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| 1319s | to Lobby Legend spring Championship I'm |
| 1322s | Raven and joining me is subtle we'll be |
| 1325s | taking you through all of the action |
| 1326s | today and tomorrow as well we've got a |
| 1329s | ton of Battlegrounds uh games coming up |
| 1331s | for you guys so welcome it's been a |
| 1333s | while especially since I cut some Lobby |
| 1335s | Legends now but are you ready for some |
| 1337s | Battlegrounds I like that intro it's |
| 1339s | like Raven welcome subtle to |
| 1342s | Battlegrounds as if I'm the guest here |
| 1343s | like Raven the experienced hand of |
| 1346s | broadcasting Battlegrounds of course |
| 1347s | welcomes me to proceeding so that's very |
| 1349s | very fitting but yes very excited to be |
| 1351s | getting back on with Battlegrounds I'm |
| 1352s | sure players and viewers feel very much |
| 1354s | the same way we made our debut for the |
| 1356s | year we've constructed a little while |
| 1357s | ago switching over to switching |
| 1359s | disciplines now to some Battlegrounds |
| 1362s | and great to be back with Lobby Legends |
| 1364s | because I think this was a pretty big |
| 1366s | success last year in its uh its debut |
| 1368s | season and now here we are back again |
| 1370s | for some more action |
| 1371s | and even though it has been a while we |
| 1373s | can take a look at what the format's |
| 1374s | gonna look like over the course of this |
| 1376s | weekend just to remind anyone maybe it's |
| 1378s | been a little bit too long uh what we |
| 1379s | got coming up Sal |
| 1381s | yeah so if you are familiar with what we |
| 1383s | did last year it is very very similar |
| 1385s | but if you are watching Lobby Legends |
| 1386s | for the first time here is a very brief |
| 1387s | overview of how this works 16 players |
| 1390s | have qualified for this tournament uh |
| 1392s | through a mixture of being the top |
| 1394s | places on the uh on the online ladder |
| 1397s | they're all for their particular region |
| 1399s | and then filling out the gaps with the |
| 1401s | highest MMR players of the best of the |
| 1403s | rest who didn't make any of those |
| 1404s | positions we split them up into two |
| 1406s | different lobbies of eight players each |
| 1408s | we play out three games in each of those |
| 1411s | lobbies that's what you'll be watching |
| 1412s | today three games in lobby a three games |
| 1415s | in lobby B the best performing players |
| 1417s | from each of those two groups then go |
| 1419s | through to tomorrow to fight out in the |
| 1422s | final Lobby of eight players where we |
| 1424s | will be entering check format which will |
| 1426s | give you plenty more details on tomorrow |
| 1428s | but it's a nice little way just to amp |
| 1431s | up the drama a little bit and make sure |
| 1433s | that the tournament actually ends on a |
| 1435s | climax win which is I am something |
| 1437s | that's something that I'm a very big fan |
| 1438s | of yeah and of course those games one |
| 1440s | thing that is true of both days is going |
| 1442s | to be those Point totals starting at |
| 1444s | seven points for first place finish and |
| 1446s | then going all the way down to zero and |
| 1448s | those get added up across all of the |
| 1449s | games of course and then we see what the |
| 1451s | players are competing for the prize pool |
| 1453s | itself first place a smooth ten thousand |
| 1456s | dollars at the top there and paying all |
| 1458s | the way down to all 16 players so pretty |
| 1461s | exciting stuff and that money especially |
| 1463s | when you can move on through into you |
| 1465s | know the day two sort of scenario does |
| 1467s | start to ramp up very very quickly |
| 1469s | indeed so definitely a lot to play for |
| 1471s | for these players and I do think that |
| 1473s | the competition is is pretty ruthless at |
| 1476s | the moment we've seen as we'll show you |
| 1477s | the groups in a minute we see a lot of |
| 1479s | the players like you know returning |
| 1481s | players to Battlegrounds and also with |
| 1483s | all the new effects we've had in |
| 1485s | Battlegrounds and all the new minions |
| 1486s | The Meta is still shifting and what |
| 1488s | everyone's going to do is going to be |
| 1489s | pretty exciting to see yeah I think it's |
| 1491s | a really interesting time to have a |
| 1492s | tournament because it's enough time |
| 1494s | since the huge minion revamp has |
| 1496s | happened for players to at least feel |
| 1497s | like they have a rhythm but because of |
| 1499s | the way it was trickled out it does |
| 1501s | still feel like we're still adapting to |
| 1503s | a meta that has changed quite rapidly as |
| 1504s | each new minion type has been revealed |
| 1506s | so there is a lot of stuff for these |
| 1508s | players to adapt |
| 1509s | one thing that has stayed the same I |
| 1511s | know a lot of people enjoyed this last |
| 1513s | year is the return of Tavern buddy uh to |
| 1516s | Hearthstone Battlegrounds Lobby Legends |
| 1517s | if you aren't familiar with this this is |
| 1519s | a twitch extension you should see it uh |
| 1521s | popped up in the corner on the side |
| 1523s | somewhere if you are watching on Twitch |
| 1524s | where we have four different little mini |
| 1526s | games that you can take part in to up |
| 1529s | the interactivity that you have with the |
| 1531s | stream starting with the most simple one |
| 1532s | which is fantasy team where you just |
| 1535s | straight up have to pick three players |
| 1536s | from each group today and then you'll do |
| 1538s | the same thing tomorrow picking three |
| 1540s | players from the finals group uh very |
| 1542s | very simple pick the three players that |
| 1544s | you think are gonna perform the best the |
| 1545s | better those players do the more points |
| 1547s | you get |
| 1548s | yep and then the next one is uh for me |
| 1551s | the spiciest one a lot of the time |
| 1552s | whereas puzzle box is gonna be it's |
| 1554s | gonna be a set of questions basically |
| 1555s | that have been asked for you to make |
| 1557s | predictions and you have to choose |
| 1558s | whether these things will happen or |
| 1560s | whether they will not and some of them |
| 1561s | are pretty tough so I'm excited to see |
| 1563s | how we do in that one yeah bandwagon |
| 1567s | probably the most complex overall uh |
| 1570s | guess the winner based on the first four |
| 1571s | turns is the blurb we have here so |
| 1573s | essentially you can change your mind as |
| 1575s | often as you want within the first four |
| 1576s | turns you have to have your choice |
| 1578s | locked in by the end of turn four and |
| 1580s | we'll try our best to remind you uh to |
| 1582s | do that during those first short turns |
| 1584s | and each other uh crucially though the |
| 1587s | earlier you pick if you are correct the |
| 1589s | more points you get you can change your |
| 1591s | mind as many times as you want that |
| 1593s | doesn't matter but if you lock in a pick |
| 1595s | on turn one and that is successful you |
| 1598s | will get more points than if you made |
| 1599s | that same pick on turn four the earlier |
| 1602s | the better |
| 1603s | and then finally we have balance |
| 1604s | blessing at some point during a game we |
| 1607s | will see a head-to-head matchup so we'll |
| 1609s | see both players screens and you'll have |
| 1611s | to predict who you think is going to win |
| 1613s | very much like the hero Barrel himself |
| 1615s | in the game so this one's going to be a |
| 1617s | tough one I think it's something that |
| 1618s | tests everyone who's played |
| 1620s | Battlegrounds kind of knowledge because |
| 1621s | you do this pretty much every game and |
| 1623s | every round you play anyway so this is |
| 1626s | going to be pretty interesting overall |
| 1627s | because some of those calls especially |
| 1629s | in this meta for me subtle can be quite |
| 1632s | difficult because some of the strategies |
| 1634s | are actually pretty misleading it's not |
| 1637s | just about just like a base Stat or oh I |
| 1639s | can tell these outcomes are gonna happen |
| 1640s | right some of them have a lot of |
| 1642s | different intricacies during the fight |
| 1644s | yeah it's not about a base stat it's |
| 1646s | about a base skill a lot of the time |
| 1648s | which can really make a mess of who you |
| 1649s | think is going to be winning the fight |
| 1651s | but here you go here's what we have with |
| 1653s | our uh initial puzzle box questions |
| 1655s | you'll be able to fill these out as you |
| 1657s | go along as well and you can see what me |
| 1659s | and Raven have gone for here uh although |
| 1662s | mine seem to have been entered |
| 1664s | incorrectly this is absolutely not what |
| 1666s | I show So Raven you can go through yours |
| 1669s | and then we'll see if I can get mine |
| 1671s | changed because this is not what I |
| 1672s | submitted at all Yeah so basically all |
| 1674s | you're going to pick here is yes or no |
| 1676s | and will a player win a game with Etc |
| 1678s | hopefully Etc gets offered but I do |
| 1680s | think it will be picked as one of the |
| 1681s | stronger heroes in the game and I do |
| 1683s | think these players are good enough that |
| 1685s | they will make those buddies work and |
| 1688s | next one is when uh sorry will I play a |
| 1690s | win a game without reaching Tavern tier |
| 1691s | five |
| 1693s | um I really wanted to say yes on this |
| 1695s | one because I think like it's the tavern |
| 1696s | tier four uh three and four is very |
| 1698s | strong in this matter but I do think the |
| 1700s | players will just progress past so we'll |
| 1701s | have to see how that one goes out then |
| 1703s | will a players score less than four |
| 1704s | points in their groups when I said |
| 1706s | earlier first place get seven last place |
| 1708s | gets zero and this one's gonna be spicy |
| 1710s | because it'll be three games onwards and |
| 1712s | then you can check out the rest on the |
| 1713s | twitch extension of course and make sure |
| 1716s | you fill all those out because those |
| 1717s | questions it's the first time I've done |
| 1719s | these before and you know whilst casting |
| 1721s | and it's actually really really tough to |
| 1724s | just sit and think well I'm gone well |
| 1725s | this could happen is couldn't but what's |
| 1727s | more likely |
| 1728s | yeah yeah really really tough one really |
| 1730s | interesting |
| 1731s | um just I agreed with I think four out |
| 1733s | of six of Raven's Arts oh there we go |
| 1735s | you can see it so the ones where I |
| 1736s | differed on uh I've gone with no on Etc |
| 1738s | I do think Etc is potentially the best |
| 1740s | hero in the game but just statistically |
| 1742s | there is a percentage chance that Etc |
| 1744s | doesn't actually get offered to anyone |
| 1745s | during the game there's a percentage |
| 1747s | chance that someone sees Etc and doesn't |
| 1749s | pick it which I would find unusual but |
| 1750s | there might be situations where they |
| 1752s | might just want like a more solid top 4 |
| 1754s | hero because of game state right instead |
| 1756s | of more of a feast or famine kind of |
| 1757s | thing as Etc is and there is the |
| 1759s | opportunity that you pick Etc and you |
| 1760s | still don't win which can happen so all |
| 1762s | of those things added up I've gone for |
| 1763s | no uh other things we differ on is uh |
| 1766s | less than four points in their group I |
| 1768s | think that's just me being generally |
| 1770s | sadistic I think that'll be kind of |
| 1772s | funny if it happens so here we are I |
| 1774s | picked it uh and then game lasting |
| 1776s | longer than 18 turns this is the one I |
| 1778s | wasn't really sure on but there is so |
| 1780s | there's a part of me there's two ways |
| 1782s | this tournament can go otherwise people |
| 1784s | spiking really really hard for Tavern |
| 1786s | five to having six win conditions and |
| 1788s | really blowing people up early but there |
| 1790s | are actually a lot of very powerful like |
| 1792s | Tavern 4 gaming kind of strategies that |
| 1794s | you can do which defend for quite a long |
| 1797s | time and if multiple players in a Lobby |
| 1799s | choose to go for that kind of thing we |
| 1800s | might just see a game stretch out uh |
| 1803s | quite a long time so that's why I've |
| 1804s | differed on that one as well but we |
| 1806s | shall see I'm a little bit upset at the |
| 1808s | bottom one I feel like you should have |
| 1809s | been forced to go for yes on the last |
| 1811s | one will so I'll get every Paris |
| 1813s | blessing pick correct I feel like that |
| 1815s | was one Soul should be forced into as a |
| 1817s | yes to give me some kind of Advantage |
| 1818s | because I feel like I need it |
| 1820s | um so yeah it's going to be interesting |
| 1822s | and again uh you know let us know which |
| 1823s | ones you've picked because those |
| 1825s | questions are pretty spicy indeed and |
| 1828s | just for fun we've added an extra |
| 1830s | Challenge on top here between Saul |
| 1832s | myself and uh it will be pretty |
| 1835s | interesting because it's based on when |
| 1836s | all of these scores are combined between |
| 1838s | me and Saul uh the loser has to do |
| 1841s | something I would say unfun if you would |
| 1843s | agree so |
| 1845s | that's how we have it summed up at the |
| 1846s | moment deliver a speech about the winner |
| 1848s | using Hearthstone references I think the |
| 1850s | spirit of it is that it should be |
| 1852s | glowing and complementary and generally |
| 1854s | positive you know not just uh not just |
| 1856s | writing a diss track about the other |
| 1858s | person |
| 1861s | which I think we'd both enjoy enormously |
| 1863s | but yeah you know a bit of fun to hear |
| 1866s | Raven say some nice things about me |
| 1867s | tomorrow I'll make a change |
| 1869s | yeah I I am going for the uh not much to |
| 1873s | lose because I think people expect me to |
| 1875s | lose and have to do it but everything to |
| 1877s | gain because we could immortalize subtle |
| 1880s | right in a very complimentary speech |
| 1882s | about me which I think uh would be |
| 1883s | pretty great but that's enough about |
| 1885s | those two let's talk about the players |
| 1887s | we have on board for today kicking it |
| 1889s | off of course with group a and I just |
| 1891s | can't wait to get him into this honestly |
| 1893s | Soul because I think the players we have |
| 1895s | here are simply fantastic there's a lot |
| 1898s | of returning faces and uh once again |
| 1900s | Japan just showing their domination |
| 1902s | overall yeah four out of eight players I |
| 1905s | think in this group coming from Japan |
| 1906s | really one of the hotbeds of |
| 1909s | Battlegrounds one of the hotbeds of |
| 1910s | hearthstone in general because they |
| 1911s | became a real force in constructed as |
| 1913s | well kind of over the same time period |
| 1915s | in the last couple of years some are the |
| 1917s | same players with some of them yeah I |
| 1919s | mean or just what a hero right absolute |
| 1922s | legend of the game in every format at |
| 1924s | this point a special shout out to |
| 1925s | penguin Sun as well former Lobby Legends |
| 1927s | winner and I think now making his fifth |
| 1929s | appearance in lobby Legends finals |
| 1932s | overall so uh congratulations to him |
| 1934s | wonderful performance but some pretty |
| 1936s | stacked roster in here overall |
| 1938s | yeah really really impressive I can't |
| 1941s | wait to get going but we did mention |
| 1942s | this earlier of course we are going into |
| 1944s | this tournament with its relatively |
| 1946s | fresh meta with a lot of new minions and |
| 1948s | you can just see some of the key ones we |
| 1951s | think are going to create a huge impact |
| 1952s | in the tournament over the course of |
| 1955s | this weekend uh favorite for me will be |
| 1956s | that scrap scraper I didn't really |
| 1958s | respect the power of this card until I |
| 1961s | started you know forcing it to practice |
| 1962s | mechs I was like wow this actually just |
| 1964s | opens up the minion type yeah tethis as |
| 1967s | well filling the Gap left by hogar in |
| 1970s | terms of huge stat build APM Economy |
| 1973s | based pirate build still scratching that |
| 1975s | itch for the players that like it and of |
| 1977s | course rylack as well like honestly I |
| 1979s | would delay the start of the tournament |
| 1981s | by about 25 minutes if I started talking |
| 1983s | about it everything you could do with |
| 1986s | this card uh hopefully we get to see it |
| 1988s | used to its uh its full power level as |
| 1991s | things go on and we can start to point |
| 1992s | out just some of the things that card |
| 1994s | can do because it is endless yeah and I |
| 1998s | think I think we will for sure see that |
| 2000s | because the stuff I see all the time |
| 2001s | that I never even think about I will |
| 2003s | check out the fantasy picks as well as |
| 2005s | I'll mentioned this earlier of course |
| 2007s | the fantasy fix being fairly |
| 2008s | straightforward pick players that you |
| 2010s | think will do well and let's take a look |
| 2012s | do you want to take us through your |
| 2013s | pixel uh no because those aren't correct |
| 2016s | either |
| 2018s | oh okay well mine are so I'll go through |
| 2021s | mine go ahead Saul's just trying to just |
| 2023s | change his mind all the time he's just |
| 2025s | scouting out wants to do late delayed |
| 2027s | changes we'll see how that plays out but |
| 2028s | again we talked about our team who won |
| 2030s | not just a great amazing Battlegrounds |
| 2033s | player but just an all-time great |
| 2034s | Hearthstone player so I couldn't not |
| 2035s | pick other team who there and then we |
| 2037s | look at Matsuri and beat about it just a |
| 2041s | couple of just super strong players and |
| 2043s | I just think when you look at these |
| 2044s | three it's difficult for me to imagine |
| 2046s | the world where you know at least two of |
| 2048s | them don't do incredibly well yeah so I |
| 2051s | have gone for a penguin Waterloo and be |
| 2054s | about there you go perfect fix on the |
| 2056s | Fly |
| 2057s | um penguin as I mentioned just an |
| 2059s | incredibly good repeat performer I have |
| 2061s | to put him on here Waterloo kind of the |
| 2063s | same deal uh Waterloo is a former winner |
| 2066s | and this is now third Lobby Legends |
| 2067s | performance for them as well Peter |
| 2070s | Babbitt not quite that level of pedigree |
| 2072s | but I think uh one of the players that |
| 2074s | we do know if we're going to venture |
| 2076s | outside of Japan beta Babbitt is one of |
| 2079s | those players that were like okay that |
| 2081s | he he really really has a chance to make |
| 2083s | a huge impact on uh on proceedings so |
| 2085s | he's kind of my Wild Card pick if you |
| 2088s | consider like a player from outside of |
| 2089s | Japan to be a wild card pick which it |
| 2092s | kind of is at this point and that's the |
| 2094s | thing I'm looking forward to just an |
| 2095s | extra thing to keep an eye on as we |
| 2096s | progress through the groups and through |
| 2098s | Sunday of course is just what Sundays |
| 2100s | eight are going to even look like |
| 2102s | because that could just be just APAC |
| 2106s | domination or just specifically Japan uh |
| 2108s | domination over there so that could be |
| 2110s | really spicy indeed because they just |
| 2112s | keep showing that they're just the best |
| 2113s | region right now yes there are some |
| 2115s | fantastic European uh and of course you |
| 2117s | know America's players and so on but |
| 2119s | it's just not as impressive as these uh |
| 2122s | Japanese players that just keep coming |
| 2123s | back you know Time After Time After Time |
| 2125s | I think it shows just not only how well |
| 2128s | they can perform in a tournament setting |
| 2130s | but just the the grind right like sort |
| 2133s | of The Daily Grind of Just Landing those |
| 2135s | top placements and point earnings on |
| 2137s | those battlegrounds Sunset Seasons |
| 2139s | because that it's so competitive it's |
| 2141s | unbelievable yeah and also you know when |
| 2144s | I talk about repeat performances uh last |
| 2147s | year especially to get on camera they |
| 2150s | had to go through a qualifying group a |
| 2152s | lot of the time so they were all |
| 2153s | um these players that came up on stream |
| 2155s | over and over again were not only |
| 2156s | finishing on top of ladder consistently |
| 2158s | they were then getting through a whole |
| 2160s | qualifying Lobby very consistently as |
| 2161s | well to make it to this point so |
| 2163s | fantastic level of consistency from a |
| 2165s | lot of these players and it looks like |
| 2167s | we are ready to let's go let's go okay |
| 2170s | so it's gonna be the first game of Lobby |
| 2173s | a so it'll take me through some of the |
| 2174s | highlights |
| 2176s | stay away and stay away I don't want you |
| 2180s | to qualify for the fantasy picks but I |
| 2182s | do want you to win this specific game |
| 2185s | okay do me a favor oh yeah hang on we're |
| 2187s | already torn right because I want |
| 2189s | penguin sun to win because uh fantasy |
| 2192s | team predictions I don't want penguin |
| 2194s | Santa Winks it ruin my puzzle yes |
| 2196s | okay well on this note remember it is |
| 2199s | now currently term one if you want |
| 2200s | maximum bandwagon picks you want to get |
| 2203s | your bandwagon choice in this turn |
| 2205s | before the end of turn one you have 19 |
| 2206s | seconds to do so for maximum picks |
| 2210s | already locked mine in |
| 2213s | I am good to go yeah looking at some of |
| 2215s | these as well I'll take a look at what's |
| 2218s | even in the uh in the minion Types on |
| 2221s | offer as well we can see the uh the |
| 2224s | quill bars in there just for a start as |
| 2225s | well as pirates |
| 2228s | have been really impressing me lately so |
| 2233s | yeah Max I would say I I thought there |
| 2236s | was a lot of work when I saw how much |
| 2238s | magnetic Synergy how much mechs leaned |
| 2240s | into magnetics in this uh minion remix I |
| 2243s | thought there was a lot of work to do |
| 2244s | because magnetic kind of has this |
| 2246s | inherent downside of it's a buff you |
| 2249s | can't sell so essentially they each cost |
| 2252s | one more gold right because you you know |
| 2253s | you buy a mug or a jug or whatever you |
| 2256s | buy it you get the bath you sell it back |
| 2257s | again whereas a magnetic minion you |
| 2259s | magnetize it it stays on your board you |
| 2260s | don't get to sell it therefore slightly |
| 2262s | more expensive than anything else oh |
| 2263s | hello |
| 2264s | um so I thought there was a lot of work |
| 2266s | to be done with Mech specifically to be |
| 2268s | able to get that done and boy have they |
| 2270s | actually done it I think scrap scraper |
| 2271s | in particular is the absolute core card |
| 2274s | I think if you don't have scrap scraper |
| 2276s | you're not mixed it used to be the way |
| 2278s | we're like oh I hit a couple of |
| 2279s | deflectos on Tavern three I'm meched now |
| 2282s | I'll lean into mechs I don't think |
| 2284s | that's the case anymore I think you have |
| 2285s | to be seeing scrap scraper before you |
| 2287s | decide that you're mixed but if you do |
| 2288s | hit that card they can absolutely get |
| 2291s | some work done yep and I might be |
| 2293s | heartbroken because we will just get |
| 2295s | this confirmed but I think we've come |
| 2296s | out the game because I believe tomb did |
| 2298s | not connect oh no yeah we might have to |
| 2301s | make a regame uh we will have to see uh |
| 2304s | obviously we'll get everything confirmed |
| 2305s | for you shortly but I believe that is |
| 2306s | correct so I'm already I feel like I |
| 2309s | should get some points because we had |
| 2310s | Etc on the board there and I voted for |
| 2312s | that for the uh my bandwagon pick as |
| 2314s | well so |
| 2315s | um but we'll see how that's gonna go but |
| 2317s | just talk about scrap scraper I do think |
| 2319s | one of the benefits as well is a lot of |
| 2321s | the these I feel like you've got a lot |
| 2324s | of options in the early game to pay off |
| 2327s | avenge as well right there are just a |
| 2329s | good cards that help with events like |
| 2331s | naturally so if you see that scrap |
| 2333s | scraper early-ish you probably or at |
| 2336s | least are likely to have a board that |
| 2337s | can at least start getting that ball |
| 2339s | rolling before you get hold of the mix |
| 2340s | yeah there's a little bit of RNG to it |
| 2343s | in terms of what your first |
| 2345s | um avenge drops from the scrap scraper |
| 2347s | are right like if you just have a board |
| 2349s | with like a taunted Harvest Golem uh |
| 2352s | maybe a risen Rider or something like |
| 2353s | that on the board and you get like two |
| 2354s | avenge drops from your first fight say |
| 2356s | you get replicating Menace from one of |
| 2358s | those very first drops now suddenly |
| 2359s | you're in business right because that |
| 2361s | replicating Menace just adds so many |
| 2362s | tokens to your next fight and it just |
| 2364s | Stacks exponentially over and over and |
| 2366s | over if you get to that point where |
| 2367s | you're getting three or four procs and |
| 2369s | then you golden the scrap scraper and |
| 2370s | you're getting five six seven procs and |
| 2372s | then you're starting to get the mechs |
| 2373s | that give you plus one gold every turn |
| 2375s | you're dropping that with polarized |
| 2377s | beatboxer on the board so every plus one |
| 2379s | Gold Mech that you attach is copying |
| 2381s | once or twice with however many beatbox |
| 2382s | as you have and suddenly you're just |
| 2385s | having a turn where you start with 20 |
| 2387s | gold and 10 cards in your hand every |
| 2389s | turn like that's a very realistic late |
| 2391s | game that can come out of a Mech |
| 2393s | situation and as you know Raven I'm a |
| 2395s | sucker for any comp that ends up with me |
| 2397s | starting a turd with 10 cards in my head |
| 2399s | yeah it's my absolute favorite sent me |
| 2401s | many screenshots of various different uh |
| 2404s | cards wasn't what I said I had eight |
| 2406s | bone mares in my hand or something like |
| 2408s | that it was stupid yes uh just before we |
| 2411s | you know we are trying to sort out this |
| 2413s | uh game getting going of course for you |
| 2414s | guys so you know trust us we're on it |
| 2416s | means |
| 2418s | people who know more than those are |
| 2420s | running and look just before we get into |
| 2422s | it because it was something I did want |
| 2423s | to ask you in previous Lobby Legends |
| 2425s | we've seen that |
| 2427s | certain like metas feel like super |
| 2429s | aggressive like players playing really |
| 2431s | to not lose as opposed to strictly win |
| 2433s | which is more relevant in actual |
| 2435s | Battlegrounds and it's in standard |
| 2437s | um do you think that's going to be the |
| 2438s | case with like you know sort of |
| 2439s | prediction before we kick off the date I |
| 2441s | think we're going to see aggressive |
| 2442s | lines or do you think we're gonna see |
| 2444s | some greedy players kicking out uh today |
| 2447s | I think Spike to win like greedy plays |
| 2450s | oh it's better it's yes tomb gets |
| 2453s | rewarded by finding an Etc okay fair |
| 2456s | enough |
| 2457s | um for me like spiking win conditions |
| 2459s | and snowballing is a little too powerful |
| 2461s | in this meta personally having said that |
| 2463s | I have gone for the yes on 18 turns or |
| 2466s | more which is a little bit contradictory |
| 2467s | but what I will say is tournaments tend |
| 2471s | to dictate themselves uh I remember in |
| 2474s | the global Invitational for example we |
| 2475s | were all expecting really fast games uh |
| 2478s | with milking dazzling lights born into |
| 2481s | huge Elementals for example and instead |
| 2483s | what everyone did was take mechano tanks |
| 2485s | and soul jugglers and yes make a Tempo |
| 2488s | everyone for the entire game and just 15 |
| 2491s | people that were trying to milk over and |
| 2493s | over again so you kind of have to wait I |
| 2495s | feel like day one dictates day two in in |
| 2498s | Battlegrounds tournaments a lot of the |
| 2500s | time so we'll we'll wait and see how |
| 2501s | things pan out |
| 2502s | okay so just checking out some of the |
| 2504s | heroes there is that dinathuria somu |
| 2506s | Mill House a tomb of course on |
| 2509s | Etc uh Gulf hook Tusk tamzin and uh |
| 2514s | blank on a good day |
| 2517s | wait how am I forgetting the brand |
| 2520s | wait oh sorry that's brown we're looking |
| 2522s | at it I thought it was um |
| 2524s | tavish I was looking at the Ike on the |
| 2527s | left I didn't realize |
| 2529s | okay I'm in |
| 2532s | yes uh so I'll enjoys Milhouse from our |
| 2535s | practice sessions especially when it's |
| 2537s | got the uh the good minion types and |
| 2539s | would you say these are good minion |
| 2540s | types uh good many types good Star as |
| 2543s | well economy start so term one he's |
| 2546s | essentially or two minions and saved two |
| 2549s | gold right he got an economy minion with |
| 2551s | the Naga and then he bought oh my |
| 2552s | goodness second reroll Elementor and |
| 2554s | then bought the second the reroll |
| 2555s | Elementor so he now saves two gold on a |
| 2557s | roll at some point over the course of |
| 2559s | the game now has the opportunity to pick |
| 2560s | that up as a pair as well which is very |
| 2563s | appealing and could be strong enough now |
| 2566s | to pick up a turn to upbeat front Drake |
| 2568s | as well to get even more economy rolling |
| 2571s | uh on that |
| 2573s | a Millhouse start which is kind of what |
| 2575s | you want early and I think then when you |
| 2576s | get to Tavern 2 you have the triple Buy |
| 2578s | on Tavern 2 where everyone else only |
| 2580s | gets to buy two uh which I think sets |
| 2584s | you ahead a little bit on Tempo so you |
| 2586s | can afford to be a little bit greedy |
| 2587s | with those 101 minutes |
| 2589s | and a little bit of a fair amount of |
| 2591s | players actually just going a little bit |
| 2593s | wider not necessarily going for the uh |
| 2595s | the auto level on turn two yes three |
| 2599s | players staying on one hook does make |
| 2601s | sense hook Tusk is almost a fairly |
| 2603s | mandatory tab in one game and when you |
| 2605s | have economy in on Tavern one uh bran |
| 2607s | has probably seen some Battle Cry |
| 2609s | Minions on Tavern one which is why we're |
| 2610s | staying here and then Milhouse will have |
| 2612s | taken the level this turn it looks like |
| 2614s | uh instead of buying the uh the |
| 2616s | refreshing anomaly pair yeah brand got |
| 2619s | refreshing and then um the coin Naga as |
| 2621s | well uh so that kind of makes sense |
| 2624s | now back to our Milhouse once again and |
| 2626s | again another nice offering of a minions |
| 2628s | here for uh |
| 2636s | Elemental is free there is no point in |
| 2639s | time where you should not buy sell or |
| 2640s | seller mental that is particularly true |
| 2642s | it used to be true for slightly more |
| 2644s | nebulous reasons that you'd have to go |
| 2645s | into the weeds to explain uh now there's |
| 2647s | literally an elemental in the game that |
| 2649s | gets bigger the more Elementals you've |
| 2650s | played over the course of the game so |
| 2651s | there is literally zero reason to not |
| 2654s | ever buy sell a settlement or if you're |
| 2655s | Milhouse |
| 2658s | we see all the timu on that tams in uh |
| 2661s | what are the is there any standout |
| 2663s | specific combos you want with Tamsin you |
| 2666s | know uh specific Minions that you want |
| 2668s | to hit specific you know any crazy |
| 2669s | outcomes with that hero power there can |
| 2671s | be um obviously turret ghoster for |
| 2673s | example will retain the the in combat |
| 2675s | Buffs which is very very nice if you can |
| 2677s | get that going uh but I think in general |
| 2679s | it's just really really good early Tempo |
| 2681s | it's a it's a press the button and level |
| 2683s | kind of hero right you just get strong |
| 2685s | with those early minions uh and then |
| 2686s | just try and pump up as hard as you can |
| 2688s | uh here we go tomb has gone three on |
| 2691s | three with the ETC here you are |
| 2693s | generally looking for an economy outcome |
| 2695s | here off the first hero power when you |
| 2696s | go three on three loyal henchman looks |
| 2699s | kinda perfect does rely on you killing |
| 2701s | two minions in this situation off the |
| 2703s | first outcome but you should be |
| 2704s | absolutely fine doing that I think and |
| 2707s | turns down the greedy opportunity for |
| 2709s | one of the best triples in the game uh |
| 2711s | with the two ones instead going for |
| 2713s | Tempo with the extra tarragosa which I |
| 2715s | think is very wise in that situation |
| 2717s | just wanting to secure your situation of |
| 2719s | killing two minions and picking up the |
| 2720s | uh the extra Minion from the refund body |
| 2722s | yeah |
| 2723s | a bit about it here having all the |
| 2726s | resources in the world as is often the |
| 2727s | case with hook Tusk it's kind of what |
| 2729s | you're aiming for |
| 2731s | this is an incredibly difficult hook |
| 2733s | test turn by the way because what do you |
| 2735s | he's already hero powered okay fine that |
| 2737s | makes life a little bit simpler fine |
| 2742s | go for the level holder and your coin |
| 2743s | level Yep this makes sense to me |
| 2746s | and how far do you think be a Babbitt's |
| 2748s | gonna push this triple |
| 2752s | it's gonna be at least another level |
| 2753s | right yeah one more I would imagine uh |
| 2756s | especially when it is a settlemental |
| 2758s | settlemental triple when you have all |
| 2759s | three already bought and on the board |
| 2761s | like this tends to be the triple you are |
| 2763s | the greediest with because you don't one |
| 2765s | of the downsides that people |
| 2768s | Overlook when they're greeting triples |
| 2770s | is that you know you level to Tavern |
| 2772s | three and then you level to Tavern four |
| 2773s | but you've kept a Tavern two Shop Frozen |
| 2776s | that entire time so you never get to see |
| 2778s | any new more power oh my goodness uh so |
| 2781s | you know back back |
| 2785s | okay |
| 2786s | we can figure |
| 2788s | out you took it a minute uh what happens |
| 2789s | here with beta is way more important I |
| 2792s | think it's probably freezing Greed for |
| 2795s | the double triple |
| 2796s | um |
| 2798s | okay hook task having a normal one as |
| 2801s | always entirely standard hooked us game |
| 2804s | oh my I love how beta just has no |
| 2807s | reaction to this whatsoever just stop |
| 2809s | says turn five this is every game I play |
| 2812s | so you're gonna have to level take a |
| 2814s | four right or are you just gonna get |
| 2815s | smacked there's an option you could just |
| 2817s | choose to get smacked and hold the |
| 2818s | triple and take two fives next time but |
| 2821s | I think I think it's a four |
| 2823s | The Four's good because there are some |
| 2824s | really good fours we will talk about |
| 2826s | this earlier right there's some really |
| 2827s | good fours in the game |
| 2829s | oh |
| 2830s | balladist for some Tempo to defend yeah |
| 2833s | I kind of like this because now you can |
| 2835s | almost sell out get the triple buy one |
| 2838s | more yeah exactly this now you can greed |
| 2841s | right using this Tempo to defend really |
| 2842s | really like this play yep yeah 419 well |
| 2845s | the four might not look like much but |
| 2847s | it's enough to kill things at this point |
| 2848s | in the game of the 19 Health definitely |
| 2850s | gonna help out |
| 2852s | oh okay I just glanced over and in a |
| 2855s | minute I'm sure we'll get shown good |
| 2856s | done it's bored because uh |
| 2858s | a lot of pairs going on over there so |
| 2860s | okay yes and we are fine for another Etc |
| 2863s | buddy update now if you would like |
| 2868s | yeah they did get hit but only four from |
| 2870s | the natural is not the end of the world |
| 2873s | oh what was the choice here must have |
| 2875s | died in combat so picked up the |
| 2878s | maxlinger is that what it's called |
| 2880s | uh every time you play a minion add a |
| 2882s | minion to the shop that is buffed |
| 2886s | I'm gonna take the tavern four option |
| 2888s | now looking for some more economy likely |
| 2891s | Hunter of old gives you the Brand's epic |
| 2895s | egg at the end of this fight anyway |
| 2896s | because you're fighting against bran |
| 2898s | next |
| 2899s | wow just gonna go Max |
| 2901s | Wow Let's go okay one of the things one |
| 2905s | of the things you will learn about media |
| 2906s | viewers is I'm incredibly greedy and if |
| 2909s | a card says economy on it in any way I |
| 2911s | will tend to pick that over anything |
| 2912s | else |
| 2914s | yeah and this has got done it's bored so |
| 2916s | Brandon here a few pairs oh did just hit |
| 2918s | the uh the shell collector actually yeah |
| 2921s | so that's gonna be nice for the extra |
| 2922s | triple it's also Mega Money yeah |
| 2926s | and good tempo as well right these |
| 2928s | murlocs are getting buffed all uh with |
| 2930s | every one of these yeah with double |
| 2931s | whelp Smuggler this is actually such a |
| 2933s | good setup for good dummit |
| 2937s | because it is allowing him to do very |
| 2939s | greedy things with the triples |
| 2941s | okay I mean now now God damn it is just |
| 2944s | huge for the next probably two or three |
| 2945s | turns at this point yeah |
| 2947s | can use all of that gold on leveling now |
| 2949s | from this point you would imagine |
| 2952s | okay Penguin on the gulf now |
| 2954s | that's one of your favorite cards all |
| 2956s | markers are yep dancing markers are good |
| 2959s | good card even here you can see no demon |
| 2961s | Synergy uh just having it on board at |
| 2963s | the moment to have the option to pay |
| 2966s | health for roles instead of gold which |
| 2967s | is uh something that is generally a |
| 2970s | trade you'll take in most spots |
| 2973s | and I think beat a Babbitt will be |
| 2975s | disappointed here to have run into such |
| 2977s | a Tempo King on this turn uh having |
| 2979s | looked to try and defend some of that |
| 2981s | Tempo earlier |
| 2983s | with the balladist yeah Seven's |
| 2985s | upsetting as well isn't it without |
| 2986s | amount of damage coming through it's a |
| 2988s | little bit rough yep |
| 2991s | and uh not looking great for my |
| 2994s | bandwagon pick so far Shiro is down in |
| 2997s | eighth place with 12 hp vulnerable to |
| 2999s | the damage cap right now |
| 3005s | oh percussionist with an urzel very nice |
| 3010s | and take a little bit of hit for it but |
| 3012s | good stats oh |
| 3015s | Battle Master Synergy take four damage |
| 3017s | discovering it so it's bigger yeah okay |
| 3018s | I mean this this does seem more sensible |
| 3023s | k |
| 3024s | would you like the world's biggest |
| 3026s | pirate |
| 3031s | well done this turn or is there it's |
| 3034s | probably way too greedy to freeze right |
| 3037s | I don't know |
| 3038s | 23. I just thought like if you just buy |
| 3041s | other stuff freeze and then you can just |
| 3044s | retain it for extra gold next turn and |
| 3046s | then you just go for a six like that |
| 3049s | could really open up the game for me |
| 3050s | about it yeah the problem is the six is |
| 3053s | it still wasn't clean the next turn |
| 3055s | um tavin up would still be nine on the |
| 3057s | next turn so you'd have to sell minions |
| 3059s | you actually care about |
| 3062s | um to get over the line to a six which I |
| 3063s | think is probably what put him off a |
| 3065s | little bit in the end |
| 3068s | it's like Waterloo it's gonna get a one |
| 3070s | cleavy boy ready though it'd be quite |
| 3073s | nice for that 11 damage spread |
| 3076s | not so early uh light Fang as well not |
| 3079s | doing well doing a good chunk of work |
| 3081s | this definitely feels and you know this |
| 3083s | is not a negative but definitely feels |
| 3086s | like uh Waterloo just saying you know |
| 3087s | what I'm holding pressure and get people |
| 3089s | out of this game |
| 3092s | yeah just pick up a cleave dump some |
| 3094s | Duff some Buffs on it and just try and |
| 3096s | murder as many people as you can before |
| 3098s | you start falling behind on Tempo I |
| 3099s | don't think that's a bad plan at all at |
| 3101s | this point but again we are seeing golf |
| 3102s | it's just absolutely obliterate everyone |
| 3105s | so far that's like penguin's gonna just |
| 3108s | crunch everyone |
| 3109s | well I was down to six no yes no Shiro |
| 3114s | live |
| 3117s | we take a look at what's cooking over in |
| 3119s | Shiro land oh not a lot double reroll |
| 3121s | Elemental as well I'd such a good uh so |
| 3125s | close yeah such a good Elemental setup |
| 3127s | you just have to stay alive and that's |
| 3129s | the problem that Shiro's having right |
| 3131s | now though although this is really |
| 3133s | really nice okay he has to Turbo through |
| 3135s | this turn but plenty of Buffs coming in |
| 3138s | rolled a six drop into an Uther though |
| 3140s | which is an absolute abject disaster of |
| 3143s | course would have been looking for some |
| 3144s | serious Tempo there Peggy Peggy with the |
| 3147s | cleave |
| 3148s | you dump the other Pirates now to just |
| 3150s | fully Bank the Buffs on the cleave I |
| 3153s | think maybe you do well I think think |
| 3155s | about here as well is uh Cheryl's going |
| 3157s | against dinathrius once again we just |
| 3159s | saw Waterloo although he did lose to the |
| 3160s | gulf whoa It's competitive on board |
| 3163s | passed a murmured on there as well which |
| 3166s | is a double buff from Peggy because of |
| 3168s | the spellcraft going into your hand and |
| 3170s | then also plus attack for the cleave |
| 3171s | that you had |
| 3174s | a little bit surprised at that one |
| 3176s | another patient Scout huge extra Peggy |
| 3179s | value you love to see it |
| 3182s | refreshing anomaly doesn't matter but |
| 3184s | it's an elemental |
| 3186s | gets the roll through this is a good |
| 3187s | turn this is a good turn Shiro coming in |
| 3190s | clutch |
| 3193s | yeah with turns like these they're maybe |
| 3195s | not quite as crazy as the old pirate |
| 3197s | turns but um you still want them to be |
| 3200s | clean right and I think if anything this |
| 3201s | was very clean for manager |
| 3206s | IUS because there's also cleave on that |
| 3209s | side right oh not anymore oh okay well |
| 3212s | that was a big one |
| 3214s | still the one Health on the uh remember |
| 3215s | them though |
| 3217s | fellow Shiro Believers you have been |
| 3220s | rewarded for your faith |
| 3223s | oh you love to see it and I think that |
| 3226s | was the crucial fight for Shiro to live |
| 3228s | now because Shiro can get huge very |
| 3230s | quickly now with the setup that he has |
| 3232s | oh that's who he's about to get slapped |
| 3234s | that is a lot of damage that is a lot of |
| 3237s | damage I like this actually stay with |
| 3239s | tomb for this turn see what he is |
| 3241s | cooking |
| 3243s | nothing oppressive yet what's this turn |
| 3246s | nine Etc you can definitely have some |
| 3248s | real disgusting setups built already |
| 3250s | when you have the good stuff uh from Etc |
| 3253s | at this point yeah not really hitting |
| 3255s | Tavern four hitting a bunch of tab and |
| 3257s | two and tapping three bodies having to |
| 3259s | take zamzorak body which is I want to |
| 3263s | say it's kind of a consolation prize but |
| 3265s | it kind of is it's the kind of Buddy you |
| 3267s | put on your board and you wait to get |
| 3268s | ice block and then you get rid of it a |
| 3269s | lot of the time like that's the kind of |
| 3271s | the situation which is fine like that's |
| 3273s | a good play for plus MMR No Doubt |
| 3279s | oh |
| 3283s | uh anyone got uh God damn it in their |
| 3286s | bandwagons because uh you're looking |
| 3288s | pretty good right now watch them on turn |
| 3289s | nine no unfortunately uh turn four was |
| 3293s | the cut off yeah okay yeah shame yep Etc |
| 3297s | letting me down oh they've seen that too |
| 3299s | it's currently third so it's even though |
| 3302s | uh that doesn't truly represent board |
| 3304s | power of course |
| 3307s | all right so good time I guess to go |
| 3309s | through two of the best scaling comps in |
| 3311s | the game if you haven't played much |
| 3312s | Battlegrounds during the minion remix uh |
| 3315s | calagos has now been changed well twice |
| 3317s | in fact but the major change being uh |
| 3319s | instead of when you play a Battle Cry |
| 3321s | minion give your dragons plus one plus |
| 3322s | one it's whenever you activate a Battle |
| 3325s | Cry give your minions plus one plus one |
| 3327s | so that means for example if you have |
| 3329s | bran your Battle Cry happens twice so |
| 3331s | calagos activates twice means if you |
| 3333s | have a rylack on board rylac activates |
| 3336s | battle cries when it dies therefore |
| 3338s | kalagos will be activated uh murkai |
| 3341s | activates the Battle Cry of the thing |
| 3342s | that's next to it that would procalagos |
| 3344s | essentially calicos got a lot lot better |
| 3347s | what you're now seeing is beta Babbitt |
| 3349s | going into the uh that's admirable |
| 3351s | Zamora uh build with Fleet admirable |
| 3353s | tethis this is kind of the replacement |
| 3355s | for hogar allowing you to go infinite by |
| 3358s | essentially uh giving yourself a free |
| 3360s | pirate of every eight gold you spend |
| 3362s | which with uh exponential copies of that |
| 3365s | same card can allow you to go in in the |
| 3367s | very same way and then you use other |
| 3369s | Pirates to support that to continue to |
| 3371s | buff your board but while all of that |
| 3373s | explanation was happening we have two |
| 3375s | very dead players right fantasy teams in |
| 3378s | shambles |
| 3380s | wait are they both your parents |
| 3382s | let's go |
| 3385s | huge win for the sort of fans in chat |
| 3387s | all two of you congratulations it's a |
| 3390s | good day |
| 3393s | oh okay oh it's it's always Milhouse |
| 3397s | Raven It's always Milhouse at no point |
| 3400s | in history is it not been Milhouse |
| 3403s | okay |
| 3405s | uh oh that was blessing so again quick |
| 3408s | recap for chat what you are doing here |
| 3410s | is using the tavern extension that you |
| 3412s | will see over the on the overlay over |
| 3413s | twitch just pick the player that you |
| 3415s | think is going to win this direct head |
| 3416s | to head and we will try to do the same |
| 3418s | you have until the end of the shop phase |
| 3420s | which I suggest you wait as long as you |
| 3422s | dare because you know late rolls could |
| 3424s | make a whole lot of difference |
| 3430s | for the trouble oh this is intense |
| 3432s | actually |
| 3433s | she glanced at both bullets I'm like and |
| 3436s | they just keep on getting bigger |
| 3438s | there's still 30 seconds |
| 3440s | oh Leroy at the end |
| 3443s | with the mono torn as it stands |
| 3447s | 35 attack cleave kills all but one |
| 3451s | minion after the |
| 3453s | uh as all has gone down |
| 3459s | yeah I think I'm leaning Shiro USA on |
| 3461s | this one |
| 3462s | and me too but the |
| 3464s | 100 health there is a hundred Health |
| 3467s | you're right so it's like |
| 3469s | oh it's so difficult but that's why I |
| 3471s | like it this is what Battlegrounds is |
| 3473s | all about right |
| 3474s | yeah second Leroy as well the stealth on |
| 3477s | the hundred Health has actually changed |
| 3479s | my mind at the very last second as well |
| 3481s | because that now pretty much guarantees |
| 3482s | that it just hangs around and cleans up |
| 3484s | everything I think with the way this |
| 3485s | goes can I get a time check to see if |
| 3488s | salt was in this or not it's a tie it's |
| 3491s | a |
| 3498s | okay |
| 3500s | so show now again just wanting to hang |
| 3503s | on but has all the the juice in the |
| 3505s | world went over to tomb there oh no |
| 3509s | and that does not look like there's an |
| 3510s | ice block active well no that should |
| 3513s | still be okay okay yeah tie with a |
| 3515s | competitive Spirit competitive Spirit |
| 3517s | pretty much irrelevant at this stage of |
| 3518s | the game but you'll take it I guess and |
| 3520s | for ETC oh right oh |
| 3524s | yes uh Brown being a huge card with this |
| 3526s | build as well for a couple of reasons |
| 3528s | you're seeing already there you go |
| 3529s | Tavern Tempest uh free you play it you |
| 3532s | spits two cards back into your hand uh |
| 3534s | General drakasath also free you play it |
| 3536s | it's bits two cards back into your hand |
| 3538s | so not only is that free goal being |
| 3540s | spent for admirable that you get back |
| 3542s | immediately it's also three procs on a |
| 3546s | golden Peggy that is juicing the rest of |
| 3548s | your Pirates while it's going and you're |
| 3550s | getting plus one plus one on the 31 28 |
| 3553s | every time you sell each of those tokens |
| 3555s | that comes from each of those cards so |
| 3557s | bran is the absolute dream card for what |
| 3560s | beta is looking at on these roles |
| 3562s | yeah this is looking absolutely brutal |
| 3564s | isn't it and the thing is as well |
| 3566s | Babbitt's against Ghost this round so |
| 3569s | you know it could be pretty free with |
| 3571s | what they want to do obviously they'll |
| 3572s | be playing this you know pretty |
| 3573s | optimally but just knowing that you've |
| 3576s | got a |
| 3577s | the assumed leeway of not having to have |
| 3580s | the utmost perfect amount oh second |
| 3583s | admirable |
| 3587s | what's the |
| 3588s | cut though or is it just a hold here |
| 3591s | it may be a hole just for this turn yeah |
| 3595s | um because he's fairly infinite anyway |
| 3596s | for the rest of this term with the |
| 3598s | situation that he's in like when I say |
| 3599s | infinite for this turn he has enough |
| 3601s | gold that he can spend in four seconds |
| 3603s | there's no point in getting another |
| 3605s | Admiral on the board because he he'll |
| 3607s | make too much money to spend in the code |
| 3608s | in this uh four seconds anyway like |
| 3610s | there you go literally ropes out as he |
| 3612s | goes down to zero gold essentially so |
| 3614s | works out perfectly |
| 3616s | yeah remember when penguin song was big |
| 3623s | it's starting to get slightly outscaled |
| 3625s | although I always remembered when um God |
| 3627s | done it was big because those all those |
| 3628s | pairs really really stacked up with that |
| 3630s | brand yeah the uh and it was the the |
| 3633s | double Sky fin on board which is |
| 3635s | obviously still there and then tripling |
| 3637s | the Naga into a mug was so huge like I |
| 3641s | said that that let |
| 3643s | um God damn it just be powerful just be |
| 3645s | a head-on tempo for like two or three |
| 3646s | straight turns just level level and then |
| 3648s | look for calagos and that seems to be |
| 3650s | exactly what happened |
| 3652s | Milhouse hanging on there for sure |
| 3655s | to him now gonna be dropping down to 10 |
| 3658s | I think that was |
| 3660s | a good done I mean this is the problem |
| 3662s | and and for for Tomb on the um on the |
| 3665s | ETC is there anything that can like |
| 3667s | clutch late game with Etc or is all |
| 3670s | there is not front loaded but you know |
| 3672s | more lent towards the early game you so |
| 3675s | there's not like a buddy you can just |
| 3677s | find a lot of time where it's like okay |
| 3678s | I've gone from weak to strong |
| 3679s | immediately |
| 3681s | um there is a couple like Sylvanas buddy |
| 3683s | for example if you have one huge minion |
| 3685s | condensed it's uh it's kind of like a |
| 3687s | mutinous body power where you take one |
| 3689s | one minion and put it deposits its stats |
| 3692s | on two other minions you essentially uh |
| 3694s | double your trouble but you can find |
| 3695s | things like ticketus buddy for example |
| 3697s | and then you discover that you sell it |
| 3700s | and then you have an ice block all of a |
| 3701s | sudden like that kind of thing right |
| 3702s | ways to to scam in situations like that |
| 3704s | same thing with York buddy and so you do |
| 3707s | have certainly have tricks that you can |
| 3709s | do in the late Gamers Etc but it's rare |
| 3711s | that if you didn't find your like hyper |
| 3713s | economy win condition between turns five |
| 3716s | and ten or so it's rare that you'll then |
| 3719s | be able to catch up on numbers uh by |
| 3722s | that point kind of just looking for more |
| 3723s | survival techniques |
| 3727s | it's looking close as well here look at |
| 3729s | basically all the players except for |
| 3731s | good running are pretty much dead right |
| 3734s | on the next loss at 10 I think is just |
| 3737s | an acceptable number to expect to drop |
| 3738s | to at this point a penguin is going to |
| 3740s | be able to get the ghost now so that's |
| 3742s | going to be a huge help yeah penguins |
| 3744s | surviving against God damn it was so |
| 3746s | huge because now God damn it will kill |
| 3749s | someone else for penguin and penguin |
| 3751s | gets to fight a ghost and essentially |
| 3752s | scam two positions out of that marginal |
| 3755s | survival right and uh yeah I mean look |
| 3757s | at where tomb's at right like he has |
| 3759s | given up at this point this is rolling |
| 3761s | for an ice block and I guess we will |
| 3763s | find out whether that pink secret nope |
| 3765s | no it's not it's a splitting image but |
| 3767s | he's gonna have one more shot of three |
| 3769s | more secrets to try and find himself an |
| 3772s | ice block or else this is cooked |
| 3778s | meanwhile Shiro goes down okay my uh my |
| 3782s | bandwagon pick for the game uh only |
| 3784s | makes it out in fifth place |
| 3786s | hopefully we can go back to tomb and see |
| 3788s | if there is an ice block here oh no the |
| 3790s | Barons are gonna die the Barons are |
| 3792s | gonna die before Oh no okay what I |
| 3794s | believe I believe what else what else |
| 3798s | oh it's pink |
| 3800s | it's pink |
| 3802s | all right for it |
| 3805s | no |
| 3807s | unlucky okay so that's both of us out |
| 3810s | for the band plugin though uh final |
| 3812s | final three gonna be penguin a bit about |
| 3814s | it and good |
| 3819s | oh that's hilarious as well good Donuts |
| 3821s | on the uh |
| 3822s | uh on the coast so just I'll let the two |
| 3825s | of the minions fight each other for the |
| 3828s | second place and this is what I mean |
| 3830s | right like this is Battleground |
| 3831s | sometimes this is just great match up |
| 3833s | RNG for penguin Sun a little bit of good |
| 3835s | fight RNG survived the fight against |
| 3837s | goddammit who is the bully of the lobby |
| 3839s | at the moment absolutely murdering |
| 3841s | everyone because he survived on 2 Hp he |
| 3843s | then got to watch two other people die |
| 3845s | while he fought a ghost like if we could |
| 3847s | just flick through the three boards at |
| 3848s | the end of this before the end of this |
| 3850s | turn you'll see one of these people is |
| 3852s | not like the other right like yeah you |
| 3854s | there you go there's one you know it's |
| 3855s | it's it's just wait what Hang on |
| 3859s | we're only just finishing so okay yeah |
| 3863s | beta Babbitt has got animation lag |
| 3864s | because of all the million things that |
| 3866s | he's doing on his term with pirates and |
| 3868s | so on it happens he's a little bit |
| 3870s | behind the lobby right now so he's still |
| 3871s | in his fight with uh with two but there |
| 3873s | you go you can see one of these things |
| 3875s | not like the other just significantly |
| 3878s | smaller than everyone else |
| 3880s | yeah right back |
| 3883s | well I think these if these are your bad |
| 3886s | games right you know in terms of |
| 3888s | strength of board yeah then this is what |
| 3891s | you want to convert your bad games into |
| 3893s | yes of course as you mentioned you know |
| 3896s | a little bit um fortunate that always |
| 3898s | helps in Battlegrounds of course but in |
| 3900s | general if these are the low rolls then |
| 3903s | if you can get one really strong game |
| 3905s | and pay it off then that means penguin's |
| 3907s | gonna put himself in a great position to |
| 3908s | qualify at the group |
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| 3911s | I wonder if uh beta Babbitt still thinks |
| 3914s | he's fighting uh the the tomb right now |
| 3917s | well his his game's actually just in a |
| 3919s | completely different might think he's |
| 3920s | fighting other team yeah who knows |
| 3924s | oh sick I killed Matsuri nice |
| 3928s | two hours later |
| 3931s | yeah not quite enough I would say to |
| 3934s | take the uh Victory here but still I |
| 3936s | think a strong finish for penguin |
| 3938s | considering his uh his board state |
| 3945s | and a strong finish game one for uh |
| 3949s | Souls fantasy picks as well penguin |
| 3951s | signing third is my fantasy team beat |
| 3952s | about it in top two is in my fantasy |
| 3954s | team pretty happy with that so far yeah |
| 3956s | hi hi yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but |
| 3960s | moving on I have beat above it okay |
| 3962s | that's something right yeah yeah |
| 3965s | sorry come on guys |
| 3968s | don't let me down |
| 3970s | yeah this is looking strong it's kind of |
| 3972s | interesting as well look at this like |
| 3974s | Pirates |
| 3975s | have I would say you know gotten there |
| 3977s | right it's not over yet we don't know |
| 3979s | who was one yet oh yes but Pirate's |
| 3981s | looking quite strong from game one and |
| 3983s | then I think I've done it just |
| 3986s | yes this is dragons but this definitely |
| 3988s | felt like more of a bran effect than the |
| 3990s | dragon effect right now yeah I mean the |
| 3992s | locks of course so that's the thing bran |
| 3995s | doubles your caloric ghost now right so |
| 3997s | yeah having one calicos with a brand is |
| 4000s | like having two calicos but as soon as |
| 4002s | you then find an actual second calicos |
| 4004s | that bran is means you have four calicos |
| 4007s | so you kind of get this weird |
| 4008s | exponential growth thing where if you |
| 4010s | then triple the cow that goes you have |
| 4011s | six you find a fourth one you have eight |
| 4013s | and so on and so forth like well |
| 4014s | actually no tripling is still double but |
| 4016s | you get the point of what I'm saying |
| 4018s | um so the brand is a entirely crucial |
| 4022s | point |
| 4023s | uh to this comp now |
| 4025s | um doubly so because of that effect I |
| 4028s | was talking about before where you get |
| 4029s | like general drakasath for example and |
| 4031s | then having the brand is actually giving |
| 4032s | you extra money on top of the extra |
| 4034s | products that you're getting from the |
| 4035s | calicos as well yeah I think I've done |
| 4037s | it just uh had the perfect combination |
| 4040s | of a strong opening uh with the murlocs |
| 4044s | of course and being Brown and then hit |
| 4047s | when he needed to and these are really |
| 4049s | stacked out of control |
| 4054s | uh looks like the slight issue with the |
| 4056s | discovers yeah just going to pick up an |
| 4057s | Uther here just because it says Battle |
| 4058s | Cry on it so assuming that means uh |
| 4060s | whiffed on calicos and nadina I think |
| 4062s | Nadine are probably being the number one |
| 4064s | motivation there as to why that triple |
| 4066s | was taken Divine Shields can really be |
| 4069s | the kicker here against Pirates on the |
| 4071s | other side who have significantly less |
| 4073s | access uh to those pirates to those |
| 4076s | Divine Shield options |
| 4078s | well Cleve didn't uh doesn't hit us hard |
| 4081s | at nine was it against the sport well so |
| 4083s | again I think that was because of the |
| 4086s | threat of nadina yo yeah yeah if you |
| 4088s | look at them to see without an Adidas |
| 4090s | yeah |
| 4091s | if you look at the way that board was |
| 4093s | positioned it was small taunted selfless |
| 4096s | in the middle so ideally a Divine Shield |
| 4099s | Dragon would attack into that and then |
| 4101s | it was also mid-positioned small cleave |
| 4103s | so hopefully you let the nadina go off |
| 4105s | and then that small cleave would come in |
| 4107s | and take off a couple of divine Shields |
| 4108s | so uh really good foresight from B to |
| 4111s | Babbitt even though the nadina has not |
| 4113s | been found for God damn it in this |
| 4115s | situation |
| 4116s | yeah it's kind of interesting now as |
| 4117s | well because what is the game plan we |
| 4119s | talked a little bit about this uh before |
| 4121s | we even live uh where how do you react |
| 4125s | to your opponent what are some of the |
| 4127s | tools because you know way back when a |
| 4129s | lot of discussion was Leroy manted |
| 4131s | poison Divine Shield stuff but what is |
| 4134s | it for example in this situation what |
| 4136s | can good do uh considering they did just |
| 4138s | lose that fight |
| 4140s | I mean nadina is still the number one |
| 4142s | out which I think is why it's leveling |
| 4145s | here you have two roles for nadina and I |
| 4147s | think that's what god dammit has taken |
| 4148s | the shot for |
| 4150s | um but not having found it I think we're |
| 4152s | now in a spot where he is just gonna be |
| 4154s | resigned to his fate just kind of |
| 4156s | smaller across the board than uh what |
| 4158s | beat is doing on the other side and beta |
| 4161s | has another essentially infinite turn to |
| 4164s | make as many more stats as he possibly |
| 4166s | can over the course of 80 Seconds |
| 4167s | whereas uh God dammits economy is just |
| 4169s | not quite there and this is where the |
| 4172s | difference of like I would say it's kind |
| 4174s | of the beta version of this comp the |
| 4176s | Alpha version of this comp has rylack in |
| 4178s | it because rylack with drakasath can be |
| 4181s | putting 10 to one Dragon tokens into |
| 4184s | your hand at the end of every turn which |
| 4185s | then gives you three triples and plus |
| 4187s | four gold to start the term with as well |
| 4190s | as the gold you're potentially getting |
| 4191s | from the discovers so you can then have |
| 4193s | infinite calicos infinite nadinas |
| 4195s | infinite gold whatever and you can |
| 4196s | actually compete on Raw stats with |
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| 4201s | and let's see what will no doubt be the |
| 4204s | final fight as some of the uh the the |
| 4206s | cleave actually gets some work done |
| 4208s | there |
| 4210s | yeah just full preparation there for a |
| 4212s | bit about it for anything that the uh |
| 4214s | the the dragons could have kicked out |
| 4216s | and it's gonna be a victory to be a |
| 4218s | Barbie and that's absolutely huge and |
| 4220s | also disappointing because after seeing |
| 4221s | the uh the early game I was gonna change |
| 4225s | and uh I did not so more fool me I'm a |
| 4228s | Noob at all of this but that's the way |
| 4230s | it goes are you think really cool game |
| 4231s | though and definitely setting the pace |
| 4233s | uh for the day so far and again just |
| 4235s | remind anyone who may have just joined |
| 4237s | us a little bit late that was just game |
| 4238s | one of this Lobby and they are gonna be |
| 4240s | playing three games with all their |
| 4242s | points Turtles added up to see uh who |
| 4245s | makes it on YouTube Sunday so a bit of a |
| 4247s | spicy one to kick off the day so yeah I |
| 4249s | think a pretty good sample of kind of |
| 4251s | one side of the meta game there we had |
| 4253s | Elementals Pirates dragons in that Lobby |
| 4257s | um with Milhouse brand hooked us kind of |
| 4259s | these economy Heroes all racing to spike |
| 4262s | those win conditions and then just be |
| 4263s | like the the Lord of economy in that |
| 4266s | game which ended up being Greek in the |
| 4269s | end |
| 4269s | um we do still have another side which |
| 4271s | is the more heavily token and summon |
| 4273s | based side of things with beasts |
| 4274s | potentially as well |
| 4276s | um with the minion remix we have so many |
| 4278s | new strategies that are available though |
| 4280s | I hope at least we get to see a nice |
| 4282s | range of uh minion types in and out |
| 4284s | throughout the day so we get to see some |
| 4286s | particularly different things for the |
| 4287s | players to shoot yeah we've got a whole |
| 4289s | weekend of Battlegrounds lined up and |
| 4292s | that was just game one but we'll be |
| 4293s | right back after this break with game |
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| 4773s | welcome back sorry about the slight |
| 4775s | delay there we're just now fixing our |
| 4777s | working on some small technical issues I |
| 4779s | think we are getting ready to go into |
| 4781s | game number two but before we do that I |
| 4783s | believe we have the updated standings |
| 4785s | for you guys of course it's just one |
| 4786s | game so if you remember where everyone |
| 4788s | finished you can probably guess what the |
| 4790s | numbers look like but regardless uh just |
| 4793s | to go over them again first place get |
| 4794s | seven points and then it will just go |
| 4796s | down by one point for each place so |
| 4799s | again I'm a little bit upset about where |
| 4801s | um my uh my fantasy 2 picks out of the |
| 4804s | three of Matt serial team who ended |
| 4806s | there but overall a couple of shared |
| 4808s | points as well subtle |
| 4810s | yeah good news I guess for them that |
| 4812s | they uh they went out tied for eight so |
| 4814s | they at least get the Half Point each |
| 4815s | but yeah big big Lobby for beta Babbitt |
| 4818s | and God damn it of course uh Penguins on |
| 4821s | as well doing very very nicely through |
| 4822s | uh just the survival of the fight |
| 4824s | against God damn it really and uh |
| 4826s | scooping up a couple of extra points uh |
| 4828s | for that and I think honestly sure USA |
| 4830s | as well um I'm I'm just gonna keep |
| 4832s | saying Shiro USA I can't I can't not see |
| 4835s | that as Brian kibler's dog in like a an |
| 4838s | old Sam Uncle Sam costume or something |
| 4841s | um but uh he had a real crucial survival |
| 4844s | moment as well right which I think |
| 4845s | elevated him from maybe one point and |
| 4848s | three and a half that he ended up |
| 4849s | getting so a couple of clutch fights for |
| 4851s | a couple of players really boosting |
| 4852s | their way up |
| 4854s | again again very generally speaking of |
| 4856s | course uh what this looks like for |
| 4858s | mainly beta Babbitt and good dummy is |
| 4859s | that if they just don't completely whiff |
| 4862s | the next two games they are probably |
| 4865s | looking pretty good to progress through |
| 4867s | because all you need to do in in today's |
| 4869s | play but with the two groups is do |
| 4872s | better than half of your group right you |
| 4874s | need to finish in that top four of |
| 4875s | overall points totals so when you get |
| 4878s | that first Lobby and you win the first |
| 4880s | game I'll come second like so many |
| 4882s | points that it gets to the point where |
| 4884s | it's possible but it's like it's getting |
| 4887s | quite difficult to not make top four |
| 4889s | especially because you know we know how |
| 4890s | good these players are |
| 4891s | yeah keep in mind as well uh one of the |
| 4894s | puzzle box questions for the day is will |
| 4897s | a player score less than four points in |
| 4899s | their group so we'll be looking at a |
| 4901s | couple of players there that went out |
| 4902s | with 0.5 uh two more games to pick up |
| 4905s | three and a half points in total to uh |
| 4908s | turn that into the no column so we'll |
| 4909s | see if that one pans out or not I don't |
| 4911s | know if I will financially recover from |
| 4914s | that happening because I said no players |
| 4917s | won't go out with that many points and |
| 4919s | currently the two that are in that sort |
| 4920s | of region are two of my fantasy picks |
| 4925s | I'm not very good at this it'll just be |
| 4927s | Ian feeling everywhere immediately I've |
| 4930s | got nothing left exactly all over me |
| 4933s | exactly I think the players are getting |
| 4934s | ready to go into game number two uh but |
| 4937s | is there any surprises that came out of |
| 4939s | game one there like did we it is ETC |
| 4942s | that look a little bit underpowered from |
| 4944s | what we would expect from the average |
| 4946s | Etc I would say yeah I mean I have |
| 4948s | questions we kind of |
| 4950s | um skip through it quite quickly so I |
| 4952s | didn't fully get to assess the board |
| 4953s | state but it was pair of muxlingers over |
| 4957s | uh test buddy which would have then |
| 4959s | given a brand buddy I believe with the |
| 4961s | way it would have worked out |
| 4963s | um at the start of the next term which |
| 4964s | is so much economy at the start of it |
| 4967s | every turn and that to me felt like a |
| 4970s | very economy lobby as I talked about |
| 4972s | before with like Elementals Pirates and |
| 4974s | Dragons All in there so |
| 4976s | um interesting the tomb chose to go so |
| 4978s | Tempo heavy uh on the ETC picks with the |
| 4982s | muxlinger pair |
| 4983s | um maybe that cost but otherwise I think |
| 4985s | when you looked at the minion types |
| 4986s | available in that Lobby I think that |
| 4988s | game largely went as you would have |
| 4990s | expected to yeah and I'm already happy |
| 4991s | with this Matt sorry picking up Foon |
| 4993s | looking quite good we see another game |
| 4995s | because well Galaxy |
| 4997s | move uh which is gonna be pretty nice as |
| 5002s | well like this is lining up at least |
| 5003s | quite well for me |
| 5005s | um Mitch King's in this lobby as well so |
| 5008s | Lich King over the gallywicks as well |
| 5011s | which yes I think Beast being in this |
| 5012s | Lobby is one of the crucial components |
| 5014s | of that uh because gallywix really wants |
| 5017s | to look for pirates tripling into that |
| 5019s | six finding the Admiral and then at that |
| 5021s | point you get infinite very very quickly |
| 5024s | oh I see the issue yeah looks like we |
| 5026s | might just be in trouble again yeah this |
| 5029s | could be yeah I think this to No |
| 5032s | Surprise it will be a research it looks |
| 5034s | like tomb I did wonder where all tomb's |
| 5035s | Hero choices were that seems a bit harsh |
| 5037s | just yeah you're not allowed to pick any |
| 5039s | about that so I I would assume we are |
| 5042s | going to do a remake again because they |
| 5044s | probably won't be able to connect in |
| 5046s | time as they already missed hero Pig for |
| 5048s | example so a little bit unfortunate |
| 5049s | there we are working on obviously |
| 5051s | getting this smoothed out and although |
| 5053s | the players did you know pick Heroes |
| 5054s | start the turns |
| 5056s | we have to regain right you can't just |
| 5058s | have someone just not connect and just |
| 5059s | get punished through it so uh we'll have |
| 5060s | to see how that one goes and hopefully |
| 5062s | we'll be able to get back into the game |
| 5064s | I was excited for that one as well so |
| 5065s | like the news up there the voon who's uh |
| 5068s | pretty crazy hero right now especially |
| 5070s | with that combined with upbeat Duo right |
| 5073s | so starts to get very very silly and |
| 5075s | does things that you like to do a lot in |
| 5077s | terms of hand size in this game yeah and |
| 5079s | then you throw uh draxath enchanter in |
| 5082s | there I think that's the right name for |
| 5083s | the card uh which I think they've uh |
| 5086s | what did I say draca oh that which is |
| 5089s | the dragon right yeah sure okay um |
| 5091s | Jakari enchant are in there as well |
| 5092s | which has Synergy with a lot of things |
| 5094s | that you don't immediately think it does |
| 5096s | essentially anything that says end of |
| 5098s | turn works with it and that includes |
| 5100s | certain Heroes hero powers for example |
| 5102s | uh like Boone so if you do have like a |
| 5104s | magma lock on your board an upbeat Duo |
| 5107s | copying a card and the moon hero power |
| 5109s | going off and then you pick up a Jakari |
| 5112s | enchanter suddenly you got a stew going |
| 5114s | and some absolute incredible things this |
| 5116s | can happen at the end of turn so I do |
| 5118s | think it's a very crucial card to look |
| 5120s | out for a lot of spots a nice Synergy |
| 5122s | with mechs as well with the scaling Mech |
| 5125s | on tablet five that gives you plus one |
| 5126s | plus one for each of your magnetic |
| 5127s | minions you can double that up as well |
| 5130s | um so a card that looks a little bit |
| 5132s | innocuous on first glance because |
| 5134s | classically end of turn effects don't |
| 5137s | really uh haven't had the same impact as |
| 5139s | like battle cries or death rattles have |
| 5142s | as like a real game mechanic it was like |
| 5144s | light Fang right exactly and you kind of |
| 5147s | had that experience with say |
| 5149s | um side and atheros has a quest that |
| 5151s | doubles ended turn effect or ragnaros |
| 5153s | Barbie for example doubling end of turn |
| 5155s | effects as well and you know you'd get |
| 5157s | like a gold grubber or a light Fang like |
| 5159s | there'd be a couple of things that maybe |
| 5160s | you could find some extra Synergy with |
| 5162s | but it didn't tend to be that oppressive |
| 5165s | and I think that has changed a lot an |
| 5167s | end of turn is now almost a keyword in |
| 5169s | its own right in Battlegrounds at this |
| 5171s | point in terms of the impact it can have |
| 5172s | on a game and I think that's something |
| 5174s | that this uh this current meta at least |
| 5176s | for me me is it's gotten so right is |
| 5178s | there's just a lot of things you can do |
| 5181s | that until you see them or if you're |
| 5183s | just way smarter than me and find them |
| 5184s | yourself you don't even think about |
| 5186s | right it's like when you talk about Rye |
| 5188s | like like there's like you think oh |
| 5190s | makes battle cries happen again okay I |
| 5193s | mean sure everyone likes more battle |
| 5194s | cries but then you realize well hang on |
| 5196s | a minute you can reborn that Beast |
| 5199s | so it happens twice twice and then you |
| 5202s | can do other things as you mentioned |
| 5204s | before like well did you get a rivendare |
| 5206s | on there uh do you get some of the other |
| 5208s | effects you were talking about the uh |
| 5209s | the Cali ghost effect as well and I |
| 5211s | think like rylack there's probably still |
| 5213s | things at least I've not seen uh people |
| 5215s | do with that card because it does feel |
| 5217s | like a very creative meta is that fair |
| 5220s | to say uh because obviously you've been |
| 5222s | playing more Battlegrounds than me over |
| 5223s | the you know x amount of years but it |
| 5225s | does feel like a meta where you can go a |
| 5227s | lot of different directions |
| 5228s | I think that's true yeah and I think |
| 5230s | part of that is more mechanically |
| 5233s | interesting cards more mechanically |
| 5234s | complex cards like rylac which do allow |
| 5236s | you to do some very different things and |
| 5238s | part of it is because of them because of |
| 5240s | the minion remix I feel like most of the |
| 5243s | minion types are now in a really nice |
| 5244s | place where they can cross-pollinate and |
| 5247s | cross synergize with other minion types |
| 5249s | as well there's not just like okay I met |
| 5252s | here I know exactly what my final board |
| 5255s | is supposed to look like I make the mech |
| 5257s | board and then I Max right you're very |
| 5259s | flexible in like you know sometimes |
| 5262s | you're scaling Three Dragons and then |
| 5264s | you have like a golden afro was your |
| 5266s | your economy engine right and you're |
| 5268s | sort of like two Pirates Three Dragons |
| 5270s | and that's your scaling comp at the end |
| 5272s | of the game there's all sorts of weird |
| 5274s | hybrid comps particularly with quill |
| 5276s | balls I would say which to me feel like |
| 5278s | more of a support class than they do an |
| 5281s | actual minion type you play on their own |
| 5283s | and I think that's really to the benefit |
| 5286s | of the game overall but looks like we do |
| 5288s | have another game in front of us we do |
| 5290s | have another Etc so another opportunity |
| 5292s | to pick up a win so yeah this could be |
| 5295s | huge points for Raven if alexemi wins |
| 5297s | this Lobby on the ETC but we will wait |
| 5299s | and see it should have walk as well so |
| 5301s | that's a big one for me it certainly is |
| 5304s | yeah fingers crossed four tomb I think |
| 5306s | he will absolutely want to be playing |
| 5307s | this game out uh it does seem to have |
| 5309s | had some issues with this camera as well |
| 5311s | so I hope he's not having persistent |
| 5312s | internet issues throughout the whole |
| 5313s | event for uh for his sake as much as for |
| 5316s | ours but we'll see what dinatrius can |
| 5318s | get cooking with the turn one Quest |
| 5322s | oh boy |
| 5325s | hmm |
| 5328s | yeah I was gonna say I think yog is the |
| 5331s | pig I think you would merge those two if |
| 5333s | you could but that's not how that works |
| 5334s | so there you go it's not no |
| 5337s | um The Goblet just not a particularly |
| 5339s | powerful Quest overall I think uh York |
| 5342s | wheel how to say this kindly |
| 5344s | um probably more popular at middling MMR |
| 5347s | than it is at a competitive level it can |
| 5350s | absolutely blow out games and be |
| 5352s | incredibly powerful but I think it |
| 5353s | flatters to deceive in a lot of uh |
| 5355s | situations but I still think the better |
| 5357s | better choice in that situation |
| 5359s | especially as you are buying a Naga on |
| 5362s | turn one anyway |
| 5369s | a reminder bandwagon picks are available |
| 5372s | again get those in on the tavern buddy |
| 5374s | extension on Twitch |
| 5376s | before turn four if possible and I know |
| 5379s | where mine's going thank you Lorinda for |
| 5381s | showing us who we needed to see see that |
| 5384s | shadow walk star there we go I think I'm |
| 5387s | just committing to my plan |
| 5391s | I see trying to Triple down on the |
| 5394s | points yeah Raven's locked in a turn one |
| 5396s | ala temu so he'll get uh you will get |
| 5400s | puzzle box points he will get fantasy |
| 5401s | team points and he will get bandwagon |
| 5403s | points if it cashes out very nice yeah |
| 5406s | fingers across but you are right like |
| 5408s | Tim here great opening I think shoulder |
| 5411s | Wok is just such a strong and again |
| 5413s | interesting hero with that hero power |
| 5415s | now |
| 5425s | looks like alotemu is gonna go three on |
| 5429s | three here I would imagine I don't think |
| 5431s | that shop is good enough to convince you |
| 5432s | to stay |
| 5433s | um |
| 5434s | some debate about whether Etc is a |
| 5436s | mandatory three on three hero um |
| 5439s | basically all the good economy buddies |
| 5441s | are on three there's no real economy |
| 5444s | that you can find on Tavern 2 you can |
| 5446s | just find Tempo cards |
| 5449s | um like jailer's buddy for example 2-2 |
| 5451s | death rattle drop three One Drops just |
| 5453s | insanely strong straight away the only |
| 5455s | thing you can really find on Tavern 2 is |
| 5457s | the denaturius body so you just get a |
| 5459s | quest for eight gold |
| 5460s | um immediately but that is very weak and |
| 5462s | very slow and significantly more |
| 5464s | powerful if beasts are in the lobby |
| 5466s | because you can then put it next to a |
| 5467s | rylack and just get free quests every |
| 5469s | time rylack dies which is wonderful |
| 5472s | I've seen as well as we look at this |
| 5473s | just at where the players have ended up |
| 5475s | in terms of uh what's happened here |
| 5478s | they're on right because this is a big |
| 5479s | spread Matsuri and alotimu on three and |
| 5482s | a good chunk of them on Two And now |
| 5484s | Shiro still on one |
| 5492s | no real significant progress on the |
| 5494s | quest just yet as you would imagine but |
| 5497s | yeah let's take a little look at Ali |
| 5498s | temu first buddy discover here again you |
| 5502s | are looking for something on it in my |
| 5504s | opinion |
| 5505s | don't let me down now the team |
| 5510s | those actually are not it |
| 5515s | demons are in uh stormpike Lieutenant |
| 5518s | plus shop eating is a thing that you can |
| 5521s | do as Etc that is a build that you can |
| 5523s | also words |
| 5527s | you can see how it works though right |
| 5528s | just from the text that you have on |
| 5529s | screen you have a bunch of minions die |
| 5531s | the minions in the shop just get bigger |
| 5532s | and bigger and bigger and then you use |
| 5534s | an urzal a fell back a bunch of Mind |
| 5537s | eaters whatever kind of thing you want |
| 5539s | to go for just to repeatedly eat a bunch |
| 5541s | of shops over and over again get a whole |
| 5543s | bunch of stats on your stuff and also as |
| 5545s | well just the side effect of that being |
| 5548s | the biggest minion choice in terms of |
| 5550s | just not diagonally because obviously |
| 5553s | going three on three means it was a |
| 5554s | little bit of a hit there |
| 5555s | you can see a Shiro USA |
| 5559s | um |
| 5560s | the pick with the barrel picker |
| 5564s | the fitting tribute to the The Departed |
| 5567s | world's best Hearthstone dog right come |
| 5568s | on |
| 5569s | I would imagine that pick was should |
| 5572s | have walked right like do you ever not |
| 5573s | pick sure to work in this kind of early |
| 5575s | fight especially against a dog waggle |
| 5577s | well you have to work out right there's |
| 5578s | a lot of mousing over and then you'll be |
| 5580s | like okay then Naga does that mean |
| 5582s | they're just hero powering a 2-1 over |
| 5584s | and over again like you're never quite |
| 5585s | sure how much Tempo and how much greed |
| 5587s | that the shuttle walk is going through |
| 5589s | but you can see in this spot a couple of |
| 5591s | Mind eaters picked up as well so I don't |
| 5593s | know if tomb has switched to Hero |
| 5595s | powering mind eaters a little bit |
| 5597s | um but if you wouldn't mind can we |
| 5598s | actually just jump straight back to tomb |
| 5600s | because I'd like to just see exactly |
| 5602s | what the board state looks like thank |
| 5604s | you very much okay uh overseer plus mind |
| 5607s | eater Synergy now available is very very |
| 5609s | nice |
| 5610s | oh okay |
| 5627s | haven't you |
| 5630s | I would have that filamental on my board |
| 5632s | right now sat next to that rylack every |
| 5636s | single day of the week |
| 5637s | assume you're doing great carry on my |
| 5639s | friend Harry on wow just going raw |
| 5643s | economy with the coins instead okay but |
| 5645s | the point I was going to make pairs of |
| 5647s | battle cries on the board really really |
| 5649s | crucial for shadow walk because you want |
| 5651s | to hit a golden Battle Cry to be able to |
| 5652s | hear her power every turn right there's |
| 5654s | no limitation of plain copy like there |
| 5657s | is for jandus for example uh you can |
| 5659s | still hear a power of golden minion so |
| 5661s | you get double double you have to double |
| 5663s | dip your hero power essentially if you |
| 5664s | can get a golden Battle Cry and stick on |
| 5665s | your board |
| 5672s | I do I need to lie down after that |
| 5675s | penguin not looking too bad temper wise |
| 5678s | as well did just level up to three so |
| 5680s | again uh at least on curve with a lot of |
| 5683s | the players right now |
| 5687s | wow that's that's definitely a board |
| 5695s | it's like Matsuri might be able to uh |
| 5696s | fight back here if the kick out from the |
| 5698s | Beast is good |
| 5700s | oh yeah |
| 5703s | oh would you look at that it was a seven |
| 5704s | seven how surprising well I meant more |
| 5707s | like uh what Beast it is right you can |
| 5709s | make a big yes you can get more death |
| 5711s | rattles and also you can deal a lot more |
| 5713s | damage as well |
| 5714s | true |
| 5718s | oh |
| 5720s | okay Sylvanas erapa yeah that was nice |
| 5722s | oh |
| 5723s | okay |
| 5727s | uh weeb doesn't do anything to say why |
| 5729s | did I just read that as weeb |
| 5733s | um Nation right um |
| 5738s | no sure if there's any high value death |
| 5740s | rattles being covered there is not okay |
| 5741s | yeah just sticking more economy oh took |
| 5744s | her took the actual Etc buddy on the |
| 5747s | second hero power and made the avenge |
| 5750s | buddy golden so it looks like it will be |
| 5752s | leaning a little bit into that demon |
| 5753s | stuff if possible oh gold rewarded by |
| 5756s | the way for the greedy keep on the Naga |
| 5758s | now does have the golden available |
| 5760s | and I think we saw denaturius was that |
| 5763s | Quest finished for dinner is there I'm |
| 5765s | not 100 sure but I think it might have |
| 5767s | been |
| 5768s | certainly was yeah okay nice |
| 5772s | start next time yeah yeah sport right |
| 5776s | yeah as well not not super weak not |
| 5778s | strong but not super weak |
| 5782s | yeah tomb now on the shadow walk has to |
| 5785s | start thinking about what the end game |
| 5787s | is Tim has essentially everything handed |
| 5789s | to him at this point he has a rylack he |
| 5791s | has a golden shell collector so he's |
| 5793s | absolutely printing money every single |
| 5796s | term he has to Now set a Target as to |
| 5798s | what his final board is going to look |
| 5800s | like |
| 5801s | and also just not get pushed out right I |
| 5804s | think that's something you can uh fall |
| 5805s | into if you go a little bit too quick |
| 5807s | it's like what you do sometimes so if I |
| 5809s | can get a bit too much value and then |
| 5810s | complain about it and then you do the |
| 5813s | same thing in the next game die and |
| 5814s | complain about it yeah exactly oh I was |
| 5818s | saying had an okay board but be a |
| 5820s | Babbage takes 14. |
| 5824s | what's the spin |
| 5826s | is it going to win |
| 5831s | fine sure one of the better ones in this |
| 5834s | situation I think honestly because uh |
| 5836s | beta just got thrown down below damage |
| 5838s | cap right so just uh what has got six |
| 5841s | million so plus 18 plus 18 to his board |
| 5843s | even if it does mess the stats around I |
| 5845s | think is a very welcome in that |
| 5846s | situation and also as well like we spoke |
| 5849s | about earlier because beat about it's in |
| 5850s | such a good position points wise after |
| 5852s | game one |
| 5853s | all he has to do is not be eighth right |
| 5856s | you know like just just get a few points |
| 5860s | magma look right you have so much money |
| 5863s | to be able to print stuff with here I |
| 5864s | think that just has to be the order of |
| 5866s | business |
| 5868s | wow still hasn't used the hero power yet |
| 5870s | on this turn so still plenty to do with |
| 5872s | the coins available |
| 5875s | did you know it was actually uh someone |
| 5877s | called Sir rylack III that created the |
| 5879s | printing press |
| 5881s | oh I did not know that there you go |
| 5883s | in fact sir |
| 5884s | has proven true |
| 5886s | no okay imagine |
| 5901s | all right pick each is already big oh |
| 5902s | yeah it received one buff from the |
| 5904s | flutist already a couple of turns ago |
| 5905s | when we were watching right so that's |
| 5906s | why it's uh so asynchronous towards the |
| 5909s | health total |
| 5913s | a lot of players looking kind of small |
| 5915s | here there's definitely two or three |
| 5917s | players that are significantly bigger |
| 5919s | than everyone else and I think a lot of |
| 5921s | people just need to be dodging fights |
| 5922s | where possible I will say that that was |
| 5924s | a Duo pickup from Waterloo Waterloo |
| 5927s | still very healthy and land in a jewel |
| 5929s | you know I'll say early-ish is can be |
| 5933s | game winning if you can hold on |
| 5936s | all right dumb it looks like he's gonna |
| 5940s | take a bit of a smacking here though |
| 5941s | nice couple of Trades towards the end |
| 5943s | though just about some damage yeah yeah |
| 5945s | it just takes the one drop in the end |
| 5946s | not too bad at all |
| 5949s | just a light slap for fire and water |
| 5952s | looking pretty good as well |
| 5960s | oh is that |
| 5963s | huh what did he just not play the |
| 5965s | duolaster |
| 5966s | knee once uh wanted a minion in hand for |
| 5969s | the buff from the Scargill uh that's not |
| 5971s | the right name is it I've entirely made |
| 5973s | that up |
| 5974s | um from the handbarth murloc which he |
| 5976s | valued over one turn of the duo which I |
| 5979s | think is fine like he can Triple A |
| 5982s | murloc in two turns with the duo but |
| 5984s | still nothing particularly attractive on |
| 5986s | board to be copying that's fine it's |
| 5988s | definitely debatable |
| 5990s | uh but I think I'm okay with it |
| 5996s | damn it |
| 5997s | looks like it's like trying to lean over |
| 6000s | to beasts to an extent at least let's |
| 6002s | have the sly Raptor but again this is |
| 6004s | the point in every game where I just go |
| 6005s | hang on I mean I'm just gonna Mass roll |
| 6007s | for the banana Slammer because that that |
| 6009s | just opens up so much sort of |
| 6012s | the ability to just relax a bit in any |
| 6015s | given game right if you can get an early |
| 6017s | banana you could say okay all I need to |
| 6019s | do is hit some form of good beasts I |
| 6022s | mean there's one |
| 6023s | um and even the sly raps are already in |
| 6025s | hand so if good dummy can hit that soon |
| 6027s | and they'll probably be feeling pretty |
| 6029s | confident going forward |
| 6032s | every other piece right now right yeah |
| 6034s | seeing a bunch of Duos he's seeing uh |
| 6037s | death row beasts he's seeing reborn |
| 6038s | snake he's just not seeing the actual |
| 6041s | bananas like he's got serious potassium |
| 6043s | deficiency right now and there is only |
| 6045s | one cure for it |
| 6048s | he needs to get there soon or all of |
| 6050s | these stat scaling comps that are |
| 6052s | hanging around uh like this one for |
| 6054s | example what happened here this car this |
| 6056s | escalated incredibly quickly from the |
| 6058s | last time we were them yeah |
| 6061s | he needs to get there very very soon |
| 6063s | because if he doesn't he's gonna get 15 |
| 6065s | into 15 over the next two fights and |
| 6067s | just be straight out of him yeah these |
| 6070s | need to maybe do a little bit more work |
| 6075s | I didn't even see what that one was oh |
| 6077s | that's all the left at the end was huge |
| 6080s | cut five damage off of that and now |
| 6082s | unbelievably he stays above damage cap |
| 6084s | yeah |
| 6086s | thank you |
| 6088s | Matsuri down at three Health oh come on |
| 6093s | oh pyro hello |
| 6096s | one two three four oh |
| 6100s | denied he got some on the air the the |
| 6103s | horsey though |
| 6105s | yeah true yeah good shots on the horse |
| 6107s | actually good point |
| 6108s | I don't know does anyone know this has |
| 6110s | ever been revealed like does the chance |
| 6112s | of it hitting uh either face like grow |
| 6116s | after each successive shot because it |
| 6118s | feels like it averages a lot less than |
| 6120s | it should when you get the pyroblaster |
| 6122s | as opposed to it being a completely |
| 6124s | separate role exactly I think yeah |
| 6129s | she on offer again Matt sorry needs to |
| 6131s | do something because |
| 6133s | I'm in trouble basically |
| 6137s | oh there's some relax three HP double |
| 6140s | rylack count me in it what could |
| 6143s | possibly go this is exactly what happens |
| 6144s | when I play with Saul right because |
| 6146s | it'll be like oh three HP but there is |
| 6148s | two Rolex we could get more money and |
| 6150s | more value I'm like there's no value in |
| 6152s | dying |
| 6155s | look which one of us is top 200 okay |
| 6158s | which one of us won't be quiet about it |
| 6162s | uh I'll be I think I'm maybe top 2000. |
| 6166s | nice oh 20 000 maybe I'm not sure which |
| 6169s | zero needs to be added or taken away |
| 6171s | yeah |
| 6174s | but most importantly so I've been having |
| 6176s | a good time |
| 6178s | that is what really matters isn't it |
| 6180s | exactly the real MMR is the friends we |
| 6182s | made along the way |
| 6185s | that's what I tell myself every night |
| 6186s | before bed oh instant Mama Bear snipe by |
| 6190s | the way |
| 6191s | uh looks like dummit did triple into the |
| 6194s | mummer on the previous turn which has at |
| 6196s | least gotten somewhere but still has a |
| 6198s | potassium deficiency |
| 6199s | and looks like I just have enough yeah |
| 6203s | she just has enough |
| 6205s | and actually gets the extra damage from |
| 6206s | this line up rocking right which is a |
| 6208s | big deal I say extra not always extra |
| 6211s | but often extra |
| 6214s | Matsuri lived but he lived by smacking |
| 6217s | Aloo temu for about twenty damage so now |
| 6221s | I'll tell everyone about cereal both on |
| 6223s | the cost |
| 6227s | oh you need to get big atletumu |
| 6231s | you need to get real big real quick |
| 6234s | this Army of fake Battle Masters that |
| 6237s | you have created is not doing anything |
| 6239s | for you right now |
| 6242s | there's a base girl |
| 6246s | yeah that was free smart recognition |
| 6248s | knows that no matter what if he loses a |
| 6251s | fight he's dead so he can afford to buy |
| 6252s | the leeching fell Hound |
| 6255s | ler okay |
| 6259s | that's something at the very least I |
| 6261s | would imagine all of these minions in |
| 6262s | hand have infinite health as well that's |
| 6265s | true actually |
| 6267s | oh banana |
| 6273s | is there a base skill there's no base |
| 6274s | skill right no still no bass girl |
| 6277s | oh these minions in hand don't actually |
| 6279s | have stats right large amounts of them |
| 6280s | because they've come from the uh the |
| 6282s | brand the brand Primal fin interaction |
| 6284s | oh sorry yeah |
| 6287s | gas coiler okay |
| 6294s | Oh weird looking board you know it's |
| 6297s | really scrambling isn't it |
| 6299s | I mean one of these I I guess the uh the |
| 6301s | murloc has to gain just be 15 15 right |
| 6303s | it's Uther |
| 6308s | right yeah you have to Temp okay yeah |
| 6311s | out of the murkai 15 15 the coral give |
| 6315s | it as much health as you possibly can |
| 6317s | wait a minute |
| 6319s | value trade |
| 6324s | yep all right see if it's good enough |
| 6326s | but this could be number two for Alo |
| 6329s | temu in this spot and that is a |
| 6331s | nightmare if you are raven and a |
| 6333s | nightmare if you are Aloo temu or poison |
| 6336s | scam on the other side |
| 6338s | oh okay that's okay yeah okay okay |
| 6344s | Venom is not going to connect which |
| 6347s | means now I believe the coral burglar is |
| 6349s | just gonna carry from here no matter |
| 6350s | what so Ali temu does live to fight |
| 6352s | another day I never lost faith never no |
| 6355s | at no point in time were you worried yep |
| 6359s | at no point did I secretly message one |
| 6361s | of the people to see if I could change |
| 6363s | my fantasy picks |
| 6365s | it's fine |
| 6368s | oh my cereal oh |
| 6371s | just when life's going okay |
| 6373s | and that is a raw eighth it looks like |
| 6377s | unless Shiro actually there's quite |
| 6379s | there's several people eligible for the |
| 6381s | drop no is just a straight raw eighth |
| 6384s | which means Matsuri is now two games in |
| 6386s | with 0.5 points their name |
| 6390s | thank you |
| 6392s | ah okay well |
| 6395s | it'll be fine oh well it's been fun well |
| 6397s | you know what game two it's already over |
| 6400s | what can I say it didn't last long |
| 6404s | hey though |
| 6406s | we're all soon looking |
| 6407s | pretty strong actually with the demons |
| 6410s | obviously in the danger zone in terms of |
| 6412s | health not looking terrible |
| 6416s | thanks |
| 6419s | mandatory |
| 6425s | I'm gonna put this on the attack Andreas |
| 6427s | just to make a bit of a small town in |
| 6429s | the way I like it yep yep sure |
| 6432s | I'm on board |
| 6434s | can we uh have a tomb update please |
| 6437s | Lorinda I'm wondering where uh since he |
| 6439s | deviated so far from the game plan that |
| 6441s | I wanted to go for where We've Ended up |
| 6443s | yeah see like this is very beasts isn't |
| 6446s | it I don't know |
| 6449s | I mean beasts are very good but they're |
| 6451s | not a full Board of 500 500s which is |
| 6454s | what I try and make every game so yeah |
| 6457s | true |
| 6459s | sounds like a sentence I would say this |
| 6461s | comp's not good this comes okay but it |
| 6464s | could be quadruple the stats |
| 6471s | it's actually odd that in a beast game |
| 6476s | like this we've just not seen bananas |
| 6478s | anywhere right I don't think any single |
| 6480s | player |
| 6481s | owns a banana |
| 6485s | um yeah and honestly like just because |
| 6487s | they're they'll all be looking for them |
| 6489s | right that's you know you never let in |
| 6490s | one slide right yeah they all would have |
| 6492s | been looking for them up into a point |
| 6494s | and you'll see now a few players are |
| 6496s | kind of hard stacked into beasts still |
| 6497s | so of course you would still buy bananas |
| 6500s | if they came up in a lot of these |
| 6501s | players positions |
| 6502s | um but there is still a cut off for |
| 6504s | bananas where you do you know the boards |
| 6507s | that you have to have |
| 6509s | to then uh hold for a long time looking |
| 6512s | for bananas are generally quite weak if |
| 6515s | you don't have the banana on the ball so |
| 6516s | there's only so long called out for it |
| 6519s | um |
| 6521s | yeah dummit has been fortunate enough |
| 6523s | like I said to have hit all of the other |
| 6525s | pieces alongside that right Mama bears |
| 6527s | reborn snakes all of those kind of |
| 6528s | things so dumb it's been able to stay |
| 6530s | strong and also be Deathwing which helps |
| 6533s | at the same time |
| 6534s | um but sometimes you do have to bail out |
| 6536s | a banana plan a little bit quicker than |
| 6537s | you might want to |
| 6540s | great |
| 6541s | amazing |
| 6548s | speaking of uh end of turn with Jakari |
| 6551s | here it is double light Fang Jakari not |
| 6554s | something that I was expecting to see |
| 6555s | after kind of dismissing that as a bad |
| 6559s | Ragnarok Strat back in the previous meta |
| 6561s | but here we are |
| 6562s | oh here we go Oh thanks thank you thanks |
| 6565s | a lot larinda |
| 6568s | [Music] |
| 6569s | um |
| 6572s | which one should I pick so |
| 6577s | this one's tricky |
| 6584s | why couldn't one of them have a banana |
| 6586s | made my decision easy |
| 6593s | I mean that's the thing right we do have |
| 6595s | to wait to see if I just yeah randomly |
| 6597s | appears on |
| 6599s | I'd see the triple from god dammit as |
| 6600s | well |
| 6603s | you could end up tripling the mama bear |
| 6606s | it does not |
| 6609s | okay Cinder eye straight shot Tech card |
| 6611s | coming in for Tomb here which is a |
| 6614s | really really big deal that's going to |
| 6615s | have a real big impact on the fight |
| 6619s | need to see which minions are taunted |
| 6621s | from dumb its perspective though uh just |
| 6624s | the rap sorry just the snake at the |
| 6626s | moment okay |
| 6635s | I am in oh we've disagreed okay |
| 6636s | interesting I am all in on this this |
| 6639s | first minion I forgot the name of it but |
| 6640s | it's great |
| 6642s | straight shot yeah that's it I believe |
| 6646s | the extra taunt actually I typed that in |
| 6648s | it and I put my suggestion in as the |
| 6651s | talk came down so it was a little bit |
| 6653s | unfortunate to see the tunnel Blaster |
| 6654s | but hey oh here we are |
| 6657s | yeah it does not end up having an impact |
| 6660s | apart from tanking the straight shot |
| 6661s | here which is a big deal in its own |
| 6663s | right of course oh early bear out |
| 6673s | When I See This I always think wait why |
| 6675s | do you have stats and then I realize the |
| 6677s | bear exists all the mama goes down |
| 6680s | that's huge |
| 6681s | yeah looks like uh Raven went with tomb |
| 6684s | on this fight and it looks like he is |
| 6685s | gonna get rewarded just too much stuff |
| 6687s | left coming out for two however yeah I |
| 6689s | would like to uh remind that tomb is my |
| 6691s | bandwagon pick for this game so I was |
| 6692s | quite happy hedging my bets on this |
| 6693s | fight thank you very much |
| 6695s | it's so safe doesn't he chat |
| 6701s | just about got away with it and it does |
| 6703s | mean actually that uh that God dammit's |
| 6705s | gonna say bye-bye this round as well |
| 6708s | yeah biting the dust we are down now to |
| 6710s | final three |
| 6716s | another team is still in |
| 6727s | I'm actually not looking too bad at all |
| 6735s | yeah double Coral burglar now and has |
| 6737s | Gordon kind of poison scam as well the |
| 6739s | thing this is really missing is some |
| 6740s | bass skills really because bass skills |
| 6742s | can actually add layers to your I guess |
| 6745s | not poison scam anymore venomous scan so |
| 6747s | you can at least get one of those base |
| 6749s | skills in play but then at that point |
| 6750s | you're looking to hold more leroys slash |
| 6754s | venomous minions in your hand so you |
| 6756s | kind of get these recursive layers of |
| 6758s | venomous going off over and over again |
| 6760s | which can be very very effective |
| 6762s | again picking up Cinder eye straight |
| 6763s | shot uh one of the best tech cards in |
| 6766s | the game right now because of how |
| 6768s | prevalent reborn is in general for a lot |
| 6770s | of the strongest strategies yeah when |
| 6772s | we're talking earlier about just how |
| 6773s | well designed this set feels that's one |
| 6776s | of the cards I absolutely love because I |
| 6778s | feel like it does everything you'd want |
| 6779s | it to do but it's not like broken right |
| 6782s | you know it's not just like no this is |
| 6783s | you know way overpowered it's just a |
| 6785s | very it's a good tool to have in your |
| 6787s | toolbox it's not even a new card |
| 6793s | verses from back in the day when it was |
| 6796s | just all poison and divine Shield |
| 6798s | I just feel so disappointed like Tim is |
| 6802s | doing well and maybe he's made the the |
| 6804s | net MMR play maybe he's made the |
| 6806s | sensible play but I feel like when you |
| 6808s | have a money printing machine that's |
| 6810s | making you like eight gold a turn and |
| 6811s | you just end up on beasts I don't know |
| 6813s | it just makes me a bit sad right like |
| 6815s | the third would be disappointed |
| 6819s | say though it's impressive that you're |
| 6821s | upset because didn't you pick tomb I did |
| 6823s | yeah yeah so Saul upset even when he's |
| 6825s | winning there you go but my commitment |
| 6827s | to big numbers is greater than my |
| 6829s | commitment even to winning you know |
| 6835s | so wait a minute can we make it so |
| 6837s | whoever has the most points loses then |
| 6840s | is you'll have the bigger number |
| 6844s | what |
| 6846s | the challenge me |
| 6848s | no points yeah for our guesses and |
| 6850s | everything |
| 6852s | whoever ends with the most points loses |
| 6855s | if you're okay with losing if you just |
| 6856s | have the bigger number then because I |
| 6859s | can just have the bigger number and win |
| 6861s | so that's the best of both worlds why |
| 6863s | would I agree to that that's dumb either |
| 6865s | way our team who does get knocked out |
| 6867s | there not quite strong enough and Etc |
| 6869s | doing a little bit better but uh still |
| 6872s | not good enough to get that first place |
| 6874s | and now we've just got tomb versus beat |
| 6875s | about it in the end and I feel like whom |
| 6879s | it's in a solid position here |
| 6881s | yeah beta Baba is gonna need kind of an |
| 6884s | immediate setup of like a taunted |
| 6886s | blanchy in his hand and a base skill |
| 6890s | like this is a great start all that |
| 6892s | Glitters on a solo uh banana which is |
| 6895s | very nice guaranteeing the Golden Banana |
| 6897s | in shot |
| 6898s | problem now though |
| 6900s | okay no demon on board I was gonna say |
| 6902s | you probably don't want to be playing |
| 6903s | that mind right now but yeah |
| 6905s | there's no demon on board so that's fine |
| 6906s | but I'm still not necessarily sure this |
| 6909s | is enough stats really just with the |
| 6912s | solo blanchee blanchy like is the best |
| 6914s | minion of course to have right inside |
| 6916s | this |
| 6919s | I guess the point is is there anything |
| 6920s | better like not really right not really |
| 6923s | no I think the other option like I said |
| 6926s | can you use the Mind flayer goggles on |
| 6929s | that shop instead just to get the the so |
| 6932s | like the plain copy of banana for free |
| 6934s | and then you roll specifically looking |
| 6938s | for an extra Blanche in a base skill but |
| 6940s | that's so unlikely you have like two |
| 6942s | rolls to find exactly those two cards |
| 6945s | um and then maybe you would be able to |
| 6946s | get there but yeah it seems super online |
| 6955s | oh so I'm gonna come down to this too |
| 6956s | and uh can potentially afford to take a |
| 6959s | hit |
| 6960s | I need to Rabbit cannot that's a lot of |
| 6963s | reborn on that side of the board |
| 6966s | some poison though as well |
| 6968s | I'm gonna show the work |
| 6970s | yeah these venomouses are gonna trade |
| 6972s | though and then the venomous is gonna |
| 6974s | come back it doesn't have taunt which is |
| 6977s | actually really good news for Peter |
| 6979s | babix he gets to pick up a couple of |
| 6980s | really nice value trades now with this |
| 6982s | Blanche |
| 6983s | [Music] |
| 6986s | and now okay that needed to hit I think |
| 6989s | I'm not sure there's enough value left |
| 6991s | that needed to hit the five one that one |
| 6993s | attack that was able to go through did |
| 6995s | not quite get there in the end respect |
| 6998s | and this is too much value yeah I think |
| 7001s | Peter Babbitt missing beasts off the gas |
| 7003s | coiler and the tomb hitting two is |
| 7007s | probably too much |
| 7010s | oh |
| 7012s | Stephano wow |
| 7015s | wow |
| 7017s | two having an absolutely fantastic game |
| 7019s | here taking that Peter Babbitt and |
| 7021s | finishing on 30 Health subtle uh what a |
| 7026s | game number two for two because they |
| 7028s | didn't do too badly in the previous game |
| 7029s | either and uh all LED just off the start |
| 7032s | of that should have walked their first |
| 7034s | few turns right it was very very strong |
| 7036s | and did what you love to see right just |
| 7038s | go all the way to uh to the value just |
| 7040s | get as much gold as possible yeah I |
| 7043s | think if you're a shadow walk and you |
| 7044s | hit uh an economy Battle Cry on turn one |
| 7047s | uh so three one pyra or two one Naga |
| 7050s | then you are Off to the Races most of |
| 7051s | the time right |
| 7053s | um and yes you know disagreement over |
| 7055s | what exactly you end up pumping there |
| 7057s | with the the rylack I would have done it |
| 7058s | differently with the filamental I think |
| 7061s | when you just go to Tavern 3 early |
| 7064s | because you're printing a bunch of extra |
| 7065s | gold early with the the Naga straight |
| 7067s | away with the shell collector and then |
| 7070s | on one of your first rolls on Tavern |
| 7071s | three you find a rylac |
| 7074s | just pick a strategy and execute it from |
| 7076s | that point you know like it doesn't |
| 7077s | particularly matter which direction you |
| 7079s | go in just pick one and execute and you |
| 7082s | will probably be finding a pretty secure |
| 7084s | top two in that spot and that is what |
| 7085s | Tim did |
| 7087s | yeah it was uh looking really good |
| 7089s | overall uh we are just going to go to a |
| 7092s | quick break while we set up the next |
| 7093s | game so don't go anywhere we'll be right |
| 7095s | back |
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| 7142s | foreign |
| 7158s | [Music] |
| 7184s | foreign |
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| 7215s | foreign |
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| 7285s | [Music] |
| 7289s | thank you |
| 7291s | [Music] |
| 7296s | foreign |
| 7299s | [Music] |
| 7307s | [Music] |
| 7315s | Legend spring Championship we are |
| 7318s | getting ready to go into the third and |
| 7320s | final game of this group but before we |
| 7323s | do we are going to check in on some of |
| 7325s | the updates of scores and for the fancy |
| 7327s | picks as well so I'm excited to see how |
| 7329s | we're doing uh I know I'm doing badly |
| 7331s | but that's fine let's take a look at the |
| 7333s | team picks over oh what do you think |
| 7335s | about these so |
| 7337s | yeah I think largely is to be expected I |
| 7341s | think bit about it very popular and |
| 7342s | well-respected person in the community |
| 7344s | ala temu of course a very well-known |
| 7346s | player as well uh Matsuri huge streamer |
| 7350s | in his own right within his own |
| 7351s | community and very popular person uh |
| 7354s | indeed so these are kind of how I would |
| 7356s | expect the breakdown to go I think two |
| 7358s | man Shiro kind of the the least known |
| 7360s | players coming into this and a great |
| 7362s | surprise |
| 7363s | um to see the lack of popularity of |
| 7365s | those choices as well but yeah I think |
| 7367s | overall a spread largely as I would have |
| 7369s | expected and uh yeah well done chat in |
| 7371s | general has ended up being a great pick |
| 7373s | for you I think |
| 7379s | so take a look at how these standings |
| 7381s | look right now a first place and a |
| 7383s | second place for Peter Bobby he's |
| 7385s | looking absolutely fantastic going into |
| 7388s | this third game uh tomb looking great as |
| 7390s | well uh but when we look at the bottom |
| 7393s | here matsuring 0.5 I'm already scared uh |
| 7396s | along with Waterloo then on four so a |
| 7398s | lot of work to do for some of the lower |
| 7400s | players in this uh but be about it be a |
| 7403s | Babbitt sorry definitely had his work |
| 7404s | paid off for him so far basically needs |
| 7406s | to just grab a couple of extra points |
| 7409s | for good luck at this point I would say |
| 7411s | yeah I mean I think that is pretty much |
| 7413s | the point I think job done in the first |
| 7414s | two games for Peter Babbitt at this |
| 7416s | point but certainly the players around |
| 7418s | that fourth place cut off are going to |
| 7420s | be sweating there's also the puzzle box |
| 7422s | question to play for Matt Suri will be |
| 7423s | looking for three and a half points or |
| 7425s | more uh to be able to deny the |
| 7427s | four-point cut off that was one of the |
| 7429s | puzzle box questions on the tavern buddy |
| 7431s | so still lots of things to look at going |
| 7433s | into this last game and hopefully just |
| 7436s | from my perspective we now get a third |
| 7437s | variation because I think the first two |
| 7439s | games have been really really nice in |
| 7441s | terms of first game super make minion |
| 7444s | number go big scaling comps is what we |
| 7446s | saw dragons and Pirates right and then |
| 7449s | Beast came in into the other Lobby so |
| 7451s | sure we got rylack to come in which can |
| 7453s | help with those scaling possibilities |
| 7454s | but most players then chose to go |
| 7457s | straight into the summon comps with the |
| 7459s | Beast instead looking for Mama bears and |
| 7462s | bananas and we actually did not end up |
| 7463s | with with as oppressive as a banana |
| 7466s | Slammer board as you might expect when |
| 7468s | that many people are going for it a very |
| 7470s | middling boards I would say ended up |
| 7472s | taking things home at the end really it |
| 7474s | was the power of the change let's say to |
| 7478s | the Rattler that ended up being the the |
| 7480s | king in those lobbies right because |
| 7481s | absolutely everything ended up having |
| 7483s | reborn which you can debate I think |
| 7486s | whether the Rattler was a buff or a Nerf |
| 7488s | and I think it's very situation and game |
| 7491s | timing dependent as to whether it is a |
| 7493s | buff or an Earth but certainly I think |
| 7495s | it was a huge buff in the way that |
| 7497s | players got it early in that game and |
| 7499s | then just used it to reborn their entire |
| 7500s | pool now this is what I like to see |
| 7502s | that's right yes let's have a latimu |
| 7505s | start on five seven tier five |
| 7507s | um okay I appreciate whoever sorting |
| 7510s | this up and of course that will change |
| 7511s | but we are getting to the final game of |
| 7514s | Lobby a right now a bit about it on |
| 7517s | volcin and we say kel'thas there I don't |
| 7520s | know |
| 7524s | is this is this just gonna become a |
| 7526s | theme so are we just gonna have to do a |
| 7528s | warm-up game first |
| 7531s | oh no |
| 7532s | looks like it's big looks like we're |
| 7534s | good okay we're fine |
| 7536s | all right yeah we can stick here with |
| 7538s | failing for turn one take a look at the |
| 7539s | picks that looks good to me oh uh no |
| 7544s | Tempo King minion for Tavern two |
| 7546s | everything here quite small with long |
| 7548s | term upside yeah I think I agree with |
| 7550s | profit at the ball okay I mean instant |
| 7553s | synergy with the prickly Piper if you |
| 7556s | are looking for Rick |
| 7562s | goes at least Pig could have gone full |
| 7565s | Pig but ended up with the Elise instead |
| 7568s | and these are some mediocre six drops I |
| 7572s | would say oh I was gonna say I think I |
| 7575s | still like the chalka personally |
| 7577s | um |
| 7578s | just because |
| 7580s | you could pivot that way really easily |
| 7582s | as you said child got another end of |
| 7583s | turn effect right so a baby with the |
| 7586s | dracaris can get something done I've |
| 7587s | definitely been stumped by pigs on |
| 7589s | ladder doing that |
| 7593s | all right no great mystery other term |
| 7595s | we're gonna level up and play the two |
| 7596s | drop on that turn |
| 7600s | Shiro shooting into the shot still uh |
| 7604s | say that 10 times fast even though |
| 7605s | having arguably the worst one one drop |
| 7608s | in the game on the board right now |
| 7610s | remember as well getting your bandwagon |
| 7612s | picks I'm already deep in the tank |
| 7613s | thinking yeah same |
| 7616s | you have until the end of turn four to |
| 7618s | lock in your bandwagon pick pick who is |
| 7620s | going to win the lobby before turn four |
| 7621s | the earlier you do it the more points |
| 7623s | you get |
| 7625s | I'm gonna try a different strategy I'm |
| 7627s | just gonna vocalize my thoughts lean |
| 7629s | towards good done it here |
| 7632s | it's getting Farthing can potentially be |
| 7634s | very very strong and they're already you |
| 7637s | know proving |
| 7638s | that they're performing well today yeah |
| 7641s | I really don't know in terms of |
| 7642s | bandwagon stuff here no one on ready |
| 7644s | with a like standout Hyrule win the game |
| 7646s | here and the failing choices weren't |
| 7648s | mind-blowing right yeah the failing |
| 7650s | choices were mediocre this uh Varden |
| 7652s | does not have a good shot Frozen on |
| 7654s | Tavern 2 |
| 7656s | um for the the freeze effect so no one |
| 7658s | really spiking that we've seen so far in |
| 7659s | the super early game uh let's take a |
| 7662s | little look at Etc though if we can see |
| 7664s | what's going on there with the early |
| 7665s | buddy picks |
| 7668s | is it going to be a three on three |
| 7675s | yeah definitely difficult to make the |
| 7677s | choice before seeing etc's first there |
| 7679s | first body right we do have to turn four |
| 7682s | so we're also there just tearing up as |
| 7683s | well to tier three |
| 7686s | oh takes a press |
| 7689s | does have the soul keeper for a massive |
| 7691s | tempo of course as mentioned previously |
| 7694s | this is kind of the tempo Choice tomb |
| 7696s | from live senior obviously making a read |
| 7698s | on a player's habit so off a very small |
| 7700s | sample size of games is dangerous but |
| 7702s | does seem to be a little bit more of a |
| 7703s | Tempo focused player |
| 7705s | um all the choices in big moments that |
| 7708s | you know I've disagreed with have been a |
| 7709s | byproduct of me being a very greedy |
| 7711s | economy bass player |
| 7713s | um and tume has gone for more Tempo |
| 7715s | based choices in in basically every |
| 7716s | situation right you go back to like |
| 7718s | double muxlinger in game one yeah sorry |
| 7720s | that the fight where it's just two |
| 7722s | players just stare at each other okay |
| 7726s | all right |
| 7727s | good enough for me |
| 7729s | oh you have the same choice to turn |
| 7731s | earlier unlucky |
| 7732s | wow |
| 7736s | I got it just before the fight started |
| 7738s | mm-hmm |
| 7741s | it was on the scene because I saw the |
| 7742s | tavern tear up to three |
| 7744s | and it's Varden and I respect could do |
| 7747s | it a lot as a player and I think valden |
| 7748s | can you know sometimes you whiff but I |
| 7750s | think the ability to pop off is |
| 7752s | definitely there yeah I think for me |
| 7755s | that's why I wanted to wait an extra |
| 7756s | turn right is the early Varden is |
| 7759s | Reliant so often on just getting those |
| 7761s | big Pairs and getting strong Tempo from |
| 7764s | them |
| 7764s | uh the uh the the undead there is just |
| 7767s | such a powerful Tempo minion early on to |
| 7769s | defend health I think that will now |
| 7771s | carry good dummy a very very long way |
| 7773s | well the Tron almost has to be the pick |
| 7776s | here when you've chosen to play Tempo |
| 7778s | Etc because now you can just have mega |
| 7781s | One Drops everywhere |
| 7783s | yeah this is the sort of point where I'm |
| 7785s | not 100 sure actually |
| 7787s | um |
| 7788s | oh yeah this is a one of the times where |
| 7790s | that is the kind of juice you want when |
| 7792s | you get into the uh scrap right for tier |
| 7795s | four if you can hit that and you've got |
| 7796s | that much uh events it's like well okay |
| 7799s | I'm gonna be seeing some Max for sure |
| 7802s | yeah |
| 7808s | I'm hitting here at the micro mummy |
| 7816s | be able to get oh okay it's our very |
| 7819s | first world problems of just being way |
| 7821s | too strong there to get any juice off of |
| 7823s | the Pirates |
| 7826s | very aggressive leveling curve being |
| 7828s | played by a lot of these players so far |
| 7829s | but that's a very nice pickup |
| 7833s | particularly when you don't have any uh |
| 7834s | blood gem generation yet tripling the |
| 7836s | tough Tusk is very nice because you only |
| 7838s | have to play then a single blood gem on |
| 7840s | it and it has permanent Divine shield |
| 7842s | for the rest of the game |
| 7844s | and this just uh good picks right |
| 7847s | there's a chance here that penguin goes |
| 7849s | for the storm |
| 7857s | yeah you could just like take the other |
| 7858s | pair as well right yeah for a turn yeah |
| 7860s | that's what I was thinking |
| 7864s | the prickle one is |
| 7868s | four right yep that's right that's |
| 7870s | definitely one that can you know get |
| 7872s | rolling very very quickly because it is |
| 7874s | that death rattle the earlier you get it |
| 7876s | the you know the better right because |
| 7878s | you can really start stacking sure |
| 7886s | I'm going for a pop-up okay |
| 7891s | not a nice turn to look at right |
| 7892s | obviously the three's having the triples |
| 7894s | great but just oh |
| 7897s | good cards there uh but just hat |
| 7899s | floating the gold you know not getting |
| 7900s | it quite done |
| 7902s | it looks like hello Timo is gonna just |
| 7904s | leave this shop I'm gonna bother with |
| 7906s | the scraps and have the juice for it oh |
| 7908s | yeah I'll tell me also just sold his two |
| 7911s | drop discovered minion and went straight |
| 7913s | to three and then straight to four to |
| 7915s | get the Elise like this is a very |
| 7917s | unconventional looking failing game so |
| 7920s | far but we will see how it pans out from |
| 7922s | here |
| 7923s | and now just roll down take a five drop |
| 7925s | this turn |
| 7926s | yeah |
| 7928s | those need to is on the cusp right of |
| 7931s | qualifying to tomorrow so like I think |
| 7933s | this might be the idea if you know what |
| 7935s | I need something big to happen |
| 7937s | so you know go for it |
| 7947s | oh oh |
| 7950s | I mean bran is brown but Boombox is so |
| 7953s | much Tempo when you've uh played so |
| 7956s | greedy like this and yeah and I think |
| 7958s | even for me I would be taking Boombox in |
| 7960s | this situation |
| 7961s | just because it will put like I said |
| 7964s | other team is kind of in the middle of |
| 7966s | the pack right now so in terms of points |
| 7968s | value so like that will just kill people |
| 7971s | right it's just it would just push other |
| 7973s | people out of the lobby instead of you |
| 7975s | doing well just make everyone do bad |
| 7982s | this is looking like quite the beefy |
| 7983s | board as well or at least this the |
| 7985s | beginnings of one from good dummy |
| 7988s | mummy being played and replicating |
| 7991s | Menace being held okay sure |
| 7994s | gives you more Flex right he like could |
| 7997s | roll into a good Mech next to an awesome |
| 7999s | you could have the stats to pile on |
| 8001s | there so the the counter argument is it |
| 8003s | does make you quite a lot weaker because |
| 8004s | obviously the replicate Menace is so |
| 8006s | many more revenge procs for the two |
| 8008s | fives to be true to defend at that point |
| 8010s | but neither one adds a different minion |
| 8013s | type to the board which would make you |
| 8015s | so much stronger right because the two |
| 8017s | five Buffs uh each different minion type |
| 8018s | that you have but mechs and Undead were |
| 8021s | both already present on that board |
| 8026s | it looks like penguin got the uh the |
| 8027s | Abomination |
| 8029s | double Radio Star another one of my |
| 8031s | favorite cards in the entire game |
| 8034s | you may notice a theme Here card subtle |
| 8036s | likes things that put cards in his hand |
| 8038s | yeah subtle just likes cards sure does |
| 8045s | okay oh |
| 8048s | [Music] |
| 8052s | this is why you play Greedy so um stuff |
| 8054s | like this can happen when you win the |
| 8056s | game |
| 8058s | oh my God and wins the fight yeah you're |
| 8061s | kidding I thought I thought he was at |
| 8062s | least going to lose the fight there but |
| 8064s | my God eight damage over to alatimu and |
| 8067s | double Golden Monkey for for his trouble |
| 8070s | seems good to me |
| 8071s | yeah uh worth noting by the way Golden |
| 8073s | Monkey is a unique minion it is Golden |
| 8076s | by default so even anything that says |
| 8079s | plain copy if you use it on a Golden |
| 8082s | Monkey it is still a golden monkey and |
| 8084s | therefore you still get your triple |
| 8088s | oh who's the pickup okay |
| 8092s | yeah it just wants to be on five and |
| 8094s | just have some tempo right I do think |
| 8095s | this makes sense yeah |
| 8098s | especially because you can just do this |
| 8100s | and then give it a blammo |
| 8104s | sure |
| 8107s | scaling minions but very mediocre ones |
| 8110s | in general I would say yeah I mean look |
| 8113s | before the weekends out I want to pick |
| 8115s | Lobby I want people to go pigs because |
| 8117s | I've just seen too many people pass on |
| 8119s | Charles |
| 8125s | it's a tough choice now |
| 8127s | so you can go Boogie you have a one drop |
| 8129s | to play and you can then buy a two drop |
| 8132s | no problem you can then sell that back |
| 8135s | and buy a three drop no problem so yeah |
| 8136s | Boogie was a lot of instant stats |
| 8138s | actually this was very good hmm |
| 8141s | again weirdly a Tempo minion this turn |
| 8143s | right |
| 8144s | yep |
| 8149s | goldilies |
| 8150s | what's happening |
| 8152s | I don't know so but I like it another |
| 8155s | boom |
| 8157s | uh meanwhile I guess we'll see what team |
| 8159s | has been up to of course remember uh Etc |
| 8161s | winning a game is one of the puzzle box |
| 8163s | questions as well which I believe is not |
| 8165s | been fulfilled just yet so we are still |
| 8167s | hoping for that to happen |
| 8170s | we both say yes no I said no uh |
| 8180s | think this is too much with the death |
| 8183s | rattles coming out okay five five not |
| 8185s | super relevant it's gonna attack oh okay |
| 8188s | does do five damage the most relevant |
| 8190s | minion |
| 8192s | but with a whole set of One Drops still |
| 8194s | to come there is probably still enough |
| 8196s | yeah Divine Shield 2-1 such a nasty drop |
| 8199s | there as well |
| 8200s | yeah and just buy one it's gonna be |
| 8204s | another loss for Aloe terminal and he's |
| 8205s | back in damage cap range now |
| 8208s | so close |
| 8213s | what is been doing significantly weaker |
| 8216s | than a lot of the players we've been |
| 8218s | looking at recently really does um |
| 8221s | icky M triple okay |
| 8223s | still on Tavern three as well like has |
| 8226s | stayed low and is getting murdered this |
| 8228s | game oh yeah the above it just took 15 |
| 8231s | apparently okay |
| 8235s | I can see why this boy I can't see |
| 8237s | anywhere near as strong right right |
| 8238s | exactly that you can see why because |
| 8241s | this board is extremely unimpressive at |
| 8243s | this point this looks like a me board |
| 8253s | scrap scraper trying to make something |
| 8254s | happen |
| 8256s | a radio |
| 8258s | oh I mean at 10 Health I don't think you |
| 8261s | could I mean I guess you are vulgar you |
| 8262s | replace you you replace the three three |
| 8264s | with a three one right yeah and you |
| 8266s | could also just you know any minion you |
| 8268s | see in the shop that you want the effect |
| 8269s | of because you're volgin you can just |
| 8271s | trade its stats for one of the Minions |
| 8273s | that you already have on board if you |
| 8274s | want to end up doing it that way so it's |
| 8275s | not that much of a downside but I was |
| 8278s | just looking at like the fact that it |
| 8279s | would replace a 3-3 with a three one but |
| 8281s | the three one does something right yeah |
| 8288s | another Boombox okay |
| 8294s | good ordering as well |
| 8298s | in the buff on the eye of the mech |
| 8305s | and uh yeah beer batter does seem to |
| 8308s | have found a a more reasonable fight on |
| 8311s | this round let's say I think we may be |
| 8313s | poisoned by some of the Golden Monkey |
| 8315s | silliness that is going on it's true |
| 8317s | because uh it is only turn eight In |
| 8319s | fairness I will say that perhaps these |
| 8321s | are a little small in terms of boards |
| 8323s | I've been looking at but perhaps not as |
| 8325s | much as the reaction might first betray |
| 8327s | this is nice so three blood gems an |
| 8330s | annoying module here as well |
| 8332s | very nice oh oh my alutemu oh okay |
| 8338s | well bad news for Raven Ali temu's dead |
| 8341s | uh good news for Raven Matsuri just got |
| 8343s | a point |
| 8344s | yes that Surrey just got two points yes |
| 8349s | wait was it oh wait was it four or less |
| 8351s | or less than four four uh oh good |
| 8353s | question actually because waterloo's on |
| 8356s | four right now I believe sort of like |
| 8359s | and Matt Surrey is now on like 2.5 I |
| 8362s | think |
| 8363s | as a minimum less than four is the |
| 8366s | phrasing oh oh come on Max sorry Matsu |
| 8370s | sorry I'm just adding extra life |
| 8372s | Matt sorry you got this oh three dead |
| 8375s | actually yeah half a point half a point |
| 8379s | come on |
| 8381s | someone immediately |
| 8385s | it's a very mean-spirited puzzle box |
| 8387s | question actually in reflection isn't it |
| 8388s | the worst part here is as well I'm |
| 8390s | getting excited there's a whole nother |
| 8392s | group |
| 8393s | yeah true |
| 8396s | true oh yeah Matsuri has ghost his turn |
| 8399s | perfect |
| 8400s | [Laughter] |
| 8403s | waterloo's already clear being on Four |
| 8405s | Points going in and Walter is actually |
| 8406s | doing quite well still on 35 Health |
| 8408s | looking strong and also tomb is looking |
| 8411s | great we need to check on Etc at some |
| 8413s | point but Meanwhile we're going to be |
| 8414s | looking at penguin with the double bass |
| 8416s | and prickle Rick |
| 8418s | yeah this could end up being a huge game |
| 8421s | for Raven in terms of how his picks and |
| 8423s | predictions have gone so far |
| 8428s | thank you |
| 8434s | not a bad board at all |
| 8438s | right full Tempo and tomb's actually |
| 8441s | been able to transfer himself into Max |
| 8444s | and still get value from these death |
| 8446s | rails |
| 8447s | just traded one deflecto for the other |
| 8450s | uh just wanting to get the buff ax he |
| 8452s | has the opposite of the four seven that |
| 8454s | we saw in the previous game we're seeing |
| 8457s | the 7-4 that gives attack instead so he |
| 8459s | just trades one deflector out for him so |
| 8461s | I have nightmares about that squirrel |
| 8463s | oh really |
| 8465s | it used to I think it used to do four |
| 8467s | for each man that died they nerfed it |
| 8469s | very it used to kill me basically it |
| 8472s | used to kill me a lot |
| 8475s | oh nice |
| 8478s | oh Dodges the reset as well and then |
| 8480s | smokes it okay that was a huge series of |
| 8483s | attacks for the uh for the zirella |
| 8489s | it's looking pretty close but so many |
| 8491s | waves of stuff |
| 8492s | there's so many waves of stuff and a lot |
| 8495s | of mechs have been dropped so um |
| 8498s | squirrel bomb's gonna do some work here |
| 8500s | yeah oh good buy all your stuff oh an 18 |
| 8505s | to Waterloo and alike there |
| 8507s | oh no penguin signing damage cap range |
| 8511s | and Matsuri scammed Everyone by fighting |
| 8513s | the ghost you hate yes |
| 8517s | oh okay Tim you need to come first but |
| 8519s | sorry you need to come second let's say |
| 8521s | and then you know I'll be happy for |
| 8523s | today |
| 8524s | I mean it doesn't it now matter at this |
| 8526s | but like damage cap isn't even a real |
| 8527s | thing but I still even when there are |
| 8530s | dead players like feel happier when I'm |
| 8532s | above 15 health because I think 15 is a |
| 8535s | kind of a reasonable amount to lose a |
| 8536s | fight by in a lot of situations yeah |
| 8538s | it's weirdly a number where you feel |
| 8540s | safe right unless something very stupid |
| 8542s | happens but don't get it twisted Matsuri |
| 8544s | can absolutely get smacked for 18 in |
| 8546s | this spot yeah oh here we go |
| 8551s | uh okay let's |
| 8554s | have a look |
| 8557s | you're really giving us bass skill |
| 8559s | without knowing the stats of the minions |
| 8561s | in half come on come on |
| 8564s | but here's my question Soul help can the |
| 8567s | minions even be because nothing |
| 8570s | offs them right no |
| 8582s | things |
| 8584s | kid oh triple though the Divine |
| 8589s | Shields is huge |
| 8601s | this is tense wait the Boombox didn't |
| 8603s | make the board |
| 8606s | did the Boombox not get played I hope |
| 8608s | not no what okay no no no |
| 8611s | it's fine it's fine we're all chilling |
| 8614s | we're all fine |
| 8617s | there it is |
| 8619s | okay it's not gonna kill these collectos |
| 8622s | though which is massive reset |
| 8627s | see I wanted to use the bass skills as |
| 8629s | reflex uh resets on the deflector |
| 8631s | because they would still summon Max in |
| 8633s | that spot but yeah the fact that the |
| 8634s | Boombox didn't end up killing the |
| 8636s | deflectos which is not something that I |
| 8638s | noted it's actually going to be a huge |
| 8640s | problem here it's pretty big as well |
| 8642s | only one Divine Shield |
| 8644s | out the Fallen |
| 8648s | oh gets the reset oil hits it in the bad |
| 8651s | order |
| 8653s | it's at least a draw it's a tie again |
| 8655s | again |
| 8659s | oh I'll take it I thought I bet you will |
| 8663s | I bet you will when the when the Boombox |
| 8666s | did not kill the deflectos I thought oh |
| 8668s | I've made a huge mistake here like and |
| 8671s | got away with it |
| 8673s | if it wasn't for those pesky base skills |
| 8684s | oh we have not seen impressive sixes |
| 8687s | have we so far today not really no and |
| 8690s | no that is kind of a theme honestly like |
| 8692s | there are a lot of lobbies where six |
| 8693s | drops kinda suck |
| 8695s | um and people will just be tripling into |
| 8697s | fives |
| 8698s | um be it for Mama bears or brands or |
| 8701s | magma locks or dracary enchanters like |
| 8704s | there's lots of win condition cards on |
| 8706s | five that can with the right setup |
| 8708s | outscale six drops a lot of the time |
| 8717s | yeah turn 11 and no one's like a god in |
| 8719s | this Lobby yeah which is a little bit |
| 8721s | surprising |
| 8723s | oh yeah it's sorry I just thought Tim |
| 8725s | took a uh as well yeah and again like |
| 8729s | you know tomb is playing very Tempo |
| 8731s | heavy right So eventually that will run |
| 8733s | out into steam with the kind of wow okay |
| 8735s | golden uh golden squirrel bomb though |
| 8737s | it's kind of cool |
| 8739s | foreign |
| 8743s | bomb do it twice for each Mech that dies |
| 8746s | or is it back up to four damage I know |
| 8748s | those are functionally very similar but |
| 8750s | they are a little bit different yeah uh |
| 8751s | RBS I'm not 100 sure |
| 8754s | bloody correspondent |
| 8767s | okay where's the Divine Shield gonna |
| 8768s | land on the taunt okay |
| 8772s | so it does get the reset really not a |
| 8774s | great deal of Mex dying in this |
| 8776s | situation though in comparison to what |
| 8778s | we were seeing before like he's he's |
| 8780s | canceled out a lot of the tokens uh for |
| 8783s | more straight up stats and a lot of |
| 8784s | spots so |
| 8786s | yeah it definitely feels like tomb's on |
| 8787s | like a transition point right with the |
| 8790s | comp because there is just that Battle |
| 8792s | Master there for some beefy stats oh |
| 8795s | my turn |
| 8797s | is it raw fifth |
| 8800s | wait |
| 8802s | oh |
| 8807s | oh we will await confirmation yeah oh |
| 8810s | it's four there you go |
| 8815s | oh no it was always full damage okay |
| 8817s | yeah I wasn't looking I'm just trying to |
| 8820s | see if anyone else dies |
| 8823s | oh rough day for Matsuri in the end |
| 8829s | I think it's worse for me honestly |
| 8831s | um |
| 8835s | another girl's kicking out the absolute |
| 8838s | ton of stats here for sharosa |
| 8842s | very nice uh for jaraxis as well scaling |
| 8845s | off the boogie monster for essentially |
| 8847s | the cost of one gold if you do want to |
| 8848s | end up selling back the uh the magnetic |
| 8850s | minion as well very nice |
| 8853s | Boogie the second |
| 8855s | this is where we are huh we're freezing |
| 8857s | for a second boogie monster okay |
| 8864s | also still only on turn 12. |
| 8870s | again yeah another question about the it |
| 8873s | was 18 18 turns yeah and I think |
| 8876s | honestly if uh if you want to do do you |
| 8878s | want to take some Solace Raven I think |
| 8879s | with the way this meta has played out |
| 8881s | and again The Meta for Group B might be |
| 8882s | entirely different but they do tend to |
| 8884s | be correlated with each other uh to some |
| 8886s | extent uh it looks like you might have |
| 8888s | me on that one because there has not |
| 8889s | been as much hardcore Tavern 4 Tempo |
| 8892s | gaming like honestly this is the closest |
| 8894s | Lobby to the kind of thing I was talking |
| 8896s | about might be possible Right Where |
| 8899s | we've uh we've just seen a lot of people |
| 8900s | just playing very Tempo heavy mechs and |
| 8902s | staying a little bit longer that's it |
| 8904s | that's because everyone's going Max |
| 8905s | right and they have like The Godfather |
| 8907s | drop so yep |
| 8912s | even then this would have to go for a |
| 8915s | very very long time from here to reach |
| 8917s | that 18. yeah |
| 8919s | and with basically what two and a half |
| 8921s | kind of players on one kill shot |
| 8923s | opportunities here 14 and four |
| 8933s | what is gonna kill the Radio Star is the |
| 8935s | big question though I mean the answer is |
| 8937s | video obviously but aside from that |
| 8939s | obviously |
| 8946s | okay |
| 8950s | it's good it was going to get for |
| 8951s | Waterloo right |
| 8957s | yeah I think at this point uh Waterloo |
| 8960s | oh sorry um Shiro is kind of stuck in |
| 8963s | his own little world which is boogie |
| 8964s | monster scaling right I think he's past |
| 8966s | the point where because you can kind of |
| 8968s | get that test slash scabs effect where |
| 8970s | if everyone in the lobby is playing the |
| 8972s | same thing and you're playing radio |
| 8973s | stars then you can kind of just uh pick |
| 8975s | up the best of of everyone's comp and |
| 8977s | play it against them but I think he's |
| 8979s | just occupied in stat scaling at this |
| 8980s | point and yep there goes Tom so Etc not |
| 8982s | still not winning a game at this point |
| 8987s | um and again my impression of Tomb like |
| 8988s | you played very well has achieved the |
| 8991s | goal right has appeared in lobbies has |
| 8993s | picked up points but one of the most |
| 8996s | Tempo focused players that I have seen |
| 8998s | in a long time again just based off of |
| 8999s | an impression from a three-game sample |
| 9001s | size which might end up being entirely |
| 9003s | misleading but uh well played very very |
| 9005s | good performance from two mobile and |
| 9007s | also like like I said at the start of |
| 9008s | the show right like this is the first |
| 9010s | like major Tournament of the year so |
| 9013s | it's like Tempo could be absolutely |
| 9015s | correct but for the like this style of |
| 9018s | tournament format |
| 9019s | what's that okay |
| 9021s | third Boogie yeah okay so scales the |
| 9025s | first scale this is why second Boogie |
| 9027s | sometimes a little bit weird you've got |
| 9029s | one buggy that's already on player |
| 9030s | Tavern 6 minion and then you buy a |
| 9032s | second Boogie and you have to scale that |
| 9034s | one back up from Tavern right until it |
| 9036s | synchronizes with the second one and now |
| 9039s | he's just done that and has played this |
| 9041s | boogie and now this book golden Boogie |
| 9043s | is reset back to tap and one again it's |
| 9046s | a very awkward card overall let's just |
| 9048s | say |
| 9053s | okay |
| 9054s | fell back out play the one drop for some |
| 9057s | Mega scaling play the two drops this has |
| 9060s | gone pretty well actually nice |
| 9062s | legitimately one of the best Boogie |
| 9064s | games I've ever seen because at my MMR |
| 9067s | people cannot do this |
| 9072s | okay |
| 9074s | whoa that sucked a lot I did yeah |
| 9078s | yeah this is significantly one of the |
| 9080s | best Boogie fights I've seen in recent |
| 9082s | memory yeah oh a little Leroy out there |
| 9084s | though |
| 9090s | Bad Leroy trade as well it's going |
| 9092s | really well for shirose yep just |
| 9094s | infinite stats still |
| 9098s | easily has this covered still has a |
| 9100s | venomous available as well potentially |
| 9102s | which now will get Great Value the best |
| 9104s | value in fact yeah |
| 9106s | and that is going to be 18 damage and |
| 9109s | that is going to be a dead zirella and |
| 9111s | that is going to be top two |
| 9113s | yeah not too bad at all |
| 9116s | Waterloo now again just a quick we will |
| 9119s | go into obviously the standings after |
| 9121s | the game Waterloo was seventh place |
| 9124s | going into game three and he's now you |
| 9128s | know getting at least top two |
| 9131s | very very good absolutely huge |
| 9136s | and that's why I think the formats are |
| 9137s | really crazy because the uh you you do |
| 9140s | have that opportunity to actually just |
| 9143s | fight back even if you've had a rough |
| 9146s | couple of games |
| 9156s | probably worth taking the module at this |
| 9158s | point yeah especially being able to |
| 9160s | Juice It Up with the Uther |
| 9162s | like the game is pretty much over at |
| 9164s | this point so you might as well just |
| 9166s | give everything Divine shield for raw |
| 9168s | power even though it can potentially |
| 9169s | ruin a lot of your scaling with the |
| 9171s | magnetics |
| 9174s | here you see one of the great new |
| 9176s | additions for the uh so good for Mech |
| 9179s | strategy which uh we kind of mentioned |
| 9182s | previously but kind of glossed over a |
| 9183s | little bit the ability to play magnetics |
| 9185s | with a full board is a massive massive |
| 9187s | Improvement |
| 9191s | still looks bizarre when it zooms out |
| 9193s | like that I don't think mini minions |
| 9199s | instantly pumps a second deflector as |
| 9201s | well very nicely done |
| 9204s | this is about as good as it's going to |
| 9205s | get for water |
| 9206s | yep we'll take a couple of fights though |
| 9209s | and does have to consider yeah he's |
| 9211s | already doing it has to consider tunnel |
| 9213s | Blaster right like that's the big |
| 9214s | counter card he's gonna get hit by and |
| 9217s | knows it's there so he's putting a |
| 9219s | minion with a replicating menace up |
| 9221s | front just to make sure that he gets a |
| 9223s | good trade and a good reset right before |
| 9226s | these deflectos attack really really |
| 9228s | nicely though and also now as well |
| 9230s | there's the knowledge of the Boombox |
| 9231s | right too because that will place some |
| 9233s | level of uh of information |
| 9236s | actually get some scaling value there as |
| 9237s | well before the uh the scrap scraper |
| 9239s | dies this fight's going quite nicely |
| 9241s | right now for Waterloo |
| 9244s | double reset as well off the kangars |
| 9247s | because there was a dumb hit into the |
| 9249s | Divine Shield nothing playing |
| 9251s | Battlegrounds makes you more annoyed at |
| 9253s | how stupid your minions are than when |
| 9254s | they just keep smashing into deflecto |
| 9256s | Divine Shields over and over again just |
| 9258s | like that oh yeah attack the one that |
| 9261s | you leave at one HP great plan yeah love |
| 9263s | it thank you thank you very much |
| 9266s | yeah as you said that this will take a |
| 9267s | while because although waterloo's |
| 9269s | looking feel fairly strong it's just uh |
| 9272s | not going to be tons of damage right the |
| 9274s | deflectos you're likely to be alive |
| 9276s | obviously there's a couple of six drops |
| 9278s | on board but both taunted up so unlikely |
| 9281s | to live to see another day |
| 9284s | big fan of that you can get uh you |
| 9287s | currently have a deflector without a |
| 9288s | menace on it I think number one priority |
| 9290s | is yeah two deflectos two menaces then |
| 9293s | they always reset each other more or |
| 9295s | less right which is a huge buff to have |
| 9299s | and that's the thing as well when you |
| 9300s | think about from this point of view here |
| 9302s | uh what else are you going to spend that |
| 9305s | money on right if there's a medicine |
| 9307s | just says staring straight at you yeah |
| 9312s | is there anything that could replace |
| 9313s | this kind goals or do you think it's |
| 9315s | just a great reset right now for |
| 9317s | Waterloo it's very very very good |
| 9321s | particularly because you a hundred |
| 9323s | percent know you're facing tunnel |
| 9325s | Blaster it's not just a tech tunnel |
| 9327s | Blaster that your opponent has it's a |
| 9329s | it's a mandatory part of the board |
| 9331s | because it's also huge so it's staying |
| 9333s | there |
| 9334s | um so because you will have to put your |
| 9335s | minions up front to try and get the |
| 9337s | guaranteed resets on the deflectos first |
| 9339s | you just really want to have that nice |
| 9341s | chain of uh of an extra reset coming |
| 9344s | through on the other side as well |
| 9347s | yeah this looks pretty good |
| 9350s | it's a big benefit of this sort of late |
| 9352s | game with Max you've always got the |
| 9354s | choice to just keep going bigger because |
| 9356s | of that new magnetized style right where |
| 9358s | you can just stick more and more on and |
| 9360s | you know you don't have to think right |
| 9361s | if I sell this what do I end on because |
| 9363s | that's normally the tough part exactly |
| 9365s | even turn in the late game what am I |
| 9366s | what am I able to actually end the turn |
| 9368s | with whereas this is like I'll just keep |
| 9370s | stacking mix it's great |
| 9372s | exactly before the minion remix you'd be |
| 9374s | playing that turn right and you'd be |
| 9375s | like okay I have to sell the candles |
| 9378s | because it's the only thing I can sell |
| 9379s | and I need to play more magnetics and |
| 9381s | that just already feels bad so I think |
| 9383s | it's a it's a wonderful change to have |
| 9385s | made |
| 9389s | I was going to say we left Waterloo with |
| 9392s | only one bumper up front before the |
| 9395s | deflectos but it looks like he has |
| 9396s | switched back and I am in favor of that |
| 9398s | because there are weird situations where |
| 9401s | just having your deflecto attacking |
| 9403s | second |
| 9405s | something might not have already died |
| 9413s | looks like there might just be a little |
| 9414s | too much this time around though |
| 9416s | I mean it's the reset doesn't survive |
| 9419s | the trade though on the other side which |
| 9420s | means I think Waterloo is going to be |
| 9422s | cooked we were slowly creeping towards |
| 9426s | 18 turns here as well by the way with |
| 9429s | the small hits coming through from |
| 9431s | Waterloo if he was going to end up |
| 9432s | winning this one but looks like on turn |
| 9434s | 15 Shiro is gonna take down the final |
| 9438s | game of Lobby a very very nicely done |
| 9441s | super mech-centric Lobby and actually in |
| 9446s | the end |
| 9447s | rawstat beat mix which is not something |
| 9450s | that normally happens |
| 9451s | normally normally Max very strong at |
| 9453s | eating raw stats especially with the |
| 9455s | pile of stats you can dump on with |
| 9456s | Magnetic now because you have a bunch of |
| 9459s | attack plus Divine Shield which tends to |
| 9461s | beat raw stats because all your stuff |
| 9463s | doubles up essentially right with the |
| 9464s | power of the Divine Shield but in the |
| 9466s | end just what four Boogie monsters |
| 9468s | actually ended up getting over the line |
| 9470s | there in terms of raw stats we're |
| 9471s | alongside I'm glad that that was one of |
| 9474s | the questions because I would have not |
| 9475s | assumed Boogie would have won a game |
| 9476s | yeah but here we go at tomb actually |
| 9478s | ending at the top with that extra four |
| 9481s | points for that yeah really nice team |
| 9482s | three yeah really well played I beat |
| 9484s | about it as we said pretty much locked |
| 9486s | in with that 14 points as well even |
| 9489s | though it did not have the best their |
| 9490s | third game as shirosa again with the |
| 9492s | Finish looking great and then uh penguin |
| 9494s | Sun as well so yeah look at that top |
| 9497s | four Soul there the four that are gonna |
| 9498s | go through yeah uh Penguins on two of my |
| 9502s | picks at the start of the day delighted |
| 9504s | to see those going through |
| 9505s | um I will try not to gloat too much |
| 9507s | because it's I feel like I've just |
| 9508s | already lost and we've got one whole |
| 9510s | group left oh there's no long wait it's |
| 9512s | a game of two halves Raymond we're all |
| 9514s | right you've got plenty of time hey a |
| 9516s | very unfortunate position for Matsuri |
| 9518s | again realizing now that you know |
| 9520s | putting a prediction question on a |
| 9521s | player having a really miserable day is |
| 9523s | probably not in the greatest taste |
| 9525s | overall uh but still Matsuri finishing |
| 9527s | with three and a half points does mean |
| 9528s | that anyone that picked no on the four |
| 9531s | points or sorry yes on the four points |
| 9532s | or less puzzle box question has been |
| 9534s | paid out as well so lots of very |
| 9536s | impactful things there overall but for |
| 9537s | the most part top four players going |
| 9539s | through to tomorrow that's the headline |
| 9540s | yep and that was just the first Lobby of |
| 9542s | two of the day so we're gonna get the |
| 9544s | second Lobby of players ready to go but |
| 9546s | while we do that we actually go to a |
| 9548s | quick break while we set them up and get |
| 9549s | them ready to play some more Hearthstone |
| 9551s | Battlegrounds don't go anywhere we'll be |
| 9553s | right back |
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| 10196s | and welcome back to Lobby Legends spring |
| 10200s | Championship uh we are here ready to get |
| 10202s | on with Group B and I'm ready for this |
| 10205s | one Sol because that first group was |
| 10207s | pretty exciting we saw a lot of |
| 10208s | different different strategies play out |
| 10209s | we saw a lot of different types of uh |
| 10211s | you know minion type lobbies uh builds |
| 10213s | in there as well and I'm excited to see |
| 10215s | what the second group here brings to the |
| 10217s | table |
| 10218s | three very different games in lobby a |
| 10222s | which leads us in a bit of an unknown uh |
| 10224s | quantity because as I said quite often a |
| 10228s | lot uh Battlegrounds tournaments kind of |
| 10229s | dictate their own meta and they kind of |
| 10231s | React to what they see early on players |
| 10234s | who play later React to what happened |
| 10235s | earlier day two kind of reacts to day |
| 10237s | one uh but what we saw from Lobby a |
| 10239s | there was |
| 10241s | um super heavy stat scaling comps |
| 10242s | dominating in game one Beast dominating |
| 10245s | in game two and then Mex dominating in |
| 10247s | game three so there's really very little |
| 10249s | to go on in terms of whether there's an |
| 10251s | optimal order strategy coming out so far |
| 10254s | in this tournament so Lobby B just kind |
| 10256s | of have to figure things out for |
| 10258s | themselves at this point |
| 10260s | yep let's take a look at the players |
| 10261s | that are going to be competing uh in |
| 10263s | this group of course we're not really |
| 10264s | talked about too much how to focus on |
| 10266s | group a earlier on today uh of course |
| 10268s | and uh we do have some news for that one |
| 10270s | as well uh xqn will not be playing today |
| 10273s | and it has been replaced with Sauron I |
| 10275s | believe as well so they're going to be |
| 10277s | playing instead so of course we know the |
| 10278s | graphics have a xqn on them yeah but |
| 10280s | it's going to be Sauron who is going to |
| 10282s | be playing that one out so uh regardless |
| 10285s | of that subtle are there any names in |
| 10287s | this group that are really sticking out |
| 10288s | for you we can talk about the fancy |
| 10289s | picks in a little bit but any sort of |
| 10291s | just key names overall yeah um again you |
| 10295s | have to give the nod to Japan the kind |
| 10297s | of thing Hearthstone nod to Japan at |
| 10299s | this point again four Japanese players |
| 10302s | in this group uh Alex JP satellite |
| 10304s | tessera and yanase |
| 10307s | former Lobby Legends winner making a |
| 10310s | third appearance now in the tournament |
| 10312s | uh which is very very big deal as well |
| 10314s | but for me uh wty bill or uh or witty |
| 10317s | bill was I like to refer to him I |
| 10319s | believe Lobby Legends debut for uh Paul |
| 10321s | witty bill but a player that I'm always |
| 10323s | a big fan of uh whenever I'm in the same |
| 10325s | lobby with Bill just always seems to be |
| 10327s | absolutely crushing it I believe every |
| 10330s | time I've I've got to watch him all cast |
| 10332s | him in a tournament I've been very |
| 10334s | impressed with the decisions made and |
| 10335s | the way that uh he's playing the game so |
| 10337s | uh yeah big big favorite for me yeah I |
| 10339s | was going to say important not |
| 10340s | Battleground tournaments either we're |
| 10342s | talking about right uh what about |
| 10344s | Standard time it's a name we know quite |
| 10346s | well from there so a lot of great |
| 10348s | players and I do again kind of I'm |
| 10350s | completely with you I just think Japan |
| 10351s | uh is so strong I did think we saw some |
| 10356s | you know a little bit different a little |
| 10357s | bit unfortunate um at Syrian team we |
| 10359s | didn't make it through uh but we'll take |
| 10361s | a look at the uh the picks now for the |
| 10363s | um uh for the fancy draft so I'm scared |
| 10366s | after what just happened so |
| 10369s | I'm a little bit scared because the |
| 10371s | first group did not go well for me but I |
| 10373s | have confidence in my squad for groupie |
| 10380s | your picks are fairly solid I would say |
| 10383s | overall uh my picks unfortunately yet |
| 10386s | again are being displayed incorrectly uh |
| 10388s | I did not pick olliek |
| 10391s | so hopefully we can get that fixed as |
| 10393s | well and we can talk a little bit about |
| 10395s | who I did pick I actually need to remind |
| 10396s | myself of who I've been I was gonna say |
| 10398s | who did you pick yeah so I've got wty |
| 10401s | Bill uh tessera and satellite as my free |
| 10404s | picks for this group so I agree with you |
| 10406s | on satellite obviously as I you heard me |
| 10409s | talk about Bill there was probably a |
| 10410s | pretty good chance that bill was going |
| 10411s | to be on my picks overall |
| 10413s | um so yeah I think we differ fairly |
| 10416s | significantly this time around right |
| 10417s | both agreeing on satellite but apart |
| 10419s | from that I think big opportunity for |
| 10422s | you to uh pick up some much needed |
| 10424s | points in this one with how different we |
| 10425s | are yeah and there's a little bit of |
| 10428s | just a recap on the puzzle box questions |
| 10430s | of course we've still not had a game won |
| 10431s | by an Etc uh a player is not one without |
| 10434s | reaching Tavern five I believe |
| 10437s | uh we'll not go talk about next one uh |
| 10440s | we have not reached their turn 11 |
| 10442s | without an elimination yet as far as I'm |
| 10444s | aware we've not done 18 turns and uh |
| 10446s | subtle is or we both got points for that |
| 10449s | one right because you've got one wrong I |
| 10451s | got one wrong yeah so I think that one's |
| 10452s | already done less than four points is |
| 10454s | already done with the correct answer |
| 10455s | being yes uh all the others still up in |
| 10458s | the air going into Lobby B yeah I feel |
| 10461s | like I should get bonus points for group |
| 10462s | a though because I actually didn't get a |
| 10464s | virus pressing wrong at all |
| 10471s | it was like one of those shows where you |
| 10473s | just make up the points as you go along |
| 10475s | so I'm pretty sure I'm on 8 million |
| 10477s | points right now sure that's how it |
| 10478s | works yeah sure but yeah just make sure |
| 10480s | to you know keep an eye on some of these |
| 10482s | outcomes especially if you've uh you |
| 10484s | know done some guesses yourself there's |
| 10486s | a lot on the line for air for everyone |
| 10488s | here mainly bragging rights but that's |
| 10490s | all we really have isn't it let's be |
| 10491s | honest so yeah really excited for this |
| 10494s | group honestly |
| 10495s | um I just want to see more Lobby Legends |
| 10498s | I just want to see more Battlegrounds |
| 10499s | because we've just had some really in |
| 10501s | interesting at first few games and like |
| 10504s | you said earlier I think it's cool to |
| 10506s | see if players will play like wildly |
| 10509s | differently or if we will see more of a |
| 10511s | okay this seems to be the competitive |
| 10514s | meta right if there's mechs in you know |
| 10516s | the Lobby's probably going to try and at |
| 10518s | least lean that way and obviously the |
| 10520s | bananas are always up for contention as |
| 10523s | well but then we saw something like |
| 10525s | obviously Boogie just win which was |
| 10527s | honestly just not something I thought I |
| 10529s | was even gonna come close to seeing this |
| 10531s | weekend Raven do you ever stop and |
| 10533s | reflect that like the actual thing that |
| 10535s | you do for a living involves saying |
| 10537s | things like well the bananas are still |
| 10539s | up for grabs and sometimes Boogie just |
| 10541s | wins like what are those words when you |
| 10543s | actually sit back and think about it |
| 10545s | there have been moments in my casting |
| 10547s | life where I've said a sentence and just |
| 10549s | think wow I just said that and it was |
| 10552s | relevant and made sense to some people |
| 10554s | it was what a weird world we live in |
| 10556s | right now |
| 10557s | um but yeah I think about things like |
| 10558s | that all the time because a lot of the |
| 10560s | time I think that I say stupid things |
| 10562s | and they are just stupid because that's |
| 10563s | also what I do quite well |
| 10565s | um but we are taking a look at some of |
| 10566s | the minions of already so had a large |
| 10569s | impact in the games we've seen scrap |
| 10572s | scraper I would argue is at the highest |
| 10573s | just because nearly everyone went for it |
| 10575s | that last game but we saw tethers pop |
| 10578s | off earlier on and then relax had a been |
| 10580s | involved to at least some degree yeah we |
| 10582s | do this is perfect right because this |
| 10583s | was game one game two game three uh |
| 10585s | Admiral won game one with the monster |
| 10588s | pirate stats rylack won game two because |
| 10591s | of uh tomb with the massive scaling with |
| 10594s | Shadow walk and going and then |
| 10595s | transitioning very quickly yeah to |
| 10596s | beasts right and then scraps oh no scrap |
| 10598s | scraper didn't win I guess because it |
| 10600s | ended up |
| 10601s | but it was very popular but yeah it was |
| 10604s | it the dominant strategy in game three |
| 10606s | overall so yeah we're pretty good at |
| 10609s | this Obama gives Obama medal I think |
| 10611s | overall on those choices for cars I want |
| 10614s | them yeah but we do see uh again I just |
| 10617s | want to see pigs that's what I'm after |
| 10619s | in these next three games uh because I |
| 10622s | do think they have some really cool |
| 10623s | mechanics and they can really snowball |
| 10625s | if you get you know I you know plus |
| 10627s | Health Plus attack and start stacking |
| 10628s | them you know one way or the other |
| 10630s | whether it's through a rylack or say a |
| 10632s | rivendare or something I do think the |
| 10635s | options there especially if we're gonna |
| 10637s | see players say well if you just you |
| 10640s | know hit the the sort of stacking blood |
| 10642s | gems then you can actually push people |
| 10644s | out really early because the actual |
| 10645s | stats you gain especially with a couple |
| 10647s | of divine Shields there as well can get |
| 10649s | really silly very quick right so there's |
| 10652s | a way that maybe it might not win a game |
| 10654s | but it could definitely push a lot of |
| 10656s | players out and maybe secure a top four |
| 10658s | yeah I think RDU threw a little bit of a |
| 10661s | pig among the pigeons a couple of days |
| 10663s | ago he kind of he posted a soft tier |
| 10665s | list on Twitter after all of the minion |
| 10667s | rollout |
| 10669s | um and actually put I think it was |
| 10670s | Elementals and quill ball as S2 in his |
| 10672s | tier list which I think took a lot of |
| 10674s | people by surprise |
| 10675s | um without you arguing that you know a |
| 10677s | lot of the stuff that you can do um some |
| 10679s | of the sort of Tavern for Tempo |
| 10681s | strategies that I was talking about |
| 10682s | earlier just make them really really |
| 10684s | consistent for plus MMR and they might |
| 10686s | not necessarily be winning lobbies but |
| 10688s | you can just get very few pieces and all |
| 10690s | of a sudden feel very very strong as |
| 10692s | either of those builds uh there is a |
| 10694s | strong amount of disagreement and some |
| 10696s | pushback that I've heard for that as |
| 10697s | well with a lot of people that think |
| 10698s | Elementals and quail Bora are two of the |
| 10700s | the weaker uh tribes overall but that's |
| 10704s | kind of the disagreement that comes with |
| 10705s | Battlegrounds right like I think in |
| 10707s | terms of player style you'll hear this |
| 10710s | is an eternal debate as old as time |
| 10711s | going back to constructed Hearthstone |
| 10713s | right is does style matter or is there a |
| 10716s | right play in a wrong play and I think |
| 10718s | that question is much more nebulous in |
| 10720s | Battlegrounds because right |
| 10722s | um the amount of options that are |
| 10723s | available in terms of you know I can buy |
| 10725s | this Minion or I can buy that many or I |
| 10727s | can level or I can roll and it's not 1v1 |
| 10729s | and it's not 1v1 |
| 10731s | so I think players will have more |
| 10733s | definable Styles when it comes to |
| 10734s | Battlegrounds than they necessarily do |
| 10735s | in constructed and that's where a |
| 10737s | preference over things like you know |
| 10738s | hyper roll hyper economy comps that come |
| 10741s | from Pirates or whatever over some sort |
| 10742s | of tempo thing on four will will make a |
| 10745s | big difference indeed but yeah certainly |
| 10746s | I think kobal have some tricks that they |
| 10750s | can do and they can certainly Tempo very |
| 10752s | very heavily not something that I've had |
| 10753s | a huge amount of success with personally |
| 10755s | but again my style is the greedy and go |
| 10757s | for economy in general so I will |
| 10759s | importantly missing some of those lines |
| 10762s | overall when we were playing the other |
| 10763s | day so our blood gems did at least plus |
| 10765s | 15 attack okay that happened oh that's |
| 10768s | true which is a victory in itself I will |
| 10771s | say as well this of course will again |
| 10773s | something I really enjoy about Lobby |
| 10775s | Legends is it will change a little bit |
| 10777s | over time because today players are |
| 10779s | fighting to get top four to finish top |
| 10782s | four after three games right tomorrow |
| 10784s | that changes because to actually win the |
| 10786s | tournament you need to win one of the |
| 10789s | games a little bit later on so that is |
| 10792s | where things like for example quill |
| 10793s | balls might well fall off because if we |
| 10795s | have a player playing to win the game |
| 10797s | and win the tournament they probably |
| 10799s | won't be going or planning to go quail |
| 10802s | bars yeah and there's also a middle |
| 10804s | ground in that where you might be at 17 |
| 10806s | points 18 points or something so you |
| 10809s | need to achieve step one first which is |
| 10810s | reach 20 points and if you're suddenly |
| 10812s | going into a Lobby and you only need to |
| 10813s | pick up two or three points to get over |
| 10815s | that line suddenly some sort of Tavern 4 |
| 10818s | gaming strategy does make a little bit |
| 10820s | more sense to try and just you know play |
| 10822s | mix play cool board play Elementals |
| 10824s | whatever it is just try and stabilize |
| 10825s | for as long as possible let other people |
| 10827s | die around you pick up that couple of |
| 10829s | points that you need to put the lobby |
| 10831s | into check and then you can switch to a |
| 10833s | greedy hero go super economy go for the |
| 10835s | win in the next game if you really do |
| 10836s | have to be a little bit adaptable and |
| 10839s | it's another reason why I do kind of |
| 10840s | like the format and like the system |
| 10841s | because it's rare that if you're a very |
| 10844s | Tempo focused player if you're a player |
| 10846s | that just finishes in third place every |
| 10848s | single Lobby and climbs MMR very very |
| 10850s | easily because of it you will at some |
| 10852s | point have to adapt to to find a way to |
| 10855s | to play greedier and find that win over |
| 10857s | the line and vice versa if you're a |
| 10859s | super high rolly player always looking |
| 10861s | to spike win conditions you will have to |
| 10863s | look for those moments where your point |
| 10865s | total dictates that you just play a |
| 10867s | little bit safer and scrape out of |
| 10868s | fourth place um the argument you can |
| 10870s | present against that is that there is |
| 10872s | still like an average MMR play right and |
| 10874s | you should always just go for the |
| 10875s | highest average MMR play overall and the |
| 10878s | situation doesn't necessarily change |
| 10880s | that as much as you think it does and |
| 10882s | that's probably where the player Style |
| 10884s | versus optimal play argument then comes |
| 10887s | back into town Marching In on its horse |
| 10889s | but yeah I think it's an interesting |
| 10891s | discussion to have overall so here we |
| 10893s | are yeah and uh just so you guys know we |
| 10895s | are trying to you know just working on |
| 10896s | getting the players already and good to |
| 10898s | go I want them to be smooth for them as |
| 10900s | possible of course but yeah I'm just |
| 10902s | looking forward to this one I think it's |
| 10903s | going to be a good one I hope we get to |
| 10904s | see and maybe some more mechs because |
| 10906s | although we've seen a lot of mechs |
| 10909s | previously |
| 10910s | um we haven't seen them go I would say |
| 10913s | we've not seen them really pop off right |
| 10915s | because I've seen you know some Mech |
| 10916s | boards that really just the stats get |
| 10920s | very very silly if you can start doing |
| 10922s | the multi magnetize things so there's |
| 10924s | definitely that uh what do you talk to |
| 10926s | me about Undead because that's something |
| 10928s | that we've talked about I think |
| 10930s | everyone's thought about but I would say |
| 10931s | like |
| 10932s | someone dead minions are good of course |
| 10934s | but what is the what's the problem like |
| 10937s | can anyone do anything with Undead or do |
| 10940s | you think everyone will be avoiding it |
| 10941s | like the plague |
| 10943s | um very good Undead play big fan |
| 10946s | um however uh so there's a couple of |
| 10948s | problems right |
| 10950s | he's massively on like your Undead |
| 10953s | attack horror generally with most builds |
| 10956s | of it right you have lots of tokens lots |
| 10957s | of re-summons so your goal is to get |
| 10959s | that aura of how much attack your |
| 10961s | summons have as high as possible there |
| 10963s | are a few ways that you can do that |
| 10965s | rylack is one of them there you go |
| 10967s | Center Square of the bingo card subtle |
| 10969s | mentions rylack again |
| 10971s | um however you know you might have plus |
| 10974s | 30 on your Undead attack Aura your |
| 10977s | opponent's gonna have 300 300 dragons or |
| 10979s | 300 300 pirates on the other side right |
| 10981s | so you're still going to need an |
| 10982s | incredible amount of resumes to be able |
| 10984s | to fight that then on the other side |
| 10986s | even if you're dealing with summon comps |
| 10988s | right like say dragons are out Pirates |
| 10989s | are out like the stack King builds are |
| 10991s | out well you're then probably in an |
| 10993s | undead Beast Lobby and then beasts are |
| 10996s | better at doing summon comps than on |
| 10998s | dead up because you can get your Undead |
| 11001s | attack or as high as you can but the sum |
| 11003s | the Beast builds are going to have |
| 11005s | reborn on everything anyway they're |
| 11006s | going to have a rat pack that refills |
| 11008s | their entire board they're going to be |
| 11009s | base killing stuff out of their hands |
| 11010s | going to be getting massive so just in |
| 11012s | terms of like individual attacks you're |
| 11014s | going to lose a straight up fight to |
| 11015s | Beast as well so it's really hard to |
| 11018s | find a niche where being pure Undead is |
| 11021s | the way to go |
| 11022s | the one usefulness I think Undead do |
| 11025s | have though which is really really good |
| 11026s | is the same way as I was talking about |
| 11027s | quill ball they can Splash really nicely |
| 11030s | into other builds so for example the |
| 11032s | five drop which gives another undead |
| 11034s | reborn you can have that on your board |
| 11036s | alongside a radio star and then you have |
| 11038s | a nice economy boost for your board |
| 11040s | right your radio star gets reborn it |
| 11042s | attacks if your opponent has a taunt you |
| 11044s | probably get like a pair of that taunt |
| 11046s | that you're going from which is really |
| 11047s | really nice and then also the venomous |
| 11050s | murloc is actually hybrid murloc Undead |
| 11052s | as well so you can actually do that same |
| 11053s | thing with the five drop give the undead |
| 11055s | murloc rebuild right and then suddenly |
| 11057s | you're working on a little bit of an old |
| 11059s | school poison scam kind of situation |
| 11061s | which you can Splash into a different |
| 11062s | board as well |
| 11064s | um so overall I think Undead more of a |
| 11066s | support class than it is a straight up |
| 11067s | thing that you you lean into but talking |
| 11069s | time is over Raven it is time for some |
| 11072s | action we have some Battlegrounds in |
| 11073s | front of us |
| 11074s | at 100 it's gonna be game one of Lobby |
| 11077s | be here and already some Heroes we've |
| 11080s | not had a good look at so far and I |
| 11083s | think that's the thing you kind of have |
| 11084s | forget about is just how many heroes are |
| 11086s | actually in Battlegrounds right now and |
| 11088s | we've seen Lich King we've seen Reno |
| 11090s | we've seen the Sky Captain uh pyramid as |
| 11093s | well uh there's a lot even AFK which I |
| 11096s | think AFK at least when I've played |
| 11099s | against it so it feels quite strong in |
| 11101s | this current meta |
| 11104s | yes AFK this this is the setup for AFK I |
| 11108s | would say |
| 11109s | um Peace in demons in |
| 11111s | beast in means monster rylack right |
| 11114s | that's just the absolute juice straight |
| 11116s | away demons in means you can hit dancing |
| 11118s | malkazar straight away as well which is |
| 11120s | the absolute nuts in terms of being able |
| 11122s | to get stuff going with those three |
| 11123s | rolls early on so lots of good stuff |
| 11126s | that are available to the AFK I think |
| 11128s | that will be a crucial decision uh you |
| 11131s | might want to consider holding on to |
| 11132s | those bandwagon picks as well until you |
| 11134s | see what afk's that's a good point I'll |
| 11136s | be honest I have forgot about bandwagon |
| 11138s | already because I'm just like staying at |
| 11140s | all the heroes like oh okay who's who's |
| 11141s | playing what we do have mutinous as well |
| 11145s | in the lobby for Sauron and I know you |
| 11147s | recently had a very fun Mew to this game |
| 11149s | uh so we'll see if anything uh any kind |
| 11151s | of uh you know big plays come out of |
| 11153s | sauron's side of the board over there |
| 11155s | yeah no murlocs in this Lobby though |
| 11157s | which was oh sure the game that Raven |
| 11160s | was referring to if murlocs are in you |
| 11162s | can just do the handbuff stuff with |
| 11163s | mutinous very very easily and just you |
| 11165s | know dump that minion onto your board |
| 11167s | hero power it keep sticking it on one or |
| 11169s | two individual minions you have on board |
| 11170s | over and over again pick some premium |
| 11172s | stuff make big Cleaves make big Divine |
| 11174s | Shields Etc really really good stuff but |
| 11177s | not something that's available in this |
| 11178s | Lobby |
| 11191s | y'all doing great out there |
| 11194s | [Music] |
| 11196s | both of us just go a little quiet as we |
| 11198s | got our bandwagon picks in at the same |
| 11200s | oh we did the same oh we did do the |
| 11202s | Savers I picked it first I was saying |
| 11205s | you see Lee take a nice early little |
| 11207s | swipe at Reno there |
| 11210s | just gonna start there working on that |
| 11212s | armor but here we go this is where |
| 11214s | things might disaster |
| 11218s | things might change okay Legion overseer |
| 11221s | is in that demon pool as well of good |
| 11223s | three drops to be able to hit as I was |
| 11224s | mentioning earlier demons really really |
| 11226s | good choice to have available not a |
| 11228s | powerful minion type overall I would say |
| 11230s | but in terms of just spiking stuff |
| 11231s | immediately on turn three |
| 11234s | okay uh so is this gonna be like pig |
| 11237s | into micro |
| 11240s | foreign |
| 11251s | you can just double Buy on the next turn |
| 11253s | right two five three should still be |
| 11255s | enough to win you the fight you would |
| 11256s | expect uh it won't be as it turns out |
| 11259s | but you would oh no no because there's a |
| 11260s | blood gem coming down as well actually |
| 11262s | so it will still be enough to win this |
| 11263s | fight against the three suits someone |
| 11265s | looking quite good though with the three |
| 11267s | six uh you know already getting there |
| 11269s | got a low flyer as well off that so not |
| 11271s | looking too bad that minion looks a |
| 11272s | little bit more scary when it's uh |
| 11274s | paired with mutinous |
| 11277s | changed I've hopped on the AFK |
| 11280s | okay I'm gonna stick there okay |
| 11284s | unless not unless |
| 11289s | so yeah just a reminder of how the |
| 11291s | bandwagon stuff works um obviously you |
| 11293s | can't see me doing this but I made a |
| 11294s | choice on turn two I've then changed |
| 11295s | that choice on turn three I'm allowed to |
| 11297s | do that as many times as I want the only |
| 11298s | penalty is that I've now done it a turn |
| 11300s | later so the turn you choose which |
| 11302s | affects the amount of points that you |
| 11303s | have |
| 11312s | with the uh |
| 11314s | profit coming down as well |
| 11320s | looks like Lee has a triple on offer yep |
| 11325s | too bad at all |
| 11329s | uh from so from the information we have |
| 11331s | Reno and nosdormu are both still on |
| 11334s | Tavern two neither of them are power |
| 11336s | leveled and both characters that whose |
| 11340s | hero power has not had a significant |
| 11341s | impact on the game just yet I think |
| 11343s | unless you have some sort of indication |
| 11345s | otherwise those dormu is likely to have |
| 11348s | seen slightly better shops than Reno at |
| 11350s | this point in the game right that's the |
| 11351s | only tiebreaker that I can really think |
| 11352s | of yeah it's going to be tricky though |
| 11354s | because there are some pretty big |
| 11356s | Harvest Golems on Reno's side I believe |
| 11357s | yeah or at least one big Harvest Golem |
| 11360s | should I say |
| 11361s | well there's four six |
| 11363s | is gonna get the job done |
| 11366s | though |
| 11371s | and oh you big dum-dum will be done |
| 11375s | honestly |
| 11376s | it was the subtle pick |
| 11378s | yeah I don't know if Lee gets phone a |
| 11381s | friend or not I don't know if that's how |
| 11383s | it works |
| 11385s | you just picked barov and then just |
| 11387s | phone the casters like um so I've got uh |
| 11390s | who's winning can you check their boards |
| 11392s | for me please yeah you just ring up the |
| 11394s | rinder like hey uh you can see all eight |
| 11396s | boards right |
| 11397s | to confirm that is there not what |
| 11398s | happens no absolutely not uh can we have |
| 11401s | a check-in back with the AFK please see |
| 11403s | how things have progressed from here if |
| 11404s | at all possible |
| 11408s | unless it's Lorinda that's AFK |
| 11410s | oh wait can I still change |
| 11415s | turn five |
| 11416s | oh |
| 11418s | uh just to wrap things up mindmark does |
| 11421s | actually not do anything in combat uh |
| 11423s | there was a tweet originally I think |
| 11425s | from Gia who said for a second the shop |
| 11428s | eating effect did actually work with |
| 11430s | freilac in combat in a certain build but |
| 11433s | they quickly removed that one because it |
| 11436s | you know it feels like just eating your |
| 11437s | opponent's menu I would have loved that |
| 11439s | I would have loved that I'm a big fan of |
| 11442s | like historic like Battlegrounds matters |
| 11445s | where it is just one comp you go for and |
| 11447s | everyone goes for it and whoever gets it |
| 11449s | wins That's my kind of Battleground |
| 11451s | right but when it's it's a Tavern 3 |
| 11453s | minion with a one drop or a two drop I |
| 11456s | think that's probably a little bit too |
| 11458s | much it's like turbo mode Battlegrounds |
| 11460s | right it would be great yeah yeah |
| 11464s | all right gonna take a small hit here is |
| 11466s | AFK all that's the worst hit in the end |
| 11468s | though in terms of cutting down damage |
| 11469s | seven probably a little bit yeah they're |
| 11471s | much for satellite yeah they'll be |
| 11472s | taking |
| 11475s | let's have another look at satellite for |
| 11478s | a turn if at all possible here this |
| 11479s | could be crucial turn satellite needs to |
| 11481s | get very strong very quickly from this |
| 11483s | position |
| 11486s | thank you very much oh hello |
| 11491s | are we gonna see a second player skip |
| 11493s | Elemental no okay okay |
| 11496s | oh my God |
| 11501s | yo |
| 11505s | are we paying three health for a nine |
| 11507s | seven I think we are right it gets us so |
| 11509s | strong so quickly yeah love it |
| 11511s | absolutely love it oh again |
| 11518s | you know what I think we're okay |
| 11523s | you could still freeze this because next |
| 11524s | turn you can go like level and then buy |
| 11527s | Mickey eater yeah and then the picky |
| 11529s | eater is just massive next term for |
| 11531s | Tempo it's worth considering I think the |
| 11533s | Sora has a nice uh selection of options |
| 11535s | here utility drone Boombox murazon not |
| 11538s | sure who they fought last for that |
| 11540s | morrisoned I apologize but uh either way |
| 11543s | it's not a bad set of options |
| 11546s | no they are very mono minion it appears |
| 11549s | from just the state of this board |
| 11550s | there's like a 2020 picky eater and not |
| 11553s | a lot else it looks like going on I know |
| 11554s | they do have a they have a Jesse as well |
| 11556s | okay |
| 11558s | do you think as well like in a worst |
| 11560s | case scenario like Boombox it is just a |
| 11562s | good minion right it's not like oh I |
| 11565s | need to be maxed now it's just good it |
| 11567s | does enough especially this early in the |
| 11569s | game |
| 11571s | oh my God look at the state of this |
| 11575s | the problem is |
| 11577s | this is milking and winning right or at |
| 11579s | least doing good enough |
| 11581s | oh wins the fight though just the break |
| 11583s | points not end up being good enough |
| 11585s | Boombox absolutely defended |
| 11587s | puts the AFK in damage cap range huge |
| 11592s | outcome for the AFK for satellite |
| 11597s | oh my goodness |
| 11600s | every turn it's just like oh you wanted |
| 11603s | the perfect stuff here's the perfect |
| 11605s | stuff |
| 11607s | would you like to know more |
| 11613s | discover a minion that you're selling |
| 11615s | probably |
| 11616s | like if they're honestly I think the bet |
| 11618s | I think the best outcome here would have |
| 11619s | been uh turtle and blue show right |
| 11625s | do you not want parrot I mean it's a |
| 11627s | little risky because you're mono tall |
| 11629s | yeah if you go second yourself I was |
| 11631s | even looking at the bronze |
| 11634s | that's what I mean right like blue shell |
| 11636s | you could sell two or three minions from |
| 11637s | your board alongside the blue show and |
| 11639s | just buy this whole shop and be very |
| 11641s | happy about it to be fair you could take |
| 11642s | a good minion sell the seventh floor and |
| 11644s | sell the other dog |
| 11645s | air true |
| 11648s | oh |
| 11653s | this is kind of what I'm talking about |
| 11654s | right yeah you take a Battle Cry to sell |
| 11656s | sale and then buy the parrot yeah this |
| 11657s | is exactly right satellite all in yep |
| 11660s | seoul's new favorite player absolutely I |
| 11662s | mean 100 finally finally someone that |
| 11664s | plays like me |
| 11667s | oh again |
| 11669s | now with reborn from the Lich King see |
| 11672s | now we're getting a full-on roulette |
| 11673s | game yeah |
| 11677s | yeah find someone that looks at you the |
| 11679s | way subtle looks at ryla yep and then in |
| 11683s | a minute we can check in with wty Bill |
| 11685s | just to see if that Reno hero power has |
| 11687s | been used or not good champ I think wait |
| 11691s | it's a 612 golden but I'm not sure what |
| 11693s | it is |
| 11702s | wty bills |
| 11704s | I was golden Scrappy |
| 11707s | okay |
| 11715s | it's left but that uh |
| 11716s | what satellite just gets 15 to this turn |
| 11719s | if we ever thought about that |
| 11722s | um again double-edged sword for me |
| 11726s | it's on my fantasy you picked him for |
| 11728s | the win |
| 11731s | let's have a little look yeah Arena |
| 11734s | yeah all in on the max yep w2i builds |
| 11739s | just one one uh module away from a good |
| 11741s | time right now yes please yes please |
| 11743s | sign me up that was a beautiful shot Duo |
| 11748s | to start cooking let him cook pick up a |
| 11750s | couple of extra scrap scrapers alongside |
| 11752s | the course of the game but then also uh |
| 11754s | just the my goodness what is that imp |
| 11757s | matron something is that right matron |
| 11760s | yeah yeah cool uh picking that up as |
| 11762s | well double two and one whammy right you |
| 11764s | have the taunts and you have the death |
| 11766s | rattle summons as well so you're gonna |
| 11767s | get really really good milk from the |
| 11770s | scrap scraper here as well really good |
| 11771s | stuff yeah and the fact is golden like |
| 11773s | this board might not look that good |
| 11775s | right now but honestly fast forward one |
| 11777s | to two turns and we could be seeing |
| 11779s | fireworks from doing too high Bill hmm |
| 11782s | and what do you make of a pyramid by the |
| 11784s | way as well because uh we see we've not |
| 11786s | really had too much time with oleic so |
| 11788s | far this game but uh pyramid definitely |
| 11790s | not a bad hero but maybe more of a gain |
| 11794s | MMR hero as opposed to win Lobby hero |
| 11796s | would you yeah oh yeah and I'll be 100 |
| 11799s | honest with you I have played zero games |
| 11801s | of pyramid in this meta and probably in |
| 11804s | the body meta as well Paramount is just |
| 11807s | one of those Heroes generally if there's |
| 11808s | a hero it's like press a button gain |
| 11810s | some stats my brain just falls out of my |
| 11813s | ears when I see it like I I just get |
| 11815s | bored playing those types of heroes and |
| 11816s | tend to avoid so whereas I played |
| 11818s | pyramid today there you go |
| 11822s | yeah it definitely felt like a |
| 11825s | you were never gonna get like six to |
| 11827s | eight |
| 11828s | but you're never getting first it was my |
| 11831s | experience and from what I've seen from |
| 11832s | other players as well sure |
| 11835s | all right it's uh see the milk |
| 11839s | gets the double drop from the IM single |
| 11841s | drop from the torn a little bit of |
| 11843s | protection so that is two cards |
| 11847s | oh nice value trade as well on the coil |
| 11850s | ball and the Boombox actually kind of |
| 11853s | doing wty bill a favor right because |
| 11855s | there's a value trade gets it oh the |
| 11858s | value train on the scrapscape is so huge |
| 11860s | that's two more cards there was a one in |
| 11863s | three that he had to hit to get the VT |
| 11865s | and that's two plus two cards and wins |
| 11868s | the fight because of the value trade as |
| 11870s | well that was such an easy one and three |
| 11871s | at the end |
| 11872s | oh lee going down to six health |
| 11877s | can we get a satellite check please |
| 11883s | oh yeah yeah this is the stuff |
| 11889s | I was gonna say you're getting your |
| 11890s | filamental triple right I'm not sure |
| 11892s | what's happening here if we're not |
| 11894s | getting a filamental triple we're gonna |
| 11895s | start starting that stacking that Battle |
| 11897s | Master as well |
| 11899s | yeah uh ball positioning is very awkward |
| 11901s | here |
| 11902s | and I don't think he can really afford |
| 11904s | to breed too much |
| 11907s | so I think he has to all in the uh the |
| 11909s | Mind eater that he has in hand as well |
| 11910s | for Max stats |
| 11912s | news selling out something awkward that |
| 11915s | you had on board but anyway we are back |
| 11917s | in Mech World here uh lee needs a Mech |
| 11920s | to put this stuff on before he really |
| 11922s | gets started |
| 11924s | yeah |
| 11926s | because you don't want to be dropping it |
| 11927s | on your scrap scrapers |
| 11929s | yeah is this really gonna have to be a |
| 11931s | play oh it is okay oh he does drop it on |
| 11933s | the screen |
| 11938s | yeah I mean 6 hp I guess right no time |
| 11940s | to be messing around yeah I'm actually |
| 11942s | just surprised this I I guess this was |
| 11945s | the idea I I think I would have looked |
| 11947s | at because of the extra gold just do |
| 11949s | another roll for like one roll for a Mac |
| 11952s | for one goal just to see but uh not only |
| 11954s | decided to just dump it on one scrap |
| 11956s | scraper and see what happens got the |
| 11957s | choice now between Sky Captain crack and |
| 11959s | those darmu a crack has used the hero |
| 11961s | power I believe we did see yeah I say a |
| 11963s | little bit earlier okay didn't take note |
| 11965s | of that |
| 11967s | I might I'm sure they used it |
| 11982s | oh double milk on the taunts is huge I |
| 11985s | think this is the better outcome in |
| 11987s | terms of juice |
| 11988s | yep |
| 11991s | double three two is obviously a little |
| 11993s | bit more Tempo but this gives you the |
| 11994s | taunts for a bit longer to for security |
| 11997s | how hard is |
| 11999s | wty Bill gonna get hit here though |
| 12002s | I mean damage cap is still on so can't |
| 12004s | die but that yeah that banana yeah |
| 12007s | that's what it means had a significant |
| 12010s | impact on the outcome of this fight in |
| 12012s | terms of damage taken |
| 12014s | and it looks like he might get killed |
| 12021s | yep absolutely gonna get damage Captain |
| 12023s | yeah |
| 12024s | wow |
| 12025s | really rough outcome there for wty Bill |
| 12040s | it's pretty tricky now as well because |
| 12042s | with thesaurus sitting at 14 also in the |
| 12045s | danger zone I was even just glancing at |
| 12047s | that parrot you know because of Boombox |
| 12049s | like and even this air matron it's a |
| 12053s | significant amount of extra damage |
| 12057s | where are we turn 10 yeah |
| 12059s | for sure yeah that was going to get you |
| 12063s | places |
| 12066s | satellite has not lost a single point of |
| 12069s | HP since those a couple of early hits |
| 12071s | that you have to take to set up still |
| 12073s | hanging around on 15. |
| 12076s | and Lobby's starting to equalize as well |
| 12078s | right everyone else is starting to get |
| 12079s | dragged down to satellites level in |
| 12081s | terms of health total wait |
| 12084s | wasn't it turn 11 with no kills |
| 12087s | yes yes it was turned 10. great there's |
| 12091s | a chance |
| 12092s | there is a chance |
| 12101s | oh yeah picked up the general |
| 12105s | yeah |
| 12106s | wording exactly yes will a game reach |
| 12109s | turn 11 so if everyone survives this |
| 12111s | fight then we have a yes on a puzzle box |
| 12114s | question again |
| 12118s | this is kind of the point of what I was |
| 12119s | talking about earlier right in my |
| 12120s | experience with the Paramount It's like |
| 12122s | olliex got a nice amount of stats but |
| 12126s | none of it looks game-winning does it |
| 12133s | might just be game losing actually |
| 12134s | because |
| 12136s | I clean up a lot still has a 30 30 left |
| 12139s | hanging out over on the left-hand side |
| 12140s | though yeah and these booms are gonna |
| 12142s | hit some one ones not relevant all one |
| 12144s | HP though |
| 12146s | know what you want to be seeing survival |
| 12148s | though loses oh tight oh yeah it's huge |
| 12152s | for the puzzle box |
| 12154s | think |
| 12155s | I think we might have got them |
| 12159s | all the reset that's enough |
| 12162s | pause Champy's |
| 12165s | yeah so they're fine over there |
| 12175s | ding ding ding oh |
| 12178s | there we go wow quite the Rarity I |
| 12182s | didn't see it coming I can't remember |
| 12183s | what I said I want to say no I was gonna |
| 12185s | say did we both have yes I think we sure |
| 12186s | I had yes |
| 12188s | I don't know |
| 12190s | scared to even think about it at this |
| 12191s | point oh Baron as well now oh it's also |
| 12194s | filthy the filamental is gone though |
| 12200s | the elemental's gone do you think being |
| 12202s | on 15 has done this for satellite |
| 12206s | has done this but at the same time you |
| 12208s | are now in first place so yeah but I |
| 12212s | wonder when they've sold the filamental |
| 12213s | right because |
| 12215s | so yeah it's um |
| 12217s | it depends when they sold it right |
| 12220s | because if they showed it before all of |
| 12221s | this happened then yeah fair enough it |
| 12223s | may have just been going right then as |
| 12225s | we cut in I'm not sure there was a |
| 12226s | minion being sold I didn't quite catch |
| 12227s | what it was it might have just been the |
| 12229s | filamental at that point |
| 12230s | only going up to 725 this turn |
| 12234s | tricky as well because it going this |
| 12236s | long without anyone dying means that |
| 12237s | there's no like no safety turns right no |
| 12240s | ghost fights uh that are normally |
| 12242s | Happening by now yeah no ghost fights |
| 12244s | and now no one in the lobby can abuse |
| 12246s | damage cap right because everyone is |
| 12248s | below 15 anyway so this is you know |
| 12251s | there is a real threat of just getting |
| 12252s | ate from a position that would have felt |
| 12254s | pretty strong for you a couple of turns |
| 12256s | ago |
| 12259s | well absolutely brutal first Lobby air |
| 12261s | first game Sorry mm-hmm |
| 12266s | simply see just like four players die |
| 12268s | together it's inherently possible |
| 12271s | honestly just an absolute Thanos snap of |
| 12274s | a turn and just half the lobby dies |
| 12279s | let's see |
| 12282s | versus uh Janice on the other side of |
| 12284s | this board against Sun |
| 12287s | well that was it what a champion just |
| 12290s | tanks they're there |
| 12293s | looks like good refreshes are gonna come |
| 12295s | on the Divine Shields though because |
| 12296s | these one ones are going to delay the |
| 12298s | attack order significantly now for |
| 12301s | Janice peeled one yeah it does get one |
| 12303s | out there oh the Leroy though Leroy hit |
| 12306s | the biggest target which means this is |
| 12308s | going to be going down for Sauron and |
| 12311s | that is equal damage as well so Janice |
| 12313s | is going to be one off if not our only |
| 12315s | first players out in this spot |
| 12319s | oh |
| 12321s | oh it looks like a wind there right the |
| 12323s | leaf wait no too much leads going as |
| 12325s | well Lee's going as well |
| 12332s | and so is the Reno witty bill has bitten |
| 12337s | the dust as well oh no oh no |
| 12341s | huge huge swing not the four players we |
| 12344s | predicted but three players all going |
| 12346s | down here and now to Surah what is my |
| 12348s | friend what have you been doing since |
| 12350s | the last time we've been over here |
| 12352s | golden dracari golden Duo Golden Light |
| 12356s | Fang this is kind of the end of turn |
| 12358s | King board that I was talking about a |
| 12360s | couple of games ago when we were |
| 12361s | recapping uh Lobby a this is exactly the |
| 12363s | full investment banking at this point |
| 12365s | yeah true |
| 12367s | oh |
| 12371s | this is a good pick well done Lorinda |
| 12374s | this is this is a close fight I think |
| 12377s | and it's a very hidden close fight as |
| 12380s | well |
| 12392s | what are we on this is four right |
| 12395s | straight shot coming down interesting |
| 12402s | see as we have another recap if you're |
| 12403s | wondering what's going on right now if |
| 12404s | you are watching on Twitch you will see |
| 12406s | the tavern buddy extension if you |
| 12407s | haven't been doing this all day you've |
| 12409s | missed out on a little bit of fun but |
| 12410s | you can still join in uh open up the |
| 12412s | twitch extension the tab and Buddy pick |
| 12413s | a winner of this fight under the barrel |
| 12415s | of blessings section |
| 12419s | Baron pick up does that do anything not |
| 12421s | really |
| 12422s | uh yeah oh a lot of gold though |
| 12426s | a lot of gold yeah |
| 12431s | very close yeah we have agreed |
| 12435s | I do try and let the viewers know at |
| 12437s | home so all their purposely waits for me |
| 12439s | to make a prediction first before then |
| 12441s | that's not true I wait until one second |
| 12444s | is left on the road like if you do it |
| 12446s | with three seconds the Rope that's not |
| 12447s | my problem is it come on |
| 12450s | we've had been over here to check this |
| 12452s | out |
| 12453s | but this is what I mean by concealed |
| 12455s | close fight right if you looked at the |
| 12457s | raw numbers on the board it didn't look |
| 12458s | particularly close but then you when you |
| 12460s | factor in all of that end of time |
| 12462s | scaling that was coming in from the |
| 12465s | Golden Light Fang the fort and the |
| 12467s | golden Jakari and the normal life |
| 12470s | and the normal light bang as well this |
| 12472s | one got a little bit closer down to the |
| 12474s | wire it's a lot of damage that's a lot |
| 12476s | of damage indeed |
| 12483s | gone now |
| 12485s | sorry siren sorry not experiment oh |
| 12487s | never mind that's at least Al yet gone |
| 12489s | now |
| 12490s | got him you're a prophet yep |
| 12497s | Mega Alex picking up a ghost fight very |
| 12500s | very much appreciated I'm sure in that |
| 12503s | scenario |
| 12505s | but now has to fight satellite which uh |
| 12508s | yeah I think it's time for a satellite |
| 12509s | update if we can |
| 12512s | breaking news from satellite |
| 12516s | looking all right it's just an imp on |
| 12519s | the board now with a million health |
| 12521s | yeah so fairly early on and I think |
| 12524s | sensibly so I will concede at this point |
| 12527s | that I would have greeted filamental for |
| 12529s | longer than satellite did here |
| 12531s | um and I think satellites made a much |
| 12532s | better decision than I would have done |
| 12533s | satellite switch very early to the |
| 12535s | Battle Master right which is a temporary |
| 12537s | Tempo buff as opposed to a permanent |
| 12541s | value buff right yeah because the Battle |
| 12543s | Master will get huge in combat but it |
| 12545s | then resets because in combat Buffs are |
| 12548s | fake they're not real you don't keep |
| 12549s | them for the rest of the game |
| 12550s | um so that's kind of the key with rylack |
| 12552s | a lot of the time is you have to find |
| 12553s | ways to cheat right like the undead buff |
| 12555s | minion says buff your attack for the |
| 12557s | rest of this game therefore it's right |
| 12559s | past the end of the combat filamentals |
| 12562s | affect the shot so it's not an in combat |
| 12564s | path because it's affecting the shop |
| 12566s | um blood gems can add blood gems to your |
| 12567s | hand coins can add coins to your hand |
| 12569s | drakazath can add dragons to your hand |
| 12572s | so you get to keep your hand at the end |
| 12573s | of the fight lots of ways that you can |
| 12575s | cheat and kind of break that rule of in |
| 12576s | combat stuff not being permanent |
| 12579s | um but satellite kind of gave up on some |
| 12580s | of that stuff and went no I'm just gonna |
| 12582s | be strong for every fight yeah the rest |
| 12584s | of the game from this point which yeah |
| 12586s | smart stuff yeah it's interesting isn't |
| 12588s | it when we're in game one of a uh you |
| 12590s | know three game Lobby that you go yeah |
| 12593s | you could you have that option of saying |
| 12595s | you know what I'm just not gonna get |
| 12596s | blasted out of this game right and I'll |
| 12598s | just start pushing other players out |
| 12599s | which would actually increase my point |
| 12601s | so |
| 12602s | no |
| 12605s | it's so big |
| 12608s | and it's still at the point in the game |
| 12610s | because we've not seen any Mega |
| 12611s | accelerated pumps right so like just |
| 12615s | this health and 37 attack is enough |
| 12618s | there's a lot of the time even this |
| 12621s | volume of Health would not be enough |
| 12623s | against some other comps right because |
| 12624s | they're hitting for hundreds well 37 in |
| 12627s | this on in this Lobby in this game seems |
| 12629s | to be good enough |
| 12630s | see that sometimes with the upbeat |
| 12633s | Elemental right if you get a golden |
| 12634s | upbeat Elemental and it starts copying |
| 12636s | and doubling its own health over and |
| 12638s | over again you'll see like a several |
| 12640s | thousand Health uh Elemental but it only |
| 12642s | has like four attack or whatever right |
| 12644s | you just have your fight is about three |
| 12646s | minutes long but you don't end up doing |
| 12647s | enough damage to get over the line but |
| 12649s | when you're in situations like this as |
| 12651s | Lorinda will be very keen to remind you |
| 12653s | if you have a 200 Health minion and you |
| 12655s | add one attack to that minion you've |
| 12657s | just got a lot stronger because that |
| 12659s | Health pool will allow you to have |
| 12661s | multiple attacks over and over and it |
| 12663s | looks like uh tesora survived the ghost |
| 12665s | fights that was an easy extra point |
| 12667s | these are the sort of little things you |
| 12669s | hope for when you play in this kind of |
| 12670s | format right is oh if there's three I |
| 12673s | really want to be you know the one |
| 12674s | fighting the ghost because that might |
| 12676s | just be one more Point towards |
| 12678s | qualifying for tomorrow |
| 12680s | I mean tasura is cooking this game |
| 12685s | it's great and if there's one thing you |
| 12687s | want to do to uh be up on rylac readers |
| 12691s | big cleave big cleave is the end of all |
| 12695s | rylac boards and uh he's gonna decimate |
| 12698s | this battle Master if it connects |
| 12700s | properly in one hit |
| 12705s | the question is though does to Surah |
| 12707s | know |
| 12708s | what's on the other side from satellite |
| 12711s | point |
| 12712s | I was also wondering like |
| 12714s | how much this normal light Fang is |
| 12718s | sticking around or not |
| 12720s | it's just a normal life it's innocent |
| 12723s | life |
| 12728s | because you've got to think now It's |
| 12730s | tricky because the four six and the |
| 12732s | other light Fang but even just looking |
| 12734s | at this selfless right it's like oh hang |
| 12736s | on a minute you get an extra Divine |
| 12737s | Shield that's it right you need to find |
| 12740s | a tech card that is worth and I'll tell |
| 12742s | you what Cinder eye straight shot is yes |
| 12745s | small here's another so here's another |
| 12747s | good Tech card to fight rylack players |
| 12749s | small Cinder eye straight shot you don't |
| 12752s | want to kill the rylack you just want to |
| 12754s | attack it yeah have it live and then it |
| 12757s | doesn't have taunt anymore and you get a |
| 12758s | free attack at everything else you |
| 12760s | expose the meaty Center of your |
| 12762s | opponent's board |
| 12767s | oh these players have definitely seen |
| 12769s | each other's boards away this |
| 12771s | positioning yeah yeah yeah |
| 12774s | there you go single solitary snipe on |
| 12777s | that Battle Master that's a huge outcome |
| 12779s | though hitting the uh the golden demon |
| 12782s | instead of the rylak pumping infinite |
| 12784s | health around everywhere else on the |
| 12786s | board misses it the second time though |
| 12787s | which is a big loss |
| 12790s | and yeah not gonna be enough |
| 12792s | 370 Health on this Baron is not going to |
| 12794s | get there I'm afraid the old 18 attack |
| 12796s | is just not cutting it anymore |
| 12800s | is there a live angle there might be |
| 12804s | I think there is a live angle |
| 12807s | start going right please yep |
| 12815s | now attack that's horn instead of the |
| 12816s | hundred attack okay |
| 12818s | it's like Helms Deep |
| 12820s | though right still alive yeah still |
| 12822s | alive |
| 12824s | on MoGo and this is where the mind games |
| 12826s | begin |
| 12827s | indeed |
| 12828s | so Tech card search has to be on |
| 12831s | satellite here |
| 12834s | tough to know what you'd really be |
| 12835s | looking for Leroy would be huge you |
| 12838s | could just pop a LeRoy next to your |
| 12840s | taunts and let the cleave smash into it |
| 12842s | and take care of itself I think that |
| 12843s | could be a potentially uh big winner for |
| 12845s | you uh Leroy is dangerous though because |
| 12847s | you have reborn power on board and |
| 12849s | parrot Leroy has pretty horrific |
| 12852s | anti-synergy |
| 12855s | it's a big boom |
| 12860s | taking a roll for Golden Battle Master |
| 12863s | sure |
| 12866s | [Music] |
| 12870s | the rylac just went yeah the rylac just |
| 12872s | went guaranteeing the uh uh the death |
| 12875s | rattle proc on the trickster right which |
| 12878s | I think it's smart yeah it's probably |
| 12879s | worth more overall because that's the |
| 12881s | problem right you could give something |
| 12882s | with maybe more attack yeah but that's |
| 12884s | it right there's only really one |
| 12886s | attacking card the satellite right now |
| 12889s | which is the m Leroy Leroy Leroy Leroy |
| 12891s | first then parrots |
| 12894s | surely not |
| 12896s | surely not |
| 12902s | oh |
| 12905s | interesting okay so he is going for the |
| 12907s | tour next to the cleave thing that I was |
| 12909s | talking about but he now has this uh |
| 12911s | lost condition of the parrots whipping |
| 12914s | and cinderai straight shot has been |
| 12915s | picked up as a tech card as well oh one |
| 12918s | in seven Snipes the parrot are you |
| 12921s | kidding oh okay okay so Leroy's gained |
| 12924s | uh |
| 12925s | arguably too much help |
| 12929s | okay trickster gets pumped anyway |
| 12931s | so no parrot value to be had this is so |
| 12934s | strange and then the cleave just smacked |
| 12937s | it anyway |
| 12938s | and just doesn't kill it |
| 12941s | this is a dub oh this Reborn attack |
| 12944s | could be huge yeah and that's game yeah |
| 12949s | yeah wow really weird end game and I |
| 12953s | kind of love it |
| 12956s | like it was definitely on satellite to |
| 12958s | make something happen there and do a bit |
| 12959s | of a switch but to sora's air comp was |
| 12962s | really cool there |
| 12963s | um with that sort of uh the end turn |
| 12966s | can't again just another thing we're |
| 12968s | talking about it's not like uh oh it's |
| 12970s | you know it's it's exact met comp again |
| 12972s | oh it's this that and again we did get |
| 12974s | to see this really cool and again |
| 12976s | creative comp of just uh this end of |
| 12978s | turn effects with the light fangs and |
| 12980s | the golden dracari and making it work |
| 12982s | and that was really cool to see so again |
| 12983s | I noticed Sora I think he's on your |
| 12985s | fantasy team but regardless of their |
| 12988s | points between ourselves I'll never be |
| 12990s | upset seeing some great gameplay so uh |
| 12993s | congratulations for Tesoro taking that |
| 12994s | one yeah also nearly got fully rewarded |
| 12998s | for the bandwagon pivot I pivoted from |
| 13001s | uh wty Bill to satellite which you know |
| 13003s | did improve my points overall |
| 13005s | um but nearly managed to pick up the win |
| 13006s | on that one as well but yeah really |
| 13008s | really interesting end game for sure |
| 13010s | um and nice to see the end of turn stuff |
| 13012s | happening because I did talk about it or |
| 13013s | all starting of course with the drakari |
| 13015s | enchanter upbeat Duo interaction and |
| 13017s | then you use those two cards to feed |
| 13019s | each other you can just start tripling |
| 13020s | stuff at will very very powerful stuff |
| 13023s | very well played from tesora yeah that |
| 13025s | was just game one if you've just joined |
| 13026s | us throughout that game just a quick |
| 13028s | reminder we've only got two more games |
| 13030s | left for today so make sure you stick |
| 13032s | around to catch them we are going to go |
| 13034s | to a quick break while we set up game |
| 13035s | number two don't go anywhere we'll be |
| 13037s | right back |
| 13041s | foreign |
| 13081s | [Music] |
| 13106s | foreign |
| 13114s | foreign |
| 13120s | [Music] |
| 13143s | [Music] |
| 13161s | [Music] |
| 13185s | foreign |
| 13202s | [Music] |
| 13226s | [Music] |
| 13235s | everybody |
| 13237s | [Music] |
| 13247s | [Music] |
| 13255s | hello everyone and welcome back we are |
| 13257s | getting ready to go into our second game |
| 13259s | but before we do so we have a couple of |
| 13261s | announcements uh just in terms of the |
| 13263s | tavern of Buddy uh system you have on |
| 13266s | Twitch uh just for the fantasy picture |
| 13268s | if you picked xqn uh you will |
| 13271s | automatically be given Sauron so you |
| 13274s | won't miss out on a whole pick you still |
| 13276s | have a player in there and although |
| 13278s | those numbers will not immediately |
| 13280s | update uh once today's stream is over |
| 13283s | that will all update ready for tomorrow |
| 13285s | so again just to quickly go over it if |
| 13287s | you picked extra in your fancy uh picks |
| 13290s | you will get Sauron instead |
| 13292s | and we can see what the other most |
| 13294s | popular picks were alongside this olliek |
| 13297s | taking home the crown in terms of |
| 13298s | popularity vote with 45 no great |
| 13301s | surprise uh French Community together |
| 13303s | strong we certainly know that yeah from |
| 13305s | many many years of uh various |
| 13308s | competitive Hearthstone stuff but |
| 13309s | overall pretty even spread of picks |
| 13311s | across the world I would say especially |
| 13313s | as uh xqn who I'm sure was a very |
| 13316s | popular pick all of those people are now |
| 13317s | over rooting for Sauron as well so |
| 13319s | boosting up his numbers a little bit you |
| 13321s | don't see a lot of respect as well for |
| 13323s | satellite and yanase players you know |
| 13326s | Battleground uh Lobby Legends followers |
| 13327s | will of course know uh satellite picked |
| 13330s | up the second place there to sorry with |
| 13331s | that very impressive first and then a |
| 13333s | pretty even spread after that like |
| 13335s | honestly I think you're only feeling |
| 13337s | good about things if your tesora and |
| 13339s | satellite right now because just of how |
| 13342s | evenly you know Janice wty Bill and Lee |
| 13344s | going out together meaning one point |
| 13346s | each keeping that even and then oleic |
| 13348s | and Soren going 3.5 Points each as well |
| 13350s | so as usual with this format subtle |
| 13352s | everything up for grabs yeah uh triple |
| 13355s | kill into double kill means that there |
| 13357s | are definitely still two slots to fight |
| 13360s | for and six players fighting for it and |
| 13362s | that's not to say that the top two have |
| 13364s | locked up those places either like they |
| 13366s | can have disastrous performances but |
| 13367s | they are in the driver's seat for sure |
| 13369s | um but no one really looking out of it |
| 13371s | just yet will have a much better picture |
| 13372s | after game two you would imagine but as |
| 13374s | Raven said very even spread with the |
| 13377s | sort of Rapid Fire deaths in |
| 13378s | synchronicity making it all the way to |
| 13380s | turn 11 fulfilling the puzzle box |
| 13382s | question and then everyone just getting |
| 13384s | smoked in Rapid succession from there |
| 13386s | and just uh touching on the fact that |
| 13388s | we've seen so many different comps right |
| 13390s | now are there any I know it's difficult |
| 13392s | because they're pretty flexible but are |
| 13394s | there any significant comps we haven't |
| 13396s | seen yet uh question I guess Undead |
| 13399s | doesn't count |
| 13400s | um but we've seen end of turn we've seen |
| 13402s | Max beasts uh dragons |
| 13406s | uh what am I not thinking about Pirates |
| 13409s | apms yeah |
| 13412s | um yeah it will borrow a significant |
| 13414s | comp I don't know I guess that's yeah so |
| 13416s | if you haven't really seen quilbo have |
| 13418s | an impact yet we haven't seen Elementals |
| 13420s | have an impact yet um and Elementals do |
| 13422s | have a couple of builds you can go for |
| 13424s | Nomi kinda sucks but Nomi always kind of |
| 13427s | sucks until it doesn't right right you |
| 13429s | can't you can't just hit the nuts on an |
| 13431s | early uh know me and come away with it |
| 13433s | and then there is of course the upbeat |
| 13434s | Elemental scaling that I was talking |
| 13436s | about as well there's a lot of ways to |
| 13437s | go about it uh quill balls we haven't |
| 13439s | seen have any significant impact but in |
| 13441s | terms of like the big hitters for me I |
| 13445s | feel like we have seen most of what I |
| 13447s | would be looking to play in most lobbies |
| 13450s | that IQ into uh so far throughout one |
| 13453s | and speaking of big hitters subtle uh so |
| 13456s | far we've got satellite on shoulder walk |
| 13458s | and to soar on scabs as well which can |
| 13461s | definitely cause some Havoc uh so we'll |
| 13464s | have to see it Soren going on there |
| 13465s | going for the old extra Health which is |
| 13467s | a that's something I thought I would see |
| 13469s | this weekend yeah I was talking about |
| 13471s | this recently with some Battlegrounds |
| 13473s | people and for me |
| 13474s | um I picked two types of heroes |
| 13476s | basically right |
| 13478s | um mega economy Heroes that have the |
| 13480s | opportunity to scam so your gallywixes |
| 13482s | your Mill houses your shudder walks |
| 13484s | those kind of things right |
| 13486s | um I suppose this category is like |
| 13487s | things that can cheat win conditions so |
| 13489s | you can put like a Reno in there as well |
| 13490s | right because Reno can just cheat a wing |
| 13492s | condition by pressing a hero power if |
| 13494s | that's not true I want infinite amounts |
| 13496s | of Health right I want 20 yards you can |
| 13499s | do whatever right 160 health so then I |
| 13501s | can just live long enough to do |
| 13502s | something broken with the cards in the |
| 13504s | game instead of the hero power for |
| 13506s | example so that those are the two quote |
| 13509s | good types of heroes to me and it's all |
| 13510s | the stuff in the middle that I just find |
| 13512s | a little bit wishy-washy and stay away |
| 13514s | from generally yeah well we are going to |
| 13516s | be able to check in with Leah in a |
| 13518s | little bit no rush but he's playing voon |
| 13520s | as well which again we spoke about a |
| 13522s | little bit earlier how crazy some of |
| 13523s | those are you know plans can be when |
| 13525s | you've been able to duplicate cards in |
| 13527s | hands or see if that pays off or not but |
| 13529s | I think overall hero wise not like super |
| 13533s | strong uh Lobby in terms of hero choices |
| 13536s | but definitely some standouts yeah for |
| 13539s | sure |
| 13540s | oh hello |
| 13545s | uh apologies if we've been there and I |
| 13547s | missed it but if we did we see if Shadow |
| 13549s | what got a Battle Cry on turn one this |
| 13550s | game okay thank you very much there you |
| 13553s | go okay nice |
| 13555s | bad news for satellite but good to know |
| 13558s | either way |
| 13563s | doing great out there |
| 13570s | this is really this is the first time |
| 13572s | I've been involved in you know the the |
| 13574s | picks and and playing these mini games |
| 13576s | is really difficult it's hard isn't it |
| 13579s | yeah oh three on three Reno interesting |
| 13584s | I like it |
| 13586s | going for that big spike |
| 13589s | crucial decision for Lee first copy turn |
| 13592s | of the game needs to decide what he |
| 13593s | wants to go with here can just buy from |
| 13595s | this or he can go rolling to look for |
| 13597s | something and go sell double Buy and |
| 13600s | Hold one |
| 13604s | huh |
| 13606s | starting the turn with freeze was not |
| 13608s | where I was expecting things to go this |
| 13609s | time |
| 13613s | foreign |
| 13618s | is that you kind of remove the option of |
| 13622s | going this sucks I'm going three on |
| 13625s | three from the game like it's just |
| 13626s | really not a viable thing because you |
| 13628s | don't ever really get to make the copy |
| 13630s | okay so he's gonna skip all corpse |
| 13631s | refiner and then he's freezing the other |
| 13633s | two minions uh because they are good |
| 13636s | milkers for the corpse refiner yeah this |
| 13638s | is what I was initially looking at I |
| 13640s | I'll be honest I probably didn't go far |
| 13642s | enough flat down to keep the freeze but |
| 13644s | yeah getting the 3-1 with the extra coin |
| 13646s | next turn and then the corpse there |
| 13648s | seems decent because not the best minion |
| 13650s | in the world it's only a full build |
| 13651s | around but it might pay off later on |
| 13653s | right |
| 13657s | early damage kicking out there from |
| 13658s | hollyoak |
| 13663s | oh okay |
| 13665s | already got the triple locked up is this |
| 13667s | about the time for some spam level in |
| 13669s | subtle is this where all the X at right |
| 13671s | now uh could very well be yes uh triple |
| 13675s | locked up coming in a number of turns so |
| 13678s | you kind of need to make the decision |
| 13679s | now as to whether you want a five |
| 13682s | whether you want a six what you want to |
| 13683s | be looking at it's a very simple rule uh |
| 13686s | if you have a triple waiting in the shop |
| 13687s | the amount of gold that you have when |
| 13690s | you pressed the the hero power that |
| 13692s | throws it is essentially The Tavern |
| 13694s | minion that you will get if you then |
| 13695s | level every turn from that point so if |
| 13697s | you hear a powered it on six gold it'll |
| 13699s | end up as a six drop it's just really |
| 13701s | easy way to remember it tricks of the |
| 13703s | trade here this is a little extra bonus |
| 13705s | content from Saul giving away Secrets I |
| 13707s | like it |
| 13708s | now here though isn't this off |
| 13710s | interesting choice of death rattles so |
| 13713s | scarfin or Radio Star |
| 13715s | I mean this is don't think take Radio |
| 13718s | Star for me a hundred times over you |
| 13721s | have the fish so it's just Mega economy |
| 13724s | all day long which I love seeing |
| 13726s | but at the same time scalfin is the |
| 13729s | opposite right you could just absolutely |
| 13731s | milk scarf in for an inch of its life oh |
| 13735s | well okay oh the play around oh get |
| 13738s | robbed Sauron already on having tier |
| 13742s | four and doing what you said right |
| 13744s | taking |
| 13745s | um the extra health and saying instead |
| 13747s | of playing like a normal game what do I |
| 13749s | want to do with this health what is that |
| 13751s | shop |
| 13752s | bad so set it all on fire and give me |
| 13755s | something else please at least there's a |
| 13757s | Target or free role yeah okay okay so |
| 13759s | much actually saved yeah obviously into |
| 13763s | a matron yeah yeah our ring matron not |
| 13765s | in matron there we go |
| 13767s | just just oh matron |
| 13769s | just yeah I do oh matron |
| 13772s | um yeah when you're four on four I think |
| 13774s | matron is the number one card you want |
| 13775s | to see it's one of the biggest stat |
| 13777s | sticks available in the game if you get |
| 13780s | it super early yeah |
| 13782s | oh okay well nice little triple |
| 13785s | available for the Lee in the near future |
| 13787s | guessing that's gonna is it gonna greet |
| 13789s | this and level it I feel like you might |
| 13791s | just take it now just because I don't |
| 13794s | think I can retain self-respect while |
| 13796s | buying any of these other minions okay |
| 13797s | Lee disagrees I suppose actually you |
| 13800s | have infinite gold right probably |
| 13802s | already you probably just level by next |
| 13805s | turn yeah but you can't sell any of the |
| 13807s | any either of the Pirates to take triple |
| 13810s | so it's still a little bit awkward I |
| 13812s | honestly might have just taken a four in |
| 13814s | that spot |
| 13819s | hard to say |
| 13820s | yeah it's always difficult because we |
| 13824s | don't know what Lee's going for right |
| 13827s | because again of course early on in in |
| 13830s | this matter I would say as well is that |
| 13832s | you just and in general I guess for |
| 13834s | Battlegrounds you're just buying good |
| 13835s | stuff and then your hit defines a lot of |
| 13838s | your build |
| 13845s | so Sauron here definitely just trying to |
| 13848s | uh not a lot of this goes through but we |
| 13850s | can see this is not the comp he really |
| 13852s | wanted to run into |
| 13854s | uh okay |
| 13856s | Patchwork I'll be wanting these to go |
| 13857s | left they do not go left oh okay okay |
| 13859s | yeah decent fight not bad at all only |
| 13861s | three extra damage from the minions I |
| 13863s | think that's reasonable considering how |
| 13865s | aggressively he's level |
| 13867s | yeah so what four on four for the |
| 13869s | patchwork uh still lost the next fight |
| 13871s | and they have as much health as Shadow |
| 13873s | walk starts the game with pretty much so |
| 13876s | you can kind of see what the strategy is |
| 13878s | with the hero |
| 13881s | that's an incredibly early underhanded |
| 13884s | dealer and you get two of them yeah sure |
| 13886s | I like it |
| 13888s | actually yeah looking at it I suppose |
| 13890s | I'm not thinking voon when I was talking |
| 13892s | last time because this lines up so |
| 13893s | perfectly to just get the five drop |
| 13895s | triple into your hand into the Duke so |
| 13897s | yeah this makes perfect sense actually |
| 13903s | however this works out really nicely for |
| 13905s | oleek who I believe was working on a |
| 13907s | pretty greedy curve with maiev and now |
| 13909s | is gonna get a very nice fight again |
| 13912s | against a very weak opponent and if we |
| 13914s | can take a look at what oleek is doing |
| 13915s | with his uh his triple action does have |
| 13919s | that uh double imp or triple imp uh |
| 13921s | locked up I think just a lot of dudes uh |
| 13923s | there's a couple of the Rhythm Riders on |
| 13925s | there as well classic dudes yeah |
| 13928s | the stuff |
| 13931s | perfect okay |
| 13934s | so I think if oliak had literally seen |
| 13937s | what his opponent was working with on |
| 13938s | the other side he would have just held |
| 13940s | on to this because yeah he's already big |
| 13942s | enough to be winning the fight on the |
| 13943s | other side and just walking away with a |
| 13946s | light Fang from all of his early game |
| 13947s | hard work is uh not really ideal it has |
| 13951s | to be said It's Tricky isn't it because |
| 13952s | like light Fang is immediate well |
| 13955s | blanchy is just a better minion overall |
| 13958s | but obviously Ole X just nowhere around |
| 13961s | a scenario of Banshee being good and I |
| 13964s | don't yeah and think beasts are in here |
| 13965s | right right exactly black she's in for |
| 13968s | Undead there's no Feast so that does |
| 13970s | make it significantly weaker because you |
| 13972s | don't have the opportunity to do banana |
| 13974s | Shenanigans with it oh wait there's no |
| 13976s | Naga either sir there's Naga we just did |
| 13980s | they had uh glow scale in the triple |
| 13981s | just then oh glow scale yes sorry yeah |
| 13983s | yeah because that's another one that can |
| 13985s | work with Blanche right if you start |
| 13987s | shocking the Buffs yeah |
| 13993s | satellite oh |
| 13998s | nothing to uh |
| 14000s | too amazing coming from this shoulder |
| 14002s | walk though right in terms of the hero |
| 14003s | power yes |
| 14006s | yet |
| 14008s | joke's definitely gonna help though |
| 14019s | yeah it had to go a long time really |
| 14021s | without a a good choice |
| 14025s | for the shadow walk hero power |
| 14027s | been left wanting a little bit it |
| 14029s | definitely feels like the other end of |
| 14030s | the stick from what we saw from shoulder |
| 14032s | walk earlier today right where it was |
| 14034s | just the juice whereas this is just the |
| 14036s | scraps |
| 14038s | at some point as well I'd love to jump |
| 14040s | over to uh to Ayanna say we are going to |
| 14042s | check out Lee first just seeing there |
| 14044s | getting that doubling up from the boom |
| 14045s | from the previous turn wait what's |
| 14047s | happening |
| 14048s | I guess nothing's been sold yet right I |
| 14050s | was like why is actions happening |
| 14052s | without the dealer on board but no I |
| 14054s | guess no gold has been gained yet at |
| 14056s | this point so it kind of makes sense |
| 14057s | that's a Peggy |
| 14060s | I think we probably want one of those |
| 14061s | that's a peglin oh subtle are you proud |
| 14068s | oh yeah this is the stuff right here |
| 14072s | this is just it's just a triple printing |
| 14074s | machine right you just get four copies |
| 14076s | of the first minion that you attack it's |
| 14078s | very funny yeah this is great |
| 14081s | so what you want to do now is uh cue |
| 14084s | into nazoth and then you just snipe |
| 14086s | their fish with your radio right at the |
| 14089s | start yeah so it'll go straight to not |
| 14091s | how could I win how can I hold the most |
| 14093s | cards correct |
| 14095s | that's what this game's about whoever |
| 14097s | has the most cards in their hand at the |
| 14098s | end of the turn is winning |
| 14102s | ready to ride |
| 14106s | and they're getting buffed as well |
| 14107s | that's actually really strong isn't it |
| 14109s | you fill your hand and then both of them |
| 14110s | but it's actually annoying because I |
| 14111s | think the way those stats got |
| 14113s | distributed only one of the Buffs is |
| 14116s | going to Triple into the triple because |
| 14117s | they landed at the extreme edges |
| 14120s | oh |
| 14121s | one help |
| 14124s | one Health is all you need Raven without |
| 14126s | being a greedy boy you can't buy the |
| 14129s | demon dog though |
| 14132s | true |
| 14134s | well those all kind of sucked didn't |
| 14136s | they yeah I was even looking at mantid |
| 14138s | to just try and not die |
| 14142s | go and you know what I need to go all in |
| 14144s | here |
| 14145s | oh what is happening |
| 14155s | yeah I think you just play the boogie |
| 14157s | monster turn this turn right you just go |
| 14159s | one two three four five six as best you |
| 14161s | can or like one to five because six will |
| 14163s | be a little bit tricky |
| 14165s | yeah already had the two in the one in |
| 14167s | hand sorry with that extra risen Rider |
| 14169s | which was nice does have yeah Gambler |
| 14171s | for two who's getting that might involve |
| 14174s | having to bail out of the scar yeah yeah |
| 14177s | I respect it |
| 14179s | wait you just played the one first I |
| 14182s | guess you had to yeah sure |
| 14187s | and then you go three four five and you |
| 14190s | just play double Baron or double Titus I |
| 14192s | guess if we're being official |
| 14195s | Riven there |
| 14199s | better hire a recruit yeah you just rock |
| 14202s | this on board yeah sure okay triple |
| 14205s | printing machine activate across your |
| 14207s | fingers and pray oh I I really really |
| 14211s | hope you had to say survives just |
| 14214s | because I need to see this in action for |
| 14217s | a little bit longer because it is |
| 14218s | disgusting but glorious |
| 14220s | hey come on why wouldn't you want to |
| 14223s | play the game like this surely this is |
| 14225s | more fun |
| 14228s | right so now hit the Gnomes |
| 14231s | okay VT VT is Big this looks fine this |
| 14235s | looks fine |
| 14237s | um |
| 14238s | um wait Peg is with this |
| 14241s | double golden Peggy with a triple |
| 14244s | printing machine alive and you feel |
| 14247s | danger opponent okay not yet no you did |
| 14250s | you 15 jeroponin |
| 14258s | oh wait |
| 14260s | nice workout |
| 14262s | so stupid but so great what do you mean |
| 14266s | celebaron all right I revoke no I revoke |
| 14269s | your mega greed card no it's over it's |
| 14271s | gone |
| 14272s | so it's a line you can greet oh my |
| 14276s | you can greet too much |
| 14278s | it's got to be toughest right I mean one |
| 14281s | of those cards does say Tapas on it yeah |
| 14283s | one of those cards is just infinite |
| 14285s | money because you're gaining about eight |
| 14287s | gold per two oh I guess not anymore with |
| 14289s | the Barons no you're not you just killed |
| 14291s | your triple breeding machine |
| 14295s | it's fine look at the Double golden |
| 14297s | Peggy Soul levels |
| 14300s | okay you can have your mega greed card |
| 14302s | back it's fine you can keep it it's okay |
| 14305s | I apologize |
| 14311s | this is turn nine you're so big for turn |
| 14314s | nine isn't this just absolutely fine |
| 14319s | take this it's still going yeah you're |
| 14322s | still going oh everything's fine |
| 14328s | fell stomper really good yeah you can |
| 14329s | end on scally now with the first Stomper |
| 14334s | pump the pirate good like plus 18 health |
| 14336s | or so yeah really tricky roll wow cheeky |
| 14340s | cheeky boogie monster buff as well |
| 14343s | from the fail stompercut oh yeah six |
| 14345s | right yeah yeah I didn't even think |
| 14347s | about that I kind of forgot we were |
| 14348s | still at six yeah |
| 14355s | uh yeah not close that's looked quite |
| 14358s | good right |
| 14360s | definitely afford to Greed here so I was |
| 14363s | like look they could have been two River |
| 14364s | dust on the board there could have been |
| 14372s | oh no I respect you because like I if I |
| 14375s | kept the rivendez I probably wouldn't |
| 14376s | have leveled to six and honestly I feel |
| 14379s | like that is one of my big problems is |
| 14380s | when I do get like hyper economy builds |
| 14382s | I don't recognize that like okay well |
| 14384s | leveling to six cost ten but I do have |
| 14386s | 18 gold this turn so that's probably |
| 14389s | just fine |
| 14390s | um so I think leveling to six and then |
| 14391s | balancing the greed by getting out of |
| 14393s | the rivendez is fine right like you used |
| 14395s | your triple printing machine for a win |
| 14397s | condition and you found a win condition |
| 14399s | double golden Peggy is a win condition |
| 14401s | by any stretch of the imagination one |
| 14404s | thing I didn't think we were going to |
| 14405s | see today was the uh a skill on turn |
| 14408s | what 10 with a mini murmured and it's |
| 14410s | the only card in hand that was not on |
| 14412s | the uh on my bingo card at least |
| 14416s | I'm gonna go back to Lee now |
| 14423s | Belcher |
| 14425s | that's aboutchin |
| 14432s | I've also seen a lot more release than I |
| 14433s | thought I was going to say |
| 14435s | at least it's really good yeah at least |
| 14436s | it's really really I think I just |
| 14438s | underrated it honestly |
| 14442s | what we're not satellite right now |
| 14445s | so we are really playing Dodge the Reno |
| 14447s | right now it's one of those situations |
| 14449s | where uh Health total does really not |
| 14451s | indicate the relative strength of the |
| 14452s | people in the lobby |
| 14457s | uh uh slightly convoluted request but |
| 14460s | could you show us who re are perfect |
| 14462s | Lorinda Synergy is there as always |
| 14464s | before I'd even finish speaking |
| 14467s | Ollie has not dodged the Reno the one |
| 14471s | positive the One Shining sliver of light |
| 14474s | in the darkness is that no one can die |
| 14477s | right sorry sorry no one oh yeah |
| 14481s | yeah not no one I was trying to look at |
| 14484s | everyone's board |
| 14485s | um so that is something so if he's gonna |
| 14488s | have it let's just pretend there's a |
| 14489s | world where this is his bad fight right |
| 14491s | now's the time |
| 14497s | I mean he does have a Venom scan in this |
| 14500s | uh okay if it happens in that order less |
| 14503s | good because uh he wanted the baron to |
| 14506s | go first right and then get double value |
| 14509s | but still just would not happen close |
| 14512s | let's be honest so many stats |
| 14520s | oh five plus four that's gone nine |
| 14524s | Ty bill taking a smacking |
| 14528s | a rough one there didn't first out |
| 14530s | especially with everyone else just |
| 14531s | hanging on for just that whole extra |
| 14532s | turn and again so uh I think we already |
| 14535s | went past this we've already done this |
| 14537s | one but turn 11 and only one person dead |
| 14539s | yeah yeah for sure |
| 14542s | I think that is one of the number one |
| 14544s | things like if you were to you know if |
| 14546s | you were a good player and you start on |
| 14547s | a new account and climb from zero MMR |
| 14549s | one thing you notice very steeply as you |
| 14553s | start to climb up the MMR rankings is |
| 14555s | how much better good players are at just |
| 14557s | surviving just finding a way to live one |
| 14561s | more turn |
| 14562s | so I think in the lower uh scale lower |
| 14564s | end of the MMR people just are just |
| 14566s | doing their thing right it's like it's |
| 14569s | not how do I survive what could my |
| 14571s | opponent have they're just doing their |
| 14573s | thing well it looks like it's time for a |
| 14574s | barov's blessing Sauron versus mega Alex |
| 14577s | JP uh both hands I'll tell you now |
| 14581s | Lauren's done this on purpose |
| 14586s | Battle Master with a 59 592 on the board |
| 14595s | um Second Battle Master with 223 okay |
| 14601s | fell back for some extra attack juice |
| 14604s | but then we've got one Leroy one poison |
| 14607s | two poisons three poisons four poisons |
| 14610s | five poisons a Leroy and two fish that |
| 14613s | will each get a LeRoy inside it have I |
| 14615s | have I uh sold you just typing it out |
| 14619s | now mate okay |
| 14623s | yeah it's also just like I was looking |
| 14625s | at what the Blaster does right well it |
| 14628s | just doesn't not enough yeah look at the |
| 14631s | size of this battle bastard I respect it |
| 14634s | it's a casual 1000 help |
| 14637s | Soren doesn't yet look miserable so I'm |
| 14640s | wondering if I am missing something here |
| 14643s | but I don't think I possibly can be no |
| 14646s | no oh my God it's over yeah |
| 14653s | look into bad at all as a mega Alex |
| 14658s | dispatches are sorry out of the game and |
| 14661s | that's gonna be oh Lee's gun as well |
| 14663s | he's gone as well oh and thesaurus |
| 14666s | Gianna say he's still hanging around on |
| 14667s | one HP one HP is all you need |
| 14671s | oh so that was three players out in |
| 14674s | fifth six seven four |
| 14677s | is Alia Quinn as well |
| 14681s | this game three might get very close |
| 14684s | subtle I think it might all come down to |
| 14686s | this game three |
| 14688s | did you like bandwagon this game olliek |
| 14690s | okay yeah |
| 14692s | not bad |
| 14693s | uh we tied right you got to Sir yeah we |
| 14696s | tied on biomack in this game |
| 14697s | in my eyes the Sorrows one tear above |
| 14700s | [Laughter] |
| 14702s | they leave that's extra points |
| 14703s | fine |
| 14705s | I don't yeah if I'd have waited I don't |
| 14707s | know when nah Reno hero power probably |
| 14709s | didn't happen before turn four right but |
| 14711s | if I saw a Reno hero power just a pure |
| 14714s | force of will I would have been I was |
| 14716s | tempted to Reno because I picked Reno in |
| 14717s | the previous one just for High Roll |
| 14718s | potential but I thought you know what |
| 14720s | scabs is a bit of a you know |
| 14722s | a bit of a strong pick I thought and |
| 14724s | I've seen notes so I did okay but I |
| 14726s | don't think anything crazy came out |
| 14727s | scabs unfortunately |
| 14729s | I definitely did pick purely based on |
| 14731s | hero |
| 14732s | yeah big natural buff to n'zoth by the |
| 14734s | way that we haven't really talked about |
| 14735s | uh upbeat Duo is just in every single |
| 14737s | Lobby of Battlegrounds so if you find |
| 14739s | that you can just get yourself a second |
| 14741s | fish absolutely no problem |
| 14744s | um and you can see just from that |
| 14745s | straight up one Leroy and now Mega Alex |
| 14749s | just has the ability to trade one for |
| 14750s | one with any three minions as an |
| 14752s | absolute bare minimum so n'zoth really |
| 14755s | really good in a beast Lobby of course |
| 14757s | that's the one that I think everyone |
| 14758s | will be super aware of but uh actually |
| 14760s | uh n'zoth murlocs because of your Venom |
| 14763s | scan potential is actually very very |
| 14765s | strong as well |
| 14767s | yeah turns out uh the duo decide had |
| 14769s | never heard the uh give a man of fish |
| 14771s | versus teacher Mana fish it does in fact |
| 14773s | just give you a fish yeah |
| 14776s | if you give you if you give a man an |
| 14778s | infinite fish printing machine then |
| 14780s | that's just the best of all worlds |
| 14784s | word how Machine Heavy we're going in |
| 14787s | Hearthstone right now seems to be a lot |
| 14788s | of printing machines going on |
| 14791s | and Yanna say just got deleted |
| 14795s | they're all three leroys wow oh no the |
| 14797s | first the first one it's okay yeah yeah |
| 14801s | yeah there wasn't there was not a LeRoy |
| 14803s | in the first fish because of the attack |
| 14805s | order didn't attack the Leroy early |
| 14806s | enough in the fight so it actually gets |
| 14808s | away with it yeah and to be fair to live |
| 14811s | one more fight to be fair to me or Alex |
| 14813s | like unlikely right there was just two |
| 14816s | taunts |
| 14818s | now I think that was yes sorry that was |
| 14821s | Mega Alex getting the yeah getting the |
| 14823s | ghost |
| 14828s | so good because now we've just seen like |
| 14831s | venomous scam |
| 14833s | yet another comp that we've not really |
| 14835s | seen too much of yes and I would like |
| 14837s | our deer Observer Lorinda to take note |
| 14839s | of this because we've had some practice |
| 14840s | sessions between the three of us I say |
| 14842s | practice sessions it's mostly been |
| 14843s | subtle shouts at the other two about how |
| 14845s | to play Battleground sessions let's be |
| 14847s | honest |
| 14848s | um but Lorinda has said on several |
| 14850s | occasions that he felt he feels like |
| 14851s | with the the poison to venomous change |
| 14853s | that there isn't really a way to fight |
| 14855s | back against big stats anymore but kind |
| 14858s | of seeing two players fight back against |
| 14860s | big stats with Venom scams right so I |
| 14862s | just feel like that needs to be pointed |
| 14864s | out to our dear Observer who can't fight |
| 14866s | back and can't talk and is much more |
| 14869s | likable when that's the case |
| 14871s | but it's a good person I am I will leap |
| 14874s | to the defense one is n'zoth which |
| 14877s | definitely helps yeah that does help |
| 14880s | with two fish |
| 14884s | yeah it's just cool seeing all the |
| 14885s | different effects and there how the |
| 14887s | players are approaching these matchups |
| 14889s | because it does feel like nothing's |
| 14890s | standard at least for now yeah |
| 14894s | well we shall see I mean Janice might |
| 14896s | still find a way out of this with the |
| 14897s | win but I think he's gonna have to bring |
| 14899s | a little bit of tech into proceedings |
| 14900s | doesn't have the cleave pirate right now |
| 14902s | as far as I remember which I think is a |
| 14904s | big big deal but yeah you can see some |
| 14907s | of the tech now starting to come out |
| 14908s | right base skills and tunnel blasters |
| 14910s | starting to come out to play to start to |
| 14912s | absorb some of these uh little scammy |
| 14914s | builds that are coming out on the other |
| 14915s | side |
| 14916s | yeah there's one venomous for a venomous |
| 14918s | trade |
| 14922s | Shields already I'm taking one out oh |
| 14925s | man |
| 14933s | that's just what do you know for arena |
| 14935s | right good enough Arena yep Reno once |
| 14937s | again living |
| 14938s | much tougher fight that Jana sayon Reno |
| 14942s | has to go back to I think I think Mega |
| 14944s | Alex is a much bigger problem for him to |
| 14946s | solve |
| 14947s | can you get ghosts |
| 14949s | oh is it his ghost fight is his ghost |
| 14951s | fight right right it's these two against |
| 14953s | each other now yeah yeah you're |
| 14954s | absolutely right |
| 14958s | which is rough for Mega Alex because I |
| 14961s | think he's a little weaker against this |
| 14963s | from satellite than he actually is |
| 14965s | against the strongest person in the |
| 14966s | lobby right now |
| 14968s | for the Divine Shields though |
| 14971s | true yeah no that is which helps a |
| 14973s | little you know which can help it |
| 14974s | doesn't necessarily will help but it can |
| 14976s | help |
| 14980s | but yeah base skills are going to end up |
| 14982s | being crucial in these late game battles |
| 14984s | because of the way venomous Works uh a |
| 14986s | skill being able to pop venomous from |
| 14988s | your opponent and then pull something |
| 14990s | out from your hand which then you know |
| 14992s | potentially has free reign against |
| 14993s | something that doesn't have venomous on |
| 14995s | the other side |
| 14996s | can be a huge huge deal |
| 14999s | stealth on one fish Divine shield on the |
| 15001s | other I love it love to see that |
| 15008s | also you'll see here using a little bit |
| 15011s | of the Critter Wrangler if you want to |
| 15012s | just go back for a second Lorinda the |
| 15014s | Critter Wrangler there is on the board I |
| 15016s | think just trying to pump the stats on |
| 15019s | the minions a little bit so that he can |
| 15021s | play around like Baron blaster for |
| 15023s | example just being able to Nuke |
| 15025s | relatively small minions just trying to |
| 15027s | get a little bit of permanent stats on |
| 15028s | his minions to play around some of those |
| 15030s | tech cards it's already doing a good job |
| 15032s | of the zap right the anti-zap anyway for |
| 15035s | sure |
| 15037s | be a spicy one though I'm not 100 sure |
| 15039s | who I like in this yeah it's gonna be |
| 15041s | real real close |
| 15044s | reborn on one of the mantids but not on |
| 15047s | the other side though that could end up |
| 15049s | being a real deal breaker device |
| 15052s | Leroy as well |
| 15055s | I think it's already too much right |
| 15058s | very good he's uh these two fish are |
| 15061s | pretty beefed up right now yep there's |
| 15063s | at least three more leroys to go off so |
| 15065s | there's no possible way for the shadow |
| 15066s | walk to win it's just a matter of trying |
| 15068s | to tie and that cannot happen either is |
| 15070s | the nazoth on six yes they are so that |
| 15073s | is going to be 12 damage and we are |
| 15075s | going to have the ultimate scam versus |
| 15077s | stats Showdown there's a tale as old as |
| 15079s | time as far as Battlegrounds goes and |
| 15081s | also as well yes Janice popped off with |
| 15084s | the double Peggy play earlier and I know |
| 15086s | that's this is a game that will live |
| 15089s | forever in subtle's memory just for how |
| 15091s | crazy that was earlier on uh with the |
| 15093s | peggies but yeah this is I would say |
| 15095s | still done a good job to hang on because |
| 15098s | any slip up and he could have been out |
| 15100s | turns and turns ago right |
| 15103s | yup I mean I would still have a golden |
| 15105s | Radio Star on my balls right now this |
| 15108s | Soul splitter would be in play as well |
| 15110s | giving the Radio Star uh reborn I'd have |
| 15114s | golden Baron I'll be having such a good |
| 15116s | time and also be dead |
| 15117s | and also have got no points yeah |
| 15127s | yeah arguably as well even doing a turn |
| 15131s | later would have been a problem for you |
| 15133s | NSA right yeah obviously based on their |
| 15135s | health because they could have easily |
| 15136s | been knocked out yeah I I like honestly |
| 15139s | I think they would have survived being |
| 15141s | greedier for a couple of more turns for |
| 15143s | sure but at the same time so the best |
| 15145s | way to present this argument right |
| 15147s | yanase does not appear to have needed to |
| 15150s | have been greedy right so why take the |
| 15152s | risk of Being Greedy he's here he's in |
| 15154s | top two he has all the stuff that he |
| 15155s | could possibly need so why bother being |
| 15158s | greedier and take the risk of dying at |
| 15159s | that point |
| 15160s | I think in this results oriented world |
| 15162s | of this game he would have survived |
| 15164s | being a little bit greedier but why |
| 15166s | bother look at this board let's see if |
| 15170s | you can stay on top |
| 15174s | well here we go leave |
| 15176s | Mega Alex needs this cleave to stay left |
| 15179s | it does not that is a fish down |
| 15185s | oh they did hit the big one again oh |
| 15187s | there's just too much too much yeah yeah |
| 15190s | it's too many actual just minions |
| 15193s | doing the best |
| 15196s | has come out oh no |
| 15198s | no |
| 15201s | I thought the magic was still coming for |
| 15204s | eign damage is going to get there gonna |
| 15208s | say I think a little bit fortunate to |
| 15211s | take that one at the end there was the |
| 15213s | fight uh two two fights previous right |
| 15215s | or three fights previous the last time |
| 15217s | that fight happened where attack order |
| 15220s | went in such a specific way that the |
| 15222s | Leroy didn't die until the fish in like |
| 15225s | fourth position then attacked and then |
| 15227s | that fish did not have a LeRoy in it uh |
| 15229s | if that had gone any other way Janice |
| 15231s | would have been straight up dead at that |
| 15233s | point uh before he had any chance to |
| 15234s | react to the situation what I will say |
| 15237s | though yanase did an incredibly good job |
| 15239s | from that point onwards as to going okay |
| 15241s | I need more than stats now I need to |
| 15244s | start playing my own like base skills |
| 15246s | tunnel Blaster kind of tech stuff to go |
| 15248s | alongside this to make sure that I can |
| 15250s | out poison scam the scammers on the |
| 15251s | other side so really really well played |
| 15253s | game from the other side he's a player |
| 15255s | that I featured very heavily in a Lobby |
| 15257s | Legends graded video last year so he's a |
| 15259s | player that I got to watch very up close |
| 15261s | and really studied a lot of stuff you |
| 15262s | were doing really really good player |
| 15265s | that makes some wild decisions but when |
| 15268s | you really dig into it you can start to |
| 15270s | understand what's going on at a very |
| 15271s | high level really really strongly and |
| 15273s | it's certainly paid off that game with |
| 15275s | him taking the victory in the seven |
| 15276s | points we'll give you an update on what |
| 15278s | the uh what the lobby looks like in |
| 15280s | terms of points shortly but while we get |
| 15282s | the players ready for the next game |
| 15283s | we'll be right back after the break |
| 15301s | thank you |
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| 15484s | welcome back everyone we are getting |
| 15486s | ready for our last game of the day and |
| 15489s | also very importantly the last game of |
| 15490s | this group to see who is going to make |
| 15492s | it to tomorrow's final top eight now |
| 15495s | take a look at the standings and see |
| 15497s | where everyone sits after game two but |
| 15499s | uh if I did the quick and mental |
| 15501s | gymnastics to add up this is going to be |
| 15503s | very very close subtle because look at |
| 15505s | that sort of middle pack of uh of olliex |
| 15507s | Sauron Janice and tesora |
| 15510s | yeah really close on the bubble right |
| 15513s | like Mega Alex and satellite looking |
| 15515s | good but no one really locked in |
| 15518s | unfortunately I think Bill is probably |
| 15520s | locked out from this position which is |
| 15522s | bad for Bill bad for me because he is in |
| 15524s | my fantasy picks as well but I did have |
| 15527s | tasura and satellite who are both kind |
| 15529s | of crushing it right now so over here |
| 15530s | don't worry I had only I can leave okay |
| 15532s | still think I'm doing okay and |
| 15534s | proceedings here but yeah much more |
| 15535s | importantly that whole middle pack of |
| 15538s | tasura down to Lee still has everything |
| 15540s | to play for in this final Lobby let's |
| 15542s | say yeah it's gonna be a lot on the line |
| 15544s | here to the extent where again obviously |
| 15546s | if you just take your eyes away from |
| 15548s | Mega Alex and satellite uh pretty much |
| 15550s | the placements uh or at least very close |
| 15553s | to the placements that we get in this |
| 15555s | Lobby uh are going to be very very close |
| 15557s | to what it looks like and again just |
| 15558s | remind if you join us late the top four |
| 15560s | after this third game in this group are |
| 15564s | gonna join the top four we've already |
| 15565s | had from the first lobby of the day over |
| 15568s | eight different players to make it |
| 15569s | through to tomorrow tomorrow to play in |
| 15572s | that final Lobby which is going to be |
| 15574s | super spicy because we add basically an |
| 15576s | extra rule set on which we'll go over a |
| 15578s | bit more in detail tomorrow yeah and as |
| 15580s | you were talking I stared at that in |
| 15582s | silence for quite a long time and I |
| 15583s | think technically possible one in a |
| 15586s | million that bill can still make it if |
| 15588s | he gets specifically first and then the |
| 15590s | perfect exact order of everyone else |
| 15592s | finishing where he needs to he would |
| 15593s | then have better tie Breakers by Merit |
| 15596s | of finishing first in this Lobby that he |
| 15598s | has to and would actually make it I |
| 15600s | think not an admin don't take anything I |
| 15602s | say seriously |
| 15603s | um but yeah one in a million shot or |
| 15605s | Bill I think is still available but |
| 15607s | realistically Bill does seem kind of |
| 15609s | cooked at this point yeah always a tough |
| 15611s | one but again is just the way the format |
| 15613s | works right these players have three |
| 15615s | games to do their best and bank as many |
| 15616s | points as possible and we see players |
| 15618s | you know manage to do that in different |
| 15620s | ways I think this Lobby is as you kind |
| 15622s | of mentioned uh feels different because |
| 15624s | a good chunk of the players have just |
| 15626s | been doing okay whereas in the previous |
| 15629s | Lobby the previous eight we had um |
| 15631s | earlier today we saw a much sort of |
| 15633s | spikier finishes right so it was all |
| 15635s | like Missouri struggle a little bit and |
| 15637s | be more at the bottom and we saw some of |
| 15638s | the players really Excel I'd be about it |
| 15640s | uh earlier on but for now it's the final |
| 15643s | game of not only this lobby but of |
| 15645s | today's stream with course back tomorrow |
| 15647s | the final top eight for now so I'll take |
| 15650s | us through some of these hero choices so |
| 15653s | dragon's Mac murloc's Naga quill board |
| 15655s | no like real Mega powerhouses I would |
| 15659s | say overall so actually |
| 15661s | weirdly |
| 15663s | big chance for an Etc puzzle box Victory |
| 15666s | because he's just trying to beat me |
| 15669s | Etc is a hero that can invent a win |
| 15673s | condition with cards that don't exist |
| 15675s | right in terms of the the Buddy stuff |
| 15677s | that's available so in a Lobby where |
| 15679s | there's no straight up Powerhouse to |
| 15681s | shoot for ETC is a very very good shout |
| 15683s | overall |
| 15684s | um but you know for example a shadow |
| 15687s | walk really wants these to be available |
| 15689s | so they can start doing broken rilak |
| 15691s | things they do sometimes play nicely |
| 15693s | with Dragons if they can get to that |
| 15695s | point but a lot of other Heroes kind of |
| 15697s | want a specific minion type to be in |
| 15699s | whereas Etc can just kind of go hard and |
| 15702s | just pick broken cards from the hero |
| 15703s | power and try and piece something |
| 15704s | together so might be a decent uh Etc |
| 15707s | shout here especially on yanase who |
| 15710s | knows how to make a win condition now |
| 15712s | but I'm just saying |
| 15714s | you know what I'm in let's do this |
| 15717s | Oh see now it's wrong for me to join you |
| 15720s | on this |
| 15725s | whom do I have faith in |
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| 15732s | season bits of damage getting just poked |
| 15734s | through as we often do in the other |
| 15736s | parts of the game |
| 15738s | Etc of course going for the level nearly |
| 15740s | everyone so far actually going for the |
| 15742s | level that we've seen |
| 15744s | Bill I'm assuming still no uh premium |
| 15748s | Battle Cry offered on turn two uh we I |
| 15752s | suppose yeah with how it stands really |
| 15755s | only the Naga I guess because he took |
| 15756s | the 1-4 on term one he would buy |
| 15759s | rockpool potentially on uh on turn two |
| 15763s | and then just hero power it get the |
| 15764s | double bar no he didn't he bought a Naga |
| 15766s | okay my bad I thought he bought the one |
| 15767s | for instead I mistake |
| 15770s | so yeah no real Choice here I would |
| 15771s | imagine except leveling for two starting |
| 15773s | to look for some good stuff |
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| 15781s | even the hero choice is just not really |
| 15785s | super impactful outside of maybe DTC I |
| 15787s | do like rafam maybe more than I should |
| 15789s | but I've I've loved her a farm since the |
| 15791s | first time I played for fun it's just a |
| 15794s | character that gels with me really well |
| 15795s | for some reason yeah and it's just like |
| 15797s | it's an oh this is what okay so it was |
| 15799s | Jana say that bought the one for got it |
| 15801s | right |
| 15802s | um I was gonna say |
| 15803s | it's an awkward Lobby like as I keep |
| 15805s | talking about the minion types that |
| 15808s | really rules out so many Heroes that you |
| 15810s | kind of be used to seeing win lobbies |
| 15812s | right like there was a brand turned down |
| 15814s | like bran can absolutely run away with a |
| 15816s | Lobby if they have the right minion |
| 15817s | types to play with but this kind of |
| 15818s | isn't that because again rylack is not |
| 15820s | available like it's just such a weird |
| 15822s | mishmash of just kind of the the |
| 15824s | mid-tier minion types that no one's |
| 15826s | really clear on what to go for oh I'm so |
| 15829s | close to changing my pick now |
| 15834s | wty bill I think just picked up two |
| 15836s | Smugglers as sugar what |
| 15840s | maybe they have the mugglers yeah and it |
| 15843s | is it's only a pair but you know a |
| 15845s | couple of dragons away from a good time |
| 15847s | okay I like it I like it |
| 15857s | I think you can win this thing |
| 15861s | we can still pick during turn four right |
| 15864s | you can re-pick until the end of turn |
| 15866s | four yes okay okay |
| 15869s | that's a lot of damage thrown out there |
| 15871s | is Lee of course taking the greedy |
| 15872s | approach with gailway |
| 15876s | oh very mediocre turn three shop |
| 15882s | Lee not looking too Rosie what would we |
| 15885s | have preferred here like what are your |
| 15886s | highlight you know uh Tavern tier 3s in |
| 15889s | this line uh in this Lobby what are you |
| 15891s | looking at like deflectos are good uh |
| 15893s | pashma's good just because it's a Yeti |
| 15896s | right you just buy a four or five and |
| 15897s | you're just strong because you have a |
| 15898s | four or five it's pretty powerful |
| 15900s | um there's a couple of things but again |
| 15902s | in a slightly strange Lobby overall yeah |
| 15907s | there is already a Mac in the shop |
| 15909s | though there is the two drop neck |
| 15911s | which is maybe something to consider |
| 15913s | since uh lee will want some kind of stat |
| 15915s | presence right because can't just keep |
| 15917s | getting hit |
| 15920s | no absolutely |
| 15921s | Gail Wing does not start with enough |
| 15923s | Health to keep losing fights like this |
| 15931s | it's all can you translate the Buddies |
| 15933s | uh yes so that is uh with the Illidan |
| 15937s | body so first meaning that attacks is |
| 15939s | immune for one attack and then Edwin |
| 15941s | buddy which is every time you buy a |
| 15943s | minion again plus one plus one so it's a |
| 15945s | seller Minion Okay Plus One |
| 15948s | he might be buying now I knew it was buy |
| 15950s | or sell but now I'm questioning myself |
| 15951s | so whatever you get plus one plus one |
| 15953s | when you do a thing there you go last |
| 15956s | call for the day for any switchings on |
| 15958s | that uh bandwagon I'm sticking when |
| 15961s | these fights are over you are locked in |
| 15963s | for the game and locked in for the day |
| 15965s | yep |
| 15967s | yeah I've stuck to my guns I've decided |
| 15969s | not to switch it up because I I I'm |
| 15971s | picking up what sauron's putting down |
| 15973s | here with the farm going with my gut |
| 15975s | here |
| 15976s | as we can see sorry now you know couple |
| 15978s | of pairs good to go pretty decent board |
| 15981s | for bullying other players in the early |
| 15983s | game which reform is often good at right |
| 15985s | yeah just getting those bigs in early |
| 15987s | and now you know a couple of nice now I |
| 15989s | got to pick up as well if if someone so |
| 15992s | chooses yeah the regular curve here says |
| 15994s | level hero power |
| 15995s | um but lava lurker is |
| 15999s | definitely worth considering |
| 16001s | think probably overpicked ever so |
| 16003s | slightly does go into the patient Scout |
| 16005s | though there are still ways to play this |
| 16008s | turn and still make it a level hero |
| 16010s | power turn but with no economy coming |
| 16012s | off the patient Scout that does seem a |
| 16013s | little bit less likely that's another |
| 16016s | pair because it is |
| 16021s | pair of a taunt minion as well which is |
| 16023s | always worth considering with reform |
| 16024s | because obviously the thing that you |
| 16026s | kill first in combat is more likely to |
| 16028s | be a taunt minion than anything else |
| 16032s | just making it happen yep yep sure I |
| 16036s | think he's far enough ahead right on |
| 16037s | board in terms of board power to do that |
| 16039s | anyway so yeah that's fine well you say |
| 16042s | that |
| 16043s | have you seen this let's see I mean yeah |
| 16046s | okay it's a pretty big |
| 16049s | where does divine shield attack goes is |
| 16051s | gonna be huge okay didn't hit the one |
| 16054s | three big deal |
| 16057s | we have enough to tidy up here looks |
| 16059s | like yeah looks like the curtress is |
| 16061s | fine that's the bad attack and I think |
| 16062s | it's still okay |
| 16065s | oh okay feeling confident about my |
| 16069s | reform |
| 16070s | very very bad attacks in a row there at |
| 16073s | the end |
| 16074s | oh was that it |
| 16076s | Gail Wing wait who's going oh is that |
| 16078s | Lee with a pair of the uh the Bots yes |
| 16080s | pair of the scaling Bots clearly picked |
| 16082s | up a second one on the other turn what's |
| 16084s | it called lolbot |
| 16087s | sounds right |
| 16088s | listen |
| 16090s | uh can we get an Etc update please |
| 16093s | I thought you guys said can we get an |
| 16095s | Omega bot |
| 16099s | it's a funny looking Etc there we go oh |
| 16102s | a little bit ugly |
| 16104s | so level two Tempo based once again |
| 16106s | right yeah so I think the first two |
| 16108s | picks are fine like if you're on Tavern |
| 16110s | two it's everything you get is a little |
| 16113s | bit wishy-washy |
| 16114s | um but last turn I imagine would have |
| 16117s | been level to three and hero power and |
| 16118s | he's ended up with a non-tavern three |
| 16121s | buddy on that turn |
| 16123s | which is a little bit awkward I would |
| 16126s | say overall |
| 16128s | okay Maxwell very good |
| 16131s | Maxwell of course adds your buddy to |
| 16134s | your hand which is make a buddy golden |
| 16135s | so you can just pick one of these |
| 16137s | minions now to make golden for free and |
| 16139s | also plus one gold very nice |
| 16142s | because it is this word always worth |
| 16144s | doing now because I feel like this is |
| 16146s | something you could hold on to for a |
| 16147s | while if you're a Janice it is |
| 16150s | um but |
| 16152s | Etc like there's no finite number of win |
| 16155s | conditions with Etc right it's not like |
| 16157s | if you use your maker body golden you're |
| 16159s | like well that was my one chance never |
| 16161s | again yeah this game you know like you |
| 16163s | will continue to have those |
| 16164s | opportunities on several turns from now |
| 16166s | as you press your hero power |
| 16169s | and again this being the uh the final |
| 16172s | game Yana say is not safe so again |
| 16175s | probably going for the whole let's just |
| 16177s | bag a few points and and feel safe right |
| 16179s | because the United States couldn't run |
| 16180s | uh fourth on eight points |
| 16183s | and as soon as the reform sees this |
| 16186s | board he's gonna be screaming go right |
| 16188s | go right it does not go right okay he |
| 16191s | wants the Maxwell there so he can get |
| 16193s | reformed body into his hand on the next |
| 16196s | turn he could just play reform uh from |
| 16198s | the body meta which would have been |
| 16199s | incredible for him |
| 16207s | we're now with uh with the Illidan |
| 16210s | golden buddy basically cleared up the |
| 16213s | majority of the stats on the reforms |
| 16215s | board straight away oh |
| 16216s | okay we've got a little bit of extra |
| 16218s | damage there not hitting the sixth one |
| 16219s | yeah big damage |
| 16221s | no armor now |
| 16229s | I would be angry for about 36 hours that |
| 16232s | I didn't get that Maxwell I think this |
| 16234s | ShakeOut |
| 16236s | let's go straight into the triple though |
| 16237s | [Music] |
| 16240s | huh |
| 16243s | dracari I mean you do have |
| 16245s | the mech that you just tripled |
| 16247s | that is technically an end of turn off |
| 16250s | yep |
| 16252s | yeah I mean |
| 16255s | oh okay it was between those two right |
| 16257s | yeah it was it was a tough one I guess |
| 16260s | as well there's something yeah right |
| 16262s | there's something going on very mediocre |
| 16265s | picks that have a future if you find the |
| 16267s | right things right but this one is a lot |
| 16269s | better Tempo now so probably it does end |
| 16272s | up being the better decision |
| 16275s | take a look at Megan Alex |
| 16278s | nothing too much going on does have Duo |
| 16280s | though things can always happen with Duo |
| 16282s | yeah two turns from now will probably |
| 16284s | make that a Smuggler triple unless |
| 16287s | anything changes rapidly in the near |
| 16289s | future but it's just spent the game up |
| 16291s | until now buffing a mistake it looks |
| 16293s | like and just getting all of those |
| 16295s | massive health benefits and I know it's |
| 16297s | early to say um but it was there even a |
| 16299s | chance for like a 10 gold level |
| 16302s | that next turn so then the duo then |
| 16304s | triples into six and just you know you |
| 16306s | go straight from there all right thank |
| 16308s | you Alex is currently tied leader with |
| 16312s | satellite 11 points each yeah still 38 |
| 16315s | to play with really depends come with |
| 16317s | the next fight or two right but as long |
| 16319s | as you stay above 31 that's when you |
| 16321s | have 31 or more that's when you feel |
| 16323s | really really secure about doing greedy |
| 16325s | plays because at that point you can get |
| 16326s | hit for 15 not once but twice and still |
| 16328s | right be alive from that point |
| 16331s | see some pigs on the board I'm happy |
| 16336s | what a mixed bag both players have like |
| 16339s | yeah I've got some stuff |
| 16340s | you got stuff yeah cool yeah this feels |
| 16343s | like the sketchiest lobby we've watched |
| 16346s | today right everyone really just kind of |
| 16348s | scrambling for something to do and not |
| 16351s | really hitting super hard and you know I |
| 16353s | did call that out at the start of the |
| 16354s | game it's just that awkward mix of |
| 16356s | Minion types where nothing really just |
| 16357s | screams at you and to an extent like |
| 16360s | none of the you're not gonna write home |
| 16362s | about any of these heroes are you |
| 16363s | outside of Etc |
| 16366s | you see starting to take over |
| 16370s | yo so I'm gonna be honest you've got to |
| 16374s | Maxwell |
| 16377s | you've got to tell me what the one on |
| 16378s | the right does I'm being completely |
| 16380s | honest I don't know |
| 16381s | uh every time it Buffs the shop every |
| 16384s | time you buy a minion Refrigeration for |
| 16386s | the duration of the turn |
| 16389s | yeah etc's existence is there made by |
| 16392s | prep for this tournament about 8 000 |
| 16394s | times harder that is curtress's Buddy |
| 16402s | buddy |
| 16408s | [Music] |
| 16409s | I'm gonna lie Boogie monsters are kind |
| 16412s | of puppet honestly never really looked |
| 16414s | at it in great detail oh the artwork |
| 16416s | yeah |
| 16418s | big fan actually the funny thing is you |
| 16420s | know what song it's singing |
| 16423s | same one as dancing Daryl singing |
| 16432s | duo in the shop always going to take a |
| 16434s | little look see ya |
| 16440s | 22 helps to play with triple printer |
| 16443s | online as well to an extent with uh |
| 16446s | General drakasath right you can see |
| 16448s | we've already got one of those going |
| 16449s | with the smolder wings I believe they're |
| 16452s | called if that's right I'm so proud of |
| 16454s | myself I don't know how I know that if I |
| 16456s | know that |
| 16459s | I suppose I have looked at hands full of |
| 16462s | 10 of them very rarely while playing |
| 16464s | this game |
| 16466s | you've probably seen more of them in one |
| 16468s | game than I've seen in my lifetime |
| 16471s | Brad don't tell the others |
| 16476s | unfortunately just because of like the |
| 16478s | Cadence that actually doesn't speed up |
| 16480s | his triple printing machine at all at |
| 16482s | this point it's still two turns away of |
| 16483s | getting there I suppose it would be |
| 16485s | three turns away without it I guess |
| 16487s | small victories |
| 16490s | enough to hold on here easily for wty oh |
| 16494s | here you go actually when you asked |
| 16495s | earlier if there was any like major comp |
| 16496s | we hadn't seen uh Cruz zesty crooner |
| 16500s | yeah we haven't really seen it going |
| 16502s | not a particularly powerful build |
| 16504s | overall but it is certainly something if |
| 16505s | you do hit it can win a Lobby if you're |
| 16508s | able to to hit early enough and execute |
| 16510s | it and like we've said because the |
| 16511s | format of this tournament if you do hit |
| 16513s | kind of like oleek is kind of hitting |
| 16516s | with all of these here yeah for sure it |
| 16518s | is it could get you top four |
| 16521s | top three top two right even if it |
| 16523s | doesn't dry your strictly wings I do |
| 16525s | feel there's a |
| 16526s | you often are very weak to some venomous |
| 16530s | or Leroy Shenanigans because you're |
| 16531s | often not making tons of big minions |
| 16534s | um but it could be enough again just to |
| 16537s | give you a bit of an update oleic is |
| 16539s | currently set to Joint sixth Fifth and |
| 16542s | but six points and then the people above |
| 16544s | him at eight nine and a half and eleven |
| 16546s | so very catchable if all that can secure |
| 16549s | it like a top four top three maybe yeah |
| 16551s | for sure |
| 16554s | um |
| 16556s | against another another one of those |
| 16558s | things where like even when doing this |
| 16559s | you'd love to be in a lobby with uh |
| 16562s | beasts or Undead in it right because |
| 16563s | then Blanche is available and you one of |
| 16566s | these trip these triples can go fishing |
| 16567s | for Blanche and then you're dumping deep |
| 16569s | blues onto a Blanche as well as a lava |
| 16571s | lurker and you you're getting more |
| 16572s | Equity out of your stats oh here we go |
| 16574s | song |
| 16575s | yo golden Drucker sir okay all right |
| 16580s | witty bill print me some triples this is |
| 16583s | what we want to see even if wty Bill |
| 16586s | does not make it through |
| 16589s | he's going out with a bang |
| 16590s | he's going out with a bang but he missed |
| 16592s | the calicos you can absolutely guarantee |
| 16595s | he is shooting for the skies on this |
| 16598s | calicos and he's not seeing it |
| 16600s | it does get the Makai let's get the |
| 16603s | Mercury up |
| 16605s | and honestly there's so many stats being |
| 16607s | on this turn he might just be big enough |
| 16611s | for Reaper with these |
| 16614s | he's going to be big enough to take on |
| 16616s | this Etc I think and as long as he wins |
| 16618s | this fight against DTC he is Mega |
| 16621s | printing triples again next turn |
| 16624s | yeah this faux Reaper is gonna slap yes |
| 16627s | it is |
| 16629s | I mean we haven't seen Etc in a while so |
| 16631s | all manner of broken things could have |
| 16633s | happened here I would imagine bill |
| 16636s | is bigger |
| 16638s | bill is bigger yes |
| 16642s | oh the immune attack though is a big |
| 16644s | deal isn't it it is |
| 16647s | wait is Bill bigger well that's what I'm |
| 16650s | saying the immune attack is a really big |
| 16652s | deal here way okay that's actually it's |
| 16655s | a very mid-cleve because it only took |
| 16658s | small minions even though it did take |
| 16659s | all three |
| 16661s | bill is smaller they tied |
| 16667s | all right has to be calagos so many |
| 16670s | shots at it this turn magma lock now as |
| 16674s | well but again no Elementals are in so |
| 16677s | you can't give this magma lock Divine |
| 16679s | shield with element of surprise it's |
| 16681s | such an annoying Lobby I can't emphasize |
| 16683s | that enough |
| 16694s | yeah fair enough |
| 16696s | the Dina is a thing something yeah it |
| 16699s | exists a thing |
| 16703s | oh my |
| 16705s | hero power still available |
| 16708s | again |
| 16710s | keep printing |
| 16712s | it's fine you know you just keep |
| 16713s | printing more money you never crash the |
| 16715s | economy it's fine don't worry about it |
| 16725s | hey |
| 16730s | color Goose online |
| 16737s | that 22 feels okay right that's what I |
| 16741s | was gonna say is okay chilling in this |
| 16744s | position I was gonna say he probably is |
| 16745s | getting out the duo even though you |
| 16747s | could argue that duo obviously helps but |
| 16750s | I think the time it takes is you just |
| 16752s | you just get out right I think so yeah |
| 16754s | you've got two calagos you already have |
| 16757s | you know 100 attack minions and you have |
| 16759s | an Adena so you're you're huge for |
| 16761s | plenty of time at this point |
| 16769s | right now |
| 16771s | all right so I'll just lie to us there |
| 16774s | is factually incorrect |
| 16780s | okay nothing this is kind of the |
| 16782s | expected outcome obviously all the Care |
| 16784s | that there are games where you stack way |
| 16786s | earlier than this if you go straight |
| 16788s | into the the buff of course but um but |
| 16791s | it's probably big enough especially with |
| 16793s | the Leroy support here to at least |
| 16795s | survive |
| 16798s | and again that's a uh golden base girl |
| 16805s | no clue what's in the tank for air for |
| 16808s | sorry |
| 16813s | okay |
| 16817s | wait |
| 16821s | stop bouncing over your stuff I can't |
| 16823s | see the numbers oh okay Lee got murdered |
| 16825s | Lee is victim number one of the Calico |
| 16827s | scaling |
| 16830s | okay Alex survives |
| 16832s | yeah polyak makes it |
| 16834s | put Sauron in a bit of a danger zone now |
| 16836s | on 12. you wanna say still big big |
| 16838s | chilling on 30 with the Etc |
| 16841s | what it's a golden duo with calagos and |
| 16844s | bran |
| 16846s | all procking this turn as well but one |
| 16849s | HP yeah |
| 16852s | a much bigger Kelly let's play on this |
| 16855s | turn |
| 16857s | Mega Alex is Mega dead this turn I don't |
| 16860s | I don't think there is any way out of |
| 16862s | this |
| 16863s | Alex obviously well probably does not |
| 16866s | know this |
| 16867s | um but |
| 16868s | I think he'll be very much hoping for if |
| 16870s | he dies he wants there's many other |
| 16872s | people to join him as possible I mean |
| 16874s | you know Raven you Mouse over Shadow |
| 16876s | walk they're on six reading dragons with |
| 16878s | like 12 triples next to their name I |
| 16881s | guess so I guess I know how dead you are |
| 16889s | I don't think there's anything you can |
| 16891s | do though right this Duo still just has |
| 16893s | to go next to calicos Brown and you pray |
| 16895s | okay |
| 16899s | I mean I respect it actually yeah fair |
| 16902s | enough |
| 16904s | like at this point you're just praying |
| 16906s | they haven't taken a nadina right like |
| 16910s | of their 16 triples every time they saw |
| 16912s | in a dinner it was offered alongside a |
| 16914s | Calico so they just took the calicos |
| 16915s | instead and then yeah your poison scam |
| 16917s | can get there kind of thing fair enough |
| 16919s | oh Olek gets the ghost that isn't that's |
| 16922s | nice because time is your friend with |
| 16924s | Naga right every single turn you get to |
| 16926s | stack more is significant absolutely |
| 16929s | yeah |
| 16930s | uh in this last 28 seconds can we get an |
| 16932s | Etc update please and then yeah |
| 16934s | absolutely do want to watch this fight |
| 16935s | see Mega Alex get murdered |
| 16938s | ah |
| 16940s | not a lot going on different from when |
| 16942s | we last dropped in okay slightly bigger |
| 16945s | but also again it's hard it's important |
| 16947s | to remember the double immune attack is |
| 16949s | actually oh I see yeah and with the |
| 16951s | golden kertras buddy every magnetic they |
| 16954s | buy to dump onto the deflectober is just |
| 16956s | getting bigger and bigger and bigger |
| 16957s | because of the shot Buffs okay decent |
| 16959s | plan good battle friend |
| 16962s | thank you |
| 16964s | surprise hello |
| 16968s | wait the Nadine is not on the board by |
| 16970s | the way |
| 16973s | yeah with reborn yeah and that color |
| 16977s | goes just got absolutely |
| 16980s | yeah and the venomous has ended up doing |
| 16982s | very little in the end |
| 16984s | I mean kind of close in the end kind of |
| 16987s | close but yeah this is huge this will be |
| 16989s | impactful though because at the moment |
| 16990s | Mega Alex JP is currently joined top |
| 16993s | with 11 points he's gonna go out now so |
| 16996s | this is a one point game is anyone else |
| 16999s | going to join it |
| 17001s | okay Yanna say is actually fallen behind |
| 17004s | on tempo for the first time now this |
| 17006s | game takes a little damage uh from real |
| 17009s | kurtress as he's over there playing fake |
| 17011s | buddy meta kertras |
| 17019s | a really good value trade actually in |
| 17020s | the end very nice being able to clean up |
| 17022s | the one one first oh oh like zero attack |
| 17026s | came out of his thing that's unlucky |
| 17030s | turn to live for sorry |
| 17038s | wait who did you pick |
| 17041s | for bandwagon yeah |
| 17044s | [Music] |
| 17050s | well I was just talking about how there |
| 17052s | was no real win condition in this Lobby |
| 17054s | apart from Etc yes yeah fine I mean just |
| 17057s | girls do it yeah |
| 17066s | we're going for some kind of a |
| 17068s | obviously buff in the uh the bream also |
| 17071s | maybe going digging for some of those |
| 17073s | poisons as well yeah |
| 17080s | I was gonna say it's probably worth |
| 17083s | taunting the uh the scrap now right it's |
| 17085s | just a lot of stats to give Divine |
| 17086s | Shield too just a big minion yeah |
| 17089s | exactly it's kind of barrels blessing |
| 17091s | time |
| 17093s | final Barrel's blessing of the day and |
| 17096s | an incredibly difficult one there is a |
| 17099s | ton of concealed information in this |
| 17101s | fight |
| 17102s | uh Coral burglar will be X |
| 17106s | X in stats at the start of the fight uh |
| 17109s | bass Gill will summon some x-axis |
| 17112s | um yep we're doing good I'm gonna |
| 17114s | believe in my pick for a bandwagon |
| 17118s | I've already locked it in yeah the coral |
| 17120s | just kind of looks bigger to me not sure |
| 17123s | there's a LeRoy in the tank as well yeah |
| 17125s | Leroy in the tank sure |
| 17130s | see how it goes |
| 17136s | oh there's now a uh venomous in the tank |
| 17139s | yeah that's huge actually because he |
| 17141s | does actually he does have the summons |
| 17143s | for it right he will get three yeah |
| 17145s | that's just such a big deal |
| 17149s | thank you |
| 17150s | a lot of extra stats but |
| 17153s | I think gonna be enough |
| 17156s | still the 12th one to get an attack off |
| 17157s | as well |
| 17160s | I'm gonna head button trade nice |
| 17163s | oh |
| 17165s | it's enough |
| 17167s | planned he's still left in the tank for |
| 17168s | Zara |
| 17170s | hey but about damage pushed as well |
| 17172s | with coral living 16. take some of that |
| 17175s | purchase |
| 17178s | Pro Etc with the secret I imagine that's |
| 17181s | a nice block it has to be a nice flow |
| 17183s | it's not activated it's not gone off yet |
| 17184s | right yeah yeah |
| 17188s | oh you love to see the ice block if |
| 17190s | you're a Yannis a bandwagoner |
| 17195s | I'm an Etc banjo |
| 17198s | calm down friends |
| 17201s | whatever that was had reborn and like |
| 17204s | seven menaces and the Brew Khan hero |
| 17206s | power on it like what how why does it |
| 17209s | have Reborns brought the whole crew it's |
| 17211s | never coming back |
| 17214s | oh oh yeah it's gonna be knocked out |
| 17217s | next |
| 17218s | unfortunately for me again |
| 17222s | uh why is that fantasy team yeah okay |
| 17227s | okay yeah I'll link on Six Points as |
| 17228s | well so I think |
| 17229s | I think we've got eight |
| 17232s | I think that Karen tease oh look does it |
| 17236s | make that hot right because Janice is |
| 17238s | eight as well but Jana says already |
| 17240s | ahead okay |
| 17244s | and Soren still in who was also on six |
| 17246s | with Olio |
| 17247s | so yeah I think so but we'll see we'll |
| 17249s | get through all the results later on of |
| 17250s | course I'm just uh running through it in |
| 17252s | my brain yeah |
| 17254s | meanwhile meanwhile yeah this has |
| 17256s | happened numbers |
| 17258s | [Music] |
| 17260s | no actually as oppressive as it could be |
| 17263s | um looking at the health numbers of |
| 17264s | course because there's been so many |
| 17265s | smolder Wings happening that the uh the |
| 17267s | attack is kind of fake it's just in |
| 17269s | terms of how much has happened uh not as |
| 17271s | impressive as it could be honestly still |
| 17272s | only single Calor Gas with the brand |
| 17281s | oh |
| 17285s | so I like going for more tokens again |
| 17287s | it's always tricky in the situate |
| 17289s | situation as well because |
| 17291s | on one hand this full Reaper is doing a |
| 17294s | ton of work of course yeah but on the |
| 17296s | other could be bigger yeah it could have |
| 17300s | hundreds of attack right it could just |
| 17302s | be any dragon and be a 60 60 by now |
| 17304s | right based on the what we're seeing |
| 17305s | from everything else |
| 17309s | keep up the momentum friend |
| 17312s | cleave is very powerful |
| 17318s | it really is especially when you're |
| 17319s | facing down some Divine Shields |
| 17323s | we're climbing for the Nadine surprise |
| 17327s | yeah I'm not sure these Divine Shields |
| 17329s | are going to get an awful lot of work |
| 17330s | done considering everything that you |
| 17332s | kill summons 12 1 ones again first hit |
| 17335s | was nice though didn't peel off Shield |
| 17336s | yet yeah true |
| 17339s | maybe the uh the full um |
| 17343s | oh yeah there you go see okay yep yep |
| 17347s | clean them up |
| 17349s | um |
| 17351s | look at all these cards |
| 17358s | oh and it looks like oh ATC beats out |
| 17362s | siren couldn't be my bandwagon pit |
| 17365s | killing your bandwagon pick could it |
| 17367s | Raven but if Etc wins so |
| 17370s | do you know how many points I get if Etc |
| 17372s | wins bandwagon turn one choice I'm |
| 17375s | totally fine with that |
| 17378s | I was not informed about how these |
| 17380s | points work I feel like I'm being |
| 17381s | cheated out of things here |
| 17383s | so yeah so I actually a one million |
| 17386s | points if this comes true it's like what |
| 17388s | I'm on like 12. |
| 17394s | the one game I didn't pick is DC as well |
| 17398s | I think more importantly over our petty |
| 17400s | squabbles |
| 17401s | um I believe the honestly went into this |
| 17402s | game on eight points someone went into |
| 17404s | this game six points so specifically |
| 17406s | gonna say smacking Sauron uh has done an |
| 17410s | awful lot of well uh work for Janice |
| 17412s | security like Sauron can just no longer |
| 17414s | make it right at this point also as well |
| 17416s | Soren and Ollie at quad on six and |
| 17418s | they're both true yeah right so that |
| 17421s | that's an extra stepping stone there and |
| 17423s | the odds are feasibly catchable person |
| 17425s | for Sauron is tessera who is also still |
| 17427s | alive in this game so it absolutely will |
| 17429s | not be overtaking Tessa |
| 17435s | by the way good job still being in this |
| 17437s | game with this board from uh from tesora |
| 17439s | really really good work like this board |
| 17441s | does not look like it should be alive |
| 17443s | but clearly uh Tesla has been scrambling |
| 17445s | and making stuff happening |
| 17447s | yeah I think this again might be just a |
| 17449s | really good nod to the position Tesla is |
| 17452s | in because that's where I won the first |
| 17454s | game kind of got not only got two and a |
| 17457s | half points in the second game so again |
| 17459s | being on nine and a half points Tesla's |
| 17461s | like I just need to just grab some |
| 17463s | points right and it's likely that they |
| 17466s | get through so yeah I completely agree I |
| 17468s | think they did a great job and remember |
| 17469s | it was only not long ago that Tesla got |
| 17472s | hit for like 15 right yeah so it was |
| 17475s | actually very healthy for the majority |
| 17477s | of this game |
| 17479s | I think we are saying no we're saying |
| 17482s | goodbye to Yana says ice block this turn |
| 17484s | right because if this is the fight over |
| 17486s | here that means murder bill is murdering |
| 17489s | giannisay right now but I believe Janus |
| 17491s | says ice block is still intact so major |
| 17493s | I believe |
| 17497s | yeah this place okay did not miss |
| 17501s | I don't know if it's going to matter |
| 17502s | based on the sheer volume of things that |
| 17504s | are hitting to Zara right now but still |
| 17513s | getting the job done but that is the ice |
| 17515s | block as mentioned so uh you can see he |
| 17518s | lives to the end of the day |
| 17523s | all right let's have a final hurray with |
| 17526s | the ETC if you don't mind Lorinda Lem |
| 17528s | cook for one more turn |
| 17532s | we are going to see this end for to |
| 17534s | Sarah but I think Sarah did a great job |
| 17535s | as we said |
| 17539s | oh it appears they're discover broke at |
| 17541s | some point along the road here or did |
| 17543s | they already take the uh the illidari |
| 17545s | I'm not sure if it's already done or not |
| 17548s | uh well they aren't they're on nine gold |
| 17551s | yeah they'll have not sure what's |
| 17553s | attached to them right they'll have plus |
| 17555s | gold magnetized onto the max yeah |
| 17558s | okay |
| 17562s | yep okay firms |
| 17565s | want to find some magnetic if possible |
| 17567s | we haven't really looked at the strategy |
| 17569s | in action but yeah you're kind of seeing |
| 17571s | it here you buy minions the shop gets |
| 17572s | passed you hopefully pick up some |
| 17574s | magnetics to dump onto your mix but it |
| 17576s | just hasn't it's worked fine up until |
| 17578s | this point you can see kind of running |
| 17579s | out of steam at this point |
| 17581s | again important to remember that they're |
| 17583s | getting two immune attacks right which |
| 17585s | is why the left is so heavily stacked |
| 17587s | here for you Anderson yep |
| 17590s | oh |
| 17594s | it's kind of funny that the Omega Buster |
| 17595s | definitely can't go left |
| 17599s | yeah true actually it can't even go |
| 17602s | second to insta reset the deflector |
| 17604s | right yeah yeah weird position you just |
| 17607s | want it with taunt that's what you'd |
| 17608s | want right like an annoying module right |
| 17609s | now yeah |
| 17614s | ah we see the order |
| 17616s | getting messed around with here fiance |
| 17618s | trying to work out whether they want a |
| 17620s | venomous uh immune but that's actually |
| 17622s | change anything right the Venom still |
| 17623s | goes away |
| 17625s | whether they're immune or not |
| 17628s | yeah on board as well I don't know how |
| 17630s | much information the honestly has about |
| 17631s | the about satellites board but I don't |
| 17634s | think venomous has a really big impact |
| 17636s | against what satellites doing |
| 17639s | so you know just see it just in case |
| 17642s | you're curious but a minion has stealth |
| 17644s | it cannot talk |
| 17646s | but yeah venomous not gonna do anything |
| 17647s | because it's all re-summons and divine |
| 17649s | Shields and Cleaves and everything else |
| 17651s | Under the Sun so not sure venomous was |
| 17653s | the direction to go in but honestly the |
| 17655s | reason I said let's have one more turn |
| 17657s | of Etc is I'm pretty sure there was |
| 17659s | nothing the ETC could do to be getting |
| 17661s | out of this fire at this point so Jana |
| 17663s | say who has provided us with some |
| 17665s | excellent entertainment throughout the |
| 17666s | day against their moment in the Sun as |
| 17669s | it looks like they are about to get |
| 17671s | murdered |
| 17673s | yeah looking too good but again really |
| 17676s | good effort there from yanase again |
| 17679s | mainly outlasting the people below them |
| 17682s | was you know plan a right which survived |
| 17685s | longer which means you probably qualify |
| 17687s | and I think again just at a glance we |
| 17690s | will confirm everything after this but |
| 17691s | just at a glance looks like Janice is a |
| 17694s | issue and back when we're still going |
| 17697s | over here |
| 17701s | I will say I don't think this is the uh |
| 17704s | the timeline where wty Bill actually |
| 17706s | qualifies with this no but I'm impressed |
| 17709s | nonetheless this is a good game of |
| 17711s | battleground it's Prevail yeah you are |
| 17713s | seeing at the very least why I had so |
| 17715s | much faith in Bill why building my |
| 17717s | fantasy picks like he's such a good |
| 17719s | player finally executing on something |
| 17720s | and like this isn't even just a game |
| 17722s | where he Mega High rolled right like it |
| 17724s | took him what six or seven attempts to |
| 17727s | find the first calic ghost this game and |
| 17729s | now here we are turned 16 and he's |
| 17731s | finally found the second and also |
| 17742s | either so even more impressive on top of |
| 17745s | that yeah up really well executed very |
| 17747s | very strong player and we'll be going |
| 17749s | out with a win but I do think it is very |
| 17751s | literally going out with a win yeah |
| 17759s | 773. you never finish this turn actually |
| 17765s | yeah wait there's still just a golden |
| 17767s | manted in hand yeah |
| 17770s | why is that there |
| 17773s | uh I mean because you triple like seven |
| 17775s | times every turn and you've just been |
| 17777s | picking mantids every time you see it |
| 17780s | it's just funny that's still in hand |
| 17781s | yeah that's the point it's just like |
| 17783s | yeah I don't need all these it's fine no |
| 17784s | you don't |
| 17786s | I think they're pretty well executed |
| 17787s | turn though does anyone have the power |
| 17789s | to uh Mouse over Bill's portrait and |
| 17792s | tell us how many triples he has please |
| 17793s | because I'm very very curious about that |
| 17795s | if that's at all the possibility |
| 17806s | we can mouse off the Manta Queen now |
| 17807s | though yeah I think either way |
| 17813s | I guess it doesn't matter too much |
| 17814s | because we could just see all of |
| 17816s | brecon's minions dying so that's all we |
| 17819s | need to know |
| 17820s | it's the emotional support Mountain |
| 17822s | Queen that's what's going on right yeah |
| 17825s | these little bot to like we can make it |
| 17829s | yeah wty build there not looking weirdly |
| 17832s | enough not looking too happy at the |
| 17834s | Victory and I think that's just because |
| 17835s | he knows he's not gonna qualify through |
| 17837s | to tomorrow as far as I I'm aware but |
| 17839s | still a fantastic game and showing off |
| 17841s | air the skills 100 |
| 17844s | yeah very very well done but you can see |
| 17846s | the the mixed emotions at first let's |
| 17849s | say |
| 17850s | Bill I'm sure happy to put in a decent |
| 17852s | performance but yeah no that it's not |
| 17854s | going to be good enough in the end but |
| 17855s | yeah that's that's the level of |
| 17857s | competition we have here you know some |
| 17859s | great players were not going to make it |
| 17861s | through uh to the finals and that's the |
| 17863s | situation that bill finds himself in he |
| 17864s | is a great player you can see that |
| 17866s | through the execution of that final game |
| 17867s | but just not enough to get over the line |
| 17869s | in the end the situation we find |
| 17871s | ourselves in is having finished with the |
| 17873s | day with the last game and what you know |
| 17876s | while we just prepare the standings and |
| 17877s | prepare the results and everything for |
| 17878s | you guys like what what almost perfect |
| 17880s | today I would say so because we saw |
| 17883s | everything The Meta has to offer today |
| 17885s | and I thought that was super great like |
| 17887s | we didn't see you know oh it's it's |
| 17889s | beasts every Lobby and everyone's going |
| 17891s | Beast it was just every different |
| 17893s | strategy that you know I'm aware of at |
| 17895s | least was pretty much played out on |
| 17897s | stream today so I've enjoyed that a lot |
| 17899s | yeah and I think like this is genuine |
| 17901s | opinion like this is not paid chill |
| 17903s | opinion I do think we're in a pretty |
| 17904s | good place in terms of balance in the |
| 17907s | Battlegrounds meta right now it does |
| 17908s | feel like your job is your job is just |
| 17911s | to play what you're given right which is |
| 17913s | the correct way for Battlegrounds to |
| 17915s | exist in my opinion is you have to be |
| 17917s | able to react and understand to the |
| 17919s | possibilities of Any Given shop that's |
| 17921s | shown in front of you make the correct |
| 17923s | decisions but essentially just play what |
| 17925s | you're rolling into or play what you're |
| 17927s | being served on anything you can turn |
| 17929s | and I think that's where we're at at the |
| 17931s | moment there's no real indication of |
| 17932s | like force x Force y you have to play |
| 17934s | this every Lobby |
| 17936s | um it really is just a matter of |
| 17937s | anything can win if you hit the right |
| 17939s | stuff and if you're able to correctly |
| 17941s | recognize where your win conditions are |
| 17943s | in any given spot and these are the four |
| 17945s | players that have managed to do that the |
| 17947s | most successfully today satellite |
| 17949s | tessera yanase and mega Alex JP going |
| 17953s | through in the top four very very good |
| 17956s | stuff is there something those players |
| 17958s | have in common there is there is indeed |
| 17961s | satellite is from Japan tessera is from |
| 17964s | Japan yanase is from Japan and believe |
| 17967s | it or not Mega Alex JP is also from |
| 17972s | Japan we warned you okay at the start of |
| 17975s | the day you have to give the Jews to uh |
| 17979s | to Japan you have to give them their |
| 17980s | flowers they are absolutely crushing it |
| 17982s | in Battlegrounds right now and look at |
| 17985s | the lobby we have tomorrow we have |
| 17988s | tombaby shirosa or Shiro USA penguin Sun |
| 17992s | Mega Alex JP satellite to Surah and |
| 17995s | Janice and again just domination so far |
| 17999s | by Japan I don't think we expected |
| 18001s | anything less but a special shout out |
| 18003s | for me for two men honestly a player |
| 18005s | that I was not too familiar with |
| 18006s | whatsoever and I think not only |
| 18008s | obviously have they qualified to day two |
| 18010s | which is a fantastic achievement but I |
| 18012s | think they've had some really cool games |
| 18013s | as well we saw some great plays and |
| 18015s | obviously they won a lobby as well so I |
| 18016s | think that was definitely a play to keep |
| 18018s | an eye on for tomorrow yeah so six out |
| 18021s | of eight in the top eight being from |
| 18023s | Japan before we mentioned plus the two |
| 18025s | from group a as well and then tune being |
| 18027s | thrown in there is a debutant as well no |
| 18029s | previous Lobby Legends uh appearances |
| 18031s | for Tomb so very very well done to be uh |
| 18033s | mixing it with the Japanese Gods this |
| 18035s | time around and we'll see if anyone can |
| 18037s | uh can overthrow because Japan had been |
| 18039s | killing it and as mentioned not just in |
| 18041s | Battlegrounds being constructed as well |
| 18042s | picking up a couple of championships and |
| 18045s | constructed over the last few years as |
| 18046s | well very very well done |
| 18051s | come on |
| 18055s | yeah |
| 18057s | all right |
| 18058s | I've just recovered yeah close isn't |
| 18061s | close enough though is it I never win |
| 18062s | anything so does it feel worse because I |
| 18065s | don't actually think you were that far |
| 18066s | behind in the end or or yeah solace in |
| 18069s | that I I think I just can't be assuming |
| 18072s | I was gonna lose like the wait hang on |
| 18074s | did these still carry over to tomorrow |
| 18076s | they do right |
| 18077s | no we have no this is just today sorry |
| 18079s | this is just yesterday |
| 18082s | oh right well I've gonna have to prepare |
| 18084s | a little bit better one off the draw |
| 18086s | which would have uh which would have |
| 18088s | been interesting because we've both done |
| 18090s | a speech to each other with the draw |
| 18091s | wise combined points from this and the |
| 18094s | barrels blessing there there you go |
| 18095s | there's the final score of everything |
| 18096s | put together so you actually you |
| 18098s | actually beat me in Baron's blessing you |
| 18100s | had the one we tied a bunch and there |
| 18102s | was one that you got right that I didn't |
| 18103s | but yeah apart from that a little bit |
| 18106s | one-sided fantasy team got me |
| 18111s | I should have gone with my actual |
| 18113s | original play was to just pick all of |
| 18116s | the Japanese players that was actually |
| 18118s | gonna be my plan honestly they wouldn't |
| 18120s | look at it for you look at Salt in this |
| 18122s | picture so smug |
| 18124s | even in his still image he's looking |
| 18126s | smug about this Victory uh so that's a |
| 18129s | little bit upsetting for me but I'll be |
| 18130s | honest I expected it and then and yeah |
| 18134s | 427 so if anyone in chat has 427 uh beat |
| 18137s | feel free to add me on Twitter and I |
| 18140s | will block you immediately there you go |
| 18142s | that's just how it works uh yeah that |
| 18144s | unfortunately that does mean I have the |
| 18146s | uh unfun uh challenge or forfeit or |
| 18149s | whatever you want to call it for |
| 18150s | tomorrow and then I'm gonna have to |
| 18152s | write some kind of speech praising |
| 18154s | subtle I guess uh with some uh yeah |
| 18156s | there you go with some Hearthstone |
| 18157s | references in there uh the trickle B is |
| 18160s | whether I can Praise Him whilst also uh |
| 18162s | getting some dicks in there as well |
| 18164s | we'll see so we want my writing skills |
| 18165s | are like probably tomorrow morning at |
| 18166s | this point uh so we will be doing that |
| 18169s | at the start of the show tomorrow as |
| 18170s | well so make sure to tune in straight |
| 18172s | away because |
| 18174s | as if this relationship we have |
| 18177s | isn't already at that stage there's just |
| 18179s | one extra block being put on top of it |
| 18182s | at this point tomorrow so that's gonna |
| 18183s | be a joy |
| 18184s | um hit the Raven let's go pet the Raven |
| 18187s | and channel yeah |
| 18189s | it's gonna be a rough one but I'll try |
| 18191s | and make it entertaining for you guys so |
| 18192s | make sure to tune in if you want to as |
| 18194s | you often do laugh at me it's gonna be |
| 18196s | great but what has been great is today's |
| 18198s | Lobby Legends again another reminder we |
| 18201s | are back same time same place tomorrow |
| 18203s | to find out who our spring Champion is |
| 18205s | going to be and it's going to be |
| 18207s | fantastic if today is anything to to |
| 18209s | measure it by tomorrow is going to be |
| 18210s | absolutely fantastic with even |
| 18212s | potentially even more games being played |
| 18214s | out so from all of us here thanks a lot |
| 18216s | for watching we hope you had a great |
| 18217s | time we'll see you tomorrow |
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