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| 11s | hello children welcome back to class i |
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| 13s | hope you all remember the homework i set |
| 15s | over the weekend |
| 17s | yes |
| 18s | what was that |
| 19s | the assignment i set for the weekend |
| 21s | to watch battlegrounds lobby legends |
| 23s | fire festival featuring 16 of the |
| 25s | world's best battlegrounds players one |
| 27s | of the world's best battlegrounds |
| 28s | casters and raven |
| 30s | oh you did remember oh good perfect in |
| 32s | which case let's get on with it and find |
| 35s | out who passed with flying colours who |
| 37s | requires some one-on-one tuition my name |
| 40s | is soto i remain your demon head caster |
| 43s | and welcome to lobby legends graded |
| 47s | starting out with a very difficult one |
| 49s | to assess alucard to my eyes at the very |
| 52s | least seemed to make consistently good |
| 54s | decisions with very sound reasoning but |
| 56s | perhaps in some spots just took too long |
| 59s | to make them let's take a look |
| 62s | initially everything looked fantastic |
| 64s | for alucard's specific style of play cut |
| 68s | out of the beginning of this clip for |
| 69s | your viewing convenience is about 30 |
| 71s | seconds of alucard doing absolutely |
| 74s | nothing as he sat with his triple in |
| 76s | hand considering his options however |
| 78s | once he springs into action the turn is |
| 81s | incredibly clean he buffs a second |
| 82s | deflecto discounts his tavern levels to |
| 85s | five finds and uther creates another big |
| 87s | divine shield torn and then still has |
| 90s | exactly enough time to get the |
| 91s | positioning right and dump the final |
| 94s | banana right as the timer hits zero |
| 96s | there was minimal rolling perfect gold |
| 98s | allocation excellent efficiency it was |
| 100s | just a textbook battlegrounds turn and |
| 103s | it was a crucial turn to get right as he |
| 105s | was in the 15 health danger zone and |
| 107s | although he lost the subsequent fight |
| 110s | the power of his turn kept him alive at |
| 113s | two a great start for alakad |
| 116s | after finishing second in his semi-final |
| 118s | lobby alucard was able to progress |
| 120s | through to sunday where he set the early |
| 122s | running in the first game of the day |
| 124s | alucard was gifted the elusive beasts |
| 127s | shudderwock game although the beast |
| 129s | themselves continued to be elusive |
| 132s | fittingly for a half vampire alucard had |
| 134s | to make do with blood gems as his early |
| 136s | battle cries and then find something |
| 138s | just a little more creative to do with |
| 140s | his curve choosing deliberately to hold |
| 143s | a triple off-board and stay on one for |
| 145s | an additional turn with the tavern |
| 147s | already costing zero in order to fish |
| 150s | for more alley cats although this didn't |
| 153s | pay off for him because of the |
| 154s | ridiculous amount of gold saved back |
| 156s | from the swappy triple he could afford |
| 158s | to do it with no drawback to his later |
| 160s | tripling curve and it shows a lot of |
| 162s | foresight |
| 165s | in game two of the final lobby alucard |
| 167s | picked up a lich king and played an |
| 169s | incredibly interesting game full of |
| 172s | tricky choices and weird pivot decisions |
| 175s | he spent a large period of the game |
| 176s | floating halfway between a pirate exodia |
| 179s | build and a khadgar reborn poison scam |
| 182s | build both pretty effective strategies |
| 184s | with lich king but both good and bad |
| 186s | against different opponents and |
| 188s | different builds one player in this |
| 190s | particular game had a giant 150 plus |
| 192s | health minion from tripling battle |
| 193s | masters which required poison but others |
| 196s | had more divine shield based builds |
| 198s | better dealt with by the pirate comp |
| 200s | alcar's decision making to dance between |
| 202s | the two builds at different times |
| 204s | whether to reborn the poison whether to |
| 206s | reborn the eliza which triple to take |
| 208s | and so on were incredibly interesting |
| 211s | and it was a decision made far more |
| 212s | difficult by the game offering up both |
| 214s | sides of his comp in a head-to-head |
| 216s | triple with eliza versus mantid he ended |
| 218s | up moving fully into exodia while |
| 220s | creating a battle baron to play around |
| 223s | zap and being rewarded for it as he was |
| 225s | able to take down the giant health |
| 226s | minion in his final fight without the |
| 228s | need for poison for me this might well |
| 231s | be the best played game of the |
| 232s | tournament |
| 234s | okay enough praise let's get a little |
| 236s | bit nitpicky although alucard's slow and |
| 239s | considered style does clearly lead to |
| 241s | some excellent deliberate decisions the |
| 243s | slow pace can of course get you into |
| 245s | trouble with the rope on occasion in |
| 247s | game three after turning down his hero |
| 249s | power on his first triple a card is |
| 251s | offered good old branny bronzebeard in a |
| 254s | murloc lobby that is a huge recipe for |
| 256s | success but fast forward a couple of |
| 258s | turns and alucard's insistence on taking |
| 260s | his time possibly comes back to bite him |
| 263s | wasting a large portion of his time on |
| 265s | deciding which prize to take and other |
| 266s | slow actions he reaches the end of his |
| 268s | turn and is unable to continue to pop |
| 270s | off with an additional reef explorer and |
| 272s | primal finn both of which will make him |
| 275s | at least one gold profit and possibly |
| 277s | significantly more there was a lot more |
| 279s | still to do on this term potentially |
| 281s | alucard ends up losing this fight by two |
| 283s | health but in fairness does go on to |
| 285s | absolutely obliterate the rest of the |
| 287s | lobby this game however since he missed |
| 289s | out on being the first player to check |
| 291s | the lobby by a mere 0.5 points these are |
| 294s | the kind of moments that could have |
| 296s | contributed to that shortfall |
| 299s | so end of term report |
| 302s | alucard consistently made decisions that |
| 305s | genuinely made me stop and think about |
| 307s | the game |
| 309s | alucard was the highest point earner in |
| 310s | the final despite not winning the |
| 312s | tournament |
| 314s | alcarde takes time to make sure the big |
| 316s | decisions are correct |
| 319s | but alucard does have a case of boomer |
| 321s | apm |
| 323s | overall a minus |
| 325s | and so to our eventual winner kid5 |
| 329s | really grew into the tournament over the |
| 330s | course of two days only initially making |
| 333s | the top eight through tie breakers over |
| 335s | honeybow on day one but then running out |
| 337s | with the big prize on sunday let's get |
| 340s | into it |
| 341s | right from the offset in game one kid 5 |
| 344s | showed he understood the assignment |
| 345s | perfectly as outlined on multiple |
| 348s | occasions by nina picking up a test in a |
| 351s | mech lobby he laser focused on the idea |
| 353s | of playing the optimal order strategy of |
| 356s | a green spot divine shield comp |
| 358s | this can be shown here as he picks up a |
| 360s | time thief prize but holds on to it |
| 362s | until later greeting it until he fights |
| 364s | against a greasebot player so he can |
| 366s | then discover the greasebot and use a |
| 368s | test roll to pick up a second one all in |
| 371s | a single turn even after his triples |
| 373s | missed he was never deterred never |
| 375s | baited into doing anything other than |
| 378s | mex good stuff at the end of this very |
| 381s | same game kid5 shows that his micro |
| 383s | decision making is on par with his macro |
| 386s | game plans as he makes some very cool |
| 388s | choices in the late game positioning |
| 390s | battle in top 2 his board is potentially |
| 393s | vulnerable to three things tunnel |
| 395s | blaster leroy sniping his mono taunt |
| 398s | mackerel and huge cleaves with potential |
| 401s | wind fury he manages to engineer a |
| 403s | situation where he plays around all of |
| 404s | the above by creating an extra torn to |
| 406s | play around the leroy but also placing a |
| 408s | small reset harvest golem next to both |
| 411s | of those taunts to create a divine |
| 412s | shield reset against an opposing cleave |
| 415s | even giving it divine shield itself so |
| 417s | it would soak both attacks from windfury |
| 419s | his opponent also plays this exchange |
| 421s | very well massively rearranging boards |
| 424s | to stop many of kid five's plans from |
| 426s | working but this is the kids section so |
| 428s | we're focusing on him before his |
| 430s | glorious climax on day two however kidd |
| 433s | was left biting his nails at the end of |
| 435s | day one as he took a fat eighth in the |
| 437s | final lobby of the day and had to look |
| 439s | on nervously while his fate was decided |
| 441s | by other players the final turn has a |
| 443s | lot of questions and is worth looking at |
| 445s | in more detail |
| 446s | before we even join him he turns down a |
| 448s | sunbacon relaxer which represents two |
| 450s | spells for his atheists but that's |
| 452s | understandable with his pressing need to |
| 453s | find a demon for the golden devourer he |
| 456s | does however then turn down a reef |
| 457s | explorer which could have offered him a |
| 459s | demon in order to roll down one more |
| 461s | time which is questionable and causes |
| 462s | him to have to sell an extra minion to |
| 464s | pick up the much needed 2-4 kid ends up |
| 467s | dying on this fight was there a line |
| 469s | that keeps him alive |
| 472s | let's wrap it up for kid 5. |
| 475s | a high-risk high-reward playstyle that |
| 477s | was incredibly fun to watch |
| 480s | won the whole damn tournament so it's |
| 482s | hard to argue with that |
| 484s | possibly missed some small details which |
| 486s | made his life harder than it needed to |
| 487s | be |
| 488s | and named himself entirely to troll a |
| 491s | previous competitor |
| 493s | that alone is worth a b-plus |
| 496s | despite not even finishing on ladder let |
| 498s | alone making it through the qualifier |
| 501s | shift azaris was too much of a |
| 502s | narcissist not to show up anyway and |
| 504s | make the whole event about them |
| 507s | well i suppose i'll just have to bow to |
| 508s | the pressure so here is the greatest |
| 510s | hits of shifter zerus |
| 513s | again uh oliak is playing the omu hero |
| 515s | power oh |
| 522s | feels good and bad at the same time i |
| 525s | think satellite very much wanted |
| 527s | something that was playable |
| 530s | unfortunate |
| 532s | is cool all those errors could be a |
| 534s | golden greaseport another 12 damage |
| 537s | again kid5 looking pretty okay in the |
| 539s | standings but |
| 541s | every player will not want zero points |
| 543s | oh it's time out do a little prayer oh |
| 557s | he does not look happy |
| 561s | but you can't help but laugh when that |
| 562s | happens yeah actually weirdly enough the |
| 565s | replicating men is someone from oh |
| 567s | no |
| 568s | oh |
| 570s | give me a minute i'm finding an official |
| 573s | bug report |
| 574s | at this point because that is no |
| 577s | shifter zerus no way row |
| 581s | oh no |
| 583s | everyone watching you were here oh it's |
| 586s | a hundred percent zerus so far |
| 589s | and on that note we shall end let me |
| 592s | know what you think of my grading |
| 594s | process in the comments tell me what |
| 596s | grade you'd give shift to zerus based on |
| 598s | their performance in this tournament |
| 600s | take care everyone and i will see you |
| 602s | next time lobby legends rolls around |
| 605s | goodbye |
| 619s | you |