[2023] J CUP 2023 Group SOLO DAY 1

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10s	[Music]
29s	I
38s	[Music]
58s	keep heart
60s	[Music]
62s	and I
89s	don't
126s	[Music]
138s	[Music]
149s	he
179s	for
192s	[Music]
196s	teacher the water here is also
199s	contaminated the contamination is only a
205s	symptom to find the cause we must look
209s	elsewhere
239s	a
328s	spe
356s	for
358s	good
388s	ching
398s	yeah you are
418s	come
429s	what going
448s	Doe
458s	clutch it up with the dagger uses the
460s	elbow and try hard is going to pick up
463s	his fifth try hard has it try hard finds
466s	the
472s	win every know was asked me like who
475s	tryhard is uh tryhard is one of the few
477s	players I ever met that really lives up
479s	to his
480s	[Music]
488s	name my name is Jared Martinez uh I'm a
491s	student at Cornell University and I'm
492s	currently studying cognitive science
494s	playing n Rocka for the first time was
496s	it was definitely like it kind of
497s	clicked for me and I've never even
499s	touched a melee Focus game before and
501s	playing it was kind of like a surreal
502s	experience just because almost
504s	immediately when I first started playing
505s	you could see like how high the skill
507s	scene was at the
508s	game
510s	first thing is that he's really really
512s	smart we all start very very new just
515s	one two three you know focused attack a
518s	lot but try hard within the first two
521s	weeks of the game he realized how good
524s	Perry was and he was one of the first
527s	players to innovate uh you know Dodge
529s	Perry shift Perry we call
534s	it um it started around my sophomore
536s	year of high school I decided to start
538s	competing professionally constantly you
540s	know playing in tournaments throughout
541s	the year and you know I wasn't always
543s	you know someone who was winning I
545s	actually started out not even placing
546s	very high in the first Regional
547s	Championship and you know I told myself
549s	that uh you know I wouldn't ever let
551s	that happen again I wanted to be someone
552s	that was you know consistently
556s	placed try hard is a very unique player
558s	that if he sees a video of you he
560s	understands you that's something that
562s	most players don't understand about
563s	tryhard is that he watches the game more
565s	than he plays the game because that's
567s	what it takes to be the best player in
569s	the world
571s	[Music]
577s	the world championship is a large span
578s	of time it's such a large period of time
580s	that I have to take off from school and
581s	you know uh at such a crucial point in
584s	my education where you know I'm doing my
585s	college applications I guess one of the
587s	critical decisions I made and it was
588s	time that I had to take away from school
589s	and time taking all that time and
591s	splitting my time to compete even in
593s	day-to-day life um you know competing
595s	does take large part of my week
596s	especially the weekend you know when
597s	there are tournaments that are late at
598s	night um you know sometimes you don't
600s	get a lot of sleep you know it was a big
601s	sacrifice that I had to make uh you know
603s	but it's something I don't regret at
607s	all man he was able to do it all the way
609s	towards the very end here you love to
610s	see it let's go try hard just because uh
613s	last year I felt like I was so close you
615s	know and I was halfway there um and I
617s	just fell short on the second day for
621s	him uh it was heartbreaking cuz he knows
624s	that it was in the grass to have rank
627s	one and this year I know he's done a lot
630s	of work cuz we always say we study the
633s	game more than we play the game going
636s	into Worlds I I have the utmost
637s	confidence that he'll show everyone that
640s	even with more pressure this year he'll
642s	perform as everyone expects
646s	since I'm really excited to you know
648s	participate and be a part of the world
649s	championship in
651s	Shanghai it's always been a goal of mine
653s	to you know practice more efficiently
655s	and practice more um like and dedicate
657s	more of myself to what I'm doing um and
659s	I always feel like there's room for
660s	improvement and everything even if I'm
662s	already considered the best in a certain
663s	region but I would say my goal has never
665s	been to be the best in North America my
667s	goal has been the typically best overall
670s	um so I'm always driving towards
680s	that J cup is one of the biggest
682s	tournaments of the year and it only
683s	makes sense that the best of the best
685s	come here and absolutely dish it out one
688s	by one if I had a team ntl definitely is
692s	looking really good and really strong we
695s	can't talk about Na and not talk about
697s	triy hard no place to go and try is
700s	going to pick up his IDC IDK and all of
702s	these players so it's definely going to
704s	be really exciting to see how well they
706s	do against these nvpl teams it's got to
709s	be a Kuma it has to be a Kuma he's able
712s	to come through and he just he provokes
714s	people he pokes Bears he he's like hey
717s	I'm over
718s	here we got Wang leang having performed
721s	extremely well at the end of the MVP
723s	split take the vict in this I think team
727s	521 coming from the sea region um
730s	playing the game in the way that they
732s	want to play
734s	it I'm going to be focusing a lot on KLA
737s	and xcg those two teams in particular
740s	have been very very consistent in their
742s	play
743s	Styles he spider going to hold up to all
747s	of this hype that he's brought so far
750s	oh he almost was able to but Mike still
752s	Maneuvers and he carries him or is Mike
755s	going to continue his dynasty and him
758s	down and then J's going to shut down
778s	m with each breath pain
794s	Andis
796s	theast a
798s	[Music]
800s	meory that's fading
804s	fast so I
806s	search for you where souls go
810s	[Music]
835s	to I hope we again
845s	[Music]
863s	[Music]
867s	I know we'll again
871s	[Music]
878s	[Music]
888s	[Music]
898s	some the is fren
902s	[Music]
908s	[Music]
921s	[Music]
928s	by
929s	[Music]
930s	to
933s	keep
942s	[Music]
949s	[Music]
954s	and I
957s	know again
961s	[Music]
977s	FL
980s	[Music]
988s	heart
993s	[Music]
999s	[Music]
1017s	some
1027s	[Music]
1042s	[Music]
1047s	come
1049s	[Music]
1066s	[Music]
1077s	he
1107s	h
1115s	teacher the water here is also
1118s	contaminated the contamination is only a
1124s	symptom to find the cause we must look
1137s	elsewhere
1257s	for
1267s	[Music]
1287s	good
1300s	for
1313s	Ching
1317s	yeah you want
1323s	come
1325s	H
1347s	oh
1376s	what Clutch it up with the dagger uses
1379s	the elbow and try hard is going to pick
1382s	up his fifth try hard has it try hard
1385s	finds the
1391s	win everyone want ask me like who triy
1394s	hard is uh try hard is one of the few
1396s	players I ever met that really lives up
1398s	to his
1400s	[Music]
1407s	name
1408s	my name is Jared Martinez uh I'm a
1410s	student at Cornell University and I'm
1411s	currently studying cognitive science
1413s	playing the rocket for the first time
1414s	was it was definitely like it kind of
1416s	clicked for me and I've never even
1418s	touched a melee Focus game before and
1420s	playing it was kind of like a surreal
1421s	experience just because almost
1423s	immediately when I first started playing
1424s	you could see like how high the skill
1426s	scene was at the
1428s	game first thing is that he's really
1431s	really smart we all start very very new
1434s	just one two three you know Focus attack
1437s	a lot but try hard within the first two
1440s	weeks of the game he realized how good
1443s	Perry was and he was one of the first
1446s	players to innovate uh you know Dodge
1448s	Perry shift Perry we call
1453s	it um it started around my sophomore
1455s	year of high school I decided to start
1457s	competing professionally constantly you
1459s	know playing in tournaments throughout
1461s	the year and you know I wasn't always
1462s	you know someone who was winning I
1464s	actually started out not even placing
1465s	very high in the first Regional
1467s	Championship and you know I told myself
1468s	that uh you know I wouldn't ever let
1470s	that happen again I wanted to be someone
1472s	that was you know consistently
1475s	placed tryhard is a very unique player
1478s	that if he sees a video of you he
1479s	understands you that's something that
1481s	most players don't understand about
1482s	tryhard is that he watches the game more
1485s	than he plays the game CU that's what it
1487s	takes to be the best player in the
1491s	[Music]
1495s	world the world championship is a large
1497s	span of time it's such a large period of
1499s	time that I have to take off from school
1500s	and you know uh at such a crucial point
1503s	in my education where you know I'm doing
1504s	my college applications I guess one of
1506s	the critical decisions I made and it was
1507s	time that I had to take away from school
1509s	and time taking all that time and
1510s	splitting my time to compete even in
1512s	day-to-day life um you know competing
1514s	does take large part of my week
1515s	especially the weekend you know when
1516s	there are tournaments that are late at
1518s	night um you know sometimes you don't
1519s	get a lot of sleep you know it was a big
1520s	sacrifice that I had to make uh you know
1522s	but it's something I don't regret at
1526s	all man he was able to do it all way
1528s	towards the very here you love to see it
1530s	let's go try hard just because uh last
1533s	year I felt like I was so close you know
1535s	and I was halfway there um and I just
1536s	fell short on the second day for him uh
1542s	it was heartbreaking cuz he knows that
1544s	it was in the grass to have rank one and
1547s	this year I know he's done a lot of work
1550s	cuz we always say we study the game more
1553s	than we play the game going into Worlds
1555s	I I have the utmost confidence he'll
1558s	show everyone that even with more
1560s	pressure this year he'll perform as
1562s	everyone expects
1565s	since I'm really excited to you know
1567s	participate and be a part of the world
1569s	championship in
1570s	Shanghai it's always been a goal of mine
1573s	to you know practice more efficiently
1574s	and practice more um like can dedicate
1576s	more of myself to what I'm doing um and
1578s	I always feel like there's room for
1579s	improvement in everything even if I'm
1581s	already considered the best in a certain
1582s	region but I would say my goal has never
1584s	been to be the best in North America my
1586s	goal has been the could be the best
1588s	overall um so I'm always driving towards
1599s	that job is one of the biggest
1601s	tournaments of the year and it only
1603s	makes sense that the best of the best
1604s	come here and absolutely dish it out one
1607s	by one if I had to say team ntl
1611s	definitely is looking really good and
1613s	really strong we can't talk about Na and
1616s	not talk about TR hard no place to go go
1618s	and try hard is going to pick up his IDC
1620s	IDK and all of these players so it's
1623s	definitely going to be really exciting
1624s	to see how well they do against these
1627s	mvpl teams it's got to be a Kuma it has
1630s	to be AK Kuma he's able to come through
1632s	and he just he provokes people he Poes
1634s	Bears he he's like hey I'm over
1637s	here we got Wang leang having performed
1640s	extremely well at the end of the
1643s	MVP victory in this I think team 521
1647s	coming from the the sca region um
1649s	playing the game in the way that they
1651s	want to play
1653s	it I'm going to be focusing a lot on K
1656s	and xcg those two teams in particular
1659s	have been very very consistent in their
1661s	play
1662s	Styles hey spider going to hold up to
1666s	all of this hype that he's brought so
1668s	far oh he almost was able to but Mike
1671s	still maneuv and he carries him it or is
1674s	Mike going to continue his dynasty and
1676s	win him down is going to shut down
1685s	[Applause]
1691s	[Applause]
1697s	my Hello World welcome to Shanghai what
1701s	a beautiful day it is the perfect day to
1703s	kick things off here at the 2023
1705s	official nraa blade Point job
1710s	I'm run I'm Moxy and we're going to be
1712s	your hosts and casters live from
1714s	Shanghai live wait can I touch
1720s	we we are here to bring you all of the
1723s	action right here in fact if we walk
1726s	about 30 seconds we get to the stage run
1729s	and that's not just us that's the
1731s	players too absolutely Moxy things are
1734s	going crazy just like the sign behind me
1737s	says these players are here to bring the
1739s	heat and all the action kicks off today
1742s	kicks off today not just the action but
1744s	also some massive changes coming through
1747s	we do have to talk about some of those
1749s	changes we've got a new hero coming into
1751s	the mix we're going to be playing on a
1752s	different patch but run by far of the
1754s	most influential impactful probably
1757s	nightmare inducing for coaches and
1759s	analysts to try to figure out how to
1761s	deal with is the significant shift up of
1764s	the new phase changes that is going to
1766s	make things incredibly spicy and with
1768s	all of the action and breakdown of that
1770s	new rule we've got our boy the ring
1772s	keeper to run that
1783s	VT as of 2023 nraa blade Point World
1787s	Championship Regional qualifiers have
1789s	ended and we're ready to announce the
1791s	group prefinal and Grand final stages of
1793s	the
1794s	event the nraa world championship is an
1797s	Ann annual Esports tournament officially
1799s	held by nraa bladepoint during J cup 18
1803s	trios teams and 18 solos players will
1806s	join together in China to fight for the
1808s	ancient
1810s	cup before talking about the format
1812s	we'll introduce you to the qualified
1814s	teams and players from all five
1817s	regions first there are nine spots for
1820s	the China Mainland region within the
1822s	nine spots three of them come from the
1824s	2023 nbpl summer split champions and the
1828s	other two teams from the J Cup points
1830s	leaderboard the remaining spots will be
1832s	given to the top six from the CN region
1834s	jcup qualifiers the qualified teams from
1838s	North America Europe and Asian all
1840s	qualified from the regional jcup
1842s	qualifiers it is worth noting that in
1844s	the sea region Team 5 to1 who won in
1847s	both trios and solos for the Asian
1850s	challenge were given a ticket straight
1852s	to jcup group stage the other
1854s	qualification spots were determined by
1856s	the sca Regional Jacob
1861s	qualifier this year we're adding a new
1864s	band pick rule to the solos
1867s	mode under the hero points rule solo
1870s	players will use five different heroes
1872s	in the six games they play
1875s	daily before each day the 12 players who
1878s	are competing will be drawn into three
1880s	pools pool one two and
1885s	three players will need to choose their
1887s	hero according to the pick order of
1889s	their
1894s	pool the maps and weather have already
1897s	been determined for the 2023 jcup group
1900s	pre-final and Grand final stages here
1903s	are the
1908s	details here is how the new band pick
1910s	rule will work during the first round
1913s	four players pick their Heroes they are
1915s	only limited by their hero points during
1918s	the second round depending on the pick
1920s	by first round players players from this
1922s	round cannot pick the hero if it's
1924s	already been picked more than
1927s	twice then the last round depending on
1931s	the previous round picks players cannot
1933s	pick a hero if it's already been picked
1935s	more than twice in a single round or
1937s	more than three times in both previous
1946s	rounds the 2023 jcup group stage is
1950s	kicking off on November 28th for 6 days
1953s	the top 12 in solos and trios will
1957s	qualify for the 2023 jcup pre-final and
1960s	Grand final stages all points will be
1963s	nullified for the qualified players
1965s	going on to the pre-finals
1968s	round which they will play for six games
1971s	and 50% of their points will be carried
1973s	on with them to the Grand final
1976s	stages
1978s	the 2023 J cup Grand finals is taking
1981s	place in Chung duu China 12 solo players
1984s	and 12 trio teams will play six rounds
1987s	in one day with their 50% points from
1990s	the pre-final round to determine the
1992s	2023 J Cup
1998s	champion for more information about the
2000s	2023 nakaka blade Point World
2003s	Championship please visit our official
2005s	naraka Esports website and follow our
2007s	Twitter and Tik Tok at noro Esports
2010s	let's bring the heat see you at the 2023
2013s	J
2017s	cup let's bring the heat you said I'm in
2020s	let's bring on the Mind Games oh my
2023s	goodness those hero pools because run
2025s	you can play aggressive right you can
2027s	try and make sure that you're set up for
2028s	your best hero or you can have a look at
2031s	some of the players in the other pools
2033s	and decide to play a little bit of
2034s	Devil's Advocate and take their favorite
2036s	most comfort hero out of the way when we
2039s	hit some of those Firefly Ms and that's
2040s	going to be well the second half of the
2042s	day Hof doesn't have a single increased
2045s	Firefly rate map look this is absolutely
2048s	the largest change of format we have
2051s	seen since the Inception of nraa you
2054s	know we've had a lot of things come
2055s	through realm of Yang things like that
2057s	that have really changed up the way the
2059s	meta is played but this allows for teams
2061s	to really come through and work on
2064s	actually picking out who it is they want
2066s	to Target out of these lobbies based on
2069s	some of these hero picks it also throws
2071s	a wrench into the situation for some of
2073s	these players who are then going to have
2075s	to turn around if you're in group three
2077s	and potentially take a hero that you're
2079s	not so comfortable with going forward so
2082s	these teams really need to be locked in
2085s	and understand where these phase shifts
2087s	are going to happen and that's going to
2088s	come down to the coaches Moxy yeah it's
2090s	really going to come down like you said
2092s	some of those Comfort picks coming in
2093s	absolutely clutch and one of those
2095s	players who's definitely going to be the
2096s	most comfortable on the stage well he's
2099s	the current defending Champion spider is
2101s	going to be live in Shanghai you don't
2103s	have to go into twitch chat and ask when
2105s	spider going to play he's going to be
2106s	playing today we're already going to be
2108s	starting off with spider walking out
2110s	onto that stage defending his title
2113s	because run it's the only title he
2114s	currently has to defend I mean
2116s	absolutely you know we we talk about wbg
2118s	spider coming in this is a player who
2120s	when he made his debut absolutely
2123s	dominated the league but there was a
2125s	question constantly looming over his
2127s	head and that question was does wbg
2129s	spider perform the same way with A's mic
2133s	in the lobby and of course wbg spider
2136s	has time and time again proven that he's
2138s	capable of taking Mike on in those 1 V
2141s	ones and it's created such a healthy
2143s	rivalry between these two players one of
2146s	the things I really love about these two
2148s	guys in particular especially spider is
2150s	regardless of how deep the Rivalry runs
2152s	whenever we see them together they're
2154s	laughing it up they're having a good
2155s	time these guys really have a
2157s	camaraderie that goes hand in hand with
2160s	their rivalry Mo yeah whenever we've
2162s	seen them whenever they've been
2163s	scrimming you know on the stage it's
2164s	always been spider on one side and Mike
2166s	right next to him they really are
2168s	absolutely Inseparable but another play
2170s	that is going to be absolutely
2171s	Inseparable from discussion of jaob has
2175s	got to be try hard so often it feels
2177s	like the CN region are the ones you know
2178s	leading the meta everyone playing
2180s	catchup and reactive not not this season
2184s	not this season at all cuz you know word
2185s	on the great point is that this year
2187s	region had actually discounted hardi
2190s	before we actually started scrims and
2192s	then scrims started and try hard was one
2194s	of those names that kept popping up
2196s	behind one certain hero pick and you
2199s	know what apparently he even got to sit
2201s	down and teach spider that's absolutely
2204s	insane but it's no surprise to me try
2206s	hard is one of those people in the na
2208s	region that's constantly innovating he's
2210s	constantly putting time into the lab
2212s	trying to figure out what's going to
2213s	work best for him and people tend to
2215s	shape the meta around him as a play
2217s	player because of how good he is he
2219s	really is able to come in and take
2221s	Heroes that a couple of other players
2223s	might look at and go yeah they're not
2224s	the best and show the true potential of
2227s	them so for try hard this is just
2229s	another day of the week well speaking
2231s	about another day of the week it's going
2233s	to be another day at the office for our
2235s	current nvpl champion cuz you know he's
2238s	already taken one title May that two
2240s	titles away from spider walking away
2242s	with both season 1 and season 2 of nbpl
2246s	came a little bit closer a little bit
2247s	down to the wire but do you know what he
2249s	did the second that he got his trophy of
2251s	that second season he stared that camera
2254s	straight in the face he was only talking
2255s	to one player behind it and he said I'm
2258s	coming for Jacob and R it's Jacob Mike
2261s	is going to be starting off today as
2263s	well we immediately get to see the
2266s	Rivalry between these players develop
2267s	even further yeah and again this rivalry
2270s	is going to be a long told story here
2272s	for nraa blade Point long after these
2275s	boys retire we will all remember the
2277s	time of wbg spider and A's Mike A's Mike
2282s	one of the best most prolific players
2285s	here we've seen him time and time again
2287s	show that he has got what it takes to
2290s	walk away Victorious and we're going to
2292s	continue to see him do exactly that I
2295s	would expect as we go through this week
2298s	because he is here to take Jacob and he
2300s	doesn't care who gets in his way but you
2303s	know what Moxy we've talked about A's
2306s	mik do woo do you do do you feel a chill
2309s	I feel like a cold front's moving in
2312s	because we've got to talk about our boy
2313s	Frost ofis that's right we're going to
2315s	be talking about our backto back the
2318s	number one player who comes in and has a
2321s	championship in not just one region but
2324s	two regions and it's to no one's
2326s	surprised that he's going to be here
2327s	competing on the world stage because to
2330s	be a multi Regional champion and never
2333s	have been at jcup is an absolute prime
2335s	Mon it's insane though the amount of
2337s	experience he's going to have because a
2339s	lot of the time when we have Jacob it's
2340s	sort of that melting po of all of these
2342s	regions and all of their different
2343s	styles of play you know you've got that
2345s	really Powerman aggression coming
2347s	through from EU na sea you've got you
2350s	know the CN players coming in with that
2351s	experience from The Meta that was
2353s	developed in mvpl so they're already
2354s	going to be experienced and ready for
2356s	all of the pressures on the stage but
2357s	because you're literally in the middle
2359s	of Two Worlds not only are you going to
2361s	be able to deal with the cures from some
2362s	of the other regions potentially
2364s	throwing something like a z into the mix
2366s	for solos you're also going to be able
2368s	to know how to play that aggression to
2370s	your advantage and the last time we saw
2372s	a player come in and managed to throw an
2374s	entire Lobby entirely out of whack in
2376s	terms of that aggression was when spider
2378s	came along and changed solo meta
2379s	entirely I mean absolutely Frost of is
2382s	like you said a huge Advantage here he
2384s	understands multiple metas he's able to
2386s	come in and he's going to be able to
2388s	adapt to any Tempo because he's used to
2391s	playing at multiple tempos but speaking
2393s	about tempos if we're going to talk
2395s	about tempos we have to talk talk about
2397s	aggression and when it comes to
2398s	aggression there's one player who's
2400s	uniquely qualified to school Us in
2403s	aggression and that's going to be 52
2405s	On's unique oh we're going to have to
2407s	have a pun counter for that because you
2408s	know unique by name unique by Nature
2410s	like you said no one does it quite like
2413s	unique it's going to be really great to
2414s	see how he's going to interact with all
2416s	of the players I think especially
2417s	because we have those pH changes coming
2419s	through a lot of these players are going
2421s	to be very very cautious very wary to
2423s	actually commit to some of these fights
2424s	especially when that they're quote
2425s	unquote best heroes so if you can take
2428s	advantage and you can actually start to
2429s	prompt fights around you and look for
2431s	those third party poaches unique is
2433s	going to be able to walk away with a lot
2435s	of kills and not a lot of risk to his
2437s	own name yeah I mean absolutely this is
2440s	such a fun player to watch of course I
2442s	got to sit down and cast the ASC where
2445s	he performed so exceptionally well and
2448s	he just comes in and he blows through
2449s	lobbies like a hurricane so I hope these
2452s	players brought their windbreakers Moxy
2455s	I mean I hope they brought that a game
2457s	because my goodness this is going to be
2459s	absolutely brutal you don't get that
2462s	safety cushion that you had in the past
2464s	because of these pH changes you don't
2466s	know whether you're going to actually be
2467s	able to double lock your favorite hero
2469s	so you know talking about things like
2470s	spider LLY he was known for his zip he
2473s	was able to come in with something like
2474s	that to kadon holl off but now he's much
2476s	more known for things like the ferry and
2477s	everyone knows he loves to double pick
2480s	the ferry he he double picked the F all
2482s	the time in mvpl so maybe FIA keeps
2485s	getting taken out of of those face calls
2487s	because she's got buffed she's not risen
2490s	in prominance in the solo meta for a
2492s	huge reason being her dominance inside
2494s	realm of Yang oh absolutely but like the
2496s	realm of Yang I want to build a little
2498s	bit of anticipation for you guys
2500s	watching at home here cuz we're getting
2501s	ready to in a couple minutes move in to
2503s	our opening ceremony and kick things off
2506s	with a bang and ladies and gentlemen let
2509s	me tell you just from being here and
2511s	getting an opportunity to see what the
2513s	stage looks like this year how locked in
2515s	these players are are it is going to be
2518s	a wild ride from start to finish you're
2520s	not going to want to go anywhere cuz
2522s	right after this opening ceremony we're
2524s	going to come back and lock in for our
2525s	first game of the official 2023 J
2537s	[Music]
2545s	cup
2549s	[Music]
2562s	[Music]
2576s	[Music]
2599s	[Music]
2617s	[Music]
2632s	[Music]
2635s	put
2638s	[Music]
2644s	let's
2649s	[Music]
2662s	go last year at the J cup I bowed out
2665s	with a regretful margin 1.6 points this
2668s	year I won't let that happen
2686s	again lifting the jaob trophy has always
2688s	been my dream last year I finished
2690s	fourth but it wasn't good enough for me
2693s	I'm ready to start the
2695s	fight
2699s	the region always faces STS
2702s	underestimated but look at last year we
2704s	still made it to the Grand finals I will
2706s	show the world the strength of the EU
2725s	region
2732s	to advance to the finals you must have
2734s	the confidence to defeat
2743s	everyone and me prosus I've never
2746s	doubted
2755s	myself
2785s	fore
2815s	so
2819s	o zct
2829s	[Music]
2844s	j n
2847s	J IDK
2871s	Roman j& w o
2876s	p
2899s	man
2901s	War
2905s	unique
2909s	[Music]
2922s	o polarized drg
2935s	Akuma
2937s	[Music]
2950s	k
2952s	k l
2958s	[Music]
2965s	t
2969s	[Music]
2975s	e first verse Shing gaming
2985s	[Music]
2995s	one
2999s	we for gaming
3003s	spider hiper
3006s	[Music]
3012s	[Music]
3024s	noova
3026s	try hard g a
3034s	[Music]
3040s	[Music]
3054s	Mike
3070s	[Music]
3084s	fore
3094s	[Music]
3114s	fore
3121s	just coming to Shanghai isn't enough had
3123s	to make it to
3137s	Chang no one can fight my
3144s	t
3155s	I brought some special T from my
3164s	hometown I'm Different I already bought
3166s	your return
3174s	tickets
3204s	hello nice with
3234s	jul I'll show you my
3261s	micro I've played from the C region and
3264s	na region and I haven't met a worthy
3266s	opponent I'm hoping for some challenge
3271s	here Ms of winning are two times higher
3273s	than
3280s	yours welcome back everybody I'm Ro I'm
3283s	Moxy and we're joined by some uh special
3286s	guests here and uh we're here to bring
3288s	you all the action live from Shanghai
3291s	that's right in just a few moments it's
3294s	about to kick off all of these players
3296s	are locked and loaded you just got to
3298s	hear a little bit of uh some trash talk
3300s	coming in I got to say you know Frost
3302s	ofis might be my uh favorite trash
3305s	talker here really not not the mic thank
3308s	you for keeping my trophy case warm okay
3310s	that was great but the the I'm built
3313s	different I already bought you return
3314s	tickets that was cold there's a reason
3317s	this man's name Frost is and another pun
3320s	counter goes on the list for Mr keeper
3323s	I'll be keeping track
3327s	oh my goodness the events are just going
3329s	to get more crazy make sure you're
3331s	watching here on nraa blade points
3333s	official twitch Channel as well and make
3335s	sure you've got your Twitch account
3338s	linked with your nraa account so you can
3340s	get those exclusive drops lots of
3341s	in-game stuff make sure you also follow
3343s	us over on Kick as well it's going to be
3346s	kick.com
3347s	noaca bladepoint I mean there's so many
3350s	interactions as well that you can like
3351s	do you can you know support your
3353s	favorite player in chat let us know who
3355s	is your favorite player who do you think
3356s	is going to be able to walk away with
3358s	that title because run it's all up in
3360s	the air right you you have obviously the
3362s	CM prodigies who've been just so good at
3365s	the game and they have that experience
3366s	on the stage the very stage of wi when
3368s	we talking to a lot of you know the
3369s	other players who were coming in from
3371s	like the na regions and the Sea regions
3373s	they said we didn't have a great time in
3375s	scrims the first couple of days because
3377s	they were trying to get used to all of
3378s	the nerves and the stress that extra
3380s	pressure that gets put upon your
3382s	shoulders when you're actually out there
3384s	and it's going to get even worse now cuz
3386s	you're doing it live in front of an
3387s	audience yeah absolutely and I mean
3389s	they're going to have to very quickly
3392s	adjust to playing on that stage in front
3394s	of an audience because you only have 12
3397s	games to qualify Moxy which means every
3400s	single game counts if you've got pregame
3402s	Jitters you have realistically one game
3405s	to make an adjustment before you fall
3407s	behind that's like it ask a question
3409s	though right would you rather be phase
3411s	one so you can pick your favorite hero
3414s	first but it's game one so you don't get
3417s	a warm- up you have to go straight into
3419s	the action you don't know how aggressive
3420s	the lobby is going to be you could
3422s	potentially get the entire situation
3424s	right wrong going super early with no
3427s	points or would you rather play into
3429s	like phase two or phase three where you
3430s	may not get your first favorite Hero on
3433s	the first match but you still get a
3435s	little bit of time to actually feel out
3436s	your surroundings and figure out
3438s	wherever or on it's going to be a z to
3439s	60 km an hour Lobby whether it's going
3441s	to be a little bit slower as everyone's
3443s	a little bit more cautious at the moment
3445s	well tell you what I'd do Moxy I'd want
3446s	to be phase three if it's my first day
3448s	on stage coming in and it's going to be
3450s	the first game it's not a firefly map if
3453s	I'm in phase three I get a little bit
3456s	more information than the other players
3457s	when I get to make my hero selection if
3460s	I see one or two Heroes banned out I
3462s	have an idea of what this Lobby is going
3464s	to look like and if I'm looking to play
3466s	for a consistency game I can just un
3468s	lock in a hero that counteracts some of
3471s	those Heroes but we're going to take a
3473s	look here at our prize pool ladies and
3475s	Gent gentlemen and man it's going to be
3477s	a big one the total prize pool going in
3479s	at
3483s	286,000 and if you're the champion
3485s	you're going to be walking away with
3487s	100,000 racks I mean the money is great
3490s	but have you seen the trophy oh the
3493s	trophy is phenomenal actually it's
3494s	behind us it's directly behind us you
3496s	know if I was a little bit taller and a
3498s	little bit stronger I would try and lift
3500s	that but I don't think it would go that
3502s	well you know I want to walk away with
3504s	that mvp trophy Moxy oh I definitely
3507s	could not lift that they make those from
3509s	solid metal remember last year when it
3511s	was the PO Sword and the team went to
3513s	try and lift that and it took about
3515s	threee players plus the coach and they
3517s	still couldn't get it a budge an inch
3519s	well speaking of budget an inch what
3520s	we're not going to budge an inch on here
3522s	is our schedule that's right ladies and
3524s	gentlemen you're taking a look at our
3525s	schedule today is November 28th and
3528s	we're locking it in for groups A and B
3530s	in solos on the 29th it's going to be B
3532s	and C heading into trios then on the
3534s	30th back to solos with groups A and C
3537s	the 1st of December we round things back
3540s	around to trios for our next set of
3542s	groups and on and on and on and then of
3545s	course once we get our qualifiers and
3547s	play our couple of games leading up to
3549s	the Grand finals we're going to hop on a
3551s	little plane and head on over to Chong
3553s	duu where we will determine who's going
3555s	to walk away with that trophy I mean
3557s	yeah don't get all too familiar with
3559s	that stage the opening ceremony made it
3561s	look amazing but trust me they have
3563s	something in the back pocket to make
3565s	going to do even more memorable but you
3567s	know what else is going to be making
3568s	this jacob memorable we've got Hardy
3571s	he's going to be enabled the latest hero
3573s	in the nraa heroo rule is now coming
3576s	through he's going to be coming in with
3578s	that aerial Ascent an aerial Ascent
3580s	Blaze you can either go for a little bit
3582s	of a longer duration on the ultimate or
3584s	you can add fire tick to the mix marun
3586s	we've already been talking around the
3588s	breakfast lunch and dinner table about
3590s	what we think these players are going to
3591s	be locking in with considering barrier
3594s	incred ly strong at the moment if you do
3597s	see a faer it's probably not going to be
3600s	into the blades if it's a zip Lobby
3602s	however you want the fire tick oh
3605s	absolutely Moxy but again at the end of
3607s	the day hottie coming in new heroes are
3609s	always going to shake the meta up and
3611s	there's a lot of talk around the water
3613s	cooler about how much hottie is going to
3616s	do that you know we talked a little bit
3618s	about this when we talked about tryhard
3619s	earlier CN originally having counted
3622s	hottie out giving these other regions a
3625s	little bit of an edge when it comes to
3627s	playing hottie because they've had a few
3628s	more days to work some of the Kinks out
3631s	and I mean I was watching some of these
3633s	players in the training room and
3635s	honestly they have got this on lock not
3638s	just that they also got the opportunity
3640s	to play it in a tournament environment
3642s	remember we got try hard in the astral
3644s	cup running that Hardy but we can have a
3646s	look at the players that we're going to
3648s	have running into these matches and run
3651s	this first day it's a big one you don't
3653s	get that comfort zone you don't get to
3655s	dip your feet into the water it's
3657s	straight into the deep end we've got
3658s	Mike in the lobby we've got spider we've
3660s	got tryhard we've got frost ofis this is
3663s	going to be absolutely insane because
3665s	all of these players are known for being
3667s	so strong and dominating whoever they
3670s	run across sooner rather than later A
3672s	movable object Unstoppable force one of
3675s	them's going to have to budge you know
3676s	what we've got to talk about a lot of
3677s	players today there's somebody I want to
3679s	touch on that we haven't talked about
3681s	yet Moxy is is it the guy in the bottom
3683s	right corner by any chance no we're
3685s	going to come to that I'm not I'm not
3687s	emotionally ready for that yet Moxy no I
3689s	want to talk about drg zaka actually
3692s	this is a player winning or losing that
3695s	is probably one of my favorite players
3697s	to commentate always the same with their
3699s	trio teams as well this team really puts
3702s	on a show and I've got to say as a
3704s	Caster I absolutely love that but
3706s	speaking of things I love uh there's
3708s	been a drastic change to our format in
3710s	terms of maps me and Moxy are going to
3712s	be here for your first three games that
3714s	means it's going to be Hol Roth Hol Roth
3715s	Hol Roth baby yeah but unfortunately no
3718s	star night oh I know we do love some
3721s	star KN but speaking of which we've got
3723s	a quick question for you guys and you
3725s	want to make sure you head on over to
3726s	your naraka clients and answer this in
3729s	game for a chance to win some great
3731s	goodies and the question is which of the
3733s	following two players will achieve the
3734s	highest score in this match do you think
3736s	it's going to be A's Mike or wbg spider
3739s	yeah and there is a lot on the line not
3740s	just for these players but for you at
3742s	home too because some of those prizes
3744s	you can actually get hands on if you
3745s	answer it correctly word on the grape
3747s	vine it's the J cup exclusive cosmetic
3750s	spit you know the one that everyone's
3753s	incredibly jealous of that was run
3755s	exclusively and I think only about 10 of
3757s	them were given out last year that is on
3759s	the line for you you are going to have
3761s	the opportunity to answer a question
3763s	before every single game so today you
3766s	have six chances to get that question
3768s	right and get your hands some some
3769s	lovely cosmetic goodies look and I'm
3771s	going to tell you as somebody who loves
3773s	my spear banners they are some some of
3775s	the best skins in game and they are a
3777s	way to really show where you come from
3780s	in Rocka blade Point as we take a look
3782s	here we're just checking in on tryhard
3786s	as we get ready to kick things off
3788s	ladies and gentlemen we are moments away
3792s	from heading into game number one and
3795s	every single moment from now on will
3797s	determine the fate of these players see
3800s	it's really interesting actually that
3801s	you said you were looking forward to
3802s	seeing Akuma because my mind instantly
3804s	goes to that match that Akuma played on
3807s	holler off where FIA had just got a
3809s	little bit of a buff and he comes in on
3811s	the Justina to be able to counter and
3815s	Justina she didn't get a buff recently
3817s	but she's still running on the buff
3819s	where she actually gets three seconds
3821s	extra of a freeze onto those Transformer
3823s	units that's normally seen in triers
3825s	when you're trying to counter something
3826s	like the transformer composition with
3828s	the TN high but in solos with Faria
3831s	coming back into the mix justina's value
3834s	has certainly Skyrocket it oh absolutely
3837s	I mean we talked about hottie coming to
3839s	the meta and how that's going to change
3841s	things up but the very recent patches
3843s	have absolutely shaken the meta to its
3847s	core I expect to see crazy hero piics
3851s	coming out of these solos and of course
3853s	you might be in a situation where you
3855s	can't even play a hero that you're
3856s	comfortable with because of these new
3858s	phase changes coming in you can't even
3860s	counter pick reliably is the crazy thing
3862s	too cuz say you're in like phase three
3864s	pull free and someone picks a hero and
3867s	you want to be able to counter it
3869s	directly you're not going to have access
3872s	to that potentially so it makes it even
3874s	harder for some of these players to
3876s	figure out how exactly they want to play
3878s	around everybody else in the lobby what
3880s	it does mean however that these
3882s	aggressive Heroes like teor and AOS who
3884s	was so used to being able to turn the
3886s	tides in a fight with their ultimate
3888s	don't have to try and bait a mirror to
3891s	Kor or AOS into throwing their alts
3894s	first the problem is they have to deal
3896s	with Hardy who doesn't really care if he
3899s	gets caught in a teada or AOS ultimate
3901s	cuz he just he flies away the range that
3904s	hardi has is absolutely insane and that
3907s	means that it's going to be so annoying
3908s	to fight him inside those realm of yangs
3910s	if you don't have something like a
3911s	repeater crossbow equipped with the
3913s	Venom tip that just melts him down as
3915s	quickly as possible and puts him into
3917s	that three seconds of denied flight yeah
3920s	I mean absolutely again every single
3923s	change that has been made coming up to
3925s	today is going to have a huge impact
3928s	like you said from Justina being able to
3930s	counter out Faria Faria coming back into
3932s	the meta because of the recent changes
3934s	hottie being thrown into the mix of
3937s	course our phas selects all of this is
3939s	going to be riding on these players
3942s	they're going to have to think about it
3944s	every single second of every single day
3946s	while they play these first 12 games
3949s	because it might all come down to this
3951s	you know what else we haven't talked
3952s	about the fact that F's going to be in
3954s	play and I mean Akuma is known as the
3957s	dagger God right we've also got action
3960s	coming in getting a lot of that dagger
3962s	practice but Akuma has been the one that
3965s	everyone has been going for yeah
3967s	absolutely Akuma is going to be a player
3971s	that these other players want to heavily
3973s	chase down and go after especially after
3976s	the amount of BM we saw from him last
3979s	season in the summer split this is a man
3981s	with a lot of confidence and because of
3983s	that he's made a lot of enemies box a
3985s	lot of enemies like you said he was
3987s	incredibly far ahead he knew that he was
3989s	already going to have qualified in to
3991s	that mvp L placement and as a result we
3994s	got to see him come in with things like
3996s	the vda F2 he was running the Justina to
3999s	like we've already mentioned really play
4001s	Havoc with those justinas but speaking
4004s	about really playing Havoc here it is it
4006s	does look like we're going to get ready
4008s	to see what exactly game number one of
4011s	the official nraa blade Point 2023 J cup
4015s	is going to look like yeah we're getting
4017s	ready to lock in for those phase one
4019s	picks and this is going to be
4020s	interesting just like you said Moxy I'm
4022s	excited to see where it goes in phase
4025s	one we've got drg's Akuma
4027s	aw's Mike we have Lobby 28's tanoshi and
4031s	idk's reuman so what Heroes do you think
4035s	they're going to be locking in Moxy for
4037s	this first map of holl off I mean it's
4039s	holler off a Mike does know that spider
4042s	likes to play towards that fa on on this
4044s	specific map I think we're going to see
4046s	a lot of people lock zip though
4048s	especially because it's game number one
4050s	you want that safety cushion you want
4051s	the sustainability the fact that you can
4053s	use the F1 and get that reset point on
4056s	the move not making you vulnerable like
4058s	some of these other Heroes who are
4059s	catchable when they're trying to
4060s	disengage zip gets to immediately and
4064s	there it is one ZIP two Zip Zip is going
4066s	to be out of the next phase yeah
4068s	absolutely three Zips four Zips coming
4071s	in I didn't expect this across the board
4074s	four four of the same hero pics being
4076s	locked in is going to lock lock zip
4078s	completely out of this lobby as we head
4080s	to phase two we're going to see a teada
4081s	coming in from tryhard no surprise here
4084s	given that zip is banned and teada being
4086s	one of those Heroes utilized to deal
4089s	with Zing especially on Hollow rooth
4092s	double faia picks coming in as well
4093s	means we're going to have a double ban
4096s	triple faia picks coming in means we
4099s	have a double ban after our first two
4103s	phases of picks head in here now we have
4105s	phase three and they are going to have
4107s	to decide how they want to deal with
4109s	these faia pigs people have been hiding
4111s	their strats we theorized about this we
4113s	were talking to light hyen over and he
4114s	was saying in scrims he's only actually
4116s	seen a hero get banned out of these
4119s	matches once per match and it really
4121s	does feel like a lot of these players
4123s	have hidden what they wanted to play and
4125s	you know what's not going to be hiding
4126s	it's our newest hero Wang leang is going
4129s	to be locking in with that hardi hardi
4132s	the only hardi in the lobby so it does
4135s	mean that he's a little bit more
4136s	vulnerable right they don't see the
4138s	customizations they don't see the name
4139s	plates but they do see the base default
4142s	hero skin and one Hardy is a lot easier
4145s	to be able to identify than four zips on
4147s	the chase oh absolutely this is going to
4150s	be quite a crazy Lobby I'm still reeling
4153s	over the fact we got four Zips in the
4156s	opening pick here I think it's smart I
4158s	think if you're worried if you think
4160s	that you're going to get potentially
4161s	threatened out by some of these third
4163s	parties you want the opportunity to have
4165s	that extra movement with your F1 you
4167s	want the opportunity to survive that
4169s	supposedly fatal blow with sedated Soul
4172s	on the ultimate this is the safest bet
4175s	you can make the one problem that I can
4176s	see coming from it is zip doesn't have
4179s	that damage burst potential inside the
4181s	RM of yangs so if you're a zip and
4183s	you're going up against something like
4185s	an acos or a fer you might just lose to
4188s	timeout yeah absolutely you also have to
4191s	deal with hottie potentially the V2
4193s	coming in the burn cutting your healing
4196s	in half inside realm of Yang where he
4198s	can move so quickly he's running V1 he's
4201s	going to be taking V1 not too much of a
4203s	surprise there given the lobby but it is
4207s	interesting to see that there are so
4209s	many Zips and he's trying to take the V1
4212s	the extra duration on the ultimate might
4215s	serve him well though given how long zip
4217s	can stall things out yeah we've also got
4219s	unique locking in with the F1 no
4221s	surprises that but V1 acus ultimate
4224s	going to be coming through no surprises
4226s	what all of our Zips and teers as well
4228s	as fairies are going to lock in standard
4230s	Fair F1 v34 those fers F1 V1 for the
4234s	Zips in solos and F3 V1 for those teas
4239s	it's really going to come down to loot
4241s	paing as well especially for the Hardy
4243s	he is a Transformer unit he does get
4246s	affected in terms of that scaling for
4248s	his ultimate damage and we can see the
4250s	spread of players wow that's a lot of
4253s	people dropping as as far out as
4255s	possible these players are prioritizing
4258s	looting up before they look for fights
4261s	yeah absolutely game one this is pretty
4263s	typical coming into Jacob there's a lot
4265s	of feeling out being done by these
4267s	players before they immediately move in
4269s	and start to risk everything game one is
4272s	such an important game as well you want
4275s	to stay alive in this game as long as
4276s	humanly possible so you can gather more
4279s	Intel for the following games as we kick
4281s	things off here A's Mike Trading blows
4284s	with 521s unique but they're going to
4286s	back away Mike able to find that armor
4289s	upgrade immediately into blue elevating
4291s	him to a much better position wbg spider
4293s	still with the white on the move a blue
4295s	staff in the back pocket as well as a
4296s	long sword here he's going to be more
4298s	than happy to take an engagement
4300s	immediately with a Carell onto A's mik
4303s	and spider says no way you're coming
4306s	after my trophy already I'm going to
4308s	send you back to the lobby in game one I
4311s	mean unique's also moved outside of the
4313s	mini map fight do able to catch him with
4315s	the charge R&V on the long SW and he's
4316s	still finding that chase Mike's able to
4318s	find the lmv on the dagger spider not
4320s	able to find the spacing off of the R&B
4322s	on that long SW might counceling out of
4324s	the lmb spider Falls for and actually
4326s	has to invest the F1 to be able to
4328s	disengage and find the back off but this
4330s	is where zip excels early on in this
4333s	match Mike can literally just take the
4334s	opportunity to go for one pot drop the
4336s	F1 if he wants to try and keep this
4338s	fight going and still be able to recover
4340s	he's going to go top side because he
4342s	wants a better read of this situ he
4344s	remembers he didn't immediately run into
4346s	spider there's another player and
4347s	because spider ran away from Mike he
4349s	noton directly into unique who's going
4352s	to be coming in with those dual blades
4354s	using the F1 spider actually is able to
4356s	dodge away from it the damage reduction
4358s	going to be coming through on the AOS
4359s	but a b to run out as Mike looks for the
4361s	grief he knows the spider was the fair
4364s	and he steals the kill oh my goodness
4366s	aows Mike going to pick up the first
4368s	elimination here on the wbg spider as
4371s	soon as he sees that kill feed he's
4373s	going to be a happy boy Moxy 5 to one's
4376s	uni going to be feeling forced to use
4378s	this ultimate here B2 just looking to
4381s	create some distance from Mike Mike
4383s	going to continue to follow here
4385s	utilizing those grapples but unique not
4388s	going to find the opportunity for reset
4390s	he looks like he's going to get one pot
4392s	off he does manage to get a small reset
4394s	here but Mike still on his tail both F
4397s	and ultimate available to him here and
4399s	he's going to get that grapple off he's
4401s	not quite fully engaged into the fight
4403s	here yet but he's looking to take
4405s	control of that neutral comes down able
4407s	to find the charged L off of the dagger
4409s	into the uppercut we're going to see the
4410s	AOS invest the F to get that damage
4412s	reduction and knock Mike away but Mike's
4414s	going to stay on the chase here going to
4416s	use the F there to get some healing to
4419s	counteract that lovely damage reduction
4421s	and Mike goes from zero to two in the
4424s	blink of an eye oh he leaves the bloom
4425s	he's taking a realm of Yang he's going
4427s	to leave that bloom even as a zip so
4430s	even if he times out he has that
4432s	insurance card he can go back to that
4434s	body pick up the bloom and not have to
4436s	worry about the timer going down for
4438s	that Yang depletion Shang losing a lot
4441s	of that armor going to be scale rushing
4442s	out of the situation trying to break
4444s	away behind the building break line of
4446s	sight he does not want to go down cuz
4447s	that is a legendary long sword in his
4449s	hand and Panda man has a pul sword in
4451s	his spine Ran's able to catch him out
4454s	before he can look to cleanly disengage
4456s	it's not starting off strong for pandan
4458s	nor spider as a lot of these players
4461s	they're looking for that loot they're
4462s	looking for that paing that we were
4463s	talking about but here's the thing
4465s	because everyone decided to try to go
4467s	and prioritize loot paing they're
4469s	running into each other and it means
4471s	that whoever's being able to find the
4472s	better loot in these fights has such an
4474s	advantage to come out on top yeah
4476s	absolutely and you know I've got to ask
4478s	myself how is this going to impact wbg
4480s	spider's mental we've seen before if
4483s	he's off to a bad start in game one it
4485s	can impact him heavily throughout the
4487s	rest of the day so will wbg fider be
4490s	able to recover his mental or will he
4493s	crumble like like we've seen him do in
4494s	the past Moxy as we take a look here we
4496s	head over to plume castle where a lot of
4499s	players are starting to congregate
4501s	looking for that opportunity to take
4503s	some clean fights but importantly having
4506s	all of the different areas here to move
4508s	through the ledes to grab to utilize
4511s	those scale rushes so if the fights
4512s	don't go their way they can attempt to
4514s	break the ankles of their fellow players
4516s	and redirect that aggression onto
4518s	somebody else yeah tooshi doesn't want
4520s	to take this fight you can see he's
4522s	going to oh he swapped to the he want to
4524s	try and set up that scale rush to be
4525s	able to do as much damage in a short of
4527s	time as possible and maybe for shuang to
4529s	back on off he's not going to be able to
4531s	find that connection so back again he
4533s	swaps to that fan to enable that scar
4535s	attch that you were just discussing and
4537s	shuang he knows he's not going to chase
4539s	it he's not going to put the blinders on
4541s	he's not going to run into another
4542s	player he has to be careful cuz like we
4545s	said this is a fer who early on has a
4548s	legendary long sword that damage is
4551s	going to scale in terms of the realm of
4554s	Yang and damage that you do inside that
4556s	Mech and the changes that have occurred
4558s	to that Mech make it so much harder for
4560s	these players to actually be able to
4562s	head on Face the fer dle yeah absolutely
4565s	try hard here going to get grappled onto
4567s	by drg's Akuma Akuma coming in here with
4570s	the fan and it looks like they're going
4572s	to go fan for fan Akuma investing the F
4575s	here try hard in a bad situation he
4577s	still has F an ultimate available here
4579s	but he's not going to use it there we go
4580s	the ultimate is going to be popped here
4582s	Akuma trying to that musk to get some of
4585s	that damage onto try hard that you know
4588s	he can't use that furin to block that
4590s	musk shot so he's got to be very careful
4592s	about how he plays this fight out Akuma
4595s	not sticking around does not want to
4597s	overcommit he got tryhards ultimate he
4600s	doesn't need to pressure for more that's
4602s	going to keep TR hard from being able to
4604s	take one of those first Realms of Yang
4606s	yeah that's so unfortunate cuz he wasn't
4608s	able to cancel the all early cuz he was
4609s	just taking so much pressure speaking of
4611s	pressure Mike is taking so much pressure
4613s	from ran who tries to swap towards the
4614s	boat to be able to play off of the
4616s	Stagger that the P had set up we're
4618s	going to see the zip he'll kick in to be
4620s	able to keep ran topped up as both of
4622s	these players go back and forth between
4624s	the range Mike going for the F1 goes for
4627s	the fan throwing out the R&B before the
4629s	P can connect has the ultimate to be
4631s	able to rely on and rean with that
4633s	purple armor is going to lose a huge
4635s	part of it as Mike with the Parry finds
4637s	the followup damage going for that
4639s	dagger to be able to come in a little
4640s	bit fast gets caught however by the R&B
4643s	on those dual blades as Mike now
4645s	continues to Chase and apply that
4647s	pressure just throwing out the R&B on
4649s	fan on repeat and ran does not know the
4652s	timing of being able to Parry it we
4655s	talked about the power of the fan we
4657s	didn't talk about why it's so powerful
4658s	that RB on the fan gets thrown out so
4662s	incredibly fast and if you try and go
4664s	for the anticipation Barry and you flash
4666s	red too early they just overhaul cancel
4669s	it and Wham you're right in the elbow
4671s	yeah absolutely that r& B is so
4674s	dangerous especially if you've practiced
4677s	the timing and you know how to throw out
4678s	the N you can catch players so unaware
4681s	the hit box on it as well very weird
4683s	comes to the ground comes up below you
4685s	but we're going to head into our first
4686s	room with Yang here and it's going to be
4687s	frost ofis versus Akuma here frost ofis
4690s	on the teada in a very interesting
4692s	situation he's got to time this where he
4694s	can one shot Akuma here he's got to go
4698s	ahead and get it but unfortunately he's
4699s	going to get massively parried out by
4701s	Akuma and now Frost ofis is going to be
4702s	forced to burn the ultimate early and
4705s	Akuma here has spent nothing Moxy Frost
4708s	ofis there's no way out of this my
4711s	friend he's trying to get the full
4713s	commit here he needs another burin no
4716s	way no it's Akuma who comes out on top
4718s	he was so close but all Akuma had to do
4721s	was pop the F to Shield through so he
4723s	could land a single tick of damage and
4726s	Akuma comes out on top in your realm of
4729s	Yang well at least it ain't a legendary
4732s	fan that's an auma hand it was a
4735s	legendary long sword that the realm of
4737s	Yang throws up but for Akuma the fact
4740s	that you get that vilon birs might now
4742s	means that you get to play as aggressive
4743s	as you want if you go down if you die
4745s	you don't get kicked out of the lobby
4746s	unlike these other players you get the
4748s	opportunity to be able to revive as
4750s	spider is taking that pressure there's
4753s	the answer to your earlier question when
4755s	he went down to Mike early on we didn't
4757s	really see him being active in the kill
4758s	feed and it feels like he has once again
4760s	retreated to that more cautious game
4762s	playay he has to be careful now that he
4763s	doesn't get caught in the cross as obz
4765s	ping who is emboldened by this Vilan
4768s	Birds might Akuma with that legendary
4770s	long sword looking to do as much damage
4772s	as possible pandaman also actually might
4774s	have been able to win a real of Yang
4776s	himself because he walks away with the
4778s	exact same buff yeah it's going to be
4780s	very interesting to see how Panda man
4783s	utilizes that buff here to go out and
4786s	play aggressively that's something
4788s	pandaan does very very well when he's
4789s	able to come out of these Realms of Yang
4792s	and start to track play down he knows
4795s	the routes he knows how to capitalize on
4797s	it especially that bonus rage that you
4800s	generate from having Vermillion Birds
4802s	might he's able to play around his
4804s	ultimate a lot more than he usually is
4807s	you can pop it instantly at the start of
4809s	the fight and if the fight starts to
4811s	turn sideways and take too long the odds
4813s	are that you're going to have that
4814s	ultimate back up a second time are much
4817s	higher when you've got Vermillion Birds
4819s	Mone under your belt I mean it asks the
4821s	question though cuz Mike purposely left
4822s	a he was intending to take a realm of
4825s	Yang he wasn't the one that went into
4827s	the other one it was shot when we shot
4829s	over to his perspective he was the one
4831s	with that Yang depletion and now he's
4833s	the one who's having to go in towards
4835s	the center of plume Castle to try and
4837s	find these players as quickly as
4838s	possible Akuma getting caught out in the
4840s	teada ultimate that's how you play teada
4843s	into the Z ping but Akuma is more than
4845s	happy to go down he knew even if he went
4848s	down here he was still looking to put
4850s	himself in the best possible position to
4852s	steal away kill and instigate fights
4855s	between all of these other players and
4856s	that's exactly what he's done pandan
4859s	also losing a huge chunk of armor having
4861s	to actually hop onto one of those lower
4863s	levels to be able to find the heal as we
4865s	can have a look at Mike who is currently
4867s	leading this Lobby three kills to his
4870s	name and Counting and he's only got blue
4874s	weapons that's
4875s	insane absolutely insane Moxy you know
4878s	Frost ofis though got to be very happy
4880s	about getting the run back onto drg
4882s	zakum even if all got out of it with the
4883s	soul Bloom it puts him back into the
4886s	game and sets him in that second place
4888s	position GG sha here trading blows with
4890s	's pandan pandan with the legendary
4893s	staff in the back pocket trying to
4895s	utilize it to create some distance oh my
4897s	goodness try hard slides in with the fan
4900s	out of nowhere and picks up the
4902s	elimination onto GG shot A's Mike going
4905s	to use that F to back away here from
4907s	this fight doesn't want to over pressure
4909s	he's in such a great position heading
4911s	into the mid game here he is three
4913s	eliminations under his belt he can play
4915s	this out to late game Moxy and just look
4917s	to pick up one to two more eliminations
4918s	in the final Circle oh my r& we we were
4922s	saying it comes out incredibly quickly
4924s	and pandaman is not expecting it and
4926s	when you have a staff usually you know
4929s	that is the king of solo weapons other
4931s	than maybe the dagger but the R&B on the
4933s	fan is able to just come out so much
4935s	faster you're not able to Clank it as
4937s	Mike is going to get hit by so much
4940s	damage held in place on the vertical by
4942s	the terrain he is an absolute SLI of
4945s	Health he was leading the lobby but that
4946s	all goes away if he goes down right here
4949s	there's the zip sustainability kicking
4951s	in he still has the ultimate to fall
4952s	back on two two the F1 going to be
4954s	cycling back in 9 seconds he's got the
4956s	fan in the back pocket to be able to
4958s	keep the SC she's going for as much as
4959s	possible because who's that on his tail
4961s	it's spider spider knows that one of
4964s	these players is Mike he knows that he
4965s	was killed by a zing and he's not taking
4968s	any chances in letting this one walk
4970s	away spider going to go for the red
4972s	flash but it's a trap it's a bait from
4974s	Mike who immediately Crouch cancels out
4976s	of it and uses the fact that he's held
4978s	stationary to back off the fight
4980s	entirely yeah Mike doing an excellent
4982s	job there of reading wbg spider like you
4985s	said faking the overh hold so he can get
4987s	away there forcing The Flash from wbg
4990s	spider just to create a little bit of
4992s	distance Mike now though with the full
4994s	reset in a bad position though as
4997s	multiple players looking to dog him down
4999s	knowing that he's missing resources here
5002s	he does have 2% rage he only needs to
5005s	get to that 70% for him to be able to
5007s	proc that ultimate and stay healthy here
5010s	so the cool down on the bubble going to
5012s	be coming back soon and it looks like
5013s	Mike is able to get away from what
5016s	looked to be a possible end to his run
5019s	in game number one second realm of Yang
5022s	about to be spawning up that's the
5023s	reason why all of these players have
5025s	been drawn Like Moths To The Flame to
5027s	this area no one's going to get griefed
5029s	out of those entrances we're going to
5031s	see the portal immediately pop for both
5033s	of these players Mike going to be
5034s	versing up against Wang leang Wang leang
5037s	one of the smartest players in the CN
5040s	region was able to use the fact that
5042s	Mike and spider like to grief each other
5044s	to walk away with so many wins in the
5046s	nvpl season this time though there's no
5049s	spider to bait Mike into throwing SS
5050s	early he has to do it alone that
5053s	legendary long sword coming in
5054s	absolutely clutch here for wangang with
5056s	a single uh charge right click here he's
5058s	going to wipe away most of Mike's armor
5060s	Mike going to turn around and return the
5061s	favor oh my goodness he
5063s	like he's going for the full Carousel
5065s	and baits Mike out here he's going to go
5066s	ahead and pop the ultimate as well now
5068s	looking to come in oh my goodness the BM
5072s	coming in from Wang leang here he has to
5075s	keep the pressure up though here onto
5076s	Mike cuz I do believe Mike still has
5079s	that ultimate in the back pocket here
5081s	and we're going to see it coming in
5083s	there we go so much health being charged
5085s	back up here onto A's Mike and wangang
5088s	does not have long left on this ultimate
5091s	he's trying to get as much damage out as
5092s	he can can but he's got to win the
5093s	neutral he does he's able to find the
5096s	Parry he's able to get the purple fan
5098s	away from A's Mike Mike going to crouch
5100s	under the vertical sorry the horizontal
5103s	there absolutely huge for him it buys
5105s	him so much space wangang trying to come
5107s	in with the scale Rush isn't quite able
5108s	to find it now the staff conversion into
5111s	the aerial there's nothing he can do A's
5113s	mic comes out on top I thought it was
5115s	going to be a time out for a second but
5117s	no the fact that he goes for the
5118s	uppercut conversion but the hardi has
5120s	the F2 and is able to use the combo
5123s	breaker to get away but sadly the second
5125s	time he gets punted up into the air by
5128s	that staff conversion he's not able to
5130s	get away and I tell you what run if
5132s	wangang could go back in time before
5134s	this match started he's picking V2
5136s	instead of V1 cuz that might have been
5138s	the Difference Maker as one huge
5140s	difference maker between both of these
5141s	teers is the fact that Frost ofus still
5144s	has that ultimate try hard also going to
5147s	have his at the moment does still have
5149s	two of those shelves going to use that
5151s	fan trying again to threaten that space
5153s	there's a red Flash coming for from Fus
5154s	but try hard's not able to actually find
5156s	the punishment in time dual blades into
5159s	fan one shove coming through Al about to
5162s	run out for try hard he's going to use
5163s	some of that fan spacing to try and bait
5165s	a little bit of a grapple connection
5167s	from fost so he can cancel the blue and
5169s	go in with the light attacks to chunk a
5170s	lot of this T down from the te but he
5173s	gets caught in the back by theb on those
5176s	dual blades and both of these deers are
5178s	now actually having to back on off call
5179s	a temporary truce and look for a reset
5182s	they have have to be careful though cuz
5183s	a player did just flash up on the
5185s	horizon we know there's someone in the
5186s	area who can look for the third party as
5188s	try hard gets sent into the one two Opa
5191s	to be able to come in with the Cavalry
5192s	Bloom that's your reset immediately
5195s	reset back to where you started and once
5197s	again Cavalry Bloom is going to finish
5199s	the job oh my God this is going to feel
5202s	so bad for try hard he's a player who's
5205s	known for having innovated that Katana
5207s	hot swap into the dual blades with the
5209s	Cavalry Bloom and to go out in game one
5212s	one facing the same thing that you
5214s	innovated into the game has got to feel
5217s	so bad and frost ofis right now has got
5219s	to feel on
5222s	fire taking a look here ug's panaman
5225s	still with that legendary staff two
5226s	eliminations under his belt pandaman
5228s	again this is a player that I picked
5230s	this year for my most improved player
5233s	throughout the nvpl season he is
5235s	drastically gotten better at his macro
5238s	game being able to come in ballista
5240s	shots speaking of things coming in it's
5242s	always good for one Moxy as we see wbg
5245s	spider taking no names here just looking
5249s	to throw some damage down Pand man very
5251s	quickly able to reposition under the
5253s	tower where spider cannot find any value
5256s	from that ballista yeah I mean they're
5258s	both playing fa the huge difference
5260s	between the two is the loot discrepancy
5262s	right pandaman has a legendary staff
5264s	because he walked away with a realm of
5266s	Yang wi spider still waling around with
5269s	a blue so no surprises he sits on that
5271s	ballista he uses the threat of that to
5274s	push pandaman away from feeling
5276s	confident enough to take that fight but
5278s	here's a player who is going to be
5279s	feeling pretty confident to take the
5280s	fights Mike as we're going to cut over
5282s	and have a look at unique and Akuma
5284s	Akuma looking for that Shield reset will
5286s	be able to find it the grapple cancel
5287s	coming through with the horizontal
5289s	followup actually going to force the AOS
5291s	into using that F ability to look for
5293s	the disengage as the movement Tech from
5295s	the dual blades is going to carry him a
5296s	little bit Out Of Reach but Akuma is
5298s	able to track him down and now we go
5300s	into the light clang and Akuma with that
5302s	is always going to be able to throw
5304s	those Blues out a lot faster and you can
5306s	see that unique does not want any of it
5308s	Akuma with the double jump to avoid in
5310s	case unique does actually go to commit
5313s	onto that blue not going to be able to
5315s	use it to translate into a jump Parry
5317s	however as both of these players still
5319s	looking for that kite unique
5322s	unfortunately though he's going to go
5323s	down either to Akuma or the Zone tick
5326s	that's about to come through moves into
5327s	the building to be able to scale rush
5329s	and block the door so the F1 pushes
5331s	Akuma back even further who sees another
5333s	player show up drops the F1 so he can
5336s	continue to harass and apply this
5338s	pressure without having to worry to back
5341s	off on the third party yeah unique
5343s	finally able to find an armor swap into
5345s	that white armor going to be Stripped
5346s	Away immediately by a bow shot from
5348s	Akuma still in a terrible position as
5350s	pandan comes in from behind a single
5352s	shots all he need pandaman is able to
5354s	snake the elimination away from drg zaka
5358s	and that's going to move him into second
5360s	place tying it up with frost of his
5362s	right now three eliminations to three
5364s	eliminations man pandaman is looking so
5368s	clean today Moxy we're talking about a
5370s	player who never would have come in for
5373s	a third party looking to snake a kill
5375s	away before in his first and second
5377s	season of The nvpl now when he sees
5380s	opportunity he strikes while the iron is
5383s	hot Panda man bringing the heat well
5386s	he'll be bringing the Tet too the phases
5388s	is honestly going to benefit him the
5389s	most because no one's going to be able
5391s	to lock that Tet and take it away from
5393s	him early cuz it's his only comfort pick
5395s	not a lot of other people like to lock
5396s	the T as wangang has been able to lock
5398s	himself up that Morris blessing walks
5400s	away with the legendary armor oh this
5403s	hard is going to be so hard to pin down
5406s	now especially since he's making sure
5408s	that no one is able to approach the box
5410s	and take anything else outside from it
5413s	happy with all of that loot look at him
5416s	he's got two legendary weapons that he's
5418s	denying to the fairies and that's huge
5421s	because hard is Transformer but fair is
5423s	a Transformer too so they don't get the
5425s	legendary armor when they go into that
5427s	Cannon you know I think it's hilarious
5430s	most players don't even want to risk
5431s	going in for the box once he goes in
5434s	gets the legendary armor there's still
5436s	players sitting on it and he decides you
5438s	know what I don't want anybody to have
5439s	that legendary staff I'm going to go for
5441s	seconds and slides in he gets his cake
5444s	and eats it too yes I absolutely love
5448s	the confidence coming in from him here
5451s	well it's it's the fact that you know
5452s	you're running that Hardy if you get
5454s	badged by some of these players you use
5456s	the F2 you can get that combo break and
5458s	immediately you're gone and if anyone
5460s	tries to chase after you they put
5462s	themselves into the middle position cuz
5463s	you've already disengaged and everyone
5465s	else in the area chases them not you
5468s	yeah absolutely speaking witch here he's
5469s	going to be taking some range shots here
5471s	from A's Mike looking to put that
5473s	repeating crossbow into work this is
5475s	something we theorized with hottie's
5477s	release right one of the only weapons
5479s	you're going to be able to track hottie
5481s	down with and consistently
5484s	repa cross and just with high trios if
5487s	you're lock down a Venom tip that
5489s	repeating crossbow you can counteract
5492s	hottie's ability to just Escape damage
5495s	yeah it it grinds him if he takes too
5497s	much damage in that ultimate he does get
5499s	grounded before he's able to hit F and
5501s	use that ability after three seconds so
5504s	honestly Venom tip has now risen back
5507s	into prominence and I'm so happy cuz
5509s	when how came out I said I don't think
5510s	we're going to see a specific here to
5512s	him except maybe Justina it's going to
5514s	be the soul Jade setup so again that
5517s	does explain why these players
5518s	prioritize loot ping so they had this
5521s	Soul Jade set up because Venom tip isn't
5523s	a legendary Soul Jade run so it's a lot
5526s	easy to get a hold of early in the game
5528s	yeah drg Akuma here actually going to
5530s	pick up the Valiant challenge says I
5532s	don't care if you know where I am this
5533s	late into the game though heading into
5535s	zone five everybody kind of knows where
5537s	everybody is so if he is able to outlast
5540s	this and get that extra money and find a
5542s	shop it's going to be very crucial we
5544s	talk about it all the time how important
5546s	it is heading into late game to be
5549s	stacked with the necessary resources to
5551s	survive so he's thinking about a what if
5554s	scenario and making sure he is covered
5556s	one way or the other I mean everyone's
5558s	thinking about all of the Ws especially
5561s	all of these Heroes who are playing into
5564s	minorities right if you're the only
5566s	teada in the field and you still have a
5569s	couple of Zips running around they may
5571s	not make an actual truce but they're
5574s	going to acknowledge the fact that they
5576s	need to remove that teada before the
5578s	Zone closes in and they get denied that
5580s	reset opportunity with the furri and
5582s	shelves coming in and pushing them into
5584s	the corruption tick damage it's the same
5586s	thing for the fer fer scales in value
5589s	the longer these games go yes she excels
5592s	at realm of Yang but another part that
5593s	she excels in is as the Zone collapses
5595s	cuz you can use the cannon and the
5597s	Stagger to knock the players outside of
5599s	the safety so for panan it is paraman
5601s	that he survives this engagement coming
5604s	on through he does have the F1 he's
5606s	sitting on the V3 as well to be able to
5608s	drop the pillar if he really does feel
5609s	pressured with that legendary fan though
5611s	the scal rush movement is going to be so
5613s	good there's the V3 pillar he's not
5615s	going to be able to hop into it he's
5617s	using it purely to turn the pressure
5619s	onto the teada and job done Frost ofus
5622s	is now Under Fire for Akuma and pandaman
5624s	gets the full reset and can now look for
5626s	the third party punish yeah Frost of is
5629s	in a tight situation here he's going to
5631s	be forced to burn the old ultimate just
5632s	to look for the opportunity to take a
5635s	reset here he can use the furin to shove
5638s	players away while he continues to get
5640s	that pot off but he is heading in to
5643s	zone six in the next couple of seconds
5645s	here without that old activation he's
5648s	able to cancel it a little bit early
5649s	maintain some of that ult charge but
5651s	he's going to have to play extremely
5653s	passively until that ultimate comes back
5656s	online we're taking a look Wang Lang
5657s	looking to try to pressure him but Frost
5659s	of is going to start doing a ton of
5661s	damage and we see the scale Rush coming
5663s	in from the other side it's going to be
5665s	hottie coming up looking to get some
5668s	damage out wangang feeling forced into a
5670s	corner here so many players low Frosty
5673s	just going to go down A's Mike picks up
5676s	his six elimination and Frost ofis goes
5680s	out in sixth place Wang Lang just trying
5683s	to use that hover but he gets shot out
5685s	of it ladies and gentlemen the bow shots
5686s	coming in from up top faam coming in
5688s	aggressively spider looking for that
5690s	opportunity to get get an elimination on
5693s	the board he's going to feel pressured
5694s	though from the rain shots coming in to
5697s	just go ahead and end that ultimate
5699s	wangang no place to go trying to use
5701s	that legendary Soul Jade just to protect
5703s	him from these rain shots coming in wbg
5705s	spider hungry he doesn't have a single
5707s	elimination he wants to find it here
5709s	spider finally on the board spider knew
5712s	that he needed to apply the extra
5714s	pressure onto the other to try and force
5715s	them into using that V3 spider able to
5718s	find the power onto pandan able to find
5720s	the Kill from one to to but now he's
5722s	going to be up against Mike and he has
5724s	to be careful cuz he doesn't have the
5725s	old drop to save him from this Akuma
5728s	tosses him up in the air like a solid
5731s	and spider fall to the ground and now
5733s	it's a one versus one Akuma with the
5735s	ultimate going to be able to go for that
5738s	heal try to keep himself safe but Mike
5740s	with that staff has so much range so
5741s	much reach he pushes him outside of the
5743s	Zone corruption tick and he just doesn't
5745s	have the sustain to stay standing
5747s	absolutely insane coming in A's Mike
5751s	doing exact exactly what he said he was
5752s	going to do coming into jaob he's not
5756s	here for spider he's here for the trophy
5759s	well spider was always going to be in a
5761s	really rough spot right because he used
5763s	the V3 early and there's not a whole lot
5766s	of fairies this is another thing that we
5768s	have to talk about the impact of these
5770s	phases you're not going to be able to
5772s	Simply slip away unnoticed amongst the
5774s	other Heroes you if you use that V3 if
5777s	you use your F1 too early players are
5779s	going to be able to keep a track of who
5781s	exactly just used that all who exactly
5783s	is going to be behind in with those
5784s	resources it's why we saw Frost ofit
5787s	continue to take that additional
5788s	pressure it's why Wang leang took that
5790s	additional pressure and we did say
5792s	repeating crossbow would be a huge
5794s	counter but I don't think it's actually
5795s	the repeating crossbow that grinds him
5797s	it's a bow shot from another player in
5800s	the vicinity because they see that Hardy
5802s	they know that he used a huge chunk of
5804s	his ultimate trying to dog that teada
5807s	down and steal the kill away and that
5809s	means he's not going to have it to be
5811s	able to re position they know they need
5812s	to hit the hatti while he's still
5814s	vulnerable so everyone Mak sure that the
5817s	hatti is going to be continued to
5819s	pressure and from then it's a domino
5820s	effect whoever uses their ultimate first
5823s	is then the player that everyone else
5825s	turns on to and since you don't have
5827s	those abilities you don't have any way
5829s	of turning the pressure onto someone
5830s	else you know you never want to be the
5832s	odd man out in those ending circles and
5834s	that's exactly what we see happened
5836s	there very unfortunate for WG BG spider
5839s	as well he had a tough game trying to
5842s	scale back into that game he was
5844s	constantly forced around realm of yangs
5846s	to burn his ultimate meaning he couldn't
5848s	use those Realms of Yang as a way to
5851s	pressure potential eliminations with a
5853s	fallback plan so going into late game he
5856s	had to play aggressively to put points
5858s	on the board because that multiplier
5860s	doesn't mean anything unless you picked
5862s	up eliminations he slides in and I think
5864s	he finds two eliminations but then Akuma
5867s	has got him in such a bad position on
5869s	the back side of the Zone he knows how
5871s	to just shove him out and hold him there
5874s	he doesn't even really have to play the
5876s	neutral game he just has to play
5878s	footsies and keep the Zone tick burning
5880s	onto wbg spider that's what he's able to
5882s	do he cleans up the elimination and then
5884s	Mike who has just absolutely been
5886s	dominating the lobby slides right back
5889s	in and says hey Akuma thanks for taking
5891s	care of the competition I'm going to
5893s	send you back now yeah like you said
5895s	spider gets caught by the Dual Halbert
5897s	and he lit he gets pancaked it's like
5899s	he's he's in you know you're cooking in
5902s	home and you've got your frying pan and
5904s	just like up and you flip it sometimes
5905s	it get stuck on the roof sometimes you
5907s	get stuck in zone corruption TI damage
5909s	and that is one thing that these Zips
5911s	really can't handle so yes Akuma is
5913s	doing so much damage to spider off of
5915s	just the weapon but also the corruption
5916s	take damage at the same time but he's
5918s	also damaging himself so the fact is
5921s	that Mike's able to come along apply
5922s	that pressure pop a lot of those
5924s	abilities a lot of those resources super
5926s	early on and then Akuma suddenly doesn't
5928s	have things like the F1 to be able to
5930s	use to get that extra movement to try
5932s	and outspace what Mike is doing in the
5935s	fair 1 V one and it's really smart play
5938s	coming through from him because he
5939s	understands I'm a zip I can let
5941s	everybody else fight around me if that
5944s	pressure gets turned on to me I'm going
5945s	to drop my F1 I can hold on to my
5948s	ultimate I can bounce I can reset and no
5950s	one's going to commit to the chase
5952s	because then they're the vulnerable ones
5954s	and I'm okay would you say that they're
5955s	going to zip away Moxy you know just for
5958s	that one I'm a I'm a zip over this side
5961s	jeez oh my goodness what a dominating
5964s	game number one Moxy you know I expected
5966s	to come in today and see that rivalry
5968s	between wbg spider and A's Mike but this
5972s	game is going to play heavily on the wbg
5975s	spider's mental we know again we talked
5978s	about it during the game right when he
5980s	has a bad opening game he tends to
5982s	crumble just a little bit it's harder
5984s	for him when he backs off and starts to
5986s	play this passive play style on top of
5989s	that to know that he goes down and loses
5992s	so drastically to A's Mike in the first
5995s	game Mike I believe walked with seven
5998s	eliminations and a first place finish
6001s	absolutely huge score line considering
6004s	that the average number of eliminations
6006s	in solos for a victory is five two above
6009s	average you throw the multiplier on it
6011s	it's a huge lead for him to immediately
6014s	come out of the Gateway you know I did f
6016s	is like when we saw the Zips come in the
6019s	zip players would be playing at the most
6021s	comfortable they would be the ones
6022s	excelling in the 1 V ones because they
6024s	know if pressure gets thrown on them if
6026s	things go wrong in that fight they're
6028s	going to be able to back on off cleanly
6030s	and they're not the ones who were going
6031s	to get chased everyone else is going to
6032s	turn on things like the F or the hadti
6034s	who use those abilities super early on
6037s	because they have to but then don't have
6039s	that natural reset point and instead
6041s	remain vulnerable and again and again we
6043s	saw it and like you said like you
6045s	correctly called it's going to be Mike
6047s	walking away not just with the first
6049s	place but crucially seven kills in the
6053s	back pocket as well there's a reason why
6055s	we saw spider get so aggressive towards
6058s	the late and he knows like you said even
6060s	if he walks away with a top five finish
6062s	if he doesn't have any kills that kill
6064s	multiplier is still going to mean that
6066s	his score at the end of that match is
6068s	zero and sadly he has a fan that means
6071s	he has to close up the distance get
6073s	super super towards all of the rest of
6075s	the players and he's on the fer he's not
6077s	the zip so he doesn't have the F1 to be
6079s	able to SLI silently away Into the Night
6081s	he uses the F1 and it is a flare up into
6084s	the sky and a little s assault too show
6087s	his location and you know that he's
6088s	behind ints with those abilities I hate
6090s	to cut you off there Moxy but you know
6092s	we have to talk about that scoreboard
6094s	that just showed
6096s	12.8 points for game one for A's Mike
6100s	here we go we're going to take a look at
6101s	some of these highlights as well GG Shaw
6104s	and Akuma going Head to Head we're going
6106s	to see Roman here with a massive Parry
6107s	onto pandaman early and you know what
6110s	pandaan despite going out early recovers
6113s	so cleanly from thees it's really
6115s	impressive too because in the past
6117s	panaman has been like you said one of
6119s	those more passive players he likes to
6121s	play the late game he likes to try and
6123s	jump on top of the moris blessing and
6125s	that made him a little bit more
6126s	predictable people would wait for him to
6127s	make the first move and then punish but
6130s	this time he's the one actually reacting
6132s	to his surroundings and looking for
6133s	those third party punishes as we can
6135s	have a like yeah try hard is not going
6136s	to be happy about this when he got done
6138s	so dirty by that Cavalry blow it's so
6142s	unfortunate too cuz Cavalry blo it was
6144s	the soier frost kept in the back pocket
6146s	so try hard did not expect and
6148s	anticipate having to power up yeah
6150s	absolutely Frost is really coming in
6153s	doing a good job there and then we're
6154s	going to see here the Parry from wbg
6156s	spider coming in able to pick up the
6158s	elimination on the pandan but then Mike
6160s	coming in here on Akuma and there's just
6162s	no place for Akuma to go realistic clear
6164s	he's going to burn the ultimate but Mike
6166s	just has him locked to the edge of the
6167s	Zone Akuma tries to get away here but
6170s	Mike knows the chase away knows he's got
6172s	him in the zone it's just an easy clean
6174s	up for him and no surprises to see that
6176s	zip popping up here as we go to take a
6178s	look at the MVP stats here for A's Mike
6181s	21,000 damage seven eliminations and
6185s	17,000 almost 18,000 of that damage
6188s	coming in from the melee weapons Venom
6190s	tip and B bolts as well that we saw on
6193s	the repeating crossbow and I guarantee
6195s	you that is solely to counter the Hardy
6198s	and the Farah this is a sold that is Pro
6201s	minent and dominating in trios but now
6204s	with Hardy and Faria both being buffed
6206s	and Hardy being released that Soldier is
6208s	going to start to pop up more and more
6210s	and more cuz like you said Cannon just
6212s	cannot accurately pin down the Hardy you
6215s	want something like the repeating
6216s	crossbow to be able to melt through as
6219s	many of those projectiles as possible if
6220s	you're confident with your aim by all
6222s	means pick up a musket but the repeating
6225s	crossbow is definitely going to be the
6227s	most reliable and consistent and
6229s	importantly fast s SCE of damage to
6231s	grind him as quickly as possible yeah
6233s	absolutely and I mean even if you're
6235s	good with the bow as well we saw a huge
6237s	bow shot land the hottie this time
6239s	around in the lobby and change
6240s	everything but we've got a quick
6242s	question for our viewers there in twitch
6244s	chat you need to answer this for us
6247s	what's the player highest skill in this
6248s	match is it a 0 to 5 B6 C7 or d8 plus
6253s	make sure you're locking your answers in
6255s	there in twitch chat for a chance to
6257s	walk away with one of those lucky boxes
6259s	we're being so generous you know with
6261s	all of the questions that these players
6263s	and uh viewers get to actually answer
6265s	we've got questions before matches we've
6267s	got questions after matches and we've
6269s	got absolutely amazing nraa for everyone
6272s	to be able to tune into cuz when a new
6274s	hero is released everyone sort of waits
6276s	to see what the pros do with it right
6278s	before they decide where exactly they're
6280s	going to fall in terms of meta so this
6282s	is going to be influencing not just
6284s	Jacob but the rest of naraki Esports
6287s	heading into next year as well yeah
6289s	absolutely and again like you said
6291s	so many goodies to give away here make
6294s	sure you guys are of course following us
6296s	here on Twitch make sure you're
6297s	answering your questions over in the
6300s	lovely game as well make sure you're
6302s	supporting all your players and a huge
6305s	shout out to Twitch chat cuz we wouldn't
6306s	be here without you we do love twitch
6308s	chat and hopefully twitch chat love us
6310s	too yeah absolutely I mean I just love
6313s	the fact that we're here I love the fact
6315s	as well that we get another game of Hol
6316s	off because this this is the first time
6318s	these players are playing backto back
6320s	Hol offs and that is going to be huge
6322s	because Hof plays out very differently
6324s	in terms of mors like Zip is really
6328s	popular on Hof because those open
6329s	expansive spaces where you get denied
6331s	the abilities to be able to use scar
6333s	rushes out in those desert Sandy areas
6335s	zip sort of surfs above all of that but
6339s	everyone's going to be surfing into
6340s	different hero picks because the phases
6341s	are going to change and suddenly we have
6343s	an entirely different group of players
6345s	who are going to be able to pick their
6347s	players first but speaking of players
6348s	we're going to be hearing from try hard
6351s	um hi my name is try hard I'm from Team
6353s	ntl um and I'm from the na region I'm
6355s	really excited to be here with you guys
6357s	this year um I was really happy to to
6359s	qualify this year especially because um
6363s	most of my friends and I feel like this
6364s	year has the highest competition um just
6366s	because Mike is in this year spider is
6367s	the returning champion and uh I really
6370s	feel confident about my own team as well
6373s	um so this is definitely the best year
6374s	for me to qualify and be really happy to
6376s	do
6377s	so um I think the strongest team uh for
6380s	trios right now is xcg just because
6382s	they're the champions of the last season
6383s	of MPL and I think the strongest player
6386s	for solos is still spider just because
6387s	he managed to win last year's Jacob um I
6390s	think it's going to take in order to
6391s	qualify for the final stage I think it's
6392s	going to take uh not only a lot of hard
6394s	work um I would tell myself before the
6396s	first game definitely to just stay calm
6398s	stay focused just because I know I've
6400s	prepared a long time so you know there's
6402s	no more I can do as long as I do my best
6404s	that that's all I can
6407s	give I'm not too worried about the lobby
6409s	of Debs um for both trios and solos I
6412s	think you know it's just the group
6413s	stages I think that's just kind of the
6414s	first hurdle uh of the J cup and I know
6417s	that I I just have to focus more on
6419s	myself than the other players and I'll
6420s	make
6421s	it welcome back ladies and gentlemen
6424s	here to the 2023 jup we're one game deep
6428s	in the Rivalry between A's Mike and wbg
6431s	spider is already running deep with aw's
6435s	Mike coming out on top in game number
6437s	one Moxy I mean speaking about rivalries
6439s	try hard and frost of us those two there
6441s	are going to be words and discussions
6444s	had when we cut to the next day because
6446s	my goodness like you said TR had one of
6449s	those players who works so hard to
6450s	innovate and make sure that everyone
6452s	gets the information as well he's always
6454s	super open he's always super friendly
6455s	it's one of the huge things I love about
6457s	the Nora Community everyone really is
6459s	very open and shares and helps of how to
6461s	play Heroes best and how to use weapon
6463s	Tech best try hard was one of those
6466s	players behind the katana into dual
6469s	blade Swap and he was one of the players
6471s	unfortunately in front of them too in
6473s	the last match yeah it's really
6475s	unfortunate but try hard bounces back
6477s	we've seen him do it time and time again
6479s	I don't think this is going to impact
6480s	his mental too much Moxy realistically
6483s	I'm mostly worried about wbg spider but
6485s	you know what else I'm worried about
6486s	makeing sure you guys are locked in
6488s	headed on over to your nraa client and
6490s	answer the following question down below
6492s	which of the following two players
6494s	achieved the most kills in this match is
6496s	it wangle Yang or GG Shaw this is a
6498s	tough one yeah this is also not a
6500s	question about the last match it's about
6502s	the match that we're going into it is a
6504s	prediction question and if you're right
6508s	you get a chance to be able to go for
6510s	that exclusive J Cup World Banner skin
6514s	and I mean it's a gorgeous skin oh
6516s	absolutely I'm excited for us to go
6518s	ahead and get game number two underway I
6521s	want to see the hero picks are we going
6523s	to see the influence of Hardy because we
6525s	did see we saw hardi but we saw V1 hadie
6528s	and I'm really excited to see wherever
6530s	on not we're going to see more hatties
6532s	especially because we're still going to
6534s	be playing on holl of where that
6536s	verticality really does come into clutch
6539s	you also have to remember that you have
6541s	to play five different Heroes at least
6544s	for the entirety of the six games so for
6547s	a lot of these players they don't want
6549s	to go for the double dip early they want
6551s	to hold off on things like the faia and
6554s	the zip double pick until a little bit
6556s	later in the day especially for the far
6559s	who wants to be able to go for was
6560s	Firefly Knights an deada 2 to be able to
6563s	have the ultimate up and online for as
6565s	much as possible and crucially to have
6568s	it active when those R of yangs start to
6570s	spawn on in as we saw if teas got
6573s	pressured into using that ultimate a
6574s	little bit too early before the r of
6576s	Yang popped they had to give up the idea
6578s	on taking it entirely ultimates are that
6582s	important in being able to take those
6584s	one v1s where the ability to third party
6587s	is denied entirely as we can have a look
6590s	at some some of these player cams Panda
6592s	man not smiling very much good game
6595s	coming through from him surely a lot of
6597s	confidence coming through a lot of
6599s	emotions on that player I know run is
6601s	really happy to get to see him on stage
6603s	after how close he came to being right
6606s	here right now all that time ago as
6610s	we're going to see a lot of these other
6611s	players Wang leang one of those players
6614s	the first player to ever pick Hardy on
6618s	this stage he's going to go down in
6619s	history for that that reason but also
6621s	because of how smart how Innovative a
6624s	player he is when it comes to trying to
6626s	kite some of these players into each
6628s	other no surprises he was the one who
6630s	wanted to try and push hardi to the
6631s	Forefront as a result cuz he could run
6633s	into a player kite them in with the
6635s	hardi mobility to a different fight
6637s	entirely back on off and then look to
6640s	come in for the third party and steal
6641s	that kill away he talking about stealing
6644s	away these heroes are about to get
6646s	stolen away from any opportunity to be
6649s	locked in pools have moved around wbg
6653s	spider nl's tryhard jdg shuang and OG's
6657s	pandaan are now the ones with all of the
6659s	power in their pocket are we going to
6662s	see pandaman pick up the terer or is he
6664s	going to be saving it for the increased
6666s	fire where he gets that ultimate so much
6669s	faster you know Moxy I think it would be
6671s	absolutely insane if Panda man brought
6674s	Justina
6676s	out really I can imagine a Justina come
6680s	from but I don't think it's going to be
6682s	from Panda man but then again we did see
6684s	a lot of faers and we do know that some
6687s	of these players specifically do Zuma is
6690s	known for picking that Justina into that
6693s	faer pick problem for Akuma is he's the
6697s	last one he's phase number three he gets
6700s	to choose around everyone else's pick
6702s	instead yeah absolutely take a look here
6705s	pandaan and tryhard on the split Camp
6708s	dude tryhard looking so locked in right
6710s	right now maxy yeah we're seeing a lot
6712s	of the nraa drip as well team jerseys
6715s	team jackets a lot of these players
6718s	really wrapping their organizations
6720s	incredibly happy to get the opportunity
6722s	to be here on that stage CU even if
6725s	you're not able to make it all the way
6726s	to changu it is still an absolute honor
6729s	to be here and talking about bringing
6731s	honor you can bring honor and support
6733s	your teams as we're going to be having a
6735s	look at those hero points coming through
6738s	one ZIP one teada so so far no double
6741s	pick nothing has been banned out for
6744s	phase two as a Faria comes through there
6746s	it is zip taken once again out of the
6749s	pool entirely this is going to be
6751s	interesting Moxy I think we're going to
6752s	see a lot of this here on our three
6754s	Hollow Roth games zip getting completely
6756s	banned out early there's going to be
6757s	Faria as well Moxy yeah we're going to
6760s	be seeing that Faria banned out like you
6763s	said are we going to be seeing a
6766s	different pick come through from unique
6769s	what's it going to be he has 1 second
6772s	it's going to be a tumult okay things
6775s	are about to get well Co and very very
6779s	sunay let's take a look here for our
6781s	third round of picks tamy going to be
6784s	interesting to deal with given how many
6786s	faas there are in this Lobby taking a
6788s	look seeing a taada coming in from
6791s	tanoshi this is a hero he's very well
6793s	known for playing as well and again drg
6796s	Zuma going to be locking in kada as well
6800s	interesting to see how all of these
6801s	heroes are going to interact so far we
6804s	don't get another Hardy I don't know
6806s	whether or not it's because these
6807s	players are wanting to save for the
6809s	fireflies maybe it's because the hardi
6811s	didn't interact all that greatly into
6813s	some of these other Heroes especially
6815s	with a tumul being in the mix you do
6817s	have the trade-off yes he's able to
6819s	escape the tul ultimate a lot more
6821s	easily just by flying straight out the
6823s	top of it like the justtina with the
6824s	dash but if you get caught midair in
6826s	that wisp you do get held in the CC
6829s	you're not able to escape out of it a
6831s	lot of the time if you have any range
6833s	weapons that actually back that CC up it
6835s	does result in a grounded HTI yeah and
6839s	that's not where you want to be if your
6840s	hottie is on the ground but you want to
6842s	be up in the air Landing those hits and
6845s	controlling the skies so we take a look
6847s	at all of our players we're getting an
6849s	opportunity to see what versions of
6851s	abilities and ultimates they're running
6852s	here Moxy I'm excited to see ooh okay I
6859s	like this F3 coming in V1 on the teada
6862s	for tanoshi pretty standard stuff coming
6864s	in from teada no change UPS here I
6868s	almost want to see something different
6870s	this time around Moxy yeah I really
6872s	hoped maybe we would get just a little
6874s	bit of extra spice coming through but
6876s	again these players they know they only
6878s	get 12 matches to be able to put enough
6881s	points together to make it to changu for
6884s	those grand finals no one wants to have
6887s	that risk backfire directly into their
6890s	their face so everyone playing for the
6891s	safest option everyone playing for the
6893s	most consistent option as well you know
6896s	I will say I'm interested to see how
6898s	unique thinks this Lobby is going to
6900s	play out for him with so many faras just
6903s	able to walk right through a sandstorm
6905s	he's not going to find a lot of value
6907s	out of this pick at all wow we're going
6909s	to be seeing a lot of value from these
6911s	players as everyone's headed to those
6913s	higher golden loot tier areas a lot more
6917s	cluster coming through from these
6919s	players in comparison to the last drop
6922s	and how it split a lot of the majority
6923s	of these players towards the outer edges
6926s	now that game one has been done a lot of
6928s	them are taking that confidence and
6930s	wanting to start off these fights as
6931s	quickly as possible for a whole number
6934s	of reasons you want to deny potential
6936s	scaling from your opponents but if you
6938s	had a poor performance in game one you
6940s	need the kills to be able to start
6941s	Bridging the Gap between you and the
6943s	rest of your competition well speaking
6945s	of e those kills we're about to have
6947s	Fight Club take off right here and right
6950s	now inside plumed Castle we've got frost
6953s	already trayon blows here with Wang
6955s	leang and he's hungry for an easy early
6958s	elimination Wang langang finally able to
6959s	find some white armor so Frosty going to
6961s	back off and look to do a little bit of
6963s	Looting of his own we're see GG Shaw in
6966s	the distance and all of these players
6969s	trying to get just a little bit of loot
6971s	here before they really start to trade
6973s	blows but who's not waiting here that's
6975s	going to be ao's Mike he's hungry for
6978s	Repeat Performance here in game two like
6980s	had in game number one coming in here
6983s	the fair of that F going to be extremely
6985s	clean here for Mike he leaves Roman with
6987s	almost did nothing and he's just got to
6989s	find one more hit Roman will find the
6991s	armor swap coming in he gets the huge
6994s	read on the charge right click from the
6995s	pole sword and A's Mike's already off to
6998s	a tear I mean he was already off to a
7000s	tear when he was able to pick up a
7001s	purple dagger right off of the drop that
7003s	is insane as wangang has also been able
7006s	to get his hands on a purple weapon
7007s	that's going to be a purple spay coming
7010s	on through for him looking to try and
7012s	chase after Frost us doesn't manage to
7014s	find any of that Clank so has to use the
7016s	F1 has to be careful as he is currently
7018s	the player in the middle going to use
7020s	that Dragon Slayers to keep himself
7021s	spaced away from GG sha and the
7023s	potential lock in as another player has
7026s	shown up to the party this is what we
7028s	were talking about when these fers
7029s	invest the F1 they become vulnerable
7032s	everyone in the surroundings knows they
7033s	don't have the combat break and everyone
7035s	looks to lock them down oh my goodness
7037s	sha here on the back foot Frost looking
7040s	to pressure the third party coming in
7042s	with the pistol shots the grapple will
7044s	land sha trying to use those buttery
7045s	rocks to create some distance but Frost
7047s	ofis Cuts him off and now we're going to
7050s	see GG sha caught between a rock and a
7052s	hard place unique coming in on that Tami
7054s	looking to make something happen but
7056s	it's frosty who comes back in and finds
7058s	the elimination we will see unique land
7061s	the whisp but Frost ofis still more than
7063s	happy with the situation in life almost
7065s	full ultimate the fs back off cool down
7067s	and unique has got nothing in the tank
7070s	ladies and gentlemen Frost of is looking
7072s	to make anything happen unique just
7075s	crouching down on the backside here no
7076s	Bush nothing there's an invisibility
7078s	Bush right there and he's just sitting
7081s	out in the open Moxy I think he was
7083s	trying in case Frost's camera was panned
7085s	away from the cliff because so often
7087s	we've seen these players Now search the
7089s	invisibility bushes and entirely forgo
7091s	the actual Cliff faces so a lot of the
7093s	time these players will put themselves
7095s	onto the Cliff face and try and push
7097s	themselves into the Rock as far as
7098s	possible just like sitting inside hay
7100s	bales and also normal bushes instead of
7103s	the purple because it's become so
7105s	dangerous to try the stealth play and
7108s	get found out by the grapple hover we're
7110s	going to see tooshi on that teada does
7112s	manage to find a couple of hits in with
7113s	that Katana going to use the ultimate
7115s	activation to actually shove Wang leang
7118s	away and survive the vpre drop one shove
7121s	now invested as well no shoves left to
7124s	his name as wangyang with the drop down
7126s	on the staff finds the connection onto
7127s	the deada no she not able to go for the
7129s	Parry in time going to be sent to an
7131s	early grave yeah super unfortunate there
7134s	for tanoshi he didn't back up far enough
7136s	so even though the furin comes out and
7138s	lands the downward hit from that R&B
7141s	still connects onto him and it's just
7143s	enough damage to send him back to the
7145s	soul alter Oh's panaman out here already
7148s	with an early elimination onto him it
7151s	means he only has this one life left so
7154s	he needs to be very careful about how he
7156s	looks to take these engagements cutting
7158s	back over to unique and frost of his
7159s	Frost
7160s	not having given up the chase here and
7162s	this is something we've seen time and
7164s	time again with tamy trying to use that
7167s	golden Focus whisp to get you up in the
7168s	air and it just sets you up for the
7170s	uppercut and you can do it with the fan
7172s	Moxy yep you can do it with the fan you
7175s	can do it with the dual blade spider
7177s	going to be once again I swear these two
7179s	players they are teed by the red thread
7182s	of fade as we're going to see Mike KN
7185s	this time low Mike on the zip spider on
7187s	the deada trying to run off Rob the fer
7190s	trying to hunt him down the pillar drop
7192s	does come through spider with the one
7193s	two into the uppercut into the grapple
7196s	extension into the uppercut into the
7197s	shove into the connection with the R&B
7201s	on the long sword what a play coming
7204s	through from spider it's absolutely
7206s	insane cuz I remember last year he
7207s	confessed in an interview one of his
7210s	absolute least favorite Heroes that he
7212s	had the least confidence on was teada
7215s	and he came along with that teada and
7217s	was able to just set up such a clean
7220s	extension and not only that finally find
7222s	a on to Mike but R he left the bloom too
7225s	this is spider with confidence oh
7227s	absolutely try hard here going to be
7228s	forced to invest the pillar here onto
7230s	Frost of as Frost is going to eat the
7232s	uppercut combo but comes back in and
7234s	pandan bringing the heat he's able to
7236s	land one onto try hard picks up the
7237s	elimination looks to get one onto Frosty
7239s	Frosty no place to go the fire tick
7242s	keeps tricking down and pandaman going
7245s	to get off here he needs to chase this
7246s	elimination we're going to see tanoshi
7248s	coming in two Frost is in such a bad
7251s	situation this ZIP this teada coming in
7253s	at Full Tilt Frost with the Parry onto
7256s	pandaan now the attention turned on to
7260s	frost ofis pandaan going to be able to
7262s	get away here and comes back in Frost
7265s	ofis will find the full reset off of his
7268s	ult and his F but the problem is they
7270s	know he's weak they know he doesn't have
7272s	anything in the tank and pandaan he's
7273s	going to keep it coming he's going to
7275s	find another clean two hits here on Def
7277s	Frost they're going to Parry at each
7279s	other going for the Parry whip here the
7281s	Parry re from frost ofus as he finds it
7284s	he's going to use that terrain to his
7285s	Advantage the R&B on the fan the jumping
7287s	R and B pandaman goes so low and as a
7291s	result tooshi comes in for the attempt
7294s	at the kill steel PanAm man able to use
7296s	the zip sustainability to keep himself
7298s	topped up he sees that teada he knows
7300s	that the teada is going to be
7301s	approaching Dead ultimate so he runs
7303s	into the other Z ping trying to force
7305s	them into throw the ultimate as well so
7307s	now both of these Zips are in the exact
7309s	same state no one wants this fight to
7311s	continue because they know that tooshi
7312s	is going to be coming in to finish it
7314s	off and they're both going to be sent
7316s	out of the lobby without a kill to their
7318s	name and as a result it's become a
7320s	disengage but tooshi has been able to
7323s	keep a track of one ZIP and that
7325s	unfortunately is Frost ofis he's looking
7327s	to use those rocks but it puts him
7329s	directly into the path yet again of the
7331s	ballista pandaan oh is going to be able
7334s	to try and keep the Fret up with this
7336s	particular weapon tanoshi sees the Fret
7338s	he's the shots decides you know what
7340s	I'll take my chances inside of Realm of
7342s	Yang cuz I think he still has his Al too
7344s	it's going to be very interesting to see
7346s	how this plays out it's going to be jg's
7347s	Chu Jang versus lobb's 28 wbg spider
7351s	versus GG sha we haven't seen this 1 V
7354s	one in a long time spider looking to
7355s	start with the scalos will eat a bow
7357s	shot that's going to be a third of his
7358s	armor gone already he miss times the F
7361s	and is going to be left with just his
7362s	ultimate the pillar already invested by
7364s	shot spider has to force him away from
7366s	it but he's able to interact with it
7368s	through spider fighter now with only one
7371s	furin left available in the tank this is
7373s	going to be a tough fight for him versus
7375s	GG sha he's able to get the read twice
7377s	but not the third time his sha is able
7380s	to find a shot behind the pillar onto
7382s	spider spider trying to turn around and
7384s	make trades there with the pistol but
7386s	not in a strong position he's going to
7387s	go for the reset again he will be able
7389s	to dodge the one hit he's looking for
7391s	the other one he's able to dodge two
7392s	he's able to dodge three ladies and
7394s	gentlemen wbg spider built different GG
7397s	shot coming out of the mech here trying
7399s	to make some space spider won't miss the
7401s	f a second time is able to find Value
7404s	out of it sha holding on for dear life
7406s	here the carel comes in the reuin he
7409s	ended his old proed it a second time
7412s	Moxy and wbg spider walks away the
7414s	winner you know spider's already got a
7416s	katana skin but he needs a lasso skin
7418s	cuz he is just he's finding these
7420s	players he's you know he's roping them
7422s	and he's putting them on the carousel
7424s	multiple times spider looking incredibly
7426s	clean his teada this year has really
7429s	been exceptional especially with those
7430s	extensions it's something that we talk
7432s	about his mechanics in the One V one
7435s	when it's that realm of Yang isolated
7437s	fight and he doesn't have to worry about
7439s	being interrupted by these players
7440s	specifically Mike griefing him he looks
7443s	entirely different it really does make
7445s	an absolute world of difference and what
7447s	else is going to make a world of
7448s	difference is the fact that spider has
7450s	now put together three kills he's got
7452s	the million Birds M he is a teator he
7454s	gets to play as aggressive as possible
7456s	and he's going to be able to have his
7458s	ultimate back up because he took the
7460s	realm of Yang fight and won it so he's
7463s	going to be in such a good position
7465s	because off of the back of this
7466s	performance alone he's already slipped
7468s	into second place yeah absolutely taking
7471s	a look at chuang here coming outside of
7473s	his realm of Yang now with the Yang
7474s	depletion he's forced to come back out
7476s	in the zone one of the few reasons you
7478s	would do this is if you have a soul
7479s	Bloom stashed ladies and gentlemen as
7482s	almost if I could predict the future
7485s	Moxy we see ju Jan coming in to a soul
7487s	Bloom he did have stash ear earlier into
7489s	the game here turn needing that coat
7491s	it's it's a snowstorm we got Chiller
7494s	coming into play absolutely here tooshi
7497s	with the Yang depletion this is going to
7499s	be interesting he needs to come in and
7501s	find this but he does have the campfire
7503s	which means he's going to be unaffected
7505s	by the weather or the cold coming in
7507s	here he's going to get to keep his
7508s	ultimate but Shaw going to take some
7510s	huge shots off onto him and tanoshi
7512s	really trying to clean something up here
7514s	the pillar going to be invested on the
7516s	side of GG sha tanoshi going to Parry
7519s	whip into a Parry with from GG sha as
7521s	they both return back to neutral tooshi
7523s	feeling forced to burn the ultimate here
7525s	he doesn't have the furin just yet he's
7526s	going to have it now he's going to need
7527s	to use it to cover but sha is able to
7531s	tap Dodge through it and finds the
7534s	elimination what did I just watch Moxy I
7536s	think that was war crimes I mean a
7538s	master class inversing it to kada it's
7541s	such a smart investment of the pillar he
7543s	knows he's going up against teada he
7545s	knows there's a chance that the campfire
7547s	buff has been activated so we doesn't
7549s	want to go into the upper cut because he
7550s	knows if that ultimate is still
7552s	available for his opponent it's going to
7554s	lead into a converted extension and he
7557s	is not going to have the opportunity to
7559s	be able to break free from it with the
7561s	pillar drop and as a result sha plays
7564s	his cards perfectly he doesn't leave the
7566s	Opera confirmation to chance he drops
7568s	the pillar he's able to turn the fight
7570s	around off of the Stagger onto the toada
7572s	to lead into that onew little bit of
7575s	charge coming out from the lmb on the
7577s	staff and as a result he's able to like
7579s	you saw deny the shelves deny having the
7582s	power of the teada to be able to recol
7585s	the fight and recol the tempo as spider
7588s	is going to be doing a little bit of
7590s	shopping cuz he doesn't have that
7591s	legendary long sword he has legendary
7593s	nunchuck if he's going to be able to get
7595s	dragon roar in his hand we're talking
7597s	about a whole amount of damage a whole
7599s	amount of kills oh my goodness spider
7602s	has not picked up a total of a 100 kills
7606s	probably not in his mvpl season I think
7608s	this is just off of his is qualifying
7610s	Damage Done for Jacob itself this is
7614s	absolutely insane for wbg spider
7616s	wouldn't accomplish 100 eliminations
7618s	here in solos as we take a look spider
7622s	going to keep moving across here and you
7624s	know we talked about setting momentum
7625s	with those legendary nunchuks he is
7627s	completely set up to control the
7629s	momentum of this Lobby especially if
7631s	he's able to get his hands onto that
7633s	Dragon Roar and speaking of momentum
7635s	shift we have the second set of Realms
7637s	of Yang looking to move in here we've
7640s	got multiple vant challenges on the map
7642s	as well and spider just going to
7644s	position himself extremely strong to
7646s	take this real of Yang for free it's not
7648s	alone though I know I was going to say
7650s	who's that is creeping in though it's
7652s	going to be A's mik we got 5 seconds
7654s	before we get copyright strick of the
7656s	Jaws music I'm just going to paint that
7658s	picture for the audience to now put into
7661s	their minds as we're going to see like
7662s	you said spider and Mike posturing up
7664s	ghostly Mist also coming into play on
7667s	that other entrance of the round of so
7669s	those players if they do get griefed if
7671s	they do get pushed into those hands
7673s	they're going to get silenced and
7675s	potentially punished for attempting that
7677s	and it looks like Mike has opted out of
7680s	taking the fight against spider you know
7682s	if they both saw each other they would
7684s	use their ultimates they would deny
7685s	themselves the opportunity of being in
7687s	the position to take the realm of Yang
7689s	at full power lovely to see that they're
7691s	going to back off and play for the
7692s	bigger pictures unique might
7694s	unfortunately not be playing all that
7696s	longer in this Lobby once again he's
7698s	coming under so much pressure he does
7700s	have the ultimate to be able to drop if
7702s	he feels like he's going to need to take
7703s	that disengagement as wbg and xcg are
7707s	going to be taking a fight yeah this is
7709s	super unfortunate I'm not sure what
7710s	unique's thought process was coming into
7712s	this game you're coming into phase two
7714s	you get to pick a hero halfway through
7716s	and you see that faia Shin's already
7718s	banned out that's a potential for four
7720s	faas in the match someone just got
7723s	parried and it wasn't unique but the
7725s	Parry damage the followup went on to
7728s	Unique so he died as a result of another
7731s	player throwing a blue oh no well
7734s	speaking of things being thrown we're
7736s	back at it again inside the realm of
7737s	Yang it's wbg spider versus aaria yet
7740s	again but wangang able to get the read
7742s	the first time spider able to get the
7743s	read the second time here will spider be
7746s	able to maintain like he did another
7748s	read coming in from wangang he's got to
7750s	find the opportunity again he does
7752s	spider not quite able to play it as
7755s	evenly as he did the first time versus
7757s	faio wangyang is going to end it just a
7759s	little bit early and aggressively
7760s	posture trying to keep spotter from
7761s	getting the pot off but spider has found
7763s	it he's got the grapple the flip on over
7766s	immediately pops the AL for the furin
7768s	knowing he's going to get a free
7769s	Ultimate Reset if he wins the fight
7771s	takes the extension takes the fight and
7774s	spider is backto back realm of Yang he's
7777s	at five eliminations Moxy and I think
7779s	this answers my question from game
7781s	number one is spider going to let it get
7783s	to his mental absolutely not pandaan
7786s	unfortunately is going to be letting
7787s	that fan get to his his head as it is
7790s	going to take him outside of this Lobby
7792s	spider not just going to be taking those
7793s	kills he's also going to be taking
7795s	legendary dual blades and Mystic might
7797s	with that damage reduction but crucially
7799s	for him peace of mind if he takes the
7802s	fight he's going to have those flashes
7804s	of players locations he's going to have
7806s	the information that others do not
7808s	unless they have access to that Bell and
7810s	especially when we have ghostly Miss and
7812s	play a lot of these players who haven't
7814s	been able to scale up are gravitating
7816s	towards the weather effects that reset
7818s	the troves in area and allow them the
7820s	chance to be able to start to loot on up
7823s	potentially finding purples but also
7825s	being able to St up on things like
7827s	Vitalia and the shield pots because no
7829s	one as we're going to continue to say
7832s	wants to be put in a position where they
7834s	have to use an ultimate to be able to
7836s	save face yeah absolutely wangang here
7839s	speaking of Saving Face needs to save a
7841s	soul Bloom for himself he's got three
7842s	minutes left on this Yang depletion and
7844s	he needs to find one quickly
7847s	unfortunately he's going to be pushed
7848s	away here here by wbg spider and wangang
7850s	knows he can't win this fight he's
7852s	trying to not retake this into spider
7855s	while he has that crucial 25% damage
7858s	reduction buff coming in from the Mystic
7860s	might and you know what's funny is we
7862s	almost never see Draco storm anymore and
7865s	of course this would be the original
7867s	buff that had that 25% damage reduction
7869s	on it but now it's so crucially on that
7872s	Mystic m i mean it used to be a dragon
7874s	that was like a
7876s	lizard absolutely the only time you ever
7879s	see it is in trios when a team is able
7881s	to take Amor's blessing and they kind of
7884s	get stuck with it just a little bit Moxy
7886s	but the rest of these players right now
7888s	more than happy with their situation and
7890s	lives as long as your name's not wangang
7892s	blue weapon blue armor couple minutes
7894s	left on that Yang depletion I wouldn't
7896s	want to be situation I don't want to be
7898s	sh that's the F1 invested and
7900s	immediately on the right flank spider's
7902s	going to use the ultimate activation to
7903s	try and lock this kill down sh wanting
7906s	to try and keep away from the fur and
7907s	goes directly into the the followup
7909s	damage on the R&B on the long Z and
7911s	here's the difference spiders able to
7913s	close the distance and find the kill but
7914s	he still got teada left so as a result
7917s	unlike in the last game where he
7918s	immediately got jumped on after the fery
7920s	had used the F1 everyone lets him slip
7922s	away yeah so crucial for wbg fighter
7926s	here to pick up yet another elimination
7928s	he's already working on outpacing the
7930s	score from A's Mike in the last game
7933s	Mike here with one elimination under his
7935s	belt can still bring this back and
7937s	maintain that first place position but
7939s	he's got to find himself in a position
7941s	of power heading into these final
7943s	circles we are zone three collapsing
7945s	onto zone four that means no more Realms
7947s	of Yang and those moris blessings coming
7949s	through are going to have a very crucial
7951s	piece of gear here for these players
7952s	that legendary set of armor and a
7954s	legendary weapon if you're playing Faria
7956s	or teada you have to prioritize those
7959s	well I mean for wangang he has to
7960s	prioritize getting a kill he's time to
7962s	almost one minute left on that Yang
7965s	depletion and he's being gatee kept by
7967s	spider to keep keep him in this Zone
7969s	tick for as long as
7972s	possible we're going to see here Wang
7974s	Lang turning things onto wbg spider
7976s	unfortunately spider takes a ton of
7977s	damage here he's going to get a little
7979s	bit of heal there coming in off of that
7981s	long sword will it be enough to keep him
7983s	alive oh my goodness that combined with
7985s	the soul Bloom saves wbg spider I need
7989s	an instant replay Moxy that was the most
7992s	clutch I have ever seen this man if he
7997s	had been on the opposite
8000s	he goes down I mean spider very very
8003s	smart knows that he's going to be
8004s	vulnerable since he had to invest so
8006s	much going to kite Akuma towards that no
8008s	Al Zone pop it immediately so that
8011s	spider is able to keep himself running
8013s	disengage find the opportunity to be
8015s	able to go all the way out to the edge
8017s	of the Zone where he's not going to run
8018s	into anyone else and can start to build
8020s	up a little bit more of the rage as well
8023s	as activate too n it's not an ARA blade
8026s	Point cast if we do not talk about the
8028s	importance of tuna the Zips doesn't
8031s	really matter all that much it just
8032s	means you get to hold on to your F1 a
8033s	little bit more but teada because you
8036s	have to a lot of the time pop your F
8038s	ability early on so people don't see the
8040s	immediate read and activation of it midf
8043s	fight it really becomes important to be
8045s	able to have that sustainability tool so
8048s	you can play as aggressively forward as
8049s	you want here we're going to see A's
8051s	Mike wbg spider both posturing up for
8054s	the box here but it's going to be Akuma
8055s	who's going to risk it all to go in and
8057s	slide and take that Legend sort of armor
8059s	he says I'm going back for seconds
8061s	ladies and gentlemen and I do believe he
8062s	finds a legendary bow here looking to
8065s	drop some soul Jades and go back in for
8067s	thirds but even Akuma the BM man himself
8071s	dare not risk it no he does no way Akuma
8075s	goes in for first he comes back for
8077s	seconds and he said don't mind me cuz
8080s	I'm bringing a doggy bag I mean we we
8082s	need the knife and fork skin for the
8086s	dual blades on this guy stat he's going
8088s	back for even more Rune he's just
8090s	stashing absolutely everything are we're
8093s	going to see any other tricks come
8096s	through from him as Mike is going to be
8097s	using those sand walls to keep himself
8100s	climbed and elevated to come in with a
8102s	surprise Cavalry Bloom and put the
8104s	attention onto spider but he's the one
8106s	being chased after because he gets
8108s	intercepted by another teada Mike trying
8111s	to turn it on to spider the teada
8113s	wanting to take that fa out of the way
8115s	so they can use their ultimate to play
8117s	aggressive instead of shoving her away
8118s	from her pillar and mikee is going to
8120s	get hit by a huge chunk of damage that
8122s	ronb on the long doing so much Mike
8125s	having to scale Rush away puts himself
8127s	onto the cliffs puts himself forward
8129s	towards his pillow will be able to hop
8131s	into the mech use those boosters look to
8133s	break away from all of this attention
8134s	but the second he drops out of that meun
8137s	he has to be in a position where he's
8138s	able to cut noise entirely otherwise
8140s	every single player in the lobby is
8141s	going to be after him yeah absolutely
8143s	he's going to end the transformation
8144s	early here and not find too much value
8146s	out of it because he continues to get
8147s	dogged down by drg's Akuma Mike knows he
8151s	has to break ankles here if he wants to
8153s	survive unfortunately Akuma just playing
8155s	Ring Around the Rosie with him here on
8157s	this pillar Mike goes left Akuma goes
8159s	right and round and round they go and oh
8162s	my goodness Akuma comes in walks into
8165s	that ultimate from wbg spider but he's
8167s	still able to clutch up the elimination
8169s	misses the opportunity on the charge R&B
8171s	there on those legendary dual halberts
8173s	but Akuma still going strong trying to
8175s	turn it onto Roman it's top three he
8177s	knows he has to take fight now and
8179s	spider coming back in is going to buy
8181s	Akuma all the time he needs to take a
8184s	full reset here unfortunately he doesn't
8187s	have that ultimate so we're going to
8188s	have to see Akuma utilize these hits to
8191s	try to build that rage back up he gets
8192s	parried takes an extreme amount of
8194s	damage there from the P sword off of
8196s	romen and now spider has turned his
8199s	attention to drg's Akuma and Roman is
8203s	going to get away with a full reset Moxy
8204s	off of all of the damage bider has done
8206s	he's got his ultimate back as well he
8208s	knows the fairy Max about to fall for he
8210s	knows that Akuma doesn't have the
8211s	ultimate to be able to break free and
8212s	regain control of neutral it's now a one
8215s	versus one spider takes Akuma down and
8217s	goes up to eight kills ran going to be
8219s	outside of the mech has to try and find
8221s	any value that he can spider scaling up
8224s	the sight before the f is going to be
8226s	able to chase after him and land any
8228s	more of those cannon shots rean with a
8230s	blue staff gets parried by spider who's
8233s	going to force the F1 from the faer one
8235s	two Upp aate swing we go into the
8237s	launcher into the AL activation into the
8240s	R&B yet again spider with the cleanest
8243s	Teater extension comes through and shows
8246s	why his name is on that trophy all that
8248s	time ago look spider comes in and says
8251s	hey Mike it's cool you got seven
8252s	eliminations in game one I'm going to
8254s	take eight game too absolutely clean
8256s	work coming in from spider I really need
8258s	a replay cam though I think he got
8261s	nine got oh my goodness absolutely
8264s	insane but I need a replay cam of that
8267s	fight that takes place out in the zone
8269s	long sword saap absolutely saving his
8272s	game he was already at six eliminations
8275s	but if he had not landed that at that
8277s	exact moment he would have been
8278s	eliminated from this Lobby had the
8281s	server tick been one tick forward or one
8284s	tick backwards he also would have been
8286s	eliminated standing in that zone
8289s	everything comes up wbg spider in that
8291s	moment and I could take a week to break
8294s	down the analysis on that play cuz it's
8298s	it's the spidey sense something else I
8300s	absolutely adored from spider is that
8303s	he's keeping a track when Mike is the
8305s	one who tries to apply that pressure
8307s	onto spider he knows that there's a
8309s	teada who is the closest player to him
8311s	so when two teers see that spider is
8314s	going low they're going to converge on
8316s	the F because they both have that
8318s	understanding if it becomes a One V one
8320s	we have a much better chance at being
8321s	able to use that ultimate proactively as
8324s	opposed to say 1 V one with a faia and
8326s	that pillar is still potentially in play
8328s	you have to hold on to the shelves to be
8329s	able to crowd control her away from
8331s	being able to hop in the pillar so what
8333s	does spider do he Tails he actually
8336s	follows as we see that teada chase after
8339s	Mike and it's actually spider's
8342s	horizontal lmb that pushes Mike's Health
8346s	low enough that he goes down to Ryan and
8349s	it is absolutely insane because it's not
8351s	just that he catches him as he drops
8354s	from The High Ground to the low ground
8357s	and Mike not expecting a long sword to
8359s	be in his back yeah no absolutely crazy
8363s	how everything in that final Circle
8365s	plays out Moxy wbg spider though man
8368s	this is a player that you can never
8370s	count him out right we asked in game one
8373s	if his PO performance in game one was
8375s	going to affect his mental this is
8377s	something he's talked about at length
8378s	with his coach this is something he's
8380s	talked about at length with us about how
8383s	his coach has been working with him so
8384s	much on his mental throughout the last
8387s	couple of seasons
8388s	CU he doesn't want to let it affect his
8390s	performance anymore game one he comes in
8393s	we see spider in a position that every
8395s	time we've seen him in before he
8397s	absolutely starts to crumble throughout
8399s	the day especially when it's A's Mike
8402s	who comes out on top in that lobby but
8404s	we head into game two and he's
8406s	completely refreshed it's brand new wbg
8408s	spider he's back at it again he's in
8411s	that fresh Spidey suit he just got it
8413s	dry clean and here he comes and breaking
8416s	records comes in with eight or nine
8417s	eliminations for game number two and
8419s	says hey Mike it's cool that you kept
8421s	the seat warm for me for a little while
8424s	I mean this has been the storyline all
8426s	year long right we do talk about it even
8428s	though it is a rivalry in game both
8430s	spider and Mike are on incredibly
8432s	friendly terms so it's really obvious to
8434s	themselves when they're playing into
8436s	each other and a huge problem that's
8438s	been facing both of these plays has been
8440s	that they've run into each other so
8441s	frequently because they're so similar in
8443s	their mindset their loot paring their
8445s	drop spots they're almost absolutely
8448s	identical and that actually led to them
8450s	cannibalizing all of their chances of
8452s	being able to scale up early on in those
8454s	lobbies or potentially even find kills
8456s	because fights between them would go on
8458s	so long and there wouldn't be any
8460s	resolution so even though you're still
8462s	in the lobby it's been a good 5 minutes
8464s	and you have not a single kill to your
8466s	name because you spent the entire time
8468s	at spider and Mike's Thro but they see
8470s	each other they know that they're in the
8471s	same Loop paring they know they're in
8473s	the same drop location and they back off
8475s	each other because they both prioritize
8477s	keeping that aggression looking for
8479s	kills and for spider it's even more
8481s	important he plays like that because of
8483s	game one he was so far behind Mike in
8485s	game one he comes in he plays aggressive
8488s	he makes the most out of the teada pick
8490s	cuz he doesn't know when he can next
8491s	play teada and there it is I was correct
8495s	it's nine kills for spider absolutely
8498s	huge for wbg spider here especially his
8501s	mental going into the rest today to be
8503s	able to come back in come out on top in
8505s	game two completely sh A's mic out like
8509s	he's in third place here but it's a 4.1
8511s	he picks up two eliminations to wbg
8514s	spiders nine not only that AOW Mike only
8518s	got 12.8 on his first game spider says
8521s	let me do you one better and scores a
8525s	15.6 and takes it even further I do
8527s	believe the league record is also 10
8530s	eliminations for a single solo game and
8532s	it belongs to wbg spider so he's one
8536s	elimination away from retracing his
8539s	original record yeah it was really funny
8541s	as well that like the original record
8543s	used to be n kills and then it was set
8545s	by spider and spider broke his own
8547s	record so are we going to see another
8550s	record break come through from him as it
8553s	really does feel like he has really been
8554s	able now to thrive underneath that
8557s	pressure and there is a lot of pressure
8559s	now starting to stack up for these
8561s	players towards the tail end of the
8563s	leaderboard not just one game has been
8566s	now two games have been we're one game
8568s	away from moving into the moris aisle
8570s	section run this is really going to
8572s	start to play Havoc with how these
8574s	players have the confidence to take a
8576s	lot of these fights moving forward yeah
8578s	this game three is going to be extremely
8580s	crucial for everyone involved here
8582s	because it is like you said the last
8584s	remaining Hollow Roth map so any of your
8586s	Hollow Roth strategies that you haven't
8588s	been able to pull out now if you were
8589s	able to Zone somebody else out of those
8593s	strategies because you're in Phase One
8595s	or phase two they're going to find
8597s	themselves struggling to make anything
8598s	happen here in game number three I'm
8601s	just really interested to see whether or
8603s	not we're going to have that same common
8604s	pattern of the first group able to pick
8607s	their Heroes first locking zipped as
8610s	quickly as possible yeah you know that's
8612s	been something I wasn't expecting today
8614s	given the new gear point system
8617s	especially considering that they can
8618s	only play zip once or twice some of
8621s	these players still opting to play Zing
8623s	Yang twice as we take a look here at
8625s	some of the replays from last game
8627s	spider here utilizing that staff we're
8629s	going to see the fair invest their F
8631s	here and spider uses his F to just
8634s	return back to neutral here the super
8635s	clean grapple extension there just with
8637s	the followup Frost ofit with the
8639s	uppercut here off of the F from unique
8642s	this is super unfortunate for Unique as
8644s	we cut back to frost of is here getting
8646s	juggled by wbg spider and man this fight
8649s	goes hard but as soon as Spider finds
8651s	that PA you know it's clean cut here wbg
8654s	spider investing the furin and more than
8657s	half to walk away with the elimination
8659s	spider back at it again here no surprise
8661s	to see with nine eliminations that most
8664s	of this highlight reel it's going to be
8666s	a wbg spider highlight real Moxy I mean
8668s	Mike still getting his in he's able to
8670s	find the conversion into the R&B on
8672s	those hallwoods activating that zip
8674s	sustain ability now trying to come
8675s	through with the kill confirmation onto
8677s	Shang the F1 used to be able to escape
8680s	his opponent's RMB and then that's the
8683s	money that's the pillar drop but this is
8686s	the replay that you wanted to see spider
8687s	like you said that sap coming in
8689s	absolutely clutch his health touched
8692s	zero and went back up it was so low as
8696s	here's the one V one spider he's already
8699s	got a katana skin I wonder if he walks
8701s	away with a Jacob title if he's going to
8703s	go for the long sword afterwards because
8705s	his long sword usage and the carousel
8708s	setups off of those dec of her and
8710s	shelves was absolutely impeccable look
8713s	at the damage this man has done
8718s	5,000
8719s	107 and 177,000 of it was off of the
8723s	long sword and you know what's even more
8725s	impressive run he doesn't have Phoenix
8728s	no he does not and you take a look here
8729s	that have to detach also coming in
8731s	clutch this is something I feel like I
8733s	need to go back to the lab with Moxy and
8735s	see if you're locked into that HEPA
8738s	animation and you're going to be healing
8739s	from it if the Zone tick when it kills
8741s	you doesn't eliminate you because it
8743s	cues up the healing coming in from hapta
8747s	I've never seen that unique situation
8749s	before so it looks like after today Moxy
8752s	when we hand things over to the lovely
8753s	Duncan and dbby you and me are going to
8755s	have to go back to the lab I mean you
8757s	and me we're always more than happy to
8759s	go back to the lab I'm always happy as
8761s	well to go back to Hough these games
8763s	have been absolute fire so far and
8767s	really the only thing I'm sad about we
8769s	got the ballista kills we got the pillar
8771s	kills still waiting for it is happened
8773s	in mvpl where's my phony roller kill
8775s	Rune I want my bingo carard look you
8778s	know what it's almost like we've cursed
8779s	the players who head up onto ballista
8781s	too because we point one yeah you know
8784s	again yeah it's always good for one and
8786s	pandaan misses out on the opportunity to
8787s	find two I know but we've got a quick
8790s	question for you guys watching from
8792s	twitch at home which player will earn
8794s	the most score in this
8796s	match is it going to be unique is it
8798s	going to be spider is it try hard or is
8801s	it Mike this I do believe is a twitch
8803s	answer which does mean it is referring
8805s	to the match that was just played as
8808s	opposed to the one that we're going to
8810s	be heading into where it's going to be
8812s	that forward future prediction yeah
8815s	absolutely so make sure you were paying
8817s	attention in the previous match here and
8819s	tell us which player earned the most
8821s	score in the match for a chance to win
8823s	one of those lucky treasures and those
8825s	lucky Treasures can have everything from
8827s	just a little bit of Tay to some very
8829s	very pretty cosmetics and I mean very
8831s	pretty Cosmetics is an
8833s	understatement because all of the
8835s	staging may look incredibly pretty our
8837s	lovely help is here on the desk also
8840s	incredibly pretty but that's the
8841s	Cosmetics they're that good even when
8844s	you know they're coming in look at this
8845s	this is my favorite Kumi outfit by the
8847s	way I know I love the little hat yeah
8849s	it's so cute I don't I don't use the Hat
8852s	I use the ears of course you would use
8854s	the ears Moy I don't think anybody would
8857s	ever question that just like nobody can
8859s	question they were getting ready to head
8860s	back in and lock down ourselves for game
8863s	number three and game number three again
8865s	this is going to be a very very
8867s	game this is your last opportunity to
8869s	play on Hollow Roth and again if you
8872s	haven't had the opportunity in your
8873s	rotation to use your Hollow Roth
8875s	strategy because of those bands if
8878s	you're stuck in a poor phase this time
8879s	around say you're in phase two and you
8882s	in the previous games were in Phase 2
8884s	and phase uh three and you were locked
8886s	out of that zipping if you get stuck
8889s	again here it's going to be absolutely
8891s	terrible for you but we're going to take
8892s	a very short break and when we come back
8894s	we'll be locking in for that game number
8896s	three
8900s	[Applause]
8906s	[Music]
8923s	[Music]
8926s	SP
8933s	[Music]
8956s	for
8974s	[Music]
8986s	for
8993s	[Music]
9015s	fore
9045s	for
9075s	e
9080s	[Music]
9099s	[Music]
9105s	for
9135s	for
9165s	spee
9168s	[Music]
9182s	welcome back ladies and gentlemen to
9184s	your
9185s	2023 jup solos day one I'm the lovely
9190s	Rune joining me is the even Lovelier
9193s	Moxy and we finally we're in person Moxy
9196s	I still can't believe it oh my goodness
9198s	but we are back here we have one more
9200s	game on Hollow Roth to play before we
9203s	hand things off to the Caster family and
9205s	Duncan and Dobby come in but you know
9208s	we're going to be here for this third
9209s	game we're going to be in the stands
9211s	watching afterwards too cuz we're going
9213s	to support nraa to the very end and I'm
9215s	excited to see how this third game goes
9218s	there's a lot of speculation about how
9221s	these hero picks are going to go with
9222s	the new phases for third game but
9225s	speaking of speculating I I hope you
9226s	guys can speculate on this question as
9228s	you head over to your official nraa
9231s	lovely games and answer which of the
9234s	following two players will achieve the
9235s	highest survival rank in this match is
9238s	it going to be drg Akuma or ug pandaan
9242s	you know what Moxy my money's going to
9243s	be on pandaan I'm still waiting for the
9246s	panda man talker you know absolutely I
9248s	mean we're on holler off maybe we see
9252s	the talker come out now or maybe he's
9254s	holding it off until we get to those
9255s	firefights cuz that's ultimate is pretty
9258s	important to set up a lot of those in
9260s	absolutely I was thinking the exact same
9261s	thing Moxy hadn't it when we head to Mor
9263s	asile those fireflies are going to be
9266s	crucial for Target to find success
9268s	especially in the early game because
9269s	he's not a hero that's really capable of
9271s	clutching out those late games so he
9273s	needs to find eliminations as fast and
9275s	efficiently as possible because the risk
9277s	of third party while he's doing
9279s	something like an infinite is just too
9281s	high so he needs to get that ultimate
9282s	online as fast as possible immediately
9285s	move on to another player and just try
9288s	to dog them down and not give them a
9290s	chance to get away and reset and you
9292s	know pandaan is one of those tet players
9294s	that absolutely excels at doing it just
9297s	that mhm we're still waiting for Justina
9299s	as well like we're seeing a lot of fer a
9301s	lot of zip a lot of teada oddly enough
9304s	not a lot of acos I feel like everyone
9305s	is waiting for acos for the Firefly like
9308s	Knights it's going to really be
9310s	important to see whether or not that
9312s	acos does come through but again it
9314s	comes back to the whole thing of the
9315s	phase right but whever it's going to be
9318s	another important thing is the fact that
9320s	you at home are going to be supporting
9322s	your favorite team and players if you
9325s	head over to the official nraa blade
9327s	Point website you can actually vote for
9329s	your players and favorite teams and
9331s	unlock exclusive team based cosmetics in
9335s	game and they look absolutely awesome
9338s	speaking about looking awesome so these
9340s	stats spider leading the pack with that
9344s	6.1 support rate for so you love to see
9347s	it and I think after that performance in
9349s	game two it's only going to keep going
9351s	higher you know I have to give it to wbg
9353s	spider as well you know I of course I
9356s	want to support my na boys my EU boys my
9358s	oversee sea boys but at the end of the
9361s	day spider is a player that has always
9363s	had a question looming over his head
9366s	from day one coming in of course at the
9368s	end of this last nvpl season Mike is
9371s	able to Edge him out now he's here to
9373s	defend his title again if spider's able
9376s	to walk away with the jcup championship
9378s	2 years running I think it will finally
9381s	wash away the stain of A's mic that's
9385s	been lingering over his head since the
9387s	moment he set foot on that stage yeah
9389s	like we said these two players are
9391s	synonymous with each other's namesakes
9394s	you cannot talk about spider without
9396s	mentioning Mike and it has been
9397s	happening time and time and time again
9400s	and you do not want to be lost in the
9401s	shadow of someone else you want to be
9403s	able to bold your legacy stand on that
9406s	stage and say that you with your head
9408s	held high are going to be able to walk
9410s	away the winner of that absolutely
9413s	gorgeous Trophy and lift it over your
9415s	head but I mean run I'm just saying now
9417s	if Mike is able to come out on top and
9420s	win it I just hope they padded his chair
9422s	this
9423s	time look Mike Mike deserves a nice
9425s	cushy seat to sit in whether he comes
9427s	out on top or not Moxy there you go see
9429s	there's a cushion
9430s	now the man is locked in here here's the
9433s	thing though Moxy take a look at this
9434s	man's posture the way he leans forward
9436s	he's never going to get any value out of
9437s	that cushion you know I'm saying it's
9439s	like trying to come in here and and play
9441s	something like tan high in solos you're
9443s	never going to find any value because
9444s	A's Mike is too focused he's leaned in
9448s	he's ready to go he doesn't want
9450s	anything to interfere with the way he's
9452s	going to go and look at spider here this
9454s	is very interesting this is a different
9457s	spider than we're used to seeing even
9459s	after a huge game like that in a day
9462s	where he had a bad game one you would
9465s	see the look of dis on his face but
9467s	coming in here he just looks calm cool
9469s	and collected locked and ready to go
9471s	into the next one I think he sort of
9473s	stealing himself to have to play
9475s	reactive once again cuz he's not going
9477s	to have first pick of those Heroes and
9479s	the fact is that first game that was his
9481s	comfort pick of far we did fize that a
9484s	lot of these players would try and lock
9485s	towards their comfort pick with so many
9487s	players going for the zip they wanted
9489s	that sense of comfort they wanted that
9491s	sense of safety line if things started
9493s	to go wrong it's going to be interesting
9495s	to see whoever spider is going to
9497s	willingly deviate away from the fer
9499s	double pick and instead shift towards
9501s	the teada because in my opinion the te
9504s	gameplay that he was showing perfectly
9506s	suits his style yeah no it the level of
9509s	aggression that he's just able to create
9511s	with teada like you said in past
9513s	interviews we've talked with him and he
9515s	said it was one of his poorest Heroes
9517s	and you know there's a couple of coaches
9519s	in the past that have said you're not
9521s	judged by your wins but you're judged by
9523s	your losses you're judged by your
9524s	weaknesses and for you you to be a good
9527s	player your weaknesses is something you
9529s	need to sh up you're only as strong as
9531s	your weakest link wbg spider recognizes
9534s	that he's come in he's put in the work
9536s	he understands that he's an aggressive
9538s	player when he's able to force the
9539s	lobbies to play at his Tempo is when he
9542s	does the best so I'm not surprised that
9544s	he's come in put a lot of hours into
9547s	that DEC to pick because of how
9549s	aggressive you can be with it and how
9551s	well it suits his style Moxy yeah but he
9553s	is currently oh well he will be for this
9555s	Lobby in phase pool three so he's not
9558s	going to get to play the lobby to his
9560s	Tempo he's going to be dancing to the
9562s	beat of everyone else's drum at least
9564s	when it comes to these hero rotations
9566s	are we going to see that insane amount
9569s	of Heroes being swept out of the way for
9571s	some of these groups to have access to
9573s	that we did in game number one where
9576s	everyone wanted to make sure that they
9578s	had that zip they had that sense of
9579s	comfort even if they don't have that win
9581s	rate in realm of Yang they still are
9584s	going to be able to survive until final
9586s	Zone and properly make the kill multiply
9589s	count yeah absolutely we're getting
9591s	ready to lock in for phase one here Moxy
9595s	do you think we're going to see four
9597s	zipping locked yet again or do you think
9599s	we're going to see something a little
9600s	different this time around here on hok
9603s	well it's a new pool of players right
9605s	who immediately get that preference and
9608s	I mean sha Frost of Wang leang they do
9611s	like to play sometimes a little bit more
9613s	aggressive a couple of curles coming
9615s	through Frost there we go right out of
9617s	the gates going to be locking that faer
9619s	but GG sh going to be showing us the
9621s	first zip we're going to have unique
9623s	locking in the F still waiting to see
9625s	what wangang is going to play and there
9627s	it is both zip and Fa now going to be
9630s	used up by phase number one everyone in
9634s	group two now trying to figure out how
9636s	exactly they're going to play into this
9638s	we're going to see Oshi once again try
9640s	to lock towards the fer ran this time
9642s	around is going to be at UL but get the
9645s	claw out
9646s	we've got an AOS on the field yeah this
9649s	is going to be very very interesting to
9651s	see how it plays out as we do see the
9654s	double Faria the double zip being locked
9656s	in the bands coming across the screen
9659s	that's four Faria shins moving in as we
9663s	move into phase three here it's going to
9665s	be JD G's chujang and Teal's try hard
9668s	pandaan and wbg spider we're going to
9670s	see a solo Tessa being locked in by JD's
9674s	chuang going to see double hottie coming
9677s	in from pandaman and try hard and this
9681s	is going to be so interesting it could
9683s	potentially be that V3 Moxy we have seen
9685s	Tessa be played in competitive before
9688s	with the V3 coming out on top time's
9690s	going to tell we're going to get the
9692s	opportunity to look at these players
9693s	abilities and all eyes are going to be
9695s	on that Tessa pick I mean all eyes are
9696s	going to be on the Tessa pick but also
9698s	the hardi we've seen Hardy being floated
9701s	quite literally where he Glides but that
9703s	V1 did not find any prominence you now
9706s	have the question do you want to try and
9707s	counter the F or do you want to try and
9709s	counter the zip because both are
9711s	prevalent inside this Lobby and
9714s	crucially we don't have toas to force
9717s	these Zips into playing outside of their
9718s	comfort zone the Aus is going to be the
9720s	one trying to do that instead as we're
9722s	going to get to see a luck on those
9725s	ability load outs I know your ey is
9728s	immediately going to be towards the low
9730s	and to see what exactly that Tesla kid
9732s	is going to be shaping up into like you
9735s	said that V is incredibly strong because
9737s	you're able to throw it out again and
9739s	again until it finds connection as
9741s	opposed to the V1 and the V2 but shuang
9744s	bups for the V1 he can throw it out at
9746s	55% yes but players can dodge it so he's
9750s	going to have to be incredibly careful
9751s	about how he uses it because it's not
9753s	intrud you don't have a Viper ultimate
9755s	to be able to set that stun into motion
9757s	for the Tessa Al to connect yeah this is
9759s	going to be very interesting chuang is
9761s	going to be forced to play Nothing But
9764s	Mind Games here it's the only way for
9766s	him to be able to come in and do
9769s	something with that pick but taking a
9771s	look at tryhard here crucially going to
9773s	be running that V2 that fire tick going
9776s	to come in and do exceptionally well
9778s	into this Lobby not only are you going
9779s	to be able to get the heal cut onto the
9781s	zipping but in Taria as well when she's
9783s	in her Mech form she cannot do anything
9786s	about that fire tick it will constantly
9788s	haunt her no matter where she goes and
9790s	could be a potentially good pick against
9793s	those fairies inside realm of yang as
9796s	well when you're forced behind the
9797s	pillar cuz you have to avoid that
9799s	ultimate you can get that fire tick look
9802s	for a little bit of a reset come back in
9804s	reset the fire tick and keep going
9806s	time's going to tell how that will play
9807s	out as we take a look where these drops
9809s	are coming in no surprises just a single
9812s	player dropping in the middle of plume
9814s	plume not even a gold Zone but pandaan
9816s	and knowing he's going to have pry on
9818s	everything here not just that salvation
9821s	Podium mhm it's not a hot loot area and
9824s	he's one of those of a Hardies he is
9827s	that Transformer unit he wants that Al
9828s	scaled up to as much damage as possible
9830s	oh my goodness how is Frost already that
9833s	low try hard with it must have been the
9835s	R&B on the fan there it is again it's
9837s	only a gray fan but it comes out so fast
9840s	try hard repaying Frost ofis for those
9844s	uh Cavalry Bloom Hills all the way back
9846s	in the game past manages to dodge out of
9849s	the RB tries to thr the R&B on the fan
9851s	himself but does end up getting counted
9853s	for his troubles and Wang leang is going
9856s	to be able to dispatch one hottie and
9858s	grind him temporarily as we turn back
9860s	now to A's mik going head to-head here
9862s	with gig Shaw Shaw forced to invest the
9864s	F1 here just to buy himself a little bit
9866s	of space mik going to do the same here
9868s	on the faia pick just looking to play
9871s	that neutral here nobody quite able to
9874s	pressure up and find a hit yet we do see
9876s	Shaw land a bow shot just trying to do a
9878s	little bit of tick damage here with
9879s	these white weapons early on Mike holds
9882s	the space there unfortunately doesn't
9883s	get the reach sha able to come in gets
9885s	the conversion on the staff R&B and will
9888s	pick up the elimination yeah gorgeous
9890s	use of the Stagger to be able to swop
9892s	over to that bow as Mike is stuck in the
9894s	restand animation as tanoshi overh holds
9897s	the fan doesn't manage to throw it out
9899s	gets parried as a result unique with the
9901s	F1 able to turn the neutral back into
9904s	his favor going to be able to turn the
9906s	tides of the fight as a result Spider by
9908s	the way also was able to find one kill
9910s	has been able to find himself a purple
9912s	long sword he is on the zip this time
9914s	around he is not denied that pick on HOV
9917s	he's going to be incredibly happy
9919s	because he has all of the sustainability
9921s	with the amount of players in the area
9922s	looking to try to keep all of the action
9925s	all of the pressure on everyone around
9926s	him zip is in the best possible position
9929s	to keep that forward position and not
9931s	get caught out on disengage rotation
9933s	yeah Roman here in a good situation he's
9936s	got a couple of purple weapons under his
9937s	belt he's got some blue armor but he's
9938s	playing safe he knows how many players
9940s	are just around the corner here and he
9942s	wants to find a good end these fights
9944s	rather than burning those resources
9946s	early and a lot of these players just
9948s	trading blows here but nobody overc
9951s	committing we're going to see Roman
9952s	coming out in the middle here just
9955s	looking to create some distance Wang and
9957s	going to go to the backside of the
9959s	building here nobody again really
9961s	wanting to take that forced engagement
9963s	wbg spider still on white armor but
9966s	crucially a purple long sword he's got
9968s	the sustain the armor not quite as
9970s	important given that he is playing that
9972s	ziping Yang and again P for the SC rush
9975s	in the too he's happy oh I mean not only
9978s	that but this is his comfort pick here
9980s	inside Hollow Roth so for him this is
9982s	going to be quite the good game he
9984s	didn't get sniped out he was able to
9986s	come in in phase two pick up the hero he
9988s	really wanted to play here GG Shaw going
9991s	head tohe here with a frost ofis frost
9993s	ofis on the board not for this game yet
9996s	though so needs to look for something
9998s	sha with the fan coming in Frost is
10000s	trying to counteract here with a fan of
10002s	his own they're both going to
10003s	immediately Parry on the same timing
10004s	Prost is gets the reread though into the
10006s	juggle the R&B comes out with the
10008s	follow-up jumping R&B as well sha going
10011s	to take a lot of damage here forced to
10012s	invest to both his old and his F just to
10015s	reset back to the position he was in
10017s	before so he can pick up his fan and
10019s	have a weapon to take the fight with
10021s	frost is going to Mech up here and GG
10023s	Shaw has got to get out of here Frosty
10025s	going to pop the Bell so he can keep
10027s	track onto GG Shaw we're going to see
10029s	the cannon coming through not quite able
10032s	to get the read here sha moving to the
10034s	backside making the best use of this
10036s	train and frost of is not missing an
10038s	opportunity to find a reset the slide
10040s	off the side into the cannon shot will
10042s	put a dent into the shield there of GG
10045s	Shaw but sha with a half broken armor
10048s	sitting inside that 10 able to find the
10050s	armor Swap and then get a pot off as
10052s	well will go back to a full reset Frost
10054s	ofus GG shop both of them back at the
10056s	full neutral Frost ofus though finds a
10058s	grapple into left click here we will see
10060s	yet another Parry onto GG shot into it
10063s	yet again you might as well just call
10065s	this the frost ofis I mean this man
10068s	sorry that was so impressive to see him
10070s	do it so many times so cleanly that
10073s	you're just at a loss for words but
10074s	again that's been hiso here he picks up
10077s	the fan he's able to find it no he
10079s	doesn't find the clean again the terrain
10082s	changes the timing on the roll there for
10084s	G sha shasa not going to suffer the full
10087s	damage of that Frost of his combo again
10089s	sha looking to come in here trying to
10091s	utilize the staff he will find the Parry
10094s	though there onto the F and frost ofis
10096s	is on the back but he doesn't have the F
10098s	Shaw does he tries to convert it but
10100s	Frost ofis able to turn it around here
10102s	now sha Frost ofis equal in HP here
10106s	who's going to find their ultimate first
10107s	the bow shots come out Frost ofis wants
10110s	to keep the pressure up both of them
10112s	find a little bit of a reset but those
10113s	bow shots are going to put Frost ofis
10115s	massive o massively behind Frost ofus
10118s	now trying to come in for that kill sha
10121s	with the fan looking to scoop the fery
10122s	and hold her close to not allow the
10124s	reset to come come through cross SE that
10126s	the B hasn't come through beats out the
10129s	spacing from sh cancels the heal to come
10131s	in and keep the Fret with those Halbert
10133s	as we're going to see the attempt at the
10134s	jump par sh does not play into it
10136s	however and frost ofus yet again is
10138s	forced to try and disengage sha with the
10139s	fan off of that bow now going to come
10141s	through and make sure he doesn't find
10142s	the disengage and yet again sh's able to
10145s	find the Parry uppercut extension into
10147s	throwing out of the R&B on the fan we go
10150s	if Frost ofus can do it so to can Sha
10152s	but this is something that sha can't do
10153s	that Frost ofus can fre comes out me
10156s	immediately jumped into for the faia and
10158s	sha now on the back foot taking a lot of
10161s	pressure from those shots coming on out
10164s	of the mech does have the Z
10165s	sustainability wants to see whether or
10167s	not he can beat Frost ofus into using
10169s	the cannon form and look to try and find
10171s	the Dodge as Frost ofus decides he's not
10173s	going to keep applying the pressure he's
10174s	going to drop out of the me try and loot
10176s	up to find any form of resource to keep
10179s	his health pushing back up because run I
10182s	think that fight went on for so long
10183s	yeah he was out of Vitalia he actually
10185s	had to go find a different Trove and
10188s	look for Vitalia the fight went on that
10190s	long what an insane turn around for both
10193s	of those players yeah and GG Shaw doing
10195s	the smart thing here he's got his
10197s	ultimate back he hasn't invested the F
10199s	he's back at a full reset decides I've
10201s	already overcommitted to this fight I've
10204s	gone through old phase twice here we're
10206s	going to step away and look for another
10208s	player because I can't spend the entire
10209s	game fighting Frost ofis only to pick up
10211s	a single elimination make it to late
10214s	game and not have scaled up so good
10216s	decisions coming in from GG sha Panda
10218s	man here on that hotti pck going to get
10220s	parried and oh my goodness what he
10223s	parries away is a legendary fan and akum
10227s	had it already oh did he what did he
10229s	okay I didn't see what he parried away
10231s	there it looked like he picked up the
10232s	fan there but Akuma an absolute dgen on
10236s	the dagger now going to be coming in
10237s	with the fan here and you know he's
10240s	going to be looking to use that powerful
10241s	R&B he's going to be using those dashes
10244s	unfortunately he's going to get get
10245s	picked up here by these dual blades and
10247s	he's in a tight spot Akuma doesn't have
10251s	that AOS ultimate to use just yet finds
10253s	the Parry on to Mike who does have the
10254s	F1 on the F has to be careful that he
10256s	doesn't get scooped into the R&B Akuma
10258s	mixing things up fro the lmb but Mike is
10261s	still able to get into the mech and
10262s	akuma's not able to hide behind the
10264s	pillar in time Mike overh holds the
10267s	second Cannon shot and Akuma doesn't
10269s	read into it and he goes down to Mike
10272s	with the fa ultimate moving now our
10274s	attention here's why Frost ofus decided
10276s	to reposition that fight but it's just
10278s	Deja Vu because R we've been here before
10281s	Frost ofus going to take a fight against
10283s	GG shot 28 seconds left Frost ofus with
10286s	the blue throw is going to find the kill
10289s	finally we see the curtain close on a
10292s	fight that has been going on for the
10293s	last five minutes look this happens
10297s	sometime but Frost of is making the
10299s	clean adjustment right in the original
10301s	fight that he takes with them he never
10304s	want holds the blue there in a crucial
10307s	moment where does do or die if the zip
10309s	gets away and is able to reinvest the F
10311s	for the ultimate he's not going to be
10313s	able to clean up that elimination and
10314s	it's just going to go back to the chase
10316s	instead having not shown his hand this
10319s	entire time he makes the decision to go
10321s	for the overh hold he knows that it's a
10323s	risky 50/50 but if it pans out it's
10326s	going to be glorious for him and sure
10327s	enough it does pan out he's able to
10330s	release the overh hold picks up the
10331s	elimination and now it's a GG Sha is
10335s	heading back to the soul alter Mike
10337s	heading towards Panda man as well
10339s	emboldened with that vilon Birds Mod as
10342s	well as that ultimate pandaman going to
10344s	be playing towards the center of this
10346s	map wanting the information wanting
10348s	those bells around him to get a read on
10350s	how many players he's going to be
10352s	fighting into cuz he's on the Hardy if
10353s	he uses the F2 and runs into another
10356s	player that is his Escape tool removed
10358s	as Akuma looking to remove sha from the
10361s	lobby Akuma was able to backt track to a
10363s	body and actually pick up a bloom sha
10366s	has not been able to do the same and
10368s	that's a very early zip F1 having to be
10371s	used because of the amount of damage
10373s	that legendary fan does we've got heat
10375s	coming through from ballista spider yet
10377s	again drawn into this attention we've
10379s	even got wangle and coming in with the
10382s	wind spout on the extreme fan skin it
10384s	looks absolutely gorgeous as we're going
10386s	to see GG shaana moving into position
10388s	with the ballista and that's going to
10390s	mean that every player in the area has
10392s	to hug the tower like their life depend
10395s	on it because run it kind of does yeah
10397s	it absolutely does like we said ballista
10399s	is always good for one and you don't
10401s	want to be that one Frost of is here
10402s	feeling forced to invest the V3 here
10404s	he's got to be very careful he's able to
10406s	reposition back towards it he doesn't
10408s	want to have to invest into it and oh my
10410s	goodness it's going to cost him heavily
10412s	he had the opportunity to take the mech
10414s	he makes the misread and spider clutches
10417s	out the elimination on to our boy Frost
10421s	luckily he does have that Vermilion
10424s	Birds m so he's going to just head back
10425s	to the soul alar come back and probably
10428s	look to lock down wbg spider Akuma here
10431s	in a tough situation forced into a white
10434s	armor swap almost no place to go no
10436s	ultimate to speak of and if he goes out
10438s	too far he's vulnerable to ballista if
10440s	he stays too close every other player
10442s	there is going to dog him down Akuma
10444s	decides in the moment of a lull that
10446s	he's going to go for it no wbg spider
10451s	while we talk about it picks up an
10452s	elimination on to Mike but I do believe
10455s	Mike had that Vermilion birds mik so
10457s	he's going to be able to head back to a
10458s	soul alter and get back into the game
10461s	that was so close if you actually look
10463s	Mike's villion Birds M was just about to
10465s	run
10466s	out that's crazy three seconds later and
10469s	he's out of this Lobby early spider
10472s	already fre kills coming through Akuma
10474s	has been able to survive but Frost of is
10476s	now off of that Soul alter because of
10478s	that familian bird Smite has actually
10479s	been able to see where that AOS has gone
10481s	through and has tracked his progress has
10483s	to deal however with the f party coming
10485s	through from Wang leang and as a result
10487s	Akuma is going to try and slip away into
10489s	the Zone but he's not able to break
10492s	noise in time he's spotted by wangang
10494s	who's heading well he was thinking about
10496s	heading out toward city of Tanks chase
10498s	him down but no he knows that there's
10500s	another player around he knows if he
10501s	goes into the Zone too deep he's the one
10503s	that's going to be out of position and
10504s	punished because a lot of these other
10507s	players wanted to chase that acos
10508s	themselves too yeah absolutely and this
10510s	is such a risky play for Akuma because
10512s	yes he's able to get in the zone and
10514s	finally break ankles here but these
10516s	players like Frost ofis and wangang know
10518s	exactly where he's positioned and he's
10521s	not playing zipping crucially here which
10523s	means this heal tick detriment is going
10525s	to be absolutely massive and sure enough
10527s	Wang leang is just hugging the edge of
10529s	the Zone he knew where Akuma was going
10531s	to be he knew how weak Akuma was going
10533s	to be we just saw a Ballista shot come
10534s	out and it looks like Akuma is forced
10537s	back into the Zone yet again just out of
10540s	range GG Shaw up here outside the 100 me
10543s	range of the ballista throw throwing a
10545s	shot not going to find it on Akuma Akuma
10547s	able to find some heals here inside Cuts
10550s	about to come through though right well
10552s	he cleansed it by stepping back into the
10555s	uh out of the zone and then back in so
10557s	that's why he was able to go back in and
10559s	start popping pots but he's got to be
10561s	careful now though he knows that Wang
10563s	leang and of course Frost ofis have been
10564s	rotating in that direction he can rotate
10567s	back the opposite direction and
10568s	potentially get away with it oh everyone
10572s	is converging real of Yang going to be
10574s	SP warning up in a matter of moments
10576s	everyone wanting to hold on to their
10577s	ultimates Mike running through making
10578s	sure no one's in those purple bushes is
10580s	able to put himself right into the
10581s	middle of the circle and guarantee he's
10583s	the one first for he's going to be
10585s	taking that fight against Frost ofus and
10587s	look what he's hiding in the back pocket
10589s	r that is a legendary Katana he is not
10591s	showing his hand he doesn't have
10593s	Dreadful whale he doesn't have leap but
10595s	he's going to be able to find the
10597s	connection as Frost of is try to go aial
10600s	to come in with that pul slam damage and
10602s	Mike's able to catch him out we're going
10604s	to see the dagger come through he's
10606s	going to actually Force the F into using
10607s	the V3 and might going to drop his
10609s	directly over to try and stop frosters
10612s	and we have a Mech off Mike coming in
10614s	with the cannon shots not allowing Frost
10616s	the opportunity to be able to return
10618s	fire now it's Frost's turn to come in
10620s	with that secondary both of these barers
10622s	now going to be incredibly low losing a
10624s	lot of that Mech Mike out first now he's
10626s	got the katana he's going to flash the
10627s	red he's going to make sure that Frost
10629s	of us isn't able to slip into the back
10631s	side of the pillar and find the reset as
10633s	Mike Forces the F1 also had to use his
10635s	we're going to see frus try to throw the
10637s	blue to be able to Clank because Mike
10639s	baited him into expecting the blue and
10642s	as a result Mike with the Mind Games
10644s	walks away on top you know I have to
10646s	talk about something here that Mike does
10648s	and you've almost never seen it in Pro
10650s	play here he's got the Abyssal or a soul
10652s	Jade in his back and that is a soul Jade
10654s	that you can continue to spam once you
10656s	throw it out but there is a window
10657s	between it where it becomes very
10659s	parryable you can only land the
10661s	follow-ups on the pure Mind Games he
10664s	throws it out Frost ofis clearly thinks
10666s	there's no way he just throws Abyssal
10668s	Ora a second time and then all of a
10671s	sudden he does it puts frost ofis on the
10673s	bad mental he actually Parry whiffs
10675s	after that expecting the third Abyssal
10678s	Aura and because of that he gets rep
10679s	punished he's forced to drop the mech
10681s	out Mike has the mech available they
10683s	just go Mech for Mech and that's why
10685s	Mike's able to come out on top it's the
10687s	conditioning too right because the next
10689s	time that Mike looks like he's going to
10691s	be going in for the Abyssal Aura Frost
10693s	ofus thinks that he has to go for the
10695s	blue fro to be able to Clank it and as a
10697s	result Mike is able to bait Frost ofus
10700s	into floing the blue and find the
10701s	anticipation on the Parry as Frost is
10704s	now outside of that realm of Yang with
10706s	that Yang depletion three minutes to be
10709s	able to lock himself up a solim or he's
10711s	out of this Lobby early ran was actually
10713s	run right past him inside that purple
10715s	Bush he's now being spotted out Mike
10717s	with the Mystic might forcing him
10718s	outside of that hiding position and now
10721s	we're going to see a lot of these
10722s	players try and turn their attention
10724s	Raymond with the Wiss going to be taking
10726s	a lot of damage from Pand he doesn't
10728s	have the combo breaker of the F to be
10729s	able to maneuver away he has to use the
10731s	ultimate instead it's going to be
10733s	dropped and he tries to scoop pandaman
10735s	into the Windle with the R&B and he uses
10738s	the Wisp to be able to Zone pandan but
10740s	panan with the jump Parry is going to be
10741s	able to find the punishment might trying
10743s	to steal the kill of the R&B on the long
10745s	sword and I think it was actually the
10746s	long sword getting parried as a result
10748s	by pandaman on the followup rean on an
10751s	absolute sliver of Health with the staff
10753s	trying to find the scale rush but
10755s	pandaman intercepts we're going to see
10756s	the pettiest of Soul Jades come into
10759s	play as pandaman and Mike are now taking
10761s	so much hetic damage coming off of that
10764s	poison Splash pandan on the back foot
10766s	dust for the RMB Mike going to have to
10768s	use the F1 pandan now with those dual
10771s	how but using the ultimate pushes Mike
10773s	further away looks to come up with
10775s	triple charge Mike wanting to anticipate
10777s	trying to use that pillar drop to stop
10779s	the hadti from being able to find the
10780s	connection now has the mech to be able
10782s	to fall into and will be able to frame
10783s	through the triple charge by jumping
10785s	into it pandaman now going to be
10787s	incredibly vulnerable to the F of cannon
10789s	fire has to just disengage and look to
10791s	back on off yeah both of these players
10793s	going to go take a reset here Mike
10795s	doesn't really have the option to chase
10797s	here given how much movement potty
10799s	really has PanAm man tries to make it to
10801s	knock him away from the pillar he's just
10803s	not quite able to he knows what his wind
10805s	condition is following that and it's
10807s	resetting and taking it deeper into the
10809s	lobby as we turn to try hard here who we
10811s	haven't seen all game here but has
10813s	picked up double eliminations just
10815s	picked up an elimination on to chuang of
10817s	course Chu Jang being that Tessa pick we
10820s	talked about and unfortunately not
10822s	having done a whole lot with him Moxy
10824s	yeah Tessa is always going to be really
10825s	hard as we talked about when you're
10827s	running the V1 it's so easy for these
10829s	players and isolated fights to
10831s	anticipate the ultimate and just dodge
10833s	away from it and that as a Tessa is your
10835s	best zoning tool especially if you're
10837s	forced them to using the F1 incredibly
10840s	early on by all of these players in the
10842s	surrounding areas looking to jump on you
10844s	because they know if you're forced into
10846s	panicking and thr your ultimate you're
10848s	going to be incredibly vulnerable and
10849s	they can play as aggressive as they want
10851s	without having to hold off and wait for
10853s	the AL to be baited out early Wang Yang
10855s	here with a little bit of a movement air
10857s	trying to come top side actually ends up
10859s	going through the window has to readjust
10862s	to go up and pick himself up that
10864s	legendary loot pile not a whole lot
10865s	there for him a couple of resources
10867s	though as we see 521s unique caught out
10870s	in a unique situation here where I do
10873s	believe five six different no five
10875s	players are all taking range shots at
10878s	him from every direction this is not
10880s	where you want to be if you're five 21's
10882s	unique trying to use a little bit of
10884s	that staff lmv there to block some of
10885s	the potential range shots but they are
10887s	literally coming from every single
10890s	Direction it's like the entire Lobby is
10892s	out to get him Moxy well there's a moris
10894s	blessing spawning directly where he ran
10895s	to so he was running from players
10897s	already but he ran directly into the
10899s	direction of the moris blessing hoping
10901s	to kite his chases into more players but
10904s	they just turned onto the already low
10906s	player instead as we're going to see the
10908s	Panic V3 getting dropped unique hopping
10911s	into the me but I don't know how long
10913s	he's going to be able to stay inside it
10915s	has to use the boosters immediately to
10917s	put himself on the rooftop but
10919s	everywhere he runs there's just player
10921s	after player meeting him at every turn
10924s	and corner and spider walks away with
10928s	the Kill from the musket and now are we
10931s	going to see the fight continue no and
10933s	as a result I think run spider might
10935s	just have got a Mor passing for free uh
10937s	quite possibly there he's able to move
10939s	away here but we are zone four there
10941s	should be a legendary set of armor in
10942s	play it doesn't look like anybody's got
10944s	it no pandaan comes in it looks like
10946s	spider if he was able to get his hands
10948s	on something from that Mor's blessing
10949s	prioritized the legendary weapon as we
10952s	turn back to Akuma here he's had this
10954s	legendary fan for a while but when he
10956s	cut to him last he had white armor so
10958s	he's been able to survive quite a bit
10961s	here given that he's the only AOS Left
10963s	Alive in this Lobby and many of these
10964s	players going to be looking to eliminate
10966s	him that V2 a massive threat coming into
10969s	the end game Circle there if he's able
10971s	to grab some of those players out not to
10973s	mention the reset that he gets from it
10975s	the healing that comes in when he's able
10977s	to do the thing wait are you V1 oh my
10981s	goodness Akuma running V1 that's even
10985s	more detrimental right because you can
10987s	hold that for so long look for an
10990s	optimal position to shove multiple
10991s	players into the Zone this is actually
10994s	weakness that we were discussing about
10995s	V2 earlier this week is that when you
10998s	get to endgame yes it can come into
11000s	clutch because you get a little bit of
11002s	that healing but you're only able to
11004s	connect onto one target with that V1 you
11007s	can crucially shove multiple of these
11009s	players into the zone and find a ton of
11011s	value oh Mike are you going to be able
11013s	to find Value off of the V3 the pillar
11016s	does come through it saves him he's
11017s	having to use the boosters because
11018s	everyone just on the low field swaps to
11020s	the ranged Weaponry to try to chunk him
11022s	down before the resets can come come
11024s	through he's out of the mech early he's
11026s	now getting hit by pandan with the
11027s	jabbing and spider moves forward and
11030s	dunks him into the sand KC as well as
11032s	the legendary P sword that I think is
11034s	the weapon that spider prioritized when
11037s	he ran towards that moris blessing he's
11039s	a zip he doesn't want the legendary
11041s	armor he's got sustainability and Spades
11043s	he wants the legendary P sword so he can
11046s	do the most amount of damage in a shter
11048s	time as possible and with the way the
11050s	zone is shaping up with that one
11051s	building still in play and so much of
11053s	these still being in zone that legendary
11056s	P sword combined with a scale is
11058s	absolutely terrifying for all of these
11060s	players to deal with oh my goodness
11062s	speaking of things that are terrifying
11063s	to deal with pman with jabbing we're
11066s	talking about a soul Jade that is
11068s	absolutely disgusting it comes out so
11071s	quick it does so much damage we've seen
11073s	time and time again somebody in realm of
11075s	Yang expecting the charge to R&B or the
11078s	full charged lmb you release into the
11081s	jabbing it comes out in a completely
11083s	different timing and you're just
11085s	blindsided is half your HP half your
11088s	Shield are very quickly eliminated and
11090s	pandaan there backto back jabbing coming
11093s	through is triple jabbing a legendary
11095s	Soul Jade here GG Shaw looking to do a
11098s	little uh Kuma action here trying to
11101s	bait the lobby into him oh I wonder what
11104s	that shiny could possibly be is it for
11107s	me it's for G
11108s	sha wait he's he hasn't been able to
11111s	find a soldate expansion he's still down
11113s	one of the Soul jate
11115s	slots absolutely here but crucially he's
11117s	got double legendaries in the backpack
11119s	he's got two purples as well he's in a
11121s	very good position here he's got two
11123s	eliminations unfortunately spider ahead
11125s	of him yet again here five eliminations
11128s	on the port already this game marxy well
11131s	Akuma is starting to make his move he
11133s	was directly well okay we're going to
11135s	see a replay we're going to see Akuma oh
11138s	that legendary fans just absolutely
11141s	devastating the F1 to be able to work
11143s	around the overh the ao's ultimate to
11146s	catch on to spider into the RMB this is
11150s	something we're going to be seeing from
11151s	a lot of tees right being able to
11153s	utilize the speed of the R&B on the fan
11155s	but AOS is the exact same if you're able
11158s	to confirm that they're going to be
11160s	stuck in that restart animation that R&B
11162s	is absolutely brutal cuz as you talked
11164s	about earlier it hitbox is so weird it
11166s	doesn't directly go out straight it dips
11169s	into the ground and skids alongside it
11172s	so a lot of the time it actually
11174s	obscures the hit box of when to be able
11176s	to Parry which is another reason why
11178s	we're going to be seeing a lot of these
11179s	players with fans try and take fights on
11181s	slopes so it obscures where the weapon
11183s	is yeah absolutely speaking of obscuring
11186s	things we've got a huge no Al Zone
11189s	obscuring most of this final Zone as we
11191s	are collapsing down to Zone number six
11194s	here so these players entering that
11196s	Buccaneer phase as we like to call it
11198s	where they are just looking to take some
11200s	trades with range weapons and minimize
11202s	the resource of other players because
11204s	they know they cannot take the risk of
11206s	an engagement here with that no old Zone
11208s	especially with even though there's a
11210s	little bit of an edge there where you
11211s	can possibly pop it the rest of the zone
11213s	is collapsing in and going to completely
11216s	cut you off so you've got to be very
11218s	careful about how you play this out
11220s	wangyang and Shaw on the big side here
11223s	just waiting it out here to see what's
11225s	going to happen Akuma is been found he
11227s	doesn't have the ultimate he's kind of
11229s	out in the middle as well between
11231s	tryhard and GG Shaw he's going to turn
11233s	on to tr looking to make something
11234s	happen with the legendary fan here but
11236s	try hard knows what he needs to do here
11238s	he's just going to slip away and more
11241s	than happy to just slide down the side
11243s	of the Hill here try hard with double
11245s	eliminations this game a much better
11247s	game for him already he's into top six
11249s	he's setting himself up for Success here
11252s	given that he's playing hottie he can
11253s	make the most of this final Zone with
11255s	the number of players that are in it you
11257s	know what's really interesting I have
11258s	not seen a single player puff the
11260s	heckles and throw merciless or Dreadful
11264s	you know I haven't either and I think
11266s	it's because they're prioritizing some
11267s	of these other Jades that Jade once it
11270s	comes out your Ace is just out of the
11272s	whole Moxy everybody in the lobby knows
11274s	what it is some of these other Jades
11276s	like that Abyssal aura that we saw
11278s	earlier coming in not quite so readable
11281s	you can play the mind games off of it
11283s	just like we saw Mike do there where he
11285s	was just able to throw it back to back
11287s	because nobody expects it happening and
11289s	he was able to find so much value Akuma
11291s	on the back side here going to take some
11293s	damage from that P sord on wangang both
11295s	of them going to opt to take the reset
11297s	nobody wants to engage Zone it's going
11300s	to be so scary for so many of these
11303s	players cuz when the Zone collapses it's
11305s	still going to potentially affect how we
11308s	actually play into that final Circle
11310s	spider coming in with the FR on that
11312s	legendary P has to make sure he doesn't
11313s	stick around too long there it is the
11315s	heal cut coming through forcing him to
11317s	actually for the F1 to be able to look
11318s	for the recovery so he's not jumped upon
11321s	by everyone else in the lobby as we're
11323s	going to see try hard playing towards
11325s	that no Al Zone wanting to try and find
11327s	the knockdown spider without that armor
11329s	now the one vulnerable that EV could
11331s	potentially turn into he likes to try
11332s	and break noise behind those rocks using
11334s	the threat of that P sword and then
11336s	canceling it out and someone walks in
11339s	front of the fight to take the attention
11342s	away from him spider is gift wrapped a
11344s	reset opportunity and Akuma is now the
11347s	one coming in with the V1 on the acost
11349s	but is it canceled early because the
11350s	noal Zone gets popped oh my goodness
11354s	absolutely insane Moxy deg zakumi here
11357s	unfortunately only gets the one as this
11360s	Lobby continues to go down we're not
11362s	going to see another ultimate this no
11364s	old zone is going to impact the rest of
11366s	our game here we're looking at 70
11369s	seconds remaining five players left
11371s	alive no ultimate we're heading in here
11374s	with all of the craziness going on
11376s	unfortunately pandaman in that hottie
11379s	old will be shot down there as he moves
11382s	across the map wbg spider looking to
11384s	find some of those shots out isn't quite
11387s	able to GG Shaw setting up for the scale
11389s	rush but wbg spider will find a scale
11391s	Rush of his own onto them here try hard
11394s	still sitting in the back here not able
11396s	to activate the ultimate so he's just
11398s	going to be forced to to play around
11400s	that F2 with that golden focus and play
11403s	very carefully wbg spider going to
11404s	invest the F here just to stay alive GG
11406s	Shaw going very low we're down to your
11408s	top four GG sha able to activate the
11410s	ultimate and stay alive he goes into the
11412s	Zone it's almost to much as he looks to
11414s	be eliminated here we're going to see a
11416s	huge Soul slash coming in from the
11418s	katana on GG Sha Sha just barely able to
11421s	stay alive the Mortal Defiance kicking
11422s	in everything is going down in these
11425s	final moments tryhard unable to make
11427s	anything happen because of the no old
11429s	Zone wbg spider picks up GG Shaw picks
11432s	up nl's tryhard and now it's him versus
11435s	Wang leang Wang leang with some huge
11437s	hits coming in from this pole sword
11438s	he'll be able to outs survive at three
11440s	eliminations in a first place finish
11442s	what a memorable game free the fact that
11446s	it closed on the no alt Zone and we have
11450s	AC cures we have Hardies we have faers
11455s	we have Zips all of them are so relying
11458s	on being able to utilize their ultimates
11461s	the AOS and the HTI especially and it's
11464s	going to be memorable for another reason
11466s	entirely because wbg spider backto back
11471s	MVPs for the this boy he is feeling
11475s	incredibly happy with himself he has
11477s	turned around what started off a really
11479s	poor performance and he is looking
11481s	locked on to make it all the way from
11484s	this stage to changu and lift that
11487s	trophy once again absolutely these last
11489s	two games really coming in clutch for
11491s	wbg spider he's got a little bit of
11493s	breathing room heading into these
11495s	Firefly Maps this could completely
11497s	change his hero picks now because of
11500s	where he is in terms of points his
11502s	strategy might have have to change on
11503s	the Fly and this is something where he
11506s	needs to talk with his coach very
11507s	quickly in the short window we have
11509s	between games three and four so they can
11511s	figure out that strategy to utilize that
11514s	lead best well this is also sort of
11517s	unknown territory Bes spider being this
11519s	far ahead this early on historically
11522s	spider has struggled day one and then he
11524s	has had an insane day two where he's
11527s	popped off he's been able to break
11529s	records to be able to make his way from
11531s	that really unfortunate for on the first
11534s	day to absolutely just smashing the rest
11536s	of the leaderboard on the second but now
11538s	like usually he has that breathing room
11540s	he's looking a lot confident we saw him
11542s	just there with the camera pan
11544s	stretching looking relaxed looking like
11546s	it's another day at the office he's
11548s	really happy with himself the fact that
11550s	that noone was in play the fact that he
11552s	had that legendary pole sword I cannot
11555s	believe when he got faded into losing
11557s	that armor and having to use the F1 to
11559s	be able to find that reset moment and
11561s	try to cut noise behind those rocks
11564s	another player is looking to try and
11567s	punish the zip wants the kill for
11569s	themselves and what do they do they put
11572s	themselves in the direct line of fire
11574s	spider sees the other person coming for
11576s	the interception dips out of it because
11578s	he knows that he's being chased by a
11580s	person already they're going to turn on
11582s	and they're going to give him a new leas
11583s	in life and from there he's just able to
11585s	scale Rush After scale Rush with the
11587s	legendary pole sword off of the back of
11589s	that noal zone and make sure no one is
11592s	able to keep themselves safe and play
11594s	out of sight you know I think wbg
11596s	spiders got an angel on his shoulder
11597s	there Moxy we're talking about a guy
11599s	here who in the his game number two is a
11602s	huge game there was an opportunity where
11605s	if the server tick was one ahead or one
11608s	behind he's just eliminated from the
11610s	lobby he still has six kills but he's
11612s	eliminated much earlier that Lobby
11614s	doesn't count for as much he's still
11615s	playing catchup to AOW Mike then coming
11619s	into this he's in a situation where any
11621s	player in a final Circle would look at
11623s	it and go I'm going to be eliminated
11625s	here I've been caught out I am the
11626s	weakest link there's nothing I can do
11628s	here but another player as if to come in
11631s	as if a hottie flying from the sky
11634s	descends to save him so that he can find
11637s	that full reset find a strong position
11640s	and make it another game with the backto
11643s	back what an insane performance I mean
11645s	some of these players we have to talk
11647s	about right try hard trying to make that
11649s	Hardy work I feel for him because the
11651s	fact that that noal zone was was in play
11654s	messed with his pacing entirely as a
11657s	Hardy you are playing for that final
11659s	game claps because when the Zone claps
11661s	is you as a Hardy you can fly so high
11663s	you actually leave the render of the
11666s	game so you can play for heals to St and
11668s	be the last person standing or you can
11670s	play to have the ability of that stagger
11672s	coming with the triple charge to push
11674s	players outside of the Zone but what do
11676s	you need for that to have to happen
11678s	you've got to have your ultimate you
11679s	have to have your ultimate and those
11681s	wings they got clipped like IUS well
11683s	Hardy didn't even get to fly too close
11685s	to the sun he didn't even get to fly in
11687s	the first place sometimes we have just
11690s	insanely memorable Hol off games like
11692s	we've had some insane plays where the
11694s	final Zone claps directly on salvation
11696s	Podium and we had all of the players
11697s	running from the front of ballista we've
11699s	had the The Zone clap sometimes in the
11701s	middle of a snowstorm and everyone supp
11702s	to use that ultimates early this one I
11705s	think is going to go down in history as
11708s	being just one of the luckiest positions
11711s	for spider 2 end up and like you said it
11714s	really does feel like it is written in
11716s	the stars it is written on that trophy
11719s	that spider is going to be able to make
11721s	a return to form and lift it yet again
11724s	on that stage in Chang D absolutely
11726s	spider coming in strong with these first
11728s	three games ladies and gentlemen you are
11731s	not going to want to peel your eyes away
11733s	from the screen though because we've got
11735s	three more games that are coming and
11737s	these are going to be just as heated if
11739s	not more so these games a little tepid
11742s	you know what I'm saying saying we're
11743s	not starting with fireflies exactly and
11746s	those fireflies are going to be
11747s	increased rage we're going to see
11749s	players taking much more aggressive
11751s	fights much earlier on we're going to
11752s	see Heroes like Justina potentially
11754s	finding her way into the meta here now
11756s	post some of the changes being able to
11758s	counteract Faria having the potential to
11760s	counteract hottie as well it's going to
11762s	be a very interesting set of games as we
11765s	take a look here wbg spider with an
11767s	eight elimination game coming in yet
11770s	again with a huge game 13 2 wangang with
11774s	his first place finish and three
11775s	eliminations will be walking away with a
11777s	7.2 GG shot a pretty decent game as well
11780s	with three eliminations going to be
11781s	walking away with a 5.4 a much better
11784s	game for try hard this time around able
11786s	to pick up some eliminations put some
11787s	points on the board as we take a look
11790s	A's Mike he picks up two eliminations
11793s	but he goes out way too early I mean
11794s	it's heartbreak for Mike it's
11796s	heartbreaking
11797s	foruma like honestly I was hoping that
11800s	he would do well with that AOS it really
11802s	really did look like he was set up for
11804s	it with the way that that zone claps was
11806s	was working out there isn't no Cliffs
11808s	that you have to worry about there's a
11809s	couple of rock sh that can interfere
11810s	with the AOS followup on the grabs and
11813s	he does have that V1 locked on and he
11816s	operates it the second that someone Pops
11818s	that no Al Zone and we can have a look
11820s	at how the leaderboard is going to be
11822s	popping on off this is halfway through
11825s	the day of game of day one for solos
11830s	this is really going to be starting now
11831s	to influence a lot of these players
11833s	discussions with their coaches with
11835s	their analysts on how best to play into
11837s	the remaining half of the day yeah
11839s	absolutely and no surprised to see wbg
11841s	spider sitting at the top after the
11843s	back-to-back MVPs in game two and three
11846s	a Mike holding on to that second place
11848s	position only because of performance in
11851s	game number one that means he's got a
11853s	lot of work to do coming into the next
11856s	three games here drg zaka this is a
11858s	player I'm surprised this early to see
11861s	sitting at the top he's a very skilled
11863s	player but he typically comes in day one
11865s	and he plays a little more loose he
11868s	doesn't come in quite as tight he wants
11870s	to do a little bit of BM things like
11872s	that so he's off to a wonderful start
11874s	all things considered if we take a look
11875s	here at the replays Wang Lang picking up
11877s	a clean elimination there wbg spider
11879s	onto jg's Q Jang super unfortunate the
11882s	only tested in the lobby just getting
11884s	absolutely blitzed down here this was
11887s	such an unfortunate turn of events for
11889s	Unique as Akuma is just able to come in
11891s	with that charged R&B on the F and pick
11893s	up the elimination he invests the F1
11896s	there is forced to turn around here with
11898s	the V2 is able to get the charged R&B
11901s	off of the band and pick up that
11903s	elimination on the spider turning back
11905s	to wbg spider just coming in there with
11908s	the hot swaps very quickly able to get
11910s	those musket shots clean up the
11912s	elimination and get away pandan having
11914s	set up a huge elimination there but wbg
11917s	spider just cleanly able to capitalize
11919s	on it I mean speaking about cleanly did
11921s	you see the tracking on Pand man in the
11923s	hard ultimate he makes it look
11925s	absolutely effortless with the musket
11927s	shots now we get to see that one versus
11929s	one where wangang it's not effortless
11931s	but he does manage to come out on top
11933s	but speaking about coming out on top
11935s	back to back MVP for spider coming on
11939s	through on that Zing
11941s	24477 damage
11944s	9,153 of it done with that legendary P
11947s	sword this is a player who is incredibly
11949s	smart he knows which weapon to pick for
11950s	every single situation he is incredibly
11953s	versatile in terms of those combo
11954s	extensions which I'm really happy to see
11956s	him mixing it up because my biggest fear
11958s	looking at his performance in the mvpl
11960s	season 2 this year was the fact that he
11962s	was crouching really heavily onto the
11964s	katana dual blade or dual halber weapon
11966s	Swap and a lot of those players they
11968s	identified that was the combo he was
11970s	going for and they made sure they were
11971s	able to outplay it this time around
11973s	however spider is mixing up everything
11975s	he's using we're seeing the P sword
11976s	we're seeing the long sword we're still
11978s	seeing the extensions come through but a
11980s	lot of it is very hero specific to what
11982s	he's is actually running and as a result
11984s	when you run into him you don't one know
11986s	that it's spider straight off of the bat
11988s	and you also don't know how best to C it
11990s	cuz he's always got something in the
11992s	back pocket he's hiding yeah spider
11994s	absolutely even that web of deception if
11997s	you will like you said always something
11999s	just chilling in the back pocket to
12001s	bring out there and you know we've seen
12003s	a lot of that today actually I want to
12005s	turn back to that realm of gang fight
12007s	with A's Mike who throws the Abyssal Ora
12010s	and again 99% of the time in Pro play
12014s	you will never throw the backto back
12016s	abysal AA but he's getting himself
12018s	inside Frost's head he throws the second
12021s	one immediately after connecting onto it
12024s	frost ofis expects the third he's
12027s	completely stunned by the fact that he
12029s	threw the second one he throws the Parry
12031s	whip out Mike knows he's got to his head
12034s	so he just tap Dodge resets takes back
12036s	control of the fight forces the pillar
12038s	and it's like he has this beautiful read
12041s	on Frost is and once you get inside a
12043s	player's head like that it's almost
12045s	impossible for them to come back in a
12047s	fight I mean there's a reason that Mike
12048s	is so renowned in the Raa like you said
12050s	he is incredibly good at being able to
12053s	turn his opponent's comfort zone
12055s	entirely against him he gets into their
12057s	head he forces them into throwing blues
12059s	and one person you know that was
12060s	renowned for throwing blues and has been
12062s	mixing things up is pandam man and
12064s	speaking about pandam man he's not been
12066s	able to find an MVP but I think moving
12068s	into the second half of the day that's
12070s	when he's really going to start picking
12071s	up heat because that talker pick it's
12073s	just waiting in the wings and speaking
12075s	about waiting in the wings I know that
12078s	we have a couple of people who are
12079s	definitely going to be waiting in the
12081s	wings as we cut to this interview we'll
12083s	be right
12086s	back hi everyone welcome to Jacob and
12089s	Leah so for this time interview we
12092s	invite EOD Frost St from na region so
12095s	please introduce yourself to artist
12097s	first uh hi my name is uh Frost and I am
12100s	from Indonesia and I am current Curr ly
12102s	representing North America okay welcome
12105s	also welcome to China and so for the
12108s	first question will be today is the
12109s	first day for Jacob so how do you think
12112s	about the first three games uh the first
12115s	three games uh I think spider and Mike
12117s	is a monster and and they're all uh
12119s	really good mhm and what about yourself
12124s	performance uh I'm I'm not too happy
12126s	with my performance right now because
12128s	I'm currently sick uh but yeah I will
12131s	still try my best on the last three
12133s	games okay sorry to hear that but also I
12136s	want to ask you like any players left to
12139s	deep impressions in the first uh it's
12142s	definitely Mike and spider cuz it feels
12144s	like uh they're kind of bullying me but
12148s	mhm yeah they're they're like Monsters
12151s	maybe someone else I had one do remember
12154s	like GG shop yeah g especially in the
12157s	third yeah game three the born fight you
12159s	have really long fights also in the
12162s	first first so how do you think about
12163s	his performance uh like G Sha's
12166s	performance yeah uh I I saw his scores
12169s	and I think we're on par at least that's
12171s	why we have like a really long fight
12173s	because we're both like uh I would
12175s	consider maybe equal it's a good word
12178s	yeah yeah I see so let's move on to our
12180s	and
12185s	supp okay maybe later so this time come
12190s	to our group games how do you think the
12192s	difference between like in a callor
12195s	competition uh compared to this jaob
12198s	yeah uh it's much harder uh it feels uh
12202s	everyone here like really good and they
12204s	can fight mhm and uh yeah like in North
12208s	America I feel like I can beat everyone
12212s	but here I have to work for it okay so I
12215s	heard you said you uh think Mike and
12218s	spider is really strong so let me maybe
12222s	you choose one to as your idol which one
12225s	you would choose uh I've always been a
12227s	fan of Mike then spider Mike yeah Mike
12230s	but Mike didn't took part in the last J
12232s	cup you know uh yeah but uh but you
12235s	watch npl yeah I was watching nbpl and
12238s	I've I've always prefer Mike than spider
12240s	okay but in gamees three you I think you
12243s	met him in the second young you remember
12247s	in game three yeah M yeah yeah how do
12250s	you think about him he performance in
12251s	the he did beat me right so yeah I think
12254s	he's still better than me but okay so
12257s	let's see the answer for juder so for
12259s	this time our question is how many total
12261s	points did you did for Stevens earn so
12265s	you know the question uh you know the
12266s	answer right but also I have to ask you
12269s	do you satisfied with your total score
12272s	uh not currently so what's your plan for
12275s	the following games uh my plan uh so
12278s	because uh the next three games is going
12281s	to be offensive uh I feel like that's
12283s	where I should maybe maybe do better
12287s	than the previous three games yeah so I
12289s	also noticed that in the first game you
12290s	choose taka is taka your first choice at
12293s	that time uh no it's because the new
12296s	rule like for the band pick uh the the
12299s	two Heroes that I was going to pick was
12301s	B so I picked teada so who was your
12304s	first choice uh it would be either
12306s	zipping or faia yeah maybe zipping okay
12309s	okay so uh please say the to our
12312s	audience if you want to uh 3 to one or
12315s	uh no the answer okay the the answer is
12317s	D okay so please count down the time for
12320s	the screenshots please uh three two one
12323s	screenshot
12324s	everyone also so is that the first time
12327s	for you come to China uh yes this is the
12329s	first time I've been to China uh before
12332s	i' I was I've went to Hong Kong and maau
12335s	but that's never never like the China
12338s	Mainland okay so and did you eat any
12341s	like like Chinese dishes you like uh I
12344s	can't really remember uh I don't think I
12347s	went to any restaurants that that's like
12349s	a authentic Chinese food although I want
12351s	to still okay okay we will have chance
12355s	okay so for the following games just
12357s	good luck to you okay thanks for doing
12359s	this that's all for interview byebye
12370s	everyone
12398s	for
12400s	good
12430s	ching
12440s	yeah you are
12449s	come
12460s
12471s	what they going to
12490s	Doe
12500s	jaob is one of the biggest tournaments
12501s	of the year and it only makes sense that
12503s	the best of the bests come here and
12505s	absolutely dish it out one by one if I
12508s	had to say team ntl definitely is
12511s	looking really good and really strong we
12514s	can't talk about Na and not talk about
12516s	try hard no to go and is going to pick
12519s	up his IDC IDK and old of these players
12522s	so it's definely they'll be really
12524s	exciting to see how well they do against
12526s	these mvpl teams it's got to be a cool
12529s	it has to be a cool he's able to come
12531s	through and he just he provokes people
12533s	he pokes Bears he he's like hey I'm over
12537s	here we got Wang leang having performed
12540s	extremely well at the end of the
12544s	MVP I think team 521 coming from the sca
12548s	region um playing the game in the way
12551s	that they want to
12553s	play I'm going to be focusing a lot on K
12556s	and xcg those two teams in particular
12558s	have been very very consistent in their
12561s	play
12562s	Styles he spider going to hold up to all
12566s	of this hyp that he's brought so far oh
12569s	he almost was able to but Mike still
12571s	Maneuvers and he parries him or is Mike
12574s	going to continue his
12577s	dasty shut
12580s	down
12584s	ladies and gentlemen welcome back to
12586s	nraa Blade point the jup groups as we're
12591s	about to get ready to lock it in we have
12592s	three games down three more to go for
12595s	our day one and so far spider it's
12598s	feeling good hey everybody at home good
12600s	evening morning noon and night I am your
12602s	host and Caster davier accompanied by
12605s	somebody we haven't been able to cast
12608s	together ever actually ever first time
12612s	together Dunkin Donuts ladies and
12614s	gentlemen how you feel thank you very
12615s	much thank you very much for that very
12616s	warm introduction my friend it is
12619s	amazing to be here I this is a dream
12621s	come true truly to be able to be here
12624s	Shanghai getting to watch all of these
12627s	incredible games unfold as well as meet
12630s	all of the players you know we've
12632s	managed to catch up with so many people
12635s	that we've always wanted to meet we've
12636s	known for so long and hey I mean I met
12639s	you for the first time big dogal it
12642s	truly does but you know what else is
12643s	surreal spiders performed in the first
12646s	few games My Lord talk about it when I
12649s	tell you two games back to back he he
12652s	he's able to come back after a a tough
12655s	loss between Mike in that game number
12656s	one obviously the Jitters are there now
12658s	it's gone he comes back absolutely
12660s	Slaughters gets one more elimination
12662s	ahead and he says hey Mike listen I see
12664s	it I respect it I love it keep that same
12667s	energy but I'm going to get another kill
12669s	get a little bit ahead but then he goes
12670s	a little bit further to secures that
12672s	final W leang was able to hold on a
12673s	little bit while longer in that game
12675s	three as well to get at least a second
12676s	place finish get himself up there on the
12678s	board he's been playing phenomenal as
12680s	well so overall so far it's been a good
12683s	game for a little bit of everybody but
12685s	spider definitely uh he's getting a b a
12688s	little bit mhh absolutely one of the one
12691s	of the big things though actually before
12693s	we go on that we have a little question
12695s	for for you to go away and go to the
12698s	client website and answer for yourself
12700s	to have a chance chance at winning the
12703s	Jacob bner skin I need that I need that
12706s	beautiful the question is will the top
12709s	scoring player of this match play as
12711s	barus Shen a yes or B no 50/50 could be
12716s	a yes could be a yes could be a not the
12718s	way that it's been going so far and how
12719s	it's been it's been squeezing a lot of
12722s	these players with these new roles here
12723s	it's really forcing a lot of these
12724s	players out of their comfort zone it's
12725s	one of the biggest things that we've
12727s	been talking about and we knew coming
12728s	into these stages and into these groups
12731s	they knew that they were going to have
12733s	to pick and
12735s	sacrifice maybe I might have to play one
12737s	of my uncomfortable picks for this game
12739s	knowing that I'm going to play one of my
12740s	Mains that I know longterm so we're not
12743s	seeing 12 man lobbies as much as we used
12746s	to we're not seeing that no more now
12747s	everybody really has to really think
12749s	about every single pick every single
12753s	stance I mean at the end of the day it
12755s	definitely brings a different
12757s	competitive Spirit to everybody but at
12759s	the same time the aggression is still
12760s	the same abely absolutely the aggression
12762s	is certainly there and I have a
12767s	feeling ugly booly ladies and
12771s	gentlemen I'm so excited how that feel
12774s	I'm oh that felt good that felt good
12776s	that felt good no it's going to ramp up
12779s	a considerable amount I Envision as we
12781s	are heading on
12783s	over ladies and gentlemen we are going
12786s	we got we got Rune keeper and Moxy doing
12789s	the uh the holl of daytime now we're
12791s	getting ugly we got the nighttime moris
12794s	Isle and it is about to explode so all
12797s	of those characters that you were hoping
12799s	to see in the first few games that you
12802s	didn't manage to catch all that much of
12803s	you know got your we he definitely have
12806s	DEC so AOS we had we had some hardi in
12809s	fact very very good to see him coming
12811s	straight out after having recing added
12814s	to the game we didn't see any T we
12816s	didn't see any
12818s	Justina that means we're going to get
12819s	some really fun lobbies towards the end
12821s	of these games especially with these
12822s	pcks knowing that we haven't been able
12824s	to see them definitely these next few
12825s	games are going to be absolutely
12826s	explosive and I can't wait one thing
12828s	that has been brought up over and over
12830s	again now especially I CU I know Moxy
12833s	and have brought it up but the fireflies
12835s	yes no of course that's exactly why
12837s	we've got the night time so they're
12838s	going to be spawning all around the map
12841s	ladies and gentlemen oh it's I I if you
12844s	know me you know I'm a firefly in joyer
12847s	that is your thing yeah hey it's my
12849s	thing you got to get ugly Bo you got to
12852s	get in there you got to know the pathing
12853s	so although I I joke around and say it's
12856s	all it's all that but there is a method
12859s	to the madness you have to uh try and
12862s	look for the specific PA thingss around
12864s	the map you have if you're in a third
12866s	party situation you're relatively low
12868s	Health you've just been hit by a huge
12871s	amount of damage and you managed to get
12872s	a kill but you couldn't get the soul BL
12874s	you got to know where to go you got to
12877s	know exactly you're pathing to the
12879s	closest firefight the closest armor Swap
12882s	all of these all of these factors come
12884s	into play and you need to be on the ball
12887s	and at the same time it's highly
12889s	probable that that Firefly that you know
12892s	where where it is on the map that it may
12894s	have already been taken so it is still a
12896s	gamble at times you have to be careful
12899s	but as we said because of these
12901s	fireflies because of the fact that we
12903s	are going to have potentially a much
12906s	more aggressive early mid game I feel as
12909s	though once we get toward WS that end
12912s	game Circle getting the the game starts
12914s	to to die down a little bit there are
12916s	far fewer
12917s	players it's not going to be as
12920s	aggressive necessarily we're going to
12921s	have potentially some aggression but a
12923s	lot of a lot of players are going to be
12925s	trying to stay as inconspicuous as
12927s	possible as we're not going to be seeing
12929s	all that much varer we're not going to
12931s	be seeing all that much zipping we're
12932s	going to be seeing that aggression and
12934s	depending on how aggressive it gets
12936s	early on we might not have all that big
12938s	of an end game there might not even be
12940s	that many players is Left Alive but we
12942s	are going to have to wait and see one
12944s	thing I did want to mention is that
12946s	spider Mike comes in game one gets goes
12949s	crazy goes absolutely nuts with his
12952s	eight kills but then we go into the
12955s	second and third game and we got spider
12958s	just backto back getting those dubs and
12961s	doing extremely well and I think this is
12963s	largely because Mike thrives within the
12967s	chaos Mike thrives within all this
12970s	pression and the pressure another thing
12972s	to absolutely coming into it definitely
12974s	pressure he lives for it and that's one
12975s	of those moments where if you can be
12977s	able to enjoy those moments Under
12979s	Pressure you definitely are an absolute
12981s	asset and a problem asset to yourself
12983s	but a problem to others and that's
12984s	exactly what you want to be uh coming
12985s	through as we saw the replays earlier
12988s	here from GG Shaw inside of that realm
12989s	of Yang with the AOS having a tough time
12991s	at the beginning but then was really
12993s	able to come through and absolutely hit
12995s	them with a bunch of combos those blue
12997s	focuses definitely was coming through
12999s	heavily clutch as we looked at a here
13001s	who's looking pretty good on his overall
13003s	stats um number two on the average on
13006s	the average kills and number three in
13008s	total damage in average damage so far so
13010s	obviously with Akuma here not necess
13013s	he's doing great I would say
13015s	overall overall akuma's been doing great
13018s	I think now there's definitely a point
13019s	where knowing that we're in the halfway
13021s	mark we're headed to game number four I
13023s	think now it's definitely a time for
13024s	players to start to turn up definitely
13026s	focus on those early eliminations
13028s	definitely start to play a little bit
13029s	more slower but but it depends because
13031s	obviously Within These first couple of
13033s	games there really hasn't been too much
13034s	slow down time there hasn't been a lot
13037s	of moments I think in game three was
13038s	really the only time we really got a
13040s	chance to see some actual slow Pac
13044s	movement for a moment but the moment
13046s	somebody got absolutely slashed whether
13047s	it's from a bow shot from halfway across
13049s	whether it's a musket or whether it's
13051s	somebody that absolutely is just ego
13054s	somebody and trying to get a massive
13055s	amount of damage everyone else starts to
13057s	pile on and dive bomb on that same
13059s	player as as now as we we look back into
13061s	the replays here from ug's Panda man
13063s	dangerously low teada comes through with
13066s	the juggle this man has been a teada
13068s	king one of our favorites and it catches
13070s	Pace in a tough situation here he ends
13072s	up being able to get out of that
13074s	situation but still holding strong here
13076s	beautiful right click boot focus with
13078s	the katana tries to go for the reset on
13080s	both sides here but all panaman really
13081s	needs to do is pop it just a little bit
13082s	of shield and keep that momentum going
13084s	to be able to get the finish for the
13087s	dagger so obviously with panaman is able
13089s	to hold strong and he's able to come
13091s	back into it again Panda man is starting
13093s	to turn all the way up he knows what's
13095s	been going on I think he's done a
13097s	fantastic job of reading his players a
13098s	lot more I think that's been the biggest
13101s	thing that I've noticed pan man get
13103s	better at is really seeing these players
13106s	how they attack following their pace and
13109s	being able to go I know how to either
13110s	Dodge move or counter that he's been a
13113s	lot faster he has been able to pay
13115s	attention more and clearly that has been
13117s	showing in his gameplay far more than
13119s	we've ever seen so far in these games so
13121s	far and it's only been three games deep
13122s	so I'm excited to see how Panda man is
13124s	going to be able to hold off for the
13125s	next three games no absolutely Panda man
13128s	has been one of the most improved
13130s	players I I I I I feel like one of the
13133s	big things that I think potentially held
13135s	him back initial was that back when back
13139s	when we didn't have all of these
13141s	characters back when we didn't have faia
13143s	even we didn't have all of these
13144s	characters coming in and stealing the
13146s	show pandaan was one of the goats on the
13151s	Fire Dog on the taka and that was that
13154s	was his comfort pick that was the pick
13155s	that he would do the best on but as the
13159s	matters have evolved as the seasons have
13161s	progressed taka has fallen further and
13164s	further down the ladder so he's been
13167s	forced to adapt forced to try and find
13170s	new avenues to Success Through different
13173s	character picks and that's absolutely
13175s	ifying your character pool is one of the
13177s	best things that you can do as a
13179s	professional rer player but here we are
13182s	we are going to be going into the
13185s	character selection phase this is all
13187s	brand new and I love it I do really like
13189s	this new addition this new change to the
13192s	format I feel like it's definitely
13194s	spicing things up it's absolutely making
13196s	it so that certain lobbies aren't just
13199s	jam-packed full of a specific character
13202s	and we are going to be we're going to be
13204s	all graced with their character picks
13207s	very shortly and I'm not going to lie
13209s	I'm not going to lie you know me and
13211s	everyone at home knows me I want to see
13214s	some T oh absolutely listen you get hero
13217s	picks and you know me I love Maps I know
13219s	I love seeing percentages on where
13221s	people land especially in the beginning
13222s	of these fights these fights um when
13224s	they first land are so so crucial to how
13227s	the rest of the game is going to go for
13228s	some of these players that confidence
13229s	really starts to set in after you get
13231s	that first elimination and they start to
13233s	get those picks little by little so
13235s	obviously first round selection start to
13237s	come through here and it looks like uh
13238s	Ran's already got his first pick and it
13240s	looks like the Faria is going to get
13242s	picked is going to get claimed still get
13245s	A's Mike nice little bit of a switch
13247s	here as well little bit of some AOS
13249s	action looks like Faria also another one
13252s	yeah we've got Hardy on the right for
13255s	Lobby
13257s	28 tanoshi and ID K Roman and drg both
13262s	going for that F pick I mean the thing
13264s	is one of these very one of these very
13267s	interesting Dynamics when you are in
13269s	these kind of log
13271s	is that although you're going into a
13273s	firefly Lobby although that you're going
13275s	into a much more aggressive Lobby and
13278s	some people might think oh it's probably
13280s	best for me to pick an aggressive
13281s	character like taka like teada like AOS
13284s	all of these sorts of things yeah
13286s	exactly not necessarily you can
13288s	potentially opt for those defensive
13290s	characters like fer potentially zipping
13293s	all of this sort of thing and then look
13295s	to try and go for morus blessings as
13297s	opposed to Yang portal fights and look
13300s	look to try and scale up into the end
13302s	game in that through that Avenue and not
13305s	look to go for these isolated One V one
13309s	fights you want to try and get into
13311s	those One V One V One V one skirmishes
13315s	which is where you Excel as a character
13317s	like zipping or FIA because you're able
13319s	to have an amazing combo break on FIA
13322s	for example you're able to use it very
13324s	aggressively you're able to leverage it
13326s	very well and then you have that Mech to
13329s	be able to distance yourself from a
13331s	potentially bad situation but we're we
13334s	have all the mechanics in this Lobby we
13338s	have Haddy and fer hady in the law for
13342s	the game is in fact fia's teacher which
13345s	I think is very cool and I love I love
13346s	the addition of hady he's an extremely
13348s	interesting character he changes it up
13350s	so much and I'm I I'm he shout out to
13354s	the nraa dev team they did an amazing
13357s	job with hadie but here we are on the
13359s	final stage of the picks and we have a
13362s	little bit of a mixup we have a Justina
13366s	and a zy z pick very very interesting
13369s	Wang leang I think it was that picked up
13372s	that Z and we have frosters on the
13376s	Justina going to be a very interesting
13378s	match having those two unique characters
13381s	in the lobby we don't have a single
13382s	other Justina we don't have a single
13384s	other Z so they are going to stick out
13387s	like a sore thumb in that Lobby amongst
13390s	all the Hades amongst all the fers so it
13393s	may in fact end up being quite a
13396s	detriment to them potentially as they
13399s	they stand out so
13401s	easily they might get targeted very
13404s	heavily and we're going to have to wait
13405s	and see getting all these cam shots of
13407s	the players
13409s	spider calculation Master my guy he
13412s	thrives on the Kon collected the the the
13416s	daytime games but he definitely knows
13419s	how to get down down and spice it up but
13422s	we're going to have to wait and see
13423s	there may be a slight delay here but we
13425s	are going to be jumping right into the
13427s	action very shortly Roman is a player
13430s	that I would like to talk about a a
13432s	homie a boy from EU my good friend Roman
13437s	it's been lovely to meet him for the
13439s	first time ever my guy is jacked he's
13441s	got arms like a tank but he I'm not
13444s	going to lie he's got arms like a beast
13447s	and he uh lovely guy lovely guy but he's
13451s	been performing relatively well I mean
13453s	he's definitely not been at the very top
13455s	of the
13456s	leaderboard it is it is rather difficult
13458s	for him as he is not only here for solos
13461s	but he is also here for trios so leading
13464s	up to these group stages you're having
13466s	to potentially split practice split
13469s	focus on different things and it can be
13471s	rather difficult none of the Chinese
13474s	players for solos are in fact also Trio
13477s	players so it definitely speaks to how
13480s	how much work there is for those for
13482s	those select players that are in fact in
13484s	both game modes it can be quite rough it
13486s	can be quite difficult to manage all of
13489s	that but hey my boy he's he's picked up
13491s	a few kills he's not sitting at the
13493s	bottom of the leaderboard and he is
13496s	trying his heart out he told me earlier
13498s	that he was oh he he was ready but he
13501s	told me in the past a little a little
13504s	sneak peek into the mind of Roman that
13506s	in the past when he's played certain
13509s	tournaments whatever it might
13510s	he's always got music he's even
13512s	potentially got some anime up on a
13514s	second Monitor and he's just vibing out
13517s	my guy is just sat there watching stuff
13520s	on his other monitor vibing and he's
13522s	just it's his it's his method you know
13523s	he's chilled out he's calm not
13525s	overthinking things and that is pretty
13528s	much how we need how how we need these
13530s	players to be to be you know you don't
13533s	want to be overthinking things you don't
13535s	want to be nervous you don't want to be
13536s	anxious you want to be levelheaded and
13539s	ready definitely have to be a
13541s	levelheaded in these moments especially
13543s	knowing that we are in the halfway mark
13546s	already so even within that coming into
13548s	it they know that they have this energy
13551s	they know they need to get these
13552s	eliminations but they also have to
13554s	realize that now is the time to really
13557s	get this first day and start strong you
13560s	want to be able to put your best foot
13562s	forward you know what I always say first
13564s	impressions are everything right true so
13566s	coming into this you got to start strong
13569s	and obviously you got you got to match
13570s	the energy of a spider or of a mic and
13573s	obviously with matching that energy is
13575s	going to be the energy that they're
13576s	hopefully going to bring in game number
13577s	four as we're going to get ready to lock
13579s	in the players have been set they know
13582s	what they're playing and it's time to
13583s	get ready to lock it in onto Morris Isle
13586s	back to the OG map that we all know and
13589s	love for our group stages from A and B
13591s	so we have some players from all over we
13593s	have CN we have sca EU so far the two CN
13597s	players absolutely popping off and
13599s	obviously the picks let's start from the
13601s	top let's start from the top Derby we
13604s	have the Z for wangang
13607s	choing spider tanoshi tryhard all
13610s	picking up that hadti we have Mike on
13613s	the Standalone AOS pick we have pandaman
13616s	and Akuma and re Omen still on that fer
13620s	I'm pretty sure that all three of those
13622s	players have now picked fer for their
13625s	second time this series meaning that
13627s	they are no longer going to be able to
13629s	Pi pick up Faria in the later games
13631s	they've probably got something cooked up
13633s	ready to go I definitely want to see
13635s	pandaman pull out that taker pick as he
13638s	has always done as long as we have known
13642s	him he's definitely moved away
13644s	originally he would would opt to go for
13646s	that double taker pick as it was his
13648s	comfort pick but now times have changed
13652s	and he is picking up the double fer
13654s	probably the smart move probably the
13656s	smart move taker is not in the he's
13659s	definitely playable wow and he thing is
13662s	as the day progresses as the series
13664s	progresses he's going to likely end up
13667s	getting picks as this new pick pick
13670s	selection format for these games has
13674s	changed a lot and it might Force players
13676s	things that uh potentially aren't to
13678s	here and it's definitely going to be
13680s	packed out here as we see a lot of
13681s	people Landing it's going to be a little
13683s	past celestra here definitely one of the
13685s	smaller Huts towards this left side is
13687s	going to be a very popular location but
13689s	it looks like that far back section
13691s	before you get to the cliff side
13692s	definitely is going to be the main
13693s	staple of where everybody's going to be
13695s	fighting I mean I'm seeing xcg 521 we're
13697s	seeing IDK I'm seeing jdg scang it looks
13699s	like wbg spider has opted out of being
13701s	in one of the Huts by himself and it
13703s	looks like Mike is thinking probably the
13705s	same thing up top but there definitely
13707s	is going to be one player Landing right
13708s	next to them so there could be an
13709s	immediate fight meanwhile everybody else
13712s	is picking these very close 1 V ons and
13715s	just seeing if maybe they can get lucky
13717s	do they pull at the same time or are
13719s	they going to play play similar to Mike
13721s	Mike is going to be outskirts uh out by
13723s	himself a little bit tr's going to be
13724s	nearby meanwhile as you look at spider
13726s	looks like spider's going to pop his FK
13727s	immediately trying to see if he can
13728s	rotate this back out tooshi keeping that
13730s	same energy but spider is going to be
13732s	able to hit him beautiful hits and a
13734s	nice little Dodge on each side beautiful
13735s	defense happening from spider as well
13737s	here oh nice move just to try to get out
13740s	of the way but tanoshi is going to be
13742s	able to connect it with the spear nice
13744s	hits coming through and he's absolutely
13745s	going to come through and douse him oh
13748s	beautiful hit at the very started the
13750s	game spider beautiful spiral hit with
13752s	that dagger claims his first elimination
13754s	of game number four absolutely very
13756s	nicely done there we have Mike and
13758s	tryhard over here at the lake and it
13762s	looked as though tryhard did not have
13764s	all that many resources in armor and and
13768s	weapon rary to play with unfortunately
13771s	he does get taken down early on in the
13773s	game Mike with those purple nunchucks
13776s	able to Output a considerable amount of
13778s	damage and lock down try hard able to
13782s	eliminate him early on but hey it's the
13784s	very start of the game there is so much
13786s	time to come back into the lobby as you
13789s	have that Resurrection spider over here
13791s	putting pressure onto Roman Roman
13793s	getting chipped away at by all of these
13795s	range projectiles all of these players
13797s	surrounding him Roman goes for the jump
13799s	Harry he's unable to find the connection
13801s	spider taking considerable amount of
13803s	damage as well Frost of is putting in
13805s	those range shots he's put in work in
13808s	the aim lab and he has been chipping
13811s	away at spider's Health almost O Okay so
13814s	he now does OP to cancel that Ultimate
13818s	Spider managing to find that full reset
13820s	Roman as well also managing to find that
13823s	reset a little bit of a he's definitely
13825s	come out the Victor in this trade I
13827s	would say Roman not having used his
13829s	ultimate just there having a
13831s	considerable amount more rage than
13833s	spider and a little bit more effective
13835s	health so if he does opt to look for the
13837s	re-engage he is more likely they not
13840s	going to be able to come out a little
13842s	bit better little bit better in that
13843s	situation but we'll have to wait and see
13845s	we are heading on over to Sun Wings rest
13848s	pandaman alongside wangang Akuma we got
13852s	GG sha here as well all of these Gamers
13856s	coming in trying to contest these tree
13858s	houses pandan getting a very decent
13860s	trade onto Mike Mike managing to find
13862s	that armor swap to find that white armor
13865s	Panda man getting knocked Away by that
13867s	F1 on the acos manages to send back that
13871s	one charge onto Mike Mike now getting
13874s	caught up in the middle between sha and
13876s	Akuma sha also taking not so good of a
13880s	trade but none of these players are
13883s	looking to fully commit Mike look at
13884s	that damage the damage coming out from
13887s	those purple nunchuks the m games oh and
13890s	Char is literally one Health he's 1 HP
13894s	he's in the mech he's trying to use that
13896s	turret he's trying not to get shot out
13899s	of of the of the Swarm the Swarm
13902s	formation from that fch he is getting
13905s	chipped down though the fch is about to
13907s	expire and there it is and he falls onto
13911s	not so good terrain and Akuma takes full
13914s	advantage and takes him
13916s	down absolute gorgeous finish coming
13919s	through as Akuma and A's Mike still
13921s	fighting this out here looks like the
13922s	fan able to do a decent amount of damage
13924s	nice scale Rush coming in from Akuma
13925s	trying to see if he can get away and
13927s	absolutely maneuver this away from W's
13929s	Mike has that great Shield definitely
13931s	isn't something very helpful for him oh
13933s	but he gets
13934s	absolutely auma oh he able to clean it
13938s	up and gets the Finish to shut down A's
13941s	Mike now A's Mike might potentially do
13944s	it for the salty runback we know he is
13946s	absolutely fond of a good salty runback
13949s	knowing that there's a resurrection spot
13951s	right next door very very close at hand
13953s	as pan wingly anger fighting this out as
13954s	well here nice hits oh beautiful timing
13958s	from that able to cush down and and then
13959s	obviously he's able to take the rest of
13960s	the St from there that's now panaman
13963s	trying to see if maybe he can cage this
13965s	and now he's going to retreat back off
13967s	goes for the shield Akuma getting
13969s	dangerously aggressive onto this massive
13971s	Mike you know that Mech is shooting
13973s	massive missiles right just to let you
13975s	know Akuma I don't I don't think you
13977s	understand that that thing can hurt if
13979s	it hits you once meanwhile looks like
13981s	pan man's going to be able to miss that
13982s	opportunity though to get any hits and
13984s	akuma's not going to let him go as he
13986s	wants to try to claim this elimination
13987s	for himself here as pan man's going to
13989s	force The Shield up probably the last of
13991s	the shield as he's right back at to it
13993s	and Akuma is going to be able to force
13994s	this fight off right click waiting for
13996s	the heal almost misses out on it misses
13998s	out twice on it Kuma decides to back
14001s	this off here as it looks like wangang
14002s	might potentially oh no wangang is out
14004s	there he's not going to fight join this
14005s	fight at all Kuma is going to scale all
14007s	the way back down to the very bottom
14009s	here Wang langang nearby on on this hill
14014s	currently trying to pick up some
14016s	resources I Envision Akuma on that white
14019s	armor
14020s	pandan as well very very low on
14023s	resources only having those small Shield
14026s	armors those Shield Powers very very
14030s	difficult to actually get a full reset
14032s	if you have players looking to pressure
14034s	you going to have to scale out of there
14035s	yeah they're going to have to move
14036s	they're going to have to get on over out
14039s	of that danger zone sha Roma now
14042s	posturing to go into this realm of Yang
14045s	it seems we have tryhard and tanoshi as
14047s	well on the right side of the map over
14050s	there next to each other Mike spider
14052s	choosing Frost ofs and unique all
14055s	relatively close to each other it looks
14057s	as though Mike might be heading over to
14060s	the northern Yang portal try and secure
14064s	his entry without getting griefed
14066s	without getting interrupted unique and
14068s	frost of us very very close to each
14070s	other they look as though they're
14071s	trading blows here try hard and tanoshi
14074s	now also trading a little bit of
14077s	pressure back and forth looking to see
14079s	if they can find a crack in the armor so
14082s	to speak but neither player is looking
14085s	to allow that to happen spider just
14088s	running around charging those Blues
14089s	sending them out trying to apply as much
14092s	pressure as he can so he does not just
14094s	get jumped on grapple in on he does not
14098s	want to lose his opportunity to go into
14100s	the realm of Yang but as I say it no I'm
14104s	sorry spider I'm sorry I may have cast a
14106s	cursed you right there big he got to the
14108s	circle first I don't understand how he
14109s	doesn't get chosen out of that one
14111s	excuse me I'm not going to lie I think
14113s	he kind of got robbed for that that was
14114s	kind of free like I know like if we
14116s	looked at the instant replay I feel like
14118s	he was touching that Circle first that's
14119s	all I'm going to say anyway back at it
14121s	as they go absolutely airboard shozen
14123s	and GG Shaw fighting this out fke going
14126s	to try to see if he can maneuver it all
14127s	the way up top oh beautiful hits coming
14129s	through as GG Shaw is going to kick him
14131s	down with that totem Shang is going to
14134s	try to see if he can come back towards
14135s	it as well nice nice blue Focus trying
14137s	to see if they can connect maybe with a
14138s	Perry but not enough H Zing is going to
14141s	deplete the heals from G Shaw and now he
14143s	has to be careful though because these
14145s	missiles and Rockets is going to
14147s	absolutely decimate the heels if you are
14149s	not moving and getting away as Shing
14151s	is's going to get absolutely airborne
14153s	and that nice little bit of flying is
14155s	going to be enough to keep him from not
14156s	getting absolutely shredded by these
14158s	amount of bullets makes it so much
14160s	harder for GG Shaw to hit his shots but
14162s	he does successfully is able to hit a
14164s	couple it's not necessarily impossible
14166s	but it makes you a very very
14168s	well-rounded player if you were able to
14170s	do that oh oh beautifully done there so
14172s	Zen trying to see if maybe he can escape
14174s	this point as well here and immediately
14176s	comes through with the landing gunshots
14177s	coming through GG Shaw is going to try
14178s	to see if he can connect it Shaz
14180s	beautiful defense on both sides here
14182s	waiting for it as looks like El from na
14184s	definitely was able to hold on strong
14186s	and just like that shazen is able to
14188s	also win his realm of Yang in this game
14191s	number four very nicely done juang
14195s	actually canceling his horizontal blue
14197s	focus on the nunchucks with with that
14199s	grapple anticipating the Parry from his
14202s	opponent but oh it would it almost cost
14205s	him the fight if somehow gig sha had
14208s	been able to either if frame or just
14211s	just dodge away and space out away from
14213s	that Tech Chase Cho Zen would have been
14216s	in a world of hurt potentially and he
14218s	could have gone the other way but
14220s	fortunately he is able to take it down
14222s	take down that take down that fer the
14225s	Hardy the teacher he still got a lot to
14228s	learn my student
14230s	but here we are Akuma having been taken
14232s	down in the realm of Yang himself opting
14234s	to resurrect relatively close to this
14236s	Morris blessing along with GG sha both
14239s	players looking to try and upgrade their
14242s	blue armor up to that epic purple armor
14246s	both players Trad back and forth with
14248s	these pistol shots trying to create an
14250s	opening for themselves trying to gain an
14252s	advantage in neutral before engaging
14255s	before committing but it looks as though
14257s	Akuma may have been caught in the back
14259s	by a little bit of damage Frost of us
14261s	with that gold fan on the Justina good
14265s	Lord and the vilon birds might alongside
14269s	it oh Frost with a huge Parry but
14272s	unfortunately he's not able to follow it
14274s	up as the uh the character model blocked
14276s	him there Akuma though still on the Move
14279s	still managed to find that armor swap
14280s	he's getting Tech chased down though by
14282s	sh sha going for that overh hold trying
14284s	to find it but Akuma he gets readed like
14287s	a book and GG shot ah picks up the
14290s	elimination manages to cleanse that Yang
14294s	depletion but it's not over just yet we
14296s	have Frost of Us coming in here trying
14298s	to chase him down trying to do as much
14300s	damage as he can with this gold dagger
14302s	Frost ofus using a lovely little bit of
14304s	tech here sending out that versical blue
14306s	focus on the fan and then canceling it
14308s	in the middle of the animation with the
14310s	grapple preventing himself from getting
14312s	punished on that Parry Frost ofous oh
14314s	and he reads the cancel on the
14316s	horizontal blue cancel oh my Lord Lord
14319s	the blue F oh there it is he tries to
14322s	send the bait he crouches out of his
14324s	blue Focus hold into the Justina Dash
14328s	catching him slipping catching him out
14330s	with that V2 on the Justina freezing him
14333s	right through and doing a considerable
14335s	amount of damage and taking him down
14337s	Frost of us now on his third elimination
14340s	of this game oh and as I said Mike
14344s	picking up another his second kill of
14347s	the game sitting on those purple
14349s	nunchucks yet again opting to go for
14351s	those nunchucks with the purple armor
14353s	did just commit his ultimate here though
14355s	so it is might be a little bit of a
14357s	tough situation chuang having just
14360s	turned up on that
14363s	hadti with the full armor full ultimate
14366s	and still has a little bit of time left
14368s	on that Vermillion Birds might Mike he's
14371s	trying to space out he's already got
14373s	about 45% of his ultimate back up he
14377s	just needs a little bit longer he's he's
14379s	looking to head on over to these
14381s	fireflies I think got quite a few
14384s	Firefly spawns over by that collection
14386s	of houses just to the the northwest of
14390s	them but it looks as though he's he's
14392s	anticipating that they've likely been
14393s	taken and I would not be surprised
14395s	either as we saw Frost of us landing
14398s	there at the beginning of the game to
14399s	try and accelerate his early games as
14401s	fast as possible so it is likely that
14403s	there aren't any fireflies left
14406s	there what a finish to come through as
14409s	well here and now looks like we're going
14412s	to be able to continue with this
14413s	rotation here as it looks like oh A's
14415s	Mike finally does strike so Zang ending
14418s	up getting hit by the dagger of A's Mike
14420s	here nice little scale Rush on the top
14422s	section here curious what is he doing
14424s	though looks like he was caught in that
14426s	corner and I was like um Shaz you know
14427s	you're not moving right it looks like
14429s	now try to see if maybe they can rotate
14431s	this out looks like A's mik decides he
14433s	wants to play with his food just a
14434s	little bit here let him get a quick Head
14436s	Start counts one two three and now he's
14438s	back at it again trying to see if maybe
14439s	he can get some nice hits with the bow
14442s	to close in the Gap nice hits coming
14445s	through trying to see if can shutter
14446s	nice FK to be able to get that nice
14448s	little tiger slam now here comes back to
14450s	back on the hits as well with it A's
14453s	Mike just keeping the pressure right on
14454s	it shazen shazen struggling to try to
14456s	see if he can find an opportunity oh
14458s	gets hit in the back of the head from
14460s	the bow shot from try hard as
14464s	now a Mike is able to beautifully and
14467s	successfully finish off that elimination
14468s	forun for try hard try hard was not able
14470s	to complete the Finish but looks like
14473s	spider finally was able to get his realm
14475s	of Yang that he wanted as he got it
14476s	stole from him earlier but now it's in
14478s	the front hands of 's frost ofus Frost
14481s	ofus trying to see if he can hold strong
14482s	here and speaking of frost he's able to
14484s	frost himself to get a little bit of
14485s	some Shield a little bit of some
14486s	patience and now back at it nice R nice
14489s	hit from the reach round trying to see
14490s	if he can come through here long sword
14491s	trying to see if he can the one two
14494s	three coming through and now Frost ofus
14496s	is able to pop up the ulti here oh gets
14498s	nice shutter hit and D's spider now
14502s	spider struggling here nice and wet not
14504s	looking good both shots is and frost
14508s	ofus just like that is able to shut down
14511s	the number one player of this game so
14513s	far wbg
14516s	spider God damn my boy Frost ofus true
14522s	to his name freezing spider in his
14526s	tracks and taking him down in the realm
14528s	of yang
14529s	spider unable to to survive there trying
14533s	to heal up in the air but he's not able
14535s	to do so that pistol damage was just a
14537s	little bit too much you got nice little
14539s	spread on that pistol as well means that
14541s	you don't have to be as accurate as some
14544s	of the other weapons as your bows and
14546s	muskets for example you're able to shoot
14549s	general direction and on top of that it
14551s	has possibly the fastest projectile
14555s	speed on those range weapons so you're
14556s	able to do a do do quite well with it in
14559s	the in the close to midrange it's almost
14562s	hit scan I've heard it said to be many a
14565s	time so that is one of the reasons why
14567s	pistol is seen a considerable amount in
14569s	your solo games oh my Lord but as as
14572s	I've been talking spiders come out of
14574s	the realm of Yang and he's run right
14576s	into Roman Roman only just barely
14579s	getting into his barer Mech literally by
14583s	the by the hairs on the back of his neck
14586s	spider unable to get that RM be
14589s	confirmation that vertical blue focus
14592s	with that pul sword Roman able to get
14595s	that full reset although now he is going
14597s	to have to try and find some form of
14599s	disengage spider he's on his heels he's
14602s	ready to go he still has his ultimate
14604s	available he does get over held here
14606s	Roman able to force out that F2 from
14609s	spider but spider is's not messing
14611s	around he's sending out that ultimate
14613s	ran he's trying to find some way to to
14616s	get away from spider he's trying to
14618s	create enough distance to not get
14621s	pressured by this flying Menace spider
14624s	he loses him for a moment but he's found
14625s	him again Rian he goes straight through
14627s	the window spider and there it is spider
14631s	just taking him down ran no ultimate
14634s	available too much pressure to deal with
14637s	Hadi is one of those characters that
14639s	when he pops his ultimate unless you
14642s	have a resource of similar value to be
14644s	able to deal with that sort of thing you
14647s	have to try and find to disengage it
14649s	becomes n impossible to really do
14652s	anything about a Hadi just pressuring
14654s	you nonstop but speaking of pressure
14657s	tanoshi is under a mountain of it he is
14660s	one Health and he gets caught out of the
14662s	end Frost of us picking up his fifth
14664s	elimination of this fourth game absolute
14668s	shut down here five eliminations so far
14671s	Frost is a filling it he's feeling the
14674s	energy especially after getting that
14675s	elimination onto wvg spider I'd be
14677s	feeling it too meanwhile A's Mike
14679s	fighting this out with looks like w Leon
14681s	W Leon deciding to back off this but it
14683s	looks like A's Mike like always W key
14685s	going to keep the pressure zi pulls out
14687s	the ulti trying to see if he can pull
14689s	disappearing act caught between two to
14690s	three different people Frost ofis comes
14692s	from the backside has to be careful A's
14694s	Mike is almost able to get the tiger
14695s	onto wangang wangang trying to separate
14698s	but it's not going to be enough the
14699s	question is can he go yes Mike is able
14701s	to successfully cast that elimination
14703s	and now he's getting caught in the mid
14705s	of frost ofus and now beautiful reset
14707s	coming through as they're both going to
14708s	try to see if they can separate himself
14710s	meanwhile try hard wants that energy
14712s	going to try to get a couple of slashes
14713s	with his Katana onto A's Mike here but
14715s	A's Mike is going to be forced to
14717s	retreat definitely a good start and a
14719s	good reason to back off here plays that
14722s	time wisely here and asid he's going to
14724s	take it right here and realizes it's
14725s	time for him to take it Tom oh wait
14727s	never mind I take it back it's try hard
14728s	he going to find him on the outskirts
14730s	and it looks like he's able to pop the F
14731s	goes for the separation decides to back
14733s	off this and now it looks like he's
14734s	going to find the next person right next
14736s	to him which is Frost ofis Frost ofus
14737s	wants to be able to get that nice
14740s	freeze nice reset gorgeous scale rush
14743s	trying not to get caught up by it looks
14744s	like a bow shot coming in for the back
14745s	it could be a
14747s	pistol and now Frost ofis now looks like
14749s	he might try to see if he can go for the
14751s	separation now it's the
14753s	downtime Circle three four players alive
14757s	nobody is
14758s	forcing try hard zero eliminations
14761s	everybody else has at least two
14762s	eliminations on the board four for Mike
14765s	two for spider five for frostivus this
14767s	could be a huge W for frost he can get
14770s	at least one to two eliminations and
14772s	that first place slot he could
14774s	absolutely Skyrocket himself in that top
14776s	two and top three potentially and can
14781s	see himself closing in on this gap
14783s	between spider and Mike absolutely you
14785s	said it Dobby we have tryhard though
14788s	he's he's had a bit of a rough start
14789s	today it I mean you could you could say
14792s	it could be a number of things he he got
14794s	here a little bit later than some of the
14795s	other players he's not he's having to
14797s	play both so and trios you know he could
14800s	have he could have had a little bit of
14802s	something that didn't agree with him for
14803s	breakfast who knows it could have been
14804s	anything but try hard if I know him he
14807s	is not down for the count my man is he's
14810s	a machine try hard lives up to his name
14813s	and he has been he he recognized at the
14816s	beginning he he did go down I think it
14818s	was in the first or the second game
14820s	relatively early with his second life
14823s	and then after that we've seen him take
14825s	it take a take a little bit of a chill
14827s	pill he's he's slowed down a bit he's
14829s	been making sure that he's consistently
14831s	getting to those end game spots
14833s	regardless of whether or not he's
14834s	managed to pick up a few kills I mean
14835s	game three he manages to pick up two
14838s	kills before end game that absolutely
14840s	stacked end game and that is a huge
14842s	contrast what we have now as we were
14844s	talking about before the game
14845s	started it's possible that some of these
14848s	end games are just simply not going to
14851s	happen might not actually get to that
14853s	zone six oh my Lord no what's happened
14856s	Frost of us my God
14859s	he's he's he's had an accident Moon Bane
14861s	surfing and he's taken down so
14863s	unbelievably low oh my Lord try hard and
14866s	Mike both spotted out from a distance
14868s	try and find a connection with those
14870s	range shots unfortunately for them
14873s	they're not able to do so yeah they know
14875s	he's taking a whole bunch of damage and
14877s	Frost getting caught in the moon ban
14879s	that's one of the worst ways for it to
14881s	happen and frost he fors to use his
14883s	ultimate as well to try and create as
14885s	much distance from him and from him my
14888s	and try hard as possible this is
14890s	probably one of the biggest blunders
14892s	possible to get caught in a moon Bane
14894s	and get triple hit Moon Banes just oh
14898s	they number one Griefer l oh number one
14902s	Griefer has to be the moon Bane
14903s	absolutely treacherous here but yeah
14906s	Frost of is still alive here nice scale
14908s	rush to try to see if maybe he can
14909s	rotate this out here and he could have
14910s	potential here but try hard and Mike is
14913s	not letting that happen here nice pistol
14915s	shot to get rid of the rest of the
14916s	shield here and now it's a chase the
14917s	question is who is going to secure that
14918s	elimination is try hard going to be able
14920s	to get his first elimination or is Mike
14922s	going to go up and get his fifth
14923s	elimination but Frost ofus is not going
14924s	to make it easy he's scale rushing every
14926s	which way shape or form third party
14928s	starts to come in from spider spider
14929s	finds a gold shield the chase lives on
14932s	try hard actually closes in the gap
14935s	between him and frost Frost just trying
14936s	to separate himself for as much as
14938s	possible here nice scale rush trying to
14939s	see if he can connect him he finds Mike
14940s	right in the front of seing up this door
14942s	trying to hold but try hard oh my Lord
14947s	that was just a instant explosion I
14950s	think Frost ofus had to he had to how
14952s	you to a B's breath that how you how you
14955s	not sir I'm you know what let me let me
14958s	stop let me stop good Lord hey it is
14962s	what it is it doesn't it does happen to
14964s	the best of us Frost of us he was having
14967s	an absolute tear of a game taking up to
14970s	15.6 points total after this fourth game
14974s	of the day but hey try hard managing to
14976s	pick up that kill very nice very nice
14979s	for try hard to manage to come in and
14981s	snipe it away but Frost of us he was in
14983s	he was in possibly just he was just
14985s	stuck between a rock and a hard place it
14987s	was extremely difficult for him to
14989s	really do all that much in that
14990s	situation he needed to try and find some
14992s	kind of armor swap as these players were
14994s	going to Hound him to the ends of the
14997s	Earth right now there's three remaining
15001s	players we have spider Mike and tryhard
15005s	The Clash of the Titans
15008s	here we have it ladies and gentlemen try
15010s	hard on that gold dual blades Mike on
15013s	the gold fan and I think that that looks
15016s	like I I think there a gold dagger for
15019s	spider good Lord it is it's it's shiny
15023s	it all dripped out in the gold spider
15026s	with that gold armor managing o manages
15028s	to catch Mike slipping going through
15030s	that window with that horizontal blue
15033s	Focus From the dagger but unfortunately
15035s	he's not able to maintain the Chas B
15038s	here the terrain is a little bit scuffed
15041s	The Buttery Rocks coming in oh and
15043s	there's try hard try hard came in with
15045s	full armor comes in for half a second
15047s	he's already no armor good Lord Mike
15050s	managing to trade back though spider
15052s	taking a considerable amount of damage
15054s	spider doing a beautiful job of if
15057s	framing that F1 from the from the from
15060s	the AOS here managing to hold Dodge
15063s	through trying to get that half charge
15066s	trying to take his turn unfortunately
15068s	Mike still not getting taken down he's
15071s	still going he does manage to find that
15073s	white armor swap but it's not going to
15075s	last him all that long spider taking
15078s	down Mike and here it is tryhard versus
15080s	spider tryhard and spider both have
15083s	their ultimates try hard getting his
15085s	turn taking the pryo getting that
15087s	grapple combo into the Cavalry Bloom
15089s	spider forced to try and use his F2 to
15091s	disengage forc to fly up manages to take
15094s	the scale Rush manages to try and find a
15096s	moment of peace to try and heal up but
15098s	he's unable to do so try hard he's still
15101s	on the Chase he manages to get his heal
15103s	started first both of these players
15106s	managing to get the heal off but try
15107s	hard having that advanced heal is going
15110s	to allow him to get a little bit
15111s	healthier and spider is looking dire at
15114s	this point try hard chipping away at the
15117s	armor of this Titan spider forced yet
15120s	again to use that F2 both players now
15122s	forced to use their ultimate try hard
15124s	responding spider trying to find a
15127s	moment to heal perhaps trying to do
15129s	something but try hard he's ahead of the
15131s	ball he's ahead of the game he gets that
15133s	heal off first and spider fully cancels
15136s	his ultimate now looking like we're
15139s	going back to neutral ladies and
15141s	gentlemen try hard he does have that
15144s	Cavalry Bloom can be devastating but
15146s	there it is no spider coming in with a
15149s	huge Parry try hard now on the back foot
15152s	forc a swap over to that purple fan he's
15154s	got no armor and spider getting a huge
15156s	shift Barry the probably the worst
15158s	terrain possible as well try hard not
15160s	able to get that full altitude on his F2
15163s	and spider at the end of it all takes
15167s	him
15169s	down oh what a display and show coming
15172s	in from wbg spider Not only was able to
15176s	successfully capture his third I just
15179s	want to bring that up that's is his
15181s	third by the way third third win ladies
15185s	and gentlemen we're witnessing the back
15187s	to back back to back three
15191s	time can we see it once more can he do
15195s	it again spider absolutely able to catch
15198s	everybody into his web and clearly he's
15201s	eating good tonight as spider is able to
15204s	do exactly what he needed to to get
15205s	another first place a dub and a decent
15207s	amount of eliminations to put himself
15209s	all the way at the top got to give some
15211s	love to try hard try hard held for as
15214s	long as possible ladies and gentlemen
15215s	try hard welcome back to the J cup and
15220s	on top of that with everything else in
15222s	between Mike working as hard as he can
15225s	here but he definitely is going to have
15226s	to some work to do a little bit here
15228s	nice little nice little reset for him
15230s	it's okay we've seen him in these
15231s	situations before he could definitely
15232s	bounce back we still have two more games
15234s	and this is usually when AOW mic pops
15236s	off anyway so game five and six is going
15238s	to be very fun but for frost ofis what
15241s	happened true brother my boy what
15244s	happened H what a blunder that could
15247s	have been
15248s	the I mean the pop off game for frosters
15252s	he was set up for that end game he had
15254s	the gold loot he was stacked but my boy
15258s	it happens to the best of us I'll say it
15260s	again he manages to get caught in that
15264s	Moon Bane and this is endgame Moon Bane
15267s	so endgame Moon Bane hits more often and
15272s	it it's just the frequency of hits wow
15275s	it can be devastating and it will tear
15277s	you aart as it did to prus
15280s	unfortunately both Mike and tryhard were
15284s	both able to see it happen and they both
15287s	catch him they catch him slipping they
15288s	catch that slip up and they Chas saw and
15291s	he got destroyed too by the way not like
15294s	you know um oh he gets one and he loses
15296s	like his shield right I mean he was like
15299s	5 HP yeah literally was able to get a
15302s	quick heal off and he had to book it in
15304s	a different direction knowing that
15306s	immediately the marks are out to play
15308s	it's time to eat and clearly those two
15310s	knew exactly what it was time for and
15312s	that actually gave Believe It or Not na
15315s	gave na its first elimination try hard
15318s	it literally
15319s	fed that game it fed na try hard his
15322s	first elimination of that game and got
15324s	him close to a top two no absolutely try
15328s	hard he's been working his way up and
15330s	it's good to see that that final fight
15332s	at the very end of that match it he was
15335s	he was reading spider left and right
15337s	right he had spider on the ropes and
15340s	unfortunately when they both used their
15342s	ultimates try hard big brain looked to
15345s	try and get a heal off initially he
15347s	looked to try and find that heal so that
15349s	because he knew spider would have to
15351s	spider was in a huge deficit meaning
15353s	that if try hard heals first and then
15356s	looks to chase him down he's going to be
15359s	able to uh to do a lot more because as
15362s	you saw off of that Ultimate Spider
15364s	immediately starts charging he expects
15366s	try hard
15368s	immediately start chasing him he doesn't
15370s	slow but I think try hard made the error
15374s	in that he took that heal first but then
15376s	he opted to go full full healed and he
15379s	allowed spider to get that reset fully
15381s	back to neutral he came in with that
15383s	Cavalry bloom a little bit a little bit
15386s	aggressive but and spider common
15388s	collected as he is he's able to punish
15391s	him he's able to get that parry and at
15393s	that point it's G it's a GG at that
15396s	point you know just lost all of his
15398s	armor it's it's over at that point you
15400s	know in that situation that's always at
15403s	that moment it's all about just making a
15405s	choice and sometimes that choice could
15407s	be the benefit for you or it could be
15409s	the disadvantage and in that moment you
15410s	know it really could have gone either
15412s	way even if he did heal and if spider
15415s	wasn't able to actually get that
15416s	successful hit then it could have gave a
15418s	try hard a chance to maybe back up go
15420s	for a quick move and then now they're
15422s	both equally set but in those it's in
15424s	those situations knowing that it really
15426s	does take that one move to change the
15428s	entire outcome it's definitely one of
15430s	those things where you know hey you made
15432s	the choice it might have been wrong it's
15435s	okay going to run it back in game number
15437s	five and obviously running it back
15439s	exactly the way that it's been doing so
15441s	far these games have been absolutely
15442s	phenomenal but let's not forget spider
15444s	gets
15445s	3p hell yeah day one day one spider gets
15449s	3p already the man is feeling byby he's
15452s	grooving he's he's chilling and I'm not
15455s	sure if you managed to catch it but
15456s	earlier on and between one of those
15458s	games you saw him just looking to the
15460s	side just like yeah yeah just laughing
15462s	with his with his with his with his
15464s	Rivals you know with his with his fellow
15466s	competitors just having a good time
15468s	spider is my and I'm absolutely I'm
15471s	pretty sure there are quite a few out
15472s	there who even if they might not be
15474s	sitting at the very top of the
15475s	leaderboard they're probably just
15477s	they're all having fun and that's what
15480s	right in these situations yes but it's
15482s	also about winning and it's about making
15484s	sure you get first or at least qualify
15487s	at least making it to the next stage you
15488s	want to make it to the next stage here
15490s	it's great with I I love it I love it I
15492s	love it I'm trying to see spider go at
15496s	it okay I'm not trying to hear about
15497s	this oh it's nice my best friend no I
15501s	want to see some absolute carage that's
15503s	what I want to win this I want to see
15504s	some Paris I want to see some problems
15505s	and I want to see them go at it and
15507s	that's exactly what we got out of this
15508s	game sadly though I got to bring it up
15510s	it's it's really unfortunate for he got
15513s	caught in a tough situation I
15515s	don't I want to give him a hug just to
15517s	be like hey you you was feeling it I
15520s	could tell it was right there it you
15522s	mentally you was here the game play you
15524s	was here what happened put you down here
15527s	real quick like real fast that's how
15529s	quick a humbling experience can happen
15531s	just like that and that could happen
15533s	realistically than anybody we've seen a
15535s	mike in that situation before true we've
15537s	seen spider in that situation before
15538s	they get a little too brodacious all of
15540s	a sudden to get hit by his brain breath
15542s	now all of a sudden whoa now it's time
15543s	for me to step back now it's time for me
15544s	to stay focused but on top of staying
15546s	focused clearly spider is able to do
15548s	exactly what he needed to to stay
15549s	focused to get himself 8.6 score for his
15552s	four eliminations that he got in this
15554s	game number four now also Frost ofus
15557s	second place five eliminations does get
15559s	eliminated early but those kill points
15561s	and that ranking score is able to put
15563s	him up to a second place solid 8.0 score
15566s	Frost of is definitely feeling in in the
15568s	na region absolutely able to put it down
15570s	and obviously are we surprised the Clos
15572s	out the top three aows Mike four
15574s	eliminations a 1.5 game score putting
15577s	him up in that 6.7 Mike feeling it out
15580s	those eliminations was able to put him
15581s	up there up the Top Got to Give It Up to
15583s	wangang and try hard though the held on
15585s	both T it up for 3.4 absolutely oh a
15589s	beautiful performance from these players
15591s	a we have like they're all they're all
15595s	absolute machines you know every single
15598s	name on this leaderboard I want to talk
15600s	about legitimately all of them but we we
15602s	still have to we have to have to give
15604s	spider a pat on the back my guy is
15607s	tearing through this first day third MVP
15611s	of the day is sitting at the top of the
15613s	leaderboard back to back to back how
15615s	what's his total points at this point it
15616s	must be it must be crazy we've got frost
15618s	of Us coming in he's been performing
15621s	very well he's been relatively
15622s	consistent throughout the day so far and
15624s	this was his pop off game that each
15627s	player who got to who looking to get to
15629s	that top five top three spot needs to
15631s	have and unfortunately that blunder it
15634s	is what it is but here here we are at
15636s	the on the four full total leaderboard
15638s	we have Lobby 28 tanoshi the bottom
15640s	unfortunately having a bit of a rough
15642s	day 2.5 we've got unique 3.1 Chang 4.3
15645s	romman 4.5 sha 9.1 and tryhard 10.2 hey
15650s	what double digits for tryhard nothing
15653s	to turn your nose up to we've still got
15655s	two games OFA to play so hey you never
15660s	know IO try hard my man he is going to
15664s	be going into these final two games with
15666s	vengeance
15667s	oh oh Mike with a
15670s	26.3 but spider leading the pack
15675s	41.5 15.6 in his game two which is the
15678s	most eliminations and the most points
15679s	that he's had so far in these games but
15682s	man 41.5 he has a 20 at least a what is
15686s	that 27
15688s	27 oh my Lord
15690s	27 sorry sorry 24 24 sorry sorry 24
15695s	Point deficit that is going to be the
15697s	difference between game the first place
15699s	and second place so clearly that Gap is
15701s	extending further and further away with
15704s	how good and how far wbg spider is
15707s	playing these out now earlier Frost ofis
15710s	got the first laugh in the of that game
15712s	it's crazy to see what happened towards
15713s	that ending as GG Shaw was able to
15715s	capture the elimination onto Shaw as
15717s	Frost is able to come back pops it open
15719s	with GG Shaw catches him on the inserts
15722s	beautiful hits nice amazing counters try
15725s	to see if he can catch him with the
15725s	Parry though goes for the R around he
15727s	has the ulti and he's able to CCH him in
15729s	the freeze and that fan is able to do so
15731s	much of that work and the tank is able
15733s	to do exactly what he needs to if I were
15735s	to bring up another game I would but I'm
15736s	not going to do it here as A's Mike is
15738s	going to be able to clean that up as
15739s	well Frost was really playing the game
15740s	of his life captures that beautiful
15742s	pistol doesn't have to force himself
15744s	into any of those flights try hard
15746s	trying to get not get caught up here but
15748s	clearly when you're in the spider's web
15750s	you got to be careful cuz once you land
15751s	at it he is going to make sure that you
15753s	don't let go and clearly that's exactly
15755s	what spider did to make sure sure that
15757s	he captures that elimination onto an
15760s	nl's try hard spider playing it out
15763s	22,000 damage four eliminations but 9800
15767s	from the dagger alone Pride fall Heart
15770s	Stopper kick aiel Rim ocean parter slow
15773s	shot and Sunwing shot and a nuns num
15776s	Chucks sap his third MVP in day number
15780s	one
15781s	third day
15784s	one good Lord yes WB spider opting to go
15789s	for that F2 on the hardi no surprises
15792s	there the the F1 it's it can definitely
15795s	be very useful as a combo extension even
15798s	potentially a combo starter but still
15800s	not really for pro pro pro play here we
15803s	have V1 though coming out from spider V1
15806s	is the version of the ultimate that
15809s	lasts a little bit longer 25 seconds
15811s	total but without any fire damage but
15815s	good Lord did he do damage on that
15818s	dagger almost 10,000 damage from the
15822s	dagger with the prize fall but you saw
15824s	it you saw it he gets that Parry onto
15826s	try hard and then as opposed to actually
15829s	doing the Parry attack the repost the
15833s	counter he Dodges out goes into the
15837s	Pride's but that
15842s	ow legitimately just does so so much
15846s	damage and any health that he'd been
15849s	missing he's able to heal up speaking of
15851s	healing let's give you some heals as
15852s	well with a chance to get some treasures
15854s	and that treasure could get you a really
15856s	awesome uh potential poster for the
15858s	World Championships random gift so make
15860s	sure you guys have been playing
15861s	attention throughout these games so that
15863s	way you guys can get it right make sure
15864s	to answer in twitch chat which player
15865s	will get the most kills in this match if
15867s	identical the one with the most damage
15870s	dealt wins is El Frost is it A's mic is
15874s	it wbg spider or is it NT L's try hard
15877s	now I feel like which player will get
15881s	the most kills this match I mean I feel
15884s	like it's it's pretty obvious but that's
15887s	the beauty of nraa anything goes and
15890s	anything can happen we could all be more
15894s	most of us is probably going to pick one
15895s	player who's absolutely going crazy but
15898s	that really could change in this game
15899s	number five because this is turnup time
15901s	for a lot of these players that love to
15903s	this it out in game five and game six
15905s	absolutely game number five some people
15907s	think that it's game number six I mean
15909s	defin game five is the deciding factor
15911s	real game five will decide a lot more
15915s	than game six potentially can game six
15918s	of course if you're just a few points
15920s	away and you can make it if you do very
15924s	well in the game six of course it's a
15926s	deciding factor however you have to set
15929s	yourself up for that potential win or
15932s	that potential comeback during your
15934s	fifth game game five can go hard you
15938s	know game six there's quite a few
15941s	players who potentially a little bit
15942s	disheartened or they've recognized that
15944s	potentially they're not going to be able
15946s	to do as well and it's the final game
15948s	they've been playing a considerable
15950s	amount of time intense nraa it can be a
15954s	lot at that point you're you're
15956s	exhausted it can be very taxing to be
15959s	able to play at this level for so long
15961s	but hey we've got another question for
15963s	you a
15964s	prediction which of the foll two players
15967s	will achieve the highest score in this
15969s	match if identical the highest rank will
15972s	win a el prosers or is it B MTL try hard
15977s	it's a good choice a very good choice
15979s	very true very good choice to to answer
15981s	this question make your prediction go
15983s	into your client or go directly to the
15986s	website to be able to set up your
15988s	prediction for this coming game you have
15991s	a a chance at winning these J cup
15995s	cosmetics and Lord do I want to get
15998s	myself get my hands on one of those
16001s	those Banner spear skins they are
16003s	questions hey I have
16005s	been the moment the moment we go off
16007s	screen look at me I'm already answering
16008s	the
16009s	question I put my
16012s	there absolutely but yes we have all the
16015s	players getting ready to go into their
16018s	fifth game of the day Frost ofus first
16022s	man on the cam oh my Lord he I think if
16026s	if this if there's one player who
16029s	potentially could have taken a
16031s	considerable mental hit a hit to his
16034s	mental after that last game is likely
16037s	going to be frost I don't I don't
16038s	necessar I wouldn't necessarily say
16040s	mental hit I think because if he had a
16042s	bad game then I'd be like yes maybe but
16044s	those five eliminations he was feeling
16046s	good there was a lot of confidence there
16047s	that Bain's breath definitely did hit a
16049s	little bit but I think knowing that he's
16050s	like okay he would have get some good
16052s	players it wasn't like he really
16053s	eliminated some players that were kind
16055s	of easy he got he got got some good
16056s	people first elimination he get spider
16058s	right off the rip no absolutely he's
16060s	still bound to be very confident in
16062s	himself and his ability but just simply
16066s	knowing that you missed out on a
16068s	potentially huge pop off game for
16070s	yourself is it's bound to be taxing
16073s	there's no way that he's not coming out
16075s	of that game just kicking himself did I
16078s	do twice he actually eliminate SPID
16080s	twice because he eliminates him in the
16082s	realm of Yang so he has two that he
16084s	eliminates him in the top of the game so
16086s	clearly that confidence definitely there
16088s	I can definitely see where you're coming
16089s	from especially but like I said if it
16091s	was a bad game for him I feel like that
16093s	definitely would have been a little bit
16094s	more of like oh that really is
16096s	unfortunate no no why did it do that to
16099s	me no but now obviously him coming back
16102s	at it again he knows he has the
16103s	opportunity to go up against the best of
16104s	the best and we've seen him do it time
16106s	and time again both aw's Mike wbg spider
16109s	even Wang Leong so with that in mind I
16112s	definitely see that but he has to be
16114s	able to shake it off and he's got to go
16115s	right into this game five with that same
16116s	energy brought in game number four oh I
16118s	completely agree but yeah that the look
16121s	on Mike's face just that worried me from
16124s	but then I remember I think he's on
16126s	Mike's an OA he's an OA I'm going be
16127s	honest with you I think I think he was
16128s	probably scrolling through the TT you
16130s	know what I'm saying he was scrolling
16131s	through Tik Tok I'm be honest I think he
16132s	was just on Tik Tok he was probably
16133s	doing something he's like hey what's
16134s	going on what's in the feed right now me
16137s	me personally if I'm in my mental the
16139s	best thing for me to do is look at
16140s	something funny that that's something
16142s	that will always get me out of my head
16144s	out of my head space all right cool I
16145s	give me something funny I laugh at it
16147s	all right cool now it's time to lock in
16148s	let's get it exactly exactly no I
16150s	completely agree I mean if I'm ever
16152s	tilted you know would you know what what
16154s	helps me out just watching some some
16156s	familyfriendly TV you know that's always
16158s	nice you get laughing about and you're
16159s	chilling absolutely but yes we are going
16161s	to be heading into this game and we oh
16163s	this is the one we've been waiting for
16164s	night what it's all been night what are
16167s	you talking about last game was night I
16169s	mean evening and night it's essentially
16171s	the same thing okay I'm about to say cuz
16172s	I was like okay okay it wasn't dark last
16174s	it wasn't that dark hold on now wait a
16177s	minute essentially it's the same thing
16179s	don't gas light me
16181s	now no true true true you are right but
16184s	the the implications are essentially the
16186s	same right with your Dusk and nighttime
16189s	Maps you're getting your fireflies on
16192s	both right I guess I like the night
16194s	visual setting visually definitely
16196s	visually it's very very pretty dusk is
16198s	also very pretty I do like DUS the
16200s	orange light very nice but enough of
16202s	that we are going to be looking at these
16204s	pcks the first selection we have AOS AOS
16208s	for chuang and pandaan and then we have
16211s	hardi for spider and then
16214s	justtina for try hard interesting these
16218s	Hardis interesting very very interesting
16220s	hard's been very oppressive when he's
16222s	had momentum again hardi being picked up
16225s	by Frost sh with the tul SHA on the tul
16228s	unique on the AOS wangang pulling out
16231s	the teada wangyang is a big teada
16234s	enjoyer he has been
16236s	he he sort of started that's his
16239s	confident yeah that mental that mental
16242s	sort of adjustment where he would opt to
16244s	go for the aggressive character on the
16247s	days in the games where certain certain
16250s	characters that were less aggressive
16252s	were being picked so he would pick teada
16253s	into a full F and just ear zipping Lobby
16256s	because he's able to go into the realm
16258s	of Yang and come out Victorious but a
16260s	and the final the final player Roman is
16263s	yet to pick not much time left over toos
16266s	also picking up that Justina it seems
16268s	we've got Mike on the tul as well the
16272s	Tami for Mike and then drg Akuma on the
16276s	Hadi quite like a lot of hadti and I
16279s	remember many people it was a divide
16282s	telling me yeah there was a massive
16284s	divide big divide initially everybody
16287s	was telling me that the Chinese Pro
16289s	players and the community in general
16292s	didn't think that Hadi was all that
16294s	strong that he was all that useful in a
16297s	competitive setting potentially however
16300s	on the on the other side on the global
16302s	regions you know your SCA your na your
16304s	EU all these regions as they all thought
16307s	that hudi was very very strong that he
16310s	was he was almost oppressive in certain
16313s	matchups and China they've caught on
16316s	quite literally they they picked up on
16318s	something that Global is doing and I
16320s	feel like that in itself speaks speaks
16325s	to how much
16326s	the other regions have come how far
16329s	they've come how much they've progressed
16332s	over time China has always been the top
16335s	dog you know T China's been the top dog
16339s	they've been they definitely have the
16340s	best performances and the best players
16343s	you know we have spider we have M we
16345s	have all the rest of them in China and
16349s	all of these players from other regions
16350s	you try hard Frost ofus ran will we all
16353s	all these players from different regions
16354s	trying to come in and take the title and
16356s	show that they are able to run with the
16360s	big dogs the big the big boys over here
16363s	in the CN environment right and because
16367s	they actually they were a little bit
16368s	ahead you know I don't think there's
16369s	that much of a difference I don't think
16371s	there's that much of a difference in
16372s	terms of potential like there's
16375s	definitely a difference in terms of
16376s	skill and also the environment in which
16379s	one can practice in in China there is a
16381s	very big difference but anyway all of
16384s	these players from the global regions
16385s	they come here to say hey we can do it
16388s	and we're going into our fifth game of
16391s	the day and let's see let's see how it
16394s	goes down even with that as well here it
16395s	looks like it's going to be landing
16397s	nobody in Celestia uh looks like
16399s	nobody's going to be landing in Sunwing
16401s	but a lot of places on to this left side
16403s	here so no it looks like there might be
16405s	maybe a player in wreckage Plains but
16406s	the majority of it's going to be in
16407s	these little um islands that are going
16409s	to be around this section zest Winery
16411s	victim's Haven isolate crater very
16413s	popular location zest Winer is a huge
16415s	spot for people where they could be able
16417s	to land it and really come through with
16418s	some massive eliminations here
16420s	especially in these early fights but
16422s	that also forces them to force fights if
16424s	they don't necessarily get something
16425s	good so that means a mik is going to
16427s	have to play this off a little bit
16428s	better meanwhile Wang leang fighting for
16430s	his life finds a shield swap is able to
16432s	capture himself at least something
16434s	decent here but now that swap starts to
16436s	starts to close in the Gap as A's Mike
16439s	start to push onwards gets very very
16441s	aggressive off of this first rip is able
16442s	to get this elimination here closes it
16444s	in question is can Frost ofus actually
16446s	steal this elimination away from AOW
16448s	Mike the coming through but it's not
16450s	going to be enough as Mike is going to
16451s	be able to successfully claim the
16452s	elimination get the finish and now
16454s	they're both going to die back here ooh
16456s	nice hits coming through from those dual
16457s	hell Birds closing in the Gap nice hits
16459s	on each side Frost wants that payback
16461s	and he so does in this in this next game
16464s	game number five Frost ofus gets his
16465s	first elimination beautifully done by
16468s	Frost ofus catching him on the fade back
16472s	after the initial engagement from frost
16474s	ofus he over holds he catches him on the
16477s	Dodge beautifully done by Frost ofus
16479s	here we are moving on over to just north
16482s	of celestra Akuma and tanoshi scrapping
16485s	it out Akuma he does almost have his
16488s	ultimate available it I imagine that he
16491s	went to go grab that Firefly that is
16493s	just to the north of OB celestra on this
16496s	side of the Ravine Chang as well coming
16499s	in to see what's up trying to find an
16503s	entry point into this fight but
16504s	unfortunately getting R by Akuma Akuma
16507s	catching that blue Focus getting that
16510s	Parry punish but it looks as though
16513s	Akuma is still going to be the target he
16516s	remained the the the apple of their eye
16520s	so to speak to know she's trying to
16522s	chase him down on the Justina Akuma o
16526s	almost manages to find that second heal
16528s	up find that reset does get pressured
16531s	forced to use that F2 to disengage he
16533s	has no grapples to his name so it is
16536s	going to be a difficult task to to
16539s	disengage fully here but hey we in
16542s	celestra ladies and gentlemen and
16544s	celestra all of these buildings all of
16546s	these difficult little Corners hard to
16550s	really track people down potentially it
16552s	can be very difficult to hold on to
16555s	certain players on specific characters
16558s	here we are over to the West spider and
16562s	unique fighting it out a unique Force to
16564s	use that ultim on the AOS unique he has
16567s	a plan though my guy this is what I was
16569s	talking about earlier if you use your
16571s	ultimate if you get caught in a bad
16573s	situation you have to have a path in
16576s	mind going straight over to those
16577s	fireflies oh my Lord Frost of us reading
16582s	these Dodges beautifully avoiding every
16585s	single one of panda man's pounces on
16588s	that AOS for now trying to force the
16592s	pressure here Frost of is juggling him
16595s	off of that jump from pandaan pandaan
16598s	replying in kind with that tiger grab
16602s	does force Frost ofus out of flight but
16605s	Frost he only had 3 seconds to wait and
16607s	he's back in the air but his ultimate
16609s	has now expired pandaan did manage to
16612s	equalize the effective Health just a bit
16614s	but it's not going to be enough and
16617s	frost ofus coming in with a beautiful
16621s	double hold Parry taking pandaan down
16624s	now on his second elimination of the
16626s	game and he's got a juicy bag in the
16629s	back pocket as well 10,000 dark tit
16632s	coins he's going to go spend that in the
16634s	shop but quickly before he does that it
16636s	looks as though Akuma is getting
16637s	pressured by spider both Hades use their
16640s	ultimates oh my Lord
16647s	spider a bit of a blunder there Budd I
16649s	mean that was just that was just an
16653s	obliteration from spider showing us
16656s	exactly why hardi is in fact a very
16660s	strong pick able to dash in and out with
16663s	those attacks doing crazy amount of
16665s	damage as it scales based off of your
16667s	weapon Rarity beautifully done by spider
16670s	maneuvering around very very nicely
16672s	we're heading on over the action does
16674s	not stop we have tryhard versus unique
16676s	tryhard doesn't buy the one 123 release
16679s	from
16680s	unique sends out that light attack
16683s	manages to catch him for uses F now
16686s	after unique Pops that ultimate try hard
16688s	looking to find a potential freeze he
16691s	just uses that ultimate he does find the
16694s	armor swap though he can re-engage here
16696s	he's going to look for it he gets that
16697s	F2 or V2 sorry but he gets he goes for
16700s	the Dragon Slayer the double charge just
16703s	a little bit too much time on this on
16707s	this level you're able to actually use a
16710s	sort of gold Focus ability or or
16713s	something along those lines to prevent
16716s	yourself from getting caught by that
16718s	attack try hard though he gets another
16719s	dragon slayer cancels into the uppercut
16722s	chases him down has the range shots and
16725s	then catches him on the Dodge
16728s	beautifully done by tryhard picking up
16730s	his first elimination of game number
16732s	five what a insane start coming in from
16735s	our na players Frost was able to
16737s	successfully get two eliminations try
16739s	hard getting his first much earlier into
16741s	these games here rotations coming
16742s	through as both A's Mike and spider gets
16745s	four eliminations um combined three
16748s	leading from spider's perspective
16750s	meanwhile halfway to the realm of Yang
16752s	Circle starts to form as players are
16754s	going to start to mosy on over onto
16756s	these circles here looks like frost is
16758s	going to have a free one by himself
16760s	doesn't have to worry about it same with
16761s	A's mik unique definitely going to start
16763s	to rotate into Circle definitely has a
16765s	lot of free time to do what he needs to
16766s	here it looks like it could be a fight
16767s	between Shing and spider nearby and
16769s	actually looks looks like it's going to
16770s	be another one too looks like that's
16771s	going to be tanoshi inside of there as
16773s	well here and that's going to be inside
16775s	of celestra as we're going to see that
16776s	rotation start to come through same with
16778s	Wang Lang and G Shaw don't know really
16779s	where they're at but they're definitely
16780s	on top of each other and they could
16781s	potentially be fighting this out as
16784s	they're rotating this outwards Circle
16786s	form starts to close in but that realm
16787s	of Yang is will be coming in at any
16789s	second now just to get it going and
16790s	starts to separate the boys from the men
16793s	as that massive Phoenix starts to round
16795s	with himself around the map absolutely
16798s	gorgeous from all the way around and now
16800s	here we go ladies and gentlemen they
16801s	both holding on to it seeing which one
16802s	comes through and it looks like it's
16803s	going to be Wang leang and frost ofus in
16804s	one
16806s	section it looks like that's going to be
16808s	ug's Panda Man and spider fighting it
16812s	out in the other section of the realm of
16814s	Yang wouldn't it be amazing if you could
16815s	actually see it from another section as
16818s	both yeah I know they're both going to
16819s	be absolutely going airborne here trying
16821s	to see if they can connect but it looks
16822s	like there wasn't successfully able to
16823s	as Wang langang gets the first hits
16825s	coming through with that fan nice B shot
16827s	to be able to connect it oh beautiful
16828s	hit but the bow shot to the head is
16830s	going to absolutely destroy Frost of his
16832s	shield pops the F key trying to see if
16833s	maybe they can rotate this out pops the
16835s	F and the ulti so now just trying to fly
16837s	this around just to keep the heals going
16839s	here goes for the slow heal here Tri to
16841s	see if maybe he can push onwards towards
16842s	this plays around with his food a little
16844s	bit here wangang oh gets absolutely hit
16847s	and decimated by Frost Frost taking a
16849s	Time nice both shots connected making it
16851s	a little bit harder as R have to be a
16853s	little bit careful but it looks like the
16855s	damage absolutely putting in enough work
16857s	making it harder for wangang to try to
16860s	time the shots and the hits because they
16862s	keep coming in different areas as looks
16864s	like Frost ofis is able to get his third
16866s	elimination and gets his Roar from the
16868s	realm of Yang that's light work for
16871s	frost ofus showing us just how strong
16875s	her he can be oh my Lord wangang he he
16879s	was trying to I don't know just apply
16881s	any kind of pressure that he could he
16883s	tried holding his furin blast he tries
16886s	holding that demon push so that he could
16888s	use it to catch frost ofus on the
16891s	disengage after having gone in with an
16893s	attack but he's unable to do so the eye
16896s	frame coming out from the Dodge midair
16898s	from Hadi just keeps him keeps him from
16901s	being staggered and then it's just down
16903s	to hadti being able to do enough damage
16905s	and find enough Avenues and and that's
16907s	it there was very very difficult for
16909s	wangang to really do all that much even
16911s	though initially Wang leang was in the
16915s	uh in the prior position he was winning
16917s	he had the Health Advantage but
16919s	unfortunately he was not able to convert
16921s	that into the dub in the realm of Yang
16923s	but here we are moving on over to Panda
16924s	man and ran it appears as though Panda
16927s	man did in fact get taken down by wbg
16930s	spider ran on that AOS sends that
16934s	horizontal blue ooh Panda man doing
16937s	exactly as I said doing that horizontal
16940s	blue oh pandan catching him with that
16944s	tiger grab Roman unable to armor through
16947s	it o there it again Pand man now he's
16950s	down to no more tiger grabs Roman does
16954s	have both available to him but he is
16956s	missing all of his armor so he's looking
16959s	to try and buy a little bit of time try
16960s	and find that Shield reset Pan's
16963s	ultimate has now expired but ran is's
16966s	getting shot down by unique over here
16969s	unique with that Cannon doing a
16970s	considerable amount of damage putting
16972s	pressure onto Roman pressure that might
16975s	be his downfall Roman he's trying his
16978s	best to just send out these Blues get
16981s	these overhaul Roman does manage to ey
16983s	frame that damage that armor through
16984s	that damage from the cannon
16986s	shots does not get caught by Pand man's
16989s	F1 he's still on the move but it's a
16992s	very difficult situation he's sending
16994s	out those rmbs those vertical blue
16996s	focuses on the STA he's using that
16998s	Mobility oh pandan has the assault
17000s	smolder though oh and he says the bow
17002s	shot but unique is the player who ends
17004s	up picking it up and it looks as though
17006s	it might actually be it might actually
17008s	be a pretty scuffed situation for
17011s	pandaan as well he has no ultimate
17013s	available and he has this Yang dep he
17015s	only has minutes to make things happen
17017s	unique does have and he managed to get
17019s	that Soul Bloom so Pand unless he
17022s	manages to find an armor swap or two
17025s	maybe he manages to find a firefly as
17027s	there are fireflies in this area but it
17030s	looks as though spider has come into The
17031s	Fray spider now the the fourth party in
17035s	this
17036s	situation both players pressuring pandan
17040s	catches him with that vertical on the
17043s	Dual Halbert the f1's responding the one
17046s	two three from unique pandaan he manages
17049s	to get the confirmation on the blue
17050s	Focus he's managing to buy a lot of time
17052s	for himself swaps over to the P sword
17054s	going for that scale rush trying to
17055s	apply more pressure trying to stay alive
17057s	but spider he's coming in with that jump
17059s	lmb manages to catch him manages to stop
17062s	him from resetting he's going for the
17063s	scale Rush with that gold staff as well
17066s	if he catches him one more time pandaman
17069s	will get taken down he does have his F1
17072s	to work with but his ultimate is still
17075s	so far from being up and ready to go
17077s	band he's still on the move oh there's
17079s	an armor swap right there but he's
17081s	unable to catch it and unique Tech
17084s	chases him down but spider is in fact
17087s	the one who takes him down and picks up
17089s	that
17090s	elimination not only that but he
17092s	captures an absolute freebie coming
17095s	through as well was unsuccessful in
17097s	being able to capture exactly what he
17099s	needed to there and was able to come
17100s	through as best as possible here as
17102s	unique now was able to get that second
17103s	elimination onto board here he's down in
17105s	10 so definitely that was a big big
17108s	elimination for him here both shots
17109s	trying to connect onto unique in the
17111s	back but unique with the movement making
17113s	sure that it's hard for not for both
17116s	players to be able to get any type of
17117s	damage onto him though question is can
17120s	he o he so close to be able to getting
17122s	that as wbg spider's going to close in
17123s	that Gap oh A's might just got
17125s	eliminated no by Akuma as well Akuma
17129s	managing to take him down I'm not we we
17131s	can't be sure if it was an isolated
17133s	fight but he does get taken down now
17136s	there are six remaining players in this
17139s	fifth game of the day unique getting
17141s	taken down extremely low as well oh my
17143s	Lord Frost of supplying the pressure
17145s	with that gold
17147s	fan for to use that F2 get a little bit
17150s	of a disengage unique is that ultimate
17153s	he's jumping away he's hop he's hopping
17155s	and he's skipping he's trying to
17157s	disengage he's trying to get that heal
17159s	but spider does not want to let him out
17161s	of his
17163s	web my Lord could be it's going to come
17165s	down to the oh he managed to get that
17168s	second tiger grab out attempt but it's
17170s	oh my Lord he manages to make it over
17173s	the cliff side little bit of a movement
17175s	error on The Buttery rocks he gets that
17177s	scale Rush he's running out of stamina
17178s	and spider coming in his sixth kill of
17182s	the game good Lord spider you are
17185s	popping my guy let him cook he is
17188s	chefing it up nice and spicy for all of
17191s	us at home but oh Frost of us getting
17194s	hit by by that Parry taking a
17196s	considerable amount of damage from that
17198s	P sword Parry gold P sword from Akuma
17202s	and is that gold po oh I think it was a
17205s	gold Po from from Akuma I think it was
17208s	he does have the advanced heal he's
17209s	staying pretty healthy he's flying
17212s	around Jesus he actually manages to make
17215s	it out alive as well Akuma now he's the
17218s	one getting pressured he does have that
17220s	gold fan if he manages to turn he
17221s	manages to get one confirmation he could
17224s	switch the Target from him to another
17226s	but it doesn't look as though he's being
17227s	given the opportunity to do so he's
17229s	getting pressured left and right try
17231s	hard brosus GG Shaw and GG Shaw is in
17235s	fact the one who's going to be able to
17236s	come in and pick up that elimination
17240s	what a clean elimination to overall here
17242s	really taking that time here to know
17245s	exactly what's happening all around him
17246s	making sure that he doesn't sacrifice
17247s	himself in order to get that elimination
17249s	and now he's able to be able to do
17252s	exactly just that but we're already into
17253s	our final four four already and it's
17256s	only Circle
17257s	three Ban's breath slowly about to
17260s	eliminate with the surge oh no spider
17262s	and Shaw gets hit on both sides with
17264s	that and it looks like he ends up
17265s	getting caught off the outskirts here
17267s	Shaw ends up getting absolutely bullied
17268s	by try hard try hard can get a second
17270s	elimination as Shaw pops open the ulti
17273s	and the Finish just so he can be able to
17274s	back off this and doesn't get caught up
17276s	here as try hard trying to see if he can
17277s	close in this Gap a little bit too but
17280s	not making it easy for him here as GG
17282s	Shaw is not forcing the fight and not
17284s	forcing himself to push into a fight
17286s	that he doesn't need to be into here as
17288s	Shaw is going to decide to back off this
17290s	curious enough I'm seeing spider I'm
17293s	seeing Frost ofus I'm seeing
17295s	Shaw oh I'm seeing no I'm seeing try
17300s	hard is everyone right there I think
17303s	that that may in fact be everyone not
17305s	too sure we have spider Frost so it is
17307s	just those TR yeah I thought there was a
17309s	missing player I'm not going to lie I
17310s	was like where is I thought it was Shaw
17312s	that was gone never mind I'm tripping as
17315s	GG Shaw trying to see if he can capture
17317s	but it looks like spider's going to be
17318s	able to capture him first here with the
17320s	grapple but it looks like he's not going
17321s	to be able to get him away that easily
17323s	here G Shaw just trying to separate as
17325s	best as possible here just trying to
17326s	separate it Shaw finds himself inside
17329s	the cut here he knows he's in in skirts
17331s	here scale Rush on the time strike just
17334s	to try to see if maybe he could back off
17335s	this as well this could be an insane win
17338s	though if spider ends up
17341s	catching back to back to back to back
17344s	back for p could we see it I don't know
17347s	it is possible though it's not like G
17349s	it's not like wbg spider has not done
17351s	this before it is absolutely possible
17353s	here but he has to be very careful here
17355s	Shaw is going to be able to throw out
17356s	his nice little circle here and try
17358s	hard's going to be able to push in on GT
17359s	Shaw here inside this corner here not
17361s	looking good for as SPID is able to come
17364s	through and steal the elimination away
17366s	knocks out GG Shaw top three seven
17368s	eliminations on the board 52 points by
17372s	spider God
17375s	damn oh my
17378s	Lord I I don't even know I have no words
17381s	this man is just he came to play ladies
17385s	and gentlemen spider now engaging onto
17389s	try hard try hard coming in but eating a
17391s	huge amount of damage from that gold fan
17395s	the
17395s	tornado gold Jade doing so much damage
17400s	with that gold fan spiders hand it out
17402s	again try hard try to stay spaced out
17406s	forcing that b the F2 from oh my oh
17411s	there it is I I I can't even get my
17413s	words out and it's already happening
17415s	spider picking up yet another kill and
17417s	he catches Frost ofs with the Parry
17419s	Frost ofers taking a considerable amount
17421s	of damage he has very little to work
17423s	with spider is putting in work he has
17425s	the effective Health Advantage he has
17428s	that gold fan he's reading like a book
17430s	and spider now he's just going to hold
17432s	his all he doesn't need to do any
17434s	anything he can just disengage with that
17436s	F2 although that was a chunky bit of
17438s	damage Frost ofus Frost ofus is trying
17440s	to apply enough pressure that he forces
17443s	spider's ultimate out as well that
17445s	they're on even playing fields ooh Frost
17448s	ofus oh my Lord you're playing with fire
17451s	and there it is spider taking down Frost
17455s	ofus and taking home the fourth
17459s	MVP of the day back to back to back to
17464s	back I I don't think we're gonna see him
17466s	stop anytime soon here I really don't
17469s	think so I think the blue Focus I think
17471s	the time that he's had I think with all
17473s	of the defense and him reading it he's
17476s	definitely read from the book of GG Shaw
17478s	and it could be spider book now it could
17481s	be spider's book I used to say it's the
17482s	book of GG Shaw being able to counter
17484s	Parry third party come through in such a
17487s	great way his timing is impeccable he
17489s	has clearly read this book and he
17491s	decided to create his own ladies and
17492s	gentlemen he is now a national best
17494s	seller oh my Lord spider the MVP he not
17499s	he's not just he's just not just a MVP
17502s	he's he he is vibing I know he's saying
17506s	GG's but his head he said I'm back baby
17509s	I'm back baby I'm coming in to take the
17511s	dub ladies and gentlemen he is well on
17514s	his way fif more than fif points and the
17518s	second highest I think is it's less than
17521s	30 that's absurd that TR
17526s	fighting that out taking his time trying
17529s	so hard playing it really well overall
17533s	but just knowing where that opportunity
17534s	comes here seeing where that P starts to
17537s	absolutely Elevate for him and knowing
17539s	that he came to do what he needed to do
17542s	he still is able to get some elimination
17543s	so obviously him being that top four
17545s	definitely very good for him but as for
17548s	spider he was already at 52 points
17550s	before we got to that before we was in
17552s	the four we he was in he was in top
17555s	points I can only imagine did he hit 60
17558s	is it a 30 point deficit
17561s	now 30 point def in game number one but
17564s	that was an insane number of kills as
17566s	well he could take a break next game and
17568s	not next game let's say he wins game six
17570s	right let's just say just out of every
17572s	out of curiosity CU now the players
17574s	start to walk out here and obviously now
17576s	everybody gets a chance to relax use
17577s	bathroom get a snack real quick let's
17579s	just say this let's say he does get his
17581s	dub in this game mhm he can come back
17584s	the next solo
17586s	day he can he can risk a few zeros he
17590s	can risk a few zeros you think we
17592s	regardless it's about it's regardless
17594s	it's about him going to chenu mhm he
17598s	keeps this up he's clearly going to be
17600s	in shenu but he can risk a day he can go
17603s	that's whatever yeah no absolutely my
17606s	he's he's got no issue he's com in here
17609s	it's just just it's light work my
17611s	chilling like chilly he's literally
17613s	chilling you know he's he's sat there
17615s	smiling joking around with the bo the
17617s	boys you know we got other like rather
17619s	solemn faces and some of the other
17621s	players you know they just like spiders
17622s	just look and they're all just
17625s	like Mike is Mike is definitely focused
17628s	you can tell SPID yeah no I think Mike
17631s	he's he's not had the best of days you
17633s	know he started really strong different
17635s	usually it's the other way
17637s	around usually ins spider in this mood
17640s	in this look in his face we haven't seen
17643s	that in Mike
17644s	long time even when he wasn't playing
17647s	well we still haven't seen his face from
17650s	so that was a little bit of
17652s	a spider successfully get in Mike's
17655s	heads in day
17657s	one day number one already up there's
17660s	plenty more in the reca to be played as
17662s	well there's so much more this is only
17665s	the beginning of Jacob only the
17667s	beginning this is day one we got the
17669s	turbo stacked lobbies and this we still
17673s	have trios tomor like the fact that
17675s	solos are already getting this good
17677s	already the fact that there's already
17679s	it's not even a power struggle anymore
17681s	clearly he's sitting on his Thro he
17683s	feels the power of the throne and he's
17684s	using that to push forward clearly he's
17686s	doing really well now the question is
17688s	can some of our na regions try to keep
17691s	up and eat you try hard can uh Frost
17694s	just try to keep up can e you keep up
17697s	can some of his CN players and some of
17699s	his fellow competitors keep up with this
17702s	momentum that spider has seen this
17704s	momentum before this is how he won
17706s	worlds yeah with the same momentum he's
17709s	done this before yeah so now knowing
17712s	that Mike is here and he's getting these
17715s	first places oh I know it's got to feel
17717s	good for yeah absolutely
17720s	spider yeah as you said he's been here
17723s	before he's coming for that title a
17726s	second year round after having come come
17729s	off the uh the nvpl split not having
17732s	Come Away with the title know it's not
17733s	not it's not what you want but he he's
17736s	he's re-engaged he is reloaded and he's
17740s	ready to take that
17742s	title he's not Ming around and it
17745s	doesn't look like he's going 100 B no it
17748s	doesn't look like he's got he's pedal to
17750s	the metal full gas you know it looks as
17753s	though it's just calm collected that's
17757s	what yeah he's just cool he's just
17759s	chilling he's vibing you know he's in
17760s	the car he's just
17761s	look he's vibing
17764s	me personally I think these replays are
17766s	going to be a treat to see especially
17767s	getting chance to see some of the plays
17769s	that we missed that we wasn't able to
17770s	see while we were focus on some of these
17772s	moments here obviously with wbg spider
17776s	absolutely not only decimating but
17778s	playing smart playing a little safe and
17780s	still taking those advantages when it is
17783s	presented to him that's the biggest
17785s	thing that spider has really been able
17787s	to adapt too he's a very wkey player so
17790s	sometimes he I know that it pains him to
17792s	try to back off but he does do that in
17794s	such great moment here and that's what
17796s	is keeping him alive in these moments so
17798s	now he's not focused on trying to force
17800s	certain fights be has to he just waits
17802s	for everybody else to do some of that
17803s	dirty work and he's able to capitalize
17805s	on it the best way possible that's how
17807s	he's that's how he's doing really well
17809s	in this couple games but that's how he's
17811s	able to get a back to back to back to
17814s	back that's four backs that's four
17816s	different people that's four backto
17818s	backs in in a succession in one game not
17821s	like back and then somebody else back
17824s	this is straight up all fours nothing
17826s	but red all over the place okay this
17828s	place is showing and Shining red all
17831s	over with wbg spider's face and logo on
17833s	it we have to put a spider web up
17835s	somewhere cuz that I mean I don't want
17836s	to get caught the web true true you do
17838s	not want to get caught spiders web the
17841s	crazy thing is is that not not all of
17844s	his I mean I swear I've seen him jump in
17847s	onto a third party and just get that
17849s	last hit at the perfect time every like
17852s	it's just he just comes in he knows when
17854s	to go in he knows exactly the timing he
17858s	needs to hit to be able to come in get
17861s	that elimination entally not it doesn't
17864s	always work out come in get that kill
17866s	and dip without having expend all that
17869s	many reasons and that's the key third
17871s	party and it's not easy you know a lot
17874s	of people they'll jump in we've we saw
17876s	for example game before last we had
17880s	frost of us oh no sorry not Frost try
17883s	hard come in and try and third party
17886s	spider fighting and then he yeah he
17890s	comes in loses all of his armor like
17892s	that instantaneously and he has to
17895s	disengage fully but spider whenever he's
17898s	coming for the third party he's always
17900s	managed to walk away without too much of
17902s	a health deficit and pretty much the
17905s	majority of the time it's been with a
17906s	kill and very very nicely done and
17908s	spider he's just showing that he doesn't
17910s	need to get too crazy doesn't need to
17913s	get too ooly you know there's optimal
17916s	and then suboptimal ooly booly and
17918s	spider it's a master class my
17921s	man but anyway as you mentioned as well
17923s	I did want to bring up the na region the
17925s	EU region and OB obviously sea they they
17929s	definitely are doing pretty well some of
17931s	them not as much as others we have
17934s	frosters doing extremely well today
17937s	still takes me back to that huge f with
17939s	the moon pain oh my Lord hey he B back
17942s	though but still he's doing he's doing
17944s	considerably well try hard he's found
17946s	his stride a bit more and there it is
17950s	15 50 yeah we're in the 60s we're in the
17953s	60s defin we're in the yeah we're in the
17955s	60s nine kills we're in the 60s nine
17958s	eliminations 15 point six uh second
17961s	place um not necessarily tied but at
17963s	least tied eliminations here the three
17965s	eliminations for Frost and Shaw uh with
17968s	a 6.2 and a 5.4 coming in try hard
17970s	unique um coming back and taking that
17973s	fourth and fifth place unique's first
17975s	time in the top five second elimination
17977s	3.4 he needs to do a little bit of work
17979s	he's going to see himself in that top
17981s	five he's currently placed 10th overall
17984s	yeah so he needs to be able to work his
17986s	way up as well try hard though doing
17988s	well he was in seventh place with that
17990s	and with that 4.1 could potentially get
17991s	him up just a little bit higher because
17993s	the more we go absolutely Clos are in
17996s	points I think pandaan was six right and
17999s	he was only just less than a point ahead
18002s	of tryhard so I think that's definitely
18004s	pushed him up to the oh no never mind
18007s	he's still there oh no another player
18008s	from below has come in and sniped Away
18011s	now look at him now now he's not now
18013s	he's moved up a little bit and it's a
18014s	ninth uh with that 6.5 Panama man with
18017s	that 10.7 and try hard our na player
18020s	with that
18021s	14.3 obviously a little bit of work to
18023s	do
18025s	57.1 I thought we were going to hit the
18027s	60s I could have I would have put Frost
18029s	money on third Frost in third six points
18033s	behind
18034s	the deficit of A's Mike not bad not bad
18036s	for number one here 21.8 and a 27.9
18039s	coming in from A's KNE but let's not
18042s	forget listen GG Shaw with that 14.5
18044s	that was a big that was a big big come
18047s	up especially putting the same amount of
18048s	points up in his game three so let's not
18050s	count G Shaw out this is the time where
18052s	he starts to creep up a little bit
18053s	closer now for Wang leang same thing 15
18056s	points sadly he wasn't able to get
18058s	anything but he could he could he could
18059s	survive one knowing that he got that 7.2
18061s	in that game number three now and that's
18063s	sorry that's four 17.9 also in fourth
18066s	place to end it overall for those
18069s	standings so overall pretty good for a
18071s	lot of these players here but to see one
18072s	of our na players Fross Us in that close
18075s	very very close to that top three that
18077s	is actually reachable for him and with
18079s	that opportunity now let's look back at
18081s	these wonderful replays here for our
18083s	game number five Frost of is starting it
18085s	off getting that elimination on the mic
18087s	putting that confidence on the board and
18088s	obviously he's able to do that
18090s	continuously as he continues to get that
18092s	elimination on to ug's Pand man
18095s	beautiful Parry gets the send gets the
18097s	finish and gets the top now back at it
18100s	again here this is the different Faker
18102s	that really gave him that confidence
18103s	that we saw earlier he was able to come
18105s	through he times it beautifully with
18107s	those strikes here and goes right back
18109s	up to the air he still has a little bit
18110s	more time is's able to push through
18111s	wangang doesn't know what to do he's dis
18114s	his ghost tries to even capture him
18115s	still can't get a hit and he's able to
18117s	capture and get the blender and gets the
18119s	Finish oh my Lord that was beautifully
18121s	done oh SP look at this guy look at this
18124s	guy he comes in with a third party on
18125s	this situation and it's not he's not in
18128s	a position he doesn't put himself in a
18129s	position where he's ever he's ever
18131s	actually at risk oh my look that quick
18134s	range shot as well onto the onto tryhard
18138s	Frost ofus so very nearly he actually
18142s	Prost ofus was at a huge effective
18144s	Health deficit at the start of this
18146s	fight he gets parried off the rip and
18149s	then takes so much damage but then
18152s	manages to turn around manages to bring
18154s	back that Health deficit just like to
18157s	half it was almost actually a winnable
18159s	situation for him but unfortunately he
18161s	wasn't able to do it but fortunately for
18164s	big dog spider he comes away with his
18167s	fourth MVP of the day just under
18173s	21,000 damage 5.2 on the staff 4.9 on
18177s	the fan and then
18179s	4.2 on the on his skills and ultimates
18182s	that's with his his wings his oh his his
18186s	little arm Gauntlet the blade the blade
18190s	of the sky the sky dog he coming in with
18194s	Nine Kills it's just crazy we got
18197s	Universe slash Wild Wind spout this new
18202s	fi extremely pounded tell me about it
18205s	it's it's so pounded it is the uh the
18208s	Double charge on the the it's the the
18211s	vertical blue focus on the fan you send
18214s	out first tornado and then another
18217s	follows it up the first one extremely
18219s	hard to Parry because of how fast it
18221s	comes out but enough of that more on
18223s	that later we have an answer for
18225s	Treasures yet again you know the drill
18228s	ladies and gentlemen we have a question
18230s	and you must put your answer into twitch
18233s	chat to have a chance at winning some
18236s	some lovely goodies to take into game
18238s	with the question is which hero will
18242s	this match's en VP will it be a tea M B
18248s	hardi C aosu or D zipping Ying we're so
18253s	used to saying teada I didn't realize
18255s	his last name is oh yeah no he's got a
18257s	he's got a he's got very F name that is
18260s	a name name that is a name's name
18262s	exactly that's be make sure to get your
18264s	answer twitch that though and keep an
18266s	eye on it keep an eye on your messages
18267s	not want to be that guy who didn't
18271s	realize he won and then miss out
18273s	on the on those drops but anyway we are
18276s	going to be cutting over to a short
18278s	break a cheeky video for you but don't
18281s	go anywhere we are going to be coming
18282s	back for our final game of the day very
18285s	shortly we'll see you
18301s	C
18304s	[Music]
18316s	[Music]
18327s	go
18330s	break we got it all
18346s	last year at the J cup i b out with the
18348s	regretful margin of just 1.6 points this
18352s	year I won't let that happen
18361s	again
18370s	lifting the jcup trophy has always been
18372s	my dream last year I finished fourth but
18374s	it wasn't good enough for me I'm ready
18377s	to start the
18382s	fight the region always faces DS
18385s	underestimated but look at last year we
18387s	still made it to the Grand finals I will
18389s	show the world the strength of the EU
18391s	region
18415s	to advance to the finals you must have
18418s	the confidence to defeat
18421s	everyone
18427s	and me Frost I've never doubted
18451s	myself
18459s	[Music]
18467s	[Music]
18479s	[Music]
18490s	[Music]
18522s	between both him and uh Mike and the
18524s	spider I absolutely believe in it so as
18526s	we're going to be able to lock into it
18527s	ladies and gentlemen welcome back we're
18529s	back just grooving out of the music oh
18532s	yeah absolutely the music was fing can
18535s	we please give a a round of applause to
18537s	the production crew who been absolutely
18539s	working tirelessly to give you guys
18541s	amazing content not only behind the
18543s	scenes but also giving you some amazing
18545s	intense trailers just to get you guys a
18547s	little bit more anticipated for the J
18549s	Cup group stages I can only imagine what
18551s	trailers that the production team has
18554s	sitting and cooking when we get to the
18556s	finals true true it's going to be crazy
18558s	you think this is fancy yeah know just
18561s	wait I can't wait I'm so excited we
18564s	don't even know we don't even know yeah
18566s	we we don't know we don't know and we're
18569s	left in anticipation you know but you
18571s	got me excited speaking of anticipation
18574s	we've got game number six for you ladies
18576s	and gentlemen it is going to be it's all
18579s	going to be going down and the thing is
18580s	I wanted to bring something out you know
18582s	Frost he was just saying you know Frost
18584s	he's popping off he's going to be he's
18586s	about to be a problem you know he's
18587s	going to be a problem he's going to be a
18588s	problem but the thing is I think he
18590s	already is if he hadn't get if he hadn't
18592s	gotten hit by that Moon Bane he'd be
18594s	ahead of
18597s	M oh no he would be I don't know no he I
18600s	mean cuz like I said it it that play
18604s	might not have necessarily been the
18605s	deciding factor either let's say he did
18607s	get hit by it and he still was alive to
18610s	keep that game going let's say he was
18612s	able to get away just far enough pop a
18614s	heel he was able to do like I said it
18616s	really and this is the thing that's so
18618s	great about Nara blade Point anything
18620s	can happen and even with certain
18621s	blunders like that there's still a
18623s	chance for Redemption and clearly when
18626s	it came to that next game that
18627s	Redemption was set when it came to
18629s	frostivus and that's why he's in that
18631s	top five right now he saw that
18633s	opportunity obviously it did hit him but
18636s	that did not Define the rest of these
18637s	games it did not and frost ofus knew
18639s	that I am saying this right now if he
18643s	continues the way that he's going
18645s	obviously he has to get a feel out for
18647s	the layup he's got to get a feel out for
18649s	these players he's got to get a feel for
18651s	some of the things because he's been
18651s	scrimming with people absolutely but
18654s	once it's game time all scrims are off
18656s	this isn't practice anymore yep no
18658s	they're pulling out all the stops
18660s	they're pulling out their strategies
18661s	they know exactly what it is so and
18662s	speaking of strategies we're also going
18664s	to give you guys a chance at a strategy
18666s	a 50-50 strategy that is and you got to
18668s	answer this question which one of the
18669s	following two regions will achieve the
18671s	most kills in this match if identical
18673s	who ones with the most damage wins is it
18675s	going to be a n a or is it sea Over N B
18678s	Mark your answers in the chat for the
18680s	chance to win something really really
18682s	nice make sure to link your nraa blade
18683s	point to your Twitch so that way you can
18685s	get these drops and you can get these
18686s	wins if you this is the website oh from
18689s	the website the client in client website
18691s	in client
18693s	as that as well make sure you got make
18696s	sure you get it l regardless so with
18698s	that in mind back to it frost ofus like
18701s	I said it's not like I don't have
18702s	confidence trust me I do but this layout
18705s	he still has to get a VI for it like
18707s	everyone else clearly spider Mike is
18709s	definitely ahead of it frost ofis I'm
18711s	guarantee you by the next time we're
18713s	here talking about this for solos oh
18716s	he's going to be a big problem I believe
18718s	it I completely agree and I think that
18721s	try hard
18724s	swinging I believe that too he's he's
18726s	he's he had a pretty rough first couple
18729s	games but he's not falling apart you
18731s	know he's still up there he's only just
18735s	a couple like maybe even just a point or
18737s	so off of that top six spot and I think
18741s	that let's say he gets a massive game
18742s	number six right he's going to Skyrocket
18745s	he's going to go up to maybe fifth
18747s	fourth you know who knows we're going to
18749s	have to wait and see I mean it's clearly
18752s	possible spider just put up 15 point
18754s	something right on the board in that in
18757s	that game just now with Nine Kills in
18759s	first place so it's definitely possible
18763s	it's going to be really hard though when
18764s	you got somebody like spider popping
18765s	four elimon four four DS back to back to
18768s	back to back that's all I'm saying I
18770s	don't think anybody is really touching
18771s	this man today that's why I'm sitting
18773s	here and going listen everybody day two
18775s	this is where we shine but right now
18777s	clearly spider owns it right now like I
18780s	I don't really see there going any other
18783s	way if there's another person that wins
18785s	that's not spider in this game number
18786s	six I'm going to be
18788s	surprised that's my prediction no I mean
18790s	you you are right once you get the ball
18792s	rolling once you get that that pick up
18796s	that
18796s	momentum it's pretty haunted full it is
18799s	pretty hun and especially from spider
18801s	cuz he he is somebody that when he holds
18803s	that momentum he holds it exactly no
18807s	you're absolutely right and that is I
18809s	mean I I think I'm going to I'm going to
18811s	I'm going to say the same thing I think
18813s	I'd be rather surprised if spider
18814s	doesn't come away with this with with
18816s	this fifth MVP however we can't count
18819s	the rest of these players out we have so
18822s	many big names here on the board Mike as
18825s	well Mike although he he looked somewhat
18828s	disheartened throughout the series after
18831s	having not done as well as he'd hoped
18833s	he's still in second place you know but
18835s	it's just that spider has managed to
18838s	accumulate such a ridiculous leap like
18842s	he's it's insane it's actually absurd
18845s	how big of a point lead he's managed to
18848s	acove for himself but we are going to be
18850s	jumping in to these character selection
18853s	stages very
18855s	shortly Wang leang hey my boy he's
18858s	looking locked in he's he's looking
18860s	ready Mr Astro brain himself and wangang
18864s	he's also been performing extremely but
18866s	hey we're going to have to wait and see
18868s	and Hadi again making more appear
18872s	appearances Frost ofous wangang sha and
18876s	unique all four of the first round
18880s	selection players are picking up that
18883s	Hadi di Akuma now coming in with that
18886s	fer pick we got oh Roman on the
18891s	Tessa I don't think we've seen any Tessa
18894s	today have we I don't think we have I I
18898s	can't remember I I don't think we have
18900s	Roman bringing out the first Tessa of
18903s	the day we have tanoshi on the Justina
18905s	and then Mike on the Justina as well
18909s	Mike I think that may be his second
18912s	Justina game interesting I might be
18914s	wrong I'm not 100% certain however we
18917s	now have chuang on the faer try hard on
18921s	toal very nice and there it is my boy
18926s	that's what I like to see bringing out
18931s	theic
18933s	band man my boy I'm glad I was I was
18936s	getting a little bit worried that I
18937s	wasn't actually going to see it but here
18939s	we are we have the T pick the Fire Dog I
18943s	never counted I never counted that out
18944s	for a second I knew the T was going to
18946s	come out I I I you know in the back of
18948s	your head some thoughts you just can't
18949s	control you you just worry a little bit
18951s	of is is he not going to pick it oh no
18954s	he was I could have reassured that you
18956s	probably would calm down I'm so I'm so
18958s	glad I'm so glad I get to see it I
18960s	really one of the I'm not going to
18962s	one of the players that I really want to
18964s	actually and have a sit down and chat
18967s	with is Pand my guy he's been rocking
18970s	the T long you know back in the day we
18973s	had quite a few tker enjoyers but now
18976s	there aren't that many unfortunately but
18979s	Panda man he's still going strong and he
18981s	is bringing it out in our sixth game of
18985s	the day the final game of the day ladies
18988s	and gentlemen what do we have here
18991s	spider also as well spider he was the
18994s	final pick at the very end there he also
18996s	went for that Justina pick so spider
19001s	Mike tanoshi all on the Justina we have
19004s	Akuma
19006s	chuen and I thought there was one more
19008s	no Akuma and chuang both on the fer and
19012s	then we have wangang
19014s	sha and unique and frost ofous sorry all
19018s	on the hady now Roman on the lone Tessa
19022s	the first Tessa of the day try hard on
19026s	the tal as well try hard on the tal that
19030s	is definitely an interesting pick I
19032s	think it's actually a pretty solid pick
19034s	I think he he predicted he may have
19036s	predicted that they're going to be quite
19038s	a few Hades and although as hady you can
19042s	fly out the top of a tul
19045s	ultimate wow it's it does consume quite
19048s	a lot of your stamina because you can
19051s	Dodge and do the back to back Dodges in
19053s	the air to go real fast go straight up
19055s	into the air but it's likely that you're
19057s	going to consume a lot of your ultimate
19060s	charge as once you get to a certain
19062s	altitude on hadi's Ultimate you then
19065s	start consuming more of your charge
19069s	definitely going to be a lot harder to
19070s	be able to put that together here as
19071s	celestra is going to get absolutely
19073s	packed full of players here definitely
19076s	the first of it I don't think anybody's
19077s	really landed celester so far here as we
19079s	do see 521 going to be landing in into
19082s	that zest Riner another popular location
19084s	as we talk about over and over again and
19086s	immediately Akuma and Mike fighting this
19088s	off off the rip but I will say servant
19090s	grounds another popular location that
19092s	people are going to be landing nobody in
19093s	Temple nobody Sun ring nobody PLS and
19096s	Shadow Jade mind is absolutely empty
19098s	this is going to be a center Center
19099s	Center Circle Center fight Center
19101s	Devastation and Lord knows who is going
19103s	to be able to claim this one my vot my
19105s	vote is on spider but currently it looks
19108s	like Akuma might be getting this
19109s	elimination onto Mike has been able to
19111s	capture himself a shield oh no but he
19113s	actually loses out on A's mic as Panda
19117s	comes through as a third party leaves
19119s	him with a free distraction and an
19121s	opportunity to capture the elimination
19122s	here pan man could be able to close this
19124s	out as well onto this one oh nice hits
19126s	to be able to come through with it but
19127s	here comes the YT coming in from the
19128s	Tara he's going to be able to try to see
19130s	if he can close in this Gap nice hits
19131s	coming through waiting for the hits but
19133s	let's go as the first Tara is going to
19135s	be able to capture the elimination
19137s	panaman is able to get it gun and Mike
19140s	is able to actually Escape which just a
19142s	little bit of his life left yeah that
19144s	was that was kind of crazy I'm not going
19145s	to lie Panda man must have just missed
19148s	just missed Mike not having caught that
19151s	uh caught him in his peripherals managed
19153s	to catch him in his
19155s	fov and he manages to get away Scot free
19158s	so Panda man though coming in with that
19161s	big kill that big elimination off the
19163s	rip landing on those fireflies just to
19166s	the north of where he picked up that
19168s	kill coming down with that armor with
19170s	that with that St off and just able to
19172s	to come in with that third party very
19175s	nicely done very nicely very nicely time
19178s	we talk about timing and and pathing and
19180s	all of this timing attacks is typically
19183s	the term that we most most players most
19185s	people use timing attacks very very
19188s	important one of the most useful one of
19190s	the one of like a very popular
19192s	strategies when it comes to Firefly Maps
19195s	as you're able to go pick up the Firefly
19197s	and then look for a timing attack on
19200s	potentially fire or just a general area
19203s	which you envision is going to have high
19205s	traffic but here we are over in celestra
19209s	Frost ofus managing to pick up a kill
19210s	onto Roman Roman on the fer
19213s	unfortunately was not able to get out of
19215s	there alive chuang also was involved but
19219s	he did not pick up the elimination and
19222s	narrowly avoids getting taken down by
19224s	Frost here Frost ofus using that
19226s	ultimate he got taken down extremely low
19228s	but was able to save himself by picking
19231s	up the Sol from the kill onto ran but
19234s	here we are moving on over to the west
19236s	of celestra spider doing his best to try
19240s	and Chase down try hard try hard pretty
19243s	low Health here he's lost his armor GG
19247s	sha also looking to get involved try
19249s	hard forc to use his F he sends out the
19252s	sends out the whisp oh spider very
19255s	nicely done catches him with the tech
19258s	Chase on the horizontal P sword the
19261s	sprinting horizontal P sword carries you
19263s	so far forward very nicely done by
19266s	spider able to catch him able to then do
19270s	a double jump and essentially just trap
19273s	the Dodges from try hard so he's just
19276s	unable to get away and he takes him down
19280s	picking up his first elimination of the
19281s	game not too many eliminations just just
19284s	yet oh although pandan pandaman manages
19287s	to pick up his second off camera off
19289s	screen chuang also on his second Pro
19293s	just on the one and spider on the one I
19295s	think that although it's still Firefly
19298s	map Firefly we have the dusk map on
19301s	morile although it is still Firefly and
19304s	there is going to be much more ultimate
19307s	charge going around it's I think a lot
19310s	of these players may have tried to slow
19312s	down slightly they're trying to the
19315s	there's a sort of intermittently
19317s	speeding up and slowing down just
19319s	certain moments of extreme aggression
19322s	and then a lot of tiptoeing around a lot
19325s	of footsies we're going to have to see
19327s	we're going to have to see where it goes
19328s	from this point on I mean knowing that
19330s	we're closing this out here game number
19331s	six I can imagine that there's
19333s	definitely a half bit of players that's
19335s	like full send let's go let's go crazy
19338s	let's push in we might as well send it
19340s	all the way to the end and then there's
19342s	other players that's like well let's
19343s	play back let's try to get some
19345s	placement points let's try to get some
19347s	elimination in order to get us a little
19349s	bit higher up onto this leaderboard and
19351s	as possible meanwhile brus beautiful
19354s	getting hit by the Parry of wbg spider
19356s	wbg spider seeing the third party happen
19358s	from the back ends up popping his fke
19360s	just to make sure that he goes quick for
19361s	the shield oh let's go beautiful double
19365s	Parry from prus absolutely decimates
19367s	spider with the heal and the shield as
19370s	GG Shaw is going to capture his first
19373s	elimination of this game here now he
19375s	gets juggle by tanoshi tanoshi able to
19377s	push onwards and now just like that
19379s	Frost is able to dip out go for the
19381s	shield could potentially come back but
19384s	with that Shaw gets the elimination and
19387s	just like that spider gets caught in his
19389s	first third party of this game and gets
19391s	eliminated that early into the match a
19393s	little bit of a surprising twist to this
19395s	but he's not down he's not out for the
19398s	count meanwhile A's Mike pops open his
19400s	Alti here trying to close in this moment
19402s	here almost catches the freeze onto jdg
19404s	Shaz Zing but it's not going to be
19406s	enough as he does get hit by the rocket
19407s	but he is going to be able to separate
19409s	himself further away from chazzing so
19411s	that way he can go for the quick reset
19413s	goes for the retreat stops his Alti and
19415s	Mike nice little Smiles see the smiles
19417s	at the bottom right love his screen
19419s	there so there's a little bit of some
19421s	hope for him he knows what to do his
19422s	confidence is there he's been in these
19423s	situations before and it's only day
19425s	number one not like nobody's getting
19427s	eliminated immediately off the rip we
19429s	still got some time and as for him I
19431s	think he knows that going forward now
19433s	Circle still closing in halfway mark or
19436s	a little past halfway for the realm of
19437s	Yang our very first one into the circles
19439s	we got A's Mike panman and it looks we
19441s	have one more on the top top left that
19443s	is going to be drgs Akuma bottom left
19446s	jdg shoing wbg spider tanoshi we have
19449s	unique Wang langang frus and Shaw in the
19452s	center and try hard and reuman down on
19454s	the bottom right so it definitely looks
19455s	like it's a lot more open area open
19456s	space for some of these players where
19458s	there are going to be some immediate
19459s	fights happening and some that are just
19461s	waiting it out for this circle meanwhile
19463s	wbg spider caught in the tough situation
19465s	deciding to back off is able to back off
19467s	in the right amount of time and do
19469s	exactly what he needs to to scale Rush
19471s	that time and now he's able to hold
19472s	strong unique finds him beautiful timing
19474s	to capture the heal and now he's going
19476s	to come through pop that push and now
19478s	he's going to be able to go for the
19479s	Excursion but it doesn't matter spider
19481s	can't even get into the realm of Y
19482s	because there's two players just
19483s	absolutely on his tail as now we have
19485s	xcg and drg fighting this out same with
19487s	our na
19489s	player Frost ofus able to do exactly
19491s	what he needs to as they both go
19492s	Airborne as a Mike he's going to try to
19494s	see if he can capture his elimination
19496s	he's 0 for two with frost ofis currently
19499s	actually Frost ofis actually winning
19501s	beautiful hit nice strike coming through
19504s	from frost is here able to almost
19505s	decimate the majority of his shield and
19507s	now looks like they're both of just
19509s	baiting it out both of them trying to
19510s	hit the focus strike waiting for the
19511s	opportunity and it looks like frost is
19513s	able to hit the first one nice struggles
19514s	to be able to close it out can he push
19516s	it through all the way to the very end
19517s	he pops the ulti gets the freeze can he
19519s	do enough to be able to cross it he gets
19522s	them inside of the freeze but this is
19524s	the opportunity to get the finish and
19526s	this could be the opportunity that he's
19527s	been waiting for he gets stunned and
19530s	frost son he's just chilling he knew he
19533s	was dead he just stood there and waited
19536s	Mike literally gave up he knew it was G
19540s	he knew it was over and he just stood
19543s	there and waited it is I think he
19545s	literally sat back his in chair in his
19547s	chair for a second there oh my Lord
19550s	never seen Mike do that Frost ofus
19552s	managing to take down Mike in the realm
19556s	of Yang but here we are moving on over
19558s	to wangle Yang and Akuma Akuma getting a
19560s	huge Parry but the timer is ticking down
19563s	Wang leang manages to duck under that
19565s	horizontal hole that horizontal blue
19567s	Focus release oh my Lord that was very
19570s	close unfortunately neither player is
19572s	able to come out on top here and both go
19576s	down to that Yang depletion and are both
19579s	going to have to try and find a soul BL
19581s	to come back and cleanse it so that they
19584s	don't get taken down passively by that
19586s	debuff ran here scrapping it out versus
19589s	Mike Mike with the tech Chase is light
19592s	work and Mike takes down Roman Roman
19595s	doing oh Mike he got the smile on his
19598s	face he's back baby Mike he's chilling
19602s	he we were worried about him why are we
19604s	worried about Mike Mike's just being
19606s	chilling he's just he's having a good
19608s	time he has no worries on his mind he's
19611s	I mean he's still s he's still sitting
19613s	at the very top of the leaderboard
19615s	alongside spider and fros of us so it's
19617s	not as if he's he's he's been having a
19620s	really rough day he's still chilling
19622s	it's just that spider has managed to
19624s	accumulate a 30 point lead which is
19627s	still astonishing it's just actually
19629s	insane Frost ofus is four points behind
19632s	Mike though Frost doing a really really
19634s	good job putting on a show for us and
19638s	speaking of a show we're having an
19640s	absolute absolute theer production over
19643s	here what is going on we have the entire
19646s	cast in celestra tanoshi he's the he's
19649s	the main character right now he's
19651s	getting focused down he does manage to
19654s	find himself a cheeky armor swap onto
19656s	that blue wasn't fully healed up but
19658s	it's definitely uh definitely better
19660s	than Noah tooshi managing to cut noise
19665s	and find a find a corner find a ceiling
19667s	heal up just a little bit but not for
19669s	long Akuma coming in forcing him out of
19673s	the building but unfortunately Akuma is
19674s	not able to pick up the kill for himself
19676s	chuen managing to catch it with that
19678s	pistol
19679s	shot getting a big blue Focus scale Rush
19682s	onto Mike Mike coming into the room just
19684s	like yo what's up yo you still scrapping
19686s	in here you still fighting no okay bye
19689s	wangang though oh my Lord the sky dog
19692s	the boy he's in the air he's trying to
19695s	disengage with that Hardy ultimate
19699s	having taken a considerable amount of
19700s	damage almost getting taken down in
19702s	celestra but he manages to make his way
19704s	over to this Temple the Eastern Temple
19708s	of celestra and get himself a full heal
19711s	surprisingly he's actually heading back
19714s	into celestra back onto the bridge the
19716s	bridge is definitely a really good spot
19718s	to uh continuously kite around and uh
19722s	and just continue running although the
19724s	problem with that is that if you're
19726s	looking for a kill going to the celestra
19728s	bridge unless there's a lot of people
19730s	already there and a fight's already
19732s	happening it's a very hard place to
19734s	actually pick up kills and he needs to
19737s	pick up a kill right now or he needs to
19739s	find a really good third part
19741s	as he only has a minute and 30 seconds
19744s	left on his Yang depletion debuff he
19747s	needs to find that Soul blo or he is
19749s	going to get taken
19751s	down taken down indeed here definitely
19754s	does not want that to happen as now you
19756s	just have to play this just a little bit
19758s	smarter and a little bit
19761s	smoother and with Mike nice rotations
19764s	trying to see if he can get out of
19765s	Harm's Way here it's going to go for the
19766s	shield swap looks like wng L is not
19767s	going to not going to go on the inside
19769s	here and just misses out on the
19771s	opportunity to find A's
19774s	mik scale rushing it trying to see if
19776s	they can find anything that's nearby
19778s	sees him cross
19779s	path now here potentially could be the
19782s	chase langang langing trying to see if
19784s	he can close in this Gap here nice scale
19785s	rush to be able to connect it oh the
19787s	question is is he going to be able to
19788s	and he does as Mike is able to find it
19790s	nice defensive Clan coming through to
19792s	retract that blue Focus ooh nice hits
19795s	though with that is able to absolutely
19797s	decimate Mike's shield and now comes a
19800s	little bit of some coming in from Mike
19801s	here as it looks like wangang is going
19803s	to find that opportunity nice hits and
19804s	scales and finish coming through from
19806s	wangang as wangang is going to shut down
19808s	A's mik and says here you go buddy who
19812s	do you think you playing with you see
19814s	his face who you think you pushing
19816s	onwards too you think you
19819s	nice absolutely moving on over to Unique
19823s	getting taken down extremely low that
19826s	looks like less than one HP on his
19829s	actual health bar but it's not is just
19831s	orange because he's in hard that looked
19834s	very very slim but thankfully he's
19836s	managed to find himself a essentially a
19839s	full reset but not having his ultimate
19841s	available he's now going to have to play
19843s	cat and mouse he's going to have to try
19845s	stay on the move and not get locked down
19848s	by one of these players lurking in
19849s	celestra but enough of that we've moved
19852s	on over to the realm of Yang Sky dog
19856s	versus fire dog Hy versus T man gets a
19861s	decent opening gets another overh Frost
19865s	ofus forc to use his F2 Frost ofus he's
19868s	getting cooked pandan goes for the jump
19871s	Parry so does frost ofus Frost ofus Now
19875s	using his ultimate going into the sky
19878s	charging that triple charge pandaan
19879s	taking a considerable amount of damage
19881s	although he was actually at a Health
19885s	Advantage a bit of a tough situation
19887s	here he's able to avoid the engagement
19890s	from Frost ofous gets the punch Frost
19893s	ofus he doesn't have much orange Health
19895s	left and pandaan frost ofus is bit a bit
19898s	of a blunder here he's actually letting
19901s	pandam man he's let so here's here's the
19905s	thing dby here's the thing in this
19907s	matchup as Hardy you have Advantage more
19912s	more often than not as you're able to
19915s	potentially bait out Panda man's or p uh
19918s	bait out T's Dodges bait out his
19921s	stamina with these triple charges and
19923s	also with those Quick N the the single
19926s	charge the double charge on had ultimate
19930s	so you're able to bait out a lot of
19931s	stamina you're able to force that
19933s	stamina utilization but right here
19935s	froster versus blunder was that he was
19937s	allowing pandaman to regenerate his full
19940s	bar of
19942s	stamina between every single attempt at
19945s	going in on him meaning that he was able
19948s	to use his entire Stand Bar to avoid the
19951s	engagement with that triple charge from
19953s	had ultimate and essentially just take
19955s	back his turn both at each time if Frost
19958s	had managed to maintain that pressure he
19961s	could have very easily taken that fight
19963s	for himself as he he started it off
19964s	relatively well after having
19966s	popped but we are going to have to wait
19968s	and see if Frost is going to be able to
19971s	cleanse this Yang depletion he's headed
19973s	right on over straight into celestra and
19976s	he's found his Target Wang leang oh my
19979s	Lord he takes a big chunk of damage
19981s	wangang he's so unbelievably low but is
19983s	he going to be able to get Soom he does
19985s	he manages to slide in justo just swoop
19989s	right in Majestic bird gets that Soul
19993s	Bloom having gotten that kill and
19996s	manages to cleanse the Yang depletion
19998s	picking up his fourth elimination of the
20000s	game and hey Dobby guess what what that
20003s	spider's
20006s	dead I didn't even know when did he die
20010s	means it's anybody's game Frost with
20012s	four eliminations in a lead here let's
20013s	see if we can get the replay on what
20014s	happened here as wbg Spider well I'll
20017s	tell you exactly what happened here ends
20018s	up getting caught two players on the
20020s	outskirts trying to capture him on each
20022s	side here pops open the shield trying
20024s	not to get caught up in a bad situation
20025s	here and ends up getting caught by GG
20027s	Shaw out on the cliff hits him like Lion
20029s	King and says where is your
20032s	king he's not bad anymore absolutely
20035s	unfortunate there he as uh he ends up
20037s	getting caught in a bad situation there
20039s	and he ends up cing his life but that's
20040s	okay though because like I said top
20042s	score he's absolutely putting in the
20043s	work but now this means that it's
20045s	anybody's game here and somebody's
20046s	walking away a number one winner it's
20049s	going to be a new winner um into this
20050s	one it could be frost ofus here with
20052s	those four eliminations but let's not
20053s	count on Shing and panaman with three
20055s	eliminations one point behind as well
20057s	one elimination behind should I say and
20060s	27.6 the top four Frost so there's still
20063s	opportunities here for a lot of these
20064s	players to really show off what they
20065s	need to do in order to get it going as
20067s	Akuma is going to be able to pop open
20068s	his ulti and decid to use it to retreat
20070s	and back off as far as humanly possible
20072s	frus doesn't look like he's going to
20074s	decide to chase that JD Xing should be
20077s	trying to maybe get some heals going as
20079s	well here but he's going to use this
20080s	opportunity Akuma to heal up reset and
20084s	get it going Panda man o with those gold
20088s	dual halberts that is going to do a lot
20091s	of damage he managed to come in here the
20094s	rather opportune moment unique having
20096s	just run out of his ultimate take a bit
20099s	of damage here here
20102s	ooh gets hit by the horizontal on the
20104s	staff but he's able to uh remain not
20108s	Remain the uh the third partyer not the
20111s	third parted he does not get focused
20113s	down by Sha just yet unique Still
20116s	Remains the target Panda man look like
20119s	he's looking to re-engage onto this
20122s	fight he's fully healed up he's fully
20124s	reset the thing about this bridge is
20127s	that there are so many Avenues of Escape
20129s	look at this he's he he's able to jump
20131s	in and out of Windows he's able to go
20133s	under the bridge in the little trapo go
20135s	up over the little the railing go into
20138s	the into the into the into the attic up
20141s	into the top into the rafters you know
20142s	it's so unbelievably difficult to
20144s	actually hold certain characters and
20146s	certain players with certain weapons
20148s	down in this area and if you're running
20150s	something that's potentially a little
20152s	bit slower you know let's say you're
20153s	running great sword it is extremely
20155s	difficult to catch anybody on the bridge
20158s	let alone in general you know it becomes
20162s	very very hard so fighting on the bridge
20165s	it's it's kind of it's something that
20167s	you can do very very easily if you
20169s	manage to attract lots of people to the
20171s	bridge you manage to uh entice certain
20174s	players oh come over here he get over
20176s	here you let's have a fight and then you
20178s	can just dip in and out especially with
20180s	certain characters you know your zipping
20182s	your whatever what have you you can dip
20184s	in and out stay on the move and you're
20186s	impossible to catch as long as you don't
20188s	make a considerable amount mistake but
20190s	here we are Akuma managed to get that
20192s	gold armor that is Juicy for Akuma there
20196s	on that fer he hasn't managed to pick up
20198s	any kills unfortunately but hey he is
20200s	scaling into that end game he is managed
20203s	o heyo is that a gold graay I
20206s	see although it's Akuma so we're not
20209s	going to see him play gry sword
20211s	unfortunately you and the gry sword love
20213s	hey you you know it bro oh wait he
20215s	pulled it out he's pulled it out oh no
20218s	he swapped it
20221s	he swapped it over to the pul fair
20223s	enough smart man smart
20226s	man oh he's got the tornado Jade on that
20229s	fan as well the wild wind spout doing a
20233s	lot of damage with that it's so
20235s	unbelievably difficult to par it's so
20238s	fast so so fast but he doesn't look as
20240s	though we've got all that much happening
20242s	on the map just now all of these players
20245s	looking to set up for that end game we
20248s	may in fact see the first sort of heal
20251s	off situation for uh for these Firefly
20254s	maps for the second half of the day once
20257s	we've got on marus Isle it's been pretty
20260s	aggressive we have gotten nowhere near
20262s	OV nowhere near those end zones but this
20265s	could potentially be the
20267s	one but we're going to have to wait and
20269s	see you know got farers we got Hardies
20273s	it could happen but pandaan on the terer
20276s	he does not want to go to end game he
20277s	does not want to go to heal
20279s	off in heal off is is a bit rough
20283s	definitely not a heal off definitely
20284s	could be an absolute struggle here and
20285s	you have to be careful of that as you
20287s	know obviously even with that timing
20290s	here you still have to be able to you
20291s	know just keep it keep it moving and
20292s	rotate as much as possible here but
20294s	let's see if the opportunity really does
20296s	present itself for some of these players
20297s	here they're still uh narrowing it down
20300s	there's still six players alive here and
20301s	I don't think anybody has really been
20302s	able to get a successful elimination um
20305s	since we saw the replay of
20308s	spider at least from what I remember
20310s	and
20312s	obviously still able to put that one
20314s	together here but let's see if
20317s	uh let's see if they can be able to rock
20319s	this one as
20320s	well jdg Shing ends up getting hit at
20323s	the bottom stretch here sends them down
20325s	but not too much Shield though as he
20327s	does end
20327s	up trying to see if he can rotate this
20330s	around here as drg zaka wanted to push
20331s	in on that besides not to Circle starts
20333s	to close this in here we are going to be
20335s	closing in on our Circle Number Four
20337s	starting Circle Number Five
20340s	six players alive here what are your
20342s	thoughts what are you thinking currently
20344s	I'm thinking Frost ofus could take it I
20346s	think this could be his game this could
20347s	be a huge game for him we said it before
20349s	and I say it again he does have that
20351s	open space and that opportunity now that
20353s	spider and Mike is gone this could be
20355s	the moment that he has this is the
20357s	Redemption that he needed from game
20359s	number
20360s	four yeah no you are right there Frost
20363s	of us is in is in position to take that
20367s	second place on the leaderboard for
20370s	himself he just needs to stay alive a
20373s	little bit longer go up a couple
20375s	placements and he and maybe pick up an
20377s	extra kill and he takes second place
20380s	from Mike that's going to be second
20382s	place for from an international player
20384s	that is going to be very huge and this
20386s	is only day one as well unfortunately
20389s	try hard did get taken down early on in
20391s	the game without any eliminations it is
20394s	what it is wangang getting taken down
20397s	smike and spider both not in this end
20400s	game not in this top six these final six
20402s	of this final game unique still alive no
20405s	elimination through his name chuing on
20407s	three danger but oh my Lord chuang he is
20410s	so unbelievably low and there it is
20412s	Akuma managing to pick up his first kill
20414s	of the game sitting in a pretty
20417s	comfortable position here gold armor
20420s	barer he's he's chilling he isn't even
20423s	he's sitting in fourth place as well
20425s	Akuma he's had a pretty consistent day
20428s	he's not been popping off like crazy but
20430s	he has been doing extremely well when
20432s	it's mattered he he's been it's been a
20434s	bit unlucky at times but hey he's
20435s	playing good nraa that's what we like to
20437s	see sha forced to use his ultimate here
20441s	it seems now would have this cool down
20443s	forced out from him Frost ofous
20446s	recognizes that sh is in a vulnerable
20448s	spot and he's looking to try and create
20450s	an opening for himself but look as oh oh
20455s	oh no as I say that sha takes almost a
20459s	thous th damage from this musket good
20462s	Lord sha so unbelievably low at this
20466s	point the Zone he just goes into the
20468s	Zone he just oh my God Akuma picking up
20473s	that kill onto sha having done the final
20476s	little bit of damage before he dies to
20479s	that storm tick and he does in fact get
20483s	taken down unfortunately this is exactly
20484s	what I was talking about earlier when
20487s	certain characters like taka like hadie
20490s	have their ultimates forced out when
20492s	they're in this kind of situation in
20493s	this environment with lots of players
20496s	lurking around it becomes not impossible
20498s	to actually find a reset and find that
20501s	disengage as you essentially have
20503s	nothing to your name it's very very
20505s	difficult to really do anything and it
20507s	we've seen it time and time again but
20509s	we've also seen the potential upside of
20512s	playing these characters you know Hadi
20514s	has been obliterating isolated 1 V one
20517s	fights all day he's been doing extremely
20519s	well well Frost of us here ooh getting
20522s	taken down extremely low Frost ofous
20524s	this is the game he needs to secure that
20526s	second place position for the lobby for
20529s	the game oh it looks like it's a GG for
20532s	frost he goes up into the air he's still
20535s	so low he's swerving he's oh no there it
20539s	is no
20541s	Akuma with the musket shot Akuma now
20544s	pick smile hey Akuma he's very happy
20549s	with that one one picks up his third
20551s	elimination he went into this end game
20553s	with no kills whatsoever and what did I
20556s	say when he got that gold armor he's
20557s	playing Faria he's chilling he's scaling
20560s	up to the end game and he manages to
20563s	Come Away with three kills so far Panda
20565s	man now though he releases that blue
20567s	focus into unique and unique gets the
20569s	par and Akuma again with another range
20573s	weapon kill oh my God Snipes away that
20577s	kill onto
20578s	pandaan oh oh my Lord Akuma he's in the
20581s	position to win this game to take this
20583s	one home for himself four kills in a top
20586s	two situation unique he does have his
20589s	ultimate available he's lost a chunky
20591s	bit of Health Akuma opting to go into
20594s	that fer ultimate trying to make use of
20596s	it trying to get some damage unique
20599s	managing to avoid all of these turret
20601s	shots
20603s	though managing to avoid a considerable
20605s	amount of damage Akuma he's he's
20607s	accumulated a chunky bit of chunky bit
20609s	of charge on that turret oh there's the
20612s	damage ladies and gentlemen and you
20614s	unique he's now gone Skyhigh he's in the
20616s	air kakuma hit the shot he does not have
20619s	the time left to do so unfortunately he
20622s	doesn't have any shots left in his
20623s	musket either this might be the comeback
20626s	for Unique oh but no unique gets a
20629s	little bit too close to the Sun just
20632s	like Icarus unique flies a little bit
20635s	too close to the the burning hot sun
20639s	that is
20640s	Akuma and Akuma comes away with our
20644s	final MVP of the day the sixth MVP in
20649s	the sixth game of our very first day of
20652s	J Cup groups honestly I'm surprised by
20655s	Akuma I I know um he has like a very
20658s	different type of energy especially when
20660s	he really does decide to turn up um I
20663s	think this is definitely that confidence
20664s	that he needed knowing that he is kind
20666s	of you know a little bit a little bit
20667s	down there some ways but he's not all
20669s	all the way but Akuma definitely needed
20671s	that nice little bit of a jump here
20673s	Frost ofis getting caught with a third
20675s	party that pistol shot to get that
20676s	finish definitely was really unfortunate
20678s	here shocking to see Mike and spider out
20681s	but they could risk one game they can
20684s	absolutely risk one game it is okay
20687s	Panda
20688s	man a little shocking I think how
20693s	so I don't know I think overall I I feel
20695s	like he definitely put on a performance
20697s	but I feel like we're definitely going
20699s	to see him really really go crazy um
20702s	within day number two but at least for
20704s	this last game it was kind of like
20706s	interest interesting so I certainly
20708s	would hope so I mean pandaan coming into
20710s	that game he he played it kind of the
20713s	only way that he really could play it
20715s	you know he got the initial kills on T
20718s	right he got the first blood at the very
20720s	very beginning get that chees kill he
20722s	manages to get another kill off screen
20724s	that we didn't manage to see
20725s	unfortunately it might be a replay of it
20727s	but then he he has to take a bit of a
20729s	slow down and this the reason why this
20731s	is is as a Target player going into this
20736s	kind of Lobby where you have Hardies you
20738s	have couple barriers here and there you
20740s	have you got a you know it's actually a
20744s	very difficult Lobby to actually find
20747s	these kills as a lot of these these
20750s	characters like you very and how they're
20752s	very mob they're very they're able to
20755s	secure certain disengagements within
20758s	urban areas
20759s	you know if they're out in the open they
20762s	can they can get bursted down they can
20764s	just get like msh pitted and they just
20767s	can't really do anything however in
20768s	these urban areas like celestra for
20770s	example which we saw a lot of fights in
20772s	celestra in this game lots of them
20774s	you're able with that Mobility that you
20777s	have so theia for example in her Mech
20780s	she able to fly up into the sky go fly
20783s	around she's able to Skywalk effectively
20786s	with her rockets and she's able to make
20788s	distance and apply pressure hardi
20791s	essentially do the same thing he can
20793s	Skyrock up Skyrocket up into the sky
20796s	disengage somewhat heal while flying
20798s	away and then because of the urban area
20801s	they're able to then use that terrain
20803s	and use those buildings to then find
20806s	that that Avenue of escape and then hide
20809s	amongst the rest of the characters that
20811s	are all the same be interesting to see a
20813s	Chase of those two like just the mech
20816s	and then the hottie chasing the mech or
20819s	the atie being chased by the mech I
20822s	think that'd be interesting to see just
20823s	this massive Mech and then just like
20826s	atie like just like this one person
20829s	just or the other way around right a
20831s	massive Mech getting chased by the hotti
20833s	hot exactly trying not to get caught up
20836s	as well I think I I don't know I think
20837s	that'd be kind of no it is quite funny
20839s	we saw we saw a little bit of that in
20841s	the realm of Yang where hardi and Fel
20843s	were fighting it out and the H he was
20845s	trying to just swerve o
20848s	no Neo action you know but with the fair
20852s	just trying to shoot him out the sky
20855s	exactly exactly the yeah exactly but
20859s	yeah anyway um so the problem the
20862s	problem here is that because there were
20864s	quite a few of those characters in this
20865s	Lobby in a moral war in these
20867s	competitions you are unable to see the
20870s	Cosmetics of the opposing players in
20872s	this Lobby that's true you can see your
20874s	own but you can't see the other players
20877s	so that means that if there's a lot of
20879s	faers right you're fighting one faer she
20882s	gets really low and then she goes into a
20885s	group of them how are you supposed to
20888s	tell which one is which especially if
20891s	that fer actually a swap weapon you know
20895s	the only real the only real thing you
20897s	can you can maybe take a guess on is is
20899s	is knowing their play style yeah exactly
20901s	if you know their play style it'll be a
20902s	little EAS you know it can be it's very
20904s	difficult but easy but TKA the lone
20906s	terer in the lobby he can't really go to
20908s	those places meaning that he couldn't
20910s	accelerate his initial lead in the game
20912s	meaning that he couldn't out y but still
20915s	coming away with 5.4 points three kills
20918s	to his name that is not too shabby not
20920s	too shabby at all pandaan still cooking
20923s	on that fire dog I love to see it frost
20926s	of us with
20927s	6.7 in second place but Akuma picking up
20932s	legitimately all five of his kills in
20936s	the end game and I think the majority of
20939s	them were with range weapons I think it
20940s	was three or four of them with range
20942s	weapons it's insane extremely well done
20945s	by Akuma here he is on it with that aim
20949s	but second place Frost ofus 6.7 not the
20952s	first place that he not the first place
20954s	obviously that he was pushing for that
20956s	is a good first day I personally think
20959s	for frost if we look at the standings
20961s	overall for our first successful day for
20964s	the group stage solo games top seven
20969s	finishing it off with panan with a
20971s	16.1 getting his his first game and his
20974s	six game being the best score of a 5.4
20977s	now obviously s similar to tryhard with
20979s	a 4.1 in his game three and his game
20982s	five sadly dropping two games he gets us
20984s	up a
20985s	14.3 in eighth place unique close to the
20988s	bottom with that 8.5 his best game was a
20991s	one 3.4 in his game number five so
20994s	obviously those are a couple
20995s	eliminations that he had from earlier
20996s	getting that top five placement enough
20998s	to be able to push him up just getting
20999s	him something something to be able to
21002s	get something to work and keep things
21004s	moving now going on to the top six
21006s	though this is where things get a little
21007s	hectic
21009s	58.7 as obviously he wasn't able to
21011s	successfully get that six that six
21013s	elimination or that sixth win should I
21015s	said fifth sorry um with that 1.6 but
21017s	also Mike getting the same thing 29.5
21019s	and a
21020s	58.7
21022s	28.5 one point deficit in third place
21026s	our na player El's frus is in the top
21030s	three welcome to nraa Blade point the
21032s	group stages hell yeah my boy Frost ofus
21037s	putting on a show for us doing an
21039s	amazing job unfortunately he thing is
21042s	hey the moon Bane incident let's not
21045s	talk about it unfortunately he's not
21046s	able to stay inconspicuous in that
21049s	believe or not his best game was the
21051s	moon Bane game it it was what I say
21054s	points so either or he still ended up
21057s	doing well regardless that eight Point
21059s	still ended up putting him in that top
21060s	space and to be honest with if that
21062s	Bain's breath didn't work he probably
21063s	would be in second place see that's what
21065s	I that's what I was saying you know like
21066s	if if that that was the one of the main
21068s	things that I was talking about is that
21070s	this could have been the biggest mental
21071s	hit for him because it's a game that
21073s	would have Skyrock to him much higher on
21076s	the point because of the multiplier the
21078s	number of kills he had going into that
21080s	end game if he managed to second or
21083s	moment where Mike gives up yeah Mike
21084s	just literally standing there yeah
21086s	exactly my boy Frost ofus could hooking
21089s	his way through the through the lobby
21091s	with Hadi doing an amazing job Chang
21094s	look at this pistol shot this was lovely
21096s	waiting biting his time catching him on
21099s	the way out of that building out of that
21101s	door catches him with the pistol wangang
21104s	here doing a really good job of just
21107s	reading Mike reading Mike back to back
21110s	and then the dual blades grapple combo
21112s	just obliterating it does so much Dam
21115s	that was only blue dual blades does a
21118s	crazy amount of damage brosus look at
21121s	this aerial movement with hardi
21123s	beautifully done look at that Akuma
21126s	there picking up that was his first kill
21128s	second kill he got with the bow shot on
21130s	somebody taking damage in the Zone Third
21132s	kill
21133s	musket fourth kill was also a musket
21137s	kill and then Akuma he gets the final
21139s	kill with the so that was three out of
21141s	his five kills were all with range
21143s	weapons three out of the five in the end
21145s	game very nicely done 10 points on the
21148s	board securing fourth place well played
21151s	coming through with the fair as he will
21152s	able to get his first MVP of tonight and
21155s	his last one at least for the tip for
21157s	today with a switch Dazzle follow the
21159s	recall a flying kick Juggernaut Advanced
21161s	heel and a melee resist Soul Jade giving
21164s	him 22,000 damage and a fifth and a five
21167s	elimination game p sword really being
21170s	his top use the weapon with a 6610
21173s	overall though with his F1 and a V3 very
21176s	well done overall for Akuma I know he
21179s	has to give himself a little bit of a
21180s	side relief and maybe a quick smile just
21182s	to say hey I'm here sure I got a little
21185s	bit of trolling me but this troll can
21186s	definitely bites don't let me catch you
21188s	under my under my bridge no absolutely I
21192s	think the that gold great sword that he
21194s	he converted into that pul sword did so
21197s	much work for him being able like it
21199s	just thing is it's a gold pul sword it
21201s	is one chunk one just does so much
21205s	damage finish got to be careful this the
21207s	same it's the same thing with the
21208s	upwards dagger too the upwards dagger we
21210s	SE catch into the combo a many of
21213s	eliminations so far with that upwards
21214s	dagger especially with um with um the
21217s	new player flying around maybe he's
21218s	dangerously low you get that nice hit
21220s	and that could be the deciding factor as
21221s	well I call him Cosmo that's just me
21223s	personally but I guess because I like
21225s	him though I feel like with his voice I
21226s	feel like it just matches that energy
21228s	anyway back to about yes you know do you
21231s	know actually little tidbit for you it's
21233s	really cool do you know do you know who
21237s	voices hardi no for the I think it's the
21240s	Japanese voice Dr Stone have you ever
21242s	heard of this no it's an amazing it's so
21244s	it's so the voice lines though in
21247s	general let's just say this the in
21249s	general all the voice lines of all the
21251s	voice actors for these characters they
21253s	they've put in this game for it's
21254s	amazing game it's so I love hadie the
21257s	moment that I heard that voice over oh
21259s	my Lord I I you were like that's it
21261s	that's the one yeah it sounded so it
21263s	sounds so crisp so good it's ah they do
21267s	an amazing job they do amazing J diverse
21270s	cast being able to Avo such an
21272s	incredible incredible character that
21274s	obviously is is doing well so far
21275s	started off as a divide but now I feel
21277s	like a lot of people are definitely non
21279s	doubters of of the hottie as uh they're
21282s	getting as they're seeing the game play
21284s	for the first time at least for the
21285s	competitive circuit here for the J cup
21288s	and now that it's in groups now that
21289s	it's viable that you can use this
21291s	character uh we're definitely probably
21293s	going to see a lot more of them probably
21294s	leading up to our grand World
21296s	Championship no no absolutely absolutely
21300s	I'm one thing I'm excited to see we've
21302s	definitely seen H get a lot of views get
21306s	a lot of pickups in
21308s	solos but what about trios what about
21312s	trios we got trios tomorrow ladies and
21315s	gentlemen trios is tomorrow so we're
21317s	going to have to wait and see but for
21318s	now we've got a quick video of try hard
21322s	don't
21325s	good clutch it up with the dagger using
21328s	is the elbow and try hard is going to
21330s	pick up his fifth try hard has it try
21333s	hard finds the
21340s	win everyone was ask me like who tryhard
21343s	is uh tryhard is one of the few players
21346s	I ever met that really lives up to his
21349s	[Music]
21357s	name my name is at Martinez uh I'm a
21359s	student at Cornell University and I'm
21360s	currently studying cognitive science
21362s	playing the rocket for the first time
21363s	was it was definitely like it kind of
21365s	clicked for me and I've never even
21367s	touched a melee Focus game before and
21369s	playing it was kind of like a surreal
21370s	experience just because almost
21372s	immediately when I first started playing
21373s	you could see like how high the skill
21375s	scene was of the
21377s	game first thing is that he's really
21380s	really smart we all start very brand new
21383s	just one two three you know Fus attack a
21386s	lot but try hard within the first two
21389s	weeks of the game he realized how good
21392s	Perry was and he was one of the first
21395s	players to innovate uh you know Dodge
21397s	Perry shift Perry we call
21402s	it um it started around my sophomore
21404s	year of high school I decided to start
21406s	competing professionally constantly you
21408s	know playing in tournaments throughout
21410s	the year and you know I wasn't always
21411s	you know someone who was winning I
21413s	actually started out not even placing
21414s	very high in the first Regional
21416s	Championship and you know I told myself
21417s	that you know I wouldn't ever let that
21419s	happen again I wanted to be someone that
21421s	was you know consistently
21424s	placed try hard is a very unique player
21427s	that if he sees a video of you he
21428s	understands you that's something that
21430s	most players don't understand about
21431s	tryhard is that he watches the game more
21434s	than he plays the game CU that's what it
21436s	takes to be the best player in the
21440s	[Music]
21444s	world the world championship is a large
21446s	span of time it's such a large period
21448s	perod of time that I have to take off
21449s	from school and you know uh at such a
21451s	crucial point in my education where you
21453s	know I'm doing my college applications I
21454s	guess one of the critical decisions I
21456s	made and it was time that I had to take
21457s	away from school and time taking all
21458s	that time and splitting my time to
21460s	compete even in day-to-day life um you
21462s	know competing does take a large part of
21464s	my week especially the weekend you know
21465s	when there are tournaments that are late
21466s	at night um you know sometimes you don't
21468s	get a lot of sleep you know it was a big
21469s	sacrifice that I had to make uh you know
21471s	but it's something I don't regret at
21475s	all man he was able to do it all the way
21477s	towards the very hand of you love to see
21478s	it let's go try hard just because uh
21482s	last year I felt like I was so close you
21483s	know and I was halfway there um and I
21485s	just fell short on the second day for
21489s	him uh it was heartbreaking cuz he knows
21493s	that it was in the grass to have rank
21495s	one and this year I know he's done a lot
21498s	of work cuz we always say we study the
21502s	game more than we play the game going
21504s	into Worlds I I have the utmost
21506s	confidence that he'll show everyone that
21509s	even with more pressure this year
21510s	they'll perform as everyone expects
21514s	him I'm really excited to you know
21516s	participate and be a part of the world
21518s	championship in
21519s	Shanghai it's always been a goal of mine
21522s	to you know practice more efficiently
21523s	and practice more um like and dedicate
21525s	more of myself to what I'm doing um and
21527s	I always feel like there's room for
21528s	improvement in everything even if I'm
21530s	already considered the best in a certain
21531s	region but I would say my goal has never
21533s	been to be the best in North America my
21535s	goal has been to be the best overall
21538s	um so I'm always driving towards
21546s	that our two-time player try hard giving
21550s	you guys a little bit of his backstory
21552s	of his origin his success and why he is
21555s	grinding this game all the way to the
21557s	World Championships try hard are Na's
21560s	finest I mean like I said he is one of
21563s	the best of the best clearly as of today
21565s	we got a chance to see it and definitely
21567s	excited to see see how he's able to
21569s	continue this Reign like I said he's
21571s	done it before he's been here before
21573s	he's made it to the worlds finals he's
21574s	made it to the championship so I have
21576s	nothing but confidence that you can do
21577s	it again so good to see that backstory
21579s	and see that video that video was very
21582s	is very insightful into a little bit of
21585s	try hard life you know he's got a lot on
21587s	his play my guy he's playing solos trios
21591s	he's studying a Corell he is he's
21595s	definitely he's definitely a try hard
21597s	that's I just tell you that you know try
21599s	hard at life we love it living up to his
21601s	name absolutely I'm a try hard at life
21602s	so I respect it I absolutely respect it
21605s	even with that as well here as we're
21607s	going to be able to go on we're going to
21608s	give you guys another uh section here
21610s	and we're going to give you one more
21611s	treasure to go with for tonight what
21614s	will be the highest score achieved in
21616s	this match is it going to be below Four
21618s	Points B 8 to 10 points eight points not
21621s	included C 10 points and above or D 6
21624s	to8 points got to be in between that for
21627s	you to win the World Championship random
21629s	gifts now obviously probably forward
21632s	here so far I mean for our solo games
21635s	mhm he we're absolutely fantastic today
21637s	oh absolutely absolutely one thing
21640s	always like to note make sure keep an
21642s	eye on the chat don't go anywhere if you
21644s	put your answer in and uh you don't want
21646s	to be that guy who misses out on his uh
21649s	on his random gift on his treasure for
21652s	the Cosmetics to take into game you do
21654s	not want to be that guy but uh yeah so
21658s	first
21659s	day finessed
21662s	spider he's just up there in his web
21665s	just chilling you know he's got it's
21666s	like a web hammock you know he's just
21668s	like just kicking back he didn't I I
21671s	feel like the final game of course he
21672s	was it wasn't as though he wasn't
21675s	trying right but still you know like he
21677s	went into the final game knowing that he
21680s	was above 50 points he had a 30 point
21684s	lead today was a Mike W
21688s	and I think that's exactly what spider
21690s	wanted I think even with spider doing
21693s	well he wants good competition I think
21696s	as much as anybody wants to see Mike do
21698s	exactly what he did in finals last year
21701s	and just absolutely decimate where it
21703s	just it wasn't even close I think even
21705s	he wants he he wants a good fight he
21707s	wants a good battle and I think Mike is
21709s	going to bring that and I think some of
21710s	these other players are going to be a
21711s	problem I think FR is going to be a
21713s	massive problem I think that's somebody
21715s	that when we talk about really somebody
21717s	adap to the environment as we watch game
21719s	in and G game out by 2 and 3 Frost ofis
21723s	was already warmed by 5 and 6 he's
21726s	feeling it out and at that point he's
21728s	already dishing out eliminations he's
21730s	being confident he's pushing onward and
21732s	he's getting these finishes to where he
21734s	gets a second place finish in his final
21736s	game now if we had two more games on top
21738s	of that I wouldn't be surprised if he
21740s	ended up getting a because that's how
21742s	well and how fast frostz can adapt and
21744s	so far he was able to display that today
21746s	and I know he's going to continue to
21748s	display that throughout these group
21749s	stages no I agree I think that Frost of
21752s	us it's it is what it is you know the
21755s	moon Bane incident that game could have
21757s	put him up second you know and just just
21760s	to be above a name like Mike on your
21764s	first day one point behind by the way
21767s	one point deficit yeah we're about to
21769s	see looking at the lower half of the
21771s	leaderboard unfortunately Roman tanoshi
21775s	unique sitting down down in the single
21778s	digits it is what it is first day
21780s	they're not doing too badly though you
21782s	know it's not like they're just getting
21784s	absolutely cooked they're still they're
21787s	still putting up fights I think it's
21788s	it's very it's very safe to say that
21791s	they could potentially go in the lead
21793s	they're in the 20 so that's not that far
21796s	to be honest with you in terms of second
21797s	place 29 that's 30 points that's not too
21800s	necessarily bad if you still
21802s	have. if you have tens there is an
21804s	opportunity for you to come back you
21805s	just need to really pop off I was
21807s	talking about bottom leader oh yeah
21809s	bottom leader oh so the bottom leader
21810s	board now you're in a really tough
21812s	situation now you really have to
21814s	absolutely you got to come out strong
21816s	you got to be smart and you got to
21817s	execute those eliminations early yeah
21819s	you can't wait till close the final game
21821s	and maybe hope and pray that you get
21823s	elimination towards it maybe get a third
21825s	party elimination with a bow or a musket
21827s	and maybe hope for a top three placement
21829s	you got to get those early bird gets the
21831s	worm ahead of time eliminations
21833s	otherwise it's going to be a struggle
21835s	for them but let's hope that maybe they
21836s	can be able to switch this up tomorrow
21838s	is the debut for our group stages for
21842s	our trios tune us here same time
21844s	tomorrow for the same amount of action
21847s	same amount of insanity but also even
21851s	more players it's going to be the trios
21853s	tomorrow same time make sure do not miss
21855s	it interestingly tomorrow's trios is
21858s	actually going to be groups B and C
21861s	typically we go AB a and then BC BC and
21865s	that sort of thing or like AC a you know
21868s	but we're actually going to be getting
21870s	groups B and C tomorrow on our first day
21873s	of
21874s	Tri very exciting again same time don't
21879s	don't miss it I I I mean I'm going to be
21881s	here we're going to be here we are in
21884s	Shanghai let's just say that again it
21887s	doesn't feel real that like we're here
21890s	like you know we we we talked about it
21891s	we've dreamed about it we've said it
21892s	over and over again and I know a lot of
21894s	people in chat know that we've been
21895s	consistent in bringing up the fact that
21897s	we with love to physically be here now
21899s	it is possible and it is here we are
21901s	going to be here this entire time while
21903s	this entire tournament is going on and
21904s	then obviously once we get to Worlds we
21907s	are also going to be doing that as well
21909s	at Worlds and obviously that's going to
21910s	be a great time I'm excited to see what
21912s	that stage looks like on top of it but
21914s	until we go we have one last video and
21917s	we're going to be hearing a little bit
21918s	more from our Na's two-time appearance
21921s	try
21925s	hard hi everyone welcome to to the
21927s	postgame interview and Leah so this time
21930s	we have an try hard to our interview so
21933s	please say hello to our audience first
21934s	hello guys okay welcome to R whe so the
21938s	first question will be like how do you
21939s	think about today's gam um I'm
21942s	definitely upset about my performance um
21945s	I think I think I let uh some things
21947s	outside of the game get to me but I
21948s	don't want to make any excuses uh I
21950s	definitely didn't play my best but um
21952s	I'm looking forward to the next set of
21954s	games okay cool like is the second time
21956s	you come to Jacob uh do you have any
21959s	like different feelings uh compared with
21961s	the last Jacob um I think there's a lot
21963s	more pressure on this one just because
21965s	uh people probably want to see me
21966s	perform just as well as I did in the
21968s	last one yes but um I'd still say I
21970s	enjoy it just the same I think it's the
21972s	level of competition is even better this
21974s	year and I think that's what makes it
21975s	more exciting yes enjoy the game is the
21978s	most important things so because last
21980s	Che Mike didn't like take part in so
21983s	this time is different so for Mike and
21986s	spider like which which you think is
21988s	more horrible um I think spider is
21991s	definitely a harder fighter to to play
21993s	against um especially since he's the
21995s	last year's Champion um and I think that
21997s	he just makes almost no mistakes
21999s	especially today's performance F exactly
22002s	okay so we also want to know how's your
22005s	college life um my college life is good
22007s	uh I definitely took off a lot of time
22009s	to be here but um and I'm doing work
22011s	kind of as I play but um it's good uh
22014s	I'm making friends you know doing my
22016s	work and you know studying he's a big
22018s	part of my life as well so okay so any
22020s	new friends you make this time um for
22023s	this jaob I think uh meeting spider in
22025s	person was pretty cool um and we've
22027s	talked before previously and I also got
22029s	to meet um all of the casters were very
22031s	nice and they were good friends of mine
22033s	as well so you talk with spider like use
22036s	your phone or he speak English yeah I
22038s	have um uh we have each other added on
22040s	WeChat so we used to talk um even when I
22043s	was back in America as well oh so wish I
22045s	had to translate to into English to you
22048s	yes okay cool so for this time jup
22052s	what's your goal um I still want to win
22054s	this J cup obviously um last year I felt
22057s	like I wasn't prepared enough and I
22059s	still managed to do as well as I did and
22061s	this year even though I feel I prepared
22063s	a lot like especially in the last these
22065s	games today yes I just wasn't as
22066s	confident as I usually am um and I think
22069s	that's what I'm going to try and fix for
22071s	the next set of games for sure yes so
22073s	for today's game it's just a little
22074s	start for every player I think so you
22078s	still have a really long journey for
22080s	this time okay so that's all for the
22082s	interview thank you try hard for doing
22083s	this just good luck to you for the
22085s	following game thank you so much bye-bye
22088s	everyone much love to try hard obviously
22091s	definitely not the result that he wanted
22092s	but he definitely can come back and
22094s	absolutely decimate in our next day for
22097s	solos but for tomorrow it's about a
22099s	trios and for try hard and Le he gets a
22101s	chance to rest least he gets a chance to
22103s	or or technically he might not no he's
22105s	playing tomorrow he is playing tomor
22107s	playing tomorrow so now time to get
22108s	right back it's time to get right is he
22110s	playing wait I don't know I can't
22112s	remember which group he is in I'm not
22114s	100% I think he may in fact playing
22116s	tomorrow could be dishing that out into
22120s	it though but obviously when it comes to
22121s	scheduling like I said same time same
22123s	place tomorrow when it comes to the
22125s	trios but that is going to do it for us
22127s	here myself and of course Duncan it's
22132s	been a pleasure to finally cast with you
22133s	for the first time who would have
22134s	thought it be in Shanghai how Budd has
22136s	hey real life hey kind of all over the
22139s	place but that's going to do it for us
22141s	here thank you good morning good evening
22143s	noon and night to everybody that's
22144s	watching and we'll see you guys tomorrow
22146s	Trio same time as
22166s	always
22171s	[Music]
22224s	[Music]
22256s	you
22286s	to
22315s	for
22345s	you
22363s	[Music]
22375s	play
22377s	[Music]
22405s	oh
22410s	[Music]
22429s	[Music]
22451s	[Music]
22465s	oh
22469s	[Music]
22495s	oh
22504s	[Music]
22525s	o
22530s	[Music]
22555s	I
22557s	[Music]
22585s	oh
22597s	[Music]
22615s	oh
22618s	[Music]
22645s	oh
22648s	[Music]
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22675s	oh
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22712s	oh

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