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| 297s | hello everyone and welcome to the |
| 299s | introduction of one of the most exciting |
| 301s | changes coming to hearthstone esports in |
| 304s | 2022. |
| 306s | lobby legends is going to be the debut |
| 308s | for battlegrounds within the competitive |
| 310s | hearthstone ecosystem while we've seen |
| 313s | some invitational events in the past and |
| 314s | various community members have put on |
| 316s | some awesome community events in their |
| 318s | own right this will be the first time |
| 320s | that a truly open and competitive system |
| 323s | will be provided to allow people to find |
| 325s | out who the true lobby legend is with |
| 329s | our first event lobby legend raid |
| 331s | leaders right around the corner i'm here |
| 333s | to give you the lowdown on exactly how |
| 335s | everything works |
| 338s | qualification for lobby legends starts |
| 340s | on ladder yes the very same ladder that |
| 343s | you are playing right now you just |
| 344s | missed a triple by the way if you manage |
| 346s | to finish in the top 16 on ladder in any |
| 349s | region during a qualifying period you |
| 352s | will find yourself invited to a 48 |
| 354s | player qualifying tournament finish top |
| 356s | 12 in that qualifier and you are then |
| 358s | joined by four players from the china |
| 361s | region to make a 16 player lobby legends |
| 365s | tournament |
| 366s | this process is then repeated throughout |
| 368s | the year with each individual lobby |
| 370s | legends event offering a 50 000 |
| 373s | prize pool totaling half a million |
| 376s | dollars in prize money for battlegrounds |
| 378s | esports in its debut year in 2022 |
| 382s | so how exactly do the events themselves |
| 385s | work well for the sake of brevity i will |
| 386s | be referring to the broadcast finals |
| 388s | tournament right now but if you would |
| 390s | like to know how the qualifiers work you |
| 392s | can check out the full rule book which |
| 394s | will be linked in the video description |
| 397s | the 16 qualified players for a lobby |
| 399s | legend event will be broken up into two |
| 402s | different lobbies each containing eight |
| 404s | players these lobbies will each play |
| 406s | three games of hearthstone battlegrounds |
| 408s | with points being rewarded for each |
| 410s | individual respective finish within |
| 412s | those games at the end of the three |
| 414s | games the four players in each lobby |
| 416s | with the highest total number of points |
| 418s | will progress into a final lobby of |
| 421s | eight where the process is repeated but |
| 423s | with one crucial difference |
| 427s | in the final lobby we will be |
| 429s | implementing the check format which |
| 431s | means that players must first reach a |
| 433s | cumulative total of 20 points to put the |
| 436s | rest of the lobby in check but then they |
| 439s | must win a game finishing in first place |
| 442s | in order to secure the tournament |
| 444s | victory this means that towards the end |
| 446s | of a tournament we might have one player |
| 448s | on 20 points or more we might have |
| 450s | multiple players on 20 points or more |
| 452s | all scrapping for that all-important |
| 454s | first place finish that will end the |
| 456s | tournament check format really rewards |
| 459s | high-risk high reward play towards the |
| 461s | end of an event and it also means that |
| 464s | the eventual winner ends on a high going |
| 466s | out with a game victory under their belt |
| 471s | and finally it is with a great pleasure |
| 474s | on top of all of that information i can |
| 476s | also announce that battlegrounds lobby |
| 478s | legends will be streaming on both |
| 481s | youtube and twitch throughout 2022. |
| 485s | furthermore players will be allowed and |
| 487s | in fact encouraged to restream their own |
| 490s | perspective throughout the tournament so |
| 492s | if you want to follow a particular |
| 494s | player's route through a tournament |
| 496s | exclusively you can absolutely do that |
| 498s | you can hop around from multiple players |
| 500s | you can stick with the main feed but if |
| 502s | you really want to avoid those pesky |
| 504s | sapper ball casters you can absolutely |
| 507s | do that as long as enough players are |
| 508s | willing to stream their own perspectives |
| 511s | uh this sense of community involvement |
| 512s | is something that we're very eager to |
| 513s | promote this year with battlegrounds |
| 515s | lobby legends and we really want the |
| 517s | hills to be alive with the sound of |
| 519s | re-rolls and for battlegrounds lobby |
| 522s | legends to be the talk of the town |
| 523s | throughout the entire battlegrounds |
| 525s | community |
| 528s | and so that is you all caught up to date |
| 530s | with battlegrounds lobby legends or the |
| 532s | remains is to remind you to check out |
| 534s | our debut broadcast lobby legends raid |
| 537s | leaders which starts on april 2nd live |
| 540s | on youtube.com hearthstone and twitch.tv |
| 545s | play hearthstone |
| 547s | also don't forget to follow at hs |
| 549s | esports on twitter to make sure you do |
| 550s | not miss any crucial updates throughout |
| 553s | the year and if you really want to dig |
| 555s | into the nitty-gritty and the finer |
| 556s | details the full rule book for lobby |
| 558s | legends will be linked in the |
| 559s | description below so are you excited for |
| 562s | lobby legends uh which player do you |
| 564s | think is going to dominate proceedings |
| 566s | throughout the year if you have the |
| 568s | answers to those questions or any |
| 569s | questions that you might have go ahead |
| 571s | and leave them in the comments below |
| 574s | take care everyone and we will see you |
| 576s | in the lobby |
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| 610s | greetings from the tavern and welcome to |
| 613s | the inaugural esports event for |
| 615s | hearthstone battlegrounds my name is gia |
| 618s | and it's my great pleasure to welcome my |
| 619s | co-caster one of the most prominent |
| 621s | streamers and competitors in the bg |
| 623s | community it's lisa how's it going |
| 626s | i am great i'm so excited to be here |
| 629s | today for our first lobby legends |
| 632s | battleground event |
| 634s | thanks for having me |
| 636s | we are super happy to have you here |
| 638s | perspectives from somebody who has been |
| 640s | there since the very beginning 2019 is |
| 643s | when battlegrounds was released it's |
| 645s | been three years in the making i know |
| 647s | useless have been one of the loudest |
| 649s | voices in the community asking for an |
| 651s | official open qualification system for |
| 653s | battlegrounds because up until now we |
| 655s | have had invitationals you have had the |
| 657s | chance to participate in the chinese |
| 659s | gold league but it's the first time that |
| 660s | we truly have an open anyone can make a |
| 664s | type of competition for battlegrounds |
| 666s | and it has all come down to this 16 of |
| 668s | the best players in the world what are |
| 670s | you most looking forward to seeing |
| 672s | i'm so looking forward to watch these |
| 675s | top competitors play it is a grind to |
| 677s | get here you have to be the top of your |
| 679s | mmr and then you have to qualify and |
| 682s | then we're going to have eight players |
| 684s | here today i'm going to take the gia |
| 686s | this go over the format today |
| 689s | yeah that's right we do have two strap |
| 691s | up lobbies of eight players lobby a and |
| 694s | lobby b playing out three games each so |
| 696s | we have a total of six games to be |
| 698s | played here where the top four from each |
| 701s | of those lobby will advance to tomorrow |
| 703s | the final where we are playing something |
| 706s | called the check format something very |
| 708s | different than anything we've seen in |
| 710s | battlegrounds before in community |
| 711s | tournaments we've had team play usually |
| 714s | in pairs now it's every man for themself |
| 717s | and then we have check on top of it can |
| 718s | you take us a little bit through that |
| 720s | yeah so check format the way it's going |
| 722s | to work is our competitors will still be |
| 724s | earning points based on their placement |
| 726s | but once they've earned 20 points they |
| 728s | will put the lobby into check kind of |
| 731s | like chess so once the lobby's in check |
| 734s | the player who has uh 20 points or more |
| 737s | the the next first place that they get |
| 740s | will win the tournament and end the |
| 742s | tournament so you have to get to 20 |
| 744s | points that's the condition and then |
| 745s | once you've hit that condition you need |
| 747s | to get a first place to win it all |
| 750s | yes thank you lisa very much better |
| 752s | explain than subtle just a few minutes |
| 754s | ago |
| 756s | and yes this check format i feel will be |
| 758s | changing a little bit of the meta |
| 759s | towards the end of the tournament where |
| 762s | we could see players going for |
| 763s | specifically trying to grief one person |
| 765s | who's ahead in the lobby maybe we're |
| 767s | gonna see some bigger risks taken as |
| 769s | well but we are getting a bit ahead of |
| 771s | ourselves because that is just for |
| 773s | tomorrow because today we are just going |
| 775s | to determine first who are the eight |
| 776s | players playing it out on sunday and |
| 779s | that means we have to figure out how |
| 781s | they can get to the top four it's the |
| 783s | point system once again |
| 785s | as anybody who's watched battlegrounds |
| 787s | esports before should be familiar with |
| 789s | depending on your placement you can earn |
| 791s | yourself a set amount of points anyone |
| 794s | coming from constructed might not be so |
| 796s | used to this because it is not a binary |
| 798s | nature of win or lose it is |
| 801s | eight players competing against each |
| 803s | other and so it's all about trying to |
| 805s | creep up every single placement you can |
| 808s | every one point every placement you get |
| 810s | even an individual one higher is going |
| 812s | to matter to the highest degree and so i |
| 815s | know you've played in some tournaments |
| 816s | before where the distribution's a little |
| 818s | bit different any thoughts yeah so |
| 820s | normally there is a premium put on first |
| 822s | place where first place will get an |
| 824s | extra point and so first place is very |
| 827s | valuable but in this situation there is |
| 828s | not a premium for first therefore you |
| 831s | want to play a bit more safer just |
| 832s | trying to guarantee these top fours |
| 835s | because we only have three games and on |
| 837s | top of that uh |
| 839s | it |
| 840s | there isn't the premium so just trying |
| 843s | to guarantee these top fours and getting |
| 845s | into the top four because sorry i'm |
| 847s | repeating myself but four players are |
| 849s | moving forward so just consistency of |
| 852s | getting those top placements is all you |
| 855s | need you do not need to just continually |
| 857s | get first places unless you've gotten |
| 858s | the bottom eight of course |
| 860s | don't worry so so the secret to casting |
| 862s | is repeating yourself but the second |
| 863s | time you see you're just adding |
| 865s | exactly you just add more energy the |
| 867s | second time and the third time and then |
| 869s | people won't notice but absolutely right |
| 871s | it is just an even placement of one more |
| 874s | point for every time you go up |
| 876s | distributed in completely fair |
| 879s | increments so it's just trying to make |
| 881s | sure you can be as consistent as |
| 883s | possible today even if you scrape by |
| 885s | with three fourth places that is you |
| 888s | know more than likely you'll be able to |
| 890s | get through to tomorrow where the stakes |
| 892s | get even higher and the check format |
| 894s | enters into play but what exactly is at |
| 897s | stake here for the players is a fifty |
| 899s | thousand dollar prize pool just for |
| 901s | showing up you get a thousand two |
| 903s | hundred and fifty dollars but it was |
| 904s | quite a difficult road to get here |
| 906s | everybody's playing for that first place |
| 908s | prize of ten grand but can you talk a |
| 910s | little bit more about how the players |
| 912s | qualified to get to top 16 in the first |
| 914s | place |
| 915s | yeah so basically what we the players |
| 917s | had to do was in the february season |
| 920s | they had to get top 16 in their region |
| 924s | and the top 16 per region was invited to |
| 926s | a qualifier which was played offline |
| 928s | though a lot of the players did stream |
| 930s | their perspectives and this qualifier |
| 932s | was two lobbies |
| 935s | three games each and the top four from |
| 937s | each lobby progressed until we got to |
| 939s | our final 12. that is for aipac for |
| 942s | america's and for europe china has also |
| 945s | brought four players and did their own |
| 947s | qualification system |
| 949s | that is right all the players here every |
| 951s | single one of them has spent thousands |
| 954s | of gold paying bob they have spent |
| 956s | thousands of hours in the game and now |
| 957s | they get to make thousands of dollars |
| 960s | and i know everybody is waiting to see |
| 962s | just who has made it so far who are our |
| 965s | top 16 well we have them divided into |
| 968s | lobby a and lobby b so fear not if you |
| 971s | don't see your favorite player here |
| 972s | quite yet most likely they'll be playing |
| 974s | in the second half of the day the second |
| 976s | three games so stick around until the |
| 978s | end but here in lobby a we do have bobo |
| 981s | fat by you educated collins karamon max |
| 984s | seven key pon pada summer and zoin yu we |
| 987s | have an even distribution of players |
| 990s | from every region to a piece lisa isn't |
| 992s | that awesome |
| 993s | it is quite incredible and it's going to |
| 995s | be very interesting because we do have a |
| 997s | different meta in china so uh summer and |
| 1000s | pampana coming over from china they are |
| 1002s | or no sorry summer in bayou will be |
| 1004s | interesting to watch uh and also pampana |
| 1007s | and karamon from japan they were also |
| 1010s | being |
| 1010s | interesting to watch because they have a |
| 1013s | lot of tournaments that they play over |
| 1014s | there they have a lot of experience and |
| 1017s | these are top players in tournament |
| 1021s | type of play not as much ladder play so |
| 1024s | i think these are going to be our |
| 1025s | players to watch that's right i think |
| 1027s | it's sort of an open secret now i mean a |
| 1029s | lot of people didn't know it at the |
| 1030s | beginning of battleground sort of |
| 1032s | competitive history but japan has always |
| 1034s | been a powerhouse here because they have |
| 1036s | such open communication karamon himself |
| 1039s | known for writing a player dictionary |
| 1041s | almost on how to play all the different |
| 1043s | heroes however we also have some very |
| 1046s | strong competition from america's and eu |
| 1050s | i will shout out to zoian you as the |
| 1052s | representative from brazil who is a |
| 1054s | relatively new player however has the |
| 1057s | entire support of the lat am community |
| 1058s | who are powerhouses inconstructed as |
| 1060s | well behind him i'm sure he's going to |
| 1062s | perform well and i know there's a player |
| 1063s | you really want to talk about |
| 1065s | i mean i don't like to have any sort of |
| 1068s | cast or bias this is purely based on |
| 1070s | skill and knowledge of the game and i'm |
| 1072s | really thinking that educated columns is |
| 1074s | going to win it all i've played a lot |
| 1076s | with him i've competed with him i've |
| 1079s | watched his streams he's just so |
| 1082s | educational and i just think he's gonna |
| 1085s | win it all i have my uh money set on |
| 1088s | educated collins |
| 1090s | and that is a great way to plug his |
| 1092s | stream because i do believe collins will |
| 1093s | be streaming his perspective as well |
| 1096s | alongside our many many co-streamers who |
| 1098s | have graciously signed up to share their |
| 1101s | own perspectives on this event of this |
| 1102s | is of course the main broadcast and we |
| 1104s | do have other main broadcasts in |
| 1106s | different languages but the co-streamers |
| 1108s | as well have a variety of different |
| 1110s | languages so if you feel more |
| 1112s | comfortable speaking theirs then go |
| 1114s | ahead and tune into theirs we are all |
| 1115s | about sharing the viewership seeing as |
| 1118s | many different perspectives as possible |
| 1120s | truly in spirit with battlegrounds where |
| 1122s | it's eight people in a lobby it's lissa |
| 1125s | we are so close to seeing the very first |
| 1127s | game our players are just getting set up |
| 1129s | but can you tell me a little bit about |
| 1131s | what has been the latest developments in |
| 1133s | the meta recently we've had buddies |
| 1135s | introduced but also some other changes |
| 1138s | yeah so with buddies introduced it has |
| 1140s | really started uh changing the curve of |
| 1142s | the game we aren't uh weren't doing as |
| 1144s | much of a standard curve anymore and we |
| 1146s | were seeing two other curves a warrior |
| 1148s | curve and a g curve that is where you |
| 1151s | stay on tier 1 a bit longer so we're |
| 1153s | going to see that today this allows you |
| 1155s | to get your buddies faster |
| 1158s | and then it's developed even more |
| 1160s | because |
| 1161s | we had friend of a friend introduced and |
| 1163s | that created this like hyper level to |
| 1166s | six meta uh and then it was taken away |
| 1168s | but still there's seafood slinger which |
| 1170s | is a great reason to level to six |
| 1172s | quickly |
| 1173s | so in the past right before buddies we |
| 1176s | were seeing this tier four meta where |
| 1178s | you're going for these avenge cards and |
| 1181s | now we're seeing a bit more of trying to |
| 1183s | get to these massive amalgadon |
| 1186s | games so that's the current mother right |
| 1189s | now i will say that we were seeing a lot |
| 1192s | of chief curve and warrior curve |
| 1195s | previously but standard curve is coming |
| 1197s | back i've seen a lot of players playing |
| 1199s | that again and we will be able to see |
| 1201s | when our competitors are leveling so |
| 1203s | that's something to watch for on our |
| 1205s | side screen when the competition starts |
| 1208s | yeah i am very much looking forward to |
| 1210s | the data that players not play |
| 1213s | community members like lorenda yes i |
| 1215s | just diss you you're not a player |
| 1216s | lorenda we'll be putting together i'm so |
| 1219s | so curious because this is our first |
| 1222s | official open qualification system |
| 1224s | tournament it is truly a milestone for |
| 1227s | battlegrounds which has been already |
| 1229s | such a core part of hearthstone as a |
| 1231s | game for many years now a lot of our |
| 1233s | players and you yourselves lisa |
| 1234s | originally were constructed players that |
| 1237s | have now shifted their focus to |
| 1239s | battlegrounds can you talk to me a |
| 1240s | little bit about the differences in |
| 1242s | skill set and what is it that draws you |
| 1244s | to this game mode |
| 1246s | yeah so |
| 1247s | standard is very much you know it's a |
| 1249s | great game mode but you're playing the |
| 1250s | same deck over and over and over again |
| 1253s | and the draw to battlegrounds is just |
| 1255s | always being super flexible and getting |
| 1257s | new heroes every game different minion |
| 1259s | types every game bob giving you awesome |
| 1262s | minions or terrible minions and adapting |
| 1265s | so i just love the complexity and |
| 1268s | the how every game is different and |
| 1271s | something else that's different from |
| 1272s | constructed is it's not win or lose it |
| 1274s | is get the best you can do with what |
| 1276s | you're given and if that's a fourth |
| 1279s | place that's awesome if that's a third |
| 1281s | and if it's a first then it's amazing |
| 1284s | obviously eighth place doesn't feel so |
| 1286s | good over here but it's very different |
| 1288s | from constructed where it's just a win |
| 1289s | or a loss you know you can kind of |
| 1291s | salvage what you're working towards so i |
| 1294s | think that is the appeal to me as the |
| 1296s | battlegrounds player just the complexity |
| 1299s | every single game being different and i |
| 1301s | know you |
| 1302s | on the other hand are a legend player |
| 1305s | and your top what 15 battlegrounds right |
| 1308s | now on the america server so |
| 1310s | i think about that |
| 1313s | accidents happened recently but let's |
| 1315s | keep the focus on useless |
| 1318s | talk about you you play both modes and |
| 1321s | do you think the same way |
| 1323s | i mean i definitely see the draws of |
| 1326s | both of them i feel that there's a lot |
| 1328s | of overlap in the skill set in that |
| 1331s | managing gold and economy is very |
| 1333s | important in both of them |
| 1335s | playing to certain curves and knowing |
| 1336s | what your power spikes are is something |
| 1338s | to have in common but my favorite sort |
| 1340s | of |
| 1342s | distinction of battlegrounds compared to |
| 1343s | constructed is that i truly believe that |
| 1345s | playstyle is a real thing in |
| 1348s | battlegrounds and constructed i'm one of |
| 1349s | those people that think style is a myth |
| 1351s | if you have enough time you can figure |
| 1353s | out the best play in any given situation |
| 1356s | in my opinion |
| 1357s | i guess some people would disagree with |
| 1358s | me but in battlegrounds like so often i |
| 1361s | have watched two players that are of |
| 1363s | excellent caliber doing a co-op stream |
| 1366s | and they just cannot agree on anything |
| 1367s | one of them wants to play safe make sure |
| 1369s | they get the guaranteed top four one of |
| 1371s | them wants to go for first place and |
| 1373s | those are both viable ways to climb the |
| 1374s | ladder i know there's a certain thing |
| 1376s | about your sort of |
| 1378s | win to top four ratio and there's top |
| 1381s | players that have very different ratios |
| 1383s | there but we do have our first game |
| 1385s | started and we are on collins |
| 1387s | perspective on the loric barrels alyssa |
| 1389s | any first impressions on the hero |
| 1391s | selections |
| 1392s | yeah so if you look on the left you can |
| 1394s | see our hero selections we have some |
| 1396s | safe picks with daryl |
| 1398s | and deathwing uh edwin's an interesting |
| 1402s | pick right now not currently too much in |
| 1404s | the meta and we talked about this how uh |
| 1407s | with this current style of tournament |
| 1409s | we're going to be seeing some uh greedy |
| 1412s | heroes picked probably in game two and |
| 1414s | three once people realize that hey i |
| 1416s | need to get more points because i bought |
| 1417s | them ford and then you will see some |
| 1420s | safe picks because you just really need |
| 1421s | to top four every game so we're going to |
| 1423s | see more daryl's pick |
| 1425s | minion or heroes that are just |
| 1427s | consistently top four |
| 1430s | but i do love this lord bear off with |
| 1433s | the early token so he could hear a power |
| 1435s | turn one |
| 1437s | however we do have max seven key without |
| 1439s | a token which is kind of a big deal when |
| 1441s | you're on scabs because on turn two |
| 1443s | you'd really love to buy and then sell |
| 1446s | your token to be able to press that hero |
| 1447s | power button however he does have eyes |
| 1450s | on the barrow with one elemental do you |
| 1452s | think he's gonna take the risk and say |
| 1453s | that collins didn't sell on turn one to |
| 1455s | bed |
| 1456s | yeah that i if you read one elemental |
| 1458s | your instinct is oh that's |
| 1461s | most likely a token and so you want to |
| 1463s | hit that hero power button but max mckee |
| 1466s | is one of the best in the world so i |
| 1468s | think he has an idea that collins is |
| 1471s | going to sell to hear a power turn one |
| 1474s | and was smart enough no not to hero |
| 1476s | power for the water droplet |
| 1479s | yeah that is right max |
| 1481s | i'm sorry about that plus like the the |
| 1483s | early murlocs start is just so powerful |
| 1486s | that it wouldn't be worth the risk |
| 1489s | yeah that's exactly right i wanted to |
| 1491s | talk about this swamp striker as one of |
| 1493s | the newest cards it replaced the murloc |
| 1497s | tidehunter on tier one i feel has been |
| 1499s | such a cool addition to the meta here |
| 1501s | and collins himself had the chance to |
| 1503s | buy it but instead he throws for the pup |
| 1504s | bot which we saw on his board which i |
| 1506s | think is also a great card just to get |
| 1508s | that body meter rolling but speaking of |
| 1510s | meter one of the heroes that gets it up |
| 1512s | the quickest is deathwing and look at |
| 1514s | this |
| 1515s | icky amp start for zoying you how do you |
| 1517s | think this is going to pan out i mean |
| 1518s | this is beautiful for zoinu not only did |
| 1520s | he get the best minion as a pair for |
| 1524s | turn one and two he also gets the |
| 1527s | pirates so that he can chief curve up at |
| 1530s | easily because it's really hard on five |
| 1532s | gold right now um if you don't get a |
| 1535s | token you can't |
| 1537s | buy two minions if you get this pirate |
| 1539s | right here you can level easily your |
| 1541s | money is |
| 1543s | so fluid and that's super important in |
| 1546s | the early game all these pro players |
| 1548s | know that their economy is something to |
| 1550s | keep in mind when making plays so this |
| 1552s | was just the perfect perfect start for |
| 1555s | zoinu |
| 1556s | and he's going to face up against |
| 1558s | caramon on the mill house which is |
| 1560s | generally you don't expect to win fights |
| 1562s | this early against milhouse because |
| 1564s | they're able to spend |
| 1565s | their gold so much more efficiently and |
| 1567s | get additional minions but we are going |
| 1569s | to see zoe you take just a minimal loss |
| 1572s | here as the death wing uh the meter |
| 1574s | though just short of getting the buddy |
| 1576s | however it's still going to be very much |
| 1578s | on time next turn for zoinu taking a |
| 1580s | look over at the tiers on the left here |
| 1583s | we do have collins max seven key bobble |
| 1585s | fat and pon pada still on tier one do |
| 1587s | you think they're all aiming for warrior |
| 1589s | curve |
| 1590s | yeah i can definitely see warrior curve |
| 1592s | besides educate cons on lord beroff who |
| 1595s | has a bit more flexible curve and can |
| 1597s | typically do a reform curve or a mixed |
| 1600s | chief curve but uh i |
| 1602s | might i'm curious to see if you'll level |
| 1604s | this turn and i'm very curious what |
| 1605s | caramel is going to do with this triple |
| 1607s | in the shop he has leveled but six gold |
| 1611s | available he could triple buy but is he |
| 1614s | gonna buy the |
| 1615s | um |
| 1617s | the wrath weaver here because i don't |
| 1618s | think he really wants to triple into a |
| 1620s | three drop but if you hold it in hand |
| 1622s | he's less likely to get his buddy so he |
| 1624s | is going to keep it on the board so that |
| 1627s | he can hold off on tripling till |
| 1629s | probably a five or a four drop |
| 1632s | i love this play with milhouse you don't |
| 1634s | often get the opportunity to triple once |
| 1636s | you go beyond tier one i find because |
| 1639s | you your refreshes are so expensive so i |
| 1641s | do like staying down on tier one for |
| 1643s | quite some time as milhouse and then |
| 1644s | sort of stockpile all of those triples |
| 1647s | until you have your buddy and keep |
| 1649s | cycling on tier one you can get even |
| 1650s | more of the triples and then you can go |
| 1652s | for a four or five drop as you said you |
| 1654s | can also take a look at the minion types |
| 1657s | that are banned from the lobby beast |
| 1658s | dragon and quillboard do you think that |
| 1660s | is going to inform caramon's decision of |
| 1662s | what tavern tier to go for with the |
| 1664s | triple |
| 1664s | yeah so it used to be that |
| 1667s | that milhouse would always go for calgos |
| 1670s | on tier six which is unavailable this |
| 1671s | game but there's a ton of options now |
| 1674s | with milhouse especially with elementals |
| 1676s | so tripling into a nomi early is |
| 1679s | excellent as well as avenge units on |
| 1682s | four so i definitely think a five drop |
| 1685s | is what he'll be going for and not |
| 1687s | necessarily greeting out for the six |
| 1688s | which is a lot harder nowadays because |
| 1690s | they did uh make it more expensive to |
| 1693s | level from tier four to tier five that's |
| 1696s | right milhouse with elementals and |
| 1698s | aiming for five definitely seems good to |
| 1700s | me he could try and get a |
| 1703s | nomi and if not that pirates are also in |
| 1706s | and a hogger is amazing for milhouse |
| 1707s | essentially making every pirate bought |
| 1710s | free but we saw the setup there from uh |
| 1712s | max seven key a triple in uh the board |
| 1716s | and a triple in the shop as well lots of |
| 1718s | potential to go for a five as well and |
| 1720s | definitely i'm looking at the scabs and |
| 1722s | milhouse for power spikes but now we |
| 1724s | have collins with a bunch of money saved |
| 1726s | up here and this is something i always |
| 1727s | struggle with with baroff like how |
| 1729s | greedy can you get with the coins are |
| 1730s | you supposed to wait for your buddy to |
| 1732s | get in hand here or maybe spend some on |
| 1734s | an additional minion right now |
| 1736s | yeah i love going for the triple now |
| 1738s | it'd be a four |
| 1739s | but it looks like collins is holding off |
| 1741s | so that he could use his gold |
| 1743s | maximizing it with the buddy he should |
| 1746s | be getting to his buddy this next turn |
| 1748s | uh because we see how high the meter is |
| 1751s | and it is a tier three buddy |
| 1753s | so i do love that he is just trying to |
| 1756s | actively use this gold with the buddy to |
| 1759s | double its potential and |
| 1762s | trying to get to those early five or six |
| 1764s | drops |
| 1765s | right and barrow tends to take a bit of |
| 1768s | damage in this early game uh while |
| 1770s | trying to level and holding on hoarding |
| 1772s | the coins but it works out perfectly for |
| 1774s | collins here because we saw that max |
| 1776s | seven key was greeting a bit on his |
| 1778s | triple so colin's got all the value |
| 1779s | traits with the raf weavers |
| 1781s | gets the buddy pretty much perfect |
| 1783s | everyone got the buddy there i think |
| 1784s | only one person didn't like |
| 1787s | buddies galore it's raining buddies |
| 1790s | [Laughter] |
| 1792s | hallelujah um that is going to be rath |
| 1795s | weaver bought for collins here i think |
| 1798s | he can straight away level to four |
| 1799s | because of this buddy every gold spent |
| 1802s | doubles up here or rather every gold |
| 1804s | coin i should say and that means he can |
| 1806s | keep going |
| 1807s | up and up and up and we'll see what the |
| 1809s | five drop he hits is |
| 1812s | what do you think |
| 1814s | i mean you see i know me you take it |
| 1817s | know me just for the viewers right but |
| 1820s | he's gonna take s i stephen the murloc |
| 1823s | that poisons with avenge three uh it is |
| 1826s | a safer pick than nomi uh nomi can be a |
| 1830s | bit |
| 1831s | slow |
| 1832s | and |
| 1833s | i think it is a risky play it is quite |
| 1836s | early for nomi though but with a murloc |
| 1838s | on board i think he's noticing that he |
| 1840s | could start getting some poison minions |
| 1842s | going yeah he's got the tad on board as |
| 1845s | well as that icky imp so a pretty good |
| 1847s | avenge setup like very possibly in the |
| 1849s | next fight could poison both the tad and |
| 1851s | the seven and maybe use that tempo from |
| 1854s | the poison minions to just level |
| 1855s | straight up to six something barrow can |
| 1857s | do pretty comfortably indeed moving over |
| 1859s | to caramon's perspective here he has |
| 1861s | taken his five drop as well it is a |
| 1863s | light fan which i want to say is not |
| 1865s | amazing for milhouse but at least |
| 1867s | affords him some tempo to win these next |
| 1869s | couple fights when you don't get a super |
| 1871s | high direction five drop like this what |
| 1873s | do you think he's gonna go for just |
| 1875s | straight to five |
| 1876s | yeah i think he's gonna just try to use |
| 1878s | his uh different minion types on board |
| 1880s | to just to level to go find a brand uh |
| 1883s | but i'm actually |
| 1885s | uh |
| 1886s | surprised that he didn't pick the nomi |
| 1888s | because nomi is a good uh minion for |
| 1890s | milhouse considering there is the |
| 1893s | recycling wraith on tier 4 to allow his |
| 1897s | uh |
| 1899s | so that he could flip through the shop |
| 1901s | for cheaper uh nomi just is a very good |
| 1904s | card for milhouse i'm very shocked he |
| 1905s | didn't pick it but you know he's a pro |
| 1908s | so i'm not going to question him |
| 1910s | everyone's a known hater these days but |
| 1912s | max seven key absolutely snipes the |
| 1914s | light fang from this gab's hero power |
| 1916s | and also gets the buddy due to his buddy |
| 1919s | warden fell water basically he's the |
| 1922s | better milhouse right now with the brand |
| 1924s | already on board this could get out of |
| 1926s | control really quickly i'm a big fan of |
| 1928s | scabs in the buddy meta i just feel |
| 1930s | there's so many um hyrule things you can |
| 1933s | do every time there is |
| 1935s | a buddy with battle cry in the lobby for |
| 1937s | example gallywix or yog you get so much |
| 1940s | value from your uh buddy as well here |
| 1943s | ends up with a pegi which is |
| 1945s | you know |
| 1946s | if you are actually milhouse with the |
| 1948s | hero power included you've got a lot of |
| 1950s | uh stats with it but max seven key is |
| 1952s | the scabs here so i'm getting ahead of |
| 1953s | myself |
| 1955s | yeah i i feel like i wonder |
| 1957s | if if |
| 1958s | if he could have gotten to know me |
| 1960s | instead of the light thing he would have |
| 1961s | maybe been a little bit happier but |
| 1963s | lifeing and brand work so well together |
| 1966s | and this uh |
| 1968s | this taunt will be able to scale quite |
| 1969s | quickly as long as he can find some |
| 1971s | smoggers or other things so skill is |
| 1973s | elemental |
| 1975s | he has a bit of a menagerie going but |
| 1977s | yeah not |
| 1978s | it's not too impressive yet |
| 1981s | but still good for the turn we're on |
| 1983s | absolutely |
| 1984s | um i'm pretty interested to see whether |
| 1988s | he will stick in one direction later on |
| 1991s | because i don't feel that menagerie is |
| 1993s | quite valuable as an end game comp |
| 1995s | especially if quillboards are not here |
| 1997s | but with that brand this looks like a |
| 1998s | very viable setup to go for a first |
| 2001s | place if you can get to tier 6 and hit |
| 2002s | those amalgadons and because it's the |
| 2004s | very first game of the day i think it is |
| 2007s | um very reasonable to try and just get |
| 2010s | the best result possible no need to play |
| 2012s | safe quite yet |
| 2014s | i'm pretty curious as to what the |
| 2016s | mutinous is up to because this is one of |
| 2017s | my favorite heroes in the current meta i |
| 2020s | haven't seen it quite so far nor the |
| 2021s | mayab who is also my favorite and most |
| 2024s | one hero of all time but we do see it's |
| 2026s | bobo fats who is admittedly one of the |
| 2028s | players we're less familiar with |
| 2030s | representative from germany who has a |
| 2032s | very wry sense of humor based on his |
| 2034s | interviews got a lot of divine shields |
| 2036s | so that's the good setup managed to get |
| 2037s | use of that buddy but over here at |
| 2039s | panpada on mayev finally stabilizing a |
| 2042s | little bit with a six drop here but i |
| 2044s | can't see the rest of the board so i |
| 2045s | can't tell what he's gonna take but okay |
| 2047s | that's a lot of mix yeah and he did two |
| 2049s | triples so |
| 2051s | uh omega buster is direction and then he |
| 2053s | could take a second or four reaper now |
| 2055s | we see he has a malgadon seafood slinger |
| 2057s | in mama uh |
| 2060s | he takes it mama for tempo and it's |
| 2062s | going to add a lot especially with that |
| 2064s | golden mc uh picano tank at the end |
| 2068s | he has a very tempo oriented board but |
| 2070s | keep in mind he's in what i call the |
| 2071s | danger zone he is below 15 health and |
| 2075s | that means he can die at any moment so |
| 2078s | he needs to play as tempo oriented as |
| 2081s | possible from this point on so you see |
| 2083s | he's going to |
| 2084s | put all his |
| 2086s | mechanical tank at the end to try to |
| 2088s | maximize how much damage gets shot out |
| 2092s | just as many tokens as possible |
| 2094s | i also love this ghoul tech decision |
| 2096s | from pon pada which is not something you |
| 2098s | often see this early on in the game but |
| 2100s | you're facing a mutinous here as panpada |
| 2102s | and he absolutely knows mutanus the best |
| 2104s | thing they can do with their buddy and |
| 2106s | hero power is to buff up divine shield |
| 2108s | minions so that ghoul is there to pay |
| 2110s | respect to it and make sure that panpada |
| 2112s | can get ahead in the fight panpada |
| 2114s | one of the most prominent members of the |
| 2116s | japanese bg community has also |
| 2118s | participated in some international |
| 2120s | community tournaments however i'm gonna |
| 2122s | stop myself there the cool didn't die oh |
| 2124s | didn't die |
| 2126s | and it had value with the imp mama and |
| 2128s | it's just you know there's only two |
| 2130s | divine shields left |
| 2132s | so the ammo because yeah this imbalance |
| 2134s | not going to be able to feed at this |
| 2136s | point there's a little bit of feeding |
| 2138s | for that mama she needs to aim right aim |
| 2141s | right oh it's just the end of her that |
| 2144s | is not a tavish that's in him but you're |
| 2146s | not aiming where you want you to no but |
| 2149s | it still looks like he's going to have |
| 2150s | enough to uh win the fight and |
| 2154s | unless it gets sniped but i i think |
| 2157s | we're no we're good we're good yeah he |
| 2159s | is he's not going down yet |
| 2162s | the buster comes in clutch here um and |
| 2165s | wow it's going to end up just being |
| 2168s | three microbots left for panfata which |
| 2170s | means not too much damage on bubble fat |
| 2173s | but it is going to take him below the |
| 2174s | damage cap as well so at least two |
| 2176s | players in the danger zone now like you |
| 2178s | mentioned but taking a look on the other |
| 2181s | side of the spectrum top two players |
| 2183s | here summer and bayou are two |
| 2185s | representatives from china in lobby a |
| 2187s | absolutely dominating here on the daryl |
| 2189s | though i feel this is around the turn |
| 2191s | they start to fall off a little bit what |
| 2193s | do you think yeah this is around the |
| 2195s | turn he has only he's bumped up two |
| 2197s | minions he's holding off a turn to |
| 2200s | scale this uh replicating menace on the |
| 2203s | far left because he can attach that to |
| 2205s | his deflecto bot so it looks like he's |
| 2207s | just kind of saving up gold uh feeling |
| 2210s | safe here especially because he's not in |
| 2211s | the danger zone where we do have four |
| 2213s | players below 15 health in that danger |
| 2216s | zone summer from china is on edwin who |
| 2219s | we don't see often but he has a lot of |
| 2221s | tempo because he has three divine shield |
| 2223s | minions who are getting all these stats |
| 2225s | his buddy online getting strong and |
| 2229s | thick over there so he's looking uh |
| 2232s | quite healthy and i think he's in a good |
| 2234s | position |
| 2235s | um |
| 2236s | yeah i |
| 2237s | i'm just i'm still just surprised to see |
| 2239s | edwin in this tournament because i just |
| 2242s | barely see him on the ladder anymore but |
| 2244s | like we said earlier china does have a |
| 2246s | different meta than us so we're going to |
| 2247s | see different gameplays from them |
| 2250s | they've had a different meta i suppose |
| 2251s | the last we've seen from them and truly |
| 2253s | the last big showcase was at hgi a few |
| 2256s | months ago like they could have changed |
| 2257s | playstyle quite a bit and what i'm |
| 2259s | seeing in common from both of these |
| 2260s | boards is just very very heavy tempo |
| 2263s | play like i think both summer and bayou |
| 2265s | were very conservative about preserving |
| 2267s | their health so far but their scaling |
| 2269s | doesn't look quite so strong as the |
| 2271s | potential from some of our other players |
| 2273s | so perhaps just trying to secure top |
| 2275s | fours as consistently as possible which |
| 2277s | is what we talked about the name of the |
| 2278s | game for this first day of the |
| 2280s | tournament could work out very well for |
| 2282s | them here but that trade of the buddy |
| 2284s | into the divine shield of the |
| 2285s | deflectobot means that summer is going |
| 2287s | to take 10 damage here from the daryl |
| 2289s | probably more than he was expecting |
| 2293s | and we see educated colin's over here on |
| 2296s | lord bearoff taking |
| 2298s | a ton of damage from miami yes because |
| 2300s | maiev has so many six straps online but |
| 2304s | can't take more than 15 because he is |
| 2306s | not in the danger zone he is free to |
| 2309s | survive but he is now in the danger zone |
| 2311s | and nobody died that turn |
| 2314s | everyone stayed alive we just have more |
| 2317s | players in that danger zone it looks |
| 2320s | like we're gonna have a lot of players |
| 2321s | going out on the same turn in this |
| 2323s | grindy lobby with only three players |
| 2325s | secured from dying join you summer and |
| 2328s | by you above 15. |
| 2332s | crazy players just surviving by the skin |
| 2334s | of their teeth that was absolutely the |
| 2336s | story during the qualification as well |
| 2338s | we know these are top players that are |
| 2340s | very careful when they need to be but |
| 2342s | it's so hard to play safe at this point |
| 2345s | collins on tier six with a seafood |
| 2347s | slinger looking for more amalgadons |
| 2350s | doesn't find a primal fin but it's |
| 2351s | starting to hedge here just taking the |
| 2353s | golden on felfin navigator what is the |
| 2356s | other six drop these are not great |
| 2358s | lights is some tempo |
| 2359s | yeah the magazine has the wind fury so |
| 2362s | that will work a bit yeah he's i mean he |
| 2365s | has a lot of money this turn so he's |
| 2367s | going to be scaling way bigger than he |
| 2368s | was last heard in oh another seafood |
| 2372s | slinger not quite what he was looking |
| 2374s | for but gets another |
| 2376s | good murloc from the shop so |
| 2379s | maybe this one has the gold |
| 2381s | we'll see |
| 2382s | you're maggot |
| 2384s | no not another seafood you can go again |
| 2387s | but the rope is burning oh my goodness |
| 2389s | this is where i follow parts lisa i am a |
| 2391s | low apm player that is why disasters |
| 2393s | happen but collins can make this work |
| 2395s | still |
| 2398s | will come collected collins |
| 2401s | able to get his hero power in that last |
| 2403s | minute too and think about it he |
| 2405s | upped his chill he is on top of it but |
| 2409s | will he survive to this mill house |
| 2413s | big 50 50 at the beginning here does it |
| 2416s | go straight into the shield and it went |
| 2417s | straight into the shield but that um |
| 2420s | soul devourer going on the brand is a |
| 2421s | great outcome for collins he just wants |
| 2423s | to get as many avenge activations as |
| 2426s | possible that's why he positioned his |
| 2428s | murlocs in the back |
| 2429s | um |
| 2430s | could this end as a tie potentially this |
| 2434s | is looking fine this is uh looking in |
| 2436s | colin's favor |
| 2439s | and uh he will not knock he'll put my |
| 2441s | milhouse to one health so again very |
| 2444s | grindy lobby did anyone oh |
| 2447s | we have one out |
| 2449s | it's oh |
| 2450s | yeah max seven key is our first casualty |
| 2453s | of the lobby the scabs was looking very |
| 2455s | very good with those triple setups but |
| 2457s | something went wrong along the way |
| 2458s | however collins is truly popping off now |
| 2461s | that is a golden primal fin that is |
| 2463s | potentially many amalgadons but i feel |
| 2465s | like somebody else in this lobby has |
| 2466s | been hoarding them because he just |
| 2467s | cannot find any of that |
| 2470s | no he has another ah again the miss |
| 2473s | takes the little rag just you know picks |
| 2476s | up whatever still looking he has money |
| 2479s | especially with this tempest in hand |
| 2483s | there's to see no he won't have a way to |
| 2485s | get it out with a little rag |
| 2487s | yeah i just don't think he has the board |
| 2489s | space he has to fully commit to murlocs |
| 2491s | here mechs are in so also looking for an |
| 2493s | annoying module to stick onto the |
| 2495s | amalgadon unfortunately he did lose his |
| 2498s | bet so he can't quite get any value from |
| 2500s | his buddies on this turn x but he's just |
| 2502s | gonna hold them in hand here however |
| 2504s | these shops have not been particularly |
| 2506s | great and the mutinous |
| 2509s | is going to have divine shields almost |
| 2511s | certainly so colin's potentially also |
| 2513s | looking for a ghoul at the end here we |
| 2515s | did get word from our production |
| 2517s | specialist subtle here who is shot |
| 2519s | calling thank you so much that nobody |
| 2521s | else has amalgadons in play which is |
| 2523s | insane collins just has not been hitting |
| 2526s | even though nobody's been boarding them |
| 2528s | no that's that's incredible to me that |
| 2530s | we have not seen any amalgadon uh maybe |
| 2533s | they were taken out of the meta for this |
| 2535s | game today just so we wouldn't see |
| 2537s | anything wild happen not sure but we did |
| 2539s | not find the ghoul what we were talking |
| 2541s | about i know collins was likely looking |
| 2543s | for it but he'll just end on this |
| 2545s | selfless hero to get a divine shield on |
| 2547s | one of his poisons and pray that this is |
| 2549s | enough and we switch on over to zoinu |
| 2552s | who's on deathwing and playing a scam |
| 2554s | pirate comp one of my favorites this |
| 2557s | scam pirate comp allows endless uh |
| 2560s | scallywags to attack into the opponent |
| 2564s | um for some very fun and interactive |
| 2566s | gameplay |
| 2567s | that's true one of your favorite comps |
| 2569s | and also zoya news favorite comp like we |
| 2571s | did get the chance to ask some of our |
| 2573s | players questions about their favorite |
| 2575s | minions and heroes et cetera and zoian |
| 2577s | you answered his favorite kong is exodia |
| 2579s | pirates as we fondly call it and it is |
| 2583s | very much coming to fruition here he has |
| 2586s | so many stats here i think way more than |
| 2588s | enough to beat on the daryl the comp |
| 2591s | does feel very powerful but i feel it's |
| 2593s | also potentially one of the most |
| 2594s | counterable if your opponent has the |
| 2596s | reed on it they can try and take in void |
| 2598s | lords or acolyte of c'thun to actually |
| 2600s | stop there being board space once enough |
| 2602s | scally tokens go in but obviously the |
| 2604s | daryl didn't quite have the read and |
| 2605s | they are dead because of it |
| 2607s | yes there's no longer a 15 damage cap |
| 2610s | and so by you on daryl who we talked |
| 2612s | about was this top four hero |
| 2614s | but four people are out someone died to |
| 2617s | the ghost of cutter butter max seven |
| 2620s | keys ghost goes and kills |
| 2622s | somebody's body oh no we are into our |
| 2626s | top |
| 2626s | three |
| 2627s | with |
| 2628s | uh educated collins we got zhonyu and |
| 2631s | pompato on by ev in the top three a |
| 2635s | four-way tie oh my goodness |
| 2639s | yeah the points are going to be so tight |
| 2641s | down there with our entire middle of the |
| 2643s | bracket going out on the same turn |
| 2645s | collins also bet on the ghost not |
| 2647s | winning that fight so he didn't get the |
| 2648s | gold here but i think he's still fine he |
| 2650s | was popping off with the primal fins we |
| 2652s | do take a look at panpada here who has |
| 2654s | been one of the most consistent |
| 2655s | performers in japanese community |
| 2657s | tournaments and also international |
| 2659s | community tournaments um pocky plays who |
| 2662s | is a uh very friendly and amazing |
| 2664s | streamer who has hosted a bunch of those |
| 2666s | tournaments panpad has basically won all |
| 2668s | of them and many people in the community |
| 2671s | have referred to panpada as just being |
| 2672s | the best in the world right now |
| 2674s | currently dominating on the mayab even |
| 2676s | though he was at eighth place a few |
| 2677s | turns ago getting rewarded for his |
| 2680s | patience uh earlier in that turn we did |
| 2682s | see him skip over a kangar's apprentice |
| 2684s | triple do you want to go into why that's |
| 2686s | correct lissa yeah so if you triple |
| 2689s | kangors it will read that your first |
| 2691s | four mechs that die get re-summoned and |
| 2694s | it's way better that your first two |
| 2696s | backs get re-summoned twice uh because |
| 2699s | you're trying to target your omega |
| 2700s | busters to be re-summoned as opposed to |
| 2703s | the one ones that come out of the omega |
| 2705s | busters so okay tripling kanger is what |
| 2708s | we call a bait and we don't do that so |
| 2710s | yes |
| 2711s | obviously the correct play |
| 2713s | yeah that's right there's often not |
| 2714s | enough board space to get all four of |
| 2716s | those three summons from the golden |
| 2718s | kangar so pon pada way too good for that |
| 2720s | never gonna get baited here but we do |
| 2722s | have what looks to be |
| 2724s | um at first a close fight but it really |
| 2727s | depends where these scally tokens go |
| 2730s | right there's a few words for them here |
| 2731s | okay got some space now and now there's |
| 2735s | um even less minions that the scally can |
| 2737s | value trade over and actually as the |
| 2739s | exodia pirates zoenyu doesn't want to |
| 2741s | value trade with the scalise he wants as |
| 2743s | much board space as possible so he can |
| 2745s | get many attacks and keep buffing the |
| 2746s | pirates with these golden elizas yep yep |
| 2749s | that's the only downfall to this comp is |
| 2751s | that these scally's if they don't die |
| 2754s | and there's no board space they will not |
| 2756s | summon so as you see here there's no |
| 2758s | longer board space unless this dies and |
| 2760s | now he's locked out he will not get any |
| 2763s | more scallywag summons so |
| 2765s | this is the downfall to the comp is that |
| 2767s | they can get countered by small minions |
| 2770s | small minions are king in this game |
| 2771s | apparently i always always thought that |
| 2773s | was the big minions but it's the scary |
| 2775s | little ones that can do the |
| 2777s | damage |
| 2778s | however these trades are still going |
| 2780s | very well for zoe you i mean he sniped |
| 2782s | that |
| 2783s | meccano attack relatively early towards |
| 2785s | the end here um we can see however that |
| 2789s | uh this deflectobot lives and it depends |
| 2792s | as to whether okay it has killed most of |
| 2794s | the relevant minions so |
| 2796s | still can |
| 2797s | see another round here and i'm sure |
| 2799s | collins is still alive as the person who |
| 2801s | faced the ghost |
| 2804s | oh yeah he finally found it |
| 2806s | and a triple |
| 2808s | and |
| 2808s | this is a great time to ask you a little |
| 2810s | bit about sort of the interplay of the |
| 2813s | different end game comps in battleground |
| 2815s | some people say there's a triangle of |
| 2818s | big stats beats tokeny mech boards |
| 2821s | tokeny mcboards beats poisons and |
| 2824s | poisons beats the big stats so with that |
| 2826s | interplay who do you think is most |
| 2828s | favored here yeah it's paper rock |
| 2831s | scissors as we were you were just saying |
| 2833s | uh but |
| 2835s | the thing about |
| 2836s | collins and his murlocs is they have a |
| 2839s | ton of stats on it so |
| 2842s | these token mechs lose to big stats but |
| 2844s | they beat murlocs but as if your murlocs |
| 2847s | are big enough they will survive |
| 2849s | so |
| 2850s | i think as long as collins keeps |
| 2853s | pushing with the brand i believe he |
| 2855s | still had a brand on board to keep |
| 2856s | pushing stats he should be fine and he's |
| 2859s | probably unwilling to sell bran until he |
| 2861s | knows uh that he's in the top two oh he |
| 2864s | does not have the brand that's my |
| 2865s | apologies so he's not gonna be able to |
| 2867s | scale as well but with this triple shot |
| 2870s | that is one huge murloc over a hundred |
| 2874s | health it's |
| 2875s | i think he might be big enough |
| 2878s | but there might not be a next turn so |
| 2881s | honestly i'm super curious about |
| 2882s | panpada's turn as well because we did |
| 2884s | see him end up with the baron on the |
| 2886s | very last chop had to sell out of his |
| 2888s | big tank to have the gold to buy it |
| 2890s | which i think was the correct decision |
| 2892s | painful to part with it but he |
| 2893s | absolutely wants more stats here however |
| 2895s | he did end up tripling the kangaroos and |
| 2897s | in this niche situation where he |
| 2899s | actually has five omega busters |
| 2901s | essentially with a golden and two normal |
| 2903s | ones i think it does |
| 2905s | yes we're able to snipe the baron from |
| 2907s | colin's side |
| 2908s | you'd love to see the early snipe and if |
| 2910s | you can really snipe the kangaroos and |
| 2911s | there's no space what you did |
| 2915s | only one omega buster |
| 2918s | the problem is can we get the plants to |
| 2920s | knock off the divine shields that is the |
| 2922s | dream for collins right now plants need |
| 2925s | to do good work |
| 2926s | oh the mist |
| 2930s | feel of two biases here i'm like playing |
| 2933s | the early snipe on the baron i'm like oh |
| 2935s | no and you're like we love to see the |
| 2937s | party |
| 2940s | oh look i have a collins fan but i am |
| 2943s | first and foremost an apac caster and |
| 2945s | this is collins i think they look at |
| 2947s | them jamming out look at his happiness |
| 2949s | you cannot love educated colleagues |
| 2953s | he his plants have put in work knocked |
| 2957s | off divine shields snipe the kangaroo |
| 2959s | snipe the barons putting him into top |
| 2961s | two with zoinu that is a double of |
| 2966s | america's top two let's join you from |
| 2968s | brazil and educated columns from usa i'm |
| 2971s | not going to take sides but uh |
| 2974s | yeah i'm just going to point that out |
| 2976s | all right we have two america's players |
| 2978s | in top two we have a europe player in |
| 2981s | the bottom i just know that this is not |
| 2984s | constructed it is a whole different |
| 2986s | ballgame so i am not used to it but i am |
| 2989s | very much enjoying this neck and neck |
| 2991s | end game and we do have of course the |
| 2993s | interplay of the big poison murlocs |
| 2996s | versus scally uh comp which i'm sure |
| 2999s | collins will be aware that is what zoinu |
| 3001s | is running how do you think he's going |
| 3003s | to |
| 3004s | tech around it here |
| 3006s | uh so having you know small little uh |
| 3009s | what we talked about the acolytes to |
| 3012s | make sure that the |
| 3014s | scallywags don't die there is a module |
| 3016s | in shop |
| 3018s | race i mean i think |
| 3020s | so one way to defeat the scallywag comp |
| 3023s | is to have these tiny small minions so |
| 3025s | that the scallywags don't die but if you |
| 3027s | have enough stats then then you just win |
| 3030s | but the problem is we know that |
| 3032s | zoenyu has a lot of gold in the lizas so |
| 3039s | definitely close here i mean that module |
| 3041s | can be played individually oh he even |
| 3043s | sells his poison taunt yeah that's huge |
| 3046s | make sure that the scallywags don't |
| 3049s | immediately die when going into them he |
| 3051s | plays the module just straight up and |
| 3053s | buys a voidlord he is willing to play |
| 3055s | down to sixth minion andy mode in order |
| 3058s | to be as strong as possible against the |
| 3059s | scally comp this is very very clever |
| 3062s | stuff i think it's gonna work out for |
| 3064s | him here didn't even go for the golden |
| 3066s | selfless because he knows it's not about |
| 3068s | shielding the poisons here it's about |
| 3070s | stopping the scally's from multiplying |
| 3072s | yeah i love this play from collins he |
| 3074s | had a read he knew that his opponent |
| 3076s | zoenyu was playing the scam comp the |
| 3078s | scam pirates as i call them |
| 3081s | the true name exodia |
| 3084s | the perfect tech the perfect play around |
| 3087s | and it looks a good news for educated |
| 3090s | collins but is it going to be enough |
| 3091s | stats on the murlocs to defeat the other |
| 3094s | side of the board |
| 3097s | you told me you didn't know card names |
| 3099s | but i think i didn't think it was so bad |
| 3100s | that you thought the true name of this |
| 3102s | comp is exodia that is not from |
| 3104s | hearthstone that is that is also a |
| 3106s | community-made name |
| 3108s | but however |
| 3110s | you don't get to react because it's |
| 3111s | going to keep going |
| 3113s | we have more time |
| 3115s | i wonder if join you |
| 3118s | will drop an elisa because one way you |
| 3121s | can get around |
| 3123s | having these small taunts is to have |
| 3125s | less elisa but it's not going to work |
| 3126s | out to beating these murder locks |
| 3128s | so possibly a zap early to get rid of |
| 3132s | the annoya module um |
| 3135s | a lot of decisions to be made from |
| 3137s | zoinu's side |
| 3139s | it's so weird that it's the scally |
| 3141s | player that's looking for a zap here |
| 3142s | when it's usually yeah player that's |
| 3144s | going against the scally comp that wants |
| 3146s | to play for zap which could you know |
| 3148s | potentially still be useful for collins |
| 3150s | here we do see it would hit the ghoul |
| 3152s | first if ever but let's say the ghoul |
| 3153s | were to attack first from zoey and you i |
| 3155s | feel like there's a chance that the zap |
| 3158s | could still get some work done against |
| 3159s | the baron even if it's golden because |
| 3161s | there's no quill bar in this lobby and |
| 3163s | so there's no chance for zoying you to |
| 3164s | just add stats as he pleases on to his |
| 3168s | uh tech minions and make them more |
| 3170s | resilient against zapp um i don't think |
| 3172s | either player has hit the zap though so |
| 3174s | it comes down to a positioning war what |
| 3176s | do you think zoinu should go for |
| 3178s | yeah so one thing that zhonya's looking |
| 3180s | at is putting the eliza first |
| 3182s | but then it wouldn't create space |
| 3185s | uh and you need space for the cad guard |
| 3187s | to be able to work which is why you |
| 3189s | usually either play down a minion or |
| 3190s | play a ghoul |
| 3193s | so i think he's hoping to attack first |
| 3195s | with this selfless |
| 3197s | and we're gonna see how it turns out he |
| 3200s | does not get to attack first meeting |
| 3201s | that he's not gonna get the khadgar |
| 3203s | value here that's huge but also we can |
| 3205s | take a look at zoiniu's hand he has two |
| 3207s | zaps just saved up in the bank he talked |
| 3209s | about how he could potentially play it |
| 3211s | to snipe the module but instead he's |
| 3213s | bought them i think purely just to deny |
| 3215s | them from the pool collins because in |
| 3217s | battlegrounds on tier six there's only |
| 3219s | seven total copies of each tier six |
| 3221s | million available the fact that zoinu |
| 3223s | has hoarded two zaps means it's less |
| 3225s | likely that colin can find it and uh try |
| 3228s | and use that to tech around here however |
| 3230s | the way these trades are going i |
| 3231s | honestly cannot tell who's going to be |
| 3233s | in the league do you have any ideas |
| 3235s | it it looks like it's going to join you |
| 3238s | because of the divine she or i'm not |
| 3240s | sure but i want to point out with the |
| 3242s | zaps as well he might be waiting to |
| 3244s | triple it because if it's triple zap |
| 3246s | then he can guarantee to get through the |
| 3247s | voidlord and the module |
| 3251s | we just can't tell because we don't know |
| 3252s | how many scally's are left but it looks |
| 3254s | like the train ends there the golden |
| 3255s | khadgar gold and baron still getting a |
| 3257s | lot of work done however |
| 3260s | i think it should always go to join you |
| 3264s | yep as there was simply not enough |
| 3266s | health on the murloc to deal with the |
| 3268s | two remaining big minions and because |
| 3270s | he's on tier six with a tier five minion |
| 3272s | surviving that is the perfect 11 damage |
| 3275s | needed for the exact kill and the first |
| 3277s | place finish for collins in our |
| 3279s | rehearsal our observer who is playing |
| 3282s | zoinu won and it's actually just come to |
| 3285s | fruition now in real life |
| 3288s | it's scripted it's all scripted i knew |
| 3291s | it |
| 3291s | so you can see the point breakdown here |
| 3293s | is joining you in first currently with |
| 3295s | seven points educated collins with six |
| 3298s | pompado with five and a huge tie |
| 3301s | between summer and bayou baba fat and |
| 3304s | caramel with 2.5 points each max seven |
| 3307s | key with zero points but two more games |
| 3308s | to go to try to make his comeback |
| 3311s | that is right we have a four-way tie |
| 3313s | here and just like how the mmr is |
| 3316s | rewarded on ladder here if we have |
| 3318s | players going out on the same turn that |
| 3320s | means the number of points they get are |
| 3322s | divided equally among the number of |
| 3324s | players who got knocked out there so we |
| 3327s | are going to have a very very tight race |
| 3329s | no matter what only three games to be |
| 3331s | played out and making sure that you can |
| 3333s | get to that top four slot is all |
| 3335s | important uh panpada i feel has got to |
| 3337s | be a little bit mad here i think he got |
| 3339s | scammed in his fight versus collins i |
| 3341s | think you can you can admit that even |
| 3343s | though you're calling spanish however |
| 3346s | i'm not admitting anything |
| 3349s | you you know it insides lists i don't |
| 3351s | like no no |
| 3352s | that's lie |
| 3354s | however we're both losers here because |
| 3356s | it is zoe and you who is the winner here |
| 3358s | it is ladams day with this first lobby |
| 3361s | huge news here max seven key has a lot |
| 3364s | to make up for though um it's not often |
| 3367s | that you're gonna get into a position |
| 3368s | where you're so far behind the rest of |
| 3370s | the field but as it happened nobody got |
| 3372s | a seventh everybody there's four people |
| 3375s | that got a 5.5 |
| 3377s | yeah or a 2.5 i believe right so he's |
| 3380s | actually not too far behind because four |
| 3382s | people went out and one to his dead body |
| 3385s | like i i think the |
| 3387s | i mean it's huge for educated collins |
| 3390s | and zoinu and pompada that they are way |
| 3392s | far ahead of the group um it's |
| 3395s | excellent for them since there's only |
| 3397s | two games left |
| 3398s | but that fourth place spa is definitely |
| 3400s | up for grabs and possibly the third i |
| 3402s | think collins and join you we're gonna |
| 3404s | see them picking some safe heroes now |
| 3406s | and we're gonna see |
| 3407s | many players going for some uh |
| 3410s | some |
| 3412s | greedy heroes and these upcoming two |
| 3414s | lobbies all right so i'm gonna ask you |
| 3416s | again now that we've seen this replay |
| 3418s | start to finish there was a snipe on the |
| 3421s | baron and then there was a snipe on all |
| 3423s | the |
| 3424s | mech spawning minions before shields |
| 3426s | were taken off of the deflecto bots scam |
| 3429s | or not scam final answer not scammed the |
| 3431s | opponent didn't use taunt |
| 3434s | if they would have had some thompson it |
| 3436s | would have been different but this is |
| 3438s | not a scam no |
| 3440s | okay |
| 3441s | she rests her case and i rest my case |
| 3444s | and i will swiftly change topic here we |
| 3446s | got to see the final fight once again |
| 3448s | because this was truly a thing of beauty |
| 3450s | i think collins played his heart out |
| 3452s | very very smartly navigating these last |
| 3454s | two fights it was sort of a back-to-back |
| 3457s | double header on who got to get first |
| 3459s | place here collins initially playing |
| 3461s | down to six minions and checking for |
| 3462s | this galley comp but the counter-attack |
| 3464s | from zoe knew even though he didn't get |
| 3466s | to attack first having that selfless |
| 3468s | hero tucked in here came in so clutch |
| 3471s | because it meant that the poison minions |
| 3473s | didn't get to just one for one trade |
| 3475s | with all of these um big minions at the |
| 3478s | end here and there was also i think a |
| 3479s | big 50 50 at the end as to where the |
| 3482s | poison minion would hit |
| 3485s | whether it was the baron or the khadgar |
| 3487s | and that sort of determined whether or |
| 3489s | not there would be an additional round |
| 3491s | here you do see and you're cheering as |
| 3493s | soon as he saw the cad guard picking one |
| 3495s | for the team protecting the baron and |
| 3497s | giving him the victory that was an |
| 3499s | excellent first lobby how are you |
| 3501s | feeling alyssa |
| 3502s | i'm just filled with joy and happiness |
| 3505s | watching that first lobby we saw so many |
| 3507s | high-level gameplay uh so much |
| 3510s | excitement so many whiffs on amalgadon i |
| 3514s | mean it's the perfect game one perfect |
| 3516s | game one |
| 3517s | that is true collins had an uphill |
| 3519s | battle not finding amalgams for so long |
| 3521s | and taking extra damage in one of his |
| 3523s | earlier fights i will admit i think he |
| 3525s | got scammed a little bit before facing |
| 3526s | pompada i think exactly fair enough in |
| 3529s | that sense but of course that is only |
| 3531s | our first game for the day we do have |
| 3534s | two more games from lobby a and then |
| 3536s | three all three of them to be played out |
| 3538s | for lobby b and once again it's a |
| 3539s | reminder that our top four players from |
| 3542s | each lobby will be moving on to tomorrow |
| 3544s | where we only have eight players facing |
| 3546s | against themselves and one key |
| 3548s | difference of this tournament compared |
| 3550s | to the qualification system is that our |
| 3552s | players absolutely know exactly who |
| 3554s | they're facing against here play style |
| 3556s | is a thing in battlegrounds you could |
| 3558s | try to get a read on your opponents and |
| 3560s | also trying to make sure that the people |
| 3562s | on top don't necessarily run away from |
| 3564s | it with this pan out though with a |
| 3566s | four-way tie do you think people are |
| 3568s | gonna try and bully max seven key even |
| 3570s | more just because he has almost no |
| 3572s | chance here if you knock him out for |
| 3574s | sure then it kind of turns into a seven |
| 3575s | person game i think the bottom five will |
| 3578s | bully each other they're all gonna go at |
| 3580s | each other's throats maybe just let |
| 3582s | collins and zorn you have it um but |
| 3586s | i think they're gonna be |
| 3587s | very um aggressive with each one another |
| 3591s | uh in that bottom six to five |
| 3595s | that's right with only three games the |
| 3597s | landscape can change between every game |
| 3600s | and there is just higher and higher |
| 3602s | stakes every time but we do have to give |
| 3603s | our players a little chance to take a |
| 3605s | breather so don't go anywhere when we |
| 3607s | come back after this short break it is |
| 3609s | game two of lobby a |
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| 3775s | so |
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| 3806s | welcome back everybody to lobby legends |
| 3808s | raid leaders the first ever official |
| 3810s | esports event for hearthstone |
| 3812s | battlegrounds cast by a constructed |
| 3815s | enthusiast and the queen of the vg |
| 3817s | community herself lissa i'm so glad i |
| 3819s | won the 50 50 on where to point how are |
| 3821s | you feeling now that we're entering the |
| 3823s | second lap oh i lost the 50 50 dang it |
| 3828s | i i love how you call yourself the |
| 3829s | constructed enthusiast because you're so |
| 3832s | great at battlegrounds just so humble |
| 3835s | so humble |
| 3836s | i mean i said i'm an enthusiast my |
| 3839s | constructed rank has suffered a lot in |
| 3841s | preparation for this tournament |
| 3844s | yeah |
| 3845s | how are you doing |
| 3847s | i'm doing good i mean after i'm just so |
| 3849s | pumped after that last game we had so |
| 3852s | many good plays and just getting to see |
| 3854s | exodia pirates in the tournament i |
| 3856s | didn't think we'd get to see that |
| 3857s | because uh it's not as much seen in the |
| 3860s | top level because there are so many tech |
| 3862s | options but zoyniu is apparently a |
| 3865s | perfectionist at the comp so |
| 3867s | he played it so well um got to see the |
| 3870s | murlocs got to see this a ghost kill |
| 3874s | someone and four people die at the same |
| 3876s | time like ah just beautiful game it's |
| 3879s | true and we can also talk a little bit |
| 3881s | here i guess about the um mini |
| 3884s | interviews we sort of did with our |
| 3885s | players i think each of you and me |
| 3888s | taking our um half of the work to reach |
| 3891s | out to the players and sort of see their |
| 3892s | thoughts on the game their history and |
| 3895s | playing battlegrounds and i know you got |
| 3896s | to ask zoe you some questions |
| 3898s | yeah i did so i spoke to zoinu asking |
| 3901s | him you know how long have you played |
| 3902s | battlegrounds and so what and he's only |
| 3904s | been playing battlegrounds for a year |
| 3907s | he is from the auto battler realm so |
| 3909s | he's played other auto ballers before |
| 3911s | but it's so crazy to see how good he is |
| 3914s | at this game for only playing it for one |
| 3916s | year i am quite thoroughly impressed uh |
| 3919s | but his favorite comp is pirate exodia |
| 3922s | favorite minion bran |
| 3924s | and favorite hero going with bran is |
| 3926s | jandis so you love to hear it um |
| 3929s | so |
| 3930s | yeah he seems like just such a humble |
| 3932s | guy and i like how much he likes to be |
| 3936s | greedy as he says he gave a message to |
| 3938s | the viewers to say always be greedy and |
| 3941s | then his play style is in fact |
| 3944s | greedy |
| 3946s | very cute |
| 3947s | very true i love that we got to sort of |
| 3949s | bring our players closer to the viewers |
| 3951s | because again battlegrounds is sort of |
| 3954s | new territory like you said the auto |
| 3955s | battler realm |
| 3957s | not quite the shadow ram realm or the |
| 3959s | nether realm but i would like to live |
| 3961s | there as well um i'm sure there's some |
| 3964s | people here who are more familiar with |
| 3966s | constructed and just kind of dipping |
| 3967s | their toes into battlegrounds fear not |
| 3969s | whether or not you are new to the scene |
| 3972s | or have been playing ever since beta |
| 3974s | lobby legends is open for anyone to |
| 3976s | qualify through just make sure you can |
| 3978s | finish in the top 16 of ladder which is |
| 3980s | a lot more difficult than it sounds but |
| 3982s | my point stands the dream is real |
| 3984s | everyone |
| 3985s | yeah qualification is open for the third |
| 3988s | lobby legends it has just closed for the |
| 3990s | second lobby legends to be played out |
| 3992s | later on in the year but speaking of |
| 3994s | second it is our second lobby starting |
| 3997s | off and are we having some deja vu it's |
| 3999s | i was like is this the right film are we |
| 4002s | watching by looking at the other heroes |
| 4004s | and we have new heroes so yeah educate |
| 4006s | collins oh and zoie do you want the same |
| 4008s | hero as well |
| 4010s | okay saddle's messing with us on the |
| 4012s | back end to show us that zoinu and |
| 4014s | educated collins who got first and |
| 4016s | second place |
| 4017s | are now on the same exact heroes for |
| 4019s | this game |
| 4020s | uh now keep in mind that there are |
| 4023s | different minions types out there are no |
| 4025s | dragons no elementos no mechs uh but |
| 4028s | joining with the same start as last time |
| 4030s | with the imp |
| 4032s | yeah okay i mean okay i'm having a lot |
| 4035s | of deja vu |
| 4038s | if it ain't broke don't fix it however |
| 4041s | we do have of course some differences in |
| 4043s | the other heroes here however i believe |
| 4045s | it was either summer or bayou that was |
| 4047s | on one of the so-called safe heroes last |
| 4049s | game and summer here is on one of the |
| 4052s | safest heroes in the current meta arana |
| 4054s | i feel she's gotten so much better |
| 4056s | recently and it's because of these two |
| 4059s | well the left minion right here can you |
| 4060s | talk about what players like to do with |
| 4062s | iran these days yeah so rana used to be |
| 4065s | a force elemental hero but now you can |
| 4067s | stay on tier one and force murlocs well |
| 4069s | you could do tier one tier two so you're |
| 4071s | getting as many of these swamp strikers |
| 4073s | as possible and you're tripling into |
| 4075s | honchos the 3 2 murloc that buffs health |
| 4078s | so now this minion will get health buff |
| 4081s | from honcho and get attack buff just |
| 4083s | from every time you play a murloc |
| 4085s | decides to freeze for the pair of rock |
| 4088s | pools so yeah it's just another way to |
| 4091s | play arana and it's a lower tier way to |
| 4093s | play her so it's a bit safer actually |
| 4096s | than going the elemental play |
| 4098s | that's right and in this lobby i feel |
| 4101s | that that has a lot of potential to |
| 4103s | secure a top four or uh better for |
| 4106s | summer um a lot of people ranking are on |
| 4109s | even higher on their tier list than |
| 4111s | daryl because she seems to be way more |
| 4113s | consistent with just getting those top |
| 4115s | placements done and i actually am quite |
| 4117s | interested in that some people are still |
| 4119s | figuring out different ways to play the |
| 4121s | arana murlocs i've heard that going to |
| 4123s | tier 4 can be a thing and just trying to |
| 4124s | cycle primal finns and then triple to |
| 4127s | baron instead i've seen that from |
| 4129s | very popular and top ladder players like |
| 4131s | xqn but over here on bobo fat's side he |
| 4133s | has the opportunity to triple the |
| 4136s | impulsive trickster which is one of the |
| 4138s | best minions to get while playing mukla |
| 4141s | yeah because you get these early stats |
| 4143s | on the trickster and get so much health |
| 4146s | but tripled into a two drop which we do |
| 4148s | not see often uh so |
| 4151s | very safe play from bible fat tripling |
| 4153s | into a two drop early as opposed to god |
| 4157s | saving triples for a four or five or six |
| 4159s | drop |
| 4161s | yeah i think it's sort of one of the |
| 4163s | symptoms of that shop having two of the |
| 4166s | minion he wanted the third copy of and |
| 4167s | no minion that seemed worth it for the |
| 4169s | three gold he would spend sometimes |
| 4171s | having too many of the good minion |
| 4173s | available feels bad here but we can see |
| 4175s | bubble fat very upset with that reaction |
| 4178s | of his big trickster dying lust which |
| 4181s | means nothing gets the death rattle buff |
| 4184s | even just two points can of health can |
| 4186s | be a big big deal here i'm sure our |
| 4188s | players are going to be completely on |
| 4189s | edge but over here for caramon um solid |
| 4192s | warrior curve going however uh with the |
| 4194s | two uh swabbies played he can already |
| 4196s | level this turn and he freezes one in |
| 4198s | the shop it's kind of difficult to |
| 4200s | figure out how this should be played |
| 4202s | what are you thinking |
| 4204s | yeah you could go for the uh double |
| 4206s | level because of the hero power and that |
| 4209s | is what he's going to do and keep in |
| 4211s | mind that |
| 4212s | the buddy for which |
| 4214s | bossile has changed and so you're not |
| 4216s | going to be staying on one to collect as |
| 4219s | many wrath weavers as possible anymore |
| 4221s | but at the same time he hasn't found any |
| 4222s | graph weavers so he's likely going to be |
| 4225s | playing this more out of um using the |
| 4228s | economy of the hero more than playing a |
| 4230s | wrath weaver demon style |
| 4232s | uh which will be fun to watch and over |
| 4234s | here rana has also tripled into a |
| 4236s | two-drop |
| 4238s | i mean it is she's playing the murlocs |
| 4239s | that's correct |
| 4240s | you're true |
| 4242s | but even outside of that it is just good |
| 4244s | to draw attention to that pattern i feel |
| 4246s | because people are thinking about tempo |
| 4248s | more and more here like you said all |
| 4250s | those players who finished fourth |
| 4251s | through seventh last game probably going |
| 4254s | to be at each other's throats clawing |
| 4256s | for that extra amount of points but uh |
| 4258s | the start for arana pretty decent here |
| 4261s | misses however on these uh honcho you |
| 4264s | were talking about the three two murloc |
| 4265s | that buffs the health which means that |
| 4267s | while he has a lot of attack scaling of |
| 4270s | health is not going to be guaranteed |
| 4272s | here just yet however the buddy is now |
| 4274s | guaranteed so that's going to be a lot |
| 4275s | of gold save for arana and i guess an |
| 4277s | act of hero power very soon |
| 4279s | yes because uh you know right now he's |
| 4282s | only seeing three minions per shop |
| 4284s | so now he's gonna have a free roll get |
| 4286s | the uh |
| 4287s | hero power online quite early and be |
| 4290s | able to find as many swamp strikers as |
| 4293s | possible over with lich boss heil uh |
| 4296s | we're gonna see if caramond decides to |
| 4298s | triple into a four or a five drop here |
| 4301s | if he wants to go for a five he can do |
| 4303s | it you just have to double sell |
| 4306s | because he has his hero power still no |
| 4308s | buddy though |
| 4309s | and double cell would mean giving up a |
| 4311s | pair guaranteed but i do think it's |
| 4313s | worth it he gets out of the tabby cats |
| 4316s | here which is pretty interesting a lot |
| 4318s | of people argue about whether it's |
| 4319s | better to keep a alley cat pair or a |
| 4321s | tabby cat pair |
| 4323s | probably not super relevant in this |
| 4325s | instance now that he's on tier four but |
| 4327s | what do you think of these five drops |
| 4329s | i see a brand i take a brand nowadays |
| 4333s | brand is just at a premium right now |
| 4335s | though it isn't a lot of tempo it's a |
| 4337s | lot of value so you have to decide here |
| 4339s | am i willing to lose out on the tempo |
| 4341s | he's at 30 health so if he takes 15 from |
| 4344s | someone he's in the danger zone um but |
| 4347s | it is on seven gold so at this stage of |
| 4350s | the game i would not expect to take 15 |
| 4352s | so i think it's safe to take this value |
| 4354s | play in bran i'm curious why he sold the |
| 4356s | tabby cats over the alley cats though uh |
| 4359s | because he would have had board space to |
| 4361s | triple the tabby cats and and now with |
| 4363s | the brand it could have been more tabby |
| 4365s | cat triples um |
| 4366s | but that was my only perspective of that |
| 4369s | turn yeah i find that a bit curious too |
| 4372s | maybe he just thinks the |
| 4374s | alley cat is cuter and i cannot blame |
| 4376s | him a lot of some people's opinion yeah |
| 4379s | that's true all right opinions can be |
| 4383s | wrong yeah like whether or not collins |
| 4385s | got scammed versus pompadour a while ago |
| 4389s | big 10 here though it but he gets his |
| 4391s | buddy with four gold in hand and a |
| 4393s | banana oh and a triple |
| 4396s | so is gonna be able to level tier four |
| 4398s | will not be able to level to tier five |
| 4399s | because it costs eleven gold so even |
| 4401s | with all this extra gold in hand he can |
| 4403s | in no way shape or form get to 11 gold |
| 4407s | it is true that is a side effect of the |
| 4410s | change to the tier five oh but oh my |
| 4412s | gosh look at these selections you say i |
| 4414s | see a brand take a brown i'm sort of a |
| 4416s | see a hog or take a hogger gamer |
| 4418s | yeah and i think uh |
| 4420s | i i was gonna say i think collins is |
| 4421s | gonna take the myth racks here because |
| 4423s | it is so much tempo and value |
| 4425s | you know on stream i think the the fun |
| 4430s | play would be the hogger for sure but |
| 4431s | for a tournament uh you got to take the |
| 4434s | mythbacks for so much tempo it now gains |
| 4437s | 2-2 in stats for every different minion |
| 4439s | type on board and we see he has three |
| 4441s | plus he's golden hands so he could get a |
| 4442s | fourth minion type on board possibly |
| 4444s | fifth because he could sell out of the |
| 4446s | wrath weaver |
| 4447s | and there is a ground shaker on the |
| 4449s | board along with a bonker so that is a |
| 4451s | lot of good synergy there that's a new |
| 4454s | or no not a new minion type he already |
| 4455s | has a quill bore but a gem generator |
| 4458s | so it allows him to get a lot of tempo |
| 4461s | on board which makes it safe for him to |
| 4463s | keep leveling |
| 4465s | yeah i definitely like the pickup on the |
| 4467s | ground shaker and i think it's fine to |
| 4468s | get rid of the rathbeaver at this point |
| 4470s | he is really not getting any return on |
| 4473s | investment here just a little bit |
| 4474s | awkward that he would potentially have |
| 4476s | to i was going to say use a gold here |
| 4479s | for two gold because of the buddy just |
| 4480s | to get a bet going off but instead he |
| 4482s | sells a minion here is fine playing down |
| 4484s | to six he says just to make sure that he |
| 4487s | can keep as many coins in hand as |
| 4489s | possible |
| 4490s | it is a bit greedy but he knows he's |
| 4492s | facing mayev and on this turn maiev |
| 4494s | still hasn't tripled so i think he feels |
| 4496s | safe this is kind of my abs last turn to |
| 4499s | face her before she pops off and does |
| 4501s | something crazy and i think he's very |
| 4503s | much aware of that he's counting the |
| 4505s | turns he knows how strong mayev is so |
| 4508s | hey wait wait pon pada's |
| 4513s | our top three players all got the same |
| 4516s | heroes as last game and they just went |
| 4519s | with earlier like it worked last game is |
| 4520s | gonna work this game and i'm wondering |
| 4522s | if we're gonna see the same results |
| 4524s | pompadour down to 12 health last time |
| 4526s | he's down to 13 health and still made |
| 4528s | top three is that gonna happen again |
| 4531s | i don't know i mean ponfada was in a |
| 4533s | very similar spot just going down to |
| 4534s | eighth early on in the game and then |
| 4536s | going for the big swing later on we |
| 4537s | don't know how many triples he has saved |
| 4539s | in the shop but we can take a look a bit |
| 4542s | later perhaps |
| 4544s | yeah collins is thinking about maybe |
| 4546s | double leveling to tier six by the way |
| 4548s | he has five gold in hand and it's ten |
| 4550s | gold to level to tier six and he is |
| 4552s | above 15 health so he has the |
| 4554s | opportunity |
| 4556s | to double level into tier six on this |
| 4558s | turn i'm curious if he will uh but we'll |
| 4560s | find out soon we see that pompada is |
| 4562s | facing iran it has a triple |
| 4565s | that is in on the board but it is he's |
| 4568s | getting it next turn next time he's |
| 4569s | getting two triples so he is uh saying |
| 4572s | i'm not gonna take 12 damage because |
| 4573s | arana is tier two she can't do that much |
| 4576s | damage to me |
| 4578s | but i think she can actually do quite a |
| 4580s | bit |
| 4581s | yeah at this point |
| 4583s | she can do up to 16 but i don't think |
| 4585s | she will because she'll have a lot of |
| 4586s | one drops |
| 4588s | true i mean it's very difficult to say |
| 4590s | here because i feel like 12 is a low |
| 4592s | enough health that you might as well be |
| 4594s | at one at that point you could die to |
| 4595s | most players but specifically arana i |
| 4598s | think lets pon pada sort of abuse and |
| 4600s | greed a little bit more the nature of |
| 4602s | maiev he turns down the hyena pair for |
| 4605s | the immediate triple he's greeting it |
| 4607s | out maybe going for two six drops later |
| 4609s | it is very similar to what went down |
| 4611s | last game but it might go wrong for him |
| 4613s | here i am thinking that the high main is |
| 4616s | enough tempo combined with the hyenas to |
| 4618s | survive but we'll see if his greed can |
| 4620s | pay off here that is a huge swamp |
| 4622s | striker to start off the board for iran |
| 4624s | but the rest of it not too threatening |
| 4626s | and not too threatening at all doesn't |
| 4628s | get the full value from the savannah |
| 4630s | unfortunately but uh still gonna have |
| 4632s | some good-sized hyenas on board so |
| 4635s | should be able to survive to next turn |
| 4637s | and get that double triple into two six |
| 4639s | drops i'm assuming |
| 4641s | um |
| 4643s | i think that's the position he's put |
| 4644s | himself in still depends on how the |
| 4647s | trades go yeah wait wait wait wait wait |
| 4649s | because the wrong spot is a two |
| 4651s | yeah okay he's good |
| 4654s | no worries at all no qualms yeah four |
| 4656s | health and a dream silas has moved down |
| 4659s | we know max seven key is on silas and |
| 4662s | needs to have this uh big comeback but |
| 4665s | still the only person in the danger zone |
| 4667s | is pon pada |
| 4670s | okay |
| 4672s | mama is great because he needs to find |
| 4673s | tempo in order to make this comeback so |
| 4676s | this it mama with a golden soul juggler |
| 4678s | is the tempo he is looking for i think |
| 4680s | that is a good option i think the second |
| 4682s | pick would have been hoping for a felbat |
| 4684s | for the scale |
| 4686s | uh but takes the tempo pick out of gas |
| 4688s | coiler |
| 4694s | again he's got the scally set up once |
| 4696s | again first eliza available |
| 4699s | he also got a golden primal fin with i |
| 4701s | guess he tripled into the seafood |
| 4704s | slinger at first and then got that to |
| 4707s | print some money with the primal finn |
| 4709s | and now he has a very good eliza set up |
| 4711s | also probably getting the triple on the |
| 4713s | buddy next turn and facing arana so uh |
| 4716s | even if he loses and i don't think he |
| 4718s | will zoe you is going to have plenty of |
| 4720s | health to work with this could turn out |
| 4722s | to be another first for him um |
| 4726s | i feel like there's |
| 4727s | [Laughter] |
| 4728s | scram pirates again and we see that |
| 4731s | educate did go up to tier six uh has |
| 4735s | still this um sort of menagerie going |
| 4738s | with a |
| 4739s | reliance on beasts |
| 4741s | which i like that is some tempo about to |
| 4743s | face offers ragnaros not sure ragnaros |
| 4745s | has their hero power online or their |
| 4747s | buddy yet |
| 4749s | but they have quite a bit of health so |
| 4750s | ragnaros looking to be in a good spot |
| 4752s | because ragnaros can die quite early if |
| 4754s | they don't get their hero power online |
| 4756s | which they have with light fang |
| 4760s | a hydra which is one of the best units |
| 4762s | to get early with ragnaros to really pay |
| 4764s | off on that scaling the buddy lucifron |
| 4766s | from ragnaros means that you get two |
| 4768s | times effect on your end of turn ability |
| 4771s | so that's the hero power which buffs |
| 4773s | left and right minions by plus three |
| 4774s | plus three and then the light fang as |
| 4776s | well for major scaling here however it |
| 4780s | is not going to be an overwhelming |
| 4782s | victory for the rag in fact collins gets |
| 4784s | the good trade at the end there meaning |
| 4786s | he takes a minimal amount of damage |
| 4788s | against bayou that's huge because he has |
| 4791s | so much health on tier six yep and we |
| 4794s | have another triple from zoinu from his |
| 4796s | uh buddy finds another seafood slinger |
| 4798s | grabs that khaggar for the exodia uh |
| 4802s | what he is looking for is uh as many cad |
| 4804s | guards as possible you can get one or |
| 4807s | two triples of khadgar's and then one |
| 4809s | triple of baron that is the |
| 4811s | end game for |
| 4813s | exodia pirates the more khadgar's the |
| 4816s | better and there's another one hi friend |
| 4818s | oh my goodness |
| 4820s | he still needs taunts to happen uh |
| 4822s | because right now his positioning you |
| 4824s | know things can get sniped if eliza gets |
| 4826s | sniped he's in a really bad spot because |
| 4828s | his |
| 4829s | ad guards are just such |
| 4831s | small minions in comparison |
| 4833s | um |
| 4834s | so the taunt is next that he really |
| 4837s | needs to focus on finding gonna buff up |
| 4839s | his cad guards to hope they don't get |
| 4841s | scammed putting both bananas on one in |
| 4844s | case a one attack minion attacks into it |
| 4846s | and it would only do three damage i |
| 4848s | guess |
| 4850s | i mean we've seen enough of this i feel |
| 4852s | thank you sado let's check in with bobo |
| 4854s | fat who last we saw him had that huge |
| 4857s | trickster and now has tripled into a |
| 4859s | five drop we see baby crush is the pick |
| 4860s | here the new minion added to replace i |
| 4864s | suppose the rattler which has gone down |
| 4865s | to tier four with the mix yes removed |
| 4868s | entirely |
| 4870s | this is a very cool setup with the macaw |
| 4872s | able to get additional value from the |
| 4875s | trickster however there is a caveat with |
| 4877s | the other death rattle of the scallywag |
| 4879s | being available so he only has a 50 50 |
| 4881s | to get the good proc from the macaw do |
| 4883s | you think he's going to sell out of this |
| 4885s | galley or is it too valuable with the |
| 4886s | peggy |
| 4887s | i think you put it first typically to |
| 4890s | make sure to attack first but at the |
| 4892s | same time he probably has a reed that he |
| 4894s | needs to play around cleve though he's |
| 4896s | not |
| 4897s | yeah that's the play around cleve there |
| 4899s | uh so |
| 4901s | yeah i think he has to go for the 50 50 |
| 4903s | in this scenario and that is one big |
| 4905s | scary cleave coming from |
| 4908s | bayou oh he hits it |
| 4910s | yes hits the 50 50. oh and there it goes |
| 4913s | so he'll hit this 50 50 again because |
| 4915s | it's now 100 |
| 4917s | that's a lot of health and |
| 4918s | sustainability on his minions however |
| 4920s | it's only the imp that really has a |
| 4922s | threatening attack total on it the rest |
| 4924s | of the board is essentially battle |
| 4926s | masters so the hydra can still |
| 4928s | potentially take a value trade if it |
| 4929s | gets attack again into peggy can't quite |
| 4932s | tell who's going to take the fight yet |
| 4934s | yeah he does need to get scaling with |
| 4936s | his attack like the only thing he has |
| 4938s | now is the arm which is it's we see it's |
| 4941s | doing work the minions are getting way |
| 4943s | more attack than they had previously so |
| 4945s | this arm tech is quite impressive from |
| 4949s | bobo fat that's a very creative um use |
| 4952s | of the taunt comp clearly didn't get |
| 4955s | super high rolls with his um |
| 4963s | that's gonna sting because he had the |
| 4966s | third place finish last time but |
| 4967s | averaged out with an eighth place |
| 4969s | doesn't put him in a great spot but that |
| 4971s | is um a ghoul to be picked up for zoinu |
| 4974s | here which i think makes a lot of sense |
| 4975s | ragnaros definitely likes to take divine |
| 4978s | shields in this instance i don't think |
| 4980s | that bayou really had any especially |
| 4982s | without mechs in but it's still just a |
| 4984s | decent first minion here to make sure |
| 4986s | you can shave off any shields and just |
| 4987s | automatically have the board space to |
| 4989s | get the scally's over on summer's side |
| 4992s | though he is doing the arana thing which |
| 4994s | is scaling with murlocs on tier two he's |
| 4996s | not a tier four arana gamer but |
| 4999s | it does make sense to pick up every free |
| 5000s | dealing gambler because of the buddy |
| 5002s | that just equals three rolls the buddy |
| 5005s | reads every time you play a minion make |
| 5007s | your next refresh cost zero and the |
| 5009s | golden one does that twice so as long as |
| 5012s | you are fast enough here you can just |
| 5013s | get stats and stats and stats for every |
| 5015s | murloc played ideally tad |
| 5018s | i think it's important to keep in mind |
| 5019s | he is passing by uh |
| 5021s | selfless heroes so he's not looking to |
| 5023s | get the tech yet and that um |
| 5026s | he might buy one now but no he's passing |
| 5028s | by selfless heroes so still just looking |
| 5031s | strictly for stats in murlocs |
| 5034s | it's the tads towards the end of the |
| 5036s | turn but the rope is burning sometimes |
| 5038s | bob can be cruel to you like that can he |
| 5040s | get all of the stats in looks pretty |
| 5042s | good so far |
| 5043s | um at this point you usually can't do |
| 5045s | the ideal thing of still taking every |
| 5047s | gambler you just need to make sure you |
| 5049s | fill your board and play the important |
| 5051s | murlocs you get to check in on max 7 |
| 5053s | keys board we haven't seen him for quite |
| 5054s | some time but silas is one of the heroes |
| 5056s | that can potentially go infinite when |
| 5059s | they get the golden buddy however he's |
| 5061s | on eight health and not nearly enough |
| 5063s | stats to be made out of here so it looks |
| 5065s | like max is going to be next on the |
| 5067s | chopping block which is very unfortunate |
| 5069s | because he did go out in eighth in the |
| 5070s | first game it's not gonna be enough |
| 5072s | damage though he has four damage showing |
| 5074s | so |
| 5076s | max seven key going to stick around and |
| 5078s | hopefully get the ghost next turn uh but |
| 5080s | no because zoinu is out |
| 5083s | what on the catholic wing |
| 5086s | wow this is a |
| 5088s | change of pace from last game two of our |
| 5091s | top three players already out colin's |
| 5094s | still in the top six though |
| 5097s | all right saddle show us who killed this |
| 5099s | deathwing who killed zoinu because he |
| 5101s | was looking pretty good with the double |
| 5103s | khadgar set up with the scallywag um |
| 5107s | maybe somebody with an early |
| 5110s | [Music] |
| 5111s | by you zapping revenge zoinu is not |
| 5114s | going to be taking back-to-back |
| 5116s | victories which is huge because for uh |
| 5119s | bayou and summer our two chinese players |
| 5121s | they are on top of the world right now |
| 5123s | and bayou has tons of scaling still |
| 5126s | available just with the hero power he's |
| 5127s | gone up to tier six now um what's the |
| 5130s | best way to go from here is it just roll |
| 5131s | for a malgadons |
| 5133s | yeah it looks like you need to just |
| 5135s | start he has this great |
| 5138s | menagerie going so now it's time to get |
| 5140s | in some great amalgadons looking for |
| 5142s | brand looking for |
| 5144s | um just the divine shield poison at this |
| 5146s | point |
| 5147s | uh and then he'll be able to keep his |
| 5149s | cleave and his uh ssf in in in the |
| 5153s | meantime uh but we see over here on max |
| 5156s | 7 he doing a demon build he is just |
| 5159s | trying to cycle as many uh ticket |
| 5161s | minions as possible because they each |
| 5163s | are all for free you just buy them for |
| 5165s | free and then eventually if you buy |
| 5166s | three of them you're going to get a free |
| 5168s | minion on your tavern tier so he's just |
| 5170s | trying to cycle as fast as possible it |
| 5172s | is a really high apm hero right now |
| 5175s | right so hopefully he can get all his |
| 5178s | turn done another voidlord i also want |
| 5181s | to note he passed over a wrath weaver |
| 5183s | triple and their weaver even had a |
| 5185s | ticket on it so it looked in theory to |
| 5187s | be a very good buy for max seven key but |
| 5189s | this is one of the most difficult things |
| 5191s | to see in battlegrounds is distribution |
| 5193s | of stats here i think max evan key is |
| 5195s | saying that 260 attack minions with a |
| 5198s | lot of health are better than one like |
| 5200s | giant minion here possibly hedging |
| 5202s | around poison a little bit better and |
| 5204s | giving himself two real threats instead |
| 5206s | of one that's fragile against poison |
| 5208s | which is absolutely the case here |
| 5210s | against collins however i don't think |
| 5211s | that even keeping these separate is |
| 5213s | going to be enough to give |
| 5216s | max seven key the survival here because |
| 5218s | collins just has the set up to get that |
| 5220s | poison on the amalgadon as well the |
| 5222s | entire board is poison now and he is |
| 5225s | going to go out knocking out max seven |
| 5228s | key he is excited for that win because |
| 5231s | now his amalgadon with divine shield has |
| 5233s | point poison he had the technology to |
| 5236s | fix it and he did so knocking another |
| 5239s | player out trying to hopefully get into |
| 5241s | top four it might be a top five |
| 5242s | situation we'll find out soon and |
| 5244s | unfortunately for max seven key he is |
| 5246s | again in the bottom four |
| 5249s | yeah that is looking bad for him it's |
| 5251s | truly the rest of the lobby starting to |
| 5254s | even it out a little bit because our |
| 5255s | bottom seven and eighth player were both |
| 5257s | in the top three last lobby but max |
| 5259s | seven key didn't quite get enough to |
| 5261s | pull himself in the lead so it's really |
| 5263s | about those four players that finished |
| 5265s | from fourth to seventh last time trying |
| 5268s | to separate themselves from the pack and |
| 5270s | also collins with the chance to pull way |
| 5272s | ahead in the lead if he can just survive |
| 5274s | a bit longer but over on caramon's side |
| 5276s | here he has a bran and an amalgadon but |
| 5279s | it looks like he missed on the poison |
| 5281s | roll doesn't have a seven to try and fix |
| 5284s | it but has a lot of stats and facing |
| 5285s | iran unlikely to die next turn do you |
| 5288s | think he should take the arana fight as |
| 5290s | the opportunity to level to six |
| 5292s | yeah i'm not sh |
| 5294s | yeah because arana's still on tier three |
| 5297s | and she's gonna start falling off with |
| 5299s | all that early stats she got because |
| 5301s | everyone's starting to catch up and |
| 5302s | stats to her uh on the side of the board |
| 5304s | we're not quite there yet uh but if you |
| 5307s | know you're not going to beat her you |
| 5308s | might as well just take the opportunity |
| 5310s | to level um because you're just going to |
| 5312s | take that damage no matter what and now |
| 5314s | he'll be able to find more amalgadons |
| 5317s | and |
| 5318s | more discovers because of the slinger |
| 5321s | and maybe get some golden primal fins |
| 5323s | something like that so i do like this |
| 5324s | level play because again if you're not |
| 5326s | going to beat the player just might as |
| 5327s | well level |
| 5328s | and you're not going to take much damage |
| 5330s | either so |
| 5332s | positions to have pretty much all the |
| 5334s | weakest minions in the back except the |
| 5336s | high main which because it has taunt on |
| 5338s | it is likely to die in the early game |
| 5340s | and then generate some weak minions so |
| 5342s | this sort of like highest to lowest |
| 5344s | stats positioning i think makes a lot of |
| 5346s | sense against arana when it's not |
| 5347s | elementals and also when mechs are not |
| 5349s | in no need for a bumper most of the time |
| 5353s | um it is still going to be a very |
| 5355s | convincing victory for the arana simply |
| 5357s | too many stats here some are truly |
| 5360s | abusing the fact that arana is just top |
| 5362s | of the meta right now however we do have |
| 5365s | caramon still surviving here six health |
| 5368s | didn't go up to tier six i don't think |
| 5370s | he is just trying to secure a top four |
| 5372s | it looks like oh wait he did sorry my |
| 5374s | bad |
| 5375s | so he gets the ghost this turn which is |
| 5377s | a great turn to get because he was able |
| 5379s | to you know greedily level versarana and |
| 5382s | now he has a whole free turn versus a |
| 5384s | ghost now what he doesn't know is how |
| 5387s | big the wrathweavers are on silas side |
| 5389s | oh and we see a seafood slinger in the |
| 5391s | shop along with |
| 5393s | uh the gurgle so this is a lot of stats |
| 5396s | he only has one |
| 5399s | murloc on the board so he's going to be |
| 5401s | a bit greedy with his seafood slinger i |
| 5404s | mean i wanted to ask you about that |
| 5405s | because i feel there's two types of |
| 5407s | players the ones who see food slinger |
| 5409s | any buffing murloc and the ones who only |
| 5412s | go for the slinger on primalfin or a |
| 5414s | malgadon what kind are you or do you |
| 5417s | think it's situational |
| 5419s | definitely situational but i'm |
| 5420s | definitely the type to |
| 5423s | be greedy and want it on the amalgadons |
| 5426s | and then realize that's not the play and |
| 5427s | just to play it on every single one |
| 5429s | because you can find more seafood |
| 5430s | slingers because you're tripling and |
| 5432s | you'll probably just get another so um |
| 5435s | who in a strong shell in the shop with |
| 5437s | all these taunts |
| 5438s | um |
| 5439s | you know i'm a bit concerned our |
| 5441s | opponent ghost isn't that weak |
| 5445s | but we do have the deadly spore in hand |
| 5447s | that we can play out here so |
| 5450s | i'm not sure if karamon knows how strong |
| 5452s | this ghost is |
| 5455s | i mean if i were him i would just |
| 5457s | remember the tale of last game where |
| 5458s | somebody died to a ghost on eight please |
| 5461s | i would pay respect here and play the |
| 5463s | sport but not only is does it look like |
| 5465s | he's not playing it he's holding double |
| 5467s | slinger and that is the worst feeling to |
| 5469s | die in hand with so i hope he knows what |
| 5471s | he's doing let's see how strong the |
| 5473s | ghost was from max 7 key we do remember |
| 5476s | the double 60 attack roth weavers right |
| 5479s | yep |
| 5480s | and the poison |
| 5482s | this could go wrong for caravan but |
| 5484s | actually the break point on the buddy |
| 5487s | here for him is huge it could |
| 5488s | potentially double trade them |
| 5492s | that is a big big deal |
| 5494s | yeah so he is safe versus the ghost so |
| 5496s | max seven keys ghost isn't gonna kill |
| 5498s | anyone this time |
| 5500s | almost had two two games in a row |
| 5503s | i'm curious |
| 5505s | looks like the arana is finally starting |
| 5507s | to take |
| 5508s | much damage from educated gol collins 24 |
| 5512s | damage putting uh summer down to 16 and |
| 5516s | it looks like a fat is out |
| 5519s | uh fifth place possibly yes a seoul |
| 5522s | fifth place there |
| 5524s | dying oh oh and there's the amalgadon |
| 5527s | with a seafood slinger in hand the |
| 5529s | dreams |
| 5530s | this is looking like a very good first |
| 5533s | place for collins here he has the setup |
| 5535s | and we have entered a late game position |
| 5537s | where it's one of those poison amalgadon |
| 5540s | battles right we have every single |
| 5541s | player except the arana on tier six and |
| 5544s | baba fat |
| 5546s | unfortunately for him he ended up with a |
| 5547s | comp that really has no chance against |
| 5549s | poison right he was on the big uh |
| 5552s | trickster with uh macaw type of comp |
| 5555s | which just gives you health with the arm |
| 5557s | for a bit of attack but no match versus |
| 5558s | poison it's a terrible matchup and we |
| 5561s | also have summer on poison here and |
| 5563s | because staying on tier 3 arana means |
| 5565s | that you probably won't get |
| 5568s | divine shields on your minions unless |
| 5569s | you can find the triple selfless and |
| 5572s | preferably a baron he's gonna get |
| 5574s | outclassed by these other cops soon |
| 5575s | which is why we say that arana is a very |
| 5577s | consistent top four hero but rarely |
| 5579s | takes first place |
| 5581s | so we see on the other side of educated |
| 5582s | collins he's about to face caramel who |
| 5584s | is starting to find these amalgadons but |
| 5586s | they don't have the poison yet they are |
| 5587s | getting divine shield one did get the |
| 5589s | uh divine shield so you see him |
| 5591s | transitioning from this comp into a |
| 5593s | poison comp uh this is this late game |
| 5596s | strategy that we're gonna see a lot more |
| 5597s | often nowadays he's putting as much |
| 5599s | poison as possible floats five gold just |
| 5601s | doesn't have the time but knows that |
| 5603s | putting the positioning in first is what |
| 5605s | matters |
| 5606s | i want to also point out that there's no |
| 5608s | dragons in this game and that is a big |
| 5610s | deal because there is the prester |
| 5613s | pyrospawn that can shoot divine shields |
| 5615s | with amalgadons to knock divine shields |
| 5618s | off amalgadons |
| 5620s | and so that's a tech option that our |
| 5623s | competitors aren't going to be able to |
| 5624s | have in this kind of situation of |
| 5626s | amalgadon's versamalgadons that's right |
| 5629s | i think colin simply has too many |
| 5631s | poisons here for caravan to get out of |
| 5633s | this situation but uh it was looking |
| 5637s | okay for caravan in the sense where his |
| 5639s | amalgadon that didn't have poison at |
| 5640s | least it didn't have taunt on it as well |
| 5643s | so it's pretty easy to activate with the |
| 5644s | stefan but simply the quantity of |
| 5647s | amalgadance was too much on call inside |
| 5649s | he's going to outclass the rest of the |
| 5651s | lobby very easily now especially that |
| 5653s | caramon's amalgadons are added back into |
| 5656s | the pool for collins to just snap up and |
| 5659s | make sure he can get the king of the |
| 5661s | poisons there is sometimes a way to |
| 5663s | defeat giant divine shield poisons with |
| 5665s | a cleave like bayou has here but do you |
| 5668s | think this is going to be enough |
| 5669s | well it's not positioned correctly to be |
| 5672s | enough because it's just going to die |
| 5674s | the thing with ragnaros is you want to |
| 5677s | put you know your big minions far left |
| 5679s | or right so they get the scale but |
| 5680s | unfortunately if that goes directly into |
| 5683s | a divine shield amalgadon it's not going |
| 5685s | to work so one thing you can do is put a |
| 5687s | ghoul in and not position it first you |
| 5690s | can position it in it |
| 5691s | later and go down a minion to hope that |
| 5694s | you so then your opponent attacks first |
| 5696s | attacks into the ghoul and then your |
| 5698s | cleave will work so that's kind of one |
| 5700s | tech option he has here though i don't |
| 5702s | see him looking for ghoul or maybe he |
| 5704s | did and couldn't find it um |
| 5706s | but yeah these amalgadons with divine |
| 5708s | shield are going to be a bit scary |
| 5712s | yeah it's unfortunate for bayou two that |
| 5714s | it looks like he's been holding on to |
| 5715s | the selfless pair for quite some time |
| 5716s | but never found the triple which you |
| 5718s | know the power level of your comp goes |
| 5720s | up so much when you can hit the uh |
| 5722s | triple selfless and also try and get in |
| 5725s | there with a baron he is going to hedge |
| 5727s | a little bit with the makat to try and |
| 5728s | get additional divine shields but again |
| 5730s | this positioning is the toughest ever |
| 5732s | because he doesn't quite have the |
| 5734s | perfect knowledge of what colin's board |
| 5736s | looks like he's gonna play for maximum |
| 5738s | poisonage alongside the cleaves and puts |
| 5741s | the macaw first |
| 5743s | it's not looking great i want to say but |
| 5746s | maybe there's a small percentage chance |
| 5749s | yeah i mean i'm glad that that cave |
| 5751s | hydra is no longer in the front spot |
| 5754s | obviously but i mean he has divine |
| 5757s | shields going but uh collins did uh |
| 5760s | place his plant amalgadon in front to |
| 5762s | knock divine shields off which is a good |
| 5764s | positioning and oh |
| 5767s | another good divine shield |
| 5770s | it looks like collins just has too much |
| 5772s | on his side |
| 5774s | yeah i think so too oh especially with |
| 5775s | that trade that um |
| 5779s | going to be a very clutch victory for |
| 5782s | collins here actually only one more |
| 5784s | minion here it's kind of funny how when |
| 5786s | it comes down to a poison end game you |
| 5788s | can simply count how many bodies and |
| 5790s | shields are on board to get there but |
| 5792s | crucially both our players in this fight |
| 5794s | had two selflesses and no one hit the |
| 5796s | triple and that i feel is largely |
| 5798s | because summer has been hoarding the |
| 5800s | selflesses as arana you're just even |
| 5802s | more likely to get it because you're on |
| 5804s | a lower tier and he also has the ghoul |
| 5807s | and quite enough attack on these three |
| 5810s | golden swamp strikers that they're |
| 5811s | effectively poisoned as well it's kind |
| 5814s | of hard to figure out who's going to be |
| 5815s | in the lead here but on tier 4 summer |
| 5817s | doesn't have access to baron rivender |
| 5819s | which is a huge deal |
| 5821s | yeah he has the triple in hand the |
| 5822s | monstrous macaw so i think what he's |
| 5825s | doing here is just trying to |
| 5827s | find more triples before he sells out of |
| 5830s | his buddy and he's going to replace the |
| 5832s | buddy with the baron that his triple is |
| 5834s | going to give him in his brain |
| 5837s | yeah the ghoul also can be tripled here |
| 5840s | just as effectively for another role at |
| 5842s | baron rivender which is |
| 5844s | and it's going to replace the buddy |
| 5846s | almost certainly here it's just not he |
| 5848s | can't triple the ghoul though |
| 5850s | oh no he can sorry he doesn't have a |
| 5852s | triple baron in my mind for a second he |
| 5854s | had a triple bearing |
| 5855s | if he had a triple baron he could not |
| 5857s | triple the ghoul because it would knock |
| 5859s | off the selfless zero and then the macaw |
| 5861s | wouldn't work |
| 5862s | so i panicked but no no this is fine |
| 5866s | yeah this is huge this can beat collins |
| 5868s | i feel if the attack order goes well for |
| 5871s | him because this first ghoul from summer |
| 5873s | is going to knock off the shields but we |
| 5874s | see collins did eventually hit the |
| 5877s | triple on the selfless as well and oh |
| 5881s | the first attack from the amalgadon |
| 5883s | snipes the selfless so this macaw from |
| 5885s | summer is not going to get any more |
| 5887s | value it still looks to be a close fight |
| 5890s | ah no now that i look at it it is not |
| 5892s | collins just has more |
| 5894s | yeah because collins has plants going on |
| 5897s | and um |
| 5898s | yeah his minions are just so strong so |
| 5900s | many divine shields to start and then on |
| 5902s | top of that so a win for educated |
| 5905s | collins another top two for him |
| 5908s | most likely securing himself into |
| 5910s | tomorrow i need to see the point |
| 5912s | breakdown and we can see here educated |
| 5915s | collins in first with 13 points summer |
| 5917s | with 8.5 zoyniu with eight |
| 5920s | bayou 7.5 karamon 6.5 boba fett five |
| 5924s | point five so we see that like middle of |
| 5926s | the pack is all so close |
| 5930s | uh i think because our top two players |
| 5933s | from last game or top three two of them |
| 5934s | were in the bottom two we have a whole |
| 5936s | game next game that is true i mean |
| 5939s | collins definitely has separated himself |
| 5941s | from the pack but like you said the |
| 5943s | second place to seventh place sort of |
| 5946s | field here they're only within 3.5 |
| 5949s | points of each other so it could still |
| 5950s | go to anyone these top four slots it is |
| 5953s | very very close right now it does look |
| 5955s | to be the americas and china show all |
| 5958s | four of them taking up the top four |
| 5960s | slots and i love that we get to see this |
| 5962s | last fight played out again because we |
| 5964s | can talk a little bit more about our top |
| 5966s | two placers collins we have sung his |
| 5968s | praises many times but we can see that |
| 5971s | um |
| 5972s | summer is one of our chinese players |
| 5974s | that i would imagine most of our viewers |
| 5977s | are not very familiar with but thanks to |
| 5979s | beenage our resident um chinese |
| 5982s | journalist of the esports scene in |
| 5983s | hearthstone and also translator we have |
| 5985s | some trivia we hear that summer is |
| 5987s | actually a very conservative player in |
| 5989s | terms of play style and his favorite |
| 5991s | hero is arana who is exactly the hero |
| 5994s | that secured him the second place spot |
| 5997s | yeah just excellent game all around i'm |
| 6000s | glad we got to see so many amalgadons we |
| 6001s | played this game when we couldn't find |
| 6003s | them last |
| 6004s | and i'm so happy that these bottom four |
| 6006s | players from last round turn it around |
| 6008s | this game so that game three is going to |
| 6011s | be |
| 6012s | very intense |
| 6014s | oh i think collins is probably you know |
| 6017s | safe we're gonna get some confirmation |
| 6020s | on that because i don't have the numbers |
| 6021s | in front of me but uh between all the |
| 6024s | other players we are going to have quite |
| 6026s | a big competition that's right and it's |
| 6029s | going to be a big uphill climb for max |
| 6031s | seven key in particular one of our |
| 6034s | europe representatives i honestly don't |
| 6037s | know if there's mathematically still a |
| 6039s | chance here but obviously the spotlight |
| 6041s | is on our second to seventh place |
| 6043s | players at the moment it is so close |
| 6046s | neck and neck could really be anyone's |
| 6048s | game and because we're in the last lobby |
| 6050s | uh last game of the day for lobby a we |
| 6053s | still have of course three games to be |
| 6054s | played for lobby b i do expect that |
| 6056s | we're gonna be seeing some slight |
| 6058s | changes in the meta as well we're gonna |
| 6061s | be seeing some players take bigger risks |
| 6063s | maybe greedier heroes and greedier lines |
| 6065s | because maybe they've determined they |
| 6067s | absolutely need a first to make it |
| 6068s | through to tomorrow whereas some of the |
| 6070s | other players who are maybe currently |
| 6072s | sitting third and fourth are thinking oh |
| 6074s | i just need another top four and then |
| 6076s | that'll likely get me to tomorrow so i |
| 6078s | feel like arana is going to be a very |
| 6081s | highly prioritized pick once again |
| 6084s | yep and we have to keep in mind that the |
| 6086s | players can see the other players names |
| 6088s | just like on the ladder you can see who |
| 6090s | you're facing and you can see who your |
| 6092s | competition is who do you need to knock |
| 6094s | out to make it so you're going to see |
| 6096s | some temple plays |
| 6098s | at certain parts of the mid game to try |
| 6100s | and knock out someone who's |
| 6102s | in less than 15 health or trying to do |
| 6105s | as max damage as possible so i think |
| 6107s | we're gonna have some very interesting |
| 6108s | plays coming up in the next game |
| 6111s | right just a reminder that you can tune |
| 6113s | in to the perspective of some of our |
| 6116s | competitors who are streaming their own |
| 6118s | games here and also tune in to any of |
| 6120s | our many many co-streamers from the |
| 6122s | community giving their own perspective |
| 6124s | and commentating their game if you're |
| 6126s | tired of hearing me and listen cast |
| 6128s | don't close the tab please keep viewing |
| 6129s | but you can listen to some other |
| 6131s | co-streamers as well |
| 6133s | i love that we are really turning lobby |
| 6135s | legends into a big community event i |
| 6137s | feel it's really in line with the spirit |
| 6139s | of battlegrounds where it is eight |
| 6141s | people to a game collins winning that |
| 6144s | second lobby is a huge deal i feel like |
| 6146s | he is one of the biggest contributors to |
| 6149s | battlegrounds on the global scene he has |
| 6151s | been a caster he has been in hearthstone |
| 6154s | for quite some time originally an arena |
| 6156s | player and transitioned to being one of |
| 6158s | the most informative and hardworking |
| 6160s | battlegrounds players i'd love to see |
| 6161s | him getting the big result there but |
| 6163s | also i want to shout out to bayou who |
| 6165s | has |
| 6166s | according to beenage sort of similar to |
| 6169s | collins also in china apparently he also |
| 6172s | used to be a top arena player and at one |
| 6175s | point hit rank one in china with two |
| 6177s | accounts at the same time so we do have |
| 6181s | sort of the analog to collins and bayou |
| 6183s | as well and i wonder if it is going to |
| 6185s | be him taking down lobby number three |
| 6189s | yep i'm really excited for this next |
| 6191s | lobby to see what happens |
| 6193s | yep and it is going to be the highest |
| 6196s | stakes lobby of the day so of course we |
| 6197s | need our players to settle down a little |
| 6199s | bit make sure they are completely |
| 6201s | focused so one more break for lobby a |
| 6204s | don't go anywhere right after this the |
| 6206s | last game for lobby a |
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| 6223s | so |
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| 6250s | so |
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| 6264s | so |
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| 6274s | foreign |
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| 6336s | do |
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| 6404s | welcome back to the tavern everybody you |
| 6406s | are just in time to watch the third game |
| 6409s | of the day for our first lobby where the |
| 6411s | players are scrambling to get those top |
| 6413s | four placements to make it through to |
| 6415s | tomorrow my name is gia and still with |
| 6417s | me is of course selissa who is somebody |
| 6420s | with a lot of tournament experience |
| 6422s | herself so alyssa when you're in the |
| 6424s | spot where it's the last game of the day |
| 6425s | for you what changes about your mindset |
| 6428s | uh you have to keep yourself calm cool |
| 6430s | and collected first of all |
| 6432s | a lot of times in this type of game you |
| 6435s | can get a bit tilted or fed up or |
| 6439s | whatever so you just need to stay calm |
| 6441s | cool and collected and then you have to |
| 6443s | do this determine where you need to go |
| 6445s | from there you need to |
| 6446s | target who you need to target for max |
| 6448s | damage you need to decide do i need to |
| 6450s | take a greedy hero or play it safe so |
| 6452s | you need to analyze a lot of different |
| 6454s | things with this hero selection with |
| 6456s | minion type selection uh with tripling |
| 6459s | selection too it's just like do i go |
| 6462s | greedy do i go safe who's left in the |
| 6464s | lobby just keeping tabs on everybody |
| 6467s | there's a lot to think about on this |
| 6470s | game |
| 6471s | very much so and with our first two |
| 6474s | games of the day we did have a pretty |
| 6476s | large diversity of comps making it to |
| 6478s | the top there |
| 6479s | with eliza scam taking first in the |
| 6482s | first one and then the more conventional |
| 6484s | i want to say a malgadon poison divine |
| 6486s | shield from collins taking second place |
| 6488s | but the big headline here is that it's |
| 6490s | collins who has run away with consistent |
| 6493s | top four placements in fact a first and |
| 6495s | a second just very impressive stuff |
| 6497s | whereas the top finishers from the first |
| 6499s | game of zoe nyu and pon pada |
| 6503s | went out in seventh and eighth i believe |
| 6505s | in the second lobby so evened out a |
| 6507s | little bit more and going more towards |
| 6509s | the middle of the pack |
| 6511s | in terms of diversity of the meta is |
| 6513s | there any comp that you're looking |
| 6514s | forward to seeing for the last game of |
| 6516s | the day |
| 6517s | um you know i have not seen enough |
| 6519s | apm pirates for my liking i know some |
| 6522s | players try to avoid it in tournaments |
| 6524s | because of cross-server play |
| 6526s | it can be quite difficult to play on |
| 6528s | another server |
| 6530s | so hoggers you know just haven't seen |
| 6533s | enough of that we haven't seen any |
| 6535s | gallywix shenanigans |
| 6537s | which i you know would love to see so |
| 6540s | that's kind of stuff i'm looking forward |
| 6542s | to but look what we got here we got a |
| 6544s | patches max 7k here to make me proud uh |
| 6549s | so |
| 6550s | and we see he's gonna stay on tier one |
| 6552s | probably doing a chief curve because he |
| 6553s | played out his uh pirate on turn one |
| 6557s | which you wouldn't do if you're gonna go |
| 6558s | do a standard curve uh educated collins |
| 6561s | on a mutant is your favorite |
| 6564s | excited to see this but there's no |
| 6566s | mexican |
| 6567s | yeah no mexican so one less divine |
| 6569s | shield but i still feel mutinous is such |
| 6572s | a consistent powerhouse here as long as |
| 6574s | you're able to guarantee that you build |
| 6576s | up a huge buddy in the early game even |
| 6578s | if you have to float a lot of gold just |
| 6580s | building up stats and taking high attack |
| 6582s | if you find a divine shield or a cleave |
| 6584s | down the line or even an impulsive |
| 6586s | trickster it can work out for you in the |
| 6588s | long run |
| 6590s | that is 100 bait but i do want to call |
| 6593s | attention to our hero selection for this |
| 6596s | game because look at this so many greedy |
| 6598s | heroes we have patches of tests to a |
| 6600s | certain extent milhouse silas is very |
| 6603s | greedy trying to get towards that |
| 6604s | infinite state with the golden body and |
| 6606s | then elise as well which is very capable |
| 6609s | of taking a first place if she can |
| 6610s | safely get to tier vi this is sort of |
| 6613s | the side effect i want to say of players |
| 6615s | thinking that they need to get the big |
| 6617s | points to secure themselves through to |
| 6619s | tomorrow because we have such a tight |
| 6621s | sort of middle of the pack point |
| 6623s | distribution here i think people are |
| 6625s | really trying to go for that first and |
| 6626s | get the full seven points |
| 6628s | yep i see so many greedy heroes even |
| 6631s | elise is considered greedy because she |
| 6633s | can really pop off when she power levels |
| 6635s | to six and her buddy is giving her uh |
| 6638s | two one cost six drops every turn um so |
| 6642s | she is a greedy hero |
| 6644s | yeah so basically all grady heroes and |
| 6646s | we get to see the interaction with tess |
| 6648s | and cutter butter because they both have |
| 6651s | stealing uh here uh buddy heroes so they |
| 6655s | they steal other people's buddies and |
| 6657s | then they'll get all these buddies early |
| 6659s | it's gonna be a bit crazy and i'm very |
| 6661s | excited to see it |
| 6662s | right we have panpada here on the silas |
| 6665s | and at the beginning of this lobby you |
| 6667s | were talking about how you're wanting to |
| 6668s | see apm pirates and gallywix players |
| 6671s | there hasn't been a single one of those |
| 6673s | so far i want to say thanks in no small |
| 6675s | part to the fact that intentional |
| 6677s | disconnects are banned from our |
| 6679s | tournament that is against the official |
| 6681s | rules here on ladder it is very common |
| 6684s | to see players going for that trick to |
| 6686s | sort of extend their turn timer and skip |
| 6688s | animations which really lends an |
| 6691s | advantage to apm based comps and |
| 6693s | gallywix in particular but because |
| 6695s | that's not allowed here i think players |
| 6697s | are placing less of a premium on it |
| 6699s | colin's here probably feeling mostly |
| 6701s | safe because he has such a lead on the |
| 6703s | rest of the field in terms of his points |
| 6705s | but still doing the very |
| 6707s | expected mutinous thing of stacking all |
| 6710s | of your stats together going for a |
| 6712s | triple |
| 6713s | on the refreshing elemental as well just |
| 6715s | to get all of the stats together and he |
| 6717s | can still use his hero power every |
| 6719s | single turn to make sure that he gets |
| 6721s | essentially one big unit because as |
| 6723s | mutants you definitely like to play as a |
| 6725s | one unit andy for the majority of the |
| 6728s | early game make sure that when you get |
| 6729s | your buddy which spits its stats onto |
| 6732s | three separate units when you devour it |
| 6734s | with the mutants hero power you make |
| 6735s | sure that all of your stats on the first |
| 6737s | minion land on that buddy so you get the |
| 6739s | biggest possible buff from the buddy |
| 6743s | i'm interested to see if he's going to |
| 6744s | be going for a three drop there holding |
| 6746s | i assume he's going for a three drop and |
| 6748s | we can see over here on test test has |
| 6750s | tripled into a uh bronze warden |
| 6755s | a little bit interesting of a board but |
| 6757s | tess has a lot of opportunities to just |
| 6759s | steal what other people are doing so |
| 6761s | tess just keeps their eye out on what |
| 6763s | what direction everyone's going and you |
| 6765s | can kind of get gauge your direction |
| 6767s | from there |
| 6769s | that's right i generally favor playing |
| 6771s | tests relatively safe in the early game |
| 6773s | until waiting out until people hit their |
| 6775s | power spikes and then you just steal |
| 6777s | whatever they tripled into or |
| 6778s | potentially their buddies as well but |
| 6780s | it's a big deal that tess ended up with |
| 6782s | no armor on this patch i would say where |
| 6784s | in the previous um uh |
| 6787s | armor patch she did have it so it's kind |
| 6789s | of uh in recognize |
| 6793s | what's the noun for recognize it's just |
| 6795s | recognizing that tess is really strong |
| 6796s | in the matter right now recognition |
| 6800s | yes thank you there we go |
| 6802s | it's gonna say recognization and i'm |
| 6803s | like honestly your english is better |
| 6805s | than mine but |
| 6807s | i'm glad i could help yeah it's |
| 6809s | interesting to see milhouse have armor |
| 6811s | like to me milhouse is just like one of |
| 6813s | the best heroes but he's sitting here |
| 6814s | with armor he's just not in this meta |
| 6818s | elise however with the maximum amount of |
| 6820s | armor at the beginning of the game |
| 6822s | definitely makes her a lot more |
| 6824s | resilient trying to get to that point |
| 6825s | where you can benefit from the cheap |
| 6828s | recruitment maps and discover those six |
| 6830s | drops but for now gonna be taking a big |
| 6832s | a bit of a beating here because tess |
| 6834s | does survive with the bronze warden |
| 6836s | getting a lot of damage through for this |
| 6838s | point in the game a little bit short of |
| 6841s | buddy here just a little bit of a |
| 6843s | percent which is a bad feeling indeed |
| 6846s | but the milhouse with that same feeling |
| 6847s | of being so close yet so far and |
| 6850s | unfortunately no triples stocked up here |
| 6853s | which is nobody's very unlikely to see |
| 6855s | yeah look at the body meter it's it's |
| 6857s | that that terrible feeling of like oh |
| 6860s | i just |
| 6861s | barely missed it so the question is is |
| 6864s | he going to be double leveling |
| 6866s | which i believe is possible because of |
| 6868s | the cell mental in hand but there's two |
| 6870s | pairs in the shop |
| 6872s | i mean |
| 6874s | oh it hurts that's an awkward spot right |
| 6877s | because i feel like the settlement i |
| 6879s | mean you obviously buy that as milhouse |
| 6881s | because it's essentially free costs two |
| 6882s | and sells for two but the red welt pair |
| 6884s | is one of |
| 6886s | you can make the argument that it's the |
| 6887s | easiest to triple because nobody else is |
| 6889s | really buying those i don't think but |
| 6891s | it's just really not in the matter right |
| 6893s | now not even yasera can make red wolf |
| 6895s | work at the moment so i do feel this |
| 6898s | ends up being sell out of one other pair |
| 6900s | go for the sellamental pair and then |
| 6902s | level |
| 6903s | oh my gosh is he gonna level i mean okay |
| 6907s | okay he could have used his he could |
| 6910s | have used a roll to see another triple |
| 6912s | uh but decides just to float the gold uh |
| 6916s | and gets the buddy quite instantly so |
| 6918s | yeah he's doing the play here that gia |
| 6920s | talked about earlier where you're just |
| 6921s | staying on one to farm as many triples |
| 6924s | as possible and then get to leveling for |
| 6928s | some direction |
| 6929s | that's right he at least has the buddy |
| 6931s | now and when you're |
| 6933s | stockpiling so many pairs and staying on |
| 6935s | tier one as milhouse it makes sense |
| 6937s | because every single minion is going to |
| 6938s | be re-rolls on one drops with that |
| 6941s | magnus mana storm and we do get to see |
| 6943s | for caramon's sake the pop-off turn okay |
| 6945s | two triples already in the shop |
| 6948s | however the levels are gonna be |
| 6950s | extremely expensive here i'm not sure |
| 6953s | how he's gonna approach it but let's |
| 6954s | check in with zephyrus |
| 6956s | oh yes happy |
| 6959s | oh my gosh and the chat rejoices we have |
| 6963s | a double know me player and join you |
| 6965s | zoney just knows what the people want |
| 6967s | the people want |
| 6969s | uh infinite pirates the people want |
| 6971s | devil know me |
| 6973s | and |
| 6974s | me i am also one of the people i want |
| 6977s | double sellamental in the shop which |
| 6979s | guarantees two triples because the first |
| 6981s | golden solomental when sold will put two |
| 6983s | water droplets in hand which you can |
| 6985s | then triple with the water droplet from |
| 6987s | the fourth elemental this is so |
| 6989s | much triple potential from karamon but |
| 6991s | the question is how does he approach the |
| 6993s | payoff on this is he gonna go for |
| 6996s | four drops five drops and what |
| 6997s | distribution of each he's taking at |
| 6999s | least one four drop here to not be um so |
| 7002s | weak in this upcoming fight ground |
| 7003s | shaker is a great way to turn this board |
| 7005s | of weak minions into actual ones that |
| 7008s | can perhaps trade toe to toe with max |
| 7010s | seven key on the patches max seven key |
| 7013s | really needs to make some miracles |
| 7014s | happen here i feel like it's first or |
| 7016s | best for him with two mediocre lobbies |
| 7018s | at the beginning and he has an early |
| 7020s | peggy which is a nice setup but i don't |
| 7023s | know if it's enough to win the fight |
| 7025s | yeah he's gonna get his buddy this turn |
| 7027s | so i think he's looking to triple into |
| 7029s | bran i'm curious to see if he has a |
| 7031s | triple |
| 7032s | waiting for him not sure if he does |
| 7035s | because i only see one pair |
| 7037s | but yeah so this is a turn where you |
| 7039s | could try to triple into brand and you |
| 7042s | could put your buddy on any minion type |
| 7044s | so if you can find a cleave or something |
| 7045s | but keep in mind there are no cleaves in |
| 7047s | this lobby there's no beast there's no |
| 7049s | mechs so |
| 7050s | we're going to see all these triples |
| 7052s | come to fruition from caravan over here |
| 7056s | i mean |
| 7057s | i'm dreaming for a nomi but we know that |
| 7059s | where two of them are |
| 7061s | i know right |
| 7063s | one of our players answered that they |
| 7065s | have sellamental as their favorite |
| 7066s | minion it is not caramon here but they |
| 7068s | are definitely wishing that it is that |
| 7070s | they would be caramel right here so |
| 7073s | going for at least one five |
| 7076s | no or less nomi's in the pool because we |
| 7079s | have um |
| 7080s | zephyrus zoenyu kind of hoarding them |
| 7082s | but there is an option for a tony |
| 7087s | that's interesting do you just take the |
| 7089s | money or hope for the dream of maybe |
| 7091s | hitting a peggy okay it does take i |
| 7093s | think yeah with the avenge units on |
| 7095s | board and the possibility of more |
| 7097s | triples right here uh you definitely |
| 7099s | want to look for that hogger to just |
| 7102s | make the audience excited |
| 7104s | yes |
| 7105s | because that's the main important thing |
| 7107s | here yes it's not about the money it's |
| 7108s | about the audience thrill |
| 7111s | of the tony hogger dream unfortunately |
| 7114s | gonna take the taunt |
| 7116s | uh looking for more triples sold out of |
| 7119s | the chromowing pair |
| 7122s | this is turning into one of those |
| 7124s | disaster scenarios for milhouse where |
| 7126s | you don't quite have at least a triple |
| 7128s | into a good tempo minion or finding a |
| 7131s | major domo to try and benefit from the |
| 7133s | master of realities he's played a ton of |
| 7134s | elementals this turn however just get at |
| 7136s | least the briny bootlegger in the shop |
| 7138s | which is very likely to be golden this |
| 7140s | turn and can print some money um |
| 7143s | definitely not strong in this instance |
| 7145s | though whereas we have summer oh scabs |
| 7148s | just oh no sniping the bra |
| 7151s | yeah he had the taunt in hand uh but |
| 7154s | instead of getting out of a minion to |
| 7156s | put the taunt out to try to preserve |
| 7160s | it it did have |
| 7162s | to die |
| 7163s | last trade in the end just going |
| 7164s | straight for the one drop not taking a |
| 7166s | value trade on the minion not only is it |
| 7168s | no golden relevant pirate for karamon |
| 7172s | it's also a lot of damage taken |
| 7174s | meanwhile check in with zoo |
| 7176s | he has hit the double know me hasn't |
| 7178s | tripled them just yet because it |
| 7179s | essentially does the same thing as two |
| 7181s | nomi's on board and he still wanted to |
| 7183s | have the board space or rather he still |
| 7185s | had the board space to play two of them |
| 7187s | and now he can sell out of the 4-4 and |
| 7189s | another minion to get two of the best |
| 7191s | elementals on board the refreshing is so |
| 7193s | huge to activate the nomi on board but |
| 7197s | however only one gold here so he'd |
| 7199s | rather play to a full board and float on |
| 7202s | gold here i kind of like this um it's |
| 7204s | such a huge deal that he's also still |
| 7206s | above the danger zone so even if he |
| 7207s | loses this fight there's no way he goes |
| 7209s | out and then he can keep scaling with |
| 7212s | those nomi's |
| 7213s | in terms of beasts and mechs being gone |
| 7215s | how do you think this affects the power |
| 7217s | level of big elementals overall |
| 7220s | yeah i think you know there is |
| 7222s | opportunity to get poison from murloc so |
| 7224s | that is a bit scary but he's in such a |
| 7227s | good position his minions are quite |
| 7228s | large and we see silas popping off not |
| 7231s | necessarily with uh apm hogger |
| 7234s | pirates but with double peggy pirates |
| 7236s | where they just buff each other and he's |
| 7238s | just cycling tickets as many as possible |
| 7241s | this is a very niche |
| 7245s | cough that you don't see often but i'm |
| 7247s | glad we got to see |
| 7249s | uh because it is going to be |
| 7252s | it's one of those things where he's |
| 7253s | likely not going to triple peggy unless |
| 7255s | he finds another peggy or another really |
| 7258s | good uh |
| 7259s | pirate to buff with it |
| 7261s | he does have a gold grubber in hand so |
| 7263s | that's true even if he triples peggy but |
| 7266s | i find it really cool that he also has |
| 7268s | like a mini elemental setup here with |
| 7270s | the refreshing which means that every |
| 7272s | sentimental bot is sort of gold saved |
| 7274s | because it means you get two free rolls |
| 7276s | and it's buffing the peggies here like |
| 7278s | you said a very niche comp and it's |
| 7280s | actually just out pirating max 70 on the |
| 7283s | patches here which has got to be a bad |
| 7285s | feeling i hate this whenever i play |
| 7287s | patches and somebody just has the better |
| 7288s | pirate setup and it exactly sets him |
| 7291s | into the danger zone potentially dying |
| 7293s | from damage cap here but also join you |
| 7296s | in that same troubled position where he |
| 7298s | could just die to milhouse zhonya had |
| 7300s | just faced tests that turned uh so i'm |
| 7304s | curious to know what tess has going on |
| 7305s | that it was stronger than this board but |
| 7307s | ozonia needs to consider maybe tripling |
| 7309s | the nomi so that instead of having two |
| 7312s | weak minions they have a strong minion |
| 7314s | over here on test we have the double pop |
| 7318s | peggy uh didn't take the ammo down |
| 7320s | because i only have two types |
| 7323s | yeah it's double peggy dream |
| 7326s | i know it's peggy city and obviously |
| 7328s | tess is likely to pick up more of those |
| 7330s | the more people in the lobby have the |
| 7332s | peggy and now babelfat is sort of |
| 7335s | transitioning into a hybrid dragon comp |
| 7338s | as well here double caligo's picked up |
| 7340s | that's insane um the elise buddy here i |
| 7344s | don't feel he's ever going to have the |
| 7345s | board space to truly get value from it |
| 7347s | because it's a start of turn effect that |
| 7349s | it adds a recruitment map to your hand |
| 7351s | but the key here is to try and find a |
| 7354s | triple to make some board space and |
| 7356s | continue cycling but actually he gets |
| 7358s | rid of his golden buddy here not |
| 7360s | interested in picking up any more of |
| 7362s | anyone else's buddies and i think that's |
| 7364s | wise |
| 7365s | it would be prudent i think to just play |
| 7367s | for maximum tempo here when the police |
| 7369s | could be popping off |
| 7371s | yep i think he he realized i already |
| 7373s | found my direction i don't need to be |
| 7375s | greedy anymore with this buddy to help |
| 7377s | me find direction i am double calgos cal |
| 7380s | ghost is one of those heroes that used |
| 7381s | to be or minions they used to be so good |
| 7383s | and just really fell off unless you get |
| 7385s | to a double cow that's what she was able |
| 7387s | to do |
| 7388s | uh thanks in part to the zephyrus uh |
| 7391s | buddy and now we see zephyrs who had |
| 7394s | that double know me so early join you uh |
| 7397s | is he going to be able to defeat the |
| 7399s | milhouse he is |
| 7401s | yeah pushing caramon into the danger |
| 7403s | zone as well karamon obviously didn't |
| 7406s | hit big on his first couple triples but |
| 7408s | sort of wiggled himself out of a bad |
| 7410s | situation |
| 7411s | double masters but like you said that's |
| 7413s | our first casualty here in summer on the |
| 7417s | scabs very unfortunate going down from |
| 7419s | exactly at the damage cap 15 that is a |
| 7422s | huge deal and if we're going to bubble |
| 7425s | fat i'm gonna assume that's the person |
| 7427s | who killed him not sure but double peggy |
| 7430s | double caligos we are just seeing so |
| 7431s | many hybrid peggy comps here yes i'm |
| 7435s | loving it another calicos |
| 7438s | oh my goodness can we get into that |
| 7440s | sports base |
| 7442s | we'll see |
| 7443s | because the ones that are offered when |
| 7446s | he hero powers for caligos those aren't |
| 7448s | ones from the shop so we know there are |
| 7450s | seven calagos available from bob but if |
| 7453s | he gets one from hero powering that's |
| 7455s | not going to take away from those seven |
| 7456s | available from bob so there are a lot of |
| 7458s | calgary still out there technically all |
| 7460s | right i got a question so |
| 7462s | is this triple on the warden abates |
| 7468s | it might be something you wait for next |
| 7470s | turn to do |
| 7472s | you can just buy the brand and hold um |
| 7474s | but |
| 7476s | you know i don't i don't hate it |
| 7478s | yeah i mean i think |
| 7481s | in a vacuum it doesn't make so much |
| 7483s | sense because having two dragons |
| 7485s | especially with the vine shield are so |
| 7487s | valuable to buff separately because you |
| 7488s | technically get more stats from caligo's |
| 7490s | but i'm thinking here that vabo fat is |
| 7492s | really just trying to nail a um discover |
| 7496s | on medina just to consolidate his board |
| 7498s | even more he's scared because collins is |
| 7500s | so powerful here at 38. i mean we've |
| 7503s | been focusing on everybody else because |
| 7504s | they need the points but quietly collins |
| 7506s | has just been killing it in the lobby |
| 7508s | once again potentially ending up with |
| 7510s | another top three position um has a very |
| 7514s | nice triple divine shield set up with a |
| 7517s | gem splitter very good use of mutinous |
| 7520s | but the scaling here comes from mostly |
| 7522s | ground shaker and eating his minions |
| 7525s | which is a nice way to sort of make |
| 7527s | temporary stats from shaker into |
| 7529s | permanent but it looks like this is |
| 7531s | going to be the end of the line for max |
| 7533s | yeah and i want to talk about that the |
| 7534s | points were talking about earlier we |
| 7535s | were focusing on certain people the |
| 7537s | player who got eighth place was summer |
| 7539s | who was currently in second place with |
| 7541s | 8.5 points so him getting zero points |
| 7544s | there is a massive deal |
| 7547s | max seven key going out and zoinu going |
| 7550s | out uh tied with max seven key with the |
| 7553s | zephyrus elementals uh just not enough |
| 7556s | for that silas who was playing the fun |
| 7558s | little peggy comp over there it'll be |
| 7560s | necessary to create some more threats |
| 7562s | because currently uh panpada really only |
| 7564s | has the two peggys as a carry minion the |
| 7566s | tony to a certain extent it's just |
| 7569s | here yeah but |
| 7571s | is that enough against collins um we did |
| 7573s | see that collins didn't necessarily have |
| 7575s | tons of stats on his minions but he had |
| 7577s | the ground shaker generation and that's |
| 7579s | going to add a lot more attack to the |
| 7581s | board from turn to turn we also just |
| 7584s | have pon pada with |
| 7585s | basically a scally comp in hand but |
| 7587s | obviously not gonna pivot into it do you |
| 7590s | think he's gonna end on eliza or a |
| 7592s | selfless hero |
| 7593s | uh so i feel like he needs to end on a |
| 7596s | ghoul and he has the money to keep |
| 7597s | looking because technically any ticket |
| 7598s | he buys is free and this one actually |
| 7600s | gives him money if he buys this |
| 7601s | elemental uh been benson just buys |
| 7604s | another peggy to end on to golden a |
| 7606s | third peggy for the peggy dream uh which |
| 7610s | i just appreciate he is positioning his |
| 7613s | small minions first because he knows he |
| 7614s | did not get the ghoul so he has to uh |
| 7617s | use these as bumpers versus mutants who |
| 7620s | you expect to just have a ton of divine |
| 7622s | shields |
| 7623s | that's right and it's only two here i |
| 7625s | think colin sold out of one of his |
| 7628s | divine shields that was previously not |
| 7630s | scaled very well so it makes sense i |
| 7632s | think this is going to be a pretty |
| 7633s | convincing win for panpada here who has |
| 7635s | tons of health on his minions and it's |
| 7636s | not often you see a seven position as |
| 7639s | early as third but because of the |
| 7640s | acolyte he had very good chances of just |
| 7642s | getting it automatically poisoned and |
| 7644s | then that minion itself could act as a |
| 7646s | vengeful for the tony instead and now he |
| 7649s | has that triple golden peggy you were |
| 7650s | talking about dealing tons of damage to |
| 7653s | collins in the process i think pon pada |
| 7655s | is setting himself up for a potential |
| 7658s | first place and gonna be put onto one of |
| 7661s | my favorite players list too with this |
| 7663s | build i mean |
| 7665s | how thrilling and so now we see over |
| 7667s | here with milhouse with the double |
| 7669s | wraith weaver meaning anytime uh he |
| 7672s | or recycling every time he plays an |
| 7674s | elemental it's going to give him a free |
| 7677s | roll it reduces the cost of rolling by |
| 7679s | one and he has two out there it's one of |
| 7681s | those cars that's like sometimes better |
| 7683s | as a pair than a triple when you're |
| 7685s | playing milhouse |
| 7687s | right i'm putting in an official request |
| 7689s | to the dev team please print a card |
| 7690s | called wraith weaver where it does |
| 7693s | recycling weight wraith but also when |
| 7694s | you play an elemental it gets bigger and |
| 7696s | damages your hero by the way i'm doing |
| 7698s | my best |
| 7701s | spelling out of the know me |
| 7704s | yeah know me out here for karamon which |
| 7706s | makes a lot of sense because honestly |
| 7707s | his scaling is not coming from |
| 7709s | elementals in the shop but just buffing |
| 7711s | this huge master of realities here and |
| 7714s | doubling down on the fact that you're |
| 7715s | milhouse and you can get a lot of stats |
| 7718s | just by buying and selling and the |
| 7720s | double uh recycling rates like you |
| 7722s | talked about make sure he can hit |
| 7724s | elementals very consistently |
| 7725s | unfortunately he doesn't have much board |
| 7727s | space to buy another murloc and get |
| 7730s | value from the primal finn it's really |
| 7733s | difficult honestly to get full milhouse |
| 7735s | turns through especially when you're not |
| 7737s | able to play on your own server so |
| 7739s | challenge for karamon here is playing as |
| 7741s | strong as he can because he's facing up |
| 7743s | against um pon pada who is the current |
| 7745s | lobby leader |
| 7747s | oh is he gonna get the play out he |
| 7749s | does |
| 7750s | um |
| 7752s | my fear here is that murlocs are in so |
| 7754s | he has just basically one solid minion |
| 7758s | uh that's bigger than the peggy's on the |
| 7760s | other side but just dies to |
| 7763s | poison and we see that |
| 7765s | pompano was able to hit double amalgadon |
| 7768s | both with poison neither with divine |
| 7770s | shield keeping my mechs are out so he |
| 7772s | cannot fix that but the stats are just |
| 7775s | there and he's going to be able to knock |
| 7776s | karemon out |
| 7778s | into the bottom four |
| 7781s | alongside of educated collins and we now |
| 7784s | have our top three |
| 7786s | yep tied for fourth and fifth there |
| 7788s | which is a huge deal i wanted to shout |
| 7790s | out to caramond there with that very |
| 7792s | clutch bumper first and then like |
| 7794s | mid-sized minion second to be able to |
| 7796s | take out a potential taunted amalgadon |
| 7798s | without just sacrificing spicing your |
| 7801s | master of reality straight away managed |
| 7803s | to take some value trades there but |
| 7804s | there was simply too much poison and |
| 7806s | peggy shenanigans at the end good effort |
| 7809s | but now it's all about pon pada baba fat |
| 7812s | and bayou panpada and bayou have had |
| 7814s | some at least one good lobby previously |
| 7816s | but bible fat this is his first time i |
| 7818s | think um settling into the top four is |
| 7822s | he going to be able to keep up with |
| 7825s | bayou it's been a while since we've seen |
| 7826s | what elise is up to but in terms of |
| 7828s | stats this definitely cannot get uh |
| 7831s | enough to beat pompada |
| 7833s | yeah we know that those peggies have a |
| 7835s | hundred stats or more and we're seeing |
| 7838s | that he had a tech card in hand |
| 7841s | to knock divine shields off the presser |
| 7844s | pyre spawn |
| 7845s | but peggy's not gonna have divine |
| 7847s | shields as we know and um so now on this |
| 7850s | side of the board these are smaller |
| 7852s | dragons than peggy |
| 7854s | but we have the divine shields now so |
| 7857s | that is going to basically double their |
| 7859s | size |
| 7861s | yeah as a very rough way of looking at |
| 7863s | it they got two attacks so |
| 7865s | if we can |
| 7866s | sort of just map it out in our heads i |
| 7869s | feel like it would be very very close in |
| 7871s | the end the seven could be clutch here |
| 7874s | but we'll see |
| 7875s | we do know that bobo fats |
| 7878s | doesn't necessarily have the tech to get |
| 7880s | there i think his amalgadon doesn't |
| 7882s | didn't have poison either so it will |
| 7884s | most likely turn into a bayou versus |
| 7887s | panpada top two i think there's a pyro |
| 7889s | spawn which like you said is going to be |
| 7891s | a big deal to take out that first minion |
| 7893s | but i think the nadina plus the stats |
| 7897s | here would still put bayou in the lead |
| 7901s | yeah the stats are super important just |
| 7904s | they're so much bigger |
| 7906s | even with the presser power spawn it's |
| 7907s | just not enough though there is a murloc |
| 7909s | on this side with poison gotta knock out |
| 7912s | the biggest minion so elise is going to |
| 7914s | take it moving uh baba fat into third |
| 7917s | place and we're gonna see panpala and |
| 7920s | bayou in our top two |
| 7923s | which is going to be good news for |
| 7925s | pompada i think where it's the player |
| 7927s | that had no amalgadons going up so no |
| 7929s | chance to really leverage some poison |
| 7931s | because that's only uh that's |
| 7934s | only potential weakness here if he's not |
| 7935s | just hoarding all the malgadons himself |
| 7937s | which is what's happening here is a lot |
| 7940s | of recording |
| 7941s | yeah |
| 7943s | i've not seen just peggy without auger |
| 7945s | get this scaled but it's just completely |
| 7949s | leveraging the fact that you can get so |
| 7950s | many free minions in hand as the uh |
| 7954s | silas with golden buddy here you love to |
| 7956s | see it it's a different way of |
| 7957s | approaching infinite value with silas i |
| 7961s | think it's going to be a very convincing |
| 7962s | victory from him with a very creative |
| 7964s | comp pompada living up to the hype that |
| 7967s | a lot of the battlegrounds community has |
| 7969s | attributed to him |
| 7970s | yes i i mean i i stand pompada now |
| 7975s | i am a fan |
| 7977s | you've won me over |
| 7980s | you say that because collins isn't in |
| 7982s | the running anymore well i mean |
| 7986s | we know collins is going through we're |
| 7988s | pretty sure and you know what it's it's |
| 7991s | when you go to a competition you always |
| 7993s | go in with your with your favorite but |
| 7995s | it's so nice to find these new faces |
| 7998s | this is our first time that we haven't |
| 8000s | like a non-invitational big battleground |
| 8003s | event we've had so many that were just |
| 8004s | based on pure invites to the community |
| 8007s | and now this one is like just you know |
| 8009s | skill and so we're going to see so many |
| 8011s | new faces and |
| 8013s | i encourage everyone to become a fan |
| 8016s | of someone new that you've never seen |
| 8018s | before |
| 8019s | fada already popping off when he sees |
| 8021s | the percentages the players are allowed |
| 8023s | to have deck trackers as well so from |
| 8025s | his perspective he'll know that he has |
| 8026s | pretty much a hundred percent in this |
| 8028s | situation knows he goes out with a full |
| 8030s | seven points in first place which is |
| 8032s | enough i would say most likely to offset |
| 8034s | that lackluster second lobby and von |
| 8037s | pada based on his little player trivia |
| 8039s | that we've gotten before his play style |
| 8041s | is known as just unique he has a |
| 8044s | nickname up from japan of being the |
| 8046s | battlegrounds alien he just does it like |
| 8049s | no one else and that is absolutely what |
| 8051s | he saw here a player who at one point |
| 8053s | achieved 45 000 total mmr across three |
| 8057s | servers that's absolutely insane and he |
| 8060s | does secure himself through to tomorrow |
| 8062s | it looks like we're not going to have to |
| 8063s | go through the tiebreaker rules because |
| 8066s | there is a clear distinction collins in |
| 8069s | first place followed by bayou from china |
| 8071s | pon pada from japan and bobo frat from |
| 8075s | eu because they've been there |
| 8079s | one from each region are moving on to |
| 8082s | tomorrow |
| 8084s | very very cool stuff lobby a goes out |
| 8087s | with equal representation from our four |
| 8090s | main regions but in the end it is |
| 8092s | collins who comes out on top with a |
| 8094s | second into a first into a respectable |
| 8097s | 4.5 as well just very consistent play |
| 8100s | like you said he is reserved and knows |
| 8102s | when to go for greed when possible and i |
| 8104s | think all his prep has absolutely paid |
| 8106s | off here but i want to award most |
| 8108s | creative player award to panpada it's |
| 8110s | not ferris lissa i think this is fair i |
| 8113s | will agree with that big fan |
| 8116s | very |
| 8117s | proud of what he was able to show off |
| 8119s | today and so |
| 8122s | yeah new fan in me |
| 8124s | yeah and then shout out of course to |
| 8126s | bayou as well we were comparing him a |
| 8128s | little bit to collins those are |
| 8130s | bennett's words not mine but he has been |
| 8133s | known to be one of the more confident |
| 8135s | players in china apparently who is fine |
| 8137s | with taking the power level stance maybe |
| 8139s | that playstyle is not so appropriate in |
| 8142s | the buddy meta but definitely confidence |
| 8144s | overall is super important in a |
| 8146s | tournament like this where you're faced |
| 8147s | up against the greats knowing that you |
| 8149s | have what it takes and believing in |
| 8150s | yourself is a huge part of the recipe to |
| 8153s | success and then finally rounding out |
| 8155s | our top four from la vie we have bobo |
| 8157s | fat who is admittedly one of the wild |
| 8160s | cards of the tournament anything that |
| 8162s | you picked up when asking him some |
| 8163s | questions alyssa |
| 8165s | um yeah he just seems like a very humble |
| 8167s | guy and um |
| 8170s | i mean i i did get to spectate him |
| 8172s | recently for the watch stone so trying |
| 8174s | to get into |
| 8175s | the |
| 8176s | tournament for next time around i'm |
| 8178s | trying to get an invite there and he's |
| 8180s | very fun to watch play he plays silas a |
| 8183s | lot i i think i've seen him play silas |
| 8185s | quite a few times |
| 8187s | and just very consistent |
| 8189s | uh but |
| 8190s | yeah he just overall seems like a nice |
| 8192s | humble guy |
| 8194s | absolutely love to see it four players |
| 8197s | one from each region going through to |
| 8199s | tomorrow where we will be entering the |
| 8201s | check format as well but that's only |
| 8203s | half of our action from the day overs so |
| 8206s | we still have three games to be played |
| 8208s | out for lobby b the other half of our |
| 8210s | top 16 which also features two players |
| 8212s | from every region so always someone to |
| 8214s | cheer for still i want to shout out our |
| 8217s | players that didn't unfortunately manage |
| 8219s | to make it through to tomorrow zoinu a |
| 8222s | big favorite from the latam community |
| 8223s | and was looking super strong at the |
| 8225s | beginning but unfortunately couldn't |
| 8226s | pull it together and karamon who is a |
| 8230s | very famous in japan player who has |
| 8232s | written a dictionary for how to play |
| 8235s | different heroes and it's definitely |
| 8236s | contributed a lot to the community can |
| 8238s | you talk a little bit about the other |
| 8240s | two as well system |
| 8241s | oh yes uh if i can remember their names |
| 8243s | really fast so we had |
| 8246s | max seven key from the russian community |
| 8250s | has very strong ladder finishes but |
| 8252s | unfortunately just it wasn't his day |
| 8254s | today and our final player was from |
| 8258s | the americas right |
| 8261s | oh i said join yours oh you said join |
| 8263s | you i'm so sorry that's my fault for |
| 8265s | putting you on the spot it was our |
| 8267s | chinese player summer and i believe he |
| 8269s | was our youngest player right |
| 8271s | yeah that's right um yeah i managed to |
| 8273s | find some background info on him and |
| 8275s | apparently he is only 18 years old which |
| 8278s | is amazing um |
| 8280s | the |
| 8281s | historic champions in hearthstone |
| 8283s | constructed at least have been teenagers |
| 8285s | so i feel he has many many years and |
| 8287s | potential ahead of him to improve even |
| 8290s | more of course is our only first lobby |
| 8293s | legends of the year still so many to be |
| 8295s | played out and the qualification will |
| 8297s | continue that is definitely not the last |
| 8299s | we've seen of those four players but |
| 8301s | right now we have our top four from |
| 8304s | lobby a cemented after this short break |
| 8307s | we will be seeing who are the other four |
| 8309s | to join them from lobby beat do not go |
| 8311s | anywhere right after this we'll be back |
| 8313s | with the second half of the day |
| 8317s | [Music] |
| 8324s | hello everyone and welcome to the lobby |
| 8326s | legends raid leaders totally not rigged |
| 8330s | uh lobby draw whatever hello everyone |
| 8333s | and welcome to the lobby legends raid |
| 8335s | leaders totally not rigged lobby draw i |
| 8338s | am alex barhorst aka a bar i am the |
| 8341s | product manager for hearthstone sports |
| 8343s | joining me today is the assistant to the |
| 8345s | product manager for hearthstone esports |
| 8347s | that's griffy |
| 8350s | [Music] |
| 8353s | so what we're doing today is we have 16 |
| 8355s | competitors who made it through the |
| 8356s | qualifier portion of our lobby legends |
| 8358s | event so we just separate them into two |
| 8360s | different groups so we're gonna draw |
| 8362s | balls from a cheap plastic ball machine |
| 8364s | that i bought on the internet and uh if |
| 8366s | the number is even then you're gonna go |
| 8369s | into lobby a and if the number is odd |
| 8371s | then we're gonna put that player into |
| 8372s | lobby b |
| 8373s | so without further ado let's get into |
| 8376s | our random drawing briffy take it away |
| 8380s | [Music] |
| 8387s | [Music] |
| 8389s | so our first player we're drawing for is |
| 8391s | educated collins and he is number 12. so |
| 8394s | even will go into lobby number a |
| 8398s | lobby letter x so even numbers will go |
| 8400s | into lobby a next up is ken ken and he |
| 8404s | is number one so odd and so ken ken will |
| 8408s | be in lobby |
| 8411s | [Music] |
| 8419s | isn't this exciting griffey |
| 8424s | and that's it we have our lobbies drawn |
| 8426s | lobby a over here and lobby b over there |
| 8428s | thank you so much for the assist grippy |
| 8430s | and everyone be sure to tune in april |
| 8432s | 2nd and 3rd for battlegrounds lobby |
| 8434s | legends only on youtube and twitch |
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| 8931s | welcome back everybody to lobby legends |
| 8933s | raid leaders my name is gia and still |
| 8935s | with me is alyssa's lissa ritter at |
| 8937s | melissa on twitter how are you doing |
| 8941s | oh no |
| 8942s | [Laughter] |
| 8945s | that was beautiful chia feel i'm doing |
| 8947s | great and now i'm just giggly and happy |
| 8950s | again |
| 8951s | i practiced that at least five times |
| 8953s | during the break shout out for giving me |
| 8955s | the idea |
| 8958s | we have yeah d |
| 8960s | oh dang it my song is cool i wasn't |
| 8962s | prepared |
| 8963s | sorry |
| 8965s | you can find some time to |
| 8967s | make a rhyme with my name at some later |
| 8969s | point maybe after next break because |
| 8971s | right now we have to talk about how the |
| 8973s | first half of the day panned out because |
| 8975s | of course lobby a has been resolved done |
| 8978s | and dusted we have our top four players |
| 8980s | advancing through to tomorrow it is |
| 8983s | educated collins by you |
| 8986s | uh bobo fats and of course pon pada an |
| 8990s | even representation of our four regions |
| 8993s | and i wonder if it's gonna pan out |
| 8994s | similarly in the second half of the day |
| 8996s | because we've only seen eight players so |
| 8998s | far |
| 8999s | yeah i'm really excited to see this uh |
| 9001s | second lobby how who the players are and |
| 9005s | see how it's going to pan out because |
| 9006s | lobby |
| 9008s | a was super exciting i mean every single |
| 9010s | game was thrilling in my opinion there |
| 9012s | was no boring game i mean some games of |
| 9014s | battlegrounds can be boring but nothing |
| 9016s | there was boring to me like there was |
| 9017s | just so much excitement and we can see |
| 9019s | in lobby b we have b nice from europe |
| 9023s | kurt from the americas good dammit from |
| 9025s | europe hof from china ken ken from |
| 9029s | america satellite from japan |
| 9032s | safe from uh aipac and uh sjmr from |
| 9037s | china |
| 9038s | i love how we're just kind of using |
| 9039s | japan and apac interchangeably i am so |
| 9041s | sorry i mean |
| 9043s | it's true exactly because we have all of |
| 9046s | our apac players coming from japan as it |
| 9048s | panned out here yeah and they're right |
| 9051s | here |
| 9052s | and if you look at europe we had two |
| 9054s | from germany two from russia so that's |
| 9056s | pretty cool too |
| 9058s | absolutely and of these players i feel |
| 9060s | like there is one player we need to |
| 9062s | highlight the most in goddammit because |
| 9064s | i heard selesa in the qualifiers he won |
| 9068s | every single lobby he played in clean |
| 9070s | sweep |
| 9071s | was it a clean sleep or was that close |
| 9073s | to a clean sweep i think he did insanely |
| 9074s | well lots of first places |
| 9076s | uh |
| 9077s | very impressive qualifier to say the |
| 9080s | least |
| 9081s | that's right and if anybody wasn't here |
| 9083s | at the beginning or needed a reminder |
| 9085s | these top 16 that have played out |
| 9087s | through today they went through so many |
| 9089s | stages of qualification to get here at |
| 9091s | the end of february they had to be one |
| 9093s | of the top 16 players among the three |
| 9096s | regions and then they had to play |
| 9098s | through a 48 player qualifier that was |
| 9100s | played off stream be one of the top 12 |
| 9103s | here and then make it through to the top |
| 9106s | 16 at least if they were from america's |
| 9108s | apac or eu whereas our top four players |
| 9111s | from china had a different but equally |
| 9113s | rigorous qualification system and like |
| 9115s | we said in lobby a there were um an a |
| 9119s | very even representation of players |
| 9121s | making it through to tomorrow um we |
| 9123s | could see that replicated through or we |
| 9125s | could see some standouts here because i |
| 9127s | feel like our european players are some |
| 9130s | runaway favorites in terms of how |
| 9131s | they've been performing on ladder or |
| 9133s | maybe just because i know a little bit |
| 9134s | more about them |
| 9136s | yeah i mean i've |
| 9137s | we have some great america's players and |
| 9140s | i've been but i keep going back to our |
| 9142s | japanese players like i got to see them |
| 9144s | last turn it out and i'm now a big fan |
| 9147s | so |
| 9148s | i i think it will be a very interesting |
| 9150s | lobby uh we do have confirmation on good |
| 9152s | diamond during the qualifiers this |
| 9154s | during the second round of qualifiers he |
| 9156s | did a clean sweep of first places which |
| 9158s | is just so impressive because there's 24 |
| 9161s | of the top players there so |
| 9163s | well he is someone to look forward to |
| 9166s | watching uh in this first game |
| 9171s | absolutely um just going to give our |
| 9173s | players a little bit of time to get |
| 9176s | ready but in the meanwhile we can sort |
| 9178s | of give some background on our players i |
| 9180s | especially want to highlight kurt |
| 9182s | because i don't know very much about him |
| 9185s | but never mind we'll do that when we're |
| 9187s | in court perspective because we're |
| 9188s | starting off with goddammit here on a |
| 9190s | test right off the bat last lobby test |
| 9193s | didn't perform especially well but how |
| 9195s | do you think about her prospects here um |
| 9198s | with gadomet |
| 9199s | was interesting because he was offered |
| 9201s | uh bran and murlocs are in this game i'm |
| 9204s | not sure what other minion types are and |
| 9206s | i can see beasts i could see uh mechs |
| 9210s | so a bit of a greedy play because when |
| 9212s | you see bran murlocs it's something that |
| 9214s | a lot of players would normally pick up |
| 9217s | we're going to find out soon what other |
| 9218s | minion types are in but i think tess |
| 9221s | just has |
| 9222s | a lot of good qualities right now and |
| 9225s | it's super greedy so maybe he's saying |
| 9226s | hey i'm going to be greedy game one and |
| 9228s | then play it safe from here on out um |
| 9231s | but we can see now that there are no |
| 9233s | dragons no elementals and no pirates |
| 9235s | this game |
| 9236s | uh and you see on the left hand side who |
| 9239s | all of our players are playing as well |
| 9241s | as what tier they are on |
| 9243s | all right quick note i've already come |
| 9245s | up with my bias for this lobby and it's |
| 9247s | satellite because i have that exact same |
| 9249s | shiba inu plushie and the hearthstone |
| 9251s | pillow in my room |
| 9253s | oh my gosh so yeah the odds |
| 9257s | um |
| 9258s | you need to get one |
| 9260s | i i don't exercise enough for that but |
| 9263s | something that i don't have is the |
| 9265s | double swamp striker start as fleurgal |
| 9267s | which is a good way to get tempo here |
| 9269s | but i'm very curious about fleurgal's |
| 9272s | position in the meta ever since the tier |
| 9274s | 1 murlocs are changed do you think that |
| 9276s | the lack of tidehunter has been a boon |
| 9278s | or a detriment to fleurgal given that it |
| 9281s | also has a strong minion replacing it |
| 9283s | i think because a strong minion replaces |
| 9285s | it it allows the hero to be strong in |
| 9287s | the early game and it's not as crazy and |
| 9290s | we see afk now is about to get their |
| 9293s | triples uh we're not |
| 9295s | they're taking their time |
| 9297s | to see what triples they got |
| 9299s | are they maybe going for the afk |
| 9301s | achievement where they weigh an extra |
| 9303s | turn |
| 9304s | no they just decided to open up the |
| 9306s | packages getting a thorn collar and a |
| 9310s | deflecto |
| 9312s | they are able to level here because they |
| 9313s | have tokens in the shop the decision |
| 9315s | between the quillboard or the |
| 9318s | alicat and it's a smart decision here |
| 9319s | because with the deflectobot we have a |
| 9322s | good target for these blood gems early |
| 9324s | along with the banana so |
| 9327s | a very good start for afk one of those |
| 9329s | here is that people just think is weak |
| 9331s | but is actually insanely strong this |
| 9334s | meta especially with that new skin |
| 9336s | melissa i think as jmr was just paying |
| 9339s | some respect to the recently announced |
| 9341s | patch notes with that beginning of the |
| 9342s | turn where afk is not allowed to press |
| 9345s | the freeze button or do anything else or |
| 9347s | e-mode in the early game |
| 9349s | it was a great april fool's prank but |
| 9352s | actually does end up with some amazing |
| 9354s | three drops like you said i love picking |
| 9355s | afk especially when quilboar are in |
| 9357s | because a lot of the powerspike minions |
| 9360s | are available on tier three thorncollar |
| 9362s | just a great one with scaling sort of |
| 9364s | built in as long as it dies every combat |
| 9366s | and then the brute and the banner board |
| 9368s | if you can get another um mcquilboar |
| 9370s | going it's really great and then mechs |
| 9372s | are a great one to have too anything |
| 9374s | with divine shield works amazingly with |
| 9376s | that buddy from afk and she can |
| 9378s | consistently make uh top four i feel if |
| 9380s | you hit enough of those meanwhile for |
| 9382s | ken ken though he does have a powerful |
| 9384s | demon start heavy tempo with the |
| 9386s | milhouse should be getting the body on |
| 9388s | curve i feel which |
| 9390s | generally means either seven eight or |
| 9393s | nine gold depending on what tier the |
| 9396s | buddy is |
| 9397s | hurt has tripled early into a three drop |
| 9400s | we can see uh green thumb arm of the |
| 9402s | empire and soul juggler not sure what |
| 9404s | his board looks like but green thumb is |
| 9406s | a good early card to get |
| 9408s | especially with um |
| 9411s | with mookla who's usually going these |
| 9412s | divine shield builds obviously he |
| 9414s | doesn't have enough cards this turn for |
| 9416s | avenge but he's gonna start stacking |
| 9418s | bananas on his green thumb so that it |
| 9420s | doesn't get sniped early i do like this |
| 9423s | play um |
| 9425s | having to make that kind of decision |
| 9426s | about to get his buddy as well so there |
| 9428s | is the thought of just holding bananas |
| 9430s | till you get your buddy uh that's |
| 9432s | something i like to do i'll just use the |
| 9434s | big bananas |
| 9436s | uh early and hold on to the small ones |
| 9438s | but it makes sense i mean and while |
| 9440s | we're here on kurt's perspective he is i |
| 9442s | think fair to say one of the lesser |
| 9444s | known names in the competition but he |
| 9446s | has been playing hearthstone ever since |
| 9448s | 2015 in constructed and then moving to |
| 9450s | battleground since release he has a very |
| 9453s | very kind message to viewers where he's |
| 9455s | very humble talking about how the |
| 9457s | competition today is very very tough but |
| 9460s | he is absolutely going to give it his |
| 9462s | all and if you want to follow his climb |
| 9464s | next season you can check out his stream |
| 9466s | on twitch slash captain c-a-f-s-e-a-p-n |
| 9471s | kurt for four um moving over to say say |
| 9474s | here he is a very very vocal player on |
| 9477s | social media once again a japanese |
| 9479s | representative and you can also check |
| 9482s | him out on twitter but over here we have |
| 9485s | uh another maya we've been seeing a lot |
| 9487s | of her today with two alley cats frozen |
| 9489s | in the shop and an icky imp meanwhile |
| 9492s | for be nice ends up with honestly |
| 9494s | something that cesar would have wished |
| 9496s | he'd have the soul jugger to go along |
| 9498s | with the achievements yeah so gonna take |
| 9501s | an early three drop triple i'm seeing a |
| 9503s | lot of early triples in this lobby |
| 9506s | uh |
| 9507s | not those so a lot of tempo-esque plays |
| 9510s | being going down so |
| 9512s | uh that's something that everyone in the |
| 9514s | lobby needs to keep in mind when looking |
| 9516s | around seeing that other players are |
| 9518s | playing very safe means it's a bit scary |
| 9520s | to go greedy because you're going to |
| 9522s | just take a lot of mid-range damage |
| 9524s | early and they have to keep that in mind |
| 9526s | but if you look at all the heroes there |
| 9528s | are a lot of tempo heroes in this lobby |
| 9530s | maya being one of the only greedy heroes |
| 9533s | so |
| 9535s | i think that's just something that every |
| 9536s | player needs to keep in mind and now |
| 9538s | edwin has received their buddy along |
| 9540s | with milhouse i'm sure a lot of players |
| 9542s | received it this turn |
| 9545s | everyone just in a good position with |
| 9546s | this early golden wrath weaver |
| 9548s | oh we have seen i think twice today just |
| 9551s | edwin's doing pretty well in the early |
| 9553s | game which is something i'm not used to |
| 9554s | seeing but i do think it's sort of in |
| 9556s | line with the tempo heavy lobby that you |
| 9558s | were talking about which is in my |
| 9560s | opinion a side effect of the minion |
| 9562s | types that we have banned out no um |
| 9565s | elementals and no pirates means that |
| 9566s | people are less likely to triple into |
| 9568s | fives where there's the big power spikes |
| 9570s | or big directional minions of nomian |
| 9573s | hogger that people would usually aim for |
| 9575s | in this lobby there's potential to hit a |
| 9577s | four instead maybe get some avenge going |
| 9580s | or just play for tempo and then skip |
| 9582s | straight to six which is potentially |
| 9584s | what sese is thinking about here um with |
| 9588s | the buddy active he has access to a |
| 9590s | golden kaboom bot later on he's going to |
| 9592s | free uh sorry use the hero power on the |
| 9595s | falfen navigator which means that he |
| 9598s | wants the triple on the icky amp earlier |
| 9600s | than three turns from now can what do |
| 9602s | you think is going to be the timing of |
| 9604s | his curve |
| 9605s | i feel like he's holding this ali khan |
| 9607s | hand for money because he's going to be |
| 9609s | um |
| 9610s | tripling his kaboom bot next turn into a |
| 9613s | six so being able to sell out the alley |
| 9615s | cat and then we'll be able to buy the |
| 9617s | trickster so he's definitely looking to |
| 9619s | go double six drop with two mechs on |
| 9622s | board probably looking for a bag of |
| 9624s | busters or |
| 9625s | maybe a faux reaper um |
| 9628s | but i think that's the line he's going |
| 9630s | for two triples into six |
| 9632s | and hoping that at least one of them hit |
| 9634s | a omega buster and then we can see over |
| 9637s | here milhouse is tier four |
| 9640s | with this uh broth weaver |
| 9643s | uh trickster comp a lot of people have |
| 9644s | at least one trickster and they're just |
| 9646s | putting all their bananas on it so if |
| 9648s | everyone's doing it |
| 9650s | then there's no one doing it like |
| 9653s | if everyone's super is no one yeah i |
| 9656s | mean |
| 9658s | the very interesting thing to me here is |
| 9660s | that picking milhouse i feel with |
| 9662s | elementals and pirates out is a bold |
| 9665s | choice because i feel like those are the |
| 9666s | two easy directions to go in with |
| 9668s | milhouse those are minion types that |
| 9670s | really benefit from the cheap cost of |
| 9672s | buying minions and don't really rely on |
| 9674s | rolling too much potentially and there's |
| 9676s | also minions that let you get gold |
| 9678s | benefit from elementals with sedimental |
| 9680s | and the wraith and then the pirates of |
| 9682s | course every gambler and every hogger |
| 9684s | you pick up is a great use of the hero |
| 9686s | power when those minion types are out |
| 9688s | what do you think mini uh milhouse is |
| 9690s | looking to do in the long run |
| 9692s | uh possibly a brand composition uh yeah |
| 9695s | because also dragons are out which is |
| 9697s | kind of the caligo so |
| 9699s | um |
| 9700s | yeah i'd assume something with bran or |
| 9702s | quillbore a menagerie style comp and we |
| 9706s | now see is he going to sell out of one |
| 9708s | more minion is he going to keep the pair |
| 9710s | hold the max |
| 9712s | i believe he's likely going to sell the |
| 9714s | buddy in case he hits omega but he |
| 9716s | decides he needs to go with as much |
| 9718s | current tempo as possible in case he |
| 9720s | misses and he does miss this is quite a |
| 9723s | miss because amalgadon he only has |
| 9726s | three types no brand |
| 9728s | charlie is some stats but not a ton of |
| 9732s | stats currently |
| 9734s | uh and he just doesn't have the money to |
| 9735s | use seafood slinger this turn |
| 9737s | right i also would be scared to take |
| 9739s | slinger for the re-roll because usually |
| 9741s | miab takes a lot of pain and they have |
| 9743s | to stabilize on that next turn to not |
| 9745s | get the low damage cap on the second |
| 9747s | roll though there is |
| 9749s | a direction in felbach but admittedly |
| 9751s | it's a weak direction given he only has |
| 9753s | one other demon available does still |
| 9756s | take it here and with the charlie that's |
| 9758s | you know a decent amount of tempo |
| 9759s | rolling right now and he could um try |
| 9761s | and buy more demons here uh |
| 9764s | it's just interesting how he'll use this |
| 9767s | last gold here because actually i like |
| 9769s | frieza like good luck to guarantee that |
| 9771s | he'll eat the two highest stat minions |
| 9773s | of the demons yeah i think a lot of uh |
| 9776s | maybe a little bit lower level players |
| 9778s | would have hero powered the demon just |
| 9779s | to have another demon online but that |
| 9781s | wouldn't be online for three turns and |
| 9783s | he has been taking damage every single |
| 9785s | turn so his core goal is to just get as |
| 9788s | strong as possible therefore taking the |
| 9791s | two three out of contention of being |
| 9793s | eaten and allowing himself to skill as |
| 9795s | much as possible so now he will be able |
| 9797s | to win this turn |
| 9799s | yeah that is very true |
| 9802s | rewarded big time for stabilizing with |
| 9804s | the felbat otherwise it was looking to |
| 9806s | be down to damage cap which |
| 9808s | unfortunately it looks like it's sjmr on |
| 9810s | the afk that is barely staying above it |
| 9813s | even though we talked about how we |
| 9815s | really like afk at the moment satellite |
| 9817s | however transitioning into budget arana |
| 9820s | it looks like which is so funny to say |
| 9822s | when you're fleurgal and you actually do |
| 9825s | burlaps but is this a is this the thing |
| 9827s | we do in japan because i've never seen a |
| 9829s | floor girl do this honestly i am not |
| 9832s | sure i've not seen this too often either |
| 9834s | as fleurgal i much prefer staying on |
| 9836s | tier 3 where you do get the navigator |
| 9838s | and the cold lights here and only for a |
| 9840s | couple turns just sort of |
| 9842s | until you can hit a triple and then try |
| 9844s | and level and hit the bran but we see |
| 9846s | satellite going for a much you know on |
| 9848s | paper safer approach but it's not saved |
| 9850s | him much health so far i wonder if the |
| 9852s | combat uh randomness has been uh |
| 9856s | detrimental to him so far |
| 9859s | yeah i mean |
| 9862s | this is interesting and we see that |
| 9864s | satellite is at three health another |
| 9866s | triple in the shop but i'm getting word |
| 9869s | that we might be ending this game |
| 9871s | shortly |
| 9873s | oh |
| 9874s | yeah we have word from uh from abar that |
| 9877s | this game will be exited soon uh one of |
| 9879s | our players were not aware that this |
| 9881s | wasn't a practice game and so |
| 9884s | yeah that is very unfortunate there was |
| 9887s | a problem in the communication lines |
| 9889s | where like you said we've just gotten |
| 9891s | word that one of our players was not |
| 9894s | informed that this was not the test game |
| 9896s | they didn't know that we would be |
| 9897s | skipping yet so |
| 9899s | for better or for worse it means that |
| 9901s | any progress in that game is going to be |
| 9904s | null in the grand scheme of things no |
| 9906s | points awarded or minus from anyone that |
| 9910s | honestly i feel is a huge relief to |
| 9912s | particularly satellite because that was |
| 9914s | not going his way |
| 9917s | yeah i mean |
| 9918s | that very unfortunate situation where we |
| 9920s | are restarting this game but just means |
| 9922s | more battlegrounds to watch so |
| 9924s | is it unfortunate i don't know it's |
| 9926s | gonna be more fun because now we have |
| 9928s | more games |
| 9929s | we get to start fresh |
| 9931s | and now that we're back on the caster |
| 9933s | screen i can once again put you on the |
| 9935s | spot have you come up with a rhyme for |
| 9937s | not my name no i was watching battle |
| 9939s | crowns while my whole heart and brain |
| 9941s | was into that game |
| 9943s | g d |
| 9944s | oh my gosh i can't |
| 9947s | yours was just so good i mean i don't |
| 9949s | think i can compete with you with what |
| 9952s | the way you said my name was just so |
| 9953s | beautiful i've never i've never even |
| 9954s | thought of that or heard it i don't know |
| 9956s | i didn't think my name was that cool but |
| 9957s | now |
| 9958s | i'm holding out there i'm hoping it'll |
| 9960s | catch on where everybody will only refer |
| 9963s | to you as your full name which is alyssa |
| 9965s | ritter that's what's on twitter nothing |
| 9967s | shorter than that it's just like brian |
| 9969s | brian killer kevlar |
| 9971s | yeah i mean can you really beat brian |
| 9973s | brian kibler kibbler though |
| 9975s | i mean at battlegrounds i'm sure you |
| 9977s | could |
| 9979s | maybe maybe |
| 9981s | uh but he is the king of card games |
| 9985s | i mean constructed too you kind of beat |
| 9988s | a chess legend |
| 9991s | uh i mean gary kasparov didn't have as |
| 9993s | much time to learn the game as i have so |
| 9997s | i'm gonna give him that he learned the |
| 9998s | game quite quickly |
| 10001s | maybe in the future he will be able to |
| 10003s | beat me |
| 10004s | and i tried to get him into |
| 10006s | battlegrounds by the way i kept telling |
| 10008s | him when i was with him i said if you |
| 10010s | want to play the real chess game we |
| 10012s | gotta get you into the auto chess the |
| 10015s | battlegrounds um but he was very very in |
| 10019s | love with constructed hearthstone when i |
| 10021s | met him so |
| 10023s | all right apologies for talking too much |
| 10025s | about lissa i just like doing that and |
| 10028s | hyping her up because she's awesome |
| 10031s | you're awesome slissa but why don't we |
| 10032s | talk a little bit about our players here |
| 10035s | in lobby b as well we said that |
| 10037s | satellite is going to be pretty happy to |
| 10039s | have the restarted lobby and i did |
| 10042s | mention a while ago that somebody in our |
| 10044s | player list has sellamental as their |
| 10046s | favorite hero and that is exactly |
| 10048s | satellite his physical hero is maiev and |
| 10051s | his favorite comp is menagerie and this |
| 10053s | is resonating with me so much just as |
| 10055s | much as the shiva inu plushie because i |
| 10057s | love mayab as well i love forcing aga |
| 10060s | menagerie i guess it's not exactly |
| 10061s | menagerie but agam is just my favorite |
| 10064s | thing it's i'm a one trick um however |
| 10066s | something he's done which i have no |
| 10068s | chance of doing is winning tons of |
| 10070s | community tournaments um over in japan |
| 10072s | they have all sorts of names for their |
| 10074s | community tournaments we have the |
| 10077s | hero cup the flame cup the daryl cup the |
| 10079s | ragnaros cup and the one i'm familiar |
| 10082s | with is the bob cup which is hosted by |
| 10084s | beer brick um one of the big |
| 10087s | hearthstone organizations over in japan |
| 10090s | um hosted by banziro and ahirun who |
| 10093s | everybody knows on twitter and who |
| 10094s | everybody gets decklists from they're |
| 10096s | also active in the battleground scene |
| 10098s | and they've had 11 of these i believe |
| 10101s | bob cops already and it's still ongoing |
| 10103s | and i truly believe that the active |
| 10105s | support from the community giving so |
| 10107s | many practice grounds and encouraging |
| 10109s | new players to crop up is the recipe to |
| 10112s | success for japan's battleground scene |
| 10115s | yeah i mean that's why i've been pushing |
| 10117s | so much to get battlegrounds into |
| 10120s | the americas and europe because we just |
| 10122s | don't have a ton here i had the |
| 10124s | opportunity to play in china all last |
| 10126s | year i'm very lucky uh that i got to do |
| 10129s | that and i was i felt so bad for all |
| 10131s | these other europeans americans apac who |
| 10134s | couldn't be a part of that i was in |
| 10136s | their gold league series so i'm so happy |
| 10139s | now that we have this lobby legends and |
| 10142s | that anyone can qualify you don't have |
| 10144s | to be on a team you don't have to be |
| 10146s | invited you don't have to be this |
| 10148s | big content creator to get an invite you |
| 10151s | just have to be good get good you'll be |
| 10154s | here |
| 10155s | oh man but that's the hardest part |
| 10158s | i have to be good at the game yes you |
| 10160s | have to be good and then we'll sit here |
| 10162s | and critique you for your place |
| 10163s | [Laughter] |
| 10168s | you learned immediately white casting is |
| 10170s | the best thing to do |
| 10172s | you of course have been in the shoes of |
| 10174s | these players playing in these |
| 10175s | high-stakes competitive scenarios where |
| 10178s | a lot of those tournaments have also |
| 10180s | been in a sort of team format whether |
| 10182s | you've got four people against four |
| 10184s | within a lobby or pairs facing off |
| 10187s | against other pairs what do you think is |
| 10189s | the biggest difference now that the |
| 10190s | setting is every player for themselves i |
| 10193s | mean team tournaments are just so |
| 10195s | different if you think about global |
| 10197s | invitationals that was 4v4 but we |
| 10199s | weren't aware of who we were facing so |
| 10201s | that was the most individual team play |
| 10204s | i've ever done |
| 10205s | where you're really just concerned about |
| 10207s | yourself because you can't even see |
| 10209s | who's who so you don't know who to |
| 10211s | target |
| 10212s | who to |
| 10213s | you know help out who to rearrange |
| 10215s | minions for where with other team events |
| 10219s | we'll have a team event where you can be |
| 10221s | on communications with one another and |
| 10223s | tell them hey like move your scary |
| 10225s | minions away but that is only legal on |
| 10227s | team tournaments uh so |
| 10230s | it's very different when it's for |
| 10232s | yourself first when you can work with |
| 10234s | somebody because you can greed level and |
| 10236s | stuff like that so yeah i mean these |
| 10239s | players are really it's more like ladder |
| 10241s | where you're really just there for |
| 10243s | yourself |
| 10244s | and um just trying to do the best you |
| 10246s | can per turn and looking at you know how |
| 10249s | many points do i need to make it out |
| 10250s | alive |
| 10251s | right but in terms of having experience |
| 10254s | of team play i'm sure there's also some |
| 10256s | skills that uh carry over in the |
| 10259s | individual tournaments because we know |
| 10261s | that goddammit has played in big team |
| 10263s | tournaments in the past in fact he won |
| 10265s | one of the very first esports events for |
| 10268s | battlegrounds from the all-star |
| 10269s | invitational back in 2020. he was on the |
| 10272s | first taste uh first place team as well |
| 10275s | for the |
| 10277s | eme emea cup that incidentally collins |
| 10280s | was casting with me back in the day oh |
| 10283s | man it's all coming to a head now |
| 10285s | everybody is still playing battlegrounds |
| 10287s | that's amazing |
| 10288s | sorry my bad that was the third place |
| 10290s | team |
| 10292s | said in his greatest achievements that |
| 10294s | that his greatest achievement was |
| 10296s | casting that event |
| 10297s | and he said his second greatest |
| 10299s | achievement was cleaning his room this |
| 10301s | week |
| 10303s | i mean you gotta be proud of that |
| 10305s | i'm sitting here like you won global |
| 10307s | invitationals you made lobby legends |
| 10310s | you've been top one and on the ladder |
| 10313s | numerous times and your greatest |
| 10315s | achievement is the casting that and |
| 10318s | cleaning your room so humble from |
| 10321s | collins uh i wonder if he'll put in his |
| 10324s | next greatest achievement that he uh |
| 10326s | made it out of the first lobby to |
| 10329s | qualify for the first lobby legends |
| 10331s | finals maybe maybe he will maybe he'll |
| 10333s | still be humble and clean his room was |
| 10334s | his achievement i don't know yeah |
| 10336s | speaking of collins i just looked at our |
| 10339s | discord chat a little bit more and |
| 10341s | apparently back in the day of just a |
| 10345s | while ago um that that triple that i |
| 10347s | called 100 bait collins froze it so that |
| 10350s | goes to show that i have a lot to learn |
| 10353s | here and there is a big difference that |
| 10355s | 2000 mmr can make here these players are |
| 10358s | at the top for a reason but thankfully |
| 10359s | we did get word that we are restarting |
| 10362s | that game we'll have the coverage very |
| 10364s | very soon in the meantime is there any |
| 10366s | other player you want to sort of put a |
| 10367s | spotlight on from lobby b |
| 10369s | yeah let's put a spotlight on kurt |
| 10371s | because you were just saying that you |
| 10372s | don't know him very well and uh |
| 10375s | so that's something we should put a |
| 10376s | spotlight on i had the pleasure of |
| 10378s | facing him on the |
| 10380s | ladder last night as he was preparing |
| 10382s | for today i gave him a wave he waved |
| 10385s | back we happy cow it was it was a quite |
| 10387s | pleasant game until he murdered me but |
| 10388s | um he did win the lobby and i took |
| 10390s | second as |
| 10392s | what happened to castroverse competitor |
| 10394s | um |
| 10395s | but we have restarted this game and we |
| 10397s | finally get a gallywix game |
| 10400s | on gallywix with no demons no pirates no |
| 10403s | quillboard so there will be uh cleaves |
| 10406s | in the lobby for gallywix which is very |
| 10408s | interesting we also have elementals in |
| 10411s | so |
| 10411s | very exciting gallywix play will likely |
| 10415s | happen |
| 10416s | yeah it's our first galley of the |
| 10417s | tournament which is very weird to say |
| 10419s | that given we're already in the fourth |
| 10421s | one of the day even fifth if you want to |
| 10423s | count |
| 10424s | lobby a while ago and the beasts being |
| 10427s | in elementals is a big deal for the |
| 10430s | early game of gallywix because that |
| 10431s | means both selemental and alicat are |
| 10433s | available to essentially print money the |
| 10436s | hero power from gallywix means that any |
| 10438s | of these token minions when you sell |
| 10439s | them give you more total gold across a |
| 10442s | two-turn period and it's more about |
| 10445s | being able to stabilize in the early |
| 10446s | game with gali because it takes a while |
| 10449s | to really pop off and then use that |
| 10451s | buddy potentially with bran to build |
| 10454s | those big cleaves that's this i was |
| 10455s | talking about but over here for kurt we |
| 10457s | have a mastering when pick one of the |
| 10459s | most contentious heroes i feel like this |
| 10461s | is a love or hate type of hero and with |
| 10464s | the buddy system i feel that when |
| 10466s | alongside hooked us sort of fell off a |
| 10468s | bit i feel like their buddies can't keep |
| 10470s | up with other people but you have any |
| 10471s | other thoughts on that |
| 10473s | yeah i agree it was just the when the |
| 10475s | buddies came in it just wasn't a strong |
| 10477s | buddy so uh this hero kind of fell off |
| 10480s | uh but i do like this freeze for the |
| 10483s | pair in the shop so we can see now that |
| 10486s | kurt will be doing the warrior curve |
| 10488s | staying on tier one until he can uh find |
| 10492s | triples usually leveling on seven gold |
| 10495s | and uh |
| 10497s | i actually i really like rocara as a |
| 10500s | hero option selection here because he's |
| 10502s | buffing up his minions a bit early uh |
| 10505s | rakar is a good hero power to have with |
| 10508s | mex on your board so |
| 10510s | i like this |
| 10511s | it's true but a bit unfortunate that the |
| 10513s | micro mummies were buffing the first |
| 10515s | half of sellamental which you're never |
| 10517s | gonna stay on the board unless he wants |
| 10519s | to keep it a bit longer because now |
| 10521s | there's an option for a two cost hero |
| 10523s | power the scabs is a great one to have |
| 10524s | in the early game means he can still |
| 10526s | spend the gold efficiently without |
| 10528s | having to sell away this elemental but |
| 10530s | there's still a line where you sell it |
| 10531s | just to make sure that it can't steal |
| 10533s | any more buffs and maybe put it on a |
| 10535s | minion uh the attack buffs from the |
| 10537s | micro mummy that is that actually have a |
| 10539s | bit more permanence we do see kurt going |
| 10541s | for the scabs hero power here though |
| 10544s | is he going to use it maybe not nope |
| 10547s | nope okay not about it gonna get a |
| 10550s | freeze uh i'm not sure if people saw but |
| 10553s | kurt's cat was probably giving him some |
| 10556s | thoughts |
| 10557s | uh kurt's cat was in the bottom right |
| 10559s | corner of his camera and i couldn't |
| 10561s | there he is again hi cat |
| 10564s | wait |
| 10564s | you're distracted by the cat i'm |
| 10566s | distracted by these trolling micro |
| 10568s | mummies which keep buffing solomental or |
| 10570s | water droplet they're not buffing any |
| 10572s | mechs which is really unfortunate for |
| 10574s | kurt those are the way more permanent |
| 10576s | minions from his cop but over here on |
| 10578s | hoth we have a galacron selection which |
| 10581s | is very very interesting |
| 10583s | i feel that galakron is pretty good |
| 10585s | right now honestly it's similar to how |
| 10586s | it plays out before but the buddy being |
| 10588s | tier two means that you can spike even |
| 10590s | better nest matron is an option here but |
| 10593s | not quite the best avenge setup do you |
| 10595s | think he should settle for it or keep |
| 10596s | going higher with the hero power |
| 10598s | there is an avengement in the shop it's |
| 10600s | just i'm not sure if his middle minion |
| 10602s | is a token because if it is you could |
| 10604s | take the witch wing and the micro mummy |
| 10606s | it's just depending if nope it's not a |
| 10609s | sellamental so he is going to take it |
| 10612s | and he has the money to just level and |
| 10615s | can consider freezing for the micro |
| 10617s | mummy just for an avenge unit um |
| 10621s | it is a consideration but on tier two |
| 10624s | there are a lot of taunts um and the |
| 10626s | vegina's there as well and we see kurt |
| 10629s | is tripling into a three drop which we |
| 10630s | keep seeing today and uh |
| 10634s | finds rat pack |
| 10637s | and rat pack yeah that is basically the |
| 10640s | pick here like you can make the argument |
| 10642s | that the 404 it's in some situations |
| 10645s | better just for straight up stats but he |
| 10647s | does have micro mummy which has a good |
| 10648s | chance of buffing the rat pack |
| 10650s | eventually so you can get more than two |
| 10652s | tokens from that uh later on it does |
| 10655s | finally buff something that isn't the |
| 10657s | water droplet and he gets the buddy |
| 10659s | online so maybe kurt is still able to |
| 10661s | stabilize even with those awful buffs |
| 10664s | from the mummy at the beginning um he's |
| 10667s | gonna deal a lot of damage to the galley |
| 10668s | as well with all of these tokens |
| 10670s | sticking like six might not seem like a |
| 10672s | lot but this early in the game that is |
| 10674s | way more than the gal you want to be |
| 10676s | taking yeah because the the thing with |
| 10678s | back gallywix is |
| 10679s | uh he's really weak until he |
| 10682s | finds his triple this power spike but |
| 10684s | now with the buddy gallywix has a huge |
| 10687s | power spike and can stabilize as long as |
| 10689s | he gets the buddy which means he needs |
| 10691s | to be dealing damage winning turns um |
| 10695s | not falling too far behind and we see |
| 10697s | that gallywix here has a triple |
| 10699s | freezing i don't know if he's gonna be |
| 10701s | able to wait out for a five drop though |
| 10704s | with the money |
| 10706s | it's definitely close and tripling into |
| 10709s | four first essay i want to say is not |
| 10711s | the end of the world like if he hits a |
| 10712s | hydra that's something you could use as |
| 10714s | the platform for the buddy buff later on |
| 10716s | and use that to stabilize but over here |
| 10719s | on the side of sjmr he has descended |
| 10723s | below camera which i can very much |
| 10725s | relate to my posture also gets worse and |
| 10727s | worse as the day goes on |
| 10730s | but as daryl here it looks like he is |
| 10733s | going to finally pay off on all these |
| 10735s | dances and take the pup butts |
| 10738s | um nothing else to spend his gold on he |
| 10740s | is going to hold on to a little bit of |
| 10741s | money and dance on the next minion |
| 10744s | potentially but with daryl i honestly |
| 10747s | find it really difficult to figure out |
| 10749s | when you can keep going for these buffs |
| 10752s | and staying low and when you need to |
| 10754s | start aiming higher and leveling do you |
| 10755s | have any tips on that |
| 10757s | yeah i mean obviously if the shop has |
| 10760s | tokens and pup bots in it you're going |
| 10763s | to stay but if you see nothing it's time |
| 10766s | to go it's time to move on especially |
| 10768s | getting to tier three and four where you |
| 10770s | can start getting magnetics for your |
| 10772s | mechs and whatnot so |
| 10776s | it very much depends on what's offered |
| 10777s | because when you're on tier one you're |
| 10778s | only getting three minions |
| 10780s | i have seen uh someone like dog do a fun |
| 10783s | trick where you stay on tier one forever |
| 10785s | with uh tricksters and chroma wings and |
| 10789s | that's when you don't see mechs or |
| 10790s | something in the lobby |
| 10792s | and he |
| 10794s | very successfully did this and was quite |
| 10796s | impressed but we see now satellite has a |
| 10799s | triple on board got to the buddy is he |
| 10801s | gonna go for a five drop he looks to be |
| 10804s | doing so gonna get that buddy out so his |
| 10807s | buddy gets some buffs oh just kidding |
| 10809s | the settlements will stole from the |
| 10811s | micro at least just realized it too |
| 10814s | it's like why is it not buffing |
| 10817s | however see a mama bear stefan or |
| 10820s | crocolisk |
| 10823s | interesting options here |
| 10825s | the mama bear can give |
| 10827s | way better uh |
| 10829s | direction |
| 10830s | but |
| 10832s | honestly such a tough pick because mama |
| 10834s | bear again better direction and also |
| 10837s | immediately buffs the buddy but he does |
| 10839s | have these two micro mummies which |
| 10840s | potentially isn't a veg set up for the |
| 10842s | croc and given that the baby alec is a |
| 10845s | beast he could get some immediate good |
| 10846s | stats from it ends up though taking the |
| 10849s | mama bear and can immediately rebuff the |
| 10851s | rattler after it takes some minus stats |
| 10854s | from the xyrella hero power it's a |
| 10856s | decent amount of stats for now but |
| 10858s | probably not enough to keep up with |
| 10860s | edwin |
| 10862s | xyrella i feel has honestly fallen off i |
| 10865s | was taking a very long time to come to |
| 10867s | terms with it because |
| 10869s | i am not |
| 10870s | a hero but |
| 10872s | it's her place in the meta at the moment |
| 10874s | yeah she was so strong and i mean i |
| 10878s | haven't come to terms with it i'm still |
| 10880s | picking her up |
| 10881s | all right |
| 10883s | you can't convince me otherwise |
| 10885s | i like to do that too and i take many |
| 10887s | quick eights because i feel that her |
| 10889s | buddy moving from tier two to tier three |
| 10891s | was one of the biggest um nerfs in terms |
| 10895s | of uh everybody's buddies going up i |
| 10897s | feel like zarella suffered more than |
| 10900s | many others because that extra turn it |
| 10902s | takes means that you miss so many buffs |
| 10905s | it's around |
| 10906s | the tier two buddy um break point where |
| 10909s | you can get so much tempo from having |
| 10911s | that baby alec and then do the usual |
| 10913s | zarella thing of power level use your |
| 10914s | hero power to get to six before everyone |
| 10916s | and then just take brown and malgadon |
| 10918s | type of thing and she dies a lot more |
| 10920s | quickly because of it but over here on |
| 10922s | hopf's side he is galakron that has been |
| 10925s | going for an avenged setup with that |
| 10926s | early nest matron um |
| 10929s | puts a four in the shop do you think |
| 10931s | he's going to use the buddy now to turn |
| 10933s | it into a five okay never mind nope i do |
| 10936s | not think he will that's not castor |
| 10938s | vision or anything i just had that |
| 10940s | feeling um but the question here is uh |
| 10943s | he has |
| 10944s | oh |
| 10945s | oh this is spicy sorry i'm gonna come |
| 10947s | over here to be nice because he has now |
| 10949s | found himself some direction |
| 10951s | with cookie it's really important to |
| 10953s | find direction fast because of that hero |
| 10955s | power that can |
| 10957s | basically force direction and so with |
| 10960s | the calgos having |
| 10961s | three |
| 10962s | dragons on board he's going to hear a |
| 10965s | power |
| 10966s | a minion type elementals that has a lot |
| 10968s | of battle cries i believe uh there are |
| 10970s | more battlecries with elementals than |
| 10972s | with mechs so that is a better decision |
| 10974s | to hear a power uh and then can freeze |
| 10976s | for the dragon in the shop yeah he |
| 10978s | freezes for dragon and potentially the |
| 10980s | battle cry too we did talk about how |
| 10983s | single kalagos is usually not enough to |
| 10985s | win lobbies these days but it is i think |
| 10988s | decent to take a couple battle guys just |
| 10990s | to fill out the rest of that turn as he |
| 10993s | eventually levels to hopefully find |
| 10994s | another cal ghost and truly consolidate |
| 10996s | the board but for says they say this is |
| 10998s | the crucial point can he survive at 11 |
| 11000s | health yeah the nest matron which is |
| 11002s | huge but that brother okay rattler dead |
| 11005s | he has a tie which he needed because he |
| 11007s | didn't get his buddy till nine gold and |
| 11010s | so that he has to use his body this turn |
| 11012s | he needs a power spike because we can |
| 11013s | see on this board he is quite weak he |
| 11014s | had stayed on tier three an extra turn |
| 11017s | as well just to try and get stronger i |
| 11020s | imagine he's going to level here to try |
| 11021s | to find some strong four drops he has oh |
| 11024s | lots of tokens in the shop lots of ways |
| 11026s | to use money and |
| 11028s | he already has a minion on board that he |
| 11030s | can uh place his hero or his buddy on in |
| 11033s | that uh |
| 11034s | cyclone so he has a good minion to buff |
| 11038s | up the question is does he buy this |
| 11040s | alley cat i don't mind it uh it's more |
| 11042s | money spent another cycle and a triple |
| 11046s | this is such a huge turn for sessions |
| 11048s | you could get brand new |
| 11050s | yeah |
| 11051s | potentially could get brown and double |
| 11053s | up on the battle price from the mogul uh |
| 11055s | this buddy says battle cry give a minion |
| 11057s | plus one for each gold spent this turn |
| 11059s | we saw that cese had 14 saved up at the |
| 11062s | beginning he spends even more than that |
| 11064s | because of all the token minions but |
| 11066s | yeah that is no bran on the triple still |
| 11068s | a decent outcome in the seven because he |
| 11070s | still has a murloc setup it's just about |
| 11073s | surviving the turn and against the daryl |
| 11075s | especially with the stats you get from |
| 11077s | the bilgewater mogul i think he has a |
| 11079s | very good chance of surviving |
| 11081s | i've never heard anyone say the name of |
| 11083s | this body |
| 11086s | i don't know the names of anybody |
| 11088s | i mean i just read it right now just oh |
| 11091s | i mean if i could read you it before |
| 11094s | that then i'm doing my job great thank |
| 11096s | you very much |
| 11097s | you did excellent work i'm impressed uh |
| 11100s | grabs a |
| 11103s | ghoul you can turn this on obviously as |
| 11106s | a defensive mechanism for daryl knowing |
| 11109s | that daryl likely has a lot of divine |
| 11110s | shields actually only has one the second |
| 11113s | one won't proc till later |
| 11115s | yeah however there is the selfless hero |
| 11119s | like you said which the timing of the oh |
| 11121s | no it slips though |
| 11125s | but i don't need to see it |
| 11126s | everything oh to your minions left |
| 11129s | yes he is |
| 11130s | still in it he's was already in the |
| 11133s | danger zone so damage from here doesn't |
| 11134s | really matter um |
| 11137s | the question is does anyone join him in |
| 11139s | the danger zone and we see that |
| 11141s | gallacron hoff has has a calgos in hand |
| 11146s | not on the board probably just didn't |
| 11148s | have space and it wasn't going to add |
| 11150s | tempo value |
| 11151s | but we have |
| 11153s | can see some direction in hand of hoff |
| 11156s | um |
| 11159s | losing that fight was a big deal though |
| 11160s | because it looks like he's a 98 andy or |
| 11163s | something right now on the meter which |
| 11165s | means that he can't triple his buddy for |
| 11168s | you know another discover and that buddy |
| 11170s | is on board so it's taking up space and |
| 11172s | now he has to ask himself the hard |
| 11174s | decision of whether he has to sell it to |
| 11175s | be strong enough the next fight and lose |
| 11178s | out on the potential triple later or if |
| 11179s | he can greet it even more i would be |
| 11182s | scared if i were him but also the damage |
| 11184s | cap is still intact so maybe not yeah so |
| 11187s | the damage cap is intact he is |
| 11190s | okay safe but with on the other side be |
| 11192s | nice and say they say are below in the |
| 11195s | danger zone so we know that be nice has |
| 11197s | direction with that kala ghost but with |
| 11200s | only one is it enough to keep him online |
| 11203s | meanwhile over here is probably time for |
| 11206s | hoff to get out of this avenge |
| 11208s | milking because |
| 11211s | he needs to get the stats he's been |
| 11212s | losing it's time to switch out of it i |
| 11214s | think some players switch out of the |
| 11216s | milking it's slightly too late uh they |
| 11218s | wait till they're like kind of in that |
| 11220s | danger zone but you actually want to get |
| 11221s | out of it a turn before the danger zone |
| 11224s | so now you just never enter it um so i'd |
| 11226s | like that he is slightly transitioning |
| 11229s | out of the avenge units he still has |
| 11231s | some |
| 11232s | uh and good tempo safe plays and we're |
| 11235s | about to face off versus the xyrella who |
| 11238s | we had seen a lot of already |
| 11240s | um |
| 11240s | was xyrella able to find |
| 11243s | beasts did the mama bear get some value |
| 11246s | that's gonna be the question |
| 11248s | i'm unsure but this is just jarring to |
| 11249s | me to see a taunted gas coiler not |
| 11252s | something you usually see but obviously |
| 11253s | hoff just trying to play maximum battle |
| 11255s | cries there to get buffs on three |
| 11257s | dragons and also there is gonna be |
| 11259s | enough space for the uh gas coiler to |
| 11262s | still get enough minions going however |
| 11264s | this cyrella has a very strong beast set |
| 11266s | up from satellite it's the bird buddy |
| 11269s | getting a lot of work done i feel like |
| 11270s | bird buddy is just the strongest here |
| 11273s | three minion in a vacuum it's just a |
| 11275s | crazy amount of stats |
| 11277s | oh no and the galley wicks facing death |
| 11281s | but stacey say going out to be nice they |
| 11283s | were both fighting it out to try to |
| 11285s | survive and be nice has come out on top |
| 11288s | and tripled buddy so we're gonna see oh |
| 11291s | saved a brand in the shop |
| 11293s | along with a argus let's see finds a |
| 11296s | seafood slinger which is a battle cry |
| 11300s | does have a murloc on board |
| 11302s | technically |
| 11303s | very awkward though it doesn't hit |
| 11305s | second caligo so the scaling is not |
| 11307s | amazing and also board space starts to |
| 11309s | become an issue because obviously his |
| 11310s | weakest minion is the second promo but |
| 11312s | it's a pair oh never mind problem salty |
| 11314s | it's a triple |
| 11316s | over here on panda oh there's the triple |
| 11319s | we'll go back to panda in just a second |
| 11321s | we see a second uh seafood slinger or |
| 11323s | another nadine we already have one |
| 11325s | medina so it's not quite necessary plus |
| 11327s | an argus for the nandina and it's |
| 11330s | probably too early for players to be |
| 11331s | tucking in a prester pirate spawn |
| 11337s | we're online it's fine no one panic |
| 11340s | now we're talking business so as soon as |
| 11341s | the triple hero power is used here care |
| 11343s | of the buddy i think it's time to get |
| 11345s | out of the buddy and then just play |
| 11346s | maximum battle cries yeah be nice |
| 11348s | absolutely agrees he's gonna taunt up |
| 11350s | only in nadina here which is an amazing |
| 11352s | play in terms of tempo there's early on |
| 11355s | in the game can hit another triple so |
| 11358s | many troubles |
| 11363s | it's happening |
| 11365s | okay |
| 11366s | zap for the tech to end on isn't the |
| 11369s | worst thing because you could put nadina |
| 11371s | in the back |
| 11374s | yeah it starts to become weird because |
| 11376s | he first hit um second kala goes and |
| 11379s | then had to create board space for it |
| 11380s | and now he kind of wishes he has another |
| 11382s | dragon but it's still going to be tons |
| 11384s | of stats here and nice stabilization |
| 11387s | from be nice |
| 11389s | in terms of quality of dragons i want to |
| 11391s | say it doesn't have like the absolutely |
| 11392s | premium ones like bronze warden that you |
| 11395s | really want to scale early and no power |
| 11396s | spawn just yet but the um evolving |
| 11400s | chromoing is amazing to have it just |
| 11402s | becomes essentially a poison minion if |
| 11403s | you have calogos and at least one level |
| 11406s | left in order to double its attack with |
| 11408s | medina it's huge ken can however on |
| 11411s | this is a three unit andy double |
| 11415s | wildfire elementals a pretty creative |
| 11417s | way of going about this but the nadina |
| 11419s | is going to make things awkward for him |
| 11420s | because can't quite get maximum cleaves |
| 11423s | going |
| 11424s | yeah that is the only issue because we |
| 11426s | don't don't that have that many minions |
| 11428s | over here uh and if we had the the mechs |
| 11432s | in the front then we could use them to |
| 11434s | knock off some divine shields but still |
| 11437s | looks to be in this pretty safe position |
| 11439s | uh oh just kidding i |
| 11442s | unless |
| 11443s | no not a safe position i totally lied i |
| 11446s | will not die this turn and just got more |
| 11449s | buddies in hand |
| 11452s | but can't do much with them |
| 11455s | that's true in this position usually |
| 11457s | mutants only gets great value from the |
| 11459s | first buddy you generally don't have the |
| 11461s | time to wait until you triple it and the |
| 11462s | golden buddy gives the stats to five |
| 11464s | minions instead of three and when you |
| 11466s | get the second and third copy of the |
| 11468s | buddy usually you try and eat some other |
| 11470s | minions and just hope they land on it |
| 11472s | you can't quite guarantee that you scale |
| 11474s | them especially without quill bar in the |
| 11476s | lobby to use uh blood gems to scale |
| 11479s | those up so it's just going to be a |
| 11480s | little bit of tempo added and he |
| 11482s | absolutely needs every bit that he can |
| 11484s | get because he's hanging on for dear |
| 11486s | life here over onto kurt though um he is |
| 11490s | uh doing pretty well with another beast |
| 11491s | comp but he's facing zyrella who we've |
| 11494s | seen satellite had a pretty strong |
| 11496s | viscom a couple turns ago already and i |
| 11498s | feel like uh kurt's gonna be outclassed |
| 11502s | yeah i mean it's interesting because |
| 11503s | they were going a slightly different |
| 11504s | directions mama bear versus crocolisk |
| 11507s | and we see the |
| 11510s | crush doo doo on the side of the screen |
| 11514s | as well as goldrinn i'm |
| 11516s | you know i'm i'm not sure who this one |
| 11519s | will go to but i'm curious to see how |
| 11521s | many triples xyrella was able to come up |
| 11523s | with because satellite had so many pairs |
| 11525s | last we saw uh it looks like they found |
| 11529s | two triples uh got into a golden along |
| 11533s | with a divine shield of balgadang which |
| 11535s | can be fixed because their armor locks |
| 11538s | a lot of people might not think that he |
| 11540s | can transition into |
| 11542s | a malgadon comp but he very much can |
| 11544s | because he is tier six he has a divine |
| 11546s | shield amalgadon which can get poisoned |
| 11548s | like he can just transition out of |
| 11550s | beasts slowly and into a malgadon comp |
| 11553s | yeah pretty healthy as well too and i |
| 11556s | was gonna say maybe the key factor for |
| 11557s | this fight is that crackling cyclone um |
| 11560s | over for the panda player here but the |
| 11563s | fact that satellite had a lot of taunts |
| 11565s | to protect the mama bear from being |
| 11567s | cleaved immediately is a big deal um the |
| 11570s | fight is getting a bit close but it |
| 11572s | really depends on whether mama bear dies |
| 11574s | before rat pack |
| 11576s | oh no |
| 11579s | i mean they both get full mama bear |
| 11581s | value right |
| 11582s | so it's fair |
| 11583s | [Music] |
| 11584s | sort of but obviously there is more |
| 11587s | value to be had for current here it's a |
| 11590s | big deal |
| 11593s | okay okay |
| 11595s | because the baby crash wasn't able to |
| 11598s | attack uh if he did attack he would |
| 11600s | summon the nine-nine and he would have |
| 11601s | won but since it went the other |
| 11603s | direction that is not what occurred and |
| 11605s | it looks like a damage over here with |
| 11608s | some good setup going on facing the |
| 11610s | ghost seven gold needs to make some |
| 11613s | decisions he has a one health and a |
| 11614s | dream as i like to say um |
| 11618s | yeah he looks like he barely survived he |
| 11621s | he got put down to one health this turn |
| 11622s | and then got the ghost which is just |
| 11624s | kind of the best |
| 11626s | thing for him to get the ghost with you |
| 11627s | have one health uh some needs to decide |
| 11630s | like how do i scale my board he's a bit |
| 11633s | bored locked right now |
| 11636s | uh because yeah |
| 11638s | could be the light frank sign to go but |
| 11641s | if not that then the egg um |
| 11643s | the body is a bit awkward and that it |
| 11645s | doesn't gain value from the light fang |
| 11646s | but i do think it is scaling faster than |
| 11648s | light fang scaling it gets plus two plus |
| 11651s | two for every minion bot right um so |
| 11653s | that's pretty good still i just want to |
| 11655s | point out that goddammit for the vast |
| 11657s | majority of this game was ahead of the |
| 11659s | lobby like staying at 41 hp for the |
| 11663s | beginning stages and middle stages of |
| 11665s | the game which is something we've seen |
| 11666s | from edwin's throughout the entire |
| 11668s | tournament so far but everything turned |
| 11671s | around in the blink of an eye because |
| 11672s | edwin's scaling really falls off towards |
| 11675s | the late game where people are doing |
| 11677s | much more powerful things with their |
| 11678s | hero power he does at least have a |
| 11680s | cleave though which is a big deal like |
| 11682s | edwin has been called edwin van cleave |
| 11684s | since pretty much the beginning of |
| 11686s | battlegrounds because it's the most |
| 11687s | powerful thing you can do with that hero |
| 11689s | power and sort of a benefit compared to |
| 11692s | daryl where you can continue to |
| 11694s | build up minions on your board but we'll |
| 11696s | see if goddammit can sneak into a higher |
| 11698s | position here |
| 11700s | meanwhile |
| 11701s | mutinus has |
| 11703s | gotten more minions than just three and |
| 11705s | landed a pretty good uh buff on the |
| 11708s | hydra i don't think it was guaranteed |
| 11709s | for him |
| 11711s | so that's |
| 11713s | a huge yeah he hero powered one of his |
| 11716s | original minions and you know i was |
| 11718s | probably like a one out of six at least |
| 11722s | yeah |
| 11723s | he kind of traded in a conditional |
| 11725s | cleave in the wildfire elemental to a |
| 11727s | guaranteed cleave from the hydra and |
| 11730s | that takes him to be superior to daryl |
| 11733s | taking sjmr |
| 11735s | down |
| 11736s | straight to seventh place it's a huge |
| 11738s | deal that he goes out there because a |
| 11741s | lot of our players have been grinding |
| 11743s | this is one of the lobbies that has been |
| 11745s | moving really really slowly players |
| 11747s | somewhat going for tempo nobody has had |
| 11749s | the time to get to those truly amazing |
| 11752s | comps that have tons of six drops and |
| 11754s | instantly kill people it is a slow lobby |
| 11757s | and everybody is scraping for higher |
| 11759s | positions here over on kenkan's side |
| 11761s | there is a triple hydra potential what |
| 11764s | do you think he is going to devour is it |
| 11765s | going to be just the 5'4 to cash out on |
| 11768s | the stats or maybe take a gamble with |
| 11770s | the wildfire |
| 11772s | you could take a gamble with the |
| 11773s | wildfire it's interesting to see what he |
| 11775s | wants to triple into here as well |
| 11777s | because i mean he hits a light fan |
| 11779s | enforcer so that means he could leave it |
| 11781s | on for a bit um because i do believe |
| 11784s | it's his only elemental so that means he |
| 11787s | could hear a power oh he's going yeah |
| 11788s | he's going to do the buddy this turn |
| 11791s | just so he can get every single minion |
| 11793s | type out there |
| 11796s | he appears to have everything currently |
| 11799s | so he's looking i i like his board i |
| 11802s | like where he's going um but he's about |
| 11805s | to face a verse of the dragon player |
| 11807s | which we know has nedina |
| 11810s | golden caligos this is a scary turn and |
| 11813s | he's gonna read it probably |
| 11815s | uh dragons five which would give him |
| 11818s | some perspective of hey there's going to |
| 11820s | be a nedina i need to play around divine |
| 11822s | shields and can he do that |
| 11825s | successfully and that's really going to |
| 11828s | determine how he positions these cleaves |
| 11830s | that he has in the front |
| 11831s | right also had this big decision of |
| 11833s | playing the module as a separate minion |
| 11835s | rather than magnetizing to the pup but |
| 11837s | that is a way to potentially play around |
| 11839s | adina as well if the nadine is attacking |
| 11842s | first um without taunt on it then |
| 11844s | there's a 50 50 that it goes into the |
| 11846s | module and doesn't activate um i do |
| 11849s | think that be nice had the taunted |
| 11850s | medina since a while ago so it's not |
| 11852s | quite gonna work out in ken ken's favor |
| 11854s | but he also just has a pretty good |
| 11856s | quantity of minions here and it really |
| 11858s | kind of depends on how the cleaves work |
| 11862s | out uh the good thing for ken ken is |
| 11864s | that at least there's no pyro spawn so |
| 11866s | that pop bot did get a little bit more |
| 11868s | value |
| 11869s | yeah it was a very interesting call a |
| 11871s | lot of people probably asking yeah why |
| 11873s | isn't he putting out light fang and it's |
| 11875s | just like you said |
| 11876s | he's trying to play around the nadina he |
| 11878s | doesn't want the mech to get buffed to a |
| 11881s | four attack and kill the nadine |
| 11883s | so he was specifically playing around |
| 11885s | medina by not playing that light fang |
| 11887s | there but unfortunately it's not going |
| 11889s | to be enough and be nice we'll take him |
| 11892s | out of the game putting him into the |
| 11894s | bottom |
| 11895s | uh four but along with a lot of people |
| 11898s | without that round we have our top three |
| 11901s | yeah i mean so many times this |
| 11902s | tournament we've been seeing multiple |
| 11904s | players get wiped out on the same round |
| 11906s | because every player is super conscious |
| 11909s | of playing to their outs and trying to |
| 11911s | get every single turn they can and once |
| 11913s | you have all these high level players |
| 11914s | together it generally happens that many |
| 11917s | people |
| 11918s | end up dying on the same turn unless |
| 11919s | somebody has had a huge power spike but |
| 11921s | we do have i want to say a pretty fair |
| 11923s | lobby where there's no out of control a |
| 11926s | malgadon player that just has a million |
| 11928s | money since gallywix died early we have |
| 11930s | been nice scaling with the triple |
| 11933s | kalagos and goddammit managing to hang |
| 11937s | in there despite being everyone health |
| 11938s | for so long he has secured himself a top |
| 11941s | three which is a huge deal |
| 11943s | yeah we see that uh our last player hoff |
| 11945s | has that presser power spawn in hand uh |
| 11947s | for when he needs to face a dragon |
| 11950s | player but he knows he's not facing him |
| 11951s | yet he is up against goddammit who |
| 11954s | is reading menagerie mixed minions |
| 11956s | probably reading murlocs actually so |
| 11959s | he is just |
| 11961s | holding it in hand and keeping in mind |
| 11963s | like hey if i have to face be nice next |
| 11966s | uh this needs to be tucked in and we can |
| 11968s | see here goddammit just |
| 11970s | he got out of the light fang for his |
| 11972s | cycle spot so he can keep trying to buy |
| 11974s | minions buff up his cleaves his cyclones |
| 11977s | but is it enough i mean it was enough to |
| 11980s | get him top three but are we i'm not |
| 11982s | sure he's gonna get much past that this |
| 11984s | end oh i thought he was going to end |
| 11986s | game indeed attack but the ghoul's kind |
| 11988s | of end game in indiana tech as well |
| 11990s | yeah putting it second i think gives you |
| 11992s | a good chance of um shaving off all of |
| 11994s | the shields after nadina has died i |
| 11997s | think goddammit knows that he's very |
| 11999s | unlikely to get any better than top |
| 12001s | three he should already be very proud of |
| 12003s | securing a top three from a bad position |
| 12006s | um is there any hydra miracle here |
| 12008s | definitely not that side if he was gonna |
| 12010s | win |
| 12012s | yeah still has the murloc keep in mind |
| 12014s | he did sell his other uh si stefan so he |
| 12016s | sold his other murloc hoping that his |
| 12018s | minions were big enough and |
| 12021s | unfortunately they just are not yeah i |
| 12024s | do like that |
| 12025s | end game play of playing the ghoul |
| 12027s | versus the acolyte because the acolyte |
| 12029s | doesn't work if a nadine is taunted and |
| 12031s | it's just far enough into the game that |
| 12032s | someone's likely taunted their nadina so |
| 12034s | a ghoul second plays around it but |
| 12036s | unfortunately for goddammit even with |
| 12038s | the reed he is going to go out in third |
| 12041s | putting us in top two with hoff and b |
| 12043s | nice the double dragon face off which we |
| 12046s | haven't seen today right not that i can |
| 12049s | remember that's true and everybody has |
| 12052s | the double caligoes effect because the |
| 12054s | triple calagos does the same thing as |
| 12056s | having two separate kawagoes on board |
| 12058s | the benefit of having the triple is of |
| 12060s | course you have more space i want to |
| 12061s | shout out to goddammit there that |
| 12062s | honestly i was writing him off but that |
| 12064s | fight looked very winnable due to his |
| 12066s | position if the cleve had just won the |
| 12068s | 50 50 going in the right place there's |
| 12070s | also a very unfortunate outcome of his |
| 12072s | best minion going straight into the only |
| 12075s | minion on the other side that could not |
| 12077s | have let him take a value trade and that |
| 12079s | sealed his demise however like you said |
| 12082s | all the focus on the dragon mirror now |
| 12085s | and with both players having nadina what |
| 12088s | is the right way to position and tech |
| 12090s | around here |
| 12091s | yeah so |
| 12092s | thinking about ways that okay can i get |
| 12094s | divine shield can i get |
| 12096s | a |
| 12097s | double divine jailed on the taunted |
| 12099s | divine shield dragons and i want to |
| 12101s | point out a play that he did when he had |
| 12103s | four gold left he could he stopped and |
| 12106s | considered and i don't know if people |
| 12108s | recognize what he was considering he was |
| 12110s | considering leveling because he had four |
| 12112s | gold and because he's only tier four and |
| 12115s | his opponent's on eleven so if he wins |
| 12117s | with a six dropout he will not kill him |
| 12120s | and so he was considering can i level |
| 12122s | here am i strong enough to level |
| 12125s | and if i win i kill him or am i not |
| 12128s | strong enough i need to buff and he went |
| 12129s | with the buff instead |
| 12131s | i mean that is a very very cool call-out |
| 12134s | it's something i rarely think about but |
| 12136s | i feel a lot of the best players |
| 12138s | absolutely recognize that break points |
| 12140s | in terms of damage are a very real thing |
| 12143s | here the difference between winning the |
| 12144s | lobby or getting second place can be |
| 12147s | coming down to just one damage so we'll |
| 12149s | see if it works out for hoff or for be |
| 12152s | nice here it is the battle of dragons |
| 12155s | with medina and if both players have |
| 12157s | access to that i feel like it just on |
| 12159s | average comes down to a stats war um oh |
| 12162s | actually never mind there's prestors |
| 12163s | prior spawn for one player but not for |
| 12165s | the other so that's a big advantage |
| 12167s | however there's way more health on |
| 12168s | benice's dragons yeah so it is that tex |
| 12172s | play with the press store and that |
| 12173s | presser hasn't been buffed so uh it |
| 12176s | could be used a zap against it right now |
| 12179s | because he just put it in last minute |
| 12180s | there's no buff on it so a zap tech can |
| 12184s | beat it if needed |
| 12186s | but it looks like it's not needed for |
| 12187s | the turn though it won't be a win so it |
| 12189s | is a consideration for be nice hey i |
| 12192s | need to level because |
| 12194s | these players have not been leveling to |
| 12195s | six off on four be nice on five so i |
| 12198s | wonder if be nice is like okay i should |
| 12200s | level to get that zap or am i gonna just |
| 12204s | keep buying stats |
| 12206s | that's one of the last rounds so |
| 12208s | it's not a |
| 12210s | poor play at all |
| 12211s | if they want them last round they can |
| 12212s | win them this round |
| 12214s | super interesting the interplay 2 of be |
| 12217s | nice being the player that can get to |
| 12219s | tier 6 and still roll for potentially |
| 12221s | second medina but he knows that nadine |
| 12223s | is not super useful to him because there |
| 12225s | is a pyrospawn on the other side |
| 12227s | meanwhile for hoff like another nadina |
| 12230s | would be great for him since he didn't |
| 12231s | see any pyro spawn last fight but he was |
| 12234s | pretty far off from getting to tier six |
| 12236s | so that's not realistic either |
| 12239s | we have b nice ending on a houndmaster |
| 12242s | which is not ideal however he just kind |
| 12244s | of knows that he is winning the stats |
| 12246s | for so he is just doubling down on that |
| 12248s | and getting way more health on his |
| 12250s | minions allowing them to value trade |
| 12253s | even with that pyro spawn allowing hoff |
| 12254s | to knock off some shields is there a way |
| 12257s | that hoff can pull this victory through |
| 12259s | even though he's so behind on stats |
| 12261s | i don't think so the fact that he passed |
| 12264s | up that zap |
| 12265s | tells me he knows that he's not going to |
| 12266s | have a next turn to use it against a |
| 12269s | possible |
| 12270s | presser put on the other side of the |
| 12271s | board uh |
| 12272s | so i think this is conceded |
| 12276s | but we'll have to see he also could have |
| 12278s | gotten them a caught in last minute |
| 12280s | which |
| 12281s | i guess you can't do because then adina |
| 12283s | is taunted that is one reason you might |
| 12285s | want want to taunt your nadina but if |
| 12287s | you have to taunt an early game you have |
| 12289s | to taunt it unfortunately |
| 12292s | that is right |
| 12295s | it is looking like a very similar |
| 12297s | outcome to last fight where again the |
| 12300s | pyrospawn does a lot of work but it's |
| 12302s | still not quite enough to match the |
| 12303s | stats because the divine shields are one |
| 12305s | thing but the health still allows for be |
| 12308s | nice to value trade every single time |
| 12309s | with his dragons here even though he had |
| 12311s | essentially playing down one last minion |
| 12313s | with the houndmaster compared to hoff |
| 12315s | who had bona fide threats all across the |
| 12317s | board it is still going to be a solid |
| 12319s | victory for be nice in the battle of the |
| 12321s | dragons be nice comes out on top that |
| 12324s | was a very very cool first lobby |
| 12327s | yes and after the first lobby we can see |
| 12330s | uh be nice on top with seven points hoff |
| 12333s | six good damn it fifth and then a tie |
| 12337s | for fourth between satellite ken ken |
| 12338s | kurt says say and sjmr will need to do a |
| 12343s | bit better pick some greedy heroes to |
| 12345s | get back in it which we saw last game we |
| 12348s | saw some players who initially did |
| 12350s | poorly come back and win it so they can |
| 12352s | still do it in this lobby |
| 12354s | that is right we did talk a lot about |
| 12357s | goddammit and i talked a lot about |
| 12359s | satellite's plushy taste so we can talk |
| 12362s | about now be nice and huff a little bit |
| 12364s | more be nice of course probably one of |
| 12366s | the more prominent names in the |
| 12367s | tournament because he has been a long |
| 12369s | time streamer he was originally a |
| 12371s | constructed player since 2016 but after |
| 12374s | the battlegrounds release he shifted his |
| 12376s | focus and he got |
| 12379s | number one finish in the europe server i |
| 12381s | believe in both season one and two of |
| 12383s | battlegrounds so very very skilled |
| 12385s | indeed and has continued that up until |
| 12388s | now his favorite hero is gallywix which |
| 12392s | i think is a lot of people's favorite |
| 12393s | heroes she feels so powerful when you |
| 12396s | get there |
| 12397s | but he has of course a very very um |
| 12400s | relevant message to everybody in the |
| 12402s | world right now where it's nice to be |
| 12404s | important but it's more important to be |
| 12406s | nice oh |
| 12408s | so sleepy nice you love to hear it and i |
| 12412s | also want to point out that he also had |
| 12413s | a workout ball behind him is that maybe |
| 12415s | the key to success in battlegrounds oh |
| 12419s | there it is i am never gonna get better |
| 12421s | then |
| 12424s | and then over on our second place finish |
| 12426s | it was hoff of course who is from china |
| 12429s | unfortunately we don't have too much of |
| 12431s | a background on him compared to the |
| 12433s | other players because |
| 12434s | from venice we actually heard that in |
| 12436s | the chinese qualification system their |
| 12439s | four representatives were largely |
| 12441s | unknown names compared to the favorites |
| 12443s | like sosa i'm sure you're gonna be some |
| 12445s | uh familiar somewhat with some of these |
| 12447s | chinese players that are prominent due |
| 12448s | to playing in the gold series but these |
| 12450s | none of them were here |
| 12452s | right |
| 12454s | yeah yeah so i play in gold series which |
| 12456s | is a team league event and so it is uh |
| 12460s | not qualified it's based on what team |
| 12462s | you're in and so those team players just |
| 12464s | didn't make it looks like and that's |
| 12466s | very interesting for china because that |
| 12468s | means there's going to be some new names |
| 12470s | on the block may begin gaining some |
| 12472s | popularity maybe getting signed to a pro |
| 12474s | team which is very important over there |
| 12477s | yeah very happy to see it that they have |
| 12480s | the same open qualification that's |
| 12482s | available to the rest of the world it |
| 12484s | can happen in china as well fielding |
| 12487s | names that may not be familiar but after |
| 12489s | lobby legends they're going to become |
| 12491s | legends in their own right off to a very |
| 12495s | good start but a difference to last |
| 12498s | lobby i suppose or the last set of eight |
| 12500s | players is that we do have um at least |
| 12503s | in the early part of this tournament um |
| 12506s | some front runners from the same region |
| 12508s | be nice and goddammit performing very |
| 12511s | well showing up for eu |
| 12513s | yeah very exciting for europe uh |
| 12516s | america's not doing as hot there so i'm |
| 12519s | not gonna say anything i'll keep my cool |
| 12523s | but you know i think they'll turn it |
| 12524s | around by games two and three which are |
| 12526s | coming up soon |
| 12529s | and we also had that big dragon face-off |
| 12532s | in the first lobby i think it's really |
| 12534s | adding to our sort of checklist of the |
| 12536s | different end games you want to see it's |
| 12538s | not just been all amalgadon battles |
| 12540s | which i'm very happy about like i think |
| 12542s | my most powerful comp in the game at the |
| 12544s | moment is a combination of dragons and |
| 12547s | amalgadons which is you have the poison |
| 12549s | and divine shields and then a pirate |
| 12550s | spawn at the end so you beat other |
| 12552s | divine shields but this one we've seen |
| 12554s | just the pure kala ghost version and it |
| 12556s | did come out in favor of the person who |
| 12558s | got the kala ghost earlier in the nice |
| 12561s | but that is indeed only the first game |
| 12563s | of our second lobby here we have two |
| 12566s | more to be played out and we've got to |
| 12568s | give our players a bit of a rest uh some |
| 12570s | breathing room to catch their breath and |
| 12572s | make sure they can play on point for the |
| 12574s | rest of the day so don't go anywhere |
| 12576s | right after this break it is our second |
| 12578s | game of lobby |
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| 12745s | so |
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| 12776s | welcome back everybody you are watching |
| 12778s | lobby legends raid leaders the premier |
| 12781s | hearthstone battlegrounds official |
| 12784s | esports event here we are again solissa |
| 12787s | i'm giving you a third chance to do |
| 12788s | something cool with my name anything |
| 12792s | i forgot |
| 12794s | i mean your name doesn't need anything |
| 12797s | cool because it's just cool enough as it |
| 12799s | is |
| 12800s | okay giddy it's that's just such a cute |
| 12803s | name it's three letters three letters |
| 12806s | it's just beautiful as is it's just |
| 12808s | giddy |
| 12809s | yeah my my full name is much much longer |
| 12811s | than that and i refuse to use it so i've |
| 12813s | turned it down as short as it can go but |
| 12816s | we do have amazingly the hero selection |
| 12818s | right from the get-go here look at this |
| 12820s | technology |
| 12821s | i know right this is so close because |
| 12824s | i'm a big fan of akazamzarak just as a |
| 12826s | safe pick but the galley wicks is in and |
| 12828s | the cat is in and we see kurt going for |
| 12831s | big greed here |
| 12833s | i mean he picked this over gallywix |
| 12835s | correct |
| 12838s | i mean that is |
| 12841s | quite |
| 12842s | the play |
| 12844s | i feel like gallywix is an auto first |
| 12846s | normally uh so i didn't even think that |
| 12849s | the cat needed to be that greedy over |
| 12851s | gallywix and but there are no beasts in |
| 12854s | so that's taking away that cleave on |
| 12856s | tier four along with a token and maybe |
| 12859s | that's what he's considering here |
| 12860s | there's also no murloc so no crazy |
| 12863s | amalgadon stuff going on so maybe he's |
| 12866s | just thinking cat is better because i |
| 12868s | can't |
| 12869s | tempo spike on tier four with the cave |
| 12872s | hydra that's eight armor shenanigans |
| 12875s | is indeed pretty juicy here but yeah gal |
| 12878s | ux is just such an interesting talking |
| 12880s | point because i completely agree with |
| 12881s | you on ladder that galley feels like an |
| 12883s | auto win but perhaps for this tournament |
| 12886s | in particular where you know you're |
| 12887s | playing against the best players in the |
| 12889s | world who are going to punish you for |
| 12890s | even the smallest mistake people are a |
| 12892s | bit more afraid to go for it and |
| 12895s | gallywix of course actually had not the |
| 12897s | greatest stats during the qualifiers i |
| 12899s | heard it was underperforming compared to |
| 12902s | really exact yeah oh look at this early |
| 12905s | amalgam steal from |
| 12907s | cutter butter i am just so thrilled to |
| 12911s | see this early steal |
| 12913s | uh because he's gonna also be able to |
| 12915s | steal the buddy from curator soon enough |
| 12919s | and |
| 12919s | basically he's a better curator true |
| 12923s | and i think that the implications of |
| 12926s | this is huge that there's a curator and |
| 12928s | the scabs with the buddy because with |
| 12930s | this particular lobby um murlocs are |
| 12932s | outright so it's really really hard to |
| 12934s | get poison which means that big stats |
| 12937s | are a great way to go and win the lobby |
| 12939s | just scaling up and up and up which is |
| 12941s | something that curator does very |
| 12942s | consistently with the buddy and the main |
| 12946s | amalgam at the beginning and also |
| 12948s | pirates are in so you can do that with |
| 12951s | peggy um like mexican so you can put |
| 12954s | divine shield on them |
| 12955s | very true i love all these points yeah a |
| 12958s | lot of people are a little bit afraid to |
| 12960s | pick curator without murlocs but he's |
| 12962s | definitely viable so i mean that fear |
| 12965s | isn't there kadama gets the one gold |
| 12967s | coin meaning that his opponents tied |
| 12969s | don't love to see that for him uh |
| 12972s | freezing the pair |
| 12974s | it looks like he's just maybe freezing |
| 12977s | to make the decision |
| 12978s | um |
| 12979s | what he wants to do here because the |
| 12981s | gold is interesting |
| 12983s | he could level |
| 12985s | and not use his go going in hand |
| 12988s | with that uh |
| 12989s | pirate |
| 12991s | sent instead to double buy maybe yeah |
| 12994s | there's so many |
| 12996s | lines that he can take here he takes the |
| 12998s | approach of maximum tempo right now this |
| 13000s | elemental is a great one because it |
| 13001s | really only costs one gold in the long |
| 13003s | run and because he's buying another |
| 13006s | swabi he's also making up for the late |
| 13008s | leveling um just trying to make sure |
| 13011s | that he wins the next fight and also |
| 13013s | potentially get even more buddy meter |
| 13014s | which i do like premium one drop minions |
| 13017s | staying down for those is usually worth |
| 13019s | it be nice though with the insta value |
| 13021s | trade here means that okay he doesn't |
| 13023s | quite win the fight but i think he had |
| 13025s | some odds too with that first trade |
| 13028s | yeah |
| 13029s | but i i it's interesting to be nice on |
| 13032s | the darrell so we talked about how we |
| 13034s | will see more daryl picks because |
| 13035s | there's a safer pick it's likely going |
| 13037s | to get top four we saw be nice got first |
| 13040s | round one so he's looking for safe |
| 13042s | heroes now he doesn't need to be greedy |
| 13044s | like the other players do |
| 13046s | which we saw like with kurt with the |
| 13048s | picking mr bigglesworth so now we see |
| 13050s | daryl has a triple in the shop |
| 13053s | but does he want to triple usually you |
| 13055s | don't want to triple with daryl so this |
| 13057s | is actually a really awkward turn |
| 13060s | right if he truly doesn't want the |
| 13062s | triple he could do something like buy |
| 13064s | this elemental and then sell |
| 13066s | a quillboard and then buy the other |
| 13068s | geomancer but uh instead he does take |
| 13070s | the triple here and ends up with super |
| 13074s | interesting choices like |
| 13077s | interesting value from the board because |
| 13079s | staying on tier one you can cycle a lot |
| 13081s | of quillboard pretty uh decently and |
| 13083s | just get extra gems like selfless is |
| 13085s | amazing in the late game mode but |
| 13087s | playing it this early |
| 13089s | means that likely he's gonna sell it |
| 13090s | later on but he goes with option number |
| 13092s | three of party elemental which i did not |
| 13094s | expect |
| 13095s | yeah i guess it's like a current buff |
| 13098s | maybe he's thinking |
| 13100s | uh |
| 13101s | that he's gonna end up buying a lot of |
| 13103s | sellamentals and have a second elemental |
| 13105s | on the board to get buffed with it uh |
| 13107s | but it's not guaranteed that it won't go |
| 13108s | on this elemental every turn so not sure |
| 13111s | and we can see over here hof on mill |
| 13113s | house has a bunch of pairs a lot of good |
| 13116s | minions for milhouse with the |
| 13119s | level pirate and the refreshing anomaly |
| 13122s | getting to the buddy early as well he is |
| 13124s | tier two so |
| 13127s | in still cycle one drops for those |
| 13129s | triples likely gonna level this turn |
| 13130s | though does six damage to kurt on the |
| 13133s | cat |
| 13135s | huge that he gets the buddy this turn as |
| 13137s | well um |
| 13138s | very nice with all of these one drops on |
| 13141s | board and he can take a triple and i |
| 13144s | also want to point out that this is |
| 13145s | almost an ideal milhouse lobby if not |
| 13148s | the ideal in terms of minion types that |
| 13150s | are in because milhouse likes to see |
| 13152s | elementals pirates and not beasts and |
| 13155s | not murlocs because those two minion |
| 13158s | types are heavy on cycling which is |
| 13159s | something that milhouse struggles with |
| 13161s | uh cycling refreshes i should meet um |
| 13164s | milhouse cycles minions in the shop |
| 13166s | which is buying and selling very |
| 13168s | efficiently over on ken ken's side |
| 13171s | uh |
| 13172s | i don't know if he has a swabby fair yes |
| 13174s | he does okay double triples available |
| 13176s | here but will he go for a four or five |
| 13178s | at least one four |
| 13180s | okay |
| 13182s | dynamic duo is interesting because he |
| 13183s | does have a uh amalgadon that can have |
| 13186s | quillboard gems put on it especially |
| 13188s | once he gets the body to |
| 13191s | amalgam which is mishmash which is maybe |
| 13194s | the only buddy's name that i know |
| 13197s | cause it's just so cute |
| 13199s | don't you know recaro's buddy's name |
| 13200s | it's a dog you called me out on not |
| 13202s | knowing it okay |
| 13204s | let's not turn this around on me okay |
| 13208s | focus on what's important here which is |
| 13210s | that he's going to be tripling into a |
| 13212s | five drop which means he's focused on |
| 13214s | getting either lightfing brand or |
| 13218s | is also a very good uh tool with |
| 13220s | menagerie and he does have the duo |
| 13223s | up he gets the buddy now as well |
| 13228s | and potentially can get a mish patch for |
| 13230s | himself straight away |
| 13233s | oh wait no no it's the next no it's too |
| 13235s | he needed to face uh |
| 13238s | amalgam the next turn he faced i'm not |
| 13240s | gonna turn early unfortunately |
| 13244s | still gets a five drop though |
| 13249s | but he wants the hogger |
| 13251s | they don't want to ha give us happiness |
| 13253s | but you know mythrax is technically the |
| 13255s | play here he has menagerie going with |
| 13258s | the amalgam |
| 13259s | uh didn't take the second amalgam which |
| 13261s | is fair |
| 13263s | the second time we've seen myth rocks |
| 13265s | taken over hogger and i am mad about it |
| 13268s | but i know why mythrox is just amazing |
| 13270s | in the meta right now now that it's been |
| 13272s | buffed to giving getting plus two plus |
| 13274s | two for each minion type at the end of |
| 13276s | the turn up from plus two plus one is |
| 13278s | just an amazing tempo minion but over |
| 13281s | here for kurt honestly performing super |
| 13282s | well on cats so far not taking very much |
| 13285s | damage and that's all you really want to |
| 13287s | do is count you wait for everybody else |
| 13288s | to die and then |
| 13290s | their best minions on the five drop pick |
| 13293s | though it's not particularly good |
| 13295s | minions in terms of direction a lot of |
| 13297s | economy options though ends up with |
| 13298s | mirazon and hits dynamic duo which is |
| 13301s | like decent stats for now but there's |
| 13303s | really no direction going on in this |
| 13305s | board yeah it's it's it's important to |
| 13307s | point out that everyone whipped on their |
| 13308s | five drop triple we saw cough on |
| 13310s | milhouse was offered tempest and |
| 13312s | marazzond and spore and then we see that |
| 13315s | over here like everyone's whipping on |
| 13317s | the five drop except for cutter brother |
| 13319s | who got the myth rack so uh |
| 13321s | keep that in mind like yeah this was a |
| 13323s | whiff someone else swift everyone's |
| 13325s | whiffing um |
| 13327s | except for the myth racks that was the |
| 13329s | best one that we saw with the cutter |
| 13332s | butter |
| 13332s | yeah subtle telling us that three |
| 13335s | different people got offered spore plus |
| 13338s | mirazon as their triple discoverer at |
| 13340s | the exact same time that's so weird yeah |
| 13344s | really unlikely too because you know |
| 13347s | they're getting offers from the same |
| 13348s | pool yeah |
| 13350s | oh unfortunately getting this award and |
| 13352s | that does nothing |
| 13355s | yeah it's just money |
| 13357s | i guess |
| 13360s | but |
| 13361s | we have uh seisei is in the danger zone |
| 13364s | 13 health and kurt is up against him so |
| 13367s | is kurt looking to level here uh or is |
| 13370s | he looking to just deal as much damage |
| 13372s | as possible to say say so that he can |
| 13375s | end up getting one of his minions |
| 13377s | discovered i honestly feel that's super |
| 13379s | dependent on what he's reading from |
| 13381s | maiav here you could just be waiting |
| 13383s | also for maya to complete the majority |
| 13385s | of their turn because around nine gold |
| 13387s | you expect says they say as maya to have |
| 13390s | some sort of spike maybe hit a triple |
| 13392s | and if you don't see them i have |
| 13394s | tripling then you can think that okay |
| 13396s | maybe there's still one more turn in |
| 13397s | their setup maybe they're waiting for |
| 13399s | the dormant minion to be gotten the next |
| 13402s | turn and that's when they really spike |
| 13403s | heavily and depending on that you could |
| 13405s | take a lot of damage or none at all so |
| 13408s | kurt here makes the read that he's safe |
| 13410s | enough to level up to five still a |
| 13412s | relatively strong board there for say |
| 13414s | say though so i'm not sure if it's going |
| 13415s | to work in kurt's favor but at least he |
| 13417s | has a lot of health to work with |
| 13419s | meanwhile satellite with the brand setup |
| 13421s | and job as curator that is just the best |
| 13424s | feeling in the world and the peggy i'm |
| 13426s | loving all these players uh optimizing |
| 13428s | peggy right now |
| 13430s | uh very exciting because he has two |
| 13432s | other pirates on board and one of them |
| 13433s | would buff the other one so i do love |
| 13435s | that he was able to get to brand get |
| 13437s | these amalgams growing and we see the |
| 13440s | cat has gotten to a light fang um but is |
| 13444s | this enough to destroy the holy mackerel |
| 13448s | yeah i mean pretty unfortunate trades |
| 13450s | first as they say at the beginning like |
| 13452s | the shield off of the first half of |
| 13454s | brunsward and getting sniped before the |
| 13456s | mackerel could refresh and then the |
| 13458s | deflector also getting sniped before the |
| 13460s | resets from the micro mummies but he is |
| 13461s | still very much strong enough to take |
| 13463s | the victory here deals a decent chunk of |
| 13466s | damage to kurt on the bigglesworth and |
| 13469s | now say say gets to start spiking |
| 13471s | because um his buddy dormant is going to |
| 13475s | unlock this turn |
| 13480s | i wasn't 100 sure but now i am and he |
| 13483s | can go for a mega buster |
| 13485s | uh also pointing out that goddammit has |
| 13487s | gone into the danger zone i love that |
| 13489s | you've picked up that we're calling it |
| 13490s | the danger zone and that we've coined |
| 13492s | this term it is the danger zone um so |
| 13495s | the pickup of the ground shaker does |
| 13497s | this mean he's going for a five yes it |
| 13499s | does |
| 13500s | uh finds an agum |
| 13502s | a |
| 13503s | boar i'm just going to call it pumbaa |
| 13505s | but is this bore here i'm sorry if i |
| 13508s | keep calling it pumbaa that is my name i |
| 13510s | have given him uh so this is going to be |
| 13514s | uh the start to a ground shaker comp |
| 13517s | which usually you want to find divine |
| 13518s | shields taunt to um |
| 13521s | taunt and the gems splitter gem splitter |
| 13523s | will be able to give |
| 13525s | way more gems for |
| 13527s | the ground shaker over here on sjmr we |
| 13531s | have a triple into a six drop hitting a |
| 13533s | malgodon charalga and genie |
| 13536s | doesn't look like it was what he wanted |
| 13539s | uh he likely if he doesn't have bran is |
| 13542s | a bit scared of this amalgadon right now |
| 13545s | could be a bit early |
| 13547s | i'm curious to see what he goes here |
| 13549s | yeah has to go with the chaga for the |
| 13551s | for the buff of the stats |
| 13554s | uh he does have this dragon well to help |
| 13557s | with the health of his chroma wing in |
| 13558s | the front which we'll have taunt |
| 13561s | right the golden wealth smuggler |
| 13562s | smuggler works very well with both |
| 13564s | charlga and kalagos for the dragons |
| 13567s | making sure they can scale their health |
| 13568s | as well as their attack and that's super |
| 13571s | relevant for this evolved chromo wing |
| 13573s | which is you know generally a glass |
| 13575s | cannon minion but if you can scale the |
| 13577s | health on it it can absolutely be the |
| 13578s | carry of your comp just an amazing one |
| 13580s | drop to have it's actually the first |
| 13582s | alakir we've seen all day as well which |
| 13584s | to me is a shock because i'm a big fan |
| 13587s | of alakir in the meta um it's not the |
| 13589s | perfect lobby for it because mechs are |
| 13590s | still in and generally alakir wants to |
| 13592s | see mex out so they can really utilize |
| 13594s | poison but it's still a very good tempo |
| 13597s | hero and with quillboard in i feel like |
| 13599s | it's a pretty good choice for menagerie |
| 13601s | as well because it's one of the few |
| 13603s | heroes that has a buddy with a minion |
| 13605s | type on it in elemental |
| 13607s | yeah he was nerfed a bit when my exile |
| 13609s | left because it didn't no longer allowed |
| 13611s | for this reborn divine shield mix the |
| 13614s | infinite craziness but uh over here with |
| 13617s | goddammit he's at five health satellite |
| 13619s | has now fallen into the danger zone as |
| 13622s | well so three players on the brink of |
| 13624s | going out also noticed that our mr |
| 13626s | bigglesworth is starting to fall off he |
| 13629s | hasn't been fed he is a hungry cat |
| 13632s | and needs some food so he's hoping |
| 13634s | someone in the danger judge goes out |
| 13636s | soon but goddammit finding direction in |
| 13638s | the ground shakers has three gems in |
| 13641s | hand looking at four on the board and |
| 13643s | using peggies to scale that briny |
| 13645s | bootlegger uh on the board so that he |
| 13648s | has a spare |
| 13649s | minion with some decent |
| 13652s | that's right the peggy has great synergy |
| 13654s | with quillboard too because every blood |
| 13656s | jump counts as a card added to the hand |
| 13658s | as well goddammit kind of scraping |
| 13660s | together some sort of scaling here it's |
| 13662s | pretty difficult to make it work but he |
| 13664s | has a lot of money from this turn due to |
| 13666s | the barrow buddy is it going to be |
| 13669s | enough to beat hoff on the milhouse so |
| 13671s | it's been a while since we've checked in |
| 13672s | here it's not particularly good stats |
| 13675s | for goddammit i'm worried for him but |
| 13676s | hopefully the attack buffs from the |
| 13679s | ground shaker is going to be enough here |
| 13682s | if he gets the hero power off in time |
| 13684s | two seconds on the clock |
| 13686s | presses goes with |
| 13688s | cat cat in a dream let's go |
| 13690s | one gem in hand |
| 13693s | there we go |
| 13695s | some divine shield minions which is very |
| 13697s | annoying to see for goddammit because a |
| 13699s | lot of his minions are just glass |
| 13700s | cannons they don't necessarily value |
| 13702s | trade all that well however there is |
| 13704s | tons of stats on the golden briny |
| 13706s | bootlegger and a decent amount on the |
| 13708s | myth rocks as well which allows him to |
| 13709s | value trade and still take a convincing |
| 13712s | victory over milhouse goddammit lives to |
| 13715s | see another day one of the favorites of |
| 13717s | the tournament is not going down so |
| 13719s | easily he was in this position last |
| 13721s | lobby as well where he fell to the |
| 13723s | bottom in the mid game as edwin but |
| 13725s | still managed to scrape together a third |
| 13727s | okay say also manages to stay alive |
| 13730s | while getting the buddy in hand does |
| 13732s | that mean the cat goes unfed or is |
| 13734s | curator gonna die cat is going unfed but |
| 13737s | luckily |
| 13738s | stays alive and gets the golden buddy so |
| 13740s | the cat will be tripling and now uh we |
| 13743s | see |
| 13745s | tripling into caligo's flat tusk or |
| 13748s | malgadon kurt is facing off first the |
| 13751s | last place player and so probably |
| 13753s | keeping that in mind uh has that player |
| 13756s | power spiked or do i need to play it |
| 13758s | safe what's going on here and we have a |
| 13761s | menagerie board going on so the |
| 13763s | amalgadon has a place for it here but no |
| 13766s | bran in hand currently |
| 13768s | so a little scary just to tempo out |
| 13771s | could consider getting out of the buddy |
| 13772s | at this point it's not really necessary |
| 13774s | anymore to create value |
| 13777s | but he's sitting here |
| 13780s | oh i was oh oh okay okay |
| 13784s | okay he's indeed i was honestly kind of |
| 13786s | tempted by the flat test because he does |
| 13788s | have that menagerie set up but i keep |
| 13790s | forgetting you need the argument to |
| 13791s | really make it work otherwise |
| 13793s | is terrible so kirk going with a safer |
| 13795s | play and i do think that he has many |
| 13798s | reasons to double down on just getting |
| 13799s | as strong as possible this turn because |
| 13802s | killing the barrow not only means that |
| 13804s | he is you know one less player in the |
| 13806s | lobby it's also a direct benefit to |
| 13808s | bigglesworth that gets to immediately |
| 13810s | pillage that board for something um |
| 13814s | excellent excellent uh sorry excellent |
| 13817s | ordering making sure that once he gets |
| 13819s | his amalgadon out that the peggy starts |
| 13821s | buffing the amalgadon and not the other |
| 13823s | pirate that was on the board |
| 13826s | so unfortunately |
| 13828s | both of his amalgadons have what the |
| 13830s | other is missing |
| 13832s | one has divine shield one has poison |
| 13834s | um so those are minions that need to go |
| 13837s | together to create one harmonious |
| 13839s | amalgam |
| 13840s | but um he's looking to be in a pretty |
| 13845s | decent position no oh no |
| 13848s | no depends i mean this crow mowing |
| 13850s | surviving at one health is a big deal it |
| 13853s | just kind of depends how these trades on |
| 13855s | the tokens go will the brady bootlegger |
| 13857s | go left no it is not but okay the chrome |
| 13859s | wing goes through and so that means it's |
| 13862s | gut dumb it out in eighth place maybe |
| 13864s | tied with someone else depending on if |
| 13866s | they died and yes sese also goes out so |
| 13869s | two of the and the curator wow |
| 13872s | turn for cat coming up kurt get all the |
| 13874s | minions let's go uh-huh and he gets a |
| 13878s | ghost he's facing a ghost this turn too |
| 13881s | oh my gosh kurt is in contention to just |
| 13884s | straight up win the lobby he has bran or |
| 13886s | a golden minion this is so cool i want |
| 13888s | to take the brand though and there's a |
| 13890s | triple in shop |
| 13891s | and he's facing a ghost oh my gosh so |
| 13893s | many decisions 70 seconds |
| 13895s | let's see what he ends up doing goes for |
| 13897s | the golden and last pick probably a myth |
| 13900s | racks oh takes the puppet so he doesn't |
| 13902s | have to buy the triple true it's |
| 13904s | interesting funny he can level to six |
| 13906s | here pretty comfortably i think |
| 13909s | uh not amazing choices but sure i mean |
| 13912s | kalagos is some scaling here maybe he |
| 13914s | can get out of i hate to say it peggy |
| 13919s | yeah i think peggy's turn to go because |
| 13921s | we have so much scale currently there's |
| 13923s | another light thing in the shop he's |
| 13925s | facing a ghost he could use it this turn |
| 13927s | if he wants to still has another golden |
| 13928s | though um |
| 13930s | what did he sell out of there um the |
| 13933s | dynamic duo oh yeah i think he might |
| 13936s | still sell peggy at the end of the turn |
| 13937s | but he knows he's still getting cards in |
| 13939s | hand in the meantime so it's good order |
| 13940s | once again to maximize the buffs before |
| 13942s | getting out of peggy finds the triple on |
| 13944s | the |
| 13945s | malgadon so it's become one harmonious |
| 13947s | unit as you were talking about and you |
| 13949s | can continue rolling here on tier six to |
| 13951s | find even more of those it's hard to get |
| 13953s | a full board of a malgadons with three |
| 13955s | of them already out of the pool and also |
| 13957s | no murlocs to go fishing with primal |
| 13959s | fins and seafood slinger but there's |
| 13961s | also now a bran in the shop |
| 13963s | buy it |
| 13965s | wow |
| 13969s | floats two gold at the end there though |
| 13970s | which is not ideal he could at the very |
| 13972s | least have bought another battlecry to |
| 13974s | keep the caligo stats going i kind of |
| 13976s | agree with you that the brand was where |
| 13979s | my eyes were headed but |
| 13981s | you know yeah |
| 13983s | tip and bob is a big deal |
| 13986s | we see over here um hoff on mill house |
| 13989s | with a big strong board able to beat out |
| 13992s | cutter butter uh |
| 13994s | who is uh who's cutter better oh ken ken |
| 13997s | and alakir goes out this turn |
| 14002s | deal i thought sjmr had a pretty good |
| 14004s | set up there but couldn't quite |
| 14006s | capitalize on that tempo maybe whiffed |
| 14008s | on the discovers later on because people |
| 14011s | are really starting to scale out of |
| 14013s | control now we have hoff on the peggy |
| 14015s | hogger comp which is just |
| 14018s | unlimited stats as milhouse as long as |
| 14020s | there is a pirate in shop only one here |
| 14023s | remaining and no elemental so you can't |
| 14025s | get the discounted cycle either |
| 14028s | but there's one here again um |
| 14031s | the quill bar is honestly pretty worth |
| 14033s | it i think the sun bacon just it's just |
| 14035s | a lot of stats with golden peggy and |
| 14036s | your milhouse it's very cheap |
| 14039s | uh i want to point out that we're facing |
| 14040s | a ghost with four people in the lobby |
| 14043s | so that usually means somebody conceded |
| 14046s | early |
| 14050s | oh you're right that |
| 14053s | maybe it's a visual bug it's sometimes |
| 14055s | happening with onyxia is what i'm used |
| 14057s | to seeing yeah |
| 14060s | with these minions but yeah i i think |
| 14062s | it's a decent obviously um |
| 14064s | our players wouldn't concede in a |
| 14066s | position like this so we'll get some |
| 14067s | confirmation on what's happening a bit |
| 14069s | later |
| 14075s | for now though just good elemental |
| 14077s | cycling a lot more pirates in the shop |
| 14079s | and a refreshing elemental so hoff has a |
| 14081s | lot of actions to get done still 20 |
| 14083s | seconds on the clock milhouse usually |
| 14086s | means you've got to do a lot of steering |
| 14087s | sometimes you just got to shut your |
| 14088s | brain off and buy every good minion and |
| 14091s | every minion in the shop is good for him |
| 14093s | here |
| 14096s | decides not to taunt any additional |
| 14098s | minions i think that's a good call um |
| 14100s | there is kind of a situation where you |
| 14102s | say oh strong shell scavenger is down to |
| 14105s | tier four now taunting more minions |
| 14106s | especially when the brand feels pretty |
| 14108s | good indeed but that is kind of scary |
| 14111s | with cleaves available potentially from |
| 14114s | the max |
| 14115s | yeah and facing off first alec here who |
| 14117s | you know has probably a bunch of divine |
| 14119s | shield minions that kind of divine |
| 14121s | shield poison which he does have so that |
| 14123s | would have been a very scary situation |
| 14126s | so wanting it to hit the brand which it |
| 14128s | does so good play on his uh side of the |
| 14131s | board |
| 14133s | apparently we're getting word that both |
| 14135s | finley and milhouse fought no there's no |
| 14137s | finley saw it all that's a daryl |
| 14139s | buttercup |
| 14142s | why saddle's behind the camera and not |
| 14145s | in front of it because he thinks sir |
| 14146s | finley |
| 14147s | is dancing daryl |
| 14151s | all right so apparently we've discovered |
| 14153s | a new interaction in battlegrounds maybe |
| 14156s | a side effect of many players wiping out |
| 14159s | on the same turn i honestly do not know |
| 14162s | but that kind of means that the |
| 14164s | bigglesworth is only just getting |
| 14165s | stronger and stronger more people dying |
| 14167s | this is an easy first for kurt |
| 14170s | yes kurt with that pick of mr |
| 14173s | bigglesworth over gallywix left us |
| 14175s | baffled but he knew what he was doing |
| 14178s | he's now looking at a golden spirit of |
| 14180s | air or amalgadon uh the |
| 14183s | i don't think he has the brand so the |
| 14185s | spirit of air might be a better pick but |
| 14188s | at the same time uh is he regretting |
| 14190s | getting the spirit of air from the last |
| 14191s | player not sure |
| 14194s | calling the buddy by names lissa i see |
| 14196s | you've picked up reading the cards |
| 14199s | yes you are learning very quickly i'm |
| 14202s | learning to read at a lovely age of 32. |
| 14207s | spirit of air is an amazing buddy as |
| 14209s | well for the late game it is just kind |
| 14210s | of like a golden selfless hero that's |
| 14212s | another reason why i like alakir so much |
| 14215s | but kurt says not worth it he wants to |
| 14217s | keep scaling on this board because he's |
| 14219s | far enough ahead at 18 health and to |
| 14221s | amalgadon's that he doesn't need to play |
| 14223s | for maximum defensive capability this |
| 14226s | turn it's just about getting more ballot |
| 14227s | cries with the kala ghost make sure that |
| 14229s | there's no chance for people to pull the |
| 14232s | rug out from under him and sneak a |
| 14233s | victory because it's very simple from |
| 14236s | this point |
| 14237s | yeah and i like this prestor just |
| 14239s | staying again because he's facing |
| 14240s | dancing daryl so it can make the |
| 14242s | assumption that there are some divine |
| 14244s | shields on the other side of the board |
| 14246s | even if he hasn't faced him i think we |
| 14247s | can all assume that uh so i love this |
| 14250s | play |
| 14251s | very he's very in the zone right now you |
| 14253s | can tell he's in it to win it he knows |
| 14255s | he needs to come back from the last game |
| 14257s | though if daryl goes first he has that |
| 14259s | uh mega win fury but luckily for kurt he |
| 14262s | gets does get to attack first does not |
| 14264s | have to deal with the wrath of mega win |
| 14266s | fury right and this pyro spawn is huge |
| 14269s | not only to shave off the shields but |
| 14271s | essentially that acolyte tech at the end |
| 14273s | for daryl dying for free it absolutely |
| 14275s | did nothing both halves of it getting |
| 14277s | chewed up by that three damage pew pew |
| 14280s | from the pyro spawn it is an |
| 14282s | overwhelming victory for kurt here who |
| 14284s | pretty much knows he's in first place |
| 14286s | and you know i think reading over his |
| 14289s | player info that we asked for it's all |
| 14291s | starting to make sense lisa he says his |
| 14294s | play style is adaptive with an affinity |
| 14297s | for greed he greeted with the cat he's |
| 14299s | greeting for the first place and is |
| 14300s | working out |
| 14302s | yeah look at this beautiful mega wind |
| 14304s | fury which isn't mega windfury's attack |
| 14307s | for situations uh i can't quite remember |
| 14310s | what's on hot side of the board right |
| 14311s | now so not sure if mega wind fury is |
| 14313s | necessary um |
| 14316s | do you remember what he's playing he is |
| 14317s | playing oh yes the big hogger which i |
| 14319s | should have been aware of |
| 14321s | i should have remembered this i do |
| 14323s | apologize so many elementals in the shop |
| 14326s | to get some free rolls going |
| 14329s | and getting more stats on the hogger but |
| 14331s | if that's enough we shouldn't be |
| 14332s | focusing too much on stats right now |
| 14335s | with uh poison on the horizon but i |
| 14338s | don't know if they faced each other |
| 14340s | recently to know how many poisons |
| 14343s | mr briggle worth has |
| 14346s | i'm going to let you in on the secrets |
| 14348s | lisa if you spend your time casting |
| 14350s | apologizing for what you forget half of |
| 14353s | the cast will be apologies it just |
| 14356s | happens you these brain cells become |
| 14358s | that's the only time i've ever forgotten |
| 14360s | anything so |
| 14362s | i'm just you know that five head i mean |
| 14365s | i cannot deny it |
| 14368s | yeah it looks like kurt is in a really |
| 14370s | good position with these poisons uh hoff |
| 14373s | still working on uh stats on the other |
| 14376s | side but stats don't matter to poison so |
| 14378s | cur looking in a dominating position |
| 14382s | absolutely there is just no way to beat |
| 14384s | the poison here for milhouse at the |
| 14387s | moment i feel if he had more time there |
| 14390s | was maybe a chance to try and go |
| 14391s | toe-to-toe if he got more scaling plus |
| 14394s | exactly |
| 14394s | a selfless hero with baron but then |
| 14396s | again it doesn't really beat the pyro |
| 14399s | spawn either the wigglesworth from kurt |
| 14401s | simply ran away with the value too |
| 14404s | quickly that being said though |
| 14407s | this could |
| 14409s | yeah he did hide his big minion in the |
| 14411s | back and this uh malgadon doesn't have |
| 14413s | plants so because the hogger was hidden |
| 14416s | a bit farther back uh with the smaller |
| 14419s | minions up front |
| 14420s | he was able to protect it from the cr |
| 14423s | two scary malgodons |
| 14425s | and now hoff has that all-important |
| 14427s | information here a triple on the |
| 14429s | recycling wraith available as well could |
| 14432s | hit another hogger and just level |
| 14434s | straight up to six because he prints |
| 14436s | money literally |
| 14439s | so much money |
| 14440s | yeah going for that triple getting into |
| 14443s | the six |
| 14446s | oh |
| 14447s | big whiff no amount of anything |
| 14452s | is here |
| 14453s | on five though and there's a lot of |
| 14454s | elementals so he can at least keep |
| 14456s | scaling the hogger he has a bran |
| 14460s | but the thing is he knows that poison is |
| 14462s | still a huge problem for him he can take |
| 14465s | value trades with the rest of the |
| 14466s | minions and that's like the positioning |
| 14468s | you're talking about coming in clutch |
| 14470s | for that last fight i'm not sure if it's |
| 14472s | going to be enough for the next fight |
| 14473s | because now kurt also has the |
| 14475s | information on how to position a bit |
| 14477s | better to beat that hogger maybe um |
| 14479s | tucking in another poison towards the |
| 14481s | end of the comp yeah exactly you just |
| 14484s | end on a spore a one one can defeat a |
| 14486s | 200 plus minion easily |
| 14489s | would you see a ghoul in hand that does |
| 14491s | defeat a one one so |
| 14493s | uh maybe i'm wrong |
| 14495s | but it could be a tutu because people |
| 14497s | are in |
| 14499s | the dream two two poison let's see what |
| 14503s | kurt has come up with on the other side |
| 14504s | will hoff be able to stay alive to the |
| 14507s | divine shield of malgadons |
| 14511s | ooh nadina |
| 14515s | yeah and the ghoul goes off before it |
| 14517s | end |
| 14518s | it means that all the shields on the |
| 14520s | amalgadons are just refreshed yeah |
| 14521s | there's no chance for half here |
| 14523s | whatsoever |
| 14525s | no and now they're it's gonna come back |
| 14528s | with the a spirit |
| 14530s | elemental getting a divine shield back |
| 14533s | to the amalgadon and kurt takes lobby |
| 14536s | two for lobby b game two for lobby b |
| 14539s | uh kurt needed this due to game one not |
| 14542s | going too much in his favor so he's |
| 14544s | gonna turn it around and we can see on |
| 14546s | the points board be nice still in first |
| 14548s | place uh with that consistent first and |
| 14552s | third |
| 14553s | half and second with consistent top twos |
| 14555s | current now in third place with that |
| 14557s | first place finish and ken ken right |
| 14560s | behind in fourth it's true we have a |
| 14562s | very different story after second lobby |
| 14565s | of lobby b compared to lobby a today |
| 14567s | where it is more condensed towards the |
| 14570s | top three where people are close in the |
| 14572s | point differences whereas there's kind |
| 14574s | of a big gap from third to fourth place |
| 14576s | however there that just means that it's |
| 14578s | going to be a scrap for that fourth in |
| 14580s | particular be nice huff and kirk to a |
| 14582s | certain extent feeling very confident |
| 14584s | here they just need to make sure they |
| 14586s | don't absolutely punt and wipe out an |
| 14588s | eighth in the last lobby but between ken |
| 14591s | ken all the way down to sjmr it could |
| 14593s | still be anyone making it through in the |
| 14596s | fourth place slot again on day one it |
| 14598s | doesn't matter if your first or fourth |
| 14600s | it's just about making it to sunday |
| 14602s | unfortunately though we do have one |
| 14603s | player that looks like they have a very |
| 14605s | slim chance of making it through |
| 14608s | yeah that's quite unfortunate uh but i |
| 14611s | do really look forward to day two |
| 14613s | tomorrow for those who don't know |
| 14615s | tomorrow is going to be the top eight |
| 14617s | players from both the lobby today top |
| 14619s | four from lobby a top four from lobby b |
| 14622s | and we will be playing in a check format |
| 14624s | meaning that once you get to 20 points |
| 14627s | the lobby will be in check and you will |
| 14629s | have to get a first place after |
| 14631s | receiving 20 points in order to end the |
| 14634s | tournament and win it all meaning that |
| 14636s | we end on a high we end with a |
| 14640s | whoever gets the last first place wins |
| 14642s | it all super exciting |
| 14645s | and i know all these players here are |
| 14646s | just dying to get to that top eight |
| 14649s | position |
| 14650s | absolutely it also means that we don't |
| 14652s | necessarily have a hard cap on how many |
| 14654s | games will be played out we only have |
| 14657s | six guaranteed total today games played |
| 14659s | out but tomorrow it could be that one |
| 14662s | player enters check and then everybody |
| 14664s | bullies them for the next three or four |
| 14665s | lobby so it could be that all eight |
| 14667s | players accrue 20 points before one |
| 14670s | person takes a first place victory it |
| 14672s | could be a long slobber knocker of |
| 14675s | battlegrounds action |
| 14677s | knocker yeah do you not watch wrestling |
| 14679s | or did you nod |
| 14682s | is that a wrestling term i mean i |
| 14684s | learned it from watching wrestling as a |
| 14686s | kid |
| 14687s | i've never watched wrestling except for |
| 14690s | the rock you know i know what he's |
| 14691s | cooking but |
| 14693s | i don't know any wrestling terms i guess |
| 14695s | no |
| 14696s | but do you know what it smells like what |
| 14699s | he's cooking oh yeah i see the rock |
| 14701s | every day down here in south florida |
| 14705s | well all right that is our second game |
| 14708s | of lobby be in the books which means |
| 14710s | that's lisa there's only one more game |
| 14713s | to be played out today it feels like |
| 14715s | we've seen a sort of a common pattern of |
| 14717s | dragons coming out on top amalgadon's |
| 14720s | with dragons obviously the terror of the |
| 14722s | meta at the moment and we've also seen |
| 14724s | our fair share of creative players and |
| 14727s | greedy players are you gonna make any |
| 14729s | hot takes any big predictions for for |
| 14731s | who is gonna make it through to tomorrow |
| 14734s | or he's making it i could see it and i |
| 14737s | think good damn it he is right on the |
| 14739s | brink he's in fifth and he has it set on |
| 14742s | his mind he is gonna get that first |
| 14743s | place we know he can do it he got so |
| 14745s | many first places and qualifiers i could |
| 14748s | see him getting a first here and taking |
| 14750s | up that fourth slot though it's anyone's |
| 14752s | game so nobody's eliminated yet and uh |
| 14757s | yeah i'm excited to see where we go from |
| 14760s | here |
| 14761s | that is right so many players vying for |
| 14763s | that last lot and honestly i'm not sure |
| 14766s | how the numbers work out so maybe even |
| 14767s | our top three are not 100 safe just yet |
| 14770s | it all means that nobody can rest on |
| 14773s | their laurels nobody can be complacent |
| 14775s | it is still one more game to be played |
| 14777s | out and the difference between eighth |
| 14779s | place and first place is a whole seven |
| 14781s | points it's a big leap to be had so |
| 14784s | nobody can be completely confident just |
| 14787s | yet so right after a short break we will |
| 14789s | come back and find the resolution to day |
| 14792s | one of lobby legends raid leaders don't |
| 14794s | go anywhere |
| 14799s | [Music] |
| 14811s | [Music] |
| 14833s | so |
| 14836s | [Music] |
| 14860s | so |
| 14861s | [Music] |
| 14875s | so |
| 14886s | [Music] |
| 14917s | so |
| 14925s | [Music] |
| 14961s | so |
| 14963s | [Music] |
| 14992s | welcome back one and all to lobby |
| 14993s | legends raid leaders we are entering the |
| 14996s | final stretch of today's proceedings it |
| 14999s | is the very last game lobby b has |
| 15002s | completed two games so far and it is the |
| 15004s | last chance for players to earn any |
| 15006s | points it's still of course myself gia |
| 15008s | and lisa bringing you all of the action |
| 15011s | where we know that there's four players |
| 15013s | in contention very close uh in points |
| 15016s | standings to each other to get that |
| 15018s | fourth place but also our top three |
| 15019s | players are not completely safe and |
| 15021s | we're going straight into the action |
| 15023s | here's lissa what do you think of the |
| 15024s | nicest hero choices |
| 15026s | i have you know panda is panda panda |
| 15029s | good not as good now with the buddies in |
| 15031s | charge but uh |
| 15033s | interesting we have sally picking |
| 15035s | malygos |
| 15036s | and hoff making some decisions between |
| 15039s | george and silas we have quillboards in |
| 15041s | so off going to go with george in this |
| 15044s | situation |
| 15045s | um a little scary picking george but |
| 15048s | hoff is in a good spot being in the top |
| 15051s | two right now with 12 points |
| 15052s | so he's hoping to just secure another |
| 15055s | win with that george there are no |
| 15058s | dragons no uh elementals and no pirates |
| 15061s | keep in mind so |
| 15063s | we have mex and we have quillboard for |
| 15065s | synergy with george we also have murlocs |
| 15069s | so some poison minions can get divine |
| 15071s | shields yeah this is looking like a |
| 15073s | pretty good george lobby indeed i almost |
| 15076s | always only pick george when cobar are |
| 15078s | in because i am just such a fan of agam |
| 15081s | as you know and honestly having gem |
| 15083s | splitter is better than having flat |
| 15085s | tusks these days if you have the george |
| 15087s | and the shields to support it so hop |
| 15089s | here definitely some good prospects but |
| 15091s | speaking of quillboard we have sesece on |
| 15093s | death speaker blackthorne which is a |
| 15095s | hero that i do not often see i've seen |
| 15098s | this hero go eighth or first many times |
| 15101s | what are your thoughts on it i love |
| 15103s | blackthorne personally i find that he |
| 15106s | does great as long as you play him |
| 15108s | adequately |
| 15109s | getting so many gems and you do have to |
| 15112s | hit the right minions uh so getting uh |
| 15115s | over here be nice getting the |
| 15117s | maiev hero power which is really nice |
| 15119s | with the current gold situation and use |
| 15123s | it on the micro mummy to get a scaled |
| 15126s | mech or can just use it on the pair |
| 15129s | and start scaling with the micro memory |
| 15131s | currently |
| 15132s | it's a big decision here as early as now |
| 15134s | because you can say the buying the mummy |
| 15136s | now means more stats in the long run but |
| 15138s | buying the murloc now means that you can |
| 15141s | get more meter and and be stronger for |
| 15144s | the immediate fight so be nice actually |
| 15146s | prioritizes getting that nice three-four |
| 15148s | sat line which is so likely to value |
| 15150s | trade as early as turn two |
| 15153s | very nice from him there um we do have |
| 15156s | on our left side handy player tracker |
| 15159s | that kurtz as they say and goddammit |
| 15161s | have all gone for standard curve |
| 15162s | leveling up on for gold and honestly |
| 15166s | standard curved zephyrus is not |
| 15167s | something i'm used to seeing what do you |
| 15168s | think of that |
| 15169s | i think you know you have to go with |
| 15171s | what you're offered and if the shop |
| 15173s | isn't giving you a pair or isn't giving |
| 15175s | you a token for turn five gold then love |
| 15179s | doing the standard curve sometimes is |
| 15182s | forced upon you and then we see |
| 15183s | satellite here getting offered a triple |
| 15185s | but a really awkward turn because no |
| 15187s | token in shop uh |
| 15190s | and decides to roll out of it |
| 15193s | [Music] |
| 15195s | he's back i'm surprised he didn't just |
| 15197s | like hero power first to see what else |
| 15200s | he could get if he could hear power for |
| 15202s | an alley cat token um but instead tries |
| 15205s | to roll for alley cat token so that he |
| 15206s | could double hero power it um |
| 15210s | besides to hear power just this quilt |
| 15212s | were after using the battle cry |
| 15214s | and uh ends up with the micro mummy |
| 15216s | which is the best pairing to the pup |
| 15218s | bots so he's probably not too unpleased |
| 15221s | here but |
| 15223s | unlikely to freeze because this freeze |
| 15225s | is super awkward if he freezes he's |
| 15228s | forced to buy one of the pup bots |
| 15229s | meaning he has to triple into a two |
| 15232s | it would only be a good freeze if there |
| 15233s | was one pup bot |
| 15235s | right i mean this is just one of those |
| 15237s | really weird spots as malagos where you |
| 15239s | have to do so many like um instinctual |
| 15242s | odds calculations in your head as to is |
| 15244s | it better to hero power in the shop and |
| 15246s | try to hit a token there or rule for the |
| 15248s | token and then hero power your shop do |
| 15250s | you settle for an early um triple and uh |
| 15254s | what turn are you able to maximize the |
| 15256s | buddy potential because you could hear a |
| 15258s | power of the shop and make that tier go |
| 15260s | up or you could uh hero power or |
| 15262s | something you tripled into and turn it |
| 15263s | straight into a six drop and that's a |
| 15265s | lot harder to do without the murloc tide |
| 15268s | hunter in the pool any more |
| 15270s | but triple in particular is questionable |
| 15273s | because divine shield having that merged |
| 15275s | into one instead of two i feel like |
| 15277s | you're having a detriment |
| 15279s | another uh decision for |
| 15282s | being nice three wishes i believe he has |
| 15284s | a pair on board and he does so he could |
| 15287s | use it this turn and triple into a three |
| 15288s | drop because he does have the level |
| 15290s | potential uh unlikely triple into it too |
| 15293s | but you know |
| 15294s | people have been surprising me today |
| 15298s | all right |
| 15299s | on three ooh |
| 15302s | bird buddy which i know you are a fan of |
| 15304s | and there is alley cats in the shop |
| 15306s | avenging it's on the board uh this is a |
| 15309s | good tempo piece for be nice and should |
| 15311s | allow him to level uh quite nicely over |
| 15314s | here with seisei say he was given quite |
| 15316s | an ugly shop and i think he was staring |
| 15318s | at it for a while to contemplate should |
| 15320s | he just level here really awkward gold |
| 15323s | turned to level though especially in |
| 15325s | this buddy meta because the earlier he |
| 15327s | gets his buddy the better |
| 15329s | um but yeah just given some pretty |
| 15332s | terrible minions for turn two |
| 15334s | yeah |
| 15335s | not going to be a win in this fight i |
| 15337s | don't think but you know here's the |
| 15339s | chance |
| 15340s | oh no there's no fans just kidding but |
| 15342s | minimize damage not killing the |
| 15344s | trickster |
| 15345s | or the imp that is not a trickster i |
| 15348s | know that my card names |
| 15351s | so so we call this meta a buddy meta but |
| 15354s | i think every meta is a buddy meta ever |
| 15356s | since bird buddy was introduced it's |
| 15358s | been many months since this card was |
| 15361s | printed and it still surprises me how |
| 15363s | many stats you can get from it just by |
| 15365s | having any sort of board and a couple of |
| 15367s | beasts towards the end just such a good |
| 15369s | tempo piece like you were saying but |
| 15371s | over here for sese has the beginnings of |
| 15374s | a leaper comp which is not something you |
| 15377s | often see on blackthorne but i guess the |
| 15380s | benefit is you can play around zap with |
| 15382s | your extra blood gems |
| 15385s | or you could triple into agame and just |
| 15387s | switch out of it |
| 15389s | over here be nice with panda deciding |
| 15392s | between queen wag toggles hero power or |
| 15396s | uh this embrace the elements decides to |
| 15398s | go with queen wagtoggle because he does |
| 15400s | have three types out and the perfect |
| 15402s | gold set up because of level in one gold |
| 15405s | so i do like this decision just based on |
| 15407s | the economy facing up versus the maya |
| 15411s | we've seen my oven almost every lobby |
| 15413s | today correct that's right i mean maiev |
| 15416s | is generally considered to be a hero i |
| 15418s | think that is capable of taking first |
| 15420s | regardless of what minion types are in |
| 15422s | or out because she can so consistently |
| 15424s | triple and oftentimes is just able to go |
| 15427s | for six jobs but it's also a very greedy |
| 15430s | hero to play you can often wipe out |
| 15432s | before you even hit your second set of |
| 15434s | buddies so yeah definitely a high skill |
| 15436s | ceiling there may have is going to be |
| 15439s | losing the fight here unfortunate for sj |
| 15441s | mr leaving the buddy up means a bit of |
| 15444s | additional damage here but still |
| 15445s | relatively safe i think he can continue |
| 15448s | to stockpile triples hopefully for him |
| 15450s | goddammit though on the zephyrus |
| 15453s | hasn't oh it hasn't tripled yet |
| 15457s | yep you can guys turn though |
| 15459s | yeah usually what you're looking for is |
| 15461s | to find a triple by the time you get |
| 15463s | your buddy so that you can triple into a |
| 15466s | five drop and then use your buddy to |
| 15468s | just get a second five drop so you could |
| 15471s | have two light fangs two myth racks two |
| 15473s | gnomes which we saw earlier today uh but |
| 15476s | unfortunately he just hasn't gotten |
| 15477s | there can use his uh hero power to get |
| 15480s | that triple though and we see he's going |
| 15482s | to get oh double mythrax or double mama |
| 15485s | bear um he does have |
| 15488s | to sell something in order to guarantee |
| 15490s | it |
| 15492s | uh no right because it's a triple on |
| 15494s | board and i i don't remember what he has |
| 15497s | one single minion on board as well oh |
| 15499s | true yeah so now he does have to sell |
| 15501s | out of probably one of the murlocs which |
| 15503s | makes the gold kind of awkward this turn |
| 15506s | you might just go for it |
| 15509s | yeah i gotta get lucky in order to |
| 15511s | make it to tomorrow |
| 15513s | 75 or or you can hold the fire as but |
| 15516s | that's a lot of missed stats yeah |
| 15519s | the double mama |
| 15521s | contend here |
| 15524s | gonna position them probably more closer |
| 15526s | to the front because they don't have any |
| 15527s | value in the back right now |
| 15530s | i'm gonna start finding him some uh |
| 15533s | beasts |
| 15534s | we've seen a lot more beasts in this |
| 15537s | lobby verse last lobby last lobby we |
| 15539s | didn't see any |
| 15540s | beasts lobby a we didn't see any bees |
| 15544s | beasts are in a very interesting spot |
| 15546s | right now here because they don't really |
| 15548s | ever level up to six i feel with my ex |
| 15551s | out of the pool there's very little |
| 15552s | benefit to taking a gold drink or a gas |
| 15555s | coil or rather spending the gold on |
| 15557s | going to six for it rather than just |
| 15558s | trying to triple however they do have a |
| 15561s | lot more consistent ways to consolidate |
| 15562s | a tier v board now that there are more |
| 15565s | reanimating rattlers in the pool they |
| 15567s | can get reborn on the mama bears and the |
| 15569s | crocolist so we could see goddammit just |
| 15572s | playing pretty safe to try and secure a |
| 15574s | top four with beast i think that's a |
| 15575s | very reasonable way of approaching it |
| 15578s | over here sjmr with not the greatest six |
| 15582s | drop options |
| 15584s | well he has a second triple opportunity |
| 15586s | so gonna sell out of the |
| 15588s | murr locks likely so that you can have |
| 15590s | as many minion types as possible should |
| 15592s | be tripling first in case he hits an |
| 15594s | omega bester or a faux reaper and get |
| 15596s | another minion type out he hits both the |
| 15599s | things i named because i'm a god and i |
| 15600s | just know what's going to happen |
| 15602s | um as well as well as the charge uh |
| 15606s | so interesting to see what he'll take |
| 15607s | here i'm think i'm leaning towards omega |
| 15610s | buster |
| 15611s | uh because it's a good direction and he |
| 15613s | agrees |
| 15616s | okay we just got word that goddammit on |
| 15619s | the zephyrus has found hydra and rat |
| 15621s | pack on another shop which is amazing to |
| 15624s | find with the golden mama bear uh but |
| 15626s | like you said the buster is a big deal |
| 15628s | because it gives sjmr a solid direction |
| 15631s | obviously not the strongest on this |
| 15632s | current board where there's not too many |
| 15634s | mechs but you can try and keep rolling |
| 15636s | if he lives to then find baron deflecto |
| 15639s | etc etc |
| 15640s | however sjmr is in the danger zone like |
| 15643s | you said so he absolutely needs to |
| 15645s | survive the next fight look at this |
| 15648s | bird buddy puffing one minion |
| 15651s | it's still good it's |
| 15653s | big cute alley cat it's fine |
| 15658s | it's gonna be like a 20 20 at the end of |
| 15660s | this right |
| 15661s | there's so many avengers for it |
| 15664s | it's so cute i love it |
| 15666s | all right so we have ken ken on milhouse |
| 15669s | uh with a bit of |
| 15671s | a murloc start going off first the mayab |
| 15675s | who we just saw getting all those |
| 15677s | triples is the omega buster gonna be |
| 15679s | enough luckily the omega buster did not |
| 15681s | get the divine shield there |
| 15683s | so it didn't get too much of a buff |
| 15686s | i want to point out that ken ken i think |
| 15688s | this is the second time he's taken |
| 15689s | milhouse in what is in my opinion a |
| 15692s | subpar mill house lobby with once again |
| 15694s | elemental rude |
| 15698s | how dare you i know it's my favorite |
| 15700s | hero honestly but i recognize that some |
| 15702s | lobbies are way worse for it than usual |
| 15704s | and playing milhouse and murlocs is kind |
| 15706s | of hard to pull off because you do have |
| 15707s | to generally roll a lot to find the good |
| 15710s | murlocs primal finn but ken ken big |
| 15713s | milhouse stan it looks like and i can |
| 15715s | get behind that we'll see if it makes uh |
| 15716s | he can make it work unfortunately ken |
| 15718s | ken is one of the players that didn't |
| 15721s | respond to us when we reached out to him |
| 15723s | so we have very very little information |
| 15725s | on him we'll call him we got a mystery |
| 15728s | we got some last minute though |
| 15730s | last minute info i don't know if you got |
| 15731s | it from me |
| 15732s | i did get last bit of info from ken can |
| 15735s | again he was just very humble |
| 15737s | like no accomplishments listed kind of |
| 15739s | thing he said accomplishments none |
| 15742s | okay which i just don't believe but his |
| 15744s | favorite hero is zephyrus if you if you |
| 15746s | care to know and favorite minion friend |
| 15748s | of a friend all right well i apologize |
| 15750s | for thinking he didn't respond to us but |
| 15753s | even if he didn't i understand it's busy |
| 15755s | prep time and other things for lobby |
| 15757s | legends uh be nice here with a discover |
| 15761s | on five between brand and stefan i mean |
| 15764s | i'm a brand gamer and so is he |
| 15767s | yes he is and so we see |
| 15770s | i mean we see omegabuster in the shop |
| 15772s | which he has |
| 15773s | lots of divine shield minions in the |
| 15776s | shop too |
| 15777s | gonna sell out the golden bird buddy |
| 15778s | which is hurting she has feelings but |
| 15781s | another triple so kfo reaper could have |
| 15783s | a second omega buster hit |
| 15786s | sorry he's tripling into fives yeah |
| 15788s | wait what why is my oh |
| 15791s | i know i okay my brain hurts that's okay |
| 15795s | i've been casting too long |
| 15797s | absolutely is fine here the buster is a |
| 15801s | huge deal with the insta pickup of |
| 15803s | kangor which is amazing it means he just |
| 15807s | completely transitioned to a full mech |
| 15809s | comp in one turn almost full like the |
| 15810s | voidlord and the buddy don't quite get |
| 15813s | maximum synergy but the voidlord is |
| 15815s | great still to make sure that the |
| 15817s | attacks go off in the nicest preferred |
| 15819s | order he doesn't really get any snipes |
| 15822s | on the important minions before the |
| 15824s | buster and the kangaroo go off |
| 15826s | really good timing for |
| 15828s | be nice to get this triple for the buddy |
| 15830s | because now he can level and discover a |
| 15832s | six drop because he has that direction |
| 15833s | into the omega buster and looks like hop |
| 15836s | is going out which is a big deal because |
| 15839s | he's tied for first place right now with |
| 15841s | those 12 points and he's gonna get zero |
| 15844s | points here |
| 15845s | unless nope no tie so he's gonna get |
| 15847s | zero |
| 15848s | yeah on average he still has like an |
| 15852s | above average amount of points you can |
| 15854s | earn overall because um with three |
| 15856s | lobbies saying you get 12 total is like |
| 15859s | saying you got four per lobby which is |
| 15861s | in theory enough to get you through the |
| 15863s | upper half but that's not always how the |
| 15864s | points pan out here we could have a huge |
| 15867s | distribution towards the top so still |
| 15869s | going to be a bit scary for hof towards |
| 15871s | the end there he can do nothing but wait |
| 15874s | and see from this point be nice however |
| 15876s | the other front runner at the moment is |
| 15878s | looking pretty solid indeed here he's |
| 15881s | going to level for a six drop on the |
| 15883s | triple trying to hit another buster and |
| 15884s | he absolutely does that is oh my |
| 15887s | goodness i was curious why he didn't |
| 15888s | hero power first to see what uh could be |
| 15891s | over there but maybe you know he wanted |
| 15895s | some more direction from his discover |
| 15897s | over here on stage they say he has his |
| 15900s | buddy he has baby crush uh and going a |
| 15904s | ground shaker direction with a golden |
| 15906s | frogger yep |
| 15908s | yeah this is uh make do with what you |
| 15910s | have type of comp right here yes he's |
| 15913s | got the |
| 15914s | infamous uh beast and quillboard synergy |
| 15917s | here um |
| 15919s | man i feel like he might wipe out the |
| 15921s | next turn we haven't checked in with |
| 15922s | satellite for quite some time but |
| 15923s | satellite and csa are our two apac |
| 15926s | players are two japanese players in the |
| 15928s | lobby who have been performing in the |
| 15929s | bottom half so far it's a bit |
| 15931s | unfortunate if one of them has to take |
| 15933s | the other out here but we do have |
| 15935s | satellite with a very solid direction |
| 15937s | taunted up his um omega buster now but |
| 15941s | curiously also taunts up the deflectobot |
| 15943s | what do you think |
| 15945s | yeah i mean he is trying to get as much |
| 15948s | uh stats as possible it looks like and |
| 15951s | getting a rez out of this is fine |
| 15953s | he does have good direction and a triple |
| 15955s | in the shop as well so |
| 15958s | he looks to be in a good spot especially |
| 15960s | compared to what's going on on the other |
| 15963s | side of the board would say say say |
| 15965s | but still doesn't have baron or anything |
| 15966s | so not quite there and didn't get the |
| 15969s | full res because of positioning um |
| 15972s | so maybe |
| 15974s | oh yeah the baby crush has a reborn i |
| 15976s | think right they say it's completely |
| 15978s | fine yeah pile of cards comp is getting |
| 15980s | there for example |
| 15984s | minion comp that's what i like to call |
| 15986s | it but yeah that that reborn crush is so |
| 15990s | much tempo and |
| 15992s | and stats and you know there's no more |
| 15994s | 15 damage barrier anymore we can be |
| 15996s | seeing a lot of damage coming out of |
| 15998s | these opponents and now we're over to |
| 16000s | sjmr who has |
| 16002s | enough health to stay alive he's gonna |
| 16004s | have two health and a lot of minions in |
| 16006s | hand including two buddies um he could |
| 16009s | do something interesting here where he |
| 16010s | uses both buddies at the same time to |
| 16013s | guarantee getting to his hero power |
| 16016s | minion the next turn is something we're |
| 16018s | likely going to see because he has two |
| 16019s | health unless he faces the ghost it's |
| 16022s | true bran also has synergy with the |
| 16024s | buddy of sort of speeding up the turn |
| 16026s | where you can unlock your dormant minion |
| 16029s | so many players trying to go for some |
| 16031s | sort of mech strategy here obviously the |
| 16033s | ones with double buster or single buster |
| 16036s | are way ahead here but ken ken still has |
| 16038s | a very good setup with ground shaker |
| 16040s | here a lot of shields care of the |
| 16042s | mackerel and he can keep regenerating |
| 16046s | these shields |
| 16047s | with or rather the blood gems with the |
| 16050s | gem splitter here has a module locked in |
| 16053s | the shop which is huge because next turn |
| 16054s | he could |
| 16056s | attach that module to the mackerel and |
| 16058s | do the infamous thing of putting that to |
| 16060s | the far right and a bunch of shields at |
| 16062s | the front so if your opponent doesn't |
| 16064s | have a win fury minion that mackerel can |
| 16066s | trade so many minions for one |
| 16069s | i'm getting word now that because hoff |
| 16071s | went out be nice is guaranteed top four |
| 16076s | be nice is in a good situation he will |
| 16078s | be moving on to tomorrow but there's |
| 16080s | still three other slots up for grabs |
| 16082s | hoff's still in contention obviously but |
| 16085s | it is pretty close up at the top so we |
| 16087s | all have to see |
| 16089s | very exciting stuff and for being nice |
| 16091s | that's going to be such a huge relief |
| 16094s | but he has you know the freedom to play |
| 16096s | for whatever spot he wants does he want |
| 16098s | to bully somebody else out of contention |
| 16100s | who knows uh right now though he is |
| 16103s | absolutely just playing to be as strong |
| 16105s | as possible with the macaw double omega |
| 16107s | buster set up he is one baron away from |
| 16110s | being truly the strongest in the lobby |
| 16113s | however these deflector bots are still |
| 16116s | putting in a lot of work here oh i was |
| 16118s | gonna say if that mackerel can get an |
| 16120s | early slime on the deflecto from yeah be |
| 16123s | nice it could still be a win for ken ken |
| 16125s | yeah but not quite unfortunately uh but |
| 16129s | you know |
| 16130s | this this still looking quite close |
| 16132s | and i want to point out goddammit is in |
| 16134s | first place right now and he was one of |
| 16136s | those people on the cusp who i said was |
| 16138s | going to win this game he's going to |
| 16140s | turn this around and get it first and he |
| 16142s | looks to be doing really well up there |
| 16143s | with zephyrus and milhouse takes out be |
| 16147s | nice into seventh place tied with the |
| 16150s | lich king |
| 16151s | and somebody else oh maya going down as |
| 16155s | well as jmr |
| 16157s | that is really rough because that's our |
| 16159s | two chinese players out in seventh and |
| 16162s | eighth but also |
| 16163s | be nice died |
| 16165s | you guys died |
| 16166s | and kirk fifteen |
| 16169s | whoa what happened here |
| 16171s | that's insane i thought be nice had an |
| 16173s | amazing board but maybe he got zapped on |
| 16175s | the other side taking out wait he didn't |
| 16177s | even have a baron but the zap could |
| 16179s | maybe try and hit macau i don't know |
| 16181s | what attack the deflectors were on |
| 16183s | something disastrous went on there and |
| 16185s | that has huge implications for |
| 16188s | and satellite they had very few points |
| 16190s | leading into this lobby but they're now |
| 16192s | both able to potentially take first |
| 16193s | place and we have a very interesting end |
| 16196s | game situation here sosa because the |
| 16198s | start of the day we talked about that |
| 16199s | sort of triangle of big stats beating |
| 16201s | mechs and beasts the beast beating |
| 16204s | poison and then the poison beating the |
| 16205s | big stats but we have pretty much just |
| 16207s | beast and mechs across the board here on |
| 16209s | our top four um who comes out on top |
| 16212s | then |
| 16213s | i mean |
| 16215s | it's so hard to say right now |
| 16217s | i |
| 16218s | can't wait to see it go down i'm loving |
| 16220s | i'm just watching goddammit ordering to |
| 16222s | guarantee all these triples and i was |
| 16224s | just mesmerized by |
| 16227s | he's putting himself in a powerful |
| 16228s | position with these beasts but these are |
| 16230s | one of the those like mid-range comps |
| 16232s | that eventually fizzle out so like will |
| 16235s | this last versus omega busters i don't |
| 16238s | know |
| 16239s | he has a seafood slinger he could |
| 16242s | transition and that zap to take down the |
| 16244s | baron yeah the zap is a huge deal here i |
| 16247s | wonder if um |
| 16249s | satellite has had any time to pick up |
| 16251s | blood gems to play around zap looks like |
| 16253s | he hasn't that baron is getting sniped |
| 16254s | right away but it's a big deal that uh |
| 16256s | satellite attacked first so he could at |
| 16258s | least get some value from the baron off |
| 16260s | the first omega buster will it be enough |
| 16263s | um could be because |
| 16266s | um there is another buster going off |
| 16268s | here but the two foe reapers just don't |
| 16270s | have that much attack on them they need |
| 16272s | to hit the perfect position here i feel |
| 16274s | the mama bear dies before the faux |
| 16276s | reapers even attack i was afraid those |
| 16278s | faux reapers were just gonna hurt the |
| 16279s | mama bear but she was able to hurt |
| 16282s | herself first but these beasts are just |
| 16284s | so strong |
| 16285s | and with the rat pack dying that's going |
| 16288s | to be enough to take satellite out into |
| 16290s | fourth place putting good damage into |
| 16292s | the top three |
| 16295s | that is a huge deal like you said |
| 16297s | goddammit was right there on the cusp |
| 16300s | and now satellite being out it's going |
| 16303s | to be very very tough for him to try and |
| 16305s | secure a spot through to tomorrow but |
| 16308s | once again nothing these players who |
| 16310s | have died can do but wait and see |
| 16313s | um we have cese on the blackthorne still |
| 16316s | hanging in there with what we call the |
| 16318s | pile of stats comp |
| 16320s | real synergy going on somehow he's made |
| 16323s | it to top three this is what i like to |
| 16324s | see you know this is something that |
| 16326s | really separates a top battlegrounds |
| 16329s | player from a mediocre one i feel which |
| 16331s | is trying to figure out the small outs |
| 16334s | you have to just stay in there and |
| 16336s | scrape for the best possible placement |
| 16338s | you can get even though there's no |
| 16339s | obvious synergies with your comp |
| 16342s | now we're looking at lots of quillboard |
| 16344s | on the other side some bacon relaxer |
| 16346s | uh as well as a brand and a necro light |
| 16349s | necrolite |
| 16352s | is very interesting because we do have a |
| 16354s | faux reaper that could use the stats |
| 16355s | from the ground shaker |
| 16357s | but it's all about |
| 16359s | how can we do this play without making |
| 16360s | our board weaker the savannah highmane |
| 16363s | isn't a ton of stats |
| 16365s | so |
| 16366s | i mean knowing what goddammit has |
| 16368s | because we have the caster vision and we |
| 16369s | know that he has all these beasts and i |
| 16371s | don't think he had a lot of taunts |
| 16373s | that could be a huge move to get those |
| 16376s | gems onto the faux reaper |
| 16379s | that's true |
| 16380s | board space making it a bit awkward |
| 16382s | though so say |
| 16384s | uh okay he does get rid of it now but |
| 16387s | swapping gems he's just going for |
| 16388s | maximum attack across the board which |
| 16390s | you know if he's just looking to win the |
| 16392s | next immediate fight this gives the faux |
| 16394s | reaper pretty much almost as much stats |
| 16396s | as it would have gotten from the swap |
| 16397s | alongside buffing the rest of the board |
| 16399s | here and it gets to snipe the cleave on |
| 16402s | the other side from goddammit is that |
| 16404s | enough to win though because that mama |
| 16406s | bear plus rat pack is looking too scary |
| 16408s | and this trade is pretty awful for ccc |
| 16411s | yeah it's not looking good there's a lot |
| 16414s | of stats online for goddammit and uh |
| 16417s | with nine health for say say |
| 16420s | it's looking like the end of the road |
| 16423s | bit rough here and we also got |
| 16425s | confirmation that satellite is a hundred |
| 16427s | percent out so say say |
| 16430s | i mean he gets a decent amount of points |
| 16431s | here but he was only working with one |
| 16433s | point going into this final lobby so |
| 16435s | it's not looking great for him either |
| 16437s | again we will wait to the end for final |
| 16439s | confirmation of course but for now it's |
| 16441s | going to be a head-to-head between two |
| 16444s | players that were just dominating the |
| 16446s | lobby goddammit and ken ken still |
| 16448s | extremely healthy for this late in the |
| 16450s | game who is going to come out on top |
| 16452s | it's the mex with mackerel and uh |
| 16455s | another ground shaker comp versus the |
| 16458s | mama bear with tokens |
| 16460s | yeah i mean hitting a zap here is |
| 16462s | interesting |
| 16464s | uh it goes with the fell back it's just |
| 16465s | gonna cycle it out |
| 16467s | um |
| 16470s | this combo pierce will likely lose to |
| 16473s | beasts because the beasts have so many |
| 16475s | tokens |
| 16476s | uh to eventually get through all these |
| 16478s | divine shields and the attack just |
| 16481s | doesn't matter as much |
| 16483s | because of the rat pack and stuff like |
| 16484s | that |
| 16486s | oh |
| 16487s | i would think that goddammit takes it |
| 16489s | here uh because of rat pack and you can |
| 16492s | even try to get into another peck if you |
| 16494s | wanted to it's better than the golden i |
| 16496s | think uh but this is only taunted minion |
| 16498s | right now so |
| 16501s | yeah pretty close the board space is |
| 16502s | really tight here for god dammit i do |
| 16505s | think that goddammit will win i agree |
| 16507s | with you on that for sure but it's not a |
| 16509s | guaranteed kill especially with ken ken |
| 16511s | on 27 which means that ken ken has at |
| 16513s | least one more turn likely to try and |
| 16515s | tech around this it's really difficult |
| 16517s | to do so though because goddammit isn't |
| 16520s | even particularly weak to zap at the |
| 16522s | moment he has um |
| 16525s | sorry at this turn he'll be weak to zap |
| 16527s | but next turn not necessarily because |
| 16528s | you know quillboard are in he can keep |
| 16530s | buffing the baron and we'll see how it |
| 16533s | pans out i also want to point out that |
| 16535s | it is kind of interesting that ken ken |
| 16538s | has this type of comp on milhouse this |
| 16540s | is one that requires a lot of rolling to |
| 16542s | hit all these deflectors mechs in |
| 16544s | general need a lot of rolling but he's |
| 16546s | made it work |
| 16548s | yeah that is impressive milhouse does |
| 16550s | not do well with heroes that don't offer |
| 16553s | uh ways to |
| 16554s | make rolling cheaper or just uh |
| 16557s | battle cry |
| 16559s | milhouse is well with battle cry type of |
| 16561s | uh |
| 16562s | composition so the fact that this |
| 16564s | doesn't have any battle cries and is |
| 16566s | just purely based on gem generation is |
| 16568s | quite impressive for a mill house |
| 16571s | i think we may have mis-evaluated here |
| 16573s | though because it's looking like ken ken |
| 16575s | is going to take a resounding victory |
| 16577s | here i forgot to account for that |
| 16580s | harvest golem at the end there being the |
| 16582s | reset that he absolutely needed to make |
| 16585s | his board truly pop off and it's going |
| 16587s | to be 11 damage through to goddammit and |
| 16590s | instead it's goddammit who has to think |
| 16591s | about how to beat this board um the |
| 16594s | mackerel refreshing so many times is a |
| 16596s | huge problem for him and he's not he's |
| 16598s | easily able to get like a big win fury |
| 16601s | minion in front to beat that so what do |
| 16603s | you think he'll do here i think you'll |
| 16605s | recognize that the golden baron isn't |
| 16607s | what's keeping him in play it's more of |
| 16608s | just having a bunch of uh tokens and |
| 16611s | looking for maybe a meccano tank and |
| 16614s | more rats and getting out of the golden |
| 16616s | baron |
| 16618s | i think that's what wins it it's just uh |
| 16621s | ken ken's composition is very squishy it |
| 16624s | can dive very easily to some tanks and |
| 16628s | uh |
| 16629s | and so this golden direction isn't quite |
| 16632s | the way he should have it could be going |
| 16634s | there is a co |
| 16636s | or a rattler over there |
| 16637s | um |
| 16639s | again it's not going to go on |
| 16641s | a token |
| 16644s | and if he buys this there's so little |
| 16646s | money to work with left with a proper |
| 16647s | minion to end on because he has to |
| 16649s | create space first to play the rattler |
| 16652s | and i guess the baron can go out from |
| 16654s | here i don't feel it's particularly |
| 16656s | helpful with the board right |
| 16658s | we need more space for the rats to proc |
| 16660s | i do like if you at least move the baron |
| 16662s | there's another rat in the shop but it's |
| 16666s | too late and he's not even freezing it |
| 16668s | wow yeah |
| 16670s | i think he's he the look on his face is |
| 16672s | kind of like |
| 16674s | i don't know i i what could beat this |
| 16677s | too is a is a win fury minion uh but |
| 16679s | with no elementals then you'd have to |
| 16681s | hit a wooden fury amalgadon |
| 16686s | does position the baron as a shield |
| 16689s | procker but he needs so many bumpers |
| 16692s | with this many refreshes on |
| 16694s | mackerel it just doesn't work out very |
| 16696s | nicely but there is you know a decent |
| 16698s | amount of board space for the rat packs |
| 16699s | but it doesn't die right away but now it |
| 16701s | dies okay okay |
| 16703s | panic |
| 16706s | now the rats need to shave off the |
| 16708s | shields here |
| 16710s | yeah there's just so many |
| 16714s | i still don't think goddammit is going |
| 16717s | to get there there's too many refreshes |
| 16720s | on the side of the mill house from ken |
| 16722s | ken which is so interesting to see this |
| 16725s | mill house if you covered the hero and |
| 16727s | showed me the board i'd think this looks |
| 16728s | like a vulgen maybe |
| 16735s | but we still have time we have seven |
| 16736s | health seven health on the dream on this |
| 16738s | side passes by the macaw so is not |
| 16740s | interested in going into a macabre build |
| 16742s | looks at the ghoul |
| 16743s | yes that's huge |
| 16745s | ghoul is huge but keep in mind that the |
| 16747s | holy mackerel will get the divine shield |
| 16749s | back |
| 16750s | uh |
| 16752s | so the ghoul will go off twice |
| 16756s | oh if he keeps the bearing yes it will |
| 16757s | go off twice i don't know if he has |
| 16759s | space to keep baron if he's playing the |
| 16761s | ghoul though it's really difficult to |
| 16762s | say but the ghoul will make a huge |
| 16764s | difference in that if um ken ken doesn't |
| 16767s | choose to respect it the deflectobots |
| 16769s | could die at the beginning of the turn |
| 16771s | you think he likes the tank as much as i |
| 16773s | do |
| 16775s | i just think it's a really cool tech to |
| 16776s | put in right now |
| 16778s | i can't completely remember the board |
| 16780s | state but yeah if it ends with like a |
| 16782s | couple deflectors they were all at two |
| 16783s | health right or like the two ungolden |
| 16785s | ones it could be a huge deal and it |
| 16789s | looks like we have a neckline in hand |
| 16790s | looking to transition the gems onto the |
| 16793s | faux reaper |
| 16795s | we have to he wasn't playing around |
| 16797s | cleve before |
| 16798s | and i wonder if his eyes |
| 16800s | will be aware of that cleave |
| 16803s | wait so many actions |
| 16805s | two times too many gems no time and he |
| 16808s | ends up oh no |
| 16811s | okay oh no |
| 16813s | oh no can |
| 16815s | yeah and he gets gould here which is a |
| 16817s | complete disaster it's gonna ask you if |
| 16819s | you thought that the ending on six |
| 16820s | minions was intentional or if it's just |
| 16822s | a side effect of not having a good buy |
| 16826s | i mean you can definitely end on six |
| 16828s | minions with um the holy mackerel |
| 16831s | because you just assume it gets the |
| 16832s | divine shield back and then you attack |
| 16834s | with a divine shield so it's not the end |
| 16836s | of the world with a divine shield or |
| 16838s | attacked a taunted divine shield holy |
| 16840s | mackerel um but was not expecting the |
| 16843s | school was not expecting this board did |
| 16846s | not give himself enough time to put the |
| 16847s | gems out and that is going to be a rough |
| 16850s | loss for milhouse ken ken is it enough |
| 16854s | it is not we have one more round of this |
| 16857s | and so now he has information he knows |
| 16860s | about the ghoul |
| 16861s | um he's going to play out of the gem to |
| 16863s | have some board space for a second holy |
| 16865s | mackerel and that will be interesting |
| 16867s | too if you can taunt it |
| 16869s | and i love that we're ending the day on |
| 16870s | this very interesting endgame spot where |
| 16873s | both players don't really have the |
| 16874s | flexibility to completely transition out |
| 16876s | of their comp but they can have a lot of |
| 16878s | mind games of how they position because |
| 16880s | god ahmed will also know that kan knows |
| 16882s | about the ghoul and if he knows that he |
| 16884s | knows that he knows then he can also |
| 16887s | potentially take out the ghoul because |
| 16889s | it's not super good if ken can positions |
| 16892s | around it or move the ghoul to a later |
| 16894s | position and there's a lot of mind games |
| 16897s | to be had here |
| 16899s | i'm super curious how ken ken will |
| 16901s | approach it he also has second mackerel |
| 16903s | and an argus so if he wants he could |
| 16905s | attempt the ping pong as well |
| 16908s | so many ways to approach it |
| 16910s | yeah you have to give these pro players |
| 16913s | credit they think about |
| 16915s | what is my opponent doing to what i did |
| 16918s | and what do i do to do a step above that |
| 16920s | this has this goes through your mind you |
| 16922s | have to play out the scenarios how do |
| 16924s | you counter the counter that they're |
| 16926s | considering |
| 16928s | and if they're considering that counter |
| 16929s | then what do you do like what are the |
| 16931s | best options that all goes through your |
| 16934s | head in tournaments trust me when i say |
| 16936s | this |
| 16936s | and it's a big minefield but we do see |
| 16939s | this final battle we did get a gas |
| 16941s | coiler in on condemned side and the |
| 16944s | uh ghoul stayed in as well |
| 16947s | and ken just didn't really play around |
| 16949s | ghoul attacking first still maybe |
| 16951s | because he didn't really have a reset |
| 16953s | available or a convenient one the only |
| 16955s | real reset on this board is on the |
| 16957s | mackerel itself which has to stay on the |
| 16958s | far right uh but it pans out in a decent |
| 16961s | way still in that the first de facto bot |
| 16964s | got a value trade so it's really only |
| 16965s | the second deflecto that got wrecked by |
| 16968s | the ghoul here oh and that's amazing |
| 16970s | on the um faux reaper was going to be a |
| 16974s | big deal however like you said it |
| 16975s | already got a lot of the work done here |
| 16979s | vincing victory for ken ken |
| 16981s | yes ken ken will take this lobby over |
| 16984s | good dammit giving him a second place |
| 16986s | ken kenneth first place |
| 16988s | and uh in just a second we are gonna see |
| 16991s | the results of what four players are |
| 16994s | moving on to tomorrow's final top eight |
| 16999s | game and it's close so i have no idea |
| 17002s | that's right i'm on the edge of my seat |
| 17004s | here as well as the players are i am |
| 17007s | sure they haven't really had the time i |
| 17009s | think to calculate the points it was all |
| 17011s | about focusing on the game so far but |
| 17013s | here are the final results it's be nice |
| 17015s | and ken ken and tied for first with 14 |
| 17018s | points and then a three-way tie for |
| 17021s | third through fifth which according to |
| 17023s | our tiebreaker rules is broken by the |
| 17026s | player who has gotten the most amount of |
| 17028s | first places and then second places so |
| 17030s | unfortunately for goddammit he is going |
| 17033s | to go out on tie breakers here oh it's |
| 17037s | hard to it's a hard pill to swallow but |
| 17039s | yes it was whoever gets the |
| 17041s | most first places win it the first |
| 17043s | tiebreaker kurt got that uh hoff got the |
| 17046s | second one with the most amount of |
| 17047s | second so unfortunate for goddammit he |
| 17049s | had a good comeback but it just wasn't |
| 17051s | enough |
| 17052s | that is right and that means that we |
| 17055s | have our top eight for tomorrow |
| 17057s | completely locked in unlike lobby a |
| 17059s | though our four representatives from |
| 17062s | lobby b are not evenly distributed |
| 17064s | across the regions we do have the nice |
| 17067s | and uh |
| 17069s | sorry ken can end um |
| 17071s | kurt making it through |
| 17073s | i didn't get a screenshot there was it |
| 17076s | did they both make it through |
| 17078s | yeah i think we had double america's |
| 17080s | representation yes no |
| 17083s | [Laughter] |
| 17086s | oh i forgot to brag about that about how |
| 17089s | the americas are so stacked do we have |
| 17091s | the most players going through |
| 17094s | yes you |
| 17095s | do oh it feels good i feel good |
| 17099s | anyway constant tournament teammate in |
| 17101s | educator collins yes lissa you get to |
| 17103s | brag here i have to hold the l |
| 17106s | however we also need to sing the praises |
| 17109s | of be nice in particular who has had |
| 17111s | such a consistent result here hoff as |
| 17115s | well doing very very well and |
| 17117s | representing china as one player going |
| 17120s | through you love to see it there's such |
| 17122s | strong competition and a very cool |
| 17125s | endgame situation here between goddammit |
| 17128s | and ken can although that is really a |
| 17130s | heartbreaker for goddammit um i'm |
| 17132s | honestly not sure who has favored to win |
| 17134s | this last fight but it really all came |
| 17136s | down to that to see who between ken ken |
| 17139s | and goddammit would go through |
| 17142s | yes i'm so excited to be moving on to |
| 17145s | tomorrow and see our first ever |
| 17148s | battlegrounds check format tournament i |
| 17151s | don't think any community tournament has |
| 17153s | done check format yet that i've been |
| 17154s | aware of |
| 17156s | so this will be very interesting |
| 17158s | watching it pan out tomorrow |
| 17160s | where players are fighting to get to 20 |
| 17162s | points and once they get to 20 points |
| 17164s | the first person to get a first place |
| 17167s | will win the tournament tomorrow's |
| 17169s | either be a really short day or a really |
| 17171s | long day |
| 17173s | which is fun for gia who lives on the |
| 17175s | other side of the world for me |
| 17177s | i don't know solis i'm completely wide |
| 17179s | awake i had a lot of coffee it's 3am but |
| 17183s | i am still raring to go for more |
| 17184s | battlegrounds action as i hope a lot of |
| 17187s | our viewers are as well fear not we |
| 17190s | still have the second day like you said |
| 17192s | tomorrow which could go long or short |
| 17195s | but i do think it's going to go longer |
| 17197s | because our players will be very much |
| 17199s | aware of who has the lobby in check and |
| 17201s | they will be trying to bully that player |
| 17204s | to make themselves have a |
| 17207s | fighting chance towards the end here but |
| 17209s | of course we can see here our final |
| 17211s | players for tomorrow top eight educated |
| 17213s | collins by you pon potta babble fat be |
| 17216s | nice ken ken kurt and hoff okay so it's |
| 17219s | a hard question if not collins who are |
| 17222s | you cheering for the most |
| 17224s | oh i think pon pada he he won my heart |
| 17227s | today with his gameplay uh |
| 17230s | i became a big fan of pompata um as well |
| 17233s | as be nice he just gave a very nice |
| 17236s | message to the community about how |
| 17240s | important it is to be nice to one |
| 17241s | another |
| 17242s | and also kurt |
| 17244s | as we got to see him play mr |
| 17246s | brigglesworth which i think is just such |
| 17248s | a treat for the audience |
| 17250s | all right we got one and a half cheerers |
| 17253s | for pompadour here me and you if not |
| 17255s | collins |
| 17256s | the last remaining apac representative |
| 17258s | but we do have two chinese |
| 17260s | representatives as well and i am also a |
| 17263s | new fan of ken kan to be honest he has |
| 17266s | shown me more ways to play milhouse |
| 17268s | because like i said milhouse is my |
| 17270s | favorite hero but i've kind of |
| 17271s | shoehorned myself into only playing |
| 17273s | milhouse when elemental slash pirates |
| 17275s | are in he showed that you can still make |
| 17277s | it work with murlocs in one lobby and |
| 17280s | then uh with max and the other one |
| 17282s | taking a first in that regard as well |
| 17284s | some very very impressive stuff so day |
| 17287s | one of your official casting in the |
| 17289s | books how does it feel |
| 17291s | oh it was so much fun and it was just a |
| 17293s | blast because i got to do it alongside |
| 17295s | of you i feel like i've always you know |
| 17297s | looked up to you as a caster so it was |
| 17300s | really a special moment for me and i'm |
| 17303s | glad i got to be here for the first ever |
| 17305s | lobby legends and i'm just very much |
| 17308s | looking forward to tomorrow |
| 17310s | oh i look up to you too as a content |
| 17312s | creator and a dog mom i don't have any |
| 17315s | pets i couldn't handle your response |
| 17317s | sorry about the dogs barking today guys |
| 17322s | all right thank you so much for being |
| 17323s | here slissa we will go through once |
| 17326s | again tomorrow to determine who will be |
| 17328s | the winner of the first ever lobby |
| 17330s | legends and thank you to everybody who |
| 17332s | tuned in here on the main broadcast |
| 17334s | thank you to our co-streamers for |
| 17336s | pouring their time and effort into |
| 17338s | promoting battlegrounds esports it was |
| 17340s | an amazing first day i feel a great |
| 17343s | debut for battlegrounds esports good |
| 17345s | luck to our top eight players and |
| 17347s | everybody stay tuned for a raid for lee |
| 17350s | who is one of uh the other prominent |
| 17352s | members of the battlegrounds community i |
| 17354s | believe he has qualified for second |
| 17356s | lobby legends and he's known as one of |
| 17358s | the most educational streamers and the |
| 17360s | creator of the wall lee bot which is |
| 17363s | very widely used by battleground |
| 17365s | streamers so any last words before i |
| 17368s | send us off to lee |
| 17369s | thank you so much for production and |
| 17371s | saddle on the back end |
| 17373s | if you enjoyed all the gameplay action |
| 17376s | saddle was behind the scenes getting us |
| 17378s | to the right games at the right time uh |
| 17380s | and i hope to see you guys tomorrow |
| 17383s | thank you so much alyssa everybody stay |
| 17385s | tuned for tomorrow as we find out who |
| 17387s | will be the first ever champion of |
| 17389s | hearthstone battlegrounds lobby legends |
| 17391s | see you then |
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