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| 1252s | hello everyone and welcome to Lobby |
| 1255s | Legends fall Championship I'm Raven and |
| 1257s | joining me for this week weekend's |
| 1259s | tournament is subtle subtle welcome |
| 1261s | how's it going and you ready for some |
| 1262s | Battlegrounds it's been a |
| 1272s | while yes I will start that all over |
| 1275s | again I just been informed I was muted |
| 1277s | yeah I am excited so excited that I a |
| 1279s | while forgot how to do it B I can't even |
| 1281s | get basic technical aspects of |
| 1283s | broadcasting right anymore but yes this |
| 1284s | is our last Battlegrounds event of the |
| 1287s | year so it' be great to really go off |
| 1288s | with a bang this time around I think |
| 1289s | we've got a fantastic lineup and we have |
| 1293s | a ludicrous level of potential chaos |
| 1296s | going on with the anomalies that are in |
| 1297s | the Battlegrounds Tavern right now which |
| 1299s | really do in just introduce that extra |
| 1302s | Lil of uh of entropy into proceedings |
| 1304s | that should for some very very exciting |
| 1307s | games yeah we will no doubt be diving |
| 1309s | into the those intricacies shortly but |
| 1311s | let's check out the overall format for |
| 1313s | Lobby Legends just to see what is going |
| 1315s | to be going on over the course of the |
| 1316s | weekend we've got 16 players are going |
| 1319s | to be juking out in two lobbies made up |
| 1320s | of eight players each of course today |
| 1322s | they're going to be playing three games |
| 1325s | per Lobby uh and those are and then |
| 1327s | we're going to get the top four from |
| 1328s | each of those to make that day two Lobby |
| 1331s | overall and then we're going to be |
| 1333s | jumping over to the check format as is |
| 1335s | the case in these Lobby Legends |
| 1337s | tournaments for the Sunday but we'll get |
| 1338s | into more of that on the Sunday so do |
| 1340s | you want to take us through to how the |
| 1341s | matches today |
| 1342s | work yeah so for today it's just a |
| 1345s | simple matter of three games per Lobby |
| 1347s | so all the players in lobby a will play |
| 1349s | three total games uh and then the top |
| 1351s | four in that proceeding will go through |
| 1353s | to the final Lobby what uh the the dear |
| 1356s | departed Derek Brown was referring to as |
| 1358s | Mega Lobby on the Sunday with the top |
| 1360s | four I don't know I keep talking about |
| 1362s | as if he's dead I don't know why that's |
| 1364s | amusing me so much the word choice |
| 1366s | interesting he's fine he's okay yeah |
| 1368s | he's fine don't worry he's okay he got |
| 1370s | himself a Normy job somewhere uh but on |
| 1373s | that Sunday these players will be |
| 1375s | competing for the prize pool that you |
| 1376s | see among you as well as the title of |
| 1379s | 2023 final Lobby leg Lobby Legends |
| 1383s | champion of the year with $10,000 going |
| 1385s | to |
| 1387s | that yeah it's um it's something that's |
| 1389s | really interesting as well because over |
| 1390s | the course of like Lobby Legends this |
| 1392s | year and previous is like we've really |
| 1394s | got a group of players that are just |
| 1396s | regulars at this point we see so many |
| 1399s | returning faces and I think especially |
| 1401s | once we round this weekend out we could |
| 1403s | look at the players over the past year |
| 1405s | or two and say yes these are the best in |
| 1408s | the world World once we have those |
| 1409s | results because they've been racking up |
| 1411s | you know you know wins over wins or even |
| 1413s | just qualifications over qualifications |
| 1416s | but so let's go to one of your favorite |
| 1418s | parts of Lobby Legends no doubt because |
| 1419s | you beat me in the past and that's going |
| 1421s | to be the tavern buddy and how that |
| 1423s | works break it down for us yeah I think |
| 1426s | it's a great addition I think it's |
| 1427s | really added something a little that |
| 1428s | layer of interactivity uh if you are |
| 1430s | watching on Twitch if you're watching on |
| 1432s | desktop you will see the little widget |
| 1434s | on the side that you can click to bring |
| 1435s | up the overlay allow you to compete in a |
| 1437s | few of these intera active games so you |
| 1439s | can get yourself involved in the |
| 1440s | broadcast starting with your fantasy |
| 1442s | team which is the simplest one of all if |
| 1445s | you've played any sort of fantasy draft |
| 1446s | game before very very simple pick three |
| 1448s | players from Lobby a three players from |
| 1450s | Lobby B put them together whoever does |
| 1453s | the best out of those uh out those |
| 1455s | choices will have the most points for |
| 1456s | their fantasy team yeah puzzle box for |
| 1458s | me is the most difficult one because you |
| 1460s | have to make some predictions about |
| 1462s | what's going to happen and it it's |
| 1464s | always difficult because if you play |
| 1466s | Battlegrounds as much as I imagine all |
| 1467s | of you viers at home do you know all of |
| 1470s | these things can happen but you have to |
| 1472s | make that call are they going to happen |
| 1474s | so it's a really really tricky one so |
| 1476s | hopefully we'll have some cool ones to |
| 1477s | go over the course of the |
| 1478s | weekend yeah and then bandwagon is an |
| 1481s | ingame action where uh with every game |
| 1483s | that happens you will have up until turn |
| 1485s | four to select a player to jump on the |
| 1489s | bandwagon of essentially so you're |
| 1490s | trying to pick who is going to win the |
| 1492s | game within the first four turns you can |
| 1495s | change as many times as you want within |
| 1497s | those first four turns there's no |
| 1499s | penalty for that explicitly however the |
| 1502s | earlier you lock in the more points |
| 1505s | you'll get so let's say dog wins a Lobby |
| 1508s | if I've picked dog on turn one and Raven |
| 1510s | has picked dog on turn four I get more |
| 1513s | points because I locked in that choice |
| 1515s | earlier yeah and then finally we have |
| 1517s | bars blaz in another very time sensitive |
| 1519s | one where you have to just we get shown |
| 1521s | the boards and you have to pick which |
| 1522s | one you think is going to win in a |
| 1524s | head-to-head matchup and I think with |
| 1527s | anomalies and everything that's going on |
| 1528s | at the moment subtle this feels like |
| 1530s | it's going to be extra difficult this |
| 1531s | time cuz I genuinely do feel that sort |
| 1534s | of having a stronghold of what's going |
| 1536s | to happen on any given game or even any |
| 1538s | given fight is very very difficult at |
| 1540s | the moment yeah it's really hard not |
| 1542s | only because of anomalies but like you |
| 1544s | bring in base skills the amount of like |
| 1546s | death rattles and Reborns and various |
| 1549s | tokens and poisons left right and Center |
| 1551s | going around the place boards are hard |
| 1553s | to read right now but uh you can see |
| 1555s | myself and Raven will be competing |
| 1557s | against each other in these uh Tab and |
| 1559s | body games starting off with these |
| 1561s | puzzle box questions and fairly fairly |
| 1564s | similar outcomes on these questions we |
| 1566s | only differ on will a player win a game |
| 1568s | while reaching Tavern 7 uh which I'm |
| 1571s | fairly confident on because players |
| 1573s | might play this entire tournament |
| 1574s | without ever having the opportunity to |
| 1576s | level to tavn 7 first and foremost uh |
| 1579s | and then also length of time without an |
| 1580s | elimination is somewhere we differ as |
| 1582s | well yeah and I think that you can |
| 1584s | really just tell how different mean s |
| 1586s | are here because so's like I've |
| 1587s | calculated the chances of this happening |
| 1589s | and I believe it's yes or no where I'm |
| 1591s | like but what if it does |
| 1594s | and and then that's where I plan to make |
| 1596s | up my points we were given these |
| 1598s | questions this morning and then uh the |
| 1600s | person who's in in charge of handling |
| 1601s | all this stuff said oh Raven got his in |
| 1603s | straight away sttle I like him way more |
| 1605s | than you I'm like yes cuz he didn't |
| 1607s | think about it he just clicked some |
| 1609s | buttons and pressed say I thought about |
| 1612s | thinking about it okay but sometimes you |
| 1614s | have to go with your gut Okay and like I |
| 1616s | said I i' feel like based on our |
| 1619s | previous uh interactions in in early |
| 1621s | Lobby Legends this year I lost this um |
| 1625s | so I think I have to do something |
| 1626s | extreme to try and win so we do have a |
| 1629s | new challenge uh for this weekend as |
| 1631s | well and it's a little bit of a spicy |
| 1634s | one so basically as you can see up on |
| 1636s | the screen now the loser must like post |
| 1638s | and keep pinned a tweet written by the |
| 1640s | winner until the next Master's tour |
| 1643s | which is in approximately two weeks I |
| 1645s | think yeah about two weeks so yeah got |
| 1647s | two weeks worth of having whatever the |
| 1650s | winner chooses pinned as their Twitter |
| 1652s | and I've had my pin tweet for a very |
| 1654s | long time so um so uh this will be a big |
| 1657s | big deal if I have to turn that off and |
| 1658s | uh apparently there's some clips to |
| 1660s | watch from the previous on so let's take |
| 1661s | a |
| 1664s | look I |
| 1667s | think yes he casts like a beast and |
| 1671s | plays like a demon his stats are so high |
| 1675s | we should call him Freeman he prints |
| 1678s | Minions that are gold while educating on |
| 1682s | the mic he beat me in the challenge so I |
| 1685s | have to acknowledge his might if you |
| 1688s | want to get better then make sure it's |
| 1690s | him you study because sttle is truly the |
| 1693s | best T buddy volatile Venom a real |
| 1696s | ritual dagger but n I'm actually joking |
| 1699s | now here comes some flatter casting with |
| 1702s | you has been a true pleasure you're a |
| 1704s | scepter of guidance way beyond measure |
| 1707s | we made made friends along the way on |
| 1709s | this call and you TJ are a wondrous |
| 1713s | wisdom |
| 1716s | ball yeah so I just want to put this |
| 1718s | throw this out here just for a second |
| 1720s | slightly unfair to show those clips back |
| 1721s | to back just so you know mine was not |
| 1723s | meant to be a song Because siss has |
| 1725s | definitely shown me up there like it's |
| 1726s | just oh there's what not to do and |
| 1728s | here's a good rap so yeah we know none |
| 1731s | of that's going to happen this time |
| 1733s | comparatively good all comparatively |
| 1735s | good I will say though she went in no |
| 1737s | one one told her to do like 32 bars she |
| 1740s | wrote so much it went on for such a long |
| 1743s | time genuinely great effort whereas I |
| 1745s | kept my poem short to just make the pain |
| 1747s | end as quickly as possible uh so yeah so |
| 1750s | it's a slight different one here there |
| 1751s | there'll be no performances on the |
| 1753s | broadcast but the winner will have to |
| 1755s | just deal with whatever the the message |
| 1756s | that is written H sorry the loser will |
| 1758s | have to deal with whatever message |
| 1760s | written by the winner so um that'll be |
| 1762s | pretty interesting overall but that's |
| 1763s | all about us I want to talk about the |
| 1765s | players so let's check out group a and |
| 1767s | see who we've got coming up first very |
| 1770s | very exciting so as I said there are |
| 1772s | returning faces but are there any that |
| 1773s | particularly stick out to you to me I |
| 1776s | think this event there's kind of the |
| 1778s | clearest split between the Wild Card |
| 1780s | group and the group of death uh this to |
| 1782s | me is more of the Wild Card group there |
| 1784s | are some longtime performers in here as |
| 1786s | SSA for example uh five Lobby Legends |
| 1789s | appearances now and one win under his |
| 1790s | belt uh but outside of that like what |
| 1793s | you have is great players who haven't |
| 1795s | necessarily done it in lobby Legends to |
| 1797s | the extent of some of the players we're |
| 1798s | going to look at in group b right like |
| 1800s | gief literally has a curve named out |
| 1803s | after him like more famous curves than |
| 1805s | Instagram models but has not |
| 1807s | particularly done it in lobby Legends to |
| 1809s | this point right |
| 1811s | um same kind of thing Legendary player |
| 1813s | widely regarded as one of the best |
| 1814s | players in the world hasn't necessarily |
| 1816s | put in a huge performance in lobby |
| 1818s | Legends yet and that's kind of the story |
| 1819s | up and down that group uh whereas Lobby |
| 1822s | B oh my goodness like this is a stacked |
| 1825s | group overall thrown out so it's Absol |
| 1827s | absolutely incredible stuff so Lobby a |
| 1830s | will be dealing with first I think has |
| 1832s | the most Intrigue and is the hardest one |
| 1834s | to pick if you are going for fantasy |
| 1836s | teams in that situation because it's |
| 1838s | really really open and I can see it |
| 1840s | going in eight different directions to |
| 1841s | be perfectly honest yeah and that's the |
| 1843s | difficulty because when you talk about |
| 1845s | oh it's the Wild Card group it's by no |
| 1846s | means saying they're any worse because |
| 1848s | even qualifying especially repeat |
| 1850s | qualifying is very difficult for these |
| 1852s | Lobby Legends this year especially with |
| 1854s | there only being three so these are |
| 1856s | there's a lot of repeat qualifiers but |
| 1857s | it's performing on the day right as with |
| 1860s | any tournament right you get the job |
| 1861s | done on that day but before we get into |
| 1863s | any of the first games we got check out |
| 1865s | the uh fun fact for this tournament |
| 1868s | which is the which are those anomalies |
| 1870s | as so we can check out some of the |
| 1871s | featured ones cuz we have been getting |
| 1873s | them every single week but what do you |
| 1875s | make of these ones |
| 1877s | sutle yeah so first off Reckless |
| 1879s | enhancement I still have not played |
| 1882s | which is like has become an anomaly in |
| 1884s | itself right now because these are the |
| 1886s | new boosted anomalies that you should be |
| 1887s | playing regularly um overgrown Arena I |
| 1890s | think is one of the more vanilla ones |
| 1892s | overall um it kind of encourages you to |
| 1895s | replace your board a little bit more |
| 1896s | often right just to continue upgrading |
| 1898s | with minions overall and there's a few |
| 1900s | synergies leaning towards things like |
| 1902s | coral mgle and just Bas skill in in that |
| 1904s | regard as well can always pull big |
| 1905s | minions from your hand cuz basically any |
| 1907s | minion that you buy is going to be a big |
| 1909s | minion tavn special is the one that |
| 1912s | sometimes you can get a little bit |
| 1914s | creative with right like Linda was |
| 1916s | talking to us earlier about how with |
| 1918s | brand you basically complete your brand |
| 1919s | mini Quest immediately because you just |
| 1921s | see seven Minions on Tav one every time |
| 1924s | just buy the battlecries get it done |
| 1925s | super super quickly uh if you get felbat |
| 1928s | in the late game it means it can you can |
| 1930s | play double felbat on a board of seven |
| 1932s | demons and you'll always be able to eat |
| 1934s | maximum value because the bo the shop is |
| 1936s | full and refreshes itself um so there's |
| 1939s | a few different things that Tav special |
| 1940s | can make happen but yeah as I said as |
| 1941s | for reckless enhancement don't know cuz |
| 1943s | they still haven't rolled it despite |
| 1945s | playing the game all week yeah I think |
| 1947s | one the biggest things for me is it what |
| 1950s | what the anomalies have done has really |
| 1952s | mixed up what are the best heroes right |
| 1955s | because the heroes feel well certain |
| 1957s | Heroes as you mentioned a couple there H |
| 1960s | are really powerful in certain anomaly |
| 1963s | situations right and then not only that |
| 1965s | certain anomalies with then certain |
| 1967s | minion types combined so there's |
| 1969s | actually so many additional layers I |
| 1971s | feel like we I think again I think one |
| 1973s | of the puzzle boxes was will it be won |
| 1975s | by will each game be won by a different |
| 1976s | hero and I feel like it will because so |
| 1978s | many of the heroes are pretty like very |
| 1981s | like game dependent right now but as we |
| 1983s | move on let's check out the fantasy team |
| 1985s | picks uh we have one shared player but |
| 1988s | only one at that side yeah like I said |
| 1991s | this was a tough group for me um I went |
| 1992s | for CSA no great surprise he's the |
| 1995s | player I I called out um has a Lobby |
| 1998s | Legends win under his belt and is a wild |
| 1999s | repeat uh performer in this outside of |
| 2001s | that I really did feel like it was wild |
| 2003s | card so I just went for the Young |
| 2005s | Legends right like we all know that G |
| 2007s | and beat about it are incredibly good |
| 2009s | players uh we know that at different |
| 2011s | times they've pushed that rank one MMR |
| 2015s | to new heights right theyve they've |
| 2017s | raised the number higher than it was uh |
| 2019s | reaching in previous seasons and they've |
| 2021s | been the person responsible for that um |
| 2023s | so I'm just kind of w for that uh that |
| 2025s | exhibition of one of these two players |
| 2027s | just to show the world how good they are |
| 2029s | on this competitive level and just |
| 2030s | crossing my fingers for that I do think |
| 2032s | you've uh been a bit harsh and not |
| 2034s | really showing enough respect to uh deda |
| 2036s | because he is has been play I believe |
| 2038s | that's like four Lobby Legends before |
| 2040s | this one he's already played in and that |
| 2042s | is a lot like four is more than most I |
| 2044s | think looking at uh I think like |
| 2046s | satellite has been in five but generally |
| 2048s | speaking four is right up there so I |
| 2051s | think again that's why I picked him |
| 2053s | because I think he has been just a |
| 2054s | staple in lobby Legends since it |
| 2056s | happened and has been performing well |
| 2058s | but just hasn't had the ability to |
| 2060s | really nail down that win but when we're |
| 2062s | talking about these fantasy picks where |
| 2064s | you're picking three to get to get |
| 2066s | through right and I think a player like |
| 2068s | him is very very capable of getting |
| 2070s | through to Sunday I guess it's just been |
| 2072s | that finishing the tournament off has |
| 2074s | been the problemm I think when I when I |
| 2076s | talk about um kind of Lobby Legends |
| 2078s | pedigree there's also a recency bias to |
| 2080s | that as well oh my goodness straight |
| 2082s | into a |
| 2083s | game so that was overgrown I think so t |
| 2087s | one plus one plus one every turn uh just |
| 2088s | to finish the point before we move on |
| 2090s | there's a recency bias towards Lobby b |
| 2092s | as well cuz there are five players in |
| 2093s | this tournament that have the streak of |
| 2095s | being in lobby Legends 10 11 and 12 this |
| 2098s | year five of five of them they're all in |
| 2101s | lobby B all of them right so like that's |
| 2105s | where like this year's actual Killers |
| 2107s | all reside but anyway regardless we will |
| 2109s | get on with the game in front of us I'm |
| 2111s | very very happy to be able to jump into |
| 2113s | a game as quickly as we are we got a |
| 2114s | lich pick from uh sble not bad at all |
| 2117s | yeah lots of big minions in the shop |
| 2119s | being able to buy more of those big |
| 2121s | minions cheaply with that one Mana hero |
| 2123s | power nothing wrong with that yeah also |
| 2125s | looks like we have a test locked in as |
| 2126s | well so one always you've got to keep an |
| 2128s | eye on and I would say it's it's |
| 2130s | reasonable to say as you mentioned do |
| 2132s | like this anomaly is fairly tame right |
| 2135s | like yes minions will be bigger that's |
| 2137s | the anomaly right done so there's |
| 2140s | nothing too crazy going to come out of |
| 2141s | that specifically but as you said there |
| 2143s | are certain synergies based on what we |
| 2146s | actually have going in the in the in the |
| 2148s | game itself in terms of Minion |
| 2150s | types yeah and there you see it's just |
| 2152s | confirmation that our eyes did not |
| 2154s | deceive Us in that little flash through |
| 2156s | the Mull through the Mulligan phase |
| 2158s | that's at the end of October sole uh |
| 2161s | during the hero selection phase hero |
| 2162s | Mulligan the hero Mulligan yeah oh if |
| 2165s | only you could just like imagine you |
| 2167s | could roll one slot only $5 a month roll |
| 2171s | one |
| 2173s | hero Sal's getting hired any |
| 2178s | minute here we go they're going to be a |
| 2180s | good uh nice clean start there for say |
| 2182s | say say getting a little bit of damage |
| 2184s | stacked up but of course with the synr |
| 2185s | go are going to start stacking up and |
| 2187s | more for that late game |
| 2193s | Power are there any particular early |
| 2195s | game Minions that will benefit like do |
| 2198s | you think like the null for example just |
| 2199s | because it's a 36 is going to be a good |
| 2202s | shape to sort of defend any early |
| 2204s | aggression AA or do you think because |
| 2206s | everything has plus one like nothing has |
| 2208s | plus one in the early game is that fair |
| 2210s | to say right like yeah I think I think |
| 2212s | it is still token based a lot of the |
| 2214s | time right like there's kind of a |
| 2217s | cognitive trap and be like ah cemental |
| 2219s | is a little bit underwhelming because it |
| 2221s | ends up as just a 2 two on the board |
| 2223s | after I sell it to get value right it |
| 2224s | doesn't get the buff thing going on but |
| 2226s | tokens are still tokens you know like |
| 2229s | you still just get to double buy very |
| 2230s | efficiently from the Tav 2 shop and the |
| 2232s | Tav 2 shop is going to be massive right |
| 2234s | so that's that's a really big deal |
| 2239s | overall yeah sorry I'm TW if this is uh |
| 2241s | is this lagging for you subtle yeah we |
| 2243s | do have a bit I thought I thought okay |
| 2246s | that's fine I thought it was a me issue |
| 2247s | as long as I know it's not a me issue I |
| 2249s | can just keep talking I don't have to |
| 2250s | fix anything perfect um okay so we are |
| 2253s | going to see another Victory against the |
| 2255s | synr Goa which is going to be oh it's |
| 2258s | zorgun synr Goa okay |
| 2261s | yeah now this is one of the situations |
| 2263s | where it does get a little bit awkward |
| 2265s | because normally when you roll into |
| 2266s | Tavern 2 like this and you see patient |
| 2268s | Scout you are over the moon right |
| 2270s | because it means you get to keep your |
| 2271s | initial minion you can just buy sell the |
| 2273s | patient Scout byy a second minion |
| 2275s | patient Scout also kind of has that |
| 2277s | Elemental problem right where you end up |
| 2278s | with something very very small on your |
| 2280s | board not super relevant in the position |
| 2282s | that zorg's in because zor has got the |
| 2284s | the ramp with the extra money anyway so |
| 2286s | I'm sure it just will be the pair of |
| 2288s | buskers but now you have the option of |
| 2290s | how greedy you want to be right because |
| 2292s | the upside of this patient Scout factor |
| 2294s | is because it's kind of big you can just |
| 2297s | buy it and leave it on your board but |
| 2298s | again as Raven was saying it's still the |
| 2301s | same size comparatively to every other |
| 2304s | minion that everyone else is playing |
| 2306s | right so you can end up getting baited |
| 2308s | by that that line of |
| 2316s | thinking oh that is a wild economy |
| 2320s | start from Seville on the Lich on the |
| 2323s | other |
| 2324s | side yeah I'm just sorry I'm just doing |
| 2326s | my uh my uh guess for the uh for the |
| 2329s | winner yeah I was was actually half |
| 2331s | forgotten to do it so I was just quietly |
| 2333s | like wait who do I think's going to win |
| 2335s | to get those in as well going to remind |
| 2339s | you it's not only the uh Sportsman as |
| 2342s | always yep he though wow se's really |
| 2345s | stting to pop off right and this is it's |
| 2348s | difficult because this looks like a huge |
| 2350s | board and it is but everyone has the hu |
| 2353s | yes but like in terms of stats like |
| 2355s | obviously amount of minions is different |
| 2356s | but everyone has a huge board right so |
| 2359s | def strange one but yeah but the actual |
| 2361s | value as well from the Pirates as well |
| 2363s | is going to really start to kick s into |
| 2365s | into gear s Sala Busker on Lich Bazil is |
| 2369s | so nice right because if you think about |
| 2371s | it you just get to play a normal curve |
| 2373s | plus one gold what do you do with that |
| 2375s | one gold you buy a whole extra minion |
| 2377s | with that one gold so um that extra one |
| 2381s | economy whether it comes from a celal or |
| 2384s | a south sea Busker or a patient Scout as |
| 2386s | I was talking about earlier uh Lich |
| 2387s | Bazil can do so much more with that than |
| 2389s | most characters |
| 2392s | can now say say picking up the TA ready |
| 2396s | for the r rolls this is a um a favorite |
| 2399s | for people like me who just love |
| 2400s | spending whole 10 gold on just rolling |
| 2403s | trying to find that one |
| 2406s | minion I'm sure say say say will use it |
| 2409s | a little bit more efficiently than I |
| 2411s | would and Nix here getting to cheat |
| 2414s | their way throughing the early game as |
| 2419s | always this character really irritates |
| 2423s | me as a character or as a hero in |
| 2426s | battlegrounds as a hero in Battlegrounds |
| 2428s | yeah it |
| 2429s | just the the buff to the charact to the |
| 2433s | hero meaning that it's gone down by one |
| 2435s | and then the welp that spawns counts as |
| 2438s | well it just feels like everything that |
| 2440s | dies spawns a 3-1 welp over the course |
| 2442s | of the fight they just keep coming and |
| 2444s | coming and it's so hard to compete with |
| 2447s | that in the early game when they're just |
| 2448s | you know buying a death rattle or two |
| 2449s | and they have so much extra power just |
| 2451s | to be able to to push through really |
| 2453s | really strong character uh Tempo hero in |
| 2456s | the game |
| 2458s | actually uh skipping on one of the |
| 2461s | Elementals there which is interesting |
| 2463s | obviously say doesn't have to just go |
| 2465s | all in on this but mhm one was on offer |
| 2468s | and it would have just been an extra |
| 2469s | body on board that had a that really |
| 2470s | high attack which is useful again when |
| 2472s | all of these minions are getting at plus |
| 2474s | one every turn in the |
| 2480s | shot |
| 2482s | yo okay absolutely insane roll from G so |
| 2487s | gief sold the patient Scout there |
| 2489s | looking for a two drop uh just straight |
| 2492s | up hit the triple with the pair that he |
| 2493s | had locked in shop and then because of |
| 2494s | the omu buff was able to level and then |
| 2497s | hit that perfect three- go break point |
| 2499s | to be able to buy the uh the third and |
| 2501s | arubian and uh take the five here finds |
| 2503s | a mama bear not super exciting I would |
| 2506s | say but I think none of the choices were |
| 2508s | were they really like none of them were |
| 2510s | really blowing me away so I think the |
| 2512s | the bear is the most sort of reliable |
| 2514s | Choice longterm I would say |
| 2518s | does have the rat as well so yep little |
| 2520s | bit of value from the rat it's just a |
| 2522s | tiny bit sketch right because normally |
| 2525s | with a mama bear if you if you look at |
| 2527s | the the makeup of the anomaly in the |
| 2528s | lobby you know you're buying two twos |
| 2531s | and four fours from the shop and then |
| 2533s | when they death rattle you're getting a |
| 2535s | buff basically 100% equivalent to the |
| 2537s | size of the minion that you and everyone |
| 2539s | else is buying whereas in this Lobby |
| 2541s | you're buying like 10 10 and 12 12s and |
| 2543s | you're the buff that you're getting in |
| 2545s | comparison is fairly small |
| 2547s | um so I'd be surprised if gief like |
| 2549s | stays here for the game I would imagine |
| 2551s | kind of just uses this as a bit of tempo |
| 2553s | for now looking to transition out into |
| 2555s | something a little bit more powerful |
| 2556s | potentially yeah like I said none of |
| 2557s | them really stuck out to me in terms of |
| 2559s | the choices but just get a bear down now |
| 2561s | maybe you hit a couple of beats in the |
| 2562s | shop play them then you've got a bit |
| 2564s | more stats than everyone else right and |
| 2566s | then use that to springboard into the |
| 2568s | late game because again with omu you |
| 2570s | really do just want to be able to press |
| 2572s | that tenter up right so anything that |
| 2574s | secures you on board for a turn or so uh |
| 2576s | would will help a lot Peggy ballad now |
| 2579s | is looking kind of exciting you'd |
| 2582s | weirdly need a third pirate to go with |
| 2585s | that because you don't want to play the |
| 2586s | badis until the end of the turn though |
| 2588s | but ballad is one of those things right |
| 2589s | when you have when everyone has high |
| 2590s | attack minions you doubling the health |
| 2593s | of one of your high attack minions |
| 2594s | essentially right becomes a huge deal |
| 2596s | because now now that two for one's going |
| 2599s | over the other way which is kind of |
| 2604s | nice seville's just kind |
| 2607s | massive yeah it's looking good isn't it |
| 2610s | um and still has that three gold locked |
| 2612s | in right with the uh with the pirate on |
| 2614s | board so that's going to be pretty good |
| 2615s | as and when needed so give him a little |
| 2617s | bit more flexible choices going forward |
| 2619s | in the next couple of turns yeah really |
| 2622s | useful going to next turn as well cuz |
| 2624s | now with uh combinations of like the |
| 2626s | managerie mug in hand the three gold and |
| 2628s | the hero power may be able to level to |
| 2631s | five and get a pirate into hand with the |
| 2634s | remaining gold that they could have cuz |
| 2637s | um the the pirate that they have will be |
| 2639s | proing next turn right to make a pirate |
| 2641s | in hand golden that'll be happening on |
| 2642s | the next turn not this turn uh so they |
| 2645s | might then to be able to play that into |
| 2646s | a golden for a six on the turn |
| 2648s | afterwards yeah and do apologize for the |
| 2650s | like you seen um even though the |
| 2652s | acquisition I think has gone through we |
| 2653s | are not merging harstone with PowerPoint |
| 2655s | quite yet uh but we are doing our best |
| 2658s | to get these |
| 2662s | figs where's clippy when you need him |
| 2664s | that's what I want I see your right |
| 2666s | reduce lag would you like some help with |
| 2671s | that these fights are getting closed |
| 2673s | obviously little bird there as well |
| 2675s | sitting on 18 does feel a little bit |
| 2677s | dangerous of course The Shield is in |
| 2678s | effect so it's not like anyone's in the |
| 2680s | real danger zone but you still don't |
| 2682s | want to get pushed into it this |
| 2688s | early yeah reminder there is a puzzle |
| 2690s | box question for uh first elimination as |
| 2692s | well whether it will happen whether |
| 2694s | we'll have a game without an elimination |
| 2695s | before turn 10 we are currently at turn |
| 2697s | seven so uh two break points that you |
| 2699s | are looking at firstly a player dropping |
| 2701s | below 15 so they are able to be |
| 2703s | eliminated in one fight and then of |
| 2705s | course that happening uh worth noting as |
| 2707s | well something that we haven't covered |
| 2708s | is that the way the damage cap Works has |
| 2710s | changed fairly recently so now uh damage |
| 2713s | cap is in effect all the way up until |
| 2714s | top four which means you know even in |
| 2717s | those massive late game fights like |
| 2719s | maybe someone has seven late game |
| 2721s | Elementals on their board and are |
| 2723s | threatening to hit you for 40 uh until |
| 2725s | you get to that top four point you are |
| 2727s | protected which in a way makes those |
| 2729s | like 16 and 31 Health break points even |
| 2733s | more important than they ever were right |
| 2735s | you really have to manage your health |
| 2737s | totals around those yeah I think we are |
| 2739s | a little bit behind on this as well just |
| 2742s | maybe the lag's catching up or something |
| 2744s | because uh as far as I can see uh if and |
| 2747s | when we've got time we can go and check |
| 2749s | out uh uh dedo as well because there's a |
| 2752s | board that you would quite like here SLE |
| 2754s | from from what I could see so we'll uh |
| 2756s | we'll get to that when we can |
| 2762s | okay know be a babit not really looking |
| 2765s | as threatening as some of the other |
| 2766s | players obviously sitting on 29 Health |
| 2768s | not the end of the world and is a Nick |
| 2770s | Seer so has that extra sort of stacking |
| 2772s | damage as the the the battles go on but |
| 2774s | not looking overly threatening as far as |
| 2777s | I can tell yeah it depends also how many |
| 2780s | 3 tws are hidden inside that lava lurker |
| 2782s | that's always a factor when you have |
| 2783s | that combination because the uh they |
| 2785s | become Perman each time you use |
| 2787s | them H dppo please Lindo if you don't |
| 2790s | mind yeah they're just uh working |
| 2792s | through some stuff so they just asked |
| 2795s | that wasn't a demand they just asked |
| 2796s | where you said they wanted to go yeah |
| 2797s | I'm not that probably did sound very |
| 2800s | demanding to the to the audience right I |
| 2802s | mean |
| 2802s | justly get there now oh okay we'll wait |
| 2805s | till the board's refreshed and then tell |
| 2807s | me you enjoy it so I think I saw a RAC |
| 2810s | just very briefly before things happen |
| 2812s | which may correct give away yeah have |
| 2815s | you seen two coins in hands on |
| 2818s | uhhuh oh this is |
| 2822s | tense I'm waiting for the grand reveal |
| 2824s | there you go okay yeah now tell me |
| 2827s | that's not a board you like that's |
| 2828s | that's a subtle board if I've ever seen |
| 2830s | one yeah honestly like the amount of MMR |
| 2833s | I flush down the toilet by forcing RAC |
| 2835s | every time I was literally about to say |
| 2837s | that's a board sort will like even if |
| 2839s | it's to his own detriment because it's |
| 2841s | just every game we've played it's like |
| 2843s | yeah but there's a RAC it's like right |
| 2845s | we have no battle |
| 2846s | but get the r |
| 2850s | like being alerted the G has got double |
| 2852s | Peggy so it looks like we didn't quite |
| 2854s | see whether or not he committed on that |
| 2856s | turn with the uh the Peggy and The |
| 2857s | Ballad in the shot but it sounds like he |
| 2861s | did O not looking bad there at all yeah |
| 2865s | that's a lot of stats kind of leans to |
| 2867s | what I was saying right like the mama |
| 2869s | bear is kind of there but he hasn't just |
| 2870s | started building a mama bear board he |
| 2872s | has looked to do something a little bit |
| 2874s | more powerful overall which I think |
| 2875s | makes |
| 2876s | and I do think that is sort of lesson |
| 2880s | one of learning Battlegrounds is don't |
| 2883s | just take well you take the first good |
| 2885s | minion you see and then you don't have |
| 2887s | to carry on with that minion right like |
| 2889s | being able to flex is the the first sort |
| 2891s | of true skill you learn when you become |
| 2893s | uh good at the game yeah I think one of |
| 2896s | the biggest differences between |
| 2897s | Battlegrounds and other Auto Battlers is |
| 2900s | the idea of forcing compositions MH is a |
| 2904s | genuine thing more so in other games I |
| 2907s | don't think forcing X is a thing in |
| 2910s | Battlegrounds I think it's not when I do |
| 2913s | it I it's it will lose you MMR over the |
| 2916s | long run if you just try and tunnel on |
| 2918s | doing individual things the way |
| 2919s | Battlegrounds Works generally is you |
| 2921s | have to understand which minions are |
| 2924s | carries and which minions aren't right |
| 2927s | and then you don't start forcing |
| 2928s | something until you have one of those |
| 2930s | carries right like until you hit until |
| 2932s | you hit you know double Gusty you're not |
| 2935s | Elementals for example right like just |
| 2937s | cuz you have a couple of party |
| 2938s | Elementals on your board on Tav 3 does |
| 2940s | not mean you're Elementals and I would |
| 2942s | time yeah you're just having a good time |
| 2944s | exactly like just because you're having |
| 2947s | a party does not mean that party has to |
| 2949s | go on all night you know sometimes you |
| 2951s | just need to go home and get into bed |
| 2953s | and have a nice cup of hot cocoa you |
| 2954s | know that's just it's just better |
| 2957s | sometimes I seen a multiple players with |
| 2960s | a lot of these Rats on the board now I'm |
| 2962s | just looking at all the boards combined |
| 2964s | and we are seeing that gief and that |
| 2966s | beat out going for you know leaning |
| 2968s | towards those beats and those rats as we |
| 2971s | can see now for gief just being able to |
| 2972s | stack up some more stats on |
| 2977s | stats I would imagine uh although this |
| 2980s | pause could be for a variety of reasons |
| 2983s | both in and out of game uh gief is |
| 2985s | genuinely considering five or six here |
| 2987s | right because he will have golden Peggy |
| 2990s | so not leveling and spending the |
| 2992s | remainder of the gold on just buying and |
| 2993s | selling things will get him potentially |
| 2995s | a decent amount stats on the board he'd |
| 2997s | have to buy an additional pirate to go |
| 2998s | alongside it uh but there are a couple |
| 3000s | of options in the shop amalgam is Chief |
| 3003s | among them but six drops could work out |
| 3006s | really nicely here especially with this |
| 3007s | board you can actually find a way to |
| 3009s | maybe pivot back into beasts a little |
| 3011s | bit by going back to six drop with |
| 3013s | octosari or with Fel stomper both of |
| 3015s | those would be pretty nice hits for six |
| 3017s | drops and how how do you feel about |
| 3019s | having tier six in the game I know it's |
| 3021s | difficult with anomalies to discuss it |
| 3023s | of course in sort of any sort of real |
| 3024s | fashion but in general what would you |
| 3027s | say is like the power level of tavener |
| 3028s | six CU we've seen it be very strong and |
| 3031s | we've seen it be quite weak in certain |
| 3032s | metas yeah I think it's really really |
| 3034s | strong right now I think both varieties |
| 3037s | of boards want to get to Tav six a lot |
| 3041s | of the time so if you're a token style |
| 3042s | board you kind of want to get to tavn uh |
| 3044s | six because your fell stomper will be |
| 3046s | there your Eternal Knight will be there |
| 3048s | right whatever you're going for there |
| 3049s | will be value for you in Tav six um if |
| 3052s | you're Elementals you want to go there |
| 3054s | because rock rock is there for example |
| 3055s | example um if you're a scam board you |
| 3058s | want to get there because ghoul is there |
| 3059s | which is one of the most broken cards in |
| 3060s | the game right so T Tav six I think |
| 3062s | really does fulfill its job right now of |
| 3064s | offering you really really powerful |
| 3066s | things yeah like actual endgame choices |
| 3068s | and we are out of game uh on purpose |
| 3070s | believe it or not you are seen our faces |
| 3072s | I apologize for that for now H we all do |
| 3074s | want to watch the game but as you can |
| 3075s | tell just having some weird lag issues |
| 3077s | that uh you know the production are |
| 3078s | working on so we just had to jump out of |
| 3080s | it to quickly reset something so we will |
| 3082s | be getting back into game as quickly as |
| 3084s | possible cuz we want to see how this one |
| 3086s | conclude so again apologies about that |
| 3088s | we're back in oh now that is some FPS so |
| 3092s | ready for |
| 3095s | this uh yeah this is looking much better |
| 3098s | not only in terms of frame rate but also |
| 3101s | in terms of overall |
| 3103s | smoothness yeah I really do like the |
| 3105s | Shield or you know the the sort of uh uh |
| 3108s | change to the the damage cap I do feel |
| 3110s | like it gives you a little bit more of a |
| 3113s | Dodges some of the truly ridiculous |
| 3115s | scenario iOS that have happened at least |
| 3117s | to me in the past it's like oh I'm dead |
| 3119s | it's like gives you a bit more warning |
| 3121s | heads up |
| 3123s | so gief now uh does have a glow scaling |
| 3126s | shop with the golden Peggy obviously |
| 3128s | spellcraft minions are very very nice |
| 3130s | because they throw additional Cards into |
| 3132s | your hand and also it's just a giant |
| 3134s | Peggy right 50 attack minion that you're |
| 3135s | able to put a Divine shield on looks |
| 3137s | very very nice |
| 3139s | indeed second one yeah sure sign me |
| 3144s | up oh like be |
| 3148s | abound but it looks like dappy has |
| 3152s | already started to transition out of the |
| 3156s | economy which you know is the thing that |
| 3157s | good players do that I don't um which so |
| 3160s | I was like but more but more is better |
| 3163s | yeah that's why they call it more |
| 3165s | because it's |
| 3166s | more um but I think noticing so here's a |
| 3169s | thing that you generally do as test |
| 3171s | right is mouse over the rest of the |
| 3172s | lobby and see what people are showing as |
| 3174s | and as we've seen jumping around there's |
| 3177s | a lot of people probably showing beasts |
| 3179s | in this Lobby so uh dappy going for the |
| 3182s | the Beast Le thing is is Pretty good |
| 3183s | overall and you can see this is the next |
| 3186s | matchup which is dappy uh versus little |
| 3189s | bird here on the oat and there's two |
| 3191s | more banana Slammers sat right there |
| 3193s | ready for dappy to grab on the reroll so |
| 3195s | this is looking real real good I don't |
| 3197s | know how big the summon is for the |
| 3199s | ozumat for little bird because obviously |
| 3201s | that is getting pumped by those banana |
| 3202s | Slammers makes it a very very naturally |
| 3204s | powerful thing Synergy to go for when |
| 3206s | you are on oat um but dappy is above 22 |
| 3210s | so cannot possibly die and will be able |
| 3212s | to get those bananas |
| 3216s | slamming we throwing out as well we have |
| 3219s | had a death on turn nine uh so no |
| 3222s | immediate fulfillment of the uh 10 turns |
| 3225s | without a death we both went the same on |
| 3226s | that didn't we but we both said no I |
| 3228s | think uh I said yes I believe oh really |
| 3231s | oh what do I know I suppose I did yeah |
| 3234s | yeah |
| 3237s | my reasoning for that was like in my |
| 3238s | games it seems like turn nine is about |
| 3240s | the average for the first death and in |
| 3241s | general what makes top players top |
| 3243s | players is they're really really good at |
| 3245s | staying alive when they're not rolling |
| 3247s | good minions um so I expect things to go |
| 3250s | a little bit longer in this than than |
| 3252s | usual but we'll |
| 3256s | see these WPS just keep on coming they |
| 3260s | don't stop coming and they don't stop |
| 3261s | coming yeah it's going to be a win there |
| 3267s | oh took the damage cap though actually |
| 3269s | took the straight |
| 3273s | 15 that now on only on seven but does |
| 3277s | have options going forward does have |
| 3278s | that test hero power I was going to say |
| 3280s | as well for the Slammers so there that's |
| 3282s | a plenty of options available now to |
| 3284s | Gold that if he wants |
| 3294s | to |
| 3300s | at this now though he's going of course |
| 3302s | going to continue building up the board |
| 3304s | here we jump and take a look at sliders |
| 3306s | who guess what has a very similar |
| 3308s | looking board because there's more |
| 3309s | banana Slammers on |
| 3310s | there take an L there going down to |
| 3313s | three Health Oho does get the actual |
| 3314s | buff uh due to losing the previous round |
| 3317s | look like his coin into snake it's going |
| 3320s | to be going on here fight oh no going to |
| 3323s | go for bird |
| 3324s | okay |
| 3329s | I didn't like that one here's a for |
| 3334s | the bit here trying to make something |
| 3336s | work but again the the Nyx is good to |
| 3340s | get the extra little bits of damage but |
| 3341s | it is quickly getting to the point where |
| 3342s | it's just not going to cut it anymore |
| 3344s | and there isn't anything that really |
| 3345s | really pops off with those extra little |
| 3350s | hits does have the cleave though locked |
| 3352s | and loaded as well as some fighting |
| 3354s | versus the reborn and the to |
| 3359s | yeah you'll see a lot of players leaning |
| 3360s | towards this uh Cinder ey straight shot |
| 3362s | as a tech card for much the same reason |
| 3365s | as to why Tess went beasts right is |
| 3367s | because they're seeing lots of people |
| 3369s | displaying as beasts so they're |
| 3371s | expecting taunts and Reborns that become |
| 3374s | uh very obnoxious to deal with overall |
| 3376s | so you're trying to see them out |
| 3379s | yeah did actually hit the other one so |
| 3382s | like that is actually removing the |
| 3383s | Divine Shield stopping the second swing |
| 3384s | Divine Shield on the cleave as well he |
| 3386s | going to look nice even though it |
| 3387s | doesn't actually kill anything off still |
| 3389s | not |
| 3390s | terrible it's just like the in it feels |
| 3393s | like it falls off so quickly in this |
| 3395s | kind of build right because like oh okay |
| 3397s | three three it's like well everything's |
| 3400s | got a million |
| 3403s | Health as soon as one thing gets to |
| 3405s | spawn on dappy's board it's like yep |
| 3408s | okay this wins I'm |
| 3414s | good |
| 3417s | oh no I'm not happy about that s's gone |
| 3419s | so uh yep my uh pick is out of there oh |
| 3424s | is that my bandwagon pick killing your |
| 3426s | bandwagon pick it couldn't be could it |
| 3428s | oh I think it is |
| 3430s | nah don't know what you're looking at |
| 3432s | don't know what you're looking at STS |
| 3435s | you mean to go on Raven That's what I |
| 3436s | was saying yeah dapp is in my fantasy |
| 3439s | team though so oh sure head your bets |
| 3443s | yeah |
| 3444s | exactly |
| 3447s | and know more good offerings here for |
| 3448s | gief have a little bit of a few Tech |
| 3451s | choices to an extent uh itself in the |
| 3462s | hand really tons of options with only |
| 3464s | two gold |
| 3472s | though it's been a little bit surprising |
| 3474s | to see such a banana heavy Lobby um |
| 3478s | particularly without murlocs right |
| 3480s | because with this anomaly if you have |
| 3483s | beast and murlocs right you can actually |
| 3485s | buy large beasts from the sharp hold |
| 3487s | them in your hand and then summon them |
| 3489s | with a base Gill to the board and then |
| 3491s | you get massive benefits from you know |
| 3493s | doubling and redoubling a 2020 instead |
| 3495s | of a a 2 two or whatever right like |
| 3497s | that's huge um but in this scenario no |
| 3501s | real incredible Synergy between the uh |
| 3504s | the anomaly that's being played the |
| 3505s | board that everyone is seeing it just |
| 3506s | seems lots of people just kind of hit |
| 3509s | banana Slammers this game yeah okay I |
| 3512s | think that was it I think just there's |
| 3513s | just a lot of banana Slammers and then |
| 3515s | also there is power being able to pull |
| 3517s | them off board anyway right even without |
| 3519s | the merlocks so uh I think that's just |
| 3522s | it's just a steady one and again with |
| 3524s | the way the format is let's remember all |
| 3526s | of these players goal is to finish in |
| 3528s | total top four right like that's what |
| 3531s | they need to do so might just think you |
| 3532s | know what beasts are good we have the |
| 3535s | ban get with it really really really |
| 3539s | clean stuff from both sides here by the |
| 3541s | way so you look at that makeup G Leed uh |
| 3544s | with the the shrinker on the left and |
| 3547s | then the Leroy just having maximum |
| 3549s | opportunities to try and connect with |
| 3551s | that giant taunt on the right that he |
| 3553s | knew was going to be there but uh Lil |
| 3556s | bird on osma had played around that by |
| 3558s | taunting as many other things as |
| 3560s | possible knowing that was what was going |
| 3562s | to go down earns himself the draw |
| 3564s | because |
| 3565s | gets to stay alive and that by Staying |
| 3568s | Alive gained himself five placings |
| 3571s | Because He Lives while CES on the |
| 3574s | curator has died so that little bit of |
| 3577s | decision making just to maximize the |
| 3579s | amount of taunts that you have on your |
| 3580s | board is absolutely prepped little bird |
| 3582s | up the rankings just that little B and C |
| 3585s | got absolutely deleted then by dappy |
| 3587s | that was not even remotely close but |
| 3589s | here's the thing right we were talking |
| 3591s | oh yeah weird so many people have gone |
| 3593s | for beasts with the banana Slammers and |
| 3595s | Tess is just sat there rubbing the hands |
| 3597s | together like perfect and look at this |
| 3599s | yeah double is that double gold and a |
| 3602s | non-old I think there uh for for dappy |
| 3605s | so yeah plenty of bananas are being |
| 3611s | slammed and what is dappy actually |
| 3614s | looking for right now like what is the |
| 3616s | Improvement to this |
| 3618s | board it's a great question I was going |
| 3620s | to say taunt or no taunt is the next big |
| 3622s | question whether you want to necessarily |
| 3624s | Taun the Raptor now just to try and get |
| 3627s | that extra position but at the same time |
| 3630s | it's hard to know what you're supposed |
| 3632s | to Tor in these situations because |
| 3635s | especially when you're up against a |
| 3636s | Lobby of very good players you're going |
| 3638s | to be very confident that they're going |
| 3639s | to be stacking cindor straight shots and |
| 3641s | Cleaves against you where having a torn |
| 3644s | in the wrong place against a synor or a |
| 3646s | cleave can spell disaster um so having |
| 3649s | the option of additional torts is nice |
| 3651s | I'm just not even sure whether dappy |
| 3653s | will decide to spend it here could even |
| 3656s | be another um uh oh I've just blanked |
| 3660s | Divine Shield win Fury we talked about |
| 3662s | it before I've just blanked on the name |
| 3664s | is it Cinder shot uh cindor straight |
| 3667s | shot yeah yeah oh straight shot yeah uh |
| 3669s | I just brain just doesn't work maybe |
| 3671s | even honestly at this point a second one |
| 3673s | of those because the snake's going to go |
| 3674s | out once this Reborns hit the other |
| 3675s | Slammer and then you could just say well |
| 3678s | if I if there are other beasts and |
| 3679s | reborn in in the game I just have double |
| 3682s | goes at those and being able to peel |
| 3683s | them off yeah |
| 3685s | and I think it makes sense yeah as you |
| 3686s | say there is still one good Target left |
| 3688s | on the board for the the Raptor to get |
| 3690s | Reb so you can wait that out and now |
| 3692s | next turn you have the choice to make |
| 3694s | about how you're going to build your |
| 3695s | board in terms of Tor makeup and so |
| 3698s | on couple of nice 252s or 306 that do |
| 3705s | nicely that's not a knife this is a |
| 3711s | knife close fight as takes the victory |
| 3715s | there and again another play is going to |
| 3717s | fall to the power of those banana |
| 3719s | Slammers here and that's going to be |
| 3721s | gief done and dusted so little bird |
| 3723s | second place at worst H and dappy uh |
| 3726s | sitting at First at the moment so it's |
| 3728s | going to that heads up play and I think |
| 3731s | just seeing that little birds on beasts |
| 3733s | I cannot believe that dappy is uh not |
| 3737s | going to be strong enough to finish this |
| 3739s | little bird looks very fortunate that |
| 3741s | there were lots of spawns coming out of |
| 3744s | this one because with the uh the Double |
| 3745s | goul on the other side almost ended up |
| 3748s | tying or losing that fight which could |
| 3750s | have been an embarrassing way to end the |
| 3751s | lobby oh more banana Slammers thank you |
| 3754s | oh yeah I'll take an |
| 3757s | extra Leroy is on offer even the Divine |
| 3760s | Shield is available right there will be |
| 3762s | enough gold if he wants to go for the |
| 3764s | Naga switch out going to go taunted |
| 3766s | Leroy instead it looks like oh okay |
| 3769s | which is not bad right that's a good |
| 3771s | Tech card hedge against um both Cleaves |
| 3774s | and the if the Soro hits the taunted |
| 3776s | Leroy first then that's game over it's |
| 3779s | not hit any more Reborns from that point |
| 3780s | and obviously just with positioning with |
| 3782s | a taunted Leroy you can really maximize |
| 3784s | your odds that the uh the cleave will be |
| 3786s | hitting the |
| 3789s | Leroy I think those are the two scariest |
| 3792s | things for you right now well three |
| 3793s | scary things I would imagine firstly the |
| 3796s | uh those well firstly and secondly the |
| 3798s | two things I talked about thirdly the |
| 3800s | overall size of this azimat summon that |
| 3803s | you're going to have to deal with on the |
| 3804s | right hand side when Amplified by the |
| 3806s | banana Slammers I always think moments |
| 3807s | like this are really funny cuz imagine |
| 3809s | letting someone play one game of |
| 3811s | Battlegrounds the first game ever and |
| 3813s | then you say look at this board in this |
| 3815s | professional tournament and then they'd |
| 3817s | be like why just what what what why do |
| 3820s | you sell those minions what's going on |
| 3823s | oh no just wait and see my friend yeah I |
| 3826s | remember way back uh last year sometime |
| 3829s | I think uh when leap Froggers were still |
| 3832s | kind of a metac comp and uh I can't |
| 3834s | remember who was casting I think it was |
| 3835s | TJ casting and I was on uh I was |
| 3837s | pressing buttons and I was posting in |
| 3840s | the Discord just saying hey keep an eye |
| 3841s | out for uh for this player just selling |
| 3843s | their entire board and just having one |
| 3845s | 200 200 cleave on the board and then it |
| 3848s | ended up happening just you know small |
| 3850s | boards with u maximum disruption tend to |
| 3852s | be the ways to beat these uh big |
| 3854s | resummon comps but but when they |
| 3856s | reduceed that that summon down to uh |
| 3858s | three not quite as scary it just doesn't |
| 3861s | quite work like yeah if if that nisal |
| 3863s | had been a 200 200 then yeah maybe we |
| 3865s | can talk right we still would not have |
| 3867s | because that's a 1,000 attack feather M |
| 3869s | on the other side but you can at least |
| 3871s | have the conversation about it but still |
| 3873s | had to try something tried something |
| 3875s | didn't work out yeah really really big |
| 3878s | victory there for dappy and I think even |
| 3880s | though he was down on Seven health H it |
| 3883s | got to a point where like realistically |
| 3886s | what would have had to happen for him |
| 3888s | not to take game number one and it would |
| 3891s | have had to been some kind of miracle |
| 3893s | from another player so that be taking |
| 3894s | the first win and bagging those points |
| 3897s | getting off to a fantastic start that |
| 3899s | honestly unless everything goes |
| 3901s | completely wrong he must be feeling |
| 3904s | confident about making it to tomorrow |
| 3905s | already yeah it's a short format in |
| 3908s | groups with with three games to qualify |
| 3910s | out so if you do pick up that win in |
| 3912s | your your first game you do feel |
| 3914s | relatively secure and likewise if you if |
| 3916s | you finish eth you start to think oh |
| 3917s | goodness you know uphill climb from here |
| 3919s | I've got to absolutely storm my way |
| 3920s | through these next two lobbies and you |
| 3922s | start uh crossing your fingers and |
| 3924s | praying to Bob that you know the |
| 3925s | anomalies role that you know how to play |
| 3927s | and all that kind of thing coming up for |
| 3928s | the next two games because uh two games |
| 3930s | now to to really figure out whether |
| 3933s | people are going to have a miserable |
| 3934s | Sunday or not well we'll find out that |
| 3937s | shortly we are going to go to a quick |
| 3938s | break while we get the players ready for |
| 3940s | game number two so don't go anywhere and |
| 3941s | we'll be right back with some more Lobby |
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| 4653s | welcome back everyone to the lobby |
| 4655s | Legends we're are getting ready for our |
| 4657s | next match we do apologize about the lag |
| 4659s | we are just uh run through some tech |
| 4661s | things to try and get it fixed so yeah |
| 4662s | apologies about that we're doing our |
| 4664s | best over here but sutle how was that |
| 4666s | first game for you our first one with |
| 4667s | the anomalies it was a bit of a tame one |
| 4670s | but did anything really stand |
| 4671s | out it was incredible high in potassium |
| 4674s | that's what stood out Raven there there |
| 4676s | were bananas everywhere uh that was |
| 4678s | really what dominated it right and when |
| 4680s | when a Lobby homogenizes towards one |
| 4683s | strategy like that Tess is always going |
| 4685s | to have a good time and that's kind of |
| 4686s | what we watched happening um I pick test |
| 4689s | very early for bandwagon and the reason |
| 4692s | being it's one of the things that does |
| 4694s | interact very well with that particular |
| 4696s | anomaly because um the problem with Tess |
| 4699s | is that you buy minions from your |
| 4700s | opponent but you're always behind where |
| 4702s | they were right like they've buffed up |
| 4704s | their minions they they put stats on |
| 4706s | them or whatever you roll their vanilla |
| 4709s | whereas at least this way you can roll |
| 4710s | and at least get decent Tempo minions |
| 4712s | straight back cuz they're they're still |
| 4713s | in the tavern they're still buffed um so |
| 4715s | I tend to think Tess does fairly well |
| 4717s | with that anomaly but the way it worked |
| 4719s | out was just fantastic for me and more |
| 4721s | importantly fantastic for dappy who just |
| 4723s | witnessed everyone going for banana |
| 4725s | Slammers and was just basically rolling |
| 4727s | into two or three more bananers every |
| 4730s | single turn more importantly fantastic |
| 4733s | for me fancy team pick yeah I'm just |
| 4736s | going to mirand you H but yeah take a |
| 4738s | look at the standings there after one |
| 4740s | game of course uh this is kind of |
| 4742s | interesting actually because from |
| 4744s | Sliders down like that's very close |
| 4747s | right that he not really spreading |
| 4748s | players out too much uh with those |
| 4751s | points uh so we'll see how that impacts |
| 4753s | as we move on to game two and three but |
| 4755s | so far really looking at those top three |
| 4757s | sl4 players already a huge stride ahead |
| 4760s | of the rest of the lobby which is going |
| 4762s | to be really strong because if the likes |
| 4764s | of dappy little bird G say say can H |
| 4767s | just put in like one more decent |
| 4770s | performance then they'll be able to feel |
| 4773s | very confident about you know making |
| 4775s | that top four cut today yeah kind of bad |
| 4777s | news for zorg as well that the the next |
| 4779s | elimination went out as a trio right |
| 4782s | because it just means that there was no |
| 4783s | one point player that's right next to |
| 4785s | him that he can claw down one by one |
| 4786s | everyone else got at least a two-point |
| 4788s | lead over zorg but you can see uh this |
| 4791s | is I believe how the viewers have gone |
| 4793s | over overall with their fantasy team |
| 4794s | picks and no great surprise like I said |
| 4796s | about this group right couple of really |
| 4799s | well-known widely regarded ask the |
| 4801s | average guy on the street and they'll |
| 4802s | say first off what's Battlegrounds but |
| 4804s | secondly um if you asking them to name |
| 4807s | good players gief and beatab babit would |
| 4808s | be pretty high on that list right |
| 4810s | they're very well known as extremely |
| 4812s | high level consistent players uh so no |
| 4815s | great surprise to see those two dominate |
| 4817s | proceeding yeah and I I think it's going |
| 4820s | to be interesting to see how that looks |
| 4822s | when we fast forward you know maybe even |
| 4824s | more time because a lot I think a lot of |
| 4826s | these names you know not the uh sort of |
| 4828s | bigger streamers that we've had on |
| 4830s | throughout of course we've got the likes |
| 4831s | of dog in uh in group b uh but I think |
| 4834s | it's cool or it has been cool at least |
| 4836s | for me seeing the players that I didn't |
| 4838s | know too well like back when Lobby |
| 4840s | Legends started and now they're just |
| 4842s | they're just Battlegrounds names right |
| 4844s | that you just know because we've seen |
| 4846s | them show up time and time again I think |
| 4848s | when this system started I think you |
| 4851s | were with me on this we're very |
| 4852s | interested to see are we going to get 16 |
| 4855s | not random obviously they've had to |
| 4856s | qualify but a different 16 names every |
| 4859s | single time or are we going to see the |
| 4861s | players constantly hit and we have seen |
| 4863s | them constantly hit so it's been really |
| 4865s | cool to follow some of these players and |
| 4867s | see just how consistent they can be in a |
| 4869s | game that I think to a lot of people |
| 4871s | does not feel consistent obviously not |
| 4873s | at the top level but you know you casat |
| 4874s | your players yeah and I think one of the |
| 4876s | things I've really enjoyed about |
| 4877s | Battlegrounds as well um and we'll speak |
| 4879s | to this more when we get to Group B |
| 4881s | later in the day is some people who are |
| 4884s | big names within their native speaking |
| 4886s | communities particularly some of the |
| 4888s | Japanese and APAC players have had that |
| 4890s | opportunity to break out onto a world |
| 4892s | stage and say no we're the nuts like we |
| 4894s | absolutely destroy everyone else and |
| 4896s | there's so many player you know the |
| 4897s | likes of Alex JP for example the likes |
| 4899s | of water of satellite these players that |
| 4902s | have come along and been very very |
| 4904s | consistent even almu right who Rose to |
| 4906s | godhood already by doing the same thing |
| 4908s | in I'll do it in Battlegrounds oh yeah |
| 4910s | I'll just do it in Battlegrounds as well |
| 4911s | like yeah absolutely um I think it's |
| 4913s | been a real real Boon to the apack |
| 4915s | players over yeah looks like we are |
| 4916s | getting to game two and it looks like |
| 4919s | things are moving which is always a |
| 4920s | positive again we are constantly |
| 4922s | fighting whatever Tech issue we've got |
| 4923s | so we'll do our best look at this we do |
| 4926s | have the perfected Alchemy uh anomaly I |
| 4929s | believe which is start with a |
| 4935s | goldenized one this is basically letting |
| 4938s | everyone be Reno as well as their their |
| 4941s | their uh their hero |
| 4944s | uh little bird just picking up the King |
| 4946s | Varian as the tavn S option uh didn't |
| 4950s | necessarily catch the other two um think |
| 4953s | uh Papa Bear was perhaps one of them but |
| 4955s | uh King VAR in a lot of tempo early on |
| 4956s | and particularly uh will be looking for |
| 4958s | some nice economy I think in this |
| 4960s | particular Lobby Little Bird will be |
| 4961s | looking to get as quickly as possible |
| 4963s | through that gold Spence you can |
| 4965s | potentially even use the gold andiz are |
| 4967s | on one of those six drops that you get |
| 4969s | from selling your king Barry I like it |
| 4971s | as well cuz it it sometimes it feels |
| 4973s | difficult to make that choice right at |
| 4975s | the beginning of the game and that feels |
| 4976s | like one of the most flexible choices |
| 4978s | right to just say oh well I'll just get |
| 4980s | more stuff like whatever stuff I need |
| 4982s | I'll get some stuff so it'll be fine so |
| 4984s | yeah I like it overall and we are just |
| 4986s | going to start off on sevil on nzo and |
| 4989s | getting some nice little early Tempo |
| 4991s | damage |
| 4995s | in now with this setup subtle are there |
| 5001s | any like minions you could just |
| 5003s | instantly think of and saying oh in a |
| 5005s | perfect world I'd use the the golden |
| 5006s | iser on that it's you know almost like a |
| 5008s | pre-planned minion sort of thing uh I |
| 5011s | think with Elementals in you got to be |
| 5012s | looking at Gusty right Gusty Trumpeter |
| 5014s | if you get golden Gusty early on you're |
| 5016s | just well on the way to infinite |
| 5017s | Elementals already that's absolutely |
| 5019s | massive but I think more so than |
| 5021s | individual minions it's Heroes that give |
| 5023s | you some way of achieving a high LEL |
| 5026s | thing quickly right like gacr for |
| 5028s | example you can just get a six drop in |
| 5030s | the shop or a five drop in the shop very |
| 5032s | very quickly uh you see be a babbit on |
| 5034s | udora who can guarantee a triple into a |
| 5037s | five or whatever curve you end up |
| 5038s | playing and get that done very quickly |
| 5041s | um so I think more and more those are |
| 5043s | the kind of things you're looking for is |
| 5044s | like how do I let me pick a hero that |
| 5046s | can either just the hero power gives |
| 5049s | them a high value minion early or |
| 5051s | something that like guarantees me |
| 5052s | triples really really quickly and I |
| 5054s | think you can see that like zorg on hook |
| 5056s | Tas kind of a triple farming character |
| 5058s | um gief on myv kind of a triple farming |
| 5060s | character sliders on Patchwork just |
| 5063s | press the level button over and over |
| 5064s | again with your health total and then |
| 5066s | buy something uh from a high tier Tavern |
| 5068s | you know people are really leaning into |
| 5070s | that that triple power more than uh more |
| 5072s | than average and and this is what we |
| 5074s | were talking about right at the |
| 5075s | beginning of the show saying that well |
| 5078s | it like what herit Heroes that their |
| 5080s | strengths really go up and down |
| 5081s | depending on what anomaly you're playing |
| 5083s | right so like these really uh again the |
| 5086s | likes of patches and a few others really |
| 5087s | do benefit from saying yes let's rush to |
| 5090s | a a sort of endgame state to get this |
| 5092s | gold are working as quickly as possible |
| 5094s | cuz everyone is going fairly slowly |
| 5096s | except for I would say like dappy right |
| 5098s | now who's actually just building up that |
| 5100s | board as |
| 5104s | cous slight difference in board presence |
| 5109s | here if uh Linder is out there making |
| 5112s | making beats I wouldn't mind taking a |
| 5113s | look at beer babit just to have some |
| 5115s | idea as to what kind of udora curve is |
| 5117s | going on here try and see what sort of |
| 5119s | triple he is aiming |
| 5121s | for oh this is nice there you just saw |
| 5124s | quickly there The Gambler as well being |
| 5125s | able to cycle that gold which is going |
| 5127s | to be really good for uh for little bird |
| 5129s | but yeah there's be pit take us away so |
| 5132s | Tav three on six gold with double |
| 5134s | economy so I'm assuming that was yeah |
| 5136s | that would have been level this turn |
| 5137s | with the one extra gold uh gone through |
| 5140s | for the hero power now has two sellable |
| 5142s | minions so it looks like this is going |
| 5144s | to be a very very quick five or one turn |
| 5147s | delay into a six looking to Golden the |
| 5149s | result as well so we'll of course end up |
| 5151s | with two golden Minions on the board |
| 5152s | most of the time uh the actual golden |
| 5155s | minion that you get from the hero power |
| 5156s | and then probably going to Golden the |
| 5158s | result of it as well yep so uh sneaky |
| 5162s | little person forgot to remind me again |
| 5164s | that I'm getting so involved with the |
| 5166s | game I forgot to make a pick there's no |
| 5168s | extra tweet for sportsmanship is there |
| 5171s | like just doesn't matter the goal is to |
| 5174s | win okay okay just remember just |
| 5178s | remember sorry sorry Chris just really |
| 5180s | pop yeah I've just read that message |
| 5182s | very good yep uh yeah that's fine I'll |
| 5185s | remember this you know when it comes to |
| 5186s | reminding people don't |
| 5188s | worry it's all getting logged away ready |
| 5191s | for that message I'll make you |
| 5194s | right here though Chief going to get |
| 5197s | stomped a not sto probably slight |
| 5200s | exaggeration here good trade going on |
| 5202s | that side though so not too bad here |
| 5203s | going to pound a bit of the pressure |
| 5205s | again the curus just getting the job |
| 5206s | done but still I'm just waiting to see |
| 5209s | these golden isers start to be used cuz |
| 5210s | that's when the game is really going to |
| 5212s | pop up oh yeah for sure yeah right now |
| 5215s | these early turns it's really just |
| 5217s | looking at how everyone is preparing for |
| 5219s | that golden o right like what's |
| 5221s | everyone's |
| 5230s | plan yo early golden n rubian on |
| 5233s | shadowwalk there is a plan I can tell |
| 5235s | you that much oh yeah I didn't even |
| 5238s | notice it was gone honestly I'm just |
| 5239s | looking at all the boards and I'm like |
| 5240s | oh yeah that's a good point it's just |
| 5242s | it's just |
| 5243s | missing well okay they tripled a arubian |
| 5247s | into what I'm like no no no they just |
| 5249s | used the goldener on the narubi and now |
| 5252s | they're pressing the the shadowalk hero |
| 5253s | power on it for the rest of the game not |
| 5255s | a bad plan honestly yeah well that's |
| 5257s | what I was going to ask you as well |
| 5258s | because they there seems to have been at |
| 5260s | least so far a bit of a a nod across the |
| 5263s | the whole player base in this game of |
| 5266s | saying okay we've got goldenes that's |
| 5268s | all kind of just level up right and |
| 5269s | we'll deal with all the fighting later |
| 5271s | on but I was going to say what are the |
| 5273s | merits of actually being a little bit |
| 5275s | more aggressive with the goldener to try |
| 5277s | and say I'll actually get some damage |
| 5278s | dealt |
| 5280s | now |
| 5281s | okay hang on I will answer your question |
| 5284s | in a minute but B babbit with the |
| 5287s | rapidly ramping UD has found his way |
| 5290s | into a golden Nomi on seven gold and is |
| 5294s | now just slamming 124s on the board with |
| 5296s | Reckless abandon and also just hitting |
| 5299s | for 15 yes it was against patches but |
| 5302s | still like you know like that's a high |
| 5305s | damage output coming out there from be B |
| 5307s | this look this is not going to do any |
| 5310s | Battleground streamer any favors right |
| 5312s | because no me isn't very good I just |
| 5316s | want to make that clear to everyone |
| 5317s | watching but oh my goodness is it |
| 5319s | everyone's favorite card so if you watch |
| 5321s | like any high level Battleground |
| 5323s | streamer you will see them skip like 15 |
| 5325s | nomies a game and every single one they |
| 5328s | roll past someone and chat be like why |
| 5329s | no know me because it's turn 11 like |
| 5332s | what are you talking about why no know |
| 5333s | me but yeah turns out if you get a |
| 5336s | golden one on seven gold it's kind of |
| 5339s | disgusting when you know everyone else |
| 5341s | is also kind of taking it slow as well |
| 5343s | right like you kind of look at the board |
| 5345s | say okay well no one's you know really |
| 5347s | popping off early on so yeah will be |
| 5350s | exciting |
| 5351s | indeed my quest begins here I feel like |
| 5354s | the stats are getting close to just |
| 5356s | already been there for be as well right |
| 5358s | it's not like he's done this and he's |
| 5359s | falling behind yeah yeah yeah for sure |
| 5366s | he's winning fights like he will be |
| 5367s | dealing 15 in every fight from now until |
| 5370s | the end of the game until someone else |
| 5372s | spikes as high as that is spiking right |
| 5374s | now yeah I'm take a quick glance at |
| 5376s | seval as well who is the nooth at the |
| 5378s | moment is starting to really rack up |
| 5380s | those uh those pigs so I'll be |
| 5382s | interested to see how that's going to |
| 5384s | look at least in the near future once |
| 5386s | the uh gems have started to go this is |
| 5388s | something I have done twice I think I've |
| 5391s | played this anomaly a fair few times I |
| 5394s | think on two occasions I have ended up |
| 5395s | going the Elise route uh just you know |
| 5397s | essentially just turns that one option |
| 5400s | for a golden minion over into several |
| 5402s | golden minions over the course of the |
| 5404s | game right because at least triples that |
| 5407s | uh can get you six drops and so on from |
| 5408s | that point ways to you know triple into |
| 5411s | multiple five drops you can then maybe |
| 5413s | end up with a golden Gusty by just |
| 5415s | hitting hitting gold monkeys over and |
| 5417s | over again um you can get a lot of value |
| 5420s | out of it especially when you have a |
| 5421s | hero with a heal to spare like patk |
| 5428s | yeah here though you still got the |
| 5431s | goldener for now that's |
| 5434s | huge yeah it's getting used this turn |
| 5436s | unless there's any Rays on the Primus |
| 5440s | which I don't think there will |
| 5442s | be we're about to see a golden Primus |
| 5444s | hit this |
| 5446s | board nowh golden Leeroy no h it's close |
| 5451s | I is close he raise a valid |
| 5454s | counterargument but I think I'm just |
| 5456s | edging towards the thing that will |
| 5458s | immediately make this entire board full |
| 5460s | of Undead minions massive yeah when |
| 5463s | we've got a second as well no rush but |
| 5465s | we could go over to sliders I'm already |
| 5466s | seeing two golden monkeys on the board |
| 5468s | so um so we'll have to see what the |
| 5470s | output of that is going to look like in |
| 5472s | the near future yeah there's the golden |
| 5474s | being used there for |
| 5476s | gief now to see if he can catch up cuz |
| 5478s | again that it hurts me to say this cuz |
| 5481s | sot picked beat a babit in the uh in the |
| 5483s | prediction for this game uh but I do |
| 5485s | think he is currently looking |
| 5487s | fantastic he's currently looking three |
| 5490s | times the size of anyone else in the |
| 5492s | lobby |
| 5498s | yeah oh nomies what is it turn yeah nine |
| 5502s | that's that's okay nine gold two nomies |
| 5505s | so you're only two turns and one Nomi |
| 5507s | behind Bea babbit reasonable reasonable |
| 5511s | yeah there's the recycling so that's |
| 5524s | something ha now neither of your monkeys |
| 5526s | have torn what will you do |
| 5530s | now tra's going on there for Z |
| 5534s | though a big hit as well okay yes |
| 5538s | something I well yeah it wasn't the |
| 5540s | monkey right it was the best Target |
| 5542s | joint with the uh the upbeat du but even |
| 5545s | with that attack ends up being put down |
| 5547s | to 15 so yeah zorg is having a bad time |
| 5550s | here it looks like is going to need to |
| 5552s | go absolutely crazy with these |
| 5554s | Elementals this turn oh never mind I |
| 5557s | think I was just looking at the look on |
| 5558s | zorg's face like zorg kind of looks like |
| 5560s | he's given up on this game already look |
| 5562s | at who the matchup is I think he might |
| 5565s | know yeah a little bit unfortunate uh |
| 5568s | maybe he can survive if only's on 16 |
| 5571s | health and not exact L 15 which is |
| 5573s | probably the uh the true problem in this |
| 5575s | scenario |
| 5580s | right was ridiculous the the problem is |
| 5583s | now like there needs to be taunt going |
| 5585s | on or something because these are too |
| 5587s | big to die so they're not going to it's |
| 5589s | just relying on Purely n me which is |
| 5591s | absolutely fine don't get me wrong but |
| 5593s | it's just funny to see the death rattle |
| 5594s | there and it's like they're not really |
| 5596s | going to die though so they're just big |
| 5597s | minions come on beta get rid of them |
| 5599s | yeah yeah there you go I can feel like |
| 5602s | that's the devil on the shoulder that |
| 5603s | good players are able to resist that I'm |
| 5605s | not right where I still have those two |
| 5607s | 15 15s going but there's still 15 15s |
| 5610s | and they generate me two more Elementals |
| 5612s | every turn surely I can keep them nah |
| 5615s | just just kill people it's fine don't |
| 5618s | worry about it there's Gusty as well to |
| 5619s | finish it |
| 5622s | off yeah I don't think the Gusty will |
| 5624s | necessarily hang around for too long |
| 5626s | just because it is it's a boulderfist |
| 5628s | ogre which you know as we know are good |
| 5629s | stats for the cost but not in this |
| 5631s | situation |
| 5632s | yeah maybe sck for one turn or so but it |
| 5635s | all depends on what beat is offered |
| 5636s | right so yeah you can keep it there for |
| 5638s | one turn and just buy sell around it |
| 5640s | right and then end up with two more |
| 5641s | Minions on your board from the shot yeah |
| 5643s | cuz they'll still be bigger than what |
| 5644s | you sold that wasn't the trumpet |
| 5647s | right of them deleted |
| 5650s | there is this 15 that's the question |
| 5654s | it's not bad yes it's the answer that's |
| 5656s | a good attack though but that's 48 12 |
| 5658s | yeah it's 50 yeah it is oh oh that's not |
| 5661s | doing any good for my fantasy team |
| 5667s | unfortunately what was that turn 10 |
| 5671s | exactly it's turn eight 10 gold turn |
| 5673s | eight oh sorry I'm looking at the Gold |
| 5679s | yeah too many times like oh yeah on |
| 5681s | eight gold on 10 gold as opposed to on |
| 5684s | turn whatever |
| 5687s | yeah the undead ramping working out |
| 5690s | pretty well for SSA right now yeah not |
| 5692s | pushing too much damage which must be a |
| 5694s | little bit dicey because say say is on |
| 5696s | eight so pretty much a sneeze is going |
| 5697s | to take him out of the |
| 5701s | game more golden monkeys |
| 5710s | anyone more Golden |
| 5712s | Monkey have you ever um what's it sea |
| 5716s | witch you know the seven drop Naga that |
| 5717s | just lets you steal things from the the |
| 5719s | shop have you ever done that with a |
| 5721s | lease with gold monkeys it's so it is |
| 5727s | absurd you triple into one sea witch and |
| 5730s | then you grab a golden monkey and then |
| 5731s | that Golden Monkey gets you like Captain |
| 5733s | Sanders right and then you make your sea |
| 5735s | witch golden which then gives you a new |
| 5737s | spell your hand becomes gold and then |
| 5739s | you get more Golden Monkey oh it's it's |
| 5741s | so broken that's the one thing that's |
| 5743s | difficult like if you're not playing 12 |
| 5745s | hours a day it's really difficult to you |
| 5748s | know like grasp all the potential that |
| 5751s | anomalies can offer you because not only |
| 5753s | is it the anomaly to practice it's with |
| 5755s | the certain minion types that you get |
| 5757s | given than with the hero you offered or |
| 5759s | hero you're often should I say so it's |
| 5761s | really difficult to say like oh yeah I |
| 5763s | practice this one specific thing a lot |
| 5765s | because you just it's just difficult to |
| 5767s | make it happen yeah and I think that is |
| 5769s | this meta at a high level it's it's |
| 5771s | solving the issue right if you're |
| 5773s | presented with a set of variables at the |
| 5775s | start of the game this anomaly with |
| 5777s | these minion types here are the four |
| 5779s | Heroes you can choose from do you know |
| 5781s | what the best to try and do is um and |
| 5785s | for the most part the answer to that is |
| 5787s | yes for the majority of these players so |
| 5789s | then it becomes a matter of are you |
| 5791s | going to try and force it too hard and |
| 5793s | die can you navigate your way to that |
| 5794s | point skillfully enough do you |
| 5796s | understand whether when to bail out and |
| 5798s | just play scam for example like all of |
| 5800s | these kind of questions that then get |
| 5802s | layered in on top of yeah and this |
| 5804s | Undead push here is looking quite good |
| 5808s | isn't it in terms of just getting damage |
| 5810s | done here um obviously is on going to be |
| 5812s | on the patchwork from Sliders so there's |
| 5814s | Health to go around but it's still a |
| 5816s | significant hit and those are ones you |
| 5818s | really want to |
| 5824s | dodge was over for several the pigs are |
| 5826s | just getting it done for now or at least |
| 5827s | the gems are getting it done should I |
| 5829s | say and CSA is going to bite the |
| 5832s | dust 14 damage to the eight health what |
| 5835s | is going on sh's board here let's hang |
| 5836s | around full hand of blood gems and at |
| 5839s | least a 7070 hanging around on board |
| 5841s | okay so did end up using the |
| 5846s | goldenized cut away to something else uh |
| 5849s | he did not do it early in the game he |
| 5851s | kind of waited until he had the |
| 5852s | opportunity to do so but you can now |
| 5854s | kind of see how that can pay off right |
| 5856s | he has the blood gem Buffs and the blood |
| 5860s | gem Generations each going twice into |
| 5863s | the fish because of the the goldener |
| 5866s | which are now allowing him to make these |
| 5867s | giant minions so pretty good stuff you |
| 5869s | know cuz I'm a great friend in coastera |
| 5872s | I'm willing for the enjoyment of your |
| 5875s | your enjoyment and the audience I'm |
| 5877s | willing to inform you that my whole |
| 5879s | fantasy team the three that are dead |
| 5881s | right now so uh not really the best game |
| 5884s | for me personally uh but hey if you want |
| 5887s | to know what my fantasy team is it's |
| 5889s | pretty easy it's the three players that |
| 5890s | are in Gray at the |
| 5893s | bottom oh no that is a disaster R and |
| 5898s | for the second game in a row it looks |
| 5899s | like my bandwagon pick is the favorite |
| 5901s | to win the lobby yeah I I feel like I |
| 5903s | need there needs to be some kind of |
| 5904s | Investigation into sole's choices here I |
| 5907s | don't know you know we'll see my |
| 5909s | bandwagon pick is winning the lobby and |
| 5910s | your bandwagon pick was balls officially |
| 5913s | on the no it was a little bird that's |
| 5916s | still in okay there still a little |
| 5918s | chance just a normal |
| 5922s | bird I think you can win the sliders |
| 5925s | potentially getting the uh the round off |
| 5927s | so to speak going into the |
| 5929s | ghost it's not a bad ghost though it's |
| 5932s | not bad it's also 158 Health on that |
| 5934s | minion so I would be willing to say it's |
| 5937s | enough to not die or at least not lose |
| 5941s | it might be a little bit closer than you |
| 5943s | think it |
| 5945s | is but I think you are right |
| 5948s | yeah I did just eyeball it but it's out |
| 5951s | still over 120 right |
| 5960s | now |
| 5963s | he going to reborn |
| 5965s | again def wasn't it wasn't nothing but |
| 5968s | yeah it did depend on the rebor right |
| 5971s | like the the teus already swung right |
| 5973s | and killed one of those things already |
| 5974s | when it didn't happen right that that |
| 5976s | could have happened I I will say and I |
| 5979s | don't know if this is just a me thing or |
| 5981s | an everyone or or more people thing but |
| 5984s | I do feel like those Undead boards can |
| 5986s | be really tricky to judge how strong |
| 5989s | they actually are because things can |
| 5990s | really get wild with those mhm |
| 5995s | absolutely wild though it's going to be |
| 5996s | a |
| 5997s | turn ooh I'll forb |
| 6005s | oo AR off's |
| 6007s | blessing this is a tricky one and again |
| 6010s | no wonder I lose I was about to type my |
| 6013s | choice and the turn's not even remotely |
| 6015s | close to being |
| 6017s | done yeah I am fairly confident on this |
| 6020s | one though |
| 6025s | I'm not okay interesting so who you |
| 6028s | confident on so well wouldn't that be a |
| 6031s | wonderful thing to |
| 6035s | know oh Eternal Knight came along in the |
| 6038s | end though which is a big old |
| 6041s | deal one taunt I will say is worth |
| 6044s | noting that is a key factor on sliders |
| 6046s | board right now that you should pay |
| 6048s | attention to there is only one taunt I |
| 6050s | will not go as far as to tell you why |
| 6052s | that's very relevant just that it |
| 6057s | is committed Raven and myself are now in |
| 6061s | cased in a game of chicken where neither |
| 6062s | of us is going it's fine I've done it |
| 6064s | I'm not I'm not scared I'm not I'm not |
| 6065s | using a you know dodgy tactics like you |
| 6068s | do Saul of not telling me or reminding |
| 6069s | me to do a guess I'm I'm an I'm an |
| 6072s | honorable player okay as our good friend |
| 6074s | pav would |
| 6079s | say is this because do we not now need |
| 6082s | to watch the fight that we just gambled |
| 6084s | on or what what's happening this doesn't |
| 6086s | look like what I voted on it's null and |
| 6088s | void it doesn't count cuz I was probably |
| 6090s | wrong it's fine rigged can we get a |
| 6094s | rigged in the chat please yeah wait no |
| 6097s | I'm not doing that I'm innocent I'm |
| 6100s | innocent oh here we go oh wait no wait |
| 6105s | was was this yeah this was the fight |
| 6107s | right this is the right fight |
| 6109s | yeah uh-oh |
| 6116s | looks like Raven's got |
| 6121s | me I'm so confused were the wrong names |
| 6124s | on oh yeah that was that was G yeah cuz |
| 6128s | we both typed the wrong names I'm so |
| 6130s | confused okay I don't even know whatever |
| 6132s | I just changed mine to the person I |
| 6134s | think I picked but I don't remember |
| 6136s | anymore wait no I did pick I picked wait |
| 6139s | I picked gief right I picked the gief |
| 6141s | ball you picked the equivalent of the |
| 6143s | person that won and I picked the |
| 6144s | equivalent of the person that lost I am |
| 6146s | happy to consider that point however it |
| 6149s | was also very confusing yes I have no |
| 6151s | clue what was going on I just know that |
| 6153s | I won and that's all that really matters |
| 6155s | in the end isn't |
| 6158s | it yeah I I just I don't know what |
| 6160s | happened there but I believe I won so |
| 6164s | that's |
| 6165s | fine you face me you the |
| 6170s | SE exactly what you were looking |
| 6174s | for as we're furiously trying to get |
| 6177s | these scores |
| 6179s | updated here I'm contesting like you you |
| 6182s | you were right and I was wrong it's just |
| 6184s | yeah the names are very confusing yeah |
| 6186s | be babbit here with uh reasonably sized |
| 6189s | Elementals I would say yeah not looking |
| 6192s | too bad still on what 39 Health be B it |
| 6196s | do you think he's even lost a fight for |
| 6198s | like uh at least from when we've seen |
| 6200s | him he's not right no absolutely not and |
| 6202s | I would imagine he's 15 everyone since |
| 6205s | that point as well which I pointed out |
| 6206s | at the time like yeah cuz I I think at |
| 6209s | Golden Nomi the tney golden Nomi he did |
| 6211s | 15 that turn right as well so it was |
| 6213s | crazy |
| 6219s | yeah yeah so back on uh seville's board |
| 6222s | who sevil lost to gief in our kind of |
| 6224s | confusing barrels blessing that we just |
| 6226s | had I thought sble uh would have been |
| 6228s | winning that fight because of the |
| 6229s | combination of the cinder straight shot |
| 6231s | which only had one taunt to hit into |
| 6233s | which is the thing I was talking about |
| 6234s | so it then has a free shot at anything |
| 6237s | on the second attack which could have |
| 6238s | been the Eternal Knight could have been |
| 6239s | anything of high value and then this uh |
| 6242s | Wildfire just being able to wreak havoc |
| 6244s | with no taunt in its way after that I |
| 6246s | thought would be enough to clear things |
| 6248s | up but apparently only I was wrong oh |
| 6250s | only eight only eight there several |
| 6252s | lives yeah several got the the kills on |
| 6253s | the key targets there and just ended up |
| 6255s | with a couple of smaller minions up it's |
| 6257s | a big deal oh that is more than uh than |
| 6259s | eight that is a smooth |
| 6261s | 27 from SL kicking out gets the ghost |
| 6266s | now so oh so beta got the ghost okay |
| 6269s | that's huge slider's doing great though |
| 6271s | this is actually competitive with uh |
| 6273s | with what be is doing right which you |
| 6275s | can kind of see what I was talking about |
| 6277s | before with Nomi right like the Nomi |
| 6279s | scaling even though it was the absolute |
| 6280s | dream case scenario has kind of capped |
| 6283s | out now it's gaining you somewhere in |
| 6286s | the region of of between 10 10 and 2020 |
| 6289s | per turn and you have have to constantly |
| 6291s | be spending gold on things to replace |
| 6293s | the Minions that you have in play uh |
| 6295s | whereas sliders he gets to keep the |
| 6298s | minions he has and just consistently |
| 6300s | make them bigger and actually play with |
| 6302s | economy cards as well like bran like the |
| 6305s | teis to be able just finish on a just |
| 6308s | finish on a tech card exactly that so |
| 6310s | this is where the scaling from Nomi can |
| 6312s | start to get overtaken in the late game |
| 6314s | but we'll see uh it's going to be a |
| 6316s | pretty close one and two I think between |
| 6317s | these two players yeah and I think the |
| 6319s | strength of this where you know we talk |
| 6321s | about oh well Nomi kind of you Peters |
| 6323s | out towards the end let's say but you |
| 6325s | made it to the end and in this format |
| 6328s | it's three total games of Battlegrounds |
| 6330s | top four go through so for Bea babbit |
| 6333s | even just saying yes this is very likely |
| 6335s | to get me first or second that's a lot |
| 6338s | of points and that's what the players |
| 6339s | need so great choices there from be |
| 6342s | babbit whether he finishes in that first |
| 6344s | or second place doesn't look like |
| 6346s | slider's really found an ending youit oh |
| 6349s | no it'll be it'll be straight shot to |
| 6350s | end yeah yeah stot there fair |
| 6353s | enough e and even if it's there and |
| 6356s | you're not against reborn which he is I |
| 6358s | think but even if it was just such oh |
| 6360s | this will just stop a taunt like fine |
| 6362s | you know it's just it's an okay card to |
| 6364s | end on there taunt andry Bor double |
| 6367s | whammy |
| 6371s | here I love when you're doing like hyper |
| 6373s | economy comps like super APM comps the |
| 6376s | fight which to a lot of people is the |
| 6378s | exciting part where lots of things |
| 6380s | happen is the time where you actually |
| 6382s | get to have a breather and do nothing |
| 6383s | yeah be like put put your hand in a bowl |
| 6386s | of ice that's on your desk just to like |
| 6389s | right okay he need to |
| 6391s | chill yeah but we will be down to the |
| 6394s | top two that's expected and it is going |
| 6395s | to be a top two with two players |
| 6398s | incredibly healthy I think it's 39 |
| 6401s | effective Health plays 28 uh yeah |
| 6404s | assuming be babit does not lead lose to |
| 6406s | the ghost which does not appear to have |
| 6407s | happened unsurprisingly so uh could |
| 6409s | still be a couple of fights in in this |
| 6412s | one yeah it's wild here like it's |
| 6415s | probably a stupid question here but |
| 6417s | which player needs to react here if |
| 6420s | reacting is even possible uh does beta |
| 6423s | have to do the sort of find a tech way |
| 6425s | to get out of this or are both players |
| 6428s | supposed to just go Max stats and then |
| 6430s | we sort of just headbutt each other |
| 6431s | until it's done so it's kind of close |
| 6433s | right um Pirates obviously have natural |
| 6437s | uh availability for the cleave which is |
| 6439s | huge you can see that there far left uh |
| 6441s | but Elementals have uh access to the |
| 6443s | brambles right so they can turn these |
| 6445s | massive minions into 33s and value trade |
| 6447s | and keep going so the amount of |
| 6449s | naturally available Tech is fairly even |
| 6451s | you just saw Elemental of surprise come |
| 6453s | up in the shop as well which can be a |
| 6455s | huge deal if you can get a nice triple |
| 6456s | with uh with that as the elemental board |
| 6459s | so in terms of natural Tech it's quite |
| 6461s | even and I think it's also difficult to |
| 6463s | know because I'm not sure these players |
| 6465s | have seen each other recently so they're |
| 6468s | kind of guessing as to what the numbers |
| 6470s | are they don't know who's bigger just |
| 6473s | yet so they might be using this first |
| 6475s | fight just to go raw stats right both of |
| 6478s | them just go as higher numbers as they |
| 6479s | can possibly get and then the next fight |
| 6482s | is when they'll react the person who's |
| 6483s | smaller will then have to react to the |
| 6485s | situation and does this brand get cut or |
| 6489s | when does this brand get cut is probably |
| 6491s | a more relevant question does it get cut |
| 6492s | for this first fight or does slider say |
| 6494s | nah I can take it at 28 I think I'd be |
| 6496s | happy to keep it this turn I'm too |
| 6498s | greedy it's my biggest floor as a player |
| 6500s | I'm aware of that but I think I would be |
| 6502s | willing to keep it here and be right to |
| 6504s | do so let's put it that way um I think |
| 6506s | that's a a fine choice in this |
| 6509s | spot okay the brand gets melted away |
| 6511s | which is to be expected anyway does look |
| 6514s | like slides is going to slip away though |
| 6515s | here right yep yep so the problem |
| 6518s | sliders has here right is that he |
| 6519s | doesn't have his biggest minions taunted |
| 6521s | which is very common because of a LeRoy |
| 6525s | uh be brambles right things that you |
| 6527s | don't necessarily want attacking into |
| 6528s | your biggest minions uh venomous and |
| 6530s | poisonous minions as well but what's |
| 6534s | getting him into trouble with that is |
| 6536s | that there is the the the cleave |
| 6538s | Elemental up top for betab babit as well |
| 6540s | right so that is getting to attack into |
| 6542s | a smaller minion and then effectively |
| 6545s | cleave into bigger minions because he |
| 6547s | has his smaller minions taunted which is |
| 6548s | becoming a slight issue for sliders yes |
| 6551s | I feel like this brand is it can't go on |
| 6553s | the stay on the board at the end of this |
| 6555s | turn as well because it's so small it's |
| 6557s | insignificant it's just one less board |
| 6559s | space right like especially as you |
| 6561s | mentioned with the CLE with the Taun |
| 6563s | it's just too much there's some Divine |
| 6565s | Shield ability though which I wouldn't |
| 6567s | hate seeing yeah looks like he's going |
| 6568s | to shoot for an Ender of cutting the |
| 6571s | bran and then going with Manor Roth and |
| 6573s | hopefully a golden selfless to round it |
| 6575s | all out as well oh with the manaro got |
| 6577s | sold I would imagine was a |
| 6579s | misclick yeah I was wondering if it was |
| 6581s | also that there's a worst case scenario |
| 6584s | maybe of going one Taun and then the |
| 6586s | Divide Shields either side right so when |
| 6589s | it when and if the cleave happens they |
| 6591s | both go out anyway but now the golden is |
| 6593s | found so slid is sort of getting back |
| 6595s | into the spot he wants to be in I |
| 6597s | imagine so I think this is now bran out |
| 6599s | taunted Leroy with the one remaining |
| 6601s | slimy Shield that's in hand is that what |
| 6603s | we're going to see here no keeping the I |
| 6607s | feel like this is over right he could |
| 6609s | just |
| 6610s | die I don't think 13's like yeah the |
| 6613s | stats are Clos as we said the Divine |
| 6615s | Shield's good but it's a bit riskier |
| 6617s | than I would play put it that way |
| 6622s | we hit the biggest one as well does he |
| 6624s | want like it to bait does he want the |
| 6626s | taunt brand to like bait the thing but a |
| 6628s | LeRoy could do that though you're right |
| 6630s | the Divine Shield did really well though |
| 6632s | cuz the Divine Shield denied the the CLE |
| 6634s | from the Wildfire Elemental which was |
| 6636s | massive actually got zero damage done |
| 6639s | but you see beer has actually gone a |
| 6641s | little bit into Tech card himself going |
| 6643s | with the mechanical Pony and the ghoul |
| 6645s | to get these uh these double venomous |
| 6646s | out and that is going to be that and |
| 6649s | babbit is going to take it down Bea |
| 6652s | beber bi to back of pickled beers this |
| 6654s | game and just since that know me super |
| 6657s | early heavy ramp start with the udora |
| 6660s | goldenized the Nomi and just did not |
| 6663s | look back for the entire game but shout |
| 6665s | out to that final board though there |
| 6666s | real nice stuff with the mechanical Pony |
| 6668s | and the gou just to be able to have that |
| 6669s | little additional layer of security uh |
| 6672s | on top of that as well a neotron on the |
| 6675s | right with the most insignificant minion |
| 6677s | next to it as well right it wasn't it it |
| 6680s | was a 100 but that was Beer's most |
| 6683s | insant because he didn't he didn't want |
| 6685s | to put the mechanical Pony there right |
| 6686s | because then the mechanical Pony doesn't |
| 6688s | get to trade in all the Death rattles |
| 6690s | before the goal and then give the goal |
| 6691s | reborn so he couldn't put that there so |
| 6693s | his next smallest minion to get cleaved |
| 6696s | uh was the refreshing Elemental I think |
| 6698s | in the end um so anron is a small torn |
| 6700s | just to get in the way as well lots of |
| 6702s | really nice Tech card decisions at the |
| 6703s | end of the game and I think that's one |
| 6705s | of the benefits of the comp he ended up |
| 6707s | with right because yes Elementals do a |
| 6710s | lot lot but not to the same level of |
| 6712s | full pirate popping off comp so you've |
| 6714s | got that little bit more brain space to |
| 6717s | think okay what's the perfect |
| 6718s | positioning what's you know what's going |
| 6720s | to happen what can I pick up to drop |
| 6722s | this in so that definitely must have |
| 6723s | helped just having a little bit of an |
| 6725s | easy go of it comp wise but they really |
| 6727s | really crazy game and again you see the |
| 6729s | impact in how the anomalies really shape |
| 6732s | what the players are going to really go |
| 6733s | for On Any Given game we're going to go |
| 6735s | to a quick break while we set up the |
| 6736s | final game of this group so don't go |
| 6738s | anywhere we'll be right back |
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| 7076s | welcome back everyone we are getting |
| 7077s | ready to jump into game number three of |
| 7079s | group a the last game to decide who is |
| 7082s | going to make it to tomorrow so that was |
| 7085s | a bit of a crazy one we beat b it just |
| 7086s | taking control of that game quite easily |
| 7090s | but we've got plenty more anomalies we |
| 7091s | could see who have you got your eye on |
| 7093s | as we go into game three and take a look |
| 7094s | at these standings well seven different |
| 7097s | players really is the the question cuz I |
| 7100s | think you zorg had another rough game so |
| 7101s | I think zorg is now counted out of |
| 7103s | making it through to Mega Lobby on the |
| 7105s | Sunday but outside of that you can see |
| 7107s | how tightly contested it is three points |
| 7109s | between seventh and first uh with be |
| 7112s | babit little bird and gief all tied at |
| 7115s | the top for with nine so even those |
| 7118s | three players right it's kind of strange |
| 7120s | that the two players who have won a |
| 7122s | Lobby in this short format uh group |
| 7124s | stage aren't really feeling particularly |
| 7127s | secure about their chances to go through |
| 7129s | to to uh to Sunday just yet they really |
| 7131s | do still have to scrap it out for |
| 7133s | another game yeah real Rarity cuz like |
| 7135s | dappy after win the first one then got |
| 7137s | .5 in in the lobby to as you can see and |
| 7140s | then obviously be babbit having a |
| 7141s | similar uh issue H from first to second |
| 7144s | so yeah really really interesting really |
| 7146s | close and again it must be tense because |
| 7148s | these players no doubt have anomalies |
| 7152s | they like and anomalies they don't like |
| 7154s | to play as much right so they must be |
| 7156s | yeah you know and and that's the nature |
| 7157s | of the anomalies as well so you sit down |
| 7160s | you think there's one more game pretty |
| 7162s | much up for grabs it the it's close |
| 7164s | enough that you could almost say the |
| 7166s | placement of this next game will get |
| 7168s | close to the placement of the final sort |
| 7170s | of numbers and to just be like right it |
| 7173s | just lands on what anomaly do I have |
| 7174s | what Heroes am I offered go I'm calling |
| 7177s | it now okay no too late oh I was I was |
| 7179s | going to say for all the marbles delete |
| 7181s | your board triple gold that's the one we |
| 7183s | want to play for all the marbles |
| 7185s | right no no it's not that's my least |
| 7189s | favorite one no absolutely not so so as |
| 7192s | we get into this game we can see some of |
| 7193s | these hero |
| 7201s | offerings well I spy my little pet blue |
| 7205s | garbage boy over on the left so I |
| 7206s | struggle to pick anything else at this |
| 7213s | point okay going with the omu seeing a |
| 7217s | galacon get chosen as well well looks |
| 7220s | locked in already a merlock Holmes |
| 7221s | locked in gief on an AFK |
| 7231s | okay Kar end your turn set your left |
| 7235s | right most minions attacked the higher |
| 7237s | of the two so bit of a strange anomaly |
| 7240s | bit of a strange bit of overall think |
| 7243s | about little bit obvious synergies that |
| 7246s | really uh this one uh so so the most |
| 7250s | obvious one game wide is Naga because by |
| 7253s | using spellcraft um you not only get to |
| 7256s | like you put one minion on the left you |
| 7258s | give it a spellcraft to buff its attack |
| 7260s | that then copies to the minion on the |
| 7261s | right right that's obvious what isn't |
| 7264s | immediately obvious is you also set the |
| 7266s | minion that you applied it to to that |
| 7269s | total as well so it gets it permanently |
| 7270s | because it set the left and right minion |
| 7273s | to the greater of the two right so if |
| 7275s | you get it to a spellcraft buff then it |
| 7277s | gets permanent as well so you get to |
| 7278s | scale really really quickly like that |
| 7280s | with spellcraft in the lobby but um |
| 7282s | outside of that I think it's a one of |
| 7284s | the more vanilla anomalies overall which |
| 7287s | you might argue is kind of a nice way to |
| 7290s | play such a crucial game in the |
| 7292s | tournament as this one is with uh |
| 7294s | players just kind of having to play a |
| 7296s | fairly normal game of Battlegrounds with |
| 7297s | a few extra stats being thrown around |
| 7299s | here and |
| 7300s | there to see what to kind of pick up on |
| 7303s | here as we see uh p babit with the quest |
| 7305s | uh what was that b n minions I did not |
| 7307s | see the uh the other side |
| 7323s | the players so far just taking that easy |
| 7325s | goinging Tavern level up of course be |
| 7326s | babit zor I think for now and and uh |
| 7329s | nappy and of course gief on AFK going to |
| 7332s | choose to take it a little bit slower in |
| 7334s | terms of s level sorry Naga are in okay |
| 7337s | I completely misread what the minion |
| 7339s | types were which you can see immediately |
| 7340s | oh Z's got Naga yeah yeah the fact that |
| 7343s | galacon has picked up a two drop from |
| 7345s | the shop that shows you how important |
| 7347s | that Naga scaling really really is and |
| 7350s | he is going to get cooking with that |
| 7351s | immediately I am |
| 7355s | sure very mediocre choices I would say |
| 7359s | here for gief on the |
| 7368s | AFK |
| 7372s | h zorg on the gacr okay just making sure |
| 7375s | getting my bandwagon |
| 7378s | in but Z feeling it all after knowing |
| 7382s | you won't be able to qualify you got |
| 7384s | that's a good yeah it's a not |
| 7386s | insignificant I just messing with your |
| 7388s | head and choice on purpose well I could |
| 7390s | change again as a reminder you are |
| 7391s | allowed to change you can change as as |
| 7393s | many times as you want up until turn |
| 7395s | four and there's no additional penalty |
| 7397s | that goes along with that the only thing |
| 7398s | you're penalized for is the later you |
| 7400s | actually pick the uh the less points you |
| 7402s | get |
| 7406s | yeah I didn't really think about this uh |
| 7408s | sort of interaction with illen as |
| 7411s | well it's kind of funny yeah just |
| 7414s | naturally the two Minions that you have |
| 7415s | that are going to be the biggest are the |
| 7416s | ones that charge in at the start of the |
| 7418s | fight yeah yeah yeah something I didn't |
| 7420s | really think about again like I said I |
| 7422s | think the difficulty for me is the um |
| 7424s | the volume of Heroes and anomaly |
| 7426s | combinations make it very difficult to |
| 7428s | practice everything you would want to |
| 7431s | okay zorg has only just gone to two if |
| 7433s | you wouldn't mind Linder I'd like to |
| 7434s | take a look at zorg because yeah there |
| 7436s | we |
| 7439s | go no oh you can imagine everything that |
| 7443s | is going through zorgo's head right now |
| 7444s | he's like well was this for the last two |
| 7447s | games come on bit of a heartbreaker |
| 7450s | isn't it because if zorg just had a few |
| 7454s | points there's there's more in it right |
| 7457s | you know there's more to like say okay |
| 7459s | hey this is my game this is the recovery |
| 7463s | mhm ooh okay triping the shot for C |
| 7467s | which I imagine will be |
| 7469s | held uh if CES is not going to take this |
| 7472s | this T we go back to zorg just so people |
| 7474s | can see the interaction with the |
| 7475s | spellcraft at the end of the turn and |
| 7477s | how the stats kind of duplicate uh |
| 7479s | you'll see here there's an 86 on the |
| 7480s | Left Right which is uh four four of that |
| 7482s | is temporary stats right now but because |
| 7484s | of the way this anomaly Works those will |
| 7486s | become permanent not only on the right |
| 7488s | minion but also on the the left minion |
| 7490s | as well at least the attack will which |
| 7491s | ends up being copied you'll see when |
| 7493s | this comes back at the end of turn uh |
| 7495s | the minion on the left will still have |
| 7496s | eight |
| 7500s | attack going take a bit of a |
| 7502s | beating the |
| 7505s | though irrelevant little hit early on |
| 7508s | PING most of the armor away from zor's |
| 7512s | galron there it is keeps the attack |
| 7514s | because it gets set by the anomaly and |
| 7515s | now you just get to buff it all over |
| 7516s | again so it's a nice way of making |
| 7518s | spellcraft per on two different |
| 7520s | minions |
| 7523s | o i mean Hello really really really |
| 7529s | really with the golden cemental with the |
| 7531s | golden |
| 7533s | celal you know what's worse |
| 7536s | so I picked CA I mean my |
| 7540s | bandwagon I'm not discounting csa's |
| 7543s | ability as a player and that this may |
| 7544s | well may very well be right but to me as |
| 7547s | a person that really really loves |
| 7549s | playing infinite |
| 7551s | Elementals I honestly me and C just |
| 7553s | can't be friends anymore that's what |
| 7555s | ever on omu as well so it gets you you |
| 7557s | know it gets you where you need to go a |
| 7558s | lot of the time with omu too I guess one |
| 7561s | of the questions and something we've not |
| 7562s | touched on and you know it's something |
| 7563s | that kind of I like to talk about a |
| 7564s | little bit is game plans change if you |
| 7568s | think oh I only need a top four to |
| 7570s | finish top four so then maybe it's just |
| 7573s | just don't get stomped right and and you |
| 7576s | know you've qualified through to |
| 7577s | tomorrow and that is a big deal |
| 7579s | but CSA is the lowest ranked player |
| 7582s | still in contention CSA is seventh he |
| 7584s | has six points which is apart from zorg |
| 7586s | who's not in contention anymore that is |
| 7588s | just the outright lowest amount of |
| 7590s | points so he's the one that feels like |
| 7592s | should be pushing maybe but I think the |
| 7594s | idea is if you're top four then four |
| 7597s | well three other people are below you |
| 7599s | right that are going to get less points |
| 7600s | and maybe that's enough I've not sat and |
| 7602s | done the maths on it to be honest but |
| 7604s | but yeah just it's just an interesting |
| 7605s | possibility of a mindset for these |
| 7607s | players when it's this close |
| 7610s | that is it again look at that 13 damage |
| 7612s | from be bab on that daus not only |
| 7615s | pushing some aggression but also getting |
| 7617s | hold of uh those nagas getting work done |
| 7619s | as you mentioned look at that 12 uh 12 |
| 7621s | attack |
| 7622s | now so the question now is does c say |
| 7625s | use that extra gold uh from the pirate |
| 7628s | to push to five quickly is that the plan |
| 7630s | no just buying minions hanging around on |
| 7632s | four |
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| 7638s | okay |
| 7648s | [Music] |
| 7650s | yikes yeah nothing to write home about |
| 7652s | so far is |
| 7657s | there yeah I think hungering makes the |
| 7659s | most sense |
| 7664s | though you want it on the board which |
| 7666s | then sets one gold on fire cuz you have |
| 7668s | to sell something so I was wondering if |
| 7670s | because you have to set that one gold on |
| 7671s | fire whether you then traded two coins |
| 7674s | for a cemental but I don't think that |
| 7675s | really makes sense |
| 7677s | either um because you're you're still |
| 7679s | just trading two gold for two gold at |
| 7680s | that point so yeah just have to eat that |
| 7682s | last roll which always feels bad right |
| 7684s | it always feels like you've planned your |
| 7686s | turn wrong when you end up pressing roll |
| 7689s | on your last gold because that yeah is |
| 7692s | wasted gold in every single scenario you |
| 7694s | have set that gold on fire it does |
| 7695s | absolutely nothing and I definitely like |
| 7697s | keeping the coins especially based on it |
| 7699s | it opens up more opportunities to level |
| 7701s | and do stuff next turn right so I think |
| 7703s | that's why the coin hold is way way |
| 7705s | better than like you could spend two Co |
| 7707s | two coins for a elementum which is also |
| 7710s | two coins right it's the same thing it |
| 7711s | just ends up just like board space it |
| 7713s | ends up achieving nothing is the point |
| 7716s | there's no real no real reason to do it |
| 7717s | and and coins are a little bit more |
| 7719s | flexible especially with naret in |
| 7721s | because casting spells can do things |
| 7724s | potentially that uh playing Elementals |
| 7725s | can't and also it's just not a board |
| 7727s | space right you have to think about it |
| 7729s | it's a small thing but it's just you |
| 7730s | just don't have to consider boes and |
| 7733s | things which is |
| 7735s | important another beat babbit is just |
| 7737s | should beating people up babbit at this |
| 7740s | point because he's just punching people |
| 7742s | also zorg is uh kind of |
| 7745s | dying good I say this is on my fantasy |
| 7748s | team but |
| 7751s | still oh no I'm two for two wait why am |
| 7754s | why is my fantasy team bottom three |
| 7755s | again |
| 7756s | all what is going on |
| 7759s | that is the most rigged thing we've ever |
| 7761s | seen can we uh can we have a drop in |
| 7763s | with zorg actually just to see where |
| 7765s | he's progressed because he needs to find |
| 7766s | something to start dumping these spell |
| 7768s | crafts on right like something actually |
| 7769s | relevant buff the attack of I've also |
| 7772s | noticed okay sure uh talking about say |
| 7776s | say say's Choice earlier uh the majority |
| 7779s | of the lobby are trying to go for the |
| 7781s | Eternal Knights which again you know |
| 7782s | does make sense with the way the um the |
| 7786s | uh anomaly Works to an extent but yeah |
| 7789s | there's like 1 2 3 four five of the |
| 7793s | players currently have at least one |
| 7794s | Eternal Knight on the board right now so |
| 7797s | yeah maybe that was say say say really |
| 7799s | just wanted to go for it with that |
| 7800s | earlier homo pick you didn't make the |
| 7807s | cut oh this is going to be nice with the |
| 7809s | cleave from dappy |
| 7811s | here yeah the cleave is I'm sure what |
| 7814s | zorg is desperately searching for on |
| 7816s | Tavern four right now is that he really |
| 7818s | needs some way to cash out those immense |
| 7820s | attack Buffs that he is getting from |
| 7822s | having the uh the golden reefer but not |
| 7824s | really finding anything massive to pay |
| 7826s | it off with right now does have the |
| 7827s | Carbonic copy which is nice but uh not |
| 7830s | really a super premium option the cleave |
| 7833s | could be huge for dappy there CU I've |
| 7834s | just been saying that be babbit sort of |
| 7836s | punching everyone to deal you know tons |
| 7838s | of damage whereas that cleave might |
| 7839s | actually make dappy sort of survive that |
| 7841s | fight as opposed to taking a million |
| 7843s | damage again speaking of cleave look at |
| 7845s | the cleave positioning as well from zor |
| 7847s | like even the bottom player in this |
| 7849s | tournament is taking care of the little |
| 7851s | things very nicely right it was one torn |
| 7853s | in the middle of the board with a 3 |
| 7855s | three and a four4 either the side of it |
| 7856s | right like just really good stuff |
| 7858s | overall zor praying to go left of course |
| 7861s | it doesn't of course it doesn't go left |
| 7863s | why would it go |
| 7866s | left gakon and Zog on 11 health and the |
| 7871s | dream looking very very dangerous under |
| 7873s | that damage threshold so all up in the |
| 7875s | air now for Zog several though see we |
| 7878s | can he can do with a bit of a a mish |
| 7880s | mash on the board |
| 7888s | there little bird here just uh again |
| 7891s | just trying to piece things together I |
| 7893s | feels like a very Scrappy game this |
| 7896s | one it is yeah it is Scrappy is I think |
| 7899s | the right word for it no one really |
| 7902s | popping off to the extent that we've |
| 7903s | seen in a couple of the previous games |
| 7905s | at least not the players that we're |
| 7906s | looking at there's a couple players with |
| 7909s | an engine um like we saw a little bird |
| 7911s | there I think with uh reroll Elemental |
| 7913s | and Elise which certainly capable of |
| 7915s | getting something going but it's still |
| 7918s | the uh the build uh the build around |
| 7920s | phase as opposed to the finished phase |
| 7922s | and uh say say say still like yeah |
| 7924s | decent amount of gold good economy |
| 7926s | options to make things happen uh but |
| 7928s | nothing really massive happening at the |
| 7929s | moment I would imagine a couple of |
| 7931s | opportunities looking for a teis there |
| 7934s | um because the the Pirates about to |
| 7935s | activate make a golden pirate on the |
| 7937s | following turn can do that on the py but |
| 7939s | I think would would vastly prefer to be |
| 7941s | doing it on a te going to buff up the |
| 7943s | health as well on that cleave again |
| 7944s | important to remember the uh the anomaly |
| 7946s | is attack only so as you can see very |
| 7949s | lopsided minions across the board here |
| 7952s | uh in terms of this attack so it is |
| 7954s | important that yes attack is strong but |
| 7956s | you still want these minions to get you |
| 7957s | know start two for one in three for one |
| 7959s | in or whatever if possible especially on |
| 7960s | a cleave card so looking good for say |
| 7963s | say say so far you are not out of this |
| 7967s | yet just get get that golden Peggy in |
| 7969s | hand for next |
| 7971s | time and also he cannot die this turn he |
| 7974s | could get close but actually cannot die |
| 7977s | yeah can and looks like will get close |
| 7979s | especially when the cleave gets cleaved |
| 7985s | yeah but this was the turn right uh |
| 7989s | Peggy's gold now so this is the turn it |
| 7991s | was like fine I literally cannot die |
| 7994s | next turn time to |
| 7997s | go |
| 8001s | are we good is everyone out of the fight |
| 8003s | looks like everyone's out of the fight |
| 8004s | Sound the Alarm everyone zorg won a |
| 8006s | fight we did it we did it everyone or |
| 8009s | didn't lose didn't lose prob more |
| 8011s | accurate cuz you can |
| 8013s | draw level to five as well on 11 Health |
| 8017s | okay hey sometimes you need to make |
| 8019s | something big happen right like that's |
| 8021s | the problem is is maybe just going for a |
| 8024s | big roll going for a big six or |
| 8025s | something it is going to be key for Zog |
| 8027s | to try and get back in the game but the |
| 8029s | the real disaster is just it's less than |
| 8031s | 15 health because you just know if you |
| 8034s | hit the wrong player you're in big big |
| 8037s | trouble absolutely |
| 8040s | yeah o oh the top two players going to |
| 8044s | uh smack into each other this one as B |
| 8046s | babbit is going to face off against |
| 8047s | little bird this round I did not realize |
| 8050s | we had a zesty kuna situation going on |
| 8052s | here with a golden zesty as well that is |
| 8055s | huge okay only at 77 so far doesn't have |
| 8057s | the golden |
| 8058s | deep blue which is the next big St to |
| 8063s | making this exponentially |
| 8065s | bigger and you can see as well the |
| 8067s | players leaning towards these Minions |
| 8070s | that don't care as much about health |
| 8072s | total right you look at the Divine |
| 8074s | Shields we can see look at a lot of the |
| 8077s | uh Undead Minions that have reborn |
| 8079s | anyway uh so yeah cuz these are the |
| 8081s | things you have to go for it's all good |
| 8083s | and well having hard hitters but if they |
| 8084s | just die to a sneeze you're in trouble |
| 8087s | uh there two one need to go left right |
| 8089s | yeah okay |
| 8090s | good maximizing stats across the board |
| 8093s | yeah and even the Cleaves as well right |
| 8095s | like yes you'd love your cleave to also |
| 8097s | have 200 health so it can just keep |
| 8098s | attacking for the entire game but if you |
| 8100s | get a cleave and it attacks once that's |
| 8102s | generally good enough right like it's |
| 8104s | done the job right Cleaves are fantastic |
| 8106s | in general they they get their effect |
| 8108s | done by attacking first most of the |
| 8111s | time cheeky taunt in the way as well |
| 8113s | doing a fantastic job of soaking those |
| 8115s | Divine |
| 8116s | Shields yeah once again I've not really |
| 8119s | seen anyone with as complete a package |
| 8121s | as beta babbit this game like this |
| 8123s | certainly seems like the most powerful C |
| 8126s | that I've seen so far overall and zoro's |
| 8129s | dead there you |
| 8133s | go gief on AFK getting the job done |
| 8136s | dappy now as we take a look these stats |
| 8139s | still keep on |
| 8141s | stacking yeah I I feel like beaters felt |
| 8144s | or looked should I say comfortable today |
| 8147s | uh just like just get getting the job |
| 8149s | knows what to do as we talked about |
| 8150s | earlier knows the the the assignment and |
| 8153s | and gets it done and you can see that |
| 8155s | over the last few games looking very |
| 8156s | very comfortable uh in the health lead |
| 8158s | by a pretty reasonable margin when you |
| 8160s | look at the rest of the lobby yep and of |
| 8163s | course that means zor is now completely |
| 8165s | out of contention he was already out of |
| 8167s | contention going into this one I don't |
| 8168s | think it was possible to for the lobby |
| 8170s | to break down in a way that he got |
| 8172s | enough points and no one else did uh so |
| 8174s | pretty miserable day for zorgo overall |
| 8176s | but you know we've had a bit of fun at |
| 8178s | the expense of him just you know |
| 8179s | crashing out over and over again but |
| 8182s | that's not a reflection on him as a |
| 8183s | player you know I picked him as my my uh |
| 8185s | my bandwagon this game right like I had |
| 8187s | Faith he was going to turn it around in |
| 8188s | this last one but we've all had those |
| 8190s | days right where we we we open up |
| 8193s | Battlegrounds we queue our first three |
| 8194s | games and we lose like 200 MMR in our |
| 8196s | first three games at least it has |
| 8198s | happened to all yeah yeah yeah yeah |
| 8200s | might as on me my first 8 to 10 games |
| 8202s | but yes uh you know being generous for |
| 8207s | sure |
| 8209s | say say |
| 8210s | say pretty much joining the group of |
| 8212s | players I think it gets unlikely that |
| 8215s | sliders several or say say say can |
| 8217s | survive a hit right possible but |
| 8219s | unlikely I would say at this point so |
| 8221s | all three of them are in the uh the |
| 8223s | danger zone right now yeah and a turn |
| 8226s | further down the line so it's hard to |
| 8227s | compare directly uh but it looks like |
| 8230s | this board would beat Bea's board from |
| 8232s | last turn right like so C is definitely |
| 8235s | in the conversation in terms of who's |
| 8237s | actually the in this Lobby right now as |
| 8240s | a good ide of ticking a lot of boxes |
| 8243s | right reborn to get some value or and to |
| 8245s | survive cleav to an extent got the |
| 8247s | Divine Shield opener with the big cleave |
| 8249s | himself so looking too bad so far double |
| 8252s | Divine shield on the right is a |
| 8254s | little yeah that was a |
| 8260s | hit not sure it's going to be enough |
| 8263s | still depending on the size of the |
| 8264s | Eternal Knights yeah 11 attack is |
| 8266s | probably enough still to get the job |
| 8267s | done there's still the rebor on the |
| 8269s | right yeah exactly yeah there's plenty |
| 8271s | at least to win obviously damage numbers |
| 8273s | we can always discuss but to win there's |
| 8275s | another nine and that's going to push |
| 8277s | little bird uh into wait a minute did we |
| 8281s | I was looking at the wrong player then |
| 8282s | for a second oh yeah it's going to go |
| 8284s | down to two |
| 8290s | there starting see a bit of a big leap |
| 8293s | between Health totals right we've got 2 |
| 8295s | 2 7 8 10 and then 21 and 32 so like the |
| 8300s | the adapia beta at the top looking |
| 8302s | pretty comfortable to at least get a top |
| 8304s | four unless something goes disastrously |
| 8306s | wrong my begins here go ahead and of |
| 8317s | recruit say so say uh is Right specific |
| 8321s | he's trying to convert into now for the |
| 8323s | sort of if you envision that he has a |
| 8326s | fair few more turns left in this game |
| 8328s | not really like I think from this point |
| 8331s | so he has a couple of stats sticks right |
| 8333s | he has a big cleave he has um the the |
| 8337s | big record pirate as well those are both |
| 8339s | getting stats from the golden Peggy |
| 8341s | right so those are big Minions that he |
| 8342s | can keep around for the rest of the game |
| 8344s | The Eternal Summoner is probably enough |
| 8346s | total stats to keep around till the end |
| 8348s | of the game as well I think from here |
| 8350s | it's just about slowly replacing those |
| 8352s | other minions with scam minions right |
| 8355s | just looking for additional manoro and |
| 8357s | leroys and things that you can just fill |
| 8358s | out your end game board |
| 8361s | with the choice the |
| 8370s | choice wait is this the second one we've |
| 8372s | done it is right |
| 8381s | yes wow P babbit's Board improved a |
| 8385s | lot oh it did it did as I looked away I |
| 8388s | think I might be in trouble here I I'd |
| 8390s | already pressed enter as I was in |
| 8392s | sending my uh my choice oh we both Pi |
| 8395s | the same we both Pi say say say but I as |
| 8397s | I pressed enter I looked at the board |
| 8399s | again and was like hm maybe I messed up |
| 8402s | that board went from not looking great |
| 8405s | to oh that's a lot of divine |
| 8408s | Shields but where is this is this C oh |
| 8412s | wait a minute wait a |
| 8416s | minute oh oh |
| 8419s | huge still loses though still loses it's |
| 8422s | too big yeah it dies |
| 8424s | oh inside okay well say say is not only |
| 8427s | going to be the loser of the barrels |
| 8429s | pressing there but also just going to be |
| 8430s | out along with sliders by the looks of |
| 8432s | things |
| 8437s | mhm little bird here trying to hang on |
| 8440s | again with one of those sort of Scrappy |
| 8441s | style boards a lot of players have been |
| 8444s | focusing on this cleave opening and then |
| 8445s | with just some kind of sustain in the |
| 8447s | middle there does have the Leroy place |
| 8450s | to block the cleave as well and |
| 8451s | hilariously enough a 51 attack |
| 8457s | Barrow hang on so what you've done there |
| 8460s | is instead of calling it Baron which is |
| 8462s | Baron yeah which is also incorrect |
| 8465s | you've bar it is Baron yeah to be fair |
| 8467s | if anyone tells you come on come on |
| 8470s | their their opinion is invalid exct is |
| 8472s | Baron correct one of the nice things |
| 8474s | about this anomaly though is you can |
| 8476s | pick up additional Cleaves like this |
| 8478s | late in the game right like these count |
| 8479s | as late that you can just throw in |
| 8482s | because you can just toss that one over |
| 8483s | on the left and then Bobs your uncle |
| 8490s | mhm hey though the uh the the taunt |
| 8494s | spells are actually really impactful as |
| 8496s | well when are you constantly playing |
| 8498s | around these Cleaves right so you can |
| 8499s | actually just apply that taunt wherever |
| 8500s | you desire um which means it's going to |
| 8503s | really throw things up in the air to try |
| 8504s | and Dodge around these cleave |
| 8506s | options |
| 8508s | as of right now this Baron isn't really |
| 8510s | doing a great deal there is the selfless |
| 8512s | in hand which uh is nice of course we |
| 8517s | have seen a lot of very fragile boards |
| 8518s | right very glass Cannon boards overall |
| 8521s | of just Massive Attack very low health |
| 8523s | so uh we've seen a ton of glow scale to |
| 8525s | support that as well I think glow scale |
| 8526s | has been a very very popular minion yeah |
| 8529s | and weirdly enough the the thing Barro's |
| 8532s | doing is being gave 51 attack Min I keep |
| 8535s | saying barov now that I've done it is |
| 8537s | that |
| 8538s | you I've locked that in now just you got |
| 8539s | have to deal with it viewers I apologize |
| 8541s | H but is a 51 attack minion I guess |
| 8544s | right which is |
| 8546s | something yeah with the selfless hitting |
| 8548s | the board that's fine because he gets a |
| 8549s | CLE okay he would have got the CLE on |
| 8551s | the the two minions but sorry the Divine |
| 8553s | shield on the cleave and the baron but |
| 8555s | the baron goes down now actually misses |
| 8557s | the Divine shield on the cleave which is |
| 8559s | not great news but still looks like he |
| 8561s | is going to be fine yep no problem at |
| 8563s | all oh yeah even got the |
| 8565s | victory the cleave could have made that |
| 8567s | draw there but little bird's going to be |
| 8569s | able to exactly push out Seville they |
| 8572s | remove him from the game and that's |
| 8573s | going to push s into at least fifth I |
| 8576s | think everyone else just take seven from |
| 8578s | The Ghost and then the ghost explodes |
| 8580s | like that's how you assert |
| 8583s | dominance now we see our top four gief |
| 8585s | in on three Health in fourth right now |
| 8587s | little bird after that win on Seventh |
| 8589s | but then dappy and be babbit still just |
| 8591s | just kind of chilling even though the |
| 8593s | damage Shield is now gone still that's a |
| 8595s | that's a lot of Health mhm |
| 8603s | actually shout out to gief to getting |
| 8605s | this far because AFK kind of whiffed on |
| 8608s | the the actual entire point of AFK just |
| 8612s | did not really get to this |
| 8618s | point what happened I don't I don't know |
| 8621s | G's doing this with with the mind I |
| 8624s | think stood up in the back of the room |
| 8626s | like you know what I'll finish this game |
| 8627s | with the powers of my Superior intellect |
| 8630s | and |
| 8634s | telekinesis wait what hang |
| 8637s | on that was so far apart I was willing |
| 8640s | to believe a bit of desync up into a |
| 8643s | point what's going on is is this |
| 8646s | actually previous footage of gief |
| 8648s | drawing the break or |
| 8650s | something gief Pikachu on head or |
| 8653s | pre-recorded okay thank you or just |
| 8656s | Pikachu face I just |
| 8659s | done here though we are going to see how |
| 8662s | this one plays out going up against |
| 8670s | dappy Tense one again a lot of reborn a |
| 8673s | lot of death rattles going on here for |
| 8675s | gief maybe he can't even watch right |
| 8680s | now I mean I'm just going to add up |
| 8682s | stats all one looks bigger than the |
| 8685s | other one does look quite a lot bigger |
| 8687s | than the |
| 8688s | other the fact that there's a |
| 8691s | significant amount of Health on this |
| 8692s | cleave as well is a big deal right cuz |
| 8694s | it gets to gets the swing twice yeah it |
| 8697s | can still survive another attack from |
| 8699s | something attacking into it even once |
| 8701s | this taor is out of the way and then |
| 8702s | we'll potentially get to go again so uh |
| 8705s | the cleave will probably solo even if |
| 8706s | everything else goes down and it looks |
| 8708s | like everything else is more than |
| 8709s | capable of clearing up this board yeah |
| 8712s | way too many stats that looks like it's |
| 8714s | going to be dappy pushing gief out of |
| 8717s | this game but Chief finishing with a |
| 8719s | fourth place I did say as we got into |
| 8721s | this uh this game the third and final |
| 8723s | game of group a is that if you could top |
| 8726s | four this based on the points going into |
| 8729s | it you are I would say quite likely to |
| 8731s | top four the whole |
| 8734s | day yeah gief started this game in third |
| 8738s | place officially but tied for first for |
| 8740s | points so I would supect a fourth place |
| 8742s | finish ends up being good enough to uh |
| 8745s | drag him through Bea babbit who is also |
| 8747s | one of those players tied is hanging |
| 8749s | around uh got the ghost as well oh |
| 8752s | actually because little bird and beater |
| 8754s | babbit are the two players on who are |
| 8757s | tied with gief who will now definitely |
| 8759s | finish above gief because they're still |
| 8760s | alive uh |
| 8763s | Andy is still alive but even if dappy |
| 8766s | overtook gief gief would still be fourth |
| 8768s | right so I think very rough napkin math |
| 8771s | that je oh cuz sliders was either |
| 8773s | seventh or joint no yeah sliders was |
| 8775s | seventh I think uh |
| 8778s | uh just checking everyone else quickly |
| 8780s | yes I think I agree with you but as |
| 8783s | always we do not decide we will wait |
| 8785s | until the standings are confirmed to |
| 8787s | have any final say on anything but yeah |
| 8789s | I think I'm with you on that yeah this |
| 8791s | is the point where Observer SLE in the |
| 8794s | uh in the talent chat in Discord tells |
| 8796s | the casters to not do exactly what we're |
| 8798s | doing right now and just wait for the |
| 8800s | the standings to come up but castera |
| 8802s | cares not for what Observer Soul thinks |
| 8805s | that's right |
| 8806s | no |
| 8807s | Casto is a colossal hypocrite I just |
| 8810s | want |
| 8816s | everyone yeah so uh pet pabit getting |
| 8819s | the the turn off did take some damage |
| 8821s | though did lose the previous fight going |
| 8823s | down to |
| 8824s | 17 I'm guess BL okay all right we're |
| 8829s | trying something so he literally started |
| 8834s | blasting I mean it's popping these these |
| 8837s | death rattles of rebs right like it's |
| 8840s | definitely an attempt it's not quite |
| 8842s | going to be good enough but it was a |
| 8843s | good try I like the idea look I'm an |
| 8846s | ideas person and I appreciate ideas |
| 8848s | whether they work or not the thinking |
| 8851s | was there it was the perfect |
| 8852s | Battlegrounds representation of the |
| 8854s | Indiana Jones meme lots of explosions |
| 8856s | lots of things happened and then he just |
| 8858s | shot him once with a cleave and died |
| 8860s | yeah that was it be babbit obviously |
| 8862s | taking down the ghost no problem and we |
| 8864s | are going to get a head-to-head with |
| 8866s | dappy and beer babbit here both players |
| 8869s | um entered looking pretty good nine |
| 8872s | points for beer babbit and seven and a |
| 8873s | half points for dappy here I think I |
| 8876s | think dappy beat beater babbit in the |
| 8879s | previous fight not the one that just |
| 8881s | happened I think the one before yeah |
| 8883s | beta's scaling now that he's found |
| 8885s | golden deep blue as well as the golden |
| 8887s | zesty though is just so powerful right |
| 8891s | like particularly when those stats do |
| 8892s | just become permanent essentially you |
| 8895s | get to put something else on your board |
| 8897s | that isn't a lava lurker cuz normally |
| 8899s | this comp needs lava lurkers so your |
| 8900s | stats become permanent when you put them |
| 8902s | on you don't have that problem in this |
| 8904s | anomaly because you can just get the |
| 8905s | attack buffed anyway so as long as you |
| 8907s | pick up Divine Shield minions and |
| 8908s | Cleaves and that kind of thing you have |
| 8910s | so much natural scaling I will say |
| 8912s | though dappy does have double |
| 8915s | cleave okay available and there are a |
| 8918s | lot of low Health Minions on beat babbit |
| 8921s | side Lot High attack but low Health |
| 8925s | okay I hear what you're |
| 8927s | saying I've listen blessing fight |
| 8931s | me I hear what you're saying I don't |
| 8934s | care but I hear it |
| 8938s | yeah you know like there's degrees of |
| 8941s | wrong that people can be right you know |
| 8942s | when someone like gives you an opinion |
| 8944s | and you're like I don't agree with you |
| 8945s | but like I respect where you've gone to |
| 8948s | reach that conclusion right like that |
| 8950s | that's fine follow me down that path |
| 8952s | yeah then sometimes people say things |
| 8954s | and you're just like I just I just don't |
| 8955s | respect that opinion at all they just in |
| 8957s | the bin you know it's not one of those I |
| 8959s | understand what you're say first time |
| 8961s | for everything I'll take it mhm let's |
| 8964s | see how this one goes a potential the |
| 8966s | last fight depending on how one-sided it |
| 8967s | may be cleave number one is going to go |
| 8969s | up and the first cleave killed like an |
| 8971s | 89 so good effort good |
| 8975s | effort not looking great oh good cleave |
| 8979s | though for |
| 8981s | dappy it's about as good as it was going |
| 8983s | to get right it wasn't going to get any |
| 8986s | better |
| 8988s | oh don't ever question me ever again so |
| 8992s | I'm sick of it my opinions are right and |
| 8994s | yours are simply wrong W yeah double |
| 8997s | cleave who knew absolutely no one in the |
| 9001s | world saw that |
| 9003s | outcome yeah though what are the |
| 9005s | adjustments be babit needs to make if |
| 9008s | possible obviously there'll be more |
| 9009s | stats getting stacked on with these Naga |
| 9011s | but did did anything go wrong in |
| 9016s | preparation or did hits just not happen |
| 9018s | which is the nature of the game no I |
| 9020s | think the hits that fight looked fairly |
| 9023s | favorable to to Bea side overall I think |
| 9026s | it is just that problem that he just |
| 9028s | doesn't really have enough Health on his |
| 9029s | minions um he's now now I think he might |
| 9033s | actually be in trouble cuz he's also |
| 9034s | revealed he has quite a significant |
| 9036s | vulnerability to blaster on the other |
| 9038s | side right like Blaster would remove |
| 9040s | three Divine Shields and kill one of his |
| 9042s | Cleaves if he doesn't put a Divine |
| 9044s | shield on it like that |
| 9045s | 352 just dies and also kind of kill the |
| 9049s | wind Fury first right four Health like |
| 9051s | suddenly if the Blaster goes off uh |
| 9054s | first um and then you know that's a oh |
| 9056s | never mind that's 70 yep that's a bit of |
| 9059s | a problem but yeah makes sense yeah drop |
| 9061s | the deep blue there make sure that those |
| 9063s | stay out of range definitely the way to |
| 9065s | go good game sense honestly I expect |
| 9067s | nothing less I wi |
| 9070s | theend and now he's taking the |
| 9075s | blast is the Blaster getting on the |
| 9078s | board this |
| 9080s | turn it is oh dappy has double Leroy on |
| 9084s | board now a Divine shielded cleave as |
| 9087s | well as the other cleave so definitely |
| 9089s | going full Tech setup for this uh with a |
| 9092s | you reasonable knowledge what it looks |
| 9094s | like here okay I'm into |
| 9097s | it where's the Blaster going to go first |
| 9100s | off it attacks first which is a huge |
| 9102s | deal cuz that it kills two leroys |
| 9104s | instead of one that's massive that was a |
| 9106s | good clean |
| 9109s | oh doesn't hit the rebor that's I guess |
| 9111s | something really overly big deal but o |
| 9114s | yeah the Blaster was huge the Blaster |
| 9118s | was huge yeah not something I would have |
| 9120s | been looking at personally great |
| 9121s | recognition from beer like a board with |
| 9124s | three Divine shields on of his own and |
| 9126s | that uh that Blaster just absolutely |
| 9128s | soloed the fight for him yeah kills |
| 9130s | double Leroy which as I was you know |
| 9132s | leading into that fight saying that's |
| 9134s | what dappy went for right the double |
| 9135s | Leroy go kind of |
| 9137s | scario now the funny thing is though and |
| 9140s | now what's the response because now |
| 9142s | you've seen it right you saw the Blaster |
| 9144s | so now what happens so here's the extra |
| 9146s | level does beat babit remove the |
| 9150s | Blaster does thaty like Divine Shield |
| 9153s | the Leroy oh really he had the the plus |
| 9157s | two plus two buff right because he's |
| 9158s | lost he could have just taken the plus |
| 9159s | two plus two buff and got Leroy out of |
| 9164s | range yeah CH to go past it though oh he |
| 9166s | has one in hand no he has one in hand he |
| 9167s | has one in hand yeah yeah yeah okay fine |
| 9169s | fine I was just going to say he's just |
| 9170s | got to sell something and get out right |
| 9172s | so he's looking more so for an actual |
| 9174s | ending minion to replace that glow scale |
| 9176s | with which I imagine I imagine the glow |
| 9178s | scale is the minion that's getting sold |
| 9179s | here and now both players are just all |
| 9180s | In For the Kill on this turn and funny |
| 9184s | enough pet babit did get rid of the |
| 9190s | Blaster this is great to see because |
| 9192s | this is just it's such mental gymnastics |
| 9196s | and high level play that definitely for |
| 9198s | me I do not see in my MMR so I'll tell |
| 9200s | you that for free my MMR is just like |
| 9202s | big stat go you know yeah like which |
| 9206s | isn't necessarily wrong generally I'm at |
| 9208s | the rank where like I am in these |
| 9210s | players lobbies right cuz MMR ranges for |
| 9212s | lobbies go a long way but that's the |
| 9215s | thing like I'm one of the players in the |
| 9216s | lobby that's close enough to get match |
| 9218s | with them but also not on their level |
| 9221s | enough that I'm the free fight that lets |
| 9223s | them go a little bit greedier than they |
| 9225s | can in tournament right like lobbies |
| 9227s | that you play even at 15K MMR on ladder |
| 9231s | don't just have seven other 15K MMR |
| 9233s | players in them because right there |
| 9235s | aren't that many playing at any |
| 9236s | individual time of day so you might end |
| 9238s | up with 10K 11k players in your lobby |
| 9240s | with you sometimes it can go as low down |
| 9242s | as seven or eight I believe in some |
| 9244s | situations so I'm I'm used to seeing |
| 9246s | these late game battles pan out but |
| 9248s | generally if I get into one of these |
| 9250s | late game battles against one of these |
| 9251s | players they outplay me that's what I'm |
| 9253s | used to seeing when it comes down to |
| 9256s | looks like that should be enough and I |
| 9259s | think P babit yeah there you go nine is |
| 9261s | going to end it and he going to be your |
| 9263s | Victor for game number three as well as |
| 9267s | game number two so one thing I will |
| 9269s | commit to is that he's qualified to |
| 9271s | tomorrow sole that's something I can say |
| 9272s | without even thinking about adding |
| 9273s | numbers together that sounds fairly safe |
| 9276s | yeah as far as as far as predictions go |
| 9278s | but yeah what a |
| 9279s | performance I uh I really shouted him |
| 9281s | out early on in the day uh in the intro |
| 9284s | just saying like uh beat b and G they |
| 9287s | were two players that we all really know |
| 9289s | are fantastic players like they are |
| 9292s | they're innovators in the western scene |
| 9293s | in the North American scene they're |
| 9295s | players that other players look up to |
| 9296s | they're players that other very good |
| 9299s | players on stream will do co-ops with in |
| 9301s | order to learn from them and improve |
| 9303s | their game right like they really are |
| 9304s | held in that high regard with everyone |
| 9306s | else but they haven't necessarily put in |
| 9308s | the performance yet to uh really make a |
| 9311s | shine a shine a bright light on Lobby |
| 9313s | Legends and there you see both gief and |
| 9316s | Bea fabit making it through in top four |
| 9318s | out of group a yeah along with little |
| 9320s | bird and dappy and I think what's kind |
| 9322s | of cool here is that yes little bird got |
| 9324s | a a second place or in game one but |
| 9327s | little bird definitely has felt like the |
| 9330s | consistent one here along with gief |
| 9332s | right obviously Peter babbit |
| 9333s | consistently getting first place and two |
| 9335s | out of the three is great but you see |
| 9337s | like the ups and downs of dappy like |
| 9340s | first place kind of joint last sort of |
| 9343s | and then um uh and then second place is |
| 9346s | very spiky right and obviously that's |
| 9348s | been more than enough to get through but |
| 9350s | um but but yeah I uh I think that's |
| 9353s | bod's well for tomorrow is because |
| 9355s | spiking tomorrow is actually more |
| 9358s | impactful right A lot of the time |
| 9360s | because of the way the uh final day |
| 9362s | format works yeah yeah I think that's |
| 9364s | fair but um overall some very very good |
| 9366s | performances little bir put it in there |
| 9368s | as well who has been a pretty consistent |
| 9369s | Lobby legends perform I don't think |
| 9371s | we've mentioned this but formerly known |
| 9373s | as W in in Yonce sorry in lobby Legends |
| 9376s | tournament I don't think we've made that |
| 9377s | correlation yet so it might be a name |
| 9379s | that you remember seeing around they |
| 9380s | have put in some pretty strong |
| 9382s | performances overall but we do now have |
| 9384s | our top four out of group a but we still |
| 9386s | have a lot of Battlegrounds left to go R |
| 9389s | yeah we've got Group B coming up we are |
| 9390s | just going to go to a just a little bit |
| 9392s | of a break here to set them up and get |
| 9394s | them all ready to go but we've got three |
| 9395s | more games to go all over again to see |
| 9398s | who out of group b is going to join them |
| 9400s | for tomorrow's final of Lobby Legends |
| 9402s | don't go anywhere and we'll be right |
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| 10043s | welcome back everyone to the lobby |
| 10045s | Legends we are getting ready to go into |
| 10047s | Group B matchups but first we're going |
| 10049s | to take a look at the group A standings |
| 10051s | just once again to remind you of how |
| 10053s | it's going to look going into tomorrow |
| 10055s | as we do take the top four performers |
| 10057s | from each group and then make a new |
| 10058s | group of those eight |
| 10060s | tomorrow yeah as much as that final game |
| 10063s | in group a uh made things look a little |
| 10066s | bit more straightforward it was very |
| 10067s | very dramatic right up until the last |
| 10069s | with uh seven players I believe uh |
| 10072s | spread by only three points going into |
| 10074s | that last game but then it just so |
| 10076s | happened I believe three of the top four |
| 10077s | at that point uh just made top four |
| 10079s | again and it kind of made things look a |
| 10080s | little bit more straightforward than it |
| 10082s | could have been but it was a very very |
| 10084s | very tight group overall and it kind of |
| 10086s | goes to speak to what I was talking |
| 10088s | about at the start that it did really |
| 10089s | feel wide open it felt like there was an |
| 10091s | opportunity for some players to really |
| 10093s | leave a stamp on it yeah 100 % I think |
| 10096s | um I think there there's a lot of |
| 10098s | interesting things not only the |
| 10099s | anomalies add to it but also the minion |
| 10102s | types as well and those combinations |
| 10104s | like we said but we do have something |
| 10106s | interesting coming up for Group B as we |
| 10108s | take a uh well we'll take a look in a |
| 10109s | minute at some of the players but we |
| 10111s | have uh some names that have actually |
| 10112s | you know of repeatedly won Lobby Legends |
| 10116s | here so again a lot of names you may |
| 10118s | recognize Alex JP satellite Alo timu |
| 10122s | tomb spinning of course just a small |
| 10125s | content creator streamer called dog you |
| 10127s | know you may have heard of that player |
| 10128s | once or |
| 10129s | twice not you might know him as David ah |
| 10132s | yeah yeah yeah if you're watching Haru |
| 10133s | stream of course you'd know him as David |
| 10135s | um but yeah I I alluded to this stat |
| 10137s | earlier I think there are five players |
| 10139s | in this tournament that have been in |
| 10140s | each of the lobby Legends this year so |
| 10142s | that's Lobby Legends 10 11 and 12 and |
| 10144s | they're all in this group almu Alex JP |
| 10147s | satellite tomb and waterl so those five |
| 10150s | players have been arguably the top |
| 10152s | performers in in lobby Legends this year |
| 10154s | and I haven't mentioned dog yet right |
| 10156s | like that's how stacked that group is I |
| 10159s | believe in that group uh Sato is a first |
| 10162s | time entrance as far as my records show |
| 10165s | um I don't remember seeing him and I |
| 10167s | certainly don't have any reference of |
| 10168s | him competing in a Lobby Legends before |
| 10170s | but he's just another representative it |
| 10172s | seems showing up from Japan and I think |
| 10174s | that is the other story in this group |
| 10176s | the makeup of this group four Japanese |
| 10178s | players two players from North America |
| 10181s | one from the US one from Canada and then |
| 10182s | two European players as well so uh Japan |
| 10185s | in general not only um proving the the |
| 10188s | dominant country in constructed over the |
| 10191s | last 2 or 3 years but now really |
| 10192s | starting to dominate in Battlegrounds as |
| 10194s | well 100% let's take a look at what the |
| 10196s | fantasy picks are going to look like for |
| 10198s | this group uh mine did not go so well in |
| 10201s | the group a but I'm hoping Group B can |
| 10203s | do me some favors but when you look at |
| 10205s | the ones I picked sole I know you picked |
| 10207s | it slightly differently but it's hard to |
| 10209s | argue right yeah I mean how how do you |
| 10212s | argue with this right like satellite |
| 10215s | five time competitor in lobby Legends in |
| 10219s | 10 and 11 now in 12 as well Alex JP |
| 10222s | winner of 10 was in 11 and is now in 12 |
| 10225s | as well and then I've just thrown dog in |
| 10227s | there as well because uh dog said on |
| 10229s | stream a little while ago that I know |
| 10230s | everything so you know how can I not |
| 10232s | have him in my fantasy team at that |
| 10234s | point yeah and just a little bit of a |
| 10236s | reminder of the puzzle box questions as |
| 10238s | well and our answers for them or I guess |
| 10241s | predictions for them um I'm not sure |
| 10243s | where we're up to with these if if |
| 10245s | there's anything that has actually been |
| 10246s | ticked off obviously the ones like will |
| 10248s | each game have a unique winner well |
| 10249s | there's more games to go and things like |
| 10251s | that but um I don't know if we've |
| 10253s | actually like definitively crossed any |
| 10255s | off yet yeah I'm not sure either I don't |
| 10257s | know if Chris can update us on that the |
| 10258s | one I haven't necessarily had my eye on |
| 10260s | is win a game with less than three |
| 10262s | health I haven't been internally |
| 10263s | tracking that but in terms of uh |
| 10265s | eliminations before going 10 turns |
| 10267s | without elimination um and a game longer |
| 10270s | than 18 turns I don't think we've had |
| 10272s | that go up |
| 10273s | yet yeah don't think so but we'll keep |
| 10276s | it ey yeah yeah pointed out no no unique |
| 10279s | winner for each game because be babbit |
| 10280s | has won two already so we have both |
| 10282s | crashed out on un winners already good |
| 10285s | point yeah that's yeah I didn't even |
| 10286s | think about that one even though we were |
| 10288s | literally just talking about be pabit |
| 10291s | doing well so far but yeah honestly for |
| 10293s | me I'm really excited I hope we get to |
| 10295s | see uh or continue to see different |
| 10297s | anomalies as well I think there's still |
| 10300s | a lot to go you know some crowd |
| 10301s | favorites might turn up I definitely |
| 10303s | want to see the uh t to seven anomaly |
| 10306s | because that would mean I've got a |
| 10307s | chance of actually well I'm likely to |
| 10309s | actually win that one over you in the |
| 10311s | puzzle box so fingers cross even if like |
| 10314s | even if you get one I'm not necessarily |
| 10316s | sure you're still favored to win one cuz |
| 10318s | leveling to seven is kind of rare even |
| 10320s | when you get that Lobby right like |
| 10321s | normally people are just tripling into |
| 10323s | sevens and getting their sevens that way |
| 10325s | it's kind of rare unless you're like a g |
| 10327s | Wix and you're starting your turn with |
| 10329s | like 35 gold and you think well might as |
| 10330s | well go to seven um it's it's it's a |
| 10332s | little bit rare I think to actually |
| 10334s | level that high so we will wait and see |
| 10336s | but yeah tons of anomalies still left to |
| 10338s | see especially like I don't think we've |
| 10340s | seen necessarily some of the most |
| 10343s | disruptive anomalies that are available |
| 10345s | we haven't had an oops all we haven't |
| 10347s | had like an every hero is Den arrius we |
| 10350s | haven't had delete your B gold yeah |
| 10353s | exactly like any of the the really |
| 10354s | threatening die super quickly anomalies |
| 10356s | as well which there's a couple of so |
| 10358s | there's definitely some opportunity for |
| 10360s | for uh Lobby B to be a little bit more |
| 10362s | fireworks intensive than Lobby a was |
| 10365s | yeah and I think that's something that |
| 10366s | anomalies have done well obviously as I |
| 10368s | mentioned earlier people have their |
| 10369s | favorites people have ones they would |
| 10371s | rather not run into but I think the |
| 10373s | mixture of game types you get is really |
| 10376s | up in the air you can have like oh yeah |
| 10378s | these this has tavent tier 7 you gain |
| 10380s | more armor that's generally going to be |
| 10382s | a longer game more players getting into |
| 10385s | that late game scenario whereas then you |
| 10387s | get everything's on fire where it's |
| 10389s | suddenly like oh everything is on fire |
| 10391s | do anything possible to not die because |
| 10394s | you've got so little Health at the start |
| 10396s | so I do really like the how varied games |
| 10399s | feel when you do run into those good |
| 10401s | mixtures of the anomalies you know if |
| 10403s | you ladder in or you in a tournament for |
| 10405s | example yeah and I like anomalies that |
| 10407s | uh can disrupt standard curves as well |
| 10410s | um things like uh the carrying over your |
| 10413s | gold to the following turn for example |
| 10415s | you know that is kind of a staple thing |
| 10417s | that's it's a core mechanic of some |
| 10418s | other AO Battlers for example not |
| 10420s | necessarily a thing that is in |
| 10422s | Battlegrounds but just having that |
| 10423s | available it means the standard thing of |
| 10425s | buy a minion on one level on two which |
| 10428s | something like 80% of players are |
| 10429s | probably going to do in most games in |
| 10431s | high level Battlegrounds that gets |
| 10432s | disrupted so heavily by completely |
| 10434s | changing the economy system of the game |
| 10436s | which I think is really interesting and |
| 10438s | then we haven't really seen any of the |
| 10439s | anomalies that just make games |
| 10441s | completely degenerate like um either of |
| 10444s | the copy ones right like grapnel or uh |
| 10446s | double header like when you buy a the |
| 10448s | first minion is free or when you buy a |
| 10450s | minion you get a copy of it right like |
| 10451s | those tend to lead to incredibly |
| 10454s | degenerate games because you just get to |
| 10456s | do so many disgusting things so quickly |
| 10458s | in a lot of those oh oh no oh no oh no |
| 10462s | disaster oh it's a gwick as well no be |
| 10465s | gone be gone be gone now look sidro look |
| 10469s | we've been friends a long time I may be |
| 10471s | lying in this sentence but bear with me |
| 10473s | just pick gwick go to seven and get the |
| 10476s | job done see the players filtering in |
| 10479s | there with these pcks oh I'm excited so |
| 10481s | we've also got Beast demons me quill |
| 10483s | born Undead |
| 10485s | and I know you mentioned you know you |
| 10487s | don't often go to seven but in terms of |
| 10490s | these seven drops what are there any |
| 10493s | like truly outstanding ones for you like |
| 10495s | ones I know that a lot of them are very |
| 10497s | very powerful but are there any ones |
| 10498s | where you think oh if you get that you |
| 10500s | probably going to win uh so Undead gives |
| 10503s | you the opportunity for the the infinite |
| 10505s | seven drop right the respawning seven |
| 10507s | drop which can be a problem I think is a |
| 10508s | little bit overrated overall kind of at |
| 10511s | lower ranks but can do an incredible |
| 10513s | amount of damage very quickly if you |
| 10515s | spike to it early uh having quill BS in |
| 10518s | means that you are able to ramp your |
| 10520s | blood gems to enormous sizes if possible |
| 10523s | especially um as they are alongside |
| 10526s | beasts so you can get say a Moira that |
| 10529s | doubles battlecries and death rattles |
| 10531s | put the tier 7 quill bore next to a RAC |
| 10534s | and then every time that solitary UNG |
| 10537s | golden unre RAC goes off your blood gems |
| 10540s | are just getting so much bigger |
| 10542s | immediately and then you can obviously |
| 10544s | scale that exponentially with golden |
| 10545s | rack reborn Etc and look at this like |
| 10548s | the the character's choices or hero |
| 10550s | choices should I say as we talked about |
| 10552s | earlier we have a Toki um we have the |
| 10555s | galacon choice right because you can go |
| 10558s | to seven or get minions from tavent tier |
| 10561s | 7 again these anomalies really impacting |
| 10564s | the player decisions here and this is |
| 10566s | what I mean right like Toki pick gacon |
| 10568s | pick yeah nice neither of those heroes |
| 10570s | are intending to go to Tav 7 anytime |
| 10573s | soon right like they're just other |
| 10575s | methods to get those cards um and then |
| 10577s | you're looking at dog on scabs just |
| 10579s | steal the seven drops from everyone else |
| 10582s | Alex JP on cap just steal the seven |
| 10584s | drops from everyone else you know like |
| 10586s | everyone's just looking for ways to get |
| 10588s | seven drops that don't necessarily |
| 10589s | involve going straight to seven which is |
| 10591s | incredibly difficult to even may have |
| 10593s | right on water right you just want to |
| 10595s | it's easy to Triple so you just go for |
| 10597s | that way yeah um definitely interesting |
| 10598s | to see how this one pans out just to |
| 10600s | finish the thought on the minion types |
| 10602s | as well I do think overall this is is |
| 10604s | one of the least explosive Tav s lobbies |
| 10607s | you can have because there's no Naga and |
| 10610s | there's no Pirates so that means that |
| 10612s | cwitch isn't available which is one of |
| 10614s | the most degenerate cards in the game |
| 10615s | you can do utterly disgusting things and |
| 10617s | then uh Captain Sanders as well means |
| 10620s | that you know no ability to just get one |
| 10622s | seven drop and then immediately golden |
| 10624s | that seven drop by finding a captain |
| 10625s | Sanders as well so a little bit more |
| 10628s | timid overall I'd say as some of the |
| 10629s | things that could be possible yeah but |
| 10632s | still explosive in terms of timing of |
| 10634s | seven drops it in the game with all |
| 10635s | these hero choices and we can see um you |
| 10638s | know pretty quick tavent tiering up |
| 10640s | again just a reminder it's not only that |
| 10643s | there's tier seven tavn in the game all |
| 10645s | the players have 10 more armor as well |
| 10648s | so you know it gives you the chance to |
| 10650s | get to T tier 7 whether you decide to or |
| 10652s | not is a different question but the |
| 10654s | opportunity is there as we take a look |
| 10655s | at watero on the may have already |
| 10658s | starting to think about whether to hero |
| 10660s | power this anron or |
| 10663s | not there's a lot of planning involved |
| 10665s | isn't there in may have they're like oh |
| 10668s | okay um just to be able to say okay well |
| 10670s | if I hit this this turn it's going to |
| 10671s | unlock that turn like when do I want to |
| 10673s | hit my triple I have to line that up |
| 10674s | with tavan up as well to really maximize |
| 10677s | that |
| 10680s | potential yeah really awkward setup for |
| 10683s | uh bandwagon as well right cuz it's a |
| 10685s | game it's a Lobby that's so heavily |
| 10687s | defined by the late game that you're |
| 10690s | trying to decide who wins in these early |
| 10691s | turns like before you get to see what |
| 10693s | galron is taking from their hero power |
| 10695s | as it happens in this instance that |
| 10697s | they've uh they've taken a t and four |
| 10698s | Minion from it anyway but it's going to |
| 10701s | be so heavily defined by who gets to |
| 10703s | like six stably and start you know can |
| 10705s | Toki get to six with lots of health and |
| 10707s | start pressing hero power into T seven |
| 10709s | minions lots of information we don't |
| 10711s | know yet for making those bandwagon |
| 10715s | picks I've gone adventurous with |
| 10719s | myel going for the old uh kitty cat all |
| 10723s | right |
| 10726s | also because of who's piloting it as |
| 10728s | well you know Alex JP a bit decent |
| 10730s | player Battlegrounds I'd say |
| 10732s | decent so this is Cyro was the person |
| 10736s | offered the gwick right and went with uh |
| 10739s | mler instead yeah very interesting to |
| 10742s | gets yeah would you have just gone would |
| 10744s | you have like almost snaap gwick if you |
| 10746s | were in this in this position especially |
| 10747s | you know game one of of three would you |
| 10749s | just say this Lobby kind of sucks for |
| 10753s | gwick right there's no Elementals |
| 10755s | there's no Pirates oh to really cash in |
| 10758s | on the extra cash yeah there's no Naga |
| 10761s | either Naga aren't quite as good for |
| 10763s | economy as the other two but you know |
| 10765s | they are still a bell minion like the |
| 10767s | the number of bell minions in the tavern |
| 10768s | are very limited it's kind of just |
| 10771s | patient Scout no murlocs even right so |
| 10773s | Tad is the either so actually breaking |
| 10776s | it down this is about the worst possible |
| 10778s | gwick Lobby that you can get um there is |
| 10782s | still an argument to say yeah but alwick |
| 10784s | with 20 armor is still broken just like |
| 10787s | don't even think about it as in like you |
| 10789s | just play the game kind of normally and |
| 10790s | it's still helping you right yeah you |
| 10792s | play the game normally you don't really |
| 10794s | have a hero power for a while you lose |
| 10796s | some health but then you get to tavn |
| 10797s | five and tavn six and you're still at 30 |
| 10799s | odd health or something you're in a |
| 10801s | great spot at that point to just be able |
| 10803s | to to cycle through at that point but I |
| 10806s | I think it's a reasonable proposition |
| 10808s | with how bad this Lobby is for those |
| 10810s | Styles um to go with something more |
| 10812s | Tempo based dog locking in that hero |
| 10816s | power I believe just to be able to pick |
| 10817s | up an |
| 10818s | [Music] |
| 10819s | option and that's going to help in |
| 10822s | itself not only are you generating cards |
| 10825s | that your opponents have had to dig for |
| 10827s | find Tav tier 7 whatever but also it's |
| 10830s | just cheaper right which means you could |
| 10832s | spend more money on Tav teering up if |
| 10834s | you want to or or just be more |
| 10835s | aggressive on board in general |
| 10838s | yep mistakenly called handless forsaken |
| 10841s | a Tav four minion earlier I believe with |
| 10843s | it on GX cron spard um still not used to |
| 10845s | it being a t three |
| 10849s | minut but this is a very doesn't seem |
| 10852s | crazy here honestly it it was a very |
| 10855s | easily crystallized Tempo versus value |
| 10857s | decision right for dog like do I want to |
| 10859s | just take a good minion that's a lot of |
| 10861s | stats uh with the Forsaken or with all |
| 10863s | of the a couple of death rattles and |
| 10865s | Reborns on my board do I want to go for |
| 10866s | value with the corpse refiner and in the |
| 10868s | end looks like dog's chosen to go for a |
| 10870s | bit of tempo |
| 10872s | instead don't tell me looking pretty |
| 10875s | solid in terms of stats overall he's |
| 10877s | going to be fighting uh Alo teim |
| 10880s | actually oh and alimu showing us the |
| 10883s | other side of this coin with the uh |
| 10886s | double value plan here with the galron |
| 10888s | m yeah a little unfortunate there for |
| 10891s | dog I think the one minion that wasn't |
| 10893s | seen it may not have even been on the |
| 10895s | board at the time I know it must have |
| 10896s | been if it was that big is the the giant |
| 10899s | annoyatron so because dog didn't see the |
| 10901s | annoyatron in the scabs preview he just |
| 10903s | didn't play around Divine shield and |
| 10905s | crash two giant Eternal Knights into it |
| 10908s | does still end up winning the fight |
| 10909s | quite comfortably in the end oh and you |
| 10911s | talked about pigs a little bit earlier |
| 10913s | but Tom here does have options of |
| 10914s | starting to get these |
| 10926s | ramping yeah not a bad Qubo opening at |
| 10930s | [Music] |
| 10933s | all taking a creation on Tavern four for |
| 10936s | satellite as well not really being given |
| 10938s | fantastic looking options |
| 10941s | either no actual Tav four options among |
| 10945s | these yeah is like candle taker just for |
| 10949s | Reborn I don't know what the first was |
| 10951s | necessar okay it was just an amalon yeah |
| 10955s | fine yeah just for some kind of tempo |
| 10957s | right yeah did have the board space so |
| 10959s | could have taken the the battlecry |
| 10960s | summon two skeletons just to be able to |
| 10963s | then sell those skeletons |
| 10971s | but it seems |
| 10979s | fine Alex JP here also going with the |
| 10982s | pig starting to ramp up on those |
| 10987s | gems a lot of people leaning into quill |
| 10989s | BS just a little |
| 10992s | bit I do think it's the best outright |
| 10994s | Wing condition available if you are |
| 10996s | going to get to uh discover some T |
| 10999s | sevens it's a long way away I don't |
| 11001s | think you can necessarily plan around |
| 11003s | that from the offset it's kind of that |
| 11004s | trap that we were talking about in in |
| 11006s | game one or two earlier right of um |
| 11009s | starting the game by working out where |
| 11011s | you want to end it that's just not |
| 11012s | really how battle works you have to how |
| 11015s | you lose that that is how you lose |
| 11017s | exactly you have to play the cards in |
| 11018s | front of you for quite a long time in |
| 11020s | the game of Battlegrounds and then |
| 11022s | figure things out in the late game when |
| 11023s | you get there so JP just take a pretty |
| 11026s | big hit honestly at 14 going to go down |
| 11028s | to only having five armor satto as well |
| 11031s | is's going to drop all the armor 28 on |
| 11033s | that Toki uh but both players are |
| 11036s | generally ahead of the curve in terms of |
| 11038s | tavent but it's also kind of interesting |
| 11040s | to see the tavent tearing up from uh |
| 11042s | Alex JP on the |
| 11046s | cat you can see um if we wouldn't mind |
| 11049s | after we've seen this option which looks |
| 11051s | like another uh discover another |
| 11053s | creation from |
| 11054s | we go back to ALU cuz he's playing gacr |
| 11056s | in a kind of interesting way that I |
| 11058s | wouldn't mind talking about is he |
| 11060s | playing |
| 11061s | Tempo yeah pretty much right because |
| 11064s | what his goal is is he's he's leveling |
| 11065s | basically on curve as galron he's on |
| 11067s | Pace with the levels with basically |
| 11068s | everyone else in the lobby and he's just |
| 11070s | picking up Tempo minions along the way |
| 11072s | playing death rattles and tank because |
| 11074s | his goal is not just hero power |
| 11077s | something six times and then take that |
| 11079s | one seven drop because yeah great okay |
| 11082s | you have a seven drop obnoxiously early |
| 11084s | but it might not immediately win you the |
| 11085s | game and you might lose every fight in |
| 11087s | the meantime going into that and then |
| 11089s | you end up losing 30 health or so what |
| 11091s | he's trying to do is be strong and level |
| 11095s | to six so he can discover a seven drop |
| 11097s | every single turn as long as he sees a |
| 11099s | six drop in his shop at some point yeah |
| 11102s | effectively just saying I'll pay four |
| 11103s | gold for a seven for the rest of the |
| 11105s | game right |
| 11108s | exactly oh dog does have a triple on |
| 11112s | offer that is going to be frozen there |
| 11113s | with the |
| 11115s | Eternal but the interesting question |
| 11117s | here is it's I think I know the answer |
| 11119s | to this all but is it too early still to |
| 11122s | consider like stalling with that |
| 11125s | triple uh no I I don't think so 47 |
| 11128s | Health on scabs I mean I think dog will |
| 11132s | probably be thinking a lot of it depends |
| 11133s | on this fight right now like if he |
| 11134s | fought this fight and took 15 then he |
| 11137s | might start we can talk thinking dirty |
| 11139s | thoughts about having to Triple into a |
| 11141s | five or a six but right now he can get |
| 11144s | damage capped three times and still be |
| 11146s | alive this game right and and also he |
| 11149s | has this odd benefit right of the shop |
| 11151s | isn't as important because he is scabs |
| 11154s | so he can like freeze press the button |
| 11156s | pick a card level maybe and then keep it |
| 11159s | frozen and be like yeah if the shop |
| 11160s | sucks just press the |
| 11162s | button yeah the slightly bad news though |
| 11165s | is it looks like he's kind of getting 15 |
| 11168s | right now okay that's a good attack |
| 11170s | damage of the had a couple of and he can |
| 11172s | still kill this GGO right with these |
| 11176s | hands good enough I would say from dog's |
| 11179s | position right |
| 11181s | now that 11 |
| 11184s | yeah yeah if he hadn't have swung left |
| 11187s | on any of those opportunities he would |
| 11189s | have been taking 14 instead of 11 which |
| 11191s | is a big deal still still has two more |
| 11193s | damage cap fights in |
| 11197s | him can still a power cell level yeah I |
| 11200s | was just going to say that looks good to |
| 11202s | me even if he then has to bail and go |
| 11204s | for a six it's still good right it's |
| 11207s | still a solid game |
| 11211s | [Music] |
| 11213s | plan does do agree with the cell though |
| 11221s | surely hold on what got sold did you |
| 11223s | catch what the far right minion was |
| 11224s | before he got sold |
| 11228s | uh no cuz I was looking at the other |
| 11230s | boards while while dog was making |
| 11232s | decision my bad that's |
| 11235s | fine what did he have I'm sure he had |
| 11237s | something that was |
| 11240s | reborn yeah I don't know I'm |
| 11243s | sorry it's just interesting holding on |
| 11245s | to the the Rattler for an turn and |
| 11248s | really like there was a reason why when |
| 11251s | sorry go on was going to say dog talks |
| 11253s | about this a lot um his way of playing |
| 11256s | Battlegrounds or the way he explains it |
| 11257s | is he tries to leave himself open to as |
| 11259s | many things as possible right so um he |
| 11263s | wants to give give himself out so by |
| 11264s | having reborn Ratt on the board suddenly |
| 11267s | he any Beast any High Lev Beast he |
| 11269s | discovers then becomes exponentially |
| 11271s | more powerful because he's held on to a |
| 11272s | reborn wrestler he really really wants |
| 11274s | to uh uh keep those options available |
| 11277s | for himself long term yeah and that |
| 11279s | that's what's interesting cuz it's |
| 11280s | definitely not what my train of thought |
| 11282s | was and it's the reason why when you |
| 11283s | said sell them and level I didn't even |
| 11285s | ask what minion to sell because I was so |
| 11288s | intent on yeah it's the Rattler |
| 11290s | obviously but clearly not obviously if |
| 11292s | your dog this is a a lot of stats here |
| 11295s | for uh for |
| 11298s | waterl it is but water's tank is not |
| 11302s | really popping like that is not a good |
| 11303s | tank board dog was much smaller but he |
| 11306s | has an elite tank board which means his |
| 11308s | tank is just doing so much more work |
| 11310s | here and he has safely gotten away with |
| 11313s | that climb to five now and has in fact |
| 11315s | dealt a significant amount of damage to |
| 11317s | his opponent instead yeah honestly at a |
| 11318s | quick glance I did not feel like it was |
| 11320s | going to go dog's way but you really you |
| 11322s | know the the second you disrespect these |
| 11325s | reborn Undead you're like oh okay that |
| 11327s | is a lot and if the tank never gets |
| 11329s | sniped then yeah true disaster yeah and |
| 11331s | tank as well like in particular you just |
| 11333s | cannot disrespect a tank it is so much |
| 11336s | power at this point in the game do you |
| 11338s | think he takes a second one cuz he's |
| 11339s | actually currently being offered a |
| 11341s | triple right with anas yeah I'm a little |
| 11345s | surprised that the hero power came out |
| 11347s | at all honestly oh you think was level |
| 11350s | again yeah like I I guess because the |
| 11353s | fight was against galacon he just he |
| 11355s | suspected galacon might have sevens |
| 11357s | already and that made it worth doing but |
| 11359s | alu's been playing this very Tempo heavy |
| 11361s | Focus style and here we go has made it |
| 11363s | to six 23 health absolutely survives and |
| 11365s | there are I would say the two best |
| 11367s | options in this Lobby sang champion and |
| 11369s | Moira bronze beard I think those are the |
| 11370s | two you're going to want to be shooting |
| 11372s | for most of the |
| 11375s | time and it's there with the roac as |
| 11378s | well let's |
| 11380s | go sat is very happy |
| 11385s | going fellow |
| 11388s | te come on sell two of these cards for a |
| 11392s | RAC you |
| 11395s | coward thank |
| 11397s | you I I am apologize to all the fans |
| 11401s | all's called alimo a coward altim is a |
| 11404s | beloved Hearthstone player standard |
| 11407s | someone who knows how to play |
| 11408s | Battlegrounds jeez the others no no no |
| 11411s | if they really knew how to play |
| 11412s | battlegrounds be T tier 7 right now and |
| 11415s | going to win |
| 11417s | fair I'm actually a little bit surprised |
| 11420s | that we even got this anomaly like I |
| 11421s | feel like I've even H rolled that Hest |
| 11424s | yeah yeah |
| 11427s | yeah okay we need enough things to stay |
| 11429s | above five Health okay this is becoming |
| 11431s | a problem because the uh the sanguine |
| 11433s | Champion can just get shot now and will |
| 11436s | oh no the RAC will get |
| 11438s | shot okay but it dies at the same time |
| 11440s | cuz there's two of them no |
| 11444s | oh it's always the way what the comeback |
| 11447s | though uh not the best but good enough |
| 11451s | yeah I think winning the fight more |
| 11452s | important than Minor Details of the sang |
| 11455s | Champion not going off cuz uh it just |
| 11458s | means he gets to live to fight another |
| 11459s | day or another two days with the damage |
| 11460s | cap very well and truly in place yeah a |
| 11463s | little bit worried about Alex JP's |
| 11465s | Health on 33 sorry should I say now as |
| 11468s | the the cat not the best for I |
| 11471s | should resist every everyone's |
| 11476s | tanking that is twice in a row that dog |
| 11479s | has been offered the |
| 11486s | triple uh what what do you I was going |
| 11489s | to say I think it's recurring nightmare |
| 11492s | take a second to look's going to |
| 11494s | immediately do the best yeah true he has |
| 11496s | a golden tank right it's so many |
| 11497s | respawns doesn't have the baron for the |
| 11499s | the infinite duplication just yet um but |
| 11502s | has a really good Undead Undead setup |
| 11504s | has a golden tank going to want to roll |
| 11506s | on this |
| 11507s | Dawn mm and speaking of that's not |
| 11511s | it speaking of players that may like to |
| 11514s | acquire tanks there's a couple here so |
| 11517s | okay we're going to look at Satellite |
| 11518s | now if we can go to uh tomb and then |
| 11522s | citro that would be very very |
| 11524s | interesting at your desire |
| 11526s | lenda because there's some boards going |
| 11529s | on so that's all I'm going to say yeah |
| 11531s | worth noting satellite is on seven by |
| 11533s | the way so if he does end up winning |
| 11535s | this Lobby that'll be a big big victory |
| 11537s | for for Raven speaking of big big things |
| 11540s | that's a big big minion and look at this |
| 11543s | board as well this is what I was was |
| 11544s | talking about to maybe maybe wanting a a |
| 11548s | tank and not having it so sticking with |
| 11549s | Dinosaurs instead he's such a Tempo King |
| 11552s | I swear like I I was telling you |
| 11554s | remember last time we were casting to |
| 11556s | him last time no I know but like I |
| 11558s | literally told myself going into this |
| 11559s | one okay like something that casters do |
| 11562s | that is sometimes like a little bit |
| 11563s | unnecessary is like you characterize |
| 11565s | players of small sample sizes right so |
| 11567s | like I've watched Tom play a couple of |
| 11569s | tournaments and he tends to be like a |
| 11571s | Tav and four Tempo gamer a lot of the |
| 11573s | time and I'm like okay just don't make |
| 11575s | that your one and only talking point |
| 11577s | this tournament and then you cut to tomb |
| 11579s | and he's just Tempo kinging again like |
| 11581s | what am I supposed to talk about look |
| 11583s | he's got some cool dinosaurs that sounds |
| 11585s | like a great plan to me so there's no no |
| 11587s | blame game going on over here in the |
| 11589s | meantime though satellite is definitely |
| 11591s | doing stuff in terms of not only |
| 11593s | fighting for this board but also just |
| 11594s | card generation in general look at his |
| 11600s | hand and that's 13 damage going through |
| 11604s | and Alex JP oh classic cat dies first a |
| 11608s | tail as old as time and that means right |
| 11611s | on the line all Alex JP had to do was |
| 11613s | survive that turn and we got uh 10 turns |
| 11616s | without an elimination which is one of |
| 11617s | our puzzle box questions and honestly |
| 11620s | this lobby with the extra armor was one |
| 11622s | of the the best chances we were ever |
| 11624s | going to get to make that happen which |
| 11625s | is making me a little bit sad in terms |
| 11627s | of the way these puzzle box questions |
| 11629s | are working out for me right now well |
| 11631s | don't we cheer you up Saul Alex was my |
| 11633s | bandwagon ah much better now I'm feeling |
| 11636s | good again thank you we do have |
| 11638s | satellite on tavent tier |
| 11641s | 7 y yeah we sure do it's happening and |
| 11644s | just tonking people with full |
| 11647s | health getting |
| 11649s | them oh got alimu against the ghost |
| 11652s | which will uh probably be a bit of a |
| 11655s | sigh of relief after seeing that |
| 11656s | opponent because 8 Health galron like |
| 11659s | alimu is doing good stuff well he |
| 11662s | definitely needs to survive at least a |
| 11663s | turn or two maybe see another couple of |
| 11665s | players drop beneath him dog also in the |
| 11667s | danger zone here on 8 Health as well |
| 11670s | danger |
| 11671s | zone |
| 11673s | exactly the option to uh tripel still no |
| 11677s | Baron though still no Moira either can |
| 11679s | look for the Triple into the Moira now |
| 11682s | the buff is probably active cuz I think |
| 11684s | dog well I imagine dog lost his last |
| 11686s | fight right so he does have a buff if he |
| 11688s | wants it but probably not as important |
| 11690s | as getting hold of that triple it's a |
| 11692s | like it's important at some point it's |
| 11694s | one of the things that um kind of |
| 11696s | average players will underestimate that |
| 11698s | top players will always look for is you |
| 11700s | want to get some health on your death |
| 11701s | rattle minions so they don't just get |
| 11703s | blasted out of existence right like um |
| 11706s | in the late game kind of tech C battles |
| 11708s | so that is a factor at some point uh but |
| 11711s | right now it doesn't actively add enough |
| 11714s | to your board yeah in terms of just |
| 11715s | straight up survival right now REO |
| 11718s | nightmares kicking it out as |
| 11721s | [Music] |
| 11726s | well this is bringing me back sa I think |
| 11729s | it might have been the first Lobby |
| 11731s | Legends I ever cast was just everyone |
| 11734s | tanking do you remember that one where |
| 11736s | it was just full Agro tanks all of the |
| 11738s | time no that was you're thinking of the |
| 11740s | uh the China |
| 11741s | invitation oh I am yeah that wasn't oh |
| 11746s | yeah yeah that wasn't Lobby Legends was |
| 11747s | it I forgot and it was just everyone was |
| 11750s | playing tags like literally everyone |
| 11752s | everyone thought going in that it was |
| 11753s | going to be full milk meta like everyone |
| 11755s | was going to get like T four revenge |
| 11757s | minions and just milk value out and |
| 11760s | everyone went NOP Soul juggler tank you |
| 11763s | die |
| 11764s | like oh good times good |
| 11767s | times okay good kill on the cleave there |
| 11771s | I think that's the first time that t |
| 11773s | experience has ever been described as |
| 11774s | good |
| 11777s | times look when you did as much as I did |
| 11780s | s I'm allowed to be Delirious about what |
| 11783s | it was like yeah yeah I mean if anyone |
| 11785s | gets to make that judgment it's |
| 11786s | absolutely |
| 11788s | you I got to Sky off and get a mole |
| 11792s | removed yep the usual day off here |
| 11795s | though dog is just battling and battling |
| 11797s | these endless rebor |
| 11800s | minions oh |
| 11803s | the one final recurring nightmare oh |
| 11806s | what a |
| 11808s | disaster oh there I mean where do we |
| 11812s | even begin yeah it's a great question |
| 11815s | I'm very pleased we have like 70 seconds |
| 11817s | to stare at this cuz this is not easy |
| 11820s | and it's not over yet both players have |
| 11822s | significant amount of gold oh it's the |
| 11824s | Moira but there's only eight health yeah |
| 11826s | I think this is the right |
| 11828s | choice with only eight health to play |
| 11831s | with uh |
| 11835s | [Music] |
| 11843s | uh I'm wait till the last second so sot |
| 11845s | doesn't copy and |
| 11853s | cheat okay second mgle is potentially |
| 11857s | huge those flat Tusk though yeah you |
| 11861s | can't pick the pigs and not go for the |
| 11862s | uh the the gems yeah I mean like if it |
| 11865s | was a charer or something then sure we |
| 11867s | can talk but that seemed a little |
| 11879s | ambitious yeah I'm with you we've both |
| 11881s | gone citro I think I think ALU is making |
| 11883s | strides this turn but I'm just not quite |
| 11885s | sure it's there I'm just looking at the |
| 11887s | numbers plus the reborn plus the tank |
| 11890s | it's just like it's a lot isn't it from |
| 11893s | cro yeah I like it's it's definitely an |
| 11897s | odds fight like we don't get to see the |
| 11898s | odds but there will definitely be odds |
| 11900s | there because oh yeah all it takes all |
| 11903s | it takes is that g connecting with the |
| 11905s | bragon and then suddenly alu's in |
| 11908s | business |
| 11910s | right oh good H little ping there with |
| 11913s | that that was not the attack yeah in no |
| 11916s | Universe was that the |
| 11920s | attack yeah citro looking huge face |
| 11922s | faite from here now as long as his uh |
| 11925s | minions don't start parading into that |
| 11927s | Merle and then giving it reborn again |
| 11928s | over and over yeah that needs to be a |
| 11931s | swift double kill doesn't |
| 11934s | it |
| 11936s | oh right it needs to die now if they |
| 11940s | okay still fine yeah that's good enough |
| 11942s | I think from Cyro here as he takes out |
| 11944s | the two little |
| 11946s | plants and that is going to be I believe |
| 11949s | Alo timu out so so far Alo timu do and |
| 11953s | Alex |
| 11954s | JP their first little set of victims |
| 11957s | from this game yeah I think it was |
| 11959s | important to uh to wait out the turn on |
| 11961s | that prediction right like if alu's got |
| 11964s | discover was like a charer instead of a |
| 11966s | flat yeah things change right for sure |
| 11968s | suddenly that immediate output of stats |
| 11970s | with the five or six Buffs he already |
| 11972s | had uh from the sanguin champion might |
| 11974s | have been able to make a difference he |
| 11976s | also didn't find any magnetics which I |
| 11977s | think he was looking for as well right |
| 11979s | he had the uh the sargeras buffing the |
| 11981s | shop massive and he had that faux Reaper |
| 11984s | potentially looking for magnetics to go |
| 11986s | on that could have found polarizing beat |
| 11988s | boxer so those magnetics were doubling |
| 11990s | up like lots and lots of possibilities |
| 11992s | but they uh they just didn't appear in |
| 11993s | the end and satellite gets to put his |
| 11995s | feet up for a turn and also just look at |
| 11997s | the quality of the hand right now double |
| 12000s | charga there as well these blood gems |
| 12004s | really ex starting to |
| 12008s | stack while doing what sole loves most |
| 12013s | which |
| 12014s | is what the uh the gem generation right |
| 12018s | batt yeah sure sure sure sure I was |
| 12020s | going to say this could end up being a a |
| 12022s | huge game for Raven in terms of the |
| 12023s | point standings because we now see what |
| 12027s | three no two remaining players actually |
| 12029s | on Tavern s already uh yes your |
| 12032s | bandwagon pick has gone but so has mine |
| 12034s | aluu was my bandwagon pick in this game |
| 12037s | uh and we missed out on the uh surviving |
| 12040s | 10 turns without an elimination which I |
| 12042s | have said said yes on and you have said |
| 12043s | no on I believe so that would have been |
| 12044s | a win for me that was denied as well so |
| 12047s | this is looking like a very Pro Raven |
| 12049s | game right now yeah and the thing is in |
| 12051s | terms of the fantasy picks as well the |
| 12053s | only difference between our teams is uh |
| 12055s | I have water and you have doc right so y |
| 12058s | looking too bad at all at least for now |
| 12062s | here we see |
| 12064s | watero kick off the fight not the |
| 12066s | strongest board at a glance but again |
| 12069s | all of these death RS can be a little |
| 12070s | bit deceptive the cleave causing a |
| 12072s | little bit of Havoc though yeah there is |
| 12075s | a a reborn recurring nightmare with a |
| 12078s | baron though so uh yeah the attack Buffs |
| 12081s | from your uh from your dinosaur are not |
| 12084s | quite going to get the job done here the |
| 12087s | only thing okay I was going to say okay |
| 12089s | I was going to say the |
| 12090s | only never mind all right let me attempt |
| 12093s | to finish that sentence the only way you |
| 12096s | can get out of this is a similar effect |
| 12098s | to what used to happen with leapers you |
| 12099s | need all the Buffs to go all the way |
| 12101s | down the line so they they don't |
| 12102s | actually have time to spawn that |
| 12104s | happened twice and then water's idiot |
| 12108s | minions just smashed straight into the |
| 12110s | right hand side and just started the |
| 12111s | chain all over |
| 12116s | again and remember each one of these |
| 12118s | tokens that appears the recurring |
| 12120s | nightmare tokens is a seven drop in its |
| 12123s | own right so if this damage cap was not |
| 12125s | in place uh this could end up being a |
| 12128s | catastrophic amount of damage but as it |
| 12130s | stands only 15 is the the water can take |
| 12134s | you know you're in a rough spot when |
| 12135s | only 15 is a good thing here as 8 |
| 12138s | million damage is represented in general |
| 12141s | but as you said only 15 going down to 12 |
| 12143s | waterl in a bit of trouble so so |
| 12147s | satellite actually on exactly 15 so I |
| 12149s | think that was like 43 or 44 damage that |
| 12152s | would have been without the damage cap |
| 12153s | in place so you can see what kind of |
| 12156s | level you would be at if that damage cap |
| 12158s | change to damage cap into top four did |
| 12160s | not uh come into play recently got news |
| 12163s | now we're in top four sorry but now you |
| 12165s | will start to see like Cyro from 25 |
| 12167s | could just die in one fight for very |
| 12169s | very EAS and we got word that tomb died |
| 12172s | to a single seven drop just dealing the |
| 12175s | damage so yeah that's the kind of levels |
| 12177s | you're talking about right that's |
| 12179s | available to these players yeah for |
| 12182s | sure I'm so conflicted like this is MOA |
| 12186s | sanguin Champion golden RAC just |
| 12188s | absolutely farming and doing all of the |
| 12191s | things I love in the world |
| 12192s | but it's a player who's on Tavern s |
| 12195s | that's doing it and that's very very |
| 12198s | bad I think it's fine how big are they |
| 12201s | oh my God so big they're so |
| 12205s | big and there's another cha in hand as |
| 12208s | well remember they're like |
| 12214s | 4040s there's another necrite in the |
| 12217s | hand as well that's just plus |
| 12221s | 8080 I didn't like that one either oh |
| 12224s | Divine shield and oh it's over ra it's |
| 12226s | over it's over this board wins like this |
| 12230s | is this is close to watch The Glory here |
| 12237s | win all right what you got what you got |
| 12239s | yeah you're going to need a lot of |
| 12241s | recurring nightmares to get through all |
| 12242s | this my friend I think they need |
| 12243s | recurring leroys at this |
| 12247s | point and they are all hooking right |
| 12249s | again which is bad news for the |
| 12251s | duplication |
| 12253s | yeah matchups like this and cops like |
| 12255s | this make me really think it needs like |
| 12257s | some kind of uh double speed mode right |
| 12260s | for |
| 12261s | Battlegrounds uhoh okay bad attacks |
| 12264s | though that is a oh wait they're all |
| 12266s | still got okay that was okay big deal |
| 12267s | hits the Divine Shield one that is the |
| 12269s | the best Target for |
| 12271s | sure that is going to fill up some board |
| 12273s | space though with nonrecurring nightmare |
| 12275s | minions and now the baron has gone down |
| 12278s | so I think there is enough still |
| 12281s | remaining from satellite like just |
| 12282s | eyeballing it to be able to plow through |
| 12285s | all of this yeah I think so cuz the |
| 12287s | attack is there right there's 130 Health |
| 12289s | oh oh stop immediately hitting the |
| 12292s | recurring nightmare every time |
| 12295s | though no I mean wait do keep doing that |
| 12298s | do exactly that lots of |
| 12303s | times oh really uh the ropes here about |
| 12306s | what he wants to happen and who he wants |
| 12308s | to do well left left uh how many we got |
| 12312s | oh oh it's enough 8 million 8 million |
| 12315s | that's how many 56 it's a time |
| 12321s | okay oh watero dropped out fourth place |
| 12326s | okay this is also one of my favorite |
| 12328s | things in the |
| 12330s | world what dropping out that's a bit |
| 12333s | harsh so no RAC AR brager this is so |
| 12336s | Argent bra brager reads copy the largest |
| 12338s | stats on the battlefield once you're in |
| 12341s | a fight the battlefield also includes |
| 12343s | your opponent's minions so even if your |
| 12346s | opponent has like a 10,000 10,000 you |
| 12349s | have a golden Argent bragger it will |
| 12351s | take those stats and then double them |
| 12355s | seems reasonable to me see you just win |
| 12358s | uh of course the factor of you know |
| 12359s | Cleaves and venomous and things like |
| 12361s | that will have something to say but in |
| 12362s | terms of raw stats you just kind of |
| 12364s | can't really be beaten with this up so |
| 12367s | now check's notes uh Sato can you please |
| 12370s | just go to Taven |
| 12372s | seven no please don't you're toy you |
| 12376s | don't need to stay where you are what if |
| 12379s | you what if you want more sevens please |
| 12382s | have some Humanity I'd love it if I |
| 12385s | think it would be very accurate if this |
| 12389s | is the one thing I won at was the |
| 12391s | completely RNG like do we even get the |
| 12393s | anomaly and then does the person win |
| 12396s | with the seven because for all intents |
| 12398s | and purposes I made the right choice no |
| 12402s | no the right choice is the is the |
| 12403s | winning Choice sot yeah yeah yeah |
| 12408s | yeah see what so the biggest thing over |
| 12410s | there is like a 300 3 right so now this |
| 12413s | dies and then |
| 12414s | [Laughter] |
| 12418s | boom Oh the unforunately there's a bunch |
| 12420s | of poisonous dongs over the other side |
| 12422s | that be able to deal with Vine Shield |
| 12424s | though that help Vine Shield very |
| 12426s | nice oh still Divine shield on the uh |
| 12430s | the manoro as well that's very very very |
| 12432s | nice not going to be enough though just |
| 12435s | too much poison I think this Now crashes |
| 12437s | 50/50 into the poisonous minion yeah |
| 12439s | there it goes yeah and there's still |
| 12441s | plenty of stats there as a 400 and |
| 12444s | something or other yep it's a cool |
| 12447s | interaction though isn't it oh yeah yeah |
| 12450s | yeah plenty of damage coming out though |
| 12452s | and that should be more than enough yeah |
| 12453s | there you go 27 Cyro is going to be down |
| 12458s | and yeah I'm I'm assuming uh sato's |
| 12461s | going to win this fight it looks like |
| 12462s | it's fine I'm not sure how |
| 12464s | many how many death rattles are in this |
| 12467s | last minion who knows all of them I |
| 12469s | guess yeah it's it's plenty enough yet |
| 12471s | so yeah we're going to have heads up now |
| 12472s | and um stles tavent tier six dreams are |
| 12475s | on the line One V |
| 12478s | one how I mean the aura buff on the |
| 12481s | undead is just nowhere near big enough |
| 12483s | right like yeah 30 attack on these |
| 12485s | minions it's just like your opponent has |
| 12489s | 400 health things these big enough look |
| 12493s | say let's be real it's only three gold |
| 12495s | to upgrade it's pretty cheap for a tier |
| 12498s | seven no |
| 12500s | stay I don't know what I'm rooting for |
| 12502s | cuz I don't think he can win |
| 12505s | anyway I just want the 100% I want to |
| 12507s | win this one that's all I want cuz it |
| 12510s | was the most |
| 12514s | unlikely honestly if satellite wins this |
| 12516s | game which it seems very very very very |
| 12518s | likely he will this is a huge game for |
| 12521s | you like he put you back in the running |
| 12523s | level of good game for you I |
| 12527s | think also as well sat like early on |
| 12530s | with you know creating the uh uh like |
| 12533s | the minions did not look like he was |
| 12537s | overly stealing the game right I think |
| 12539s | this has been just a slow buildup from |
| 12542s | him yeah basically like I think the the |
| 12545s | Moira sanguine RAC thing is the |
| 12547s | strongest thing you can do in this Lobby |
| 12549s | and you saw both um alot gacon and |
| 12552s | satellite on uh Patchwork trying not |
| 12555s | patchwor on future side trying to do it |
| 12557s | it just ended up that satellite was much |
| 12560s | stronger and you saw satellite taking |
| 12562s | Tempo Creations right like early |
| 12564s | Creations on Tav four to be able to |
| 12566s | secure that to then just level to seven |
| 12568s | so that he could do the broken thing as |
| 12570s | best as he possibly |
| 12573s | could yeah I |
| 12575s | mean we all like rooting for the |
| 12577s | underdog I know but you know sometimes |
| 12580s | you just got to be a little bit |
| 12580s | realistic |
| 12582s | yeah he's already |
| 12587s | seventh look at the stats coming out |
| 12590s | here though |
| 12593s | absurd it's not only stats it's the fact |
| 12596s | that it's like oh yeah loads of starts |
| 12597s | with Divine shield and and poison like |
| 12599s | yeah it's fine it you need about 12 |
| 12602s | nightmares to kill the charga you need |
| 12605s | about uh what's that another eight to |
| 12608s | kill that another eight to kill that so |
| 12610s | about 40 recurring nightmares have to |
| 12613s | attack into these minions to get this |
| 12615s | done so all I'm hearing here is doable |
| 12617s | yeah |
| 12624s | doable okay the probably the most drawn |
| 12628s | out potential ending to a Battlegrounds |
| 12630s | game you've ever seen I'll be honest I |
| 12632s | have not got a lot of experience closing |
| 12634s | out a game as a commentator when it's |
| 12636s | just a slow monotonous droning march to |
| 12640s | Victory have you ever seen that Meme |
| 12642s | it's just like an Xbox Live message of |
| 12644s | like someone who's playing FIFA and he's |
| 12646s | like oh just just kick it round at the |
| 12647s | back in the second half you're clearly |
| 12649s | the better player I'm just going to eat |
| 12650s | some toast like that's basically what |
| 12652s | we're watching right now just just just |
| 12655s | get on with it I know the game is over |
| 12657s | it's |
| 12659s | fine The Baron's still alive it is going |
| 12663s | I mean what number what was the magic |
| 12665s | number what did we get to |
| 12667s | 150 yeah yeah yeah it was like 40 plus |
| 12670s | of these minions near to |
| 12672s | ATT satellites |
| 12674s | like oh we need to bring back site Chain |
| 12678s | Gang This is actually like a perfect |
| 12680s | fight we're actually seeing the nuts out |
| 12684s | it's okay |
| 12687s | okay actually that didn't matter at that |
| 12689s | point because there's only one thing |
| 12691s | that these recurring nightmares can land |
| 12692s | on and it's going to respawn seven now |
| 12695s | anyway so that Baron attack was actually |
| 12697s | irrelevant the fact that it the board |
| 12699s | cleared before this Eternal Night pox |
| 12701s | means like I think this fight was |
| 12702s | literally |
| 12705s | perfect and it's still not going to be |
| 12707s | good any it's not |
| 12709s | close still let me just check oh |
| 12712s | 463 Health on that pig 50 Health on |
| 12715s | another 100 on one of the uh the |
| 12717s | amalgams and adding up swiftly uh all |
| 12720s | those stars look like they add up to |
| 12722s | more than 19 GG satellite takes the |
| 12725s | victory in game one of Group B and salul |
| 12729s | what a way to do it one of the more I |
| 12733s | would say wild anomalies we've seen or |
| 12736s | if not the wildest anomaly we've seen |
| 12738s | today which opens up that door to tavent |
| 12740s | tier 7 and satellite takes the victory |
| 12742s | out what a game there and and what just |
| 12745s | a onesided win for |
| 12747s | satellite yeah absolutely and that like |
| 12750s | I said that wasn't it was a Tav s lobby |
| 12752s | but in terms of the really really |
| 12754s | powerful Tav s minions in my opinion |
| 12757s | there were fairly few of them actually |
| 12759s | in because of the minion types that were |
| 12761s | in involved right so getting that RAC |
| 12764s | sanguin Champion combination which was |
| 12766s | kind of the most powerful thing it |
| 12767s | looked like that you could do one player |
| 12770s | was probably always going to hit that |
| 12771s | and run away with it two players ended |
| 12773s | up hitting it fairly quickly but aluu |
| 12775s | just bled out too much health and aluu |
| 12777s | did his best to try and mitigate that |
| 12779s | right like we talked about the tempo |
| 12782s | Creations uh from the Putra side but |
| 12784s | aluu was also playing extreme Tempo |
| 12787s | galron with a bunch of meano Tanks it's |
| 12789s | just everyone else was tanking better |
| 12791s | than he was like everyone everyone else |
| 12793s | had like double tank full rebor board |
| 12794s | and he was just getting absolutely Tempo |
| 12796s | out of proceeding so yeah probably the |
| 12798s | craziest game that we've seen so far |
| 12800s | today y really explosive way to start |
| 12802s | off Group B we've got two more games for |
| 12804s | this group coming right up and then we |
| 12806s | decide our work out should I say who's |
| 12808s | going to make it through to tomorrow |
| 12809s | we're going to go to a quick break while |
| 12811s | we set up game number two and don't go |
| 12812s | anywhere we'll be right back with some |
| 12814s | more Lobby |
| 12820s | Legends |
| 12850s | to |
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| 12913s | [Music] |
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| 13061s | [Music] |
| 13089s | he |
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| 13119s | he |
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| 13149s | he we are back with more Lobby Legends |
| 13153s | as we get ready for game two from Group |
| 13155s | B let's check out the standings as well |
| 13157s | to see where they are and see where the |
| 13159s | players landed again if you're just |
| 13160s | joining us just a reminder we have three |
| 13163s | games for each group we've already done |
| 13164s | group a and we've got two more games |
| 13167s | left of group b top four after three |
| 13170s | games total we go through to tomorrow |
| 13172s | who have we got |
| 13173s | s yeah just a great performance I think |
| 13176s | overall from satellite in that one |
| 13178s | really taking things home but of course |
| 13179s | shout outs to the the first time |
| 13181s | performer in lobby Legends as well Sato |
| 13183s | who did very very well with the uh |
| 13186s | recurring nightmares the more death |
| 13187s | rattle Focus board going up against the |
| 13189s | raw stats and malod on board the |
| 13191s | satellite had on the other side but uh |
| 13194s | what we do see which I think is worth |
| 13195s | pointing out is the entirely clean split |
| 13198s | players dying one at a time right which |
| 13200s | I think will tend to lead towards this |
| 13203s | being more of a stretched out Lobby than |
| 13205s | we saw from Lobby a uh where everyone |
| 13208s | kind of clustered together because in |
| 13209s | most of the games or in the majority of |
| 13211s | the games players were dying in |
| 13212s | multiples there were there were several |
| 13214s | players tying in each game and that left |
| 13215s | us in a position where I think first and |
| 13217s | seventh were split by only three points |
| 13219s | going into the final game I think we |
| 13221s | might see a little bit of a bigger gap |
| 13223s | opening up in this one unless uh the |
| 13226s | likes of dog can put in a bigger |
| 13227s | performance which I'm sure he has a |
| 13229s | large number of people rooting for him |
| 13231s | to do just that right now yeah I mean we |
| 13233s | can check out the uh the viewer voting |
| 13235s | to see where they've gone for their |
| 13237s | favorite players in the fantasy team in |
| 13239s | just a second uh as we take a look and |
| 13241s | oh I'm |
| 13242s | shocked dog 82% of of our viewers chose |
| 13246s | him and not a surprised a true fan |
| 13249s | favorite in Hearthstone overall for many |
| 13252s | many many years now so not too much of a |
| 13254s | surprise but a ton of respect given to |
| 13257s | waterl Alo U as well again two big |
| 13260s | favorites I'm actually a little bit |
| 13261s | surprised that Alex JP is not hiring |
| 13264s | this I was about to say that same thing |
| 13266s | if I was to pull out one surprise yeah |
| 13268s | Alex JP uh I think won a lot of Hearts a |
| 13271s | couple of a couple of tournaments ago |
| 13273s | where um he he won the tournament he |
| 13276s | gave a very endearing interview he has |
| 13277s | this habit of uh changing his prefix |
| 13280s | essentially to be more appropriate to |
| 13282s | his current Vibe so you know we've seen |
| 13284s | Mecca Alex JP for example when all the |
| 13287s | mechs were around all that kind of thing |
| 13289s | so I was expecting a little bit more |
| 13291s | support for Alex as well but after dog |
| 13294s | no surpris to see watero and aluu as |
| 13296s | well following that up because I think |
| 13298s | honestly um one of of the biggest |
| 13301s | success stories of grand Masters as a |
| 13303s | competitive um constructed format was |
| 13306s | the likes of Gabby BL aluu actually |
| 13310s | being able to gain a following and then |
| 13312s | turn that into a streaming career which |
| 13314s | you know Gabby at Le at least Gabby and |
| 13316s | aluu are still doing to this day like |
| 13318s | aluu is a very big content creator in |
| 13320s | his own right right now so no surprise |
| 13322s | to be seeing a lot of support for him as |
| 13324s | well yeah I thought Gabby turned into a |
| 13326s | bodybuilding career though so I think |
| 13328s | that's something else to talk about |
| 13330s | another time H but yeah so that is going |
| 13332s | to be the stats and a bit of an update |
| 13334s | for game number one we've got two more |
| 13336s | games to go and again as we continue I |
| 13338s | just hope we see more and more anomalies |
| 13341s | there's only one I want to dodge SLE so |
| 13344s | that's the scary one for me the whole |
| 13345s | new board every round uh is not my |
| 13348s | personal favorite because I'm bad at it |
| 13350s | though it's not because it's necessarily |
| 13351s | a bad anomaly H but I'm just not good at |
| 13354s | it so we'll have to see if that uh that |
| 13356s | goes or not so H we are going to check |
| 13358s | out the puzzle box updates as well well |
| 13360s | and see where that's going to go before |
| 13362s | we get into game number |
| 13365s | two there I |
| 13367s | believe I'm doing all right here I think |
| 13370s | you are yeah we differ on two uh one of |
| 13374s | which Raven has already won because a |
| 13375s | player did win a game while reaching Tav |
| 13377s | seven that one is already confirmed we |
| 13378s | just saw that in the last game and then |
| 13380s | the only other place we differ is will a |
| 13383s | game go at least 10 turns without an |
| 13384s | elimination which we were very uh very |
| 13387s | narrowly denied in the previous game and |
| 13389s | it has not happened yet so now Raven's |
| 13392s | probably statistically favored in that |
| 13394s | situation as well because I only have |
| 13396s | two games left to be able to snatch |
| 13398s | Victory from that one so it's looking |
| 13399s | very likely that Raven is going to win |
| 13401s | on the puzzle box questions yeah and I |
| 13403s | just want to mention as well just in |
| 13404s | case people don't know we submit our |
| 13407s | answers to these completely separately |
| 13409s | there's no like we don't discuss it or |
| 13411s | anything beforehand so the fact we're |
| 13413s | only different on two surprises me but |
| 13415s | maybe at least one of the ones we're |
| 13417s | different on which is the first one |
| 13418s | doesn't surprise me at all as we were |
| 13420s | discussing the break I was just like |
| 13422s | right got to do something special to |
| 13423s | beat Sal here so I'm going to go with |
| 13425s | the most unlikely choice because if it |
| 13428s | works it's going to work and guess what |
| 13431s | it did so I said this to Raven in the |
| 13433s | break basically what Raven has done here |
| 13435s | is walked into a casino seen a roulette |
| 13437s | wheel where there's a green space there |
| 13438s | is one red space and then every other |
| 13441s | space is black and he's gone all in on |
| 13443s | red and then ended up winning and is now |
| 13445s | talking about how much of a genius he is |
| 13447s | like that was not the right pick and I'm |
| 13449s | so annoyed about it |
| 13450s | it was though because I won so anyway |
| 13453s | let's let's get in at the oh oh that was |
| 13456s | the yog right yog wheel yep yeah o well |
| 13459s | you wanted some craziness and we've got |
| 13461s | it let's get into game number two uh |
| 13464s | take us through this so we have the yog |
| 13466s | wheel and we have Beasts dragons murlocs |
| 13468s | Naga and Undead um is there any specific |
| 13472s | hero that benefits from this or is it |
| 13474s | just pure chaos |
| 13477s | it's very very very chaotic yeah yeah I |
| 13480s | think the one thing you have to look out |
| 13483s | for is Heroes that tend towards um |
| 13487s | things like scaling Cleaves and divine |
| 13489s | Shields and kind of things like that uh |
| 13493s | tend to be weaker because of the stat |
| 13496s | Shuffle from yog right like that can |
| 13498s | just mess up your entire game plan if |
| 13501s | you've uh thrown it thrown a bunch of |
| 13502s | stats onto a cleave or you're playing |
| 13504s | like mechs with two deflecto and then |
| 13506s | suddenly your deflecto becomes a two two |
| 13509s | and suddenly you have like mug on your |
| 13510s | board that's a a 9090 or whatever that |
| 13513s | can be a big problem but uh otherwise |
| 13516s | just things are pretty chaotic overall I |
| 13518s | would |
| 13519s | say random minion golden so I imagine a |
| 13523s | lot of players don't have much choice in |
| 13524s | what to buy unless they want to freeze |
| 13526s | or something yeah I mean there's not |
| 13528s | even an argument to take the economy |
| 13530s | unit right because the |
| 13532s | extra off the triple is plus one gold |
| 13535s | anyway oh there we go it looks like uh |
| 13538s | yeah Alex JP is in I was a bit worried |
| 13540s | where the overlay did not update that |
| 13541s | normally news the player didn't connect |
| 13543s | but he's in now and all good to go so |
| 13545s | that makes me very I was a little |
| 13546s | concerned yeah I was very I was like do |
| 13548s | we have to remake but we Alex not Alex |
| 13550s | not making it and then I was potentially |
| 13552s | I think mainly chat being deprived of |
| 13554s | seeing a wheel spin every turn which |
| 13556s | let's be honest is what you're all here |
| 13558s | for I'm |
| 13559s | sure new format for next year sorted |
| 13563s | it's just someone spinning a |
| 13565s | wheel yeah sounds good you know the the |
| 13569s | office episode where Pam's like trying |
| 13571s | to do chores and puts them all on a |
| 13572s | wheel and then just like eventually |
| 13575s | they're just spinning a wheel and not |
| 13577s | doing chores anymore and then there's a |
| 13578s | tiny wheel and the tiny wheel has chores |
| 13580s | on it again like yeah that is actually |
| 13582s | what people want oh again hting with the |
| 13588s | gold yeah in case you haven't played |
| 13590s | this before in case you didn't read the |
| 13591s | card in detail when it's been shown on |
| 13593s | the screen the result of the spin is the |
| 13595s | same for each player each turn um Beyond |
| 13599s | like first Factor the same right so if |
| 13602s | if one person rolls golden minion uh |
| 13604s | then everyone rolls golden minion that |
| 13605s | doesn't mean that the same outcome is |
| 13607s | going to happen of any random effect |
| 13609s | that comes after that but just the |
| 13610s | outcome of the wheel itself is always |
| 13612s | the same yeah it's because it's like the |
| 13614s | players still have different shops right |
| 13616s | so it hits a random golden Minion from |
| 13619s | that shop or whatever so yeah it's not |
| 13621s | yeah yeah so uh O Okay dog getting a |
| 13626s | very early solid Choice board here and |
| 13629s | also it's test so can cherry pick |
| 13631s | anything he wants going forward as well |
| 13633s | not looking too shabby at all oh you can |
| 13636s | oh he's I can take the fish fish yeah oh |
| 13642s | fish where I didn't think I would hear |
| 13645s | today dog loves doing this as well by |
| 13647s | the way uh noof merlocks absolutely |
| 13649s | loves doing it so I would be stunned if |
| 13652s | this does not happen well let's see what |
| 13654s | the wheel does first all the wheel |
| 13657s | decides Chompy Chomp okay and goodbye |
| 13659s | gold |
| 13663s | but hello |
| 13666s | fish this going to be a buy sell on the |
| 13669s | left into oh the patient Scout roll |
| 13673s | though man it's such a good with a |
| 13676s | patient oh it's a fish though in |
| 13682s | it if it was a place then we'd talk |
| 13688s | yeah |
| 13690s | [Music] |
| 13692s | double cell if it doesn't hit yeah sure |
| 13694s | this makes |
| 13695s | sense PR takes the surf and surf for the |
| 13699s | [Music] |
| 13701s | spell yeah Surf and surf because instead |
| 13703s | you're eating for dinner fish and more |
| 13706s | fish therefore it's it's Surf and surf |
| 13708s | yeah it makes perfect |
| 13715s | sense keep up the momentum friend so F |
| 13719s | just glancing across the these are some |
| 13720s | of the weirdest boards I've seen this |
| 13722s | early in the game just cuz it's gone |
| 13723s | like gold gold right like it's really |
| 13725s | opened up some of the uh the options and |
| 13727s | board size |
| 13737s | questions I am just realizing I've put |
| 13739s | my bandwagon in already and there is a g |
| 13741s | Wix in this Lobby and I haven't picked |
| 13742s | the G Wix I'm starting to re-evaluate my |
| 13746s | life the gallix is bleeding early though |
| 13756s | H I've just become the other side of the |
| 13758s | coin so of the choice so |
| 13762s | yeah okay the wheel has been spun this |
| 13765s | is I remember I think the first time I |
| 13767s | played this anomaly it was the plus |
| 13769s | three plus three and then Shuffle like |
| 13773s | almost every single turn and it was a |
| 13775s | really weird game cuz you didn't want |
| 13776s | you stop stopped wanting to sell things |
| 13780s | yeah it can be very frustrating right |
| 13781s | like it's hard to plan a board when your |
| 13785s | biggest minion suddenly becomes your |
| 13786s | smallest minion all right like it's very |
| 13788s | hard to know what you're supposed to be |
| 13789s | doing see sat is going full value |
| 13794s | actually just trying to get the most out |
| 13795s | of these rebs |
| 13797s | Z it's good to get some minions in |
| 13807s | play turn four now last chance to get |
| 13810s | your bandwagon picks in or to change |
| 13812s | those bandwagon picks if you so choose |
| 13816s | talking about the lack of penalty for |
| 13818s | changing for the the last few games but |
| 13820s | uh if you're not so somewhat preoccupied |
| 13822s | by you know having to commentate over a |
| 13824s | Hearthstone tournament uh it is there's |
| 13826s | no downside to just always locking in a |
| 13829s | bandwagon on turn one because you can |
| 13831s | always change it there's no penalty for |
| 13832s | changing and if you choose to stick with |
| 13834s | your turn one choice by turn four you've |
| 13836s | maximized your points by uh by picking |
| 13838s | them on turn one |
| 13842s | that's just Game Theory that's just a |
| 13845s | lot of |
| 13846s | effort I just pick one and say you know |
| 13848s | what I picked it so it's picked done |
| 13851s | just like it was the correct to pick the |
| 13853s | uh tavener 7 it's correct to just pick |
| 13855s | one pick the Raven |
| 13860s | Way yeah the waterl is looking quite |
| 13863s | good being able to just generate more |
| 13864s | and more um of whatever minion type see |
| 13867s | it's happening it is happening honestly |
| 13870s | this is my experience with this anomaly |
| 13873s | pretty much every time it's just this |
| 13874s | over and over and over |
| 13878s | again that's a big |
| 13883s | slim this is what I mean like you your |
| 13885s | biggest minion is now just this utterly |
| 13888s | useless like minion typeless |
| 13892s | minion such a weird thing to roll all |
| 13895s | the time it's like level up by the two |
| 13898s | three and then |
| 13901s | I guess it depends how hard waterl wants |
| 13902s | to go in but I'd actually sit and think |
| 13904s | about just freezing like level by the |
| 13906s | two3 and then freeze for the Tad seems |
| 13909s | probably a bit silly but I think with |
| 13911s | the two spells being able to generate |
| 13912s | more and more murlocs just more murlocs |
| 13914s | equals more merlocks |
| 13917s | right wait you want to buy rockpool |
| 13919s | Hunter here what's a rockpool hunter |
| 13923s | doing well it busts the 5 S it does yeah |
| 13927s | I think it's just level tab right I |
| 13929s | think you can also get I think like |
| 13930s | level pair is um viable on most |
| 13934s | characters but it is literally illegal |
| 13937s | not to buy a tad when you're you're |
| 13939s | playing G wigs right that's why I was on |
| 13940s | about freeze for the Tad that's why I |
| 13942s | about |
| 13943s | freeze but yeah it's it's not worth the |
| 13945s | difference right if you think of it as |
| 13947s | like you're leveling to three this turn |
| 13948s | right so you're on tavn three and you're |
| 13950s | buying a one drop like that just doesn't |
| 13952s | really seem like a thing that you should |
| 13954s | be occupying your go with I think just |
| 13955s | buying loses this fight by one or two |
| 13958s | stats so you know who I'm going to start |
| 13959s | talking to okay I mean that's |
| 13977s | fair see now just |
| 13980s | think there was a rock pool |
| 13986s | there and those two rats would have been |
| 13990s | host |
| 13991s | exactly we all know one murloc beats two |
| 13994s | rats every day of the week look again |
| 13996s | I've cursed it yeah you actually have |
| 13999s | this is literally my experience yeah |
| 14002s | okay the Slime got smaller though that's |
| 14003s | good news yeah that's a sell it quick |
| 14006s | actually the Tad remained the smallest |
| 14008s | thing on the board which is insanely |
| 14013s | lucky more oh more tads W who whoa wo oh |
| 14018s | no wo w w w w w wo wo o nice |
| 14027s | okay I kind of enjoy the way I can just |
| 14030s | say wo whoa whoo like Linda's a horse |
| 14034s | and it |
| 14035s | works that's the |
| 14040s | command just just soothingly stroking |
| 14043s | the back of his neck and feeding him a |
| 14044s | carrot yeah I've got one of those face |
| 14048s | pouches with some apples |
| 14050s | could just ni while he's pressing |
| 14052s | buttons they in did eat an apple once |
| 14055s | yeah only the want to |
| 14061s | yep again I'm right there with you it's |
| 14064s | so difficult to plan CU it's like oh |
| 14066s | look at tomb's B oh what's the plan who |
| 14068s | knows because of the yog |
| 14070s | wheel you have to build a plan every |
| 14072s | single turn of the |
| 14074s | game that dog is bleeding |
| 14077s | though I don't like the way this is |
| 14081s | going my pick has one more Health than |
| 14083s | the uh the low so it's okay looking |
| 14094s | good yeah fish from nooth not really |
| 14098s | living up to its potential in this comp |
| 14100s | so far no it is already pretty powerful |
| 14103s | just with uh the one reborn though right |
| 14105s | CU it gets both of the death rattles off |
| 14107s | the reborn and then you can see there's |
| 14109s | a couple of undeads um posted further |
| 14111s | down the line uh to be able to receive |
| 14114s | that but still small loss in the |
| 14116s | end and T not doing too bad on cindra |
| 14119s | goer actually still got that 14 armor |
| 14122s | feel like it gives him a lot of leeway |
| 14124s | good at this oh waterl in cap range you |
| 14127s | love to see it wa for it Chomp Chompy |
| 14134s | Chompy dog has the taunt on the scalin |
| 14137s | that's very very nice for him oh and a |
| 14140s | nice Merlo board on the other side as |
| 14142s | well yeah the fish as well it's going to |
| 14144s | be really nice like look at those death |
| 14146s | rattles |
| 14151s | already currently doesn't have a beast |
| 14153s | to summon the feather man though right |
| 14155s | unless I'm very blind can just buy like |
| 14158s | maybe the amalg goodon from the board or |
| 14159s | the amalgam to to have yeah yeah that's |
| 14161s | that's normally the one you go for if |
| 14163s | you're not actually beasts right you |
| 14165s | just say well yeah this is the most |
| 14166s | universally good thing so I'm going to |
| 14168s | lock that one |
| 14176s | well that's a very pessimistic freeze I |
| 14178s | was s thinking that I was like that's a |
| 14179s | bit Grim isn't it the one that I'm |
| 14182s | expecting to L that's like something I |
| 14183s | would do oh there's base skill though |
| 14186s | that'll do the job and this like dog is |
| 14189s | just in his comfort zone right now he's |
| 14191s | got a scalin he's got a base skill he's |
| 14193s | got a fish don't look at the fact he's |
| 14195s | test this is a very normal nuz off game |
| 14197s | for |
| 14198s | dog |
| 14201s | you can actually Multi Fish this game as |
| 14203s | well right so it's better technically |
| 14205s | better than a nooth game Jew wield fish |
| 14210s | yeah the double placeholder |
| 14214s | oh in an expansion that all that's not |
| 14217s | ready for |
| 14219s | now not sure what uh what looters has |
| 14222s | got going on behind this B I can tell |
| 14224s | discover it's a rat a big rat a snake |
| 14228s | and a panther walked in to a |
| 14236s | bar I like where you're going with |
| 14240s | [Music] |
| 14243s | this up the moment so I think it was |
| 14247s | waterl has the fight against uh |
| 14250s | pessimistic Tempo King tomb on the other |
| 14252s | side right who |
| 14255s | uh fighting for his life mhm |
| 14260s | tra's going in there with the imun of |
| 14262s | course immediately teamu gets to respond |
| 14265s | and kill |
| 14266s | one wait cyro's on five the only golden |
| 14271s | I could see on that board was the one |
| 14272s | that presumably he's had since turn one |
| 14275s | when the the shot rolled golden minion |
| 14278s | and he has double warp wi did he just |
| 14281s | double discover warp Wing off the Alex |
| 14283s | straza discovers I guess so yeah cuz he |
| 14285s | has the golden null and that's it yeah |
| 14288s | and that's just from that's got to be |
| 14290s | from yeah yeah I'm almost certain that |
| 14292s | what I saw |
| 14293s | in I also really want to know how much |
| 14296s | this Pirates worth for aluu because I |
| 14299s | swear he's had that for a long time |
| 14301s | water got Tempo Kong out of existence oh |
| 14304s | no I Tom you fool why did you freeze the |
| 14308s | minion you are always going to win |
| 14310s | you're an absolute Tempo King I'm just |
| 14313s | trying to work out if every single |
| 14316s | player I've picked in bandwagon has come |
| 14319s | eighth no cuz mine did once oh was mine |
| 14324s | seventh maybe I feel like they've been |
| 14326s | very low but anyway no I think yours was |
| 14329s | sixth in the one where mine was eight oh |
| 14331s | okay so not not too bad not top four but |
| 14333s | not too bad I guess |
| 14335s | [Music] |
| 14336s | yeah oh not the best picks at least in |
| 14339s | the position that sat's at right |
| 14342s | now I do see a RAC though so oh yeah you |
| 14345s | know gold look where do you think all |
| 14347s | those coins are coming from oh |
| 14351s | 155 that's a permanent minion no no no I |
| 14353s | mean okay fine Baron is also a friend |
| 14357s | that is acceptable for justice the bank |
| 14359s | of RAC right now getting the work |
| 14363s | done is this actually just a I feel is |
| 14366s | this just a Tavern |
| 14370s | level this that's enough yeah I'm I'm |
| 14373s | kind of I'm kind of with you I think you |
| 14375s | buy as well right yeah yeah that's what |
| 14377s | I mean you just do it all right just |
| 14378s | lock it in why not I think the only |
| 14380s | thing holding you back from that maybe |
| 14381s | is that the glow scale is really nice |
| 14383s | here cuz glow scale you'd get to put a |
| 14385s | Divine shield on a 3637 which is great |
| 14388s | and then it also protects the 3637 from |
| 14392s | um potential disruptive cleave effects |
| 14394s | although in this Lobby I'm not sure |
| 14396s | those exist so yeah maybe that's not |
| 14398s | even worth worrying |
| 14407s | about |
| 14409s | wait why is the yeah I'm sat who whoa |
| 14412s | whoa whoa whoa whoa yeah I've just gone |
| 14416s | quiet cuz I'm like does that just not |
| 14418s | work no it works it |
| 14422s | happened it hit the opponent's |
| 14424s | board oh I didn't even think about that |
| 14427s | I've literally believe it or not never |
| 14429s | ried anua that's why I was like wait |
| 14431s | what it's any yeah cuz like normally you |
| 14434s | use like very often you use an Uther and |
| 14436s | point it into the shop right it's the |
| 14438s | same thing like you |
| 14439s | I just didn't think yeah yeah your |
| 14440s | opponent's board and the shop are |
| 14442s | mechanically the same except where |
| 14444s | exceptions are written like they've |
| 14445s | written exceptions so you can't eat your |
| 14447s | opponent's board with the demons with a |
| 14450s | that kind of thing but aside from that |
| 14451s | it's the same yeah that's that's crazy |
| 14454s | that Uther should not have been there |
| 14455s | cuz that could have gone very wrong yeah |
| 14458s | I mean I think looking at his board |
| 14460s | there wasn't a disaster to hit on his |
| 14462s | side and like |
| 14464s | Naga yeah half the stats like that's a |
| 14468s | big I think I think for one of leaving |
| 14471s | it there it wasn't going to I don't |
| 14473s | think it was going to win him games as |
| 14474s | often it was going to throw or rounds |
| 14476s | yeah I think that's |
| 14478s | fair alexo doing a little bit better |
| 14481s | than the previous game still more than |
| 14483s | in |
| 14484s | this those are the literal three best |
| 14487s | six drops to go with your brand so uh |
| 14489s | take your |
| 14491s | pick going go for |
| 14495s | Kos I don't know where to look now so |
| 14497s | because we just saw the Lo is even more |
| 14499s | there but did go for calagos but there's |
| 14501s | still plenty of dragons as well what's |
| 14503s | this a turn n calagos pivot yeah sure I |
| 14506s | mean your board's already big right it's |
| 14508s | not like you're starting from scratch |
| 14509s | with the calos PIV pivot more RI oh no |
| 14512s | he skipped the RAC never |
| 14515s | mind at all the |
| 14518s | money this is like soult's dream |
| 14522s | plan oh |
| 14524s | yeah oh oh he's so good at not getting |
| 14528s | baited by all this excellent stuff that |
| 14530s | I definitely would have got baited by I |
| 14533s | would have ran out of gold a long time |
| 14535s | ago yeah right now I would have sold the |
| 14538s | entire Undead package and my board would |
| 14540s | be two racs two morons the golden shell |
| 14543s | collector and then some other random |
| 14546s | minion and then I would take 15 twice |
| 14548s | and |
| 14549s | die and you'd smile while you were doing |
| 14551s | it I sure |
| 14555s | would it's basically my experience like |
| 14558s | I the reason I climb is that I do very |
| 14560s | well in every Lobby beasts aren't in and |
| 14562s | then I just throw all that MMR away |
| 14564s | trying to do R |
| 14568s | things bringing in the cash once |
| 14572s | again sat does have to convert though |
| 14575s | right cuz although the board I wouldn't |
| 14576s | say his board is weak it doesn't feel |
| 14578s | strong either I think his board's |
| 14581s | actually very very strong right now just |
| 14582s | oh really yeah yeah yeah like having |
| 14585s | 14040 and then he has Baron like he just |
| 14587s | has this right Baron |
| 14589s | stomper sure I guess I'm thinking how |
| 14591s | weak it is in the world where the baron |
| 14593s | just dies earlier right and it's like |
| 14596s | it's easily disrupted but he has a nice |
| 14598s | line of tauns start combat anyway right |
| 14601s | to to stop that from happening a lot of |
| 14603s | the time so this is fairly consistent |
| 14605s | what he has set up yeah |
| 14607s | that's look at all the look at the value |
| 14610s | in that |
| 14611s | hand I must want him to get rid of the |
| 14613s | murlock mer to make it yeah I think that |
| 14616s | might be the one thing he has got baited |
| 14618s | by this game iy like hey yeah I don't |
| 14622s | think that's going to have a real impact |
| 14623s | on the game |
| 14624s | golden for |
| 14628s | satellite and |
| 14632s | okay oh bran was there again we were |
| 14635s | told by Linda that uh we just saw uh who |
| 14637s | was the player with the with the golden |
| 14639s | jug and the brand uh just going back to |
| 14642s | it Alex JP yeah Alex JP so before we cut |
| 14645s | to it that bran and The Jug were both in |
| 14647s | the shop and it was minion and it rolled |
| 14649s | onto The Jug instead of the bran which |
| 14651s | is still a lot of stats immediately and |
| 14653s | a great outcome but oh my goodness you |
| 14655s | would have much rather had the bran the |
| 14656s | other way |
| 14663s | around never good when you playing that |
| 14665s | and then just rolling it away anyway but |
| 14668s | it is what it is here for satellite are |
| 14671s | we just going brown murky M I think we |
| 14673s | are right that's so many stats yeah I |
| 14676s | mean sight needs to survive seven heal |
| 14678s | he literally just cannot really lose |
| 14681s | this is against Ghost of course so as |
| 14683s | good as it's going to get for this turn |
| 14684s | but Sati in general needs to just at |
| 14687s | this point I imagine I've not been in |
| 14689s | this position cuz I'm not good enough in |
| 14690s | Battlegrounds to qualify but you sat |
| 14692s | there thinking let me just get another |
| 14695s | place higher one more place higher you |
| 14697s | know maybe maybe just scoop top four at |
| 14699s | a bare minimum uh just to secure some |
| 14701s | points in game two and set yourself up |
| 14703s | as well as possibly can for game three |
| 14706s | and I think it's the ghost fight that |
| 14708s | actually made that viable right because |
| 14710s | I think by doing that this turn he's |
| 14712s | actually a little bit weaker than he |
| 14713s | could have been immediately um but over |
| 14716s | the course of the next turn or two with |
| 14717s | the end of turn going off with the |
| 14719s | golden murky like he will pile an |
| 14721s | enormous amount of stats onto that board |
| 14723s | very quickly he just needs that one free |
| 14724s | fight and he knows it's a free fight cuz |
| 14727s | watero died so long ago right there is |
| 14730s | no threat that water's boarded anything |
| 14735s | competitive here though tomb on the |
| 14737s | other side of this board going up |
| 14738s | against Alex |
| 14740s | JP uh again we're about to find out how |
| 14742s | big that minion is from tomb not big |
| 14745s | enough need some |
| 14747s | lerer need some |
| 14750s | leroys wait a minute there's a second |
| 14752s | card there is a second |
| 14754s | card oh there's a |
| 14758s | LeRoy more horses lindo's all over the |
| 14761s | showy oh |
| 14765s | huge we even going to find out |
| 14769s | nope what a scam that is |
| 14774s | outrage if there's ever a time it's then |
| 14777s | 10 damage for that gas Cola the |
| 14780s | everpresent can we can we have a can we |
| 14783s | have a dog check please |
| 14787s | Cody |
| 14789s | than so get to see what the wheel is of |
| 14791s | course and look L and |
| 14793s | behold Shuffle |
| 14795s | shuffle |
| 14797s | oh |
| 14799s | oh it's |
| 14802s | funny dog do be |
| 14805s | scamming there's a bream on his board |
| 14807s | that's a little |
| 14808s | weird I would imagine on the turn he |
| 14811s | fell below damage cap he just felt like |
| 14812s | he needed that extra you know 2012-ish |
| 14814s | minion in play and it's not like the |
| 14817s | stats go nowhere right because he's got |
| 14820s | the stuff in hand anyway to be able to |
| 14821s | summon with the gas coiler all the the |
| 14824s | fish so yeah I think stats on Leroy is a |
| 14827s | slightly underrated thing like if you're |
| 14830s | Leroy value trades that's still a value |
| 14833s | trade that's still a real thing that |
| 14834s | happened you |
| 14836s | [Music] |
| 14841s | know oh T popping off for the with |
| 14844s | these wait tomb's doing an end game |
| 14848s | thing I've never seen this before in my |
| 14850s | life what the I don't even know what |
| 14853s | just happened why was there discover 18 |
| 14855s | merlocks going on brand brand golden oh |
| 14858s | the golden that was what I was missing |
| 14860s | yeah I was like what the hell just |
| 14862s | happened oh my T does not look happy |
| 14865s | having to do APM things does he why |
| 14868s | can't I just put a tank on the board |
| 14869s | that shoots |
| 14872s | stuff okay I mean the the right choices |
| 14875s | are being made though as far as it's |
| 14876s | turn 11 why am I still in this |
| 14879s | game wait saying that what turn did |
| 14881s | waterl die like seven or something |
| 14884s | ridiculous |
| 14886s | yeah damn waterl been dead quite some |
| 14890s | time yeah was it one turn ago |
| 14896s | no yeah you just freeze the Mone good |
| 14898s | recognition at the end can uh yeah |
| 14901s | confirmed my guess was accurate it turn |
| 14907s | up that's some stats oh insta |
| 14913s | fish it's like satellite might not be uh |
| 14916s | hanging around for too long |
| 14923s | yeah get |
| 14925s | that don't know what the second minion |
| 14927s | in hand is but that's been denied right |
| 14929s | there could be a whole second venomous |
| 14931s | poisonous whatever minion in hand that |
| 14932s | didn't come out from the fish because it |
| 14934s | got one in seven sniped or one in 14 |
| 14936s | sniped before the base skill because uh |
| 14938s | two actually had to go first as |
| 14941s | well oh and apparently dog took out Cyro |
| 14944s | as well that's why we see Cyro currently |
| 14946s | dead on the overlay on the left there a |
| 14948s | dog doing work |
| 14951s | spoilers |
| 14955s | sorry the spoiler was on the overlay C |
| 14958s | was Zero it's literally on the screen |
| 14962s | yeah Tom has to just go again no rest |
| 14964s | for the wicked spin that wheel |
| 14967s | CH where the wheel starts to get very |
| 14969s | annoying yeah this will I think this |
| 14971s | started at 99 seconds his first action |
| 14974s | gets to occur at 87 that's 12 seconds of |
| 14977s | your a PM turn oh God that shop had a |
| 14979s | second brand of MZ on and a primal fin |
| 14982s | in it like you need all 99 of these |
| 14985s | seconds to do things and you just don't |
| 14987s | get them CU York has to do stuff instead |
| 14989s | oh |
| 14991s | my is there is zero% Chance Tom isn't |
| 14995s | dizzy right |
| 15004s | now escape the okay maybe he's a lot |
| 15008s | more chill about it than I'm imagining |
| 15010s | well he's using a mouse right I don't |
| 15012s | unless he has two mice plugged in he |
| 15014s | only needs one hand hey look if you can |
| 15016s | dual wield fish you can dual wield |
| 15024s | mice I don't actually know what the uh |
| 15026s | the native server is for this event |
| 15028s | either which will uh certainly impact |
| 15029s | some players abilities to be able to do |
| 15031s | the super APM |
| 15035s | turns particularly if you start to |
| 15037s | encounter any uh any minion dancing or |
| 15039s | such like when you're in a tournament |
| 15041s | scenario you're certainly going to |
| 15042s | choose go slowly over accidentally sell |
| 15045s | your biggest minion right so yeah yeah |
| 15047s | yeah |
| 15050s | sure I just feel like this is infinite |
| 15053s | stats and I again I think you correct me |
| 15055s | if I'm wrong but with comps or turns |
| 15058s | like this where you really just |
| 15059s | endlessly go in it's more about how you |
| 15063s | finish your turn than how you played |
| 15065s | your turn if that actually makes sense |
| 15068s | understand what I mean right yeah yeah |
| 15069s | like players will definitely have like |
| 15071s | different top speeds but I think the |
| 15073s | most important skill to develop is like |
| 15076s | recognizing how many seconds you need to |
| 15079s | complete the end of your turn right and |
| 15081s | then you just do stuff up until that |
| 15083s | point and then in your last like 8 |
| 15085s | seconds or whatever you're like okay |
| 15087s | cool get rid of that get rid of that |
| 15088s | there's my manner Roth there's my Leroy |
| 15090s | there's the end of my turn right like as |
| 15091s | long as you leave yourself enough time |
| 15092s | to do that would probably be okay okay |
| 15095s | Blaster went off and killed the gas |
| 15096s | coiler for free there there RAC checks |
| 15099s | for battle |
| 15101s | cries just has a little feeli to the |
| 15103s | left of right anything there oh oh got |
| 15108s | away with a oh no it soaked on the first |
| 15110s | hit oh yep okay plenty of damage kicking |
| 15113s | out I thought then for just a second |
| 15116s | that alimu just got away with cutting |
| 15118s | down that damage by a significant margin |
| 15120s | but of course the Defenders |
| 15123s | go we spin again munchy Munchy you know |
| 15128s | what I'd love if sir spinley was on the |
| 15130s | wheel spinning round as well nice that' |
| 15133s | be a great little |
| 15136s | extra oh here we go alimu versus |
| 15141s | dog and this is really tricky because |
| 15145s | both players have base |
| 15147s | skills so we haven't had many merlock |
| 15150s | games right like we haven't had Bas |
| 15152s | skill meta for most of this tournament |
| 15154s | because murlock have been out but like |
| 15156s | this is a murlock in game Bas skill is |
| 15158s | just the best card in the game really |
| 15160s | like it's it's not really much of a |
| 15162s | debate as far as I see it is it the |
| 15165s | fifth blessing right we're on game five |
| 15168s | yes let's keep it |
| 15173s | Rollings not |
| 15175s | food oh this is really |
| 15179s | tricky there's two fish and then tons of |
| 15183s | murlocs oh he's Multi Fish Draven yeah |
| 15187s | have you con considered the Multi Fish |
| 15191s | angle there's so many cards in hand for |
| 15194s | dog that if all of these go off with |
| 15197s | with base I'm just like I don't even |
| 15199s | know what's going to hit the board um |
| 15202s | this is tricky I'm genuinely I've not |
| 15204s | even typed a name |
| 15206s | out interesting also there's one there's |
| 15209s | one spot for alimu on board that he |
| 15211s | needs to fill yeah there is that again |
| 15214s | that could |
| 15216s | ooh is that oh no didn't want to go for |
| 15218s | the uh taunt |
| 15222s | silence low |
| 15226s | scale yeah has time to cycle through all |
| 15229s | of |
| 15230s | this is glow scale the final Minion or |
| 15233s | is I guess you can then sell the glow |
| 15234s | scale and put the M or the gas coiler in |
| 15237s | play yeah makes |
| 15240s | sense oh it's a 0 seconds you've not |
| 15243s | typed s so I guess I win automatically |
| 15245s | oh no I put it in the wrong thing I put |
| 15247s | in the WR no no he's out he's out Raven |
| 15250s | wins automatically it's in it's in FFA |
| 15253s | you can check the time code it's there |
| 15255s | that's not way you're supposed to put it |
| 15256s | is it rules the |
| 15261s | rules right i' I've gone for big stats |
| 15264s | equals good so I was gone for dog stats |
| 15266s | equals good yeah I was very no I've been |
| 15269s | wrong a lot with be with Barrel's |
| 15270s | blessings today but I was very |
| 15271s | interested that you were struggling with |
| 15273s | this cuz I thought this was the freest |
| 15274s | Choice we've seen all day by a large |
| 15277s | distance |
| 15278s | well my problem was I had no is so |
| 15280s | one-sided I had no recognition what so I |
| 15284s | I hope after saying that somehow alimu |
| 15287s | wins um but like there was like no |
| 15290s | knowledge on my end of actually how big |
| 15292s | any of these minions were I know |
| 15293s | obviously there's leroys and stuff but I |
| 15296s | I thought that they could maybe get away |
| 15297s | with the odd good attack maybe kill out |
| 15299s | a fish early but no not going to be good |
| 15301s | enough dog takes a not only winning the |
| 15304s | the fight but actually knocking gimu out |
| 15306s | and now we've got tomb versus dog to |
| 15310s | finish out this game so just like okay |
| 15312s | we'll wait we'll wait for the uh the |
| 15313s | wheel to get out the way hopefully |
| 15315s | nothing horrible happens to dog oh Bas |
| 15317s | Gill got eaten that's a bit annoying I'm |
| 15319s | not sure you'd even want golden Bas Gill |
| 15321s | in this situation anyway right but this |
| 15322s | board so first the the the venomous on |
| 15326s | the left goes off right that's one |
| 15327s | poison and then two of the murlocs |
| 15329s | existing on the board then get |
| 15330s | immediately rep poisoned after that so |
| 15332s | that's three poisons already now in hand |
| 15336s | there is a two two Leroy that's five |
| 15338s | poisoned a manoro that's six poisoned |
| 15340s | another operatic Bela so if that's gets |
| 15342s | summoned that's seven and possibly eight |
| 15344s | if that can then land on the other one |
| 15346s | and then there's still the the remaining |
| 15348s | stuff to be summoned from the fish as |
| 15349s | well and like the no one else has that |
| 15353s | level of Rec recursion on their board |
| 15354s | right so dog just keeps one for oneing |
| 15357s | people until they run out of minions and |
| 15359s | he does not run out of minions cuz he |
| 15360s | just has minions forever it's just what |
| 15363s | you're saying is just broken opponents |
| 15366s | need a big |
| 15369s | zap uh yes it would help or like five |
| 15375s | golden Barons and a tunnel blast no that |
| 15378s | doesn't work either 10 golden Barons and |
| 15382s | eight tunnel busts go six base skills |
| 15387s | yeah with 10 tunnel Busters |
| 15391s | the so we Circle back to Bas skill is |
| 15394s | strong after this yes exactly I was |
| 15397s | talking talking about this with you |
| 15398s | yesterday I think like Bas skill is the |
| 15400s | Edwin van CLE like the constructed Edwin |
| 15402s | van CLE of Battlegrounds it just it just |
| 15405s | Dodges Nerfs left right and center it's |
| 15407s | just out here living but it makes sense |
| 15411s | would you Nerf that frog playing that |
| 15414s | instrument absolutely not exactly makes |
| 15417s | it makes sense doesn't it look at him |
| 15419s | you're never going to Nerf that |
| 15423s | card it'll be like a He he'll be there |
| 15426s | similar Ty Ty tanic in some kind of |
| 15428s | future if Battlegrounds ever ends he'll |
| 15431s | be the one that plays us |
| 15432s | out sure that's |
| 15435s | fair oh the to the Leroy has taor as |
| 15438s | well that's so actually insane actually |
| 15441s | given a Leroy taor and some disgusting |
| 15444s | okay Baron goes down but there's only |
| 15446s | three things left to summon and I |
| 15448s | believe they've gone into the fish at |
| 15450s | this point |
| 15453s | anyway yep so he's still going to get |
| 15455s | full value from his hand cuz there's |
| 15456s | still one base skill |
| 15460s | remaining okay okay that's a lot okay |
| 15466s | okay I mean there's a reason Tom's still |
| 15467s | on 44 Health right like he's been doing |
| 15471s | something right is this oh he's got one |
| 15474s | left yeah yeah there one left yeah I was |
| 15476s | just looking at the chains dog getting |
| 15478s | some damage in still has to keep doing |
| 15480s | this cuz that's the big factor here that |
| 15483s | was not a one-sided fight by the end it |
| 15485s | was a one minion difference fight and |
| 15487s | tomb has 33 Health still and dog has 13 |
| 15493s | yeah the issue is though uh dog is Tess |
| 15496s | and tomb is not Tess and that means that |
| 15500s | dog can just keep adding base skills |
| 15503s | every single turn to his board until the |
| 15506s | end of the game just more and more and |
| 15509s | more base |
| 15513s | skills oh if dog wins we have a puzzle |
| 15516s | box Sal sorted because Tess won game one |
| 15520s | yes I think we'd both be wrong right |
| 15522s | we'd both fall over on that one uh think |
| 15525s | that's right yeah what did I choose cuz |
| 15528s | there was only two we were different on |
| 15529s | and those have already happened the turn |
| 15530s | yeah I said yes all six winners will use |
| 15532s | a different hero yeah and you |
| 15536s | agreed I think this shows uh CU we |
| 15539s | talked about for for the majority of the |
| 15541s | day actually that there's so many |
| 15543s | different styles and just things and |
| 15546s | situations and scenarios that can happen |
| 15548s | in Battlegrounds in this current meta I |
| 15550s | think this shows the power of playing |
| 15553s | one you like as you mentioned right at |
| 15555s | the start dog got to do the thing he |
| 15558s | likes to do and he's experienced doing |
| 15560s | and I think that must help so much in |
| 15562s | this kind of situation because it's a |
| 15564s | high press situation you play in a |
| 15566s | tournament yes dog is experienced in |
| 15568s | playing in tournaments but still and I |
| 15569s | think being able to play something you |
| 15571s | comfortable on is very very |
| 15573s | powerful so the choke point here is that |
| 15576s | dog did not have enough spare gold to |
| 15578s | put 10 minions in his hand because he |
| 15580s | can now summon 10 minions from hand |
| 15582s | quite comfortably with the cell that |
| 15583s | he's |
| 15588s | got |
| 15590s | it's oh just just just watch lovely |
| 15594s | audience there's only three left now at |
| 15597s | this point though this reborn gas coiler |
| 15599s | can actually end up doing a lot of work |
| 15601s | the team on the other side yeah |
| 15603s | especially if the uh the ghoul starts to |
| 15605s | dodge attacks right it's another gas |
| 15610s | coiler so there's one venomous gone |
| 15612s | right like just gets cooked by the gas |
| 15614s | coiler there's another Venom is gone |
| 15616s | just gets cooked by the minion that came |
| 15618s | out of the gas |
| 15619s | coiler and so |
| 15623s | on I'm trying to insert some drama is it |
| 15625s | working one venomous gun is anyone going |
| 15628s | with me on this or |
| 15630s | uh I'm just kind of watching I think |
| 15633s | this is something to be experienced |
| 15635s | rather than talked about |
| 15637s | okay all right bad news a LeRoy has gone |
| 15639s | in that fish already so that's not what |
| 15641s | you want to be attacking with your |
| 15642s | biggest |
| 15645s | minion still |
| 15647s | stuff uh not quite enough stuff though |
| 15651s | right that was a five AA attacks so |
| 15653s | these will have five attack as well |
| 15654s | which means by one |
| 15656s | HP this fight oh my and that's the thing |
| 15659s | but that's what I'm saying he like it's |
| 15661s | not one-sided considering everything dog |
| 15664s | is doing Tom is doing well rinder is |
| 15667s | currently mocking me in chat for trying |
| 15669s | to insert drama into that fight that was |
| 15671s | actually close getting the |
| 15675s | bin to finally jumping up to tavent tier |
| 15677s | six again a reminder as well we're this |
| 15679s | late in but it's tavent tier 5 for dog |
| 15681s | and tomb up until this exact turn yeah I |
| 15685s | did wonder um dog rolled his uh tavener |
| 15689s | prize uh into the it was a make a minion |
| 15692s | in the Tav golden so he rolled to tomb's |
| 15694s | board and then ripped it right like most |
| 15696s | likely trying to hit a base Gill or a |
| 15698s | beler ended up hitting the snake I was |
| 15702s | kind of wondering whether he would just |
| 15703s | take the snake and put the snake on |
| 15704s | board say go a really really good minion |
| 15707s | in this kind of battle where literally |
| 15709s | everything has venomous all of the time |
| 15711s | and also just with double fish right |
| 15714s | it's just more and more and more stuff |
| 15716s | so so I think that's that's the reason |
| 15718s | why he didn't fills the board the gas |
| 15721s | coiler then fills the board so he if a |
| 15723s | fish dies he might then end up with |
| 15725s | minions in his hand and then lose value |
| 15727s | from his fish dying and just die with |
| 15729s | three poisonous minions still ending up |
| 15731s | in his hand so it is a little bit |
| 15732s | awkward admitted wonder what happened |
| 15734s | there tomb sold and rolled and then |
| 15737s | reacted to I'm guessing not hitting a |
| 15740s | certain minion but I just wonder what he |
| 15744s | was you know specifically looking |
| 15752s | for oh we're going to try and soak some |
| 15754s | of the uh thingy attacks and just not |
| 15757s | let things die right with this taunt |
| 15760s | yeah yeah choke up some board space to |
| 15762s | reduce some of the summons from dog on |
| 15764s | the other not a bad attempt with with |
| 15766s | the options that are available for him |
| 15767s | to be honest yeah uh puts the Divine |
| 15770s | shield on the venomous as well which you |
| 15772s | know doesn't interact as well as Divine |
| 15774s | Shield poison used to do but it does |
| 15776s | protect the m to the fact that it can |
| 15778s | live long enough to actually get that |
| 15779s | avenge cooking okay an early fish |
| 15784s | kill okay early Baron kill early second |
| 15788s | fish kill yeah so you see the effects of |
| 15790s | the small taunt right delaying those |
| 15792s | attacks to be able to go through and |
| 15794s | that looks like it's good enough yeah |
| 15795s | really really nicely |
| 15799s | done another very similar tactic to what |
| 15801s | you see against big banana Slammer |
| 15804s | boards right small PS so that their |
| 15806s | their giant Beast that they're attacking |
| 15808s | with at the start don't die uh and then |
| 15812s | gets to the point where their their mama |
| 15814s | bears and banana Slammers actually start |
| 15815s | attacking before anything that gets |
| 15817s | proed that very very similar to what you |
| 15819s | put in there so really really nicely |
| 15822s | done from tomb like I've definitely had |
| 15824s | my fun with this guy that he seems to be |
| 15826s | a Tav and four Tempo Warrior from |
| 15828s | everything that I've seen but that was a |
| 15831s | super a a very high APM comp that he was |
| 15833s | in for most of the game and then had to |
| 15835s | Pivot to a super complex 1 V one heads |
| 15838s | up stretched out battle towards the end |
| 15841s | of the game and then navigated that |
| 15843s | super well so Tom really starting to |
| 15845s | prove that he's kind of the complete |
| 15847s | package as it comes to a Battlegrounds |
| 15849s | player and I think as well the one thing |
| 15851s | that I think really went in his favor |
| 15852s | and it you know it was something he |
| 15853s | earned was because he' put himself or |
| 15856s | got himself to late game in such a |
| 15858s | strong position he could take a few |
| 15861s | turns to like right what's dog's comp |
| 15863s | okay I just lost okay what's his comp |
| 15865s | changing to now okay I just lost okay |
| 15867s | and you know the more turns you've got |
| 15869s | to react the better whereas dog had to |
| 15871s | play as if every turn was his last and |
| 15874s | that is a huge huge Advantage so yeah |
| 15876s | I'm with with you great job for Tomb dog |
| 15878s | of course banking a lot of points with |
| 15879s | that second place so very very exciting |
| 15882s | as we move on to the last game of not |
| 15884s | only this group up of this day as well |
| 15886s | so once this next game is over we will |
| 15888s | know who's going to be going through to |
| 15890s | tomorrow we're going to go to a quick |
| 15891s | break while we get the players ready to |
| 15892s | go we'll be right back with some more |
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| 16221s | welcome back everyone we are getting |
| 16223s | ready to ready there we go I don't strip |
| 16225s | over my own words we are getting ready |
| 16226s | to go into game number three the final |
| 16229s | game of Group B but let's take a look at |
| 16231s | the standin because this is the last |
| 16233s | chance for these players to make it to |
| 16235s | tomorrow and also to make it through and |
| 16237s | stay in the final Lobby Legends of this |
| 16239s | year uh take us through the standing |
| 16241s | subtle who's looking |
| 16243s | good oh I mean that is another tight one |
| 16246s | it is a little bit more stretched out |
| 16248s | than what we saw in uh in lobby a uh 5.5 |
| 16251s | points uh splitting first to seventh |
| 16255s | which was only three points in lobby a |
| 16257s | but still uh pretty much everyone's |
| 16259s | still in contention just in terms of an |
| 16261s | eye test and you see like even someone |
| 16263s | like dog finished second in that |
| 16265s | previous Lobby and it's still just right |
| 16267s | on the bubble in terms of qualification |
| 16269s | because of the the first the poor game |
| 16271s | that he had in the opening game of the |
| 16273s | lobby so still absolutely everything to |
| 16275s | play for this is really just copy paste |
| 16278s | the lead into that final game from Lobby |
| 16280s | a where it really comes down to eight |
| 16282s | nervous people start staring at sat |
| 16285s | staring at a screen thinking please |
| 16288s | don't roll you know insert whichever |
| 16290s | anomaly it is that they don't want to |
| 16291s | see like they will absolutely be |
| 16294s | crossing their fingers give me give me |
| 16296s | the minion types I like give me the |
| 16297s | heroes I like and those there's a few |
| 16299s | anomalies just just just keep them away |
| 16302s | from me I'm just I'm not interested in |
| 16303s | any of that yeah and I think as well uh |
| 16306s | slightly upsetting two of my uh players |
| 16309s | are the bottom two players so they'll |
| 16311s | need something big to go with waterl and |
| 16314s | Turnal Alex JP on four and 4.5 points H |
| 16317s | which means they would need |
| 16319s | to I'm going to be broad here but pretty |
| 16322s | much win and have things you know help |
| 16325s | out right have certain things to go well |
| 16327s | or if they go any anywhere below first |
| 16329s | place so big asks coming out for those |
| 16331s | two players but after that everyone |
| 16333s | above them from 6.5 points to 10 those |
| 16336s | are not big numbers to catch up on right |
| 16338s | so a lot of it will just depend on this |
| 16340s | final performance so very excited to get |
| 16342s | in and hopefully we see a new anomaly uh |
| 16345s | yeah we did actually I can't remember |
| 16347s | what that one's called because I didn't |
| 16348s | look at it and I I'm not good with |
| 16351s | anomaly names I just remember what they |
| 16353s | do yes uh a very snowb anomaly uh if you |
| 16358s | win you get to discover a a triple |
| 16360s | reward essentially a minion of a higher |
| 16362s | tier if you lose you just get a random |
| 16363s | one from your current so uh really |
| 16366s | rewards the players who are fighting |
| 16368s | hard so uh this could be a very two |
| 16371s | anomaly as far as I can see it like he |
| 16373s | is very good at playing for Tempo and |
| 16374s | winning fights early on and he's going |
| 16376s | to get very heavily rewarded if he's |
| 16377s | able to do that yeah also we've got |
| 16379s | beasts dragons Elementals quillo and |
| 16382s | Undead so I would say notably no merlock |
| 16386s | that's one thing to really keep an eye |
| 16387s | on in terms of these crazy late game |
| 16389s | scenarios uh but still we'll have to see |
| 16391s | how things go as the players lock in |
| 16392s | their Heroes and again just reminder |
| 16394s | this is the last game of not only today |
| 16397s | but of this |
| 16403s | group take a look at Gladiator spoils |
| 16406s | there just to give you a bit of a |
| 16407s | description as to what your players are |
| 16409s | going to be playing out here so pretty |
| 16411s | much weirdly enough Tempo kind of ramps |
| 16413s | you as well right in in an odd way yeah |
| 16417s | exactly that yeah you see the type of |
| 16418s | Heroes being a very different spread |
| 16422s | from what we saw previously it's uh very |
| 16425s | Tempo focused right like citro on the |
| 16428s | illin super Tempo heavy hero you free |
| 16431s | attack and initiative in every fight ALU |
| 16433s | on the ozat just gets a free minion |
| 16435s | every fight in the early game like |
| 16437s | everyone's super focused on winning |
| 16439s | early fights yeah like bran tavish even |
| 16442s | Lich right like even arguably like Lich |
| 16444s | and omu to then be able to buy better |
| 16447s | minions to win fights with so yeah |
| 16450s | pretty interesting overall we have to |
| 16451s | see how this pays off as we check in |
| 16453s | with dog on at |
| 16460s | least not really overly threatening |
| 16463s | minions there for |
| 16464s | dog water going for a uh early |
| 16474s | tenter |
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| 16487s | it's a lot of speaking of tempo sat |
| 16490s | there not only on tavish but also just |
| 16491s | the two four ones is going to get some |
| 16493s | job done if you can get a bird on the go |
| 16495s | then those taunts are going to look very |
| 16496s | dangerous indeed oh |
| 16504s | yes |
| 16506s | see one of the little unique twists omu |
| 16508s | can put together here with that extra |
| 16510s | one gold that you get um you can just do |
| 16513s | some pretty interesting things in terms |
| 16514s | of leveling to uh to two and finding |
| 16516s | minions immediately uh on those of |
| 16519s | course Tab and one fights win or lose |
| 16521s | doesn't matter as much immediately right |
| 16523s | because it's either discover a one drop |
| 16525s | or get a one drop not a huge difference |
| 16527s | between those two things but it does |
| 16529s | start to become more and more relevant |
| 16531s | as you get into these mid game fights |
| 16532s | now to uh to be a bully just to start |
| 16535s | winning fights get stronger rewards |
| 16537s | because you're winning fights and then |
| 16539s | win more |
| 16540s | fights yeah winning it's good sure |
| 16547s | is Sentry not too bad maybe not for this |
| 16550s | second in time for satellite but uh |
| 16553s | definitely a card that can bust out some |
| 16554s | wins going to go for bronze Warden |
| 16556s | instead a little bit more immediately |
| 16558s | better especially with the |
| 16563s | fly satellite with a a golden Drake |
| 16567s | popping this turn as well for two |
| 16569s | additional |
| 16570s | dragons looking like a pretty solid |
| 16573s | board state to be honest if he can find |
| 16576s | a another low flyer to go along with |
| 16578s | this I think he could be looking pretty |
| 16583s | strong that's that's actually the best |
| 16586s | possible outcome stats outside of triple |
| 16589s | low flyer a second low flyer and then |
| 16591s | just an ability to buff the first low |
| 16593s | flyer so you can continue to get more |
| 16594s | Buffs from it that is a incredibly |
| 16597s | strong |
| 16598s | outcome and funny enough at least for |
| 16600s | this moment in time this is our two |
| 16602s | bandwagons uh fighting each other as I |
| 16605s | picked sat this this moment I just think |
| 16608s | it h he's clearly playing aggro and I |
| 16610s | like it |
| 16614s | yeah more low flyers on the screen here |
| 16617s | but it's time for Eternal |
| 16618s | Alex I did think about picking Alex |
| 16621s | honestly just because I think the bran |
| 16622s | is very very powerful again in this |
| 16624s | style of |
| 16626s | anomaly yeah buan is such an outrageous |
| 16629s | amount of tempo I ended up sticking to |
| 16632s | my hunter Roots Gish ah yeah fair |
| 16641s | enough again it's another situation |
| 16643s | isn't it we just saw it from uh from uh |
| 16647s | SAT but those two Elementals for Eternal |
| 16649s | Alex JP looked pretty good as just bulky |
| 16653s | cards to win fights with right uh |
| 16656s | the way you analyze cards in this |
| 16657s | anomaly is so different it does warp |
| 16660s | yeah it's like these these early stat |
| 16663s | sticks just become so much more valuable |
| 16665s | because normally there's a tension right |
| 16669s | between buying minions with huge stats |
| 16671s | early and then wanting to use economy to |
| 16675s | get powerful discovers quickly now |
| 16679s | that's the same thing you can get |
| 16682s | powerful discovers quickly by having |
| 16684s | massive stat sticks on board so suddenly |
| 16687s | um yeah like just early Elementals just |
| 16689s | dropping down as a 66 early in the game |
| 16691s | or whatever just suddenly become a lot |
| 16693s | more attractive low flyer becomes one of |
| 16695s | the best cards in the game even though |
| 16696s | it arguably already is one of the most |
| 16698s | attractive early cards in the game and |
| 16700s | look at that from bran the lightning |
| 16702s | there taking away the Divine Shields may |
| 16704s | not be enough in this specific fight but |
| 16707s | a very powerful tool to have we've seen |
| 16709s | all day well it was enough in this fight |
| 16711s | actually but we've seen all day the |
| 16713s | power of divine Shields right I mean |
| 16716s | we've seen all Battlegrounds of History |
| 16718s | the power of divine Shield so being able |
| 16720s | to Ping those away before the fight even |
| 16722s | starts is something that is extremely |
| 16723s | powerful if you can hit it with that |
| 16727s | bran this is waterl in the danger zone |
| 16730s | kind of again or at least getting there |
| 16731s | on this omu going for gigar ramp and at |
| 16734s | the moment it's not like he's been |
| 16736s | winning too many fights no a really |
| 16739s | rough fight for dog to lose as well |
| 16740s | because dog actually stayed low there |
| 16743s | and still lost the fight you see |
| 16744s | everyone else now climbing to to Tavern |
| 16747s | four and dog still down on two currently |
| 16749s | uh not really getting anything to happen |
| 16751s | so losing that fight and actually being |
| 16753s | one of the the lower Health players in |
| 16754s | the lobby has got to be a big detriment |
| 16756s | to him and I think you see there is the |
| 16759s | difference in hero choice right would |
| 16761s | you've lost the fight against not bran |
| 16763s | like maybe not cuz it was pretty close |
| 16765s | and dog has Elise which is not one of |
| 16768s | the More aggro Heroes right it's more of |
| 16770s | sort of a value hero overall so you see |
| 16773s | that may be having a higher impact than |
| 16774s | you would imagine because of this |
| 16778s | anomaly early brand kicking out for w so |
| 16781s | W's still kind of playing like a value |
| 16783s | game which is fine if you don't die yeah |
| 16787s | still at |
| 16789s | 22 and still taking greedy choices with |
| 16792s | the |
| 16792s | brand now has to Triple cell out |
| 16795s | synthesizer yeah fair enough yeah it's |
| 16798s | one of those plays that's fine but you |
| 16800s | don't feel overly happy about it cuz |
| 16801s | that felt like a little bit of |
| 16802s | overselling going on there mhm |
| 16807s | look at these Elementals they're so good |
| 16809s | at just chunking down the big |
| 16817s | minions nice gets full value though out |
| 16819s | of the uh the undead Buffs which puts |
| 16821s | him in in really good shape for this |
| 16822s | fight now y we'll pick up a small win |
| 16825s | very very nice uh Linda just pointing |
| 16828s | out by the way waterl kind of is |
| 16830s | motivated to make greedy plays because |
| 16832s | he's sat in last in the standings |
| 16834s | currently so he really does need to push |
| 16836s | for a big seven pointer this game which |
| 16838s | does appear to be what he is doing yeah |
| 16840s | the idea being right like yeah takes |
| 16842s | damage now but if he ramps and then |
| 16845s | starts winning fights he'll win more |
| 16846s | fights because he's unlocking like |
| 16848s | tenter six minions all game instead of |
| 16851s | you know the lower ones so I definitely |
| 16853s | see it and watero I think if he falls |
| 16855s | anywhere lower than fourth it's just not |
| 16857s | going to happen for him today he won't |
| 16859s | make it to tomorrow no |
| 16864s | absolutely |
| 16866s | these are not the choices there's a |
| 16867s | fairy tale in the shop as well which I |
| 16869s | think I think waterl would have |
| 16871s | preferred a uh a loss for six or less in |
| 16874s | that position like I think he'd rather |
| 16876s | be at 16 Health with an with an active |
| 16878s | fairy tale in his hand rather than the |
| 16880s | position he's in right now did get off |
| 16882s | of the triple there to pick up so we |
| 16883s | have to see how that goes later |
| 16888s | on satellite uh my bandwagon pick for |
| 16891s | this game and these things are I think |
| 16893s | going to be still pretty crucial because |
| 16895s | I think just eyeballing things we are |
| 16898s | within touching distance of each other |
| 16900s | in this which uh slightly embarrassing |
| 16902s | if you're |
| 16904s | me and uh highlight of your week if you |
| 16907s | me |
| 16910s | yep we'll be outside in the street |
| 16913s | jumping up and down clicking his heels |
| 16920s | mhm just looking at dog's board like |
| 16923s | just nothing's really happened for dog |
| 16925s | this game |
| 16927s | no but I do feel like just looking at |
| 16930s | the heroes he's the odd one out right |
| 16934s | yeah cuz at least with waterl again we |
| 16936s | sort of discussed the plan and thoughts |
| 16938s | behind it but dogs just not not really |
| 16941s | getting in the thick of it like the |
| 16942s | other hero choices are for the rest of |
| 16944s | this this |
| 16946s | game kind of a bad outcome there on the |
| 16948s | Divine Shield roll as well cuz if the |
| 16950s | Divine Shield had gone on to the dragon |
| 16952s | far left he would have just straight up |
| 16954s | cleaned tra Tred through the |
| 16957s | taunt two for one himself and yeah that |
| 16959s | is big |
| 16960s | damage underneath the shield 11 not only |
| 16965s | under 15 but just very killable in |
| 16967s | general waterl is on that 15 as well so |
| 16970s | two players currently able to uh to die |
| 16974s | basically okay does find a fairy tale |
| 16977s | from the Elise hero power which is a |
| 16980s | very significant boost Slammer and some |
| 16982s | stuff now so that's again something |
| 16986s | Slammer double feather man yeah I mean |
| 16988s | it's it's a better plan than he had last |
| 16991s | turn let's be |
| 16993s | honest yes it's a really all wait okay |
| 16998s | he sold the Beast so he now doesn't have |
| 17001s | a beast apart from the Slammers and the |
| 17003s | feather Ms to pull the feather Ms onto |
| 17006s | the board right which you'll roll one |
| 17009s | but he only has like three gold left |
| 17011s | right I'll I'll keep an eye on it and |
| 17012s | see what |
| 17013s | happens |
| 17016s | oh no we we can keep it on oh |
| 17019s | okay one two does |
| 17022s | he he needs the amalon now he needs to |
| 17026s | sell one of these existing Minions on |
| 17028s | board and replace it with the |
| 17033s | Amala Dum is there a beast on this board |
| 17035s | that I'm just not thinking of no right |
| 17038s | no cuz it's merlock Dragon isn't it |
| 17041s | yeah I mean maybe he's just saying I'll |
| 17043s | just take a turn off |
| 17047s | the problem is he's against oym yeah |
| 17049s | yeah like what does does he play a |
| 17051s | slabber and just play one of the feather |
| 17053s | Ms is that even better no probably |
| 17056s | not I feel like something went wrong |
| 17059s | somewhere here but maybe you know I am |
| 17060s | not anywhere near as good a player's dog |
| 17062s | so maybe he sees something I don't but |
| 17064s | this might just also just saying I need |
| 17066s | to risk not dying |
| 17072s | here maybe like this osma actually full |
| 17075s | board as well not really interacted with |
| 17077s | the hero power at all maybe the idea was |
| 17080s | this board as a board is actually |
| 17082s | stronger than doing Weir feather M |
| 17088s | stuff yeah I mean I can't really dispute |
| 17091s | that it kind of is yeah and then it's |
| 17094s | like next turn you know he'll start to |
| 17096s | transition a bit more yeah that's fair |
| 17099s | cuz the feather M as you saw there The |
| 17100s | Slammer summons a feather man the |
| 17101s | feather M summons a feather M yep he's |
| 17104s | just trying to play base skills let's be |
| 17106s | honest yeah so it like this Maps it out |
| 17109s | in order to turn those two 55s into 101 |
| 17113s | in the best world right like not even |
| 17115s | guaranteed that that happens he has to |
| 17117s | remove a 1010 size is thing from his |
| 17120s | board and replace it with an amalgam |
| 17122s | which was a 34 so it's very much of a |
| 17126s | muchness right in terms of what the |
| 17128s | total stats would end up being and you |
| 17129s | can still low Roll by having the banana |
| 17131s | Slammer get get uh sniped at the start |
| 17134s | and not be quite as efficient with gold |
| 17136s | as well right I think yes so that's an |
| 17138s | extra little layer to sprinkle on top |
| 17143s | sure does still have an affordable uh |
| 17145s | button press with a lease as |
| 17148s | well if he wants to try and hit another |
| 17151s | Slammer or |
| 17153s | something okay Manor off manner off can |
| 17156s | scam got the dino as |
| 17163s | well I was looking at |
| 17166s | it isn't actually I mean yeah you have |
| 17169s | the sly Raptor I guess it's just I don't |
| 17171s | think you have the taunts to support it |
| 17173s | is the thing like normally with that |
| 17174s | setup you need some other things taunted |
| 17176s | so that they clear out first and then |
| 17178s | your parrot attacks after your Taun has |
| 17180s | been |
| 17181s | ATT really |
| 17186s | tricky again even this is the problem |
| 17189s | deciding what minions to keep and sell |
| 17192s | right like I think that's really tricky |
| 17193s | cuz this like monoth is is still here in |
| 17195s | hand |
| 17197s | um looks like that's where it's going to |
| 17199s | stay for now yep don't the others I |
| 17202s | think that's the difficulty we've seen |
| 17203s | over the last two turns with dog right |
| 17205s | is like what to keep what to go when |
| 17207s | where how |
| 17210s | why will get to go first oh okay good |
| 17215s | good hit does get to peel this uh reborn |
| 17217s | as well which is |
| 17219s | nice clean attacks Yeah Yeah Yeah clean |
| 17223s | attacks Two Feather M's been on board |
| 17225s | now going to start |
| 17229s | growing it looks like he's stabilizing |
| 17231s | Slowly by surely he's |
| 17235s | stabilizing significant damage as |
| 17238s | well yep damage cap it looks |
| 17245s | like why you hate to see that if you're |
| 17247s | a raven |
| 17252s | fan so so now on six citro on five dog |
| 17256s | on eight Alex JP on 10 waterl on 15 |
| 17260s | there's only three players that are |
| 17261s | feeling any remote kind of safety right |
| 17263s | now at least in terms of |
| 17266s | health I was about to say I didn't feel |
| 17269s | like tomb got a very good role off the |
| 17271s | uh off the murloc um to you know the |
| 17274s | kind of Heroes that other people are |
| 17275s | playing right the oats the the tavish |
| 17278s | the IL kind of thing he's still just got |
| 17281s | 30 like he's still just got 30 Health |
| 17283s | just still chilling absolutely chilling |
| 17286s | double lero and full reborn board like |
| 17290s | okay I got options in tech for days at |
| 17293s | this |
| 17295s | point oh my mist is it in okay in is |
| 17298s | actually a pretty good pick in this |
| 17299s | situation I thought for a sec I just saw |
| 17301s | like the zero Mana pointed hero power |
| 17303s | and thought it was hook Tusk oh right |
| 17306s | okay sure in makes a lot more |
| 17310s | sense as well as sounding like a twitch |
| 17313s | mhm |
| 17320s | hey waterl been building up the board |
| 17321s | and trying to secure himself even on |
| 17323s | that 15 |
| 17325s | Health looks like the early ramp has |
| 17327s | been paying off cuz the stats are |
| 17339s | significant I think you can win this |
| 17343s | thing |
| 17345s | so it goes going up against |
| 17347s | dog neither player can really afford to |
| 17349s | lose this but dog's board is pretty |
| 17352s | decent with those Reborns as well so |
| 17354s | it's just stats versus um bananas I |
| 17357s | guess yeah Nob board space being cleared |
| 17359s | out for the Reborns just yet which is an |
| 17362s | issue but uh No Bananas being hit in the |
| 17364s | opening few attacks is a big big deal |
| 17366s | and now taunts coming out to play is |
| 17368s | very very nice as it means more and more |
| 17372s | powerful summons coming out from dog |
| 17376s | I just don't think looking at what he |
| 17378s | has left it's not looking like he's |
| 17380s | going to get there no not with the |
| 17382s | immune attacks and like I said just |
| 17383s | these raw numbers this is nothing overly |
| 17386s | Fancy from waterl they're just big |
| 17388s | numbers and big numbers have been enough |
| 17390s | it looks like not only dog but sat has |
| 17392s | gone out as well so yeah there's another |
| 17395s | one of my picks gone down to the |
| 17398s | bottom and citro as well has eaten it |
| 17401s | it's oh it's going to be a triple |
| 17404s | elimination yeah there's the |
| 17406s | confirmation we could just see it on the |
| 17407s | actual ingame sidebar so all of a sudden |
| 17411s | eight players go down to top five and |
| 17413s | that is our final game of the day with |
| 17415s | those eliminations happening on turn 10 |
| 17417s | as well which means we're going to have |
| 17419s | a no for the uh 10 turns without a |
| 17421s | player elimination on the puzzle |
| 17431s | box oh here we go tomb versus War |
| 17440s | waterl this is tricky these are the hard |
| 17442s | ones right stats versus reborn there is |
| 17446s | two leroys available for |
| 17458s | Tomb I don't think at this point waterl |
| 17461s | is going to be able to overly like say |
| 17464s | okay my opponent's Undead I'm going to |
| 17466s | build for that right I feel like there's |
| 17468s | not enough leeway here he's just going |
| 17469s | to pop off with as many stats as |
| 17471s | possible yeah but does have popping off |
| 17474s | with as many stats as possible is a lot |
| 17476s | of stats right now |
| 17479s | true a lot ofad seen the stats have you |
| 17482s | seen two leroys and a gas seen two |
| 17485s | leroys |
| 17490s | yeah oh chose to go with the final FAL |
| 17495s | instead of tunnel |
| 17497s | Blaster which makes things pretty |
| 17500s | close uh you know what we have great |
| 17503s | Synergy that we pick the other like |
| 17505s | opposite players so |
| 17507s | often yeah so there was no way of |
| 17509s | knowing this this isn't a criticism this |
| 17510s | isn't a misplay but waterl would have |
| 17512s | been incredibly well served by a TA |
| 17515s | there at the end just because of the |
| 17517s | attacking leroys at the start the |
| 17519s | attacking lero ended up doing absolutely |
| 17522s | nothing though they hit a Leroy and a |
| 17523s | value but that does mean the Leroy gets |
| 17525s | to hang around we talked about this |
| 17527s | earlier co |
| 17529s | go not the best it's not looking good |
| 17531s | for Raven fans is it it never is so I'll |
| 17534s | be honest that's kind of our motto it's |
| 17537s | not looking it's a bleak decade honestly |
| 17540s | it's been a bleak 34 |
| 17543s | years but you know it is what it |
| 17546s | is you know I remain positive things |
| 17549s | will turn around |
| 17551s | eventually or they won't it's going to |
| 17554s | be 15 damage going to uh going over |
| 17557s | Tom's Way still though again with the |
| 17559s | damage Shield up four players Alex JP is |
| 17561s | going to be knocked out so that means we |
| 17563s | have our top four for this game at least |
| 17565s | but again I'm very interested s of the |
| 17568s | impact of the bottom three players going |
| 17571s | out together pushes everything just that |
| 17573s | little bit closer as |
| 17575s | well oh there's another calos gameer |
| 17578s | over here there's a bran in hand is |
| 17579s | there a bran on board is this like a |
| 17581s | golden brand greed thing going on or is |
| 17583s | there |
| 17585s | uh no there is not a brand on board okay |
| 17588s | there's some big dragons and a |
| 17592s | monkey oh they're pretty big okay they |
| 17594s | are pretty big that's said |
| 17596s | big you can see by the way uh perfect |
| 17599s | timing to come over here satellite has |
| 17601s | been at 16 I've been keeping an eye on |
| 17603s | this for at least three turns I think |
| 17606s | which means satellite has not used his |
| 17608s | hero power for the last three turns |
| 17610s | because he the most important thing he |
| 17612s | felt was preserving 16 health because at |
| 17615s | that point that meant he could lose a |
| 17617s | fight and still survive now now we're in |
| 17619s | top four now damage cap doesn't exist so |
| 17621s | now he starts ripping the hero power |
| 17623s | again and also ripping the |
| 17626s | stats this |
| 17629s | escalated oh |
| 17630s | [Music] |
| 17632s | man I you want that Mond and you want to |
| 17635s | hold it because you know you're fighting |
| 17637s | against dragons on the other side but at |
| 17639s | the same time the fact you know you're |
| 17641s | fighting against dragons who just 15 one |
| 17644s | on the previous turn you have to play it |
| 17646s | and go for Max stats here |
| 17648s | right yeah I was trying to work out |
| 17651s | whether the the um Bramble would be |
| 17654s | enough there's no way I think this is |
| 17657s | still going to be significantly too |
| 17659s | small in comparison to double calagos |
| 17662s | warp wing on the other side yeah look at |
| 17664s | it STS are |
| 17666s | insane is this obviously this just hit a |
| 17668s | taunt which is fine H you know good for |
| 17671s | satellite but it's just the potential of |
| 17673s | free trades with with that immune is so |
| 17675s | crazy yeah oh wow |
| 17679s | deleted the ghoul merlock just chilling |
| 17682s | saying wasn't even needed this time as |
| 17684s | waterl actually pushes satellite out of |
| 17687s | the game fourth place for |
| 17702s | satellite our team would' been doing |
| 17705s | really well as well because his hero |
| 17706s | kind of does nothing at this point right |
| 17708s | because I think he's still filling the |
| 17710s | board as far as I saw yeah dead Synergy |
| 17714s | yeah take 19 this time though as tomb |
| 17717s | fights back taking the loss on the |
| 17720s | previous game manages to get a victory |
| 17722s | and |
| 17723s | now every player is praying for the |
| 17726s | ghost yeah whoever gets the ghost here |
| 17728s | is in business and it's Tom that ends up |
| 17731s | getting the ghost huge which is f |
| 17734s | fantastic news cuz I'm pretty sure |
| 17736s | waterl was going to smack whoever he |
| 17738s | fought against this turn yeah double |
| 17740s | calagos bran and also existing massive |
| 17744s | minions we've not talked about it for a |
| 17746s | little bit at least but water was one of |
| 17748s | the players that needed a big win to |
| 17750s | have any chance of making it and here he |
| 17753s | is love it to see we talked about it |
| 17755s | early right like watero is not playing |
| 17757s | Tempo King this game waterl is playing |
| 17759s | greedy he's trying to Triple into sixes |
| 17761s | he's trying to do degenerate things that |
| 17763s | win the lobby because he understands the |
| 17764s | assignment he knows that's what he needs |
| 17766s | to |
| 17770s | do yeah really good recognition of where |
| 17772s | you are in the tournament it's something |
| 17774s | i' I think I talk about every single |
| 17775s | time I've ever a castle Lobby Legends is |
| 17777s | I feel like the format like just changes |
| 17781s | every single game right the styles of |
| 17783s | Play Alter as you play the tournament |
| 17785s | and I think that's really really cool to |
| 17787s | see from players as good as these cuz |
| 17788s | they have the ability to change up style |
| 17791s | whereas you know it lower down the ladet |
| 17793s | say you'd probably get players just |
| 17795s | playing the same every single |
| 17797s | game question here I think is ending |
| 17800s | unit and it looks like waterl is going |
| 17803s | to go with the gas coiler there was an |
| 17804s | option to just take the fael Drake there |
| 17807s | and then roll a fresh shop and just play |
| 17809s | the Fel Drake as your last minion cuz it |
| 17810s | would eat six from the shop and just be |
| 17812s | massive in its own right not as big as |
| 17815s | the rest of the dragons that you have |
| 17816s | but you a viable option but water just |
| 17818s | going with a bit of utility with the gas |
| 17820s | sper at the end yeah I wonder if there |
| 17822s | was everyone option as well because he |
| 17823s | had the uh the rebor taunt as well on |
| 17826s | the shot just as something to think |
| 17827s | about at least but probably not going to |
| 17829s | do as much of work against this |
| 17832s | [Applause] |
| 17834s | comp reborn |
| 17836s | Manor can at least chip away a couple of |
| 17839s | minions but the rest of the team just |
| 17841s | aren't contributing are they yeah even |
| 17843s | the Brand's getting working and that's |
| 17844s | when you know you're in trouble when |
| 17846s | brand starts killing minions off really |
| 17848s | good trade into that as well in |
| 17852s | mano |
| 17854s | that looks like it's going to be done |
| 17856s | for uh for |
| 17859s | alimu wait a minute yeah this is what I |
| 17862s | mean right like who fought the ghost |
| 17865s | this turn was so massive because there |
| 17867s | was the dragon players and then everyone |
| 17869s | else kind of sucked you know no one else |
| 17871s | was really in the |
| 17873s | proceedings okay tomb lost the fight |
| 17876s | stayed alive but the big deal is he knew |
| 17879s | all he had to do was out he didn't have |
| 17881s | to uh outrun the bear he just had had to |
| 17884s | outrun the guy next to him right and |
| 17886s | that's what he ended up doing yeah and |
| 17888s | also bear in mind just a reminder for |
| 17889s | those of you who don't remember where |
| 17890s | the standings were going into this game |
| 17893s | Tom was in first place before this game |
| 17895s | started with 10 points I think it's safe |
| 17898s | to say he's going to make it out through |
| 17899s | to tomorrow how does he do |
| 17903s | this look at this board how is this |
| 17905s | board |
| 17907s | second go home I always just |
| 17911s | believe it's all you need to do just |
| 17913s | believe |
| 17921s | ah the weird thing is as well is how |
| 17924s | does this really like get improved like |
| 17926s | is this just to just saying I'll give it |
| 17928s | a try cuz I feel like if you're in this |
| 17930s | position in this T where tomb now knows |
| 17932s | he's through right and he cannot not get |
| 17935s | through now he's just thinking ah I'll |
| 17937s | just give it a try to try and meme |
| 17938s | something out here because he can't be |
| 17940s | feeling confident right exactly if he |
| 17943s | just keep on rolling you might find that |
| 17945s | one magical minion that will help defeat |
| 17947s | this full Board of 200 200s that your |
| 17950s | opponent is going to have next turn yeah |
| 17952s | that'll do it 18 attack warp Wing |
| 17954s | that'll get there I'll never see this |
| 17956s | coming for justice sunzu would be |
| 17962s | proud I think if he'd have found uh |
| 17965s | reborn maybe for the golden gas coiler |
| 17968s | then he would have a small fraction of |
| 17970s | odds of Gas Co would exist right rolling |
| 17974s | yeah like two leroys and then the reborn |
| 17976s | gas coiler rolling two more lero that |
| 17978s | kind of |
| 17980s | thingo |
| 17982s | though incredibly impressive gained four |
| 17985s | points in game one zero points in game |
| 17989s | two and has held the composure got the |
| 17993s | job done and looks like he's going to |
| 17995s | finish first place in this one don't |
| 17996s | want to talk call it too soon but those |
| 17998s | numbers are |
| 18002s | large |
| 18008s | okay |
| 18010s | Leroy attacks and survives okay full |
| 18013s | board from the gas spiler six |
| 18016s | leroys one Leroy okay can the Leroy |
| 18020s | spawn more leroys or is that against the |
| 18023s | rules uh I believe that there would be |
| 18026s | an admin check into che check man's PC |
| 18029s | at that point |
| 18032s | yeah it looks like without further Ado |
| 18036s | wal is going to be the victor of game |
| 18039s | number three and you know what whether |
| 18041s | Walo makes it or not we will wait to see |
| 18043s | the standings to confirm but whether he |
| 18045s | makes it or not fantastic game three |
| 18047s | performance and the if you're going to |
| 18049s | have a rough two games you want to end |
| 18051s | it on a good one and waterl has done |
| 18053s | just that really well played really good |
| 18055s | recognition of what was required from |
| 18058s | him going into game three in that |
| 18060s | position on four total points so really |
| 18063s | well played for what yeah yeah really |
| 18066s | really really clean game a lot of other |
| 18068s | people were scrambling around for Tempo |
| 18071s | and you know shooting tabish and bran at |
| 18073s | each other and just scrapping for those |
| 18075s | early minions those Tempo boards and low |
| 18076s | flyers and all that kind of stuff and |
| 18079s | waterl just went nah omu ramp get |
| 18082s | dragons play Brand do good stuff yeah I |
| 18085s | mean it's it's sometimes that's just |
| 18087s | what you got to do right and I think |
| 18089s | overall like that that is a very Tempo |
| 18091s | heavy Lobby it's always going to be and |
| 18092s | I think that's kind kind of the correct |
| 18093s | strategy to go for a lot of the time but |
| 18096s | that was metagaming in the true sense of |
| 18098s | the word from waterl he understood that |
| 18101s | you know just getting caught in the pack |
| 18102s | and Tempo with everyone else and getting |
| 18104s | fourth was probably not going to do a |
| 18105s | job for him he had to go for the |
| 18107s | highroll and he might have had a 10% |
| 18110s | chance of hitting it but it was the only |
| 18112s | 10% chance that existed so he absolutely |
| 18114s | had to go for it yeah I think it was a |
| 18117s | well worth it here as we take a look at |
| 18119s | all of the replays from the whole day |
| 18121s | we've had a a different nor every single |
| 18124s | game and a lot of uh interesting |
| 18126s | outcomes a lot of different game plans |
| 18129s | which I think really does just highlight |
| 18131s | what the meta and what Battleground is |
| 18133s | about right now which is Havoc but also |
| 18136s | just variety at the |
| 18138s | moment yeah for sure um certainly I |
| 18141s | think I think we got zero repeated |
| 18144s | anomalies in six games right which is |
| 18146s | not necessarily a given with the way |
| 18147s | that some of them are boosted and some |
| 18149s | of them are very very rare but that's |
| 18150s | very nice to see cuz it means we got a |
| 18152s | nice variety of games overall I think we |
| 18154s | saw a wide variety of winning boards |
| 18157s | whether it was extreme recursion from |
| 18160s | undeads and death rattles where whether |
| 18163s | it was multi-layered murloc scam boards |
| 18166s | with uh dog's not nof Fish game um we've |
| 18170s | just seen raw stats being too much to to |
| 18173s | cope yeah tanks as well and I think |
| 18175s | that's probably the best Testament for |
| 18177s | Battlegrounds right now is I think at |
| 18179s | this moment the balance between |
| 18182s | recursion poison and stats is the best |
| 18185s | it's ever been like those three things |
| 18188s | can all compete with the others based on |
| 18190s | you know different minion type makeups |
| 18192s | and different anomalies and so on I |
| 18193s | think if that Trifecta balance is in |
| 18195s | place the game is going to be pretty |
| 18197s | good he got in water what a champ what a |
| 18201s | champ if he came second we'd have to go |
| 18203s | to tie breaks really incredible forat |
| 18206s | for waterl got Tomb at the top who again |
| 18209s | you know we're talking a lot about |
| 18209s | waterl because of the last game but tomb |
| 18211s | was not messing around satellite alut |
| 18214s | tumu and waterl for that top four so |
| 18218s | those four players are going to make it |
| 18219s | through to tomorrow uh really really |
| 18222s | impressive and like I said different |
| 18225s | play Styles overall from these players |
| 18227s | the regulars from the likes of satellite |
| 18229s | Alo teu names we know uh across the |
| 18232s | board and they a really really good top |
| 18235s | eight as far as I'm concerned sole I'm |
| 18237s | excited for this |
| 18238s | one |
| 18240s | great longstanding members of the |
| 18243s | grounds community of streamers as well |
| 18245s | got |
| 18246s | Al was talking about |
| 18249s | ear the lobby Legends Grinders thrown in |
| 18251s | there as well right the people that we |
| 18253s | they're used to seeing satellite uh |
| 18255s | waterl dappy and then Yonce who is now |
| 18258s | little bird thrown in there as well like |
| 18260s | all major repeat performers in lobby |
| 18261s | Legends who have been consistently |
| 18264s | putting up numbers in these |
| 18265s | tournaments yeah really really cool |
| 18267s | overall tomorrow of course we do have |
| 18269s | that top eight and we are going to play |
| 18271s | uh the Czech format which we'll dive |
| 18273s | into but for now let's take a look at |
| 18275s | the puzzle box uh let me just have a |
| 18277s | quick look here sot there's a lot of |
| 18280s | green on my side of the board my friend |
| 18282s | there is there is yeah two questions |
| 18284s | actually picked up over me which is a |
| 18286s | big difference big difference good good |
| 18288s | chunk of uh points for these puzzle box |
| 18290s | questions so that is a pretty |
| 18291s | significant victory for Raven |
| 18293s | overall yeah and I think it's uh |
| 18295s | important as well just because uh you |
| 18297s | know the sort of big brain tavener 7 you |
| 18300s | know the intellectuals choice coming up |
| 18303s | on my end statistically correct choice I |
| 18306s | think from me uh really really paying |
| 18308s | off there so uh I beat you in this this |
| 18310s | is not really the whole story of course |
| 18312s | but I beat you in something which is a |
| 18314s | huge victory for me as a person so it's |
| 18317s | been a it's been a good day overall yeah |
| 18319s | and that that Tav s Lobby in particular |
| 18322s | was huge for you because the fact it |
| 18324s | existed gave you a chance of getting |
| 18326s | that question right of course but then |
| 18329s | there was a 50/50 there was a trade-off |
| 18330s | there right because everyone had 10 |
| 18332s | extra armor it was also then pretty |
| 18333s | likely that we were going to get to turn |
| 18335s | 10 that game without an elimination but |
| 18338s | that that that didn't happen I I lost on |
| 18340s | both accounts at the T seven Lobby |
| 18341s | appearing so that ended up being a huge |
| 18344s | Lobby for Raven overall so genuinely |
| 18346s | this feels fairly close in my head so I |
| 18349s | it feels closer than last time that's |
| 18351s | all I'll say yeah I will fin scores yeah |
| 18354s | I think we do have the uh the results so |
| 18356s | we can take a look so uh let's take a |
| 18358s | look and reveal the winner I like it |
| 18360s | when sa's winsing oh not that close oh |
| 18365s | oh okay W the bandwagon thew you got |
| 18370s | destroyed okay fair enough okay fair |
| 18373s | look look bars blessing not bad fantasy |
| 18375s | T what oh okay well you beat me in in |
| 18378s | group a I beat you in group b right |
| 18380s | fancy team wise I think yeah cuz two of |
| 18382s | my players made it to tomorrow in group |
| 18384s | b but mine was a wider margin in group a |
| 18386s | yeah yeah I think so yeah I so I am want |
| 18390s | to defend myself I think I did okay I |
| 18392s | don't think I was ever going in |
| 18393s | expecting to beat you cuz you are just |
| 18395s | better than me at Battleground so your |
| 18397s | knowledge helps a lot in these instances |
| 18400s | but I think I I was respectable I not |
| 18403s | great but respectable I'll take it yeah |
| 18406s | it was enough enough to make me sweat |
| 18408s | and uh yeah we haven't really brought it |
| 18409s | up again since the intro but we we did |
| 18411s | have a little wager on this one which |
| 18413s | now means uh I get to write a tweet and |
| 18416s | deliver it to Raven and Raven must keep |
| 18418s | that tweet pinned on his account until |
| 18420s | the Masters Tour which is two weeks from |
| 18422s | now at the end of October |
| 18423s | and this will be slightly emotional for |
| 18425s | me losing this actually because my pin |
| 18426s | tweet has been pinned since July |
| 18429s | 2016 so that has been pinned there for a |
| 18433s | very very long time it's relevant to |
| 18435s | this job I'm doing right now but yes |
| 18437s | all's going to write something and I |
| 18438s | have to have it tweeted and pinned so uh |
| 18441s | all I can say is make sure to tune in |
| 18444s | tomorrow to find out because uh that'll |
| 18446s | be pretty interesting one way or the |
| 18447s | other hopefully it's not too bad yeah |
| 18450s | genuinely I'm not I'm not just saying |
| 18452s | this I haven't decided what it is yet |
| 18454s | I've now got to cook something up I I |
| 18455s | probably should have because you know I |
| 18458s | probably should have planned to succeed |
| 18459s | considering that was pretty likely to be |
| 18461s | the outcome by the end of today but uh |
| 18463s | I'm sure I'll come up with something |
| 18465s | suitably humiliating for Raven to have |
| 18467s | pinned on his account for two weeks |
| 18470s | luckily enough we've spent the last what |
| 18472s | seven 8ish rough years I guess casting |
| 18475s | together so I'm pretty used to being |
| 18477s | cumulated by you in general so I've had |
| 18479s | a lot of practice but we'll find out |
| 18481s | what that tweet is going to be tomorrow |
| 18482s | but again circling back to Lobby Legends |
| 18485s | we have our top eight for tomorrow we're |
| 18487s | going to be back same time same place to |
| 18489s | find out who's going to be the final |
| 18491s | Lobby Legends champion of the year |
| 18493s | thanks a lot for watching today we hope |
| 18495s | you had a great time and we'll see you |
| 18497s | tomorrow have a good |
| 18511s | night |
| 18541s | going |
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