| 2677s | not quickly dropping so by managing the |
| 2681s | newts properly by making sure that |
| 2683s | Capital line guns are capped out fairly |
| 2685s | consistently over the course of the |
| 2686s | match you're not actually taking that |
| 2687s | much damage you lose two deacons at the |
| 2689s | very beginning and kind of just like |
| 2690s | what are you gonna do now you're gonna |
| 2691s | kill me no |
| 2693s | you can't shoot |
| 2695s | and also your hardness are off yes so |
| 2697s | you can be shot easier true yes by |
| 2700s | little damage does big damage now |
| 2702s | science science it does in fact work uh |
| 2705s | we also saw |
| 2706s | um CCB the choice on one team to bring a |
| 2709s | redeemer for 10 points versus the 12 |
| 2712s | points in the Dual Deacon what do you |
| 2714s | think about uh bringing this with divas |
| 2716s | tech one it does have the spilling uh we |
| 2719s | have been seeing lots of like tsarmasts |
| 2721s | um radiva is not nearly as tanky uh it |
| 2724s | still can't spool abrap I think like 72 |
| 2726s | or something so he can sit out there |
| 2728s | like it did but it didn't really do many |
| 2730s | good when that big just cloud of drones |
| 2733s | slowly made his way over he was just he |
| 2734s | was done for yeah I feel like it |
| 2737s | probably was the right choice still to |
| 2738s | bring the Redeemer especially against |
| 2740s | this uh lower DPS comp because I lowered |
| 2743s | the EPS comp which will still eventually |
| 2745s | kill you is more easily counted by the |
| 2747s | slow ramp up of something that the |
| 2749s | zaromas and the uh their Diva probably |
| 2752s | why we saw the teams Banning them out |
| 2753s | earlier on as well uh Misty any thoughts |
| 2756s | on that yeah no I think that's exactly |
| 2758s | right with the drunk comps they don't do |
| 2761s | a lot of burst damage they do consistent |
| 2763s | damage over time so the issue with that |
| 2766s | when you're going up against radio is |
| 2767s | that you can't shoot two different |
| 2769s | targets at once and force him to split |
| 2770s | reps with the rodiva or andazar |
| 2773s | typically you need to decide who you're |
| 2775s | going to let die like who's least |
| 2776s | important for the comp to continue |
| 2778s | winning in a match because you can only |
| 2780s | wrap one target at a time with your big |
| 2782s | rep your your trigger app you can fit |
| 2784s | like medium or small reps to your ship |
| 2786s | but they don't get the range bonus which |
| 2788s | means that anything else that's being |
| 2790s | shot needs to be orbiting the logistics |
| 2791s | ship which then pins it in place it |
| 2793s | can't go out and go catch things so it's |
| 2796s | very much a case of against a drone |
| 2798s | setup it's actually fairly ideal because |
| 2799s | they're just going to put all their |
| 2800s | drones on the same thing and he starts |
| 2802s | balling and either it lives or it dies |
| 2805s | the other thing I wanted to talk about |
| 2807s | um was the barcode team didn't bring |
| 2810s | multiple of uh the same ship they |
| 2812s | brought for example for length they |
| 2813s | brought an Absolution and EOS |
| 2815s | um ccbb do you think maybe when this |
| 2817s | Conquest band setup it would be more |
| 2819s | wise just in case they had one to bring |
| 2821s | say two eos's instead |
| 2823s | if they're going on the same logic as |
| 2825s | with the deacons that we're talking |
| 2826s | about before sure |
| 2828s | um but there are other command ships I |
| 2830s | can bring armor links I mean the astarte |
| 2832s | you could a very different types of |
| 2834s | shape of course |
| 2835s | um I'm not obviously sure what they're |
| 2837s | thinking about when they're going for |
| 2838s | the bands and the picks |
| 2840s | um they thought their comp would work |
| 2841s | and it certainly didn't I think I think |
| 2843s | every team probably comes in thinking |
| 2845s | that their comfort work unfortunately uh |
| 2847s | a lot of you aren't actually so great at |
| 2850s | the game Eve online and do get dunked |
| 2852s | upon but not these teams these teams are |
| 2854s | the top three teams now actually |
| 2856s | remaining in the last tournament 19 so |
| 2858s | we're up to the cream of the crop at |
| 2860s | this point so I'm pretty sure everyone |
| 2861s | here does in fact know what they're |
| 2862s | doing |
| 2863s | um and I mean they're all way smarter |
| 2865s | than I am |
| 2866s | um no Mr Gomez |
| 2868s | are you hungry |
| 2870s | I am excellent let us go watch you eat |
| 2873s | chicken |
| 2875s | so my name is Mr Mike I'm currently in |
| 2879s | fraternity I do have some affiliation |
| 2881s | with the truth on the light team as well |
| 2883s | so I've played with them for the last |
| 2884s | couple years |
| 2899s | that is a great question back in the day |
| 2902s | when you didn't have the |
| 2905s | like months-long training here you could |
| 2907s | only train for 24-Hour periods have one |
| 2909s | skills in the queue |
| 2910s | my dad had me log into his account |
| 2913s | whenever he was away and updated skill |
| 2915s | queue |
| 2916s | um at the age of 12 I made my first |
| 2919s | account and yeah so I grew up with Eve |
| 2922s | which was some people might say a |
| 2924s | mistake for child's development but |
| 2930s | now this is the right one okay I feel |
| 2933s | like I'm just smearing hot sauce on my |
| 2934s | face |
| 2936s | thank you |
| 2939s | but I think in general greatest accompli |
| 2942s | accomplishments would just be trying to |
| 2944s | get people more involved with PVP and |
| 2946s | like training people which is something |
| 2948s | I try and do about frat it's just giving |
| 2950s | people more experience with even online |
| 2951s | and better understanding about game |
| 2953s | mechanics |
| 2956s | oh this one let's see again this one |
| 2958s | just hit the back of the throat I can |
| 2960s | feel that one yeah |
| 2962s | well currently it's my right eye |
| 2965s | but um I'm thinking Scott came in |
| 2969s | from this Challenge and said that he was |
| 2970s | lightheaded |
| 2972s | so I think he might be one of the uh the |
| 2976s | people that moderated I think is going |
| 2978s | to have a great time |
| 2979s | although he has Texan so he's probably a |
| 2982s | bit used to like hot sauce |
| 2983s | yeah |
| 2985s | or me |
| 2990s | it's steamed of God yeah it's honestly |
| 2994s | just my body is like radiating heat and |
| 2997s | my glasses are like oh I think it's time |
| 2999s | we just shut this down yeah |
| 3001s | fraternity |
| 3003s | truth on a mystical might how many |
| 3005s | alliances are you currently colluding |
| 3007s | with all of them |
| 3009s | so you might not know this |
| 3012s | but what I do is I screen share |
| 3014s | everything that happens behind the desk |
| 3016s | to all of the good teams |
| 3018s | so if you ever think you have a chance |
| 3020s | you don't but |
| 3022s | if you want to pay me in 80 15 skins |
| 3025s | I'd be willing to slip you a few |
| 3027s | comments it's all good yeah |
| 3030s | I would like to clarify |
| 3033s | I'm not actually on any teams this year |
| 3034s | but if I was |
| 3037s | there would be fraternity and Truth on a |
| 3039s | life |
| 3043s | I'm having a great time |
| 3047s | all the hottest ones yeah okay yeah okay |
| 3052s | nice |
| 3054s | Good Ship uh should I leave yeah okay |
| 3059s | Misty there uh struggling with the heat |
| 3063s | uh how was that for you Misty I I feel |
| 3066s | warm just watching it back yeah it it |
| 3068s | looks like I'm suffering I was slightly |
| 3071s | suffering but |
| 3072s | my body is just naturally warm so like |
| 3075s | as tiniest bit of heat |
| 3077s | melt oh we couldn't tell it didn't look |
| 3079s | cool I think I looked cool calm and |
| 3081s | collected yes Cool Cam and collectors at |
| 3085s | all times but I was sick on that day |
| 3087s | yeah yeah God we watched our CCP Swiss |
| 3090s | one yesterday and the man was just |
| 3092s | finishing off everything |
| 3094s | didn't break a sweat just guys a monster |
| 3097s | uh we got a few more of those which we |
| 3099s | could we can check out later on today as |
| 3101s | well I'm pretty sure most of the crew |
| 3103s | did it uh some of them are pretty funny |
| 3105s | I quite enjoyed it uh even though I did |
| 3107s | not enjoy it at the same time uh csvb |
| 3109s | how have you enjoyed Alliance tournament |
| 3111s | 19. I've really enjoyed it it's been |
| 3114s | super fun it's my first time on the |
| 3115s | camera |
| 3116s | um like I said last time I was on the |
| 3117s | air that this is the first time that I |
| 3119s | get to zoom around the matches and it's |
| 3120s | very different to get to experience them |
| 3122s | when you have the freedom of just |
| 3123s | looking at anything you care about which |
| 3126s | happens to be just all of the action uh |
| 3128s | it's it's been honestly great and |
| 3130s | obviously the people here this is like |
| 3131s | 50 people that come together to make |
| 3133s | this thing work this is like it's |
| 3135s | amazing yeah there's a lot of people in |
| 3137s | the back that make this all happen uh |
| 3138s | from from little things like you know |
| 3141s | the camera operators and things like |
| 3142s | that from people who are just updating |
| 3143s | spreadsheets that run the graphics sort |
| 3145s | of |
| 3146s | right there like that thing uh people |
| 3148s | are doing that there's uh the referees |
| 3150s | some back in Iceland CCP GMS some people |
| 3153s | here we have CCP zealous the real photos |
| 3156s | yeah someone just updated the text |
| 3158s | exactly that's someone doing that like |
| 3161s | someone is sitting there somewhere uh oh |
| 3163s | it's gone okay we're back at the new one |
| 3165s | see like they're just working working |
| 3166s | and someone's cutting cameras like |
| 3168s | there's so many people doing things |
| 3170s | that's it cut cut cut cut all the |
| 3171s | cameras all the time uh so a huge amount |
| 3173s | of people to make this happen |
| 3175s | um I think last year you came across for |
| 3177s | the the final weekend uh this year you |
| 3179s | were here for the whole thing how has it |
| 3181s | been sort of uh being over you know |
| 3182s | hanging out with like the the crew and |
| 3184s | other ccps well I was here actually last |
| 3186s | time for both weekends as well oh I just |
| 3188s | don't know anything lying on stream but |
| 3190s | yes |
| 3191s | uh it's been honestly great we've had a |
| 3193s | player meet up when we're here yes but |
| 3195s | it's been very different because now we |
| 3196s | had all of the Season peers over six of |
| 3198s | us all in like a gamer house together it |
| 3200s | was super fun yeah we had a foosball |
| 3202s | table we never used it well I tried it |
| 3204s | once and it was catastrophically loud |
| 3207s | um and I felt like everyone in like the |
| 3209s | postcode would be annoyed so I I stopped |
| 3211s | it they put the ball and then it rolled |
| 3212s | to one side I was like yeah no huh |
| 3214s | that's a that's a very uh very colluding |
| 3217s | table right there all right we have our |
| 3220s | best of Threes we're coming up to our |
| 3222s | second match this is now |
| 3224s | um potential for Fraternity to win this |
| 3226s | and go straight into the Grand Final the |
| 3229s | best of five or uh barcode can pull it |
| 3232s | back take the series to one one and then |
| 3234s | we'll go to the tiebreaker |
| 3235s | um let's have a look at the bands for |
| 3237s | this upcoming match |
| 3240s | okay fraternity Banning out the EOS the |
| 3243s | Osprey the arthrus and the Armageddon |
| 3245s | Navy issue barcode Banning out curse |
| 3247s | Pilgrim pontifex and that Mega mystical |
| 3250s | might |
| 3251s | um we see barcode Banning out uh |
| 3253s | tracking disruption guidance disruption |
| 3255s | again as well as those bonus Notes From |
| 3257s | The Curse is super powerful boat it's |
| 3258s | been a very popular band throughout |
| 3260s | Alliance tournament 19. also the |
| 3262s | arbitrator is still banned from uh the |
| 3265s | um uh Conquest bands from the last match |
| 3268s | fraternity hitting directly onto uh one |
| 3271s | of the unbanned uh the ships that uh the |
| 3274s | barcode brought last time the EOS what |
| 3275s | do you think about these bands here yeah |
| 3277s | I think that barcode uh running with the |
| 3280s | same game plan probably that they had |
| 3281s | last match which is just to ban out the |
| 3283s | command destroyers that they know are |
| 3286s | kind of the linchpin ships for summer |
| 3287s | fraternities comps that we've seen |
| 3288s | previously like The Vindicator and |
| 3290s | Redeemer comps and banning up the cars |
| 3293s | and Pilgrim just because they are super |
| 3294s | strong ships that are annoying to play |
| 3295s | against which is fantastic uh the |
| 3298s | authors band I think is fairly |
| 3299s | interesting of the three bat uh the four |
| 3301s | bands sorry almost turned into Volta for |
| 3303s | a second there can't count |
| 3305s | um of the four bands that we see under |
| 3307s | the fraternity side I think the authoris |
| 3308s | is probably the strangest I don't think |
| 3310s | it's really going to make a massive |
| 3312s | difference when it comes to cutting |
| 3313s | comps because there's so many other |
| 3314s | ships that you can you can replace an |
| 3316s | authors with |
| 3317s | so I'm wondering why they've decided to |
| 3319s | ban authors I think the rest of their |
| 3320s | bands are are fairly straightforward |
| 3322s | we've seen Osprey quite a bit in Shield |
| 3324s | setups this year just because it's a |
| 3327s | lower Point cost than the Basilisk and |
| 3329s | the Scimitar but it still does its job |
| 3331s | fairly effectively and it's still |
| 3332s | annoying to try and hunt down and kill |
| 3333s | because it can go like 2K a second two |
| 3335s | and a half k a second |
| 3337s | yeah again these are two teams that have |
| 3340s | their flagships remaining fraternity |
| 3341s | with The Vindicator barcode with that |
| 3344s | bar gas and it's quite likely that |
| 3345s | Bargas was significantly upgraded after |
| 3348s | they took down the uh very expensive |
| 3350s | Flagship of Truth on a light they |
| 3352s | probably were able to scoop a bunch of |
| 3353s | those modules and upgrade their own to |
| 3355s | increase its power which is certainly |
| 3357s | going to help them if they choose to |
| 3358s | bring it that being said uh cpb this is |
| 3361s | a winners bracket so if they were to say |
| 3365s | bring their Flagship win the match but |
| 3367s | lose the flagship they're not going to |
| 3369s | have it for that Grand Final so what do |
| 3372s | you think the thinking is going to be |
| 3373s | like do you commit that Flagship now to |
| 3375s | try and get straight through to the |
| 3376s | final or do you maybe hold it in reserve |
| 3378s | in case you get uh Bounce Down |
| 3380s | I mean you're fighting to get into the |
| 3382s | finals themselves right you've already |
| 3384s | won one of the matches |
| 3386s | um in my opinion I would probably just |
| 3388s | go a little all out here and then hope |
| 3390s | you can win the best out of five later |
| 3391s | get yourself into that final for sure |
| 3395s | um this is something about fraternity |
| 3397s | right now like they're so confident on |
| 3399s | this grid I'm not sure if they would |
| 3400s | need it though |
| 3401s | like I said in the sad like their |
| 3403s | opposition is not nothing to play with |
| 3405s | here yeah this is this is a been a while |
| 3407s | since we've seen one of the larger |
| 3409s | blocks in Eve online uh be successful in |
| 3412s | Alliance tournament uh obviously |
| 3413s | pandemic Legion uh an old block back in |
| 3416s | the day who also were very successful in |
| 3418s | the last Tournament winning five of them |
| 3420s | um probably the most recent would be |
| 3421s | maybe NC DOT uh around Alliance |
| 3423s | tournament 16. I can't remember if they |
| 3425s | competed in Alliance tournament 17 but |
| 3427s | they were kind of a perennial top four |
| 3429s | team and when I said top four I mean |
| 3431s | exactly fourth uh for I think like three |
| 3433s | or four years running uh but since then |
| 3435s | it's been kind of the the domain of the |
| 3438s | small gang groups uh you know the |
| 3440s | tuskers who run out of a wormhole |
| 3442s | um truth on the light who of course |
| 3443s | they're just basically and running |
| 3446s | around shooting people with uh you know |
| 3448s | Katie Nano gang annoying stuff out of a |
| 3451s | wormhole uh voltas kind of maybe a bit |
| 3454s | of a block of time yeah is in fact the |
| 3457s | Wormhole um |
| 3459s | okay I guess so it has rumbles in it |
| 3462s | good enough yes that's all we can do you |
| 3465s | said though sorry like frt still they |
| 3468s | are like very quick to react if you roll |
| 3470s | into the room like into their area they |
| 3473s | don't wait for some big fleets and like |
| 3475s | some FC to come and say hey we're gonna |
| 3476s | go and do this they're just there like |
| 3478s | and the names you're seeing on these |
| 3480s | teams these are people that I've myself |
| 3481s | fought a bunch of time like they're out |
| 3483s | there every day it's not just about |
| 3484s | practicing for the 80 itself they're in |
| 3487s | there like every day out there just |
| 3489s | doing stuff like they play the game |
| 3491s | every day seriously exactly and they've |
| 3493s | had a lot of success ontran quality both |
| 3495s | in a small gang with some some groups uh |
| 3497s | and of course in The large-scale Meta as |
| 3499s | well |
| 3500s | um I'm being told there's a slight delay |
| 3502s | for our next match it's currently |
| 3504s | sitting at about five minutes |
| 3506s | um this is kind of what we talked about |
| 3508s | earlier on when the spaghetti starting |
| 3510s | to come out like someone's made a |
| 3512s | mistake somewhere something's broken |
| 3513s | some like crazy things are happening |
| 3516s | Mister you've been in uh like finals and |
| 3518s | best of situations like |
| 3521s | tell me about like the mental state that |
| 3523s | some of these teams are going to be in |
| 3524s | so I kind of mentioned it a little bit |
| 3526s | earlier |
| 3527s | um when we're talking about the |
| 3528s | turnaround times |
| 3529s | my personal State investors and in fact |
| 3532s | any Alliance tournament match is prior |
| 3534s | to the match spiral |
| 3536s | get into the system spiral further |
| 3539s | warp to the arena panic because I may |
| 3541s | have walked at the wrong range and then |
| 3543s | see the ships on the other side and then |
| 3544s | I'm okay it's like you get to the point |
| 3546s | where you can actually see what you're |
| 3548s | fighting and you stop running through a |
| 3549s | million scenarios in your head where |
| 3551s | you're like what happens if they bring |
| 3552s | this what happens if they bring that why |
| 3553s | don't they walk here and you're just |
| 3555s | like okay this is the cars they've been |
| 3556s | dealt now I can manage with the |
| 3559s | information that I have I think |
| 3561s | you need to be very very relaxed and |
| 3564s | very confident in your ability with your |
| 3566s | theory crafting with your Banning |
| 3567s | strategy typically you come up with a |
| 3569s | batting strategy |
| 3570s | so that you understand exactly what |
| 3572s | you're going to be trying to Target you |
| 3574s | have a few comps that you definitely |
| 3575s | want to bring |
| 3577s | typically you'll have various versions |
| 3579s | of those comps I know for sending that |
| 3581s | truth on a light typically have like 17 |
| 3583s | versions of their favorite comp so that |
| 3586s | if something gets banned out or if |
| 3587s | something was used and then they won so |
| 3590s | they can't bring it due to Conquest |
| 3591s | bands they still have other options |
| 3593s | there like I've seen these sheets and |
| 3595s | it's just it's literally it's like we |
| 3597s | start and then it's like we'll tweak one |
| 3599s | thing it's like oh version two tweak one |
| 3601s | thing 18 times yes and it's like oh |
| 3604s | which one's our favorite version it's |
| 3605s | like actually version seven is our |
| 3607s | favorite but we can bring version 52 if |
| 3609s | uh if it gets banned out and it's like |
| 3611s | that's I think where teams need to be |
| 3613s | where they understand exactly how |
| 3615s | they're going to respond to different |
| 3617s | bands that may come out because you |
| 3618s | can't really be confident that you'll be |
| 3620s | able to bring the exact setup that you |
| 3622s | want to bring but you may be able to |
| 3624s | bring that set up with a minor change |
| 3626s | here that still allows it to run |
| 3628s | effectively to counter whatever your |
| 3629s | your opponent might bring yeah this is |
| 3631s | uh two teams that we haven't really seen |
| 3633s | in the the top three before and |
| 3635s | certainly not in the winners bracket |
| 3636s | final let's take a look at some of the |
| 3638s | pilots maybe that are on these as teams |
| 3639s | have a look at the the summaries if you |
| 3641s | will |
| 3642s | um Mr production crew here we are okay |
| 3644s | so fraternity 53 Pilots have flown with |
| 3647s | the fraternity team over the years uh |
| 3649s | some of them with a significant amount |
| 3650s | of experience 22 rounds means 22 matches |
| 3653s | played |
| 3654s | um if you think that if a team goes say |
| 3655s | O2 then they're only going to play in |
| 3657s | two matches uh that would be more than |
| 3659s | 10 Alliance tournaments if you just went |
| 3661s | on too so clearly to get these kind of |
| 3663s | numbers you have to be winning enough to |
| 3665s | keep making your way through and through |
| 3667s | and get into some of these like best |
| 3668s | dolls where you really start to see the |
| 3670s | numbers increase that's why we see |
| 3671s | Pilots like Casper 24 from truth on the |
| 3674s | light hitting something like 70 plus |
| 3675s | rounds played he's been playing for a |
| 3677s | long time with a number of top teams so |
| 3679s | constantly hitting those best offs uh so |
| 3681s | frat here on the right you can see who |
| 3683s | they've had to go through to get where |
| 3684s | they are today bright side of death no |
| 3686s | vacancies Odin's call and hidden Leaf uh |
| 3689s | Ninja Village so pretty decent set of |
| 3691s | teams they had to go through previously |
| 3693s | they've been knocked down by teams like |
| 3694s | the network little triggered and barcode |
| 3696s | which I find someone ironic because |
| 3698s | barcode haven't actually played since |
| 3699s | Alliance tournament 16 and yet here they |
| 3702s | are again against fraternity uh let's |
| 3704s | take a look at barcode so as I mentioned |
| 3705s | they haven't played since 2016 uh they |
| 3708s | took a bit of a sabbatical uh I maybe |
| 3711s | not as directly experienced in terms of |
| 3713s | the number of rounds played for some of |
| 3715s | these Pilots but still by no means uh |
| 3717s | newbies you know 15 rounds 13 Rounds |
| 3720s | that's a pretty solid uh pretty solid |
| 3722s | number of matches played they've only |
| 3724s | competed in two Alliance tournaments uh |
| 3726s | the compete in the last tournament 16 |
| 3728s | um where obviously they lost two to go |
| 3730s | out because that's how that's what |
| 3731s | happens in a double elimination and |
| 3733s | they've won nine matches so it's a |
| 3735s | really really uh good performance from |
| 3738s | this team and you can see on on that |
| 3739s | right there of the last set of matches |
| 3741s | the only team they actually lost to was |
| 3743s | an elimination match to the tuskers |
| 3745s | Misty I was just gonna say I hope it's |
| 3748s | not a repeat of what we see on the right |
| 3749s | side there where they beat fraternity |
| 3750s | and then lose to tuskers in the final |
| 3752s | because that we might be reusing the |
| 3754s | scripture |
| 3755s | yeah I bet you've downloaded the wrong |
| 3758s | version of the script yeah we might need |
| 3760s | to get that checked yeah uh any |
| 3763s | predictions going into this match then |
| 3764s | Misty uh I mean I'm gonna have to |
| 3767s | support frat of course I'm hoping that |
| 3768s | fret are able to pull off for two hours |
| 3770s | here to get themselves into the finals |
| 3772s | which I think would be incredibly |
| 3773s | exciting for for the team yeah it really |
| 3776s | would be I love to see fresh blood uh |
| 3778s | making end in terms of the teams uh I |
| 3781s | just think apparently it's good for the |
| 3782s | for the tournament |
| 3784s | um we have only uh one of last year's |
| 3787s | top four still remaining uh being the |
| 3790s | tuskers who came forth last year uh 2008 |
| 3792s | of course one last year now I've gone |
| 3793s | out fourth uh so you never really know |
| 3796s | I'm being told we're pretty much ready |
| 3797s | to go to the arena and barcode are |
| 3799s | bringing their Flagship bar guests so |
| 3800s | they're listening to ccpb they're going |
| 3802s | for they all end they're trying to make |
| 3803s | it through into the finals by taking |
| 3805s | this uh to the full third match so let's |
| 3806s | hand over to our casters Jin tan and |
| 3808s | mizir |
| 3813s | hello everyone welcome back to the arena |
| 3815s | I missed and with me is Sir Jim tan this |
| 3817s | is like a second match of the best of |
| 3819s | three so if fraternity wins this one day |
| 3822s | uh moving on to the finals but uh back |
| 3825s | out still have a chance to reach the |
| 3826s | fans if they take this one uh so yeah |
| 3829s | Jim can you tell me about the frat team |
| 3832s | yeah fraternity here have just taken |
| 3834s | advantage of the fact that there weren't |
| 3835s | any bands face placed towards this Max |
| 3837s | threat style of composition so we've got |
| 3839s | a huge amount of railgun and uh just |
| 3842s | general medium gun spam DPS getting |
| 3845s | ready to be laid out here on this |
| 3847s | control setup uh from their opposition |
| 3849s | in barcode the start of this match is |
| 3852s | going to be crucial here we're going to |
| 3853s | try and see all of these medium guns |
| 3854s | apply to something do you think it's |
| 3855s | gonna be the Confessor or the crucifier |
| 3860s | they're having the confess of wild |
| 3863s | things burning in the meantime both |
| 3865s | teams are like going a bit far away so |
| 3867s | yeah the Confessor is definitely getting |
| 3868s | primaried but the back OT was like |
| 3871s | something we haven't really seen much |
| 3872s | like an armor tanker with ECM and |
| 3874s | there's Alma stormbringing as well so |
| 3876s | they're going all in with the control |
| 3879s | yeah you can see there that uh tracking |
| 3881s | disruptors are now being spread across |
| 3883s | almost the entirety of the fraternity |
| 3885s | Team all of those long range weapon |
| 3887s | systems not being able to really apply |
| 3888s | but they are now congregating here in |
| 3890s | the back corner of the Arena maybe |
| 3892s | potentially looking to use an mjd player |
| 3894s | because they do seem like they are |
| 3896s | gathering around that Beacon there miss |
| 3899s | yeah they could look like they're going |
| 3901s | for that Michael Jordan play we've |
| 3902s | actually seen a lot this year people |
| 3904s | going for it so it's I'm really loving |
| 3906s | it at the same time it looks like the |
| 3907s | barcode team are using the storm bringer |
| 3909s | and the smart version of the bag is to |
| 3911s | clear off these drones but the drone's |
| 3913s | not going to be a vital thing of the |
| 3915s | fraternity team this time |
| 3917s | there we go there's the mjds started it |
| 3920s | looks like they're going trying to go in |
| 3921s | behind and land on top of the aniros oh |
| 3923s | look at that that's a beautiful play |
| 3925s | here for a fraternity that right on top |
| 3926s | of that |
| 3928s | on him and if they do uh all of that |
| 3931s | ewar from the barcode team is no longer |
| 3933s | going to be enough to protect them |
| 3934s | pasty white devil instead so that black |
| 3937s | bear can jam things off your knew so |
| 3939s | it's a good call to get rid of the |
| 3940s | Blackbird first but at the same time |
| 3942s | second baby show upside down is taking |
| 3945s | armor damage so they might train the |
| 3947s | ship for for this move |
| 3949s | yeah but that DPS bar for Fraternity is |
| 3951s | only going to continue climbing up and |
| 3953s | up and up as they adjust burn in here |
| 3955s | none of the Barco tackle is in position |
| 3957s | to screen them off it looks like it |
| 3959s | might be Neuromancer here in the Tengu |
| 3961s | as the second primary potentially uh |
| 3963s | fourth fraternity |
| 3965s | yes definitely good to get that Tango |
| 3966s | off the field to give you the freedom so |
| 3968s | they can't that could force you with |
| 3969s | gems but it looks like they're actually |
| 3971s | going for their own ears instead maybe |
| 3973s | being comfortable they could take it out |
| 3975s | without having to get rid of the tanker |
| 3977s | first |
| 3978s | yeah barcode is firing back some DPS |
| 3981s | here testing the tank of these the |
| 3982s | executive Navy issue of siron uh but |
| 3985s | clearly and deciding that's not the uh |
| 3987s | not the right way to go going for |
| 3989s | alternative love love now that's going |
| 3991s | to be so much ehp for them to burn |
| 3993s | through barcode have a real real uphill |
| 3995s | struggle here as Sid the Kid it bounces |
| 3998s | around mid armor here just burning |
| 4000s | through all those ancill charges |
| 4002s | do you think there's any way for for |
| 4004s | Barco to disengage from this Miss |
| 4007s | it's going to be extremely hard to they |
| 4009s | usually have to kill something fast |
| 4010s | looks like the O'Neills of car was here |
| 4012s | it's like far away Narnia so it might be |
| 4014s | a little bit miscalculation after a |
| 4016s | micro drum Drive move but at the same |
| 4017s | time taking out your nearest debacle |
| 4019s | team so this is really looking bad for |
| 4021s | barcode and it looks like fraternity is |
| 4023s | going to make it to the finals like |
| 4025s | who's would have expected this |
| 4028s | yeah nobody really fraternity obviously |
| 4031s | not um they've put in decent runs in |
| 4034s | previous tournaments but this is going |
| 4035s | to be by far uh one of the highest |
| 4038s | placements they've ever had in the |
| 4039s | alliance tournament history here as uh |
| 4041s | it looks like there's a desperation play |
| 4042s | now from Barco trying to kill copacion |
| 4045s | in that and near us they might be able |
| 4047s | to do it because that bar guest it is a |
| 4050s | officer bar guest it's going to be able |
| 4051s | to reach out for an incredibly long |
| 4053s | range with its scrams and it's going to |
| 4055s | have a huge amount of DPS but |
| 4056s | Neuromancer in the Tengu finally |
| 4058s | dropping here yes so one of the things |
| 4061s | in the confess I did manage to catch the |
| 4063s | O'Neills of copper cm and we had the |
| 4065s | lucky from Florida Canada moving towards |
| 4068s | the universe but looks like they're |
| 4070s | still disengaging from Rodney I was |
| 4071s | going for another Target they've given |
| 4073s | up trying to take it out looks like |
| 4074s | they're going to a very curious of |
| 4076s | Darkness ever |
| 4077s | uh one of the people at the Joint deep |
| 4081s | fraternity team alongside with fabuki |
| 4083s | waifu so this is like somebody really |
| 4084s | good people I believe they actually got |
| 4087s | the fourth in the captain's cup so these |
| 4089s | are some of the pilots I've been |
| 4090s | enjoying the fraternity team and really |
| 4092s | kicking up their play and they've been |
| 4094s | paying off for them |
| 4096s | absolutely and you just have to take |
| 4099s | into account how difficult it is to pull |
| 4101s | off an mjd play like that if you've |
| 4103s | never had the uh |
| 4106s | is getting shredded absolutely shredded |
| 4109s | this is amazing like going to see this |
| 4111s | kill mate maybe they have taken some of |
| 4113s | the loot from the truth on a lighter |
| 4115s | bargain so this could be extremely |
| 4116s | expensive remember to load it to |
| 4118s | everyone |
| 4119s | there we go that's it that is game set |
| 4122s | and match pretty much for Fraternity two |
| 4125s | owing this series and just crushing |
| 4128s | barcode incredibly authoritatively |
| 4132s | yeah it's actually not entirely sure if |
| 4134s | the fraternity could execute the max |
| 4136s | thread setup as well since it's not |
| 4138s | really something I've been feeling that |
| 4140s | much but they're absolutely shown that |
| 4141s | they know how to use this compound |
| 4144s | executing an extremely good micro drum |
| 4146s | Drive play so they're definitely going |
| 4148s | to deserve their spot in the finals they |
| 4150s | have earned it and I love seeing this |
| 4153s | stuff and there I'm going to be rooting |
| 4155s | for Fraternity I've never expected to |
| 4157s | say this out loud but I'm going to do it |
| 4159s | because these people are amazing and uh |
| 4162s | been showing they deserve some some |
| 4165s | prizes |
| 4167s | yeah it's A True Underdog Story here for |
| 4169s | Fraternity as they take it away and from |
| 4173s | that uh it's it's let's head back to the |
| 4175s | studio because barcode have been scanned |
| 4177s | out |
| 4202s | all right |
| 4233s | guys stop being casual they're really |
| 4236s | bad we should not lose anybody to this |
| 4238s | warp off warp off take the fleet warp |
| 4240s | everybody warp off this is a really |
| 4242s | really bad execution I'm very |
| 4243s | disappointed |
| 4248s | Ray and are you in the armor Vagabond or |
| 4250s | something no um I've got axle ISP |
| 4255s | and polarized guns or what |
| 4265s | fraternity they're taking the series to |
| 4267s | nil knocking barcode finally down into |
| 4270s | the lower bracket barcode are not out we |
| 4273s | will see them again they will go up |
| 4274s | against the tuskers in another best of |
| 4276s | three to see if they can claw their way |
| 4278s | back to the finals uh this is going to |
| 4280s | be a bit of a grueling run for them they |
| 4282s | have lost their Flagship as well now |
| 4283s | that bar guest that was fielded dead go |
| 4286s | down uh fraternity still have their |
| 4288s | Flagship and they are now on into the |
| 4290s | Grand Final so the the worst they can do |
| 4292s | now is go second second overall in |
| 4295s | Alliance tournament 19. that's pretty |
| 4297s | spectacular I think not many people with |
| 4299s | a predicted this going into alliance |
| 4301s | tournament that we would see some of |
| 4302s | these teams in the top four fraternity |
| 4304s | and a 2-0 sweep uh over barcode uh |
| 4308s | excellent excellent performance all |
| 4309s | around from them I'm waiting to see that |
| 4311s | Flagship come up I'm assuming it's going |
| 4312s | to be kind of expensive we talked about |
| 4314s | this earlier scpb about how with |
| 4317s | flagships |
| 4318s | um the teams couldn't lift them so |
| 4320s | quickly explain to me the concept of |
| 4321s | flagships so the flagship is the only |
| 4323s | ship that you can guaranteed bring even |
| 4325s | if it's banned out and and you're |
| 4328s | allowed to kind of pimp it as we say |
| 4329s | which means you can put you know strong |
| 4332s | long range webs onto something that has |
| 4335s | an even better bonus to it like a |
| 4336s | Vindicator or like there are ships that |
| 4339s | as we say pimp really well which means |
| 4341s | that good modules expensive modules they |
| 4344s | will work extremely well on those ships |
| 4346s | that's what a flagship is and if you |
| 4348s | kill it you can then loot these good |
| 4350s | modules very often officer modules yeah |
| 4352s | put them on your own Flagship yeah this |
| 4355s | does take place on Tranquility so you |
| 4357s | know sometimes we see |
| 4359s | um a team killer Flagship and then they |
| 4362s | specifically hold damage on maybe The |
| 4364s | Last Ship in the enemy team so they have |
| 4366s | longer to go look direct make sure they |
| 4368s | get everything the other team might be |
| 4369s | trying to do things like denial we saw |
| 4371s | teams shoot wrecks before we've seen |
| 4373s | teams uh try and uh boundary violate |
| 4376s | with their flagships yes not the |
| 4378s | flagship but as the flagship died the |
| 4380s | other guy they were leaving alone just |
| 4381s | boundaries real quick yes like they're |
| 4383s | trying to deny the ability to loot it to |
| 4385s | to reduce the power creep of the other |
| 4387s | team so as soon as that Flagship kill |
| 4389s | mail is available we'll take a quick |
| 4390s | look at it I'm also turned on the desk |
| 4392s | by a new phrase uh Brett Thomas Thomas |
| 4394s | how are you today I'm doing great thank |
| 4396s | you so tell me about your role here at |
| 4398s | Alliance tournament 19. so so far I've |
| 4401s | been behind the scenes world I've been |
| 4402s | usually what we call in the industry |
| 4404s | owners Observer so I've been doing the |
| 4406s | camera you can see some of the |
| 4407s | explosions I've been doing behind me so |
| 4409s | what my job specifically because this |
| 4411s | year we have three cameraman that's why |
| 4413s | we've seen three camera slots we've saw |
| 4414s | the long range far back shot we've sort |
| 4416s | of medium kind of action shot and then |
| 4419s | we have my job which is giving a lot of |
| 4421s | the stripped of the UI explosions these |
| 4423s | are all the fanciful stuff that really |
| 4425s | make for some good uh |
| 4428s | some good Buzz reel some really nice uh |
| 4430s | images that do really quite well when we |
| 4432s | show them off yeah I think it's really |
| 4434s | cool that as soon as a match ends we can |
| 4437s | just have this little like highlight |
| 4438s | reel it's like 20 30 seconds long |
| 4441s | um and that you see you know some really |
| 4442s | cool explosions I mean Eve it's a 20 |
| 4444s | year old game but it just continues to |
| 4446s | just look phenomenal and being able to |
| 4448s | show that off not just generic Clips but |
| 4451s | clips from the match we just saw I think |
| 4454s | is uh it just kind of elevates the the |
| 4455s | production a little bit I mean some of |
| 4457s | these shots spread are phenomenal |
| 4458s | they're looking at this uh Guardian just |
| 4460s | spiraling off into an explosion uh so |
| 4462s | fantastic job there I've been talking |
| 4464s | quickly look at the bar I guess Kell |
| 4465s | Mill and it looks like it's a bit of a |
| 4467s | doozy let's have a quick picky okay so |
| 4469s | 64 a billion uh uh uh isk not Icelandic |
| 4475s | Kroner that would be a lot of money this |
| 4477s | is in fact Interstellar credits from the |
| 4478s | game Eve online |
| 4480s | um so those stmls modified launchers |
| 4482s | that are in the high slots two of those |
| 4485s | I am 100 sure came from the truth on |
| 4488s | like Flagship which was fed with them |
| 4489s | because the other officer launchers are |
| 4491s | not the same they are vespers across the |
| 4494s | board all of the third smls there my |
| 4497s | apologies so three Esther miles |
| 4499s | launchers three Vespers uh so that added |
| 4502s | a huge chunk of value each of those |
| 4503s | launchers are worth approximately eight |
| 4505s | and a half a billion ISC pair then we |
| 4509s | see a really nice modified damage |
| 4511s | control as well so a very respectable |
| 4513s | Flagship but I mean uh Brett what do you |
| 4517s | think that these teams are thinking |
| 4518s | they're they're still in they're into a |
| 4520s | loser bracket final against the tuskers |
| 4521s | who do have their flagship |
| 4523s | well I think losing I think throwing |
| 4526s | their Flagship in that situation in that |
| 4528s | match they brought it out as an option |
| 4530s | to say we need to pull back here if we |
| 4533s | do go through and we this Flagship dies |
| 4535s | but we win the match |
| 4537s | we've got a Bonus with through to the |
| 4538s | final of the best of three and can work |
| 4540s | our way into the best of five but with |
| 4542s | losing your Flagship you've really got |
| 4544s | to realize that now you've got to kind |
| 4546s | of you've got to dig deep and focus on |
| 4548s | the fact that you've got a best of three |
| 4551s | followed by a best of five so worst case |
| 4553s | scenario scenario you have eight matches |
| 4556s | coming up over the next couple of hours |
| 4558s | you've really got to focus on not |
| 4561s | stressing out too much and getting all |
| 4563s | your ships and comms pre-ready so you |
| 4564s | don't have that scramble in the 15 |
| 4567s | minutes between when your match setups |
| 4569s | and your captain is suddenly contacted |
| 4571s | by the GMS |
| 4573s | yeah it's definitely going to be hard |
| 4574s | for them they've gone undefeated |
| 4575s | throughout the tournament they knocked |
| 4577s | down uh last year's defending |
| 4578s | championships on a light and weekend one |
| 4580s | in a fantastic upset |
| 4582s | um which allowed them to get those extra |
| 4583s | modules now they've just lost two in a |
| 4586s | row for their first losses of the |
| 4587s | tournament uh and they've lost their |
| 4589s | Flagship so they're really going to be |
| 4591s | at the back foot and as you say right |
| 4592s | they're gonna have this potentially big |
| 4593s | series of matches to go through |
| 4596s | um and that best of three went two nil |
| 4598s | which means obviously we don't play the |
| 4599s | the last match that would just be kind |
| 4600s | of pointless |
| 4601s | um but the rest of the schedule |
| 4602s | compresses down uh for the sake of |
| 4605s | viewership so it's not as if they get to |
| 4606s | then oh have that break they are going |
| 4608s | to be on it immediately they have to |
| 4610s | just take those losses throw them out of |
| 4612s | their mind and go okay now we're facing |
| 4614s | the tuskers you know hopefully they've |
| 4616s | like spent last night kind of doing |
| 4617s | research over all the different teams uh |
| 4619s | that they were going to be potentially |
| 4620s | flying against today looking at what |
| 4622s | they like to bring they like to ban and |
| 4624s | sort of trying to build their uh their |
| 4626s | comps up around that uh but I'm sure |
| 4628s | they would have much preferred to go |
| 4629s | straight into the finals fraternity |
| 4631s | though they get to sit back for a good |
| 4632s | hour or so uh probably a little bit |
| 4634s | longer and wait to see who they will |
| 4637s | face in the Grand Final uh where is it |
| 4639s | going to be barcode or is it going to be |
| 4641s | the tuskers uh we'll find that out but |
| 4643s | we are gonna go for a short break so we |
| 4645s | can get things set up for our next |
| 4646s | segment so stick around and we'll see |
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| 6357s | welcome back to Alliance tournament 19 |
| 6359s | imccp overload joined the game by |
| 6361s | moderator and CC Castro as we head into |
| 6364s | our next best of three three teams |
| 6367s | remain we said goodbye to truth on our |
| 6369s | light day we're at fourth place in |
| 6371s | Alliance tournament 19 just earlier on |
| 6373s | today tusker is moving forward to uh to |
| 6376s | see if they can defeat barcode who were |
| 6378s | knocked down to the elimination bracket |
| 6380s | buy fraternity who took a 2-0 sweep in |
| 6384s | the winners bracket final we can see |
| 6386s | here the three teams remaining two |
| 6387s | flagships remaining as well barcodes |
| 6389s | sadly perished in a tragic space |
| 6392s | accident the Tasker is called with the |
| 6393s | Armageddon Navy issue and fraternity |
| 6395s | with their Vindicator both still alive |
| 6398s | so we'll see if those uh those flagships |
| 6400s | being alive are going to help them |
| 6401s | especially now barcode going up against |
| 6404s | the tuskers moderator you gotta think |
| 6406s | they would have they might have |
| 6408s | preferred to maybe not feed their |
| 6409s | Flagship last last round yeah |
| 6411s | um it felt like they might have |
| 6414s | definitely second or triple guess |
| 6416s | themselves |
| 6417s | myself and some of the other analysts in |
| 6419s | The Green Room were kind of wondering |
| 6421s | what was going on uh barcode definitely |
| 6423s | brought a setup that was a little bit |
| 6425s | more out there and sometimes you can go |
| 6428s | out so far outside the box that you are |
| 6430s | no longer within the boundary of what is |
| 6433s | a comp that really makes sense |
| 6435s | um there's some things you can do |
| 6437s | uniquely with the flag bar guest that |
| 6438s | doesn't work with other setups but when |
| 6441s | you kind of lose against a very |
| 6444s | common setup that fraternity brought and |
| 6446s | they just |
| 6447s | out comp you like that you kind of have |
| 6449s | to wonder what's going on as you speak |
| 6451s | Castro any uh what do you think about |
| 6453s | the matches we've seen today uh tuscious |
| 6455s | defeating truth on the light and uh for |
| 6457s | time to defeating barcode |
| 6459s | the other thing is fantastic that we're |
| 6461s | gonna see like different teams in the |
| 6463s | finals this year like uh the tuskers are |
| 6467s | a team that the 18014 and then they've |
| 6470s | always kind of just been like a great |
| 6471s | team I think they've kind of had some of |
| 6473s | the harder like brackets in the other |
| 6476s | tournaments but it's good to see them |
| 6478s | maybe make a comeback maybe this will be |
| 6480s | this year the Year where they'll get |
| 6482s | another name on The Monument as you can |
| 6484s | see yeah yeah if we can cut to the the |
| 6486s | wide shot you can see this is the |
| 6488s | alliance tournament monument in Monarch |
| 6489s | this is on uh Tranquility you can go |
| 6491s | visit this in the high SEC system of an |
| 6493s | arc there is the the great uh I guess |
| 6496s | the goddess of Alliance tournament that |
| 6497s | really sure there's probably some lore |
| 6498s | that I'm not aware of uh in the center |
| 6500s | and then all around there are plinths |
| 6502s | for every uh every winner of every |
| 6504s | tournament back to Alliance tournament |
| 6505s | one uh we see Band of Brothers there we |
| 6507s | see pandemic Legion from from back in |
| 6509s | the day the tuskers from Alliance Route |
| 6511s | 14 as mentioned video reloaded uh who |
| 6513s | won a couple uh that is template Council |
| 6515s | for when the alliance open |
| 6517s | um and then of course truth on the light |
| 6518s | from last year so the winning team of |
| 6521s | Alliance tournament 19 will get their |
| 6523s | logo uh emblazoned uh or upon that |
| 6525s | Monument it could be a new team this |
| 6527s | year it could be fraternity we could see |
| 6528s | a panda adorning the the monument in |
| 6530s | Monarch it tuskers to get a second one |
| 6532s | or it could be barcode uh with their I |
| 6535s | think it's a curse in their one so |
| 6537s | all to play for everything I'm actually |
| 6539s | super excited about this uh the set of |
| 6541s | three mods what were your thoughts well |
| 6543s | I mean this is just a great storyline we |
| 6546s | have kind of uh Vortex haliger Wild |
| 6549s | Things basically a bunch of players who |
| 6551s | had historically had some association |
| 6554s | with kind of the Goran clade what is now |
| 6558s | kind of the holding Corp with truth |
| 6560s | honor light a lot of those guys just |
| 6563s | didn't play the game for a few years |
| 6565s | um it's kind of been a running joke that |
| 6567s | people try to get vordak color to come |
| 6569s | back he shows up for like two or three |
| 6571s | scrims and then he quits because he's |
| 6573s | just not ready for the you know full |
| 6575s | dedication and everything you need but |
| 6578s | talking to you know Sid the Kid who I'd |
| 6581s | interviewed it seemed like you had him |
| 6584s | back you had wild things back and I'm |
| 6586s | like oh they're actually serious about |
| 6588s | it and I picked them actually in kind of |
| 6591s | a pre-show |
| 6593s | um |
| 6593s | thing that we had going on as a team |
| 6595s | that I felt could be a dark horse and go |
| 6597s | deep and I'm glad to be proven right |
| 6599s | because they're going to be a top three |
| 6601s | team at the very least this year and |
| 6603s | it's good to see them come back you know |
| 6604s | three years later and come top three |
| 6606s | exactly um let's take a look at the team |
| 6609s | compositions for these two teams that |
| 6611s | are about to go head to head in this |
| 6612s | best of three uh barcode versus the |
| 6615s | tusker so the tusker is 61 people have |
| 6617s | flown with them over the years and you |
| 6618s | can see there's a lot of matches they've |
| 6620s | played in 66 matches 46 wins and 20 |
| 6623s | losses uh some very experienced Pilots |
| 6626s | electronicus was their longtime |
| 6628s | Logistics pilot he's uh I believe |
| 6630s | retired as a silly although he still |
| 6632s | runs the tuskers Skyler though we do see |
| 6634s | on field in the matches this year so |
| 6636s | he's definitely still hanging around and |
| 6638s | I mean like I said that's a pretty solid |
| 6640s | win loss ratio you mentioned mod they |
| 6642s | won the last tournament 14 against |
| 6643s | pandemic Legion in a nail biting final |
| 6645s | and then look at the teams that they've |
| 6647s | lost against on the right it is just |
| 6649s | good teams White Flag or the this year's |
| 6653s | practice partner with truth on a light |
| 6655s | they lost against truth on the light |
| 6657s | last year and Odin's call as well those |
| 6660s | are the top two teams last year so not a |
| 6662s | team that drops to to weak teams and we |
| 6665s | just saw them knock truth on a light out |
| 6667s | of the tournament so a super experienced |
| 6669s | team definitely back on uh on the rise |
| 6671s | let's take a quick look at barcode now |
| 6673s | so barcode you mentioned this it's |
| 6675s | mainly built around vordak said the kid |
| 6677s | and a couple of other wild things |
| 6679s | smaller number of people have flown for |
| 6681s | them but nine wins to four losses two of |
| 6684s | those coming just moments ago in that |
| 6686s | best of three against fraternity prior |
| 6687s | to that they hadn't actually lost a |
| 6688s | match since the last tournament 16. yeah |
| 6691s | they hadn't even played since The Line |
| 6692s | Tournament 16 and this is almost a bit |
| 6694s | of a grudge match because we can see on |
| 6695s | the screen that they actually did knock |
| 6697s | down |
| 6698s | um fraternity albeit that version of |
| 6700s | fraternity it's a completely different |
| 6702s | team than what we're seeing now so |
| 6704s | um fabuki waifu and remilin have built |
| 6707s | an entirely kind of new core with some |
| 6709s | of |
| 6710s | um you know some of this Chinese super |
| 6712s | team and |
| 6714s | if you would have told me at the |
| 6716s | beginning of this tournament hey I think |
| 6718s | that they're going to come from winners |
| 6719s | final and not only are they going to win |
| 6721s | they're going to 2-0 their competition |
| 6723s | and it's going to be barcode I'd have |
| 6725s | told you that you were absolutely insane |
| 6727s | but here they are proving us wrong |
| 6729s | showing that you know these Chinese |
| 6731s | players you know they belong on |
| 6733s | Tranquility they're here to stay and |
| 6735s | they're here to make a name not just for |
| 6736s | themselves but for Block alliances still |
| 6738s | being relevant in the tournament in |
| 6740s | 2023. yeah it's awesome to see uh let's |
| 6743s | take a quick look at the bands now for |
| 6745s | this matchup the first of this best of |
| 6747s | three so there are no Conquest bands at |
| 6748s | this point barcode Banning out the |
| 6750s | balgorn the bar guest the zarmas and the |
| 6753s | Widow uh tuskers Banning a curse Pilgrim |
| 6756s | arbitrator and Sentinel so uh CP Castro |
| 6759s | tusker is really saying we don't want to |
| 6761s | see any form of weapon disruption here |
| 6763s | yeah it's really interesting especially |
| 6765s | since the tuskers have comps at the |
| 6767s | client that either use weapon disruption |
| 6769s | like we saw the double Pilgrim comp that |
| 6771s | lost the White Flag but we've also seen |
| 6773s | them utilize like drones so them bang |
| 6776s | out titties is kind of interesting a |
| 6778s | barcode Banning out the tsarmads the |
| 6781s | Battlegrounds taking away a lot of in |
| 6783s | like a lot of top heavy comps so |
| 6786s | very interesting mode they're banning at |
| 6788s | the bar guest |
| 6789s | um which was their Flagship until just |
| 6792s | moments ago uh is now uh you know |
| 6794s | resting in pepperoni |
| 6795s | um what do you think about this is this |
| 6797s | specifically because they've lost their |
| 6798s | Flagship do you think |
| 6799s | yeah I think that's probably a good part |
| 6801s | of it but also kind of of no we see a |
| 6804s | balgorn band we saw that mystical might |
| 6805s | for all of this lasts forever now I |
| 6807s | finally get to say that we thought until |
| 6810s | very recently that balgorn bands were |
| 6812s | bad but if barcode is Banning it against |
| 6815s | tuskers they must have seen something or |
| 6817s | they're very afraid of a specific comp |
| 6820s | um Widow makes sense to me as well as a |
| 6822s | band against tusters just because if |
| 6824s | there's a team out there that's going to |
| 6826s | have an absolutely kind of wild card |
| 6828s | curveball ECM setup that's going to take |
| 6830s | you out it would be tough scores they're |
| 6832s | very much known for that |
| 6834s | um interesting to see here though that |
| 6835s | we have a pilgrim band and not crucifier |
| 6838s | band that's the only TD bonus ship |
| 6841s | that's currently alive understandably |
| 6843s | maybe they're saying hey you know if you |
| 6845s | bring you know a tech one frigate that's |
| 6848s | made out of paper we're prepared for |
| 6849s | that but we're not prepared to deal with |
| 6851s | a pilgrim yeah that would be interesting |
| 6854s | I'm very excited to see what these teams |
| 6855s | choose to bring I'm just taking a quick |
| 6857s | look at twitch chat to see what's going |
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| 6885s | believe it's time for our first match of |
| 6887s | uh the tuscaras versus barcode with the |
| 6890s | Basilisk and free vinyl |
| 6896s | hello everybody Welcome to the arena I |
| 6898s | am the Basilisk joined by fear Viner for |
| 6901s | this match between barcode and the |
| 6902s | tuskers lower bracket final so third |
| 6905s | place for the loser of this best of |
| 6907s | three series a step back into the final |
| 6910s | for the winner uh barcode obviously |
| 6912s | going to be hoping to extend their day |
| 6913s | to an exorbitant number of matches |
| 6916s | that's not even a word you know 10 11 |
| 6918s | matches on the Trot fear what do you |
| 6920s | think about these two matchups it looks |
| 6921s | pretty similar from what we're seeing on |
| 6922s | grid here |
| 6923s | yeah it's under that versus sooner that |
| 6925s | but importantly there's an EOS and or a |
| 6928s | diva from the side of Barca this is very |
| 6930s | similar to what they've brought before |
| 6931s | they prefer the redibo and pseudo that |
| 6933s | and it's worked out very well for them |
| 6934s | meanwhile tuscar is a more traditional |
| 6936s | one a star day Absolution so they've got |
| 6938s | links in two uh or bonus links I should |
| 6942s | say in two of their battle cruiser sized |
| 6944s | ships and of course the Navy executors |
| 6946s | and maybe augers from both these sides |
| 6948s | tuskers gone for the double deacons |
| 6950s | they're gonna have a little bit less |
| 6951s | tank but they have a bit more DPS as you |
| 6954s | can see uh from the attack bar once the |
| 6956s | drones go out but at the time uh for the |
| 6959s | time being it looks like what these |
| 6960s | teams are just gonna run into each other |
| 6962s | we've seen this a lot of times |
| 6963s | considered I'd be sooner that uh just |
| 6965s | run in and go for the throw and the |
| 6967s | radiva is the primary from the tuskers |
| 6968s | well the Navy exec of vld is the primary |
| 6971s | for uh the side of barcode yeah and Dr |
| 6975s | liberal dumbass is trying his best to |
| 6976s | run away but he gets absolutely shot out |
| 6978s | of the sky there he absolutely from the |
| 6979s | start just immediately burned away while |
| 6981s | the rest of the teams burn towards each |
| 6982s | other but it didn't seem to help you |
| 6983s | just got absolutely obliterated there |
| 6984s | they are trading damage back onto vld |
| 6986s | ROM who I noticed did like a little bait |
| 6988s | maneuver at the start where he pushed |
| 6989s | forward and then quickly turned around |
| 6990s | to draw aggro but he's actually kind of |
| 6991s | catching wraps here and unless they can |
| 6993s | make a logic trade or make some other |
| 6995s | significant trade early stages in the |
| 6996s | match it's going to quickly swing in |
| 6997s | tusker's favor here they are now making |
| 6999s | their way through this Navy executive |
| 7000s | red app |
| 7001s | yeah I liked saying and considered I'd |
| 7004s | be suited at matchups that are basically |
| 7005s | always divorce into a brawl you don't |
| 7007s | have better range control unless you |
| 7008s | have some sort of e-war both these teams |
| 7010s | are relatively e-war light except for |
| 7012s | the crewer uh and uh from the side of |
| 7015s | the tuskers that they brought with the |
| 7016s | long range webs some names going on in |
| 7018s | the Navy brute for both these teams as |
| 7020s | the Navy executive still Redick was able |
| 7022s | to get away from the tuscar's guns as |
| 7023s | navy blue ducks of JJ Atkin is probably |
| 7025s | gonna be the first one to go down but |
| 7026s | said the kid is going to follow right |
| 7029s | after yeah both those teams still |
| 7031s | realizing some similar things there they |
| 7033s | both shot of the Navy xx and realized |
| 7034s | well they can just burn away they're |
| 7035s | super fast super agile and they both did |
| 7037s | get away but then they immediately both |
| 7039s | switched to the navy blue ticks now we |
| 7040s | see the Oracle of coconut water that |
| 7041s | seems to be his favorite ship because he |
| 7042s | comes in it uh pretty much every time |
| 7044s | the barcode |
| 7045s | um field this gun spam he's in the |
| 7047s | Oracle he is going to go down here and |
| 7049s | this is looking like it's swinging |
| 7050s | pretty heavily in favor of Tuskegee that |
| 7052s | Oracle goes down that's a lot of damage |
| 7053s | they do have more damage in these |
| 7054s | Cruiser size ships with the two Navy |
| 7056s | orgas but still redec without the logic |
| 7058s | he's you know still in low Army he's |
| 7060s | coming back in to try and do some damage |
| 7061s | but I mean as soon as he comes back in |
| 7062s | they're putting damage on him again and |
| 7064s | the two deacons are untouched on the |
| 7065s | tusker side |
| 7066s | yeah and importantly uh there are DPS |
| 7069s | Bots out from the tuscars but Logie Bots |
| 7071s | are out uh actually from both these |
| 7074s | teams but there are a lot of laundry |
| 7075s | Bots coming in uh from barcode and they |
| 7077s | were trying to save the Navy exec with |
| 7079s | that uh I think a lot of teams have been |
| 7081s | preferring damage Bots but uh as we see |
| 7083s | there are a lot of red damage spots out |
| 7085s | there from barcode a lot of blue damage |
| 7086s | Bots out there from uh the side of the |
| 7089s | tuskers and |
| 7090s | um |
| 7091s | really uh when you see laundry Bots |
| 7094s | being used I feel like that's wasted DPS |
| 7095s | in these DPS race types matchups which I |
| 7098s | always say is like Shield rush I |
| 7100s | mentioned it a couple times before as |
| 7101s | while things goes down tusker's |
| 7103s | snowballing this in uh their favor going |
| 7106s | straight for the lodgy headshot and |
| 7107s | making that work for them and uh they |
| 7109s | will go up 1-0 in the series yeah I |
| 7112s | think this is a situation where having |
| 7114s | these loggy frigates is really is really |
| 7115s | powerful because we've seen a bunch of |
| 7117s | teams don't really seem to like bringing |
| 7119s | any sort of ranged webs except for |
| 7120s | tuskers who again I noted yesterday the |
| 7123s | diet again today they've brought this |
| 7124s | cruel in their |
| 7126s | um gun spam setup so if they come up |
| 7127s | against logic frigates they have those |
| 7129s | webs to apply to frigates |
| 7131s | um obviously on the other side the road |
| 7132s | Diva not really going to be able to well |
| 7134s | I mean as we saw he tried burning away |
| 7136s | immediately but he couldn't really tank |
| 7137s | this gun spam comp there's just so much |
| 7139s | damage applied onto him |
| 7140s | um so I mean tuskers with the logic |
| 7142s | setup here it seems to be the more |
| 7144s | powerful option in the setup and I've |
| 7145s | been thinking forward and the rest of |
| 7146s | this best of three tuskers as we noted |
| 7148s | before |
| 7149s | um the match tusker still have their |
| 7151s | Flagship and barcode don't so although |
| 7153s | tuskers won't be able to use any of the |
| 7155s | ships in this setup for the next match |
| 7156s | of the best of three you know with the |
| 7158s | Navy get and you can expect them to |
| 7160s | bring something totally different for |
| 7161s | the next match maybe two thaliers maybe |
| 7163s | an erosa Guardian you know these these |
| 7165s | these ships while they are |
| 7167s | interchangeable mostly within this setup |
| 7169s | for other setups you maybe don't really |
| 7171s | want a Navy property navy blue tick to |
| 7172s | start the app so like I noticed for |
| 7174s | example they haven't used an EOS which I |
| 7176s | mean has obviously been a very very |
| 7177s | popular setup both in drone comps and |
| 7179s | indeed in barcodes gun spam setup but |
| 7180s | Tusk is saying well if we win this we |
| 7182s | can still use the EOS in the second |
| 7184s | match with maybe you know a flagship |
| 7186s | drone setup or something like that |
| 7188s | yeah on the BB gun uh they're one of the |
| 7190s | teams I've been preferring a full Newt |
| 7192s | getting so that would be a drone Navy |
| 7194s | Garden I wouldn't be surprised if they |
| 7196s | have rap uh the officer rapid Heavies |
| 7198s | and the officer uh pulses as well just |
| 7201s | in their hangers if they need them uh |
| 7203s | but uh much like I think paper numbers |
| 7205s | which is a team that they faced earlier |
| 7207s | in a matchup that a lot of us were |
| 7208s | looking forward to earlier in the |
| 7209s | tournament uh they do prefer the full |
| 7212s | Newt Flagship Navy getting so we'll see |
| 7214s | if they use that the next time there's |
| 7216s | something to be said about potentially |
| 7218s | saving that because you're already up |
| 7220s | 1-0 in the series for either a game |
| 7222s | three or trying not to use it until you |
| 7224s | get to the Grand finals because |
| 7226s | fraternity still has their Flagship and |
| 7229s | with only two teams remaining with |
| 7231s | flagships in the tournament uh you want |
| 7233s | every little advantage or Equalization |
| 7235s | Factor as you can get in the grand |
| 7238s | finals which of course is the best of |
| 7240s | five as opposed to the best of three |
| 7241s | that we are casting right now uh last |
| 7243s | one remaining from barcode is this |
| 7245s | Punisher of jiang's wine uh GFS have |
| 7249s | been called in local we have about five |
| 7251s | minutes left as this Punisher is being |
| 7253s | chased down uh any further comments uh |
| 7257s | on this match yeah no I think you might |
| 7259s | be right the tuscus I mean the Bull's in |
| 7261s | their court right like they can choose |
| 7262s | to say do you want to bring this |
| 7263s | Flagship and secure this win or do you |
| 7265s | want to bring this Flagship and you know |
| 7267s | maybe you risk running into a meat |
| 7268s | grinder sort of set up the barcode might |
| 7269s | bring that just devours a flagship they |
| 7271s | might still lose but obviously then |
| 7273s | you're in a worse position for the Grand |
| 7274s | Final so |
| 7276s | um obviously one nil up the advantages |
| 7277s | obviously in tuska's uh in tusker's |
| 7280s | favor here as the match goes their way |
| 7282s | but uh we'll just have to wait and see |
| 7283s | what they do in the next match let's |
| 7284s | send it back to desk and break that one |
| 7285s | down |
| 7287s | everybody |
| 7311s | do we ever use boosters in doctrines |
| 7318s | oh yes |
| 7321s | oh yeah |
| 7326s | goons like you say there's such a huge |
| 7328s | group in the game that they can easily |
| 7329s | just do their own internal practices if |
| 7331s | they wanted to they can easily get 20 |
| 7333s | Pilots I'm sure |
| 7365s | thank you |
| 7374s | the tusker is now firmly in control of |
| 7376s | their route back to the Winner's bracket |
| 7378s | for sorry the Grand Final uh with their |
| 7381s | when they're over barcode they go up one |
| 7383s | nil on the series |
| 7385s | um they had that under under control the |
| 7387s | whole time moderator it looked just |
| 7389s | super easy super controlled it looked |
| 7391s | like barcode we're just kind of in the |
| 7392s | back foot what happened yeah so the vld |
| 7395s | was the initial primary for barcode that |
| 7398s | was a Navy executor on the tusker side |
| 7400s | meanwhile tuskers had friglogy and they |
| 7403s | primaried the rumor Diva on the side of |
| 7406s | barcode and one of the problems you can |
| 7409s | run into is that if you reveal the and |
| 7413s | you just burn away he overheated we saw |
| 7415s | him just go into near near the arena |
| 7418s | just off in Narnia barcode wasted so so |
| 7422s | much time trying to kill him and they |
| 7424s | didn't even get him the fergalaji just |
| 7426s | wrapped him up and what that means is |
| 7429s | you've effectively wasted |
| 7430s | 30 40 seconds if your barcode you've |
| 7434s | already lost your Logistics Costco still |
| 7436s | has theirs and now |
| 7439s | the kind of the DPS race the math just |
| 7441s | doesn't lean in your favor and we saw |
| 7443s | that just kind of snowball throughout |
| 7445s | barcode was still able to kill a ship |
| 7447s | here and there on the side of tuskers |
| 7449s | but I mean Tosca took that very very |
| 7451s | cleanly just out executing on the whole |
| 7454s | yeah they just the one in the match was |
| 7456s | over almost three two three minutes in |
| 7458s | uh tuskers never really looked like they |
| 7460s | were they were concerned and that's one |
| 7461s | of course again these are best offs best |
| 7463s | of three so tuskers and I are |
| 7465s | essentially with the the match point as |
| 7467s | it were if they win the next match |
| 7468s | they're into the Grand Final against |
| 7469s | fraternity uh barcode now lost three on |
| 7473s | the bounce uh I mean CCP Castro this is |
| 7476s | going to be pretty tough for them to |
| 7477s | come back from three in a row now yeah |
| 7480s | it must be rough trying to pick yourself |
| 7481s | up from having free losses in a row |
| 7483s | potentially looking into like losing |
| 7485s | four games in a row I know that's |
| 7487s | happened to pandemic Legion before going |
| 7489s | into the final bracket in the line |
| 7490s | Solomon 13 where they lost to camo then |
| 7493s | they lost to Hydra well they lost their |
| 7496s | Hydra then they lost a camel so uh but |
| 7499s | they're an experienced Pilots so I'm |
| 7500s | sure they'll be able to bring themselves |
| 7502s | back up yeah this is the the moment |
| 7505s | where they really have to just throw |
| 7507s | everything that has happened away and be |
| 7509s | like okay we lost we need to just uh you |
| 7512s | know put it out of our minds calm down |
| 7514s | get ourselves composed and they'll |
| 7516s | already be having conversations with the |
| 7518s | refs for the bands for the next match |
| 7520s | that that match is going to be in less |
| 7521s | than 20 minutes so you have to go from |
| 7524s | losing and likely what was happening at |
| 7527s | a team like this once it was very clear |
| 7528s | that they were going to lose this match |
| 7530s | they'll have probably been talking |
| 7532s | during that match about their strategies |
| 7534s | for the next one they'll already be |
| 7535s | talking about bands they'll just be |
| 7537s | flying around uh not really caring at |
| 7539s | that point anymore what's happening the |
| 7540s | match is over let's start using all the |
| 7543s | time we have available to think about |
| 7544s | our next one moderator is that is that |
| 7547s | what's going on or are they are they |
| 7548s | molding somewhere so |
| 7551s | there are a kind of couple different |
| 7553s | ways that this can go down there are |
| 7556s | some people who they get to this kind of |
| 7559s | level your emotions are writing high and |
| 7562s | you see this in plenty of other games |
| 7563s | where people either they tilt hard and |
| 7566s | they say oh we're down you know three |
| 7569s | games in a row how are we gonna bring |
| 7571s | you know it back and win two straight |
| 7574s | and from there on out this is what |
| 7577s | separates basically you know contenders |
| 7579s | from Champions is you have to have that |
| 7581s | mental fortitude to say okay that match |
| 7584s | before is behind us we're done |
| 7586s | we're going to go into the next match |
| 7588s | we're going to prepare we're going to |
| 7589s | put our best foot forward we're not |
| 7590s | going to tell we're not going to get |
| 7592s | overly emotional we're going to be |
| 7593s | prepared we're going to be 100 mentally |
| 7595s | there for the next game |
| 7597s | frankly some people are just not capable |
| 7599s | of doing that we've seen that be an |
| 7601s | issue with a number of teams I won't |
| 7603s | call out specific names but |
| 7606s | um I think that's what you have to do |
| 7607s | right now if your barcode |
| 7609s | yeah I agree it's definitely going to be |
| 7611s | rough for them um but they just gotta |
| 7613s | gotta do it gotta gotta power through |
| 7615s | and see if they can pull this back if |
| 7617s | they can win here they'll push it to the |
| 7619s | third match and then they'll have an |
| 7621s | opportunity to take that as well and |
| 7622s | secure their place in the Grand Final if |
| 7624s | they drop now then that is it they will |
| 7626s | exit but they will take third place in |
| 7628s | the live stream 19 which is pretty cool |
| 7630s | um I mean they're gonna get lots of |
| 7632s | they're gonna get lots of skins |
| 7633s | um so there's certainly could be pleased |
| 7635s | with the run I'm sure uh getting to top |
| 7637s | three when they're returned from |
| 7639s | Alliance tournament 16. now one of the |
| 7640s | ships we saw used there by a couple of |
| 7642s | Pilots uh was the Navy executive let's |
| 7644s | take a quick look at the profile of that |
| 7646s | ship this is one of the ships this year |
| 7647s | that is point discounted uh so it means |
| 7650s | that it costs less points than normal |
| 7652s | the the galente Federation the sponsor |
| 7655s | of this year's Alliance tournament so a |
| 7657s | number of the Navy ships are reduced and |
| 7660s | you can see the the meteoric rise in the |
| 7663s | executive Navy issue which came along |
| 7665s | last year in Alliance tournament uh 18. |
| 7668s | CCP Castro walk caused the sudden rise |
| 7671s | in this the ship here yeah so the Navy |
| 7673s | escrow is one of the Navy ships that we |
| 7675s | actually did a balance pass in Uprising |
| 7677s | and it got significantly better than it |
| 7679s | was before we took away one of the guns |
| 7681s | but we and we merged the two damage |
| 7683s | bonuses I had into one bigger damage |
| 7685s | bonus so it now has more damage than it |
| 7686s | has before with way better fittings |
| 7689s | because it only has to fit four guns |
| 7690s | instead of five has a utility High we |
| 7693s | also gave it a mass reduction bonus as |
| 7695s | well as well as a falloff bonus so it |
| 7696s | has better projection than it did it |
| 7698s | moves a lot faster than it did |
| 7699s | especially in a plated setup so it has |
| 7701s | just got so much stronger since Uprising |
| 7703s | and that's why we're seeing so many |
| 7704s | teams pick it it was very popular in |
| 7706s | 1818 when it was the seven points |
| 7708s | another is discounted to six points it's |
| 7711s | way more popular because of the reason |
| 7713s | yeah it could banned a lot as well this |
| 7715s | year it's one of those ships that's sort |
| 7716s | of a ban it or bring it moderator when |
| 7719s | we talk about Banner or bring it like |
| 7720s | what what's that really mean |
| 7722s | yeah so it basically means that at least |
| 7726s | in these kind of these Max threat comps |
| 7727s | we've been seeing |
| 7729s | um because like setonia CCP Kestrel now |
| 7732s | was saying the ship in fact is harder |
| 7735s | better faster stronger just like Daft |
| 7736s | Punk said so what ends up happening is |
| 7739s | that |
| 7740s | when you're building compositions you're |
| 7743s | saying okay I have a hundred points to |
| 7745s | build everything from the ground up |
| 7748s | you have a Max threat comp and you say |
| 7750s | this ship is six points but it really |
| 7754s | feels like it's doing you know seven |
| 7756s | maybe eight points of utility and |
| 7759s | because it has so much projection it's |
| 7761s | very fast even if it doesn't have a lot |
| 7764s | of HP it has the mobility to get itself |
| 7766s | out of trouble in situations which is |
| 7768s | why we saw uh you know vld nironame in |
| 7771s | the last match it's basically burn out |
| 7773s | of the range of the side of barcode and |
| 7777s | if you can do that effectively with the |
| 7778s | changes made in Uprising |
| 7780s | um where it's become incredibly popular |
| 7782s | that's why you'll bring it |
| 7785s | yeah well they won't be able to bring it |
| 7786s | in the next match because uh as I |
| 7788s | mentioned earlier on these best of my uh |
| 7790s | series do have Conquest bands so the |
| 7792s | tusker is not able to bring a number of |
| 7794s | ships that they fielded last match uh |
| 7797s | they are not able to bring the Mueller |
| 7799s | the crew the Absolution the Deacon the |
| 7801s | British Navy issue the astarte the |
| 7804s | executor Navy issue and the prophecy |
| 7806s | Navy issue CP Castro it feels like |
| 7808s | there's still a lot of variations of |
| 7811s | that comp that the tuskers would still |
| 7812s | be able to bring here yeah we spoke |
| 7815s | about this like there's still a few good |
| 7816s | battle cruises that you can bring you |
| 7818s | can still bring the harbinger The |
| 7819s | Harbinger Navy issue you still have |
| 7821s | vaccinate the issue that we've seen |
| 7822s | people sub in the augura Navy issue |
| 7824s | we've seen some teams run Omen Navy |
| 7826s | issue there's also like the shield |
| 7828s | version that we've seen too with like |
| 7829s | ferox's vultures uh tengus that kind of |
| 7833s | stuff so they could still bring it I |
| 7834s | think it would be weaker because you're |
| 7836s | limited to bringing the failure and if |
| 7839s | uh barcode really doesn't want to see it |
| 7841s | they could just you know take away just |
| 7843s | one one more ship in the Banning phase |
| 7845s | and they can guarantee that taskers |
| 7847s | can't bring it and they could also maybe |
| 7848s | keep it open for themselves too |
| 7851s | moderator what do you think we might see |
| 7853s | from from these two teams here this is |
| 7854s | going to be the final attempt from |
| 7856s | barcode they can't lose this now |
| 7858s | so I feel if you're on the side of |
| 7861s | tuskers you still have a couple key |
| 7863s | things that are somewhat open |
| 7865s | um you can still bring a drone comp |
| 7867s | critically that's what happens when you |
| 7869s | still have things like flexor open you |
| 7871s | still have things like Ishtar opened |
| 7872s | we've seen them use that too varying |
| 7875s | levels of success throughout the event |
| 7876s | you've got that open you still have your |
| 7879s | Flagship Armageddon Navy issue which |
| 7881s | will Dodge a ban of course |
| 7883s | um barcode doesn't have theirs so if I'm |
| 7886s | tuskers if I have the availability with |
| 7889s | bands I probably bring that Flagship |
| 7891s | because it's worth it at this point just |
| 7893s | get yourself into the Grand Final |
| 7896s | if even if you have to sack it to get |
| 7898s | the win it's a hundred percent worth it |
| 7900s | just because of the massive amount of |
| 7902s | ships that you're going to get going |
| 7904s | from third to Second and then you can |
| 7907s | you know deal with that come as May in |
| 7909s | the Grand Final |
| 7910s | okay so before we go to that that match |
| 7912s | is scheduled about 12 minutes from now |
| 7914s | uh you uh sat down with uh some members |
| 7918s | of barcode and had a little discussion |
| 7920s | so let's hear from you now moderator |
| 7932s | I'm feeling amazing |
| 7934s | my name is moderator I am a snuffed out |
| 7937s | way back in the day I used to be part of |
| 7940s | camel Empire and exodus that's how I got |
| 7942s | into the tournament scene and then |
| 7944s | casting for these lovely people |
| 7947s | chicken pretty good A little spicy I'm |
| 7950s | sure the heat's going to turn up a |
| 7951s | little bit but you know so far so good a |
| 7953s | good friend of mine who I played |
| 7955s | RuneScape with at the time |
| 7957s | convinced me to play Eve online he gave |
| 7960s | me some it's got the time so I could |
| 7962s | Plex my account and then kind of |
| 7964s | eventually paid him back when I learned |
| 7966s | the game and learned what to do but this |
| 7969s | was in I think March of 2012 so I've |
| 7973s | been here for a little over 11 years now |
| 7975s | and I've been you know loving it |
| 7977s | chickens pretty good it's getting a |
| 7979s | little bit spicier a little bit hotter |
| 7981s | but you know I think we can keep up so |
| 7983s | far |
| 7983s | probably coming in |
| 7987s | as an alliance tournament winner I |
| 7989s | actually do have a gold medal medal with |
| 7991s | my time in tuscaras |
| 7992s | I've actually won some prize money way |
| 7995s | way back in the day when the new Eden |
| 7997s | open was a thing and I used to lead |
| 7999s | Exodus the captain and have a metal |
| 8002s | bronze from way way back in the day so |
| 8005s | but you know probably my proudest |
| 8007s | accomplishments is being able to cast |
| 8010s | the tournament and being able to be here |
| 8012s | with the UND crew and make sure that the |
| 8015s | you know Eve player base can enjoy the |
| 8017s | tournament as much as we all know |
| 8019s | chicken's excellent |
| 8022s | know what honestly I think it will |
| 8023s | probably be |
| 8025s | mystical might or bbp probably bbp |
| 8029s | because you know he likes to play like |
| 8030s | really you know hard and tough but |
| 8033s | secretly I think he's going to get hit |
| 8034s | with the fire of the sauce and I'm gonna |
| 8036s | crumble |
| 8039s | chicken's excellent |
| 8043s | you gotta get this bites and seasoning |
| 8045s | all around my mouth get the full flavor |
| 8046s | of it |
| 8049s | ooh spiciest prediction even spicier |
| 8052s | than this chicken |
| 8053s | I think that so far barcode is upsetting |
| 8056s | people pretty hard I don't think we'd |
| 8058s | see you know dark side and Truth on or |
| 8060s | light both being in the lower bracket |
| 8062s | and you know one of them going out this |
| 8065s | early we've seen people get run over |
| 8066s | pretty hard but High key I think that |
| 8069s | barcode maybe White Flag or the dark |
| 8071s | horses on this tournament and anyone |
| 8072s | underestimating them do so at your own |
| 8075s | peril |
| 8076s | love the chicken love the spice I'm |
| 8078s | gonna take another bite that's how good |
| 8079s | it is |
| 8086s | auction crew there with the 10 000 IQ |
| 8088s | play playing moderator eating some |
| 8090s | chicken and talking about barcode as |
| 8092s | we're about to talk about barcode uh |
| 8095s | gigabrin move mod how is the spice for |
| 8097s | you there oh it's pretty good I want to |
| 8099s | say that thai sauce I'm gonna get it as |
| 8101s | soon as I get home it was excellent |
| 8103s | gotta put that on tacos |
| 8105s | whatever I can because it's absolutely |
| 8107s | amazing but not as spicy as the |
| 8110s | interview and matches will have coming |
| 8111s | up next exactly so let's talk about |
| 8114s | barcode uh with moderator as we go into |
| 8117s | the interview with barcode let's go to |
| 8119s | that now |
| 8121s | the kid 100 or SID I've been uh playing |
| 8124s | the game since I was 18 in 2009 off and |
| 8127s | on but I got introduced to small gang |
| 8129s | outside of faction Warfare space around |
| 8131s | at 14 and 15 uh with groups like red |
| 8135s | fire better none of the mouth trumpet |
| 8136s | Cavalry button buggery hotline k162 full |
| 8140s | broadside or big AB when bigab was a |
| 8142s | small C2 and also ecstatic Alliance |
| 8145s | Fight The Blob which is like the ghost |
| 8147s | of podla's past and then Goran clade and |
| 8150s | then eventually I ended up in Wilderness |
| 8152s | you know big big names like Chester wild |
| 8154s | things and vordat callagher for at16 and |
| 8157s | the first iteration of our alliance |
| 8160s | which is barcode Alliance or III our |
| 8163s | lines like many others is one made |
| 8164s | almost exclusively for at but somehow |
| 8166s | we've ended up taking sob and scalding |
| 8168s | pass as a result of us looking for |
| 8169s | opportunistic TQ content as a summer |
| 8172s | vacation type deal kind of like a bit of |
| 8175s | team bonding down in scalding pass while |
| 8177s | we get to know each other in piloting |
| 8178s | Styles this is my first year being |
| 8180s | Alliance tournament captain I've had |
| 8181s | basically no experience captaining any |
| 8184s | kind of Eve tournament I recently came |
| 8186s | back to Eve after a long Hiatus right |
| 8188s | before Captain's cup where I kinda |
| 8190s | hijacked the curse local fauna Theory |
| 8192s | crafting but now I'm captaining barcode |
| 8194s | with a good friend of mine neck Rock who |
| 8196s | I met during the last scoring clay TQ |
| 8199s | deployment and on the curse local fauna |
| 8201s | team definitely been a deep learning |
| 8202s | curve as a first time Captain trying to |
| 8204s | set up our guys for the best 20 run that |
| 8205s | we can make I'm always learning stuff |
| 8207s | from other captains or ex-captains and |
| 8210s | ex-bar code members but fresh Captain |
| 8212s | here this year in order to qualify for |
| 8214s | the main tournament you had to First be |
| 8216s | tested lines please ignore how did it |
| 8218s | feel people might think test is a little |
| 8220s | bit dead but that core of tournament |
| 8221s | Players has been around for some time it |
| 8223s | was you know something that we |
| 8224s | definitely had in mind when we were |
| 8227s | preparing for that match thankfully the |
| 8229s | way the feeders were set up this year if |
| 8231s | we won against them we were into the |
| 8233s | main tournament we knew that they had |
| 8235s | some at experience we were pretty |
| 8236s | confident going to that match and I |
| 8238s | think we executed pretty well it was a |
| 8239s | good way to kick start the season in |
| 8241s | officially half month or two of |
| 8243s | practicing and a quick one and done win |
| 8244s | to get through the main tournament your |
| 8246s | first matchup will be against the |
| 8248s | Ancients how do you feel about that |
| 8249s | particular lot in the bracket that first |
| 8251s | match is going to be our first Live |
| 8254s | Match in the actual at so obviously |
| 8255s | there's a little bit of pressure there |
| 8257s | but you know everyone's looking at round |
| 8258s | two where we'll play the winner of laser |
| 8261s | Hawks and Truth on our light reigning |
| 8263s | Champs back-to-back Champs we've |
| 8264s | definitely got our work cut out for us |
| 8265s | very early in the bracket what do you |
| 8267s | feel are going to be some of the keys to |
| 8269s | your success playing to our strengths |
| 8271s | just doing what we've been practicing |
| 8272s | same as it is for any other team I would |
| 8274s | say not get too far ahead of ourselves |
| 8276s | not get too caught up in our own |
| 8278s | thoughts and get on grid and perform on |
| 8281s | the Grapevine it seems like you were one |
| 8283s | of the teams that is practicing a lot |
| 8285s | more intensely some than some others |
| 8287s | I'll preface this by saying team is |
| 8289s | chock full of a lot of rookies who have |
| 8292s | little to no at experience getting a |
| 8296s | team of basically rookies up to speed |
| 8298s | for tournament Eve which is very |
| 8300s | different from TQ you've had to put in a |
| 8302s | lot of time and a lot of effort to get |
| 8304s | ready sometimes you just got to do what |
| 8305s | you got to do it's been a journey it's |
| 8307s | been a lot of fun what do you feel some |
| 8308s | of the strengths are of your tournament |
| 8310s | roster I would say this like one of the |
| 8313s | main strengths of our team is we're a |
| 8314s | bit of a wild card going to the |
| 8316s | tournament teams especially outside of |
| 8317s | the quote-unquote natz bubble don't |
| 8319s | really know who we are or what we fly |
| 8322s | and I think you can't understand how big |
| 8323s | of a boon that can be for a team we |
| 8325s | could be an natz Dark Horse team of |
| 8328s | Zoomers that power to a Podium finish or |
| 8330s | we could just be some bozos that are way |
| 8332s | out of our league I know we're the |
| 8333s | former but other teams will have to find |
| 8335s | out a fun way do you have any Rivals I |
| 8337s | wouldn't presume to say that our rookie |
| 8339s | team has any Rivals like a team versus |
| 8342s | Team rival per se but personally I'm |
| 8344s | calling out Casper I'm here to knock his |
| 8346s | ass out just like in at 16 when we beat |
| 8348s | them an absolute Banger of a match in |
| 8350s | the lower bracket so yeah that's me |
| 8352s | publicly throwing down the gauntlet to |
| 8354s | him said he wanted beef and drama and |
| 8356s | rivalries in the bringing solo back |
| 8358s | Discord well it's here and it's on like |
| 8360s | Donkey Kong Casper 24 being put on |
| 8362s | notice by Sid the Kid awesome interview |
| 8365s | there said the kid and moderator I |
| 8368s | really wanted to make sure we got that |
| 8369s | one in because it's just it's so so |
| 8372s | relevant they talk early on about you |
| 8374s | know they're going to face the winner of |
| 8375s | uh laser Hawks and Truth on a light that |
| 8378s | was of course truth on a light and a bit |
| 8381s | of a upset I believe it was like 90 |
| 8382s | Channel points were all put on truth on |
| 8385s | a light and barcode directly calling out |
| 8387s | Casper 24 one of the members of Truth on |
| 8390s | the light who then got knocked down |
| 8391s | because of them uh where they eventually |
| 8393s | exited the tournament barcode reaching |
| 8396s | deeper in than their their declared |
| 8398s | Rivals so you'll love to hear it you'll |
| 8400s | have to see it |
| 8401s | um and I think they're going to be super |
| 8402s | happy uh regardless of how this next |
| 8405s | match goes of their performance this |
| 8406s | year you know they beat the team that |
| 8408s | they set out to beat |
| 8409s | um and they got further as well that's |
| 8411s | got to be feeling good for the moderator |
| 8413s | yeah I mean like he was saying you know |
| 8415s | either we're going to be like a bunch of |
| 8417s | bozos that don't make it or we're going |
| 8419s | to be a bunch of Zoomers that you know |
| 8420s | Zoom our way to a Podium and they've |
| 8422s | already done that they're gonna get top |
| 8424s | three they're going to get you know |
| 8426s | trillions and trillions of ships and |
| 8428s | probably enough to give out one to each |
| 8431s | member of their team you get to this |
| 8432s | point you can do that |
| 8434s | um |
| 8435s | the question is are they going to get |
| 8436s | more ships are they going to come back |
| 8438s | against fraternity or are they just |
| 8440s | going to get dunked here by tuskers and |
| 8442s | as tusker's going to you know try to run |
| 8443s | it back and make it the two-time |
| 8445s | champions |
| 8447s | let's find that but let's look at the |
| 8448s | bands now for this match between barcode |
| 8451s | and Truth or sorry the tusker is co |
| 8453s | barcode burning out the Italia the |
| 8456s | guardian the owneros and the curse |
| 8458s | tusker is buying a guardian Harris |
| 8460s | zarmas and blackbird so all uh Tech 2 |
| 8463s | Logistics cruisers for armor banned out |
| 8465s | then in our trickle bands we have a |
| 8467s | pilgrim and an arbitrator for barcode |
| 8469s | and the tusker is going for Sentinel and |
| 8471s | arbitrator excuse me Castro uh what you |
| 8474s | thinking here yeah so the value of band |
| 8476s | seems really interesting from barcode |
| 8478s | because of course taskers can't bring |
| 8479s | the Deacon because they wanted before so |
| 8482s | they can't bring an armology set up and |
| 8484s | then also Guardian the nearest also |
| 8485s | takes away a lot of other armor options |
| 8487s | from the tuskers so it's almost pushing |
| 8490s | them into Shield they're your armor |
| 8492s | options of course either a diva and the |
| 8493s | zamad and the tuskers bands are mad so |
| 8496s | the only option really is radiva and |
| 8499s | they also can't bring like the minor |
| 8500s | major fret comp so but the tuskers do |
| 8504s | have the Armageddon Navy issue but |
| 8505s | bringing that with just a redeemer might |
| 8507s | be uh you know a bit of a spicy Gambit |
| 8510s | we also see just a lot of evil bands |
| 8512s | from both sides but all of those bands |
| 8513s | seem pretty reasonable so yeah the curse |
| 8516s | Pilgrim arbitrator bands coming in from |
| 8518s | barcode uh I mean they know the tuskers |
| 8520s | or our team that really enjoys uh using |
| 8523s | weapon disruption and ewar against their |
| 8525s | opponents so they've got that curse out |
| 8527s | and then they took the advantage of |
| 8528s | those trickle bands to hit a few more of |
| 8530s | the tuskers have brought moderated do |
| 8533s | you think that we might see a shield |
| 8534s | comp here from the task are they going |
| 8535s | to try and squeeze that with diva in I |
| 8537s | think we could either see a shield comp |
| 8539s | or we could see them do some sort of a |
| 8542s | uh like a drone setup like logulis a |
| 8545s | drone setup they've done it before it |
| 8547s | was a decent enough-ish comp you're in |
| 8550s | that place where you've got so many |
| 8551s | bands that it's difficult to work |
| 8553s | anything in especially with that mini |
| 8555s | trickle but uh we'll see what they do |
| 8557s | we're getting close to the match here |
| 8558s | yeah we're very close uh we can actually |
| 8560s | hand over to the arena with the casters |
| 8562s | for this match the Basilisk and fear |
| 8563s | vinyl |
| 8568s | welcome back to the arena my name is |
| 8570s | fear Vana joined by the Basilisk and on |
| 8572s | the red side it is barcode bringing out |
| 8576s | the shield pseudo dad we've been seeing |
| 8579s | a couple times throughout the tournament |
| 8580s | but the vulture is near various |
| 8583s | other medium gun spam but of The Shield |
| 8585s | variety and what have tuskers brought us |
| 8588s | as predicted on the desk have brought a |
| 8590s | shield comp themselves they've brought |
| 8591s | two scorpion navies two Claymores and |
| 8593s | normally we see Tinker setups or pseudo |
| 8595s | Tinker setups with three battleships and |
| 8597s | like a claymore or a Nighthawk or |
| 8598s | something with two and two I'm not sure |
| 8600s | if that's what this is going to be if |
| 8601s | they're going to bust just cluster up |
| 8603s | and try and tank and Whittle through |
| 8604s | things with heavy missiles and cruise |
| 8605s | missiles from the school navies or if |
| 8607s | it's going to be something slightly |
| 8608s | different |
| 8609s | um we'll have to wait and see but yeah I |
| 8610s | mean good prediction from the desk to |
| 8611s | say that Shield cops are on the table I |
| 8612s | mean obviously so many armor bands |
| 8613s | disruption bands |
| 8615s | um yeah that sort of force both these |
| 8617s | teams and I mean these these two comps |
| 8619s | we haven't really seen a huge amount of |
| 8620s | so far so how this is going to go is you |
| 8623s | know quite quite difficult to predict in |
| 8624s | my opinion |
| 8625s | yeah best of Threes are where we see |
| 8627s | these kinds of creative or or maybe more |
| 8630s | off-the-wall comps |
| 8632s | um now you might be saying well fear uh |
| 8635s | we've seen Cruise comps before on the at |
| 8637s | yes but also I was Jager Moses because |
| 8640s | obviously |
| 8644s | no but Cruise setups typically do very |
| 8647s | bad into armor kite setups |
| 8650s | like the pseudod but if you predict your |
| 8652s | team is going the other team is going to |
| 8654s | bring some sort of Shield kite Cruz |
| 8655s | becomes a whole lot better and we're |
| 8657s | seeing that from tuscars they lose both |
| 8658s | their laundry pegs off the start but |
| 8659s | they are going through Dr liberal |
| 8661s | dumbass in the Osprey and potentially |
| 8663s | this exact Navy of Steel Redix Shield |
| 8665s | exec navies not very tanky ships but |
| 8667s | they do do a whole lot of damage yeah |
| 8670s | given how quickly those two Logie |
| 8672s | frigates rammed forward I wonder if they |
| 8673s | actually had tackle on them as well and |
| 8674s | if they were using them as just like one |
| 8676s | point tackle frigates because I mean |
| 8678s | there wasn't really any intention there |
| 8679s | to sort of keep anyone up they just |
| 8680s | rammed forward with the sky breaker and |
| 8682s | of course when you've got Jaguar |
| 8684s | skybreaker on two lodgy frigates I mean |
| 8685s | okay their tech one logic is they die |
| 8687s | but if you get a web on the target uh |
| 8689s | you know job done for one point and they |
| 8691s | did manage to take down the ozplay of |
| 8692s | liberal dumbass so it could could be |
| 8695s | some very interesting Theory crafting |
| 8696s | from tuskers there if they have indeed |
| 8697s | use those burst and bantams tackle free |
| 8699s | at one point options we'll have to look |
| 8700s | at the kill miles afterwards but now |
| 8701s | still right back in the shield exec Navy |
| 8703s | obviously is going to be a very fragile |
| 8704s | ship it's going down into Hull here |
| 8707s | yeah they've got webs on the flycatcher |
| 8710s | and jaguar and they've been doing quite |
| 8712s | a bit of work and then they get the oxic |
| 8713s | down as well as the snaga coconut water |
| 8716s | uh he was in an oracle now he's in the |
| 8718s | shield version of that ship in the Naga |
| 8720s | of course those large rail guns can be |
| 8722s | very attractive but still a paper tank |
| 8724s | ship because he is an assault battle |
| 8726s | cruiser and he goes down and it looks |
| 8728s | like tuskers are running away with this |
| 8730s | one once again bringing the exact setup |
| 8732s | they need to into these high Sig uh |
| 8735s | battleships or battle Cruisers as I say |
| 8737s | that though miroshiv in his scorpion |
| 8740s | Navy issue is down to 30 Shield |
| 8742s | remaining he's around the natural Shield |
| 8744s | regen point so if you can pop a couple |
| 8746s | more ships he might be able to actually |
| 8747s | stabilize here if he's got an active rep |
| 8750s | yeah I'm not sure about this target |
| 8751s | calling from from |
| 8753s | um barcode but I'm not sure what else |
| 8754s | they would go for was the sculpt Navy |
| 8756s | Super tanky claim or super tanky and the |
| 8758s | rest of their comp is basically Flotsam |
| 8759s | and jets and I mean we saw the burst and |
| 8761s | Bantam die jagu was going to have ADC |
| 8763s | Sky break is going to be very tanky Fly |
| 8764s | Catch is going to have a lot of the HP |
| 8765s | storming is going to be very tanky |
| 8767s | there's not really any appealing targets |
| 8768s | there and I quite like that sort of |
| 8770s | philosophy of building a comp where you |
| 8772s | say you know either we're going to have |
| 8773s | lots of targets that are really |
| 8774s | attractive and it puts the enemy team to |
| 8776s | say well what do we want to shoot you |
| 8778s | know if you have like a curse and you |
| 8781s | know something else you know a bunch of |
| 8782s | like lodgy you want to shoot it all at |
| 8784s | the same time right or you've got what |
| 8785s | tuskers have done here and they say |
| 8786s | we've just got a bunch of brick tanks |
| 8788s | and you don't really want to shoot any |
| 8790s | of them but you've got to choose |
| 8790s | something right and they have chosen |
| 8792s | mirror chief he is going into armor now |
| 8793s | but it's going to cost them so much by |
| 8795s | the time they kill them obviously scorp |
| 8796s | maybe eight mids resist bonus extremely |
| 8798s | tanky and even after he dies there's |
| 8800s | still going to be another whole scorp |
| 8801s | maybe and two Claymores themselves no |
| 8803s | pushovers to deal with |
| 8805s | yeah and it's just going to be four |
| 8807s | medium gunships versus the world as |
| 8808s | Young's wine goes down in the Raptor |
| 8811s | mirror shiv will fall uh said the kid |
| 8813s | 100 hasn't actually been wrapping up at |
| 8815s | all with his xlasb he of course has one |
| 8817s | because he's a in there and not |
| 8818s | having an xlsbo |
| 8820s | boosting he's still not boosting I mean |
| 8823s | please please tell me this isn't a |
| 8825s | buffer in there it looks like it |
| 8827s | may be above us no because he still |
| 8828s | knows why would you do that nothing I |
| 8831s | imagine it has to be artilleries because |
| 8832s | those in this medium gun spam comp in |
| 8834s | which case I imagine he's quite short |
| 8835s | and power grid maybe for an ex-wife |
| 8836s | being it's forced him into a buffer fit |
| 8838s | so but like on TQ you can play in |
| 8841s | already xlasb slept here just fine like |
| 8844s | I |
| 8847s | they've just run out of gas here a |
| 8849s | little bit at the end of the tournament |
| 8850s | obviously obviously tuskers have been in |
| 8852s | this position so many years before you |
| 8854s | know they're a perennial top four top |
| 8855s | six kind of team and the stress of |
| 8857s | playing matches after matches |
| 8859s | um you know at the business center the |
| 8861s | tournament can really take a mental toll |
| 8862s | on you and for barcode as they were |
| 8863s | talking about on the desk losing three |
| 8864s | on the chart you start to maybe think |
| 8866s | what else have we got in the tank you |
| 8868s | know tusker's unpredictable team as |
| 8870s | we're seeing you know we thought maybe |
| 8871s | they might bring drones with a flagship |
| 8872s | instead they've gone something totally |
| 8874s | different and brought two scorp navies |
| 8875s | and two Claymores and barcode have sort |
| 8877s | of relied quite heavily on gun spam |
| 8879s | across this tournament so to come out in |
| 8880s | the last match bring Gun spam losing an |
| 8883s | almost mirror they might be left |
| 8885s | thinking you know what actually have we |
| 8887s | got left can we really beat us because |
| 8888s | can we predict tuskers I mean that |
| 8890s | itself is a very difficult I mean |
| 8894s | is very well known for predicting their |
| 8896s | opponents and outmitting them and I |
| 8898s | think that's what we saw here right as I |
| 8900s | mentioned at the start of match crew |
| 8901s | setups you typically don't see in armor |
| 8904s | metas or in uh armor matters that don't |
| 8907s | involve armor battleships like we've |
| 8909s | been having this year just because |
| 8910s | cruises don't really apply to the small |
| 8912s | seg of Navy battle crew armor Navy |
| 8915s | battle Cruisers but here Shield maybe |
| 8917s | battle Cruisers and uh even Shield Navy |
| 8920s | Cruisers uh have sick Bloom because they |
| 8922s | are shield chips and do end up taking a |
| 8926s | lot of damage from these cruise missiles |
| 8927s | especially if you're able to get paints |
| 8929s | which we do have quite a bit of on the |
| 8932s | side of the tuskers GFS are already |
| 8933s | being thrown in local tuskers are going |
| 8936s | to face Fraternity in the grand finals |
| 8937s | in a uh pig versus Panda matchup I stole |
| 8942s | that one and uh you can't use it now |
| 8944s | Wingnut sorry |
| 8947s | but I mean while this match does wind |
| 8949s | down and this is going to be a 2-0 win |
| 8950s | for tuskers as they wrap this up just to |
| 8952s | give credit to barcode obviously we are |
| 8954s | going to see tuskers again they'll have |
| 8955s | their moment in the in the Limelight |
| 8956s | when they either win or lose against |
| 8957s | frappa to come this cup come this far |
| 8959s | for barcode to come back from a couple |
| 8961s | years off and bring themselves to a top |
| 8963s | three finish third place finish for |
| 8965s | barcode is is no it can't be on it can't |
| 8968s | be overstated it's a wonderful |
| 8969s | achievement for them yeah but |
| 8970s | unfortunately this is the end for them |
| 8972s | so we are going to throw it back to the |
| 8973s | desk for another break before the Grand |
| 8975s | Final between fraternity and tuskers |
| 8978s | foreign |
| 9024s | I was yellow to these it's dead all |
| 9028s | right |
| 9029s | they were white a second ago and then he |
| 9031s | just got all angry dude |
| 9051s | thank you |
| 9062s | oh my God |
| 9067s | and with that the tuskers move |
| 9069s | themselves into the Grand Final of |
| 9072s | Alliance tournament 19 where they will |
| 9074s | face fraternity after just going 2-0 |
| 9077s | against barcode barcode will go third |
| 9080s | overall in the last tournament 19 they |
| 9082s | have got to be happy with that they've |
| 9084s | got to be super proud with that run as |
| 9085s | well especially after that interview |
| 9087s | that we heard from them uh it just looks |
| 9089s | though like tuskers were on another |
| 9091s | level compared to barcode there we just |
| 9093s | saw excellent execution we saw excellent |
| 9096s | screening uh you're pointing at |
| 9097s | moderator that the sky breaker from the |
| 9099s | tuskers just Dove straight in on top of |
| 9101s | that Osprey talk to me about how that |
| 9102s | went down for them |
| 9103s | yeah so um one of the things that |
| 9106s | Ospreys don't really have a lot of is |
| 9109s | kind of tank you sacrifice that going |
| 9111s | from you know the tech 2 version the |
| 9113s | Basilisk |
| 9115s | um also an excellent commentator |
| 9117s | um but unfortunately that Osprey um |
| 9120s | lasted probably less than 12 seconds |
| 9123s | also like the Basilisk |
| 9125s | um that happens because all this heavy |
| 9127s | missile and cruise damage uh just gets |
| 9129s | on top of it it doesn't have a good way |
| 9131s | to mitigate that when it's being held |
| 9133s | down and once you lose your logic you've |
| 9136s | lost 10 points there sure you kill kind |
| 9138s | of the Bantam and I can't even quite |
| 9141s | remember the name of the other tech one |
| 9143s | frigate because the burst because we it |
| 9145s | did get bursted we've almost never see |
| 9147s | it but it's two points lost versus you |
| 9150s | know 10 and we saw that the side of |
| 9154s | barcode once that Naga got screened out |
| 9156s | had an extreme amount of difficulty |
| 9158s | really kind of closing and applying |
| 9160s | damage and kind of these kiting flepners |
| 9165s | they're just not very good against |
| 9168s | um kind of the Navy scorpion which is |
| 9170s | known for having an extremely powerful |
| 9172s | tank it's got eight mid slots and then |
| 9174s | it's got the kaldari resist bonus per |
| 9176s | level you really want a kind of a rush |
| 9178s | setup to be able to break through that I |
| 9180s | think a rush setup could have won |
| 9181s | against that but unfortunately they got |
| 9184s | kited out of the Arena by |
| 9186s | tuskers yeah I mean it just simply |
| 9190s | excellent performance by the tuskers in |
| 9192s | both of those matches there |
| 9193s | um you know I said it when we came back |
| 9195s | just kind of on another level uh tusco |
| 9197s | is looking like they could be really |
| 9198s | strong contenders uh fraternity as well |
| 9201s | really performed super well and the |
| 9203s | matches that they had against barcode so |
| 9205s | now seeing these two teams reach the |
| 9208s | Grand Final fraternity versus tuskers I |
| 9212s | personally think this one actually could |
| 9213s | go to all five uh this could be really |
| 9215s | really hard to tell uh CCP Kestrel back |
| 9219s | to uh barcode briefly they're going to |
| 9220s | get a whole bunch of prize ships uh tell |
| 9222s | me a little bit about those price ships |
| 9223s | yeah so they're going to be getting 16 |
| 9225s | of the frigates and 16 of the cruises |
| 9227s | the cruiser this year is the cybelly |
| 9229s | which is kind of like if you combine a |
| 9231s | dymos and an extra Navy issue and also |
| 9234s | give it the Leticia scram bonus on top |
| 9236s | of it so it's super strong it has Tech |
| 9238s | to resist it's faster than an extra Navy |
| 9240s | issue it has the 100 plate Mass bonus so |
| 9242s | it's really fast it's gonna have a huge |
| 9244s | defensive scram or a point so it's gonna |
| 9247s | be great for rail cladding or it has a |
| 9249s | huge armor repair bonus too if you're |
| 9252s | more inclined to brawl and make it like |
| 9254s | a super diamond sort of a super scram so |
| 9257s | really exciting and I believe the side |
| 9259s | belly has is kind of like a super utu |
| 9262s | has a bit more damage and it has a bit |
| 9265s | more range this year than before it has |
| 9267s | the kind of like a weaker version of the |
| 9269s | Interceptor overheating bonus so you can |
| 9271s | kind of use it like a uh like a taranis |
| 9274s | except it also has hackers it has like |
| 9278s | the tech 2 resistances assault damage |
| 9281s | control and a ton of drones so really |
| 9283s | excited for both of these ships yeah CCP |
| 9285s | casual mentions uh barcode are going to |
| 9287s | get 16 of each of these where which is |
| 9290s | great because I mean these these ships |
| 9291s | the Cruisers are going to be worth |
| 9292s | somewhere like 250 to 320 billion each |
| 9296s | so the the frick is probably around like |
| 9298s | 180 or so so certainly a nice nice uh |
| 9302s | prize pool for them they they have a |
| 9304s | relatively small roster so they're quite |
| 9306s | lightly able to give out at least one to |
| 9309s | most of their members maybe sell off a |
| 9311s | couple and give her uh esque as well so |
| 9314s | like I mentioned they're going to be |
| 9315s | super happy with that because all top 16 |
| 9317s | teams actually get prize ships uh since |
| 9319s | the last tournament 17 uh the number of |
| 9321s | ships has been increased and the the |
| 9323s | distribution was all the way down to top |
| 9324s | 16. so it's just super cool to see more |
| 9327s | of these ships getting out and about uh |
| 9329s | into new Eden we see some of them uh |
| 9330s | flying around doing cool things and I |
| 9332s | expect these ones as CCP Castro says to |
| 9334s | be seen around they look like they're |
| 9336s | going to be pretty pretty strong of |
| 9338s | course they also get a bunch of really |
| 9339s | nice skins they did secure a number of |
| 9341s | wins on their way to this point despite |
| 9344s | uh dropping the the last four matches |
| 9345s | they went through the winners bracket so |
| 9347s | maybe not as many skins as some teams |
| 9349s | have through the lower bracket you can |
| 9351s | see the Skins now but they're certainly |
| 9352s | going to get a good few of these uh |
| 9354s | really sexy skins where they can apply |
| 9356s | to a number of the Navy ships and |
| 9359s | honestly I just think they look amazing |
| 9360s | I think that's one of my favorite |
| 9361s | Victory skins we've put out for some |
| 9362s | time and these are going to be somewhere |
| 9364s | like three to five billion is each as |
| 9366s | well so certainly an awesome awesome |
| 9368s | mother is doing the thumbs up I think |
| 9370s | they might be going for more uh he's |
| 9372s | nodding vigorously now uh so these are |
| 9374s | certainly very very nice little price |
| 9376s | spots that uh barcode have secured of |
| 9378s | course the task goes in fraternity |
| 9379s | you're going to get more uh by virtue of |
| 9381s | being second and first place |
| 9383s | who will actually take that we don't |
| 9385s | know just yet but we will find out in a |
| 9387s | little while we're gonna go for a break |
| 9388s | we will be back for the grand finals of |
| 9391s | Alliance tournament 19 at 18 20. so make |
| 9394s | sure you stay tuned for that |
| 9416s | thank you |
| 9457s | all right |
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| 10886s | foreign |
| 10892s | once again joined by Blackboard pirate |
| 10895s | and mystical Knight for this upcoming |
| 10897s | best of five between the tuskers call |
| 10900s | and fraternity the battle of the beasts |
| 10903s | the boards versus the pandas this two |
| 10906s | teams remain 52 teams started at the |
| 10908s | beginning of the feeders 32 made it into |
| 10910s | the main tournament four with director |
| 10912s | invites the tuskers being one of them |
| 10914s | I know we have just two just two teams |
| 10917s | mystical might did you see this final |
| 10919s | coming yeah |
| 10921s | when we did our like fantasy picks on |
| 10923s | tier list or whatever the hell we want |
| 10925s | to call it I picked frat first |
| 10927s | I was laughed at Who's laughing now |
| 10931s | everyone with their twitch Channel |
| 10932s | points in the gutter I think is laughing |
| 10934s | right now and Blackboard part where but |
| 10936s | you did you see this final coming here |
| 10937s | uh no not at all um I was uh |
| 10941s | unfortunately I was kind of on the |
| 10943s | three-peat bandwagon for truth on or |
| 10945s | light |
| 10946s | um I did see I think it was like the |
| 10949s | second or the third match the tuskers |
| 10950s | did I was like oh they're back like |
| 10953s | they're doing weird things and they're |
| 10955s | winning with it and they're doing weird |
| 10956s | things that nobody else is doing and if |
| 10959s | somebody's winning with things no one |
| 10960s | else is doing that is like an insanely |
| 10961s | good sign that they're gonna win uh |
| 10963s | fraternity I again like you know after |
| 10966s | the feeders they actually did such a |
| 10968s | good job in the feeders I was like oh |
| 10969s | they're they're a real team this year |
| 10971s | they're here to play I didn't expect |
| 10973s | them to make it this far I was kind of |
| 10974s | thinking like yeah top six probably but |
| 10975s | here we are yeah here we are indeed this |
| 10979s | is the Grand Final uh fraternity coming |
| 10981s | in via the winners bracket they haven't |
| 10983s | dropped a single match let's see if we |
| 10985s | can look at the teams that they've |
| 10986s | played to get here in this tournament |
| 10989s | so this is fraternity's uh last few |
| 10992s | matches that they've played so uh at the |
| 10994s | very start the tournament they went up |
| 10995s | against bright side of death a very |
| 10997s | solid team uh with some really |
| 10998s | experienced members and they they won |
| 11000s | that no vacancies perhaps maybe they're |
| 11002s | easiest in this particular run uh but no |
| 11004s | vacancies very much improved from |
| 11006s | previous years definitely gave them a |
| 11007s | bit of a push Odin's call last year's |
| 11009s | second place team uh something I think |
| 11011s | that's where we expected a lot of people |
| 11013s | expected for turn to maybe to get |
| 11014s | knocked into the lower bracket but they |
| 11016s | didn't they went up against hidden Leaf |
| 11018s | uh Village Ninja Assassin Squad Esports |
| 11020s | who were on a very good run at this |
| 11022s | point also in the winners bracket and |
| 11025s | they won that as well and finally they |
| 11027s | came into the winners bracket final |
| 11028s | against barcode also undefeated then had |
| 11031s | knocked defending Champions truth on a |
| 11033s | light down everyone was like this is |
| 11035s | going to be a good one and then |
| 11036s | fraternity comes in and very strongly to |
| 11038s | an O against them so really solid run |
| 11041s | from fraternity let's take a look at the |
| 11043s | tuskers one now |
| 11045s | so the tuskers had to go through more |
| 11046s | matches to get there we could see that |
| 11048s | they beat Paper numbers on day one but |
| 11051s | then they dropped to White Flag some |
| 11053s | people referred to White Flag this year |
| 11054s | as the truth honor light B team they |
| 11056s | were exclusive Partners they gave truth |
| 11058s | on like a good run for their money when |
| 11059s | they faced off against THL but the |
| 11061s | tuskers got beat there and knocked into |
| 11063s | the lower bracket at that point they had |
| 11066s | to go through a number of experienced |
| 11067s | teams Platinum sensitivity uh a very |
| 11070s | exciting match where the tusk was pulled |
| 11071s | it out boundary experts as well a top |
| 11073s | team hidden Leaf uh again appearing in |
| 11076s | these brackets uh tuskers go through |
| 11078s | them then truth honor light earlier on |
| 11081s | today a bit of an upset everyone was |
| 11083s | kind of still banking truth on a light |
| 11085s | defending Champions to come back they'd |
| 11087s | ground their way through the lower |
| 11088s | bracket against some really experienced |
| 11090s | teams then the tuskers come in and they |
| 11092s | win with that Proteus comp that we saw |
| 11094s | earlier on a heavy drone Proteus taking |
| 11097s | them into the lower bracket final where |
| 11099s | they go up against barcode and again |
| 11101s | they handle they go two and oh so that |
| 11103s | said both teams now here in the Grand |
| 11106s | Final ready to compete this is gonna be |
| 11108s | a best of five the conquest bands will |
| 11111s | really start to stack now it can be |
| 11113s | really hard there's potential |
| 11115s | by the time you get to like the third |
| 11116s | match that you have upwards of I think |
| 11119s | 32 possible bans against you that could |
| 11122s | be mind-blowing mystical might tell me |
| 11124s | about these Conquest bands |
| 11126s | um pain pain and suffering for a winning |
| 11129s | team |
| 11130s | um it's it's very much a case of I I |
| 11132s | think we mentioned it a little bit |
| 11133s | earlier you just need to be prepared to |
| 11136s | have multiple comps available to you |
| 11138s | multiple variations of those comps so |
| 11141s | not only do you have different things |
| 11142s | that you can fly but different things |
| 11144s | that you can fly with different ships |
| 11145s | slotted in to counter out any Conquest |
| 11148s | bands that you've you've got to face |
| 11149s | with face off with but also any targeted |
| 11152s | bands that may come your way you also |
| 11154s | need to think about how you want to be |
| 11155s | approaching the match we mentioned Point |
| 11157s | efficiency in a match versus series |
| 11159s | efficiency which is bringing perhaps two |
| 11162s | deacons instead of a Thalia and a deacon |
| 11163s | so that when you do win you're losing |
| 11166s | fewer ships from your selection pool |
| 11167s | than you would if you're bringing a full |
| 11170s | mix of ships that may be better in that |
| 11172s | match but it may not be better for you |
| 11173s | in the long run so |
| 11175s | um there's a lot that needs to go into |
| 11176s | it I think that Conquest bands as they |
| 11178s | ramp up that's when it becomes more |
| 11180s | complicated to begin with I think |
| 11181s | everyone's pretty cool pretty chill |
| 11184s | not having too much of a bad time all |
| 11186s | right let's take a look at the regular |
| 11187s | bands for this first match between |
| 11189s | tuskers and fraternity the first match |
| 11192s | of our best of five grand final the |
| 11194s | tusker is Banning out as much ECM as |
| 11196s | they could get their hands on here |
| 11197s | Blackbird Widow rook and Falcon uh |
| 11200s | fraternity going for the hugin the |
| 11203s | Rapier the Osprey and the Bargas |
| 11205s | Blackbird Pirates what do you think of |
| 11206s | this yeah these are really really smart |
| 11208s | bands um the tuskers uh basically have |
| 11211s | been watching fraternity probably this |
| 11213s | entire tournament uh and they've noticed |
| 11215s | that fraternity has actually been |
| 11217s | incredibly good with this flag |
| 11219s | Vindicator Redeemer uh Blackbird setup |
| 11222s | that they've actually you know they've |
| 11223s | used that to kill tons and tons of |
| 11224s | really strong teams here so |
| 11226s | um we've seen some widows do really well |
| 11228s | in this tournament in fact I think the |
| 11229s | widows have won almost every match |
| 11231s | they've been in this tournament which is |
| 11233s | extremely rare that is not what usually |
| 11235s | happens so uh yeah tuskers are being |
| 11238s | smart they know that you know the |
| 11239s | getting rid of the Blackbird they've |
| 11240s | seen the Rooks come out they've seen The |
| 11242s | Rook Falcon come out like they know what |
| 11244s | fraternity is good at and they're saying |
| 11246s | all right we're just going to start off |
| 11247s | we don't want to see that right off the |
| 11248s | bat |
| 11249s | um fraternity kind of doing the same |
| 11251s | thing here we've seen tuskers be like |
| 11253s | the only team to do some just insane |
| 11256s | things we saw like a four-web hugin that |
| 11258s | completely shut down a laser rush and |
| 11260s | was just like yeah you're not moving any |
| 11262s | of your DPS ships this entire time uh |
| 11265s | this is I mean this is perfectly like |
| 11267s | this is the perfect example of targeted |
| 11269s | band strategy where both teams know what |
| 11271s | the other team's good at and are saying |
| 11273s | we don't want to fight this comp the |
| 11274s | other team says we don't want to fight |
| 11275s | this comp and they probably won't have |
| 11278s | to do it um getting rid of a blackbird |
| 11280s | rook and Falcon kind of does get rid of |
| 11282s | ECM like Griffins and Carries are okay |
| 11285s | but they're so easy to kill that you |
| 11287s | can't really just do it I mean we'll see |
| 11289s | what happened I'm about to get proven |
| 11290s | wrong like Trinity's like yeah we'll |
| 11291s | bring like three Griffins and we win but |
| 11293s | generally like logic says tuskers has |
| 11296s | banned ECM yeah I think the other thing |
| 11300s | that I find interesting about this Grand |
| 11301s | Final as we go into it it's the first |
| 11304s | final since last tournament 16 that |
| 11306s | doesn't feature two Flagship bar guests |
| 11308s | a livestream at 17 uh Volta versus Hydro |
| 11311s | reloaded both sides with Flagship bar |
| 11312s | guests a line serum and 18 truth on a |
| 11315s | light versus Odin's call both Flagship |
| 11317s | Vargas and now we have fraternity with |
| 11319s | the flagship Vindicator and uh the |
| 11321s | tuskers with that Flagship Armageddon |
| 11323s | Navy issue Misty this is going to give |
| 11325s | us a of a different vibe I think yeah it |
| 11328s | means that we are unlikely to see bar |
| 11330s | guests |
| 11331s | um in like a decent portion of the |
| 11334s | matches that we're going to be watching |
| 11335s | um they are strong ships which is why |
| 11337s | people pick them as flagships they are |
| 11339s | flexible but I I'm thinking wing nut |
| 11341s | cross is looking forward to seeing some |
| 11343s | some Vindicator action in the finals |
| 11345s | because uh he's been the vindicator's |
| 11347s | biggest fan he is indeed the |
| 11348s | vindicator's biggest fan are a pocket |
| 11350s | Australian we like to deploy and |
| 11352s | whenever a Vindicator appears on field |
| 11354s | especially a flagship Vindicator I can |
| 11356s | hear just excited Australian noises |
| 11358s | echoing all the way around the globe uh |
| 11360s | from him unlike the upset Australian |
| 11363s | noises yes upside this really nice is uh |
| 11365s | very much a different thing uh we're |
| 11366s | gonna cross purely excited it's really |
| 11368s | good noises |
| 11369s | um so I'm looking forward to this first |
| 11370s | match block repair any predictions you |
| 11372s | kind of went through the bands fairly |
| 11374s | well but what do you think we might see |
| 11375s | from these teams uh so the EOS isn't |
| 11379s | banned um I think that tuskers has been |
| 11381s | absolutely demolishing people with this |
| 11383s | eos-based uh drone comp that they seem |
| 11385s | to be able to kind of be extremely |
| 11387s | flexible around and use different uh |
| 11390s | different setups but it's all based on |
| 11392s | this EOS so I'm kind of feeling that |
| 11393s | tuskers might open up with an EOS based |
| 11396s | drone comp fraternities like main comp |
| 11398s | that they've been running is also open |
| 11399s | to so they could actually bring |
| 11401s | basically the same thing they've been |
| 11403s | running every single time like this |
| 11405s | could be their two like Apex comps just |
| 11407s | right into each other we could see some |
| 11408s | dead flagships here I don't know if we |
| 11410s | are going to I haven't heard anything |
| 11411s | about it but I've had any flagships |
| 11413s | being declared thus far but we can head |
| 11415s | over to the arena for the first match in |
| 11418s | this best of five grand final all the |
| 11420s | lions tournament 19 with our casters |
| 11422s | Alec and Wingnut |
| 11428s | ladies and gentlemen welcome to the |
| 11429s | arena welcome to the finals here's where |
| 11431s | it's all played for the pigs versus the |
| 11433s | pandas and we have there was going to be |
| 11435s | a hype series of matches I am of course |
| 11437s | we're not joined by the uh brains in the |
| 11439s | booth Mr Alexis |
| 11440s | what are we looking at |
| 11443s | well both teams seem to have a similar |
| 11444s | idea here we have drone versus drone |
| 11447s | galanti drone versus a margarine get in |
| 11450s | get a Navy with a pair of arbitrators |
| 11452s | being the core for the fraternity team |
| 11454s | while tuskers has invested double EOS |
| 11456s | double Ishtar double vexer Navy double |
| 11458s | failure trying to conserve their bands |
| 11461s | maybe as we get into the more of the |
| 11463s | marathon phase of this tournament |
| 11465s | exactly that and uh this can get Navy |
| 11467s | their full nuke fit as last time so this |
| 11469s | is you know they're trying to new that |
| 11470s | guns and whatnot but it's not going to |
| 11472s | matter because this is going to be a |
| 11472s | full drone kite look at that really |
| 11474s | bounces I beat the bleep place no |
| 11476s | curators my apologies |
| 11477s | yeah we've got a curator drop from the |
| 11479s | tuskers they're trying to volley ships |
| 11481s | at Ranch you're going after the vexer of |
| 11484s | castmere X squeeze eye taking him into |
| 11486s | pretty deep armor those Central drones |
| 11488s | will track extremely well with that long |
| 11491s | range meanwhile you see the front line |
| 11493s | of fraternity consisting of those |
| 11495s | battleships and the EOS attempting to |
| 11497s | close range probably get some tackle get |
| 11499s | some newts on but if you're Oscars you |
| 11502s | got to be feeling really good about the |
| 11503s | drones countering these arbitrators here |
| 11505s | and the arbitrators I believe are |
| 11508s | actually attempting to track and disrupt |
| 11509s | the drones if I'm looking at that |
| 11510s | correctly I could be imagining I believe |
| 11512s | that tracking shopping those drones |
| 11513s | trying their best to reduce DPS Sentry |
| 11516s | is a really good for these drone pumps |
| 11517s | they just don't have to have to chase |
| 11518s | things they're always applying we've |
| 11520s | actually seen a comps like this win in |
| 11521s | previous uh tournaments I believe the AG |
| 11523s | who had a very heavy Sentry better for a |
| 11525s | little while |
| 11526s | and you can see the damage was coming |
| 11527s | initially it has now died off rather |
| 11529s | aggressively as the uh joints aren't |
| 11531s | doing as well that is a pro game removed |
| 11534s | from the Trinity team making the best |
| 11535s | out of a bad situation applying to track |
| 11537s | new substance to the drones and it seems |
| 11539s | to be successful uh obviously they're |
| 11542s | not going to get all of the drones down |
| 11543s | but they're putting down enough that |
| 11545s | their logic is able to handle it the |
| 11547s | arbitrator it's under Fire but looking |
| 11549s | healthy the vexer is almost fully |
| 11551s | recovered and now it seems like tuskers |
| 11554s | has given up on that plan entirely and |
| 11556s | never going after the EOS which along |
| 11558s | with the battleships has closed ranges |
| 11560s | now right on top of their Fleet |
| 11563s | now they're not doing at the moment one |
| 11564s | strategy the uh frat team could do in |
| 11566s | the situation with this giant blob of |
| 11568s | sentries is they could burn one of their |
| 11569s | battleships over there if it's got a |
| 11570s | smart bomb and just smop them all these |
| 11572s | drones off in a few Cycles now at the |
| 11574s | moment there's about R playing more |
| 11576s | aggressive and chasing the opposing |
| 11577s | teams and uh attempting to hold stuff |
| 11578s | down but with these that's a probably |
| 11580s | essentially that is an option |
| 11582s | oh that EOS is looking real bad it's not |
| 11585s | tackled at all it's still in deep Arbor |
| 11587s | it's having trouble recovering that |
| 11589s | armor hit points with its local tank |
| 11590s | it's trying to mitigate trying to |
| 11593s | mitigate but it seems like the hyena is |
| 11595s | going to be the sacrificial lamb for |
| 11596s | tuskers to try to get a pretty sizable |
| 11599s | chunk out of the fraternity team that |
| 11601s | said the EOS has just pulled back a huge |
| 11603s | chunk of armor and now we're seeing |
| 11605s | damage switch back onto the vexers |
| 11606s | tusker is trying to keep fraternity on |
| 11609s | its toes here switching the damage |
| 11611s | around oh they're hyena pays the price |
| 11613s | the hyena goes down and that hyena was |
| 11615s | honestly provided quite a lot of support |
| 11617s | for these entries they do not track the |
| 11618s | best so they do like a bit of help with |
| 11620s | that gone the damage is going to be a |
| 11622s | little bit more Awkward to trying to |
| 11623s | play especially with these Arby's |
| 11624s | bringing tracking instructors and it's |
| 11626s | just looks like the effects of Navy of |
| 11628s | Saron getting a little low but it looks |
| 11630s | like they're going to catch him in a |
| 11631s | moment this is just it started tipping |
| 11633s | one way but if they get rid of this |
| 11634s | Deacon maybe they can bring it back yeah |
| 11636s | they've applied everything they've got |
| 11638s | onto the Deacon it is painted webbed |
| 11641s | nuded and scrammed but also getting |
| 11643s | wrapped the Sentry drones they're |
| 11645s | essentially Battleship guys guns they're |
| 11646s | not gonna track you great but it's good |
| 11648s | enough |
| 11649s | and that there could be the turning |
| 11651s | point that tuscles were needing there |
| 11652s | the start was not looking that good |
| 11654s | but it potentially can start swinging |
| 11656s | back very quickly as the logic will drop |
| 11658s | soon there's not gonna be no logic |
| 11659s | drawings could be full DPS drones and I |
| 11662s | think next time it'll be sarian in this |
| 11663s | Vector Navy if this Deacon goes down |
| 11666s | yeah it looks like they're going to |
| 11667s | completely eliminate the larger wing for |
| 11669s | Fraternity they want to take the other |
| 11670s | Deacon out they want to try to end this |
| 11672s | match as quickly as possible and give |
| 11673s | them no way back into it the drones are |
| 11676s | gonna chip away at this fraternity team |
| 11678s | now they have no way to pull those armor |
| 11679s | hit points back unless they have a local |
| 11681s | tank on some of their ships the EOS |
| 11683s | probably has a wrapper on it does get a |
| 11686s | nice bonus for that so does the vexer |
| 11687s | Navy issue but it's more common in the |
| 11690s | tournament meta to see them plated up as |
| 11691s | now both the vexer and the isharf and |
| 11693s | their respective teams really taking a |
| 11695s | pounding in deep structure and they go |
| 11697s | down simultaneously |
| 11699s | it's good to see here this is kind of |
| 11701s | why um last time pedigree teams do so |
| 11703s | well that they've been able to adjust |
| 11705s | the style of this match didn't quite |
| 11706s | work initially and they immediately |
| 11707s | react and start taking down targets |
| 11709s | correctly and find that winning path |
| 11711s | just got deleted Wingnut |
| 11713s | no no no stop |
| 11719s | but absolutely shredded the uh the armor |
| 11723s | historic and something you'll only see |
| 11725s | in the alliance tournament and you're |
| 11727s | seeing why exactly right there as soon |
| 11728s | as it got even looked at it was just |
| 11730s | immediately valued by these drones there |
| 11733s | uh now you see fraternity going after |
| 11735s | Katarina illuminata's Ishtar they're |
| 11737s | putting it into deep armor at the same |
| 11739s | time tuskers is trying to trade back the |
| 11741s | EOS and this is a key test here both |
| 11743s | ships have extremely strong Tech 2 tanks |
| 11746s | you're actually seeing the EOS go down |
| 11748s | faster which is a terrifying sign for |
| 11750s | Fraternity they're watching their |
| 11751s | Alliance tournament the odds dwindled |
| 11753s | greatly as it looks like tuscarus is |
| 11756s | trying to secure the first victory in a |
| 11758s | specified |
| 11759s | you know losing a match or two in this |
| 11761s | best of five can not can potentially get |
| 11763s | you a win later on but unfortunately |
| 11765s | tuskers have played this one incredibly |
| 11767s | well doubling up as many ships as they |
| 11769s | can even under the increased points that |
| 11770s | costs to give them the best position to |
| 11773s | continue on and that's not like you know |
| 11775s | if I kind of went all in with a good |
| 11777s | comp here trying to you know win |
| 11778s | regardless of the uh of the potential |
| 11780s | negatives of the conquest bands but Tusk |
| 11783s | is playing to those bands and |
| 11785s | potentially just winning outright that |
| 11787s | is a brutal win |
| 11790s | quite the Gamble |
| 11791s | from that because every additional |
| 11795s | additional they bring to thalias it |
| 11797s | costs extra points two Vector maybe |
| 11798s | extra points double es extra points but |
| 11801s | they're playing the long game here and |
| 11803s | they're even coming away with this early |
| 11805s | Victory uh this is now down to a DPS |
| 11808s | race and I gotta tell you two EOS and |
| 11810s | two Vex and navy issues have two |
| 11811s | arbitrators and two geddens beat hands |
| 11813s | down |
| 11816s | yeah they're getting good maybe over the |
| 11817s | course they brew all the newts in the |
| 11818s | world but unfortunately this is an armor |
| 11820s | confident really okay and they can just |
| 11822s | shoot you with your drones as well so |
| 11824s | they kind of got almost um I won't say |
| 11826s | hard counter because this is still a |
| 11828s | very good conference against this comp |
| 11829s | reversing but definitely played |
| 11831s | extremely well |
| 11832s | yeah fraternity they had a great comp |
| 11834s | against other comps uh the neutralizers |
| 11837s | for the get-ins not as effective or |
| 11839s | necessary against this tusker sleet as |
| 11842s | you think and the arbitrators we praised |
| 11844s | them making a good adaptation tracking |
| 11847s | disrupting the drones but it's it's |
| 11849s | really trying to make lemons out of |
| 11851s | lemon or lemonade out of lemons here |
| 11852s | because those arbitrators you have to |
| 11854s | believe are expecting some kind of |
| 11856s | pseudo dead setup or perhaps a shield |
| 11858s | missile Rush that they could properly |
| 11860s | weapon disrupt and now they're just sort |
| 11862s | of chipping in where they could instead |
| 11864s | of being the potentially match defining |
| 11866s | choice |
| 11867s | fraternity put a lot of points in things |
| 11869s | that didn't wind up helping them that |
| 11871s | much against this tester's drone comp |
| 11874s | yeah and of course there's still a bunch |
| 11875s | of those uh Sentry still being shot but |
| 11877s | that being said the vexervix maybe I |
| 11879s | believe are running just regular DPS |
| 11880s | groups because I'm seeing a bunch of |
| 11881s | mediums and a few heavy drones chasing |
| 11883s | down stuff like the arbitrators so very |
| 11885s | good use of this mixed drone setup as |
| 11886s | well |
| 11887s | yeah there's just a slash of drones |
| 11890s | across the field a bunch of fraternity |
| 11892s | drones now abandoned a bunch of tusker |
| 11895s | drones now abandoned just clusters of |
| 11897s | them all over the place as these teams |
| 11899s | try to rapidly adjust to the changing |
| 11901s | conditions in the battlefield by putting |
| 11903s | out the appropriate drone type we're now |
| 11905s | seeing tuskers unleash Federation Navy |
| 11907s | ogres onto these battleships which will |
| 11910s | of course track them for full damage and |
| 11912s | put out a scary amount of DPS |
| 11915s | there was like a hidden level of skill |
| 11917s | to drone comp uh flying using the right |
| 11919s | drones right time knowing when to |
| 11920s | abandon your drones and putting out the |
| 11922s | next set it there's obviously a lot of |
| 11924s | play even knowing you want to recall |
| 11925s | them there's a lot of beautiful play to |
| 11927s | drone comps when done correctly |
| 11928s | unfortunately people just you know put |
| 11929s | out drones press F player respects and |
| 11931s | move on with their lives you can do a |
| 11933s | lot more |
| 11934s | yeah there's a high skill uh ceiling |
| 11936s | there and we're seeing for a million |
| 11939s | about to hit the floor unfortunately as |
| 11941s | his structure goes down it's now in very |
| 11944s | deep structure Armageddon not a galantis |
| 11946s | ship so that structure will evaporate |
| 11948s | fairly quickly uh you're seeing tuskers |
| 11951s | having to slow down their output a |
| 11953s | little bit as they're trying to grind |
| 11954s | through these very tanky battleships uh |
| 11957s | we're just about under two minutes here |
| 11958s | and they have to grind through an |
| 11960s | Armageddon Navy to get that clean sweep |
| 11962s | that they're looking for but getting is |
| 11965s | doing its best with its drones to try to |
| 11967s | take out Skylar Hawk stalia that is the |
| 11969s | correct play for him but unfortunately |
| 11972s | tanky and it's Sig tanks they're playing |
| 11975s | that very as smart as I can do they're |
| 11976s | actually newting out the Jaeger in the |
| 11978s | other failure and then trying to kill |
| 11980s | the failure of Skyler that is you know |
| 11982s | that is the way to try and do it |
| 11983s | unfortunately it is a very tough thing |
| 11984s | to attempt to do but that is the way you |
| 11986s | do it you knew that one logic shoot the |
| 11988s | other one |
| 11989s | absolutely and being a full nude fit |
| 11991s | Navy Armageddon all those low slots |
| 11994s | should be going toward tank |
| 11995s | unfortunately it's not counting for much |
| 11998s | as he's already into half armor the |
| 12000s | drone's now applying very well to fabuki |
| 12002s | waifu he's really got no way to go here |
| 12005s | if he could take out Skyler and Nathalia |
| 12007s | that would mean the other Thalia would |
| 12009s | probably go down quite quickly but he'd |
| 12011s | still have to grind through these double |
| 12012s | command ships is that an anti-transfit |
| 12015s | on JJ yakin's Vixen Navy and what am I |
| 12018s | seeing onto the uh Thalia |
| 12020s | I believe that might be an energy |
| 12021s | transfer |
| 12022s | that is indeed a capacitor transfer |
| 12025s | wow that is beautiful that is so like |
| 12029s | melty head like what in the world it's |
| 12030s | beautiful |
| 12033s | effectively making a logistics friggin |
| 12035s | impossible to nude out when it gets any |
| 12037s | kind of energy transfer from a ship due |
| 12039s | to the size of its capacitor that's a |
| 12041s | brilliant fitting Choice from tuskers |
| 12043s | well well played |
| 12045s | basically they knew they were going into |
| 12046s | newts and they even had backups upon |
| 12048s | backups ready for this that is I I am in |
| 12050s | absolute love with this comp well done |
| 12052s | to test because this is a deserved win |
| 12054s | the first match the best of us going |
| 12056s | their way |
| 12057s | congratulations tuskers and let's send |
| 12059s | this back to the analyst desk for a |
| 12061s | breakdown |
| 12080s | thank you |
| 12109s | thank you |
| 12138s | foreign |
| 12148s | with the first match Advantage there |
| 12151s | taking the win over fraternity first |
| 12153s | team inline servant 19 to put one over |
| 12156s | on fraternity they have been since up |
| 12159s | until now they have been completely |
| 12160s | undefeated which is a phenomenal run for |
| 12163s | Fraternity get to the Grand Final and |
| 12165s | it's the first time you lose a match |
| 12167s | they've got to be unbelievably pleased |
| 12169s | with that of course there's still plenty |
| 12171s | more to go tuscaras will lose all access |
| 12173s | to a lot of ships now the conquest bands |
| 12175s | for that one being the ishkra the EOS |
| 12177s | the Talia the vexer Navy issue the hyena |
| 12179s | and the Ishtar we can see them there on |
| 12181s | the screen now |
| 12183s | um Bart we were talking about this |
| 12184s | during the match this kind of bans |
| 12186s | tuskers out of what we're calling good |
| 12188s | drones they can still bring some sort of |
| 12190s | weird drones there's uh alternates that |
| 12192s | we saw the protists they could bring |
| 12193s | things like a stratios a mermaid on Navy |
| 12195s | issue talk to me about what might be |
| 12197s | going on here yeah so you can bring |
| 12199s | drones still there is a lot of ships |
| 12202s | that have drones in fact most ships I |
| 12204s | think have drones |
| 12205s | um but ones that are bonus for drones |
| 12207s | that are actually good at the game are |
| 12210s | the big one is the EO so the EOS is |
| 12213s | absolutely disgusting compared to any of |
| 12215s | these other ships like it has a really |
| 12216s | good drone Optical range bonus really |
| 12218s | good drone damage bonus uh it has a |
| 12220s | whole bunch of other crazy awesome |
| 12222s | statistics on it lots of drone Bay and |
| 12225s | it provides links and it does a ton of |
| 12227s | damage and it has infinite tank and you |
| 12229s | know we're kind of seeing like this is |
| 12230s | actually not only is it an extremely |
| 12232s | picked ship it's actually a very winning |
| 12234s | ship like this is one of the more |
| 12236s | winning ships we've seen |
| 12238s | kind of of all time usually it's a |
| 12240s | pretty even from what I've noticed uh |
| 12242s | but this one is like statistically the |
| 12244s | EOS is very very good and tuskers is |
| 12246s | actually now number two on the EOS usage |
| 12249s | list which most of that is actually just |
| 12251s | from this a t |
| 12253s | um you know you got to kind of look at |
| 12254s | it in like a long time ago at 12 like |
| 12256s | noise kinda used a ton of drones so it |
| 12258s | gets a little a little funky but like if |
| 12260s | you look at at 19 which is the one we're |
| 12262s | in right now uh testers has been using |
| 12264s | this ship a ton and I think that it's |
| 12265s | kind of like the key linchpin of their |
| 12269s | drone setup and now they cannot use it |
| 12271s | unless this goes to match five so good |
| 12274s | drones is banned okay drones is still |
| 12277s | here I think one of the cool things as |
| 12279s | well is if you really look back to the |
| 12280s | historical data the earlier tournaments |
| 12283s | the big spike there of the EOS I'm |
| 12284s | pretty sure that's back when it was |
| 12286s | still 12 versus 12 as well the points |
| 12289s | for the EOS were completely different |
| 12290s | and you could bring three or even four |
| 12292s | of them so teams like now this kind of |
| 12294s | back then being able to pull a lot more |
| 12296s | of them into the matches anyone time the |
| 12298s | tuskers still being able to pull a bunch |
| 12301s | of them in this year and as you say uh |
| 12303s | they've used it really heavily they |
| 12304s | really have relied on the EOS it's been |
| 12306s | a common ban sometimes as well so teams |
| 12308s | definitely recognizing the threat of the |
| 12311s | EOS and Mr come out what do you think |
| 12314s | about the fact that they're now losing |
| 12315s | access to this yeah I think |
| 12318s | for any other team it would be like |
| 12320s | heartbreaking to lose access to the EOS |
| 12322s | and just drones in general like good |
| 12324s | drones we call it |
| 12326s | tuskers because they like to try wacky |
| 12328s | stuff all the time I know mirror is very |
| 12330s | into like the whole Theory crafting |
| 12331s | thing that's really how he became well |
| 12333s | known in the tournament scene was he |
| 12336s | brought tuskers to a few of the |
| 12338s | tournaments previously and he would just |
| 12340s | try out random things like RT maelstroms |
| 12342s | and all that kind of stuff like stuff |
| 12344s | that no one else was really bringing and |
| 12346s | they would actually find success with it |
| 12347s | so really I think that they're going to |
| 12349s | have a bunch of other comps up their |
| 12350s | sleeve some weird wacky ones that we |
| 12352s | haven't actually seen so far perhaps |
| 12354s | fingers crossed they bring the double |
| 12356s | Pilgrim height uh pugan one because that |
| 12358s | one seemed garbage and I think frat |
| 12359s | could beat it so that's that's fantastic |
| 12361s | I would definitely recommend bring that |
| 12362s | one |
| 12364s | um but yeah no I I think they'll be okay |
| 12365s | I think they'll be okay awesome well |
| 12368s | just to go into a little bit detail |
| 12369s | about how these Conquest bands work |
| 12372s | we've seen them already in the best of |
| 12374s | best of Threes both of them of course |
| 12376s | going two and oh so they weren't really |
| 12378s | as impactful the teams only lost one set |
| 12381s | of ships uh because when they won the |
| 12383s | second match that was it but now with |
| 12384s | the best of five the chances of teams |
| 12387s | losing access to more ships |
| 12388s | significantly increases uh the uh the |
| 12390s | task rooms right now if they want to win |
| 12392s | they're going to at least lose access to |
| 12393s | another 10 set of ships if they win the |
| 12395s | next match so they'd go into match three |
| 12397s | with a whole bunch of ships banned out |
| 12399s | um the way it will go is if the team |
| 12402s | that just won the tuskers wins the next |
| 12403s | match as well they cannot bring any of |
| 12405s | those match uh ships a game in match |
| 12407s | three if fraternity were to win match |
| 12410s | four would mean the tuskers can't bring |
| 12411s | anything from matches one and two and |
| 12413s | pretend to be able to bring anything |
| 12414s | from match three |
| 12416s | and then if it goes to uh the final |
| 12418s | fifth match everything is unbanned again |
| 12420s | so it's it's gonna make it more |
| 12422s | difficult for a team that wins more |
| 12424s | early on uh Bart how do you think this |
| 12426s | is going to be affecting these teams at |
| 12428s | this point uh I think that so the Tasker |
| 12431s | setup we saw and I even kind of like |
| 12433s | when I saw the conquest bands pop up I |
| 12435s | was like oh that's not actually that |
| 12436s | many ships um we saw a lot of doubling |
| 12438s | up of ships which generally people don't |
| 12440s | do because of the point inflation Rule |
| 12443s | and tuskers actually did a very very |
| 12444s | good job of really only getting I would |
| 12448s | say maybe three to four actual good like |
| 12451s | ships that you kind of need bands so |
| 12453s | losing the EOS is rough losing the |
| 12456s | Ishtar is rough but you're not going to |
| 12457s | use an Ishtar without an EOS anyways |
| 12459s | most of the time |
| 12461s | um and then losing the hyena is probably |
| 12462s | the only other one that I'm like that's |
| 12464s | actually a key band hyenas are very very |
| 12466s | useful for a lot of stuff uh other than |
| 12467s | that I mean ishkers like no one flies |
| 12469s | those that was kind of just a weird |
| 12471s | Niche pick and you know fiction navies |
| 12473s | are pretty good but they also picked a |
| 12475s | Thalia so Italians are generally |
| 12477s | considered to be a little bit worse than |
| 12478s | a deacon so tuskers actually had like |
| 12480s | they planned this setup to bring to the |
| 12483s | Grand finals because they only got a |
| 12486s | couple ships banned instead of seeing |
| 12488s | these ones where people get like oh |
| 12489s | eight or nine or ten ships Conquest band |
| 12491s | and the ones that they got banned |
| 12493s | there's really only like maybe two to |
| 12495s | three of them that are actually key for |
| 12497s | other comps yeah so tusker's there |
| 12499s | bringing a number of duplicate ships as |
| 12500s | you point out they lost eight extra |
| 12502s | points to point inflation so essentially |
| 12504s | that was almost like a 92 Point comp |
| 12506s | that they brought there and you really |
| 12508s | point out there's still plenty of ships |
| 12510s | available they have to start thinking |
| 12511s | about you know do we bring to invest eat |
| 12513s | those extra points and keep stuff open |
| 12515s | later you could go all in bring 10 |
| 12517s | different ships but you're going to get |
| 12519s | them all banned out if you win with this |
| 12521s | which is there's never going to be good |
| 12522s | of course for tarantee they can bring |
| 12523s | everything they just brought so they |
| 12525s | can't uh they're not banned out of those |
| 12526s | the regular bands for the next match |
| 12528s | will still apply as normal |
| 12529s | um but for only the tuskers have the |
| 12532s | conquest bands upon them I I was going |
| 12534s | to mention the hyena as well as super |
| 12536s | versatile ship we see in a lot of comps |
| 12538s | uh long range webs paints Misty like do |
| 12542s | you think that's gonna be a really |
| 12543s | important one I I think so I think a lot |
| 12546s | of teams kind of lean on the the low |
| 12548s | Point costs for the hyena and the |
| 12550s | strength that it brings with the long |
| 12551s | range web and also the target painter |
| 12553s | Brothers not everyone fits Target |
| 12554s | painter depending on if you're going |
| 12555s | Shield tank to armor tanks you don't |
| 12557s | actually have that many mid slots to |
| 12559s | spare if you're going short tanked so |
| 12561s | you usually dedicate that towards webs |
| 12562s | because it's going to be something |
| 12563s | that's lacking on your team and you can |
| 12565s | fit Target painters on any other hole |
| 12567s | it's one of the only e-war types that |
| 12569s | isn't restricted to bonus tools and you |
| 12571s | can bring T2 Target printers I believe |
| 12573s | not just metal ones unlike the other |
| 12575s | equal types that we have in the game so |
| 12578s | I do think it's going to be important |
| 12581s | and maybe difficult for tuskers to play |
| 12582s | around but we've also seen them bring |
| 12583s | things like hugins before they're still |
| 12585s | the visual Fleet kind of garbage |
| 12587s | compared to the Hue to the hyena but |
| 12589s | still an option you have the visual |
| 12591s | photographer painted if they really want |
| 12592s | that so there's still ways that they can |
| 12593s | play around it but what do you think |
| 12595s | about the fact that both of these teams |
| 12596s | decided to bring twin lodgy frigates in |
| 12599s | this match I believe all the armor |
| 12600s | Cruisers were available |
| 12602s | um I think we've seen in general tattoo |
| 12604s | Lewis exclusives being more powerful |
| 12606s | than a pair of logistics fragrance not |
| 12608s | only do you you lose two pilots instead |
| 12609s | of one |
| 12611s | um although they are saving in points |
| 12612s | they don't have the same amount of range |
| 12615s | they have to move around the arena a lot |
| 12616s | better what do you think led to this |
| 12618s | decision |
| 12619s | I would say that in general Logistics |
| 12622s | forgets You know despite us kind of |
| 12624s | saying that they suck for like the first |
| 12626s | three days uh tuskers and you know frat |
| 12630s | to a lesser degree but tuskers has |
| 12631s | actually been doing a really good job |
| 12632s | with them and |
| 12633s | um if you can get them to speed fast |
| 12635s | enough they kind of are extremely |
| 12637s | difficult to take down especially by |
| 12639s | these like Max threat setups and what |
| 12640s | we've been seeing especially for these |
| 12641s | last couple uh probably the last like |
| 12644s | half of yesterday and today is that when |
| 12646s | teams bring this Max medium gun range |
| 12648s | setup your Logistics Cruiser is going to |
| 12650s | die really really fast and when they try |
| 12654s | and do that to the logistics frigates |
| 12656s | they survive so you kind of almost |
| 12658s | counter it because a lot of times |
| 12659s | they're like they're tenement After |
| 12660s | Burner fit so it's a little teeny tiny |
| 12663s | signature ship just flying around and |
| 12664s | you're missing it even though it's |
| 12665s | painted and sometimes webbed so maybe |
| 12668s | we're kind of seeing at the like at the |
| 12669s | very end the meta is finally saying okay |
| 12672s | actually maybe you should have been |
| 12673s | flying logistics for kids the entire |
| 12674s | time also at the end of the day uh |
| 12678s | again running to thalias you still got |
| 12680s | two deacons left and you also have the |
| 12682s | oniros and his arms ad and the guardian |
| 12685s | and the auger don't pick the executor |
| 12687s | like you still have so many different |
| 12688s | ships that you can fly here so it was |
| 12690s | like I said they're here they're here to |
| 12691s | win the best of fives they're playing |
| 12693s | for the best of fives they're playing |
| 12695s | under the rules they read the rules |
| 12697s | which is hard so the teams don't do it |
| 12699s | many teams don't do it a lot of teams |
| 12701s | don't do it a lot of teams uh dming uh |
| 12703s | people like myself and uh CCB zealous |
| 12705s | asking uh questions that are in fact in |
| 12707s | the rules So reading the rules is |
| 12708s | certainly something that we encourage |
| 12710s | here at the alliance tournament |
| 12713s | um speaking of here at the alliance |
| 12714s | tournament in Nottingham uh we can go |
| 12716s | check out CCP Kestrel and see how he |
| 12718s | fares eating a hot chicken wings |
| 12721s | all right yeah I'm pretty confident |
| 12724s | answering answering questions I'm not |
| 12726s | very confident eating the wings so we'll |
| 12728s | see how it goes |
| 12734s | my name is uh |
| 12736s | CP Castro and I'm a QA analyst at CC |
| 12739s | games |
| 12741s | so I started playing Eve in 2007. I |
| 12745s | actually joined with a friend of mine in |
| 12747s | college and we were going to be miners |
| 12750s | and then I just started solo pvping I |
| 12753s | started uh well I joined like a war deck |
| 12755s | Corp called interimo and I was kind of |
| 12757s | there for like three to four months |
| 12758s | three to four years sorry I did a lot of |
| 12760s | solo intercepted PVP like I love flying |
| 12763s | the tyrannos that's almost away through |
| 12764s | for like two years |
| 12766s | Adams I was for a very long time like |
| 12768s | the number one like uh personal Z kill |
| 12772s | for those radiss like all time kills I |
| 12775s | think I probably still am for just pure |
| 12777s | solo |
| 12780s | one doesn't look |
| 12782s | the color |
| 12789s | all right so I've only been at CCP for a |
| 12792s | year and four months so far that's one |
| 12794s | of the things that I've enjoyed working |
| 12795s | on the most I've been like the ship new |
| 12797s | ship so like Uprising lots of |
| 12800s | dreadnoughts and like I love just being |
| 12802s | able to just fix like small bugs in the |
| 12804s | game and get them fixed what I really |
| 12807s | love doing is seeing what people and |
| 12809s | Reddit complain about whenever like |
| 12811s | people upset at CCP they complain about |
| 12813s | oh they're sisters of Eve jacket for a |
| 12816s | female is in like the male section of |
| 12818s | the store and I just fix that just to |
| 12821s | you know move them on to the next scene |
| 12828s | so I can't really say completely what |
| 12831s | I'm working on currently but we have a |
| 12834s | new narrative and then going out uh |
| 12837s | well we already have like kind of a |
| 12838s | teaser for the narrative event from next |
| 12841s | week on there'll be more stuff happening |
| 12843s | and then at Fan Fest we'll have |
| 12846s | so yeah that's what's what I'm mostly |
| 12849s | working on that's coming up |
| 12851s | we look this up and Ezekiel says that |
| 12853s | you only have 603 Kestrel kills the |
| 12856s | all-time leader is |
| 12858s | 2931. so do you feel in any way a |
| 12861s | pretender to the name CCP Kestrel no I |
| 12863s | don't because number one you can't |
| 12865s | search for solo kills |
| 12868s | like you can't unfortunately on zika you |
| 12870s | can't search for like just solo for like |
| 12871s | the top and also my casual kills are |
| 12873s | spread out across like five different |
| 12875s | characters like I believe my character |
| 12877s | shot Prince 2001 which is my oh I know |
| 12880s | it has a terrible Xbox gamer name that's |
| 12882s | the point |
| 12883s | uh he's number three I think and I think |
| 12886s | I also have like another character |
| 12887s | mainly and I have some other characters |
| 12890s | that I probably don't want to mention |
| 12892s | because they have even worse names in |
| 12894s | shark Prince 2001 and |
| 12896s | yeah so that one that one was uh like |
| 12898s | actually hot like depending on that one |
| 12901s | was actually really it up |
| 12911s | CCP Castro there it takes some spicy hot |
| 12914s | things and answering some questions uh |
| 12916s | about what he is working on and some |
| 12918s | other things I'm excited for what he's |
| 12920s | working on I know about it it's pretty |
| 12921s | cool I guess you'll find that Fan Fest |
| 12924s | um uh yeah like those wings were hot uh |
| 12928s | they're deceptively hot you think it |
| 12929s | starts off easy it does just sneak up on |
| 12932s | you we saw Mexico might uh rivers of |
| 12935s | sweat earlier on just as me normally |
| 12937s | anyone watching back last year will also |
| 12939s | notice rivers of sweat because it was |
| 12941s | really warm in this room so let me touch |
| 12943s | the aircon down a bit sorry yeah yeah |
| 12945s | all right let's move on look at our next |
| 12947s | match up between the tuskers and |
| 12949s | Fraternity in this Grand Final overlines |
| 12952s | tournament 19. the tuskers banging it |
| 12955s | the Magus the pontifex the Blackbird and |
| 12958s | the EOS so they can't bring one they say |
| 12960s | nope you can't bring one either |
| 12961s | fraternity going for the hugin the |
| 12964s | Deacon the Osprey and the bar guest uh |
| 12967s | mystical might what do you think about |
| 12968s | these bands here well we see a deacon |
| 12970s | band as Batman mentioned you know we |
| 12972s | were going to see the Thalia removed due |
| 12974s | to the conquest bands and the Deacon was |
| 12975s | the only other TT logistics for armor |
| 12977s | frigates that was available so it makes |
| 12979s | sense that fraternity wants to remove |
| 12981s | the Deacon there the hugin as well just |
| 12983s | again being something that is quite |
| 12985s | Niche to tuskers alone so again just one |
| 12987s | of those targeted bands neither team has |
| 12989s | the bar guest as a flagship so we won't |
| 12991s | be seeing that in this match I do like |
| 12993s | the fact that tuskers are banned out the |
| 12995s | Magus the pontifex and the EOS I think |
| 12997s | these are decent targeted bands against |
| 12999s | the fraternity team magazine pontifex |
| 13002s | because I think it removes an element of |
| 13004s | their Vindicator Redeemer setups that |
| 13005s | we've been seeing but also the EOS |
| 13007s | because if tuskers won't fly nobody can |
| 13010s | I think that's fair enough |
| 13012s | um any any further comments from you |
| 13013s | Blackboard pirate uh not particularly I |
| 13016s | think um really going in and just |
| 13018s | hammering the fact that tuskers has |
| 13020s | gotten rid of pretty much every really |
| 13023s | good uh Lynx boat here uh for armor |
| 13026s | setups because like you can bring in a |
| 13027s | star day instead of an EOS and it's like |
| 13029s | well it's okay but the fitting gets kind |
| 13032s | of like messy with them so you don't get |
| 13034s | as much like versatility that as you do |
| 13036s | as an EOS uh you can do an Absolution |
| 13038s | but people really like to just like pump |
| 13040s | massive damage out of them so um |
| 13042s | tuscares is really |
| 13045s | what happens if they just bring all the |
| 13048s | battle cruises I think maybe they could |
| 13049s | maybe Max threat or whatever we call it |
| 13051s | now dad no we don't call it that Giga |
| 13053s | Daddy no no no no no yeah I'm gonna deal |
| 13058s | with this one |
| 13060s | uh yes you could do that but you don't |
| 13061s | get these super bonus links that's the |
| 13063s | big thing they can fit links but they're |
| 13065s | not like the really nice bonus eos's are |
| 13068s | just like such a good ship |
| 13070s | um but yes they could bring |
| 13072s | Max threat not the other two uh which we |
| 13076s | could see I don't think we've really |
| 13077s | seen I don't think tuskers has really |
| 13079s | flown it besides that one versus barcode |
| 13081s | and theirs kind of looked a little messy |
| 13083s | almost yeah I don't just recall seeing |
| 13086s | them fly one but I guess like you say |
| 13087s | that's kind of mostly available |
| 13089s | um the executor Navy issue is unbanned |
| 13091s | so they could certainly go for the |
| 13093s | medium gun spam uh with that |
| 13096s | um they could go for something like a |
| 13097s | drawer or maybe the Navy murmidon if |
| 13099s | they wanted to kind of cheese their way |
| 13100s | into another drone set that we mentioned |
| 13101s | that before sometimes we see ships like |
| 13104s | a Stratus appearing into drone comps in |
| 13106s | a last tournament I don't believe we've |
| 13107s | seen any this year |
| 13109s | um people who have got a little bit wise |
| 13110s | uh maybe in the feeders I don't think we |
| 13113s | saw any we saw one die once I think I |
| 13115s | think we did see one I don't think it |
| 13117s | did well yeah I think that was to be |
| 13119s | expected I'm not sure maybe maybe we're |
| 13121s | wrong so I mean Misty do you think in |
| 13123s | this instance is it worth trying to |
| 13126s | bring a like underpowered drone comp |
| 13129s | because maybe you think your opponent's |
| 13131s | just don't expect you to do so like you |
| 13133s | could bring something else maybe they're |
| 13134s | going to try and counter like a shield |
| 13136s | kite comp so you bring this slightly |
| 13138s | less powerful drone spam with things |
| 13140s | like Navy marmadons I think leaving it |
| 13143s | available is probably the better bet |
| 13145s | because then |
| 13146s | it becomes increasingly more |
| 13147s | unpredictable just overall in this |
| 13150s | series as the matches go on I think that |
| 13153s | they've shown us |
| 13154s | um different technology such as armor |
| 13157s | kiting Claymores that they could bring |
| 13160s | um if they or they could just do a more |
| 13161s | conventional Shield kite without the |
| 13164s | whole armor element and that would also |
| 13166s | probably do fairly well I don't think |
| 13167s | they need to lean on the the weaker |
| 13170s | drone setups just yet because they have |
| 13171s | other things available to them that |
| 13173s | they've already shown in the tournament |
| 13174s | that they could bring one of the other |
| 13175s | things that I've noticed is whenever a |
| 13177s | fraternity have been bringing this Navy |
| 13178s | Armageddon Armageddon set up they rely |
| 13181s | on Phil newts they don't bother with any |
| 13183s | weapon systems in the high slots they're |
| 13185s | just relying on the Drone damage |
| 13186s | obviously they do a decent amount of |
| 13187s | damage with those drones somewhere |
| 13189s | around 600 or so |
| 13190s | but if you bring in the slightly lower |
| 13193s | damage Newt comp it's kind of vulnerable |
| 13196s | to like maybe like a Nighthawk ham Rush |
| 13197s | Bart what do you think |
| 13199s | so I would I would say yes but we did |
| 13202s | see um actually a very similar setup to |
| 13204s | what fraternity has been bringing with |
| 13205s | this sort of uh drone based full Newt |
| 13208s | setup uh that actually truth under light |
| 13210s | brought and you know as much fun as we |
| 13213s | like to sometimes be like oh let's not |
| 13215s | talk about them they're out now uh they |
| 13217s | actually fought a Nighthawk ham Rush |
| 13219s | with a very similar stuff to what |
| 13221s | fraternity did and they basically |
| 13223s | completely out executed it was one of |
| 13225s | those matches where like if you cover |
| 13227s | the team names and you looked at the |
| 13229s | comps you'd be like oh they're about to |
| 13230s | get rushed in and die all right that's |
| 13231s | fine |
| 13232s | um so we've seen that these newts uh if |
| 13234s | you survive the first like two to three |
| 13236s | minutes and this is kind of true with |
| 13237s | any anytime you're going up against |
| 13238s | newts but |
| 13240s | um if you survive the first two to three |
| 13241s | minutes as a newt setup their Cap's gone |
| 13244s | like it becomes so hard to keep up |
| 13246s | unless you're in like 3200 catfish or |
| 13248s | battleships so if you can survive the |
| 13250s | first two to three minutes of the ham |
| 13251s | rush you actually get to this point |
| 13252s | where like none of the ham ships can |
| 13254s | move anymore because a lot of times |
| 13255s | these Shield medium-sized ship hulls |
| 13258s | cannot survive versus even like one to |
| 13261s | two heavy newts since you can't you know |
| 13263s | just chug cat booster 3200s like a |
| 13265s | battleship could |
| 13266s | um so |
| 13268s | can fraternity execute that |
| 13270s | I mean I would have said no two weeks |
| 13272s | ago but now it's like actually yeah they |
| 13274s | probably could I don't think that's the |
| 13276s | I don't think that's the play here but |
| 13278s | tuskers is also really good I mean at |
| 13280s | the end of the day I think anything that |
| 13281s | tuskers brings out they could execute |
| 13283s | extremely well they've been flying |
| 13285s | insanely good like this is like the |
| 13287s | tuskers that people used to be terrified |
| 13289s | of after they won in |
| 13291s | 2016. okay good I didn't say the word I |
| 13294s | was gonna say yeah at14 yes come on I |
| 13297s | wonder if we can throw the bands for |
| 13299s | this match back up on the screen for |
| 13300s | just a second I want to take another |
| 13301s | quick look at them |
| 13304s | okay so this is the the bands for this |
| 13306s | match about to happen |
| 13308s | um we see the Blackbird here but we have |
| 13310s | seen some of these teams have success |
| 13311s | with things like the rook and the Falcon |
| 13313s | uh mystical mate do you think the fact |
| 13315s | that there's a lot of ECM available here |
| 13316s | maybe is something that we'll see |
| 13319s | entirely possible I think that we've |
| 13321s | only really seen the Blackbirds from |
| 13323s | Fraternity in some of their comps when |
| 13325s | they had the flagship Vindicator and the |
| 13327s | Redeemer so I I wouldn't expect too much |
| 13330s | in the way of ECM at the moment yeah |
| 13332s | we'll see certainly there's uh Lots on |
| 13333s | the cell on the table uh those Conquest |
| 13335s | bands you see on the screen on top of |
| 13337s | the Bands we can head over to the arena |
| 13338s | now I'm being told the tuskers are |
| 13340s | bringing their Flagship Armageddon Navy |
| 13342s | issues so they're starting to put like |
| 13344s | they're going to try and win it and go |
| 13346s | to nil so let's head over to the arena |
| 13348s | with Alec and Wagner and see if they can |
| 13349s | do it |
| 13354s | hello and welcome to this match two we |
| 13357s | he we see tusker is trying to counter |
| 13359s | punch against all the uh bands that |
| 13361s | they've been receiving but still |
| 13362s | committing to the Drone setup we've got |
| 13364s | a mermaid on mermanon Navy prophecy |
| 13367s | double Sentinel all headed up by their |
| 13370s | Flagship Armageddon Navy issue |
| 13373s | Wingnut what is fraternity bringing well |
| 13376s | that brought the uh I'd like to Now call |
| 13378s | it the newly turned Giga daddy or just |
| 13380s | max threat comp it's gonna be a lot of |
| 13381s | DPS coming in but the get Navy vld |
| 13384s | Marone the flag good Navy his max Newt |
| 13387s | fit so that's going to be a lot of |
| 13390s | sucking Powers what was the ascensional |
| 13391s | and the cruel Sentinels and crew backing |
| 13393s | it up that's gonna be a lot of uh nuding |
| 13394s | Power on this comp against a lot of |
| 13396s | hybrid and laser guns and not just power |
| 13399s | but also reach the uh what I'm sure are |
| 13402s | extremely expensive neutralizers on this |
| 13405s | Battleship are going to give it an |
| 13407s | incredible range it's gonna be able to |
| 13408s | reach out and snag something hopefully |
| 13410s | allowing the drones to get on top of it |
| 13413s | and break that tank we see tracking |
| 13415s | disrupting going out from tuskers onto |
| 13417s | fraternity absolutely carpeting their |
| 13419s | team as the astarty Absolution Navy |
| 13421s | Britax and both avian execs are |
| 13424s | presumably range disrupted so they |
| 13426s | cannot effectively land damage we're |
| 13429s | seeing the zarmazad be the primary |
| 13430s | target |
| 13431s | briefly enough the zombies that does the |
| 13434s | closest thing to them it just I just |
| 13435s | didn't move fast enough it was actually |
| 13437s | the closest thing to the entire tuskers |
| 13438s | team for a while though he's now gone to |
| 13440s | the middle of his comp and you know he's |
| 13441s | now in the middle of a ball somewhere |
| 13442s | but that was a weird moment there where |
| 13444s | their expensive teacher logic was right |
| 13446s | next to the opponents basically |
| 13448s | yeah quite a Zippy's arm that is a micro |
| 13451s | rope drive his arms out he's going to be |
| 13452s | able to keep range pretty well the |
| 13454s | triglavian Reps we talk about them a lot |
| 13456s | for their scaling repair power but |
| 13458s | what's not often talked about is their |
| 13460s | range they don't have any fall off but |
| 13462s | they have an extremely long optimal |
| 13464s | range it's going to be his best bet to |
| 13466s | try to stay outside of the range of that |
| 13468s | Navy get in |
| 13469s | you're gonna try to bully him here we go |
| 13472s | mjd exact Navy mjd |
| 13475s | they're all going to try an mjd let's |
| 13476s | see where they try and land |
| 13479s | there's not much for them to land on |
| 13481s | that vexer could be in the back line |
| 13483s | there nope just far away I guess is the |
| 13485s | answer getting away from the corner |
| 13487s | anywhere but here |
| 13488s | I honestly I can understand that |
| 13490s | sentiment away from the the uh |
| 13491s | Armageddon Navy as far as you can get |
| 13494s | it's like a few of them took a little |
| 13495s | while to jump but they are they're doing |
| 13497s | it so what the question is what next the |
| 13498s | zomb is someone that's still getting |
| 13500s | absolutely pounded |
| 13502s | yeah the zarosense angle was a bit off |
| 13504s | he's micro jumped far away from his team |
| 13506s | he's now trying to scramble over to the |
| 13509s | other side of the arena with his micro |
| 13510s | warp drive to catch up and you see this |
| 13512s | absolute cloud of tuskers drones try to |
| 13514s | catch up to him now he he was very close |
| 13516s | to another mjd Beacon he could have |
| 13518s | played the old trick where he jumped |
| 13519s | from Beacon to Beacon to Beacon keeping |
| 13521s | these heavy drones just chasing you |
| 13522s | unfortunately he is not deciding to do |
| 13525s | that which that means all the drones |
| 13526s | will catch him soon and start applying a |
| 13528s | lot of painful damage |
| 13530s | it seems to be the tactic though they're |
| 13532s | they're not going to yet another micro |
| 13534s | jump Beacon currently playing keep away |
| 13536s | at some point that zarm is going to have |
| 13537s | to turn to get to it though which is |
| 13540s | when all those Federation hammerheads |
| 13541s | and infiltrators will catch up to him |
| 13543s | and do a pretty sizable amount of damage |
| 13545s | but he may have the danger |
| 13547s | there was a danger when all those drones |
| 13549s | hit it once when you do a turn that you |
| 13550s | can almost get vollied in some ships |
| 13552s | when all the drones are suddenly like |
| 13553s | it's like a old Cavalry Raven they all |
| 13554s | hit it once but he's turning at a rather |
| 13557s | comfortable pace so he's not going to |
| 13558s | have that issue luckily as they are |
| 13560s | lying for the MGD again here they are |
| 13561s | now jump to the other side again trying |
| 13563s | to find the weak side of this team and |
| 13565s | just constantly that's not quite being |
| 13566s | there |
| 13567s | and Jessica's doing a really good job |
| 13569s | keeping their back line away from them |
| 13570s | anticipating these micro jumps and |
| 13572s | repositioning themselves so there's no |
| 13574s | obvious Target for Fraternity to go for |
| 13576s | once they land the zarm has elected not |
| 13579s | to micro jump at this time and he is |
| 13581s | going toward possibly another Beacon or |
| 13584s | just just going around the long way it |
| 13586s | seems uh he is finally in new Range |
| 13588s | though the geta Navy has caught up to |
| 13591s | him he's still going quite fast but if |
| 13593s | that micro workdive turns off he is in |
| 13595s | real trouble |
| 13596s | I suspect he's going the long way |
| 13597s | because if he tried to do mjd he would |
| 13599s | then Bloom his Sig for all these heavy |
| 13600s | drones to hit him at with an absurd |
| 13602s | amount of damage so going the long way |
| 13603s | is probably the safer thing even if it |
| 13605s | involves being wrist by these News man |
| 13607s | that being said look at the um |
| 13609s | the astar day of Remini I think he's |
| 13611s | been stuck and caught down now yeah the |
| 13613s | Australia's been left behind the |
| 13615s | Macaulay Culkin syndrome he's been |
| 13617s | abandoned by the rest of this |
| 13620s | side of the Arena I'm not sure why that |
| 13622s | has started didn't take the jump but he |
| 13624s | is now pinned down he is neuted tracking |
| 13627s | disrupted just being sworn by drones |
| 13629s | here and they have picked their target |
| 13631s | they see blood in the water for this |
| 13632s | astar day it is quite a tanky ship |
| 13635s | though it's still uh pretty high in the |
| 13636s | armor and that zarm is motoring over to |
| 13638s | try to support him and it looks like |
| 13640s | everyone was going in now I've seen a |
| 13641s | bunch of other ships coming into DPS |
| 13642s | range the absolution's doing the same |
| 13644s | thing Olga and navy everything's kind of |
| 13646s | going in now they recognize this is the |
| 13648s | time they have to go in they can't just |
| 13649s | let the estado die so they're all |
| 13651s | sending it they're going for the |
| 13652s | guardian of Jaeger Mortez it's just hard |
| 13654s | as they can he's actually being tackled |
| 13656s | down I Believe by nurgle and a Punisher |
| 13658s | so this is that chance kill the lodgy |
| 13660s | maybe just maybe they can weather the |
| 13662s | storm |
| 13662s | the positioning for this match is all |
| 13665s | over the place now there's no sense of |
| 13666s | battle lines you see the tuskers group |
| 13668s | surrounded and intermixed with the |
| 13671s | fraternity group is they're all trying |
| 13672s | to just get on top of the Target that |
| 13674s | they can Jager mortis's Guardian is in |
| 13676s | half armor the astarte it's now getting |
| 13678s | fully ramped zarm reps and you can see |
| 13681s | it kind of hanging in there but it's |
| 13683s | bouncing perilously close if your |
| 13685s | fraternity you are not comfortable with |
| 13687s | the status of that a star days armor bar |
| 13688s | maybe not this thought of you would |
| 13690s | definitely come through removing the |
| 13691s | logic of this gun and leaving this |
| 13693s | incredibly tanky and very controlling |
| 13694s | comp with that it's long-term support |
| 13696s | the guardian goes down and this data is |
| 13698s | still alive and at this point it starts |
| 13700s | ticking against Huskers now they've got |
| 13701s | no Logic support and they've trouble |
| 13703s | killing these targets |
| 13705s | yeah not looking great the estardate |
| 13707s | does go down but that is a very powerful |
| 13709s | Tech 2 logistic ship on fraternity side |
| 13712s | to no logistic ship from tuskers |
| 13714s | they have no way to bring back any chip |
| 13716s | damage here and the first time's gonna |
| 13718s | be feeling very nervous |
| 13720s | first Target Sentinels very very agreed |
| 13722s | they removed the tracking shop and let |
| 13723s | this can't roam free get rid of the |
| 13725s | neuting power and this this will start |
| 13728s | falling apart very quickly they're going |
| 13729s | to go for the Zam or start removing DPS |
| 13730s | ASAP you see they're going for an exact |
| 13732s | Navy and there's arm at the same time |
| 13733s | this is this is going to start swinging |
| 13735s | bad |
| 13735s | yeah they're going to lose both their |
| 13737s | Sentinels here they're absolutely sworn |
| 13739s | by light drones there's no chance that |
| 13740s | they're going to be able to tank that |
| 13741s | without logistic support they may get |
| 13743s | this execute Navy back in trade but it's |
| 13746s | going to get slower and slower for |
| 13748s | tuskers here as their DPS and Newton |
| 13750s | power begins to dwindle and that zarm |
| 13752s | he's getting a little bit of pressure |
| 13754s | from the get a Navy but crucially he's |
| 13757s | still putting reps out |
| 13759s | yeah every once in a while he comes in |
| 13760s | tries to rep unfortunately this song |
| 13761s | could not be able to do what zoms do |
| 13763s | best which is ramp up their reps the |
| 13764s | nukes will not allow that but he can |
| 13765s | still buy a time as one of his |
| 13767s | Executives does go down but the com for |
| 13769s | Tusk is again starting to fall apart |
| 13771s | crew being damaged if x are being |
| 13772s | damaged slowly but surely the control is |
| 13774s | falling away |
| 13776s | it's all about the timing for this |
| 13777s | Armageddon Navy's newts if he can cycle |
| 13779s | them correctly he can take this arm out |
| 13781s | of the equation here now you see Jason |
| 13783s | orzran in the vexer trying to prove just |
| 13785s | how tight and girthy he is chasing down |
| 13788s | the tsarmazat all by himself as his arm |
| 13791s | has positioned itself on a micro jump |
| 13792s | Beacon think it's a maximum Escape |
| 13794s | ability and look at that he's jumping |
| 13797s | from one Beacon to the next this time I |
| 13798s | wonder if he's gonna land directly on it |
| 13799s | or too far |
| 13801s | no he gets pretty close to it actually |
| 13803s | almost perfectly lined up for it to be |
| 13804s | honest |
| 13805s | but exactly maybe going down I was |
| 13807s | honestly thinking tuscal's in a bad spot |
| 13808s | but honestly they're still killing dps's |
| 13809s | this arm is now too far away to really |
| 13811s | do anything at this point as much as you |
| 13813s | want to play it safe and protect his arm |
| 13815s | it needs to be there now it needs to be |
| 13816s | able to provide to support your DPS core |
| 13818s | needs to keep this right race going your |
| 13820s | way |
| 13821s | yeah and fraternity seem to primary the |
| 13824s | flat the flagship of the geta Navy it is |
| 13826s | of course going to have pretty expensive |
| 13828s | blingy reps on it meanwhile they're |
| 13830s | bleeding more and more of their DPS I |
| 13832s | don't know if this is a case if they're |
| 13833s | afraid they might not be able to take it |
| 13835s | down if they lost more ship so they put |
| 13837s | it first but they were going to pay for |
| 13839s | it here as those mermaidons are still |
| 13840s | alive spitting out massive drone damage |
| 13843s | onto the British Navy issue of |
| 13845s | alternative love and you can see it |
| 13847s | going down into half armor here it's |
| 13849s | getting zarm reps but that is a tech one |
| 13851s | ship not the tankiest doesn't have |
| 13853s | terribly High resist and you can see the |
| 13856s | massive drone damage from tuskers |
| 13857s | beginning to grind through it |
| 13859s | and no notes on this arm anymore he's |
| 13861s | basically left free he's trying to get |
| 13863s | keep that Brutus maybe alive as long as |
| 13865s | he can but that again Navy is just |
| 13866s | really tanky they might have the damage |
| 13868s | do see more as the Bruce Knight is going |
| 13870s | into Hull he's starting to lose this |
| 13872s | this could still go Tusk his way |
| 13874s | and Sauron probably has a little room to |
| 13876s | ramp but he's still bleeding structure |
| 13878s | he's gonna go down very slowly |
| 13880s | unfortunately the get-in is going down |
| 13882s | even slower |
| 13884s | I'm not a big fan of going for the |
| 13886s | blingers and tankiest ship on grid here |
| 13887s | like you got murmidon vexer even got the |
| 13890s | crucify still providing an annoying |
| 13891s | amount of support they're going to lose |
| 13893s | the last like big chunk of DPS except |
| 13894s | for the episode and the org this oh no |
| 13898s | that's just not good for frat |
| 13900s | as a big chunk of damage to the British |
| 13902s | Navy it's a damage dealer it's a big |
| 13904s | time damage dealer there's still blazing |
| 13906s | through this prophecy of JJ yakin again |
| 13909s | no Logistics on the side of tuskers no |
| 13910s | way to bring these hit points back |
| 13912s | fraternity does have this arm and it's |
| 13915s | now applying its reps to that mallard |
| 13917s | you can see it pulling back huge amounts |
| 13918s | of the Mueller's armor bar but that |
| 13920s | might be a DPS smaller not a tank Mauler |
| 13922s | he is going down quite rapidly |
| 13926s | yeah quick little note as well on the |
| 13927s | side while I've been watching this the |
| 13929s | Zam actually actually the summit sorry |
| 13931s | went over to a cruiser Hull and picked |
| 13933s | up some catfish I believe so he was |
| 13935s | definitely struggling on cap this entire |
| 13936s | match so he's going to go to Cabbage to |
| 13938s | try to get back in but I think it might |
| 13940s | have been too late the property goes |
| 13942s | down in seconds what in the world |
| 13944s | yeah that that profit went down real |
| 13946s | fast uh I think these teams are leaning |
| 13948s | into damage and that's why you're seeing |
| 13949s | ships just go so quick uh they each have |
| 13953s | damage mods in their lows instead of |
| 13955s | tank mods so these match is going very |
| 13957s | quickly brawling back and forth the |
| 13959s | auger Navy which is one of the tankier |
| 13961s | Navy Cruisers in existence is going down |
| 13964s | really rapidly almost as fast as this |
| 13965s | vexer here the damage output from these |
| 13968s | teams and the fitting choices to be |
| 13970s | super aggressive here really coming to |
| 13972s | the Forefront this is going to be a good |
| 13974s | trade for Fraternity though I would that |
| 13976s | would take a vexer over an Old Navy in |
| 13978s | this scenario and you can actually see |
| 13979s | the odd Navy beginning to recover a |
| 13980s | little bit that zarm has found some cap |
| 13982s | boosters and he's applying his reps once |
| 13985s | again he is getting a little bit of new |
| 13987s | no not even new pressure anymore the get |
| 13990s | a Navy is out of range and it's actually |
| 13991s | flying away from his arm oh the matches |
| 13994s | ended there I was so excited about this |
| 13996s | I didn't realize the timer just ran out |
| 13998s | the match is over that is just crazy I |
| 14001s | think Tuscan came ahead with that one |
| 14003s | what in the world go back to the studio |
| 14005s | please that was crazy |
| 14025s | thank you |
| 14032s | Planet are you ready yeah see somebody's |
| 14035s | house on the way what do you think it |
| 14038s | would feel like if a ship worked through |
| 14040s | your house I might have some weird |
| 14042s | effect like imagine |
| 14044s | sneezing like they get explosive |
| 14046s | diarrhea or something like that |
| 14048s | I like the sneezing more |
| 14051s | if he's out of your ass |
| 14054s | guys |
| 14057s | you started with the all right you know |
| 14062s | what jump this never happened let's move |
| 14064s | on |
| 14064s | he's our secondary Target this is me |
| 14066s | broadcasted of course |
| 14073s | I want bubbles all over this midnight |
| 14077s | do it now |
| 14096s | the tusker is called there winning on |
| 14098s | points just barely over fraternity to |
| 14101s | take it to two nil on the series The |
| 14103s | tusker is now with that Championship |
| 14105s | point in hand they win their next match |
| 14107s | they are Alliance tournament 19 |
| 14110s | Champions fraternity now in a deep poll |
| 14112s | they have to climb out of importantly |
| 14115s | though that's kind of what we predicted |
| 14117s | tuskers might actually bring we were |
| 14119s | saying hey Navy remember don't have a |
| 14120s | weakeish drone comp they brought it they |
| 14123s | augmented it with that Flagship Navy |
| 14125s | Armageddon moderator joins us on the |
| 14127s | desk mod talked me through that match |
| 14128s | went for those teams |
| 14129s | yeah it seems like this arm had a great |
| 14132s | deal of difficulty initially having to |
| 14136s | reposition itself after micro jump |
| 14138s | driving we did see some active tank |
| 14140s | there uh and that was just a lot of |
| 14142s | teams really understanding how to use |
| 14144s | the beacon uh that's one of the reasons |
| 14147s | that drone setups are as viable as they |
| 14150s | are the slate in the tournament is |
| 14151s | because if you don't have a scram to |
| 14154s | deal with that these drone ships can |
| 14155s | just bounce and bounce around in between |
| 14157s | and if they have the Drone link |
| 14159s | augmenters you can control drones for |
| 14161s | essentially the entirety of the Arena's |
| 14164s | radius and then |
| 14166s | they're able to apply damage to you |
| 14168s | maybe less than some of the other comps |
| 14170s | we've seen like Max threat but |
| 14172s | um |
| 14173s | this is what we see out of these teams |
| 14175s | that are you know in Grand finalist |
| 14177s | calibers they're able to be perfect with |
| 14180s | their positioning and able to execute |
| 14183s | yeah I think uh Fraternity in that match |
| 14185s | really pushed tuskers it was not a clean |
| 14187s | win for them not an easy win we saw that |
| 14189s | Guardian going down early on and then |
| 14191s | fraternity I think made the right call |
| 14193s | to swap onto those two Sentinels which |
| 14195s | got themselves caught Sentinel super |
| 14196s | important ship we saw all the tracking |
| 14198s | disruption come out so tuscaras probably |
| 14201s | likely guessing correctly that you know |
| 14204s | medium gun span was coming and fitting |
| 14205s | full tracking disruption and let's see |
| 14207s | if we can take a look at the Sentinels |
| 14208s | uh ship profile and usage across the |
| 14211s | tournaments I think it should be ready |
| 14213s | imminently here we are so the Sentinel |
| 14216s | electronic attack frigid and you can see |
| 14218s | the usage in tournaments it dropped off |
| 14219s | a while back but it has been on the rise |
| 14221s | pretty much ever since it's always going |
| 14224s | to be a priority Target if you're if |
| 14226s | your opponent's field one but because of |
| 14228s | its small size it's speed and it's able |
| 14231s | to get away and try and survive as long |
| 14233s | as possible so somehow these ones got uh |
| 14235s | caught by fraternity they both got |
| 14237s | removed and at that point we started to |
| 14239s | think hey the the medium gun spam here |
| 14241s | from fraternity might start to really |
| 14243s | make a difference but that black pirate |
| 14246s | is where I think they made a mistake |
| 14248s | they went for the flagship Navy |
| 14250s | Armageddon of the tuskers rather than |
| 14253s | for example the prophecy |
| 14255s | um and you saw they tried to shoot it |
| 14256s | for a long time it's an incredibly tanky |
| 14258s | ship in its own right it's likely |
| 14260s | extremely expensive in terms of its tank |
| 14262s | mod has looked like it had a local tank |
| 14265s | as well |
| 14267s | was that maybe the the moment that went |
| 14269s | wrong I think it was in the in Wingnut |
| 14271s | called it out too during the match where |
| 14272s | he you know sets under the effect of |
| 14274s | like yeah maybe you shouldn't have spent |
| 14275s | uh two minutes shooting the most blingy |
| 14277s | tanky ship on the field |
| 14280s | um I I want to say that I think |
| 14283s | fraternity got greedy I think they were |
| 14286s | like okay we're kind of up we have a lot |
| 14288s | of DPS ships live we still got our lodgy |
| 14291s | ship |
| 14293s | let's go for this flag again uh we think |
| 14295s | we can break it still and the problem is |
| 14297s | is that you |
| 14300s | can never really tell if something's |
| 14301s | going to break or not until you actually |
| 14303s | shoot it obviously but because they're |
| 14306s | running these like drone setups and |
| 14307s | instead of like we've like a drone full |
| 14309s | Navy getting as opposed to we've seen a |
| 14311s | lot of like ones where they're trying to |
| 14312s | be heavy DPS ships the low slots on that |
| 14314s | conceivably which because we don't know |
| 14316s | it hasn't died yet it could be full tank |
| 14317s | uh with like an officer you know the |
| 14320s | highest tier officer self rep uh it |
| 14323s | could have the highest tier officer |
| 14324s | damage control uh for all we know the |
| 14326s | mid slots are like lots of cap boosters |
| 14328s | so can literally just permanently run |
| 14329s | that thing uh since they hadn't shot it |
| 14331s | yet it probably had all of its heat |
| 14332s | still it is possible |
| 14335s | that it wasn't necessarily fraternity |
| 14337s | saying hey |
| 14338s | let's go for the flagship kill like we |
| 14340s | got this guys let's get that blingy kill |
| 14342s | uh that Newt getting was just destroying |
| 14345s | the zarmsad there's a couple times you'd |
| 14348s | see it being nuded like 40 or 50 |
| 14349s | kilometers away and it's because officer |
| 14352s | newts are very very powerful uh part of |
| 14354s | the reason why the new getting lived so |
| 14356s | long is because it was able to uh |
| 14358s | there's like this point when it started |
| 14360s | taking damage and you watched all the |
| 14361s | notes like swap onto like the Absolution |
| 14362s | and the remaining DPS ships um one of |
| 14365s | the weaknesses of the nav solution is |
| 14366s | that once you cap it out it's you know |
| 14368s | they're a laser boat without a cap a |
| 14370s | laser cap usage reduction they cap out |
| 14372s | really easily they do a ton of damage |
| 14374s | and then it was doing no damage so I I'm |
| 14377s | kind of like around on the sport it's |
| 14378s | like do I want to say fraternity was |
| 14379s | greedy or were they like this is the |
| 14381s | only way we can win this I'm not sure |
| 14383s | but what happened was they didn't kill |
| 14384s | it and they lost yeah we saw some |
| 14387s | excellent piloting by the Zara Mass |
| 14388s | pilot to be honest from fraternity uh as |
| 14391s | you mentioned those likely officer and |
| 14393s | neutralizers from the Navy arm again |
| 14395s | slapped onto the new the Reps dropped |
| 14398s | off on his buddies but then he managed |
| 14399s | to extract himself get away uh you know |
| 14402s | get his cap back up and then you saw him |
| 14404s | propping back into range and started the |
| 14405s | Reps again at that point it was it |
| 14407s | looked like they were really starting to |
| 14409s | hold on maybe they were going to drag it |
| 14411s | out especially when they started |
| 14412s | catching a couple more ships but then |
| 14414s | you know as we just said they maybe |
| 14415s | expect just if they didn't spend that |
| 14417s | two minutes and swapped onto their |
| 14418s | prophecy earlier the prophecy dies and |
| 14420s | then they can start going through other |
| 14421s | ships and maybe they don't lose that |
| 14422s | maybe Britax yeah and it's really easy |
| 14424s | for us to say this in hindsight right |
| 14426s | like we're sitting here you know we're |
| 14427s | sitting here like |
| 14429s | oh look at that like look at all this |
| 14430s | cool stuff that's going on and we can |
| 14432s | say like well you know if you had just |
| 14434s | swapped ah you swapped and look how much |
| 14435s | faster it's it's getting killed but in |
| 14437s | the moment things are going crazy and |
| 14439s | that zarmside pilot did insane I've |
| 14441s | actually um we were kind of talking |
| 14442s | about so he or she MJ deed their ship |
| 14447s | back into position to get away from |
| 14450s | thing like the mjd usage in this entire |
| 14452s | term has been absolutely insane but like |
| 14454s | watching the logistics kind of fly out |
| 14455s | and be like I'm out of range I'm right |
| 14457s | next to Beacon so I'll just bounce to |
| 14458s | the opposite side of the Arena so I'm |
| 14460s | still out of range but now in the right |
| 14462s | spot was crazy like it almost worked too |
| 14463s | I think if it would have been maybe |
| 14464s | again not saying that because I'm dead |
| 14467s | was the wrong choice I think that if it |
| 14469s | had been a guardian maybe not having to |
| 14471s | spool up it could have saved it but also |
| 14472s | those ships probably would have died |
| 14473s | without his arms at so it was just a |
| 14475s | wild match like that's that's one to go |
| 14477s | re-watch yeah of course this means |
| 14478s | because uh tuscaras are now to nail up |
| 14480s | they have a number of extra Conquest |
| 14483s | bands uh going into this third match in |
| 14485s | the series so this could make it a bit |
| 14487s | more interesting for this next match the |
| 14489s | tuskers here we can see all the ships |
| 14490s | banned out now for them and them alone |
| 14497s | uh the crew the murmidon Navy issue the |
| 14500s | guardian the vexer the prophecy the |
| 14502s | murmidon the crucifier the Armageddon |
| 14504s | Aviation although they can bypass that |
| 14506s | with a flagship and the center to know I |
| 14509s | think uh moderator we might be safer now |
| 14511s | to say that tuskers can't bring drones |
| 14513s | anymore what do you think I think it's |
| 14515s | safe to say when basically every single |
| 14518s | viable ship in the game with a drone |
| 14520s | bonus is you know essentially on that |
| 14523s | list of nearly 20 ships that you're |
| 14526s | probably not going to be able to do it |
| 14527s | and then of course you have to contend |
| 14528s | with the fact that you're about to deal |
| 14530s | with eight more bands on top of it and |
| 14532s | then trickles |
| 14533s | um that's kind of almost a catch-up for |
| 14535s | Fraternity who's only going to have to |
| 14537s | deal with their own bands and not this |
| 14539s | wall of bands that toughkers is going to |
| 14541s | have to try to work around I think |
| 14543s | having their Flagship Armageddon Navy |
| 14545s | issue still in their back pocket as well |
| 14547s | frat have their Flagship Vindicator it |
| 14549s | really could go either way this last one |
| 14551s | but frat needs a win now this is the |
| 14553s | point where tuskers have it in hand one |
| 14557s | 10-minute match and they are the |
| 14559s | champions uh fraternity have to win |
| 14561s | three on the Trot now with their |
| 14563s | Conquest bands stacking up as well so |
| 14565s | it's going to be you know I think |
| 14567s | they're going to have to go for it |
| 14567s | before they have to go for it should we |
| 14569s | see zealous going for it as he eats some |
| 14573s | spicy chicken |
| 14576s | um well I can give it a solid six at the |
| 14579s | moment yeah we're just slightly slightly |
| 14581s | above okay but not over |
| 14583s | all right it's pretty good |
| 14585s | um okay so my name is CSP zealous |
| 14588s | I'm a community developerative online |
| 14591s | team |
| 14599s | confidence level after the last one I |
| 14602s | feel pretty confident let's get going |
| 14606s | so I started off uh actually migrating |
| 14609s | across from another game that was super |
| 14610s | popular at a time called Earth and |
| 14612s | Beyond |
| 14613s | uh there was a bunch of us playing it |
| 14615s | and then unfortunately as these things |
| 14618s | go the server was going to be closed |
| 14620s | down had a lot of us kind of migrated |
| 14621s | over from Earth and Beyond over to Eve |
| 14624s | online |
| 14630s | I'm feeling |
| 14632s | it |
| 14635s | my confidence rating now after that last |
| 14637s | one that was kind of Dipping a little |
| 14639s | bit I'm now like feeling more like a |
| 14640s | four after that last one but uh yeah |
| 14643s | let's give this a go we do the old split |
| 14647s | I've been super happy |
| 14651s | um about the the fact that I've been |
| 14653s | able to keep the uh Alliance tournament |
| 14655s | alive and going you're on yam |
| 14657s | so far for the last few years |
| 14660s | being able to keep that successful |
| 14662s | everybody have a great time hearing the |
| 14664s | Fantastic feedback from it each time |
| 14666s | really really one of my proudest |
| 14668s | achievements over at CCP the team's been |
| 14671s | fantastic for helping out |
| 14672s | Hmm this is gorgeous |
| 14675s | um |
| 14676s | so honestly |
| 14678s | proudest thing is the fact that it's |
| 14679s | still going today and everybody is |
| 14680s | enjoying it |
| 14682s | oh boy look at this thing this is this |
| 14686s | is coded in it look it's dripping off |
| 14688s | onto the bowl I think |
| 14696s | uh currently working on a couple of bits |
| 14698s | for Panthers |
| 14700s | next up is also expansion towards the |
| 14703s | end of the year as well |
| 14704s | it's another project I'm working on |
| 14707s | we've just recently announced the anger |
| 14709s | game six is also going to be happening |
| 14720s | so working on um helping out |
| 14724s | south Brazil with uh |
| 14727s | we're making sure that happens as well |
| 14730s | he's gonna be my next big project |
| 14739s | I feel like I need to finish it up |
| 14741s | principle in this book |
| 14744s | um wow that's a very very good question |
| 14749s | that's a very |
| 14751s | big question that you're gonna have to |
| 14752s | find out later on I think there's uh |
| 14755s | when we announced the rebirth the |
| 14758s | audience tournament |
| 14761s | uh |
| 14762s | uh we said that we were going to reuse |
| 14764s | some of the ships and we're going to |
| 14765s | reuse some of the previous sponsors |
| 14766s | doesn't mean we're always going to do |
| 14768s | that |
| 14769s | so uh I think uh wait and see wait and |
| 14774s | see it's gonna be the answer to that one |
| 14775s | but there's a big range of possibilities |
| 14776s | for sure |
| 14783s | oh boy |
| 14788s | be confident no |
| 14797s | thank you |
| 14804s | my name is Sam |
| 14806s | my name is Nash cadaver I have |
| 14823s | I fly with um I fly with the bastards |
| 14827s | and currently also with um |
| 14838s | all right |
| 14841s | starting even t with uh RJ and uh |
| 14855s | doing the alliance tournament with you |
| 14858s | guys is uh always be fun |
| 14868s | was there showing Nash could ever have |
| 14870s | it's done with the spicy wings all right |
| 14873s | speaking of spicy we've got about three |
| 14875s | or four minutes until match three in |
| 14877s | this best of five grand finals between |
| 14879s | the tuscaros call and fraternity tusker |
| 14881s | is currently to nil up they could win it |
| 14884s | right here right now let's see what they |
| 14885s | choose to ban in this particular match |
| 14888s | all right tusker is classic bands from |
| 14891s | them arbitrator Pilgrim curse and |
| 14894s | Sentinel fraternity scalpel Scimitar |
| 14897s | Osprey Vargas moderator your thoughts |
| 14900s | yeah so uh tuskers has gotten a lot of |
| 14904s | their |
| 14905s | um armor ships banned out via Trickle |
| 14907s | and so fraternity saying so what if we |
| 14910s | also tried to hit you on the shield side |
| 14912s | that's why we see scalpel double scalpel |
| 14914s | would be kind of the way you attend |
| 14916s | their Scimitar typically preferred over |
| 14918s | basilisk |
| 14920s | um sorry uh to the basilis but Scimitar |
| 14923s | is just generally better due to the kind |
| 14925s | of the mobility it has it's harder to |
| 14927s | pin down and uh Osprey has been a band |
| 14930s | we've seen a fair amount of uh bargast |
| 14932s | also hits at this kind of more |
| 14936s | mid-range kind of |
| 14938s | ship that can project and have a lot of |
| 14940s | threats from the newts band we've seen |
| 14942s | basically the entire tournament for good |
| 14944s | reason |
| 14945s | but what do you think are we going to |
| 14947s | see the Tasker forced into a shield comp |
| 14949s | here I mean there's still some things |
| 14951s | available to them I believe the zarmas |
| 14953s | is actually available to them for |
| 14955s | example uh I think I think tuskers has |
| 14958s | really two choices here so |
| 14960s | um earlier today they brought this kind |
| 14962s | of strange scorpion Navy setup uh with |
| 14964s | cruise missile scorpion navies which |
| 14966s | would actually be really really good |
| 14967s | with you not having the ability to bring |
| 14970s | Arbitrage pilgrims curses or Sentinels |
| 14972s | um in theory obviously it's kind of |
| 14975s | weird and I feel like it maybe almost |
| 14976s | shouldn't have won but it did so that is |
| 14979s | still open none of the ships that were |
| 14980s | required for that setup are banned |
| 14982s | whatsoever now if that's the case |
| 14986s | fraternity might be setting this up so |
| 14988s | that they could maybe do some |
| 14989s | Shenanigans maybe they're hoping that |
| 14991s | they bring that and they have a plan |
| 14991s | against it I also noticed that the |
| 14994s | Blackbirds are open which means |
| 14996s | fraternity who have been using |
| 14997s | blackbirds a lot might be able to bring |
| 14999s | their like their final Apex you know |
| 15002s | their final form comp but we'll uh we'll |
| 15004s | see uh yeah I'm being told uh fraternity |
| 15008s | have brought their Flagship Vindicator |
| 15010s | in this matchup I'm just taking a quick |
| 15011s | look at twitch 3.2 million Channel |
| 15014s | points on uh the tuskers 1.5 million on |
| 15018s | fraternity someone's going to lose a lot |
| 15020s | of points uh in just over uh two minutes |
| 15022s | when the match starts |
| 15024s | um moderates you like you had one or two |
| 15026s | little comments as well on those bands |
| 15027s | yeah it seems like there is still kind |
| 15030s | of this outside threat of maybe like a |
| 15032s | pseudo Tinker possibly still available |
| 15035s | or reason that you would possibly want |
| 15036s | to ban out a light of guidance |
| 15038s | disruption that would keep that open |
| 15040s | um not something we see a lot of but |
| 15042s | like on the final match of a tournament |
| 15044s | it's something you could definitely hit |
| 15045s | with a curveball yeah of course the |
| 15048s | flagship Vindicator is going to make it |
| 15049s | really hard to screen things if the |
| 15051s | tuskers are choosing to go down the |
| 15053s | route of kiting uh famously anything |
| 15055s | that tries to screen off a flagship |
| 15058s | Vindicator is inevitably killed by said |
| 15061s | Flagship Vindicator thanks to those |
| 15062s | bonus webs and a high DPS it just slows |
| 15064s | them right down blap and then on it |
| 15066s | moves so anything that's going to slow |
| 15068s | that down it's just going to be a speed |
| 15069s | bump on the way to wherever that |
| 15071s | Vindicator desires most to be |
| 15074s | um so we can head over to the arena |
| 15075s | right now to see that Flagship Bender |
| 15076s | because to see can the tuskers go 3-0 |
| 15079s | and win Alliance tournament 19 can |
| 15081s | fraternity pull it back right now and |
| 15084s | take it to the next match let's head to |
| 15086s | our casters Alec and Wingnut |
| 15092s | welcome back to the arena guys and it is |
| 15095s | I think perhaps decided we are done |
| 15097s | playing around we are bringing the |
| 15099s | Vindicator they're bringing a bargain to |
| 15101s | go with it which something we don't see |
| 15102s | particularly often this year and tuskers |
| 15104s | decided you know what we're just going |
| 15106s | to bring uh Giga daddy again and we're |
| 15107s | just not going to stop all the DPS in |
| 15109s | the world Alec what are you thinking |
| 15110s | about this |
| 15111s | a fairly traditional comp from the |
| 15114s | tuskers we've seen this successful in |
| 15116s | many many tournament matches this year |
| 15118s | they're going with something they feel |
| 15120s | they have practice with a ton they've |
| 15122s | seen how it works they know what to do |
| 15124s | they're not taking any risks here |
| 15126s | meanwhile I say fraternity taking a ton |
| 15128s | of risk bring this Vindicator and a gun |
| 15130s | valgorn a pair of blackbirds sort of |
| 15132s | putting everything in the basket of this |
| 15134s | Vindicator and the RN Jesus blackbirds |
| 15137s | to carry this match and here we go |
| 15140s | and tuscas have played the conquest band |
| 15142s | so well a cop like this is still viable |
| 15145s | for them after all of the Bands they can |
| 15148s | still bring a incredibly dangerous Giga |
| 15151s | daddy com going for the Blackbirds first |
| 15152s | because of course you always got to go |
| 15154s | for blackbirds first |
| 15155s | yep absolutely |
| 15157s | call here |
| 15158s | damage spread out all over the place it |
| 15160s | looks like the auger is going to be the |
| 15162s | primary target for Fraternity meanwhile |
| 15165s | the Blackbirds finding themselves very |
| 15166s | elusive here they are burning away |
| 15168s | drones have just caught up with them but |
| 15170s | you're seeing them tank not too bad here |
| 15172s | this Guardian for Fraternity is gonna be |
| 15174s | doing a lot of work here to try to keep |
| 15176s | their low end and the Blackbirds alive |
| 15178s | against this multiple damage Source |
| 15181s | setup from tuskers |
| 15183s | a lot of ships at the same time |
| 15186s | I'm just so many things to tackle The |
| 15187s | Vindicator is on an exec Navy the bulg |
| 15190s | one I believe was actually webbing out |
| 15191s | someone else uh confesses got the |
| 15193s | Absolution this is a brawl now this is |
| 15196s | absolute cows if indicator is gonna be |
| 15198s | ripping apart Katarina in the exact Navy |
| 15200s | this is going crazy this is my favorite |
| 15202s | kind of match |
| 15204s | yeah this is looking great for them |
| 15206s | right now but once that extra Navy goes |
| 15209s | down which it looks like it definitely |
| 15210s | will but the rest of the tuskers team |
| 15213s | has left the Vindicator behind they have |
| 15215s | absolutely stormed across the field and |
| 15217s | dove into the back line they're trying |
| 15219s | to get on top of these blackbirds and |
| 15220s | they've done so successfully for one of |
| 15222s | them the vindi will have a ways to go to |
| 15224s | catch up with the next viable Target |
| 15226s | here |
| 15228s | just keep on there a few ships as well |
| 15230s | and some ships have been left alone some |
| 15231s | trips have been absolutely a primary the |
| 15233s | Confessor of flack inquisite I believe |
| 15234s | is currently shooting the crucifier and |
| 15236s | Carries himself he actually has been |
| 15238s | tackled down by the carry so yeah he's |
| 15239s | definitely annoying that carries but |
| 15241s | it's just this is incredible man DPS as |
| 15243s | the vidicade has been let free basically |
| 15244s | yeah the the execure Navy issue has |
| 15247s | basically sacrificed itself to The |
| 15249s | Vindicator to draw it away from the rest |
| 15251s | of its team pulling it very far to the |
| 15254s | other side of the Arena here the |
| 15255s | Absolution tackled down by the Confessor |
| 15257s | probably the next Target as it's fairly |
| 15259s | close to it actually looking at the |
| 15261s | position in the battlefield meanwhile |
| 15263s | the guardian is going to probably go |
| 15265s | down here for for uh tuskers excuse me |
| 15268s | for Fraternity it's at half armor here |
| 15270s | the tuskers team very on top of it at |
| 15273s | the moment |
| 15274s | I also love the gun the gun barrel going |
| 15276s | with this Vindicator he provides a lot |
| 15278s | of control and notes to really hold down |
| 15279s | multiple targets where The Vindicator |
| 15280s | gets to something the ball going ignores |
| 15282s | it goes for the next thing you see the |
| 15283s | balcon actually has the uh prophecy Navy |
| 15286s | completely locked down meanwhile the uh |
| 15287s | the Absolution has been locked down by a |
| 15290s | Confessor so many ships are ready |
| 15291s | basically in position that have |
| 15293s | Vindicated a kill meanwhile in the back |
| 15295s | end copacia and the guardi is being |
| 15297s | absolutely pounded upon as well so this |
| 15299s | is just an incredible race |
| 15301s | The Vindicator has bypassed the |
| 15303s | Absolution he's now charging toward the |
| 15305s | brutics Navy issue of JJ yakin and that |
| 15308s | British Navy is tackling down the |
| 15310s | harbinger |
| 15311s | uh excuse me no nevermind sorry sorry |
| 15313s | the harbinger is on the tuscus team |
| 15316s | it'll probably be next it's scarily |
| 15318s | close actually The Vindicator definitely |
| 15321s | going for the Britax Navy the guardian |
| 15323s | goes down that is pretty massive here |
| 15325s | the British Navy of JJ yaka likely to be |
| 15327s | in trade but now this Blackbird has no |
| 15329s | way to pull its hit points back this |
| 15331s | could be the snowballing effect tuskers |
| 15333s | has been looking for |
| 15334s | I think it's definitely a race at this |
| 15336s | point they're trying to kill off as much |
| 15337s | damage as they can before these |
| 15338s | blackbirds go down if the bridge maybe |
| 15339s | goes and the harp Navy absolutions stay |
| 15341s | neutered out this Vindicator basically |
| 15343s | has free reign to murder as much of this |
| 15345s | comp as he wants this is a vindicator's |
| 15347s | like favorite environment murdering |
| 15349s | everything |
| 15350s | it's this is crazy |
| 15353s | it has a wild wild fight this Confessor |
| 15356s | from fraternity holding down their auger |
| 15359s | he's in deep armor but currently not |
| 15361s | under a lot of threat uh he's doing what |
| 15363s | he can to neutralize Logistics from |
| 15365s | Texas which is going to be key now that |
| 15367s | the fraternity Guardian is down |
| 15371s | if he goes down they can still dip out |
| 15373s | the um the lodgy with the carries but |
| 15375s | after that they're pretty much running |
| 15376s | out of tools in the shed all they've got |
| 15378s | is DPS and tank |
| 15380s | and they got a lot of DPS |
| 15382s | Absolution has |
| 15387s | killed he has look comparison close to |
| 15388s | the Vintage |
| 15390s | vending across toward him very close |
| 15391s | right now |
| 15396s | oh my vinegar gets on the org dies in |
| 15399s | seconds this is how the world is meant |
| 15401s | to be the Vindication is running around |
| 15403s | killing everything this is the T-Rex |
| 15406s | running around in the uh |
| 15408s | this is a bloody matching team we've got |
| 15410s | the Blackbird down it's in trade for the |
| 15412s | tuskers auger tusker is now sitting six |
| 15415s | Pilots to four a lot of their damage |
| 15417s | still alive but the core of the |
| 15419s | fraternity team is The Vindicator in the |
| 15421s | balgorn even if they lose the entire |
| 15422s | rest of their team that is a force to be |
| 15425s | reckoned with and tuscares will have to |
| 15426s | reckon with it as we hit the halfway |
| 15428s | mark in this match |
| 15429s | quick knows what the bargain is newting |
| 15431s | out the prophecy Navy's trying to pull |
| 15433s | away meanwhile they're actually engaging |
| 15434s | the harb Navy instead so this Belgian is |
| 15437s | playing playing double duty here trying |
| 15438s | to control multiple targets for his |
| 15440s | Vindicator this is I I love this is when |
| 15443s | the gun bar is used correctly and this |
| 15445s | is exactly how you use it it is a beast |
| 15447s | when used right the fraternity team has |
| 15449s | to play ahead like this they can't |
| 15451s | afford to have both The Vindicator and |
| 15453s | the Battleground paired up together on |
| 15454s | the same Target for too long and allow |
| 15456s | the rest of the tuskers team to spread |
| 15458s | out this Battleground has to act as sort |
| 15461s | of a forward Scout to pin down a target |
| 15464s | for The Vindicator to get on top of and |
| 15466s | put the absolute final nail in the |
| 15469s | coffin on it but the Vindicator itself |
| 15471s | can get catered out the background needs |
| 15473s | to help his teammate here and line up |
| 15476s | The Kills |
| 15477s | exactly he's playing multiple roles here |
| 15479s | controlling one ship neuting out another |
| 15481s | shooting the Target The Vindicator |
| 15482s | shooting to really get it to die quickly |
| 15484s | this is a perfect pairing meanwhile look |
| 15486s | at the tusker ships they have scattered |
| 15488s | to the four wins Absolution is at Max of |
| 15490s | maximum distance you can get away from |
| 15491s | uh the Confessor at the moment is also |
| 15493s | at the distance as well everyone is |
| 15495s | staying as far away from the vindicating |
| 15497s | and uh bubblegum as they can get while |
| 15500s | still applying damage |
| 15501s | it's not far enough The Vindicator is |
| 15503s | now on top of the Absolution and you can |
| 15506s | see its armor bar evaporating under the |
| 15508s | fire of these blasters The Vindicator |
| 15510s | itself taking a substantial amount of |
| 15512s | damage that is a flag of Indy it is |
| 15515s | going to have reps and it's pulling back |
| 15517s | some of its armor here this Absolution |
| 15519s | is very much going to go down here and |
| 15521s | like we've said they've already have |
| 15523s | another Target lined up that prophecy |
| 15525s | Navy issue is nuded dry it's dead in the |
| 15528s | water waiting for that Vindicator to |
| 15529s | come devour it |
| 15531s | the Frat was staring down the barrel of |
| 15533s | the 3-0 loss to tuskers here but the |
| 15536s | Vindicator pulling off the upset as now |
| 15538s | they have pushed back with their flag |
| 15540s | thinking about them controlling the |
| 15541s | arena fighting this fight from scratch |
| 15543s | and just destroying all these DPS ships |
| 15546s | so many laser boats and this is why |
| 15548s | lasers suck because you know newts exist |
| 15551s | oh no disaster the ark Navy Jason |
| 15554s | Horizon |
| 15555s | not using his reach Advantage he's been |
| 15558s | tackled down |
| 15559s | range |
| 15562s | they're going for close range DPS I |
| 15564s | believe they think they're going to try |
| 15565s | and kill it as quickly as I can you see |
| 15566s | the confessor's actually in sharp |
| 15567s | shooter firing close range ammo trying |
| 15569s | to rip through this guy as fast as I can |
| 15570s | the Old Navy doing the same thing |
| 15572s | they're going to try and kill this flag |
| 15574s | vendy as fast as they can oh this |
| 15577s | strategy might be working here that |
| 15578s | Vindicator is already in structure it's |
| 15580s | gonna trade for this OG Navy but it's |
| 15582s | not repping nearly as much as it used to |
| 15584s | I wonder if he's having capacitor |
| 15585s | problems or or what is happening there |
| 15587s | he's not pulling back any armor no don't |
| 15590s | die no because there's a flag windy not |
| 15592s | now the mall are now being primated as |
| 15594s | well damage is still falling off but |
| 15596s | that Confessor can put out a surprising |
| 15597s | amount with pulse in close range ammo |
| 15599s | and he basically is can't be hit at the |
| 15601s | moment he might this Confessor might get |
| 15603s | a technical solo kill on a flag |
| 15605s | Vindicator |
| 15607s | this is a really bold strategy for |
| 15609s | duskers they're they're not playing it |
| 15611s | safe they know they're behind on points |
| 15612s | that they have to do something crazy |
| 15614s | here and they're absolutely trying it |
| 15616s | here for bookie waifu down into 25 |
| 15619s | structure and dropping fast this |
| 15622s | Confessor he's trackable with The |
| 15624s | Vindicator webs he's now about to hit |
| 15627s | structure himself oh he goes down like |
| 15629s | maybe still alive |
| 15634s | structure that's the flagship down oh my |
| 15637s | God they got it in the end but it was a |
| 15639s | two percent structure the Confessor |
| 15641s | almost getting it prophecy steals a |
| 15642s | final shot even under new pressure |
| 15645s | oh my God what in the world is this |
| 15648s | match this is incredible |
| 15651s | oh my God we're ticking down with just |
| 15653s | over a minute remaining this prophecy |
| 15655s | Navy issue likely to stay alive the Bell |
| 15657s | we're unlikely to stay alive tuskers |
| 15659s | knew they'd lose this match but again |
| 15661s | playing the long game as we've seen so |
| 15663s | much from them in this championship |
| 15665s | series they want to take the flagship |
| 15668s | away from fraternity so they can't bring |
| 15670s | it in any of the future matches they |
| 15672s | might have |
| 15673s | I am stuck between being both incredibly |
| 15676s | sad that I flagged when he went down and |
| 15678s | Incredibly happy that a Confessor did it |
| 15680s | because that is also my favorite ship so |
| 15682s | it's I'm sitting on cloud nine and in |
| 15685s | the night circle of hell at the same |
| 15686s | time this is it was an amazing DPS race |
| 15689s | of a match there was a lot to unpack |
| 15691s | here for sure |
| 15692s | it's going to be unfortunately the |
| 15693s | problem now he's going to tank I think |
| 15694s | till doomsday so we have to wait next |
| 15695s | minute for the match to end but bra |
| 15698s | though this is this is a beautiful third |
| 15701s | round |
| 15702s | basically seeing the Strategic meta game |
| 15704s | in real time is tuskers realized they |
| 15707s | were behind on points realized they |
| 15709s | couldn't catch up before the end of the |
| 15710s | match realized they had a ship caught it |
| 15713s | was going to be the end when it went |
| 15714s | down and said you know what we're going |
| 15716s | to make the most of its DPS while it's |
| 15718s | still alive everybody dog pile this |
| 15721s | Vindicator I don't know if he burned out |
| 15723s | his rep if he ran out of capacitor or |
| 15725s | what happened there but his reps |
| 15727s | absolutely fell off and he withered |
| 15729s | under the laser fire from the tuskers |
| 15732s | I I'm hearing people say that he was |
| 15734s | protected in the way uh and sorry so |
| 15736s | thank you so much guys go back to the |
| 15737s | studio see what they think |
| 15748s | foreign |
| 15798s | thank you |
| 15820s | foreign |
| 15826s | you you are one of two people that |
| 15829s | couldn't listen and couldn't check |
| 15831s | bookmarks and find your own way out the |
| 15833s | route the entire route was literally |
| 15835s | bookmarked out to lossec I bookmarked it |
| 15838s | 10 minutes in advance |
| 15841s | ladies and gentlemen we have a bowl game |
| 15843s | fraternity not out they are now up to |
| 15846s | 2-1 against uh or down against that the |
| 15849s | tuskers the tuskers of course managing |
| 15851s | to kill that Flagship though so they are |
| 15853s | the last remaining team in the last |
| 15855s | tournament 19 with a flagship and still |
| 15857s | in the tournament uh they have that |
| 15859s | Flagship Armageddon Navy issue which we |
| 15860s | saw brought to great effect in match two |
| 15862s | of this series |
| 15864s | um worth noting we noticed on some of |
| 15866s | the kill meals from match two uh it |
| 15868s | looked like that Armageddon Navy issue |
| 15870s | features a Tobias web uh one of the most |
| 15873s | expensive uh single modules in the game |
| 15875s | Eve online that's probably 50 to 60 |
| 15878s | billion is a loan just for that web but |
| 15880s | it is the best web in the game mod uh |
| 15883s | let's talk about the flagship for for |
| 15886s | time to get the Vindicator it died it |
| 15888s | was about 31 billion uh not the most |
| 15892s | Goods that we were kind of discussing so |
| 15894s | we see Tech two and you're trying |
| 15896s | blasters that's that's cool it's |
| 15898s | definitely a decision and then we saw |
| 15900s | Zero active tank whatsoever in the low |
| 15903s | slots uh and I believe we were talking |
| 15905s | if he has any form of rep there he |
| 15907s | probably survives |
| 15909s | um and uh Bart was also commenting that |
| 15911s | one of these mag stabs one's a cormax at |
| 15913s | four and a half billion the other is a |
| 15915s | Fed Navy Max app he's seeing if they |
| 15916s | have that little extra DPS he'd probably |
| 15918s | survives as well what do you think about |
| 15919s | this mod |
| 15920s | yeah I my thoughts on this are you're |
| 15923s | playing for a difference of I believe |
| 15925s | what like 40 of each ship versus 20 of |
| 15928s | each ship like it's time for you to like |
| 15930s | spend all of the money you have on your |
| 15933s | Vindicator and this kind of wasn't it |
| 15936s | um there's no reason that any of these |
| 15938s | mods that are faction should be you're |
| 15940s | in the grand finals of an alliance |
| 15942s | tournament like go purple or just don't |
| 15944s | even bother |
| 15946s | um we're talking a little bit earlier |
| 15947s | about kind of the difference between an |
| 15949s | active rep and |
| 15951s | um you know deciding to go with a |
| 15954s | passive fit like it's got you know that |
| 15956s | single plate and one of the benefits of |
| 15958s | being a flagship is that you're allowed |
| 15961s | to have two armor reppers of you know |
| 15964s | either the officer type or just an |
| 15965s | X-Type and you probably want one or two |
| 15968s | of those to be there and the reason |
| 15971s | being is that it gives you that amount |
| 15973s | of self-sustain under you know a |
| 15975s | combination of being Guardian repped |
| 15979s | um like fraternity had and then also |
| 15981s | self rep is part of the reason people |
| 15983s | don't even primary you but it also gives |
| 15985s | you a lot of more self-sustain when you |
| 15988s | go longer into the match and if you you |
| 15989s | do eventually get primaried you know if |
| 15992s | you have some sort of active tank you |
| 15994s | don't die here and critically |
| 15996s | congratulations you know you won the |
| 15998s | match you're going to make it 2-1 but |
| 16001s | Huskers now still has their Flagship |
| 16003s | which you know like we said has a Tobias |
| 16006s | web you don't have your Flagship anymore |
| 16008s | and I feel like the comp that fraternity |
| 16010s | had that was just now able to beat |
| 16013s | um tuskers relied on the fact that it |
| 16015s | was able to use those webs from the |
| 16018s | balgorn to hold things down and then you |
| 16021s | drive The Vindicator into there and then |
| 16023s | you're doing you know well over 2 000 |
| 16025s | damage so |
| 16028s | I kind of have to question that decision |
| 16030s | from fraternity just |
| 16032s | don't be poor well the good thing is uh |
| 16035s | just by virtue of getting another win |
| 16037s | they do secure themselves 10 more of the |
| 16039s | the alliance tournament prize skins and |
| 16041s | those alone probably are enough to cover |
| 16044s | the cost of this Vindicator it's about |
| 16045s | 30 Bill 10 skills their skin somewhere |
| 16048s | between uh four to six billion is the |
| 16051s | estimates I'm hearing so they've just |
| 16052s | got another 40 to 60 billion potentially |
| 16055s | uh so it's not the end of the world they |
| 16057s | lost a pretty nice Vindicator but you |
| 16059s | know they will be suitably reimbursed uh |
| 16062s | Bart do you think uh that there was a |
| 16065s | way that tuskers could have pulled out |
| 16066s | there into a a win |
| 16069s | I don't I don't really think so I think |
| 16072s | um so that was the uh you know we were |
| 16075s | talking about it right before the match |
| 16076s | I was kind of saying that this Blackbird |
| 16079s | vindi like Blackbird flag finny is like |
| 16082s | this is the fraternity Apex comp |
| 16084s | which obviously they won't be using |
| 16086s | anymore as now they can't use blackbirds |
| 16087s | and flag bendy is poof |
| 16091s | um |
| 16094s | yes uh it is explodified somewhere uh |
| 16097s | maybe they got some of the mods maybe |
| 16099s | the record blown up we don't know they |
| 16101s | could be gone forever |
| 16102s | um but this was this is the setup that |
| 16105s | fraternity ran pretty much exclusively |
| 16108s | through part of the feeders all the way |
| 16110s | up to here like this is the one that |
| 16112s | they |
| 16113s | um |
| 16114s | I guess they looked at last year and |
| 16116s | they saw this setup that was actually |
| 16117s | run a lot by truth on her light they |
| 16119s | were like oh that's a really good one |
| 16120s | what if we play this really really well |
| 16122s | practice it and then bring a flag bendy |
| 16124s | they use it to roll all the way up to |
| 16126s | the spot and it is now gone |
| 16128s | Quest bands plus no flag bendy I don't |
| 16130s | think this comp Works without a fight |
| 16131s | committee so |
| 16133s | then maybe that's the the last time you |
| 16134s | see of balgar in Alliance tournament 19 |
| 16137s | then a ship that some of us on the desk |
| 16138s | had a question throughout the tournament |
| 16140s | in this case it was a gun battle I think |
| 16142s | the fact that they chose to go gun |
| 16143s | battle here probably is what helped them |
| 16145s | secure the victory if they don't have |
| 16147s | that additional DPS I mean that's two |
| 16149s | ships uh 23 points each that's 46 points |
| 16152s | in the bargain and The Vindicator a huge |
| 16155s | Point investment so if sometimes you see |
| 16157s | these teams choosing to go uh Phil Newt |
| 16159s | ballot and well it gives you a lot of |
| 16161s | utility the lack of DPS could sometimes |
| 16164s | be what kills the teams here we can see |
| 16166s | usage of the Battleground over the years |
| 16168s | in the tournament of course it peaked um |
| 16170s | some while ago back when uh balgarh was |
| 16173s | the flagship of choice uh these days is |
| 16175s | uh not allowed to be picked as a |
| 16177s | flagship |
| 16178s | um everyone kind of generally agreed |
| 16180s | that the the pimp factor of a balgorn |
| 16183s | was just so excessively good compared to |
| 16185s | almost anything else with the exception |
| 16187s | of maybe the Le Shack back when Abyssal |
| 16189s | mods were allowed as well if you stock |
| 16191s | one of those Toby Webbs on it like touch |
| 16193s | have on their Armageddon Navy issue the |
| 16195s | bonus to the range that that |
| 16197s | Battleground gives to Webbs meant that |
| 16199s | if you walk down at zero you could hit |
| 16201s | somebody with a web no matter where they |
| 16203s | worked in in the arena you had a range |
| 16204s | of somewhere like 54 to 56 kilometers |
| 16207s | with heat and links and that that alone |
| 16210s | was powerful and if you added then like |
| 16212s | a Vindicator as well like you say Bart |
| 16214s | it could use those long range webs hold |
| 16216s | something down just a truck that slow |
| 16218s | blood Vindicator in mod what do you |
| 16222s | think we might see and going into our |
| 16223s | next match though now they've lost this |
| 16224s | this is as Bart points out their Apex |
| 16226s | comp |
| 16227s | where else do you think that fraternity |
| 16229s | could pivot to well one of the things |
| 16232s | that we've seen is that for Fraternity |
| 16233s | you still have kind of drones open |
| 16236s | that's still really only banned on the |
| 16238s | side of uh tuskers from the trickle ban |
| 16241s | but fraternity could also do some kind |
| 16244s | of Shield rushy things but the problem |
| 16246s | that they're running into is that |
| 16249s | tuskers because they won this match and |
| 16252s | they ran the max threat comp and just |
| 16255s | narrowly lost against a flagship |
| 16257s | Vindicator balgorn |
| 16260s | has shown that like you don't really |
| 16262s | beat them if they bring Max threat and |
| 16264s | toscars has been very targetedly Banning |
| 16267s | out all the tracking disruption ships |
| 16270s | so |
| 16272s | I don't know what fraternity has still |
| 16274s | left in the tank that can beat that Max |
| 16277s | threat comp that tuskers had so far yeah |
| 16279s | I wanted to take a moment also to call |
| 16280s | that the carries Pile in the fraternity |
| 16282s | side there at sario and I believe we |
| 16284s | called him a at one point in an earlier |
| 16286s | match uh he flew super well we were |
| 16288s | watching the auger sets at range and |
| 16290s | then all of a sudden they snapped the |
| 16291s | dam straight onto caused them to have to |
| 16293s | come rushing into to rep his buddies and |
| 16296s | not allowed that ogre to get caught by |
| 16297s | uh probably the battle then again and |
| 16299s | then just slowly chewed down uh we saw |
| 16302s | the uh the flagship and they were just |
| 16304s | trundling up towards the organer and |
| 16306s | then when it dropped down to almost no |
| 16308s | meters per second it was very very |
| 16310s | apparent what was about to happen to |
| 16311s | that ogre it got Vindicated |
| 16313s | um here's the carries as we talk about |
| 16315s | it in fact |
| 16316s | um a super powerful ship electronic |
| 16318s | attack frog it gets those bonuses too |
| 16319s | damned as well as uh scrum Point range |
| 16322s | and you can see the usage just |
| 16324s | increasing in recent times as people uh |
| 16327s | choosing to bring it especially now this |
| 16329s | year when you have to put Electric |
| 16332s | Warfare on ships with a bonus on the |
| 16334s | hull so previous years it was super |
| 16336s | common to put damps on things like an |
| 16339s | armor jackdaw you just fill the mids |
| 16341s | straight up with as many damps as you as |
| 16343s | you like and it flies around at maximum |
| 16346s | range doing very little except damping |
| 16347s | everybody can possibly reach out to the |
| 16350s | carriers though is one of those ships |
| 16352s | this year you have to bring it if you |
| 16353s | want to bring damps you can bring |
| 16354s | obviously things like the celestes as |
| 16355s | well but the carry is in the right hands |
| 16357s | and this pilot Scion in fraternity |
| 16360s | clearly showing he's a an excellent |
| 16362s | small ship pilot here in these instances |
| 16364s | but these small ships how important are |
| 16366s | they I mean they're incredibly important |
| 16368s | um that that match was won because of |
| 16370s | small ships like |
| 16372s | you know everything but the uh you know |
| 16375s | the crucifier I believe was banned out |
| 16376s | in that last one they bring a crucifier |
| 16378s | and that's the thing that was actually |
| 16379s | preventing tuskers from doing damage to |
| 16381s | them for so long and tuskers knew that |
| 16383s | they had to take the crucifier down to |
| 16385s | do damage and it wasn't until that |
| 16386s | crucifier dropped that things kind of |
| 16388s | got into that oh wait taskers might win |
| 16390s | this and then they ended up not spoiler |
| 16391s | alert kitchen watch six minutes ago uh |
| 16394s | but they're massive and especially with |
| 16397s | the amount of bands that we have we're |
| 16398s | really starting to see these uh even the |
| 16401s | tech one and the tech 2 electronic |
| 16403s | attack forgets like you know appear a |
| 16405s | lot more we I mean we saw in the graph |
| 16406s | that we have like double the amount of |
| 16407s | carries picks as we did last year it's |
| 16409s | it's crazy you know this is |
| 16411s | we're getting new metas new metas are |
| 16413s | great and hopefully at some point in the |
| 16416s | future |
| 16417s | there will be more new metas who knows I |
| 16420s | certainly do not um I'm just looking at |
| 16422s | uh twitch so in the previous match 5.2 |
| 16425s | million Channel points were gambled on |
| 16426s | that when the majority on the tuskers of |
| 16429s | course at that point they're tuning up |
| 16430s | it's looking good for them uh it was |
| 16432s | funny watching in the first match it was |
| 16434s | It was kind of almost 50 50 on channel |
| 16435s | points it was like 1.4 to 1.8 and then |
| 16438s | after match one it's it switched hard |
| 16440s | everyone betting for the tuskers uh |
| 16442s | match to every match three so everyone |
| 16444s | betting on the Tesco's again and |
| 16445s | suddenly all those points that people |
| 16447s | maybe won yeah they're gone again uh so |
| 16450s | this time we're back to him we're even |
| 16451s | split at the moment it's uh still very |
| 16453s | much favoring the tuskers 1.9 to 1 |
| 16455s | million but compared to the previous |
| 16457s | match people maybe uh maybe lost a few |
| 16459s | Channel points they're not so happy |
| 16460s | about that let's take a look at the |
| 16462s | conquest bands now because now we have |
| 16465s | even more and this time the spread |
| 16466s | across two teams so the tuskers have |
| 16469s | everything on the left burn uh banned |
| 16471s | out so the the Ishq the EOS the Talia |
| 16473s | the vexanavia issue the hyena the Ishtar |
| 16476s | crew murmidon Aviation Guardian vexer |
| 16479s | prophecy murmidon crucifier Armageddon |
| 16482s | Avia shoot of course they can bring |
| 16483s | their Flagship and and get around that |
| 16485s | and the Sentinel fraternity meanwhile uh |
| 16488s | they cannot bring the balgar and the |
| 16490s | Confessor the guardian the Blackbird the |
| 16492s | crucifier The Vindicator they can't |
| 16494s | bypass it because that because their |
| 16495s | Flagship is dead uh the biggest the |
| 16498s | pontifex and the carries mod uh I think |
| 16501s | we've been talking this a little bit but |
| 16502s | this is the entirety of the fraternity |
| 16505s | you know Apex comp banned out they've |
| 16507s | lost their flagship I feel like this is |
| 16509s | going to be a bit of an uphill struggle |
| 16510s | for the fraternity team uh tuskers have |
| 16513s | a lot of stuff still open here |
| 16515s | yeah I mean fraternity definitely it |
| 16518s | felt like they found a practice partner |
| 16520s | and they took comps that they've seen |
| 16524s | from truth honor light from other teams |
| 16527s | the last couple years they've |
| 16528s | implemented a lot of what worked in |
| 16530s | those compositions they've executed them |
| 16532s | to an extremely high level beyond what |
| 16535s | any of us really thought they could |
| 16537s | um but the problem that they're running |
| 16539s | into is even though the tough skirts has |
| 16543s | a lot more ships banned on their side |
| 16545s | they're all very specific like a drone |
| 16548s | comp there's still a lot of Shield |
| 16550s | that's open there's still a lot of kind |
| 16553s | of Max threat that's open I mean you |
| 16555s | could Target o'neiros you can Target |
| 16558s | the disarm as well and try to maybe |
| 16562s | Target a deacon but |
| 16566s | you're really running into the situation |
| 16568s | where you're trying to scramble at the |
| 16570s | last minute being like okay |
| 16572s | there's like 20 ships that are going to |
| 16574s | be banned what do we have that's still |
| 16575s | even open and it's very difficult to |
| 16578s | make anything work you're just kind of |
| 16580s | throwing things hodgepodge together and |
| 16582s | you know trying to have some sort of |
| 16584s | semblance of coherence there |
| 16586s | yeah so we're gonna have uh one or two |
| 16589s | minutes delay on our match which is |
| 16591s | scheduled for uh five minutes from now |
| 16593s | at the moment I'm looking at the timer |
| 16595s | it's saying more like seven uh so some |
| 16597s | teams just still working on things in |
| 16598s | the background here let's take a look at |
| 16600s | the bands for this uh match here and |
| 16602s | again the tuskers do have the |
| 16604s | championship point in hand if they win |
| 16605s | this they win Alliance tournament 19. so |
| 16608s | the tusker is Banning out the your neros |
| 16610s | the zarmas the Italia and the curse |
| 16612s | fraternity battling out the executive |
| 16614s | Navy issue the uniros the Deacon the |
| 16617s | augural Navy issue and then with the |
| 16618s | trickle bands we see uh the arbitrator |
| 16621s | and the Absolution Blackboard pirate |
| 16623s | what do you think about these bands here |
| 16624s | from these teams I think that uh |
| 16626s | fraternity is basically uh said that |
| 16629s | they don't want to see another Max |
| 16630s | threat come out |
| 16631s | um executive Absolution and auger Navy |
| 16633s | doesn't completely get rid of it I mean |
| 16635s | we've seen a bunch of variations but it |
| 16637s | does significantly weaken it I think |
| 16638s | it's kind of interesting that fraternity |
| 16641s | chose to ban the owneros here because |
| 16644s | fraternity has basically due to Conquest |
| 16647s | they cannot bring the guardian which |
| 16649s | means there's like sort of you start |
| 16651s | doing this like mind game thing where |
| 16652s | it's like well if I can't bring the |
| 16653s | guardian they might ban the owneros |
| 16656s | because now I can't bring either type 2 |
| 16658s | logic uh Cruiser where maybe fraternity |
| 16660s | could have banned the guardian here and |
| 16662s | then the tuskers couldn't bring the |
| 16664s | guardian and um |
| 16667s | it's getting wild I need to see like we |
| 16670s | need like three more monitors like a |
| 16672s | super gamer cave yeah with like 65 |
| 16674s | monitors okay so then both teams band up |
| 16676s | both the tech two |
| 16677s | um Deacon band means the tuskers can't |
| 16679s | bring it so basically all the tech 2 |
| 16680s | Armor Logie is gone yes and those arms |
| 16682s | ads gone so the redeem is still open uh |
| 16686s | there's uh the auger I think is banned |
| 16688s | for one side perhaps no it's not so I |
| 16691s | mean this is just chaos at this point if |
| 16693s | anyone has uh just joined this is |
| 16695s | wondering what the heck is a conquest |
| 16696s | ban uh quite simply this is a best of |
| 16699s | Five series so uh you know the fresh |
| 16702s | team to get to three wins essentially |
| 16703s | will take the the series and the |
| 16706s | alliance tournament 19 Gold Cup if you |
| 16710s | win one of the matches one of these |
| 16711s | potential five matches every single ship |
| 16713s | that you used to win that match is |
| 16716s | banned for you until Match 5 and only |
| 16719s | used I should be specific so the tuskers |
| 16722s | here they can't bring an ishkar but |
| 16724s | fraternity could it's only a conquest |
| 16726s | ban for the team that wins with those |
| 16728s | ships and as I mentioned if this goes to |
| 16731s | the fifth match which means we are two |
| 16732s | and two every band resets the only bands |
| 16736s | that will happen in a fifth match would |
| 16738s | be a regular normal four blind band for |
| 16741s | each team and the way those work is yeah |
| 16743s | both teams submit them uh blind to the |
| 16746s | referees and design duplicates they get |
| 16748s | extra trickle bands to compensate but |
| 16750s | you had something so yeah so going off |
| 16752s | the bands and then looking at the |
| 16753s | Congo's bands again and having it fresh |
| 16755s | in my mind for the next like five |
| 16756s | seconds before I brain dump it |
| 16758s | um basically what's happened is uh |
| 16761s | tuskers just show that they're quite |
| 16763s | capable of Fielding Max threat maxword |
| 16765s | is partially banned out but it could |
| 16766s | still be brought |
| 16768s | all of the armor logistic ships that do |
| 16770s | good against it cannot be brought |
| 16772s | because you can't bring thalias and |
| 16773s | deacons you can't bring any of the tech |
| 16776s | 2 Armor Logistics and we've seen time |
| 16778s | and time again that Max right will just |
| 16779s | run down your tech one armor and just |
| 16781s | destroy it and like I mean we've seen |
| 16782s | people last between like 12 to like 30 |
| 16784s | seconds here right so |
| 16787s | I'm actually like really concerned for |
| 16788s | Fraternity here because tuskers actually |
| 16790s | has the ability to literally just run it |
| 16792s | back and fraternity's best comp barely |
| 16795s | won and everything in that fraternity |
| 16798s | comp is gone like yeah I feel like this |
| 16801s | there you get into the proper like roll |
| 16804s | the dice and see how it goes because I |
| 16806s | think you're right |
| 16807s | um I expect maybe to see the comp the |
| 16809s | tuskers just brought be brought again |
| 16812s | um it clearly did really well against uh |
| 16815s | the the Apex comp that fraternity so far |
| 16817s | has shown |
| 16818s | it does have weaknesses um you could |
| 16820s | stack heavily uh ECM for example against |
| 16823s | it you could just roll the dice go all |
| 16825s | in and assume that's what taskers are |
| 16827s | going to bring |
| 16828s | but if you're wrong about that and they |
| 16832s | bring something off the wall then you're |
| 16835s | gonna lose on the flip side if tuskers |
| 16837s | decide to bring something off the wall |
| 16839s | expecting to be countered and return to |
| 16843s | doesn't they bring back then tuskers |
| 16844s | could throw it so this is where we've |
| 16847s | talked about this a little bit like the |
| 16847s | idea of this like sitting in the corner |
| 16849s | and spiraling into a pit of theory |
| 16851s | crafting hell moderator like what are |
| 16854s | you going to say to these two teams here |
| 16855s | in these situations |
| 16857s | well one of the difficulties that |
| 16859s | tuskers faces now is because of the kind |
| 16861s | of the targeted bands from fraternity is |
| 16864s | that they don't have any Tech 2 |
| 16865s | Logistics to keep up their flag |
| 16867s | Armageddon Navy issue so like yes you |
| 16870s | can bring it but do you really want to |
| 16872s | if like the strongest Logie reps you |
| 16874s | could bring would be like Arrow Diva or |
| 16876s | and maybe an auger |
| 16879s | that's that's sketchy at best frankly |
| 16882s | and what that kind of does is say listen |
| 16885s | at least you can't bring your Flagship |
| 16887s | yeah there's still Max threat that's |
| 16889s | kind of still open but |
| 16892s | fraternity is doing kind of the best |
| 16895s | that they can in the situation they've |
| 16896s | been put into where I don't think in |
| 16899s | their heads they |
| 16901s | probably at this point don't feel like |
| 16903s | having watched the tough scores earlier |
| 16905s | today and what they've seen in you know |
| 16907s | tasker's beating Hydra truth on her |
| 16910s | light now and then beating uh barcode |
| 16913s | like they're going to beat |
| 16915s | um |
| 16916s | you know a kind of a Max threat comp in |
| 16919s | that sort of situation yeah I mean at |
| 16921s | the end of the day for time to need to |
| 16923s | be Giga pros of how far they've got at |
| 16924s | this point I don't think I never really |
| 16925s | expected to get here |
| 16927s | um and I'm especially excited because |
| 16929s | the last two Alliance tournaments have |
| 16931s | been three zero victories uh Alliance |
| 16933s | tournament 17 we formed Volta lost uh |
| 16936s | zero three to hydro reloaded last year |
| 16938s | truth on the light AK had reloaded beats |
| 16940s | Odin's call three now here we have uh |
| 16943s | two one so if if Frack could pull this |
| 16946s | out we might have a proper nail biter of |
| 16948s | a finale I'm told we can head over to |
| 16950s | the arena now maybe for the final time |
| 16952s | for uh fraternity need to win this if |
| 16955s | the taskers win it they are Alliance |
| 16956s | tournament 19 Champions it is down to |
| 16958s | this right now so let's head over to the |
| 16960s | arena with Alec and Wingnut |
| 16967s | hello Alexa Carter Wing not here for a |
| 16969s | potential Match Point as fraternity |
| 16971s | tries to claw their way back from a |
| 16973s | two-match deficit |
| 16974s | we see new teams starting to get a |
| 16976s | little bit creative here as the ship |
| 16978s | bands and Conquest bands start to take |
| 16980s | their toll tuskers elected to go with a |
| 16982s | shield setup double scorp Navy issue |
| 16984s | double Claymore |
| 16986s | wing nut what do we have on the on the |
| 16988s | fraternity side charity brought the old |
| 16990s | triple Battleship Dima Scandinavian |
| 16992s | Abaddon full amarion Battleship uh spam |
| 16995s | so having a quick double check and yeah |
| 16996s | those are cruises definitely on the |
| 16998s | scorp Navy the gedden Navy is uh guns |
| 17000s | not missiles so everyone's gone |
| 17002s | Battleship heavy on this one all the |
| 17004s | lodgy is tech one frigates that's all |
| 17005s | everyone's got left this is going to be |
| 17007s | a DPS War |
| 17008s | an interesting note is going to be what |
| 17009s | happens to stuff like the Oracle of X |
| 17011s | and navies and the Cyclones under this |
| 17013s | kind of damage |
| 17014s | well they're gonna have a hard time with |
| 17016s | it because that is a lot of em damage |
| 17018s | coming out against these Shield tanks |
| 17019s | the Claymores are Tech 2 Minotaur so |
| 17022s | they'll be a little more resistant than |
| 17023s | you might otherwise think the scorps |
| 17025s | aren't relatively tanky but it's still |
| 17027s | somewhat of an uphill climb here and now |
| 17029s | you see chess players Oracle the primary |
| 17031s | target he's already got his shield |
| 17033s | Stripped Away and now the armor is soon |
| 17034s | to come next oracle's not the tankiest |
| 17036s | thing in the world |
| 17038s | yeah we've definitely seen a few like a |
| 17040s | bike tanked oracles but I don't know if |
| 17042s | he's gonna be particularly doing that |
| 17043s | when this comp needs DPS we see damage |
| 17045s | also going to the Navitas as well and |
| 17046s | I'm not seeing much damage coming back |
| 17048s | a little bit onto the scoop Navy of |
| 17049s | mirror but that's really about it |
| 17051s | oh it looks like a little bit but that |
| 17053s | is probably just because of the massive |
| 17055s | massive Shield bar that the Scorpion |
| 17057s | Navy has it's actually a fairly |
| 17058s | significant chunk of damage and there's |
| 17060s | still more to come the battleships are |
| 17063s | still closing range so they'll be upping |
| 17065s | that damage rate soon the oracle's |
| 17067s | pretty much been I mean he's staying |
| 17069s | alive but he's taking it out of the |
| 17070s | match a little bit as he has to pull |
| 17072s | away to try to survive |
| 17078s | rushed forward heart tackled Mirror |
| 17080s | Mirror cannot leave these bouncers get |
| 17082s | up close and start firing the correct |
| 17083s | ammo type and that's going to be one of |
| 17084s | the two big DPS and no HP balls |
| 17087s | potentially removed remarkably quickly |
| 17089s | chess player is still being hurt and |
| 17091s | they'll see damage finally coming into |
| 17092s | Casimir now they realize that he's |
| 17094s | holding down one of their core ships but |
| 17096s | they're still trying to basically got |
| 17097s | two matches happening right now there's |
| 17099s | three balls of players there's all the |
| 17102s | battleships brought with each other on |
| 17103s | one end then there's a pile of drones in |
| 17105s | the middle we got some Sentry drones and |
| 17107s | then there's the support war on the |
| 17109s | other side of that Sentry blob as the |
| 17111s | fraternity Logistics frigates are the |
| 17114s | primary target here the Navitas looking |
| 17116s | scarily like it might go down but |
| 17118s | they're going to get the scorp Navy for |
| 17119s | it you've got to love that trade for |
| 17121s | Fraternity they're gonna be really happy |
| 17123s | with this |
| 17125s | and the other one as well that's a lot |
| 17127s | of the core dpsm tank they are Crews |
| 17129s | those school games would struggle to |
| 17130s | kill anything else but unfortunately |
| 17132s | they are a triple Battleship core those |
| 17134s | cruises will apply perfectly fine and me |
| 17137s | what that's about to go down so they |
| 17138s | will finally get one of these logic |
| 17139s | frigates down |
| 17140s | and hang and hung on for a long while |
| 17142s | though buying his team a lot of time |
| 17144s | which is exactly what they needed that's |
| 17146s | a massive massive chunk of tusker's |
| 17148s | potential offensive output and you can |
| 17150s | see the damage onto the Redeemer slowing |
| 17153s | considerably never the Scorpions down |
| 17155s | it's still dropping and they will lose |
| 17157s | this other Inquisitor as he no longer |
| 17159s | has a partner to rep him he will drop |
| 17161s | shortly which will enable the support |
| 17163s | from tuskers to go a little bit Wild on |
| 17165s | the Frat side maybe clean up some of |
| 17167s | those ships but it's still going to be |
| 17169s | an uphill battle for them as they're |
| 17170s | down three damage to excuse me down one |
| 17173s | damage dealer here one of their biggest |
| 17175s | they're going to trade it for the |
| 17177s | Redeemer eventually but much much slower |
| 17180s | than they'd like as that scorp Navy's |
| 17181s | now down to half Shields already |
| 17184s | it's interesting to see that the uh the |
| 17186s | Boost and Bantam they were prioritizing |
| 17189s | the support war in the back they were |
| 17190s | nowhere near the scope Navy and they're |
| 17192s | nowhere near the other scope Navy they |
| 17193s | are still in the back with their small |
| 17195s | ships destroying the backlight as much |
| 17197s | as they can so demon will go down they |
| 17198s | are basically ignoring the scorp maybe |
| 17200s | at the moment they'll probably come in |
| 17201s | soon it's interesting through the |
| 17203s | prioritization they're trying to keep |
| 17205s | trying to keep other ships alive rather |
| 17206s | than the ones you'd expect |
| 17208s | it's a little strange and the scorp |
| 17210s | navies they've got a resistance bonus a |
| 17212s | tremendous tank they'd get a lot of |
| 17214s | value out of from repping them as glasti |
| 17216s | Voca goes down but yeah maybe they're |
| 17219s | just concerned about getting themselves |
| 17220s | tackled so they're playing it safe and |
| 17222s | trying to stick with their support win |
| 17223s | that support war and then come around |
| 17225s | they're trying to go after the vexer |
| 17227s | Navy issue of sarri in here he's |
| 17230s | dropping relatively quickly that'll you |
| 17232s | know help with taking out some of the |
| 17234s | tackle for these battleships but now |
| 17236s | you've got two Claymores basically for |
| 17238s | your heavy damage up against them a |
| 17240s | badon and an Armageddon Navy that is a |
| 17243s | really really bad matchup I think the |
| 17246s | end game they're going for it they've |
| 17247s | removed the lodgy and they were removing |
| 17249s | the small ships if they can get it down |
| 17250s | to the get Nave in the Abaddon they can |
| 17252s | keep it range and just plink at it with |
| 17254s | the Cyclones with pretty much near |
| 17255s | impunity but it is going to be a hard |
| 17258s | ask the Vixen Navy Omen navies are very |
| 17260s | good at killing small ships and they're |
| 17261s | reasonably tanky there's still a buy for |
| 17263s | us also just kind of existing so this is |
| 17265s | an interesting goal they're trying to |
| 17267s | aim for I think but it's not really |
| 17269s | working as a flycatcher just gets |
| 17270s | deleted |
| 17274s | Logistics frigates they're not providing |
| 17276s | a ton of value they're only ranked at |
| 17278s | one point a piece for a reason they |
| 17280s | weren't able to keep that flag catcher |
| 17282s | up I think they're going to struggle to |
| 17283s | keep anything else up uh you see the |
| 17286s | omen Navy issue of calc asteroth on the |
| 17288s | fraternity side he's now taking a lot of |
| 17290s | fire as well as the vexer of castmere |
| 17292s | damage kind of being spread out all over |
| 17294s | the fraternity team right now as |
| 17296s | tuscaris is looking to find a hole in |
| 17297s | the armor |
| 17299s | but tussy's trying to get up close of |
| 17300s | course the Abaddon has a pretty good |
| 17301s | range of applications so does the Army |
| 17303s | get Navy but almost I think that they're |
| 17305s | expecting them to rely upon the victim I |
| 17307s | mean maybe as a tackle and that's why |
| 17308s | the Vex may be still being the primary |
| 17309s | as well you can also kill him you can't |
| 17312s | really kill these buttons and that vexer |
| 17314s | he's he's untackled he's made his way |
| 17316s | over to a micro jump unit so he's going |
| 17318s | to be relatively safe he's paired up at |
| 17320s | The Omen Navy issue they've streaked |
| 17322s | away from the tuskers team likely |
| 17324s | outside of their main damage range and |
| 17326s | they're at one of the micro jumps which |
| 17328s | means they can get further to safety if |
| 17330s | they need it which leaves tusker |
| 17332s | searching for a new primary target |
| 17336s | at the moment they're kind of just |
| 17337s | taking the time this is kind of see it's |
| 17338s | good to see Tusk is almost like return |
| 17339s | to form it's I swear Shield kite was |
| 17341s | there thinking like you know what we're |
| 17343s | just gonna go back to the old days and |
| 17344s | honestly it's doing okay at the moment |
| 17346s | it's not the best they still have to try |
| 17348s | and kill a few more ships but it could |
| 17350s | do a lot worse than this that is for |
| 17352s | damn sure |
| 17355s | it looks like fraternity is trying to |
| 17357s | take out the logistics frigates now |
| 17358s | they've settled on Jager moritz's Bantam |
| 17360s | as the primary target taking him into |
| 17362s | half Shields already |
| 17364s | yeah there's not particularly tanky |
| 17366s | frigates they've got a Jaguar as well |
| 17367s | but I'm curious it was The Omen Navy |
| 17369s | attempting to do that or maybe the |
| 17370s | bifrost providing application |
| 17371s | requirements I believe the bike was |
| 17372s | actually his Target painting the Bantam |
| 17375s | just a painter not webbed but it's going |
| 17377s | to be enough here the Bantam is |
| 17378s | struggling to stay alive the burst is |
| 17380s | not going to be able to keep him up |
| 17381s | there's now an additional set of light |
| 17383s | drones is heading over to him that'll |
| 17385s | probably be the DPS to put him into |
| 17386s | armor here |
| 17388s | just keep an eye on the open neighbors |
| 17390s | running away casabia Knight just MJ deep |
| 17392s | and one Beacon to the next so maybe he's |
| 17393s | trying to find a good positioning here |
| 17395s | it's it's oh look at that Phantom no no |
| 17397s | no the tuskers do not want this |
| 17401s | will go down soon as well that's that |
| 17404s | could honestly start hurting this uh |
| 17405s | kiting team |
| 17406s | yeah that the burst is trying to keep |
| 17409s | him alive it was too little too late |
| 17410s | again tech one Logistics forgets they |
| 17412s | don't have the Sig they don't have the |
| 17414s | resists of their Tech Two counterparts |
| 17415s | they're quite quite fragile and the |
| 17418s | Bantam goes down this burst is going to |
| 17420s | try to speed tank a little bit but the |
| 17422s | drones are gonna catch up to him |
| 17423s | eventually and just slowly grind him |
| 17425s | down there's no reps on him he's neuted |
| 17428s | and painted he's now tried to make a |
| 17430s | turn which resulted in a big chunk of |
| 17432s | damage going into him he's now about a |
| 17434s | third shield and dropping quickly in the |
| 17436s | meantime tuscaris is going after the |
| 17438s | abandoned it seems taking him down to |
| 17440s | about two-thirds armor |
| 17442s | here |
| 17445s | could know as well is that the storm |
| 17447s | bringing of Jason also was trying to |
| 17448s | help his uh frigate boys he's now |
| 17450s | shooting the battleship seen mjd from |
| 17451s | the Claymore of JJ at the moment so |
| 17453s | they're trying to reposition as well |
| 17455s | the game begins Just Bounce from Beacon |
| 17457s | to Beacon and try and do what you can |
| 17459s | Vex and Navy's actually is he trying to |
| 17461s | get Vex Navy no no he went the other |
| 17463s | side of the Arena my apologies |
| 17465s | so we've got a vaccinavian Acclaim we're |
| 17466s | actually a jaguar and a claimer |
| 17468s | attempting to chase down the vexer Navy |
| 17470s | issue the Jaguar should be able to catch |
| 17472s | up to it eventually which will mean |
| 17474s | Casmir going down once they catch him |
| 17477s | but it could take a while as he's |
| 17479s | pulling very far away from the Claymore |
| 17483s | didn't just click approach he actually |
| 17485s | tried to burn inside of him relative to |
| 17487s | the center of the arena and then try and |
| 17488s | get in front of him rather than just |
| 17490s | directly chasing him so that is some |
| 17492s | potentially really good flying from |
| 17493s | Fleck it looks like he's also a rocket |
| 17495s | fit which is nice I love rocket a Jaguar |
| 17497s | sorry and that vexing Navy will go down |
| 17499s | there's nothing he can really do at this |
| 17500s | point he's being absolutely pounded upon |
| 17502s | they're probably gonna go for the Army |
| 17503s | Navy next but they might just try and go |
| 17504s | for the Avalon they've been damaging it |
| 17505s | quite a bit |
| 17507s | and then Burris has managed to keep |
| 17508s | himself alive he's burned away and went |
| 17510s | to a micro jump Beacon and now he's |
| 17512s | burning toward yet more micro jump |
| 17514s | begins uh there was a cloud of |
| 17517s | fraternity drones chasing him but I |
| 17519s | think they've been reassigned to the |
| 17520s | stormbringer now |
| 17522s | Tessa's got a hurry man they've only got |
| 17524s | a minute and a half left to kill the |
| 17525s | vaccine Navy and then hopefully go off |
| 17527s | to something else I believe they're |
| 17528s | still behind no that Stormbreaker is |
| 17529s | going to drop |
| 17531s | that is not a great trade for them |
| 17534s | oh no no no |
| 17537s | I don't think they can make this but you |
| 17539s | have to just rush basically if they're |
| 17540s | just trying like DPS down the Abaddon or |
| 17542s | something else as quickly as they can |
| 17544s | you've got about a minute remaining |
| 17547s | a minute remaining with fraternity up 10 |
| 17550s | points they're going after the omen |
| 17551s | which is a deep armor and they're going |
| 17553s | after a baton which is in deep armor |
| 17555s | they also have an option of again which |
| 17556s | is in not deep deep armor but could be |
| 17559s | vulnerable instead they're going after |
| 17560s | the bifrost which has been fresh |
| 17563s | if they can get the Buffalo Navy I think |
| 17565s | they'll actually be ahead but they have |
| 17567s | to get both in 40 seconds this is now |
| 17570s | the final race for them otherwise frat |
| 17572s | will manage to make it to the final |
| 17573s | round here this is absolutely a prayer |
| 17576s | Rush from tuskets |
| 17578s | well the by fast has been tackled he's |
| 17580s | been webbed down by the Jaguar |
| 17582s | is being painted they're playing fairly |
| 17585s | well to him they're just running out of |
| 17587s | time 30 seconds left |
| 17590s | oh my God this is such a close one there |
| 17593s | is a route for a tusker Victor here but |
| 17595s | it is an incredibly thin wrap for |
| 17597s | walking on glass |
| 17600s | so this this bifrost is definitely going |
| 17602s | to go down within time it it's can they |
| 17604s | catch the omen Navy which is fairly far |
| 17606s | away |
| 17608s | that's they're only around five seconds |
| 17610s | left Brett manages to eke it out on |
| 17614s | points Bravo we are going to a final |
| 17617s | match let's go to the studio and see |
| 17619s | what they think |
| 17631s | foreign |
| 17675s | guys stop being casual they're really |
| 17677s | bad we should not lose anybody to this |
| 17680s | warp off warp off take the fleet warp |
| 17682s | everybody warp off this is a really |
| 17683s | really bad execution I'm very |
| 17685s | disappointed |
| 17689s | Ray and are you in the armor Vagabond or |
| 17692s | something no um I've got XL ISP |
| 17697s | and polarized guns or what |
| 17706s | fraternity digging their way out of the |
| 17709s | hole they have taken the series to two |
| 17711s | each there is now literally only one |
| 17714s | single match left in Alliance tournament |
| 17716s | 19. someone will win it in about 20 |
| 17719s | minutes or so when the match begins we |
| 17721s | will know |
| 17722s | probably from the get-go what team is |
| 17724s | going to have the advantage what team is |
| 17726s | going to be able to just start chewing |
| 17728s | on the other one I'm almost out of words |
| 17730s | uh at this point because I think both of |
| 17733s | those previous matches it looked like it |
| 17735s | was going to go the way of the tuskers |
| 17737s | it looked like they were going to win |
| 17738s | their second Alliance tournament and |
| 17740s | then fraternity just kind of clawed it |
| 17741s | back by a couple points here or there |
| 17743s | moderator break that match down for me |
| 17745s | what an exciting one |
| 17747s | yeah so we saw that tuskers brought this |
| 17749s | double Navy Scorpion and then the |
| 17751s | Claymore comp that they've chosen along |
| 17753s | with a pair of tech one frig lodgy uh |
| 17756s | kind of what you have to bring because |
| 17757s | you've used up so many points and they |
| 17759s | had a smattering of uh kind of this like |
| 17762s | five to six point uh Destroyer core to |
| 17765s | back that up |
| 17767s | um the idea basically being you know |
| 17769s | we're gonna like kind of throw all these |
| 17771s | small ships on you and then we're gonna |
| 17772s | get hit by you know cruise missiles |
| 17774s | heavy missiles and that's what you need |
| 17775s | in that comp in order to kill uh attack |
| 17779s | two uh Logistics fraternity to their |
| 17783s | credit did something that my colleague |
| 17784s | here Bart has been saying should be done |
| 17786s | for a hot minute and I like it as well |
| 17788s | they brought a gun Navy Armageddon which |
| 17791s | was crucial because without the added |
| 17794s | damage you would get from that compared |
| 17796s | to say rapid Heavies which do a lot but |
| 17799s | they eventually have to clip and reload |
| 17801s | you do not break through the Navy |
| 17803s | scorpions fast enough and because they |
| 17805s | had that Abaddon in and |
| 17808s | um you know that double Battleship core |
| 17810s | still at the very end they were able to |
| 17812s | push through and have enough points to |
| 17813s | basically uh beat tuskers out throughout |
| 17816s | the entire match though we saw that |
| 17818s | taskers was you know desperately chasing |
| 17820s | after these fraternity ships in these |
| 17822s | fast claim Wars that have the ability to |
| 17825s | go very zoom zoom and have good |
| 17827s | projection and decent active tank trying |
| 17830s | to you know catch these all so fast |
| 17832s | fraternity ships but |
| 17834s | it became an insane game of cat and |
| 17837s | mouse as people are just ping-ponging |
| 17839s | left right center up down and Every |
| 17841s | Which Way in three-dimensional space to |
| 17844s | get away from their pursuers and that |
| 17847s | was actually just a master class of |
| 17849s | positional play on both sides yeah I |
| 17851s | want to call out uh Casimir on the |
| 17853s | fraternity side in that vaccinavia issue |
| 17855s | he was in Hull for basically five |
| 17858s | minutes uh he had no reps there was no |
| 17859s | rep Bots left he if you watched if he |
| 17862s | wants to match back which I encourage |
| 17863s | you to do so there were some great |
| 17864s | camera shots that really showed the team |
| 17865s | positioning you saw him in the arena |
| 17867s | just bouncing from one micro jump Beacon |
| 17870s | to the other uh the tusker is having to |
| 17872s | chase them around then we started to see |
| 17874s | uh like the tusker's position pilots on |
| 17876s | different beacons trying to force him |
| 17878s | into a corner and catch him they |
| 17880s | eventually managed to get the damage |
| 17881s | onto him and take him down but that five |
| 17883s | minutes he managed to survive was |
| 17886s | probably crucial like that's seven |
| 17887s | points and we saw the match went almost |
| 17889s | down to points at the end and if they |
| 17891s | killed that earlier they have much more |
| 17892s | time to start rolling down that Navy |
| 17894s | Omen and start heading like maybe into |
| 17895s | the abaddin you can see here in the |
| 17897s | arena layout those mjt beacons there's |
| 17900s | uh eight of them in a cube and one in |
| 17902s | the center of the Arena of the cube each |
| 17903s | one is 100 kilometers away from its |
| 17905s | neighbors and then we're in the center |
| 17907s | are 87 kilometers from everything uh so |
| 17910s | when you activate those it just blooms |
| 17912s | your stick for a little bit but then it |
| 17914s | pings you 100 kilometers forward so if |
| 17916s | you line up your your jumps correctly |
| 17918s | you can just jump from one Beacon to |
| 17920s | another you land on top of it you turn |
| 17922s | you light yourself up you jump to the |
| 17923s | next one so you can just move yourself |
| 17925s | around the arena and as mod says we saw |
| 17928s | some excellent positional piloting from |
| 17930s | both teams a real master class again I |
| 17933s | highly recommend uh you watch that match |
| 17935s | back and just look especially those wide |
| 17937s | out shots when we saw all the |
| 17939s | positioning the communication the |
| 17940s | situational awareness in this 3D space |
| 17943s | bar phenomenal piloting oh yeah |
| 17945s | absolutely um it is |
| 17948s | it is something that's like really crazy |
| 17949s | to look at this and see that a team that |
| 17954s | last year in the previously years you |
| 17957s | know fraternity have not done |
| 17959s | particularly good they've not been done |
| 17961s | bad actually like they've been steadily |
| 17963s | improving over the last couple years and |
| 17965s | after like a match like that |
| 17968s | I don't care what twitch chat says |
| 17969s | because I'm sure they're being Twitchy |
| 17971s | but it is absolutely like they 100 |
| 17973s | deserve to be here that flying was |
| 17976s | amazing like they are seeing these |
| 17978s | setups that are being brought and |
| 17979s | figuring out how to counter them and |
| 17981s | this uh tusker setup the first time we |
| 17984s | saw it was today |
| 17985s | so in the in the last couple hours they |
| 17987s | were like ah we should figure out how to |
| 17989s | beat that just in case and they just did |
| 17992s | and they did a fantastic job they did |
| 17993s | everything perfectly like |
| 17995s | it's wild we have a 2-2 for the first |
| 17997s | time in |
| 17999s | I don't know how long probably at least |
| 18000s | a decade uh that's just it's great like |
| 18003s | this is this is the one to go back and |
| 18004s | re-watch yeah I someone can fact check |
| 18008s | me probably |
| 18009s | um CCP Swift or maybe zealous but I |
| 18011s | actually think the last time we went to |
| 18013s | the fifth match might have been Alliance |
| 18015s | tournament 14 which was the tuskers |
| 18017s | versus pandemic Legion when the tuskers |
| 18020s | have pulled out in the in the fifth |
| 18022s | match they pulled out the win and they |
| 18023s | and they took the gold I think that |
| 18025s | actually might be the last time we've |
| 18027s | had the full fifth match so maybe we can |
| 18029s | get someone in the back fact checking |
| 18031s | that one because that would be pretty |
| 18032s | pretty cool if it is uh tuskers get to |
| 18035s | the finals again can't do it three nil |
| 18037s | can't do it three one maybe they do it |
| 18039s | three two who knows I think moderator |
| 18041s | one of the crucial things going into |
| 18043s | this final match |
| 18044s | all those Conquest bands that we saw |
| 18046s | from the previous uh four matches they |
| 18049s | are all gone every single Conquest band |
| 18051s | has been reset so now we have a best of |
| 18054s | one between these two teams to decide |
| 18056s | the alliance tournament the tuskers |
| 18058s | versus fraternity one single match |
| 18061s | the regular bands no other special |
| 18063s | nonsense with Conquest bands the only |
| 18066s | thing that's going to separate these two |
| 18067s | teams now is piloting scale 3D crafting |
| 18070s | and the fact that tuskers still have |
| 18072s | that as we know very pimp Flagship |
| 18074s | Armageddon Navy issue how much do you |
| 18077s | think that is going to weigh into this |
| 18079s | I think it moves massively into it um |
| 18082s | you have seen that |
| 18085s | the Armageddon Navy issue can be flown a |
| 18088s | variety of different ways and that's why |
| 18089s | it's been such a threat it is you can |
| 18091s | turn it into basically a giant Giga |
| 18093s | curse where you just say hey |
| 18096s | um I don't even need to fit weapons on |
| 18098s | this really if I don't want to I can |
| 18099s | just put full officer new to that are |
| 18101s | going to hit |
| 18103s | um you know just as far as it's kind of |
| 18106s | you know colleague the tech one |
| 18107s | Armageddon but also be just you know |
| 18110s | that much more survivable that much more |
| 18111s | effective because it does get you know |
| 18113s | more HP being a factionship |
| 18116s | um that definitely weighs on you you |
| 18118s | have to understand if your fraternity |
| 18120s | and you really want to take it and run |
| 18122s | it back from O2 to you know three two |
| 18125s | how to deal with that |
| 18127s | um you know credit to the tuskers too I |
| 18129s | mean I was practicing with them back |
| 18131s | when they did get their Alliance |
| 18133s | tournament uh Victory way back when |
| 18135s | against PL that's how I have my gold |
| 18136s | medal and you really have to have that |
| 18139s | kind of mental |
| 18141s | vigilance and kind of preparation for |
| 18143s | okay |
| 18145s | Conquest bends reset |
| 18147s | everything's open you've kind of been in |
| 18150s | the last four matches you've been |
| 18151s | thinking five dimensional chess about |
| 18153s | okay there's 20 ships I have that I want |
| 18156s | to bring but they're all banned and now |
| 18158s | it's just all back to square zero uh you |
| 18160s | know just the purest form of Alliance |
| 18161s | tournament here and now yeah I'm just |
| 18163s | looking at the schedule we had today the |
| 18165s | tuskers they came in first and they beat |
| 18167s | truth on the light in the best of one |
| 18169s | they then went into the lower bracket |
| 18171s | final against barcode but they went 2-0 |
| 18173s | at this point they've played three games |
| 18174s | now they're coming into their fifth game |
| 18177s | against fraternity so this is game eight |
| 18179s | today that they've had to play so it's |
| 18180s | been a heck of a slog for them to get |
| 18182s | here and they're going to be getting |
| 18184s | tired it is mentally draining it is |
| 18186s | mentally exhausting to do this uh like |
| 18188s | unless you've flown an alliance |
| 18190s | tournament you could be cool as a |
| 18192s | cucumber and then when the countdown |
| 18193s | starts in local you know you feel that |
| 18195s | heart rate going up you get the the |
| 18197s | shaky hands the spaghetti starts to come |
| 18198s | flowing out the pockets it is really |
| 18201s | really difficult uh and Bart what I want |
| 18205s | to ask you is you have you're right you |
| 18208s | have this Flagship available |
| 18210s | surely it's going to be super easy to |
| 18213s | just go with it because the extra power |
| 18214s | but is that going to Telegraph to |
| 18217s | fraternity |
| 18218s | foreign |
| 18219s | I feel that tuskers is |
| 18222s | they've shown that they don't need a |
| 18225s | flagship at all in fact some of their |
| 18228s | like strongest wins have been without a |
| 18230s | flagship |
| 18231s | um I don't think it telegraphs anything |
| 18232s | they will I feel like they've almost |
| 18234s | flown a different setup every single |
| 18235s | time we've seen them here so they've |
| 18238s | kind of we talk about it sometimes where |
| 18240s | like when you're doing the alliance |
| 18242s | tournament sometimes you want to hide |
| 18244s | your your good comp until the end of the |
| 18245s | day you want to hide you could come |
| 18246s | until the last weekend the other |
| 18248s | strategy is to just constantly throw |
| 18250s | random stuff well there it's obviously |
| 18252s | not random they're here in the finals |
| 18253s | you constantly throw a different setups |
| 18256s | so nobody knows what you're doing like I |
| 18257s | don't know what tuskers is going to |
| 18258s | bring like could they bring their |
| 18260s | Flagship yeah but they could have also |
| 18262s | sat there and said you know what this |
| 18263s | isn't the path like we saved that for |
| 18265s | one specific setup I don't think |
| 18267s | fraternity can really do anything |
| 18269s | besides maybe say all right well |
| 18272s | I guess let's hope that they don't bring |
| 18273s | that drone setup that's been just |
| 18275s | rolling us because they proved that with |
| 18277s | good drones they can win |
| 18279s | and with okay drones they can win and |
| 18282s | now they're back to being able to do |
| 18283s | like great drones they can they can do |
| 18285s | whatever they want like the Congo spans |
| 18286s | are gone uh tuskers is terrifying I |
| 18288s | would hate to be on fraternity side |
| 18289s | right now where they're just like you |
| 18291s | know it's like uh like the meme of you |
| 18293s | know the person looking at all the math |
| 18294s | stuff in there it's like the numbers |
| 18295s | what do they mean trying to figure out |
| 18297s | what's going on here uh yeah it's just |
| 18299s | it's just rough I I don't think you can |
| 18300s | prepare for this yeah I'm being told |
| 18302s | that the last time we did have a grand |
| 18305s | finals going to the fifth match was |
| 18307s | indeed Alliance tournament 14 pandemic |
| 18309s | region versus tuskers tuskers pulling it |
| 18312s | out in that final match which I remember |
| 18313s | it being an absolute nail biter and I |
| 18315s | remember the recording of the uh the |
| 18317s | TeamSpeak of the tuskers when they won |
| 18319s | and the shoot relation from the pilots |
| 18321s | I'm sure these Pilots some of them are |
| 18323s | hold over from them but a lot of new |
| 18324s | pilots made achieve the captain uh has |
| 18327s | taken over and from silly in the last |
| 18329s | little while and he's been you know |
| 18330s | building this team up using a little bit |
| 18332s | of meta stuff and and really |
| 18334s | I mean they've done excellent like |
| 18335s | they've always been bringing different |
| 18336s | stuff we always call me right out for |
| 18338s | his kind of like off-the-wall meta |
| 18339s | fittings and things but a lot of this |
| 18342s | core tuskers team not is it not super |
| 18344s | experienced they're not members of the |
| 18346s | the live streaming 14 winning team some |
| 18347s | of them certainly are but not that many |
| 18349s | of them I'm also told we have another |
| 18351s | graph we can we can pop up that's uh |
| 18353s | some hard-hitting analysis here at |
| 18354s | Alliance tournament 19. let's uh let's |
| 18356s | check out that is the CCP zealous heart |
| 18359s | rate monitor uh yes so as the matches go |
| 18363s | he gets more and more ready and ready |
| 18365s | and ready and then it looks like okay |
| 18367s | we're probably gonna go through you I |
| 18369s | believe that's where the little dip is |
| 18370s | here we're going through you know okay |
| 18371s | we can relax and then suddenly |
| 18374s | for outside to pull it back and here we |
| 18376s | go so the heart rate is rising he is |
| 18378s | getting excited through there so yeah |
| 18380s | CCV zealous he's coming through because |
| 18382s | he comes through to it will be joining |
| 18384s | us on the desk at the end and then uh |
| 18386s | both of the previous two matches he's |
| 18387s | come on through and then be like oh I |
| 18389s | guess I need to leave again and then |
| 18391s | just walked back through so uh I'm |
| 18393s | definitely looking forward to seeing him |
| 18394s | at the end of this match because one way |
| 18397s | or another someone is winning at this |
| 18399s | point there is no other options uh I |
| 18401s | think the bands are available for our |
| 18404s | final match so perhaps we can take a |
| 18405s | look at those and see what the team's |
| 18407s | choosing to ban in the final match of |
| 18410s | Alliance tournament 19 the tusker is |
| 18412s | cool Banning the Blackbird this arm's ad |
| 18415s | the guardian and the universe so they're |
| 18417s | hitting the Blackbird they'll be no |
| 18418s | fraternity likes that we know they |
| 18420s | really enjoy that ECM core they're also |
| 18422s | hitting all those Tech 2 Logistics armor |
| 18424s | cruisers for tarante they're going for |
| 18426s | the bar guest the Osprey the Scimitar |
| 18428s | and the EOS trying to get rid of that |
| 18431s | powerful ship in that drone comp |
| 18432s | moderator what do you think about these |
| 18434s | bands I think they make a great deal of |
| 18436s | sense um getting rid of the Blackbird |
| 18437s | hits at fraternity being able to bring |
| 18441s | any sort of you know kind of a control |
| 18443s | there fraternity shown that they can do |
| 18444s | that that's how they got one of their |
| 18446s | wins against tuskers earlier uh tuskers |
| 18448s | choosing to ban all three of the tech |
| 18451s | two laundry |
| 18453s | um really hits again at fraternity being |
| 18455s | able to bring like kind of an armor uh |
| 18458s | Battleship core which is something that |
| 18460s | fraternity has been typically excelling |
| 18462s | throughout again how they've beaten |
| 18464s | tuskers in these last couple matches |
| 18466s | fraternity choosing to ban out the EO |
| 18468s | says it's the best basically ship you |
| 18471s | can bring in any of the Drone comps that |
| 18473s | tuskers has wanted to bring Scimitar |
| 18475s | hits very well along with the Osprey at |
| 18477s | a lot of you know either a shield rush |
| 18480s | or a shield kite toughers this year last |
| 18484s | year year before has demonstrated they |
| 18486s | can do that |
| 18487s | barges again the ship has basically been |
| 18490s | nearly permaband the entire tournament |
| 18493s | this point |
| 18494s | um kind of big shout out to fraternity I |
| 18497s | know it's getting very very late in |
| 18498s | China where a lot of their members some |
| 18500s | of them are playing from the US but it's |
| 18502s | getting late for them and to be able to |
| 18504s | have the endurance to go this long says |
| 18506s | a lot yeah for sure um you know we just |
| 18508s | spoke about that a little bit but these |
| 18510s | matches are you know so so intense uh |
| 18512s | you've flown in a bunch of matches Bart |
| 18513s | you have as well iPhone and tournament |
| 18515s | it really is hard to like explain just |
| 18519s | how high effort these continuous matches |
| 18522s | are especially when you're in a grand |
| 18523s | final situation having to do with all |
| 18525s | these Conquest bands you know you're the |
| 18527s | tuskers you you had the opportunity to |
| 18529s | win Alliance tournament in your grasp |
| 18531s | twice now and both times you have kind |
| 18533s | of fumbled the ball a little bit and we |
| 18535s | end up back here all those Conquest |
| 18537s | bands are gone you can bring probably |
| 18539s | what you most want to bring very |
| 18541s | targeted bands from both sides this is |
| 18543s | extremely targeted |
| 18546s | um we've only seen one comp Blackboard |
| 18548s | pirate brought I think from White Flag |
| 18549s | which was an all-end run comp with zero |
| 18553s | Logie is that maybe something we could |
| 18556s | expect from a team like the tuskers here |
| 18557s | do they just go all in on top of uh on |
| 18559s | top of Eternity Now with an all-in drone |
| 18561s | comp I think tuskers is like a lot |
| 18563s | smarter than that um that was a |
| 18565s | the the story with that specific one and |
| 18567s | I remember like reading it in some |
| 18569s | Discord somewhere is that they were like |
| 18571s | we don't know what to bring against |
| 18573s | these guys so we're gonna bring |
| 18574s | something we practiced once because if |
| 18576s | we don't know what we're doing then they |
| 18577s | won't know what we're doing |
| 18579s | um tuskers is like the opposite of that |
| 18580s | they're like they don't know what |
| 18581s | they're doing but we know exactly we're |
| 18583s | doing and uh Mira achieves picking and |
| 18587s | banning and then cop bringing has been |
| 18590s | like near perfect this entire time like |
| 18594s | I don't think there's been a single time |
| 18595s | where you looked at it and we were |
| 18596s | actually joking about it uh when when |
| 18598s | Seasons came in we're like yeah |
| 18600s | we can't really call this because it's |
| 18603s | too even or it's like oh tuskers |
| 18605s | probably has this like every single |
| 18606s | match it's it's either been tuskers has |
| 18608s | this from the get-go or this could go |
| 18610s | either way there hasn't been a single |
| 18611s | one where you're like oh tuskers what |
| 18613s | are you doing so they're not I don't |
| 18615s | think they're bringing a shield all in |
| 18617s | Shield armor mix tank no launch heat |
| 18619s | drone setup |
| 18620s | um I do think that this could be a |
| 18623s | repeat of their second match where they |
| 18626s | brought the Armageddon Navy flag because |
| 18628s | most of that comp is still set up which |
| 18631s | gets kind of weird because why would you |
| 18633s | leave most of that open |
| 18637s | they clearly understand fraternity |
| 18640s | clearly understands ban meta they left |
| 18642s | that open |
| 18643s | so maybe fraternity is the one that's |
| 18646s | going to do something crazy here oh no |
| 18648s | we're into the spirals yeah that there's |
| 18652s | probably uh 20 people uh or more some of |
| 18655s | these teams have way more than uh 10 in |
| 18656s | each side of course uh in two separate |
| 18659s | TeamSpeak servers just frantically |
| 18661s | spiraling and uh refitting ships I I |
| 18665s | don't know like I'm seeing uh some some |
| 18667s | chatter in our production thing some |
| 18668s | people expecting to see the Navy garden |
| 18670s | with drones and deacons coming from the |
| 18672s | tuskers uh fraternity if they've left |
| 18675s | that open as you say moderator do they |
| 18677s | think they know how to beat it do they |
| 18679s | are they letting it to be brought |
| 18680s | because they think they can kill it |
| 18682s | I think it's less a case of that being |
| 18686s | something that they know they can kill |
| 18688s | so much is you have a limited number of |
| 18691s | bands period and you have to deal with |
| 18694s | that and I feel like they don't want to |
| 18696s | deal with the Navy Armageddon but there |
| 18699s | are things they want to deal with even |
| 18700s | less which is why we saw the EO span |
| 18702s | which is why we saw the Scimitar ban I |
| 18705s | believe also part of why we saw the |
| 18707s | Blackbird band I believe although that |
| 18709s | was for tuskers so it's like yeah I mean |
| 18711s | I'd love to just ban out everything that |
| 18713s | my opponent could do but you're limited |
| 18715s | you have to pick and choose what you |
| 18716s | think you might be personally weakest |
| 18718s | against and to give credit to tuskers um |
| 18722s | mirror chief for the longest time used |
| 18724s | to kind of get clowned on because he |
| 18726s | would do these wacky off-the-wall things |
| 18728s | and for a while tuskers would get |
| 18730s | basically dunked or lose matches that |
| 18732s | they really shouldn't have if they just |
| 18733s | played a more standard comp |
| 18735s | here we're seeing a much more mature |
| 18737s | more developed kind of grown out Theory |
| 18741s | crafting and it's gotten tuskers in an |
| 18743s | excellent position thus far |
| 18745s | well I am told it is time the final |
| 18749s | match of Alliance tournament 19 the |
| 18751s | Tasker is cool versus fraternity for the |
| 18755s | gold medal for all the prize ships four |
| 18757s | Alliance tournament 19. let's head into |
| 18759s | the arena one more time with our casters |
| 18762s | Alec and Wingnut |
| 18767s | and welcome back to the arena for the |
| 18769s | final of the best of five this is the |
| 18771s | big one the final we'll be waiting for |
| 18773s | tuskers versus frat with the new blood |
| 18775s | versus the old dogs and this is going to |
| 18779s | be amazing because we have a drone |
| 18781s | cartoon with that crazy produce versus |
| 18783s | what looks to be a Nighthawk hand Rush |
| 18785s | coming back from the previous at we |
| 18787s | think Alex is gonna be wild or what |
| 18789s | it has all come down to this this is |
| 18791s | each team's culmination of their |
| 18793s | Alliance tournament Journey |
| 18795s | dozens of matches incredible amounts of |
| 18798s | theory crafting we've seen flagships |
| 18800s | live and die and everything comes down |
| 18802s | to this will fraternity make history |
| 18804s | well tuscaras redeem themselves and |
| 18807s | reclaim the glory of nearly a decade ago |
| 18809s | when they were Lions tournament |
| 18810s | champions the links are popped and we're |
| 18813s | about to find out right now |
| 18816s | as you said this is gonna be the match |
| 18817s | of the decade because it's been so long |
| 18820s | and yet we've seen some incredible |
| 18822s | matches they rush in with his hand rush |
| 18824s | and the Drone ball has immediately been |
| 18825s | popped look at that wave of drones |
| 18827s | coming at them |
| 18829s | oh that was a huge cloud of hammerheads |
| 18832s | Valkyries and they're streaking across |
| 18834s | the field right now |
| 18836s | tonight actually the lowest drones are |
| 18839s | still on the Raptor rather than on the |
| 18841s | uh the Osprey Navy right in front those |
| 18842s | drones are still chasing a raptor who's |
| 18843s | left them in the dust they need to |
| 18845s | re-sun these drones now his damage is |
| 18847s | already coming down on them some of the |
| 18848s | fraternity Pilots seem to have gotten |
| 18850s | the menu and they've now reassigned into |
| 18851s | the Proteus |
| 18853s | that is the tankiest Target on the |
| 18855s | tuskers co team so they're trying to |
| 18857s | make the most of the damage while |
| 18858s | they've got it in the meantime the Navy |
| 18860s | Osprey has been scrammed and painted |
| 18862s | and it's starting to take some serious |
| 18864s | damage going into low Shields |
| 18867s | this Proteus they're going for damage to |
| 18869s | The Offspring Navy now that's probably |
| 18870s | one of the best targets they can go for |
| 18871s | this prop this produce is incredibly |
| 18874s | tanky but they are still chipping him |
| 18875s | rather aggressively the Osprey Navy is |
| 18877s | actually tanking almost perfectly like |
| 18878s | 20 Shield remember a dollar in the back |
| 18881s | it's also being priming this is an |
| 18882s | absolute race |
| 18884s | the failure of Jagger Moretz is a cloud |
| 18886s | of fraternity late drones on it every |
| 18888s | fraternity drone has been released and |
| 18890s | assigned to this Thalia they're trying |
| 18892s | to pressure him and make the his |
| 18894s | Logistics partner Skyler Hawk forced to |
| 18896s | make a decision keep the Proteus alive |
| 18898s | or keep his partner alive and right now |
| 18900s | he is deciding to keep the Proteus alive |
| 18903s | with one and then keep his friend alive |
| 18906s | with the other it's not enough the |
| 18907s | Proteus goes down the burst goes down |
| 18910s | the Nathalia may join surely now that |
| 18913s | all the DPS is freed up he's low armor |
| 18915s | here I'm surprised by the call putting |
| 18917s | all the drones on that to burst in the |
| 18918s | back they had medium drones on them |
| 18920s | they've had a bunch of hammer heads all |
| 18921s | of them on a burst rather than on the |
| 18923s | Osprey Navy that's being hurt rather |
| 18924s | than on the ships attacking their Pros |
| 18926s | they went for a T1 Logistics frigate |
| 18929s | shake his web he's just painted now and |
| 18932s | you can kind of see him that a lot of |
| 18933s | the damage there has stopped he's pretty |
| 18935s | much in show shield and he's been there |
| 18937s | for about a minute now meantime the |
| 18939s | Bantam has coasted to the other side of |
| 18941s | the Arena taking himself out of the |
| 18943s | fight meanwhile mirror Chiefs mermaidon |
| 18945s | taken out of the fight permanently as |
| 18947s | fraternity claims another kill |
| 18950s | these are drone targets they've picked |
| 18952s | have cost them way too much too quickly |
| 18954s | the Osprey Navy is still alive dragging |
| 18956s | all the drones with the meanwhile |
| 18957s | they've lost two of their DPA ships |
| 18959s | tuskers are not looking good frat will |
| 18961s | boot might be coming back from me come |
| 18962s | from behind Victory from two losses |
| 18964s | earlier on |
| 18965s | the fraternity Pilots are dragging these |
| 18968s | drones all over the arena and it's |
| 18969s | costing the textures precious time this |
| 18972s | is going to be the third match in a row |
| 18973s | where the clock is going to be the worst |
| 18976s | opponent for tuskers their most |
| 18978s | challenging foe as now finally they're |
| 18980s | starting to bring some of the drones |
| 18982s | back to the other side but it's not |
| 18984s | going to be enough another mermaid drops |
| 18985s | they're down to just four damage dealers |
| 18988s | out of this drone comp nearly half of |
| 18990s | their DPS is gone the Thalia is still |
| 18993s | struggling to stay alive getting |
| 18994s | consistently pressured by that drone |
| 18996s | cloud and they haven't traded back for |
| 18998s | anything they've claimed one burst and |
| 19000s | then their kills have absolutely stopped |
| 19002s | as fraternity has been making at least |
| 19004s | tuskers look like fools running around |
| 19006s | with these drones and the biggest |
| 19008s | respect from s to ephra as well he's |
| 19009s | been targeted by drum globes at least |
| 19011s | twice and photons had dragged into the |
| 19013s | other side of the arena and left them |
| 19015s | for dust every might be carrying his |
| 19017s | entire team with that just incredibly |
| 19019s | quickest spot cooling there are already |
| 19020s | ggs and local the teams already you know |
| 19023s | this is not going to ask his way but |
| 19024s | there is still a chance for the uh for |
| 19026s | the return if they can just get some |
| 19027s | damage down |
| 19028s | and to make matters worse the Bantam now |
| 19030s | has micro warp drive back into the mix |
| 19033s | and he's now providing reps to F Roo |
| 19035s | getting his shield bar which was so hard |
| 19037s | worked on by tuskers it's all for not as |
| 19040s | it's pulled back to third Shield |
| 19041s | meanwhile the Raptor of cashmere taking |
| 19043s | a lot of damage possibly in trade for |
| 19045s | the Thalia if they get it at all the |
| 19047s | style is looking very unhealthy right |
| 19049s | now its armor bar is dropping rapidly |
| 19052s | okay we've finally seen some DPS drones |
| 19054s | onto the Loki instead that's honestly |
| 19056s | pretty cool that we said he's a mile |
| 19057s | away from the actual fight at the moment |
| 19058s | the the |
| 19059s | um vexent navies have actually burned |
| 19061s | away they're going to the next MDD pick |
| 19063s | and they might actually bounce around |
| 19064s | and try and avoid these rather damaging |
| 19066s | ships that are chasing them down but |
| 19067s | it's just it's still continuing slowly |
| 19069s | to fall for tuskers they the road is |
| 19071s | just not looking good that's one of the |
| 19073s | failures down Skyler Hawk Falls followed |
| 19075s | by Flack inquisitors ishkar followed by |
| 19077s | the other Valley of Jaeger barrettes |
| 19079s | that's the three frigates on tuskers Co |
| 19081s | all died within the last 30 seconds |
| 19084s | yeah and look at the cycling Fleet as |
| 19086s | well of Chess play just absolutely |
| 19087s | screaming into these uh Cruisers |
| 19089s | stopping from basically being able to uh |
| 19090s | even mjd safely they have to keep |
| 19092s | burning away because he gets there too |
| 19094s | fast he does tackle down the uh memad on |
| 19097s | it I think at that point with the last |
| 19098s | moment on tackle down this is over frat |
| 19101s | have come back from A two-nil Loss to |
| 19104s | come back to potentially win the |
| 19106s | alliance tournament |
| 19107s | absolutely incredible performance by |
| 19109s | fraternity amazing piloting by afro |
| 19112s | basically won the match on his own with |
| 19114s | his sheer piloting skill alone the quick |
| 19116s | decisions to pull those drones away from |
| 19119s | his team on multiple occasions keeping |
| 19121s | himself alive and preventing tuskers |
| 19123s | from swapping targets effectively you |
| 19125s | see the tuskers vexers and ishker excuse |
| 19128s | me Ishtar trying to make a b line for |
| 19130s | the youngest side of the Arena just buy |
| 19132s | themselves some time but the Ishtar has |
| 19134s | already been webbed down and the mermaid |
| 19136s | is in half armor he is swarmed right now |
| 19139s | with the fraternity team |
| 19143s | this is just I I did not expect to see |
| 19145s | this go this way I think like you said |
| 19148s | just basically carry their time actually |
| 19149s | got a boundary violation for the Vixen |
| 19150s | Navy of Katarina illuminato |
| 19152s | I wonder if the domestic all night might |
| 19154s | be the only player on Tranquility that |
| 19156s | had Fraternity in the finals and they |
| 19158s | are coming away Alliance tournament |
| 19160s | champions |
| 19161s | is that the mjding out yep they they |
| 19163s | tuskers have called it their mjd and |
| 19165s | their ships have vaccine Navy leaving |
| 19166s | the arena I think Jason osram the legend |
| 19169s | himself is also attempting to oh he's |
| 19171s | just getting killed |
| 19174s | yep the biggest respect to fraternity |
| 19176s | bra though amazingly well fluent here to |
| 19179s | come back and just just destroyed final |
| 19183s | two matches |
| 19184s | incredible gutsy performance they've |
| 19187s | gone through so many matches they |
| 19188s | squeaked out on points but this was an |
| 19190s | absolutely dominant Victory |
| 19192s | congratulations fraternity 100 to one |
| 19195s | and we send it back to the desk for a |
| 19197s | final breakdown |
| 19223s | do we ever use boosters and doctrines |
| 19225s | tank boosters |
| 19229s | oh yes |
| 19238s | like you say there's such a huge group |
| 19240s | in the game that they can easily just do |
| 19242s | their own internal practices if they |
| 19243s | wanted to they can easily get 20 Pilots |
| 19245s | I'm sure |
| 19253s | foreign |
| 19288s | return to managed to bring it back they |
| 19290s | lose their Flagship in the process but |
| 19293s | they go one match after another after |
| 19295s | another three in a row they take the |
| 19298s | series fraternity are the grand |
| 19300s | champions of Alliance tournament 19 |
| 19303s | defeating the tuskers call tuskers |
| 19305s | unable to pull out in that last match |
| 19307s | and compared to the other matches where |
| 19309s | it looked like fraternity just barely |
| 19311s | clawed out those victories that last one |
| 19313s | was just dominance 100 to one only a |
| 19316s | single tech one Logistics uh forget |
| 19317s | going down on the side of fraternity and |
| 19320s | I just wanted to call it mvpf Rue on the |
| 19324s | fraternity side in that Navy Osprey we |
| 19326s | were watching him he got tackled he |
| 19328s | started going down and then he managed |
| 19329s | to break free kite away as fast as he |
| 19331s | could that right there probably won the |
| 19334s | alliance tournament for Fraternity |
| 19336s | fantastic piloting by the fraternity |
| 19338s | team they're the newest Champions there |
| 19340s | will be emblazoned upon the monument in |
| 19342s | Monarch and of course they get all of |
| 19344s | those incredible prize ships uh want to |
| 19347s | buy by the way so hit me up let me know |
| 19349s | uh CCP zealous you join us on the stage |
| 19352s | for the the final final part of the last |
| 19354s | serve at 19. how was that for you that |
| 19356s | was absolutely phenomenal uh those last |
| 19358s | few matches what a grand finals I |
| 19360s | haven't seen a grand finals like that in |
| 19361s | years uh walking down here a couple of |
| 19364s | times where I think it's over uh it |
| 19366s | wasn't and then finally we have our new |
| 19369s | alliance tournament winners uh fantastic |
| 19372s | absolutely super happy to see 52 teams |
| 19376s | all the way down to today's winner it |
| 19379s | was what can I say it's been weeks and |
| 19381s | weeks and months and months of |
| 19382s | preparation from everybody it's uh it's |
| 19385s | been a heck of a Time heck of a time but |
| 19388s | uh of course it's not just been myself |
| 19390s | there's been a whole crew of people |
| 19391s | behind me as well a whole bunch of |
| 19393s | people at CCP we have uh some credits to |
| 19396s | roll uh at the end here just to thank |
| 19397s | everybody that's not here with us today |
| 19399s | but we do have a bunch of people that |
| 19401s | are with us today that I would like to |
| 19402s | thank so I'd like to invite them all on |
| 19404s | now |
| 19405s | foreign |
| 19408s | here comes the gang here comes the Gang |
| 19414s | so what's next to be zealous what's next |
| 19416s | oh uh I believe Fan Fest is next on the |
| 19419s | agenda Fan Fest yeah FanFest sold out |
| 19422s | it's coming up in just a few weeks yeah |
| 19424s | yeah very very soon I'm really looking |
| 19427s | forward to that |
| 19428s | um thank you so much everybody for |
| 19430s | watching thank you so much for all the |
| 19431s | teams who have been competing without |
| 19433s | you guys the viewers and the teams we we |
| 19436s | literally can't do this uh it's been a |
| 19438s | phenomenal production this this crew is |
| 19440s | basically what made it happen uh so well |
| 19443s | done to them a phenomenal bunch of |
| 19444s | people we really hope you enjoyed it |
| 19446s | that's been the most exciting Grand |
| 19447s | finals I've seen in a long time uh I've |
| 19450s | I've absolutely loved it I've been CCP |
| 19452s | overload this has been the entire crew |
| 19454s | uh thank you so much for watching |
| 19458s | thank you so much for watching and good |
| 19462s | night |
| 19469s | thank you |
| 19484s | foreign |
| 19572s | foreign |
| 19610s | thank you |
| 19651s | thank you |
| 19673s | foreign |