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627s what is up OverWatch fans I hope you
630s guys are all having a wonderful weekend
632s and if you're not well I think you're
634s about to because we are here today to
636s bring you the calling all heroes rise
638s together minor 3 hosted of course by
641s Toronto defiant we've got the best
643s marginalized gender talent that this
645s scene has to offer and I am so excited
648s to get to be the one to bring it to you
650s my name is CB and I'm joined by my
651s lovely coaster Jag who I know is just as
654s eager as I am to get into it absolutely
658s we got some great games last week on
660s Saturday during the Swiss stage but I
661s got to say I was a little jealous of
664s both Kwing and Chef Billy we got two Z
666s OverWatch throughout the entire of our
669s cast they got a bunch of map threes they
671s even got a map four but it's playoff
673s season it is playoff time and I'm hoping
675s that we get to see some great games as
677s well as some extra Maps here today yeah
679s I I I was a little bit upset as well a
681s little bit jealous but like I can't be
682s too jealous cuz we get to do playoffs
684s like that's not the flex on billion K
686s wing a little Flex a little you know
688s just a wee bit not too much of a flex
690s though they got some Banger maps and
691s those matches that they got to see set
693s up some incredible storylines for this
695s playoffs bracket and I can't wait to dig
697s deep into it cuz there is a lot to
699s unpack here and even like when we start
701s off with our first map there's a ton of
703s moving parts that I cannot wait to get
705s into with you yeah absolutely and if you
708s are new to calling all heroes or if you
710s just didn't get to see last weekend
711s we've got a little refresher here for
713s you to show you exactly what the format
715s of calling o Heroes is exactly how it
717s works as you see here we started with
719s have two days of Swiss stage play now we
721s are down to our top eight teams the best
724s of the best here at the rise together
726s minor 3 and it is double elimination so
729s the good news is that if you lose here
731s in round one you're not done there's
733s still plenty of chances to get back to
735s the swing thing there plenty of chances
736s to get into that grand finals later on
740s tomorrow but I got to say it's you know
742s round one being a first of two a little
744s bit less room you know if you make that
746s mistake you fall down early a little bit
747s harder to get back up but then
748s everything from there on in is going to
750s be a first to three yeah it's a it's
753s nice to have that little first to three
754s safety net down there in the lower
756s bracket it does help you know be a
758s little bit more conducive to that
759s Miracle lower bracket run that we all
761s love to see everyone loves a good double
762s Alm bracket and I'm no different and you
765s know the this first round being first
766s and two like you said is very
767s interesting but it does also kind of you
769s know help us get things along help us
771s get into the swing of things get you
773s know sort the wheat from the chaff a
774s little bit earlier cuz there's a lot of
776s uh like I said a lot of moving Parts in
778s this early rounds we we want to get into
779s it we want to get deep into the bracket
781s we want to see all these story lines
783s unfold before our very eyes because
785s these teams they're all hungry they all
787s want to play to win they all want to win
790s that cash prize they also want to win
792s those circuit points that's what it is
794s all about at the end of the day all of
797s these teams just playing to try and get
799s as much circuit points as they can so
800s they can win a spot in the championship
803s and again we only have one more major
806s calling all heroes tournament after this
808s and then it's c q so those circuit
810s points are all
812s important absolutely and again it is per
815s a player not per a team so sometimes
818s those uh I would say rewards uh shift
821s over time some of the points shift over
823s time team to team based on where players
826s have been previously but we know that
829s you are competing for a top six spot you
831s get into the top six after the next
833s major you have secured your place in
836s that grand finals championship happening
838s in
839s 2024 but here today I mean there is
843s going to be something for the viewers as
845s well we don't want to leave you out
846s whatsoever the players they know what
847s they're playing for but you watching at
850s home will also be able to get some
851s amazing things from the broadcast we got
854s skins of course we've got skins last
856s week it was Mercy this week we've got
859s KIRO and Hanzo yep KIRO and Hanzo
862s Contender skins going to be available
863s all weekend so make sure you stay tuned
865s in because we're going to be back here
867s tomorrow as well so we got all day today
870s all day tomorrow to rack up those hours
872s build up those skins you know and then
874s uh you know represent tier two when you
875s go into into game we all love to rep
878s tier 2 and you know support OverWatch
880s contenders and hey you can do that by
882s also supporting calling all heroes which
884s is what you're here to do so you know
886s get some skins for it absolutely I mean
888s what's what's better than watching some
890s amazing OverWatch and getting rewarded
891s for it but going back to last weekend
894s and what we saw it was a bit of a doozy
897s you and I we had expectations I think
899s those expectations were shattered in a
901s few different places I know I was
902s expecting a very I would say I didn't
905s expect like a meta to form I didn't
907s expect every team to be running the same
909s thing and we did see some variation here
910s and there it seems like a lot of teams
912s wanted to run a sigma rush or Sigma wiel
914s Lucio Baptist run a little bit of DPS
917s that were a bit different some Bastion
919s some Genji some soj some Ekko but also
922s where teams finished was not what I
923s expected whatsoever there were some big
925s upsets there were some teams that did
926s not make this top eight that I was
928s expecting to here in playoffs yeah a
931s couple you know notable exceptions we
932s don't get to see kunoichi cgl here
935s Valiant Guardians actually just barely
937s squeaked by didn't actually uh make or
940s sorry almost like didn't actually make
942s it in with that 4-2 record they're still
943s kind of sitting middle of the pack but I
945s kind of expected them to hit a little
947s bit harder uh Fable also just barely
950s squeaking by three and three there's
952s definitely a story lineing to that team
953s that I want to get into A True Underdog
956s Story from Fable and I'm looking forward
958s to seeing them a little bit later L on
959s today if we have the chance to get them
960s on the broadcast but you know again
962s going back to the teams that didn't make
964s it you know bad blood is another one
966s that we might have expected to see as
968s athoth another one that has a ton of
970s talent and didn't quite make it in all
972s of these three in three teams that just
973s narrowly missed the playoffs any of them
977s could have been here and it would like
978s no one would have been surprised but
980s those over on the left hand side of your
982s screen that's our top eight that's who
983s we have to work with today and there is
985s still a ton a ton of talent over on that
989s side and a ton of story lines like I
990s said that I cannot wait to get to
992s untangle for all of you and let let's
995s get into it let's have a look at the
996s bracket here so that we can see how some
999s of these story lines are going to unfold
1001s like you've already seen our first match
1003s up of the day is going to be this first
1005s round first of two match up between GRE
1007s Nightmare and Vancouver Titans blue
1009s which you know we have seen before but
1011s we'll get into that and as you can see
1013s there's also a ton of other Banger
1016s matches waston Timeless versus Fable
1018s that's going to be a big one that I
1019s definitely want to see Aegis versus
1020s Valiant Guardians is going to be another
1023s close call either way you slice it
1025s there's so much to to look forward to
1027s here there absolutely is in Washington
1029s Timeless have been absolutely
1030s outstanding throughout the entire
1031s tournament not only are they our first
1033s seed coming into playoffs not only are
1036s they on an undefeated match streak
1038s they're on an undefeated map streak they
1040s have not dropped a single map throughout
1042s all of the rise together minor three
1044s thus far so Fable that Underdog run that
1046s you discussed I mean they got to pull
1048s out some mirac here to beat this Goliath
1050s that Washington Timeless has become over
1052s the last few uh events here in calling
1054s all heroes and then down at Valley and
1056s Gardens you mentioned them before uh
1058s four or two doesn't look like squeaking
1059s by that much on paper but they were one
1061s and two uh leaving the first day of last
1064s weekend in the Swiss stage they had to
1065s go perfect on the day in day two to get
1068s to where they are and they only got a
1070s six seed through all of that hard work
1072s however we do know they had some roster
1074s issues they weren't playing with their
1075s main support lineup so I'm very
1077s interested to see with new players in
1079s the mix how they'll be able to Fair
1081s themselves but we got to talk about this
1084s matchup that's in the lower third right
1086s now jury nightmare against Vancouver
1088s Titans blue I was not expecting jery
1091s nightmare to get the number two seed
1093s looking at the amount of talent looking
1095s at the established teams that we have
1096s here in calling all heroes it was very
1099s surprising but they went on a 5- one run
1102s a very impressive feat but I think you
1104s and I still have some questions about
1106s their overall performance you look at
1108s the teams that they ended up playing
1110s against last week and it wasn't
1112s necessarily the most challenging of
1114s opponents I would say Yeah you mentioned
1116s that one loss on their record and that
1118s one loss was to drainers who we do have
1120s to consider to be one of the potential
1121s favorites to walk away with the whole
1123s thing but you know a loss is still a
1125s loss and we haven't seen a whole lot of
1127s other big big wins out of there you know
1130s we do see some of the other Playoff
1132s teams bar claw Vancouver Titans blue and
1134s Aegis all on their chopping block all
1136s being ran through but
1139s those still aren't like the top top
1141s teams when it comes to those top teams
1143s like drainers like Washington Timeless
1145s we haven't really gotten to see them be
1146s tested properly they even walked away
1148s with a Buy in round one which you know
1151s is nothing to shake it like it's it is
1153s what it is it happens sometimes the
1154s bracket just happens that way but it
1156s means that we didn't really get to see
1157s them at full strength they have
1159s potential but can they keep up the pace
1161s and can they step it up the next time
1163s they go up against a roster like a
1165s drainers or like a Washington Timeless
1167s and for that matter matter can they beat
1170s this new iteration of Vancouver Titans
1172s blue who you can see they went three and
1174s three in Swiss last weekend but there is
1178s a pretty big asterisk next to that yeah
1181s you look at this record you're thinking
1183s oh three and three middle of the table
1185s you know not able to get a positive win
1187s loss their only wins are over teams that
1189s did not make playoffs either but that is
1193s a big ass risk and we're going to get to
1194s that in just a moment we're going to be
1196s looking at the rosters in just a little
1198s little bit but you look at this and
1200s you're saying oh it's a 21 victory for
1202s jurry nightmare like this is just going
1203s to be a repeat like how could this be
1205s different well it could be very
1207s different because Vancouver Titans blue
1208s did not play with the same starting five
1211s last week as they will this week they
1212s had some players that were ill they had
1214s some players that had to go into a
1216s different role than they're used to to
1218s try to fill in those holes in the roster
1220s so even though I feel like we've seen a
1222s lot of what GRE can do I don't think
1223s we've seen a lot of what can uh what
1225s Vancouver Titans blue can do just yet
1228s yeah absolutely and once we get into
1230s those rosters we can start to talk a
1231s little bit about that because again yeah
1232s I know you're saying to yourself dear
1234s viewer CB I have already seen this match
1236s up but I can assure you that you have
1238s not because there is going to be a lot
1241s of different moving pieces and a lot of
1242s different things that we are going to
1244s see potentially some meta shaking coming
1246s out uh from the side of Vancouver Titans
1248s blue we'll get to that in a second but
1250s first here is your starting lineup for
1252s GRE Nightmare and there was a lot to be
1254s impressed by by this roster last weekend
1256s I want to call out persona as being a
1259s high point of this team as well as
1261s Vanguard all of the tanks in calling all
1263s heroes especially in this crop of
1265s playoff Talent has thoroughly impressed
1267s me and Vanguard is no different yeah
1270s Persona a player that has been on Team
1272s Peru for the OverWatch World Cup twice
1274s now including this past year uh Vanguard
1277s also looked very impressive they ran a
1279s lot of Sigma comps a lot of orisa comps
1281s and looked very good overall it was a
1283s 2-1 they did end up dropping that
1285s control map but I got to say new junk
1287s City especially from that V if you were
1288s able to watch either live or just watch
1291s the recording of it they looked really
1293s really well established and really just
1296s well versed in the sigma compositions
1299s but we got to move on to Vancouver
1300s Titans blue now show exactly what
1302s they're bringing to the table today and
1304s like we said very very different from
1307s what we had last week phone was on tank
1309s that's something to note uh she did she
1312s looked pretty good on the Reinhardt and
1313s they she was trying to also run the
1315s sigma here and there but you know she's
1317s a hit scan player she is a TPS player so
1319s she's going to be back in her main role
1321s today yeah we also were missing out on
1323s Claire and spinor spy or's absence was
1326s what drove phone over to the tank roll
1328s and so Vancouver Titans blue were
1330s essentially playing with two
1331s substitutions and a player off rolling
1334s at that point it's an entirely different
1335s team so sure GRE nightmare did look
1338s impressive going up against them but
1339s that wasn't Vancouver Titans blue at
1341s their full strength not to make excuses
1343s for Vancouver Titans Blue by the way
1345s because you know they still made their
1346s bed and they had to lay in it it's
1347s impressive though that under those
1349s conditions Vancouver Titans blue were
1350s able to make it to playoffs at all but
1354s now we actually get to see what they
1356s look like at full strength has there
1357s been some sort of lost time from not
1359s having those players in the rotation
1360s from having phone not on her Comfort
1362s pick is there going to be any you know
1365s growing pains with this roster or is
1366s this the full Titans that GRE nightmare
1369s are going up against that they might not
1371s be fully prepared for they might not
1373s know what it is that they're walking
1375s into there's a lot of questions like we
1377s said Can GRE nightmare keep the pace
1378s well we'll find out if they can take
1380s down what might be a full Vancouver
1382s Titans blue and is it a full strength
1384s Vancouver Titans blue there is only one
1386s way to find out and that is by throwing
1389s these two Beyblades into the arena and
1391s seeing which one of them stops spinning
1392s first you got to spin to win right
1395s whether it's the orisa maybe even a
1396s Reaper that comes out to play but I
1398s think these two teams have a very
1400s interesting dichotomy they they kind of
1401s have a contrast to each other J
1403s nightmare is a new team for all senses
1405s you know this is the first event they've
1406s played together under this name however
1408s they have a lot of history you've got
1410s few members that were from um the old
1412s Griff Guardians team before they were
1413s rebranded to Valiant Guardians you have
1415s some members from chikami who have been
1417s a long-standing team uh that have
1419s represented marginalized genders um in
1422s the scene of OverWatch open division
1423s contenders Etc meanwhile Vancouver
1425s Titans blue this is a roster that has
1427s been together since or at least the team
1429s has been together since uh basically the
1430s beginning of calling all heroes but
1432s they've never really been able to find
1434s that success they're looking for they're
1435s an established or part of an OverWatch
1438s league team team but they've never
1439s finished higher than fifth or sixth
1440s they've never been able to break into
1442s that top four so it's really intriguing
1444s that you have this team that's been
1445s longstanding that hasn't really found
1447s the same success as some other teams
1448s that are with OverWatch League
1450s organizations versus GRE nightmare these
1452s New Kids on the Block who have been
1454s absolutely dominating early on but maybe
1456s haven't been tested as much as some of
1457s the other teams that are in the top four
1460s I mean they're about to be tested right
1462s now and by the way I've seen a little
1464s like I've been talking a little bit with
1465s Claire uh from Vancouver Titans blue and
1467s seen little bit of glimpses as to what
1470s Vancouver Titans blue have been
1471s scrimming you talked earlier about the
1472s meta about how all these teams want to
1474s play Sigma and the sigma play again
1476s across the board has been phenomenal but
1478s I've seen a couple of screenshots of
1480s compositions that Vancouver Titans blue
1482s have been running I don't think we're
1483s going to see it on control but when we
1484s get into our second map which let's be
1487s realistic is probably going to be numani
1488s because that's what everybody loves to
1490s pick for hybrid don't be surprised if
1492s you see a wrecking ball that's all I'm
1494s going to say I'm not going to promise
1496s anything I'm not going to hold anybody
1497s to it and I don't want to look like a
1499s fool if they come out and try to play
1500s The Meta as well but do not be surprised
1503s as for our Antarctic Peninsula which is
1505s going to be our first map for control I
1507s don't expect there to be any surprises I
1509s expect both teams to run out with some
1510s variation of Rush potentially that
1512s Reinhardt Rush as that's a little bit
1513s more conducive here or maybe sticking
1516s with that tried and true Sigma that we
1517s have seen every pretty much every team
1519s that made playoffs favor yeah absolutely
1522s and as we talk about aaric Peninsula you
1524s know depending on the submap some are a
1526s bit better for just running at the enemy
1528s team I I don't think High Ground usually
1529s is a big contesting point on this map
1532s except for one of the sub Maps but
1533s overall it's kind of just they're
1535s running at each other the entire time
1536s you're trying to overpower the enemy
1538s team you're trying to show who's boss
1540s the opposition early on and momentum is
1542s so important on these control Maps you
1544s win the first fight you get that first
1546s point capture and your odds of winning
1548s that submap go up exponentially and
1551s again this is a match we've already seen
1552s this was the one map type that Vancouver
1554s Titans blue were able to take it was on
1556s Le Jong Tower so a bit of a different
1558s look here a very different map typ I
1560s feel Leong Tower is a bit more diverse
1563s in the compositions you can run
1564s depending on what submap it is here it's
1565s kind of more of the same but already
1567s we're going to see a very different look
1569s early on for Vancouver Titans blue they
1571s did they did run the sigma a little bit
1573s with ph but mostly it was Ry all day
1575s every day you can see Spiner back in the
1577s lineup going to be running with the
1578s sigma early on uh maybe not running
1582s maybe you know taking a
1584s pause maybe well that that was more a
1588s was trying to make a joke about the fact
1589s that we're pausing we're not running
1590s we're going nowhere fast yeah Sigma also
1592s doesn't run he just kind of like
1593s levitates with the dogs hanging out
1594s there like you know kicking over a
1596s couple rocks as he floats by happens you
1598s know it it's just who he is uh I'm
1602s curious like what this is going to look
1604s like as we go into Su LEL cuz again a
1606s lot of these Maps tend to favor that
1608s Reinhardt Rush style and we saw J
1610s nightmare quickly flashing and showing
1612s the Arisa composition which is a little
1614s bit more close to what that Reinhardt
1617s wants to do we didn't really get a whole
1619s lot to go on here but all right quickly
1621s back into the action very short pause
1624s hate to have to do that to you chat but
1626s here we are ready to go like you said
1628s Vancouver Titans blue on that Sigma
1630s composition floating not running out the
1634s gates the big Advantage they have is
1636s with the shield the Bastion can live for
1638s days phone can just sit behind the
1639s shield do a lot more damage it's a
1641s little bit more difficult for Persona
1642s he's going to have to play a few more
1644s off angles going to have to be a little
1645s bit more careful with just being out in
1647s the open
1648s and you're going to see M them trying to
1650s get that wall early on but it's
1651s immediately broken yeah not a whole lot
1653s of space being taken by the sigment
1655s right now but phone with the early pick
1656s off there onto Persona means that
1657s Vancouver Titans blue can just go ahead
1659s and March right on forward and with
1660s Vanguard out of the picture there is no
1662s longer a horse to stop the March
1664s Vancouver Titans blue with a pretty
1665s Swift and easy first point cap and
1668s they're even playing a little bit
1669s forward to hold space and make it so G
1670s nightmare has to swap comps if they have
1672s any hopes of getting back into it I feel
1674s like this is the one map you'd
1675s especially want to run a Reinhardt on if
1677s you're not going to be running the sigma
1678s yeah here it is because you want to
1679s control that High Ground you want to
1680s have that Shield like I was saying you
1681s can see there spor just created so much
1683s space for phone to just continue to
1685s throw out so much damage but now it's
1686s going to be the opposite May wall coming
1688s out yeah the May Wall comes out for
1689s Mercedes they SWA to the may as well
1691s does g Nightmare and it does pay
1693s dividends almost instantly that wall
1695s behind a sigma is a death sentence
1696s there's nothing that Sigma can do you
1698s just got to hope that your team either
1699s breaks it or gets a clutch immortality
1701s field and yeah the attempts were in vain
1704s for Vancouver Titans blue as J nightmare
1707s off the back of that one swift easy pick
1709s off flip the point only 32% for vtb
1712s they've completely just flipped
1713s everything I mean the comp's a little
1714s bit different the Reinhardt is a big win
1716s for them but they already have their
1717s matching amplification Matrix there's no
1719s Al advantage on the side of Vancouver
1720s Titans blue now they're going to have a
1722s really hard time trying to get back in
1723s you can see the Wall come out again
1725s their game plane is very simple they're
1726s just going to keep bring up the wall and
1727s hope that they can catch someone off
1728s guard that time Vancouver Titans blue
1730s able to sustain through it they're going
1733s to go for the blizzard but McMan Falls I
1735s wanted to call out that McMan already
1736s had the blizzard but I mean it doesn't
1738s seem like there's going to be a whole
1739s lot of followup I don't even know if it
1740s went off but that said bone going to go
1742s ahead and continue the investment try
1744s and uh get a little bit more value they
1746s do take down Mercedes but it's traded
1748s out and with the blizzard coming out
1749s from Mercedes before before before it
1752s All Falls Down Vancouver Titans blue
1754s they can't really get a whole lot of
1756s purchase and yeah that's just a dead
1758s fight and they used two DPS ultimates
1761s there Jer nightmare meanwhile has
1763s everything except for the blizzard that
1764s just went out soer Titans they're going
1766s to try to make some swaps Dawn is the
1768s May going to the Genji trying to go for
1770s some of that more consistent upfront
1772s damage as opposed to trying to catch
1773s someone off guard with the wall and dash
1775s through immediately take someone out
1776s who's pretty low a matrix going to be
1778s finally used here by CLA it's going to
1780s create some space but jur nightmare they
1782s are just kiing it and now they're going
1783s to fight it on the fo with all their
1784s ultimates it's going to be the overlock
1786s coming out first it's a very interesting
1789s uh ant Maj that comes out from CLA from
1790s the low ground to The High Ground and
1791s you can see the value that The High
1793s Ground from the low ground that jonno
1794s puts out with their ant Matrix the value
1796s that that puts out is exponentially
1799s bigger than the one that Vancouver
1801s Titans blue got there and a l stagger
1803s there onto mikum is going to make it all
1805s the more difficult for Vancouver Titans
1806s blue to get back in there 85% and
1809s Ticking one fight territory how do
1811s Vancouver Titans blue get in on here
1813s they do have a gratic flux they also
1815s have a sound Bearer so really it's about
1817s Nostalgia Staying Alive they have to
1818s make sure they can at least match the
1819s sound Bearer it's about to come out
1820s there it is they're going to use it
1822s early and now they're going to use their
1823s own sound barrier as a counter now
1824s everything is even but it's going to be
1826s a little bit of an advantage for
1826s Vancouver Titans blue because they'll
1828s have the overshoots a little bit longer
1829s and there's their first pick yeah and
1831s it's a pretty valuable one taking out
1832s the Lucio there puu is going to fall in
1834s Vanguard going to fall not long after
1836s and spinor is kind of going absolutely
1838s crazy right now the sigma play from her
1840s was absolutely missed no you know no
1843s shade toone on the tank but spinor is
1845s The Real McCoy and that is what
1847s Vancouver Titans blue need but now they
1849s need to run it back and hold all the way
1851s back up to 100 yeah they have to win
1853s every fight from here on out if they
1855s lose even one it is doomed here on this
1857s submap it's going to be one Z for G
1859s nightmare good news is that that blade
1861s that Genji swap is starting to pay
1862s dividends they are starting to get some
1864s Quick Picks but also that blade almost
1865s locked and loaded they know that there's
1867s going to be no um sound Barry because it
1869s was just used all right G nightmare
1872s charging forward phone gets a little bit
1874s caught out there Persona with a swift
1876s rail shot to the Dome and that is going
1878s to be the Bastion now taken off the
1880s field and that gives Jerry nightmare all
1882s the room they could possibly want to
1883s charge forward M McMan barely able to
1886s get out alive you don't want to lose
1888s another DPS Persona slides away narrowly
1891s avoiding defeat there the Blade's going
1893s to come out from McMan but there's a
1895s blizzard from Mercedes that they're
1896s going to have to watch out for and it's
1898s not enough McMan going to fall spinor
1901s getting Frozen up Vanguard does fall as
1903s phone is now back on the field Spiner is
1905s actually still clinging onto life with
1907s their bare feet and I mean Vancouver
1909s Titans blue just barely somehow are able
1911s to hold on here a token artillery strike
1913s coming up from phone might just be
1915s looking for a stagger 90% one fight left
1918s to
1919s go oh they're going to potentially want
1921s that back I think they were trying to
1923s force out the immortality field or get
1924s that really quick pick onto the bapti
1926s but neither happened it is going to the
1929s charge from Vanguard who can't get there
1932s Vancouver Titans blue it doesn't even
1934s matter that the artillery strike was
1935s used a great sound wave there to catch
1938s the tank off guard they're not able to
1941s touch and Vancouver Titans blw they
1943s steal one there yeah they understood the
1945s assignment there that Boop from
1946s Nostalgia and then the gravitic flux
1948s from spinor just as an insurance policy
1950s in case Vanguard still touched after
1952s that Boop that was just impeccable
1954s timing great play not a C9 by any
1957s stretch of the imagination you know just
1959s good old classic hey we're not going to
1961s let you touch the point we don't have to
1963s kill you we just have to Zone you
1965s out absolutely it's not a C9 there was
1968s there was an attempt there was potential
1971s to go for that last second contest but
1974s just the ability usage by Vancouver
1975s Titans blue too good at the very end
1977s very very clutch but as we move now to
1979s our next sub map here it's going to be
1982s very interesting there's actually going
1983s to be a stay here for Mercedes on the
1986s cetra we saw it last time for the
1988s teleporter so they could try to get to
1989s the point I really would love to see a g
1991s nightmare just try to teleport around
1992s vancer Titans who try to get behind them
1994s and go for some flank stuff but they're
1996s just going to get Vanguard right off the
1997s bat yeah someone needs to teleport
1999s Vanguard to a hospital right there and
2000s CLA is going to be more than happy to
2002s help out with that persona's going to
2003s fall as well and yeah it's just classic
2005s OverWatch with no tank there's no one to
2007s up all the damage and when it falls to
2009s everyone else they don't last very long
2011s Vancouver Titans blue once again with
2012s the first
2013s cap yeah and here's the thing if you
2016s aren't able to be aggressive as Vanguard
2018s as Yuri nightmare like you can't really
2020s do much with this comp you saw the wall
2022s it created a lot of space you can see
2023s actually jur and Nightmare is already
2024s now swapped back to the May no more
2026s symmetra they're trying to masch them
2028s once again but they're having a really
2031s hard time rotating into this you can see
2032s that Vancouver Titans blue they are
2033s getting smarter with how they are
2035s playing they're playing a bit more split
2036s they're making sure they can't get off
2037s card and again they get this first pick
2039s yeah jonno gets a little bit lost there
2041s gets uh found by a McMan who's going to
2043s also clean up Mercedes and this should
2045s be a pretty Swift Fight Win for uh
2047s Vancouver Titans blue and it was a good
2049s rotation from Jerry nightmare but they
2050s just kind of put themselves in a
2051s position where phone can just pump in
2053s all the damage melt the shield and with
2055s no Shield what do you got just a couple
2057s of icicles lodged in your temple
2060s Mercedes now trying to play some musical
2062s chairs with the DPS this is now the
2064s third swap they made the echo could
2066s potentially be a game changer
2068s if they are able to fly over the top get
2069s some sticky grenades in the focusing
2070s beam they could instantly melt someone
2072s it's actually going to be the artillery
2074s strike first from phone doesn't find
2076s much but it does create a lot of space
2077s once again just creating some space
2080s buying some time and that's all
2081s Vancouver Titans blue need right now
2082s they did also invest the amp Matrix
2084s though I think I would have liked to
2086s have that one back especially since GRE
2087s nightmare have one of their own as well
2089s as a sound barrier so they might be able
2091s to get some purches with this if they
2093s are able to get the angles they're still
2095s you know trying to find a way in still a
2097s little lost still looking for the lamb
2098s sauce right now and Mercedes gets caught
2100s out by CLA the gravitic flux from spor
2102s with the sound barrier to respond but
2104s having that out of play oh that was an
2107s opportunity for G nightmare to make a
2108s move and they just
2110s didn't that was every Ultimate thougher
2112s Titans blue has used everything in that
2113s last engagement jury nightmare they have
2115s ultimates but do they have time they're
2117s getting hunted down one by one Johnny
2119s who cannot live long enough the
2120s emergency doomfist for the touch CB I
2123s don't think there's going to be a
2124s contest here no everyone from Vancouver
2126s Titans blue is playing forward and
2127s there's another nice Bo there to stop
2129s Vanguard from getting to the point all
2131s the body blocking everything you could
2132s possibly want to not let that doomfist
2134s touch and again like you know we saw
2137s that in that early engagement Vancouver
2139s Titans blue invested two ultimates and
2141s they didn't really get a whole lot but
2143s time and space that was an opportunity
2145s for G nightmare to go in with their old
2147s advantage to try and make something
2148s happen but you know you had Persona
2150s going out for a flank that just got
2151s caught out you had everybody else not
2153s really pushing in to help make the space
2155s for them and it all just kind of falls
2157s apart there and Vancouver Titans blue
2159s once again second verse same as the
2162s first take control 2 to
2164s zero same beginning same first chapter
2168s but can they rewrite the script going
2169s forward they had a hot start last time
2172s again they got that control map in the
2173s last first two as well but then they got
2175s reverse swept losing the last two maps
2177s of the series to drop that game in the
2179s Swiss stage but it's a new Vancouver
2181s Titans blue it's a whole new day we'll
2182s see if they can keep bringing the heat I
2185s got to say for G nightmare I like the
2187s rinard swap it looks like it was a bit
2189s more comfortable for them um maybe going
2191s forward they will try to play the sigma
2192s counter considering or the sigma mirror
2194s excuse me cuz that's what they played
2195s most of the last series but I got to say
2197s especially on Icebreaker if you're not
2200s running the symmetra it's going to be
2202s incredibly difficult for you to make
2203s that R work I think on um sub level it's
2205s a little bit easier cuz there's a lot of
2206s high ground you kind of just like run
2208s around but on Icebreaker you have to
2210s teleport behind you've got to try to
2211s find them out of position you got to try
2213s to go for some of those crazy flank
2214s plays and once it didn't work you could
2216s see like
2217s the it kind of seemed like they were
2219s getting a bit uh frazzled they were kind
2221s of panicking a little bit you saw all
2222s the different swaps they never really
2224s got to build that alt Bank up and once
2226s they finally had ultimates it was just a
2227s little bit too late so J nightmare not
2229s getting off to the start they wanted to
2231s but they at least have one more map to
2232s try to bring it back yeah Vancouver
2234s Titans blue made it just a little bit
2235s too hot in the kitchen for GRE nightmare
2237s to have cold feet at the wrong time this
2239s is no time to be shy you have to try and
2242s make it happen like we said it is a
2244s first to two so G nightmare they're
2246s already behind the eight staring down
2248s the barrel of going to the losers
2250s bracket if they do not shape up it's
2251s going to be their map pick and just a
2253s prediction we're going to Nani like
2255s surely that's what's going to happen
2256s it's what happened last time it's what
2258s happened nearly every time I think there
2260s was like one oh wait no okay Midtown
2263s interesting interesting I was going to
2265s say there was like one matchup and I
2267s think it was this one that we went to
2268s Midtown last time actually now that I
2270s now that I think about it a little bit
2271s harder I put my noodle to it ji
2274s nightmare do like to go to Midtown so we
2275s might not see the the uh the spinor ball
2278s that I was uh potentially alluding to or
2280s we might and it would be even more
2281s insane but this does uh this does bring
2284s forth some more interesting narratives I
2287s mean this is like you were saying like
2288s this was the map pick last time that we
2290s went to I believe yeah it was Yuri neare
2293s who picked this because they lost
2294s control the last time they played as
2295s well and this was a 3 0 they got a full
2297s capture and a full hold on that first
2299s point for Jerry nightmare so they're
2301s feeling confident you know they want to
2302s run it back they want to say hey we did
2304s it once before we can do it again but
2306s again this is a different for Titans
2307s this is not the same roster they played
2309s last time phone again they were on tank
2311s it was a Reinhardt based composition
2313s most of the time I believe they only
2315s brought out the sigma for Vi junk City
2317s so I think we're going to see Sigma this
2319s time around I I think we're going to see
2321s that just consistently come out from
2323s spor cuz why not you know it worked on
2326s the last map let's make it work again so
2328s because of that I'm not expecting this
2330s to be a 30-0 I'm not expecting this to
2332s be an easy sweep for GR nightmare I'm
2333s expecting this to be a much more
2336s contested map like I could easily see
2337s this going three three and then we get
2339s extra rounds and honestly I'm kind of
2340s hoping for it cuz again all we got was
2342s two OverWatch last time give me more I
2344s want more don't worry we will get more
2346s as we move on to the the the first of
2348s Threes later on in the round like or
2350s later on in the day we've got we got
2352s plenty of time this one I mean there is
2354s a chance of it being a 2 if this is a
2357s little bit too much confidence coming up
2358s from gr nightmare in this pick like you
2360s said they won it last time why wouldn't
2361s they feel confident why wouldn't they
2363s feel confident when they you know full
2365s capped and then full held that seems
2367s like a recipe for Success nine times out
2369s of 10 but again like you said they now
2371s have to go up against spinor and spinor
2373s sigma looked incredible and I also know
2375s that she's got some other hero plays
2376s that I've alluded to in her back pocket
2378s that she can pull out I feel like this
2381s might be a sigma Arisa kind of deal for
2384s J nightmare that they might want to kind
2386s of bounce back and forth between those
2387s two Heroes we'll have to see what they
2389s do actually come out here with cuz I'm
2391s thinking about that first choke on point
2393s a and how it is that the attackers are
2395s going to break through it it's always
2397s interesting to me to see what tank you
2399s choose here I you know typically lead on
2401s junker Queen because I'm a one trick and
2403s very predictable and I am a simp for
2405s junker Queen but you know a lot of these
2407s tournaments we've seen a lot of the
2408s sigma play this is the only like
2411s deviation that we've seen not a whole
2413s lot of numbani Midtown and it still felt
2415s very stigma in Arisa favored I want to
2418s say this is also our first time
2419s personally you and I that we've seen a
2421s non numbani map here for map number two
2423s so it's great to see some other hybrid
2425s maps in the pool just you know you know
2427s it's fun to have variety but I am trying
2429s to remember I think from what we saw
2431s last week this was one of the maps they
2433s did run a r r on I remember new junk
2434s city was especially one of the maps they
2435s like hard committed to orisa on so again
2437s like I I wouldn't be surprised if vanard
2439s runs it back I think they'll probably
2440s try to run some of the same strats
2442s Vancouver T blue how do they adapt here
2444s I think that's the big question they are
2446s going to be believe defending first uh
2449s yeah so I I think the biggest thing
2451s right now is Van Titans but they really
2452s have to have a solid defense last time
2454s they got ran through a little bit the
2455s time bank wasn't the big biggest in the
2457s world but they did give up all three
2458s points uh they're going to be running
2460s Nostalgia on the Bita which is something
2461s that I also believe we saw a little bit
2463s from their last series didn't find too
2466s much uh success from it but I think with
2469s you know their fully intend up line
2470s fully intended lineup now this should be
2472s working a lot better you're essentially
2474s assuming that they're going to run an
2475s orisa and this is a great way to stop
2476s orisa from just running straight into
2478s you I don't believe it counters the
2480s javelin spear or when they or when the
2481s Arisa fortifies but if you know she's
2483s just not golden if she's not using the
2485s Javin spe can easily go for flail but
2487s it's going to be Vanguard actually
2488s mirroring for the first time on the
2489s sigma I I I think the BR pick is
2492s actually so you can throw cookies at the
2493s echo in the sky and try and keep that
2495s Echo a little bit a little bit sustained
2496s without like fully investing with a
2498s mercy and uh not having that extra
2500s little bit of healing and that extra
2501s little bit of CC and utility for the
2503s rest of your team that said like you
2505s said it's a mirror composition so both
2507s teams seem to have the same idea but who
2509s has the better version of it who has the
2512s the patent on it the trademark we'll
2513s have to see as it is Yuri Nightmare on
2515s the attack mer Mercedes gets stuck up
2517s there by McMan there and they're
2519s starting to charge through with that
2521s Bastion making a little bit of space
2523s here but they're not quite able to find
2524s the Angles and jury nightmare are forced
2526s back by Vancouver Titans blue puu and
2528s Mercedes both fall and that's a pretty
2531s easy first hold it's a really nice
2533s collapse they see that there is a
2535s advantage that they have they see all
2537s the abilities from the echo came out the
2538s sticky bombs focusing beam they're all
2540s down and then when they finally do
2541s engage on the side of Vancouver Titans
2542s blue it splits Yuri nightmare they
2544s aren't all together they catch everyone
2546s off that's from the side they get them
2547s first and they try to run down the rest
2549s of the team and they're continuing to
2550s put this pressure the way they're
2551s playing the stairs and kind of holding
2552s on to this High Ground for most of their
2554s team is great they still have their tank
2555s up front who's going to be making sure
2556s that they don't actually get all the way
2557s under the bridge for GR nightmare so
2559s just really great positioning play early
2561s on from vaner Titans blue and already
2563s Mercedes going to fall it's going to be
2565s a slow start for J nightmare especially
2566s if that keeps happening they're looking
2568s for an angle but every time they try to
2570s find it somebody gets punished twice now
2572s it has been Mercedes McMan has been
2574s phenomenal on the echo thus far and
2576s again jery nightmare they try to go in
2579s and they are swiftly repelled they're
2581s losing time already half almost half
2583s their time bank gone you got to remember
2584s the consequences of losing this this is
2586s a first to two Vancouver Titans blue
2588s they already have one point they are on
2589s series point they win this they move on
2590s on the upper bracket they actually get
2592s to take Jerry nightmare's number two
2593s seed as well being the victors and
2596s they're going to use the gratic flux to
2597s try to make it happen it's the gravitic
2598s flux with the artillery combo but a
2600s great stun does stop the flux and that
2602s gives them the agency to be able to take
2603s their Destiny into their own hands use
2605s the immortality field but the r clux in
2607s return is not enough to stop Vancouver
2609s Titans blue dislodge them from this
2611s choke point they have Matrix and all the
2613s damage that comes through it phone with
2614s two and heavy investment from both sides
2617s with Vancouver Titans blue they cash out
2619s with it hello they do they also got the
2621s duplicate which I didn't even see myself
2623s be used when Mercedes couldn't find
2624s enough value of it they will have an
2626s artillery strike and a rally upcoming
2628s but it's not a lot to work with they're
2630s going to have to take a dry fight here
2631s potentially lose it and then go back to
2633s the drawing board this is looking very
2636s dire for them them right now the the
2637s biggest thing they could do is they get
2638s the duplicate out maybe even get the
2639s rally out on the other side just get
2640s ultimates out so they have an advantage
2642s fight going forward but they are losing
2644s members left right and Center that was
2646s an assassination for McMan there and
2648s again jono is going to fall as well it's
2651s it's you've lost to many things you
2653s can't keep going G nightmare you have to
2655s get out I mean Mercedes going very deep
2657s they're definitely going to get punished
2658s there a trade actually but on the Ekko
2662s who's going to get back fast you
2663s definitely want more from that
2665s especially with only a minute left
2667s yeah with your Glide ability on Echo you
2669s should be able to get back to the point
2670s pretty quickly so hopefully no harm no
2672s foul over Vancouver times but they still
2673s have so much to work with even if they
2675s don't get MC them back just in the nick
2677s of time they still have nostalgia's
2678s rally it's going to be brone using the
2680s artillery strike first but it's going to
2681s be the rally counter immediately
2683s artillery strike does come out
2684s immortality field to save it spor falls
2686s though finally G nightmare have a way in
2689s and they're going to kick the door down
2690s and March right on forward MC them
2692s though comes back and finds two so you
2694s know the door maybe stub their toe on
2696s the way in a little bit there and
2697s they're not able to get all the way in
2699s still trying to deal with this pesky
2701s eeko but they have to try and get on the
2703s point and start taking up the progress
2704s they're not able to dislodge Mi them and
2707s that Echo is still going to be lurking
2709s in their backline they might have just
2710s set themselves up for a pincer attack
2712s and then they're going to go for contest
2714s they have got the time they've got nari
2715s now they're going to try to go from
2717s every single angle but sper just can't
2719s live oh there just wasn't enough support
2721s there the immortality field was a little
2723s bit too late and a potentially an overc
2725s commitment there from Vancouver Titans
2727s blue they saw the opportunity and tried
2729s to seize it but it was too little too
2731s late and not enough support there for
2733s spy or MC them now in the backline
2735s looking for another assassination but
2737s that's just going to be another token
2738s stagger trying to get the gang back
2740s together so we can try and muster up our
2742s defenses for a second Point hold yeah
2745s that trade now for Mercedes onto mum was
2747s huge the the fact that they don't have
2749s the full team there just allows yurri to
2751s walk onto the point they get so many
2752s ultimates out for Vancouver Titans blue
2754s Vancouver Titans blue still can't win
2755s the fight they've got Got High Ground
2756s now but they're going be ring right into
2757s an ant Matrix both teams pop out the
2760s gravitic flux and catch the enemy Sigma
2761s in it perfectly symmetrical violence
2763s never solved anything phone going to
2765s make it a little bit more asymmetrical
2766s takes down Persona a duplicate comes out
2768s onto the Bastion from Mercedes but
2770s they're forced out that said though the
2772s cart's making a lot of progress right
2774s now underneath and phone privy to that
2776s going to goad and pop the artillery
2777s strike take Mercedes out and now
2779s Vancouver Titans blew Coral nightmare
2782s into this little pantry and swarm
2785s themo probably going to get staggered
2787s out here hopefully there's no trade this
2788s time if you're Vancouver Titans blue cuz
2789s that was the difficulty you had last
2792s time but that's a huge stag that's a lot
2793s of time off the clock and you do kind of
2795s lose High Ground here with that cart
2797s moving back maybe you'll be able to get
2798s it back after the cart like fully moves
2800s back since no one's contesting it but
2801s there's actually plenty of potential for
2802s Vancouver T to also try to play in one
2804s of those side rooms just contest it like
2806s you would potentially on Dorado in one
2808s of those like rooms at the very
2809s beginning M Titans blue though theyve
2811s got to back up a bit there's so many uls
2813s for Jer or there's in a for out
2814s imortality field right away yeah and
2816s they want to go in with that they're
2817s going to go ahead and pop the duplicate
2818s trying to build up to a gravitic flux
2820s there and they're definitely going to
2821s need it cuz they've lost their primary
2822s one spor Falls but M just forced out of
2826s the duplicate and the rest of the
2827s Dominoes on the side of Vancouver Titans
2830s blw fall yeah like you said vanover
2832s Titans blue maybe wanted to back up and
2834s play The High Ground there cuz now
2836s they're not going to have the
2836s opportunity to the cart pushes past it
2839s and we're getting into really close
2841s territory they do have that natural
2843s cover from the map right out like the
2845s spawn uh capture point which is nice as
2847s a Defender but they got to run in they
2849s got to use rally to try to contest this
2851s and they're going to force immortality
2852s field with it y immortality field
2854s already forced out like you said and JY
2856s nightmare just going to back up a little
2857s bit but that gives MC them just a little
2859s bit of space and that's all they need to
2861s take down Mercedes and again Mercedes is
2863s going to fall early it is traded out but
2866s without that extra damage they're forced
2867s to invest a rock comes out and Vanguard
2870s can't get the gravitic flux off and
2872s phone just cleaning up anything that's
2874s left breathing see in their breath right
2877s away and J nightmare are not going to be
2880s able to cap here the cart is going to
2881s stop just shy of point B a great defense
2885s from Vancouver Titans blue Miner what
2888s potentially could have been the map
2890s winning play there the accretion on to
2893s their opponents their mirror on the
2895s sigma on the other side Vanguard can
2896s never get their gratic flux off it looks
2899s like vancer Titans blue is winning that
2900s fight regardless but that ultimate could
2902s have been everything they needed to turn
2903s it around instead they get stopped way
2906s shy of that third and final checkpoint
2908s they're not going to get the full cap
2910s like they did last time this is
2911s Vancouver Titans blue changing things up
2913s they are changing their Destiny they are
2914s changing expectations from the last time
2916s that they played in the Swiss stage and
2918s now everything is in their hands they
2920s need to get that hot start they were
2922s able to get a pretty nice defensive h on
2923s the G nightmare you saw what that little
2925s time bank that they had left did you can
2927s see them going for some more Panic plays
2929s they use ultimates quite Wily nearly I
2931s think more so than they'd want to they
2932s really needed to win fights to keep the
2933s cart moving over and over again but if
2936s van goer 's blue can get a better time
2938s bank going forward after that first
2939s point they can play a little bit more
2941s calm cool and collected and that could
2942s be their win condition to bring home
2944s Victory I I I think this answer is one
2946s of the big questions that we had about
2948s Vancouver Titans blue at the top of the
2949s show so far is this a full strength
2952s Vancouver Titans blue or has there been
2954s some semblance of lost time with them
2955s having to scrim with off rolls and Subs
2957s it feels like yes indeed this is full
2960s strength Vancouver Titans blue the
2961s cohesion is there they are coalescing
2963s they feel like they are on the same page
2966s some of the decisions that they're
2967s making are a little bit questionable
2969s like holding a little bit too far
2970s forward there but they're all on the
2973s same same page if they're wrong they're
2974s wrong together and McMan is going
2977s absolutely crazy they're getting all the
2978s assassinations that they need finding
2980s all the value on the echko and it's
2982s paying dividends and now they've set
2984s themselves up for Success they just have
2986s to break through this unforgiving choke
2987s that J nightmare struggled with and
2990s surely Vancouver Titans blue are going
2992s to have a plan for that so what is that
2994s plan it seems like it's going to be
2996s putting the wheels down and melting down
2997s Vanguard hey if it ain't broke don't fix
2999s it or rather if it ain't broke break it
3001s and the thing being broken right now is
3003s GRE nightmares backs as that grenade
3005s comes out phone with a pick off there
3007s onto Persona she's so much better on the
3009s Bastion than she is on the tank and it
3012s is showing up that is the easiest first
3014s point cap I've ever seen on Midtown they
3017s break the backs of J nightmare they are
3019s getting some great time here and there
3021s might be a contest I don't think Jer
3023s nightmare wants to force the issue I
3024s want to say there's a great from
3026s Nostalgia as well as M them you couldn't
3028s really see it from the POV of our
3029s observers but they went all the way
3031s around they tried to play that off angle
3033s Nostalgia also was on the Yari so doing
3035s a lot of poke damage they've actually
3036s SWOT now back to the Bria but just a lot
3039s of Chip shots they were getting in a lot
3040s more damage and that's when phone can go
3042s for the follow up they've all SW make
3044s them back onto the echo so a very nice
3046s first point specific composition to get
3048s that early comp or the early capture and
3050s now they swap back to the mirror to try
3052s to get things done not an exact mirror
3053s there's still a soj versus Baptist but
3055s you know how it goes yeah I I love this
3057s though it feels very much so that
3059s Vancouver Titans blue are on in the
3060s driver's seat and they want to put the
3062s pedal to the metal they're going to pop
3063s the ant Matrix immortality field already
3065s forced out Spiner getting a little low
3067s there they got to give a little bit of
3068s love to their tank try and keep her
3069s alive and as they do they they look away
3072s from phone for just a split second G
3074s nightmare make them disappear and
3076s everybody now charging forward from G
3078s nightmare with that duplicate from
3080s Mercedes they're going to pop the
3081s artillery strike just for a hopeful
3082s little H stagger there they find it onto
3085s CLA and
3086s well that's a first uh a first
3088s successful defense for G nightmare but
3089s four and a half minutes to try and keep
3091s that up that's a big fight win because
3093s of that High Ground we talked about it
3094s before how Vancouver Titans BL had to
3096s give it up because they play too far
3097s forward Jerry nightmare they're giving
3098s the space because they know exactly
3099s where the golden box of Victory is for
3101s their adversaries they can give them a
3103s little bit of room to work of as long as
3104s they continue to win these fights they
3106s started a nice alt rotation where they
3107s only had to use one to get the job done
3109s they're going to have Vanguard gtic flux
3110s they already have two other ultimates
3112s online rally not too far behind so
3114s they're actually in a great spot overall
3116s but they just have to make sure that
3117s vengar doesn't fall too low cuz they
3118s were getting focused down early but make
3120s them on this flank another assassination
3122s this flanking Echo is paying huge
3124s dividends for M them they might actually
3126s get a second one but no phone with two
3128s plus the immortality field and going all
3130s full gear is Vancouver Titans blue as
3132s they pop the uh graphitic flux phone
3135s finds a third and the defense once again
3137s for J nightmare has just been crumbled
3140s by Vancouver Titans blue and they can
3141s push up and take all of this space make
3144s them Absolut monster on these flanks
3147s first with the soldier now the echo
3149s duplicate locked and loaded and G
3151s nightmare they are looking at the lower
3152s bracket that is stearing them in the
3154s face right now they've got to make
3155s something happen right here right now or
3156s they're going down there's a whole lot
3158s of sigas out on the field right now as
3160s the duplicate comes out from MCM onto
3163s the other Sigma not able to build with
3165s the gravitic flux a lot of damage
3166s mitigation coming out from the rally and
3168s from all of the positioning being forced
3170s out but Mercedes Strays a little bit far
3172s from the path there got a little bit
3174s lost and gets picked off by Mam and
3176s despite mam falling all the damage from
3178s phone is just too much nobody can touch
3181s everybody forced back and Vancouver
3183s Titans blue
3184s convincingly put GRE nightmare to
3187s bed what a series from them what a
3190s comeback and again we talked about it a
3192s lot last time in the Swiss aate wasn't
3194s their main roster but we still had a lot
3196s of questions this is a team that again
3198s has never been able to finish outside of
3200s top six that is their highest placing
3202s fifth through six never into the top
3203s four never on that podium but they are
3206s looking like a team that is hungry
3207s they're looking like a team that could
3208s just do it potentially if they continue
3211s to play like this Dury nightmare they're
3213s finally tested this is their real first
3215s test I would say outside of that one
3216s match against strangers in the second St
3218s or in during the swits stage in the
3220s third round and they just could not come
3222s up with the win they were not able to
3223s find what they needed here and it's back
3225s to the drawing board for them the good
3227s news there are more chances later on
3229s they still have plenty of life here in
3231s that lower bracket it's not done and
3233s dusted by any means if Vancouver Titans
3235s by winning this by getting the upset get
3237s that second seed which means unless they
3239s play against Washington Timeless they
3241s will have that big advantage of picking
3242s the first map going forward that is huge
3244s for them and we look at Vancouver Titans
3246s blue like we look at their history in
3248s the Swiss rounds they beat all of the
3250s teams that didn't make it into playoffs
3252s and all of their losses were to other
3253s Playoff teams and they were one of those
3255s teams that again just barely squeaked
3257s their way into playoffs and that was
3259s them at roughly half strength they are
3261s definitely a couple of steps above where
3264s they were before and they feel like it
3266s this is a whole different team a much
3268s stronger a much more cohesive team that
3271s understands their win conditions and are
3273s capable of executing them and speaking
3275s of executioners we got to talk about MC
3277s them with all of those assassinations
3279s and once one of those comes in everybody
3282s turns their head to deal with the echo
3284s suddenly nobody's looking at phone and
3286s the artillery strikes go absolutely
3289s massive absolutely and you know it's not
3292s a wrecking ball we didn't get the funny
3293s we didn't get to see some of the cheese
3295s strats come out but I mean M them was
3297s essentially doing the job of wrecking B
3298s just being annoying being elusive making
3301s everyone turn around and getting the
3302s pick which is the most important thing
3303s wrecking ball can't always do that
3305s Wrecking Ball sometimes just runs in and
3306s feeds but when you have got an eeko when
3308s you've got a soldier like this you can
3309s just immediately get those one Taps get
3311s those connections either with a Charged
3313s rail gun shot or with the sticky bomb
3315s focusing theme combination that just
3316s melts squishier characters that is all
3318s you could need in more they get that
3320s pick at the beginning of almost every
3322s fight that leads to a 4v5 in the favor
3324s of Vancouver Tans blue and they just
3325s continue to roll and Roll and Roll from
3328s there and you can see some of these
3329s stats Mercedes in their own right also
3331s putting up some good numbers but I think
3332s the eliminations for 10 is really where
3334s you see the difference as well as the
3335s deaths per 10 not dying nearly as much
3337s for mum and just not getting way more
3339s impact overall the the deaths per 10 I
3342s think is the most telling for me
3343s personally because like almost every
3345s time that you saw mickan going in for a
3347s big assassination it was on Mercedes
3349s Mercedes often times was the first to
3351s fall especially on Midtown and you know
3354s even going back to uh to antartic
3355s Peninsula again was typically the first
3357s to fall and it was usually at the hands
3359s of mcum getting the better of that duel
3361s sure there were a couple times where
3362s they went into the backline and
3364s assassinated a Bita instead because you
3365s know that that's just you know who had
3368s the Target on their back that day for
3370s mikum it doesn't really uh it doesn't
3373s really matter who it was at the end of
3374s the day because MCM was on fire taking
3376s out whoever whoever it called for
3378s whoever was the target of the day
3380s whether it be Mercedes whether it be a
3382s backliner whether it even be Persona on
3384s the soj on that very unfortunate flank
3386s running into the very fortunate flanker
3388s that was MC them what a player what a
3391s team that we are seeing now what a new
3393s version of Vancouver Titans blue a
3395s version of Vancouver Titans blue that
3397s has potential to make a deep playoff
3399s bracket if they keep this up J nightmare
3402s like you said their bracket isn't quite
3404s done they're going to head on down to
3405s the lower bracket and they can still
3407s make a uh a Deep Run they got Blind Side
3409s of today but maybe they'll learn from
3411s their mistakes and maybe they'll come
3412s back stronger who knows there is only
3414s one way to find out and that is to stick
3416s around and follow the action throughout
3418s the rest of the day and speaking of M
3420s them we've got an interview with them in
3422s just a few moments everyone so don't go
3424s too far away we're going to take a quick
3425s break before the interview but on the
3427s other end of this break we'll be talking
3428s to
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3620s welcome back everybody if you're just
3622s joining us uh if you blinked you may
3624s have just missed our first round match
3625s up between Vancouver Titans blue and G
3628s nightmare it went by pretty swiftly much
3630s more swiftly than last time and we've
3632s got mickman here with an interview to
3634s talk to us about it mickman how are you
3636s doing doing great doing great very happy
3639s to be here I'm I'm glad to hear it so
3641s I've got two questions for you
3642s essentially first of all how does it
3644s feel to be back in a calling all heroes
3646s game back on broadcast and on playoffs
3648s and secondly how does it feel to get one
3650s over on the team that beat you guys last
3652s week on broadcast feels really good you
3655s know um you know obviously last week we
3658s were a little scuffed I'm not saying the
3660s phone tank is bad but wasn't our wasn't
3663s our start wasn't it wasn't our plans to
3665s you know run it down but worked out we
3667s got through and I'm really happy to um
3670s be able to prove ourselves in uh this
3674s weekend yeah absolutely proved
3676s yourselves a huge win like maybe an
3678s upset on paper but absolutely it looks
3679s like a dominant performance I want to
3681s kind of talk a little bit more about you
3683s know your lineup this week versus last
3685s weekend you guys had to play with some
3686s subs try to move some roles around how
3688s does it feel to now play like in your
3690s primary rules you're starting lineup
3691s like how do how does communication go
3693s like how does everything just flow
3694s easier now that everything is kind of
3695s set the way it should be very a lot more
3698s comfortable to play you know like last
3700s week it was like very stressful trying
3701s to figure out cuz phones hero pool
3704s is it's good but we we have to play
3707s ryanard for like 90% that paus
3710s there I think phones phones Reinhardt
3713s fantastic that's the that's literally
3715s the reason why we made it through last
3716s week but I think this week we are a lot
3718s able to um be a lot more um flexible
3721s with our comps I think we able to play
3724s essentially our game a lot better cuz we
3727s able to play Sigma for
3729s once and then um yeah so it feels good
3733s to be able to like you know play it
3735s feels better good to not feel as scuffed
3737s as it was you know like last week uh
3740s well speaking of Team comps and speaking
3741s of being scuffed I have some leaks all
3744s right I've been uh in the DMS with
3745s Claire and she sent me a couple of
3747s screenshots of compositions that you've
3749s played on numani now you don't have to
3751s leak anything but is that something that
3753s we can expect to see if we see you guys
3755s again later on this weekend those uh
3757s those comps that I've seen there for
3759s sure for sure you're going to see some
3761s you're going to see some cheese from us
3762s for sure okay all right that's that that
3765s that's like the main thing I wanted to
3766s know cuz I was a little disappointed
3768s that we didn't get to see nimani because
3770s G picked Midtown so it was back to just
3772s Sigma jail I wanted to see some of that
3774s cheese
3775s yeah you know if anyone wants to pick
3777s Midtown against us we'll gladly show
3779s them it that's all I'll say that's all
3781s I'll
3782s say well I got a question about Midtown
3784s because you guys I mean I think one had
3787s a much better performance than last week
3788s but two you I I there was something that
3790s was really impressive that I saw when on
3792s your attack and I want to talk about
3793s that first point kind of split that your
3795s team did you sent three members to kind
3797s of that main area underneath the subway
3799s but you as well as your elari went all
3802s the way around tried to play those off
3803s angles go for some of the sneaky picks
3805s we saw a lot of flanking that was very
3807s successful from you specifically how did
3809s that kind of play kind of develop and
3811s you know how does it work so well that
3813s helped you get that first point capture
3815s well going so going back into last week
3818s uh like when we lost uh Midtown I'm
3820s pretty sure we did strug we struggled a
3822s lot on the first one attack and I think
3823s it's just cuz like we didn't really we
3826s remember that they did run the brri and
3827s they were just running into us and we
3829s like had zero angles but we realized
3831s like after like watching the footage and
3832s all that that that angle that left side
3834s the Alleyway leading into point was wide
3837s open so we just knew that like we could
3839s easily like send like at least two like
3840s Ane and another DPS to take that angle
3843s and then they'd be like spread to sin
3845s and then we could just go in collapse on
3847s them and get all the picks that like get
3848s all the picks on them they did their
3850s homework chat and it definitely shows as
3852s they showed up and they aced the test
3854s today hey thank you for coming on McMan
3857s do you have anything else that you want
3858s to say any shout outs you want to give
3859s before we bid you farewell for the day
3862s uh yeah thanks to everyone who's been
3864s supporting me feels great to finally be
3866s able to play on stream again and uh
3870s thanks to everyone at Vancouver Titans
3871s too they've been really supportive and
3873s helping us out throughout the entire
3874s tournament and it feels great to to win
3877s thank you well thank you very much for
3880s joining us it was great to hear it and
3882s hey shout out again like to Vancouver
3884s Titans blue a team that we are
3885s definitely going to have to keep our
3887s eyes on going forward because they
3889s looked a little shaky with that phone on
3891s the Reinhardt composition last weekend
3893s but this weekend they look like we we've
3894s said time and time again like an
3896s entirely different team a new team a new
3899s Vancouver Titans blue stomping through
3901s playoffs we'll see how far their playoff
3903s run takes them and we'll see if we see
3905s GRE nightmare again anytime soon but
3908s definitely definitely don't sleep on
3910s Vancouver Titans yeah absolutely they're
3912s I mean if they continue to play like
3914s that they're looking like one of the
3914s favorites to me and finally we might see
3916s them Ascend to that Podium maybe even to
3918s that grand finals that I have personally
3920s wanted to see them accomplish since the
3922s beginning of calling eliro so this is
3924s the moment to shine this could be their
3926s best potential chance I mean there's
3927s always major three on the horizon but
3929s right here right now they are playing so
3931s so well W there is definitely going to
3933s be more OverWatch to come hey we still
3935s got some rounds wrapping up so we're
3936s going to have to see where things shake
3938s out for now but we're going to throw it
3939s to a quick break and we will be back
3941s with some more action right after this
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4520s welcome back everybody to calling all
4522s heroes rise to together minor 3 my name
4525s is CB I'm joined by Jag and ladies and
4528s gentlemen gays and V you may want to
4530s strap in for this next one because it is
4532s going to be a banger of a match a
4534s potential Grand finals preview but
4537s before we get into that let's talk a
4539s little bit about the bracket shall we
4541s yeah we got to see exactly what happened
4543s in round one catch everyone up to speed
4545s cuz we got to see Vancouver Titans blue
4546s with a great upset but looking at the
4549s seating there were a lot of upsets here
4551s drainers able to Dethrone bare claw take
4554s their SE Val Guardians able to knock off
4556s Aegis also going to take their seating
4558s Washington Timeless the only top seated
4560s team in their own match that they were
4561s able to win but it was all 2 oh so I
4564s don't know if it's just you and me that
4565s like we're cursed and we're always
4566s getting two OverWatch or what's going on
4568s here but it was just sweeps across the
4570s board the good news though for you
4573s though is that from now on having a two
4576s is impossible because we're going to
4577s first to three so now we get the Jag
4580s three curse you get to see flash point
4582s at least but will we get to go beyond
4584s that there is only one way to find out
4587s yeah absolutely and I mean these are two
4589s teams that do know each other a little
4591s bit another rematch from the Swiss stage
4593s it's going to be Washington Timeless the
4596s reigning the defending champions of K
4598s all heroes against drainers another top
4601s team who again just came off a little
4603s bit of upset they were the number five
4604s seed knock off the number four seed so
4606s they do get to take that over it's not
4607s the biggest upset in the world but it's
4609s still something that you're going to
4610s feel good about especially going up
4611s against a team as good as Washington
4613s Timeless is yeah Washington okay can we
4616s make a change to this graphic here real
4617s quick it's a late request but can we
4618s change that to say Washington Flawless
4621s because look at that 20 down the board
4623s they haven't dropped a map to anybody in
4626s the Swiss stages at all even going up
4628s against Fable that Underdog Story I was
4630s talking about sent them down to the
4632s lower brackets swiftly right out the
4634s gates that's a thing of beauty it's a
4636s little bit more checkered over on the
4638s drainer side with their two losses
4640s coming to Aegis and Timeless
4642s respectively oh thank you actually thank
4644s you so much for that
4646s Solomon that's so much better that was
4648s that was just a bit but I mean it works
4650s out right like it it checks out like
4652s look at that like that's a thing of
4654s beauty that's a frame that right there
4656s that's a
4657s painting absolutely I feel like if
4659s you're trainers honestly like the good
4661s news again this is upper bracket this is
4662s the winner semi-finals so you lose this
4665s and you're still alive I think that's
4666s kind of the expected result but I'd love
4668s to see them take a map off of Washington
4669s Timeless I want to make them not
4670s Washington Flawless anymore you got to
4672s knock them down to earth just a little
4673s little bit and that would give you some
4674s really great momentum if you end up do
4676s losing that Series so I think draer is
4678s like it's really that's like the first
4679s step hey let's just try to take one map
4681s because as you see they did play in
4682s Swiss round six and that was a 02 loss
4685s for Jr they were not able to get
4686s anything going in that particular Series
4688s so here you win one and that's just the
4690s beginning of your journey hey maybe you
4692s can just continue getting some maps and
4694s all of a sudden it's a 3 0 3-2 who knows
4696s where you can go from there but it's
4697s kind of just about taking it one sip at
4699s a time sooner or later somebody has to
4702s take a map off of Washington
4704s if nobody they're just going away with
4706s the trophy and we have that we have to
4708s have a little bit of comp it can't be
4709s OverWatch and OverWatch forever we got
4712s to let Jag see at least a map four at
4714s some point in time surely it'll happen
4716s in a Washington Timeless game if they
4718s have anything to say about it I don't
4720s know if it's going to be I think
4721s drainers are Scrappy and they have the
4723s potential to make it happen but
4724s Washington Timeless are likely to say
4726s nay so let's have a look at these
4728s rosters and we'll see what they're
4730s coming out here with and you can start
4731s to look at this roster and you can see
4733s just why they have been so Flawless
4736s pretty much since the beginning you know
4738s sosler that's not your hero buddy I know
4741s I know I know them better than that
4742s that's going to we're not get seeing
4744s double mercy here sniper same with you
4748s shout out to bun the one lonely DPS hero
4750s right now here on that Soldier 76 but
4753s anyway like I was saying before I was
4755s rely distracted by the presence of so
4756s many gorgeous women uh two of them is uh
4759s you having Halo in this backline has
4761s been a phenomenal boost to this already
4764s strong storied dominant team absolutely
4768s I mean Halo coming over from the Valiant
4770s Guardians previously in the OverWatch
4772s League she has looked phenomenally has
4774s played all over not only the OverWatch
4775s League contenders collegate probably one
4777s of the most prolific players we have in
4779s the entirety of this tournament and I
4781s feel like she has just been an absolute
4783s dominant presence we saw it in the game
4786s against Valiant Guardians last week
4787s where she was able to show up her old
4788s team kind of show them who boss and I
4791s don't expect that to be any different
4792s here today this backline has looked like
4794s one of the best in the entirety of
4795s calling all heroes and in in general
4798s this team again like they're Flawless
4799s for a reason like they are just stacked
4800s across the board yeah wherever it is
4804s that Halo goes potential and success are
4807s sure to follow but following this team
4810s is going to be drainers let's see what
4812s they've got and they do have KJ still in
4816s the roster they don't have Senna back so
4819s they're still rocking with the same
4820s roster that they came up with last
4822s weekend which is interesting to me but
4825s there's still a lot of success and
4827s accolades on this team you know Kindred
4829s and Scarlet Scarlet formerly known as wi
4831s they do hold a calling all heroes minor
4833s trophy to their name under the nyxl
4835s academy they you know Scarlet actually
4838s does have the original calling all
4840s heroes tournament trophy in her back
4841s pocket as well so there's accolades on
4843s this team as well a ton of talent I
4845s continually tout kindrid as potentially
4848s one of if not the best junker Queen in
4851s all of calling all heroes and her Sigma
4854s has looked just as sick I was talking to
4856s kendri yesterday and I was saying you
4858s know hey I I want to see the junker
4859s Queen tomorrow and her response was Ryan
4862s just Ry so it could be the Reinhardt it
4865s could be a bit of a bait we'll see what
4867s happens here but I want to talk really
4868s quickly scarlet and Kindred used to be
4870s teammates with bun so there is a bit of
4872s that history from New York exceler
4874s Academy as well makes it a little bit
4876s spicier you always want to show up your
4878s old teammates whether they are Friend or
4879s Foe just hey you know you miss me right
4881s you miss playing with me this is why cuz
4883s we just beat you so there's also a
4885s little bit of that fun story line going
4887s on but we got to take a look at the map
4889s full before we get into the swing of
4891s things here because it's it's going to
4892s be the same as what you've seen so far
4894s but because it is a first to three
4896s there's finally going to be some more
4898s maps we might finally see escort we have
4900s seen flash well we haven't seen
4902s flashback we've seen some push uh on
4904s like when we weren't casting again like
4906s it's literally just when we we've
4907s literally only seen control and hybrid
4908s TH Far We've mostly seen them Bonnie in
4910s Antarctic Peninsula but there are a lot
4912s of uh options here on the table as we
4914s get into these first three series and as
4915s these series go on longer yeah you and I
4917s didn't get to see flash point Billy
4919s Elena got to see a whole lot of flash
4920s point last weekend but it's okay because
4922s we get to now from here on out it's
4924s going to be flasho and like you said
4926s maybe push maybe escort some interesting
4928s things to point out for push you know
4929s you don't have ESP pansa in the map Pool
4931s you only have coloso and new Queen
4933s Street which might be a little bit
4935s uncomfortable for some of the teams cuz
4937s a lot of them do like to favor asiran
4939s sub whenever they're given the
4940s opportunity to numani Midtown Ike invol
4943s we've know we've seen a lot of teams
4944s gravitating towards numani in that with
4947s the exception of GRE nightmares who seem
4948s to like uh Midtown but after last match
4951s they might be going back to the drawing
4952s board on that one but we're once again
4955s starting where we started in the
4956s previous match we're going to Antarctic
4958s Peninsula for our control map yeah and
4961s I'm expecting again a lot of Sigma
4963s coming out into play here maybe some
4965s Ryan again we could see trainers well
4967s yeah we're I'm expecting not Sigma from
4969s Jor at least to start things off knowing
4971s kred and how proficient she is on more
4973s of those quick Pace Broly tank Heroes
4976s but I am expecting to see it from
4978s Washington Timeless they have looked
4979s really really good when they've played
4981s the sigma we have seen a little bit of
4982s variation I mean I remember back on Le
4984s Jong uh Tower in their last series that
4986s we got to cast of them they did play a
4988s bit more of a hybrid comp we saw Halo
4989s bring up the brigita which was a huge
4991s difference maker against the Valiant
4993s Guardian so we know that both of these
4995s teams kind of have their preference but
4996s we also know at least for Wasington
4997s Timeless they can also bring out a few
4999s different things here and there yeah and
5002s that that flexibility is going to be
5003s very very scary but drainers are far
5005s from a one notee team themselves we
5007s talked again about Kindred and how much
5009s she loves the Reinhardt and how much she
5011s excels at the junker Queen and how great
5013s her Sigma has also looked but going up
5015s against sniper whose Sigma is
5017s potentially one of the best it's really
5019s hard to say cuz I keep talking about how
5021s all of the tanks in this playoffs crop
5023s of calling all heroes is they're just
5025s insane they're all sick players like
5027s every single team has an absolute
5029s nutcase for a tank and it it's it's
5032s incredible seeing the head to-head so
5033s this is going to be no different keep
5034s your eyes on the 1V one between uh
5037s sniper and Kindred because that is sure
5039s to dictate the pace of the whole map
5041s which is not to take anything away from
5042s the rest of the team because there is
5044s still a ton of Versatility in the back
5047s lines and in the front lines there's a
5048s lot of different looks that may be
5050s coming out here you know we see a lot of
5052s Bastion we see a lot of Ekko we see a
5053s lot of sojourn I know that like from
5056s watching drainers that they do like to
5057s come out with a lot of Genji they do
5058s like to come out with a lot of soldier
5060s and they do like to play some of these
5062s you know more pick heavy Heroes rather
5064s than the sustained damage melts you down
5067s like a stick of butter Heroes like
5068s Bastion but they can play it if they
5071s find themselves in need of it we got to
5074s talk again about drainers and how you
5075s know obviously Washington Timeless
5077s defending Champions have had a good run
5079s of success lately but trainers are not
5080s no slashes they've also won some
5082s championships in their own right the
5083s Kochi Kur fuffle recently for both Na
5086s and EU so you know they've won they know
5089s how to win but can they do it against
5091s the giant that has become Washington I
5094s don't want to see this as like a David
5095s versus Goliath match up because I think
5097s drainers gets a little bit more credit
5099s than just being a David but like this is
5101s definitely an uphill battle I I I don't
5103s want to interrupt you but like
5104s Washington Timeless was in that
5106s tournament as well they were in the na
5107s bracket you know they had a few like you
5110s a few players and parts from other other
5112s parts of the scene coming in and it
5113s wasn't the true form of Washington
5115s Timeless but it was managed by the same
5117s manager the core was still there they
5119s still had a lot of the same pieces and
5122s you drainers did best them but again
5124s since then we have seen some some swaps
5127s we've seen some of those parts move
5129s around a little bit more we saw the
5130s acquisition of Haley coming to coming
5133s into the fold and paying dividends for
5135s this roster drainers have proven that
5138s they can take a CH you know they can
5140s take a pound of Flesh off of Washington
5141s Timeless but can they take a pound off
5143s of this Washington
5145s Timeless full strength Washington
5151s time round one map thus
5155s far and going into Icebreaker it is
5158s going to be the Ry so kindrick staying
5160s true to what they promised me going to
5162s be going with the r first no uh
5164s symmetric and no way to really teleport
5166s across the map which will be very
5167s interesting but they're going to run
5169s straight in yeah Kindred she was not
5171s cryptic when she just said Ryan and I
5173s mean maybe maybe Orion should have paid
5176s a little bit closer attention to that
5177s message and message now received loud
5179s and clear kindered with the hammer
5180s swings taking down Chloe taking down the
5183s entirety of Washington Timeless and
5184s drainless are staking their claim
5186s planting their flag firmly on that first
5189s capture point and a nice little wall
5191s there and a follow up from KJ to stagger
5193s out snipers slow things down first cap
5195s to drainers that stagger is huge because
5198s they actually hadn't captured the first
5199s point until around when that elimination
5200s came through that's going to be a good
5202s 20% on the point at the very least
5204s before this next fight gets kicked off
5206s so plenty of time plenty of alarge too
5208s already Zurn so close to the amplication
5210s mes they should be able to get it in
5212s just a few moments and they're able to
5213s pop it before anyone Falls that should
5214s be another fight win for them because
5216s there's nothing
5221s on low has to pop the immortality field
5223s and Kindred actually gets caught out
5225s stuck between a wall and well another
5227s wall and they're just going to go ahead
5228s and run over KJ is Washington Timeless
5231s and off the back of those walls from
5233s Khloe like we saw last week the walls
5235s from Khloe have been phenomenal and
5237s Washington Timeless take the point off
5239s of the back of just that one ability
5241s right Chloe notice but as well one of
5243s the best players on DPS very good at M
5246s and you saw there that they just punish
5247s what draer tried to do they play too far
5248s forward in a choke point that is the
5250s perfect way for drainers to end up
5251s falling there they get walled off they
5253s lose Kindred early on and now you can
5255s see that because of that drainers
5256s they're trying to play a bit differently
5257s they're trying to rotate all the way
5258s around the point instead of getting
5259s caught in these choke points they're
5261s caught off a little bit they actually
5262s lose z turn yeah wi actually got caught
5264s out there as well wasn't there to give
5265s the healing wasn't there to help out the
5267s rest of the team and now she's going to
5268s want to take a reset because there is no
5270s team it's just you my girl you got to
5272s get get on out of there they're going in
5274s for the Stagger actually they really
5276s really want to take her down and it
5277s looks like they're going to succeed if
5280s nope nope nope she gets away with a
5282s sliver of HP and the rest of the team is
5284s back I'm wondering now if that might
5285s have been an overc commitment from
5286s Washington Timeless KJ going to goad and
5289s pop the artillery strike to try and
5290s punish the disengage and the rest of
5292s Washington Timeless are going to crumble
5293s the shatter comes out from Kindred is
5296s there with all the head shot with the
5297s icicles and drainers off of the miracle
5300s hold there onto her last little bit of
5302s HP from wi are able to flip the point
5305s what a play from wi Staying Alive
5307s building up a sound beer throughout all
5309s of that gets their team to re-engage
5311s quickly and it looks like bun was just
5312s caught out there a little bit they saw
5313s the artillery St coming in but she
5315s wasn't able to deal with the icicles
5317s coming in from the other side from
5319s invest so just amazing plays to stay
5321s alive amazing recontest from drainers
5323s and now they are looking very very nice
5326s but they have to look up for this
5327s rotation and this artillery strike
5328s coming out from sosler yeah and the
5330s gravitic flux to combo it with it's
5331s going to force out that sound barrier
5332s like you mentioned from wi but that's so
5334s much damage onto Kindred that the over
5336s Health just melts away and Washington
5338s Amos they can continue to invest
5339s blizzard for blizzard drainers they
5342s invest theirs as well but it's a lot
5343s colder for them than it is for
5345s Washington Timeless they brought their
5346s coats and they flipped the point back
5348s over 75% for drainers 56 and Counting
5350s for Washington Timeless and I'm not sure
5353s if Kindred didn't get that sound barrier
5355s or if they just got blown up so quickly
5357s that the overshield never really
5358s appeared but they were so weak no way to
5360s save them and Washington timel still has
5362s their support ultimate sound barrier
5363s already go PR and then zman very close
5367s to that amplication Mak they have so
5369s much to work with here yeah Kindred
5371s again walled off but there is a hole in
5373s the wall that she's able to slip through
5375s but KJ is going to fall and this is
5377s pretty disastrous it's too little too
5379s late for you to be having these staggers
5381s 85% in counting this is very much so one
5384s fight territory you got to imagine if
5386s drers want to flip this point Wick is
5388s going to have to go for a last second
5389s hold and you can see the fast hero swap
5391s coming out from K swapping over to that
5394s Tracer is there going to be a touch at
5396s all from drainers 96% and the team is
5399s approaching KJ gets sniped out on her
5402s way in and they just can't
5404s touch that's so unfortunate too because
5406s there was a trade they actually lost the
5409s on the side of Washington Timeless Z not
5411s alive that primary healing wouldn't have
5412s been there the sound barrier was forced
5413s out at the very end for that potential
5416s recontest but yeah you rely on KJ the
5418s Trac to touch within the last 5 Seconds
5420s that triggers overtime because they get
5422s sniped before they ever get to the point
5424s that overtime never comes into fruition
5426s drainers had an opening had a window but
5429s they could not close it out some amazing
5431s plays from wika but even more amazing
5433s plays from Washington the fact that they
5434s won that what was eventually the last
5437s full team fight without using any of
5438s their support ultimates put them in a
5440s great driver seat nonetheless to win
5441s that one out and that I I honestly think
5443s Washington ESS would have won regardless
5445s because of the sound bear they would
5447s have had that overhealing to go really
5448s aggressively but drainers never gave
5450s themselves a chance to even find out if
5451s they could beat it
5452s and you got to give credit to bun for
5454s that one peeling off from the rest of
5455s the team and checking the Angles and
5456s being like you guys handle the front
5458s line I'm going to deal with this Tracer
5460s that I know is coming in to try and get
5462s the touch but no tracers on the field
5464s now it's Bastion may all day baby Kindra
5467s gets walled off it it's going to chunk
5469s right on through it and continue to push
5470s though zman takes down wi and suddenly
5473s this Reinhardt is looking a little lost
5475s here there's enough healing coming out
5476s from Zep turn but uh with the focus fire
5479s it's not going to amount to all that
5480s much and everybody on drainers Falls a
5483s decisive Fight Win for Washington
5485s Timeless if you can get the Baptist you
5488s have essentially won the fight that is
5489s the primary healing Source yes Lucio
5491s does heal over time does do AOE but
5493s Baptist does a lot of AOE healing and a
5495s lot more of it in a quick time span so
5497s without that main healer on the field
5499s there's not much really that drainers
5501s can do they try to fight the one without
5503s it they try to get Bun they try to get
5505s Chloe but cannot really find anything
5506s for her and right now they are
5508s struggling they've already used their
5509s own wall just to try to create some
5511s space yeah I mean you can see drainers
5513s were kind of speed boosting around to
5514s the outside but then they quickly
5515s changed Direction and now there is no
5517s more speed boost W is just trying to
5519s keep everybody alive a great pin right
5521s through the window zman you shouldn't
5523s have Peak through that one Kindred just
5525s goes right on through but elsewhere
5527s sosler takes down two and sniper is
5530s there to help out with all the damage
5531s sosler looking phenomenal on the Bastion
5534s and they're going to stagger wi out this
5536s is uh a little bit of payback for the
5538s last map there but so much more time
5541s bought for Washington time
5543s yeah we saw quickly in the last map the
5545s stats of snaz who's been absolutely
5547s insane so far on this Bastion it's a
5549s great play from Kindra to get the
5551s Baptist on the other side take out zman
5553s but there's an ant Matrix that was
5555s already put out and when there is a
5557s Bastion with no Shield blocking them
5558s they absolutely going to fry and that's
5560s exactly what happened and now they're
5561s going to go or at least they're going to
5562s try to make a counter play Wasington
5563s Timeless going to use their gtic block
5565s okay great use of the EXO boost there
5566s from Zep turn to dodge that accretion
5568s there all that damage came out but
5570s there's still so much follow up Haley
5571s goes go in with the Boop onto Zep turn
5573s zman finds two on the tail end of that
5575s fight and off the back of that gravitic
5577s flux with no sound barrier to counter it
5579s and the sberry from wi actually invested
5581s late everyone from drainers Falls yet
5584s again and they can't buy themselves away
5586s in and this is now last chance it's been
5589s it might be 100 to zero ders has to do
5592s something they're going to use the
5592s artillery strike early on maybe try to
5594s get that immortality field out they
5595s don't find much in already you can see
5596s Kendra taking so much damage they could
5598s go for a sh but the wall the wall oh the
5601s sky get shattered but that's not enough
5603s to make anybody from Washington Timeless
5605s fall on their backs and they're still
5607s still alive still kicking Kindred has to
5609s try and make up for lost time there the
5610s beat comes out from Haley but it's too
5612s slow to save snoer but yest Falls
5614s elsewhere and sniper is pumping in all
5616s the damage with those spars and it's
5618s just academic at this point drainers
5621s they put up a good fight on Icebreaker
5622s but on labs they just get completely
5625s outclassed by Washington Timeless and
5626s that is a nice Swift 20 for them on
5629s control 9999 and that's what we had on
5633s Icebreaker and here on Labs 100 to zero
5636s trainers never really were able to get
5638s their footing it seems like they were
5640s caught off guard one too many times and
5642s iceberger also they just had some better
5644s rotations I would say there were some
5645s better opportunities for them just to
5646s run in with the Ry use Hammerman to his
5650s best ability and just swing for the
5651s fences here it seems like they could
5653s never close the gap too much damage
5655s coming in from the set of washing
5656s Timeless not enough space created and
5658s drainers will end up falling here on
5661s Antarctic peninsula one zero lead for
5662s Washington Timeless good news though it
5664s is a first to three as we talked about a
5665s few times not going to be a first of two
5667s like we've had previously on the stream
5669s so at least two more Master for trainers
5671s to get back into this but it's got to be
5673s more of what we saw on Icebreaker and
5674s not what we saw on Labs if they want to
5676s make this a close contest it if I if I'm
5678s Kindred right now I'm I'm putting out
5680s The Feelers all right I want Bun's
5682s address I want her whereabouts a list of
5684s her fears I I like time like every time
5689s that Kindred like died it was because of
5691s Chloe because of bun because of the
5693s walls more often than not and that
5695s shatter that you know she just gets
5697s lifted up into the heavens and never
5699s actually gets to put Hammer to Pavement
5701s doesn't actually find any value with
5702s that Earth shatter that's like the straw
5705s that breaks the camels back there I I I
5707s would be so Furious about that you can
5709s see here right right here she's taken
5710s her aggression out on zman a little bit
5713s but it's just too little too late
5714s there's not enough that drainers can do
5717s there is no real way there yeah there's
5720s there's just nothing there there's just
5722s bab you can't you can't hit him from all
5724s the way up there with that shatter it's
5726s it's so unfortunate and frustrating as a
5729s tank player to constantly be under those
5731s circumstances but Kindred is adaptable
5734s surely she has a plan B we going to look
5738s at the Bastion strats I mentioned them
5740s previously but this is just I mean look
5742s at the eliminations again the deaths
5744s again you can see the damage is very
5746s very similar it's not too far away only
5748s about 700 but the impact that sosler is
5751s having is is very good and I think
5752s that's part of one you're running um the
5755s sigma which like yes the The reinard
5757s Shield is like it can take more damage
5760s but you can move the sigma Shield you
5761s can create more space the angles that
5763s you can play sometimes can be a bit more
5764s unique but also the followup is really
5766s big and also just the heals that are
5768s coming in to keep sosler alive to make
5770s sure that they are able to sustain
5771s throughout these engagements you can
5773s just see that those two big stats again
5774s are really what show how Washington ESS
5777s are able to win out and win two Z on
5779s antartic Peninsula I I I I think a lot
5781s lot of people are leaning onto the sigma
5783s because they can try and play a tank
5785s that does enable the Bastion in such a
5787s way but can also play into the Bastion a
5789s lot better than the Reinhardt does you
5790s think about you know when the Bastion
5792s goes wheels down turret form starts
5793s pumping out all that damage onto the
5795s shield and the shield breaks suddenly
5797s the big Hammerman is there and he's got
5798s to face tank all that damage uh-oh
5800s oopsie if you're Sigma though and your
5802s Shield breaks you still have the grasp
5804s and you still you know you're not
5805s attached to the shield you've got
5807s distance you can back up around a corner
5809s get healed up and go back in live to
5811s fight another day once those Wheels come
5812s up and he's out of turret form you're
5814s golden you can keep going that's why I
5816s think that Sigma is a little bit better
5818s right now than the Reinhardt in this
5820s composition you can still get value out
5823s of the Reinhardt but you have to make
5824s sure that you're coalescing as a team
5826s you're playing fast you're playing
5827s aggressive and you're not letting the
5829s Bastion get the value and with bun and
5831s her walls constantly slowing the pace
5833s making it so difficult for Kindred to do
5836s that snaz has all the room in the world
5838s to constantly just melt down anything
5840s that stands in their way
5842s yeah but being an absolute thorn in the
5844s side of her former te teammate Kindred I
5847s mean if I'm but I'm typing a DM I'm
5849s saying Matt that's it just like you mad
5852s I just canceled your Shadow yes I'm mad
5854s I'm furious actually I would be if I'm
5856s Kindred come on but I I mean I think the
5859s thing that you mentioned is like it's
5860s not just the wall like cutting off the
5861s sh it's not just in the eliminations
5863s it's causing this Reinhardt to not find
5865s the space that they need to really
5867s succeed and I mentioned it a little bit
5869s before at the end of the map like if
5870s you're ride you just want to go in and
5871s that's why the Symmetry that we've seen
5872s in OverWatch league is so good at making
5874s or letting you do that because you can
5876s just you know you avoid the male there
5877s potentially you can teleport to The High
5878s Ground you can teleport behind them and
5880s can go for something sneaky like a sneak
5882s charge or a sneak shatter but when you
5884s don't have that symmetra that enables
5885s you all you have is that Lucio speed
5887s speed boost to help like get around
5889s things if you're running into the wall
5890s you can't really get around it if you're
5891s caught off guard by the wall if you're
5892s cut off by the wall from the rest of
5893s your team you're kind of just a Sitting
5895s Duck so there are just so many ways that
5897s this composition that Washington ESS has
5899s that makes the ride kind of obs Elite
5902s like either you're all in as a Reinhardt
5903s or you're not really doing your job
5905s unfortunately so I'm wondering if ders
5907s are going to swap things up maybe they
5908s go for that junker queen that we've seen
5910s Kindred play so proficiently because
5912s that shout can help you sustain a little
5913s bit better if you're cut off by a wall
5915s uh maybe they just go for this uh the
5917s sigma mirror match up I think personally
5918s that is the best thing you can do right
5920s now depending on the map but it's in
5922s Diner's Corner they get the map pick at
5924s least so they get to decide where we're
5926s going for hybrid and they have decided
5929s do you want to do you want to take a
5930s guess Jag you want to guess where we're
5931s going going is it Nani it's actually
5934s Midtown I threw you the ultimate
5936s curveball there they're taking us to
5937s Midtown so we probably will see that
5939s Sigma 1 V1 same as we did in the last
5941s matchup there although I'm worried
5944s because I know it's also possible to
5947s play the Reinhard on that first
5948s checkpoint and we've already discussed
5950s all of the reasons why we don't
5951s necessarily think that it's the best
5953s pick if anyone can prove us wrong it is
5955s Kindred but I want to see that Sigma 1
5957s V1 I want to see if her Sigma is made of
5959s Sterner stuff and not see her continue
5962s try to beat her head against the wall
5963s with the Hammerman again I I think it
5966s comes down to symmetra like symmetra
5967s especially on the first point of Midtown
5969s can make a very quick and easy first
5970s capture you just teleport all the way
5972s around the side I think everyone knows
5973s the strategy at this point but it's
5975s really hard to counter we've seen like
5976s teams and OverWatch like try to set up
5977s an Anna specifically throwing in the
5979s Nate as soon as the teleport comes
5980s through they've seen teams trying to
5981s meet them kind of in that room next to
5983s the point but it's just so hard to stop
5985s them if they move quick enough so I
5986s think that is like the ultimate first
5988s point strategy but it gets a bit more
5990s tricky on that second point point and
5991s third point you've seen it be less
5992s successful as the map goes on so I
5995s personally would not like to see the Ry
5997s here just cuz I don't I mean first point
5998s maybe but like I think they would I'd
6000s like to see them swap up I'd like to see
6001s them do something similar to saw for
6003s manouver Titans blue they had a strategy
6004s for that first point they got that quick
6006s cap and then they swapped to something
6007s that was better for the rest of the map
6009s and I think that's some really good game
6010s planning and strategy that we saw from
6012s Vancouver Titans blue I want to see the
6013s same thing from drainers here to try to
6015s be able to answer back in the series cuz
6016s again that first point Icebreaker super
6019s close but Labs was not at all that was
6022s very much a one-sided Affair and you
6024s don't want to let Washington ESS get
6025s their momentum rolling cuz if they
6027s continue to play like that plays Domin
6028s like that this could be a
6030s three Washington Flawless they still are
6034s two's throughout the entirety of Swiss
6036s stage and in first round and even a nice
6038s 20 on control to boot but drers still
6041s have a couple opportunities to put a
6043s blemish on that record and Midtown is
6045s their battlefield of choice and be like
6048s we've talked about you know the Sigma
6050s versus the Ry we've talked about the
6051s symmetra we've talked about the Bastion
6053s and all the impacts that all of these
6054s Heroes Have what I'm hoping for is that
6057s there is a reason drainers chose this
6059s map that they have something that they
6061s feel very comfortable with that they
6064s have a game plan like we saw from
6065s Vancouver Titans blue I'm hoping that
6068s this isn't just because everybody is so
6069s sick of numani because honestly I am too
6072s but hey if you want to win you got to
6074s play what you're going to be strongest
6075s at so surely surely for drainers this is
6079s what they feel the strongest on
6082s yeah I agree and I think that plays into
6084s my last point a little bit like you have
6086s to have a strategy coming into this you
6087s have to have a game plan you can't just
6089s continue to run the same thing over and
6090s over again and hope that it works is
6092s it's clearly not working at the moment
6094s sure maybe with a different map type
6097s maybe have some more High Ground because
6098s I I I talked about this so much but I
6100s feel like Antarctic Peninsula does have
6101s high ground but it's not nearly as
6102s important to contest unless you're like
6104s on suble Lev other than that it seems
6106s pretty not important usually you're just
6108s throwing yourself at the point anyway
6110s and both teams are just kind of battling
6111s it out on there but it does seem like
6114s the switch up is going to be the junker
6116s Queen again so no Ry we're going to swap
6119s things up back to Kindred potentially
6121s best tank and see if that they can make
6124s that work they're going to be on defense
6125s first so they're going to be run into a
6126s bit watching Tim list I mean it's just
6128s Tri and true we're just going back to
6130s the bun May back to the sosler bapt or
6133s Bastion excuse me there's going to be a
6134s Baptist from zman but I mean you got to
6138s see something different from Jers right
6139s this is going to be a different look but
6140s I want to see a different too I do I I
6143s do really like this pick from Kindred
6145s because again she is one of the best
6146s junker queens that we have in calling
6147s all heroes but the thing that she lose
6149s out on when you pick the junker Queen is
6151s the ability to control angles and that's
6152s what Sigma actually gives you there
6154s early Wall comes out from aesta try and
6156s segment off sniper and W with a head
6159s shot there onto Chloe and that's going
6161s to be a pretty big pickoff but those are
6162s two even bigger ones from sosler oh my
6166s Lord just taking down the backline and
6168s yeah suddenly you can't control angles
6169s you can't control much of anything sure
6171s they're going to get a couple of picks
6172s here but without the healing it's only a
6174s matter of time before was in Timeless
6176s start ticking up the percentage and
6177s they've already got some feet on the
6179s point there or near the point actually
6181s sniper not actually going for the cap
6182s there Kindred actually isolated there by
6185s Haley and the rest of the gang and this
6187s is just all over the place so Scrappy
6189s from drainers they're not able to find
6191s anything and Wason Timeless now they can
6193s put feet on the point and start to take
6195s up the percentage I'm not sure how kri
6197s got so separated I was thinking they can
6199s disengage they can go for a full
6201s a full team recontest potentially give
6204s up a tick or two but it's not the end of
6205s the world but they're they just seem so
6207s scattered they continue to throw bodies
6208s at the point but there's really no Rhyme
6210s or Reason for it they're just staggering
6212s themselves a bit and it took a little
6213s bit but washing ESS will get the point
6215s you can see the impact that suler has on
6217s the Bastion there's no Bastion now from
6219s drainers they have a s and a may they go
6222s a little bit too far forward and they
6223s just get even though they get the first
6224s pick they just get obliterated ESS
6226s aren't even pushing the point right now
6227s they're trying to take this High Ground
6228s because they know exactly where drainers
6230s have spawned where they're going to try
6231s and hold they want to try and take the
6233s aggression let the payload get that auto
6235s progress and now they can start pushing
6236s it but now they're going to actually
6237s push the advantage they take down wika
6239s sniper going to invest their gravitic
6241s flux and send everyone crashing back
6243s down to earth a nice wall from K or
6245s sorry a nice wall from bun I don't know
6248s how many times I'm going to be saying
6249s that to stop the the ax swing coming out
6251s from Kindred and drainers once again
6254s collapse the calling all heroes
6256s appreciation for buns balls that that's
6258s it just like we need to put like a
6260s highlight rail just all the amazing May
6262s walls that bun has had all the amazing
6264s May plays that she said because I mean
6266s this character I feel like a lot of
6268s people underestimate what she like you
6269s can do on a and this is exactly you can
6271s do not only the head shot but just the
6272s team plays you can make it's giving
6273s watching plenty of positioning but it's
6275s going to be the M Matrix from z turn to
6277s try to make something happen oh the the
6279s Rampage goes out on zlo but she just ice
6281s blocks through it the Rampage actually
6283s gets nothing and if s is going to fall
6285s and so will KJ and this is just
6288s disastrous for drainers they invest two
6290s ultimates and they come come up with
6291s zilch NADA the drain is clogged and
6294s watched in Timeless they just continue
6296s to march on forward there's not even
6298s going to be a contest here it looks like
6300s actually no wi with the aid of the sound
6302s barrier overhal is actually going to get
6303s a brief contest there the blizzard comes
6306s out from evest but it's not even it's
6308s not even slowing Washington Timeless
6310s down a little bit Yeah they are
6312s continuing to march on for that sound
6314s barrier from Haley was clutch help them
6317s get away from the blizz that came out
6319s from a doesn't am to any eliminations
6322s and it was like I feel like this map in
6323s general has been very all over the place
6325s very uh I don't want to say sloppy but
6328s just kind of like not coordinated we're
6330s now seeing the bun Widowmaker cuz sure
6332s why not I mean there's some nice High
6333s Ground I guess here on the second point
6335s maybe can go for a quick pick here or
6336s there but it definitely hasn't had the
6338s same kind of team play that we saw in
6340s the last M it's definitely been a little
6341s bit more chaotic I I feel like hit scan
6343s play here is a lot more Defender favor
6345s because you have access to that high
6346s ground but hey you know I trust bun
6349s swapping off the May is a little bit
6351s interesting she's had better walls than
6352s Chris Jericho but that said coming out
6355s from sniper snaz are going to go ahead
6356s and melt down wi it's a trade though as
6358s sniper does fall gets a little bit too
6360s aggressive there zman going to go ahead
6362s and clap back though takes down KJ and
6364s it is Scrappy but still favoring washing
6367s in Timeless even without sniper there to
6368s hold down the forth the cart continues
6370s to move and wi you're taking some
6372s aggressive angles there Zep turn takes
6374s down snower and uh yeah Chloe just going
6377s to turn right around the sniper Ry it's
6381s about the game and how you play it and
6382s now they are making some
6388s changes play right into the face of
6391s Kindred but it's going to be a rampage
6393s that's going to go through the entire
6394s team immortality comes out from zman but
6396s it is f as is z man and ye going to go
6399s ahead and press the advantage and
6401s drainers they have finally dug their
6403s heals in and stake their claim but
6405s they're not done they're going to keep
6406s pushing up forward and try and hold
6407s watched in Timeless in the spawn nope
6410s scratch that they're just going to go
6411s ahead and back up and hold at the choke
6413s much smarter I was would have been very
6414s worried if they had tried to go for a
6416s spawn hold there so back to the sigma
6418s but not swapping off little maker
6420s actually stopping sosler onto the Genji
6422s so mirroring that pick from invest on
6424s the other side it seems like Wasington
6426s timel their momentum has finally been
6427s stopped and I'm really surprised they're
6428s not running the same comp they had been
6430s the entire map it it didn't really seem
6432s like it wasn't working it seemed like
6433s they slowed themselves down with these
6434s swaps but s are going to open things
6436s back up and get that Dash onto wo yeah
6438s but look at the damage that WatchON and
6439s ESS are taking they lose ha though and
6441s they do have the spawn advantage and
6442s with this Dragon Blade coming out fromes
6444s can't quite find zman and Chloe is
6446s actually there for the clean up it still
6448s feels so even but a nice head shot there
6451s onto Kindred and zman with the ant
6453s Matrix means that waston Timeless are
6455s going to be the beneficiaries of this
6456s fight get a little bit more cart
6458s progress and Chloe can finally get set
6459s up somewhere
6461s comfortable have to use an AM to get it
6463s done but they still have that s almost
6465s ready to go sniper isn't too far away
6467s from that gravitic flux and you can see
6470s that drainer is there are pushed back
6471s all the way into their own spawn they do
6473s have a sound barrier of their own almost
6474s ready to go so that is kind of their
6476s fight winner potentially at least could
6478s sustain them throughout a tightly uh
6481s contested engagement but they're you can
6484s see like they're getting split already I
6485s mean look at where kred is once again
6487s completely away from the rest of the
6488s team they don't get punished for it
6489s she's really lucky that they didn't just
6490s try to collapse but the rest of the
6492s team's getting collapsed on the other
6493s side yeah she was trying to set up like
6495s a pincer attack expecting them to come
6496s through the main choke point but
6497s Washington Timeless just go on a flank
6499s they invest their gravitic flux the
6500s sound from wi is good so everyone
6502s sustains for now but I mean a potential
6505s mispositioning a bit of a misplay there
6507s from Kindred and the sound bar from
6508s Haley is going to punish it and
6510s Wasington Timeless they continue to
6512s March forward and the rest of drainers
6514s Zep turn is going to fall there's only a
6516s scant few bodies left to try and get the
6518s contest there sosler with the Dragon
6520s Blade going to slice those bodies clean
6522s in half and this cart is going all the
6524s way to checkpoint C Washington Timeless
6527s cap with a minute 35 in the time bank
6529s and drainer is looking a little bit
6532s lost yeah you could see I mean again I
6535s think this map was a little bit more
6537s chaotic than we saw on Antarctic
6539s Peninsula a lot of fights all over the
6541s place members of both teams scattered
6542s Which Way but it was trainers that got
6544s punished the most for it I was saying
6546s that Washington Timeless I was surprised
6547s they weren't punishing uh where Kindred
6550s was but they actually played that so
6551s smart I I was completely wrong in my
6553s initial analysis they waited for both s
6555s ultimates to be gone from the side of
6557s drainers and then once that amplication
6559s Matrix faded once the sound barrier over
6562s shields were gone that's when they hit
6563s the go button that's when they engaged
6565s and that's when they were able to win
6567s out that point a minute 35 and not a not
6570s a lot of time overall but I feel like a
6572s map like Midtown is really hard to
6573s complete fully as is so great that
6576s they're able to get the job done and it
6577s makes their defense so much easier they
6579s know they didn't give up a little bit of
6581s the map here and there because they know
6582s that they've completed it they know they
6583s have more than a minute so the extra
6585s time overtime um or extra round
6588s scenarios are in their favor as is and
6590s it makes their wicon so much easier to
6592s go up to in the series they can play a
6593s little bit more relaxed a little bit
6595s less fast and furious and I think
6597s overall they've played a little bit more
6598s Cal cool and collected throughout this
6600s map and those fight wins at the end that
6602s full cap at the end shows that that
6604s strategy is paying off I I I see Khloe
6607s going back over onto the May which I'm
6609s very glad to see but I mean I I wasn't
6611s in love with the Widow pick but there is
6613s actually some logic to it right like you
6615s know you want if you're on junker Queen
6617s you want to go aggressive you want to
6618s brawl you want to take the fight right
6619s to the enemy tank but without a shield
6621s that leaves your back line vulnerable to
6622s a couple of head shot so you know it's
6624s at least rooted in a little bit of logic
6626s but that said the M play has been
6628s phenomenal hello we get to see a all
6631s reliable that's symmetra that you were
6632s talking about and now drainers have
6634s access to this High Ground overlooking
6635s the point and WatchON Timeless they got
6637s to try and find a way to root him out of
6638s there it's going to be difficult though
6640s they teleport it to The High Ground
6641s instead of the low ground usually you
6642s teleport to the low ground to
6643s immediately go on to the point you can
6645s see that watch thas has already
6646s basically rotated to where they expect
6648s trainers to come out now they've got to
6650s actually deal with them being run up on
6652s and so far it's an even fight o very
6655s close for sosler and finally drainers
6657s they've actually taken already one tick
6658s maybe even two yeah it's looking like
6660s it's going to be two and watch and
6662s Timeless they haven't really been able
6663s to find a way in it's do or die though
6664s they have to try and go in now and the
6666s knife being stuck into sniper there the
6668s punish but Kindred goes so aggressive to
6670s try and make that happen it has to be
6672s worth it they trade out for snaz is it
6674s going to be worth it not if you lose
6676s your Baptist as well but the cap the cap
6679s nobody would nobody from Timeless was
6681s touching and drers just snaked it right
6683s out from under them all right uh we can
6685s officially start the Cloud9 C9 uh count
6689s at one because that was absolutely a C9
6692s it looks like Washington ESS was winning
6694s that fight but the positioning just
6696s wasn't there you can see sniper that was
6698s a really nice play by w we got to talk
6700s about that that was a sound wave by wi
6702s that knocks sigtigma off the point and
6703s no one else was there to contest I mean
6705s waston Timeless they have to be reeling
6707s from that but it's time to collect
6708s yourself try and hold this High Ground
6710s draer they have to try and take it from
6711s you there's another great wall coming
6713s out from Chloe and it punishes Kindred
6715s yet again the aggression being stifled
6717s and now wika kind of stuck in in one
6721s place you definitely don't want to be a
6722s narrow hallway with sniper and all those
6724s spheres bouncing all over the place like
6726s a bouncy house you don't want that
6728s drainers despite the miracle cap have
6731s now been stuffed yeah this is not good
6733s for them he even though the ultimate's
6735s not looking too bad they really want to
6736s get around this first Corner the fact
6738s that you're going to see Wasing Thomas
6739s be able to hold on to this High Ground
6740s pulled around that first B not great
6743s positioning for the side of drainers
6745s they're going to have to try to break
6746s this ho they're going to pressure out
6747s sniper and do a lot of damage but now
6748s you can use that an Matrix on the low
6750s ground try to pressure out that High
6751s Ground more that they've had to give it
6752s up on the side of Washington Times and
6753s they're going to teleport straight in
6755s yeah the am Matrix actually kites the
6757s rest of waston Timeless back so they can
6758s put that teleporter down and go in and
6760s try and take The High Ground that way
6761s they're going to trade outs for sosler I
6763s think you take that right now but Chloe
6765s going in with the blizzard and the wall
6767s she really really wants to punish
6768s Kindred and the whole gang is there to
6770s back her up and they are going to get it
6772s but they trade out zman trades for
6774s trades back and forth and little bits of
6776s cart progress continuing going to go
6778s ahead and Pop That Photon barrier and
6780s suddenly it's a little bit risky for
6781s Washington timas to try and go in for
6783s the contest here so they're just kind of
6785s stuck down here in this low ground and
6787s yeah they're going to take the back door
6788s they want out I was talking about this
6790s in our last series that you can contest
6792s from this room they can't move the cart
6794s and okay they're just going to run
6795s straight into the room but they are
6797s completely split again but that's going
6798s to be kg gets the artillery strike it
6800s gets one they need to find more if they
6802s want to keep this C moving though it
6804s does root them out from that underground
6805s positioning and does let them continue
6807s to make cart progress but this ant
6808s Matrix and with sosler behind it it's
6810s going to be so much harder to get any
6811s more than that the head shot coming
6814s through from Chloe from zman and Wason
6816s Timeless another successful defense a
6818s Scrappy and long one and a costly one at
6821s that yeah these teams are not afraid to
6823s fight down a member they are not afraid
6825s to throw SS in even if they are in a 3v4
6828s disadvantage they are trying to win the
6830s these fights time and time again which
6831s is really surprising for drainers
6833s because they still have a lot of time to
6834s work with they captured like 5 minutes
6836s originally down to three now and
6838s counting but they continue to try to
6839s push this aggression they use the
6840s teleporter as a bait and now they're
6841s going to go the Rampage but it okay it
6843s did hit a few at least I wasn't sure if
6844s it hit anyone yeah sosler is going to
6846s bleed out from that Rampage damage and
6848s Kindred is definitely on a rampage now
6850s is with the a of the sound boost or the
6852s speed boost from wicka she's going to go
6853s in this is the aggression that we've
6855s wanted to see from her and that she has
6857s been trying to apply this entire time
6859s she finally gets it a big Rampage hits
6862s three and they're going to keep it going
6864s Zep turn with the ant Matrix there it's
6865s going to get walled off but that's going
6867s to make it so much more difficult for
6868s Washington Timeless to touch sniper
6870s going to have to try and go in on the
6871s side there's another boot from wika and
6873s sniper cannot touch Washington Timeless
6875s are now caught with their pants down I
6877s sure snaz is pumping in a ton of damage
6879s sure you kill KJ but you've already
6881s given up the point if trainers win this
6884s map wi is absolutely the MVP she has
6886s been insane with these sways with these
6888s boots to make sure that Washington
6889s Timeless cannot get these objective
6890s touches even when they're winning the
6892s fight you saw that pick that come out at
6893s the very end like they could have won
6894s that if they actually got to the
6895s objective in time but they don't Wick is
6897s making sure that they aren't able to and
6899s now drainers still have 3 minutes in the
6900s timeing they could potentially get a
6902s better time if they're able to get the
6904s full capture and keep winning fights and
6905s and the fight is happening here not in
6907s the choke they don't want to give it up
6908s if they lose this fight Washington
6909s Timeless are going to have to give up
6911s the choke and they've already lost the
6912s the sound bar or sorry lost the Blizzard
6914s from Chloe they've find Zep turn but
6917s Kindred is finding all of the damage
6918s with her knife they've taken down snip
6920s there goes zman and that is the fight
6922s win for drainers the choke for free and
6925s now only one fight potentially maybe a
6928s stagger fight after that stands between
6929s drainers and the full cap and you're
6931s seeing why the Jer Queen works so much
6933s better when you're trying to close this
6934s is the shout that extra shield the extra
6936s speed just allows you to run in so much
6938s more easily if you charge of a Reinhard
6940s it's basically all in or you're done but
6941s with the junker Queen is not always a
6943s complete commitment you still have time
6945s to try to get out it's going to be now
6946s the gtic flux as well as the S but it's
6948s going to be the artillery strike that
6950s finds the first blow yeah everybody was
6952s looking at the flux nobody was looking
6953s at the incoming artillery strike that's
6954s a great return fire there though despite
6957s drainers finding two the sound Vader
6958s from Haley going to keep everybody alive
6960s on the side of Washington Timeless the
6962s picks come out it's still Scrappy
6964s Kindred still wants blood but it might
6966s only be hers that ends up falling here
6969s if I mean yeah there we go there's the
6970s clean up that took a little longer than
6972s I thought but it is going to finally be
6974s kindred's blood spilled the fight stops
6976s Washington Timeless they can take a deep
6979s breath they've held on yeah and now it's
6982s pretty unlikely that there will be a
6983s better time for drainers if they get
6985s this full cap still could be pretty
6986s close if they're able to move quickly
6988s Chloe now going onto the echo might be a
6989s little bit harder to track down as they
6991s can glide through the air the big thing
6993s is that there is going to be a rampage
6995s for kindri she could absolutely decimate
6996s Washington T they do have an imortality
6998s F on their side but they don't have the
6999s sound be that was used in that last
7000s fight to sustain and get that hold yeah
7003s I mean snaz are going to be going for a
7005s sneaky artillery strike here it's going
7007s to be popped Chloe is already taking
7008s down youest but it's tra it out here
7010s comes the artillery strike Zep turn is
7012s Public Enemy Number One the Rampage
7014s comes out it hits two but is it too
7016s costly they might actually be able to
7018s get some purches with this KJ takes down
7019s snoer the rest of the damage from the
7021s Rampage has been healed up but everyone
7024s was forced to peel back so the cart is
7026s going to move forward just a wee little
7028s bit here the accretion from sniper goes
7030s wide the commanding shout comes out from
7032s Kindred but they don't have the
7033s resources to commit especially with KJ
7036s so low and we only have a minute left
7038s drainers have got to find something yeah
7042s they've got to survive through this
7043s gravitic look so they there's also a
7044s duplicate from Chloe that is about to be
7047s online there's so much for Washington
7048s Timeless on their side and it seems like
7050s drainers can't find those quick
7051s engagements that they were able to find
7052s so much before and they're just getting
7054s stalled out it's all going to be on
7056s Wicked shoulders with this sound barrier
7058s here comes the gravitic flux from sniper
7059s is the sound barrier good yes it is it
7061s catches everybody but that slam back
7063s down to earth means all of that HP all
7065s that over health is now gone and we're
7067s back into the neutral Chloe in invest
7070s the duplicate with the Bastion but isn't
7071s able to find a whole lot for it KJ going
7073s to pop the artillery strike sosler gets
7075s so low but the pocket from zman is there
7078s Haley going to pop back with that sound
7080s barrier and Kindred gets melted again
7082s gets caught out a pick off there onto
7084s kloe for the trade but it's all going in
7086s Washington timeless' favor it's all
7088s orange and the kill feed right now and
7089s drainers have stalled out at the last
7092s possible hurdle there they were so close
7094s but the play for bestest finds two it's
7096s nothing it's nothing actually doesn't
7098s touch the point it could have been a
7099s huge play but didn't actually touch the
7102s Point Washington Timeless go up two
7104s Z yeah that is so sad for reest finds
7108s two or three members at the tail end of
7110s that map but finally the objectively
7113s they had been so good for them the point
7114s captures they kept getting despite it
7116s being a full fighter being down one that
7118s is what ends up costing at the end not
7120s being able to touch that final time on
7122s the cart and I've got to give a lot of
7124s props to Wi once again I I think wi's
7127s individual plays there with the sound
7128s waves with those boobs that stopped
7130s Washington ESS from ching The Objective
7132s made that a much closer map than would
7134s have been otherwise that first point it
7136s looks like it was going the way of
7136s Washington timeless it looks like they
7137s were going get that defense but then
7139s instead they don't touch same thing for
7141s the second point but they still can't do
7145s enough on the side of drainers to win
7146s this one out Wasington Timeless they get
7148s tested it looked a lot like more like
7150s the first point of anic peninsula it
7152s looked a lot closer it came down to the
7154s wire but drainers again just cannot get
7156s the job done here there it feels like
7159s and Timeless just have such a a strong
7162s grasp on how to control the tempo
7164s because when you look at Diner's
7165s composition that's what they want to do
7167s they want to play fast they want to be
7168s swift they want to go in with the speed
7169s boost they want to put in as much damage
7172s with that junker queen as they can get
7173s those big uh Mayhem a swings get the big
7176s Rampages built up Pump just all of that
7178s close-range damage but if you just play
7181s your space you just control the tempo
7183s you don't let them get that close and
7184s punish them when they do split them up
7187s and force them to make mistakes suddenly
7189s you're in control and it's drainers that
7191s have to try and react and they did make
7193s some very Valiant attempts but it just
7196s was not enough Washington Timeless in
7198s the driver's seat nearly the entire time
7201s and we only got one more chance for
7203s drainers to try and take this series
7205s back in their favor it's going to be
7206s their map pick as we go into map three
7208s yeah their map pick once again I mean I
7210s I like that they picked M 10 I like that
7211s they change to the junker Queen a much
7213s closer Affair overall in that last sub
7215s map of anarc peninsula just came down to
7218s a few he decisions some I would say like
7221s not I wouldn't even say it's mistakes I
7222s just say honestly that Washington thas
7224s made some really good decisions at the
7225s very end that put them in a superior
7227s spot all Bank wise positioning wise uh I
7230s really like the echo swap that created a
7231s little bit of chaos uh Chloe just seems
7233s like she was able to like fly high and
7235s be a big distraction because of that and
7238s drainers I like the Jugger Queen again I
7240s really like it because it does let you
7241s initiate a bit quicker it lets you kind
7242s of sustain more through all the Poke
7244s damage going to come through but there's
7245s still snaz on the Bastion that is always
7247s going to be something that's going to be
7249s in your way we're going to see here at
7250s the very end yeah it was only two at the
7252s very end you were right but that Bastion
7254s just does so much every time that anyone
7256s tries to engage s always there to just
7257s do a whole lot of damage yeah we have a
7260s little bit of a Baptist head-to-head
7261s here Zep turn and zman and it looks
7264s pretty close throughout but again it's
7267s the eliminations and the deaths that
7268s kind of tell the story you know you're
7270s still doing a lot still pumping in a lot
7272s of damage actually zman with double the
7274s damage that Zep turn had that's also
7276s pretty massive maybe that's a stat that
7278s we want to highlight as well but when
7280s your team is winning when you're in the
7281s driver seat constantly like that you're
7283s going to have more Limbs and you're
7284s going to have fewer deaths and that is
7286s the picture that I see being painted
7288s here more aggression from zmen is paying
7291s dividends more healing from Zep turn is
7293s a necessity because of all the damage
7294s that zmen and the rest of the Washton
7296s Timeless crew are pumping out and the
7299s rest of drainers just kind of crumble
7301s because even all of the healing that
7303s zepter is doing is not enough to stop
7305s the aggression and retake control of the
7309s tempo there but that is uh that is where
7312s we're going to leave it for right now we
7313s still have one more map between these
7315s two we still have a chance for drainers
7317s to try and pull out the reverse week
7319s we've seen glimmers of potential we've
7320s seen some of their best looks but it
7322s hasn't been enough will it be as we go
7324s to map three once again their map pick
7326s Hey Jag you finally get to see some
7327s flasho and we'll see it right after this
7338s break
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7580s welcome back everybody the drain gang
7583s may be making their final stand here
7585s well not their final final stand cuz
7587s it's a doubleim bracket they might get
7588s sent down to losers bracket but they
7589s don't want that they want to make that
7591s run through the upper bracket and to do
7592s that they have to go through the best
7594s and to do that they have to use their
7596s map pick wisely their battleground of
7598s choice will be surasa for flas Point
7602s yeah I mean the thing about flash point
7603s there's only two maps right so there
7604s isn't exactly a whole lot of options
7606s overall I do think hu Jung city is a
7608s little bit bit more dynamic in some of
7610s the points I mean there's some funky
7612s stuff with high ground and there's like
7613s one point where there's like the point
7615s below High ground but you got to drop to
7616s actually get to it so I think it can be
7618s a bit more Dynamic for that Sur ofasa I
7620s feel like it's a little bit more
7621s straightforward usually you're fighting
7622s on the point there is some interesting
7624s kind of natural cover and you know
7626s there's some points that are like more
7628s encapsulated you know there's like a
7630s ceiling and stuff like that but overall
7632s it's almost always just kind of like
7633s you're running at your opponent which I
7634s think exactly is what drainers want
7636s because they want to run at their
7638s opponent they want to be very aggressive
7640s and they want to catch them off guard we
7641s saw it work a bit better on Midtown a
7643s very close two3 loss that they had and I
7646s like the junker Queen swap they had over
7647s the r but it has to be enough this time
7650s around it's been so close but it just
7652s has not gotten them that W just yet
7653s Washington is still Flawless they've
7656s still not dropped a map and they are one
7657s map away from punching their ticket to
7660s that winnner bracket
7661s final I I was doing a little bit of a
7664s think there in real time and we'll get
7665s back to that in a second let's have a
7667s quick look at the bracket real quick so
7668s we can see see how some of these other
7670s matches have shaken out so far and where
7672s we kind of stand as uh as it goes on you
7675s know we see uh Fable and AIS both
7677s getting the betters of their uh their
7679s opponents down there in the lower
7680s brackets still clinging to life I want
7682s to see more of fable as we go on Aegis
7685s still holding on we might have seen the
7686s last of GRE nightmare if that has
7688s anything if that has any implications
7690s those matchups still shaken out nothing
7692s reported for vtb versus Valiant
7694s guardians but we're at 2 for Washington
7697s Timeless versus drainers and if we go
7699s back really quick to why drainers may
7701s have picked surasa there is a specific
7703s composition that I have seen a lot of
7705s teams busting out on surasa one team in
7708s particular that played a lot of it on
7710s surasa and well every map for that
7712s matter was the London Spitfire and I'm
7714s sure that gives away the game what I
7716s think drainers might be trying to cook
7718s here that's just my first impression
7720s that's just a guess that's just like you
7721s know while you were over there're
7723s talking about you know why cvasa versus
7724s new junk City I was like hang on what
7727s have I seen a lot of on svasa that I
7729s haven't seen a lot of on new junk
7731s City yeah I mean it can work absolutely
7734s um I think the big thing I get is like
7736s you really need the symmetra and I know
7737s I've said this like so many times but
7739s you really need the symmetra because
7741s that teleporter is what enables theion
7742s to do so many things
7744s so I I don't know if I want to see that
7747s because the only time we've seen them
7748s really pull out the cetra wi with the
7749s junker Queen on Midtown and I thought
7751s that was doing really well they had that
7753s amazing first point capture in Part B of
7755s wika and again their Boop but also
7758s because they got that really nice
7759s positioning early on by taking an early
7760s teleporter that caught Washington
7762s Timeless off guard so here if they see
7765s the symmetra again I feel like washingt
7768s seem to be a little bit more prepared
7769s for it but if they run it with the Ry
7770s you're a bit more stationary unless that
7772s smra teleports you the juner queen I
7774s think adds another kind of variety it
7776s adds like another layer to the spice
7778s where you can kind of engage without the
7779s teleporter you could use the teleporter
7781s as a decoy just throw in some turrets
7783s and then use the shout instead to just
7785s run straight into them without it so
7787s there there's a lot of potential things
7789s here um we'll
7795s see it makes a lot of sense like Ryan
7798s has been very strong here overall yeah
7800s Ryan is there is the potential for the
7802s Ry we'll see if I'm right about that
7804s there's also the potential for the
7805s junker queen or even you know trying to
7807s mirror the sigma cuz we know what
7808s Washington Timeless is going to want to
7809s play and it's going to want to be that
7811s Sigma composition but if you're drainers
7813s Which Way Western marginalized gender
7815s person what is your choice how what road
7817s are you choosing to go down here there
7819s are so many different options for them
7821s on Sasa and potentially you know maybe
7824s even swap in between them for the
7826s various points I'm personally kind of
7829s expecting the the Reinhardt I think
7830s that's where we're going to we're going
7832s to try and lean into a little bit more I
7834s would like to also see the junker Queen
7836s but the sigir it's all possible it's
7838s really anyone's guess what we're
7840s actually going to see here but what we
7841s need to see the one thing that we
7843s absolutely need to see is a w in the
7846s drainers column a final blemish on
7849s Washington Timeless record if that is
7851s even possible if this Washington
7853s Timeless is capable of bleeding drainers
7856s have to make it happen right now and
7857s then take and take and take until they
7859s start the reverse sweep it starts here
7862s on surasa will they be able to do it and
7865s one I said this earlier on that it had
7870s to be I I wanted it a little bit earlier
7871s too let's just point that I wanted them
7873s to win a little bit earlier so that they
7874s wouldn't be in this Do or Die scenario
7876s but it really is one map at a time if
7878s you can make this mortal team bleed if
7880s you can make them have a bit of a
7882s struggle if you can make them question
7883s what they're doing then you can start
7886s rolling the ball down the hill from
7887s there it's been all uphill for
7889s Washington Timeless so far in this
7890s tournament again Washington flaws is
7892s what we nickname them because they have
7893s yet to drop a map at all through the
7895s Swiss stage or through playoffs just yet
7897s but this could be where that all turns
7899s around drainers it's not necessarily the
7901s end of their tournament run because
7903s again this is upper bracket they still
7904s have another Lifeline waiting for them
7906s but you don't want just yet that thing
7909s meant to be what is
7910s that you know I don't know it kind of
7914s reminds me I think of what we see on
7915s colosio with like their Sky tram system
7918s but I I don't know I I'm show me a train
7922s flying through that thing right now I
7923s need to know what this thing's purposes
7925s it baffles and intrigues me I think I
7928s need to we need to we need the lore
7930s lesson on exactly what that is a little
7932s I need to dig into the sasore right now
7933s but right now we're firmly focused on
7935s Washington Timeless versus drainer and
7937s drainers and the lore
7939s there and I was right I just want to say
7941s it I called it it is that symmetra R
7944s composition that drainers are coming out
7946s here with that is the path that they
7948s have chosen it's particularly effective
7949s on the first point here especially
7952s because you can control this choke point
7953s but once again Kindred has to be careful
7955s once her Shield Falls courtesy of the
7957s damage from snaza she might be in a bit
7960s of danger but until then she can just
7962s control this angle there's a nice wall
7964s coming out from bun there but the
7965s aggression coming out from Washington
7966s time is they catch it best out on the
7968s rot there I'm not sure what they were
7969s doing over there but I mean they're not
7971s doing a whole lot anymore waston
7973s Timeless are now going to seize their
7974s opportunity to go in they find KJ they
7976s find Kindred they find the point I think
7979s that was just a misunderstanding of how
7980s you're supposed to play this once you
7982s get the objective you want to hold back
7983s on it with the r you don't want to play
7985s too aggressive you want to capture that
7986s point because they had the positioning
7987s for that they could have been taking up
7989s progress even if they lost the fight but
7991s instead they play a little bit too
7992s aggressively I saw the teleporter was
7993s used really early on and then it was
7994s destroyed so there's really no way for
7996s Kindra to get out the way that they
7997s wanted to
7998s and now you can see Wasington Timeless
8000s they going to take advantage of the fact
8002s that they won that first fight they won
8003s that first capture on the objective and
8005s they're playing very aggressively it's
8006s going to force rers to go all the way
8008s around and try to set up again but I
8010s want to see them yeah this this is the
8011s time to play aggressive but I want them
8012s to kind of understand what they're
8013s trying to do at any given timean going
8015s to be met by the shield and now St is
8017s just going to be raining in bullets yeah
8019s there's an early immortality field
8020s forced Stout but KJ is not going to be
8022s the beneficiary of it her mortality is
8024s uh definitely not in any question right
8026s now sniper takes her down and Washington
8029s Timeless are going to hold strong here
8031s there's a nice creation of finish off
8032s aest and you can't even really see it on
8034s the screen right now but there was a
8035s couple members of Washington Timeless
8036s that were posted up on The High Ground
8038s and nobody from draer save for maybe Zep
8040s turn had the ability to even get up
8042s there to challenge them so zman is safe
8044s as houses up here and they also were
8047s able to avoid the amplication mates that
8048s came out from Zep turn because of that
8050s positioning so just very good
8052s understanding early on from Washington
8053s Tas of how to hold on to this objective
8055s they've already captured right now
8057s moving on to the next one and they have
8059s all of the ultimates in the world to
8061s work with it's been an incred showing so
8064s far and you don't get nearly as many
8065s opportunities on flash point like you
8067s would on control like you lose two or
8068s three fights and it's just done that
8070s point is not going to be able to be
8072s fought over anymore and once again this
8074s is Washington Timeless controlling the
8075s space controlling the tempo drainers
8077s want to get in their face but they're
8079s not going to let them they have control
8080s over the point there's a nice ice wall
8082s that's going to come out from inas and
8083s kindered with a huge shatter doesn't
8085s even let zman hit the ground before she
8088s swings that just like taking him out
8090s like a like a batter in baseball I'm so
8093s I'm dumbfounded by that one but I mean
8096s despite that drainers they're able to
8098s capture the Point Washington Timeless
8100s have not been fully evicted yet they're
8102s going to invest the artillery strike it
8103s doesn't find much of anything KJ finds
8105s Haley and that should firmly be
8108s Washington and Timeless taking their
8109s claim and there's a nice little
8111s insurance policy wall from bun to stifle
8113s the aggression a little bit almost a
8115s trade back but not able to come through
8117s for Wasing time they're going to have to
8118s wait quite a bit now Haley's back into
8120s the freay they still have some ultimates
8122s to work with but they use both DPS
8123s ultimates there for nothing so they're
8125s going to be forced to use this gratic
8127s flux early on there's still IM morality
8128s field from Z that can be thrown in maybe
8130s even ant Matrix to do a lot of healing
8132s Wasing the Timeless really are on the
8134s back for despite having a huge Advantage
8135s coming into what should have been
8136s another capture for them instead not
8138s able to get it done they're going to
8140s have to invest and they're also going to
8141s have to invest a little bit of time and
8143s make a little rotation there courtesy of
8144s that Matrix Kindred with two through the
8146s M Matrix that is absolutely massive and
8148s now this gratic flux from sniper is all
8150s for not wi with a nice little Boop there
8152s on zler to finish them off and now
8155s sniper at risk of getting staggered here
8156s but ad drainer is actually not going to
8159s uncharacteristically not going to take
8160s the aggression and let sniper live I
8163s think they're just worried about getting
8164s sagger potentially going into the next
8165s flash point which should unlock but
8167s actually they do get sniper at the very
8168s end so that's a huge sagger now they can
8170s rotate to the point I mean I I will say
8173s I believe sniper will be alive by the
8175s time this next Point unlocks it's still
8176s got 30 seconds but that's all charge
8178s that is time that Wasing thas has to
8180s kind of regroup once more and yeah
8183s you're going to see that drainer
8185s actually in a solid spot here possibly
8187s one of the better spots they've been in
8188s all series yeah they're going to try and
8190s cut Washington Timeless off at the pass
8191s as both teams try and race onto the
8193s point there there's the wall and the Ant
8195s Matrix coming out the window and the
8196s wall but this the blizzard comes out
8199s from Evas and finds two Kindred does
8201s fall so their ability to control space
8204s severely hindered here and Wick going to
8206s fall as well watch that timeless I mean
8208s despite losing too early there are going
8210s to come out of this fight ahead and
8212s should be able to make their way over to
8214s the point and start checking up that
8215s first cap there but they're still
8217s investing in trying to get KJ off the
8219s field yeah they are chasing right now
8221s trying to get KJ they do that's one hred
8224s was right there wasn't able to get the
8225s shield up in time so that's going to be
8227s a free capture and drainers they tried
8230s to go for this strategy if we're going
8232s to meet them before the point we're
8233s going to force that fight we're going to
8235s force that ultimates well you got your
8236s wish it didn't go the way wanted and now
8239s this third point of Sasa getting ticked
8241s up for Washington Timeless and they
8243s still have buns ultimate the blizzard
8245s ready to go they almost have the
8247s artillery strike it it just seems like
8249s the momentum especially in this map has
8250s continued to flip back and forth and
8253s something crucial in that previous fight
8254s by the way was that iest used their
8256s blizzard and didn't end up winning the
8258s fight for it so now Haley is going to
8259s have a free sound barrier when she
8261s builds up to it another shatter from on
8263s high from Kindred finds nothing the wall
8265s this time from iest all the Maz are just
8267s out to get kindred right now but KJ
8269s taking down Haley before she can build
8271s for that sound barrier that is
8272s everything right now W with the sound
8274s barrier of her own and with the over
8275s health benefit the benefit of the over
8277s Health drainers are able to secure the
8280s point 69% for Washington Timeless nice
8283s but drainers find the flip so that was a
8285s charge from Chloe's wall onto vesta's
8289s wall to shatter nothing I'm not exactly
8291s sure what happened there but it doesn't
8293s even matter it doesn't even matter it's
8294s all distraction because they still win
8296s the fight wi with the clutch down
8298s barrier to counter what Chloe's blizzard
8300s was trying to do they win the fight off
8302s of just a lot of shots also from aesta
8304s were hitting the Target and now they
8305s have control once more but Washington
8307s Timeless they have their own s barrier
8309s they've got a gravitic flux the AL
8310s Advantage is in their favor and they're
8311s going to use it yeah it looks like kred
8313s is going to be Public Enemy Number One
8315s but the accre doesn't find any value in
8317s the gravitic flux there isn't enough
8318s follow up as Kinder got slammed onto The
8320s High Ground and they've lost Chloe
8322s there's a nice charge there on Kindred
8324s or sorry onto sniper but she was too low
8326s and Kindred is going to fall Wasington
8328s Timeless with the sound barrier coming
8329s out from Haley are going to find the
8331s flip 75% for drainers there might be a
8336s touch here but it's going to be a risky
8338s one and zman can cut it off entirely
8340s yeah this is going to be a big decision
8341s do they try to go for this touch at the
8343s last second or do they give up the point
8344s they're trying to go for it you can see
8346s that Washington Tas they're in position
8347s to try to stop them from even getting
8349s there the wall is going to be there I
8350s think they got to give this up they're
8352s trying to go around and they will get
8354s the touch just in time there's that ant
8356s Matrix though and Kindred is going to
8358s melt though AES invest the blizzard but
8360s who is there to follow up on it
8362s certainly not them and definitely not
8364s Kindred and Washton Timeless are going
8366s to secure the point as the last members
8368s of drainers make an Irish exit out the
8370s back without telling anybody and now
8372s it's two to one in favor of watch and
8374s Timeless drainers they have to try and
8376s play for this next Point they've got to
8377s be Flawless from here on out or they're
8379s going to the lower bracket and no
8381s blizzard now that last second contest
8383s cost them so much not only the objective
8386s not only the point going the way
8387s Washington time with now has them on map
8389s and series point but that big AOE
8390s ultimate that could have Frozen everyone
8392s up that could have stopped Wasing
8393s Timeless in their tracks is no longer
8395s available they do have some abilities to
8397s work with some ultimates to work with
8399s but I feel like the May blizzard would
8400s have been the big one and they have to
8402s force out the immortality field to stay
8404s alive through that artillery strike KJ
8407s going to go ahead and Pop That overclock
8408s and without the an Matrix to stifle any
8411s sort of aggression and without the May
8412s wall to cut off any of the angles
8415s Washington Timeless just have to back up
8416s but the grenade from SN hler cleans her
8419s up and suddenly you don't got to play
8420s those angles anymore you can take them
8422s watch them Timeless with the speed boost
8424s are going to go super super aggressive
8425s here the damage coming out Kindred can't
8427s safely have her Shield up but the PIN on
8429s the Chloe is saved by the immortality
8431s field the shatter the immortality field
8433s is down the shatter is good but is the
8435s damage there yes it is sniper will fall
8437s but if s slips off the point I'm not
8439s sure what happened there Chloe going to
8440s clap back with the blizzard and
8442s Washington timers are coming out ahead
8445s they do come out ahead at the very end
8447s of it but the good news for trainers and
8449s what is now become a very dire situation
8452s is that they got the first capture they
8453s got 52% they force out a lot of
8455s ultimates from Washington Timeless but
8457s they also had to use a lot of their own
8460s uh they're going to have to take a dry
8461s fight here they have to build up
8462s ultimates if they can I mean if they can
8463s win this one out that's huge if they can
8465s win this fight they're in a great
8466s position to at least win this point but
8467s they only really have room to lose one
8469s fight here before it is really done in
8471s dusted that's a great wall from aest
8473s it's actually going to force out the
8474s gravitic plux from sniper just so they
8475s can live the immortality field is Good
8477s from Z turn but the the damage is coming
8480s through and Kindred can't sustain
8482s through it there's just not enough wi
8484s trying to go for a miracle play onto
8486s zman sosler is Fallen but Haley is going
8488s to punish wi's aggression boops are
8490s right off the map and suddenly it's
8492s looking real real dicey for drainers
8494s invest invest the blizzard they sniper
8497s wait there might actually be something
8499s here Haley takes down KJ though it still
8501s looks like it's in favor of Washington
8503s Timeless Haley with the sound barrier
8505s and suddenly there doesn't seem to be a
8507s whole lot going in the way of drainers
8509s but Kindred is back swinging the hammer
8511s the artillery strike comes out and it's
8513s just blocked Kindred puts the umbrella
8515s up and shelters everybody from the rain
8517s drainers find the flip sniper is back on
8520s the doomfist and somehow drainers are
8523s still in control Chloe Chloe gets the
8526s kill and was at one Health they get the
8528s ice block to get healed back up sniper
8530s on the doomfist this is crazy CP and
8533s they're going to get Kindred oh no
8535s Kindred Falls there's the wall from
8536s Chloe she's got the blizzard if she
8538s needs it drainers they have to try and
8540s play into this somehow but they don't
8541s have a tank they only have a sound
8543s barrier and it only catches Wicket in
8544s dep turn there's the blizzard onto the
8546s point Zep turn finds snaz Washington
8548s Timeless are wounded but they are not
8551s broken as they're going to face face
8553s downest with another wall and an icicle
8555s to the Dome wi is forced to evict the
8558s point she's going to go back in for
8559s another touch but Haley boops her away
8561s and despite the scrappiest fight of all
8564s time Washington remain Flawless drain
8567s ERS get
8569s drained 3 for Washington Timeless and
8572s drainers are going to the lower bracket
8574s what a final point there trainers made
8577s them work for it though that was again
8579s like there was really only one time
8580s where it felt like they really got
8581s outclass and that was going to be that
8584s last submap of antartic peninsula on
8586s Labs every other submap map whatever you
8589s want to call it every other fight
8591s engagement it was Scrappy it was all
8594s over the place but was it fun to watch
8596s yes it was it went down to the very last
8599s moment I still can't believe that bun
8601s was able to survive throughout all of
8602s that and then get the blizzard some
8604s heroic plays from members of both sides
8608s but the biggest thing at the end of the
8609s day is that Washington Timeless they can
8610s take some hits they might get hurt a
8613s little bit but they still do not bleed a
8616s three a continuation of this flawless
8619s run from the team that has to be
8620s considered the favorites of the Toronto
8622s to F rise together minor three for
8624s calling all heroes with how they've
8625s played if drainers can't even take a map
8628s off of Washington Timeless at this point
8630s who can because there are only so many
8633s other options that we've seen we've seen
8635s Valiant Guardians step up and get
8637s stepped on we've now seen drainers step
8639s up and get stepped on who is left who
8642s can topple these tyrants I still have
8645s faith that drainers have the potential
8646s to but it just feels like Washington
8649s Timeless are too calm Under Pressure
8652s drainers are great at applying pressure
8654s but I mean Washington Timeless every
8656s time it seemed like drainers had the
8657s Advantage every time it seemed like they
8659s were on the precipice of a miracle
8661s Washington Timeless found a way to Snuff
8663s it out through their own old usage I got
8665s to shout out Haley again for her sound
8668s barriers her clutch factor and z and
8670s zman with these immortality Fields like
8672s that one you saw right there saving
8674s Khloe's life and Chloe with the ice
8677s walls it's it's been the story of just
8679s about every Washington Timeless map is
8681s that her ice walls have been everything
8682s the deciding factor in so so many fights
8686s that frankly Washington and Timeless
8688s have no business winning but with one
8690s simple cool down one simple isolation
8693s pun intended isolation you get it
8696s they're able to overcome and that's
8698s taking nothing away of course from
8700s sosler who has been phenomenal on the
8701s Bastion when you can't get the angle on
8704s them they've got one on you they've got
8706s the damage they've got everything they
8709s need to push forward in this upper
8712s bracket it seems all but destined that
8714s Washton Timeless are going to be in
8715s Grand finals at this point yeah I mean
8718s they're at least in Winner's finals so
8719s they're only one step away from that
8721s grand finals and I want to go back to
8722s those sosler stats for a second I think
8724s they really show that the damage put out
8726s by the Bastion is just so difficult to
8728s compete with we saw so many times where
8731s drainers it looks like they had the edge
8732s it looks like they had the advantage
8734s they played aggressively I'm thinking
8735s about the fight after point two that
8737s they won and that fight on third point
8739s where they went in with the numbers
8741s advantage and this got either out aled
8743s out rotated or just snower comes in and
8746s just Rains Down bullet from above causes
8748s so much damage that they can't be
8750s overhealed and Kindred unfortunately
8751s just a bit too far forward they cannot
8753s be healed up she cannot be saved in
8755s those instances and those big overc
8757s commitments where it feels like they
8758s should win it and they don't were big
8760s game changers it just led to drainers
8763s ending losing those fights and then
8765s losing the series
8766s overall and you know we talked about all
8768s the compositions that drers excel at and
8771s you know they're very flexible but also
8773s a little bit one note in that everything
8775s they want to do is run at you be
8777s aggressive get in your face brawl have
8780s Kindred either hits you with the big
8781s shotguns and the ax swings or with the
8783s big hammer swings on the big German
8785s Hammerman but no matter what Washington
8788s Timeless know how to control the tempo
8790s stay calm under pressure and not let
8792s that pressure break them they Bend but
8794s they do not break they have yet to break
8798s they've yet to even crack under any
8800s amount of pressure they have still not
8801s given up a map they are still the
8803s Washington Flawless and they may have an
8805s entire golden tournament if no one else
8807s is left to step up on them but let's
8810s have a look at the bracket and see who's
8812s left Valiant Guardians took a three over
8815s Vancouver Titans blue we saw this in
8818s Swiss we might be uh we might be seeing
8820s it again but it could be another rematch
8823s but it's not really a rematch it could
8825s be a change of pace because again vant
8827s Guardians as I mentioned at the
8828s beginning of the show did not have their
8830s starting lineup for support last week
8832s they struggled a lot on that first day
8834s of Swiss they were able to clutch out on
8835s the second day this is a whole new
8837s Valiant Guardians this is the Valiant
8838s Guardians that we expected to compete
8841s with Washington Timeless these are the
8842s two top teams that were in the last
8844s minor that were in the grand finals and
8846s the upper bracket finals last time
8847s around so it seems like one way or
8849s another we are destined for them to play
8851s each other once more yeah and there's
8853s still a lot that has yet to shake out
8855s Fable and bearclaw gaming are still
8857s going at it GRE nightmare still clinging
8859s on for dear life we'll see who ends up
8862s advancing in the lower bracket and who
8863s ends up going home but uh I I mean we
8868s got to talk a little bit about that
8869s match up that we might be seeing going
8870s forward that washon Timeless versus
8872s Valiant Guardians cuz again we saw that
8874s one before and it was close about as
8876s close as this one feels I say like I'm
8879s saying that drainers and Valiant
8880s Guardians and Washington Timeless that's
8882s like the Triad that's your top three of
8884s favorites but Washton Timeless has
8886s firmly put themselves a tier above both
8887s of them has Valiant Guardians changed
8890s their tune is that is that something
8892s that we're going to get to see have they
8893s corrected their course and as far as the
8896s lower bracket goes I still want to
8897s follow that Fable story line as well
8899s there's so many moving parts of this
8900s tournament I love this bracket so much
8902s I'm I I had to nerd out about that for a
8904s second cuz there's so many narratives
8906s there are and it's great as a Caster but
8908s it's also great as a viewer to see all
8909s these different story lines kind of
8910s converge into this one amazing story
8912s that is calling all heroes I think one
8915s thing we got to mention is the last team
8917s to beat uh Washington Timeless in
8919s calling all heroes play was bant
8920s Guardians in that upper bracket for the
8922s Washington Justice minor a while ago
8925s they knocked Washington Timeless to the
8926s lower rack up and then Washington
8928s Timeless was able to get revenge win
8930s their own event that's put on by their
8933s parent organization in a three2 showdown
8935s like all five Maps so I mean these two
8938s teams when they go at it it it feels
8940s like it's always going to be a barn
8941s burner again they did play already in
8943s Swiss but I don't think that was the
8944s full story that wasn't the full
8945s experience we're going to get here in
8947s the upper bracket finals there is
8950s definitely plenty more of that story to
8952s write and hey we've got the author of
8954s that story or you know if you're if you
8956s want to be a little more literal about
8957s it we've got the manager of Washington
8959s Timeless who's going to be showing up
8961s for an interview we got debit who will
8962s be here to join us after a quick break
8964s don't go anywhere we'll be right back
8966s with that and more action on the other
8967s side of this
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9140s welcome back everybody if you're just
9142s joining us the Washington Timeless
9145s sometimes known in some circles as the
9146s Washington Flawless have dispatched
9148s drainers quite swiftly with another 3 0
9151s still not dropping a map and we've got
9153s debit their manager here for an
9154s interview debbit how are you doing hi
9157s I'm
9159s great all right very blunt very to the
9162s point I love it okay I got two questions
9164s to kick it off they're both easy ones
9165s first how does it feel to be here for
9167s another calling all heroes tournament
9168s and secondly who can stop you uh it
9172s feels amazing coming back for another
9173s calling all heroes tournament love love
9175s this um tournament and event um ran by
9179s blizzard and pizza
9180s penguin
9183s uh I no
9185s one no no one no one can stop you no one
9191s I love I love the confidence I got to
9192s say yeah I mean no one has stopped you
9194s so far so why would you feel any
9196s different about anything upcoming I got
9198s to ask though you have a rematch coming
9200s up in just a few moments with the
9202s Valiant Guardians you've played them a
9204s bunch recently the Washington Justice
9205s minor you've even played them here in
9207s the Swiss stage however that Swiss stage
9208s matchup a little bit different a lineup
9210s than you know what I think they would
9211s like to put as their starting lineup do
9213s you think that will at all affect
9215s today's results do you think this match
9217s up this rematch will go a bit
9218s differently or do you think it'll be the
9219s same as how it was before H um well I hm
9226s I think it will be the same result it
9229s might be tougher on us as uh I'm pretty
9234s sure they have armori coming back which
9238s could make have some changes but I think
9240s it will still be same result
9243s 3 I mean at this point like a three
9246s feels like it's all but destined I do
9248s also kind of want to ask you a couple
9249s things you are listed as the manager for
9251s a couple of other teams as well so how
9252s does it feel like having to juggle all
9254s of that and like work for all of these
9256s teams and try and uh you know bring
9258s forth the best talent that we have to
9259s offer on not only potentially the
9261s favorites but some of the other Underdog
9263s teams that we've looked at throughout
9264s the
9265s series I mean um it's it's it's hard
9272s work but it's fun I really enjoy what
9274s I'm able to do and I also enjoy like
9278s having like giving play like um players
9282s more opport more more opportunities like
9285s uh bear claw gaming for example that
9287s team was just made spontaneously 3 hours
9290s before roster lock uh for my friends uh
9294s who really wanted to play so it really
9296s feels nice to also give those players an
9299s opportunity uh when they were like when
9301s they didn't have any team to play in
9303s this C season with I mean you crafted
9305s another playoff team with only three
9307s hours that's kind of impressive like as
9308s a manager you kind of have to take that
9310s as a dub but I mean thank you so much
9312s for joining us and giving us a little
9314s bit of insight and I like the confidence
9315s that no one can stop you that's going to
9317s stick with me going forward and as we
9319s follow you through the playoff bracket
9321s I'm sure that is going to be the story
9323s but that's going to be it for the
9324s interview de do you have anything else
9326s that you want to say or any shout outs
9327s you want to give before we send you off
9329s um I would like to shout out my entire
9332s team uh Co um my my fellow staff team
9337s cointry uh Lily my assistant assistant
9341s manager o uh SNR for coaching us
9345s throughout this tournament uh our number
9348s one fan shark candy and that's
9351s all all right well thank you very much
9353s for joining us debit that's going to be
9355s it for the interview there again
9358s Washington Timeless they look so very
9360s dominant and it seems that that path of
9363s Destruction that dominance is going to
9364s continue all the way through the upper
9366s bracket marching and punching their
9368s ticket all the way to Grand finals they
9371s still have a couple of mountains to
9373s climb but not ones that they have not
9375s already Ed before uh chat I do have one
9379s other thing that I want to say uh debit
9381s leaving now just in time uh group
9382s meowing session is going to start right
9384s now Ekko has shown up for it so if you
9386s could all join us in meowing in the chat
9388s for me that would be just very very
9391s lovely very unsp Spirit of you and while
9393s you're all meowing for us and joining in
9395s on this session we're going to throw it
9396s to a quick break and we'll be right back
9398s with our next matchup don't go
9405s anywhere
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9740s good meowing everybody how are you guys
9742s all doing welcome back to calling all
9745s heroes rise together minor 3 hosted by
9748s torono defiant we have got our last
9751s match of the day up on the chopping
9753s block and it is going to be a big one we
9756s got Washington Timeless versus Valiant
9758s Guardians two teams that have
9760s historically gone blow for blow with one
9762s another but we saw them play in Swiss
9764s rounds Valiant guard Guardians got blown
9767s over will there be any blowback for
9768s Washington Timeless or will they still
9770s be the Washington Flawless yeah I mean I
9773s think we're expecting them to be able to
9775s come up with this Victory on the set of
9777s Washington Timeless nothing has said or
9779s shown that they can be stopped just yet
9781s Val Guardians like you said they did
9782s play them before I will say just like
9784s Vancouver Titans blue it will be a bit
9786s of a different roster for Valiant
9788s Guardians it should have a bit of a
9789s different support lineup aramori as we
9791s had mentioned before even deit mentioned
9793s should be back in the lineup they
9794s weren't available last week to play for
9796s Valiant Guardians now she will be back
9797s in the mix here today we do know they
9799s also have another support on the lineup
9801s Aspen don't know if you've heard of her
9803s not sure if she'll be sparting today but
9805s I know that her and aramore have played
9806s a bit together so there could be a
9808s completely different look in that
9810s backline for them and most importantly
9813s like they have to show up better than
9814s they did in that last series regardless
9817s of who's playing it was a 02 loss that
9820s they suffered they need to have a better
9822s showing here and I want to see a team
9823s take a map off of Washington timeless so
9826s far throughout this entire tournament
9827s they have not lost anything not a single
9830s map which is so impressive I'm I'm I I
9832s like that you bring up that armori is
9834s going to be back and I also like that if
9836s we go back to our interview that we just
9837s had with debbit by the way who is
9838s phenomenal thank you so much for for
9840s coming on but debbit said that the
9843s aramori being back is something that
9844s Washington Timeless is at least a little
9846s bit worried about which could mean one
9848s of two things either there is legitimate
9850s concern and we might see Valiant
9851s Guardians finally finally draw blood on
9854s waston Timeless something nobody else
9856s has been able to do or Wason Timeless
9858s thought ahead of time and they came
9860s prepared one of those two surely must be
9863s true and we're going to find out which
9865s one as we move forward but let's have a
9867s quick little look at the rosters here so
9870s we can see what it all means I mean we
9871s know what these rosters are we know what
9874s they are like we know Washington
9875s Timeless is roster we just saw them in
9877s action and we know what this group of
9879s players is capable of I'm really glad
9882s that we're just doing you know no limits
9884s no Rock I'm I'm really glad going to see
9885s two mercies come out here today for the
9887s set of Washington Timeless but sniper
9889s and sosler might not be reing who
9890s they're actually going to play but both
9892s have been absolutely outstanding I I
9894s think honestly in general this
9897s Washington Timeless roster has just had
9898s so many starts attive plays snaza looked
9900s amazing on the Bastion in particular in
9902s that last series Halo had some great
9904s plays as well just throwing herself in
9906s there making sure that she was
9907s protecting her team and then booping
9909s those away from those who might be doing
9911s some damage it looks like we're going to
9913s see Z again come into the lineup making
9915s that quick swap there um which they I
9918s mean we saw Z last time they were doing
9919s very good things on the bapti I think
9921s the biggest thing that we're going to
9922s see here today that's going to be really
9924s interesting is that Halo she is going up
9926s against her previous team she was with
9928s Valiant Guardians last time around ended
9930s up losing now she's on the winning side
9932s and I mean again Flawless what what more
9934s can you say about that have not dropped
9936s a map at all and it is going wonderful
9938s for that entire team I I I think it's
9940s pretty ironic that we've got two mercies
9941s on the graphic here for a team that do
9943s that has no mercy Mercy I I want it on
9947s record by the way I'm the first person
9948s in the world to ever make that joke
9949s about Mercy like I I want full credit
9951s for that but I mean yeah we talked about
9954s it as well like you were saying Halo
9955s going up against her previous team
9956s Valiant Guardians and how well she knows
9959s them and that manifested several times
9961s throughout that game especially on Le
9963s Jang Tower when these two last played
9964s but Valiant Guardians you know as well
9967s as Halo knows them it might be a
9969s slightly different Valiant Guardians
9970s because hey like you called out look who
9972s that is in the backline it's aramori
9974s making her return
9976s yeah it's not going to be Aspen Kopi
9978s going to stay in on that mean support
9980s role but I always going to give shout
9982s outs to moving fish again one of my
9984s favorite players in collegate they are
9986s one of the best tanks you can find and I
9989s think especially for Sigma meta
9990s definitely in the right place at the
9992s right time has done amazing things with
9994s red birds and will continue to do
9995s amazing things here on the Valiant
9997s Guardians and then whis again this DPS
10000s hit scan phenomenon I think one of the
10002s biggest match ups is going to be whis
10004s versus sosler today I mean absolutely I
10007s mean wisps and sosler depending on who
10010s ends up being the Bastion player if they
10012s do try to play Bastion because we've
10013s seen some like other looks from Valiant
10016s Guardians coming out especially on
10017s control like we saw like the pharmercy
10019s with like the doomfist coming out from
10021s this roster before so that's going to be
10023s something that might be very interesting
10025s but you know like you said wisps and
10027s sosler who is going to be getting the
10028s better of that exchange sosler has
10030s looked phenomenal on the Bastion
10031s especially today they seem pretty like a
10035s pretty surmountable task for any DPS
10037s player to go blow for blow with but
10039s we'll see if Valiant Guardians have what
10042s it takes I am interested in the sniper
10044s versus moving fish back and forth
10046s because again all of the tanks and
10048s calling all heroes are so sick I can't I
10050s I can't stress that enough somehow we
10052s just have some of the most phenomenal
10054s tank players that that the scene has to
10056s offer all on display right here and
10059s going back and forth has been it's been
10061s phenomenal we've seen what sniper is
10063s capable of we've seen last weekend what
10065s moving fish is capable of but can they
10067s one up that step up and surpass sniper
10071s in this exchange we will have to see
10073s control is going to be where we kick
10075s things off and I don't know if we have
10077s the map Choice yet for them but I mean
10082s let's like just going on past history
10084s leang Tower right that was pretty close
10087s when these two teams went at it yeah I
10090s think you're probably going to go for
10091s Antarctic Peninsula again if you're
10092s watching the time was seeing how well
10094s your comp will work the last time around
10096s there it is all right I I actually
10097s didn't know I swear I I didn't I didn't
10099s read any of Productions notes I was just
10101s guessing but it just worked right like
10102s you want to go of the hot hand and this
10104s is the best map that's going to work in
10106s your favor it was you know there's one
10108s map that was a little bit close
10110s Icebreaker a little bit back and forth
10111s in that last series against trainers but
10113s labs labs was just dominant showing from
10116s beginning to end 100 to zero and you
10118s just want to go back to that why would
10119s you go away from it when it works so
10120s well the first time and I think this is
10122s a good pick because we talked like I I I
10124s brought up the you know the doomfist
10126s pharmacy composition that we did see
10127s from Valiant Guardians on leang Tower
10130s last time around don't give them that
10132s like don't give them that Advantage
10134s don't let them play that go instead with
10136s something where it's like no you are
10137s going to play something grounded where
10139s we have the full advantage where we are
10141s just better on this Sigma mirror and you
10142s can try and counterpick us with a Ry or
10144s with a junker Queen but we just showed
10146s you that that doesn't work for the best
10148s junker Queen in calling all Hero so why
10149s would it work for you we'll have to find
10151s out I really wanted to see that Pharmacy
10154s more in that last match too it seems
10155s like on Le Jong tower that was like the
10157s one Edge they had was that it was a big
10158s surprise to see that come out into this
10160s sort of meta where it's very Sigma based
10162s I mean we still see some widows some ash
10164s here and there but it seems like there
10165s really wasn't anything that Washington
10167s ESS had prepared to coun or something
10168s like that but then when they went to the
10170s other submaps in Le J Tower they went
10171s back to kind of this default meta Sigma
10174s and it it just didn't really work out
10175s the way they wanted it to here I feel
10177s like there's even less chances for
10178s something like that I think a pharmacy
10179s would be very rare on this map maybe you
10182s could run it here on Icebreaker cuz you
10184s know there's no ceiling you can fly up
10185s pretty high even though but like Labs is
10187s open like there's this there's no
10189s ceiling there's just a sky and I still
10190s think that is like really difficult
10191s because there's a lot of high ground you
10193s can play on you're not getting that on
10194s sub level though absolutely not I mean
10197s that ceiling is going to punish you so
10198s much so definitely not going to happen
10199s on Su level I don't expect it really at
10201s all even when I'm saying like it's
10203s better here I don't think it's really
10204s good in general they could try to throw
10206s out something sneaky again maybe another
10208s sort of cheese composition that is not
10210s expected on the side of Washington
10212s Timeless you need any Edge you can get
10214s like these surpris
10216s if you can win that first fight roll of
10217s it when we say it's possible to play
10220s Pharmacy on Icebreaker we we say that in
10222s the way that like slurping mayonnaise
10224s through a straw is possible it's
10226s possible but it's disgusting it's
10229s disgusting and also very hard to do if
10230s you've ever tried I'm not saying I have
10232s and I'm not going to admit to anything
10234s CIA can't waterboard that out of me but
10237s yeah no looking at the comps that we're
10239s seeing it's looking a lot more grounded
10241s like we were saying no flyers in the sky
10243s today I think the most interesting thing
10245s here is if HK decides to stay on this
10248s torbjorn I I do believe we did see this
10250s last time as well doesn't look like
10251s we're going to see it though going to go
10253s to the May so it's going to be the stock
10255s standard across the board no surprises
10257s in store for Valiant Guardians this time
10259s around but as we talked about Armory is
10261s going to be in this lineup on that
10263s Baptist doing a lot of healing and
10265s damage that could be the Difference
10266s Maker and that could be what sets vant
10268s Guardians apart this time around in
10269s their rematch from the Swiss stage
10270s against Washington Timeless looks like
10272s Valiant Guardians are going to take a
10274s more outside approach that does give
10276s Washington Timeless a little bit of
10277s control over the point meaning that Val
10279s Guardians have to go through them if
10281s they want to get to the point and sosler
10283s going to go ahead and put the turret for
10284s him down but cancels out of it so that
10287s might be actually a pretty solid go
10289s button for valali and Guardians they are
10290s actually going to take a little bit of
10291s positioning and force Washington
10292s Timeless to play split the walls from
10294s both Chloe and chado are swapp are
10298s sectioning off the enemy tanks there but
10299s it's sosler getting the better of whisps
10301s and sniper with the followup it's that
10303s Bastion head-to-head that you call out
10305s that ends up being the first blood in
10306s this fight and you know Wasington
10308s Timeless they've already capped the
10309s point and this fight is still going on
10311s as the members of valy and Guardians
10312s slowly bleed out and that's the thing
10314s for watching Timeless you already took
10315s the objective so this is just gravy on
10317s top of the point cap you're saying yeah
10319s give us more ultimates yeah stagger
10321s yourself out more Haley already has a
10323s sound barrier what is this that is one
10325s of the most expensive and most difficult
10327s ultimates to build up in the game this
10329s is why Haley used to be in OverWatch
10331s League this is insane and that could be
10333s a huge difference maker here someone
10335s Falls low on the side of Washington
10336s Timeless that could be a fight winning
10339s ultimate right off the bat full credit
10341s to car he's almost got one as well but
10343s almost means that there's a window for
10345s Washington Timeless to go in with this
10346s gravitic flux without worrying about the
10347s sound barrier but now it's online and
10349s Caro can clap back with it for free if
10351s he should so choose but it looks like
10353s Valley and Guardians are actually
10354s choosing caution they're going to play a
10355s little bit more slowly there's that
10357s sound barrier coming out from both sides
10358s as the matter of fact gravitic flux from
10360s moving fish and sniper is very low that
10362s should be the kill confirmed and Valiant
10364s Guardians despite fite losing H key are
10366s finally coming out ahead in the fight
10368s they're going to clean up zman and that
10369s should be it they've clean up all the
10371s members of Washington Timeless but
10372s they're actually a little slow to
10374s physically capture the point right now
10376s yeah this is still a point percentage
10377s going the way of Wasington time they're
10378s going to get 70 when all said and done
10380s Haley gets a trade so that's in a force
10383s I believe um probably to go back which
10386s means that Valiant Guardians isn't going
10387s to be at full strength when this fight
10389s starts off they do have the one Al
10390s Advantage everything else was used by
10392s Timeless in that lost fight but they
10394s have the numbers they could try to run
10395s into this quickly maybe take that fight
10397s early and whips like that one ultimate
10400s they have online falling very low so
10401s they've got to be very careful right now
10403s cuz they have the only ultimate on the
10405s board and that one ultimate is artillery
10407s strike not typically a fight winner it's
10409s usually used just to force out
10410s immortality field looks like that's
10412s what's going to happen here immortality
10413s field actually don't even know if it got
10415s that much so it just kind of bought a
10417s little bit of space for Valiant
10418s Guardians moving fish gets very very low
10420s there off the accretion St from sniper
10422s and H key forced to go into the ice
10424s block a little bit early I think she
10425s might be considering popping that
10427s blizzard but nobody is hanging around to
10429s fall victim to it so I mean Valiant
10431s guardan still holding on but their
10433s health bars get low and sniper going to
10435s make them all the lower with that
10437s gravitic flux slamming moving fish down
10439s hkey does pop the blizzard and this is
10441s actually pretty smart they're going to
10442s take down sniper and I mean yeah the
10445s trades right now favoring Val and
10446s guardians but they step off The Point
10447s Washington Timeless finding the flip
10449s sosler puts the turret for him down does
10451s die for it but the fact that Washington
10454s time was found the means that this fight
10456s can keep being Scrappy and it's going to
10457s favor Washington Timeless whisk with a
10459s grenade to take down zman but is going
10461s to fall for it and as the dust settles
10463s waston Timeless are pushing this into
10465s one fight territory valali and Guardians
10467s back at full strength a nice wall there
10468s from Chloe and a temporary Armistice Al
10471s be it very temporary blizzard almost
10474s ready to go there's going to be the
10475s artillery strike right away they're
10476s going to throw it down try to force out
10478s this lamp there no mortality field but
10480s it's not going to be done it's actually
10481s going to get the elimination oh that is
10483s catastrophic that means you only have
10485s the Lucio healing and that is not going
10486s to be enough especially when the other
10488s teams got over Health the Beat from
10490s Haley is going to be the drum that
10491s Washington Timeless March to the battle
10493s drums as they charge forward take the
10496s point and a little bit of a misstep
10498s there for Valley and Guardians to flip
10500s it at all if they hadn't given an up in
10502s the previous fight you got to imagine
10504s they would have had at least one more
10505s chance to recontest but that just got
10507s stolen right out from under them not as
10509s dominant as Washington Timeless had on
10511s their last go around tier on stream for
10513s LA but still
10515s a map win a a round win excuse me
10518s nonetheless the big thing that I've
10520s noticed is it seems like Washington
10522s Timeless forced their opponents into
10523s this very Scrappy style of fighting
10525s where it's all over the place and that's
10527s where they Thrive that we saw in their
10529s Series against trainers we're seeing it
10530s here against F Guardians where they are
10532s forcing their opponents to use ultimates
10533s in fights they don't really want to
10535s they're splitting them up it's all over
10536s the place but Washington thas they are
10538s the ones thriving in the chaos
10540s regardless they are consistently coming
10541s out on top of these crazy engagements
10544s and and now they are just one round away
10546s from taking this map once more calm
10549s Under Pressure thriving in the chaos
10551s that has been wased in ess's ammo
10553s Valiant Guardians going to have to sew a
10555s little bit more chaos if they want to
10557s make Washington Timeless sweat and
10559s they're going to go ahead and do
10560s essentially what Washington Timeless did
10562s in the last one position themselves
10563s where they have control over the point
10564s and Washington Timeless have to go
10566s through them to get to get their feet
10568s onto the point there and it looks like
10570s sniper is up to the task just going to
10571s push forward ice block forced out from H
10573s ke and she's not able to live actually
10576s the pressure does come out and gets
10578s forced out there pressured off and split
10579s from the rest of her team and despite
10581s the damage coming out from Valiant
10583s Guardians onto Washington Timeless it's
10585s looking like Washington Timeless are
10586s going to do just that they go right
10587s through Valiant Guardians capture the
10589s point make the bodies hit the floor and
10592s they are on the board another Point
10594s capture before the fight is finally
10596s finished it's not as big of a Stager
10597s this time but it's still a late kill
10599s nonetheless aore is just finally coming
10601s up now from Spawn they're so good at
10603s playing the objective and getting
10604s eliminations I've seen them so many
10606s times lose fights where they still hold
10607s possession for so long that they get
10609s down to final fight territory like what
10611s can't Washington ESS do correctly
10613s honestly like I keep saying I want them
10615s to lose just because I don't want a
10616s golden like Victory but they do lose at
10618s least one here in this fight I mean yeah
10620s you do ask what they can't do correctly
10622s and apparently that keeps Nosler alive
10623s in this fight sniper going to go ahead
10625s and try and stifle the pressure here the
10628s Wall comes out from aramori but it's a
10630s little bit crooked I think they want to
10631s try and take angles on both sides here
10633s and they do have sniper split off we'll
10635s see if they're able to punish that looks
10636s like they are going to but Chloe tosses
10639s in the blizzard but I think it got cut
10640s up by the wall there it's not going to
10641s be enough Des spite that sniper still
10643s alive gravitic flux comes out from
10645s moving fish an inreasing onto whips is
10647s going to force koo's sound barrier out
10649s and valy and Guardians do flip the point
10651s as Washington Timeless they fall back
10653s and again a very temporary
10656s Armistice yeah that's one of the times
10657s that they actually did not play The
10659s Objective very well but they're still
10661s playing this they're still trying to get
10662s some sort of fight Advantage here it's
10664s going to force it out terly strike but
10665s they lose H key in the meantime yeah and
10668s she was in the middle of popping the
10669s blizzard I don't know if that actually
10670s went off I think Halo might have like
10671s ajaxed the max rather and whis going to
10674s take down zman it's back and forth both
10676s ways but Valiant Guardians have conceded
10679s control of the point again to Washington
10681s Timeless and the last vestig is that
10683s being Caro trying to get out alive majax
10686s I I love that we got to use that more
10688s often CV toed it if if you ever Ed it in
10689s a broadcast it was a CV original but
10691s yeah I don't think it went off I'm
10692s pretty sure she died before it actually
10695s was on the field of play so two
10698s ultimates from the DPS slide of valiant
10699s Guardians neither finding anything the
10701s point flipped again before the fight
10702s actually ends watching Timeless they're
10704s looking at a last fight scenario they're
10706s going to use a G Flex right away and
10707s they've done so much damage already yeah
10709s whis does not living through that one
10711s the immortality field did come out but I
10713s think it was just a little bit too
10714s awkward there where everybody landed and
10716s they might as well have landed in their
10717s graves cuz that's where sniper and
10718s sosler have put them a late stagger
10720s there onto moving fish with only 10%
10723s left Caro is lurk working but Valiant
10726s Guardians yeah they're not going to get
10727s the touch here if if WatchON times have
10729s anything to say about it car actually
10731s does get a couple of toenails on the
10733s point there but that's about it hkey
10735s going to fall the window damage is just
10737s too much and yeah armori can pop hers
10740s but that's not going to get you on the
10741s point my dear and that should be washed
10743s in Timeless cleaning this one up with a
10745s token doomfist resistance from moving
10747s fish malan Guardians fall on control two
10751s to
10752s zero what a showing it's not 100 to zero
10755s like we saw last time but still just
10758s absolute dominance especially here on
10760s Icebreaker besides giving up the point
10763s when the fight wasn't over they did
10765s everything correct in fact that actually
10766s might have been the right call they
10767s forced out some ultimates during that
10769s fight from the opposing side they get
10770s positioning once again and then they
10772s ended up still winning that engagement
10774s when all was said and done so just like
10777s objective flight again is the name of
10779s the game you can I mean technically you
10781s could win a map without Ever Getting
10783s elimination it would be very difficult
10784s and the other team would have to like
10785s not have their mouse keyboard or monitor
10788s on but the objective is always going to
10789s be first and foremost what you're
10791s playing for and there they play it to
10793s Perfection starting off just like they
10796s did on the last time they played
10798s Antarctic Peninsula it's a two win I I I
10801s would love to see a team win a control
10803s point with the pacifist run but
10804s Washington Timeless are definitely not
10806s pacifists they like you said they thrive
10808s in the chaos they create a war zone
10810s around them and they control the tempo
10812s they are the harbingers of destru no
10814s matter what chaos you try to bring be it
10817s some erant blizzards coming out from
10818s hkey some big slams that may have come
10821s out from moving fish and even the
10822s Difference Maker aramori that we talked
10824s about wasn't enough to slow down
10826s Washington Timeless they still hold on
10829s to that Flawless record still have not
10830s dropped the map but the ball is no
10832s longer in their Court as now valy and
10835s Guardians having dropped this map losers
10837s map pick they get to choose where we go
10839s for Hybrid next yeah absolutely and I
10841s would not I would suggest they don't go
10843s to Midtown I don't want to see us go
10845s there again it seems like washing time
10847s was still that map through and through I
10849s want to see them may be placed out of
10851s their Zone I mean we talk about Nani
10853s that one if I believe I I have to
10855s remember correctly it was a week ago
10856s like some much just happened this week
10857s but I do think that went to extra rounds
10860s uh if I remember correctly like that was
10861s a pretty close map and I think it came
10863s down to just at the end of the day
10865s Wasing time was played it a little bit
10866s better and if I'm wrong they mean you
10868s can flame me chat for that go watch the
10869s VOD you can see it yourself but that's
10871s where they went last time it was a
10872s Washington Justice win
10874s so or watching watching Timeless not
10876s Wasington justice so I mean maybe you go
10878s to the last map in the pool that we you
10880s and I have not seen at all yet maybe but
10884s I mean you know we are at least again
10885s guaranteed to get a little bit of flash
10887s point here but sniper I mean right now
10890s okay The Meta seems to be trending
10892s mostly towards Sigma across all of
10894s competitive OverWatch from tier one all
10896s the way down to like the lowest vestages
10899s of it everybody sees what Florida Mayhem
10901s did in the grand finals and that means
10903s right here for calling all here Heroes
10904s you're going to have some of the best
10906s sigas in the game like sniper getting
10909s the better of their opponents time and
10910s time again and you can see that in the
10912s stats here only two deaths the whole
10914s time that's kind of crazy for a tank
10916s that I mean that it does mean that your
10918s healers are doing a lot of work and
10919s there were even some times where it
10921s looked like sniper was out of position
10922s and Valiant Guardians wanted to go for
10924s the punish but Halo was there zman was
10926s there immortality Fields all of the
10928s healing sniper never thoroughly got
10930s punished for that play and when you
10932s can't punish the enemy Sigma and the
10933s enemy Sigma is as good as sniper you're
10936s as good as dead and I think it's
10937s important to not also this is on the
10939s previous patch this is not on the Sombra
10941s rework patch this is not with the Samoa
10943s patch that just dropped a few days ago
10944s so I mean you you see what happened
10946s before you saw that it worked last week
10948s when you ran it yourself so you're just
10949s going to keep running the same thing
10950s over and over again I mean we've seen a
10952s few variations we saw in the last series
10954s that they can swap things up with the
10956s DPS lineup we saw the bun Widow Maker
10958s which was a treat to say the least but
10961s the sigma sniper has always been that
10963s starart front line that they need and
10965s again like when you see how their
10967s supports are playing how could you play
10970s anything else because as you as we saw
10972s sniper died only twice that is
10974s incredible for a meta where Bastion is
10976s just mowing you down I mean so both both
10979s of these tank players by the way sniper
10980s and moving fish historically on some of
10982s their uh contenders and Collegiate and
10985s various teams throughout the scenes that
10986s they've been on they have been the off
10988s tank player which previously in dive
10990s metas meant you come in on circuit
10992s Royale to play Sigma so it's like their
10994s signature hero for both of them moving
10995s fish is showing a little bit more
10997s diversity but sniper is just showing
10999s more dominance when it comes to Sigma
11001s and I think that is one of the many
11003s reasons that Washington Timeless have
11005s been so successful thus far I mean we
11007s keep we can point out any member of
11009s their team we keep pointing out uh bun
11011s we keep pointing out Halo this team is
11013s just top tier across the board but going
11016s up against somebody like moving fish who
11018s has that similar pedigree of being the
11020s sigma specialist for a team is very
11023s telling coming out ahead in that 1 V one
11025s from for Sniper is very telling is there
11028s a sigma in calling all heroes that can
11031s Dethrone sniper we will have to see so
11033s far the answer has been no we're going
11036s to have to see if they can go for that
11038s dethroning play on Midtown I was wrong I
11041s mean at least it's not what I would have
11043s chosen what is it about mtown why what
11046s happened to Nani chat I thought we were
11048s all in on numani last week what happened
11050s and that's the thing I wanted to say
11051s this uh we have had the same hybrid map
11053s like through both weekends like it was
11055s Nani the entire time we broadcasted last
11057s week it's menown the entire time we
11059s broadcasted this week it seems like the
11060s the map picks just keeps switching week
11062s to week but I'm I'm a bit surprised
11065s honestly about this from Valiant
11066s Guardians because we just saw what
11068s Wasington Timeless could do um and I
11070s mean they haven't lost a map yet so they
11072s were at least two and0 on this map for
11074s the two series that we've seen them on
11076s um on broadcast so this feels like I I
11079s would have L to seen ien Walt honestly
11080s ien Walt is the last map in this pool
11081s I'm not sure if ien Walt has been played
11083s at all um at least we haven't seen I
11085s think it might have been played once
11086s last week with uh Kwing and Billy when
11088s they were casting but it seems like no
11091s one wants to go to that maybe no one's
11092s comfortable on it and said that it's
11093s been noani in Midtown and Midtown feels
11096s like a place at Washington Timeless just
11098s know too well I I think people don't
11101s want to pick iin because as the attacker
11104s trying to play into this meta it's just
11105s too difficult like I ion's weird right
11109s like the first map feels very brawl
11110s heavy where you'll see a lot of Sigma
11111s you'll see a lot of Arisa point B feels
11114s like you kind of need like something DIY
11116s in order to try and crack the defense
11117s especially if they are playing a segma
11118s on The High Ground but then it's like if
11120s you play Winston into a Bastion you're
11122s going to drive yourself into the looney
11124s bin in no time flat like it's going it
11126s just isn't going to be a fun time at all
11128s so that makes sense why we're seeing so
11130s much Nani and why we're seeing so much
11132s Midtown cuz Midtown is easily the broest
11135s of the three like we have this High
11137s Ground on the second point that you can
11139s see over here overlooking streets phase
11141s but point B and point a are both very
11143s very very brawl heavy and that's kind of
11145s that ven diagram that Sigma likes to
11148s live right the that intersection of
11150s controlling High ground and brawling it
11152s out especially with the May Bastion
11155s compositions that we've been seeing
11156s everybody favoring especially Washington
11158s Timeless can I get an oo in the chat we
11161s got the oo back once again some meows as
11164s well I know there's been a few meows
11166s today here and there I think the biggest
11168s thing about this is that traditionally
11170s Sigma as you said like as an off tank
11171s and the previous meta as a double shield
11172s the rest you the main tank
11174s very fun meta everyone loved it
11176s obviously but the big thing now is like
11178s even in OverWatch 2 when we like saw
11180s this pick on Casino Royale in the past
11182s or circuit Royale excuse me CET Royale
11184s is a James Bond movie very good one very
11186s good one yeah I always think of that for
11188s some reason I you know no no shout out
11189s to M by the way but the big thing is
11192s that it's always been kind of like that
11194s poke comp like Baptist Zenyatta maybe
11196s double sniper but this new meta is that
11198s hybrid of where you just want to run in
11200s with the you want to play Brawl straight
11201s up in their face and mid un let you do
11204s that for a lot of it there is that high
11205s ground that you sometimes have to
11206s contest but other than that like it's
11208s literally just two teams smashing into
11209s each other just like you would have a
11210s Reinhardt just like you would have a
11211s junker Queen caution low clearance I
11214s have it on good authority that moving
11216s fish is actually 11' 4 in a very tall
11219s gaming warlord so that's going to make
11221s that choke all the more difficult to try
11222s and get through Washton Timeless
11224s actually conceding a fair bit of ground
11225s just for the sake of holding the Angles
11227s and not letting bant Guardians get
11229s through as the two teams just kind of
11231s jockey for position here moving fish
11232s actually going to make a pretty big
11234s rotate around on their left hand side
11236s there and suddenly Washington Timeless
11238s are being slowly forced up the stairs
11240s the immortality forced out as the
11241s accretion went out onto moving fish and
11243s valian Guardians I mean they di their
11245s toes in the water but it seems a little
11246s bit too cold they have to jump back
11249s out very close so the field had to be
11251s thrown up by zman as well to make sure
11253s that sniper and snower could stay alive
11256s after that wall came up and almost
11257s section them all from the rest of the
11258s team now both teams or at least one team
11261s Ari already has that ant Matrix and it's
11262s going to help catch out Haley yeah that
11264s Bastion grenade I still don't know why
11266s it hasn't been nerfed and I'm sure
11267s Haley's going to be wishing for a Nerf
11268s right now but through an ant Matrix I
11270s don't think it makes all the difference
11271s zman going to fall as well and without a
11273s Healer to your name the point is surely
11275s going to go in favor of valiant
11276s Guardians that's a great play there from
11279s aramori and a great follow up from wisps
11282s and that is going to be a very quick
11284s first point take no C9 necessary for
11287s that one just outright win the fight 5
11289s minutes on the clock and this might be
11291s exactly why Valiant Guardians picked
11292s this map they had very smart rotation
11294s they waited for the amri to be built up
11296s they used it in a great spot that helped
11298s get that initial pick and the Bastion
11300s grenade through the amri is just instant
11301s depth that hits anyone it does so much
11303s more damage because of that increased
11305s damage threshold that amplication Matrix
11306s gives you I mean speaking of instant
11308s death this might be it for Valiant
11310s Guardians there's that immortality field
11312s but it's not enough to save moving fish
11313s a huge gravitic flux from sniper and the
11315s followup is absolutely there and as
11318s quickly as they cap the point Valiant
11320s Guardians are now going to lose control
11321s of it Washington and Timeless are taking
11323s all of that space right back this first
11325s fight on second Point seems so difficult
11327s just because of The High Ground
11328s Advantage you have as a Defender it's
11329s not just the far back over the bridge
11331s it's also this kind of like scaffolding
11333s to the right side that we've seen a few
11334s teams try to set up on or at least hold
11336s on to as the cart moves forward and
11338s watching Timeless they' played that
11340s before they played like that again and
11341s they are not afraid to play it more in
11343s the face of vant Guardian instead of
11344s getting them all this free room the good
11346s new for Valiant Guardians though they're
11347s going to have an entire alic and Al
11349s apocalypse as you will as they go in
11350s through this there's the artillery
11352s strike coming out a lot of bolts
11354s actually being popped both blizzards
11355s comes out sound barrier from car to try
11357s and keep the team alive Haley going to
11358s respond in kind with one of her own but
11360s Hale oh H key gets a little bit melted
11363s down there by sosler the artillery
11364s strike going to come out from whis but a
11367s great grenade jump there from sosler to
11368s avoid the damage there in Valiant
11370s Guardians they have been able to find a
11372s way through the door by the way
11373s Washington Timeless are not playing The
11375s High Ground chat they are playing
11377s forward they want to try and control the
11379s choke and not even let Valiant Guardians
11381s touch the point this is worst case
11384s scenario for Gans they still have 3 and
11386s 1/2 minutes but they used everything
11388s there and they got nothing for it they
11390s have to build up an entire Al economy
11392s once again after having a full Al bank
11394s they can't catch out sniper it was a
11396s force IM mortality field from zman to
11398s keep them alive as well as some
11399s Shenanigans of the wall that they had to
11401s get through but Wasing Timeless like you
11402s said they are holding so aggressively
11404s and Valiant Guardians have not been able
11406s to find a way to break through sniper
11407s has another gravitic flux if they need
11409s it and they are going to indeed pop it
11410s and there's no tool there's only the
11411s immortality field from aramori again
11414s moving fish does not get caught in it
11415s and sniper with a nice 2K the wall from
11418s bun is phenomenal and I mean again off
11421s the back of these gravitic flock is
11422s Washington Timeless continue to hold
11424s ground and Valiant Guardians haven't
11426s even sniffed the payload in about 3
11427s minutes the wall from bun again these
11431s are just insane there it cuts off the
11433s line of sight if the morality field
11435s there's no chance for moving face to
11436s survive through all of that damage and
11438s the rest of the team isn't there to
11439s break the wall in time this amazing team
11441s play from Washington Timeless they are
11442s going to get pressed out just a little
11443s bit it's a split approach this time for
11445s Valiant Guardians and at least finally
11447s they're able to touch the cart once more
11448s but can they do anything more than that
11450s once again WatchON Timeless they Bend
11452s but then they snap right back there's
11454s that ant Matrix coming out from zman an
11456s artillery strike from whiffs and the
11458s gravitic flux Haley is there with the
11460s sound barrier to try and stifle all of
11462s the damage Chloe does get caught out
11464s there though so finally the big
11465s playmaker the walls now no longer a
11468s factor Val and Guardians can break the
11470s walls down charge on forward up onto
11472s this High Ground sosler pops the
11474s artillery strike catches out Koo but is
11476s going to pay for it and I think that
11477s might even be an acceptable loss there
11480s but wisps is not because now they don't
11483s really have the means to both push the
11485s cart and control The High Ground at the
11487s same time no they do not and it looks
11489s like M Guardians in the meantime have
11491s decided to back off The High Ground try
11492s to get more progress actually backed off
11495s completely for the time being I think
11496s they're trying to go for a full team
11497s reset and then re-engage on The High
11499s Ground they're giving up valuable time
11500s they're giving up but could have been
11501s possible progress I mean they only have
11503s a minute and a half left they lose this
11504s fight they only have one maybe two
11506s fights more if they're lucky and this
11508s car is just not moving at all there's
11510s the sound barrier from Cara to respond
11512s to that blizzard and HQ still caught in
11514s it though she might fall she's able to
11515s cling with a sliver of Health the
11517s immortality field saves her life there
11518s she's able to clap back with one of her
11520s own but sniper has another gravitic flux
11522s and there's no sound barrier now to stop
11524s it HQ is finally stifled but sniper
11527s stuck in a corner put in timeout Caro
11530s going to dish out the beating and put
11531s sniper down there and I mean and it's
11533s Scrappy it's trades for
11536s trades armori going to fall Valiant
11538s Guardians with only a minute left this
11540s fight needed to be it needed to be
11542s decisive WatchON Timeless they've made
11544s it Scrappy and they've bought themselves
11546s more time they're still control of The
11548s High Ground Valiant Guardians can't
11549s break through here and they need to find
11552s something and they're almost entirely
11553s out of ult to do it they really needed
11555s to play the cart there I I'm very
11557s confused on the decision making yeah
11559s sniper gets the accretion of a lifetime
11561s and now more time is going to be off the
11562s clock valant guard Ian are getting run
11564s through right now and it all comes down
11566s to the fact that they didn't get cart
11567s movement the ant Matrix being used as
11569s well in a lost fight they will have an
11572s artillery strike they will have a great
11573s flux but I just really wish they had
11575s played that low ground they should have
11576s kept moving the cart I don't know why
11578s they let Washington tyus retake The High
11580s Ground for free I look at how far
11582s forward Washington tyus are playing
11583s they're once again going to this choke
11585s the artillery strike is going to force
11586s them back just a little bit and SN
11588s actually doesn't get doesn't get all the
11590s healing there was no immortality field
11591s that time that might have been a small
11593s stake there from zman to try and hold on
11594s to that sound beer comes out from Haley
11596s and it's forced out but the am Matrix
11598s melts down moving fish and it looks like
11601s it's going to be all washed and Timeless
11603s yet again despite the heroic play there
11606s despite that artillery strike from whis
11608s KO with a little bit of a sound Bearer
11609s to try and keep himself alive but it's
11611s not going to be enough it's all for not
11613s the cart will stop underneath the
11614s overpass Washington Timeless with a
11617s beautiful point be hold they are so
11619s dominant and so in control all of the
11621s time they are down but they are never
11624s out 4v5 it doesn't even matter just use
11626s both support ultimates to sustain to get
11629s more damage done and just WIP moving
11631s fish off the face of the Earth there
11633s even with his gra or excuse me their
11635s grasp out just could not get the job
11638s done there and it's so unfortunate for
11640s Valiant Guardians because I really think
11642s there was an opportunity for them to get
11643s more progress I harped on it before I'm
11645s going to harp on it once more here I
11648s just feel like positionally wise they
11650s misplayed one of those last fights when
11651s they had a minute and a half left
11653s understand that they were down members
11654s so they were trying to get that full
11655s team recontest but once they got that
11657s recontest you got to play the C you got
11659s to keep getting that progress The High
11661s Ground doesn't matter if you're already
11662s underneath where it is they had the
11664s tunnel they were in the middle of it and
11666s they never got to move past where that
11668s cart finally is where you could see
11669s where it was just a few moments ago that
11671s was where it stopped when they went for
11672s the regroup and Washington time was once
11674s they got that High Ground they never
11676s gave it up they just got they were given
11678s a gift and it was the gift that kept on
11681s giving in those last few fights I mean
11683s speaking of gifts it feels like sniper
11685s is getting gifts from the heavens with
11686s all of these gravitic fluxes but that's
11688s not actually the case it's because
11689s they're putting out so much damage and
11691s of course Zan and Haley are doing so
11693s much healing to keep that aggression up
11695s so sniper can build up to the gravitic
11696s fluxes all the healing means more sound
11698s barriers means more amplification
11700s matrixes and every time sniper pops a
11702s gravitic flux somebody dies because the
11705s DPS are playing around that ultimate
11707s ability so well Washington Timeless feel
11710s like pieces of a puzzle playing around
11712s each other so well they are one cohesive
11714s picture and Valiant Guardians have yet
11717s to find a way to break it up they have
11719s yet to find a way in they have found
11721s ways to make them bleed just a little
11723s bit and to take a little bit of space
11725s but it hasn't been enough to take the
11727s entirety of the point and now they have
11729s to full hold here at the choke and it
11731s looks like they're off to a pretty solid
11732s start there but the wall from Chloe say
11735s it with me chat once again sections
11736s everybody off and yep wisps is going to
11738s fall sosler just melts down the enemy
11740s Bastion and yeah I mean valant Guardians
11743s they've already crumbled waston Timeless
11745s are already on the point and Guardians
11746s have no say in the matter they're
11749s chasing for these eliminations they do
11750s not want this Rec to come out at all a
11753s nice ice block to keep them alive it
11754s doesn't look like they'll get that kill
11756s they do snaz with the grenade from
11758s downtown and the follow up onto KIRO
11760s they are going for the spawn Camp right
11762s now that objective it's going to take a
11764s while as Haley is just going to you know
11766s play some tunes in a DJ right now on the
11768s Lucio so it's going to take a bit to get
11770s that point a little bit slower than it
11772s would be if they were on but the
11773s positioning that Wast thas are getting
11775s right now this is incredible they are
11777s not letting this pressure down they
11779s continuously pushing into on Guardians
11781s and Guardians they are faltering but
11783s they do get Chloe yeah Chloe went a
11785s little bit too aggressive there and got
11787s caught out and this is great for Valiant
11789s Guardians because it means that they can
11790s try and control this High ground and
11791s they do just that they take down zman
11794s but 5 minutes on the clock to try and do
11796s exactly what Valiant Guardians did but
11798s better is their task at hand but this is
11801s exactly where Valiant Guardians
11802s themselves got stopped right this is
11804s especially winning that first fight I
11805s like the idea from Timeless they're
11807s trying to take that aggressive
11808s positioning but Chloe just got pincered
11810s the rest of Val gr says hey there's a
11811s May here let's just swarm her take her
11814s down and that's exactly what they did
11815s they're now going to hold the same
11816s positioning that Timeless did themselves
11818s and they have the ultimate Advantage
11819s there was already an ant Matrix that was
11821s used early on in that lost fight that
11823s won't be online for just a little bit so
11825s bant Guardians knowing they have that UL
11826s Advantage they are going to play much
11828s more aggressively and they might
11829s actually catch up zman oh they
11831s absolutely are the immortality field
11833s though might be enough to keep Z man
11834s alive it is not HQ is there with the
11836s follow up and here comes whips with that
11839s ant Matrix assist there to pump out all
11841s of the damage and it seems like Valiant
11843s Guardians despite having to invest that
11845s sound bear to keep everybody alive
11846s through the artillery strike are going
11847s to sustain here and I thought for sure
11850s that it was going to be the gravitic
11851s flux that came out from moving fish cuz
11853s they had it early but they didn't even
11854s need to they just caught zman out this
11857s might be the sagger of s where are you
11859s going yeah snipers all the way behind
11861s them I mean the rest of the team is cut
11862s off they could just run in they're going
11863s to run in with the blizzard doesn't find
11865s anything just yet but there it goes
11867s Chloe oh this is I mean they get the
11869s trade I guess but sniper still not
11871s anywhere near the team I mean sniper has
11873s now found themselves into a duel with
11874s Caro but everyone else now knows
11876s sniper's whereabouts and they're going
11878s to do a lot abouto what a gravitic flux
11881s gets canceled by the accretion there I
11883s don't know about that play there sniper
11884s but I mean the rest of the team is there
11886s they're able to stay alive they're going
11887s to take down H how there is no shot
11891s washon Timeless win this fight what are
11894s you kidding me they can't keep getting
11896s away of it CB how did they keep doing
11898s this every single freaking time they
11901s should not win these they're at such big
11904s number disadvantages and they just they
11907s oh sniper should have not been able to
11909s live that long they are just left alone
11911s G Guardians don't think it's an issue
11913s that there's a sigma behind them and
11915s they win that one out the cart it's
11916s still moving they might just get the
11918s capture yeah someone has to try and
11919s touch that's a greater strike to take
11921s down Chloe the C okay moving fish is
11923s down there they have the gravitic flux
11925s but once again looks like they're not
11926s going to need it but I'm starting to get
11928s concerned with how long moving fish has
11929s held on to this gravitic flux I I feel
11931s like you know there's been of
11932s opportunities to try and use it to win
11934s out fights there but still holding on to
11936s it Haley can just hold on to the sound
11938s barrier until they pop it exactly so
11942s there is still a counter for this
11944s gravitic flux but there might not be one
11945s for this blizzard that HK is not too far
11948s away from if they use thetic flux as a
11950s way to get out the sound barrier early
11951s on and then use the lizard as a followup
11953s it could work wonders and this time bank
11955s is being whittel bit by bit there's only
11957s 2 and2 minutes remember I mean watching
11959s time has had 5 minutes when this all
11960s started and they are struggling just as
11962s much as vant Guardians did on their own
11963s attack sosler almost gets caught out
11965s there but is able to stay alive the
11966s healers from Washington Timeless are
11968s working overtime someone needs to pay
11970s them extra for all the work they're
11971s doing to keep sniper and the rest of the
11974s gang from feeding but I mean feeding
11976s more it's more of a Feeding Frenzy they
11977s are they are feasting right now and they
11980s are pushing that card again they're
11981s forced to B Guardians are forced to drop
11983s off The High Ground there is that gra
11985s gravitic flux with the sound barrier and
11987s there's the blizzard to try and follow
11990s it up and it actually freeze the sniper
11992s out of their gravitic flux and this
11993s should be Valiant Guardians with the dub
11995s on this fight they're able to hold on
11997s just a little bit longer it went exactly
11999s how I thought it would you use the
12000s Blizzard at the end chlo's going to use
12001s their own blizzard a few members are
12003s weak but the immortality the
12006s sh oh this is not looking good for
12008s Washington Timeless we've talked about
12010s how good they are in these clutch
12011s Scrappy SC arios but there two ultimates
12014s down the drain not able to find anything
12016s with them and now they're down to a
12018s minute four ulat down the drain that's
12020s four this is the most desperate they've
12023s look this is the most I would say in the
12025s dirt we've seen that this is the most
12026s likely loss they might have but they are
12028s continuing to move this cart and again
12030s it's going to have to be contested how
12032s does car use this sound barrier I mean
12035s he's on the low ground just trying to
12036s contest right now so here comes the
12038s artillery strike from sosler sniper
12039s takes down HQ early that is really
12041s really bad is going to have to be forced
12043s to make a decision here and it's time
12045s it's crunch time here comes the blizzard
12047s the wall to stop uh to stop whis from
12049s pushing forward the rest of Wason
12051s Timeless are lurking up on the ceiling
12053s and they are going to drop down from the
12055s attic from the top rope on top of Wis
12057s who's able to stabilize and pop the
12059s artillery strike and it's going to pop
12060s it rain death all over the point sosler
12063s is going to fall HQ is back on the
12065s soldier 76 and valant Guardians Despite
12067s All Odds are still holding strong here
12070s they've lost moving fish though so their
12071s grip is loosening Washington Timeless
12074s they're going to use the amp Matrix to
12075s pump out a little bit more damage car
12077s can't poke his head out he's just stuck
12079s in this little choke here hoping that
12080s the passive healing is enough and it
12082s looks like for now it is only 12 seconds
12085s left Haley going to go ahead and pop the
12086s sound barrier here comes a gravitic flux
12088s from sniper and there is nothing that is
12090s going to stop all of this damage there's
12091s nothing left in the tank for Valiant
12093s Guardians is watched in Timeless they
12095s punch their ticket and at the Midnight
12097s Hour they are able to get that cap there
12100s it was so close but they they go up 20
12103s we're not done we still have another map
12105s in this series they can bend but they
12108s don't break Washington tiess again in
12111s that final hour as you said find the
12113s ultimates they need the sound barrier
12115s the gravitic flux all come out just in
12117s the nick of time and these fights again
12120s they were down members when they all
12121s started and they just keep throwing
12122s bodies at the point they're able to swap
12125s who's on the point well enough they have
12127s an ant Matrix that also helps and
12128s sustain throughout all of that but looks
12130s like what could be a valiant Guardians
12132s win what could be a 1-1 series is once
12134s again Washington tit is going up two one
12137s away from punching their ticket to the
12139s Grand finals one step away from being
12141s backto back champions if they're able to
12143s get there and it was so so close but
12146s they get it done every single time and
12149s both of these teams are scrappier than
12150s Scooby-Doo's nephew and I mean you keep
12153s talking about it like how they just
12154s throw bodies at the point throw
12155s ultimates at fights that they shouldn't
12157s win and both teams are privy to that but
12160s Washington Timeless just have the they
12162s have a lucky rabbit's foot or something
12164s there is a guardian angel someone
12165s looking out for them so that they are
12168s able to come up ahead every time and in
12170s the neutral fight when you know both
12172s teams are playing more optimally it's
12173s again waston Timeless that come up ahead
12176s almost every time sniper has a gravitic
12178s flux somebody dies because of it sure a
12181s couple of times it's sniper that dies
12183s because of it but when it's not it's
12185s usually two to three members of valiant
12187s Guardians and that's because Washington
12188s Timeless again like I was saying play
12190s around each other so so well they
12193s understand their wind conditions and how
12194s to execute them and boy oh boy are their
12197s executions I mean as long as there isn't
12199s an accretion to stop it or you know a
12201s blizzard to freeze it up it seems like
12203s these gratic fluxes are finding a lot of
12205s value and one thing I want to point out
12207s actually that I don't think we really
12208s touched upon was that HP in that last
12210s fight had to swap to Soldier to touch
12211s the point to get back into the swing of
12213s things and that's a big difference maker
12215s because that means you have no May uh
12217s you do have the healing PAD as a soldier
12219s but it's not necessarily the same
12220s protection where you're invulnerable
12221s like May has with her ice block there's
12224s no wall to catch off everyone um you can
12227s see here like the solders is trying to
12229s run away trying to live sustain do
12232s anything to stay alive in that
12233s engagement but can't do it and I think
12235s that like early pick onto H key that
12237s made them swap the soldier was a really
12239s big difference maker in that last
12241s engagement this head-to-head right now
12243s is everything like I said every single
12245s tank in calling all heroes is absolutely
12248s sick especially on the sigma and both of
12250s these players have history as Sigma
12252s specialist I'm loving some of the micr
12254s plays I'm seeing from moving fish the
12256s accretions to stun sniper out of
12257s gravitic flux the little Shield bear to
12260s save their Frozen teammates from dying
12262s was everything I'm loving that stuff but
12264s it's just not enough to stop the macro
12267s play that we're seeing from sniper and
12269s everyone who has coales around them to
12272s make this Sigma pick as effective as it
12274s is like I keep saying whenever sniper
12276s has a gravitic flux someone dies and you
12280s need that if you're going to be a
12281s successful team you need to have that
12283s decisiveness that win condition and be
12285s able to execute it over and over again
12287s and looking at the deaths moving fish
12290s was executed just a few more times than
12291s sniper was look at the ultimates used
12294s actually because you had pointed out
12295s yourself that it seems like moving fish
12296s was holding on to these gravitic fluxes
12298s a lot more had went for like a minute
12300s minute and a half something around that
12302s time bank so like just the ultimates
12304s weren't coming out as fast maybe trying
12306s to save it for that special occasion
12307s maybe waiting for the sound barrier to
12309s already be committed so that way they
12310s can guarantee that it finds value but I
12312s feel like cyber was just throwing it out
12314s there you know I have it all right we're
12316s opening the fight with it we're going to
12317s see what we can get from this and
12318s because of that it allowed them to
12320s engage like more often and as you can
12323s see like the elimination more in their
12325s favor because of that so that's a big
12326s difference I want to see moving fish be
12328s a bit more aggressive with that ultimate
12329s usage you don't have to save it for a
12330s rainy day because that rainy day might
12332s be coming sooner than later CU you're
12334s facing elimination to the lower bracket
12336s if you lose this next map well we will
12338s have to see if that is the story we have
12340s to write today as Washington and
12342s Timeless are still Flawless it was shaky
12345s and they almost had a blemish on their
12347s record it's now or never right it's
12350s either they lose this or sorry they get
12352s reverse SWAT by Valley and Guardians
12353s right now or they go to to Grand finals
12355s just essentially for free Valley and
12357s Guardians have to be the ones to make
12358s them bleed and we will see if that
12360s happens it's still Valiant Guardians map
12362s pick we'll be right back after a quick
12363s break chat don't go
12370s anywhere
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12561s Washington Timeless continue to bend but
12563s they do not break are they unbreakable
12566s we will have to see Valley and Guardians
12568s definitely put a couple dents in their
12569s armor but not quite a crack yet as
12572s Washington Timeless are still Flawless
12574s sitting at 2 it's valan Guardians map
12576s pick they have to try and make something
12578s happen right now once again it's reverse
12580s sweep or go down to the lower bracket
12583s you kill like three members of
12585s Washington Timeless and they just say
12586s just nothing but a flesh win and still
12588s win the fight every single time you can
12591s never count them out you can never
12593s assume that the fight is won until all
12595s five of those members of Washington
12597s Timeless are in spawn and Valiant
12598s Guardians like you said one last shot to
12601s advance the grand finals themselves the
12603s good news for them lower bracket still
12605s awaits if they end up losing this one
12606s they could play for getting back into
12608s the grand finals get some Revenge get a
12610s rematch of the last minor against
12612s Washington Timeless if they lose this
12613s one here but it is going to be flas
12616s Point once more bad news for them
12618s there's only really two maps you can
12619s choose from new junk City or serasa so
12621s not a whole lot of options and we don't
12623s know what it is just yet as you said I'm
12625s very curious to see what they pick here
12627s I I'm expecting surasa personally I
12630s think that might be a little bit more
12631s conducive to what we've seen I think
12632s both of these teams are trying to lean a
12634s little bit more into the sigma
12635s composition but Wasington Timeless even
12638s when they frankly should not be are
12640s getting the better of the sigma miror
12641s they just have a better understanding of
12643s how to play this composition we talked
12645s or I I I I remember I brought it up very
12647s early on I know we talked about it how
12649s how many gravitic fluxes sniper is using
12651s and part of that is because of how much
12652s damage they're doing how quickly they're
12654s able to build to those gravitic fluxes
12655s over and over again and also how much
12658s healing zman and Haley are putting out
12660s onto sniper that means that they always
12662s have a sound barrier and an amp Matrix
12664s and an immortality field and all the
12665s tools they could possibly want to
12667s respond to moving fish's gravitic fluxes
12669s while Caro and armore are a little bit
12671s further behind it's not to say that
12673s they're playing poorly it's not to say
12674s that there's any sort of you know issue
12676s going on with either backline just that
12678s Washington Timeless understand their win
12680s condition how to play this composition
12681s and they are as cohesive as it gets
12684s their armor is still steadfast Valiant
12686s Guardians have got to make a crack now
12689s and I think we got to remind everyone
12691s that Haley also known as Halo previously
12693s was on this Valiant Guardians roster
12695s they were on the roster for the last
12697s Miner they were dealt a Blow by
12699s Washington ESS in the last event they
12701s ended up falling to them and now they've
12703s joined up with this team and you had
12704s mentioned before that it's like every
12706s member of this squad is a piece of the
12707s puzzle I don't think Haley was the
12709s missing piece I think she's a cheat code
12711s I think she has just absolutely
12713s accelerated what this team can do the
12715s again like it was only Haley and sniper
12717s that won what was a 4v2 I think uh in a
12720s fight the should never wi sniper was
12721s like literally in the defender spawn on
12725s Midtown was just all the way away from
12726s the fight somehow gets back into it
12728s sound be gratic flux they win that one
12730s out so Haley has just been a huge
12733s difference maker and again there's like
12734s that component of this is my former team
12736s I really want to beat them I've already
12737s done it once in the swis stage but this
12739s is where it matters the most in the
12740s playoffs I mean she very well might do
12742s it again might get one over or three
12745s over in a row on her old team and I mean
12748s again it's their map pick we're still
12750s waiting on them to decide it's a 50-50
12751s shot like either way like we said yeah
12754s yeah they still still haven't picked a
12755s map they're really weighing their
12756s options here and honestly like yeah you
12758s you want to think about this because you
12760s don't have another chance
12762s at flash point here the two maps are
12763s very very similar but different in a
12765s number of ways surasa we did see plays
12768s very well into that Sigma uh that Sigma
12770s style that both teams want to try and
12772s play and you know we've seen a little
12775s bit of flexibility from Valiant
12776s Guardians and that might favor them on
12778s New junk City but are they willing to
12780s take that risk are they willing to make
12782s that gamble because it paid off for them
12783s on control last weekend but it didn't
12785s pay off for them on control this weekend
12788s and outside of that we've only seen the
12789s sigma mirror so what are are the
12792s Guardians cooking it looks like we yeah
12795s I we know now I was going to say before
12797s that that I feel like new junk city is
12799s the riskier Gamble and it's kind of like
12801s do you play what you think they're going
12802s to be worse at or do you play what you
12803s think you're going to be best at and I'm
12804s assuming when you pick Sasa it's what
12806s you're best at what you think you have
12807s the best chance on versus what you think
12809s your opponent is going to struggle on
12810s the most so not surprising you already
12813s listed all the reasons why it makes
12814s sense it makes the most sense for this
12816s Sigma mirror we're expecting it to be
12817s the sigma mirror through and through
12819s there there hasn't even been like a
12820s change in the DP PS it's been basically
12822s May and uh Bastion the entire time
12824s except for those emergency swaps and
12826s you're trying to touch here and there um
12828s so it's just going to be good old mirror
12830s once more and so far it's been
12832s Washington Timeless winning that mirror
12834s every single time I mean and we saw the
12836s same thing you know we saw Washington
12837s Timeless beating out drainers on this
12840s very map and yeah the last point was
12841s very exciting despite all of the various
12844s looks that drainers came out with we
12846s understand now fully that no matter what
12848s you throw at Washington Timeless they
12850s have an answer for it and answer is just
12851s be better at this Sigma
12854s composition that's really all it is yeah
12856s simp just simply play better simply win
12858s the game and that's it that's really all
12862s there is to it I mean sniper is so good
12863s on this Sigma bun has been so great with
12866s all of these May walls that like do you
12868s really even want to try anything else
12870s you have like someone has to make them
12873s swap off of that composition someone has
12874s to force them off that metac composition
12876s and so far no one's been able to and we
12879s talk about you know again that match up
12880s with drainer
12881s and how I talked about the Triad you
12883s know drainers valali and Guardians
12885s Washington Timeless those are the three
12887s favorites that I can see if neither of
12889s them are capable of even taking a map
12892s off of Washington Timeless who can I
12895s don't know if anyone can right now
12896s that's the honest truth and I think also
12898s if you're watching time as you're
12899s looking at this and you're like this is
12900s exactly what we want this is the exact
12902s same three Maps we literally just beat
12904s drainers on and again like two of those
12906s picks were drainers the last two Midtown
12908s and Sasa V Guardians have fallen into
12910s the ex axing trap now we did see drers
12913s run a very different composition they
12914s running the junker Queen they running
12915s the Ry but regardless of the result it's
12918s been the same old same old I do see HG
12920s going for this symmetra early on this
12922s might just be to teleport out of Spawn
12924s it might be that they try to set up the
12925s point on this they might try to use
12927s those turrets to force some fights but
12928s no that's stop it's going to be the
12929s Genji actually so finally a little bit
12931s of variety no May for HQ we'll see if
12934s this can be the Difference Maker maybe
12936s what gives them the edge to finally take
12939s a map away from Washington timeless you
12941s you have to hope right I mean like valy
12943s and Guardians they're already going to
12944s try and take control over the point this
12945s should give hkey a good opportunity to
12947s hit a big Dash and when she sees the
12949s opportunity as they come through the
12951s choke here but it also makes it a lot
12953s more difficult for moving fish to try
12954s and win out this duel when you don't
12956s have the aid of the main to try and you
12959s know cut off the Enemy at the pass here
12961s Carol has to try and cut some uh some
12963s players off at the pass with some boobs
12964s there to keep them off the point theyve
12965s watched them Timeless have started their
12967s March forward they've already lost the
12969s immortality field though and without
12971s that in their toolbx that March is going
12973s to slow down to a soft a brisk walk
12976s maybe is they just kind of chill out
12978s around the corner for a second Chloe
12979s gets a little bit too aggressive there
12981s that's a great Dash there but the
12982s healing is there sosler does inevitably
12984s fall Val and Guardians take the first
12986s cap here and waston Tyles have already
12988s invested the amp Matrix and for that
12990s they are going to get Caro that's pretty
12992s difficult to uh pretty difficult to hold
12994s without Lucio here was and Timeless are
12997s once again going to bend and snap back
12999s but actually going to take it a little
13000s bit slow here they're going to mirror
13003s not a mirror actually they've now
13004s swapped off of the Bastion they don't
13006s want those bullets to be deflected back
13007s by the enemy Genji but it's going to be
13009s the soin as well so finally some
13011s variation in this comp but immediately
13012s snaz is going to make a difference and
13014s whisp is going to fall Armory he has to
13016s pop that ant Matrix but everyone just
13017s goes around it and they're all in her
13019s face right now and there's not enough
13021s punish there sniper goes Super
13022s aggressive aramori Falls there's not
13024s enough healing to sustain moving fish
13026s for all that much longer and they are
13028s going to fall Washington Timeless I mean
13031s off a great snap swap there from snaz
13033s they're able to just March right in and
13034s flip the point there's nothing that
13036s feels worse as a Baptist and putting
13037s your ultimate down and just having the
13039s enemy team walk through it say we don't
13040s even care and then there's just nothing
13042s that can protect you aore got dis placed
13045s knocked out The High Ground tried to get
13046s back up immediately got followed up on
13048s and from there Val Guardians they end up
13050s losing that the good news is they have
13052s everything except for that amplication
13053s Matrix ready to go but the most
13055s important ultimate potentially is Haley
13057s sound barrier that could counter so much
13059s of what Val Guardians will try to do as
13060s they reengage here looks like Carol
13062s might be forced to pop the sound barrier
13064s here it's actually holding on to a
13065s diamond hands just that immortality
13067s field to try and keep everybody alive
13069s now Haley going to go ahead and pop hers
13070s Caro going to follow as well as the
13072s gravitic flux comes out from moving fish
13074s but there is no death on either side
13076s from it and now the ant major coming out
13078s from zman it's going to slow valy and
13081s Guardians down HQ invest the blade and
13082s gets noler forward but not much else the
13085s blade gets shut down the Anri from zman
13087s is so clutched there and Washington
13089s Timeless look primed to hold here Chloe
13092s has a blade of her own if she decides
13093s she needs it but that would just be the
13095s death nail at this point and it might
13097s not even be necessary as all Washington
13099s Timeless have to do is bleed out time
13101s bleed out the bodies and suddenly there
13104s are no more bodies to contest bun is
13107s just absolutely one of the best
13109s projectile players I've ever had the
13110s pleasure of casting I I'm I'm going to
13112s say it here I've casted all levels of
13114s play by bun absolutely amazes me every
13116s time the main plays have been astounding
13117s but this Genji these swaps from
13119s Washington timeless Game Changer they
13121s see how they lost they immediately make
13123s the adjustment and they don't even need
13124s the blade there but the constant slicing
13126s and dicing so much extra damage that
13128s helps everyone from Washington Timeless
13130s finish off the rest of valiant Guardians
13132s and the fact that they get a retake and
13134s a first point capture after giving up
13136s almost 70% initially amazing turnaround
13139s a retake a first point capture and they
13141s have two DPS ultimates and nearly
13142s another gravitic flux going into the
13144s second Point here and they have control
13146s over it and they have hq's head on a
13147s pike right now so Washington Timeless
13149s they got everything they can possibly
13151s want what do you get for the team that
13152s has everything aramore going to give
13154s them an ant Matrix but it looks like
13155s they kept the gift receipt as they don't
13157s want any of it they just you know sit
13159s pretty on the point they don't have to
13160s face check that yeah they hit the return
13163s but this grav it doesn't hit any oh the
13166s gravic flux from moving fish just
13167s completely whiffs and sure they take
13169s down snor there the the accre to try and
13172s stop snipers gravitic flux whiffs as
13174s well and typically wi sniper Pops that
13176s ant M or Pops that gratic flux death
13178s will follow KO with the sound barrier to
13181s try and prevent that as chlo pops the
13182s blade a sound barrier to follow as well
13184s coming out from Haley and Valiant
13186s Guardians have now run the coffers
13188s completely dry they don't have any more
13189s tools to try and crack this and there's
13191s still an amp Matrix for the side of
13193s Washington Timeless if Zan decides to
13194s pop it but will they even need it I mean
13197s Washington timel once again can just
13199s bleed out time play the clock play the
13201s angles force valali and Guardians to
13203s make a mistake aramori has an an of her
13205s own but Zan going to goad and pop theirs
13207s and Haley's going to fall whisp with a
13209s huge head shot there Suddenly It's
13211s Washington Timeless on the back foot as
13213s Valiant Guardians are in the driver's
13214s seat they can go aggressive and
13216s Washington Timeless they're just keeping
13218s their feet on the point to try and build
13219s up more percentage bleed out more time
13221s but the flip will inevitably come
13223s through once they deal with Chloe here
13225s and yeah she's dispatched finally
13227s Valiant Guardians get themselves in sign
13230s of life but immediately sniper answers
13232s back is this going to be what we've seen
13233s so many times where it feels like Valley
13235s Guardian should win this out when they
13237s have the numbers advantage and then they
13238s just go too far forward they just don't
13240s have have the numbers and the places
13241s that they need them to be so far so good
13244s the blade going to be used Now by HP it
13246s has not found anything but there it is a
13248s double but Chloe's able to trade it out
13251s I I I mean that's great that they're
13252s able to trade it out there but I mean
13254s Valiant Guardians they still got way
13255s more than they could have bargained for
13256s both backliners for a blade you take
13258s that every day of the week and that's
13260s going to help them take up the
13261s percentage to hopefully match the 90%
13262s advantage that Washington Timeless
13264s currently have absolutely and the fact
13266s that they're finally getting some time
13267s is huge this could actually be last
13269s fight territory if Guardians can close
13271s this out they should be able to take
13272s this point snipers already got another
13273s gravitic flux and they might be looking
13275s to use it if they even need it there's
13276s that immortality field and with that
13277s already out huge accretion from moving
13279s fish to shut it down no deaths to on
13281s this on this day gallan Guardians
13284s they're able to weather the storm whis
13285s comes back with the overclock looking
13287s for a head to shoot with it ant mrix
13289s comes out so they're going to all want
13290s to back out here as valali and Guardians
13292s they get this into overtime sniper Falls
13295s though KO it's traded out of support for
13297s a tank I think this favors Valiant
13299s guardians but it puts a lot of weight on
13300s aror shoulders here comes that citic
13302s flux from moving fish and that is going
13304s to be Valiant Guardians taking the point
13307s here on svasa putting us at 1 signs of
13310s life and this is the time to show it we
13312s talked about before do or die in this
13314s series you lose this it's down flow
13315s where Brack you don't want to give this
13317s team anything more than watching
13319s Timeless already is gotten not only that
13321s but again the Flawless run could come to
13323s an end here if Val Guardians can pull
13324s this out and force a map for alt Banks
13327s basically reset except for washing
13328s Timeless we have two almost ready to
13330s goore does almost have that amrix
13333s themselves we've seen this before it's
13334s not the smartest idea to try to fight
13336s Washington Timeless off the point ant
13339s Matrix comes out snaza returning in kind
13341s with an overclock and it seems pretty
13343s bloodless just a couple of lamps being
13344s shut down like a college frat party
13346s there but HQ goes way too deep actually
13349s snaz going to go ahead and take her down
13351s and Val and Guardians they got a little
13353s too aggressive there looks like T
13355s Wasington thus are going to win this
13356s fight but hey nobody was fighting
13358s anywhere near the point so s just just
13360s going to go ahead and make the TR over
13362s start ticking the cap up don't know what
13364s kind of parties you're going to in col
13366s but lamp's definitely broken all over
13368s the place and Washington Timeless do
13370s come out on top once more we saw this of
13372s trainers where they tried to fight
13373s Washington Timeless off the point it
13374s seems like that's where washingt thess
13376s are in their Zone they always seem to
13377s win these fights that are kind of in the
13379s middle of the map before the P Point
13381s actually unlocks they've gotten it
13383s already but now it's going to be vant
13384s Guardians re-engaging a great block on
13386s the accretion there from moving fish and
13388s Washington Timeless despite being
13390s control of the point have to try and
13392s play safe because you can see wisps has
13394s the angle here and moving fish playing
13396s so far forward it's going to be so
13398s difficult for anyone to try and shut
13399s wisps down is anyone even going to be
13402s able to HQ also does have the blade as
13404s well so that might be another tool Zan
13406s going to go ahead and pop the ant Matrix
13408s and that's going to force valali and
13409s Guardians to scatter just like the
13411s remains of wisp the sosler with a rail
13413s shot right through it Washington
13415s Timeless should be holding on strong
13416s here but that fight took so long to kick
13418s up that Washington Timeless are already
13420s in one fight territory for this point
13422s that might be the point in general I I
13423s think that might be it especially with
13424s the Stagger onto the Baptist that is
13428s that is so detrimental Val Guardians
13430s they had ultimates to use but they took
13431s so long in positioning they took so long
13433s in setting up they never actually got to
13435s engage first and there it is Washington
13437s Timeless one flash point away from
13439s punching their ticket to the Grand
13440s finals everything is going their way and
13443s sure B Guardians they will have an
13445s entire Al bank but Washington Timeless
13447s they still have the sound barrier which
13448s cancels most what value are going to
13450s want to do they have to play the smart
13453s and they have to also not invest
13454s everything they have to have ultimates
13455s left over for later we've seen them use
13457s all five and then lose fights they
13459s cannot do that they can't use all five
13461s in general even if they win the fight
13462s they have to have a healthy Al economy
13464s going forward because they lose this
13465s flash point and it is done this series
13467s is over if the fireworks really kick off
13470s and it all comes down to it it might
13471s come down to wisp with the overclock
13473s there but sniper going to open things up
13474s with the gravitic flux the immortality
13475s field from Armory is good and she's also
13478s going to go ahead and Pop That ant
13479s Matrix and whisp going to go ahead and
13480s take down Chloe and this is valy and
13482s Guardians this is value this is an
13484s economy they are winning this fight and
13485s taking this point with only one ultimate
13488s yeah it's huge and they're also getting
13490s some saggers as well something that's
13491s been done to them quite a bit throughout
13493s this map finally they get the first cap
13495s they keep all those uls except for the
13497s an Matrix which is always kind of it's
13499s like it's pretty easy to charge up
13500s anyway so no big deal that is the most
13504s elegant and perfect fight that you could
13505s see from Valiant Guardians that's
13506s exactly what they needed here and it's
13509s the highest value ultimate
13510s snipers gratic flux that has won them so
13512s many fights that just gets completely
13513s snuffed out by aramori that is a great
13515s play from her and to only use that ant
13517s Matrix to win the fight means that now
13519s Valiant Guardians have an Al rotation
13521s starting with a gravitic flux of their
13522s own both so's going to go Ahad and pop
13524s the overclock here with the sound
13526s barriers going to make sure that
13527s everybody is staying nice and cool there
13530s boing fish is under a lot of pressure
13531s right now that's going to force Chloe to
13533s pop the blade to try impr press the
13534s advantage but she's not getting a whole
13535s lot moving fish pops gravitic flux takes
13538s down sniper again and this looks like
13540s like it's Valiant Guardian fight to win
13542s looks like it's their point to win too
13543s but ant Matrix going to be used at the
13546s very end still three members left now
13548s they flipped the point in all this chaos
13550s which okay sure why not the objective
13554s and there's no recontest yet Val gr have
13555s not tried to retake it I think there's I
13557s think chlo is just in the backline being
13559s an absolute Menace and no one has been
13561s able to take them down how do they keep
13563s doing this I I mean they have to try and
13565s deal with that backline threat and move
13567s forward all they need to do is win this
13568s fight and get the retake though but that
13570s is easier said than done Carol with a
13572s nice pick off there onto Chloe the
13573s backline threat has finally been dealt
13575s with as has sosler and Bal and Guardians
13577s should be able to get back in here I
13580s they have to deal with sniper on the
13581s doomfist here but with their composition
13583s it should be academic I mean yeah they
13584s take down Haley they take down Z man and
13587s valy and Guardians they do get the point
13589s but that was sloppy oh that was so close
13592s you thought Washington Timeless might be
13593s able to do it again but no they cannot
13596s win those incredible fights out and now
13597s we are going to our fifth and Final
13599s Flash Point valant Guardians are pushing
13601s Washington Timeless to the brink just
13603s again just like they did on M Midtown
13605s but can they finally finally find the
13607s edge they need can they finally take a
13609s map off of Washington Timeless a feat
13611s that no one has been able to do in this
13612s tournament so far Valiant Guardians they
13615s have the advantage in the one ultimate
13616s that I think matters the most right now
13618s and that's Caro's sound barrier he can
13620s hold on to that until snaza or kloe
13622s build up to any of their DPS ALS and use
13624s it to weather the storm it has to be
13625s used wisely though if Caro Falls or if
13628s someone Falls and doesn't get the sound
13629s barrier might be all over and waston
13632s Timeless could get first cap there Val
13634s Guardians are just kind of coralled into
13636s this little area here and they can't
13638s really get their feet on the point
13639s they're going to rotate around to try
13641s and contest and Wasing Timeless nearly
13643s snake it out from underneath them HQ
13645s looking for an angle there but whisps
13646s gets caught out by Chloe sound barrier
13648s comes out from Caro Haley was able to
13650s build up to her so now it is mirrored
13652s and Valley and Guardians are once again
13654s behind the eightball here sniper though
13656s behind the team and gets caught out
13658s overclock forced out from sosler and
13660s that is catastrophic I mean yeah
13662s Washington Timeless they're going to be
13663s able to find it but they had to invest
13664s so much more heavily than they would
13666s have yeah absolutely I will say it's a
13668s great play that they made where they
13669s force members of valant Guardians to go
13671s to the point and then when they saw that
13673s they were finally being contested for
13675s that capture that's when they went and
13676s they all engaged and everyone that was
13677s still high ground but it was expensive
13680s on both sides it comes out a little bit
13681s better for Washington ESS because they
13682s will have the GIC flux they'll have
13684s three ultimates to Guardians well
13686s actually they'll have three as well so
13687s if it feels like all things are even
13689s when all things are setting done but I I
13691s have to get the edge a little bit to
13693s viant Guardians they have both DPS
13694s ultimates they can do so much more
13695s damage right now this have to be quicker
13697s on the draw they have to execute quickly
13699s and they are starting to run out of time
13700s it's already 60% on this final flash
13702s point I wanted to see moving fish go
13704s aggressive with the gravitic flux but it
13705s looks like the blade is actually going
13706s to be what comes out first but moving
13708s fish gets taken down and the rail shot
13710s from snor on H shuts the Dragon Blade
13712s down and that might have just been it
13713s that might have been the death nail
13715s there's only one more chance for anyone
13717s to touch and sniper wants to Snuff that
13718s out a gravitic FL BL to whiffs can
13721s anybody touch we're at 88% HQ swaps over
13724s onto the Tracer but Chloe going to try
13727s and cut her off at the pass pops the
13728s Dragon Blade and there is no way in
13730s Carol Falls nobody can touch and it was
13733s so close Valiant Guardians had it in the
13735s palm of their hands but Washington
13737s Timeless pull it right out from under
13740s them once again winning fights they have
13742s no business winning finding the picks
13743s they have no business finding but still
13746s staying Flawless it's all about the
13749s ruthless aggression and every time that
13751s Washington Timeless was able to show it
13753s and execute the way they wanted to V
13755s Guardians had no answers they had the
13756s ultimates but they didn't have the
13758s initial drive to do it they didn't
13760s execute quickly enough they didn't press
13762s Q first and this is what happens when
13764s you don't do that you lose it's
13767s heartbreaking it was so close on these
13769s last few Maps D Guardians had a chance
13771s to win Midtown they had a chance to win
13772s out on Sasa and force the M for stop
13775s Washington Timeless from being these
13777s menaces that they have stop them from
13779s having could be potentially the perfect
13781s tournament run they have yet to drop a
13783s map they still have yet to drop a map
13785s and again we've said it so many times is
13787s it enough it is not enough at the end of
13790s the day and now valant Guardians are
13792s going to have to go back to the drawing
13793s board in the lower bracket I I don't
13795s know if either of the teams actually
13797s realized how close that was when I was
13799s saying what I wanted to see I wanted to
13801s see moving fish go aggressive with that
13803s gravitic flux that because they had one
13805s and sniper did not but that window
13807s rapidly closed as valali and Guardians
13809s approach sniper did enough damage to
13811s build up to one of theirs and the plan I
13813s think was to try and go in with that
13815s Dragon Blade but while they were trying
13817s to set up for that moving fish just
13819s collapsed you know the the all the
13821s damage that came up from the amp Matrix
13822s just melted the enemy Sigma down and
13824s suddenly there was just no more win
13826s condition both of the two win conditions
13828s the gravitic flux and the Dragon Blade
13829s got quickly wiped off the field taken
13831s off the board and washon Timeless no
13833s longer had to sweat had had moving fish
13836s pulled the trigger on that gravitic flux
13838s maybe in conjunction with with the blade
13840s and that might have been what they were
13841s trying to do waiting for HQ to get into
13842s position to let that combo rip that
13845s might have been the win for Valiant
13846s Guardians it's just a quick like a split
13849s second decision and that Split Second
13851s that moving fish trips over the last
13854s hurdle that hkey gets DEC capitated at
13856s the last possible second that ends up
13858s pulling it back in Washington timeless'
13860s favor again when they have no business
13862s winning the fights they find the fight
13864s win should have would have Coulda is the
13867s name of the game here unfortunately for
13869s Valiant Guardians so close but I think
13871s we see the deaths per 10 and I think
13872s that's a huge factor of what happened
13875s here at the end of this map it was the
13876s Genji pick originally from hke but it
13878s seems like when they tried to go in they
13880s were usually being found out that blade
13881s at the end it could have been their
13883s Saving Grace but like you said the rest
13884s of the team kind of fell apart while
13886s they're trying to set up for that the
13888s execution just was not quick enough and
13890s that is these micro decisions these
13893s moments were takes us a little bit too
13894s long to get in the position that you
13895s want to get into the place you want to
13897s be where you actually are able to use
13898s these ultimates they just could not sit
13900s up the way they wanted to and this is
13902s what happens to the lower bracket they
13904s go I mean yeah to the lower bracket they
13906s go like you said it's nothing to lose
13908s your head over unless you're HP trying
13910s to pop a dragon blade in front of snoer
13911s who will take your head off with a rail
13914s shot it's I mean it was a brutal
13916s shutdown you know if when you go all in
13919s with a dragon blade like that and it
13920s gets shut down it is brutal it feels
13922s crushing and that has to feel very
13925s crushing for Valiant guardians but like
13926s I said I don't know if they know or if
13928s Washington timeless even know how close
13931s that actually was maybe they do if the
13932s old tracking was there maybe they
13934s understood their win condition a little
13936s bit better which would be on par with
13938s you know what we've seen so far I mean
13940s Midtown was like all over the place but
13941s again Washington Timeless they
13943s understand their wi conditions and they
13944s execute them and that is what it all
13946s comes down to at the end of the day and
13948s that still leaves us with the question
13950s can anybody stop Washington Timeless
13952s we've seen two of the best in all of
13954s calling all heroes step up today to try
13956s and take a crack at it but no one has no
13960s one's even made them made them sweat if
13962s you come at the king you best not miss
13964s and these two teams these two greats
13965s drainers and Valiant Guardians back to
13967s back they missed it they grazed them
13970s kind of a little bit I don't even know
13973s if like again watching time must know
13974s how close it came but they
13977s missed they did indeed and we're going
13979s to have some of those questions answered
13980s I think I know what the answer is anyway
13982s from Washington Timeless on if anyone
13983s can do anything against them but we're
13985s going to have some other questions for a
13986s member from their team in just a few
13988s moments D we're take a quick break
13990s before the interview but after we're
13991s going to be talking to a
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14180s welcome back everybody we are witnessing
14183s potentially one of the most insane upper
14185s bracket tournament runs of all time
14187s courtesy of Washington timeless it feels
14189s like it makes no sense like it shouldn't
14190s be happening but here to make a little
14192s bit of sense of it we've got Z coming in
14194s from Washington timel Z how are you
14196s doing uh pretty good some nice wins to
14199s today so feeling good about our
14201s performance I you definitely should be
14203s be feeling pretty good about your
14204s performance not just today but across
14206s the entire tourament you are now in
14208s Grand finals without dropping a single
14211s map I want to ask you I think I know the
14213s answer but I want to hear it from you is
14215s a full golden tournament
14217s possible uh yeah for sure I think that I
14221s mean we don't really like think about it
14223s too much in the game but we know what
14225s the expectations are for our team uh we
14228s just really hard and we don't really
14230s have any holes when it comes to our
14231s players like we have strong players in
14233s every R so it's very easy to fall back
14236s on yeah no holes to be seen whatsoever
14239s the game blend has been Flawless so far
14240s but I will say Valiant Guardians
14242s definitely tested you a bit today there
14243s were some very close calls I want to
14245s talk about Midtown in that final fight
14247s on your attack came down to a buzzer
14249s beater you had a very clutch ant Matrix
14251s that helped keep your team in it how are
14253s you as a team able to pull out that
14255s Victory uh honestly like I said we just
14258s have good play players in every role and
14260s we I don't really feel like we have any
14262s nerves we're all pretty experienced
14263s players so even when it gets down to
14265s those final fight situations uh we kind
14267s of lock in a little bit more to be
14269s honest and so we just start calling a
14271s little bit more and listen to each other
14274s and we're good enough players that we
14275s can pull it through
14276s usually the ability to lock in in some
14279s of those tough moments and being able to
14280s weather the storm is something that
14281s definitely shows in your guys's team
14284s play it feels like you guys all play off
14285s of each other so so well especially in
14288s the sigma compositions which seems to be
14291s your bread and butter so far but I want
14292s to know do you guys have any other looks
14294s that we haven't seen that maybe you're
14296s just saving for a rainy
14297s day yeah I mean if for whatever reason
14300s our Sigma comp is really struggling like
14303s uh we'll make small adjustments to it
14305s like you saw on uh Sasa we swapped off
14309s the Bastion and went on like Genji so
14311s but we can play other stuff for sure
14314s like sniper can play a bunch of
14316s characters and a lot of the cops are
14318s just pretty intrinsic at this level so
14321s uh we can definitely play whatever we
14323s need
14324s to well you're about to be playing in
14326s the grand finals no matter what you've
14328s locked in your spot your second
14330s back-to-back Grand finals as a team I
14332s got to ask who are you expecting to be
14333s meeting there uh I feel like definitely
14336s the Guardians uh Val Guardians push us
14339s the most and I feel like when they're
14341s playing well they're probably the best
14343s team to play
14345s against it it it definitely feels like
14347s they push you but I I mean again not
14349s even enough to take a map off of you and
14351s with how well you guys have been playing
14353s and the fact that you are now in Grand
14355s finals you have definitely earned a fair
14357s bit of congratulations for that you've
14359s also earned yourself the floor which I
14361s will give to you to answer these two
14363s questions first of all how does it feel
14366s to be here in calling all heroes and be
14368s in the grand finals at this point and do
14370s you have any shoutouts you want to give
14372s any last words that you want to say the
14374s floor is yours take it away uh it's
14377s really cool to be in calling all heroes
14379s it's a nice environment and playing
14381s around a bunch of new people making new
14383s friends and connections is always fun
14385s and uh having a nice bit of competition
14387s is uh always a good time so I'm really
14389s enjoying myself and I just like to thank
14392s my parents and friends for always
14393s supporting me they're the
14397s best love to hear it thank you so much
14400s to Z for coming in what a great
14401s interview what a great performance that
14403s we've seen from Washington Timeless and
14405s they are not quite done if you want to
14407s see how their story ends
14409s you're going to have to tune in tomorrow
14411s but today we've had a lot of great
14413s matches unfortunately for Jag we did not
14415s get to see a map four I I know how badly
14417s you want I wanted one too like like like
14420s I've been right here with you for most
14421s of it but I like for your sake cuz I
14425s know that it's just like you're you're
14426s not going to be here tomorrow and I I am
14429s so I I wanted to give that to you I
14430s wanted that you to be there to see it
14432s but how unfortunate uh but you know we
14435s still had a lot of great maps I mean or
14437s a lot of great matches I mean we can
14438s take a look at at the bracket really
14439s quick to see how things have shaken out
14441s thus far and see what tomorrow might be
14444s looking like yeah I think the biggest
14446s thing is Jerry nightmare officially has
14448s been eliminated that number two seed we
14450s had asked if they had been tested enough
14452s the answer is not quite as they end up
14454s falling in that first round of Vancouver
14456s Titans blue they do get the win over Aus
14458s but then immediately fall to drainers or
14460s drainers looking like they could still
14462s be that top three team that you have
14463s mentioned quite a few times I think the
14465s biggest question now is Vancouver Titans
14467s blue versus bearclaw who's able come out
14469s on top of that Force themselves into
14471s lower semi-finals and then eventually
14472s the lower finals against Valiant
14474s Guardians we don't really know where the
14475s score is for that one so as anyone's
14477s guess we talked about Vancouver Titans L
14479s and how much we want them to break
14480s through that threshold of fifth through
14482s six that's where they are I believe
14484s right now if they win this next one they
14485s could break into top four then maybe
14487s even top three so still plenty of run
14489s for them left potentially if they can
14490s win this one out yeah that is definitely
14493s going to be one to keep an eye on I mean
14495s I I'm also a little disappointed to see
14496s that the likes of fable and Aegis have
14498s have both been eliminated I mean those
14500s are some great story lines and some
14502s great underl Underdog Story lines some
14504s great players on those teams that I
14507s would have liked to see more from and
14508s it's a shame that we're not going to get
14509s to at this point in time but have a look
14512s over towards the right side of the
14513s bracket where things are trending of
14514s course we've got Washington Timeless but
14516s have a look at the other two teams that
14518s have locked in their positions right now
14521s it's that try out again it's that same
14523s top three and there may be one more to
14525s join them but I mean the podium scene
14528s for the most part
14530s entirely entirely shaped up it's really
14534s I think it's really be claw like can
14535s they have this upset uh it looks like we
14537s just actually saw that Vancouver T blue
14538s is up two zero I'm not sure if that was
14540s just updated or I just missed it before
14541s but they are one away from sweeping so
14544s uh we could have that top four
14546s established in just a few moments which
14547s personally with how Vancouver Titans
14549s blue was playing today earlier what we
14550s saw I would not be surprised so that
14552s definitely that feels like the top four
14553s teams that we have here and then it'll
14555s just be a battle to see who can go up
14556s against Washington Timeless and maybe
14558s take a map off with them in the grand
14559s finals I mean it seems all the likely
14562s that it will be either drainers or
14564s Valiant Guardians having to take another
14566s step up maybe third time will be the
14568s charm for one of those teams or maybe it
14570s will be bearclaw maybe it will be
14571s Vancouver Titans blue making a miracle
14573s lower bracket run a surprise that we
14575s never saw coming a hjo spark of sorts if
14577s we want to allude back to the Grand
14579s finals that happened in Toronto this
14582s past uh a couple weeks ago at this point
14584s it feels like yesterday to me still but
14586s a couple weeks ago but speaking of thank
14588s you very much to Toronto defiant for
14590s hosting this today it's been a
14592s phenomenal day of games but we got
14594s another day left to come with all of
14596s those games that we saw all the ones we
14598s alluded to on the lower end of the sorry
14600s on the uh the right hand side of the
14601s bracket there the Deep runs from all
14603s these teams we've got all that and more
14605s coming at you tomorrow but Jag first I
14607s believe uh you have some things you want
14608s to say absolutely I just wanted to say
14611s as my time on the broadcast comes to an
14613s end thank you so much the Tron defiant
14615s calling all heroes caming and Chef Billy
14617s who did an amazing job last week and
14619s everyone else I've gotten to work with
14621s on this as an ally being able to support
14623s calling out heroes in marginalized
14625s genders and orts is incredibly important
14627s to me and has been an honor to be a part
14628s of this event lemon qwi and CB are going
14631s to be on the cast tomorrow they're going
14632s to crush it you have to tune in because
14634s it's absolutely going to be incredible
14636s don't want to miss them at all and of
14638s course the grand finals are just around
14639s the corner so you got to stick around
14641s and see that thank you once again it has
14643s been a privilege to bring these games to
14645s you I thank you so much for that J I
14648s mean I'm looking forward to getting to
14649s work with lemon kiwi but it was always
14651s as always a pleasure to work with you as
14653s well my good friend I mean thank you for
14655s joining me and thank you for you know
14657s coming along this ride for me but hey
14659s like we said tomorrow there is still a
14661s little bit more there is one last
14663s destination that we have on this ride
14664s and that is to the Grand finals and I
14667s hope that you'll join us today at 11:00
14668s p.m. Pacific time that is 2: p.m.
14671s eastern time if you're one of those East
14672s Coast people like me you're going to
14675s want to see it we've seen how good the
14677s games are today and even if we're just
14678s just seeing the same games again they're
14680s going to be all the better because it's
14681s all on the line the stakes are getting
14684s higher and higher who can topple
14686s Washington Timeless there is only one
14687s way to find out and that is by tuning in
14690s we will see you guys all tomorrow thank
14692s you so much for joining us farewell
14707s bye-bye
14737s com
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